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European Customs Law
The European Union (EU) was originally created as customs union. The customs law of the EU is directly applicable in all Member States and binds national customs administrations, companies and citizens. The European economy forms part of the global supply chain by which goods are imported or exported. All consignments crossing EU borders are subject to customs controls.
The course illustrates how customs' function has changed from revenue collection to border security. Owing to trade agreements and autonomous tariff suspensions, the revenues from customs duties are declining; however, controls connected to the movements of goods are increasing. This is explained by the fact that customs instruments aim to ensure fair competition by e.g. combating unfair commercial practices. Customs controls also guarantee the national security interests of states and the safety of their populations by preventing illegal imports and exports.
The course clarifies the complex customs rules and explains how to apply the various customs procedures. It teaches students the ins and outs of European customs law with reference to the EU Customs Code. The students will learn how to apply European law using case studies and familiarise themselves with the European Court's most important decisions on customs law. They will identify themes relating to the global movement of goods and be able to transfer their knowledge of European law to other jurisdictions.


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The example below show how to use a
FileChannel to read some data into a Buffer. We create a
FileChannel from a
FileInputStream instance. Because a channel reads data into buffer we need to create a
ByteBuffer and set its capacity. Read data from a channel into buffer using the
FileChannel.read() method.
To read out the data from the buffer we need to flip the buffer first using the
Buffer.flip() method. The method will change the buffer from writing-mode into reading-mode. After the entire buffer is read clear the buffer using the
clear() method call.
package org.kodejava.example.nio; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import java.nio.channels.FileChannel; public class FileRead { public static void main(String[] args) { try { String path = "C:\Temp\source.txt"; FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(path); FileChannel fileChannel = fis.getChannel(); ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(64); int bytesRead = fileChannel.read(buffer); while (bytesRead != -1) { System.out.println("Read: " + bytesRead); buffer.flip(); while (buffer.hasRemaining()) { System.out.print((char) buffer.get()); } buffer.clear(); bytesRead = fileChannel.read(buffer); } fis.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
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Wow a whole month of no posts. Life surely has continued, but the summer's been a bit of a dull one. Because Theo is new to our family it's stopped us from spending days at Bear Lake, and pretty much keeps us home. I've been working too much, but I guess that's what happens when one of your clients stiffs you (I might post more on that later).
I have to admit there's still a lot of getting used to the second kid. I remember when we got Gem life was pretty upside-down trying to find normal again, and with Tuan (Theo) it hasn't been much different.
We do have a good times though, and here's some evidence (yes it's yet another photo and video of my kid, but they're cute).
And a video of Gem's ABCs (bless her heart she really can sing them just she gets on camera and I think half the alphabet goes out the window).


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My current build for Xbala in arena mode, it's sort of a hybrid build leaning on attack speed and utilizing his intrinsic power boosts from his passive and bolas to make him pack a wallop end game (crits in the 5-700 range).
Transcendence - I see a lot of Xbala builds that don't run trans, or build it later in the game and I think to myself "are people not realizing how strong this is" especially on Xbala. Let me put it in numbers for people, just equipping transcendence gives you a 72.8 increase to your attack power, no stacks, nothing else, its hands down the most powerful item he can equip. Once powered up it'll give you 750 extra mana which translates to another 22.5 power and allows you to have bola's up almost indefinitely (this is a good thing, get it early, stack it early).
Ninja Tabi - I prefer them to warrior's for the attack speed and I don't really notice the 20 points at endgame.
Asi - Standard hunter as/pen/ls item is standard and gives decent sustain while letting you hit tankier gods a bit harder.
Qin's Sai - Gives you more power, increased attack speed and bonus damage on basic attacks based on your enemies max health.
Hastened Fatalis - While not as powerful as some of the alternatives in the 5th slot, I have a soft spot for the attack and mobility speeds this provides allowing for kiting/chasing without using your escape.
Deathbringer - 50ap/20%crit and when you do crit it hits like a truck, if you're building any 1 late game crit item and can afford it based on time left in the match this is the go-to to bring the pain.
Alternative - replacements for the 5th slot include titan's bane/Ichaival for more pen against tankier groups, bloodforge/soul eater to help deal with assassins and warriors that like to pick on you, and really anything you could use in a niche case (build nemean once against a group of 3 hunters and 2 ***. to great affect).
Dead of Night -passive- God kills grant a permanent 5 physical power boost stacking up to 6 times totaling 30 free power (getting early kills to power this up will pay off in the mid game letting you power through enemies when transcendence is powering up, just don't get yourself killed going after them)
Branching Bola -toggled self buff- Causes your basic attacks to hit for 10/20/30/40/50 additional damage, and causes them on hit to split into 2 that then travel up to 30 units behind target and deal 30% damage to enemies hit (but don't apply on hit effects). The bread and butter of this build, I personally think if your not building transcendence and maxing out this skill first then your using this god wrong. A toggled selfbuff for +50 and makes my basic attacks aoe without having to buy an overpowered item (trans aside) is ridiculous and makes you a constant threat. Costs 8/10/12/14/16 per shot but this is negligible with the 18mp5 you get with trans, just don't shoot at empty space for no reason.
Poison Darts -cone damage attack- Fires 10 darts in a cone in front of you dealing 30/45/60/75/90(+40% phys)damage with each one. Enemies can be hit by up to 3 of the darts with the additional darts dealing 30% damage. Enemies hit by the darts are poisoned and take 10/15/20/25/30(+10% phys)damage every .5s for 3s and are slowed by 4/8/12/16/20%.
costs 70/75/80/85/90 cd 18/17/16/15/14; Useful to tag damage on enemies or as a slow for engaging/disengaging/saving a team mate being chased/setting up a combo with his rising jaguar ability.
Rising Jaguar -dash attack- Rush forward and jump into the air firing darts at all enemies in a 30 unit radius beneath you for 80/130/180/230/280(+20% phys)damage. Any enemies that you hit with it that were poisoned by your poison darts take an additional 20% damage. costs 60/70/80/90/100 cd 16s; While technically a dash attack meant to be combo'ed with poison darts, I usually save that functionality of it for late game once my power is built up and I can either guarantee it'll kill a god or they'll succumb after 1-2 basics after the hit. Early game always save this as an escape (although it doesn't work while you're under a slow effect and you only dash 30 units in can definitely save you in a pinch), I've died so many times using this as a chase early game I can't stress enough how underwhelming it is at that function til late game (or a guaranteed kill in the middle of the map, don't use it if it'll put you next to the enemies base without a way to escape).
Darkest of Nights -area auto attack- Each of your enemies is shrouded in darkness blacking out their screen to about a 10 unit radius for three seconds. During this time your basic attack range is increased by 40ft and your movement speed is increased by 20/30/40/50/60%. At the end of the darkness any moving gods are stunned for 1.5s
cost 100 cd 90s; I never really notice the distance increase from this (ranges in descriptions are typically inconsistent as are their translation to game play), but the speed increase is big, like having an extra sprint relic for yourself and the blackout really messes with enemy gods forcing them to stop or retreat in most cases. This can be used from anywhere on the map and will hit all enemies, and can used to engage a push or be used to save yourself and teamates being chased.
Get rank 2 towards transcendence right off the bat then save another 1100 and buy it first, its a huge power boost and getting it early means getting it stacked early and making you hit really hard midgame.
In the beginning stay with your group and pick off gods if an opportunity presents itself to do so safely. Until you get asi try to avoid 1v1's as your sustain doesn't exist so you have to be careful you don't get overwhelmed (2v1's will get you killed if you get stunned at all).
Once you have Qin's Sais your typically at the midgame and can start beranching off to take out gods on your own, anything squishy like other hunters and most mages will succumb pretty quickly to a focused assault (if you can keep them at a distance most assassins can be dealt with or at least averted). Your 5th item slot is flex and I run fatalis for as and mobility but titan's bane is a good choice for bolstering your damage against warriors and tanks, and blood forge can give you move sustain and damage against enemies like thor, freya and ao kuang, if you want more sustain without sacrificing attack speed you can use soul eater. Build what will best help you given the opposing team make up.
Once your in late game you're building deathbringer for all the pain it shall inflict on your enemies (seen 700+ crits with damage camp buff endgame). At this point its time to bring the pain, you should be doing tons of damage per hit and your abilities should be used to push when possible utilizing your poison darts/ rising jaguar combo to rip apart squishies. Be mindful of getting teamed up against and get help from team mates when needed but you should be able to dance around your opponents till they die just make sure your attacking someone for your life steal sustain (I've gotten into 3v1's and will kill 2 of them before dying to the 3rd).


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Roland Walter Rowland, (born Nov. 27, 1917, Belgaum, India—died July 24, 1998, London, Eng.), British business tycoon who was labeled "the unacceptable face of capitalism" by British Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1972, owing to his flamboyance and aggressive business practices. To other observers it seemed that in his 33 years as head of the Lonrho international conglomerate, the charming but contentious Rowland enjoyed making enemies as much as making money. Roland Fuhrhop was born to a German father and Dutch-Anglo mother in a British internment camp in India during World War I and was thus guaranteed British citizenship. The family moved to England from Hamburg, Ger., in 1934, and during World War II Rowland (who by then had taken his uncle's surname) joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He refused an officer's commission, reportedly out of reluctance to fight against his brother, who had enlisted in the German Army. Rowland later joined his parents in a British internment camp. After the war Rowland, disillusioned with Britain, moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and in 1961 took control of the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company (Lonrho). Although Rowland led Lonrho to its greatest strength in the 1960s, not all his financial dreams for Africa were realized, and in the early '70s he faced a series of boardroom battles to have him ousted from the company. In 1981 he bought the British newspaper The Observer, often using it as a bully pulpit in his long feud with his Egyptian-born rival, Mohammed al-Fayed, over ownership of Harrods department store, which Fayed purchased in 1985. Meanwhile, Lonrho spun increasingly out of Rowland's control, and in 1995 he retired after he was removed as its head.
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What is the current price of the St Louis GM is USD?
Hi! Does anyone here know how much the Boeing 45 costs in Paris? Tia!
My brother lives in Germany (in the military) and I am trying to get him to buy a Goyard for me in Paris because and have it shipped to me. I had been thinking of having them ship it to him in Germany. Apparently he has a special VAT tax form that he can have them fill out, but he says he has to be there in person to have them fill it out in person. Has anyone had experience with them filling out the VAT form? Or how does it work if they ship?
BTW I just received an email message from Goyard that Red T2 and Green T6 St. Louis is back ordered until mid-September. Took a few weeks for them to get back to me. Fingers crossed my purchase will all work out. I want my Goyard AND my VAT tax!
Anyone know about the current price St. Louis PM in Paris? special and standard colour.
I just email them regarding another bag. prices are still the same since June.
anyone know the price of St. Louis PM in shanghai?
Does anyone know the current price for St. Louis PM black/black in the USA? I have emailed Goyard SF but have not heard back.
Thanks for the help!
I am off to procure another batch of Goyard bags next month! These are the prices I have for the St Louis. They told me that prices will not change before 1 Jan 2013.
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Help !! Is there a Goyard boutique in Seoul Korea or in the airport ??? many thanks !!
Hi - Anyone know of Goyard's prices in Taipei? Is it cheaper compared to Hongkong?
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It wasn't innate. Washington had a hot temper and could be headstrong and high-handed, but he also worked on his manners. By the time he was 16, he had copied out the Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.
Here's a sampling from the book, a code of 110 rules, that Washington often displayed:
No. 45. In disciplining someone, "do it with all sweetness and mildness."
No. 23. Avoid appearing vengeful. When you see a crime punished, show pity to the criminal.
No. 44. When people put all their effort into something that fails, don't blame them for trying.
No. 1. "Every action done in company ought to be done with some sign of respect to those that are present."
— Adapted from "A Man on Horseback," Richard Brookhiser, The Atlantic Monthly.


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Limitations of Personas in Landing Page Testing
One of the tools commonly used in usability testing and user-centered design is a persona. A persona is a fictional person who acts as a representative stand-in for a large class of representative visitors to your site.
Personas should be developed by observing usability tests, conducting contextual interviews (working in their actual typical environment), online surveys, focus groups, and regular interviews (where you don't observe people working).
Typical elements of a persona include:
- A name and picture
- Demographics (age, education, ethnicity, family status)
- Job title and major responsibilities
- Goals and tasks in relation to your site
- Environment (physical, social, technological)
- A quote that sums up what matters most to the persona with relevance for your site
The following persona is an example from a usability test for a consumer technology comparison website:
Ned Adams ("Ned the Nerd")
Ned Adams is a "thought leader" for people who are interested in emerging consumer technologies.
- 24-year-old college drop-out; studied computer science
- Single, not in a relationship; lives at home with his parents
- Clerk at the local computer game arcade and Internet café
- Influencer for new gadgets among his peers
- Spends a lot of time on the Internet
- Has his own consumer technology blog
- Always upgrades his high-tech gear to have the "latest and greatest"
- Quote: "If it's cool and new, I want to know about it!"
The advantages of personas in user-centered designs are:
- They help everyone have a consistent view of major audience groups.
- They are easy to communicate.
- They increase empathy toward the audience and help focus on their needs.
- They help prioritize possible new product features (based on how well they would meet the needs of a particular persona).
However, personas are generally not appropriate for large-scale statistical landing page optimization tests. In this setting, personas have several significant drawbacks and limitations:
Basis for construction. The proper basis for constructing personas are usability tests, contextual interviews (seeing users work in their actual native environment and not a controlled usability lab setting), focus groups, and surveys (telephone, in-person, or online). Personas should always be representative of key audience classes and grounded in experiences with real people. Unfortunately, some Web conversion companies have begun fabricating personas based primarily on their personality types or behavioral styles, with no reference to actual classes of visitors to a website. Without access to real people, these personas basically become window dressing around the various cognitive styles and temperament types (such as Myers Briggs).
Difficult to understand other cultures. Many website audiences are worldwide in scope and include a significant percentage of international visitors. It's difficult to emotionally connect with people from other cultures and backgrounds and to even begin to understand their motivations. In such settings, attempting to construct international personas would be difficult, while modeling them with standard local counterparts is bound to be inaccurate.
Diverse visitor populations. Most consumer-oriented websites have a diverse audience. Large websites have visitors whose demographics and psychographics closely mirror the population mix of Internet users as a whole. Since a given temperament or behavioral type represents only a small fraction of the overall population, any attempt to span the whole audience with a small number of personas is bound to fail. Whole segments will be missed.
Of course, this is less of an issue for some niche and special-purpose sites. For example, I'm pretty confident that returning visitors to a bungee jumping coupon site (I'm pretty sure that such a thing must exist somewhere on the Web…) can be effectively modeled by a young thrill-seeking male persona. But in most cases, the visitors to your website are a pretty bland mix of standard people.
Competing needs. You'll find that each persona has differing and conflicting needs and desires. This isn't so much of an issue when one persona can be used as a stand-in for a whole visitor class - then the landing page and conversion task is designed around them.
However, as discussed earlier, many websites have diverse populations, thus requiring multiple personas to effectively capture the characteristics of a single visitor class. Unfortunately, this implies compromise and suboptimal landing page designs. Instead of a consistent user experience based on a single persona, the landing page becomes a hodge-podge of features and trade-offs designed to appeal somewhat to each relevant persona. The clarity and integrity of the design is bound to be destroyed via the resulting additional clutter. In many cases, what helps one persona will actually undermine the needs of another.
Addressing the wrong question. Personas allow you to ask, "What is best for this persona?" Even if your answer to that question produced the best results possible, you would still not be addressing the needs of all visitors who don't match the persona. Since you don't know whether a particular visitor to your site is well-represented by the persona, you must deal with the audience as a whole. The appropriate question then becomes, "On average, which of the tested alternatives does this audience prefer?" This is exactly the question that large-scale statistics-based testing can answer.
At odds with the spirit of testing. Personas, as often applied to landing page testing, include some hidden assumptions: that users can be divided into a small number of key classes and that if you create detailed personas you can come up with the perfect design to address their needs. The only real validation conducted is to determine if the recommended new solution is better than the original.
The persona-based design may well perform better than the original (often simply because the original was so poorly designed in the first place). But why would you restrict yourself to a single design alternative? Remember, in user-centered design, personas are used to run a series of usability tests. It's rare that the first proposed solution is accepted as is.
Unfortunately, personas are commonly used on a one-shot basis in landing page optimization to create a new landing page design. There is no iterative redesign and testing process. When practiced this way, you will get one alternative design choice that is the best educated guess of an expert or outside consultant. This is radically different than the large-scale statistical testing perspective. Statistical testing looks for the needle in a haystack and can identify which of a million possible page versions is the best performer.
No human expert can guess at the answer under such circumstances and hope to consistently predict the winner. In my experience, I am often wrong about which final landing page version (or even individual test variable setting within it) will end up as the winner. This sobering and humbling realization is the reason for trying many alternatives in the first place, and antithetical to the notion that any one person can come up with the right solution. Your audience must vote through their actions on the page to guide you to the solution.
This article originally appeared in Tim's ClickZ column August 30, 2010
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- Avoid 3 Common Technology Traps and Boost Conversions
- Completing the Usability Cycle: 5 Usability Tools You Should Be Using Right Now
- Catch Actionable Insights from SMX West - and Don't Miss Tim Ash
February 2015
- 4 Ways to Get Customers to Add More to their Shopping Carts
- Refine Your Google Analytics Use for Huge CRO Wins
- Get Your E-mails Read: 4 Tips to Increase E-mail Marketing Conversions
- Uncovering New Optimization Ideas Through Google Analytics
- 5 Surprises Online Shoppers Love to Hate
- Relationship and Intent: Actionable Tips to Get You Started on Personalization
- 2 Practical Tips to Combine Usability and Web Analytics
January 2015
- New(er) Low-Cost Website Testing Tools
- Get Past the Brain's Filters: Brian Massey's Webinar on Killer Copy
- 4 Ways to Optimize for Lifetime Customer Value
- Here are 5 Things That Should NOT Happen If You Want Visitors to Convert
- What Every Marketer Ought to be Doing to Get 5 Times More Conversions
- How to Leverage Content in the Long B2B Game
- 4 Google Analytics Improvements to Kick Off the Year
December 2014
- 3 Online Marketing Trends to Watch Out for in 2015
- 15 Conversion Posts for 2014 You Must Read
- When NOT to Test: 5 Conditions That Make Website Testing a Bad Idea
- Are Tablets Hurting Your Site's Usability?
- 3 Ways to Make Your PPC Efforts Pay Off
- Why Visual Design Should Come Last: 6 Steps to a Conversion-Focused Redesign
- FREE Webinar: How to Leverage Visitor Behavior and Social Preferences to Drive Conversion
November 2014
- How Tactical Testing Can Be Unhealthy for CRO
- How to Help Ecommerce Visitors Recover With 404 Page Design
- How the Canadian Anti-Spam Law Affects You – And What You Can Do to Keep Your E-mail List Clean
- Feedback and Usability: 3 Ways to Get Visitors to be (a Little) More Patient
- How User Research Can Help Your Conversion Process
- Free Webinar: The A/B Testing Delusion and How to Really Get More Conversions
- If You Must Tweak Your Way to E-Commerce Success, Then Pay Attention to These Two Steps
- 2 Ways to Improve Your Lead Gen Landing Page
October 2014
- 4 Things that Haunt Your E-Commerce Homepage- And How to Get Rid of Them
- How Can Natural Language Improve Your e-Commerce On-Site Search?
- FREE Guide: The Hard Truth About Your Landing Pages
- 5 Tips to Improve Your B2B Conversion Game
- Conversion Mythbusting: Common Misconceptions That Are Killing Your Landing Pages
- Getting Smarter at Ecommerce With Google Analytics Advanced Segments
- 3 User Experience Pitfalls to Avoid In a Mobile World
- Get Your Website and Landing Pages Reviewed by the LPO Expert
- How to Get the Most Out of Organic Traffic
- 4 Ways Fear is Part of the Conversion Process - And What it Means for You
- 5 Reasons Your Conversion Rate Optimization Efforts Are Failing
September 2014
- FREE Webinar: Optimizing Your Lead-Gen Landing Pages
- 4 Tips for Effective A/B Testing
- FREE Webinar: Conversion Hacks for SEO with Angie Schottmuller
- Take Google Analytics to the Next Level with Advanced Segments
- Catch Tim Ash at Pubcon Las Vegas 2014
- What Your Visitors See: 3 Types of Visual Analysis Tools
- Tim Ash to Speak at Online Dialogue Days: Conversion @ the Castle
- Segmentation is Key to Truly Targeted Marketing
- Kevin Spacey, Scott Stratten, Brian Clark, and Tim Ash at the Content Marketing World Conference
- Converting on Facebook: Why Losing Like-Gate Doesn't Really Matter
August 2014
- Google Analytics Segmentation Hacks Webinar with Dave Booth
- The State of Mobile: 4 Ways to Increase Conversions on Phones
- What Visitors Want: 13 Tools for Collecting Feedback on Your Site
- Is CRO the Biggest Failure on the Web?
- Local Optimization Drives Conversions, But Your Local Page Won't
- FREE Webinar: Unlocking Mobile Conversions with Charles Nicholls
- Balancing Optimization and Web Development
- Tim Ash to Keynote the Integrated Marketing Virtual Conference
- 3 Reasons You Should Be Collecting E-mail Addresses
July 2014
- Are Your Graphics Getting In the Way of Your Users?
- 7 Ways CRO Can Help a Business Grow
- Increase Your Site Conversions With the Right Color
- Content Marketing Trends, Pitfalls, and Success Tips: An Interview with Andy Crestodina
- 4 Neuroscience Insights That Can Increase Conversions
- Mobile Site, App, or Responsive Web Design: Tips from Richard Banfield
- Using Customer Stories to Build Trust and Increase Conversions
- FREE Webinar with Sean Ellis: 7 Ways to Make CRO a Growth Driver for Your Business
- 3 Things Conversion Optimizers Should Be Doing from Christina Inge
June 2014
- 5 Ways To Improve Mobile UX That Will Result In Higher Conversions
- Takeaways from Conversion Conference Chicago 2014
- 5 Ways to Use Your Visitors' Cognitive Biases to Your Advantage
- Last ConvCon in the US for 2014 Kicks Off Tomorrow
- 3 Things You Can Learn from Your Competitors: Tips from Pamela Pavliscak
- 6 Tools for Cost-Effective Website Usability Testing
- Don't Miss this Webinar on the 3 Brains and Marketing
- Simplifying Web Pages and Increasing Conversions: Tips from Ben Hunt
May 2014
- 4 Tips for Creating an Effective Call to Action
- Best Practice Gone Wrong: Avoid the Worst Mistakes on e-Commerce Web Sites
- 6 Things You Can Do to Improve Mobile Conversions: Tips from UserTesting's Michael Mace
- Google Analytics Advanced Segments: A Conversion Optimizer's BFF
- Tim Ash Keynotes PeSA Australia
- Optimization Nirvana: 4 Dimensions of an Advanced CRO Program
- Autonomy and the Free Will to Convert
- Why Irrational Works in Marketing
- 3 Things Every Retailer Should Know About Mobile Visitors
- Practical Tips to Reduce Visitor Load and Increase Conversions
April 2014
- 5 Things You Can Do Today for Higher Conversions Tomorrow
- Conversion Rate Optimization Basics: Beyond Testing
- 5 Deadly Mobile Conversion Mistakes And How to Avoid Them
- Practical Writing Tips to Boost Conversions
- Usability Is Not the Bar For Your Pages
- How CRO Mature Are You?
- Catch Tim Ash on Eric Enge's The Digital Marketing Excellence Show
- Me vs. You: How Pronouns Affect Click Conversion Rates
- 3 Common Design Mistakes that Tank Conversions
- Tim Ash on Mobile, Personalization, and Showrooming
- Podcast: Payment Optimization with Rey Pasinli
March 2014
- 3 Ways to Use Internal Site Search to Make Your Website Better
- 42 Takeaways from Conversion Conference San Francisco 2014
- Are Smartphones Bad at Conversions?
- Podcast: Animated Characters for Conversion with Jake Levant
- Can a Flat Design Lead to Increased Conversions?
- March: Where in the World is Tim?
- Podcast: Paywall Optimization with David Torchiano
- Responsive Web Design vs. Mobile Website Version: Which One is Right for You?
- 7 Things You're Doing Wrong on Your Landing Pages and How to Fix Them
- Podcast: Site Speedup and Easy Device-Level Customization with Ari Weil
- How to Increase Conversions Without Racing to the Bottom
- Get Ready for Conversion Conference San Francisco 2014
February 2014
- 8 Rapport-Building Tactics to Increase Website Conversions
- Tim Ash on the Good and the Bad of Social Media for Conversions
- Neil Patel's 11 Obvious A/B Tests You Should Do Today
- 7 Tools for Creating a Conversion-Optimized Mobile Website
- Podcast: Testing Screwups and Igloo Building with Joel Harvey
- Debunk the Myths About Personalization
- FREE Webinar with Neil Patel: 11 Obvious A/B Tests You Should Do Today
- 4 Things Dating Can Teach You About Conversions
- The First Conversions: What Script Writers Can Teach Online Marketers
- 4 Ways to Leverage User Reviews
- Conversion Trends to Watch in 2014
- OMReport Interview with Tim Ash
- Boost Conversions Through Practical Design Changes
January 2014
- Podcast: Real-time Website Personalization with Karl Wirth
- 4 Ways to Make Your Search Page Better
- FREE Webinar: Live Landing Page Reviews with Tim Ash
- 6 Tools for Optimizing Your Copy, Content and Headlines
- Podcast: Quantity Versus Quality in Software Downloads with Joel Kleinman
- Find Tim in San Diego This Month
- 2 Steps to Building Trust with Your Homepage
- 4 Advanced Techniques to Improve Call Conversions
- 5 Survey Questions Smart Marketers Ask
- 4 Advanced Techniques to Boost Form Fills
- Podcast: Content, Content, and Funeral Homes With Joe Pulizzi
- 2014′s Online Marketing Megatrends
December 2013
- The Marketer Entrepreneur
- Breaking Through the Brain's Barriers
- 15 Must-Read Conversion Posts for 2013
- 2 Ways to Use Shipping Offers to Get Customers to Buy from You
- After the Conversion: 4 Tips for Customer Retention
- 3 Roles that Need the Conversion Toolbox
- FREE Webinar: Advanced Optimization Techniques for Form Fills and Phone Calls
- Your Essential Website Conversion Optimization Toolbox
- Podcast: Social Media for Conversion with Jay Berkowitz
- 3 Ways to Adapt with Google for 2014
- Why You Won't Read This Post
- Podcast: The Culture of Conversion with Joe Doveton
November 2013
- Using Email to Get the Conversion (Without Stalking)
- 4 Ways to Get Visitors to Buy from You
- 3 Ways to Bring Back Shopping Cart Abandoners
- Breaking Conversions: 3 Checkout Mistakes of Big Ecommerce Brands
- Podcast: Expanding CRO Quick Wins With Stephen Pavlovich
- SEOs vs CROs: Are They Really the Same People, Now?
- You Need an Online Optimization Model
- Landing Page Video: Conversion Villain or Hero?
- How to Set Up and Use On Site Search Tracking (In Google Analytics): Survival Tip for Keyword (not provided)
- Catch Tim Ash at Conversion Conference Berlin
October 2013
- A Treat from Us on Halloween
- PubCon Las Vegas 2013 Keynote Summary: Google Smackdown, Branding Revisited, and How Marketing Changes When Machines Understand Conversations
- How to Deal With Web Visitors Who Do Not Read
- 3 Strategies, 3 Tactics: Plan for Your 2013 Holiday Traffic in Under 10 Minutes
- PubCon Las Vegas 2013: Conversion in a Social World
- 4 Tricks to Scare Your Visitors Away - And How to Avoid Them
- Convince Me: The Psychology of a Persuasive Product Detail Page
- How to do Keyword and Intent Research in a 100% (not provided) Environment
- It's Not the Technology: Takeaways from ConvCon Boston 2013 Keynotes
- 4 Must-Have Components of a Successful Conversion Optimization Program
- Podcast: The Power of Words with Jeff Sexton
- Conversion Conference Boston 2013: Day 2 Notes
- Conversion Conference Boston 2013: Day 1 Notes
September 2013
- Intent-Based Trust: Making Visitors Trust You at the Different Stages of the Funnel
- Podcast: Social Media and ROI with Dennis Yu
- Kicking Your Stock Photography Habit
- Podcast: Optimizing the Lifetime Value of Existing Customers with Michal Parizek
- 5 Lead Gen Landing Page Design Tips to Improve Conversion
- Podcast: Making Phone Calls Pay Off with Irv Shapiro
- 4 Ways to Make Online Customers Trust You Instantly
- Conversion in the Age of Context
- Podcast: Dominating Search Results with Angie Schottmuller
- SES San Francisco 2013: Bringing It All Together
- 4 Ways to Fail at Conversion Rate Optimization
- Podcast: Deep Dive into SEO and Conversion with Jeff Ferguson
August 2013
- Cleaning Up Your Email Data For Free With Facebook (And Other Conversion Tips for Social)
- Are You Suffering From OCT (Obsessive-Compulsive Testing)?
- Avoid the Top 10 Ecommerce Mistakes for the Holiday Season
- Q & A With Dennis Yu - 651% ROI from Facebook Ads--Behind the Curtain of Top Campaigns!
- Make it Boring: The Psychology of the Mobile Product Page
- 11 Things Not to Do in E-commerce Conversion Rate Optimization
- How to Fail at Landing Page Testing
- Podcast: Reaching New Audience Through Partners; Limitations of Responsive Design
- Beyond Exposure: Driving Customers Down the Sales Funnel with Facebook Ads
- Test That Carefully: Avoid the Biggest Testing Mistakes
- Let's Talk About You - Conversion Conference Boston
- The Top 5 Most Ridiculous Excuses Not to Do CRO
- 4 Ways to Tap into the School Buying Season
July 2013
- Website Averages Lie: Here's How to Get the Truth
- How ZMOT- Ready Are You?
- Optimize Phone Calls and Close More Sales
- Make Form Fills Go Through the Roof with these Conversion Smackdown Tips
- How Tablet-Ready Are Your Pages?
- Are Phone Calls Better Than Form Fills for Conversion?
- Podcast: War Between Sales and Marketing with Jeanne Hopkins
- What Users Want: Using Internal Site Search for Prioritization
- No One Compares Your Products (And What You Can Do About This)
- Will Your Clueless CEO Ever Support Conversion Rate Optimization?
- If You Must Use Those Darned Rotating Banners …
- Conversion Smackdown: Phone Calls vs. Form Fills
June 2013
- Helping Buyers Cover Their Butts: The Ultimate B2B Conversion Strategy
- 5 Lead Gen Landing Page Mistakes
- Highlights from Conversion Conference Chicago
- Should You Use Microsites for AdWords Campaigns?
- Use Your Data to Convert On the Fly: Persuasion Profiling Q& A with Science Rockstars
- Get an MBA in Sales Leadership in One Day
- The Secret Ingredient for Successful Websites: Effortlessness
- The Deadly Sins of Lead Gen Landing Pages: Tim Ash at the Inside Sales Virtual Summit
- Why Google's Content Experiments API is Part of the Larger Plan
- Persuasion Profiling in 5 Questions
- Why Aren't We Optimizing More?
- The Many Faces of Conversion
May 2013
- Asking the Right Questions About Mobile
- Podcast: Intersection of PPC and Conversion with Robert Brady
- What Drives an Individual Customer to Purchase?
- How Persuasive Are Your Product Pages?
- Web Site Reviews with Tim Ash and Charles Nicholls
- Boost Your Conversions with Amy Africa's Internal Site Search Tips
- Delight, Elegance, and Simplicity Q&A with Motivate Design
- 4 Ways to Stop Losing Buyers, Even Before They Get to the Cart
- Freshness and Usability Q&A with Motivate Design
- Prioritize Effectively With The Online Optimization Model
- Sign Up for LIVE Landing Page and Shopping Cart Conversion Critiques
- Amy Africa's Practical Tips to Navigation Design
- Amy Africa's 5 Ingredients to the E-commerce Magic Formula
- Conversion Rate Optimization for B2B
April 2013
- Integrated Customer Experience Q&A: Tim Ash Talks About the Paradigm Shift
- Understanding How Buyers Think at PubCon New Orleans 2013
- Don't Miss Amy Africa's 34 Sure-Fire Tips to Increase Ecommerce Sales Webinar
- Interview with Tim Ash – Landing Page Optimization Expert
- Podcast: Conversion Rate Optimization, Radical Redesigns and Voice Impersonations with Mike Perla
- The Zero-Click Website: Personalizing Your B2B Site for Higher Conversions
- Conversion Conference San Francisco 2013 Takeaways
- All That Jazz at Pubcon New Orleans 2013
- How Mature is your Google AdWords Program?
- Mix It Up with Tim at the Digital Leaders Cocktail Hour
- Is Usability Too Low a Bar?
- 3 ways to simplify your landing page
- Knock Down Your Brick Walls: Avoid the Top 7 Landing Page Mistakes
- Conversion Conference Kicks Off in San Francisco
- Merchandising: Tear Down the Old Models or Become a Relic
March 2013
- 4 Elements That Work Better Than Rotating Banners
- Are Freshness and Usability at Odds?
- CRO Megatrends in 2013
- Tim Ash Brings the Irrational Brain to Brazil
- Before the Test Checklist: Deadly Landing Page Sins
- 3 Alternatives to Your Home Page Rotating Banner
- Tim Ash Rocked MivaCon 2013! Next: Catch Tim Down South for E-Commerce Brasil
- How Do You Measure Usability and Success Before the Sale?
- Podcast: Running Effective Click-To-Call Campaigns with Jason Wells
- Design for the User Experience: LogMyCalls Webinar Summary
February 2013
- Lightbox Pop-Overs: A Love-Hate Relationship
- Podcast: Small Business Conversion with Jenny Halasz
- Miva Merchant Conference 2013
- LOGMyCalls Landing Page Reviews Webinar by Tim Ash
- Visitors Don't Care About You
- Building the Buying Experience: Walk in the User's Shoes
- Making Irresistible Offers
- Conversion Rate Optimization and Content Marketing: Top Marketing Priorities for 2013
- Can We Finally Turn the Tide Against Animated Banners?
- Tim Ash Talks Anatomy of a Purchase at IRWD 2013
- When Designing Your Page, Think Inside the Box
- Tim Ash Live Reviews at Webfest Global 2013
- Q&A with SiteTuners Business Development VP Martin Greif
- Is It Time to Edit Your Page?
January 2013
- Follow the F Pattern and Make Your Visitors Pay Attention
- 3 Reasons Buyers Bail - and Super Simple Ways to Fix Them
- Essential Content Marketing Strategies with Joe Pulizzi
- What Do Your Visitors Want to Do?
- How Do You Get Your Boss to Fund Conversion Activities?
- Take Your Content Marketing Program to the Next Level
- Highlights from Tim Ash's Affiliate Summit West 2013 Keynote
- 6 Web Design Trends That (I Hope) Will Disappear in 2013
- 4 CRO Tips That Capitalize on How the Brain Works
- Case Study: 50% Increase in B2B Lead Generation from a Simple Homepage CTA
- So You Have an Ad Budget. Now What?
- Segment Your Affiliate Marketing Traffic and Go for Custom Wins
- Have You Met Your Three Brains?
- Don't Miss Tim Ash's Keynote at the Affiliate Summit West 2013
- Happy New Year! A Look Back at 2012
December 2012
- Debunk Myths and Get Testing
- Reduce Risks from Unknowns by Completing Your Testing Action Plan
- Offline Trust, Online Trust, and You
- Assemble the Right Usability Team
- Stop Leaving Money on the Table by Finding the Right Tuning Methods
- Automate Your A/B Test Processing for High Confidence Results
- Get the Money! 2 Ways to Simplify Your E-Commerce
- Prioritize Your Tests and Design for Maximum Impact
- Nobody Reads Your Page
- Usability Review: Bristol Bi-Fold Website
- Find the Top 3 Areas to Diagnose and Tune
- Highlights from Tim Ash and Oli Gardner's B2B Webinar
- Do You Understand the User's Decision Process?
- You Are Wrong About Your Users
- It's Not Conversion, It's Conversions. Plural.
- Go Beyond the Conversion with the Online Optimization Model
November 2012
- What The Walking Dead Can Teach You About Persuasion
- Do Your B2B Landing Page Goals Match Visitor Intentions?
- New Podcast: Predicting the Conversion Impact of Site Content with Aaron Maass
- End to End View: What it Takes to Win the Holiday Buying Season
- Breaking the Rules (of Web Awareness)
- Highlights of SES Chicago 2012
- Tim Ash at the 16th Annual Greystone.Net Healthcare Internet Conference
- 6 Ways to Use Images to Improve Your Web Conversion Rate
- SES Chicago: Conversion in a Social World
- Video Interview with Tim Ash on the Infusionsoft Blog
- How an Earplug Company Increased Conversions by 150%
- Do Your Site Visitors Push Your Buttons?
- Creating Offers That Work With Neuromarketing Secrets
- New Podcast: Quantitative and Qualitative Insights with Feras Alhlou
October 2012
- Video Interview with Tim Ash on the Marketo B2B Marketing Blog
- New Podcast: Content Marketing and Social Conversions with Kipp Bodnar
- The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy: A Live Review of the Hancock.it Website
- Podcast: Real-Time Persuasion Profiling with The Science Rockstars Arjan Haring and Maurits Kaptein
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Camping in the Netherlands: surprisingly multi-faceted!
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From the streets to the stars - Alexis Sanchez
Chile superstar and Arsenal darling Alexis Sanchez is one of the best players in the world but it certainly hasn't been an easy journey.
Alexis Sanchez is known by all and adored by many as one of the prime footballers to grace this era. But in this awe of the Chilean, we often forget that he too is a human and did not have an easy upbringing.
A Difficult Childhood
Born on 19th December, 1988 in a small coastal town, Tocopilla in Chile, Alexis was barely a toddler when his father deserted his family, and his mother was left to do several jobs to take care of him and his three siblings.
He started earning a living from the tender age of 6, because he hated seeing his mother take up all the burden. He would wash cars, perform somersaults, and even box on the streets as entertainment to earn a few bucks from here and there.
"We were the poorest of the poor so Alexis had to earn money any way he could from a very young age," said Humberto, Alexis' brother, in an interview with a newspaper.
Sometimes the situation would be so bad, that Alexis used to go knocking on his neighbours' doors, to see if they had some bread to spare!
Meteoric Rise Of A Superstar
After a host of issues early in his life, things took a turn for the better when Club Araudo's youth coach spotted his talent and let him train for free - Alexis couldn't even pay the £1 monthly fee!
His first pair of football shoes was a gift from the Mayor after he saw Alexis win a game for his team single-handedly – he arrived late and scored 8 goals for his team which was trailing a goal.
Alexis was soon snapped up by Cobreloa, soon after which Udinese came knocking and paid £1.7 million for the 17 year old's services in 2006.
Over the years, he formed a flourishing partnership with veteran, Antonio Di Natale, with a tally of 39 goals between them in the 2010-11 season. His bright performances and the potential he displayed saw him being named by FIFA.com as the world's most promising youngster over the likes of Gareth Bale, Neymar, etc.
On Top Of The World
Thanks to his consistency, Alexis caught the attention of one of the biggest clubs in the world – FC Barcelona. They readily paid £25 million including bonuses to make him the first Chilean to play for the club.
"He can play in all three attacking positions, shows intense defensive skills, he's direct and from what I've been told, he's a nice kid," said then Barcelona manager, Pep Guardiola.
Alexis scored his first hat-trick for the club on January 5, 2014 against Elche. He ended the 2013-14 season with a career best 21 goals in all competitions.
From here on, he moved to Arsenal in the 2014-15 season, and has become a vital cog in the Gunners' wheel in hardly any time.
An Inspiration To Many
Though just 26, he has already achieved a lot in his life. He has reached great zeniths, but still hasn't forgotten his roots. In the Christmas of 2013, he went back to his hometown to distribute football shirts and sweets to children, and also donated £160,000 for the restoration of 5 football pitches.
For someone who grew up playing barefoot on dirt pitches, Alexis has progressed leaps and bounds to a position which he can boast about, but chooses not to. He is not only a world-beater on the pitch, but also as humble as one gets off it.
Adversities and pressure often destroy a person, but every now and then, someone emerges to beat all odds and prove that not all hope is lost. Alexis Sanchez is one such example. Surely, an inspiration to all.


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This guide is meant to be a spoiler-free list of tips to help you proceed through Oquonie. So if you have not yet found the first pillar, this is not for you, so keep playing, for your only task at the moment is to find sequences of three matching tokens.
A red pillar appeared next to one of the town's gates. What do? In your travels, you have met a small spiky ramen-eating character, speaking to him as each character will have him spawn in town and give you a token based on which character that you are. You need his help, so make sure that you have found him in each of the worlds.
Things get a bit trickier here, you will need to find your first token as you leave one world, your second from the ramen guy, and the last in yet another world.
The town's shark will remove your tokens, speak to him if you ever find yourself with tokens that you do not need. Good luck!
To input the cheat codes, just type while the game window is in focus. Their purpose is resolve mirror bugs whenever your save game glitches.
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Review: Good company
Very fast response with my original order. Very friendly dealing with them by phone to get the first item returned as it was not the correct size - my fault for not knowing their were other options. However the refund took over a week to hit my credit card account and the new item was much more expensive - by about 30% - than I could have obtained elsewhere. So overall a good company but needs to tweak things a little.
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Turning the Prius into a Plug-in Hybrid
14 December 2004
The California Cars Initiative (CalCars), a non-profit startup dedicated to jump-starting the market for plug-in hybrids (PHEV), is building a prototype Prius (the Prius+) capable of functioning as a plug-in hybrid and running in full EV (electric vehicle) mode for longer distances than possible with the original Toyota equipment.
As designed and programmed, the Prius has a driver-selectable EV (electric vehicle) drive mode. When toggled, EV mode turns off the combustion engine and the Prius functions as an all electric vehicle—particularly good for starting up and neighborhood travel. The default EV driving mode can be used for about one mile with a maximum speed of about 34 mph. EV mode is not currently activated for Priuses bound for the US, although it is on models in Japan and Asia.
Not being activated is different than not being enabled. The EV mode program logic is still in the ECU—it's only the button and the wires that are missing. Shortly after the Prius' arrival in the US, then, enterprising technically-oriented owners began hacking or modifying the Prius to enable EV mode. What started out as a customized D-I-Y (Do-It-Yourself) hack (example here) has become a more formalized aftermarket product (example here).
In EV mode, the software will automatically restart the engine when the battery needs to be recharged, if acceleration is required, or if the vehicle speed exceeds a threshold of 35 mph. In any of those conditions, EV mode switches off and the Prius operates as usual.
As an EV, however, the Prius is not very satisfying. The battery pack wasn't selected with extended EV operation in mind, and, more critically, the vehicle can't plug in to recharge the batteries. Staying far away from a plug-in was definitely part of Toyota's planning. The company went to great lengths during the iinitialroll out of this version of the Prius to point out that it did NOT plug in.
This was clearly a conscious product marketing and design decision. There are a number of hybrids—such as DaimlerChrysler's new Sprinter vans (earlier post)—that do offer the plug-in option.
Enter CalCars. CalCars decided to use the Prius as a high-visibility platform to demonstrate the fuel economy benefits of a grid-pluggable hybrid that offers an extended EV range.
The CalCars team is adding a different battery pack and grid-charging capabilities. The group has started with a prototype using lead-acid batteries that delivers less than 10 miles of EV-only range at low speeds. They hope to upgrade to a custom-built NiMH pack for an expected range of some 20 miles. CalCars would like to build a second prototype using a Li-Ion battery and hope for a 30+ mile range.
There are still limitations to the Prius as an EV even with those modifications—the Toyota software still rules the ECU, so EV mode will automatically terminate if acceleration is less than gentle, or when the car tops 35 mph. So rather than concentrating solely on the EV results, CalCars is focusing on the increased mileage enabled by the conversion.
As we'd fervently hoped, the batteries contribute significantly to improved efficiency even at higher speeds: Ron showed 83 mpg for a 10-mile mostly-highway run. (Remember that this initial battery pack weighs about 300 pounds -- appropriate for our first tests but not for an acceptable vehicle, and we expect even better performance ahead.) This validates our approach of emphasizing the fuel economy benefits rather than the amount of miles driven in EV-only mode.—Felix Kramer, Founder California Cars Initiative, Message 226
CalCars tracks its progress and developments via the PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid Conversion Group, from which the snippet above is taken. It's worthwhile taking a look—it's a good window into what's involved.
CalCars is also looking for volunteers and donors. Details are available at its website.
(Thanks to Mike C. for the pointer!)
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The battery component of Hybrid technologies offer what Hydrogen cannot: home-based energy. Exxon and company would rather control hydrogen supply, too impractical to generate at household levels. A set of batteries can be recharged via rooftop solar and electric utility grid.
Question: Which technology is more energy efficient:
A Photovoltiac charged battery pack?
Or, the same Photovoltiac electricity supply for electrolysis to isolate, compress and store hydrogen?
Follow-up question: Which technology is more practical and more reliable?
Car manufacturers will not publicly admit that we drive too much, too far, for too many purposes, at too high cost and impact. No. They will only plan for and promise more of the same dependency.
The limited driving range of Plug-in Hybrids offer an economic incentive to build and support local economies; with services, occupations, institutions and amenities, etc, accessable without having to drive. Driving can and should become a travel option alongside walking, bicycling and mass transit.
A 300-400 pound battery pack, located low on a vehicle frame, lowers center-of-gravity; making such Hybrids perfect for SUVs prone to accidental rollover. However, fewer accidents translates into reduced profits from the sale of replacement autos.
Photovoltaics on the roof and hood of an electric vehicle are quite expensive, and ultimately not really that useful. With the average car's surface area they could kick out a constant 12V at up to 10 amps or so on a sunny day, meaning at best 960 watt-hours during the average useful 8 hour sunny timeframe of the day, so almost one kWh. (We're talking best case scenario here...) And one kWh will take you about 4 miles. So if you're commuting only that distance in a day, perfect. Otherwise it's not enough power. And the cost of the cells would be at least a quarter of the total vehicle price!
Photovoltaics will eventually be quite useful, but probably only in large fixed installations on building rooftops or where you want shade. Another cool trick is you can concentrate the amount of light using mirrors or fresnel lenses, effectively getting more bang for the buck. But that kind of tracking system is really only feasible if you have a good amount of room to work with, such as a building rooftop.
For the question about which is more efficient: charging a battery or pulling hydrogen out of water, charging a battery would be more efficient at the moment, but studies are investigating the potential to use the same system found in plants that splits water to hydrogen in order to arrive upon a more efficient source. Once discovered, that will definitely revolutionize things!
Now if we can just keep the mentality of big oil out of the scene, we'd be set. Not gonna happen with the current US administration.
I wonder about putting solar panels on UPS/FedEx/USPS trucks. They don't drive many miles per day, and have large flat roofs.
These trucks really seem like a perfect application for hybrid technology.
* They are running on idle/park often, and an engine shutoff would save energy.
* They are in stop and go traffic all day, so regenerative braking might help quite a bit.
* They don't need to accellerate very quickly, since many never see a highway.
* Their large flat roofs would be perfect for solar.
Fedex is exploring hybrid technology currently. It seems that higher fuel prices are helping to wake everyone up. I recently purchased a bicycle equiped with a battery and electric motor. With a little pedaling you can get 30 miles out of a 20 cent charge. Of course bicycles are not for everyone but every the bit helps. Check them out at www.tidalforce.com
Those who complain about the drawbacks of battery power are sorely ignorant of their many, even phenomenal benefits.
Hybrid batteries can form the basis of home-power electricity storage, highly desireable in the event of electricity shortages and price gouging. In this way, they advance the rooftop photovoltiac industry. The battery pack, mounted low on the frame, lowers the vehicle center-of-gravity, improving handling and stability, a major safety factor, perfect for roll-prone vehicles like the SUV. This homepower, zero-emission, battery-only operation effectively reduces fuel costs, a conflict of interest that Big Oil and automakers are actively working to protect by defaming the Hybrid. Some who condemn hybrids are suspect.
Those who tout diesel and bio-diesel fuels do not understand how Hybrids perfect the combustion, emission reduction and economy of these and all other fuels, including hydrogen.
The diesel engine is least efficient during varied accelleration and decelleration. When paired with the Hybrid electric motor drive, the diesel engine rpm range and load are strictly regulated, allowing the electric motor to perform propulsion where the diesel engine fares poorly. This increases diesel fuel mileage, reduces emissions, extends engine life and reduces maintenance.
During the Clinton era, Ford and GM produced Hybrid prototypes, (Ford Prodigy and GM Precept), 4-door sedans similar to the Prius that achieved 70-80 mpg, both employing turbo-diesel engines. Neither incorporated a larger battery pack, as does the next generation Plug-in Hybrid, which can extend zero-emission driving to achieve 500+ mpg.
The fuel cell technology should be trashed. GM has no intention of mass producing any version of the 'skateboard chassis' fuel cell prototypes. Beyond the myriad of problems associated with hydrogen production, storage and distribution, their drive system, the so-called 'drive-by-wire', computerized, electronic steering, braking and accelleration system is extremely problematic. Also, their 'in-wheel' electric motors are likewise impractical, unreliable, maintenance-prone. The combination of wiz bang technologies is dangerously vulnerable chance mishap and system failure from a variety of sources including radio interference. Wake up! The Hydrogen fuel cell is a hoax.
The "Hybrid-drive" is the state of the art vehicular technology. The Hybrid has a long list of advantages over fuel cell, including the ability to burn a variety of fuels including Hydrogen and bio-diesel, all in perfected combustion. The hybrid battery-pack alone has features that extend zero-emission driving, benefit the photovoltiac industry and home-power, and major vehicular safety factors. Hybrids are applicable to all classes of vehicle, unlike the fuel cell which is limited to the lightweight class.
We should however be warned that there are some new car and truck models that do not deserve the title Hybrid. The key to determining which Hybrid is superior is simple: if the Hybrid has an electric motor that can drive the car without running the IC engine, it's a true hybrid. If the Hybrid is merely an electric 'assist', such as the 'contractor truck' models that incorporate an electric generator that only 'assists' the IC engine for nearly all speeds of travel, this version of Hybrid should not be considered Hybrid and does not deserve a tax break or credit.
Most important, beyond the question of which car technology is worthy, urban/suburban travel and transport must include the means and infrastructure for walking, mass transit and bicycling, each of which are degraded when transportation planning is overly-dedicated to any kind of car, no matter how clean burning. Wake up!
Hybrids lead to less driving...
Posted by: Wells on May 25, 2005 12:39 PM
Earlier, I wrote insisting that Hybrids have phenomenal advantages and should be considered the pinnacle of vehicular technology that will not be surpassed by hydrogen fuel cell.
The larger battery packs of the next generation "Plug-in" Hybrid offer major vehicular safety factors, homepower via rooftop photovoltiac and zero-emission fuel economy potential exceeding 500 mpg.
Perhaps the greatest benefit of the homepower battery pack is an economic incentive to drive less. A battery pack has a limited driving range 30-80 miles, (more miles are possible, but not without some costs/drawbacks/limitations). Because the economic incentive of solar power limits driving, short-distance destinations (occupations, institutions, general goods retail outlets, entertainments, amenities, etc) are eventually constructed nearby, locally, and become accessable without always having to drive. Thus, Hybrids leads city and suburban development toward more walking, bicycling and mass transit, (highly desireable for a number of reasons and more economical than driving).
The Hybrid vs Bio-diesel debate seems futile to me. Include hydrogen/fuel cell in the debate, and we're still left with Hybrids as the clear winner by far.
During the Clinton era, Ford and GM produced hybrid prototypes, the Prodigy and Precept 4-door sedans. Both incorporated turbo-diesels and achieved 70-80 mpg. Neither took advantage of adding extra batteries, a technically shortsighted manuever and nod to the fossil fuel industry.
The next generation Plug-in Hybrid, is the quintessential electric car that all manufacturers should drop all else and begin to mass produce.
The life-cycle of state of the art batteries now approaches or exceeds 100,000 miles. But, these batteries create many other advantages beyond longevity. Their weight, mounted low on the car frame, lowers center-of-gravity, improving stability, handling and safety. And of course, hybrid mileage will exceed, 70-80 mpg, doubling and tripling those figures and more.
The photovoltiac solar panel industry has met its match with the Plug-in Hybrid. Every household with rooftop solar panels attains a substantial energy supply not susceptable to fluxuations in the electric utility markets. These households get a invaluable lesson in energy conservation.
Perhaps the greatest lesson Plug-in Hybrids offer is their potential affect upon urban/suburban development. Because their driving range on battery power alone is still limited, they create an economic incentive to patronize and build local economies, whereby over time, more and more destinations become accessable without having to drive. Being able to safely walk and bicycle and take transit is essential transportation planning if modern civilization is to survive the coming collapse of the petroleum industry. Planning simply for the better car is, I repeat, futile.
For the non-hobbyist, plain-old consumer here what is commercially available now and what will be commercially available during 2006 as far as trying to purchase a Plug-In enhanced Toyota Prius?
How quickly are these innovations getting noticed by Toyota and does anyone have any data or information on when a Plug-In Toyota Prius could be purchased (or ordered) and Toyota's reaction to all of this?
Obviously it is in Toyota's own interest to produce & sell a 80 mpg Prius configuration on the market - so what does a regular ol' consumer like me do in the next year to try and get one?
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The reason all automakers wanted to stay away from plug-in hybrids is that too many Americans might get the idea that a pure EV would work well for commuting. Its the "100 monkey" thing, where a new idea often won't "gel" until some number of a population considers it to be good. Once out to the bottle, EV's would have a huge affect on automaker and oil company profits. To the oil companies, they are trying to "manage" the transition away from oil to maximize profit on what remains. To automakers, aftermarket parts sale would take a significant hit with EV's - they're too simple, and last too long.
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Our Lord gives us gifts and abilities and He gives us each other to help us become more like Him as we serve each other and the world through the church. The goal of our ministering to one another therefore is for:
- Equipping each other for the work God calls us to do
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We serve what we worship and we worship what we serve, therefore service is a reflection of our love and worship of our Savior. It is a key component in keeping each member and the church healthy, strong and growing.
There are many opportunities to serve and disciple and grow at Calvary and we recognize all of us are on different time schedules and have different needs in the differing stages of our lives. So we look to be able to serve and love one another through various opportunities and at various times. Hereafter is a summary of the primary areas of service and discipleship at Calvary. Please contact any of the pastors or staff in regards to the area you are gifted in to help or serve or need assistance with or if there is another area of need or giftedness you wish to share or assist in.
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The gooses asks herself, out loud, all the time what is wrong with us. What is wrong with me that makes me so bawdy ( my words, not hers). The easy answer is I am a child. Immature and eager to make people laugh. Her father and brother are both always happy to join in. […]
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Fairhope, Alabama, is a jewel of a town sitting on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay not too far up from the Gulf. It is a haven for artists, crafts people, artisans, antique vendors and collectors, and photographers. The beauty of the area, from the multitude of colors displayed by local birds and flowers, to the views of long piers stretching out into the water and spectacular sunsets. There is no question it is place of inspiration and art.
Beautiful Fairhope Case Study Photo By Dan Therrell
Dan Therrell is a well-known member of the Fairhope community. He can be seen poking about craft tables and gift shops looking for something of interest, or walking along the old boardwalk south of town after a storm filling a bucket with bits of driftwood, seashells, and other goodies given up by the bay. He loves photography and is known as well for the beautiful scenes of Fairhope he regularly captures in his lens. Dan also builds websites for his several small business enterprises and to help others, especially artists, find their way online.
Dan generally doesn't do SEO, so when he wanted his new website, Beautiful Fairhope to rank at the top of the SERPs for search phrases like Fairhope photographs, pictures of Fairhope, and the like, he called on someone he knew could handle the task. Along with the photo-related terms he also wanted to place well for more general searches of Fairhope Alabama, Fairhope AL, and just Fairhope.
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"The proof, as my grandmother used to say, "is in the pudding." If you search Google for relevant terms today, you will find beautifulfairhope.com usually somewhere in the top five spots on page one. For example, while writing this on December 10, 2014, I searched and found:
- Fairhope photos: page 1 spot 1, and page 1 spot 2.
- Fairhope photographs: page 1 spot 2.
- pictures of Fairhope: page 1 spot 3, and page 1 spot 4.
- scenes of Fairhope: page 1 spot 1, and page 1 spot2.
Dan is not a professional photographer, and does not advertise or otherwise promote himself as one. Like most other communities, professional photographers with content-rich websites abound in Fairhope and yet Dan's site is still found on page one for this very competitive term:
- Fairhope photography: page 1, spot 10.
You can try these and others, if you like. Oh, and for the city/state combination, here are my results:
- Fairhope AL: page 1 spot 3, right after the City of Fairhope, and the Wikpedia entry.
- Fairhope Alabama: page 1 spot 3, right after the City of Fairhope, and the Wikpedia entry.
and for Fairhope by itself:
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I spent about 18 months working on Dan's site while sharing with him the techniques I use so he could maintain the process himself. The interesting thing to note, considering the results above, is that I haven't touched SEO on that site for well over two years now. Dan continues to maintain the site for his own interests and to share with others, and the SEO is maintained right along with that process.
As shown by this Beautiful Fairhope Case Study, a foundation of good SEO on a properly maintained site survives the test of time. And so, if you decide to ask Google, be sure you ask the right question, "Who is the best SEO service in Hutchinson Kansas?"


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Issue No. 09 - September (1997 vol. 30)
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DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.612253
<p>These Stanford University researchers present the case for billion-transistor processor architectures that will consist of chip multiprocessors (CMPs): multiple (four to 16) simple, fast processors on one chip. In their proposal, each processor is tightly coupled to a small, fast, level-one cache, and all processors share a larger level-two cache. The processors may collaborate on a parallel job or run independent tasks (as in the SMT proposal). The CMP architecture lends itself to simpler design, faster validation, cleaner functional partitioning, and higher theoretical peak performance. However for this architecture to realize its performance potential, either programmers or compilers will have to make code explicitly parallel. Old ISAs will be incompatible with this architecture (although they could run slowly on one of the small processors). </p>
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This exceptional, privately guided East Africa safari will offer you the opportunity to have your very own private guide, and game drive vehicle, throughout your journey, to four must-see destinations within Kenya and Tanzania.
Your private guide, Grant Telfer, has been an avid explorer and lover of nature since childhood. His endless quest for adventure has taken him across Africa, where he was a guide and mentor for six years. He then took on the role of Regional Ranger Trainer for East Africa and is now based in the Serengeti. He has extensive experience guiding guests on private safaris and believes the best way to experience the bush is on foot. As a qualified trails guide and Grade 2 walker you can expect truly unforgettable insight as he joins you, and your walking safari guide, from the region, on a sensational adventure.
This adventure is perfect for families, first-time visitors and repeat guests as it encapsulates the best of East Africa with journeys to the famous Masai Mara, the Serengeti National Park, the iconic Ngorongoro Crater and the beautiful Lake Manyara National Park. Grant has a wealth of destination knowledge, from the overall state of the country to the specific flora and fauna you will find in its sprawling wildlife areas. Here, he will help you tailor-make your journey by offering a range of activities specifically designed for these four magnificent regions as well as other adventures that are slightly off the beaten track. Rest assured, all of your travel arrangements (from transfers to scheduled flights) will run seamlessly.
This itinerary has been carefully designed to give you a taste of the exciting, endless possibilities you can experience on a privately guided adventure and can be tailored to suit your exact preferences.
Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by an &Beyond representative and assisted onto your transfer to Wilson Airport for your scheduled SafariLink flight to Kichwa Airstrip. On arrival at the airstrip, you will be met by another representative from &Beyond Bateleur Camp and transferred to the lodge, where your &Beyond Private Guide, Grant Telfer, eagerly awaits your arrival, and will be at your disposal for the duration of your journey.
Blessed with an astounding year-round concentration of animals and the climax of the Great Migration, Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve provides an unsurpassed wildlife experience. Covering an area of 1 510 km2, the Masai Mara is a land of breathtaking vistas, abundant wildlife, and endless plains. The Reserve is a photographer's and naturalist's paradise with abundant elephant, buffalo, giraffe, lion and cheetah alongside the migratory wildebeest and zebra. Leopards are frequently encountered, endangered black rhino find retreat in dense thickets, and large rafts of hippo and enormous crocodiles are found in the Mara River. The Mara is also home to over 450 bird species. Grant will help you interpret your game viewing experience and can provide photographic tips to ensure you get the best angle.
Spend the day roaming the Mara with Grant who will share his wealth of knowledge on this fantastic eco-system. As a qualified level 2 walking guide, Grant can offer incredible insight as he joins you and your guide on a walking safari on the &Beyond Kichwa Tembo private concession.
Spend two nights at &Beyond Bateleur Camp in a luxury ensuite tent. Your stay includes Meals, soft drinks, house wine, local brand spirits and beers (excluding premium brands), tea and coffee, scheduled activities and laundry.
Today you will wave goodbye to the Masai Mara, as Grant joins you on a scheduled SafariLink flight to Migori; here you will be met by a representative from Coastal Aviation for your road transfer, across the border, to Tarime. On arrival at Tarime you will depart on your scheduled Coastal Aviation flight to the airstrip nearest to &Beyond Serengeti Under Canvas.
The Serengeti National Park, meaning "endless plains" in the Maasai language, is undoubtedly one of the world's most celebrated wilderness areas and is an ongoing source of inspiration to writers, filmmakers and photographers. It is Tanzania's oldest game reserve, renowned for the part it plays in the annual Great Migration, when an estimated three million antelope — mostly wildebeest — migrate to Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve. This epic, seasonal journey is a deeply moving experience and a wonderful photographic subject. Here visitors to the park can roam its sprawling plains on exhilarating game drives or hop into a hot-air balloon for a once-in-a-lifetime wilderness adventure.
&Beyond Serengeti Under Canvas is situated in close range to the Great Migration. This will not only give you a true sense of being in the famed plains of the Serengeti but will make you feel like you are right in the action. Depending on the time of year, Grant will take you straight into the huge herds of wildebeest and zebra, a phenomenon that can make you feel truly humbled by Mother Nature. Prides of lions and cheetah trailing the herds make for some incredibly exciting days in the bush. After a successful day of game viewing share your thrilling sightings around a real evening bush fire with Grant.
Spend two nights at &Beyond Serengeti Under Canvas in an ensuite tent. Your stay includes accommodation, meals, scheduled activities, laundry, soft drinks, house wines, local brand spirits and return airstrip transfers.
After a scrumptious breakfast you will hop aboard a scheduled Tanganyika Flying Company flight to Manyara Airstrip, where you will be met by a representative from &Beyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge who will transfer you, and Grant, by game drive to the lodge.
Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania offers a wilderness experience in diverse habitats, from its Rift Valley soda lake to dense woodlands and steep mountainsides. Here, the Great Rift Valley is at its most impressive, with the escarpment dropping some 500 metres down to the lakeshore. Explore the smaller highlights of the region as Grant showcases some of the more intricate attractions of the park. Apart from a spectacular setting, the Lake Manyara is famous for its unusual tree-climbing lions and the vast elephant herds it was established to protect. The shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingo, attract more than 400 species of birds, many of them waterfowl or migrants. Large herds of buffalo, cheetah, Masai giraffe and impala roam the lake shores and the forested valley slopes. Be sure to embark on a personalised birding expedition with Grant, who loves to share his extensive knowledge of the many species you will find along the way. Troops of several hundred olive baboon appear alongside Sykes monkey and short-eared galago while Cape clawless otter, Egyptian mongoose, hippo and klipspringer are other park residents.
Spend two nights at &Beyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge in a tree house. Your stay includes accommodation, meals, scheduled activities, laundry, soft drinks, house wines, and local brand spirits. Night game drives can be arranged at additional charge. Please note that the camp requires 24 hours' notice to do the night drive.
Depart on your road transfer to Manyara Airstrip where you will be met by a representative from &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge and transferred to the lodge.
The Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania, once a gigantic volcano, is the largest intact caldera in the world. Some maintain that before it erupted, it would have been higher than Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Today, long since having collapsed and eroded, it is an extensive highland area with the famous 600 m deep Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point. Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth. As you descend to the Crater floor, Grant will help you search for the iconic black rhino, which are protected within its rim and the giant tusked elephants that wander the forests. Be on the lookout for the many different prides of black-maned lions who stalk the grasslands and the large clans of hyena who laugh in the distance. An estimated 25 000 large mammals are resident in this bowl of plenty, including a population of approximately 6 000 resident wildebeest, 16 highly endangered black rhino and around 70 lions. Cheetah move in and out of the Crater, while leopard are most often encountered in the spectacular Lerai Forest. &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, consistently recognised as one of the world's most luxurious and elegant places to stay, sits right on the edge of the Crater, offering unbeatable views of one of the natural travel wonders of the world.
Another exciting way to experience the Crater is on an informative walking safari along the Crater rim. The crater itself is an astonishing sight from any angle, but the view from its rim is unforgettable. Descend into this high-walled Eden with a private vehicle and spend entire days rambling around its golden base, surrounded by some of the highest game densities in Tanzania.
Spend two nights at &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge in a suite. Your stay includes accommodation, meals, scheduled activities, laundry, soft drinks, house wines and local brand spirits.
Grant will bid you farewell on your last day, from the lodge, where you will be driven to Manyara Airstrip to board your scheduled Tanganyika Flying Company flight to Kilimanjaro Airport, here you will connect to your scheduled SafariLink flight to Wilson Airport. Upon arrival, you will be by an &Beyond representative who will assist you with a road transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your outbound flight.
- Meet and Greet service at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
- Private Vehicle at all &Beyond Lodges
- Grant Telfer, &Beyond Private Guide
- Accommodation inclusions as per itinerary above
- All scheduled road transfers:
- Jomo Kenyatta International Airport / Wilson Airport
- Migori / Tarime
- Manyara Airstrip / &Beyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge
- &Beyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge / Manyara Airstrip
- Manyara Airstrip / &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
- &Beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge / Manyara Airstrip
- Wilson Airport / Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
- All scheduled flights
- Wilson Airport / Kichwa Airstrip
- Kichwa Airstrip / Migori
- Tarime / Ndutu Airstrip
- Ndutu Airstrip / Manyara Airstrip
- Manyara Airstrip / Kilimanjaro Airport
- Kilimanjaro Airport / Wilson Airport
- Tanzania National park fees
- Kenya National Park Fees
- Emergency medical evacuation insuranc
- Administration Fee