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During a live event, a camera operator is a crucial element in the production.
However, their creativity and vision must fit into the overall plan for the production. This vision and plan is most often set by a director, but can be heavily influenced by the producer and on-air talent, as well as the event itself.
If you are interested in becoming a camera operator, or basically any technical position on a crew, the place you are likely to start is as a utility. Utility is a position on the crew that is hired to help out various member of the crew. During an event, they might be there to make sure a camera operator's cable doesn't get tangled as they walk around, or hold a parabolic microphone for the audio department, or maybe run different items such as stat sheets, bottles of water, or coffee around to people on the crew. This is not a glamorous position by any means; however, it often affords you the opportunity to meet folks on the crew and ask technical questions and, after developing a relationship over several shows, perhaps get some hands-on time with professional grade equipment.
If you are interested in learning about the cameras used during live sporting events, the only way you will have a chance is during the setup of a show.
Obviously, the first job task for camera operators is to set up their cameras. Often, the camera department, along with the utilities for a show, will work as a team to set up the cameras. Once they are set up, operators will be responsible to "fax" out their camera. Fax is a chance for an operator to make sure they can hear the people they are supposed to hear (for example, the director and perhaps program audio) and check that all their equipment is functioning properly.
Most live events have a camera meeting as part of their preparation. This is a meeting where a director will lay out the visual coverage plan for an event. The director will go over each camera and the coverage plan for that specific camera. For example, one camera might be responsible for nothing but the main action of the game or event. Even when the production is in a commercial break, this camera has to be focused on the overall field of play. While this might be the most creative position, the game camera is a critical piece of the puzzle because that is the camera that is most often viewed by the folks at home trying to watch the action. Another camera might be a handheld camera with the sole assignment of getting shots of the crowd, coaches, and players. Another camera might be assigned as a wide shot used for use by a color analyst or for video review by an official. This camera meeting is very important to get all the camera operators and the director in sync. This is also where a camera operator can ask any questions they might have about the production.
Once the show begins, a camera operator should have an idea of the coverage expected from their position. He or she could be isolated on a particular player or coach, or an area of the field, or maybe hunting through the crowd for different shots. For example, in a football game, a camera operator might be assigned to follow a particular wide receiver when the home team is on offense, and on a running back for the other team. They will follow that player no matter what.
On occasion, a camera operator might come up with a shot or go find a shot that a director might call for on the spur of the moment. For example, the announcer might be telling an off-the-cuff tale about a retired player, and the camera operator might remember a retired jersey up in the rafters, go frame it up and sell that shot to the director. Listening to the telecast and carefully following the flow of the game can help a good camera operator become an integral part of the show by adding and selling visuals to the director.
After the event, but sometimes before signing off the air, a camera operator might have post-game responsibilities such as recording interviews, post-game press conferences, or other production elements that need to be recorded. For example, an announcing team might need to record a post-game "hit." By "hit" we mean a recorded segment featuring the talent for the game that is shown later in a sports news show on the network the game aired or on the Internet or as part of a different production
When the show ends, the camera operators will be responsible for striking and putting away their camera. The term "strike" means to break down all the equipment and put it back in a storage location. If you are working on location, this would mean packing the mobile production unit. Sometimes, a show will be set up for several days, for example at a golf tournament, but in many instances, a show will setup, shoot the event, and strike in the same day. If you are working in a studio or at another venue where the equipment might be installed on a more permanent basis, then the strike might be just putting equipment into a standby position.


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Exciting season ahead with changes in both Outlaws 1 & 2.
The First team have made one new signing in the young GB junior Harry Blyth who is looking to step up to the Premier league and have a real impact.
Stephen Murphy and Alex Gerrish have been promoted from Outlaws 2 after showing great improvement in the last year and are showing in training why they have been pushed through as the potential of both is very exciting for the Outlaws future!
The first team has a great look this season with potential in every postion, creating great competittion in training.
This team has no stand out super stars but a great mix of experience, pace and scoring abilty.
The success of this team will come down to this group clicking as a squad.
Outlaws Second Division
The Outlaws have signed a couple of new players for the newly promoted Outlaws.
Rikki Cahill and Ali Wood from Sparrows and CWBA.
The team has lost Alex Gerrish and Stephen Murphy to the Premier team but have gained two very experienced players in Tim Bohr and Victor Sutil.
Both have proved themselves as strong players in the premier league and the new challenge of leading Outlaws 2 in the second division with a exciting group of players is going to be a fun and excitng time for them and the squad.
Both Teams are developing and that for me is the most important point this season. If we work hard in training and learn from every minute on court in training and matches then the sky is the limit for both teams.

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At the beginning of the Ys saga, a mysterious red-headed boy named Adol Christin is found washed ashore in the land of Esteria – the first traveler to reach the Esterians in half a year, ever since the appearance of a mysterious barrier of storms around the island cut it off from the outside world. He is taken in by a young man in the port town of Minea as he recovers from the shipwreck. Once healthy, he is called upon by the local fortune-teller, who recognizes him as "The Chosen One," and tells him of the six Books of Ys. These historic books contain ancient secrets which Adol must uncover to overcome the evil that's blanketing the land. Adol's journey begins with a simple quest to find more information about these mysterious books, but quickly balloons into a deadly climb up a demonic tower to reach the mythical floating continent of Ys itself. His adventure continues in Ys II as he finally reaches the floating continent and pushes onward to perilously fulfill his fated role in this land's lore. Adol rushes into the depths of the once-sacred Palace of Solomon – now a monsters' nest – to stop the mastermind behind all the ills of Esteria and Ys and reunite the two lands, breathing new life into the monster-infested countryside. Along the way he must master the lost art of magic, transform himself into a fuzzy kangaroo-like creature, slide down icy slopes, prevent a human sacrifice, cross paths with a friendly monster, and much more! Ys: I & II Chronicles is a PSP remake of the first two iterations of the critically-acclaimed Ys series. The graphics have been reimagined in highly-detailed hand-drawn 2D and the soundtrack newly rearranged, while returning fans have the option of playing with the original music or using alternative character art. Four difficulty levels and a time trial mode have also been added, making this the definitive version of the legendary series' origin.
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Here are some of the most dangerous places you should avoid when vacationing. Whether the problem is civil unrest that is caused by a group of people, or perhaps revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests and response from either factions or the governing body, scenarios like these will definitively hinder your ability to enjoy some tourists destination these places have to offer.
1. Afghanistan
In spite of its amazingly beautiful geography, Afghanistan is arguably the most war-torn place on the planet at the moment. There's a very high threat of terrorist attack. There's also a high threat of kidnapping. Although Afghanistan is an incredibly beautiful country, it's not safe for traveling. Travel to all areas of Afghanistan remains unsafe due to the ongoing risk of kidnapping, hostage taking, military combat operations, landmines, banditry, armed rivalry between political and tribal groups, militant attacks, direct and indirect fire, suicide bombings, and insurgent attacks, including attacks using vehicle-borne or other improvised explosive devices (IED). Attacks may also target official Afghan and U.S. government convoys and compounds, foreign embassies, military installations, commercial entities, non-governmental organization (NGO) offices, restaurants, hotels, airports, and educational centers.
2. Pakistan
Pakistan is experiencing a great deal of political unrest, and crime as well as terrorism is rampant. The official stance of the US State Department is that you should avoid all non-essential travel. Kidnappings, suicide bombings, and social unrest abound. Pakistan continues to experience significant terrorist violence, including sectarian attacks. Throughout Pakistan, foreign and indigenous terrorist groups continue to pose a danger to U.S. citizens. Targeted attacks against government officials, humanitarian and non-governmental organization (NGO) employees, tribal elders, and law enforcement personnel are common. Evidence suggests that some victims of terrorist activity have been targeted because they are Americans. Terrorists and criminal groups regularly resort to kidnapping for ransom.
3. Sudan
Between the Darfur situation and the political instability, the amazing views of this vast African nation should probably be relegated to your "to do" list at the moment. Over the course of several decades Sudan's tourism industry has suffered as a result of the civil warfare between its people. Consequently, many governments warn travelers to give Sudan a wide berth when planning their next vacation.
Terrorist groups remain present in Sudan and are intent on harming Westerners and Western interests. Terrorist actions may include suicide operations, bombings, shootings, or kidnappings. The threat of violent crime targeting Westerners, including kidnappings, armed robberies, home invasions, and carjackings is particularly high in the Darfur region. Travelers should mitigate the risk of becoming a victim of terrorism or violent crime by being vigilant and aware of their surroundings, especially at public gatherings and locations frequented by foreigners. Exercise caution at all times and monitor reliable news sources for information on the local security situation. Follow the advice of local authorities.
4. Somalia
A lack of political stability, persistent bombings, and constant fighting between opposing factions make for a very dangerous vacation spot. Furthermore, there is currently not much in the way of diplomatic representation in Mogadishu. I can't imagine how locals survive in Somalia. US and UK governments advise against all travel to Somalia. The security situation in Somalia remains unstable and dangerous. Terrorist operatives and armed groups in Somalia continue to attack Somali authorities, the troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and other non-military targets. Kidnapping, bombings, murder, illegal roadblocks, banditry, and other violent incidents are common throughout Somalia, including Somaliland and Puntland. Al-Shabaab remains intent on conducting attacks against popular restaurants, hotels, locations known to be popular with Westerners, and convoys carrying Somali and other government officials.
5. Iraq
All it takes is one look at the news to tell why traveling to Iraq might not be a very good idea. At present it is a veritable no man's land filled to the brim with violence. There's a high threat of terrorism and kidnapping. Carjacking by armed thieves can occur even during daylight hours. Travelers in Iraq are at high risk for kidnapping and terrorist violence. Anti-Western sectarian militias may threaten travelers and western companies throughout Iraq. Kidnappings and attacks by improvised explosive devices (IED) occur frequently in many areas of the country, including Baghdad. Methods of attack have included explosively formed penetrators (EFPs), magnetic IEDs placed on vehicles, human and vehicle-borne IEDs, mines placed on or concealed near roads, mortars and rockets, and shootings using various direct fire weapons. Such attacks often take place in public venues such as cafes and markets.
On your next holiday, make sure you don't end up on a war region by accident. It will spoil your trip and potentially cost your life.
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Arielle Brousse
"I want to show people that early reading is for everyone."
Focus Area: Education
School: University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice & School of Arts and Sciences
When I entered the workforce, all I knew about what I wanted to do was that I wanted to be able to give back, to work towards a net good for my community; I was lucky, then, that I got my start in the development department of The Franklin Institute, an organization whose extraordinary offerings I knew firsthand from my own childhood memories. Working on the Institute's foundation grants, government grants, capital campaign efforts, and donor communications, and moving on to become the one-woman development department at the Kelly Writers House, I've come to understand that however accidental my ending up in development might have been, I wound up on the right path. My primary interest is in using storytelling principles to help donors connect personally with a common cause, and to do my work in a way that celebrates the generosity, generativity, and creativity that philanthropy entails. In the years that I've been working, I've also completed a Master's degree in Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania, and a course in Principles of Fundraising offered by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. As a side project, I currently operate a blog that collects personal essays reflecting back on favorite children's books (http://sensiblenonsense.us); it has the dual goal of getting people to consider these books seriously and critically, and to show visitors to the blog that early childhood reading is important and formative, no matter who you are.


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Inside BIGDATA Guide to Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics, sometimes called advanced analytics, is a term used to describe a range of analytical and statistical techniques to predict future actions or behaviors. In business, predictive analytics are used to make proactive decisions and determine actions, by using statistical models to discover patterns in historical and transactional data to uncover likely risks and opportunities. Predictive analytics incorporates a range of activities which we will explore in this paper, including data access, exploratory data analysis and visualization, developing assumptions and data models, applying predictive models, then estimating and/or predicting future outcomes.Download now to read on.


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It has been one month and one day since I decided to take an extended break from work. I can't say that I regret a minute of it. The day I made the decision, I made a list of all of the things I've wanted to take care of in the house but couldn't get to. At first, I felt guilty if I didn't make progress on my list items before sitting down to write.
Before the break, my day looked something like this:
6:10: Exercise
6:45: Shower
7:00: Walk the dog
7:30: Finish getting ready for work
8:35: Sneak to my desk and pretend I got there five minutes earlier
12:00: Lunch
12:25: Back to work
6:25: Get home and stare at Television
7:00: Have food appear in front of face
8:00: Marketing/schedule posts for next day
9:00: Bed
Not writing stressed me out. Not having the time to write except on weekends just wasn't working for me. I would have been able to figure out a better schedule eventually, but it would have been at a steep cost. I would have to give up working out and spend my spare minutes in the morning writing. Wake up a couple hours earlier. I made it work when I was getting up at 4:30. Getting home by three in the afternoon left me time to walk the dog, feed her, feed us, and then ignore my husband for a few hours while I wrote. This job was less flexible about schedule, so the writing would have been first thing in the morning instead.
For the last two years, writing slowly became a priority. Whenever a time consuming hobby morphs into another job, more time goes out the window. Certain things needed to go. Non-essential cleaning, yard work, complex meals. If I didn't do them, they didn't get done at all. I'm not trying to throw my husband under the bus - he still did plenty. He made sure dishes made it into the dishwasher so we had things to eat on, he does the laundry, and vacuumed if I asked nicely. I kept the bathrooms and kitchen clean, but that was the extent of my priority list. Paperwork piled high on the dining room table. I didn't stay on top of my husband's propensity for being a pack rat. Things started piling up. LIterally.
What still surprises me is how easy it is to avoid writing altogether. There is so much to do, I could easily spend the next two months making the yard presentable along with sorting my entire house. I decided exercise needed to go beyond long walks with the dog and have started a Couch to 5k program. The dog consistently opts out, and I have to cajole her into the long walk. She is rather fantastic at helping me write, though.
8AM: Wake up to dog hitting me on the head with her paw
8:10: Feed dog
8:20: Clean Kitchen
9: Marketing
10:30: Write or clean
11:30: Walk Dog
12:00: Go for run
1:00: Shower & Eat
2:00: Run Errands
3:00: Write
5:00: Start Dinner
6:00: Spend time with husband
9:00: Write again or watch TV
11:00 Go to bed
I thought I would spend all day writing. I think it will become more of a priority as this break nears an end, but for now, I'm just trying to be okay with what I get done in a day.


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You heard right ... 30 hours of travel, we were actually up in the air for 26 hours ... and I realise I didn't have to travel through Heathrow but airlines make things very difficult if you want to fly into one destination and out of another. If we did not go in and out of one place (in this instance) Heathrow, our flights would have cost an additional $2,300 per person!!!
However, really once you have been on one airline you really know exactly what you are in for .... so I will move onto the fun stuff! We arrived in Heathrow at 6.30am and raced across terminals to make our connection ... battled customs lines and security .... used transfer trains, buses, endless walking long boring terminals ... oh the joy to finally get onto our final flight even if we did have to wait for what seemed like hours to get de-iced!
However, the landing was a rather interesting event that left me in my aviation cluelessness laughing and my hubby who actually knows these things shaking in his boots.
Obviously the weather in Moscow is quite cold ... however the clouds were everywhere! As we started decending for landing I had my nose glued to the window searching for my first glimpse of Russia!
When we hit 1000 meters I expected to start glimpsing trees, buildings ... something - nope just white.
When we hit 800 meters I started looking nervously at hubby "see anything yet?" he asks - nope just white.
When we hit 600 meters I must say the whole cabin started buzzing, surely we are going to pull up soon since visibility is practically nil - nope we keep descending.
The scary bit is when I only see the runway seconds before we skid down along the ice - wind screaming around the wings!
The even scarier bit - when everyone on the plane starts clapping and cheering!
Oh yes .... a rather eventful landing in Moscow. Also it takes almost 2 hours to get into Moscow - apparently traffic in Moscow is rather dismal and it is common for you to sit in a traffic jam for hours on end for a 20 minute journey. Also it appears there are no lanes and its perfectly acceptable to zoom around on snow and ice at over 100km per hour!
Its just like the plane ... as long as you don't crash you are ok!
Its just like the plane ... as long as you don't crash you are ok!
So there you have it - the travel is over and the holiday begins! I look forward to sharing this journey with you - I can assure you, if what we have already seen is a preview ... this should be a very interesting trip!


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Skinny Tan
Taren Anderson
With 30 years' experience working within the beauty industry in many areas throughout my career the last few years I have spent working within the professional beauty industry training and servicing salons and distributors.
A market saturated with brands and products competing within a small market in Australia can be over whelming and daunting to the everyday person and to the salons.
How do we choose a product on the retail shelf!?
There are approximately 80 different tanning products out on the market within Australia at present. Crazy!! How do we select the tanning solution and retail products that will service our customers?
Based on my research and trailing many different tanning solutions, I am looking for performance, easy to use, quick to dry and the smell of the tanning products and solutions. but I must confess I haven't tried 80, so I am only speaking on behalf of the brands within the natural industry.
Tanning can be toxic to both the consumer and the tanning technician. Micro fine particles floating in the air that we are inhaling when having a spray tan can take effect on our bodies to work harder to detox what we are absorbing. The more natural the less invasive it will be for all involved.
Thank goodness technology and research in developing natural based tanning has evolved over the past 10 or so years.
We chose Skinny Tan for a few reasons:
- Natural ingredients rich in oils such as almond oil, sunflower oil and aloe Vera combined with the key active ingredient Guarana that assist in stimulating the epidermal layers leaving the skin looking smoother leaving the skin looking and feeling hydrated with a healthy natural tan.
- Skinny Tan Do Not claim to be organic they just use organic ingredients.
- Colour and finish on various skin tones was important that the colour and depth of colour is universal.
- Can be used on irritated skin such as eczema? Yes, you can just use the primer on the spots and tan over the top so the colour doesn't grab on the dry patchy areas.
- The fragrance is the most natural smell and not over powering like other natural or organic tanning lotions.
- Fading process can look patchy at times and this can be due to perspiration and using products with sulphates that will create your tan to fade unevenly. This just means you will need to tan more frequently to keep the tan looking fresh. It's important to have your home tanning essentials at home just in case you don't have time to book an appointment with your salon. Skinny Tan will naturally fade, but we would always recommend to exfoliate to remove the excess after 7-10 days from applying the tan.
Key factors of achieving a longer lasting Natural Tan
Exfoliate using the Skinny Tan Pre -Tan Primer with the exfoliating mitt to remove the old tan and dead skin cells effectively without drying the skin the day before the spray tan or self -tanning.
Apply after 48 hours the Tan and Tone oil or the Gradual Tanner to maintain the tan that also keeps the colour to the original level. You can deepen the tan by applying the Tan & Tone over a series of consecutive days that will extend your tan for up to 10 days or more.
Always use an applicator to apply the full tanning products such as the mousse and 7-day tanner.
"Prep and Maintain is the KEY to a healthy glowing tan"
Don't compromise if you are an avid tanner or new to the experience look at the ingredients and smell the product. This will instantly tell you the quality and performance.
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" Positively impacting the quality of life for children and families we served daily"
Our mission is to positively impact the quality of life for children and families, primarily in North Nashville, by responding to the needs of the community through center-based and outreach programs. Center-Based, we provide a three-star rated Early Care and Education program for children ages six weeks to five years old. In addition, we offer an After School and Summer Enrichment Program for children six to twelve years old.


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Peter J. Krumholz (Hale Westfall, LLP) has published The Case for Greater Public Access to Oral Argument Recordings in the Tenth Circuit, 89 Denver U. L. Rev. 395 (2012).
The author lists the D.C. Circuit among the minority of "laggard" circuits that have failed to follow the Supreme Court's example of publishing audio recordings of oral arguments online.
From the article:
The D.C. Circuit adopted its policy regarding oral-argument recordings more than fifteen years ago. It provides that only "an attorney or litigant in the case may listen to oral-argument tapes." However, the policy does allow "any person" to request that a transcript be made of oral argument at his or her own expense, using a court reporter specified by the court.
Inexplicably, the court specifies that "[t]he cost will include the expense of preparing one copy of the transcript for the requestor and four copies for the Court." The policy further provides that any person may request a copy of an oral-argument recording "after the case has been completely closed," and clarifies that "[t]his means that all appeals, remands, or other additional proceedings must be concluded before the tape will be reproduced."
[Footnote: This aspect of the court's policy is especially puzzling in light of the frequency with which the D.C. Circuit's written opinions cite to statements made by counsel in oral argument. A Westlaw search of D.C. Circuit decisions for the words "recording" or "tape" within five words of the phrase "oral argument" turned up sixty-eight such instances. See, e.g., Artis v. Bernanke, 630 F.3d 1031 (D.C. Cir. 2011). In Artis, the court cited to the oral-argument recording to support the harsh conclusion that counsel for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System made a misrepresentation to the court. Yet, because the decision resulted in a remand for further proceedings before the district court, and the case is still pending, there is no way for anyone but the litigants themselves to verify the court's citation without incurring the time and expense of hiring a company to generate a transcript of the argument.]
The circuit charges $30 for an oral argument recording.
Finally, the D.C. Circuit's policy provides that "[t]he Court will consider requests for a waiver" of its policy upon a showing of good cause. There does not, however, appear to be any guidance from the court on what constitutes "good cause" for purposes of obtaining a waiver of the court's policy.
See also:
- The D.C. Circuit Is Not "Ready To Throw in the Towel" on Oral Argument Recordings, D.C. Circuit Review (Mar. 31, 2012) ("Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said . . . 'he thought momentum was moving in support of recorded [appellate] proceedings.'").


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LOS ANGELES – A driver was killed early Friday morning in a single-vehicle accident that closed down the northbound Harbor (110) Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.
The Ford sedan struck a light pole near the Temple Street exit of the freeway around 12:20 a.m., said California Highway Patrol officer Francisco Villalobos.
The driver, the only occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene, Villalobos said. His identity was not immediately released.
Villalobos said it was possible the car struck the freeway center divider before hitting the light pole.
Northbound lanes of the Harbor Freeway were closed and traffic diverted to north and southbound lanes of the Hollywood (101) Freeway. The lanes were re-opened about 3 a.m. the CHP said.
The vehicle appeared to be an early model Ford Mustang, a news videographer reported from the scene. The CHP confirmed the car was a Mustang.


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QualityGRADING STANDARDS FOOD SAFETY FLAVOUR
Quality is without doubts an important feature when considering fresh fruit and vegetables! But approaching quality is not a simple task given the heterogeneity of the products itself.
Fresh fruit and vegetables come from nature and are not the result of an industrial process. Each fruit or vegetable is therefore unique and influenced by the external environment. The external quality of the product could vary as a result of local weather and climatic conditions during its growing process, with weather conditions that could be adverse or favourable for the fruit or vegetable. Once picked, quality could also be influenced by the sorting and packing process, by transport or by storing conditions. Market conditions could imply that the product has to be sold faster when the demand is pressing or might need to be stored in cold store if the demand is not matching the offer or the product availability needs to be secured during a certain period. To mitigate all these aspects, the role and expertise of growers, traders and distributors as well as the logistics providers in the fresh produce chain is of a crucial nature.
The many different expectations and/or perceptions of consumers add to the complexity and demonstrate the wide scope of the quality concept. It is not only including the external appearance of fresh fruit and vegetables but also other aspects relating to food safety such as pesticide residues, contaminants, food borne illnesses, … but also organoleptic criteria, making sure that the products are ready to eat and taste good. All these criteria are the recipe for consumers to enjoy fresh fruit and vegetables and to repeat the experience.
This section will guide you to some of these quality aspects and the response given by the sector to secure that consumers' experience will be great and allow enjoying at any moments the delights of fresh produce consumption. More detailed information, including references to legislation, is available from Freshfel's Fresh Quality Guide (www.freshquality.org). Finally, one has also to remember that the quality of fruit and vegetables also includes the nutritional goodness of the product, an important and complex issue in itself which is therefore reviewed in a specific and dedicated section on this website. Similarly environmental sustainability issues (carbon footprint, water footprint, etc.) are covered in a dedicated section.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
I am a fearless Digital Jedi/Copy Writer, Social Media savvy & all around adventurous person. Currently living in Copenhagen, studying Digital Design & Communication at IT University of Copenhagen with 4+ years experience as digital copywriter.
Specialties: Copywriting, digital strategy and analysis, strategic communications and PR & social media.
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This inquiry invites participants to reflect upon how their fundamental belief systems, as influenced by their experiences as, and with, members of different racial groups, genders and social class constructs for example, impact their working relationships and decision-making practices. The cross-disciplinary participants' "stories" on how aspects of identity, both their own and others, mediate between the organization's fundamental philosophies and how people in the organization relate, function and task on a daily basis. The participant's stories reflect not only their own identities, but of the individual in relation to other organizational participants within the co-constructed and shared system factors that are alive in all organizations.


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The purpose of this research was to investigate the number theory of algebraic varieties defined over a ring of algebraic integers. In order to start this investigation, it is important to replace the originalvariety by a more natural model by a birational transformation. If the given variety has relative dimension 1 over the ring of integers, then the classical minimal model theory provides us the canonical model. Kawamata tried to extend the minimal model theory to higher dimensional case, and succeeded in the case in which the relative dimension is 2 and the variety has semistable reduction.In the course of the proof, newly developed theory of algebraic 3-folds over the complex numbers was used. The difficulty in the proof came from the fact that the vanishing theorem of Kodaira type, which was very useful in the case over the complex numbers, is false in positive characteristic.The singular fiber of a variety with semistable reduction is a normal crossing variety. Conversely, Kawam
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"As I sit awake it is 3 A.M. eastern standard time and I have to clear my thoughts. With the current economic situation, this great country we love, live and work in has left us all in an undeniable feeling of loss and confusion of what it is we all believe in and live by. As a motorcycle enthusiast first and foremost, the thought of better days for the entire industry has not only left me, but everyone in the entire motorcycle industry, wondering how this ca be made better. And as all of us have come to realize things are what they seem and there before us are the cards that life has handed us. In time, as all things do, this will change, it may not be this year, it may not even be next year, but there is one thing I know for sure – none of this has truly changed the way I personally feel about the business I work in and live to love….Motorcycling.
If you are reading these words you too undeniably feel the same as I and feel there is a need for some sort of way to make a change. As a builder, manufacturer or simply a rider, this is the love and burden you carry and carry proudly. You may be new to the industry or have thirty some years under your belt but none the less you are as hooked as I am. This is a love I am not afraid to admit, a love of something that is so simple yet lets us all forget the every day reminders of our daily grind. How is it that something so simple can bring so many together for the same reasons and general feeling of freedom on so many levels. The grandfather of rallies is slowly creeping upon us and the excitement of this has been overshadowed by the talk of astronomical gas prices and low attendance anticipation. What I feel has been overlooked is the fact that this in no way has changed the way feel about what it is we all have grown to love and live by. Yes it may make things light and yes it may mean it will keep the crowds smaller, but what we all need to remember is that the few that do make this pilgrimage are those that share the same feelings as you and I. We should embrace the brotherhood and sisterhood of this community and fight even harder to assure it does not die.
I have talked before on this issue and will continue to remind all of you that there are far worse evils in life to worry about. I would like to share something with you all that has been nothing short of inspirational to me personally, and in light of all the overwhelming circumstances makes me remember that there is true love and dedication in our world.
In the past few years I have become friends with the entire crew that rides and operates the American Motor Drome Wall of Death. For those of you who have visited and experienced this history filled carnival-like act at any of the rallies, you know and understand the true dedication. This year has issued the family of this long time institution nothing short of seemingly impossible odds to deal with. With the passing of one of the true and original daredevils, Sam, we lost not only one of great wall riders in history but the member of a family dedicated to the truest form of preserving what is and always will be the love of motorcycling. I was fortunate to see her last ride in Daytona this year as a guest inside the wall and I have to tell you it was something I will never forget. Sam had overcome her natural human instinct and fear of the same beast that had broken her back a year earlier. She looked past what it was that had put her in a year of recovery, had thrown her off and left her broken. She continued pursuing what it was in life she truly loved and lived for. As I stood and watched her slowly creep up the rickety boards I noticed a small yet growing smirk of content and happiness of someone truly living and loving her life. As I watched, I thought to myself this is what it is all about, and I hope I too can take from that experience and remember the true passion and love she had that day for a motorcycle.
As you all know we will never see that look on her face again in real life yet only in what we have to remember her by.
Soon to follow Sam was the passing of Criminal, the ticket taker, and as if that weren't enough, owner and rider Jay Lightnin' would have to undergo chemotherapy for his battle with cancer that is far from over. This is saddening news and it makes me wonder how something so timeless with such love from individuals that put their lives and well being on the line can possibly continue….yet it lives. I was able to not only see my friends in Hollister, Ca riding and doing the very thing that drives them, but doing it well and to the appreciation of both young and old fans. They have even recruited a young man all of twenty something named Jeremiah to continue the legacy, and trust me it is not for fortune and fame….simply the love. My point to this story is the fact that no matter how bad it may seem in our world today, remember what and why we are all here and that is for the love; remember with time things will get better for us all.
Please visit the American Motor Drome, buy a ticket and see a show, even if you have twenty times in the past. These individuals hopefully will keep you as focused on the big picture as they have me; trust me you will get your money's worth and hopefully be as inspired as I to see people doing what it is they love in this motorcycle world for pennies on the dollar. Please try to make it a point and take and give whatever you can to support some of the many deserving charities in Sturgis. Please enjoy yourselves and have a safe Sturgis 2008 and I wish you all a prosperous 2009. Thank you my friend" Scott Webster Leroy-Thompson


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Uncluttering can lighten your load and put cash in your pockets if you choose to sell items you no longer want. You also can save money by repairing broken items instead of replacing them with new purchases. But, one of the downsides of selling (and other money saving ideas) is sometimes you can end up with more clutter than when you started. It works out this way because you likely add new items before the old items leave your home. And, if you don't get them out quickly, they can linger and commandeer much needed space.
Does that mean you shouldn't sell your lightly used items? No. But, you should think about ways you can avoid the clutter build up, especially when …
Stocking up on coupons and sales flyers
It can be tempting to stock up on coupons and sale flyers, particularly when you know you can save quite a bit when you go shopping. Couponing, like any other project, needs to be a regular part of your routine. If you don't have a specific space to keep the coupons (along with the large quantities of things you get), they can start to fill every available room in your home, leaving you with less living space.
Try this instead: Share the couponing experience with a friend (or two) so you won't have to store every sale or grocery store flyer. You'll also save some time when you meet up with your couponing partners to process your coupons (be sure to add these meetings to your calendar).
Buying in bulk
Bulk purchases can offer big savings and a high volume of products that can last for quite a while. But, therein lies the issue. Because you have such large quantities of items, you will need to consume perishables (meat, poultry, dairy) and other items before they expire. These items can languish in your pantry or fridge and end up not saving you money in the long run. And, unless you have ample space to store everything, your purchases may begin to clutter other areas of your home.
Try this instead: If you find that you don't use everything you buy before it expires, consider splitting the cost and sharing your haul with a neighbor or friend. This will give you a chance to use everything you buy and still reap the cost savings. Also, designate specific areas of your home for storing bulk items and do not go beyond those limits, irrespective of how good of a deal something is.
Returning recyclables for money
I recently read a New York Times article that described the author's love of coffee and the clutter that came from it. She saved Starbucks coffee bags to take to her local store because she'd get a free 12-ounce cup of coffee (a savings of $2). I'm sure coffee lovers everywhere were rejoicing at the opportunity to get free java. As it turned out, she didn't make it to the Starbucks closest to her home very often and her collection of coffee bags became a source of clutter that she ultimately trashed. I feel her pain. A few years ago, I amassed a collection of bath poufs (mesh sponges) I purchased from a local store that encouraged patrons to bring back old ones (that were fraying and no longer wanted) to get new ones free of cost (the store recycled them). I also didn't make it to that store often and decided to pitch my collection. At the time, it seemed like a painful decision. Afterall, I was missing out on something free.
While you might not keep a stash of bath accessories or coffee bags, you could be more inclined to stock up on plastic bottles and soda cans. Keeping these two items out of landfills is a good goal to have and you can get some money for them. When you return plastic bottles and aluminum cans, you can collect $.05 for each one (depending on where you live). If you tend to save up recyclable containers so you can return them for cash, they can quickly outgrow your space and infiltrate several areas of your home.
Try this instead: Pick a spot to store the recyclables as well as container that fits that space. When the container is full, stop collecting and schedule a time to return them. If your container is overflowing and you haven't had time to take them in to the recycling center, consider putting them out on the curb with your other recyclables.
Saving useless things to make something new
Do you save scraps of wrapping paper not big enough to wrap a gift with the intention of making something crafty with them? How about lonely socks (single socks with no mate) that you plan to include in a project you saw someone post about on Pinterest? Are you really going to create a window valance out of those hankerchiefs you never use? While you may be saving money by using what you already have to make something new, unless you actually upcycle them, they will begin to clutter your space and leave less room for more valuable things.
Try this instead: Be very selective about the scrap materials (and volume) that you keep and store them in one location. And, think about other ways to use those useless things yourself (wear unmatched socks at home, use scraps of paper as padding for things you're shipping), or donate them to a school or daycare center in your neighborhood that wants them.
Saving things that need repairing
Depending on the item, you can save money by doing your own repairs (like hemming your pants or replacing buttons). If you pick a day every week (or month) that you'll fix a handful of things, you can continually reduce the volume of your fixer-uppers. But, if this is not something you enjoy doing (or know how to do), you could find yourself overwhelmed with lots of things that need mending or fixing.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the cost of repairing an item may be higher than replacing it. According to Lori Bongiorno, author of Green, Greener, Greenest, "a good rule of thumb is to skip repairs that cost more than 50 percent of what it would cost to buy a new version."
Try this instead:
- Before you attempt a repair on your own, find out if the manufacturer offers that service for free. Some places, like Coach, will fix wallets (and other items they sell) without charging you or give you a new one (same value as your original purchase) if they can't repair it.
- Another option would be to keep the things that are easy for you to do and trade the things you don't want to do yourself with another person. This could mean that you'll take on a task they don't like doing, so you'll both get your jobs done without having to do the task you wouldn't otherwise complete. Or, you can barter an item (they fix your thing and you give them a thing that functions well but you don't want anymore).
- You can also let go of those items altogether by using Freecyle. It's not unusual for someone to accept an item that needs a little repair work.
Collecting things to consign
Clothing is often a popular consignment item. It can be hard to let go of some pieces, especially if the purchase price was pretty high. Consigning is a great idea if you have the time to take items to the consignment shop and your items are exactly what the consignment store wants (they can be very picky). But, you'll lose out on the money you could be getting if you have bags and bags of things you intended to sell that are simply sitting around and cluttering up your home.
Try this instead:
- Keep a basket in your closet or laundry area for things you want to consign. Once full, put them in your car immediately so they don't linger in your home. If, after a reasonable amount of time (you'll hate seeing them in your car) they haven't made it to the consignment, drop them off at donation organization (or arrange to have them picked up) to get the tax write-off.
- Have a clothing swap party and trade the items you no long want (or that don't fit anymore) with friends and/or family.
Go ahead and try your hand at turning your clutter into cash. Just be sure the things you need to do are reasonable for your lifestyle and not too demanding on your time and won't clutter your space.


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The fields are filling up with food and we have enough abundance now to begin harvesting. We are looking forward to sharing food and the farm weekly with the greater community. The cool weather has kept the spring crops and greens happy and sweet. I would not might if we had a little more sun and heat soon. Some of the other crops are struggling along, ready for warmth. I find that as I watch the garden grow, it is similar to my children. One week everything has a growth spurt and looks beautiful, and the next it seems everything is struggling. It comes and goes in waves.
This week's pick list
Lettuce Mix
Pac Choy
Broccoli Raab
Cilantro and Dill
As the season continues, there will be new items each week and more diversity.
There are a few perennial flowers for harvesting and much of the perennial herb garden is ready. There is beautiful tarragon, lemon balm, and more.
Pac Choy and Radish Coleslaw, adapted from nytimes.com
1 head pac choy (about 1 pound), cored and very finely sliced
8 turnips, cut into fine strips
8 radishes, thinly sliced
½ cup fine strips of mint
½ cup lime juice
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
6 tablespoons fish sauce (see note)
¾ cup vegetable oil
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
In a large bowl, toss the bok choy, turnip, radishes, and mint. Set aside.
In a blender, combine the lime juice, mustard and fish sauce and blend on high. While the motor is running, slowly drizzle in the oil until it is fully incorporated. Pour the mixture from the blender over the cabbage mixture and toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Remove the slaw from the refrigerator and drain excess liquid. Serve with roast lamb or beef.
Miso Vegetable Soup, adapted from nytimes.com
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons grated ginger
1 tablespoon mirin or sherry
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 tablespoon tamari or light soy sauce
8 ounces soba (buckwheat noodles)
8 radishes, thinly sliced
1 pac choy, thinly sliced
8 turnips, thinly sliced
8 cups water
¼ cup white miso, or more to taste
Handful of chopped cilantro
Heat oil in a pot.
Add garlic and ginger and let sizzle without browning. Add mirin, sugar, tamari and 8 cups water, then bring mixture to boil. Lower heat and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Taste broth and adjust salt if necessary.
Add turnips, radishes, and pac toy. Simmer until tender, about 5 minutes. Taste broth and adjust salt if necessary.
In a separate pot, cook buckwheat noodles according to package directions, being careful not to overcook. Drain noodles and refresh with cool water, then leave at room temperature.
To serve, reheat broth to just under a boil. Dilute miso with a little hot broth and whisk into soup. Divide the noodles among 6 warmed bowls and ladle soup over. Top each bowl with a little cilantro.


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How To Change Displayed Date/Time Format In Windows XP And Vista
People who use Windows may have noticed that the clock in the system tray displays time in the 24 hour format by default. I always prefer 12 hour format, if you want to know how to change it or if you simply want to get rid of AM and PM to save the space to stick in one more taskbar icon! Well, here is the solution.
In order to change how the time is displayed on your computer, click on Start > Control Panel, and choose Regional and Language Options.
Click the Customize button underneath the Standards and formats section. Below that button, you'll also see an example of how each setting is currently configured for Number, Currency, Time, Short Date, and Long Date.
Click on the Time tab and change the time format to H:mm:ss (note the uppercase H) and press OK
The uppercase H or HH stands for 24-hour format, whereas the lower case h andhh means 12-hour format. The single h is if you do not want to display leading zeros for single digit hours and hh is if you want a leading zero.
To further customize your Date / Time settings, here are some useful tips:
- Type uppercase H or HH to Display time in a 24-hour format
- Type lowercase h or hh to Display time in a 12-hour format
- Type two characters, HH or hh to Display leading zeros in single-digit hours
- Type a single uppercase H, or lowercase letter, such as h, m, or s to suppress the display of leading zeros in single-digit hours, minutes, or seconds
- Type lowercase t to display a single letter to indicate AM or PM
- Type lowercase tt to display two letters to indicate AM or PM
- Type single quotation marks (') around text to display text


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Quick note: We recently announced the next Growth Series, an 8-week program for designed for experienced practitioners in growth (past participants came from Dropbox, Google, LinkedIn, Evernote, Airbnb, Soundcloud, Facebook, and many other companies). It's by application only, and if interested, you can learn more here.
In the early days of building the growth team at HubSpot, we spent a few months optimizing onboarding in our product and produced some meaningful improvements. As the team expanded, I wanted to dedicate a full-time team to onboarding, but I got a few versions of the following questions from other executives:
"Why do you want to put a full-time team on that? I thought you guys were done optimizing onboarding?"
The mentality of "done" is the exact opposite of the mentality of high performance growth teams. Change is constant. Change is difficult. Not adapting to change is fatal.
The point is a critical one for any company and is the foundation for this growth principle. By nature, humans resist change because adapting can be hard and it's usually a lot of work. We like to think of things as "done" so we can check them off our to-do list, and move on to the next thing.
Any great growth team is ready for and responsive to change, nimble, and always, always adapting. They go beyond adapting, and truly embrace change building their team and process around it. Let's talk about why…
Systematic growth is iterative.
There are four main reasons that this principle is important:
- Product Evolution
- Audience Shift
- Channel Change
- Tactic Fatigue
And constant change is the common thread that ties them all together.
We must be aware of and accept of the constancy of change, integrate it into our culture and empower our teams to always be adapting. If we don't, our product's growth will inevitably stall at some point in time. If instead we evolve our growth efforts in sync with the changes happening across product, audience, channels and tactics, we will increase our chances of driving sustainable growth and operate by this principle.
Reason One: Product Is Always Evolving
We should be learning constantly. For product, this means constantly getting better at delivering more of the core value by refining existing features and building new ones based on our learnings. If we don't, we risk stagnation and being beaten by competitors who are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the market.
As we refine and change our product, the way our users enter, engage, and exit the product will evolve too, which ultimately affects how we approach growth.
Think about how interaction with Facebook's core value has transformed over the years. In the beginning, users updated their profiles, scrolled through their list of friends, clicked through to profiles and left messages on friends' walls.
But then, when the company added the newsfeed, user behavior changed in a big way, evolving from comments to the Like Button to current day Reactions. What users shared also changed from text only, to photos, to links, to videos, to live videos today.
All of this points to the fact that with every product change, how we onboard, retain, monetize, and generally mobilize users for growth, may change. So we can never forget to evolve our growth strategies in lock step with our product strategy.
Reason Two: Audience Is Always Shifting
As the market shifts and the product develops and grows, the composition of our audience, who they are, what they want, and what they respond to, shifts. Across the board, our strategy and tactics from acquisition to activation, retention, revenue and referral need to evolve in sync. There are many ways to segment an audience and so there are many ways an audience, and each of its segments, can evolve.
The Innovation Adoption Lifecycle
First, let's think about it in relation to the Innovation Adoption Lifecycle.
Typically as a company grows, its audience shifts from innovators and early adopters to late majority and laggards, all of which behave very differently and respond to different product experiences and messaging.
Twitter offers a useful example. In the early days, Twitter's onboarding focused on guiding users to write their first tweet. This was the core action innovators and early adopters responded to.
But as the company grew beyond innovators and early adopters, the onboarding changed to emphasize following and consuming content first. That was an action the early and late majority were more likely to take in the adoption phase.
Niche to Niche
Another way to think about these changes is that audiences expand from niche to niche growing in concentric circles. The growth can be based on different facets of the audience:
1. Demographics
Let's take a look at Facebook's growth for a moment. It expanded in concentric circles to increasingly large populations based on education.
Harvard → All Ivy → All College → College + High School → College + High School + Recent Grads → Everyone
How Facebook Grew From Harvard to the World
2. Geography
Uber expanded by location, starting in San Francisco and then launching in other U.S. cities like New York, Chicago and DC, and then expanding internationally moving from the U.S. to all other english speaking countries and then to Europe and beyond.
3. Industry
Workday (and lots of other B2B companies) expanded by industry. It started by serving other technology companies first, and then extended its reach from vertical to vertical - moving from technology companies to service-based companies to the financial, healthcare, and education sectors.
These and other niches live in different channels, respond to different messaging, and have different needs. So as our audience expands from niche to niche, we need to adapt our growth strategies and tactics with every shift in focus.
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Reason Three: Channels Change Constantly
User acquisition channels are changing constantly, evolving at an accelerating rate on both a macro and a micro level. For this reason, companies that adapt quickly and experiment in the newest channels increase their odds of capturing the biggest growth opportunities
Macro Changes
On the macro level more and more channels are emerging, while their lifecycles are simultaneously accelerating. The graph below shows these two dominant trends - you can see that there are a lot more to channels than there were 10 years ago and that they're rising into and falling out of favor much faster than older channels.
Check out MySpace and Facebook, they both grew at unprecedented rates shooting up very quickly, only to die (in the case of MySpace) or become closed (in the case of Facebook) even more quickly. As channels come and go we need to adapt with them.
Zynga experienced stratospheric growth riding on back of the Facebook platform. But in 2012 Facebook changed the rules of the game and in an instant completely shut off Zynga's only growth channel overnight. Zynga's entire business model tanked as a result. This story demonstrates how quickly a channel can change and how vulnerable companies are when they aren't positioned to see these changes coming down the pipeline, at best, or at least respond instantly when they're blindsided.
Micro Changes
When we zoom in to the micro level we can see that each channel is evolving at an ever increasing rate. What's even more challenging is that the platforms upon which we grow - Facebook, Google, Gmail and many more - write the rules of the game. Not only do we not even get a say, but many change the rules constantly.
To stay in the game we have to play by the rules of the platform. The only problem is that they don't actually tell us what the rules are. Google doesn't tell us exactly how a page ranks and Facebook doesn't tell us exactly how a CPC is determined. So we run experiments to deconstruct them, and figure out how to adapt and keep growing. This means that once we find a channel that works for us we need to be adapting our approach constantly to keep up with how the rules are changing and the channel is evolving.
Reason Four: Tactic Fatigue
Increasingly, we are bombarded by more information than we can process and our brains have developed ways to filter out what we don't need to survive. This survival mechanism is important for us to understand because it forces all of our favorite acquisition tactics to move through the Growth Tactic Lifecycle depicted in the chart below.
There are 4 Stages of the lifecycle of any growth tactic:
- Tactic Discovered - Someone discovers a new tactic, facilitated by the evolution of an existing platform or channel or the advent of new platforms and channels. Initially, this new tactic performs well because it captures the user's attention in a novel way.
- Tactic Optimized - The innovators and early adopters of this tactic experiment like crazy to optimize it to peak effectiveness and maximize its impact on their growth.
- Tactic Adopted by the Masses - Other companies, the early and late majority, see that the tactic is working and they copy it.
- Tactic Goes into Fatigue - By this point, users have been exposed to this tactic over and over across multiple products. The novelty of the tactic has worn off and users start to block it out. The effectiveness of the tactic decreases and it no longer drives the same kind of growth it once did.
For example, how we ask for email addresses has undergone rapid change over the past few years. As users, we've experienced this change first hand and as user acquisition professionals we've had to learn and adapt quickly to continue driving email capture conversion rates.
As an example of how quickly tactic fatigue can happen, let's walk through the incarnations of this tactic over the past few years:
- Form within a webpage
- Slide ins
- Lightbox popovers
- Full page takeovers
- SumoMe Welcome Mat
Take this one little thing - how do I collect email addresses on my content - and we can name 5 different iterations of that ecosystem in just a few years.
When I first started capturing email on my own content, I used a lightbox popover, which few people were doing at the time. My conversion rate was initially around 10%. But as more sites implemented lightboxes to collect emails, consumers became desensitized, the tactic went into fatigue, and my conversion rate leveled off at 3-4%. I recently started using exit-intent full page takeovers and my conversion rate has increased to 6%, but I expect that it won't last long.
Do These 5 Things To Implement This Principle
1. Build A Culture of Constant Experimentation
People often see constant change as a negative thing and resist the inevitable. Instead, we must welcome change by building a culture of constant experimentation. This allows us to incorporate the constant flow of change into our growth processes and survive and thrive in competitive environments.
2. Constantly Validate Old Playbooks, Ditch The Ones That Don't Work Anymore
Eventually, all playbooks will stop working. This is not the real problem though. The real problem is that over time we become habitualized and attached to these playbooks, and we resist throwing them away. Even when all evidence points to the fact that they are no longer relevant, the thought of ditching our old faithfuls and starting anew is intimidating. Do it anyway.
3. Balance Your Portfolio of Bets
Here I challenge you to think of your set of growth tactics like a financial portfolio to be balanced in terms of risk and reward. When we test new and unproven channels we take higher risk, higher reward bets. When we optimize proven channels we take lower risk, lower reward bets. It's like a game in which we have a pool of resources and we're shifting them between different bets, depending on results of various experiments.
Since all channel effectiveness curves flatten eventually (think of my email capture conversion rate leveling off at 3-4%), in a perfect world we aim to hit our stride with a new channel as a proven channel starts to slow down. It may never happen perfectly like this in reality, but we should attempt to layer tactics on top of each other if we want to maintain growth.
4. Accelerate Your Growth Team Investment As You Keep Growing
When your growth team first starts out almost all of its time will be spent experimenting.
Over time you find more and more things that work and the team's resources will be consumed by running and repeating these successful things.
The danger is that 100% of your time and resources will get consumed by repeating the successful things and you won't make time for experimentation.
If you follow this trajectory, you will eventually get caught with your proverbial pants down.
At scale, it's easier than not to let experimenting with new ideas fall by the wayside. Instead, we must set aside time and resources specifically dedicated to this effort. This requires us to continue increasing the total pie of resources we dedicate to our growth teams.
As a rule of thumb, I focus at least 30% of my team's time on experimenting with new ideas, and 70% of our time repeating and optimizing our old faithfuls.
5. Hire For Grit and Resilience
The thought that growth is never done can be exhausting. This is why I hire for grit and resilience. When an experiment fails multiple times in a row, I want people who get right back up, learn from their misfires, bring new ideas to the table, and attack the problem over and over until they solve it.
When they do succeed, these folks don't view the job as done, instead they focus on making it even better. And, they have no problem adapting when something they slaved over in the past is no longer working. They're willing to throw it out and start all over again because they know that's what it takes to stay on top.
If I Stepped Into Your Company Today As VP Of Growth...
I would establish a baseline to determine where your team and systems fall in relation to the principle - Embrace Constant Change. Walk through the checklist below, assess your team on the principle of Constant Change, and figure out where you're killing it and where you're being killed.
- How has the product evolved over time?
- Did we adapt our growth strategies and tactics? If so, how?
- What major product changes are upcoming? How do we plan to adapt our growth strategies?
- Who is our audience?
- How has it evolved over time?
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Starstruck: An Interview with Elizabeth Currid-Halkett/
Celebrity culture is in many ways the flip side of fan culture. Having spent many years studying fans, I was delighted upon arriving at USC to meet a new colleague, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, who studies celebrities. We instantly began comparing notes. In many world, those fans who are drawn towards celebrities display very different dynamics than those drawn towards fictional characters. Celebrity-focused fans seem more competitive, less collaborative, with each other, in part because the celebrity is a limited good. The fans who get close to the celebrity often become "protectors" of that access by "policing" the behavior of other fans. Only a limited number of fans can be "close" to Johnny Depp, while there can be as many Jack Sparrows as there are fan fiction writers. And so, I suspect celebrities often see fans at their worst rather than understanding the richness of all that fan culture has to offer. Currid-Halkett's book, Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity, was released late last year and I am happy to present it to my readers "for their consideration," as the posters around Hollywood this time of year would put it. I found it a very engaging and informative read, one which seeks to understand the economics of being famous, and one which takes an imaginative approach to mapping the social networks which grow up around celebrity culture in Hollywood and elsewhere. She certainly has a lot to say about what it means to be famous in our culture, including being famous for being famous, as is true say for Paris Hilton, or being famous in a niche community, as might be true for Big Name Fans in the science fiction world or in her example, designers in the wargaming world. While there's just enough gossip here to keep us turning the pages, people checking out this book will get a lot more -- a deep understanding of what makes being a celebrity or being close to a celebrity or selling news and pictures of celebrity such a lucrative business in today's culture.
You open the book with a comparison of the kinds of lifestyle information some people divulge on Facebook and the role which celebrities play in our culture. In what way are they the same? How are they different? Why do you think so many young people want, above all, to be famous?
Celebrity hinges on the collective fascination we have with particular people which means it can exist in all social stratospheres. Hollywood is just a very visual mega version of a phenomenon that exists in all of our lives. Facebook and social media more generally just provide more avenues for people to cultivate a public persona. If we look back to high school or the family reunion we see the same type of collective fascination in more old fashioned contexts as much as in "celebrity 2.0".
You define celebrity as "the special quality that some individuals possess that propels society to care more about them than about other people." Do we have any basis for understanding why some personalities become celebrities and others fall below the grade?
Yes and no. I think that it's hard to truly pinpoint what makes us anoint some people as stars while we discard others - is there a meaningful difference between say Paris Hilton and every other pretty socialite? That said, celebrities do behave differently than everyone else. They over share, they put themselves in the spotlight, they show up at events that are documented and they create a public persona - we see this on Facebook as much as we see it in Hollywood.
You suggest that the nature of celebrity shifts when the media system changes. How might we contrast our current era of celebrity gossip from, say, the Hollywood star system of the 1930s?
Social media and the 24/7 gossip cycle have transformed stars from being icons of perfect who we admire from afar to individuals who we attempt to relate to and who are, to borrow US Weekly's phrase, "Just Like Us". Also the ability to take a photo and have it online in under 10 minutes means that we are recording the day by day activities and banality of stars. I actually feel bad for them because now it's not just looking fabulous at the Oscars, they have to think about what their makeup looks like when their grabbing their morning Starbucks order.
One of the interesting aspects of the book centers around what you call "relative celebrity," a topic which takes you from the Warhammer workshop to ROFLcon, trying to understand how people become famous within smaller niches. What can studying such relative celebriities tell us about the larger phenomenon of celebrityhood?
Relative celebrities are simply fractal versions of mainstream Hollywood-style celebrity. They are not on their way to Hollywood, they are autonomous forms of stardom. In this sense, relative celebrities tell us a lot about how celebrity is a social phenomenon everywhere and a way in which society is organized. We anoint special people, we collectively obsess about certain people for things that transcend their talents and our stars provide an important social function -as you've pointed out in your own work, they are the material and information we gossip about. So their function is more than just existing as people - their existence provides a stickiness for society to bond over.
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the author of The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City (Princeton University Press) and Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity (Faber & Faber). She is assistant professor at University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning and Development.


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In the meantime I've been pondering the Veer-myn, the last of the Season One Dreadball teams. With the Corporation having a nod to England, the Forge Fathers Germany and the Orx the Soviet Union, I think that the rats will have an Italian flavour - a nice blue and white kit and some mafioso inspired name (will have to ponder that, the Cosche Soprano Pallaterrore Squadra maybe?).
I was hoping to get the Wessex Supermarine Spitfires and Blitzschnellen Körperhammeren painted before Christmas so I could give my son the game and two basic teams painted as a present, but seeing how quickly the holiday is rushing upon us (and still waiting on delivery) I'm not sure whether my hope will become reality.
Fingers and tentacles crossed...
++ We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us ++
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Proteins that accelerate aging identified
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Two proteins called p16INK4a and ARF are responsible for a dramatic increase in aging of the body's cells. They say that people who look younger than they are have less of these proteins in their bodies and vice versa.
Both the proteins are known potent tumor suppressors, or proteins that halt tumor cell growth. The [...]


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Whenever someone loses a loved one, their house is usually besieged by grand floral arrangements. I usually send food, though, and often find it's really appreciated—especially when they can enjoy the foods right out of the box.
Here's a great, not too perishable gift of a nosher-sized Zingerman's Sour Cream Coffee Cake, a dozen assorted Brownie Bites, John Macy's Cheesesticks, Nor'Easter Cabot Cheddar, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs, Zingerman's Virginia Peanuts, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami and a bag of Zingerman's Coffee, ground. It's packed with class in our oval wooden ZingCrate, with Zingerman's printed on the lid.
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Happy first day of fall everyone! This is officially my favorite season. I love it all--the colors, the fashion, the food. And I totally plan on spending part of my weekend making some autumn inspired crafts. Here's a few great ones to consider. Have a great crafting weekend!
Fabric pumpkins from ever creative Martha Stewart team. I love the color combination of plum, velvet, and metallic fabrics.
Leather leaves necklace--a super cute DIY from Missie Krissie
Not your average book-pressed wildflowers. I love the combination of the pressed flower with vintage book page and frame. Tutorial courtesy of Country Living.
Have acorns scattered across your yard? Turn them into a wreath for your front door. I love the brilliant green color Katie Miller chose to paint the acorns.


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Drawing strings in Java
I have some questions regarding drawing strings in Java, more exactly regarding the determination and measurement of the size of strings.
The API says that the unit of the parameter size in the constructor Font(String name, int style, int size) is point. But how is the relationship between points and pixels in Java? I found serveral resources on the web which all say different things.
Some states that in Java one point is equal to one pixel. Others say that Java knows points as well as pixels and that one point is not necessarily one pixel. But what's right? I searched the API and others official Sun documents (eg. the tutorials), but I can't find any official resource from Sun in which the relation between pixels and points is explained - neither statements that one point is equal to one pixel nor statements against that. Does any one have a link where Sun explains that?
Second question: What exactly is the size of a font which I give the constructor Font(String name, int style, int size)? Is it the distance from the font's baseline to the top of most alphanumeric characters? Or the distance from the bottom of most alphanumeric characters with descenders to the top of most alphanumeric characters?
Third question: Do the methods of the class FontMetrics such as getLeading(), getAscent() or getDescent() return pixel values or point values? If there is a difference at all...
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Take a look at this URL: Javadoc error confuses Pixels with Points
In general, pixel vs. point size is platform/device/implementation dependent.
Chapter 5 of "Java 2D API Graphics" has a good introduction to the FontMetrics, TextLayout, LineMetrics, and FontRenderContext classes.
Finally, when using getLeading() etc. for screen drawing, I have always found the return values to have pixel units.
Has this question been cross-posted in the sun forums? OP, did you read the users agreement that you signed on joining this forum? Have you checked the Sun forum for their policy on cross-posts?
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Fubarable, were you referring to my reply to the original posting or the original posting? rtc1
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Price: 150 € per tour (up to 3 people). The price includes tickets to the Nozyk Synagogue (Synagogue is closed on Saturdays because of Shabbat) and the Jewish Institute.
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The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto created by the Nazis during the Second World War. It was established in November 1940 and 460,000 Jews were separated from the rest of the city. Around 100,000 people died from hunger. At least 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to the Treblinka death camp over two months in the summer of 1942. On the 19th of April 1943, Jewish combat organizations started an uprising led by Mordechaj Anielewicz. There were still 50,000-70,000 survivors living in the Ghetto area. Nazi General Jürgen Stroop was the commander of the uprising's suppression. Almost all the insurgents were killed. The entire Muranów district was bombed into the ground. At the end Stroop gave orders to destroy the Great Synagogue calling the event "A fantastic piece of theater." Some of the sites in the area survived the war.
During the walk we will see: fragment of the Ghetto wall, Nożyk Synagogue, Jewish Historical Institute, XIX-th century Jewish houses, Miła 18, Ghetto Heroes Monument, Umschlagplatz and more.


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3 Moments In Ireland I Never Wanted To Forget
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I kept journals for many years when we adopted our son and they provide me with good memories when I am deluged by difficult times. Journals can be something special to each of us.<br />
Oh yes, Kristance, they do mean something to me and, I'm sure, to others. And should be a mother one of these fine days or years, your children and grandchildren will marvel over your thoughts, memories, and photographs. A worthy legacy. Your question, "Do you ever squeeze your eyes shut and try to remember…" I did that and called those images my memory pictures. The first


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- It is by our body that we function. It's comprised of organs and cells.
- Our soul is what gives us our personality. Our soul has three major components — our mind, will and emotions.
- It's in our spirit that we have meaning and purpose in life. At the deepest level our spirit gives us meaning and purpose and our spirit enables us to love one another, our self and God.
The Holy Spirit brings us to Jesus, the Holy Spirit is the shaker who jolts us to make a move. He guides us into the fullness of truth.
Breathe into me, Spirit of God that I may think what is holy.
Drive me, Spirit of God, that I may do what is holy.
Draw me, Spirit of God, that I may love what is holy.
Strengthen me, Spirit of God, that I may preserve what is holy.
Guide me, Spirit of God, that I may never lose what is holy.