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Now Netflix Is Promoting ?Arrested Development? On Seamless.com
How do you market a hot new TV show without the benefit of commercial space which you can fill with network promos? Just ask Netflix. The company has come up with a number of clever marketing stunts to get the word out about the upcoming premiere of Arrested Development ranging several Easter eggs on Netflix.com to this month’s real, live frozen banana stand in New York?visited by hundreds. It even sent around jokey emails to the media, reportedly from “Dr. Tobias Funke.” The latest to get in on the action is Seamless.com, which has partnered with Netflix to offer an ordering page for “Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana.” If you don’t know what that is, then go watch the show, I guess. The menu, which went live on Monday, is filled with food and drink items referencing the Bluth family, including the option to buy a double-dipped frozen, or a nice martini to accompany your snack. Unfortunately, the delivery minimum is $250,000.00, so you probably can’t afford to eat there. Oh ha, ha. Though these publicity stunts are funny, they do in fact have a serious purpose – Netflix needs to make original content work, and part of that is making sure its users (and potential users) know that content is out there. With a cult classic like “Arrested Development” on its hands – a show with the potential to top Netflix’s most-watched program, the original?series “House of Cards” – it’s important to get word out. A study from February of this year suggested that Netflix’s quality, original programming has the potential to not only bring in new subscribers but keep current ones from canceling.?Around 86 percent of those surveyed said they would be less likely to cancel after watching “House of Cards,” for example. “Arrested Development” was a critical darling and beloved by many, but it didn’t have the numbers to keep it on the TV airwaves.?However,?Netflix doesn’t need a TV-sized audience to make this model work, only all the niche audiences surrounding this show and others, who, combined, can make up a significantly sized viewer base. That leaves the network (we’re calling Netflix a network now, right?) the wiggle room to have a little fun with its promotional stunts, instead of having to spend big on mass media campaigns. (h/t PSFK)Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_3ElboiLwKU/
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CrunchWeek: Google I/O Madness And Square's New iPad Hardware For Merchants
It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days. Ryan Lawler, Drew Olanoff (clad in his Google Glass), and I discussed all things Google I/O, including Larry Page's keynote, Google+'s new photo features, and the latest Google Glass apps and more. We also chatted about Square's new hardware, Stand, which is a $299 card swiper and stand for iPad registers.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sgFgANeefY8/
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Commies, Nukes, and Flying Cars: What Seniors Predicted For 2076
The 1970s was a tough decade for America. Widespread distrust in government, rising inflation, the oil crisis, and disco were all wreaking havoc on the nation.
There was tremendous uncertainty about the future of the country. And yet, 1976 was the U.S. Bicentennial; 200 years since the founding of the United States and Americans were reflecting on not only the last 200 years, but the next 100.
Throughout 1976, American newspapers would often publish predictions for the year 2076. Some of my favorite predictions come from average citizens. The kids of 1976 would often combine the most optimistic visions of the time (like Jetsons-eque homes) with the dominant Cold War fears of the era (like images of mushroom clouds destroying all life on Earth). I'll let you decide for yourself if the robot president of 2076 is an optimistic or pessimistic vision.
But some of the most decidedly pessimistic predictions for the future came from the most senior of American citizens. The July 4, 1976 edition of the Grand Prairie Daily News in Grand Prairie, Texas included predictions from elderly people who were asked to envision America in the year 2076. Some of those predictions are below.
The last prediction is for the year 2000, which really speaks to how dominant that number was in the minds of 20th century Americans ? the big round number of the future. The predictions were all handwritten, and if I may say so they wouldn't sound very different from predictions you'd hear from some people in the year 2013.
To whom it may concern ?
If you are reading this 100 years from now one of my predictions will not have come true. I believe that with every atomic weapon on this Earth there is sure to be some foolish individual to set at least one of them off. If this "idiot" succeeds in doing this, nuclear devastation is inevitable.
If we aren't all destroyed in this manner it is reasonably safe to say that Communism is the next of our troubles. At some point in the future of this country I believe a Communist takeover will befall us. In some cases that could be worst than total destruction.
This is a definitely pessimistic outlook, but who's to say it won't come true.
Donald Prince
I'm fascinated by the next letter from a man named Andy: war, disease, flying cars and push button jobs all in one.
One hundred years from now people will be riding moving sidewalks and riding airborn vehicles. The street will be too crowded to get around in and people will be fighting to protect what property they do have. They will have no farm land left because the Earth will be crowded with houses and apartments. People will live on the ocean, in big houseboats. They will work hard to get enough to pay for things. Most of the work will be pushing buttons. The Earth will have very much pollution and it will cause many diseases. There will be pills of all kinds to eat for their meals and to protect from diseases. Many wars will destroy more land and everyone will be afraid of the atomic bomb blowing up their country. There will be a TV telephone to see the one you are talking to, and the world will be one big mess.
-Andy
In this next letter a woman named Anna really seems to be hedging her bets for the year 2076 ? could be better, but could be much worse.
Dear Sir,
I think the world will be like 100 years from now maybe better but then maybe worse than the way it is now. I think that it's up to the people in this world to make it better. Cause the people make the world the way it is, and if they want to do and make it better they can try. I think alot of things can improve and make the things that aren't so good better, life for the people to live in. But then I feel the world is going to worse if people don't start improving.
-Anna Talley
Looking to the year 2000 was so common that it's likely the person who wrote this next letter wondered why anyone would bother to write about the year 2076. But whether it's the year 2000 or the year 2076, this letter certainly has the most outlandish of predictions: Martians living on Earth, and the threat of people from the lost continent of Atlantis attacking us!
In the year 2000 there may be Martians inhabiting the earth. All people will be adapted to other places. We might find another solar system.
People from the lost continent Atlantis may come and teach us new ways of life or again some sickness might have struck them and they may attack us.
If there are such people, and if they do attack us, we must be ready.
Sincerely [unreadable]
I know that we haven't seen Martians (or Communists) invade just yet, but just remember that we still have a few years before 2076.
Source: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/commies-nukes-and-flying-cars-what-seniors-predicted-508285435
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Tenants of Manhattan Complex Irate Over Mid-Lease Rent Hikes ...
Tenants of a New York City apartment complex are fuming after its owner raised their rents -- some by more than $1,000 a month -- in the middle of their leases, WABC-TV in New York reported. Residents of the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village complex on the east side of Manhattan got the surprise rent hikes when notices were slipped under their doors. Four thousand units are being affected by the increases.
The rent hikes are part of a longstanding court battle between tenants and building management. In 2009, tenants won a fight against Tishman Speyer, then-owner of the complex, charging that many apartments were illegally deregulated under rent-stabilization laws. The tenants were given a temporary agreement to lower rents. But a permanent settlement was reached in November, allowing the current owner, CW Capital, to raise rents on 4,000 units, according to the Daily News. Now the notices give those residents two weeks' notice that there rents will be raised anywhere from hundreds of dollars to $1,100 a month starting June 1. (The complex has 11,200 units.)
"We signed a two-year lease, we've been here for one year and our rent just went up $700," tenant Heidi Fredrick told WABC-TV. Another tenant, Jennifer Lutz, had a $1,000 hike on her rent. "Oh, there's no way -- it's $1,000," Lutz told WABC-TV. "That's $12,000 a year."
Tenants are reportedly planning to protest the rent increases, and they are even considering a rent strike. "It is simply unfair and disrespectful, and we are tired of people treating this community like an ATM," New York City Councilman and Peter Cooper Village resident Daniel Garodnick told the Daily News. "Make no mistake about it. These increases are eviction notices."
CW Capital said in a statement that in recognition of the hardship the short-notice rent increases causes for some residents, the company is willing to give them a 30-day extension until July 1 to decide whether they will pay the rent hikes or move out.
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Cannes festival hit by $1 million jewel heist
Jewel thieves have stolen $1 million worth of Chopard jewelry from a hotel right off the Croisette, and while the theft being called by Deadline one of the "biggest heists to go down in recent Cannes history," it's not actually?that?unexpected.?
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The Hollywood Reporter?reported that the jewelry,?set to be loaned to celebrities for their red carpet appearances,?was stolen was stolen from a= Chopard employee's hotel room in the Novotel, and that?"whole safe was taken out of the wall in the hotel room."?Police are also telling?THR?that the heist "may be an inside job" and are questioning hotel employees.?According to Le Monde?the crime occurred at?5 a.m. The festival itself was quick to note that their top prize the Palme d'Or, which is supplied by Chopard, is safe, according to the AFP.?
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Burglaries at the festival and on the French Riviera itself do not lack historical context. Let us not forget, as Scott Feinberg of?The Hollywood Reporter points out on Twitter, Alfred Hitchcock's?To Catch a Thief, which starred Cary Grant as a cat burglar took place in that locale. And there are real-life examples too.?
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Earlier this year the AFP reported that thieves had stolen a million euros worth of luxury watches from the store on the Croisette's promenade in Cannes. In 2009 armed robbers stole millions of euros worth of jewelry from a Cartier shop in the city.
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Last year at the festival two Senegalese soccer stars reported??400,000 worth of wristwatches and jewelry and???30,000 in cash stolen.?In their guide to the festival, Indiewire advises: "Also beware of pickpockets. We know of regulars who, after leaving a window open, have had all of their belongings stolen from their rented hotels and flats while they were away." Take this as you may wish, but back in 2010 Lindsay Lohan claimed her passport had been stolen at Cannes, rendering her unable to go to court.?
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Perhaps one of the more ironic parts of this recent theft?and one that has not escaped the media and the jokesters on Twitter?is that it happened as Sofia Coppola's movie about teenager burglar's stealing from stars,?The Bling Ring, screened at the festival. Somehow we don't see Emma Watson being?that?method.?
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cannes-festival-hit-1-million-jewel-heist-142412037.html
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Obama calls on Congress to fund embassy security
President Barack Obama speaks under an umbrella held by a Marine as a light rain falls during a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Barack Obama speaks under an umbrella held by a Marine as a light rain falls during a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
An email from then-CIA Director David Petraeus is among the 99 pages of emails regarding Benghazi released by the White House Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Petraeus objected to the final talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. The White House on Wednesday released 99 pages of emails and a single page of hand-written notes made by Petraeus' deputy, Mike Morell, after a meeting at the White House the day before Rice's appearance. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A portion of a page of emails that the White House released Wednesday, May 15, 2013, that document how the Obama administration crafted its public talking points immediately following the Sept. 11, 2012, deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, is seen at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A portion of pages of emails that the White House released Wednesday, May 15, 2013, that document how the Obama administration crafted its public talking points immediately following the Sept. 11, 2012, deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, are seen at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, calling on lawmakers to approve his request to increase funding for diplomatic security.
Obama's call was the second step in as many days designed to combat GOP charges that his administration misled Americas about the circumstances of the attack, playing down the terrorist strike that killed four Americans amid the presidential race. Obama has angrily rejected those claims and now is seeking to turn the debate toward improving embassy security.
"I want to say to members of Congress in both parties, we need to come together and truly honor the sacrifice of those four courageous Americans and better secure our diplomatic posts around the world," Obama said at a Rose Garden news conference with the Turkish prime minister. "That's how we learn the lessons of Benghazi."
The State Department is seeking about $1.4 billion for increased security. The money would come primarily from funds that haven't been spent in Iraq. That would include $553 million for 35 more Marine Security Guard units, $130 million for 155 diplomatic security agents and $376 million for security upgrades and construction at new embassies.
Since the attack on Sept. 11, 2012, Democrats have complained that Republicans cut $300 million from the Obama administration's budget request of $2.6 billion for diplomatic and embassy security in 2012.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Congress provided extra security funding in legislation passed this spring.
"Congress has provided all that the administration has requested and more for embassy security," said Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck. "It is better management that is required now to address these security concerns."
Obama also said his administration is increasing intelligence and warning capabilities to secure diplomats and that he's directed the Pentagon to ensure that the military "can respond lightening quick in times of crisis."
"But we're not going to be able to do this alone. We're going to need Congress as a partner," Obama said.
His comments came the day after the White House released 99 pages of emails and a single page of hand-written edits showing the interagency debate over the talking points under pressure from Congress. The emails show that White House staff only requested minor edits, but there were repeated requests from the State Department to take out information that could be used to criticize them.
Democrats rallied behind Obama, arguing that the email disclosure undermined Republican claims of a cover-up.
"Let's be honest about what's happening here," Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said Thursday in a speech on the Senate floor. "It's not about doing all we can to find the truth and making sure it never happens again; it's about political-gamesmanship and finding someone to blame."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the emails "prove there simply was no cover-up."
"Yet Republicans, with full knowledge of these emails, claimed the White House was hiding the truth," Reid said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., agreed with Obama that the GOP focus was a "sideshow."
Yet Republicans made clear they have no plans to back down, with Boehner telling reporters that the GOP members on five committees were "working overtime" on the Benghazi issue.
Eight months after the attack, the issue remains a political winner with the Republican base as conservatives have been ferocious in assailing Obama. Rank-and-file GOP members and outside groups have pressured Boehner to appoint a special select committee to investigate. Instead, Republicans are pursuing their own inquiries and promising to call more witnesses to testify publicly, including the veteran diplomat and retired admiral, Thomas Pickering, who led an independent review of the attack that widely criticized the State Department's insufficient security at the facility.
Pickering and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen sent a letter Thursday to the House oversight committee chairman saying they will testify in public but not submit to private interviews with staff investigators prior to their testimony.
"The public deserves to hear your questions and answers," Pickering and Mullen told Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. They offered to appear before the panel either May 28 or June 3.
The emails disclosed on Wednesday underscored the turf battle between the State Department and CIA, as neither wanted to take the blame for the attack. They also showed the reluctance within the administration about saying anything definitively as officials scrambled to write talking points for lawmakers and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who discussed the attack on Sunday talk shows.
Rice's widely debunked remarks that cited protests over an anti-Islam video as the cause of the attack fueled the criticism of the administration and later cost her a chance at becoming secretary of state.
A senior U.S. intelligence official, speaking on a condition of anonymity without authorization to discuss the matter on the record, said CIA deputy director Mike Morell edited the talking points after a meeting at the White House on Saturday, Sept. 15. The White House document release showed Morell's hand-written notes, scratching out from the CIA's early drafts mentions of al-Qaida, the experience of fighters in Libya, Islamic extremists and a warning to the Cairo embassy on the eve of the attacks of calls for a demonstration and break-in by jihadists.
The emails show that Morell's boss, then-CIA Director David Petraeus, apparently was displeased by the removal of so much of the material his analysts had proposed for release. "Frankly, I'd just as soon not use this, then," Petraeus wrote after receiving Morell's edited version.
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