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Thanks, Victor. I'll tell Kelly you've made an account and get him to explain it.

I don't get what this site is for yet....

Hi Lisa, Instead of a comment system, like the Facebook "wall", we made Open Mail.

Open mail has several advantages.

1. mails can be rated, responded to, and qualified according to various criterea (multi-metrics). Therefore, they don't just scroll off the page like in a FB stream or Twitter, to be lost forever. I mean, they DO scroll off the page. But if they are highly rated, or responded to, they can rise to the top again, when people search for best rated, or most popular. So quality comments are encouraged, unlike on FB and Twitter, which encourage minimal effort at quality.

2. Open mails can be composed to anyone. So people can write to political figures, business or religious leaders, or famous people. Then, through our rating and response system, those open mails that are best will rise to the top.

This could be valuable, for instance, in helping the public to have input on political policy issues. They could write to Obama, or their senator. And their mail wouldn't just disappear with millions of others, never to be read again. To experiment with this feature, you can respond to this mail. Kelly

Hi Issac,
Great to see you here. This feature is called "open mail."

It's sort of like writing on a "wall" on facebook, or making a comment on some sites.

However, when combined with our rating system, which includes "rating power" and "weighted rating," this feature can also be used to facilitate communication from anyone to political or spiritual leaders.

Best,
Kelly

Congrats to Kelly for realizing Selfport into cyberspace! This is the beginning of a new world...

Hey Deborah,
Great to see you on Selfport.  Looking forward to making a big splash with The Deborah Mann Show.

Hi Kaycie,

I look forward to exploring ways that Harmony Mandala can work through Selfport, and/or a Selfport generated network.  For one thing, you'll be able to make live events, physical and virtual at the same time, with our event tool.  You can also make a HM network, with it's own revenue stream.  And of course, you could offer pre-developed materials, like video, for sale through the shop. 

Kelly

Dear Ben, Marc and Angela: I know this is a busy time for you. Two weeks from today, you're going to be announcing your prime-time schedule for the 2009-10 TV season, and you still need to figure out how to make that work when you're devoting the 10 o'clock hour to Jay Leno five nights a week. So I'll get right to the point:

If that schedule doesn't include "Chuck," I'm going to be very unhappy. And, I think, you might come to regret it, too.

Why, when you have such a tight schedule, would you bring back a show that routinely finishes a distant fourth in its time slot? Well, beside the fact that it's one of the most brutal time slots on television -- up against "Dancing with the Stars," "House" and the CBS comedies (not to mention "Chuck" co-creator Josh Schwartz's "Gossip Girl" on the CW) -- I can think of a bunch of reasons, both creative and financial, for continuing to follow the comic adventures of nerd-turned-spy Chuck (Zachary Levi) as he saves the world while trying to get that computer of government intelligence out of his head.

1. Product integration. It's more necessary than ever, as you try to make money while more and more viewers are using their DVRs to skip commercials. And few shows on your air are better-served to shill for the sponsors than "Chuck."

Chuck's day job is at an electronics store; his boss, Big Mike (Mark Christopher Lawrence), is a relentless chow-hound, and his spy missions regularly involve cool cars and other gadgets. Right there, you've got opportunities to seamlessly insert almost any kind of product into the narrative. Maybe you ask them to put the beloved Crown Vic of Chuck's surly handler Casey (Adam Baldwin) in the shop again and show him temporarily tooling around in a Prius and discovering that he really likes fuel efficiency.

And unlike those smart alecks over on "30 Rock," Schwartz, Chris Fedak and the rest of the "Chuck" writers don't feel the need to make fun of product integration even as they're doing it. They have no problem being shameless about it, like the scene in last week's episode where Chuck's friend Morgan (Joshua Gomez) tried to butter up Big Mike by bringing him a Subway $5 foot-long. "The Price Is Right" isn't as complimentary of its prizes as Big Mike was of that Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki. If blatant pimping is the price of continued existence, they (and we) are more than happy to pay it.

2. Recession escapism. "Escapism" seems to be buzzword du jour in your business as you try to find what people will want to watch in this harsh economic climate. As a mixture of farce and cool spy action, "Chuck" fits the bill perfectly. I'm a professional TV watcher, and even I have to admit there are some great shows on television these days that I need to brace myself to watch. Never "Chuck." It's always the highlight -- and greatest relief -- of my day, week after week.

3. Good press. This has been a tough time for broadcast TV in general and NBC in particular. As NBC fell from first place to fourth, you've become an easy punching bag in the press. You've started to turn the tide a bit by becoming a champion of quality shows that don't always dominate in the ratings -- not only "30 Rock," but "Friday Night Lights," which you recently extended for two more years through your content-sharing deal with DirecTV -- and you don't want to lose all that goodwill from the media and the fans by pulling the plug on "Chuck" too soon.

What I know of the season's last two episodes -- other than the extreme likelihood that they will be, to borrow an adjective from Chuck's future brother-in-law, Devon (Ryan McPartlin), awesome -- is that this won't be one of those "Life" or "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" finales where the fans will be disappointed but still feel they got enough closure to deal.

Fedak told me a few weeks ago that if fans find out that the season finale is also the series finale, "They're going to burn their living rooms. They're going to destroy their television sets. There could be chaos across the country." That's a joke, but like all good jokes, there's some truth behind it. Do you want the headache of all the angry columns, blog entries, e-mails and voicemails you'd receive after that? Do you want to get deluged with Nerds candy, or pocket protectors, or whatever other tchotchke the fans decide to send you, "Jericho"-style? Or do you want to simply get attaboys for standing behind a great show when it needed it?

4. NBC tradition. NBC as a network and you three as individuals seem to care deeply about maintaining the traditions of the Peacock, and "Chuck" is a link back to two of them. First, it's exactly the kind of show -- smart and funny but also light and versatile -- that the late Brandon Tartikoff (whom Ben publicly reveres) would have scheduled on NBC in the mid-'80s.

Second, "Chuck" is the easiest, best way to continue the concept of Must-See TV. Slap it on Thursdays at 8 leading into "The Office" and "30 Rock" (maybe with "Parks and Recreation" rotating in with those two to avoid reruns) and you still have that classic blend of comedy and drama that you became so known for on Thursdays. It's funny enough to lead into the sitcoms, but it also has action and pathos, and with Leno about to take over the old "Hill Street Blues"/"LA Law"/"ER" time slot, "Chuck" allows you to maintain the familiar balance. (And if you need another half-hour sitcom to work into the rotation, you could always spin off Scott Krinsky and Vik Sahay as Jeff and Lester -- a k a Jeffster! -- who are two of the most hilarious, albeit disturbing, characters in all of prime time.)

Yvonne Strahovski

5. Yvonne Strahovski. The entire "Chuck" cast is terrific, but you're going to especially regret losing Strahovski. As Chuck's other handler (and sorta-real, sorta-fake girlfriend), Sarah, Strahovski's a star in the making: not only beautiful and increasingly assured in the fight scenes but a superb dramatic actress as well. She's the one who makes the show feel real no matter how silly it gets, who sells the high stakes and the action and the romance, and you don't want to be known as the people who let her go while you had her on your network in a perfect role for her.

6. It's the best show on your network right now. All due respect to some other fine series, it's been more consistent than "30 Rock" and "Friday Night Lights," funnier than "The Office" and more purely entertaining than them and everything else on your airwaves.

I know television is a business like any other, but in the end, keeping on the best shows and putting them in the best position to find an audience (as opposed to getting killed in an 18-car pileup on Mondays at 8) is what your business is supposed to be about, right?

You're smart people, and you've had the good taste to develop and/or stick by some other great series. I hope in two weeks time, you find a way to stick by "Chuck."

Sincerely,
Alan Sepinwall

Hey Bro,

I upgraded the look of your profile.  You can check out some of the things you can do, and consider the applications, in making profiles for people like Rinpoches, and Dharma teaching events profiles. 

Namaste,
Kelly

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In theoretical physics, M-theory is a new limit of string theory in which 11 dimensions of spacetime may be identified. Because the dimensionality exceeds the dimensionality of five superstring theories in 10 dimensions, it was originally believed that the 11-dimensional theory is more fundamental and unifies all string theories (and supersedes them). However, in a more modern understanding, it is another, sixth possible description of physics of the full theory that is still called "string theory." Though a full description of the theory is not yet known, the low-entropy dynamics are known to be supergravity interacting with 2- and 5-dimensional membranes.

This theory is the unique supersymmetric theory in eleven dimensions, with its low-entropy matter content and interactions fully determined, and can be obtained as the strong coupling limit of type IIA string theory because a new dimension of space emerges as the coupling constant increases.

Drawing on the work of a number of string theorists (including Ashoke Sen, Chris Hull, Paul Townsend, Michael Duff and John Schwarz), Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study suggested its existence at a conference at USC in 1995, and used M-theory to explain a number of previously observed dualities, sparking a flurry of new research in string theory called the second superstring revolution.

However, originally the letter was taken from membrane, but since Witten was more skeptical about membranes than his colleagues, he just kept the "M". Later, he let the meaning be a matter of taste for the user of the word "M-theory".^[1]

In the early 1990s, it was shown that the various superstring theories were related by dualities, which allow physicists to relate the description of an object in one super string theory to the description of a different object in another super string theory. These relationships imply that each of the super string theories is a different aspect of a single underlying theory, proposed by Witten, and named "M-theory".

M-theory is not yet complete; however it can be applied in many situations (usually by exploiting string theoretic dualities). The theory of electromagnetism was also in such a state in the mid-19th century; there were separate theories for electricity and magnetism and, although they were known to be related, the exact relationship was not clear until James Clerk Maxwell published his equations, in his 1864 paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field. Witten has suggested that a general formulation of M-theory will probably require the development of new mathematical language. However, some scientists have questioned the tangible successes of M-theory given its current incompleteness, and limited predictive power, even after so many years of intense research.

In late 2007, Bagger, Lambert and Gustavsson set off renewed interest in M-theory with the discovery of a candidate Lagrangian description of coincident M2-branes, based on a non-associative generalization of Lie Algebra, Nambu 3-algebra or Filippov 3-algebra. Practitioners hope the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson action (BLG action) will provide the long-sought microscopic description of M-theory.

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