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Tracking PayPal Transactions with Adwords & Analytics for Dynamic Thank You Pages
Ok folks this is going to be a brief blog post on something that took us entirely too long to get answered. There are a number of extremely informative blogs on how to setup conversion tracking for BOTH Google Adwords and Google Analytics for PayPal transactions. Two in particular we'd recommend you check out are:
SEER Interactive -Â http://www.seerinteractive.
Analytics Results -Â http://www.analyticsresults.com/2010/02/tracking-paypal-with-google-analytics.html
Both have clear and precise steps on how to setup conversion tracking for transactions that use static confirmation thank you page URLs. Example scenario and subsequent static URLs below:
1. Shoppers goes to client site.
2. Shopper adds item to cart and heads to check out.
3. Shopper selects PayPal as purchase option. Shopper hits PayPal button and heads to PayPal
4. On PayPal shopper fills out their info and hits purchase. At this point the confirmation thank you page (return URL is fired) and sends the shopper back to the webstore. That static URL would look something like
To configure steps 1 – 4 above is super easy. Again check out the blogs above for specific directions. The point of this post is to clarify the part of those blogs where they advise you on how to SET the return URL that is fired once the shopper hits purchase on PayPal.
We've repurposed the image from the Analytics Results below.
In the above picture you will see the PayPal section where you set the return URL. The return URL in the picture is a STATIC URL. Meaning it will always be the same no matter what type of transaction is being performed.
Here was our problem….we had a client that had a dynamic URL that changed on every transaction by adding the order id to the end of the URL. Example
IMPORTANT: If your client's URL does this the steps (outlined in the above blogs) for setting the return URL are irrelevant. They are irrelevant because that URL will change on every transaction.
SOLUTION: As the SEER blog pointed out you will need to work with a consultant who has experience working with PayPal's API.
The simple explanation is this…..using PayPal's API you set the DYNAMIC return URL via the PayPal button that is clicked on via the webstore site and ultimately sends the user to PayPal to complete the purchase. In that same button CALL you would also make sure to add BOTH Google Adwords and Google Analytics tracking scripts. When the user hits the purchase button on PayPal the DYNAMIC URL is fired with BOTH the Google Adwords and Google Analytics Scripts. SHAZAAM you've got tracking configured.
If you need additional help with this please contact us.
Visitors Behavioral Insights using Google Social Plug-ins
It's been almost a year now; Google launched the Social Component in their Web Analytics tool, and since then, we have worked with various clients setting up their Social Dashboards, and understanding the on-site behavior of their Social Visitors, and gauging their off-site activity stream via Data Hub Network.
In this post, we are not going to discuss on the fundamentals or, how to create Sexy Social Dashboard because, there are number of blog posts have been written on this topic in last 12 months so; in order to make it spicier, engaging and actionable for our marketing friends, we are sharing some interesting data analysis techniques by blending Social Reporting and Behavioral Segmentation.
Interesting Findings in last 12 Months: -
•   Approx. 78-82% of the Landings via Social Referrers get BOUNCED immediately.
•   "Social Network" as an "Assisting Channel", contributing significantly higher Conversion Value as compare to "Last Interaction Channel" for almost all our clients. The Social Channel Revenue Contribution is not more than 1.5-2.0% of the overall revenue generated on the website. Despite of this poor performance, Social Networks playing an important role higher in the conversion funnel, and their contribution can't be ignored.
•   For the Ecommerce Players, majority of the on-site Social Actions gets originated from the Product Pages (Social Entities under Social Plug-ins), and the corresponding referral traffic from Friends and Family have a significantly higher Bounce Rate i.e. 80-85%. The on-site surveys conducted on the Product Pages highlighted the following 4 reasons behind higher bounce rate:
1.   Since, my friend shared the Product; I just wanted to look-around
2.   Poor Quality and Size of the main Product Image with no Alternate Views
3.   Too Expensive
4.   No ongoing Promotion (Free Shipping or % OFF on the Product)
•   We spent lot of time understanding the Navigational Behavior of the Social Visitors by applying custom Engagement and Retention Segments, and learned a lot about their behavior and affinity towards different content sections of the website. Here are 15 Segments that really helped us getting deep-dive insight in to Social Visitors Behavior:
1.   Return Frequency Less Than 24 hrs
2.   Return Frequency within 1-3 Days
3.   Return Frequency within 3-5 Days
4.   Return Frequency within 5-7 Days
5.   Return Frequency greater than 7 Days
6.   Visits with 1 Page
7.   Visits with 2-4 Pages
8.   Visits with 4-6 Pages
9.   Visits with greater than 6 Pages
10. Visits with less than 60 secs
11.  Visits between 60 – 180 seconds
12.  Visits between 180 – 300 seconds
13.  Visits between 300 – 480 seconds
14.  Visits between 480 – 600 seconds
15. Â Visits greater than 600 seconds
By applying the above segments in the "Social Visitors Flow" and "Conversions" reporting we identified that, almost 85-90% of the Social Visitors didn't go deeper than 3 Pages on the website, and their visit lasted for less than 180 seconds. The Return Frequency of Social Visitors was quite lower as compare to other channels while, those online brands and retailers, who are spending consistently on Social Paid Ads month over month, have a strong brand loyalty, diligently creating buzz in their network, and have a strong fan base across different networks, were driving decent % of returning visitors with-in 1-3 Days window. Overall, the % of revenue contribution from Social Channels was under 1.5-2%, and unfortunately Social is still an unexplored channel and account for merely 6-7% of the Total Marketing Spend.
•   Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Google + are the 4 major Social Sources contributing over 80% of the Social Actions. Among our clients customer-base, Pinterest is considered better suited than Twitter to find about new products while, Facebook is the top social network accessed via Mobile Devices for our USA Clients. Almost 75-80% of the traffic contributed by the above 4 Social Networks was Unique.
•   We couldn't extract much value out of Activity Stream under "Sources" section because, it was not including the Top Social Networks for our clients including Facebook and Twitter so; couldn't find something significant to take immediate actions.
We are really excited to hear your findings and any lessons learned while analyzing the Social Data of your online visitors.
5 Tips on Improving Your CR For Holiday 2012
The holidays are right around the corner. Its about that time to start enjoying hot chocolate, writing your Christmas list, setting up family gatherings and preparing and prepping your Adwords account…..yes its that time! 52% of ecommerce retailers began their holiday sales by Halloween in 2011.Have you started to prepare your account? Below are 5 tips on improving your conversion rate for the holidays.
Phone number
Let your customers know you are there for them! During the holiday season there are many shoppers and many gifts being purchased. Offer a phone number online for your customers. This offers them instant gratification on any questions they may have on the product and/or shipping information before they check out.
Create Urgency
Make sure all your customers will receive their products before Christmas and everyone will be happy. Creating urgency online can assist in increasing your conversion rate. Including tactics such as "order by and delivered by" creates urgency for your customer to purchase. Also, showing how many products are left can encourage the customer to purchase sooner.
Promotion placements
Everyone is looking for a sale during the holidays. Make sure to include promotions through the site. Also, implement promotions on pages that offer similar products. For example, if you are purchasing an iPod place a promotion on a case or headphones on the product page. This will entice customers to purchase more products. Lastly, offer last chance promotions in the shopping cart to try to increase their order before they check out.
Social buttons
Sharing sites/products is huge for social media. With social media exploding over the web make sure you have all your social buttons live. Run down the check-list and make sure you have all of them created from Google + to Facebook to Twitter and more! This will create credibility for your customer to purchase when they see a friend from their Google + has endorsed your site.
Mobile shopping
2011 was named the Ecommerce Comeback with a 16.8% increase in sales. It is predicted that mobile shopping rates will exceed 20% in 2012. Make sure to utilize mobile and tablets during the holiday season starting now. Ensure your mobile site is running properly and all promotions are live and current. Don't miss out on mobile this year!
So with Halloween soon approaching us be sure to create your plan of action for the upcoming holiday. Let us know if you have any other tips for the Holiday and lets get started!
5 Ways to Boost CTR in Your PPC Account
Have your ads in your account come to a point where you need a boost in your the click thru rate (CTR)? There are many things to consider when working on ways to improve CTR of your PPC account. So how can you get started today?
Here are 5 ways to improve your Click Thru Rate today:
1.    Refining Your Account
Review your account and dig into your keywords. Expand your ad groups so each one has their own niche to speak to in your ad copy. Many times we group keywords into one ad group that could be split into two or more. Create separate ad groups for your keywords so you can include one or more of them into your ad copy variations. This will also help boost your quality score.
2.    Improving Your Ad Copy with Offers & Credibility
Is your ad copy lacking something important or unique? Look into your ad groups and create 3 ad variations that include the keyword, a call to action, pain point and/or creditability. You want to stand apart from your competitors and offer something they cannot. Creating a promotion to entice the user to click on your ad maybe a way to go or creating creditability by stating you are the official site can encourage users to select you over competitors. Get into Google and search several of your terms per ad group and see what competitors are creating and offering. This will give you ideas and aid in creating new messaging that is not yet live.
3.    Creating Sitelink Extensions
If you have not added Sitelinks into your account do so today! Create at least 4 to 10 sitelinks to each campaign in your account that will send users to different landing pages and give you the opportunity to extend ad messaging. Adwords saw a 30% boost in CTR in campaigns after implementing sitelinks into campaigns. Each sitelink has a 35-character max and is a great way to offer promotions. Implement your sitelinks today and in 2 weeks review your CTR and see the magic happen!
4.    Adding Negative Keywords
Negative keywords are important for any Adwords account. We all add a list of these to the accounts upon set up but then how do you continually create new negatives that you may have not discovered before? A great way to find these negative keywords for campaigns and ad groups is pulling the All Search Term report in Adwords. We run this report daily to monthly for clients.
This report is located in the keyword tab and pulls all search terms related to the keywords in your account. This is a great report if you have many broad match keywords live. In the report you can view terms that have displayed your ad due to being closely related to a keyword in your account. Review the report and highlight and add keywords that you do not wish to appear on in Google.
5.    Google + Social Extensions
Creating credibility is huge online. If you have not already created a Google + profile do so and then add it to your Adwords campaigns! When users search and your ad appears they can preview people in your Google circle that have 1+ the site. On average, ads with Google + have a 5 to 10% improvement in their CTR. Users will be able to view recommendations that the site has received.
I hope you apply some of these to your account in order to boost your CTR. If you have additional CTR tips please let us know today!
What is Time Per Visit? A Very Powerful but, Underutilized Engagement Metric!
Did you know that?
• Approx. 68-75% of the visitors don't spend over 5 minutes on the website.
• Approx. 75-80% of the visitors don't view more than 5 pages per visit.
• 5-10 mins slot is a sweet-spot for majority of the online businesses, and contribute significantly to the top-line. So; if more and more businesses can stick the visitors on their website for atleast 5-10 minutes, it can impact their top-line numbers by 10-15%.
Over the last 2 years, I have been traveling quite extensively across Asia Pacific to conduct Web Analytics and Digital Marketing workshops for the Banks, Insurance Giants, Telecom, Retailers, Media and Agencies, and it's quite disheartening to see that majority of these online businesses pay less attention on the engagement metrics, and emphasize too much on the macro transactional metrics. Among the list of various engagement metrics available in the online space, one of the metric that I often talk about during my training sessions is the "Time Spent per Visit".
Most of the ecommerce managers and digital marketers I met in last 2 years in the APAC region, realize the importance of this metric however; they don't understand, how to use this metric in an effective way and find opportunities for improvement on the website by understanding the visitor behavior. Let me explain this by sharing some interesting facts:
• Approx. 65-70% of the Keyword Searches are performed by those visitors who spend less than 5 minutes on the website and a lion share of them come from those who spend less than 60 seconds on the website. Majority of these are Category or Product Type specific.
• Approx. 20-25% of the Keyword Searches done by above visitors are Failed Searches.
• Approx. 14-18% of the conversions on the website are contributed by those visitors, who spend less than 5 minutes on the website.
• Approx. 35-40% of the Email Sign-ups for Newsletters came from those visitors who spend less than 5 minutes on the website.
• A significant % of visitors who spend less than 5 minutes on the website, often exit from the Product Page followed by Shopping Cart.
As you can see from the above facts that, unless and until you segment your visitors behavioral data based on "Avg. Time Spent per Visit" metric, you are not going to find any opportunities for improvement on the website for those visitors, who come with a defined objective and usually have a shorter engagement time-span so; it's very important that, you define the following key segments in your analytics tool and gauge the Taxonomy Navigation, Search, Product Engagement and Shopping Cart engagement behavior of these visitors:
• Visitors who spent less than 60 seconds
• Visitors who spent less than 180 seconds
• Visitors who spent between 180 and 300 seconds
• Visitors who spent between 300 and 600 seconds
• Visitors who spent between 600 and 900 seconds
Here is my favorite report template for "Time Spent per Visit" metric:
In case you have explored some other interesting applications of this metric, please add your comments below.
Forum Participation Rubric for Ecommerce Link Building
As mentioned before by Jason Acidre and Steph Chang, catching quality links for eCommerce sites can be among the most difficult challenges one can face in this game. Scott Cowley wrote about the route that he took to get sales conversions instead of links to affect rankings. Smart thinking, and if you are like me, you investigated where to place links that result in sales. I've found a most valuable resource for finding these opportunities and a scale by which to put them into tiers of quality.
Getting links for converting traffic isn't difficult if you know where to look. Sometimes it's simply where competitors are not looking. Where do I look? Forums, yes forums and communities. I don't mean to spam and "scale" this method. That is far from the point of this exercise. If it is quantity of links you're looking for, look elsewhere. Here, the value is found in the traffic and sales a link placed on a forum can generate. You should be advised with common sense to never spam a forum because you'll never last long if you do. Forum moderators are wise to what you are doing; they are likely not going to tolerate flagrant, shameless plugs for your products. As always, you need to add value!
But how can we ensure we participate in online discussions and ensure that the discussion contributes to the discussion? Successful, collaborative online discussions are directly linked to assessment; in other words, to encourage good online discussions, qualify them. How? I use a rubric that I created. The idea is simple: the rubric helps you determine what is ideal, and then is used to grade the prospects according to these ideals. Use this rubric, or create your own, so you can better participate in forums.
To generate a list of prospects, I use the best tool for the job: Link Prospector from Citation Labs. For the most part, I use the broadest key phrases for the initial query, and then narrow the choices by inclusion/exclusion of keywords in the title, page description or domain name using filters once my prospects are gleaned. (Note: your mileage may vary using this method, but it is a good starting point from a potentially overwhelming list of prospects).
Now that you have your set of prospects, use the rubric to qualify the best ones to try participating in the conversation. One note to also consider is the voice you choose to participate with in the conversations. This guide for ethics of using personae from Outspoken Media is one of the best references for this. Please remain consistent, and do not deviate from your initially chosen voice. Having more than one shill in the town square can lead to an instant turn-off for readers/other participants and/or have moderators drop the hammer on you.
Once you've gotten to this stage, here's where the real work comes onto play. From my experience, this is where most of my peers give in and lose out on the passive sales I collect every month. Like anything else, follow through and finish is everything in this business. You must read and comprehend the conversation before you jump into one. Sometimes you'll find it's best not to begin with a link. You may need to drive the conversation to get participants to ask your opinion. You may need to feel out the community before they'll accept you as a reliable source of information they want
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Here is the legend for qualifiers on the left of the rubric:
Timely: I like to try and stay current, as sales opportunities can go from hot to cold very quickly. Online conversations can change focus just as instantly. As an online retail salesman, you must be ubiquitous on "the showroom". Which any good salesman knows is everywhere he is. You can use this method for current press hits as well.
Collaborative: Agree or disagree, supporting another user's statement helps you build a relationship, and that's what link building really is when you boil it down. Keep in mind, the first few interactions you make will most likely not be a good time to drop a link. This is a situation that calls for patience and being genuine in your responses. Remember, this is not about ranking sites and scaling the shit out of a process, this is about adding value to a community.
Education: This is most likely the best facet of this approach. Every product, no matter how much like other products it may be, has unique features, advantages and benefits. These are the selling points of your product over others. Your on-site content should communicate these FAB's and offer the G, which stands for Grabber (ask for the sale, without asking).
Clarity: This is one of my most common 4's on the scale. Having an opportunity to address a misprint or correct an opinion formed by the reader is a blessing in disguise. This is also where it pays to have assessed all of your press mentions and link profile. Many times, I have found opportunities to place links to other sites that already have links that generate sales. BOO-YAH! Some press hits from 2 years ago had no inbound links in the body, but after giving a clarifying statement (with an informational page link) they still bring in significant monthly sales.
These results were incredible, but only after careful planning and expert execution. Here is a snapshot of what a monthly sales report can look like when you implement forum participation into your traffic strategy.
Some of the lowest traffic sources can bring consistent sales because of the quality of that traffic. Once curated, social media promotion of these links can amplify the effect when applied at the right time. I hope this helps you on your quest to be a Joseph Decreaux of eCommerce.
We are honored to have the above contribution from a peer that we highly respect, Donny Rhoades. Beyond being from our home state Kentucky, Donny Rhoades has a strong affinity for one of our most revered fellow Kentuckians, Hunter S. Thompson. Don Rhoades is a search marketing savant and eCommerce consultant since 2006. He currently lives in Raleigh, NC and works as a freelance SEO consultant. Follow him on Twitter: @TheGonzoSEO
Using Day Parting in Adwords PPC to Extend Your Budget
Recently we ran a study to understand what days and hours one of our clients customers searched for them. The idea arose when we noticed a strange pattern in their search traffic.
If you look at the below image you will see their TOTAL search traffic for the last 3 months.
Looks a bit like a sound wave right? Well we dug into it a little to see exactly what was happening. After segmenting the traffic further by organic and paid search we learned that BOTH channels we're experiencing these peaks and valleys. The peaks in traffic were happening during the weekdays while the valleys were happening on the weekends.
This got us thinking about who our customers clients were and how they would typically shop for their products. Our clients specialized in IT hardware (servers, switches, etc). Not the sexiest item to shop for over the weekends during your down time. The product line and the data indicated that their customers were shopping during typical work hours. As such we wanted to see if the fluctuations in traffic were also happening to conversions and cost per acquisitions.
Working with our Google reps we created this Adwords PPC Day Parting Tool to see the impact on conversions and CPA . Click on that link and you will be taken to a download for the Excel file.
The tool will allow you to do the following:
1. Identify cheap, high-performing days of the week and hours of the day by device, specifically desktop and tablets.
2. Identify costly, non-performing days of the week and hours of the day by device, specifically desktop and tablets.
Using the tool in 7 simple steps you can break down your campaign performance by day and hour. Below are samples of each.
Confirming our suspicions we found out that their customers were only purchasing their products during the weekdays. Furthermore, during those weekdays there were significant differences in their CPA's by hour. Using this info we did the following:
1. Turned off ads during the weekends.
2. Lowered their CPC's to 50% during their non peak hours of 12am to 4am and increased their CPC's to 150% during their peak hours. All other hours were left at 100%. To do this you need to go to settings > ad scheduling > mode > switch from basic to bid adjustment. We've attached a picture below to give you better illustration.
Making these adjustments we were able to increase their monthly budget during the week by 26%! We also saw a 10% increase in our conversion rate!
If you would like to use this tool please check it out in this link "Adwords PPC Day Parting Tool" . Have a similar solution? Leave us a comment below on how you did it.
Get Me Everyone! The Gary Oldman Approach to Ecommerce Consulting
If you've seen the movie "The Professional" by Luc Basson starring & Gary Oldman you'll probably know the scene. Leon (Jean Reno) is holed up in his apartment after taking out half of the police force and Stansfield (Gary Oldman) is at wits end and calls for backup. When asked who to get, his reply is simple – "Bring Me Everyone!"
Similarly, when dealing with large ecommerce projects, we find it's best to make of what you have to work with by taking the Gary Oldman approach to SEO ecommerce consulting and "Get Everyone!" involved.
Quick Start Guide to Successful SEO Content Writing
Guest Post by Jaime A. Heidel.
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How Does Google Search Work?
I don't typically recycle content but this explanation of how Google Search Works is well worth the watch. Very simple and clear.


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NRA asks court to let Illinoisans carry guns now
Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:45 Published in Local NewsSPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A gun owner whose lawsuit spurred the Illinois concealed carry law that took effect this week is asking a federal court to allow the public possession of firearms immediately.
Mary Shepard and the National Rifle Association filed a motion for an injunction Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for southern Illinois. Shepard's motion says gun owners should not have to wait to carry because of Illinois lawmakers' "procrastination."
A federal appeals court ruled in December that it's unconstitutional for Illinois to continue prohibiting concealed carry. But lawmakers finally adopted a plan Tuesday - the court's deadline. Now the Illinois State Police have six months to set up a system and three months to approve or deny applications after that.
The motion notes the ban remains in effect until then.
County police host forum in wake of cell phone thefts
Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:18 Published in Local NewsSt. Louis County cell phone retailers are invited to a cell phone theft forum tomorrow.
The St. Louis County Police Department is holding the event in response to the recent string of smash-and-grab store robberies. Retailers are invited to attend Thursday at 4PM in the Grace Union Church in the 3900 block of Union.
Gov. Quinn plans to hold up lawmakers' paychecks
Wednesday, 10 July 2013 14:14 Published in Local NewsCHICAGO (AP) - Gov. Pat Quinn is using his veto power to try and suspend state lawmakers' pay because of their inaction on Illinois' pension crisis.
The Chicago Democrat is announcing the news Wednesday. He says there'll be no paychecks for legislators until they get the job done.
The Associated Press obtained details of the plan before Wednesday's announcement.
Quinn's using his line-item veto power in a budget bill that's on his desk. Lawmakers have to approve his changes.
The bill gives the state comptroller the ability to issue paychecks to state employees. Quinn's announcement comes a day after he said there would be consequences for lawmakers who didn't send him a pension overhaul plan by Tuesday's deadline.
The state has nearly $100 billion in unfunded pension liability, the worst of any state.
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is the new branded tongue for the instagram beasts? im also not feeling the mid sole paint job, esp the grey part. i wanted to get them, but im on the fence now. the blue ones are my absolute all-time favorites. i remember when AC Green was rocking them in a Laker uniform.
hahahaha! "NIKE" on MJ's soles...DOPE
gotta get these...personal favorite
these are the Larry Johnson aka "Gramama" colorway...if he ever wore Jordan brand...LOL
my bad, this colorway is so understated and kinda gets slept on!
you all should start covering Oregon athletics
thats cool
with that much of a price increase it better have NIKE on the sole instead of JORDAN, right?
sorry to rant but the way they composed the colorway almost makes it comical to have BHM shoes. past representations of BHM shoes gave more reverence to what the month actually represents or means to many people.
did lebron ever play in one of his low cuts?
pretty horrible! going too new school for all the new hypebeasts wanting more "swag"! SMH
@coachcross40 WOW
i wonder how long Manu will rock the Brons'...wait, how long has it been anyway?
JB is killing it...and NOT in a good way!
interesting design! i already like the flyknits and the roshe's. hopefully should be an exciting year for NIKE running!
@dyvrsity i feel you on that. there is something about them and they peaked my interest. i want to try them out on the court.
yeah, i guess i gotta pick up a pair...JESUS
@TheSneakerHead true... but seriously though, why retro it and label it as the "88" or whatever and then not go all the way with it? makes no sense, right? i mean it does for JB, they are the ones saturating the market and make them dollars!


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Halle Berry says it point blank ... her daughter is Black -- a direct message to her ex Gabriel Aubry who, according to sources, "went nuts" anytime someone called Nahla Black.
Halle says in an upcoming interview with EBONY magazine, "I feel she's Black. I'm Black and I'm her mother, and I believe in the one-drop theory." The one-drop rule was used during segregation to describe anyone who wasn't 100% Caucasian.
As TMZ first reported, sources connected with the former couple say Gabriel insists Nahla is White.
Truth is, they're both sorta right ... and both sorta wrong.
So, we gotta ask ...
Halle Berry said he feels her daughter is black, because she, her mother is black. I understand that.
Halle did not make the 'one drop rule', white folks did.
It's stupid of Gabriel to have a baby with a black woman and
get upset if you call the child black. 'go figure'
First of all this is kind of crazy? We all have been subjected to a rule made at a terrible time in our history! Made to hold a race of people back, , We are all human beings and no matter what a rule say's fact is fact. There is know way to change what race you are. We must embrace all of who we are, Black, White, If we are going to make judgment about race it should be to love one another as the Human race period. I don't pray and say Amen anymore, I say All men. 1 LOVE!
mixed, is black!
Halle did not make the one drop rule.
white folks love to try to change things, to fit their need.
I don't blame Halle for labeling her baby as black.
And girly acting Gabriel needs to get a better job so he can
pay child support. I'm so glad Halle did not marry that scrub!
If Halle is MIXED, and her ex is Caucasian - that clearly makes the baby slightly more white than black, so her invoking SLAVERY ERA TERMS and the "one drop" rule is beyond creepy - what is she trying to prove? If this is to get at her ex, it's a really 'ignant' way to do it! Halle, for shame!
Let's say you have vanilla ice cream and you have chocolate ice cream. You decide you want vanilla ice cream but in the process of preparing it, a drop of chocolate ice cream gets into the vanilla ice cream. But since you like both flavors, it's not that big of a deal to you. You still consider it vanilla ice cream because it is still 99% vanilla ice cream and eat it anyway. However, let's say it was a drop of dog **** that got into the vanilla ice cream. Even though it's still 99% vanilla ice cream, you would not eat it because dog **** is not ice cream. The dog **** has contaminated the rest of the ice cream making it inedible and it is now "dog **** ice cream".
That's what the premise of the one-drop rule is. It is the belief that being of African ancestry is so inferior to European ancestry that having even 1% of it contaminates you, making you black, even though the majority of you is white. It is equating black is inferior to white like dog **** is inferior to vanilla ice cream. I cannot understand how anyone can be so ignorant to support the one-drop rule. It makes me sick.
You are all wrong wrong wrong. Humans are all flesh colored (which is closer to orange than to black or white). Blacks simply have more saturation than whites do. Just like red is a more saturated color than pink but both mainly stimulate the red detectors in our eyes. Some, but not nearly all, black races have a tiny bit of blue tint in their mostly orange color.
Anyhow, we're all basically orange in color, we vary by saturation. Beyond that Halle and Gabriel are an immature fighting ex couple.
"If he has a problem with it, he wouldn't have put his weiner inside YOU. So stop being stupid"
Disturb, thats an incredibly naive statment. Just because someone has a problem with your race doesn't mean they put their weiner in you. Happened all the time on the plantation. But this story is beyond race. This is two people trying to hurt each by and will use any words necessary to do it. I agree he probably isn't a racist but race is a convenient weapon.
Halle is bi-racial, because her mother is white and her father was African-American. But as a white mother of biracial children, one adopted and raised by a white man (my ex) who refused to acknowledge her ethnicity let me tell you that people see you and label you as white or black, and it's best to identify yourself as being one or the other if you're bi-racial, because that's how people are going to see you. This is so not a color blind society. People would say Halle was crazy if she identified herself as white. So it's good and healthy that she identifies herself as Black and her daughter as well, because people are not going to see her child as white either. And trust me, it's a big problem for white men who want to only identify their bi-racial child as being "white" because they're in denial. You're going to get a whole world of whiteness thrust upon you as it is. You're going to learn all about it every day. But if your parents do not let you identify with your African-American heritage or teach you about it and expose you to it too you're in for a world of hurt that might start the first time someone on the school bus or playground calls you the "n" word when your parents aren't around. If dad only refers to Nahla as being white and gets pissed if anyone mentions the other side of her heritage he's inferring that there is something wrong with it, something to be ashamed of. That these two grownups who are in the limelight are fighting about something so sensitive, and their daughter will read all about what this parent or that parent said one day is really sad. The "I believe in the 'one drop' theory" quote makes me kind of cringe, because that was come up with during a very racist and shameful period in our nation's history (not like it's all that different today), and sounds so archaic, but in reality...that IS the way our society will see it, too. Beautiful biracial women are very attractive to many men of all ethnicities. That the ex got involved with Halle in the first place does NOT mean he is not racist. He may well be, especially if he is one of the "my child is as much white as black...and therefore I refuse to acknowledge her black side" folks and if he is he is not the best one to raise her. But I am sure they'll come to a joint custody agreement, and get counseling, etc. It will all be fine. But there may be lots of ugly emotions and words on the way to making fine happen.
Beauty is beauty, is color really that important? All we have to do is look for beauty in everyone.
The daughter is 75% white, actually. I think anyone who is more of a certain race, percentage wise, should be legally required to state that they are of that race. If they are 50/50, then they should be able to list the race of their choice.
Will someone please tell Halle that she's been emancipated?
Dear God, the "one drop" rule was a sick law designed to place a person of mixed race into what was considered the "lower" race.
She's striking me more and more as a racist herself.
Here is the real deal people. America is obsessed with labeling human beings, be it their physical looks, their character traits, and /or their culture. As human beings we are extremely visual and thru that we make our usual assumptions. Depending on how their daughter looks physically as she gets older, will be how sociality will embrace her. We don't have the mental capacity to figure out fast enough or at all what a persons real "race" is all most all of the time, so we just put them in whatever box we believe they fit. Only on offical do***ents do persons of direct racial mixture get to see them selves represented. In the everyday motions of life when it concerns their contact with other humans are they eithor just white/black/asian/hispanic and so on. Especially in the US as diverse as we are, we still can't see anything beyond those standard categories. Race and identity will always and forever be a struggle in the human condition as long as we all continue to have polar opposite features. I propse that no one should mate with someone of there same race or feature base, we should all mate with our physical opposites and maybe in a few centuries or millenia or more, we might morph into more of a single physical race whatever that might be.
in new orleans the law would put white on the birth cirt. since the ole french law figured out the math a very long time ago..


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what is the danger or harm to the engine if your dump valve is fitted to the hotside rather than the cold side ? anybody please cheers
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what is the danger or harm to the engine if your dump valve is fitted to the hotside rather than the cold side ? anybody please cheers
The dump valve is on the hot side as standard anyway...
i fitted a bailys atmospheric dv about 8 months ago and somebody on here the other day told me i had fitted it wrong or maybe im confussed is this the hot side or the cold side Attachment 10986
That's fitted to the hot side - as in before the intercooler(s) have a chance to cool the air. Seems a little bit of a odd place to put it, usually on the hot side it is just after the turbo on the hard charge pipe, up at the top where you have blocked off with a red pipe.
Its a atmospheric valve regardless of hows its fitted so get it binned off for a recirc valve... and while you are at I would refit it to the std position...
Jay im not been funny but have you got a t piece between the fpr and the baileys dv? If not your cars going to be running into alot of problems.
I've never seen that, well done.
dani_b19 what does frp mean ?please
16Klappe what does well done mean ? good or bad ?
I believe hes being sarcastic instead of adding anything of use to your problem
Fuel pressure regulator, its the thing on the end of the fuel rail!
I think he means fpr - fuel pressure regulator.
What he said^^
I've never seen such a bizzare combination of original boost pipes, wrong dump valve and wrong location.
You've basically blocked off the right port, fitted the wrong valve and then fitted it to what would be the correct location if you had a K03s and a front mount intercooler.
Very strange.
Did you follow pictures on the internet or did somebody do this for you?
A couple of pics to help you out....
The thing circled in blue is the FPR don think its a good idea to T anything off the same hose.
From the green circle it looks like a black hose is coming out of a T.
An idea on what to do with your DV....lol
yes there is a t piece between the f p r its just black at the other side its been running like this for ages now i thought the whole thing about dump valves was to get the air out of the system quickly ? so why does it matter if the air has not had chance to cool down before it reaches the intercooler dump valve , dumps the air yes ! its run fine up to now so i think i will just leave it as it is rather than listening to so many different opinions at the end of the day its all personal choice if it goes bang who cares its only an engine but cheers for the advice people
i thought that joining this forum would be good but it turns out your all a bunch of dicks who know **** all well not all but most so seeya
Ill let 16Klappe step in here....lol :undwech:
Have i got time to get some popcorn?
Dump valves are designed to release the pressure when the throttle plate closes as this can lead to turbo damage... while there is nothing fundamentally wrong with where you have put the valve it seems a little bit odd as there is no real advantages here... even the much discussed cold side relocation is not really the best place for a dump valve... the OE position closer to the turbo is the better place but for practical reasons it can be mounted elsewhere (as I have done on mine...)
The problem with yours is centred around two things... firstly, tapping the vacuum from the FPR feed is not best practice... its very important that the FPR pipework is 'reliable' otherwise there is a risk of the fuelling going lean if its integrity fails...
Secondly... atmos valves aren't suited to std VAG ECU's... the air entering the charge system is metered via the MAF... the ECU has calculated how much fuel to inject for the correct AFR... venting this air to atmos means the engine runs rich... this can cause misfires, soiling of the plugs promoting multiple misfires and poor running, stalling of the engine etc...
You posted asking for advice and due to the way you have applied your modifications you got some advice...
Its your choice at the end of the day but there it is... you will have to excuse Jardo, subtle is not a specialism of his but the advice is sound and correct..
While you may not care about your engine going bang there are others that will and this forum is not about giving poor advice (although the delivery can vary :))
You've asked what the danger or harm is of mounting the DV in the hotside (which is the standard location as VAG intended), we've told you there is no problem and that actually you have some more serious issues which need to be addressed and your response is that it's been fine for a year and if the engine goes bang then who cares. If that is actually your attitude then why the question in the first place? It would appear that I as a total outside care more about the condition of your engine than you do?
Your definition of fine is not in line with more knowledgeable members of the community's definition of fine. If you can't accept our help in whichever form it comes then that is your loss, no need to leave the forum over it though. Maybe if you stuck around you'd learn more about your engine and get it running better? (because it won't be with an atmospheric valve routed like that)
Your choice mate. :beerchug:
Baileys atmos valve getting the leak test treatment
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Bugger the popcorn was ready and i was expecting a Jardo Attack and............................................... ....nothing but nice ness :(
Lou have you tied Jardo up and pretending to be him????
mine was in a similar position to that when i bought the car (but with the 4mm line going into a different place i believe) binned off the baileys and bought a forge FMDV008 and put it back to the standard position for these engines. noticed and instant difference, ran alot smoother
nice attitude................
now have a good look at how your valve is likely to be performing... Used Bailey atmos dv bubble test | Facebook
atmos = an air leak and poor fuel trims, which is why recirc dv's are fitted as std and advised
Well congratulations all you have done is made your self look like a cock why ask a question if you don't care about the answer you get? Is it because you didn't hear what you wanted to? You will get no we're on this forum with your attitude and if you give people chance and listen this forum is actually very useful!
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
if your not happy with the information you were given, please feel free to look elsewhere. Being rude to other members will get you nowhere. Where else can you get the information, helpfulness , knowledge and experience you have received on this forum free of charge? So may i suggest you should think before being disrespectful to others.
Being told off by our beloved mother superior is definately the end of the road....:)
Lets hope so :)
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Oh hot damn! Ive been waiting for something like this I really have after the painfully average games and movie that I've been reviewing and it's a breath of fresh air to see something like Marvel Heroes, why are you reading this? Go play it now seriously, like right now.
It's been a long time coming and when I first heard about the news I was a bit skeptic, I thought how are they gonna pull it of ? Well some of the things I thought would be bad did happen but the rest of the game was good enough to make me forget that there are five Hulks and ten Things running around, and how some of these villains like Elektra can put up a fight against some of these heroes, but believe these are just nitpicks there is a lot of good stuff here and I had to pull myself away from playing it just to review it…Where do I begin, well how about the story?
The story revolves around Doctor Doom which again has stolen the cosmic cube aka Tesseract again seriously what is it the 4th time he done this ? You think they'll learn eventually, and all the heroes go after him pretty simple but more complex since there's a whole network of supervillains teeing to different artifacts like the Tablet of Life and Time which brings in the Kingpin, Madame Hydra, Elecktra and a whole bunch of people from both common known and underground from the Marvel Universe.
They really went digging to give us a great experience thorough the Marvel Universe interacting with it's characters and it works great, if there's anything about Brian Michael Bendis that I do like is that he tends to keep characters in character and that's rare nowadays and I thank him so much for it, this made the cut scenes a lot more fun to watch, it's done in a motion comic style and it works for the most part it makes you feel like your reading a good marvel comic , certainly not thought provoking or deeply emotional but it gets you in the marvel mood and there's not one character that I can complain about both in terms of voice acting which was excellent all around and in terms of writing, it's a good story for a great game.
The gameplay, well it plays a lot like Diablo some would say but with some differences, as where Diablo is slow and realistic this is fast and physics breaking just like it should be, flying around swinging around or even walking…All of it feels great and appropriate to any character you choose everyone's move list is unique with a few attacks more similar than others but it's still character appropriated. I even admire how creative they had to get to be able to come up with abilities and equipment for Hulk and characters like that ,that don't really wear shirts or swords or anything like that they made some great stuff and got around the matter brilliantly , where DC Universe Online failed by having you playing a sidekick, this game puts you perfectly into the flesh of your favourite hero if you can afford him..But I'll get into that later, the heroes are all perfectly realized and feel like they should and that is really hard to do in a MMO like this nothing was more satisfying for me than leveling up Thor to comic book levels and destroying mere mortals that dare to stand in my way…Okay moving on.
One thing I really wanted to mention is all the little details they put in the game I mean it just oozzes effort and dedication to this game, whenever Thor passed ororo munroe (Storm) he would always compliment her , I found that really funny because for one it did happen in the comics and it was fun bit of a trivia and a mechanic I haven't seen used yet although it probably has been, and it wasn't just Storm, whenever Thor passed anyone he had a bit of history with and he would shout out a reference. All characters did this when Hulk said to Thing "I want a rematch"and man I love that because it rewards your dedication to the comics and even non comic fans will find it funny because that would be a standard character interaction between these two characters, even if you know a bit about them, this game is bound to teach you a thing or two.
And then there was locations from the comics like the boxing GYM where Daredevil dad used to box and tons of other references and trivia's like that, even the loading screens gave such simple information that they even made fun of themselves once in a while, another thing that was cool was that not all vendors were just S.H.I.E.L.D troopers or holo vendors. Jarvis was around, Ant-man was around to act as a crafter and I loved the crafting system in this game it was really good, all these things made the world feel so much more alive and real there's even body physics which really add to the game its cool to punch a guy and see him thrown across the room to land on a console pad or something and your powers will pretty much destroy everything even to comedic but still awesome extents sometimes, like this one guy complaining to a member of the Hand that he dint have money to pay them and then you just wreck everything, and I hope he has money for the repairs, oh well I suppose Tony can lend a hand there.
I would talk about the tech tree, but there really isn't much to talk about here, they were very creative by making enough powers for everyone , even Cyclops and I applaud them for that one because Cyclops only did one thing in the comics and turning that into 3 tech trees that's damn impressive, I had a lot of fun with every hero I played, just thinking what power to get next what to make stronger and what to sacrifice i loved it.
The crafting system, oh yes the crafting system, its hard to explain what made it so cool but it just worked and it was fast and interesting and it made you exited to find items on the field,getting gear and then upgrading it so it gets bad ass is so satisfying because it adds that extra dimension between comics and game it fills in so well, it works basically by collecting elements and combining them with other things to create more things, simple right? But it works , you can even add stats to costumes, if you can afford them this game can be quite expensive , there are random drops and fortune cards you can use but you gotta have luck like I don't know to get anything you want from that.
Overall while some people will get tired of the game if they can't get their favorite hero or if they're not a fan of marvel I think this game has the potential to attract a lot of people to it and I'm sure as hell I'm going to play it for a while now, so since it's free it worth's at least a tryout and I think it's worth every penny you can throw at it if that means great games like this in the future.
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Marvel Heroes has been finally released! After the disappointment that Diablo 3 was , I quickly started searching for another ARPG (Action Role Playing Game) and Marvel Heroes was the one who got my attention due to it's concept of being alike with Diablo 2 mixed up with my favorite comic book heroes!
Marvel Heroes brought us the old classic feeling of Diablo 2, which is a good thing due to the fact that most Diablo fans including myself think that Diablo 2 was the prime of the franchise. But enough of talking about about Diablo 2 let's talk about Marvel Heroes. The game is a must for any Marvel fan or any Action ARPG fan. Gazillion Entertainment made sure newcomers and long time ARPG gamers would find a new home in Marvel Heroes and with a reason actually, it combines the most important aspects of Action RPG like variety of classes, variety of levels combined and a huge amount of loot with something entirely fresh in the ARPG genre, the MMO aspect.
There's a big roster of Heroes to pick… If you're willing to pay, the game is indeed free to play and but there's only a certain amount of starting heroes that you can choose from. These starting heroes are not everyone's favorite but you might have the luck to get a drop of one of your favorites heroes or costumes that you love from a boss.
Marvel Heroes also features a store where you can purchase heroes, costumes and other special items that you can buy. The store is quite expensive if you're a fan of many heroes, Iron Man and Spider Man are the most expensive heroes at the moment and buying a hero plus a costume might end up to cost more than 30 euros.
This MMO aspect can be a dangerous path to take in the genre that Marvel Heroes is in, but we can say that it went well. Marvel Heroes features world events that brings all the players in the zone to fight against a boss or spawning enemies from a container or a crashed bus. Sometimes the game gets so many players on your screen that even makes you play the game frames by frames (It did actually happen in the first week of launch).
While you're fighting thorough the zones to get to the objective you meet some random players that are also trying to fight their way to either the same objective that you have or other objectives nearby, you don't need to be in a group with them like any other MMO to be able to get loot from the enemies, you just have to help defeating them by hitting them to have a chance of getting loot from that enemy. The game features daily missions and PvP as the end game content for those who end the storyline, this PvE daily missions are the ones who grant you the biggest opportunity of hero and costume dropping so you might want to check that out.
Marvel Heroes is running on the Unreal Engine 3, a modified version of the engine to adapt it to the MMO side of the game. I can confirm that this are one of those games that are using Unreal Engine at it's best without any doubt at all, the game runs perfectly with a decent amount of people on the screen with graphics on the highest alongside V-sync turn on.
One of the things that Marvel Heroes does best it's being very friendly to people who are running the game on low-end computers, I noticed this due to Felix being able to play close to maximum settings with a low-medium rig without any problems, he's complains are only that models looking a bit weird and a frame rate drop while using FRAPS.
There's something that I do complain about the graphics settings that Marvel Heroes has, which is not being able to use advanced graphics settings in the game, you are only able to choose basically between Low,Medium,High,Very High and Ultra. You can turn on and off the V-Sync but it's not enough for a PC gamer, we're used to being able to lower the shadows or anti-aliasing for example, this graphic settings reminds me of console ports.
Apart from the graphics, the sound design is stood true to the animated series or other Marvel games like Ultimate alliance, and Marvel fans that never heard sounds of any Marvel Fan will find the sounds they read and imagine in their heads quite the same in the game… Well at least for me.
Marvel Heroes has it's ups and downs, to be honest one of the major problems of the game it's not being able to choose an hero that you love right from the start and also not being able to use advanced settings to select what type of graphics you want. Marvel Heroes welcomes a newcomer or a hardcore player of the ARPG genre.
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Deprecate unmaintained ports from graphics where upstream disapear and/or where no distfiles can be found and are not used by maintained ports
Bounce PORTREVISION for gettext-related ports. Have fun, ya'll.
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- update to jpeg-8
- Update X.org ports to 7.4+ (few ports are more recent than the katamari). - Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libglut since the shlib version number went from 4 to 3. - Bump PORTREVISION for all ports depending on libXaw as libXaw.so.8 isn't installed anymore. - Couple of ports fixes (mostly missing xorg components added to USE_XORG).
Drop maintainership on my ports as I'm no longer using FreeBSD.
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext. The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT in Makefile (29 of them). PR: ports/124340 Submitted by: edwin@ Approved by: portmgr (pav)
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About A.P.A.C.
The Beginnings
The Middle Ages
The 1700s
The 1800s
The 1900s
The TEST
In the early 1900s, as society became more mobile and travel became easier, the circus began to fill arenas world wide. The smaller tents of the one ring show, had given way to the big top and the circus enjoyed a golden age.
By 1907, when the Ringling Brothers purchased another popular circus, Barnum and Bailey, the profession of clowning had reached one of its highest peaks. After World War I, 1918, the circus populated with clowns, became very prevalent and the art of clowning seemed to be rejuvenated. Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus gathered talented clowns from across the world.
Essential ingredients in the clowns new formula for laughs became:
Circus crowds enjoyed the antics of clowns like:
The clowns perfected their skills in the circus ring.
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These clown masters trained another generation of circus clowns.:
With the improvement in textiles, the costumes have become more brilliant in colors and are much more durable. Greasepaint is down to a science and the application is down to an art. But still today, the skills weigh heavily in a clowns repertoire.
A new clown character has arrived on the scene, the female clown. Before the late 1970s, clowns were taught that they should look neutral in gender not look like girls. History does not record women in clowning until 1858 then only a handful are mentioned.
The first female clown was Amelia Butler who toured with the Nixons Great American Circus.
We have a gap in history and the next female clown is mentioned in 1939, Lulu. Lulu was an English clown who was billed as The only woman clown in the world by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. She was the wife of a clown which gave her entrance into the clowning art. Rose Hamlon and Amelia Adler were also married to clowns and clowned with their husbands. Amelia was the last women clown in the American circus for almost twenty years.
Peggy Williams, in 1970 graduated from the Ringling Brothers Clown College. Peggy was not married to a clown but a woman clown in her own right. Her presents in the circus was the catalyst that was needed to encourage other women to get involved with the art of clowning. Even with the females in clowning, you rarely saw a female in a dress. Clowns were taught that they should look neutral in gender not to look like women.
In the late 1970s, a few bold women took the leap developing a truly feminine clown. With petticoats and bloomers, women have taken a front line in the art of clowning, creating a truly new character of their on, the female clown character. Women now constitute a large majority of the professional clowns.
The art of clowning began in the streets, moved to the stage, back to the streets, and then moved to the circus ring. Since 1940, clowning has returned to its roots off stage, branching out of the circus into:
The circus masters have also branched out of the circus arena to train the next generation who in return is training the future generation of clowns. So the art of clowning continues to be pasted from generation to generation.
RESOURCES Clown Hall of Fame-History of Clowning page History of Clowning Dan Rice The History of Clowning Pictures: Pierrot Pierrot and Harlequin http://www.corbis.com.
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USAGE: Welsh, English, French, Celtic Mythology
PRONOUNCED: TRIS-tən (English), trees-TAWN (French) [key]
Meaning & History
Old French form of the Pictish name Drustan, a diminutive of DRUST. The spelling was altered by association with Latin tristis "sad". In Celtic legend Tristan was sent to Ireland in order to fetch Isolde, who was to be the bride of King Mark of Cornwall. Instead, Tristan and Isolde end up falling in love. Their tragic story was very popular in the Middle Ages, and the name has occasionally been used since that time.
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Background Note | HBS Case Collection | January 1984
by Kim B. Clark
Presents major developments in textile production technology during the 1970s and early 1980s. Outlines the specific innovations as well as the company and country of origin.
Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Production; Manufacturing Industry;
Clark, Kim B. "Note on the Textile Industry in the 1980s." Harvard Business School Background Note 684-046, January 1984.
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Modularity in the Design of Complex Engineering Systems
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Between 'Knowledge' and 'the Economy': Notes on the Scientific Study of Designs
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Macon police are investigating an aggravated assault from the weekend.
Early Sunday morning, around 4A.M. officers responded to a report of a person shot and a possible burglary off of Hightower Road.
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RCI Engineered Solutions recently worked with a access control manufacturer for a solution for Police evidence lockers.
The Challenges:
• Customer was looking for an electronic means to secure stored evidence
• For some locations, the solution had to be retrofitted into existing lockers and others from the factory
• Required a way to visually monitor the locker availability
• Customer required an audit trail to show who had placed evidence and/ or accessed the evidence lockers
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Using the 3513DM (Dual Monitoring) cabinet lock with the manufacturer's access control system, RCI was able to integrated the evidence lockers with a locking solution that not only fit the customers needs, but also provided the crucial auditing capabilities needed to monitor access.
• The size of the 3513DM made it an ideal installation due the various sizes of the lockers.
• The dual monitoring feature provided feedback to the manufacturer's access control system of the lockers status (Available-Unlocked, In Use-Locked, Open)
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After 8 months of use, I will declare the Fuji X-E1 as the best ever camera I've ever owned!
It's not like I've owned tons of cameras already, but I've been through the same journey as a lot of you did. I started with a big badass DSLR, a Canon 500D (which is small by the way as its an entry level DSLR). It was the camera that brought me to the world of photography and expenses.
A few years with it, and I got settled with a 35/1.4 and 85/1.8 setup which was the best combo for my style of photography, but mostly it was the 35L that I got to use 90% of the time. After a while, I found it too cumbersome and heavy to be packing all the gear, when we went into trips or just went out with family or friends. I didn't enjoy having to bring a big and heavy camera just to capture precious moments.
And this is how I moved to Micro Four-Thirds (I bought an Olympus OM-D E-M5). It was the next big thing, mirrorless cameras which were smaller, a lot more compact, had interchangeable lenses, and functioned much like a DSLR minus the weight. I won't get into the details of image quality, and say one is better than the other, but IQ of the m43 was very very good such that I didn't really miss going back to using a DSLR (save for the 35L which I dearly loved).
At that time, the only Fuji X camera was the X-PRO1, but the price was out of range for my budget, so I didn't really consider getting it. And that was when, the stars aligned.
Fuji announced the new X-E1, a younger brother of the X-PRO1 which had the same X-trans sensor with a more compact body (as it removed the OVF, but with it the price brought reasonably down). The price was reasonable enough that compelled me to switch completely from m43 to Fuji X.
I've had high regard for Fuji and the way it renders colors for a while. I've had the chance to shoot with the smaller Fuji X10 and loved using it. You can read about it here. I've also been continuously reading user reviews of both X100 and X-PRO1 and equally enthused by how people felt about it. So it's no surprise, deep down, I've lusted for the Fuji X system, and with the X-E1 out, I had the opportunity to switch (for good?).
It has been 8 months - and counting - and I'm still in love with it. I still keep saying its the best camera I've owned. There a lot of things I like about the camera and here's a few to note:
- Fuji colors is <3.
- 35/1.4 ('nuff said - bokeh lover here)
- Really cool retro camera design.
- Simple camera controls, I personally didn't have much of a hard time on first use.
- Aperture ring control on the lens.
- Compact size.
- The "Magic" - there's a so called connection ;)


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this is the cover of my new record Human Again (out jan24th). it was painted by Joe Sorren who is one of my favorite artists. check him out at www.joesorren.com. i have loved him for years. we met because i bought one of his prints on line and he emailed me back and i emailed him back and i gushed and he gushed and it was just perfect. i asked him to paint the cover and he was thrilled and excited. i knew he was good but i didnt realize how much i would love the painting he did for Human Again. i just love it so much.
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Investing.com - Oil futures are trading lower in the early part of Wednesday's Asian session, held down by rumors that inventory data due for release on Wednesday will reveal rising stockpiles and some glum European economic data.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for May delivery slipped 0.47% to USD96.73 per barrel in Asian trading Wednesday after settling down 0.21% at USD96.87 a barrel on Tuesday in the U.S.
On Tuesday, official data showed the euro zone's unemployment rate was 12% in February, meaning 19 million people are out of work. The Markit Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index dropped to 46.8 last month, well below the 47.9 posted in February. Readings below 50 indicate contraction.
Later today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration will release weekly data on crude inventories and chatter among traders indicates they expect an increase. That would not be surprising as U.S. oil output is soaring, but demand remains sluggish.
In U.S. economic news, the Commerce Department said orders for manufactured goods increased 3% in February. Economists expected a 2.9% increase. Orders from the civilian aircraft business helped drive the February number higher.
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Italian police have charged two cops and a defense lawyer for allegedly tipping off the Mancuso clan from the 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia as reported by ANSA.
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Located within the historic and renovated Old Red Courthouse, the Old Red Museum tells the story of Dallas County from its founding to modern times. Exhibits include artifacts like the first traffic light in the county, a banjo played by Deep Ellum blues musicians, handcuffs worn by Lee Harvey Oswald and J.R. Ewing's famous Stetson hat from the popular T.V. show, Dallas. Information from the museum's website
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So I was inspired by this story to check out the Old Red Museum today. As a Dallasite, I've always wanted to learn a little more about the city I've called home for the last several years.
I have to say I was very impressed with the amount of work that was put in for this museum. The exhibits are very elaborate, detailed, and engaging. They have the history of Dallas split into 4 quadrants representing different eras in Dallas - each quadrant has a video introduction about the era, and lots of artifacts, pictures, and anecdotes about the history of the city.
It was interesting to read off the names of people and places in the area's history and be able to put names & faces to many locations & streets that exist today (i.e., Keller Springs was actually a spring water facility operated by a man named Keller).
Some notable artifacts: +Signed fedora from Tom Landry +JR's Stetson hat +Handcuffs used for Lee Harvey Oswald during initial arrest +Doak Walker's Heisman trophy
Many others to see. I would highly encourage a visit to this museum. It's an amazing example of what this city is capable of as far as historical preservation - I only wish city government could put more efforts like this to use on other historical landmarks.
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