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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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 A quick note to say we've had major power outages here in the DC area because of the Snowmaggedon, here this weekend. So, I am stuck in my Lake home with fireplace and kids, but possibly a generator later that can help me get more good news online.
See you online soon, I hope!
geri
Photo from my back porch after the December snowstorm
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Friday, 04 December 2009 |
 This is interesting: Communicating "I have some good news and some bad news" is better than combining messages into a single, bleak result when small gains and large losses occur together, according to a study in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
The study, called "The Silver Lining Effect: Formal Analysis and Experiments," asked how people's choices change when they are presented with information in either of two ways: as an integrated whole or as two segregated pieces. For example, they ask, does an investor prefer a statement showing only an aggregate loss of $95 – or one showing a loss of $100 and a gain of $5?
The authors follow upon work first done by RH Thaler in 1985.
"Thaler's intuition was that decision makers would prefer to mentally separate a small gain from a big loss, thus providing a silver lining to the loss," explains Prof. Olivier Toubia, one of the authors. This study provides new tests to the original assumptions.
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 |
(Update: November 24, 2009) Our website is secure once again, after Friday's hacking incident. We are updating the Forum, where the infiltration occurred, and it should be ready with new software in a day or two. The old forum posts will be imported into the new Forum! Thanks to the dozens of readers who alerted me to the attack. Original notice continues below:
As many of you have noticed, thanks to a Google firewall setup to warn people about malicious code on the Good News Network, the site was hacked for the first time in 13 years.
I finally got some help on this today (Sunday) and an old friend was able to disable the Forum where he found the malware code.
He is a very smart developer and he said that the site is secure now.
The Google warning is still up, I've been trying to jump through the hoops they set up to restore the site to good graces, but it's slow moving.
I just wanted to post something about this ON the site (not very visible I'm afraid, as it is in the Editor's Blog, at the bottom of the front page, but I'm doing the best I can here.
How this code affected me was, it tried to download a file to my computer, and since I had no idea what it was, I simply clicked CANCEL about three times when the pop-up window asked for access. So I hope the only way anyone could have been affected by this was to Download the malicious file coming from either go-lawschool.com/, or darkblog.org/.
That's all for now. I will add some news stories while I wait for my webmaster to get my urgent emails screaming for help with the Google warning page and Forum problem... (We only communicate virtually so cannot call him.)
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Saturday, 18 July 2009 |
 I want to share my favorite summer recipe for lunches or picnics: Oriental Peanut Chicken Salad.
In this dish, chicken, red peppers, asparagus and scallions are caressed by a peanut dressing with terrific Asian ginger zing, a much simplified version of the Ina Garten recipe, Chinese Chicken Salad, featured in the book, Barefoot Contessa Parties.
Ingredients for 12 servings (party size)
- 8 split chicken breasts (bone-in, skin-on)
**or substitute boneless chicken, boiled until just cooked, then, cooled
- 1 pound asparagus, ends removed, and cut in 2 1/2 " diagonals
- 2 red bell peppers seeded and thinly sliced in 3" strips
- 4 to 6 scallions (white and green parts), sliced diagonally (save some for the top)
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Sunday, 31 May 2009 |
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 Now we know we're HOT. . . The Good News Network made Rolling Stone magazine's Hot List for 2009!
Listing their HOT INTERNET picks on page 89, only two websites are mentioned, with the Good News Network headlined as HOT WISHFUL THINKING.
"Economic meltdown, Shmeconomic shmeltdown," is how the short article begins.
"People want good news now more than ever," says GNN founder Geri Weis-Corbley, who says the site got its biggest traffic spike since 9/11 the day after Lehman Brothers tanked.
The reporter who interviewed me said this issue is always a top seller on news stands, and with Lady GaGa on the cover, this year should be no different.
I hope to use this HOT LIST award to springboard into landing a spot on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and eventually, the Ellen show (which I believe just went on summer break).
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