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The Urban Soundscape (and why we should care about poor people's shit)Posted: July 30, 2012 Filed under: Environment, Health, Politics, Science 4 Comments
Bernie Krause's New York Times Op-ed "The Sound of a Damaged Habitat" gave me chills it was so good a (short!) read. Somehow, Krause gets away with describing the sounds of birds and bugs as an "orchestra," and it doesn't come off as cheesy. Damn! As a writer I am impressed.
What freaked me the fuck out, however, was how important sound – noise, din, the daily racket, whatever you want to call it- is, to things that are living.
Rereading that sentence makes me want to go "duh:" it should be a no-brainer that animals don't like loud noises and we can tell a lot about a habitat by the sounds we hear in it. As Krause pointed out, however, "too little research has been done in the field of biophonics" so running around saying "duh" to the research that has been done wouldn't be encouraging to any scientist, I suppose. Read the rest of this entry »
Positive thinking on Japan's March 2011 crisesPosted: March 18, 2011 Filed under: Environment, Techology, War | Tags: Earthquake, Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Humanitarian aid, Japan, Japanese people, Nuclear power, Sendai, sendai earthquake, Tokyo, Tsunami, United States, United States armed forces, World War II 1 Comment
I seem to have only posted negative things about the situation in Japan, so this post is an attempt to be positive. This post is really a list for myself.
The first, most obvious positive is: the Fukushima nuclear plant has not exploded.
The US Military support in Japan has been extensive, and unlike most foreign aid that is now arriving, the US military aid has been in Japan since the beginning. This article offers a comprehensive list of all US military missions conducted, or to be conducted. Rather than "running the show like they usually do in a disaster zone, U.S. troops are taking cues from the Japanese on how to assist in recovery efforts in the heart of the tsunami-ravaged coastline". This aid has not gone unnoticed by the Japanese people: In a e-mail I saw, forwarded to my mate from his father's business account days after the Sendai earthquake:
"Lastly, I as a Japanese really appreciate the help from your government. American troops and some war ships now arrived close to my home town. They are working hard to help the people over there. They knew there is the risk of exposure to radiation, but they came. I can't express how much I appreciate that."
Admiral Robert Willard has stated he is willing to send troops "into the danger zone" to assist the Japanese Defense force, however he is "cautiously optimistic" that the Japanese can handle cooling the plant themselves. Reuters states the US Military will not "be called into the most affected areas around the plant."
This positive is a direct outcome of WWII, as the US wouldn't be stationed in Japan if it wasn't for the Treaty of Francisco. Normally I advocate the shuttering of military bases overseas, but in this one instance, I have to make an exception. Though – we shouldn't keep our bases open around the world just so we can help if there is a natural disaster – I am not advocating that.
The Japanese people have remained calm. The sense of community at the Japanese refugee centers is heartwarming: children and women cook and clean, and men go into town to wait in lines for food and water.
"As far as I can tell, people around Tokyo are very calm and haven't heard any strange rumors. Avoiding panic is the benefit for all, and people seem to understand that."
And it's that message that is apparently getting lost in translation as the outside media cover the events in Japan, particularly the nuclear situation.
"CNN seems to be reporting 'people leaving from Tokyo' and Tokyo becoming a 'ghost town,' but it seems that it's a bit overemphasized," he wrote.
via Melony Plenda's "Student reports from Japan: People remain calm"
Here is a picture of a younger man helping an older man carry supplies. The New Yorker even mentioned the lack of looting and government exploitation. I would like to think that if something like this happened in the United States, Americans would refrain from looting and rioting, but past natural disasters show otherwise.
Internet comments have stated the calmness of the Japanese is a direct result of their community spirit and culture, sentiments echoed in The New Yorker article linked above.
Japan has the most technologically advanced earthquake detection and broadcast system in the world. This system undoubtedly saved lives.
The video above includes a frantic news producer yelling directions.
Japanese skyscrapers were built to withstand earthquakes and no engineered buildings have collapsed.
This list will be updated should I find out/read about other positives regarding the Japanese 2011 earthquake-tsunami-nuclear crisis.
Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami reveal American Stupidity, InsensitivityPosted: March 12, 2011 Filed under: Environment, Media, Science, War | Tags: Anglo-Maori wars, Atheism, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Australia, Facebook, Hawaii, Hiroshima, Japan, Karma, nationalism, New Zealand, No Child Left Behind, Nuclear weapon, Pacific Ocean, Pearl Harbor, solar flare, State of American Education, Tsunami, Twentieth Century, United States, what caused the 2011 sendai earthquake?, World War II 13 Comments
EDIT: The internet is telling me all these anti-Japanese sentiments began with a Family Guy staff writer's joke tweet. He deleted the tweet and apologized, though other Americans might actually mean it as evident by their Facebook vitriol?
The last 48 hours for Japan have been rough: two earthquakes, a tsunami, and fears of nuclear meltdown.
A logical, possible explanation? A solar flare.
Some cesspoolian Americans, however, viewed these natural phenomena as the work of a spiritual deity. These Americans believe the universe was angry at Japan for Pearl Harbor, and decided to wait more than 50 years to dish out karmic justice. Except these Americans didn't say it like that. More like: "Fuck Japan! Remember Pearl Harbor? Karma's a bitch!" Yeah.
When I think of all the Americans that never learned of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, my forehead wrinkles with worry. No Child Left Behind is doing a worse job than we imagined!
If I had to pick a country, between the United States and Japan, that would get karmic retribution for actions in World War II, I'd pick the United States (body count, occupation). If I were to follow the Facebooking-karmic-justice-Americans logic, where nature takes it upon herself to punish man for the things he does to his fellow man, I'd have to assume that Katrina, the tornadoes tearing up the midwest, the BP Oil Spill (why not?) and every other natural catastrophe to hit the states EVER, is retribution for things America did in prior wars. Or am I being silly here, because America don't have to worry about karmic retribution? I don't know the rules to this karma-blame-game… maybe America is exempt.
But what about New Zealand? Following the logic stated above, one could argue the Christchurch earthquake happened because of the Anglo-Maori wars centuries ago. And the flooding in Australia? Oh, the universe is always punishing that country – they're a country of criminals, you see?
But really, why Pearl Harbor?
My hypothesis: the film "Pearl Harbor" played recently (ahem, on repeat for a week) on some cable channel, making the battle of Pearl Harbor fresh in commonplace American minds. These Americans heard the world "Japan" on the news, and were like, "I just watched a movie with Ben Affleck, and that tsunami country bombed us in the movie! Serves them right, durrr, derr."
(I don't know if "Pearl Harbor" aired recently, but this makes me think my idea has merit…)
CLOSING EDIT: That joke flew over my head and now I feel silly. Perhaps all those Facebook people were really imitating Alec Sulkin. Reddit does not know this yet, nor does Viceland.com, linked above. (3:30pm CST)
Hedgehogs: the pet you can't petPosted: December 15, 2009 Filed under: Chicago, Environment | Tags: African Pygmy Hedgehogs, Animal Kingdom, boring pet, Chicago, craigslist, hedgehogs, pet craze Leave a comment
Has the British African pygmy hedgehog craze hit Chicago?
Breeders of these tiny, prickly critters are reporting their hedgehogs are the hot new thing for rich British women, who are replacing the Chihuahuas and pugs that once had pride of place in their handbags. Domesticated hedgehogs (which cost $400 a pop) are winning the hearts of U.K. buyers — including, reportedly, the wives of several top soccer players — as they require less care and attention than a dog, and are more portable and cheaper to feed.
My roommate has a hedgehog for a pet. Former roommates used to talk about how much they wanted a hedgehog named Sonic as a pet. A friend of mine recently purchased a hedgehog over Craigslist (and had it die on her less than a month later). So why are they so popular? Steve Maciontek, the General Manager at Animal Kingdom, explained in an e-mail:
Animal Kingdom has offered African Pygmy Hedgehogs as pets long before their current popularity became evident. These shy, quiet pets are great pets for households that cannot have dogs, cats, birds or other small animals. They are virtually odor-free and rarely have health issues. Animal Kingdom has seen a growing interest in these pets, particulary with college students, and couples who both work. We estimate that our sales have doubled during the past year.
If you're interested in owning one of these little critters yourself, here's a comprehensive guide to caring for your hedgehog including cage arrangement (the poem on top of the page is well worth the click), and here's a good link on how to litter train your hedgehog. Also, be careful where you get your hedgehog from!
Accidental punctures to themselves from their quills, obesity, and upper respiratory illnesses are the main concerns of hedgehog owners. We caution many of our customers to be very careful where they purchase their pet from. Many dealers, including internet sellers, have no idea how to pick one of these pets up let alone care for it. Ask questions.
adds Maciontek
I personally don't understand the appeal. Yes, they are cute, but you can't really cuddle them. My roommate naps on the couch with the hedgehog on her belly. The most entertaining thing the hedgehog does is swim and float around on its back in the bath tub.
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Nature the AmbivalentPosted: October 16, 2009 Filed under: California, Environment, Travel | Tags: California, california raven, devil's postpile, Eastern sierra hot springs, Hot Creek, Hot spring, June Lake, Long Valley Caldera, mammoth lakes, sage, Wild Willy's Hot Spring 1 Comment
I realized I need to stop personifying Nature; the Chicago Police Department can be benevolent or malevolent, but Nature will always do her own thing.
We started the day off by driving to Mammoth Lakes in search of the Devils Postpile, but the roads leading to the monument were not plowed. The gate was still open, but I was not up for a day-long hike in the snow. All around town, Mammoth Lakes businesses were preparing for the opening of the ski lifts. This is the earliest the ski resort has opened since 1994. At least all that snow was working for someone.
Having abandoned that particular detour, we decided to visit Wild Willie's hot springs. After a few wrong turns, we happened upon Hot Creek, a "river" that runs through Long Valley Caldera. Only in this part of the country can you take a wrong turn en route to a geological wonder only to run into another geological wonder. This 10 x 18 mile depression was formed over 760,000 years ago during a volcanic explosion that knocked 50 cubic miles of molten rock from beneath the earth's surface into the air. Today, the caldera is far from stable, with geysers erupting, the earth moving, and the water temperature reaching a scalding temperature unpredictably. When you're hanging out in the Travertine Springs, it's easy to think that these "hot tubs" were made just for humans, but at Hot Creek it's these same inviting small pools that will kill you. Warning signs are posted every where you look, and include pleasant tidbits like: "fourteen people have died or been seriously burned while countless others have been injured since 1968 and arsenic levels in the water may rise to dangerous levels suddenly". Basically, no swimming. We did see some steaming rocks though, and I got a short driving lesson on the way back to the highway (don't ask me to go over 25 miles per hour. I can't do it!).
Once we found it, Wild Willy's Hot Springs was thankfully tamer than Hot Creek, and was located off a long, rough dirt road. Wild Willie's has just one pool, and the bottom of the pool is harder and rockier than the clay bottom of Travertine Springs. Wild Willy's was also warmer, at least on the day we went. The water that flows into Wild Willy's
travels down a small waterfall and the sound is louder and more soothing than Travertine's. The spring is located in the middle of a meadow so cow dung was everywhere, but the hot spring has a pathway that resembles a narrow boardwalk. The pool itself has hard edges with indents for bottles and cans. All these little details convinced me again of nature's benevolence, and the dangers at Long Valley Caldera were forgotten. The pool I was bathing in was made just for that very purpose, right? It seemed so until I spotted what I like to call a proverbial hot spring shark: clumps of mucous-y algae, moss and other green stuff floating in Willie's water. It looked like God hocked a loogey directly into the hot spring. Any sort of movement knocks the goo off the wall, and after some getting in and out to take photos, pee, and get some drinks, there were giant slimy green and brown "jellyfish" just waiting to latch onto our arms and legs when we came to a rest. When one such "jellyfish" grew larger than a pizza, it was time for me to leave.
On the drive back to June Lake, we checked up on that deer carcass, and it's amazing what California ravens can do in 24 hours. The entire torso was picked clean, while the head and legs were still intact (I was going to post a photo but it's pretty gnarly). The deer still had her eyes in her sockets. The smell wasn't too bad unless you stood 10 feet downwind. I was clever enough to pick some sage and hold it to my nose. Sage grows abundantly out here and makes about a quarter of the scrub in the lowlands, and by lowlands I mean about 7,000 feet. The sage worked so well in masking the scent that I had to wonder… no, it was just a happy coincidence.
Another public project the lost Olympic bid screwed over?Posted: October 15, 2009 Filed under: Chicago, Environment, New York City | Tags: bloomingdale trail, Chicago, high line, new york city 3 Comments
The most recent update on the Bloomingdale Trail, a project much like New York City's High Line:
"I would expect to see at least a part of this open within 4 years," said Andrew Vesselinovitch, the Chicago Parks Program director for the Trust for Public Land. "But I think that is even a little optimistic."
via The dream of the Bloomingdale Trail still far from reality .
The Medill article goes on to mention:
Officials originally aimed for 2016 as a completion date, so that the trail would be up and running during the Olympic games. But with Chicago losing the bid, that aim is no longer necessary.
Much of the article mulls over how long this project is taking, but with funds being cut left and right (for more important things like youth and after school programs), grumbling about the lack of development over this trail is almost insensitive. Yes, it's true, this would be a nice addition to Chicago and would help in our attempts at dethroning New York City as King City. I just hope they don't make the Bloomingdale Trail as modern looking and soulless as New York City's High Line. So far, it looks good. The Friends of Bloomingdale Trail website say they plan on building community murals and you would be able to bike on the Bloomingdale Trail, something you cannot do on the High Line.
Nature the BenevolentPosted: October 15, 2009 Filed under: California, Environment, Travel | Tags: Birds, Bridgeport, California, deer, Hitchcock, hot springs, Shooting range, shotgun shells, Sierra Nevada, sulfur, Travertine Hot Springs, Yosemite National Park Leave a comment
Despite forecasts saying the snow storm would last for two days, the skies were sunny today and the snow that kept us indoors melted as quickly as my disappointment (and I thought Chicago's weather was unpredictable!). Despite not being able to access the park, my boyfriend and I explored the eastern outskirts of Yosemite. Our destination? The Travertine Hot Springs, just outside the town of Bridgeport, California.
We started the day by buying an ace bandage for my knee, which came in handy when we had to ditch our rental car at the shooting range halfway up the hot springs. If we had a truck we could have made it past the ditches and large potholes in the road, but our little Kia couldn't handle such terrain. One of the most genuine gentlemen I've ever met (a BLM ranger) suggested we take a short cut through the shooting range. The gun-toting modern cowboys were nice enough to pause in their target practice and watch me gimp through their field of view. I've never been to a shooting range, but from what I've seen in movies it's not usually a free-for-all with people bringing their own targets and leaving their bullet casings on the ground. Then again, when are movies accurate? The juxtaposition between the well kept hot springs and no littering signs versus the piles and piles of used ammunition nearby was not entirely lost on me.
Upon reaching the Travertine Hot Springs, my boyfriend and I promptly got lost looking for the group of four pools. There is one small pool right at the entrance, but we were looking for the secluded set. By climbing up some rocks, we were able to spot our springs and catch some folks in the state of re-dress. Not wanting to be mistaken as pervs, we made our presence known and the folks were nice enough to redirect us to the proper path.
Clothing is optional in the springs, but we kept our underwear on. The bottom of the pools are muddy in a clay sort of way, and smell heavily of sulfur. Each pool has its own water supply and distinct temperature, and investigating the source of the water atop the rock structures is fairly easy, even for wobbly me. We hung out in the springs for a good half hour or so, undisturbed, alternating pools when we got too hot. Taking in the view took a while, as did the fact that this was all free, all public land. I own these springs, President Obama owns these spring, as does Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and every American citizen! Even the echo of gun shots nearby couldn't bring me out of my relaxed state. Everything was peaceful and right with the world. The temperature of the hottest pool is said to be above boiling, so we did get a bit light-headed, prompting us to leave (or maybe it was the sulfur?). Nevertheless, the warmth stayed with us and we went sans hoodie and jacket on the hike down to the car. The hotel concierge explained that the hot springs are popular at night; she herself has only gone after dark, and sees shooting stars every time.
Ironically, I saw more animals yesterday than I did at Yosemite. It was almost as if nature had heard my digital complaints. Off the side of the highway, we witnessed a freshly dead deer being shredded by six or so ravens. These ravens were surprisingly aggressive. When my boyfriend tried to take a picture of the carnage, they rose up around him in a circle, squawking manically and a scene from Hitchcock's Birds flashed through my head. While walking to the hot springs, we startled a large jack rabbit and shortly thereafter discovered a newly car-crushed black and white snake. No bear or mountain lion, but I'll take what I can get.
Thanks for honoring my wishes, Mother Nature.


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103 Candles: Margaret's 103rd Birthday Party
Margaret's Birthday, Age 103
Margaret's Birthday, Age 102
Chapter 8: Curious (about) George
Chapter 7: The Demise of the Dell, Pt. 2 Fighting City Hall
Chapter 7: The Demise of the Dell, Pt. 1 Harvest of Tears
Chapter 6: The Dream Becomes a Nightmare
Winter Count: Margaret's 2013 Birthday
Happy Birthday, Margaret! Oldest Living Dell Rat Turns 101
Chapter 5: Home Sweet Dell
Chapter 4: Allie's Rats, Pt 2: Margaret's Pig Tale
Chapter 4: Allie's Rats, Pt 1: Hill and Dell
Chapter 3: The House on the Hill
Chapter 2: Margaret is Born...and So Is the Dell
Chapter 1: The Beauty and the Butcher
Introduction: My Shady Dell "Roots"
Margaret's Birthday

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Home for The Holidays
Special holiday event at Lake County History Center
The perfect start to this year's holiday season can be found at the Lake County History Center in Painesville Township. The center, once served as the Lake County Home, but during the holiday season, it becomes a Victorian holiday explosion called "Home for the Holidays" with nearly every inch of the main floors filled with intricate, unique and extravagant Christmas décor. Reflecting the Victorian age of the building, the displays are filled with ribbons, glittering flowers, and exotic plants and birds from nature. The event runs November 30 through December 2. Guests can visit the many crafters exhibiting everything from glorious wood products by Gary Egner, including his famous pepper grinder with the antique looking top to the marvelous lavender booth containing a world of relaxing and delightful smells. Especially popular is the "Mistletoe Market" filled with bargains and beautiful items for gift giving or keeping. These items have been donated and help support the operation of the Lake County History Center. The same halls, galleries and exhibit spaces that contain all these treats also contain unique stories of Lake County. Also in this area are the "Magical Musical Machines," the well-known exhibit of turn-of-the-century music boxes that cannot only be seen, but heard. The center is one of the only places in Ohio where this can be done. "Santa's Sweet Shop" is a first stop for many visitors as tables are filled with candy, cookies and breads that have been homemade by LCHS volunteers and are beautifully wrapped for holiday giving. With all the activity, many guests can look forward to lunch at the Candy Cane Café where they will find soup and sandwiches served by volunteers and the opportunity to relax with friends and family. The café is located next to the Sweet Shop and many pick up a plate of sweets for dessert. Due to demand from the community, the LCHS is also keeping the center open on weekends during December as a delightful place to visit or take out-of-town guests. After December 2, hours are Tuesday–Friday 10 am–2 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 1–4 pm. For questions and directions call the center at 440-639-2945 or visit their website.
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Dearest M.
I sadly fear I must have contributed more paving-stones for a certain region; for many good resolutions did I make in starting, and not one of them has been kept, not even so much as writing daily a portion of a letter to be sent home from New York. And now my long story will have to be cut short, and the doings of the last fifteen days will have to be crowded into a very limited space; for we are in sight of land, and our excitement can only be compared to that of school boys the last day of the term. The joy of landing will not be unmingled with regrets in parting from our fellow-passengers, with whom we have become fast friends; and we are inclined mutually to believe in transmigration of souls, and that we must have known each other in some prior state. Some are going into Minnesota, three of them having bought 13,000 acres in the Red River valley, which they are going to farm on a large scale, and hope in four years to have made fortunes, another owns mines in Colorado, having been one of the first pioneers of the San Juan district; he is in a fair way to a princely fortune. I fear golden apples will not be strewn on our paths, even though we are bound the furthest west. Fifteen days have we been out of sight of land; two days out from Queenstown we broke a piston-rod, which obliged us to lay to, in a fearfully rough sea, for five hours. Next day one of our four boilers burst, and again another piston-rod; which accidents, combined with contrary winds and heavy seas, reduced our speed to nearly half for the remainder of the journey. Our spirits have not flagged, as, thanks to various small games such as pitch-and-toss, running races when the ship was rolling, quoits, and cards, we have not found time unbearably long. The last few days we have had big sweepstakes on the run of the ship; but, unfortunately, none of our party have won them. One evening we had a concert; but you may imagine the talent on board was not great when they had to call upon one of us to accompany the prima donna, and the other to sing a second in a duet; another evening we danced—or rather tried to—our band consisting of a concertina and a flute, played by two of the steerage passengers, but the vessel rolled so persistently that we often lost our equilibrium and reeled like drunken men and women.
I must stop: curiosity bids me go on deck. We shall shortly be in the quarantine harbour, the entrance of which is said to be very fine; though I very much doubt our being able to see anything, as, in spite of being in this much boasted climate of the new world, it is raining and is dull enough to rejoice the hearts of true John Bulls like your daughter's.
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NAVY YARD, NEW YORK, April 30th.
I hope you will have got our letters sent off by the ship's boat the night before we were allowed to land, as, though we arrived in the quarantine harbour at 7 o'clock, it was too late for the Custom-house and medical officers to inspect us; we therefore had to lay to, and only moved up to the wharf about 8 o'clock the next morning....


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Like any other typical girl, I've had a lifelong fascination with ballet. One of my favorite movies is The Red Shoes (the drama! the suspense!). My old violin teacher used to dance for the San Francisco Ballet and I love hearing stories of her years in the ballet.
Henry Leutwyler shot a more gritty, real-to-life version of the NYC Ballet for Vanity Fair. I love how he captured the energy and tension of the dancer's leaps and bounds and blurred movements. To quote Albert Einstein, "Dancers are the athletes of God" and I do agree.
The photographs appear in his book Ballet and were exhibited at the Foley Gallery at the end of 2012.


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Talk:Ender Chest
|This talk page has become considerably long and has been requested to be archived.
- 1 Enderdragon?
- 2 Multiplayer
- 3 Origin
- 4 About the mod.
- 5 Portable Storage
- 6 double Enderchests?
- 7 Intentionally Beneficial Drawback?
- 8 storage file
- 9 Clarification
- 10 Obsidian
- 11 Creation of?
- 12 Minecraft Snapshot Week 24
- 13 Ender chests as diaries
- 14 Minecart with ender chest
- 15 Chest. Then Ender chest. Nether chest?
- 16 multi-person chests.
- 17 Multiplayer
- 18 Another possible usage
- 19 The Endernet
- 20 Video?
- 21 Map Creation
- 22 Trivial Trivia Edit
- 23 BlockTileEntity drops
- 24 Realms
Can Jean the Enderdragon destroy these? 220.127.116.11 15:02, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- No, only Billiam the Enderdragon can. It's his secret move. 220.127.116.11 16:01, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- Ha ha ha. Notch has named the Enderdragon Jean, and I was asking if the game's only boss mob can break these. No need for sarcasm. 22.214.171.124 16:59, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- EDIT: CONFIRMED. Jean can, oddly, destroy these. 188.8.131.52 17:57, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- Ha ha ha. Notch has named the Enderdragon Jean, and I was asking if the game's only boss mob can break these. No need for sarcasm. 126.96.36.199 16:59, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone know how these chests react in smp? do they have different contents for each player, like the piggy bank in terraria, or do they have different slots for each player? --220.127.116.11 16:09, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- Every Ender Chest has the same contents for everyone. –ultradude25 (T|C) at 16:18, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- yeah just saw that on the page right after i posted that... too bad it makes the chest almost useless in multiplayer --18.104.22.168 19:19, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- Awesome, now two players can trade with each other when they're far away. Great feature. 22.214.171.124 12:45, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
- Now ender chest has only the contents per player in multiplayer. New way to have exclusive protected items just for you! This was added in a later snapshot. 23:01, 5 July 2012 ----
- There are benefits (trade, contact), and drawbacks (griefing, stealing): see below "blessing in disguise"-type scenario (oh, and it doesn't have to be Game Chat, people use, to communicate); until the chests are trolled. Yilante, 18.104.22.168 22:38, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Should it be noted that the Ender Chest was suggested by the user soapawake on reddit? [1] –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Alexjuuhh (Talk|Contribs) 18:06, 24 May 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~
About the mod.[edit]
Where does Jeb mention that he got the idea from a mod? Because I think this is just another act in the play "omg mojang steals all mods and never credits anyone!!11!11oneeleven". They don't. It's just that there are three billion mods out there, and if Jeb implemented crafting grass blocks with dirt and seeds for example, 300 people would say "omg but i made this mod u stole my idea!!". Do you see how stupid this is? --18.104.22.168 20:57, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- Edit: This is all I could find. You can mention this. jeb_/status/205307552941088768 --126.96.36.199 21:00, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
- These guys don`t get credit for maing it becaue the public suggests it. The SUGGESTER gets credit. Not the mod maker. 11:12, 5 July 2012 ----
Portable Storage[edit]
I can see it now; no longer will peoples inventories be filled with junk, they will just have a Ender chest on them, and place there goodies in them, and recollect it and take it back out in their base. Portable inventory!!!
ZeCraftyMiner 01:21, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
- Or, just as likely, they'll put their ender chests in prominent places and use more than one. No need to keep collecting the one over and over, especially now that Silk Touch is required. --King Starscream 22:25, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Portable storage with 1 less free slot. slot with silk touch pick. the rest is for your adventure. voila. It is like making lemonade while buying lemonade: 2x the amount at a price!
double Enderchests?[edit]
If there are double chests... Then wouldn't there be double enderchests?
pogoman122 12:39, 25 May 2012 (CTZ)
- It's like that on purpose to balance the chests. Also how would it even work? If you place a single chest while also having a double chest, you won't be able to access half of the chest. –ultradude25 (T|C) at 18:11, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
- thankyou pogoman, i just spent ages trying to explain this to a friend in minecraft. also, the page says the chests can be places adjacent to one another, but what would be the point? all enderchests will have the exact same inventory
- one way it could work is if you had a full double enderchest, you could recheave your stuff from a single chest, but wouldn't put anything in unless the balance excess was eliminated, but that would be complicated. or, of course, they could just make enderchests bigger, which would be cool
- 188.8.131.52 08:35, 2 October 2012 (UTC) fluttershy
I know they need it Zigzagar 15:26, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Intentionally Beneficial Drawback?[edit]
Maybe the reason the Chests are not player specific is to allow trade of the newly introduced emeralds. This could allow trading within online communities, and possibly even economies to come into being on large servers. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Kajoman (Talk|Contribs) 03:10, 29 May 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~
- Yeah, and I'm gonna go look-up at the Multiplayer section of this "Talk," see what they think. One thing I can say here: Trading ideally is between a set-number of traders, at a time, whether it's 1-on-1 (most player trade, all NPC trade Unless multiple people can trade with the same NPC, and even the same things, at the same time..?), or multiple-on-1 (a "market" for a certain "stock," and /or "supply," of something). IF people are "honest," then Yes you are right a group of online friends can in-theory then trade Anything MC via an Ender Chest system. But in any case, Chat Will help-clarify the issue: of whether the "storage" is in fact for "Trading." Yilante, June 8th, 2012 184.108.40.206 22:35, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
- The Ender Chest is now per player items. That makes a transportable stock market that only you can access. 11:21, 5 July 2012 ----
storage file[edit]
anybody knows in which file the content is stored? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.127.116.11 (Talk) 03:15, 29 May 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~
- ok, found it by myself, its in the level.dat so there should be one enderchest for every world, if you use multiworld in smp. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 126.96.36.199 (Talk) 03:20, 29 May 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~
"By default, each server has one persistent Ender Chest inventory. This means that the player can not create or find an Ender Chest utilizing a different inventory of items than another."
Can anyone explain that last sentence to me? It appears a bit pronoun-vague... Dangercrow 17:10, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
- There is only one Ender Chest inventory for the entire server. There is no vanilla way to crease a second Ender Chest inventory. Hope that clears it up :D LightRod 5 June 2012 (UTC)
- Try "a given," instead of "the" player, works for me (and see Theology XD ). Yilante, 220.127.116.11 22:41, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
- Wrong! It is each inventory now per player.
- That's the point. Is there a way to revert back to sharing the chest for the whole world/ realm??
--Clonemonkey (talk) 08:10, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
It would seem that in SMP, Obsidian can't be transferred via Ender Chests. thought I'd note it. --220.127.116.11 07:50, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Creation of?[edit]
So I can't seem to craft the ender chest...is it SMP only? I followed the recipe given and it's not crafting it for me...anyone have a reason as to why, or possible help with this?–Preceding unsigned comment was added by JustAnotherPsyco (Talk|Contribs) 23:25, 13 June 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~
- Are you using Snapshot 12w21a or later?frogjg2003 03:48, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- I downloaded the game maybe, three weeks ago, at most. So i should be using w/e is the latest. JustAnotherPsyco –The preceding undated comment was added on 04:10, 14 June 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~
- If you haven't installed a snapshot, you're probably using the last official release (1.2.5). Ender chests will be in the 1.3 release, but are currently only in development snapshots. -- Orthotope 07:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Alright....well, i don't really know anything about these "Snapshots". Could you enlighten me and how/where I'd download them? I'd really like my ender chest... –Preceding unsigned comment was added by JustAnotherPsyco (Talk|Contribs) 07:13, 14 June 2012. Please sign your posts with ~~~~
- The installation process is not very well documented here on the wiki. See this post on the Mojang blog for a reasonably good explanation. -- Orthotope 07:58, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
It seems it SMP only now. --188.8.131.52 10:52, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
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What are everyone's opinions on the enderchests drawback? I myself would prefer something else, as eyes of ender are a bit tricky to gather. I can understand it for SMP, but in SSP, i don't see much point in it. A better drawback would be, to collect it, it requires a diamond pick, and takes as long to mine as obsidian. ZeCraftyMiner 15:31, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
I think the previous drawback was better, where a server had 1 inventory for everyone. Ender Eyes are too difficult to find. They've basically invented a new way of storage for the game and now they've ruined it 188.8.131.52 18:18, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Eyes of Ender are replaceable. That level 30 triple enchanted diamond sword I had to put in the chest so I could jump off the side of The End to escape is not. I'd rather have there be a cost for moving the chest (only without Silk Touch, which seriously isn't hard to get) than have other players take items I worked hard to craft. --King Starscream 22:13, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Eyes of Ender ARE a renewable resource, but, I myself do not enjoy trips to the Nether and The End constantly for Blaze Rods and Ender Pearls. Having the Ender Chest drop as an item instead of 8 Obsidian does not stop you from saving valuables, and I would rather not carry a silk touch pick everywhere I go. ZeCraftyMiner 23:33, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Keep the silk touch pick in the Ender chest.... Or pearls and obsidian to make a new chest. I suspect the drawback is simply to keep the chests from being too portable. --Mental Mouse 16:17, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Ender chests as diaries[edit]
On multiplayer, ender chests are per person inventoy. mix that with written books and books with quills and you can make a diary.
What is it[edit]
Whatever you want it tt to be. like a calender or log.
Why use it[edit]
Only you can access it.
Minecart with ender chest[edit]
Will thre be one?
Chest. Then Ender chest. Nether chest?[edit]
The chest is an overworld chest. The ender chest is an ender chest. What's next? The nether chest as a nether chest? What will make it different from the others? Plase respond. - TexasMike10
- It stores the data of who opened the chest, and if the opener isn't the saved name or player, it spawns a ghast. :P Funky3000 12:56, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
- With the Ender chest now personal to each player, a Nether chest of some sort could fill the void of being common to all players and all locations. ---Jovet 10:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
- It Destroys what is put into it, like throwing items in lave/fire? --superfly1031
- He meant a mixture of a normal chest and an ender chest. The contents of a supposed nether chest would be accessible anywhere, but by anyone, like a normal chest. While that is a neat idea, it's just a single chest shared by the entire server. Normal chests are a dime a dozen and ender chests are per player, so server size means nothing, but this "nether chest" idea will get progressively bad the larger a server's playerbase is, and altering this in any way would just make a weird spin-off of an ender chest.
--Kanegasi ☺C03:41, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
- He meant a mixture of a normal chest and an ender chest. The contents of a supposed nether chest would be accessible anywhere, but by anyone, like a normal chest. While that is a neat idea, it's just a single chest shared by the entire server. Normal chests are a dime a dozen and ender chests are per player, so server size means nothing, but this "nether chest" idea will get progressively bad the larger a server's playerbase is, and altering this in any way would just make a weird spin-off of an ender chest.
- It might do wool codes.18.104.22.168 01:45, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
- In single-player, this would be functionally equivalent to a second type of ender chest with a separate inventory. --Mental Mouse 03:56, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
- It might do wool codes.22.214.171.124 01:45, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
- Cake Chest. Pretty please.--126.96.36.199 11:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
multi-person chests.[edit]
It would be awesome it they made two chests, one that's player specific and one that's shared between all players, Have the default one created by recipe be the player-specific one, and then make another recipe which would take the player-specific chest and turn it into a shared chest (and make the recipe reversible). One anoying thing you run into on vanilla servers is when someone wants to borrow a lot of some simple resource like cobble or sand for building, it can take a long ass time to transport several inventories worth of an item to where you need it. 220.127.116.11 16:03, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
- The problem would be that any player with such a chest could rob it.... What you really want is player-specific sharing. But, implementation aside, that sort of long-distance "shipping" would be a major balance change. Right now, doing it with minecarts needs not only tracks, but player presence to load the travel chunks. --Mental Mouse 13:06, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
I think that the Enderchest can cause a HUGE problem for multiplayer servers...
- Actually, a network of Ender chests is different for each player. Because of this, hoppers and droppers cannot interact with Ender chests. Also, please sign your posts with
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Another possible usage[edit]
Another usage that is not mentioned in the article (and maybe should be): in railway systems. Place an Ender Chest on every station and put a single minecart in it. Then you come to any station, pull the minecart out, travel to another place, put return it to the chest. You will never have a station without a minecart again.
If anyone thinks this is relevant, it should be added to the article.
18.104.22.168 09:08, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
loveit --Clonemonkey (talk) 08:06, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
The Endernet[edit]
Ive heard the storage space that the items are kept in known colloquially as the 'Endernet' This could be a possible way to refer to where the items are when there are no chests placed down - Benjabby 22.214.171.124 14:26, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
- You know, I was wondering if placing an Ender chest after all the Ender chests in he world, then placing one and opening it could result in finding items inside. I play pocket edition, so I can't test this myself.
188.8.131.52 23:42, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
I believe there is a video about ender chests, how come it isn't on the page? -- Numbermaniac 12:04, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
Map Creation[edit]
We've heard about ender chests for SMP but what about downloadable maps. If I put my map up for download will the next player to use it get what I left in the ender chest? Are those Items now shared if the world is opened to LAN?--JMSterling (talk) 01:31, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
- Ender chests always show an inventory unique to the current player, no matter how they got there. For SSP maps, that is the same as the player who downloaded it I believe, but for multiplayer maps it won't be shared. --GufNZ (c: (talk) 02:41, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Trivial Trivia Edit[edit]
I'm sorry but the first Trivia section bullet was atrocious so I cleaned it up. Look at it's history and try to tell me my edit doesn't look cleaner :3
BlockTileEntity drops[edit]
[[Template:BlockTileEntity]] doesn't have a "drops" field but this page have one, should drops be added to [[Template:BlockTileEntity]] ? --Rom1504 (talk) 09:51, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Surely if you have a private realm with invited people the owner could set a control that allows "Share contents" for Ender Chests....--Clonemonkey (talk) 15:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)


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Why Are Dangerous Drugs and Medical Devices Available?
Medications and medical devices may cause serious injuries even after being approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). A pharmaceutical company may be liable for injuries caused by medications or medical device if the company was negligent in:
- Designing the drug. Pharmaceutical companies are expected to do the research and testing necessary to design a reasonably safe medication or medical device that does not result in serious unintended consequences.
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How Does a Pharmaceutical Class Action Case Work?
It's also important to understand how a pharmaceutical class action case works. Before you take action, you should know…
- What a class action is and how to start a case. A class action is a specific type of lawsuit that must be certified as a class action by the court. You can learn more about a class action and about how to start a case by talking to an experienced pharmaceutical class action lawyer.
- About the role of the lead plaintiff and the rest of the plaintiffs. The lead plaintiff has different responsibilities from the rest of the class of plaintiffs, but all plaintiffs have the right to recover damages in a class action case.
- How to find a class action attorney and why you need one. Class action lawsuits are unlike other personal injury cases. Accordingly, it is important to find a lawyer who has experience with these specific types of cases.
- What evidence to gather. Your medical records and other information will be important in determining the damages you may recover.
- Your rights if you were hurt by a generic drug side effect. Different rules apply in generic drug cases than in brand-name drug cases. Your lawyer can explain your rights if you've been hurt.
- If you have the right to bring or join a lawsuit. If you've been hurt in a similar way to how other people have been hurt by the same drug or medical device, then you may be able to recover damages.
- How much time you have to file a case. Your time to file a claim or join an existing class action is limited by statute or by the court. If you miss the deadline then you may be unable to recover damages.
- How class action settlements work. Attorneys typically negotiate the settlement with input from the lead plaintiff(s). However, all plaintiffs may be entitled to a portion of the negotiated recovery.
Then you can make a decision about pursuing damages.
What Can I Recover in a Pharmaceutical Class Action Case?
If you are successful in your pharmaceutical class action case then you may be able to recover for past, current, and future:
- Medical expenses. Your health care costs may be included in your recovery.
- Lost income. If you were unable to work then your lost wages or income may be included in your recovery.
- Out-of-pocket costs. Any costs you incur as a result of your injury may be compensated.
- Pain and suffering. You may be compensated for your emotional suffering and physical pain.
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This is a post I should have done a while back but it never really dawned on me the importance of discussing this topic until I thought back to a conversation I had with my roommate concerning the current lab I am working in.
Just a side note: I am in no way justifying the use of animals for research. I am just pointing out the things that animal studies have helped us understand.
Science in many ways has helped the vegan movement. One of the reasons people become vegan is because of their health, due to the multitudes of data collected by famous vegan doctors that prove time and time again that a whole foods plant based diet is the best way to nourish your body. Without the science, it would have been much more difficult to convince the thousand of people, including me, who made the decision.
However, there is another side of science that directly goes against the ethics of veganism. By adopting this lifestyle you are suppose to not contribute to the suffering and death of all animals, not just the ones you eat. This causes a bit of a situation when it comes to research, especially for medication or understanding the behaviour of disease causing agents. Normally the procedure in testing for medication ends up with a clinical trial involving animals, or when trying to understand the effect a pathogen can have on human model organisms are used. This is quite a difficult position for me to be in because I am trying as much as possible to be as compassionate as possible when it comes to my lifestyle, and do hope in the future to not use any animals in my lab or be associated with animal testing for research.
Lots of progress has been made in science, in bettering the lives of many with the help of model organisms. They have open our eyes to further understand our bodies and have been a major contributor to medical science. I cannot help but question where we would be without the use of animal models, but the most important question is that should life be lost for us to understand the human body and better treat those that are seriously ill? Is it selfish of us to lose a life to gain another? It is not the fault of many individuals that they are infected with certain diseases or are born with mutations that can make them ill. Yes, taking care of themselves with the right lifestyle is important but sometimes even that cannot keep off certain ailments. Are there better ways to approach models? I do not know but these are questions that arise with such a topic.
In all, it is easier to give reasoning to stop eating meat because looking at the science we are not suppose to consume them, and the stakes in stopping the consumption of meat is non for an individual. But with research how can the ethical argument be used convincingly. We can stop using animal models, but at the cost of stopping further research in diseases like Alzheimers, cancers and virus that could help in providing treatments for those suffering with these diseases. Computer models can be used but that is till guess work. Yet it is distasteful to have to sacrifice animals just for our own advancement. I would love to see a world free of animal testing, not just with cosmetics but with medical research, but unfortunately it is going to be a much harder battle to fight, especially trying to reason with very opinionated academics who think only one way is right. I was hoping to get to some sort of conclusion putting my thoughts to paper but I am more lost thinking more in detail about this.


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Stepping into the world of social media advertising and lead acquisition without an end goal is like heading out to sea without a destination. You might reach land eventually, but you could be waiting a long while.
Understanding goal setting and how it applies to your business is the first step to building a social media strategy that works.
What's The Goal?
The first step to any successful social campaign is identifying your end goals. You might want to ask yourself what kind of challenges your brand is facing: is your customer loyalty low? Has your traffic dipped? Having a clear map before you set off greatly increases your chances of arriving somewhere profitable, and successful campaigns have clear goals in place from the start. Let's take a look at some social media goals:
End Goal #1: Social Selling
There are various ways to make sales directly through social media, but in general it's a good idea to avoid coming across too 'sales-y', as that can quickly turn your audience off.
Direct response (or 'DR') is the most straightforward and measurable form of advertising around: show something to a prospect, ask them to buy, get a 'yes'.
Social selling is defined as the process of forging relationships through social channels, in order to sell more. Creating trust with your customers can be as similar to the type of trust they would have when asking their friends for recommendations.
One great real life example of social selling is Earthegy. Their relentless pitching might appear tiresome to people uninterested in gemstone jewellery, but through smart social selling founder Chrisy has built the page to over 115,000 fans with a reasonably high level of engagement.
There are three keys to social selling: research, authenticity and nurturing.
- Research is about understanding and profiling your ideal customer.
- Authenticity is about laser targeted messaging that resonates with the audience.
- Nurturing is about building friendships over time, much like as with a new friend.
Combining all three in your content and social media marketing can drastically increase your engagement, look less self-promotional, and build relationships that last past one sale into multiple sales.
Of course, the idea of being able to sell straight from Tweets and posts can seem appealing.
Afterall, social media can be mistaken for free advertising, leading some business owners to keep posting their new products over and over again. The danger comes when the business starts to believe that their audience's goal is to buy more products: it's not.
Any audience is always asking "'what's in it for me?" and the answer is not that they really want more product pitches in their social feeds.
The so-called "golden ratio" for social media marketing is 30/60/10. That means that 30% of the content you share should be created by you (to entertain and/or inform), 60% should be created by others relevant to your audience and shared by you, while just 10% should be purely self-promotional. While every business is different and we'd advise against religiously following a formula, the ratio can be a useful starting point for a business that is relatively new to social media marketing.
Bournemouth Pizza Co is a small startup pizza restaurant that used social selling very sensibly to build their following online when their restaurant first opened.
They used Facebook to publicise special offers for new "friends" of the restaurant that engaged with the audience's interest in great new food, discounts (which everyone loves), and an level of inclusive exclusivity that makes the customer eager to "show off" to their friends/family/followers by sharing about their experience.
Fitness Supplement company Shredz built their entire brand from scratch on Instagram by combining the same principles.
They built a following on their Instagram account of over 1.6 million followers by mixing fitness pictures, recipes, workout gear and, of course, sales pitches for Shredz supplements. Some are overt, such as special offers and discounts exclusively for followers. Others are more subtle.
Before and after pictures from Shredz customers serve as motivation for the audience, but also tell a story that sells more product. Images of Shredz sponsored athletes working out in the gym with their Shredz supplements neatly stacked next to them reinforces the association between Shredz and living the lifestyle their target market aspires to – and it works: revenue went from $90,000 in the company's first year to $5 million in year two.
End Goal #2: Loyalty and Retention
According to the Chartered Institute of Marketing, it can cost between five to eight times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.
By getting existing customers to follow you on social and constantly drip-feeding useful and helpful content to them, you can stay at the front of their mind until the buying cycle repeats and they're in the market for their next purchase.
The three main methods you can use to increase loyalty are:
- Share your customer's positive feedback through Retweets and shares of pictures featuring your brand.
- Publically address public questions or concerns rather than trying to discuss them 1-on-1 with Direct Messaging. Put an issue to bed early with a public message to one or more concerned parties.
- Reinforce the benefits of the product or service with 'in use' action shots or videos.
Through skillful positioning and cultivated word of mouth, you can use your existing customer base to find some new targeted customers through social referrals.
Asking for Facebook or Google+ reviews not only builds the strength of your social 'pitch', but also exposes you to the friends and followers of the happy customer, who can now see this public recognition.
Every customer could be an extremely effective walking, talking, Tweeting/instagramming/snapchatting/facebooking advertisement for your business — but very few people will do this out of their own initiative, so nurturing the process is required:
- Every follower is valuable, even if their audience is only twenty-five followers. What's important is how often their updates are Liked, Retweeted, and commented on. Nurture every engagement, no matter how small.
- Sharing isn't an instinctive action. People need a reason to share something, usually due to self-interest. Provoke it with rewards; i.e, Tweets of thanks, etc
- Pick out the trendsetters. Bring them onboard and use their high visibility and influence to reach their audience.
End Goal #3: Awareness
One trap that many new marketers fall into is thinking of everybody using Facebook, Twitter or Instagram as a single audience.
If social media is a sea, they think of their marketing campaign as a very wide net. They lob it in and hope they'll pick up the right sort of fish. The trouble is that wide nets are expensive and pick up a lot of crap.
Businesses casting a wide social media net are much better off when they find where the right fish hang out, throw in some targeted bait, and pick out loads of the right type of fish.
Thanks to audience targeting on every social network, finding the right fish for your business is usually pretty straightforward.
If your audience is sports fans for example, run ads targeting those that like a particular football club. If you need sports fans who drives new-ish Range Rovers, with a university education, living in Spain, you're in luck.
Almost without exception every target audience is out there, it's just a case of narrowing down your search, understanding the identifying traits of your perfect customer, and spinning that into an increased brand awareness.
Awareness is most often a goal for businesses that have a specific audience but who might not be ready to buy right now. New businesses usually need to raise awareness amongst their target audience, whether it's to attract funding or kickstart sales. In this situation, having established competitors can give you a distinct advantage, as you can piggyback the audience they've already spent money building.
Launching a hotel? Let's do some outreach to followers of existing hotels in your city. Promoting a furniture e-commerce store? Let's find people that like established furniture stores selling a similar sort of product, or manufacturers of those products. The established players have already done the work of collecting an audience, and there's nothing that stops you sneaking in and advertising to them.
If you don't have established competitors, that's usually good news too because it means your audience is being underserved. In the short term it means you'll have to work a little harder to collect your target customers together in the first place, but once you have them they'll be receptive.
What's your first goal for today?
You can find more details on how to get the best out of your social media marketing via our new book Profitable Social Media Marketing: How To Grow Your Business


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Newton Derby are a division of Winder Power, a leading power and distribution transformer manufacturing company based in the UK.
About Winder
After forming over one hundred years ago, we moved to our current premises in 2008. We have a modern factory covering 80,000 square feet, and have first-class employees who are committed to putting customers at the heart of capital to businesses in England and Wales.
We have a wide range of customers in the utility, renewable energy and industrial sectors. We employ one hundred people and are proud to have our base in the heart of West Yorkshire.


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Particulate Matter (PM) can be hazardous to your health.
Ideally particulate matter should be measured very prcisely and everywhere.
Are you interested in new technologies?
Do you like to participate in research?
Do you want to understand environmental data better?
Do you want to be part of a smart network for the air quality?
Measurement challenge
At present, particulate matter is determined gravimetrical at measurement stations. For this purpose, the air is sucked on filters, after a few days filters are collected, weighted and particulate matter concentration determined. Therefore one can only determine the PM concentration at an area after its occurance. Also daily variations of PM concentrations cannot be shown. Therefore one can only determine the PM concentration at an area after ists occurance. Also daily variations of PM concentrations cannot be shown. Therefore optical methods enable measurement of particulate matter "in real time", locally. Currently there are too few measuring points that can capture fine dust throughout the country. Therefore there has been the citizen Science approach for several years. Using simple technologies, interested citizens can assemble their own PM-sensors, register the sensor and visualize the data on a map. Examples of such projects are luftdaten.info, hackAIR or OpenSenseMap. Disadvantage of these sensors is, that they are not very accurate and that without measurements, a validation of the data quality is not possible. SmartAQnet therefore pursues the approach of combining the low-cost sensors with distributed reference devices to obtain the necessary validation.
Come and Join us for better scientific results
If you want to participate in the SmartAQnet project, want to build a sensor yourself and want to better unterstand environmental data, register with us!
We are planning a workshop in Augsburg at the end of March!
We will assemble sensors based od the model of Citizen Science project luftdaten.info (www.luftdaten.info), which you then you can install at home.
Please register: http://www.teco.edu/research%20/mitmachen-im-smart-air-quality-network-augsburg/


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I think I might have something here that's going to resolve one of your biggest biz challenges! I talk to numerous Clients and VAs each week, and there's one thing that always becomes a sticking point for them - it's content.
In fact I was on a call this week with someone who felt challenged, maybe slightly intimidated by blogging, and publishing content on the Web - like where do I start, what do I write - how do I make it count so I'm not wasting my time? All good questions...
When I first started out I was one of those people, I would stare at the screen trying to force a masterpiece out, pouring over every word and analysing it, wondering if I picked the right ones...
I eventually relaxed into it, and many hundreds of thousands of words later, I'm now actually pretty cool with my content, I don't stress over it so much, but I did a lot of learning and growing over the course of a number of years.
Funnily enough, mastering the art of writing the way you speak to a friend is one of the best tips I can share with you, actually writing how you would speak it, like the first words that come into your head, get them out asap as if your screen is your mate that can't hear you speak, so you're talking to him or her through the words you're typing.
Okay there's "hardcore VA" for you right there - 'your screen is your mate' and you might be thinking, this woman has clearly been spending too much time hanging out with Mac... I mean 'her' Mac...computer... Of course I don't call my computer Mac, like a person... I mean that would be silly, right?
Joking aside, I just demonstrated a chain of random thought in words, which has made up a part of this blog post. That's how chatty and informal some of my most successful [income generating!] posts have been.
But there's so much more to creating awesome content, and I'm going to show you a way of how you can get YEARS of combined learning from multiple experts condensed into one amazing event (which I'm speaking in by the way!) and that's the Create, Connect and Convert Summit.
It's a completely free event that you can sign up for on the link below, where myself and 19 other content experts get together with the summit's gracious host Sarah Schwab, to share all our top tips and insights into creating great content (and then knowing what to do with it!)
I just signed up myself (of course!) and they have this really awesome upgrade option, I don't know about you, but as my calendar is looking pretty full with client work during the event, which is April 13th to April 23rd, I'm going to need those MP3 recordings to listen to later on as I won't be able to be at all the sessions and listen to everyone's juicy advice, so this is a great way you can get access to them as well.
And guess what ;-) If you want to purchase this early bird offer now through my link in this post after signing up for the free event, forward your purchase receipt to me at email@example.com and we'll send you a FREE Bundle of 7 of my favourite PLR article packs from my own content store (which is 35 articles you can use in your own business and content development), to the value of around $70, so this is an awesome bonus for you guys too!
Offer is there if you'd like to take it :-)
By the way here's the link again for the summit, and remember the actual event price is the awesome sum of totally FREE :-) Enjoy!
This is for anyone who's struggling with their content creation and wants to really use this awesome way to turn content...Posted by Virtual Miss Friday on Friday, April 8, 2016


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Please Note: A 24 hour notice is required for inspections. A permit will be cancelled when no inspections are requested and conducted within six (6) months the date of issuance or the date of a previous inspection. Cancelled permits will not be refunded or reinstated.
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Whip them up in minutes with three ingredients you probably have in your pantry right now.
KITCHEN FRAU: Get nutty with three-ingredient, no-bake cereal bars
By Margaret Bose-Johnson
Kitchen Frau
Crunchy, chewy, nutty! The whole family will love these super easy cereal bars. Whip them up in minutes with three ingredients you probably have in your pantry right now. Then pack them to take to the lake, along camping, or on your next picnic.
I'm not the only one that has peanut butter and honey cravings, am I?
My nostalgia for this flavour combination stems from childhood — crackers spread with peanut butter and topped with a smear of honey were a staple sweet snack in our household; one of the few snacks mom allowed. Later, as a university student and then working as a teacher, I often lunched on rice cakes spread with peanut butter and honey; an easy, throw-together-at-the-last-minute lunch on rushed days. And I still love to satisfy a sweet craving like that nowadays. This simple peanut butter and honey combination doesn't seem to go out of style.
No-bake cereal bars are a great project to make with kids (and licking the bowl is an important part of the job). Young ones will need help with the stovetop part of the recipe. For these easy bars you just cook up some peanut butter and honey, stir it together with a heap of cereal and pop it into a pan. Or you can have fun and fill a batch of mini muffin tins for little individual snacks. We've sometimes topped ours with a sprinkle of colourful candy-coated sunflower seeds.
Yes, these cereal bars are a sweet treat. But life's short. Sometimes we need sweets.
Tell me, are you a peanut butter and honey lover, too?
KITCHEN FRAU NOTES: Even though Cheerios brand cereal doesn't contain any wheat ingredients and is labelled 'gluten free,' some people with celiac disease have problems with it. So, if you have celiac disease, are extremely sensitive to gluten, or if you know you can't tolerate it, use a certified gluten-free, O-shaped oat cereal instead.
NUT FREE: many schools don't allow peanut or nut products. I've tried this recipe with No Nuts brand toasted soy butter, which tastes very much like peanut butter, and it turns out just as deliciously. If you are making the recipe nut-free and wish to add nuts, replace the peanuts with toasted sunflower or pumpkin seeds.
VEGAN: golden syrup (like Rogers Syrup) or brown rice syrup, instead of honey, work equally well in this recipe.
Three Ingredient No Bake Cereal Bars
- 3 cups O-shaped oat breakfast cereal (like Cheerios or a certified gluten-free substitute)
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup honey
- optional: ½ cup roasted peanuts
Prepare an eight-inch square baking pan by lining it with parchment paper. Crease the paper to fit neatly into the corners. Or alternately, place mini-sized cupcake liners into 24 wells of a mini muffin tin.
Measure out the cereal into a bowl. Add the peanuts, if you are using them. Set aside.
Combine the peanut butter and honey in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then reduce the heat slightly and continue to cook for one minute, stirring constantly, as it can burn easily.
Pour the coating over the cereal, scraping the saucepan clean with a silicone spatula. Use a wooden spoon or spatula to stir it, making sure all the cereal is coated.
Pour the hot sticky cereal into the prepared pan and pat it down with the back of a large spoon so the top is smooth. Or, use two teaspoons to fill the wells of the mini muffin tins, heaping the cereal up and pressing it into the liners.
Chill the cereal bars or snack minis for at least one hour before cutting.
Lift the whole slab of cereal bar, with the parchment paper, out onto a cutting board. Cut into 16 squares with a sharp knife.
Makes 16 squares or 24 mini muffin bites.
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