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There are a number of ways to request that Town Council consider a bylaw:
- You can arrange to speak to
TownCouncil at a Council meeting and ask that they give consideration to passing the bylaw.
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TownCouncil give consideration to passing the bylaw.
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On top, upward pressure on Japanese interest rates from higher domestic liquidity will build, so forcing JGB yields higher and likely spilling over negatively into international bond markets. There is a growing risk to the 10-year JGB, which could suffer an upward yield spike from zero to around 30bp.
As a global supplier of consumer goods, Japan has for decades enjoyed a strong Yen, high street deflation and a surging bond market. Now, re-constituted as predominantly an Asian regional supplier of intermediate goods, Japan faces different challenges and consequently deserves new policy and currency regimes. It may in future behave increasingly like a typical emerging market, choosing a more stable currency against a pan-Asian basket, but at the cost of more volatile domestic liquidity flows, particularly, when Chinese and pan-Asian liquidity are also expanding as now. These increased flows may be channelled initially into Japanese equities and latterly into outward capital flows.
Two recurring themes in our research acknowledge: (1) the whopping size both of the Chinese economy and her international financial flows, and (2) the cyclical nature of the Chinese economy and the active role played here by the Peoples Bank (PBoC), now the Worlds biggest Central Bank by balance sheet size. Put another way, China unquestionably influences, if not controls, World interest rates through the spillover of inflationary pressures and term premia factors. These effects are particularly pronounced across Asia, where Chinese led supply-chains link together regional producers. The Peoples Bank (PBoC) has now been easing policy since January 2016, and Chinese private sector liquidity has more recently enjoyed a strong cyclical rebound as the Chinese economy accelerates.
In this report, we draw out the implications for Japan. Japan is increasingly subject to these China-led regional economic forces which have exacerbated upward pressures on the Yen and downward pressures on Japanese high street prices, thereby recently forcing the BoJ into extreme and unconventional monetary actions. Curiously, the scale of BoJ stimulus has lately tailed-off. However, we expect it to soon restart given renewed impetus from China and the latest visible pick-up in the tempo of cash flow generation by Japanese firms.
Looking ahead, the bottom-line is that in this new, supply-chain World Japan is set to act more like a typical emerging Asian economy by keeping its currency stable against its regional peers, including the Yuan, and allowing Japanese financial markets to take the strain through greater liquidity swings. If we are correct, the Japanese interest rate yield curve will continue to steepen, with the authorities ultimately allowing the policyanchored 10-year JGB yield to move more freely once again. This should cause a renormalisation of the Japanese term structure around a higher JGB yield base and may well have global implications, because Japanese institutional investors have been instrumental in the global hunt for yield. Thus, prospectively higher yields in Japan should add to international pressure towards rising global bond yields.
Historically, Japanese monetary policy has often been reactive to international events in order to hold down extreme upward pressures on the Yen. Looking backwards, these pressures typically emanated from the US rather than China. Thus, US dollar weakness and extraordinarily large trade surpluses were frequently met with monetary relaxation by the Bank of Japan, as forex reserves accumulated and capital flowed in. This is shown in Figures 1 and 2. Figure 1 reports the trade-weighted Yen plotted against periods of loose BoJ monetary policy. Typically, apart from the period since 2012, a strong (weak) Yen has been associated with monetary accommodation (tightness). Figure 2 shows this more explicitly, by charting trend deviations in the trade-weighted Yen against actual liquidity injections by the BoJ. It seems clear that until 2012, the BoJ added liquidity when the Yen was rising faster than its trend and pulled-out liquidity when the Yen was weak. Yet, since 2012, it appears instead to have deliberately and pro-actively sought to weaken the Yen. Admittedly, the late-1980s asset bubble and the recent period of price deflation have also seen domestic factors distort policy. Expressed in liquidity terms, the pre-2012 monetary policy meant more stable overall Japanese liquidity, since BoJ Central Bank activity moved oppositely to the direction of private sector flows. In contrast, the recent policy change has made liquidity more pro-cyclical and has meant that the CrossBorder Capital Central Bank and Private Sector liquidity indexes for Japan have seen their typical low correlation (0.17) quadruple to a sizeable positive 0.71.
As we explain later, the change in monetary policy regime may reflect the different nature of Japanese capital inflows, from push to pull factors:
International considerations may again be set to take centre stage, partly because the US dollar is facing a period of structural weakness, but, more importantly, because the Chinese economy is gaining greater traction and influence across Asia, with another surge in productivity likely as the regional economy accelerates. Already, as Figure 3 shows, the cash generation of Chinese firms is increasing and leading the same cycle in Japan by some six months, allowing for the earlier 2013-14 positive effect on cash flows from Abenomics. In the 1980s, capital flows were pushed out of the US into Japan by the liberation of capital flows and easy US money policies. This boosted the Yen, but hit Japanese export growth, profitability and cash flow, and led a reactive BoJ to loosen policy to help maintain domestic liquidity. In the post-GFC period, movements in the tempo of the Chinese economy alter prospective capital returns and cash flows, and so pull global capital into the region, thereby putting upward pressure on currencies. Regional Central Banks including the BoJ, therefore, ease policy pro-cyclically to maintain currency stability and, as a result, generate more significant liquidity cycles. Another way of explaining this change is that, in the 1980s, the BoJ was targeting a stable liquidity regime, but, in the 2010 era, it has been targeting a stable currency regime, particularly against Asian units. One result, as Figure 4 illustrates, is the convergence of regional monetary policies as indicated by taking the cross-sectional dispersion of monthly Central Bank policy indexes across 17 Asian markets. Dispersion has lately dropped from an average centred on 20 index units, to around 15. In short, the Asian monetary cycle is increasingly pro-cyclical and more-and-more driven by Chinas PBoC. This makes all regional policy-makers, even the BoJ, behave like an emerging market Central Bank by monetizing their capital inflows. Therefore, unless the Japanese authorities want a strong Yen, Japanese monetary policy must ease again alongside this latest evidence of rising private sector liquidity.
How has the Asian economy changed? Put into context, Japans new challenges are structural and in large part the result of regional economic evolution, more competition and integration of production with a resurgent China. An important research paper written in 2014 by BoJ economists for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) confronted these issues head-on (See: Emerging Economies Supply Shocks and Japans Price Deflation: International Transmissions in a Three-Country DSGE Model, ADB Working Paper #459, Feb 2014). This paper spells out the fact that Japan has a consumer goods trade surplus of 0.7% of GDP and a 0.5% of GDP intermediate goods trade surplus with the US but a 1.8% of GDP trade deficit in consumer goods alongside a 2.1% trade surplus in intermediate goods with China.
The newly associated China/Japan transmission mechanism can be explained using the example of a positive productivity shock occurring in Chinas product assembly sector, such as smart phones. Let Chinese production and exports of these smart phones increase and assume that Japanese and US imports of them expand alongside. The jump in Chinese production stimulates the domestic demand for more parts and components. Japan, being a vertically specialised competitive supplier in a supply-chain, increases its exports of these intermediate goods to China, while the US, which is essentially horizontally-specialised, does not. The resulting larger Japanese and US trade deficits with China from the increase in imports of smart phones is mitigated in Japans case by these extra component sales.
The smaller trade deficit in Japan than in the US means that Japan faces the lesser financing burden. This leads to Yen appreciation against the US dollar and, consequently, greater downward pressure on the inflation rate in Japan than in the US. This downward inflationary pressure has historically been intensified through the Yuan/ US dollar peg, which in the past has forced the Yen to appreciate and frequently overshoot. In short, China/ Japan supply chains and the traditional Yuan/ US dollar-pegged exchange rate regime have been important factors explaining past deflationary impacts of Chinese supply shocks on to Japan.
This mechanism has coloured Japans low inflation and deflation regimes through the 1990s and the 2000s. Since the 1990s, there have been several significant increases in productivity and supply capacity in the Chinese export sector. On top, several Japanese multinational firms transferred their product assembly bases to China and other emerging Asian economies. Thus, Asian firms developed pan-regional supply chains and established international vertical specialization where Japan supplies the parts and components for product assembly in these emerging economies. Thus, regional supply shocks following the intra-Asian transfer of these production bases, technology, and management expertise have boosted both exports to Japan and imports of parts and components from Japan, without significantly denting Japans overall trade balance. Greater trade integration has therefore put long-term upward pressure on the Yen, reinforced deflationary pressures on Japan and tied Japanese firms more closely to the pan-Asian and Chinese business cycle.
Looking ahead, additional future positive supply shocks in emerging Asian economies will result in a sustained Yen appreciation and must add to further deflationary pressures in Japan. To avoid large-scale Yen appreciation and address deepening domestic deflation, the BoJ will have to pursue persistent and more aggressively accommodating monetary policies and convince the emerging Asian economies, particularly China, to adopt more upwardly flexible exchange rate regimes against external currencies, such as the US dollar.
In other words, whereas in the 1980s the BoJ targeted stable liquidity (albeit ultimately unsuccessfully), it now appears to be more actively targeting the Yen by injecting funds when it is strong and withdrawing funds when it is weak. This changed policy mix is entirely consistent with the demands of this new supply-chain World. In short, the days of persistent Yen strength against other G7 currencies when Japan was predominantly a global supplier of final goods may be over. Instead as a supplier of intermediate goods to China and emerging Asia, Japan needs a stable Yen at least against the regional currency units, notably the Yuan.
Looking ahead what does this mean? We suggest three themes:
1. Greater correlation and stability across Asian currency units, i.e. the formation of a de facto Asian currency zone (Asian dollar) that will be ultimately led by China.
2. A more pro-cyclical BoJ and greater emerging market-like volatility in Japanese and pan-Asian liquidity conditions
3. Potentially bigger JGB yield curve movements and bond yield swings and greater market cyclicality
Put another way, the Asian productivity miracle is moving outwards through the region as production diversifies geographically. Economic integration means that real exchange rates deserve to move more closely together and, in order to maintain competiveness, policy is likely to focus on greater currency stability. This means that monetary policy, and hence liquidity, will become more pro-cyclical, with asset markets taking over more of the adjustment burden from currencies. Moreover, the driver of the Asian business cycle is increasingly the Chinese producer rather than the American consumer, which may mean that Japan starts to resemble an Asian emerging market in performance.
Another big question is what happens to the JGB market? This has been heavily distorted largely by BoJ forward guidance that has persuaded investors that policy-makers can maintain the near-zero yield on the 10-year bond. It has been clear from our research work that, whereas the difference between private sector liquidity and Central Bank liquidity drives currencies higher, the sum of stronger Central Bank and private sector liquidity pushes investors out of safe government bonds and into riskier assets, like equities, real estate and corporate debt. Hence, if we are correct and Japanese and pan-Asian liquidity are set to turn much higher, expect a renormalisation of the JGB yield curve. This will mean higher yields across all tenors. It should also mean the end to negative convexity at the 10-year tenor and around a 30bp relative rise in 10-year yields. See Figure 5. This effect will likely be transmitted to international bond markets because Japanese investors have been foremost in driving the international hunt for yield and they stand closer to now realising higher yields at home.
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Easy Steps to Candidate Retention
When you've zeroed in on a candidate, it can be easy to let your guard down. The person can be professional, engaged and seem hungry for the position, only to back out at the last minute. This isn't because you're a bad judge of character or even the situation, but a lot can change very quickly, especially for promising candidates. So how can you cut back on the number of candidate drop outs, flake outs and other mishaps?
Well, according to an article from ERE.net, the main things are to know the candidate, where they're going and where they're coming from: inside and out. Don't talk about the salary that they pull from their previous employer unless you know the specifics. The "how" and the "when" are just as important to the "how much" when it comes to sealing the deal on a promising candidate. Understand what the candidate is looking for:
What they're really looking for. Find out what their priorities are, and their preferences. Little details like commute time can sometimes sway a candidate more than money ever can. To read the 6 ways to hold on to your best candidates, click the link below.


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Printer Manufacturer Helps Out Small Businesses
Printer and ink cartridge manufacturer HP has increased its push to help small and medium-sized businesses through tough economic times.
The electronics giant will offer these firms HP LaserJet printers, as well as computers and networking devices, in order to help them to reduce their carbon footprint and save money.
Kathy Chou, vice-president of worldwide small and midsize business strategy at HP, said that small businesses were "the pulse of the economy" and needed to be provided with "a boost as the economy rebounds".
Ms Chou added: "All businesses must find a reliable foundation upon which to build their futures and for [small businesses], HP's new offerings will help sustain their well-being and prepare them for upcoming growth."
HP said it hoped that by allowing smaller firms to have a strong technological base from which to grow, they will be better equipped for any economic turnaround.
Saladino's, a California-based restaurant supplier that has benefitted from working with HP, said that they found the offer of "reliable technology infrastructure … critical to meeting customer needs".
HP's multifunction inkjet printers for small businesses are available with wired or wireless networking options and include models with an optional fax included.
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Bing Crosby as venture capitalist
KQED's new series Into The Mix, which focuses on little known stories from the Bay Area music scene's past and present, published "How Bing Crosby and Silicon Valley Revolutionized Radio and TV."
Rachael Myrow reported: "The first company to revolutionize entertainment from the Valley was Ampex, launched in 1944. The company manufactured the first reel-to-reel machine for commercial use in the United States (based on German technology), and later, the first video recording machine. All in collaboration/competition with Bing Crosby. Yes, that Bing Crosby…. Henry Lowood, Stanford's Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections, says Crosby wasn't just a customer; he was an early version of a venture capitalist. 'He became very interested in promoting the technology and developing it,' Lowood said."
Read, How Bing Crosby and Silicon Valley Revolutionized Radio and TV.


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Every girl needs a handful of easy-breezy updo's that look fab and don't take forever to do. That's why I invited Ally from The Vintage Valley onto my channel to show you how to create the 'Gibson Tuck'; a sophisticated yet quick and easy vintage hairstyle that you can easily make your own by adding cute flowers and other accessories.
Ally is a vintage hairstylist and literally lives and breathes vintage so she really knows her stuff. She holds workshops on vintage styling (which I'll show you in another vlog) and she knows all the tips and tricks about pinning and styling that give your hair that professional touch.
We had so much fun filming this vlog for you so I hope you like it!
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When I was a graduate student, my interests were primarily in the realm of the physics of "normal" matter: quantum, classical, and statistical mechanics; and electromagnetics. I did have to take a course in General Relativity; it wasn't required but since it was taught by the department head and he was a member of my committee, prudence dictated that I should take the course. Besides he was a good teacher as well as lecturer which set him apart from the faculty herd.
This is not to say that physicists are noted for being great lecturers. The bulk of lecturers were delivered facing one of the blackboards that covered three sides of any classroom while writing equations, interspersed with a few emphasizing words, on the board of the moment. Style was not key, nor rhetoric. I can recall that one of the clearest courses I took as an undergraduate was taught by a professor who had grown up in Japan and whose English language skills were more than adequate for writing articles but not for lecturing. Hence, his lectures were "lectures" were completely on the blackboard except for the occasional Japanese exclamation, largely wasted on us, as emphasis.
Needless to say, a podium was almost a useless appliance in a physics classroom except as something for the lecturer to lean upon as he delivered nasty announcements – examinations, or answered a question that maths would clearly not illuminate, such as what joyous surprises were not covered in the catalog description like long nights writing computer code at the campus computer center – that was in the days of ONLY mainframes and if you were far enough along to be taking physics major courses you better know how to write code – or lab sessions that far transcended the catalog's one hour of credit – 3 hours per week. A four hour physics course was usually good for at least twenty hours of attention span each week.
The general relativity course was quite different. First of all, there were only two of us in the class, myself and a fellow who had gotten a maths masters and decided he didn't want to be a mathematician. It was a three hour course which meant it normally met twice a week for two hours per session – semester credit on quarter duration, a very neat way of handling terms. Instead, we met five days a week, two hours a day, and the other student and I alternated with presenting the assignment, seminar fashion.
The textbook was Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, a massive three thousand page dog killer, and the first paperback that I ever paid a hundred dollars for. That book went with me. When I went to lunch or the toilet, the book went. When I drove it sat, open, on the passenger seat so I could snatch a paragraph at stop lights. And the course was taught in the summer so we often ran over the allotted two hours without anyone barging into the classroom.
It was great! I went into the course knowing only a bit of special relativity, as taught in sophmore modern physics and in graduate electromagnetics courses. I left able to read (and if inclined, write) journal articles in the field.
A good portion of the course was taken up with gravitational singularities. In those days, the state of the knowledge was such that for all we knew everything that crossed the event horizon was like Charley on the MTA – lost and gone forever, but we could throw sandwiches in. This was long before any thought about quantum leakage across the horizon or anything like that. And we didn't think very much about the information lost in the collapse. Heck, we didn't worry about information in physics in those days.
So in later years, once we started thinking about the information locked up in matter, we began to worry about how all that information got gobbled up by the singularities. Now, [Link] some folks at Case Western Reserve U have come up with an answer – maybe. Based on the reportage, I haven't read the paper yet, evidently the information gets transferred to the electromagnetic field before the horizon forms (or presumably before the matter crosses the horizon? – not clear in the reportage.)
So its still great! Even if I didn't do it. But my interests have stayed with the more conventional domains if not applications.
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American Forces Arrest Leading Moderate Sunni Iraqi And His Family, Later Call It "A Mistake"
by Steve
Even if Sunnis were not as represented in the elections, it is the strong belief of the United States and, I believe, of the (Iraqi) government that Sunnis must be included now in Iraq's political future.
--Condi Rice, May 15th, Interview With Jawad Kadhom of Al Iraqiyah in Baghdad
"This is what happens to those who boycotted the elections."
--Yelled by an American translator to the family of Sunni leader Mohsen Abdul-Hamid as American forces dragged him and his sons away today
What kind of fu*k-ups do we have running the American forces in Iraq? Didn't Rummy get the memo from Condi? Aren't they in the same cabinet?
This is incredibly stupid, and either the work of a military that doesn't want things to settle down in Iraq, or a military that is inept. I'm not sure which is worse. Some Bush cultist who supports this war from afar at their keyboard while real Americans are in harm's way every day will have to explain to me what was to be gained from kicking the door down of one of the country's most powerful moderate Sunni leaders early in the morning, firing stun grenades and pulling hoods over his head and those of his three sons, and dragging them away to over ten hours of hell.
They were released later today without an apology, even though the Americans knew full well who the hell he was when they kicked his door down and the translator yelled those chilling words. The Americans did manage to say that the arrest and holding of Abdul-Hamid and his family for over ten hours was a "mistake," which I'm sure counted for a lot when he was kept face down on the ground with an American boot on his neck in front of his house for 20 minutes before being hauled off with a hood over his head.
Questions were already being raised yesterday about how accidental or mistaken the raid really was.
Mr Abdul-Hamid was certainly well known to the Americans. He was selected to sit on the US-appointed Iraqi governing council shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein and briefly served as its president.
How will moderate Sunnis in Iraq feel towards the Americans when word of this stupidity makes the rounds over the coming days?
The most serious fall-out from his detention is likely to be among Sunni Arabs themselves, who respect him despite his Kurdish roots. The Islamic Party described the arrest of its leader as a "humiliation".
How will the new Iraqi leadership of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari not be damaged gravely as it becomes clear that the Americans violated the requirement that they notify the Iraqi government in advance before doing something like this?
It appeared that the Americans had not sought permission for the raid from the Iraqi government, again raising questions about its supposed sovereignty. It also threatened the most serious rift between Washington and Baghdad since the administration was sworn in a month ago.
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, issued a strongly worded condemnation of the arrest, saying: "I consider treating a prominent political leader such as Abdul-Hamid in this way unacceptable."
If we wanted to blow things up into a civil war in Iraq, this is one surefire step towards doing so. Hell, he was a moderate Sunni for God's sake and we treated him and his family today like they were insurgents when we knew full well who he was. And then we rubbed al-Jaafari's nose in it and made him look like a puppet.
And the American media won't report a word of it, and then wonder why things are going to hell about a week from now.


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New York City's Chelsea welcomes new upscale hotel
ROCKVILLE, MD – Choice Hotels International, Inc celebrated the grand opening of the new Cambria hotel & suites in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. Owned by We Care Trading Co. Ltd and operated by Concord Hospitality, Cambria hotel & suites New York – Chelsea sits in the middle of the eclectic Flower District, which is brought to life in the hotel's design and décor.
The neighborhood inspiration was highlighted in last night's garden party-themed grand opening celebration. Guests were treated to flower-inspired signature cocktails and fresh local fare, took exclusive tours of the property, and mingled with key leaders in the hospitality industry, including Steve Joyce, President and CEO of Choice Hotels, Michael Murphy, SVP of Upscale Brands at Choice Hotels, Mark Laport, CEO of Concord Hospitality, and property owner, Rob Chun. The event was also attended by Andrea Fasano, Choice Hotel's Ultimate People Person, who is currently out on the road representing Choice and creating meaningful, in-person connections all over the United States this summer.
"New York City is one of the liveliest, most beautiful, bustling cities in the world and we're thrilled to introduce the Cambria brand to business and leisure travelers visiting the Big Apple," says Steve Joyce, President and CEO, Choice Hotels International. "With companies like Google, Goldman Sachs, Spotify and American Express nearby, we are able to give travelers something that is often hard to find in New York – stylish, affordable lodging with upscale service."
Within walking distance of Penn Station, Madison Square Garden, Macy's Herald Square, the Empire State Building and Times Square, the 135 room hotel offers sleek, modern rooms in one of the city's hippest neighborhoods. Guests can also enjoy the property's Social Circle™ Bistro Restaurant, open morning and night serving a locally inspired menu and craft beer, or they can enjoy a drink on the rooftop lounge which showcases amazing downtown views all the way to the World Trade Center. In addition, business travelers can utilize the property's business center and meeting rooms, which are perfect for accommodating conferences and banquets.
"We're excited to operate this hotel for We Care Ltd. and Choice Hotels, and to make our mark on the unique Chelsea market," said Mark Laport, CEO of Concord Hospitality. "At Concord, we're constantly looking for opportunities to grow in top-tier, urban markets. Given the success in opening our Cambria hotel & suites Washington, D.C. last year, we're thrilled to be involved in this hotel as a second New York City Cambria is coming this fall in Times Square."


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Versalife Vantage Point
Dutch producer Boris Bunnik is a man of many aliases, yet a core sensibility always shines through, regardless of the moniker he chooses. Vantage Point is the first full-length from his more overtly electro-focused Versalife project, but in many ways, it picks up where his 2011 album as Conforce, Escapism, left off. Much of the story, as always, is in Bunnik's meticulous, aquatic sound design; the listener is immediately taken into a lushly detailed world, with the album working more like a tour of its features than a collection of tracks per se. So, while few of Vantage Point's 10 tracks would stand out in an EP setting, when experienced as a whole, they offer a mutually reinforcing listening experience that elaborates on Bunnik's Drexciyan fixations.
The opening pings of "Subdomain" cover all the bases; skittish, wide-ranging arpeggios, razor-sharp synth pads, sonar bass, and a generous helping of claps and ticking rimshots create a soupy medium for the listener's gills to grow back in before things really get underway with "Sonic Signals." The album's second track finds a gingerly stepping but unexpectedly weighty 808 figure harnessing frazzled synth blasts that could be the the muffled cries of some mythical underwater beast, bringing things up to a manic level that persists throughout much of the LP. While the template follows James Stinson's and Gerald Donald's lead, Bunnik makes a science of their nervy mythologies; if not quite predictable, there's something about these tracks that feels inevitable, showing little of the dislocation that his idols turned into art. Bunnik throws a wrench in the works on "Normal Behavior," whose breakdowns halve the track's tempo, stretching a moist Reese bass into a teeth-gritting, gravelly smear before abruptly righting itself, but it doesn't suffuse its surroundings with a palpable sense of instability.
The paranoid hi-hats of "Recombinant Creations" are among the album's most obvious nods to Detroit; they skip along, conjuring images of a jet ski moving at full clip over marine whitecaps while basslines bubble up threateningly from below. It's all very bare bones compared to the more relaxed, generous curvatures of Escapism, a stripping away of the producer's flesh in order to let the drum machines and rubbery bass wallops do the talking. There's nothing objectionable about Vantage Point in this sense—it's another masterful feat of engineering. And while Versalife's mastery suggests the album amounts to more than a collection of stylistically focused tableaus, that greater meaning remains elusive. That's the trouble with using such freighted sounds. Technical precision aside, the proceedings can feel like just another homage to a much-respected style. Versalife is at its strongest when the music strikes out into its own ambient terrain, as it does on creepy, glowering interlude "Further Corrections." It's a moment when the process of revision gives way to a feeling of original vision, and its shapeless pings come off like the birth pangs of something new, that for the most part lurks beneath the faultless surface.


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Your users are mobile. Are you?
Traffic from mobile devices is still increasing. That being the case, your website must be mobile-friendly and optimized for mobile usability.
Recent studies from Google found that mobile visitors are more likely to revisit mobile-friendly sites.
It's your responsibility to tap into this huge customer base of mobile users and to do some mobile usability testing to ensure a smooth user experience for your mobile audience and customers. These people are highly motivated and, if you're smart, you can build your business by leveraging mobile apps.
However, knowing how to acquire leads and customers through mobile applications isn't enough. You also need to understand how to do continual mobile usability testing and to optimize your pages for mobile, so that you can provide a memorable experience for users on a consistent basis.
User experience should not be taken lightly. According to Mobiforge, "user experience counts even more on mobile devices and it's one of the main factors if a site has a solid conversion rate or a high bounce rate."
Mobile usability boils down to people usability. So, if you want your site to be accessed easily on mobile applications, then you've got to eliminate mobile usability errors.
Regardless of the mobile device your users access your site with, they should be able to find the information they're seeking in a timely manner.
Brands are capitalizing on mobile apps and devices to grow their customer base and revenue. For example, Amazon's audience growth in the UK is currently pegged at an impressive 87%.
Here are 6 quick tweaks that you can make to ensure that your website passes the mobile usability evaluation and delivers a favorable experience for your users:
1. Have a single column website layout.
Popular brands that have optimized their sites for mobile usability go the extra mile to put their content first. They get rid of every element that could distract users from their content.
One of those distracting elements is having multiple columns on a page's mobile layout. In fact, having more than one column could be a conversion killer.
Even Facebook uses a single column for the 3 versions (m.facebook.com, touch.facebook.com, and 0.facebook.com) of their mobile sites.
Take the first step right now. Having a single column website layout for a mobile site is essential.
Start by considering your objective for building a mobile site. What exactly do you want to achieve?
For example, Hyundai has a single objective behind its mobile site: to enable you to view the latest model of a vehicle, followed by other mobile-optimized images.
That's why you won't see any navigation menu bar or sidebar on its mobile site – just a picture of the latest vehicle model. Take a look:
After defining your objective, you need to also remember that a mobile screen is smaller than that of a desktop PC. So, you need to be aware of things like your screen and text size.
Take a look at the two mobile sites in the picture below. The one on the left has 2 columns. According to Google, it's not mobile friendly.
The second has a single column and it's both search- and user-friendly.
If your mobile site currently has more than one column and you want to tweak it, the most effective way is to adopt a responsive design.
According to Brian Casel of Mashable,
Using responsive web design techniques, you can take a multi-column desktop site layout and adapt it to a single-column layout.
Look at how a responsive design transformed Major League Baseball's mobile site into a single, user-friendly column.
2. If you can, design different versions of your site for mobile users.
Having different versions of your site, optimized for mobile users, can save you a lot of headache in the long run. Here's an example from Tefal:
In marketing, providing relevant alternatives can truly boost your conversion rate. It affords your ideal customers the opportunity to enjoy a great user experience and choose the right solution for them.
When it comes to putting mobile users first, one of the essential things that you can do is to design different versions of your site for mobile users, or even a specific mobile app.
You already know that the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy Tab aren't the only mobile devices in use.
With different mobile devices also comes the need for screen adjustment and acknowledging different levels of processing power.
If you check your favorite mobile phone retailers, you'll notice that phones with resolutions from 128 x 160 pixels up to 620 x 1200 pixels are the most common these days.
Many phones are also not designed to load up full web pages, unlike the most advanced smartphones.
That's why, just like Facebook and other social networking sites, you should design a scaled-down version of your site for users who don't have the mobile application usability to load the full version.
Facebook has three different mobile website versions for their mobile users. The "m.facebook.com" version is the main mobile site that most people are familiar with.
The "0.facebook.com" version was designed for mobile users who reside in countries and geographical locations with slow download speeds.
Finally, the "touch.facebook.com" version is – as you'd guess – optimized for touchscreen device users.
3. Design and optimize pages for both touchscreen and non-touchscreen users.
The world is experiencing a mobile revolution.
In fact, worldwide mobile device usage is increasing from 7 billion in 2013 to an estimate of over 10 billion by 2018.
When it comes to mobile usability, you want to ensure a terrific user experience, so that your users quickly find exactly what they're looking for.
Remember that if you don't meet their needs, they'll leave and visit some other user -friendly mobile site – maybe your competitor's.
Touchscreen mobile devices are increasingly popular these days and they present unique opportunities for you. For one thing, touchscreen mobile applications help users to fill out a form more easily.
Stiff buttons on non-touchscreen mobile devices can make registration on a mobile site awfully painful. According to Apptimize, 56% of mobile users quit, because registration took too long.
The majority of the smartphones in use have a touchscreen user interface. They can access the internet much more quickly, because of the advanced functionalities they have.
However, some other mobile devices can also do that. Many users prefer the basic, older technology to the newer kind.
In order to provide optimum mobile application usability and make your ideal customers happy when browsing through your mobile site, you need to cater to both touchscreen and non-touchscreen users, even though touchscreen devices are and will continue to be favored more heavily.
Remember that when optimizing your mobile site for touchscreen users, you should avoid adding more than the required links on a particular page, especially when they're too close together.
That's because if the links are too close, it's hard for users to click on the right one. Users commonly find themselves clicking the wrong link, and their frustration grows.
To the extent possible, avoid links altogether in favor of clear and captivating buttons – especially for your call-to-action. On a touchscreen user interface, it's easier to click on a wide button than a link.
4. Leverage built-in mobile functionality to make your site more valuable.
As a smart marketer, you can take advantage of built-in mobile tools, features and functionalities to improve your sales and leads.
When designing your mobile site, you need to consider all of the important features for effective mobile usability testing.
As an example, the search bar on your site is important. You may not use it on your general desktop site, but you should definitely include a search bar on your mobile site.
According to a recent Google survey, 78% of users use the search bar to find and access important information. If you're not using a touchscreen-friendly interface, then your buttons should probably be bigger. After all, 69% of mobile users prefer big, finger-friendly buttons.
Click-to-call is one built-in feature that you shouldn't ignore. Listen up: your ideal customers who use mobile devices want to put their thumb on a business phone number and call the phone line instantaneously, instead of having to remember and then separately dial the number.
With modern smartphones, mobile application users can easily find a particular address on a map. They don't have to search endlessly before they can get the accurate address of a restaurant, for example.
Using GPS, they can detect a business that's close to them. With the Location-Detection functions on most modern mobile phones, customers can easily detect the nearest store locations on a map.
Moreover, social networking mobile sites (e.g., m.facebook.com) can make it easier for its users to find friends, colleagues, events or places close to them.
5. Avoid Flash usage on mobile devices.
When optimizing your site for mobile application usability, steer clear of Flash. Flash may look beautiful when you see all those powerful animations – but it's not a good idea, especially on mobile sites.
In most cases, growing a business means considering mobile usability before aesthetics. If visitors are using your site easily, they don't care whether or not your header is animating or static.
Flash doesn't help SEO in any way. According to 435digital.com, it "…serves your content in a way that seals off search engines from your data… it gives all of your content to the browser in one pile of code that isn't indexable by most search engines."
Compatibility issues, painstaking updates and many more issues you'll likely encounter when you use Flash can all waste your time. Why take the risk?
6. Use a simple and clear call-to-action.
Crafting a call-to-action for desktop landing pages is hard. It's even more difficult when you're targeting mobile users. The best way to succeed is to study successful CTAs from sites that are optimized for mobile application usability.
A high-converting CTA is often the difference between a mobile site that converts users into customers at a high rate and one that doesn't convert at all.
Knowing how to create a perfect mobile call-to-action can help you stand out from the crowd. It's a skill that most people (especially mobile marketers) typically don't have.
The concept of a call-to-action is simple: tell people what to do next. It's a way to nudge them and (preferably) reward them, when they take the "right next step."
Your mobile call-to-action must be specific, visible and useful. When you put yourself in the customer's shoes, you'll begin to see things from their perspective.
Persuasive CTAs will always lead to a higher conversion rate. Every tiny tweak can play a key role in increasing or decreasing your conversion rate and can play a crucial role in effective mobile usability testing.
As an example, Oli from Unbounce.com and the team at Content Verve ran a split test on a landing page. They wanted to know how changing a single word could impact the click-through rate.
According to Michael Aagaard, during the split test, they only changed the possessive from "Your" to "My."
At the end of the 3-week experiment, the CTA text "Start my free 30 day trial" increased the click through rate to the payment page by 90% over the version that read "Start your free 30 day trial."
Regardless of whether you're asking people to sign up to your email list, to download your book or to purchase a product, remember that if you're too pushy, customers will notice and they'll run away.
But, by the same token, if you're too mild, customers won't be persuaded. Hence, they'll leave, too.
You need to strike a balance. A good CTA is that tipping point where a person either bounces off your site or moves forward to purchase your product (or download your free ebook).
It's possible to design the perfect call-to-action so that it draws the right people in and gets clicked. This is even more important with mobile users, because they're quick to make purchase decisions.
From the chart below, you can see that, during business hours, 54% of users search for information on smartphones. And, 34% of mobile users use their phone to search for local businesses.
If you want your mobile site to become the go-to platform for mobile users, then ditch every advanced technique that you've been taught and focus on creating simple, clean and mobile-friendly calls-to-action.
Pay attention to mobile users and become the smart marketer. Don't be overwhelmed by all of the advice out there. The rules for mobile application usability and mobile usability testing tools aren't set in stone.
If you're on a limited budget, consider creating a mobile app or using one of the pre-designed templates out there.
Whatever it costs, in terms of time or money to get your site mobile-friendly and easy to use, it's a smart investment to make in your brand.
Maybe you have a mobile site but it isn't converting as well as you'd hoped. Don't despair. The fact that your site is already mobile-friendly is a big accomplishment – most B2B and B2C marketers haven't even gotten that far.
I'm confident that you've learned one or two things from this ultimate guide to mobile usability. Just keep in mind: the web is dynamic and always changing. What we hold as gospel truth today might fizzle out in a few months' time.
Get your sites and pages ready for this imminent mobile technology age. Your customers are mobile, so you've got to be where they are.
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Fortunately, though the map's last three clues had led them to encounters with vicious monsters and maniacal robots, their fourth clue seemed somewhat straightforward:
"The home of the clouds holds the next key.
Get help from 'Faeries', and answers you'll see."
The dynamic duo thought that this would be easy. They planned on simply asking the faeries in Faerieland to help them. Simple enough... right? However, neither Jeran nor Tara knew that this stage of their journey would be much more complicated. The novice adventurers reached Faerieland fairly quickly with the aid of some very kind Pteris. As they landed, Tara noticed Jeran breathing a sigh of relief.
"What a scaredy-cat," she thought. But she knew they made a great team and was excited to continue their journey together.
"So what do you think?" Jeran questioned after he thanked his new Pteri friend.
"I'm not sure," Tara responded. "I thought once we got here it would be pretty obvious, but I can't even think of how to start."
"I guess the best way would be to just dive in and start asking around."
"Well, there are only about ten MILLION faeries in Faerieland. We'd better get started."
Over the next two hours, Tara and Jeran went to every shop and every house in Faerie City. They knocked on every door and asked all the faeries the same questions. Unfortunately, no one could provide any information about the golden keys they had found at their last three destinations. Even worse, they had no alternative plan. If none of the faeries could help them, they had come to a dead end!
When they felt they could go no further, the exhausted pair sat down on a puffy space of cumulus and considered their options.
"We can't just stop now," Tara said, exasperated.
"Well, what else is there to do?" Jeran pondered. "We've asked every single faerie in this bloody place and not one knows about the map!"
"Wait," Tara said, beginning to formulate an idea. "Have we talked to EVERY faerie?"
"Yes, Tara. Big, small; light, dark; friendly, insane; everyone!"
"Even the most... Important Faerie?"
"What are you saying? Who is the most-- Wait. Queen Fyora?! We could never ask her for help!"
"And why not? Who's to say she's not part of this herself?"
"Tara, that's ridiculous! And besides that, the castle guards would never even let us get close to her, let alone engage her in a crazy conversation about a treasure map and golden keys!"
"Well, maybe we don't meet her at her castle..."
Jeran eyed Tara warily. He was becoming more and more aware of her devious nature. But her ingenuity and cleverness had helped a lot thus far. He bet that this time would be the same.
"Fine. I'll bite. What's the plan?"
Tara's idea involved meeting the queen at the Hidden Tower, which she had heard of, but had no clue how to find. Hopefully, they would find the queen there and could ask for her assistance.
With some very sneaky questioning of the local faeries, Tara quickly found out that the tower was located beside [blocked]. However, though she now knew the tower's location, there was still the possibility of it being guarded, just like the castle. Tara set off for the tower anyway, and soon ran right into the invisible fortress. Rubbing her bruised head, she stepped through the tower door, followed closely by Jeran, and walked up to its topmost room. It would be wonderful to find Queen Fyora unguarded and watching over priceless items! Unfortunately, though the room was free of security (likely to dull any suspicion of it being the Hidden Tower's true location), Queen Fyora was nowhere to be seen, and the entire collection of legendary items was missing!
"I wonder where she is," a panicked Jeran wondered aloud. "Maybe the items were stolen and Queen Fyora's been kidnapped!"
The new voice startled Tara and Jeran. It sounded distant, but firm, even regal. Before the two could ponder the mysterious occurrence, a flash of light blinded them, and when their eyesight recovered, they saw a wondrous sight: Queen Fyora was standing in the middle of the tower room, surrounded by amazing items.
"One cannot expect a Queen to stay cooped up in a dank tower all day, can one?"
As she spoke, Jeran thought he might faint.
"I have learned that it is much easier to come and go as I am needed. Things run much more smoothly that way."
"Queen Fyora," Tara breathed, "I'm sorry to say this, but the reason we have disturbed you is not because we wish to purchase a Hidden Tower item. We actually need your help."
"Child, many desire my help. But with so many Faerieland citizens to keep in mind and care for, one queen cannot always see to each individual's desires. I am afraid you will have to seek elsewhere for the answers you require. Now if that will be all..."
The queen made an elegant motion and light began to fill the room once again. She had been there for less than ten seconds and was already ignoring the request for help and leaving. Tara, very frustrated, spoke up in one last effort.
"It's about the Treasure of Xutu!"
The queen stopped immediately and the growing light faded. She took one step forward and said,
"Finally. I have been waiting three hundred years for someone to say those words. I suppose you are searching for a key."
Now Jeran spoke up. "So you DO know about the treasure!"
"Yes," the queen replied, "of course. But unfortunately, I know nothing of the key's location. All I know is to tell you to consult u."
"But we know that already, and we've asked EVERYONE! No one knows anything!"
"I'm sorry, but that's all I know. And now I really must take my leave. I sense two groups of dark faeries are about to start an uprising near the bookshop."
"Well, thank you for your help."
And just like that, she was gone. Another flash of light blinded Tara and Jeran, leaving them alone and confused in a cold tower. Jeran was fuming.
"So basically, all we know now is EXACTLY what we knew before."
"I know, Jeran, I know." Tara consoled him the best she could. "I just wish she had given us something more. All she said was 'Consult 'Faeries' and then she went off to the book store!"
"You know, I'm about sick and tired of--"
"Hold on a second, Jeran. I just got an idea.... the bookstore. Let's take another look at clue number four."
Tara took the map out of her knapsack and unfolded it onto the stone floor. She and Jeran carefully re-read the fourth clue:
"The home of the clouds holds the next key.
Get help from Faeries, and answers you'll see."
Jeran was the first to speak.
"Well the first line lead us here, and we're obviously in the right place."
"Yes, said Tara, but I just noticed something in the second line. Look at the word 'Faeries.' Why is it capitalized?"
"Tara, it's highly unlikely that a simple error in grammar is at all significant."
"Just listen, Jeran. Not only that, but it's italicized! And what are names that are capitalized and italicized?"
Jeran thought for a moment and then came to the same conclusion as Tara.
"Titles of books!"
"Exactly! We've been wrong all along, Jeran. We weren't supposed to consult actual faeries, but rather the book titled Faeries!"
"Well, that's... slightly dull. But what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
They ran down the steps of the invisible tower and out into Faerie City. They ran as fast as they could, pushing past protesting employees at the Employment Agency , racing by Faerie Furniture (though a Dark Faerie Dresser on sale almost caused Jeran to stop), and finally stopping at the Faerie Bookshop, where they saw a few final dark faerie rebels being reprimanded by the queen's guards. They rushed in, startling the faerie behind the counter, and began their search. They searched every shelf in the store three times, but could not find the book they were looking for. Just as they were about to walk out of the shop, the faerie attendant chimed,
"Did you find what you were looking for? Perhaps I may be of some assistance."
"Well, you see," Tara said, "We're looking for a book called 'Faeries' because we think it may have something to do with an... item we're trying to find."
The faerie checked her books and said,
"Hm... It seems as though our stock on that book ran out about... oh dear! Three hundred years ago! I wonder why no one's ever ordered more. Oh well."
"So there's no copy here at all?" Now Jeran was frustrated.
"Well I wouldn't say that..." The Faerie looked very conspicuous.
"So, there is one here?" Tara probed.
"Well... we keep one copy of each book we've ever had on sale in the back, sort of as a record-keeping method, but mostly for the nostalgia. We have almost every original copy!"
She was beaming as she boasted to the pair, but then scowled and warned, "But those are restricted works. Only the staff and certified experts are allowed back to view them."
"Please, ma'am," Tara begged. "May we just have a minute to look over the text. You can handle the pages for us; there's no one even here!"
The faerie immediately refused, claiming that even breathing on the ancient books was against the rules.
"As far as I know," said the faerie, "those books haven't even been moved in years, and I'm not about to be the one to break that rule!"
"What rule?!"
"The unspoken one! Now, if you'll excuse me..."
Becoming uncomfortable, she asked Tara and Jeran to leave. The two heartbroken treasure hunters shuffled out of the Faerie Bookstore. The bookkeeper was very pleased with herself.
Upon reaching the outside, Tara immediately stiffened up and replaced her sunken frown with a determined scowl. Jeran, who was obviously still upset, asked Tara what the problem was.
"Oh, Jeran, I was never upset. I just wanted to make that faerie think we'd given up."
Jeran brightened up a bit, "We haven't?"
"Seriously? How long have you known me? Here's the plan..."
Twenty minutes later Tara was pulling a dark faerie dresser back towards the Faerie Bookstore. When she reached the door, she walked in and came back a minute later with the Faerie Bookkeeper.
"What's all this about?" the bookkeeper queried, "I--oh! What a lovely dresser! Who's is it?"
"Yours!" Tara said with a fake smile plastered on her face. "It was on sale, and while browsing through your amazing selection of works I noticed that you were in need of a little more storage. Now I know that dressers aren't ideal for holding books, but maybe you could use it to hold some extra copies or something."
"Well that's just too gracious of you!" the faerie said, delighted. She suspected nothing, just as Tara had figured.
Tara helped the ecstatic bookworm move the dresser into the store and looked around.
"Oh no," said the clever Kyrii. "Looks as if you don't have any room for it in your front room."
"Hm..." the faerie pondered. "Oh! There's plenty of room in the back! Would you mind helping me a bit more?"
"Excellent," thought Tara.
A few minutes later, Tara walked out the door of the shop, leaving the smiling faerie at her counter. Seconds later, Tara was leading an angry group of faerie protesters in a march to the employment agency in front of the bookshop windows, catching the bookworm faerie's attention and luring her outside.
Jeran, hidden behind a false panel in the back of the dresser, heard the bookstore door shut on screams of "Lower Pay, No Way!" and leaped out of his prison. He set to work at once, surveying the room and searching for the ancient copy of 'Faeries'. He spotted the book within seconds, but instantly felt his heart drop. It was locked in a glass case secured by five different padlocks. Breaking the glass would certainly sound an alarm and alert the faerie, and where was he going to get the key or keys to all of those padlocks? He decided his best option was to just steal the book and run. Hopefully the faerie bookkeeper wouldn't catch him.
Jeran pulled a hammer from his bag and took a deep breath. With one swift swing, the glass shattered and an alarm sounded. The bookstore faerie rushed back into her shop as Jeran snatched the book from its case and ran. Or... did he? Jeran thought he felt himself running far and fast. But in reality, his feet were planted on the spot. It was as if another person was in Jeran's place, and he was controlling Jeran's actions. In the back of his head Jeran heard a voice say,
"There's a reason these books are not to be touched... You have released an ancient curse... And you will... be... punished..."
The shopkeeper and Tara, who had seen the faerie disappear into the store, both reached the back room in time to see the impossible event occur. In a split second, Jeran was gone, sucked into the book. The book fell to the floor, glowing a deep shade of red.
"What have you done?!" the faerie yelled.
And much more quietly, in less than a whisper, Tara echoed,
"What have I done?"
To be continued...


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From 25-28 June 2015 Peja International Guitar Festival 2015 will be held for the first time. Within its activities will be held The first International Classical Guitar Competition "Ehat Musa".
Organizers of the event are the Municipality of Peja and Kosova Guitar Society – with the support of Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Republic of Kosova. In the festival, besides others, plays world famous guitarist of the new generation, Lukasz Kuropaczewski from Poland, Italian guitarist Marco Feri, with brazilian music repertoire, and the opening of the festival will be attended by famous Croatian Ensemble of Zagreb Soloists and noted Kosovan guitarist Petrit Ceku.
By all connoisseurs of cultural and artistic heritage, it is known that in the city of Peja musical art is cultivated, especially playing the guitar (popular, entertaining and classical), as heritage of family education in particular as the need of expression of deeper emotions to follow the "beauty" of music art and at the same time raising the qulity of living . It is interesting that in the town with the musical tradition at the time when there was no school of music, the art research in the field of classical guitar, launched several artist at the top of the regional and world guitar scene.
Example of this is the career and international success of Albanian prominent guitarist Ehat Musa, who lives and works in Paris. In the field of guitar pedagogy lecturer Xhevdet Sahatxhija from Peja, has contributed greatly to the education of young Kosovan guitarists by opening guitar department at the Faculty of Arts in Pristina, which is known in this region of Europe.
We live in a time when music festivals comprise cultural part of towns that care for cultural and artistic level. With great pleasure we can say that we fulfill all the criteria and that it is high time to arrange in Peja a guitar festival with international reputation as a destination of regional guitarists and at the same time offer to citizens of Peja and the State of Kosova an extraordinary and memorable musical content.
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My next addiction was turn-based strategy games like the Civilization series and my favorite game of all time, Master of Magic- truely the first game I became massively addicted to.
I dabbled in various other games over the years, usually returning to strategy games, until my next addiction took hold: World of Warcraft. I played for a few years and raided until Burning Crusade game out and finally got burnt out from the massive hours required to successfully raid with a decent guild.
I took some time off until I found Team Fortress 2 and my guild which I played for a few years and still play.
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Welcome to Tiny Fry! Join me on this adventure called "motherhood" as I try to raise two civilized human beings and remain sane in the process. When I'm not discussing the current political climate with my toddler and teaching my baby quantum physics, you can usually find me eating ice cream
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Diana Wellman - Preservation Professional
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Diana Wellman is a Qualified Historic Preservation Consultant pertaining to the United States Secretary of Interior's Standards for Archeology and Historic Preservation, Section 48 FR 4471 with 15 years experience in historic preservation.
Diana graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University in 1995. She received an Associate Degree in Building Preservation and Restoration from Belmont Technical College in 1997 and holds a Masters of Urban Studies from Cleveland State University.
Diana worked on the Millennium Project in New York for Columbia Gas in 1997 as an Architectural Historian team member for Gray and Pape, Inc. From 1998 to 2009 Diana served as a Preservation Specialist for Sandvick Architects in Cleveland, Ohio. While at Sandvick, Diana authored over twenty National Register Nominations for both historic district and individual buildings, accounting for more than 500 historic resources. Diana worked on more than forty successful tax credit projects, many of which received both national and local awards. In 2013 she received the Hale Farm & Village Legacy Award in the field of Historic Preservation for her work on restoring the Hale House as part of the Sandvick team.
In 2009 she authored the National Register Nomination for the Inglewood Historic District in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Her work on the nomination was acknowledged by Cleveland Heights city council and Landmarks Commission with the 2009 Community Improvement Award for Historic Preservation. In 2010 she established Preservation Principles Consulting, which provides preservation consulting services to developers seeking historic tax credit or require agency mitigation assistance; her clients include the Flats East Development LLC, Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation, Genghis Properties, Industrial Realty Group, Spillway Partners, and Sustainable Community Associates. In 2013 she formed a women-owned preservation consulting firm Naylor Wellman, LLC with colleague and friend Wendy Naylor, a historic preservation consultant. Their company provides historic preservation services to historic properties owners, non-profit organizations, and communities large and small. She also serves on Cleveland Heights Citizen Advisory Committee, which allocates $1.9 million dollars to grant recipients under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.
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Happy mail. Special delivery. A good post day. Whatever you call it when something that is neither bill nor junk mail shows up in the postbox, this is it. From the moment I caught sight of all those red stamps on the outside of the envelope, I knew it was going to be good.
Inside the envelope was a map. Not just any map. My first map.
It's a beautiful map of Lyon, France, and the surrounding area, from the 1960s. Ooh la la indeed. It was sent to me by a generous reader, Sophie, (merci!) who had no use for it as the map didn't quite stretch to include her hometown.
One of my favourite details is the town of St. Etienne. Though Justin has already firmly vetoed the name, I've always loved 'Etienne' for a little boy. (He's more into naming boys after ferocious animals -- Bear, Wolf,
Notice that the roads are all marked in red? Perfect! Clearly, it's quite a bumpy, twisty mountainous area, and I'm imaging many of these roads running along crests of the Alps. Who fancies a bit of skiing? (And a nice hot pain au chocolat afterwards...)
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Campbell Soup Company (CPB - Free Report) , in following the footsteps of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (HAIN - Free Report) , recently agreed to acquire Plum Organics, a leading provider of premium organic baby food. We believe that the acquisition will enhance Campbell Soup's product categories and also provide access to a wider range of customers.
The manufacturer of high-quality food and simple meals, Campbell Soup has not disclosed the financial details of the transaction but intends to fund the acquisition with available credit limit. Further, the deal will likely be completed by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, subject to regulatory approvals.
We believe that with this acquisition, the company will be able to compete with Hain Celestial in every food category. Earlier this month, the latter had made a similar strategic move and acquired Ella's Kitchen Group Limited, the manufacturer and distributor of premium organic baby food.
In the United States, the organic baby food segment is one of the most flourishing food categories, having grown at an average annual rate of 43% from 2010–2012. Currently, the segment is anticipated to be worth $2 billion in the country.
Founded in 2007, Plum Organics ranks second in the organic baby food category and fourth in the overall baby food category in the United States. Since its incorporation, it has launched over 150 products for babies, toddlers and kids in the U.S. and the U.K.
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Bowling at Brunswick is family fun at its best. It's a great way to spend some quality time everyone will enjoy. Bowling, billiards, video games, food, beverages - there's something fun for everyone. Grab your family or call a few good friends and get into the good times at Brunswick.
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Issue Date: 2018 FEBRUARY, Posted On: 2/8/2018
02082018 Due Process Stable Trading Company Pushes Design Envelope at Surfaces 2018
By Carol Tisch
Aaron Ward, senior vice president, and Gregory Bereza, executive vice president/partner of Due Process Stable Trading Company in front of a new Elemental collection rug at their booth at the 2018 Surfaces show in Las Vegas.
LAS VEGAS -- Notable among the cluster of broadloom and area rug exhibitors at The International Surface Event (TISE) 2018, held Jan. 30 - Feb. 1 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center here, was area rug supplier Due Process Stable Trading Company (DPSTC).
Manning the exhibit stand for the Lumberton, North Carolina-based company were Aaron Ward, senior vice president, and Gregory Bereza, executive vice president/partner of DPSTC, both pleased with traffic at the show. "Pretty much every one of our West Coast partners pulled the trigger on all the new products we're showing here," Ward told RugNews.com. "We are premiering several new collections and designs within [existing lines] here at Vegas -- things we didn't even have for the Javits show," he explained, referring to The Rug Show New York, held in September 2017.
A hit with Surfaces shoppers, the new Elemental collection, displayed by Due Process in a full rug and in corner samples for all colorways, is hand-knotted in a Nepalese construction in loop and cut pile.
One new quality that was particularly well received, according to Bereza, was a new Nepalese series called Elemental. "We are really pushing the envelope with this construction. It's brand new -- wool and silk in varying diameters to create different pile heights. We haven't done anything like this before, and it was pretty much the big hit for us at the show," Bereza said.
"We needed to update our Nepalese production and SKUs, and this checked all the boxes. Everybody really liked it, and thought it was something fresh and different," added Ward. "It's a loop and cut pile. It's not only a mixture of techniques; it's also a mixture of materials and content. It's really a very high quality piece for Nepalese construction."
Due Process Stable Trading Company brought to the Las Vegas Surfaces show samples representing its faster-turning and newer products.
The DPSTC stand at Surfaces displayed samples representing about a third of the company's lineup, which is being reevaluated in light of a recent management reorganization and corporate restructuring. "We're sticking with stuff that is faster-turning and newer products," Bereza said. "People that have worked with Due Process have come to know what we've done in traditional rugs, so we brought one of each for quality so that those who have never seen Due Process, can see, feel, and touch them. What we brought was really a cross-section of what we're turning."
Bereza said that Due Process will again present the Surfaces intros at the upcoming April 2018 High Point Market and is readying several new collections to premiere at its Historic Market Square showroom, suite 216, in High Point, North Carolina.
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