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Almost two-thirds of businesses (64%) increased their spending on online display advertising this year, while just 14% decreased their level of investment in this channel.
This marks a trend of increasing spend as the proportion of advertisers having increased their budgets for display advertising has gone up from 57% to 64% since 2009.
While this trend reflects the stabilised economy in 2013 compared to 2009, it also highlights increased confidence among advertisers and agencies that online display advertising is delivering value, largely driven by more efficient technology and better understanding of the channel's performance resulting from improved attribution.
The findings come from the new Econsultancy Online Advertisers Survey Report, published in association with Rubicon Project.
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Only a third of businesses (32%) manage their display advertising exclusively in-house, compared to 44% for paid search and 52% for social.
The data comes from a new Econsultancy and Adobe report that focuses on the use of paid-for digital channels, namely paid search, display advertising and social.
For many companies, the buying of these media is been owned and managed by different parts of the business with responsibility for different channels also split across in-house and agency teams.
The report found that display is the most likely to be managed exclusively by an agency with social the least likely to be outsourced.
by David Moth 10 September 2013 10:14am 4 comments
The display space has been the subject of numerous exciting innovations over the course of 2012, resulting in some fantastic growth in the industry.
Europe's online display ad spend for 2012 will reach £3.8bn, and grow at a rate of 13% to be £6.2bn by 2016 – all extremely healthy signs that the sector is on the up.
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At the end of every year, executives and pundits put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) to project how their industry will change in the months ahead.
Some years that change is downright incremental. In others, there's a significant shift in how people do business, reach their customers, and make money.
2013 is one of those years.
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David Sasson is COO of content discovery solution Outbrain, the sponsor of the Content Marketing Survey Report being published by Econsultancy next week.
David, who will be on the panel for the research launch event in London next Wednesday, spoke to us about the growth of content marketing and what the company's platform can offer for publishers, advertisers and consumers.
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This month has been a busy time for the online display advertising world with the huge dmexco trade show in Cologne followed by AdTech and two display-focused conferences taking place in London last week.
This post covers some of the main trends and challenges discussed at these events, some of which were outlined in my State of Display presentation at OMMA Display.
While there is much excitement around the growth of real-time bidding, there has also been plenty of realism and candour about the industry's on-going struggle to address the issues which are preventing brand advertisers from investing more of their advertising budgets.
by Linus Gregoriadis 25 September 2012 13:10pm 0 comments
Disruptive technological advancements in display advertising have opened a wealth of options for marketers. They can optimise as never before by running personalized, cost-effective, scalable campaigns, in real time.
In the fast-paced world of online advertising, enhanced targeting can generate real time decision making and thus create performance uplift.
Making sense of this real time revolution is a formidable task. My goal in this series is to help marketers put things in place while offering practical advice. In part one, I discussed real time bidding (RTB).
Now, part two is dedicated to dynamic creative.
by Benny Arbel 13 August 2012 11:40am 1 comment
A key trend highlighted in our recently published Real-Time Bidding Buyer's Guide is that media buyers working with RTB for their display campaigns are gradually translating these capabilities to other channels, such as mobile, video and social.
by Monica Savut 09 August 2012 14:12pm 2 comments
As internet-connected mobile devices find their way into the hands of more and more consumers, advertisers are increasingly focusing on the mobile channel.
Earlier this year, comScore found that the number of advertisers buying mobile inventory has grown 120% in two years.
Given the rise of mobile, it's no surprise that some are suggesting mobile could quickly become one of the most important channels for advertisers.
For instance, Razorfish's Mobile Practice Lead, Paul Gelb, has predicted that mobile will surpass the $130bn/year television advertising market -- and soon.
by Patricio Robles 05 October 2011 14:03pm 0 comments
Fragmentation of media across all digital disciplines such as display, search, social, mobile and video is changing the way that people view, purchase and manage their media budgets.
This has positive and negative ramifications for buyers, suppliers, agencies and specialists in field. It also sparks an age old specialist v generalist debate on how we select media and technology vendors and utilise human capital within digital organisations.
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I think that your Z and S would look better without the angles in them
wouldnt that effect the ae? maybe making the angles in them lower idk
trows arent really my thing
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Horrible? nah
I'm going with Warrior though, and ya I gotta hand it to ya, Dr.sex is the only ***** who can pull off the doc in this shit. I'm just too toy.
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Zase-not bad, maybe make em less vertical....more fat and short.
yeah i started a few weeks ago, i regret with the white in the letters but oh well. i never realized decos were so easy to rack.
shayk- idk why but the a dosent look right.
foer- stay off MR.wigglez or graffiti creator. only hurts you in the long run. go mad simple, if u just started. block letters man, time to learn structure.
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I do participate in Acts of Graffiti/vandalism. Not only do i condone such acts, but i encourage them.
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bump ZASE throw real nice
War- even out your letter size.
big im diggin the top right one
it reads aNK . i kinda dont like uppercase with lower any ideas? i need to make the letters more similar too.
Ank, dude, I just think there is too much shit going on inside of it.
Simplify it a lot. A whole lot
it looks like nNn to me
haha, looks like an R to me, homie,
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My mom always has mascara all over her lids. I think it's cause she doesn't wear her glasses when putting it on, which make sense. I hope this helps!
This sounded like a fabulous idea to me when I heard about it, but trying to use it on myself was next to impossible. MUCH better to just clean up any mistakes with a cotton swab dipped in makeup remover! I can see why make-up artists love them, though. Definitely simplifies working on someone else, but not worth it for the average gal.
I guess this might be effective if you had poor fine motor skills. It otherwise seems absurd to me, and not easy to use. You have to carefully hold the card over your eye - don't blink - then reach to pick up your mascara, somehow remove the applicator from the tube with your third hand, and then apply to your lashes. And don't blink, you'll ruin it worse than if you weren't using this odd product. No. The theory of it is good, but it isn't practical.
If you really have a hard time keeping mascara off your lid when you apply it, then I'd go for something like this. I don't think you'd even need to pay this much for it - find an index card or something and just use that.
These are definitely something that I would use because I get mascara all over my face every morning, without fail. But I had a hard time holding the card and apply mascara at the same time. If you are better coordinated than I am, these would be a good product for you.
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I am absolutely terrible with mascara and bought this on a wim and I love it ! Will rebuy over and over
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To Return or not to Return
Alexandre is encouraging me to go back to working at an English school. My knee-jerk reaction is to recoil in dread and disgust at the mere thought of it. I had so, so many bad experiences working at schools back in Hicktown. (Yes, all of those links are separate posts about said bad experiences.) Then there was that ridiculous interview at one of the technical schools / English schools here in the new beach town where the director didn't even speak English and wanted to pay me 3 reais an hour.
If I were to sum up my problems with working in English schools, they would be the resentment, insults, and general bad treatment from the bosses and the other teachers who really did just seem to resent me for screwing with the status quo (i.e. for doing my job well and for going beyond the horrible standards for teaching English in Brazilian private English schools). Related to this first problem set is the feeling of isolation that I had among my colleagues. A couple of teachers had some experience living abroad for a few months, but the vast majority had never even left Hicktown. They had studied English at the schools and were advanced students and got hired, or they were studying letras at the small private college in town that the boss had gone to. They didn't treat me like a colleague. They asked a ton of ridiculous questions and made me feel like some kind of show horse being examined.
I'm not trying to be arrogant. It's just how it is. I just didn't blend in. We weren't on equal footing. I'm a native English speaker, and they're not. I have experience teaching English, and most of them don't. I have a degree in Linguistics and a half-completed Master's in teaching ESL, and most of them have only a few months in the US working as a nanny, if that. Oh, and I'd married into a wealthy Brazilian family, while many of them had come from humble beginnings (of course, because I'm American, there's no way my beginnings could have also been humble.) I think these differences were what caused their nasty comments, my boss saying things like, "I've given you to a new group, but your former students are complaining about the new teacher. What'd you do in there? Did you talk badly about the other teachers? Did you give them unfairly good grades?", or teachers telling me on payday that I had to buy them all drinks because I was "the rich one," or a teacher telling me, "you only know elitist Brazil! Alexandre is making you a snobby Brazilian!" because I didn't want to go to a Carnaval street party being held in town. Oh yeah, and there was the one who told me that I wasn't even a good teacher, that I was only successful with private students because I'm American... I could go on.
But one thing I did like about working at schools was, of course, the teaching. Even when the books were bad (which they almost always were), I could usually make the most of it, and my students left happy and better at English. I felt like I accomplished something. I enjoy the challenge of having to explain something in a different way when a student doesn't understand, or negotiating with students until everyone's clear on how to say something or why they have to say it the way they do. I miss teaching.
On the whole, I also enjoyed the students at the schools. There was, of course, the occasional jackass, but I had very few problems with students overall. I think they treated me better because they saw me in a different light. They saw me as someone on their side, someone who sincerely cared about their learning, someone who didn't get caught up in the school's bullcrap of using the right colored marker for a given activity and insisting that they go to all the social outings. They saw me teach and were usually happy with the service I was providing them. Most of the other teachers, on the other hand, saw me as a threat, as a foil, and eventually probably saw me as closed off and snobby because I started to avoid them. I went into teaching at the schools with a ton of enthusiasm, imagining I'd make friends with the teachers and find the real idea of colleague and all that, not realizing how toxic the environment was. I eventually became the "cold" American they had thought I'd be. But I was surprised about the friendships I ended up forming with students. Almost all of my friendships in Hicktown can be traced back to my students at the schools -- either the students themselves, or friends or family of students that I ended up teaching privately or meeting at social outings.
Alexandre's overall argument is that I don't have anything to lose. He says if the schools here are bad too, I can just quit.
So my going back to a school would be to have all those good feelings I get from teaching, to get out of the house, to meet the townsfolk and get to know this region better through them, to be part of society again, and lastly, to get a little bit of extra spending money (though that isn't really the point). I just have to decide if those benefits are worth the crap I will probably have to put up with from my bosses and colleagues. I mean, there's a chance things here will be a bit better, since people in this town seem to be a little more accustomed to foreigners, but I think my lack of optimism in that respect is understandable.
So? What do you guys think? Please, share your honest opinions! You've heard all the stories, the good and the bad, and many of you know me and have heard even more. And of course, a lot of you have personal experience with the situation and can tell me what you'd do.
There's also a Fisk, a CNA, and a Wizard in town. If you think my going back to a school is a good idea, which is the lesser of three evils?
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I am with Alexandre, I think you have nothing to loose.
Plus, I have a strong feeling there is a high probability you won't find nasty teachers on your new beach town...it is after all, a more cosmopolitan place than hicktown.
You should definitely go for it.
I will ask my friends from your region if they have any tips on which is the best school.
RaySo far, I am with the consensus - since you have nothing to lose I also think you should give it a try. I would like to also think positively that there is a chance the schools in your new beach town may not be as bad as the ones you had dealt with in the past.
The only thing I worry about for you is this - you ain't no quitter. If it turns out you will have to deal with the same crap as before, I really think you would stick it out, because you will end up befriending many of your students and caring enough to do the right thing as a teacher.
This is a tough one, I know, but don't forget that you can do anything that you want to do and don't have to be stuck being unhappy in any situation.If not that exactly, I think you have to find SOMETHING like that, something you can use your English for and that can be a resource to meeting new people... if only to keep your sanity. I feel so much better in the last months just because I've gotten out of the house more. Just remember that if you do decide to teach, you must put yourself in the optimistic place you were the first time you tried it out. You can remember what you learned the first time so you can avoid the same shit, but you gotta go into it completely open or you'll be the cold American from the start and you'll have no chance.
ReplyDeleteDon't take my advice, I hate to work... Actually, I like to work, I just can't stand stupid bosses. The best bit of advice so far, IMHO, is that you can quit. I would set a very brief time line.
There are other things... convert your blog into a book; start an ESL website; become a restaurant critic in your new town - write for local websites/papers (are there still papers?); spend the time you would be working for R$15/hr at the school developing a professional clientelle; paint your new apartment bold colors; make cheese!; do what Peggy did in Rio das Ostras; open a micro-brewry; knit socks for Alex --- anything but a stupid school!
But don't take my advice.
("Bitter, party of one... Bitter. Your table is ready.)I can relate to your experience Danielle. With such different life experiences, I never feel quite on par with the native teachers, but some of my students have become my dearest friends and private clients.
Since you are in a bigger city now, you could also try teaching 'in company,' and teach students at their place of work. That way you don't have to deal with other teachers at all. I have found luck teaching in engineering firms, computer/software/digital marketing companies and government offices dealing with exports and imports.
Get back in the swing of things! You have nothing to lose and it might lift your spirits in a big way.Also - I worked at a FISK school for nearly a year (three locations in our city). I received zero training, never once did someone observe my class and offer feedback, it felt like a day-care center where the kids spoke English and the staff spoke Portuguese, I was expected to sell (really promote) the outside trips to the students, I was reprimanded for reprimanding disruptive students, less than 10% of parents came to the parent/teacher nights, and the corporate office training professional - after explaining the new version of a mid-level book asked: "Do you have any doubts?"
'nuf said. But that was just here...
In any case - it looks like folks are encouraging you to give it a try. Good luck.As an ESL teacher, I understand why you miss teaching. I think you should try it; like it's been said, worse comes to worse and you can quit.
I worked for Fisk for a year and loved it! My experience was truly wonderful. You know, it may be different in the city where you're living now (I worked at a franchise).
Also, I think Jim has offered some other options that you may pursue where you can use your English around town.
Whatever you choose, good luck.Just go for it!
Go to these 3 courses, check the enviroment, infra, payment, etc and decide what's best for you.
Jim's ideas are also good, but they won't bring you routine and a lot of interaction with people, things which, in my modest opinion, you miss. Besides it can be an opportunity to make new friends and get some private students.
Best of luck,
Paulacan you volunteer to teach English to underprivledged kids through an NGO? That way you are still teaching and getting the good vibes, but you can call the shots and not deal with stupid bosses or colleagues. Of course, no pay, but you have said that that is not really the ppoint. Perhaps you could arrange something through one of the public schools?
ReplyDeletecan you volunteer to teach English to underprivledged kids through an NGO? That way you are still teaching and getting the good vibes, but you can call the shots and not deal with stupid bosses or colleagues. Of course, no pay, but you have said that that is not really the ppoint. Perhaps you could arrange something through one of the public schools?
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel. I say try teaching. If that doesn't workout you should sign up for a class to meet people and learn something new, like photography or cooking. I would recommend pottery classes, you can do that with no art experience, it's so fun, and they usually have open studio so you can go a few times a week and people are always around. I also go to the gym to get out of the house but I don't talk to anyone there. Soon you'll be moving again so you should try to enjoy the beach and the town while you can.
ReplyDeleteHi Danielle, I'm not a teacher, actually my english is not good even to express some tips I would like you, I just think you are right in your comments, I have some friends who worked as a nanny in England and other countries, well I was a nanny myself and was encouraging to teach english because I've been living abroad, which is quite funny. Well about those friends, they are teaching in english schools here in São paulo right now, some of them also have private students, I must confess I was a bit chocked and disappointed with the the kind of people these schools hire sometimes as a teacher. When I was still living in Brazil, I had some teachers which really piss me of because they don't even know how to hide the fact that they don't speak a good english, no methodology, it just make me frustated with spending my money paying for this classes.
Hope you take the best decision, the one who make you happy :)I teach at one of these schools. I can say that it's been good for experience and steady income when you have to deal with flaky private students, which my area is full of.
But I think it leads to wanting to leave the school or find something better. I think if you really need some structure do it. But maybe you should consider about what the "better" would be. now.
If your willing to commute, you could try private schools. If your Portuguese is strong, you could teach in a private school like Objectivo or Rio Branco. Or try a private college or university in Santos. The private schools have people with degrees and bosses with more skills, education and all the jazz you need for a better experience.
Check out all the schools first. Skills, CNA and Wizard are actully owned by the same company. It doesn't really matter, all their methods have problems. Go on pay and the employee vibe. You can ask more money if the pay is not good enough. I was offered a per month job and turned it down.
I then asked for an alternative payment and they gave it to me. Plus, they should pay for your gas, it's the law in Brazil.Lindsey - R$12/hr is an insult! They must offer holiday pay, 13th salary, transport, lunch, health and dental insurance (for you and your husband) and pay for training days. If not --- F*CK them!
How are people supposed to live? You deserve more and they can pay more. Insist!
Danielle - stay strong grrl. Do not sell yourself short.I can't add any advice, lots of that here and much of it excellent. I will just add this as an observation. I think you are much wiser now than you were when you first started at the schools you have had (bad) experiences with. Check out a few of the schools that are in your area - talk to the directors, review their curriculum, their text books - in short, make it your interview of them.
I am convinced, given your past experience, the alarm bells will go off immediately and you can keep on walking. Follow that instinct as opposed to perhaps 'giving them a try'. And, you just might run across that one rare place that does care about the students and the joy of learning. I am convinced you will feel the vibe - or not- immediately.If I were you I would teach at one of those places part time... like really part time, and do other things to keep you busy and inspired. Sometimes it's tempting to use a crappy opportunity (such as working at Wizard or Fisk) and put lots of work into making it work for you. But I worry that you will end up being too generous of yourself and your skills for a place far below your abilities.
See if you can do it part time and not be wrangled into going beyond 10 or so hours per week, so that you can do other things too.
I"m remembering an article you put out... entitled something like... "Studies find that being unemployed is better than working at a crap job."..? I could relate with the desperation of unemployment as a propelling force towards settling for a crap job.
I am going to an interview on Monday with Berlitz. Always told myself I would never work there! But I am desperate... need a work visa, need an income, so I'm going, and gladly...
So I can relate. Hard to know what to do in these situations... change one's expectations, or be true to one's higher calling... LOLHi Danielle, I just wanted to let you know what it's like to "teach" at Wizard. It is a franchise company, and therefore has a very strict "method", (I actually worked there for 2 semesters). The method is as follows:
Teacher: I like bread and cheese in the morning.
Students: I like bread and cheese in the morning.
T: I like bread and cheese in the morning.
S: I like bread and cheese in the morning.
T: Eu gosto de pão e queijo pro café da manhã.
S: I like bread and cheese in the morning.
T: Eu gosto de pão e queijo pro café da manhã.
S: I like bread and cheese in the morning.
You are supposed to do this repeating of words and phrases for 45-50 minutes. The other 5-10 minutes comes at the beginning of class (as you wait for the slackers to come in) to go over corrections to homework and to answer any questions. There is no discussion of grammar, no actual writing assignments until they reach level 5 or 6 (I think). It is not a place for a person who wants to actually explain why things are done, and what shouldn't be done. It is similar to teaching English to parrots, but you always have a butt load of homework to check. The place that I worked actually wanted to sign our work papers as "monitores" instead of as teachers so he could pay us less and weasel his way out of certain responsibilities. (The pay was actually 7 reais with a bonus of 4-5 if you never called in sick; checked all the homework; went to the non-paid meetings and training sessions etc.) I am happy to say that all 5 of his "Wizards/Weasels" are no longer open or under his control (however, I think his brother might be in charge of a few.)
My suggestion is to be very demanding when you go to a school ask for decent pay, benefits, and don't agree to teach when you know you don't want to. For example If you want to spend the evenings with Alexandre, do not other those hours. I also agree that if you want to meet new people, you should look at perhaps taking a course in something you enjoy, like photography. Not only will you learn new techniques , but you will also meet people that also like photography.
As always good luck,
DavidI'm sorry you're feeling down : (
I get the same way when I'm not working towards something or on something that fulfills me.
For that reason, I say it's worth a try to go back to teaching. You can seek out good feelings you know you get from your students.
There's always the option to try something new that your interested in too!


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But wait. This just in! Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog did NOT see his shadow Tuesday morning, which, according to folklore, means spring is right around the corner. Well, to that I say "hog wash", or more appropriately "groundhog wash"! From a more scientific standpoint, I am analyzing our medium and long range computer models and at this point, I just don't see an early spring. There is still plenty of cold, arctic air across Canada along with an upper level pressure and wind pattern that favor storms continuing to form in the deep south and head north up the Appalachians (or off the coast) and land somewhere into the northeast. One of these storms looks to take shape and head north this weekend giving CNY some snow Saturday afternoon and Saturday Night.
If that's not enough, computer models are also showing yet another storm taking shape in the Deep South early next week, intensifying and tracking up the eastern seaboard next Tuesday and Wednesday. Details on how much snow we could potentially see from both of these systems are sketchy right now as it is just too early.
So why has it been literally one storm after another for the past month or more? Because of the upper level weather pattern, the jet stream and pressure patterns. For most of the past two months, we've had a trough of low pressure nearly stationary along the east coast, the jet stream diving down into the Deep South and upper level winds and energy coming up the coast. This type of pattern favors storms and disturbances gathering strength and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and heading up into the northeast. At least through the middle of this month, another two weeks, I see no major change in this pattern.
Patterns like this are tough to break down, but eventually the pattern does change and conditions begin reversing themselves. WHEN will this happen is the million dollar question. I wouldn't be surprised though if we start seeing a change in the current stormy pattern in another 3-6 weeks. At the outer end, that puts us into the middle of March. I say this NOT because I can see this change already taking place, because I can't. Instead, I make this statement simply based on experience. Fact is, the weather "usually" averages itself out over a period of time, that means the pattern changes. Over all my years in this business, I have found that these major pattern shifts usually take place after 2 to 5 months. From what I see and expect now, I think 2 months and maybe even 3 months is too soon, so we're looking more towards 4 months or more, from when this pattern first began. This would put us into sometime in March or even April.
IF, and this is a big IF...but if this does happen and we start warming up to above normal temperatures in March or April, could we technically call this an "early spring"? That's up for debate. I would still say however that Punxsutawney Phil was wrong. My personal opinion is an early spring had better be before March or April, but that's only me. What do you think?
In the meantime, our CNYcentral weather team will keep monitoring and tracking these storms. And I suppose there is always the "chance" that Phil is right! Maybe there is a prolonged warm up right around the corner. Only time will tell.


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These are classic Jewish latkes that I fried-up just last night. The recipe is adapted from my sister, Prospect Heights food writer Melissa Clark, from her book In the Kitchen With A Good Appetite. (But my version is better).
It's surprisingly simple and fast. But for success, a few notes:
- Don't try to make the potato batter, or even grate the potatoes ahead of time. They will turn greyish-purple within an hour. If you're having guests over, it's perfectly acceptable to enlist them to help in the cooking.
- If you must make them ahead of time, go ahead, drain the oil on paper towels and then either keep them warm in a 200-degree oven or store them in the fridge and then re-heat them for 10 minutes in a 400-degree oven. I did the latter this morning for my son's Chanukah party at Union Temple Preschool and they were just fine.
- Don't worry about the pepper in the recipe (as I was). It's traditional and subtle (you won't really taste it).
Potato Latkes
Time: 30-45 minutes
4 large Russet potatoes (about 2 pounds), scrubbed and cut lengthwise into quarters if needed to fit into the food processor
2 large onions (16 ounces), peeled and cut into quarters
4 large eggs
3/4 to 1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon salt (or more to taste)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon black pepper
Vegetable oil for frying
1. Using a food processor with a coarse grating disc, grate the potatoes and onion. Transfer the mixture to a clean dishtowel and squeeze and wring out as much of the liquid as possible. (This step is vital to avoid soggy latkes.)
2. Working quickly, transfer the mixture to a large bowl. Add the eggs, salt, baking powder, and pepper and mix in flour, bit by bit, until the mixture holds together.
3. In a medium heavy-bottomed pan over medium-high heat, pour in about 1/4 inch of the oil. Once the oil is hot (a drop of batter placed in the pan should sizzle), use a heaping tablespoon to drop the batter into the hot pan, cooking 3 to 4 latkes at one time. Use a spatula to flatten and shape the drops into discs. When the edges of the latkes are brown and crispy, about 5 minutes, flip. Cook until the second side is deeply browned, about another 5 minutes. Transfer the latkes to a paper towel-lined plate to drain. Repeat with the remaining batter.
Makes 20 to 30 latkes
Note: This recipe can be doubled, tripled, etc.


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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2008 Social and Personality Psychology A.B., Harvard University, 2000 Psychology
Colby Personality Lab My research currently focuses on three key issues. The first is personality structure: How people's specific thoughts, feelings, and behaviors cohere into broader personality characteristics that persist over time and across relevant situations. I am especially interested in questions about whether, how, and why people's personalities might be organized differently at different times of life, or in different social contexts. For example, are personality characteristics organized in similar or different ways during childhood versus adulthood? The second issue is lifespan personality development: When, how, and why people's personalities change as they age. I am curious both about how people's personalities typically change across the life span (normative change), and about why different people's personalities change in different ways (individual differences in change). The third issue is personality and life outcomes: How someone's personality characteristics helps shape the course of their life. I am particularly interested in understanding how personality traits influence (a) subjective well-being (e.g., whether or not someone is satisfied with their life), and (b) the political attitudes that different people hold.
Helson, R., & Soto, C. J. (2005). Up and down in middle age: Monotonic and nonmonotonic changes in roles, status, and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 194-204.
Helson, R., Soto, C. J., & Cate, R. A. (2006). From young adulthood through the middle ages. In D. K. Mroczek & T. D. Little (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 337-352). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
John, O. P., & Soto, C. J. (2007). The importance of being valid: Reliability and the process of construct validation. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 461-494). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
John, O. P., Naumann, L., & Soto, C. J. (2008). Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues. In O. P. John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd ed., pp. 114-158). New York, NY: Guilford.
Soto, C. J., John, O. P., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2008). The developmental psychometrics of Big Five self-reports: Acquiescence, factor structure, coherence, and differentiation from ages 10 to 20. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 718-737.
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2009). Ten facet scales for the Big Five Inventory: Convergence with NEO PI-R facets, self-peer agreement, and discriminant validity. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 84-90.
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2009). Using the California Psychological Inventory to assess the Big Five personality domains: A hierarchical approach. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 25-38.
Orth, U., Robins, R. W., & Soto, C. J. (2010). Tracking the trajectory of shame, guilt, and pride across the life span. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 1061-1071.
Malka, A., & Soto, C. J. (2011). The conflicting influences of religiosity on attitude toward torture. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 1091-1103.
Malka, A., Soto, C. J., Cohen, A. B., & Miller, D. T. (2011). Religiosity and social welfare: Competing influences of cultural conservatism and prosocial value orientation. Journal of Personality, 79, 763-792.
Soto, C. J., John, O. P., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2011). Age differences in personality traits from 10 to 65: Big-Five domains and facets in a large cross-sectional sample. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 330-348.
Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2012). Development of Big-Five domains and facets in adulthood: Mean-level age trends and broadly versus narrowly acting mechanisms. Journal of Personality, 80, 881-914.
Soto, C. J., & Jackson, J. J. (2013) Five-factor model of personality. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Soto, C. J. & Luhmann, M. (2013). Who can buy happiness? Personality traits moderate the effects of stable income differences and income fluctuations on life satisfaction. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 46-53.


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Jeremy Clarkson has gotten in "trouble" at times for his non-PC take on things.
LOL. I love Top Gear.
Great show and Jeremy & Co. is appreciated in our house!
Best show on TV, with a spot on opinion of Piers M, the mediocrity who replaced the King of Fawn, good old Larry. Why does CNN continually waste air time and revenue on these losers?Perhaps Morgan should take a long walk off a short Piers.
I love Top Gear. When somebody asked me why I said that Clarkson, May and Hammond just seemed like great guys you would want to have a pint with. Their episode involving tractor trailer trucks was priceless. As for Piers Morgan, it is blokes like him that rendered the BBC insufferable for so many decades.
just watched the one where they make a train out of campers. When they got to the "Scum Class" car i was laughing so hard my kids were afraid i was having some kind of seizure!
I LOVE JEREMY! I love Top Gear, and I love James May and Richard Hammond as well. (You can keep the pathetically horrible American version of Top Gear.)
I must start watching Top Gear!
Too bad. We are returned damaged goods anyway. You can send him someplace else.
This headline elicits a chuckle that is most welcome, but cold consolation considering we´ll still be stuck with Piers.
Piers Morgan should have been at Lexington or Concord. The American militia carrying GUNS would know what to do with him.
Piers Morgan is an insufferable elitist twit who´s only talent seems to be a British accent. Why Americans seem to think a Briish accent adds credibility to an individual is beyond my understanding.
Clarkson is the best!
Hay, maybe the Brits are not so dumb after all!
Aside from this,Morgan hasn´t settled in with any audience type.We all knew Larry King was a leftist but he didn´t rub it in your nose.There´s just people you can´t replace like King or Russert.There´s never been anybody as good on late night as Johny Carson was.
He was accused in the British wiretapping scandal. I don´t know what became of it.
In my book, if the BBC hates him, he must be doing something right.
I know it isn´t the type of reply Lucianne usually looks for, but in this case, all I really have to say is, "lol"!Forgive me this transgression just this once?
Top gear rules! If you get a chance look up the Hammond hosted show "Brainiac" Its top gear for science nerds!
The first time I came across Piers was from You Tube when he was a judge on Britains Got Talent ~ the episode with Susan Boyle.The look on his face when she first walked out on stage was one of the snarkiest and condescending I have ever seen. I guess no one who isn´t drop-dead gorgeous with a fabulous wardrobe is allowed to have any talent.Well that first impression has always stuck with me. It looks as if he hasn´t changed his spots.


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In the UK, The Guardian editorialized in the wake of the Newtown shootings: "A proper federal system of regulation, including background checks registration, and limits on the type and number of weapons an individual can own, would bring the U.S. belatedly into line with other civilized countries, as would a determined push back against state legislation allowing the carrying of concealed weapons in public."
Hours before the Sandy Hook massacre, Michigan lawmakers passed legislation allowing those with concealed pistol licenses to carry guns into schools, hospitals and churches among other places.
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We purchased 2 nightstands and the chest of drawers. One nightstand was assembled in under 2 hours. My wife did most of the assembly. The wood is excellent, beautiful rich color. It is darker than the picture but we prefer darker wood so we had noted this in the other reviews and were prepared for a darker piece. There are many pieces but again if you take your time and have a drill (use wood glue on the dowels) and a rubber mallet it won't be difficult. Instructions were good but would have been perfect if the diagramming included the letters which are labeled on the individual wood pieces. The visual would be stronger then and probably help those who aren't accustomed to assembling furniture. This is for our guest room and is very handsome, of substantial weight and elegant looking when finished. Drawers slide effortlessly and the hardware is very classic. Solid wood pieces are hard to find and smaller night stands are difficult to find nowadays as well. We are pleased with the dimensions because again you must read the measurements and even map them out in the space if you have difficulty visualizing and really need a bigger night stand in the room. Shipping was the usual quick overstock delivery and all pieces arrived unmarred. I researched extensively for pieces for our guest room that were solid wood and this is absolutely the best buy for the money. It is far better looking, solid hardwood and much less expensive than the veneer or solid hardwood options we found in stores and over the net. Excellent purchase if you practice due diligence, i.e., double check and/or map out dimensions, expect a darker cherry wood color, use the right tools, read the instructions carefully and take your time assembling.
Its a quality piece. Real wood. Quality tracks. Drawers roll smoothly, and it just looks sharp. I'd like to thank Overstock for packaging the pieces really well. All pieces were well labeled and protected - no scratches. We bought the matching dresser, chest and this nightstand and all six total boxes fit easily into our Camry. Assembly time for this piece took about 40 minutes between two people.
My husband and I put 2 of these nightstands together in less than 2 hours. The finish is lovely and the pieces were carefully packaged and labeled. My only complaint is that the drawers don't slide in/out easily. We have to hold down the cabinet while opening the drawers, as pulling hard enough to open a drawer will cause the nightstand to slide across the floor. So although they look great, they don't really perform very well.
This is one solid piece of furniture, and it came packaged in so many styrofoam panels that it could survive an air drop. Most of it is solid and very heavy hardwood, just the drawer sides, back and bottom are particle board. The finish is very nice, and the whole thing looks classy. One improvement during assembly would be to glue the whole thing together, since cam locks only provide that much stability, but for a nightstand it's fine. Overall it's a steal for the price.
This nightstand is beautiful and definitely worth the money. Only challenge I have is the 2nd drawer is a little harder to shut. Seems like it is sticking on something but there is nothing there. Might be a warp in the wood. Otherwise...great piece!
Although it is just a "Vermont" style since it is mad in India, it was very well made. I've put together a lot of *** cabinets and this had the same design right down to the hardware that holds it together. The instructions were not as complete as Ikea's, but were easy enough to understand as they were mostly step-by-step pictures showing what went where in proper order. My wife was very pleased with the nightstands.
I bought 2 of these nightstands for our bedroom and am very pleased with the design and quality. My husband and I put them together and it was a little tricky but if you read the directions carefully, they assemble well. The second one took a lot less time than the first. They look great in the bedroom and the drawers hold all our "clutter".
Very attractive piece, nightmare to put together. Virtually all of the wooden dowels fit in one hole but not the other that connected to them.. A rubber mallet did not help. In one case, the wood cracked. It was so bad that I gave up using the dowels and put pieces together using only the camlock screws.
The nightstand is solid wood in all places except the drawer bottom, drawer back, and drawer sides ,which are MDF. Even the back panel is 1/8 plywood. The finish is exactly as described. (The finish does not have that warmth as if it would be finished with an oil based varnish or lacquer, but unless one is a furniture expert one really can't tell the difference. That old time warmth is not common with today's finishes. Furniture enthusiasts will understand this.) Assembly instructions were easy to understand and if followed to perfection will yield a result that works & looks perfect. I am a perfectionist to the 10th degree when doing these products. Meaning-every screw is tightened to the correct torque and placed perfectly straight, screwed in all the way & at the correct angles. With this criteria & someone somewhat experienced it should come out perfect. FYI>>>My older teenage daughter tried helping me-she could not fully tighten some of the screws & cam screws .I had to do it myself. Hints. I broke a camlock bec.I did not follow directions to only turn it 180 degrees...use a wide flat head or hex wrench as recommended for the camlocks. Also,as with all camlocks you must tap the camlock into the hole until it recesses slightly.Don't use a drill driver for the last drop of tightening any of the screws. Feel the torque w/your manual screwdriver ,so as not to overtighten or undertighten. Complaints - Since 80 percent is made of solid wood, I would recommend the manufacturer to make the drawer pieces also in solid wood. When installing the drawer rail slides on to the drawer , I had a problem with the MDF edge on the bottom of the drawer sides (hole close to drawer front) splitting very ,very slightly on all drawers (believe me-unavoidable, unless predrilling it ,which is too time consuming to do correctly) .[They are not predrilled from the factory on purpose -probably to allow slight adjustment of the rails in the event one was not perfect in assembling the drawer.]. Overall the piece is a good value and looks beautiful.It does not have the look, feel, and quality of high end furniture. but you aren't paying high end prices . Remember follow directions to the T in order to get perfect results. Enjoy!
The nightstand is a bit darker than the picture shows, but it is well constructed and an incredible value!!
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Any tips for mastering/handling foreshortening? It's so nice for creating more dynamic compisitions but I have trouble finding stock to practice on :<
I beg to differ. Professional work often involves a team of artists, not necessarily a single one. Besides that, dA is a community made for supporting artists and their work - I think asking for a few tips is a pretty standard thing.
But in the end, I did get a response, didn't I? Well...
1. The pro groups are tiny and exclusive. Getting in (let's say DC) is very competitive. 2. The better artists on here are very middle school-ish, since they won't talk to you unless you're popular like they are. That MatinyComics guy is So so wrong! Not all of us who have a million views think like middle school assholes.
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