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The Unfinished Revolutions
What is the nature of the Arab Revolution? Why did it start and where is it headed? Most important, what is the potential for the emergence of new forms of political democracy, social equality, and regional autonomy in the Arab world? Let me introduce my position by stating what the Arab Revolution is not.
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Tunisian Coke
The Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) kicked off on Saturday, and things are already getting pretty interesting. Tunisia have beaten Morocco 2-1 last night. With Morocco being one of the favorites in the tournament, the win was unexpected and even Tunisia's coach Sami Trebelsi admitted to being "surprised" at the "standard of play" by the North African nation. Perhaps the team's rigor can be attributed to the national pride that has come with their recent revolution, which triggered the events that eventually became the Arab Spring.
Get Up, Stand Up
Tunisian born artist Amel Bennys, who works between Tunis and Paris, has just had her first solo show at the Selma Feriani Gallery in London. 'Get Up – Stand Up' includes 'Fin de Partie', a series of heavy-duty mixed media works on canvas and a selection of sketch-books.
Remembering Tunisia
The 14th of January marks the first year since the Tunisian people pushed the country's…
The Rough Guide to the "Arab Spring"
No list about the "Arab Spring" is complete without Jadaliyya, the kick-ass open-source news and opinion blog arm of the Arab Studies Institute, which also puts out the Arab Studies Journal.
Paris is a Continent, N°5
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I IMAGINE there is only one thing in the world more tiresome than sitting through a movie that thinks it is better than it actually is. That other thing is being the person whose job it is to give Edward Norton cornrows.
Norton busts out the cornrows, and some tatts, and a skeevy goatee to play Stone in... uh, Stone. Stone's a crook who's up for parole; Jack Mabrey (Robert De Niro) is the parole officer who has to decide whether to let him out of the slammer; and Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) is Stone's way-too-hot wife, a woman who's willing to do anything—including fucking Mabrey—to help get Stone out of jail. Also important (I guess) is Mabrey's wife, Madylyn (Frances Conroy), who spends her time reading the Bible and drinking herself into a stupor.
Stone feels less like a film than a play (unsurprisingly, Angus MacLachlan's flat screenplay was originally intended for the stage), with long stretches of dialogue between De Niro and Norton, De Niro and Jovovich, and De Niro and Conroy. Alas, even when director John Curran forcibly pushes things in a more cinematic direction, the results are boring as hell: awkwardly obvious symbolism and lazy juxtapositions are the order of the day, with limp plotting connecting the dots between empty transgressions and hollow revelations. De Niro, Norton, and Jovovich's performances are fine, Conroy stares blankly into the middle distance, and the whole thing goes on for 14 hours and never says anything worthwhile.

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Friday Night Magic
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Check your DCI rankings & Planeswalker points
Wow, this was horribly out of date!
I'll just keep it basic here from now on. We do Friday Night Magic every Friday at 6pm, $5 entry fee which goes into a prize pool for roughly the top 1/3 of participants on any given night. There's FNM promo cards for the top 3 plus a 4th & 5th which are rolled for (door prizes).
We do all pre-releases and most special events as well (Game Day, Magic Celebration and so on) We always have a draft on the day after a new set launches. Special events and drafts are typically on Saturday at 1pm and range from $10 to $40 entry fee. Pre-release events are held at 12pm and 6pm on Saturday (no PR events on Sunday), entry is $40 for 1 or $70 for both pre-releases.
Most Events here are Swiss pairing, no single eliminations, no cuts to Top 4 or 8 (so far, we haven't had an event big enough for that).
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We should play more than once a week! Maybe a casual get together?? I live in Yarmouth and would drive to get some games in^^
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Today we are sharing a fun and adorable engagement session photographed by Lindsey Shaun Photography! Zach and Caitlin love to watch movies together so a movie theater was the perfect choice to take some of their engagements! We love that this cute couple added a personal touch to their pictures but did it in a subtle way!
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* ECB policymakers prepare ground for easing next week
* Weak lending, German jobless data adds pressure
* Peripheral and core euro zone bonds drop
* Low returns thwart Germany's 30-yr auction (Adds fresh quote, Reuters poll results)
By Emelia Sithole-Matarise and John Geddie
LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - Spanish bond yields fell to record lows on Wednesday as weak lending data and comments by European Central Bank policymakers bolstered expectations the bank will soon provide monetary stimulus, fueling demand for fixed income.
Euro zone government bonds across the credit spectrum have gained this week as fears receded that big wins by anti-euro parties in EU parliamentary elections might derail fiscal reforms in weaker countries. At the same time, expectations grew that the ECB will ease policy next week.
ECB executive board member Yves Mersch ramped up the rhetoric on Wednesday, saying the June 5 meeting could yield a combination of policies to tackle low inflation and low credit growth, but the timing of implementation could vary. That followed similar hints by ECB President Mario Draghi and colleague Ewald Nowotny earlier this week.
"All these ECB officials appear to be singing from the same hymn sheet and are preparing the ground for action next week," said Nick Stamenkovic, a bond strategist at RIA capital markets.
Data showing falls in lending to households and firms in the euro zone, a slump in money supply growth, and a surprising uptick in German unemployment, further supported the case for ECB action.
Measures being prepared by the ECB are likely to include cutting the deposit rate into negative territory - effectively charging banks to hold cash at the ECB overnight - and bank loans aimed at helping to increase lending to smaller companies.
Thirty-one of 48 economists polled by Reuters this week said such a combination would help boost lending in the euro zone.
Spanish 10-year yields fell 8 basis points to a record low of 2.80 percent, according to Reuters data. Italian equivalents were 7 bps lower at 2.91 percent, not far from the record low of 2.89 percent they reached two weeks ago.
Italian yields extended this week's declines after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's party scored a surprisingly big win in EU parliamentary elections over the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement.
German 10-year yields, the benchmark for euro zone borrowing, also dropped 5 bps to hit lows for the year of 1.29 percent, according to Tradeweb data, despite a disappointing auction of 30-year bonds on Wednesday.
Ultra-low yields were blamed for poor investor demand at Germany's auction, where the Bundesbank had to retain bonds to allow the country its 2 billion euro target. It was the second successive German auction to be technically uncovered, following a 10-year sale last week, and the fifth this year.
"Given the very expensive levels reached by the Bund, what's the point of going for the 30-year Bund when you can go for some yield pick-up in (French) OATs or Spanish 30-year?" said Jean-Francois Robin, a strategist at Natixis.
The 30-year Bund yielded 2.24 percent in the secondary market, just over 50 bps more than similar-maturity French bonds and 175 bps above Spanish 30-year yields.
The firmer market tone is, however, expected to augur well for an Italian auction on Thursday of 6.0 billion to 7.5 billion euros of five- and 10-year bonds, after a smooth sale on Tuesday of 3 billion euros of zero-coupon debt and 1 billion euros of inflation-linked bonds.
"There might just be a little bit of concession going into the auction tomorrow but it should go OK," a trader said.
"Bigger picture, we still remain constructive on the periphery given the ECB outlook and think there will be further compression in spreads." (Editing by Larry King)


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Norm Coleman says he won't run for governor
MINNEAPOLIS -- Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman announced Sunday that he wouldn't run for Minnesota governor, saying it was "not the right time" for a new race just months after losing his Senate seat in a bruising recount.
Coleman posted a statement on his Facebook page explaining his decision.
"The timing on this race is both a bit too soon and a bit too late," he said. "It is too soon after my last race and too late to do a proper job of seeking the support of delegates who will decide in which direction our party should go."
Coleman, 60, didn't immediately return a phone message left at his house late Sunday night.
Coleman spent a single term in the Senate before he was unseated by Democrat Al Franken in a bitter election that was so close it took months of recounting and litigation to settle.
Coleman has kept a low profile since conceding the race in June, but his statewide name recognition and probable fundraising ability cast a shadow over a GOP field without a clear standout. One candidate, Pat Anderson, dropped out of the race last week and said the specter of Coleman was one reason why.
"A number of key players in the party have remained on the sidelines 'waiting for Godot' to show up," Anderson said then.
Yet, Coleman had negatives, too. The Senate defeat was his second in a statewide election, as he was the GOP nominee in 1998, when outsider Jesse Ventura captured the governor's race. And his more moderate tilt late in his Senate term -- he voted for the $700 billion bank bailout in 2008, and took moderate stances on issues like the environment -- was not a good match for conservatives now dominating the Republican base.
Coleman seemed to allude to the latter in his statement, in which he bemoaned "anger on the left and anger on the right that will get us nowhere."
Former House Minority Leader Marty Seifert of Marshall and state Rep. Tom Emmer of Delano were seen as leading candidates on the GOP side to replace Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a Republican who is not seeking a third term as he considers a presidential bid.
Seifert has raised the most money and won an early October straw poll of GOP delegates.
Also in the Republican race are state Rep. Tom Emmer of Delano, state Sen. David Hann of Eden Prairie, former state Rep. Bill Haas, environmental activist Leslie Davis, businessman Phil Herwig and failed Minneapolis mayoral candidate Robert Carney.


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I had the opportunity at the New Media Expo to record a conversation with a long time podcaster – Andrew McCaskey of SDRnews.com. I have always enjoyed my conversations with Andy. I'm glad I was able to record one for you to listen to. We talk about the the current state of new media and some ways podcasting can be used within an organization.
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Will food safety reform give the industry a big bounce in consumer confidence? Perhaps not, based on the results of the latest Deloitte survey. Also, some consumer feedback on COOL, which I'm not sure can be trusted. Press release follows:
Food Safety Still an Issue but Consumers' Concern has Decreased: Deloitte Survey
Manufacturers and Government Expected to Communicate about Recalls; Strong Interest in Nutritional Facts and Country-of-Origin Labeling
NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Deloitte's 2010 Consumer Food Safety Survey, while nine out of ten (90 percent) consumers believe food-related recalls are on the rise, or on par, compared with findings from Deloitte's 2008 Consumer Food Safety Survey, fewer people seem to be anxious about them. The results show 65 percent of consumers surveyed are concerned about the quality of the food they eat, a 17 percent decrease from 2008.
"The decline in consumers' concern for quality from our 2008 survey is due, in part, by their need to become more aware and engaged in choosing the products they buy," said Pat Conroy, Deloitte's vice chairman and U.S. consumer products practice leader. "Consumers view food safety and quality as important issues, and are looking to manufacturers, food companies and government regulatory bodies to drive communication, as well as tackle food quality and safety issues."
In fact, three out of four (75 percent) Americans surveyed feel that the manufacturers/food companies are responsible for communicating product recall information, followed closely by government organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration (73 percent), with less expectations from retailers (53 percent) and the media (51 percent).
Country-of-Origin Label Helping Selection Process
When making food purchases, Americans are doing more hands-on research and reviewing labels carefully, another indication that they are becoming more engaged in the process behind the foods they buy. Half (51 percent) of Americans say the new country-of-origin labels help in determining which fresh meat, fish, fruit or vegetables to purchase, and 45 percent say they would like to find out the country-of-origin on a Web site for all ingredients in a packaged/bottled food product. This may become of increasing importance to consumers, since the survey found that more than half (53 percent) of consumers frequently or always read the list of ingredients on an unfamiliar packaged or bottled food item; up from 50 percent in 2008.
However, although more Americans are reading ingredients, only four out of 10 (45 percent) surveyed say they understand at least 75 percent of the ingredients on a packaged food item, up slightly from 2008 (33 percent). Furthermore, 55 percent surveyed understand half or less of the ingredients, which is in line with responses from Deloitte's 2008 survey (59 percent).
Nutritional Facts Matter
A strong interest in nutrition has caused consumers to reference the "Nutritional Facts" box on packaged/bottled foods when making a purchase. More than half (54 percent) of Americans surveyed frequently or always read the "Nutritional Facts" box on an unfamiliar packaged or bottled food item and 26 percent occasionally, as compared to 15 percent rarely and five percent who never read it.
The top five nutritional facts that consumers report reading are: calories (71 percent), total fat (63 percent), sugars (50 percent), sodium (45 percent) and serving size (39 percent). Four out of 10 (42 percent) consumers surveyed frequently or always purchase packaged/bottled foods influenced by health-related claims, such as "low carb," "low sodium" and "heart healthy."
"Over the past two years, we have seen a significant shift in how consumers view the foods they purchase," said Conroy. "Though our survey still shows health and safety as the top two concerns facing Americans, the percentages have dropped and consumers are using their increased knowledge of food products to raise concerns around over-processed foods. Food companies are now dealing with an engaged consumer who actively seeks to understand the products they are looking to buy. This survey should be yet another red flag for the industry, as it shows that consumers are determined to be smarter about the foods they put on their table."
For a copy of Deloitte's 2010 Food Safety Survey, please visit www.deloitte.com/us/foodsafety.
About the Survey
The survey was commissioned by Deloitte and conducted online by an independent research company between March 22 and March 24, 2010. The survey polled a nationally representative sample of 1,102 consumers. The survey has a margin of error of +/- three percentage points.
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As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte LLP and Deloitte Services LP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.
Will food safety reform give the industry a big bounce in consumer confidence? Perhaps not, based on the results of the latest Deloitte survey. Also, some consumer feedback on COOL, which I'm not sure can be trusted. Press release follows:


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Seven songs. Seven Iceland towns. Seven weeks.
This is Olafur Arnalds' offering Island Songs. The musician embarked on a journey across his homeland, encountering other artists along the way to create a mix of ethereal and eclectic soundscapes – of thoughtful remnants of the times and stories.
The release has been met with mixed reviews. The Guardian dubbed it "sweet, boring hipster melancholia"; while the Nordic Music Review called it "astonishing" and "the most outstanding portrait of Icelandic music and their local communities". So do you need to be Nordic to understand and appreciate Arnalds' work? We certainly don't think so – but we decided to settle in for a quick chat to shed light on the songs.
What do you think about the sounds? Have a listen here, and let us know in the comments below.
What inspired you to develop Island Songs?
I wanted to find out what drives people in different communities, and who make music and art for different reasons. But the seven-song video concept is a continuation of my previous series Living Room Songs and Found Songs, so the idea is developed over quite a long time.
How did the collaborations for each work originate?
Mostly through a lot of research. I wanted to show a broad spectrum of musical medium, instruments and traditions in Iceland, and I searched for people who fit into those roles. Some of them I knew previously and wanted to work with anyway, but others I simply discovered through this research.
What do you look for when writing electronic music combined with traditional instrument? How should they ideally complement each other?
There are no rules concerning that in my mind. But I often try to look at it from a mix engineer standpoint: 'Do these sounds fit together in the mix'?. You have to do that with any combination of instruments anyway, so it's not really that different from combining acoustic instruments.
What did you look for to inspire your music in each location?
The people I worked with and their stories.
How did you develop your style toward ethereal soundscapes and the use of electronic music?
I started playing around with MIDI strings in Cubase when I was 15 or so and wrote my first album in the following years. That album didn't have any electronics, mostly just piano and strings. But I've never been that much into classical music (although I enjoy it) so my influences were always rather coming from pop, rock and electronic music. Slowly, I started incorporating those elements, too. It was just instinct or habit, rather than a conscious decision.
What is your next musical project? And will you take this concept to other regions of the world?
I'm currently working on a couple of soundtracks as well as preparing my next solo album. That will be a totally different concept. I don't like to repeat myself too much.
Pick up the album from Readings.
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Today on Hindu Bangalore edition,
Is this the start of Big campaign what Mr. Flynn mentioned??
I am still waiting to see it in times of India Pune edition! Times of India and Fiat pata nahi kya wrong connection hai
This billboard is now also up on the MG Road between Gurgaon and Mehrauli, and I am sure elsewhere in Delhi NCR. There was an Avventura billboard at the same location too, a couple of months ago.
Have not noticed a large advertizement yet in the local papers/rags, though. May've missed it.
The TOI is so drowned in (car) ads that one has to wonder as to efficacy of any one ad in the rag: Lost in the (exorbitantly priced) TOI ad-baazar! But since it seems Delhi's toi readership values the ads more than the journalism: FIAT had better cough-up for at least a half-pager. They did have one at the launch of the Avventura, and they have tied up with the times group (etnow) for that product-placement travelogue show (Avventura)
Saw a big hoarding with this ad next to@home near garuda mall in Bangalore.
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Hello all!
Have you checked this brand new TV commercial from Fiat India? With all the Fiat cars!
Fiat India needs to pump these commercials in all channels
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Feb 2009
10 Ways to Write More Effective Ads 7/10
Categories: Copywriting, How To
The More You Tell, The More You Sell
The debate on using long copy versus short copy never seems to end. Usually it is a newcomer to copywriting who seems to think that long copy is boring and, well…long. "I would never read that much copy," they say.
The fact of the matter is that all things being equal, long copy will outperform short copy every time. And when I say long copy, I don't mean long and boring, or long and untargeted.
The person who says he would never read all that copy is making a big mistaking in copywriting: he is going with his gut reaction instead of relying on test results. He is thinking that he himself is the prospect. He's not. We're never our own prospects.
There have been many studies and split tests conducted on the long copy versus short copy debate. And the clear winner is always long copy. But that's targeted relevant long copy as opposed to untargeted boring long copy.
Some significant research has found that readership tends to fall off dramatically at around 300 words, but does not drop off again until around 3,000 words.
If I'm selling an expensive set of golf clubs and send my long copy to a person who's plays golf occasionally, or always wanted to try golf, I am sending my sales pitch to the wrong prospect. It is not targeted effectively. And so if a person who receives my long copy doesn't read past the 300th word, they weren't qualified for my offer in the first place.
It wouldn't have mattered whether they read up to the 100th word or 10,000th word. They still wouldn't have made a purchase.
However, if I sent my long copy to an avid die-hard golfer, who just recently purchased other expensive golf products through the mail, painting an irresistible offer, telling him how my clubs will knock 10 strokes off his game, he'll likely read every word. And if I've targeted my message correctly, he will buy.
Remember, if your prospect is 3000 miles away, it's not easy for him to ask you a question. You must anticipate and answer all of his questions and overcome all objections in your copy if you are to be successful.
And make sure you don't throw everything you can think of under the sun in there. You only need to include as much information as you need to make the sale…and not one word more.
If it takes a 10-page sales letter, so be it. If it takes a 16-page magalog, fine. But if the 10-page sales letter tests better than the 16-page magalog, then by all means go with the winner.
Does that mean every prospect must read every word of your copy before he will order your product? Of course not.
Some will read every word and then go back and reread it again. Some will read the headline and lead, then skim much of the body and land on the close. Some will scan the entire body, then go back and read it. All of those prospects may end up purchasing the offer, but they also all may have different styles of reading and skimming
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6 Different Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website
Categories: Article Marketing, Blogging, How To, Traffic Generation
Really, there is absolutely nothing technical about traffic. On a basic level, it's just the flow of people to and from your website. Of course, that alone is of completely crucial importance because your traffic, as a marketer, will also be your potential customers.
Needless to say, you want as much traffic as possible for this very reason. Unfortunately, at this juncture many people start to encounter some problems because in order to get traffic, you cannot just sit back once you have a website up.
No, there must be promotion through at least one avenue, although more is always welcome.
On top of that, merely having a constant flow of people visiting your website is not necessarily going to do you a lot of good. For best effect, the traffic that you need to harness must be as targeted as possible.
Summing it up: What you want, and what you need to succeed in any internet marketing venture are sources of targeted traffic.
What is Targeted Traffic?
One of the best ways to explain targeted traffic is through this example:
Assuming you had a website that is centered on the dog grooming niche. It'd undoubtedly be a place where your visitors could check out various techniques of dog grooming, learn about some of the common problems when grooming dogs, and so on.
Now, if you somehow ended up getting a ton of traffic, but it all came from people looking for alien conspiracy theories, well… you'd undoubtedly notice that most of your visitors just leave your website immediately since it is not what they were looking for.
Admittedly, that is a slightly wild example, but it serves to illustrate the point fairly well. Even if your visitors were looking for something more closely related to your niche, such as dog training tips, or dog healthcare tips; the end result would be the same once they discover that you are not offering what they want.
Due to this, you want the traffic that does get to your website to consist of people who actually want to learn about dog grooming and are genuinely interested in it. If you can get a steady stream of such people flowing in, then without a doubt your conversion rate would be higher.
Actually, you could conceivably obtain traffic that is even more targeted.
Assuming you have monetized your blog to sell eBooks about dog grooming, then if the traffic that goes to your website consists of mostly people who already intend to buy resources about dog grooming – well, that would be very ideal.
At the end of the day, the more tightly focused and targeted your traffic is, the greater your results.
How to Start Generating Traffic?
All too often, a website does not get traffic simply because there are no real and reliable efforts carried out to do so. Sometimes, this is because of a lack of knowledge as to how to go about it, but most times, it is more due to the habit of overanalyzing the issue and not taking action.
What is constantly not realized is that even if the action taken is not perfect, some action is far better than no action at all.
Best advice as far as generating traffic is concerned is therefore to pick something, and stick with it. Then, once you're done, pick something else and stick with that too. This way, at very least you'll end up with a couple of well developed streams of traffic, which may not be perfect, but will still end up bringing in visitors.
Let's look at some of the best sources of traffic that you should be tapping into:
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Investment: $500
One-time solution sessions are appropriate for people who either:
- Have a single issue they need to process to resolution
- Want an intense brainstorming and strategy session to come up with new ideas or creative solutions to problems that are inhibiting growth
These sessions are intense, deep dive, agenda driven sessions that must be identified and agreed upon prior to meeting. Each client is required to complete assigned pre-work at least 72 hours before the SOLUTION SESSION.
I attended a women's retreat that Ann marie facilitated. I was lucky enough to get a one on one coaching session with her where she solved my two biggest issues in less than 30 minutes of discussion. Her direct and humorous disposition work for me and I find her perspective invaluable. Thank you dear for being such a bright star!
If you are in a deep dark ditch Ann Marie not only meets you there she helps shine the light on the way out...all the while not allowing the ditch to become your home.
Working with Ann marie Houghtailing is an über creative experience that starts with a shot of adrenaline. All of one's senses are engaged and heightened by the genius that is Ann marie's thought processes. One is left dazed and amazed with the clarity and direction one has at the end of each session. In a word: powerful!
Investment: $3,500
The 10-week intensive is the most popular coaching plan, which includes 10 consecutive weeks of one on one coaching by phone. *In person coaching is available upon agreement. Each one-hour session is dedicated to a client's specific goals, which can range from business development strategies, consultation and communication plans, content strategy and business decision-making. This is a highly customized coaching plan tailored to the needs of the individual client. Goals and objectives are established in the first session to ensure clarity of purpose and direction. Attorneys, authors, entrepreneurs, and artists have all participated in the intensive to reach new professional heights, break through plateaus, develop new services and develop sustainable business development strategies.
The 10-week intensive is a rigorous, focused plan where new ideas are formed, clarity is achieved, and accountability is required.
Ann Marie is one of the most creative individuals I know. She is detail oriented, and works hard to help her clients realize success. Ann Marie possesses in-depth knowledge in business, her tenacity is extraordinary, her integrity never wavering. Ann Marie leads by example, and inspires individuals to strive to be the best. The results I experienced with her guidance exceeded expectations professionally and personally. Ann Marie is an asset to anyone looking to increase sales, improve strategic planning, and in need of business coaching. Please feel free to message me regarding this recommendation.
This is what it's like to work with Ann marie one-on-one: Actionable: Ann marie says: "Do this first, then do this, then do this." Small bites that are achievable so you feel like you can take on more. Articulate: Ann marie will ask a question about what you are trying to achieve. You speak. She says it back to you in a way that is so much grander and clearer that your pen is racing across your notebook trying to keep up with the brilliance of what is coming out of her mouth so that you can use a version of it in your mission statement. Focused: When you are talking with Ann marie you feel like you are her only client. Even though you know she has clients who are making gobs more money and working on a much grander scale, when you are with her you are the most important person in the world.
Investment: $1,500
The quarterly check-in is a one-hour session each quarter to maintain the integrity of annual plans and address challenges. This option is generally recommended for clients who have completed either the SOLUTION SESSION or 10-WEEK INTENSIVE. If a client has not completed a coaching plan, the potential client must provide a business development plan to assess eligibility.
Quarterly check-ins are more than check-ins, they are a focused, intensive meeting to keep your plan on track, get specific feedback, and ensure that you are hitting critical bench marks. Without the ability to reconnect with your purpose and refine your focus, it's easy to get derailed and lose time and money. Quarterly check-ins keep you motivated, engaged and accountable so that you do not abandon yourself or your vision.
Ann marie is a visionary and a motivator with an uncanny way of taking a complicated situation and synthesizing it down to workable parts. As a business woman, actor, writer and speaker - she is intuitive, intelligent, thoughtful, humorous and innovative. She takes the challenges life presents and transforms them into opportunities then into inspirational words of wisdom that we all can benefit from. Truly one of the most unique and talented people you will ever meet.
Investment: $5,800
The ONE-YEAR PLAN is a monthly 75-minute session over the phone with unlimited e-mail communication. This plan is available for highly dedicated individuals committed to a long-term vision or professional plan. As we rise to our full potential, reach our goals, and become masters of our profession, new challenges arise, more complex decision-making is required and the ability to be nimble and adjust becomes more critical.
Clients who are building companies, growing a dynamic business, developing something new or seeking to make partner in a firm are excellent candidates for the ONE-YEAR PLAN.
Ann marie Houghtailing helped me make money and look at my business goals in new and profitable ways. In my initial coaching session with her, we developed a new angle for my company, a business development plan, and she helped me identify the holes within my existing structure. I made the changes and explored the areas she suggested. In just two months – and after two sessions – I attained new clients, new revenue and now have a clear goal about my business. I also have a business development plan in place that did not exist prior to our coaching. Before Ann marie's coaching, I felt like I was chasing dollars. Now I'm actually in a position where the money is coming to me. Whether you're in a large company or an entrepreneur, I highly recommend Ann marie as someone who will change your life.
I've hired Ann marie three times in the last couple years and she's always provided exceptional results and incredible value. I first met her as a student in one of her courses at USD's Sales and Business Development Institute. I was so impressed by her ability to break down the sales process into a series of simple steps that I hired her to train my sales team at TV Magic, Inc. She did a phenomenal job training our sales staff. The course proved valuable for everybody involved, from our seasoned sales veterans to our non-experienced rookies. She even spent time with the Operations department explaining their part in the sales process and how they could contribute and drive our revenue and profitability. Additionally, she consulted for our executive team to help us align and integrate our sales strategy into our overall business plan. Her methodology was so impressive that in 2011 I hired her as an Executive Coach. She was as effective and inspiring in this role as she was in our previous engagements. Her insight and ability to lay out a strategy were invaluable in shaping my career path. I not only endorse Ann marie, but admire her for her drive, energy, and perseverance. She is a consummate professional and an awe-inspiring human being. I cannot recommend her highly enough and am convinced that I will engage her again." Benito Behar
If you decide to hire a coach or consultant here is what I advise:
- Trust your gut. It doesn't generally lie to you and you need to choose someone who feels right to you.
- Ask yourself if you are willing to tell this person the truth. If you aren't – keep looking.
- If you ask for references and call those references, outcomes are only the surface of what you should be asking. Ask about what they learned. What you learn is what you take with you. A simple outcome is a one-time affair. I actually think you'll learn more from interviewing other coaches than interviewing someone's clients.
- Look at the business of the person you're hiring. Does he or she reflect your values? Read what they write and listen to what they say. If it's all sales pitch and no humanity, then keep looking.
- Steer clear of a one-size fits all approach. You come to the process with your own unique challenges, strengths, history and desire. Choose someone who has an approach that is suited to your individuality and respectful of your character. Working with the right expert to guide you through your challenges, help you get out of your own way, and reach your highest and best self is exciting, interesting, demanding and extraordinary. I feel privileged to do this work. Choose someone who will feel privileged to work with you and for you.
My clients are generally extremely smart, competent humans who have a challenge they want to address. The majority of challenges are related to revenue generation, salary negotiation or a significant professional transition. Most of my clients are attorneys, entrepreneurs and professional service providers. I also have a mix of rebels and renegades who defy typical categories and want to blaze a trail of their own creation.
The honest answer is that I don't know that you should hire me. Consultations are an opportunity to assess where you are, where you want to go and whether or not I'm the best person to help you get there. If I'm the best choice for you, you'll know after one conversation and if I'm not, you'll know that too. I want every client to feel I'm the best business decision they've ever made.
I redirect about twenty percent of clients who want to work with me because I don't feel that I'm the right match for them. It's not about some façade of exclusivity; it's just a matter of professional integrity. If I think it's the wrong time for you or I'm not really who you need to hire, I'll tell you what I think you really need instead.
If you are willing to do what others are unwilling to do to achieve success- you're ready. If you're willing to commit emotionally, financially and personally – you're ready. If you're scared – welcome to the human race! Not everyone wins the gold medal, travels the world, launches their business, or reaches professional excellence.
The biggest barriers we must overcome are those we erect for ourselves. Facing our own struggles to achieve our potential is the work of a courageous and dedicated bunch for whom "no" is a small, single syllable, two-letter word with no power. If you are willing to say, "What next?" instead of "Why me?", then you are ready!
This question is best answered by my clients.
"Working with Ann marie over the last year is hands down the reason I went from concept to action with Women Evolution. It was exactly what I needed at exactly the right time, and I would recommend her services to anyone who is honestly ready to go beyond what you think is possible. Her creativity and ability to relate while giving tangible advice is by far the best in the industry. I also aspire to have the amount charisma and attention she demands on stage. I am honored to have worked with her and hope to continue to do so in the future"
Shavon Lindley, Women Evolution
"I would like to tell you a story. There was once an international lawyer who didn't want to be an international lawyer any more. She wanted to be a cross cultural business consultant and a thought-leader that would drive the benchmark for business, political and civic global communication. It was a lofty task; the world did not seem ready for the concept. Along came Ann Marie Houghtailing to the rescue. She helped the lawyer become the thought-leader and that thought-leader is now the consultant for some of the largest companies in the world,some of the most important governmental bodies, and some of the most prestigious universities. End of story … except to say … that I have never met a more dedicated, capable or action-oriented sales consultant in my life, nor do I ever expect to. If you are thinking of using her, I will tell you before you begin,that it is money well spent."
Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D., Human Capital Principal at EY
"I have run a successful insurance agency since 1994, so I am not an easy person to impress, especially when it comes to sales training, marketing or coaching. I have been described as driven and relentless, and am often asked how I find the time to get everything I do, done. Having a coach has always seemed like an unnecessary expense.
The moment I met Ann Marie I knew I had found a person who could take my game to a higher level. She is knowledgeable, articulate, creative and innovative. I have grown more in the last year than I have in the last 10. I can't say enough about her infectious enthusiasm and her ability to ignite dormant passion for your career the way she does.
If you want your business to explode, want to have more fun making more sales more easily, hire her. If you don't; well, hire someone else."
Susanne Romo, Speaker, Synergy
Yes! It's completely impossible to segregate your personal and professional self. We are integrated, complex humans. While most of the work I do is focused on revenue generation, negotiation and business, who you are as a person is what defines your triumphs as well as your struggles.
What happens in one area of your life impacts other areas of your life. Trying to compartmentalize our humanity is deleterious. CEOs, attorneys, writers, scientists, artists, builders and accountants – we are all human. Our professional life is part of not apart from who we are as individuals.
People are often surprised at my response to this question. Yes, of course you can talk to my clients, but you are better served speaking with two of my competitors than two of my clients. I'm not threatened by the idea of you speaking with a competitor, if competitor is even the accurate word. On the contrary! I think it's important that you speak to people to find the best fit for YOU.
I was the best fit for my clients but that doesn't really tell you anything about whether I will be right for you. Trust your instincts. If after our conversation you aren't 100% certain that I'm your person, then I'm not your person. Every coach worth anything will teach you to trust yourself. I don't have any interest in manipulating, convincing or coercing anyone to pay me. I only want to work with the people I can help. It doesn't serve me or my business to "sell" coaching to people.
I strongly suggest you use the tips below to help you interview an appropriate coach. Every one deserves the right person. Choose someone who is exquisitely suited to you. Do not settle.


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Raised bed gardening holds many advantages for the gardener as well as the plants. The traditional garden soil is packed down from walking on it and as a result it is not porous and airy like it should be.
A raised bed garden is created by building up soil as much as 6 or 8 inches and sometimes even incorporates boards, stones, bricks or concrete blocks to make it more permanent.
This creates an area that is not stepped on but is still easily accessible.
I like to make the raised bed garden a little more secure by using non-treated lumber around the perimeter and then filling the bed with rotten pine bark composted material and well aged manure such as baa-baa doo (sheep manure) to make a rich substance that will grow my vegetables into some fine produce.
As a general rule you can make the beds as long as you like however you should keep them to no more than 4 feet wide to make them easily accessible from either side of the bed.
When using the raised bed gardening method year after year, you should vary the planting patterns making sure to not plant the same crop in the same location two years in a row.
This helps to keep the soil balanced since different plants use different ratios of nutrients. This also helps discourage bugs and pests that are specific to a certain type of vegetable.
Make sure the bed always faces an East/West position to maximize sunlight availability.
A few years back I had moved into a new house and decided to incorporate the raised bed gardening methods.. I also decided to make it real easy on myself by using lots of mulch in the beds as well as all around my two 4×20 beds.
I also buried soaker hose beneath the surface of the soil in the beds in a "U" pattern and put it on a timer for automatic watering.
You can call that lazy all you want but I was and am a very busy guy and that was what worked for me.
I went on later that year to install vertical trellises on one side for the cucumbers and cantaloupes to climb.. this was a bit of an ordeal since I had to support the crop once it started getting heavy but it sure conserved space and I had a lot of fun as well.
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While Spain is thought of as a first world country similar to the U.S. (save for a little more flair and a lot more paella), it would seem the skeletons in the country's closet continue to haunt free speech amongst the press and the general public.
Section 20 of Spain's Constitution, enacted in 1978, states that Spaniards have "the right to freely express and disseminate thoughts, ideas and opinions trough words, in writing or by any other means of communication…the right to freely communicate or receive accurate information by any means of dissemination whatsoever."
Section 20 also protects freedom of press, though the main threat facing Spanish journalists seems to be exercising this freedom when it comes to coverage the controversial Basque separatist and terrorist group, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA). In 2000, the group attacked several journalists with gunfire over what they deemed "false information and accusation." Regarding this particular organization, is appears common for journalists in Spain to receive threats for what they print, and this incident was impactful for both media and journalists in Spain.
According to a blog studying free speech and press globally, Reporters Without Borders classified Spain to be ranked 36th in the International Freedom Press Index in 2013. In 2002, Spain reached its peak ranking at 29th. Spain reached its lowest ranking on the index in 2009, 44th, prior to the re-election of the PP in 2011.
This decline in rank was linked to another free speech impediment: a series of laws that gave former Spain minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, automatic rights to influence and censor journalist publications. According to The ICIJ, the laws arose from an effort to mitigate conflict between Spain's fishing industry and investigative journalists. They appear to no longer be in place.
According to the Columbia Journalism Review, another challenge facing freedom of the press is the highly politicized state of the press. It states that all media platforms at all levels (national, regional, local), are seemingly "aligned with a political party, and this is frequently reflected in their news content, as well as on their editorial pages." Similar to the United States, while free speech exists, the level of freedom has led to the ability to print and report with excessive bias, creating news that leans more towards opinion than fact.
These freedoms, however, seem to hit an invisible wall when it comes to social media. According to The Independent, over seventy people have received prison sentences due to social media posts that "glorified terrorism." Many seem to be in relation to the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco, the man who was supposed to succeed dictator Francisco Franco. The assassination happened at the hands ETA in 1973, but apparently remains a sensitive subject to Spanish officials.
One example comes in the form of a 21-year-old student from Murcia in south-east Spain, Cassandra Vera. Vera was disqualified from public functions for seven years and sentenced to a year in prison in 2015 after publishing 13 tweets between 2013 and 2016 that commented on and joked about the assassination of Blanco.
Judges in Spain's top criminal court (top criminal court for TWEETING), stated during the ruling that Vera's tweets "constitute contempt, dishonor, disrepute, mockery and affront to the people who have suffered the blow of terrorism".
Many Spaniards are aligning this resurrected trend of repression with the election of the conservative political party, Partido Popular, in 2011. The PP is apparently reacting to anti-austerity protests led by the Indignados earlier in 2015, and has been accused of creating political police force in an effort to "protect citizen security."
In 2013, the government started preparing a controversial law to support these actions. The law has since come to be known as the "gag law", and the enacted legislation gives Spanish police "the right to fine citizens for what they consider to be an interference to their job or contempt of authority."
The "gag-law," officially named the 2014 Intellectual Property Act, does more than just allow arrests for sketchy tweets. According to FreedomHouse.org, the law also gave authorities power to block websites that contained or linked to copyrighted content used without permission. It also gave birth to a system of mandatory charges applied to news aggregators to compensate producers called the "Google Tax." Google, however, announced the shutdown of its news service in Spain prior to the law's enactment on January 1, 2015, deeming the new system unsustainable.
As far as propaganda in Spain, it seems no blatant "in your face" campaigns have existed since the days of Franco. However, as stated above and in my previous articles, Spain's media is heavily influenced by both political parties and large corporations, like banks.
The control, however, does not come in the obvious forms of barring certain organizations from press conferences; it is subtle, coming in the form of defamation and libel suits. As mentioned above, the control comes in the guise of legislation that allows the monitoring, censorship, and criminal attribution of certain opinions and/or media the government deems unfit.
In June 2016, an amendment to Spain's Law on Criminal Procedure was passed that restricts photography of defendants during arrests or transfers, stating that the measure is intended to "avoid prejudicial coverage," though many people noted how the amendment seemed to pop up after the widely covered and publicized arrest of International Monetary Fund executive and former economy minister, Rodrigo Rato, who was arrested for money laundering and tax evasion.
Furthermore, a public safety law that took effect in July 2016 allows fining of up to €30,000 ($35,000) for offenses such as unauthorized use of photos containing public officials or members of security forces when publication could "endanger individuals, their families, protected facilities, or a security operation." Insulting a member of security forces could earn you up to $700 of fines.
Over the last 50 years, Spain has been riding an inconsistent whirlwind of speech and press freedom. Freedom dipped to an all time low during Franco's reign, recovering slightly after the birth of the Constitution of 1978. But now, between corporate buy-outs, terrorist attacks, and sketchy legislation, Spain may be on its way back to the days of censorship and held-tongues they saw during Franco.


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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and … Continue reading
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"We've got to work for the change we want." [George Gresham]
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C. S. Lewis Quotes About TeachingQuotes about: Teaching
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.
The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is, in my opinion, historical. As to the fabulous element in the Old Testament, I very much doubt if you would be wise to chuck it out.
C. S. Lewis
- Born: November 29, 1898
- Died: November 22, 1963
- Occupation: Novelist
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Tutorial – Importing 3DCuts.com Files into Cricut Design Space
June 4, 2014
I have been improving file components to get a better and easier upload experience for Cricut users wanting to use 3dCuts.com files. This tutorial applies to those products that list it in the description. It does not apply to all files so be sure you reference the correct help file. The goal is to standardize on the best group of settings and styles for importing into Cricut.
Updates to my new files include the following:
- Filled shapes: SVG files with unfilled shapes are imported into Design Space filled in black, which often hides other layers or details. New files have shapes filled with white so details are visible.
- Dotted fold lines. New files show all fold lines as dotted lines. This makes it make easier to identify them and indicate they are to be score lines. I am also combining many into a compound path which allows you to select them with one click.
Step-bystep Instructions for importing:
1. Purchase and download a file from 3dcuts.com here.
You can download the file right from the link in the confirmation notice you receive after placing the order, or from the link in the follow-up email. The link is good for 24 hours so be sure to download right after purchase.
2. Zip file: The download will place a zip file on your computer in the designated download location.
This is a personal computer setting and you need to know how your computer handles downloads. It may be a file on your desktop, or there may be a downloads folder. Your computer may be set to automatically unzip the zipped file or you might have to double click on it for it to unzip. Once it is unzipped you will see a folder with additional folders or files inside.
3. Import: The files that are .SVG files can be imported into Design Space software to work on your Cricut. Do not just open them.
4. Launch the Design Space software in your web browser. https://www.cricut.com/design and log in. You will need a Design Space account (free) to save files there.
5. From the splash screen click on Create New Project button.
6. Click on Upload Image in the left margin.
7. Click on Vector Upload in the Upload Image screen. (.SVG files are Vector files)
8. Click on Browse and navigated to the location of the downloaded (and unzipped) file.
Give the file appropriate names and tags
9. Click Save Iimage - button in lower right.
10. It will now appear in the Uploaded images area of the screen. Hover over it and click it to select it. It will have a green arrow in the upper right corner once it is selected. You can upload all .SVG cutting files needed for this project now or as you need them. You can select them all and insert them into the work space together or individually. Once you have your choice selected, click on insert images button in the lower right.
11. The cutting file image will appear in the work space. If you uploaded multiples, they will be stacked on top of each other and you will need to click and slide them to new spaces to see all.
12. Sizing - (Note - with the 2015 upgrade to Design Studio sizing should no longer be an issue. Files come in sized appropriately. )SVG files are currently imported at sizes unrelated to their original size. I provide a sizing guide for you to enter dimensions. It is in the pdf directions located in the folder with the download, or online in the tutorial for your file at the 3Dcuts. website. Before ungouping the file, adjust the size.
1. Select the file by clicking on it, then click on the EDIT icon in the upper right of the window.
2. Make sure the lock icon is locked so you only need to enter one measurement.
3. Enter the measurement provided in the pdf or on the web tutorial.
13. Ungroup: When a file first arrives, it is all grouped together. You will need to ungroup it so you can identify cut lines and score lines. Select the shape you plan to cut by clicking on it, and click on the Ungroup icon in the layers palette.
If you don't see the Layers Palette, open it by clicking on the Layers icon in the upper right of the window.
14. Click on one of the dotted lines. These are fold lines and should be marked as SCORE lines in Cricut. You do not want them to be solid cut lines. (If you are not seeing any dotted lines you may have downloaded a file from before I adapted these changes. You should view Melody Lane's Video on importing the Shadow Box Alphabet files into Design Space for a great tutorial on using those files. It can be accessed here.)
1. Click on the dotted lines so they are selected. On this particular project it is harder to know if you got the correct selection because it is so close to the entire box.
2. To be sure, notice which line is darkened in the Layers Palette.
3. Click on the Eye Icon. It will hide that selected item. Did it hide the lines you wanted to identify? If not keep clicking in different areas and using the eye icon to help you know when you have the correct item. Be sure to click the eye a second time to turn the item back on!
15. Line Type Direction: Give each line in the design a Line Type setting so Cricut will know what type of line its is.
1. For each line in the design, select it and click on the scissors icon next to it in the Layers Palette.
2. The Line Type Window appears. Click on the appropriate Line Type Icon for the selected line.
- All dotted lines should be assigned Score.
- Solid Lines are Cut.
Repeat for all lines in the cut file.
16. Once all the lines have been assigned a File Type continue with the Cricut software for cutting.


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There's no doubt that the use of contract labor has been on the upswing – especially given the economic uncertainty of the last few years. But now that the economy is stabilizing, many companies continue to hire contract workers for three important reasons:
- Contractors save your company time,
- Contractors save your company money,
- And contractors create more staffing flexibility.
These benefits hold true here in Dallas/Ft Worth, and in markets across the nation. Let's look a bit more closely at how contractors can provide these benefits to your company.
Saving Time
Managers can usually get three weeks of productive work sooner when going through the right staffing firm (compared to direct hiring). When working with the right IT staffing firm, the median time to fill a position is five days, versus 24 days for companies that make a direct hire, according to a study published by Staffing Industry Analysts. The same study revealed that smaller staffing firms specializing in a specific skill set excel at getting the right talent in place faster.
In the world of IT, many companies have projects that can last from 12 to 18 months. With tight project deadlines, companies need to have a fully-staffed IT department in order to deliver projects on time. That means finding the right talent and finding it quickly is key. This is where the right staffing firm can come into play.
Saving Money
As the U.S. job market grows and unemployment shrinks, it is becoming more difficult to find and recruit the right candidate using traditional hiring methods.
Because Dallas/Ft. Worth consistently ranks in the top US cities for tech jobs, it is one of the most competitive for top IT talent. The major competitors for top IT talent are Dell, Deloitte, HP, Accenture, Bank of America and PwC, among others. Since the cost of living in Dallas/Ft. Worth is slightly higher than the national average and the high tech job growth rate is equivalent to the national average, there is higher starting salary expectation than other markets in the country. Add to this the fringe benefit costs associated with a full-time employee (taxes, insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, 401K match, profit sharing, etc.), and you have another 20 to 40% on top of base salary.
By hiring a contract worker, you are getting the equivalent talent of a direct hire without the added costs of a full-time employee.
Creating Staffing Flexibility
By hiring contract workers, companies can ensure they are consistently ahead of the curve when it comes to talent. Bad hires can cost a company anywhere from 14 to 28 times their base pay. Putting this in a dollar format, a bad hire for a mid-level position could result in a million dollar mistake for your company. By hiring a contract worker, you can be sure that the candidate is a fit for the position without a long-term commitment.
Additionally, if you work with a contractor who doesn't turn out to be a fit with your company's culture and goals, you simply don't hire them again. When you're hiring IT talent, a targeted skill set is often critical to the success of your project. With a contract worker, you can hire the right person with the exact skillset you need for the specific task or project at hand, preventing you from having to incur the costs of training a full-time employee.
Overall, there are true benefits to hiring contract work for project needs. We invite you to contact us for more information on how we can help you.
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Stock Graphic - War Vector Pack 160009 by Go Media @ CreativeMarket
File Size: 1.3 MB; Requirements: Adobe CS3+; Vector: Yes.
War is a variety pack of politics and war all in one. With vector versions of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, and Uncle Sam, you'll have a solid resource for creating propaganda posters. This set also features vector gas masks, fighter jets, bombs, bullets, guns, and other WMD's.This set provides great centerpieces for propaganda inspired poster artwork. Mix these with the radials pack and the heraldry pack for gen-x madness!
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Hi, I'm Nick from Stack Overflow! Hope I can clarify some bits here:
While we tried this, we didn't end up going with the 4 GPU in 1U config. Luckily we were able to test various configurations in Dell's test lab. The way you fit 4 in a 1U server is in a Dell C4130 chassis. The 4 cards are not consumer cards, but the professional Tesla variants. They're higher power, more memory, and more importantly: come in both airflow directions. The 4 cards are installed across the front bezel, and the airflow is reverse of what you'd buy in any consumer card.
Here's my tweet stream from first researching it, which includes pictures. Here's a clear view:
Note that every other card is upside down, but those are 300W cards. It takes dual 1600W PSUs to power the rig.
What we actually ended up going with (we're finally ordering hardware this week for many things) is a Dell R730 chassis. Since we can put cards in the back of it, instead of doing Tesla cards which are about $5,000 a piece in a server that starts far higher (IIRC $20K with a single card was our starting point), we can use consumer cards instead. In a R730 (a 2U server), one PCIe config allows 2 full-height cards in the back. We can use consumer GTX 1080s, which are $700 a piece and about 60-65% as fast for our use case. Marc Gravell has detailed test data we can share, we tested each scenario with singles and multiples of K40s, K80s, M40s, GTX 980s, and GTX 1080s.
In a R730, we can't order it with the higher than 140W TDP processors and the GPU config we want because of how Dell limits thermal configuration. But they don't take into account a GTX 1080 has a 180W TDP and not a 300W TDP of the Tesla models they sell (remember, times 2, so 240W less cooling needed). Given this, we couldn't (by default) directly order the Intel E5-2687W v4 processors we want (which are 160W TDP) for the workloads on these boxes. Luckily, we can work around this by just ordering the server and GPU kit separate and we'll install it ourselves.
The first server should be in place in the February/March timeframe if all goes well, and we'll of course share the adventure. Happy to answer more questions as they arise.
Here are some extra informational links:
I found a couple when I searched for 1U Liquid Cooling
Sounds interesting.
Read the Why Ruby blog post first. There's no question that Ruby benefits immensely from high clock speed CPUs. Every single bit of data or research we've ever done supports this conclusion.
LOLed on Indoor enthusiast
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IMO as long as the enterprise can sustain it in the long run the language does not really matter. For one I still recommend whatever the client usually has and can a hold of easily that tends to be Java just because developers and application server administrators are a dime a dozen in comparison. Of course I'd sooner push those off to cloud based infrastructures for any non-sensitive and organization critical data (e.g. Google Analytics, ZenDesk support).
Most enterprises are not really up to the scale of Twitter, StackOverflow or Facebook when it comes to public data load. However, they should learn lessons from them. Especially how they can handle scale with reasonable cost. Things like enterprise caches, NoSQL data stores, CDNing, RESTful OAuth2 protected APIs.
Some do, and some overkill.
Can you explain the benefit of the GPUs for your application? Is there a previous article on this? AFAIK, the server is used to run a web app. How does serving a web app benefit from multiple GPUs?
I am guessing it must be some high level math where they do the same bunch of math operations with just different data. If that were the case they'd be using something like CUDA or similar and program a calculator on the GPU and just send a bunch of different data to it.
The GPUs can do them in parallel much faster than a general purpose CPU.
I am here to tell you that Intel's TDP figure of 140 watts for the 6 core version of this CPU is a terrible, scurrilous lie!
TDP isn't max power consumption. It's more like, for the application we intend this processor for (server), this is how much heat output you (the machine designer) should design for. They don't really tell you the conditions that the TDP figure was chosen for. Ark says:
Thermal Design Power (TDP) represents the average power, in watts, the processor dissipates when operating at Base Frequency with all cores active under an Intel-defined, high-complexity workload.
This gets really fuzzy for things like laptops where a 5W TDP CPU can draw 40W for short periods, limited primarily by the laptop's ability to remove the consequent heat.
My curiosity about the GPUs led me to listen to this episode https://scaleyourcode.com/interviews/interview/31 where the GPUs are briefly discussed. They have a custom tag engine that would fit in RAM of a CPU. They ported this engine to fit in the RAM of a GPU.
Ruby is one of the slowest script languages out there. Almost anything is better than Ruby.
For instance, Heroku, which came into existence to support Ruby projects, doesn't use any Ruby. They used to, but it was too much of a waste of hardware.
Over 1KW per RU? That's kinda insane. I mean, sure, you could design carefully and probably push enough air through to cool the individual machine, but then you're talking about 40-60KW per rack. Powering and cooling that kind of density seems rather... challenging.. compared to just having 2U or 4U servers with the same specs.
Yes, but:
Intel says both of these are 140w TDP, despite one of them having 50% more cores (4 → 6) at only marginally lower clock speeds. I am here to tell you that's.. kinda blatantly not true. Or alt-facts as we're saying these days, apparently.
This is also why clock speed decreases quite linearly with number of cores, otherwise the sockets would melt.
Ah! But that's exactly my point! TDP isn't "this is how much heat the CPU puts out". It's this is how much heat your machine should be able to handle.
I admit, it's not so clear for server CPUs. The relationship between base clock speed (another alt-fact!), TDP and performance is clearer on laptop CPUs, where you have the exact same silicon sold at base clock speeds proportional to the TDP. It can all run at 3-ish GHz, but with a 5W thermal solution, you're only going to run continuously at 1GHz without overheating. With a 35W thermal solution, you can run nonstop at 2.4GHz. That's what TDP is telling you.
I suspect that in the server situation they just mark it all 140W for simplicity. There aren't many off-the-shelf servers that have a 290W thermal solution.
Just kind of an FYI here. Your power draw on embedded systems is quite high. I'm working on 2 projects right now. One has a power budget of 5mA at 3.5V (17.5mW). The other has a power budget of 15uA at 3V. That's 45 MICRO watts. That's 7 orders of magnitude span from the monstrous beasts down to the itty-bitty little peon.
What a great opportunity for some creative 3D printing, custom fan/CPU shrouds!
Have you looked into pizeoelectric fans? The one i am most familiar with is GE's DCJ. Order of magnitude higher airflow, order of magnitude lower power consumption, space and cost. The were developped for keeping LED's cool in industrial lighting applications: fantastic technology.
Interesting time line. Technology has matured over the time. It is not just about the Hardware, but softwares as well.
The major changes as we see are the ability of Hardware to process the things faster and are getting compact in size. Compactness is such that once the servers use to be of a size of a room and now you have processors on your watch as well. Same is with software where once they use to process text and that too after writing a fair amount of code, and now it is about less code and more processing. Technology has truly evolved to an extent that there is no looking back.
Moving forward, we have IoT, AR, Machine Learning, Data Science and other things that will make technology even more powerful.
In related news, just built up 6 more of these with the i7-7700k instead of the i7-6700k.
Note higher base and turbo clock speeds, but same tdp of 91w.
Unfortunately, two out the three new servers that I tested indeed hit 80c temp warnings under an old (and AVX2-free) version of mprime. This is odd because I never saw that with the i7-6700k in about ~20 builds!
I even tried fancier thermal paste and adjusting the shroud (shroud was pre-installed more or less correctly, but I cut one edge off to ensure it fit really tight) to no effect – same high temp warnings after 10 minutes of mprime.
The mobo has a new BIOS to accommodate kaby lake versus the older skylake, so it's possible temp setting defaults changed. But more likely we are just hitting the thermal limits (again…) of what can be put in a 1U case safely.


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Minsmere awaits
Chris Packham
We asked Chris how he felt about Springwatch 2014 and our brand new location at RSPB Minsmere in Suffolk, in Chris' words - the 'Eurodisney of wildlife reserves':
Minsmere is going to be very exciting, there is simply so much here, such a density and diversity of wildlife - it's a great testament to years of effort and ingenuity from the RSPB staff who have sculpted this fragment of utopia.
I've been coming here since the eighties and it just keeps getting better.
Quite what the highlights will be we just can't predict of course but I've got a feeling that this series will be one of our best ever.
Chris, Michaela, Martin
Let's hope he's right!
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