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Joseph Scapellato's debut story collection honors the immensity of the Western landscape.
Big Lonesome, Joseph Scapellato's first collection of stories, was published at the end of February. Divided into three parts -- "Old West," "New West," and "Post-West" -- the stories form a triptych, a landscape, a cave-painting; they begin and end and begin again, all-too-familiar and too new, digging into what we think we know about the American West.
The West, a central character in most of the stories, looms out and over, its flowers and cacti and creatures blooming, rustling the pages. This is a collection that follows a cowgirl, "born of a beef cow," of "ours"; follows a mutt-faced cowboy whose scar-smile brings him home to strangers; follows a man whose fiancée's dog sees and hears more than the man ever could. This is a book that deserves to be passed between friends, outsiders, enemies; to be shouted from on high and from on low.
Scapellato, an assistant professor of English at Bucknell College, earned his MFA from New Mexico State University. He will be in conversation with Claire Vaye Watkins on March 10 at Literati Bookstore. We spoke with Scapellato in anticipation of that reading.
Q: Throughout the collection, there's a theme of going in, out: "emptying in," "emptying out." It strikes the reader as a strange self-awareness -- of being aware of the space outside and inside yourself. Why does this theme appear so often, and how does it connect the various characters and scenes in the book?
A: This is such a great question. I think that the theme you’ve identified comes out of an attempt to honor the immensity of the Western landscape, not only in its physical sense -- the hugeness of its high deserts, bright skies, and jagged mountains -- but in its imaginary sense, too; the hugeness of its cinematically imprinted mythology.
When I lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico, I hiked once a week at a place called Soledad Canyon. The trail takes you through a number of beautifully distinct micro-environments: fields of yucca, stands of scrub oaks, patches of cholla and prickly pear and ocotillo. Me and my buddy Nathan would go off-trail to climb rocky ridges. Being out there made me feel small, but at the same time, big. And it might sound crazy to say this, but there was something big about feeling so small, and something small about feeling so big. This is a contradiction I kept finding my way back to in the collection, especially through the three linked stories, “Big Lonesome Beginnings,” “Big Lonesome Middles,” and “Big Lonesome Endings” -- the mysterious relationship between the space that’s in us and the space we’re in.
A: Like that self-awareness, time pushes in from all sides, from 360 degrees. The past, present, and future mingle and disintegrate. How did you decide when to set a story? Why did you choose to incorporate various timelines?
Q: My goal was for Big Lonesome to be a “concept album” collection -- I wanted the stories to be in conversation with each other, for there to be thematic resonance and thematic dissonance. And I wanted this conversation, resonance, and dissonance to feel out the contours of what the old American myths -- about the West, masculinity, and lonesomeness -- have done and are doing to us. To explore this, I needed to set stories all over the place: the 19th-century stomping grounds of “Old West” legend, the 21st century “New West,” and the places in America where people might mistakenly think that they’ve moved past the wreckage and ruins of our myths.
My hope is that the different times and settings feel as if they belong together. To me, the choked-tight hypermasculinity of the centaur cowboy in “Horseman Cowboy” is the same choked-tight hypermasculinity that crushes the unnamed narrator in “Dead Dogs” is the same choked-tight hypermasculinity that drives Donald Trump to raise a wall of lies in an attempt to protect his fantasy image of himself as the toughest and biggest and manliest man around.
Big Lonesome explores "the mysterious relationship between the space that’s in us and the space we’re in."
Q: While collecting and organizing the stories, how did you determine where to put them -- how did you divide them between old, new, and post-, and what do those divisions mean?
Q: I’m deeply indebted to Jenna Johnson and Pilar Garcia-Brown, the book’s brilliant editors, for the current story order. At some point, when we were discussing a draft, Jenna asked me what my goals were for the collection as a whole. I said that I wanted it to go on a journey -- I wanted the stories to begin in a mythic West, move to a contemporary West, and migrate to the contemporary Midwest. Along the way, I said, I wanted the stories to shift from the nonrealistic to the realistic, from the rural to the urban.
She was absolutely right! The draft that we were discussing in no way reflected this goal, even though the goal was on my mind. Editors can see what writers can’t!
My hope is that the section titles -- "Old West," "New West," "Post-West" -- lend another layer of meaning to this progression, overall, as well as to the individual stories, on their own: from takes on old American myths to takes on new American myths to takes on Americans who might not feel under the influence of old, new, or dying American myths.
Q: You earned your MFA from New Mexico State University, and New Mexico shows up in a variety of ways. So does Pennsylvania, where you now teach. Though the differences between these locations are stark, your stories deftly thread them together. How were you able to navigate those diverse senses of place when writing these stories?
Q: Thanks for the kind words! When I started to write the stories that would become this book, I had just moved from New Mexico to Pennsylvania. I found that every story that I was working on wanted to be set in the southwest. When I realized that this was what was happening, I began to feel a preservative urgency, a need to get something of the experiences I’d had in the southwest into my work. I wanted to hang onto what I’d felt when there -- those big/small/small/big feelings that I was talking about earlier.
I’m not from the Southwest and I’m not from Pennsylvania. I’m from the suburbs of Chicago. But I’ve lived in Chicago, on and off, in six different neighborhoods, and I miss it. I miss my city.
What unites the separate landscapes in this book, if anything, is longing and lonesomeness, and hope and dread. How we can miss a place even when we’re in it. How every place we’ve been becomes a mythological place, whether we want it to or not.
Q: Claire Vaye Watkins commented that Big Lonesome is "like Wallace Stegner on peyote" -- big themes, big ideas, all woven together with a surreality more commonly found in myth. How did the surreal find its way into this collection? Where did it first show up in your work?
A: When I left the Southwest and started writing about it, cowboys appeared in my stories. And through the cowboys came myth. Once I figured out that I was moving into myth, I tried to write a few stories that are myths -- “Horseman Cowboy,” “Five Episodes of White-Hat Black-Hat,” “Cowgirl,” “We Try to Find the Spring in Spring Rock Park in Western Springs, Illinois” -- and that’s when the surreal, magical realist, and fabulist elements entered.
Myth was my first love. As a kid, I read as much mythology as I could, and today, it’s what I continue to reach for when I’m looking to recharge myself. What I love about myth is how it’s assertive and concrete, and at the same time, mysterious and abstract. To me, myth has always been a narrative that looks like a story but moves like a poem.
Q: Many of the stories contemplate the narratives of immigrants, settlers, and the colonized. They poke and rip holes in depictions of the West that have shown up in popular culture throughout the years. Why was it important to include these stories and these perspectives?
Trump’s election has unfortunately intensified the need for art that honors complexity.
Q: Why -- or how -- do you think the West has, throughout centuries and centuries, maintained its myth and mysticism?
A: Sam Shepard wrote a one-act play "Gary Cooper or the Landscape" that addresses this question. In it, a European woman interviews Gary Cooper, not knowing -- or pretending not to know -- who he is. She argues that the power of the American Western film has absolutely nothing to do with would-be tough-guy actors like Gary Cooper, and everything to do with the majestic landscape of the American West. Without the landscape, every cowboy movie would be boring, boring, boring.
A: Only that I’d like to thank three people who happen to live in Ann Arbor.
And I also owe a lot to David McLendon, a writer, artist, and editor. He published three stories -- the “Big Lonesome” pieces that make up the thematic backbone of the book -- in three issues of his incredible literary magazine, Unsaid. After he gave me terrific notes on the first piece, he suggested that I try writing a book-length work about the cowboy character. He saw the heart of this book before I did.
Lauren Crawford is an Ann Arbor-based writer and editor.
Joseph Scapellato reads at Literati Bookstore, 124 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, at 7 pm on Friday, March 10. Admission is free.
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German merchant raiders were even more active in the Indian Ocean than they were in the Pacific. The first Kriegsmarine surface vessels to reach the Indian Ocean was the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which made a brief foray into the Indian Ocean at the end of October 1939. The Graf Spee made a short detour during her cruise in the South Atlantic, intending to confuse the British as to her plans. She had little success at this stage of her career, finding and sinking the tanker Africa Shell, but finding little else worthy of her 11-inch main guns. After spending two weeks in the Indian Ocean she returned to the Atlantic, where she eventually met her fate after the Battle of the River Plate.
The first of the disguised merchant raiders to reach the Indian Ocean was the Atlantis, under Kapitän zur See Bernhard Rogge. Known as “Schiff 16” to the Germans and “Raider-C” to the British, she was armed with the usual array of 6-inch guns, torpedoes and mines. She also carried two Heinkel He114A-2 floatplanes which were flown by pilot Oberleutnant Richard Bulla, who was assisted by observer Oberfeldwebel Georg Borchert. Atlantis had entered the Atlantic by passing north of Iceland, then south through the Denmark Strait. At first she bore the disguise of the Soviet ship Kim, an auxiliary, including having her He114 painted with Soviet markings. Later on the voyage south she changed her disguise to appear as a Japanese ship, the Kasii Maru. Whilst on her way to the Indian Ocean she came across and sank the British cargo ship Scientist.
Atlantis passed the Cape of Good Hope on 10th May 1940. As she passed the most southern point of the African continent, she laid minefield off Cape Agulhas. The presence of a raider laying mines was bizarrely reported by propaganda radio from Berlin, so she changed her disguise for a third time to match the silhouette and marking of the Dutch motorship Abbekerk. On the 30th of May the first of Atlantis’s He114 aircraft was lost, leaving her with just a single machine for flight operations.
On the 10th of June Atlantis pursued, fired upon and stopped the Norwegian motorship Tirranna. This vessel was kept as a prize but lacked the fuel to make the journey to France, so she was sent south to wait for a tanker to arrive and replenish her. It was a long wait, as it was not until a month later that the Atlantis came across British freighter City of Baghdad, destroyed her radio equipment with a well-aimed salvo of 6-inch gunfire and sent a boarding party. Among the papers captured before the ship was scuttled were a description of the Atlantis’ former Japanese disguise and a British and Allied Merchants Ship (BAMS) code book. Rogge therefore chose to augment his ship’s disguise by adding two new masts. 2 days later, on the 13th of July, Atlantis stopped the passenger liner Kemmendine. The liner was damaged by the raider’s gunfire and so was unsuitable for use as a prison ship, so she was sunk by a pair of torpedoes.
Having failed to capture a tanker with which to refuel the Tirranna, Rogge reached the rendezvous with her on the 29th of July intending to transfer 300 prisoners and enough of his own fuel to the motorship to allow her to reach Germany. However, whilst the transfer was underway the pair were approached by Norwegian freighter, the Talleyrand. She had seen the small boats moving between the Atlantis and Tirranna and had assumed one of them required assistance. After a brief chase the Talleyrand surrendered to Rogge. Her fuel was pumped onboard the Atlantis and her crew and some cargo transferred to Tirranna, which set off for France (she would be sunk in the Bay of Biscay by the British submarine HMS Tuna). The Talleyrand, after being used for target practice by Bulla in his He114, was scuttled. A few nights later Tirranna had a lucky escape when she was spotted by another German raider which declined to attack her, thinking that she might be a British auxiliary cruiser.
That raider was the Pinguin, the second hilfskreuzer to reach the Indian Ocean. Pinguin had rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the 20th August 1940. Designated “Schiff 33”, and labelled “Raider F” by the Royal Navy, the Pinguin was under the command of Kapitän zur See Ernst-Felix Krüder. She was armed with six 6-inch guns from an old pre-World War I era battleship, and 300 mines. Fitted with very reliable and efficient diesel engines, she also carried two Heinkel He114A-2 aircraft which were flown by Oberleutnant Walter Müller and Unteroffizier Hans Werner.
It was one of these aircraft, painted with British markings, which located a tanker south of Madagascar on the 26th of August. Messages were dropped ‘ordering’ the tanker to move away from a suspected raider on a course that would take her directly to the Pinguin. At first the tanker appeared to be obeying, but was later seen to be moving away at top speed. The Heinkel therefore used its grappling hook to rip away the ship’s radio aerials, before strafing and bombing her, causing her to stop for fear of having her volatile cargo hit. Pinguin soon arrived and captured the Norwegian Filefjell, with thousands of tons of aviation and fuel oil aboard. Whilst the ships were transferring some of this cargo to the raider, another tanker was spotted and Pinguin again gave chase, stopping the British Commander after a few salvos but not before SOS messages had been sent to and acknowledged by shore stations. Anxious to move away before help arrived, Krüder had the tanker torpedoed but soon came across a third ship, which stopped after a single warning shot. This was the Norwegian freighter Morviken, which was likewise scuttled.
After spotting a fourth ship, which was allowed to proceed unmolested, it was realised that the Filefjell could not be prepared adequately given the increased patrols the British would undoubtedly be sending to the area. Regretfully therefore her crew was taken off and she too was scuttled. Deciding to take the opportunity to change the Pinguin’s disguise from a Greek to a British ship, the Trafalgar, Krüder moved to a remote spot to carry out the work, which was finished by the 10th of September. Whilst the work was being done one of the Heinkels was sent on observation flights, but on landing it crashed, caught fire, and sank, although the crew escaped without harm. The spare Heinkel could not be assembled in anything other than calm seas, so for now the raider would have to manage without aerial observation. On the 12th, a freighter was spotted near Madagascar and Pinguin attacked, suffering a hit by the merchantman’s 4-inch gun that was thankfully a dud. The freighter, identified as the British Benavon, was worked over by gunfire and left in a pitiful state, before having her crew taken off prior to her scuttling. 4 days later Pinguin captured the motorship Nordvard, and sent her back to Bordeaux. A period of calm weather then followed which allowed the second He114 to be assembled.
On the 27th of September, near Christmas Island, the raider came across a motorship and stopped her with a single warning shot, no wireless SOS messages being sent. This ship was another Norwegian, the Storstad, a tanker with 12,000 tons of diesel aboard. She could also be used as an auxiliary minelayer, and was converted into such by stripping out accommodation spaces. She was commissioned as auxiliary in the Kriegsmarine and renamed the Passat. The two ships then launched an ambitious minelaying campaign, between them sowing fields off Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Hobart and Adelaide. These minefields claimed the liners Cambridge and Hertford, the neutral US merchant City of Rayville, the coaster Nimbin, and a trawler.
The Pinguin required a period of refit prior to moving down to South Georgia to attack the Norwegian whaling fleet. Soon after finishing engine refit on November the 17th, a freighter was sighted and stopped her with warning shots – she was the British Nowshera. Her crew was taken off and she was scuttled. On the 20th, another cargo ship was sighted. The Heinkel was sent to rip away her aerials, which failed on first attempt. A message was then dropped ordering her to stop, which was ignored, whereupon the seaplane dropped 2 bombs in front of her. A second attempt to destroy the ship’s aerials was made, during which the He114 came under damaging AA fire. A fuel tank and one of the floats were damaged, forcing the aircraft to land near the victim and wait for Pinguin. The target vessel continued to move away but the Pinguin gradually caught up. Warning shots were enough to bring her to a stop, and the ship, the refrigerated cargo ship Maimoa, was scuttled. Meanwhile the Storstad had spotted another freighter and was trailing her. Pinguin waited until dark, then opened fire on this ship, the reefer Port Brisbane, and brought her to a stop. Most of her crew were rescued from lifeboats but one boat could not be found. The straggler was shortly picked up by the cruiser HMAS Canberra, which was patrolling for raiders – a narrow escape for the Pinguin.
The Atlantis, meanwhile, was likewise enjoying the rich pickings available on the Indian Ocean trade routes. On the 24th of August, a ship was sighted acting suspiciously and Rogge decided she might be a Q-Ship – a British ship disguised as a merchant but with hidden guns. Atlantis therefore opened fire without warning, but it turned out that the target was a normal freighter, the King City. Her crew was taken off and she was sunk by gunfire. On the 9th of September Atlantis encountered the motor tanker Athelking, shelling her to force her to stop. Despite Rogge’s hopes, the ship was too badly damaged to be taken as an auxiliary, so she was scuttled. Two days later Atlantis sighted another ship and decided to use her seaplane to help capture it. Bulla’s He114 was launched, but as it approached the target transmitted a distress call. The He114 then bombed and strafed her, before stripping away the radio antenna with its hook. Warning shots from Atlantis then brought the ship to a stop, but an emergency transmitter resumed sending SOS messages so another volley of fire was unleashed. The ship turned out to be the freighter Benarty, which was boarded and rigged with demolition charges, which sank her.
For the next week Atlantis drifted to conserve fuel and carry out repairs. Whilst drifting, a passenger liner was sighted and so the raider gave chase. Distress signals were transmitted so Rogge had her fired upon until they stopped. The vessel was the French Commissaire Ramel. Which had her crew taken off before she was sunk by gunfire. Repairs completed, Atlantis then headed to the Sunda Strait in the Netherlands East Indies, encountering an old, filthy neutral Yugoslav freighter called the Durmitor. With 400 prisoners aboard the raider the situation was so pressing that Durmitor was captured anyway, assigned a prize crew, and the prisoners were sent on a hellish 5-week journey to Italian-controlled Mogadishu in Somaliland.
On November 8th, she came across the Norwegian tanker Teddy, and boarded her for ‘inspection’, claiming to be the British auxiliary cruiser HMS Antenor. She was kept in company until her cargo of diesel could be transferred to Atlantis. Two days later whilst on patrol in his He114, Bulla sighted another tanker. Rogge tried same ploy of pretending to be a British cruiser, and so the Norwegian tanker Ole Jacob was stopped and taken by a boarding team. The next day Atlantis sighted another ship and allowed her to get closer, before dropping her disguise and raising her battle flag. The ship failed to stop so Atlantis had to shell her bridge and radio room to force her to surrender. The target proved to be one of the most important ships ever captured by a raider, for she was the freighter Automedon, carrying military supplies for Singapore and top secret documents that were to prove very useful to the Japanese during their conquest of Malaya in 1941. After this success Atlantis rendezvoused with her two captured tankers, scuttled the Teddy and sending the Ole Jacob to Japan. The aviation spirit she was carrying was used to barter for supplies, including the E8N seaplane that was supplied to the Orion.
The Pinguin was continuing on to the Antarctic. On the way the Storstad again reported a ship in sight on the last day of November, with the Pinguin’s first shot disabling her steering gear. This freighter was the Port Wellington, a sister ship of Port Brisbane, and her crew were likewise caputured before their ship was scuttled. By this time Pinguin had collected over 400 prisoners, so Krüder arranged for the Storstad to be sent back to Europe with them. On the way she was to meet and refuel the Atlantis. The two raiders met near Kerguelen Island, far in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean on the 8th of December with the Storstad arriving the next day. After the supplies and prisoners were transferred between the ships she set sail, eventually arrived in France on the 4th of February 1941.
Atlantis remained at Kerguelen Island for 26 days of repairs, whilst Pinguin set off for the Antarctic. En-route to South Georgia she started intercepting messages between the Norwegian whalers, which were operating under contract to the British. Krüder learned that the whaler Solglimt and factory ship Ole Wegger were to meet on January 13th 1941 to transfer a cargo of whale oil. Pinguin arrived at the rendezvous point the following day under cover of bad weather, and captured both ships without a struggle or an SOS being sent. Four nearby whalers also surrendered, but 3 others escaped. Pinguin then sailed towards the nearby factory ship Pelagos, which was well lit in foggy conditions. Again the target was captured quickly, and her seven whalers were ordered by Pelagos’ captain to return to her – so they were captured too. All of the prizes met at “Point Andalusia”, a spot north of the island of Tristan da Cunha where they would meet prize crews from other ships despatched on the supply ship Duquesa. She reprovisioned the Pinguin, but was then scuttled having outlived her usefulness. The factory ships and whalers were sent to France, all ships but a pair of whalers avoided the British blockade and arrived safely in France with their valuable cargo of whale oil. Pinguin then returned to Kerguelen and met with supply ship Alstertor on March 13th, which delivered amongst other supplies a new Ar196 seaplane.
After completing her repairs at Kerguelen, Atlantis headed for the Arabian Sea. Her He114 was sent on constant scouting missions, hoping to come across more unescorted enemy shipping. On the 23rd of January, 1941 the He114 spotted a ship, and Atlantis followed a course that allowed her to catch the quarry the next day. The target was lost, and then found her again. The He114 was launched again and made an attack that tore away the ship’s antenna on first attempt. Atlantis then shelled her to a stop. The captured ship was the British freighter Mandasor, which was sunk by charges. The He114 had landed on the sea near Atlantis’ motorboat, but had capsized. The plane had to be sunk by gunfire. A week later Atlantis captured the freighter Speybank and turned her into an auxiliary minelayer, which was used to mine the approaches to Cape Town.
On the 2nd of February Atlantis came across the Norwegian tanker Ketty Brøvig and captured her and her cargo of fuel oil and diesel. On the 14th, Rogge took his little flotilla to meet the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and refuel her. Including the big warship’s prizes 5 ships arrived at the designated meeting point– the largest gathering of German ships outside European waters during the war. The Tannenfels was sent to France with prisoners from the prizes. The Speybank stayed with Atlantis, whilst the Ketty Brovig sent to meet Pinguin’s supply ship Coberg. Both were surprised by the Allied warships HMAS Canberra and HMS Leander, and sunk – evidence of the British and Australian Navy’s increased determination to find and destroy the raiders. Before long, the Allies would have more success to celebrate.
The Pinguin had by this time moved to the sea lanes north of the Seychelles, sending her Ar196 on constant air patrols. On the 25th of April, she found the freighter Empire Light and brought her to a stop by shelling. The ship was too damaged to be taken as a prize, so she had to be scuttled. 2 days later the seaplane found another target, but before Pinguin could intercept she came across yet another freighter, whose crew abandoned ship after shelling destroyed her defensive gun. This ship was the Clan Buchanan, whose steering gear destroyed in the attack so she was scuttled. On the 7th of May, the raider found and damaged the tanker British Emperor, but she sent SOS signals which fatefully for the Pinguin attracted the attention of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Cornwall.
Two days later, May the 9th, 1941, lookouts on board the Pinguin sighted a cruiser on the horizon and so Krüder attempted to move away before his ship was spotted. Cornwall’s Supermarine Walrus seaplane was airborne and overflew the Pinguin to challenge her. Krüder attempted to pass his ship off as the British freighter Tamerlane but the crew of the Walrus was suspicious – the Pinguin’s crew having overdone the ineptitude of their flag signalling, in an attempt to come across as bumbling merchant sailors. The Tamerlane however was known to belong to a shipping line which prided itself on good seamanship, and so Cornwall moved in to investigate. The cruiser challenged the Pinguin which failed to stop. Krüder then decided to take a risk and attack the British warship, hoping to get off a decisive first strike – and opened fire on the cruiser. Despite some initial damage and problems with her turrets, Cornwall was able to withdraw out of range of the raider’s guns, before relying on the superior range of her 8-inch guns and the support of her Walrus, which provided range adjustments. Inevitably, the heavier firepower of the cruiser began to tell and she scored a direct hit on the Pinguin’s mine store, which caused her to blow up and sink immediately. 214 prisoners and 341 of the Pinguin’s crew were killed, including Kapitan Krüder.
Atlantis, for her part, had some encounters with neutral ships but no more success finding enemy ships. She was briefly transferred to the South Atlantic, leaving the Indian Ocean on the 8th of April. There she sank several more ships including a liner with several Americans aboard, including a Life magazine photographer, who took several pictures of the disguised Atlantis. After this incident she re-entered the Indian Ocean, passed south of Australia, and transited to the Pacific. She captured the freighter Silvaplana between New Zealand and the Society Islands. Then she rounded Cape Horn and made for Germany, but she was found and sunk by HMS Devonshire on the 22nd of November, 1941. Most of her crew was rescued by U-boats.
The last of the German raiders to see action in the Indian Ocean was the Kormoran, commanded by Korvettenkapitän Theodor Detmers. She was designated Schiff 41 by the Germans, but known as “Raider G” to the British Admiralty. She was the biggest of the raiders, with twice the displacement of the Komet. Her guns were taken from the World War I-era battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz. Her air complement consisted of two Arado Ar196A-1 seaplanes, piloted by Oberleutnant Heinfried Ahl, and she was equipped with a light speed boat, the LS-3, 6 torpedo tubes, and 350 mines. Kormoran departed Germany on the 3rd Dec 1940. She sank eight Allied ships in the Atlantic, and met the Pinguin after her expedition to the Antarctic on February 25th 1941, and then met Atlantis on the 21st of April.
Kormoran entered the Indian Ocean on May 2nd 1941. Soon afterwards, she learned of the destruction of the Pinguin by HMS Cornwall. She therefore changed from a Soviet disguise that she had been using for several weeks to a Japanese one. She made for the Bay of Bengal, which had thus far been avoided by the Germans, arriving there on the 19th of June. She was briefly chased by an auxiliary cruiser, HMS Canton, but escaped. On 26th she encountered the Yugoslavian freighter Velebit at night, and shelled her to a stop. The crew was taken off and the ship was left to drift, eventually running aground on the Andaman Islands. Some of her crew survived at sea for 18 weeks in a lifeboat. Later that same day she encountered the Australian freighter Mareeba, which was stopped and a prize crew sent to board her. On board they learned that the light cruiser HMS Durban was nearby, so Detmers decided to depart the bay before she managed to find the raider.
Kormoran spent 2 weeks drifting to repair her engines, which were struggling due to poor quality bearings. Whilst adrift she also changed her disguise to that of a Dutch merchantman. She then spent the next 2 months cruising the shipping lanes of the Netherlands East Indies, finding nothing in the way of Allied shipping. Detmers therefore took his ship to the Arabian Ocean. Her Arado was used extensively to search for enemy shipping but found nothing. Then, on the 23rd of September, an alert deck officer spotted a lit ship sailing at night. Lights usually signified that a ship was neutral, but this one turned out to be the Greek freighter Stamatios G. Embiricos. Low on fuel, the caputured ship was no use as an auxiliary, so she was scuttled. The Arado was later used to find 2 missing lifeboats from the freighter. No further luck was to be had in this area, so the Kormoran headed to a rendezvous with the supply ship Kulmerland off Australia. This ship had sailed from Japan with a cargo of fuel and metal for repairing Kormoran’s troublesome bearings. The meeting occurred on the 16th of October, with the ships heading their separate ways soon afterwards.
On November 19th, west of Australia, Kormoran sighted an unknown ship. Is itcame closer it was eventually recognised as a Perth-class cruiser, the HMAS Sydney – a powerful ship easily capable of destroying the raider. Detmers knew that his only chance was to let her get very close. The ships exchanged signals where Koromoran pretended to be the Dutch ship Straat Malaaka, a ruse which at first appeared to work. By 1730 with the light fading, Sydney was within 1,000m so Detmers gave the order to open fire. Sydney was surprised and took severe damage from this first volley, and returned fire that was inaccurate and missed. Kormoran was able to get away 8 more volleys and a torpedo hit before Sydney’s rear turrets finally loosed some accurate shots that hit the Kormoran’s engine room and started a fire. The engine room firefighting equipment was also destroyed. Sydney slowly moved away, still under fire – a total of 450 rounds of 6-inch shells were fired at her. As she disappeared into the falling gloom, a huge explosion was seen – Sydney had sunk with all hands, 645 officers and men.
Meanwhile, it was obvious that the Kormoran was also doomed as her fires raged out of control and threatened to set off the ship’s store of sea mines. 320 of the raider’s crew escaped before she sank. Sydney had not radioed to the shore what was happening so the survivors were forced to endure several days at sea before being picked up gradually by passing ships, some of them remaining adrift for eight days. The survivors were interred in PoW camps for the rest of the war, eventually returning home in 1947. The wrecks of both Kormoran and Sydney were found in 2008.
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If you’ve been adventuring with the blog for awhile, you’ve heard me talk about Dungeon World. It’s the tabletop RPG that my gaming group played during the fall semester (I say semester because half of our group was still in college and measures time that way). It was my first time running the game and the first time playing it for all of my players. After we finished the last session, we sat down and talked about the game for a bit, discussing the aspects we liked and our overall enjoyment of the Dungeon World experience.
So for Tabletop Tuesday, I’m going to bring that discussion to the internet in the form of a Totally Subjective Review! For tabletop RPGs my four categories will be Rulebook and Supplies, Ease of Play, Gameplay, and Customization. For Dungeon World, my fifth category will be Philosophy. What the heck does that mean? You’ll have to read to find out!
Tabletop Games don’t really have graphics to evaluate. After all, the world exists totally in the imagination of the players. But the one thing they do have to look at is the game’s rulebook, and for any tabletop it is important that the rulebook be easy to navigate and well-written. Of course, pretty pictures are certainly a plus as well.
I should preface this section with the fact that I purchased the PDF rulebook. While the physical rulebook would technically look the same, there are still differences and some things I say will not apply to the physical book. So use some critical thinking during this section.
Dungeon World delivers well in the former two but not so much in the latter. The artwork in the book isn’t bad, exactly, but it certainly isn’t great.
And no, it isn’t as bad as the Adventure Rules artwork, but I draw badly on purpose. It’s part of my quirky charm!
However, the rulebook for Dungeon World is very simple to read, and I found it quite easy to navigate. Everything is bookmarked – not just chapters, but subheadings beneath the chapters as well. This means that if you’re looking for a particular section, chances are there is a quick and easy bookmark you can click on to find it with ease.
As far as supplies go, character sheets come with the rulebook or can be downloaded online for free from the official Dungeon World website. I find this to be way easier than trying to print specific pages of the rulebook, so it is a provision that I appreciated. There are also a few character sheets not included in the main game that are free on the official site, plus some other supplements like a monster race expansion. Little things like this may not seem like much, but imagine if more video games offered totally free DLC. New classes and race options certainly expand the game, so take advantage of them!
As far as supplies for Dungeon World, you’re set as long as you have a classic set of RPG dice, as the game only uses d4, d6, d8, d10, and d12. The main dice you’ll be rolling are the d6, as the core mechanic of the game involves rolling 2d6. So you’ll want a few extra of those lying around – time to break out the Yahtzee box!
So you need dice, the rules, character sheets, and pencils. If you’re the type that enjoys miniatures and maps, Dungeon World is compatible with these things but does not necessarily need them. The rulebook does recommend that you use graph paper or something similar to map out your game world as you play. I cannot comment on this method since my group did not try it (our game was set in England, so we used a map of the good ole UK).
Overall, Dungeon World has an easy-to-read rulebook and simple supplies. It’s very easy to pick up and pretty affordable too. It may not be super pretty, but it gets the job done, and for a tabletop that’s all that matters.
For those new to the tabletop genre, 0r for those who only play in a setting where a very quick game is all that can take place, ease of play is an important factor in their tabletop decision. If it takes five hours to make characters and you only have six to play, chances are you won’t be interested in the tabletop. Luckily, Dungeon World is a narrrative-driven game, which means that the mechanical aspects of the game are easy to get past so that you can start actually enjoying the game.
Character creation is as long as you want it to be. For a quick one-off session at a convention, you can have a character ready in a matter of minutes. Each class sheet has a preset list of names, races, bonds, and equipment. Make your choices and BANG, you’re ready to go.
Of course, for a longer campaign, you may want to put in a little more thought. For my group, I created a questionnaire for gathering information about their backstories, where they got their equipment and learned their abilities, and what their opinions were on significant world events. Both approaches – the quick and the lengthy – are completely valid.
Now Dungeon World does not come with any pre-built sessions, so during a convention the GM will still have to create story and obstacles rather than just running through one provided in the rulebook. However, there are plenty of pre-generated monsters that you can use, so creating a scenario is just a matter of imagining the world that your players are exploring.
The rulebook actually provides a lot of help on this path. The first session of Dungeon World is intended to be very cooperative and to plunge players right into the action. It suggests starting in a dungeon or even embroiled in combat, and then working out the situation from there. Maybe the players are surrounded by goblins and trapped in a small chamber. How’d they get there? What were they looking for in the goblin halls? Answering questions like these allows you to create the scenario on the fly, perfect for a short game that won’t be part of a longer campaign.
The rules of the game are simple to understand, and all of the basic and special moves have sheets that outline how they work. If you’re playing with a group of people who have not played Dungeon World, explaining the game is a quick process. Just go over the list of basic moves, answer any questions they have on starting moves, and explain the core mechanic of the game. After a few minutes of discussion, they’ll be ready to go.
Dungeon World is a great game for new tabletop players and for one-off sessions, but still has things to offer for a long campaign and for experienced players. My group has played a number of tabletops and no one was turned off by the “ease” of Dungeon World.
It’s all well and good to talk about how easy Dungeon World is to set up and play. A game can be really easy to get started and quickly turn very boring. So how does the Dungeon World core mechanic work, and how does the gameplay feel?
Dungeon World is a Powered by the Apocalypse game. This means that it draws its core mechanic from Apocalypse World by Vincent Baker. And that core mechanic is this. Many actions in the game are resolved by moves. Moves describe what you want to do. For example, when you attack an enemy in melee, or when you consult your accumulated knowledge about something. These actions are moves, and moves generally require you to roll the dice. Whenever you roll, you roll 2d6 (that means two six-sided dice) and then add a modifier if appropriate. For example, if you’re attacking with a ranged weapon, you add your dexterity modifier. If you’re reading into a situation, you add your wisdom modifier.
Every roll in Dungeon World has three possible results. That means every check effectively has the same “difficulty class” (for those of you coming at this from Dungeons and Dragons). On a 10+, you do what you intended with little to no trouble. Things work out how you wanted. Awesome. On a 7-9, you get what you want at a cost. You’ll have to make a difficult decision, or perhaps put yourself in danger, or a complication will be thrown in along with your success. A 7-9 means that you basically do what you set out to do, but you’re going to have to sacrifice something to get it. On a 6-, you fail at your action AND SOMETHING HAPPENS. A 6- doesn’t mean “oh, you failed to pick the lock, so you all just stand there awkwardly.” It means “oh, you failed to pick the lock because an ogre just kicked the door open and sent you sprawling backward.” Or “you failed to pick the lock because you activated a trap, and a poisoned dart just jabbed you in the arm.” Failure doesn’t stall the game – it continues to push it forward. And it pushes you forward as a character as well, because every failure earns you an experience point.
And that’s the core mechanic. You say what you want to do – if your actions cause a move to occur, you roll the dice. Your roll decides how successful you are and keeps the action moving forward. It’s a simple system that applies to any situation from slashing to casting a spell to healing to having a debate. It’s quick to learn and easy to apply, but because the circumstances in the fictional world decide the stakes, each die roll still feels really important and unique.
The gameplay of Dungeon World is where the game really shines. There’s a huge question mark looming at the end of every die roll, and something a failed roll suddenly makes a very routine action into a crazy situation. To use a few examples from my campaign – a partial success that drew unwanted attention to a character caused the party to be attacked by a wild-man who wanted to kidnap and marry her; a failure on an information-gathering check just before bedtime in an inn caused an entire town to be ransacked by monsters; a poor roll while attacking town guards in a magical city sent two party members into a mystical labyrinth in an alternate dimension. Anything can happen in Dungeon World, and players may sometime feel like picking up the dice to roll them is too dangerous. It gives the decision to make moves weighty and significant, and sometimes players will do what they can to get out of making moves if they feel it will put the party in danger.
Now, here’s something important to note about the game. Dungeon World is designed to be a cooperative effort where adventure can come out of nowhere and where at any time a character’s situation can change, and that includes death. The very mechanics of Dungeon World resist the idea of a pre-scripted campaign with the same cast of characters throughout the story. Now my wife and I ran this game together, and we planned our story in advance – so far in advance that we had the story before we knew we were playing Dungeon World. There were times throughout the campaign that we found ourselves having to fight the mechanics of the game somewhat to keep our story on track. If you’re a GM who isn’t comfortable with the story being somewhat decided by the randomness of the dice – or if you’re a player who absolutely refuses to have a character die and create a new one – then Dungeon World may not be the game for you. The mechanics work very well with the philosophy of the game (more on that later), but if you try to play in a different way, this means that the mechanics will fight you. It’s something to be aware of before you pick Dungeon World up.
There are also a couple of game mechanics that I thought did not work well. Those are the alignment system and the bonds. The way alignment works, you choose your character’s alignment based on the class you are playing, and each alignment has a move associated with it. When you make these alignment moves – things like “leap into danger without a plan” or “destroy a symbol of civilization” or “show mercy to an enemy” – you get an experience point at the end of the session. But here’s the problem. Having a specific move that the character can make every session to get XP meant that my players were constantly trying to make their alignment moves in situations where it made no sense. Instead of roleplaying their entire alignment, they’d do one thing that lined up with it and then do whatever they wanted the rest of the session. Trying to meet the conditions of alignment moves became distracting and it didn’t gel with the fiction (ironically, something that the philosophy of Dungeon World feels very strongly about). We ended up removing alignment moves and instead rewarded players for staying true to their alignment throughout the session.
Bonds represent the connections between characters in the party. They are things like “so-and-so stole something from me” or “I want to learn about so-and-so’s job.” Players get XP points when these bonds are resolved, and resolution is a very loose term that basically means that the bond no longer applies to their relationship. Like the alignment moves, bonds gave my players very specific actions they were supposed to do for XP, and this made them behave in very erratic ways within the party in order to try and level up. In addition, even with the term “resolve” being so broad, there seemed to be certain bonds with no resolution in sight, which caused a lot of frustration. We ended up borrowing the Hx system from Apocalypse World, and that worked well for my group.
I’ve talked a lot about XP – why did my players want it so much? Well, leveling up in Dungeon World is how you gain new moves from your class. Without gaining levels, you’re stuck with the same three to five starting moves and the list of basic moves. And XP is a very precious resource. The only way to get it during a session is to fail (something that no one wants to do even with the XP point). The only other way to gain XP is at end of session, and at the most you can gain five. One for using your alignment, one for resolving a bond, one for making an important discovery, one for defeating a notable enemy, and one for looting a memorable treasure. This system of gaining XP (rather than gaining it for mindlessly killing monsters or completing quests) makes every XP opportunity count.
Overall, the gameplay of Dungeon World is a ton of fun. Many of my players expressed that this was the most fun they’d had playing a tabletop, and we found that the mechanics of the game made the final session a lot more impactful both in fun and in emotional response than in any other tabletop we’ve played before. The game mechanics work well together to create a fun experience that is always leading towards adventure.
When playing a tabletop game, players want to have the tools to make their character as uniquely their own as possible, and the GM wants to be able to take whatever his or her ideas are for the game world and create them in a satisfying way. For some tabletops, customization is built into the game mechanics. For others, you have to change the rules or hack the game. This section is all about how easy or difficult it is to customize Dungeon World.
For my campaign the setting was a blend of superhero, horror, post-apocalyptic, and fantasy (what?) and in order to facilitate that, I added quite a few features. One of the most significant changes I made was to the class system. I created superhero-inspired classes for each player, a process that was very cooperative from the first step. Players described what abilities were important to them and I created the moves and designed the level-ups for each class. This process is actually relatively simple, and the book offers some advice about creating custom moves. You just need a trigger and then the results of the different rolls. Using the game’s base moves as inspiration can be a huge help, but the book also offers advice on the typical effects of a move so you can create your own with ease.
Custom monster creation is included in the playbook as well, and the process is as easy as answering some questions about your monster. Is it solitary or does it fight in a group? Is it small, normal, or large? Are its weapons massive or subtle? Answering questions like these define the monster’s stats, and then your roleplaying as the GM defines the monster’s actions. After all, Dungeon World is driven primarily by the narrative, so the true essence of a monster is not its statistical total but the stuff that it does. Making monsters was very easy and a couple of times I was able to do it mid-session.
Now when it comes to character customization for the player, there are few options for that starting out. Every fighter starts out with the same starting moves, with only a few options for customization. However, the large selection of level-up moves allows two fighters (or clerics, or thieves, or whatever) to become progressively different as they develop. This is pretty reflective of Dungeon World as a whole. You don’t start out with some detailed backstory or incredible powers. The game is all about the adventures you have during play. Your characters will become more unique and more your own the more you play with them. So while player customization is not a strong part of the beginning of Dungeon World, it does grow with time.
Overall, the customization in Dungeon World is strong in most areas. As the GM, it is very easy to create custom content for your players. As a player, customization is weak in the early game but grows stronger as your character levels up and has more adventures.
I mentioned earlier that Dungeon World has a very powerful philosophy driving it, one that influences the mechanics and resists certain approaches to the game. The time has come to discuss that.
Dungeon World is a game driven by the narrative, or as the rulebook calls it, the fiction. The fiction comes first and supersedes anything else. The GM is encouraged to run the game fiction-first, and the mechanics of the game are designed in such a way that the fiction is prioritized. This is all a fancy way of saying that Dungeon World is designed to be run in a particular way, and not running it that way will actually cause some problems with the rules.
I already mentioned that when I approached the game with a specific narrative already planned out, the rules of the game resisted it. Monsters and villains are not designed to have a long lifespan, so villains who frequently reappear after majestically escaping don’t particularly work well. A set storyline is difficult to adhere to when a failed die roll (or a very successful one) can completely change the direction of the action.
Now this is not to say that a strong philosophy driving the game is a bad thing. Dungeon World is designed for a setting where the GM is a fan of the players’ characters, where adventure fills their lives, where the world is fantastic and always growing and changing. The game is designed to let fiction drive the players forward. Rules shouldn’t get in the way of a cool moment and shouldn’t make overcoming a powerful monster into an effortless task. Characters should really be putting their lives at risk because that’s what makes them matter more.
Personally, I love the philosophy that drives Dungeon World. I think it is a great approach to running a game and plan to run more games this way in the future. However, if you are the sort of GM or the sort of player who enjoys a story with a defined direction, who wants character death not to be a part of the campaign, or prefers balanced encounter levels, then Dungeon World may not be the game for you. It is good to be aware of what kind of game you want to play before you pick Dungeon World up, because the mechanics and the philosophy driving the game all work together to enforce a particular style of play.
Dungeon World is a fun game that is simple to pick up and play, and has many rewards for those who stick around for a long time. It’s easy to customize for the GM but it takes time for the players to create characters that are uniquely their own. The game has a fantasy setting designed for fantastic adventures. And while Dungeon World may not be great when a narrative style is not what you want, it is incredible as a narrative game and does what it set out to do fantastically. I highly recommend Dungeon World to fans of the tabletop fantasy genre.
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All businesses want only the best for their websites and Shopify deeply understands it. In fact, entrepreneurs around the world regard it as the easiest website builder for their platform. It provides you with everything you need in starting up an eCommerce site, from an online store layout to payment and shipping methods. Shopify misses nothing! It also features SSL certificate, automated tax rates, checkout recovery options, shipping rates and loads more.
There are more than one hundred professional themes available, all tailored for the meticulous and detail-oriented eye. Improve your marketing standards with SEO tools, product reviews, gift cards and discount codes. Also, implement email marketing and blogging, all available at Shopify. Web hosting will not be too much of a hassle either due to unlimited bandwidth. Get your brand up and running and sell whatever your heart desires with Shopify. You need no other tool if an online shop is what you would like to start.
Squarespace is a highly popular and super easy website builder with the capability to build any kind of page. Even famous people use Squarespace for their own web presences so there is no reason why you would not want to get your hands on it, too. Stunning web designs await all Squarespace users to use and utilize for their sites. You can go with the one you dig the most as is or you can also enhance it effortlessly. It is the amazing drag and drop method that does the trick, allowing you to do the magic without any coding. Change texts, colors, rearrange elements and do whatever you can think of, Squarespace is flexible and versatile after all.
What’s more, Squarespace also offers unlimited hosting for free, domain names, SSL certificate, super fast content delivery using a global CDN and outstanding support. One space is all there is needed to bring all your idea to reality.
One should not underestimate a website’s look. A company can stand out from the competition when everything seems to be offering the same thing. Be professional and high-quality in all segments of your business, web presence as well. this is exactly what Ucraft is known for. Unlike some that solely focus on features, Ucraft prioritizes on convenience, what makes it the easiest website builder you can find. Additionally, it dedicates to provide the wow factor by making your website feel alive and full of energy.
With high resolution graphics, of course. Not only that but the final page you are about to bring to reality with Ucraft will also have a cutting-edge and attention-grabbing design. Many businesses do not take this seriously, but it should be noted that the page is the online ambassador of your brand so make it as seamless as possible. There is no coding required so you do not have to be a pro at all.
For WordPress users specifically, WPBakery is the easiest website builder out there. It is a tool used by millions what tells you that they sure are doing something right with WPBakery. Formerly known as Visual Composer, WPBakery is a magnificent product that will suit all users, regardless of their experience with web design and code. Since I just brought it up, WPBakery does not demand any technical background from you. You can be a first-timer and still have a chance to come up with a striking website for your online project.
WPBakery works on the back- and on the front-end, allows you to have the freedom you deserve when establishing your perfect website. Furthermore, it also works with all themes that are currently available on the market and even comes with a series of custom mobile-ready layouts which you can use however you want. Build your custom color scheme and benefit from the innovative grid builder.
Usually, site builders offer a bunch of layouts and themes and hope their clients find something appealing. In reality, many do not, as they are grounded from these limited options. With Elementor, it will never be a problem forging the right web design for your online space. As the easiest website builder, it has the ultimate collection of ideas and formats that can almost overwhelm you. It is a good thing especially if you are picky with your choices. Elementor has something for everyone. And if not, you can easily tailor it to your needs by undergoing no challenges.
Elementor has hundreds of website concepts to choose from, including widgets, fonts, shortcodes and a whole lot more. Everything is unique and original so do experiment with it to your heart’s content. Companies and individuals who are all about pushing incredible content will surely love this editor as it offers all you need.
You can also read the thorough Elementor review and get an even better understanding of how amazing it is.
Voog is the easiest website builder whether you are starting a simple page, a blog or launching an online store. Whatever your online business plan is, Voog is here to make things happen with a striking page that everyone will be amazed by. While it approaches web design in a very simplistic and easy to use way, Voog is still a super powerful software that you should use to its full potential. Make sure you have an open mind and do not let your imagination to stop you at any level. Voog is here to get things moving in the right direction no matter how creative or how basic you would like your outcome to be.
Voog is an out of the box service for building exceptional websites with zero coding involved. The drag and drop feature is the one that makes things work out for everyone despite their skill level. Upload your own content, change colors, texts and edit the look however you feel it suits you best. Voog is here for you and their support ready to assist you any time.
Are you running out of ideas or panicking to get your business website done? Worry no further as Bookmark will save the day. Taking pride in its huge collection of templates, Bookmark is the easiest website builder on the web. You can instantly create and operate a page for your urgent needs. And there is no need for you to hire someone to do it for you. Yes, you and only you can get things rolling on the web with Bookmark.
However, does that mean the layouts are half-baked and of poor quality? Definitely not! They do not even look like rushed at all. Since this builder utilizes an AI design assistant to manage effects, icons, animations and elements, all you need to do is to lay down your concept. That is how user-friendly Bookmark is. With AiDA, the artificial intelligence design assistant, making a page is a piece of cake. Bookmark has been perfected by innovative developers to make sure your site stands the test of time.
You know the gist of it by now. All the services you find in this collection are the easiest website builders you can currently find on the market. Swiftly, yet professionally, you can create your must-have page in the shortest period of time. Webnode is another fantastic, remarkable and awe-inspiring site editor that brings your business plans to life. At least when it comes to your neat and tidy web presence. With tens of millions of users, you know Webnode is doing the right thing. With that in mind, you are guaranteed to witness a successful launch of a brand-new website, too.
Magnificent and ready-to-use templates along with user-friendly interface allow you to get online in just five minutes. That is how fast you can act with Webnode. The process also does not require any installation or advanced configuration what makes Webnode perfect for those just starting out. Personal, business and eCommerce websites, you can materialize all with Webnode.
Numerous services have attempted to be the jack of all trades with their features but in reality, many of them are master to none. Not in our case! The WebsiteBuilder, however, defies this reality, being the easiest website builder online. It caters to a lot of customers, including bloggers, online store owners and even small and medium enterprises. Choose from the ready-made elements and multiple predefined templates that are easy to modify and edit. To utilize the revolutionary drag and drop editor and make your site to your likings. Since this builder pretty much mastered the art, you can also expect your pages to be SEO and mobile-ready. Indeed, WebsiteBuilder calls for 100% responsiveness with high-resolution compatibility what adds to its versatility.
You can expect to have your site live in three simple to follow steps which anyone can undergo. You do not even need to have someone looking over your shoulder and telling you what to do next. With WebsiteBuilder and its effortlessness, you can be confident to complete your page quickly and reliable.
Bring back the fun element in creative design by choosing uKit as your web design building platform. Simply the easiest website builder in the market, it has more than 350 designs to choose from in 38 different categories. All this tells you is that uKit sure has something for you even if you happen to be very selective with your choices. uKit is also packed with various features such as typography, color schemes, universal grid and the handy drag and drop function. Not only that but you can start your online store immediately as well.
You can set up order forms for your customers, as well as stipulate deliver and payment methods. Lastly, you can grow your business and online presence with promotional tools such as search engine optimization, newsletters and statistics. Use the latter to always know how your website is doing and optimize accordingly. There is no other builder offering a complete package like uKit so make sure you check it out.
Mobirise is different, period. While the major part of the easiest website builders are online services, allowing you to build your page in-browser, Mobirise is an offline software. That is correct, you download it to your computer and use it entirely for free. Of course, Mobirise is compatible with both Windows and Mac users so that is something you do not need to worry about. Moreover, you also do not need to question yourself whether your website will be mobile-ready and compatible with modern web browsers – it simply will be. Thanks to Mobirise, all the pages you make with it are of the highest degree, performing excellently all the time.
The employment of Mobirise is very straightforward. With its numerous predesigned blocks and layouts, you do not need to code rather drag the content to your page, set parameters, change texts, colors and upload your material. That is how simple it is! And before you are ready to go live, preview your web design first and then hit the publish button. You can even check how your website looks on different devices before you release it to the online space.
You do not really need to be quick with your site development but somehow, you are not able to avoid the speedy site launch when using SITE123. It is one of the easiest website builders around, giving you a free hand on your project. But it is the freedom all these site editors offer, what makes them score the inclusion in our collection. SITE123 is a spectacular tool with countless amazing features and assets you can profit from. From the incredible and super practical page editor to many ready-to-use templates which are all fully customizable.
SEO tools, custom domains, free hosting, mobile-friendly, online store ready, you name it, SITE123 has the capacity that makes it unlock a new horizon of possibilities for you. You read it before, but SITE123 is another killer website builder that gets you online in three steps. However, the estimated launch time relies on the fact of how creative you would like to go, as well as what extra sections you would like to add to your website (read online store). Like mentioned earlier, it never takes long with SITE123.
A combination of groundbreaking features and reliable customer support would win you a lot of customers. No wonder why Jimdo has been doing so well, being the easiest website builder. Every template has a modern and professional look with a fully responsive and extendable design. Jimdo also has its own set of super powerful creator tools with lots of useful options to manage your site like a pro. Choose from either Jimdo Creator or Jimdo Dolphin to start building instantly. The amazing software is built with passion and love what relates so much to its customers. What adds more to Jimdo’s winning formula is it applies the latest web technologies.
Let’s learn more about Creator and Jimdo. It is actually nothing complicated about the two. The former is pretty self-explanatory, you are the Creator. When it comes to Dolphin, the artificial intelligence does the majority of the work for you after asking you easy questions about yourself and your business.
With the very many solutions currently available on the market, we only bring you the easiest website builders. And, of course, 8b is one of them. Not only is this website building software easy and simple to use, it also comes at no cost. Yes, it is 100% free if you will. Whether you would like to create an agency, event, gaming, hotel, medical, music, portfolio, restaurant or travel website, you can make them all with 8b and then some. The options are endless when it comes to 8b.
Also, 8b will never ask you for any coding knowledge what makes it very newbie-friendly. The interface is user-friendly, perfect for any user. What’s more, 8b guarantees that the website you are about to establish will work smoothly on all mobile devices and web browsers. Kick it off with the right ready-made template and make a difference.
Jigsy is one of the easiest website builders with all the mandatory to complete creating the ideal website for your objective. It includes one free and three premium plans for everyone to get involved right away. Of course, you can effortlessly start with the free plan and see things real-time. Only when you are ready, you can then upgrade and get even more features from the convenient Jigsy.
When it comes to Jigsy, it offers you to choose from different ready-to-use layouts which will help you quick-start your project. On top of that, you will never need to host your website as Jigsy takes care of it entirely. All your precious information is encrypted on Jigsy’s servers and backed up. Besides, any website you hammer out with Jigsy, it will perfectly acclimatize to any device and browser. It is all about you taking action what the realization of your project requires next; Jigsy is ready and set 24/7.
While GoDaddy is a humongous web hosting provider and domain registrar, it also includes a neat and easy website builder for your convenience. It only takes one account to run your website like a champ. With GoDaddy’ website builder, you can start a blog, push products online, create an agency website and even build a business page. In short, the options you have with GoDaddy are endless. More or less, it is your imagination that is the only limitation that you have. Think outside the box and see the magic reveal right in front of your eyes.
In the kit, GoDaddy delivers loads of layouts and elements which you can mix and match to your heart’s content. Also, the web designs that GoDaddy has in store are customizable for you to make a page that follows your branding regulations precisely. Other features of GoDaddy are online appointments, social sharing, search engine optimization, email marketing, you name it. With four available pricing options, you will easily find the one that suits your requirements best.
Nothing should be holding you back any longer when you unlock yourself access to Readymag. This is a fantastic and one of the easiest website builders you can find on the market of page editors. It is everything you need for your websites, online magazine, web portfolio or any other type of internet publication you would like to start. First and foremost, Readymag advises you to fully forget about the code. Not only code by anything related to design, too. Now it’s getting interesting, right? With the innovative builder, Readymag offers you to create pages without the tech knowledge. Indeed, it is super simple to use after all.
Readymag gives you two options; either you start by choosing a pre-designed template or you can start with a blank skin and go from there. No matter what you do, with Readymag, it is a guarantee that the end product will be a cutting-edge piece of web art that you and no one else will set up.
It is apparent that most businesses with a certain niche look for specific designs. Some want it flashy while the others prefer a more minimalist look. Whatever category you fall under, Strikingly has it covered for you. It has been trusted by millions of marketers and creatives around the globe, what calls for another easiest website builder. Strikingly applies technology that enables you to construct websites without any coding and design practice. Every end product will be responsive and pixel perfect, compatible with any mobile device.
With hundreds of design choices to choose from, you can never go wrong with what Strikingly has to offer. Domain registrations, SSL, analytics, social feeds, contact forms, online store and blog are just some of the assets of Strikingly. You can be certain that this tool will amaze and impress you. You will come up with a professional and sophisticated look, like a breath of fresh air.
Do you need a sleek theme for your website? Then gear up for the newest craze in town. Presenting PageCloud, the easiest website builder that is best suited for both entrepreneurs and imaginative minds. It is all organized, simplistic and super effortless to understand and manage. Doing customization tweaks and updates is duck soup with PageCloud. Moreover, some of the many PageCloud’s features are the convenient drag and drop page builder, auto image optimization, app compatibility and hosting to name a few.
PageCloud’s mobile-ready layout builder lets you hammer out pages naturally. That’s not all, PageCloud also makes sure that your website follows SEO practices to the T. That said, you are treated to meta-information, custom URLs, page titles, redirects and all the other principal activities. Measure your overall page performance with Google Analytics and optimize it accordingly. You are in full charge of your web presence so make sure you are always moving forward, executing improvements when needed to deliver the best possible experience.
If you are looking for the easiest website builder, you definitely came to the right place. On this list, you will find very many and without a doubt the one that will be the best fit for you. It does not matter how picky you are and how little experience you have, heck, none, you are still in good hands. Tilda is one cracking software that will assist you in sorting out your best page regardless of the niche you operate in. It is a highly adaptive service which you will create beautiful pages with by not changing a single string of code.
Tilda has more than 450 ready-to-use blocks and even gives you an option to create your custom variations with Zero Block. Tilda also has a strong focus on content and typography what might be ideal for you. With loads and loads of pre-made templates, you will quickly find the right style you would like to rock with your page. Tweak and adjust it to your needs and you are ready to go live with a mobile-ready web space.
Get ahead of the competition with a website that is fully equipped with cutting-edge tools and features. Moonfruit is the easiest website builder that will help you achieve just that. It features a clean and modern look, perfect for restaurants, events, artists, startups, hotels and many other niche pages. It is truly versatile as it covers every industry possible for you to find what you are looking for out of the box. There are many templates you can select, all fashioned to perfection, holding uniqueness in design.
Moonfruit also makes sure that your page will be mobile and retina compatible with its pixel-perfect design what uplifts your website’s appearance. Not only does this tool perform and look great, but it also enables you effective online visibility and SEO readiness. Besides, get an insight on your page’s activities with the integrated Google Analytics and Google Search Console. The professional team of experts is also amiable and accommodating to answer your inquiries.
Create an outstanding page with a free tool that is at the same one of the easiest website builders. I am talking about WebStarts. Your web presence starts now and it is you who is about to make things a reality. Websites, blogs and eCommerce pages, WebStarts allows you to do all of them swiftly. Pick the design that works best for you, get a custom domain name and start scaling it through the roof. From a bird’s eye view, that’s exactly how the process goes and it is super simple, as you see.
With WebStarts, you can truly create a unique experience for your online appearance, not seen anywhere else. By employing the magnificent drag and drop editor, you can enhance, alter and make changes to your taste and desire. Besides, you also get to host your page with WebStarts so you truly only need one account to control your full internet being.
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In episode 151 we welcome Divya Narendra, CEO & Co-Founder of SumZero. Divya begins by talking about the beginnings of SumZero and finding its initial traction by Divya calling friends from other funds and politely asking them to submit research. From there, he asked those friends to provide any contacts they could, and the platform grew from there, including a cap-intro side of the business to expose analysts, PMs, and fund managers to potential investors.
Divya then discusses addressing the shortcomings of sell side research with SumZero, in particular, the lack of vested interest and high conviction from the sell-side, and lack of coverage in unknown securities. All contributors are vetted, and their ideas go through Divya.
Meb asks about how people use the site for generating ideas, which brings up some various processes like screens from people with a fundamental approach, to quants who are looking at items like who is getting the most views and best ratings. Divya even gets into some of the best ideas contests he has run, and even submitted a contest winner’s idea to Warren Buffett.
The conversation then shifts to what Divya sees in the future for SumZero, from scaling cap-intro efforts, to a data feed that can serve quantitatively driven analysts, but ultimately looks to expand the scope of the SumZero community.
Catch all this and more in episode 151, including Divya’s thoughts about the future of fundamental stock picking, robo advisors and the private wealth model, and more.
In episode 140 we welcome Ralph Acampora. Ralph begins with his background and talks about the accident that left him in a body cast for months. His father’s best friend left a copy of something market related that he was reading when he visited the hospital. That piqued his curiosity, and he later found a job as a junior analyst on Wall Street. It was that job that introduced him to technical analysis.
Meb then gets into technical analysis and what is, and what it means to Ralph. Ralph discusses how he keeps it simple, looking at trends every day with a few indicators. He then goes on to explain Dow Theory before explaining that when he took a look at the market through the lens of Dow Theory, when the Dow Industrials, and Dow Transports hit low points late last year, he saw a downturn signal. He mentions the post-Christmas rally was a nice move in a short period of time, but he refers to it as a “vacuum” rally. The bad news is that he saw the rally encounter overhead resistance and is looking overbought. For this move to sustain, he’d like to see, over the next month or two, the market hold above December lows.
Looking around the world, he sees the DAX in a topping period, and emerging market stocks look like they’re trying to bottom. As far as commodities go, he thinks crude is bottoming as well.
Ralph then gets into how little acceptance there was of technical analysis early in his career, and how he fought for technical analysis.
Meb then asks Ralph to touch on behavioral finance. He discusses how technical analysts have been incorporating behavioral finance for years.
As the conversation winds down, Meb asks Ralph if anything has changed about his approach to analyzing markets, and Ralph quickly says “No,” and talks about how over time, technical analysis is looking at buyers and sellers, which he feels haven’t changed, so he hasn’t changed his analysis.
This and more in episode 140, including a fantastic story behind Ralph’s most memorable trade, and where one of his hand-drawn charts is now displayed.
In episode 137 we welcome the sibling duo, Emily and Morgan Paxhia. Emily and Morgan begin by discussing their backstory, and how coming from a family with an entrepreneurial background influenced their path to start Poseidon Asset Management to specialize in cannabis investing. Emily and Morgan each describe their previous roles and the skills they acquired in their respective industries (Consulting for Emily, and Investment Management for Morgan) that helped them build foundations that transitioned well into asset management.
Next, the pair discusses starting their fund, and the journey that included seeking service providers, raising capital, and the many challenges and hurdles they faced along the way. Morgan mentioned that even with all the hurdles, they knew they were on to something and continued to drive forward.
Meb then asks about cannabis industry trends and what the space has in store looking forward. Emily covers some regulatory and political issues and then talks about the challenge they will face as a firm as they try to allocate capital before the industry really opens up down the road. Morgan follows with some catalysts that include legal cannabis in California, a number of countries approving medical cannabis, and expanded media coverage.
The conversation shifts to the regulatory environment. Morgan talks about the progress that has been made, although state programs are varied, which makes it difficult to see where the standout model lies. There’s also bi-partisan support, New York is looking serious at legalizing, and the environment is moving forward.
Meb follows with questions about the investment process and portfolio building, as well as a question on what areas people aren’t thinking about that have disruptive potential. Emily and Morgan talk about looking at the industry by subsector such as ag-tech and technology and being invested everywhere on the spectrum from plant cultivation to end consumer product consumption and that the portfolio construction process leans on a very diversified approach but is very flexible and dynamic. In searching for ideas, they rely on a “boots on the ground” approach to understand the industry and operator dynamics, as well as identify quality teams. Meb then asks about any areas people aren’t thinking about that have disruptive potential. Emily and Morgan respond with 100% industrial hemp as a product that has disruptive potential with almost endless applications.
Hear all this and more in episode 137, including the names of some portfolio companies and their most memorable investments.
In episode 136, we welcome Steve Romick. The conversation begins with Steve explaining that he hated losing more than he enjoyed winning, and while there wasn’t one event that led him to value investing, he considers his aversion to loss a contributor to being drawn to the value-oriented investment approach.
Meb then transitions the conversation by asking Steve to characterize the investment strategy of FPA’s Crescent Fund. Steve talks about the value investing framework as investing with a margin of safety and how it has morphed over the years from being about the balance sheet to now, through technological innovation, the corporate lifecycle has been as short of it has ever been with the most of the density of innovation happening in the past 50 years.
Next, the discussion turns to investment framework. Steve describes this team of 11, and how the job of his team is to understand the business and industry first on both a quantitative and qualitative basis. He describes the go-anywhere mandate as a potential recipe for disaster as there are more places to lose money. Steve then discusses looking at equities and debt for the portfolio. In the equity space, they’re looking at two categories, the high quality growing businesses considered “compounders,” and more traditional value investments, where there’s potential for 3 times upside to downside. Meb then asks Steve about Naspers, and Steve follow’s up with commentary about one of the biggest losers the portfolio’s ever had, but reiterates that his biggest concern is permanent loss of capital, and as the holding is still in the portfolio, he’d be surprised if they didn’t make money on it long-term.
Meb asks Steve about credit. Steve talks about high yield and distressed debt as an asset class being periodically attractive and one doesn’t need to be there all the time. He explains that the gross yield of roughly 6.5% looks interesting on the surface, but once you consider the history of defaults and recovery, the yield drops significantly to 4.4%, right above the investment grade yield, and it isn’t so attractive. Steve talks about how the fund allows the freedom to seek asset classes that offer value, and that for the first time, they now own a municipal bond. Steve then discusses the small allocation they have to farmland.
Meb follows with a question about holding cash. Steve expands by talking about going through the research process, and when there aren’t enough opportunities that meet their parameters, cash results as a byproduct.
The discussion then gets into Steve’s background at FPA, and what it was like going through the late 1990s. Steve talks about trailing the market going into the late 90s as valuations appeared unsupportable, but fast forward a few years and he and the team were validated. They allocated to high yield, small cap, and value, and made money in 2000, 2001 and 2002 when the market was down.
Meb then asks how Steve views the rest of the world. Steve responds that while it is more expensive generally here in the U.S., it is important to remember that international exposure can be had by owning U.S. stocks with revenue exposure overseas, and that like-for-like companies are trading at similar valuations outside of the U.S.
Next, Meb and Steve discuss the importance of managers investing alongside their clients. Steve feels it is important that investor’s energy should be aligned with the client’s interests and holdings.
All this and more, including Steve’s thought on the catalysts that could end the current bull market in episode 136.
In Episode 133, we welcome Todd Harrison. Meb begins the conversation asking Todd about what got him into the cannabis space. Todd discusses his intellectual curiosity of the space, and what he has learned about the history of cannabis, from the 30,000 year relationship we have had with it as humans, to the US weaponizing marijuana.
Meb then leads into the topic of governments and states changing their attitudes. Todd talks about it being a confluence of things, but gets into a personal story of how he discovered the efficacious ability of cannabis by working with Dr. Julie Holland after struggling with a decade long treatment of PTSD with a Western medicine protocol.
The conversation then turns to the marketplace. Todd relays that there is quite a bit ahead for the consumer space. In hearing what scientists have to say, it has painted a much different picture for the breadth of wellness that is going to be disrupted going forward.
Next, Meb and Todd discuss a little background on cannabinoids in general. Todd describes that there are over 200 different cannabinoid strains that exist. CBD and THC are two that have been popularized, but when you drill down, there are far more, including CBN, that aids sleep.
The conversation shifts to the broad marketplace for investors. Todd describes the four primary arbitrage opportunities he sees that present opportunity: 1) Time Vs. Policy, 2) Price vs. Institutional Flow, 3) Perception, and 4) Liquidity.
Meb follows by asking Todd about the firm’s investment approach. Todd talks about taking the long view. He mentions that the space has had two 50% drawdowns this year, and they count on disciplined position sizing and light use of puts to layer on with the long view but are using the current volatility to their advantage right now.
Meb then asks Todd about the leading countries in the global landscape right now. Todd talks about Canada being the most mature, Australia looking compelling, and sees the U.S. as having the best opportunity set.
Meb asks how Todd diversifies across industry groups and various verticals. Todd talks about there being about 500 listed stocks right now, and that there are probably 50 to 55 companies that his firm wants to invest in, and probably up to half of them at any given time. He thinks in 10 years’ time the survivors can offer a significant market cap. He and his team are focused on sticking with the companies they think are positioned to win.
Meb then asks what Todd’s favorite vertical is if he had to pick one to be invested in for 5 years. Todd mentions it would be biotech, even though it may take longer for those investments to pan out because they still have to go through the traditional biotech process.
Todd then gets into his approach for analyzing stocks. Todd discusses the importance of understanding the management teams, and “betting on jockeys as much as the horse,” as well as taking the fundamental perspective by getting a read on the company through a DCF analysis.
All this and more, including a few names in Todd’s portfolio, and some suggestions for resources investors can tap for research on the industry in Episode 133.
Episode 132 has a radio show format. In this one, we cover numerous Tweets of the Week from Meb as well as listener Q&A.
A chart from Longboard about returns. Since 1989, the worst performing 11,513 stocks – which is 80% of all stocks, collectively had a total return of 0%. The best performing 2,942 stocks (20% of all) accounted for all the gains.
A tweet about another option selling fund blow-up.
A Jason Zweig post about how many investors should question the dogma of “stocks for the long” run since history shows that a portfolio of bonds has outperformed stocks surprisingly often and for long periods.
In your book, Global Asset Allocation, you compare the results of well-known asset allocations and find that the returns are quite close. Over a long period of time, would you also expect the results of a momentum / value strategy to be similar? Is the main advantage that it allows for better behavior (lower drawdowns, etc) or would you also expect the performance to differ (net of fees)?
Would you rather own a stock with a high free cash flow yield or high dividend yield?
I was wondering if you could touch on the process of launching an ETF. What are the startup costs, how much AUM and at what fee would the ETF breakeven?
I've heard you (and others) extol the benefits of a diversified global allocation but I rarely (if ever) hear the counter argument: that the US deserves a premium to the rest of the world because it has the largest and deepest capital markets, has comparatively lower regulation and fosters innovation and creative destruction. Do those factors warrant an over-allocation to US equities?
How much should the average investor be willing to spend (as a percentage of portfolio value) in order to carry some protection in the form of puts?
What beats the 60/40 portfolio over the next 5 and 10 year periods?
As usual, there are plenty of rabbit holes. You’ll find them all in Episode 132.
In Episode 131, we welcome economist David Rosenberg.
Meb asks about the indicators he relies on. David discusses that there are 15 equally weighted indicators he’s looking at, 14 are screaming late cycle, and two stand out the most. ??? Two of the most important indicators for the US are the lack of skilled workers, with a lot of growth coming from people with no better than a high school education, and an immigration policy that has decreased the pool of labor.
This leads into a discussion about inflationary pressures. While the strong dollar has been deflationary, more and more companies are passing on costs to customers. Services, which dominates the consumer spending pie, is sensitive to labor costs, and the inflation we will see going forward will be from wages.
Meb then asks David about his thoughts on how this plays out for investors given the nature of the late cycle. David tells us that historically, the S&P has annualized an average of 17% per year in bull market conditions, however, this time around, it has done so with nearly half the typical economic growth rate to back that up. He suggests investors be defensive, focus on liquidity, have some cash on hand, and emphasize quality. For fixed income investors, be mindful of duration, and if focused on credit, be thoughtful of upcoming refinancing risks.
The conversation then turns to sentiment. David draws parallels to the dotcom bubble, with FAANGM making up 17% of the S&P 500 market cap at September highs, which is similar to the late 1990s when there was a concentration of about six stocks making up a large chunk of the S&P 500 market cap.
Next, Meb asks about David’s views on corporate bonds. David sees this in two lights. First, corporate balance sheets are the weakest they have ever been. The BBB component, which is a downgrade away from being rated “junk,” has grown from 30% of issuance to 50%. The alternative, more positive view is that companies are anticipating a lack of bond issuance coming up.
Meb then asks about the health of the Canadian economy. David explains it is meandering; the oil price has been a drag and has traded at a significant discount to WTI due to a glut of production, and lack of pipeline capacity. In addition, an overinflated housing market that is deflating, and overextended household balance sheets serve as big impediments. Provinces are tending toward a pro-business direction politically, so that could serve to be a positive going forward. As a strategist, he is seeing much of the bad news priced into financial assets as the TSX is trading down to a 13 multiple, in line with emerging markets, and a discount that has been seen only 5% of the time historically.
All this and more in Episode 131.
In Episode 130, we welcome Eric Falkenstein. The show starts with Meb and Eric discussing ice fishing in Minnesota (where Eric is currently located). But then Meb asks for Eric’s origin story. Eric tells us about being a teacher’s assistant for Hyman Minsky, wanting to be a macro economist, the turn that pushed him toward investing, and a well-timed put option that made him a boatload in the ’87 crash.
Next, the conversation turns toward Eric’s interest in low volatility. He tells us about being one of the first people to study low-vol. He was early, and the broader investing community wasn’t ready for the findings. People dismissed the suggestion that high volatility stocks (with high risk) didn’t outperform low vol stocks. Eric tells us that given all this, “low vol” wasn’t enough of a selling point – you had to layer on another factor just to get people to pay attention.
Meb asks about the main value proposition of low-vol. It is a smoother ride? Better returns? And why does this factor persist?
Eric’s answer touches on CAPM, high beta, low beta, risk, various premiums, high flying stocks, and alpha discovery. This bleeds into a conversation about factoring timing relative to valuations. Eric tells us he tried factor timing, but didn’t find it to be too helpful out of sample.
The conversation bounces around a bit, with the guys touching on Meb’s paper, “A Quantitative Approach to Asset Allocation,” bonds and how the US is flirting with the top bucket of bond yields, whether low vol translates to global markets and different asset classes, and Eric’s take on risk parity.
After that, the guys turn to crypto. Despite the current pullback, Eric believes “in the long run, it’s going to work.” He believes that crypto will eventually replace Dollars as people will want an alternative to fiat currency, something not susceptible to manipulation by politicians. He tells us that he sees a tipping point coming.
There’s plenty more in this episode – Eric’s books, pithy quotes and maxims, how people often think about the specific investment they want, but not the “plumbing” such as the bid/ask spread of that investment, the volume, and so on… And as always, Eric’s most memorable trade.
Get all the details in Episode 130.
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2019-04-23T02:15:20Z
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Feast your way through the day with some of the best local vegan friendly food producers in Ireland and the UK. Our Vegan Food Hall runs all day from 10 am til 6 pm and has something for everybody. Whether you're vegan, veggie, curious about a plant based diet or just a regular foodie, we have got you covered with tarts, tortes, cupcakes, pies, burgers, sausages, cheeses, chocolate bars, fermented foods, fudges, BBQ and street food classics, healthy whole foods, meats, fusion cuisine, super foods, raw, gluten free, energy bars, cuisines from Asia, The Middle East, Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa! Oh, did we say chocolate? Check back later to see who is going to be there.
Are you curious about adopting a vegan diet, a vegan lifestyle?
Going vegan is something we can do to improve personal health, stop animal suffering and Climate Change. Making a positive difference. With vegan alternatives to every animal based foods, vegan clothes, cosmetics and household products we have the power to choose a kinder, more ethical lifestyle. Make sure to get along to our events; Cork Vegfest and Dublin Vegfest where you can meet many vegans, ask questions, get advice from experts in nutrition and vegan education, get inspired and of course enjoy a huge variety of vegan foods and products.
For more on veganism including helpful resources on being vegan in Ireland, shopping and a starter kit go to Vegan.ie.
Terms & Conditions for Cork Vegfest are subject to change. Please check them regularly to take notice of any changes.
Bookings will be confirmed on receipt of the submitted online booking form. All online bookings are binding and must be paid for in full by 15th March 2019. On receipt of the full fee, your participation at Cork Vegfest 2019 will be confirmed and your details entered on the website. All bookings are non-refundable. Cancellation charge is full balance due to the nature of this event. Subletting exhibiting space in part or in its entirety is not permitted.
Provide adequate hygiene facilities on your stall.
You are asked to provide copies of your FSA registration and P.A.T. certs by 31st March 2019.
Stallholders are responsible for any accidents or injuries to the public caused by their products or their use of the space allocated to them, and must arrange their own Public Liability, Product Liability and Employers Liability Insurance cover. You are asked to provide a copy of your insurance by 31st March 2019.
These must be in sturdy containers fitted with lids to avoid risk of spillage.
Exhibitors are required to keep food at adequate temperature. Food requiring refrigeration must be kept at 5°. Food that is being kept hot after cooking or reheating must be maintained at a temperature of 63o C or above.
Exhibitors are responsible for setup and breakdown of their exhibits. There will be limited number of volunteers for navigating you at the main exhibiting space. Set up happens on Friday 26th April (14:00 - 20:00).
The event on Saturday 27th April runs from 11:00 - 18:00.
Exhibit tables must be fully staffed and must remain fully staffed and prepared to interact with attendees from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm. Equipment load out begins at 6 pm. No early breakdown will be permitted. All materials must be removed from the grounds by 8 pm sharp.
Your stall will be positioned in such a manner as to not obstruct the safe movement of persons throughout the day. You are asked to ensure that throughout the day circulation routes are kept clear and no additional obstructions are created. Signage should be legible, easily visible and identifying of the organization or business.
Please be mindful when speaking with attendees that Cork Vegfest aims to be 100% vegan friendly event and do not make non-vegan culinary/dietary/lifestyle/product recommendations.
Access to the exhibition area will only be allowed with the appropriate tickets. A total of 2 tickets will be given to you before the event. These allow access to the venue during setup and breakdown periods, and also allow admittance and re-admittance to the show should you wish to leave the venue temporarily and re-enter at a later time.
There is limited electricity available in the venue. It is by pre-arrangement only. You must bring your own extension leads. Any electrical equipment used must be PAT tested, CE rated, and suitable for use on a standard 13 Amp circuit (standard domestic circuit). Any cables must be positioned in a manner to avoid creating a trip hazard.
Exhibitor will not interfere with the safety, success and effectiveness of Cork Vegfest. This includes but is not limited to behaviour, display materials, literature, equipment, or operations, unusual odors, noise level or extending beyond exhibitor’s space and/or blockage of public passageways.
If applicable all exhibitors/caterers are required to bring their own portable sinks for hand and equipment washing.
Stallholders must, where necessary, provide a sufficient number of suitable containers for waste until it can be removed from the stall. It is mandatory for all food vendors to use compostable packaging only. We also encourage vendors to offer a discount to individuals bringing their own food containers. Other food vendors should try to use compostable or reusable packaging. Leaflets should be paper/compostable and vendors should encourage people to take pictures of their flyers to reduce these single use items. All vendors are responsible for their own rubbish if any.
There is a first aid post onsite (see floor plan). In the case of any accidents or emergencies requiring urgent treatment, please visit the first aid point.
In the event of a fire (which will be indicated by the fire alarm bell) or other emergency, you must immediately leave the venue and follow the instructions of the venue Fire Warden. Make your way to the advised assembly point to be included in the role call.
There is a no smoking policy on the premises of Cork City Hall.
Exhibitors, visitors and speakers at Cork Vegfest may appear in promotional photos for the event without prior consultation.
All exhibitors are encouraged to promote Cork Vegfest through their websites, newsletters or other media channels.
2,000+ attendees are anticipated over the course of day. Please plan accordingly.
Samples and sales/special offers are welcome as listed and approved by Cork Vegfest in Exhibitor’s Terms & Conditions.
Cork Vegfest happens on Saturday 27th April in Cork City Hall (entrance from Terence McSwiney Quay)..
Cork Vegfest will start at 11 am and doors close at 6:00 pm.
Where can I park my car or bike?
Cyclists will find several bike racks on the sides of Cork City Hall. To park your car, you can use ample street parking available in Cork City.
Programme will be published 2 weeks before the event. Please check our What’s On section to learn more.
Do I have to be vegan to attend?
No, you don’t have to be vegan to attend. Everyone is welcome.
How do I get there? By car, bus?
Cork City Hall is conveniently located in City Centre. It is serviced by a number of public transport routes including buses 202, 203, 206, 207, 215, 216, 220, 223, 226. Please check bus routes and timetables here.
Tickets will be available soon. Please check back in a few weeks.
Afraid not. The venue and the nature of the event (masses of people, heat, etc.) are going to put your animal companion under too much stress.
Kids are welcome at Cork Vegfest. Parents/guardians are solely responsible for their children. All kids must be supervised at all times. Maximum of two children permitted per ticket.
Is there an ATM near by?
Come prepared with cash. Check out the map below for the closest ATM.
Yes, absolutely. All food will be 100% vegan. You will most likely find other dietary options (ie gluten free, raw, etc.) Enjoy!
Bringing a water bottle is fine; otherwise, food, beverages and more are for sale inside. No glass bottles are permitted on the festival grounds.
Are there baby changing facilities in the venue?
Yes, there are baby changing facilities in ladies toilet in the Concert Hall and a baby-changing room in the Millennium Hall.
Yes, Cork City Hall is wheelchair accessible.
Is Cork Vegfest zero waste?
Cork Vegfest aims to be as zero waste as possible.
We will do our part, our vendors will be doing their part, and we need you to do your part to ensure that we all succeed.
We encourage all stallholders to use compostable, biodegradable packaging.
You are encouraged to bring your own food container, spoon, fork, cloth napkin, reusable shopping bag as well as your own water bottle and refill it at the event.
Laura has been an animal rights activist for over 16 years, working with many groups both in Ireland and internationally. She formed the National Animal Rights Association (NARA) in 2007, which is a vegan, voluntary, pro-intersectional, non-hierarchical group based in Dublin that organizes protests twice a week, every week, on various issues.
73 Cows with Jay and Katja Wilde at Cork Vegfest 2019. Delighted to announce our screening of the BAFTA winning short '73 Cows' and conversation with Jay and Katja Wilde.
73 Cows tells the story of Jay Wilde, the first farmer in the UK to trade beef farming for sustainable organic vegan farming, giving up his entire herd of cows in the process.
Dr. Ailis Brosnan is a vegan wellness expert who has over 25 years experience helping people create healthier lifestyles so they feel healthy, energised and engage more fully in life.
Ailis is a vegan for over 20 years and a passionate advocate of plant based nutrient dense diets. She has a first class honours degree in ‘Exercise Science’ from DeMontfort University in the UK and a Master’s degree in ‘Health Promotion and Wellness Management’ which included nutrition. Her third degree is a Professional Doctorate degree in Health Sciences (Psychology). Ailis has many other certifications including Lifestyle and Weight Management, Plant-based Nutrition, Living Foods Instructor along with certifications in a range of holistic therapies.
In her spare time she loves being active outdoors and setting challenges for herself. In 2017 she completed an Ironman Triathlon (3.8km swim, 180km bike and a marathon).
Ailis will be speaking about raising vegan kids, healthy plant based tips on feeding a vegan family. Special (little) guests as a bonus.
Listen to Carmel’s experience of Feeding Vegans in Cork in a Panel discussion on Saturday 27th April 2019.
Christina Leopold, budding recipe developer and food blogger became vegan over 3 years ago after watching documentaries about the lifestyle. Having to start back at the drawing board in terms of what foods to eat led her to begin developing her own recipes using plant based whole foods. Using just a few staple ingredients such as dates, (hence the name, addictedtodates!) she began experimenting with delicious dessert recipes. She would then share her creations with friends, family and colleagues who encouraged her to start her own website.
Dr Sean Owens is a doctor and pharmacist with an interest in nutrition, metabolic health and lifestyle medicine. In 2010 Sean elected to study graduate entry medicine in UCD Dublin, 2010-2014, and in 2012 he was selected to investigate Triple Negative Breast Cancer at Emory University, Atlanta Georgia. Sean works in inner city Dublin with outreach and homeless services.
Sean is representing a team of concerned Irish health care professionals who wish to promote the benefits of a whole food plant based diet via education. His talk “Plant Based Medicine In Ireland: Challenges And Opportunities” will assess the current state of Irish health, how a whole-food plant based diet is an underutilized solution and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Fiona Oakes has made a name for herself as an endurance runner apart from the rest. She is the fastest woman in the world to run a marathon on all seven continents and the North Pole in both cumulative and elapsed time. She has competed internationally in more than 50 marathons and set 4 marathon course records around the globe, including The Antarctic Ice Marathon. In 2015 Fiona ran 6 marathons in 6 days on 6 continents.
Fiona’s achievements are made even more astounding due to the fact she was told at age 14 that she would never walk properly, let alone ever run, after undergoing radical knee surgery to remove a massive tumor and her entire right kneecap. Fiona operates almost single handedly, an animal sanctuary, caring for nearly 400 formerly abused and neglected animals, all while training more than 100 miles a week in running.
Fiona won the Vegan Society’s (UK) Vegan Achievement in its Diamond Jubilee year, IFAW Animal Advocacy Award in 2012, was voted VegFest best Vegan Athlete in 2012 and best Vegan Celebrity in 2014 and best vegan Athlete again in 2018. She has also given many radio and television interviews being featured on the BBC news. Fiona is the subject of a new feature documentary Running For Good by Keegan Kuhn, the maker of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret. She’s also featured as an elite athlete in The Gamechangers – a new documentary about outstanding vegan athletes.
Heather Gordon is a Vegan ultra runner. Last year Heather competed in the 4 Deserts Atacama (Chile) Crossing 2017. That was a 250km self-supported desert race. Runners must carry all their own equipment and food and are only provided with drinking water and a place in a tent each night to rest! Heather Finished 2nd in the U30 age category. Heather also finished Ultra Africa; a 220km self-supported endurance race in Mozambique last year.
Meet Heather at our Vegan Athletes & Health Panel.
Holly White has been working as a broadcaster and journalist for over a decade on TV3 and UTV both behind, and in front of the camera, as a presenter, stylist and contributor. She is a full-time blogger. Her website Holly.ie and popular Instagram account centre around sustainable fashion, beauty and vegan living. Holly has trained as a Vegan Chef at the Wild Food Cafe in London. She also has a certificate in Plant based Nutrition from Cornell University. Holly can often be seen on The 6 O Clock Show on Virgin media One showing TV audiences how to make delicious vegan dishes.
In The End of Meat filmmaker Marc Pierschel dares to look into a future without meat and its impact on the environment, animals and ourselves. He meets Esther, a domestic pig, who turned the lives of two Canadians completely upside down Pioneers of the vegan movement in Germany, visits the first vegetarian city in India, encounters rescued "livestock" in freedom, meets scientists who are researching animal-free meat that will revolutionize the 600 billion global meat market and much more.
In 2013, Marc made Live and Let Live was followed a documentary about the human-animal relationship and the history of the vegan movement. In 2016 the movie appeared on Netflix. In the summer of 2015, Marc Pierschel accompanied the Berlin activist group 'Hard To Port' on a two-week campaign against commercial whaling in Iceland. The resulting documentary 184 gives an insight into the work of activists using camera-drone drones to document the brutal whale hunting off the coasts of Iceland.
In his new film The End of Meat Pierschel continues the ideas and reflections from Live and Let Live and asks for the design of a meatless world.
Michael Donohoe is a professional Acrobatic Fitness Coach from Dublin. He co-own’s Fierce Fitness with Terri Walsh, in Maynooth Co.Kildare. Michael has a number of local and international winning titles in Pole Sports\Dance and Fitness. Michael represented Ireland at the World Championships in China and Romania over the last 3 years. He spends most of his time teaching Circus Arts including Hand balance, Trapeze, Corde Lisse and Pole Acrobatics around the world and at his studio. Michael has worked within the fitness industry for 13 years and has a lot of knowledge and experience of fitness programmes and nutrition. Michael has been Vegan for 4 years and finds it brings health benefits to him in his field as an acrobat. “Veganism is a lifestyle for me and has really become a central part of my life. It really is not as difficult as it is made out to be. Anyone can do it”.
Meet Michael at our Vegan Athletes & Health Panel.
The Firefighting Chef is a regular on the Ireland AM TV show. Paul hopes to create a greater awareness of healthier lifestyle choices by showing people how to change to more ethical, plant based food solutions.
Virginia O'Gara is founder and co-owner of My Goodness. Her vegan culinary history began 20 years ago in Dallas, U.S with Food Not Bombs, an organization that uses 'waste' food as a tool for social change. Virginia has a particular interest in using fermentation as a method of promoting health, utilizing local goods, and decreasing food waste through sustainable preservation. My Goodness creates a wide range of delicious raw living food products that are vegan, gluten and refined sugar free. These include probiotic rich Water Kefir made from fermented rainwater, Sauerkrauts, Sprouts, Raw Cakes, Salads, Fermented Salsas, Paté, Vinegars, and Vinaigrette.
Virginia will be part of the popular panel Feeding Vegans.
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2019-04-18T20:43:25Z
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Have you ever noticed the differences in Bible Versions? Perhaps you are following along with the sermon in your own Bible, and what the pastor is reading isn't what you see in your own Bible. Or perhaps you are in a Bible Study, and someone else reads a portion of Scripture that seems markedly different than what you see in your version. If you are reading a modern version, such as the New International Version, you may even find that your Bible seems to be missing some verses that others are referring to! What is going on here?
The first issue we have to deal with concerning Bible Versions is that of the manuscripts. The English Bibles we use have been (for the most part) translated from Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. These manuscripts are copies of the originals, and in most cases, represent copies of copies of copies, etc. As far as we know, there are no original texts in existence today.
There have been many copies of the Scriptures made throughout the years. The "papers" that the Word was written upon wore out from constant use and diligent study, plus there was a need for multiple copies so that each church could read from their own. This need grew as the number of churches grew.
2 Cor 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2Pe 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Many manuscript copies were developed and several Bibles translations emerged during the first thousand and a half years since the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. By the time of Erasmus, a need to make a solid rendition of the Greek Scriptures was needed, as there were by this time many corruptions in existence. Using the best texts he had available, Erasmus produced a version that eventually developed into what is called today the "Textus Receptus", or "Received Text".
Two things we should note at this point. There was no one, single manuscript by this time that was universally accepted as "the exact copy of the original". In fact, there were variations between the texts that Erasmus used in developing his version. However, these variations, for the most part, were minor.
The second thing of note is that as evidenced in the New Testament, even copies of the original can be regarded as Scripture. For example, in John 5:39, Jesus says "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." In Acts 17:2 we read, "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures..." Now, the Scriptures they were reading from were certainly not the originals, as they had long ago been worn out. Rather, they were careful copies that had been preserved through the centuries. Yet, both Jesus and Paul have no problem referring to these copies as the Scriptures.
Psalm 12:6-7: The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Pr 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Mt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Lu 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
1Pe 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Yet, the evidence we have today shows that there are variants between the many manuscripts we have, even between various representatives of the Textus Receptus. I can't fully understand how God preserves His Word through multitudes of imperfect texts. However, I can think of two reasons He may have taken this approach: 1) God wants us to diligently study the Scriptures. The "students" through the years have had to take seriously the importance of maintaining accurate copies and of determining His Word. God's Church has a responsibility to advance His Gospel throughout the world. 2) a single "official" copy would likely have been worshiped as an object itself.
Those who hold to the Textus Receptus (TR) view feel that this "strain" of manuscripts existed since the time of the Apostles, and that God preserved that text (through groups like the Waldesians and others) from corruptions of His Church, with the result that in the late 1500's to early 1600's the accurate text was still to be found. It is this text strain that the Geneva Bible, that was so important to the Puritans, and the King James Bible that we still use today, were based upon. Those with the TR view typically feel that the King James Bible is the best English Translation.
There are some today with a view known as King James Only, who believe that God so inspired the translation of the King James Bible that it even corrects the faults in the various manuscripts that were available at the time of translation. They feel, that by the time of the 1769 edition of the King James Bible (there were admitted errors and language changes made since the 1611 original), that the true preserved Word of God was reflected.
However, since the time of the Textus Receptus, many additional manuscripts have been discovered. Today we have over 5,350, consisting of (approximately) 115 Papyrus, 257 Uncials, 2795 Miniscules, and 2,200 Greek Lexionaries. [from Philip Comfort's Essential Guide to Bible Versions]. For the most part, the majority of these texts agree with the TR, though there are some differences. This has led to another view known as the Majority Text (MT) view. This view takes the stance that by expanding the sampling size, we can ensure a more accurate translation. That is, instead of relying on (for example) 100 manuscripts to determine the correct reading of a passage, if we use 1000 manuscripts our odds are much improved. If one person could take the over 5,000 copies of the manuscripts all in one place, and perhaps with the help of a computer, a new "Majority Text" reading could be developed that would take full advantage of the many additional manuscripts found since the 1600's. Typically those with the Majority Text view feel that the KJV is a very good Bible, though not without its flaws. It must be noted that since no one person owns all 5,000+ manuscripts and they are very valuable and there are conflicting doctrinal views between the various holders of these manuscripts, that getting them all in one place is not very likely.
The NIV and almost every other modern Bible version take an "eclectic" view to the Bible text. They use not just the Alexandrian texts or not just the Textus Receptus, but try to "consider them all". They have developed a variety of rules to help them determine which passage readings are likely the original. For example, one of the rules as mentioned above is that in most cases "shorter is better". Since the Alexandrian texts most often use shorter readings, these texts are given a higher weighting than the others. This is also why, in the NIV, you find so many footnotes referring to "the best and oldest manuscripts". I should also note that later versions of the NIV have "softened" this footnote language over earlier revisions.
1. Textus Receptus: The TR is an accurate rendition of the Scriptures and can be regarded as such. God preserved His Word and ensured the men of this time period had in their possession the best examples of manuscripts available. Even though other manuscripts have since been discovered, they are not to be considered any more accurate.
2. Majority Text: Since most of the additional manuscripts that have been discovered agree with the strain of the TR, they should be added into the equation to develop a more accurate text. Spurious texts, like the Alexandrian, that differ greatly from this strain should be rejected. They point out that even the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus texts disagree with each other in over 3,000 places.
3. King James Only: God's hand was upon the translators of the King James Bible in such a way that it corrects the mistakes in the variant readings of the TR. The King James Bible is certainly the "Authorized Version" and is God's preserved Word in English.
4. Eclectic View: The discoveries by Tischendorf, Westcott, and Hort provide tremendous new insight into the original Scriptures, revealing that many additions and editorial license has been taken since the time of the originals. The use of Textual Criticism can help us get closer to the originals than ever before.
1. The Alexandrian texts, although older, are a definite minority of the available witnesses, yet a high weighting is given to these texts by modern critics.
2. Almost every "modern Bible" version places a high value on these minority texts. The ESV, NASB, and even the NKJV have considerable influence from these texts. The NIV, as noted, places considerable weight on the Alexandrian texts.
3. The arise of the use of the minority texts came at the same time period that Darwin's false theories of evolution began to become accepted. As I look at the history of the Church, it seems that the mid to late 1800's were a dismal time for the Truth. This start in the 1800's led to many Bible revisions in the 1900's. Bruce Metzger stated during his development of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible that he was proud to have had a hand in the development of the first Bible that was acceptable to both the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church. He stated in his book "The Bible in Translation", "The story of the making of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible with the expanded Apocrypha is an account of the triumph of ecumenical concern over more limited sectarian interests. Now for the first time since the Reformation, one edition of the Bible has received the blessing of leaders of Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches alike." This plea for ecumenicism is yet more proof that modern Bible versions represent a watering down of the Word, not a magnifying of it. In fact, the NIV has been noted to be more like the Jehovah Witness' New World Translation than it is to the KJV.
4. The Scriptures state that two or three witnesses are needed as the basis for truth (for example, 2Co 13:1"This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." The Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, while representative of the "Alexandrian" texts, differ from each other in well over 3,000 places, many of them very significant. Why are they accepted as reliable witnesses?
5. What do the use of these minority texts state about the future of the Scriptures? What happens if we find tomorrow yet another, older manuscript? Do we know that it won't remove even more of what we think is the Bible? What if it adds new Scriptures? How, then, can we have any confidence that what we have is truly indicative of God's Word?
6. I find it interesting that (as seen in the quiz elsewhere on this website) the NIV removes the last part of "man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God," as well as changing Psalm 12:6/7 to make the preservation refer to the people rather than to His Pure Word.
While I am not so clear yet on my specific stance on approaches 1-3, I can in no way endorse the use of the Alexandrian texts. Satan wants to thwart God's Word at every opportunity. For the most part, he has succeeded in simply stopping man from reading the Word. How many of us really read God's Word daily, and of those that do, how many really study it from cover to cover to discover its deeper truths?
However, for those that do read the word, the enemy has found another approach. He has attempted to completely destroy the Scriptures in the past, but all of these efforts have failed. Instead, he has now succeeded in watering down the Word for those who read the modern translations, and even for those Bibles developed in other languages based on the corrupted texts. When a reader of a modern Bible begins to study the footnotes, Satan has now introduced lots of doubts into the readers minds by statements such as "the best texts don't include this verse" and so forth. I have heard many brothers and sisters in Christ begin to remark that we can't really know what the Scriptures say anymore.
There are some who simply bundle all of the Evangelical Bibles together and make the blanket statement that they all agree over 90%, and thus we have a reliable witness to the Word. However, when I look at the omissions like the ones in the above quiz, I cannot accept that. For example, in Galatians 3:16, the appeal is made that the Old Testament makes reference to "Abraham and his seed" for the promises, not "to seeds, as of many"; asserting that the seed referred to is Christ. Thus we see that even one word can be very important.
So, I make a plea to the reader. If this paper isn't enough to convince you (and likely it isn't), then please investigate this matter further by examining the many resources listed. I urge you to switch to a Bible text that better represents Christ's true words.
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2019-04-19T15:26:51Z
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http://magicref.tripod.com/christian/bibleversion01-manuscripts.htm
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I started writing this article a few years ago and never could gather enough spirit to finish it. Finally, a compromise was found: I decided to publish the first "theoretical" part, and then, as soon as ready, the second "practical" part. In the second part will be demonstrated on multiple examples the majority of the cases described in the first part, reviewed styli of different manufacturers, and given tips for reshaping styli to certain sizes at home.
Reproduction of shellac records, especially from the early period is a challenging technical task. Here, the most important role plays needles’ size and shape. Among collectors there is an opinion that a good needle may be used as one-serves-all. Unfortunately, it is far from the truth, especially when applied to the early (acoustic) period because that time there weren’t standardized major parameters of the groove such as depth, width, angle and radius at the bottom.
Besides, one has to take into account that many records survived in worn condition. There might be scratches; the groove bottom might be covered with dirt and derbies of shellac and steel needles. It’s not a rare case of some manufacturing defects, such as insufficient plunging of the stumper or printing by worn stumpers.
In this work the Author tried to illustrate the Influence of size and shape of the stylus on reproduction quality on multiple typical examples.
On the pic.1 shown cross-sectional view of a typical record groove and needle tip.
1 E.I.Reriger. Phonograph Record, Moscow-Leninghrad: State Scientific and technical publishing of chemical literature, 1940. In the absence of an all-Union standard for the dimensions of the groove, the book lists the dimensions accepted by the plants that are part of the Glavshirepotreb system (GSP), p. 128. The size of gramophone needles included the all-Union standard OST NCM 4213, introduced by Glavshirepotreb and approved on November 21, 1937, p.732.
3 Sizes of the styli on the illustrations are given in mills that is 0.001 inch. This measurement system is used by the needles manufacturers, so it is the most convenient one for the current overview. In order to convert into micrometers (µ) one has to multiply by 25.4.
"It's hard to say," Regirer writes, "which dimensions are optimal, since there are not enough comparative studies published. It can only be noted that a more sharp opening angle and smaller groove radius at the bottom are often considered preferable for high-quality reproduction."
And another quote from the same source: "groove profile, i.e. the shape of its cross-section, unfortunately, is not standardized on international scale and has many different dimensional options. Being different by different companies, the profile is not always consistent even within the same company."
On Pic. 2 shown the cross-sectional view of a worn phonograph record. The needle has two points of support ① on the groove walls by which it slides without touching the bottom. At these points occurs the most of the groove wear.
1. For noise reduction they make the surface of the records glossy, sometimes even laminated. The worn surface is not glossy anymore hence more noisy.
2. The worn groove gets wider ① that also causes increased noise level.
3. Shallow scratches ③ with their bottoms above the points of support will not be noticed by the needle during playback and will not cause clicks.
4. In order to decrease the adverse effects of the above factors, one can vary the size of the needle, so it will follow either above or below the worn area.
5. Because of wearing the tip of the needle will get lower hence decreasing the clearance d (Pic.1). This will increase the possibility that tip will touch the debris on the bottom of the groove during playback. In order to decrease this factor it is recommended thoroughly wash and dry all records and also use truncated needles. (See “Truncated needles” chapter).
6. Deep scratches ④ with their bottoms below the points of support will case laud clicks. The wider scratch and the smaller size of the needle the stronger clicks.
2. There is a chance that the needle won’t follow the groove below the warn area but sometimes it will be popped out of the groove into it and wander from wall to wall (Pic. 4) causing a lot of noise. For elimination of this effect one can try to increase the tracking force, fine tune the anti-skating and eliminate the record eccentricity if such exists but remember that the excess of the tracking force will increase wearing of the record and may cause touching of the bottom of the cartridge to the surface of the record.
For decreasing probability of touching the debris on the groove bottom by the tip of the needle they produce “truncated” needles that became very popular these days (Pic. 5).
3. Since the radius of the needle tip is very small it will be heavily scratching over the roughness of the groove surface while a needle of bigger size would be smoothly sliding over them.
2. Increased the tendency of skipping, so increasing of the tracking force, fine tune of anti-skating and get rid of the record eccentricity.
Playback by a needle of a size larger than Rmax (see Tab. 1) shown on Pic. 8. In this case, the needle slides over the upper edge of the groove. Obviously, such playback leads to a deterioration in the quality of playback due to the fact that the needle will not follow accurately all bends of the groove (poor tracking). Probably the most affected will be the high frequencies, however, the nonlinear distortions will increase sharply for low frequencies too. The tendency of skipping will also increase.
The main records pressing defects are insufficient printing, pressing by worn stumpers, poor quality of the shellac mass, records warbling and eccentricity.
Insufficient printing (Pic. 9) is when shellac mass ② incompletely fills all the hollows of the stumper ① resulting in appearance of air sinuses ③. Insufficient printing can be caused by too sick and ropy mass (because of foul composition), insufficient heat temperature, insufficient time under press and other fouls of the technological process. For instance, the technological process of RCA Victor requires heating the mass to 310F, pressure 1800 lb per sq. inch, and the pressing time of several seconds (the total time is about 48 seconds per record). Violating any of these parameters will case the insufficient printing.
As you can see from Pic. 10,, the insufficient printing resulting in wider groove with less sloppy edges, so the needle will be positioned close to the groove bottom, and also it will have the tendency of skipping forward or backward. The little sloppiness of the edges will cause distortions because of lateral sliding of the needle over the surface of the groove that will be more prominent on laud places. Unevenness of the “air sinuses” will cause additional distortions of the sound. The positive results could be achieved by usage of narrow needle, increased tracking force and tuning the antiskating.
On Pic. 11 shown one more theoretical kind of insufficient printing when the stumper insufficiently plunged into the mass, but I do not know whether it is ever happens in reality.
Skipping may occur during playback (Pic. 12), a small needle may help to prevent it.
There are two kinds of styli: conical (spherical) (Pic. 16) and elliptical (Pic. 17).
E – Elliptical or bi-radial. The stylus tip has shape of ellipsoid that characterized by two radiuses: the big one (lateral) and the small one. The most important in lateral radius, so the small one is often omitted.
Pic. 18 demonstrates the major drawback of spherical styli: the mismatch of touching points. Because of its large size, the touching points on the outer and inner surface of the groove have a large distance (d”) along the movement of the needle. It means that for example instead of the recorded sinusoid the needle will reproduce combination of two sinusoids shifted on d” that will cause non-linear distortions. How noticeable they are? The calculations show that for 3mil needle moving on the most outer groove, for 7 kHz signal “top” of the one side will correspond to the “bottom” of another side, so they will mutually compensate each other. For other frequencies there will be modulations. The elliptical styli are pretty much free from this problem due to small distance (d’).
Another drawback of spherical styli is “pinch effect”. It can be well understood from the follwong illustration: when stylus is passing the windy track, due to it large size it cannot squeeze itself between two sides and has to move up. This movement can cause distortions.
Along with drawbacks, the spherical styli enjoys one advantage: when playing very warn records it smoothing roughness of the groove surfaces by sliding over them while elliptical styli will nudge them (Pic. 20).
Юрий - спасибо огромное! Ваш труд бесценен!
Юрий, спасибо, замечательно! Никто и никогда ещё не писал об этом с такой основательностью. Ждем продолжения.
Спасибо большое за статью! Очень интересно и полезно!
Известно, что износ бывает разный в разных местах одной и той же пластинки.
В начале и в конце, на громких и тихих местах.
Надо оцифровывать несколько раз разными иглами и составлять конечный продукт из фрагментов.
Очень наглядно и понятно, а главное - полезно! Мне был бы интересен анализ существующей ситуации с доступными иглами, начиная с ранних отечественных и до современных. Есть ли на Ваш взгляд оптимальный (пусть и усреднённый) вариант из продающихся сейчас игл для каждого периода производства пластинок?
Совершенно правильно! Я несколько раз так и делал в особо трудных случаях, правда никакой науки там не было - просто подбирал фрагменты с наилучшим звучанием.
По поводу неравномерности износа - как известно, многие пластинки, особенно дореволюционные, имеют сильный износ в самом начале диска, и как результат ужасное звучание, но через несколько секунд звучание становится вполне приличным. Традиционное объяснение очень простое - игла притирается первые несколько секунд. Но что же там "притирается"? Ответ становится очевиден, если заглянуть в Таблицу 1. Например, для СССР стандарт на радиус закругления канавки составлял 50 микрон, в то время как стандрат на радиус закругления стальной иголки допускал диапазон от 30 до 60 микрон, т.е. вполне допускались случаи, когда радиус закругления иголки был бы меньше, чем радиус закругления канавки! На практике это означает, что иголка радиусом 30 будет "перепахивать" дно канавки до тех пор, пока она не сточится до 50 микрон. Во время "перепахивания" её будет болтать от стенки к стенке, а значит не только дно, но и стенки могут быть разрушены. Поскольку дореволюционные пластинки могли иметь значетельно больший радиус закругления канавки, чем 50 и даже 60 микрон, то становится очевидным, что проигрывание таких пластинок стальными иголками может иметь разрушительный эффект.
В тихих местах износ канавки практически отстутствует, в то время как в громких местах он максимален.
Увы, на чертеже не указана острота заточки его кромок. В горизонтальном сечении получается равнобедренный треугольник, и интересен радиус сглаживания углов при основании. Можно ли утверждать, что он пренебрежимо мал по сравнению с малой осью любой эллиптической иголки?
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Friends, family, business associates and community partners gathered to ring in the new year in style at the RMIPA annual holiday party held Saturday, January 4 at Lanai in downtown Majuro.
Food, music, dancing, games and raffle prize giveaways followed as everyone relaxed and enjoyed the evening. A big kommol tata and Happy New Year to everyone who attended. We are excited to begin a pleasant and prosperous 2014 on a high note and look forward to seeing everyone again soon.
January 7, 2014 - Jon Pasierb.
On January 2, 2014, RMIPA Board Member Gary “Kakki” Elaisha passed away on Ebeye from an apparent heart attack.
Kakki had been a very active member of the RMIPA board for the past two years and was firmly committed to improving the agency’s operations and services for the people of Majuro and Kwajalein. He was a joy to work with and his good humor and helpful nature will be dearly missed by everyone who knew and worked with him.
The RMIPA Board, management and staff offer our deepest condolences and prayers for Gary’s family during this very difficult time.
January 2, 2014 - Jon Pasierb.
A new dive survey was recently conducted at the dredge site to get a better idea of the conditions and produce recommendations for optimal coral regrowth. The current approximate rehabilitation area to date is 7,139 square meters — much smaller than original projections — and the whole rehabilitation area is suitable for coral regrowth and would easily support artificial reef structures and large rock boulder piles, which are the proposed methods to be used for the re-propagation. As part of the efforts to mitigate any potential long-term risks to the environment, RMIPA continues to work closely with the RMI EPA on the coral reef rehabilitation project that has been underway since last year, to replant existing corals that are being affected by the dredging.
The replanting project has been underway since the beginning of the year, as new corals have been growing in cages in the lagoon at a previous dredge site alongside the road near the airport fire station. After the dredging work is completed for the RSA project, this coral will be relocated back to that site and used to repopulate the area, leaving the coral there strong and healthy. According to EPA’s coral expert, contracted to spearhead the current regrowth efforts, the new coral in the lagoon are growing even better than expected and should experience similar success at the RSA dredge site, once transplanted back again.
These photos taken December 2013 show the progress of the coral replanting near the airport fire station.
Coral fragmenting and attachment of coral plugs will begin soon as part of the next phase of the project, which will be in preparation for replanting onto boulders and marine-friendly concrete structures that are to be placed in the RSA dredging area. The concrete structures are designed artificial reefs used to restore coral reefs and to create new fishing and scuba diving sites.
The coral pieces growing onto the plugs at the farm site will be attached onto the structures at the dredging location when the dredging work is finished. Thereafter, the attached coral will be monitored regularly by local divers to ensure the corals are growing properly.
It was previously proposed that proprietary “reef ball” structures be used for the planting at the RSA dredge site, but it has been determined that this strategy would be inadequate and cost prohibitive. Instead the construction contractor pro- posed a new solution which would not only be just as effective as the reef balls but would utilize local Marshallese manpower and resources, benefiting the project and the local economy.
Instead of the reef balls, a concrete “reef planter” derived from flower planter molds, will be used. These planters are bell shaped, concrete/alkali cement, pitted structures, weighing about 400 pounds each. They can be stacked to raise the height. The planters would be the same structure and material as the previously proposed reef balls, just lighter weight and a slightly different shape. They will be more economical and versatile than the reef balls. They are much lighter than the originally proposed reef balls, but the height and weight should not be an issue, as the structures can be stacked to be elevated above the silt and at 400 pounds, are more than heavy enough to be used in the depth of the dredge site, which is about 30 feet at its deepest.
Reef Planters at the RSA Dredge Site waiting to be placed under water.
RMI EPA has no objections to using the concrete reef planter structures in place of the reef balls and has expressed support for the use of local solutions and the cost-effective benefits they provide. As it has with every aspect of the coral replanting project, RMI EPA will work closely with the construction and dive teams to test the system. EPA has publicly expressed its desire to maintain the highest protection standards and has backed the alternative planter system, citing the potential future benefits these planters could have for other projects in the RMI.
December 17, 2013 - Jon Pasierb.
Who doesn’t like a win-win situation? Majuro residents and visitors can rest assured that ongoing projects to improve the public safety and operations in and around Amata Kabua International Airport (AKIA) need not have negative effects on the local fish and wildlife. At a meeting held May 9 at the RMI Ports Authority (RMIPA) office, representatives from the RMI Environmental Protection Authority (RMI EPA) and their private consultants met with RMIPA to discuss the current Runway Safety Area Improvement project, which will upgrade standards at the airport to provide safer conditions for travelers.
A meeting was held May 9, 2013 at RMIPA headquarters to discuss the status of the Runway Safety Area Improvement and Road Realignment Project.
As part of this project, the roadway adjacent to the airport will be realigned, which is requiring dredging in some areas of the lagoon along the roadside. The EPA has been involved with this work every step of the way to ensure that the work being done in the lagoon conforms to an Environmental Management Plan that includes strict guidelines regarding the impact that construction work may have on environmental conditions. RMIPA Director Jack Chong-Gum said at the meeting that the dredging currently being performed adhered to this plan. “It is very important to us that we make sure all construction work associated with this project is following the environmental management plan approved by the EPA,” he said. As part of these efforts to mitigate any potential long-term risks to the environment, RMIPA is working closely with the EPA on a coral reef rehabilitation project, which has been underway since last year, to replant and propagate existing corals that are being affected by the dredging.
Various coral types grow at the coral farm in the lagoon near the AKIA fire station.
The planting project is already in full swing, as new corals have been growing in cages since January and are currently flourishing in the lagoon at a new site alongside the road near the airport fire station. After the dredging work is completed, this new coral will be relocated back to the original site and used to repopulate the area, leaving the coral at the current dredge site as strong and healthy as ever. Currently, the dredging work is approximately 60 percent complete and the dredged site will be significantly smaller than originally projected, meaning the coral rehabilitation footprint will not be as large as initially expected. RMIPA is working diligently to ensure that potential environmental impacts are being addressed throughout the multiple phases of this project, which will also include new shoreline protection work at the dredge site to protect the road to the airport and the Majuro reservoirs from erosion. At the meeting, EPA Chairman Reginald White said that this shoreline revetment work also is of important environmental concern. “We want to reiterate that the revetment work was a mandatory condition for approval of this project, due to the potential future effects that erosion and sea-level rise may have on this area,” he said. Meanwhile, according to the coral expert contracted by EPA to spearhead the regrowth efforts, the new coral in the lagoon are growing even better than expected. Before the new plantings, a survey of the affected areas was performed to identify the specific coral species present. After the new coral farm had been constructed, test corals were planted to confirm this location would provide healthy growth for the corals being farmed. Coral was then relocated from the affected area to the farm site by use of a boat and divers and the corals were separated into individual cages by species to hold and grow until coral fragmenting work starts. This coral fragmenting and attachment of coral plugs will begin soon as part of the next phase of the project. This will be in preparation for replanting onto boulders and concrete structures that are to be constructed in the affected area. These concrete structures, called reef balls, are designed artificial reefs used to restore ailing coral reefs and to create new fishing and scuba diving sites. Reef balls are made of a special, marine-friendly concrete and are designed to mimic natural reef systems.
Underwater reef ball covered with coral. Photo courtesy of Reef Ball Foundation.
May 18, 2013 - Jon Pasierb.
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Do Not Be Afraid Watch as Dr Norm teaches you how to take your stand now in life & live in God's peace. You can have victory today!
We preach the Word of FAITH right here in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
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To receive salvation, the only thing required of us was faith. God did all the work for us, and we get all the benefits. Our part is the faith to believe.
We were saved by grace. Grace is unmerited favor. We didn’t do anything to deserve salvation, but He gave it to us anyway because He loved us. Even the faith which we use to connect to Him is a gift from Him.
Salvation is the benefit package that contains everything that Jesus has so generously provided for us through His death and resurrection.
The method through which we initially received salvation is the same method we use to receive everything that has been provided for us in salvation.
How exactly, were you saved?
Two things are required for us to be born again: the heart and mouth connection.
Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ.
Believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead.
If you take these two steps, then I believe you are saved!
We are a WORD OF FAITH group meeting each Sunday morning in Mill Park. If you're not committed elsewhere on Sunday morning you would be very welcome. God has been blessing those that come along, many blessings are abounding. There will be exciting message to share with you so don't miss out! It's wonderful what God is doing! People have been healed and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit manifest in most meetings.
We are also mentoring a number of other groups around the world who receive our Sunday preaching messages to instruct and encourage them to share it also.
James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work; this one will be blessed in what he does.
It's not just by positive thinking alone that we can make spiritual progress, but rather from thinking positively on God’s Word and doing what that Word instructs us to do, and then learning and growing from what we’ve done. Whoever makes an honest attempt to do what God’s Word has taught him to do, that person, James says, will be blessed in what he does.
We move up to higher ground not by meditation alone, but by obedience to and by moving on the Word. Our conscience is a cautionary faculty that warns us when we’re about to violate God’s principles. It was given to restrain each of us. But sometimes we do need to be stimulated and the conscience should do that also.
It should move each of us to act in ways that ARE consistent with His principles. Often, however, we fail to act because we're afraid of making a mistake, so end up doing nothing. And consequently, we LEARN nothing. By failing to act on the best of our present understanding, we forfeit the opportunity to grow and improve in that understanding.
Improvement is the result of examining what has been done and adjusting accordingly. The more we do, the more we have a chance to improve. But if we wait to do anything until the circumstances exactly right, we’ll probably do very little. Perfect conditions for action rarely present themselves, and the person who waits for them is wasting valuable time.
In the real world, we all have to go ahead and do the best we can. Spiritual growth has more than one dimension. On the one hand, it requires us to shun evil. But on the other, it requires that we all do the good we know to do, and then learn to do even better and more efficiently.
2 Peter 3:17 "You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen."
Maturity comes from actions carefully considered beforehand, and then carefully evaluated afterwards.
Renewal is the principle and the process that empowers us to move on an upward spiral of growth and change, of continuous improvement. Moving along the upward spiral requires us to LEARN, COMMIT and DO on increasingly higher planes, so we continually move deeper in our faith and relationship with God.
Thousands of people, who once lived without hope, have discovered the promises of God’s Word, have believed and have produced faith in their heart and then acted on them. As a result, their lives have been transformed. One such man who lived in Old Testament times was named Jabez. This man’s name means 'sorrow, pain, and trouble.' Every time his name was called, it cried out to him, “Pain! Trouble! Sorrow'! Jabez was probably convinced that he would be confined to weakness, pain and sickness all the days of his life.
But one day he heard about the God of Israel and how God was a covenant keeping, wonder working, all powerful God.
The scripture says in 1 Chron 4:9-10 And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bare him with sorrow." And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!" And God granted him that which he requested.
Jabez changed his destiny the day he began calling upon God. Progress in the kingdom of God or any other area doesn’t happen accidently.
Jabez asked the Lord to bless him and enlarge his coast. The scripture says that God answered his prayer. Dennis Burke said that we can create abundance from God in our futures if we are willing to make changes today.
Here are some things we must do if we want to receive God’s blessings in our life.
Let go of traditions. Someone said, “Every Sunday people carry into church something that is more powerful in their lives than God’s Word. It is their traditions.” But Jesus said in Mark 7:13 “Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition."
Let go of all reasons for lack. There are always reasons why God’s people are not living in the blessings of God. Proverbs 26:2 says “The curse causeless shall not come.” There are reasons why people do not walk in the promise of abundance and blessing. These include such things as lack of knowledge, failure to give, disobedience, laziness and being unteachable. They will stop the flow of God’s blessings.
Expect to receive a harvest. Jesus told His disciples to expect to receive when they give. In fact, what they received would be greater than what they gave. In Luke 6:38 Jesus said, “Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.” Just like Jesus told His disciples to expect a return when they gave, He tells us through His Word, that we should do the same.
And like Jabez discovered, our lives should be more than struggling and labouring to just get by. We are not born again to strive but to thrive and increase in every area.
God wants us to be blessed so that we can be a blessing.
"Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.’ Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and…told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace."
She did something she’d never done before. She decided to try Jesus. That’s a wise move! Faith means stepping into the unknown and the untried, finding God’s grace at work in unexpected ways. Medical science had failed her and cost her everything she had. She heard about this itinerant preacher who was doing miracles, it was her last chance.
She recognized her moment. She knew that Jesus was visiting her town, and might not be back. There are some God-moments in life when we’ve got to overcome our fear and move out in faith. If we don’t, we’ll miss the opportunity and it may not come our way again.
She also opened the door for others. Up until this time, no one in Scripture had been healed by touching Jesus’ garment. So her act of faith opened the door for others; she led the way to receive from Jesus that others had not even contemplated.
Matthew 14:35-36 People brought all their sick to him and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched him were healed.
God’s looking for people who are willing to break with their religious traditions. When He finds them, He uses them to open doors and new dimensions of His power, so that others might be blessed and made whole.
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The first time I heard R. C. Sproul teach was several decades ago. I can’t recall the exact date, but I do remember his teaching like it was yesterday. Someone had loaned me his signature series, “The Holiness of God” on videotape, and I took it home to watch. Within minutes after I pressed play, I was riveted.
R.C. was speaking to a roomful of young adults. He stood on a slightly elevated platform. A lectern and a large chalkboard were the only furnishings on the platform. R. C. didn’t lean on the lectern. He wasn’t tied to any notes. He moved freely around on the platform as he spoke, walking frequently from side to side. His delivery was perfectly paced and passionate. He spoke with a rich vocabulary, never pausing to grasp for words and never wasting a single syllable.
He began in Isaiah 6, a passage I knew well. I had preached on it myself more than once. But after hearing R. C.’s powerful description of the majesty and magnificence of “the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up” (Isa. 6:1), I never looked at that passage the same way again. It was as if R. C. had taken us into the very throne room of heaven to see a glimpse of God’s holiness with our own eyes.I’ve never encountered a more gifted teacher. He was engaging and personable; simple but profound; thorough without ever being tedious; always deeply passionate about what he was teaching; and always anchored in biblical truth.
The entire series was weighty and deeply thought-provoking without ever seeming abstruse or merely academic. He was giving a detailed lecture on one of the Bible’s most grand and lofty subjects, presenting biblical truth with a level of thoroughness and sophistication that would be suitable for a seminary classroom. But the teaching was so clear that even a total novice would easily be able to understand and digest the material. And it was all thoroughly biblical, carefully drawn straight from the text of Isaiah. It was an extraordinary display of the very best kind of theological instruction.
All those things were standard features of R. C.’s teaching style, from the chalkboard to the remarkable clarity and theological depth of his content. I’ve never encountered a more gifted teacher. He was engaging and personable; simple but profound; thorough without ever being tedious; always deeply passionate about what he was teaching; and always anchored in biblical truth. R. C. was never ostentatious or gimmicky. He was not a salesman or promoter. The one thing he had to offer was straightforward biblical instruction with perfect clarity, powerful energy, and a thorough treatment of the text.
One of R. C.’s most admirable characteristics was his refusal to shy away from difficult doctrines or shape his teaching to suit whatever might be popular or politically correct at any given moment. He was not afraid of controversy and not reluctant to face and firmly answer opposing views. He and I once had a vigorous public debate on the subject of infant baptism. He was as bold and candid with me as he would have been with any other adversary. He clearly wanted me to be equally straightforward and forceful with him. Of course I was. Although R. C. didn’t change his opinion on baptism, our friendship was not sabotaged but strengthened by the robust exchange of arguments and rebuttals. That’s precisely how our friendship worked behind the scenes as well.
The passion that motivated R. C. was his love of the gospel and his zeal for making sure that the message is proclaimed without compromise or confusion.I’m a committed Baptist premillennialist; he was a steadfast Presbyterian with somewhat fluid eschatological opinions. But we agreed on far more than we ever disagreed—especially when it came to the core issues of soteriology and the five Reformation solas. Over the years we stood shoulder to shoulder in full agreement through several major theological controversies. We defended the principle of sola fide against both antinomians and legalists in the lordship debate; we fought for sola gratia and opposed ecumenical compromise when influential evangelical leaders were promoting “Evangelicals and Catholics Together.” We challenged charismatic and continuationist efforts to downgrade sola Scriptura and redefine the sufficiency of Scripture. We stressed the principle of solus Christus in response to the neo-Socinianism of the Emergent movement, “postmodern Christianity,” and the troubling erosion of evangelicalism’s willingness to declare that Christ is the only way of salvation. We shared the same convictions on the vital doctrines of human depravity, substitutionary atonement, the sovereignty of God, and the authority, sufficiency, and inerrancy of Scripture. Above all, we shared an unshakable conviction that all glory belongs to God alone (soli Deo gloria).
false teaching to little shreds without malice or rancor. Indeed, he was always meticulously fair with his adversaries, but relentless in his pursuit of truth.
During the controversy over “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” (ECT) in the late 1990s, I participated in a private summit meeting in Florida where R. C. Sproul, D. James Kennedy, John Ankerburg, and I met with Chuck Colson, J. I. Packer, and Bill Bright to express our concerns about the ecumenical drift of the ECT document. R. C. pointed out that the document’s discussion of justification by faith omitted the all-important word alone (the sola in sola fide). This was and always has been the central point of disagreement between Roman Catholics and Protestants, he said. By deliberately omitting that word and acting as if it were a non-issue, Protestants who helped draft the ECT document were deliberately capitulating to the main Roman Catholic error and undermining the gospel itself. At one point he became so passionate in making his argument that he literally climbed on the table, making the plea on his hands and knees from the tabletop until each person on the other side of the table had made direct eye contact with him. There wasn’t a hint of malice in the gesture, and everyone in the room understood that. The passion that motivated R. C. was his love of the gospel and his zeal for making sure that the message is proclaimed without compromise or confusion.
R.C.’s nickname for me was “Boris.” The first time he introduced me at one of the Ligonier Conferences, his introduction began with a detailed recounting of how Boris Yeltsin single-handedly stopped a coup in Moscow in August of 1991. Armed hard-line communist insurgents were rolling through the streets of Moscow in a column of tanks, intending to seize the Russian Parliament building and overthrow Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms they opposed. Yeltsin, recently-elected president of the Soviet Union, intercepted the parade of insurgents, climbed onto the turret of one of the tanks, and made a speech that effectively ended the coup.
R.C. then talked about the lordship controversy, recounting how by the 1960s a noxious variety of antinomianism had gradually all but overwhelmed the gospel among evangelical Christians. This corrupt teaching openly encouraged unbelievers to profess faith in Christ as Savior without yielding to Him as Lord.
“But then,” he said dramatically, “John MacArthur stood on a tank.” He said he regarded the publication of my book The Gospel According to Jesus as the first major warning blast that halted the troops and began to turn the evangelical movement back to a more sound and biblical understanding of the gospel message. He then introduced me as “the Boris Yeltsin of evangelical Christianity.” It was the most memorable introduction I have ever received anywhere, and from that point on in our private interaction he frequently referred to me as “Boris.”I will miss my dear friend. There is no one else quite like him. We are all blessed for having known him and heard him teach. I rejoice in the knowledge that he is with the Lord whom he loved and served faithfully.
Thankfully, R. C. and the Ligonier staff have shown superb skill and foresight in harnessing all kinds of media (including the new media) for the recording and distributing of R. C.’s teaching. Thousands of resources and many hours of serious theological and biblical instruction were recorded for posterity and are now available on the Internet in various forms. R. C. leaves a legacy that I trust will endure for many, many years.
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L'arbitrage commercial international est une méthode de règlement des différends privés dans lequel les parties à un contrat commercial international conviennent que leurs litiges seront tranchés par une ou plusieurs personnes privées, à savoir les arbitres, plutôt que par un tribunal. La décision de l'arbitre/des arbitres est définitive et obligatoire pour les parties en vertu de leur accord initial de recourir à l'arbitrage. Dans le cas où la sentence arbitrale n'est pas exécutée par la partie défaillante, l'exécution de cette sentence peut être ordonnée suite à une procédure devant une juridiction nationale.
Le présent guide de recherche se veut un point de départ pour mener des recherches sur l'arbitrage commercial international. Il fournit les textes juridiques de base disponibles à la Bibliothèque du Palais de la Paix, qu'il s'agisse de documents imprimés ou de documents sous format électronique. La section intitulée "Bibliographie sélective" présente une sélection de manuels, d'articles importants, de bibliographies, de publications périodiques, de publications en série et de documents pertinents. Des liens permettent de rejoindre le catalogue PPL. Le code de classification de la bibliothèque 322. Droit international de procédure: Arbitrage et le mot-matière (mot-clef) Arbitrage commercial international sont des instruments permettant de faire une recherche dans le catalogue. Une attention particulière est prêtée à nos inscriptions aux bases de données, revues électroniques, livres électroniques et autres ressources électroniques. Enfin, le présent guide de recherche contient des liens vers des sites Internet pertinents et d'autres ressources en ligne présentant un intérêt particulier.
Balthasar, S. (ed.), International Commercial Arbitration: International Conventions, Country Reports and Comparative Analysis - A Handbook, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden, C.H. Beck-Hart-Nomos, 2016.
Born, G.B., International Commercial Arbitration (3 vols) (2nd ed.), Alphen a/d Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2014.
Born, G., International Arbitration: Law and Practice (2nd ed.), Alphen aan de Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2016.
Daly, B.W. (et al.), A Guide to the PCA Arbitration Rules, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Grenig, J.E., International Commercial Arbitration, St. Paul, MN, Thomson Reuters, 2013.
Kolkey, D., Practitioner's Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration, New York, Juris, 2012.
Rubino-Sammartano, M., International Arbitration: Law and Practice (3rd ed.) , Huntington, NY, Juris, 2014.
Várady, T., International Commercial Arbitration: A Transnational Perspective, St. Paul, West, 2012.
Waincymer, J., Procedure and Evidence in International Arbitration, Alphen aan den Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2012.
Weigand, F.-B. (ed.), Practitioner's Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration (2nd ed.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Ali, S.F. and T. Ginsburg, International Commercial Arbitration in Asia, New York, Juris, 2013.
Bench Nieuwveld, L., and V.C. Sahani, Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration (2nd ed.), Alphen a/d Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2017.
Betz, K., Proving Bribery, Fraud, and Money Laundering in International Arbitration: On Applicable Criminal Law and Evidence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Born, G., International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing (5th ed.), Alphen aan de Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2016.
Brekoulakis, S. (et al.)(eds.), The Evolution and Future of International Arbitration, Alphen aan den Rijn, Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
Conrad, N., International Commercial Arbitration: Standard Clauses and Forms: Commentary, Basel, Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2013.
Goeler, J. von, Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration and its Impact on Procedure, Alphen aan den Rijn, Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
Hayward, B., Conflict of Laws and Arbitral Discretion: The Closest Connection Test, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Kidane, W.L., The Culture of International Arbitration, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Najjar, N., Arbitration and International Trade in the Arab Countries, Leiden, Brill Nijhoff, 2018.
Paulsson, J., The Idea of Arbitration, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Paulsson, M., The 1958 New York Convention in Action, Alphen a/d Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2016.
Rogers, C.A., Ethics in International Arbitration, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Shaughnessy, P., and S. Tung (eds.), The Powers and Duties of an Arbitrator: Liber Amicorum Pierre A. Karrer, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2017.
Wang, F.F., Online Arbitration, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY, Informa Law from Routledge, 2018.
Bantekas I., “A Human Rights-Based Arbitral Tribunal for Sovereign Debt”, American Review of International Arbitration, 29 (2018), No. 1, pp. 1-27.
Berger, K.P., “Institutional Arbitration: Harmony, Disharmony and the ‘Party Autonomy Paradox’”, Arbitration International, 34 (2018), No. 4, pp. 573–593. [e-article] Dec.
Blair, C., and E. Vidak Gojković, “WikiLeaks and Beyond: Discerning an International Standard for the Admissibility of Illegally Obtained Evidence”, ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, 33 (2018), No. 1, pp. 235-259. [e-article] Dec.
Drude, J., “Fiat iustitia, ne pereat mundus: A Novel Approach to Corruption and Investment Arbitration”, Journal of International Arbitration, 35 (2018), No. 6, pp. 665-718. [e-article] Dec.
Amerasinghe, C.F., “International Arbitration: A Judicial Function?”, in Wolfrum, R. (et al.) (eds.), Contemporary Developments in International Law: Essays in Honour of Budislav Vukas, Leiden/Boston, Brill Nijhoff, 2016, pp. 677-689.
De Brabandere, E., and D. Holloway, “Sanctions and International Arbitration”, in L van den Herik (ed.), Research Handbook on UN Sanctions and International Law, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017, pp. 304-329.
Malintoppi, L., and A. Carlevaris, “Challenges of Arbitrators, Lessons from the ICC ”, in C. Giorgetti (ed.), Challenges and Recusals of Judges and Arbitrators in International Courts and Tribunals, Leiden, Brill Nijhoff, 2015, pp. 140-163.
Talmon, S., “The South China Sea Arbitration and the Finality of ‘Final’ Awards”, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 8 (2017), No. 2, pp. 388-401.
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York, 10 June 1958).
ICC Rules of Arbitration 2012 (International Chamber of Commerce).
Holtzmann, H.M. (et al.), A Guide to the 2006 Amendments to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration : Legislative History and Commentary, Alphen a/d Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2015.
Mangan, M. (et al.), A Guide to the SIAC Arbitration Rules, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Reisman, W.M. (et al.), International Commercial Arbitration: Cases, Materials and Notes on the Resolution of International Business Disputes (2nd ed.), St Paul, MN, Foundation Press, 2015.
Schutze, R., Aschauer, C., Institutional Arbitration: Article-by-Article Commentary, Munchen, Beck, 2013.
United Nations, Reports of international arbitral awards, 1948-..., New York, United Nations, vol. 1 - vol. 30.
The Peace Palace Library has a collection of over a million publications. Each week, about six hundred new titles are added to our collection: books, articles, documents, online publications, etc. On this page, access is provided to this week’s new titles on International Arbitration and International Commercial Arbitration.
In the Asia-Pacific, thirty-eight jurisdictions have adopted the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. This book looks at how the text and the principles of the Model Law have been implemented (or not) in key Asian jurisdictions. Most of the jurisdictions covered in this book have declared that they have adopted the Model Law but often with significant modifications. Even when jurisdictions adopt some provisions of the Model Law verbatim, their courts may have interpreted these provisions in a manner inconsistent with their goals and with how they are interpreted internationally. When a jurisdiction has not adopted the Model Law, the chapter compares its legislation to the Model Law to determine whether it is consistent with its principles. Each chapter follows the structure of the Model Law allowing the reader to easily compare the arbitration laws of different jurisdictions on each topic.
Innovative initiatives for online arbitration are needed to aid in resolving cross-border commercial and consumer disputes in the EU, UK, US and China. This book provides a comparative study of online dispute resolution (ODR) systems and a model of best practices, taking into consideration the features and characteristics of various practical experiences/examples of ODR services and technological development for ODR systems and platforms. The book begins with a theoretical approach, looking into the challenges in the use of online arbitration in commercial transactions and analysing the potential adoption of technology-assisted arbitration (e.g. Basic ODR systems and Intelligent/Advanced ODR systems) in resolving certain types of international commercial and consumer disputes. It then investigates the legal obstacles to adopting ODR by examining the compatibility of technology with current legislation and regulatory development. Finally, it suggests appropriate legal and technological measures to promote the recognition of ODR, in particular online arbitration, for cross-border commercial and consumer disputes.
Reyes, A., and W. Gu (eds.), The Developing World of Arbitration: A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia Pacific, Portland, OR, Hart, 2018.
This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which arbitration law and practice have recently been reformed in Asia Pacific jurisdictions. Leading contributors across the Asia Pacific region analyze twelve major jurisdictions representing varying patterns and degrees of development, whether driven from top down, bottom up, or by some hybrid impetus. Setting the arbitration systems and reforms of each investigated jurisdiction in the context of its economic, political, and judicial dynamics, this book presents, for the first-time, a cross-jurisdiction comparative and contextual study of the developing world of arbitration in the Asia Pacific and contributes to comparative international arbitration literature from an Eastern perspective. It also aims to identify an Asia Pacific model of arbitration modernization and predicts future trajectories of development and challenge in light of the ever increasing competition between Eastern- and Western-based arbitration centers.
Amado, J.D., J.S. Kern and M.D. Rodriguez, Arbitrating the Conduct of International Investors, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Investment arbitration has emerged from modest beginnings and matured into an established presence in international law. However, in recent years it has drifted from the reciprocal vision of its founders. This volume serves as a comprehensive guide for those who wish to reform international investment law from within, seeking a return to the mutuality of access that is in arbitration's essence. A detailed toolset is provided for enhancing the access of host States and their nationals to formal resolution mechanisms in foreign investment disputes. It concludes by offering model texts to achieve greater reciprocity and access to justice in the settlement of disputes arising from international investment initiatives. The book will appeal to all those interested in the future of international investment law, including an international audience of scholars, government officials, private sector actors, and private citizens alike, and including diverse constituencies, communities, and collectives of host State nationals.
Piers, M., and C. Aschauer (eds.), Arbitration in the Digital Age: The Brave New World of Arbitration, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Arbitration in the Digital Age analyses how technology can be efficiently and legitimately used to further sound arbitration proceedings. The contributions, from a variety of arbitration scholars, report on current developments, predict future trends, and assesses their impact from a practical, legal, and technical point of view. The book also discusses the relationship between arbitration and the Internet and analyses how social media can affect arbitrators and counsel's behaviour. Furthermore, it analyses the validity of electronic arbitration and awards, as well as Online Arbitration (OArb). The volume establishes, on a very practical level, how technology could be used by arbitration institutions, arbitrators, parties to an arbitration and counsel. This book will be of special interest to arbitrators and lawyers involved in international commercial arbitration.
The author has assembled a masterful compendium of arbitration law in the Arab countries. A true study of comparative law in the purest sense of the term, the work puts into perspective the solutions retained in the various laws concerned and highlights both their convergences and divergences. Focusing on the laws of sixteen States, the author examines international trade arbitration in the MENA region and assesses the value of these solutions in a way that seeks to guide a practice which remains extraordinarily heterogeneous. The book provides an analysis of a large number of legal sources, court decisions as well as a presentation of the attitude of the courts towards arbitration in the States studied. Traditional and modern sources of international arbitration are examined through the prism of the two requirements of international trade, freedom and safety, the same prism through which the whole law of arbitration is studied. The book thus constitutes an indispensable guide to any arbitration specialist called to work with the Arab countries, both as a practitioner and as a theoretician.
Global Arbitration Review : The database includes access to: news reports on recent disputes; all articles of the journal; an online Q&A resource, called GAR Know-How, which provides practitioners with a reference guide to particular dispute types, i.e., commercial arbitration, construction arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, litigation, and maritime & offshore arbitration: annual regional arbitration reviews: and, four guides, The Guide to Damages in International Arbitration, The Guide to Advocacy, The Guide to Energy Arbitrations, and The Guide to Construction Arbitration (Forthcoming).
Investment Arbitration Reporter: Document Download Repository. This page offers access to selected source materials on investment arbitration, i.e., awards and documents.
Italaw : Comprehensive and free database on investment treaties, international investment law and all publicly-available investment arbitration awards and documents.
Kluwer Arbitration Online : A fully-searchable database of primary and secondary materials in the field of International Arbitration and International Commercial Arbitration, with access to full-text downloads of materialsFully. Searching and browsing is quick and simple, as the database has been organized into the following specific arbitration categories: Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), Conventions, Countries, Model Clauses, Legislation, NY Convention Decisions, Organizations and Rules but also e-books, journals and loose-leafs. Each main category is further grouped into the regions Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania.
Oxford Reports on International Investment Claims : Oxford Reports on International Investment Claims offers headnotes and commentaries by practicioners and scholars. The content of the database, approximately 200 cases for the November 2008 launch, is peer-reviewed by an expert editorial board. It also provides translations of key passages for all non-English judgments. The database includes decisions and awards from London Court of International Arbitration, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, International Chamber of Commerce, Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Permanent Court of Arbitration.
WESTLAW International Arbitration Databases : covers a wide range of international arbitration materials, including those of international and national arbitration organizations and tribunals. For example, International Commercial Arbitration - All (database identifier ICA-ALL) combines many of the WESTLAW materials on international commercial arbitration in one database. Westlaw has also created an Arbitration tab that puts all its arbitration databases on one screen. You can also see a list of all Westlaw international arbitration databases by searching the WESTLAW Database Directory.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Specific Cases and Decisions.
IA Reporter (Investment Arbitration Reporter): Investment Arbitration Reporter is an electronic news service tracking international arbitrations between foreign investors and their host governments.
TradeLawGuide : provides full-text of official awards, decisions and other WTO documents and .notes up. WTO decisions by tracking how subsequent WTO reports, awards and decisions have considered specific passages in WTO jurisprudence. The database features a citator that collects all jurisprudence under a treaty provision for the WTO system and also offers a treaty interpretation, terms & phrases and other tools. WTO law has been referred to frequently in investor-state arbitrations in various contexts. Tribunals have explicitly found that WTO law is relevant to investor-state arbitration. Therefore the database contains a special section on WTO Law in Investment Arbitration.
Worldtradelaw.net: legal research database for international trade law issues, providing key WTO/GATT texts and dispute decisions, summaries and analysis. You can search in the index of the World Trade Organization reports and arbitrations, articles on trade law and selected amicus submissions in WTO disputes.
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2010-03-08 04:37:26 Vish description Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order(minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order(minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo ------ WORKAROUND ----- To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
2010-03-09 07:24:47 Mitch Towner summary [light-theme] please centre window title and order window controls [light-theme] please revert the order of the window controls back to "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
2010-03-10 15:57:38 Vish description Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order(minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo ------ WORKAROUND ----- To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order(minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo Affected applications: - Chrome/Chromium - XMPP ------ WORKAROUND ----- To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
2010-03-10 16:20:05 Marián Bača description Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order(minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo Affected applications: - Chrome/Chromium - XMPP ------ WORKAROUND ----- To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order(minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo ------ WORKAROUND ----- To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
2010-03-12 16:52:37 Matthias Klumpp description Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order(minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo ------ WORKAROUND ----- To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" Binary package hint: light-themes Please centre window title like in human theme and also order window controls in classic order on the right side (menu, minimize, maximize close). Thanks, Majo ------ WORKAROUND ----- To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
2010-03-18 16:05:49 Vish description Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" --OR-- Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stownsend42/+archive/light-themes This option will also fix the graphical appearance of the buttons. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" --OR-- Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stownsend42/+archive/light-themes This option will also fix the graphical appearance of the buttons. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-03-19 11:45:01 Paul Sladen description Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" --OR-- Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stownsend42/+archive/light-themes This option will also fix the graphical appearance of the buttons. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" --OR-- Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stownsend42/+archive/light-themes This option will also fix the graphical appearance of the buttons. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 + ~10 following replies ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-03-22 08:41:46 Vish description Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" --OR-- Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stownsend42/+archive/light-themes This option will also fix the graphical appearance of the buttons. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 + ~10 following replies ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . *** As per the design team's request*** All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. ----- Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" --OR-- Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stownsend42/+archive/light-themes This option will also fix the graphical appearance of the buttons. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 + ~10 following replies ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-03-27 00:06:30 Sam Townsend description *** As per the design team's request*** All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. ----- Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" --OR-- Use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~stownsend42/+archive/light-themes This option will also fix the graphical appearance of the buttons. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 + ~10 following replies ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . *** As per the design team's request*** All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. ----- Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" The PPA is no longer needed as of the latest version of light-themes. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 + ~10 following replies ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-03-29 16:59:57 Paul Sladen description *** As per the design team's request*** All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. ----- Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close). ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, enter in terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" The PPA is no longer needed as of the latest version of light-themes. ==== Overview ==== Canonical design team leader - "Those pesky buttons" - 2010-03-10 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Mark Shuttleworth's reply (on this bug report) - 2010-03-15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/532633/comments/110 + ~10 following replies ======= To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-04-01 21:57:26 Paul Sladen description === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering) Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-04-01 21:58:55 Paul Sladen description === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering) Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering) Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-04-01 22:10:35 Aigars Mahinovs description === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering) Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== 1. Only new themes, such as Ambiance and Radiance will have buttons on the left by default. You can continue using old themes, such as Human, in Lucid and those themes will continue to have buttons on the right side (according to http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/577 ). It is even possible to switch to Human theme and then 'Customize' it to use all the elements from Radiance theme, but the button layout will stay on the right. 2. To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering) Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
2010-04-14 06:44:52 Paul Sladen description === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== 1. Only new themes, such as Ambiance and Radiance will have buttons on the left by default. You can continue using old themes, such as Human, in Lucid and those themes will continue to have buttons on the right side (according to http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/577 ). It is even possible to switch to Human theme and then 'Customize' it to use all the elements from Radiance theme, but the button layout will stay on the right. 2. To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering) Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . === Master Bug === (As per the design team's request) All bugs concerning the window controls are being duped to this master bug. All the decisions regarding the position/order/alignment will be dealt as a one. === Desire === "Please centre the window title like in previous Human theme, and also re-order the window controls in classic order, positioned on the right side (menu - title - minimize, maximize close)." ==== Workaround ==== 1. Only new themes, such as Ambiance and Radiance will have buttons on the left by default. You can continue using old themes, such as Human, in Lucid and those themes will continue to have buttons on the right side (according to http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/577 ). It is even possible to switch to Human theme and then 'Customize' it to use all the elements from Radiance theme, but the button layout will stay on the right. 2. To revert to old layout, run in a terminal: $ gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close" ==== Return to defaults ==== If you would like to return to the system/theme default then run: $ gconftool-2 --unset /apps/metacity/general/button_layout ==== Responses ==== Canonical Design Team Leader (Ivanka Majic) - 2010-03-10 and 2010-03-17 http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281 ("Those pesky buttons") http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/03/17/s03e03-behind-the-screen/ (30-minute interview starting at 39:10) Ubuntu SABDFL (Mark Shuttleworth) replies on this bug report - 2010-03-15 onwards http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/110 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/167 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/179 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/202 to 204 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/218 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/248 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/272 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/388 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/410 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/426 to 427 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/469 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/503 http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/532633/comments/564 ("Final decree"; close-min-max ordering) Canonical Ubuntu Community Leader (Jono Bacon) response - 2010-03-24 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5683123 (6 minutes starting at 26:24) === Code of Conduct === To maintain a respectful atmosphere, while commenting please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ .
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The guide was so knowledgeable and friendly. Students and chaperones alike learned so much in the short time we were in Paris. We saw all the major sites and had a great time exploring French culture through a cooking class and a dinner cruise. Even though we had a full itinerary we managed to have some time to do a little exploring on our own. Sylvie made sure we didn’t miss a thing!
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This guide maps most of x264's options to FFmpeg's options along with detailed descriptions by x264 developer Dark_Shikari.
Slightly faster (but less precise) scenecut detection. Normal scenecut detection decides whether a frame is a scenecut after the frame is encoded, and if so then re-encodes the frame as an I-frame. This is not compatible with threading, however, and so --pre-scenecut is automatically activated when multiple encoding threads are used.
0: Very fast, but not recommended. Does not work with pre-scenecut (scenecut must be off to force off b-adapt).
1: Fast, default mode in x264. A good balance between speed and quality.
2: A much slower but more accurate B-frame decision mode that correctly detects fades and generally gives considerably better quality. Its speed gets considerably slower at high bframes values, so its recommended to keep bframes relatively low (perhaps around 3) when using this option. It also may slow down the first pass of x264 when in threaded mode.
Allows B-frames to be kept as references. The name is technically misleading, as x264 does not actually use pyramid coding; it simply adds B-references to the normal reference list. B-references get a quantizer halfway between that of a B-frame and P-frame. This setting is generally beneficial, but it increases the DPB (decoding picture buffer) size required for playback, so when encoding for hardware, disabling it may help compatibility.
Enables interlaced encoding. x264's interlaced encoding is not as efficient as its progressive encoding; consider deinterlacing for maximum effectiveness.
Constant quantizer mode. Not exactly constant completely--B-frames and I-frames have different quantizers from P-frames. Generally should not be used, since CRF gives better quality at the same bitrate.
Enables target bitrate mode. Attempts to reach a specific bitrate. Should be used in 2-pass mode whenever possible; 1-pass bitrate mode is generally the worst ratecontrol mode x264 has.
Constant quality mode (also known as constant ratefactor). Bitrate corresponds approximately to that of constant quantizer, but gives better quality overall at little speed cost. The best one-pass option in x264.
Specifies the maximum bitrate at any point in the video. Requires the VBV buffersize to be set. This option is generally used when encoding for a piece of hardware with bitrate limitations.
Depends on the profile level of the video being encoded. Set only if you're encoding for a hardware device.
Initial VBV buffer occupancy. Note: Don't mess with this.
Qscale difference between P-frames and B-frames.
QP difference between chroma and luma.
Used with --bitrate. Pass 1 writes the stats file, pass 2 reads it, and 3 both reads and writes it. If you want to use three pass, this means you will have to use --pass 1 for the first pass, --pass 3 for the second, and --pass 2 or 3 for the third.
Allows setting a specific filename for the firstpass stats file.
Allows setting a specific quantizer for a specific region of video.
Allows one to read in a set of frametypes and quantizers from a file. Useful for testing various encoding options while ensuring the exact same quantizer distribution.
One of H.264's most useful features is the ability to choose among many combinations of inter and intra partitions. P-macroblocks can be subdivided into 16x8, 8x16, 8x8, 4x8, 8x4, and 4x4 partitions. B-macroblocks can be divided into 16x8, 8x16, and 8x8 partitions. I-macroblocks can be divided into 4x4 or 8x8 partitions. Analyzing more partition options improves quality at the cost of speed. The default is to analyze all partitions except p4x4 (p8x8, i8x8, i4x4, b8x8), since p4x4 is not particularly useful except at high bitrates and lower resolutions. Note that i8x8 requires 8x8dct, and is therefore a High Profile-only partition. p8x8 is the most costly, speed-wise, of the partitions, but also gives the most benefit. Generally, whenever possible, all partition types except p4x4 should be used.
B-frames in H.264 can choose between spatial and temporal prediction mode. Auto allows x264 to pick the best of these; the heuristic used is whichever mode allows more skip macroblocks. Auto should generally be used.
This allows B-frames to use weighted prediction options other than the default. There is no real speed cost for this, so it should always be enabled.
dia (x264) / epzs (FFmpeg) is the simplest search, consisting of starting at the best predictor, checking the motion vectors at one pixel upwards, left, down, and to the right, picking the best, and repeating the process until it no longer finds any better motion vector.
hex (x264) / hex (FFmpeg) consists of a similar strategy, except it uses a range-2 search of 6 surrounding points, thus the name. It is considerably more efficient than DIA and hardly any slower, and therefore makes a good choice for general-use encoding.
umh (x264) / umh (FFmpeg) is considerably slower than HEX, but searches a complex multi-hexagon pattern in order to avoid missing harder-to-find motion vectors. Unlike HEX and DIA, the merange parameter directly controls UMH's search radius, allowing one to increase or decrease the size of the wide search.
esa (x264) / full (FFmpeg) is a highly optimized intelligent search of the entire motion search space within merange of the best predictor. It is mathematically equivalent to the bruteforce method of searching every single motion vector in that area, though faster. However, it is still considerably slower than UMH, with not too much benefit, so is not particularly useful for everyday encoding.
One of the most important settings for x264, both speed and quality-wise.
MErange controls the max range of the motion search. For HEX and DIA, this is clamped to between 4 and 16, with a default of 16. For UMH and ESA, it can be increased beyond the default 16 to allow for a wider-range motion search, which is useful on HD footage and for high-motion footage. Note that for UMH and ESA, increasing MErange will significantly slow down encoding.
Limits the maximum motion vector range. Since x264 by default limits this to 511.75 for standards compliance, this should not be changed.
1: Fastest, but extremely low quality. Should be avoided except on first pass encoding.
2-5: Progressively better and slower, 5 serves as a good medium for higher speed encoding.
6-7: 6 is the default. Activates rate-distortion optimization for partition decision. This can considerably improve efficiency, though it has a notable speed cost. 6 activates it in I/P frames, and subme7 activates it in B frames.
8-9: Activates rate-distortion refinement, which uses RDO to refine both motion vectors and intra prediction modes. Slower than subme 6, but again, more efficient.
An extremely important encoding parameter which determines what algorithms are used for both subpixel motion searching and partition decision.
H.264 allows p8x8 blocks to select different references for each p8x8 block. This option allows this analysis to be done, and boosts quality with little speed impact. It should generally be used, though it obviously has no effect with only one reference frame.
Chroma is used in the last steps of the subpixel refinement by default. For a slight speed increase, this can be disabled (at the cost of quality).
Gives a notable quality boost by allowing x264 to choose between 8x8 and 4x4 frequency transform size. Required for i8x8 partitions. Speed cost for this option is near-zero both for encoding and decoding; the only reason to disable it is when one needs support on a device not compatible with High Profile.
The main decision made in quantization is which coefficients to round up and which to round down. Trellis chooses the optimal rounding choices for the maximum rate-distortion score, to maximize PSNR relative to bitrate. This generally increases quality relative to bitrate by about 5% for a somewhat small speed cost. It should generally be enabled. Note that trellis requires CABAC.
By default, x264 will skip macroblocks in P-frames that don't appear to have changed enough between two frames to justify encoding the difference. This considerably speeds up encoding. However, for a slight quality boost, P-skip can be disabled. In this case, the full analysis will be done on all P-blocks, and the only skips in the output stream will be the blocks whose motion vectors happen to match that of the skip vector and motion vectors happen to match that of the skip vector and which have no residual. The speed cost of enabling no-fast-pskip is relatively high, especially with many reference frames. There is a similar B-skip internal to x264, which is why B-frames generally encode much faster than P-frames, but it cannot be disabled on the commandline.
By default, x264 will decimate (remove all coefficients from) P-blocks that are extremely close to empty of coefficents. This can improve overall efficiency with little visual cost, but may work against an attempt to retain grain or similar. DCT decimation should be left on unless there's a good reason to disable it.
a fast, built-in noise reduction routine. Not as effective as external filters such as hqdn3d, but faster. Since x264 already naturally reduces noise through its quantization process, this parameter is not usually necessary.
When trellis isn't activated, deadzone parameters determine how many DCT coefficients are rounded up or down. Rounding up results in higher quality and more detail retention, but costs more bits--so rounding is a balance between quality and bit cost. Lowering these settings will result in more coefficients being rounded up, and raising the settings will result in more coefficients being rounded down. Recommended: keep them at the defaults.
Allows the use of a custom quantization matrix to weight frequencies differently in the quantization process. The presets quant matrices are "jvt" and "flat". --cqpfile reads a custom quant matrices from a JM-compatible file. Recommended only if you know what you're doing.
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http://blog.he96.com/2011/04/x264-ffmpeg-mapping-and-options-guide.html
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HIEB, GAYLEEN FAYE was born 1 February 1962, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 3650 Warrior Ave, North Port, Florida 34286. Florida voter ID number 100292720. Her telephone number is 1-941-740-1920. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEB, GREGORY P. was born 20 January 1959, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 8580 Hunters Creek Dr N, Jacksonville, Florida 32256. Florida voter ID number 103452246. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieb, Gregory Paul was born 21 March 1992, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 8580 Hunters Creek Dr N, Jacksonville, Florida 32256. Florida voter ID number 118076984. His telephone number is 1-904-253-0561. His email address is [email protected]. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
22 October 2014 voter list: Gregory P. Hieb, 8580 Hunters Creek Dr N, Jacksonville, FL 32256 Republican Party of Florida.
Hieb, James Patrick was born 13 May 1946, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 2950 Se Ocean Blvd, 16 2, Stuart, Florida 34996. Florida voter ID number 119152663. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2016.
Hieb, Jaspreet Clarissa born 1 September 1998, Florida voter ID number 123753283 See Frierson, Jaspreet Clarissa. CLICK HERE.
Hieb, Jerry was born 26 September 1943, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 2228 O'Connel Ave Sw, Palm Bay, Florida 32908. Florida voter ID number 101838520. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 January 2015.
22 October 2014 voter list: Jerry Hieb, 4885 SW 64Th WAY, Davie, FL 33314 Republican Party of Florida.
Hieb, Jon Lawrence was born 31 October 1952, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 104 Camilo Ct, Sebastian, Florida 32958. Florida voter ID number 126498355. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieb, Kaitlyn Anne was born 31 May 1995, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 8580 Hunters Creek Dr N, Jacksonville, Florida 32256. Florida voter ID number 119623247. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieb, Kate Lynn was born 25 April 1987, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 4712 Nw 107Th Ave, 401, Doral, Florida 33178. Florida voter ID number 118279311. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: 644 Oakland Ave Mukwonago WI 53149-1246. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 December 2014.
Hieb, Lorna Mae was born 12 November 1947, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1523 Palm Place Dr Ne, Palm Bay, Florida 32905. Florida voter ID number 101786474. Her email address is [email protected]. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
30 September 2016 voter list: Lorna Mae Hieb, 1815 Palm Place Dr NE, Palm Bay, FL 32905 Republican Party of Florida.
31 August 2015 voter list: Lorna Mae Hieb, 2228 O'Connel AVE SW, Palm Bay, FL 32908 Republican Party of Florida.
31 December 2014 voter list: Lorna M. Hieb, 4885 SW 64Th WAY, Davie, FL 33314 Republican Party of Florida.
Hieb, Luke Loren was born 7 July 1987, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 4210 Sw 87Th Ter, Davie, Florida 33328. Florida voter ID number 121773336. His telephone number is 1-754-214-3727. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieb, Lynn Gail was born 22 March 1947, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 2950 Se Ocean Blvd, Apt 16-2, Stuart, Florida 34996. Florida voter ID number 119153056. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2016.
HIEB, LYNN J. was born 17 August 1943, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 7103 Olsen Rd, Pensacola, Florida 32506. Florida voter ID number 103975506. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieb, Marilyn Diane was born 5 December 1951, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 104 Camilo Ct, Sebastian, Florida 32958. Florida voter ID number 126498431. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieb, Mary E. was born 27 February 1991, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1353 Nw 80Th Ter, Apt 21-1353, Plantation, Florida 33322. Florida voter ID number 117384114. Her telephone number is 1-954-394-4003. Her email address is [email protected]. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 July 2016 voter list: Mary Elizabeth Hieb, 7337 SW 27TH CT, Davie, FL 333141105 Republican Party of Florida.
30 June 2015 voter list: Mary Elizabeth Hieb, 7337 SW 27TH CT, Davie, FL 33314 Republican Party of Florida.
31 May 2012 voter list: Mary Elizabeth Hieb, 4885 SW 64th WAY, Davie, FL 33314 Republican Party of Florida.
Hieb, Matthew Allen was born 12 December 1984, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 2598 Gemstone Cir, Pace, Florida 32571. Florida voter ID number 103583129. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
30 June 2018 voter list: MATTHEW A. HIEB, 4723 ALGONQUIN AVE, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32210 Republican Party of Florida.
HIEB, MISTY CRESCENTIA was born 3 April 1978, is female, residing at 29 Valencia Cir, Safety Harbor, Florida 34695. Florida voter ID number 107065422. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 May 2012.
Hieb, Molly Jane was born 17 February 1991, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 425 Veranda Way, #419, Mt. Dora, Florida 32757. Florida voter ID number 125080870. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEB, REBECCA A. was born 24 March 1973, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 6020 Dallas Ave, Pensacola, Florida 32526-1318. Florida voter ID number 115849451. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 22 October 2014.
HIEB, ROBERT NELSON was born 30 June 1946, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 8017 St Andrews Blvd, Weeki Wachee, Florida 34613. Florida voter ID number 122397885. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEB, RYAN WILLIAM was born 1 November 1994, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1305 Morgan Stanley Ave, Apt 209, Winter Park, Florida 32789. Florida voter ID number 126141549. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEB, SHERRY S. was born 8 February 1962, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 8580 Hunters Creek Dr N, Jacksonville, Florida 32256. Florida voter ID number 103580126. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieb, Stacey A. was born 21 June 1964, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 7579 Loop St, Navarre, Florida 32566. Florida voter ID number 123753264. Her email address is [email protected]. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEB, TAMMY FRANCES was born 22 January 1967, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 6331 Ne 53Rd St, Silver Springs, Florida 34488. Florida voter ID number 108553141. Her telephone number is 1-386-679-9976. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 July 2017 voter list: Tammy F. Moss, 175 Old Sawmill Rd, DeLand, FL 32724 Republican Party of Florida.
Hieb, William John was born 10 July 1940, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 6742 W Walden Estates Blvd, Homosassa, Florida 34446-5094. Florida voter ID number 117977832. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hiebel, Brian Dow was born 3 May 1977, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 3201 Nw 12Th Ter, Gainesville, Florida 32609. Florida voter ID number 100543248. His telephone number is 1-352-384-3774. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 May 2012 voter list: Brian Dow Hiebel, 615 NE 9th AVE, Gainesville, FL 32601 Florida Democratic Party.
Hiebel, Christine Ann was born 21 August 1963, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 32052 Grand Parke Blvd, Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034. Florida voter ID number 124638072. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEBEL, JOHN RAYMOND was born 6 October 1934, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 11134 Se 92Nd Ct, Belleview, Florida 34420. Florida voter ID number 105779565. The voter lists a mailing address and probably prefers you use it: PO BOX 3373 BELLEVIEW FL 34421-3373. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 January 2014 voter list: JOHN R. HIEBEL, 11134 SE 92ND CT, BELLEVIEW, FL 34420 Florida Democratic Party.
Hiebel, Karen Eve was born 13 May 1959, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 4131 Oasis Blvd, Cape Coral, Florida 33914. Florida voter ID number 123020740. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hiebel, Kurt Lee was born 9 December 1965, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 32052 Grand Parke Blvd, Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034. Florida voter ID number 124638093. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hiebel, Martha Hoag was born 30 August 1934, is female, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 14817 Laguna Dr, #201, Fort Myers, Florida 33908. Florida voter ID number 118546616. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEBEL, ROSEMARIE was born 9 August 1930, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 111 Doolen Ct, Apt 204, North Palm Beach, Florida 33408. Florida voter ID number 114360764. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 April 2016.
31 May 2012 voter list: ROSEMARIE HIEBEL, 1252 NW BENTLEY CIR, APT A, PT ST LUCIE, FL 34986 Republican Party of Florida.
HIEBEL, TIMOTHY WILLIAM was born 30 April 1968, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1070 Laurel Rd E, #332, Nokomis, Florida 34275. Florida voter ID number 100214953. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hiebel, Tracy Lynn was born 16 November 1960, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1505 N Riverside Dr, Apt 606, Pompano Beach, Florida 33062. Florida voter ID number 101511299. Her telephone number is 1-954-579-6628. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
30 June 2017 voter list: Tracy Lynn Hiebel, 2350 NE 14th St, APT 614, Pompano Beach, FL 330620000 Republican Party of Florida.
Hiebel, William Raymond was born 25 January 1936, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1800 Collins Ave, Apt A12, Miami Beach, Florida 33139. Florida voter ID number 118446310. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEBENDAHL, BARBARA M. was born 22 January 1970, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 4906 Hidden Oaks Trl, Sarasota, Florida 34232. Florida voter ID number 109920053. Her email address is [email protected]. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 December 2016 voter list: Barbara M. Hiebendahl, 11802 SW 100Th Ave, Miami, FL 33176 Florida Democratic Party.
Hiebenthal, Colleen Tamara was born 8 February 1982, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1005 W Dorchester Dr, Saint Johns, Florida 32259. Florida voter ID number 125414318. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hiebenthal, Jason Scott was born 6 April 1979, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1005 W Dorchester Dr, Saint Johns, Florida 32259. Florida voter ID number 125414362. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEBER, ALEXIS GLORIA ANN was born 14 May 1993, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 5269 Wellington Park Cir, Apt B22, Orlando, Florida 32839. Florida voter ID number 123129509. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 July 2017 voter list: Alexis Hieber, 2020 ELK SPRING DR, Brandon, FL 33511 Florida Democratic Party.
Hieber, Alisha Nicole was born 10 May 1990, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 17604 Whistling Ln, Lutz, Florida 33549. Florida voter ID number 116165743. Her telephone number is 1-813-679-0762. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 May 2014 voter list: Alisha Nicole Hieber, 3429 Red Rock DR, Land O Lakes, FL 34639 Florida Democratic Party.
Hieber, Anne W. was born 8 January 1920, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 4535 Mount View Dr, Lakeland, Florida 33813. Florida voter ID number 119864488. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 April 2018.
Hieber, Bethany was born 15 May 1978, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 814 Alhambra Dr S, Jacksonville, Florida 32207. Florida voter ID number 100549903. Her telephone number is 1-352-256-5451. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 August 2016 voter list: Bethany Gale Hieber, 2346 NW 32Nd Ln, Gainesville, FL 32605 Florida Democratic Party.
Hieber, Bradley Mark was born 25 March 1968, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 200 Longview Ave, Celebration, Florida 34747. Florida voter ID number 106224037. His telephone number is 1-407-934-6056. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieber, Carmen V. was born 30 April 1938, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 118 Woodfern Dr, Winter Haven, Florida 33881-2717. Florida voter ID number 113512150. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 March 2015 voter list: CARMEN V. HIEBER, 118 WOODFERN DR, WINTER HAVEN, FL 33881 Republican Party of Florida.
Hieber, Carolee Fausett was born 10 March 1924, is female, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 23033 Westchester Blvd, Apt C215, Port Charlotte, Florida 33980. Florida voter ID number 102548232. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 August 2017.
Hieber, Charles William was born 2 January 1969, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 958 Jaybee Ave, Davenport, Florida 33897. Florida voter ID number 124542530. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEBER, CHRISTA B. born 2 July 1986, Florida voter ID number 102897528 See Patchen, Christa Beth. CLICK HERE.
Hieber, Cristina I. was born 18 June 1942, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 3224 Festival Dr, Margate, Florida 33063. Florida voter ID number 112671533. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2016.
Hieber, David Christian was born 27 July 1975, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 1418 Stetson Dr East, Cocoa, Florida 32922. Florida voter ID number 120581752. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 December 2016 voter list: David Christian Hieber, 1418 Stetson East Dr, Cocoa, FL 32922 No Party Affiliation.
Hieber, David Earl was born 5 October 1940, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 10116 Alma St, Gibsonton, Florida 33534. Florida voter ID number 123316712. His telephone number is 1-813-671-1726. His email address is [email protected]. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
HIEBER, ELIZABETH ANNE born 31 May 1964, Florida voter ID number 112208556 See DOROBIALA, ELIZABETH ANNE. CLICK HERE.
Hieber, Erin Cathleen Jessop was born 20 November 1983, is female, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 1574 Ripple Ct, Gulf Breeze, Florida 32563. Florida voter ID number 118959214. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 October 2016 voter list: Erin Cathleen Jessop Hieber, 8353 Tavira St, Navarre, FL 32566 Florida Democratic Party.
Hieber, Frederic Anthony was born 14 December 1968, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 30737 White Bird Ave, Wesley Chapel, Florida 33543. Florida voter ID number 125142997. His telephone number is 1-813-892-2546. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
Hieber, Gloria M. was born 31 December 1923, is female, residing at 6212 29Th Ave W, Bradenton, Florida 34209. Florida voter ID number 105284803. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 August 2016.
HIEBER, HERBERT F. was born 26 May 1932, is male, registered as No Party Affiliation, residing at 512 Acacia Ln, Nokomis, Florida 34275. Florida voter ID number 100321632. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 30 November 2016.
HIEBER, JAMES J. was born 11 December 1941, is male, registered as Florida Democratic Party, residing at 6154 Midnight Pass Rd, #2C, Sarasota, Florida 34242. Florida voter ID number 100328050. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 December 2018.
31 May 2012 voter list: JAMES J. HIEBER, 6154 MIDNIGHT PASS RD, ##2C, SARASOTA, FL 34242 Florida Democratic Party.
Hieber, Jeffery Brandon was born 12 October 1983, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1574 Ripple Ct, Gulf Breeze, Florida 32563. Florida voter ID number 118957689. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 October 2016 voter list: Jeffery Brandon Hieber, 8353 Tavira St, Navarre, FL 32566 Republican Party of Florida.
HIEBER, JEFFREY CHRISTIAN was born 20 October 1968, is male, registered as Republican Party of Florida, residing at 1487 Excaliber Dr, Clearwater, Florida 33764. Florida voter ID number 117606793. His telephone number is 1-727-238-2596. This is the most recent information, from the Florida voter list as of 31 March 2019.
31 May 2017 voter list: Jeffrey C. Hieber, 14401 PEPPERPINE DR, Tampa, FL 33626 Republican Party of Florida.
29 February 2016 voter list: JEFFREY C. HIEBER, 9895 66TH WAY, PINELLAS PARK, FL 33782 Republican Party of Florida.
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The Walking Dead is arguably the game that catapulted Telltale into the adventure game spotlight. It defined the genre of choice-based adventures by forcing players to make tough decisions that could very well lead to their death. It’s a profoundly disempowering experience that has served us well through two seasons of this award-winning zombie franchise.
Enter the game’s titular character Michonne. If you haven’t been following the graphic novels or TV show, Michonne is the closest thing The Walking Dead has to a badass anime samurai. She kills walkers efficiently, usually with melee weapons instead of guns. She travels the apocalyptic world, never staying in the same place long and never letting false promises of security get in her way. She never gives in to threats and faces adversity head on.
She’s obviously a fan favorite.
Seasons 1 and 2 were about how ill-equipped Lee and Clementine were to handle the zombie apocalypse, stumbling around from safe haven to safe haven, hoping to find some peace in a world gone mad. But since Michonne handles the zombie apocalypse quite well, putting her in the same situation would break character. Thus, The Walking Dead: Michonne doesn’t focus on the danger zombies pose to Michonne, but rather the danger Michonne poses to others.
Taking place between The Walking Dead comic issues #126 and #139, the story picks up after Michonne leaves Rick Grimes and the rest of the group and ends up on a house boat (another fan favorite method of zombie survival). She gets a call on a radio for help and while she seems skeptical, her boat mates decide to check it out and she tags along. She later finds a brother and sister pair of survivors as well as a whole floating colony which, predictably, is run my morally unscrupulous characters. You can pretty much assume what happens from here if you have ever seen a piece of zombie media in your life.
Unlike previous seasons of The Walking Dead, you never feel disempowered while controlling Michonne. She’s the type of person who, when her arms and legs are bound, headbutts someone to death. You’re never afraid your choices are going cause Michonne’s death, but the people around you are far less strong, barely able to hold a gun right and still soft to the world. Anger the wrong person and it’s not Michonne who will get shot, but one of her friends or allies. This is the key emotional choice that is presented to you through The Walking Dead: Michonne. As a player and possible Walking Dead fan, you want Michonne to go into every situation blades swinging, but doing so is bound to get someone hurt. You end up walking this dangerous line between intimidation and feigned helplessness exclusively for the sake and safety of others.
You are going to see the same old tried and true Telltale gameplay here. It’s a point and click affair, guiding Michonne with your mouse pointer or analog stick and clicking on objects until you get something to happen. Once again this is an “adventure” game in title only, as the usual trappings of puzzles and inventory management, are minimalized in favor of dialogue. Once again, the real draw of this game is seeing how your choices affect the story, and most of these choices will be made through explicit dialogue options or through the success and failure of quick time events.
And this game loves its quick time events! There at least three major quick time event sequences to deal with and many smaller button prompts scattered throughout the game. Note, that The Walking Dead: Michonne Episode 1 was shorter than most Telltale episodes, only about an hour long, so it’s a bit disappointing that you spend so much time playing the “press X to not die” game. Heck, the game even starts with a totally unprompted quick-time event which, I kid you not, turns out to be just a dream.
This affects the game’s pacing in some pretty harsh ways. You’ll feel like you are walking around doing nothing, and then all hell breaks loose out of nowhere. This could make otherwise tense situations seem farfetched. For example, there is one scene where you walk into a room and get held up at gunpoint, and just as you talk down your would-be shooter, a larger group of people with larger guns walk in to hold both you and your previous enemy at larger gunpoint. They swear that you and your previous assailant are allies but anyone with common sense could tell that we were at each other’s throats just a second ago.
There isn’t much else to say about The Walking Dead: Michonne. The U.I. has seen some improvements, becoming more dynamic like Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones before it. Subtitles and dialogue choices are crisper and easier to read. Quick time events pop up as huge colorful buttons and arrows, making it clear what you have to do, and always popping up exactly where your eyes are looking. Unfortunately, the “success” graphic is a red blood splatter and the “failure” graphic is a full red overlay so it’s hard to tell if you actually succeeded in a quick time event, unless Michonne gets eaten by a zombie or something.
Camera controls have been tightened up and there are far fewer graphical issues than there were in previous Walking Dead games. But there are still odd points of instability that pull you out of the experience. Quick time events seemed to be less responsive than they were before, requiring an inordinate amount of button mashing and seeming to ignore stick inputs at random times. The game crashed twice over the course of my playthrough, exiting to Steam for no good reason. These aren’t the worst bugs in a Telltale release, but they tend to strike at the most inopportune times, usually during tense story moments.
While the graphics of the game do their job, it’s obvious that they are starting to become outdated. The PC, Xbox One, and PS4 versions don’t look any better than the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, which is disappointing now that we have gotten used to high resolution high framerate graphics. This is extra important to cinematic games like this, where graphics aid in storytelling. It just feels as if something has been given up for the sake of massive cross platform support, and while it’s cool that you can play this on your iPhone, I’d gladly give that up to see Telltale experiment with some more complex graphical options.
But despite these flaws the story of The Walking Dead: Michonne is enough to keep it alive. While you never feel like you are Michonne, in the way you stepped into the shoes of Lee and Clementine in seasons 1 and 2, you are immediately invested in seeing Michonne survive. You know she is going to survive, because that’s just who Michonne is. The game, and more specifically your role as a player, is about how she is going to survive. Will she seek survival at the expense of everyone around her, or will she try to protect people weaker than herself? That’s up to you to decide, and it’s a deeply compelling decision.
7.75 Michonne travels the apocalyptic world, never staying in the same place long and never letting false promises of security get in her way. She never gives in to threats and faces adversity head on, which makes for a promising adventure.
Telltale’s greatest strength is their storytelling and that continues to apply here. It takes no time at all to get invested in Michonne’s fate, and you leave Episode 1 wanting more.
What was amazing for last generation is now unimpressive for this generation, but the comic-book style still serves as a familiar reference to the graphic novel that started it all.
Crashes, bugs, and glitchy controls lurk in the shadows of this game like a walker ready to get its next meal. You may have more luck with console versions of the game, and the bugs are never game breaking, but their enough to take you out of an otherwise tense moment.
The voice acting and soundtrack are top notch and perfectly frame the game’s tone. A few characters give over the top “evil villain” style performances and once I had the sound drop out from the game completely, but most of the time when everything is working correctly, the sound direction fits The Walking Dead’s post apocalyptic aesthetic.
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Designing and remodeling your kitchen is neither a small project nor one you should approach flippantly. A lot of design decisions must be made and all are integrated. One mistake can have a rippling effect. The best way to approach any project and avoid costly errors is to know the most common mistakes and simply don’t make them.
Measure twice cut once is sound advice for carpenters and anyone else who uses a tape measure.
An effort to show squeezed cabinets either side of range.
When designing a kitchen or bathroom, once you accept your measurements it is hard to change them. Nothing is more disappointing than re-measuring before ordering custom kitchen cabinets and realizing your design will not work because the space was originally miss-measured. Actually discovering it after the cabinets arrive is much, much worse.
Double check triple check. Measure with another designer or carpenter or if you are a home owner simply measure with another at least twice. Every 1/8” counts. Your investment in custom cabinetry, counter-tops, appliances, windows, lighting, you name it, is all at risk due to improper measurement.
Dishwasher & range not getting along.
Similar to miss-measurement is not considering the space used by each appliance with the appliance door(s) operation and fully open individually and all open at the same time. An obvious example is a dishwasher and a range cannot be placed opposite each other one in the island and the other on the perimeter. The doors will crash into each other.
The swing of every door, and of every appliance must be considered including those swinging at 90 degrees to one another. If the cabinet or appliance door cannot fully open it may preclude roll out trays from being pulled forward, as well as, blind corner pull outs and a lot of other expensive accessories not being fully accessible or not working at all.
Know appliance handle specifications to size the corner filler.
Mistake 3 is similar to mistake 2 but it is driven by a positive kitchen design desire with negative consequences. Not wanting to use to large a corner filler can result in cabinet drawers that crash into larger appliance handles. Corner cabinets are often the more expensive cabinets and design errors affect both cabinet runs not just one. The solution is a corner filler about a 1/2″ larger than the appliance handle’s depth and a corner applique or corner filler overlay.
One thing is super certain appliances cannot be selected after the design. Large handles make for large errors.
Cabinet so close to casement the molding and counter top protrudes onto casement.
What are architectural details? They are the doors and their casement, windows and their casement, base molding, chair rail, the rooms crown molding vs the cabinets, and ceiling beams. They are all architectural details, some may exist and some may be new to the remodel. all must be considered.
Measurement of only the door or window is for the amateur, the newbie not the experienced kitchen remodeling contractor. Measure from obstacle to obstacle from inside corner to casement from outside casement to outside casement. The size of the window in-between can be noted but is really less important that casement measurements.
Painting and maintenance should be part of the consideration as well as molding & counter top protrusions beyond the cabinets. If you design cabinetry to abut the edge of casement with no wall reveal or worse an inch of wall reveal then how will the wall ever be painted?
I’ll bet $100.00 the soffit was never measured or on the as is plans.
This is the vertical version of mistake #4. Ceiling beams and soffit must be considered. If they are overlooked it is probably because their dimension never made it onto the as is layout. Crown molding on cabinetry which is not the same height or depth. The crown molding must fully abut in its height and width an abutting cabinet which is taller in elevation. This picture says it all in the upper left the crown had to be notched because the soffit was not considered or not measured correctly. The crown of the lower elevation cabinet is to tall, or the elevation of the smaller cabinet is not small enough or the elevation of the larger cabinet is not large enough. All three are possible solution to this little design disaster.
Everybody wants a kitchen island I mean everybody and sometimes they just don’t fit. An island is a work station a place to prepare meals, make bread, serve meals and also eat meals. Anything that gets in the way of those desired functions can become a big problem.
My guess is this is an island that someone just had to have. It is simply too big for the space. Look at the range. I’m sure you cannot pass when the door is down and when you pull out a hot dish you have to lift it to a 42” high counter top. Cramped and dangerous.
An island that is to narrow so that you have 36” to 42” on each side may not be a good idea but it beats and island that is too big without those minimum dimensions.
I love this picture. You can tell by counting tiles they were considering the traffic pattern. BUT why bother.
How about an island that is the smallest island ever. I love this picture. With legs, corbels or a Federal Brace you can get more countertop space out of any island and not enough counter-top space is the next mistake.
Not enough counter top space. Heck half the kitchen design remodels we do are about gaining more working counter top space. It would be a crime to not consider. You have to think through it. A wall oven and a cook top both eliminate counter top space. A 36” refrigerator in a condo galley kitchen when a European 24” or 27” wide unit would have been more than adequate could provide another 12” of counter top. The same for sinks a 36” sink vs a 27” sink 9” of counter top lost.
Counter intuitive though it may be a 48” Galley Work Station allows you to have a counter top when you want it and a fantastic work station when you don’t.
Counter top appliances are the biggest thieves of counter top space. A mixer lift will keep you from sacrificing counter top space because you have a bad back and would default to leaving it on the counter top.
An inventory of what you have and how often you use it should be taken. Each appliance should have its storage location accounted for. Understand your pot an pan needs, your cutlery needs. A good cabinetry line should have multiple storage solutions so that everything is in its proper place.
Mistake #9 Too Much Open Shelving or Clear Glass Cabinetry.
A kitchen is not a museum. Pick a spot or two to display your prized possessions or family portraits. Don’t overdo it or your friends and family will realize what a slob you can be. Take a quick inventory of what you really want to show off and keep neat and clean and then design the space to show it off.
Mistake #10 Too much stainless steel.
Your kitchen is not an operating room or a cadaver scene from N.C.I.S.. Once you throw in stainless steel appliances it is easy to overdo it. Stay away from stainless steel anything else. Not part of the counter top the back splash. You get the picture.
Your kitchen is not the place to have a stainless steel refrigerator, a black dishwasher, and a brass hood. Good kitchen design is consistent..
#12 Think through your electrical outlets.
You simply cannot charge your laptop, plug-in the toaster, coffee make etc. and have an uncluttered counter top. Consider charging drawers, hidden receptacles and angled power strips.
Docking Drawer for all you charging needs simply devote on or two drawers for phones, tablets and small laptops.
The hiding of trash and recycling have become appliance like. You cannot do without it. Neglect it and regret it.
A new kitchen design is intangible. It must be developed. The starting point of that development is your budget. If you do not know what your willing to spend or you are not willing to tell your designer your budget then helping you becomes a time-consuming guessing game which may not result in an optimum out come for you.
Each designer at Signature has designed hundreds of kitchens. Each crew has remodeled hundreds of kitchen to the kitchen designers specification. We have made hundreds of mistakes. That’s right we have made hundred of mistakes over the course of 30 years. Every successful design build or kitchen design remodel firm you walk into can say the same. The idea that someone is going to design their own kitchen and have it come out the best it possibly could might happen. But our experience tells us that this is possibly the biggest kitchen design mistake you could make.
Custom Cabinetry… What does that mean?
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Okay, welcome back to our case study of a To Do list manager.
This is part of our peer review preparation.
a CoreData backed list of To Dos, and we have a detail pane that we can edit.
down through that view hierarchy.
We're going to create that CoreData model.
be used to create the cell view of our entity that we're creating the CoreData.
Then we're going to go ahead and add some navigation items to our views.
that there's a place where to start them.
object context all the way down, using our protocols or protocols.
And then how that all comes together.
So let's go back to our project, our Xcode project that we've been working on.
model that's going to hold our To Do.
make a To Do list manager keep track of.
creatively about what you might want to do.
items that are going to be set up.
We're going to have the title of the To Do.
We're going to have a detailed description of the To Do.
And then we're going to have a due date when that To Do presumably is done.
throughout our code and we're just going to say, to do entity so that we know.
we know that it came from this interface, did I spell it right?
a relational database and this is in fact what's underlying this.
Then we're going to add some attributes which were the columns in our database.
And the first one we're going to add is just the title.
The title is going to be a string.
And the title for this To Do is going to be required.
the attribute's properties to come up over here.
I don't know what that's about, but.
Now, then you click back in, it comes up.
I have a hard time getting those attributes to show up.
attribute here, and I want to make the title not be optional.
I also don't want it to be there but empty.
So I'm going to make it have a minimal length of one.
reset it to zero when I hit minimum length.
Hit Tab, make sure it sticks, great.
Now, it's going to be my first attribute.
used in other places and objectives here, and I don't want that to mess me up.
we'll call it To Do details.
And actually, let's finish that off.
To Do details, make it a string.
And again, the properties of that attribute aren't there.
I'm going to click outside in order to get the properties of the To Do details.
It's okay if the details are optional, we'll let that be optional.
What I want to do here is come back here and make this consistent though.
Get the properties of the attribute, and I'm going to make it consistent.
So it's To Do, do title, I just wanted to change the name.
Then the last thing that I want to do, is I want to add the due date.
So I'm going to make a To Do Due Date.
And this is going to be a date type.
And for, I am fine if this is also optional.
Now if you come over here on your pane, you can specify some minimum values.
the future and it couldn't figure out where the error was coming from.
So when you do this make sure that you're careful.
say it can go as far back as the beginning of 2015.
And I won't worry about putting a maximum date or a default value.
You don't have to put a constraint in here, but if, yeah this is just optional.
Give it a minimum value.
It looks like we have the three attributes we want.
create the code that helps us to interact with this CoreData element.
And we'll do that under editor.
And we'll create our NS managed object subclass.
We're going to create the To Do entity, please.
That's one I'd like to manage.
Like to put it in our project.
want to use an entity, you see that we can access different aspects of it.
That's if we want to add our own code, we add our own code here.
it will change these files.
which is a string, and the toDoDueDate which is an NSDate pointer object.
Okay, so that's our CoreData.
And we come over here and we try to define its class.
We see that it is a UITableViewCell.
access to code for that class, same way that we did the other elements as well.
So the UITableViewCell is the thing that we want to subclass.
Let's do that by creating a new file.
That is a new Cocoa IOS, boy, that keeps messing up on me.
There we go, and we will use our same pattern and say, MyUITableViewCell.
elements in our UI that we want to manage.
the subclass, we want to come over here and select our table cell.
And we want to make it of the class that we just created, MyUITableViewCell, great.
code we can have access to it programmatically.
an island outside of our view hierarchy.
So, let's do that next.
Create a To Do button and segueway it to the new view controller.
What that means is we have to look at our table view here and decide what we want.
Well, for starters, our root view controller here, I don't like the name.
Root view controller is not particularly user friendly.
And so, I want to change it.
Let's see if I can find where it's changed.
We're going to call this our to do list.
And what we would like to do is we would like to add a button.
And we want a bar button item, a special kind of button.
And we're going to put it on the right side.
Put it on the right side.
There we go. And it didn't show up in the right place.
I'm going to drag it down to the right side.
the right place in the hierarchy of my scene.
it is the right button bar.
I don't want it to be item.
Item would be a custom class.
And when I select it, it's not selecting it.
Maybe I'm too far zoomed out.
Sometimes if you're too far zoomed out you can't select it.
But it's not letting me zoom in to select it.
So, I'm going to select it over here instead.
sometimes gives you a little bit more confidence that you have the right thing.
reflects the semantic work of adding an item to our to do list.
it will still mean add however they want to change it in the future.
So, for now, it's a blue plus sign.
And so, I've added it.
I want it to create a segueway that moves into this smaller view controler.
I could do that by control clicking here and dragging it over.
I'm having trouble selecting my UI.
I'm going to control drag here to this new view controller.
I want that to be a show segueway.
that this is no longer an orphan.
add a navigation item to this which will give it a header.
this is going to be a place where we edit our to-do list items.
And it's also a place where we will create a new one.
So, I'll call it a to-do, let's call it the to-do editor.
Actually, let's call it a to do item.
Actually, let's just call it a to do.
and everything in this scene is going to be the to do.
So, let's just leave it as to do.
And while we're here, let's change this.
No, I think it's okay.
I think, I want the back button to say To Do List, I think.
Was what we said we we were going to do.
We said we were going to create a new to do button.
That's the plus button that we added to the navigation bar.
and when we did that it made it, it gave it the navigation bar.
of passing the managed object context down the hierarchy.
Before we do that, I want to run it make sure it's working okay.
use this protocol that we created in the way that we meant for it to be created.
All right. So, let's run it.
First of all, oh, we have some warnings.
So, let's check out what our warnings are.
incomplete implementation return the number of rows.
This reflects the fact that we haven't created a delegate for our table view yet.
We don't need to do that quite yet.
Let's run what we've got so far.
Now we have our To Do List and our plus button.
We hit our plus button and we get our new To Do view.
And we can go back to our To Do List.
Great. That's all we wanted to do at this point.
as we are displaying the different views in the view controller.
So, to do that, let's see.
Let me get my notes here.
this is the point at which we have a managed objects context.
And we need to get a handle on that.
We need to get a pointer to it.
We need to send it to our navigation view controller, our navigation controller.
That is our root to you controller.
And so, let's see if we can get access to that.
Now, this is a generic term for the first, and that initial view controller.
we know that it's going to be an example of a myUI, my, whoops.
Wait for the beach ball.
Well, actually, what we're going to do is we're going to use our protocol here.
So, we don't actually care what our root view controller is.
implements our DP handles mock protocol.
All right? And so, we're going to cast it to that.
So, we'll get an exception if it's not that.
We know that it is our my navigation view controller.
Because of the way we set up our storyboard.
the time being we're going to get a head of ourselves.
And we're going to say that this is what we have.
So, we'll say NS object dp handles lock.
And this is going to be the child, and it is a pointer to that.
And we're going to set that equal to the first root controller.
And then, we don't recognize this, so let's include it.
Give it a second to catch up.
And then, we will return yes.
And wait for our things to resolve.
controller, and this doesn't implement it yet, so our next task is to implement it.
that this implements the DPHandlesMOC interface.
we're going to tell the compiler what that is.
And great, and then we actually have to declare that.
And then we have to implement it.
which happens to be the navigation controller.
So in here we are going to say, oh, we're going to need a place to keep track of it.
So we're going to keep track of it up here.
is an example of the managed object context that we want to keep track of.
And so it is a property that is going to be local to this class.
And we are going to make it strong and nonatomic.
and it's a pointer to that.
And we are going to call it, I'll call it our managedObjectContext.
All right, how's that working?
Don't need these numbers, great.
that if we need it in order to change our Core Data objects, we have access to it.
we passed it down the chain.
The next thing down the chain in the navigation controller is the table view.
And so what we want to do is we want to pass it down the chain to the table view.
controller is the table view, and so we know that it is going to.
Yeah, Sam corrected me on something.
Let's go back to our app delegate here.
object that implements DPHandlesMOC like that.
It's a little bit more general.
now it's going to find its child that it's going to pass it to.
that is going to be equal to, we're going to cast it to the right thing.
And we are going to look at all the view controllers that are its children.
There is only one, and that is going to be the one that we have here.
we're going to pass the managed object context down the chain.
doesn't actually do a segue in order to load its table view.
Our navigation controller has now passed it on to our table view.
And so we need to do the same thing in our table view.
Here, let's go to our navigation controller.
We see that it has to handle MOC.
It is also going to have to handle the managed object context.
We have to declare it.
had in our navigation controller.
So I'm going to grab it from our navigation controller.
Now let's go to our table view controller.
We're going to declare a local variable, which is our managed object context.
We're going to go back to our navigation controller.
We're going to get the code to save it.
we're going to go down to the bottom where we have some space.
And we are going to keep track of it here.
because it didn't have any other way to do that, at least straightforward way.
it's not going to do that until there's actually a transition made.
we have some stubbed out code here that Xcode made for us.
prepareForSegue is called right before you switch to that detailed sender line.
in this code, do the work of passing our managed object context down.
So it's an example of doing it in a different way.
Rather than doing it in our received MOC context, we're going to do it here.
All right. Let's see what we're going to do.
All right. So the sender is who is sending it.
that's view controller that we're going to.
that it implements our DPHandlesMOC implementation.
We will then assign that to a local variable, which we'll call the child.
we're going to pass our managed object context to the view controller.
All right, so as we transition, the view controller is going to get it.
the view controller itself and implement these same things.
implemented, we're going to get the interface for it.
okay, the view controller is going to implement that handles protocol.
And we need to make sure that the compiler knows about it.
going to get the same code.
We're going to put it in the view controller.
Same place, going to go back to our TableViewController.
which is where we're going to keep track of our managed object context.
starting with our application, which isn't on our storyboard.
which immediately passes it to our table view controller.
at which point it passes it down to our to-do element.
All right, so it should run, we shouldn't have any trouble.
Let's just check what our warnings are.
which we haven't gotten to yet.
Let's make sure we got everything on this section that we wanted to do.
Yep, so we're good to go.
So that's, it should run, we shouldn't have any problem.
Let's make sure it runs before we wrap up this video.
And when we hit our plus button, that's when that segue was invoked.
element in it received the managed object context.
So there was no error.
So that's everything we wanted to accomplish in this video.
We'll pick up again in a second.
Well, in a second if you watch repeatedly.
Otherwise it'll be as long as you wait until the next video.
You have the locus of control.
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2019-04-24T06:49:22Z
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Finding the perfect tool is frustrating!
Hours and hours of your precious time will get lost - just to find out if the tool you are looking at offers what you need, at a price you can afford.
I know this because I've spoken to so many people who've done just that and I've done it too!
I want to spare you the grief and I think I've found a solution to make it much easier for you! Instead of you investing the time and resources, I've done the heavy lifting for you.
After months of research, it became clear how complex it was. In addition to this blog post, I knew we needed a comparison tool and so here it is!
Use it to get a ballpark figure for the cost of each tool depending on your needs and don't forget to read on below as I give you more insights and details as to how to use it and what the advanced features mean for you.
This article and tool focuses on the price of social media management tools. You can expect some big differences in cost when comparing tools. If you find two tools that meet all (or most of) your priorities, but one will cost you significantly less, that’s going to be a key factor to consider.
But first, make sure you find out whether or not the tools do all you need to do. Making sure that the tool does the job properly is top priority - pricing comes second.
Hootsuite was one of the first social media management tools to come on to the market. It was founded back in 2008, and started out as a Twitter-only tool. It integrated with more social networks over time. Its market share quickly grew into the biggest and it’s clearly still the most popular and well known social media management tool.
It’s the only tool in this review to have a free plan. This gives you basic features and integrates with up to 3 social networks.
Hootsuite integrates with more social networks than the other tools. The core networks are Facebook (profile & pages), Twitter, LinkedIn (profile & pages), Google+ (profile & pages), Instagram and YouTube. You also have access to the Hootsuite app directory which integrates with hundreds of apps, CRMs, networks and services – some free and some paid.
Hootsuite has announced new plans. The new Professional plan will be for single users only – so it’s not suitable for teams anymore.
They’ve launched a new Team plan for teams, and changed the Business plan slightly. At the moment these plans haven’t rolled out to all locations and users.
Although I’ve not included Hootsuite’s limited free plan in the comparison tool, it’s worth mentioning here. Hootsuite have always had a free plan to attract users. Originally Hootsuite allowed users to manage up to 5 social networks but this has been reduced to 3.
What you get: 3 social networks, 1 basic report, Twitter keyword search (unlimited), Fans and Followers (unlimited), no team management features, no customized URL shortener.
The entry paid plan is called Professional. The price recently had a big price hike and now costs $45/mth for a limit of 10 social networks and for single users only. You get a discount if you pay annually. It used to cost $5.99 per month and included unlimited social networks and 2 users with the ability to add more team users..
What you get: 10 social networks, 1 basic report ($50 per additional report), Twitter keyword search (unlimited), Fans and Followers (unlimited), no team management features, no customized URL shortener, fast customer support (costs $6/user/month extra).
Social Networks: 10. If you need more, you’ll need to upgrade to a higher plan.
Number of team users: 1 (maximum).
Reporting: 1 Basic report per month. Extra reports cost $50 each/month. Reporting currently uses a point system. Pro users get 50 points each month to “spend” on a basic report. Examples include Twitter Engagement Summary or Detailed, Facebook Insights, LinkedIn Page Insights & Google. If you want to see reports across all your networks in Hootsuite, you’ll need to pay for more reports by purchasing more points at $50 for 50. Some users have found a way around this, just by just viewing the report, then deleting it before viewing the next one - but it’s a bit of time-consuming.
Team Management: – No. Only single users can use the Hootsuite Pro plan and you don’t get team management features. If you want to be able to set user roles, have the ability to assign tasks and approve workflows, you’ll need to upgrade to the Business or Enterprise plans.
For years, Hootsuite only offered 3 plans – free, pro and enterprise. This year, Hootsuite launched the Business and Team plans.
The Team plan bridges the gap which was formed after the pro plan became only suitable for single users. In Hootsuite's words, it is "for small business marketing teams to be more productive in managing social media through a single dashboard"
You get up to 5 users and up to 20 social networks. You also get proper team management features so you can assign mentions and messages to team members and be able to approve content. You also a custom branded URL included, although since this uses Hootsuite’s ow.ly service, you can’t use this URL outside of Hootsuite.
If you want any more social networks or users, you’ll need to upgrade to the Business or Enterprise plan.
What you get: 20 social networks, unlimited basic & advanced reports, Twitter keyword search (unlimited), Fans and Followers (unlimited), team management features, customized URL shortener (Hootsuite - only included), fast customer support.
Team Management: Yes. By “Team management features”, I mean publishing approval workflows, user permissions, and other multi-user/team workflows.
The new Business plan is aimed (in their words) at “socially sophisticated small agencies and businesses”. You start with a minimum of 5 users and up to 35 social networks with proper team management features. You also a custom branded URL included (using Hootsuite’s ow.ly service). You have to pay annually for the business plan which costs around $7,188 per year for 5 users. If you want any more social networks, or need more than 10 users you’ll need to upgrade to the Enterprise plan.
Cost: $7,188. No monthly payment available. This starts from 5 users and you can add more users at $1,188 per user per year up to a maximum of 10 users.
What you get: 35 social networks, unlimited basic & advanced reports, Twitter keyword search (unlimited), Fans and Followers (unlimited), team management features, customized URL shortener (Hootsuite - only included), fast customer support.
Number of team users: Between 5 and 10 users.
It’s time to discuss the mysterious Hootsuite Enterprise plan. It’s mysterious because it’s always been very difficult to get any pricing information on it. Back in 2011, the Enterprise plan was advertised at $1499 per month (that’s $17,988 per year) for up to 30 users. If you wanted a custom branded URL you also needed to pay an extra $499.99 per month.
Since then they’ve been very secretive about the Enterprise pricing and it’s been very difficult for any reviewers to give decent comparisons.
When I spoke to Hootsuite about this last year, they told me that the Enterprise plan is customized to the needs of the business and so the pricing can change. Although that’s definitely the case, Hootsuite do have a base price and it’s around $16,000 for 5 users. That’s cheaper than was advertised back in 2011, but you get fewer users – just 5. You can pay more to add more users at around $9,000 per additional 5. So, to get the 30 users that used to cost $17,988 back in 2011 you’d now have to pay $61,000! I am sure you could haggle with the Hootsuite sales department though!
To get accurate prices, however, you’ll need to discuss your specific requirements with Hootsuite. The prices I’ve listed here were obtained through my research, but as I mentioned, Hootsuite does customize the Enterprise plan depending on your situation. The prices should act as a helpful guide in your research to find the best plan for you.
With Hootsuite Enterprise you are required to pay annually and the cost likely starts around $16,000 for 5 users.
Number of team users: 5 (included). Around $9,000 per year per additional 5 users.
Sprout may not be as well-known as Hootsuite, but it’s a popular social media management tool with many happy and passionate users. They were founded back in 2010. Sprout offers an impressive level of features, many of which are available to users of all plans. It integrates with the main social networks: Twitter, Facebook (profiles and pages), LinkedIn (profiles and pages), Google+ (pages) and Instagram (engagement & reporting only). If you want to be able to publish and schedule Instagram posts, you’ll have to opt for Hootsuite or Agorapulse or use another app such as Later.
Back in 2012, Sprout was fairly inexpensive - starting at $9/month (pro plan) and $49/month (business plan). In 2014 the entry price rose to $39/user/month.
The entry plan until fairly recently was the Deluxe Plan at $59/user/month. Unfortunately, they've removed the Deluxe Plan for new users. Now the cheapest is the $99/mth Premium Plan.
Sprout does reporting particularly well with very visual reports available to all plans. They’re generally more advanced than Hootsuite’s reports and they’re not as limited. However, you don’t get access to all reports. Some (such as the engagement report) is only available on the Premium plan upwards. Others (such as the Twitter Listening and Team reports) are only available on the Team plan upwards.
Not all plan limitations are apparent until you try and upgrade. As I mentioned, some reports are only available on higher plans. However, there are other limitations such as the total number of fans and followers across all your accounts and team management features only being available to the Team and Enterprise plans.
You can view an extensive comparison of features across SproutSocial's plans on their website.
By upgrading to the Premium plan you can manage up to 10 social networks and gain access to engagement and trends reports. It also copes with a total number of fans and followers of up to 200,000 across all your networks.
Social Networks: 10 (maximum). Additional social profiles can be added at $25/user/month.
Fans & Followers: 200,000 across all your social networks. If you have very popular accounts, you’ll need to upgrade to Team or Enterprise plans.
Team Management: No team management feature - no publishing approval workflows, user permissions, and other multi-user/team workflows – just the same as the Deluxe Plan.
Twitter Keyword Monitoring: 10 Twitter searches per profile.
You used to get 3 users included with the Team plan for $499/mth and then $125/mth per extra user. The prices changed in April 2017 so that it is $149/mth per user. That's cheaper for small teams but more expensive for larger ones.
It’s the first plan that has full team management features with the ability to assign and delegate messages with approval workflows. You are able to manage up to 30 social networks and you gain access to all reports (the Twitter Listening, Team, Task Performance and Tag reports are only available on Team and Enterprise plans). You are limited to a maximum of 30 social networks and you don’t have the ability to purchase more (unlike the Deluxe and Premium plans). If you need more than 30, you’ll need to upgrade to the Enterprise plan which has a maximum of 50 social profiles.
Social Networks: 30 (maximum). Note – this is the maximum number and you can’t purchase any more profiles.
Reporting: Same reports as Premium Plan with the addition of Twitter Listening, Team, Task Performance and Tag Report.
Fans & Followers: 500,000 across all your social networks.
Team Management: Full team management feature. This includes publishing approval workflows, user permissions, and other multi-user/team workflows.
The Enterprise plan used to start at $1,500 per month and included up to 10 users. Since April 2017, the enterprise plan costs $249/user/month. That's cheaper for smaller teams, but larger teams are going to be hit with a higher price.
The enterprise plan gives you access to up to 50 social networks maximum. It gives you access to all of Sprout’s reports and team management features.
Reporting: Same reporting as Team plan. Full access to all reports and advanced stats.
Fans & Followers: Unlimited across all your social networks.
Twitter Keyword Monitoring: 20 Twitter searches per profile.
The final tool in our comparison is Agorapulse. Compared to Hootsuite and Sprout Social, Agorapulse is not as well known, although it has really made some in-roads into the social media management tool arena in the past year.
It was founded back in 2010 as a Facebook tool. Since then, it has re-invented itself as a full social media management tool integrating with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube and Google+. You get full publishing, engagement features and reports for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can publish and schedule to Google+ and LinkedIn.
Agorapulse offers a few features that Sprout and Hootsuite don’t have. For example, Facebook ad monitoring and automated moderation.
You used to get unlimited team members with Agorapulse plans, but these are now limited depending on the plan you opt for. That being said, the prices for teams are very reasonable and you get full team management features from $199/month upwards.
The entry plan (which is called the Small Plan) is more expensive than Hootsuite’s entry plan and less expensive than Sprout’s Social entry plan. With the small plan, you get 3 social profiles, 1 team user. Although there are a lot of really advanced features for your money, if budget is the top priority, the HootSuite Pro plan is always going to be cheaper for teams of 1.
Team users will need to opt for the Large Plan which allows you to manage 25 social profiles within a team of 6 with full team management.
The small plan is Agorapulse’s entry plan. Its price is in between Hootsuite and Sprout Social’s entry paid plan. It includes a maximum of 1 user and you can manage up to 5 social profiles. You get all the other features except reports are limited to 2 months of data and you don’t get ad monitoring, Facebook apps or team management features. If you need more social profiles or users, you will need to upgrade your plan.
Cost: $49/month (1 user max).
Cost: $99/month (includes 3 users).
Cost: $199/month (includes 6 users).
The Enterprise plan costs $299 per month and is similar to the Large plan – you just get more stuff (more users and networks)!
Cost: $299/month (includes 12 users).
So there you have it – a comparison of all the Hootsuite, Sprout Social and Agorapulse plans and a deep dive into most of their features. Of course, I haven’t mentioned all features, but I hope I’ve made it a little easier to make a choice!
As you will have seen, not all prices, features and limitations are listed or easy to spot when you view tool company websites.
Sometimes you won’t find out that you’ve hit a limit until it is too late! If only you had known that before you had invested all that time and money in the tool.
Both Hootsuite and Agorapulse don’t put any limitations on how many fans and followers you have across your social profiles. However, there are limits on Sprout Social plans. If your Facebook page and Twitter accounts are very popular, you may find that the 100,000 total on the Deluxe Plan or the 200,000 on the Premium Plan aren’t enough. The Enterprise plan, however, doesn’t have an upper limit.
Agorapulse, give access to all reports on all plans. The large plan and above gives you 24 months of data while the medium gives you 6 months and the small gives you 2 months.
With Hootsuite Professional you get 1 basic report included although you can purchase extra credits for other reports each month. Some reports are only available on the Enterprise plan such as Twitter & Facebook Aggregate.
With the basic Deluxe plan from Sprout Social you have unlimited access to some reports. The Engagement & Trends reports are only available if you upgrade to the Premium plan and higher. The Twitter Listening, Team, Task Performance and Tag Reports are only available if you upgrade to the Team or Enterprise plans.
While Hootsuite and Agorapulse don’t put any limit to the number of Twitter searches you can add, Sprout does limit the number. You get 5 searches per profile on the Deluxe Plan, 10 on the Premium and Team and 20 on the Enterprise.
When things go wrong, you’ll want to have the peace of mind of knowing you can contact support. I’ve assumed a response within 4 hours as acceptable, but you may have different thoughts! Enterprise plans may have a quicker response, but I’d recommend asking the tool company about this.
If you have a team of people managing your social networks, you’ll want to give them all different logins. Sharing user credentials is a security nightmare and bad practice. What if one of the team members goes AWOL? They still have access to your social dashboard! Not good.
All 3 tools offer the facility to add multiple team members – all with their own logins. They all have limits, and the price goes up depending on how many team members. With Hootsuite, you no longer have team options with the Professional plan. If you want more than 1 user, you'll need up upgrade. The Team plan allows up to 5 users. Sprout Social is more flexible and you can add extra users no matter which plan you are on. With Agorapulse you only get 1 user with the small plan and 3 users with the medium plan. If you want more users, you'll need to upgrade to the large plan (which includes 6 users) or Enterprise plan (which includes 12 users). Extra users can be added for Large and Enterprise plans for $39/user/month.
However, to get the most out of your team, you really need team management features. With this, you can assign different roles to your team such as an admin, editor and moderator. Team members can assign tasks to each other and you as an admin or editor can approve content.
This is available with Agorapulse on the Large Plan upwards. It’s available with Hootsuite on the Team, Business and Enterprise plans and on the Team and Enterprise Plans with Sprout Social.
Custom URLs allow you to brand your shortened URLs and track clicks across your channels. I use to.iag.me as my shortened URL on Twitter for example (I use bit.ly for this service). Sprout Social and Agorapulse give you custom URLs on all their plans and integrate with bit.ly – meaning you can use the same custom URL with other tools.
Hootsuite, on the other hand charges you $50/month for a custom URL on the pro plan. It’s included in the Business and Enterprise plans. Since the custom URL uses Hootsuite’s ow.ly shortener, you can’t use it outside of Hootsuite.
There are likely to be other hidden features I haven’t mentioned. Examples could include advanced stuff such as a dedicated account manager, APIs and more.
It’s always best to speak with the tool company’s sales department and do your own research. However, I hope this article makes your job significantly easier!
Now that you’ve got a better idea of the prices, plans, and hidden features, how do you make that final decision and choose the right tool and plan for your situation?
As I’ve said many times, there is no such thing as a perfect tool. HootSuite, Sprout Social and Agorapulse all have their pros and cons and you’ll need to make a compromise at some point.
What do you need the Tool to do?
In my guide on How to Choose your Ideal Social Media Management Tool, I recommend making a list of your top priorities. Then compare the top tools and see which tool matches the most of these priorities. You may then need to supplement that tool’s deficiencies with a few smaller tools.
Which social networks do you want the tool to help you manage?
All tools in this comparison integrate with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google+. HootSuite also integrates with YouTube and has integrations with many more apps through its app directory. However, do you want to manage your Facebook profile and groups as well as your page? How about your LinkedIn company page as well as your profile?
HootSuite allows you to publish to your Twitter profile, Facebook profile and pages, LinkedIn profiles and pages, Google+ profiles & pages, Instagram and YouTube. Sprout Social allows you to publish to your Twitter profile, Facebook profile, and pages, LinkedIn profiles and pages, Google+ but not Instagram. Agorapulse allows you to publish to your Twitter profile, Facebook page (but not profile), LinkedIn profiles and pages, Google+ pages and Instagram.
Instagram is a mobile-centric social network. The only way to publish content is via their official mobile app. However, Instagram partners like Agorapulse, Sprout Social and Hootsuite are able to utilize the Instagram API to publish and schedule content.
The limitation here is that only Instagram Business profiles are allowed by Instagram to use this functionality. You may choose to connect personal Instagram accounts, and you can even set up posts to be published to those accounts, but personal Instagram users will have to allow the tool’s mobile app to send a push notification to your mobile device and utilize the Instagram mobile app to actually publish.
How many social networks do you need to manage? If you are a small business, this is likely to be a small number. However, larger businesses and agencies are likely to require significantly higher. Each tool and plan have their own limits – so check carefully and think about how you might want to scale up in the future.
How many fans/followers do you have?
This only really affects Sprout Social, but if you are likely to have a popular portfolio of social profiles, bear in mind that Sprout imposes limits to the total number of followers and fans all your social profiles can have for each plan. Only their Enterprise plan is truly unlimited.
Do you need to keep track of how you are doing? Both Sprout Social and Agorapulse have high-quality reports available to all plans. Sprout Social limits some of these reports on Premium, Team and Enterprise plans. Hootsuite’s reports are decidedly basic, but this may not concern very small businesses and solopreneurs.
Want to pay annually or monthly?
Many businesses want to be in control of their cash flow and prefer to pay monthly. Sprout Social and Agorapulse allows you to pay monthly across all their plans. With HootSuite, the Business and Enterprise plans are only available if you pay yearly.
Are you working in a team? If so, you may need full team management features.
Do you need a custom URL? How about fast support?
Make a list of your top priorities and then compare all the tools.
This blog post and tool have been a long time in the making. You could say, it’s taken 5 years since my first article on Hootsuite. Even so, it’s taken a lot of research, emails and phone calls to get more clarity on the pricing of the main social media management tools. I hope it makes your job in finding the best social media management tool for you and your business a whole lot easier.
Please let me know how you get on and your thoughts in the comments below!
Excellent. I will go with Hootsuite for my business.
Does Hootsuite have a free plan now? I had a look at their website and there was not even a word mentioned about a free plan.
P.S. Your “Leave a Reply” section is not easy to use, sometimes it’s buggy and the image gets on the text, I need to reload for making a comment.
Yes, Hootsuite still has a free plan – although in their words it is limited. They display it on their pricing page – underneath all their other plans.
Thank you for this info, I searched my Google an hour and finally I found your article.
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Yes, Hootsuite Pro is $29/month and has a max of 1 user. If you pay yearly, it’s the equivalent of $19/mth (which you can see in the screenshot above).
I have been working with various customer at once and it is constantly useful when we deal with numerous records from the single dashboard. I have attempted Buffer, Hoot suite and social pilot and particularly content with the social pilot among them.
Nice Article Anderson. Your comparison is Really Helpful to plan before investing.
Ian, you’ve clearly invested a lot of hours producing this report. Thanks. Slightly off-point, if I may … A couple years ago or so, you were touting MAVSocial as an up-and-comer. What happened in your view, that they became a down-and-outer? From looking at them recently (today), it appears MAV’s pricing and features would slot-in favorably with your top 3 choices here. And, they’re promising to add Pinterest to their mix before end of year. Can you share your reason for excluding Mav? Thx!
Thanks, Lynwood, yes MavSocial are still a contender, and they’ve been continually improving it over the years. I always found the interface a bit clunky, but I really like the tool.
The main reason for not including it in this article is that I only wanted to compare the most popular tools. With such a comprehensive article (and the tool) I could only compare a couple. I’ve written some other comparisons that do include MavSocial, though, Hope that helps!
I can see the amount of effort you put in this post Ian, and let me tell you that it’s definitely worth it, as I haven’t seen anything as useful as this when it comes to social media tools pricing!
Fantastic job! This is one of the most detailed, informative and professional article about this tools I found. The comparison tool is amazing, thank you!
I have been working with multiple client at a time and it is always helpful when we manage multiple accounts from the single dashboard. I have tried Buffer, Hootsuite and socialpilot and very much happy with the socialpilot among them.
I am yet to try Agorapulse but will surely check it now.
I read your review about AgoraPulse which looks very promising. Will keep you updated on this.
Hi, Gail. Thanks so much for your comment and thanks for sharing – that means a lot!
I’ve always used Buffer for scheduling because it is so easy.
Tanks for this useful article. I’m looking to manage a luxury villa rental agency and I think I will go for Agorapulse.
Thanks, Oliver, glad you found this useful. Hope Agorapulse works well for you. Let us know how you get on!
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I learnt Welsh, you can learn it too! – Mam Cymru.
I learnt Welsh, you can learn it too!
Nicky with TV presenter Alun Williams filming an item about his experiences as a Welsh learner, for Bore Da, S4CDysgu Cymraeg – Learn Welsh gyda Nicky….
I have a confession to make. I’m not a mother. I’m not even a woman. I have had a wife since 2014. I have two guinea pigs if they count?
I am Nicky Roberts. I come from the Rhondda Valley – do you know it? It’s a place where no-one speaks Welsh at all, if you believe what you hear. Well, it’s true in a way, because I grew up in a place called Tonypandy. I am telling lies, it’s just that no-one knows of Edmondstown – so I had to say Tonypandy.
Welsh can feel ‘foreign’ if you grow up in a place like Tonypandy. I went to school when teaches still showed videos on the TV instead of teaching you how to actually speak the language. Twenty five years came and went and what did I remember from school?
I have always felt Welsh. I count myself as Welsh first, European second – not ‘British’ at all. Just like lots of people who live in places like the Rhondda Valleys and other places in south Wales, but I just never got the chance to learn the language properly.
I won’t go too far into the politics of the education system (If you’re reading the English version of this story, you’re missing a great part about how I had to use a dictionary to find the Welsh word for ‘politics’). But yes, when I was in school you didn’t have to study Welsh after turning 14. There was no need to do Welsh for your GCSE. So I had to choose between studying ‘IT’ or Welsh.
‘IT’ has been great to me. I work as a ‘Technical Architect’ at the moment. It’s my ‘dream job’ so to speak. I did my A-Levels after that, and after that I went to the University of Glamorgan to study ‘Software Engineering’. I changed to ‘Computer Science’ after Year One of the course because I started to hate all of the ‘obscure maths’ I was studying!
I went into the world of work. I started right from the bottom (and it felt like the bottom!), in Lloyds TSB near the M4 in Bridgend.
Over time, I learnt to speak French to fluency. I played in bands touring all over Britain in a Ford Transit. After a couple of years of fun, I moved with my work to Swansea, a totally different world to the Rhondda Valleys! Everything was different. Coming from a small town like Tonypandy, you had to catch the last bus by 6.30pm or you were stuck in the valleys for the night. When I moved to Swansea I can remember the first time I saw a bus going through my street at 10pm in the night! Crazy times!
I met my wife in a terrible pub called ‘The Hanbury’ Don’t try and find it! After a year together we decided to move back to the Rhondda so that Lara could go to the University of Glamorgan (funny how life works out yeah?) to study Art.
Fast forward a couple of years. We got married, Lara finished university and started working in a studio in Porth in the Rhondda, making pottery.
After years of not having a passport (Remember now! I come from Tonypandy. Going somewhere like Aberaeron is far with me!) I decided to get one. Some people say that I’m difficult. I don’t agree with them but I am happy to say that I decided to go on the trip of a lifetime just to spite people.
What do you do when you have never been abroad before now? It’s easy! Book 14 holidays in a year! Rome, Paris, Cophenhagen, Malmo, Berlin, Vilnius (Yeah! Lithuania, I had to find that out as well!), Paris again for the Euros, Manchester, Paris once again (Why not? Everyone likes Paris!), Brussels, Barcelona, Budapest, Amsterdam before finishing the year in the lovely town of Aberystwyth.
We didn’t spend a lot of time in every city, just a weekend here and there. Most of them were booked with lastminute.com or something like that, loads of cheap deals.
I can remember going to the Euros to watch Wales play against Northern Ireland in Paris with Lara. Something started to click in my head, I don’t know what – but I was sure something was starting. I was feeling embarrassed because I could speak fluent French with all of the French people. I could walk into any bar in Paris, order drinks, share jokes with the locals and tell them all about Wales. But I was worried about running into a Welshman or a Welshwoman who could speak Welsh. What would I do? What would I say?
I came home after the game and started to think about what to do. I wanted to learn the language of my country.
A couple of months afterward I remember talking with Lara in our house in Porth about starting to learn Welsh. Lara agreed with me. She did Welsh in school as well, until she was 16, but like me also, she had forgotten everything except for ‘In my opinion’, so we had a lot of work if we working to going to do it.
When starting, Lara and I would go to a local pub called ‘Clwb y Bont’ in Pontypridd. Where we got the change to practice buying drinks in bad Welsh, starting with ‘Dau peint Carlsberg os gwelwch yn dda?’ moving onto ‘Ga I dau beint o Carlsberg, plis?’ before getting loads of confidence and trying out something fancy like ‘Alla’I gael dau beint o Carlsberg, plis?’ and making the man behind the bar think we were fluent speakers, we had to say ‘Na, dw I ddim yn deall beth wedais ti!’ when the man started to speak in quick Welsh!
I started a YouTube channel called ‘Learn Welsh with Nicky’ just at first as a way of keeping me interested. Well, that’s a lie. It was more of a way of feeling responsibility. If people subscribed, I had to make more videos. My channel took off, not in the same way as Zoella or KSI! In a Welsh way.
I made my first after learning for two and a half weeks. When I watch the video back now I cringe but also I feel a little proud towards my achievements. One guy I know hated it. I don’t know why exactly. He was a friend at the time. But he had nothing but criticism for some reason?
“You’re doing it wrong” he said.
“You’re saying the words in the wrong order” he said.
He didn’t say this to me in Welsh, because he refused to speak with me in Welsh because he thought I was too bad with Welsh to speak with!
You can’t let people like that bring you down, and since then I have met nothing but lovely people who have helped me loads when I’m confused or make mistakes.
Fortunately, I work from home – just like Lara now. After visiting Aberystwyth over Christmas, we chose to move here. I hired a big van and moved everything of ours 100 miles up the road over a couple of days.
We have always loved Aberystwyth. I have been coming here since I was young for holidays with my family and Lara has been coming here also. Lara’s father came here to study at the University in the seventies. I asked Lara to marry me in New Quay, just down the A487 in 2013, so the town is important to us.
Living in Aberystwyth gave us lots of chances to use the language on the street, in pubs, socialising, making friends and getting more confidence with the language.
I won’t tell you lies. Learning Welsh is not easy all of the time. I have days when people think I’m a fluent/since birth speaker and I have days when I forget how to say something really simple.
I found a ‘chat club’ in Aberystwyth Town in ‘Siop y Pethe’ where I can meet other learners and speak about our experiences of learning the language every week. It gives us a chance to hear other voices and get the experience of speaking with fluent speakers who speak a lot quicker than us!
The interesting thing is getting friends who you only speak to in Welsh! I’ve got friends now, like Llio, Heulwen (Mam Cymru!) Emily, Marc, Aled, Lowri, Geraint from ‘Y Cwps’ or Tom from Aberystwyth Town football club, who to speak with in another language than Welsh would feel weird.
You might be reading this and thinking ‘What’s the point of this? This guy is a terrible writer!’ The point is, I have been learning Welsh for six months. I haven’t done anything special to do this, I spent an hour or two a day learning the language and now I can speak in real life with other speakers, I can make videos for YouTube, I can write blogs like this, for blogs like this.
If I can do it, you can do it. We have the responsibility of keeping the language alive. I don’t speak perfectly at all. I make mistakes all of times. I have never learnt to write or spell in Welsh.
Try it out! Next time you’re walking down the street or buying something in a shop, just say ‘Shwmae’ and see what happens, you never know, it could open the next chapter of your life?
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2019-04-22T18:48:47Z
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https://mamcymru.wales/en/2017/07/01/wnes-i-dysgu-cymraeg-chin-gallu-dysgu-e-hefyd/
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the fathers – Go. Find.
“Some people fight to get back what they’ve lost. I fight because I don’t know how to do anything else.” — Lt. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in season two of (the new) Battlestar Galactica.
As a kid, I used to rip the branches off our neighbor’s mock orange trees to make bows and arrows. Younger branches for the arrows (they grew remarkably straight and flew pretty well) and mid-age branches for the bows (green enough to be flexible and thick enough to be strong). The neighbor hated me (I get that now as a home owner) but my sisters and the neighbor kids had access to functioning weapons as long as I hadn’t lost my pocket knives. (Strange, strange girl I was) We also used old broomsticks and walking sticks as quarter-staffs and wailed away at each other on the front lawn. I really don’t know why CPS was never called. It’d be easy to put some of that, and how I am now, on what was going on inside the house, but some of it is just that my poor mother had three daughters who refused to play with dolls or sit still. Instead we hooked the dog up to the wagon and made her pull us down the street. We wouldn’t stay off the muddy river banks and we shot arrows at each other from the cover of the bushes in front of our house.
I’m not naive. I know some of this conflict- and rough-and-tumble orientation is some of what helped me get through and keeps me going. Some of it, though, is just fun. And as I’ve grown older, that love of fighting and a deep appreciation for scrappy characters has not waned — Starbuck, Katniss, Lisbeth, Veronica… My greatest respect, though, remains for my sisters who are always willing to stand alongside and throw down.
I’ve had no problem seeing life here as a war, externally and internally. (I’m going back to the why-I-am-Orthodox discussion again here) I know I’m broken. I know I’m not the person I’m supposed to be. I know I’m not the person I’m going to be. I know that I too often give in and give up to the pull of this place, this culture that swamps the moral boats and/or tries to obliterate the image of God carved into our souls.
Modern American Christianity/Evangelical Protestantism never gave me the right tools with which to fight. I would read the Epistles of St. Paul and his war imagery, his descriptions of contests and I would wait for someone to tell me how I was to wage war as a good soldier of the King. But all I had at my disposal were endless praise and worship tunes, happy thoughts and crossed fingers.
It never worked for me. Orthodoxy gives me actual weapons, sturdier ones than mock orange tree branches, and ways to train to wage the fight. The part of me that loves those fictional characters, the deepest part of my humanness that wants to be brave and strong when the time comes, that part is daily fed and nurtured by the life of the Church. My priest offers me concrete orders and direction. The lives of the saints surround me, showing me how and offering me hope. I fast. I read. I kneel. I stand. I cross myself. I pray. I bow.
Last night at church, we celebrated the Feast of St. Demetrius, a Roman soldier martyred for Christ. His icon depicts him in battle dress, holding a sword and leaning on a shield.
My own patron, St. Eunice, has her day later this week. She also died a martyr, along with her family, after refusing to back down and recant. My sister’s patron, St. Maria Skobtsova or St. Maria of Paris, was a converted atheist, born to privilege who became mayor, a wife and then later a nun. She refused to live in a convent, instead living in the city, where she had fled to escape the Bolsheviks, and hosting theological discussions and debates in her home. The church contemplated excommunicating her, she was so bad at following the rules. Then, when the Nazis came, she and a priest began providing Jews with fake baptismal certificates to save their lives. She died in a concentration camp, taking the place of someone who was to enter the gas chamber that day.
We’re going to need their examples in the days ahead, I believe. I retain no optimism about the future health of our democracy and our safety as human beings. We’re already being eaten alive by the greed and selfishness that our culture has packaged as “appropriate interaction for human beings.” We may not be willing to release our dreams of iPads and comfortable retirements until it is much too late. The barbarians have already crashed the gate.
So I will try to ready myself, waging wars against my own passions and my own ghosts, making myself able to carry on the way I should when I have to. I will try to be a better example for those around me, and live a life worthy of the calling I have received.
I have to. This is my duty.
Is every ruler elected by God to the throne he occupies? Is every emperor, king, and prince chosen by rule? If so, is every law and decree promulgated by a ruler to be regarded as good, and thus obeyed without question? The answer to all these questions is, no. God has ordained that every society should have rulers, whose task it is to maintain order, so that people may live in peace. God allows rulers to employ soldiers, whose task it is to capture and imprison those who violate social order. Thus God will bless and guide any ruler and any soldier who acts according to these principles. But many rulers abuse their authority by amassing huge wealth for themselves at the expense of their people, by unjustly punishing those who dare to speak against their evil, and by making unjust wars against neighbors. Such rulers have not been elected by God, but rather have usurped the position which a righteous ruler should occupy. And if their laws are wrong, we should not obey them. The supreme authority is all matters is not the law of the land, but the law of God; and if one conflicts with the other, we must obey God’s law.
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force…it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.
Grace like a flame shining forth from thy mouth has illumined the universe, and disclosed to the world treasures of poverty and shown us the height of humility. And as by thine own words thou teachest us, Father John Chrysostom, so intercede with the Word, Christ our God, to save our souls.
Today my church observed the Feast celebrating the Holy Fathers of the Seven Ecumenical Councils. For the Orthodox, this is a big day. It is a day we remember the work done by those who went before us, a day we look back at the foundation of our faith.
On the Orthodox Church in America’s website: In the Ninth Article of the Nicea-Constantinople Symbol of Faith proclaimed by the holy Fathers of the First and Second Ecumenical Councils, we confess our faith in “One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.” By virtue of the catholic nature of the Church, an Ecumenical Council is the Church’s supreme authority, and possesses the competence to resolve major questions of church life. An Ecumenical Council is comprised of archpastors and pastors of the Church, and representatives of all the local Churches, from every land of the “oikumene” (i.e. from all the whole inhabited world).
Some highlights of these giant meetings include–Adopting the Nicene Creed to combat the heresy of Arianism and proclaim Christ as “true God of true God”; proclaiming Christ both fully-man and fully-God, divine and human nature in a hypostatic union; and affirmed that Christ had both human and divine wills.
In other words, the Councils are all about Christ–who He is and what He did. And most of these doctrines are now assumed as correct by most Protestant denominations (with the exception, of course, of the oneness Pentecostals).
As Father Paul talked about the councils today, primarily Chalcedon, I thought about the reformation. I thought about the work done by the Holy Fathers and how it laid the foundations for all correct Christian thought. Much of Protestantism has felt, to me, as the rebellious teenager–pushing against those values of the parents (stability, moral absolutes, etc.) that enabled them to have such discussions in the first place. Were those great theological wars not fought in the past, had the bishops not stood against the heresies, all of this now would be a moot point.
Be instead of an avenger, a deliverer; instead of an accuser, a peace maker.
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2019-04-18T13:26:22Z
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https://rsgreen30.wordpress.com/category/the-fathers/
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Each year our Automotive Group Team members attend NADA, they are part of the Auto Team America events, attend seminars and walk the Conference exhibits. If you have any questions about the notes below contact Conven Tang – [email protected].
Outlook for new vehicle sales in 2018 was estimated at 16.7M units. Actual was better than expected with 17.3M units sold in 2018. Similar to 2017 sales of 17.2 units.
As with prior years, key factors that continue to drive the new vehicle sales include the low price of gas, low interest rates, incentive programs and high average age of vehicles on the road.
2019 forecast for new vehicle sales to be at 16.7M units. In 2020, the number of new unit sales may be as low as 14M.
Sales mix of 70% light trucks/SUVs and 30% cars. Focus of manufacturers to bring in new products in the truck and SUV market.
Current inventory level at 4M units is slightly high given the sales in the last few years.
Margin compression on new vehicle continues as gross margin is down another 1.7% in 2018 while used vehicle gross decreased 3.3%.
Decline in incentives from the manufacturer of 3.8% to an average of $4,000 per unit.
New vehicle prices trending up in hopes of improving gross margin.
Despite the excess supply of used vehicles, prices have increased 3.5% over the past year.
Used vehicle sales increased by 5% over 2017 signifying the eighth consecutive year of sales increase.
Fixed operations have increased 4.7% from 2017. Key area of future growth given the decline in margins for vehicle sales.
Profit for privately owned dealership are falling. Dealers are looking to control expenditures given new vehicle sales forecast. Goal is still to reach 6% as pretax profit margin.
317 dealerships exchanged hands up to Q3 2018. 25% increase from 2017 Q3.
Pubco activity similar to the prior year with 25 acquisitions. However, they have divested in 39 locations during 2018.
Multiples have remained relatively steady with minor increase for Volvo, Chrysler and VW.
Average Blue Sky for 2018 was $6.6M compared to $6.9M in 2017.
Buyers pursuing luxury and truck markets for future acquisitions.
German luxury dealerships and Lexus dealerships with steady multiples of 7 and above.
Audi and Jaguar/Land Rover with multiples between 6 and 7.
Slight decrease in the valuation of Toyota and Honda with multiples of 5.5 to 6.5.
Domestic brands down to 4 times versus 4.5 from a year ago.
Multiples continues to decline due to downward profit trend, increasing interest rates on floor plan and the supply of dealerships for sale has increased over the past two year.
Current average of 2.18 dealerships per owner compared to 1.76 ten year ago.
27% fewer owners and 34% fewer single point.
Dealership model will still persist but under the hands of fewer owners.
Vehicles on subscription services or driven as Uber/Lyft will still require repairs as the mileage is expected to increase.
Light trucks still in demand for employment that requires a significant amount of tools/supplies to be transported.
High cost for OEM to enter the market given the demand for real estate.
Level 5 artificial intelligence required for autonomous vehicle. We are currently at level 2.
Significant amount of capital invested into electric vehicles, but demand is still not there.
demand if government make electric vehicles mandatory or imposes strict emissions laws.
Tesla self-funding model not likely to survive on 3 products.
two models are getting old and the other model is over the hump.
will need to raise capital for future growth and development of new products.
A global price hike means it can cost more than $35 to charge your Tesla.
Buyers of electric vehicles need to consider that inflated charging prices could make road trips in a Tesla more expensive than driving a traditional gas vehicle. Despite claims of great savings, Tesla’s rising Supercharging station prices are killing the alleged savings.
Update (1/22): Tesla announced this morning that after listening to customer feedback, they will reduce Supercharger pricing by 10% worldwide. Previously we had reported that after a dramatic ~33% increase in price for Superchargers, Tesla owners going on roadtrips could be paying as much as or in excess of what you would for a petrol engine, depending on where you lived.
According to Electrek, with the reduction the average price of Superchargers went from the original $0.23 per kWh to $0.31 and now back down to $0.28 per kWh. That’s average pricing in the US that will vary per station. As part of the change in pricing structure, Tesla is moving away from per state/region pricing, instead letting stations set prices based on local electricity rates and demand charges.
One of the benefits of electric vehicles was supposed to be that driving around would cost less per mile. When factoring in the price of current electric vehicles versus the cost of less expensive cars with internal combustion engines, this has yet to prove true. Tesla has drastically raised prices at its Supercharging stations that might make charging their vehicles more expensive than refueling at a regular gas station.
Tesla recently announced the end of its referral program that granted a limited time period of free charging, citing it to be too expensive to continue. All Tesla vehicles sold after November 2018 must pay for access to Supercharging stations. Going forward, the vast majority of Tesla owners will be paying for fast charging when they are not at home.
In the state of New York, pricing was increased by 33 percent up to $0.32/kWh. California rates are now between $0.32 and $0.36/kWh. These rates are significantly higher than what consumers in the same areas would pay at home. However, the main expense that must be accounted for is fast charging. Most homes are not wired to handle 120kW chargers, which are likely not cheap to set up.
While this may affect a minority who need long distance travel and ideally most electric car owners charge at home overnight, any calculation will ultimately depend on where you live and what kind of electricity rates you get in your area.
According to Tesla’s website, it is still cheaper to use electricity than gas, but there is a major caveat. The price of gas is assumed to be $2.85 per gallon while the estimated electrical cost is $0.31/kWh. Gas may be around that price in New York and California, but it is closer to $2 per gallon for a significant portion of the United States at present. The current national average is $2.24 according to AAA, with several regions seeing prices under $2 per gallon. At current gas prices, Supercharging a Tesla in certain areas is in fact more expensive than just refueling a car that also is cheaper to begin with.
For 100kWh battery packs, a full charge costs $32 to $36 based on the new rates. Refueling with 12 gallons of gas at Tesla’s claimed $2.85 per gallon costs $34.20. At the current national average, 15 gallons of gas is slightly cheaper than charging a Model S or Model X.
For touting savings of nearly $10,000 on sales pages for the Model S and $8,000 in savings for the Model 3, Tesla should make it more clear how they determine these numbers. For drivers in areas with cheap gas, only the tax credit portion and reduced maintenance costs of electric vehicles apply.
New-vehicle financing’s average annual percentage rate hit 6.19%, the second highest point in a decade, according to Edmunds, a digital automotive marketplace. This compares with 4.99% in January of 2018 and 4.22% five years ago. The average APR on used vehicles was 8.88% in January, up from 7.83% the same time a year ago.
In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you’ll get an almost universal answer: Here are the reasons and for a detailed analysis of each go to the article in The associated Press on February 4.
The vehicles that will secure the next decade for General Motors Co. aren’t covered in self-driving sensors or loaded with batteries. No, the future depends on hulking pickup trucks that often run on diesel and cost more than the average BMW. That’s the irony at the heart of GM’s event this week at its sprawling factory in Flint, Michigan, where the next iterations of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra will be introduced. These revamped heavy-duty pickups, which go on sale in June, feature advanced, lightweight materials and fuel-efficient engines but none of the technology that will supposedly shape the next era of the auto industry. Yet in Detroit that future can’t exist without the profit margins generated by classic pickup trucks.
If Volkswagen realizes its ambition of becoming the global leader in electric cars, it will be thanks to a radical and risky bet born out of the biggest calamity in its history. The German giant has staked its future, to the tune of $91 billion, on being able to profitably mass-produce electric vehicles – a feat no carmaker has come close to achieving.
GM IS GOING ‘ALL-ELECTRIC,’ BUT….
General Motors does not expect its electric vehicles to turn a profit for at least a few more years, CEO Mary Barra told investors Wednesday. The largest U.S. automaker repeated its commitment Wednesday to make its entire vehicle lineup “all-electric,” but provided investors with few details about those plans on a conference call after GM reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat expectations. However, GM is clear that its electric vehicles won’t make money until “early next decade,” Barra said.
This information that follows is taken from sources including The CarConnection, Autoweek, and other industry sources. For more information please call our Edmonton office.
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2019-04-25T19:48:14Z
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https://crowemackay.ca/retail/electric-vehicle-market/
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These days, politics has become overshadowed by the 24-hour news cycle, Twitter-mania, and extremist diatribe. But not all hope is lost.
In between the finger pointing, name calling and shaming that has become the norm in D.C., the Problem Solvers Caucus has emerged as one of the leading voices of reason on Capitol Hill.
Co-chaired by Congressman Tom Reed, R-N.Y., and Congressman Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., with a membership of about 48 members of Congress (evenly split among the two parties), the Problem Solvers Caucus lives to take on the tough issues. Bound by a can-do attitude, sense of humor and unending fighting spirit, these members cut through the nonsense and legislate from not fear or ideology, but common sense.
We sat down with the fearless leaders to get a better understanding of the Problem Solvers Caucus, how they work, and what’s next on their agenda.
How did you guys meet? Was it at a Problem Solvers Caucus meeting? Was it Tinder?
Rep. Gottheimer: The first time we met—remember, it was a panel?—was actually in Manhattan, and someone had basically set us up to talk to each other.
So it was like speed dating!
Rep. Reed: It was speed dating. It comes out of the No Labels type of history.
Gottheimer: They had a panel that they invited us to. Our caucus, the Problem Solvers Caucus, is 24 Democrats and 24 Republicans. There was a version that existed before Tom and I—and others—sat down and decided to reconfigure it and make it less of a place to go have a cup of coffee and spend with time with folks. [We changed] the by-laws and added a level of commitment that we were going to make as a group that, if we got to 75% of us on a particular issue or policy area, we vote together on it as a block to counter the extremism and show that we are really serious about governing and we’re trying to get to yes on some of these issues.
We spent some time talking, and we both ran. That was before we reconfigured the organization.
Reed: Yes, that was in the fall of 2016.
Gottheimer: Then we actually sat down and both ran for our respective leadership, because it’s a co-chair setup; me on the Democratic side and Tom on the Republican side. We talked about having the same objectives and started from there.
When the Caucus isn’t at 75% agreement, how do you move on?
Reed: If we can’t get to 75%, we just walk away and remember “it is what it is.” That has actually happened a few times, and then we have gotten back into it. You give it a little bit of time; other events happen. We were working hard on the healthcare package, for example, in the beginning. It got further apart and then crashed in the Senate, which really was a factor to motivate people to get to the 75%.
So we roll up our sleeves.
When Josh talks about coming back to work at 9 o’clock at night or 10 o’clock at night, that’s accurate, very true. I have been over to his place with a group of members until about one or two in the morning. I get coffee, and he gets hot cocoa. We just keep working at it. It’s a level of respect we have. If we can’t get there, we can’t get there. We put it aside and work on other issues, and if we can get back to it, we come back to it.
Why isn’t your membership list publicized?
Reed: This is something we were very sensitive to. We wanted to give control to the members. You have to remember, what we’re doing to a large degree is, to many, very common-sense with a large energy of support, but to many, it’s a threat, and to many it’s not helpful for their political future.
Gottheimer: Because you’re standing up against leadership, against the grain. They don’t love it when you do that.
Gottheimer: I think you’ll see that most members do make it public. Our job is to actually represent the members. You can imagine that, when we’re trying to put an agreement together, the littlest things can push back an agreement, and the whole idea is to keep working until you get there, until you make the announcement. We try not to let the excitement of getting there get in the way of actually coming across the finish line.
How do you determine what you work on? You have worked on healthcare, transportation.
Reed: Generally, it happens organically. A member will bring up an issue with other members at our meetings or say, “This is something I want to get involved with. Can we consider discussing it here?” Then, we’ll break off into a working group. Or, what’s been happening more and more recently—since the brand has gotten out there—the White House reaches out to us, certain stakeholders may reach out to us and say, “Is this something you can potentially discuss and come to some agreement?” We’re becoming known—I like to use the term “test tube”—as the place to see if there is consensus in Congress.
Gottheimer: We’ve dealt with some of the biggest issues of the day that people didn’t think we could find agreement on: healthcare, budget, infrastructure, immigration reform, gun violence… Tom mentioned the White House. Jared Kushner from the White House came to us a couple of weeks ago on prison reform.
Reed: Mike Bloomberg has spoken with us. Influential people come. We’ve had a lot of exciting leaders come, and they start a conversation about the issues they’re passionate about, and some of our members catch up with them after the meeting and go from there.
Congressman Reed gets up to head back to a Ways & Means Committee markup. He offers to come back, but Congressman Gottheimer suggests we call him and we can talk on the phone while he walks. Of course, they’re on each other’s speed dial.
Healthcare is a big issue for our members, especially employer-sponsored insurance. We’re concerned about prices and transparency. Are you seeing that in your districts? Are your constituents concerned about drug prices, the overall rising costs of healthcare?
Gottheimer: Honestly, drug pricing is the number one issue people bring up with me all the time. Part of why we wanted to take on this issue—ACA reform—and take a piece and really look at the individual marketplace and say, “Can we help stabilize things and get premiums down for folks?” is because the issue people talk to us about is their premiums, whether they’re in the individual marketplace or have employer-sponsored insurance, because with ESI you have the ripple effect and it’s all connected. Premiums keep going up, and it’s untenable. With the Problem Solvers Caucus, we took on the overall cost of healthcare, which was under attack. We still think the individual marketplace needs to be stabilized. Tom will tell you that we need more experimentation at the state level, from the states having the ability to have more ideas that can be put into play to raising the employer mandate from 50 to 500, which, on my side, was a tough pill to swallow, but it ended up being a part of the agreement we put together.
Reed: Obviously drug prices are something I see in the district and with the work I do on the Congressional Diabetes Caucus (my son is a Type 1 diabetic). I am co-chair with Rep. Diana DeGette [D-Colo.]. Insulin, I think, is a poster child of our efforts to force transparency and ask some hard questions on why insulin prices are going through the roof, and that relates to a lot of drug prices across the country and how those are set.
What do you think about the payment system: fee for service versus value based?
Gottheimer: I don’t think you’re going to see much movement there in this climate.
Reed: There is whole movement afoot—as you’re well aware—of getting away from a fee for service payment system. That’s what the “Doc Fix” was all about, that’s what value-based reimbursement policies are all about. I think you’re going to see more of that on a regulatory side than—Josh’s point—a legislative vehicle that can get through the 60-vote threshold in the Senate.
Do you think the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will continue to put forth more regulation on various payment systems?
Reed: I do believe that will be the primary vehicle and there will be opportunities on the House Ways & Means Committee for opportunities on Medicare and others so we can continue to reformat.
Do you think there is any possibility of considering anything in Congress on healthcare, whether it’s fee for service, drug price transparency, etc. through legislation? Or will it just be on the regulatory side?
Is the Caucus working with Health and Human Services and CMS and presenting them with ideas?
Gottheimer: We certainly spoke to them at the time. Again, I think Tom is right that you will see changes happening on the regulatory side.
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2019-04-19T12:41:56Z
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https://leadersedgemagazine.com/articles/2018/08/meeting-between-the-aisle/
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Sour dough pancakes for breakfast and then a bike ride with a thermos of coffee to enjoy the beautiful weather.
Made the DH waste less tomato [spaghetti] sauce and olive oil. Recycled envelops received by mail to pay for our monthly HOA payment.
Sent DH on a work trip for a week. That will cut down on the alcohol budget, plus allow me to make meals that he doesn't like, using odds and ends from the fridge and pantry.
Made sugar cookies for DS's birthday vs. making or purchasing a cake. DS loves cookies.
Made up a big batch of black rice and vege chilli for lunches for the next few weeks.
Brought to work more food than I normally would, in order to keep my tum full of healthy snacks so I won't turn to chocolate or coke during my stressful and busy week. Avoiding both the immediate cost of the 'treats' and the longer term cost of health issues.
Arranged for my dad to help us repaint our flat over an upcoming long weekend - we don't know how to paint (yet) so while we'll pay him for his time, it's cheaper than contractors and means we'll be learning the skills for next time.
Didn't feel well and still trying to get over pneumonia 100%, so I took a nap this afternoon vice going out or loading up on more Tylenol. I turned off the heat and let in some fresh air. Fresh air is so nice!
I made one internet purchase today (yarn for my charity stitching) but I used an offer code for 20% off and what I was buying was also 20% off. Free shipping too!
Finally got around to cooking the turkey that was "free with purchase" at Thanksgiving. Had mashed potatoes from spuds stored from last summer's garden, plus some snow peas that needed to be used up, for sides. Now have copious amounts of turkey to leftover to eat throughout the week for lunches and dinners.
Caught a 40% off deal w/free shipping from Sierra Trading Post to get the last couple gear items I needed for our "free" trip to Peru in May. About $200 cheaper than if I'd picked the same items up at REI.
Used leftover primer and paint to paint the scruffy old horse jumps I bought off Craigslist a couple weeks ago. They'll look quite sharp when I'm done.
Went on a trail ride with my riding instructor on my more difficult horse = free horse training!
Covered the newly planted veggies with bird netting to keep them protected.
Caught up my expense spreadsheet for Feb - my second month ever tracking what I spend. Started my March sheet and got it caught up. Working on getting Sprint terminated and things started with Ting (should be easier than it is proving so far).
Finally starting to feel like I at least have a handle on where my money is going. Working on the spending (doing really well is many categories and still learning in others).
Fixed the broken screen on my I-phone by myself w/ a kit from online.
I brought my own lunch to work and packed my lunch for tomorrow. 9 consecutive work days of bringing my own lunch to work!
Normally I do NOT change my breakfast. Ever. I eat the same thing, every day, and have for like... 4 years basically. But a couple times in the past few weeks, I've sucked it up and ate something different to use up leftovers.
I know this sounds really pathetic, but it was a really big deal to me.
We changed from a contract phone plan to a prepaid plan. It isn't super thrifty, but it saves us $5 a month compared to the old plan, and now instead of a small number of minutes and text we have unlimited, and instead of a shared 250 mb data we each have 1 GB.
Husband also found out that he doesn't have to get a new phone (he thought his might not work), and even though he hates his phone (which is what prompted looking for new plans, we were just going to do new contracts where he gets a new phone) he decided he hates spending $100 more, and will keep it until it dies.
Delivered a car trunk-full of clothes to Goodwill and books to the library in preparation for our move this summer. I made $150 in two weeks from Craigslist.
Sold records for $30 and cleared up a lot of space. Have more storage bins than stuff to store!
Going to spend $0 on food today -- going to take advantage of my dad and his finance enjoying having me over for dinner :) and leftovers!
Drinking water + tea today = free!
* am required to "dress up" for an event tomorrow night - and do not really have the right clothes - but will just make do with black pants, ballet flats and a nice-ish shirt. I am NOT going to spend money on clothes for one night.
Heavy on the cooking this weekend. Makes my week go so much better when food is planned out and available.
Currently drinking coffee made by adding one scoop of fresh beans to the grounds in the Mr. Coffee.
Fought off the urge to get Subway on the way home from the part-time gig due to minimal leftovers at home. Drank water instead and made chicken curry. Curry was awesome - and so was saving $5.
I sew together a hole in my pants. Took about five minutes, as good as new. Well not maybe new but at least without holes. Riding the train (first class with included water, coffee fruit. Paid for by work). Brown bagged my lunch and brought in the train. The downside is that I bought a 4$ coffee since a was at a cafe with a colleague for an hour waiting between trains. I will also have to eat out three nights in a row. Work pays but anyway, I would rather save that money.
Last night I re-sewed the hem in a pair of pants, it had broken free. Today I biked to work, and I brought a lb of carrots ($0.59 at Aldi) to work to snack on, so I don't run over to Target and buy food.
Returned some stuff, hemmed a few clothes and selling things on craigslist. Win!
Went for a run but did NOT stop by the convenience store for a Gatorade (I don't keep it in the house because if I did, I'd be tempted to drink it all the time).
Got some groceries (mostly frozen stuff, eggs, Ramen, and spices) at Food Lion instead of Harris Teeter. I've decided I need to do this more often, and go to Harris Teeter and the farmer's market only for meats/produce.
Made homemade bagels for the first time. DS's love bagels each morning so we spend a semi-ridiculous amount on them. This will cut the cost by 75%.
Had my first attempt at pickling today as peppers are on their way out of season. Lots of minor blemish/very ripe stock available at the fruit and vege store for very little.
Cool. Roasting and freezing works really well in that situation, at least for me.
What I did: I keep the heat really low when I'm at work. Today I left it low when I came in because I turned on the oven for pizza and bread, and that's warmed up all of the house that I'm actually in.
Today I sent in receipts from a recent trip to be reimbursed. I also updated YNAB for the first time since late February.
Added annual income today by signing new clients for my business.
Hit the gym and had a really good workout too!
WOOHOO!!! I just got up to 315 squatting but I can only do 3 reps and I need a spotter to feel comfortable enough to do them. I am working on the mental aspect that I'm fine and can do it but it's a struggle for me. I like to have my husband at least put his hands on my belt to make me feel safe.
I love when women squat! I don't see too many moving too much weight like that.
Of course at this point I'm only breaking even because facilities threw out a bunch of my freezer food over the weekend.
Oh, this would piss me off! Have you tried labeling it w/ freezer tape: "Do not toss" or something similar?
Haven't turned on the heater in 4 days. Today is rough! But I'm making it work so far.
Ate 1 meal yesterday (hey, every once in awhile it's good to go to bed hungry) and saved the leftovers (a large portion) for today and just scarfed that down -- mostly to combat the cold! Tasted unbelievable, I was really hungry.
Gonna scarf down some more food I have in my apartment before I head out to play bball later today with my friends. Productive work day handling my work load and my biz partners.
Have been adding some old decaf coffee into my coffee to use less of the good stuff! Tastes not quite as good but it's fine when I'm using it as a supplement mostly.
Have been super good about turning off lights and electronics that are not being used.
I ordered LED light bulbs to replace incandescent ones that are currently in use in my kitchen and living room. The initial outlay was something like $74, but I expect to realize net savings due to lower electric bills in under a year, and then reap savings over the life of the bulbs, which is over ten years. The lights in those rooms are probably the most-used ones in my house.
Last night was a real test for me. Since I was out of town for the weekend and my husband didn't get groceries, our kitchen is empty. I checked the freezer and found two pieces of naan (purchased from Trader Joe's as an impulse buy). I had a can of chickpeas, so I made hummus. I also put a tortilla with a little olive oil under the broiler. The meal was simple, but fantastic. I also made a double batch of granola bars (peanut butter and chocolate chip), but I didn't have enough oats. I used a cup of stale honey nut cheerios, and the bars are really good.
Today I went to the gym. I showered there. I also used their shampoo, conditioner and body wash. I'm still bringing face wash. I've significantly cut back on the amount of hair care products I purchase by working out so frequently.
For breakfast, I had a homemade granola bar (with stale cheerios). For lunch, I had a single serving of sweet and sour meatballs and rice (made in January for the Superbowl).
Transferred a credit card balance using a 0% balance transfer. I'll keep the same payoff schedule, but save ~$300 in interest.
Picked up some fresh basil from my kid's preschool - one of the teachers has DIYed an aquaponics system, and the basil went crazy, so they're thinning it out by giving it away. Will make the homemade tomato soup on the menu for dinner tonight that much more delicious.
* made "budget" for next paycheck and somehow have an extra $95 that I don't know what to do with - hooray!
made "budget" for next paycheck and somehow have an extra $95 that I don't know what to do with - hooray!
Love it! Yes, of course :) But I have a feeling I will choose to have it go toward the final credit card. Sigh. Still, it is fun to see RESULTS from all these little things piling up!
Resisted invitation to spend $$ eating out and invited my friend over instead. He bought us some awesome drinks and some chocolate and I fed him the food I had cooked (all just "using up the kitchen" food) -- Chicken breast saag w/ potato, delicious!!
Purchased $4.59 iPhone tripod mount on eBay.
Am selling very awesome but not-used-enough Digital Camera for (current bid) minimum of $340USD -- and I have 6 days to go.
Finally got around to cooking the turkey that was "free with purchase" at Thanksgiving.
Also slicing/chopping raw and freezing. Good for soups, stir fries, etc., later.
* Figured out where to sell and donate clothes.
* Figured out where to sell inherited jewelry.
* Figured out where to LPs.
* Going through old papers and stuff to scan/photograph and recycle/trash. Lots of old report cards, mementos, bad poetry (oy), plus 7 old yearbooks.
* Made dinner last night despite not feeling like it, instead of calling takeout.
ETA: * Reaching out to potential new client.
i have used clamwin on all my machines for years with few problems.
Had a small issue with my car this morning and instead of panicking and spending money to have someone come help me, I looked up the problem on the internet and was able to figure out how to resolve it myself!
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm in a similar position as lunahsol.
*Packed my breakfast, lunch and snacks. Turned down lunch out with a coworker.
*Last night, we ate random food items from the freezer. Our dinner was eclectic, but fun. I'm working on clearing out our freezer. We've let too many things sit for too long.
Headed to Grocery Outlet for the FIRST TIME!!!! It's only an 18 minute walk from my house. Awesome reviews for this location too!! Wooo!
AND, wait for it, in the mail I got a Chase Checking Account Promo: Sign up in person (bleh) at a Chase bank for a checking account, make sure my paycheck is going to that account (create direct deposit), and once both are setup, get $300 for free. Keep the account open for 6 months, maintain $1,501 minimum, and there's not monthly fee.
Got clarification on how my bank is applying money towards my credit card (apply minimum payment to lowest balance, then anything above the minimum payment to the highest balance). Since I have half the balance at a fixed 0.99% and half at a temporary 0%, this is not what I want. So I'm adjusting my payment allocations and I'm just going to pay the entire thing off before the 0% offer ends.
Worked late last night. Briefly considered buying dinner on the way home. Decided not to because it was too much of a hassle when leftovers were waiting for me at home!
Drinking lots of tea at home -- trying not to buy any new tea till I drink down my stash a little. Turning the furnace off in the day. Might even be alright to leave it off overnight.
I've been feeling very spendy and unfrugal lately. Renewed my costco membership -- spent $500 <sigh>. I keep reading this thread for motivation. Even if I'm not doing little things to save money, I need to at least keep a leash on mindlessly spending. At least most of the spending has been on food/consumables and not "stuff."
Not me, today it's the Hub. He is off to spend a couple of weeks in Puerto Rico at Government expense. Noticed him tucking a half eaten pkg of fig newtons into his carry on. No need to spend that per diem on airport food.
2) My friend SUPER generously gave me $25 gift card to a super fancy health food store. While this only buys me like... maybe 2 things there (haha yeah), it's two free things! I can take a friend or lady for extra fun.
Also grabbed: gallon of white vinegar, butter, cornstarch, 3x beans, 2.5lbs sugar for a total of $89.30. Will get through the eggs and cheese quickly but everything else will last for quite some time.
Awesome day so far!!! Gonna hang out and read in my bathtub (still reading 1 book a week in 2015!), process my bacon into 3rds to freeze, and eat a big omelette with some fresh avocado, cheese, and bacon (calories baby!). My god they had 2 for $1 avocados at Grocery Outlet too!!
Ethnic store + Grocery Outlet = huge future savings. Stoked!!!
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Korea has become well-known for their beauty and skincare products and techniques, therefore, more people concern about Korean skin care tips and secrets. It is understandable when most Korean women have a glowing and fair skin that makes many women in the world admire. The flawless fair skin of Korean women has been considered as the beauty standard of many people in the world. More and more people spend a lot of money on Korean skin care products from different famous brands like The Face Shop, Missha, or Nature Republic, O Hui, and so on. There are many Korean products that are advertised widely in the world. They are introduced to be loaded with a plenty of benefits. Korean skin care has a long history in which experts and professionals conducted a lot of experiments to find out the good skin care products that do not have any wanted side effects. They reduce the harmful chemicals and increase the natural ingredients in each product. People believe that using Korean products will give them a beautiful gorgeous skin like Korean women. However, not many people know that Korean women not only apply skin care products but also build a good skin care routine and eat healthily. They also know a plenty of beauty tips and secrets. Do you want to know the wonderful tips and secrets that can help you to have a glowing and gorgeous skin like Korean women? There is no denying that we could benefit from them! In addition, they also have many skin care tips and secrets which are wonderful you need to know! In the framework of this writing, AllRemedies.com will introduce to you the secrets and tips in Korean skin care. Continue reading this article to understand more!
Before you know Korean skin care tips and secrets, it is important for you to know your skin type. The Korean skin care routine depends on individuals and their skin type. There are 3 main skin types you should know.
If your skin is tight and the flaky skin is your common skin condition, you may have dry skin. People with dry skin find it hard to look for the suitable cleansers because many cleansers leave the uncomfortable sensation on the skin. It is recommended not using cleansers that contain alcohol. Moreover, people with dry skin may suffer from sensitivity when they use perfumed products. If your skin type is dry, you feel your skin is not moisturized enough. Therefore, you should use a high-quality moisturizer and drink a lot of water if you have dry skin type.
The skin care routine is complicating if you have a combination skin type. You may have clear skin for days; however, a sudden breakout may appear on your T-zone area. People with combination skin type often have to fight against pimples, acne, and blemishes that appear on your forehead and your nose. Spontaneously, you also suffer from dry skin problem and flaky patches on other areas such as your cheeks and your chin. People with combination skin find it difficult to look for the most suitable skin care products. They do not know for sure which products they should use.
They often called oily skin as blemished skin because this skin type is prone to blemishes, acne, and pimples. The makeup and foundation keep slipping off due to sweat and excess oil. People with oily skin feel that their skin is shiny and they do not feel they need any moisturizer. Unsuitable heavy moisturizer may make the skin condition and blemishes worse. However, even if you have oily skin, you still need a suitable moisturizer and other necessary skin care products. In the market, there are a lot of skin care products that are designed for oily skin type.
Your body needs water to survive. Water is necessary for every tissue, cell, and organs of your body. Without water supply, they cannot function correctly. Skin is the largest organ of the body. Therefore, the skin needs water. Water can help to nourish the skin from inside out. If you see the signs and symptoms such as darker urine, dry skin, dry mouth, sleepiness, fatigue, dull skin, headache, confusion, dizziness and skin irritation, your body and your skin are suffering from dehydration. In order to have a glowing skin and prevent dehydration, you should drink a lot of water throughout the day as one of Korean skin care secrets. Korean women believe that drinking plenty of fluids will help to add a healthy radiance to their skin. Therefore, they often start their day by taking a cup of water and splashing their face with cool water for 3 to 5 minutes. During the day, even when they are not thirsty, they always drink a plenty of water. But how much water we should drink daily to keep us hydrated? Most people believe that they should drink 6 to 8 glasses of water daily. However, the recommended water intake depends on individuals. Some people drink less than 8 glasses of water daily while other people need to drink more than 8 glasses of water a day. The possible way to know whether your body is hydrated or not is checking the color of your urine. If the urine is colorless or light yellow, your body is hydrated well. The darker color of urine shows dehydration. Moreover, fruits and vegetables are also the most important portion of their meals. Apart from vegetables and fruits, they eat foods which are very less sodium to keep the hydration in the body. Fruit and vegetable juice provides you not only enough amount of water but also essential nutrients that are good for your health and your skin.
They have a unique method of applying skincare products because they believe that it will yield better results.
Toning: Women in Korean prefer using their fingertips to tap the toner for better absorption.
Cleansing: Korean women often clean their face with an oil (almond oil, coconut oil or any other cleansing oils) for about 4 to 5 minutes. So, you should follow it with a natural foaming cleanser for about 2 to 5 minutes and then you rinse your face for at least about 4 minutes, starting with warm water and ending with cold water in order to close the opened pores.
Moisturizing: They often rub their hands together to make the product be warmed on their fingertips and then they will apply all over their face in an outward and downward manner.
The Korean face mask sheets are infused with many ingredients which were tried and tested by their ancestors. Today most women all over the world are seeking out Koreans skin care products. They usually use two masks which are a cleansing mask and a nourishing mask simultaneously for one time per week to reduce the puffiness of their face. Besides, they also use a mask made from silkworm cocoon powder which is called baekgangjam will assist them in achieving white skin. Moreover, homemade masks with honey and egg white are an all-time favorite.
Hence, you should sleep for at least 6 to 8 hours per day to make your skin healthier. Sleep will rejuvenate the skin naturally and remove the dead skin cells, which is an easy way to get a glowing skin daily. Korean people always go to bed early. From 10 pm to 11 pm, it is the time for the body to heal its damage. If you go to bed late at night or sleep less than 6 hours, it can affect your appearance.
People who sleep well at night are less prone to wrinkle than others who are sleepless. This is because the skin produces new collagen when you sleep. Sleep prevents skin from sagging. If you sleep 5 hours at night, your skin is drier and more visible fine lines appear on your skin.
When you sleep, your body boosts the blood circulation and blood flow. Sleep deprivation can decrease the blood circulation and thus make your skin look dull and lifeless.
Therefore, to have a glowing and pigment-free skin and become beautiful, you should sleep at least 6 hours daily. This Korean skin care secret you should know.
Like other muscular parts of your body, the face needs exercise. In fact, this is a popular practice among actors and actresses in Korean. Exercising your face regularly can make the jawline more visible and reduce the excess fat from your face. Exercise can boost the blood circulation and thus, make your skin glowing and rosy. The Korean women, who do facial stretching exercise regularly can have a younger face, compared to others, who hardly or never do facial exercise. They often repeat about 10 times for exercising the lip and cheek muscles. In addition, it is also recommended that you should stretch the facial muscles with breathing. Do you want to know the facial stretching exercise as one of Korean skin care tips and secrets? Here are some recommendations.
If you want to have the satisfactory results, you should repeat these facial stretching exercises daily.
Korean women always use a double cleansing routine. The first step of the double cleansing routine involves eliminating the makeup which is applied for the day. You use an oil-based cleanser as the first step in the double cleansing method to eliminate the eye makeup. The cleansing oil can help to remove the oil, bacteria, and dirt stuck in the skin pores effectively without making your skin dry or irritated. The oil and some dirt are too stubborn to be removed with plain water. Therefore, it needs the cleansing oil to do the helpful work. In order to use cleansing oil to remove the makeup, excess oil and dirt from your skin, you just need to put a little oil on a cotton pad and then apply it when your face is still dry. In order to have a good result, it is recommended leaving this oil to sit on top of your makeup for about one or two minutes. After that, make your hand wet and massage your skin with your wet hand. By doing that, the oil can become the white bubble. Therefore, it is easy to rinse it off with lukewarm water.
The Koreans believe that cleansing is the key for a radiant skin. The second step in double cleansing is to use a water-based cleanser. Some people mistakenly think that using only oil-based cleanser is enough to get rid of the dirt, makeup, grime and sweat from your skin. However, the fact is that Korean people do not overlook the re-cleansing step with water-based cleansers. This is because if you cannot remove the oil from oil-based cleanser, you may face some skin problems such as acne, and pimples. They usually clean their skin with a foaming cleanser or mild cream. Because you use it for your facial skin, you need to choose the gentle water-based products. You should avoid the products that contain alcohol because it makes the skin dry. It is important to read the labels and instructions carefully before you decide to buy it. The re-cleansing step can help you to wipe away all the residue makeup, dirt, and bacteria as well as the oil from oil-based cleansers. Apply it to your facial skin. Use their fingertips to massage the skin in a circular motion and then rinse it off with lukewarm water.
The easiest tip to get a smooth and soft skin is to eliminate the dead skin cells. Hence, you should slough away the dead skin cells by using an exfoliator. Exfoliation is the important step in skin care routine that you should not ignore. Exfoliation means the removal of dead skin cells from your skin. Studies showed that exfoliation can help to treat many skin problems and boost the blood circulation. Dead skin cells make the skin look dull and dark. Therefore, if you remove the dead skin cells regularly with exfoliating, you can have a healthy and glowing skin. You also do not forget to exfoliate the lips as well as other parts of your body. The lips need special care in order to get a pink layer. The facial skin needs exfoliating to be lighter and more glowing. The hands and feet need exfoliating too. Choosing good exfoliants or exfoliating methods is important. Harsh exfoliant scrub should not be used for your facial skin and other sensitive thin skin areas. Gentle exfoliant scrub is not strong enough to be used for hands and feet.
You can buy exfoliating products in any beauty shops. However, you never overdo exfoliating and do not exfoliate every day. It is recommended exfoliating twice a week for both the face and body as one important part of a good skincare routine. When you exfoliate your skin, make sure that you do not strip away too many natural oils. The natural oils can act as a protective layer for your skin. So, a good balance is necessary. You should only focus on the parts that need attention, for example, visible pores on the cheek and blackheads on your nose.
Korean women always concern about the aftercare for exfoliating. We all know that exfoliating can boost the blood circulation, remove the toxins and stimulate the regeneration of new skin cells. But you should drink a lot of water to hydrate the new skin cells from inside. Some exfoliating products may make your skin dry. Therefore, you should apply a good moisturizer to your skin. When you exfoliate your skin, it is important not to expose your skin to sunlight, UV rays and subbed for at least 24 hours.
We may hear about the use of a toner to tighten up the skin at least once. Researchers have been asked whether the toner should be used in the daily skin care routine. Consumers want to know which benefits the toner has for the skin and which toner is best for their skin types. However, despite a lot of outdated information, the use of toner still remains controversy that makes people confused. Due to misperception and misunderstanding, even many dermatologists, fashion magazines, and cosmetic salespeople deny the use of toner in the skincare routine. Some people consider a toner as just an optional step. Actually, a well-formulated toner can give your skin many amazing benefits.
It is important to know how a toner works for your skin and how to read a label to figure out the harmful ingredients and essential ingredients. Korean women always use well-formulated toners to a healthy, glowing and radiant skin. Applying a toner is a perfect addition to the Korean skin care routine.
Toners are used after cleansing. They are said to be beneficial in restoring the skin’s PH balance. A bar soap or other types of cleansers may raise your skin’s natural PH and it is not good for your skin. Nowadays, the use of gentle, water-soluble cleansers does not change your skin’s PH too much. It seems that we do not need the benefit of the toner in restoring the skin’s PH balance anymore. However, a toner is still important because your skin is provided with essential ingredients including antioxidants as well as skin-repairing substances like fatty acids, glycerin, and ceramides. If you want to make your skin look younger, smoother and fresher, you should use the right toner.
You should not use an alcohol toner. Instead, you can use a natural mild clarifying toner in order to soothe your skin as well as restore its pH balance, like Korean women. The toner will assist you in getting rid of all traces of residue. Besides, it will also work as a basic layer for more makeup.
Because the areas around your eyes are really delicate and sensitive, you do not pull it or pinch it. The eye area is one of the sensitive areas that can show the early aging signs. A great skin care plays the important role in fighting against the aging process. You should tap on a little eye cream into under your eyes to prevent and reduce puffiness, dark circles, and wrinkles. However, finding an excellent eye cream is not easy. Some eye creams that are advertised to be well-formulated for the thin, sensitive skin around the eyes and be effective in reducing dark circles, puffiness and sagging skin fail to meet our expectation. This is the reason why looking for the suitable and effective eye creams sometimes make us disappointed.
However, it is very important to include the best eye cream in your skincare routine. Before you go shopping for the suitable eye cream, you should know that the ingredients the sensitive skin around your eyes needs are different from ones used in other areas of your face. You should avoid eye creams that contain irritating ingredients like synthetic fragrance, fragrant plant oils, or sensitizing plant extracts because these ingredients may result in pro-aging inflammation.
The best eye cream needs to contain antioxidants, skin-repairing ingredients, cell and communicating ingredients. Your eye cream needs to be well-formulated, soothing and fragrance-free.
This is done so that the delicate eye area will stay super moisturized as well as prevent drying out and the creation of the fine line.
The Korean women see essence as the essential step in their skincare routine. After the cleansing regime, using an essence is vital for you to get a beautiful skin. Essence is an essential nourishing liquid extract that can aid in the cellular renewal process of the skin. Especially, when you eat pizza, wine, fast foods and artichokes for a whole week, essence and toner are the biggest savers for your dull and pimple-suffered skin. If you ask any women living in Seoul, they can tell you that toner and essence are essential parts of the skincare routine. If essence is added to your skincare regimen, it can give you flawless, bright and gorgeous skin. Applying the essence has more benefits than applying other skin care products. This is because the essence works on a cellular level. If the essence is a concentrated formula, it can help to relieve fine lines, wrinkles, dull skin and uneven skin tone. There are a plenty of active ingredients contained in the typical Korean essence. Regular use of the essence can give you a brighter and smoother skin. Essence is a great way to revitalize your skin from inside and make your skin look more youthful and radiant. It is a lot of wastage with the watery consistency. Therefore, Korean women do not soak the essence through the cotton pads. They often put the essence into a spraying bottle and then spray it directly onto their skin. Spraying this essence can also help to firm up your skin in order to give it a clear complexion and a sculpted look. Korean women often spray the essence on their face and tap it onto their face to assist in faster absorption. You may experience a variety of essence consistencies, from the gel to the liquid.
In the market, you may see variety versions of essence like serums, boosters, and ampoules. They are used like essence but they have the different concentration of the formula. For example, ampoules have a super concentrated formula; therefore, they are more expensive than other versions of the essence.
Korean women always include essence in their skincare regimen. They apply it in the morning and at night. After cleansing and applying toner, they spray essence directly onto their skin like the face and neck.
Face moisturizer is always included in Korean skin care routine. Snakeskin, nubbly tweed or cracked leather is common skin condition when the skin is not moisturized enough. Even if you have normal or oily skin, you still need a high-quality moisturizer in your skin care routine to improve your skin condition and make your skin smooth and glowing. This is a useful tip in Korean skin care you should know! Moisturizing products aim to hold water in your skin; therefore, they contain emollients and humectants as the key ingredients. Humectants include glycerin, urea, and alpha hydroxy acids are responsible for absorbing water while emollients like mineral oil, lanolin, or petrolatum hydrate the skin cells and thus, make your skin look smooth. Whatever the skin type you have, it is important to use a suitable moisturizer at night and in the morning. Skipping this essential step can result in flaking, redness, wrinkles and other aging signs that appear on your skin earlier. If your skin is sensitive or you are suffering from a skin condition, using a light moisturizer can help you to ease the irritation. Using a light moisturizer is essential to emulsify your skin.
In order to get the optimum benefits of a moisturizer, it is recommended priming your skin first. When you take a shower, you use an exfoliating body scrub or a loofah to exfoliate your skin a few times a week. Removing dead skin cells regularly can help the moisturizing lotion to be absorbed into your skin easily and quickly. Moreover, regular exfoliation can increase hydration. After three minutes of taking a shower, you can massage the moisturizer in the face with your fingertips to promote circulation, and you do not forget to moisturize your neck. You should use a lightweight emulsion which can blend into the skin really quickly without leaving it greasy. Adding a moisturizer to your skin, you can keep itchiness and dryness at bay.
To make sure that your facial skin is always blemish-free, you should buy noncomedogenic oil-free moisturizers. These moisturizers need to not clog the skin pores. Even if you are experiencing breakouts, you still need to use a moisturizer regularly. Actually, using moisturizers can ease the dryness, redness, and irritation, the unwanted side effects caused by topical acne medications.
Some people use the same cream with a great moisturizing in the morning and at night. However, most Korean women differentiate between day cream and night cream.
A night cream may contain anti-aging effects. Using night cream can firm and lift your skin, preventing wrinkles and other aging signs. These products often use key essential ingredients such as salicylic acid, retinol, and retinyl acetate. All of these ingredients boost the regeneration of new skin cells and reduce the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines, and aging spots. However, these anti-aging ingredients may be irritating and cause skin sensitivity. Therefore, when you use a night cream with anti-aging effects, you should avoid sun exposure at least 8 hours after applying. It is the reason why this cream is used at night as the best solution to avoid UV exposure.
Another type of night cream is one with deep moisture effects. This night cream is deeply nourishing, ultra-hydrating, and restorative. This night cream tends to have more emollients and moisturizing ingredients than the day cream. The need to use both day cream and night cream depends on your skin condition. Your skin cells are constantly regenerating. Therefore, if your daily moisturizer can provide you enough water and hydration, you do not need to use a separate night cream. If your skin is drier at home, you can use a heavier night cream before bedtime.
Day moisturizer is lighter and tends to contain SPF nowadays while night cream is more hydrating and heavier with no SPF. Moreover, many anti-aging creams have a high level of active ingredients should be applied at night to minimize the irritation caused by UV exposure. If you find anti-aging creams irritating, you should use it at night and use another regular moisturizer in the daytime.
You have to lather a little night cream before going to sleep if you want to get a gorgeous glowing skin. This is also another tip in Korean skin care. However, you should make sure that this night cream allows your skin to breathe easily. This cream mask or night cream, which is the second coat of moisturizer applied to your skin. This will help to lock moisture in your skin throughout the night and thus you wake up with a fresh and beautiful skin. Remember that the most important Korean skin care tip is less make-up and more skincare.
The major difference between Western and Korean skin care regimen is that children in Korean are taught the ways to take care of the skin daily from an early age. By teaching them how to properly exfoliate, moisturize, and protect their young skin, they will know how important it is in order to control their skin’s health.
You should take care of the skin for 2 times per day, once in the evening and once in the morning. This means that the chance of unwanted acne or blemishes erupting is reduced significantly, which leave your skin to shine. So, the earlier you recognize this tip, the healthier your skin can be in the long-term.
In the daily skin care regimen of Korean women, they never forget the importance of wearing SPF. Many women in Korean never leave their house if they do not have sunscreen. We all acknowledge that applying sunscreen with high SPF before enjoying the beach in the summer is a must. But do we need a sunscreen with SPF on cloudy days and other days we cannot see the sun visibly? Not many people know the importance of wearing SPF daily no matter how the weather is. Our skin is constantly exposed to harmful UV rays whether you stay in the office or outside. This is because the UV rays can enter your house through the window. So, you always protect your skin whenever you are outdoors or stay indoors. No matter what weather you live in or what season it is, you should always apply sunscreen.
Long exposure to UV rays can lead to many skin problems such as redness, aging signs and inflammation. Moreover, a sunburn is one of skin damages caused by UV rays. If you do not protect your skin from UV rays, your skin can lose the collagen and elasticity. Other problems caused by long exposure to UV rays without any protecting methods include the appearance of spider veins on the face and the neck, dry lips and a loss of pink color in lips. Furthermore, studies have shown that long exposure to sunlight may increase the risk of skin cancer. Therefore, there is a need to use protection against the sunlight and UV rays. You should wear eyeglasses, sun protecting clothing and of course apply sunscreen.
Do you want to make your skin look healthy and gorgeous? In addition to using a separate sunscreen, you can include a moisturizer with SPF in your daily skincare routine. A moisturizer with SPF can give you 3 benefits. It moisturizes your skin, prevents the appearance of early aging signs and protects your skin from UV rays.
Remember that you always apply sunblock with minimal SPF of 30 to protect your skin from UVA and UVB rays, which can damage skin. If you stay outdoors for all day in the summer, a sunscreen with 50 SPF is recommended. You should reapply the sunscreen after every 3 or 4 hours especially when you sweat.
When you apply sunscreen to your facial skin, do not forget your lips. Lips have sensitive and thin skin that need protecting from the UV rays too. When lips are exposed to sunlight for a long time, it may show the aging signs. To protect your lips daily, it is recommended using a lip balm with at least 15 SPF.
You should keep in mind that it is never too late to take care of your skin and protect it from damages caused by UV rays. Your skin will reflect how we take care of it daily. Therefore, you need to make sure that you follow the essential steps in your skin care routine to protect your skin daily.
If you ask any Korean women about their skin care routine, they will tell you that they often apply sheet masks to their skin two or three times a week. Sheet masks are a fastest-growing step in the skin care regimen. Sheet masks attract not only Korean consumers but also women in the world because of the promise of amazing skin benefits and immediate results in treating skin problems. A variety of sheet masks in new formulations and formats are designed to meet the needs and requirements of individuals. The use of sheet masks is more and more popular nowadays. We can see beautiful Korean women and most of them may say that they use sheet masks two or three times a week to get the glowing and flawless skin.
There are four types of sheets mask including fiber masks, pulp masks, hydrogel masks, and bio-cellulose masks with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Using sheet masks can boost the absorption and penetration of ingredients and nutrients into your skin. When you look for the best sheet masks with optimum efficiency, it is recommended searching for all the anti-aging ingredients such as AHAs, retinoids, B vitamins, antioxidants and peptides and ingredient penetrating enhancers like glycols and microencapsulation.
When you wear a sheet mask, make sure that you let it sit on your skin for at least 20 minutes to receive the best effects and optimum efficiency. The nutrients and ingredients in the sheet masks need enough time to reach the deeper layers of your skin. Studies showed that 20 minutes of applying the sheet masks can give you 80% effects of the masks and after 60 minutes, you can receive 99%.
However, if the mask contains AHAs, you should leave it on your skin for less than 15 minutes. This is because AHAs is irritating ingredients. In addition to AHAs, other irritating ingredients such as lactic, glycolic and malic acids should not be applied for a long time.
After removing the masks, whether you pat your skin and leave it overnight or you rinse it off with lukewarm water depends on the formats and formulations of each sheet mask. Therefore, you should read the ingredients and follow the instruction on the label. To get the best results, it is recommended looking for the masks that are designed to sit on your skin for a longer period of time.
In fact, everything you put into the body affects your skin. So, if you want to have a natural, clean, and illuminating skin, you must drink and eat clean! Nutrients in vegetables and fruits will help to clear up the imperfect skin. The Korean diet is famous for an abundance of vegetables, water, and other ingredients that are filled with nutrients and minerals. This will be sure to give you an agleam skin.
Being a fermented cabbage, Kimchi is eaten at almost every meal of Koreans. This vegetable is rich in vitamin C, beta-carotene, probiotics, and other ingredients which can boost skin health. An average Korean person can consume 40 lbs of kimchi each year. Kimchi is the cabbage that is fermented and seasoned with salt, garlic, chili peppers and vinegar. The fermentation process of cabbage produces lactobacillus bacteria and lactic acid that plays the important role in boosting the immune system. Moreover, beta-carotene and vitamin C found abundant in Kimchi can improve the elasticity of your skin.
In addition, many Korean families have a jar of chilled boricha that is a roasted barley tea in their fridge. This tea not only keeps the skin hydrated but also helps to cleanse toxins out of the body, which can protect the elasticity of your skin. This delicious nutty-tasting drink is made from whole grains and is loaded with fiber and antioxidants. Drinking chilled boricha regularly can help to cleanse your body systems and remove the toxins from your body, preserve the skin elasticity and boost the blood circulation. People who drink this roasted barley tea daily have a glowing and flawless skin. This drink has a plenty of health benefits too. It is the reason why this barley tea is considered as a substitute for water in many Korean households. Especially, unlike other teas, chilled boricha is caffeine-free.
Korean people also consume doenjang for health and beauty benefits. In order to make doenjang, they often ferment and crush the soybean to make a paste. Doenjang is often used in a salty and spicy stew with veggies and tofu. This classic food has a pungent flavor and delicious taste. Korean people often eat doenjang with scorched rice or Korean BBQ. Doenjang is beneficial for your health and your skin because the fermented soybean has a higher nutritional value when it is compared to regular soybean. Doenjang or fermented soybean paste are packed with vitamin E and other powerful antioxidants; therefore, eating doenjang regularly can help to protect the skin, repair the skin damage, prevent cellular damage, and neutralize free radicals.
In conclusion, a healthy diet is one of natural Korean skin care tips you should know.
Another common ingredient in their diet is an excellent fermented rice wine that is called Makgeolli. This rice wine is rich in minerals and amino acids to assist you in brightening your skin.
If you want to know more about skin care or other skin diseases and conditions go to our main Skin Care page. After reading the article of natural Korean skin care tips & secrets, hope that you can find out some good tips and secrets on how to take care of your skin. If you have any question, or you know other Korean skin care solutions, please leave them below.
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What is the purpose of a dog?
The story block is unreadable; the print is too small…enlarging actually makes it worse. Perhaps it’s the white on black background.
Your list is excellent. I no longer have dogs, I switched to cats. I do hope to again have a dog, or two, but the living situation has to be optimal, which means NOT in a city.
Thanks for the note about the little boy’s observation about dogs and life – that was the best! Ditto for cats….
Here you go, all you dog lovers… one purpose of a dog is to have FUN!
Well, after reading the profound words of a six-year old boy after the death of his dog, we know now why God made six-year olds. To keep the adults in line and to teach us older folks the true meaning of life. Tears are rolling down my face – what a great fealing. Thank God for six-year olds!
Wow. Little Shane got it bang on! Thanks for sharing this story Doc.
Wonderful list of purposes for a dog. Too short though: there are many more. As for dealing with death, that will never happen. I have lost several dear dogs in my long lifetime. I can’t and won’t “get over” any of them, and only hope they will sit, stay, wait for me.
Thank God for wonderful dogs like Belker…it was obvious he was loved…and kudos to 6-yr old Shane for understanding what most adults can’t. I too had tears rolling down my cheeks! Thanks for sharing.
I agree with Judi, it totally brought tears to my eyes. I agree Dogs love unconditionally and are our true friends!
No truer words were ever spoken than that of the little 6 year old boy.
We can learn so much from animals if we only take the time to listen & watch.
Love them dearly while you have them as after they are gone you only have memories- may sure you will have good ones. That’s all you have to hold on to.
Wow, that is some amazing wisdom from a young person. Simple truths and wisdom often come from the young. It sounds like his parents taught him well also. Thanks for sharing this sweet story.
Anyone who has trouble reading the small print…. just click on it and it will be readable and clear.
Right click and open in new tab/window and it will be enlarged.
I believe the dog/wolf taught early humans that other creatures had the capacity to love, or basically had a soul.
We are here to learn many lessons and our pets are here to teach us some of those lessons. Basically they teach us how to be better humanbeings or in some cases how much we need to still learn!
Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife, Lisa, and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle.
The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker’s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on.
4) Patience, Sweetness of Spirit, and so much more.
6) How in loving another you are in fact loving yourself and your Creator.
7) How absolutely MARVELOUS God is.
No wonder He proclaimed, “The BEASTS of the Field are MINE.” Man is only given DOMINION (the ability and response-ability to care for, protect and enjoy)our animal kingdom. They do NOT belong to us.
What is the price of five sparrows–two copper coins? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.
That really touched me. God is not only the great Physician, but the great Veterinarian as one day all these little ones will be enjoying eternity as they were originally designed to do so.
Thanks for that great post, Annette!
And I know my little doxie was given to me to love and to care for…he brings me such joy to see his jaunty little self, to laugh when he does something funny, he cheers me up, he is there to just calmly be with me when there are tears, and he often tries to lick them away, to snuggle with under a blanket when it’s chilly, to enjoy the outdoors when it’s nice out…he is also good to sit in the lamp of an elderly friend and comfort her and also to make her laugh. God created him and gave him to me because He knew my little dog would bring me joy and delight every day.
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A child’s crystal clear mind speaks such truth about a dog’s life. very touching.
That was very touching and Heartfelt!
My mom gave me that story when I lost my 15 year old German Shorthaired Pointer named Coco from Cancer. It certainly helped me (although I still miss her) that was 4 years ago. 1 year later (almost to the day of loosing Coco) I lost a 14 week old German Shorthaired Pointer puppy named Mocha (and yes, I miss her too). That short story helped me again and I now have a wonderful 4 year old German Shorthaired Pointer named Piper who is healthy, energetic and full of vim and viger!
I have since passed that story on to other friends who have lost their dogs to cancer and they all agree, it is beautiful and that it has helped them as well.
Dogs feed your soul. They know what you need and give. I get rescue dogs they have so much love. Keeps the BP down.
Congratulations, this is a beautifully written article and I have passed the same to many of my friends who love pet dog as a companion. Really touching and worth remembering.
I was very touched by the story. All animals are wonderful creatures, but dogs are even more so. I´m sure God created dogs to keep us company and love us unconditionally, and most of all, to teach us how to be better human beings.
Hello Dr Andrew, I enjoyed reading your comments but the story and kid’s was too poignant. I hate pain and fear and try to avoid them. Humans in general with the exclusion of yourself think they are superior to animals,think they have more appreciation of certain meats: I have yet to see a human licking their lips for 20 minutes after consuming a meal!! So I share my best bacon on Saturday morning and when I do eat meat my beloved whippet shares that with me too. I have never loved any being as much….
anyone that declaws a cat, does not deserve to have one, it’s cruel and barbaric,they have rubber nail tips for them. hey after you have your cat declawed. COME TO MY HOUSE SO I CAN DENAIL/CLAW YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So very sweet…..this child understood better then alot of adults.
Kind of how I feel about all my dogs…..and my current dobe, Dillon…..doesn’t yet have the title “Companion Dog” CD after his name yet……BUT he is everything that “companion dog” stands for.
Re declawing cats…..I absolutely hate this! It seems once people declaw their cats….they let them outdoors…….are they so stupid to realize that w/o claws these cats have no protection????
I have 2 indoor cats..and I wouldnt EVER dream of declawing…….people are so lazy…..it’s simple to just wrap cat in a towel, and use either toenail scissors or a small clipper.
I believe it’s the fact that, as usual, people are getting lazier!
Love the purpose of a dog!! and of course its a family member!! like how u said that in one of your articles. great emails!! keep up the great work!!!!
I suffer from Major Depression and live alone. I have developed a bit of agoraphobia, making it super hard or sometimes impossible to get out and go somewhere. Was diagnosed with an Anxiety Disorder (GAD) also.
The best thing I’ve ever done was adopted my little chihuahua from the Humane Society. Pedro was overlooked by adoptees because he had mange, flea allergy and his tail can’t wag because of a birth defect. No one wanted this little ugly dog. The Humane Society reduced the fee to adopt him to try to get rid of him. My heart felt total love for this poor little dog. I fell in love with him before I ever saw him in person. I found him online at Petfinders.com. I adopted him after driving almost 3 hours to get him. I treated the problems he had.
I saved him, but he also saved me from this horrible depression and loneliness! We saved each other from horrible afflictions! He is the VERY BEST pet I have ever owned. He is so smart, sometimes I think he tries to answer me…haha. He understands so much that I say. I put in his own little doggie door that opens to my large, fenced-in back yard.
He now has a life of luxory. My depression lifted dramatically because of his love and loyalty to me. He follows behind me every time I get up and walk around. He is something else…haha.
Please adopt a pet to help with the over-population in our country! Have them spayed or neutured to stop this major problem that we have!
I too have saved our dog and he has come to us all the way from Romania to save and support us.
He is the 10th rescue dog in my life so far (not all 10 at the same time! 9 beloved friends have passed over the rainbow bridge.
We named our rescue dog Astro as he comes from “above” with a purpose. He is an amazing dog who spent years roaming the streets after being kicked out by his “protectors” when they no longer had resources to care for him.
A more grateful, loving and trusting dog would be difficult to find after being a victim of so much cruelty. He is so friendly,loves to learn new things and so obedient,but likes to play tricks on us; as if to remind us that life should be a fun game! We have been together for 6 wonderful months so far.
Finally, he gets so excited when I add “Dr Jones supplement” to his homemade food. He says “I´m lovin´it!” and my Mum has fixed my paws and got my tooth filled so life is pretty good right now and by the way I have lost weight too so I can play games and go for long walks with my Mum and Dad. Yes, dogs certainly know how to love and teach love and kindness under all circumstances!
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2019-04-23T02:56:59Z
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The intent of this installment, will be to explore the penalties of the above cited Sections of USC Title 18, sometimes known as the RICO ACT… after reading this Installment Readers can determine the probability that any action will be taken on the OIG US DOJ August 21, 2009 email referral to Criminal Division of US DOJ, first introduced in Installment #9.
NOTE: If you are a new Reader of this series "NO WITNESS = NO CASE", you may want to begin with reading the nine prior installments before you read this one. The main objective of this Series of Installments is to lay out DEFENDANT’s rebuttal argument, and "Affirmative Defenses" to the State’s REPORT "Testimony" that was faxed to the Laconia District Court [LDC] in re: 09-cr-1293-4 minutes prior to the hearing on the merits of the May 15-16, 2009 arrests in re: 1293-94 (in both cases the DEFENDANT is charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass). In re: 1293-94 the misdemeanor was an "A" classification, which entitled her to a Public Defender attorney. In re: 4147 the charges were classified a "B" and therefore the DEFENDANT had to defend herself, pro se. The REPORT "Testimony" was also submitted to the court in re: 09-E-4147, whose charges and the subsequent arrests of the DEFENDANT occurred after the Belknap County Superior Court ORDER that GRANTED DEFENDANT’s MOTION for a Temporary Restraining Order against Waukewan Holdings, LLC.
Section 1951 (relating to interference with commerce, robbery, or extortion), THE HOBBS ACT — 18 U.S.C. § 1951 "This chapter focuses on the Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C. § 1951) which prohibits actual or attempted robbery or extortion affecting interstate or foreign commerce. Section 1951 also proscribes conspiracy to commit robbery or extortion without reference to the conspiracy statute at 18 U.S.C. § 371. Although the Hobbs Act was enacted as a statute to combat racketeering in labor-management disputes, the statute is frequently used in connection with cases involving public corruption, commercial disputes, and corruption directed at members of labor unions."
So, the first test of DEFENDANT’s argument is: Whether there have been any "principals" named by her that have also been named as associated with ongoing criminal organizations. Since, DEFENDANT’s argument is one of rebuttal to REPORT’s "expert testimony" to LDC, how did the State present this issue to the LDC in its October 13, 2009 REPORT?
Incorporated into State’s REPORT in Sources of Information 6 is the January 9, 2009 "case study" letter that DEFENDANT wrote to OIGs of US DOJ and SEC. The letter was written by the DEFENDANT as a complaining victim of several federal criminal acts: to include the Hobbs Act cited above. The main issue of the ‘case study’ was DEFENDANT’s role as a ‘witness’ who had been subpoenaed by the Organized Crime Task Force that was prosecuting a case styled USA v Rennert. DEFENDANT’s testimony included naming Gene Phillips, and a person introduced to her as John Iuele, but whom she had later identified as James Whitey Bulger. [NOTE: For further information, click on hyperlinks identified by bold blue underlined text.] Both men have been publicly associated with ‘ongoing criminal organizations’. She also made allegations that she was aware of certain information that linked Robert Jaffe to the Blondheim Ponzi Scheme, and that Mr. Jaffe had also been linked to the Patriarcha Crime Family, (and to the more recent Madoff Ponzi Scheme that was the subject of Congressman Kanjorski’s Commission, which triggered the DEFENDANT’s January 9, 2009 "case study letter" that the State incorporated into its REPORT in Sources of Information 6 cited above (NOTE) text not in original letter). The Blondheim Ponzi scheme was uncovered in the early to mid-1980s. It is now public knowledge that the DEFENDANT caused the ‘whistle to be blown’.
Incorporated into State’s REPORT Sources of Information 9 is the June 22, 2009 letter written by DEFENDANT, and addressed to Ms. Angela L. Beyers, Unit Chief, Initial Processing Unit, FBI, Washington, DC 20535-0001. In the body of the letter, DEFENDANT recounted her experiences with the legal process of the USA v Rennert trial (where all six defendants were found guilty on all charges). And she disclosed her knowledge of the association between former FBI agent John Connolly, and John Iuele (the individual who had extorted $6000 from her, in March 1989), and whom she later identified as James "Whitey" Bulger [NOTE: click MOST WANTED]. Mr. Iuele was either a client, or known associate of DEFENDANT’s attorney’s Devine Millimet Stahl & Branch [DMSB]. (If the readers will recall, former FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick just published a book on related issues titled BETRAYAL). Also incorporated into the June 22, 2009 letter were the names of the Winter Hill Gang, and "Cadillac" Frank Salemme, and how they were implicated, as well.
The State, by incorporating 6) and 9) into its Sources of Information section, has freely admitted to the LDC (and to the public as of October 13, 2009) that it was fully aware of DEFENDANT’s role in testifying for the Organized Crime Task Force in re: USA v Rennert, in March 1997. The State, by and through its Sources of Information section, also freely admitted to the both the LDC and to the public, that it was fully aware of the events that succeeded DEFENDANT’s March 1997 testimony. The State could have Googled the names highlighted in (blue) above, and found that they all have been associated with ongoing criminal organizations, at that time.
"Within days of my completed subpoenaed testimony, I was informed that the High Birches pump house had been sabotaged. The water piping, valves and controls in High Birches pump house had been smashed. The heating system supplying the pump house water system had been shut off allowing the water pipes to freeze and burst. I filed complaints with the local authorities and with the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire. I recall I even informed AUSA Faulkes. I believe it was at that time that she said she would try again to get the attention of the FBI with respect to our situation. [I am now aware that it was during this period that the FBI was in the midst of trials and other issues protecting its Top Echelon program, and Whitey Bulger and his Winter Hill Gang had already been named by me as an alleged perp in other related matters. It was around this time that I was informed that my records at the Boston FBI had ‘gone missing’. Apparently the Boston FBI did not want to raise any new complaints of mine at that time. I was never contacted by anyone from the Boston Office of the FBI, nor the USA prosecutor.]"
"At this time the civil RICO case that I had brought in 1995, was in arbitration. On September 9, 1997 at a pre-arbitration meeting, the arbitrator signaled that he had read both arguments and was leaning in my direction. Three days later, on September 11, 1997, the main production well at the High Birches Springs located on westerly parcel of the No. Woodstock property, along with several adjacent monitoring wells had been found to be purposely contaminated with a cocktail of chemicals to include heavy metals and other carcinogens in criminal acts of sabotage, as defined by USC Hobbs Act and Title 18 RICO statutes."
"A series of quick maneuvers by RICO defendants convinced US District Federal Judge Gertner to give possession of the entire No. Woodstock property to Crowninshield. The local authorities allowed Motions to be filed in the matter that stated I was the primary suspect. It should be noted here that the westerly parcel contained the production equipment that had been sabotaged, but it was the easterly parcel that contained the majority of the springs and at that time they remained untouched by any sabotage. I pointed this fact out to FDIC. Within days, the monitoring well on the easterly parcel was also sabotaged with a liquid contaminant which was later identified as a liquid equivalent in chemical make up to furniture stripper. Crowninshield had 24/7 Security guards on the site, at the time of the second contamination."
"Within a day of the second contamination event, I was personally on the site, and saw a man in a red van that was later identified as belonging to the Winter Hill Gang. He was checking the monitoring well on the easterly parcel. It should be noted that only two people knew where that monitoring well was exactly located – myself and Reginald Danboise. When I attempted to read the license plate on the red van I was physically restrained from doing so by the local police. The red van quickly drove off after seeing the commotion."
"In January, 1998 Judge Gertner had granted the RICO defendant’s Motion to Dismiss. One of the compelling reasons that she stated in her Order was that New Hampshire had expressed a desire ‘to police its own environmental problems’. To this day I do not know who from New Hampshire made the request that Judge Gertner acted upon. Jeanne Shaheen, wife of William Shaheen of Shaheen Gordon (my former lawyers who committed fraud upon me and the Hillsborough Superior Court) was Governor, at that time. Attorney John Broderick (former senior partner of Devine Millimet and then of Merrill & Broderick; both firms with clear conflicts of interest against me) was Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court, at that time."
Also of note is that I was informed by the Federal EPA investigator from the Boston Office, who had already begun his investigation into the commercial sabotage of High Birches Mountain Spring Water business immediately after I called him on September 12, 1997, that he had been "relieved of his duties" by his superiors. The clean-up was now under the control of civil RICO defendant Crowninshield, and the State of New Hampshire. Crowninshield paid the State of New Hampshire a reported $100,000 to decommission the main production well [over all my objections].
Let’s assume for the moment that DEFENDANT’s statements made in the January 9, 2009 letter to OIGs of US DOJ and SEC were true. (Considering the OIG USDOJ’s August 21, 2009 referral email, there must have been some kernel of truth to it, or the referral would not have been made.) But, that is for the Readers to determine. The first question is: "Whether the State could have confirmed any of the DEFENDANT’s statements with second or third parties, or by public record?" The answer to this question is YES! Assuming that certain agents of the State had the incentive to do its own due diligence. Nevertheless, the DEFENDANT was prepared to introduce her ‘affirmative defense’ arguments, to include arguments of law and fact, at a full and fair trial on October 13, 2009, but she was denied that opportunity. The LDC accepted the State’s REPORT "expert testimony" at face value. No cross examination was allowed, in direct contradiction to the State’s own laws.
So, another follow up question here would be: Whether the State’s agents, in October 13, 2009, had already been compromised with their prior actions of support with respect to the alleged "Retaliation" charges that had been reported by DEFENDANT, in her ‘case study’ letter to the OIGs of US DOJ and SEC? Here are some of the State’s "expert testimony" with respect to DEFENDANT’s reports of "Retaliation". The Readers’ may get some indication of the State’s predisposition after reading the bulleted statements incorporated into State’s REPORT.
"Her descriptions at times almost sounded like a novel, and she has the self-importance in the "story" that is suggestive of a film documentary."
"Grandiose features of a delusional disorder also are apparent via the inclusion in her "story" of famous or publicly important figures like Whitey Bulger, F. Lee Baily, Warren Buffett, and the Supreme Court Justice and the Governor of NH."
"The content of Ms. Allan’s thinking, a circumscribed within her living and evolving "case study" or "story" does appear to be psychotic, characterized by a web of non-bizarre delusional perceptions and beliefs that is self-justified and self-fueled by its own internal logic."
2) Beginning on page 2 Sources of Information 6, Defendant explained to the OIGs of the USDOJ and SEC how she became to be involved, and ultimately caused the ‘whistle to be blown’ on the Ponzi Scheme, known as Blondheim.
"In 1983, after being a real estate broker, I decided to widen my business opportunities by becoming a licensed NASD Direct Participation Broker Dealer. I incorporated a separate NASD DPP Broker Dealer company named INAMAN. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of my primary real estate company, Business Assets Management, Inc., located on High Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. By late 1983, INAMAN was opened for business."
"INAMAN’S first client was a former business associate and client of mine. I had just completed a construction management contract for his company, Business Helicopters. The job entailed the design, permitting and construction of a private corporate aviation complex, named Flight One, at the Manchester Airport, Londonderry, New Hampshire."
"My client’s request was that I perform due diligence on a real estate limited partnership offering by a company called Blondheim. Mr. David Williams was the principal general partner and Raymond Nolan was a minority partner in the general partnership. My client told me that several of his business associates had purchased limited partnerships for one hundred thousand dollars each. He was considering doing the same."
"Shortly after I began my due diligence analysis, I recognized the offering to be a Ponzi scheme. [A complete description of the scheme and the schemers can be found in USA v David Williams/Blondheim. Several cases were tried in both US District Court in New Hampshire and New Hampshire Superior Courts. Mr. Williams was convicted and sentenced for 15 years. Many of my client’s business associates suffered financial losses. The authorities assured me that my role as a ‘whistle-blower’ in uncovering the Blondheim Ponzi scheme would be protected. For whatever reasons, it was not, and I became a target of the organized criminals that had been backing the scheme. This case study is a cautionary tale for all ‘whistle-blowers’.]"
"One of the reasons that I could easily spot the Blondheim Ponzi scheme was that the properties involved were local and I could personally view the real estate assets. Subsequent to my discovering the Blondheim Ponzi scheme, I began a more careful due diligence on all the other Prospectuses that my office received and notice too many similarities to make me comfortable in many recommendations, if any. One of the bothersome issues was the way the Partnerships were being financed. So I continued to concentrate on my primary real estate consulting and sale’s business."
"It is not feasible and beyond the scope of this evaluation to attempt an account that will exhaustively cover every detail as reported by Ms. Allan. Also, it is important to note that almost all of the data are reported from her perspective, and I have little or no independent confirmation of the events she cites and/or counter versions of the same or similar range of events."
Serial Readers will recall the "I smell a rat test". The State’s above REPORT "expert testimony" to the LDC on October 13, 2009, with excuse for not doing its own due diligence; clearly does not pass. But why would the State’ agents go to such lengths to prevent DEFENDANT from presenting her ‘affirmative defenses’, and perhaps risk becoming enmeshed in a USC Title 18 Sections 1513 1512 1951 violations investigation? Only those "certain" State agents can testify to their own acts and motivational incentives. Perhaps some day they will get that opportunity, under oath.
What was the incentive for certain agents of the State of New Hampshire to contact a sitting US District Court Judge with the request that New Hampshire take jurisdiction over the September 11, 1997 sabotage of the main production bore hole and surrounding monitoring wells located at the High Birches Springs property in North Woodstock, NH? And, then not supervise the investigation that they claimed was in the public interest of the State to pursue?
What was the incentive for certain agents of the State of New Hampshire to publicly declare that DEFENDANT was the prime suspect of the 9/11 Sabotage of the High Birches Springs water source?
What was the incentive for certain agents of the State of New Hampshire Office of Attorney General to terminate any investigation, if any, of the 9/11 Sabotage of the High Birches Springs water source, once it gained jurisdiction?
What was the incentive for certain agents of the State of New Hampshire to influence the Boston Office of the USEPA to terminate the ongoing investigation of US EPA investigator Duane Sims of the 9/11 Sabotage of the High Birches Springs water source?
What was the incentive for certain agents of the State of New Hampshire Office of Attorney General and Department of Environmental Services to allow Martha HW Crowninshield to control the clean-up efforts, which were caused by the 9/11 Sabotage of the High Birches Springs water source?
What was the incentive for certain agents of the State of New Hampshire to accept a $100,000 payment from Martha HW Crowninshield?
What was the incentive for certain agents of the New Hampshire Banking Department to make the findings that they did with respect to DEFENDANT’s, among others, complaints in re: SN Servicing Corporation, Inc. et al and Laconia Savings Bank?
What were the incentives for certain members of the Judicial Conduct Committee, and the Professional Ethics Committees to make the determinations that they did with respect to DEFENDANT’s filed "grievances"?
What was the incentive for certain agents of the State of New Hampshire Department of Corrections Office of Forensic Examiners to authorize, fax, and introduce into evidence the October 13, 2009 REPORT, in re: the above cited criminal cases?
What was the incentive for the Commissioners of the respective New Hampshire Boards of Medicine and Mental Health to take no affirmative action with respect to DEFENDANT’s filed "grievances"?
What was the incentive for certain agents of New Hampshire’s law enforcement to arrest DEFENDANT?
What was the incentive for New Hampshire State Prosecutor Robert Libby to pursue the above cited charges against the DEFENDANT?
What was the incentive for certain New Hampshire judges to make the decisions that they Ordered with respect to DEFENDANT’s civil and criminal matters?
What was the incentive for certain State of New Hampshire correction officers to book DEFENDANT using her Panamanian birth name of Jean Elizabeth Allan Sovik, and then deny her access to a lawyer in violation of the 1963 Vienna Treaty? And, then mistreat her while in custody for two days waiting for her arraignment?
"She therefore is essentially looking to use the proceedings as a forum to put to trial her entire delusional thesis. A trial for her will involve attempting to get even more data to understand the alleged conspiracy better, with more investigation and unearthing of detail to prove the conspiratorial links still left uncompleted and/or which she had yet to convince a Court about thus far".
One could interpret the State’s above "expert testimony" to be that, if the true motivations, or incentives of certain agents of the State of New Hampshire’s were to be discovered, then those certain agents may have to pay the penalties as laid out above in USC Title 18: sections 1512 1513 and 1951 The Hobbs Act. So, let’s make certain that the lid stays on "Pandora's Box", and ORDER DEFENDANT "Not Competent".
Installment #11will be dedicated solely to "A Daughter's Promise".
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2019-04-23T18:36:54Z
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http://www.nhjustice.net/HBNWNC10I.html
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A thesis is defined as the written product of a systematic study of a significant topic. Within the body of the paper, the student identifies the problem, states the major assumptions, explains the significance of the undertaking, sets forth the sources for and methods of gathering information, and analyzes the data, evidence or patterns to offer a conclusion or recommendation. The finished product provides clear evidence of originality, critical and independent thinking, and organization and format, as appropriate per discipline. Normally, an oral defense of the thesis is required.
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An oral defense of either a thesis or a project normally includes a presentation by the master’s candidate to a group of faculty capable of assessing the quality of the student’s work and/or a period of questioning directed to the master’s candidate by said group of faculty. Oral defenses should include not fewer than three such faculty members, one of whom should be the student’s supervisory committee chair, as well as one other committee member, though they may include more than three faculty members, even the entire program faculty. Any member of the university community may attend the defense. The defense will be held in an appropriate academic environment, normally on campus. Program faculty may approve oral defenses undertaken partly or wholly in mediated environments, including via conference call or online, provided that the defense takes place in “real time.” The oral defense, normally a graded pass/fail event, is documented by a signed statement attesting to the outcome of the defense. Such records must be complete enough to afford protection for both the student and the faculty members involved.
The Ed.D. dissertation is the written product of systematic, rigorous research on a significant educational issue and in accordance with an approved proposal. It shall demonstrate originality, critical and independent thinking, appropriate form and organization, and a rationale for the research problem examined. The dissertation shall identify the research problem and question(s), state the major theoretical perspective, explain the significance of the undertaking, relate it to the relevant scholarly and professional literature, set forth the appropriate sources for the methods of gathering and analyzing the data, and offer a conclusion or recommendation. An oral defense of the dissertation is required.
A Doctor of Nursing Practice doctoral project is defined as the written product of systematic, rigorous research on a significant advanced nursing practice issue. It shall evidence originality, critical and independent thinking, appropriate form and organization, and a rationale. The doctoral project shall reflect a command of the research literature and shall demonstrate the student’s mastery of evidence-based practice at the doctoral level. The written component of the doctoral project shall be organized in an appropriate form and shall identify the research problem and question(s), state the major theoretical perspectives, explain the significance of the undertaking, relate it to the relevant scholarly and professional literature, identify the methods of gathering and analyzing data, and offer a conclusion or recommendation.
An award of $1,000, along with an engraved plaque, will be given each year to the student whose master’s thesis represents the highest standard of scholarly accomplishment as determined by a panel of judges chosen from emeriti professors. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies or their graduate program adviser for further information on eligibility and deadlines. Finalists from each college may also be recommended for Honorable Mention by the judges; these will receive a certificate of Honorable Mention and a $100 cash award.
Of the minimum of 30 semester units of approved coursework required for the master’s degree, no more than six are allowed for a thesis or project. Of the minimum 60 units for the Ed.D., no more than 12 units are allowed for a dissertation. Of the 36 minimum units for the Doctor of Nursing Practice, no more than nine units are allowed for the doctoral project.
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Variations from procedures and regulations should be referred to the Office of Graduate Studies for review.
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If the supplementary style manual presents regulations that conflict with the all-university format guidelines published in the university thesis manual, the university dissertation manual, or the university doctoral project manual, the university regulations take precedence.
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2019-04-19T12:02:18Z
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https://catalog.fullerton.edu/content.php?catoid=17&navoid=2062
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With our younger son and his sweet bride, we walked in New York City for a week in October. Each morning we left our rented apartment on the Upper West Side and set out.
The first morning we walked past the Dakota and the “Imagine” Memorial to John Lennon, through Central Park full of people on a holiday Monday, and emerged at the Fifth Avenue corner by the Plaza Hotel. We watched a Columbus Day parade, celebrating everything Italian, passed glitzy stores with familiar names, and rode a series of elevators up 70 floors to the observation deck at the top of Rockefeller Center. Afterwards, with the grid of New York streets and the green of Central Park in our minds, we headed home, up Broadway from 47th to to 74th Street.
We walked in daylight across the Brooklyn Bridge and, at nighttime in the brighter-than-day light of Times Square. We ambled through Chinatown, Greenwich Village, Little Italy, and SoHo, with a long stop at the Strand Bookstore (shelves so tall the store provides ladders), and a quick peek into the Prada flagship store (designed by Rem Koolhaas, elegant and tranquil). We strolled through the Greenmarket at Union Square where New York chefs shop for fresh food.
For years I’ve read about the High Line, about the transformation into a garden path of an abandoned, elevated rail line running north from the Meatpacking District. On a sunny day with wind at our back we walked the mile and a half from its southerly beginning. What a pleasure.
Inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the tracks in the 25 years after trains stopped running, the plantings are sturdy – full of grasses, trees with fall foliage, and shrubs full of berries or rosehips. You walk above the sirens, car horns, and bustle of the neighborhoods below – closer to sky and air.
Sidewalks of aggregate looking like wide planking expand into areas for seating, and for eating from food stands and restaurants nearby. Wide wooden chaise lounges built for two, narrow perching benches by the guardrails, and a set of stadium-style bleachers provide seating in limited space. A shallow stream flows for a while beside the walkway. At one point the path passes through a building, but mostly you tread a garden path.
A huge billboard and unused boxcars make perfect urban canvases for artists – surprising public art pieces. An exhibit of tiny sculptures tucked into spots along the route is titled “Lilliput.” A sound installation – a voice seeming to come out of the bushes – recited the names of animals, dividing them into human goods and bads: panda, swan, spider, tapeworm.
In a week of walking, the High Line was a high point!
The young writer expressed incredulity that I had never made kale chips. So, faced with a huge bunch of very curly kale from the CSA, and armed with two recipes, I made kale chips. Why hadn’t I done this before?
My Alaska daughter-in-law described my proclivity (we share it): I’m a savory-preferring, chips and salsa sort of person. Sweets I can almost always resist (with some exceptions), but tortilla chips are my weakness. Chips get you through that premeal dinnertime when hunger depletes energy for cooking. Chips make going out for Mexican food such fun. Nestled in the pack with the sandwiches, chips get you to the top of a mountain.
It’s a simple recipe: wash and shake a big bunch of curly kale, remove the midrib, cut into quarter-inch strips, and place in a large bowl.
Make sure the kale is well-coated, then arrange in a single layer on baking sheets. Abascal warns that piling the kale leads to soggy kale – it steams rather than crisps. I made two batches, spread thinly on rimmed sheets.
Place in a heated oven (350°) for five minutes, then turn the kale and bake for six or seven more minutes until the kale is crisp. Keep a close watch – don’t burn – but you want crisp.
Crisp is delicious! Sprinkled with salt these have the melt-in-your mouth satisfaction of a decadent, very good potato chip – but virtuous, no guilt.
Enjoy – and go ahead – eat the whole bowl – it’s kale!
What a question (thank you!) – could I pick four?
I have two watercolor palettes. Both contain 24 colors but not exactly the same. The palette for large paintings leaves out what might be my favorites – because they have their own little ceramic bowl-like containers – the transparent triad: cobalt blue, aureolin (yellow), and rose madder genuine. Rose madder genuine I love best. It looks nearly black on the palette, but when wetted it releases a slight flower fragrance along with its unique pink hue.
Even when used full strength, transparents don’t give the oomph of staining pigments. So I have another triad – ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow (pale), and alizarin. Unforgiving – a mark with a staining pigment means commitment. They are strong-willed but vital. So are the Windsors – royal tones of green, purple, and red – clear and robust.
Then the cadmiums – the warm pigments you don’t want to accidentally put in your mouth or in your teacup – have opaqueness, making them seem thick and heavy. A sunflower calls for a variety of cadmium yellows – pale, medium, deep (it looks orange). The natural world needs their heft.
And I have to choose sap green, even though green isn’t my favorite to paint with, and I never use it alone – always adding a yellow or burnt sienna or umber or sepia.
You can mix a lot of colors, but some priceless ones you can’t – like a good green or cerulean blue, burnt sienna, ochre, or the so-valuable Payne’s gray, which supports all of watercolor’s color.
If I choose by thinking of how the pigment behaves, asking which pigments I approach while thinking: “oh good I get to paint with ____,” cobalt blue stands out because it’s fun to pull the grainy texture across a page and watch what happens. Cadmium yellows hold out from the paper, and I brush them with pleasure. With pure and vibrant Winsor red, I must focus before I load the brush for tulips or an amaryllis or an apple. Perhaps flood water first and watch it disperse. Or not. Use it pure with abandon.
Permanent rose is beautiful – and so often flower petals seem already painted with it. A tiny bit of pure pigment at the end of a small brush pulled down with water makes a sweet pea petal. Once in a while a happy moment means cue the vermillion! Purest orange.
OK, four – I suppose the staining triad and sap green for a desert island – but could we negotiate for a few more?
Good friends came to stay at the Buffalo this summer, and they left lovely gifts including Ross Dobson’s “Market Vegetarian: Easy Organic Recipes for Every Occasion.” I wanted to tell you about it in case you need a menu pick-me-up, just in time for autumn vegetables.
The book is beautiful, its design simple and elegant with gorgeous full-page pictures of prepared recipes. The photograph of hard-boiled eggs cut open in halves, glistening green beans, basil leaves, cherry tomatoes, and olives over rice completely inspired me, and I left the book open to “Nicoise-style Brown Rice Salad with Fresh Herbs” for days.
I’m not sure I ever made Dobson’s exact recipe – but I made all sorts of variations (the sign of a great cookbook for me) – using what we had on hand and including our neighbor’s fresh eggs. (Chickens so close we can hear the rooster in the morning). Sometimes I just piled the ingredients on a thick layer of spinach leaves and included the hardboiled eggs – a trick from Italy taught me by the mother of my young friend – a meal from a salad.
Dobson divides the book into sections reflecting the way he (and most of us) eat – ideas for “sharing plates” (fritters, baked mushrooms, potato and parsnip croquettes), midweek meals, soups and stews and Saturday night dinners that are a little more complicated. Also he includes a section on savory baking.
In the short introduction Dobson makes it clear he’s talking about vegetables from the farmers’ market or your garden – fresh vegetables. Including the ones that will store, available this time of year – lots of ingredients for “Roasted Early Autumn Vegetables with Chickpeas” or “Tagliatelle with Pan-fried Pumpkin and Red Pepper Oil” – and more and more. Now I’ve read through the whole book, enjoying the little narratives before each recipe, and am excited to make pretty much everything.
Five stars and I’m hungry!
On this visit to Downtown Abbey we celebrated our wedding anniversary and Mr. Carson’s birthday. Then he left for his brother’s bachelor party – a hike in the Sierras – a guy tradition no matter the already changed bachelor status.
Lady Baby and I took walks with her stroller to the park. She’s bundled in a fleece suit now and wearing her new pumpkin hat. With bottom drawstring tightened up totally, one of Mr. Carson’s jackets slips over her legs like a small sleeping bag – the hood and arms cozy up and around her making her wind and waterproof. We had great walks – often with Lady Cora.
Lady Baby knows what it is to be alone in a room now. If you are nine-months old and sitting happily on the living room floor, surrounded by intriguing plastic objects that nest and clunk, and nearby is your mom or dad or other familiar big person – the world is good. If that person leaves, to stir the soup or get a cup of tea, a small fret crosses Lady Baby’s face, followed by specific vocalizations. It’s easy to put yourself in her position – just barely mobile and very small.
It seems to make evolutionary sense for a baby to develop separation anxiety at this “cusp of moving” time – it must have kept caregivers nearby and prevented many a baby from a crawl toward the fire or the cave’s entrance.
Lady Megan’s passing colored the week, will color life. She’s been such an important dog, so sweet of face and disposition. I am thankful for her last summer of lying on the back porch to bake in the sun. To write here about her is to recognize her loss for Mrs. Hughes – they had such a life together before anybody thought of Downtown Abbey or its denizens.
I will miss Lady Megan. I am sorry she is gone, and thankful Mrs. Hughes gave her such a good life full of love.
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2019-04-21T14:47:53Z
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https://katygilmore.wordpress.com/2012/10/
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A bright, fresh blend of lemon and cilantro with hints of fresh cut grass and green tea.
COMMENTS: Light, clean scent. I soaped at room temp with no A, D or R. Both men and women like this fragrance.
"Such a fresh scent! "
COMMENTS: A personal favorite! Give it a try! You will not be disappointed! Bright and crisp!
COMMENTS: So light and refreshing! Never thought I would like to shower with a cilantro scent but I love it! My customers agree as well. Will continue to purchase this!
"Very nice green fragrance "
COMMENTS: This is clean and very green. I will have lots of use for this oil!
COMMENTS: Had this for a while but recently introduced. Customers keep coming back for more.
COMMENTS: I used this in my cold process soap. It behaved perfectly, no ricing or acceleration and smells fantastic and fresh even after cure. I will definitely be buying this again as everyone loves the neutral fresh scent!
COMMENTS: Customers and I LOVE this scent. This is my absolute favorite right now and I don't even like cilantro in my diet at all but this blend is so refreshing and perfectly blended. Coriander and cilantro are one-in-the-same so I call my scent Coriander Lime (I add a touch of lime essence oil to bring out the lime punch) --- OUTSTANDING!
• Absolutely nothing! Please keep forever!
COMMENTS: This is a huge seller for me. Behaves well in cold process soaps. Light but lovely scent.
COMMENTS: I'm in love with you citrus cilantro 10 star for me.
COMMENTS: I loved this scent. It's light and refreshing but a hint of herb. I added the basil oil to this to create a more herb smell and I love the bath bombs that were the result. Great scent!
COMMENTS: This scent grew on me, and it has been popular as a man's scent. My kids think it smells similar to our herbal doggie wash... but I like it :) With that said, it's definitely and "herbally" kind of scent -- kind of reminds me of the "Herbal Essences" shampoo that all kids from the 70's remember. I don't get any citrus, nor do I smell any cilantro, but I like it nonetheless. I find that it pairs nicely with a bit of lemon essential oil.
COMMENTS: Fresh, beautiful scent. Lovely scent for the kitchen.
COMMENTS: You'l be glad. Go ahead and get it.
COMMENTS: This fragrance was exactly what I hoped for. It smells just like fresh cut citrus and cilantro. I can't stop sniffing the soap I made lol! No ricing, no acceleration and no discoloration!
COMMENTS: I love this scent, and so do my customers. Hard to describe but would call it a "green scent".
COMMENTS: I don't want to leave a bad review because it's not bad. It's not my cup of tea, but it does make a nice "soap smell". I actually might order again. Some customers like the "soap smell". It's not over welming or in your face.
COMMENTS: Love this fresh scent. I use it in a motorcycle soap and it works well for male customers. Not quite as strong as other scents.
COMMENTS: This f/o has a fantastic fragrance. I love cilantro and wanted to do a soap with it. So glad I did! The customers love it! It's a clean fresh natural scent sure to please anyone!
"Strong but lovely fresh scent"
COMMENTS: I love this fragrance in cold process. I didn't have a problem with acceleration, ricing, or any yucky stuff that can happen to cold process soap. I can smell what seems like black pepper in the undertones, and the top notes are fresh and citrus-like. I really love the fragrance!
"Not true to its name"
COMMENTS: Not even a hint of cilantro here... Not sure I even detect citrus. Not a bad scent but nothing like you might expec.
COMMENTS: Wonderful fresh scent! Everyone loves it and is a big seller. No problem in cold process soap. I will always keep this in my soap line.
COMMENTS: A yummy fragrance combo. Worked well in CPOP and HP soap. No ricing, no acceleration.
COMMENTS: Used this in natural foaming hand soap. I was a little worried that customers wouldn't like it, but had more than one person seek this out as a return customer. I'm looking forward to trying this scent in candles. Will be purchasing more.
COMMENTS: This is a clean scent. I love this in everything. Lotion smells great in this fragrance.
COMMENTS: I got this as a sample and fell in love with this scent it is amazing. I will be buying again, very popular in all of our products.
COMMENTS: I personally loved this fragrance as well as my friends. Was VERY popular! Will buy again!
"Dont judge a book by its cover"
COMMENTS: I bought this on a whim, and was surprised on how well it performed and ending up loving the scent. When I walk by the racks its my bar to pick up and smell.
"Clean crisp scent that carries"
COMMENTS: This is such a fresh clean scent. I love working with it.
COMMENTS: This smells great, it was the exact type of scent I was looking for. Clean and fresh, very herbal.
COMMENTS: Very fresh and clean, citrusy but not lemony.. very nicely done!
COMMENTS: I recently received a bottle of this fragrance oil as a free choice on an order, and I'm glad I picked it. This is one of the most amazing fragrance combinations I've smelled - clean, fresh, citrusy, crisp! I created a 2-layer soap and added sea salt - very pretty and also lathers well. I have a bar in my bathroom and can smell it when I walk into the room. I'm sure to use this FO regularly. Love it!
COMMENTS: I thought this was a little pungent right out of the bottle but after unmolding and cutting my soap it smells great. It's been curing for a little over a week and still very good smell. Will get more of this.
"Smells definitely like Lemon and Cilantro"
COMMENTS: I love this scent, I was skeptical at first but I am so very glad I bought it. I was looking for something that matched Bath and Body Works "Lemon Mint Leaf" scent. Granted, it isn't a direct replacement but I love this just as much. It gives that herby citrusy smell perfectly and I love burning this candle in my kitchen. I have made this in Wax melts and candles with soy wax, all my friends love it too.
"Wonderful bright citrus and herbal scent!"
COMMENTS: Used in soy wax candles and this scent is sophisticated and complex! A customer requested this as a custom scent for a line of spa candles and she wanted citrus notes balanced with herbal undertones. This fragrance oil fit the bill perfectly.
COMMENTS: This is one of my top selling scents. I can't keep this in stock.
COMMENTS: This smells great! I'm very pleased with this purchase! I read a review saying the scent didn't last in their CP. Mine has only been curing for 2 says so I really hope that doesn't happen to mine bc I love it so much. I'll post a review once it's done curing and let you all know what happens. O yes, it didn't rice up or speed up trace, it worked perfectly!
"Fantastic Smell Fades in CP"
COMMENTS: This scent is amazing out of the bottle but completely faded by the time the soap cured. I would like to try it in HP or perhaps bath fizzies. It's fresh and bright. The house smelled wonderful for days after making the soap. I would love to find a way to use it.
COMMENTS: This scent is absolutely amazing. Won't have any regrets!
COMMENTS: If you would like to know how this smell like, go to pier one import, they have exact the smell. I bought a candle from pier one, fall in love with this scent. Order it because of the candle. I am so happy!!!! It smells exact the same. I m very satisfied Behaved very well in cp soap. soapers go ahead and purchase the scent. Enough time to color and very workable.
COMMENTS: This scent is clean and crisp. It is a "Go To - MUST HAVE" for me! It is a jump start for the senses! I get so many compliments / questions as to what perfume I am wearing. People are surprised to hear that is it just my soap! I make this for resale and cannot keep it in stock. Love, love...love!
COMMENTS: Smell the cilantro and is delicate and fresh, behaved very well in cp soap. Scent disappeared but came back after 4 weeks of curing.
"So happy to have found this scent!"
COMMENTS: I first encountered this scent in a Pier 1 room spray. Once I started making soap, I sought out a fragrance like it and was thrilled to find the exact scent at WSP. I knew that I loved it and would make it regardless, but my customers love it, too. It was the first scent to sell out from a selection of ten scents. It just smells clean and wonderful. Mixed in beautifully in CP with no issues.
COMMENTS: Love this fragrance! I have yet to meet a customer who didn't love it and buy! Can't keep this one in stock. Doesn't discolor or accelerate. Soaps beautifully!
COMMENTS: Behaves perfectly in CP soap. Smells awesome. Very Strong in candles.
COMMENTS: I added some fresh chopped cilantro at trace and BAM! Sold out!
COMMENTS: This is my new favorite! It is a light, crisp, clean FO that both men and women love. Behaved in CP soap and the scent stayed through cure. I will definitely buy this again.
COMMENTS: I always I have this scent in my soap line. Customers Love it!
COMMENTS: This product is, hands down, the BEST soap making supply I've ever bought. I haven't found a single person that hasn't loved this scent. It's strong so you only need a small amount. The scent is very clean and the Cilantro is definitely the stand out smell. I absolutely love this scent and it's actually the reason I logged in today - to order more, of course! It didn't cause any changes to my soap color.
COMMENTS: Had a customer request this one and after soaping, I can understand why. Lovely citrus/herbal fragrance that's clean without being too overpowering. Will definitely be part of my line now!
COMMENTS: Used the Citrus Cilanto in CP soap and what a hit! Everybody loves it. This FO behaves perfectly in CP soap, no A, no D. Getting ready to order more. Can't do without this one.
COMMENTS: Great scent for all. I thought it was feminine, but hubby proved me wrong, he loves it. Citrus cilantro has a wide appeal of age groups reaching teens through seniors. Love it in our soap & adding to body wash & room spray now.
COMMENTS: It's a great fragance,not too strong.My whole family love it.
COMMENTS: This scent is wonderful! I've used it in my HP soap and made a bath splash out of it for myself. It's very energizing.
COMMENTS: I'm not usually a fan of citrus but this is a gorgeous scent. It mostly just has a fresh summery smell. I used it in CP and it smells great and worked really well. One of my favorite scents ever.
COMMENTS: COULD NOT WAIT TO RECIEVE THIS FRAGRANCE, I MADE A SALT SCRUB AND LOTION RIGHT AWAY. THIS IS A DEAD ON DUPLICATE, ALSO WILL MAKE A DIFUSSER OUT OF THIS.
COMMENTS: Used in CP soap and also Mp soap does very well in both. My customers rave about this fragrance I can't keep it in stock very long works great in lotions too. Please keep this one!
"I need more of this!"
COMMENTS: Anything with cilantro has to be good, right? I am ordering more for lotion bars.
"I have a general question (I mean no disrespect). Are the FO (& EO) diluted with carriers or are they true quality oils? I want to be sure I'm getting the best product I can afford from my vendors and have had horrible experiences with synthetic-smelling or "cheap" smelling oils. TIA"
Staff Answer Hi Anjelica, our fragrance and essential oils are not diluted.
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2019-04-21T16:21:25Z
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http://www.wholesalesuppliesplus.com/products/citrus-cilantro-type-fragrance-oil.aspx?Mode=QA
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SNW:When did you first encounter Gerry Andersons "Thunderbirds?"
MARK: When I was seven years old. I remember it was seven oclock on a Saturday morning and I was in my Grandfathers bedroom waiting for the first episode of "Thunderbirds" to be shown on Channel 12 out of Binghamton, New York. But I had already known about the "Thunderbirds" before I saw the first episode. About a month earlier my aunt and I were walking through the toy section of a local drugstore and I suddenly stopped dead in my tracks when I saw a kit of this wondrous spaceship, Thunderbird 1. The box art was unbelievable. My aunt saw me gawking at it and asked if I wanted it. I couldnt even speak, I just nodded my head. She bought it for me and a week later my Mom bought me the Thunderbird 5 kit. As any seven-year-old would, I put them together very badly. But I loved them. I still have them, in fact. The boxes got thrown away years ago, but I still have the models. So, there I was, seven in the morning, waiting for this show with the wonderful spaceships to start, not knowing what it was going to be about. Then here comes the old ITC logo and the 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 countdown. From the opening credits I was hooked. I knew I was going to be a "Thunderbirds" fan for the rest of my life. And twenty-six years later I still am.
SNW: What was that first episode you saw?
MARK: I cant remember, that would be asking a little too much from a seven-year-old, but, I remember it was fascinating. I was totally amazed.
Anderson puppets were 20 to 22 inches tall. Their eyes were manufactured the same as human false eyes and their hair was real. Their heads were packed with electronics. Average cost in the 1960s for each puppet was £300 ($850 to $900). It took three months to construct each figure. Sylvia Anderson was the inspiration and model for Lady Penelope.
MARK: No, it was years before I realized that the characters werent people that just walked funny. As a kid I really didnt know they were puppets. In 1969 I had the thrill of seeing Thunderbirds Are Go! [ a "Thunderbirds" feature-length film] when it showed at the local movie theater. This was one of the old-time theaters that seated about 2,000 people. The screen was sixty feet wide and nearly forty feet tall. To see the show, the vehicles, and all my favorite characters on this enormous screen was an unforgettable experience. It was incredible. I made my Mom sit through two showings.
SNW: So you were an unquestioning, diehard fan from the start.
MARK: Not unquestioning. Even as a kid I realized there were some goofy things about the show. What drove me crazy as a kid, and still does, is the inconsistency in the Thunderbird 2 detailing. On some model shots the "2" is the same size as the word 'Thunderbird.' In other shots it's double the size. Sometimes the base of the "2" is level with the word, other times it's centered. And sometimes the "2" is enormously huge. There was no continuity on the decaling of these models, so its very easy to point out where they re-used stock footage of the ship.
SNW: Any other errors or inconsistencies?
MARK: There are several common misconceptions about the show among fans that I would like to clear up with your readers.
MARK: Many think that the real name of the character "Brains" is Hiram Horatio Hackenbacker. This misconception comes from an episode called Alias Mr. Hackenbacker. In it Brains introduces himself under the pseudonym of Hiram Hackenbacker. Following that episode the Century 21 publicists erroneously referred to him in press releases as Hackenbacker. Brains real name is never given in the show. Also, the Thunderbirds arch-nemesis was never referred to by name in the series. I believe he was first referred to as "The Hood" in the weekly TV-21 comic strips. When "Thunderbirds" was later released in a half-hour format, Scotts voice-over narration would recap the action from the previous episode. In these summaries Scott started referring to the villain as "The Hood." Another thing that drove me crazy as kid was that The Hood was always foiled in photographing the top-secret International Rescue vehicles by the camera detectors onboard the ships. So why didnt he just draw a picture of the ships? It was just one of the little things they did that was really, really dumb.
SNW: How did you go from a loyal fan to a collector?
MARK: I started picking up fan magazines. In Monster Times I found a classified advertising for "Fireball XL-5," "Stingray," and "Thunderbird" stuff. I hadnt heard of "Fireball XL-5." I had seen "Stingray," but had never made the connection that the shows were made by the same people who produced my "Thunderbirds." The dealer was very kind to a young boy. I was about twelve at the time. He took time in his letters to explain about the different shows. He sent me copies of photographs. Most importantly, he gave me phone numbers and addresses of other collectors. Some werent interested in wasting their time with a twelve-year-old. But others were receptive and we got to be friends and started exchanging things. My collection was beginning to mushroom. I next wrote to ITC in New York City. They sent me quite a few things, plus an invitation to visit ITC in New York. Since my cousin lived in New York, I took them up on it. I got a whole bunch of goodies, exhibitor campaign books, 35mm slides, photographs, 8x10 stills, etc.
SNW: What is the most unique item you acquired in these early years of your collection?
MARK: That would have to be my original transparency. I wrote to National Screen and inquired about Thunderbirds Are Go! movie posters. They replied that they couldnt sell me any since I was not a movie theater. So, persistent little booger that I was, I called the number on their letterhead and talked to a gentlemen who gave me the phone number for the warehouse. At the warehouse I talked to another nice gentleman who pulled the file on both Thunderbirds Are Go! and Thunderbird 6. The only item left was the original 8" x 12" color transparency for the one-sheet of Thunderbirds Are Go! He couldnt sell it to me, but he would mail it to me if I would promise to reimburse him for the postage. In three months those files were going to be cleared and it would have been destroyed forever. He mailed it to me and I very promptly mailed him postage money back plus a couple bucks additional. He called me up and thanked me for being so honest. Thats how I acquired the original artwork transparency for the poster.
SNW: Thats the artwork on the "Thunderbirds" laser disk?
MARK: Yes. When MGM wanted to release Thunderbirds Are Go! and Thunderbird 6 in letter-box format on laser disc, they discovered they didnt have any original artwork. I was happy to provide them the cover art and most of the cover photos. That was a thrill.
SNW: Where did your collecting urge take you next?
MARK: By this time I had also gotten in contact with Canadian fans. The show was still being shown there and merchandise, especially British merchandise, was easier to obtain. I was working after school and on weekends. About 80% of the money I was earning was going to pay for Anderson stuff and my phone bills. I was calling London, Newfoundland, and other foriegn places on a weekly basis.
SNW: How old were you at the time?
MARK: I was twelve. My monthly phone bill was $450, rather high for your average twelve-year-old. But I didnt care because I was getting lots of "stuff." I managed to acquire a full set of TV-21 magazines [a British comic publication]. With these in hand, I figured that was it, there wasnt anything I didnt know about the shows. I next started acquiring copies of the films and the episodes on film. Back in 1972 there werent any VCRs around and the idea of having these shows on videotape was unthinkable. I managed to get some of the 8mm of the shows that were put out by Arrow in England. These ranged from five-minute featurettes to full-length episodes. Around the same time WPIX in New York City reran "Thunderbirds" in the half-hour format. That was just terrific because it revitalized my love for the shows.
SNW: Many Americans are unfamiliar with the show. Are "Thunderbirds" fans primarily in the UK?
MARK: Its largest following is in Japan. "Thunderbirds" was bigger in Japan than "Star Trek" will ever be in the United States. The Japanese have kept the flame for thirty years. A full listing of all the Japanese merchandise and premiums would be the size of an encyclopedia.
SNW: "Thunderbirds," as with most Anderson shows, was most noted for its hardware and incredible vehicles. What do you consider some of the more interesting vehicles from the show?
MARK: A lot of the background vehicles that were used in the episodes were Matchbox cars and trucks. Probably the most easily recognizable one is the Matchbox Cooper-Jarret transport from the early sixties. This tractor-trailer combination was used as background in half the episodes; it was nothing more than a standard Matchbox toy. Sometimes the cab roof was drilled out and a flashing grain-of-wheat bulb was installed. Most of the airport scenes have this Matchbox vehicle and in Day of Disaster several are seen moving on the highway behind the giant rocket transporter. Anderson used Matchbox vehicles everywhere. Different cars, construction vehicles, everything. Theyre easy to pick out from photographs or a paused VCR. Many of these Matchbox cars are available at not too ridiculous a price or you could possibly pick them up at flea markets or where ever you find old Matchbox cars. For little money you can have the beginnings of an accurate Anderson background-arama.
SNW: What advice would you give to a "Thunderbirds" collector?
MARK: By all means, enjoy your toys. You bought them, play with them! So many people I talk with say that they are going to leave these things mint in the package thinking they'll be worth so much money. Granted, toys like the Matchbox die-cast are expensive now, for the simple reason that there is a very big demand for them. But they are not a collectible like a Hummel figurine or a limited edition item. They are hard to get now because dealers are buying them up as fast as they can and selling them for ungodly rates. My prices are high, too. I wouldnt pay my price for them. I'd wait until I could get them cheaper. Matchbox paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for these molds. Once the mold is made, the actual cost of producing die-cast toys is nil. Matchbox will flood the market with these things for years. I believe the Matchbox "Thunderbirds" items will be readily available in the States around 1994-1995. Those who cant wait that long will pay premium prices. The smart people will wait.
SNW: You mentioned the metal vehicles. What about the plastic kits?
MARK: I dont suggest anyone stick them up on the shelf thinking theyre going to be worth a lot of money in the future, because theyre not. Theres too many of them. Older kits are constantly being reissued. This stuff is never going to have the value of an old Aurora Monsters of the Movies kit. Open the things up (always keep the box), build this stuff, customize it, make it your own, have fun! Thats what Gerry Anderson was all about, enjoying the fantasy.
SNW: Why do you continue to collect?
MARK: I love it. Ive been doing this for twenty-six years and its something I really enjoy. Ive just got tons of stuff. Ive got over 15,000 color and black-and-white photos of scenes from Anderson shows. If anybodys in my area and wants to come up and see me, all they have to do is call in advance to make an appointment. Theyre more than welcome to come and see what I have for sale and whats in my own private collection. Quite a few people have already stopped by. Im always happy to meet a fellow Anderson collector.
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2019-04-18T22:41:08Z
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http://www.strangenewworlds.com/issues/interview-08.html
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2019-04-24T09:50:21Z
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https://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/mid-century-bathroom-lighting
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2019-04-25T19:55:55Z
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http://codegen.synergex.com/help/topics/idh-topic1310.htm
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ok so here is our last few months!
These are backwards but that is just how its going to be because i don't want to move them around!
But these are our halloween and thanksgiving and christmas so here we go!
The day after christmas we headed up to Alpine to my parents cabin to spend the rest of christmas with my family! My Brothers and their families and my sis all had been up there for the five days before we got there so I was anxious to get up there to party! And of course play in the beautiful snow!
here is our fire in the middle of the snow, i thought was so nice and pretty!
We have a couple snowmobile's and we would pull the sleds and snowboards behind it, Bryson was in heaven and was probably on there for a good couple hours straight! And poor kid, ryan would go so fast and B would fly off pretty hard! He never cared though, that is his type of fun!
Here is B and Reece going for a little ride!!
ANd here are my adorable babies on christmas day in there christmas getup! ( i love those faces) And Tadd is almost 3 months in this picture, although you can't see his face but he is growing up so fast and he looks just like his daddy! I will post more pics of little man soon!
and i think her face says it all!
She was hilarious, she just kept jumping up and down and yelling she was so happy!
Here is the christmas program at our christmas eve party! Reece was a precious angel, and Bryson a wise man!
oh yes and we also had Ryans 30th birthday party and we played the xbox kinect and here is Ryan and Garrick HOLDING HANDS playing the game! It was hilarious! lots of fun friends and food of course! Happy birthday to ry ry!
Here we are at the temple lights with my little bro and his adorable family! Love those babies and wish we got to see them more often! The kids love going every year to see the temple lights!
And of course we can not forget that my baby boy turned 5 years old! I can't believe how fast that has gone by and it has been so fun! I love this little boy so much! We had a super hero party and everyone had capes and we played super hero games and it was fun!
Auntie Stephy came to visit after Tadd was born she spent thanksgiving weekend with us because she was an orphan! We will take her!
And let me just tell you about this boy! Thanksgiving day we have a little craft for the kids and we made gingerbread houses! Well B spent seriously so much time on this house, he took his time to frost the entire house, and made a door, he landscaped it, and put roof tiles on it! He spent more time on that than any of the kids. He is so meticulous about things like this, any kind of art project or craft he really tries pretty hard to do his best!
And this was at halloween, we went to a little pumpkin patch and they had a train the kids got to ride on! Aren't they so cute! Bryson is so good with Reece, he always tries to make sure that Reece is having a good time, and is happy! Such a great big bro to take care of her! They are best friends that is for sure!
And Halloween! Reece was my wonder woman, and Bryson was Batman! And i may be a bit biased but they were the cutest kids ever!
pheww....there ya go, i will try and update more often!
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Ok so I know it has been forever and I'm not really sure anyone looks at this thing but I still would like to update it enough for it to be a little journal! So much has been going on lately it has been totally crazy! BUT first things first....I need to introduce the newest and most adorable addition to our family! Mr. Tad Marshall Haymore. He was born on October 5, 2011 and weighed 6lbs 2oz. at 12:48 pm. I was induced that morning at about 8 o'clock and everything went perfectly, with about not quite two full pushes to get little man out! And ever since he has been the best baby ever, sleeping like a champ and is seriously so dang adorable if i don't say so myself! :) He has been such a blessing in our home and its been so fun to see the kids with a little baby and how good and helpful they are with him! Bryson asks every day when will he be big enough to wrestle and play with!...soon enough I'm sure.
And here we are with Dr Kacenga, who was so great and we totally loved him! But man my face is crazy fat!
And i just thought i should add this pic of Reece looking like she is on a mission with her babies! She has gotten to the most fun age and is so dang hilarious! She says the funniest things all the time, and is finally just about potty trained. We still have a pull up at night but other than that she does really good! I am so proud of her and love having her around!
And this is Tad at one month old after church trying on Bryson's tie... I just love this kid!
And the picture below is our last couple weeks we were in our house. We sold our house and are in the process of building once again! I was a little attached to my house and sad to leave but its a fun new change building again. I guess this is just the beginning of our building journey, i know we have a few more ahead of us! We just finished the framing and its getting really exciting to see! I will post some pictures soon (hopefully) when it gets a little easier to see what is what!
So over the summer after the mass destruction from all the fires we did get to go up to my parents cabin a couple times to relax! And there is nothing more relaxing than getting to be up there in Alpine, I absolutely love it! We got to hang out with my Brother and sister in law and there adorable little boy Colt and we took some pictures of the kids and of course we never got all three of them looking at the same time but they are still really cute i think!
And let me must tell you a little about Bryson! He is the sweetest boy ever and is such a good helper, he will clean his room, make his bed and vacuum. I love it! And he is in preschool again and is learning so much, its just crazy how fast he is growing up and will be five in a week and a half! He also just finished playing in a soccer league and that was a bit interesting! He didn't really care for it in the beginning but by the end really got into the contact part and knocking kids over and then scored two goals in the last game! We were so proud of little man...such a stud!
anyways...ill post more about him on his bday!
And a sad picture of a little bit of what got burnt! This was nothing compared to what was there too and what had grown back!
Happy Birthday to my "sweet" baby girl!
A few weeks ago this kid decided he wanted to ride his bike without training wheels! We were over at my in laws and he just got it in his head that is what he wanted to try so when we got home that night he brought Ryan his bike and asked if he would take them off......Ry gave him a little push in the backyard (grass) and B took off without even hesitating! Me and Ry looked at each other and just started laughing! So we figured lets try in the front ( we don't get much traffic if any and more room) so he can ride farther and try and turn around and all! We get out there and Ry just kept running next to him thinking he may fall once or twice...nope not until he was trying to stop and just kind of fell over!!! But I am so proud of this kid, its so fun to watch him grow and become such a fun little boy!! He has a bigger bike but we figured it would be easier to learn on a smaller bike to start himself and put his feet down to stop, but he has now conquered the big bike just as well!
Anyways, so on her birthday of course I didn't get a ton of pictures and not one that is very good at all! She got this tent that she loves and is always in so that is of course where these pics are and are blurry because they are thru a tent!
loves the camera and to give the cheesiest smile on the planet!
loves babies especially her little cousins Tyce and Colt!
loves to sing songs.. ALL DAY LONG!
And of course it has finally gotten hot enough and the wind has stopped enough to play outside in the water! Im pretty sure its the kids favorite thing to do, and its so cute too! This time Reece didn't want to get wet and that is why her face is so lovely and covered in watermelon:) But its cute anyways!
And its very bitter sweet right now, we have sold our house and are moving once again! We will be moving into a rental house while we build....but now just a different part of town! Im excited and sad all at the same time! I love to build and try new things, but we live so close to Ryan's parents and his brother and their family as well as his uncle and so much more family! But its only for a couple of years and then we will start over again! But anyways, that is that! I know its all out of order and really random but here it is and i will update more later!
Reece has turned 2 and so i need to post those pics!
We have been married and living in Sierra Vista now for five and a half years and am starting to like it more and more. We have one baby boy, Bryson, who is three and a half years old and is not a baby any more, we are having so much fun with him, and a baby girl who tuned one in may! She is so much fun and already so dramatic Im just not sure what to expect when she gets older! Ryan is still working with Haymore Real Estate and has also started a building company with a very talented contractor, Heath Contracting! It is fun to see how much he loves it! All in all things are going great and we have a great little family!
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Along with Rodrigues in the east and some smaller islands surrounding it the republic of Mauritius is only 71 square kilometers big. Mauritius is almost entirely surrounded by a beautiful coral reef, including colorful tropical fish.
The main export products are cotton, sugar and tea. Especially sugarplants are hard to miss, you’ll see the green sugarcane fields over the entire island.
A pretty sight of different green colors covering the hills of the most southern country of the African continent. The people here claim that the sugar is why the Mauritians are so sweet… haha! Of course their home made rum helps too.
Another big source of income is tourism. Mauritius has a posh and luxurious reputation with matching prices. There are a lot of expensive resorts and celebrities love this island too. We did have some doubts about why this island is so popular, because in general Mauritius was definitely not the most beautiful island we’ve visited.
The beaches are great but not that great and the living is quite expensive. Eventhough the water is clear and blue and at some places there are really great looking beaches where the sand floury, soft and pearly white, but it just doesn’t have that tropical vibe, we missed the palmtrees, the beachbars and the paradisal ambiance.
There are a lot of grey beaches too, pine needles and little sharp rocks in the sand spoiling the perfect sensation we had in mind.
The inland of this island has got some great timespenders to offer like waterfalls, mountains and a nice botanical garden, but we came to Mauritius just for it’s beaches and the underwater beauty.
Visiting Mauritius, we expected to find true paradise and we didn’t.
At the airport we were determined to take the bus to Grand Baie, via Port Louis. It will probably take forever but we don’t care, it’s still early. A taxi driver comes up to us and tells us there are no busses that way anymore today and we should go with him. It’s only noon so we decide not to listen to him. His offer starts at € 30.00 but obviously he needs a ride because eventually he takes us to the other side of the island for € 10.00. This is a trip of one hour so good bargain!
Of course there are a lot of beautiful beaches too on this island… we found some small romantic beaches between capital Port Louis and the charming Grand Baie. Eventhough the distances are too far to walk it’s worth your time to rent a scooter and discover some new exiting spots.
We stayed in Grand Baie for three nights at Bano Beach Recidence. The building is only a minute from the public beach. When we arrived we immediately got an upgrade from a double room to a luxurious family apartment with large kitchen, balcony with ‘sea view’ (somewhere between the trees we could see some blue) and daily cleaning. Even the dishes where done every day! Now here is the best part, we paid € 17.00 per night to stay here.
Grand Baie has some lovely beaches, the public beach is small but great to watch the sunset. It’s a small bay with yachts and catamarans very close to the beach. Therefore swimming is not relaxed but perfect for sunbathing and chilling. There are almost no tides here, so you’ll have the same beautiful view all day long.
Slightly to the west there is Mont Choisy beach and Trou Aux Biches, which are definitely not the whitest but the sand is soft as flower and the water is clear an turquoise. Trou Aux Biches has some bars near the beach and an expensive resort. More tourists as well, but in the low season it’s more fun for sure.
A local bus from Grand Baie to Trou Aux Biches only cost us € 0.60 pp where we sneaked on one of the resorts beachbeds. If the resort is expensive enough they wont ask you if you’re a guest. That is not guest friendly. So, free use of the beds including two XXXX-large hotel towels for free. The guy watching the beds kept walking by, asking if we needed anything and wishing us a pleasant day, hahaha. Had the time of our life.
From Grand Baie we take an express bus to Port Louis for about € 0.60 pp. Then in Port Louis we get off at the bus terminal and take another bus at the other end of the terminal to go to Flic and Flac. This bus costs us € 0.80 pp. we then get off at the Cascavelle Shopping Mall and take a bus to Tamarin (or to the beach) for € 0.50 pp.
On the west coast there are some long beaches, one of them is Flic and Flac. One of the longest beaches in Mauritius and the most famous one. It’s got a few bars, resorts and little food-stalls. There are more tourists here than anywhere else but it’s definitely not the best looking one. Yellow coloured sand and lots of sharp rocks as you walk into the water.
We stayed two nights in Tamarin, on the south of Flic and Flac. Our guesthouse Chez Jacques is a nice place, very close to the public beach of Tamarin. The guesthouse is somewhat noisy but it has a great atmosphere and the breakfast is very good.
The beach of Tamarin is especially popular with surfers and at night there are a lot of people around, watching the sunset with a beer and maybe a guitar. During the day this was not our favourite beach, the sand is grey-ish and has a lot of pine needles and sharp stones. So we spend our days in Flic and Flac. It’s easy to get there by bus and the beach is about ten kilometres long, so you’ll always find the right spot.
We picked a spot in front of Pearl Beach Resort where we confiscated two beds and got the wifi password too. Great day on the beach… again.
from Tamarin we go to our next destination, Blue Bay. The best way would be to go back to Port Louis, and then go to the south, so we do. We don’t have to wait long for the bus to the Flic & Flac stopping centre where we take another bus to Port Louis and pass the botanical gardens. We switch busses again and get a nice seat in front in the bus to Mahebourg. The driver was still waiting until it was time to go, and twenty minutes later we left with a full bus. I felt something itching on my arm, thinking it was a mosquito I brushed it off. But it was no mosquito… no sir, it was a cockroach. In fact there was a whole family of cockroaches living inside my seat and inside the windowpane next to my arm. Now and then one comes out to see if there is anything to do makes it’s round and goes back in. Sooooo… that is our cockroachbus story. Traumatised for life.
You can’t imagine how happy I am to make it to the airport alive, where we switch busses again.
This time we get into another bus to Mahebourg bus terminal and there we take the bus to Blue Bay. This trip from Tamarin costs us about € 2.50 pp in total.
In Blue Bay in the south the water seems slightly less cold. Here we do some swimming and snorkelling. Amazing fish just a few meters from the nice white beach.
We stay at La Chantauvant for two nights where we pay € 30.00 per night for a luxurious double room with garden view balcony and a kitchenette.
The garden is amazing, lush and green with different kinds of flowers. It’s about three minutes walking from the beach. In the morning we decide to have breakfast at the hotel for € 6.00 pp. an amazing breakfast with fresh fruit and great coffee so next morning we do the same thing.
There is no supermarket nearby so for dinner we eat at the Bourgainville, nice but not that great. Our streetfood from the day before at the beach of Blue Bay was much better!
Unfortunately Jos has some ear problems that need to be fixed on Wednesday so off to a doctor we go. In Mahebourg we find a doctor who has a look and prescribes some drops. We pay € 25.00 and € 10.00 for the drops. Hopefully this helps for a painless flight to our next destination: Singapore.
We’ve noticed in the south the water was slightly warmer.
So, this week the temperature was around 26 degrees every day, sometimes windy and we’ve had some rain. As I said, this is definitely not the right time if you like beach life and swimming. Locals recommend October, when it’s warmer, less windy and not high season yet.
Strangely there are no tuktuks or similar on this island, although it’s filled with Indians… so a taxi or a bus, a rental car or a bike. The island is very small, so a bustrip from north to south would take about two hours.
That brings us to a daily budget of: € 73.15 for two persons including everything except international flights.
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2019-04-25T20:50:24Z
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I must admit that when Christine Burgess first showed me these 'twiggy hooks' she made I laughed. But she had the last laugh when they were not only featured in Country Living magazine but also sold really well!
And for a country cottage what could be nicer for hanging up coats, scarves and hats?
So twiggy hooks - all shapes and sizes for £5 each- are for sale in Handmade Happiness.
That's what I wrote in one of my design books.
If we achieve a small thing every day we are one step nearer our goal. Tiny steps forward. Rather than beating ourselves up about not doing all we want to do/feel we have to do in one day we need to be kind to ourselves. By achieving just one small thing every day we are reaching our goal faster than if we gave up and achieved nothing because it felt too hard.
So yesterday I re-did the noticeboards. A small step forward.
Some of these pictures have been on the blog before and are attributed there.
The blue purse is by Hannah Lamb, tiny embroideries are by my friend Bee Mellor, card below by Jane Owens. One or two from Pinterest (link on right of blog).Colourful woman card is by Madeline Millington.
I'd achieve more if I didn't like talking with customers so much! One lady was telling me about her talented friend. She is given scraps of 16th century tapestry and with the help of diligent research repairs and re-makes them into whole pictures again. This is for a company that sells in America. I am fascinated.
I haven't suddenly started stocking nail polishes in HH. I took this picture a while ago and I'm sorry but I can't remember which shop I took it in.
Imagine having the time to paint your nails to match your outfit. Perhaps a different shade each day.
Life seems so very busy at the moment. The shop is like a cuckoo in the nest demanding time and attention all the time. My daughter had to remind me yesterday that THIS IS THE DREAM I have waited for so long! Don't worry 90% of the time I love it!
This weekend (weather permitting) we are having THE BIG FAMILY PICNIC . As we only seem to all get together at funerals we thought we'd celebrate the summer with an outdoor bash. We all live so far apart (about 35 are coming)and I totally respect those who are driving a considerable way to be with their kith and kin. Just have to keep our fingers crossed for a sunny, dry day.
Hand coiled pots by Alison Hemmings. Sheep by Michelle Green.
Alison Hemmings has made these hand coiled pots. Their strong colour looks great in the window for autumn.
Alison's pots would also look great in a black and white room setting don't you think? The colour glows out of them. £18 each.
Sally-Anne Dunn visited the shop yesterday. Sally is a brilliant hand smocker.I am hoping to have some of her traditional little girls' smocked dresses in the shop before Christmas.
As promised here are Kate Hackett's new mugs and jugs pictured in the shop yesterday.
The new range has a heart on each side and any piece would make a nice present for a loved one. They are £16 each.
Today I have a meeting at the shop with someone who makes beauty products at her kitchen table. Should be interesting.
I have a confession: I am totally addicted to the Australian soap, Neighbours. To the extent that if the phone rings I wait til the break and dial 1471 and then ring the person back later. I don't watch any other soap. Only Neighbours. And while I watch I knit.
Currently I'm enjoying this scarf. 30 stitches across if you're interested. The pattern (feather stitch) has just the right level of complexity to keep my interest but not to get boring. I bought the wool at the Knitting and Stitching show a couple of years back. Two balls but can I find the other one? No. I will find it otherwise the scarf won't get finished.
Yesterday was Monday so after a morning making phone calls I headed for Chichester and C&H fabrics where I bought the disolveable film pictured and the bits of ribbon for autumnal display.
I went to the library there and got out three books: Clean Sweep - giving your home more than a once over by Alison Haynes. This is part of my personal campaign to make housework fun. So far the campaign has totally failed.
Jottings by Liz Smith. The actress, who came to acting late in life, wrote down her observations on people and life. These short stories show her wry humour. V.enjoyable.
Oh yes, and probably of far more interest to my shop customers, I stopped by at Kate Hackett's house and picked up lots of her mugs, jugs and plates to replenish her display in Handmade Happiness. Pictures to follow.
Sorry this picture's a bit blurry. When Handmade Happiness first opened this is what I sold.
As well as my dolls and Gayle Bicknell's purses and birds there are Michelle Green's natural dyed yarns and jars and props all of which I'd sell.
This reading nook under the stairs soon went. As the amount of stock grew I needed it as storage space. It's now blocked off by display furniture.
Looking at photos of the shop when it first opened it seems quite empty. I put so little in the window then and the shop looks clearer. I think this week will be de-clutter week!
I used to make lots of these for the Country Living magazine shows. I covered the boxes with painted papers. This week I've used collaged papers. To my eye there's something missing. I also used to glue on a pretty flower or button and that's what I'll do with these to make them more special.They cost £5 each.
Yesterday was really busy in the shop. Zoe brought in her excellent crochet work to show me. Zoe has a really good eye for combining colours as you'll see. And later I enjoyed the company of designer Chrissy. I hope they both look in again soon.
Collage card by Jenny Stacy with bird by Cavallini.
As the shop approaches its first birthday I'm thinking about what I've learned.
First I think I'm very lucky to have found a shop with parking outside with lots of passing traffic. Not too many people walking past but lots of people driving past. People say 'I've been driving past your shop for weeks and keep meaning to come in.' When they do come in they usually love it.
Secondly I have a nice landlady who used to run an art gallery in Petersfield and therefore understands retail. And I couldn't have better shop neighbours than Tara Interiors and Wild Damson.
Handmade Happiness now represents around 35 makers, giving the shop a huge variety of work to inspire others.
This inspiration thing is a bit of a two edged sword. It's lovely when visitors come in and rave about how wonderful everything is. Sometimes they say they're going to go home and make something.
But it's slightly annoying when people take pictures without asking. And some lookers come in just to find ideas for themselves. They don't buy anything at all. And if they want shops like HH to continue being a source of inspiration for them they have to occasionally buy something - even if it's only a card. Fair enough?
The shop also has lovely regular customers who say HH will be their 'one stop Christmas shop'. Music to my ears!
I want the shop to be truly magical this Christmas. The theme is Christmas through a child's eyes. Wonder and awe and colour and sparkle.
So if any of you 35 makers (and the number grows each week) are reading this can you make with that thought in mind? Come into the shop and talk. It would be nice to see you.
Mrs Alcock brought in this fabulous tea cosy she has knitted. There is another in blue stripes, slightly smaller. They are £20 each.
If you can't get in to the shop but would like anything featured on these blog pages you can always ring me. The shop number (Tuesday to Saturday 10-5) is 01730 267711. If you have your payment card on you when you phone I can take a payment and then send you the item through the post. Or cheques are also acceptable. Sorry this offer only applies to UK customers.
Sheila Barrow made the iris picture in the background. Foreground cat by Lin Harley, background cat by me.
Many years ago I bought the green ribbon cat from my friend Lin.
I guess if I went back to Hobbycraft I might find some of those small wood spools as well.
The attractive winter print fabric I think I got from Ben Franklin (?) in the States again a long time ago. It's a soft brushed cotton and this is a good use for it.
I'm posting this picture of felt on the wash board to remind me to start felt making again this week. Now there's a nip in the air it feels right to be making felt again.
Yesterday, I had a good look at what Hobbycraft in Havant is offering and came out empty handed. That is a first for me. They've got quite a lot of Christmas stuff but none of it seemed quite right. I think this year my Christmas inspiration will come from nature. Because people are spending less I feel that keeping it simple and keeping prices down is the way to go from now on.
But how do you cook them?
My neighbour has kindly given me a big round green squash from his allotment.
Lindsey Agostinelli's bears are very comfortable on these new mohair and silk scarves knitted by Heather Shearing.
And yesterday Michelle Green brought in two colourful crocheted scarves also in mohair.
When I'm in London I like to look at this shop window off Sloane Square.
It's so twinkly and magical. Like Christmas all year round.
I store ribbons and fake flowers in glass pots like these. Do you?
A friend emailed to say she had been unable to leave a comment because the letters they ask you to decipher were unreadable. If anyone else has had a problem could you please email me? Thanks.
Collaged card by Jenny Stacy.
Mixing up painted papers and torn pictures. Making cards feels like playing.
As promised three of the cards I've been making in the shop this week.
To celebrate that 1,000th post yesterday I finally discovered how to add a followers gadget to this blog.
I was less successful in persuading the 155 people who read that post to leave a comment.
But one thing I have learned in life is that if you have no expectations of anyone you cannot feel disappointed.
That does not apply to children. Children seem to stretch themselves to meet the expectations they imagine adults (parents and teachers) have of them. Luckily for us.
Outside the store - it's Yayoi Kusama.
Inside the store - it's Yayoi Kusama again.
In Selfridges windows the lady multiplies.
I must admit I don't know an awful lot about this Japanese artist. But it's clear she has invented the dot judging by these pictures. And she has produced a range of clothes and handbags for Louis Vuitton all with lots of dots.
By the way this is my 1,000th blog post.
To mark the occasion could I invite you to leave a comment? I would love to hear from you.
Otherwise writing a commentless blog is like throwing small stones down a bottomless well.
Tomorrow I'll show you the cards I've been making this week.
An old shop within a shop.
The waterfall within the shop.
Another giant tassels installation (see yesterday's post).
On Monday I also went to Selfridges in Oxford Street. I was surprised by what I found there. See you tomorrow!
Love this giant papier mache wall object. It snakes round made of ripped up cardboard boxes painted and gilded in places.
Big tassels strung up like giant necklaces.
Yesterday I walked up Kings Road from Sloane Square to Worlds End and back again taking umpteen pictures as I went.
The best shop for me is Anthropologie. I got permission to take photos - you'll see more tomorrow. I love the extravagant way they do their displays. All using recycled materials.
I like the arty lampshades in the middle picture, especially the dyed one on the left. Handmade lampshades, preferably with handmade bases too, are something I'd like to have in Handmade Happiness soon.
So good to be in London again. And the highlight was meeting my son for a coffee and catch up at The Bluebird cafe. Feel I've had the best day off. Now back to work re-inspired!
I made these a while ago but they look right for now.
Above and below, examples of nuno felting.
Above, art filled clothes. Sorry I can't credit these to their maker.
A fun display at The Knitting Hut.
I'm looking forward to my annual visit to the Knitting and Stitching show at Alexandra Palace in London.
It's over the weekend of the 13th and 14th of October this year.
It's a big show in two halves. In one giant hall are the trade stalls selling every kind of material you could need for knitting and stitching and in another giant hall are the companies and individual makers selling their wares. To me the most interesting section is the area where textile graduates and professional makers show their ideas, often funky, often totally impractical but always interesting.
Tomorrow I'm planning a trip to London to see what's new with the changing season.
In the lobby above are Peter Skrzypczak's mushrooms, Roly Phillips' vessels, Midge Hemingway's wrap and Penny Baker's fabrics.
Also in the lobby, Pam Dew's cushions and the inspiration board.
A glimpse inside the new look shop: Jewellery by Jenny Shutler, Scrap Sally doll by Pixie, sea glass by Molly Smith and birds by Michelle Green.
Handmade Happiness is now selling packs of mother of pearl buttons at £3 a pack. These come from my friend Penny Baker who also supplies the shop with delicious vintage fabrics.
Yesterday one of my lovely daughters spent her birthday helping me in the shop. Maybe not much of a birthday treat but she was extremely helpful! With her experience of working for London shops like Ralph Lauren and Matches (designer clothes) she understands shops in a way that I do not. Come in to HH soon and I think you'll see what a difference she's made! Pics follow!
Yesterday I had a bit of a re-organise on the jewellery front.
Silver is selling well at the moment. Leaves dipped in silver have sold out and I bought a silver word on a chain ('Inspire') for daughter's birthday which is today. The leaves are by Susannah Smith and silver words on chains are by Emily Watson.
The copper and pearl jewellery on the left is also by Susannah. Textile jewellery is by me and this picture will remind me that I need to make new styles now!
Ulrieke Benner's 'wonderland' wrap. Nuno collage.
Anne Kyyro Quinn's 'Round Tulip Acoustic Wall Panel' of hand cut felt.
As I approach my 1,000th post to this blog I can see that pictures like these, from the book 500 Felt Objects are the most popular. This wonderful book published by Lark Crafts is beautifully inspirational!
This is my bathroom window. It happened late on bank holiday Monday. Someone either threw a stone or fired an air gun at it. I told the police the following morning but I don't suppose I'll hear anything more. I know it isn't Handmade Happiness. It's just life. And don't you feel sorry for anyone that randomly throws stones or fires a gun at houses?
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Knowing that Ancestry’s leaner, meaner, better mousetrap is forthcoming shortly, I decided to take a final look at the old mousetrap at Ancestry and collect some information so that I can reliably compare said old mousetrap with the new and improved version.
On November 17, 2014, I had 262 pages of matches, at 50 matches per page, for approximately 13,100 matches. Clearly, I’m never going to contact all of those, or even most of those.
1 second cousin who doesn’t reply to messages. Their tree is visible, but I don’t see a common ancestor.
10 third cousins, of whom 2 are known cousins prior to DNA testing. Three others have no family tree. Other than my known cousins, I can only find one genealogy connection, thanks to a shakey leaf.
Let’s take a look at how this breaks down.
My third cousin match (that I didn’t previously know) has a shakey leaf that shows the following common ancestors. You might notice that even though we are predicted as third cousins with a range of 3rd to 4th and a confidence rating of 98%, we are actually 5th cousins. That’s the nature of random DNA recombination in each generation.
That cousin and I match through Daniel Miller and Elizabeth Ulrich.
Actually, that’s not true – but it’s so easy to say and infer. In truth, we don’t know HOW we match, but we do have a DNA match and we do have a shared genealogy paper-trail ancestor in Daniel Miller and Elizabeth Ulrich. So, we MAY have a genetic match through these ancestors – or it might be through another line – known or unknown. But there is no way to tell for sure – at least not today at Ancestry.
Case in point…just very recently, when dealing with this exact same Miller line, I discovered that I did match one of my cousins at Family Tree DNA on the Miller line, but that we also have a second unknown genetic link on the X chromosome that could not have come from that Miller couple.
The problem with the matches at Ancestry is that they are suggestive and not in any way conclusive. Why? Because there is no chromosome browser or other tool to show that these people match on the same chromosomes. That would be step 1. A tool to see that those two people match another descendant on the same segment would be step two in truly identifying and confirming a common genetic ancestor. But neither of these steps exist at Ancestry today. Many people either don’t know or don’t understand that, or flat out don’t care – because they are meeting paper trail cousins.
If meeting paper trail cousins is your goal – then you can do a bang up job of that at Ancestry! In fact, I could meet 13,100 new cousins today. Just don’t assume that because you match them on DNA and on paper that the paper trail IS the genetic trail, because it might well not be. Never assume.
When looking at my Miller match’s tree, I notice that they have not only the incorrect, or at least unsubstantiated Rochette surname for Daniel’s mother, but they have also added another surname…out of thin air apparently – Maugens. Groan. Another incorrect tree – and this single ancestor is incorrect in two distinct ways.
I checked to see what sources they noted, and they gave the “Family Data Collection of Individual Records” as a source for every record. I’m sorry, but someone else’s hearsay isn’t a record source. However, I’ll leave source records to the experts and move on with genetic genealogy. However, word to the wise…. with Ancestry’s new and better mousetrap, accurate trees become exponentially more important.
Yes, I have seen a beta version mousetrap preview.
Six of my 10 fourth cousin shakey leaf people have private trees, more than half.
Of the entire group of 254 matches of 2nd – 4th cousins, 44 have private trees.
Of those 254, another 52 don’t have trees uploaded. This is like cutting your nose off to spite your face. It’s easy to create an abbreviated tree, if nothing else, if you don’t want to upload your full tree from your genealogy software. That gives Ancestry’s software something to work with – a way to look for pedigree matches. No tree, no shakey leaf hints. Include at least 7 generations, if you have them.
So, of those 254 matches, I know that I’ll positively lose 96 due to private trees and no trees. Truthfully, I’m absolutely fine with that. Those matches are of absolutely no use to me. My efforts to communicate with Ancestry matches have been relatively unsuccessful, to the point that I’ve wondered if there is a glitch with my mail and their system – until a cousin sent me a test message to see if it was working. So, I’m glad to be rid of unproductive no tree matches that simply clutter up the works. I don’t want to see private tree teasers that I want and can’t have.
It will be interesting to see how many of my shakey leaves, if any, I’ll lose. Maybe I’ll acquire some new ones!!! I can always hope.
Speaking of shakey leaves, by utilizing the shakey leaf hint filter ability, I can see only my shakey leaf hint matches, eliminating the rest. This is what I normally do, right after I see if I have any new close matches.
I think with the increasing popularity of DNA testing that a wider range of people take the tests, and often without really understanding DNA testing, the various kinds of tests, or what DNA results can or might do for them.
DNA testing is a toolkit, and which tool, under what circumstances, is best for the job varies based on your goals. It’s like picking the right sized socket wrench.
Let me be very specific about my personal goals.
I want to learn everything I can about my ancestors. I am not interested in inferring a genetic match when said match can be proven.
1. I want to know the haplogroup of every single ancestor in my tree – both male and female. Why? Because Y and mitochondrial DNA testing is the only direct line information I can obtain on those ancestors, and it stretches back far beyond any prayer of written records or surnames. It tells me their ethnicity and often, where they came from – sometimes in general terms and sometimes in much more specific terms.
2. I want to map my ancestor’s DNA on my chromosomes. In other words, I want to know that my DNA on chromosome 1, section 1-10,000 came from the Ferverda line on my mother’s side and from John Y. Estes and Rutha Dodson on my father’s side. This opens the door to do things like Ancestor Reconstruction as well as to identify where those other 12,846 people without shakey leaves fall on my tree, based on WHERE they match me.
While I am interested in meeting my cousins, especially cousins who are actively researching our common ancestral line, I’m not interested in meeting endless cousins who are just copy/pasting data from tree to tree. Rhetorically speaking, what the heck would I do with 13,000 new cousins. I can barely remember the names of the ones I have!
For me, the end goal is not meeting cousins, specifically, although I do enjoy many of the cousins I meet through genealogy. Some of my very closest friends are my genealogy cousins. But this isn’t a genealogy singles bar and I’m not interested in doing DNA speed dating, so to speak.
3. My goal is to discover every shred I can about my ancestors and to break down brick walls utilizing DNA. See number 2, above.
To match my cousins whom I already know is great confirmation that I’m really a family member, but it does little more except provide the foundation for chromosome mapping utilizing chromosome browser tools. I need tools to find those missing wives lines, and to add to the tree – maybe to discover who someone’s parents actually were. Those are the kinds of genetic genealogy dreams I have. That’s my idea of a better mousetrap.
During our meeting in October and follow-up conference call, Ancestry indicated that their new processing methods would result in many fewer matches, but much higher quality matches, based on their new phasing routines and new features. I welcome both of those improvements.
I wrote about the Ancestry visit here. Judy Russell wrote about it here, and Blaine Bettinger wrote about it as well. Anna Swayne, who leads the effort in genetic genealogy education at Ancestry wrote about the upcoming DNA release and referenced information provided by Ken Chahine, the AncestryDNA general manager. So, now that you know what to expect, it will be interesting to see the real McCoy…er…I mean the new and better mousetrap.
The close and shakey leaf matches I’ve discussed above are the only ones I really care much about – because they are the only ones that are actually useful to me under the current circumstances. I would love to find a way to make the balance of my 12,846 matches useful. That would be an exceptional mousetrap.
It will be interesting to see how many of these shakey leaf matches I lose, what, as a consumer and Ancestry subscriber I will gain, and how the new mousetrap will help genealogists break down brick walls.
In the end, that’s really the measure of usefulness of any genetic genealogy mousetrap.
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It would be great if the 3 best companies would “talk” to each other and find a “common” ground of sharing information. If ancestry.com with all of the records in it’s database and FTDNA with its great chromosome tools would combine efforts, we would start up a great path of true knowledge. Maybe there needs to be a fourth company created to do just this. Anyone listening?
Be careful what you wish for. We don’t want Ancestry buying the other two up and ruining our whole DNA world!
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Here are my stats. 100% known ancestry in England and the Island of Jersey. Zero known ancestry in the USA.
Does this mean that the tree to which our DNA kit is attached will play a role in determining whether a match will be considered a match in the new mousetrap? And if so, as our trees evolve and expand with research breakthroughs, will other matches be reconsidered over time? I’m struggling with one branch at the great grandparent level, I’d hate to lose matches because I haven’t chiseled thru that wall yet.
The new system is up now. Looking forward to your new post about it. I stopped tracking total pages several months ago, but I had 216 with over 10,750 matches then. None closer than 4th cousin. Today, I am 52 pages, 2,561 matches, 7 match hints, and 106 4th cousins, 0 3rd cousin or closer matches.
“So, of those 254 [2nd to 4th cousin] matches, I know that I’ll positively lose 96 due to private trees and no trees.” Why do you say that?
I’m also curious as to what this means. I have two second cousin matches who are known to me. One has a private tree, the other no tree. Does this mean that with the “new mousetrap” they’ll no longer be on my match list, even though they’re valid matches, simply because they have private/no trees?
I am a private tree person. Why? Because i don’t want Ancestry using my info for profit and I want to know who i share my tree with. I agree that “no tree” is a really bad sign, but i think you should reach out to the private tree folks – or at least the close matches with private trees. We are not all useless. I have my tree available at ftdna and 23 and me – just not at ancestry. Ancestry is sort of in the business of providing a lot of bad trees, with good ones mixed in.
Sorry, my experience is that reaching out to private folks is not worth the effort. The onus should be on the private folks to contact the non-private folks and not the other way around.
I too, am a private tree person. My decision to do this is based on the fact that my mother is adopted. With the help on Ancestry (and DNA), I have been able to confirm the maternal side of her family. I know very little of her paternal side. In hopes of a “shaky leaf” hit, I play with and change her father’s (and his family’s) information – there are a lot of John Smith’s out there! Until I can confirm who her father is I do not want anyone picking this family up as fact. It is not my intent to be useless or annoying to others, I will happily share my information with others upon request.
If you are only using Ancestry DNA results, you may be going down some very wrong garden paths. It is necessary to triangulate any matches, and that means comparing chromosome strings on FTDNA and/or GedMAtch. You really need 3 matches to the same common ancestor to draw any conclusions.
What a fantastic posting Roberta! I’m very excited to see what Ancestry has coming up. I had to smile when I read about your difficulties with contacting matches and the mail system on Ancestry. I have had the same situation and I too wondered if there was a problem with their messaging system. Why bother taking a DNA test, posting a tree on Ancestry and the ignoring any queries that you get from genetic matches? Isn’t the whole point of being there to research your family tree and to connect with people who can help you with that effort? I don’t get why some members on Ancestry do that. Anyway, great post and I can’t wait to see these new developments.
Just fyi, Quite often when someone has “no tree”, you can go to their “profile”page at ancestry, and they will have at least one tree you can link to. I think sometimes they have more than one tree and can’t decide which one to link their DNA to. Private trees are usually “dead ends” and rarely do I get a response from people I contact.
Second, I also ignore the private and no trees. I feel that a bare bones tree would in no way compromise their data, and I have had a hard time justifying spending my time writing an “ask them nicely note” which usually gets ignored. Especially the shaky leaf matches – they should be contacting me. I am not the one hiding my tree.
My concern is that the shaky leaves on steroids will be of no use in breaking down brick walls. I still won’t know Harriet Potter’s parents because we won’t match on our trees. I still won’t know Charlie Johnson’s Swedish name because Johansson or Jonsson aren’t anywhere on my tree.
If I can’t compare the strings with my already existing known-thru-triangulation ancestors, what use is it? I have several genetic cousins I match on a half dozen Colonial RI ancestors. It took triangulation to determine WHICH ancestor was on chromosome 7.
I will be glad to clear out some of the dead wood, but remain unconvinced that this will be of any real value.
I sent inquiries to all of my private trees today that I listed in my article. I only wish you were one of them:) Wouldn’t that be fun!!!
I wish Ancestry would at least allow us to see common ancestors in private trees when there is a shaky leaf. I don’t see how this compromises anyone’s privacy and anyone’s wish to keep the rest of their tree secret. I haven’t had much luck lately getting responses from matches.
Secondly, I have really good shaky leaf clues but no way to triangulate without a chromosome browser or without begging my matching cousins to upload their file to Gedmatch or Family Tree DNA. I wish Ancestry would at least give us a chromosome browser as an option.
You’re lucky – I have no shaky leaf clues! I’ll keep checking though….
I’m one who has a private tree on Ancestry.com, but an open tree at FamilyTreeDNA. I’ve posted my results on Gedmatch.com, but haven’t posted any tree there yet. I have been contacted by several cousins and gladly share my Ancestry.com tree. I have tried to figure out how I am related to them, but have been unsuccessful so far. To me, testing without putting a tree up that is at least searchable, is wasteful and selfish. You paid for it. Get some use out of it. Let somebody else get some use out of it. I tested to break down the brick walls, to find family, and to discover my ethnicity. I know I delight in watching shows like “Finding Your Roots”, when Dr Gates tells his guest that jaw dropping fact about one of their ancestors. I’m sure most people who test do too. Help a cousin you haven’t met get that jaw dropping moment by at least posting a basic or searchable private tree.
What I want most out of Ancestry.com is a chromosome browser. I think an option to make my tree available to DNA matches, but allowing it to remain private to all others would be a another popular choice. Something like FamilyTreeDNA has for their surname projects. Another thing they could do, Ask the users what they want.
Like everyone else, I await the unveiling of the new and hopefully improved Ancestry.com DNA.
I got notification today of my new and improved ancestry.com. I don’t see anything earth shattering yet, looks pretty much the same.
Thank you for the heads up on this. On my own branch of our tree I have only one confirmed match. I had made contact with that person earlier this year but she only took the test a few months ago. So, when she showed up I knew who she was even though there was no shaky leaf, as she only had a few people in her tree at that time.
Since that time she has added a few more and it was just enough to lead to the man that was my great-grandfather and her grandfather. The match showed as likely 1st or 2nd cousin and in fact she was my 1st cousin once removed, as she was my dad’s first cousin. She doesn’t even remember him because he was 16 years older than she was.
On my husband’s side I am up to 40 shaky leaves. One is clearly not related to my husband on the shaky leaf side. It is merely a coincidence of the same name born about the same time.
The others are in fact connected on paper, although sometimes our trees don’t line up exactly. They sometimes are missing a generation and have someone listed as the child of people who are in fact their grandchild.
I have also come across some with no leaf that I can clearly see are related on paper to my husband, because I have worked quite a bit on his ancestor’s descendants. As his matches have not gone far enough up the ladder, they haven’t reached the common ancestor yet that I am fairly confident belongs to them too.
I realize that I could find many of his cousins without dna. In fact, I had already made contact with several people prior to his taking the test. Not all of them went on to get tested.
It is just an added tool. Often when you find your ancestors on someone else’s tree, they aren’t part of the direct line of home person in the tree. And the home person is not always the tree owner.
At least with those on the DNA match lists, we can know that if we contact those we believe we can see a paper trail to, that they are the ones who took the test.
If there are leaf matches on private trees I do contact them. Some let me see their tree, some just tell me what the connection is, and some never respond back. I figure it is their loss, not mine.
I am looking forward to anything that can help me sort out those without trees or with private trees.
Regarding DNA matches and private trees, I’m sure many of them are worth contacting. Some respond quickly and are willing and eager to help.
The first week after I received my AncestryDNA results, I spent quite a bit of time messaging public and private tree owners, especially the private tree owners with whom I shared a leaf hint, figuring I’d pursue the low-hanging fruit first. I mainly targeted people in the 3rd-4th cousin range, too. Again, low-hanging fruit.
No one responded initially, public or private. After a few months, a few of the private tree owners responded, but most weren’t interested in working with me and I could tell a lot of them didn’t know much about DNA. The difference, though, is that I didn’t have to wait around for the non-responsive public tree owners. I could quickly go through at my leisure looking for the connection. When I found that connection, I messaged them. I was also able to go over to Gedmatch and infer who they were on my match list there based on the name or email. Most private tree owners didn’t respond to my email and so I still haven’t seen their trees.
So the point isn’t that private tree owners don’t make good matches, just that most aren’t worth the investment. From my perspective, how am I supposed to know who’s who? Where should I be putting my energy?
There are lots of good reasons to have a private tree, but ultimately if you want collaboration, especially for DNA purposes, ideally you’ll put as few obstacles in place as possible. Keep in mind that your matches are busy, too, and may not be able to work with you when you log back in and grant access to your tree. If you have a public tree, your match can do a lot of the work without having to contact you right away, so if you become inactive, lose your subscription, get hospitalized, etc., you still have your tree out there.
Also keep in mind that the private tree stops a lot of people from messaging because for every 20 messages that go out, only a small number of people actually reply. The response rate for private tree owners is probably the same as public, maybe better, but it’s still not a large number.
Perhaps it’s not a good strategy, but I’ve stopped contacting private tree owners. I let them contact me. Almost no one has. I concentrate on the public trees and do message them when I think I’ve found our common ancestry so that we can go over to Gedmatch.
I have both public and private trees at Ancestry. No one has ever messaged me regarding my AncestryDNA.
On Ancestry itself I usually do receive replies from those that I have messaged.
It would be nice if AncestryDNA would begin thinking in terms of making the most of DNA to uncover previously unknown ancestry — and to begin to taking steps to confirm deeper ancestry. I’m not as interested in finding 3rd cousins or making contact with paper trail connections. That can be fun, but anyone can do that without DNA testing. Let’s use DNA as a tool to do the things we can’t do with other tools.
So, I’m going to wake up on the morning of autosomalgeddon and find I have no matches at all, not even to my immediate family members? I currently have my tree Private. It seemed a good time to work on it since no new matches are coming across at this time. My plan was to make my tree Public again when the roll-out occurs. If this is Ancestry’s plan, then they have a public relations fiasco on their hands.
I am of primarily colonial American descent, a highly endogamous group with intricately entangled kinships. I have matches who are double, triple and even quadruple cousins. I have numerous male ancestors who had children with more than one wife in succession, with the result that I have numerous half cousins. I have over 800 leaf hint matches, with the absolute worst howler of a gaff being with a known double third cousin match who shares descent from two entirely separate couples, with four distinctly different surnames, with me…the leaf hint has paired the husband of ancestor couple A with the wife of ancestor couple B as the leaf hint match…so Ancestry’s into perpetrating wife-swapping on our ancestors with the leaf hint system? My ancestors must be turning over in their graves at this travesty.
I won’t even go into Ancestry’s refusal to provide dna segment data…thank goodness for 23andMe, FTDNA and GEDmatch…and triangulation tools.
Autosomalgeddon….thank goodness I still have a viewable match list left and far less reduced than I expected…went from 395 pages to 110 pages. Private tree status only affects “DNA Circles”…if you have a private tree, you get no one in “DNA Circles”. I made my tree public. Ancestry is supposed to update the “Crop Circles”…oops…”DNA Circles” every 3 to 4 hours.
DNA Circles has begun, whatever that is. But no tools, certainly not a browser.
Percentages have been dropped. Replaced by Extremely High, Very High. No explanation as to what that exactly means.
I had starred about 4-5 pages of presumed matches. I now have 2-3 so I guess the majority of my stars were correct but I am sad to see a few go to the wayside.
Fortunately I did save some of the old information earlier using a Chrome app called DNAHelper.
By using trees we have identified our common ancestor, but I just assumed that because it was in the 5th cousin range, that we shared little or no DNA.
by the way, Moderate is now the LOWEST ranking.
I highly doubt it’s GEDmatch that’s wrong… but I think you already know that.
Checked out the latest DNA on Ancestry. I lost quite a few folks which is just as well since many had no trees online or their trees were private. I do hope all the “false” positives were gotten rid of. For now, many of my closest matches have no trees on Ancestry. And, those with “private” trees rarely return messages. Hopefully in the future, those with no trees will eventually put a tree online for comparison.
Is there a way to download a list of v2 matches like the file you can download for v1 matches?
I WILL pay the subscription fee to see my matches in a chromosome browser.
I will NOT pay a subscription for these half-measure stupid circles.
Roberta, thanks for filling in the gaps and expectations about DNA. Looking forward to learning more and finding information that will help over my brick walls.
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2019-04-20T23:05:39Z
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https://dna-explained.com/2014/11/18/in-anticipation-of-ancestrys-better-mousetrap/
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The Sikorsky S-97 Raider, based on the impressive X-2 Technology Demonstrator, is in contention for the US Army Armed Aerial Scout helicopter program.
Unless otherwise noted the presented statistics below pertain to the Sikorsky S-97 Raider model. Common measurements, and their respective conversions, are shown when possible.
ENGINE: 1 x General Electric T700 turboshaft engine driving 2 x four-bladed coaxial main rotors and a six-bladed tail rotor in pusher configuration.
Machine Gun Pods (7.62mm or 12.7mm), Rocket Pods (2.75") and/or "Hellfire" Anti-Tank Missiles.
• S-97 "Raider" - Sikorsky company designation; based on the X-2 concept.
• MH-97 - Proposed troop assault transport for Special Operations forces.
• AH-97 - Proposed reconnaissance light attack platform.
• SH-97 - Proposed Search and Rescue (SAR) variant.
• RQ-97 - Proposed Autonomous Reconnaissance Attack variant (unmanned).
Detailing the development and operational history of the Sikorsky S-97 Raider Light-class Attack / Multirole Helicopter Prototype. Entry last updated on 1/9/2019. Authored by Staff Writer. Content ©www.MilitaryFactory.com.
While helicopters have evolved since their mainstream inception in the 1950s, the "rotorcraft" has remained largely conventional and true to its roots. With the advent of the US Army's Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) program - intended to replace venerable Bell OH-58 Kiowa series - Sikorsky has responded with its S-97 "Raider" compound rotor concept. The S-97 incorporates a coaxial main rotor configuration, each mounting four blade assemblies, as well as a six-bladed "pusher" propeller in the tail to achieve stated program goals. The Sikorsky S-97 development is based on its award-winning "X-2" technology demonstrator and, in a militarized form, will be capable of strike, troop transport and fast reconnaissance sorties on the modern battlefield. The Sikorsky product includes a bevy of industry names including Northrop Grumman, BAe Systems, Honeywell, Garmin, Goodrich, Esterline, Kamatics, Hamilton Sundstrand and Ametek among others.
The US Army revealed its AAS program in March of 2010 to which Sikorsky reacted with their S-97 program in October. Prior to the announcement, Sikorsky garnered a great deal of data from its one-off, two-seat X-2 prototype serving as a technology demonstrator and powered by a single LHTEC T800-LHT-801 series turboshaft engine of 1,300shp to 1,800shp output. First flight of the type was recorded on August 27th, 2008 with evaluations running until July 14th, 2011 to which the aircraft has since been retired from operation. The X-2 concept proved high-speed coaxial rotor flight as a sound viable propulsion method for helicopters and recorded a maximum speed of 299 miles per hour (an unofficial record for a compound helicopter) with cruise speeds at 288mph (250 knots) while sporting an efficient operational range of 808 miles on internal fuel stores. On May 4th, 2009, a Light Tactical Helicopter mock-up was showcased based on the X-2 technology.
As it stands today (2013), the S-97 prototype design incorporates the General Electric T700 turboshaft engine which would eventually be replaced by a more potent offering from the "Improved Turbine engine Program" (ITEP) in time, promising better performance and higher output. As in the X-2 before it, the Raider will utilized a twin main rotor system each fielding four composite blades and coupled to a split-torque transmission system. The powerplant will also drive a six-bladed propeller assembly (arranged in a "pusher" configuration) at the rear of the design for the high-speed flight requirement. Composites will also be utilized throughout the construction of the fuselage as a weight savings measure. The undercarriage will be wholly retractable for a more "stealthy" in-flight profile. The empennage will sport a pair of outward cranked vertical tail fins emanating from short horizontal planes as well as a centralized ventral rudder ahead of the trailing propeller. Tracking and targeting systems will be mounted to a chin fairing and the cockpit will sport digital fly-by-wire controls for precision handling and force-feedback with much of the available functionality being installed directly to the primary flight stick. Autonomous flight will be built into the design while a standard operating crew of two pilots (seated side-by-side) will be normal. A midships cabin will be featured aft of the cockpit and showcase seating for six combat infantry. Entry/exit of the cabin will be by a rectangular sliding doors fitted one to each fuselage side. The pilots will enter/exit through hinged automobile-style doors and sit behind wide-angle canopy glass.
Overall dimensions of the S-97 prototype include a running length of 35 feet and a rotor diameter of 33 feet. This compact footprint will allow up to four Raiders to be transported to war theaters in the belly of a Lockheed C-17. Gross weight is 8,950lb with a maximum take-off weight of 11,400lb.
Performance estimates include a cruise speed of 253mph (220 knots) with an operational range of 354 miles (mission endurance time of 2 hours and 40 minutes on internal fuel). The aircraft's service ceiling will be approximately 10,000 feet. Due to the unique design nature of the Raider, the Sikorsky product expects to improve upon maximum speeds, mission endurance times, hover altitude, payload capabilities, acoustic detection levels and turning radius qualities of conventional rotary-wing aircraft.
As of this writing (May 2013), Sikorsky will deliver two S-97 prototypes which began construction in late 2012. First flight is projected for sometime in 2014.
In many respects, the Sikorsky S-97 product - should it come to fruition - will combine the key qualities of several helicopter systems of note: the abandoned 1970s-era Lockheed AH-65 "Cheyenne" attack helicopter (which utilized a pusher propeller to reach high speeds), the cancelled composite-heavy Sikorsky RAH-66 "Comanche" light attack "stealth" helicopter, the Russian Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" attack helicopter (with its coaxial main rotors), the Soviet/Russian Mil Mi-24 "Hind" (with its inherent troop carrying capability) and the relatively compact footprint and agile handling of the Bell OH-58 "Kiowa" light helicopter. For comparison, the listed maximum speed for the Kamov Ka-50 is 196 miles per hour while the Lockheed AH-65 Cheyenne managed 244 miles per hour (225mph cruise) during testing.
September 2013 - Aurora Flight Sciences, who was charged with manufacturing the two composite fuselages for testing, delivered the units to Sikorsky.
May 2015 - The Sikorsky S-97 recorded its first flight on May 22nd, 2015.
April 2017 - Sikorsky has unveiled proposed plans for several other major variants in the Raider line: The MH-97 troop assault transport for Special Operations forces, the AH-97 reconnaissance light attack platform, the SH-97 dedicated Search and Rescue (SAR) variant and the RQ-97 autonomous reconnaissance attack variant - and unmanned form.
August 2017 - It was revealed that, in early August, one of the two Raider prototypes suffered damage from a hard landing.
August 2017 - Sikorsky has begun construction of a second flyable prototype for the Raider program.
September 2017 - The second S-97 prototype will be readied by Sikorsky for a first-flight to be had in 2018.
April 2018 - The second S-97 prototype began its ground-testing phase. A first-flight is scheduled for June 2018. The second unit replaces the first in the program, which reached 150 knots in testing.
May 2018 - The S-97 has completed ground-testing with a first-flight scheduled for June 2018. This will be a return-to-the-air for the series which has been delayed by the August 2017 hard landing incident.
June 2018 - The S-97 Raider prototype returned to the air on June 19th for the first time since its August hard landing.
January 2019 - Total produced S-97 test units is now three airframes.
Graph showcases the Sikorsky S-97 Raider's operational range (on internal fuel) when compared to distances between major cities.
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2019-04-21T10:40:26Z
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https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=1074
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Welcome to a series of puzzles using the Force of Will card game. In each of the following three puzzles, you’ll be given a predesigned board and all relevant information that you’ll need. The goal of each is to win before your opponent’s next recovery step. Keep in mind, your solution should be able to work regardless of how your opponent blocks, so you should be assuming that your opponent is blocking optimally and don’t worry, there are no Severing Winds involved in any of these unless otherwise stated. This is meant to be a learning exercise so you can learn how to play better by looking at all of the possible solutions to a situation.
Below each board is both players’ life totals, a list of all cards shown in the picture, counters in play, gems in play, whether or not rulers are astral, and anything else that might be relevant. Follow by that are the hints, so I recommend not scrolling down too far. At the end of the article will be all the answers, so if you’re totally stumped, we’ll walk you through it.
It’s been a close game but Reiya’s got you on the ropes. Even if you do manage to lay down more blockers for next turn, there’s no doubt she has a way to destroy them and get damage through. So time’s up, we need to figure out a way to win this turn. Luckily, it looks like there’s a way for you to squeeze that 1400 damage through.
1. Hoelle Pig can only recover your J/Ruler while it’s on its Ruler side, not its J-Ruler side.
2. Kirik can only make strength counters on his Ruler side.
3. Hoellesaurus doesn’t necessarily have to target resonators your opponent controls.
4. J-Rulers will return to their Ruler side with the same orientation they had as a J-Ruler.
Despite your best attempts, your opponent has gotten ahead of you on board both in terms of resonators and stones. Worse still, your ruler is astral! However, your opponent has also made a crucial mistake and maybe relied a bit too much on pure muscle.
Your deck: Contains no other useful cards for this situations and all additional draw should be ignored.
1. Weather is a status that only affects a single player, just because it’s raining for you doesn’t mean it’s raining for the opponent.
2. Whales can only block while it’s raining.
3. If a blocker is removed from battle for any reason at all, the attacker goes through to its original intended target.
It’s been a long and grueling game, taking many, many turns. Bizarrely though, your opponent has somehow ended up with 8000 life and you’re at 4000 life. Fortunately, you know that the game ends when a player cannot draw a card from his or her deck during his or her draw phase. And your opponent only has two cards left in the deck. Unfortunately, you’re out of cards in your own deck, meaning you’ve got to win now. Thanks to already seeing most of your opponent’s deck, you know that the last two cards your opponent has are both Vanish and will probably try to cast one to stop you. You know you can still win this one though.
Additional information: You have a wind gem and a water gem, they did not enter your field this turn. Your opponent will use Gill’s ability to play Vanish as soon as he or she can.
1. Using Jewel Burst on a Leaf Magician won’t force your opponent to draw a card, you have to beat them via combat.
2. Taegrus Pearlshine can make two gems of any attribute but can only make one type of attribute.
3. You can play all of your cards before your opponent can play Vanish.
1. Using Kirik’s precision, attack him into Grimm, destroying Grimm. Nothing can block Kirik since nothing but Grimm has flying on the opponent’s side.
2. Play Hoellesaurus and target Kirik. Between Grimm and Hoellesaurus, Kirik will have 1200 damage on him and flip back to the Ruler side. He’ll still be rested.
3. Hoelle Pig can now recover Kirik since he’s a Ruler.
4. Rest Kirik using his own ability to get ten strength counters.
5. Attack with Kirik’s Partner, he has flying so nothing can block him now. Play Burning Awakening on him and deal 1600 damage to your opponent.
One of the biggest drawbacks to Kirik’s J-Ruler side is that he cannot produce strength counters beyond the initial fifteen and his deck relies on them a lot. As a result, it’s sometimes easy to get starved on strength counters if you aren’t careful. Always keep that in mind when you judgment Kirik. Luckily, we were able to flip him back and get those counters together for a victory.
1. Attach both kimonos to Ancient Automaton. This makes it a 1200/1200 since both kimonos give it +200/+200 and it gets +400/+400 total from the additions on the field.
2. Use Stormbolt to rest the opponent’s Shaela. The other two options don’t matter in this scenario.
3. Attack into the opponent’s Shaela with your Ancient Automaton.
4. When the opponent blocks with The White Whale, use Cleansing Rain to put the whale on top of your opponent’s deck. This lets your Ancient Automaton go through to Shaela and deal damage. Your opponent can’t block with any additional resonators since you only get one block per battle.
5. It’s no longer raining for your opponent, meaning the remaining whales cannot block. You can now attack with all of your resonators for 1700 damage, enough to deal with your opponent’s 1500 life.
The biggest thing to understand about the weather mechanic is that it doesn’t affect both players. The weather state is tied to a player so it can raining for you and not your opponent and vice a versa. Because of that, we can stop the rain for the opponent by destroying his or her Shaela, the Mermaid Princess and sneak through that win.
1. Play Jewel Burst on Cecil Letoliel, removing him from the game. You should banish both the wind and water gems.
2. Judgment Taegrus Pearlshine. When he enters the field, make two fire attribute gems.
3. Play Jewel Shield targeting Onyx Gem Blade. Make a darkness gem. He has precision now thanks to the darkness gem.
4. Play Ruby Gem Blade, she has swiftness now thanks to the fire gem.
5. Attack with Onyx Gem Blade into the recovered Leaf Magician and Ruby Gem Blade into the rested Leaf Magician. This will cause your opponent to draw two cards, emptying his or her deck.
6. End your turn. Your opponent will attempt to draw a card, be unable to, and lose.
Pandas are surprisingly versatile group with solid attack and defense values for their costs and a variety of ways to approach combat. Of course, you need the proper gems to handle that correctly, so be sure to juggle them appropriately. Also, part of playing around wind’s cancels spells is understand when they can cancel you. In this case, your opponent could only do so by having an elemental in the graveyard thanks to Gill’s ability. Every cancel spell has clauses to it that you should look and keep track of.
I hope these were an enjoyable set of puzzles. If you solved them all, congratulations. If you had trouble with them, I hope you learned something new idea while trying to figure them out. Thanks for playing.
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2019-04-24T11:51:28Z
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http://www.fowtcg.com/column/community_column-fowstarter-puzzles
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Whether you are starting seedlings or growing plants indoors, one of the most important purchases is a high-quality grow light. Your young plants need light, and often different light than is traditionally in your house, so finding the best grow lights is essential to raising healthy and mature indoor plants. If you are growing a small batch of starters, it may be difficult to find a cost-effective non-commercial grow light. Even if you are growing a commercial garden, you’ll want to get an inexpensive grow light to meet your needs. In order to help you find the best, here is a list of some of the top grow lights on the market. Each one will be compared, and you’ll find out everything you need to know in order to purchase the right grow light to fit your needs.
1. What Is a Grow Light?
2. What Color Light Do I Need?
3. How Long Do I Need To Run My Grow Lights?
4. Where Should I Place My Grow Lights?
5. Can I Use an LED Grow Light?
6. How Many Grow Lights Do I Need?
Each grow light was selected based on a number of important factors. These lights are bestsellers and have high customer ratings.
All the grow lights on this list are also highly rated by professionals and offer a wide range of features and options. Whether you have a large-scale operation or a single plant, there is a grow light on this list that will fit your needs.
Grow lights can range dramatically in price, whether you are lighting one or 100 plants. Depending on the build quality and size.
Each one is designed for a different number of plants and level of intensity, so determine your needs before choosing one of the best grow lights from out list.
This mounted panel is designed to either hang suspended from the ceiling or mount directly to it. It has a wide angle of use and mixes red and blue lighting to achieve a multi-use spectrum.
Customers love the effectiveness of this grow light, particularly for seedlings and small plants. However, it has low wattage for larger plants. It’s an excellent choice for a mid-sized or small operation.
This LED full spectrum light is easy to carry anywhere.
Lacks the option of manually operating the spectrum which might create some difficulty.
For a larger scale operation, consider the Lithonia Lighting fluorescent grow light. This energy-efficient light uses 28 watts and provides a large amount of full-spectrum lighting for a great price.
However, it’s plastic design and fluorescent bulbs are not as effective or durable as more premium-priced lights. Customers love this light for their small garden and find it very reasonably priced for their first grow light.
Try this grow light if you want a budget model that’s still effective.
The first heavy-duty HPS grow light on the list, this unit is considerably more expensive for a significantly more intensive light. Try this for your most sunlight-needy plants and let the 1,000-watt HPS light do the rest.
It’s a smaller unit than other, less expensive lights. However, it provides professional quality, enough intensity and color spectrum for any flowering plant. You can also purchase a Hydro Crunch grow light with 1,150, 750 or 600 watts.
It’s a smaller unit than other, less expensive lights.
For a top-of-the-line product for a range of growing uses, try the Kind K5 Series XL 1000 LED grow light. This high-powered unit uses 630 watts to provide full-spectrum color with LED efficiency.
If you aren’t satisfied with the coloring, you can adjust the brightness of three individual light spectrums. It’s a very versatile and energy-efficient grow light, which makes it perfect for any size indoor operation.
The easy mounting hardware and large light coverage allow it to work for multiple plants or seedlings. This is not, however, a great choice for many amateur gardeners.
Its price makes it a very hefty investment, so consider the plants you are growing and whether or not it’s worth the price tag for your situation.
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Not a great choice for many amateur gardeners.
For the most seedling-coverage for your money, the LED SunLite 3-Tier Garden provides three large areas of excellent LED light coverage. The efficient bulbs will run for five times longer than fluorescent lighting and use less energy as well.
The sturdy structure allows you to grow three times the number of seedlings in one area, so it’s perfect for confined indoor gardens. Get the most seeds started this spring and be ready for an entire garden of seedlings once the last frost is gone.
Customers love the design and ease of use with this grow light. However, its design isn’t as flexible as more generic, overhead mounted grow lights. It’s also quite expensive, so it’s a big investment for first-time growers.
The design isn’t as flexible as more generic, overhead mounted grow lights.
This unique, reading-light-style grow light sports two adjustable heads. It’s the most affordable grow light on the list and is perfectly designed to support two budding or flowering plants. Attach it to a table, desk or planting pot, and watch your two seeds begin to grow.
It uses full-spectrum LED lights to give your plants the right color and intensity. It comes with a great warranty, and customers love the affordability of this grow light.
However, it’s not designed for heavy use, particularly with more than two plants. If you are planning a larger-scale operation, you’ll want to consider other options.
The cord should be longer.
Grow lights are used to give indoor seeds and plants the precious sunlight they need to continue to grow. The artificial light source emits an electric light from a bulb that stimulates photosynthesis.
While your growing room may be well-lit, there are a few key factors that your standard lighting may be missing. These include the right color, intensity and duration of light to encourage growth. Take a look at each of these three areas and determine what will fill your needs.
Grow lights can be small, desk-top lights, or large, ceiling-mounted setups. Obviously, larger lights will be more expensive, and some need to be installed by a professional.
Consider the scale of your operation and choose the grow light that is large enough to cover your plants, but not so large that you waste your money.
This list will have a variety of sizes, so you can find the perfect grow light whether you are growing a single plant or an entire indoor garden.
Grow lights, unlike traditional lighting, should only use full-spectrum lighting sources. While your typical indoor lighting has different colors based on personal preference and the mood of the room, grow lights need to replicate natural light using the full color spectrum otherwise your plants may not grow properly.
Warm and cool lights, while giving rooms unique moods using less expensive light bulbs, don’t provide the right balance needed for your seedlings and plants to survive. Most grow lights cover from infrared to nearly ultraviolet wavelengths of light. You can find full-spectrum bulbs in both LED and fluorescent.
The time your lights should be on varies, depending on the particular plant you are growing. Your grow lights shouldn’t be on all day and night, but plants, especially seeds, need a lot of light in order to grow successfully.
You may not be able to simply mimic the time the sun is up, because you may be growing a plant that doesn’t normally thrive outside in your climate or during that particular season. For this reason, plants are usually divided into three groups.
The first group is long-day plants, which need between 14 and 18 hours of sunlight or grow light each day. Usually, vegetables fall into this category. Another category is day-neutral plants.
These need eight to 12 hours a day and include geraniums and other foliage plants. The last category is one that requires the least amount of sunlight, and the plants are considered short-day plants.
Anything requiring 12 hours or less can fall under this category, but the specific amount will vary depending on the plant. As always, check your specific plant before using your grow lights. Too little light can harm your plants, but too much can also damage them.
When setting up your grow light station, consider the distance between the light and plants. If your plants need high-intensity grow lights, you’ll want to choose a bright bulb and place the lights close to your plants.
Other plants require less intensity and should have a greater distance between themselves and the lights. Check your specific plants, as each one will vary.
Houseplants that flower only need ten to 12 inches from a light source. Others are happy being 36 inches away.
Yes, LED lights are a popular, mid-priced option. There are four basic categories of lights that can be used as grow lights.
The most effective and intense grow lights are HID or high-intensity discharge lights. HID lights are either MH (metal halide bulbs) or HPS (high-pressure sodium bulbs); however, there are differences.
HPS bulbs can last up to 18 months and have more red and orange light. They are great for increasing the bloom of flowers, but the plant growth may be leggier than with MH bulb.
MH grow lights use more blue light on the color spectrum. These lights are used to increase leaf growth. Both varieties of HID lights are more expensive than fluorescent or LED lighting, but they are more effective and provide higher intensity lighting.
LED lights are more long-lasting and energy efficient. They don’t give off as much excess heat, so you won’t have to worry about heating up your plants or burning your hand. Fluorescent lighting, on the other hand, is the most affordable grow light option available.
These lights, as long as they are full-spectrum fluorescent, can still be effective; but they aren’t as intense, so you may struggle to grow plants that require high-intensity lighting.
Some lights are only designed for one or two seedlings, while others can support a whole raised bed of starters.
Depending on the number of seeds you are starting, or the number of indoor plants you are caring for, you’ll need a different amount of grow lights.
Try to find the best grow light for your size of indoor garden but be prepared to buy two or more if you have an especially large operation.
It can be tempting to head for the extremes and buy either the most expensive or the least expensive item on any list. In this case, that could be an excellent idea. The Ppunson Dual Head grow light is an affordable, flexible and highly effective grow light for a few small seedling starters.
The Kind K5 Series, on the other hand, is an excellent choice for even the largest indoor garden operation. Take your time and look at each option in between. Now that you know some of the specifications of the best grow lights, you can determine the perfect one for your home or small business.
Starting a garden indoors can be an excellent way to welcome spring and summer, but it’s a tall order without the right grow light. Finding a full-spectrum, energy-efficient grow light can be a challenge, but this list makes it simple to find the best light for your home.
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We live in a world of content overload, and interactive content is one way marketers try to stand out. However, not all interactive content is created equal; and do-it-yourself tools have lowered the barriers to producing interactive content. Unfortunately, easy to produce does not always mean quality.
In the past two years, the number of interactive posts has increased by 33 percent, but the average number of shares has fallen by 62 percent.
In this post, we’ll look at examples of engaging interactive content, particularly posts that have gotten far more than the average number of shares.
As we looked at these interactive examples, several takeaways emerged. They can be applied to interactive or other types of content. If you want to go straight to the applications, they are at the end of the post, with instructions for how to find interactive content in your own industry using BuzzSumo.
Quizzes have long been a favourite engagement tool, particularly on Facebook.
The most shared quiz published during the last 5 years has gotten a total of 5.4 million social interactions, almost all of them from Facebook.
Of all the interactive content types, quizzes are the most ubiquitous. They can vary from a simple outcome based quiz (in essence a diagnostic that predicts your management style, the decade you were born, or your Hogwarts House) through to quizzes that are effectively assessments.
Quizzes are quick to produce; they help people feel good about themselves; and they are very shareable.
Publishers will often call a quiz the most difficult ever, then make it easy to “pass” or succeed. This plays to our vanity. Who doesn’t want to share a high score on the world’s most difficult grammar test?
How many can you score 100% on (see what we did there)?
This quiz from Pew Research tackles one of the year’s hot issues, fake news, by asking people to see how good they are at distinguishing between statements that are based in fact and statements that are based in opinion. It only came online in June 2018 and, at the time of writing, already has 67.6K shares.
This is a great example of linking a trending topic to an organization’s mission, and it ties into people’s desire to be a part of hot-button issues.
The link to a longer research piece makes this quiz a good example of how to boost the distribution of content.
Use interactives to boost other content.
This quiz from the Barcelona Football Club is also linked to a news event — a Champions league game. It has 63.1K social interactions. One feature that we found motivating about this quiz was the instant feedback about responses. Not only could we rate overall knowledge of the team’s history with Portugal, but we can benchmark immediately against other quiz takers.
This quiz appeals to people’s affiliations with their interest groups. We saw this tribal factor as an engagement driver in Facebook video shares as well.
This quiz from Lark was tied to an offer of a Fitbit and scale. Online since May 2018, the quiz has a total of 52.8k interactions.
Many quizzes only allow you to see the questions one at a time, or only after you’ve answered them.
The Lark design is attractive because it allows people a quick scroll before jumping in.
There was very little info on the page about the offer itself, but it did include a stack of Facebook comments, offering social proof that the quiz and offer were legit.
NPR’s version of the How-Educated-Are-You-Quiz was very popular this year, gaining 52.1k interactions. The format offers a downloadable checklist which makes this quiz a bit more meaty than others in the “how smart are you?” category.
No discussion of engaging quizzes would be complete without a grammar or IQ selection!
The three most shared interactive posts for the past 12 months all claimed to be IQ tests.
As described above, we seem to have a high need to test our intelligence and share our stellar results with our friends.
The women.com domain dominated the list of most shared interactive content, and its posts were the most engaging for the year.
Use BuzzSumo’s Content analysis reports to see the top domains across networks for any topic.
The site itself leans on quizzes. A total of 2762 articles were published last year, 1402 of which were quizzes. Their strategy was unlike many of the quizzes that we looked at on other sites. Most were part of a larger piece of content or standalone pieces that linked to other articles and served as a vehicle to draw attention to the other post.
The quizzes at women.com are different — they are a main content category, emphasized with a spot on the top navigation menu.
Women.com also offers the option to subscribe for new quizzes. Their stated goal is to give people a way to relax and enjoy the fun of a quiz.
There were no content links associated with the quizzes we saw–so they don’t seem to be designed to promote other content, but the site itself, and each quiz, has ads displayed alongside the quiz.
If shareability is the goal, remember, that people are more likely to share things that make them look good.
Beyond quizzes, practical and useful content always does well. Practical tools such as calculators have been neglected by many marketers. They take more time to develop but can drive high levels of engagement, shares and importantly links, with lasting value.
In the marketing space Hubspot’s Site Grader tool is one of the most well known. Another staff favorite this year is the “time-saved” calculator at coschedule.com. It claims to show the time that a team would save by using the Coschedule suite of tools.
This post from the NY Times came on line in Dec. 17, 2017. It’s been shared 106.1k times and has 369 backlinks.
It seems that calculators, while less socially viral, may be better drivers of backlinks. The average number of backlinks for a quiz in the last year was 3.2; the average for a calculator was 6.4.
The calculator’s publication corresponded with a great deal of interest in the US about taxes. Notice the peak in Google Searches for the term “tax.” It peaks the week of Dec. 17.
Leverage a trending topic, while delivering high value content. Remember, if it’s trending people want to feel connected to it.
This handy data calculator has instant appeal–it shows how much data you are likely to use based on your online activies. Published by mtnonline.com, a Nigerian telecom company in August, 2017, the calculator has been shared 65.3k times.
The share volume seems to indicate that interactions with the tool have come from across the web, not just Nigeria. This aspect of content is intriguing–businesses with a tight geographic focus can get attention from far away with content that’s helpful and interesting. And, often, their competition for attention will include sites from around the globe.
Who said Civil Engineering can’t be cool? And, who still believes that Facebook is just a network for B2C content with high bling value?
This post, published by the Constructor, a site developed by a civil engineer, to give civil engineering an online info sharing hub, has gotten 20.4k shares since it came online in Nov. 2017.
BuzzSumo’s database of more than 5 billion URL’s shows that Facebook interactions lead the way, often –even for traditionally B2B topics.
Facebook, and shareability are for every marketer.
Last year’s list included a calorie calculator. This engaging calculator, about the size of the horse people of different weights can comfortably ride, is a new take on body mass!
Another addresses the weight a particular breed can carry. This is a clever use of similar information to answer different questions…once the range of weight bearing is established for a breed, it can be easily reframed to create the which breed is right for my weight calculator.
This calculator from quartz.com also got a significant number of links, 14, and 16.3k shares. It takes a common topic – gender inequality – and attempts to quantify the problem monetarily.
This interactive tool is published by the Earth Day Network. After calculating plastic usage, the audience was invited to make a pledge. The calculator has 7.1k interactions so far.
What appeals to me here is that the calculator seems designed to generate emotion; I picture it causing people to gloat over their successful reduction in plastic use, or to feel guilt over their failures.
The CTA — pledge money, or sign up for help — seems very relevant to each type of emotional response.
Finally, this calculator is designed to determine the amount of money needed to fulfil a religious obligation and has acquired almost 9000 social engagements.
I was drawn to this example because of its high-tech approach to an age-old question. The takeaway for marketers?
It’s never to late to provide information in an easier to use, more accessible way.
Importantly, calculators take broad swaths of information and make them personal, based on a variable. So, a question like “What is the average lifespan for people” would not create a good calculator. A better approach would be a calculator that determines lifespan based on criteria like gender, current, age, or place of residence. The best approach would allow for multiple variables and create a very specific result.
For example, in the “Will my tax rate go up or down?” example, there are several audience-known variables — including income. The author provided variable is the new tax rate by income level. The result of the calculation is the tax amount for the audience supplied variable.
In the “What breed of horse can carry me?” example, the audience-known variable is weight. The author provided variable is the weight certain horses can bear. The result of the calculation is a list of horses appropriate for each individual’s weight.
To apply this to your own topics, consider what questions your audience may have that can be segmented based on variables. Ask yourself what information would be needed to provide a specific, useful answer.
If you know about a great interactive, and you can help your audience find it, you can get great results!
For example, in the top 5 most shared interactives, 4 of them are descriptions of interactives available at other sites.
The power of interactives extends to curation.
1. The Damage of Anti-Vaccination Movement – IFL Science!
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People shared the IFL Science post because they were interested in the interactive and didn’t read deeply enough to realize it wasn’t there.
People shared the IFL Science post because of some factor other than the interactive.
2. 170 Million Americans Are Drinking Radioactive Water. This Interactive Map Shows If You Are Too. – IFL Science!
There are several examples of success with curating interactive content from IFL Science, including the radioactive water map.
See the list of IFL’s most shared interactives.
The key to these posts’ success seems to align with best practices for curation: Make sure you add something of value as you call your audience’s attention to other content.
This piece, which came online Dec. 6, 2017, and includes fire tracking through Dec. 21, illustrates the power of linking high production value and a trending topic. The post has 32.8k engagements.
This beautiful map combines amazing interactive visualization with storytelling. As you scroll through the page, the story unfolds one paragraph at a time.
This “Giant” piece from pbs.org includes an entire package of information, including a timeline, spreadsheet, explanation, and image.
Published in June 2018, this piece already has 31.9k engagements and 42 backlinks.
Part of it’s appeal may lie in providing information in multiple formats. The clickable spreadsheet is great for people who like to use spreadsheets, the infographic-like timeline appeals to those who don’t want to click.
Make the message available to people in different formats.
Lost the narrative thread of the Marvel Universe? It happens. CNN Entertainment steps up with an excellent interactive guide to all of the Marvel movies. With 51 backlinks since April 2018, we image this piece rescuing many movie goers from every universe for years to come.
If women.com owns the quiz space, then visualcapitalist.com owns the illustration of investment data.
The animation above, described as a sponsored infographic,has 1.4k social engagements, but many of visualcapitalist’s still maps and infographics have engagements in the tens of thousands.
When describing how to build a calculator, I mentioned the importance of providing the “Author Known Variable.” The success of this VR film provides the same thing–it gives an audience access to a closed experience. The piece, published on Wired, has 1.7k engagements.
This idea of letting an audience in on a process that is otherwise closed to them is a powerful one for content marketers. Is there something that you could show your audience that very few others can? Is your audience interested in seeing it? If so a video experience of some sort may be a good, high production value content piece for you.
If you want to learn more here are twenty ways you can use interactive video.
Make content relevant by tying it to current events.
Offer value to YOUR audience.
Save your audience time and effort–do the work for them.
Make curation part of your strategy.
For maximum shares, help people look good.
If you want something to stand out, give it a spot on your nav bar.
Use interactive content to help distribute research or other posts.
If you are in a B2B context, don’t discount Facebook’s value.
Provide old information in a new way.
Package content to appeal to people in more than one way.
Interactive content can be a great way to make your content stand out from the crowd and to gain both shares and links. But, remember the world doesn’t need another pretty clickable infographic or a simple quiz.
Be creative. Make the content practical, awe-inspiring, and beautiful or alternatively make your interactive content really practical like some of the calculators. Hopefully these examples will have helped inspire you.
So what works in your industry or sector? Use BuzzSumo to search for your topic and add terms such as interactive, quiz, calculator, etc. to see what is working in your industry.
Data pulled from BuzzSumo on July 25-30 for, comparing content that came online in July 1, 2016- June 30, 2017 with July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018.
The engagement calculations for each year are cumulative, so the 2016-2017 posts have had longer to accumulate shares, but the difference in the two is figures is significant enough that I think it’s safe to conclude that there is a trend toward falling engagement.
Oh Steve, this is one massive procrastination article 😛 Which obviously means that yes, interactive content you list works 😀 Sure, there will be haters saying “quizzes are lame” but they are fun for your readers and, if you set them up that way, can bring in more after the users share their results on social media.
We haven’t tried interactive content on our blog just yet (although there are plans!), but we do enjoy it on other sites!
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A method for the examination of the condition of a ruminant animal including sampling odours from at least one part of the animal with an olfactory sensor thereby to identify specific aspects of the animal condition.
This invention relates to the examination of ruminant animals and more particularly to the examination of the teats and general condition of ruminant animals kept for milk.
The teats of a milking animal need careful attention to determine that a teat is clean and healthy before milk is drawn from the teat, whether by manual or automatic methods. The routine washing of teats before milking is now considered more likely to increase rather than decrease damage and cross-infection, particularly if the teats are generally clean. Other aspects of animal health also need to be examined and the time of presentation for milking is convenient for this. Ruminant animals not in milk or not kept for milk also need to be examined for general health.
There is therefore a need for a reliable technique for the general examination of ruminant animals. US 5047214 discloses a smell sensing element suitable for use in evaluation of freshness or ripeness of foods or in medical diagnosis. No use of such sensors in management of industrial animals has been reported.
It is an object of the invention to provide a technique for the examination of the condition and health of a ruminant animal and more particularly one which can be applied in milking animal husbandry whether as part of a manual or automatic milking regime or independently.
According to the invention there is provided a method for the examination of the condition of a ruminant animal including sampling odours from at least one part of the animal thereby to identify specific aspects of the animal condition; characterised in that the animal is a ruminant animal and the method includes establishing an examination region in the air around a part of the animal to be examined, purging the region, drawing a sample of air from the region, applying the sample to an electronic olfactory sensor and providing a sensor output indicative of any response of the sensor to said sample which determines whether the animal is to be one of milked, cleaned or examined further.
Preferably the animal is a milking animal presenting for milking and the progress of the milking process thereafter is dependent on the identified condition of the animal.
The invention also provides an apparatus for examination of the condition of a ruminant animal; characterised in that it includes a means for establishing an examination region in the air around a part of a ruminant animal to be examined, a means for purging that region, a means for drawing a sample of air from the region, a means for applying the sample to an electronic olfactory sensor and a means for providing a sensor output indicative of a condition present in the animal which determines whether the animal is to be one of milked, cleaned or examined further. Preferably the apparatus is arranged for operation by an automatic milking apparatus. The apparatus may be such as to establish an examination region for collecting the animal's breath.
The invention also provides an apparatus to examine a teat of a milking animal including an examination device to receive a said teat, means to purge the examination device, means to support the device with said teat received therein, means to draw a sample of air from around the teat received in the device, means to apply said sample to a sensor and means to supply a sensor output indicative of sensor response to said sample.
The examination device may be an open-top vessel into which a teat can be inserted. The device may be a teat cup like structure.
The purging is arranged to at least reduce the inclusion of general ambient air in the sample, ensuring that the sample is representative of material diffusing from the teat or other part of the ruminant animal or a substance thereon. The purging air may be used as a reference for the sensor before a sample is taken. Purging air may be supplied selectively to the top and the bottom of the device. The purging may be by a flow of clean air, for example from a pressure bottle. The purging and sampling action may be controlled by a changeover valve. The sample may be drawn by a piston and cylinder arrangement operated by a lead screw actuator to enable a precise sample size. The purge air may be drawn into a sample chamber then expelled to purge the region by the action of the piston and cylinder arrangement. The purge air and sample may flow in the same direction. The purge air and sample may be drawn past a sensor by suction.
The sensor is conveniently one commonly called an electronic "nose", that is an olfactory sensor. Such a sensor can be based on a conducting polymer, a metal oxide or other sensing material for olfactory purposes, with associated electronic signal processing circuitry.
The sensor can be arranged to sense diffusion from the teat or another part of the animal or a substance thereon of organic material characteristic of one or more of faecal material, blood, earth, the state of the metabolic process and the conditions of oestrus or ketosis.
The method and apparatus may be arranged for operation manually by an operator or in response to a control instruction by a robot. Such a robot may be part of an automatic milking apparatus. The examination may be applied when an animal presents for milking. The examination may be carried out in a milking stall before a milking apparatus is applied to a teat. The examination may be carried out before an animal is permitted to enter a milking stall. In response to a sensor output indication of teat condition unsuitable for milking the examined teal may be washed and again examined. If an animal on examination has an unsuitable teal condition it may be directed away from a milking stall to an area for further examination.
The apparatus, where in contact with the sample, is of an inert material. Conveniently this is polytetrafluorethylene.
The apparatus may be fixed to an animal stall or the like where diffusion, exhalation or other evacuations of the ruminant animal are present for examination.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing which is a perspective view of an apparatus according to the invention.
The apparatus shown in the drawing includes an examination device in the form of an open-top vessel VS to receive a teat of a milking animal and provide around a received teal a region which can be purged by an air flow and from which a sample of air can be drawn. A flow connection FC is provided at the lower, closed, end of the vessel. The flow connection is controlled by a valve CV which can be selectively operated to allow entry of pure air through one valve port PV and to allow extraction of sample air via FC through another valve port SP. A pressure bottle of pure compressed air or other gas (so-called zero air) is connected to the port PV. To the other port SP a piston and cylinder arrangement is connected with the connection to the cylinder offset to cause swirl in flow into the cylinder.
The piston P is drivable to and fro in the cylinder C in controllable manner by an actuator AL. A sensor S is placed on a coupling block CB to be exposed to the sample drawn into the cylinder. The sensor Is conveniently of the olfactory type, available commercially in various forms and commonly called an electronic "nose". An electronic circuit EC, connected via connector SC, is arranged to provide an indication of the response of the sensor at an indicator IND and over an output connection. The electronic circuit can also be arranged to control the valve and piston actuator and the operating cycle of the apparatus. Power also can be supplied through this connection. The exact form of the electronic circuit will be appropriate to the sensor used and the manner in which the indication is to be applied. Suitable electronic circuitry will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art.
In operation the vessel is purged by a flow of air from the pressure bottle, either before being placed around the teat or when the teat is in place, the purge flow being controlled by the valve. In one arrangement the purge air flows through the valve into the cylinder with the piston withdrawn and is then sent to the vessel through the valve by operating the piston. A sample is then drawn from the space around the teat by operating the valve to connect the space to the piston and cylinder, if not already so-connected, and again withdrawing the piston along the cylinder. The offset flow connection encourages a swirl in air movement in the cylinder.
The response of the sensor to the sample is derived by the electronic circuit and an output indication provided. After examination of a sample the piston and cylinder and sensor can also be purged by pure compressed air. A dwell time may be needed for the proper response of the sensor. The profile of the sensor response as the sample is drawn past may be significant as the proportion of material may vary during the sample flow.
The parts of the apparatus in contact with the sample must not cause contamination of the sample, for example by retaining part of an earlier sample or by releasing material into the sample. Polytetrafluoroethylene (ptfe) is a suitable substance for such parts of the apparatus.
In a specific form of the apparatus the control valve is a 3-way TEFLON (RTM) valve supplied by NResearch of New Jersey USA, which is operated at 12V dc. The piston and cylinder are made from ptfe with an O-ring to seal the piston to the cylinder. The O-ring must not release or retain sample material. The piston is operated by a stepper motor lead screw actuator of the AIRPAX (RTM) type L92211-P2, operated at 12V dc. Such an actuator can provide a very precise drive of the piston at a selected speed so that the sample and purge volume can be accurately set. Conveniently the purge volume is greater than the sample volume and the cylinder is sized for the purge volume.
It is important that the sample does not include air from other than the region around the teat. If air from outside this region is included in the sample false results may be obtained. The teat may bring with It stray "odours" and the purging action is therefore preferably carried out with the teat in the vessel. The vessel VS must, of course, be clean to avoid false results. A check may be made of the empty vessel between tests. The vessel could be routinely cleaned at each test.
The apparatus can be hand-held (grip G) or supported by a shaft (H) or other means, for example on a milking robot such as is described in UK patent publication 2226941, incorporated herein by reference.
The handling of the animal after examination is determined by the indication of the sensor response so as to be milked, have a cleaning action carried out or be directed to another area for further examination.
In another form of the apparatus the flow route is of different form. A further supply of zero air as purge air is introduced at port PV' of additional unit ZA at and around the top of the examination device, such as vessel VS, into which the teat is received. In this way the drawing in of ambient air, with the possibility of bringing in stray odours, is further reduced. The flow route is now always in the same direction, as explained below. The flow path at the sensor S is preferably such as to produce a flow across the sensor rather than allow a volume of gas to collect around the sensor. Sensors for humidity and temperature of the flow are also fitted here. The piston and cylinder arrangement is operated to bring about the required flow rate along the flow route. It is possible to use suction from some external source, such as the vacuum of a milking apparatus (not shown), as an alternative to the piston and cylinder although some indication of flow rate may be needed to enable consistent sensor results. The lower part of the vessel VS can be openable to aid cleaning. It may be sufficient to line the vessel and other parts with ptfe. Zero air may also be selectively supplied directly to the piston and cylinder arrangement and extracted therefrom as a purging action. The exact physical form of the apparatus can be altered to suit a chosen component selection or other constraint as will be apparent to those skilled in the art and in accordance with the precautions indicated.
In operation of the form of the apparatus just described at the beginning of an examination the purge supply of air or other gas, such as the so-called zero gas, is made available at port PV' . The piston P is positioned in the cylinder end close to the sensor. Before the introduction of a teat for examination into the vessel VS the purge supply at PV' is started. With the teat in place, or earlier if required, the valve CV is operated as above to supply zero air which, by slow movement of the piston along the cylinder, is drawn over the sensor S.
When the purge is effective the valve CV is operated and the purge supply to the sensor replaced by the zero air and any odours from the vessel VS where the teat is in place. The movement of the piston is continued. This brings about the flow of zero air past the teat in vessel VS and draws odours from the teat past the sensor S so that significant odours can be assessed and indicated as before.
In a further form of the apparatus a teat-cup like examination device is fitted with an olfactory sensor. Gas flow paths are provided to the top and bottom of the teat-cup like device, the flow path to the bottom of the device including the sensor. Zero air can be selectively supplied to each flow path. The top flow path conveniently discharges around the top of the device. Suction can be selectively applied to the flow path to the bottom of the device.
In operation of this further form zero air is firstly caused to flow along the flow path to the bottom of the device, past the sensor, and then up through the device and out the open top, past a teat in place in the device. This zero air flow is used to calibrate the device as well as purge any stray odours. The zero air supply is then transferred to the flow path to the top of the device and suction applied to the flow path extending to the bottom of the device. Zero air is thus drawn past a teat in the device and then past the sensor for the sensor to respond to any odours swept along with the zero air flow past the teat. Suitable valves or other flow control and electronic circuit arrangements will be apparent to those skilled in the art having regard to the descriptions above. A suitable seal, operated by differential pressure, may be provided at the top of the device so that the purge air flow can escape, the seal being open, while when suction is applied the seal operates so that only zero air from the top flow path passes the teat and ambient air cannot enter. The guidance above on materials and cleaning applies to this further form of the apparatus.
Reference has been made above to the nature of response by the sensor. Typical response by the sensor is for a significant resistance change to occur over a period of about ten seconds starting some five seconds after the flow of the sample from the space around the teat. When cow faecal material is present on the teat the sensor resistance change is about twice that when faecal material is not present. The change of the sensor resistance generally reduces again as the flow continues, for both clean and dirty teats. Relative humidity and temperature can affect the sensor response and these can be sensed so that the olfactory sensor response can be properly interpreted by the electronic circuitry. It may be necessary to make some "trial" runs of the apparatus before actual use to ensure that a proper reference condition has been established for a particular combination of humidity and temperature.
It is desirable to achieve as long a life as possible from the olfactory sensor. These sensors can deteriorate due to contamination and can "drift" if sensed materials are retained. For these reasons it is desirable to maintain the sensor in clean air except when in use. The purge supply can be arranged to do this without excessive consumption.
As described above the teat to be examined is received into a device such as a vessel. In another embodiment a vessel is not used and a structured air flow can be used to direct air which may carry significant odours from an area of interest of an animal to the sensing apparatus. The purge action can be provided by the structured flow.
Examination of the exhaled breath from the respiratory tract of a ruminant can be used instead of a blood test for certain conditions. A blood test involving taking a blood sample and then analysis for each animal is expensive and, because it is invasive, unattractive. By capturing exhaled breath from the nostrils of a ruminant animal and examining this for odours, useful information can be acquired. Purging, as mentioned above, is needed and any collection device needs to be a close fit to the nostrils of the animal.
As the breath examination can be done regularly and frequently without professional intervention, such as is required for a blood test, it is relatively cheap and can be carried out at milking time and used as a control input for a milking regime control system, relating to feeding, milking and other aspects of the regime.
The invention also provides general sensing of an animal condition by examination of a sample, such as a sample of breath, by apparatus including an olfactory sensor for conditions such as oestrus and ketosis. Appropriate modifications for the apparatus will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Diffusion, exhalations or other evacuations of a ruminant animal can also be sensed. The apparatus may be fixed to a stall where the breath or other odour of the animal or animal waste products is likely to be present, for routine testing. Various conditions of the animal may tested including metabolism and these tests are relevant to ruminants in general, whether kept for meat or milk purposes.
characterised in that the animal is a ruminant animal and the method includes establishing an examination region in the air around a part of the animal to be examined, purging the region, drawing a sample of air from the region, applying the sample to an electronic olfactory sensor and providing a sensor output indicative of any response of the sensor to said sample which determines whether the animal is to be one of milked, cleaned or examined further.
A method as claimed in Claim 1 characterised in that it includes examining the condition of a milking animal presenting for milking and controlling the progress of the milking process thereafter in dependence on the identified condition of the animal.
A method as claimed in Claim 2 characterised in that it includes examining the animal before entry to a milking position.
A method as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 3 characterised in that the part of the animal is a teat.
A method as claimed in Claim 4 characterised in that it includes providing the examination region as a vessel into which the teat can be inserted.
A method as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 5 characterised in that it includes providing the examination region as a structured air flow.
A method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6 characterised in that the sensor is arranged to sense diffusion from the teat or another part of the animal of a substance thereon of organic material characteristic of one or more of ketosis, oestrus, the state of the metabolic process, faecal material, blood or earth.
characterised in that it includes a means for establishing an examination region in the air around a part of a ruminant animal to be examined, a means for purging that region, a means for drawing a sample of air from the region, a means for applying the sample to an electronic olfactory sensor and a means for providing a sensor output indicative of a condition present in the animal which determines whether the animal is to be one of milked, cleaned or examined further.
Apparatus as claimed in Claims 8 characterised in that it is arranged for operation by an automatic milking apparatus.
Apparatus as claimed in Claim 8 or 9 characterised in that the means for establishing the examination region is such as to establish the region about a ruminant animal for collecting its breath.
Apparatus as claimed in any one of Claims 8 to 10 characterised in that the sensor is arranged to sense for at least one of ketosis, oestrus, the state of the metabolic process, and presence of faecal material, blood or earth.
Apparatus as claimed in any one of Claims 8 to 11 characterised in that it is arranged for mounting on a stall for a ruminant animal.
Apparatus as claimed in any one of Claims 8 to 12 characterised in that it is arranged to produce a structured air flow to collect an odour.
Apparatus as claimed in any one of Claims 8 to 13 characterised in that it includes an examination device for receiving a ruminant animal's teat such as to establish an examination region in the air around it, means to purge the examination device, means to support the device with said teat received therein, means to draw a sample of air from around the teat received in the device, means to apply said sample to a sensor and means to supply a sensor output indicative of sensor response to said sample.
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2019-04-24T17:00:10Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/EP0670673B1/en
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Which do you consider more delusional: flying a plane into a government building in retaliation of government abuse or believing that the government exists to protect your individual rights?
If you answered the former, you're certainly not alone. However, though you might not have thought twice before responding to what appeared to be a silly question, perhaps it's worth considering the moral premises that led to your belief.
On February 18, 2010 at about 10:00 AM, 53-year old father, husband, software engineer, and pilot Joe Stack flew his Piper Cherokee PA-28 airplane into an IRS building in Austin, TX. According to his 6-page suicide note that, only hours later, the FBI censored by forcing the hosting vendor to remove, the basic reason for his action was that the government had destroyed his life. Overly dramatic you think? Although I encourage you to closely read the particular reasoning he used, it isn't my intent to judge or to analyze his thoughts. My intent is to explore and compare the morality of the two proposed delusions.
A useful exercise would be to compare the "hate-filled diatribe" and "rant" of Thomas Jefferson with the "hate-filled diatribe" and "rant" of Joe Stack.
Once upon a time, journalism was about unbiased research, checking facts, commitment to truth, and a deep suspicion of government. (Why do you think freedom of the press was considered important to the Founding Fathers, so much so that they put it into the First Amendment of the Constitution?) The mainstream media-government cheerleaders, who haven't done any of the research into the deep legal issues about which Joe Stack committed suicide, as expected and in an attempt to prove delusion, immediately came out strong to express their disapproval with Joe's actions. They painted his actions as crazy. Time magazine called Joe's suicide note "rambling." ABC called Joe's note a "lengthy, hate-filled diatribe," misinterpreting Joe's anger as stemming from "years spent working and paying taxes, but not reaping the benefits of what he considered to be a functional government." CBS called it "a twisted suicide note / bomber's manifesto... in which he ranted against the IRS." The Washington Post makes a cheap attempt to associate Joe's "rant" and the "extreme elements of the Tea Party movement."
Based on personal experience but understanding the logical problem with making overly broad generalizations, I think that most people I know claim to be moral relativists. A moral relativist is someone who believes values are solely chosen based on personal preferences. In this sense, all values are arbitrary as the morality of a situation depends on how you choose to look at it, how your "culture" considers it, your own experiences, how it impacts "society," and the like. People who claim to be moral relativists make statements such as "there's no such thing as black-or-white," "the world is made of gray," "how can you be so sure you're right," "who decides what's right or wrong," "who are you to judge," "I'm not judgmental," and the like. To keep their logic consistent, those who consider themselves moral relativists (if they consider it at all) either refuse to judge a situation in terms of morality or have a confirmation bias focused on facts within a narrow context. For example, one moral relativist said to me that he wasn't sure if war was right or wrong. Another claimed to me that Joe Stack hurt and killed individuals who did nothing specific to him - they were just people doing their jobs. Ergo, what Joe Stack did was wrong. Fair enough.
Interestingly, for relativists who do judge the morality of a narrow situation, their logic requires them to refuse acknowledgement that they are still dealing in absolutes. For example, to claim that Joe Stack's actions were immoral because he killed individuals who did nothing specific to him are indirectly stating a moral absolute that it is wrong to kill someone who has not specifically harmed you. How does the relativist deal with the obvious absolute? Very simply - he refuses to see it. After all, if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? In other words, as long as you are able to deny perception of something, it might as well never have occurred or been a factor. And, as it is only specific factors within a particular context that matter, non-existent factors are, by definition, not factors at all. Refuse to perceive it and it doesn't exist. Kind of a clean, neat trick, don't you think?
So, for those who think "the world is gray," it would make sense that Joe Stack was a deluded, bad person, as he destroyed property and life with his actions without reason. Why is their morality right compared to the converse? Look no further than the context. Easy.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in his magnum opus that "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
What was the context? The Declaration of Independence listed the context in terms of grievances (what the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, and CBS News define as "extremist," "rants," and "hate-filled diatribe" for not "reaping the benefits of... functional government"). Grievances against the government included: not following the law, passing laws that are "formidable to tyrants only," "fatiguing [people] into compliance," invading the rights of people, obstructing justice (especially through the establishment of "Judiciary Powers"), creating "Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance," keeping "Standing Armies," holding "mock Trial[s]," "imposing Taxes... without... Consent," "waging War against us," "destroy[ing] the lives of our people," "transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny," and ignoring "Petition[s] for Redress in the most humble terms." That was the context. A useful exercise would be to compare the "hate-filled diatribe" and "rant" of Thomas Jefferson with the "hate-filled diatribe" and "rant" of Joe Stack. Notice any similarities in context?
Based on his suicide note, Joe Stack likely didn't voluntarily give the government or "society" the authorization to infringe on his rights. Yet it's interesting to note how many in "society" are angry that Joe Stack infringed on their "collective rights" (e.g., destruction of a "public" building and the lives of "public" employees). Relativists quickly retort that the person who died (other than Joe himself) wasn't the "public" - he was an individual. How logical and correct that is. But then who is the public? Was Joe Stack part of the public/society? If so, and if his rights were infringed upon, where was the outrage then? Selective perception does away with this logic problem quite nicely: the IRS agent killed was an individual who had rights, and Joe thus committed a crime against society. But, no matter what wrong Joe incurred, he did not have individual rights and anything that was done to him by the IRS was not a crime against society. Did you understand that logic? Neither did I. Yet that's one of the conundrums relativists attempt to ignore.
Confused yet by the moral relativist logic? Let's try something simpler. The Nazis are always a reliable example for discussing morality, as clearly what the Nazis did was wrong. The relativist is on solid ground when he claims that the US government was morally correct to defend/protect the victims from Nazi atrocities. However, there are ample examples of people who have been victims of US aggression, both within and without the US. From "tax honesty" victims like Irwin Schiff, Larken Rose, Ed and Elaine Brown, Sherry Peel Jackson, Bob Schulz, to torture victims like Binyam Mohamed, Mohammed al Qahtani, and Omar Deghayes. In fact, Aaron Russo (producer of American classics such as The Rose featuring Bette Midler and Trading Places with Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy) produced an excellent documentary called America: From Freedom to Fascism on the horrors from which Joe Stack suffered and ultimately died trying to fight.
But if the US government was morally proper in using aggressive force against Nazi soliders to protect and defend victims, why is it not proper for Joe Stack to use force to protect and defend the likes of Irwin Schiff, Larken Rose, Ed and Elaine Brown, Sherry Peel Jackson, Bob Schultz, Binyam Mohamed, Mohammed al Qahtani, and Omar Deghayes (to name just a few)? Any destruction Joe Stack caused to the US government's "war machine" (I'm including the US government's war on civil liberties in that term) would mean that less US government property and "soldiers" (e.g., IRS agents) exist to destroy civil rights and property rights. Ergo, wasn't Joe Stack's action simply protecting those who were unable to defend themselves against the US government's aggression, just as the US government's actions were to defend people against the Nazis? After all, the Nazis weren't attacking the US government; on the contrary, the US government was actively trying to get into the war. If, in the virtuous name of protecting victims, the US government had the moral authority to attack foreign governments who hadn't harmed Americans, why doesn't Joe Stack have the moral authority to attack the US government who has, in fact, harmed both Americans and non-Americans?
But wait - the Nazis didn't just steal property. They actually exterminated human beings. That is quite different from the circumstances with Joe Stack (remember: limit context). Fair enough. But Joe Stack is also now dead, just as dead as the human beings that the Nazis exterminated. The IRS was able to accomplish an individual extermination without ever pulling a trigger. They motivated Joe to pull the trigger himself just by stealing his property, ignoring his civil rights, and ensuring that he had no chance to get either back. And to think some called the Nazis efficient killers.
It is terrible that Joe Stack felt he had no hope left for ever regaining his rights, much less his property. You might now empathize with him, even if you don't agree with his methods. But where was your empathy when Joe's civil rights were being infringed... when his property was being stolen... when the US government, and specifically the IRS, was destroying his life? Why didn't you have empathy then? Why didn't you stick up for Joe Stack, someone who wasn't able to defend himself against the violence of the IRS? Before February 18, it was only the IRS who used force. Before February 18, Joe Stack had never used violence against anyone. As he said in his suicide note, and as his friends and family indicated, he just wanted to live his life as he saw best and in peace.
I have read comments from people calling Joe Stack's actions selfish. A selfish act is something you do solely for your own advantage. The IRS chose to use force against Joe Stack in order to seize his property. After begging for relief nicely, Joe Stack made the only choice the IRS allowed him: to use force to destroy destruction. The IRS gained much when they stole Joe Stack's property. Yet Joe Stack gained nothing by destroying IRS property or killing an IRS employee. How can you call an action for which you gain nothing "selfish?"
Terrorism is defined as the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. The US government, as a system and as a group of individuals, is guilty of crimes against humanity through the initiation of force. The US government is guilty of destroying the individual rights of so many famous and unknown individuals. Countless individuals have written letters and petitioned for redress. Their voices were like trees falling in an unpopulated forest. The US government has removed the people's ability to fight back. The laws now work to support violence committed by the US government against individuals, while punishing individuals who use violence against the government. This is the expected and intended outcome of the underlying philosophy: moral relativism. Indeed, history repeats itself.
The Declaration of Independence clearly sanctions that individuals have the moral authority to retaliate and destroy governments that abuse the rights of others. No matter how you read his suicide note, that is clearly all Joe Stack was doing - he was retaliating against the government's violent force toward him. When the IRS violated Joe Stack's rights, they placed themselves inside a ring of violence. As any boxer knows, if you go into a ring, be prepared to get hurt. In such a situation, there is no recourse available but force. Violence is the logical result of moral relativism.
Joe Stack was not delusional for wanting freedom, as freedom is not a delusion. Joe Stack killed himself because he wasn't willing to live under the philosophical or legal terms the US government set. Getting to vote on which master restrains you and how heavy the chains that bind you will be is not freedom. Freedom is an absolute. You either have it or you don't.
My sincerest condolences to his family. Rest in peace, Joe Stack. I'm sorry we weren't there to defend you sooner. Your courage and integrity to fight tyranny, and the moral relativistic philosophy that supports it, will be missed.
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2019-04-18T16:58:19Z
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https://braincrave.com/c/relationships/dating/braincrave/vlqqs/in-defense-of-joe-stack
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Abstract: Optimization is important to identify optimal parameters in many disciplines to achieve high quality products including optimization of thin film coating parameters. Manufacturing costs and customization of cutting tool properties are the two main issues in the process of Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD). The aim of this paper is to find the optimal parameters get better thin film roughness using PVD coating process. Three input parameters were selected to represent the solutions in the target data, namely Nitrogen gas pressure (N2), Argon gas pressure (Ar), and Turntable speed (TT), while the surface roughness was selected as an output response for the Titanium nitrite (TiN). Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) equipment was used to characterize the coating roughness. In this study, an approach in modeling surface roughness of Titanium Nitrite (TiN) coating using Response Surface Method (RSM) has been implemented to obtain a proper output result. In order to represent the process variables and coating roughness, a quadratic polynomial model equation was developed. Genetic algorithms were used in the optimization work of the coating process to optimize the coating roughness parameters. Finally, to validate the developed model, actual data were conducted in different experimental run. In RSM validation phase, the actual surface roughness fell within 90% prediction interval (PI). The absolute range of residual errors (e) was very low less than 10 to indicate that the surface roughness could be accurately predicted by the model. In terms of optimization and reduction the experimental data, GAs could get the best lowest value for roughness compared to experimental data with reduction ratio of 46.75%.
Abstract: This study aims to identify the viewpoint of school leaders the need of developing Online Performance Dialogue (EDP). The model based on the method of inquiry for educational leaders and the School District. The theory is used as a model UTAUT basis for this study. Survey methods used between 222 schools investigate the needs of leaders to adopt Online Performance Dialog (eDP) The data obtained were analyzed through descriptive Statistics using statistical package for social science (SPSS) software. Interpretation of the data is based on the value of the mean and standard deviation. Overall findings indicate that school leaders need on-line performance dialogue (eDP) with an average mean 4.309. The findings of this study reveal that school leaders have access to the necessary technology to eDP. The results also showed the level of acceptance and the intention to use the eDP model among school leaders.
Abstract: Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is to prevent entry of anomalous network flows into networks. Hundred percent inspections of all the fragments of network flows for detecting malicious fragments and thereof anomalous flows are highly prohibitive. The Selective Sampling Method (SSM) considers only network flows of small size not exceeding 80 fragments. Further, it is applicable for detecting port scan and host scan attacks only. This study proposes a novel NIDS adapting acceptance sampling method, referred to as ASNID. It is applicable to detect Land, Xmass, Nestea, Rose, Winnuke, NULL Scan, Teardrop, Fraggle, Port scan, Host scan. A randomly chosen sample of fragments from a network flow is inspected for detecting whether it is anomalous or not. It reduces the computational effort by a factor of 0<k<1 where k is the ratio of sample size to total fragments of a network flow. It is proved experimentally that the GMAI, performance metric of ASNID tends to one as the sample size increases to 60%. It is also proved that as the percentage of anomalous flows increases GMAI increases. Hence, ASNID would of immense use in network intrusion detection.
Abstract: In recent years, Location-Based Services (LBS) have become very popular, especially in the light of enhancements that are daily performed on both mobile devices and wireless networks. The popularity of LBS is derived from its valuable benefits, where they enable the users to search for nearest Points of Interest (POI), share ideas and comments, and enjoy playing games, making our life easier and more enjoyable. However, LBS have some risks associated with it. The privacy issue is considered one of the most important risks in this field since the users are forced to build their queries based on their real geographic locations. This paper studies the different privacy protection approaches through a survey, where a new classification is proposed based on the amount of collaboration between LBS users and LBS server. The protection goals (identity ID, Location Information LI, and Temporal Information TI) that any LBS user aims to protect are defined and measured. Based on the provided protection goals, the most advanced inference attacks (Location Homogeneity Attack LHA, Map Matching Attack MMA, Query Sampling Attack QSA, and Semantic Location Attack SLA) are analyzed and evaluated. As for challenges in LBS privacy protection field, an eight research questions and open problems are explored. In addition, we present some rules-based recommendations, which can help the LBS users to select the most optimal way to achieve a higher privacy protection level.
Inference Attacks, Research Questions, Privacy Protection, Protection Goals, Privacy Metrics, Rule.
Abstract: Optimum usage of battery resources and efficient consumption of energy are the primary concerns and design parameters for any WSN. Irregular energy consumption is the major problem in current WSNs. This paper focuses on efficiently using the energy resources and to maximize the network lifetime by the application of compressive sensing and optimum CH selection process coupled with sink mobility model. Compressive sensing allows us to reduce the number of transmissions taken for complete data transfer, while optimum CH election mechanism gives efficient energy consumption at the initial stages of transmissions and data transfer. The residual energy of the network is further optimized by using the sink mobility model, increasing the total lifetime of high energy nodes thereby leading to increased network lifetime. The algorithm was simulated in MATLAB and verified.
Abstract: Energy efficiency and its optimization are of paramount importance in data transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks. The lifetime of the deployed sensor node should be maximized with even distribution of the energy across the network so that the data transmitted is not lost .The MS helps in enhancing the lifetime of the network by reducing the energy spent in long distance transmission. The introduction of RN helps in storage and data transmission from CH to MS. In the proposed protocol I-EADC_RN, the field is divided into two regions Sensing region[A] and Storage region[B]. The nodes deployed within the storage region are called RN. The nodes deployed in the sensing region participate in CH selection based on average energy computed from the neighboring nodes. The RN store the collected data and transmit it to the MS when the MS comes near to them. The objective of the proposed algorithm is to maximize the effective lifetime of the network with the help of RN and MS, reduce energy hole problem with efficient distribution of energy among the network with the help of efficient competition radius assignment and by efficient mean of data transmission with the help of relay node selection based on energy spent in transmission and reception and the minimization of data loss with the help of data storage in the RN.
Abstract: In this article the boundary value problem for ordinary simple differential equations of the third order with small parameter at the higher derivatives is considered. In the given work the author researches the singularly perturbed boundary value problems under the condition that real parts of the roots of additional distinctive equation have opposite signs. Boundary and initial functions are defined; their existence and uniqueness are proved. On the basis of the constructed boundary and initial functions analytical representation of the solution of a boundary value problem is found. On the basis of an analytical representation of a solution of a singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problem for the differential equations of conditionally the steady type, we describe the character of growth of the derivatives of a solution of Perturbed Problem with . The class of boundary value problems with boundary jumps is singled out. Sizes of boundary jumps are determined. Asymptotic estimates of the solution of a boundary value problem are found. Estimates for the difference between solutions of the degenerate and perturbed value problems are obtained.
Abstract: Studies related to resource consumption of mobile devices and mobile applications have been brought to the fore lately as mobile applications depend largely on their resource consumption. The study aims to identify the key factors and holistic understanding of how a factor influences Consumption Pattern (CP) effectiveness for an android platform mobile application. The study presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on existing studies that examined factors influencing the effectiveness of CP for android mobile application and measured the effectiveness of CP. Therefore, the current SLR is conducted to answer the following questions: (1) What is the evidence of CP factors that drain the battery of a mobile device? (2) What are the energy conservation techniques to overcome all the factors that drain battery life? and (3) How can developers measure the effectiveness of an energy conservation technique?. The SLR investigated factors affecting the effectiveness of CP for android platform mobile application. The analyses of forty papers were used in our synthesis of the evidence related to the research questions above. Therefore, the analyses showed 22 studies that investigated how to measure the energy conservation technique effectiveness while 18 studies focused on better understanding of how the resources of mobile devices are actually spent. In this sense, 2 studies show the effectiveness of early analysis of software application design. Additionally, five factors i.e., architecture, interface, behavior of the application, resources, and network technologies that affect CP effectiveness were identified. This study investigated a SLR targeting at studies of CP effectiveness in android platform. The total of 40 studies were identified and selected for result synthesis purpose in this work (SLR). The evidences show there are five factors affecting the CPs effectiveness. Three of them have received a little attention among developers regarding choosing the most suitable: software architecture, application interface and behavior of the application in terms of resource consumption.
Abstract: Nowadays a monumental amount of spam and junk email clutter email inboxes and storage facilities. Spam email has a significant negative impact on individuals and organizations alike, and is a serious waste of resources, time and effort. The task of filtering spam or junk e-mail is complex and very difficult to solve. Hence, learning-based filtering is considered an important method for detecting spam emails as the filtering technique requires training to epitomize the knowledge that can be used for detecting the spam. Thus, Artificial Neural Networks are being relied on to create a learning based filter. In this article, we particularly propose the Feedforward Neural Network (FFNN) for identification of e-mail spam; the weights and biases of this network model are set to optimum using a new modified bat algorithm (EBAT). Experiments and results based mainly on two datasets (SPAMBASE and UK-2011 WEBSPAM datasets) show that the developed FFNN model trained by EBAT achieves high generalization performance compared to other optimization methods.
Abstract: Deep Learning for plant leaf analysis has been recently studied in various works. In most cases, Transfer Learning has been utilized, where the weights of networks, which are stored in the pre-trained models, are fine-tuned to use in the considered task. In this paper, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are employed to classify tomato plant leaf images based on the visible effects of diseases. In addition to Transfer Learning as an effective approach, training a CNN from scratch using the Deep Residual Learning method, is experimented. To do that, an architecture of CNN is proposed and applied to a subset of the PlantVillage dataset, including tomato plant leaf images. The results indicate that the suggested architecture outperforms VGG models, pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset, in both accuracy and the time required for re-training, and it can be used with a regular PC without any extra hardware required. A common feature visualization and verification technique is also applied to the results and further discussions are made to imply the importance of background pixels surrounding the leaves.
Abstract: Cloud computing is a major topic of discussion among IT professionals. This practice is a good alternative for higher education institutions of limited budget in operating their information system efficiently without spending high capital for infrastructure resource. According to the annual report of educational indicators of the Republic of Yemen, the education and training sectors in Yemen face several obstacles and challenges in delivering quality education to the entire population of the country; for example, limited infrastructure resources and IT budget, and lack of teaching staff, technical experts, and IT skilled personnel. This study aims to (1) review empirical studies on cloud computing adoption in general, (2) identify the influencing factors of cloud computing adoption, and (3) categorize these influencing factors into technological, organizational, environmental, and individual factors. The influencing factors of cloud computing adoption in the government and industrial and educational sectors are also reviewed. Cloud computing adoption in the educational sector is clearly demonstrated. A total of 50 models are reviewed and discussed. Findings show that theoretical and empirical studies on cloud computing adoption in the educational sector are few. Moreover, 18% and 82% of studies investigate factors related to cloud computing adoption in the educational and industrial sectors, respectively. Furthermore, 26% of studies use individual-level theory for cloud computing adoption, 61% use organizational level theory, and 13% integrate individual- and organizational-level theories.
Abstract: Various studies reported that Malaysian students at tertiary institutions were lack of certain employability skills namely critical thinking. Lack of critical thinking skills is identified when the students are unable to perform tasks, especially those of problem solving. Consequently, the students who lacked this skill were unemployed upon their graduation. A drastic approach to overcome this issue must be addressed. Instead of blaming unemployed graduates, the tertiary institutions with e-learning technology were urged to play a significant role. Through online forum discussions, the students were taught to use Socratic questions (Paul, 1993) as this would help them to develop critical thinking skill when they look deeper into the viewpoints, perspectives and evidence in analysing the assumptions (Walker, 2005). This study adopts a mixed-method case study approach. The quantitative data derived from Watkins and Corrys (2005) questionaires measures the students e-learning readiness and their usage of online forum discussions. The qualitative data derived from the transcripts of the students online discussions explains how the students develop their critical thinking using Socratic questions. The transcripts were analysed in two stages using (1), the Socratic Question Prompts and (2), a content analysis approach of the Interaction Analysis Model by Gunawardena et. al. (1997). The findings indicated that students critical thinking skills could be developed from collaborative learning through online forums. The outcome could be used to propose the best practice for lecturers at higher learning institutions to promote students to think critically through collaborative online discussion.
Abstract: One of the imperative mining used in data mining is the association rule mining which mines many eventual information and association from outsized databases. The Association rule mining has many research challenges. The generation of accurate frequent and infrequent itemset by reducing the candidate itemset and reducing the space in the memory is one of the challenges. The generation of positive and negative association rule with high confidence and high quality is another challenge. The next research challenge is to mine an optimized positive and negative association rule. Numerous existing algorithms have been used to overcome these challenges but many such algorithms cause data loss, lack of efficiency and accuracy which also results in redundant rules and loss of space in memory. The major issue in using this analytic optimizing method is specifying the activist initialization limit were the quality of the association rule relays on. In the Proposed work, it is proved that an efficient optimized Positive and negative association rule can be mined by the proposed Advance ABC algorithm. The advance ABC (Artificial Bee Colony) algorithm is swarm intelligence based algorithm highly efficient optimization algorithm. The Advance ABC Meta heuristic technique is stimulated through the natural food foraging behaviour of the honey bee creature. The result shows that the proposed algorithm can mine incredibly high confidence non redundant positive and negative association rule with less time.
Abstract: Electromyography (EMG) signal is most powerful signal processing tools for electrical activity of neuromuscular associated with a corresponding muscle. In this paper, the analysis of EMG signals using curvelet transform and Random forest tree is presented. The EMG signal including noise though dissimilar media. The curvelet transform is used for clear away noise from the surface electromyography and superior order of statistics is used for analyzing the signal. The first level is to evaluate the surface of EMG signal and extract features using curvelet transform. The second level is best EMG quality segment was chosen and the rebuilding of the useful data signal was finished using random forest classifier. The intention of this work is introducing a novel approach for discover, analyzing and classifying of EMG signals. The proposed method is applied using clinical dataset and the parameters like mean root mean square, correlation coefficient and absolute value are calculated and to get better quality of class separability. A comparison is made with other traditional methods and the EMG characteristics extracted from rebuilding of EMG signals provide the enhancement of class separability in feature space than. Statistical results shows maximum classification accuracy of 99% and higher information transfer rate is achieved.
Electromyography (EMG) Signal, Curvelet Transform, Random Forest Tree, Clinical Dataset.
Abstract: Management processes without responsive to abnormal activity that might occur can affect the performance of an organization. The Publishing Workflow Ontology (PWO) will be modified for detect abnormal activity, such as wrong pattern, wrong resource, throughput time maximum and wrong duty combine that occurs in the event logs. The new model from modification called Warning Criterion Ontology (WCO) can be represent the knowledge base to detect abnormal activity in the business process especially this knowledge can be used distinguishes the activity is allowed to be done by the superior and any activity which should only be done by direct superior. The model used some rule for reasoning, then after reasoning used some SPARQL to detection abnormal activity. Results of detection abnormal activity can be used as attributes for assessment Key Performance Indicator (KPI) activity in determining The compliance in Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) implementation. This research obtained a value of 96.29% of accuracy resulted comparing into the experts assessment score.
Abstract: Since the advent of new software architectures, paradigms and technologies the software design and development has developed a cutting edge requirements of being on the right track in terms of software quality and reliability. This leads the prediction of defects in software at its early stages of its development. Implications of machine learning algorithms are now playing a very crucial role in classification and prediction of the possible bugs during the systems design phase. In this research work a discretization method is proposed based on the Object Oriented metrics threshold values in order to gain better classification accuracy on a given data set. For the experimentation purpose, Jedit, Lucene, tomcat, velocity, xalan and xerces software systems from NASA repositories have been considered and classification accuracies have been compared with the existing approaches with the help of open source WEKA tool. For this study, the Object Oriented CK metrics suite has been considered due to its wide applicability in software industry for software quality prediction. After experimentation it is found that Naive Bayes and Voted Perceptron, classifiers are performing well and provide highest accuracy level with the discretized dataset values. The performance of these classifiers are checked and analyzed on different performance measures like ROC, RMSE, Precision, Recall values in this research work. Result shows significant performance improvements towards classification accuracy if used with discrete features of the individual software systems.
Abstract: Nowadays, cloud computing technology is experiencing a fastest growing in terms services demand and number of cloud clients which make the business organizations against a critical issue must be addressed (How to Secure Cloud Data Center (CDC)). As result, this major challenge has attracted the attention of several research works. The attacker is looking for unavailability of service, dysfunctioning of resources and maximization of financial loss costs. There are many types of attack such as Denial of service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) where the key objective for the attacker is to cause an overloading of the system network. They seek to send through a victim server a huge size of data as flooding packets so as to block and prevent the users to be served. This paper introduced a defending system for DoS attack mitigation in CDC environment. Generally, it discussed the different techniques of DoS attacks and its countermeasures as well proactive filtering and detection mechanisms. Consequently, to validate our proposed solution, we have implemented our analytical model in Discrete Event Simulator. The proposed mathematical model considers many performance parameters including response time, throughput, drop rate, resource computing utilization, and mean waiting time in the system, mean number of legitimate clients in the system when varying the attack arrival rate. Indeed, we have estimated the incurred cost from the attack. Implementing performance analysis using queueing theory and simulation experiments, the proposed solution would improve the flexibility and accuracy of DoS attack prevention, and would obviously make the cloud computing environment more secured.
Abstract: Combed cotton and viscose cotton (CVC) is 2 types of cotton commonly used as the main ingredient in manufacture of clothes. Clothes made from cotton combed known as good materials for clothes. CVC cotton, made by combining cotton combed and cotton viscose so that in the manufacture CVC cotton quality is assumed under the combed cotton. Manually distinguish combed cotton and CVC cotton is by wearing clothes made of combed cotton and CVC cotton. Basically the texture in combed cotton and CVC fabrics can be analyzed by image texture segmentation process based on image texture analysis to get patterns showing the type of cotton. In this research explains the texture of cotton that through the process of image texture segmentation can release the value of features that can be used for the classification process, so that can determine the type of cotton. In this image texture segmentation includes grayscaling process, image normalization and texture feature extraction. Feature Extraction uses the Gray Level Run Length (GLRLM) method to get a feature value on the texture used for the classification process. Classification using method euclidean distance with 4 testing images and 2 training images by changing the original image to 5x5 and 10x10 pixels generate 100% accuracy. These results indicate that accuracy using the euclidean distance method results in high accuracy.
Abstract: This study is mainly a systematic review analysis which discusses studies related to the role of sentiment analysis, Twitter data, and features in predicting stock market returns. Studies show that it is not only the historical financial data of firms or stock markets that can predict the returns of the stock market, but sentiments and emotions of people can also help in predicting stock market returns. One primary source of information that is available now to everyone is Twitter, and tweets made by significant personals affect the emotions of people and which will ultimately affect their investment decisions. If the news is positive, then most probably it will affect people positively, and they will invest more in stocks of that firm. If the news is negative, the reaction of people is expected to be opposite. Besides the sentiments of people, there are features like spatial and temporal that can also affect the stock market returns. The spatial feature is a geographical division, it can either be different emotions of different people from different geographical regions, or they can be other stock markets which can affect the home stock market by any relation. Similarly, temporal effect shows the change in something over a span of time. People might have different opinions at different times, and they can behave differently according to their sentiments at that specific time. Finally, all these factors help us in predicting the future stock market returns.
Abstract: One form of competence held namely computer certification for his protege, which was carried out after the students finish carry out training/learning. The main reason was held at the Institute of computer certification courses is to prepare graduates into the workforce that have a high competence and ready to compete in search of work. That is because the competition work in the era of the AEC (ASEAN Economic Community), the seekers workers cannot just rely on a certificate of learning, but is most needed is a competence that can be demonstrated by the presence of a certificate of competence. In the implementation of a computer certification program is a form of educational service organized by the course institute was still found to be constraints. To be able to find the constraints and improvements/refinements against obstacles that have been found, then it needs to be implemented evaluation of the program. This research aims to know the effectiveness of the implementation of the program of learning and computer certification at Institute courses. This research belongs to the evaluative research using CSE-UCLA model. The subject of this research consists of: teachers, program manager, and a team of students. Method of data collection is done by questionnaires, observation, interviews, and documentation. Technique of data analysis in this research is descriptive quantitative percentage to analyze the effectiveness of every component in CSE-UCLA (Center for the Study of Evaluation-University of California in Los Angeles) model and qualitative descriptive for analyzing constraints that lead to results not in accordance with the standards of the evaluation of its success. In addition, the dominant constraints affecting the implementation of the program based on the results obtained using the method of calculation of the SAW (Simple Additive Weighting) simulation model. The results of the evaluation of the implementation of the program as a whole shows the effectiveness of 80.44%, this indicates that the implementation of the program belongs to the category of good. The dominant constraints affecting the program implementation is empowerment of technical personnel for operational management.
Abstract: In software engineering, The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is generally used as the de facto standard notation for modeling in the analysis and the design of the object oriented software systems. As known, throughout the modeling phase, the structural and behavioral elements go together, because they have complementary relationship in the understanding of systems architecture. However, structural analysis has always attracted the interest of designers more than the behavioral analysis, due to its prominent role in the code generation processes. This vision influenced the computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools and the model-driven engineering (MDE) approach. As a result, by using CASE tools and taking up MDE approach as it is, the obtained code artefacts are incomplete and become the developers responsibility. Therefore, the models abstraction is broken, which leads to a paradoxical situation while adopting model-driven development. To cope with this challenge, the purpose of our paper is to bring balance to the design stage by integrating the behavioral analysis into the code generation processes, in order to empower and promote delivering applications without the need for hand coding.
Abstract: Finite state automata (FSA) are computational models which are used for studying theoretical complexity of computational problems. The computational model of k-edge finite state automata (k-FSA) have been introduced to compute naturally ordered data such as data in music processing and time series domain. The k-edge finite state automata contain theoretical interest that numbers of their edges are bounded with a k value. In order to use such model in practice, some theoretical properties need to be investigated by way of their classes of formal languages. This paper investigates the closure properties and decidability of the class of formal languages recognized by k-edge finite state automata called k-acceptable languages (k-ACC). The results include the following: (i) for k 1, the class of k-acceptable languages is closed under complement. (ii) for k 2, the class of k-acceptable languages is closed under complementation, union, intersection, concatenation and Kleene-star operation. (iii) The infiniteness problem, membership problem, equivalence problem and emptiness problem of k-acceptable languages are decidable.
Abstract: Knowledge management system (KMS) support the activities of knowledge management (KM) in early warning system (EWS) to provide early warning and aid in decision facilitation. Both KMS with EWS are also applicable in the clinical diagnostic (CD) environment during the CD activities to provide early warning and aid in decision facilitation of disease outbreak such as dengue. However, lack of proper data or information management and limited knowledge sharing and dissemination within the organization is a main challenge for mitigation of risk. In which the problem that may relate to this challenge is the timeliness for timely reporting and decision facilitation during CD activities. Therefore, a conceptual of KMS model with EWS in CD environment of dengue fever is formulated based on the existing components of KM, KMS with EWS. Then, the components of CD activities and dengue fever are also identified and studied for the model implementation. A pre survey and the analysis of five existing previous models were carried out to determine the significant components of KMS and EWS. The pre survey results analysis and gaps drawn from the analysis of these five models are used as a basis to the initial proposed of KMS model with EWS in CD environment of dengue fever. Next, the KMS model with EWS was then validated via prototype to verify the model reliability and is evaluated via a post survey. The model which is the integration between KMS with EWS is known as KMS with EWS is to enable the capturing, storing, reusing and managing of knowledge in order to provide early warning and aid in decision facilitation of dengue fever.
Abstract: Software is the inseparable part of todays human life. Each and every gadget that we use is dependent on some or other kind of software. Component based software engineering (CBSE) has provided an effective software development paradigm which allows selection of domain specific components from component repository and assemble them into a modular and scalable application. The reliability of software and its components depends on the amount of effective testing carried on it during its development life cycle. We cannot deny the fact that exhaustive testing is not possible. Selection of appropriate test suite is a combinatorial problem. Soft computing provides a promising solution for the same. Emergence of artificial intelligence over years has added fuel to nature inspired testing techniques. This paper is a comparative study of various soft computing approaches inspired by nature for reusable software components such as artificial neural network, genetic algorithm, fuzzy logic and other swarm based techniques. A comparative analysis is presented to discuss pros and cons of different soft computing techniques for software testing of reusable components along with their preferences in recent years. A future dimension is also proposed to develop hybrid techniques for optimization of testing techniques.
Soft computing, Test Case Prioritization, Testing, Reusable Components.
Abstract: This study observes the aspects associated with the evaluation of Students performance. To improve the performance of Students, their previous records have to be analyzed in order to determine their behavioral pattern in academic wise. This may help to assist the difficulty faced by the students to produce more marks in the semester exams and to enhance their co-curricular activities. This is done by clustering the students based on their performance. For performing the clustering process, this work utilized the fuzzy K-Mediods which takes the membership value of each student in account towards the particular cluster. The main contribution of this work is assisting to determine the level of performance of students and filtering the students who are in need of special attention by the staffs which results in improvising the quality of education.
Abstract: Dimensionality reduction or feature selection is an essential pre-processing step to apply machine learning algorithm further on any data set. But at for medium dimensional datasets it is optional or on-demand requirement. But it is mandatory in high dimensional datasets. Its significance is increased to get the accurate and relevant output from machine learning algorithm. Most of the existing methods are divided into 2 types one is Dimensionality reduction and the other one is feature selection. There is very narrow gap between these two methods. Dimensionality reduction is more mathematical analysis with transformations and may or may not have same subset of features from original features. Feature selection is application of feature engineering and requires domain knowledge. But any algorithm applicable for high dimensional data requires more processing time and storage resources. We considered the processing time as basis for our problem statement and implemented a distributed algorithm for Feature Selection and named as Distributed Progressive Feature selection algorithm with Knn+Relieff for high dimensional data. In this paper applied MapReduce concept to select final sub set of relevant features in progressive manner. Simulation results showthe feature with its weights for various parameters.
Abstract: In 21st century, one of the prominent learning tool in the education industry is highlighted as Educational games (EG). There are many ways in which the literature describes its importance in the current generation. In addition, the learning environment, the rules embedded in the game, the theoretical aspects on which the game is built, and the learners/subject-matter experts; all play a crucial role in EG. Hence, this requires a projecting need of understanding the relationships that allows an enhancement in the learning objectives for learners while interacting through the game environment. Although, relationships are vaguely dispersed in literature; understanding the need to interrelate other concepts of game environment with learners expectations, and how the elements of game environment interact throughout the play is essential. Therefore, this article highlights the proposed multi-domain framework for game developers to effectively map the game elements while extracting implicit vaguely supported relationships based on game environment domain and learners concepts through a systematic literature review. Consequently, this article explains on twelve (12) implicit relationships in perspective of game environment domain and learners. They are validated through qualitative interviews with eight (8) game-based learning experts. Subsequently, the results are interpreted in relevancy with all domains of proposed framework by applying interpretive hermeneutic approach, and using NViVO software to obtain the themes, sub-themes, and coding strategy was adopted to code the experts response with each relationship and its elements. The findings conclude twelve (12) explicit relationships between game environment domain and the learners relationships; for game developers to guide them through the development phase of EG.
Abstract: This study developed and tested the efficacy of flipped model that is usable as a strategy for teaching and learning. The concept applied Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU), Perceived usefulness (PU), Teaching Method (TM), task Technology Fit (TTF), Behavioral Attitude (BA) as factors influencing the use of the system (flipped learning). The model made used of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Task-Technology Fit (TTF) to develop some hypotheses and some connected determinants. The result of the survey conducted was tested using SmartPLS software package. The outcome of the investigation indicates that Teaching Method (TM) is the highest determinant factor followed by use intention, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, behavioural attitude and TTF. This confirmed that students belief about the manner through which they are been taught (Teaching method) has a great influence on their performance.
Abstract: The objective of this research is to explore the perception of internal auditor in public companies on the use of Generalized Audit Software (GAS) to improve the transparency and accountability of financial report. The qualitative approach was used by conducting face-to-face semi structured interview with the internal auditors from Indonesian listed companies. This research used Agency Theory and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as underpinning theories, therefore this research provides academic contribution not only in auditing area but also in information technology. The results indicated not all participants agreed that GAS is helping them in producing a transparent and accountable financial report. Also, this research found that companys internal condition and individual characteristics of internal auditor are the inhibiting factors in using GAS.
Abstract: This paper proposed a hybrid data deduplication technique in cloud computing, that combines different types of data deduplications for satisfying different demands and requirements. The hybrid data deduplication consists of two different hybrid subsystems, each hybrid subsystem contains a file level deduplication and chunk level deduplication. The file level deduplication shows better execution time for deduplication redundant files. And, chunk level deduplication for detecting duplicated chunks among files at the data. The subsystems are: hybrid file variable size chunk level deduplication (FVCD), and hybrid file fix size chunk level deduplication (FFCD). The FVCD satisfies the requirements of users and applications that required better effectivity in reducing the size of data. While, the FFCD provides lower execution time. And, it can be tuned by changing its chunks size. Where, increasing the chunks size reduces the execution time. But, it decreases the effectivity of reducing the size of data.
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As a local government official or employee, you take risks everyday. Any action, or failure to take action, by you or other public officials can leave your community exposed to potentially catastrophic losses.
The erosion of sovereign immunity has made public agencies the target of an increasing number of lawsuits, and the complexity of providing essential services within budget constraints has made governments increasingly vulnerable to losses.
Generally, larger governmental units tend to have greater and more diversified loss exposures. However, these communities also have access to a wider range of options for dealing with their exposures. Small communities must deal with many of the same problems, without the resources for dealing with their loss exposures.
Rural America is struggling for economic survival., Agricultural income has suffered staggering declines. Other natural-resource-based industries, such as mining, lumber and petroleum have also eroded. Dwindling tax bases, decreasing land values and funding cutbacks have contributed to an economic crisis unmatched in recent history.
To complicate matters further, the cyclical costs associated with traditional insurance puts an almost unbearable strain on local governments.
But small communities in America have not given up. Many are making aggressive efforts to restructure and revive their economies while maintaining their rural identify.
However, with economic revitalization comes new exposures. As a result, local government officials must pay greater attention to issues that may have not concerned them in the past.
All communities, regardless of size and location, face many types of unexpected losses. Small local governments, however, cannot afford to let the risk of those losses go unattended. Risk management helps you identify loss exposures so they can be handled appropriately. In fact, risk management is a critical component of any sound management structure.
Risk Management has often been called “structured common sense”. It does not necessarily require complex theories or complicated programs. It does not require that you spend huge amounts of money. It does require that you think about potential losses as you operate your local government.
Risk management begins with the realization that your government will eventually suffer a loss of some kind. Once you recognize this, you can take appropriate measures to anticipate losses and to minimize their adverse effects.
Chances are, you already have certain risk management techniques in place. For example, if you require all shop workers to wear steel-toed shoes, you are practicing risk management. If you install smoke detectors, fire alarms, or sprinklers in public buildings you are practicing risk management. If you have a policy dictating the way you pay for minor claims such as slips and falls, you are practicing risk management. Since you may not be aware that you already practice some risk management techniques, your efforts may be somewhat fragmented.
Rather than taking a piece-meal approach by taking action only when the need arises, you need to begin coordinating your risk management efforts to ensure that you do not overlook any exposures.
Mention the term “risk management” and most local public officials think of insurance, which traditionally has been the primary way that local governments manage risks. Insurance provides financial protection against accidental loss, it cannot keep losses from happening. In contrast, by managing your exposures, you can prevent unexpected losses.
Insurance is important, but it is just one of several techniques for dealing with losses. While it may be the most common method, it is also, quite frequently, the most expensive.
When insurance is relatively easy to obtain, during a “soft” market, public entities may tend to rely on it too much. In fact, it has been suggested that the easy purchase of insurance undermines sound risk management practices. In addition, overdependence on insurance can leave your government dangerously unprotected during a “hard” phase of the marketing cycle, when insurance coverage tends to be less affordable and less available.
Planning for the negative consequences of any decision, process or action.
An effective risk management program is based on this simple concept. Unfortunately, insurance has too often been used as a hedge to protect local governments from negative consequences. Rather than spending money to improve a police department or jail, for example, many public officials are content to let claims happen, then turn them over to their insurance company. After all, they reason, that is whey they purchase insurance. Fortunately, that mentality is changing in most local governments who belong to a Joint Insurance Fund (JIF).
Why Is Risk Management Important?
Risk management is a critical component of any sound organization. Whether you realize it or not, the cost of providing goods and services to your citizens is directly related to your ability to handle your risks. Every dollar spent on property damage, on-the-job injuries, liability claims and insurance premiums is a dollar not spent on services for taxpayers. One of the goals of risk management is to divert budget dollars from non-productive uses to productive ones.
What Does Risk Management Entail?
• Risk identification: identifying the services and assets that could cause a financial loss to your community.
• Risk evaluation: determining how often particular losses can occur and how severe they may be.
• Risk treatment examining ways to handle the risks by preventing accidents and minimizing losses after an accident, as well as by exploring ways to cover a loss financially.
• Selection and implementation of treatments: determining which risk treatment measures are most appropriate for your community, then putting them into place.
• Monitoring the results of treatment actions: making sure that the risk management steps are effective.
What Is The Role Of Officials And Employees?
Education. The first step in gaining support for your risk management efforts is to teach public officials about your community’s loss exposures. Many officials are not aware that they can control losses. Try to get officials to think about the risk management implications of agenda items or policy changes. When your chief executive or governing board asks if an item has been through risk management review, you know that your efforts are paying off. Even if they choose not to follow the risk management recommendations, the officials took the time to consider the consequences of the decision they are about to make.
Support. If your local government has risk management policies, the governing board must support these policies. If the board does not support its own policies, your community is in a potentially disastrous situation. It would be better not to have risk management policies. Support from the top is also critical for successfully introducing new policies or procedures. Without high-level support, new policies are doomed to failure.
Role Models. We all know that informal leadership and lines of communication are much more powerful then any official position. If you see workers doing something unsafe and you do not say anything about it, you unintentionally approve of their negative behavior. Further, many states have ruled that observation is considered “notice” of the unsafe action and your jurisdiction may be held liable for damages if an official knew of unsafe practices and did not correct them.
Conversely, officials and supervisors who practice good safety and risk management procedures set good examples for their employees and reinforce the importance of managing risks.
The long-term health of your risk management efforts requires that those efforts do not interfere with daily operations. Department heads are paid to make decisions. If you disrupt the relationship of responsibility and authority, you create a situation that can only end in disaster. By incorporating safety and loss control into existing operations, you will ensure that risk management is practiced by front-line employees and their supervisors without disrupting daily activities.
This manual is intended to assist you as you implement your own safety programs. It is intended to be used as a resource. Use the materials to suit your specific needs and modify them as you see fit.
Finally, feel free to call upon the JIF Safety Professionals for specific help. They are there to assist you wherever necessary.
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With this article I will begin focusing on the next section of material which centers on Implementing and Conducting Administration of Resources on Windows XP Professional, this one covering Windows XP Professional file systems.
To have a good understanding of how and why you can set up or deny access to data on a Windows XP Professional system, you need to have an underlying understanding of any native file security that may or may not be in place.
One place to start would be the file system the operating system is utilizing.
Windows XP Professional supports the three major computer files systems of File Allocation Table (commonly known as FAT or FAT16), FAT32 and NTFS.
File Allocation Table (commonly known as FAT or FAT16) is supported by Windows XP Professional, all Windows operating systems, DOS, as well as a host of other non-Microsoft OSes.
FAT is allocated in clusters, the size of which are determined by the size of the partition. The larger the partition, the larger the cluster size. The larger the cluster size, the more space is "required" when using it to store data.
As you can see, with a 2GB partition size, (the maximum allowed under FAT16 in most cases) if you were to save 50 different files, all 1024 bytes (1KB) in actual size (or to have 50 fractions of larger files "fall over" to the next cluster by that same amount), the amount of hard drive space used up would be 1,638,400 bytes (a little over 1 MB), for 51,200 bytes of actual data.
You can obviously see that this is a serious problem when there are thousands of small *.DLLs and other types of small files.
Also, with the advent of super-inexpensive hard drives that are 80GB in size, you can see where using FAT would be an issue as well.
MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and some UNIX operating systems can use FAT16. If there is some reason to dual boot the system, FAT16 allows you the greatest number of options.
There are many software tools that can address problems and recover data on FAT16 volumes.
If you have a startup failure, you can start the computer by using a bootable floppy disk to troubleshoot the problem.
FAT16 is efficient, in speed and storage, on volumes smaller than 256 MB.
The root folder (usually the C:\ drive) has a limit of 512 entries. The use of long file names can significantly reduce the number of available entries.
FAT16 is inefficient on larger volume sizes, as the size of the cluster increases. We have seen this in the examples above.
The boot sector is not backed up on FAT16 partitions. Because FAT16 does not include a backup copy of critical data structures they are susceptible to single point of failure issues, more so than other file systems.
There is no native file level security, compression or encryption available in the FAT16 file system.
Below is a table of Microsoft Operating systems and which file systems they can natively access.
[NOTES FROM THE FIELD] - There is no test requirement to memorize these tables, but it's good to understand the "how and why" of it. Also, it is never a "best practice" to dual boot any workstation or server that has sensitive data on it with any file system installed that cannot secure those files or any operating system that threatens that security.
The maximum FAT partition that can be created and accessed by the operating systems listed above is 2GB in most cases. 4GB FAT partitions can be created and properly accessed only under those operating systems specifically listed above. A dual boot NT family of operating system can create a 4GB FAT partition and a lower level OS such as Windows 98 may be able to see data on it, however, issues will arise when data access is attempted above the 2GB threshold that the OS normally uses.
For more information on the Maximum Partition Size Using the FAT16 File System in Windows XP, you can look up Q310561 at the Microsoft PSS webpage.
The "OSR" in "Windows 95 OSR2 and OSR2.5" stands for OEM Service Release.
The "OEM" in "OEM Service Release" stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer.
For more information on Maximum Partition Size Using FAT16 File System, feel free to follow the link I have provided to the Microsoft web site.
* There are some exceptions, but for the most part, DOS 3.3 and higher can access up to 2GB of single partition space, as outlined in Q67321 at the Microsoft PSS webpage. The MS-DOS Partitioning Summary (Q69912) names some exceptions and points out the fact that some earlier versions didn't support many of today's FAT16 standards.
The maximum single file size on a FAT16 partition is 2 GB, regardless of the fact that some OSes can have a 4GB partition.
FAT32 is supported by Windows XP Professional, as well as a number of the newer Microsoft Operating systems. FAT32 was first introduced with Microsoft Windows 95 OSR2 and the major differences between FAT and FAT32 are volume and cluster sizes for the most part and the fact that only Microsoft Operating systems can natively access FAT32 and these are a reduced number from FAT16.
The FAT32 file system can support drives up to 2 terabytes in size (in theory) and because it uses space more efficiently, FAT32 uses smaller clusters (that is, 4,096 byte clusters for drives up to 8 GB in size), resulting in more efficient use of disk space relative to large FAT16 drives.
The 50 files I mentioned in the FAT16 section, all 1024 bytes (1KB) in actual size, would use up only 409,600 bytes on a 16GB partition formatted with FAT16 and only 204,800 bytes on a 8GB partition. As you can see however, we are now running into the issue with FAT32 drives with 80GB and 100GB partitions that we did a few years ago under FAT16, wasted space. Those same 50 files would use 819,200 bytes on either of the two large drives I mentioned. There's a Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional catch, however.
While the FAT32 file system can support drives up to a standard theoretical size of 2 terabytes, (it "can" be jury-rigged under Windows Millennium Edition to support partitions of up to 8 TB). Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional cannot FORMAT a volume larger than 32 GB in size using their native FAT32 file system.
The FastFAT driver can mount and support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system, such as those created locally by Windows 98 or ME in dual boot configuration, (subject to other limits listed here for Windows 98, ME and 2000 and here for Windows XP), but you cannot CREATE one using the Format tool from within either Windows 2000 Professional or XP Professional. If you attempt to format a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB, the format fails near the end of the process with the following error message: Logical Disk Manager: Volume size too big.
FAT32 allocates disk space much more efficiently than FAT16.
The root folder on a FAT32 drive is not restricted in the number of entries in the root folder as was FAT16.
FAT32 is a more robust file system than FAT16 was. FAT32 has the ability to relocate the root directory and use the backup copy of the FAT instead of the default copy. In addition, the boot record on FAT32 drives has been expanded to include a backup of critical data structures. This means that FAT32 volumes are less susceptible to a single point of failure than FAT16 volumes.
FAT32 volumes are not accessible from any other operating systems other than certain Microsoft ones.
There is no native file level security, compression or encryption available in the FAT32 file system.
Below is a table of Microsoft Operating systems which support native access to the FAT32 file system.
[NOTES FROM THE FIELD] - There is no test requirement to memorize the FAT32 tables either, but again, it's good to understand the "how and why" of it. Also, it is never a "best practice" to dual boot any workstation or server that has sensitive data on it with any file system installed that cannot secure those files or any operating system that threatens that security. This would include the FAT32 file system.
For answers to some common questions about the FAT32 File System, you can look up Q253774 at the Microsoft PSS webpage.
For more information on the Limitations of FAT32 File System on Windows 98, ME and 2000, you can look up Q184006 at the Microsoft PSS webpage. You can find the information for the limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP information available at Q314463. You will also find the maximum partition sizes, both practical and theoretical listed there as well.
The maximum single file size on a FAT32 partition is 4 GB, regardless of the size of the partition.
If you are running Windows XP Professional in a dual boot scenario with a system running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 or later, most of the NTFS 5 features are not available. Most read and write operations are permitted provided as they do not attempt to make use of most NTFS 5 features.
Windows NT4 cannot perform any operations that make use of reparse points.
When you run Windows NT4 on a multiple-boot configuration that also runs Windows XP Professional, Windows NT4 ignores disk quotas implemented by Windows XP Professional.
Windows NT4 cannot perform any operations on files encrypted by Windows XP Professional.
Windows NT4 cannot perform any operations on sparse files.
Windows NT4 ignores the change journal setup under Windows XP Professional.
NTFS uses standard transaction logging and recovery techniques. By using the log file and checkpoint information to automatically restore the consistency of the file system in the event of a failure, NTFS, for the most part, maintains the consistency of the data on the volume and the volume itself.
NTFS supports compression on volumes, folders, and files. Files that are compressed on an NTFS volume can be read and written by any Windows based application without first being decompressed by another program. Decompression happens automatically, (think of a ZIP utility on-the-fly) during the file read. The file is compressed again when it is closed or saved.
NTFS does not restrict the number of entries to 512 in the root folder.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP can format partitions up to 2 terabytes using NTFS.
NTFS manages disk space efficiently by using smaller clusters (see the cluster table).
The boot sector is backed up to a sector at the end of the volume.
You can set permissions on shares, folders, and files that specify which groups and users have access, and what level of access is permitted on NTFS partitions.
NTFS supports a native encryption system, (EFS), to prevent unauthorized access to file contents.
Reparse points enable new features such as volume mount points.
Disk quotas can be set to limit the amount of usage allowed by end users.
NTFS uses a change journal to track changes made to files.
NTFS supports distributed link tracking to maintain the integrity of shortcuts and OLE links.
NTFS supports sparse files so that very large files can be written to disk while requiring only a small amount of storage space.
There are also a few notable disadvantages to NTFS, as outlined below.
NTFS volumes are not locally accessible from MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition operating systems.
Many advanced features of NTFS included with version 5 are not available in Windows NT.
On small partitions with mostly small files, the overhead of managing the NTFS file system can cause a slight performance drop in comparison to FAT.
[NOTES FROM THE FIELD] - There is no test requirement to memorize the NTFS tables either, but again, it's good to understand the "how and why" of it. Also, it is never a "best practice" to dual boot any workstation or server that has sensitive data on it with any file system installed that cannot secure those files or any operating system that threatens that security. This would include even NTFS if older versions and newer versions of NTFS are running and one "degrades" the security strength of the other.
For more detailed answers to questions about the NTFS File System, you can look up the information in the Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit Documentation, which can also be found online.
NTFS stands for New Technology File System.
The maximum single file size on a NTFS partition is 16 EB (exabytes), in theory.
Well, that's a wrap for this week. On my way out the door I'd like to drop one more table into your lap and a few more bullet points.
FAT volumes smaller than 16 megabytes (MB) are formatted as FAT12.
FAT12 is used only on floppy disks and on volumes smaller than 16 megabytes.
FAT16 volumes larger than 2 gigabytes (GB) are not locally accessible from computers running MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition and many other operating systems.
The implementation of FAT32 in Windows 2000 limits the maximum number of clusters on a FAT32 volume that can be mounted by Windows 2000 to 4,177,918. This is the maximum number of clusters on a FAT32 volume that can be formatted by Windows 98.
NTFS volumes can theoretically be as large as 16 exabytes (EB), but the practical limit is 2 terabytes.
The user can specify the cluster size when an NTFS volume is formatted. However, NTFS compression is not supported for cluster sizes larger than 4 kilobytes (KB).
Not supported means "Not supported by Microsoft." In some "chance" cases, you may be able to perform a function that is not normally supported.
"A machine is only as secure as the administrator is trustworthy."
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http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/filesystems.shtml
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There are many “William Gransden”s. This is the tale of a British one who crossed the world to seek his fortune in the gold fields of New Zealand. This particular William was born in Harwich in Essex, England and baptised in 1831. His father, also a William (I said there were many!) was a seaman and an early appointee to the British Coastguard service, having served in the Navy. William, the father, was born in Kent, probably in or near the naval town of Chatham. William’s mother was Susan Pottle who was born in Essex. William junior had a younger brother John and a sister Susannah but the latter child died in infancy. Around 1836, when William was five years old, the family moved so that the father could take up his first coastguard post in the west of Ireland, then still part of the United Kingdom.
More siblings were born in Ireland and it was the two eldest boys, William and John, who became seamen like their father. Their records confirm their home was in the west of Ireland. When William first went to sea at the age of 16 he was still growing and had, just like his father, a fair complexion with red hair and hazel eyes.
Shortly after William Gransden (junior) went to sea, in 1849 a William Gransden married an Anne Connor in Ireland. Which William married Anne? Father or son? William the father is known to have married again in 1850 when he was described as a widower. This wife was Kitty Stewart with whom he had a long life together and a “second” family of more children. So Susan Pottle, his first wife seems to have died. There is no trace of another Gransden family in Ireland. So either William senior married Anne Connor only for her to die within a year and for William senior to marry for a third time, or Anne married William junior, then 18. I favour the latter conclusion.
The rest of this story relates to William junior. An Australian “arrival record” refers to a William Gransden, born around 1834 arriving at Melbourne on 22nd Jan 1861 on board the ship Morning Light, which had sailed from Liverpool. William’s nationality was given as “Irish”. This would fit with being born in England around 1831 and being brought up from an early age in Ireland. The next record of interest shows a William Gransden (said to have been born around 1829) arriving in Melbourne on the ship Hero, having sailed from Port Chalmers in the South Island of New Zealand. So he was sailing the waters of Australia and New Zealand. Over the subsequent years press reports and other documents describe William Gransden in New Zealand. A miner, without a wife, he became a respected member of the community in Greymouth on the West Coast of the South Island. He was almost certainly after gold. This was the era of the gold rush.
The Gold Rush on the West Coast of New Zealand dates from 1864 to 1867. In 1865–66 gold was discovered at Okarito, Bruce Bay around Charleston and along the Grey River. Miners arrived from the Central Otago Gold Rush, and from Victoria, Australia where the Victorian gold rush had nearly finished. By the end of 1864 there were some 1,800 prospectors on the West Coast, many in the Hokitika area, just south of Greymouth. Up to a half of the miners were Irish. Hokitika was in 1866 the most populous settlement in New Zealand with a population of more than 25,000 served by more than 100 pubs. In 1867 the rush began to decline, though gold mining continued on the West Coast for some years.
Mining records held by Archives New Zealand in the Christchurch Regional Office, show William’s interest in mining works. He is recorded in the Mining Register for the Arnold district in 1880. Given his eventual impoverished final days it is unlikely he became wealthy through mining. Although he was a respected Freemason the records of the Grey Lodge shed no more light on William’s life.
1871 Ships Entered inwards . . .
1888 The RMS Aorangi, Captain Sutcliff, leaves between 4 and 5 pm today for London, calling at Rio de Janeiro, Madeira and Plymouth. She is in excellent trim, and, although not due in London before the 19th April, will, no doubt, be reported two or three days before that date. She has 33 saloon, 58 second saloon, and 58 steerage passengers. Her cargo space is all occupied, and, her frozen meat chambers having been enlarged, she takes double the quantity of meat previously carried.
1889 Wellington, Sunday 24th February.
In New Zealand, William seems to have worked hard and was respected. He served on coroners’ juries in several inquests. Civic records indicate where he lived and some of his activities around Greymouth in New Zealand. Electoral Rolls from 1880 to 1907 record his residence in Maori Gully, Arnold and Greymouth as a miner. He is listed variously as Wm R Gransden, William Roland Gransden.
1872 Letters received at the Post Office, Greymouth during the month of October and remaining unclaimed on 30th September 1872.
1874 Letters received at the Post Office, Greymouth during the month of October and remaining unclaimed on 31st January 1874.
1903 Report of an inquest into the death of John Gebbie, (billiard marker at Bellew’s Hotel) whose body was found in the water at North Beach opposite the end of Cobden Road, having been swept down the Ahuara River (south of Greymouth).
His second given name has now emerged – Roland or Rowland. Roland as a given name is a surprise. There were no other Rolands among the Gransdens that I could find. It remained a mystery until, that is, I discovered that a witness to the marriage of his parents, William and Susan, was one Hannah Rowland. Strong evidence for William Rowland being William Gransden’s first son.
These records of letters, voyages and civic life in New Zealand begin when William was around 40 years of age. The first record of his arrival in Melbourne was ten years earlier. What happened during those ten years? It was not uncommon for sailors at that time to jump ship and join the Australian and New Zealand gold rushes. Perhaps that is what William did, taking time to become established in Greymouth. One cannot help but wonder who sent those unclaimed letters? Why did William travel to Britain at the age of 57 and return to New Zealand after some nine months in 1888-9? Is there something significant about the date? His parents were both dead by then. He had a sister Emma who had married and had a family of her own, so William certainly had nieces and nephews. Is it a coincidence that he was known familiarly as “Uncle” by his friends in Greymouth – as we will see later?
William was still recorded as a “miner” up to the age of 76. However, he seems to have become increasingly frail, receiving help from friends. His benefactor towards the end of his life, Mr Claughsey, was from Tipperary as was his wife. So too was Mr J Byrne. (He was Chairman of the Grey Education Board, born in 1810 in Tipperary, Ireland, where he went to school. He afterwards went to Australia, and landed in Melbourne, in 1859. After some experiences on the goldfields, he removed to New Zealand, and settled on the West Coast in 1866. Mr Byrne was the proprietor of a hotel at Paroa. He was elected to the Grey Education Board in 1887). Were they all Irish friends? There is no record of William marrying. The only other Gransdens I can find in New Zealand are very recent migrants.
Gold mining was a major source of employment in early New Zealand. After mining, many moved into farming or other professions. Those who were struck by gold fever stayed, living out their lives in shacks until they were too old or infirm to work a shovel and gold pan. These old prospectors were known as hatters. Their passing marked the end of a pioneering era, when men could be footloose drifters who entrusted their fate to gold in the gravel.
William (the hatter?) declined in his ability to cope and had to be admitted to hospital in Hokitika just south of Greymouth. The Superintendent of the Hospital, John Downey, stated that William was been admitted from Greymouth on 6th September 1910. He reported “He was then 78 years of age and was feeble and suffering from complete loss of memory. For the last 6 months he has been gradually failing and of late was not able to help himself in any way.” William was reported to have received good medical care.
William died on February 26th 1912. The subsequent inquest record refers to William Ronald Gransden. He was seen by the medical officer at 11.30 and noted to be in a “moribund condition from old age and heart failure.” Dr Leichelman recorded that he “ . . did what he could for him but did not expect him to live long. He died that evening around 6.20. Cause of death: Senile decay and cardiac failure”.
The Grey River Argus, on 27th February 1912 had several notices regarding William’s death.
It is with regret that we announce the death of Mr William Gransden which took place yesterday. Deceased was a sterling fellow and was well and favourably known throughout the district. He was a prominent member of the Masonic Lodge and was familiarly known to the brethern as “Uncle”. He was a miner by occupation, but for many years resided in Greymouth as the guest of Mr William Claughesy of the Empire Hotel, and until his recent illness Mr J Byrne. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2.30 o’clock, and the members of the Masonic Lodge are requested to meet at the lodge room at 2 o’clock.
The Brethern (sic) of the above Lodge are requested to attend an emergency Meeting in the Masonic Hall, Tainui Street TO-DAY (Tuesday) at 2pm, for the purpose of attending the funeral of their late brother WILLIAM GRANSDEN. Mourning regalia. Visiting brethren (sic) invited. BY ORDER.
William Rowland Gransden died, intestate, in 1912. Probate documents refer to William Ronald (sic) Gransden, late of Hokitika in the District of Westland (New Zealand) a miner. He left three pence in cash, seven shillings and six pence worth of effects, 15 shillings worth of jewellery and £20 in cash with the Public Trustee.
In summary, William Rowland Gransden was born in Harwich, Essex, brought up in the wild west coast of Ireland. He had red hair and hazel eyes. First a sailor he then became a miner in the gold fields on the wild west coast of New Zealand. There he was a respected member of the community. After physical and mental decline he died and was buried in Greymouth.
William Rowland was a son of my great-great-grandfather. All three of us are named William Gransden. Much is unknown of his life. Did he marry Anne and did they have any children? Why did he return briefly to Britain? Did William ever meet Silas Gransden whose story also appears on this web site?
William left little. There was no will. His possessions were meagre. He appeared to have neither wife nor children. He was buried in the Karoro Cemetery in Greymouth. At that place today there remains little apart from the grave site. It is likely that there once was a wooden cross that has long since perished in the elements. All that is left is the gap between two stone monuments.
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http://gransdenfamily.com/william-r-gransden-1831-1912-uncle/
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As promised I’m continuing to document Lola’s chiropractic journey. She is now on her third week of treatment and we are seeing some positive things. We have noticed a small change in her motion level. Especially in regards to jumping up and down. In addition to the positive behavior changes, Lola has also experienced some detox symptoms such as lethargy and diarrhea. These did not last long or affect her significantly.
We continue to have a great experience with our Living Well Chiropractic friends. They are great with kids, using phrases like “time for popcorn back” or “I’m going to make you into a pretzel, do you like your pretzels with cheese or salt?” Super cute and super relaxed for kiddos. Our visits are quick and Lola enjoys her time there. Charlotte tags along for appointments and has recently decided to be a chiropractor when she grows up, she gave me a practice adjustment yesterday. Adorable.
I will keep the updates coming! We are hopeful and excited.
After one year of planning, making reservations and saving money our family made a grand visit to Disney World. We knew this would come with some challenges so we did our best to plan ahead, especially where Lola’s needs were concerned. She really had a great week and we were impressed with how the Cast Members (Disney employees) responded to her.
We were given a Disability Access Card, which I will refer to as the DAS card. This is a new system for kids and adults who aren’t able to wait in lines without great distress. Lola’s blindness and sensory issues make waiting in line very difficult, meltdowns etc. Trust me, we did the 40 minute wait for Buzz Lightyear without the DAS and it was a quasi-disaster.
The DAS card is basically waiting in line while out of line. To acquire the card you simply stop by the customer service area at the front of the park, explain the disability and why it makes lines difficult. We were asked very little questions and it was a very smooth process. They took Lola’s picture and printed out a little card with her name and photo on the front.
To use the card you simply hand it to the cast member at the front of each ride and they write a return time on the card. The return time is the current wait time minus 10 minutes. So if the Mine Train wait was 70 minutes our return would be an hour later. We were able to ride other rides with short wait times, eat a meal, take in the Christmas decor or rest a little. We also utilized fast pass so DAS wasn’t necessary with all rides. The cast members were always friendly and although the pass was only for 6 people they had no problem allowing more family members to ride with Lola. We were also allowed to sit in the very front for events like the Frozen Sing Along.
In addition to finding success with the DAS card we also found the characters and cast members quick to pick up on Lola’s extra needs and respond appropriately. For example, the characters recognized Lola’s need to get super close and to touch their costumes. They would take her hand and put it on their nose (Mickey) or bend down toward her face. We typically didn’t mention her eyes, but it was clear they realized that her experience needed to be slightly different.
Lola was also chosen to take part in a few shows. We were hesitant at first but once we informed the cast members they were sure to guide her and give her extra cues, no problem. Lola even played the part of the Beast, dancing with Belle as the story was told.
We had a great week at Disney, celebrating our family and spending time with extended family. We hope to return again in a few years to relive all the fun and excitement. Despite the changes to the disability system I still give Disney a thumbs up in this department.
So glad you guys had a great time - how wonderful too for Lola to have that experience!
Let’s be honest. For most of us, the last week has been focused on how much we can get and how little we can get it for. Now, let’s be fair. As some of you may know, today is Fair Tuesday as in shop Fair Trade today. There is tons of stuff for women, but this post is focused on the stuff for guys, who are always harder to shop for.
These items focus on being fairly traded, ethically sourced, and life impacting. Here are 5 on Calvin’s list.
The Piko is a durable lightweight bag that delivers when you need it the most. With separate laptop access and the front instant pocket, the Piko is ideal for a person that is on the move from place to place. #GiveTuesday Sale! Use Code Give20 For 20% Off At Checkout!
The Wonderbag was developed to ease the social, economic and environment impacts of the current global circumstances. The Wonderbag is a non-electric, heat-retention cooker that allows food that has been brought to a boil, to continue cooking after it has been removed from the fuel source. All our recipes have recommended timings and simple steps to guide the Wonderbag cooking process. Production capabilities in Rwanda, Mexico and Turkey with launches in Kenya, Nigeria and Somaliland with a buy-one-give-one model to support getting Wonderbags into humanitarian relief.
Our Passport Wallet is made out of premium quality Ethiopian leather hand selected for Parker Clay. Travel ready and features multiple card slots and compartments for a passport, credit cards, ID and cash, along with frequent flyer cards and flight tickets.
Made in Ethiopia, the Adibo combines style with durable, lasting comfort. Each shoe is created with the goal of contributing to the development of a thriving middle class in Africa. Curated by Invisible Children in partnership with Oliberte: This is Africa. Currently on sale for $40. Free shipping for $100 orders.
– Subtle variations add to the uniqueness of each product.
We have made an effort to simplify our Christmas over the past few years; three gifts, focus on Jesus, and more time at home. Advent readings are a great addition, keeping our focus steady as we move through a world that constantly pulls our attention elsewhere. I was excited to find a free Advent Reading plan that corresponds with a book that many of us already have, the Jesus Storybook Bible. (use code HOLIDAY30 to get 30% off) Oh how I love this book. If you don’t have it, do yourself a favor and put it in your child’s stocking. It’s inexpensive and illustrates how the entire Bible points toward Jesus, our savior. It is captivating and beautifully written and illustrated. Our children are all young (3-7 years old) but definitely at varying developmental ages and interests, I’ve found that this book keeps them all equally engaged.
Here is the full link, including a section for notes.
What are you planning for advent this year? I would love to hear your ideas and traditions.
Good points all around. Truly apcetpiared.
I wrote about kindness yesterday. Which is helpful because posts like this need to come from a heart FULL of kindness and a desire to educate rather than rant.
The Holiday season ushers in many opportunities to help families and individuals in need. It’s a beautiful thing as many families are struggling rather than celebrating. However, organizations that aim to help these families, individuals and kids have chosen to use the word adoption in their campaigns. The word adoption has been made synonymous with the word help, sponsor and support. While this seems harmless to the general population, we’ve somehow forgotten that the general population contains thousands upon thousands of adoptees.
I realize that there is no way to make everyone happy. And many who read this will think, “oh great, another PC term I have to remember.” But this is more than not being politically correct. It’s downright INCORRECT. Adoption doesn’t mean helping. Adoption is permanent. Adoption is creating a family. Adoption is hard. Adoption can be painful. Adoption is beautiful.
If you’re wondering how common the issue is, here are just a few organizations using this wording.
I respect my children who entered our family via adoption. I respect their right to grieve, to ask questions, to be confused. I will walk with them through every step of every mess that comes our way. I will be their voice when they come home and ask if the 3-year old girl their class is “adopting” will live in their classroom. True story.
That is what happens when adoption is used incorrectly. A child who understands that adoption is forever is now being told that adoption can mean other things as well, like buying underwear for a child in need. Additionally, those kiddos we are sponsoring have PARENTS. Parents who love them enough to seek out assistance. Adoption does not pertain to these families.
Churches, organizations, schools and Friends: Please consider replacing the word Adoption in your Christmas campaigns. There are wonderful words such as help, sponsor, support and bless that will accurately express the program. Take a chance, rebrand, the results will be respectful and wonderful.
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http://goodbyenormal.com/2014/
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Document important info when intending to travel abroad. Keep copies of the travel documents with you, and ensure that you usually have every one of the contact info for your US embassy that can be found in areas you will end up traveling. You could possibly need these details while you are abroad. The staff and personnel there can help you with potential trouble.
While you are flying, you should make guaranteed to make plans even prior to getting to the airport. The visit to the airport necessitates that you allow enough time to handle traffic, rush hour conditions and also other unexpected delays. Try and get your packing done the evening before. Make all of the preparations you will need well before your flight. Missing your flight is something you may not would like to experience.
When planning your trip, try to be flexible on your destination. Although visiting the same place repeatedly does have its advantages, seeing new places and things provides pleasant memories, at the same time. Finding another destination will save you some money while you are with limited funds.
If you travel, you need to only take along things you need. The fewer things you bring, the less likely you are to forget something. Limit the amount of shoes you pack, since they are usually heaviest and largest items on the trip.
If you be worried about security, pack stuff like a doorstop to secure your home or other small things to make sure your safety. The tiny rubber or wooden wedges could be used to keep the door shut, even though they can be used to keep doors open.
Sign-up by using a travel price monitor. Plenty of websites let you specify your destinations and will monitor prices for yourself. After the price drops for your specifications, you then will get an email alert. This will aid make certain you don’t miss a savings opportunity.
Just before getting from the cruise in a port city find yourself a hotel with free parking. Ask employees about deals for parking even though you haven’t been able to discover any.
In the event you visit an theme park or any other specific attraction, determine if online tickets can be purchased, and print them beforehand. Even though there’s a fee, it is rather much worth every penny in order to skip the long lines for purchasing tickets on the venue. Some places have enough time blocks you could enter. This is certainly one additional way to avoid lines.
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Any time you travel to an overseas country, keep important information with you. You ought to have your embassy’s phone number, address and website if available, for almost any country you journey to. In this way, you will have an emergency backup plan if you encounter serious problems. They can sort out any issues that arise.
You must make plans if you are intending to fly. Major airports can be difficult to reach due to long traffic delays. Pack your suitcase beforehand to save time. Complete and execute all of your plans well in advance of your own flight. There is little else that could be worse than not making your flight.
In order to reduce costs, you should create your travel arrangements as early as possible. There are numerous items you purchase for travel, most of them are cheaper, the previous you buy them. If you budget your expendable cash wisely and then make your souvenir purchases in early stages, you will get more available funds down the road within your journey if some issue would arise.
There are plenty of helpful travel price watchers to sign up for. This allows you to track prices. When the price drops, you will definitely get an e-mail alert. This can save you the irritation of looking into the price daily.
Having a trip sometimes causes you pack too much. Will not overpack toiletries, just bring the thing you need. Toiletries are the most important things that you can expect to bring.
Pack those who are most valuable to you.
It is actually customary to tip any hotel staff which makes your stay easier. A great general guideline is $1 per bag/luggage contributing to $2-5 every day for housekeeping. Tipping will show your appreciation with regard to their work, and will help you conserve a good relationship with hotel staff.
Bring a book of matches or business card from your hotel while you explore your destination city. When you are in a foreign country or city so you get lost, you will have something to demonstrate to others to help find your way back to the resort. It is actually particularly useful for those who haven’t mastered the language.
You should know of your insurance policies provided by your bank card company along with their particular policies involving foreign countries. By way of example, perhaps your flight gets cancelled, however you are covered with regards to those charges. Before leaving, it can be worth your time and efforts researching this somewhat.
Ahead of booking a hotel, inquire if renovations will likely be occurring during that time. There are actually few things more annoying than waking to the sound of construction equipment while you are having a vacation. Avoid those dates whenever you can.
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Even if on long flights, never assume the airline will provide all you need. Make sure you bring a blanket, headphones or pillow if you feel you’ll need them. You need to think about bringing some snacks together with you.
If you truly desire to take the family pet along, get a place that allows pets. There are lots of resorts and hotels that now allow owners to bring their pets along, and travelers are flocking to these types of places. You can carry on a cruise or set off to some hotel and spa. Don’t forget to take your furry pals together with you- just make sure they are allowed prior to deciding to do.
Be sure you take clothespins along with you when travelling. You would be surprised by how useful these will turn into.
Ask to determine if your bank card company has insurance plan for traveling abroad. For example, you could enjoy coverage for flights which get cancelled, if they were charged for your card. Doing some research before leaving is worthwhile.
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A desert contains a lot of interesting places to think about as well as animals most people never get to see in their lives. Deserts can be a special kind of place that everybody should be able to experience at some stage in their lives.
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the score was 21-12, so a field goal would have cut the lead to one possession. Johnson talked about Harrison Butker yesterday, saying he was confident in him and makes his kicks in practice. Further, for whatever it's worth, Butker's troubles seem to come in closer range.
not even pondering how not rotating B-backs until they fumble/get hurt ruined our chances for an exceptional season, why go for a long FG against Duke with an inconsistent kicker down 2 TDs & not stopping them in any event?
I think just beaten out. I asked Paul Johnson a few weeks ago about what Thomas O'Reilly (a backup center/guard) could do to get more playing time, and I don't remember specifically what he said, but basically he's behind a number of players. I'm not positive about Brigham, but he's never on the injury report, so I'd suspect it's just being down on the depth chart.
What's the story with O'Reilly and Brigham on the OL? Are they injured or have they been beaten out?
I did read it, though not super closely. I tend to take the viewpoint that ESPN is more aboveboard than many think. It wasn't so long ago, you'll remember, that SEC fans were accusing ESPN of helping Charles Woodson beat Peyton Manning for the Heisman. (well, it was almost 20 years ago, and I guess a network's tides can shift.) I sort of felt like the examples the article used were sort of a reach. I imagine you could find tweets from ESPN's account that paint a different picture. And I'd have to think that if the ESPN's pro-SEC conspiracy were so vast that even the guy (or girl) sending out tweets was in on it, it would have leaked out. They're clearly big on the SEC, but it'd be hard to argue that the SEC hasn't been a big story, or even the big story, in the last six seven years. I'd say that ESPN is maybe pro-big story more than pro-SEC if that makes sense. So I guess this means i'm now also part of the conspiracy.
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Will Charles Perkins play this Saturday?
Good question. If we're talking about true value, as in, who would be most missed, maybe Shawn Green or P.J. Davis? Davis may be the most consistent defensive player thus far. Green has been taking on a lot of double teams, and I think if he weren't playing, it might be a bit more ragged than it is. D.J. White has made two of the biggest plays of the year (interception against Virginia Tech, strip of James Conner last Saturday).
Ken, who strikes you as Tech Defensive player of the year so far? PJ Davis, Isiah Johnson, Nealy, none of the above?
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining me for the Georgia Tech Mailbag (brought to you by Kroger). Looking forward to the discussion. Let's get started.
Maybe just me, but the fan turnout at the Duke game was disappointing. It was a big game. I also struggle with the D giving up so many points. We don't run a necessarily fast scoring game and the O can put up the points, but the D is giving too much away. The D seems to not be adjusting accordingly to the opponents offense. Thoughts?
Why does Roof run such a stripped down, basic, vanilla defense? It's way too easy for teams to shred us apart. Do we really have that much of a lack of talent?
Tech's problem is simple.... they don't attract high end recruits. Say what you want about recruiting rankings/stars not mattering but the fact is a team full of 2 star recruits doesn't have as much talent as one with a bunch of 4 stars. CPJ has gotten very little high end talent on either side of the ball lately. So these results are totally predictable.
Before you sign out can you give us a prediction of the score for the Pitt game?
What do you think of Pitt's running game? any chance GT can get a defense ready to slow them down?
Any feel for what we can expect from Pitt Saturday? I know they run a more conventional offense and have a good RB and WR. Can their QB get the WR the ball, or should we expect a game more in line with last year's?
I'd think to some degree, but I can't say without reservation. It's one of those subjects that I need to dig into.
Do you think the defensive struggles since PJ arrived has anything to do with having to practice against Tech's unconventional offense? Seems Tech struggles against traditional offenses (although it also surprisingly struggles against read option teams as well).
I think what Johnson would say is that that's just the part of him that fans see, that he shows a different side to players during the week. It wasn't Dodd's style, certainly. Johnson did actually win the Bobby Dodd Award, though, when he was at Navy. I think there are other traits he does share with him.
I was embarrassed as a long-time Tech fan, to see the anger displayed by Coach Johnson at a player who had made a (costly) mistake in the UNC game. At other times I've witnessed him grabbing players by the face guard. Those kind of things should happen, if at all, on the practice field not in a game, especially one that's televised. Needless to say, Johnson will never win the Bobby Dodd Award. I say cut the ties with Johnson and let's move on.
Let's see if I can do it. those two, WR Anthony Autry, AB Myles Autry, DL Jimmie Kitchen and Darius Commissiong (among others), OT Morgan Bailey and Chase Roberts. there's others, but those guys might be the most significant. Custis would probably have gotten some snaps this week.
Good question. It's kind of the same. I was expecting Isaiah Johnson, Jamal Golden and Quayshawn Nealy to have made more of an impact. They've had their moments and games where they've stood out, but not quite as consistently as I would have thought.
Ken what in your mind is more disappointing.. the lack of playmakers on the defense or the fact that the few upperclassmen on the D (Isaiah Johnson) haven't stepped up their game.
I don't know. Paul Johnson said before the end of the season. I'm trying to find out a better answer.
How long is Laskey supposed to be out?
If memory serves, he needed to earn his associates degree in order to be able to play immediately after junior college, which required him to take on a pretty ambitious course load, and he ended up coming short.
I don't know the defenses well enough to say. I do know that teams with big, athletic defensive tackles have typically given the defense trouble (I guess Tech's offense would not be alone in that regard) because they can push the center or guard back into the quarterback. Virginia has a very good freshman DT in Andrew Brown. Georgia has a lot of playmakers.
Given that he hadn't played football prior to the spring of his junior year, you could also argue he should be much more behind your typical sophomore. i'm not saying let's wait till he's a senior - it's not unreasonable to expect him to make a contribution, but I think everyone's different.
He is responsible for Gwinnett, and Tech got three recruits out of the county last year (though one, Myles Autry, didn't show up). He also has Louisiana, a state Tech hasn't recruited much at all under Johnson, and Tech has two commits for the upcoming class (although I don't know if he's 100 percent responsible for either) from there and one from Gwinnett.
Plus much better ball security.
It's strange, isn't it. I don't want to put all the credit on Justin Thomas, but a) he's a playmaker with the ball in his hands b) he's effective at running the option c) his speed and quickness means the line doesn't have to block as long. But I think the line is doing a pretty good job, also. And, as you say, the defenses haven't been great. The closing run is going to be a lot tougher than the first seven games, I think. Pittsburgh, Clemson, UVA and Georgia are all going to bring it, I think.
Any word, rumor, on why our previous special teams coach departed so quickly. And, I am a #1 CPJ, option fan. Love that type of FB.
To follow up on the question regarding CPJ's recruiting and how Tech doesn't seem to get the quality of players other teams in the ACC are able to get, do you think this has more to do with Tech's academics or do you think people are avoiding CPJ's system for more pro style offense?
Ken - are you close with coworker and GSU beat writer Doug Roberson? Wonder if you two converse on the state of the respective programs?
Many Tech fans, including me, think the officiating was horrendous last Saturday. I know the quote about losers complaining about the refs, etc. Any comment.
Ken - any chance youll do an autograph signing session soon?
Tarheels scare me a bit. They have not played well so as some say they are due. GT also is somewhat like the Braves with rookie pitchers. Make 'em look like CY guys. Do you see the Jackets taking the Duke loss out on the Tarheels?
UGA and if you believe he can, do you think that GT football (from Mike B down to the fan) should expect more?
you mentioned that thins have changed since the O'Leary days? How so? Do you mean academically? If that's the case is it more difficult now to get kids to come to GT than it was 15 year ago?
Since 2002, 31 college football coaches with winning records have been fired. This number only includes those who were fired for their poor performance (schools who fired their coach because of off the field issues like Joe Paterno were not included). Of those 31 created positions, only nine coaches had a better record than their predecessor.
That's right. Only nine times has a coaching change led to a better football season when the "idiot" before them had a winning record. For those fans demanding change, I highly doubt that many of them have the patience to wait as the new guy slugs through a losing season. What's worse is that of those nine coaches who did produce a winning record, three of them were named Charlie Weis, Dennis Erickson and Brady Hoke. I don't have to tell what kind of wonders those guys have worked at Notre Dame, Arizona State and currently Michigan.
that's a tough one. I don't know. He's played in half the games so far. 3/1?
Good question. I know Tech is open to it, and the two sides may have talked, but I don't think they've arranged anything yet.
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Improved survival in children with critical illnesses has led to new disease patterns. As a consequence evaluation of the well being of survivors of Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) has become important. Outcome assessment should therefore consist of evaluation of morbidity, functional health and Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Awareness of HRQoL consequences and physical sequelae could lead to changes in support during the acute phase and thereafter. The aim of this study was to evaluate HRQoL in PICU survivors.
Prospective follow-up study three and nine months after discharge from a 14-bed tertiary PICU. Eighty-one of 142 eligible, previously healthy children were included from December 2002 through October 2005. HRQoL was assessed with the TNO-AZL Preschool Children Quality of Life Questionnaire (TAPQOL-PF) for children aged 1 to 6 years of age, the TNO-AZL Children's Quality of Life Questionnaire Parent Form (TACQOL-PF) for children aged 6 to 12 years of age, and the TNO-AZL Children's Quality of Life Questionnaire Child Form (TACQOL-CF) for children aged 8 to 15 years of age. The studied patients were compared with age appropriate normative data using non-parametric tests and effect sizes.
Thirty-one and 27 children, and 55 and 50 parents completed questionnaires respectively three and nine months after discharge. In 1–6 year old children parents reported more lung problems (3 and 9 months), worse liveliness (9 months) and better appetite and problem behaviour (3 months); in 6–12 year old children parents reported worse motor functioning (3 months); and 12–15 year old adolescents reported worse motor functioning (3 months). Large effect sizes indicating clinical significant differences in HRQoL with healthy control subjects were found on more domains.
In this small group of PICU survivors differences in HRQoL with the normative population exist three and nine months after discharge. Calculated effect sizes were smaller nine months after discharge. These changes suggest that HRQoL improves over time. More research is necessary but we believe that HRQoL assessment should be incorporated in follow-up programs of PICU survivors.
Although physical and psychological sequelae have been described, studies focusing on HRQoL in PICU survivors are scarce. [12–17] The Health Utilities Index (HUI) 2 is used in five studies to evaluate functional health. In three studies ± 30% of PICU survivors were in full health, one year after discharge. [18–20] In the Australian and Swiss studies using the HUI 2, ± 80% of the survivors were scored as having good quality of life one year after PICU discharge. [21, 22] The HUI 2 evaluates only six domains of HRQoL: sensation, mobility, emotion, cognition, self-care and pain. Evaluation is done by the parents and not the children themselves when older than eight years of age. In another Australian study the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (RAHC) Measure of Function-Clinical Rating Scale was used to evaluate QoL: 60% of survivors had normal QoL, 3 to 24 months after discharge. Evaluation is done by the primary physician. In all studies loss of follow-up is substantial and selection bias is possible. No studies exist, evaluating changes over time in HRQoL.
The aim of our study was to evaluate HRQoL in previously healthy children that were unexpectedly admitted to the PICU at two time points (three and nine months) after discharge and to evaluate whether HRQoL changes over time. Evaluation was done at the out-patient follow-up clinic by validated questionnaires completed by parents of children younger than 8 years of age and by children themselves when 8 years of age or older. We hypothesized that HRQoL is decreased after PICU discharge and improves over time.
This study was part of an on-going explorative research program on physical and psychological sequelae and consequences for QoL in children and their parents after an acute and unexpected PICU admission. The PICU of the Emma Children's Hospital/Academic Medical Center Amsterdam is a tertiary PICU with 14 beds admitting patients from the greater Amsterdam area. Medical, surgical and trauma patients and patients from all pediatric subspecialties are admitted.
In this study we only wanted to include previously healthy children that were unexpectedly admitted to the PICU with a serious illness, for instance respiratory and circulatory insufficiency due to respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) infection or meningococcal disease, and all trauma patients. Furthermore children admitted for respiratory insufficiency necessitating ventilatory support for at least 24 hours and children admitted to the PICU for at least 7 days were included. We excluded children with known underlying illnesses or patients with scheduled elective surgery; admission due to abuse or self-intoxication and the inability to complete Dutch questionnaires because of a language barrier. The study was done from December 2002 through October 2005.
After discharge from the PICU, each family received a letter explaining the aim and content of the research program. Families were contacted by telephone to enhance participation. For cases lacking telephone contact, follow-up letters with tear-off reply slips inviting participation were sent. Written informed consent was obtained from all participating families. The Medical Ethic Committee of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam has approved the study protocol.
Three and nine months after discharge QoL questionnaires were sent to all families with a reply envelope. All families were invited to visit the outpatient follow-up clinic three months after discharge for structured medical and psychological examination of the child by a pediatric intensivist and a psychologist.
HRQoL was assessed with the TNO-AZL Preschool Children Quality of Life Questionnaire (TAPQOL-PF) for children aged 1 to 6 years of age, the TNO-AZL Children's Quality of Life Questionnaire Parent Form (TACQOL-PF) for children aged 6 to 12 years of age, and the TNO-AZL Children's Quality of Life Questionnaire Child Form (TACQOL-CF) for children aged 8 to 15 years of age. [24–31] These questionnaires are generic Dutch instruments that measure health status problems weighted by the impact of the health status problems on well being. It offers the respondent the possibility of differentiating between their functioning and the way they feel about it. Most of the items consist of two questions linked to another. On the first one, the respondent can rate on a three point scale, (never, occasionally, or often), whether or not a specific problem occurred in the past few weeks. If a problem occurred, the child can indicate how it felt about this problem on a four point Likert scale: (very) good (3) – not so well (2) – rather bad (1) – bad (0). Numbers between brackets refer to the values resulting in the HRQoL scores. (Figure 1) The items are clustered into multi-item scales; scale scores are calculated by adding up item scores within scales, with higher scores indicating better QoL. For the TAPQOL-PF crude scales scores are transformed linearly to a 0–100 scale; for the TACQOL-PF and TACQOL-CF maximum domain scores are 16 for the emotional scales and 32 for the other scales. In the calculation of the scale scores one or two missing combined-item scores are allowed for. They are replaced by the mean value of the non-missing (combined) item scores. For respondents with more missing combined item scores per scale, the scale is assumed to be missing. Normative data from the general Dutch population are available. The instruments measure HRQoL on a group level in a reliable and valid way. Reliability (Cronbach's alpha) in the general populations are moderate to good (0.59–0.84) for all scales in all questionnaires, except for 'stomach functioning' and 'motor functioning' in the TAPQOL-PF. Criterion validity is good for all scales in all questionnaires, demonstrating that the scales can detect differences between healthy and less healthy children. [27, 30, 31] The studied patients were compared with age appropriate normative data using non-parametric tests and effects sizes.
Example of question in HRQoL questionnaire. Numbers between brackets refer to the values resulting in the HRQoL scores.
The TAPQOL-PF assesses the child's functioning on 43 items in 12 domains: sleeping, appetite, lungs, stomach, skin, motor functioning, liveliness (together physical functioning), problem behavior, anxiety, positive mood (together emotional functioning), communication (cognitive functioning), and social functioning. Scales that measure motor functioning, social functioning and communication are applicable only to children 1.5 years and older.
Patient characteristics were obtained from medical records and the Patient Data Management System.
Data analysis was done with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), Windows version 11.5. Before conducting the final analyses several preparation analyses were conducted: (1) Scales were constructed and missing data imputed on the basis of the guidelines of the questionnaires used; (2) descriptive statistics (Mann-Whitney and Chi-square tests) were used to describe the patient characteristics of the participants and non-participants; (3) non-parametric tests, (one sample sign-test or binomial test if median was equal to maximum), were performed to test whether the median or the binomial distribution of the several HRQoL-scales scores of the patients differed from the normative data available; (4) effect sizes (d) were calculated by dividing the difference in mean scores between the patients and the normative group by the standard deviation of the scores in the normative group. According to Cohen, effect sizes of about 0.2 were considered to be small, effect sizes of about 0.5 to be moderate, and effect sizes of about 0.8 to be large ; (5) all above mentioned analyses were performed for the whole group of participants (completed questionnaires 3 and/or 9 months after discharge); (6) paired t-tests were performed for the group that completed both questionnaires, to test for differences over time. A significance level of p < 0.005 was used in all tests to compensate for multiple testing.
Patients' self-reports were used for analysis unless the self-report was not available due to the young age of the patient. Separate analyses were conducted for (1) patients aged 1–5 years, using the TAPQOL-PF, (2) patients aged 6–11 years, using the TACQOL-PF, (3) patients aged 8–11 years, using the TACQOL-CF for children, and (4) patients aged 12–15 years, using the TACQOL-CF for adolescents. We decided to report all age groups despite small numbers, because the results in the different age groups were comparable.
A total of 142 patients were eligible for participation in this part of the study. Twenty-seven refused participation (for geographical reasons or no interest), 12 said that they would like to participate but never returned their questionnaires or did not complete the full questionnaire; 22 families did not respond at all. Of 81 children either the children or their parents completed one or both questionnaires. The response rate is 57%. Thirty-one and 27 children completed questionnaires respectively three and nine months after discharge; 55 and 50 parents completed questionnaires respectively three and nine months after discharge. Twenty-three children and 36 parents completed questionnaires at both moments. (Figure 2) Statistically significant differences were found between participants and non-participants with respect to length of stay in the PICU. Fourteen participants and no non-participants had lengths of stay in the PICU of longer than 21 days. (Table 1).
Participants and non-participants. Numbers of participants that completed the different questionnaires at 3 and 9 months after discharge and numbers of non-participants.
* p < 0.005 whole group versus normative data.
In the parents and children that completed both questionnaires, no statistically significant differences were found over time, indicating that HRQoL did not change from three to nine months after discharge.
This is one of the first studies to describe HRQoL of children after a PICU experience using validated and reliable instruments. In all age groups, except for 8–12 year old children statistically significant differences with the normative population were found on a number of domains. The parents of 1–6 year old children reported statistically significant lower scores on lung problems and liveliness; and statistically significant higher scores on emotional domains like problem behaviour and appetite. The parents of 6–12 year old children and the 12–15 year old children scored statistically significant lower on motor functioning. In the children and parents that completed questionnaires three and nine months after discharge no statistically significant differences were found over time. However, almost all differences with the healthy Dutch population disappeared after nine months, except for worse motor functioning in almost all age groups and more lung problems, worse positive mood and worse liveliness in 1–6 year old children.
Effect sizes (d) were calculated to assess the magnitude of differences in mean scores between the patient sample and the normative population. In all evaluated groups moderate and large effect sizes were found on more HRQoL domains than statistically significant differences were found. At three months after discharge, effect size calculation indicated worse HRQoL on physical, social and emotional domains compared to the normative population. At nine months after discharge most effect sizes decreased, indicating improvement of HRQoL, except for motor functioning, positive mood and liveliness in 1–6 year old children. Probably statistically significant differences were not found due to the small number of evaluated patients in the different age groups. Despite the lack of statistically significant differences, changes in effect size suggest that several domains of HRQoL are decreased at three months after discharge and improve over time.
In the 1–6 year old children large and moderate effect sizes are found nine months after discharge in four domains: more lung problems, worse motor functioning, worse positive mood and worse liveliness. Apparently, parents of these young children report more physical and emotional problems than parents of healthy peers. HRQoL questionnaires or other measures on psychosocial functioning should be used to clarify problems as they are experienced by parents after discharge. We think that this finding needs further research.
It is important to notice that children and adolescents report more negative emotions compared to their healthy peers three months after discharge. Negative emotions included in the questionnaire are feelings of irritation or anger. Although the differences were not statistically significant we think that this finding needs further research. Surprisingly children and adolescents did not report a worse HRQoL for physical symptoms. (Table 4 and 5) Apparently children show physical recovery after PICU survival but the emotional impact may be substantial.
A number of limitations to this study should be taken into account. First, a considerable number of children were lost due to non-response and refusal. Other follow-up studies in the PICU have had similar response rates. Due to the small number of children in the different age groups statistically significant differences with the normative population were scarce. Second, of the patients that participated an even smaller number fulfilled questionnaires at both moments. Possibly due to small numbers, we did not see effects over time. Third, we probably failed to see a number of patients whose parents were experiencing psychological problems, such as avoidance and refusal to come back to the hospital, a well known characteristic of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. [12, 14, 38]Fourth, participants had a statistically significant longer stay in the PICU. Probably this is due to a small number of participants that were admitted longer than 21 days and therefore had more commitment to the PICU which might have influenced them to participate in the study. Fifth, we included a predominantly Caucasian Dutch population. The results of this study are not necessarily to be extrapolated to patients from other ethnic or cultural communities.Sixth, the results of this study are influenced by known limitations of the used questionnaires. The questionnaires have been described in manuals with appropriate normative populations. Cronbach's alpha's in all normative populations are moderate to good. For some scales reliability has been rather low, which may have been due to the low prevalence and variance of problems in the general population sample. The questionnaires are designed primarily for research purposes and focus mainly on data aggregated on the group level, for example in clinical trials, evaluative or descriptive studies. Thus, all scales can be used for group comparisons in a valid and reliable way. Finally, considering the small numbers of patients in the different age groups we have not been able to study the determinants of HRQoL. In future research it is important to pay attention to determinants of HRQoL of PICU survivors, to identify those most at risk for problems.
In this small group of PICU survivors differences in HRQoL with the normative population exist three and nine months after discharge. Calculated effect sizes were smaller nine months after discharge. These changes suggest that HRQoL improves over time. Apparently PICU admission impacts HRQoL three and nine months after discharge. More research is necessary but we believe that HRQoL assessment should be incorporated in follow-up programs of PICU survivors. It should include (1) HRQoL evaluation, (2) evaluation of risk factors for decreased HRQoL and (3) support after discharge if needed. Because awareness of HRQoL consequences and physical sequelae could lead to changes in treatment during the acute phase, pediatric intensivists should be core members of PICU follow-up programs.
HK drafted the manuscript, HK and MBB collected the data for this study, HK, MBB and APB contributed to the analysis and interpretation of data and wrote the manuscript, MAG designed the study, contributed to the interpretation of the data and critical revision of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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2019-04-22T05:05:47Z
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https://hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7525-6-21
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Multichannel ecommerce platform ChannelAdvisor has released features including a new pricing console and an improved demand forecasting module.
The Amazon Pricing Console provides ASIN-level data, Amazon repricing tools and calculators, in one streamlined location. Users can report on performance, see competitor information, adjust minimums and maximums, and change repricer rules.
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ChannelAdvisor Fulfillment Services keep connections to distributors and third-party logistics providers up-to-date at all times. Even if a distribution partner's technology changes, orders will continue to go through. Orders can be automatically routed to the most cost-efficient distributor, by comparing prices across suppliers.
Finally, Nielsen Product Availability has been added for manufacturing brands, to ChannelAdvisor's Where to Buy Local solution. This ensures consumers will always see the most up-to-date information on in-store retail stock.
Multichannel ecommerce solution ChannelAdvisor Marketplaces now supports MyDeal.com.au.
ChannelAdvisor will support MyDeal as an included marketplace in its e-commerce platform, which allows ChannelAdvisor customers to transform and submit their product data to the marketplace, manage inventory and facilitate the flow of orders. MyDeal has an estimated 1.5 million customers on the marketplace.
"We are excited to support the MyDeal marketplace and the opportunity it brings to Australian retailers," said Simon Clarkson, ChannelAdvisor Managing Director – APAC. "We have seen strong results for customers who are using our integration services for other marketplaces like Amazon, Catch and eBay in Australia. Adding MyDeal to the marketplaces we support represents a great opportunity for sellers using our platform and we look forward to our strategic partnership."
Founded in 2011, MyDeal is one of Australia's leading online marketplaces, and reports that they provide Australian consumers with over 300,000 lifestyle products across 3,500 departments and send over 45,000 parcels per month.
"Australian shoppers are embracing marketplaces and our customers are leveraging this model with great success," adds Clarkson. "The ChannelAdvisor integration means that brands and retailers can streamline their processes and focus on a strategy to increase their footprint and get tangible results."
Multichannel ecommerce solution ChannelAdvisor and tax software provider Avalara have partnered to help online sellers handle U.S. sales tax.
ChannelAdvisor and Avalara will work in close collaboration to assist brands and retailers affected by a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to tax remote sales.
"In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing states to tax remote sales, ChannelAdvisor customers have an increasing number of tax questions. Our client base is looking to remove barriers that limit their online sales channel expansion," said Paul Colucci, Vice President, Global Business Development, ChannelAdvisor. "We've developed a strategic partnership with Avalara to provide our customers with a solution. Together, ChannelAdvisor and Avalara can help brands and retailers comply with new tax laws more efficiently, helping them save time and money while strengthening their online strategies."
ChannelAdvisor's platform gives brands and retailers access to more than 100 global marketplaces. Through this alliance, online sellers can leverage Avalara's tax expertise and software solutions to navigate complex transactions.
Ecommerce software provider ChannelAdvisor has partnered with supply chain integration platform TrueCommerce and automotive marketplace Motoroso.
The TrueCommerce partnership creates a leading integrated network of marketplaces, wholesale channels, dropship vendors, fulfillment partners, and business systems on one unified cloud-based platform.
"As we continue to see rapid change in how commerce is conducted for virtually every merchandise category, it's unlocking new channels for brands to grow while also bringing great pressure on supply chains," said Mike Cornell, TrueCommerce CEO. "To address this challenge, TrueCommerce has partnered with ChannelAdvisor to help our customers accelerate their growth in fast-emerging digital marketplaces. Our global supply chain commerce network will enable brands and merchants on the ChannelAdvisor platform to integrate more deeply with their critical business systems, vendors, and fulfillment partners."
Motoroso is an interactive platform that connects automotive and powersports enthusiasts with products and social-rich content. ChannelAdvisor is the first third-party integrator to collaborate with Motoroso, allowing brands and retailers to compete in a major business vertical.
"ChannelAdvisor is very excited about supporting brands and retailers who sell on the Motoroso Marketplace for automotive and powersports parts and accessories," said Curt McDowell, Director of Strategic Partners and Category Management at ChannelAdvisor. "With its heavy focus on content discovery, driven by its emerging video production capabilities, we feel that Motoroso will be a premier marketplace destination where the next generation of shoppers will go to get their motors parts and gear."
Ecommerce software company ChannelAdvisor has announced its new event format for 2019, running in the spring in the USA and UK.
ChannelAdvisor Connect will be an exclusive event for ChannelAdvisor customers and partners. Previously, the company hosted Catalyst and User Conferences each year. Now, ChannelAdvisor Connect will be the company's combined annual event.
The event will offer ChannelAdvisor customers hands-on training and workshops. They'll also network with ecommerce peers, hear industry best practices, and identify new services and solutions to help grow their businesses.
"Every year, ChannelAdvisor evolves to meet the demands of a changing and fiercely competitive marketplace. We know our customers are facing a rough terrain in the e-commerce game, and we're committed to helping them keep their competitive edge," said Melissa Sargeant, ChannelAdvisor chief marketing officer. "We're here to help them make personal connections with the key players in their industry and e-commerce thought leaders at ChannelAdvisor Connect. It's going to be an exciting time as we welcome new and returning customers to our new conference."
ChannelAdvisor Connect will be hosted at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX on April 8-9, 2019 and at Kings Place in London, England on May 15, 2019.
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Ecommerce software provider ChannelAdvisor is adding a connection to DHL eCommerce so retailers can access DHL's international shipping services within the ChannelAdvisor platform.
"We're excited about this strategic alliance between DHL and ChannelAdvisor, which brings together two industry-leading companies to power the e-commerce opportunity for brands and retailers across the globe," says Charles Brewer, CEO, DHL eCommerce. "By leveraging technology platforms, retailers and brands can accelerate their cross border e-commerce strategy by easily expanding to new regions and selling to anyone, anywhere. This is made even easier with a global e-commerce logistics partner like DHL to ensure a seamless order fulfillment and shipping process."
As a strategic partner, DHL eCommerce will bring their expertise in ecommerce logistics and access to a global fulfillment network for customers on the ChannelAdvisor platform. Customers can utilize the network of shared-use facilities at transactional prices to enable high-quality e-commerce order fulfillment with best-in-class operations and multiple shipping options.
DHL eCommerce is part of Deutsche Post DHL Group, established in 2014 as part of the Group's growing focus in ecommerce logistics solutions.
ChannelAdvisor enables retailers and brands to sell on over 107 marketplaces with a single product data feed.
Multichannel ecommerce solution ChannelAdvisor Marketplaces now supports rule-based automatic repricing for eBay sellers.
The eBay repricing feature is similar to that offered by ChannelAdvisor for Amazon. Sellers also can specify one or more listings IDs to reprice against to stay competitively priced against similar products.
Ecommerce software company ChannelAdvisor will be holding its annual Catalyst Europe conference in London on 9th May.
Every year, Catalyst Europe provides a learning and peer-to-peer experience for companies looking to excel in ecommerce.
"As European eCommerce evolves, it's crucial for retailers and brands to understand the latest trends and advances in the industry," said Melissa Sargeant, ChannelAdvisor Chief Marketing Officer. "ChannelAdvisor Catalyst is all about demonstrating and understanding eCommerce change and innovation. At Catalyst Europe we will not just demonstrate though – we will also dig into how our attendees can harness innovation to power their businesses and to sell more online."
This year's event will feature in-depth peer-to-peer working sessions and more insight from industry thought leaders.
ChannelAdvisor will also host a User Forum the day before Catalyst Europe. The User Forum will provide current ChannelAdvisor customers a platform to ask questions directly about the latest updates.
The event will be hosted at the InterContinental London – The O2 in Greenwich. ChannelAdvisor is offering an early-bird registration rate of £99 until 8th February. More information and registration.
ChannelAdvisor will also be holding their annual User Forum in the U.S. in tandem with the Catalyst Americas conference, taking place on April 17-19 in San Diego, California. More information and $99 discount code.
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2019-04-24T04:54:36Z
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https://www.webretailer.com/profiles/channeladvisor-marketplaces.asp?p=2
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Cryptocurrencies are one of today’s hottest asset classes to invest in. Bitcoin in particular has soared in price from pennies to thousands of dollars per unit in just a few years.
Price is what an investor pays, but value is what an investor gets. It’s easy to look up the current price of Bitcoin, but it’s harder to determine what a realistic Bitcoin value is.
This article provides a framework to help you think about how to determine Bitcoin’s value for yourself, and the value of other cryptocurrencies, including explaining a lot of the risks involved.
Here’s a list of all current cryptocurrencies. There’s over two thousand of them!
Currently, there are 16 cryptocurrencies that have over a $1 billion market capitalization. But really, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple are the three that are far in the lead in terms of adoption. Bitcoin has over 50% market share, Ethereum has another 10%, and Ripple has another 8%.
When I originally wrote this article in 2017, Bitcoin was worth $6,500 or so. It then went on to increased to over $17,000 only to come back down to the mid-$6,000’s again. I keep this article updated every few months.
Now that we’ve established what cryptocurrencies are and why they are difficult to value, we can finally get into a few methods to approach how to determine their value.
Remember, price is what you pay, value is what you get. A stock can have a higher or lower price than what its value is truly worth, and a cryptocurrency can as well. What is a realistic Bitcoin value?
There’s no way to determine a precise inherent Bitcoin value, but there are certain back-of-the-envelope calculations that can give us a reasonable magnitude estimate for the value of bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies based on certain assumptions.
The total number of bitcoins in existence (M) is a little under 17 million in late 2017, and it will max out at under 21 million over the next several years based on its algorithm. That’s the easy part.
Now we have to come up with estimates for V and T, which is the hard part.
Let’s start with a velocity example. Suppose you had a town of just two people, a farmer and a carpenter. The only money in the town is that the carpenter has $50. If, in the course of the year, the carpenter buys $30 in carrots and $20 in tomatoes from the farmer, and then the farmer pays the same $50 to the carpenter to build a fence around her property to keep pests out, then a total of $100 in transaction volume (economic activity) has occurred. The money supply is $50, and the velocity of money is 2.
The velocity of the United States M1 (highly liquid) money supply (shown here) hit a high of over 10 in 2007 and is now a little over 5.
The velocity of the United States M2 (moderately liquid) money supply (shown here) hit a high of 2.2 in 1997 and is currently at less than 1.5.
Currently, the velocity of Bitcoin is a little bit under 3% per day on average, or about 10 per year (1,000%).
That seems reasonable, but the problem is that a large portion of this velocity is just trading volume, not spending volume. For a healthy currency, the vast majority of volume is from consumer spending, with only a small percentage of that volume involved with currency trading.
Bitcoin however has a significant percentage of it just being moved around by speculators, rather than people going down to their coffee shop and buying a cup of coffee with some Bitcoin fractions. There’s no way to know what percentage is moved around for spending compared to what percentage is moved around for trading/speculation.
But anyway, we have actual velocity, even if the number itself is questionable, and we have what the typical velocity range of a major fiat currency is. When I value Bitcoin, I will use a range for the velocity value to imagine a few different scenarios.
The final (and hardest) part is T. This is the variable that represents the actual value of goods traded in bitcoins per year.
Let’s start with criminal activity, since that’s one of Bitcoin’s biggest applications unfortunately.
PwC estimates that global money laundering is $1-$2 trillion per year.
According to CNBC, the United Nations estimates that the global drug trade is worth $400-$500 billion per year, and that organized crime in general clocks in at $800-$900 billion, with much of that figure coming from their drug trafficking.
Most broadly of all, this research paper estimates that the global black market is equal to about 20% of global GDP, or about $15 trillion annually.
If we imagine right now that 10% of the global black market economic activity occurs in Bitcoin and nobody else uses Bitcoin, it would mean $1.5 trillion in goods/services is exchanged Bitcoin per year, which would be immense.
Going back to the Bitcoin = T/(M*V) equation, if M is 17 million bitcoins in existence, and we use V as 10, and T is $1.5 trillion, then each bitcoin should be worth about $8,800. Let’s call that an unrealistic high end estimate.
If T is $500 billion and V is 10, then each bitcoin is worth under $3,000.
If T is $100 billion and V is 10, then each bitcoin is worth under $600.
If T is $10 billion and V is 10, then each bitcoin is worth under $60.
I’m going to argue in my next section that the transaction volume of Bitcoin is on the bottom end of that range. It’s nowhere near $1.5 trillion, and probably not even a tenth of that.
Now, black market activities aren’t the only use of Bitcoin. A variety of companies accept Bitcoin like Microsoft, Overstock, Expedia, Newegg, plus other companies listed here. But it still seems more of a novelty at this point.
Besides estimating the current value of bitcoins, we can estimate the future value of bitcoins.
Suppose that cryptocurrencies really take off, and in ten years, 10% of global GDP trades hands in cryptocurrencies, with half of that being in Bitcoin. At about 2% GDP growth per year, the global GDP in ten years will be about $90 trillion USD, which means $9 trillion in cryptocurrency transactions including $4.5 trillion in Bitcoin transactions per year.
If T is $4.5 trillion, M is 20 million bitcoins in existence by then, and V is 10, then due to the Bitcoin = T/(M*V) equation, each bitcoin should be worth $22,500 by then.
And here’s a bearish scenario. If Bitcoin drops in market share to just 10% of cryptocurrency usage, and cryptocurrencies only account for 1% of GDP in ten years, and M is 20 million and V is 10, then each bitcoin will be worth about $450.
And I mean, it could drop to zero if its usage totally collapses for one reason or another, either because cryptocurrencies never gain traction or Bitcoin loses market share to other cryptocurrencies.
As you can see, there’s a huge range for what bitcoins should be worth in the coming decade or so, depending on how much economic activity they eventually become used for and what the velocity of the coins is.
If you stick to a velocity of 5 or 10 and look down those columns, you can then just focus on what level of economic activity you expect Bitcoin to be used for in the next decade, which will give you a rough idea of what it might be worth at that time.
Now, let’s keep it a bit simpler by not worrying about monetary velocity. Let’s just compare cryptocurrency adoption compared to fiat currencies as a rough order of magnitude sanity check.
The CIA World Factbook has a list of the size of the M1 money supply of each country, converted to USD. China is at $7 trillion, the U.S. is at $3.2 trillion, Canada is at $637 billion, Singapore is at $119 billion, etc.
Right now, all cryptocurrencies together are worth about $200 billion, with Bitcoin alone accounting for $115 billion. That makes it equal to about the M1 money supply of Singapore ($119 billion USD), a country of almost 6 million people and a $300 billion GDP that uses the Singapore Dollar as their medium of exchange.
This chart gives an idea of the active user base of Bitcoin, since the ledger is public. There are about 5 million accounts (addresses) with over $100 USD worth of bitcoins, of which only 2 million have over $1,000 USD worth of bitcoins. And users can have multiple accounts, so the total number of active users is probably under a million. For reference, the Bitcoin subreddit has about a million subscribers.
And then we’re back at the question of how much economic activity (the equivalent of GDP) that actually occurs in Bitcoin from these million or fewer active users. How much of the $400 billion+ global annual drug traffic market uses bitcoins? Or how much of the $15 trillion global black market? How much legal economic activity is occurring in bitcoins? It’s difficult to say.
Considering there are far fewer active Bitcoin users than Singapore citizens, the average Singapore citizen is quite well off, and most Bitcoin users probably only do a portion of their economic activity in Bitcoin, I find it extremely doubtful that there’s anywhere near as much economic activity in Bitcoin as in Singapore’s $300 billion economy of six million people.
But it could be a tenth as much, which means the value of all bitcoins together could be about a tenth as much as Singapore’s money supply. That implies Bitcoin is heavily overvalued right now, as it’s collectively worth over $100 billion but should be worth maybe a tenth of that.
If 500,000 people do an average of $10,000 in Bitcoin economic activity per year (not trading, just actual spending), that would only be $5 billion in actual Bitcoin economic activity. That’s a tiny fraction of Singapore’s economy, far less than even a tenth, and Bitcoin’s total value would be a tiny fraction of Singapore’s money supply (just a few billion dollars worth), meaning each bitcoin should be worth like a hundred bucks and it’s currently grossly overvalued in tulip territory.
However, one argument for why Bitcoin is worth more now than it should be based on its estimated current economic activity, is because some people expect its adoption rate to go up quickly.
Suppose for example that within 10 years, Bitcoin surpasses Canadian dollars in terms of economic activity to become a top-ten world currency. Canada has 36 million people and a GDP of $1.5 trillion, their M1 money supply is worth over $600 billion, and their M2 money supply is worth over $1.3 trillion.
If there are 8 billion people in the world in ten years, and 5% of them use Bitcoin, that’ll be 400 million Bitcoin users. If the average Bitcoin user does only 10% of their economic activity in Bitcoin and 90% of their economic activity in typical currencies, then that’s the equivalent of 40 million people using Bitcoin for 100% of their economic activity, or roughly the size of the Canadian economy assuming similar average per-capita economic activity.
If Bitcoin’s reasonable market cap becomes worth, say, $600 billion in that scenario (comparable to Canada’s M1 money supply), and there are 20 million bitcoins in existence by then, each bitcoin would be worth $30,000. That’s a bullish scenario, but not impossible. It explains why some people are willing to pay several thousand dollars per bitcoin today.
Lastly, let’s compare Bitcoin value to gold value.
All the gold in the world is worth approximately $7.5 trillion, based on the World Gold Council’s estimate of how much gold has been mined and what the per-ounce price is.
If Bitcoin achieves 10% of the global value of gold ($750 billion) over the next 10 years and the number of bitcoins at that time is 20 million, then each Bitcoin would be valued at about $37,000.
If Bitcoin only achieves 5% as much global value as gold, then Bitcoin value will be less than $19,000.
If Bitcoin collectively is only worth 1% of gold, then each one is down under $4,000.
Personally, I prefer precious metals to cryptocurrencies when it comes to alternative investments.
They have thousands of years of reliable history, and each precious metal has scarcity and inherent usefulness. They are all chemically unique, especially gold, and there are a very small number of precious metals that exist.
Cryptocurrencies on the other hand, while each one does have scarcity, are infinite in terms of how many total cryptocurrencies can be created. In other words, there is a finite number of bitcoins, a finite number of litecoins, and a finite growth rate of ether, and so forth, but anyone can make a new cryptocurrency.
What this means is that even if cryptocurrencies become popular in usage, they could become so heavily diluted by the sheer number of cryptocurrencies that any given cryptocurrency only has a tiny market share, and thus not much value per unit. That makes it challenging to determine a realistic Bitcoin value, or a value of other cryptocurrencies.
Right now, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and a few other systems have most of the market share. If cryptocurrencies take off in spending usage worldwide, and a small number of cryptocurrencies continue to make up most of the cryptocurrency market share, then it will likely be the case that the leading cryptocurrencies remain valuable, especially if you hold onto all coins when hard forks (currency splits) occur.
Blockchains are an extremely useful technology, and cryptocurrencies based on blockchain technology do have a lot of reputable applications as a means of global exchange.
The engineering method of problem-solving is break a difficult problem into several small parts and then solve them individually, or realize that certain parts are unsolvable and to identify which assumptions need to be made. The benefit of this article is that it quantitatively shows which assumptions are necessarily to justify various cryptocurrency valuations.
Understand the numbers and growth rates of how many units can exist in that cryptocurrency. That’s easy.
Estimate how much economic activity will occur in total blockchain cryptocurrencies in maybe 10 years. That’s hard.
Estimate how a given cryptocurrency will change or retain market share of total cryptocurrency usage. That’s hard.
Compare those spending patterns to other monetary bases as a sanity check, or take into account velocity of money. That’s easy.
Basically, it takes a lot of assumptions to determine anything close to an inherent value for units of any given cryptocurrency. I don’t know to what extent cryptocurrencies will be used for spending in the next 5 or 10 years. And I don’t know which cryptocurrencies will have the dominant market share over time, or if they’ll all be diluted.
But I recognize the largest cryptocurrencies as a reputable (albeit extremely risky) alternative asset class at this time, and it may be worth having a very small portion of a portfolio allocated to a basket of them.
Based on the estimated number of current users and current spending activity (inferred from the number of known addresses, volume information, and so forth) when applying the quantity theory of money, Bitcoin seems greatly overvalued. Bitcoin’s market cap is in the same ballpark as Singapore’s M1 money supply, even though it has far fewer active users and probably far less economic activity per user.
But considering where this technology could go within the next decade and the prices that bitcoins could reach if certain bullish outcomes occur, I don’t consider it tulip mania either for those that truly believe this could become a major global currency. I can at least see a rationale there and the most optimistic numbers do support their thesis.
Bitcoin values could go up by a lot, or they could fall to nothing, and it mostly comes down to how much and how fast Bitcoin or any of these cryptocurrencies can achieve widespread spending usage, if any of them ever do.
Right now, there’s already a lot of optimism backed in; bitcoins and other major cryptocurrencies are extremely expensive compared to their estimated current usage. Investors are assuming that they will achieve widespread adoption and are paying up accordingly. That means investors should apply considerable caution.
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2019-04-19T12:50:13Z
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https://www.lynalden.com/cryptocurrencies/
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Evaluation of lymph node (LN) status is an important factor for detecting metastasis and thereby staging breast cancer. Currently utilized clinical techniques involve the surgical disruption and resection of lymphatic structure, whether nodes or axillary contents, for histological examination. While reasonably effective at detection of macrometastasis, the majority of the resected lymph nodes are histologically negative. Improvements need to be made to better detect micrometastasis, minimize or eliminate lymphatic disruption complications, and provide immediate and accurate intraoperative feedback for in vivo cancer staging to better guide surgery.
We evaluated the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT), a high-resolution, real-time, label-free imaging modality for the intraoperative assessment of human LNs for metastatic disease in patients with breast cancer. We assessed the sensitivity and specificity of double-blinded trained readers who analyzed intraoperative OCT LN images for presence of metastatic disease, using co-registered post-operative histopathology as the gold standard.
Our results suggest that intraoperative OCT examination of LNs is an appropriate real-time, label-free, non-destructive alternative to frozen-section analysis, potentially offering faster interpretation and results to empower superior intraoperative decision-making.
Intraoperative OCT has strong potential to supplement current post-operative histopathology with real-time in situ assessment of LNs to preserve both non-cancerous nodes and their lymphatic vessels, and thus reduce the associated risks and complications from surgical disruption of lymphoid structures following biopsy.
The status of lymph nodes (LNs), with or without metastatic disease, is an important factor in staging cancer, determining appropriate therapies and offering a more accurate prognosis since the transport of primary cancer cells via the lymphatic system is one of the main pathways of metastasis to distant organs. Currently, for staging breast cancer, lymph node status is predominantly evaluated via sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), which involves the removal and analysis of the first, or sentinel, node(s) along the lymphatic chain of nodes draining the primary tumor [1, 2]. During breast cancer lumpectomy or mastectomy, SLNs are identified through the accumulation of a radioactive agent (Technetium-99) and/or blue dye (isosulfan or methylene) within the node, frequently resulting in the resection and submission of multiple nodes for subsequent, time-consuming, frozen-section or post-operative histopathological analysis [3–7].
While SLNB has progressively replaced axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for the initial evaluation of nodal involvement in breast cancer staging, a recent meta-analysis of intraoperative frozen-section analysis (47 studies, 13,062 patients total) has reported a mean sensitivity of 73 % and specificity of 100 % . Though this study illustrates that frozen-section has been reasonably successful in detecting macrometastatic disease (metastatic tumor cell foci > 2 mm) in SLNs (94 % sensitivity), micrometastatic disease (tumor cell foci of 0.2–2 mm) detection has proven to be evasive (40 % sensitivity), and post-operative hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining has shown false negative rates as high as 77 % [5–9]. Even random axillary sampling procedures and ALND limited to level 1 (lymph nodes located in the axilla) can miss metastases in 20–25 % of cases because of sampling limitations and the challenge of detecting cancer at the early stages [10, 11]. Additionally, approximately 75 % of resected nodes from all types of breast cancer are diagnosed tumor-free in post-operative permanent sections . Combined with the fact that the controversial practice of delayed ALND as a second procedure after SLNB micrometastasis detection has been shown to be “oncologically meaningless in 90 % of cases” , it can be seen that there is an unnecessary increase of surgical cost, time and patient risk of complications, such as lymphedema and/or sensory changes due to disruption and/or obstruction of the lymphatic drainage network [5, 12, 13]. Lymphedema is considered the most significant concern due to the lifelong risk following surgery, because it occurs in 13–27 % of breast cancer surgery patients, and because it could be refractory to treatment . All of these factors have fueled the ongoing debate of whether frozen-section examination in SLNB is beneficial to the patient due to the rates of surgical complications [11–18]. Thus, an intraoperative method for the in vivo assessment of SLN status that could replace frozen-section analysis by providing immediate and accurate feedback for cancer staging would thus reduce surgical complication risks by reducing the number of normal lymph nodes resected.
Current intraoperative cancer imaging or sensing techniques, such as ultrasound imaging or the detection of radioactive probes, are limited by low spatial resolution [19, 20]. These techniques, as well as x-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can provide LN size and general morphological information, but lack the resolution to reliably detect the presence of metastatic deposits smaller than 2 mm in the LN [21–23]. In several studies, near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging has been demonstrated to offer high sensitivity [24–26]. While these NIR fluorescent dye injections can be followed in real-time, the localization of the dye only shows the presence of the SLN, not whether the SLN contains metastatic disease [24–26]. Additionally, aside from ultrasound imaging, use of these screening modalities is largely disruptive to surgical workflow and prolong the procedure in much the same way as frozen-section. Therefore, the need for a superior technique to immediately, non-invasively and accurately assess LNs for the presence of metastatic disease remains.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides label-free, real-time, high-resolution, microstructural imaging not possible with other imaging modalities, and is therefore better suited for the more precise localization and detection of tumor tissue [27–32]. OCT is the optical analogue of ultrasound imaging, wherein tissue is illuminated with near-infrared light and the backscattered light is collected to construct non-invasive, depth-resolved tissue images. OCT imaging resolution is roughly a factor of 10–100× higher than clinical ultrasound imaging, however OCT cannot image as deeply. The 1–2 mm imaging penetration depth (depending on the tissue type) and the cellular-level resolution of OCT enables the imaging and identification of normal LN microstructure, such as the capsule, cortex, follicles and germinal centers [30, 33–36]. Infiltration of metastatic disease in the subcapsular region of a LN and other morphological changes associated with metastatic involvement can be identified as bright, highly scattering regions (of pixels) correlated to irregularly dense, homogeneous focal areas when real-time scanning of LN tissue is performed prior to and/or immediately following surgical resection [29, 30, 33–35]. Therefore, intraoperative OCT has the potential to assess LN architecture through an intact capsule and even, without having to physically resect the LN for analysis, providing valuable and accurate real-time feedback to the surgeon on the presence or absence of metastatic disease and potentially enabling the preservation of reactive but non-metastatic nodes, reducing the risk of lymphadema.
In this study, we evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of intraoperative three-dimensional OCT (3D-OCT) for the assessment of metastatic disease in SLNs resected during breast cancer surgery, when compared to the gold-standard post-operative histopathological assessment.
The study was conducted according to Declaration of Helsinki principles at two sites (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carle Foundation Hospital) in accordance to protocols approved by the Institutional Review Boards at the participating institutions. All participants provided informed written consent prior to enrollment for both ex vivo imaging of LNs and obtaining de-identified pathology reports. Eligible patients were ages 18 years or older, diagnosed with breast cancer and scheduled for surgical intervention with sentinel/axillary LN biopsy. This study included SLNB for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) cases, although the role of SLNB in DCIS cases remains controversial . Patients with known infectious blood borne diseases, such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), were excluded from this study. No subject was excluded based on race, ethnic group or gender. A total of 51 subjects were imaged, but only 42 were used in post-analysis based on OCT image evaluation inclusion criteria. A summary of the patient demographics and the related tissue and tumor types is shown in Table 1.
The portable system used for this study included a commercial spectral domain OCT system (Bioptigen, Inc., 633 Davis Dr., Suite 480, Morrisville, NC 27560) that employed a superluminescent diode as an optical source with a center wavelength of 1310 nm. Signal from this source was passed through a 50:50 optical fiber coupler that was equally split between the reference and sample arms, shown in Fig. 1. In the sample arm, galvanometers and objective lenses (with a fixed focus) were used to volumetrically scan the tissue specimen (5 × 5 × 2 mm) at 7.4 frames/sec (6 kHz A-scan rate) via raster collection of B-scans along the x-y plane. The acquired image datasets have 11 μm axial resolution and 11 μm transverse resolution. The power at the tissue specimen was 1 mW, lower than that found in most commercially available laser pointers. Optical signal reflections collected from the sample and reference arms were recombined at the 50:50 optical fiber coupler, collimated, acquired by the spectral line camera, and stored on the system computer. All images were acquired and post-operatively reviewed with a commercial software package (InVivoVue, Bioptigen, Inc.).
The subjects, as per standard of care, were injected with a radioactive agent (Technetium-99) and/or methylene blue dye prior to the lumpectomy or mastectomy procedure. Axillary LNs were identified by the accumulation of the injected agent and/or dye, resected individually or as an axillary contents specimen, and provided to the intraoperative research staff for 3D-OCT imaging prior to sending the tissue specimen(s) for routine histopathological examination. In a separate study, 3D-OCT imaging of ex vivo rat LNs containing these localization agents, compared to control LNs, demonstrated that the localization agents do not have a significant effect on the optical scattering or absorption properties in OCT images (data not included).
The tissue specimens were placed in sterile Petri dishes on a mounted, micrometer-positioning stage for optimizing the tissue alignment under the OCT sample arm beam to position the surface of the tissue as close to the top of the OCT imaging frame without risking image wrapping. 3D-OCT datasets were recorded from one or more locations per LN, depending on the size of the node, and marked with surgical ink, which was then set with acetic acid for subsequent correlation to histopathology. All tissue specimens were then returned to the operating room staff after no more than 10 min of OCT imaging (conducted in parallel with the ongoing surgical procedure) and sent for standard histological processing and pathological analysis. This was done under such time constraints so as to minimize impact on surgical procedure work flow, however, this did restrict the number of LNs that could be imaged during each surgery and any additional LNs resected could not be imaged and included in analysis.
We performed a double-blinded study comparing the assessment of OCT datasets to co-registered standard histopathology specimen analysis. A board-certified pathologist examined the co-registered regions on the histology slides to determine the presence of metastatic disease or other significant structural features that may be represented in the OCT image(s). Subsets of the 3D-OCT datasets that correlated with the corresponding histopathology were independently analyzed by three trained OCT readers and classified as “metastatic” or “non-metastatic”. These readers were trained using a correlated OCT-histology training set of four sample cases illustrating key OCT features of “metastatic” and “non-metastatic” cases prior to beginning the blinded analysis. Trained reader analysis of the OCT datasets was guided by the proposed decision tree, shown in Fig. 2, which was developed without input from the three readers. Datasets were not included for reader analysis if LN structure was not imaged due to limitations of OCT penetration depth and any overlying tissue obstruction, such as exceedingly thick surrounding adipose tissue (>2 mm) overlying the external capsule of the LN. The classification of individual OCT datasets was subsequently consolidated for each OCT observer. Use of a majority voting system for classifying each OCT dataset as cancerous or non-cancerous was supported by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis (Fig. 3). Furthermore, LNs that had multiple OCT imaging locations were identified as cancerous if any of the corresponding OCT datasets were classified as cancerous. These OCT analyses for each node were then compared to histological findings, as the gold standard, to calculate system sensitivity and specificity (95 % exact, small sample confidence intervals).
Our mobile cart-based intraoperative OCT system was utilized in 51 operations for patients with a preoperative diagnosis of carcinoma, wherein 184 3D-OCT image sets from 128 LNs were acquired immediately following surgical resection and prior to submission of the specimens for standard histopathological processing and analysis (Table 1). The ex vivo imaging sessions required between 5 and 10 min, depending on the size and number of tissue specimens, as well as the number of images acquired, comparatively a fraction of the time required for frozen-section processing and analysis. While most operations had fewer than 5 LNs resected and every LN was able to be imaged within the time constraint, there were several cases where 15–53 LNs were resected. During these cases, only a fraction of the LNs could be imaged and included in the study, without disrupting the surgical procedure workflow. Only 99 3D-OCT images of 76 lymph nodes from 42 operations were used in post-analysis, which, along with surgical imaging time constraints, was based on OCT image evaluation inclusion criteria, namely if the lymph node tissue was present in the correlated histology and OCT image region(s). In the other cases, LN tissue was absent from the OCT images due to excess overlying adipose tissue. Representative correlated cases of a normal non-metastatic human LN and a cancerous metastatic human LN are shown in Fig. 4. In comparison, representative correlated images of a false positive and a false negative case are shown in Fig. 5.
Similar to image-based representations in x-ray mammography, bright white regions in the OCT images indicate dense, highly scattering tissue potentially indicative of metastatic disease. Accordingly, a brief, sample training image set and decision tree (Fig. 2) were developed, from knowledge attained from prior work [30, 33–35]. This provided the three OCT-experienced readers with direction for identifying native LN anatomical structure, irregular highly scattering tissue localization and extension, and possible image artifacts from imaging limitations in surgery, such as too much overlying adipose or dense tissue affecting imaging penetration. Ultimately, each trained reader classified the LN OCT datasets as “metastatic” or “non-metastatic”. A majority voting system (2 “metastatic” classifications) was initially anticipated to be the most effective assessment method.
An ROC curve, a standard graphical means for analyzing a binary classifier system (i.e. metastatic vs. non-metastatic) , was utilized to visually validate which of the following methods was most effective for classifying LNs under the presented trained reader, post-operative OCT analysis: single “metastatic” reading from a trained OCT reader, majority vote or unanimous decision. Each individual reader’s sensitivity and specificity are also indicated and there is no statistically significant difference between individual readers when comparing each reader’s confidence interval. Majority voting, which is not unlike other decision-making procedures in diagnostics, was verified (Fig. 3) to be the most effective assessment method because it is the point quantifiably illustrated as the furthest from the “random guess” line and closest to the “perfect classification” point.
From majority voting OCT reader analysis, sensitivity and specificity were 58.8 % (95 % CI, 32.9–81.6) and 81.4 % (95 % CI, 69.1–90.3), respectively. Considered in other terms, hypothetically if OCT imaging were performed in situ with a hand-held surgical imaging probe, and OCT was used alone to guide LN resection in all of these cases without the use of an injectable tracer or palpation information, the procedures would have resulted in a total of only 21 resected LNs, instead of 76, over 42 surgeries. This would have reduced the total number of resected LNs by 72 % by preventing the unnecessary resection of 48 non-metastatic LNs, but forgoing the resection of 7 metastatic LNs. In this study, the confidence intervals for sensitivity are wide due to a limited number of positive (“metastatic”) sites, while the confidence intervals for specificity are narrower due to a larger number of negative (“non-metastatic”) sites imaged. The percentage of resected, positive (“metastatic”) LNs in our study was originally in accordance with the national standard (less than 10 %) [5, 11, 13]. Toward the end of the study, however, we specifically recruited pre-operative biopsy-proven positive cases to increase our proportion of positive LNs to 22 % in an attempt to develop a more balanced statistical analysis.
These results demonstrate that OCT has the potential to be an informative and rapid imaging modality for intraoperative assessment and surgical decision-making of metastatic disease in human lymph nodes. The high specificity indicates a low number of false positives (Fig. 5a and b), which means that when the LN is “non-metastatic”, our readers were more readily able to identify normal LN tissue (Fig. 4a and b). This could potentially enable the identification and reduced resection of truly non-reactive, normal LNs and thereby reduce the incidence of lymphedema. However, the moderate sensitivity indicates a poor number of false negatives (Fig. 5c and d), or when the LN is “metastatic”, our readers misidentified a cancerous LN for a non-cancerous one. This is in large part due to image artifacts that were also present in many prior ex vivo OCT imaging studies, and though this information was used to develop the brief, sample training image set and decision tree (Fig. 2), reader analysis difficulty persists [30, 33–35]. In some of these cases, the OCT signal intensity from a cancerous region(s) was shadowed or reduced by overlying, highly dense stromal tissue, producing a strong OCT signal reflection with diminished signal from deeper tissue (Fig. 5c and d). Additionally, in some cases, thick, overlying adipose tissue restricted the cancerous region in the middle of the LN to the bottom half of the OCT frame, where signal intensity is again weaker from scattering effects, refraction and shadowing, illustrated in Fig. 5c and d. Furthermore, in several cases, the overlying adipose layer was disrupted and/or lost due to its inherent fragility during histopathological processing. This can make correlation with OCT more difficult since the tissue marking inks can consequently be disrupted and/or lost during processing, constraining correlations to be made solely through matching LN morphology (Fig. 5d). While real-time, OCT-guided LN evaluation is non-destructive and less time consuming than frozen-section analysis, a frozen-section preparation provides deeper tissue visualization. Although the imaging team was restricted by our IRB protocol from doing so in this study, future intraoperative OCT use might require the removal or displacement of any overlying adipose tissue to better expose the LN capsule, maximize OCT imaging depth into the node, and improve overall signal quality through reduced scattering, refraction and shadowing artifacts. For suspicious and/or large tissue samples, hemisection followed by OCT imaging of the corresponding cut surfaces would enable imaging and visualization of deeper LN structures comparable to standard frozen-section analysis, while still remaining the faster of the two techniques.
Interestingly, in all false positive 3D-OCT datasets, the corresponding histology revealed crush artifacts and/or grossly reactive, yet histologically non-metastatic, nodules (Fig. 5b), which are much more dense than normal LN tissue and could produce higher optical scattering similar to that from metastatic cell infiltration (Fig. 4c). The crush artifacts could also be attributed to tissue trauma during resection or gross histopathological sectioning, and therefore in situ imaging could reduce the occurrence of these artifacts in the OCT images. Given that the current surgical standard supports resection of suspicious LNs, OCT may offer the most surgical benefit by providing additional means for identifying normal LNs and thereby reduce unnecessary resection of additional LNs beyond the true SLNs, thereby reducing unnecessary surgical disruption of lymphoid tissue and associated lymphatic vessels.
Further improvements in OCT resolution, through the incorporation of computed imaging techniques such as interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) [38, 39] and computational adaptive optics (CAO) [40, 41] could further enhance the real-time diagnostic capabilities of OCT in the operating room. Use of injectable magnetic nanoparticles , such as iron oxide, has shown promise as an alternative to the current radiotracers or dyes, as well as a method for improving OCT image quality and cancer detection when coupled with magnetomotive OCT . Optical needle probes used for beam-delivery in OCT systems could be inserted into suspicious in vivo LNs to provide greater OCT imaging depth penetration while minimizing tissue disruption, especially compared to LN hemisection [44–46]. Additionally, improvements in OCT data acquisition rates could facilitate faster intraoperative imaging of all exposed tissue surfaces, whether in vivo or across an ex vivo specimen, to construct a more complete evaluation, especially when coupled with ISAM and CAO . These techniques could be integrated into surgical systems to improve OCT depth resolution and acquisition speed in real-time, and enable further improved detection of metastases not possible with current medical imaging technology. Further improvements and coupling with optical molecular imaging techniques like nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging (NIVI) of intrinsic molecular markers could produce a more sensitive and accurate color-coded image differentiating cancer from normal tissues .
Although all LN metastases evaluated in this study were classified as macrometastases, ongoing work with an intraoperative handheld OCT probe functioning with near-cellular resolution could lead to identification of LN metastases smaller than 2 mm. Additionally, future intraoperative OCT-guided assessment of in situ LNs by the surgeon will incorporate additional key information that will contribute towards diagnosis. Although there are limitations to OCT, such as under-sampling while imaging, and the extended time needed for scanning/sampling an entire node, these limitations are also present in frozen-section analysis. Furthermore, while our trained readers were blinded during their assessment of only the 3D-OCT datasets, intraoperative surgical OCT-guided assessment will be accompanied by far more subject case and procedural knowledge, such as pre-operative findings, LN size, visual and palpable features and the presence of injectable radiotracer and/or dye. Therefore, future studies incorporating intraoperative in vivo 3D-OCT assessment by surgeons will likely facilitate a more practical evaluation of OCT compared to frozen-section analysis. The potential role for a surgical pathologist to review and interpret the real-time 3D-OCT data during the surgical procedure also exists, as an alternative to their role in sectioning, staining and interpreting frozen-section histopathology. While real-time, 3D-OCT transcapsule imaging will not likely replace surgical specimen histopathology (where true cellular and molecular diagnostics are achieved), it does enable advantages for both assessment speed and in vivo imaging, which are preferred over any ex vivo technique when considering tissue conservation. Use of an intraoperative handheld probe for in vivo assessment of breast cancer could also enable LN evaluation prior to removal, and a potential corresponding reduction of risk of complications such as lymphedema. Therefore, OCT could provide a more effective means for LN assessment and intraoperative cancer staging while potentially reducing unnecessary surgery time and the time and costs associated with extensive frozen-section or post-operative histopathology for the large number of histologically normal LNs.
Current intraoperative cancer imaging and sensing techniques are limited by low spatial resolution and a clear need remains for a superior technique that can non-invasively and accurately assess LNs for the presence of metastatic disease. Intraoperative OCT has strong potential to supplement current post-operative histopathology with real-time in situ assessment of LNs to preserve both non-cancerous nodes and their lymphatic vessels. Use of such technology could reduce the associated risks and complications from surgical disruption of lymphoid structures following biopsy.
The authors would like to thank Barbara Hall from the Carle Cancer Center and Carle Foundation Hospital Research Office, as well as all the surgical and nursing staff for providing research and logistical support for this study. We also thank Darold Spillman from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology for operations and information technology support. This research was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01 EB012479 and R01 CA166309). Additional information can be found at: http://biophotonics.illinois.edu.
Stephen A. Boppart is co-founder, Chief Medical Officer and consultant for Diagnostic Photonics, Inc., which is licensing intellectual property from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign related to Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy. He also receives royalties for patents licensed by MIT related to optical coherence tomography. For the remaining authors, none were declared.
RMN participated in the intraoperative OCT imaging, histology digitizing and OCT correlation, histology analysis, decision tree design, statistical analysis and drafting the manuscript. SGA participated in the intraoperative OCT imaging, decision tree design, trained reader analysis, statistical analysis and drafting the manuscript. MM participated in the study design, histology analysis, trained reader analysis and drafting the manuscript. EJC participated in the intraoperative OCT imaging, histology analysis and drafting the manuscript. FAS participated in the intraoperative OCT imaging, histology digitizing and OCT correlation, and drafting the manuscript. GLM participated in the intraoperative OCT imaging and trained reader analysis. NDS, SJE and RLS participated in the decision tree design and trained reader analysis. AJB participated in the trained reader analysis. DGS participated in the study design, statistical analysis and drafting the manuscript. KAC performed the surgeries. ZGL conducted the histology analysis. PSR performed the surgeries and participated in the drafting of the manuscript. SAB led the study design and participated in the decision tree design, statistical analysis and drafting of the manuscript. All authors have read and have approved this manuscript for publication.
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2019-04-21T08:58:13Z
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https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-016-2194-4
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Identify and engage the five senses on an outdoor expedition. Interactive activities along the trail connect students to the natural world as they listen for birds, smell culinary herbs, and explore the textures and colors of the environment.
Categorize different objects as living or non-living. Learn about the characteristics that distinguish living things from non-living things as you interact with live animals and plants.
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Did you know that a dragonfly starts its life crawling around the mucky floor of the pond? Many plants and animals go through various stages throughout their life. Explore and compare life cycles of frogs, turtles, butterflies, dragonflies and more.
Students will investigate the buoyancy of fish and life cycles of frogs, get up close and personal with the reptile world, and appreciate the complexity of building a bird nest.
Seeds dance on the wind, plop to the ground, and stick to your shirt. Experience a plant’s life as you discover the diverse nature of seeds.
Explore the stream behind the nature center and discover an amazingly diverse community. Students will observe, investigate, and identify the plant and animal life of the stream, discovering who calls the stream home.
Learn about owls’ unique adaptations for nocturnal life and dissect an owl pellet to find and identify prey bones that can be taken home with you! Up close study of owl feathers, bones and pictures teach the importance of these animals as top predators.
Flowers, grasses, shrubs and trees are all very important parts of a healthy ecosystem. Learn the basic plant parts with a 3D plant model, discover what they provide to animals, and learn how their amazing life cycles work. Optional activity – flower dissection.
Investigate the tools and techniques of maple syrup. Students will explore forest habitat, use techniques of tree identification for Sugar Maple trees, and explore the rich history of maple sugaring. Only available mid-March.
Students will examine feathers and nests and learn about form and function in a hands-on activity and game. Take a nature hike with binoculars to observe wild birds in their natural habitat.
Soils are essential to life on Earth! Investigate the properties of different soil types by looking at their particles and how much water they can hold. Learn about the important role soil has for plants, animals, and us!
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Ecosystems include live plants and animals as well as nonliving components such as soil, air and water. Take a close look at some of West Virginia’s ecosystems, their food webs and how those ecosystems change over time.
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Take a trip to the stream to explore the aquatic life and learn what its diversity reveals about the biological health of the water and local watershed. Students participate in observation, collection, and identification of fish and macroinvertebrates, as well as abiotic testing of the stream.
Learn about the life and techniques of Henri Matisse, create shapes & designs using paper collage.
Discover the different methods used in clay hand building such as pinch, coil and slab construction to create an original 3D sculpture.
This program integrates art, science and history through the Japanese pottery form of Raku. Students will learn about Japanese culture, create hand built teacups from clay, observe the Raku firing process and participate in a Japanese Tea Ceremony. Available year-round. Program will be offered in 3 one-hour sessions.
Art Explorers is a traveling Art History program that enables schools to choose prints and hands-on art projects from 13 different time periods in art history. All materials such as patterns, tools, inks, clay and more are included with each lesson. Available year-round. OI staff can instruct the program or schools may rent the kit(s).
Using stop-motion animation, which is created by physically manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame at a time. Students will use Lego bricks, clay and wire to create 3-D animated movies. Available year-round. 4 hours – $400. Maximum of 24 students.
Learn clay techniques such as wheel throwing and hand building. 24 student limit.
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Children work as a group playing imagination games and then take turns bringing their favorite stories to life. Available September – March.
Learn the art of improvisation and how with a simple suggestion a scene or monologue can be made up on the spot. Available September – March.
Through five, 45-minute class sessions, students learn to observe and recognize how movement and dance help resolve conflict and build character. Students learn basic dance and ballet terms and choreography. Students read a ballet story, discuss important elements of the story and create an interactive dance piece to be performed on the last session. Available Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings.
Stress flexibility, muscle development and control using chairs & floor.
Try some “down home” dancing. Learn basic clogging steps and a short routine set to Appalachian music.
Through five, 45-minute class sessions, students will combine science and dance to identify and understand the movement of the planets. Students will also design a “take home” solar system and enjoy a choreographed dance number. Available in May only.
Tour focuses on the history, products and importance of the Wheeling glass companies. See more than 3,500 pieces of glass and china that were produced locally and experience the excitement of how glass is made and used through a live glassblowing demonstration. Observing the artists at work enhances each student’s Museum experience by broadening understanding of the art: the physics and chemistry of glass, as well as its cultural and historical aspects. (Pre-lesson vocabulary and materials are available.) $4.25 per student for single museum. $6.25 per student for both museums.
Hot Glass Roadshow is a fully operational traveling glassblowing studio complete with propane fired glass furnace. Our glass artist will demonstrate the process of creating art glass from molten form to finished product. Teacher packets including the historical significance of the glass industry, tools and equipment used in glass production and a glassworking vocabulary list are included. Hot Glass Roadshow is available as an assembly program in the fall and spring. $350. Call 304-242-7272 for more information.
While relating the story of Earl Oglebay and the Oglebay family (for whom the Mansion was a second home in which they lived seasonally from 1901-1926), the tour teaches students about life in the Ohio Valley from the era of George Washington to the times of the Titanic. Tour includes the historic Oglebay Mansion, the Wheeling History exhibit, Wymer General Store, and Oglebay family exhibits. $4.25 per student for single museum. $6.25 per student for both museums.
Monument Place, also know as the Osiris Temple in Elm Grove, is the most historic house in Wheeling. Built by Moses and Lydia Shepherd in 1798, the home was visited by six US presidents and other early American dignitaries such as Henry Clay. This Power Point presentation illustrates the history of this grand building.
This Power Point presentation explores the history of America’s first federally funded highway, now Route 40, from its construction by the Shepherd family and its use as a National highway traveled by presidents and people moving westward, as well as its use as a local road today.
From its history as a major transportation route during the French and Indian War and its role in founding Wheeling to its use as a highway for industry, the Ohio River is one of the most important features in Wheeling history. This Power Point presentation chronicles the history and stories of the river from steamboats to barges.
Wheeling boasted several amusement parks, including Wheeling Park, the West Virginia State fairground on Wheeling Island, Mozart Park, and Luna Park, located on an island on the Ohio River that is no longer in existence. All of these featured wooden roller coasters and other rides and amusements. Wheeling Park boasted West Virginia’s first water slide while the state fairgrounds featured the state’s largest swimming pool! This Power Point presentation features a look at Wheeling’s amusement parks taken from the postcard collection of Ellen Dunable.
How did people in Wheeling travel before the automobile? This Power Point presentation looks a public transportation in the city from horse-drawn trolleys to trolleys powered by steam and electricity. Wheeling was one of America’s first cities to adopt the electric trolley, and even had its own incline. A history of the B & O Railroad is also featured.
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2019-04-25T12:19:08Z
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https://oionline.com/schoolprograms/elementary/
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The CEO of China’s second-largest dairy company describes how data and artificial intelligence are shaking up how he does business.
Twenty kilometers outside of central Beijing sits the sprawling headquarters of China Mengniu Dairy, China’s second-largest dairy company. It might not boast the same glossy exterior as China’s colossal technology companies’ campuses, and CEO Jeffrey, Minfang Lu admits that the dairy industry suffers from a less-than-innovative image, but behind modest doors lies a rapidly modernizing business.
Armed with more data than its people can currently compute, Mengniu Dairy is embarking on an effort to bring the centuries-old industry up to date through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in China and beyond. As it does, the company hopes to innovate across everything from manufacturing and supply chains to product development and marketing.
As with everything in China, the scale of the ambition is huge. Each year, the company sells 12 billion packets of product, chiefly milk and yogurt products, which are produced across 58 manufacturing sites and more than 1,000 manufacturing lines in China. In addition to the impressive scale of production, the company has access to 20 million “active” consumers who share information about their product preferences and lifestyle habits through e-commerce and social channels. Mengniu Dairy’s product-development, forecasting, manufacturing, and marketing teams interpret these data, albeit not fast enough.
By tapping into consumer trends that extend beyond the immediate product, Mengniu Dairy hopes to make milk and yogurt more appealing among a younger, savvier Chinese consumer. A recent, and notable, example saw milk products featured in a kung fu film alongside Alibaba CEO Jack Ma and kung fu star Jet Li. China is in the midst of a transition from a country of people who do not drink much milk and have perceptions of lactose intolerance to one where consumption catches up with the research showing that 80 percent of Chinese people can drink 200 milliliters of milk at a meal without adverse reaction. Plans are afoot to expand Mengniu Dairy’s physical footprint, too, beyond China’s borders and into Southeast Asia to capitalize on the government’s Belt and Road Initiative.
In December 2017, Mr. Lu sat down with McKinsey Quarterly to share more about the company’s digital-transformation plan and how he hopes technology can help its leaders better understand ever-changing Chinese consumption habits.
The Quarterly: How are some of the well-documented changing consumer habits shaping your business?
Mr. Lu: One of the big changes is that consumers are more mobile than before. People are on the move, they are traveling, and they have a mobile phone wherever they go. We need to really take this seriously and see how it will impact our model, and our route to market, and the way we communicate with customers. In the past, you will see consumers go to a supermarket, buy enough stock for one month, and go back each month, and your job is done. This is no longer going to happen. Consumers have more choice. They can go to a small convenience store; they can use their mobile apps and have a product delivered to their home.
The Quarterly: How are you using digital technology to tap into the changing consumer behavior?
Mr. Lu: The new environment is all about data. If you look at our industry, you will see a very long supply chain all the way from grass to glass. You can collect data from farms and even from individual cows. When you go into the supply-chain side and into manufacturing, you have much more data. When you look at our logistics, we have a huge amount of milk, which is transported across the nation. And then, on the consumer side, you see consumers buying our products online, communicating with us online—and so there is a lot of consumer transactional and interaction data.
Across our entire chain of our business, data is available for us to translate into knowledge about our business. But it’s all about how to use this data to empower our decision making across our business activities.
More and more, this is about using AI to help us to improve our ability to do further analysis. Our capability to calculate and to analyze this data relies on us using the newest knowledge.
Just for example, at Mengniu, we collect four million tons of milk each year. We sell 12 billion packs of product to our consumer, and we have 58 manufacturing sites, more than 1,000 manufacturing lines, more than 2,000 SKUs. If you put everything together, honestly, humans cannot do this analysis anymore.
So today, we have kicked off some big projects—with Alibaba, for example—to use AI to analyze our supply chain, to tell us where we should manufacture products, to tell us where we should collect the milk, and to tell us how we can transport these products to our customers so that we get the maximum efficiency out of all this data.
The Quarterly: That is a great example of how data are helping you tackle productivity challenges internally. Can you talk about any other initiatives that will help you better understand your customers?
Mr. Lu: On the consumer side, we built an internal capability to get the consumer data out of a huge database. We have 20 million consumers who are actively talking to us in our data bank monthly. We know exactly who they are, how they behave, and how they interact with us, and we use this to adjust our product and adjust our formulation in order to meet their needs.
At the same time, consumers are also able to get access to more of the services and products that we are offering, either through an online channel or through membership interaction or through a microcommunity.
So again, this gives a lot more transparency over how we run our business. We can forecast for the next day instead of a month later. And we can read consumer trends—whether they like more sugar, less sugar. They may also tell us where they go in terms of what entertainment programs, dramas, and movies they are watching. This provides a lot of possibility for us to get the access to our consumer but also to give our consumer the ability to access us.
The Quarterly: How do you see the changes you have been describing playing out over the next few years?
Mr. Lu: We need to see how we can use these changes in the market to actively engage with our consumers, to provide personalized, individualized products for the young and old, because they all have different needs.
For example, we are working on how to get our product to be more interesting and to have a different taste profile that appeals to a younger audience. How can we give consumers much more than nutrition? We need to give them enjoyment. We need to give them excitement.
We also want to work on the image of Mengniu, to become younger looking and more fashionable. We cannot blame consumers for not liking milk or our packaging. If we do these two things right, then I think we will be part of a consumer’s healthy enjoyment of life rather than just a pack of milk sitting in the fridge.
The Quarterly: If China’s bold Belt and Road Initiative does indeed open the borders to increased outbound and inbound trade, what is the opportunity for Mengniu Dairy to become a global brand?
Mr. Lu: Now, honestly, Mengniu is still very much a Chinese company. But whereas in the past, the Chinese government or Chinese companies were very good in terms of exporting machine equipment and infrastructure capabilities, today we find, given the One Belt, One Road strategy, there is opportunity for a consumer-goods company like us. We are expanding into markets like Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Bangladesh; we find huge opportunity in these markets.
For example, I was in Indonesia recently. It’s amazing because in Jakarta, an area of 15 million people, we know the consumers and they like our product. If we take our product there, we will find out that there are a lot of similar products and that they have the same preference [as Chinese consumers]. We have tested two products in this market and got very, very good feedback.
It also gives us opportunities to expand our products. In Southeast Asia, ice cream is a very important category because, unlike China, you have no seasonality. You can eat ice cream every day. And the same thing for the fresh dairy products. Some of these markets are like China 20 years ago, like in Myanmar and Bangladesh. We understand the consumer and the category trends as well as the country trends.
With One Belt, One Road, there is support from the local countries that are more open to a Chinese company running business there. Alibaba is there. We can see Jingdong is there. We can see also Xiaomi and Vivo—they are all there. This is a different ecosystem today than in the past.
The Quarterly: Can you explain the motivation behind your recent film collaboration with Alibaba and Jack Ma?
Mr. Lu: It was interesting because the motivation for the film came from Alibaba—and from Jack Ma, who wanted to change the impression of kung fu to make it fun, interesting, and part of modern Chinese culture and bring it to the front of the consumer mind. This was the purpose of the film, and that also resonates with what we at Mengniu want to do as well. We are not just a milk manufacturer telling you what we can do; we want to be part of your life.
Jeffrey, Minfang Lu is the CEO and executive director of China Mengniu Dairy. This interview was conducted by Lois Bennett, a member of McKinsey Publishing who is based in McKinsey’s Shanghai office; Daniel Hui, an associate partner in the Hong Kong office; Udo Kopka, a senior partner in the Hamburg office; and Daniel Zipser, a senior partner in the Shanghai office.
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https://tradinginsider.fr/2018/03/mckinsey-quarterly-digitizing-dairy-in-china/
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The rising cost of gas and lodging is making the pre-admission college tour more costly. Here are some ways to cut back.
When Irene Koehler and her 17-year-old daughter, Ariela, set off to visit four colleges and universities in Southern California this fall, they knew they would have to approach their trip with a frugal eye.
So instead of flying, the two drove 1,700 miles roundtrip, starting from their home in Fremont, Calif., got bargain deals on hotels using travel Web sites like priceline.com, and ate their meals out of a cooler in their car trunk or at school cafeterias. It was just one of a number of creative cost-saving concessions the mother and daughter duo employed (or deployed) during their trip.
"I was thinking when we got to this point, we'd have an East Coast trip like a lot of families do and hit on opportunities to see a number of schools that are farther away," said Koehler, who estimates her family saved about $1,000 on the California trip. "But it is just not financially practical now. We needed to have a different plan"
The college tour, a coming-of-age ritual for high school juniors and seniors, is becoming prohibitively expensive for many families as the economy slides into recession and the cost of gasoline, hotels, and restaurants skyrocket. With the average cost of applying to a group of colleges—application fees, exams, and campus visits included—in the range of $3,500, the campus tour is an easy target for budget cutters.
Families like the Koehlers are eliminating visits to out-of-state colleges, using virtual college fairs and online tours and sending their children on group tours of schools. Some are deciding to postpone trips until their child has been accepted into the school, while others are only visiting schools within driving distance from their homes.
This trend is likely to become more pronounced in the coming year because of the economy, said James Boyle, president of the group College Parents of America. And then there's the option of eliminating school visits altogether. "There are always a fair number of students who don't go on tours," Boyle said. "You're probably going to see more of that happening now."
Most schools offer virtual tours on their Web sites, a good way to get an initial feel for the campus and the school's offerings, said David Hawkins, director of public policy and research at the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). This can help families whittle down the number of schools on their list for visits. "If you do your initial legwork online, then you might have a much more realistic and economical college tour planning process on your hands," he says. There are also a number of Web sites with tools that allow you to compare schools by enrollment, costs, academic programs, graduation rates, student life, and learning outcomes. For example, sites like www.collegeportraits.org, launched in September, offers data on more than 300 public four-year colleges and universities, while U-CAN offers similar information on 728 private colleges and universities. Armed with information like this, parents can take a more "strategic" approach to the college visit, Hawkins said.
Many students will make two trips to college campuses, one when they're figuring out what schools to apply to and another after they've been accepted. One way to cut this cost in half is to eliminate one of those trips, said Katherine Cohen, CEO of ApplyWise.com and an admissions expert. If a family decides not to travel to schools in the fall, students can still express their interest in a school by meeting with an admissions officer at a local recruiting event, Cohen said. She recommends students check with schools to see when admissions officers will be visiting a nearby city. "Admissions officers are all over the world recruiting students, so they will probably be somewhere near you at some point during the year," she said.
Some parents worry that their child will not have a good chance at getting into a school unless they visit the school in person, said William McClintick, director of college counseling at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. He recommends that families check with the school to see if it uses "level of interest"—going on a campus tour or having an interview with an admissions officer—as a factor in the admissions process. If it doesn't, then that's a case where the family can hold off on the expense of a visit until they find out they've been admitted, he said.
Most families these days are hard pressed to have the money to pay for both a vacation and visits to college campuses. So why not combine the two? This is what Louise Horgan did when her two twin daughters, seniors at Communications High School in Wall, N.J., did when they started looking at art and design colleges this year. Over the summer, they made treks to Washington, Providence, and Savannah, Ga. They stayed with family whenever possible, looked for deals on midweek hotel prices, and took a handful of day trips to places like Philadelphia and New York. Horgan said her approach saved her $2,500. "We called all our college visits mini-vacations to conserve on money."
Hotel rates vary widely. Many colleges have agreements with local hotels and motels on special rates or upgrades for visitors. For instance, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has deals with several hotels, said Dan Rosenfield, the school's dean of enrollment management. "Schools are doing this more than ever because they want to give parents as many options as possible in different price ranges," he said. It might also be worth checking with a school's residential life office to see if it has any programs geared towards families who plan to say overnight in the area. For example, Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., runs guest housing programs, where alumni and families who live nearby host visiting families for as little as $20 to $45 a night. Other schools, especially the large state ones, will often let families stay overnight in a dormitory, another cost-effective option, admissions officers said.
Another way to cut back is by eliminating any visits to schools that require a plane ride or an overnight stay. Families can also save by carpooling when traveling to campuses, saving on gas and other expenses, said Robert Bardwell, a guidance counselor at Monson High School in Monson, Mass. He said he has noticed more of his students visiting schools that are only two or three hours away. "I think these might be conversations families are having because there is no need to visit a school far away if it's not going to work because they can't afford it," he said.
One way a student can see a lot of schools in a short period is by signing up for a college tour with a trip organizer. There are several college tour groups that cater exclusively to high school students and take them on a whirlwind tour of nearly a dozen colleges over five or six days. One group that organizes these trips is College Visits, which plans trips to 10 or 12 schools over the course of a week. The prices of these trips range anywhere from $285 to $1,900 and include hotels and meals. "It's a great way to see a lot of schools for not a lot of money and can be much less expensive than if you do it on your own," says Applywise's Cohen.
One of the newest trends on the college admission scene is online college fairs, events where students can visit with college admissions officers in virtual booths. This can be a great option for parents who can't afford to visit out-of-state schools. One of the largest online fairs is CollegeWeekLive, which will be having its fourth fair on Nov. 12 and 13. In addition to the admissions chats, programming includes live video presentations with college admissions experts and video chats with current college students discussing their campus experiences. Organizers expect that this year's fair will be the largest event, with 200 schools participating and close to 50,000 students logging in. "More schools than ever are participating because they know that parents and students are not going to be able to visit in the numbers the way they have in recent years," said Robert Rosenbloom, president and CEO of CollegeWeekLive. "They have to do make themselves more available and this is a highly interactive way to do it."
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http://www.chicagoacademic.com/bid/233009/Saving-On-College-Visits
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First the good news to report. Our first week with our Alchemy of Core Beliefs students went very well. I’m still on track with blogging, and set up my blogging schedule for February. It really helps me to have a schedule, even though the deadlines are my own. That way it shows up on my calendar and I don’t forget. BlackLion and I finished refining our Feline Dreamers Road Map for 2016, and we’re both really excited about all the things we have planned. It feels ambitious, but in a good way – a positive challenge for us.
On the other hand, I’m bummed to report that my Mom ended up in the hospital again. She’s feeling pretty well, actually, but her blood test indicated that levels were low that needed to be high, and ones that were supposed to be low, weren’t. I know, that doesn’t make much sense, but we must trust that the doctors know what they’re doing, and that she’s in the place she needs to be.
We did a little bit of work on our novel revisions, but got kind of sidetracked. I also haven’t started on the Heart of the Goddess project. But both of those projects are on our schedule for this coming week, so that feels good.
Continue to work with BlackLion on revising our novel draft.
Get started on the new Heart of the Goddess writing project.
Create a list of local bookstores and shops I can ask to sell my books.
I think that’s enough for this time around. I have a fairly busy week, and I don’t want to get overwhelmed.
May your week be full of joy and inspiration!
This week has been much more calm, so far. I’ve managed to catch up on some blogging, and have made some progress on other projects on my list.
It’s been fun diving into the revisions and rewrites for our novel. It’s a good story, and although it needs a lot of work, I can see the potential. We can polish it up until it shines, I think, and becomes a really great story. That’s the objective, anyway.
Our first live call with our Alchemy of Core Beliefs students went really well. I’m so thrilled that they are already gaining deep insights from the course, even as early as the first day. I know the course content is quite good, but it’s nice to have further confirmation from a new set of students, and I love being able to help people expand their understanding of themselves and their core beliefs. Also, one of the blog posts I wrote was inspired by a discussion we had on the call.
Had a wonderful call with our Alchemy students.
Made some good initial progress with our novel revisions.
Mom is feeling much better. She sounded cheerful on the phone today, for the first time in a long time.
Wrote four blog posts in two days. I’m on a roll!
Got some more work done on my Leonie Dawson Life planner.
Had a good planning call that is part of my biz coaching program.
Gave a presentation to my women’s group at the UU church, which went pretty well. Several of the ladies told me they found it valuable.
I hope the rest of your week is full of fun and inspiration!
I managed to miss the Wednesday update, but that’s because it was just not the week I’d planned to have. My Dad was in the Emergency Room on Sunday. They sent him home with some meds for his back, and he’s getting better. Then my Mom ended up there on Wednesday! She had to stay over a couple of nights in the hospital, though she too is home now and on the mend. What a stressful week, though!
Despite the family crises, I did manage to get to some of my work. Blogging was something that slipped, and I didn’t get started on my new Heart of the Goddess project just yet. But that’s okay.
Since I didn’t find time to post on Wednesday, I’ll share both celebrations and mini-goals in this combined post.
My parents are both home now and doing better.
We have 6 students signed up for our Alchemy of Core Beliefs course, which begins tomorrow. I’m so excited to get started!
I had a very successful book signing yesterday at The Sage in Scarborough, Maine, for Centered In Spirit.
BlackLion and I have been working our revisions on our The Door Is The Key novel. It’s going well. We’ve got more sessions planned, too – we found that we work on it more consistently if we plan the sessions into our schedule.
I’ve been doing more exercise – in the form of dancing around the kitchen. Between that and my better eating habits, I’ve lost 7 pounds so far this year. Yay!
Finish making plans for 2016 and filling out my planners accordingly.
Have a terrific first week with our Alchemy of Core Beliefs students.
Get back on track with blogging.
That’s all for now. May your week go according to plan!
My week was pretty productive, overall. The promotion for our online course, Alchemy of Core Beliefs, is going pretty well. I’m still working on the 2016 road map for our business, with all our plans – I’m now creating projects and timelines in Asana, which is the app that BlackLion and I are using to manage our tasks. I still have more writing to do in my Leonie Dawson planners, but I’ll get to it this week.
I’m keeping up to date with blogging, which feels good. I’m now 53 percent of the way through reading Joanna Penn’s How to Make a Living With Your Writing.
In the process of cleaning my room, where I’d stashed a bunch of things that I didn’t know what to do with when we rearranged downstairs, I got a start on organizing and de-cluttering the eaves. With a craft store gift card my Mom gave me, I purchased a craft storage unit that holds things like paper, glue sticks, scissors, markers, colored pencils, etc.
BlackLion and I had our first revision session for The Door Is The Key, book 1. The last time we had worked on it was back in April! We’re using the book Rock Your Revisions by Cathy Yardley, and we’re fairly well along in the first section of the process, which involves evaluating where we need to revise, combine scenes, write new ones, etc. I’m looking forward to getting to the part where we actually get to write stuff. But that’s coming.
This week, my weekly mini-goals look much like last week’s. But that’s okay, because I’ve been making progress on all of them. The only addition is that there’s a new writing project calling my name.
Continue to promote Alchemy and fill more slots.
Stay up to date with blogging.
Work with BlackLion on revising our The Door Is the Key novel draft.
Get started on the Heart of the Goddess writing project.
I hope your week is full of words!
I really like this new system of doing mini-goals on Sunday and celebrations on Wednesday. That combined with the Leonie Dawson planners is rocking my world! I’m getting stuff done and having fun in the process, and not getting so frazzled about time management. Woo hoo!
Celebrating my daughter (my youngest child) and her 17th birthday tomorrow! She’s such an awesome, creative, beautiful, compassionate young woman.
I’ve been making great progress with my grand plans for 2016. BlackLion and I had our Feline Dreamers summit yesterday and figured out what we’ll be creating and offering this year. It’s gonna be a doozy! I’m thrilled.
My promotion of the Alchemy of Core Beliefs course is going well thus far.
I blogged this week, and set up plans and a system for future posts. I’m going to plan my posts monthly, which seems to be a good length of time for me.
BlackLion and I have several sessions of revision work in our calendar now, this week and next. After we finish those, we’ll schedule some more.
So, things are going well and I look forward to the rest of the week being as productive as this first part has been. I’ve also been inspired with some more writing ideas, so I’m taking notes on those things. I’m thankful I now have a working system for fitting all of these creative projects into my daily life.
Have a fantastic week and I’ll talk with you on Sunday!
I’m still in the midst of planning for 2016, even though we’re more than a week into the new year. I’m really enjoying the process, since it involves the delightful and colorful Shining Year planners created by Leonie Dawson. There are so many cool things in the works for this year!
Other than writing in the planners, and in my journal, most of my writing this week has been in the form of correspondence. We’re gearing up to offer our online course, The Alchemy of Core Beliefs, later this month, so I’ve been following up with those who are interested, and reaching out to others. It’s going well so far.
Write blog posts and create a plan for future posts.
Set up times to work with BlackLion on revising our The Door Is the Key novel draft. We’ve been away from this for many months and I’m ready to get back to work on it!
I hope your week goes well and is full of inspiration and new words. Blessings!
Wow, it’s Wednesday already? One of the things I’ve learned about in my coaching course is that it’s really valuable to celebrate, regularly, the things that you achieve. Even the small things. Which I think is something we do here in ROW 80, as well, but I thought I’d put some extra effort into it.
Since I usually post my list of mini-goals on Sundays, I think I’ll do celebration lists on Wednesdays. Sounds like good plan.
Wrote and sent my January post for Kind Over Matter. It was published today. I’m really pleased that I was asked to stay on as a monthly contributor for 2016. Woo hoo!
Offered a free virtual workshop last night with BlackLion, called A Self-Worth Tune-Up: Gear Up for an Amazing 2016! We had 10 participants on the call and most of them spoke up and shared what they were learning. We got some very positive feedback about it! I’m so thrilled. They especially liked the guided meditation I wrote for the workshop.
Made my 2016 vision board, featuring my word of the year, AUTHENTIC.
I’m 30 percent of the way through reading Joanna Penn’s How to Make a Living With Your Writing. It’s great so far; I like her books.
That’s my week so far. Now I’m working on getting our promotion all finalized for our online course, The Alchemy of Core Beliefs, which will be starting up on January 25th, and various other things on my list. Plus finishing up the planning process for 2016.
Ready for an Amazing 2016!
Happy New Year everyone! I’ve chosen my word of the year for 2016, which is AUTHENTIC. I’ve started working on my Leonie Dawson Biz and Life planners. I wrote up my Round 1 goals – and then I got hit with a stomach virus this weekend. Yikes! Talk about being forced to slow down. Today I’m a bit shaky, but definitely on the mend.
Even so, I’m ready for an amazing 2016. So without further ado, here are my goals for this Round.
Work on revising and editing The Door Is the Key book 1 (TDITK1). Finish the first pass of revisions using Rock Your Revisions. Complete re-writes and added scenes as necessary. Do the first complete proof-reading edit.
Re-read draft of Patterns in the Void and make initial revision notes.
Continue my craft & business learning. Participate fully in my In Arms Coaching biz program. Read at least 3 books about writing craft and/or making a living as a writer. Check out a couple of writer podcasts. Keep notes on ideas to use, and begin implementing them.
Finish planning for 2016. Finalize our Feline Dreamers road map for 2016. Make a 2016 vision board. Finish filling out my Leonie Dawson Biz and Life planners. Add timelines for goals to online and paper planners.
Complete various behind-the-scenes marketing tasks: Add my author name domain to my website(s). Add a Call to Action (CTA) to my Cultivating Self-Love e-book. Decide if we still want to create weekday Fae Musings e-mails for our Feline Dreamers subscribers, and if yes, do so. Add new folks to both of our mailing lists.
De-clutter and organize my life, creating beautiful spaces. Clean and organize my upstairs desk and filing cabinets. Finish our “punch list” for the rest of the downstairs project. De-clutter and organize the eaves. Create the photo gallery for the stairwell wall.
Make inspiring art and music. Practice zentangling. Create new scrapbook pages and art journal pages. Take nature photographs to use on my websites and blog posts. Practice drumming regularly.
Expand my spiritual awareness and the integration of all aspects of my life. Pay attention to my dreams and keep records of them. Set intentions before sleep and upon waking. Meditate and do my chakra clearing daily.
Enhance my physical health. Devote time to daily exercise, including but not limited to walking, yoga, dancing, and swimming. Sign up for a membership at the pool for the winter. Stop eating sugar. Eat less in general.
Live AUTHENTICally in my daily life. Do things I love: write in my journal, read, do yoga, dance, spend time with loved ones, and express my gratitude.
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It's crunch time, and the signals are not comforting.
Interest rates have taken a dive recently. Declines this week appear to be from lower inflation premiums in the first 10 years of the yield curve and from both lower real and nominal rates at the long end of the curve. The declines are not coming from a delay in rising rates in 2015. The declines are coming entirely from lower rates at the long end and a lower slope during the rate recovery period.
This first graph shows the expected date of the first rate hike and the expected subsequent rate of rate increases (from Eurodollar futures). The expected date of the first hike has actually moved back in time recently (blue line, inverted right scale). But the slope of rate hikes has dropped sharply down to 22 bps per quarter.
The next graph shows the Eurodollar curve at several points in time. In Sept. 2012, when QE3 was just getting under way, short term rates were very close to where they are now. Then, by the summer of 2013, both the date of the first hike and the rate of those hikes had taken bullish directions, with the first rate hike expected as early as 2014 and the slope hitting around 35 bps per quarter (which is still low relative to previous recoveries). But, as QE3 has been tapered and then terminated, rates fell back to the previous level, and now long term rates are even lower than they had been after QE3 began.
The main difference (comparing the white line to the green line) is that the slope in late 2012 had been as low as 15 bps per quarter. So, now, compared to late 2012, long term rates are lower, but the slope of the recovery period is somewhat higher. My intuition here is that market participants are more confident that rates will rise at all than they were when QE3 began, but they now expect the long term posture of the Fed to be more hawkish. But, I will address this further. I think this may be a difficult thing to read.
My model of the expected date of the first hike, the uncertainty about that date, and the slope of the curve during subsequent hikes has been based on the notion of the short end of the yield curve at the zero lower bound (ZLB) as a sort of call option, where the ZLB is like the strike price, and the yield curve is the current "price" of forward rates, which includes an expectation of future rates and a premium created from the ZLB and the level of uncertainty about future rate movements. A futures contract well into the future is like a call option far in-the-money. Its price generally reflects the present value of future prices. But, a futures contract near the expected date of the future rate hike includes a premium because the ZLB limits losses, just like a strike price does for a call option.
We are close enough to the expected rate hike that there isn't much "premium" curvature in the yield curve anymore. And, at the very short end of the curve, Fed discretion can be as important as movements in natural rates. So, I think the ZLB could be causing distortions now in the yield curve in a slightly different way.
We should think of the price of each forward interest rate as the price settled by the marginal investor in each contract. The neutral final price that comes from a variety of different expectations. So, each forward rate is the product, itself, of a distribution of expectations.
The recent decline in the slope of the yield curve has been roughly proportional to the decline in the expected long term interest rate. So, compared to 4 months ago, I think there has been an increase in the expectation that we will, in fact, not escape the ZLB. I have been thinking of this in terms of a bifurcated set of expectations, where some portion of the market expects rates to climb quickly to, say, 3% or 4%, and another portion expects us to remain at the ZLB or to leave it only temporarily. Thinking of it that way, the ZLB traders would be pulling the yield curve down proportionately across the curve.
But, I am wondering if this is the right way to think about it. Here, I have graphed the yield curve as if short term rates were at 3%. We might imagine that at each point along the curve, there are a range of relatively non-skewed expectations around the market rate. As the yield curve moves out into the future, the uncertainty about the expected rate would increase, but the market rate would still be an unbiased reflection of a range of expectations.
But, if the rates are at the ZLB, then it is possible that the lower bound will affect the shape of expectations. At very short term rates, this is basically how I have been modeling the convexity of the yield curve. I had assumed that this factor was not important at the longer end of the yield curve. But, as long rates have declined, the probability that there are some ZLB expectations at the long end of the curve seems undeniable.
If instead of thinking of it as consisting of a two-humped distribution, as I had above, what if we think of it as a normal distribution where the ZLB acts as a lower limit, much as a strike price does on a stock option? This reverses the effect on forward market rates.
Now, what we have is what would normally be the mean, median, and mode rate expectation. But, the low end of the expectations distributions would be truncated by the ZLB. We could presume that this would lessen the speculative weight these market participants would place on taking a position on lower rates, since the potential profit is limited by the ZLB.
If this is the basic shape of market expectations, then the ZLB would push the mean expected rates above the median expected rates - and presumably to some degree the market rates would also be pushed above the median expected rates.
In this scenario, the rate curve we are seeing now would actually be an overstatement of expected rates. After walking through this, I think this is very likely to be the case. If we take the scenario to the extreme, where expected future short term rates are expected to be at 0% indefinitely, we would clearly expect the long end of the curve to rise above zero, even if there was no maturity premium and we had a pure expectations context. Because, there would be an option premium there, just as is with a stock option at the money or the recent short end of the yield curve.
The scale of this distortion would be a product of the level of uncertainty. And this, ironically, might be good news. The long end of the curve is about 3/4% lower than it was in September 2012 after the start of QE3. While there are still some expectations of an enduring ZLB, there should be quite a bit less uncertainty about the near term economy than there was then. GDP growth has remained steady. Employment has been strengthening. Commercial lending has continued to strengthen. Households have continued to deleverage.
So, we should expect the tendency of the ZLB to push up the market rates at the long end of the yield curve to be weaker now than it was then. Maybe the median expected long term rate level was, say, 2%, in September 2012 and is also at about that level now. Maybe then the market rate was biased up by 1 3/4% and now it's only biased up by 1%, because there is a tighter range of expectations now.
Even if this is the case, the most recent drop in rates is probably the result of falling mean and median rate expectations and a higher probability of being stuck at the ZLB.
Also, the slope in the 2016 period is a monkey wrench in this hypothesis. The expected date of the first rate increase has not changed. If recent rate changes were a result of lower economic expectations, then I would have expected the date to move back in time. It seems odd that the expected slope has declined while the expected date of the first increase has remained bullish. This suggests the bifurcated expectations distribution I originally described.
The fact that the slope is higher now than in September 2012 also points to bifurcated expectations, since lower variance of expectations would have lowered the slope if expectations were normally distributed.
There is also the possibility that expectations about the way the Fed manages the rate of hikes in 2015-2017 has changed, and the changing slope simply reflects these changing expectations. But, I'm already having trouble keeping this all straight without bringing in another vague and moving variable.
The ramifications for speculation are problematic here, because I would have been looking for a flat yield curve as a signal for declining short term rates. This effect could mean that the next downturn begins when short term rates are near zero and the yield curve is distorted so that even if median expectations are for a flat yield curve, the market prices of forward rates could have a decent positive slope.
I hope that all of this becomes moot when we start to see mortgage credit flow and inflation expectations are re-invigorated. But, there has been no sign of that happening yet.
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To me thiis book is very different from other Reacher tales. It is too wordy, cerebral and boring. But Lee Child can write so you will wizz throught it as usual. Maybe he wrote it for a screenplay venue. Did anyone else find it different from the usual?
Edward Wolfe I was about 40 pages in (which took a couple days, which is highly unusual for a Reacher book) when I asked out loud, "Who wrote this?"
But I didn't care for this book at all. Actually my least favourite book of Reacher. I'm the type of person that buys books on pre-order. Lots and lots of them. However....there are only two authors I actually READ on release day.....John Sandford and Lee Child.....Usually I read Lee's in a single sitting....no more than two days....This one took me over two weeks to muddle through it.
I've been trying to figure out why this one is so different for me. It's taken me a bit, but I think I figured it out finally. Reacher wasn't on his own. I understand he's been part of makeshift teams before. However, even as a team member he was always on his own....working for himself....because he wanted to correct some wrong in the world. This book was full of politics. It was just bogged down. The story line just got lost in all the politics and the conspiracy and back office deals. Reacher felt like a puppet in this novel. He had no personality.
I see England, I see France, I see Reacher's underpants.
No, only fooling. I've never seen Jack Reacher's undies, although I wouldn't mind doing so as long as it was the “real” Reacher and not the Tom Cruise midget Hack Reacher Hollywood version.
Does Reacher even wear underwear? Has Lee Child ever told us? And if he does, are they tighty whities or boxers?
Anyway, how did we get on the subject of Jack's foundation garments? Oh, yeah, I was talking about seeing England and France, which we get t I see England, I see France, I see Reacher's underpants.
Anyway, how did we get on the subject of Jack's foundation garments? Oh, yeah, I was talking about seeing England and France, which we get to do in this novel, and that's what makes it fun to read. Those of us who have been with Jack Reacher from the start have grown a mite weary of seeing him land in yet another creepy one-hydrant small town somewhere in the bowels of America. So Lee Child got smart and made him a world traveler in this latest installment.
I don't know about the rest of you, but it really purples my nurples when I look at a review of a book I've been anticipating with great relish, only to have one or two lines in that review ruin it all for me by giving away too much information. I don't generally write much in the way of reviews for books in the suspense/thriller category because I'm afraid that one little thing I say might spoil it for some eager reader.
So how to review this book? Without spoilers. Without even a hint of spoilers. You can read the publisher blurb and get a pretty good feel for the general plot, but even those dadgum blurb writers seem to include spoilers these days.
What I will say is that this book was one heck of a lot of fun to read. There's a great mix of characters we've never met before. There are colorful English hoodlums and American military has-beens and world-class snipers, one of whom takes a shot at the president of France, which sets the wheels in motion for Reacher to seek a confrontation with a guy he put in prison over 15 years ago.
This is a super-intelligent thriller with some great humor thrown in. I won't tell you my favorite laugh-out-loud lines, because I want you to be as surprised and delighted by them as I was.
Seeing how Lee Child is so smart and does his research so well, I was surprised to find that he didn't do his homework on pharmaceuticals for this novel. He apparently has Zoloft confused with Xanax, and has a major female character popping a Zoloft whenever she's nervous or needs to sleep. That's my only real criticism of the book. I read an advance copy, and I hope the error will be corrected in the final version.
I see there is a lot of debate between Lee Child fans about whether this is a good book or not. I liked it four stars worth! Okay it was a bit different especially as the action takes place in Europe instead of America. I actually found that a refreshing change. And it does get a bit wordy in parts but makes up for it with some great action and an intriguing game of double guessing who the real baddy is. I really enjoyed it.
They persuade us that however terrible the situation, some sort If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
Man, I can be a diehard fan of someone as much as the next guy, but, after reading Personal, I felt the same way I did after I read the latest John Sandford novel. I felt like I'd been had, that these guys are slacking and leaning a little too heavily on their fans to prop them up, like they are coasting, like they are semi-retired rich dudes just waiting for the checks to roll in. Well, screw that, boys! There are too many people out there who are still TRYING to write something worth reading for me to waste too much time or money on that crap! I've already scrapped Sandford's Virgil Flowers series as he carelessly allowed one of his golfing buddies to get a little too involved and turned out a piece of crap, and I'm not afraid to throw any future efforts in the Reacher series on the scrap-heap, too.
A page turner filled with action, thrills and violence aplenty. However it feels like something is missing that exists in the other Jack Reacher books. I don't think Jack being the narrator helps as it seems to spoil the action having everything explained, often beforehand.
Enjoyable and a quick read but not the best in this series in my opinion.
A solid Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child.
A sniper is wild ... trying to assassinate a G8 leader in the G8 summit in the UK. The sniper and Jack Reacher got a history.
A solid page turner and full of blood and guts ... bullets and chases.. cars... London.. Paris and the USA.
By coincidence, Jack Reacher picked up a discarded Army Times newspaper and discovered a classified ad directed at him – contact Shoemaker it said – and as he owed the General a favour, he did just that. But in doing so, the direction of his aimless wandering changed considerably; sixteen years previously Reacher put a man in prison – he learnt that man had been out for twelve months; was Reacher going to have to hunt him down again?
On learning that the President of France had been targeted by a By coincidence, Jack Reacher picked up a discarded Army Times newspaper and discovered a classified ad directed at him – contact Shoemaker it said – and as he owed the General a favour, he did just that. But in doing so, the direction of his aimless wandering changed considerably; sixteen years previously Reacher put a man in prison – he learnt that man had been out for twelve months; was Reacher going to have to hunt him down again?
On learning that the President of France had been targeted by a sniper, and an expert in long range shooting as well, the governments of each country reacted immediately. With the G8 summit destined for London in the near future it meant that cooperation was needed on a grand scale. Accompanied by Casey Nice, a young and relatively new CIA agent, Reacher headed for London where they needed to do intense investigating, but under cover – the Brits weren’t to know they were there.
As Reacher and Nice moved deep into the London underground, the danger mounted. Reacher knew who he was after – but there were other elements at stake. Would they manage to get out with their lives?
I was disappointed in this latest instalment by Lee Child. An extreme amount of dialogue (by Reacher) with occasional bursts of action – it had me wondering when it would improve. I’ve previously enjoyed every book in the Jack Reacher series, but felt a little bored and let down by Personal. It almost felt like it was written by someone else. But in saying that, I urge Reacher lovers to give it a go – it could just be me!
The evidence suggests that this may have only been a practice round. The leaders of the G8 nations One day in Paris someone takes a shot at the President of France from three-quarters of a mile away and damn near hits him, but a sheet of bullet-proof glass in front of the podium deflects the shot. Only a handful of people in the world could have made that shot, and probably only one American--a sniper named John Kott who was released from prison a year earlier after doing a fifteen-year stretch.
Nothing really happens until the 16th chapter, page 87 ... unusual for a Jack Reacher novel. Lee Child likes to set the foundation in detail. I realize that it's necessary to a point, but this novel, unlike the other Reacher novels I've read, focuses primarily on strategies, hypothetical situations & scenarios, and way too much detail about the artillery/ammunition used or not used as in some cases. He goes into all the technical stuff, such as velocity of bullets, ranges, angles, specificat Nothing really happens until the 16th chapter, page 87 ... unusual for a Jack Reacher novel. Lee Child likes to set the foundation in detail. I realize that it's necessary to a point, but this novel, unlike the other Reacher novels I've read, focuses primarily on strategies, hypothetical situations & scenarios, and way too much detail about the artillery/ammunition used or not used as in some cases. He goes into all the technical stuff, such as velocity of bullets, ranges, angles, specifications, material used, etc., I mean pages of this. “Personally,” this reader just wanted him to get on with the story. The knock-down drag out fist-fighting is much the same, a blow by blow description of how it went down, to get the bad guy ... and when he finally gets the bad guy, which we all know he is going to do, it seems anti-climatic.
I've skimmed through this part of his novels in the past, but found myself tempted more often by this one. I like the character of Jack Reacher, and will continue reading any future releases. If you haven't read a Reacher novel, don't start with this one. Even though each can be read independently, you will enjoy the series a lot more if you start with Book 1: The Killing Floor. Then you can see how Jack grows through the years as he stumbles across various situations, always ready to help the underdog. It pains me to give such an acclaimed author a rating as low as 2-stars, but I'm trying to be honest here.
Look, I've read every Jack Reacher book. Lee Child is one of my favorite authors. But by the time you get to the finale, you're just like "Wait, what? This doesn't even make sense. Is this really happening?" I thought about giving an extra star because there's a fair amount of energy in the book--it's a mess, but it's a fast-paced, rollicking mess. In the end, I decided to use one of my rare one-star ratings to wave off other folks.
Just to check that I wasn't crazy, I handed it off to my wife wi Look, I've read every Jack Reacher book. Lee Child is one of my favorite authors. But by the time you get to the finale, you're just like "Wait, what? This doesn't even make sense. Is this really happening?" I thought about giving an extra star because there's a fair amount of energy in the book--it's a mess, but it's a fast-paced, rollicking mess. In the end, I decided to use one of my rare one-star ratings to wave off other folks.
Just to check that I wasn't crazy, I handed it off to my wife without saying anything about the book. She's a Lee Child fan too, but she really didn't like Personal either. She considered it a two-star book.
Somebody takes a shot at the french president and he gets saved by a new safety glass but suddenly all major security servies get mighty nervous. they make a list of the possible shooters who might be able to do a shot like the one aimed at the French president.
This list contains one wrathful person who has been put into jail by a certain military policeman by the name of Reacher. So the powers that be in the US want Reacher on the case and ship him to France were Reacher finds the weather pleas Somebody takes a shot at the french president and he gets saved by a new safety glass but suddenly all major security servies get mighty nervous. they make a list of the possible shooters who might be able to do a shot like the one aimed at the French president.
This list contains one wrathful person who has been put into jail by a certain military policeman by the name of Reacher. So the powers that be in the US want Reacher on the case and ship him to France were Reacher finds the weather pleasant especially the wind. His Russian counterpart loses his head due to the weather.
Next stop London England where the organised crime find out that while Sherlock Holmes might be fiction, Sherlock Homeless as some people call him makes a quite formidable threat. When Reacher flies home he has tracked down the sniper and finds the one responsible for aiming the shooter.
More Jack Reacher then and I enjoyed this one more than the last (not as much as the early ones) but it was very good. They always are. No messing around here, Jack Reacher is Jack Reacher and that is kind of comforting.
Don't expect any surprises there are not any. The thing I mostly enjoy about these when I think about it is the fact that they are easy, predictable, do exactly what you expect them to do and are perfect reading when you don't want to have to think too much but want to be enterta More Jack Reacher then and I enjoyed this one more than the last (not as much as the early ones) but it was very good. They always are. No messing around here, Jack Reacher is Jack Reacher and that is kind of comforting.
Don't expect any surprises there are not any. The thing I mostly enjoy about these when I think about it is the fact that they are easy, predictable, do exactly what you expect them to do and are perfect reading when you don't want to have to think too much but want to be entertained. Jack Reacher is highly entertaining. He was here.
The story is good, flows out in its usual indomitable style, Jack pops into some lives, gets rid of some bad guys, puts the good guys back on track, doesnt stand for nonsense and, well, buys a toothbrush. And some new clothes. Considering how simple it sounds (and in a lot of ways it is) I was enthralled as ever.
These are good readable books of the type that don't make promises they can't keep and the success of the series does not surprise me one bit and is absolutely deserved. Lee Child may never write War and Peace but he will be read forever I have no doubt.
Reacher is playing an away game in this non-stop action thriller. Mostly takes place in Paris and London, but now he is a one man wrecking crew on two continents! I enjoyed this episode in Reacher's life as much if not more than previous books.
As part of the "praise" for the book at Amazon.com, another favorite author of mine, Stephen King, calls this "The best one yet." It may not be the best I've ever read, but it's sure close to the top. The only real downside was the monumental effort it took not to envision the comparatively scrawny Tom Cruise in the role of 6-foot-5-inch, 250-pound-plus Jack Reacher in the 2012 movie of the same name.
If it's action you want, you'll get an overload here. It begins as Reacher is called back into As part of the "praise" for the book at Amazon.com, another favorite author of mine, Stephen King, calls this "The best one yet." It may not be the best I've ever read, but it's sure close to the top. The only real downside was the monumental effort it took not to envision the comparatively scrawny Tom Cruise in the role of 6-foot-5-inch, 250-pound-plus Jack Reacher in the 2012 movie of the same name.
If it's action you want, you'll get an overload here. It begins as Reacher is called back into service for the State Department and the CIA, who inform him that someone has taken a shot at the president of France. The bullet was American-made, and the super long-distance shot could have been pulled off by less than a handful of snipers (even though it missed the target by a few hairs). One probability comes to mind immediately - John Kott, who, thanks to Reacher, spent the past 16 years in prison and was released recently.
Almost all of the time, Reacher works solo; but this time, he gets a rookie partner named Casey Nice (young and beautiful, naturally) - and it's hard for Reacher to forget thinking about a different female partner who bit the dust on his watch years earlier. Nice proves herself to be competent, which is nice, but he still doesn't want the same thing to happen again.
Trying to catch the shooter before he tries again - the conventional thinking is that the next target will be one (or more) of the world leaders who will be attending an upcoming G-8 summit - puts both Reacher and Nice within shooting distance of mobsters from various countries and, of course, whoever turns out to be the sniper. If it is Kott, the whole scenario could change; his reason for killing (and his intended target) could turn out to be very personal.
If you have been reading Jack Reacher novels, you surely know what to expect. Jack Reacher books are great to relax with. As a tough guy speaking his mind, and very resourceful, he is a character who is fun to read.
There has been a shot taken at the French President. There are four possible snipers who could have taken that difficult shot. One of them is John Kott, who has a grudge with Reacher who sends him to jail, and he has just completed his sentence. Reacher now takes off to Europe with an If you have been reading Jack Reacher novels, you surely know what to expect. Jack Reacher books are great to relax with. As a tough guy speaking his mind, and very resourceful, he is a character who is fun to read.
There has been a shot taken at the French President. There are four possible snipers who could have taken that difficult shot. One of them is John Kott, who has a grudge with Reacher who sends him to jail, and he has just completed his sentence. Reacher now takes off to Europe with an enthusiastic Ms Casey Nice for company. After a lot of violence with gangs in London, the story heads to a climax.
Personal is a thrilling novel at times, but after the first few chapters, it becomes really repetitive and dull.
I joined Goodreads in October 2011 and other than regularly loading my books into my GR library, I was not active as a reviewer or a commenter until several years ago. I read "Personal" as a paperback in September 2014 and at some stage I awarded it a one-star 'DNF'.
"Personal" is one of three "Jack Reacher" novels that I have awarded a 'one-star DNF'. A number of my GR friends have awarded "Personal" 4.0 or 5.0 stars and one friend in particular, William D, has commented that whereas our tastes are generally similar, he had awarded "Personal" and the other two of my three 'DNF's', 4.0 stars each. We both wondered aloud about this dichotomy, so I resolved to review each novel again and determine whether or not the 'DNF's' were justified.
Apparently I am blessed with a (probably defective!) memory that enables me to read or listen to a book at least twice while remembering only vague generalities during the second reading (listening), because I certainly have no idea when I actually 'DNF'd' "Personal" and I am surprised that I remembered literally nothing about the book at all.
This the Jack Reacher who has been missing in my reading/hearing of novels "#18, #19, and #20". Loaded with the usual detailed repetition (weapons and ammo; etc.) which are part of the Jack Reacher 'charm', "Personal" was chock-full of high paced action, unimaginably bad 'baddies', untrustworthy 'goodies' and several very attractive women. Surprisingly Reacher kept his zippers in place and neither of the women tempted him to do otherwise.
I was a Lee Child fan before Lee Child was cool (my hazy recollection is that I started reading him around the time of his first novel), and as such, I have spent a lot of time recommending his novels to people. Each one seemed as crisp and exciting as the last. But in the past several years I've started to worry. Child seemed to be falling into the problem so many series authors have. How do you keep the formula fresh to the reader and interesting to the author? The absolute rock bottom was Not I was a Lee Child fan before Lee Child was cool (my hazy recollection is that I started reading him around the time of his first novel), and as such, I have spent a lot of time recommending his novels to people. Each one seemed as crisp and exciting as the last. But in the past several years I've started to worry. Child seemed to be falling into the problem so many series authors have. How do you keep the formula fresh to the reader and interesting to the author? The absolute rock bottom was Nothing to Lose, the weakest Reacher novel, in which Lee Child's personal politics (no matter how much I agree with them) overtook his need to create a compelling story. Subsequent books have been okay, but have felt more like eating a bag of potato chips than a satisfying meal you want to tell your friends about.
That's why it is great to see Child rebounding with Personal, a book in which, following an assassination attempt on the President of France, Jack Reacher is called upon to help track down the man believed responsible, a former sniper that Reacher once arrested. In a novel that spans several countries, Reacher teams up with rookie agent Casey Nice to help track down the sniper and accomplices and bring him to justice before he can create havoc at the G8 summit.
After several recently disappointing books in this outstanding action driven series, I'm very happy to report that Lee Child is back with what might be his best book in the series. Jack Reacher is asked by a US Army General to join a multinational team to interdict a sniper who might have taken a shot at the French President in Paris and may be planning more high profile assassinations in London. Reacher accepts the assignment because he once arrested the American suspect and sent him to Leavenw After several recently disappointing books in this outstanding action driven series, I'm very happy to report that Lee Child is back with what might be his best book in the series. Jack Reacher is asked by a US Army General to join a multinational team to interdict a sniper who might have taken a shot at the French President in Paris and may be planning more high profile assassinations in London. Reacher accepts the assignment because he once arrested the American suspect and sent him to Leavenworth for 15 years which makes him uniquely qualified for the task.
Something a little different, this time around ... in that this was the first one of these I've read in years that I didn't primarily read in a steel tube (airplane or train) and/or hotel room.... I've come to find that the series comfortably passes the time while traveling ... doesn't take too much concentration ... not much art in the prose ... not listening for the music as I re-read passages ... not tasting the words in my mouth ... but, then again, good momentum, high entertainment value, f Something a little different, this time around ... in that this was the first one of these I've read in years that I didn't primarily read in a steel tube (airplane or train) and/or hotel room.... I've come to find that the series comfortably passes the time while traveling ... doesn't take too much concentration ... not much art in the prose ... not listening for the music as I re-read passages ... not tasting the words in my mouth ... but, then again, good momentum, high entertainment value, for long days and nights of sleep-deprived and jet-lagged travel. Well, now I remember why I tend to read these while traveling rather than in the quiet comfort of my home.... A great way to pass the time, but, other than that, well, ... nah, on second thought, ... the series is a great way to pass the time (and, to the extent I travel a lot, there is significant value in that, at least to me).
Having said all of that, the first few hundred pages reminded me why I've stuck with the series - I thought the hook was pretty good, and the basic set-up was well constructed. Conversely, the last 50-70 pages was (extremely) disappointing, felt (badly) rushed, and left me wondering whether this installment had a lot of potential until the author, Child, bounced up against a publisher's deadline and just threw in the towel. But, maybe, that's just me.
Lee Child's Reacher character is one of my original favorite "hammers." He is the quintessential pragmatic man. A creature of a mostly black and white world, Reacher recognizes his actions and results are always influenced by outside forces. A case in point, he designs every strike knowing that the plan never survives first contact with the enemy. From that point forward, the victory goes to the quickest thinker. Much of this tale, and the included action scenes, revolves around that premise.
As Lee Child's Reacher character is one of my original favorite "hammers." He is the quintessential pragmatic man. A creature of a mostly black and white world, Reacher recognizes his actions and results are always influenced by outside forces. A case in point, he designs every strike knowing that the plan never survives first contact with the enemy. From that point forward, the victory goes to the quickest thinker. Much of this tale, and the included action scenes, revolves around that premise.
As a result of a past moral debt, Reacher returns to governmental service, albeit in a civilian capacity, to identify and capture the person responsible for taking an ultra-long-range shot with a .50 cal rifle at the president of France. The most likely suspect is a man Reacher put in jail once before. The story starts in the United States, but quickly moves to France, where the reader is treated to a view of the underbelly of French society. It appears one or more groups of ethnic organized crime entities is helping the shooter.
As with most of the Reacher novels, a plethora of bad guys exist, providing fodder for the killing machine that is Jack Reacher. Here's where I add that the antagonists all deserved to die because Child paints them all as amoral killers. In a slight change from past books, Reacher is provided a sidekick early on, a rookie CIA analyst with personal and professional doubts.
As usual, I won't provide too much story line. I will say that this tale moves quickly and the main characters are engaging. Action is abundant, though often overdone. One disappointment for me, while I enjoy the scientific/physical insight Reacher brings to each fight or battle plan, I felt the descriptions and reasoning seemed forced. This added to my perception that some scenes were over the top.
Still, Child's novels and the Reacher character remain among my favorites. On a more detailed scale, I provide Personal by Lee Child with a 4.2.
In a bus station in Seattle, Jack Reacher comes across a copy of the Army Times with a classified ad addressed to him with instructions to make contact. Reacher does and is quickly swept up into a race against time to stop a potential assassin from taking out the heads of state of the world superpowers at an upcoming economic summit.
One of the potential killers has a connection to Reacher -- he was put behind bars years ago during Reacher's time in the army. And it appears the potential assassin In a bus station in Seattle, Jack Reacher comes across a copy of the Army Times with a classified ad addressed to him with instructions to make contact. Reacher does and is quickly swept up into a race against time to stop a potential assassin from taking out the heads of state of the world superpowers at an upcoming economic summit.
One of the potential killers has a connection to Reacher -- he was put behind bars years ago during Reacher's time in the army. And it appears the potential assassin has an ax to grind with Reacher and wants to take him out as well as the heads of state.
The nineteenth entry in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series Personal is most disappointing one I've read so far. Usually the novels narrated by Reacher have been among my favorites in the series, but Personal never quite clicks and spends seemingly long periods of time with Reacher doing little or nothing to impact the investigation or the plot. Part of the problem is that Reacher is part of a team this time around. The character has had help in the past, but he seems less the unstoppable force that he has been in previous novels.
In fact, there were points during this book that I found myself double-checking to make sure this was a Reacher novel and not so other standard thriller I'd picked up. But every few pages, I'd be reminded of Reacher's love of coffee and diners and the portable toothbrush is the greatest invention in the history of humankind so I knew I wasn't reading the wrong book.
I've made this observation before, but I think it bears making again here. In the past year or so, Child has published several Reacher novellas and stories that felt a bit rushed and left me wanting for more and a couple of Reacher novels that felt like a short story expanded far past their natural length. Personal continues this trend, feeling more like a solid novella or short story than a full length novel.
When a shot is fired at the French president in Paris, Jack Reacher is recruited to apprehend the rogue sniper before he causes havoc at a forthcoming G8 meeting in London. Reacher teams up with a female rookie agent called Casey Nice. With global stability at stake failure is not an option. The suspected shooter, John Kott, one of the world’s best snipers, has recently been released from a lengthy stint in jail. It was Reacher who put him there.
The action takes in rural Arkansas, Paris and Lon When a shot is fired at the French president in Paris, Jack Reacher is recruited to apprehend the rogue sniper before he causes havoc at a forthcoming G8 meeting in London. Reacher teams up with a female rookie agent called Casey Nice. With global stability at stake failure is not an option. The suspected shooter, John Kott, one of the world’s best snipers, has recently been released from a lengthy stint in jail. It was Reacher who put him there.
The action takes in rural Arkansas, Paris and London, where a gang is believed to be harbouring the sniper. Reacher and his sidekick’s escapades include confronting a Serbian mob and a gargantuan brute. The story culminates with a surprising revelation.
Personal is an engrossing first person thriller, complete with a complex conspiracy and colourful cast of characters. The storyline feels fairly realistic and the settings atmospheric. There is considerable focus on strategies and scenarios, though these are never tedious or excessive. Reacher is an intriguing protagonist. He is tough, formidable, uncompromising and pragmatic, but also humorous and respectful of women.
The extensive use of analysis and evaluation does slow the action somewhat on occasion, diminishing its impact. And one is forced to wonder whether Reacher is getting a little long in the tooth for some of the capers he finds himself in. After all his mother was a WWII French Resistance fighter, albeit a teenage one, which presumably makes our hero close to 60. Is the ageing author living out a fantasy through his alter ego?
This reader was none the less very impressed by this, his first Jack Reacher thriller. He eagerly awaits reading further instalments of the best-selling series.
A sniper tries to shoot the President of France from more than 3/4 of a mile away, a shot that could only be made by the most elite. While the bullet did not go through the protective glass, the G8 security agencies are worried about an upcoming summit in London. The list of candidates is quickly shuttled down to three men, a Brit, Russian and American. The American turns out to be a recently paroled man who Jack Reacher put in prison for 15 years. Reacher has a favor called in by a friend and i A sniper tries to shoot the President of France from more than 3/4 of a mile away, a shot that could only be made by the most elite. While the bullet did not go through the protective glass, the G8 security agencies are worried about an upcoming summit in London. The list of candidates is quickly shuttled down to three men, a Brit, Russian and American. The American turns out to be a recently paroled man who Jack Reacher put in prison for 15 years. Reacher has a favor called in by a friend and is teamed with a young CIA agent, Casey Nice, to track down this sniper, in conjunction with a Brit and Russian. When the Russian is killed by a long-range shot intended for Reacher, that is blown off course, the action heats up. Reacher becomes embroiled in a turf war in East London with the Serbians. Reacher is a drifter and in this 19th book, he is far afield in most ways. Good twists at the end. Note: 4 stars is a bit generous actually.
Nineteenth in the Jack Reacher thriller series revolving around a lone wolf, retired from the army and exploring his America.
A special thanks to NetGalley and Bantam Press for allowing me to enjoy this eARC.
Child knows how to pull a reader in. Of course, "knowing" Reacher, Child already has quite a bit set up for us ahead of time, lol. I do love "listening" to Reacher make his conclusions. His questions. His curiosity. His knowledge. Although…I don't remember Reacher thinking about the So Nineteenth in the Jack Reacher thriller series revolving around a lone wolf, retired from the army and exploring his America.
It's part of what I love about Jack Reacher (and other stories/series of this ilk) is the intelligence and observation required. That ability to make deductions from the information gleaned, and to act on it. I know how little I observe around me — even though I want to think I see a lot. Just had a thought — shocking, I know *grin* — being Jack Reacher is similar to being an editor. Reacher knows so very much about how his world works — I'm thinking about his knowledge of snipers, guns, making one's bones, the AK-47, government identification, and more — and an editor has to know about his or her world. The one of words, sentences, plots, and more. It's a detailed knowledge, knowing the nuances of a word being used whether it's correct for the time period, for expressing that thought in the story. Soooo, maybe we each have our own strengths of observation, lol.
Oh, crack me up. Yep, Reacher is unconventional if only because he thinks ahead, plotting out all the angles. After all, people are people with the same motivations, dreams, plans all over the world. We're not so different from each other. It's also human nature when he analyzes Nice's motives and explains the difference between CIA and military. Some very excellent points there as well. There's that intriguing look behind the EU politics with that bit about why the Polish and Greek governments are suddenly about to have elections.
"…if it's some big terrorist statement … it's probably not Italy. I mean, who would notice? Those guys change every three weeks anyway."
Hmmm, Sherlock Homeless. An interesting nickname, and it certainly fits Reacher *grin*.
"…you should take that washing machine out of the yard. I don't think it's compulsory."
Yep, it sure was an interesting trip out to Arkansas, and it was amazing how much information Reacher pulled out of it. Of course, Kott did leave quite a bit of information. Enough that it would knock me back a few miles. Not feet…miles, or at least 1,400 yards.
LOL, that initial beginning in Paris…interesting to see how alike these handlers were *more laughter*. It was sweet too, Reacher taking the time to see his mother's grave.
I wish Child had said why Nice has that nasty beat-up vehicle. What was her reasoning for it? Is it simply because it's so outside the box? Is she gonna keep it? I hope we'll see her again in future installments. Scarangello though, I'm not keen on making her acquaintance again. I didn't care for her comment about Reacher being as bad as Kott. I don't get where she's coming from, especially when she's CIA. I'd say, right off the bat, that she's a more likely candidate way before Reacher!
There's a lot of back history going on in this story. The AK-47 and the reason for its creation, which makes perfect sense. And how very sensible of the government (who knew a government could be sensible??) to plan for it. The behind-the-scenes details on how a G8 conference is choreographed. The fears behind it for the players.
There was one area in which Personal was completely unlike any previous Jack Reacher story. Tell me if you pick up on it!
Wow, that ending. It was something of an anticlimax, that betrayal, I had expected something completely different, yet this made so much sense. A shocking example of truth in human nature.
And, as Bennett says, "We didn't rule the world by being nice." And yes, I'd enjoy reading more about this character as well, lol.
It was a long-range shot at the French president that started it. Only a few snipers in the world were skilled enough. It’s the why behind the U.S.’s concern about the attempted assassination that has Reacher curious.
Then comes London and two very angry gangs, which MI5 is likely to be very pleased about.
Jack Reacher has been retired from the army for years and spent that time roaming America, but the army hasn't forgotten him. And Reacher realizes ruefully, that he's much too predictable. Dominique Kohl was one of Reacher's failures, at least in his own mind.
Casey Nice is assigned through the State Department; she's actually CIA. Antonio Luna is a very good friend of Casey's. Joan Scarangello is also CIA, older, deputy to the deputy director of operations. She knew Joe Reacher and tries to use that.
Brigadier General Rick Shoemaker is second-in-command to General Tom O'Day.
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure is the French version of the CIA.
Karel Libor was a big-deal Albanian gang leader. Wallace Court is where they intend to hold the G8 conference. The Romford Boys are led by Charlie White with his lieutenants: Tommy Miller, Billy Thompson, and the real "power behind the throne", the enforcer, Little Joey Green, a real brute of a man. He's enough to scare Nice off her crutches. Gary is one of Little Joey's team leaders. GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is the British version of the NSA.
John Kott was originally from Arkansas and was snapped up for sniper school. He was incapable of distinguishing between real life and the battlefield. William Carson is an ex-SAS operator with 50+ kills to his name, at some incredible distances. Fyodor Datsev is the Russian, ex-KGB. Rozan is the Israeli, and the best they ever saw with a fifty-caliber Barrett.
Yevgeniy Khenkin is Sluzhba Vneshgney Razvedki, or as Yevgeniy says "KGB really, old wine, new bottles". He was Datsev's handler back in the day. Bennett is the English representative with an interesting character. Very stereotypical English in fact. He could be MI6, he can be anyone you want, it's all pretty fluid at the moment, lol.
The cover is shades of gray — how appropriate! — with a lone man standing on a deserted road leading to the Capitol building. One man facing down government.
I think this was the first in the Jack Reacher series I couldn't wait to finish. Just not my cup of tea this time -- the plot, London setting, bland, uninteresting supporting characters. Even Reacher's voice seemed "off" to me in this one. Not sure what happened here (maybe it's just me), because the previous in the series was one of my very favorites, and I gave it five stars. Hoping for better in the next installment!
Reacher's pulled into a hunt for snipers, both from abroad & a home-trained one that Reacher arrested before...partnered with another young female CIA operative, feeling guilty about another one he lost under his tutelage, Reacher is on the hunt in Europe & the US...So-so Reacher, but because it IS a "Reacher" 4-stars!
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Pile fiber represents more than 80% of the cost of most residential carpet; therefore differences in price between carpet styles usually can be attributed to differences in fiber. Of the three most commonly used fibers (nylon, olefin, and polyester), nylon is by far the most expensive fiber and the best all around performer. In comparing price alone, a polyester fabric could be one-third less than the cost of a comparable nylon product.
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Polyester fiber produces some of the most beautiful colorations available.It is also extremely fade resistant and provides excellent resistance to stains. However, like olefin, it does have poor resilient properties and thus, is susceptible to crushing. Polyester fabrics are generally sold in heavy face weights with high-density construction. Avoid high pile heights with low-density construction. These products tend to flatten and "ugly" out. Also look for high twist levels rather than "blown" yarns. Loose twists (blown yarn) tend to untwist and the yarn tips tend to fuse together creating a matted appearance. Most consumers like to dig their fingers into the carpet pile and if it provides a luxurious feel (hand) they believe this is excellent quality. This is referred to as "perceived" quality. True quality exists when it is difficult to insert your fingers into the pile. This is a true test for all carpet constructions, but it is a necessity for polyester fibers. This will be discussed in detail under the construction basics section.
Polyester is manufactured in staple fiber only. While it's not as durable as nylon, it's quite durable and resists wear. Polyester offers a wide selection of textures and colors. It is non-allergenic, sheds moisture and resists moths and mildew at a lower cost than wool or nylon. While it's susceptible to piling, shedding and oil-based stains, it otherwise cleans fairly easily and is enhanced by stain treatments. Some polyester fibers are recycled from plastic pop bottles, so if environmental concerns are a major issue for you, ask for polyester fibers that have been reclaimed from post consumer use products.
This traditional favorite offers a deep, rich look and feel. Wool remains the premier fiber in carpet construction, but it's price is out of reach of most consumers. It has excellent resilience and durability, but is very expensive often twice as much per yard as nylon. Other synthetic fibers have done an excellent job of duplicating the characteristics of wool, although none can duplicate all of these characteristics. Wool cleans especially well, provides beautiful colors, and has good resiliency, but special care should be used in cleaning wool carpet. Unfortunately, wool tends to "wear down" or the pile tends to wear away. In some cases bald spots may occur as a result heavy traffic loads. Wool is naturally a staple fiber. Although it is naturally stain resistant, it requires a high level of maintenance including mothproofing. Most wool products manufactured in the U.S. have been permanently mothproofed. While it's still extremely popular for rugs, it accounts for less than 1% of the fiber used in carpet.
Since wool can hold 10 times its weight in moisture, it is susceptible to shrinking and mold and mildew growth.
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation, unrealistic fear of weight gain, and conspicuous distortion of body image.
There are two subtypes of anorexia nervosa: a restricting type, characterized by strict dieting and exercise without binge eating; and a binge-eating/purging type, marked by episodes of compulsive eating with or without self-induced vomiting and/or the use of laxatives or enemas. A binge is defined as a time-limited (usually under two hours) episode of compulsive eating in which the individual consumes a significantly larger amount of food than most people would eat in similar circumstances.
Anorexia nervosa was not officially classified as a psychiatric disorder until the third edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980. It is, however, a growing problem in the early 2000s among adolescent females. Its incidence in the United States has doubled since 1970. The rise in the number of reported cases reflects a genuine increase in the number of persons affected by the disorder and not simply earlier or more accurate diagnosis. Estimates of the incidence of anorexia range between 0.5 percent and 1 percent of Caucasian female adolescents. Over 90 percent of patients diagnosed with the disorder as of 2001 are female. The peak age range for onset of the disorder is 14 to 18 years. In the 1970s and 1980s, anorexia was regarded as a disorder of upper- and middle-class women, but that generalization is as of 2004 also changing. Studies indicate that anorexia is increasingly common among females of all races and social classes in the United States.
While the precise cause of the disease is not known, anorexia is a disorder that results from the interaction of cultural and interpersonal as well as biological factors.
The rising incidence of anorexia is thought to reflect the present idealization of thinness as a badge of upper-class status as well as of female beauty. In addition, the increase in cases of anorexia includes "copycat" behavior, with some patients developing the disorder from imitating other girls.
The onset of anorexia in adolescence is attributed to a developmental crisis caused by girls' changing bodies coupled with society's overemphasis on female appearance. The increasing influence of the mass media in spreading and reinforcing gender stereotypes has also been noted.
The risk of developing anorexia is higher among adolescents preparing for careers that require attention to weight and/or appearance. These high-risk groups include dancers, fashion models, professional athletes (including gymnasts, skaters, long-distance runners, and jockeys), and actresses.
Girls whose biological mothers or sisters have or have had anorexia nervosa appear to be at increased risk of developing the disorder.
Although anorexia nervosa largely affects females, its incidence in the male population is rising in the early 2000s. Less is known about the causes of anorexia in males, but some risk factors are the same as for females. These include certain occupational goals and increasing media emphasis on external appearance in men. Homosexual males are under pressure to conform to an ideal body weight that is about 20 pounds lighter than the standard attractive weight for heterosexual males.
Diagnosis of anorexia nervosa is complicated by a number of factors. One is that the disorder varies somewhat in severity from patient to patient. A second factor is denial, which is regarded as an early sign of the disorder. Many anorexics deny that they are ill and are usually brought to treatment by a family member.
Extreme weight loss in an anorexic adolescent.
it has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder. Moreover, the disorder may cause serious long-term health complications, including congestive heart failure, sudden death, growth retardation, dental problems, constipation , stomach rupture, swelling of the salivary glands, anemia and other abnormalities of the blood, loss of kidney function, and osteoporosis.
Most anorexics are diagnosed by pediatricians or family practitioners. Anorexics develop emaciated bodies, dry or yellowish skin, and abnormally low blood pressure. There is usually a history of amenorrhea in female patients, and sometimes of abdominal pain , constipation, or lack of energy. The patient may feel chilly or have developed lanugo, a growth of downy body hair. If the patient has been self-inducing vomiting, she may have eroded tooth enamel or Russell's sign (scars on the back of the hand). The second step in diagnosis is measurement of the patient's weight loss. DSM-IV specifies a weight loss leading to a body weight 15 percent below normal, with some allowance for body build and weight history.
The doctor will need to rule out other physical conditions that can cause weight loss or vomiting after eating, including metabolic disorders, brain tumors (especially hypothalamus and pituitary gland lesions), diseases of the digestive tract, and a condition called superior mesenteric artery syndrome. Persons with this condition sometimes vomit after meals because the blood supply to the intestine is blocked. The doctor will usually order blood tests, an electrocardiogram, urinalysis, and bone densitometry (bone density test) in order to exclude other diseases and to assess the patient's nutritional status.
The doctor will also need to distinguish between anorexia and other psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia , social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder , and body dysmorphic disorder. Two diagnostic tests that are often used are the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI).
Treatment of anorexia nervosa includes both short- and long-term measures and requires assessment by dietitians and psychiatrists as well as medical specialists. Therapy is often complicated by the patient's resistance or failure to carry out a treatment plan.
Hospital treatment includes individual and group therapy as well as refeeding and monitoring of the patient's physical condition. Treatment usually requires two to four months in the hospital. In extreme cases, hospitalized patients may be force-fed through a tube inserted in the nose (nasogastric tube) or into a vein (hyperalimentation).
Anorexics who are not severely malnourished can be treated by outpatient psychotherapy. The types of treatment recommended are supportive rather than insight-oriented and include behavioral approaches as well as individual or group therapy. Family therapy is often recommended when the patient's eating disorder is closely tied to family dysfunction. Self-help groups are often useful in helping anorexics find social support and encouragement. Psychotherapy with anorexics is a slow and difficult process; about 50 percent of patients continue to have serious psychiatric problems after their weight has stabilized.
Anorexics have been treated with a variety of medications, including antidepressants , antianxiety drugs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and lithium carbonate. The effectiveness of medications in treatment regimens is as of 2004 debated. However, at least one study of fluoxetine (Prozac) showed it helped the patient maintain weight gained while in the hospital.
A key focus of treatment for anorexia nervosa is teaching the principles of healthy eating and improving disordered eating behaviors. A dietician or nutritionist plays an important role in forming a nutrition plan for the patient; such plans are individualized and ensure that the patient is consuming enough food to gain or maintain weight as needed and stabilize medically. The anorexic's weight and food intake are closely monitored to ensure that the plan is being followed.
Figures for long-term recovery vary from study to study, but reliable estimates are that 40 to 60 percent of anorexics make a good physical and social recovery, and 75 percent gain weight. The long-term mortality rate for anorexia is estimated at around 10 percent, although some studies give a lower figure of 3 to 4 percent. The most frequent causes of death associated with anorexia are starvation, electrolyte imbalance, heart failure, and suicide.
Short of major long-term changes in the larger society, the best strategy for prevention of anorexia is the cultivation of healthy attitudes toward food, weight control, and beauty (or body image) within families. Early treatment such as counseling may help to prevent early signs of disordered eating from progressing into more serious behaviors.
Amenorrhea —The absence or abnormal stoppage of menstrual periods.
Binge —A pattern of eating marked by episodes of rapid consumption of large amounts of food; usually food that is high in calories.
Body dysmorphic disorder —A psychiatric disorder marked by preoccupation with an imagined physical defect.
Hyperalimentation —A method of refeeding anorexics by infusing liquid nutrients and electrolytes directly into central veins through a catheter.
Lanugo —A soft, downy body hair that covers a normal fetus beginning in the fifth month and usually shed by the ninth month. Also refers to the fine, soft hair that develops on the chest and arms of anorexic women. Also called vellus hair.
Purging —The use of vomiting, diuretics, or laxatives to clear the stomach and intestines after a binge.
Russell's sign —A scraped or raw area on the patient's knuckles, caused by self-induced vomiting.
Superior mesenteric artery syndrome —A condition in which a person vomits after meals due to blockage of the blood supply to the intestine.
See also Binge eating disorder ; Bulimia nervosa .
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Business Process Management (BPM) in itself can be a complex and stressful discipline for any organization, let alone perfecting it. Here at proceedit, we help ease these difficulties through offering you our unique set of products which, in every case, will help you to accomplish your goals and objectives with complete effortlessness. Check out our products below.
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dyPAS is the “core” of our technology for the rapid development of the BPM-RPA-AI processes, the support of our microBPO services and the development environment of our SaaS application.
dyPAS allows you to apply an agile methodology of development and maintenance of said services and, as a consequence, deploy a business model based on the virtually immediate availability of standard and customised business process automation applications (BPM-RPA-AI processes), without barriers to entry or output and low cost and therefore of global reach, high volume and scalability.
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dyBUILD is readily available to all customers; a simple yet extremely effective way of creating processes whether they be simple or complex, with complete ease to the client. The processes may be already existing, which can be further developed using dyBUILD, or be tailored to the needs of the client in question.
Real-time generation engine of the dynamic applications that serve the various BPM objects of the BPM-RPA-AI processes launched at each moment by the BPMS platform.
dyFORM allows processes to be built the instant they are started. The real-time generation engine means that each stage of the process is created depending on what is selected throughout the process. dyFORM gives the customer freedom in the process; it gives unlimited possibilities throughout the process, meaning that they are not confined to a set number of options.
Real-time generation engine of the dynamic applications that serve the various RPA objects (or dyBOTs) of the BPM-RPA-AI processes launched at any time by the BPMS platform.
As a result of the arising needs for the automation of the “tailormade” and “prêt-à-porter” BPM-RPA-AI processes that we are operating, proceedit has developed and has 18 fully operating dyBOTs (RPA Objects or Robots) in production. Interested? Have a look here.
Unique universal BPM-RPA-AI process class configured on the BPMS platform, which serves all BPM-RPA-AI processes without the need to modify the modelling of the process. Available for the BPMS Bonita. Extensible to any other BPMS that has the appropriate APIs.
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Artificial Intelligence and automation lets modern jobs become more fluid and ensures freedom for employees from high-volume mundane administrative work. This can free up the workforce of an organization to continue to drive innovation in key performance areas such as customer service, and product development, and ultimately contribute to the bottom-line for the business.
Unique universal BPM / RPA process class configured on the BPMS platform, which serves all BPM / RPA processes without the need to modify the modeling of the process. Available for the BPMS Bonita. Extensible to any other BPMS that has the appropriate APIs.
Real-time generation engine of the dynamic applications that serve the various BPM objects of the BPM / RPA processes launched at each moment by the BPMS platform.
dyBOT dynamic creator of flat texts with a combination of text templates and process data.
dyBOT dynamic document creator with a combination of general Word templates, specific Word templates, and process data. Available for the creation of documents in PDF format. Extensible to any other document output format.
dyBOT creator and dynamic email sender through platform which produces email subjects, (combining texts templates and process data) and mail bodies with a combination of general Word templates(specific Word templates and process data, including action buttons and access links). Available for the Sendinblue mailing platform. Extensible to any other sending platform that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT universal caller to services and APIs, without programming, which allows sending the call parameters and collecting the return parameters and errors, where appropriate, from a call division of the BPM / RPA processes. Available for 18 services. Extensible to any new service that is required.
dyBOT universal router of process tasks, with complex management of Actors (Groups, Roles, Memberships and Users) and conditioned release (Rules) and deferred (Timers) of tasks. Available for the BPMS Bonita. Extensible to any other BPMS platform that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT universal automatic launcher of instances of BPM / RPA processes published on a BPMS platform. Available for the BPMS Bonita. Extensible to any other BPMS platform that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT automatic contracting of complex services of collection and delivery of parcels. Available for Correos services (Spain). Extendable to any other collection and delivery service provider that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT document loader to a documentary repository. Available for the AWS S3 repository. Extensible to any other documentary repository that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT multi-factor authentication system manager. Available for SMS. Extensible to any other multi-factor authentication system that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT for the secure download of documents from an input folder in a source documentary repository and upload to a secure folder in a destination repository, with quarantine, antivirus filtering, and alerts functions. Available for the AWS S3 repository. Extensible to any other documentary repository that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT of connectivity with ERPs, with integration methods for 1) Consultation of Customers, Addresses, Transporters, Articles, Tariffs, Discounts, Sales orders ... 2) Register of Sales orders and Sales order documents. Available for Sage X3 and Microsoft AX ERPs. Extensible to any other method and ERP that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT dynamic creator of SMS messages combining text templates, process data, and SMS sender. Automated methods for the creation of the message combining text templates and process data. Available for the SMS sending platform Sendinblue. Extensible to any other SMS sending platform that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT observatory of completion, re-routing, and automatic reassign of process tasks, following the cases and pre-established rules. Available for the BPMS Bonita. Extensible to any other BPMS platform that has the appropriate APIs.
dyBOT dynamic modifier in real time and in hot, from the own process, of the specifications of the tabs, divisions, and fields of the forms of the processes, allowing the evolution and hot personalization of the operation of the processes to users with authorized Roles to do it.
Our products offer features different to that of any other when regarding BPM, RPA or AI. What differentiates us from our competitors is the unique product portfolio we have to offer; the features they present will have no difficulty in giving you the head-start.
This is a general functionality applicable to any field of any process class. Zero-code complex filter expressions can be applied to filter the recovered data to be associated to any field of information.
Business process automation solutions developed with the support proceedit technology interacts with any external source of information: databases, webservices, and API’s with no programming.
The deep automation of business processes requires maximum integration with the rest of the client’s applications (the “legacy”), with their databases and with the services and APIs, both external and the customer’s.
Accepted BPM-RPA-AI processes must be perceived to the user and managers that it does exactly what they want it to do, that they do not have to invest a lot of time explaining their needs and proving that they have been implemented correctly and immediately.
Through a “flexible” BPM process of own development, we manage any type of BPM-RPA-AI process with a single process class (model) configured on the BPMS platform, avoiding the modelling, testing and maintaining of different a application for each process.
We deploy and operate any already existing or new created class of BPM-RPA-AI process without having to write a single line of code (“zero-code” paradigm); without programming or the possible errors that all programming generates.
The preconfigured divisions of our processes are template elements that allow us to increase the speed of development of our automation solutions. Their catalogue is increasing every time we create a new process, by advancing the speed of development of our applications exponentially.
By applying the proceedit process development methodology, the tabs, divisions and fields that configure a process are defined only once, even if they participate in more than one task of the process.
proceedit has a unique automation technology worldwide that allows you to apply a highly efficient methodology of development and maintenance of BPM solutions and, as a consequence, the ability to provide services BPaaS + microBPO with an ultra-competitive business model that powers the “pros” and solves the “cons” of the technology-methodology-conventional business model.
There is no complexity when applying proceedit technology and methodology because, by definition, there is no application development. All processes are 100% standard, 100% customizable and integrable without programming. The configuration and operation of all processes is managed from a single central point: the configuration catalog and the operating database. This acts as a command center.
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2019-04-22T02:27:49Z
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https://www.proceedit.com/solutions/products/
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Word of mouth, street corner gossip and graffiti have been spreading ideas since the beginning of civilization. In the modern day, social media networks have taken over. But the social media universe is noisy! To give you an idea – over 500 million tweets are sent out daily, some 100 hours of video YouTube videos are uploaded every minute, and some 4.75 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every single day. And this, is just a small chunk of the entire cosmos!
The underlying message is clear – sharing average pieces of content randomly in the social media world just isn’t going to cut it for your brand! While there is no single magic formula to guarantee that your content will receive a million unique views, following a few key principles can increase immensely its chances of receiving maximum eyeballs, and perhaps even going viral!
Think “Dove Real Beauty Sketches” or “WestJet Airlines Christmas” or “Bat Kid Saves San Francisco” – and you would have seen it, or heard about it, or read about it sometime in the last few months – that is, unless you have been hiding away somewhere under a rock! Each of these campaigns were uploaded and shared, liked, tweeted and retweeted, published and republished, commented on, blogged about and discussed in every single corner of the world, on every social media platform that exists, making them impossible to miss out.
Experts who have studied the “science of virality” say that there are some key principles that get people to share some content more than others in the social media realm. Obviously the makers of the above mentioned campaigns mastered some of the key principles of this science!
Your content deserves that kind of popularity too! Are you interested in creating social media content that shines?
Admitting you have a problem is the first step in solving it. If you are reading this, you acknowledge you have a problem in your business. You’re working harder than ever, yet sales are slagging. You’re missing opportunities, but you’re not sure why.
You may have heard good things about “social selling”. Finding time to investigate it is another matter, however. More likely, you’re not familiar with the term social selling. That’s understandable. It’s not (yet) as common as terms such as e-commerce, online sales, or social media.
Sounds powerful, doesn’t it? It is powerful. Extremely powerful.
So what’s stopping you from being a superstar social salesperson?
1. Change-averse. You’re unhappy that the internet has fundamentally changed consumer behavior. Consumers are doing more and more of their pre-purchase research online. In fact, 70 percent of their purchase occurs before they ever talk to a salesperson. Their criteria for choosing a product/vendor/provider have evolved. They now have instant access to a range of publicly available information and peer-to-peer reviews and discussions.
Today’s customers are driving the buying process. As a result, the traditional way of selling (e.g., cold calling) is dead.
This makes you uncomfortable. You don’t like change. You don’t like “losing control” of your sales process. Especially if your business is not technology driven, this sales process shift may be confusing/overwhelming/annoying/hard to accept.
Here’s the good news: Social media is changing the sales process for the better. A whopping 82 percent of the world’s online population is using social networking sites. Nearly one in five minutes spent online is devoted to social networking. No wonder those prospects aren’t answering your calls. They’re busy working the social networking sites. They are waiting for you to engage them.
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus said, “All is flux, nothing stays still – there is nothing permanent except change.” Instead of denying social media, embrace it.
You will see you haven’t lost control of anything. Quite the opposite is true.
2. Fear of obsolescence. Many sales people I meet are afraid of losing their relevance, or even their jobs. With the shift to online social networking, they don’t quite know where they fit or what skills are transferrable from the old, traditional way of selling. You may be one of those natural-born, silver-tongued sales pros who could sell ice to an Eskimo. That’s your talent. Along with your Rolodex and expense account, you don’t want to lose that personal touch that’s worked so well for you all these years. I don’t blame you.
More good news about social selling: Your buyers, prospects and customers are actually making your sales job easier. They’re voluntarily giving up all kinds of useful information about themselves on social media. This information makes you even more efficient and effective, and more relevant than ever. It’s a lot easier to do your research when the information is right there in real time. You can discover key decision-makers and purchase influencers and what’s on their mind. With social sales intelligence, you can reach buyers at exactly the right moment. Isn’t that your goal?
Social media doesn’t replace the fundamentals of good sales. You’re still creating meaningful one-on-one relationships with the people you want to sell to. You’re still solving customer needs. The major difference is that instead of pitching, you are providing value.
3. Unclear on the concept. “I don’t have time to play around on Facebook and Twitter” is another complaint I hear from reluctant social sellers. With an attitude like that, you’ll thwart your social selling efforts before you even get started. Of course you don’t have time to play! Social selling is serious business!
b) Social media is only for social (personal) networking and fun.
Although Facebook and Twitter are by far the most widely recognized social media platforms, they’re hardly the only ones available to you. You already know that. You’re here on LinkedIn. You’re already engaging in professional social networking. That’s a great start. LinkedIn makes a great foundation for your social selling strategy. However, a LinkedIn profile and a few dozen (or even a few hundred) connections is a far cry from leveraging the full power of social selling. It’s like putting on the uniform and sitting on the bench. You’re missing out on the real action.
The idea of social selling is to create a digital brand that represents you in social media even when you’re not there. Consider it your “online salesforce.” The key is to identify which social media channels your prospects/buyers/customers are using and how. Tune in to what your market is thinking. Then turn your online salesforce into a customer- and influencer-engaging trusted adviser. Offer valuable, credible information at every step of the sales process.
Misconceptions about social media abound. You might be surprised who is using social media and how.
Sixty-five percent of businesses are using social media in their sales efforts. Fifty-five percent believe their sales organisation would be more productive if they had a larger social presence, according to The Sales Management Association.
In a recent survey, 72 percent of B2B buyers said social media would likely have an influence on a future purchase decision. Nonprofits, too, increasingly are using social selling to drive awareness, solidify branding and demonstrate their thought-leadership around issues/causes. Only 11 percent continue to rely on traditional media exclusively.
Truth: If you don’t adopt social selling, your competition will — and likely already has.
The answer is a resounding “yes.” Internet selling is completely analytics driven. Social selling is no different. With the tools of social selling, you’ll get customer insights galore. Monitoring tools (some free, some subscription) let you listen to your prospects and customers in real time. You can also track your social buyer behavior using the measurement associated with each social media platform (e.g., mentions, shares, likes, retweets, etc.). Overall, you’ll be able to quantify and track your ROI by social media source and adjust your strategy accordingly.
You’re not alone. A full 93 percent of salespeople have no training in using social media. Fifty-three percent say they want help doing so.
Chances are very good you fall into this group. You are savvy enough to be using LinkedIn. As I mentioned above, LinkedIn is the best foundation for any social selling effort.
Now you know a little bit more about social selling. You understand why avoiding social selling is deadly for the future of your business. So what’s stopping you now from becoming a social selling superstar? (Add your comment below).
Facebook for Businesses: Losers, Risk-Takers, and Winners. Where Do You Fit?
The best social media platform for businesses is Facebook. Are you using it effectively for your business?
Almost 16 years ago, the founder of Microsoft (Bill Gates) made an interesting statement. He said in the future there will be only two kinds of businesses: those with an Internet presence, and those with no business at all.
Today, I would modify that statement to say that in the future there will be only two kinds of businesses: those with a Facebook presence, and those with no business at all!
Increase brand awareness and stay top-of-mind with customers and target audiences.
Save on marketing spend. Yes, Facebook is totally free (except if you choose to advertise) and you can connect with all your potential and existing customers with a single ‘Status Update’ 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Lead generation and promotions. Many companies enjoy constant amount of new enquires generated from Facebook. Those customers are easy to acquire and loyal due to the fact that they found you from Facebook word-of-mouth.
Sales and business development. The concept of Socially Facilitated Selling has changed how business is done today. Now you need to be social and understand the buying cycle of your customers on Facebook.
Customer service. If you want to do the bare minimum in being customer oriented and customer centred, then you need to be communicating with your customers thru their preferred channel, and today it is Facebook.
Research and feedback on product or services. Facebook allows you to post questions and polls to get instant feedback from your target audience. The days of hiring a research firm to conduct surveys are gone forever.
One last reason… Simply if you are not on Facebook, your competitors are. So guess what will happen in the long run if you don’t get in quickly. Most probably you will have lost this market space, and even if you move in late you will be playing a catch-up game.
Afraid of things going wrong on the largest social platform, i.e. Facebook!
Unable to answer the question of what their Facebook investment has added to their bottom-line?
If you are really serious in helping yourself and your organization to make it in this Facebook-driven world, then I would highly recommend that you consider the winners approach. Do invest your time, and involve your team, in learning more about this powerful platform.
I have been asked by many companies and professionals to enhance their knowledge so that they and their organizations can succeed on Facebook. However, this requires commitment, as they need to be ready to learn! Therefore, I have worked with a global team of Facebook experts and developed a complete training and coaching program called “Facebook for Businesses“.
If you are interested in this program, then check out the details on WSI Academy website. I hope to meet with you soon (if you choose to become a winner) at the upcoming workshop where you will learn how to use Facebook for your Business.
Are you ready to know about the success strategy of Facebook for Businesses? Contact me for more details.
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2019-04-22T01:06:13Z
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http://husamjandal.com/category/social-media-marketing/
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The major histocompatibility complex (MHC), including human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes, is located in chromosome 6p21. It contains crucial genes for crucial immune responses and other genes with nonimmunological roles . The HLA genetic system, located in the MHC Class I and Class II regions, displays the highest degree of polymorphism of any functional genetic complex with medical impact representing a landmark for the development of preventive and predictive medicine. The high level of diversity involving HLA alleles reflects the essential roles of the encoded molecules in human health and disease .
New HLA alleles continue to be discovered and the recognition of HLA low-incidence alleles has enriched our understanding of the complexity of the HLA system. The HLA genes are characterized by their extreme allelic polymorphism as well as their variations and diversity in different ethnic groups and racial populations . HLA molecules have been definitely defined as transplant antigens and have a strong relevance to tissue transplantation. Their molecule similarity in donors and recipients is being considered a predictive factor for graft survival and graft versus host disease . It is imperative to precisely characterize any unknown and low-incidence alleles encountered during routine HLA typing procedures. To facilitate successful, comprehensive unrelated bone marrow hematopoietic stem cell donor searches for patients in need of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, persistent effort is required to resolve unidentified, ambiguous, and low-incidence alleles to offer better HLA matching and donor selection .
HLA-C*15:29, a rare frequency allele , was officially submitted to IPD-IMGT/HLA Database in October 1992 . The allele was found in an Oriental individual with Thai ethnicity without information on its associated HLA haplotype . The frequency of C*15:29 was estimated as 0.0018% in 169,995 volunteers donors studied in the China Bone Marrow Donor Registry Program while a 0.001% frequency of C*15:29 was reported in 519 England blood donors of mixed ethnicity tested . In this report, we confirm the Oriental ethnicity of C*15:29 and identify the deduced plausible HLA haplotype in association with C*15:29 based on HLA typing of the Taiwanese individuals we observed in our routine HLA typing practice.
A total of 12,534 unrelated healthy Taiwanese individuals were tested for C*15:29 in this study. Peripheral whole blood samples from individuals with Taiwanese ethnicity were collected in acid citrate dextrose (ACD) anticoagulant. Formal written consent was signed by the individuals before blood collection. The ACD whole blood samples were stored at −80°C until use. Genomic DNA was extracted using the QIAamp DNA Blood Mini Kit according to the manufacturer's instructions (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). Genomic DNA from the unrelated individuals was subjected to HLA genotyping for HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DQB1 loci using commercial PCR-SBT kits (TBG, Medigen Biotechnology, Taipei, Taiwan). Polymerase chain reaction was performed to amplify exons 2, 3, and 4 of the HLA-A and HLA-B loci; exons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the HLA-C locus; and exon 2 of the HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DRQ1 loci using group-specific primer sets. The amplicons were sequenced in both directions with the BigDye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Ready Reaction Kit according to the manufacturer's (TBG, Medigen Biotechnology, Taipei, Taiwan) protocols. Determination of HLA allele-associated probable haplotype employed in this study is by looking at the commonly shared HLA typing of the donors carrying C*15:29.
This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the ethics committee of the Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital (IRB106-81-A).
In a total of 12,534 randomized healthy Taiwanese individuals tested, eight individuals with C*15:29 were identified which makes the frequency of C*15:29 in the Taiwanese population approximately 0.064%.
We confirmed the DNA sequence of HLA-C*15:29 is identical to C*15:02:01:01 in exons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, except for residue 420 (codon 116) at exon 3 and residue 1034 (codon 321) at exon 6. In residues 420 and 1034, A and G of C*15:02:01:01 are substituted by C and A in C*15:29, respectively [Figure 1]a. The nucleotide substitutions introduce two amino acid replacements at residue 116 and residue 321 where leucine (L) and cysteine (C) of C*15:02:01:01 are replaced by phenylalanine (F) and tyrosine (Y) in C*15:29, respectively [Figure 1]b. The extended HLA typing of the unrelated Taiwanese individuals with HLA-C*15:29 is shown in [Table 1]. Based on the commonly shared HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DRB1 alleles of the individuals [Table 1] and together with the HLA typing of the two donors submitted to the IPD-IMGT/HLA Database (A*24:10:01, A*29:01:01:01, B*07:05:01, B*51:01:01:01, C*07:04:01, C*15:29, DRB1*04:05:01, DRB1*10:01:01, DQB1*04:01:01, and DQB1*05:01:01; and A*24:10:01, A*29:01:01:01, B*07:05:01, B*51:01:01:01, C*07:04:01, C*15:29, DRB1*04:05:01, DRB1*10:01:01, DQB1*04:01:01, and DQB1*05:01:01) , we deduced the most probable HLA-A-B-C-DRB1 haplotype in association with C*15:29 in Taiwanese to be A*29:01-B*07:05-C*15:29-DRB1*10:01. When HLA-DQB1 typing of the donors is taking into account, the most probable HLA-A-B-C-DRB1-DQB1 haplotype associated with C*15:29 may be deduced as A*29:01-B*07:05-C*15:29-DRB1*10:01-DQB1*05:01.
We confirmed the DNA sequence and amino acid sequence of the low-frequency HLA allele C*15:29 in this study. C*15:29 was initially discovered in a Thai individual without knowledge of the probable HLA haplotype in association with the allele . In this study, we ascertain the Oriental ethnicity of C*15:29 and propose the deduced probable C*15:29-associated HLA-A-B-C-DRB1-DQB1 haplotype to be A*29:01-B*07:05-C*15:29-DRB1*10:01-DQB1*05:01. This finding is in agreement with the C*15:29-associated HLA-A-B-C haplotype indicated on the Allele Frequency Net Database (www.allelefrequencies net/hla6006a.asp).
Information on the ethnicity of C*15:29 and its linked HLA haplotype can be employed in anthropological investigation of races. In addition, bone marrow donor registries can allocate appropriate unrelated stem cell donors for patients with C*15:29. In addition, knowing the nucleotide and amino acid variation between C*15:29 and the prevalently observed C*15:02:01:01 allele may be helpful when selecting a minor HLA-mismatched unrelated bone marrow stem cell donor for a patient with the rare C*15:29 allele.
It is worth mentioning that the most direct and classic method of determining HLA haplotypes is through a family study if test materials from a number of key family members are available. Alternatively, a population study may be employed if a sufficient number of unrelated donors are available . However, the haplotypes deduced via population investigation are considered to be likely or most probable ,,,,,,,. In this study, because of the lack of availability of necessary test material from the families, we opted to determine the haplotypes by looking at the HLA alleles carried in common by randomized unrelated donors with the same alleles of interest. By the same token, if determination of plausible HLA-associated haplotypes is for rare or low-frequency HLA alleles, the alleles shared in common by unrelated individuals may be employed to deduce the associated probable haplotypes ,,,,,,,. The frequency of C*15:29 in Taiwanese is about 0.064%. Therefore, we think the deduced probable C*15:29-associated HLA haplotype in Taiwanese that we deduced in this study are accurate. Nevertheless, we cannot rule out the possibility that additional C*15:29-associated HLA haplotypes may be revealed in the future when increased number of individuals with C*15:29 is detected.
The number of known HLA alleles is increasing with the recent development of DNA-based molecular typing technology. There is a high level of HLA diversity among ethnic groups and knowledge of this diversity is important. Matching of bone marrow stem cell donors relies on the accuracy of HLA typing results. This is dependent on the resolution of unknown, ambiguous, and low-incidence genes in the HLA system.
We are indebted to all volunteer donors who joined the Buddhist Tzu Chi Bone Marrow Donor Registry and gave consent for our research project. Their unselfishness and efforts to help needy patients are most appreciated and respected. We would like to give sincere gratitude to Dharma Master Cheng Yen, Founder of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, for continuing support and kind encouragement, both spiritually and intellectually. Furthermore, we thank our colleagues at the Tzu Chi Immunogenetics Laboratory, Tzu Chi Stem Cells Centre, for technical assistance. Their generosity and camaraderie are truly appreciated.
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Yang KL, Lee SK, Kao RH, Lin PY. Discovery of the novel HLA-DRB1*10:04 allele in a Taiwanese volunteer bone marrow donor and identification of the probable HLA-A, -B, -C and -DRB1 haplotype in association with DRB1*10:04. Int J Immunogenet 2012;39:448-50.
Yang KL, Lee SK, Lin PY. Discovery of a novel HLA-B*51 variant, B*51:112, in a Taiwanese bone marrow donor and identification of the plausible HLA haplotype in association with B*51:112. Int J Immunogenet 2012;39:451-3.
Yang KL, Lee SK, Lin PY. Identification of the novel HLA allele, HLA-B*40:159, in a Taiwanese hematopoietic stem cell donor and the probable HLA haplotype in an association with B*40:159. Int J Immunogenet 2012;39:520-3.
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Yang KL, Lin PY. Two conserved HLA haplotypes (HLA-A*11:127N-B*54:01-DRB1*04:05 and HLA-A*11:01-B*40:221-C*03:04-DRB1*14:54-DQB1*05:02) observed in the Taiwan population. Tzu Chi Med J 2013;25:218-20.
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Perhaps the distortion of artifical time through the Julian and Gregorian calendars were created to keep our minds trapped within this B.C. and A.D. timeframe?
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient analog computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900–1901 from the Antikythera wreck, but its significance and complexity were not understood until a century later. Jacques Cousteau visited the wreck in 1978 but, although he found new dating evidence, he did not find any additional remains of the Antikythera mechanism. The construction has been dated to the early 1st century BCE. Technological artifacts approaching its complexity and workmanship did not appear again until the 14th century AD, when mechanical astronomical clocks began to be built in Western Europe.
This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully … in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa.
The Antikythera mechanism is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, accompanied by a reconstruction made and donated to the museum by Derek de Solla Price. Other reconstructions are on display at the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in New York, in Kassel, Germany, and at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
The mechanism was housed in a wooden box approximately 340 × 180 × 90 mm in size and comprised 30 bronze gears (although more could have been lost). The largest gear, clearly visible in fragment A, was approximately 140 mm in diameter and most likely had 223 teeth. The mechanism’s remains were found as 82 separate fragments of which only seven contain any gears or significant inscriptions.
This machine has the oldest known complex gear mechanism and is sometimes called the first known analog computer, although the quality of its manufacture suggests that it may have had a number of undiscovered predecessors during the Hellenistic Period. It appears to be constructed upon theories of astronomy and mathematics developed by Greek astronomers and is estimated to have been made around 100 BC. In 1974, British science historian and Yale University Professor Derek de Solla Price concluded from gear settings and inscriptions on the mechanism’s faces that the mechanism was made about 87 BC and was lost only a few years later.
The Baghdad Battery, sometimes referred to as the Parthian Battery, is the common name for a number of artifacts created in Mesopotamia, during the dynasties of Parthian or Sassanid period (the early centuries AD), and probably discovered in 1936 in the village of Khuyut Rabbou’a, near Baghdad, Iraq. These artifacts came to wider attention in 1938 when Wilhelm König, the German director of the National Museum of Iraq, found the objects in the museum’s collections. In 1940, König published a paper speculating that they may have been galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects. Though far from settled, this interpretation continues to be considered as at least a hypothetical possibility. If correct, the artifacts would predate Alessandro Volta’s 1800 invention of the electrochemical cell by more than a millennium.
The artifacts consist of terracotta pots approximately 130 mm (5 in) tall (with a one-and-a-half-inch mouth) containing a copper cylinder made of a rolled-up copper sheet, which houses a single iron or (galvanized nail) rod. At the top, the iron rod is isolated from the copper by bitumen plugs or stoppers, and both rod and cylinder fit snugly inside the opening of the jar, which bulges outward toward the middle. The copper cylinder is not watertight, so if the jar were filled with a liquid, this would surround the iron rod as well. The artifact had been exposed to the weather and had suffered corrosion, although mild given the presence of an electrochemical couple. This has led some to believe that wine, lemon juice, grape juice, or vinegar was used as an acidic electrolyte solution to generate an electric current from the difference between the electrochemical potentials of the copper and iron electrodes.
König thought the objects might date to the Parthian period (between 250 BC and AD 224). However, according to St John Simpson of the Near Eastern department of the British Museum, their original excavation and context were not well-recorded, so evidence for this date range is very weak. Furthermore, the style of the pottery is Sassanid (224-640).
Most of the components of the objects are not particularly amenable to advanced dating methods. The ceramic pots could be analysed by thermoluminescence dating, but this has not yet been done; in any case, it would only date the firing of the pots, which is not necessarily the same as when the complete artifact was assembled. Another possibility would be ion diffusion analysis, which could indicate how long the objects were buried.
The Saqqara Bird is a bird-shaped artifact made of sycamore wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BCE, and is now housed in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The Saqqara Bird has a wingspan of 180 mm (7.1 in) and weighs 39.12 g (1.380 oz). Its function is not understood because of a lack of period documentation.
Some think the Saqqara Bird may be a ceremonial object because the falcon, the bird after which the Saqqara Bird is modeled, is the form most commonly used to represent several of the most important gods of Egyptian mythology, most notably Horus and Ra Horakhty.
Some have suggested that the Saqqara Bird may represent evidence that knowledge of the principles of aviation existed many centuries before such are generally believed to have first been discovered. Egyptian physician, archaeologist, parapsychologist and dowser Khalil Messiha has speculated that the ancient Egyptians developed the first aircraft. He wrote that it “represents a diminutive of an original monoplane still present in Saqqara.” He also claimed that the Saqqara Bird could function as a glider if it had a horizontal tailplane, which he “suppose[d] was lost,” and noted that the Egyptians often placed miniaturized representations of their technology in their tombs.
Messiha contended that the Saqqara Bird differs significantly from other statues and models of birds housed in the Cairo museum. According to Messiha, the Saqqara Bird has a vertical tailplane which is unlike the generally horizontal shape of a real bird’s tail. Richard P. Hallion described this fin as “shaped as if the bird had twisted its tail feathers.” It is also legless and has wings set at an angle Messiha sees as similar to that of modern aircraft, which he considered an attempt to create aerodynamic lift.
The Quimbaya artifacts are several dozen golden objects, found in Colombia, made by the Quimbaya civilization culture, dated around 1000 CE, a few of which (the so-called Quimbaya airplanes) are supposed by ancient astronauts theorists to represent modern airplanes, and therefore to be out-of-place artifacts. The whole of the figurines, measuring 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7.5 cm) each, are described in mainstream archaeology as depicting birds, lizards, amphibians and insects common in that region and period, some of them highly stylized, as in the Gold Museum, Bogotá.
In 1994, Germans Peter Belting and Conrad Lubbers created simplified radio-controlled scale models of these objects and showed that their models, which lack some convoluted features present in the real figurines, could fly.
Critics of the modern-day airplane interpretation argue that the pre-Columbian culture in South America did not have the knowledge nor the technology to manufacture airplanes.
The crystal skulls are a number of human skull hardstone carvings made of clear or milky white quartz, known in art history as “rock crystal”, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts by their alleged finders; however, none of the specimens made available for scientific study have been authenticated as pre-Columbian in origin. The results of these studies demonstrated that those examined were manufactured in the mid-19th century or later, almost certainly in Europe during a time when interest in ancient culture was abundant. Despite some claims presented in an assortment of popularizing literature, legends of crystal skulls with mystical powers do not figure in genuine Mesoamerican or other Native American mythologies and spiritual accounts.
The skulls are often claimed to exhibit paranormal phenomena by some members of the New Age movement. The type of crystal was determined by examination of chlorite inclusions, and is only to be found in Madagascar and Brazil, and thus unobtainable or unknown within pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
Some believers in the paranormal claim that crystal skulls can produce a variety of miracles. Anna Mitchell-Hedges claimed that the skull she allegedly discovered could cause visions, cure cancer, that she once used its magical properties to kill a man, and that in another instance, she saw in it a premonition of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Crystal skulls are also referenced by author Drunvalo Melchizedek in his book Serpent of Light. He writes that he came across indigenous Mayan descendants in possession of crystal skulls at ceremonies at temples in the Yucatán, which he writes contained souls of ancient Mayans who had entered the skulls to await the time when their ancient knowledge would once again be required.
The Coso artifact is an object claimed by its discoverers to be a spark plug found encased in a lump of hard clay or rock on February 13, 1961 by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell while they were prospecting for geodes near the town of Olancha, California, and long claimed as an example of an out-of-place artifact.
If a spark plug is encased in a 500,000-year-old “geode,” this finding would represent a substantial scientific and historical anomaly, as spark plugs were invented in the 19th century. Critics have argued, however, that the concretion, not geode, containing the Coso artifact can be explained by known natural processes and credible evidence for it being 500,000 years old is completely lacking.
*Human time-travellers from the future leaving or losing the artifact during a visit to the past.
Klerksdorp spheres are small objects, often spherical to disc-shaped, that have been collected by miners and rockhounds from 3-billion-year-old pyrophyllite deposits mined by Wonderstone Ltd., near Ottosdal, South Africa. They have been cited by some alternative researchers and reporters in books, popular articles, and many web pages, as inexplicable out-of-place artifacts that could only have been manufactured by intelligent beings. Geologists who have studied these objects argue that the objects are not manufactured, but are rather the result of natural processes.
The spheres are of two types – “one of solid bluish metal with white flecks, and another which is a hollow ball filled with a white spongy center” (Jimison 1982).
This fossil which corresponds perfectly to a human handprint shows astounding detail.
Even the print of the thumb nail can be seen.
It is found in the Glen Rose limestone which is designated as Middle Cretaceous, supposedly 110 million years old and contemporary with the dinosaurs!
Michael Tellinger tells of an even larger GIANT footprint!
The stone spheres (or stone balls) of Costa Rica are an assortment of over three hundred petrospheres in Costa Rica, located on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño. Locally, they are known as Las Bolas. The spheres are commonly attributed to the extinct Diquís culture and are sometimes referred to as the Diquís Spheres. They are the best-known stone sculptures of the Isthmo-Colombian area.
This plate called ‘The Lolladoff plate’ is a 12,000 year old stone dish found in Nepal. It clearly shows a disk shaped UFO (top of pic, hard to see from the angle of the plate however). There is also a figure on the disc looking remarkably similar to a Grey alien. Notice the spiral galaxy shape as well, with the alien inside it and the ufo at the beginning of it.
Galaxies come in spiral shapes and throughout India, Egypt and Peru and other ancient sites the spiral shape is very often seen. This galaxy spiral is probably there to tell us that they flew here from another galaxy, buy more probably the spiral was their symbol signifying their knowledge of the universe, as the spiral is the most widely recognizable shape in the universe and in it’s creation. The spiral shape also signifies energy.
The spiral is a geometric shape found in many places throughout nature, in many ancient cultures it is portrayed and given great meaning. Two of the most popular spiral shapes however not always circular or curved in shape are the Fibonacci spiral and Golden spiral. The spiral is also well represented through sacred geometry. The spiral holds many mysteries, and its shape is universal, its constant depiction in ancient texts, pictures, and symbology is obviously of great importance.
It has become blatantly obvious that our true human origins have been obscured from academia, all the way from grade school through college. Even within religion, we are expected to believe that humanity is only 6,000 years old or so.
The time is drawing nearer when our true human origins will be officially revealed as Pluto transits through Capricorn. Pluto is known as the “Destroyer” and will tear down these false teachings that have kept us oppressed for thousands of years. From there, official recognition of our galactic neighbors and friends will follow.
This WILL happen in your lifetime, so hang in there, stay positive, and spread the love!
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We don't believe such rapid success would have been possible if we'd attempted to build a money-management business.
You should know that we attribute our success to three simple factors: our contrarian approach (we cover valuable opportunities others won't or can't), the number of very highly skilled analysts we were able to recruit and retain (primarily by offering a work environment that promised lucrative rewards for success with almost no conflicts of interest), and the integrity with which we have always approached our endeavors. Or as our founder likes to say in jest, "All it takes is a decade of hard work to become an overnight success."
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The investing public has the unfailing tendency to rush into the worst possible investments at the worst possible time. We call this the "paradox" of finance. People can figure out when it's a good time to buy groceries - when they're on sale. But when it comes to securities, people tend to ignore them when they're cheap and stampede into them when they're expensive.
For example... you'll remember that in 1999 and 2000 investors all rushed into tech stocks... at the wrong time. Then, they rushed into the housing market... at the wrong time. We believe this irrational behavior is linked to the emotional need many people have to conform. It's the same psychology, essentially, that powers the fashion business.
We can't say what investment passion will strike the crowd next, but we know, when it occurs, it would prove lucrative for us to publish information confirming the crowd's passions... even when it involves making bad or dangerous recommendations. That is, during bubble periods, we have a financial incentive to help inflate the bubble because that's the kind of information the public will demand in those periods.
This conflict - the temptation to sell the public the information it wants even if it's not in their interests - isn't unique to financial publishers. All forms of media face this conflict. That's why, at market tops, you will commonly find magazine covers and other types of mainstream media embracing the bubble.
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Newsletter track records: Why they're not like mutual funds.
The mutual-fund industry has become, like the wine trade, addicted to extremely simplistic, almost ritualistic, evaluations of quality. A wine is a 96. That's great. A fund is five-star. That's great. What's your newsletter's rank?
The problem is, unlike a mutual fund, newsletter track records have no precise starting point or ending point. The size (number of positions) grows over time, as the letter adds recommendations. Thus, a newsletter can't really be compared - directly - to either a mutual fund or a stock index.
The closest comparison we can manage for newsletters is to give you the average annual return of each recommendation made and the average holding period. This gives you the annualized return - which is an approximation of what you might have earned following the advice of a newsletter.
It's far from precise. It doesn't account for taxes (if you're investing in a taxable account) or "slippage" - which is the price you paid when you bought versus the recommended price and the price you got when you sold versus the recommended sell price. We can only track prices that are available in the market at the time we publish.
Occasionally, someone will complain that our track records aren't reliable because they don't reflect actual investment returns. It's important for you to realize that your results might be better or worse than the results we represent. We simply have no way to know what your entry price was, what your exit price was, or what taxes you've paid (or will eventually pay). We strive to make our track records accurate. They may, or they may not, be representative of your actual results.
Now... here's the problem with track records and the reliance some investors place on them.
There's not a single mutual fund in the world whose long-term track record is great (10 years with double-digit annual returns) that doesn't also have periods of terrible investment performance. Likewise in the newsletter business, we have some analysts and some strategies that excel during bull markets. Some that excel during bear markets. And some that can produce very consistent (but not world-beating) results. We had an editor, for example, close out 136 winning positions in a row, where the average return on each position was roughly 10%. Of course, he held those positions open for two to three months. So his annualized return over that period was 52%.
Nearly all of our products are based on a fundamental approach to securities analysis. A few offer advice based on the market's technical outlook. We've developed a preference for fundamental factors (like the underlying quality of the business and a rational evaluation of the stock's intrinsic value versus its market price) because we've found these qualitative measures to be the most reliable.
The most important thing that you need to understand is that no single investment strategy (or investment analyst) can provide consistently market-beating advice at all times and in all markets. Our analysts use a variety of contrarian-based strategies. Our efforts are designed to allow you to use the right tools in the right market conditions.
All of our publications maintain a track record. Virtually all of them post their open positions on our website and almost all of them are also printed with each issue. All of the back issues are available on our website. You can see for yourself how each analyst has done with every recommendation he or she has ever made. You can see how each of our products has performed in the past, during various market conditions. All of these things we do to inform our readers about the products that they've purchased and represent our efforts to be transparent.
Each year we publish the "Report Card" in which our founder, Porter Stansberry, personally reviews all of the recommendations made across all of our products. He selects various time frames for these reviews based on market movements - bull markets, bear markets, flat markets.
In these reviews we publish the hard data - the number of recommendations, the percentage of winners, the average returns, the days held. This gives our readers a good idea of what to expect from our various publications in any given market. But remember, past performance is no guarantee of future success.
To give you some context, in early 2015, we gave one of our services, Extreme Value, a grade of A in our annual Report Card because the Editor, Dan Ferris, had an 69% Win Percentage and an average annualized return of 16.3%. Similarly, we gave Porter Stansberry's service, Stansberry's Investment Advisory, a B with a 55% Win Percentage and an average return of 15.4%.
Again, your results will likely vary - you may make more or you may make less, possibly much less and you may lose all of your investment if you act on the information that we publish.
Our idea is simple: Provide transparency to our customers. Let the readers decide how to best utilize the resources we provide.
Please understand: The best thing an investment research product can bring you is a good idea that's right for the market conditions and offers an overwhelming potential for success versus a moderate level of risk.
No investment newsletter is likely to make you rich overnight, although we've seen huge profits in volatile industries, like mining and biotechnology. Most of your success as an investor will be determined by how much capital you have to invest, how much time you have to invest, and your asset allocation, that is, how much of your capital you have in stocks versus bonds and cash. If you want to be successful as an investor, our best advice is to become an expert at avoiding risk. Simply putting your money into high-quality stocks and bonds is very likely your best bet.
Another way we try to avoid conflicts: Our analysts do not buy the stocks they recommend to you.
Our company policy forbids our investment analysts from owning any stock they write about. In addition, other employees of Stansberry Research and associated individuals may not purchase recommended securities until 24 hours after the recommendations have been distributed to our subscribers on the Internet, or 72 hours after a direct-mail publication is sent.
Some subscribers profess to be disappointed that our analysts don't "eat their own cooking" or have any "skin in the game" since they aren't allowed to own even a token amount of the stocks they've recommended. That opinion is naïve. Nothing is more important to the long-term success of an analyst in our industry than a reputation for producing excellent results for their subscribers. An analyst's standing in our company and our industry is measured by his or her ability to produce a winning track record using a given strategy. This is real skin in the game - far more skin than simply investing a few thousand dollars in a particular stock.
This position also allows our analysts to be genuinely independent. That guarantees us that the only reason they have to recommend a stock, to re-recommend a stock, or to recommend selling a stock is that they fully and sincerely believe that's the best course of action. Without this independence the possibilities of a conflict of interest are infinite.
And we have a legal reason to keep our writers out of the stocks they write about. The SEC claims complete jurisdiction (despite the publisher's exemption) over anything that's written about securities that are purchased in connection with the purchase or sale of a security.
As long as our writers aren't purchasing securities, they are granted far greater protections under the First Amendment because their speech isn't connected with the purchase or sale of any security. As we explained earlier, this doesn't mean we can write anything we want. It simply means our writers are able to venture much farther into contrarian strategies without facing significant legal liabilities. This gives us the ability to cover opportunities that other research groups, which may also be buying securities, cannot.
We have been sued and threatened with lawsuits, from time to time, because of the things we've published.
From time to time, our contrarian views and our relentless efforts to publish information that's valuable leads us into conflicts with government regulators and powerful corporations.
You might think that, in America, the freedom of the press is sacrosanct, but sadly, the truth is our ability to give our subscribers extremely valuable information is, from time to time, severely restricted.
For example, over a decade ago in 2002, Porter Stansberry claimed in a published report that a former unit of the Department of Energy - a unit that was sold to investors in 1996 and is now known as USEC - was withholding material information from the public about an agreement that had been made. Specifically, Porter learned that the company would soon announce a very advantageous pricing agreement with its Russian supplier of uranium, the company's key raw material input.
Because USEC was trading at a very distressed price (half of book value) and was paying such a high dividend (yielding more than 8%), Porter believed the stock would soar once this long-pending agreement was made public.
Based on what he'd learned from a company insider (the director of Investor Relations), Porter wrote that the agreement would be announced at a major nuclear summit featuring presidents Bush and Putin on May 22, 2002. The insider confirmed Porter's analysis, telling him to "watch the stock on May 22." Later Porter sent a complete copy of his report to his source to confirm all of the facts. The source never requested any correction.
And in fact, the long-awaited announcement about the agreement came about a month later, on June 19, 2002.
Following the new agreement with the Russian uranium supplier, the stock traded all the way up to nearly $18 over the following three years - more than doubling as Porter predicted.
Keep in mind, Porter did not trade this stock. Instead of taking advantage of this information, he published a report, which was made available to all of our subscribers urging them to buy the company before news of the pending agreement was made public. In our view, that's what any responsible journalist would have done given the circumstances.
But, instead of pursuing USEC's managers and bankers for withholding material information from the public, the SEC decided to sue us. Even more ironically, they accused us of lying and charged us with securities fraud. Remember: Porter didn't use this information for his own personal gain. He didn't buy the stock. And, he didn't tell his friends to buy the stock. Instead, he published a report about what he'd learned and offered to sell it to any (and all) interested investors.
He also sent his complete report (and the accompanying marketing materials) back to his source at the company. The source never asked for a correction. The company when asked by multiple media outlets (Bloomberg and Reuters) never offered a correction to our reporting. In our view these facts proved conclusively that our report was correct in every material aspect. And, of course, as everyone knows now, the new pricing agreement was in fact approved.
We couldn't imagine how the SEC would win this case given these facts. And, we didn't believe they had any jurisdiction in any case. They brought the suit against us alleging we'd committed fraud in connection with the purchase or sale of a security. We don't broker securities. We don't manage money. We're not fiduciaries. The SEC isn't normally in the business of suing the Wall Street Journal when it gets its facts mixed up - assuming we had in fact gotten the story wrong.
We saw this case as government retribution pure and simple. We'd pointed the finger at the Department of Energy and alleged government officials were profiting by gaming the timing of USEC's announcement. And the government was going to try to silence us - and put us out of business.
We passed up the opportunity to settle this case - which is what most Wall Street banks do when the SEC comes knocking. Instead, our company spent millions fighting the SEC because we knew we did nothing wrong and that our best interests were always aligned with our subscribers.
More than 20 publishers, broadcasters, and press freedom organizations agreed with us and they spent their own funds hiring lawyers to support our position. Our supporters were a who's who in publishing including the Associated Press, New York Times Co., Washington Post Co., Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Society of Professional Journalists, Gannett, Hearst, McClatchy and many others.
The Maryland Court of Appeals - the state's highest court - unanimously agreed with our position that the SEC does not regulate the media, and we won the state action. But the federal court somehow determined that the First Amendment was not at play, and we lost the federal case. Incredibly, even though our advice would have made money - a lot of money - for our subscribers, we were forced to pay a $1 million fine. That was on top of the millions we'd spent on attorneys defending ourselves.
Naturally, we appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court because we did not understand how we could win unanimously in state court and lose in federal court. But as you may know, the U.S. Supreme Court receives approximately 10,000 requests for appeal each year and accepts only 75 - 80 of those cases.
We learned a valuable lesson through this process: When it comes to opposing the federal government in a lawsuit, the facts rarely matter.
A few years later, we were threatened with another lawsuit, this time by the Social Security Administration. We had uncovered what was essentially a secret program, only known about by Washington insiders. The program allowed Social Security recipients to elect to begin receiving their benefits at age 62. Normally that meant you had to settle for smaller monthly payments than if you waited until 65 to begin collecting. But this program allowed people "in-the-know" to switch their election at age 65 and receive the full payments. In short, this was a program that allowed the insiders to seriously cheat the program.
We published all of the details and urged hundreds of thousands of our readers to take advantage of the program. The Social Security Administration then threated to sue us for $2 billion. They claim to own the words "Social Security" and claimed we were using their words without permission. And sure enough, back in the 1960s, Congress passed a special law that makes it a crime to use the words "Social Security" without permission. Obviously, they don't enforce this law, except selectively. But we also knew that this time, if we lost, they could put us out of business. We settled for $76,000.
Yes, that's right. We paid a huge fine just for writing about how retired Americans could enjoy the full benefits of Social Security - benefits Washington insiders were obviously trying to keep for themselves.
If you doubt our interpretation of events, just consider this... within a few months of our reporting, Social Security canceled the program citing a wave of new applicants and the resulting financial burden they caused the program.
We've also been threatened with lawsuits from time to time by various large corporations who object to our writing. Often times it's companies who don't want us to tell people about the advantages of owning their shares. This might seem hard to believe until you think about it carefully. When we tell thousands of subscribers about good investment opportunities, we make it more difficult for insiders to continue to keep good opportunities nearly private.
There's no doubt that, if we're doing our job and doing it well, we will be sued or threatened with lawsuits from time to time. We urge you to consider these cases carefully. We believe you'll find that the facts of these lawsuits give us credibility instead of detracting from our reputation.
The ownership structure of our company is private, but it's not a secret.
You deserve to know who owns our company. How else could you decide to trust us enough to depend on our investment research?
Stansberry Research is majority owned by Agora Inc., a private global holding company based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Agora Inc. has been in business since 1979. It has interests in dozens of publishing entities around the world, from book publishing in Paris, France (Les Belles Lettres) to magazines in London, England (Moneyweek, the leading financial magazine in Great Britain) to financial newsletters in the United States, South America, Australia, and Spain. Through its holdings, Agora is the world's largest investment newsletter company. Stansberry Research is Agora Inc.'s largest operating subsidiary.
Agora also holds interests in several other private businesses, conducting operations in diverse fields, such as accounting and beachfront real estate development.
Bill Bonner is the majority owner of Agora. Mr. Bonner is a well-known economist and commentator in his own right, having written daily about the world's financial markets since 1999. Millions of investors around the world have read Mr. Bonner's columns via The Daily Reckoning and his current editorial project, Diary of a Rogue Economist.
Porter Stansberry, our founder, partnered with Mr. Bonner and Agora Inc. to launch Pirate Investor in 1999 - the forerunner to Stansberry Research. Pirate Investor quickly developed a large global following. Mr. Stansberry was able to successfully launch several additional titles, broadening the investment strategies being covered in Pirate Investor's publications. In 2004, the name of the business was changed to Stansberry Research to better reflect the evolution of the business.
Today Stansberry Research remains headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. We have approximately 150 employees, who work in our three main offices.
We have one satellite office in Delray Beach, Florida, one outside of Jacksonville, Florida, and our headquarters is located in the historic Mt. Vernon district of Baltimore, Maryland. More than a million people, in more than 120 countries, read our products daily. We have more than half a million paid subscriber accounts, making our firm one of the largest (if not the largest) independent investment newsletter firms in the world.
Founder Porter Stansberry serves as CEO of our company. Porter Stansberry, Steve Sjuggerud, Mike Palmer, and David Eifrig hold a partnership interest in the business alongside Agora Inc.
Over the years, our research analysts have been cited, interviewed, or featured in nearly every major financial publication in America, including: CBS Market Watch, Fox Business, Bloomberg, Barron's, USA Today, TD Ameritrade, ABC, Forbes, The Street.com, The Wall Street Journal, Business News Network, Newsmax, Seeking Alpha, and The Huffington Post, to name just a few.
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We wouldn’t recommend anticipating such outstanding results with your own investments. Yes, you could have results like these – or perhaps even better. But, it’s simply not prudent to assume you will immediately make large investment returns. Instead, we urge you to read our work carefully, to follow our risk management strategies conscientiously, and to invest cautiously while setting expectations that are based around our long-term performance averages. You can learn more about these by reviewing our annual Report Cards found in the Digest archives.
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“Prosperity cannot be created out of thin air”: Paul, Ron. The Revolution: A Manifesto. New York: Grand Central Pub., 2008. Print.
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I received the printed book, but not the “e” version of “America 2020”. Outlook may have blocked the email…I love the book; it is so clear and concise. Though I have studied a bit about the smartest way to survive what is coming, this put all the best ideas together in one place! My hat is off to you guys!
I need to buy another 12 of your books for my family and friends.
4. educational to know how to evaluate value, and how to continue with Stanberry Research as a guide.
So then: Can I buy 12 copies to give out to family and friends? I would expect to pay what your normal cost would be.
Also : I want to give Porter 4 books.
I would like to bring them to your offices in Baltimore and see Stanberry Research.
I did receive the book and read it the first day I had it. It is a great book that explains our current situation simply and very accurately. I intend to continue to use this book as a guide for investing and I will recommend it to my family and friends. Larry R.
I have not quite finished the last chapter of the book. I can say, this is a story that all Americans should know about. Unfortunately, when I try to explain it to friends, they don’t believe me. Most people simply want to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that nothing is happening.
I don’t usually buy things off the internet, but I am extremely glad that I made an exception in this case.
and your awesome PUT STRATEGY.
I guess this was your standing invitation to come visit anytime..
I will also try to make it to your next annual Alliance conference.
PS: I really have been making a small killing with selling your puts!!!
I have been an S&A Alliance member since it was first offered. I believe it to be one of the best decisions I have ever made. The investment advice gleaned from Steve, Dan’s and Porter’s advisories made me a better, more knowledgeable investor. Since joining, my portfolio has grown by several hundred thousand dollars. Subscribing was a no-brainer – imagine having access to all the advisories for life at a cost that was covered by less than 4 trades! I look forward to a long and prosperous relationship.
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2019-04-24T08:55:44Z
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We started out Thursday night heading out into the middle of nowhere South and West of Tooele Utah. Tooele is where the Tough Mudder was, and it's already middle-of-nowhere-enough as it is!
We arrived at the Lookout campsite in the dark, set up our tent, checked out the GORGEOUS stars, and went to sleep.
In the morning we woke up, got my brother off and running, and started our fun!
I don't need this yet!
Two(ish) hours in - SO happy!
Jeans and a running tank - that's hot.
I knew I'd be pacing soon, so I stripped down the layers (seen previously) to my running stuff and got ready.
Kakes paced first - he was starting to get more tired as he had already passed a Marathon distance.
At mile 31 I started running with him, right as his hip was starting to bug him so we started off (well I started off, he'd been going THIRTY-ONE miles already!) quite slowly due to the hip issues.
Kakes hopped in the van with Alicia a few miles later.
The hip issues caused some calf issues and some knee issues - but eventually, (and with the help of my amazing wife!) it worked out, and we really got moving again after Dugway Pass.
Around here I told him "I plan on pacing you as long as I'm not slowing you down" and he replied, "Yeah that probably won't be a problem!"
A few miles later my sister and her husband showed up, and my brother in law Ben jumped out to run with us.
Matt was moving a lot better here - and I was getting close to my all-time longest run ever. (14 miles last year in the half marathon I got lost in!) And my knee was starting to tweak a bit.
So Kakes parked the van, and everybody got out to run the final 1.5 miles.
I actually slowed WAY down and basically hobbled the last 200 yards or so. My knee was NOT very happy with me. Considering I had just run 18.91 miles straight (not including all the dancing and yoga and crew-running done earlier) I felt pretty good! I know I could do a marathon if I wanted. Who knows. Maybe someday I will!
We collapsed into chairs at the Finish Line almost 10 hours after we started. Kakes is awesome and took care of us with stuff we needed from the van. We ate some of the Argentine BBQ that was being prepared at the finish, and talked to a few runners, pacers, organizers, and took some pictures.
19+ miles, sunburned, still alive! Thriving!
and went back and packed up the Tent and bedding we'd left at the start-line campsite (yay for people not stealing anything!) ((Not that I expected them to - I'm still happy about it sheesh!)) It got dark fast!
Great adventure for a fall Friday! Saturday morning I woke up feeling a little sore, but not bad at all!
I still have no plans to run a Marathon, let alone an ULTRA marathon, but it was a blast crewing for my brother as he ran this 50 miler.
Now to catch up with the rest of the week!
As you know, since I've been talking about it for a long time now, yesterday I was able to take part in the Tough Mudder Event.
On Friday I said "My main goal is to conquer most of the obstacles without assistance" and if that word 'most' is taken into account - then I definitely did it! I only fell on ONE obstacle!
We met up and left at 7:30 to get out to the Event Site an hour before our 9:20 start time. Checked in and they wrote our number on our forehead. I wasn't too excited about that, for some reason I don't like having things written on my forehead!
It was COLD! As the sun was coming up it was getting better though. Jumped over the 6 or 7 ft wall to get into the start area and listened to the intro rules and everything by the course MC. Cool guy.
Then we counted down and started the course!
Here's a map so you can follow along!
Since there was so many people it really took a bit to get moving and then we made it to the first obstacle - "Kiss of Mud"
Next was one of the most dreaded Obstacles - "Arctic Enema" I know - it's a horrible name. It used to be called "Chernobyl Jacuzzi" - but I think somebody must have complained, so now it has the even worse Enema appellation. Anyway - I held my camera and videoed the experience so you could see it too!!
Next were "Berlin Walls" (part one) which were about 8-10 ft tall walls you had to get up and over. Twice. Easy Peasy - seriously, if I had to choose a workout to best prepare, muscle-ups have been the best preparation for most of this stuff. These walls were EASY.
and hit the next obstacle - "Bale Bonds" - big rolls of hay to climb over.
The 5th obstacle was "Hold Your Wood" which was probably my least favorite event. We took a GIANT and heavy log, and I have bruises from where it dug into my shoulders, along with wrist problems from holding the log with our team mates and coordinating the effort. Yikes!
Next was another Kiss of Mud, then we ran to King of the Mountain... which was just a pile of large hay bales.
Next up - "Trench Warfare" some pretty tight tunnels with a turn in the middle that made it pitch black in the middle. They dug out the trenches, then covered them with boards, dirt, and a TON of dead animal carcasses and bones! It was pretty cool - but could be really difficult for people if it went on much longer. As it was I saw a few that couldn't do it.
Trench Warfare was followed by the "Dirty Ballerina" which was a lot of fun. You could probably get a good enough start to jump over the muddy water pits/trenches, but it worked best if you jumped far into the water and immediately slapped your hands onto the other side and vaulted out. Often we'd jump in and out and turn around to help out our fellow Mudders. Great sense of camaraderie!
Then there was the first of my 2 least favorite obstacles. The "Electric Eel." Eels are something I very much dislike (But love to eat! Yum!) and apparently my body does not like excess electricity. In this obstacle you crawl under barbed wire like "Kiss of Mud" but in this there is more water, and dangling electrical wires. I made it halfway through before I got my first jolt, and I about cracked my jaw in the clench that resulted. Got shocked 2 more times on the way out - feels like somebody hit me in the brain with a hammer. Yeah I didn't like it. Especially since I started to exit the obstacle with my hand in a puddle and got shocked about five more times. Blech. Still - I could handle this as an obstacle again - it wasn't THAT bad. I still didn't like it much.
"Balls to the Wall" was next - Fun but not too difficult LARGE Plywood wall with ropes up and down.
Waiting in Line to climb up the ropes!
Up next we had the chance to do a "Mud Mile" Which wasn't really a mile - but it was a lot of fun! This is one of the obstacles that really required team work and help - and it was fantastic!
Nice and muddy and fantastic!
"Berlin Walls" (part two) came next - THIS one was awesome. There was a similar wall at Cahoots, but it was busy and I didn't have time to mess around with it - but THIS time I wanted to do it on my own. 12' walls with a little lip down at the bottom - I made it no problem when I really tried. Just had to step quickly off the lip and not try to step ON the lip.
"Cliffhanger" was next - they had music at this, and it was a lot of fun. Big 4 ft deep water pit at the bottom of a steep muddy wall with a cargo net. Not too hard. There were more steep hills right after a few other obstacles - these without the nets took a bit more teamwork - and this was where our guys excelled. They may not have been the fastest or the flashiest at finishing obstacles (well... Justin and I were pretty awesome at the obstacles!) but they were good at helping others get up the tough parts!
Next up - one I was particularly excited about - "Funky Monkey!" I wanted to conquer this one - because I'm pretty good at pullups now, and I didn't want this to beat me. It didn't. It was actually too easy. Still - I want one in my back yard!
Yeah! Easy as pie! Fun too!
Finally we came to the one obstacle that humbled me a little. I didn't make it across. "Just The Tip" is a big sheet of plywood with two boards at foot and chest level on it, 5 feet deep water pit below. The first 3rd of the wall had normal boards about an inch thick, then the next 3rd was skinner, about half an inch,then it was back to the normal size. I made it about halfway and I couldn't do it anymore. If you look up Just the Tip on YouTube - a lot of them don't have the water pit - and in most of the videos people do it by grabbing on the top, or just climbing up to the top and getting across that way. Huh. I could have done that - but I want to be able to do it the right way!! So yeah, failed on that one - but I did say MOST so I'm not too unhappy.
Second to last was one of the other obstacles I was both looking forward to and slightly dreading. "Everest" - I really wanted to be able to do this one on my own without help. Having watched videos and seen pictures and seen how many people CAN'T do this without help - I know that once people finally get up they are very willing and eager (often tooooo willing and eager!) to help people conquer Everest. I figured if I did have a problem doing it on my own it would be because people were trying so hard to help. At the same time - I did want to have help if I needed it, and having never done something like this before... I had no idea. From watching American Ninja Warrior and various other Freerunning and Parkour Training vids (like this one from DemonDrills) I thought I would be able to handle it. So I started running, and had no problems at all getting up and adequately grabbing the top to pull myself up (AGAIN - hooray for muscle-up training! Seriously helpful!) BUT like I feared, immediately a couple of well-meaning Mudders started trying to grab and pull me up. I told 'em I was fine, and pulled myself up, then went to be ready to help my team - telling the same people who tried to help me that it was fine to be ready, but the next guy (Justin who I trained with a lot for this, and who (like me honestly) was more ready for this than the others on our team) probably wouldn't need (or want!!) help - so he did it fine too. Booyah! Such a good feeling to be capable of that stuff. I REALLY hope somebody got a picture of that!
Here's a picture of one of our teammates - a great, but short member of our team finally making it up Everest. This was difficult for a lot of people! I'm in blue reaching down grabbing him to pull him up!
Finally was my least favorite obstacle. "Electroshock Therapy" - I really didn't like this one that much. As of right now if I were to have the option of doing a Mudder again I wouldn't because of this one obstacle. In a couple of months- maybe I'd answer differently - but looking at pictures of that makes me hurt. Hammers on Brains. Ouchies. Here's a video of kind-of what it was like. In all these videos the sound isn't great because there was too much mud in the mic! I think it's permanently damaged now actually... HA.
And they got lots of muddy shoes! Not mine though! I kept mine. They've been through too much with me this year! They also got lots of money. This race was expensive!!
Next year I might try the Spartan Race instead. It's the same weekend, and there is a deal on it right now. We'll see!! Either way - I'm excited for more challenges!
This one was ultimately FANTASTIC!
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2019-04-23T10:51:42Z
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Robert was a bully. I don’t know what motivated him, but I learned he was no one to “mess with.” For one thing, he was the biggest kid in class – 6 foot, 6 inches in first grade! Or at least he seemed that big to me. For another thing, he demanded instant compliance.
Our first conflict came when I brought my musical spoons to school for “Show ‘n Tell.” At recess, Robert asked me if he could borrow them. I didn’t trust him, so I told him, “No.” “Maybe you didn’t hear me,” he repeated, drawing himself up to full height, “I want to borrow your musical spoons!” But I wasn’t about to let him intimidate me, so I said “No” again. That was my first mistake. My second mistake was failing to keep a lookout on the way home. He ambushed me and let me have it for not sharing with him earlier in the day.
The first character John introduces is the Antichrist, whom we met in chapter 6. There he was pictured as a king and savior making a covenant with Israel and appearing to solve the world’s problems. But here, at the midpoint of the Tribulation, the man of peace becomes a “beast.” Dr. Jekyl turns into Mr. Hyde. That’s God’s opinion of him. John says he is like a leopard with feet like a bear and a mouth like a lion. This reminds us of Daniel chapter 7’s description of the rulers of ancient Greece, Persia, and Babylon. The winged leopard was Alexander the Great who conquered swiftly and without mercy; the bear pictured Cyrus the Great whose power was absolute and widespread; while the lion was Nebuchadnezzar whose glory puffed him up and caused him to blaspheme the God of heaven.
Verse 1 says of him, “And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea.” The first thing to notice about the Antichrist is his origin – he comes “out of the sea.” The definite article “the” points to a specific sea with which John and his readers were familiar. What sea is it? The Great Sea or Mediterranean Sea from which all the ancient empires arose. What does this indicate about Antichrist? Like the ancient dictators, he will be a Gentile king who will rule over the same general vicinity as Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, and Alexander the Great. Daniel the prophet is even more helpful. In Daniel 9:26-27, he predicts that he will be a Roman prince from a revived form of the Roman Empire that will reemerge in the final days.
The second thing John mentions is his spiritual origin. The NASB gives the literal translation of verse 1:, “And he (that is, the dragon from chapter 12) stood on the sand of the seashore.” Enraged at the Woman Israel, the Dragon who was cast out of heaven now stands at the edge of the Holy Land, surveying the world scene and out of hatred for God, comes up with a final solution for destroying His chosen people. His solution is Antichrist. In a final effort to exterminate the Jews, Satan “gives his power and his throne and his great authority (verse 2b)” to the Beast, making Antichrist the most powerful and evil dictator of all time – the literal son of hell – Satan manifest in human flesh.
The closeness of Satan and the Beast is also seen in verse 1. He has “ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns.” This is virtually identical to the description of Satan in our last study. To what do horns, heads, and crowns refer? Revelation 17 says the heads are “seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come.” This refers to the six world empires (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome) that have preceded his and over whose territory the Beast will rule. As for the ten horns and ten crowns, these refer to the ten weaker kings and kingdoms with whom Antichrist will share power during the first half of the Tribulation. Before taking over as world ruler, he will head a United States of Europe – whose beginnings we may see in the European Union. But once he’s indwelt by Satan, the Beast will no longer be content sharing power. In his final grab for power, he will “bump off” the other ten rulers and crown himself “king of the world.
First, his power. Verse 4 explains, “Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, ‘Who is like the beast? Who can make war against the beast?’” Mankind has always worshiped success – the business genius of Bill Gates, the athletic prowess of Tom Brady, the celebrity of Oprah Winfrey, and the charisma of today’s TV peachers. So, when Antichrist appears sporting all the power of hell, people will be impressed. They will be so hungry for the prosperity and security he offers that they won’t even ask where it comes from. Consider this excerpt from a speech by a well-known politician. It won the hearts of his countrymen.
The streets of our country are in turmoil; the universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting; Communists seek to destroy our country, and the Republic is in danger – danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law and order, our nation cannot survive.
Who said it? Adolf Hitler in a 1932 speech to the German people. And the Germans welcomed them as the words of a savior. Germany was in financial trouble. Inflation was so high many were starving. Crime was rampant with Communists stirring up riots in the streets and chaos on the campuses. The nation was on the verge of collapse. But in the midst of the chaos rang a voice of authority. With impassioned fury, Hitler proclaimed the glory of Germany, promising the people they would again rule the world, and the Germans swallowed it “hook, line, and sinker.” Even Christians climbed on board the band wagon. It’s said that as many as 80 percent of German evangelicals voted for Hitler. Why? Because of what he promised – power and prosperity. Here was the man who would meet their domestic needs and give them victory over their enemies. Unfortunately, as Hegel the German philosopher warned, the only thing history teaches us is that man learns nothing from history. For when Antichrist rises to power, the world will suspect nothing. They will be so impressed with his power they will simply fall at his feet in worship.
Second, they will worship him because of his resurrection. Verse 3 says the Beast will receive a “fatal” head wound that will be healed. What does this mean? Some argue that the head refers to the revived Roman empire which will be reestablished in the last days. While it’s true that the heads of Revelation 17 refer to empires, including a revived Roman empire; they also refer to the kings of those kingdoms. For that reason, I prefer a literal interpretation. I believe at the midpoint of the Tribulation, Antichrist will receive a head wound and appear to die. But then “with all the power and false signs and deceitful wonders” of Satan (2 Thessalonians 2:9), he will try to counterfeit the resurrection of Christ, claiming that he, not Jesus, is the savior of the world.
There are four reasons I believe this is true. First, his wound is emphasized three times in this passage, indicating that it’s something literal, not figurative. Second, verse 14 says it’s a wound caused “by a sword,” something that would be difficult to apply to an empire. Third, it’s been Satan’s ambition from the beginning to counterfeit the works of Christ, robbing Him of His glory. Only a real resurrection could accomplish this purpose. Finally, the reaction of the world suggests a literal resurrection. “The whole world was amazed and followed after the Beast!” I doubt that would happen at the revival of Rome as a power. But the resurrection of a charismatic world ruler? Imagine the amazement if President John F. Kennedy had suddenly sat up in his coffin that dismal morning in November 1963!
One of the typical ways man shows his contempt for God is by taking His name in vain. In his book, Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis says this is proof of God’s existence – that deep down in his heart man knows who controls all things, so that when things go wrong, whose name does he curse? The name of God and Christ. But John says this contempt will reach a new height during Antichrist’s reign. Verse 5 says, “The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies…to blaspheme God, and to slander His name.” Of course, this is happening even now. No longer can we watch an hour of television without hearing the name of God blasphemed. Nor are Christians innocent of these habits. How common it is to hear believers exclaiming, “Oh, Lord!” or “My God!” not only as declarations of praise to God, but as empty expressions of anger or surprise.
One example took place years when I was our church’s Christian Education director. Having studied the Third Commandment, we assigned the children to listen for examples in the week ahead when they heard the Lord’s name taken in vain. They didn’t have to wait long. 10 minutes later, one of our college students came to share with our Children’s Church how he came to believe in Christ. Stumbling at one point, he became embarrassed and exclaimed, “Oh, my God!” Suddenly the whole group of children gasped in unison. They had just found their first example. So, watch out! As 1 John 2:18 reminds us, Antichrist is coming, but his spirit is already at work in the world, trying to get us, like Peter, to curse the very Lord who bought us.
Verse 6 says he will blaspheme God’s “dwelling place and those who live in heaven.” That sounds strange until you remember that’s the place from which Satan was just cast out. He was at the Judgment Seat of Christ accusing us of sin, hoping to rob us of our eternal rewards. But then Michael the archangel steps in and casts him to the earth, so that all he has power left to do is curse those who prevailed over him in heaven.
On earth, it’s a different story. Verse 7 says, “He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them.” What does this refer to? The mass executions of the Tribulation. Revelation 20 says that those who refuse to worship the Beast will be beheaded for their faith. But his victory will be short-lived. Verse 5 says his power will last only “forty-two months.” Then those who have been beheaded for their faith will be resurrected and the Beast will be cast alive into the fire that burns forever and ever.
Finally, before moving on to the second beast, I want to end with John’s warning in verses 9 and 10. He adds, “If anyone has an ear, let him hear. If anyone is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is the perseverance and faith of the saints.” John is emphasizing that the judgments he has just described are not merely for the Beast and his followers, but for anyone in any age who hardens his heart against God’s truth and gives himself to the spirit of Antichrist. Why is it called “the perseverance and faith of the saints?” Because one of the strongest incentives for doing right is the reminder of sin’s outcome and the relief of knowing we’ve been forgiven. Remember that the next time Satan knocks at your door. Remember where you’d be headed and what you’d be facing if not for the grace of Jesus Christ.
Thank you Pastor Gary! I always love to read your studies. This one was really good in identifying those countries that join forces and revive the Roman Empire. Keep on preaching brother! I am listening! God gave me a heart to hear His truth! I am forever thankful that His Word is music to my ears. Robyn Komm rode my bus the other day and said you had moved to Gresham, Oregon. Interestingly I was there twice delivering and picking up cars for Gillis Ford. I am looking forward to your next set of notes.
Thanks, Brother Bruce. You offer the best comments that we get, probably because you know and love your Bible so well. Say Hi to any of our friends in Shelton. We had to move to Gresham for health reasons. Great doctors in Portland, and our two girls are here in case we need their health. God bless you and Linda!
Thanks, Terry! In the next study we find that there are really two antichrists (two beasts)- one from Rome, the other from Israel. Imagine how confused the world will be when they try to figure out who is who? Love you, Brother!
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2019-04-19T04:18:19Z
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https://principlesforlife.org/2017/03/04/the-satanic-trinity-part-1/
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As the American school's latest reform movement gathered momentum in the 1980's, the idea of national standards raised a noble hope, the belief that if we spotlighted the grandest peaks of knowledge in school subjects, teachers and students would strive to scale them. We are now close to seeing Congress pass legislation establishing national standards (the "goals 2000: educate America act''), but as befalls many great ideas, the codified reality is distinguished more by pragmatic compromises than by soaring aspirations. Though essential to the art of governing, in this case political compromise has dealt a potentially mortal blow to original purpose.
National education goals will succeed or fail on their ability to raise American students' and parents' and teachers' appreciation for the work that they do, to motivate the key actors in schooling by placing their day-to-day labors within a larger, national mission. It is not the conservative complaint that national standards usurp local authority over education that tarnishes the latest effort. Nor is it the liberal complaint that standards supply new justifications for condemning the historically disadvantaged members of our society. Both are legitimate concerns. But, unfortunately, in accommodating these and other concerns, Goals 2000 lost its focus. What we have now looks more like 2,000 educational goals--and a missed opportunity to debate and to resolve what our schools are about, a lost opportunity to sharpen the purpose of schooling in America. Moreover, the failure of the standards to speak directly to teachers and students renders the recent debate largely irrelevant to the nation's classrooms. Schoolpeople are not the audience for this legislation; more than anything else, Goals 2000 consists of a conversation among governments--federal, state, and local. How did this happen?
The three sets of educational standards--content, performance, and delivery--have their own interesting political histories. Content standards define the curriculum schools are to offer; performance standards establish content-mastery levels and include assessments to measure whether students meet acceptable thresholds; and delivery standards spell out the quality of services schools must provide so that students have a reasonable opportunity to achieve the expected levels of learning. Under the legislation, a National Education Standards and Improvement Council would set voluntary national standards in the three areas, with states submitting their own standards to the council for certification that they meet or exceed the national benchmarks. The emphasis on state autonomy is designed to allay fears of an intrusive federal government.
Content standards in core academic subjects (English, mathematics, science, history, and geography) were originally suggested by the education summit convened by President Bush and the nation's governors in 1989. After complaints from professional educators' groups representing other subject disciplines, foreign languages and the arts were added to the core group, and standards development is proceeding in civics and physical education as well. Faced with choosing between a spare or expansive core curriculum, educational leaders have opted for the latter.
Performance standards require tests of some kind to measure student achievement. After the public outcry following A Nation At Risk in 1983, most states instituted assessment systems to monitor student learning. For the most part, these tests are used to determine if minimum competency in basic subjects has been attained, with high school graduation or grade promotion dependent upon the results. Responding to concerns for equity, Goals 2000 would bar states for the first five years from using assessments under the new program for such high-stakes outcomes. The lesson from the states' experience with testing poses a conundrum. If tests are to be taken seriously, they must have important consequences. If tests have important consequences, however, they tend to be designed so that most current students can pass them, set at the level of minimum competency, not at the level of world-class standards. The five-year moratorium only delays confronting this dilemma.
Delivery standards mark a departure from reform legislation pushed by Republican administrations in the past and from the original legislation offered by the Clinton Administration. When the reform bill was introduced on Capitol Hill earlier this year, several Democratic members of Congress, led by Rep. William D. Ford of Michigan, the chairman of the House committee considering the legislation, rejected the bill's sole emphasis on educational outcomes, insisting that it also address systemic inputs (for example, class size, expenditures per pupil, school facilities). One amendment adopted by the House committee mandates that states establish time lines to remedy school districts not meeting these service and facility requirements. Another forbids states from implementing the other standards--content and performance--until delivery standards are in place. These provisions are designed to promote a level playing field for all students before judgments are made about who has succeeded and who has failed. Unfortunately, however, they provide no new revenues to assist states or local districts in bringing impoverished schools up to standard. Notwithstanding their voluntary nature, the delivery standards smack of federal mandate without crucial federal funding. In addition, as Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers has correctly warned, delivery standards are an invitation to excuse resource-poor schools from meeting national expectations for achievement. If this happens, it is our nation's most disadvantaged students who stand to lose.
Redefine the audience and narrow the standards. Diminish the intergovernmental thrust of the bill. Talk to teachers and students and parents, not just governments. National standards should clearly lay out what the nation expects students to learn and teachers to teach in a way that teachers, students, and parents can understand. If this can only be done in a few school subjects, so much the better. Trying to describe everything a fully enlightened individual needs to know in a complex society entering the 21st century should be left to others.
Develop and distribute a useful test. Another test that identifies the students who have not learned material is not very valuable to teachers; they already know. Another test that identifies struggling schools is not very valuable to district and state administrators; they already know. What would be valuable is a test that tells teachers, students, and parents the knowledge an individual student has learned and the knowledge remaining to be learned in core subjects.If this information is made available early enough in the school year, teachers could build it into their curricular planning. Diagnostic testing is extremely expensive, but the potential payoffs are enormous. Schools that can afford such information already purchase it from private testing companies. This approach would require that we change the posture of national performance standards from monitoring and compliance to gathering information and sharing it with the most important people in learning.
Collect and publicize information on school services. This information is already in the hands of savvy real-estate agents, but the real audience for such information is parents. Let them know schools' average class sizes, whether teachers are teaching in the subject areas for which they were credentialed, and if rigorous Advanced Placement courses are offered. Forget setting national delivery standards that dictate specific features. There is too much variation in the local contingencies affecting critical school characteristics, too much within states to set enforceable state standards, let alone national standards. In addition, the provision of adequate school services is ultimately a political decision made by states and localities, involving taxation and revenue distribution, or a local judicial decision, involving state constitutional requirements. The federal government cannot force local governments to provide schools with challenging curriculum and productive environments, but parents might be able to do so if they were armed with data documenting glaring deficiencies.
The educational-reform movementbegan with great hope, and national standards represent one effort to satisfy our yearning for better schools. Unfortunately, political compromises have diminished the promise of Goals 2000, the national-standards legislation. By responding to powerful interests, the bill proclaims to layers of government that education needs fundamental reform, ignoring the teachers, students, and parents who sit at the center of educational efforts. Like a puff of smoke on a distant horizon, the political battle over Goals 2000 was a remote event to those who should have been involved, but were not.
Tom Loveless is an assistant professor of public policy and a faculty affiliate of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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2019-04-23T06:25:40Z
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https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1993/10/06/05lovel.h13.html
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Owning a house is everyone’s dream. Owning a home gets rid of the need to pay monthly rental bills and also helps you avoid getting into trouble with landlords.
By owning a home, you have the freedom to do whatever you like when it comes to home customization. You can paint it with the colour you like, break down or build new walls wherever you wish and do anything without the need to ask permission from landlords. All renovations and changes have become investments. These changes will just add more value to the house. Unlike a rented place where for every little change permission had to be sought, life sure becomes very different after owning a home.
When an individual owns a home, and monthly payments need to be made to repay the loan used for its construction, it is not as expensive as the rent. These payments are rather investments because everybody knows that house values appreciate over time.
When you purchase a home, it reflects well on your credit rating. Good credit score will help you in availing of any loans in the future.
A house is something that can be passed on to next generation unlike a rented apartment where the only thing passed down is the responsibility of paying the rent!
Now, whenever a decision is made to purchase a new property, careful planning must be done. You never want to regret your decision later after you bought a property.
Planning for purchasing involves assessing one’s savings and the income to determine how quickly the home loan payments can be paid. The budget needs to be decided after consulting with more than one property dealer. There are homes available at varying rates, and although one cannot wait to start living in their dream home, patience needs to be practised. It is important that current market rates are assessed to find out and be sure that the property broker is not cheating to make a few extra bucks. There are a lot of places from which a person can get ideas. There are display homes for sale Adelaide which you can find online, or the broker can also take you to a display home so that you can see it for yourself.
There are a lot of house and land packages Adelaide available, and that too you can take advantage of. The final points to be remembered are planning, assessing one’s budget and searching around for more ideas.
All livestock farmers wish to succeed in this field, but there are many challenges. Those who succeed are people who know the secret of this business. The first thing is to ensure that the animals are housed properly. One can learn how to house livestock animals by consulting agricultural officers properly. The next important thing is making sure that the animals are free from diseases. With the many veterinary services today, it is easier to keep the animals healthy all through the season. The next thing and which farmers fear most is ensuring that there are enough feeds for the animals. Shortage of feeds is the farmer’s nightmare, to say the least.
This problem can be reduced by educating farmer on the best and effective ways to preserve livestock feeds. It does not mean farmers don’t know that they need to preserve feeds. The issue is when and how? Many farmers have testified that they always preserve feeds but end up with low quality feeds and the time of feeding and sometimes with no feeds at all. You might wonder how this can happen? If a farmer tries to preserve feeds but has no knowledge of how and when to preserve the feeds, he/she will end up with poor quality feeds due to rotting or over storing the feeds. In this case, expert intervention is necessary.
With the many animal feeds preservation methods available, the farmer needs to know which method is most efficient and also when is the best time to preserve the feeds. The most common methods are silos, silage pits, and hay making. With today’s technology, these methods can be termed as traditional. Not that they are not effective, but they have a lot of disadvantages especially when a farmer practices large scale farming. An example of disadvantages is the quality of the feeds and storage problems. The most effective method of preserving animal feeds is net wrapping.
The use of net wrap is a modern way of preserving animal feeds. You might wonder why net wrap? The net wrap is a plastic cover that is used to cover bales to be left in farms. The crops are harvested, baled and the wrapped using this product. The net wrap protects the bales from water damage, UV light, and allows easy handling during transportation because the product is tear proof. The farmer should take advantage of net wrapping and enjoy huge profits as they can preserve as many feeds.
Did you know that to live a thoroughly satisfying life, you have to be in good health? Everywhere you look, everyone is trying to make a tonne of money so they can show off their worldly possessions to the next person. While there is nothing wrong trying to keep up with the economy, don’t forget to take care of yourself first. Don’t just rely on a routine annual visit to your doctor to tell you that you are healthy. You need to have your ears and eyes checked as well. If you have trouble with your senses, don’t be afraid to get hearing aids Adelaide and glasses if you need them.
The best way to live a healthy life is to make sure that all of your needs are met. That means in addition to having a roof over your head, clothing on your back and good food to eat; you should also make sure that all of your medical needs are met as well. There is nothing more frustrating and uncomfortable than trying to live life with the condition that affects your ability to do things normally. Believe it or not, some of the everyday activities that most people seem to take for granted are often the ones that are missed the most when they are no longer able to do them. You don’t want to become a person who has a life that is full of regrets because you failed to make a better investment in your health. The way you care for your body now will affect you as you get old.
Getting your ears checked is a big responsibility that should never be taken lightly. Even if you don’t suspect any problems, there is nothing wrong with having them cleaned and tested. Once you have them cleaned, you may be surprised at the difference you hear and feel. If you discover that you still need some assistance with trying to hear things clearer, then you should also start shopping for hearing aids.
Regardless of whether or not you feel that you can afford them, take some time to work with an audiology specialist. They can find the best hearing aids for your budget and condition. They can help you to become more comfortable with the idea of wearing this type of device. They can also help you adjust by making sure that what you have chosen is fitted properly to your ears. They will also make adjustments to ensure that you can get the most from your devices without causing any interference and weird noises.
As you start to experience life with your hearing aids Adelaide, you will find that everything is much more enjoyable. In addition to having everything you could ever want as far as material things, you will also be able to enjoy your good health.
Do not leave your dream of kitchen renovation project behind just because you do not have heaps of dollars. It is not a big issue since there are some cheaper remodelling techniques that you can apply. Even with a handful of money, you can rejuvenate your kitchen, and that too is very easy to do at home. You don’t need to buy plenty of expensive appliances.
Not even money constraints can stop you from having a kitchen of your desires. You don’t need to loan a huge amount of cash, or even touch your savings since there are some cheap ways you can enhance the decor of your kitchen place. These tips will result in a kitchen revamp that will be entirely fresh, unique, stylish, appealing and budget friendly.
The first and foremost thing that you should do is to paint your kitchen. A fresh coat of paint will result in bright and entirely new ambience.
A new window treatment for the existing one, be it blinds, roman shade or curtains will add an innovative and soothing appeal in your kitchen.
You need not use an enormous amount of money in buying new appliances instead you can get them painted in a very less amount of money.
If you want to install the RTA cabinets in your kitchen, then you can choose the used cabinets available in the market.
Do you want to expand the storage capacity of your kitchen? If yes then do not go for the new instalments or repairing. You can use serving carts that allow extra space in the kitchen.
Try to do some changes with the stuff that is placed in the kitchen, I mean change their locations.
Modify your furniture by changing the cushion covers, back covers and only rubbing out the oil on your wooden furniture so as to make it polished.
Wash the sink, hang some new paintings or pictures and use more lighting to make your place alive.
All in all, it is best to leave kitchen renovation Adelaide to experts. By getting the right kitchen remodelling expert, he/she will explain to you the most affordable ways to revamp your kitchen. They have the skills and ideas to offer through an affordable kitchen renovation service.
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2019-04-19T18:59:42Z
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http://www.cncms.org/2017/02/
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More than one billion people around the world are currently suffering from high blood pressure. What’s even more startling is that this number is continuously on the rise.
In the last forty years, the number of people who are living with high blood pressure has doubled. This is an alarming statistic, so alarming in fact that doctors and other healthcare professions are trying to find ways that they can help people to be healthier every day. High blood pressure is very serious and could lead to long-term health effects including kidney failure, heart disease, and stroke.
Many believe that diet is one of the main contributing factors to high blood pressure. They are trying to come up with ways to reduce this problem. This includes an entire line of healthy food and supplement products and too many diet programs to count. However, instead of having to experiment with these many different options, you can take control and read about a few of the best so that you can understand what is going to work best for you and your body type.
One such diet is the DASH diet. This is a diet that was specifically designed to target high blood pressure. The overall goal was to decrease high blood pressure in an attempt to reduce the risk of heart disease.
1 DASH Diet – What Is It?
2 Mayo Clinic Diet – What Is It?
5 Who Can Benefit from the DASH Diet?
6 What Do I Eat on the DASH Diet?
9 Stage #1 – Lose It!
10 Stage #2 — Live It!
DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. This diet was created for those who were suffering from high blood pressure. It helps people to treat or even prevent hypertension. With the DASH diet, you may be able to reduce the risk of heart disease that you might have not been able to avoid before.
The diet focuses on eating whole grains, vegetables, lean meats, and fruits.
So the DASH diet uses this knowledge to create an easy to follow a meal plan that is really good for you. This diet emphasizes healthy foods like lean chicken, pork, fish, and lean beef. You eat whole grains, vegetables, and fruits as well. You do not eat much red meat, and you avoid sugar, fat, and salt.
A lot of scientists believe that the main reason for high blood pressure is the consumption of salt. The hardest part about the DASH diet is that you will not be eating much salt at all. In fact, you eat less than one teaspoon or 2,300 milligrams of sodium each day. This is actually what most of the dietary guidelines suggest, but research suggests that Americans actually consume 3,300 milligrams without adding salt to their food. This estimate grows to around five thousand milligrams of sodium when you add in additional salt.
If you are on the low salt version of the DASH program, you are only able to eat three-quarters of a teaspoon per day. This equates to 1,500 milligrams per day.
The Mayo Clinic diet is actually a long-term weight management plan and not a diet. It is not something that you will want to use for a while simply, but instead a lifestyle that you will want to utilize for the rest of your life.
This diet was created by an entire team that is dedicated to becoming the leading weight loss experts at the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic diet was created to help you so that you can change your lifestyle and live your happiest and healthiest life.
This plan allows you to basically change your old eating habits with the result of obtaining a great healthy weight that you will be able to maintain for life.
Many people do not realize that the Mayo Clinic Diet is going to actually help you to lose weight while being able to have long-term success with keeping it off. You will be able to focus on changing your daily routine. This is going to help you to break any unhealthy habits that you currently have. The best part is that if you follow the process, breaking those habits is much easier than it is with other plans. Plus, you will have the advantage of being able to lose weight while following the program.
In addition to helping you create healthy new habits as you break old unhealthy ones, the Mayo Clinic diet is going to help you to be able to enjoy eating healthier foods. This focus on fruits and vegetables along with not eating when you are completing specific tasks, like watching TV and being a little more active will all help you live a healthier, more abundant life.
There are a wide variety of stressors that can change behaviors with eating. Some people find that they are able to do better by making small and easily attainable goals. These allow them to reduce how frequently they have setbacks while increasing confidence. Additionally, if you have the motivation to lose weight, you are going to be more likely to have success.
The DASH diet is one of the newest dieting trends. It is said to be the perfect choice for those who are suffering from high blood pressure. While this diet is ideal for those specific individuals, the jury is still out on whether or not this is the best diet for others not suffering from high blood pressure.
Of course, one of the most significant benefits of the DASH diet is that you are reducing high blood pressure. That being said, there are a lot more benefits that you can find with the diet. Some of these are going to help you to have more success with weight loss. Others are going to help you to be able to reduce your risk of cancer.
There are so many diets out there that you might consider for weight loss. The DASH diet is not a diet that is primarily for weight loss. You are not going to shed the pounds without working some magically.
You are not going to see dramatic weight loss as you would with some diets. What you will instead see is that you are losing weight at a moderate pace that is going to make it easier to keep off for the long term.
The weight loss is really an added secondary perk with the DASH diet. There are a number of additional health benefits that you are going to have thanks to the DASH diet.
The most significant benefit of the DASH diet is that it is going to help you to have lower blood pressure. Many people do not understand precisely what blood pressure is. It is the overall measure of the force that is being put on your blood vessels and organs as the blood is moving through them. This is counted with two different numbers: systolic pressure (this is the pressure as your heart beats) and diastolic pressure (this is the pressure when your blood vessels in between the beats of your heart when your heart is resting).
Most adults have an average blood pressure where the systolic pressure is below 120, and the diastolic pressure is below 80. Blood pressure is written with the systolic pressure above the diastolic pressure as shown here: 120/80. Anyone who has a blood pressure that is 140/90 or higher is considered to have elevated blood pressure.
The DASH diet has been shown to lower blood pressure for people regardless of if they had high blood pressure or healthy blood pressure. The only way that this would be a problem is if someone were to have blood pressure that is too low.
This could potentially cause them to have some health benefits. Many people who went on the DASH diet chose not to restrict or even reduce their salt intake, and they still saw a lower blood pressure. For those who did not lose weight, their blood pressure was also lower.
Now, reducing the sodium intake did cause people to have even lower blood pressure. They were able to continue to lower it to a level that was lower than others. The people who had the lowest sodium intake were the ones who were able to reduce the blood pressure the lowest.
Another factor to think about is that the DASH diet was the most impressive with people who had higher blood pressure, to begin with. In some people, they were able to reduce the systolic blood pressure by around 12 and the diastolic blood pressure by around 5. Those who had normal or more average blood pressure saw their systolic blood pressure lowering by 4 and their diastolic lowering by 2.
Many other studies have also shown that you can have reduced blood pressure by reducing salt intake. Of course, those who have higher blood pressure are going to see greater results from this than those who have normal or low blood pressure. One thing to remember though is that just because you were able to lower your blood pressure does not mean that it is going to lower your risks for heart disease. In some people it does, but others have additional problems that would need to be considered before figuring out if they had lowered their blood pressure.
Another considerable advantage of the DASH diet is that you are going to lose weight probably. Not everyone ends up losing weight, even though everyone ends up with lower blood pressure. However, you can lower your weight while doing the DASH diet.
Many people who have high blood pressure are told that they need to lose weight. If you have been told this, then you can combine some weight loss practices like counting caloric intake or even exercise in addition to the DASH diet to have success.
Did you know that the higher your weight is, the higher your blood pressure is going to be? Many people do not understand that there is a direct correlation between the two. In addition to this, losing weight can actually help you to have lower blood pressure.
Since some studies have shown the DASH diet to be successful in weight loss, it is one option that is worth exploring. Those individuals who have had success with losing weight on the DASH diet have eaten a diet where they controlled their calories in vs. their calories out. They were eating fewer calories than they were using each day which ultimately led to weight loss.
Most people seem actually to lose weight easily on the DASH diet. This is mainly because they want to cut back on high-fat options and sugary foods. In fact, many people find that they lose weight without trying just by cutting back on these. This does not mean that everyone simply cuts back on these.
In fact, some people continue to struggle since these are large parts of the basic American diet and something that you find everywhere. It can be hard to have enough self-control to not indulge from time to time. However, those who are faced with severe health problems actually seem to do okay with this. So, if you want to lose weight when you are doing the DASH diet, you will have to remember to eat lower-calorie foods as a part of that diet.
The DASH diet has actually been linked to reduced cancer risk. A recent study followed people who were on the DASH diet, and the study concluded that those following the DASH diet had lowered their risks of certain cancers. The types of cancers include breast cancer and colorectal cancer. Both of these types of cancer are very common in America.
In addition to lowering the risk that you have of developing cancer, the DASH diet can help reduce the risks of metabolic syndrome by up to 81%! This is huge since this is one of the harder things to reduce in the body, especially as we get older and have exposed our bodies to years of abuse and misuse.
Diabetes is a serious condition. In the United States, Type II diabetes often occurs later in life. Much of the reason for this is that people do not eat the way that they should or treat their bodies appropriately.
By following the DASH diet, you are actually lowering your risk of Type II diabetes. In addition, you might even improve the body’s insulin resistance. In fact, several studies have concluded that there is a reduced risk of insulin resistance when eating the DASH diet.
Many people do not realize that the DASH diet can actually help heart health. A study was recently conducted with women who were on the DASH diet. This study showed that these women were able to lower their risk of heart disease by 20%. In addition, they were able to lower their risk of having a stroke. Women who were following the DASH diet actually lowered their stroke risk by 29%.
There are so many health benefits that are associated with the DASH diet. It is believed that many of these are in fact because while you are on a diet, you are going to be eating so many additional fruits and vegetables.
Who Can Benefit from the DASH Diet?
Anyone can do the DASH diet. If you have any medical concerns, whether it be low blood pressure, high blood pressure, or even if you are obese, you will also want to make sure that you are consulting with a physician before you start the DASH diet.
The main benefits of the diet have not been completely discovered, but what is known is that you are likely to reduce your blood pressure when you are partaking in the DASH diet and limiting your sodium intake.
Anyone who has high blood pressure will see greater results in the lowering of their blood pressure with this diet. They will also see that reducing the salt intake is going to continue to help them.
Overall, the lower blood pressure will also decrease some of the risks associated with cardiovascular disease. Many people do not realize just how salt sensitive that they are. If you are salt sensitive, then you are going to see a greater increase in your blood pressure when you eat a lot of salt and a greater reduction of your blood pressure when you reduce your salt intake.
One thing to remember is that sometimes it might even be possible to be consuming too little sodium. If this happens, you are going to be more likely to actually have medical problems that are associated with low sodium levels. In fact, a sodium level that is too low can be linked to cardiovascular disease, fluid retention, and insulin resistance.
Even the lowest sodium version of the DASH diet requires people to eat at least 1500 mg per day of sodium. This is equivalent to a ¾ teaspoon. So, you actually have to be careful when eating the DASH diet to reduce your overall amounts of sodium but to maintain a certain level still to ensure that you are not going to have adverse related health effects.
Another thing to consider is that scientific evidence does not really show advantages with a difference in sodium intake of 1500 mg and 2000 mg. In fact, you get the same benefits at 1500 as you do at 2000, so you might as well allow yourself to have the 2000 mg. Even though a reduction in salt intake has been linked to lower blood pressure, a recent study concluded that eating reduced salt is not shown to have any benefit with heart disease.
What Do I Eat on the DASH Diet?
You probably want to know what you are going to be eating if you are on the DASH diet. One nice thing about this diet is that it is not going to require you to eat a lot of specific foods. In fact, there are no specifics for what you are going to eat. Instead, you look at the food group and attempt to hit target amounts of specific groups of foods. There are some guidelines you should follow, but this system is one of the easiest to follow.
The amounts of foods that you eat will be based on the overall caloric intake for each day. The following is specific servings allowed based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Whole Grains, 6-8 Servings Each Day – There are many great ways that you can get servings of whole grains. Some of these include whole grain breads, whole wheat breads, whole grain cereals, bulgur wheat, brown rice, oatmeal, and quinoa.
Vegetables, 4-5 Servings Each Day – One of the great things about the DASH diet is that all vegetables are allowed. You can eat any vegetable that you want as you are trying to reach your vegetable serving count each day.
Fruits, 4-5 Servings Each Day – When you are on the DASH diet, you should be prepared to eat a lot of fruit as well. You can eat whatever fruit you like, and you can eat four or five servings each day. It is important to understand what servings are when consuming fruit and remember that fresh fruit is generally better for you than fruit juice or blended fruit smoothies, that being said you can always make your smoothies!
Dairy Products, 2-3 Servings Each Day – There is one main guideline that you should follow with dairy on the DASH. You need to make sure that the dairy that you are choosing is low-fat.
Lean Chicken, Meat, and Fish, 6 or Less Servings Each Day – There are actually quite a few guidelines when it comes to meat. You will want to avoid red meat. Red meat should be eaten no more than two times each week. In addition, you should know that serving sizes of meat are very small in the DASH diet, so study these guidelines to ensure that you have the highest level of success.
Nuts, Legumes, and Seeds, 4-5 Servings Each Week – Things like nuts, seeds, and legumes have to be minimal during the DASH diet. In fact, you will only be consuming these four or five times each week. This means that you will be eating them less than one time each day. You should consider foods like almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, walnuts, flaxseeds, lentils, kidney beans, sunflower seeds, and split peas when looking for the best choices.
Oils and Fats, 2-3 Servings Each Day – There are many different rules with the DASH diet. You will be able to consume two or three servings of fats. The diet actually recommends vegetable based oils over other choices. What is recommended are margarine, canola oil, corn oil, safflower oil, and olive oil. You can have light salad dressing or low-fat mayonnaise as well.
Added Sugars or Candies, 5 or Less Servings Each Week – Sugars really have to be monitored on the DASH diet. This is one of the hardest things for most people to limit because sugar is addicting. In fact, it has been proven by science that sugar is more addictive than many drugs including tobacco.
Trying to quit sugar can be torture and really hard, but over time it gets way easier. Limiting the amount of candy, soft drinks, and other sugars that you consume is going to help you to kick these cravings. The DASH diet actually restricts the sugars that are unrefined and alternative sugar sources.
There are so many things that we could say about the DASH diet. While it does show some health benefits for those suffering from high blood pressure, it seems to be a little too restrictive for our liking. It is also contradictory to a lot of new research that is being done in areas like dairy and sodium.
Many new studies are showing that low-fat dairy is actually worse for your health and weight gain than healthy fat alternatives. So, there needs to be a little more exploration for us before we hop on the DASH diet bandwagon.
The Mayo Clinic Diet is one of the most well thought out diet plans out there today. This plan was actually created by a large group of doctors who wanted to ensure that their patients were eating right and doing the right things for their health.
It is a great plan for you to consider and one that is going to continue to make you feel great if you are following it. Best of all is that it teaches you habits that you will be able to keep with you for life. By doing this, you will lose tons of weight and have an easier time maintaining that weight loss and avoiding additional weight gain in the future.
Many people do not realize that they need to make a change. For those who do, it can be emotional turmoil to try and find the plan that is going to work for you. In fact, so many people struggle that they decide to give up and move on. Being able to find the right diet plan or new lifestyle does not have to feel like torture. In fact, it can be something that is simple that everyone can do.
Being able to follow a plan that was created by medical professionals, not weight loss “experts” who have no education or schooling on health.
Appreciating that you are NEVER hungry with the Mayo Clinic Diet. This diet allows you to have unlimited amounts of fruits and vegetables. Plus, you get generous servings at meals as well which helps you to stay full and never have to worry about being hungry again.
Trying to adopt a new healthier lifestyle. The healthy lifestyle habits are really going to improve the overall quality of life. You are going to be living the life that you have always wanted while feeling at your optimal health.
Actually improving your health. In addition to improving how you feel, your body will start to become healthier. This leads to a number of reduced health risks. As you become more active and stick to eating the recommended foods, you are going to have an increase in your overall health, even at the doctor’s office.
Wanting something that you will actually use for life. This is a plan that you are going to feel satisfied with making your new lifestyle choices around.
Of course, as with all diet and exercise plans, you should check with your doctor before you begin. You will want to ask about any specifics that you should watch for if you have health issues or concerns.
The Mayo Clinic Diet works because it is based upon a diet that was actually developed through extensive research by those who are at the forefront of health and nutrition at the Mayo Clinic.
This diet combines both clinical experience and research to give you a full two-part plan that allows you to lose all desired weight and maintain that goal weight for life.
It is actually the best program out there for sticking to a new lifestyle and adopting healthier daily habits. Overall, the diet will be tailored to your own personal needs and your health history. This means that the plan is not going to be the same for any two individuals. This plan looks at you as the person that you are, not just part of who are.
There are two main parts of the Mayo Clinic Diet. They are Lose It! and Live It!. Read on to understand both stages of the diet fully.
Stage #1 – Lose It!
The Lose It! phase is going to help you to jump-start your own personal weight loss. It will help you to lose the first six to ten pounds quickly and in a way that is both healthy and safe. During this phase, you start to learn about the things that you are doing that are keeping you overweight. You learn about the lifestyle habits that are associated with a healthy weight. You even learn simple tips and tricks that are going to help you to be successful as you uproot your current life on your journey to optimal health.
During this stage, you are going to learn how to add five healthy habits. These actually help you to break five unhealthy habits. Then you are ready to adopt a second set of five healthy habits. When you are doing this, you get a boost psychologically that will help you to continue. You will carry this confidence into the next stage.
Stage #2 — Live It!
This phase is where you are going to learn how to be Mayo Clinic diet liver. This means that you are going to continue living this lifestyle forever and you are not going to stop because you have reached your goal weight. In fact, you will be able to learn how to utilize the skills that helped you lose weight to maintain your health for years to come.
You will learn how to make the best food choices. This will allow you to eat anywhere, even at restaurants or parties while still living your healthy lifestyle.
You will learn how to cut portion sizes and how to eat healthy amounts of foods. Many people do not realize that the majority of the problem that they have is in how much they are eating, not what they are eating. You also learn how to plan a menu, how much physical activity your body needs, how to plan the right exercise routine, and how to stick to healthier habits.
You will continue to lose weight at the rate of about one or two pounds per week. So, you are going to reach your goal at a slow pace but at a pace that allows you to keep the weight off for good.
One of the things that makes the Mayo Clinic Diet such a great choice is that you are able to lose weight and keep it off. If your real goal is to lose weight then adopting this lifestyle is going to be very important to you.
It is a diet that you can stick to for life and one that is going to really help you to feel your best and maintain optimal health. I would highly recommend this diet that allows you to adopt a healthy lifestyle rather than restricting what you can or can not eat.
Unless you are suffering from high blood pressure, you should probably consider the Mayo Clinic Diet in our opinion. This is a diet that is solid and offers you the ability to do more than momentarily meat your goals.
It is a choice for everyone who is trying to get their health in order. The DASH Diet is more likely to be a short-term diet. This means that you are not going to hit some weight loss or fitness goals and probably deter off of the diet.
With the Mayo Clinic diet, you will adopt a new lifestyle that will help you to stay conscious of your health and wellness for years to come!
The Mayo Clinic Diet vs. Weight Watchers: Which Is Best?
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https://www.altprotein.com/dash-diet-vs-mayo-clinic-diet-why-are-these-the-best-for-you/
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Tennessee is divided into three grand divisions, with West Tennessee generally stretching from the Tennessee River west to the Mississippi River. There are several Tennessee State Parks near Memphis in this region, making for day trip options or easy weekend getaways.
Reelfoot Lake State Park is in Northwest Tennessee where it contains a 15,000-acre lake that was created by the massive earthquakes along the New Madrid Fault in 1811-1812. The quake caused the Mississippi River to flow backward, which created the lake. Today, the park is known as a place to view wildlife, including bald eagles. The lake is a flooded forest with cypress trees above and below the water’s surface. Daily bald eagle tours take place in January and February when thousands of American bald eagles call the lake home.
The lake features boating and fishing, and the park has several hiking trails for bird watching and wildlife viewing. There are two campgrounds.
Fort Pillow State Park sits 40 miles north of Memphis. At the heart of the park is the 1,642-acre Fort Pillow that is known for its preserved breastworks and reconstructed inner fort. The park sits on steep bluffs that overlook the Mississippi River, which made it a strategic spot during the Civil War. The fort was built in 1861 by Confederate troops and was abandoned in 1862 because of the Union Navy’s advancement along the river. The park’s museum includes Civil War artifacts and displays that relate to the history of the fort.
There is a 12-minute video on the 1864 battle that is shown by request. A campground features 32 sites, six of which accommodate RVs. There is a moderate five-mile hiking trail that leads to backcountry camping.
Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park is a favorite for cross-country runners, hikers and mountain bikers for its abundance of trails and proximity to Memphis. The 13,476-acre park sits on hardwood bottomland adjacent to the Mississippi River just 13 miles north of Memphis. There are more than 20 miles of trails, highlighted by the eight-mile Chickasaw Bluff Trail. The park features swamps as well as forests deep with trees that sit high on the Chickasaw Bluffs above the river. The park is a favorite for bird-watchers with some 200 species of songbirds, waterfowl, shorebirds, and birds of prey.
A nature center is open on the weekends with exhibits including live snakes, turtles, salamanders, fish aquariums, a stuffed animal exhibit, indoor live butterfly garden, bone table, insect table, and a Native American exhibit. The park features six two-bedroom cabins and a campground with 49 campsites. It also contains a 36-hole disc golf course that is divided into two 18-hole courses.
T.O. Fuller State Park sits in the southwest corner of Memphis. The 1,138-acre park consists of diverse terrain, from the Mississippi River floodplains to high bluff ridges. It was the first state park that was opened for African-Americans east of the Mississippi River. The park is named for Dr. Thomas O. Fuller, who spent his life educating African-Americans. The park’s construction was begun in 1938 as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps project. A big part of the park is the Chucalissa Indian Village, which is operated by the University of Memphis.
This village was uncovered in 1940 during excavation work for a swimming pool. The prehistoric village includes preserved archaeological excavations and a modern museum. The park’s hiking trails include the four-mile Discovery Trail loop that gives visitors views of the Chucalissa Indian Village and surrounding wetlands. The park also features 35 picnic tables and four shelters for groups.
Big Cypress Tree State Park is in Greenfield, just south of Martin. The park is named for the national champion bald cypress tree that lived in the park until a lightning strike in 1976 killed the tree. At the time, it was the largest bald cypress in the U.S. and the largest tree of any species east of the Mississippi River. The tree had lived for more than 1,350 years. The park is popular for picnicking and birdwatching. Once complete, the park will feature a boardwalk handicapped trail to the Big Cypress Tree River.
The park contains a variety of native wildflowers and trees such as showy evening primrose, black-eyed Susans, yellow poplar, bald cypress, and dogwood.
Pinson Mounds State Park is in Pinson, just south of Jackson. The Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park sits on more than 1,200 acres and contains at least 15 Native American mounds. The mounds were used for burial and ceremonial purposes. Pinson Mounds became a Tennessee State Park in 1974 and is also a national historic landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The park contains the largest Native American Middle Woodland Period mound group in the U.S. The park features a museum that replicates a mound.
It includes 4,500 square feet of exhibit space, an archaeological library, theater and Discovery Room for historical exploration. The park contains hiking trails that allow access to the mounds and picnic facilities. There are four cabins onsite.
Big Hill Pond State Park sits on 4,138 acres of timberland and hardwood bottomland in southwest McNairy County. The park’s name comes from the 35-acre Big Hill Pond that was created in 1853 when soil was scooped from a borrow pit to build a levee across the Tuscumbia and Cypress Creek bottoms for the railroad. Cypress trees now grow in and around the lake. Hiking is a favorite at the park, including a path that finds its way to the 70-foot observation tower over the trees and Travis McNatt Lake.
There are some 30 miles of overnight and day use trails with four backpack trail shelters. There are 14 miles of horse trails that are shared with mountain bikers. Camping and fishing are also available.
Today, Pickwick Landing State Park is a vacation favorite for Memphians. But in the 1840s, it was a riverboat stop along the Tennessee River. In the 1930s the Tennessee Valley Authority located one of its dams on the river at Pickwick Landing. The living area for those TVA construction crews and their families today is the state park. Pickwick Village was then known as the TVA Village, and today is home to a Post Office, park office and day use area. Pickwick Landing State Park consists of 681 acres and offers plenty of fishing and watersport activities.
The park includes a golf course, with eight holes overlooking the water. The park contains three public swimming beaches; Circle Beach and Sandy Beach are in the park’s day use area and the third is across the lake at Bruton Branch primitive area. Pickwick State Park’s inn has 119 rooms and an indoor pool and outdoor pool. Cabins are located near the inn and guests staying there can access the amenities of the inn. There are 48 wooded campsites and a primitive campground on the north side of the lake.
The Natchez Trace from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, is a bit east of the location of Natchez Trace State Park, but the park is located on an alternate route of the old path. The park is located on the west side of the Tennessee River on about 48,000 acres that were purchased during the New Deal. The Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration built many of the buildings in use today. The park has 13.5 miles of hiking trails, ranging from a half-mile trail up to 4.5 miles.
There also is a 40-mile overnight trail. A park museum focuses on local history. There is camping, cabins, and lodges. The park features four lakes – 58-acre Cub Lake, 690-acre Pin Oak Lake, 90-acre Maple Creek Lake, and 167-acre Brown’s Creek Lake. There also are 250 miles of horse riding trails on the south end of the park.
Paris Landing State Park is located near Kentucky along the Tennessee River. The park was founded in 1945 and was named after a steamboat and freight landing on the river. The 841-acre park is on the western shore of the river, which is dammed to form the 160,000-acre Kentucky Lake. The park is on the widest part of the lake and offers opportunities for water sports such as fishing, boating, swimming, and waterskiing. The park also offers golf, hiking, and camping. The park has a public swimming area and beach on Kentucky Lake with restrooms and a picnic area.
A public Olympic-size swimming pool and children’s pool facility is open from Memorial Day through the first week of August.
Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park sits on one of the highest points in West Tennessee, Pilot Knob. It overlooks the Tennessee River and is home to the Tennessee River Folklife Interpretive Center and Museum. The park contains 25 miles of hiking trails. It’s located on Kentucky Lake where commercial marinas and public boat docks offer boating and fishing opportunities. The park features eight cabins that overlook the lake as well as a rustic log cabin. There are three campgrounds, two of which are primitive.
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https://www.tripsavvy.com/tennessee-state-parks-near-memphis-4019491
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Aprenda cómo reparar su Nexus 7 con esta video introductorio.
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Could you guys please check if that micro-USB to HDMI work?, since no other reviews mention seeing this cable included in their box. Furthermore, I didn't see any MHL chip (like the Silicon Image 9244 MHL transmitter you guys show on the Galaxy Nexus teardown) on the motherboard, then I'm confused on how this cable would work. Thanks!
Can you confirm about this usb to hdmi cable...anand tech clearly states that mhl is not supported by Nexus 7.
"Initially, the Nexus 7 was criticized for its lack of HDMI output. However, the included micro USB-to-HDMI cable solves that problem."
This just looks like a mini-USB to USB cable to me...can you confirm it's actually a mini-USB to HDMI cable?
Also very curious about the HDMI adapter. Please let us know if it works when you plug it in. First time I've read about one, and it puts the Nexus 7 back on the map for me. I love the MHL feature on my Galaxy Nexus.
Sorry guys, we got our wires crossed. The cable belongs to the Nexus Q, not the Nexus 7. We removed that picture from the step.
What about the four metal dots on the lower left side? Are they a USB duplicate for future docking stations? The NFC wireless link may also be very capable (will it be fast enough for HDMI?).
the four metal dots (often called "pogo pins", which are really the springy pins that interface with such dots) are not USB (more's the pity) but they are for a dock: for charging, and for attaching external speakers.
You can read 5V & GND off the outer pins (which made it seem like USB was a possibility), the inner two don't appear to do anything at first... but if you temporarily ground the right speaker channel, that tells the chip a dock is connected and it starts sending stereo output on the inner two pins.
And that extra millimeter is partly due to the smaller height and width--a larger tablet could be even thinner because the battery could be spread out.
Could you add a tag in the pic for which antenna is located in which spot, pretty please?
I color-coded it just for you, buddy.
My nexus 7 has a problem in charging processor. which part i have to repair ?
Missing how to disconnect the touchscreen digitizer flex cable. I broke the connectors trying to open them.
Is the camera cable a standard cable? Can it be extended? I'm mounting my N7 in my car, and I was curious if I could move the camera (to use as a backup camera) and just run a cable back to the device. The cable would have to be ~10 ft long (small car, but routing).
How is your mod doing? I want to place an N7 in my car too but mount it into a double DIN frame (Google ISO 7736). I'm trying to figure out how to get a longer cable for the screen, any chance you have come across one?
Great teardown, but like the many others before me, I would like to now where one specific part is. Can you update it to show most of us where the STORAGE MEMORY is, not RAM, thanks a lot.
It's the first bullet on step 17.
Any ideas what the part U23 is? That *seems* to be around the area of the magnetic sensor.
It appears that the small 8-pin part just to the right of the pink box (TI20 MI60) is the magnetomoter. I wish I could tell what kind it was.
Out of curiosity, the emtpy contacts farthest to the right wouldn't be the ones for the hdmi port on the display units at I/O would they? If so, wouldn't it be technically possible to add an HDMI port back in? or is there something more that I'm missing?
If it is possible, could anyone point me in the direction of an hdmi port I can test with?
Those pins are for (future) docks, and possibly other accessories. (Keyboard-in-a-case, perhaps.) Google hasn't said what they are yet, and I haven't checked them out enough to know for sure, but it looks like the outer pins are power and ground (which makes sense for docks that charge) so I wouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be USB.
The HDMI ports you speak of (on the Nexi from Google I/O) were on the bottom, the other side of the USB port from the headphone jack. In the pics you can see the space in the frame where it goes (under the speaker assembly). Those units had a different I/O cable assembly (Step 10, image 3) that went all the way across.
A few days ago some slides from ASUS were leaked. (The original post is down but posts are still up at slashgear.com and pocketables.com.) They show a leather case, a new charger, and a dock that uses the pogo pins on the side of the Nexus. The dock has a micro USB connector for charging/connectivity and a 3.5mm line out jack for external speakers or connecting to a stereo.
Given that it is quite easy to pull data through USB (I have a USB 7.1 surround-sound adapter), this makes me think the pogo pins really are just a USB port.
The articles also mention that there is no HDMI output because including it would have driven the manufacturing cost too high. The only way you are going to get HDMI out of a Nexus is if someone starts selling the equivalent of the full-width I/O Cable Assembly that was in the white Google I/O units (with the HDMI chip on it). The good news is that the yellow cables are identical, so the signal is present at that end, but nobody has released 3rd-party hardware that can use it.
Actually, at step 17 in the teardown, there is an unpopulated 24pin connector to the right of the ram chips which I am guessing is the interface for the HDMI/TFcard interface board on the original MeMo 370T device.
Hi! Does anyone know what the 3G chip on the Nexus 7 HSPA+ is? We think it'd be so awesome to enable voice calls on this tablet.
Does anybody know if it is possible to get a longer replacement for this cable? I'm looking into tearing down a Nexus 7 to place it into a double DIN frame (Google ISO 7736) to use it in my car as a head unit.
Does anyone know what that cable/part is called? I may need to get another one.
I love your site. And cost-wise, yes it would probably be cheaper to just buy a new unit to replace dead one. But I'm thinking this site is for people who want to repair or reuse or re-purpose the parts. Basically tinkerers. I have an old tablet that the warranty has expired and I want to do something with it besides going to a landfill.
Tell me, if iFixit will service my Nexus 7 for $50 TOTAL, then maybe we'll have something to their comments. That $50 includes TWO WAY SHIPPING, PARTS snd LABOR.
Face it - when my Nexus 7 breaks in a year, there'll be a new model. If it's going to cost me $100 in total to fix including shipping (both ways), parts and labor, I could probably just buy a NEW ONE for $100 more.
At $50 completely fixed, it's worth it. People who own old cars face the same problem everytime it needs service - will it cost more to fix than its worth?
As for Apple, it's $79 to extend the warranty to two years. At the end of two years, when it breaks, it's probably worth maybe $200 when it works, and unless iFixit can promise to fix it for under $100 all-in, it'll go in the recycle bin as uneconomical to fix.
Fixing stuff is a hobby - where you can write off skilled labour charges ($50/hr min) since your time is "free". Some people can make a living off it - getting broken gadgets for free, fixing them for minimal cost and selling the units, the profit of which is used to pay off the parts and earn a little on the side (because the broken gadget was obtained for free).
And yes, I use iFixit - not for stuff that's still under warranty or compatible devices can still be obtained, for the old stuff that's not only not made anymore, but no one will repair them that needs to keep working. So old PowerPC Macs, for example that are no longer supported but there's some piece of software that needs to run on them (e.g., 68k/PowerPC "MacOS Classic"). For Intels, well, the decision is a lot harder since there are new ones, the only reason to keep an old one going is something like Rosetta.
Obsolete cellphones too - running PalmOS, Symbian, Windows MObile. iOS and ANdroid - forget it while replacements are easily available.
I somewhat agree with Jose, though it doesn't change the fact that one is much easier to service than the other.
Yeah, is there any way that the storage can be increase to say 32gb+?
You're right!. That 24pin connector (CN3) is for the 8MP autofocus camera ASUS originally had in the MeMo 370T.
Can anyone come up with the part number of that camera module or an equivalent with the same interface? I'd love to play with this.
Note that the NFC antenna already was designed to allow the rear camera.
Actually, I was wondering about the same thing.
and yes, i'm buying parts or service from you to fix it.
but let everyone know, it is NOT GORILLA GLASS. Which means, its also not pocket-safe, even if its back-pocket sized.
The hardware looks similar to the assembled PC made in china.
1- How do I replace it? Do you have video?
2- Where do i get new glass? Do you sell it?
The glass is indeed very fragile- unlikely to be gorilla glass.
The last step shows the lcd/digitiser assembly still enclosed within the plastic frame. Has anyone tried to remove the lcd/digitiser from the frame? The only lcd/digi assemblies I have found for sale do not include the frame so the broken screen has to be removed and the new screen fitted to the old frame. Doesn't sound like fun!
The glass is definitely not Gorilla Glass, and it is uber thin... I bought a broken N7 to perform evil experiments on and took it all the way apart, it was easy to see why they bonded the glass to the digitizer to the LCD to the frame - they are all so thin that it wouldn't have survived, otherwise.
The broken unit I bought had a cracked screen, so there was nothing to lose by tearing it apart. To get it all out of the plastic frame I was chipping away paper-thin pieces of glass and glue, and at the end I was using q-tips dipped in boiling water to scrub away the remaining glue. It *might* be possible to use heat to soften the glue and remove the whole display in one piece, but it is highly likely that the heat would cause more problems than it solved. If you only want to save the frame and don't care about the other bits, this might not be a problem.
There are probably other solutions involving chemicals to dissolve the glue, but I have no experience doing so.
Is there any JTAG interface on this arm board?
hello, thank you for the details. i want to know what kind/brand of microphone/speakers are inside of Nexus 7 please.
Hi, I don´t know if this is a great place to ask this, but thought I would give it a try.
I am on my third nexus 7 and still have the batteries from the first two.
Can anyone tell me exactly how I might go about adding one or two extra batteries to my nexus to increase capacity? As in, exactly how to wire it? I am not electrically savvy, but can follow instructions well. I can figure out how to attach the batteries externally once wired; am not in the least concerned about ugliness or thickness.
Thanks for any help! I travel by bike a lot and would love to beef it up for those days when I stop a while and can´t charge off my dynamo.
I was wondering... My Nexus 7 2012 version, like many, does not charge any longer. Sitting it in a dock does not charge it and the USB port does not charge it either (but it does connect to a computer just fine). Is there any way to hard wire a power cable to the Nexus? Or maybe even easier, to replace the charging circuits?
Can I use pogo pins as microusb hub to use it in car as stereo so i can make my coustom docking station for my car stereo and use only pogo pins to charge n7/audio/joycon stear wheel control/usb hub? thank you!
Does anybody know the type of the two fine-pitch PCB connectors J2 and J3 that the digitizer flat cable connects to?
Yo, found it: It's a Panasonic AYF333135 (.3 pitch 31-pin) connector.
What 3G modem is in ASUS NEXUS 7 2012 32GB ?
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2019-04-21T18:25:11Z
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https://es.ifixit.com/Desmontaje/Nexus+7+Teardown/9623?permalink=1
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I teach middle school science and often try to incorporate as much interactive and hands-on activities as possible. Instead of typical review sheets and Q&A sessions prior to assessments I like to use a review game I created called "Penny Slide". The concept is simple. You create a paper game board with images pertaining to the subject matter (i.e. mitochondria, nucleus, DNA, etc...). You tape the front edge down of the game board and students slide a penny across the table trying to land on the images. If they land on an image they have to answer a card pertaining to that specific image. The kids love this game but the only problem is that about half of them really struggle with sliding the penny across the table (middle school dexterity isn't really the best with a lot of kids).
Enter the spinning wheel! I don't know a soul who doesn't love the massive spinning wheel if they have watched The Price is Right. Not to mention the spinning wheel on Wheel of Fortune or any other spinning wheel at a fair. I decided that a simple spinning wheel would fit the bill perfectly for our game and there wouldn't be pennies flying off of tables and hopefully more reviewing going on. I also had plans on using the wheel as a method to show a group's progress / behavior (a green section to show all is good, a yellow section to show that the group has been warned, and a red section to show that the group now must remain silent).
I decided to use inexpensive materials and some recycled goods to build them and all in all the whole process took only a few hours and some basic woodworking skills.
All of the wood I used to build the spinners is 3/4" Eastern White Pine. I used mostly scrap pieces I had around my shop.
I use a simple circle cutting sled for my bandsaw. Basically a sheet of plywood with a maple runner that fits into the groove on the bandsaw's table. I then have a series of holes drilled that accepts a roofing nail. I drill a hole in the center of a piece of square stock adjust the location of the nail / pivot point so that it equals half the diameter of my circle and then place the square piece of wood on the nail. Push the square forward until the center of the soon-to-be circle is aligned with the front edge of your bandsaw blade and then spin the wood on the nail. I needed to make eight of these (one for each table). I cut my circle to 6-1/4" diameter from a piece of 6-1/2" wide stock. After cutting my eight pieces of wood I marked the center with an "X". Leave this X in place so that you can mark the pie slices later on (see the last picture in this step).
This piece will support the spinning wheel. I cut mine 5-1/2" wide and 6-1/2" tall. The top flat piece is about 1-1/2" wide. I also drilled a hole about 1-1/4" down from the top where the bolt will pass through.
The base is 5-1/2" x 5-1/2" with a dado directly down the center of it that will accept the 3/4" pine. I made the dado 3/8" deep.
Extend the "X" originally made at the center of your circle to mark the center so that the marks go to the edge of the circle. Then measure between two of the terminating points at the edge of the circle and find the center for the next line and make a mark. Line up your ruler with the center hole and this point and draw your next line. Do this one more time and you have eight pie slices. Of course you can go further and make it filled with more pie slices or differently sized ones. I planned on using finish nails to mark boundaries between pie slices, so I pre-drilled the holes using a small drill press with a Dremel (my other drill press is too big for hold the right sized drill bit). Drill the hole about a 1/4" from the bottom of the circle but don't put the nails in yet.
I ordered bearings to use with the wheels. They were about 0.60 each and I used two per spinner. The bearings I bought had an interior dimension of 3/8" and an exterior dimension of 7/8". I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill a 1/4" deep hole on both the front and back of the spinner wheel. I then used a 1/2" bit to drill a hole through through the center of the spinner so that there would be no interference with the bearings movement.
After sanding the spinners I used a sharpie to go over the pencil lines and then put numbers in the bottom of each pie slice. I left plenty of room to add colors and other things to the wheels and I might even use a velcro disc system I have come up with.
Then I nailed in the finish nails. Make sure they don't go through the bottom of the spinner.
I used an "L" shaped piece of wood to support the little piece of plastic used to point at the pie slice the spinner is spun to. The pictures show the cutting progression nicely so that you can save some wood. At the end I cut one side of the "L" down the middle to make a spliced area for the plastic clicker. I then drilled a hole so that I could secure it to the upright of the spinner with a screw.
Make sure that you have the correct diameter hole drilled in your upright to accept the bolt you are going to use to put the whole thing together. Also make sure everything is sanded to your liking. Mine is being used in a classroom with middle school kids so I made sure it was smooth but I didn't go crazy. I used hot glue to affix the upright support to the base.
I used some mineral spirits to degrease the bearings and make them spin a bit freer (they really are meant for skateboards or the like so this is a pretty light application for them). Put one bearing into the front of the spinner and one into the back, pass a 3/8" diameter x 2" long bolt through the front of the spinner and put two washers between the bearing and the upright and then push the bolt into the upright hole. Finally, use a nut to affix the wheel to the upright.
I used a 1-3/8" screw to affix the pointer support to the upright (I also used a couple of dabs of hot glue). To make the little pointer I used a plastic container and cut out the little triangles. I also use a small section of the top of the container to add some additional pressure so that when I pass them through the slit in the pointer support I have enough friction to hold it in place.
For the most part the spinners worked great. You need to loosen and tighten the nut on the back a bit to adjust how smoothly it spins, but other than that they spun beautifully. There were a couple that seemed to have an affinity for a specific number and I attributed that to the density of the wood in certain areas being higher (plywood probably would have helped avoid that problem). A relatively easy fix I came up with is using some push tacks in edge of the wheel that is lighter. This worked really well and I am looking forward to using these in the classroom!
I ended up adding colored dot stickers to each pie slice further differentiating them for games and activities. Later down the road I still might do the velcro disc idea, but for now this works great. We had our first trial run with the spinners in class yesterday and the kids loved it! We did a review game for human body systems, which had six sets of different cards, neatly corresponding to numbers one through six on the wheel. We used number seven as a "you choose" option and number eight for the bonus cards. I am including a link to my game cards if you are interested to see how it is set up. This makes for a fun, fast-paced review game for any material and nearly any age student.
I hope your students know how lucky they are to have you as their teacher. Thank you for going the extra mile to make science interactive and fun for them. Even more important than ever!
When I was in Middle school one of the science teachers had a real stoplight in his classroom. Green meant all was well. Yellow meant calm down and red meant silence.
He got the light from the public works department and one of our projects was to create the toggle switch panel to turn on/ off the lights. We had to change the bulbs because with the reflectors the light was really bright indoors.
We added a bell that sounded every time you turned on a light which helped. You brought back memories of a project long forgotten.
Great instructable. Very cool. I’ve always made spinning wheels with lazy Susan bearings because they spin and balance easily. Very cool how you fixed the balance issue.
I feel that if you find a way to make the moments more memorable for the students you can more easily make lifelong connections with them and make the lessons all that much better. Thanks again for the comment!
OUTSTANDING! There should be more teachers like you who care this much!
Fantastic Idea and also makes learning fun.
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2019-04-22T00:09:20Z
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https://mobile.instructables.com/id/Rippn-Wheeln-Spinn-Wheel-for-the-Classroom/
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But what have they created in this darkened software bunker? What work are they about to put their coding skills to? This is what the Homeland’s creators call a ‘propaganda boiler room.’ Driven by extreme political convictions, they’ve created thousands of fake social media accounts to spread disinformation into the news feeds of millions of users.
As all of you will have heard recently, the role of the web and social media in political life have now become major global concerns—not just the plots of TV drama. We’re hearing more and more in the news about fake news, hacking, cyberattacks, political bots and weaponized computational propaganda.
And from critical technology thinkers, too, we’re hearing that ‘software is taking command,’ that automation and ‘algorithms rule the world,’ and that you can either ‘program or be programmed.’ Digital technologies, we now know, aren’t just neutral tools—but powerful devices for shaping our actions, influencing our feelings, changing our minds, filtering the information we receive, automating our jobs, recommending products and media to consume, manipulating our political convictions—even for ‘personalizing’ what and how we learn.
But as Homeland dramatizes, if software is becoming more powerful in our everyday lives, then we also need to acknowledge there are people behind it—programmers who have learned to code to make the technologies we live with.
As a result, Silicon Valley companies are now investing billions of dollars to re-engineer public education to achieve that aim.
In the UK, learning to code and computer science are now part of the formal curriculum for schools, in England, Wales and Scotland alike. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been studying the documents produced to promote learning to code, following how coding and computing have been embedded in the curriculum, and recently interviewing relevant policy influencers involved in the new computing curriculum in England.
Now, we need to go back in time a little here, back to 2011, and to Edinburgh. Here, at the Edinburgh Television Festival, was Eric Schmidt, then chief executive of Google, giving the keynote address to an audience of media, industry and policy leaders. After talking about disrupting TV broadcasting through media streaming, Schmidt suddenly turned his attention to attacking the British education system.
The talk tapped into a growing concern in the UK at the time that teaching children how to use Microsoft Office applications was inadequate to preparing them for living and working with more complex computer systems.
In fact, within six months of Schmidt’s speech, the Secretary of State for education in England at the time, Michael Gove, announced a complete reform of IT education during his own speech at a 2012 ed-tech trade show for IT teachers.
Well despite Gove’s argument about not micromanaging the new curriculum, by September 2013, just 20 months later, entirely new programmes of study for computing in the National Curriculum appeared, to apply at all stage of compulsory schooling in England.
I’m going to fill in the gaps in this story in a minute, but if we briefly come back to the present, we find Google now much more positive about British education.
So in 5 years, Google has reversed its opinion of computing in the UK, and even of its educational institutions.
But actually it’s not as straightforward as business driving policy. What happened in England with computing in the curriculum was the result of a much messier mix of ambitions and activities including government, businesses, professional societies, venture capitalists, think tanks, charities, non-profit organizations, the media and campaigning groups. As another of our interviewees said, from the outside the new curriculum looked ‘sudden and organized’ but was actually a more ‘anarchic’ mess of ‘passions’ and ‘reasons’.
So, for example, the year before Eric Schmidt’s Edinburgh speech, the campaigning organization Computing at School had already produced a ‘white paper’ detailing a new approach to computing teaching. Computing at School is a teacher members’ organization, originally set up by Microsoft and chaired by a senior Microsoft executive.
Its 2010 white paper focused on ‘how computers work,’ the knowledge and skills of programming, and ‘computational thinking’—that is, it said, a ‘philosophy that underpins computing’ and a distinctive way to ‘tackle problems, to break them down into solvable chunks and to devise algorithms to solve them’ in a way that a computer can understand. The Computing at School white paper, and the outline computing curriculum it contained, was then put forward after Michael Gove’s speech as a suggested blueprint for the national curriculum.
In fact, it was the Computing at School chairperson who was then appointed by the Department for Education to oversee the development of the new curriculum, and who led a 3 month process of stakeholder consultation and drafting of the new curriculum in autumn 2012.
Livingstone actually called his Nesta report, Next Gen, a ‘complete bottom up review of the whole education system relating to games.’ Nesta also produced a report on the legacy of the BBC Micro that Eric Schmidt had credited as a ‘fabulous initiative’ to get kids coding in the 80s. Nesta has continued to produce reports along similar lines, including one on getting more ‘digital making’ into schools, and another on the role of computer science education to build skills for the data analytics industry and the data-driven economy.
Soon after the Next Gen report was released, Livingstone and Nesta formed a pressure group, the Next Gen Skills campaign, which lobbied government hard to get programming and computer science in the curriculum. The campaign was supported by Google, Facebook, Nintendo, Microsoft, and was led by the interactive games and entertainment trade body UKIE.
Ian Livingstone, meanwhile, is establishing his own Academy Schools. Like the Swedish free schools approach, the Livingstone Academies will be privately run but publicly funded, and have significant discretion over curriculum.
So, Nesta and Livingstone have highlighted the powerful role of digital entrepreneurs and the language of the digital economy in securing government approval for computing in schools. As you can see, their emphasis is very firmly on programming and software engineering, rather than the more abstract study of the mathematics and algorithms that are the focus of the discipline of Computer Science.
Although programming and Computer Science are of course related, many critics have pointed out that most new computing courses and curricula are more closely connected with software development. We asked people about this is in our interviews, and were told by several people, including those at Computing at School and Nesta, that it was in everyone’s best interests to allow terms like Computer Science, coding, programming, computational thinking, digital skills and even digital literacy to be treated as the same thing.
Several people we interviewed were especially critical of the Shut Down or Restart report produced by the Royal Society in 2012. Its emphasis was on disciplinary computer science, and its recommendations reflected the views of major computer science academics and associations.
The Royal Society report was published just a few days after Michael Gove’s speech—in fact, he said he was looking forward to reading it. And you can see the influence of the Royal Society in the strong emphasis on the idea of computing at the ‘fourth science’ in the English computing curriculum. This goes well with the current emphasis in English education on established subject knowledge—though the fact the Department for Education authorized the Livingstone Academies indicates how government sees computing as a hard science and an economic catalyst at the same time.
In fact, we were told by several interviewees that a major issue in the development of the computing curriculum was that the government ministers and special advisers responsible for it didn’t think it was academic enough—it needed more hard Computer Science content and theory. Even though they weren’t supposed to be micro-managing it of course.
When the computing curriculum consultation group submitted its draft in late 2012, ‘The exact words were ‘the minister is not minded to approve the draft you sent,”’ one interviewee told us. The group had submitted its draft curriculum at 5 o’clock on a Friday evening and the chair was then contacted over the weekend by the special adviser to the minister.
Despite being a consultative curriculum drafting process, in the end the new programmes of study, we were told, were the product of just two senior executives responding to the demands of the minister and her special adviser to emphasize academic Computer Science.
But for many other people involved in trying to shape the new curriculum, the purpose wasn’t to reproduce disciplinary computer science through the school classroom, or skills development for the digital economy. One of the people we interviewed, also part of the curriculum consultation and drafting group, told us he was even banned from attending meetings after complaining about there being too much Computer Science content. Another had his expenses cancelled as part of the group to stop him doing wider consultation with teachers. The minister’s special adviser was allegedly behind both decisions.
Another area of influence on the computing curriculum was the role of charitable, non-profit and voluntary groups. Code Club is an after school programming scheme that puts volunteer coders together with children to teach them to code. It has its own coding curriculum that starts with visual programming applications like Scratch and then proceeds to programming with HTML, CSS and Python.
There are now over 5000 UK Code Clubs, teaching over 82,000 children programming. When it first started in 2012, the computing curriculum hadn’t even been drafted, yet Code Club is still going strong even though coding is now embedded in the curriculum.
One of the things that the continuing popularity of Code Club reveals is that computing remains very poorly resourced in schools. Code Club has an army of volunteer programmers—the computing curriculum has a teaching workforce of mostly ICT teachers who all need radical retraining. The government budget for this retraining worked out to about £100 per member of staff, which largely means external providers have stepped in.
As a result, Code Club now runs its own teacher training sessions, where volunteer programmers educate teachers in how to teach programming. Other training providers are available—Computing at School offers resources and training, but so do large commercial organizations, as we’ll see in a moment.
Code Club was also absorbed into the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2015. The Raspberry Pi device itself is a very small, ‘hackable’ computer, and the foundation was set up as a charity to support its educational uses. But one of the other activities performed by Raspberry Pi is to catalyse the wider take-up of computing in schools. It has a couple of magazine titles, The MagPi and Hello World, to promote coding and making.
The MagPi is specifically about making with Raspberry Pi itself, while Hello World focuses on ‘plugging gaps’ in teachers’ knowledge and skills in computer science, coding, computational thinking, constructionism and digital making. Again, this reflects the deliberate ambiguity built in to the curriculum.
Probably the most high profile intervention into coding in schools so far came with the launch of the BBC nationwide campaign called Make It Digital in 2015.
One of the key projects was the launch of the micro:bit, a small coding device which it distributed for free to a million UK schoolchildren in 2016. The BBC has also established a non-profit foundation to roll out the micro:bit internationally.
The micro:bit, Code Club’s courses, and Raspberry Pi’s magazines indicate how much the new curriculum relies on public and charitable organizations to provide the support and resources required when government departments withdraw their ‘micro-management’ of key subject areas but retain a strong steering capacity over strategy and direction. One of our interviewees, who worked at a coding charity, described how she acted as a ‘geek insider’ who could translate the language of ‘geek’ into government speak for ministers, their special advisers and civil servants.
But besides these charitable providers, the curriculum has also, as we’ve seen, become the target for promoters of academic computer science and for entrepreneurial influence based on arguments about the digital economy. I think it’s a model case of how education policy is being made and done these days—it’s steered by government but taken forward by wider networks of organizations, with the special advisers of government ministers taking a strong role in approving who’s involved and vetting the outputs produced by the participants.
Yes, it’s not micro-managed as Michael Gove promised, but it’s not unmanaged either. And that doesn’t make it easy to work out what the overall purpose of the curriculum is—because it means different things to different groups.
The missing aspect of the curriculum as it has ended up from this messy mix of organizations, interests and interventions, for me anyway, is a more critical understanding of the social power of computing. Several of our interviewees said that the more critical aspects of computing suggested during the curriculum consultation were systematically erased before the curriculum programmes of study were finally made public in 2013.
Look at the bottom left column of this table where text has been struck out—this is from the draft computing curriculum in 2012 and emphasized ‘critical evaluation of digital content,’ the ‘impacts’ of technology on individuals and society, and ‘implications’ for ‘rights, responsibilities and freedoms.’ The right hand column shows how this part of the draft curriculum was rewritten, now emphasizing the study of algorithms, Boolean logic, and data manipulation.
This is what was lost when the draft curriculum had to be rewritten between its submission on Friday night and the new deadline for 9 o’clock Monday morning specified by the minister’s special adviser.
I understand that here in Sweden there remains potential for more critical approaches to digital competence, so I want to spend the last few minutes focusing on that.
Just a week or so ago, the Austrian research group Cracked Labs produced a report on the commercial data industry. It demonstrated how we are being tracked and profiled via data collected from our use of telecoms, the media, retail, finance, social media and technology platforms, and public services.
What does this have to do with computing in schools?
So, one of the world’s most powerful data harvesting companies is also one of the world’s most powerful computer science for education philanthropies, funding one of the world’s most powerful cross-national digital economies.
First, coding and computer science are being put forward as solutions to the digital economy by businesses but also think tanks and government officials too, with students positioned as future digital workers and entrepreneurial citizens—or agents of social and economic progress through software.
Second, relationships are being built between national governments and commercial companies to deliver on major educational goals and purposes. This is changing how education systems are governed—not just by government departments but from the headquarters and philanthropic outgrowths of global technology companies. It’s an example of how tech companies, many from Silicon Valley, are becoming ‘shadow education ministries’ as Neil Selwyn has described them.
Third, and consequently, companies like Oracle, as well as Google and Microsoft and others, are directly influencing curricula across Europe and globally, changing what teachers practice and what students learn along the way. They are even actively supplying teacher training courses to equip teachers with skills and knowledge.
Fourth, these organizations are talking the language of ‘computer science’ which is appealing to many educational policymakers—in the UK, as we saw, giving coding the credibility of Computer Science has been really important. Yet what they are actually promoting is closer to software engineering as practised in the technology sector. Some, like Oracle, also mention ‘digital literacy’ but this clearly a functional kind of literacy in writing code.
And in doing so, these organizations are shaping computing to be a practical, skills-based subject area with a hard scientific surface—and definitely not a more critically-focused subject which might draw attention to the data surveillance practised by the same organizations persuading national governments to focus on computing education in schools.
As the Cracked Labs report shows, Oracle knows an awful lot about people. This is the kind of digital environment that children and young people are now living and learning in. That’s why, in closing here, I want to suggest the need for a different direction in coding and computing in the curriculum—or at least a proper discussion about its purposes. It’s great to see this conference as a space to start that dialogue here.
We are now teaching kids to code—which has all sorts of advantages in terms of tech skills, creativity and understanding how computers work. But there’s a risk we could just be reproducing the practices of Silicon Valley in our own classrooms.
It is also notable that when the co-founder of Code Club criticized the ‘mass surveillance’ practices of Google a few years back that she was forced to resign by the Code Club board. Google was then one of Code Club’s main commercial sponsors.
We also need to think about the political uses and abuses of programming skills. Teaching children to code could actually be dangerous if it trains them with the right skills to work in Homeland’s propaganda boiler room. In many ways, young right wing activists are today’s most successful digital makers, using their programming skills to disseminate political values that many of us, I’m sure, find extreme and divisive.
My view is that a properly purposeful and meaningful computing education would engage with the social and political power of code to engineer, in part, how we live and think. ‘To program or be programmed’ is a neat mantra, but you need a different kind of critical knowledge and skill set to understand how your information practices are being programmed by the engineers at Google, how you can be monitored and profiled through the Oracle data cloud, or how you can be manipulated via social media.
According to the Times Education Supplement, the weekly magazine for education professionals in the UK, ‘the algorithm’s gonna get you’ in the classroom too. That’s an overly paranoid headline—but maybe it might provoke educators to consider the social power of programming and the algorithmic techniques of data mining and surveillance it’s produced.
What would it mean to receive an education in computing that helped young people navigate life in the algorithmic data cloud in an informed and safe way, rather than as passive subjects of this vast science experiment?
Technical know-how in how computers work has its uses here, of course. But also knowing about privacy and data protection, knowing how news circulates, understanding cyberattacks and hacking, knowing about bots, understanding how algorithms and automation are changing the future of work—and knowing that there are programmers and business plans and political agendas and interest groups behind all of this—well, this seems to me worth including in a meaningful computing education too.
I am encouraged to see that there is scope for some more critical study in Sweden’s incoming digital competence curriculum. That type of study of computing and its impacts and implications, in the UK, was shut down before the curriculum had even started up.
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Great piece Ben. I have lived through at least 4 iterations of this. They never achieve their aims for reasons too numerous to put in a comment. Anecdotes must suffice. Much of Apple’s success results from Jobs’s love of typography and Woz’s counter-culture phreaking and love of Star Trek as anything else. Dundee became a world centre for the computer games industry possibly because the Speccy was built in the Timex factory and there were so many knock-offs in the community.
This was a very informative post and raised a lot of great points. Your post stated, “Leading venture capitalist Marc Andreessen predicts a future with two types of job: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told what to do by computers.” Recently you see so many posts online with titles such as “Will Your Job be Safe?” or “Top 50 Jobs That a Robot Can Do”. I never thought about the fact that someone needs to be there to program these robots who are supposedly taking over so many jobs in the future. This made me think about my own students and the experiences I have had with technology in schools. I was teaching some aspects of computer science in an elementary school last school year. I was learning along with my students because I did not have any background in coding. I can speak from experience that if their was a common curriculum with standards for teachers to follow it would be more beneficial for students and teachers. You raised a valid point that since computer science is so broad and ever changing educators believe different things should be included. Personally I believe that the only way to see what works in a computer science curriculum is to implement one in a school and gather data to inform your future instruction.
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Mary Elizabeth “Sissy” Spacek (; born December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She began her career in the early 1970s and first gained attention for her role in the film Badlands (1973). Her major breakthrough came in 1976 when she played the title character of Carrie White in Brian De Palma‘s horror film Carrie, based on the first novel by Stephen King, for which she earned an Oscar nomination (a rare feat for an actor or actress in a horror movie). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner’s Daughter, and also earned a Grammy nomination for the song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” from the film’s soundtrack. She went on to receive further Oscar nominations for her roles in Missing (1982), The River (1984) and Crimes of the Heart (1986). Coal Miner’s Daughter and Crimes of the Heart also won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
A six-time Oscar nominee, she received her sixth nomination for In the Bedroom (2001), which also won her a third Golden Globe, this time for Best Actress in a Drama. Her other films include 3 Women (1977), Raggedy Man (1981), JFK (1991), Affliction (1997), The Straight Story (1999), Tuck Everlasting (2002), Nine Lives (2005) and The Help (2011). Spacek also played matriarch Sally Rayburn in the Netflix thriller series Bloodline. The show was canceled in 2016, airing its third and final season in 2017.
Spacek was born on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, the daughter of Virginia Frances (ne Spilman; December 18, 1917 November 10, 1981) and Edwin Arnold Spacek Sr. (July 3, 1910 January 7, 2001), a county agricultural agent. Her mother, who was of Polish, English and Irish descent, was from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. At age 6, she performed on stage for the first time, appearing in a local talent show. Although her birth name was Mary Elizabeth, from birth, she was always called Sissy by her brothers which led to her stage name. She attended Quitman High School and was named homecoming queen at her senior prom.
Spacek worked for a time as a photographic model (represented by Ford Models) and as an extra at Andy Warhol‘s Factory. She appeared in a non-credited role in his film Trash (1970). With the help of her cousin, actor Rip Torn, she enrolled in Lee Strasberg‘s Actors Studio and then the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. Her first credited role was in Prime Cut (1972), in which she played Poppy, a girl sold into sexual slavery. The role led to television work, which included a guest role in The Waltons, which she played twice in 1973. Spacek received international attention after starring in Terrence Malick‘s Badlands (1973), in which she played Holly, the film’s narrator and a 15-year-old girlfriend of mass-murderer Kit (Martin Sheen). Spacek has described Badlands as the “most incredible” experience of her career. On the set of Badlands, Spacek met art director Jack Fisk, whom she married in 1974.
Spacek’s iconic and career-defining role came in Brian De Palma‘s film Carrie (1976), in which she played Carietta “Carrie” White, a shy, troubled high school senior with telekinetic powers. Spacek had to work hard to persuade director de Palma to engage her for the role. After rubbing Vaseline into her hair and donning an old sailor dress her mother made for her as a child, Spacek turned up at the audition with the odds against her, but won the part. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in the film. Spacek had previously been the set dresser for DePalma’s film Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
After Carrie, Spacek played the small role of housekeeper Linda Murray in Alan Rudolph‘s ensemble piece Welcome to LA (1976) and cemented her reputation in independent cinema with her performance as Pinky Rose in Robert Altman‘s classic 3 Women (1977). Altman was deeply impressed by her performance, having stated: “She’s remarkable, one of the top actresses I’ve ever worked with. Her resources are like a deep well.” Brian de Palma added: ” a phantom. She has this mysterious way of slipping into a part, letting it take over her. She’s got a wider range than any young actress I know.” Spacek also helped finance then-brother-in-law David Lynch‘s directorial debut, Eraserhead (1977) and is thanked in the credits of the film.
Spacek began the 1980s with an Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), in which she played country music star Loretta Lynn, who selected her for the role. In the film, both she and Beverly D’Angelo, who played Patsy Cline, performed their own singing. Film critic Roger Ebert has credited the movie’s success “to the performance by Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. With the same sort of magical chemistry she’s shown before, when she played the high school kid in Carrie, Spacek at 29 has the ability to appear to be almost any age on screen. Here, she ages from about 14 to somewhere in her 30s, always looks the age, and never seems to be wearing makeup.” Spacek also was nominated for a Grammy Award for her singing on the film’s soundtrack album. She followed this with her own country album, Hangin’ Up My Heart (1983); the album spawned one hit single, “Lonely But Only For You”, a song written by K. T. Oslin, which reached No. 15 on the Billboard Country chart.
In the film Heart Beat (1980), Spacek played Carolyn Cassady, who slipped (under the influence of John Heard‘s Jack Kerouac and Nick Nolte‘s Neal Cassady) into a combination of drudgery and debauchery. Spacek was so adamant about getting the role, that she pored through over 4,000 pages of research to prepare for her character. Producer Ed Pressman and director John Byrum took her to dinner to advise her that she did not have the role. Spacek was so distraught at the news that she shattered a glass of wine in her hand. After that, Pressman walked up to Spacek with a piece of shattered glass and told her she had the role. He said that Spacek breaking the glass clinched the deal, and they believed she would ultimately best suit the part. The film was released on April 25, 1980 to mixed critical reviews.
Also in the 1980s, Spacek starred alongside Jack Lemmon in Constantin Costa-Gavras‘s political thriller Missing (1982, based on the book The Execution of Charles Horman) and appeared with Mel Gibson in the rural drama The River (1984), and with Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in 1986’s Crimes of the Heart (1986). She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for all of these roles. Other performances of the decade included star turns in husband Jack Fisk‘s directorial debut Raggedy Man (1981) and alongside Anne Bancroft in the suicide-themed drama ‘night, Mother (1986). Spacek also showed her lighter side by voicing the brain in the Steve Martin comedy The Man with Two Brains (1983).
She had a supporting role as the wife of Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner) in Oliver Stone‘s JFK (1991) and made a number of comedies, TV movies, and the occasional film. Most notable of her appearances during these years was her turn as the evil Verena Talbo in the ensemble piece The Grass Harp (1995), which reunited her with both Laurie and Lemmon, as well as a supporting performance, again alongside Nick Nolte, as the waitress Margie Fogg in Paul Schrader‘s father-son psychodrama Affliction (1997). She also played Rose Straight in David Lynch‘s The Straight Story (1999) and Brendan Fraser‘s character’s mother in Blast from the Past.
In 2001, she was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her work in Todd Field‘s In the Bedroom (2001).The New York Times film critic Stephen Holden said of her work in the film: “Ms. Spacek’s performance is as devastating as it is unflashy. With the slight tightening of her neck muscles and a downward twitch of her mouth, she conveys her character’s relentlessness, then balances it with enough sweetness to make Ruth seem entirely human. It is one of Ms. Spacek’s greatest performances.” Her performance as Ruth Fowler, a grieving mother consumed by revenge, won extraordinary praise and garnered the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress as well as the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Drama, and Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, among many others.
With her 6th best actress Academy Award nomination, Spacek became only the 8th actress to be nominated for at least 6 leading role Oscars. Spacek is the most recent inductee to this list.
Other performances of this decade include unfaithful wife Ruth in Rodrigo Garca‘s Nine Lives (2005) and a turn as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s in the television movie Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007). In 2008, Spacek had a supporting part in the Christmas comedy Four Christmases and a lead role in the independent drama, Lake City. Spacek appeared on the HBO drama Big Love, for a multi-episode arc, as a powerful Washington, D.C. lobbyist.
In 2005, she narrated the audiobook of the original Carrie novel by Stephen King and, in 2006, she narrated the classic Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which sold over 30 million copies. In 2011, she received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Spacek was featured in The Help (2011), directed by Tate Taylor, and along with the cast, was awarded with the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for their performance in the film.
In 2012, Spacek published a memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life, with co-author Maryanne Vollers.The Washington Post‘s Jen Chaney called it “refreshingly down-to-earth” and “beautifully written”. She also mentioned that Spacek’s description of her childhood is so “evocative that one can almost taste the sour stalks of goatweed she chewed on steamy summer afternoons”. Jay Stafford of Richmond Times-Dispatch pointed out that, unlike other actors’ autobiographies, Spacek’s “benefits from good writing and remarkable frankness”.The Austin Chronicle‘s Margaret Moser stated that Spacek’s memoir is “as easy to read as it is a pleasure to digest”. Joe Muscolino of the Biographile gave the book a 5 out of 5 rating, saying that it “does not disappoint”.Kirkus Reviews, however, was less appreciative of the book, calling it “an average memoir” and “overly detailed”, while criticizing its lack of “narrative arc”, but complimented Spacek for being “truly down-to-earth”. It further criticized that “the book is ‘ordinary’ and does not have enough drama to engage readers not directly interested in Spacek and her work”, and ended by saying that it’s “for die-hard movie buffs and Spacek fans only”.
Spacek became the first person to appear as an actor in a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in each of the four most recent decades. Each film appeared at or near the beginning of its decade: Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), Missing (1982), JFK (1991), In the Bedroom (2001), and The Help (2011).
Despite Spacek’s lengthy career and recognition, she has managed to keep a low profile and is rarely a tabloid fixture. Various critics have praised her ability to maintain a private life in the public eye.
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Yesterday, we continued in our study of this goldwork piece by examining up-close the very dimensional Agnus Dei (lamb) that adorns the embroidered vestment that we’re taking apart.
At the end of yesterday’s article, we ended up with the Agnus Dei removed from the ground fabric, and today, we’re going to “unlayer” the lamb on this piece.
By doing this, we’ll see how the foundations of a dimensional piece of embroidery are built up and eventually embroidered. Mostly, we’ll learn through photos – there’s not a lot of explanation required here (though that doesn’t usually keep me from talking, does it?!).
Given the symbolism of this piece and what I’m doing with it, I figured this would make an appropriate Good Friday topic!
So here’s the goldwork piece as we left it yesterday, removed from the ground fabric.
Turning the whole piece over, we notice that it is backed with paper.
The paper is thin, and unfortunately, it is fairly solidly glued to the whole back of the appliqué.
I began picking it off with tweezers, to try to get a good image of all the threads on the back of the project, but after a while of meticulously picking, I gave it up. Easier to work from the front side!
Still, you can get an idea by looking at the rounded part at the top of the photo above just how much stitching went into embroidering the lamb.
Turning the piece over, the first elements to tackle for removal were the molded tin-like forms of the head and legs, and then the silver bullion.
Looking closely here, you can see that the forms are punctured along the edge, so that the embroiderer can stitch through them. This way, the bullion can be stitched right over the edge of the form, to create a more natural look to the area where the wool and the face meet.
To remove the forms, I had to remove the bullion around them first. Notice that the bullion wraps up around the top of the head as well, to keep the look more realistic.
That’s a bit creepy, isn’t it?
Underneath the forms and the bullion is a layer of white linen with the design printed on it in blue. The design doesn’t really look much like the actual finished thing!
You can see that the white linen is sewn onto the top of the “book” here. So – next job – taking off all the silver bullion.
The bullion is arranged so that it was stitched from bottom to top, from the front base of the lamb upwards, and then, across the top, you can see that there are some longer pieces of bullion stitched almost perpendicular to the lamb. This extra layer of bullion worked in a different direction covered the embroidery form and filled in the shape a bit. It strikes me as a bit of a shortcut for filling quickly across the top, from the head to the tail.
Here, all the bullion is removed and we have the not-so-white layer of fabric left. You can see the definite shape of the shoulder and the haunch of the lamb in the darker spots on the white fabric. This is where most of the rubbing and wear would have happened, since these are the thickest points of the design.
The linen is sewn through or tacked here and there to give shape to the whole foundation.
…black felt. This is a strange felt. It has a foamy feel to it. But it is felt, nonetheless.
You can see the bulging “blob” of black felt in the photo above – that’s the build up of the shoulder padding.
Here’s the shape of it, outlined.
So now we need to remove this shoulder padding, which is tacked on top of the whole form of the lamb.
The whole shoulder doesn’t come off in one piece – the padding is build up in layers. So, it’s one layer at a time!
As we move from the top layer (left) to the lower layers, notice that each layer is progressively smaller.
Removing the thick layers leaves the long strands of thread, so you can see how much padding the embroiderer had to stitch through!
But we’re not done yet – there’s more to the shoulder padding yet!
Five layers were used altogether, each layer smaller and smaller, to build up the shape of the shoulder.
I should say five layers larger and larger were used, because the embroiderer would have sewn the smallest layer first, positioned the next larger over it and tacked it down, then the next larger, etc., until satisfied with the shape.
There’s the hole left where the shoulder padding was, and you can see again those long threads, indicating just how much padding was there!
And then onto the rear haunch, which is outlined above. In this photo, one layer was already removed, revealing a layer of brown felt.
The rear haunch was padded with five layers of felt as well.
Once the shoulder and haunch were removed, the whole layer of black felt covering the body shape could be removed. Notice how simplistic the shape is now!
With the black felt removed, we come to a layer of creamy thick woven felt.
This stuff is what’s called “Scottish Felt” – new and fresh, it is a nice, thick woven felt that makes beautiful inserts for the insides of needlebooks and the like. It takes embroidery well. You can see a little piece of it used in The Nesting Place project here as the needlebook insert. Lovely stuff!
So we’ll remove that layer of Scottish felt….
…in order to get to the next layer of Scottish felt!
…to get to the next layer of felt!
Now, remember all that silver bullion used to cover the lamb? The embroiderer was stitching through all of these layers to attach the stuff!
And finally we have all the layers that comprise the body structure of the lamb, except for the shoulder and haunches, which were stitched on top of all the felt layers, but underneath the final white linen layer.
The embroiderer would have sewn each of these layers down, from bottom to top – three layers of very thick (but soft) Scottish felt, one layer of thinner black wool felt – and then the haunch and shoulder – and then the white linen.
Once the lamb is removed, this is what remains of the design, and we’ll look at the rest of the construction of this on down the road.
What’s interesting is that the book is dimensional, too. At first glance, you might think that the way the design was drawn and the way the embroidery was done make it look as if it is sitting up off the fabric – almost like an optical illusion. But it actually is standing off the fabric like a real book, and we’ll see how that was done next.
If you’d like to read the backstory of this piece and see the other goldwork elements that were taken apart and studied, feel free to visit the Deconstructing Goldwork Index, where you’ll find all the articles relating to this project listed.
One thing is certain 🙂 If I would have disassemble the lamb I wouldn’t be able to put it back 🙂 It looks very complicated!
I don’t mind you talking Mary because you are always so interesting! Wow! after all those layers of paper, felt, Scottish felt(yes I agree the Scottish felt from the Nesting Place is lovely) and moulded tin, that is some layers to stitch through, their hands must have ached. After all the autopsy and deconstruction and with the forms and bullion removed the dimensional lamb looks like a skeleton. Your hands must be aching thanks for the interesting look into vintage embroidery.
I love seeing you deconstruct embroidery–you make it human and contemporary, no matter when it was originally done.
I am so thankful for your deconstruction. I am learning alot and realizing how to add some dimension to my own stitching. Until you showed us some of this padding and other padded stitches I just thought that it was all done with thread. Adding padding with small pieces of fabric will be much faster and give better shape than trying to do it with threads and yarns alone. Now I must find some time to stitch instead of just waste my day with television and food.
Thanks for these deconstruction posts, Mary. It is wonderful to peek into the thought processes from long ago and also to see the different parts used. So informative!
Yours is in better shape, though — this version doesn’t bring the “wool” up over the neck, and the seals on the book are in far rougher condition. Still, it’s interesting to see this lamb on other pieces. I just wish I had a source for it.
Just wanted you to know how fascinating your website is! I love reading this series on deconstruction. Loved the egg series as well. As yet I am not an embroiderer. I have used your wonderful videos to do a little embroidery with yarn on some hearts that I knitted & felted. You are truly talented and so wonderful to share your knowledge. Thank you!
What a fantastic Easter gift; thank you Mary.
I don’t mind how much ‘talking’ you do either as it always is interesting and informative. I, like millions of people, have used felt layers to build up shapes in stumpwork but never this many. It is mind boggling indeed, and I can’t wait to see the deconstructed book.
Dear Mary I very much enjoyed this post, as I have had to remove a lamb from and old vestment on to a new one. While working on it I greatly desired to know what was inside. Did you ever finish deconstructing the book? Would love to see how it went. Thank you for the interesting information, my curiosity has been satisfied!
congratulation! it’s very interessing. Do you still plan to explain the book construction, and the cross as well ?
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Over the past 6 months, I’ve been watching perplexed as vendor after vendor launched Android Tablets into the market with no success. Perplexed for a simple reason – I could not understand how they expected consumers to buy their $559, $499 or even $399 tablets when they could get an iPad 2 for $499 and get the real deal – the TRUE status symbol, the best content & app eco-system. What were Samsung, Motorola, Dell and Asus thinking, I was wondering. Was it a shortage / price of components that pushed them to that price bracket? Was it protecting the brand at all costs, even failure?
A couple months ago, I asked a question on Quora and the results were staggering – over 20:1 for iPad.
So what has changed? The $199 Kindle Fire. You can get two of those, and still have money for another holiday gift.
Amazon’s Kindle is an ecosystem, not a device. Amazon sees it as a way to make sure you buy all your content – books, music, TV – from Amazon. Just yesterday they announced the streaming deal with FOX TV – more free content for Amazon Prime subscribers. Guess which devices will feature it? Remember Sony’s Howard Stringer’s announcement a few weeks ago – “Apple makes an iPad, but does it make a movie?“. Amazon doesn’t make them, but it sure-as-hell moves them around. In a move right out of Steve Jobs’ books, Amazon is tying it all together – device, app store, content store, streaming rights (with free content for Prime members), e-commerce for physical goods, payment options (from one-click to credit cards), cloud storage, even a loyalty program!
Kindle now touches everything Amazon does, and so many other companies. It threatens Netflix streaming – Amazon is securing more content for Prime members, and has a sound pay-TV model with a complete eco-system around it and it obliterates all other Android tablet manufacturers volume forecasts for the holiday season (a $200 rival with a strong brand behind it).
And it’s a credible contender for Apple’s eco-system. It is as broad, as far reaching, and goes even further with physical e-commerce embedded.
Probably the only risk is execution. If the software / hardware is good enough (defined as – better than most Android implementations), this will make a huge dent in the market. iPad will become the high-end product, but Android, through Kindle, could be the mass-market. Not so different from iPhones and Androids, actually.
Last week I wrote a piece about the huge cultural gap between Google and Motorola, and how Motorola is such an bad fit for the Google organization, and what it will do for it’s relationship with Android licensees. I also stated that if Google acquired Motorola for the patent portfolio alone – that’s not such a big deal in the marketplace.
Well boy was I wrong. A person who’s very close the story saw fit to fill me in.
Google’s acquisition of Motorola was indeed all about the patents. But not necessarily Google’s lack thereof, but really its licensees’. What Google is trying to do to the handset market is what Microsoft did to PCs – give the hardware market to cheap Chinese / Taiwanese / Korean manufacturers, and thereby own the software platform. The catch? The incumbents – Nokia, Apple, Microsoft (and Motorola) own restrictive patents. And they sue / charge these manufacturers to a point where they are agnostic between Google’s “free” OS and Microsoft’s “pricey” one. The only player in the Android camp who was relatively safe was Motorola, who owns a nice portfolio developed over many years.
Solution – Google buys Motorola and promises Android licensees a defensive umbrella – it will fight their patent wars for them with its newly acquired arsenal.
Right there and then, Android is free again.
So what is Google to do with the Motorola organization one might ask?
Google acquires Motorola. Say again?!
With so many so-called experts (read: people who use Google and used to have a Motorola RAZR phone) providing different angles on this acquisition, I figured it’s time to chime in. I have a pretty good handle on Motorola (you can Google that!) and think I know something about Google too.
And what I don’t get is the culture clash. Truly. Motorola, like it or not, is an 83-year old Chicago (well Schaumburg) company, and no, the split to MMI and MMS did not change that. It is a slow mover 18,000-employee corporation, with an organization that takes years to design products, and even under Sanjay Jah that could not change much.
You see, when a company is hit as bad as Motorola Mobility was hit in 2008-2009 (and by the way – that happened through their complacence over the success of the RAZR), the good, dynamic, innovative people tend to leave. Especially in a market where Google, Facebook and Groupon are snatching all the good people who’d still like to work for a “safe” company. The culture has not changed all of the sudden, nor was there a good reason for great people to join lately.
Google is, or aspires to be, a fast-mover Silicon Valley company with a flat hierarchy, a market-driven (really numbers-driven) no-nonsense approach, with little respect for old-world processes. And it wants to retain this culture while growing to 25,000 employees.
So if, as some people have suggested, Google is only after the patents and will spin out Motorola again as a stand-alone device manufacturer, not so much has happened in the market (but congratulations to all the lawyers, accountants, bankers and management consultants who’re going to get the fat checks).
But if Google is truly looking to become the anti-Apple and the Motorola team is its weapon-of-choice… well, good luck with that.
P.S.: I especially like the theory that Microsoft was going to buy Motorola which forced Google to buy them first. It’s just lovely.
First thing you’ll notice -The Amazonian design. Besides the obvious branding elements, It is a much more effective design than Google’s. It is meant to generate sales. As soon as you open the store, you’re faced with credible alternatives – stuff you may well want to download, cause everyone else does. The screen space is used efficiently, and navigation is simple and easy. Very little innovation over, say iTunes, but also no clear disadvantages. The desktop web store is similar in approach, and not very far from the Amazon website that is so effective with retail shoppers in general.
The main attraction is a featured, “bonus” download, updated every day (i.e. a product that is usually not free being given away for free). Amazon takes care of business. To make an app store a business, you need paying customers. This requires people to have a payment method. That’s a hassle. That requires an incentive – give them something for free. But force them to connect a payment method to get the free stuff. Makes perfect sense. And gets me Angry Birds Rio for free. It also keeps me coming back every day for something else. Yes, it costs Amazon something. But probably not a lot. You see app developers have a great incentive to be providing these downloads for virtually (or literally) free – that day you were featured and provided as a free app, is going to put you very high in the Top Downloads chart – which will get you paid customers the following weeks (note the Top Downloads in the screenshot – yesterday’s free download, and today’s…). So even if Amazon pays virtually (or literally) nothing – it’s still a great deal. Everyone wins.
Caveat emptor – this also needs to work. The Appstore requires you to set up one-click mobile purchasing to get the download (as it should). However – no matter how many different ways I tried to do it, and despite the fact that all my info is shown, and my account shows mobile one-click purchasing activated (even when I connect on my desktop through a browser) – it still asks me again and again to “please add a payment mehod in your 1-click settings”. Now I am a loyal Amazon customer – Prime, Amazon Store Card and all that. My guess is that Amazon is not accepting its own store card on its own Appstore. Otherwise I don’t see how such a blatant bug could have slipped their people.
So – as expected, these people mean business, and know how to do it. They’ll have to cross a few t’s and dot a few i’s before they do, however.
Post MWC: Android’s Tour-de-force. Is that the shape of things to come?
Over the last week I’ve had several discussions with colleagues about MWC 2011. The general gist of things was “wow, how far Android has gone”. And indeed, Android’s presence at the conference was impressive, to say the least. The usual Android suspects were there, of course – HTC, Motorola, Samsung and others. But what was even more impressive was the vast number of unknown Android manufacturers, mainly Chinese, who’ve flocked to the free platform en-masse. Known names like ZTE and Huawei were to be expected, but upstarts like Malata (who seems to make impressive Android tablets, incidentally) were there by the dozen. And of course – given Nokia’s and Apple’s absence, and RIM’s limited presence, it sometimes seemed like Android is the only game in town.
The Nokia / Microsoft news just fanned the fire. Essentially while it is a feather in Windows Phone’s cap (not necessarily a beautiful peacock feather, incidentally), it means that Nokia will be out of the smartphone game for a long time. And to judge by the employees’ reaction – could be long indeed.
The general conclusion I heard drawn, then is simple – Android is taking over the market, Android will define the shape of things to come, Android is where to take your mobile start-up / corporate mobile app first cause that’s where all the users will be. Right?
Sorry, it’s not that simple. Contrary to what some people think, Android to phones is not going to be Windows to PCs. At least not in the next 2-3 years. There are many reasons, but I think the most important one lies in the personal relationship between consumers and their phones. Unlike PCs (at the time), phones are a means for personal expression both explicitly (as in what you put on them / use them for) and implicitly (as in making sure your peers know what you have – just like cars). Most smartphone users associate their phone selection and habits with their identity. And with identity, a “one size fit all” strategy doesn’t work, fortunately. So as long as there are technologically credible alternatives with a well differentiated product (e.g iPhone, BlackBerry), they will draw significant audiences.
Furthermore, the wider Android spreads as a mid-market solution, the less appealing will it be to some of these people who seek to distance themselves from “the middle”. Think the Mac cult of the ’90s and early ’00s but at a wholly different level. After all – these devices are used in the open. People see what you use, so better pick the “right” one.
So clearly – the fragmentation in the smartphone space is going to continue. Each platform’s market segment will be different demographically and psycho-graphically, and these compositions will continue evolving. I expect we’ll keep seeing Android pandering mostly to the mid-market (with of course a meaningful number of power-users and high-end customers too). iPhone will generally remain a high-end phenomenon. BlackBerry may well lose its hold on the enterprise, but acquire new audiences amongst the young and price-conscious (free messaging). And when Nokia eventually rolls out Windows Phone handsets, it is quite possible that their considerable distribution clout in European and Emerging markets will make this a meaningful platform for those audiences.
I believe a very similar phenomenon will be seen in tablets. While Android tablets are improving, the good ones are still not meaningfully cheaper than the iPad. Apple only needs some minor improvements with the anticipated iPad 2 in order to stay in the lead. Only when significantly cheaper tablets (probably running Android 3.0) will come to the market can the balance be upset. And what will we have then? A similar market structure with iPad as the premium product and Android tablets as cheaper, “good enough” devices for mid-market consumers.
Where does this leave the Android makers? With the proliferation of Chinese manufacturers with great pricing power, we will see the PC-wars re-enacted. Margins will drop to low single digits for most manufacturers, probably leading to consolidation and elimination of key brands.
So essentially – nothing earth-shattering really came out of MWC. We will see even more Androids, Symbian and MeeGo are dead (duh!) but little change to the fabric of the market as we’ve known it in 2010.
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2019-04-20T23:22:15Z
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Dr. Hans Arora '01 received an M.D. and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University's Medical Scientist Training Program. He is currently a Urology Resident at the Cleveland Clinic, and he is the Chair of the Governing Council for the Resident & Fellow Section of the American Medical Association. Dr. Arora recently spent a month working for a Congressman as a Holtgrewe Legislative Fellow. Ted Jou '99 spoke with Dr. Arora about his medical training, his leadership activities, and his eventful month on Capitol Hill.
You spent the last month on Capitol Hill. Tell me about that experience.
My official title was the Holtgrewe Legislative Fellow through the American Urological Association, and this is only the second year that they have offered the fellowship. One of the key parts of the fellowship is the Hill experience, so they work with a legislator to find a slot to be part of their office. I had a desk in Congressman Pat Tiberi's (R-OH) office, and I was able to work closely with his legislative staff on health issues.
It's pretty open-ended; it's a combination of being a useful part of the office - working on legislative issues, taking constituent meetings, and taking constituent phone calls just like every other staffer - but at the same time also being able to work on my own independent projects. For example, if there is a health policy issue that the Congressman is interested in learning more about, I could reach out to important stakeholder groups in healthcare like the American Hospital Association or the American Medical Association, and they are very engaged when you are calling from a Congressman's office.
I also attended committee hearings, and I acted as a resource when the staffers needed a resource on health issues. A big part of the experience is building a personal relationship with a Congressman and his staff, so if they a question, you can be the go-to person to give them the answer or help them figure it out.
This past month has been an exciting one in health policy. Were you involved specifically with the American Healthcare Act?
The day that I started was the day that the American Healthcare Act was released (Washington Post). Rep. Tiberi is the chair of the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee, which had a very prominent role in the health care legislation. I got to sit in when the bill was introduced for markup in the Ways & Means Committee, which lasted 18 hours (CNN) - I didn't stay the entire time but I was there for a good 8 to 10 hours, and that was my third day in the office. I also went to the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing (NPR) and went over to the Capitol to watch debates on the House floor.
It was very partisan issue, and a lot of the messaging came from the Ways & Means Committee staff rather than Rep. Tiberi's office, but we dealt with a lot of constituent phone calls on the issue, and also a lot people who were visiting in person who were very interested in finding out how the bill would affect them, and the people with whom they interact or feel responsible for in some way. Sometimes we had to wade through protesters - it was an interesting time.
We didn't necessarily know what was going to happen beforehand, although when the President was calling a specific caucus or group of Congressmen to the White House, we might find out an hour or two before that happened. Otherwise, we were just watching C-SPAN and reading things on Politico - the press was everywhere.
What other things did you work on during your time on the Hill?
There were a couple bills that were introduced where I wrote briefs for the Congressman and tried to reach out to stakeholders about those issues. For example, there was a bill to reform the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and I had an opportunity to speak with the Chair of the USPSTF to get her perspective on the proposed changes.
I enjoyed getting the opportunity - as someone who has been in academia my whole life - to bring our approach to researching issues, bringing real evidence-based research to the health services area. They don't tend to use PubMed that often, but they were very receptive to suggestions and ideas that I had coming from the scientific and medical literature. Jumping into the middle of it was a humbling experience but also a very rewarding experience that makes you feel like you are contributing to the greater good.
You have been active in leadership and public policy issues from the time you were a medical student - how did you get involved in these activities?
When I started medical school in 2005 as an MD-PhD student at Northwestern, I thought I would be doing drug discovery or device design following my undergraduate training as a chemical engineer (at Penn State). But a friend of mine was very involved in the American Medical Association (AMA), so halfway through my first year of medical school I went to a state medical society meeting. And what I found was that there are so many things about medicine that are not taught in medical school. There are so many things that influence the way we practice and the way we deliver patient care that are not found in any textbook. And these things are constantly changing. While attending that first meeting, I found it fascinating, and I met so many people that felt the same way - they were also fascinated by all of these things that are changing healthcare that we don't learn about in school. So I went to another meeting, and another meeting, and had an opportunity to join in an AMA lobby day where I participated in meetings in Congressional offices.
I was able to step into elected and appointed roles in the AMA, and after I chose a specialty (urology), I started doing the same thing with the American Urological Association (AUA). So I have had the opportunity to be involved in the analysis, decisionmaking, and also - one of the best parts about it, in my mind, is helping other people who have some interest in this area find where exactly their niche is, where exactly they can get more involved in the broader scheme of organized medicine, whether it's with legislative issues, with education, with health policy or public health, and helping them figure out where they see themselves and where they fit the best.
Do you have an official title or role now in the AMA? What positions did you have in the past?
When the President's January 27 Executive Order on immigration was enforced, a Cleveland Clinic resident, Dr. Suha Abushamma, was detained and sent back to Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Arora helped to organize a gathering of Cleveland Clinic doctors and residents on February 2 to show support for their colleague. About two dozen doctors gathered to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and stand in silent protest. Dr. Arora explained: "There was not a lot that we could do as physicians - we wanted to show her that we were thinking of her and felt for the difficulty she was in."
The next week, after the executive order had been stayed, Dr. Abushamma was able to return to Cleveland.
I am the Chair of the Resident's Committee of the AUA, and I am the Chair of the Governing Council for the Resident and Fellows Section of the AMA. I had several roles when I was a medical student, including a corresponding position as Chair of the Governing Council for the Medical Student Section of the AMA.
Where are you now in your medical career?
I have two more years of residency, and I am planning on pursuing a fellowship in health services research. Looking at how and whether people access care, and the economics of health care, has been very interesting to me, and a way to mix my research background with my policy interests. I am still planning on being a practicing physician - practicing medicine is the bulk of what I want to do, but I also want opportunities to do research, particularly in the health services area.
Did you know you wanted to become a doctor when you were in high school?
I always knew I wanted to be a doctor and go to medical school. The idea of being a medical researcher is something that has grown as I have gone through training from college onward - when I was in high school I didn't think about physicians doing a lot of research, but I spent my summers working in labs - including two summers at NIH and one at Naval Medical, and I continued working in labs in college.
Other than the research experience, are there other things about the Magnet Program that influenced you?
I think the really great thing about the Magnet Program is that it was always a safe place to be smart, because so often in high school it's not cool to be smart but in the Magnet it was cool to be smart - it was cool to like math. And not being at the top of the class - the smartest person who always got 110% on every quiz - was actually kind of nice. It made you feel normal. The Magnet Program really solidified that insatiable curiosity to learn more about the world around you - although that's something that we all had growing up, Blair really told you: "Don't push that away; embrace it." That is something I've really carried with me.
A lot of people are now becoming more interested in political advocacy for science or other issues. What would be your advice to other alumni who are looking for ways to get involved?
Everybody has to start somewhere, and you have to be humble about it when it's an area where you're not as familiar. Depending on how involved you want to get, you can go to your local political party meetings, volunteer in your community, and attend town halls. You can visit your Congressman's district office if you aren't close to DC. If you see an issue that is interesting to you or where you can offer some expertise, then lend that expertise - if you are a geneticist and a bill about genetics comes up, who else is going to be more informed about the implications of genetics-based policy than you? It's important to be able to lend that expertise and to able to share your own personal stories as well as data.
We are taught to be scientists, but that concept isn't necessary limited to the physical sciences. That mindset, which we all have coming out of the Blair Magnet, you can use that same approach and critical thought process, and apply it to policy issues. If you're a physician and there is an issue that affects your patients, give your testimony - tell your representatives the stories that you have. When you go a district office you likely won't meet directly with a Congressman, but if you sit down with a member of his staff, that person can be a great resource for helping the Congressman understand both sides of an issue. And that staffer is often someone very approachable with whom you might be able to develop a relationship. And if you do build a relationship, it's important to maintain that relationship over time.
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2019-04-20T18:27:21Z
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http://www.mbhsmagnet.org/news/spring17/arora
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Discuss all episodes of Season 16 here!
I still have Voice burnout from last season (that I barely made it through). How can we miss you if you won't go away?
My initial wishlist would firstly be* no more tween sensations.
Secondly no 'zero chair turn' comeback competition, we have enough hours of auditions already! Let a coach bring back one of their contestants if they have to go that route.
This thread allows no spoilers, right? Can we put them in the Media thread?.........Never mind. I found the Spoilers thread.
My favorite part was Kelly telling Blake it was Gwen's song like he might not know. Like once wasn't enough, she had to make sure he knew.
Maelyn was definitely a night one standout for sure. Although Fields of Gold being an all-time favorite song may have factored into that judgement at least a little.
Lisa Ramey narrowly missed out on being an extremely rare, two season/no-chair turn. I can only thing of one (a furniture mover guy from Minnesota in two of the earliest seasons), but I'm sure there has to be at least a couple others.
Quoting myself in order to say that, obviously, tonight could have gone better for me as I took a hit in BOTH expectations. I kept asking myself why I was watching this again.
I feel they have to say how amazing everyone is and I was mostly not feeling it.
I also don't understand why people that seem to be 'normal' human beings with functioning brains pick Adam.
I loved Maelyn she had a fantastic voice even without the disability backstory. I didn't like Lisa I thought she screamed rather than sang. I liked Kim but I didn't understand the hype about her appearance. There have been white soul singers before. John Legend is a major upgrade over Jennifer.
Were these taped before or after Adam backed up the truck last season?
I’d add no more duos- it’s only ever a gimmick on this show, one singer is invariably stronger than the other, and logically, two people cannot be “the” voice. I mean, why not have a whole choir try out at that point?
Otherwise, I actually found this to be a decent start- it felt like there were no real head scratchers (apart from Lisa I suppose), and it doesn’t feel like anyone is being hyped as a presumptive winner (yet). There were mostly just a bunch of good performances, which is all I really want from season 16 of this show.
I loved Maelyn she had a fantastic voice even without the disability backstory.
What was her backstory? I only watch the performances, but I'm kinda curious now lol.
No kidding. If this was filmed after he threw his own team member under the bus for a teenager with a panic attack, how would anyone in their right mind trust him as their coach? He really needed to take this season off. Between his conduct last season, and the blow back from his craptastic Super Bowl performance, he'd be the last person any sane person would pick.
IIRC she is the one who is completely deaf in one ear.
Between his conduct last season, and the blow back from his craptastic Super Bowl performance, he'd be the last person any sane person would pick.
I hate when that happens. And this happens even more, including the first singer tonight: The kid talks about how fabulous one of the judges is, he'd give anything to work with John Legend. Then he freaking picks Adam. WTH with this show.
Isn't he the one Adam blocked John on?
I've already forgotten. LOL! But I thought John will be able to steal him when Adam votes him off his team, so there's that upside.
From last night, I liked Maelyn, Rizzi and Lili the best. Gyth and Mathew were decent, though nothing we haven't seen before (many times). The rest had issues. I will admit I kind of liked the vibrato in Karen's voice, but her range seems extremely limited.
My favorite thing from tonight was John (Who I'm really starting to like) blocking Adam and then Blake saying that he "kept the guy from making a terrible decision" 😃 That was awesome because it's so true. I don't know how Adam shows his face and actually expects people to want to be on Team No Loyalty.
The voice seems to have gotten its mojo back. I’ve been a little underwhelmed the last couple seasons, but so far I am really digging the music/performances.
What I like the best is that Adam now has a coach he feels some actual competition with - John Legend. Its going to be fun to watch contestants choose John over Adam. I also think that John (from the very little I know about him) is a genuinely nice person and I think that does bug Adam a bit.....which also makes me happy.
I am LOVING John Legend on this show. What a breath of fresh air!
I really like the friendship between Blake and Kelly. Their competitiveness with each other seems based on that friendship.
I'm liking John so far.
Isn't Kelly's husband, Blake's manager?
I had to laugh at Blake and Adam texting each other about Kelly's non-stop mouth.
I swore off this show after last season, but I couldn't control myself when I learned that John Legend was going to be on. He is a saint!
Ah...my favorite part of the Voice. The auditions, and the knockouts. It always gets 'controversial' after that and this year I may just bounce before the lives. We'll see (I know, I know, probably not)...John Legend and Kelly Clarkson are making this show fun again.
I really liked Domenic Haynes. He was almost worthy of all the accolades lavished on him by Adam and John. I also like the voice of the lead singer among the trio (Katy?), but unfortunately her siblings wern't up to the same standard and some of the harmonizing was surprisingly loose. None of the rest impressed me very much.
I liked Hannah from Team Blake. I'm not a huge country music fan so someone really has to be special to impress me. I'm impressed by the lack of tragic back stories so far. Maelyn is still my favorite over all.
Before. While the fall seasons are all tape following the prior spring seasons, the spring seasons tape their Blinds in October. So the Blinds happened before Adam did what he did to DeAndre Nico. About a month-and-a-half before, since that fateful moment aired in December.
However, the Battles for this season taped in late January, so by then, everyone on this season who continued to watch knew what happened. So whoever ends up on Adam's team I'm sure will be shaking in their boots.
I doubt they need to be worried. I'd be willing to bet that Adam is going to go out of his way to be as fair as possible this season.
After rewatching all the performances on YouTube, I think my favorite so far is Rizzi Myers, followed very closely by Domenic Haynes and Maelyn Jarmon. Add in Lili Joy and that makes 4 contestants I'm really looking forward to seeing in the next rounds. Pretty good for Week 1.
I've just watched a little of the show so far and caught some performances online. I also, really like Maelyn so far. She's my kind of vocalist. Reminds me of Linda Rondstadt some years ago. Awesome voice quality. But, on this show, that doesn't always work in your favor. Sometimes, it works against you with the votes. I recall Brooke Simpson season 13. She came in third. I'll never figure out why she didn't win.
Hey- do you know what’s just as dumb as two people competing to become “the” voice? Three people.
Agreed. Are we going to have one of those acapella groups next? How about a full church choir?
Not so dumb. A trio actually won the Dutch version of the show. Another one went really far on Australia's version.
I’d love to see other versions of the show. Do they stream somewhere I might access?
Not so dumb. A trio actually won the Dutch version of the show. Another one went really far on Australia's version.
A couple of years ago the Swon brothers were in the finale here - the fact that a few such contestants have been successful doesn’t make it any less stupid to me. Look, I will fully admit that I’m being pedantic about this, but I feel it’s ridiculous for the show to suggest that three people can constitute one voice.
There are plenty of things about The Voice that annoy me, such as how the coaches brag on how the winner will be such a superstar, (lol), but, seeing duets and or trios compete isn't on that list. I actually liked that trio that got through. It'll take more songs to see just how they are going to pan out. Apparently, they don't have anything in the rules against it.
Personally, the show is called “the voice” - as in a singular thing. It’s fine if they have these people sing against each other in the Battles, or do group songs on elimination nights- those are actually some of my favorite parts of the show. But when it comes to the overall competition, I’m only interested in seeing solo artists.
The judges look like they’re having a great time. John is a great contributor this season. I love to watch him when he starts jamming to the contestants’ performances.
Permission granted. It seems out of place to me as well.
John has brought a nice breath of fresh air that was desperately needed. I'm actually enjoying him being a coach. By now we know every coaches' angle how they play what they will say so it;s nice having someone that mixes things up and bring in something different. The key is that many of the contestants see him as a 'cut above' and that makes him a threat to grab anyone he wants pretty much. Go John!
This change in the dynamic is exactly why Blake and Adam should take some time off.
I completely agree with you as to how the contestants see John Legend. I think the same thing happened when Alicia Keys was a judge but I think JL is much warmer and feels more emotionally accessible than AK.
My strategy is not to watch the show, but to just catch the top-viewed performers on youtube. The two stand-outs for me are Maelyn and Domenic. Did not watch the trio--that's just wrong.
Also, Adam said to Domenic something like "I think you're my favorite voice ever in 16 seasons." Besides the fact that I think he says this to most of the auditioners that he really wants on his team, I think it's a douche-y slap in the face to Jordan Smith et al.
I was underwhelmed by the talent tonight. I thought the singers last week were much better. I also noticed more tragic backstories tonight I thought the band overpowered many of the contestants.
>>I was underwhelmed by the talent tonight.
I personally know Patrick (the bearded dad) and he is an AMAZING singer. I do not think his audition did him justice at all, so hopefully he can showcase his talent better in coming weeks. I am so happy for him.
I thought the band overpowered many of the contestants.
I agree! Sometime the music was so loud I couldn't hear the singers. I don't like that AT ALL.
I liked his voice and was glad he was selected. I'll look forward to seeing more of him. I am wary of him being on Adam's team though.
Picture-in-Picture is my best friend during these shows. I can watch another show while having this one down in the corner during the backstories and switch back when the singing starts, and switch away when the 'pick me, pick MEEEE!' Nonsense starts.
I'm beginning to think you have the right idea to watch the youtube videos only, @adhoc, cause without all that, this show could be done in an hour. With commercials.
My husband watches and I hate-watch with him while I'm doing other things. I really dislike all the contestant sob stories. And looking at the clunky red chairs coaches sit in make me stabby.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, lol.
Kelly needs to stop singing along.
I thought the singers were much better tonight. I was shocked that Blake was the only judge to turn for Kendra. Kelly was annoying me when she was asking for male singers. She's won with female contestants why would men choose her?
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2019-04-25T18:47:00Z
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https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/91355-season-16-discussion/
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Joining the bandwagon of Vlogging but don’t know how to start? Well, the first step you will need to do is to purchase an amazing vlogging camera with a flip screen. Though you could use your laptop’s camera, it would not give you the same convenience, clarity and high-quality video that a vlogging camera could offer.
If you are a novice, it would be difficult and frustrating to choose the correct and right camera. But, fret not, with research and through this article, you will be able to gain more knowledge and information you could refer to for you to be able to make a sound purchasing decision.
Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LX10 is what every vlogger needs. It allows its users to have total control even in editing. Its results provide crystal clear pictures and videoes. This model comes with 3.0 touch monitor that could be tilted up to 180 degrees which would allow its users to take a selfie without any difficulties. Another feature that this model has is its 4K Ultra HD video which could be shot even in low light. It has 20.1mp MOS sensor which could reduce image artifacts and a Venus Engine which makes the picture clearer perfect for any Vlogger.
This camera comes with a zoom lens that could defocus. Also, it could focus minimum of 3cm x 30cm distance through its power optical image stabilizer. In addition to that, it has a has a fast focusing and focus lock at its AFC or AFS functions. Its 4K video mode also comes with a resolution of 3840.
The 4K feature allows its users to shoot still images and tap it into a 4K video. In summary, you could have total control with this camera with its Post Focus and Built-in focusing stacking.
The Canon EOS 80D Digital SLR Kit is one of the best vlogging cameras. It allows its users to take stunning, amazing videos and stills. This camera exudes professional like results and it comes with AF operation which could be used in dim light. In fact, this feature offers four types of AF section modes and a 45-point AF auto selection.
This camera also has a viewfinder that has a 100 percent coverage that will allow you to compose a shot perfectly and also view all your settings. Its vari-angle 3” clear view LCD II monitor is amazing, flexible and could be viewed even outdoors. The 24.2 megapixel CMOS sensor offers high resolution for still photography and video.
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This camera comes with a 180 degree rotating 3 inches’ full frame viewscreen feature that will surely give you great selfie videos and pictures. It could capture images clearly with its anti-shaking, smile shooting, face detection, ISO and sharpness of image control functions. It also allows its users to adjust their pictures and stills and could even add information such as timestamp and date.
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The On or OPEN button could help you lighten up the area you wish to shoot and if you wish to focus on a specific subject, you will surely enjoy this camera’s 4x digital zoom feature. YISENCE offers a 1080p video with 24-megapixel high quality and it could filter UV rays through its 53mm UV lens.
In addition to that, you could store all your images and videos in its 32GB SD card or if you wish to transfer it in your laptop, you may do so through its micro USB 2.0 port.
Overall, YISENCE is lightweight, sturdy, easy to use and could protect itself from dust and rain. This camera is perfect for novice vloggers.
You have that picture perfect moment, you have a camera in your hands and you take that picture worthy shot. Unfortunately, your camera is not fast enough to capture that crucial moment. However, if you have a5100 16-50mm, this frustration moment will never happen to you as sony a5100 16-50mm claims that it could give you great quality, clear picture, and video even when your subject is moving through its superb moving-subject tracker.
Sony a5100 comes with 24.3-megapixel Exmore APS HD CMOS sensor that provides high resolution, allows its users to record videos in HD 1080p and shoot action in 60p and 60i frame rates. This camera also allows its users to get their perfect selfies through its 180 degrees tilting LCD, shoot pictures and videos in low light with its CMOS sensor and pop-up flash.
For vlogging, you could never go wrong with its XAVC S feature which provides high broadcasting quality. You could transfer your files to another device through its HDMI connection and control this camera through a smartphone.
Sony 15100 is very light, efficient, versatile and easy to use.
A camera that comes with numerous useful and amazing features, you will never go wrong with Panasonic Lumix G7 4K Mirrorless Camera. It comes with high-quality 4k ultra-HD video and 4K photo. It has great audio that will surely make your vlogs clearer and more enjoyable. Its flip screen is mirrorless and it comes with a 16-megapixel sensor and intelligent image processor that will surely fix your videos and provide you artifact-free images. Also, shooting in low light conditions will not be a problem with its ISO 25600.
Lumiz G7 allows you to shoot at 30 frames per minute through its 4K ultra HD video feature. You could record, play, pause and extract pictures in 8 megapixels which allows you to get a picture-perfect shot even when your subject is moving. Like other cameras, you could also capture burst pictures.
In addition to all the features above, Lumix G7 4K also has an autofocus feature that will track any size, color, and motion and capture any moment without blurring your video or picture. It comes with DFD AF technology that could calculate any distance from the subject then it will automatically focus. This camera is perfect with all its features and functions including its silent shooting, Panasonic Image App and starlight features.
Canon PowerShot G7X Mark II Digital Camera is a smart and fast featured camera that offers 1 inch 20.1 megapixel CMOS sensor and bright f/1.8-2. These features will surely be helpful in assisting you in producing amazing vlogs. Its lens could accommodate and adjust to low and dim lights and its LCD monitor could be tilted up to 180 degrees and move it down up to 45 degrees which you could use when you take pictures in high and low angles. Its Digic 7 image processor offers AF tracking and great IS and great image results.
This camera is flexible and could shoot up to 8 frames per second in RAW, JPEG format and in HD capacity. It has a built-in WiFi, NFC, and RAW conversion function and If you wish to share pictures and videos through your social media, you may do so through iMage GATEWAY.
Allows users to edit through Picture Style Editor.
Have the need to shoot at a distant? Panasonic DMC-ZS45 LUMIX 20X Zoom Camera is for you. It has a 20x zoom lens which will make your picture or video look like it was taken at a short distance. With this camera, you will also be allowed to upload your pictures and videos to your social media remotely through its Panasonic Image app. You could also Geotag whenever and wherever you are through this camera.
The flip-up LCD and the wink activated shutter feature of this camera are great functions that could assist you in taking that perfect selfie. Its flip-up could be tilted up to 180 degrees and allows you to take hands-free pictures. It has a 16 mp high sensitivity MOS sensor that produces clear videos and pictures. It could also reduce background noises and offers three editing modes that could make your skin look bright and smooth, sharpen lines, defocus and soften backgrounds.
DMC-ZS45 also allows capturing pictures in bursts of 10 frames per second and record in HD, MP4 format.
A small, very portable camera, the Nikon A900 comes with a lot of useful and amazing features that could assist you in shooting your vlogs. It has a 4K ultra high definition which makes shooting in dim lighting possible. It offers 20 megapixels ½.3” CMOS Senor and Nikkor f/3.4- 7.0 ED lens, 70x dynamic and 30x optical zoom functions. It also comes in 3 inch 921K-dot LCD screen that allows its screen to be tilted.
This camera includes a face-priority AF, Superlapse Movie, 5-axis hybrid vibration reduction, ability to connect to WiFi, NFC and Bluetooth and an app- Snapbridge that allows you to edit, share and control remotely your camera.
LUMIX G85 is a DSLM micro mirrorless camera that has a 5- axis body stabilization and 2-axis optical lens that could produce an IS effect. It is dust and splash proof which makes this camera very durable and could be used anywhere you go. It comes with a dual image stabilizer that could eliminate blurs and provide clear shots even with moving subjects.
This camera could record 4K QFHD footages and shoot 4K photos. It comes with 4K post focus, internal focus stacking feature and 20.3 megapixel MOS sensor. It also includes a Venus Engine which allows you to capture videos and pictures in dim light. As for its lens, this camera offers a Leica DC Vario-Elmar Lens, 30x optical zoom, 5-axis hybrid O.I.S and level shot functions.
Its LCD touch screen could be tilted up to 180 degrees which is very useful for selfies. The control ring allows its users to control aperture, focus, zoom and shutter speed manually.
Before starting your own vlog, it is important that you have the right and correct tools. It is important that your pictures and videos are clear not only visually but also its audio. Another important factor is that your tools in creating vlogs should be portable and could be brought anywhere you go as you will never know when you will need to shoot or capture a moment. With that said, only one important question needs to be answered and that is what tool do you need for you to be able to start your vlog?
The answer to that question is simple, – a great camera and for you to be able to purchase a good one, the first thing you will need to decide is what type of camera that will suit you the best.
Point and Shoot Cameras – this type is the easiest to be used for vlogging. It usually comes in flip screens and is portable and could be carried anywhere you go. It has an automatic optimization and has the ability to adjust your settings and exposure automatically.
DSLR Camera– If you want to be at an advanced level, the DSLR is perfect for you. You could freely change and adjust the settings according to your preference. You could change its lens and even attach a microphone for clearer audio recording.
to adjust through manual settings. The downside of this type of camera, however, is its battery does not long last and you will need to carry extra batteries with you most of the time.
1. What kind of camera do YouTubers use?
YouTubers use different kinds of cameras. However, the most popular type that most YouTubers use and the most favorite is the Flip camera. This is because they could shoot themselves easily and could see themselves whether they are within the frame and see if the video is clearly taken without any assistance from others.
2. What Canon cameras have flip out screen?
Aside from those that were featured in this article, the Canon EOS Rebel T3i, Canon EOS 60D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera and Canon PowerShot SX50 HS 12MP Digital Camera are just a few of the most recommended flip out screen Canon cameras.
3. How much is a good Vlogging Camera?
A good vlogging camera varies in prices. There are great point and shoot with screen cameras that could cost you around $100 plus. If you wish for a vlogging camera that allows you to control the aperture, these cameras usually are on a more expensive side and could cost you about $500 and up.
4. What is the best Camera for Vlogging?
It is highly suggested that if you purchase a camera for vlogging purposes, to choosing a camera that allows you to record in high definition video, edit pictures and include multimedia before uploading. Another suggestion is that you look for a camera that allows you to shoot in different light settings- indoors and outdoors, has the ability to capture subjects in motion or has a motion tracker.
5. What to look for in a vlogging camera?
As mentioned above, when choosing a vlogging camera, it is important that it has basic features and functions that will provide you high-quality video and audio and would allow you to upload in social media accounts and YouTube as well.
If your vlog’s theme is more of travels, then it is highly suggested that you choose a vlogging camera that is portable and easy to bring anywhere.
Nowadays, vlogging has been continually becoming a sensation and a trend. For some people, it has become a business and some it has become a hobby. No matter what the purpose of your vlogs are, it is important that you are equipped with great tools such as an amazing camera that will help you shoot and provide you with great clear videos and pictures. Through this article, we hope you are able to choose your best camera for your vlogs.
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2019-04-23T05:01:25Z
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http://culttech.com/vlogging-cameras-flip-screen/
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The main vehicles used for private equity funds in Italy are investment funds organised as a collective investment scheme structured as a separate pool of assets (FCIs) or funds structured as corporations, namely variable capital investment companies (SICAVs) or fixed capital investment companies (SICAFs).
An FCI is a collective investment scheme, typically managed by an external Italian asset management company (SGR). Assets in FCIs are separate for all purposes from the assets of their investors, the SGR and any other assets managed by the same SGR.
A SICAV is an open-ended investment fund in the form of an Italian joint-stock company with variable capital, whereas a SICAF is a closed-ended investment fund in the form of an Italian joint-stock company with fixed capital. Both these corporations are formed for the exclusive purpose of collective investment of assets and they could be managed internally by their internal governing body or externally by an SGR.
Each of the above-mentioned legal vehicles also typically qualifies as an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) pursuant to European Directive No. 2011/61/EU on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (the AIFMD), as reflected in the Italian legal framework.
Until very recently, it was unclear whether private equity funds structured as FCIs could be deemed to have legal personality. Often, FCIs’ assets and legal relationships were considered separate from those of the investors and of the managing entity but not directly owned by the investment fund itself. A very recent decision by the Milan tribunal (No. 7232/2016) instead established that private equity funds should be considered as entities with their own legal personality, thus entitled to own in their name all the assets of the investment funds.
The formation of a private equity fund generally requires the adoption of the fund rules or the articles of associations or by-laws of the relevant entity, the appointment of the management entity and, in certain situations, the approval by the Bank of Italy of the fund governing documents.
FCIs that are reserved for investment by professional investors may be formed relatively expeditiously by authorised SGRs, subject only to the adoption of appropriate fund rules and a notification to the Bank of Italy.
specific integrity requirements for persons holding a controlling interest in the investment funds.
As regards FCIs, corporate requirements similar to those listed above apply to their SGRs, as mentioned in question 12.
In addition to corporate law requirements, the formation of an AIF also requires a prior authorisation by the Bank of Italy of the Italian AIF manager. It should be noted that, pursuant to the AIFMD passport, European authorised managers may also carry out management activities in respect of Italian private equity funds, based on their home European State authorisation and subject to a prior notification to the Italian competent authorities (see question 12).
As a general rule, the involvement of a public notary is not required in the formation process of a private equity fund; however, as the SICAVs, the SICAFs and the asset management companies for FCIs are joint-stock companies, the formation of these entities requires a notarisation of their formation deed and the relevant publication in the Italian commercial register.
The assets of Italian private equity funds (retail or non-retail) must be held through a separate local custodian authorised by the Bank of Italy to provide depositary services to investment funds. Italian law expressly requires that fund managers appoint a depositary for each investment fund they manage. The depositary is liable in accordance with Italian law towards the fund manager and to fund investors for any loss suffered by them as a result of the depositary’s wrongful failure to perform its obligations.
Italian private equity fund managers are registered in the official list of regulated investment vehicles maintained by the Bank of Italy and must maintain a registered office in Italy. They are required to maintain books and records of each fund they manage in accordance with the provisions of the applicable law.
In general, fund administration is not a regulated activity in Italy. However, investment fund managers may outsource essential or important operations, services or activities, to fund administrators only to the extent that the administrators are qualified to manage the delegated functions with the diligence required by the nature of the assignment and as long as such fund managers remain responsible towards the investors for the actions of the delegated subjects. Fund managers must retain the ability to supervise the delegated third parties at all times, so as to be able to give further instructions with regard to the delegated functions at any time, and revoke such mandate with immediate effect, if and when appropriate to protect the interests of investors.
Fund managers wishing to delegate to third parties specific duties related to the performance of their services are generally required to inform the Bank of Italy and the Italian Stock Market Regulatory Authority (Consob) of such intention.
As private equity fund managers are typically registered with the Italian commercial register, certain information about the managing entities is a matter of public record.
However, as regards AIFs, no information on the identity of the investors or their commitments is disclosed or accessible by third parties.
Notwithstanding the interpretation of Italian courts on the principle of the legal personality of investment funds (see question 1), the limited liability of the investors has always been an undeniable milestone of the Italian legal framework, irrespective of the legal form of the private equity fund and of its regulated or non-regulated structure as well as any specific rule applicable to any investor pursuant to its respective country of incorporation. In fact, the liability of non-managing investors is limited to the amount of their commitment to the investment fund and in no event may investors be requested to contribute to the investment fund or to any third party any excess amount. The decision by the Court of Milan (No. 7232/2016) described in question 1 confirmed the principle of the limited liability of the investors.
As a general rule, Italian fund managers are liable toward both private equity funds and their investors pursuant to Italian general civil law principles, for the execution of the mandate entrusted to them and for any misconduct in the management of the corporate affairs of the managed investment fund (misconduct does not necessarily imply a fault on the part of the fund managers, who may incur liability for their passive attitude, their negligence or their carelessness). The fund managers’ fiduciary duties are governed by the same duty-of-care standard to act as a ‘bonus pater familias’ in similar circumstances for the execution of a similar mandate, as set forth in the Italian Civil Code: in particular, fund managers must act in a professional manner, with the diligence that can be expected from a prudent and diligent person with expertise in the management of private equity funds, and must comply with the relevant investment policies and constitutive documents.
Generally, such ordinary level of fiduciary duties may not be modified by an agreement among the parties nor treated differently in the constitutive documents of the private equity funds. Nevertheless, the governing documents of a private equity fund may provide for higher standards of fiduciary duties. It is also possible to limit the liability of the fund managers towards the investors or the investment fund by contractual provisions or in the formation documents of the private equity funds, excluding the fund managers’ liability for ‘ordinary negligence’.
As most Italian private equity funds qualify as AIFs, the fiduciary duties set forth in the AIFMD also apply to Italian AIF managers, and they may not be opted out of, or minimised by, contractual provisions among the parties. Such fiduciary duties require the Italian fund managers, inter alia, to act honestly, with due skill, care and diligence and fairly in conducting their activities, and in the best interests of the AIFs or the investors of the AIFs they manage and the integrity of the market; to have and employ effectively the resources and procedures that are necessary for the proper performance of their business activities; to take all reasonable steps to avoid conflicts of interest and, when they cannot be avoided, to identify, manage and monitor and, where applicable, disclose, those conflicts of interest; to comply with all regulatory requirements applicable to the conduct of their business activities; and to treat fairly the investors in an AIF.
Yes, as mentioned, Italian law distinguishes between ‘gross negligence’ and ‘ordinary negligence’, as described in question 6.
There are several restrictions or requirements to private equity fund vehicles depending on the legal form of the vehicle and on whether they qualify as AIFs or not. For example, according to Italian law, certain restrictions apply to transfers of interests in Italian managers of private equity funds, as mentioned in question 26. Also, Italian private equity funds are subject to certain diversification and borrowing limits.
In general, Italian regulations do not allow limited partnerships formed in other non-European jurisdictions to redomicile in Italy. Specific rules are provided with respect to cross-border mergers. European private equity funds do not need to redomicile as long as a European passport is in place (see questions 12 and 24).
As discussed in question 5, investment funds’ assets are separate from the assets and liabilities of its managing entity and, as a result, the bankruptcy, insolvency or similar events at the level of the manager do not affect investment funds’ assets and the interests of the investors.
However, the governing documents of the investment fund generally set forth the consequences of any such event of default at the level of the manager, which may include the right of the investors to terminate the investment period of the investment fund, to replace the manager or to liquidate the investment fund.
Consob and the Bank of Italy are the principal regulatory bodies that have authority over private equity funds and their managers. They both have very wide-ranging inspection rights on SGRs.
Specifically, the Bank of Italy is mostly responsible for the risk containment, asset stability and sound and prudent management of private equity funds and fund managers, whereas Consob is responsible for the transparency and correctness of their conduct. These authorities operate in a coordinated manner and notify each other of the measures adopted and the irregularities discovered in carrying out their supervisory activities.
Both the Bank of Italy and Consob have the ability to fine private equity funds and managers in the event of compliance, administrative and reporting irregularities, by taking the relevant and appropriate measures. In addition, in the event that the tenure of the corporate representatives of asset management companies, SICAVs and SICAFs is detrimental to the sound and prudent management of these qualified subjects, the Bank of Italy may order their removal.
the main categories of assets in which the AIFs have invested.
the total amount of leverage employed by the AIF.
Both the organisation of private equity funds and the activity of fund managers are subject to licensing processes and to compliance with specific requirements pursuant to Italian and European laws and regulations. These processes and requirements differ based on the features of the manager, the type of the investment fund and the prospective investors.
In general, with respect to private equity funds, the Bank of Italy must approve the fund rules of the investment funds (other than for AIFs reserved for investment by professional investors), as well as the relevant amendments. Private equity funds managers must be authorised by the Bank of Italy, as described in question 12. Special authorisation requirements apply to managers of European Venture Capital Funds, European Social Entrepreneurship Funds, European Long-Term Investment Funds and Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products developers.
The activity of fund managers is subject to licensing and compliance processes pursuant to Italian and European laws and regulations. These processes and requirements differ based on the features of the manager, the type of the private equity fund and the prospective investors.
appropriate organisational and functional structures, as indicated in a specific report to be prepared for the benefit of the Bank of Italy.
After formation of the fund management entity and once these requirements are complied with, an authorisation request is submitted to the Bank of Italy. If all requirements and conditions are fulfilled, after a 90-day period from the submission of the request, the manager is expressly authorised by the Bank of Italy and listed in a special register held by the Bank.
The requirements described above apply to fund managers established in Italy. As a general rule, a foreign manager is not entitled to perform management activities or provide asset management services to Italian investors without complying with certain specific requirements pursuant to applicable Italian and European regulations. Such requirements differ depending on whether the overseas manager is a European or a non-European entity, and whether such manager is already authorised in its own country (the home country) as an AIF manager under the AIFMD.
The performance of asset management activity in Italy by an authorised European fund manager requires a notification to the Bank of Italy by the competent authority of the home country of such fund manager.
Upon enactment of the Italian regulations on cross-border operations for authorised non-European investment fund managers, the Bank of Italy will list non-European fund managers authorised to perform services in Italy in a special section of the register held by such authority.
Managers of retail as well as non-retail private equity funds are subject to specific organisational and governance requirements that are intended to ensure sound and prudent management, risk mitigation, proper accounting reporting obligations and the resolution of conflicts of interest.
a permanent internal corporate body with internal audit functions that maintains and evaluates the adequacy and the effectiveness of the internal control mechanisms and arrangements (with respect to non-retail investment funds, managers falling within the AIFMD’s definition of below-the-threshold fund managers could combine the internal audit and risk management/compliance functions in one body).
Each of these functions (which, based on the size of the investment fund managed by the fund manager, either may or may not have to be entrusted to separate internal bodies) and related internal policies are also subject to periodic update and review.
In addition, fund managers are subject to several organisational and capital adequacy requirements such as the fulfilment of sound administrative accounting procedures, control and safeguard arrangements for electronic data processing and adequate internal control mechanisms including, without limitations, rules for personal transactions by their employees or for the holding or management of investments in order to invest on their own account.
With respect to the periodic reporting requirements imposed on the fund managers, see question 10.
The Italian rules applicable to public and private political contributions have been recently amended. The applicable legal framework set forth specific limits and disclosure covenants with respect to political contributions, however there are no rules specifically applicable to managers or advisers of private equity funds.
There are no specific rules in Italy governing the marketing of regulated or non-regulated private equity investment vehicles to public pension plans and other governmental entities.
it is also subject to concentration limits and other organisation requirements, depending on the type of the investment.
Banks can also be affected by internationally driven changes to European legislation and the legislation of foreign jurisdictions, such as the Basel III regulations providing for stricter capital requirements for banks and classifying private equity as a high-risk operation.
Pursuant to the provisions of article 73 of the Italian Tax Code (Presidential Decree No. 917 of 22 December 1986, as amended from time to time), Italian private equity funds are treated as tax-neutral for Italian corporate income tax purposes provided that they, or their management companies, are subject to any form of supervision. Thus proceeds (dividends or capital gains) realised by them are exempt from Italian income taxes and could be received gross of any Italian withholding or substitute tax. In line with the interpretation of the Italian Tax Authority, investment funds resident in Italy are entitled to the application of double tax treaties (DTT), as mentioned in question 22.
The tax regime for investors depends on both the type of proceeds and investors as well as on the tax residence of the investors.
Italian-resident investors are generally subject to a 26 per cent withholding tax on the distribution of proceeds by Italian private equity funds. As a general rule, corporate taxpayers who are resident in Italy according to Italian tax law are liable to corporate income tax (at a rate of 24 per cent for the time being).
Foreign investors, resident in countries that allow an adequate information exchange with Italy (the ‘white listed countries’ (WLC)) may obtain exemptions from taxes on some capital income and different income of a financial nature, as discussed in question 18.
is a central bank or organisation managing official state reserves.
In the event of other foreign investors, a 26 per cent final withholding tax is levied by the private equity funds or the relevant management company on capital income, potentially reduced under any DTT, if existent and applicable as described in question 22.
On 21 March 2016 the Italian Tax Authority updated its administrative provisions for the implementation of new rules on advance tax agreements for enterprises with international activities. According to these provisions, all enterprises with international activities may enter an advanced tax agreement with the Italian Tax Authority on specific subject matters, regarding, among others, transfer pricing and permanent establishment issues, application of company migration rules, taxation of inbound and outbound dividends, interest, royalties, etc, according to domestic legislation and DTT provisions.
After reaching an agreement with the taxpayer, the Italian Tax Authority issues a tax ruling, which is binding and remains in place for five fiscal years (potentially renewable) upon the condition that the juridical or factual circumstances of the agreement do not change and the taxpayer fully abides by its provisions.
There are no significant taxes associated with the organisation of a private equity fund in Italy, other than filing, registration and annual fees to the competent supervisory authorities.
As a general rule, corporate taxpayers who are considered resident in Italy pursuant to the Italian Tax Code, are liable to corporate income tax on their overall income, regardless of its sources (worldwide taxation principle). Management fees are exempt from VAT and subject to Italian corporate income tax in the hands of the SGR. Taxation of carried interest is still a controversial matter in Italy, but, in the event that it is received by the management company, it would be subject to standard Italian corporate income tax.
As of November 2018, Italy had entered into approximately 94 DTTs with many foreign countries, both inside and outside the European Union, to avoid double taxation on income and property. These agreements provide for some specific rules governing the tax process of each category of income and, depending on the categories involved, they provide that both countries could tax the same income (concurrent taxation) or the exclusive taxation by one country only. Only foreign investors that are not resident in a WLC may rely on the DTT directly, submitting a request for refund.
There are no other significant tax issues specifically related to private equity funds. However, Italian tax rules are very complex and constantly subject to significant changes, so that appropriate tax advice is highly recommended in most cases.
The marketing of private equity funds is defined as the direct or indirect offer of interests on the initiative or on behalf of a fund manager, addressed to resident or non-resident investors. Irrespective of whether such investment fund is an Italian or a European-regulated investment fund, such activity requires the prior filing by the fund manager of a notification with Consob, setting forth, inter alia, the business programme of the investment fund, its regulations or articles of association and, for investment funds not reserved for professional investors, the prospectus - and, in certain situations - an express marketing authorisation from Consob and the Bank of Italy. In general, no private placement is allowed for private equity funds, other than a mechanism of reverse solicitation. Notwithstanding the fact that there is no specific reference to the legality of reverse enquiry in the Italian laws, it has long been accepted by Italian scholars and regulators as exempt from public offer rules.
An exception to the general principles described above is expressly provided for Italian-authorised fund managers that fall within the AIFMD’s definition of below-the-threshold fund managers and that market units or shares of Italian or European-regulated investment funds reserved for professional investors in Italy: these managers are not required to make any prior notification of their intention to market their private equity funds in Italy.
Before the enactment of the non-European passport, and for the time being, there is no alternative private placement process for non-European fund managers. As a result, in order to perform management and marketing activities in Italy, non-European fund managers are required to establish either an Italian SGR or an authorised European fund manager to notify Consob its intention to market in Italy. Alternatively, non-European fund managers may market in Italy the units or shares only through reverse solicitation as described above.
Investors other than those mentioned above, including public sector bodies and private individual investors, may also qualify as professional investors upon request. In such event, the Italian manager should perform an adequate assessment of the expertise, experience and knowledge of the client, based on certain standard tests and criteria. Interests in private equity funds in the retail sector may also be held by retail investors, which are defined by Italian regulations as those investors that are not professional and do not have the specific professional experience, knowledge and expertise to make their personal investment decisions consciously and to properly assess the risks involved in this kind of investment.
Investors in private equity funds are not subject to any specific notification or approval from the Italian supervisory authorities. However, the Bank of Italy may request the management company to provide certain information about the investors in connection with its inspections and verifications of the compliance with applicable rules.
Any physical or legal person that, for any reason, intends to acquire, directly or indirectly, an interest such as that person could have a significant influence on an Italian fund manager, or an interest that assigns a share of voting rights or capital of at least 10 per cent (by taking into account the shares or units already owned by the acquiring person) is required to notify the Bank of Italy before such acquisition. Advance notice shall be given for any changes in the shareholding of a fund manager when the share of voting rights or capital held directly or indirectly by a person is increased or reduced above or beyond 20, 30 or 50 per cent, and in any event when changes result in the acquisition or loss of control of the Italian fund manager. The Bank of Italy has 60 business days to deny the acquisition (or disposition) of the controlling interest if it considers that the sound and prudent management and financial soundness of the acquisition or disposition target are not fully guaranteed.
the time limit has expired.
In addition, the Bank of Italy and Consob, specifying the deadline for the response, may require Italian investment companies, asset management companies, SICAVs and SICAFs, to provide the names of the investors on the basis of the investors’ register and other information available to them.
As a general rule, regardless of whether the person marketing private equity fund interests is the fund manager, the offering of interests in investment funds in Italy is a regulated activity, so that any person marketing such interests is required to hold appropriate regulatory permissions or authorisations.
Italian private equity funds and their managers are subject to Directive No. 2015/849/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing, implemented in Italy by Decree No. 90 of 25 May 2017, which imposes extensive identification and reporting duties on Italian banks and financial institutions.
conducting ongoing monitoring of the business relationship including scrutiny of transactions undertaken throughout the course of that relationship to ensure that the transactions being conducted are consistent with the professional’s knowledge of the investor, the business and risk profile, including, where necessary, the source of funds and ensuring that the documents, data and information held are kept up to date.
The financial institutions must report any suspicious transactions and ascertain if the customer is or was politically exposed.
On 30 May 2018 a new EU directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing was adopted (Directive No. 2018/843/EU), which must be implemented by EU countries by 10 January 2020.
It is possible to list interests of FCIs, SICAVs and SICAFs qualifying as AIFs on the market for investment vehicles of the Italian stock exchange created with the scope to provide capital, liquidity and visibility to investment vehicles with a clear strategic private equity vision, provided that the relevant fund complies with the AIFMD and that the fund’s documents expressly allow the listing of the fund’s interests on a regulated market. The minimum free float in connection with the initial public offering must be no less than €25 million. Specific requirements and placement conditions may be imposed by the Italian Stock Exchange Authority, which is the authority responsible for management and supervision of the Italian stock market.
The main advantages for the investors of the listing of investment funds’ interests are the broadening of the accessibility to such financial instruments, the (expected) reduction of placement fees and ‘entry fees’ owing to the lack of placement agents and intermediaries and the increase of transparency. The main disadvantage for funds’ sponsors and management entities is the increase of information to be provided to the investors and regulatory authorities.
No specific limits to the transfer of interests apply to listed private equity funds.
The rules applicable to Italian private equity funds set forth specific limits and restrictions to the investment activity of each investment fund, which are based on the type and legal structure of each investment fund (AIF, open-ended or closed-ended fund) as well as the kind of investors investing therein (professional or retail). Therefore, each type of investment fund is prevented from participating in a private equity transaction if such transaction is not allowed by the applicable legal framework.
In addition to the foregoing, Italian and European antitrust provisions provide for further limits to the investment by private equity funds in certain businesses if such investments result in an abusive behaviour or a violation of the market concentration limits. As for the limits with respect to non-European private equity funds and managers, see questions 12 and 24.
being structured so as to prevent or minimise possible conflicts of interest.
Compensation policies shall be disclosed to and approved by the shareholders of the fund managers and shall take into account the performance and financial results of the managed investment funds. Generally, a specific corporate body of the fund manager acts as a remuneration committee and is responsible for the structuring of the remuneration policy (consisting in both cash and financial instruments). The above-mentioned limits on fund managers’ compensation and profit-sharing arrangements do not generally apply to managers that fall within the AIFMD’s definition of below-the-threshold fund managers.
Despite a situation of considerable instability from an economic and political perspective, Italy is developing a good climate for private equity activity. The year 2018 ranked as one of strongest periods over the past decade for Italian private equity deal activity, in terms of both deal volume and value and fundraising.
As described in questions 12 and 24, the forthcoming enactment of the European rules on the management and marketing in EU countries (including Italy) of non-European AIFs as well as the management and marketing in EU countries (including Italy) of investment funds by non-European fund managers are certainly the most significant future developments in this sector.
Furthermore, on 12 March 2018, the European Commission issued a proposal for a directive to amend the AIFMD, for the purposes of improving cross-border capital investment flow in the EU through changes to the existing rules on pre-marketing and reverse solicitation. EU member states take differing views on what activities fit within the definition of pre-marketing and whether indeed pre-marketing is permitted at all so that a new EU standard is likely to be adopted in the near future.
CP-DL Capolino-Perlingieri & Leone is a boutique-law firm established in 2006 - with offices in Italy and Switzerland - highly focused on private equity.
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"OPERATION STREAMLINE ISN'T ILLEGAL, IT IS IMMORAL"
These words were spoken by a defense attorney who represents migrants arrested for crossing the border into the United States. Operation Streamline is an expedited legal process unauthorized migrants face criminal prosecution and potential prison sentences in addition to formal deportation and removal from the United States. "Operation Streamline has drastically increased immigration prosecutions, making ILLEGAL RE-ENTRY, the most commonly filed federal charge." http://www.EndStreamline.org.
No photos can be taken in the federal courthouse during Operation Streamline. Imagine a large court room filled with seventy-nine migrants dressed in old t-shirts, jeans with an occasional jacket. Most of them are men, short men, indigenous looking men whose hands and ankles are shackled so they shuffle forward to hear the judge explain their options which are to plead guilty to a federal crime, "crossing the border," or plead non-guilty and have a trial BUT they will be locked up during this period of waiting for a trial.
The Judge always asks each person if he or she wants to make a statement. Most decline to say anything. This past week one of the few women said, "Si, Yo quiero decir algo." I could barely see her from my seat in the back of the courtroom. She was soft-spoken and short in a black skirt and dark blouse. "It is not right that I am detained. I haven't seen my mother in fifteen years nor my three brothers (born in the USA) that I had never met." Silence and then, the judge asks her if she would like to change her plea to not guilty and ask for a trial. She hesitates and the judge asks her to confer with her attorney and to decide before the end of this Streamline session.
It is as the lawyer said, it is immoral. Why are we making this woman have a criminal record for entering the United States to see her family? Most of the people that I have met in Tucson - at detention centers, at shelters for women and children on humanitarian parole or at Operation Streamline - the majority are trying to reach their families. We are criminalizing family reunification and because there is no longer a temporary work program, men who travelled north years ago to work under the "bracero" program or who entered the country without documents when it was a civil offense, not a criminal one, now are stuck in the USA and cannot return home.
The photo below is of the CCA - privately run detention center in Eloy, Arizona. I visited three women there last Friday, March 20th behind the barbed wire and many check points. It appears to be a prison although it is called a detention center. I will write more in my next blog about the women that I met there and their heart-wrenching stories.
The Mexican woman who told the judge that it was not correct to have detained her - has somewhat of a happy ending. Her attorney explained to the magistrate that her mother was recently a U.S. citizen and had petitioned for her daughter to join her in the USA. The judge gave her a new date to appear before Operation Streamline in order to provide time to ascertain if she could stay. I will not be in the court to hear the outcome of this case, but at least her voice was heard and there is the possibility that she can remain with her mother and brothers.
All of the stories are heart-breaking or opening up my heart to understand why people come. Why? A friend asked, because they want to be with family. Despite the media attention to job seekers and economic reasons why people leave - all if that is true, but to me, the bottom line, is la familia.
"Mexico is our neighbor," Michael G.Ronstadt (younger brother of Linda) said at the Common Ground on the Border event last week. For my fellow Oregonians, look at this map. If we lived in Oregon before 1850 Mexico literally would have been our neighbor. Someone asked me recently, "Pat, what do you think about immigration or crossing borders?" Well, let me share a few quotes I heard this past week at the Common Ground event from a cultural anthropologist, Maribel Alvarez, University of Arizona. .
"BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other." Ambrose Pierce.
Maribel Alvarez shared some interesting facts about the border - especially the relationship between immigration and the global economy.
FACT #!: Border is 2000 miles long including four U.S. states and six Mexican states. There are three natural barriers: the Rio Grande, Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts. In 1996 Operation Gatekeeper "militarized" the border crossings at El Paso and San Diego. That action de facto closing the borders in these two cities, created the "funnel effect" that pushed people into desert crossings. The rationale was that the desert would be a natural deterrent. One can imagine the conversation at the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Who will cross the desert? Only desperate people without options or hope.
THE WALL DIVIDES NOGALES, SONORA, MEXICO FROM NOGALES, ARIZONA.
FACT #2: USA/MEXICO border is the most frequently crossed international border. 12,000 trucks cross daily bringing food to the USA. 350 million people cross legally annually. Only one million cross illegally or without papers.
FACT #3: ECONOMY- USA is Mexico's number one economic partner. Mexico is the USA' number two economic partner. $795 million is traded daily between the two countries.
Migration, the act of moving from one place to another in search of a better life or even just for survival itself, is a natural part of the human condition.
A week ago Sunday I joined the Italian delegation and local/national folks to walk the migrant memorial trail south of Green Valley, Arizona. One of the local Samaritans led us on the walk. Several years ago she and her neighbors found human bones while out walking their dogs. Each time they called the Pima County Sheriff and Medical Examiner who came out to collect the bones and attempt to identify the remains.
One set of the bones was that of an adolescent - Laurie, the Samaritan and her partner and neighbor built crosses at each of the three sites. It was a rough climb - in fact, I took a very undignified fall but was helped up by a friend and continued to the memorial sites. It was very quiet in the desert, the wind blowing through the cactii and ocotillo and an occasional sound of a bird. We stood silently thinking of whose father or brother or mother might have lain undetected in the desert until only their bones remained. The cross says Presente which many Central Americans say at funerals as a way of remembering the person who is no longer with them.
At the comedor/cafeteria the next day in Nogales, Sonora I saw another cross hanging above the sink. It was covered with rosaries that the migrants had hung over the cross. I am not sure if this was for a blessing for a future border crossing or a thanks for having been found in the desert even though deported back to Mexico.
Not all Migrants are Roman Catholic but most from Latin America grow up in a Catholic culture. We are now in the season of Lent - a time of reflection and repentance. At a press conference for Rosa Robles, the Mexican woman living in Sanctuary at Southside Presbyterian Church, her pastor called on President Obama and the Head of Homeland Security and ICE to repent - or as she stated, "It is OK to change your mind and heart and to let Rosa go home."
Look at her work and think of all the migrants who left their clothing, food, rosaries, and shoes and yes, some of them their lives in the desert.
It is freezing cold in the open air shelter, El Comedor, a Jesuit run program on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexican border in Nogales, Sonora. It is a very small space with long tables for the “guests” to sit. A Jesuit novice explains that program. Two hot meals are served at 9AM and 4PM daily to migrants who either have just been deported or are waiting to cross. The “guests” come in, sit down and are served a meal by volunteers – No food lines here. It begins to rain hard outside – gusts of wind blow into the space through cracks in the heavy plastic walls. I move my feet to try to stay warm.
Volunteers from the Samaritans and No More Death groups come daily with cell phones for the migrants to call family members and provide health packets for the guests as well as engage in conversation. I ask our host if any of the Arizona Congressional delegation has visited this project. No, he replies. “Others who come to this place have their hearts broken wide open.” I think How do we help President Obama and others in Congress have their hearts broken open? When a heart breaks open, then something new can happen. How do I/we help others have these heart breaking open experiences?
I am working as a volunteer in service sponsored by the United Church of Christ (national office) and the Southwest Conference of the United Church of Christ. I am on this one- day visit to the border with a small delegation of international partners, national and local staff persons. The international partners are from Italy – the Protestant Federation of Churches in Italy and a professor from the Italian Waldensian Church, Massimo and Paolo. They recently opened a migrant program, Mediterrean Hope in Sicily and Lampadusca, a small island where migrants crossing the Meditarrean Sea are housed. http://www.globalministries.org/mediterranean_hope_newsletter_february_2015. Rev. Randy Mayer, pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd UCC in Sahuarita, Arizona and a long-time immigration activist has organized the trip. Rev. Linda Jaramillo, executive Minister of Justice and Witness Ministries from Cleveland, Rev. John Doerhauer of the SW Conference, Tyler Connolley, Immigrant Care Coordinator with the SW Conference of the UCC and myself are the other participants. http://www.ucc.org/immigration_immersion_italian_churches_03022015.
Next Stop: La Roca, a Central American migrant shelter run by a local FourSquare Gospel pastor and his church in Nogales, Arizona. It literally is built on a rock with cave-like separate dorm rooms for women and men. The Mexican government has a migrant relocation program for Mexicans who are deported, but nothing is provided for Central Americas. Thus, La Roca is trying to meet that need. They can house 30 men and 20 women for the night. They open their doors at 7AM and the guests must leave – some go to El Comedor for meals and then return to the shelter after 5PM for the evening until they make arrangements to return to their homes or to try to cross the border again.
The Wall dominates Nogales, Sonora and actually runs right through part of the town. We stop at a small altar in memory of Jose Antonio who was killed two years ago by a border agent who was situated at the top of the wall. The agent was never tried – his explanation was that this young man and others were throwing rocks at the Wall. Seven bullets were found in his back. His was not the only death attributed to the Border Patrol. There is no oversight of the Border Patrol or accountability to anyone or agency in the USA. I see lots of graffiti signs painted on the sign of rocks near the Wall basically cursing out the “migra”. Two signs near he altar state simply – Prohibido olvidar and Justicia para Juan Bosco (another Mexican killed by the Border Patrol). Is your heart broken open yet?
The drizzle turns into rain as we climb one of the hills in this city of 125,000 to HEPAC, Home of Hope and Peace, a border community center with ties to BorderLinks, a study immersion organization based in Tucson. Hepacnogales.weebly.com. Scott Nicholson, a UCC Global Missionary, works there. The presentation is impressive – feeding programs for children, adult education, artist’s cooperative making pendants saying No More Deaths/NoMas Muertes. The director Jeanette Pazos is eloquent and passionate about their work - "We are trying to create an alternative vision of the City of Nogales. We want to be known as the city of hope, of jobs, and of peace, not the border town with drug problems." She has organized vigils at the wall for Jose Antonio. She has also organized with the community zumba dances and peace walks along the wall. We leave feeling that there is hope for this community with a woman such as Jeanette and HEPAC's work in the community.
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“Supporting Innovation for Safe and Effective Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery” ASCRS 2014 Winter Update Fajardo, Puerto Rico, February 13-17, 2014 Co-Moderator: “Updating Your Glaucoma Treatment Armamentarium” Faculty: “What’s New in Technology Case Presentation” “My Top 5 Pearls” “Glaucoma Case Management” Hawaiian Eye 2014 Koloa, HI, January 17-23, 2014 Presentations/Lectures: “Individualizing Glaucoma Surgery” “Top 5 Glaucoma Management Pearls for 2014” Panelist: “Cataract Surgery Complications” Course Chairperson: “Treating Glaucoma Amidst Comorbid Conditions” 26th Annual Johns Hopkins Current Concepts in Ophthalmology Meeting Baltimore, MD, December 6-7, 2013 Presentation/Lecture: “David Worthen Memorial Lecture – Individualizing Glaucoma Surgery” American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA, November 14-19, 2013 Presentations/Lectures: “Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery: Improving Drainage Through Schlemm’s Canal” “Treatment of Mild Glaucoma with Cataract and Mildly Elevated IOP” “Two-Year Results of a Schlemm Canal Scaffold for IOP Reduction in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma” Panelist / Discussant: “High Pressure Comes in Small Packages “(Nanophthalmos)” & Small Pupil Moderator: “Academy Café: Glaucoma” “The Management of Glaucoma in the Cataract Patient” Associate Instructor: “Canal Based Glaucoma Surgery: Canaloplasty vs.Microstent Implantation – Everything You Want to Know” “Update Your Anterior Chamber Angle Skills: How to Best Examine, Grade, and Treat” European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons London, England, September 13-17, 2014 Presentation/Lecture: “Canalicular Surgery and Phaco: The Internal Approach Hydrus” ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital Program Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 24-August 3, 2014 “The Role of the Native Lens in Angle closure Glaucoma” “Five Pearls for Better Glaucoma Management” “Combined Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery” “Evaluation of the Anterior Chamber Angle” “Evaluation of the Optic Nerve” Kiawah 2014 Eye Meeting Kiawah Island, SC, May 27-31, 2014 Moderator: “Glaucoma” Presentations/Lectures: “Improve Your Glaucoma Surgery” “i Stent Learning Curve” “Top 5 Pearls: Phaco in Glaucoma Patients” Panelist: “From Good to Great: The Best of the Best Review Their Top 5 Pearls for Common Challenges they Face Daily” Minnesota Eye Consultants Perspectives in Eye Care - Guest Lecturer "Glaucoma Grand Rounds: Case Management/Panel Discussion" Bloomington, MN, May 19, 2014 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Boston, MA, April 24-29, 2014 Presentations/Lectures: The 2014 Stephen A. Micro-Stent Implantation: Everything You Want to Know” “Update Your Anterior Chamber Angle Skills: How to Best Examine, Grade, and Treat” “Combined Cataract Surgery with Glaucoma Surgery: Guidelines, Indications, Methods, Techniques, and Postoperative Management” Course Director: “Glaucoma Surgical Lab for Ophthalmology Residents” Debater: “For Cataract and Glaucoma Controlled on Medication, I Prefer Cataract Surgery – Combined with an Adjunctive Glaucoma Procedure” Chairperson: “American Academy of Ophthalmology: Glaucoma Subspecialty Day” Wills Eye Institute Annual Glaucoma Conference Philadelphia, PA, October 18-20, 2013 Presentation/Lecture: “Individualization of Surgical Care” European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2-6, 2013 Panelist: “Novel Glaucoma Surgical Devices: The Potential Opportunities in Established and Emerging Markets” OSN New York 2013 New York, NY September 6-8, 2013 Moderator and Chair: “Glaucoma Section” World Glaucoma Congress Vancouver, Canada, July 17-20, 2013 Chairperson: “MIGS: Bridging Basic Science for Ab Interno Micro-Bypass Stent Technology” “Emerging Glaucoma Surgery-1 (ab interno) Theory and Techniques” Presentations/Lectures: “An Individualized Approach to Ab-Externo Glaucoma Surgery” “Eliminating the Variables in Glaucoma Filtering Surgery: Introducing Lumenal Control” “Prevention and Management of Problems with New Microsurgical Devices” “Outcomes of Micro-Invasive Glaucoma Surgery with Two Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stents in OAG” Kiawah 2013 Eye Meeting Kiawah Island, SC, May 29 - June 3, 2013 Moderator: “Glaucoma” Presentations/Lectures: “Risk and Reward in Glaucoma Surgery” MEC Perspectives in Eye Care – Guest Lecturer Bloomington, MN, May 20, 2013 Lecture: ”Medical & Surgical Treatment Options in the Management of Glaucoma” Scheie Eye Institute 139th Anniversary Meeting – Guest Lecturer Philadelphia, PA, May 17-18, 2013 7th Annual David M. Honored Lecture” “Introduction/Case Presentation: Surgical Glaucoma Spotlight Part I: Coincident Cataract and Glaucoma” ”Hydrus I – 24 Month results from a Multi-Center Study on Hydrus as a Stand-Alone Therapy” ”Outcomes of MIGS with Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stents and Prostaglandin in Open-Angle Glaucoma Subjects” ”Safety and Efficacy of the Trabecular Micro-Bypass Implant” Moderator: ”Cataract Surgery in the Glaucoma Patient: How to Select the Best Option for my Patient?” “Think Different” About Surgical Glaucoma and Glaucoma Diagnosis: How Far We Have Come” Moderator: “Surgical Glaucoma” University of South Florida Eye Institute Tampa, FL, May 17, 2012 Guest Lecturer: “Think Different” About Glaucoma Surgery Complications” “Current and Future Glaucoma Surgery” "Management of Co-Incident Cataract and Glaucoma” MEC Perspectives in Eye Care – Guest Lecturer “Surgical & Pharmaceutical Treatment Options in the Management of Glaucoma” Bloomington, MN, May 14, 2012 Comprehensive Ophthalmology Pearls Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, May 4-5, 2012 Guest Lecturer: “Management of Coincident Cataract and Glaucoma in 2012” “Think Different: Glaucoma Surgical Complications and How to Avoid Them” American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Chicago, IL, April 19-24, 2012 Presentations/Lectures: “Current and Future Approaches to Surgery” “Why MIGS” “Microinvasive Glaucoma Surgery with Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stents and Prostaglandin in Open-Angle Glaucoma” “Glaucoma Management in Post-Keratoplasty Patients” Moderator: “Glaucoma Surgery: Advances You and Your Patients will Appreciate” “Surgical Glaucoma Spotlight: Novel and Traditional” “Cataract/Cornea Crossover Highlight Topic – Impact of Glaucoma Treatment on the Cornea” Panelist: “ASCRS Town Hall on Glaucoma” American Glaucoma Society Annual Meeting New York, NY, March 1-4, 2012 Presentations/Lectures: “Interim Outcomes Following Micro-Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (migs) with Two Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stents and Travoprost in OAG” “Quantitative Differences Among Novel Glaucoma Devices in a Human Perfusion Model” Moderator: “Cataract Surgery in the Exfoliation Syndrome Eye” “Is Cataract Surgery an Effective Treatment for Open-Angle Glaucoma” ASCRS 2012 Winter Update Playa del Carmen, Mexico, February 16-20, 2012 Faculty: “Managing Cataract – Complications/Complicated Cases: You Make the Call” “Complications and Challenging Cases, New Tricks, and New Instrumentation” “Challenging Cases for the Comprehensive Clinician: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Management of Complex Cases” “Glaucoma Grand Rounds: Face Off” Moderator: “Glaucoma Management Pearls: From Everyday Decisions to Advancing Surgery” Hawaiian Eye 2012 Wailea, Maui, HI, January 13-20, 2012 Presentations/Lectures: “Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent” “Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent – Techniques & Indications for Cataract Patients” “Think Different about Glaucoma Surgical Complications” Faculty: “Advances You and Your Patients Will Appreciate” Panelist: “Glaucoma Video Surgical Symposium” OSN New York 2011 New York, NY, November 18-20, 2011 Guest Lecturer: “Point-Counterpoint: Initial Glaucoma Surgery Should be an Ex Press” “i Stent for Glaucoma: Overview of the FDA trial.Technique for implantation” “Combined Phaco and Glaucoma Surgery: Implant Selection” “Combined Cataract/Glaucoma Surgery: Guidelines, Indications, Methods, Techniques, and Postoperative Management” “Advanced Phacoemulsification” “Update Your Anterior Chamber Angle Skills: How to Best Examine, Grade, and Treat” World Glaucoma Congress – Guest Lecturer Boston, MA, July 8-11, 2009 “Tonometry in the Refractive Surgery Patient” “Glaukos i Stent for Surgical Glaucoma” “Combined Surgery for Cataract and Glaucoma” Kiawah 2009 Eye Meeting / Medical College of South Carolina – Guest Lecturer Kiawah Island, SC, May 28-30, 2009 “New Surgical Options” “Cataract and Glaucoma Management” MEC Perspectives in Eye Care – Guest Lecturer Bloomington, MN, May 18, 2009 “Procedures, Pharmaceuticals, & Devices for Glaucoma Patients” American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery San Francisco, CA, April 3-8, 2009 Presentations/Lectures: “If Cataract Surgery Lowers IOP, When Do I Perform Combined Surgery?
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1 What is compulsive gambling?
The explanation that seems most acceptable to Gamblers Anonymous members is that compulsive gambling is an illness, progressive in its nature, which can never be cured, but can be arrested. Before coming to Gamblers Anonymous, many compulsive gamblers thought of themselves as morally weak, or at times just plain 'no good'. The Gamblers Anonymous concept is that compulsive gamblers are really very sick people who can recover if they will follow to the best of their ability a simple program that has proved successful for thousands of other men and women with a gambling or compulsive gambling problem.
3 How can you tell whether you are a compulsive gambler?
Only you can make that decision. Most people turn to Gamblers Anonymous when they become willing to admit that gambling has them licked. Also in Gamblers Anonymous, a compulsive gambler is described as a person whose gambling has caused growing and continuing problems in any department of his or her life. Many Gamblers Anonymous members went through terrifying experiences before they were ready to accept help. Others were faced with a slow, subtle deterioration which finally brought them to the point of admitting defeat.
4 Can a compulsive gambler ever gamble normally again?
No. The first bet to a problem gambler is like the first small drink to an alcoholic. Sooner or later he or she falls back into the same old destructive pattern. Once a person has crossed the invisible line into irresponsible uncontrolled gambling he or she never seems to regain control. After abstaining a few months some of our members have tried some small bet experimentation, always with disastrous results. The old obsession inevitably returned. Our Gamblers Anonymous experience seems to point to these alternatives: to gamble, risking progressive deterioration or not to gamble, and develop a better way of life.
5 Why can't a compulsive gambler simply use will power to stop gambling?
We believe that most people, if they are honest, will recognize their lack of power to solve certain problems. When it comes to gambling, we have known many problem gamblers who could abstain for long stretches, but caught off guard and under the right set of circumstances, they started gambling without thought of the consequences. The defenses they relied upon, through will power alone, gave way before some trivial reason for placing a bet. We have found that will power and self-knowledge will not help in those mental blank spots, but adherence to spiritual principles seem to solve our problems. Most of us feel that a belief in a Power greater than ourselves is necessary in order for us to sustain a desire to refrain from gambling.
6 Do Gamblers Anonymous members go into gambling places to help former members who are still gambling?
7 I only go on gambling binges periodically. Do I need Gamblers Anonymous?
Yes. Compulsive gamblers who have joined Gamblers Anonymous tell us that, though their gambling binges were periodic, the intervals between were not periods of constructive thinking. Symptomatic of these periods were nervousness, irritability, frustration, indecision and a continued breakdown in personal relationships. These same people have often found the Gamblers Anonymous program the answer to the elimination of character defects and a guide to moral progress in their lives. GAMBLING , for the compulsive gambler is defined as follows : Any betting or wagering, for self or others, whether for money or not, no matter how slight or insignificant, where the outcome is uncertain or depends upon chance or 'skill' constitutes gambling.
8 If I join Gamblers Anonymous won't everyone know I am a compulsive gambler?
Most people made quite a name for themselves as full-fledged gamblers by the time they turned to Gamblers Anonymous. Their gambling was not usually a well kept secret. It would then be unusual if the good news of their abstinence from gambling did not cause comment. However, no disclosure of any affiliation with Gamblers Anonymous can rightfully be made by anyone but the member themselves. Even then, it should be done in such a way that will work no hardship on the Gamblers Anonymous fellowship.
9 If I stop gambling won't it make it difficult for me to keep some desirable business and social contacts?
10 How does someone stop gambling through the Gamblers Anonymous program?
One does this through bringing about a progressive character change within oneself. This can be accomplished by having faith in -- and following -- the basic concepts of the Gamblers Anonymous Recovery Program. There are no short cuts in gaining this faith and understanding. To recover from one of the most baffling, insidious, compulsive addictions will require diligent effort. HONESTY, OPENMINDEDNESS, AND WILLINGNESS are the key words in our recovery.
11 Can a person recover by himself/herself by reading Gamblers Anonymous literature or medical books on the problem of compulsive gambling?
12 Does Gamblers Anonymous look upon compulsive gambling as a vice?
13 Is knowing why we gambled important?
Perhaps, however insofar as stopping gambling, many Gamblers Anonymous members have abstained from gambling without the knowledge of why they gambled.
14 What are some characteristics of a person who is a compulsive gambler?
* INABILITY AND UNWILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT REALITY. Hence the escape into the dream world of gambling. * EMOTIONAL INSECURITY. A compulsive gambler finds he or she is emotionally comfortable only when "in action". It is not uncommon to hear a Gamblers Anonymous member say: "The only place I really felt like I belonged was sitting at the poker table. There I felt secure and comfortable. No great demands were made upon me. I knew I was destroying myself, yet at the same time, I had a certain sense of security." * IMMATURITY. A desire to have all the good things in life without any great effort on their part seems to be the common character pattern of problem gamblers. Many Gamblers Anonymous members accept the fact that they were unwilling to grow up. Subconsciously they felt they could avoid mature responsibility by wagering on the spin of a wheel or the turn of a card, and so the struggle to escape responsibility finally became a subconscious obsession. Also, a compulsive gambler seems to have a strong inner urge to be a 'big shot' and needs to have a feeling of being all powerful. The compulsive gambler is willing to do anything (often of an antisocial nature) to maintain the image he or she wants others to see. Then too, there is a theory that compulsive gamblers subconsciously want to lose to punish themselves. There is much evidence to support this theory.
15 What is the dream world of the compulsive gambler?
This is another common characteristic of compulsive gamblers. A lot of time is spent creating images of the great and wonderful things they are going to do as soon as they make the big win. They often see themselves as quite philanthropic and charming people. They may dream of providing families and friends with new cars, mink coats, and other luxuries. Compulsive gamblers picture themselves leading a pleasant gracious life, made possible by the huge sums of money they will accrue from their 'system'. Servants, penthouses, nice clothes, charming friends, yachts, and world tours are a few of the wonderful things that are just around the corner after a big win is finally made. Pathetically, however, there never seems to be a big enough winning to make even the smallest dream come true. When compulsive gamblers succeed, they gamble to dream still greater dreams. When failing, they gamble in reckless desperation and the depths of their misery are fathomless as their dream world comes crashing down. Sadly, they will struggle back, dream more dreams, and of course suffer more misery. No one can convince them that their great schemes will not someday come true. They believe they will, for without this dream world, life for them would not be tolerable.
16 Isn't compulsive gambling basically a financial problem?
No, compulsive gambling is an emotional problem. A person in the grip of this illness creates mountains of apparently insolvable problems. Of course, financial problems are created, but they also find themselves facing marital, employment, or legal problems. Compulsive gamblers find friends have been lost and relatives have rejected them. Of the many serious difficulties created, the financial problems seem the easiest to solve. When a compulsive gambler enters Gamblers Anonymous and quits gambling, income is usually increased and there is no longer the financial drain that was caused by gambling, and very shortly, the financial pressures begin to be relieved. Gamblers Anonymous members have found that the best road to financial recovery is through hard work and repayment of our debts. Bankruptcy, borrowing and/or lending of money (bailouts) in Gamblers Anonymous is detrimental to our recovery and should not take place. The most difficult and time consuming problem with which they will be faced is that of bringing about a character change within themselves. Most Gamblers Anonymous members look upon this as their greatest challenge, which should be worked on immediately and continued throughout their lives.
17 Who can join Gamblers Anonymous?
18 How much does it cost to join Gamblers Anonymous?
There are no assessments in connection with Gamblers Anonymous membership. The newcomer signs nothing and pledges nothing. However, we do have expenses relative to our group meeting and our Gamblers Anonymous service facilities. Since Gamblers Anonymous has traditionally been fully self supporting and declines outside contribution, these expenses are met through voluntary financial support by the members. Experience has shown that acceptance of these financial responsibilities is a vital part of our individual and group growth process.
19 Why are Gamblers Anonymous members anonymous?
Anonymity has great practical value in maintaining unity within our fellowship. Through its practice at the level of press, radio, films and television we have eliminated the possibility of fame and recognition being given to the individual member; hence, we have not been faced with any great internal struggles for power and prestige which would prove highly detrimental to our essential unity. Anonymity also has great value in attracting new members who initially might feel there is a stigma attached to the problem. Therefore, we guarantee the newcomer as much anonymity as they choose. More importantly, we are beginning to realize that anonymity has tremendous spiritual significance. It represents a powerful reminder that we need always place principles above personalities. Our survival as individuals demands that we renounce personal gratification . . . so our Gamblers Anonymous movement not only advocates but tries to practice true humility and it is through greater humility that we will be able to live in peace and security for all the years to come.
20 Is Gamblers Anonymous a religious society?
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All kinds of studies on the Prusai the most mysterious people are very subjective, their contemporary with the community historical records, made by hand of not-Prusai are very unfavorable to them, maybe there were documents written by some Prusai, but by those not-Prusai were destroyed. Entering into a very sensitive area, to lean upon historical documents from the era, in the first place it is not important the source of this information, intentions, and the interest of the author. Current research despite sincere intentions are subjective because of the insignificant track record, as well as for centuries drumming up politically correct "truths" about Prusai, which persisted among historians and today are dogmas. Tragic premise subjectivity that is widely understood, that the community is exctinct, and even the Prusai writing about the Prusai never lived among Prusai.
Describing the Prusai history from outside led to the consolidation of their image, the Prusai as savages and barbarians for two historical facts, their beheading of St. Adalbert, and bringing to Poland Teutonic Knights for their Christianization.
The total lack of conclusive studies on the Prusai, forces to look at the issue with a much broader perspective in order to obtain the knowledge shifted from a subjective area, to the objective, with the use of all possible sources, including the present. The Prusai in their culture did not divide the knowledge into various branches, the knowledge as a whole was the religion. Further the epigone cultural circle of such life attitude remain with the Old Believers, and what is interesting, that those Old Believers after the Nikon reform in large numbers settled on the lands earlier inhabited by the Prusai, they really were soul mates. The extremely ecological approach to the life of these communities, as well as a mastery of cultivation may give rise to a claim that the Prusai were Christians of Solunski Rite (Cyril and Methodius). To lean upon these premises does not give us confidence to the staked claim and requires further proof; the Prusai did not live in the villages but in isolated settlements around which in their fields were the family, thus growing and consuming their own food, and all meals were celebrated with equal reverence as today the Catholic priest celebrating Mass. In the Prusai meals subject to special blessings were food produced by a neighbor, never eaten foreign food production, so too, do today's Old Believers. Here it should be noted that these rules also applied to all Slavs before their adoption of the Roman Christianity, at this point, next born is claim that the Slavs were never natural enemies of Prusai, and the hostility with the Slavs was entered imposition of the Christianity.
On the subject of the Prusai and Slavs religion, science circulate only guesses that have no real justification, putting them in a row heathen worship and the faith giving them the supreme deity of thunder, what justifies their ignorance. In some studies can meet tentative statement about a life-giving Spirit, the whole ubiquitous nature, the Prusai were Solunski Rite Christians as all representatives of haplogroup R1a1 Y-DNA and part of R1b1, who emerged from the worshipers of ice water, a remnant on earth are Old Believers. The essence of the introduction of the god Perkun-wielding lightning and storms, the pantheon of gods is a testament to a very deep knowledge of nature, if you will be analyzing the nitrogen cycle and ammonium salts in the nature caused by the lightning, with the salutary yields impact on agricultural. Knowledge of that nitrogen flow, crop rotation confirmed with leguminous plants, and the use of the urea. NO SUSTAINABLE NITROGEN CYCLE IN THE NATURE IS MORE DANGEROUS TO OUR CIVILIZATION THAN CO2 EMISSIONS, AND MODERN AGRICULTURE AN INTRODUCTION OF NITROGEN FERTILIZERS LEADS TO MORE AND MORE OF THIS DESTABILITY. The Prusai (also Slavs) bearing in their growing winter crops had to know the process of vernalization, and being excellent fruit trees growers were familiar with the essence of vaccination and other treatments. In a widely understood agriculture, undoubtedly used the biodynamic calendar worked to the perfection, which is now tentatively placed only in certain respects. Prusai by culturing own horse race, perhaps other animals too, they had to know the basics of genetic selection in order to obtain the most desirable white color. Perhaps they have used genetic selection rules applied also to humans, because the society was growing exceptionally healthy. Very emphatic confirmation of the Prusai Solunski Christianity, is the presence in all the coat of arms, the crippled Solunski cross, perhaps in order to emphasize the tragedy of their history.
With steadfast Prusai truthfulness and keeping their words, without a doubt, we can appeal to the essence of the Greek Logos, and to the gospel of St. John write "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The Prusai did not attach importance to worldly possessions and ornaments.
The lands inhabited by the Prusai, the place of occurrence of amber in its most noble variety, namely the Baltic Sea which is called the object of desire of the Antiquity, despite the amber deposits in Kurpie, Lublin and Volhynia, the Baltic variant was the most desirable. For a few thousand years before the Jews posted a record of Eden in the Book of Genesis, where is the fragrant RESIN, Prusai lands were visited by various peoples of ancient civilizations. Greeks travelled to the Prusai, left a myth of Jazon and his expedition, through the Ukrainian and Polish rivers, along with the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece-amber, deliberately hiding the destination, of the route and place of the expedition, but not to the gold of Colchida. The road to the gold of Colchida was commonly known, such an explanation of this myth is due to the ignorance. The most famous Antiquities sailors Celtic Phoenicians flow around Europe and through the North-Baltic Ocean to reach the Prusai, leaving a name for amber, which in slightly modified form is valid until today and after Phoenicians is the amber JANITAR. For the avoidance of doubt, the Celtic origin Phoenicians need to know and consider the etymology of the names of which were designated: the Phoenicians, Sidonians, and Kannaneians. All the names of the community derive from the words of Celtic (Irish), and as Fin, Fine, Fene, Feni is as much as a family or clan, so it was thus organized their community and from it Phoenicians. The Irish Book of Invasions tells us that the last inhabitants before the of Ireland called Tutha de Danann (people of Dannan), which is similar to the name Kannan, and those conquered by Kaledons went to the Celtic land of the dead called SID hence the Sidonians. Perhaps part of the Phoenicians settled in Denmark, giving it its name from Dannan, different from the names of Norway and Sweden, such a method could arise from Dansk Gdansk name, such an assumption may help explain celticism of Latvians. It is quite possible that these newcomers would leave there their genes, so it may have been with the later newcomers to the Prusai land the Romans, and Arabs. In fact, do not rule out a visit of Mahomet, who for many years was a merchant as a representative of a rich widow Hadzidza and frequented in various lands, it is in a number of conditions present in Islam and Arab culture.
In order to realize the hatred of Vatican for the Solunski Christianity should fully understand the course and consequences of the so-called pagan reaction in the Czech - Drahomir and Poland - Boleslaw forgotten as their antagonists underwent brainwashing in Magdeburg, and in the meantime St. Adalbert.
The missions trip of St. Adalbert to the Prusai and countless visits by various nations was not unusual, as opposed by the outside world, which has given a huge propaganda binding sucking in all Boleslaw project beguiling him of receiving the crown from the hands of the Pope. Latins knew that the Prusai are Christians of Solunski Rite and purpose of the mission was not to convert the pagans, but convince them to Roman Catholics, the main goal was to capture the amber deposits, which, as history teaches us is the truth. According to the transfer, the process of mission is full of contradictions, early in Gdansk St. Adalbert ordered the excision of the Holy Oak, which has not met with the Prusai response, very strange, and if there were combined fight with result of the beheading of St. Adalbert then there would be no doubt about the truth of such reports. Taking into account the fact that the places and objects of worship were taboo in Prusai law, seems even stranger to be permitted Mass celebration and overnight stay at the Romowy. After the celebration of this Mass, seven Prusai against 30 Boleslaw warriors were able to penetrate and kill the St. Adalbert, cut and take his head. If there was a residence permit of the mission on the Romowy and celebrate Mass, then it was the result of the Prusai brotherhood with the Poles and the Czechs among whom the Solunsk Christianity was alive, and in Poland was in pretty good shape. Therefore, the mission of St. Adalbert was a big flop, verdict by the Latins ordering his beheading, and dropping the blame on the Prusai, the victim became the holy martyr and this from compromising was translated into success. Purchase of the body of St. Adalbert for gold was still more to excite the imagination of the outside world about the greed of Prusai. The propaganda trick is alive to this day, because no one takes into account the fact that the gold for the Prusai did not represent any value. The amber was not even sold for the gold as to not arouse the West pervasive greed . A similar trick of propaganda is the claim that the Prusai were killing babies of female gender. This knowledge, the Semitic Latins acquired during the Crusades and sewed it to Prusai, in order to get applause for their criminal actions. Murdering girls was common between Semites, position of women was very strong in Prusland, equivalent to the role of the man's, thus eliminating this theory.
Writing about Prusai as the leading nation of the conquest, wars or robbery is without any evidence, from known materials shows that they never ever increased their territory as a result of the war or aggression, and for the increase in population reacted to the improvement of crop and breeding.
The emergence of hostile relations between the Prusai and Poles has grown since the adoption by the Poles of Roman Christianity, for this reason there are hostile relations with the Poles and the Russians. Hostility grew in parallel with the strengthening of the religion, but was not on the ground of the hatred, they belonged to the same haplogroup Y-DNA "R". Quite different with the Germans the haplogroup "I" , the Lithuanians and Zmudzin haplogroup "N". These communities relate to each other with sympathy, and their interests are aligned, which can also be seen today. Before bringing the Teutonic Knights, the authors of predatory wars and invasions in this region of Europe were mostly Lithuanians Finno-Ugric people, do not farm but gathering - not disdain robbery, hunting, well-organized and valorous, blamed for the raids burdened Prusai. Lithuanians never accepted the Solunski Christianity and therefore, did not have any deeper relationship with the Poles, Ruthenians and Russians, and Prusai, fearing their demographic dominance. Lithuanians, the people very small numerically, conquested a powerful territory of Kiev Rus, which was impossible without the help of wealthy patrons what was the Empire and the Vatican, where a community of interests dictated extermination haplogroup "R" and Solunski Christianity. For such compounds supports the fact, direct adoption by the Lithuanians the Roman Christianity in the days before the Union (with the Polish Crown). At the same time the Russians, Solunski Christians, protecting against tampering hands of Christian Europe, secured themselves, using the Lithuanians from the Tatar Horde. The Vatican and the Empire helped the Lithuanians build effective barrier against possible Russians help to the Prusai and forced the Konrad Mazowiecki placing on the Polish-Prusai border the Teutonic Order of Knights, which together with the Livonian Order had to satisfy the pride and greed of the West after extermination of the Prusai, and by chance perhaps were the Russians too.
The Haplogrups affinity functioned in the society consciousness for some time as a purely philosophical, and only recently received the scientific confirmation. In the essence of this and as the matter of fact it is based on the differences in genetic haplogroups Y-DNA. Having the knowledge in this field at a basic level, examining historical issues, it is possible that all can be linked in a series of driven events as well as mental, avoiding historical periods of emptiness. The examination of the Prusai history, and not including the haplogrup affinity with Slavs and other representatives of the haplogroup ? R? is without sense, because the Prusai represent haplogroup? R? Y-DNA. The history researchers in their thinking must rely on the haplogrup’s affinity and not on the national thinking. Something like a nation, as such does not exists, this concept was introduced by force and placed in life realizm, in order to facilitate the introduction of animosity within the same genetic haplogroup.
The Prusai ought to be treated with the great esteem, firstfully as an organized epigone of Devotees of Ice Water? Defenders of the Waters, in which the most important is the baptism sacrament with water, otherwise the oldest Christianity in the area POLONI IN TOTO - THE POLISH FROM ALWAYS.
The oldest preserved Christianity in Europe was in the area of the Greek Macedonia capital in Thessaloniki - Solun, with the center of most important monastery of Athos in Chalkidiki. Also very old Christian tradition are present in the Ethiopian Church, the Chaldean and Assyrian. The Old Believers the form represent to be most extreme, and historically they were Waldenses, Cathars, Patareni and Bogomilcy whose presence in the immediate vicinity of the Prusai, in the twelfth century is confirmed in Kujawy. Once again I appreciate the Prusai as they are my ancestors.
In these considerations, harness haplogroup affinity within haplogroup? R? and use to this haplogroup the hostile sources, the use of universal history can bring astonishing effects. Now in? Cosmography? Claudius Ptolemy derived from the second century AD, enumerator of the provinces? lands of Europe, we find a record of all Polish provinces, as well as the names of PRUFFIA and RUFFIA, when reading a double? FF? as ' S? gives us PRUSSIA and RUSSIA. That record shows, that these provinces were probably much earlier as the equal administrative units, of the greater state, say, a related haplogroup affinity.
Going back to the Claudius called Alexandrian, in his book Almagest gives a very accuratemap of the sky with the calculation of the constellations coordinates and fixed stars. This data is actual to the present day with extraordinary accuracy. The science about these historical findings, stated that the Ptolemy made plagiarism and his work is based on the data provided by the astronomer, geographer and mathematician Hipparchus of Nikkeii in the much earlier date, the second century BC,? Nice town lying in Bithynia, now in northern Turkey. That Hipparchus, and more specifically his work served as the basis for the work of other astronomers and geographers, who entering their amendments made the pure knowledge more confusing, which in the form of incomprehensible gibberish reached our time. To the account of Hipparchus achievements, work to be mentioned on the precession movement of the Earth and thus from this movement resulting taking place the change of the course of climate in one cycle. The astronomical-time of Hipparchus calculations from the present do not differ more than 6.5 minutes, and the list of his works is much longer.
The ancient Bithynia in present-day Turkey province, bearing the name Bursa, but until the twelfth century, bearing the name of Prusia. To this land assigned are other names, mention only Phrygia, and Pont (from this pontificate). The names of the ancient cities of Bithynia were double, where the second term? am Prusia? defined the geographical location of the called city, also the kings of Bithynia took the name Prusias, so indicating a convergence with Prussia. The further dispute concerning the Hipparchos and Bithynia, suggest we put temporarily aside, however, it should be mentioned that in the Kingdom of Akka-du, King Sargon the Great in the third millennium before our era, the picture of the world including astronomical data was well known, therefore we should honor the Hipparch as the one who continued the work .
Westermanns Grosser from Atlas zur Weltgeshichte year 1965 Map of Ancient Greece from 200 years BC. Bitynia and Prusia can be seen.
The importance of the haplogroup relationship should be noted, that human remains found in these areas are classified as the haplogroup? R?, as well as the human remains in Akka-du.
Proving the correctness of certain thesis runs much easier when bound to the individual examples of the thought sequences convergence, where the names and events run in an order.
The Hipparch work and other astronomers haplogroup? R? transferred to our present time in the Almagest by Ptolemy, and specially in the book the Germania Magna underwent a detailed study. Such research has been made by the Berlin University of Technology, this university called to confirm the arguments and assertions? Deutschland Deutschland uber alles?, So it is difficult to fault the lack of objectivity. And so this school set up a team of linguists, physicists, mathematicians, archaeologists, astronomers and historians, in order to establish the credibility of ancient records. As a result of this work it was found that areas of the astronomical and geographical measurements were made at the territory of Wielbark Culture, the area inhabited by the Prusai. PRUFFII, PRUTENII, BRUTENII, at last Prus northernmost to the utmost land POLISH IN TOTO (in the Prusai and Celtic Tuat-tattoo-country, home consonant saved TT). These two letters are used to form words TATA-father-homeland - the land of children having a father, or community with the haplogroup affinity.
The university team making the results public of their research? forgotten? add, that making such detailed calculations require enormous territory of the triangulation networked, and also perform many other conditions, including the knowledge about the universe structure. Since recently such studies, our civilization is capable to carry out, arranging stations and telescopic observatories in different parts of the world.
Without a doubt, it does not arise sensation to say that the land of Prusai has territory called RESIA, called today by historians the estate RESIA withf main city Prabuty. The first crusadors’ plans sent by Vatican, was the conquest of RESIA, and the evil Piasts after the adoption of Christianity, directed their policy against their own haplogroup, Pomeranians, Prusai and Ruthenians. They led the wars between themselves wreaking havoc and destruction, it was a constant string of wars in the Slavic parts of Europe resulting from the introduction of the Christianity, Byzantine and the Roman, which gave the nonsense rise the creation of the nations.
The further steps in the discussion of our research, we move on, to the northern Italy, where we find surprisingly the land RESIA lying on the river of the same name, and its inhabitants belong to the haplogroup? R? and using to speak with the Resian language belonging to the Slavic group of languages, considered of Slovenian dialect. Interestingly, this language as well as the Prusai shows the same glottis development, so the thesis fundamentally proven, that to record their thoughts both communities were handling the Glagolitic script.
The experienced researchers, historians and specialists, as well as to the casual reader of the presented evidence on the land of Resia can assume this as a chance or the coincidence. However, if you move to the northern Iran, and there the name of the historical province Urmi will read RESIA - estate RESIA, the command string takes full expression. According to the tradition, it was from Resian Urmia that the wise men followed the Bethlechem Star and arrived for the birthplace of Jesus in Betlechem when the directional star pointing to the north the Old Star of Kochab took over the by the New Star Polaris Pole. The Zarathustra, founder of Avesta came from the Resian Urmia, which prof. Ignatius Pietraszewski examined and considered as the work of Slavic artists? R?. At that Resian Urmia lived mostly the Chaldean Christians, the Devotees and Waters Defenders coming from the people of Wan. The name backwards read Nav Navi (name of U.S. Navy and Wlk.Bryt.) determines a morpheme of navigation expression, which very often used in Glagolitic formative system anagram palindromic gets word? Nawna? What defines a realm of shadows. Since the ancient Resia, Iranians called their Shahs Reza and the last one was Reza Pahlavi. This reflects the deep attachment to the names and saving the knowledge, as REZ in Slavonic is the name of the first stylus putting letters-CZERT or lines-jays, initially on wood and clay, with time on papyrus and papyrus with a pen, or a special picquet. So, occasionally we explained creating the picquet letters.
Using the formative methods of anagram, the name of Urmia's not hard to create a name RUMIA, especially if one considers that in the vicinity of that Rumia are buried underground pyramids. Earlier, probably, Prusai worked deeply with Kashubs, or inhabited that area, but about this later.
From the martyrdom point of these three common lands, involved in a very tragic fate; Prusai were subjected in the early centuries of our millennium to a genocide and to this day they are pushed into oblivion. Robbed them from everything, including their name by Teutons, the castles and knowledge, of writing and speech, and as an ethnos placed them among the Baltic barbarian peoples. Much earlier the same happened to the Resians in Italy. And it was in the seventh century BC, when the Venice was conquered and seized, which name comes from the Vena-Bright White Horse placed in the blue firmament, which is the constellation of Pegasus, one of the most important Venice symbols the Pegasus four-horses reproduction and Phrygian cap.
No less tragic was the fate of Iran’s Resian, and so in 1835 the Episcopal Church had sent to them a mission, to the oldest Christians, to convince them to Christianity, of which always a formal head is the puppet president of the United States. By force presented them with their new specially gifted alphabet which was prepared to condemn to oblivion Glagolitic, in which the ancient scripts were written of the old Chaldees texts. But when the entire mission was a failure, Resians and their differences were not spared and with the Armenians were exterminated by the Turks during World War I. For the careful observer, the current political scene in the world should be clear, that initiated civil wars or interventions in defense of democracy, primarily aimed at the destruction of status quo, and the destruction of history monuments and especially belonging to haplogroup? R?. Also, the split of the haplogroups R1a and R1b from the historical point of view is without meaning, but serves to cheat the history. Returning to Our three Rezias, not difficult to conclude that this occurred between the geographical triangulation relationship, elementary basis for all sort measurements of Heaven and Earth. So here's a way we got to the first stage of proving the depth of knowledge possessed by the Prusai and their brethren living in the Rezias hapologroup. Since writing the first essay on the Prusai, was a while ago and the scope of my knowledge got wider, the inclusion of Cyril and Methodius was a thick mistake from which I withdraw.
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2019-04-23T10:19:49Z
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http://prusowie.pl/historia_eseje_listy/obieg_azotu-en.php
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We normally write posts in English but as this contest happened in Spain and the winners were Spaniards (duh!) we’ll write it in Spanish. If you are interested in knowing what went down (tl,dr version): we did a contest each day of the Madrid Games Week, the highest score of the day got a free copy of Dimension Drive with early access.
Last but not least important, we will release a new alpha build after #MGW2015. Since our last public alpha (after Gamescom) we have been working really hard to add more content, fix some bugs and add some suggestions you have sent us (we are taking note of all your feedback and requests, but some of them we still didn’t have time to implement them) Please note that this new public alpha will be the last one we will be releasing public before going to close alpha in Steam. As soon as we have everything ready in Steam we will send your keys (to all backers with early access). We have decided to move already to steam in order to make all the update process more transparent for everyone (more on that once we are in Steam). In case you are a backer with early access but you prefer not to use Steam, please let us know.
Well,I think my plane is going to be landing soon, so this is all for now. Hope to see some of you these days in Madrid Games Week, otherwise we hope you will like the new alpha build (will be available in Game jolt probably sometime next week).
Indie Gameleon, Humble and Lasers!
We know, we know… we promised to keep the update rate low but we got some news that couldn’t wait one more week. So, this is going to be a short update. David ( @dajimba ) has been invited to give a talk next week at the Indie Gameleon festival that will take place from the 11th to the 15th of September in Hamburg. His talk will go over all the details of our 60 days in Kickstarter and he’ll also show the latest build of Dimension Drive obviously.
If you happen to be there or know somebody that may be there let us know, would be cool to meet and talk about all things Dimensional!
We have also another big important announcement. Some people asked us when we were running the Kickstarter to accept Paypal but we couldn’t at that time. Now, thanks to the fantastic people at Humble Bundle we have now open pre-orders via the Humble Widget. Help us spread the word, if somebody is interested in Dimension Drive they can now pre-order it directly here.
So, how are things regarding the game development? They are going great, but we’ll leave that for a big update close to Tokyo Game Show. For the moment we leave you with a small bite of what’s coming. We hope you like… crazy lasers!
Thanks a lot for the feedback you have given us on the last build (Alpha 651). In case you haven’t had the chance to play it, please check it out over here and let us know your thoughts.
All of these changes are not yet playable but we are getting closer to a new alpha build that we want to show next 17th to 20th of September at Tokyo Game Show. Yeah, you read that right! Dimension Drive goes to Japan.
We have been selected to showcase at the Holland Pavilion this September at Tokyo Game Show. OuuuYeah !!!!! @aeonphyxius (Alejandro) will travel all the way to Japan and will show everyone there the new build. We hope to get tons of feedback from the Shoot’em ups country … and of course have lots of fun, because game development is not only about working hard :).
Last week we were at Gamescom, we have sent the Roche Fusion keys and we are working towards finishing World 1. But before going into any of that, we bring you a new Alpha buildthat we want you to try, play, break and test as much as you can! We will be extra grateful if you could send us some feedback about it. Feel free to use the comments here, email, Twitter orFacebook, we check everything. As usual you can download it in Gamejolt.
And for the first time we have a Linux build, wohoo!
Let’s meet, come to Gamescom!
Next week is Gamescom! And as we said in our previous update we are going to release a new build after it. We’ll correct any major issue that we identify during Gamescom and get you a cleaner build.
If you happen to be in Gamescom and want to come meet us an have a sneak peak at this new alpha come meet us.
One of the things we get when people play the game is that they like it but they miss that extra bit of cool. Going into that direction Max and Stan went back to the drawing board and kicked it up a nodge! This means that the backgrounds of Level 1-2 are brand new and they capture better the feeling of animated comic we want to achieve. Plus green is now the main color for this level in line with what we want for planet Vain.
Hope you like the progress we are making on the game and we have a chance to meet you in person soon!
Some of you may be wondering if you received or not the emails about the Kickstarter rewards. Our apologies, it’s taking us longer than we planned mainly because we have been focused on adding as much as we can to the build that will be showcased during Gamescom. We are still setting up the website that should make all the process of receiving your info automatic. Don’t worry, we are almost done. After Gamescom expect to hear from us.
we have been a bit busy over the last few weeks after our Kickstarter campaign ended. Getting the final list of backers from the Kickstarter guys is not so quick (we just got it last Wednesday as they have to process all payments ).
We also have been working in a development plan within all the team members, so we know more or less the road-map for the next months. As soon as we have it finalized we would love to share with you, so you all are aware on our next steps, and when you will be able to play new versions of Dimension Drive :).
For those of you with beta access, we are probably going to start releasing the closed alpha / beta builds after the Gamescom conference, next August. Our idea is to keep open alpha builds for everyone till then. After that we will go for a close “early” access method till launch date. We will keep you posted on how we will distribute it (and give you keys, if we decide to go with Steam early access for example). We are still sorting out things on this subject.
Starting this week we will start sending out emails in order to get the information needed to provide you with your rewards :). We are trying to set up a small web site where you will be able to choose things like the name you want to appear in the credits, the address you want us to send the physical rewards (in case is needed) and … well everything in order to get you sorted out.
– For those of you that got the RocheFusion deal, we will try to provide you with the steam keys as soon as possible (hopefully even before the website is online).
We just released a new build (644) at Gamejolt . This is the one we used at the last Gamelab in Barcelona. It has a few changes, like the control system, now the inverse drive button is hold & release ( inverse – normal ). We also fixed some bugs, and improved a bit the graphical detail.
Thank you. Wow. Just…thanks. We can’t express correctly how we feel right now. We had a dream, just a dream when everything started more than 4 years ago with Alejandro and David playing old shoot’em ups in a rainy weekend (we are in The Netherlands, so this happens a lot :P). It took us a while to come from a first prototype in XNA ( for Xbox Live Inde Games), to a funded Kickstater with a full team of designers, musicians, … an AWESOME team. At some point in between, we realized that we couldn’t continue on our own. Then we decided to share our dream with all of you, to ask for help, YOUR help. And you gave it to us, taking your own money away from anything else, to support our dream. But not only that, you reached out asking others to participate in this dream. And it’s finally happening. It might have been 1-2 months for you, but it has been some years for David and Alejandro. Our most sincere and deepest THANK YOU. We couldn’t have run 2 Kickstarter campaigns back to back without your help and support (specially after what happened at the end of the firs one). But finally now we can say (with no last minute surprises) …that we are funded, but not only that, we even reached some really nice stretch goals. The 2 player mode has us really excited !!!
So, what’s next? We are going to get back to work right away (actually we never stopped). If you remember next week Alejandro will be showcasing at Gamelab in Barcelona. In August Alejandro and David will be at the Cologne GamesCon within the Holland Pavilion. If you’re going to be at any of those events, hit us up through twitter or e-mail so we can hang out! We know that 1194 of you are already super stoked for this game. But we want to continue spreading the word about Dimension Drive. Besides, the team hasn’t given up on PS4 (and other consoles) yet. There are ways to still make it happen. Stay tuned to find out how to help.
We’ll be updating you on our usual channels (we promise to lower the amount of updates, some people mentioned that it was even too much 😛 ): Devlog, Kickstarter Updates, Twitter,Facebook, Youtube and Twitch.
Please follow along and let’s stay in contact!
One more time, thanks to you all!
The INFINITE Stream! LAST 24 HOURS!
We enter our last 24 hours in just a little while and we want to end this campaign going all sorts of crazy (the good sort of crazy though). Tomorrow we are going to do a special LIVE stream that will last more than 12 hours! Game art, coding, indie developer guests (Herald, Wildfire,Tic-Toc-Tower), shoot’em up party and many more! Tune in to our Twitch channel starting at 1 PM CET and finish this campaign on a high note, all together!
Some of you asked about this, are you crossing over with Drifting Lands? YES! We are doing it again with the cool guys at Alkemi and their incredible Drifting Lands. Drifting Lands is an hybrid shmup / hack & slash currently in a free alpha stage available on Steam. In her multidimensional quest Jack will chase those pesky Ashajuls into the Drifting Lands planet!
Drifting Lands takes place in the skies of a shattered planet. Centuries ago a huge cataclysm fragmented and froze this world in a state of partial disintegration. Powerful and mysterious gravitational anomalies keep the huge chunks of rock from drifting away in space or collapsing into a single body. And now Jack will have to manouver and teleport through all those huge and unstable chunks of rock while obliterating Ashajuls every Ashajul on her path!
Wow, you did this! 2 player mode stretch goal unlocked! Thank you! So, what’s that you say? If we make a two player mode somebody has to pilot the second ship, right? Enter Jake, sounds familiar…because it is! Coming from a close dimension Jake is the alter ego Jack. He fights the Ashajuls piloting The Gryphon a similar ship to The Manticore. There you have it! Jack and Jake, Jake and Jack, The Manticore and The Gryphon. Double the fire power, double the fun!
We are really close to enter our last day in Kickstarter and some suprises still await, keep spreading the word and let’s make this game for Playstation 4!
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2019-04-23T18:31:12Z
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http://www.dimensiondrive.com/devlog/page/2/
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