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Great small business marketing ultimately determines a business succeeding vs. just scraping by and/or failing.
Many entrepreneurs spend so much money setting up their business and unfortunately spend little time on a small business marketing strategy to help drive business.
Sketching out a small business marketing plan doesn't have to be difficult, though having some type of plan is needed.
Recently we shared 10 Small Business Marketing Ideas that should be a part of every businesses core marketing strategy.
Here's 51 other small business marketing strategies to help you brainstorm:
- Customer Service is number 1 for so many reasons. None of the other 50 matter if you can't keep your customers happy. Think about the cost to attract a new customer in any business? Its so much easier to reduce customer attrition (which every business experiences) by making your customer happy. Reducing customer attrition by just 10% shouldn't be difficult and will immediately improve your companies bottom line. Over-service your existing customers and you'll see new customers coming in from word of mouth more than ever before.
- Improving the front-line by empowering Employees to make customers happy. Employees represent your company and have a huge impact on word-of-mouth marketing and word-of-mouth destruction. Great small business owners hire slowly and fire fast. Have A+ employees interacting with customers always and have a zero-tolerance policy in place for an employee "having a bad day" and leaving a bad taste in a customers mouth. Make your work-place a fun place, reward employees and help them enjoy the culture.
- Join your local Chamber of Commerce and participate.
- Visit your neighboring businesses and become personable. Other business owners love recommending businesses they feel comfortable with. Simply stop in and introduce yourself, seems so simple (it is) and it truly works.
- Donate to local Chinese Auctions and fundraisers in the community. Building a great reputation as someone who supports the local community can really differentiate your small business. Not only are you helping a good cause typically, you can attract customers easily.
- Purchase Lawn Signs and place them strategically around town. Lawn signs are cheap and extremely effective when the sales copy is attractive. Have a great offer and keep the content brief and to the point.
- Wear company attire. Be proud of your business and make sure you display it whenever possible. Done creatively this can really strike up conversations. During the holidays we gave our 35 cleaners nice company sweatshirts that were seen all over the community. Back to #2 empowering employees, many times employees were asked for information when standing in line at local businesses. They were all trained what to say and incentivized to encourage action to be taken by that prospect.
- Visit larger employers in the area and meet with someone in charge of employee benefits. Employers love offering employees benefits and if you know the cost to attract a new customer you can really offer something attractive for the employer to offer the employee.
- Participate in your local Welcome Wagon or build relationships with all the major local realtor offices. Realtors typically hand out some type of package about the community to new homeowners and why not be the first one in front of that new homeowner.
- Here comes one of the most underutilized small business marketing ideas, ask for a referral. Not only as the owners or managers, but employees should be trained to ask for referrals.
- Have a company referral rewards policy in place. Many social media platforms now have apps that are free or low-cost and are easy ways to track referrals. Make the offer attractive enough for customers to want to participate.
- Holiday Promotions are great and we all know those local businesses that are always "the ones" who are creative. Be that business and start making it part of your brand. Celebrate all the different holidays also, other than just the traditional ones.
- Loyalty rewards are so important. If you know your customers average lifetime value, imagine being able to increase it by just 10%. This adds to the bottom line and does wonders for small businesses.
- Facebook should be a part of all small businesses marketing plans. Not only can you run low-cost ads (even to your competitors fans) but you can do so much more. Have a great Facebook fan page that is informative and fun. Don't toot your own horn, toot your customers. Make sure also to encourage customers to check-in each visit if you have a brick and mortar establishment (check-ins can be part of your loyalty rewards also). When customers like your page and checking in, this also increases the likelihood of their friends eventually becoming customers.
- Participate in local community fairs with a booth. This typically isn't expensive and is a great way to meet the local community. I use to get a ton of clients that came directly or indirectly from participating in the local community events.
- Consider having door-hangers hung in target markets. Door-hangers work and you can collaborate with other small businesses that you don't compete with to join in to lower the cost. I've done this with Pizzeria's and day-cares bringing my cost to virtually nothing.
- Reach out to local radio stations. Local radio stations typically will share good stories and every small business owner should have a good story to share. If you don't have your story yet, consider visiting Elance and hiring a consultant to help you. For under $200(even $75) you can really have a great story put together by a professional that others will want to share.
- Visit online Meetup and find a local networking event to attend. Networking outside of your local community in surrounding towns can also do wonders for your business and Meetup will show you all the events by niche you're interested in. If you're not comfortable networking, read how to network easily. Networking has become so much easier today by being able to connect socially beforehand, that anyone can do it comfortably.
- Visit local businesses that are already dealing with similar customers that don't compete. Introduce yourself and ask to learn more about their business to refer them customers. They will also want to reciprocate. Local realtors, day cares and doctor offices all had my company information out on the counter for their customers. They also got a nice reward for each referral.
- Volunteer at your local school to come in and either speak to the children about your profession or run a night class. Any profession can do this. We have a local Pizzeria that comes in to let kids roll dough and they're the most popular place kids want to go and have pizza. Cost to your business, nothing!
- Send announcements and press releases of worthy news about your business to local papers. Plain and simple, more press equals more business.
- Instagram is a great small business marketing tool. This is a great way to take customers inside your business and really help them connect. Instagram is growing rapidly in use and small businesses utilizing this marketing tool are seeing great returns. This is a great post by Social Media Examiner on 26 Tips for Using Instagram for Small Businesses.
- The local Grocery Store board near exits can be effective. I've used this for hiring employees and advertising my businesses, both for free.
- Craigslist is a great free marketing and low-cost marketing tool for business owners. Again I've used it for hiring and advertising my businesses.
- Visit local churches and see how you can help them and their congregation. This is a great resource for employee hiring and referrals.
- Meet with your local community town papers. I was spending $500 a month in a larger paper when I opened one of my first businesses and the return wasn't very good. I reduced that to $75 a month with a local paper that everyone read locally to see what was going on in town and thus saw my brand weekly. Results differ in different parts of the country, but local small papers will negotiate the ad rates making it worth a try.
- Run regular raffles and contest for your business. You can do this with social media plugins easily today and people love participating in raffles. Landscapers can give away a free mowing, lawyers a free review of a will and just about any business can think of something to cause buzz.
- Pinterest is a great social platform that local businesses can do great with. Think about posting things about your community that area prospects would find useful. Become your local resource around a topic you're passionate about, it doesn't have to be your business.
- Consider sponsoring a local children's sports team but also going to a few of the games. Those that actually visit a game can see great rewards as most just sponsor a team. This worked well and we always treated the teams to a special treat for being great.
- Community involvement wearing your companies brand. Sounds silly but if you're going to a children's soccer game, wine festival or what have you; wear a company shirt and network. Be seen in your community.
- Wrap a company vehicle for under $600 or consider having a car magnet put on the back of the vehicle. We used unique phone numbers to see how many calls we got and this landed us business that more than paid for the materials.
- Billboards can be effective, though expensive. Consider splitting the cost with another business in the area (if not 2 other businesses) and then it can become affordable. Don't sign long-term contracts and measure the results like with all advertising. All rates are negotiable, so never go with the first quotes.
- Youtube is a small business marketing machine. Any local small business can benefit by being creative. Stores, service companies, eateries can all film how-to's, customer appreciation, behind the scenes and so much more. The great part about YouTube is it will help your small business rank higher in Google for local people to find you.
- HARO (Help A Reporter Out) is a free site you can join to answer questions from the Media. 3 times a day they'll send an email from Media outlets throughout the country looking for assistance on media they're creating. Your business can get on so many different news outlets reporting on it and this helps build credibility.
- Every small business should have at-least a basic Website. The percentage of businesses that still don't have a simple website is way to high. Business owners can have a basic site designed themselves or hire someone else for under $500. I'm leaving the phonebook out as a marketing strategy because its dead (sorry but its just a fact). Consumers are searching online at home or via mobile before making a purchase or visiting an establishment.
- Small businesses should have a blog on their website. Over 80% of small businesses that have a website only have 5 pages that are never updated. As a local small business owner you have a huge advantage over big branded companies because Google prefers to show a local businesses search result. Produce a blog post that will answer your customer questions, talk about the community or share something of value. Doing this will make you stand out greatly compared to your competitors and help you dominate local online search. This is one of my favorite posts that can show you how to increase your blog traffic once you start creating good content.
- Incentivize customers, other businesses and especially employees to help you grow your business. This doesn't always have to be monetarily, as public recognition, notes or a simple box of Joe works just as well. This one is huge, so don't overlook putting some thought into how you can maximize this opportunity.
- Branding is just as important for a small local business as it is for a larger business. I remember hearing a California Plumbing company talk once about branding at a conference. The company was doing several million dollars a year and had dozens of trucks on the road. Each time a plumber arrived at a customers home they'd have a new clean shirt to put on before, booties to cover their shoes and a clean vehicle. All the employees were trained on how to address and speak with customers. The companies brand was huge and consistent. Don't be a cleaning company pulling up with a dirty car, not very good branding. What can you do to make your brand stand out above your competition?
- Everyone loves receiving Promotional Items. Be creative and think about something other than pens. I knew a hugely successful cleaning company that had Frisbees with their information on it and they went around neighborhoods tossing them out to families if they were on their front lawns. They'd simply scream over Hello and toss a frisbee saying "Have Fun, on us". Maybe you're a local dentist office who has customized dental floss for a local restaurant. Just be creative and back to #38 build your brand.
- Twitter is a great tool for business marketing. I interviewed a cleaning business that used Twitter exclusively to build their commercial cleaning business. If you're unsure how to use Twitter, I created this 6 part video series on Twitter for Business.
- Have Flyers made for your business and distribute them to other businesses whose customers will find value in them. Make it special for that business to want to hand them out. Back to #37 incentivize them or make it customized. For instance a Daycare facility could customize a flyer for a local OBGYN Dr. that says "1 Month Free for Dr. ….Patients". This works much better than saying can you hand out my brochures. Now the Dr. has something special to give to expecting parents. If you're a business catering to new parents, approach the maternity wards of hospitals and provide something of value for the care package new moms go home with. I did bibs with our logo and message.
- Private community newspapers or newsletters are always looking for sponsors and many times the cost are very low. Retirement communities, gated communities, golf clubs and so on all typically have a newsletter. If they don't, why not make one monthly for them for free 🙂 The most important part when advertising this way is to customize your message to the target audience and give them a good reason to visit you.
- Make sure to set up a LinkedIn business page or personal page. LinkedIn has great groups you can join for marketing ideas and if your a professional service you can build great local connections on this social channel. Like every social site, make sure to give more than you expect to receive.
- Consider advertising on Placemats at local eateries, but keep the copy short and relevant. For instance if you're a Nail Salon you could say, "Now that ABC Filled your Belly, Get Pampered with $9 Pedi". Pizza restaurant delivery boxes, ball fields signage and many other places offer you the opportunity to advertise your business for low-cost or barter.
- Loss Leader advertising can really work for a business. Have you ever had a Great Clips open up and offer $1.99 hair cuts or a Planet Sun come in and offer unlimited monthly tanning for $10? These businesses do this to drive competitors traffic to use their service and then gradually begin to increase. Think about a way you can attract customers this way as it truly works phenomenally.
- Direct Marketing still works when done correctly. Consider creating a marketing piece with other businesses to drive down the cost. There are many direct mail companies like Money Mailer, though you can do this yourself sometimes more effectively. Realize that it takes repetition as many consumers won't respond until the 4th or maybe 6th time receiving something.
- Local movie preview advertising can work. Many local theaters run advertisements before movies and this is a way you can brand your business. Tip for success would be add value with something they'd find helpful and get them to come back to your website to submit an email for something of greater value.
- Google local Pay-Per-Click advertising, Google Places Page and Google+. You can start off with simply creating your
Google Local and filling out your information completely. Make sure to get customer reviews.
- Review Sites and local directory listings should be completed. This is a must for small business owners and not only helps you show higher in Google rankings, it also adds business credibility. Yelp, Foursquare, Manta and hundreds of other sites should be reviewed and your business information completed.
- Signage is important as it represents your company. Keep it clean, functioning and informative. Have you ever walked up to a business and its closed with no information about hours of operation? Maximize your opportunities and drive them back to your company website if your business doors are closed. You can also have bar codes set up for virtually nothing and bring them to a landing page with a quick 20 second video saying sorry you're not open and a message. Be creative!
- Be Bold & Unique. Stand out from your competitors and do something that your community will always think of you when they need your product or service. We have a business locally that hires a clown every weekend to stand at a major intersection juggling and doing wacky stuff. Odd as it is, it's extremely effective. This business is packed all the time. How can you be bold and unique?
There you have it 51 small business marketing ideas to help you succeed.
Now it's your turn, share below an marketing idea you have to help a local small business prosper.


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Hi Elliott...I didn't realize you were online and am glad you'll be able to respond, since you were advising me yesterday. I took your advice and brought some beautiful flowers. I went over after she got home from work (she lives with her mom). There were fifteen people in the apartment. This isn't strange, since they often have a lot of family members over. I gave her the flowers, she gave me a kiss on the cheek. I asked her about her medical problems and her appointments arent until August. Other than that, she seemed pretty happy and healthy. So I felt a bit out of place since I went over the make sure she was ok, and that didnt appear to be a major issue at all. After a little I asked her how the two of us were doing and she said she didnt want to talk about it. Not a smart move on my part. I asked her if she wanted me to leave and she said no. So I stayed for about five hours, mostly just talking and watching tv, like we normally do. I did notice that she changed the picture on her computer from a picture of us to a different picture, which hurt a bit but I guess cant be unexpected. She did reach out and touch my arm a few times, which I'm not sure how to understand. We talked a lot of about our upcoming trip, which is in two weeks from today and will last two weeks. I'm very surprised she still wants to go. If it were me and I broke up with someone, I wouldnt want to sleep in the same bed with them for twelve days. Id either take the loss of money or see if the other person could find a replacement. Anyway, when I left she hugged me and thanked me for coming over and for the flowers. I said I was very happy that she was healthy and feeling better. On the way home, she texted me thanking me for coming over and flowers, but most of all that I cared so much about her and that I was there for her. I know I need to have patience and give her her space, and that I should not expect her to define our relationship, regardless of how she sees it. I'm just not sure what I do next. I've read a lot of how I should cut off all communication, dont chase her, and wait for her to contact me and initiate any getting together. I was thinking of seeing if she wants to get a quick, casual dinner sometime this week...maybe go for a hike on the weekend that we had planned to do in the past, but never got around to it. SO, I'm just wondering what I should do next?
Thanks for the help Elliott....I will continue to be patient and let the relationship define itself by actions, and not words. But do you have any advice as to how I approach the next 2 weeks before I leave. Should I see if she wants to get a casual dinner this week or go for a hike on the weekend (its an all day thing)? Or should I let her initiate contact and/or getting together? Thanks!
Great, thanks for all the help Elliott. One last thing...how should I act on our trip. Like her boyfriend? Like just her friend? Somewhere in between. After all, we'll be sleeping in the same bed for almost 2 weeks. Or should I just read her signals and react accordingly?
Thanks Elliott, you're a lifesaver and its much appreciated! Last one, I promise: unless I hear from her, on Tuesday I will enthusiastically suggest grabbing a quick dinner. i just want to make sure that its ok for me to initiate the contact and/or dinner and not wait for her to do so.
Thanks Elliott and I'll certainly do my best to be patient. I talked things through with my sister, who is a bit of a hot head and she said if it were she wouldnt let her go on the trip; that I should cancel it or just go by myself, because a) she hasnt not wanted to talk about anything, but said a few weeks back that we do need to, she just wasn't ready and b) she is putting me in an incredibly difficult position of being in limbo. Obviously this leaves no room for reconciliation.
It kind of feels like Im in limbo. I'll be willing to be there for a while, but at some point (I suppose after the trip) I'll need to ask her whether she wants me in her life and future. Do you agree/disagree?
Well she agreed to get dinner Thursday! She didn't seem overly excited, she responded (sure, Thursday is good). But I suppose she has to keep things close to the vest, especially if shes testing me and/or giving me a second chance.
Thanks Elliott!
Ok a corny question here....when I pick her up, I was thinking of opening the car door for her. I did that the first time we ever went out...and I'm pretty sure she's pointed that out along the way. I know women remember those little things that men dont....and I dont! What do you think?
Ok, another extremely corny question....shes has always wanted me to wear a pink dress shit, she said they look nice. And I of course, have always said never in my life would I be caught dead in a pink shirt. Anyway, I was thinking of getting one and wearing on the day of our flight. I'm trying to think of ways to show that I acknowledge her, and that I might not have in the past, I'm willing to going forward. Is that too much? I know these are super small details, but I know most women do sweat the small stuff.
Oh, I've been rating you as 'excellent service the entire time'.
Hi Elliott, I just gave a bonus, hope it went through and you got it. So, a quick update....we went to a quick dinner tonight, and all went well. At first, I think she might have have been nervous that I'd bring up our relationship, but of course I didn't. So there was no talk about that. But I think we both had a good time; we talked and laughed about our trip. When I dropped her off she didn't invite me up and I didn't want to assume, so I just dropped her off. She said 'well, I guess we'll keep in touch before our trip'. I wasn't sure how to read that...that are we going to see each other before the trip or its best we dont see each other before the trip. And I told her if she wasn't busy this weekend and wanted to get together, let me know. So that was about it. Should I just wait for her to make the next move, if she does at all? Should I text her that I had a really good time tonight, or just leave it as it is?
Ok thanks Elliott...if I dont hear from her by tomorrow, I'll get in touch and said I had a really nice time, and maybe propose doing something over the weekend we both like. I know I told her to let me know, but if she is the leaving the door open, she might want me to be straightforward and clear that I want to see her. I was thinking either the movies or a baseball game; she is not a fan of sports, but does like the Yanks. Haha and she knows I hate them, so maybe that would surprise her.
Hi Elliott, thanks for all the help...one last thing, and this is just me thinking things through. If she had made up her mind to NOT be with me, then all of this would be mute because she would be gone and no vacation would happen. So she isn't sure or she is sure, but she hasn't ended it and that much IS for sure?
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You are on track. Don't try to second-guess the future. Instead create a positive atmosphere in order to mold the future.
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Yep, I'm completely aware...I really have never been in this position of limbo, and its not too comfortable and its hard to know how to react. In past relationships, if we broke up fine, time to move on, no worries. But I feel stuck right now, where we're not together and not apart. I feel like I'm going on an upcoming 12 day audition for something.
Hi Elliott, I wanted to thanks for all the help. I'm going out of town for a few days and then we leave on our trip, so this will be it from me. I will approach the trip as friends and be positive and fun, and hopeful for more. But I'm sure shes taken the time to see this from my point of view as well, and might be thinking about what I'm thinking. And if thats the case, what could she possibly expect from me? Comforting and understanding, or distant? To prove my value to her? I know my own expectations, but its hard to determine what she expects out of me during these 12 days.
Hi Elliott...we leave on Sunday, but I just picked up this book (I guess it could be kind of a game too) called 365 questions for couples. There are questions about our relationship, relationships in general, likes/dislikes, goals, etc. Some are simple like whats your favorite food and others are deeper, like What is your favorite memory about our relationship? I've been thinking and realized that we know a lot about each other (likes and dislikes and stuff like that), but we don't really know about each other, as another person (like dreams, fears, etc.). And since her and I are not the best communicators, I thought bringing this on the trip might be a good idea and give a chance to open up to each other about who we really are. Do you think this is a good or terribly bad idea? Should I suggest this, or just mention it and see how she feels about it?
Hi Elliott,
I've been back from the trip for about a week and due to all of your help, I thought I'd give you update. Unfortunately, the trip did not go as I had originally hoped. We got along just fine, though it was clear from the outset, she did not see this trip as a way to reconnect. Though we had a lot of great times, she was also very rude and snotty towards me for absolutely no reason. We didn't hold hands once, she didn't ask for any pictures taken together or anything. But this trip was more of an adventure than a vacation, and for two people looking to reconnect, this was probably the worst place in the world to go. If I could predict the future, I would have booked a trip to Hawaii or Tahiti. This was always my trip, and contained many things that she would never do on her own. On the 7 day boat trip, she was not able to contact her family, no internet, walking through animal poop all day, trying to fall asleep on a boat that was literally walking sideways. I like those things, and she loathes them. She was very stressed and I could tell she tried to get me into a few silly arguments that I managed to avoid. At one point she said she was extremely hurt because she had never been so ignored by anyone before, referring to me on the trip. I'm pretty sure the boat made her delusional because I certainly didn't. I did my best to read her body language and because she wasn't inviting of any affection, I did not follow in her footsteps like a puppy. In fact, I am more proud of myself for the way I acted those 12 days than anything else in my life. I truly did my best. I truly did my best. I was understanding, friendly, funny, had the patience of a Saint. I was literally the best version of myself every minute of the trip.
The conditions were also tough on me, but knowing they were far tougher on her, I held it together. I really feel a lesser person would have just blown up on her and cursed her out. By the time we got back, I had completely accepted that the relationship was over and I was fine with that (she also made sure that I heard her refer to my as her ex-boyfriend). I developed the mindset that she didn't deserve to be with me, and I certainly didn't deserve to be with someone like that. So by the time we landed, I had moved on emotionally and mentally. She said she would contact be about giving me the check for the trip, and I was pretty confident we would never see each other again. Which I was fine with.
Since then she has gotten in contact a few times. Asking how I was doing, wishing me a belated birthday (yep, she seemed to even forget that). She also said that she felt we left things awkward and that she felt very bad about how things went on the trip. To me, what things aren't awkward the last time see an ex boyfriend or girlfriend. She asked if I wanted to get together to talk. I agreed, not because I really want to, but mainly because regardless of everything, I will not give her any reason to place any blame on me. So I didn't hear from her for a few days (she forgot my birthday and said sorry, she's been in her own little world). She got in touch yesterday saying she was getting the vibe I didn't want to talk to her. I replied that I never said that, and she shouldn't judge my vibe based on text messages. She asked if I was available on Thursday, andI told her I might be going on another week long trip, and she said please let me know when you get back or maybe we can meet before on Tuesday.
I honestly am done with trying to predict what shes feeling or thinking, maybe you could get a better read. I don't know what she wants to talk about, if she wants to be friends (which I will politely decline) or she just wants to talk to clear the air for her, so she doesn't feel bad. After all, its been 6 weeks since she initially said she wanted to break up, and now she finally wants to talk. Though given, that trip was the last time and place to have any type of relationship talk. I promised myself after the trip I would not contact her under any circumstances, and that if anything happened at all (whether big or small) would have to come from her. To me, when I dropped her off that was the last time I'd ever see her, but now she wants to get together. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions or advice?
Thanks Elliott, I agree with everything you said and feel the same way. I have no intention of over thinking anything, because in my mind it doesnt much matter either way.
After 6 weeks, why would she want to talk now? At this point, what is there even to talk about? Why doesnt she have the mindset of me - its over, move on, best of luck. I dont keep in touch with any ex's and neither does she. I only want to be prepared so I dont make my own self vulnerable in anyway.

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Scott Brown of Massachusetts has decided to support the anemic financial reform bill because, as The Washington Post reports, "he got nearly everything he wanted." The bill is now expected to pass with the support of at least two other Republicans, including Maine's Olympia Snowe.
That Brown was able to so easily win concessions from Democrats reminds us of what Sen. Russ Feingold said when he explained his principled opposition to the bill: " ... The administration and conference leaders have gone to significant lengths to avoid making the bill stronger. Rather than discussing with me ways to strengthen the bill, for example, they chose to eliminate a levy that was to be imposed on the largest banks and hedge funds in order to obtain the vote of members who prefer a weaker bill. Nothing could be more revealing of the true position of those who are crafting this legislation. They had a choice between pursuing a weaker bill or a stronger one. Their decision is clear."
Indeed, Scott Brown was able to support the final bill only because of the capitulation Feingold describes.
Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, who opposed a previous incarnation of the bill, has indicated that she will vote for the final version. —PZS
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If Democrats remain united and win votes from Brown, Cantwell, Collins and Snowe, they will eclipse the filibuster-proof 60 votes needed to send the bill to Obama. If necessary, they could wait until the Democratic governor of West Virginia names a replacement for Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who died last month.
Like Snowe, Brown said that he reviewed the massive bill over the Fourth of July recess and that he appreciated the efforts to shape it more toward his liking, especially by removing the assessments on banks and hedge funds. True to form, however, he said his vote doesn't imply total satisfaction.
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a little less than a year ago we decided we needed a larger master bedroom… we wanted more space so we could sit and read, play with lily (a.k.a. HRH Lily), our french bulldog, as well as, have more space for my growing collection of blue shirts, navy cashmere crew-necks, striped tees, grey sweatpants, and belgian loafers…..
if i was going to have a larger master bedroom, i had to have gracie wallpaper on the walls…i always wanted to sleep surrounded by gracie (i have always loved bunny williams master bedroom, and mark hampton's legendary master bedroom- both clad in gracie)…but then i realized i couldn't have both a bedroom and a dining room with chinoiserie wallpaper (my dining room at the time had gracie wallpaper on the walls) ….
so this is how it all began… one thing led to another and before i knew it the whole house was being redecorated…the dining room became mirrored to reflect the front gardens, then it seemed like the perfect place to create a gallery to showcase my collection of art…i had always wanted a tented room so the small guest bedroom seemed like the perfect place for it….both michael and i had always loved the red pierre frey "tree of life" bedroom at givenchy's country home in france (le jonchet)…..the time seemed right to have one of our own….
so this is how it went…i realized through the process that i was needing a change, there was something exhilarating and fulfilling about repurposing things, moving things around, re-covering, making rooms more functional, and even editing a bit…
there were some things that didn't change…all my favorite blue and white pieces are still scattered around every room, books are still piled around on most surfaces, my collection of boxes are still clustered in vignettes, art's still leaning everywhere, even my collection of coral found a new home..inside the living room fireplace…you can change your surroundings, but the things you love don't have to change.
the redecorating of the house happened so quickly and before i knew it we were doing a photoshoot with veranda. i have always loved veranda magazine…. every issue inspires with beautiful and timeless interiors. i couldn't be more thrilled, honored and humbled to have my newly transformed home in the july-august 2014 issue, not to mention on the cover- so very exciting!
thank you to carolyne englefied, i'm so happy we found each other, thank you to roger davies for the beautiful photographs, to mario lopez-cordero for translating the story perfectly into words, and to kaitlin pertersen and sarah bray for your beautiful on-line stories
lastly, special thanks to clinton smith, the editor in chief of veranda. clinton summed it all up perfectly in his monthly editorial page when he said, "…that even the most thought-out spaces can benefit from a small freshening up—-or a big transformation. people grow, evolve, and change, so why shouldn't our rooms?"
i have had so many people ask,"why?", i say "why not!" it was time for a change!
take a complete tour of the house and see more pictures here
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Three main candidates have emerged for the Lions to draft No. 1 overall: Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford, Baylor left tackle Jason Smith and Wake Forest linebacker Aaron Curry.
Stafford has been atop many mock drafts, but he didn't throw at the NFL scouting combine while Smith and Curry performed impressively. Now media opinions are mixed.
There is no doubt the Lions are seriously considering Stafford. He ate salmon and asparagus at Shula's Steak House in Indianapolis with president Tom Lewand, general manager Martin Mayhew, senior personnel executive Shack Harris, coach Jim Schwartz and offensive coordinator Scott Linehan.
"I had a great time," Stafford said. "I really felt like I clicked well with some of the people there."
Entering the combine, Andre Smith was a popular choice at left tackle. But leaving the combine, it was Jason Smith.
Andre Smith was suspended for his final college game for breaking team rules, showed up for the combine out of shape and took off without telling anyone first.
That could be a problem for the Lions. Asked beforehand about players who choose not to work out, Schwartz said: "It probably depends on the reason whether it's a red flag or not. If you're not working out because you're not in shape, it's definitely a red flag."
Jason Smith left no doubt he was in shape. He benched 225 pounds 33 times - 10 times more than another top tackle, Virginia's Eugene Monroe.
"I have not talked to the Lions," Jason Smith said. "But I do believe it's realistic that they will take a tackle, and I do believe it's realistic I could be the No. 1 overall pick."
Curry dined with the Lions brass Sunday, then had a great workout Monday. He finished first among linebackers in four of the six drills - 40-yard dash (4.56 seconds), vertical jump (37 inches), broad jump (10-feet-4) and 60-yard shuttle (11.35 seconds).
The Lions are impressed with Aaron Curry (running at the combine). But will they spend No. 1 overall on a linebacker?
Aaron Curry (Scott Boehm/Getty)
"Just to know that they're considering taking a linebacker No. 1 overall ... just that whole thought process is amazing," Curry told NFL.com. "I came out here today with that in the back of my head.
"It did motivate me to know that if I put on a good enough show, maybe they may feel like they could build a team around a linebacker. Add me with Ernie Sims, and maybe we could make some big plays."
There is no question Curry would add a lot to the Lions' defense, which ranked last the past two seasons, and some draft analysts are calling him the safest pick the draft. He's big, strong and athletic. He seems mature and engaging.
The question is whether a strong-side linebacker has enough value to be the No. 1 overall pick. Curry said he can play all three positions, and he is supposed to be versatile. But he said he has had only five or six practices in the middle. Would the Lions feel safe using the top pick on a player while projecting how he will play a new position?
Schwartz spent the past eight years as Tennessee's defensive coordinator. He has a reputation for intelligence, and he likes his defenses to be multidimensional.
Could that make Curry the first linebacker taken first overall since 1988? Or will they go with Stafford? Or Jason Smith? Or someone else? The Lions have a lot to talk about over the next two months.
- The Lions haven't named Daunte Culpepper their starting quarterback but expect him to be much better. General manager Martin Mayhew said Culpepper's weight was "visibly down" but didn't give a number. "It's not a concern at all right now," Mayhew said. "If he continues to do what he's doing, he'll be fine."
- Mayhew insisted the Lions have not decided whether to pay the $1 million roster bonus quarterback Jon Kitna is due March 3 and that they are still discussing his future. Asked if the Lions are trying to trade Kitna, he said: "We look at options for trade for a lot of players, for all of our players, really. If something kind of came up where we had an opportunity to trade Jon and there was value for us, we would certainly look into that."
- The Lions were trying to sign quarterback Dan Orlovsky before he became an unrestricted free agent Feb. 27. Mayhew said he told Orlovsky he sees him as a backup, but the best player would play. "He's been a backup his whole career," Mayhew said, "and I'm not sure he'll go out in the market and he'll get starter money."
- Might this be a good time to draft a quarterback, because the Lions have a veteran and wouldn't need to throw in the rookie right away? "Yeah, I think if the right quarterback is there, now would be a good time to draft a quarterback," Mayhew said. "It has to be a good fit for us."
- Mayhew stopped short of saying the Lions would not draft a player No. 1 without signing him first, but he said: "It's of critical importance that we have a contract done prior to the draft. That's very, very important to us." He envisions the Lions negotiating with at least three potential No. 1 picks, starting a couple of weeks before the draft because of the complexity of the contracts.
- Mayhew said he was considering moving left tackle Jeff Backus to guard, perhaps paving the way for the Lions to draft a tackle No. 1. "I had one conversation with him at practice last year," Mayhew said. "He told me he thought he could do it." Backus has started every game - 128 straight - at left tackle since the Lions drafted him in the first round in 2001. "I think it's easier, though, to go from outside to inside than it is to go from inside to outside," Mayhew said. "Jeff's a talented guy. He's a hard worker. He's a smart guy. He takes coaching. So I think if we did that and we did it relatively soon, I think he could adapt to the position. I think we'll cross that bridge whenever we get to it. If that's something that we decide as a club is the best thing for us, I know Jeff wouldn't have a problem with it."
- Mayhew said the Lions would research prospects more thoroughly and make group personnel decisions. But from the first pick to the last, he will make sure he is happy with the selection. "It's going to be a guy that I like," Mayhew said. "All the way down the draft, it's going to be a guy that I like. I think sometimes we have picked guys, and I don't know if Matt really liked them the way other people may have liked them in the building. That's all I'll say about the past."
- Mayhew won't say much about how Millen or coach Rod Marinelli did things, even to illustrate how the Lions will do things differently in the future. He doesn't want to take shots or come off as a know-it-all. "People go places, and they take over, and they say, 'Before, you guys were doing it all wrong, and now I'm here, the savior, to save the day,'" Mayhew said. "That's not me. And I respect Rod. I respect Matt."
- When the Lions interviewed Miami secondary coach Todd Bowles for their head-coaching job, he told them when the Dolphins went from 1-15 to 11-5, they banned talk about the past. The Lions have done the same thing, even, say, telling funny stories in the cafeteria. "We started about two or three weeks ago," Mayhew said. "We said, 'You know what? We don't do that anymore.' And now we catch each other, and we stop. We don't do that anymore. I think it's important to let go of the past and look toward the future."
- The Lions are working with a company that does psychological testing of prospects at the combine. "It doesn't make the decision for you," Mayhew said. "It's another piece of information. It's no different than what his vertical jump is. It's another piece of information you have when you pick a player. You wouldn't not pick a guy because he didn't test well, and you wouldn't pick a guy whose play doesn't reflect it because he did test well. It's just more information I think will help us."
- QUOTE TO NOTE: "That would be really smooth and really easy and make everybody feel real good about each other. That's why we've been getting our butt kicked around here for eight years. I just play it straightforward with these guys. If they don't want to know, then they shouldn't ask me, because I'm going to tell them how I see them. A lot of them are dissatisfied with that, but that's how it's going to be. Too many group hugs around here lately." -- GM Martin Mayhew, on why he told QB Dan Orlovsky he sees him as a backup instead of just telling him he could compete for the starting job.


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The Cana-Woodford, which is part of the greater Late Devonian/Early Mississippian-age Woodford formation in the Anadarko basin, is an overpressured reservoir with shales ranging from 100 to 300 ft thick. Cana Woodford shale play in Oklahoma (also known as Anadarko Woodford) depth ranges from 11,000 - 16,000 feet and Average Well Cost is about $8 million.
To the east and south, the play turns into a condensate and then an oil window. This is a liquids dominated play, and it is found at depths of 11,500 to 14,500 feet and is 50 to 300 feet thick. The Cana-Woodford covers 688 square miles. Total recoverable resource is 5.7 Tcf. Shale gas resource is estimated at 6 Tcf.
Well Costs. The expected high well costs is the obvious issue for this part of the Cana Woodford. With 15,000'-16,000' typical vertical depths, wells in the South Cana condensate window will likely cost substantially more than those in the original core of the play in Canadian county where the Woodford tends to be 2,000-3,000 ft shallower. Devon Energy, Cimarex Energy and QEP Resources- the three largest operators within the original core, have reported typical EURs of 6-9 Bfce and costs in the $7.5-9.0 million range for wells drilled in a pad development mode. Expected returns for those development programs are solid but not extraordinary: 20%-50%. In order to attain similar returns, the EURs in the South Cana will need to be higher.


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The Age of Subsidized Rental Housing
The massive Dodd-Frank bill has only a little to say about the housing market. It offers no substantial solutions for the problems of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and makes only minor modifications to the home mortgage business.
But don't look at Dodd-Frank and conclude that the Obama Administration doesn't have big changes in mind for the government's role in housing. Indeed, earlier this year the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Shaun Donovan, signaled what's to come when he told a roomful of nonprofit housing advocates that they should take inspiration from the notion that "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste."
Given that Donovan's own extensive background is largely in nonprofit, subsidized housing, the direction for housing policy that's starting to emerge in the administration is hardly surprising. It intends to pull back from the notion that the feds should be supporting home buying at any cost (a good thing surely), but will put more of an emphasis on government subsidies for 'affordable' rental housing.
Donovan earned his credibility as a candidate for the HUD job by serving for four years as housing commissioner in New York City, a place that has essentially socialized its housing market with policies like rent control, which discourage housing investment, and with elaborate zoning and building restrictions which drive up the cost of housing, creating what SUNY Professor Peter Salins has dubbed "scarcity by design." The city's answer to that scarcity is an elaborate policy of subsidies to build middle-class housing and a massive network of 340 low-income projects encompassing 2,600 buildings over 2,500 acres of what Manhattan Institute housing expert Howard Husock calls a gigantic "frozen city," where the normal turnover in housing doesn't occur because government policies encourage people to live in these Soviet-style projects for their entire lives.
The world that Donovan knows, in other words, is the world of perpetual government housing intervention to build and operate many kinds of housing. In the 1980s, New York City government embarked on a $6 billion program to construct and rehabilitate 100,000 units of housing, and when the massive program was done the city still had a housing shortage. The Bloomberg administration fashioned another gigantic 'affordable' housing program administered for a time by Donovan, to build a 165,000 units. When it is done New York will still have a housing shortage, because government and the housing nonprofits it supports can't build housing fast enough.
But the federal government under the Obama administration will surely try. Donovan managed to get private developers to build affordable housing in New York using what's known as 'inclusionary zoning,' which is a fancy phrase for a process whereby government allows a builder an exemption from onerous building regulations if he agrees to use it to include in his project a certain number of affordable units, defined as reasonably priced to those earning 80 percent of local median household income. In other words, government creates the restrictions that drive up the cost of housing and then grants favored builders the right to forego some of them, but only to build what government wants built.
There's a certain self-sustaining nature to this system, because it has helped to create a vast network of nonprofit and specialized for-profit building and housing groups in thrall to municipal, state and federal policies. Our new federal housing policy will nourish ever more of these groups. Earlier this month, for instance, Donovan touted a new program that gives first dibs on properties foreclosed by the Federal Housing Administration to community and faith-based groups, who get to see and buy this stuff before it is opened up to investors, at 10 percent below appraised value. If the folks who run these groups have any brains about them, they will of course snap up the best properties (the ones that investors would be more likely to bid up) before the bidding starts, thanks to federal generosity.
At the same time the Obama administration is working on a plan that would pump billions of investor dollars into public housing, using tax credits and maybe a little bit of political leverage to rehabilitate and sustain a system that can no longer support itself.
The original notion of public housing was that government would build these projects and they would afterward be self-sustaining, using rents for upkeep. But over time federal and local policies demanded less and less of a contribution from public housing tenants so that the projects could no longer get by on rents. Many have fallen into disrepair, with some $30 billion in deferred maintenance.
In March, the administration signaled its intentions when it bailed out 21 New York City housing projects with a deal that made them eligible for a $200 million 'investment' from Citibank in the form of bonds that the bank purchased in order to earn credits toward fulfilling its Community Reinvestment Act obligations. For those of you wondering what a virtually insolvent bank is doing using precious capital in this way, it's worth remembering who actually controls Citibank these days - the federal government. In addition, the feds included billions of dollars in the stimulus bill to pay for more deferred maintenance around the country. As an example, New York's housing authority got some $423 million to pay for work that rents can no longer support.
Now the administration is looking at aiming real money toward public housing. Earlier this month it introduced the Preservation, Enhancement and Transformation of Rental Assistance Act, which would allow public housing projects to convert to a pseudo-private status so that they could qualify for federal vouchers for rent subsidies, which they could then leverage to attract private capital. The housing projects wouldn't actually be privatized; that would be revolutionary. They'd remain in public hands with even greater subsidies and with private financing attracted by federal credits.
There are revolutionary things happening in rental housing, but just not by the people in the Obama administration. Atlanta, for instance, knocked down its public housing projects and got private developers to replace them with mixed middle income-low income properties. Able-bodied residents who live in the low-income units must have a job and be working toward graduating out of the subsidized housing. That's in sharp contrast to policies in most public housing projects, where the nature of the rent subsidy encourages residents not to better themselves lest they risk no longer being qualified for public housing.
But what Atlanta is doing undermines decades of federal rental housing policy which sees the poor as victims of an unjust economic order stuck forever in poverty. Such innovations also threaten the web of nonprofit housing groups living off current policies. The housing whizzes in the Obama Administration didn't go to Washington to do that.


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An expensive necklace was stolen overnight in the luxurious resort town of Cap d'Antibes, police said, the second jewellery theft on the French Riviera during the Cannes film festival.
A police official said on Thursday that the necklace was of "high value" but could not put a price on it. She would only speak on condition of anonymity because an investigation was under way.
Last week, thieves stole about $1m (£660,000) worth of jewels after ripping a safe from the wall of a hotel room in Cannes, where the world's movie stars are attending the festival.
During last year's film festival the international Senegalese footballers, Souleymane Diawara and Mamadou Niang, had four luxury watches worth around £340,000 stolen from their villa.
Cap d'Antibes is just down the coast from Cannes and is an even more exclusive Côte d'Azur resort.


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Karen, Phrae Pwo
A language of Thailand
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|North, eastern provinces including Phrae Province.
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Northern Thailand, reference number 38
|Alternate names
|Northeastern Pwo Karen, Phrae, Prae, Pwo Phrae
|Not intelligible with other Pwo Karen languages. Lexical similarity: 87% with Northern Pwo Karen [pww] of Thailand, 67%–71% with other Pwo Karen varieties.
|Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Karen, Pwo
|Language use
|Most also use Northern Thai [nod] or S'gaw Karen [ksw].
|Language development
|Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%.
|Writing system
|Thai script.
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text: Hello! I am going to create a nice but simple gui to show continously updating results from a couple of measurements sent over the net using html. The initial thought was to use GnuPlot in Python and while this will give me the right function it will not look supergood so I was thinking if this would be achievable using XCODE and objective C / applescript / whatever instead. I remember seeing a really simple way of utilizing the mac to program a very simple equalizer visualizer for Osx. I don't know which program or if it was an xcode plugin or something else that was used to create this but it basically just took the audio out and showed the results from some band pass filters in real time updated bars. Really nice and mac-ish and the tutorial made it look really easy. The problem is just that I can't remember what tool was used or where I saw the movie. Does anyone know what it could be that I have seen? Or does anyone have an even better idea? I am not that good in Java so I prefer to work with obj C, python, perl etc.. but anything is a good tip ;D


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Nokia has agreed to license Microsoft's new PlayReady DRM technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software.
The deal extends Nokia's existing copy protection offerings, which include Windows Media DRM 10 and OMA DRM (Open Alliance Mobile DRM), Steven Knuff, a spokesman at Nokia's multimedia division, said Monday.
Nokia plans to support PlayReady across a range of devices using the S60 and S40 user interface platforms beginning in 2008. Microsoft released its PlayReady Client Porting Kit earlier this month.
"It's all about choice," Knuff said. "If customers want a particular DRM technology, then we'll provide it."
Designed to combat piracy, DRM technologies control the terms in which content downloaded from the Internet can be copied or transferred to other devices. But some critics, including Apple CEO Steve Jobs, have argued that DRM is complex to implement and can unfairly prevent people from playing music or videos they purchase on any device they want.
Nokia is banking on PlayReady to help resolve this issue. One of the system's significant features, according to Knuff, is its ability to let users move content, including music, video, and games, to other "designated" devices for playback. The technology allows service providers to identify a "domain" of several devices for each customer on which they can play the content they purchase, according to a Microsoft paper about PlayReady.
The technology can also define certain restrictions about a file, such as a "right to play" but not a "right to burn to CD," the paper says.
Microsoft unveiled PlayReady at the 3GSM conference and exhibition earlier this year. Several operators, including AT&T, Bouygues Telecom, and Telefónica, have said they plan to use it. The technology is compatible with Windows Media DRM 10, which Nokia licensed in 2005.
Knuff declined to comment on whether the most recent DRM agreement with Microsoft would have an impact on Nokia's rumored plans to launch an online music and mobile content store, following the company's acquisition of U.S. digital music distributor Loudeye.
"We can't talk about what we're going to offer on that Web site yet," Knuff said. "But I can tell you that technology such as DRM will play a key role in the services that we announce in the near future."
Nokia is developing DRM software of its own but has no current plans to license the technology, according to Knuff. "We don't have anything as fully featured as OMA DRM or Microsoft PlayReady," he said.
What flavor of DRM will dominate the nascent market for broadcast mobile TV services remains to be seen, according to the spokesman. One of the reasons for the indecision, he said, is that the implementation of new broadcast mobile TV services is "still up in the air."


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Ever since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by the unfortunately late Steig Larsson hit the U.S., Scandinavian authors have been HOT. More and more of these crime novels are being released here, which I can only see as a really good thing. These aren't the light and fluffy culinary mysteries (think Joanna Fluke) or the cornball mysteries (like the Stephanie Plum series) which I also love. Scandinavian books share a darker feeling, somewhat like British police procedurals or psychological thrillers, but have the added unfamiliarity of place and pronunciation. And many of them are just written really well. Take a trip to these colder climes by trying authors such as the ones below. It may help to listen to a few of them on audio before reading them to get a feel for how names and places are pronounced.
Sara Blaedel—Louise Rick series
Camilla Lackberg—Patrik Hedstrom series
Henning Mankell—Kurt Wallander series
Arnaldur Indridason—Detective Erlendur series
Jo Nesbo—Harry Hole series
Lars Kepler—Detective Inspector Joona Linna series


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Friday, 31 March 2017
Every few days, I come across a book which is recommended by somebody and which I wouldn't have come across otherwise. Further investigation reveals it to be so intriguing that I'm tempted into a purchase, despite the fact that every horizontal surface in my house is piled with books at the moment...
The latest came with a recommendation from no less than Robert MacFarlane.
It's started really strongly, and describes the connection that people have with the landscape, and in this case, the story of Lauret's own history and family.
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Creamy Crab Canapés with Lemon and Caviar
Salmon and whitefish caviar make good, inexpensive alternatives to extravagant osetra and sevruga.
- Servings: MAKES 32 CANAPES
- Eight 1/4-inch slices of brioche or challah
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 pound lump crabmeat, picked over
- 1 tablespoon chopped chives, plus 1-inch chive pieces for garnish
- 1 teaspoon minced shallot
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 ounces caviar
How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°. Using a 1 1/2-inch round biscuit cutter, cut out 4 rounds from each brioche slice. Butter both sides of the rounds. Set them on a baking sheet and bake for about 15 minutes, or until golden and crisp.
In a medium bowl, combine the crabmeat with the chopped chives, shallot, lemon zest and salt. Whip the cream until firm. Gently fold the cream into the crab. Spoon the crab mixture onto the croutons. Garnish with the caviar and 1-inch chive pieces and serve immediately.
Make Ahead
The croutons can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Suggested Pairing
Start a celebratory dinner with a glass of Champagne.


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Engine performance issuesBlitzMax Forums/OpenGL Module/Engine performance issues
| Hi! I'm writing an OpenGL (1.0+) engine in Bmx, but it is about 50% slower than Blitz3D. I think that is a big difference.
I'm testing it with the maplet 'test.b3d' model.
On Blitz3D, the same program runs at about 100 fps. In my engine, it runs at about 50 fps.
In my engine I have the following optimisations:
-VBO's (has no huge advantage on my system +/- 1 frame difference)
-Matrices are only updated if needed (saved about 5 frames)
-As much inline code as possible (no Matrix/Quaternion/Vertex types, just float arrays and regular functions) (saved about 10 frames)
-Floats instead of Doubles (saved about 5 frames)
I also have frustum culling, but that doesn't apply to this model, since it is a big model that is allways in view.
I can get the engine to run at 100 fps, by disabling multitexturing, and by not clearing the screen.
Could this slowness be caused by OpenGL/DirectX performance issues on my card? Is there any way to find that out? I have a very bad intergrated videocard. (SiS)
Are there any more optimisations that I could think off?
Any advice appreciated.
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| On older hardware (or cheaper, like SiS or Intel), DX7 (Direct-X in general) is much better supported than OpenGL.
I have the same problem with miniB3D - specially regarding animations: it is much slower than Blitz3D is. On good hardware you won't notice the difference, but on the lower end, Blitz3D can get much better results - probably - because of DX7.
This is one of the problems of OpenGL in general - video drivers (on Windows) are heavily optimized for DX, and just implemented (sometimes very poorly) for OGL.
I don't think there's nothing to be done - but if there is, I would very much like to hear it too... optimizing miniB3D performance even more would be awesome!
| Ah, that makes sense. However, I find a 50% difference quite a lot.
Maybe my hardware somehow emulates some of the openGL functions. Say, multitexturing and vertex buffers?
Hopefully I'll find some ways to optimize it more. I would like to get to 75 fps. Maybe I have to think about creating some sort of quadtree system? if that is the right term.. I mean a system that culls parts of the mesh.
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| I can say that OpenGL on Intel's chipsets for Windows are not as well made as compared to ATI or Nvidias, so I suspect performance with OpenGL will always be behind. There just no one to enforce compliance, as I'm sure Microsoft does for DirectX.
But there are ways to find small performance increases, have you tried this idea?
Also remember that in Blitzmax, using Globals is slow. If you find a Global in a loop, try breaking it out as a Local variable.
And I'm sure you've already reviewed all this (part 3):
| Just a small hint: In BlitzMax Arrays are Types, too.
So if you are really considering to increase the performance maybe you should do that stuff in plain old C instead..
Keep going, I'm looking forward to see your engine in action : )
| Thanks Adam, DTC, SLotman, I'll release the engine as opensource when (or if offcourse..) it gets more complete.
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Getting to Know You: Staci McCabe
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In this edition of the Vertical Measures employee interview series, I sit down with VM intern Staci McCabe about intern life at Vertical Measures, attending Columbine High School and her love of politics. Michael Schwartz: What do you do here at Vertical Measures? Staci McCabe: As an intern at Vertical Measures since the beginning of January, I've had the...Read more


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We need a retouch/editing of about 5'000 pictures (jewels), for a website (on line sales). The quality of pictures will be better than the doc uploaded as we will retake all pictures, but the editing also needs to be great.
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At a recent event in New York City, T-Mobile USA announced a new phone upgrade program called Jump. The program is designed to allow subscribers to upgrade their phones at regular intervals. With Jump, customers will pay the same subsidized amount that a new customer pays, without the need to wait to qualify for an upgrade. The program requires T-Mobile customers to pay a $10 monthly fee for the service and trade-in old devices, but it offers up to two phone upgrades per year after a six-month waiting period. T-Mobiles CEO, John Legere, had the following to say about the new program:
"This is one of those things that annoys customers so much," CEO John Legere said in an interview ahead of a New York press event. Legere said that the company wanted to address this issue when it first did away with two-year contracts back in March, but needed a little more time to work out the details.
At the recent event, T-Mobile also announced that it plans to rework their family plans for customers without enough credit to qualify for traditional phone contracts while also sharing plans to expand its LTE network in the near future.
Alongside the announcement of the Jump program, T-Mobile has published a series of ads on their YouTube channel with the slogan Upgrade when you want, not when youre told. You can check out one of the ads below:
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I am a single mother with a 2 year old child. Need to find a place asap for my self and my son. Please someone help. I am very neat and tidy. Hate to live in a mess. I clean, cook, happy to help anywhere in a house.
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Phoenix And Scottsdale Adopt Green Construction Code
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It has been almost one month since the City of Phoenix adopted a voluntary green construction code to promote energy efficiency and sustainability in construction activities. A keystone of the code is that both new and old projects can achieve the green standard without paying third-party fees; costly fees can often prevent projects from getting off the… Read More →
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Currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire book 1.
Movies: Fight Club, Star Wars, Finding Nemo, Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, 28 Days Later. I'm not a huge romcom person. I love scifi, comedies and action movies.
Shows: Orange is the New Black, Under the Dome, Falling Skies, Stargate, Firefly, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Adventure Time, Family Guy, Futurama, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey.
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Robert Irwin can't yet boast a clothing range, the Bindi doll, a television series or starring movie roles. But around the dinner table of the family compound at Australia Zoo, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, the young son of Steve Irwin can lay claim to a boys-own adventure book series.
His blonde bob framing a face that recalls his father's features, Robert Irwin has been cast as a child dinosaur hunter who stumbles upon a magic fossil that pitches him back to the age of the dinosaur.
''Since I was only three or four I've loved dinosaurs and I've always loved going to museums and learning more about more unusual dinosaurs, and I think the new books are so good because I can teach kids about some cool dinosaurs,'' he gushes, naming Australovenator as his favourite. ''It's an Australian dinosaur. It's actually an awesome dinosaur … it can run fast and it has big, big claws for killing its prey.''
From Dinosaur Hunter 1: The Discovery, the reader learns that Robert isn't ''your normal nine-year-old'', having started writing to palaeontologists before his first letter to Santa. If ''Crikey!'' was his dad's signature exclamation, then ''awesome'' is Robert's. ''I remember him from real life, not just from scenes on TV,'' says Robert, who was two when his father died.
The associate publisher of children's books for Random House, Chris Kunz, said the publisher had been in talks with the Irwins about a series for Robert for some time.
''There are many reasons we think this series stands out from the crowd. For one, the books do not talk down to readers. They are fictional books that include a lot of factual info about Australian dinosaurs, which a lot of people are unaware of, as well as dinosaurs found elsewhere in the world.''
''What also differentiates this series from others for the same readership is that there is a real boy at the centre of the narrative. He's a charismatic kid and his enthusiasm is completely addictive.''
Terri Irwin, who features in the series as the loving mother, defends the public profile of her children. ''I'm very protective with both Bindi and Robert,'' she said.


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Bonds and Clemens Left Out of the Hall of Fame - Agree?
Steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa were denied entry to baseball's Hall of Fame, with voters failing to elect any candidates for only the second time in four decades.
Bonds received just 36.2 percent of the vote, Clemens 37.6 and Sosa 12.5 in totals announced Wednesday by the Hall and the Baseball Writers' Association of America. They were appearing on the ballot for the first time and have up to 14 more years to make it to Cooperstown.
What are your thoughts?
Many of you seem okay with Lance Armstrong and his PED's - why not let these guys make the hall of fame?
I believe that steroids are prevalent in all professional sports. I don't think it's fair for MLB to be so strict, allowing authorities and the government to intervene, when the NFL doesn't give a sh
However, I believe that they'll be kept out for a while, and it'll take one to get in before any others do. Look what they did to Charlie Hustle.
At the same time however I am completely understanding of the harm steroids cause on the body and the pressure younger athletes may feel to take them in order to be able to achieve in sports.
either let the best in this era in or let no one from the era in. We aren't here to pick and choose who used so to me this is the only fair way to do it.
No surprise there i believe this is only the beginning of many players with good numbers not getting in.
bonds and clemens will never get in. piazza will end up in, even though hell go in as a met. I'd love to see biggio and bagwell make it next year too.
agree with above opinions, steroids are everywhere, MLB is crazy strict.
So those that weren't caught get in? Think both are tools but not sure this is fair.
If you can't stop it, you have to allow it. Otherwise you are just rewarding the cheaters. As for the HOF, the guys technically got caught cheating so there is a valid reason to hold them out. On the other hand, some say that these guys actually saved baseball.
Am I alone in not caring, at all, about steroid use? These people are getting paid to entertain us; if they want to ruin their body in order to get attention and be remembered, go for it!
^ Agreed. Not going to go as far as say that Steroid use is net positive though haha.
Plus you look good as fvck!
Yep...I think they should be left out. They cheated....Period, end of story. Imagine if Micky Mantle, Babe Ruth, Joe D, or Ted Williams would have had the Juice what they could have done......All of their routine fly balls would have been Home Runs too......
Most of those guys just drank, smoked and fukked constantly when not on the field....
i'm a Tiger's fan and think Jack Morris, Alan Trammel, and Sweet Lou Whitaker should all be in the hall.
If they were proven to have or admitted cheating to attain their lofty status, then no, they should not be let in. Simple as that.
What about Mike Piazza?
Greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball doesn't make the HOF...
WTF is wrong with these people!
Steroids are hardly even an issue when done correctly, which I'm sure top athletes are doing.
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DALLARDSVILLE—Ten wins in a row!! That's what it took for the Big Sandy Ladycats, under Coach Ryan Alec, to send a standing room only crowd at Foster Gymnasium home with happy, smiling faces. For the second time this season, it took a winning 3-point shot to seal a victory over the Evadale Lady Rebels. Friday's long distance trey was buried by Nicole Langley. The senior Ladycat hit the winning shot with less than three seconds left on the clock to secure a thrilling 52-51 win for the home team. It was a definite case of deja vu for these two teams. During their first district matchup at Evadale, junior Whitney Tolar tossed in a 3-pointer in the final seconds to win the game by the same margin. This latest victory earned the Ladycats the top hardware in district as they claimed the 24-A championship with a successful 10-0 record in league play. The Ladycats, 17-11 for the year, will earn a first round bye in the Class 1A Division 1 state basketball playoffs. The post-season bracket has the Ladycats playing the winner of 21A runner-up Neches or third place Tenaha from 22A in the Area round on Feb. 13-15. Members of the Ladycat basketball team are, Kierra Williams, Carol Tanton, Madison Green, Aleia Williams, Nicole Langley, Elaina Bullock, Brooklyn Battise, Jaycie Williams, Whittney Tolar, Camille Johnson and Tahwnee Williams.
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The Utah Jazz will host a free agent mini-camp this week, bringing in 24 players, most of whom played last year in the D-League.
The camp, which begins Tuesday afternoon and runs through Thursday, will be used as an opportunity to fill out a summer league roster, training camp roster and, potentially, spots with the Jazz when the season begins.
Among the players who will work out for the Jazz are Travis Leslie, who spent time with the team in March, but who was not signed to a second 10-day contract. Other notable players include former Minnesota forward Lazar Hayward, who played at Marquette with Jazz guard Jerel McNeal and former Jazz guard Wesley Matthews. Harouna Mutombo, the 6-foot-5 nephew of Dikembe Mutombo, will also participate, as will former Phoenix Suns center Luke Zeller.
The Jazz are also in the process of working out potential draft picks. They will hold a pre-draft workout, players to be announced, Wednesday.
The full list of free agent mini-camp attendees is right here:
Dee Bost (Mississippi State) Will Buford (Ohio State)Xavier Gibson (Florida State)Drew Gordon (New Mexico) JaMychal Green (Alabama) Rodney Green (LaSalle) Jorge Gutierrez (Cal) Marcus Haynes (Texas Arlington) Lazar Hayward (Marquette)Cedric Jackson (Cleveland State) Edwin Jackson (ASVEL)Rick Jackson (Syracuse) D.J. Kennedy (St. John's)Travis Leslie (Georgia) Rasid Mahalbasic (Asseco Prokom)Toure Murry (Wichita State)Harouna Mutombo (West Carolina)Arinze Onuaku (Syracuse)Josh Owens (Stanford)Chris Roberts (Bradley)Henry Sims (Georgetown)Jermaine Taylor (Central Florida) Chris Wright (Dayton) Luke Zeller (Notre Dame)
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