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Some tales have a way of inspiring you to the point of changing you. A way of amending your outlook on life. The development of Technogym from its humble beginnings to the entity it is today is one of those stories. Technogym: From Garage to Gold Medals via the Grand Prix.
The humble beginnings are not just there for dramatic effect may I just add. The brand has undergone a massive transition over the course of its relatively short existence and the company has developed pretty rapidly from its inception in 1983. In that year a 22 year old Nerio Alessandri noticed the poor form of gym attendee's at his local gymnasium and created a hack squat machine to aid members to train harder and better combining his loves of engineering and fitness. From this the concept of Wellness was born; using a machine to help guarantee a person's wellbeing through regular physical activity and a thus ensuring a positive outlook. With this first piece of equipment being so popular, the gym owner ordered another three, paying Nerio up front for the order so parts could be bought and the order fulfilled. Wandering down to the local telephone box with a bag of change became a regular occurrence as Nerio began to spread the word about his new gym machines.
With the onset of the 90's, came the emergence of cardiovascular training for the masses. The treadmill became a mainstay of a healthy lifestyle and Technogym worked hard to be constantly developing products to further push the boundaries of health with technology emerging including a constant pulse rate system being patented and implemented across their range to allow a users heart rate to regulate the intensity of their workout. By 1992 a young Michael Schumacher had become a fan of Nerio training equipment, and Nerio advised that he would build Schumacher a state-of-the-art travelling gym to accompany him to each and every race in exchange for a spot of advertising on Schumacher's outfit. The difficulty was that all the novice German had left was some low profile room on his sleeves. Luck being what it is, the German won the F1 world championship in 1994 with 8 wins and 10 podiums, all of which with his arms aloft emblazoned with the Technogym logo.
In 1995 the brand had expanded to the point they were able to open 6 direct branches in Europe and the USA to promote their products, and by 2000 Technogym was official supplier to the Sydney Olympic games, with the company responsible for the provision of both equipment and knowledgeable human resource to the contemporary facilities used by elite athletes trying to win medals. This is a prestigious relationship which has been maintained to this day, with Technogym having supplied equipment at Athens, Bejing and London, with hopes high for Rio in 2016.
The opening of the magnificent purpose-built Technogym Village in 2012 was a commitment to, and to focus on, the pursuit of Wellness. This has enabled Nerio to have a place to exhibit his vision for Wellness alongside a place to research, design, manufacture and showcase the technology to take the business forward in the future.
The pursuit and sharing of the Wellness philosophy operates on a number of levels. The first of which is within the business environment which has been created for employees. The Technogym Village incorporates a restaurant which provides fresh, locally sourced cuisine to employees in exchange for a small donation each day (employees pay around £1) which covers anything they want for lunch including fruit, soup, meat, pasta, vegetables, bread and drinks. This can be enjoyed during one of the two hours which employees are entitled to for lunch, one of which can be spent eating and the other can be spent in the companies state of the art gym the Wellness Centre.
With ties to the local community being strong, the business has also been investing in manufacturing, agriculture & food production and infrastructure in the locality and surrounding region to create the Wellness Valley. The idea is to develop the Romagna region where Technogym is situated leveraging wellness as an opportunity for economic development, establishing it as the premier exhibition of Wellness in the whole of Italy. If Rome is History, and Milan is Style, then the plan is for Romagna to epitomise Wellness.
The underlying message is to spread the mantra of Wellness worldwide to improve peoples health and daily lifestyles by increasing productivity, reducing health costs and increasing productivity. In an effort to make this possible, Nerio Alessandri set up the Wellness Foundation, the non-profit organisation which runs parallel to the Technogym side of the business, and tasked with creating a more sustainable society, making the most of the experience and knowledge acquired in the company's brief yet rich history.
The Technogym Ecosystem goes some way to achieve this as clients have the possibility to access their training experience anywhere in the world at any time through the interactive equipment using the Wellness key, mobile apps, and Technogyms own digital platform called mywellness cloud, constantly keeping a track of their progress – no matter where they find themselves with the ability to log activity using third party applications like MapMyRun.
Wellness is a legacy that's become bigger than the employees, local community and gym goers though. The concept is a fixed item on the agenda of the World Economic Forum, and was also at the centre of an initiative sponsored by the United Nations in New York, with investment and training being shared into schools in both the USA and UK to help children learn using Wellness as a basis (using equipment in PE, learning how the body works in Biology and analysing the statistics produced by the machines in Maths among other things.)
The journey of one of the worlds most inspirational companies is set to continue with the launch of their new range and with the announcement for the Official Supplier for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro coming in late 2014, Technogym look set to keep the next generation of elite athletes (as well as us normal folk) in tip-top condition.
Our thoughts of course go out to Michael and his family at this difficult time.


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SAGINAW -- Someone's looking rather shabby-chic these days in the penguin warming house at Children's Zoo at Celebration Square.
But the reason for Scooter's bright dog cape, frayed by the constant pecking of her fellow African penguins, is one zookeepers take very seriously. Scooter didn't molt this year, which means she also didn't grow the new feathers that weave into a watertight coat.
While her caretakers make sure she doesn't go into hypothermia, they're studying a similar case in California where a custom-made wet suit triggered the molting process. With a little help, said zoo director Nancy Parker, the Neoprene vest could become the latest addition to Scooter's growing wardrobe.
"People always think of penguins as cold-weather birds but ours come from South Africa, where they're happiest when the weather is in the 60s," said visitor services specialist Robin Carey. And even though they live along the coast-line, "it's not humid," she added.
Like most birds, they also molt each year, beginning with a two-week food binge that doubles their weight before they lose their plumage.
"It literally looks as if they've exploded," Carey said. "There are feathers everywhere and these cute little downy penguins running around."
They stay away from the water – hypothermia is a real risk in that state – and live off their stored fat while the new feathers come in. In a zoo setting, of course, they don't need to go in the water to eat, "but it's instinct," Carey said. "We put the food out but they might eat one fish a day, at the most."
Every so often, she added, penguins might miss a season of molting. It's rare, Carey said, but it happens. But Scooter hasn't shown new growth, either, and that's cause for concern.
"Penguins have about 70 feathers per square inch, and they have oil glands at the base of their tails that produce the oil they spread over their feathers," she said. "They need that insulation."
An attentive zookeeper in Saginaw, browsing on the Internet, found an article titled "Why and How to Make a Penguin Wetsuit," Parker said. It told about Pierre, a 25-year-old African penguin at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco who didn't molt for four years.
He also withdrew from his colony, something keepers are finding in Saginaw as the other penguins harass Scooter, who was hatched in 2001. While some might think the other ladies are jealous of her fancy penguin-wear, it has more to do with the approaching breeding season, Carey said, and looking for fancy threads to line their nests.
Zoo keepers in San Francisco tried several treatments, including heat lamps, on Pierre but he remained plucked until a seamstress experienced in making children's costumes created a Neoprene vest. Within six weeks, his feathers had completely returned, possibly, they theorized, because the energy his body used to stay warm went instead toward sparking regrowth.
"Best of all, they included a pattern for making our own wet suit," Parker said, brandishing the paperwork that calls for at least three square feet of black 3-millimeter Neoprene and 10 inches of black Velcro hook side and another 20 inches of the loop side.
"This is something we could do."
Visitors to Saturday's Arctic Zoo Fest won't see the penguins – they need temperatures of 37 degrees or higher with no wind chill, Parker said – but making appearances are the Forgotten Forest and Stock Yard inhabitants and a few kangaroos if the sun's shining.
Activities include kids' crafts, chainsaw woodcarving demonstrations and a meet-and-greet with real sled dogs.
"We'll have the wolves and the bobcat, and the reptile building will be open, too," she said. Also watch for the train, on its way back from Scientific Brake and Equipment Co. where it was spiffed up for the coming season.
"Weather permitting, it's going to be on track," Parker said.
The Arctic Zoo Fest takes place from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Children's Zoo at Celebration Square, 1730 S. Washington in Saginaw. Admission is free but donations are welcome. Carousel and train rides cost $2.
The zoo kicks off its new season the last Saturday in March, with gates open from 10 a.m. to 5 p .m. daily. Admission costs $5.

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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) has been gaining momentum in distribution and supply chain since Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense announced that they were going to begin using it over 8 years ago. While it has taken time to spread throughout the industry, mostly due to costs, 2010 will be seen by many as the year that RFID finally started taking off.
Over 1 billion EPC (Electronic Product Codes) tags were sold which was over double what was purchased in 2009. While retail might have been the big take off with RFID in 2010, other industries like pharmaceuticals are seeing strong growth.
So what does this all mean? Many technology advancements were seen in 2010, such as off the shelf readers offered in a variety of forms and different price points. Where we once had two choices for readers there are now many which increases the adoption rate of RFID at a much faster pace. With this growth there has been an increased interest in investment dollars to RFID research which will help to drive even more advancements in technology and in turn, help to drive costs down and make this technology even more adoptable. In the past 8 years tag prices have come down 10 times in price, read rates of the tags are much more reliable, and the installation of these systems have become more routine. All these signs point to an even further expansion of RFID in 2011.
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Make yourself at home in one of the 113 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, and flat-screen televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and refrigerators.
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Top News:
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Instagram to begin testing an algorithm-based personalized feed for users, moving away from reverse chronological order — Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm — For years, we have been trained to view web postings from our friends in a certain order.
Discussion: Instagram Blog, Adweek, AppleInsider, Guardian, Complex, Forbes, Digiday, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, FOX2now.com, TIME, @mikeisaac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Engadget, Mashable, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, The Verge, quintly Blog, VentureBeat, New York Magazine, SocialTimes, Fortune, Tech Insider and ZDNet
Lauren Johnson / Adweek: Instagram Is Adding an Algorithm to Reorder Feeds Based on the Posts Users Like
Debbie Encalada / Complex: Instagram Decides to Self-Destruct by Introducing a Non-Chronological Feed
Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes: Instagram Tests Algorithmic Feed As User Growth Skyrockets
Jordan Valinsky / Digiday: Instagram confirms it's changing the feed to an algorithm
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: Instagram Testing New Algorithm-Driven Feed
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: Instagram Is Going To Reorder Your Feed Using An Algorithm
Brian Gotter / FOX2now.com: Instagram to display photos out of order, will test algorithm-based feed
Victor Luckerson / TIME: Instagram Is About to Change in a Massive Way
@mikeisaac: news: Instagram is moving away from reverse chronological to an algorithmic feed (like FB!) in a new test. http://www.nytimes.com/...
Sophie Kleeman / Gizmodo: Watch Out, People Are About to Get Unreasonably Upset About the Order of Their Instagram Feeds
Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Instagram to test personalized, algorithmic-based feed
Christina Warren / Mashable: A big change could be coming to your Instagram feed
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Instagram to soon start showing content out of order and based on personalized algorithms
Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear: Instagram tweaks feed order to show users preferred content
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Instagram will start showing posts out of order, like Facebook
Julian Gottke / quintly Blog: Instagram Study 2015 - Distinct drop in interactions
Justin Lafferty / SocialTimes: The News Feed Algorithm Will Soon Invade Instagram
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart sends 'cease and desist' letters to former staffers — Breitbart is getting litigious. — The company sent out cease and desist letters to some of the employees who left the company in the past week, multiple sources with knowledge of the letters told POLITICO.
Discussion: Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, The Slot, @jayrosen_nyu, Joe.My.God. and SFist
Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite: Breitbart is Hitting Its Former Employees with Cease and Desists Now
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo: Report: Breitbart Sends Cease And Desist Letters To Ex-Staffers
Joanna Rothkopf / The Slot: Breitbart Is Sending Cease and Desist Letters to Ex-Employees
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Drive true believing employees away through capture by Trump, then threaten to sue them when they quit. Breitbart! http://www.politico.com/...
Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.: Breitbart Threatens To Sue Fleeing Staffers
Caleb Pershan / SFist: The Chapel Cancels Event For Trump-Supporting Website Breitbart
Sources: Trump campaign manager that allegedly assaulted Breitbart staffer was subject of previous complaints about inappropriate behaviour towards journalists — Trump campaign manager's behavior prompted staff concerns — Corey Lewandowski's temperament and inappropriate comments drew ire at his previous job, too.
Discussion: National Review, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgressPage Array, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, @maggienyt, The Huffington Post, @kenvogel, Talking New Media, Fortune, TVNewser, @markennis, @alexburnsnyt, @hadas_gold, @katiepavlich, RedState, Mediaite, www.wnyc.org, The Daily Caller and The Week
Eliana Johnson / National Review: Media: You're All Breitbart
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgressPage Array: Trump Calls 'Press Conference,' Takes No Questions And Calls Media 'Disgusting'
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider: LIVE: 'Super-Duper' Tuesday
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: People had said Lewandowski departure from AFP was tumultuous, which he and others had denied. @kenvogel drills down http://www.politico.com/...
Samantha-Jo Roth / The Huffington Post: Ted Cruz: 'Physically Assaulting A Reporter Is A Fireable Offense'
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: The guy who could be Trump's WH chief of staff once threatened to "blow up" co-worker's car over late expense check. http://www.politico.com/...
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media: Breitbart News reporter and editor-at-large resign over Trump campaign manager incident
Mathew Ingram / Fortune: Meltdown at Breitbart Reveals Downside of Advocacy Journalism
Mark Joyella / TVNewser: 'It's Not Just Breitbart that Has Debased Itself'
Mark Ennis / @markennis: How insane do you have to be for Trump staffers to be concerned about your demeanor and behavior? http://twitter.com/...
Alex Burns / @alexburnsnyt: Wow — @kenvogel on an ugly incident involving Trump campaign manager >> http://www.politico.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Hadas Gold / @hadas_gold: Sources told me Trump campaign manager has made inappropriate comments to and about female reporters http://www.politico.com/...
Katie Pavlich / @katiepavlich: Trump's campaign manager's behavior prompted staff concerns, history of quick temper, inappropriate comments http://www.politico.com/...
Alex Griswold / Mediaite: SHOCKER: Trump Campaign Manager Has Long History of Sexist, Abusive Behavior
Steve Guest / The Daily Caller: Rubio: If My Campaign Manager Grabbed A Reporter 'My Campaign Would Be Over'
New York Times:
Analysis shows Trump has earned close to $2B in free media, yet spent less than any other major candidate on advertising — Measuring Donald Trump's Mammoth Advantage in Free Media — Of all the ways Donald Trump has shocked the political system, one of the most significant is how he wins primary …
Discussion: Variety, The Huffington Post, @saritachourey, Hot Air, @nytimes, @amkuehler, @conradhackett, Business Insider, Hit & Run, Independent Journal Review, The Week, Fortune and WNCN, Thanks:@beet_tv
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Donald Trump Has Received Nearly $2 Billion In Free Media Attention
Sarita Chourey / @saritachourey: From NYTimes: Trump "earned" $400M worth of free media last month, about what McCain spent on his '08 campaign http://www.nytimes.com/...
John Sexton / Hot Air: Trump has scored nearly $2 billion in free media coverage
The New / @nytimes: How Donald Trump has won primary after primary with one of the smallest campaign budgets http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Alex Kuehler / @amkuehler: Fair and unbiased. What a joke the American media has become: http://www.nytimes.com/...
Conrad Hackett / @conradhackett: Here's how paid advertising compares with free media coverage http://www.nytimes.com/... pic.twitter.com/yOUTnESbSM
Allan Smith / Business Insider: Stunning chart shows how Donald Trump has dominated media coverage of the 2016 race
Scott Shackford / Hit & Run: This Media Coverage Chart Shows Why Hillary Clinton Should Be Thankful for the Citizens United Decision
Justin Green / Independent Journal Review: If You Think All the Media Does Is Talk About Donald Trump, Here's the Real Story
Denver Post:
Denver Post editor Greg Moore resigns; news director Lee Ann Colacioppo will lead newsroom during search for replacement — Search begins for new leader as news director Lee Ann Colacioppo takes reins of Colorado's largest newspaper — Denver Post editor Gregory L. Moore resigned from the paper, March 15, 2016.
Discussion: @downesscott, @jimbrady, @zahiratorres, The Big Media Blog, @gwenifill and TheDenverChannel.com
Scott Downes / @downesscott: Literally couldn't read this article b/c the popup/takeover ads wouldn't close. http://twitter.com/...
Jim Brady / @jimbrady: Sad news for Denver. But what a great run. Best wishes on your next chapter, @gregmooreDP. http://twitter.com/...
Zahira Torres / @zahiratorres: Sad to hear @gregmooreDP resigned from the Denver Post. Thankful to have worked with him http://dpo.st/1MkSMN9 pic.twitter.com/HpmOhkIiK1
Jason Salzman / The Big Media Blog: Denver Post editor's resignation likely another sign of paper's spiral downward
Gwen Ifill / @gwenifill: Congratulations to @gregmooreDP on 14 great years! http://tinyurl.com/h2b9hto
Lee Ann Colaciop / TheDenverChannel.com: Denver Post editor Greg Moore resigns
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Apple News now lets publishers of all sizes edit and deliver their stories in the Apple News format, improves statistics dashboard, and launches ad campaign — Apple Just Opened Up Its News App In a Big Way — Apple will now let individuals and independent publishers deliver content through its native news platform.
Discussion: Digiday, Washington Post, Fortune, MacRumors, Business Insider, @eric_analytics, @manigandham, Wired, @eric_analytics, @dannysullivan, Talking New Media, Re/code, Fortune and Editor & Publisher
Lucia Moses / Digiday: Apple is running an ad campaign for its Apple News app
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: Apple News opens up to publishers of all sizes, improves statistics dashboard, and launches ad campaign for the service
Mathew Ingram / Fortune: Apple Opens Its News Service to Publishers of All Kinds
Kif Leswing / Business Insider: Apple News is your new blog
easy E / @eric_analytics: HUGE for small pubs: Apple will identify "smaller pubs..high-quality content from lesser-known outlets" @jason_kint http://apple.news/...
Mani Gandham / @manigandham: @bluechoochoo @eric_analytics they added web editor to publish without a feed and customize for all the special functionality they offer
Julia Greenberg / Wired: Apple Wants All Publishers to Join Apple News (And Look Good) Now, Too
@eric_analytics: @ManiGandham @bluechoochoo sure. But I'm talking about platform formats: Apple News format by far the best Far distant FB instant
Danny Sullivan / @dannysullivan: Apple still says Apple News Format "coming soon" https://developer.apple.com/ ... but internally pushing upgrading pic.twitter.com/b4kXZE598o
Hilary Brueck / Fortune: Apple's New Ads Could Fool You
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Hires Longtime Pandora Exec Tom Conrad as VP of Product — Snapchat has hired longtime Pandora executive Tom Conrad as its new VP of Product. — Conrad spent a decade at Pandora and was running product and also serving as the company's CTO by the time he left back in 2014.
Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes: Snapchat Hires Former Pandora Exec As New Head Of Product
Janko Roettgers / Variety: Former Pandora CTO Tom Conrad Lands at Snapchat
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Dish Sues NBCUniversal as Carriage Dispute Escalates — Dish Network has filed suit against NBCUniversal, the latest step in a rapidly escalating dispute over a new carriage agreement between the two companies. — In a suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Illinois …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Business Wire, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Consumerist, Deadline, Deadline and Inside Cable News
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable: Dish Sues NBCU Over Negotiation Statements
Daniel Holloway / Variety: NBC Blackout Looms for Dish Customers in Los Angeles, New York
Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times: Satellite giant Dish sues NBC, alleging breach of contract
Erik Pedersen / Deadline: Dish Sues NBCUniversal Over Blackout Threat As Spat Heats Up
David Lieberman / Deadline: NBC Warns Dish Network Subs That Channels May Go Dark On Sunday
Astha Rajvanshi / Columbia Journalism Review:
How use of open-source intel in reporting on human rights crises can risk sources' lives — In human rights reporting, the perils of too much information — Editor's Note: This post was produced as part of a graduate course on media writing and storytelling taught by the editors of Columbia Journalism Review.
Katie Zhu / Medium's The Story:
Medium updates iOS and Android apps to add topic- and theme-based collections, curated by trusted human testers — Collections: Curating a More Browsable Medium — There's so many great stories published every day on Medium—it's hard to keep up. We're building a platform for authors …
Discussion: The Verge, @caseynewton, @brianellin, Fast Company, Talkback and The Next Web
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Well the @medium release notes team is drunk again pic.twitter.com/CoQElXXHc0
Brian Ellin / @brianellin: We've made it super easy to browse/read the best of Medium on mobile. @ktzhu tells the story https://medium.com/... pic.twitter.com/O1IQic8w7S
Steven Melendez / Fast Company: Medium Launches Curated "Collections" Of Posts
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
New York Times changes policy on stories based on anonymous sources; must now be approved by one of three top editors — Tightening the Screws on Anonymous Sources — After two major front-page errors in a six-month period, Times editors are cracking down on the use of anonymous sources.
Discussion: Politico, @edmundlee, @brianstelter, @yaqiu, @zackwhittaker, @michaelluo, The Wrap, @sulliview, @emilybell, FishbowlNY, @jimrutenberg, @dankennedy_nu, @jayrosen_nyu, @sulliview, @dnvolz, @digiphile, @qhardy, @nycsouthpaw, @mlcalderone, Press Enterprise, @coopnytimes, @annaleighclark, @penenberg and @antderosa
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: I agree anonymous sources should be vetted — but that's the reporter's job. Always has been, always should be: http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Big change to NYT anonymous source policy: every story that depends on anon sources must be approved by a TOP editor http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Yaqiu Wang / @yaqiu: I wonder how the new rule is going to affect NYT's reporting on China. http://twitter.com/...
Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker: Really glad @Sulliview made this distinction. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... http://twitter.com/...
Michael Luo / @michaelluo: Under new policy, anonymous direct quotes will be "relatively rare." http://twitter.com/...
Brian Flood / The Wrap: New York Times Cracks Down On Use of Anonymous Sources
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: The Times will try to prevent "journalistic I.E.D.s" with new policy on anonymous sources. My post:http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes. com/ ...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: new 'anonymous sources' policy for the @nytimes - after much pressure from @Sulliview and others http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: NY Times Tightens Guidelines on Anon Sourcing
@jimrutenberg: In NYT new policy reducing anonymity, top editors declare it's worth risk of getting beaten 2 work stuff onto record http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: The @NYTimes cracks down on anonymous sources. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The New York Times says its tightening the screws on anonymous sources, @Sulliview reports. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... The key word is "says."
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Updated edition of my post for journo nerds! (Includes full text of editors' email to newsroom on unnamed sources) http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: Approval needed for stories that "depend primarily on information from unnamed sources" http://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Good news. I hope the @NYTimes will publish its memo on anonymous sourcing: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/ ... for its readers. http://twitter.com/...
Quentin Hardy / @qhardy: For a lucky few in the online journalism deluge, credibility trumps speed. http://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: *Indiana Jones leans forward, unconvinced* "Who?" "TOP. EDITORS." http://twitter.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: NYT reporters now need one of paper's three top editors to sign off on stories that hinge on anonymous sources: http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Michael Cooper / @coopnytimes: "This policy is awesome!" one wag said. (Kidding - here's a look at our new anonymity rules, which forbid that.) http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/ ...
Anna Clark / @annaleighclark: The gift that @Sulliview, who has long pushed at this issue, leaves us before she shifts to the @washingtonpost. http://twitter.com/...
Adam L. Penenberg / @penenberg: I've long railed against @nytimes over reliance on anonymous sources. This seems a sensible policy and long overdue. http://twitter.com/...
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Trinity Mirror plans to monetize its mobile audience through in-app ad formats, faster running sites, and location-based ads — How Trinity Mirror plans to close the gap in mobile — The number of people who view Trinity Mirror Group content exclusively on mobile has exploded in the past few years.
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Bar Crudo
This week has been a challenge. Our Mac was acting up, so I hired a guy to come in and unfuck it. He did a great job, but unfortunately we lost two years worth of photographs and most of my artwork. So I'm starting over, which is fine. A lesson in letting go.
Also a dark week for personal reasons. I'm not going to go into it, but I endured a long, dark, tea-time of the soul. Unmoored and adrift, I found everything I had been clinging to suddenly gone. Like a giant crack opened up in the ground and swallowed me whole.
So yesterday found me wandering out of the abyss, aided by the lamplight of love held out to me by my lodestar wife. Today I am blinking and rubbing my eyes at the New World. Filling my lungs with the sweet air. Falling to my knees in gratitude.
Was lost, but now am found.


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Job Description
Grower Account Manager
- Nationally recognised grower and food manufacturer
- Newly created role offering autonomy and growth
- Working directly with key accounts and business owners
Our client 9 Mile is a nationally recognised grower and food manufacturer supplying into key retailers like Woolworths and Coles, and smaller private facilities across Australia. Due to strong growth, they have exclusively partnered with Fuse Recruitment in their search for a new dynamic Grower Account Manager. Please note our client is based in Tynong, 15 minutes from Pakenham.
This is a newly created role which offers the ability to impart knowledge and take the lead on fostering strong relationships with growers, the forefront of the 9 Mile business. The role offers a base salary, super, commission and vehicle.
Keys aspects of the role:
- Assist and encourage growers throughout the growing season to achieve best practise production
- Drive grower performance levels
- Liaise and coordinate with growers during the harvest season regarding timelines, marketing opportunities, storage and strategies
- Provide pack-out and financial information back to growers in a timely manner
- Achieve new grower business by meeting set and agreed on KPI's
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4 Ladies – Peterborough
Captains: Kerri Kightley and Jocelyn Blazey
In the captain's words:
This group (thanks for the name, Loat!) was pulled together as a bit of a dream team of ladies that we captains have always wanted to play with. We are pretty passionate about creating spaces for women to demonstrate all of their incredible skill and strength on the field and believe in the power of gathering a group of badass ladies together to push both themselves and their teammates to the best version of an athlete possible. Ultimate is a pretty cool space to see this happen.
Jesse Shofner, an American ultimate superstar, recently wrote that women should: "Take up space. With your thoughts, your voice, your legs, your presence in male-dominated sport culture…you're out of this world. You're a force of nature. There is room for you to go and try, fail, make mistakes, and grow. Now, show up and dare to take space." 4 Ladies took up some serious space at the Electric City tournament! We love that the Ultimate Experience doesn't even hesitate to register an all female identifying team in a mixed tournament – Thanks for giving us the space UE.
In our words:
4 Ladies is amazing, both in skill and with what they're doing for women in the sport. Their quote from Jesse Shofner is something they truly took to heart, and they stepped up to the challenge to show the world what they can do. They had a great showing at the Electric City tournament, and we're confident that they'll have more great showings to follow. We're excited to see them come out and take space at more events in the future, and it's been a pleasure to be able to host them this past season.


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The tip of the kunai drove into his neck; almost, barely drawing blood. Her body loosen for a moment but the kunai was still held to this throat. He waited for her to drag the weapon across his neck, drawing some blood and declaring victory; "I have been beaten the Hyuuga genius!" She was hesitating…
"What are you waiting for?" His pale gaze studied her facial expression, searching for the reason she was hesitating.
"Nothing!" Her eyes wearily moved to look into his. Her body stiffened and she held to the kunai tighter.
"You are clearly hesitating; your body has stiffened since I have spoken and you are gripping to your weapon as if you are afraid to lose it. Your gaze has softened from anger and fighting intent you had in your eyes a few moments ago."
Suddenly the kunai was gone, thrown across the training grounds, and her lips were clumsily mashed against his. His eyes widen from shock for a few moments before relaxing; closing his eyes and moving his arms to wrap around her waist, rubbing his palms over the fabric of her shirt in circular motions.
He didn't know whether to be disappointed or pleased when she broke the kiss. Whatever it was, he still held tight to her petite form.
"You will not be sorry, Tenten. I know your weakness and I will not let it show."
A silencing finger was placed upon her lips and the kunoichi's facial expressions turned to worry.
"Now, Tenten, tomorrow we will train as usual. Do not bring your weapons; just yourself, understand?"
Title: Used
Rating: PG-13
"Neji...what do you mean?"
"Physical comfort, Tenten. I have officially been a jounin for quite some time now. Most the men have women to go too and be comforted."
"So, you want me for physical comfort?"
His cool pale gaze scanned her over, immediately having Tenten feel uncomfortable. She knew Neji did not joke around but she could not believe he would bring up a matter like this. Neji was a Hyuuga, he was a respectful young man. Of course, Tenten knew young men had certain urges but she would have never thought Neji would be the one to act upon these urges.
Tenten repeated her question, "You want me for physical comfort? You want my body? Am I correct, Neji?"
"In a way, yes."
"Can't you just go to some...some whore house?!"
"And why not?" Hands on hips, frown set upon her face. He stepped forward towards Tenten, gently placing a hand on her waist, pulling her closer. Head tilted slightly, he brought his lips dangerously close to hers. Shivering, as if on instinct, Tenten parted her lips.
"I want a virgin and I want you," Neji nibbled on Tenten's lower lip before taking it into his mouth and sucking on it. He was egged on by the soft mewing sounds she immediately began to make from receiving such affection. He would certainly enjoy this if these were the sounds she would make every time they were in bed. Suddenly, his lips were on her neck, speaking into her neck, his baritone voice tickled her.
"Don't you want me too, Tenten?"
"Yes, please..." In just a few moments Tenten had been entranced by the Hyuuga genius. But then again, she had always harbored affection toward Neji...The thought that he was only going to be using her body ran through her mind but she pushed it away. Perhaps, she could change his mind.
"Excellent, glad you understand." Neji pulled away which sparked immediate disappointment in Tenten. "I will arrive around seven to your place. It will be nice to have dinner in the company of you instead of the Hyuuga household."


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|Titre :
|Impact of land cover change on ecosystem service supply in mountain systems: a case study in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW of Spain) (2019)
|Auteurs :
|Paula García-Llamas, Auteur ; Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Auteur ; Ana P. García-Nieto, Auteur ; Leonor Calvo, Auteur ; Susana Suarez-Seoane, Auteur ; Wolfgang Cramer, Auteur
|Type de document :
|Dans :
|Regional Environmental Change (19(2) February, 2019)
|Article en page(s) :
|Mots-clés :
|TdV ; Espagne ; Service écosystémique ; paysage ; Agrosystème
|CORINE land cover ; Capacity matrix ; Cultural services ; Provision of services ; Regulation services ; Semi-natural landscapes
|Résumé :
|Land abandonment and the loss of traditional farming practices are thought to control land cover dynamics, and hence the ecosystem service supply in traditionally managed mountain landscapes. We evaluate the impact of land cover changes in Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain), over 1990–2012, on the potential supply capacity of ecosystem services (regulating, provisioning, and cultural) at both regional and local scales. We also analyze trends in the use of ecosystem services at the local scale. Land cover changes were estimated from CORINE Land Cover database. Patterns of potential ecosystem service supply were assessed by applying an ecosystem service supply capacity matrix and trends in their actual use by using field data. Main trajectories of land cover change encompassed woody vegetation spread in semi-natural open systems and agricultural expansion in the most suitable areas. The capacity of landscape to provide ecosystem services improved during 1990–2012 at both scales. We detected trade-offs between the potential supply of ecosystem services associated to natural systems and those linked to traditional land uses, at both regional and local scales. Changes in the potential supply of ecosystem services matched trends in ecosystem service use. This study could help develop future scenarios to address upcoming challenges in ecosystem service supply.
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J.G. Johnson Elementary welcomes new leader
Students and faculty at J.G. Johnson Elementary School will see a new face behind the principal's desk beginning on Monday.
Charles O'Connor was hired this year as J.G. Johnson's new principal. O'Connor, originally from Chicago, has served in education for 16 years.
He also has both administrative and teaching experience and is working on his Doctorate in Educational Administration.
O'Connor succeeds Principal Jeff Skelton, who is now principal at Floyd Elementary .
This week, O'Connor spoke about his career and what brought him and his wife to the Pahrump Valley.
Where are you from?
"I originally grew up in Chicago and went all the way through schools there. I went to Loyola University and I'm from a large family with seven children. My parents were very hard working and sent us to good Catholic schools. After I completed my education, I took a job as a teacher in Colorado where I taught school there for 17 years. I earned my principal's license after that and I've been an administrator for the last four years. There were no principal jobs in Colorado so I opted to try for Nevada and have been successful."
How are you adjusting to the community?
"I've only been here for a couple of weeks and I love the community and the people of Pahrump have been so nice to me. I had to stay at the Pahrump Nugget for two weeks and they're the nicest people I've ever met. Everywhere I have gone to get my electric or water turned on, people have just been so nice and teachers here are awesome. I'm real proud to be part of this community."
With that said, how are you adjusting to the climate here?
"I'm staying in air conditioned buildings. It does get into the 90's in Colorado. I'm not used to the terrible, terrible heat, but so far, it hasn't been so bad."
Why did you choose education as a career?
"When I was in third grade, my teacher had broken her leg one day and she asked two of us to teach school for her. She asked me to teach reading and writing and by the end of the day, I thought to myself that this would be a great career. I was 8 or 9 years-old and ever since then, I wanted to be a teacher and I achieved my goal."
In your mind, how much have students' sensibilities toward education changed since you were attending school?
"When I was going to school, children really did things without asking or questioning. Now I find children question more and it certainly creates a more interesting group, but they probably don't listen as well when you or I did. I'm used to that after all these years. I'm not new to the trends today and I love children, so it doesn't matter."
Would you care to talk about your family life and what you do in your leisure time?
"Mrs. O'Connor and I have been married 25 years. She's from Ireland and she's a registered nurse. Our daughter is 22 years old and she's an Irish dancer and she also attends college. As far as hobbies, I climbed the 50 highest peaks in Colorado, so I'm looking forward to some of the climbing around here. I passed through some beautiful mountains when I came in from Las Vegas and it looks very interesting. I'm also a ranked chess player."
I understand you once played racquetball with someone of international prominence. Who was that?
"I played against President Obama. I grew up in Chicago, and he's from the south side. He lived in a neighborhood called Hyde Park, and I was at the YMCA one day with one of my buddies and we played partners against him. Obama was a senator back then and we beat them two games out of three."


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My table has space for users to input several (up to 3) strategies along the same row (each user gets one row), although they might only have used 1 or 2 strategies. I need to count where users have tested ALL their strategies, regardless of the number they have.
So I need a formula that will count lines where only "Yes" appears in 3 "tested" columns on the row, but not discount the blank cells where only one strategy has been selected.
Many thanks,
What version of Excel are you running? Excel 2007 and higher havw a COUNTIFS function that might work for you.
However, since we can't see your spreadsheet from where we're sitting, it might help if you posted an example of your data along with the expected results based on that data.
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Thanks for your response,
I am using Excel 2010.
Imagine a table with column headings as below:
Name, Level, Plan 1, Plan 1 Tested, Plan 2, Plan 2 tested, Plan 3, Plan 3 tested
Level is a number, "tested" columns are a "yes" or "no"- everything else free text.
I can use a SUMPRODUCT to look along the tested columns to count all "yes" by Level, but I can't get the count to happen where Users do not have 3 plans. If a user has 1 or 2 plans, but the plans they do have are tested, I want to count that.
Sorry, but I'm still not clear where your problem lies.
Posting just the Column headings and telling us that you are using SUMPRODUCT isn't enough for us to work with.
Keep in mind that you know exactly what you have and exactly what you are trying to do. In otherwords, you have internalized your requirements and can visualize what you are looking for.
We, however, don't have the benefit of that insight, nor do we have the ability to see your spreadsheet, so you need to be specific and use actual examples if you want us to help.
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A union lobbyist received a verbal warning from Capitol Police after telling the founder of an anti-vaccine group to "keep her [expletive] unvaccinated kid away" from him when she and her 10-year-old son sat down at the same table as him in the Legislative Office Building cafeteria.
Stacey Zimmerman, the associate director of the Connecticut State Council of the Service Employees International Union, was the subject of a complaint filed by Informed Choice USA founder LeeAnn Ducat, according to a Capitol Police report obtained by The Courant.
The incident took place Wednesday, which is when Ducat and fellow leaders of the anti-vaccine movement in Connecticut assembled outside the office of House Majority Leader Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, to push for the preservation of a religious exemption for the vaccination of children.
"Zimmerman stated that he did not remember his exact words but he did say something to Ducat to 'keep her [expletive] unvaccinated kid away from him,'" Capitol Police said in the incident report. "Zimmerman stated that he apologized for using the [expletive] but not for the rest of his statement. Zimmerman was given a verbal warning as he was on the borderline of a breach of peace."
Ducat, who is from Woodstock, told The Courant Friday that she wanted to press charges against Zimmerman, but would have been required to give the name of her son to Capitol Police.
"Never have I had someone so blatantly come up and say that to our faces," Ducat said.
Ducat said she and her son were just looking for a place to sit down and have lunch in the crowded cafeteria when they approached a table where Zimmerman was sitting. She said she took a photo of Zimmerman with her phone and showed it to Capitol Police.
"He blew a kiss at the camera. So he was very smug, his interaction with me," Ducat said.
Zimmerman, a Sandy Hook resident who is married to Eva Bermudez Zimmerman, a candidate for lieutenant governor in 2018, expressed regret Friday for using an expletive, but not his general message.
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"Science is pretty clear. Vaccinations are safe. They should be done," Zimmerman told The Courant. "I have no ill will toward her and her son. I just hope they practice good public health policy."
Zimmerman said Ducat was wearing an anti-vaccination sticker.
"I believe my exact words were something to the effect, I would prefer if you wouldn't [expletive] sit here if you're not going to vaccinate your kid,'" Zimmerman said. "I should have probably left out the swear word."
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Escher Infinity Shape in Adobe Illustrator
Escher Infinity Shape in Adobe Illustrator
In today's tutorial, you will learn to create an impossible shape which is an Escher Infinity Shape in Adobe Illustrator. To create this shape, we will use Polygon Tool and Shape Builder Tool.
Launch Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. Now follow the below steps-
Step 1
Select the Polygon Tool from the Tool Panel and draw a triangle.
With the help of Selection Tool, select the triangle and click on Object in the Menu Bar. Place the cursor on Transform and select Reflect.
Object > Transform > Reflect
A dialogue box will appear when you will click on Reflect. In that dialogue box, select Horizontal Axis click on Copy.
Select the new triangle created and drags it above to place it in such a manner that the tips of both the triangles join.
You can either group both the triangles or go to the Pathfinder Panel to Unite them.
Step 2
Select the shape created and disable the fill. Now press and hold Alt Key to create a duplicate copy of the shape.
Create one more duplicate copy and place it as shown in the below image.
Create 4 more duplicate copies and place them as shown in the below image.
Step 3
Press Ctrl + A to select all the shapes and then select the Shape Builder Toolfrom the Tool Panel. Now we will merge the shapes to create an Escher Infinity Shape.
In the below images the red highlighted area shows the shape which will be formed after merging them.
Step 4
After merging the shapes, with the help of Shape builder Tool, we will shape the corners of our Escher Infinity Shape. With the help of Direct Selection Tool, select the anchor point marked in the below image.
Now drag that anchor point towards left to join it with the next anchor point.
Now similarly join rest of the corner points.
Fill color in the shapes and an Escher Infinity Shape in Adobe Illustrator is ready.
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October 19, 2015 at 2:01 am #10762
Help, I'm addicted!
After doing the Eldrithc Horror insert proved so effortless thank's to Peter's plans, I just had to sit down and start on a version for for War of the Rind 2ed. While I also have the CE, my 2ed copy is the one I use for lugging around to friends and such. While my old storage solution (utilizing the original tray) was adequate, it didn't have rooms for sleeved cards and the expansion components.
I've completed the first layer of the insert for the figures, and it has room for all the figures including the current and the upcoming expansion. With a little luck it might even accomodate the final "siege" expansion. The top tray(s) should have plenty of space for cards (sleeved) and dice. And the board should leave space for a narrow separate token tray.
Cutting is a bit rough on this one, as I was measuring and assembling as I went along, but it fits snugly. I'll write up measurements when I'm done with the whole thing. Here are some images.
October 19, 2015 at 10:44 am #10766
Great to see you designing your own trays already – great work!October 20, 2015 at 12:13 am #10772
Thanks! I spent a good chunk of Sunday on this insert and have it complete! Now I only need to draw up the plan.
The current version has a few little flaws, which fortunately don't bother me too much:
1. It is a couple mm to high. While the board is flush with the top, adding the rules on top causes the lid to bulge a little bit.
2. One of the card trays is just a teeny tiny bit to narrow, making the card fit very tight. A mm more would have been good. I still might redo this.
And what is vexing is that with the upcoming WoME expansion there is just one dice too many to fit in the dice compartment(s). Annoying! 😉October 20, 2015 at 9:54 am #10773
One dice too many! OCD head explosion! 🙂October 21, 2015 at 6:27 am #10797WonderSlugParticipant
Damn fine insert, that one. 🙂October 21, 2015 at 8:41 pm #10816
Thank you! Drawing up the plans is proving more onerous than the actual creation. 😉October 21, 2015 at 9:37 pm #10817
Oh I know, I know ….November 20, 2015 at 10:26 am #10995November 20, 2015 at 10:33 am #10996
Hard work making plans isn't it? 🙂 Stunning work mate! I may build this myself.November 20, 2015 at 11:14 am #10997
It is! And that's me who's working CAD all day long… 😉
And thank you, all based on your examples.
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Early last week I made a little app called Ice Cream. It's a simple web app that takes an uploaded photo and generates a color palette from that photo, based on which colors appear most often.
It shows you a percentage distribution for the 12 most popular colors, a palette of the top 256 colors, and gives you tools to pick and choose form those to create color schemes, for which it provides HEX color codes, RGB values, and a downloadable Adobe Swatch Exchange format swatch file.
A lot of what the app does is fairly straightforward and it relies on a 3rd party gem to generate the ASE files, but I wanted to take some time today to share the magic sauce behind the color analysis.
The General Principle
The basic idea behind color analysis in Ice Cream is to analyze the image histogram, pull out the most commonly used colors, and rank them by frequency of appearance.
RMagick provides us with a nice Ruby interface to ImageMagick on the filesystem, which contains all of the tools we need to do this. That said, we can't just dive right in and look at every color without first doing some prep work.
Color Quantization
We'll be analysing photos, which means we're looking at a palette containing 16 million colors, many of which are entirely indistinguishable from one another or so similar as to be indistinguishable on your average digital display.
Therefore, analyzing 16 million colors wouldn't provide much usable data. This is where color quantization comes in.
In a nutshell, color quantization referrs to performing some fancy algorithmic math on an image in order to reduce its number of total colors, while preserving as much image quality as possible. Exactly which algorithm is used depends on the type of image. It's the same thing that happens when you try and view a full-color photo on a 256 color display, for instance.
Fortunately, ImageMagick can do this, too. So let's look at some code.
# self.photo.path:
# the paperclip file path for the uploaded photo
# num:
# the number of colors in our final palette, e.g. 12 or 256
image = Magick::ImageList.new(self.photo.path)
q = image.quantize(num, Magick::RGBColorspace)
In the code above, we first begin by opening the image file for analysis. Next, we run the image ImageMagick color quantization command on the open image, passing in the number of colors we want to reduce the palette down to and the name of the colorspace we're using, in this case, RGB.
Histograms and Pixel Counts
Now that we have a reduced color palette to work with, our next step in creating our ordered list of swatches is to arrange the colors in the newly created palette by order of frequency within the image.
To do this, we take the histogram of our reduced color photo and simply sort it from most used color to least used color.
palette = q.color_histogram.sort {|a, b| b[1] <=> a[1]}
Next, let's go ahead and calculate the total number of pixels in the image. Since the histogram data will tell us how many pixels exist of any given color, we can do some basic math using both of these values to calculate the percentage distribution of any given color.
# width in px times height in px
total_depth = image.columns * image.rows
Creating HEX and RGB Color Values
With our photo analyzed and our new histogram created, now we can iterate through it and calculate RGB and HEX values for all colors.
First, we'll set up an empty array to plop our results into.
results = []
Then we can iterate through our quantized color palette's histograph times to analyze colors.
palette.count.times do |i|
p = palette[i]
Look at the red, green, and blue histogram values and divide by 256 - the number value associated with each color when specified as RGB.
r1 = p[0].red / 256
g1 = p[0].green / 256
b1 = p[0].blue / 256
Now take those newly calculated colors and convert them to hexadecimal strings using ruby's built in
to_s method, to determine our HEX color values for each color channel.
r2 = r1.to_s(16)
g2 = g1.to_s(16)
b2 = b1.to_s(16)
Sometiems our resulting HEX is only a single character, rather than two, but our fully returned HEX value needs to be 6 characters in length. To solve this, we concatanate the string with itself to pad it unless it's already long enough.
Note: This is the equvilent of taking a shortened #FFF in your CSS and expanding it to its complete form as #FFFFFF.
r2 += r2 unless r2.length == 2
g2 += g2 unless g2.length == 2
b2 += b2 unless b2.length == 2
Now we'll simply generate strings using the variables we set above, for easy storage in our database.
rgb = "#{r1},#{g1},#{b1}"
hex = "#{r2}#{g2}#{b2}"
depth = p[1] # number of pixels of this color in the image
Finally, let's put these into our results array and calculate the percenage of color occurance, using the depth determined above as compared to the total depth set previously.
results << {
rgb: rgb,
hex: hex,
percent: ((depth.to_f / total_depth.to_f) * 100).round(2)
Putting It All Together
And finally, here's a look at the complete method, which lives in the Palette model inside of the Ice Cream app.
def colors_from_photo(num)
image = Magick::ImageList.new(self.photo.path)
q = image.quantize(num, Magick::RGBColorspace)
palette = q.color_histogram.sort {|a, b| b[1] <=> a[1]}
total_depth = image.columns * image.rows
results = []
palette.count.times do |i|
p = palette[i]
r1 = p[0].red / 256
g1 = p[0].green / 256
b1 = p[0].blue / 256
r2 = r1.to_s(16)
g2 = g1.to_s(16)
b2 = b1.to_s(16)
r2 += r2 unless r2.length == 2
g2 += g2 unless g2.length == 2
b2 += b2 unless b2.length == 2
rgb = "#{r1},#{g1},#{b1}"
hex = "#{r2}#{g2}#{b2}"
depth = p[1]
results << {
rgb: rgb,
hex: hex,
percent: ((depth.to_f / total_depth.to_f) * 100).round(2)
So there you have it! Image color analysis can be pretty mathematically intense. Fortunately, ImageMagick does the heavy lifting for us, and the RMagick gem gives us a simple to use interface that doesn't stray wildly far from ImageMagick's native command line syntax.
Once you have your image histogram data readily available, analying its contents is fairly simple, and by reducing the histogram to only the colors you need before analysis, you'll get much more meaningful data.
Update Thanks to Matthew Miller for finding/fixing a small bug when looping through the quantized palette results for images with small color palettes. I've edited the code to reflect the changes.


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The print depicts a startling yet darkly comic moment: in the center of the print, a male baggage elephant has grabbed its driver from his seat and dangles him from its trunk, as other passengers, including women and children, fall off its back. Meanwhile, Sir John Kennaway, a British diplomat, is calling out to the driver of the second elephant, whose perch also looks precarious. The wry humor comes from the sensory overload of activity around this scene, as an assortment of Indian and European soldiers, travelers, missionaries, Hindu ascetics, vegetable sellers, and beggars share the road, many of them indifferent to the unfolding drama involving the elephant. In an article in The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, the authors see Zoffany's painting as exemplifying "the sublime novelty and terror of an India that will prevail despite its rulers." Through British eyes, Indian life seemed exotic and fascinating, yet also alien and frightening. The authors assert that the firsthand impressions of India by artists such as Zoffany and his friend William Hodges in the late 18th and early 19th centuries "profoundly influenced first the visual and then the overall culture of British Romanticism."
Johann Zoffany (sometimes called John Zoffany or Zauffely) was a German-born English painter, known for his portraits, history and genre paintings. The son of a German architect, Zoffany received artistic training in Italy. After arriving in England to escape an unhappy marriage, he made a name for himself as a painter of portraits of actors, artists, and aristocrats, including members of the royal family. He exhibited in London from 1762 to 1800 at the Society of Artists and the Royal Academy, where he became one of the earliest academicians in 1769. He worked for a while in Florence after receiving an introduction from King George III to the grand duke of Tuscany. In 1783 he left for India, joining his friend, landscape painter William Hodges, hoping to find wealthy patrons there. Unlike Hodges, Zoffany was more interested in painting the people than picturesque landscapes. The adventurous Zoffany managed to find passage on a ship by signing on as a midshipman and promptly deserting his post when he arrived. He spent time in Kolkata and Lucknow, and did find commissions from both British and Indian officials, remaining in India until 1789, when he once again returned to England. The works he made in India and upon his return enabled him to finally achieve financial security for the rest of his life. His works today are in museums around the world. Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata has several paintings of Indian subjects.
Richard Earlom was a leading British mezzotint engraver of his time, though he also produced some etchings and plates in the chalk style. His first engravings were for John Boydell, and include Liber Veritatis, 200 plates after landscape drawings by Claude Lorrain. He also engraved prints and portraits after old masters such as Rembrandt, Poussin, Guercino and Rubens. Other major works include flowers after van Huysum, van Os, and Robert John Thornton, for the latter's famous Temple of Flora (London: 1799-1807).
Subtitle: "From the Vizier of Oude, by the way of Patna, in the Year 1788, to meet Lord Cornwallis."
Full publication information: John Zoffanÿ Esq'r R.A. pinxit. Rich'd Earlom Sculp. Londini. Published 12th July, 1800, by Robert Laurie & James Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, London.
Condition: Generally very good, recently professionally cleaned and deacidified, with the usual remaining toning and wear, and with one remaining discoloration mark upper right image, unobtrusive.
Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. France: Librairie Gründ, 1966. Vol. 8, p. 840.
De Almeida, Hermione and George H. Gilpin. "Sublime." in Burwick, Frederick et al., eds. The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Malden, MA: John Wiley & Son, 2012. pp. 1342-44.
"Embassy of Haider Beg Khan to Lord Cornwallis." Museums of India National Portal & Digital Repository. http://www.museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/vmh_kol-R1740-C985-1131 (13 November 2018).
"Index to the Embassy of Hyderbeck, from the Vizier of Oude to Calcutta, by the way of Patna, to meet Lord Cornwallis." British Museum. 2017. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=637149001&objectId=3156305&partId=1
Nabi, Shri Gholam, ed. "The Paintings of Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) in the collection of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata." Victoria Memorial Hall. 12 November 2018. http://victoriamemorial-cal.org/uploads/E-Catalogue%20of%20Johann%20Zoffany.pdf (13 November 2018).
"Richard Earlom," The Grove Dictionary of Art. New York: Macmillan. 2000. Artnet.com. http://www.artnet.com/library/02/0244/T024430.asp (5 March 2002).
Stewart, Gordon T. Jute and Empire: The Calcutta Jute Wallahs and the Landscapes of Empire. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1998. p. 9. Online at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=Nd1RAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 (12 November 2018).


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This past month we were alerted to some sobering, but expected news from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Most homeowners are expecting to retire "on the house" using their home as their primary retirement vehicle. The study also notes at the same time these same individuals are reducing their equity by borrowing against their homes for vacations, flat screen televisions, and other "necessary" items. The study also concludes that most Americans hold the belief that the value of their homes will continue to rise unabated. (Where have I heard that before? Internet stocks maybe?) The fact is that many Americans have been heeding the dubious advice of the big bank loan sharks, and using their homes as a personal bank and credit card.
The study also echoes something that we have been warning about for some time, many Americans have stretched their home loans to the maximum to buy homes they really can't afford, and things they really don't need. From home equity loans, adjustable rate and interest-only mortgages, more and more Americans are becoming enslaved by their own debt. Due to the current tightening cycle that the Federal Reserve has pursued many bearers of these "boutique" mortgages will be finding their monthly payments on a steep incline strapping their budgets and putting households on a hamster wheel of debt compounded by credit cards.
It is our belief that individuals should try not to include the value of their homes in their financial plan, and instead think of it as a bonus. It is the same tact we take with Social Security. The goal is to eliminate debt, and match ones liabilities with assets. By adding liabilities, meeting that goal much more difficult. I receive several calls a day from the loan sharks looking to sell me money, backed by my home equity. None of these individuals have your best interests at heart. In fact many of the top mortgage salesmen in the country were the top penny stock boiler room brokers from the 1990's that were thrown out of the business. Our advice, hang up the phone, pay down your house, and reach your ultimate goal of matching all your liabilities with assets.


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FIFA has eclipsed the PES brand – be it in popularity or in sales, but FIFA producer David Rutter has mentioned that their development team is not taking their competitors lightly. He also said that developing FIFA games in a country that is not football crazy can be a positive thing.
"There are other things out there. We're still worried about what Konami is going to do with Pro Evolution Soccer and naturally they're our closest sports competitor," said Rutter in an interview with CVG.
"I think actually being in Canada is a bit of an advantage as well because we're away from all the, 'woohoo'.
"Look how amazing we are!' We don't see the shops with tonnes of FIFA copies in them, or see the launch or hear about it on the news. We're far enough away that we're this little isolated pod of negative nerds all working on FIFA," he added.
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Every Career Challenge Is Tough. Can Virtual Offices Make it Easier?LOS ANGELES-Are you facing a challenge in your career that seems insurmountable? Are you unsure how to handle it? Do you wish that overcoming your challenge was easier? Even if you work in a virtual office—away from the office politics and distractions—you are still bound to face career challenges.
"Many people I speak to are struggling in their career and my heart goes out to them. I know they want more and want things to be different. Is there a magic pill that will save them? No. Is there a way out? Yes," says Deborah Brown-Volkman, president of Surpass Your Dreams. "It's called hard work. But hard work is called hard for a reason. It means career transformation is not going to be easy. The good news is hard work will provide real results."
So how can an alone but never isolated virtual office worker begin? Brown-Volkman suggests putting one foot in front of the other. Here are four steps for virtual office workers in need of some advice.
1. Expect To Be Uncomfortable
You might be comfortable working from your virtual office space, but you have to expect to be uncomfortable if you are going to reach for your goals. Brown-Volkman says discomfort means you are being challenged and are growing.
2. Embrace Your Challenge
Yes, you'll face challenges even from your virtual office. Brown-Volkman says the pain your challenge produces tells you that something is not working. Facing what needs to be faced will bring you relief and freedom. Running will not.
3. Be Open
Are you attached to what happens next? Since you are working from a virtual office, chances are you are more flexible than most. Brown-Volkman says sometimes you have to let go of the ending.
4. Remember That Things Get Easier Over Time
What knocks you off your feet in the beginning becomes more manageable as you go through the process, Brown-Volkman says. Get ready to find a new groove and a new routine.
Virtual offices are a good option for people in career transition. Maybe you are a bootstrapping entrepreneur or a fledgling small business owner. A virtual office can take some of the pressure off your transition. Embrace them.


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This question has been asked several times in this section already.The basic answer is it is impossible to answer this question; there are too many variables related to location, type of construction, time line, and site conditions.Find a plan you like and price it or get with a design professional who can help you establish a budget.
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As Kenny said - depends a terrible amount on the locale, whether you are putting in a deep foundation (for frost depth) or a basement, house quality of construction, interior finishes, etc, etc. I could tell you $50-500/SF and probably be safe for all but the gold gilt homes, but that is useless because of the wide range. I can tell you the 2011 (latest year reported) National Association of Home Builder's pricing data at this link -
shows about $118/SF for nationwide average finished new home construction sales price, not including land cost - with an average house size just under 2300 SF. However, when fully finished MANY new homes come in more like $150-200/SF, including financing and permits and architect and such.
I would suggest you google this search term - average new home cost per SF - you can find lots of pricing guides, some national and some local, that you can play with fro rough ballpark numbers - but don't budget based on those. For numbers to take to the bank for a loan you are going to need an engineers or architect's estimate and probably a bid from a general contractor for your specific job - and don't forget to put about a 20% contingency on it - 30% or more if you do not have every detail in the plans when you go to the contractors for bids.
Also, don't forget to get estimates for the commonly forgotten "little details" - like utility installation and hookup costs, water well and septic/leach field if needed, surface water control measures, basement waterproofing if in a high water table area, garage, driveway, landscaping, etc. Amazing how often things like that get forgotten.
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THERE is need for the Church to continue praying for the country ahead of the 2016 elections so that the people continue enjoying the peace that Zambia is known for, the International Fellowship for Christian Churches (IFCC) has said.
IFCC president Simon Chihana told the Daily Nation that there was need for all churches to seek God's intervention as the country prepares to go to the polls because the political situation was likely to be volatile.
Bishop Chihana said the Church should use the opportunity when members gather to pray for the country as it was entering a critical period where Zambians were about to choose their leaders.
"The need for the church in Zambia to continue and intensify prayers for peace as we go to 2016 elections is very cardinal. There is political tension in the air which must not be ignored by any peace-loving person," Bishop Chihana said.
He said the isolated violent incidents recorded across the country between UPND and PF had the potential to increase as the country edges closer to 2016, hence the need to pray and preach the message of love and tolerance among Zambians.
He accused the police of creating anarchy in the country by antagonising political parties unnecessarily, thereby creating revolts from aggrieved parties which might degenerate into chaos if left unchecked.
"The tension is self-made by the UPND and the PF and what we have observed is that if these two parties are not at the neck of each other, then the police are antagonising someone somewhere even when there is no cause.
"I want to urge the church in Zambia not to take the current political situation lightly but to seriously pray for the peace in our country to continue as we gather," he said.


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If you have moved your number from Postpay to Prepay or Prepay to Postpay you will be unable to do Mobile Number Transfer or Transfer of Title in the future.
But you can still port your number to another provider right ?
In theory couldn't you port to Telecom, and then back to Vodafone to setup that number on a new account ?
Might cost a bit I guess, but possible in theory ?


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Hello all, this is a story about a girl.
Everyone in her family gathered for a casual snack time during her summer holidays. They made her favorite snack 'jalebi', everyone was talking and enjoying their time…by watching television, singing songs…..
She and her elder brother were playing with her mum's mobile on turns. He started first and gave the mobile to her little sister to continue it. She enjoyed playing the game in her mum's mobile, he came back to take the mobile form her hands. She asked for few more minutes, she wanted to play more, but her brother didn't give her chance to play and took away his mum's mobile.
The next day, everyone in her family were getting to ready to go to their respective jobs. She woke up at 9, he was still sleeping. Her mum said "I made breakfast, its in kitchen brush and eat your break fast and then bath, and also ask your brother to eat, I have made lunch also ask your brother to heat it and then eat, don't forget to do your summer home work bubyee.. take care." She left saying that. She brushed her teeth and ate the break fast made by her mum. Everyone left by that time. Only people left in the home were she and her brother. It was 10:45. She took the TV remote and started watching her favorite. Her brother woke up by hearing the volume of TV. He went to bath soon after waking up. It is 11:15 now.
She was feeling bored, she wanted to play with some one. Her brother came to her and asked her "hey, do you wanna play a game?", She was so excited to hear this and agreed to play. He asked her to lie down, she was scared at first but found it interesting playing on the bed. She did as her brother said. He climbed on top of her, she said it was uncomfortable, she said she couldnt bear his weight on her body. He said its a part of game. She thought if its a game then it must be good, I should bear this and enjoy the game. He started touching her face with his mouth, and asked her if she enjoyed it or not. She said yes, its good. He continued doing that and he pressed his lips to hers. After sometime he stopped doing it. and slept next to her. They didn't eat their lunch, they both slept because their body was feeling immensely tired. She didn't like someone touching her body, but her body was feeling little bit good because of those actions done by her brother.
She woke up at 4, she went to bath. She was hungry, she ate everything she could find in the kitchen. She was surprised that she ate that much of food.
By 5 o clock, Her mum came back to home. She wanted to tell about her new game to her mother, but her mum didn't listen to her. Her mum just went to bedroom and slept for an hour and went to kitchen to make dinner. She was trying to do her homework, which she couldn't do. Her mum asked what did she want to eat, she said her to make her favorite dish, by the time dinner was ready, her father came into the home. They all had their dinner, watched a movie and slept. She almost forgot telling about her new game to her parents.
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Shivay walked in the deserted road in the middle of the night , after all he had wanted some peaceful place to think about tia . Was his decision to marry tia just for the sake of business and his mother correct? He thought .
But tia was perfect in every way , she was loving and caring to his family , she had been his best friend from childhood . a well educated and beautiful girl, but……he had never seen tia more than a friend . he had always loved her , anyways he could not do anything , he was engaged To her . after a month he had his marriage , he had no option except to marry her
Shivay saw a beautiful girl fully drunk coming , she was unable to walk properly . she came towards him and fell on him . shivay was shocked . he lifted her in his arms
and put her in his car .
He looked at her beautiful face , he had seen her somewhere ,but he could not remember where he had seen her
He drove her to his house , his house in goa where he was living for a couple of days for his business works
He put her on his bed ,
she held his hand , he was shocked . he again looked at her , he had seen her somewhere , where would have he met her he wondered . he slept on the floor near her
The next morning
The girl woke up , her head and went near him who was busy looking outside
"who are you , where am i , what happened with me last night" she asked
Shivay : you should have thought all this before you got drunk
The girl : what , i drank , i dont drink , i just drank some juice
Shivay : oh really , does some juice cause you to fall just like that
The girl :i really did not know when i drank , my friends asked me then i refused them then my friend gave me some juice, by the way i feel i have seen you somewhere , you are billu ji aren't you ?
Shivay : what do you mean by billu ji ,
He thought in his mind : god ,how does this girl know that my dadi calls me billu , just my dadi calls me billu
The girl : billu ji , you dont remember me , i am anika , omkara's best friend , your childhood enemy ????and smiled
Shivay was surprised , now he remembered her , she was anika , his biggest enemy and his brother om's childhood best friend
Anika : billu ji , give me omkara's phone number , i last met him when he was 10 years old , i tried finding him everywhere guess he is not there in social networking sights
Shivay : if you call me billu ji , i will never give you his phone number
Anika glared at him
To be continued…
This is my first ever ff on ishqbaaz , pls like and comment . this ff is based on all the three couple of ib .this was a little short because i just wanted to start this , will make it longer and will introduce the other two couples (rumya and rikara ) in the next epi
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BioShock Infinite: Burial At Sea Release Date Announced
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The first piece of BioShock Infinite's story-based DLC, dubbed Burial at Sea Episode 1, will be launching on November 12th for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.
For those that won't be getting it free via the Season Pass, Burial at Sea will be priced at $14.99, which appears to be the standard going price for downloadable content these days. This will serve as the first part of a two episode arc that explores the original BioShock's disturbed underwater city.
Are you going to shell out the cash next month to revisit Rapture? Let us know in the comments below.


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The Learning Center
Conquer Germs and Workplace Illnesses
The first step in conquering workplace germs and illnesses is knowing where germs are most likely to fester and grow. Follow the advice of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: thoroughly clean and disinfect your workplace – an undertaking that should be left to the most diligent and thorough commercial cleaning companies.
Clock the speed of germs
A team of researchers from the University of Arizona didn't want to make anyone physically sick, so they replicated the norovirus (the so-called "stomach virus") and placed it on two common surfaces – a doorknob and tabletop – in several office buildings. At various intervals throughout the day, they tested other surfaces in the same buildings, the presumption being that people who touched the infested doorknob and tabletop would touch other surfaces and the "virus" would spread.
Their hypothesis was correct. Even those researchers who thought it might take eight hours or longer for the "virus" to travel were surprised to find it took only between two and four hours for between 40-60 percent of the surfaces they sampled to be contaminated.
When you take a closer look at the many workplace surfaces people come into contact with every day, you'll see diligent cleaning practices are nothing to sneeze at.
Size up germ "hot spots" in the workplace
Take it from the people at Kimberly-Clark, who built an international business by developing health-related and sanitary products, the most recognizable being: Kleenex TM.
Kimberly-Clark launched The Healthy Workplace Project to educate people about how to create a healthier workplace and reduce the costs of absenteeism. The project started with a revealing study about the prevalence of workplace germs and illnesses: "Exceptional Workplaces Start with Healthy Workplaces." It found most workplaces teem with germ "hot spots," which include:
Conference tables
Copy stations
Door handles
Elevator buttons
Keyboards and mice
Stair railings
Vending areas
Water coolers
You don't need a Ph.D. to size up the full picture: Germs spread at breakneck speed. Many germ "hot spots" exist in the workplace. The study found adults touch their faces about 16 times an hour, thereby transferring germs to all the surfaces they touch throughout the day.
Some employees may be diligent about "side-swiping" work stations with disinfectant wipes. However, there is no better way to stop workplace germs and illnesses in their tracks than to partner with a commercial cleaning company that will truly sanitize your workplace.


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Troubleshooting PayPal Invoice Payments
I don't have a PayPal account but I want to let customers pay invoices via PayPal. What do I do?
Before you can receive invoice payments via PayPal in WorkingPoint, you'll need to set up a PayPal account.
I have selected a currency other than US Dollar in my WorkingPoint account. Will PayPal still process my payment?
WorkingPoint passes along the currency selected in WorkingPoint to PayPal as the amount due. For example, if you have selected Euros as your currency in WorkingPoint, your customer will be asked to pay in Euros in PayPal. But be sure your PayPal account is setup to hold payments of the same currency so your payments don't get held up as pending. See Payment Receiving Preferences under Profile > Selling Preferences in your PayPal account.
My customer says they paid me but I am not seeing the invoice as paid WorkingPoint. How come?
WorkingPoint only collects payments that have been successfully processed in PayPal.
If your customer has submitted a payment to you after clicking the PayPal link in the email you sent or from the button on the invoice PDF but the transaction was not recorded on your invoice as paid, the payment may be in a "Pending Status" in PayPal. If the payment is pending, WorkingPoint will display a message on your invoice in the Payments Received section alerting you that the payment is pending.
To complete the payment process, log in to your PayPal account and view the details of the payment and resolve any payment issues in PayPal. If you approve the payment in PayPal, WorkingPoint will bring the transaction over into your WorkingPoint account. If you decline or cancel the payment, WorkingPoint will not bring the transaction into your WorkingPoint account.
To prevent pending issues in the future, check your PayPal Payment Receiving Preferences to see if you are blocking certain types of payments.
Another reason you may not be seeing invoices as paid in WorkingPoint, even though your customer clicked the PayPal link on your invoice and made the payment AND you see it in your PayPal account, is that your IPN is disabled in PayPal. IPN stands for Instant Payment Notification and it must be enabled and configured for WorkingPoint to be alerted when a payment is made via the PayPal link. To check that your IPN is enabled in PayPal, complete the following steps:
1) Please log into PayPal and go to this page: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_profile-ipn-notify-edit and you'll see a page that looks like this:
2) For the Notification URL, enter your WorkingPoint account URL, ie., https://yourcompanyname.workingpoint.com/
3) Choose "Receive IPN messages (Enabled)"
4) Click Save
Now when customers pay, the payment should be recorded in WorkingPoint for you automatically.
I deleted the payment in WorkingPoint but my customer has not received a refund. Why is that?
WorkingPoint only brings in the invoice payment information from PayPal when a payment has been made by a customer. If you edit or delete a payment in WorkingPoint, you'll need to edit or delete the payment in your PayPal account including processing any refunds.
I am sending my invoice to my customer but the PayPal button and email link did not appear on the invoice or email. How come?
The PayPal button and email link on your invoice/email only appear when there is balance due on the invoice. If you are have created a $0.00 invoice or your customer has already paid the invoice in full, a link to pay the invoice will be removed from the invoice and email to prevent duplicate payments.
I have collected a lot of PayPal payments but my checking account balance is still low. Why isn't my checking account balance increasing?
WorkingPoints records all of the invoice payments received through PayPal in your PayPal bank account in WorkingPoint. The WorkingPoint PayPal account is increased by the full payment received from your customer and is reduced by the transaction fee that PayPal charges you.
But this is just a record of the transaction to keep your WorkingPoint accounts and invoice status up to date. You still need to record money transfers in WorkingPoint to reflect the transfers you made from your PayPal account.
My customer is trying to pay my invoice but they get a message that the invoice is already paid. What is going on?
If there is a balance on your invoice in WorkingPoint, but your customer is unable to pay it because they are getting an already paid message, this could be an issue with your PayPal account setting. PayPal does have settings that can block payments. So, we recommend checking these settings to be sure that PayPal is not blocking the payments.
To check these settings, please log into your PayPal account and navigate to the Block Payments settings. Here's how:
- Log in and click My Account tab
- Click Profile on submenu
- Click My Selling Tools on left-hand sidebar
- Click Update next to Block Payments option
Here you can check all of your settings. In particular, look to see if you block payments with the same Invoice ID under accidental payments option.
*Access to this feature may depend on your account plan. Log into your WorkingPoint account and click "Account" (in the upper right hand corner), then "Change account plan" to view your plan details.