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Ministers are torn between demanding cash from a mining giant accused of fraud and maintaining a cosy relationship
The move by Zambia's largely government-owned mining investment company to sue First Quantum Minerals for fraud has put its chief executive officer Pius Kasolo at loggerheads with figures close to President Edgar Lungu. Under Kasolo, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings, which holds Zambia's stake in foreign-owned privatised mines, brought a suit against FQM with the Lusaka High Court in November and simultaneously filed a Notice of Arbitration in London claiming the Vancouver-based company cheated Zambia of US$2.3 billion. ZCCM-IH accuses FQM of defrauding it by using money from its Kansanshi copper and gold mine as cheap financing for its other operations without the state investment company's consent.
From a small company running only the Bwana Mkubwa copper processing plant in Ndola, FQM has grown to become Africa's biggest copper miner. The 80% ownership of Kansanshi it acquired in 2001 propelled it to prominence and it now has several projects in the country. According to official data from the Zambia Development Agency, FQM has invested $5.7 bn. in Zambia, with $2.6 bn. going into the Kansanshi Mine, $1 bn. into the Kansanshi smelter and $2.1 bn. into the Trident Project at Kalumbila, which includes the Sentinel (copper) and Enterprise (nickel) mines. It also has a 16.9% stake in Glencore's Mopani Copper Mines.
FQM bought the greenfield mining project at Kalumbila in the Northwestern province in 2010 by leveraging the warm relationship it enjoyed with then President Rupiah Banda. This expansion in its Zambian interests came in the wake of an ugly dispute in Congo-Kinshasa, where the company had established itself as one of the country's biggest investors before simmering bad blood led President Joseph Kabila to expropriate mining units at Kolwezi, Frontier and Lonshi in 2009-10. The company has also become an increasingly significant player globally. In 2013, it acquired Cobre Panama, a large open-pit copper development project in Panama, and it has operations or projects in Mauritania, Australia, Turkey, Spain Argentina and Peru.
Quantum leap
FQM's rapid expansion from small-scale Zambian origins to major global reach has upset ZCCM-IH, which owns 20% of Kansanshi Mining Plc. 'What we have seen is that in the years between 2006 and 2012 when there was a copper boom, First Quantum got money out of Kansanshi Mining and built other mines, which included Kalumbila, but did this without consent of ZCCM-IH, which is shareholder in Kansanshi,' a source from the Ministry of Mines said. 'ZCCM-IH owns 20% of Kansanshi and as a result should have been fully involved in all new investments by FQM because they deserve to share in the profits of Kansanshi,' said another source.
During the period under scrutiny, about 90% of FQM's revenues came from Kansanshi, according to government sources. According to the claim before the Lusaka High Court, between 2007 and 2014, FQM directors ordered over $2.3 bn. of Kansanshi profits to be transferred to FQM Finance Limited, which performs treasury functions for the group. FQM Finance then started investing money of Kansanshi to grow the group without ZCCM-IH's consent.
According to court documents, the claim includes $228 million in interest on the $2.3 bn. as well as a further 20% of the principal amount ($570 mn.), according to sources close to ZCCM-IH. The state-backed company is also seeking $260 mn. as part of a tax liability the Zambia Revenue Authority levied on Kansanshi.
'Whereas we were told that the money was deposited with FQM Finance Limited as working capital for Kansanshi Mining, we saw the main shareholder sanctioning new loans for Kansanshi and at one point we had to pay $24 mn. in arrangement fees窶ヲ meanwhile, the Group started growing and we have no doubt that it is Kansanshi money they used for expansion,' a government source explained.
FQM says the claims are 'inflammatory, vexatious and untrue', and that the loans were at fair market rate. It argues that Kasolo could not sue because by November 2016, the ZCCM-IH board which could have given consent had been dissolved and that the action was statute barred. Government sources counter that the board had sanctioned the suit before it was dissolved. FQM also argues that it cannot be sued in Lusaka when the matter is already under arbitration in London.
'Fraud is a criminal act in Zambia and that is why both legal actions were taken out concurrently,' a legal source said anonymously. 'They [First Quantum Minerals] have gone for the technicality because they have a weak case to defend,' the source added.
The FQM executives being sued by ZCCM-IH are Chairman and CEO Philip Pascall and directors Arthur Mathias Pascal, Clive Newall and Martin Rowley. Since November, they have abandoned their frequent visits to Zambia for fear of arrest. They are represented in Zambia by lawyer and politician Sakwiba Sikota, a strong ally of Banda, the former president who has since become a key ally of President Lungu (AC Vol 56 No 2, PF set for victory).
Investment bait
Newall told Reuters in February that First Quantum planned to invest up to $1 bn. in modernising Kansanshi mines. 'But there are a number of conditions that need to happen before we do that,' he noted. This may mean ZCCM-IH dropping the legal suit.
According to government sources, the suit does not sit well with some top government officials. Zambia's top politicians are not known for having arm's length relationships with mining firms. Kasolo's foes in the cabinet include Finance Minister Felix Mutati, Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma, Commerce Minister Margaret Mhango Mwanakatwe, Energy Minister David Mabumba and National Planning Minister Lucky Mulusa. Kasolo has since sued the Daily Nation for defamation after the paper accused him of wanting to unseat Lungu.
A cousin of the late President Michael Sata and one of the Patriotic Front's early backers, Kasolo is a mining geologist and a radical nationalist who is said to be determined to fight on. 'Multinational companies are raking this country and there are some government officials okay with this because their hands are smeared by the mines窶ヲI am not a sellout,' Kasolo is said to have told his confidants.
Intelligence sources in Lusaka say President Lungu is aware that top government officials are frequently feted and hosted by FQM but seems unwilling to rein in his ministers. On the other hand, he is reluctant to let go of the suit as Zambia is desperate for cash and is currently negotiating a planned $1.6 bn. IMF loan facility to deal with its deteriorating balance of payment position (AC Vol 57 No 25). 'Previously, government officials had been dismissed on the instigation of mining firms but so far President Lungu has stood by ZCCM-IH,' a source said.
Experts close to the transaction declined interviews as it illegal in Zambia to comment on matters active in court.


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"Only a Game" often features suprising "out of left field" sports stories. Dean Baker came to their attention because of Cooper Union's successful basketball program that wins championships despite the absense of a home court. Focusing on how Dean Baker acts as a mentor and a life coach to his scholar athletes, the show features interviews with President Bharucha, students and Dean Baker.


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BARCELONA, Spain -- The undisputed king of X Games BMX Street held on to his crown Sunday in Barcelona as Garrett Reynolds fended off Bruno Hoffmann and Stevie Churchill to claim his sixth consecutive gold medal. Reynolds has dominated the event since its debut in 2008.
"I was just trying to concentrate and just remember what I wanted to do because it's real easy to get lost out there," Reynolds said. "Everyone being here, all my friends supporting everything got me hyped to ride."
The course, which also hosted the Street League Skateboarding final on Saturday, was inspired by Barcelona's famed plazas and suited Reynolds well. He made quick work of its many features, rolling in with highly technical combos like a barspin to backward crooked grind on the flat bar to hop over into the bank to start his run, then blasting bigger tricks like a rail ride to tailwhip, nollie barspin 180 down the stairs, and barspin to icepick down the rail, to barspin out. He posted scores of 41 out of 50 in each of his two best runs for a combined score of 82, which score held up for the gold medal -- a full four points ahead of silver medalist Hoffmann.
Reynolds' win puts him in the elite X Games six-peat club, which also includes snowboarder Shaun White, SnoCross racer Tucker Hibbert and the Skateboard Vert Doubles team of Tony Hawk and Andy Macdonald. Only one athlete has outdone them: BMX Vert competitor Jamie Bestwick won his record-setting setting seventh gold medal last month in Brazil and grabbed gold again on Friday in Barcelona for an unprecedented eighth consecutive win.
Hoffmann posted the single highest run score of the day -- 43.00 in the best-of two runs format -- thanks to half Cab and full Cab combinations linked together with technical manual lines and big tricks like a feeble grind to hard 180 out on the Hubba ledge. On his final run he landed a nose wheelie to 180 down the Hubba ledge, helping to make him the first non-American rider to win a medal in BMX Street. Stevie Churchill was just one point behind him in bronze position.
Chad Kerley, the X Games Los Angeles 2012 silver medalist, was the top qualifier on Sunday and posed the biggest threat to Reynolds coming into finals but struggled to put complete runs together and finished in fourth place, more than 10 points behind Churchill.
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App Store Optimization (ASO): The Next Space
It's not something that many people are talking about in search: App Store Optimization (ASO). Apps on mobile/smartphones have transformed how consumers/people interact with brands and information. Whether we're using it to enhance workflow/function in our everyday lives (think Maps and Tools), using it to connect socially to the people around us (think Twitter, Foursquare, Pinterest), or taking our desktops with us wherever we go, it's the App that's making this evolution possible.
It's certainly not a newsflash to anyone who's been paying attention the last few years. It's the big wave that finally broke onto the shore: the mobile revolution. And it's an app-world. Over the last two years, it's been somewhat of an Arms Race of app-building; companies and brands building apps just to build them. Just to be in the space, just to tout that they are "cutting edge". It's a entirely different question if these companies/brands are building apps well.
App Store Facts (Apple Apps and Google Play Apps)
- There are 700,000+ Apps in Apple's App Store, 250,00 of which are for the iPad
- Apple's app store serves 400,000+ iOS devices (through June 2012)
- Users use about 100 Apps on average
- Google Play Store has 650,000+ apps
- Both boast over 25 billion app downloads
With nearly three-quarter of a million apps on each of the major platforms, thousands of apps competing for the same space, how does your app get found? That's where ASO can play a role. [Just a note:] this post will lean heavily toward Apple's App Store. I will fill in with Google Play-specific App Store as applicable. While it's a little like Bing and Google's search algo's (each being completely unique), there are going to be certain elements that are constant in each.
App Store Search
Search; it's how people find what they're looking for. And the app store is no different. Per Business Insider's Intelligence Report from Q3 2011 (granted it's over a year old and before iOS6) has searching at 63% for both Apple and Google, with WOM (word-of-mouth) a very strong second. See the graphic below.
Per SearchMan, App Store search is utilized 56% of the time when users find their app, with WOM and Ads running a distant 3rd and 4th. Ranking (or how Apple and Google's app store algo order the results) was the #1 way users found their app.
From everything I've read, both Apple and Google keep a very tight lid on App Store statistics, which also explains the real lack of meaningful data surrounding ASO. Regardless, search in the App store is an important channel to consumers when they're discovering and researching. So the question is, how do you help ensure that your app gets the best visibility possible?
App Store Optimization: The Basics
A lot of this is really common sense. But then again, it's common sense to SEOs and not necessarily developers (the ones who are submitting the apps to the App Store). SEOs tend to think with end-consumer in mind. We use our optimization skills to drag the consumer out of their cycle(s) and into our funnel(s). Like any website we'd touch, we're looking to pull consumers/users through to our sites at every step they take in their process. Here too, we've got to do the research, study the behaviors, and get them at every step of their app search journey.
It's important to note Apple's acquisition of CHOMP in February of this year. In essence, Chomp is a app-based search engine (touted in their CrunchBase profile as the only one that uses an algorithm based on what the app actually does). This is important as we discuss iOS6.
App Name
With the app name you want to be as targeted as possible, describing exactly what the app is/does. Unlike the Page Title, you've got about 19 characters to play with (as that's all that will display). Which means you've got about 2 or 3 words to get to the core of what your app is/does across to users. Not a lot of room to work with at all, but, hey, we're marketers right?
It's also important to note that you can't (well, you can, but I wouldn't) use any special characters in your app name. No ™, no ® and no ©. App Store uses the app name to create your app's URL in the store. If you do use those symbols, Apple, in particular, will revert back to your Apple ID.
It's also been noted by several folks that the app name doesn't carry nearly as much weight as it used to (i.e. think EMD). There's a great presentation on this here: Kolinko's New Rules in App Store Search.
Summary: Be targeted and explicit with your app name. Get your targets in the first 2 or 3 words (19 characters) and don't use any special characters.
App Keywords
This appears to be a major area of optimization for apps, in particular Apple's App Store Algo hones in on it), but unlike web pages, you're limited to 99 characters worth. But make no mistake, there's still room to spam in 99 characters.
If you read Kolinko's presentation above, and from some of my own App Store searches, Apple has gotten better with plurals, which can save you desperately need characters. It also appears that the "phrase-match bonus" is also of bygone era. It's here that keyword research will play a role; you'll want to hit the spectrum of consumer behavior if you can. Meaning, even though you don't have to create phrases any longer, you still need to be working in mid-tail and long-tail phraseology into your app keywords.
For instance, if we wanted to optimize a photo editing app, we probably want the keywords to look something like this:
[free,photo,editor,editing,program,effects,program,best,creator,collage,(company name)]
Under the 99 limit (assuming your company name isn't incredibly long) and hits several consumer/user avenues in their discovery process. It's here you're going to win your battle in the App Store search. Be smart, do your research, and build in the best keywords possible for your app.
App Description
All the research I've done on this, and again through App Store searches, makes this field meaningless to the algorithm (a lot like the meta-keywords field). With the iOS6 update, app descriptions are no longer searchable or incorporated into the app card. But, like an actual meta-description, is where you have to sell yourself to get the click-through.
On a desktop, only the first 3 lines of the app description are visible to the user. If they want the rest, they have to hit the "More" button. That means you have to make those lines count. And, although iOS6 helped to slow down the search process and make users examine the apps more carefully, you've still got to get the "why me" and elevator pitch in the first 3. You've still only got about 5-10 seconds to convince someone.
That said, you want to clearly explain the "what" and the "why" up-front. Include any awards/achievements your app has won in here. Nothing says quality like an award. And, if you haven't got that, any mentions from TRUSTED resources (i.e. NYT, Wired, WSJ, Well-Known Blogs). If you're going to put a mention about your cousin's blog calling you a "must-have app", don't. It's razzle-dazzle time, thank your cousin with a nice email instead.
After those first three lines, hit up the benefits and features of the app. Drop in some quotes of user reviews, and add in some information on the company. It'll help to make a nice, well-rounded app description.
App Screenshots
Here again, this isn't weighted in the algorithm, but essential to convincing the user to click-through and download. If you're not displaying the breadth, depth, beauty, and functionality in the first couple screenshots, you need to be. This is literally is the "show me" portion of your app. Like Google Local, you want your most important and gorgeous screenshots first.
In Apple's App Store you get 8 screenshots for your app, and in Google you get 5 screenshots. Use them all. It may be the 6th or 7th screenshot that makes the user pull the trigger and download.
App and User Ratings
It's hard to discern if ratings actually play a part in the algorithm in the App Store, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's a factor. And, beyond, that, crappy app ratings are certainly going to dissuade the consumer/user from downloading it. Moreover, if you're like me, you're hard-pressed to rate any app (even if you like it). It just feels like a time-suck and, really, damn annoying that they blast you with a "HEY, RATE OUR APP!" at regular intervals.
But, iOS6 has attempted to circumvent the Rate-My-App process by allowing users to contact you directly. And, with the introduction of Facebook Likes to the App Store, is adds to the social marketing element. Here are some tips:
- Fill out the iTunes Support fields for your app. If a user/consumer wants to get in touch with you, make sure they can. Not doing it will only lead to a hell-hath-no-fury review.
- Leave contact info in your app description
- There are app-specific tools like TapStream that not only can help you get analytics on your apps, get you more social with your apps, but also encourage users to leave your good reviews with their Review Bar.
App Store Optimization is the next space for SEOs to climb into. A few are already there (publicly), some are there privately, and for many of you this might be your first introduction to ASO. With mobile accelerating at an unheard of pace, and apps becoming as commonplace and superfluous as the desktop experience itself, the next battlefield of consumer engagement and mindshare for brands will be here. In this space. Make sure your brand is prepared and optimized.
The War on Organic Data
There's a war going on my fellow SEOs and Search Marketers. Has been for a couple of years now. The war on organic data.
It was a war that started off very covertly, almost without incidence, as noted by Jon Henshaw over 2 years ago on Raven Tool's Blog. Google, by way of depreciated APIs, quietly pulled SERP [Search Engine Results Page] ranking data. Which then led to more and more companies scraping the results from Google and placing an extra burden on their servers. And, perhaps Google was banking on the fact, though somewhat quietly kept, Google Webmaster Tools has had "ranking data" for over 3 years now. Maybe this was Google's evolutionary step? Nonetheless, it was the one of the first assaults on organic data; Google's conscious and deliberate action to close off a major pipeline to SEOs and Webmasters. It registered as nothing more than a blip to most of the community, myself included, but the SEO tool companies probably had a good idea where it was headed. Maybe they decided to just "wait and see"?
2011: Google Kicks in the Door
A year after Google shut off the Ranking Data APIs, they got brazen. They gathered up the troops and kicked the down the door to the SEO house, fingers
hugging the triggers. It was akin to enacting Google's own personal Patriot Act. They black-boxed the organic search data. "NOT PROVIDED". Users who were signed-in or using SSL Google searches would appear as "not provided" in your organic search keyword data to help "maintain the privacy". All under the guise of privacy. Immediately this change was said to only affect less than 10% of data in analytics. "Single digits", was the quote from Matt Cutts.
2012: One Year of "Not Provided"
Danny Sullivan's excellent write up "Dark Google" tells the story. Single digits? It's hard to imagine that Matt could say it and keep a straight face. I don't know about you, but my sites are consistently between 1o% and 15% "not provided". And, in some extreme cases, they range near 25%. 25% shielded keyword data for a small business is pretty big, and pretty crappy. That's an awfully large gaping hole to be missing out on. How can they [small businesses] help it that people are signed-in or starting off in "https" search? That's a ton of valuable data that small businesses could be using to help them analyze customer behavior, to help them write better, more targeted content to their customers, and to help them expand and refine their consumer funnels to convert more and stay afloat in an economy that still moving sideways. I think of it this way: if Google suddenly lost 15% of its collected search data overnight, don't you think they'd be pretty pissed off? Just, "poof", and it's gone.
Losing That Data Might Be the Best Thing For SEOs
I know that it sounds backwards, but hear me out. Also, let's put aside the obvious here: of course this move was intended to get every business involved in Paid Search (not just the those who spend millions over millions every year). Because like SEOs, Google knows it's the thousands of small accounts [mid-tail/long-tail] that add up. If you ensure the data that was once free has to route through a paid resource, you're going to get a large swath of folks to jump on board and buy-in.
Perhaps it was all part of their design (can't discount that theory), but losing organic data has forced SEOs and Search marketers to expand their tool-kit to get that data. When you can't rely on a single source, you've got to employ multiple channels (i.e. social, content, CRO, etc.) to piece together the story again. I won't lie, that's a stretch (even to the writer). However, there's a small nugget of truth that this assault on organic data has forced us to become better marketers.
2013 and Beyond
The more Google pushes its own products (i.e. Gmail, Places, Google Drive, Insights & Trends) to its social platform (Google+) to create a fluid SUPER-DATA-HIVE, the more users must be signed in to interact. Luckily, Google+ hasn't quite pulled off the interaction and engagement with users it hoped to (so far). Then add in Firefox moving to Google SSL search by default and iOS6 doing the same. What you get is a "black box" on organic data that is the size of Utah, and is only going to get larger and more vacuous. It is their data to do with as they please, after all. The hypocritical precedent set a year ago by Google will continue onward: "user privacy". They clearly don't want to be viewed under the same lens as Facebook.
I think that by the end of 2013 organic site data will reduced to drips from a leaky faucet as SSL search become the rule and not the exception. I can't say what the end-game is here; whether its Google constructing a service to "buy back" organic data that they anonymize or making SEOs piece together the puzzle from several different platform strands. Or, just so it can be said aloud, push every business into AdWords platform to get "all the consumer data". It certainly seems like that's the objective with all these maneuvers: squeeze SEOs organic data into a corner so small that it becomes non-representative of overall searcher/consumer behavior.
The Machiavellian Guide To Search
In the era of "Big Data" and fast technology, it's hard not to see HISTORY as the long chalk-smeared blackboard we want it to be. A relic of fragmented of letters. Broken thoughts and speech unlearned. We're so intent on making up the "new rules" on the underpinnings of the "new marketing", that we've thrown HISTORY to the dogs. They can't teach us, because they don't know.
Data-driven marketing is indeed smart, timely, and prudent, you'll get no argument from me. We'd be foolish to abandon and squander the opportunity. But, I've given to thinking about data and people in the following way: like the double-slit experiment people behave differently when they know they're being observed. Insomuch the data is blur of what's real behavior and what's not. Before we could ever calculate what a human interaction was worth, we were left with observation of interaction, sans data, in order to manifest strategy. It's the one big problem with Big Data, everyone has access to it. Whether you can interpret and analyze that data is another question.
The Prince is the quintessential playbook on political strategy, and you can see its footprints and fingerprints throughout the 20th and 21st century political landscape. It altered the status quo going forward. It's been adopted beyond the the political arena much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War has been incorporated into business strategy and maneuvering. And, while the connotations of "Machiavelli" make you think of Evil Spock, and generally despicable-mad-genius behavior, it shouldn't. Machiavelli had the gumption to unfold the dark-side of the human condition in a way that Shakespeare never could, and for this he's been persona non grata in both strategic and literary circles for centuries, until his revival about century ago. So what's the point, Tony?
All the Big Data and data-driven decisions in the world are just numbers, independent of relationship or action, without first defining a set of strategic rules in which to leverage all this data to create personas, paradigms, and models. While Chapter 7 in "The Prince" is most often referenced, I believe it is Chapter 3 that provides the greatest deal of insight. It's this chapter that explains how Louis XII lost his hold on Italy and the five mistakes he made. These are five rules that every SEO and digital marketer can use as a guidepost to conduct search.
The Five Guidelines of Machiavellian Search
Machiavelli touted that Louis XII made five mistakes that proceeded to be the catalyst to his loss of Italy:
- He had crushed the smaller Powers
- He increased the power of a single person so that it became supreme
- He brought in a very powerful foreign ally
- He ruled his conquered land from afar
- He established military presence before colonies
These five costly mistakes can be transposed as rules or guidelines to help us engineer solid SEO and Search strategy.
1: Never Disregard Topical Niche Sites
While the largest hubs on the web cater to variety of people, personalities, and interests, and consequently provide the largest funnels of traffic, it's the niche/small sites that can become your greatest champion. Niche sites serve people who are dedicated and fanatical about the topic (whatever it may be). They provide high rates of conversion, high levels of engagement, higher rates of shareability to other like-minded users. Take the time to do the research and find them for your target segments and forge relationships; they're likely the ones peppering the first couple pages of results for terms and phrases your client wants to be seen for too. Forsaking the niche sites in favor of aggregation-esque sites may drive traffic, but won't lend itself to long-term loyalty.
Data-driven marketing decisions are likely ignore the niche sites. The numbers would likely tell you that more wide-reaching, heavily trafficked sites bring more (but not necessarily of what matters).
2: Never Give a Single SEO/Search Strategy All the Power
It's the common adage: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". If you're locked into a single way of doing this or doing that, you had better know that it's going to work like gangbusters. The danger of a single strategy is that it perpetuates lock-step thinking; no one is allowed to move beyond a certain space as it must be able to tie back to THE STRATEGY. Whether it's a content strategy, a link building strategy, or optimization schema.
Diversification of SEO and search strategies, like portfolios, helps to create balance, helps to target different segments and personas, and helps to lessen the effect of a single strategy that tanks. Moreover, strategy diversification helps to foster unconventional thinking that can snowball into new strategies that can measured with data.
3: There's No Turning Back From the Dark-Side
As an SEO/Search Marketer once you slide into the place where ethics become "flexible", it's difficult to turn back from that. Each step takes you a little further down the slope, and before you know it, it's become the way.
4: Never Follow the Data Blindly
Data is the best tool you have and it's also the worst enemy you have. As I mentioned up top, the massive influx of data points has helped engineer more laser-guided strategy. But, it's also that influx, the tsunami of data points, that can cause hesitation, and frankly voltage overload. The moment you stop analyzing and interrogating the data, tearing it down and unpacking it, and point to it as all the proof you need, is the moment you need to stop using it. Anyone can build a story around a number, bend it however they want to (just take a look at the latest political season); it's not going to help you create a great search strategy.
5: Core SEO is at the Heart of Strategic SEO
When I say Core SEO, I'm referring to things like technical website architecture, information architecture, taxonomy, PageSpeed, canonical domain, etc. These are the lifeblood of every single strategic SEO campaign because without solid foundation no search strategy will perform as optimally as it could. To bring it back to Machiavelli's 5th mistake, crafting a potent, kick-ass search strategy to funnel people onto a busted site is to militarize your new found land before you have a base of people to support you.
Data is good, great even, it's become the status quo. As my friend Hugo Guzman says," is redefining what it means to be skilled marketer in the digital age". But don't be so quick forget that strategy was built long before "data" even had a definition, built off the back of hypothesis, observation, testing, and postulation. Don't disregard historical observations and behavior just because there isn't a percentage you can attach to it.
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it." – Niccolo Machiavelli


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A few months ago, I received an email from Brochi, of the Chabad of Sea Gate synagogue, Brooklyn, asking me to do a baking demonstration. She had heard about me from the national Chabad network. Sea Gate is a small gated community at the end of Coney Island in New York and is where my mother grew up. I called Brochi and asked her whether they were located at 3844 Lyme Avenue and, with great surprise, she said, "Yes." That was the home of my grandparents.
I knew that it was Chabad house as the rabbi had officiated at my grandmother's funeral when she died at the age of 98 after a long life of lemon sponge cake. Brochi couldn't believe that the person she wanted for the cooking class was the granddaughter of the Altman family she had heard so much about from the old timers.
Last week I returned to my grandmother's kitchen and taught a class in the very kitchen where my grandmother first introduced me to delicious homemade desserts. The Kosher Baker is dedicated to her memory and contains some of her recipes. The kitchen is now larger and modern, unlike grandma's fuchsia and marigold 1970's design, but much of the house is the same (though it appeared smaller to my older self). A marble mantel by the window in the dining room is the same, and a framed photo of Rabbi Schneerson, z"l, the revered Lubavitcher Rebbe, now occupies the spot where grandma placed her giant apple pie every Thanksgiving. Grandpa Joe, a pillar of the Sea Gate Jewish community, would have liked that.
The cooking class was extraordinary and attended by over 45 women, including my mother and aunt who grew up in the house and my daughter Emily who had never been there before. My mother was quite emotional being back in her childhood home, but enjoyed remembering her idyllic life growing up there. Some of the women had connections to my family. I served a healthy fish dinner followed by my 6-layer chocolate ganache layer cake that was as tall as grandma's famous yeast cake.
I expected to be overwhelmed with emotion. Instead, I felt surprisingly calm, happy and at peace; it was the most natural thing in the world to be back there after 24 years. Only later when writing about the experience did I fully appreciate the moment and got teary that it was over. I emailed the Chabad and asked if I could return next year.
When I described my experience to my friend Limor, she said I sounded like Oprah and sent me to the "love letter" that Oprah read to her audience on her final show. Oprah talked about how everyone has a "calling" and your job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it. She said, "A calling lights you up and lets you know that you're exactly where you are supposed to be, doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing." That is how I felt back in grandma's kitchen.
Oprah described a "spark" that ignites you. My spark came from the hours I watched grandma cook and bake, never complaining about all the steps demanded by her stuffed cabbage, tiny Swedish meatballs or blintzes. Of course I did not recognize the spark at the time; I had to go out into the world and try other careers first. But ultimately I came right back to where I started. Oprah's wish for her audience was that once they know what sparks the light in them, they should then go out and illuminate the world. I only wrote a cookbook, but I know that by doing so I have spread joy in the world and look forward to continuing to do so.
I often hear from young brides that my book has connected them to their grandmothers' baking traditions. By writing The Kosher Baker, I have become the Grandma Sylvia to a new generation. I think that is what is meant by the wish: "May her memory be a blessing."
The blintz filling is grandma's. When she was 88, she came to visit me in Washington, DC and showed me how to make her blintzes. As she shuffled around my kitchen, I tried to estimate the measurements of her handfuls. Her crepes were so thin you could see through them. I have never been able to get her crepe recipe to work, so I use my French crepe recipe. Wishing you a happy and tasty Shavuot!
Cheese Blintzes makes 16 blintzes
1 cup flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1/3 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 3/4 cups milk
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons melted butter, plus 1 teaspoon butter for pan
2 tablespoons cream cheese
1 pound farmer cheese
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon canola oil plus 2 tablespoons butter for frying
Place the flour, sugar, salt, oil, milk, eggs and butter into a medium bowl and whisk vigorously. Strain into another bowl, pressing to get out as much batter as possible and then discard solids. Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes. To prepare the filling, place the cream cheese into a bowl and mash with a fork. Add the farmer cheese and mix well. Add the sugar and egg and mix well. Cover and refrigerate until using.
Take parchment or waxed paper and tear into 16 8-inch pieces. Heat an 8-inch non-stick or crepe pan over medium high heat. Brush with a little butter. Lift the pan off the hear, scoop up a little less than 1/4 cup batter and pour into the pan, just above the center, and then turn clockwise 2-3 times to cover the pan with the batter. Add a little more batter to cover any holes. By the third crepe, you will know exactly how much batter you need.
Cook for 45 seconds to one minute and when the edges are brown, use a silicone spatula to lift the crepe, turn over and cook 15 seconds more. Turn onto a plate. If the crepe start to brown too fast, turn down the heat. I usually turn down the heat anyway after 5 crepes. Repeat for the rest of the batter and place the parchment or waxed paper pieces in between the crepes. Let cool 15 minutes.
Cook for 45 seconds to one minute and when the edges are brown, use a silicone spatula to lift the crepe, turn over and cook 15 seconds more. Turn onto a plate. If the crepe start to brown too fast, turn down the heat. I usually turn down the heat anyway after 5 crepes. Repeat for the rest of the batter and place the parchment or waxed paper pieces in between the crepes. Let cool 15 minutes.
To fill the crepes, place one in front of you, the more browned side up. Place about 2 tablespoons filling just above the center and spread about 2 inches wide. Fold the right and left sides 1-2 inches towards the center and press into the filling. Roll up and set aside. You can freeze them at this point and cook later. To cook, heat the oil and butter in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the blintzes and cook for about two minutes per side or until browned. Serve hot. You can freeze them already cooked with waxed paper pieces between them.
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(Excerpt) Interview with kukuLila Toy : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. kukuLila Toy : Inspiration for the design Portable baby crib Sofia was Wooden cart for dolls, produced, from the 19th century, by the Slovenian crafstmen "Dry stuff" from Ribnica. One peace you can find in museum in Celje, Slovenia. We began to wonder what kind of toys would be right for our doughter and what will she play with in the next few years. Then we search for answers on a question, what kind of shape would be suitable and how would it blend with the environment. We came up with an organic shape, illustrating the softness of the relationship between a child and a toy baby. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. kukuLila Toy : The main focus at the beginning was to develop a beautiful crib for our daughter. When we saw a first prototype, we like it so much, that we decided to better develop the crib and offer it on the market. The main focus was put on safety, appearance, usefulness and organic. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. kukuLila Toy : Our wish is to start our own business, but it is also possibility to have a partner or to sell the design. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. kukuLila Toy : Designing this crib took about two years. It means from idea to final prototype. We could finished early, but my husband, fortunately, make a new design, wooden part, so we have to solve a barrier to make it work. The progress was made on design and it is easier. Whatever we will always consider the possibility to improve the product, to make different forms, to use more natural material, as more beneficial to human health and the environment. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. kukuLila Toy : Klavdija: The design is made by my inspiration. Reminiscing of my own childhood games awakened a forgotten desire to design. I wish to have the same moving crib like I have in my childhood. I did not find it on the market, so I decided to make it myself. I liked elliptical shape more than rectangular. My husband was happy to join the project. His inspiration came out, when he was dealing with challenge that there are already beds and cribs for playing available on the market. How to make centuries old toy, interesting design-wise, different and, especially, simple and elegant. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. kukuLila Toy : The design prototype was produced by us. Our wish is to start our own business. But there is a possibility to have a partner or to sell the production rights. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. kukuLila Toy : We design modern, simple and elegant Portable baby crib Sofia. A beautiful toy for our children and our homes. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. kukuLila Toy : Klavdija: Yes, I have influence. When I was a child I remember the design I had. A very similar piece is Wooden cart for dolls, produced, from the 19th century, by the Slovenian craftsmen "dry stuff" from Ribnica. One peace you can find in museum in Celje, Slovenia. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. kukuLila Toy : Parents with children and grandparents with grandchildren. The toy is regulary testes from 3 years up. We tested the toy ourselves on children from 2 years up about in one year period. It turned out to be very good. In the future we intend to do the regular test for children from 1 years up. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. kukuLila Toy : The design has new, different style and organic shape. It is simple and elegant. It fits nicely into the environment. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. kukuLila Toy : Our daughter is Sofia, so we decided to take that name for design. We love that old, historical name very much. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. kukuLila Toy : Sketching and AutoCAD. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. kukuLila Toy : Simple and elegant design, with specially boutique style. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. kukuLila Toy : Yes, we work with people with technical, specialized skills. We collaborate with a lot of companies. We had to find a carpenter and seamstress who are able to do what we imagined and had right tools. The most parts we had to develop especially for our prototype, but some parts we can buy, for example wooden stick and black rubber on the wheels, textile, paint, lacguer. For finish prototype we worked with 17 companies, including packing. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. kukuLila Toy : Technology played a very important role in this particular design. We had to used curved plywood panel and do the body of the crib is elliptical, and cut below. Also we had to think how the wheels will turn. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. kukuLila Toy : Nine prototypes were made. We showed the product in different stages of development to various people also to people with technical, specialized skills. We listened to the reactions, comments and improvement. Each contributed know-how, information and personal undertaking, so that the project could be finished. The prototype has been tested by children in one year period. Final prototype was based on the positive feedback and enthusiastic reception of the toy. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. kukuLila Toy : Our goal was to develop the final prototype with low budget and in accordance with regulations. There are already beds and cribs for playing available on the market, and their manufacture has a long history. They can be found in museums and castles. It was a special challenge to take centuries old toy, and to rethink it, to make it interesting, different and especially simple and elegant. The first challenge was to find right people for making design. In our case in Slovenia we do not have a lot carpenter with the appropriate technology for us. It took us several months. We have a lot of seamstress, but too expensive. It took us two years. The second challenge was to find right material. The textile, which has a certificate, had to be imported from abroad. Some of textile was already tested with EN 71, some we need .[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with kukuLila Toy on Sofia Toy at design-interviews.com ]
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Bombadil Goes Boating
Bombadil Goes Boating is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien and was published in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.[1] It was closely related to The Lord of the Rings as Tom shows that he knows much of the recent events in the Shire thanks to a figure from Frodo's childhood:
He made no secret that he owed his recent knowledge largely to Farmer Maggot, whom he seemed to regard as a person of more importance than they had imagined
—The Fellowship of the Ring, "In the House of Tom Bombadil"
Tom even travels down the Withywindle to visit the Farmer and his family, singing and dancing late into the night. There was also a mock-scholarly introduction, in which Tolkien notes that not only did the Buckland hobbits compose poetry about Tom Bombadil, "they probably gave him this name (it is Bucklandish in form) to add to his many older ones." But, he writes, "they had as little understanding of his powers as the Shire-folk had of Gandalf's: both were regarded as benevolent persons, mysterious maybe and unpredictable but nonetheless comic."[2]
[edit] See also
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "Bombadil Goes Boating"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "Preface"


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Parrott Academy�s softball team wasn�t expected to make the state playoffs, especially as a 3A school.
The Patriots not only made it, they�re moving on to the next round.
Parrott Academy�s softball team wasn�t expected to make the state playoffs, especially as a 3A school.
The Patriots not only made it, they�re moving on to the next round.
Caroline Casey drove in three runs, two on an inside-the-park home run and Michelle Ballard pitched well when she had to as Parrott defeated Cary Academy 9-2 in the opening round of the NCISAA state 3A playoffs on Monday.
�A lot of people didn�t expect us to be at this point,� said Patriots coach Matt Beaman, whose team lost several key players to graduation last season and endured some injuries this year.
�I think we can make a run at a state championship, I really do.�
Parrott (15-5) will board a bus at 9 a.m. today for a 4:30 p.m. second-round game at Charlotte Hickory Grove Christian School (16-3).
The Patriots, winners of the last two state 2A softball titles, lost their fair share to graduation and midseason had to deal with injuries to several key players. They got into the playoffs with an at-large bid, and after being seeded seventh were able to host the No. 10 Chargers (7-4).
It didn�t take long for Parrott to prove it belongs.
Casey�s liner down the first-base line found the corner of the fencing in foul territory, and she was able to circle the bases behind Brianna Casey for the early 2-0 lead in the first inning.
Caroline Casey singled again to get things going in the third, and was the first to cross on Darci Basden�s two-run single to left to go up 4-0.
Parrott broke it open with five runs in the fourth on four consecutive singles by Savannah Hill, Brooke Uken, Basden and Summer Taylor, an RBI fielder�s choice by Amanda Cannon and two more base hits from Ballard and Sarah Riley.
The Patriots even had a chance to enforce the 10-run rule with a 9-0 lead and the bases loaded with one out, but couldn�t get the 10th run across.
It didn�t matter, because Parrott�s pitching wasn�t letting any of Cary Academy�s runners cross, either.
Ballard worked her way out of a two-on, no-outs situation to start the game, then had the help of Hill behind the plate, who threw out a pair of would-be base stealers after Ballard gave up a hit to Kelly Bright and walked Renee Reynolds with one out in the third.
Ballard (9-4) walked the first two to start the fifth, which ended her day and allowed Brianna Casey to pitch. Casey gave up a single in the sixth before Basden retired the side in the seventh for the win.
�They came out focused. � It was interesting to see if they were going to step their game up in the state playoffs and they did,� Beaman said. �Coming into this year we had no idea who was going to be our pitcher, we had no idea who was going to step up. Michelle has been the one to step up. �
Basden went 3-for-4, and the top of the lineup � Brianna Casey, Caroline Casey and Hill � combined to go 6-for-11 with six runs scored and a walk.
A long drive to Charlotte today isn�t the last Parrott wants to make. If the Patriots win, they will advance to the two-day state tournament this weekend in Gastonia.
While it may not have seemed possible just last month, Parrott is making noise in the state 3A playoffs. But it�s going to have to get past a team that won a 3A state title in 2010 and hasn�t allowed more than three runs in a single game this year.
�We�ve got our work cut out for us,� Beaman said, �but I like our bats and I like our chances.�
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Woods, a resident of nearby Calabasas, died of causes related to Alzheimer's disease Thursday at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Los Angeles, said her husband, Ed Shaughnessy, the former longtime drummer on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show."
Woods was a busy 18-year-old singer on radio in 1948 when, as a favor to two songwriter friends, Jerry Livingston and Mack David, she recorded a "demo" of a few songs they had written for Walt Disney's upcoming animated feature.
"I did the discs for them, in a studio with a piano - 'Bibbidi-Bobbidi Boo,' 'So This Is Love,' 'A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes,' " Woods recalled in a 2005 interview with the Deseret News of Salt Lake City.
"Two days later, Walt called. He wanted me to come over and have an interview. I gladly said, 'Yes, anytime you say.' We met and talked for awhile, and he said, 'How would you like to be Cinderella?' "
At the time, Woods was unaware that more than 300 singers had auditioned to be the voice of Cinderella, and she had no idea her demo recording would lead her to take part in a significant piece of Disney history.
Ever since then, as she was fond of saying, "I never hesitate to do a favor for a friend."After being offered the role of the sweet and mistreated stepdaughter who ultimately finds her Prince Charming, Woods spent about two years off and on recording songs and dialogue at the Disney studio.
"I loved doing the character," she told the Houston Chronicle in 2005. "When my dad saw the movie, he said he saw me in the facial expressions, hand movements and mannerisms. Marc Davis, who animated (the Cinderella character), would watch me record and picked up on things."
She enjoyed working at the Disney studio, she said. "Walt would sit down at the table with us at meals, and we discussed the movie together. It was just magical. There was a happiness and joy."
The singing voice for Cinderella's Prince Charming was supplied by singer and future TV talk-show host Mike Douglas; William Edward Phipps did the talking for Prince Charming. And, he told the Los Angeles Times on Friday, he thought Woods "was ideal" as Cinderella.
Animation critic and historian Charles Solomon told the Times on Friday that "one of the things about her performance is the warmth she gave the character. As soon as she began to speak, her voice meshed with Marc Davis' animation to create a heroine you liked instantly."
" 'Cinderella,' " Solomon said, "was a very important film for Walt Disney because his animated films hadn't been doing well after the war and 'Cinderella' was kind of a last chance he had. He needed a hit on the scale of 'Snow White.' He gambled everything on 'Cinderella.' It was a huge hit when it came out, and it really did save the studio."
Born Jacquelyn Ruth Woods on May 5, 1929, in Portsmouth, N.H., Woods dreamed of growing up and becoming a teacher.
"But mother had other ideas," she told the Knoxville News-Sentinel of Tennessee in 2001. "She was a backstage mother who saw to it that I had dancing lessons, music lessons and was on stage whenever possible."
At 11, Woods was starring on her own local radio program and by 1944 she was starring on her own network show broadcast from New York City.
After being lured to Chicago to be a regular on Don McNeill's popular radio show "The Breakfast Club," Woods moved to Los Angeles and became a featured performer on "The Sealtest Village Store" with Jack Carson. She also did guest shots on the Jack Benny, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope radio shows.
During World War II, Woods went on a celebrity-studded three-month War Bond Tour with Paul Whiteman and the Army Air Forces Orchestra. She also sang for President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his estate in Hyde Park, N.Y., and for President Harry Truman at the White House.
On television during the 1950s, she sang on the Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey shows and was a regular on Garry Moore's daytime show, where she met Shaughnessy, whom she married in 1963.
Woods was spokeswoman for the United Cerebral Palsy telethons around the country for many years. After she and her family moved to California in 1972, she retired from show business, with the exception of doing an occasional Disney autograph show.
When asked in a 2006 interview for Starlog magazine what the best thing was about having been "Cinderella," she replied: "Oh, I love the idea that after I'm gone, children will still be hearing my voice."
In addition to her husband of 47 years, she is survived by their son, Daniel Shaughnessy; her daughter from her first marriage, Stephanie Pagoto; and three grandchildren.


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Thought this might be of interest...goes along with some other examples we've discussed of Buddhist clergy making use of web and social media. Plwk, I think you will appreciate this.
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2...e-via-twitter/Haemin Sunim (Sunim is a Korean honorific for Buddhist monks) has become famous for imparting enlightenment and wisdom in his tweets about daily life. He's one of the most prominent Twitter voices in Korea, with around 55,000 followers. His messages get re-tweeted so much that he ranked as the country's most influential Twitter user–excluding celebrities and politicians–on Monday, according to SNS Page, an online site that provides Twitter-related rankings...
Haemin Sunim recalled a recent Twitter exchange with a teenage girl who faces Korea's high-stakes university entrance exam this Thursday while also deeply worrying about a mother with cancer. He said he felt really great that the girl found some peace of mind after their conversation on Twitter.
Politics is off limits in his tweets, and he also doesn't propagate Buddhism. "People don't like seeing outright missionary work on Twitter. What I write is actually the translation of difficult Buddhist doctrines in simple language," the Harvard-educated monk said.
He said his peer Buddhist monks should consider speaking with laypeople via Twitter to stay in touch with the outside world. In a recent meeting with other monks, he encouraged them to talk to the young generation. "I told them if we don't, young people will gradually dismiss religion as outdated."
To give you a flavor of his tweets, here's one from earlier this week: "There are more ordinary times than extraordinary ones throughout our lifetime. You wait your turn in a bank, pick fruit at a grocery store, and spend your time in subway. After all, you are happy when you feel happy in your ordinary time."


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Interview with Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : Our main goal was to make the lithotripsy device, used in kidney stone destruction operations, more effective. To achieve this, the device was subjected to industrial product design processes in accordance with the principles of Robust Design. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : In VibrolithRbsT Project, we focused on creating a physical structure that would comply with the hospital and operating room conditions which is the main priority in all our medical devices. We completed the design process with an easily perceivable and usable architecture. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : We will ensure that this design will have the production quality that will enable it to operate smoothly for many years and will satisfy the users. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : We worked on design development for 8 months, from the concept idea to the final product. At the end of this period, we acquired the 3D models and technical images along with rendered images to be used in advertising-promoting activities. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : First, we assessed the surveys completed with different users. We concluded that a long lasting and impact-resistant device with easily understandable functions and a simple exterior look would be the choice of users. We created a new concept in light of this analytical data. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : The design will be produced by ELMED Inc. Currently, prototype productions has been completed and international quality certifications are in process. Serial production of the product that will be exhibited in Medica2012, will launch at the end of 2012. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : Surveys and reviews performed on a wide Interland created the beginning of this work. Discussions have been made using the sketches and drafts and details of the final goal were reviewed on rendered photos. 3D modellings were then formed. Prototype was produced with Fused Deposition Modeling after completion of revisions deemed necessary by mechanical analyses and simulations. Following the controls, technical drawings and data needed for serial production were formed. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : All the designs were created by "Robust Design Inc." Full confidentiality was pursued until the end of design process in respect of the fair competition conditions. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : Vibrolith RbsT, was designed exclusively for ELMED Inc. In this study, other than design criteria and user demands, sales potential and production skills of the manufacturing firm were taken into consideration as well. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : As with many products, we used plastic injection and metal processing technologies in this Project. Thus we acquired the usual results with commonly used ABS plastic material and aluminum. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : VibrolithRbst, is what we named the lithotripsy devices working with vibration effect. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : The entire design process of the Project was carried with "Siemens NX8" software licensed under the name of Robust Design Inc. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : The fact that it has a simple and compatible design language. This contributes to an error-free use in lithotripsy surgeries. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : Design process was carried out by Robust Design and discussions were made with Mr.Sinan Kabakçı and Mr. Fatih Dağçınar regarding the concept compliance. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : Production method and site for each piece composing the design was checked. plastic injection and metal processing technologies will be used while producing the design. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : Mechanical analyses were simulated on the design. Strength and physical features were developed after assessing the results of such analyses. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : The parts that were time consuming yet we enjoyed the most in this Project were the design iterations and enginerring computations carried out to produce a high quality and robust product using quicky and economically producible pieces. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : We wanted our design to be evaluated by an international commission. We presented the design to public believing that knowledge should be shared to make it grow. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : We have learnt to overcome the challenges in medical device design. We saw the effect of experience on design processes and achieved to transfer yet another medical design to production. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Serhat Apak & Burhan Özugur : We are planning to utilize the experience we gained on VibrolithRbsT Project in different industrial product design studies. .
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Motherland Innovation: Africa Gets Its Own Smartphone and Tablet
A 26-year-old African entrepreneur and inventor has just debuted the first African-made smartphone and tablet computer.
First, Verone Mankou introduced the first African-designed tablet, The Way C, a few months ago. Now he has just surprised the tech world with the first African-designed smartphone.
Some had doubts about both; was the quality good? Were they really African-made when much of the construction happens in China, where it is cheaper to make such products?
Mankou's company, VMK, is based in the Republic of Congo. And when he spoke at the third annual Tech4Africa conference in Johannesburg, South Africa last month, he stressed the importance for an African company to invest in the local smartphone and tablet markets. "Only Africans can know what Africa needs," he said, as reported by Smart Planet. "Apple is huge in the U.S., Samsung is huge in Asia, and we want VMK to be huge in Africa."
The Way-C, or "the light of the stars" in the local Lingala language, is a small tablet roughly the size of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, according to Smart Planet. And at $300, it comes in less than the iPad mini. The Android-based smartphone is called the Elikia ("Hope") and features a 3.5-inch display, rear and forward facing cameras, 512MB of RAM, and a 650MHz processor. The contract-free phone is $170.
This is not the first time someone has claimed to invent the first African-made tablet. A Nigerian company previously announced the first tablet to be made in Africa, but this turned out not to be the case. "A few years ago, Africa's 'first' tablet was found out to be an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) product available not only in Nigeria, but throughout the world sold under different names. Its claims of being African were shot down, and the company was regarded as just another merchant pushing foreign products on local consumers," the article says.
Mankou's VMK is adamant that his products are African-made. The Elikia is engraved with the words "Designed in the Republic of Congo, assembled in China." This, the website says, is "intentionally mirroring Apple's 'Designed by Apple in California.'" Apple, notoriously, manufactures its products in China.
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WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney sought on Tuesday to quell the controversy surrounding his comments disparaging nearly half of the electorate, attempting to engage in a philosophical debate over the role of government even as some in his party began distancing themselves from their presidential standard-bearer.
As the full 49-minute video from a private May fund-raiser emerged online, Romney largely stuck with his controversial comment that President Obama's supporters are "dependent on government," even as he acknowledged that some among his targeted 47 percent cannot be so easily categorized.
In newly released portions of the video, made without Romney's knowledge at the Florida fund-raising event, he was also seen telling the donors that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "is going to remain an unsolved problem" in large part because "the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace."
"I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes — committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues — and I say, 'There's just no way.' "
In one striking passage that some saw as indicating a Romney White House would not actively pursue an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, he said: "We kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it." A spokeswoman for Romney's campaign said Tuesday that as president he would still address the conflict and attempt to reach a two-state solution.
Romney's remark triggered rebukes from Palestinian leaders, and the video overall continued to reverberate across the political world.
With some polls showing that Obama is continuing to extend his lead in the polls just 48 days before the election, Romney's campaign held a conference call with top donors on Tuesday to reassure them that the situation was under control and that the campaign was marching forward.
Obama, in his first public comments on the matter, took aim at Romney's stated plan to disregard the 47 percent Romney deemed lacking in "personal responsibility."
Appearing on David Letterman's show, Obama said that anyone who wants to be president has to "work for everyone, not just for some."
"There are not a lot of people out there who think they are victims," he said, contradicting his Republican rival's remark in the video that almost half of all Americans think of themselves as victims and expect government support.
Specifically, Romney said in the video that 47 percent of the electorate don't pay federal income taxes and are "dependent upon government — victims" who believe "that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it." He added: "My job is not to worry about those people."
The challenge for Romney is that the 47 percent figure includes a wide swath of voters, including some 16 million seniors who do not owe federal income taxes due to tax breaks for which they are eligible.
Others receive credits to help offset child care costs, taking their taxable income below cutoff levels, or because they serve in the military.
In his first interview since the clip emerged, Romney attempted to stand by the underlying philosophy of his statement — that government should have a lesser role in people's lives — even while he tried to say that he was not writing off the 47 percent who don't pay taxes, as he indicated he was in the video.
"There are a number of retirees, members of the military and so forth who aren't paying taxes, and that's as it should be," Romney told Fox News's Neil Cavuto on Tuesday afternoon. "But I do believe that we should have enough jobs and enough take-home pay such that people have the privilege of higher incomes that allow them to be paying taxes. I think people would like to be paying taxes."
Republicans were divided over Romney's comments, with some saying he was deeply misinformed and had found a way to alienate much of the electorate by characterizing all those who don't pay income taxes as victims who could not be convinced to take personal responsibility for their lives.
US Senator Scott Brown — who shares top political strategists with Romney — quickly distanced himself from his fellow Massachusetts Republican.
"That's not the way I view the world," Brown said in a statement. "As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in."
Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, called Romney's comments "stupid and arrogant" and suggested that Romney step down and allow Republicans to instead have a ticket that would include Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio.
But some conservative Republicans, who have been eager for a fight over government entitlement programs, saw in the fund-raiser video a more confident and plainspoken Romney they want to see more of.
"This could be the opportunity for Romney, and for that campaign, to finally take the gloves off and take the fear off and just start explaining conservatism, start explaining liberty to people and what it means." Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday on his widely syndicated radio show.
The identity of the person who taped Romney's blunt comments at the fund-raiser remained a mystery Tuesday.
James Carter IV, the grandson of Jimmy Carter, the former president, said he played a key role in helping to release the video, contacting a source who had been posting short clips online in recent weeks and persuading the source to provide the video to Mother Jones, a liberal magazine.
Carter did not identify the video source, saying only that it was safe to assume it was not one of Romney's donors.
He told NBC News that he was motivated to help make the video public in part because of Romney's frequent criticism of his grandfather.
He said he e-mailed his grandfather the story about the tape and got a response early Tuesday morning: "James: This is extraordinary. Congratulations! Papa."
Romney several times on Tuesday referenced a 1998 video clip that surfaced just before his Fox interview, which shows Obama, then an Illinois state senator, advocating for helping the poor through "redistribution."
"The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution," Obama says in the clip, to which the conservative website the Drudge Report posted a link. "Because I actually believe in redistribution — at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot."
"I know some believe that government should take from some to give to the others," Romney said in the Fox interview. "I think that's an entirely foreign concept."
Over the course of Tuesday, new portions of the secret video surfaced, showing that Romney covered a range of issues as he courted the wealthy donors at the Boca Raton home of investor Marc Leder.
Romney went through several reasons why a Palestinian state would not work — largely because of its close proximity to Israel, he said, and because Iran would try to exert influence.
Romney suggested that exerting pressure on the Israelis, as President Obama has tried to do, was the wrong approach.
"The idea of pushing on the Israelis to give something up to get the Palestinians to act is the worst idea in the world," Romney said. "We have done that time and time and time again. It does not work. So the only answer is show them strength. American strength, American resolve, and the Palestinians will some day reach the point where they want peace more than we're trying to force peace on them. Then it's worth having the discussion. So until then, it's just wishful thinking."
In July, he told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, "I believe in a two-state solution which suggests there will be two states, including a Jewish state."
Romney also highlighted the need to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but he did it in a different way from what he does on the campaign trail.
"If I were Iran — a crazed fanatic — I'd say let's get a little fissile material to Hezbollah, have them carry it to Chicago or some other place," he said.
"And then if anything goes wrong, or America starts acting up, we'll just say, 'Guess what? Unless you stand down, why, we're going to let off a dirty bomb.' "
"I mean this is where we have — where America could be held up and blackmailed by Iran, by the mullahs, by crazy people," he added. "So we really don't have any option but to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon."
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