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Goligoski Shines In Expanded Role
Alex Goligoski had parlayed his strong preseason play into the regular season.
Goligoski is tied for the team lead with four points (2G-2A).
As a result of his improved all-around play, Goligoski is seeing more ice time in all situations.
Goligoski is excelling at the point on the top power-play unit.
While the Penguins might not be getting the desired results in the win column during the opening week of the 2010 National Hockey League regular season, there have been several bright spots head coach Dan Bylsma can build upon as he prepares his team for back-to-back divisional contests this weekend against the New York Islanders on Friday at CONSOL Energy Center and a Saturday visit across the commonwealth to battle the Philadelphia Flyers.
But perhaps the biggest positive that the Penguins should be most excited about to this point in the season is the rapid maturation and improvement in 25-year-old defenseman Alex Goligoski.
Goligoski has parlayed an outstanding training camp, where he tied Letestu and Evgeni Malkin for the team scoring lead with six points (2G-4A), into an opening week which has him playing at perhaps the highest level of his three-year NHL career.
As of Thursday’s games, Goligoski ranks tied with Paul Martin for the team scoring lead with four points (2G-2A), a figure which ties him for third among all blueliners in the NHL. Goligoski’s two goals place him tied for the top spot among defensemen with former Penguin Jordan Leopold.
“I feel good,” Goligoski said of his start. “Personally, I feel very good out there. It seems like I am moving my feet and skating. When I do that, the rest of my game seems to kind of come with that. So that’s something I like to concentrate on.”
Fellow defenseman Ben Lovejoy, who has played with Goligoski the past four seasons in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Pittsburgh, has taken note of the high level Goligoski is playing.
“He really has become an all-around player,” Lovejoy said. “He is a guy who logs a ton of minutes and excels at every part of the game. He is fun to play with and fun to watch. He’s been great for us here at the start of the season.”
A couple of early-season injuries to veteran shutdown defensemen Brooks Orpik and Zbynek Michalek has created more ice time both at even strength and on special teams. Goligoski has shouldered much of the load in their absences, ranking second on the team in average ice time at 23:53 minutes per game.
It’s helped Goligoski’s game that he is seeing regular minutes serving as the quarterback of the Penguins’ top power-play unit, where he has already picked up a goal and an assist. More importantly than the offensive production, Goligoski looks more comfortable on the man-advantage than any previous point in his career.
Goligoski has looked so comfortable on the power play that Bylsma even changed his role a bit before the Toronto game, moving Goligoski from the center point position he had been occupying to the high-slot spot where Mike Comrie had been deployed.
Goligoski said he has no preference on where he is used. He is more concerned with the Penguins becoming more cohesive with the new constant motion power play setup implemented for this season.
“We have been tinkering around with things a little bit,” Goligoski said. “It will probably be that way for the start of the season. It’s all a part of everybody learning the new way that we are going to run the power play. Hopefully, as the season goes on we will continue to improve as a unit.” | {
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The New Jersey Repertory Company has a new musical called Bookends, about the bookish friendship and partnership of rare book dealers Leona Rostenberg (1908-2005) and Madeleine B. Stern. (From Fade Theory)
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Loved the library idea! We often thought it would be nice to design a fantasy library inside our home with the bookshelves being mystical animals one would find in reading literature. Just mulling it around a bit. Thanks for the neat idea! | {
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Post-Sandy Fixes To NYC Subways To Cost Billions
Joseph Leader, chief maintenance officer of the New York City subway system, surveys damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, this week at the South Ferry station.
This platform at the South Ferry subway station was flooded by seawater during Superstorm Sandy.
Most subway stations in New York City affected by Superstorm Sandy have opened by now, but the South Ferry station at the southern tip of Manhattan is still closed. And when you get inside, it's easy to see why.
The platform is still coated with dirt more than a month after the storm. The tile walls are covered in grime from the tracks all the way up to the ceiling 25 feet overhead. There's debris dangling from the exit signs; the escalators look like they may never work again.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials tried to barricade the entrance, which is just yards from the New York harbor, but the barricades didn't hold. On the night of the storm, seawater rushed in and submerged much of the station.
"You basically have a Sheetrock ceiling. This all came down," says Joseph Leader, the chief maintenance officer for the New York City subway system, as he guided several reporters through ankle-deep water in a dimly lit passageway.
"The tile, the panels — that stuff I would say can be cleaned. Everything else I think needs to be gutted out and replaced."
That includes all of the electrical wiring and all of the ductwork. Leader says the track itself can be saved, but anything that runs on electricity can't. That includes a whole room full of switches, relays and other specialized electronic gear that was installed just four years ago.
Saltwater has corroded contacts for the relays. "You could try and clean this but you'd never get 100 percent where reliability would be good," Leader says. "So the only way to do this is really just to rip this out and start from scratch."
That may be one reason subway officials say this station alone could cost $600 million to fix. Leader's boss — MTA Chairman Joe Lhota — testified before a Senate subcommittee in Washington on Thursday about the extent of the damage.
"We're nowhere near normal operations. It's important to remember that hundreds of millions of gallons of saltwater completely inundated our system that's over 100 years old. We will be feeling the residual effects of this storm for months, if not years, to come," Lhota said.
Lhota estimates it will cost $5 billion to get the subway system back to where it was before Sandy. But New York Sen. Charles Schumer says that should be only part of the goal.
"You can't replace exactly what has been damaged. But even if you could, you wouldn't want to. You want to make sure that the next storm that occurs, that we are much more flood-proof," Schumer says.
Transportation officials provided few specifics on what that might mean — except that it will require lots of additional federal money. That may be hard to come by as Congress and the White House wrestle over deficit reduction plans. For now, Leader says riders who want to catch the subway at South Ferry will have to walk half a mile to the next stop.
"For the most part, New York has been resilient in that sense of understanding that we took a big hit, and it's gonna be like this for a while," says Leader.
Leader says it may six months to a year before the South Ferry station is open to riders.
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December 18, 2009
S Korea Sends N Korea Swine Flu Medicine
by ssavage
Just one day after Pyongyang threatened retaliation over naval drills near their disputed sea border, North Korea made a rare expression of gratitude Friday after South Korea sent swine flu medicine, The Associated Press reported.
Around 500,000 doses of the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza were trucked across the border between North and South Korea.
The gesture is the South Korean government's first humanitarian aid since conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in early 2008 with a pledge to pursue a hard-line policy toward the North and hold it accountable to its pledge to disarm it's nuclear weaponry.
After returning from the North's border city Kaesong, the head of the South Korean delegation, Kim Young-il, said South Korean medical officials explained to North Korean counterparts how to use the medicine and its side effects.
Kim said North Korean Health Ministry official Han Su Chol expressed thanks to South Korea for sending medicine.
Last week, North Korea acknowledged for the first time that swine flu had broken out in the country after Seoul offered unconditional aid to help contain it.
While the North has not officially reported any virus-related deaths, Seoul-based civic groups said about 50 people in the North were killed by the flu since early November.
Meanwhile, just one day before the gesture of kindness, North Korea accused Seoul of attempting to escalate tension over what it claimed were South Korean naval drills around their disputed sea border. The North had been threatening retaliation over the incident.
North Korea's Central News Agency said on Thursday that an unidentified source told them the South Korean military staged underwater explosive exercises around the border.
Last month's resulting naval clash left one North Korean sailor dead and three others wounded.
KCNA said the drills represented "a threat and an unpardonable act of crime against us."
The Agency said: "We cannot but view this as a premeditated provocation aimed at raising tension in the militarily sensitive waters. We will deal a merciless retaliatory blow if the South Korean warlike forces keep staging military provocations."
However, the Joint Chiefs of Staff in South Korea dismissed the North's claim, maintaining that the drills were routine and took place in the South's territory.
The communist North does not recognize the sea boundary, drawn by the United Nations at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, and has long claimed it should be redrawn farther south. The dispute led to deadly skirmishes in 1999, 2002 and last month.
Pyongyang, known for its use of fiery rhetoric, has regularly made such claims and threatened South Korea with destruction.
The North and South are still technically at war as the Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
But after more than a year of recent tensions, the North has been trying to improve relations with South Korea and the United States. | {
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The emergence of the various aster and goldenrod are a harbinger of Fall. As the next eight weeks progress, they will begin to dominate the Northwoods landscape and roadsides with purple, white, and yellows. Aster was the ancient Greek word for star. | {
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Ah, Baila
A small village that lived on the banks of a torrent witnessed a literal change in its geography after 2014 floods devoured most of the land and the homes, Faheem Mir reports
Baila falls in Uri’s Boniyar belt, almost 25kms from Baramulla. It is a picture-perfect village with beautiful sceneries, fresh and cool water and air, evergreen forests and a roaring rivulet playing music round the clock.
But September 5, 2014, floods changed its geography forever. It was hit by devastating flood exactly two days earlier than Srinagar city.
Floods decimated the village, destroying the property, crops and livestock. Communication links, roads and bridges were damaged too. It took away its land, the main source of the income, as well.
Sajad Ahmad Khan, 30, is busy in removing small stones from a piece of land near his house to make it cultivate again. “I am trying to clear sand and stones to make it able to produce vegetables again and I am into the third year of making the efforts,” he said.
The only difference between the rest of Kashmir and this village was that unlike Jhelum that destroyed most of Kashmir, this village was devastated by the Hapatkhaie, a fast flowing rivulet flowing by the western side of the village.
As many as 19 residential houses, a Masjid, government primary school, Panchayat Ghar and a Fisheries farm were washed away. There was no human loss, however. Almost 90 percent area of the village was destroyed. “People here in this village were mostly dependent on agriculture but floods changed everything,” Nooruddin Khan said.
“It was exactly 6:30 am when we heard hue and cry in the village. I rushed outside to see what happened, I was surprised to see the water has entered the village,” Shakeela Bano, who is still frightened of that sight, said. “It was so horrifying, I asked my mother to leave the house immediately and we moved towards a nearby hillock to save our lives”.
It was still raining. Bano remembers the entire family getting drenched in the rain following which she volunteered to get some clothes from her home. “Water was moving slowly into the village but once we got into the home, the speed surged massively,” Bano said. “We somehow managed their escape and entered into an army camp where 12 of us spent 16 hours.” Tragically the army camp was itself inundated and the soldiers were crying for help. It was after those painful 16 hours that the adjoining villages came and rescued the civilians and the soldiers.
“They tied tightly a rope with an iron pole on the other side of the river and passed it over. By doing this we crossed the river by using the chair as a lift,” Shakeela recalls. “We spent two days outside on the hillock during those rainy days,” Rafiq Khan said.
The fisheries farm became the first victim of the river “Water washed away everything that came its way,” Shabir Khan said. “My house got invisible within minutes; nearly 70 percent of buildings were washed away.”
The floods helped the Hapatkhaie change its direction and it devastated everything to dictate a new course. It included approximately 200 kanals of agricultural land which was the only source of income for the villagers.
“Than God, my house stayed safe during the floods but nearly 10 kanals of land was washed away by water which we were using to grow paddy and maize crops,” Sajad Khan said.
After 2014, this village has no agricultural activity because there is no land. “I am working as a daily wager after losing my property, now I am visiting other places daily to earn a livelihood,” Sajad said. “There is no other source of income for my family.”
After a weeklong inundation, the villagers returned to the village to identify their piece of land. They rarely could because geography had changed. The village now presents a deserted picture. “Agricultural land turned into desert, green paddy plants were uprooted by water and replaced by rocks and sand,” Ghulam Mohammad Khan said.
Mukhtara Begum said when they came back and entered their village and after clearing the debris they found their homes full of dead fish.
Bano said they have a huge number of poplar trees and were in the process of selling it for around Rs 50 lakh. “We lost that all,” she said.
Help was modest and came from the government as well as the private charities. The government gave compensation of Rs 4 lakhs for fully damaged houses. Kashmir Welfare Trust constructed three-room houses for the flood affected families: 16 sets, each comprising two rooms, one kitchen and one bathroom.
Mukhtara Begum and Sajad said those families whose houses were damaged partially were not helped. Residents said the government is not helping them in retrieving the land surrounding the village so that they could start cultivating it.
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Here, we describe what has changed between releases of the [[MIT Photonic Bands]] package. You can also refer to the <code>NEWS</code> file in the MPB package (or the <code>ChangeLog</code> file for a more detailed listing).
Here, we describe what has changed between releases of the [[MIT Photonic Bands]] package. You can also refer to the <code>NEWS</code> file in the MPB package (or the <code>ChangeLog</code> file for a more detailed listing).
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* MPB now also installs a library, for use from within Meep 1.2 or later.
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* Support Guile 2.x.
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* Support FFTW version 3.x (in addition to FFTW 2.x). Version 3.3 or later is required for MPI parallelism.
MPB 1.4
September 12, 2002
New find-k routine to find k as a function of frequency, instead of vice-versa.
The Great Field Renormalization: all fields are now normalized to have unit *integral* of their energy density (instead of unit sum over the grid points), which is much more useful e.g. for perturbation theory. (See field normalization section of manual.)
You can now save fields in Scheme variables to perform computations combining different fields. Example routines, e.g. to output the Poynting vector, are included.
Functions to export (and import) the raw eigenvectors (planewave amplitudes), as well as to compute dot products of eigenvectors from different k-points (e.g. for detecting band crossings).
Eliminated floating-point error on Alpha for homogeneous structure. Thanks to F. Lopez-Tejeira for the bug report.
Added man page for mpb-split.
Minor installation fixes.
MPB 1.3
March 10, 2002
You can now specify the grid size via the resolution input variable, instead of via grid-size. In this case, you make e.g. a 2d simulation by creating a lattice with size no-size in one dimension. The old syntax is still supported, but the new style is encouraged (all examples have been updated to the new style).
New functions to retrieve fields, dielectric functions, etcetera at any point, interpolated from the grid if necessary; see the get-*-point functions in the reference section.
New compute-field-integral function, analogous to compute-energy-integral; thanks to Marin Soljacic for the suggestion.
Support Scheme complex numbers where appropriate (e.g. in epsilon-offdiag or in the new field integration functions).
Got rid of NaN when computing the (undefined) group velocity for zero-frequency states at the Gamma point; arbitrarily return zero here instead. Thanks to Dmitry N. Chigrin for reporting floating-point exceptions on Alphas.
Fixed compilation failure for Fortran compilers that use all upper case; thanks to Steve Lantz of Cornell.
Added "Fun with Fortran" section to installation manual describing common Fortran pitfalls; thanks to Steve Lantz for the suggestion.
Improved BLAS/LAPACK detection; new --with-blas and --with-lapack options to specify these libraries manually.
MPB 1.2.1
MPB 1.2
November 15, 2001
Added new y-parity computation and constraints. See the new run-parity function, which allows you to simultaneously specify the parity through the y=0 and z=0 planes, for symmetric structures. See also the display-yparities function.
z parity is no longer computed by default; see the new display-yparities and display-zparities functions to pass to (run).
Now outputs D and H in consistent units (previously, D and E were multiplied by a factor of -frequency). Thanks to Michelle Povinelli for worrying.
epsilon.h5 file now includes extra datasets for all components of the effective dielectric tensor. (This feature is not yet supported if you configure --with-inv-symmetry --with-hermitian-epsilon.)
run-polarization is replaced by run-parity, and run-even/run-odd are deprecated in favor of run-zeven/run-zodd. run-te/run-tm are now equivalent to run-zeven/run-zodd when invoked for 3d systems.
Noted new basis-size property of geometry-lattice, from libctl 1.5. This makes it easier to use conventional units in the fcc lattice.
Group-velocity computation no longer silently invalidates fields that have been loaded with get-dfield, etcetera. Thanks to Marin Soljacic for the bug report.
The configure script now checks that guile is in the $PATH. Thanks to Bing Li and Giridhar Malalahalli for their bug reports.
Rotated the W and K points of the diamond-lattice example so that they are oriented similarly to those in the Photonic Crystals book by Joannopoulos et al. (eigenfrequencies are not affected). Thanks to Robert Sheldon for pointing out that this was confusing.
Added honey-rods.ctl example file: a 2d honeycomb lattice of rods.
Added line-defect.ctl example file: a line-defect waveguide in a 2d triangular lattice of dielectric rods, formed by a missing row of rods.
MPB 1.1.1
July 4, 2001
Fixed bug in H-field output that caused subtly incorrect H-field files (only) for 3d problems when NOT using mpbi.
Added retrieve-gap convenience function to return the gap between two specified bands.
Fixed typo that prevented compilation of MPI (parallel) version.
C compiler flags -O3 are no longer used by default, since they don't work with some compilers; most of the performance depends upon the BLAS and FFTW anyway. (Users wishing greater optimization can set the CFLAGS environment variable.) Thanks to Giridhar Malalahalli for the bug report.
MPB 1.1
May 6, 2001
Added compute-energy-integral function to make it easier to compute arbitrary field-energy integrals for perturbation theory; thanks to Marin Soljacic for the suggestion.
Fixed bug in output-field routines for the case of a nonzero kz component, that caused the fields to be multiplied by an exp(ikx) phase with a k in the wrong direction. Thanks to Jesper Riishede for the bug report.
MPB 1.0
February 23, 2001
At long last, support for distributed-memory parallel machines with MPI. The computation time (and memory usage) can often improve nearly linearly with the number of processors. Thanks to Clarendon Photonics for funding this work.
Also added mpb-split script to parallelize in a simpler way, without MPI, on e.g. SMP machines, by dividing up the list of k-points among a number of serial mpb processes.
Fixed bug in mpbi where artifacts could be introduced in 3d field and dielectric-function output files. (This only affected the output files, not the frequency eigenvalues, etcetera.) Thanks to Michelle Povinelli for the bug report.
Added new material-function material type, so that you can now specify that the dielectric tensor be an arbitrary function of position. Thanks to Peter Bermel for needing this.
If MPB is configured with the flag --with-hermitian-epsilon, then complex-hermitian dielectric tensors (corresponding to magnetic materials, which break time-reversal symmetry) are supported. Thanks to Shanhui Fan for pestering me about this.
Eliminated output-copies input variable; if you want to visualize multiple unit cells, you should use mpb-data.
Added new "nothing" material that punches a hole through other objects to the background. (This is distinct from default-material when epsilon-input-file is used, or for compute-energy-in-objects.)
Fixed inability of MPB 0.13 to run under an old version (1.2) of Guile.
Now gives an error if k-point or dielectric tensor is incompatible with run-te/run-tm, or if the dielectric tensor is not positive-definite.
Default to vendor cc instead of gcc, so that C and Fortran compilers are in sync. (We default to the vendor f77 because it was probably used to compile LAPACK/BLAS, and Fortran libraries are picky.)
The manual now cites our recent publication on the methods behind MPB.
Bug fix in compute-energy-in-object-list for non-orthogonal lattices.
Bug fix in combine-band-functions and other functions of band functions, which did not handle functions of no arguments ("thunks") correctly (crashing with an error message). Thanks to Michelle Povinelli for the bug report.
Fixed a floating-point sensitivity bug in mpb-data that could cause a crash on the Alpha; thanks to Dominique Caron for the bug report and debugging information.
MPB 0.13
January 7, 2001
Can now take advantage of inversion symmetry in the geometry, gaining at least a factor of two in speed and a factor of two in memory. To use this, you configure MPB with --with-inv-symmetry; the resulting executable is installed as "mpbi" and only supports inversion symmetry, so you will usually want to install the ordinary MPB as well.
Added new eigensolver-block-size input variable, so that MPB can optionally solve for only a few bands at a time instead of all at once, reducing memory requirements and often increasing speed.
Improved handling of the singular (zero-frequency) solutions at the Gamma (k=0) point. This k point should no longer converge slowly (or cause additional problems in the targeted eigensolver).
You can now pass a "thunk" (function of no arguments) to run, and it will be evaluated once per k-point (instead of once per band per k-point as for ordinary band functions).
compute-field-energy function now also returns the fraction of the energy in the various field components. Thanks to Karl Koch for the suggestion.
The filename-prefix variable is now read each time an output function is called, instead of once per (run), so it can be changed frequently if desired. Thanks to Karl Koch for the suggestion.
Added first-brillouin-zone function to transform an arbitrary k-point into an equivalent point in the first Brillouin zone. Thanks to Payam Rabiei for the suggestion.
In mpb-data, the center of the output cell is now always identical to the origin of the coordinate system. Thanks to Michelle Povinelli for pointing out this deficiency.
Used improved spherical-quadrature formula in computing the effective dielectric tensor in 3d; this should increase accuracy somewhat at lower grid resolutions. Thanks to Doug Allan for helpful discussions.
MPB 0.12
July 9, 2000
Added fix-*field-phase functions to allow a deterministic phase in the output fields, thanks to a suggestion by Doug Allan.
compute-field-energy now returns the total, unnormalized energy in the corresponding field; combined with compute-energy-in-objects, this makes it easy to do some perturbation theory and related calculations.
Eigensolver improvements. Periodic reorthogonalization and renormalization to combat some numerical problems. New line-minimization code, included with permission from MINPACK-2 by Jorge J. Moré.
Fixed breaking of 90-degree rotational symmetry-breaking by the mesh in 2d; thanks to Jim West and Doug Allan of Corning for the bug report. (In general, some symmetry-breaking by the discretization seems hard to avoid, however.)
Fixed bug in field output routines that could cause crashes for grid sizes not a multiple of 4.
Bug fix in dielectric function construction for 2d systems: we now use the xy plane at z=0 as documented, instead of z=-0.5.
Fixed bug in output-dpwr-in-objects. Thanks to Mihai Ibanescu for the bug report.
Compilation fixes. We need to set SHELL in the Makefile for make on some systems. Also added rule to insure ctl-io.h is created before main.c is compiled. Thanks to Christoph Becher for the bug reports.
MPB 0.9.1
January 7, 2000
Fixed eigensolver bug where special handling of Gamma (k=0) point could screw up convergence for subsequent k-points, causing incorrect results. | {
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In earlier times among the Fang
and Kota
of Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the skull and bones of
the honored deceased were preserved in wooden boxes or raffia
bags.
Reliquary figures carved out of wood and covered with strips of brass
would be set into the basket containing the bundled bones to guard them.
These burial remains were placed in shrines or sacred sites.
Roll your cursor over the reliquary to find the typical features:
a head piece which represents the elaborate
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Options Trading News
Yesterday's session was the reverse of the previous two days, with the big three stock indexes and the CBOE Volatility Index all higher.
The S&P 500 was in positive territory all day and finished at 1461.02, up 3.87 points. It had climbed above 1464 in the first hour of trading but gave up ground from there. Support remains at 1420 and resistance at 1475.
The Nasdaq 100 was up almost 9 points to 2727.65. It was as high as 2735 but followed a pattern similar to that of the SPX. It has support and resistance at 2670 and 2785 respectively.
The Russell 2000 was up 4.81 points to 879.51, a new all-time closing high. The small-cap index is right up against resistance, but support continues to 853.
All three equity indexes are above their 10-day moving averages.
The VIX rose 0.19 points, or 1.4 percent, to end the day at 13.81. It had fallen to 13.22 in the morning, its lowest level since May 2007, but rebounded quickly from there--indicating that option sellers are looking for a floor in volatility levels.
The VIX futures were mixed at the end of the day. The January futures gained 0.05 points to close at 14.70, while the February futures lost 0.05 points to finish at 16.40.
The early action pushed the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (VXX) below 27 to yet another all-time intraday low, but it did end the day with a small gain.
More than 568,000 VIX options changed hands, led by 359,000 calls. The action left the VVIX Index, which measures the implied volatility of the VIX options, barely higher at 78.51.
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When we're confronted with new ideas, we have a strong tendency to retreat to the beliefs we're comfortable with. This cognitive bias keeps us safe but also prevents us from seeing the errors in our own thinking and makes our world smaller than it should be. It's time to leave the cave of tribalism and embrace the unknown. It's risky and potentially painful but absolutely necessary. [More] | {
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I'm not a big fan of tying nymphs with bead heads for various reasons. I have been using a lot of Hugh Hartstell's tutorials on tying, and he seems to use a lot of the wire weight wrap (.015 non-toxic).
The other day, I acidentally bought .025 wire weight. Is this going to be too big for #12, 14, & 16 nymphs? I tied a few pheasant tails with it, but they seem to be a little heavy. I have only been doing 6-7 wraps, instead of the 10-15 that Hugh suggests with the .015.
The other thing I have noticed is that it seems to point the tail at a weird angle, since the barbs are stacked onto the thicker wire weight and then tied down to the hook shank/bend area. | {
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Armagh Observatory by moonlight, with Ursa Major (The Big Dipper) visible just above the Observatory and Capella and The Pleiades off to the right.
The telescope domes visible are, from left, the 1790 dome believed to be the second oldest surviving dome in the world, with its Troughton Equatorial Telescope being the oldest telescope in its original housing; The 1827 East Dome housing the 15-inch Grubb Reflector; The Robinson Memorial Dome completed in 1885 housing the 10-inch Grubb Refractor; and the Armagh Robotic Telescope which can be seen in use here and was completed in 2011.
Image composed of 9 photos at 18mm offering a ~270 degree field of view. | {
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Debanne- the Artist and Vince the checkbook welcome you to our Home on Grand Cayman.<br />
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You link to the definition of “biannual” leaves a lot to be desired. Essentially, it’s wrong. Biannual is every two years; SEMI-annual is twice a year. Here’s a link to an English major’s site on the bi- vs semi- issue: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/biweekly.html
@Eric: Actually that was supposed to be the other cop (his partner) in that panel, but yeah, I was afraid that wasn’t clear at all. Especially since, you know, they look exactly the same. I fixed it so that we’re on this one cop the whole time. Thanks…
Ohhhh, I get it now. Yeah, I completely missed the environmental cues that the penultimate panel’s policeman was the partner on the other end of the line. Now I feel kinda dumb and want to say sorry back.
Hmm, I could do another Bi joke, but its just too easy at this point. On a related issue though, who can tell me what Di-hydrogen monoxide is, and why it would be related to this whole Bi / semi confusion… :D
Gosh I loved that. Not so much the comic (it was funny though), but the comment. That’s crazy how that works. I’ve gotta try that in my comic someday. Don’t know how, or when, in fact I’ll probably forget to use preantepenultimate, but I love it. I love it a lot.
I think we should use bi-monthly and bi-annual for meaning every 2 months and every 2 years, respectively, because we already have “twice monthly” and “twice annually.” It would eliminate a lot of confusion, I think. | {
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The library offers a selection of self-study MCLE CDs. CDs check out for one week and can be renewed once if they have not been requested.
VENTURA COUNTY LAW LIBRARY
BORROWING RULES
Books and materials may be borrowed from the Library in accordance with the following rules.
1.Persons who may borrow material are:
A. Registered Borrower. Any member in good standing of the State Bar of California, active or inactive, who resides or maintains an office in Ventura County.
B. Authorized Borrower. Any messenger service or person associated with a Registered Borrower, Judicial Borrower, Official Borrower or County Borrower in a law or government office in Ventura County, authorized by the Borrower to borrow material for the use of and upon the financial responsibility of the authorizing Borrower.
Such designation shall be made only for the convenience and use of the authorizing Borrower, and shall not be made for the object of giving borrowing privileges to those who otherwise do not qualify under these rules.
Signed requests for Authorized Borrowers must be made in writing to the Library by the authorizing Borrower.
The authorizing Borrower is responsible for notifying the Library when they no longer wish an Authorized Borrower to borrow for them. At that time the Authorized Borrower will be deleted from their patron record.
C. Judicial Borrower. Any judge of a court located in Ventura County.
D. Official Borrower. At the sole discretion of the Librarian and for the purpose of conducting government business, any official of the United States or of the State of California who resides in or maintains an office in Ventura County or any subordinate of these officials, who does work of a legal nature in the performance of official duties.
E. County Borrower. Any head of a non-attorney County department or agency who does work of a legal nature in performance of official duties may borrow material from the Library to be returned the next day.
All fines and charges incurred by County Borrowers or their subordinates who have been designated as Authorized Borrowers, shall be charged to the head of the department or agency.
F. Temporary Borrower. At the sole discretion of the Librarian, members in good standing of the State Bar of California who practice in other counties in the State of California may borrow material for overnight. They must be actively engaged in trial in VenturaCounty and register with Library personnel by showing their California State Bar cards, giving the name of the case and the name of the judge assigned and filing out a signature card.
G. Deposit Borrower. – Residents of Ventura County, residents of Westlake Village, Agoura, Agoura Hills and Malibu in Los Angeles County, and residents of Ellwood, Isla Vista, Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, and Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County who do not qualify as Borrowers under the other categories set forth above may borrow material pursuant to the following rules and additional rules for Deposit Borrowers.
2. Signature cards and library cards. All Borrowers, except Authorized Borrowers, must maintain a current signature card on file with the Library.A Registered Borrower must show his/her California State Bar card and proof of residence or business in Ventura County at the time of filing out an initial signature card. New signature cards must be approved by Library personnel. Once approved a library card will be issued to all Borrowers except Authorized and Temporary Borrowers. The Borrower is responsible for all materials checked out on their card and should report a lost card immediatelyto the Library. TheBorrower should give the card to their Authorized Borrower for checking out library materials. A list of Authorized Borrowers will appear on the Borrower’s patron record at the time of checkout.
The initial library card is free, but a $5 fee will be charged to replace lost, missing or stolen library cards.
3. Books and materials that may be borrowed. Reference books, some loose-leaf services, certain codes, reports, digests, citators, rare books, material received by federal depository and other unique items may not be borrowed and will be marked “Non-circulating” or “In Library Use” on the pocket . All other items may be borrowed.
4. Loan period. Books or materials may be borrowed for a period of 7 calendar days, 3 business days or overnight as indicated on the pocket. Material due on a day when the Library is closed shall not be due until the next day the Library is open.
No items may be borrowed if overdue fines have not been paid. However, one renewal will be allowed without payment of the fine.
5.Renewals and Holds.An item returned on or before the due date may be borrowed a second consecutive time as long as there are no holds pending. After the end of the second borrowing period the item must be returned to the shelf overnight to afford others the opportunity to use it. Items that are checked out may be placed on hold. The renewal or hold may be done in person, by telephone or by email to [email protected].
An overdue item may be renewed if there are no reserves. However, a fine will be charged and the borrowing privileges will be suspended for further transactions until the fine has been paid.
6. Number of items that may be borrowed. No more than 15 items may be checked out at one time by any Borrower.
7.Fines and charges. Until an overdue item is returned or declared lost, overdue fines shall be charged as follows:
$2 per day per item up to a maximum of $150 per item
Overdue charges shall not be waived and may not be applied to the replacement cost of lost material. Overdue fines shall accumulate until the material is returned or declared lost by the Borrower who must convey this in writing to the Librarian. If an item is found by a Borrower who has previously declared it lost, the date of the order for replacement shall be deemed the cutoff date and the Borrower shall be charged the full amount of replacement of the item in addition to the overdue charges accrued. If the item is found and returned before the order for replacement is made, the item shall be considered overdue up to and including the date returned, and the Borrower shall be charged accordingly.
All Borrowers shall be charged for the replacement cost or the value of an item plus $25. An item substantially damaged or defaced shall be deemed lost, unless it may be suitably repaired, in which event a charge equal to the cost of making the repairs shall be made against the Borrower
Any item not returned within 30 days after the date of the overdue notice shall be declared lost by the Librarian and the Borrower may be charged accordingly.
Payment by cash or check of all fines and charges may be made during all open library hours. Borrowing privileges will be reinstated at the time that all fines have been paid. If a check submitted for payment of fines or charges is returned for insufficient funds a payment in cash plus a $25 processing fee will be required. The check will then be returned to the Borrower.
The Borrowing privileges of a Borrower who fails to pay the overdue fine at the time the item is returned shall be suspended until the fine is paid. A $5 billing charge shall be added to the fines not paid in full at the time the overdue item is returned
8.Where to return material. All material must be checked in by Library personnel to insure proper credit. Items must be left in the place designated “Return Books Here” located on the circulation counter at the front of the library. Items may not be left outside the Library or in any other location. Material returned by mail will be deemed returned the day it is received by the Library.
Materials borrowed are only for the personal use of the Borrower. Violation of this provision will constitute grounds for revocation of borrowing privileges.
10. Restrictions on borrowing privileges. Registered Borrowers may be required to become Deposit Borrowers upon the occurrence of any of the following:
Fines and/or charges for overdue or lost items were not paid within 45 days of the billing date;
An overdue item was not returned or declared lost within 30 days following the due date;
A check submitted in payment of fines or charges was returned for insufficient funds.
DEPOSIT BORROWER RULES
1. A minimum, refundable cash deposit of $200 shall be made by the Borrower which shall entitle the Borrower to borrow 2 items.
2. An additional $100 refundable cash deposit shall be made by the Borrower for each additional item to be borrowed.
3. Proof of residence must be shown at the time of deposit.
4. Deposits will be accepted during all open hours.
5. Charges for lost, damaged or overdue item may be paid by cash or check prior to the refund of the deposit. If a check submitted in payment of fines or charges is returned for insufficient funds, the amount of the check, plus a $25 handling charge will be deducted from the Borrower’s deposit. The Borrower will be required to add to their deposit enough cash to bring the deposit up to the $200 minimum ( or up to the $100 required for each item they wish to borrow over the two items covered by the minimum deposit) if they wish to continue to borrow. The Borrower will be required to pay all future fines and charges in cash.
6. At the time a refund of the deposit is requested, all charges for lost, damaged, or overdue items must be paid in cash, or deducted from the deposit prior to refund. The Borrower shall be charged for any additional expenses incurred by the Library as the result of replacement or repair of items borrowed by the Borrower that may be in excess of the amount on deposit.
7. Any interest earned on the Borrower’s deposit shall accrue to the benefit of the VenturaCounty law Library to offset its expenses, and no interest shall be due to the Borrower.
8. Refunds of deposit shall be made within thirty days of receipt of a written request from the Borrower.
9. The rights and obligations of the Borrower are not transferable to another person.
An integrated library system, EOS, implemented by SirsiDynix, contains information about our books and subscriptions. It includes information about the price of updates and the date received. It also includes information about how many times that item has been used. Any information about the patron who used it is exempt from disclosure by the following exemptions in the Public Records Act:
library circulation records kept for the purpose of identifying the borrower of items available in the library. Government Code Section 6254(j).
library records that identify a patron, including, but not limited to, a patron’s name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address, that a library patron provides in order to become eligible to borrow or use books and other materials. Government Code Section 6267.
*19911. Any person who willfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging to any public or incorporated library, reading room, museum, or other educational institution, for 30 days after notice in writing to return the article or property, given after the expiration of the time for which by the rules of the institution the article or property may be kept, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
The parent or guardian of a minor who willfully and maliciously commits any act within the scope of this section shall be liable for all damages so caused by the minor. | {
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PNOC gets 27 proposals for LNG terminal project
MANILA, Philippines -
State-run Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) has received a number of proposals
for the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal aimed to ensure
power supply ahead of the anticipated depletion of the Malampaya gas facility
by 2024, its top official said yesterday.
Majority of the offers
came from foreign companies interested in investing in the country’s LNG
sector, PNOC president Reuben Lista said in a briefing yesterday.
He said the state-run
firm received three offers from firms based in Singapore, two from Korea, seven
from China, six from Japan, two from Turkey, one from UAE, two from Spain and
one from Australia.
Meanwhile, only three
offers are from Filipino companies.
PNOC has set end-April
as deadline to accept offers for the LNG development, Lista said.
“We will study
all offers… We gave them until end-April to submit all proposals. Then we will
shortlist it,” he said.
“We will choose
what will bring the best benefit to the country and to our people and of course,
allow them to recover the cost of development. This is a continuing project…
this can go as much as 800 megawatts (MW),” Lista said.
The LNG terminal will
consist of an initial 200-MW power plant, storage facilities, liquefaction and
regasification units.
Lista said the
development of the facilities with off-shore regasification units would take
2.5 to three years while one with an on-shore facility would add another 1.5
years to complete.
“Our optimistic dream
is to finish the terminal by 2019, meaning it is completed and operational…our
pessimistic dream is 2020,” he said.
Once completed, the
output will be used to serve Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) areas
and provide electricity supply to the poorest of the poor, the PNOC chief said.
Last year, DOE
Secretary Alfonso Cusi said the government would spearhead the establishment of
an LNG terminal to ensure supply amid the impending end of contract of the
Malampaya deep water gas-to-power project in 2024.
The government will
also provide an emergency source of power when the Luzon grid loses supply due
to plant outages. This will be done through PNOC, DOE’s corporate arm. | {
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This time round I had the opportunity to handle the new Seiko 5 Sports model that has the new “5” logo. Seiko dished out 27 variants at one go and grouped them into various styles namely, Sports Style, Suits Style, Specialist Style, Street Style and Sense Style. The five variants I have here are the Suits Style SRPD67K1, SRPD71K2, SRPD73K2 and SRPD75K1, and Sense Style SRPD85K1. In this post, I will share some observations, thoughts and pictures. Let’s take a look.Continue reading → | {
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Well, I tried the un-yeasted malt loaf recipe listed on this site a few days ago. It had good flavor and crumb, but it is not the one I remember. The one I use to get in the UK was very dark, almost black, and sticky delicious! Still looking for THAT recipe if anyone can help. I haven't tried the one with yeast, but by looking at the ingredients, I know it won't be dark, sticky, and rich. I will try it next week however. Today I made richman's brioche from BBA! | {
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In flashback, bi-polar CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Tara Lynn Foxx) is shown in Iraq, where she bribes her way into a prison. One of her informants is soon to be executed, and she is trying to get him to divulge any information he may have. He agrees, but as a last request he demands a blow-job in return. Carrie obliges, sucking him off through the bars. Watch the entire scene now.
Carrie want to continue the surveillance on Brody, But David is not convinced. Using her past sexual history with David, tries real hard to convince him, but to no avail. He shuts her down. Watch the entire scene now.
A flashback reveals that Brody has not been entirely truthful about his captivity, as he is seen having sex with three beautiful Muslim girls, brought to him by elusive terrorist Abu Nazir Watch the entire scene now.
Carrie decides to continue the surveillance all by herself and arranges to bump into Brody in a bar. After bonding about the difficulty of talking to people about the war, the two of them have sex in a parking lot. Watch the entire scene now. | {
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The Senate Republican Caucus recently celebrated the bipartisan Senate passage of a bill that will establish CT FAST Funds and CT EDGE, two programs that will promote sustainable job growth and economic development in urban communities.
Hartford– The Senate Republican Caucus recently celebrated the bipartisan Senate passage of a bill that will establish CT FAST Funds and CT EDGE, two programs that will promote sustainable job growth and economic development in urban communities. The bill was passed by the Senate late last week and now heads to the CT House of Representatives.
The legislation, Senate Bill No. 961 An Act Concerning the Delivery and Targeting of Economic Assistance to Small Businesses, will establish two programs first proposed in the Senate Republicans’ Plan for Progress and Opportunity in Connecticut’s Cities. The programs will offer new opportunities for small business start-ups and reinvestment projects including special loans and tax credits available to urban areas.
“It’s time for Connecticut to recognize the strength of our state depends on the strength of our cities,” said Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano (R-North Haven). “Republicans put forward an urban plan earlier this year to start that conversation. We have worked collaboratively with legislators from both sides of the aisle to create a plan that recognizes the economic challenges faced in our cities, and empowers people to rise to those challenges and find success.”
“This legislation would increase accessibility, transparency and opportunities for new and growing businesses and redevelopment in our cities to spark job growth and economic progress,” said Senator Witkos (R-Canton), Senate Minority Leader Pro Tempore. “This is an important first step in mapping a new path to prosperity for Connecticut cities.”
“Both Republicans and Democrats sincerely care about our cities. This legislation is a tremendous effort on behalf of both caucuses to come together to build a foundation for a better future,” said Senator Scott Frantz (R-Greenwich), Ranking Member of the Commerce Committee.
The Senate Republican Caucus also thanked Senator Joan Hartley, Co-Chair of the Commerce Committee for her leadership. “I want to recognize the hard work of Sen. Hartley on this legislation and thank her for her commitment to working together and advancing this legislation,” said Sen. Fasano.
CT FAST Funds
The legislation makes multiple changes to the state’s Small Business Express Program to make loans more accessible to small startup companies in urban areas. The bill dedicates $5 million from the Small Business Express Program for CT FAST Funds, a loan program for “mom and pop” shops in Connecticut’s largest cities. The Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development would be responsible for establishing this loan program in conjunction with partnering community banks to incentivize local investments managed by private lenders. In addition, the new law would:
Open Small Business Express program grants to start-up companies.
Improve transparency at the DECD.
Direct 7% of available funds from Small Business Express to regional economic development entities to add further capacity.
Create the Office of Small Business Affairs within DECD to conduct outreach and identify people in cities that have been underserved by the current Express Program.
CT EDGE
The bill also establishes CT EDGE (Economic Development for a Growing Economy) tax credits, a new component to the state’s Urban and Industrial Sites Reinvestment program. CT EDGE will provide investors and developers a tax credit for developing or converting existing vacant buildings in urban centers to affordable housing, mix use development or viable commercial/industrial space. The new program would be a faster process than the current UISR process as all applications would have to be approved by DECD within 90 days. The review process would also include an economic impact analysis to ensure all projects are viable and make sense for a specific community. These redevelopment tax credits would incentivize investors to take on projects that would otherwise be cost prohibitive.
The bill must be voted on in the House of Representatives for final approval before the legislative session ends on June 3. | {
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Expansion Planned for Hindu Community Center
South Jordan, UT – There are about 9,000 people of South Asian Indian descent in Utah. Just over half of them are Hindu. The Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple in South Jordan was built in 2003 as a central gathering place. Now they have plans to expand to meet the community's growing needs. Sheri Quinn has the story. | {
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The legendary rock climber made history in July of 2017 when he became the first to ever free solo climb – that is, climb without ropes or other aid – El Capitan, a notorious 3,000-foot cliff located in the Yosemite Valley in California.
Honnold’s historic ascent – years in the making – was the subject of “Free Solo,” a documentary by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that just won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.
But film is just one medium through which the story of Honnold’s climb can be told.
Mark Synnott’s “The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life” (Dutton, $28) is a longform literary exploration of Honnold’s feat. It lends texture and context to the climb, connecting it to the history of climbing in general and climbing in Yosemite specifically. By checking in with the sport’s forebears – among whom Synnott can include himself – the book allows for a depth of understanding in how climbing has evolved, as well as how that evolution has resulted in an athlete such as Alex Honnold.
While there’s no doubt that physique and physicality play massive roles in what makes a successful athlete, there’s more to it than that. True sporting greatness springs from not just one’s body, but also that body’s connection with the brain.
In his new book “The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius” (Dutton, $28), Zach Schonbrun attempts to explore that connection; it’s a deep dive into the neuroscience behind movement that attempts to develop an understanding of the body-brain relationship and determining how the relationship impacts those performing at an elite athletic level. | {
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Status
This is a general release of Gold. It is fully functional for use within a single organization, while some of its grid-related features are still in their infancy. The web GUI included with this release
is based on Perl CGI (deprecating the Java JSP GUI). The User's Guide has been expanded to include a chapter on Customizing Gold Objects. | {
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I recently dug out LBA for the first time in a few years... and a few minutes in, my laptop fan was going nuts and my battery was fading fast. It was so annoying I had to crank the sound up to mask it! For a game engine from the mid-'90s this seemed like something was a bit wrong. Given that I actually wanted to be able to play more than 20 minutes on a charge, I did a bit of reverse engineering to figure out how to calm it down a bit. Here's what I did and what came out, I'd be interested to hear if anyone else finds this useful. I know "here I patched it" can mean all sorts of things, so I'm going to explain exactly what I changed and you can decide how you feel about it
As with most software of the era, LbaWin uses 100% of the CPU regardless of how busy it is; it spends all its time checking for new input a squillion times a second. With those computers it wasn't a big deal, but now that so many of us have moved to mobile devices, it's a little troublesome for the user experience.
Interestingly, LbaWin already has an FPS limiter: according to the change notes, the FPS was limited to 500 to avoid problems with collision detection. Here's the FPS limiter code in LbaWin.exe:
It loops over and over, checking the inputs, until it's time for the next frame - using 100% CPU. Then it sets the next time 2ms in the future, to get that 500FPS limit.
This is easy to fix: we just need a little sleep in that loop. Even a sleep of just 1ms would do the job. Of course, there's no empty space here to insert some code, so it's got to go elsewhere; and perhaps more importantly, this isn't the only place the game spins in a tight loop.
It turns out that this loop governs the main rendering when you're running around in the world, but there are other loops that take over during dialogue, for example. If we just patch this loop, the fan still cranks up while you're listening to people talk! Also annoying.
Luckily, the answer lies in the polling routine sub_4034A0. This is called from most places where the game spins waiting for timers or input. It looks like this:
sub_4036D0 does housekeeping related to FPS calculation and timers (and FPS display if you press F).
sub_4033E0 handles input from Windows' event system (so keyboard input, Alt+F4, et cetera). And it returns a flag indicating if the game has been asked to quit: if so, it calls into sub_403480, which exits the game.
As it happens, sub_403480, the exit routine, is placed just before this code:
Conveniently, this gives us a little space to work in. The exit routine calls PostQuitMessage before calling _exit, but this doesn't actually achieve anything, because _exit exits the process immediately.
So by cutting that out and moving the _exit call up a bit, we score a few free bytes of space to build something in...
So here's what I did: I replaced the call to sub_4036D0 to call the new empty space. There, I wrote a new function which calls Sleep() to sleep a few milliseconds, and then calls sub_4036D0 itself. (I also changed a few sub names on the way to this pic.)
In the end, I decided that running at 500FPS was also over the top, so I changed the FPS limit to 60FPS (waiting 16ms instead of 2ms between frames). This seems like an entirely reasonable limit for all purposes, but feel free to let me know if you have a strong opinion! It drops CPU usage by about 8x so that's pretty big.
Thus I chose to set the sleep in the loop to 4ms, so it should poll for input 3-4 times on every frame. Again, that should be more than enough for any usage, right?
Now the CPU usage is comfortably at 5-10% while playing on my laptop, the fan never runs, and I can enjoy the game properly
(I also had a problem with Wine; it was burning up another CPU in wined3d_cs_run() and I had to disable CSMT using regedit... not sure if that's a Wine bug or an LbaWin bug.)
Anyway, this scratches my itch; I'd be curious to hear if it's useful for anyone else.
how on earth u managed to dig and discover all those things is beyond me ... the level of interpretation you were able to give to all those ASM routines is wtf-level. Hats down man, u are truly a wizard, go grab your tunic, u've earned it!!!
__________________ "Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." --- Paul Bowles | {
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The Snipers' Story (6 pics)
Operating from a remote patrol base in Helmand, two British snipers were responsible for killing 75 Taliban fighters in just 40 days. In one remarkable feat of marksmanship, two insurgents were dispatched with a single bullet.
The massive incorporation of ranged warfare has turned war into a game of sorts. With the press of a button (or pull of a trigger) it's easy to distance yourself from the fact that human lives, good or bad, are ended. But enough about the sanctity of life, they are presumably muslim so they have something to look forward to after death.
they should be called ''exterminators';'...but snipers sounds kinda cool though...and I will take what a sniper does over what drones do anyday. the job needs to be done and these guys do a damn good job. | {
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All You Need To Know About Unsecured Business Loan for Traders
“It takes money to make money.” We often hear this adage in the business world, and it does hold true. Even so, maintaining adequate cash reserves to meet the fixed and variable costs can be a real challenge, especially for start-ups and small businesses.
Most of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) initiate operations with a low level of funds while simultaneously facing competition from established players and dealing with the challenges of seasonal cycles. Consequently, they may not be able to generate the estimated sales volumes.
Even if a venture is performing as per expectations, it may need to make additional investments to hire qualified experts, adopt new technologies and maintain larger stocks of materials/inventory for sustained progress. With experience, SMEs know that a cash cushion is necessary for both survival and growth. An Unsecured Business loan for Traders best offers this advantage.
The Challenge
There are multiple sources of an SME loan for small enterprises, and sincere business borrowers approach a financial institution only when they are confident about and can prove their venture’s ability to pay back in time. Nevertheless, a high number of applications get rejected because these borrowers are unable to pledge financial assets as collateral against a loan.
Not everyone owns huge property. New entrepreneurs often start their operations from rented premises and may not have any significant assets to hypothecate. A secured business loan for traders can also be denied if the lending institution does not deem a particular asset to be valuable enough for the funding.
The Solution
What comes as a relief for business owners is the fact that an unsecured SME/MSME loan is a prominent option for finance, and it comes at significantly more customized terms.
As the digital revolution continues to transform the lending industry, the possibilities of quick funding have only increased for small businesses, and there is an array of SME loan products available to them. A digitally operating FinTech company offers term loans that can be used to buy new premises (shop/showroom/office) or expand the business to new locations. Entrepreneurs can also apply for a working capital loanto continually fuel operations in the low phases of the business cycle.
Moreover, FinTechs offer loan to buy stocks. This facility is particularly helpful for customer-facing ventures such as retail and restaurants.
What is common to all these FinTech credit products is that they are unsecured loans – they can be taken on short notice and without pledging any asset as collateral.
How to apply for a business loan for traders ?
A majority of new-age business managers now understand the lending models of FinTech companies. Those who are still unaware of the concept can always do a quick online search to comprehend it. In brief, a FinTech lending company typically is a non-banking financial company (NBFC) that uses digital technology to make financial solutions quicker to access.
While the exact eligibility criterion differs as per the kind of SME loan applied for, the principal requirement is the operational business history of at least one year. Pursuant to the rules of the money market, this stipulation is necessary to show that the business owners are genuine and have been running the company for some time.
To qualify for the requested amount, a business with active operations should also show its commitment towards tax compliance. It should also have a precise idea of its loan requirements. This not only helps the borrowing organisation to increase its chances of getting an approval for the credit, but it also makes it convenient to choose the right type and term of the loan.
Anyone applying for a business loan for traders should understand the cost of the loan upfront. When a FinTech is approached for such an investment, this cost includes the interest rate and a nominal processing fee that is usually less than 2% of the borrowed amount.
The application process is entirely digital, and that makes it shorter than the overwhelming procedures of visiting a traditional lender, printing multiple copies of documents and then staying in suspense for weeks to get the required amount.
Applying for a loan from a digital platform takes less than 10 minutes, and the application formats are available on the secure website of the FinTech lender. The application form usually comprises of some basic questions to evaluate the eligibility of the business for a loan. These questions include years in operation, average annual/monthly revenue, tax payments and past credit history, if any. Digital uploads of the relevant documents support the information.
There is no waiting game when a business applies for a loan from a FinTech lending company. As soon as the application is submitted, its evaluation by customised algorithms begins, and it may then be sent for a quick manual review.
FinTechs notify the borrowers of the decision on the application on the same day. If the decision results in an approval, they disburse the total approved amount in the next 2-3 working days. The amount is credited directly to the business bank account, and the SME can withdraw the necessary sums to fund the operations/stock purchases as required.
How to pay back the borrowed amount ?
Most loans are paid through equated monthly instalments (EMIs), and the same method can be used to repay a FinTech SME loan. To make this process more convenient for their borrowers, some companies give them the flexibility to vary the instalment amount when required. As soon as the business records reflect better revenues than the estimations, it can pay off the loan in full and save the trouble of managing EMIs for the complete schedule. The prepayment penalty charged by a FinTech is still less than that of banks and traditional NBFCs.
Is your business facing a cash crunch? Do you want to move to the next level of growth or invest funds to start operations at a new location? Capital Float is a friendly FinTech lender that is trusted by businesses in multiple industries. From term loans and working capital loans to funds for specific domains such as medical practice and online selling, we provide an array of credit products tailored to the needs of business owners and self-employed professionals.
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Vocalist. She was one-third of the music trio The McGuire Sisters. Dorothy was the middle of three sisters Christine (oldest) and Phyllis (youngest), their mother was an ordained minister, they were born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, a Northern suburb of Cincinnati. Due to their strict upbringing, contemporary music was not allowed and the sisters would resort to sneaking into the house records from The Andrews Sisters among other popular artists. Their first performance in public was at the family's church and by the end of the 1940s, they were known throughout Ohio after appearances on local radio programs. Their first break in the industry was when they landed an engagement on Kate Smith's radio show in New York which led to a contract with Decca Records under their Coral label. In addition, the were given a spot on the popular TV program "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts" and became regular performers during a seven-year run (1951 to 1958). They found instant success with their first Pop-Chart placing "Sincerely" (1955), which secured the number one position for ten weeks while achieving gold record status and from their popularity, they earned the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine. This was followed with further Top-10 hits including "Something's Gotta Give" (1955), "He" (1955) and the number one, gold record "Sugartime" (1958) and during the 1960s, they were regularly-featured performers on "The Ed Sullivan Show". They retired from show business by the end of the decade and reunited during the mid 1980s. They continued to perform together into the 2000s. The McGuire Sisters were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. Dorothy died of complications from Parkinson's disease and dementia. She is not to be confused with Dorothy McGuire the actress of the same name. (bio by: C.S.) | {
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
A BBQ + the Wed Club meetings at B... I think I've finally gotten used to going home @ 2 on a Wed and waking up at 6, without having to resort to an MC. Using 2 way vista + fujifilm superia 400. The focus is a lil off though, meh. | {
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Interesting Random Facts
Can a Snake Kill an Elephant?
The giant king cobra is one of the deadliest creatures in the world. The adult has enormous poison sacs and its venom kills in a very short time.
The king cobra will attack even if it hasn’t been provoked. In Asia, where these snakes are found, king cobras have been known to kill huge elephants. The snake strikes the elephant at the tip of its trunk, which is very soft and tender, or on its foot, where the toenails join its skin. Death from the deadly venom usually occurs within a few hours!
The vast majority of snakes, including King Cobras, retreat when humans are present. They do not “attack” for no reason. King Cobras are well known to hood and defend themselves, growling and showing their fangs to scare the offender away. All of this happened before they ever try to advance or strike. Hardly an attack..
Anonymous
King Cobras do not attack! Since humans are not on their menu, they often are reluctant to strike, even when provoked. Elephants are not on their menu, either; and since they are considerably bigger than humans and can crush a King with one well-placed foot, Kings tend to give them a wide berth.
While it may be possible for King Cobra venom to kill an elephant, it would take a perfectly placed bite, at the perfect time and under the perfect (for the snake) circumstances, to accomplish the task. The likelihood of the snake surviving the elephant’s almost inevitable counter-attack is slim and none! | {
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Best of Anne Hidalgo
Best of Anne Hidalgo
FRANCE VOTE-PARIS
AFP
Badges in support of Paris Deputy Mayor and socialist party candidate in the 2014 municipale elections Anne Hidalgo are pictured during the inauguration of her campaign headquarters in Paris on December 8, 2012. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND LANGLOIS
Badges in support of Paris Deputy Mayor and socialist party candidate in the 2014 municipale elections Anne Hidalgo are pictured during the inauguration of her campaign headquarters in Paris on December 8, 2012. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND LANGLOIS
Anne Hidalgo, Paris Match, Issue 3330
Kasia Wandycz/Paris Match
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
Anne Hidalgo, Paris Match, Issue 3330
Kasia Wandycz/Paris Match
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
Anne Hidalgo, Paris Match, Issue 3330
Kasia Wandycz/Paris Match
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
Anne Hidalgo, Paris Match, Issue 3330
Kasia Wandycz/Paris Match
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
French politican and member of the Socialist party who is running for the post of mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo is photographed at home with her husband Jean-Marc Germain for Paris Match on March 9, 2013 in Paris, France.
Monnaie De Paris : Reopening Party With Opening Of The McCarthy Exhibition In Paris
Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
First Deputy Mayor of Paris, responsible for culture Bruno Julliard, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Artist Paul McCarthy, French minister of Culture and Communication Fleur Pellerin and President of Monnaie de Paris Christophe Beaux and Director of cultural programmes of Monnaie de Paris Chiara Parisi attend the Monnaie De Paris : Reopening Party with Opening of the McCarthy Exhibition, on October 23, 2014 in Paris, France.
First Deputy Mayor of Paris, responsible for culture Bruno Julliard, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Artist Paul McCarthy, French minister of Culture and Communication Fleur Pellerin and President of Monnaie de Paris Christophe Beaux and Director of cultural programmes of Monnaie de Paris Chiara Parisi attend the Monnaie De Paris : Reopening Party with Opening of the McCarthy Exhibition, on October 23, 2014 in Paris, France.
Keywords
Badges in support of Paris Deputy Mayor and socialist party candidate... News PhotoAnne Hidalgo,Badge,Candidate,Democracy,Election,France,Headquarters,Horizontal,Paris - France,Political Party,Politics,Socialist PartyPhotographer AFPCollection: AFP 2012 AFPBadges in support of Paris Deputy Mayor and socialist party candidate in the 2014 municipale elections Anne Hidalgo are pictured during the inauguration of her campaign headquarters in Paris on December 8, 2012. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND LANGLOIS (Photo credit should read BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images) | {
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For the above grate, I heard you have to remove the pressure port for the spedo for it to fit (on the sl 750). Is this true?
Nope, this will fit a 650,750 or a 780. The only diff in this and a 650 is the length of the Scoop,This one is a little deeper,so a little slower,nothing a die grinder won't fix,if you want to make it like the 650. | {
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Shrinking pie at Showtime
High Point, N.C. – The contract market is the only bright spot in an otherwise gloomy environment for decorative fabrics, key suppliers headed to Showtime report told HTT last week.
With various segments involved in the decorative fabrics universe undergoing radical changes during this period, suppliers were looking at abbreviated appointment schedules for the Showtime market, which kicked yeterday. The recreation vehicle (RV) industry, especially, has been in a major decline for the past year; a number of fabric retailers are by-passing this week’s event, and there are fewer furniture manufacturers – and they are buying differently as well as not coming to Showtime.
An indication of how Showtime will turn out from a business and attendance point of view is the fact that far fewer furniture manufacturers went to New York for pre-Showtime fabric showings than in past years. This group typically used Showtime for “catch-up” short visits. This week, they are expected to be paying longer visits per showroom.
And as with many other industries, decorative fabric suppliers are trimming staff, cutting expenses and consolidating.
“Business is generally slow, but contract is growing and good,” said Jeff Thomases, ceo of Swavelle/Mill Creek. Furniture, he added, “is about even with last year, and retail and jobbers are soft. The RV business is the worst decline for us.”
“Buyers are looking for the most perceived value and the ‘jewels’ in a line,” explained Tom Notaro, vp of Wearbest. He is expecting Showtime to be more important to certain furniture suppliers because there was “a definite decline in pre-showings in New York.”
Overall, he added, “Business is holding its own but it’s tough hunkereing.”
“It’s a struggle, but we’re all right,” commented Jack Eger, svp of Craftex. As part of the company’s streamlining, “We are moving from this office (the company’s headquarters in Blue Bell, Pa.) – it’s been too big for four or five years.”
Looking at the various business segments, Eger said, “Contract is terrific, jobber business is mediocre, the product has been selected, but not ordered, and residential business stinks.”
“December is usually a quiet month, but this is not normal,” remarked Tom Hilb, president of Heritage House. “I don’t know anything uplifting.” As part of the firm’s economy moves, Hilb has closed the firm New York office and hopes to close the showroom here.
“It’s very tough,” said Jim Richman, ceo of Richloom. “With the pie overall shrinking, we have to get a bigger percentage of that pie,” he remarked. Looking to this week, he said, “Appointments are lighter for many reasons, especially in the RV world.” And the changing market has affected the non-furniture manufacturing segment as well as the retail over-the-counter fabric business.
“I live in la-la land (Los Angeles) and we don’t feel the economy pressures like they do in Minneapolis for example,” said Jason Carr, president of Softline Home Fashions. “Our volume is pretty much the same as last year, but the margins are down. Still, we’re OK.”
At retail, Carr added, “It’s difficult to get facings, so we’re still in a hungry mode. I see a turnaround as 20 months away.”
“Everyone’s stopped buying; it’s brutal. But contract is not as bad as residential,” said Mike Shelton, president of Valdese. The company has had three layers of layoffs. Beyond that, “We’re doing everything we can to impact the top line,” he said.
The crunch really began in earnest in November for Valdese, he explained: “We had a good October and even made money in November.” Shelton also is concerned about the supply base for the fabric business.
“Business is tough but not impossible; we’re seeing reduced orders from all sectors,” said Robert Lachow, vp of J.B. Martin. “The velvet mill is reporting that their better fabrics are selling well, and there is demand but a lower level than it had been.” | {
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Emma: Jay Cutler Changing Narratives With Clutch Play
(CBS) With the pocket folding, Bears quarterback Jay Cutler stepped forward, gripped the football and unleashed a bullet over the middle. This had some zip.
Pressure was coming, but Cutler could see a white jersey open. All he could hope for was a catch. Sure enough, Zach Miller made it happen. The tight end who missed the last three seasons with various injuries reached out with his right hand extended, managing to deflect the ball to his grasp, then he fell to the end zone for a touchdown.
This would prove to be the game-winning touchdown and served as two reminders – that Cutler has been fabulous this season, and he’s done it without a full complement of talent at his disposal. On Monday, he led his third fourth-quarter comeback of the season, a 22-19 victory over the Chargers in San Diego that moved the Bears to 3-5.
“That’s what the NFL is about,” Cutler told reporters afterward. “You got to play your best in the fourth quarter.”
Once again, Cutler delivered when it mattered most. He completed 27 of 40 passes for 345 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. On Twitter, the nickname “Clutchler” began to emerge.
Hey, whatever works.
During this rebuilding season, the Bears have been in every game in which Cutler has finished. The two blowout losses came against the Cardinals (Cutler was injured in the second quarter) and the Seahawks, a game that saw Jimmy Clausen serve as the starter. In a win over the Chiefs, he led a fourth-quarter comeback without Alshon Jeffery or Eddie Royal, working with Marquess Wilson, Cameron Meredith and Marc Mariani.
Sure, the Bears are devoid of talent throughout their roster, but they do have Cutler, who has made everyone better.
Cutler became the Bears’ all-time leader in passing touchdowns with 139 in Chicago. He passed Sid Luckman’s career total of 137 with a crafty play-action fake and dart to Martellus Bennett in the second quarter.
The reputation for much of Cutler’s career is that of a mistake-prone quarterback who can’t get out of his way. Fairly or unfairly, he’s been portrayed with various different narratives. But this season has brought different results and rhetoric for Cutler. He’s the heart of the Bears’ offense, playing terrific football. Simply put, he’s been clutch.
Even after a miserable pick-six in the second quarter – one which occurred due to miscommunication with Jeffery – he came out for the second half and was excellent.
“It just says a lot about the guy – how he responded in the second half,” Bears coach John Fox said.
Cutler now has an excellent coaching staff around him, including an offensive coordinator in Adam Gase and quarterbacks coach in Dowell Loggains with whom he trusts. Gone are bad influences to take over the locker room. This is Cutler’s team, and he’s making it that much better.
In Monday’s victory, one could argue the Bears left 16 points on the field in the first half, with Robbie Gould missing a pair of field goals and the team twice taking itself out of field goal range with maddening penalties. Jeffery showed he’s human, letting a touchdown pass slip through his hands. It was a sloppy, frustrating effort at times, but the Bears had just enough to win, led by their quarterback.
Countless narratives have suggested that Cutler isn’t respected, can’t be a good quarterback and wouldn’t ever be a winner. All have been proved wrong this season.
Cutler is silencing his critics, one fourth-quarter comeback after the next. | {
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For those looking for other nudists in the Indiana area, check out the meetups website. There is at least one group that meets statewide at least once a month. Check it out and hope to see you there. Ernie
I'm planning a nudist day event, or depending on the demand, a nudist weekend camping event in July or August 08. If anyone is interested drop me a line at [email protected] and I'll get the details to you. Shay
Has anyone ever done anything about the nudists day in indiana? Looks like someone is going to have to start a nudist club for singles and especially men who dont fit into the quota at "nudist" resorts and or other places. | {
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1269 Course View Cir, Virginia Beach, VA – $779,000
1269 Course View Cir
Rare custom built, fresh, crisp & move in ready brick waterfront home nestled on a point on Lake Smith in highly sought after Cypress Point. This one owner home with bold waterfront views from every window is the home you've been waiting for! Hurry this completely updated gem features an impressive chefs kitchen, newer roof, numerous top of the line upgrades galore on an exceptionally manicured lot with backyard deck, gardens, & dock overlooking your own waterfront Oasis! | {
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The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
Curious Camera Exhibition Kicks Off Fifth Year at ArtsEye Gallery
If you have an affinity for photography, or are camera-challenged but inquisitive into how the medium works, the ArtsEye Gallery’s annual Curious Camera Event might be a fitting event for your weekend agenda.
Returning for the fifth year on Saturday, the Curious Camera Gallery encourages visitors to “embrace the unpredictability and fascination of photography” by viewing work shot with the full spectrum of cameras throughout the ages: from centuries-old pinhole cameras to iPhone images, the work in the gallery could not be more visually varied.
ArtsEye is also home to the Giant Holga camera, a plastic, fully-functioning monstrosity with dimensions 20 times larger than 120mm prototype. Photographers at the gallery rarely take the Holga out for a spin, but the camera is available for rent to parties aiming for shock value at their next photo op.
In 2007, I started ArtsEye which is a gallery that is artist and art buyer friendly. I started thinking about having an event that promoted this fun, rebel, bohemian type of photography, introduced to me by (photographer) Brion McCarthy. So my plan was to have workshops on pinhole and plastic/toy camera photography, a photographic competition with as few rules as possible, and to top it off - a gallery event.
Findysz stressed that the first event “was just the beginning,” and five years later photographers from around the world continue to submit their eclectic and technologically-diverse work for judging at ArtsEye.
The exhibition runs Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. until July 31 at the gallery on 3550 E. Grant Rd., and the winning images can already be viewed on the ArtsEye website here. Admission to the gallery is free, and you can call 327-7291 for more information. | {
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5 amazing benefits of using electric forklifts
5 amazing benefits of using electric forklifts
People talk about transitioning to electric cars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to completely computerised systems to save paper. But electric forklifts have been doing their part for the environment long before electric cars.
People and planet friendly
Managers and directors are vigilant about workplace health and safety and forklift operators need to check the machines daily (see the whole checklist here). Electric forklift models tick all the health and safety boxes.
Electric forklifts don’t make much noise compared to their fuel-powered counterparts. There’s no petrol fumes, either. Workers in the warehouse and those driving the forklifts don’t have to endure noise pollution or chemical smells!
Save dollars
Because electric forklifts have less moving parts, that’s less money spent on regular maintenance. They don’t have combustion engines and other moving parts that drive up replacement costs. Hyster Forklifts made this chart recording maintenance costs:
As you can see above, the cost of maintaining an electric model climbs slowly over a five-year period compared to an LPG gas forklift. Electric forklifts only increase $20,000 over five years, compared to the $50,000 an LPG model demands. That’s $30,000 better spent on hiring another machine.
Save time
Less time spent on maintenance means more time moving stock, increasing efficiency and output. Warehouses meet their KPIs faster when they use the right machines. No refuelling is necessary except for the forklift driver taking the used battery out and putting a new one in.
Longer lifespan
Petrol and gas-fuelled machines have more moving parts that need to go through regular replacement and maintenance. They’re good for productivity and lifting heavy loads, but the wear-and-tear they endure destines them for replacement. Electric models, though they won’t lift as much, will last longer.
Ergonomical
The fuel type is different but the functions stay the same. Licensed forklift drivers can handle the electric machines with ease, and visibility is improved! There’s no bulk obstructing line of sight, like a diesel engine or rear-mounted gas bottle. | {
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BJD accuses Jual Oram of election fund irregularities
BJD MP from Puri Pinaki Mishra, a Supreme Court lawyer, in a press meet alleged "While Jual Oram had mentioned at one place in the affidavit that his poll expenses are "nil", in the same document he stated some amount has been spent from his own pocket". While explaining the details about it in schedule-9, he mentioned that he had received only Rs 2 lakh (cheque no- 610848) and rest of the amount in cash.
The regional party claimed that there were gross discrepancies in the affidavit on poll expenditure filed by the Union Minister before the Election Commission leaving no room for doubt that it was a false' affidavit.
"BJD will knock the doors of the Election Commission against Jual Oram and he should step down from the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs on moral grounds", added Mishra.
"Naveen Patnaik never believes in personal attack in politics, but the BJP is stooping low and targeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and disseminating misleading information for its political gains", said Mishra.
"We have also apprised the governor about how the government advocates pleaded for BJD's MLA from Hinjili, Naveen Patnaik". BJD spokesperson earlier emphasised the transparency they have maintained and said that the charges brought by the BJP is mere political vendetta against the ruling party.
The BJP has moved the Election Commission of India, Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax department seeking a probe into the BJD's election funding.
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The idea being pitched by leaders is to pass it, then move into a conference negotiation between the House and the Senate. Some Republican senators had been concerned that the House would simply pass the " skinny bill" and send it to Trump.
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Xiaomi announces Mi 5X with the latest MIUI 9
After some teasing, Xiaomi has formally announced its latest smartphone that’ll surely be another hit, not only to the Chinese market, but to anyone who wants the best package without the hefty price tag.
This is the Xiaomi Mi 5X.
We already have the Mi 5 from last year, but this new Mi 5X is more than just a rehash or a cheaper variant of Xiaomi’s former flagship. First, it’s got a new metal unibody design that looks a lot like the iPhone 7 Plus (or the OPPO R11 and the OnePlus 5 — depends on who you’re asking). But instead of having the Apple logo, you get a more functional fingerprint reader in its place.
The Mi 5X sports a 5.5-inch 1080p display fitted into its body. Xiaomi promotes the phone’s rounded edge corners which make the phone easier to hold, plus anti-fingerprint coating to avoid unsightly smudges.
In addition, it sports dual-rear cameras. Both are 12-megapixel shooters with the one having a telephoto lens. Like with other dual-camera phones, the Mi 5X has a portrait mode to achieve artificial bokeh for your pictures. Here are some official samples from Xiaomi’s forum:
More importantly, the Mi 5X is the first phone to run the latest version of Xiaomi’s custom interface, MIUI 9, which is based on Android Nougat — that’s a big deal for a phone that isn’t considered a flagship. For now, MIUI 9 is only available in Chinese, but Xiaomi promises a global version soon.
Specs-wise, the phone is powered by a midrange Snapdragon 625 processor, and it comes with 4GB of memory and 64GB of internal storage. Battery capacity is at 3080mAh which could easily last a whole day of moderate usage.
The Mi 5X is priced at CNY 1,499 (US$ 222) for its sole variant. Xiaomi usually has a number of memory and storage configurations, but that’s not the case for the Mi 5X, making it a simple choice for those looking for a fresh smartphone.
LG’s next flagship smartphone has its launch postponed until June
LG is already making it known that they won’t have a brand-new flagship smartphone to show during Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain next week. That means there won’t be a successor a year after the current flagship G6 launched, which was during last year’s MWC. This brings us to the question: How much longer do we have to wait?
According to VentureBeat‘s source, LG’s upcoming premium handset — codenamed “Judy” — is set to release in June, several months after the February launch date of the G6 in 2017. With the amount of time put into it, the new design is primed to be all new.
This aligns with reports that the South Korean company won’t call its next major release the G7, although it’ll come with the tall 18:9 screen ratio which the G6 started. The same source claims that the successor will be larger and more powerful than the G6.
Judy is expected to have a new 6.1-inch panel that’s brighter and consumes less power than a traditional IPS LCD. And unlike its predecessor, the new flagship is guaranteed to have the latest Snapdragon 845 processor, as well as dual rear cameras, IP68-rated water and dust resistance, stereo speakers, and enough artificial intelligence to power the cameras and virtual assistant.
With the later launch date and complete set of features, Judy’s existence might also change LG’s plans for a follow-up to the V30. Only time — and an official word from LG execs — would bring truth to these rumors.
Amazon finally launches the Echo in India
Four months is worth the wait. Finally, Amazon has released the Echo for all markets in India.
Previously, the Alexa-powered speaker lineup was available on an invite-only basis for Indian customers. With the new launch, the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Plus are now available online through Amazon.in and through 350 retailers across India.
In their defense, Amazon used the four-month delay to optimize the devices for Indian consumers. Most notably, the devices now come with an English (India) mode. The new language option eases the interface between Indian voices and Alexa. As a result, the Indian model also comes with a more familiar Indian voice.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that the new devices are compatible with Hindi.
In terms of features, the new model comes with Alexa to Alexa voice calling. It also comes with a Drop-in feature, which allows Alexa to call family members using other Echo devices in the house.
The Echo is Amazon’s main driver for their virtual assistant Alexa. The voice-activated speaker comes in assorted flavors like the beefier Echo Plus or the smaller Echo Dot.
Sadly, the Amazon Echo’s Indian release comes with a pricier tag than its American release. The regular Echo retails for INR 9,999. The smaller Echo Dot retails for INR 4,499. Finally, the bigger Echo Plus comes at INR 14,999.
Official Samsung Galaxy S9 cases are now available including a Hyperknit cover
We’re just a week away from the official announcement of the Galaxy S9 from Samsung, but its official cases just can’t wait anymore.
With all the leaks we’ve seen and read about all over the internet, we already know everything about the physical looks of the Galaxy S9. It’s supposedly not much different compared to its predecessor, aside from the fingerprint reader placement at back. With probably the same fragile glass body, how do we protect it? Here’s a preview of the official cases from Samsung.
Fabric is the new thing in tech nowadays. If the luxurious Alcantara cases aren’t enough, the Galaxy S9 will also have Hyperknit covers in red or gray. There’s another cloth case with a flap on the front and shows time when closed.
The usual high-quality silicone cases will also be available and they’ll come in pink, black, and gray. The coverage of the silicone cases is the same as the Hyperknit’s sans the sporty-looking fabric cover.
The staple Clear View Stand cases will be on sale as usual. So far, there are three confirmed colors: gold, purple, and blue.
The source link below directs to the listing of MobileFun along with the corresponding prices of these and others like the new Alcantara cases but they don’t have available images as of writing. | {
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Plant girls rally, win 4A state tennis title
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Around 4 p.m. on Thursday, on a tennis court tucked away in Altamonte Springs, the final shot of the Class 4A state girls team tournament sailed wide, and Plant’s No. 1 doubles team of Blair Martin and Gabby Rodriguez pumped their fists, screamed and jumped in each other’s arms.Somehow, some way, after fighting through cramps and tough team losses in singles matches, the Panthers pulled off their third straight state title, this time 12-11 over Cypress Bay, the same team Martin and Rodriguez defeated in the No. 1 doubles final.“We were nervous and we were tired,” said Martin, the Panthers’ only senior. “But we knew whoever won the (No. 1 doubles match) won the state team title. We definitely felt the pressure.”Rodriguez, a sophomore, admitted that she and Martin were worried and exhausted (after playing 10 hours of hard-fought tennis in the previous 24 hours), but said, “I just told myself, ‘You are not going to lose this match because you’re tired. You can’t let that happen.’”
Rodriguez said she reprimanded herself with the aforementioned speech after she and Martin got waxed 6-2 in the first set of the doubles final.“We told each other, ‘We have to find something — whatever that may be — inside of us,’” said Rodriguez, who won the No. 3 singles championship about an hour before No. 1 doubles started. “We have to dig down and find something in there.”“And we did,” said Martin, who lost her No. 1 singles final a few hours earlier after getting numerous treatment from the athletic trainer for cramps. “I don’t know exactly what it was, but thankfully we found it.”Steadily, Rodriguez and Martin found life, and then fire, going on to take the final two sets 6-2, 6-2.“It’s amazing really, how they can turn it on like that after that rough start,” Plant coach Margaret Drumsta said. “They amaze me.”As it turned out, Rodriguez and Martin were far from the only Panthers heroes on Thursday. Plant’s No. 2 doubles team of Erica Oosterhout and Monica Phipps also proved key, winning their semifinal match 6-0, 6-0 and the final 6-3, 6-4.In the end, Plant’s girls went 5-1 on Thursday, which proved to be just enough.In Class 2A, Academy’s No. 1 and No. 2 players, Daniela Nasser and Caroline Lozo, suffered tough defeats in Thursday’s team finals.Nasser lost 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 and Lozo lost 6-2, 6-2, pretty much ending the Jaguars’ season as a team, but leaving much optimism toward the future because both Nasser and Lozo are sophomores.Nasser’s brother, Jesuit senior Jordan Nasser, also lost his Class 2A No. 1 singles team match, 6-4, 6-1, as did Jesuit’s No. 5 player Alex Crosby, 6-3, 6-4.Jesuit still ended up third overall in the Class 2A team race with seven points, though well behind the team champion, Gulliver Prep, which finished with 21. | {
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Göke, Regina. 2008. The development of French marketing terms: processes of term formation and semantic change. 1st WU Symposium on International Business Communication Methodological Issues in Economic and Business Communication, Wien, Österreich, 29.11. - 30.11.2008.
@CONFERENCE{Göke2008,title = {The development of French marketing terms: processes of term formation and semantic change}, author = {Regina Göke}, year = {2008}, address = {Wien}, language = {EN}, misc = {1st WU Symposium on International Business Communication Methodological Issues in Economic and Business Communication}, abstract = {This contribution presents selected results of a larger study whose main issue is to find out how French marketing terminology has developed since the beginning of marketing in France until now. The diachronic study is based on a corpus, which consists of ten samples, each representing a period of five years of the French specialist journal Revue Française du Marketing. An exemplary analysis shows how the progress in marketing manifests itself linguistically by the creation and borrowing of terms. With the aid of corpus linguistic instruments, we see how central terms like the term marketing itself, communication, client or cible come into fashion and develop over time. A more detailed look at the use of these and other terms leads to some interesting results concerning processes of term formation and semantic change.},}
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This contribution presents selected results of a larger study whose main issue is to find out how French marketing terminology has developed since the beginning of marketing in France until now. The diachronic study is based on a corpus, which consists of ten samples, each representing a period of five years of the French specialist journal Revue Française du Marketing. An exemplary analysis shows how the progress in marketing manifests itself linguistically by the creation and borrowing of terms. With the aid of corpus linguistic instruments, we see how central terms like the term marketing itself, communication, client or cible come into fashion and develop over time. A more detailed look at the use of these and other terms leads to some interesting results concerning processes of term formation and semantic change.
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they don't show the bride or say how fat/skinny she is. If they're both huge it's more understandable. In any case way to be shallow chuu. Maybe she loves him for who he is and not what he can do in bed.
That's around 550kgs to 300kgs. So he dropped 250kgs. That's a quarter ton. Wow, the guy lost more than 3 of me. And I'm a guy. And I'm 6''. How did he afford to eat that much? People must've been feeding the guy, I doubt he was running down to the local shop to buy food. | {
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Gays Protest Stance of Anglican Bishops
About 50 gay men and lesbians showed up at Christ Church in Greenwich, Conn., for a silent demonstration during an appearance by the archbishop of Canterbury.
They were among 800 worshipers at the Sunday service and wore pink triangles to protest the overwhelming vote last month by the world's Anglican bishops that denounced homosexuality as contrary to Christian morals.
Archbishop of Canterbury George L. Carey is primate of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the 70-million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church in the United States.
The pink triangle was a symbol used originally by the Nazis to identify homosexuals.
Carey and his wife, Eileen, were vacationing in the United States and took time to thank the affluent Connecticut congregation for its support of the Anglican international ministry. | {
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Labor leader and soon-to-be opposition leader Shelly Yacimovich declared Monday night that her party would lead the opposition with "energy and with faith," after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu struck a deal with opposition leader Shaul Mofaz that will draw Kadima into the coalition.
"We have been given a rare and important opportunity to head the opposition, and we will do so with energy and with faith," she said.
"It is a covenant of cowards between Netanyahu and Mofaz," Yacimovich said of the agreement, which was announced late Monday night just as a bill to dissolve the Knesset was headed to the plenum for its final reading.
"This is the most ridiculous, disgusting zigzag in Israeli political history," she charged.
Labor MK Isaac Herzog said the unity government gave Labor a prime opportunity to lead the nation as the main opposition party. Speaking with Israel Radio, Herzog said he was confident the Labor could now win in elections in 2013.
Yair Lapid - whose just-founded Yesh Atid Party was seen as a chief rival against the centrist Kadima - also slammed the unity government proposal, calling the new coalition a "disgusting political alliance."
"What you saw today are the old politics, dim and ugly, of which we should rid ourselves," Lapid wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday morning. "It is a politics of chairs instead of principles, of jobs instead of the public's welfare, of one group's interests instead of those of the entire country."
"They think we will forget but they are wrong," he continued. "This disgusting political alliance will bury beneath it all its members." The deal will keep Lapid's party out of the Knesset until the next round of elections.
Some in Likud also opposed the deal, which will see the Kadima party gain ministerial positions in the government and head a committee tasked with approving an alternative for the contentious Tal Law.
Likud MK Danny Danon said the deal betrays his party's voters.
"Likud's values have been violated," he charged. "And so has the public that voted for Likud and got Kadima and [Defense Minister Ehud] Barak."
Danon complained that the move will embolden the defense minister "for the next year and a half."
"[The agreement] will damage the settlement movement, cause injury to Likud's values and to the Israeli public that elected Likud to lead Israel," he said.
Coalition head Ze'ev Elkin countered Danon, however, saying "no Likud values have been sacrificed. The deal on the Tal Law can be reached with haredim. Only a unity government can bring a solution on the Tal Law, and the government system," two items Kadima has been tasked with tackling as part of the coalition.
Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar told reporters after the announcement that there was no need for early elections anymore.
"The deal will bring political stability and help Israel deal with the coming security and economic challenges," he said.
"I don't care that we're saving Kadima. We are killing Lapid and Livni," Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan said, referring to the Yesh Atid leader and Tzipi Livni, who lost the Kadima party chair to Mofaz in primary elections last month.
Shas leader Eli Yishai, meanwhile, said he was aware of the deal - which was announced suddenly just as the Knesset was set to vote to dissolve the government - all along. | {
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Business leaders in the UK have been invited by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) to meet with pension schemes to discuss their reporting of employment models and working practices.
In a letter to FTSE 100 chairs, PLSA chief executive Julian Mund said pension schemes responsible for £2.2trn of UK savers’ money, believe a company’s workforce is critical to its long-term success. Understanding how a company treats its workforce is therefore crucial to pension funds’ decisions about which companies they invest in.
How UK companies treat, motivate and engage their workforces has been the subject of intense government and public scrutiny in recent years – and investors also believe a company’s workforce is critical to its long-term success.
Corporate employment models and working practices on issues such as workforce diversity, pay practices and mental health issues matter substantially to investors and the PLSA believes they should figure prominently in companies’ annual reports. Failure to report this information also has the potential to negatively affect a company’s reputation, it said.
The letter to Chairmen follows a PLSA report published in April, ‘Hidden Talent 2: Has workforce reporting by the FTSE 100 improved?’, which found many companies fail to disclose workforce issues such as staff turnover, gender and ethnicity pay gaps, level of employee share ownership and supply chain ethics beyond the minimum statutory requirements.
With new disclosure regulations on the horizon, including new rules to require trust-based pension schemes to formally develop an ESG policy and the updated UK Corporate Governance Code, the PLSA hopes that engaging with the UK’s largest listed companies will encourage them to improve their reporting practices.
Commenting, Mund said: “It is the PLSA’s aim that these discussions will help UK companies to lead global best practice in relation to workforce disclosure and governance. It is only through working together on this issue that investors and companies can both deliver significant improvements to millions of working lives as well as delivering better returns to investors – and pension scheme members – over the long-term.” | {
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Exercise as Potent Medicine
Exercise can be as effective as many frequently prescribed drugs in treating some of the leading causes of death, according to a new report. The study raises important questions about whether our health care system focuses too much on medications and too little on activity to combat physical ailments.
For the study, which was published in October in BMJ, researchers compared how well various drugs and exercise succeed in reducing deaths among people who have been diagnosed with several common and serious conditions, including heart disease and diabetes.
Comparative effectiveness studies are a staple of science, of course, especially in pharmaceutical research. Scientists often track how well one drug treats a condition compared with the outcome if they use a different drug. But few studies have directly compared drugs with exercise, and even fewer have compared outcomes in terms of mortality or whether the intervention significantly lessens the chance that someone with a disease will die from it, despite treatment.
So Huseyin Naci, a graduate student at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Dr. John Ioannidis, the director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine, decided to create a comprehensive comparison of the effectiveness of drugs and exercise in lessening mortality among people who had been diagnosed with one of four diseases: heart disease, chronic heart failure, stroke or diabetes. They chose these particular conditions because those were the only ones for which they could find studies that had examined whether exercise lessened the risk of death among patients with that disease, Mr. Naci said.
He and Dr. Ioannidis then gathered all of the recent randomized controlled trials, as well as previous reviews and meta-analyses of older experiments relating to mortality among patients with those diseases, whether they had been treated with drugs or exercise.
They ended up with data covering 305 past experiments that, collectively, involved almost 340,000 participants, which is an impressive total. But most of the volunteers had received drugs. Only 57 of the experiments, involving 14,716 volunteers, had examined the impact of exercise as a treatment.
Still, the numbers were large enough that Mr. Naci and Dr. Ioannidis could create an elaborate network of cross-references, comparing the outcomes when people received certain drugs, followed exercise regimens or, occasionally, both. The exercise routines, typically part of rehabilitation programs, usually involved walking or other aerobic routines but sometimes consisted of weight training or other exercises.
The researchers compared mortality risks for people following any of the treatment options.
The results consistently showed that drugs and exercise produced almost exactly the same results. People with heart disease, for instance, who exercised but did not use commonly prescribed medications, including statins, angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors or antiplatelet drugs, had the same risk of dying from — or surviving — heart disease as patients taking those drugs. Similarly, people with diabetes who exercised had the same relative risk of dying from the condition as those taking the most commonly prescribed drugs. Or as the researchers wrote in statistics-speak, “When compared head to head in network meta-analyses, all interventions were not different beyond chance.”
On the other hand, people who once had suffered a stroke had significantly less risk of dying from that condition if they exercised than if they used medications — although the study authors note that stroke patients who can exercise may have been unusually healthy to start with.
Only in chronic heart failure were drugs noticeably more effective than exercise. Diuretics staved off mortality better than did exercise.
The results also underscore how infrequently exercise is considered or studied as a medical intervention, Dr. Ioannidis said. “Only 5 percent” of the available and relevant experiments in his new analysis involved exercise. “We need far more information” about how exercise compares, head to head, with drugs in the treatment of many conditions, he said, as well as what types and amounts of exercise confer the most benefit and whether there are side effects, such as injuries. Ideally, he said, pharmaceutical companies would set aside a tiny fraction of their profits for such studies.
But he is not optimistic that such funding will materialize, without widespread public pressure.
For now, Mr. Naci said, he hopes that this new study will prompt smaller-scale negotiations. “We are not suggesting that anyone stop taking their medications,” he said. “But maybe people could think long and hard about their lifestyles and talk to their doctors” about whether exercise could and should be incorporated into their care. | {
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Its the closest pizza you ll get to italy being in Barra grande.The owner is always there ready to suggest you the best ingredients, while you can enjoy a good selection of wines. Try at least one the 50 types of cachaça (brazilian spirit drink)...More
Very disappointed. Although there is ok pizza in the place, the service is terrible and unprofessional. The lady that makes the drinks does not really care for the costumers. She served me a caipirinha with a bad lemon and did not like when I complained.
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Legal Battles on British Online Gambling Law
The proposed revisions made by the British government in respect to the online gambling law have a mandatory stand still period according to the European Commission. This period has ended and therefore, the affected gambling jurisdictions are getting ready for the legal battle. The European Commission must be notified whenever governments want to make material changes to their online gambling laws. Besides that, a draft law must be provided and in such cases a stand still period is enforced during which the proposed legislation cannot be enacted.
In the case of the United Kingdom, the stand still period was extended because there were complaints received from affected jurisdictions like Gibraltar and Malta. But that extended period is also over and therefore, the government in London will initiate the implementation of secondary licensing and point-of-consumption tax on online and mobile casino operators accessing the British gambling market. Online casino companies that do not comply with these new regulations will have its services blocked.
The whole story begins four years ago, when several leading British online gambling operators relocated to offshore jurisdictions like Malta and Gibraltar. The lower taxes in these jurisdictions enabled operators to compete with other foreign offshore operators that were also servicing the British online gambling market. For this reason, the United Kingdom government began to lose revenue on a large scale and began to analyze different options and craft new laws meant to plug this leak. Analysts on the online gambling market have estimated that the loss has been estimated over four years at more than £1 billion. The lawmakers in London believe that after the implementation of the law it would become counterproductive for the British operators to function from offshore jurisdictions and pay double taxes.
Gibraltar and Malta fear an exodus and for this reason these two jurisdictions have been opposing the proposed British law. Gibraltar-based online gambling operators have raised a fighting fund of £500,000 to contest the issue in court on the basis of European Union law. The basis is that Britain’s plans are not legal because they would offer an unfair advantage to online gambling operators that are physically located in the UK. | {
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Denali Wins Cisco Break Away Partner Of Year Award
Denali Advanced Integration, a one-time HP Networking ProCurve award winner, has won Cisco's Break Away Partner of the Year award in the U.S. West region.
Denali, Redmond, Wash., No. 114 on the SP500 with $180 million in sales, up from $157 million last year, has experienced triple digit sales growth in its Cisco business over the last year, said Denali CEO Majdi "Mike" Daher.
Denali, a longtime HP enterprise partner that achieved Cisco Gold status only 15 months ago, was honored in 2008 with an HP Networking ProCurve award for advanced technology highest revenue specialist. Now, Denali is one of Cisco's top 20 partners in the Western United States. Denali's Cisco business was up 144 percent year over year in Cisco's 2012 fiscal year, said Daher.
Denali, which has recently expanded with a new integration facility in Plano, Texas, and overseas with a major presence in Europe, has doubled its Cisco- focused technical and sales staff over the last year.
"We are the trusted advisor for our customers," said Daher. "We always take the position that we bring the best and latest technology to our customers. Cisco has invested tremendously by focusing on solutions that enable our customers to extend their business reach."
Daher credited Cisco for making a significant investment to assist Denali in building its Cisco practice. "They have a tremendous channel program and channel team that enables partners like us to participate in their programs," he said. "This award would not be possible without all the help we received from the Cisco channels team."
Cisco took the time to understand Denali's business and how it connects to the Cisco solutions model, said Daher. "They invested the time to understand what we are good at and then partnered with us to sell to customers," he said. "That is the biggest differentiator. They invested the time in understanding our business."
Ultimately, obtaining the Cisco Gold certification enabled Denali to become a "better company" with strict sales and account engagement methodology, said Daher.
"We learned a lot through the Cisco Gold certification process," said Daher. "It requires a tremendous business discipline focusing on what we deliver and how we deliver it with a clear methodology. You don't win with Cisco because you are lucky; you win because you are good."
Cisco's networking business is winning because of a strong focus on "solving business problems whether it is collaboration, borderless networks or the data center," said Daher. "Those three portfolios are enabling partners like us to engage with customers and execute on the client [device] to cloud strategy that Denali is driving into the marketplace."
While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst. | {
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PGM is all set for February. This month, we're playing through a game known as Eevee's Tile Trial. If you wish to earn rewards, please head over to our event thread by clicking on the provided link and give yourself a shot at the game!
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Appearance: Barry is a caucasion male. He stands at about 5'6, and he weighs roughly 120 pounds. Barry's face is angular, and he has a clean shaven face and deep blue eyes. He has long blonde hair that he keeps in spikes. He has a slim build, and little to no muscles. He isn't very strong, but he can run like hell. His legs are the most muscular part of his body. His usual apparel includes olive green pants, a peach colored shirt, and red sneakers.
Personality: Barry is very awkward. He says exactly what's on his mind, unaltered. His people skills are at the bare minumum, so he talks about things that should be left alone. Barry's intelligence level is off the charts. He doesn't know how to talk around girls. Everthing comes out of a jumble of words.
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Sorry about not having my sign up yet, I've been really busy and I'm getting my am wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow so I won't be on for a couple of Days. If its still possibly to sign up by then I will, but if not ill understand.
i am truly sorry for not posting anything for the last week, i was going to post on the 31st but at that day my internet went down for 2 days when it got back my computer broke and only now i got it back so i shall be making a update today or tomorow
Man, I am sorry for letting this RP hold onto life by the skin of its teeth without trying to post in such a long while. I really need to get my personal life in order, and I am sure I can manage to squeeze in a post the upcoming weekend and/or friday night.
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"And they tell me there are people who are normal, but I don't know what they look like because I've never met one. And neither have you, so why not compare yourself to real people instead?"
"Three lives of a gamer: the first'll be your best, because you can always restart if it isn't; the second pales in comparison, and the game will cheat you out; but the third one's going to be better, because it gets do or die from then."
Can I reserve a spot? If not that's completely fine. IF I can reserve, I should be able to get my SU up today. There is one other RP that I am potentially interested in, so I should have plenty of time to devote to this one and the other one. I'm not going to get myself in over my head right now, heh.
Also, if I could reserve Eevee that would be grand. If not, that's okay too.
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ONE OF THE THINGS our dog care staff (day care and lodging employees) do on a regular basis — literally dozens and dozens of times every day — is pick up feces, or put plainly, poop-scoop. In the process, they often find nondigestible items that have been consumed by our guests — ranging from rocks and sticks to toys, items of clothing (socks and underwear are particularly popular) and mystery items that can’t be identified.
We always inform the dogs’ owners when we see this, to make them aware their dog is eating things that can’t be digested — a condition called “pica.”
Pica involves craving and eating nonfood items. It is different from coprophagia, which is eating feces. As disgusting as this is to us (though not to our dogs), coprophagia is not life-threatening, which pica can be.
Curious young puppies often eat things they shouldn’t, including chewing and swallowing leaves and twigs. It is generally easy to discourage and distract them, redirecting them to something else. But when this interest is a craving or obsession, that is, you are unable to distract your puppy and he continues eating nonfood items, it’s important — even critical — to explore possible causes for the pica. Talk to your veterinarian, who will likely recommend testing to see if there is an underlying nutritional or medical cause. The solution may be as simple as a diet change or dietary supplement.
Adult dogs, too, can have pica. A friend’s dog literally pulled socks off children and swallowed them before she could stop him. One of my Mastiffs had a fondness for rocks — not small pebbles, but substantial rocks. She would go years without swallowing one, but then she would — and would have to have surgery to remove it from her intestine. (After her third surgery, I suggested to our vet that we needed to put in a zipper).
And herein lies the biggest issue with pica — when the nondigestible item is too large to pass through the dog’s digestive system, it causes a blockage requiring surgery to remove it.
If you see the symptoms of an intestinal blockage — vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal pain or discomfort, straining to defecate, constipation, lethargy and other sudden changes in behavior — contact your vet right away. He or she will likely take X-rays to determine if there is a blockage requiring immediate surgery or if it is safe to wait for the dog to pass the item without surgery.
As dangerous as surgery is, there are other potential complications. If the dog has suffered significant bowel necrosis (death of a section of bowel caused by cut-off blood supply), the surgery can be extremely traumatic. The healing process, too, is not without danger. A good friend’s young dog died from an infection following surgical removal of parts of a toy he had swallowed.
If your dog is eating nonfood items, management of the environment is critical. For example, if your dog has a fondness for dirty socks, teach your kids to put them in a hamper, making sure they are out of reach. A few years ago, a Great Dane made the national news when it was discovered he had 43½ socks removed from his stomach! That’s one fortunate dog not to have died.
Most important, if you suspect your dog has pica, talk to your veterinarian. Pica can also be related to anxiety, boredom or other behavioral causes. In that case, your veterinarian may recommend anti-anxiety medications along with a behavior modification program to relieve the stress. That could include training and activities your dog might enjoy that build confidence, such as scent work. And you know me — I always recommend activities that you and your dog will enjoy doing together, pica or no pica.
Gail Fisher, author of “The Thinking Dog” and a dog behavior consultant, runs All Dogs Gym & Inn in Manchester. To suggest a topic for this column, which appears every other Sunday, email [email protected] or write c/o All Dogs Gym, 505 Sheffield Road, Manchester, NH 03103. Past columns are on her website. | {
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Navigate Game of Thrones by Subway
Game of Thrones is anything but easy to understand. With a huge array of characters as well as a consistent string of deaths, keeping up with Westeros is even more challenging than keeping up with the Kardashians. Thankfully, the wide world of Westeros just got a lot easier to comprehend. Spanning over seven kingdoms, getting from point A to point B is quite the challenge, not to mention figuring out how to navigate the path between the two. While the Game of Thrones books showcase maps of Westeros, their ancient inspiration makes it a bit less decipherable to the modern eye. Graphic designer Michael Tyznik recently published a map of the "rail transport in Westeros", which, while fictional, provides a color-coded map to understand the world of Game of Thrones with a bit more ease.
Ride by dragon will most likely maintain its status the go-to mode of transport for the citizens of Westeros, but we can dream of the days where Westeros is this easy to navigate. Although, if they have to deal with train delays, litter-filled subway stations and re-routed lines, perhaps the citizens of Westeros are better in charge of their own transportation destiny. | {
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
That Old Magic Is Gone
Citing bad weather as the excuse the Democratic National Convention is preparing to change the venue for President Barack Hussein Obama's acceptance speech from the 74,000 seating Bank of America stadium to the 20,000 seating Time Warner Cable Arena.
Democrats are poised to avoid the danger of President Barack Obama accepting his party’s nomination before a partially-empty stadium by shifting his speech to an indoor arena and citing ‘severe weather’.
The Obama campaign have been working desperately to ensure that the 74,000-seater Bank of America stadium in Charlotte would be filled.
Buses for students from across North Carolina and even members of black churches in neighboring South Carolina have been arranged.
Footage of rows of empty seats at the stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers, as Obama speaks on Thursday night would be politically disastrous – an enduring image of the contrast between his campaign of ‘hope’ and ‘change’ in 2008 and his dour, negative struggle for re-election in 2012.
Now, it looks like the weather has come to the President's rescue.
As officials prepare to open the Democratic convention this afternoon, there are strong indications that the speech will be moved to Time Warner Cable Arena, which has a capacity of just over 20,000.
Speaking at a background briefing for the press, a Democratic official said that the speech would be given in the stadium ‘rain or shine’ before quickly adding a major caveat.
‘We do have a contingency plan, though, for lightning or other severe weather,’ he said. ‘We don't want to put anyone in harm's way so that's really what we're looking for, not if it's going to rain but if it's going to be really bad.
‘The reason that we're not releasing the details on what a move to the arena would mean until that decision is made we don't want a lot of conflicting information out there.
'But once that decision is made - if the decision is made - to move, we will make sure all of the details and we want to make sure all of our supporters know exactly what is happening if it changes.’
Another official said that the use of the stadium was being reviewed ‘on an ongoing basis and we’ll keep you informed on any decision’.
The current Weather Underground forecast for Charlotte on Thursday is: ‘Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. High of 93F with a heat index of 99F. Winds from the SW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.’
Democratic convention sources have indicated that the ‘contingency plan’ is at an advanced stage and that a move to the stadium appears certain.
‘It looks like a done deal to me,’ said one convention worker. ‘The decision’s apparently been taken and it’s just a matter of spinning it as being forced on us by the weather.’
Convention delegates, party volunteers and Democratic officials gathered in Charlotte would make up about one-third of a crowd in the Bank of America stadium, which officials have said would be 65,000 people.
In 2008, when Obama fever was at its height, the then US Senator had no trouble filling an 84,000-seater outside stadium in Denver, Colorado. But voter enthusiasm has waned this time around.
Obama’s crowds in 2008 were far bigger than in recent months. His largest audience has been 14,000 at a campaign kick-off rally at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in May.
Some 13,000 people were at Obama's rally at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday.
The Great Orator just cannot get the people into the Stadiums, the Arenas, the Military Aircraft hangers that he once did. People are now seeing that everything has been nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
In fact, the campaign is preparing to ship in students and members of black churches from as far away as South Carolina.
This storm is a G-d send for Obama. Could you imagine the reaction of the Republicans if the Bank of America stadium was 1/2 empty? Romney and Ryan don't have that problem. In fact it is the opposite.
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But did they save the Greek columns...smoke...laser lights? Hussein could easily have those installed anywhere...Right?...The man behind the curtain...The empty suit...The empty chair...is still playing to his audience at the DNC...KoolAid drinking dolts...What will the folks at home think?...wonder what the ratings will be vs RNC? | {
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They patrol hundreds of miles of rugged terrain in bone chilling temperatures. Their "beat" includes an island less than two miles off the coast of Russia. And they fight crime in areas with more bears than bars. They are the Alaska State Troopersan elite law enforcement agency specially trained to serve and protect America's largest state.
With insider access to the force, National Geographic delves into its second season of the popular series Alaska State Troopers. Each episode presents a "day-in-the-life" look at the job. Responding by land, air and seawith backup sometimes days awaythey face danger to protect the people and wildlife of Alaska. | {
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Camila Mendes Opens up About Her Eating Disorder Support System
Camila Mendes, otherwise known as Veronica Lodge from the cult favorite CW television series “Riverdale,” got personal in her latest Instagram post and we’re cheering her on so damn hard. In her blog-style caption to an all text-based photo, the 23-year-old opened up about recovering from an eating disorder, and how she finds the strength to “clear her head of all the negative voices that creep in every once in a while.”
One key way she does that, says Mendes, is by building a network to help her get through tough moments—and encouraged others to do the same: “I appreciate the value of peer support when recovering from an eating disorder.”
Mendes called out newly founded nonprofit organization, The Chain, as one major source of strength that she relies on. The Chain provides “eating disorder peer support for women in fashion and entertainment,” and was started by industry veterans Ruthie Friedlander and Christina Grasso—the latter of whom Mendes met at gala for Project Heal and immediately connected with through their shared experiences.
The Chain’s Instagram page provides a consistent feed of inspiring quotations, reminding its audience that perfection is an unrealistic ideal and that loving themselves and their bodies is a much better one to strive for. Mendes said she appreciates that “constant reminder,” particularly on a platform like Instagram, where her feed is full of “perfect bodies,” as well as on set, where she’s “on camera every day playing Veronica, who adores her tight mini skirts.”
The actress ended her post by reminding us all to make time for body love. “Our minds can get so contaminated with endless images of perfection, and even if you don’t suffer from an eating disorder, it can’t hurt to incorporate a little body positivity into your routine.”
We applaud Mendes for being so real. It’s always hard to publicly address something as personal as an eating disorder, but even harder when you’re in the limelight and have people watching your every move. We hope organizations like The Chain will continue to help Mendes and any other woman who’s looking for hope and support while recovering from an eating disorder. | {
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DIAKADI GALLERY FEATURED ARTIST: JENNY PHILLIPS.
This quarter, we proudly feature the art of Jenny Phillips. Jenny has been painting and print making for 30 years. She uses paper, wax, watercolor, oil, graphite and other media to explore the interplay between line-work, surface, and texture. Influenced by shapes and patterns found in nature, she creates subtle and meditative artworks, focusing on the evocation of mood rather than the depiction of form. She strives for an austere beauty, achieved through the use of a restrained vocabulary.
"My work centers on feeling, rather than ideology. I am drawn to quietness, subtlety and understatement. I want to evoke the mood and luminosity that coastal light and organic form inspire, seeking a balance between simplicity and a rich sensory quality."
DIAKADI thanks Jenny for letting us showcase her art. It is minimal, yet powerful. Exquisite, thought-provoking and most definitely inspiring. We dig it. And we know you will too. Golf claps all around. | {
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English, being my mother language, is clearly understood. German, being my 3rd language, is also clearly understood. French, 5th language, the verb stumped me. (well, it would if it weren't for the other languages around it. lol) But, with the Japanese, my 4th language, I had alot of trouble. (again, I would if it weren't for the other languages present).
Of course, understand the sets of kanji (even though I cannot read it), as I have reｐlicated it here. After some careful looking-up of radicals, I have found all the kanji and their readings. But, can someone tell me why it is a combonation of 盗む (めすむ) meaning 'steal' and 用いる (もちいる) meaning 'use'. Is 'steal' not a verb here?
Also, I haven't seen a verb form like this before. What verb form is this and why?
I am by no means an expert, and I hope the real pros don't stone me for what I'm about to write...
But as I see it, 盗用 is a actually a noun, read とうよう and meaning "plagiarism" according to the online dictionary, so my guess is that they used the verb する to make it into a verb (like in 勉強をする)
I think the しないで is the negative gerund of する, which makes sense because with ください it builds the polite negative imperative - "please do not make plagiarism" would be the literal translation sorta, ne?
hehe, maybe a little overuse of the google language tools, and a little too much free time - stupid xmas holsbut out of interest did google translate the nihongo correctly
First of all, much thanks to saigon and zen for the help. I was up really late last night and it hadn't crossed my mind that it might not be a literal translation. Both of your explinations made alot of sense and helped out just as much. ^_^
<.< I really don't mean to stear this thread in a new direction, but did anyone else wonder why it wasn't written in Spanish? | {
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The Coast Guard continues to search for four fishermen missing for nearly two days in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard received a distress signal from the 50-foot vessel at 3:30 a.m. Friday, Petty Officer Richard Brahm said. The boat began sinking about 115 miles southeast of Galveston, not far from the Texas-Louisiana border.
Weather conditions were bad at the time, Brahm said. Sustained winds were strong, at 33 mph, and there were gusts of up to 40 mph, he said. The water was 50 degrees, and sea swells were between 10 feet and 15 feet, which was enormous for the 50-foot boat the men were in, he added.
About five hours after the distress signal, at 8:30 a.m., a search team found crew member John Reynolds on a life raft. Reynolds was flown to Ellington Airport and returned to Galveston later Friday. He told the Coast Guard he was unsure what had happened to the other four fishermen that were on board, Brahm said.
Overnight, the Coast Guard used one cutter and one aircraft to search an area slightly smaller than the state of Delaware. They added two more aircraft to the hunt at daybreak Saturday, Brahm said.
"We're going to keep searching until someone tells us to stop," he said, noting that the Coast Guard uses a variety of factors to determine whether there is a possibility the men could still be alive.
Brahm said the Coast Guard would continue searching through Saturday night.
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Architectural models are the latest fad in the UK these days. These models make use of 3D images in showing images and visualizations of sketches of houses, buildings, and other infrastructures you wish to have a glimpse of in detail.
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I just ordered my birth kit yesterday for our HB. The MW is supposed to send me a list of other things needed but I think she forgot. I'm going to have to email her. The shower curtain liner is a great idea. I guess I will get those from the dollar store. I've been wondering what I will need.
I have my list too, but that's as far as I got with packing! But, funnily enough just before I got on the computer my DH reminded me that I must pack my bag! Should really be listening to him instead of goofing off!
Coupla questions though: what is UC? and Why pack so many things the hospital give out? Don't they give you pp pads and all kinds of meds and sprays etc? Also, when in the hospital will you have the opportunity to use a sling/wrap? Just wondering
I have my list too, but that's as far as I got with packing! But, funnily enough just before I got on the computer my DH reminded me that I must pack my bag! Should really be listening to him instead of goofing off!
Coupla questions though: what is UC? and Why pack so many things the hospital give out? Don't they give you pp pads and all kinds of meds and sprays etc? Also, when in the hospital will you have the opportunity to use a sling/wrap? Just wondering
UC is unassisted childbirth, which means you give birth at home without a midwife or any other assistance. I'm bringing the sling and wrap to the hospital just in case I get a chance to use them, I might not get to but I'm excited about getting to wrap a newborn and don't want to wait till I get home
I have my list too, but that's as far as I got with packing! But, funnily enough just before I got on the computer my DH reminded me that I must pack my bag! Should really be listening to him instead of goofing off!
Coupla questions though: what is UC? and Why pack so many things the hospital give out? Don't they give you pp pads and all kinds of meds and sprays etc? Also, when in the hospital will you have the opportunity to use a sling/wrap? Just wondering
The hospital doesn't "give" anything. Some people (like me) who either have to pay a lot out of pocket or don't have insurance prefer to not use the overpriced items at the hospital. $35 for a pack of pads I can get for less than $5 at walmart is an example from my last birth. Some people (like me) also have sensitivities to certain dyes/fragrances and have to bring items that we are not allergic to. Or the hospital doesn't provide items. The birth center I hope to deliver at provides nothing. You have to bring diapers, wipes, clothes to labor in, etc.
The hospital doesn't "give" anything. Some people (like me) who either have to pay a lot out of pocket or don't have insurance prefer to not use the overpriced items at the hospital. $35 for a pack of pads I can get for less than $5 at walmart is an example from my last birth. Some people (like me) also have sensitivities to certain dyes/fragrances and have to bring items that we are not allergic to. Or the hospital doesn't provide items. The birth center I hope to deliver at provides nothing. You have to bring diapers, wipes, clothes to labor in, etc.
Yea that... I don't have insurance that was as good as last time and they still did not provide a lot.I will use only a select few items they provide because of how much more bulk they will add to my bag if I pack them.
I have my sling packed in my baby bag. It's where it will be stored when not in use. Naturally I only packed more clothes in my baby bag than necessary because
u.s. aren't always the most accurate at guessing weight. My baby could range from 7lbs to just shy of 11. My son came home in premie stuff!
Last time I relied on what they had and I ended up unwashed! Bleh. Also I vomited a lot during labor....so wish I could have swished mouth wash or even brushed my teeth. If I am Gbs positive again I will be there guaranteed for 48hrs after birth. Washing with my own stuff helps me feel human again. I never received anything like episiotimy spray at the hospital...in fact I had to beg for an epi bottle and lanolin. The lanolin is to harsh for my nips so I am gonna use coconut oil this time.
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I just ordered my birth kit yesterday for our HB. The MW is supposed to send me a list of other things needed but I think she forgot. I'm going to have to email her. The shower curtain liner is a great idea. I guess I will get those from the dollar store. I've been wondering what I will need.
Our midwives have us get 3 shower curtain liners, two of which are for the birth bed. Put one liner down, make the bed with a set of sheets, put another liner on top of that, and make the bed with a second set of sheets. That way afterward they can just strip the top layer off and throw that in the washer and the bed is already made for after we're cleaned up. I'm still not sure what the 3rd liner is for.
If I end up at the hospital, I will have hit my deductible, guaranteed. At that point, we are covered at 100%, so I'm going to take everything I can get "for free."
That said, no one offered me a peri bottle, lanolin or breast pads. No offer of a toothbrush, paste or mouthwash, etc. Treat it like going on vacation and you won't be disappointed. That said, everything I asked for at the hospital they found for me, no matter how difficult. I am however concerned that due to a LOT of food allergies, staying at the hospital would mean providing my own food, which would SUCK!
With my hospital birth, I had 3 bags packed. 1 bag to take to labor (with camera/charger, snacks, pillow, music, toothbrush, etc). 1 bag for the actual stay in the hospital (clothes, laptop and charger, phone numbers of whom to call/e-mail, extra toiletries, etc). 1 bag for the baby. That held all the diapers and "free stuff" I took from the hospital, the baby's going home outfit, blanket, coat (it snows in April in WY), etc.
After the birth, I had my mom take the "labor" bag back home. She brought the hospital stay bag up to the room from the car as soon as I was assigned to my room. Then when my mom came to pick us up she brought the baby's bag. That means I didn't have to move all those bags at once. AND, because my mom was awesome, each bag was easily unpacked, clothes washed and things put away, because it wasn't all jammed into 1 giant bag!
The hospital doesn't "give" anything. Some people (like me) who either have to pay a lot out of pocket or don't have insurance prefer to not use the overpriced items at the hospital. $35 for a pack of pads I can get for less than $5 at walmart is an example from my last birth. Some people (like me) also have sensitivities to certain dyes/fragrances and have to bring items that we are not allergic to. Or the hospital doesn't provide items. The birth center I hope to deliver at provides nothing. You have to bring diapers, wipes, clothes to labor in, etc.
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Yea that... I don't have insurance that was as good as last time and they still did not provide a lot.I will use only a select few items they provide because of how much more bulk they will add to my bag if I pack them.
I have my sling packed in my baby bag. It's where it will be stored when not in use. Naturally I only packed more clothes in my baby bag than necessary because
u.s. aren't always the most accurate at guessing weight. My baby could range from 7lbs to just shy of 11. My son came home in premie stuff!
Last time I relied on what they had and I ended up unwashed! Bleh. Also I vomited a lot during labor....so wish I could have swished mouth wash or even brushed my teeth. If I am Gbs positive again I will be there guaranteed for 48hrs after birth. Washing with my own stuff helps me feel human again. I never received anything like episiotimy spray at the hospital...in fact I had to beg for an epi bottle and lanolin. The lanolin is to harsh for my nips so I am gonna use coconut oil this time.
Got it! Thanks for explaining I actually didn't realize the hospital charges for each little thing... But, if they can I'm sure they take advantage! (EG. I had an emg'y a while back for my DD and I didn't know till afterwards that they charge me about $30 for a 1/2 tsp of motrin!! AND I had some in my purse; I just figured they were offering... Now I know better )
Thanks to e/o for this thread- I actually packed most of my bag last night! YAY me! It's a very small bag bec. last time I packed too much and didn't need most of it. I figure if I am there too long (praying not!) my DH can go home and get what I need then.
I have my list from my last time. My hospital also provides all kinds of stuff for me and baby. Even hazelwitch pads! What I forgot last time was to have other items I needed at home ready to go. It is a little embarrassing for your mil to have to go pick up pads. Luckily, she didn't mind, but we should have had enough.
Here are my lists: (None of which i have packed yet. :P)
Hospital Packing List
LDR:
-music
-list of relaxing techniques for hubby to use with you
-own outfit to labor in
-hair ties
-slippers or socks
-cameras
-extra photo cards and batteries/chargers
-phones with phone numbers/chargers
-water bottle with bendy straw
-honey (for energy) | {
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The treasure for this Tuesday is Wildlife in the Canyon. There is so much going on in nature this time of the year: Babies are born all to all species, parents are busy finding food and defending their territories. Bugs, flies, lizards and snakes are waking up or coming to life. I think some of them took a turn-around and went back in their holes because of the cold temperatures lately. This morning we woke up to frost once again and the temperature was 28 degrees F at six a.m. So we had to say goodbye to our vegetable garden for now. We may plant some more later or we may not. Before, I got up I snuggled in bed, listening to an owl hooting outside. It was lovely and it was then I decided to dedicate this post to wildlife, the real and true treasure of our lives here.
Yesterday, we had a visitor. This rather scrawny looking coyote came by. Right after the coyote left, three little baby jack rabbits came out and started eating. We have seen them grow up and we wonder what happened to their parents. They had a close call with the coyote.
About a month ago, we saw a very large, tan colored, bob cat. The cat was so big we started looking for a long tail. I'm still pretty sure it was a bob cat, while my hubby, wanting to be more dramatic, thought it was a young mountain lion. I was too busy looking for a tail to take a picture and the cat was far away. It was playing in the grass and so much fun to watch. Very cute, at a safe distance.
This is another bobcat that came by closer to the house.
Two mule deer also came by last month and it was fun to watch them. We have deer in the canyon, but not that many and we seldom see them down at our ranch.
This photo is of another encounter we saw on a hike this past winter.
My husband saw a fight in the air between a red-tailed hawk and two ravens that ended with the hawk fleeing as fast as it could.
And I saw a strange sight as far as birds are concerned. When I sit at our dining room table, I face north and have a nice view of wildlife passing by. Last night, and also a few days ago when I took these photos, I saw two doves pecking away in the yard. At first I thought they were mourning doves, a bird I'm very familiar with from Los Angeles. However, on closer inspection, I noticed these birds were almost white and had a distinct black band around their necks. So I looked them up in my Audubon Society field guide and identified them as Ringed Turtle Doves. I always thought that turtle doves just existed in that Christmas carol. But I was in for another surprise when I read about them at the back of my book. This southern Asian species has been a caged bird for centuries, I learned, and a small number of them escaped from captivity and lives in down-town Los Angeles, California, and has apparently not spread. So its range is downtown L. A. where it is localized to a few parks and tree-lined streets. I guess these two, like me, got tired of all that traffic and noise and decided to seek adventure in the mountains.
The Western meadow larks are still here and I'm happy because they sing the prettiest songs of all the birds in the canyon.
Earlier in the spring, I would see the quail in pairs, now I see only the males. I assume the females are busy raising their many young chicks or keeping their eggs warm. I imagine they find food closer to home while busy with their young. I'm looking forward to later in the summer when I get to see them with all their little chicks.
Best of all, we spotted this guy, my favorite canyon bird. He was marching north and kept on marching that evening about a week ago. I have looked and looked, but I have not seen him again. I hope a pair is living somewhere around here because I find road runners the most entertaining birds to watch.
Finally, the most common birds in the canyon are still here, of course, looking for trash and trouble, but also helping to keep the canyon clean. My friends, the ravens.
As far as my health goes, I'm feeling much better and I will probably find out what's going on with my back later today. Have a great day everyone!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Before I let Samson have his say, I want to welcome Shannon, a new follower of Desert Canyon Living. Shannon writes about horses and her work in dressage on her blog: shannonfornari.blogspot.comChickens and very large cats were also featured in the post I just read. While Shannon is serious about dressage, she also has a great sense of humor. Then a correction, Armindo Tavares told me in a comment that his blog is about the creation of the Portuguese Harlequin Canary. Thanks for the clarification and welcome again to my blog.
Samson Says:
Did you know Mommy is recovering again? This time she says she's recovering from a back bone that she broke coughing! Well, she better hurry up and get well, cause our lives are getting pretty boring. Did you know she gets up early and sneaks outside with Angel? Soldier and me, we've both seen them. Then after lunch, she takes a big white pill. For her pain so she can heal. Hmm, that makes her go to sleep for most of the afternoon. Good thing is, Soldier and me, we don't need no pills to sleep our days away.
Boring.......
Boring.....
Boring....
Boring....
Boring....
What? So now I'm a pillow? I didn't know this and I may just beat him up if I ever catch him like this again!!!
Only old Angel stays awake, always worried about
her Mommy. Looking this way and that, making sure
Mommy and us boys are OK and no intruders are sneaking up to our place.
Have a nice day everyone!
PS -- Tell Gracie I will still love her, fur or no fur. If I ever see her, I will lick her ear. xoxo, Samson.
Posted by Samson, the Samoyed Pup.
Mommy's Disclaimer: Samson wrote this last week. Since then Mommy is feeling better and no longer sleeps the afternoons away. And Daddy was here and made sure all the dogs had a fun weekend.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Welcome two new followers, Armindo Tavares whose blog is about raising birds, I believe.(The language is Portuguese and I haven't tried the Google translator yet.) And also a warm welcome to a new follower, a woman from Russia, who is in real estate, but whose name I don't know how to write in English. Here's the link to her blog: berseneva.blogspot.com
Every Saturday, I look forward to finding out what's "new" on Jim's Retro Saturday post on his blog, Ocean Breezes. Last Saturday, Jim posted pictures of a bowl, a wonderful example of early 1960s table ware. This reminded me that I may just have a few treasures from that period myself. I checked my drawers where I have my dishes and found this:
I believe this dish is very representative of the period in Sweden. When I first got it, back then in the 1960s, I'm afraid I used it as an ash tray. After we moved here, I found this dish, and a ceramic vase that sort of matches it, looked really good on a side table in our living room. That was until Samson arrived in his joyous puppy stage and everything was put away. It will come back out again soon, as Samson is growing up.
The dish was made at the Swedish porcelain/ceramic factory, Rorstrand. I look at it and smile, remembering how things used to look in Sweden back then.
A Health Update:
I want to thank all of you, my dear blogger friends, for asking how I am doing with my back and for even remembering that I hurt myself. I mean we all have busy lives here, but still, you do remember and you do ask. This is touching my heart and I want you to know that.
The good news is that my back pain is getting better. Yesterday, I had my appointment with my endocrinologist (diabetes doctor), Dr. E., in Bakersfield. I have had some problems with my primary care doctor, Dr. R., here in town, so I run things by Dr. E., because I trust him completely. He was so concerned about my bones that he called the radiology lab in town (I had gotten approval for a bone scan, but Dr. R. didn't indicate that it was important to do this asap) and asked them to see me right away. They agreed, so we went there and were done with it within the hour. I have to wait about four days to find out if I have osteoporosis. According to Dr. E., I have it, but we will find out how bad and what to do to treat it. He said I must do all I can to avoid breaking a hip. This is true, of course, and I am so grateful to have found a doctor like him here. He is as good and as caring as the best doctors I saw at UCLA. But all this has made me feel so darned old. Nothing wrong with being old, but I don't like not being able to trust my own strength. I guess that's something you have to learn as you grow old. Accepting things. The good news is that my diabetes control and my cholesterol are both getting better. I will let you know about my bones when I get the test results. And, yes, I know it could be much worse.
Thank you Julie and Sarah for these two awards. Those I listed above are but a few of the blogs I love to visit. Please check them out along with Julie's and Sarah's blogs; I know you will enjoy them all.
Yes, I know I'm now supposed to tell you things about myself and I was, honestly, trying when Google Chrome crashed as I was uploading photos for this purpose. I wanted to tell you some of my favorite things, which would tell you, in turn, something more about me. I have an idea about what I want to do, but I'm running out of steam again, so next week, OK?
Thursday, May 19, 2011
red grass has completely overtaken our property. Each spring, this hillside is covered in blue, yellow, and purple flowers.
As you can see, it's all red now. I'm fascinated by this phenomenon, something I have never seen before. It's almost a little sinister; a mild way for nature to demonstrate her power.
With gray clouds hugging the canyon walls and the distant field covered in yellow mustard weeds, it all made for an interesting, many-colored, nature picture.
The grass in the foreground that my husband mowed and whacked has now turned yellow with red grass growing wild in the background.
Everywhere I turned, I was greeted by this red grass. It grows up on the hillsides in the distance; instead of yellow spring flowers, the hills are now covered in red grass.
Then there were these birds that I hadn't noticed here before.
I managed to get a couple of pictures and enlarged one:
With the help of my new book, the one I had planned to use to identify spring flowers: The Laws Field Guide To The Sierra Nevada, I identified them as Loggerhead Shrikes. Their habitat fits with the canyon and they have the clear white markings above their wings. And a raccoon mask covering their eyes.
As always, my friend Upupaepops and others who may know: If you have an explanation for this red grass, I would love to know. And did I get the birds right? Thanks in advance......
Finally, if you want more information on the little dog, Kezia, please go here: http://texan.blogspot.com Thank you, so much.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
I was going to post something entirely different today, but when I saw this little face on my friend Terry's blog, and read her story, I just had to try to help somehow. Like Terry, I don't have homemade things to sell and, in addition, right now our money is really tight. But there is something I can do, I can spread the word here and maybe that will help some.
Kezia lives with Isobelle Golightly and her mom. Kezia is just a little pup who needs major surgery. Another blogger friend, Texan, is organizing a big fundraiser for Kezia on her blog. There are soaps, yarns, jewelry and many other wonderful things for you to buy. And there are links to other bloggers that are participating. Please help if you can.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
A gift from Elsa, my friend Barbro's mother, who was like a second mother to me, I have owned it now for almost 30 years. My own mother was wonderful and there was no need for a second mother in my life, but sometimes life brings us blessings beyond our wildest expectations.
The heart hangs in our bedroom over the frame of a watercolor of KatarinaChurch, the church in Stockholm where I was baptized. As with all my treasures, it comes with a story:
It was the spring of 1946 and I had ventured across a hill that separated our street from another street in our suburb. The freedom of being a child then, able to move around freely and explore, was my childhood's greatest gift to me. There was a tree on the other side of this rocky hill. It had a branch, coveted by all us children. The branch was low enough for us to reach, strong enough for us to climb, and, best of all, you could hook your knees around it and hang upside down.
On this day, I met a girl my age there. Her name was Barbro and we struck up an instant friendship. She invited me to her house across the street and when the door opened, I had the biggest surprise of my young life. It was opened by Barbro's mother, Elsa, a very tall and large-boned woman, dressed in one of the flowery housecoats that women wore in those days. Elsa had a very friendly face and demeanor, but what really got me was her voice. My mother was short and soft spoken, not Elsa. She was tall and her voice was incredible. It was loud and strong and happy and it made a lasting impression on me. After visiting for a while, I went home and told my mother about this wonderful woman I met and, years later, we would still talk about her voice.
Barbro and I – we are the same age, so you can see how tall I was.
Barbro and I are still friends; she stayed in Sweden, married young and had two daughters. Now she has a beautiful granddaughter as well. Every time I go back to Stockholm, we spend time together and, for me, this time is important and unforgettable. I have been friends with no one else for so long, 65 years this spring, and our friendship means the world to me.
I always spent time with Elsa when I came back to Stockholm. In 1983, Elsa and I walked and talked about life and death. My brother had just died at the age of 40 and I needed to talk about such things. We walked past the riding school, the stables and barns, through the beautiful park, all part of the place where I grew up. I remember so clearly that she told me she was not afraid of dying. She felt very calm and reassured about death, she told me. Our conversation has stayed with me all these years.And it is helping me now, as I am getting old myself. Oh, the gifts we give to others without really knowing..... Elsa passed away in the early 1990s at the age of 80, I believe. I will always love her and I will always remember our walk that summer evening in 1983.
Monday, May 16, 2011
I like to welcome new followers to my blog with links to their blogs, but this became too much during the A to Z Challenge. Since it ended, I have welcomed five new followers in most of my new posts. Today I decided to welcome all my remaining new followers and provide links to their blogs when there are links available. So you will find links to some great blogs below. Then I have two more awards to pass along and I will do that in a separate post. After that, I believe it will be back to normal: My posts about my life in the canyon.
Please join me in welcoming these new followers of Desert Canyon Living:
http://julieflanders.blogspot.comJulie is an aspiring writer who volunteers as a news writer for Best Friends Animal Society, an organization that is close to my heart. Julie also blogs for Circle Tail, Inc. http://elliegreat.blogspot.comEllie is a writer from New Zealand, who also works helping talented kids develop their potentials. http://spacebyaline.blogspot.comAline blogs from Brazil and her blog brings you fairytale characters and a very creative Mother's Day post.http://thegoldeneaglesblog.blogspot.comThe Golden Eagle tells us she is a Chinese-American girl, adopted from China. She is a writer, reader, blogger, dancer, and musician. She posted a most fabulous entry on Saturday for the Red Angel's Inanimation Blogfest. I can't describe it -- it blew my mind -- please, read it!These new followers didn't enter links in their Google Friend Connect forms: Jeanette, Patricia Stoltey, Kendal, and Sylvia Ney, welcome to my blog. Also, a warm welcome to:http://orizzontipadani.blogspot.comMariolino from Italy. I'm so happy with my Italian followers. I almost think I can read Italian -- so many words come from Latin, that my mind plays tricks on me. And it's so much fun for me to make friends with people from all over the world.
Friday, May 13, 2011
First, let me welcome five new followers and then send the first of the awards I received after the A to Z Challenge ended out to five wonderful and creative bloggers. I will also show you five photos that give some background to who I am and where I'm from. http://lafotografiaefectistaabstracta.blogspot.comLoevi blogs in Spanish, but it doesn't matter much because her blog is about abstract photography. There you can see the most beautiful photos and so much creativity that it's a joy to visit. It is a pleasure for me to give Loevi the Kreativ Blogger Award, I received from Munir.http://blog.sarahmakela.comI feel a connection to Sarah, whose blog I found during the challenge. Sarah, who is married to a Finn, wrote posts about creatures of folklore, mythology and the paranormal during the challenge. Like me, she has a strong love for wolves. I would like to give the Kreativ Blogger Award to Sarah also. I should mention that Sarah gave me a Versatile Blogger Award that I will accept in a future post.http://lyndaryoung.blogspot.comLyn lives in Sydney, Australia and writes Christian devotionals and articles, and loves all things creative.Welcome Doreen -- I'm sure I read your blog, Doreen, so you must have left a comment on mine. As it is, you didn't leave a link on your Google Friend Connect form, so I can't link back to her blog here.http://elizabethmueller.blogspot.comElizabeth is a mother of four and a writer of novels and children's books. Elizabeth's blog reaches out and makes you feel welcome, as if you were friends with her for along time. Elizabeth is the woman who handed out the Zebra Award to all 1200 plus of us who finished the A to Z Challenge. With all that and four kids, I say "Wow!" Elizabeth, please accept the Kreativ Blogger Award and thank you.
I have told you so much about myself, I thought I would go back in time and show you a five things/places you may not have seen before.
I was born on the longest day of the year in Stockholm, Sweden, in the troubled year 1940.I was born under an almost midnight sun, perhaps like in this picture, taken around 10:00 p.m. The tower to the left is City Hall, the other spires are from the three great churches in Old Town. The bridge is the Western Bridge and, as you can see, we grow up around boats there.
I was baptized in Katarina Church, the one in the picture at the top of the cliffs.
As a teenager, I loved to hang out in jazz clubs, deep in the cellars of Old Town. Stockholm celebrated its 700th birthday in 1955 and some buildings here go back that far; the streets are cobblestone and the atmosphere is wonderful.
If I were to go back again, my favorite pastime would be to lie down in a meadow like this and watch the clouds go by overhead, while
perhaps eating some wild strawberries and listening to the birds sing their familiar Swedish bird songs.
I accepted this award from Munir http://focusthroughalens.blogspot.comon May 4th, but then I got sick and couldn't follow through with forwarding it and letting you know five things about myself.
It is very difficult to give out awards. I know everyone who blogs regularly deserves one. I want to give this award to five very creative bloggers:
Please visit these blogs, they are really, really great. And thank you again, Munir.
As for my health, I am over the cold and cough that fractured my vertebrae. The fracture still has to heal but I don't need to see a specialist unless the pain gets worse. So far it seems to be getting better. I am still taking pain medicine at night and resting mixed with being up and about. So it is looking pretty good right now. Thanks for all your good thoughts and wonderful comments.
Oh, Jim, you didn't read my A to Z Challenge, where the letter P went like this: P is for Pippi Birdie, Parakeet. It tells the story of another rescued parakeet and how Pippi came to live with us. | {
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Today I have been working in the garden. It's so good to work outside when the weather is so fine. I have also found time to make a card for the weekly challenge at. Sukkersøtt. And a bookmark for my daughter. I will post theese works soon. Hope you all have enjoyed this day.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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Knowledge is power and never more so than today. In a fast changing world what you don’t know can you hurt you, mainly because your competitors know it. They’re watching what you do – are you watching back? Competitive intelligence is a key part of any business strategy and it applies equally to content marketing.
We have updated our competitor intelligence advice below and included competitor tracking using BuzzSumo’s new monitoring dashboards and Facebook Analyzer tool.
Back in 1999 Andy Grove of Intel wrote a classic management text “Only the Paranoid Survive”. Whilst this maybe an extreme view, if a good book title, there is something to be gained by having a paranoid curiosity about your competitors and gaining intelligence on what they are doing.
In this post I will show you how you can gather intelligence on your competitor’s content marketing, there is no substitute for data.
More importantly, we will look at how to turn this information into actionable insights so you can outperfom your competitors.
1. Monitor Your Competitors
Things don’t stand still. A winning strategy today may not be the same as a winning strategy last year. One of your key tasks is to track your competitors and how well they are doing.
You can probably name your competitors. You probably check their sites out and look at their tweets when you have a second. But how forensic are you about keeping tabs on what they’re doing? This includes:
reviewing the links they are acquiring to their content each day or week – who’s linking to them?
reviewing their top content, what content did they publish last week and how well is it doing?
being alerted every time they create break out content that gets a lot of shares – what worked?
tracking their share of mentions in web content, on Facebook and on Twitter – what can you do to take a share?
Feeling like it’s time for a little healthy paranoia? Help is at hand. Here’s some simple ways to crawl all over your competitors’ content marketing.
Link Monitoring
Set up a BuzzSumo link alert. This will alert you every time there is a new link to their domain, a sub-domain or to a specific piece of content. Below the dashboard chart shows the number of links acquired by Moz and BuzzSumo in the last month. We have a long way to go to catch Moz but we growing our links faster and gained over 450 new links in the last month. From here you can go deeper and see who’s linking to your competitors. Are there domains that don’t link to you, but should? Now you have new ideas for your outreach and relationship building.
New Competitor Content
Competitor knowledge is power, but it loses its currency very quickly. You need to know, in as close to real time as possible, what your competitors are publishing. You can set up a BuzzSumo alert to be notified every time new content is published by your competitor on their domain. This saves you having to visit and review their site for new content. You can also set a threshold, such as a minimum of 100 shares or for viral content that gets say 1,000 shares.
You can also compare the volume of content published by competitor websites over time. Here is an example comparing Moz, Hubspot and BuzzSumo. Yep, we are the ones at the bottom.
You can also use BuzzSumo’s most shared search (see below) to review the performance of content published by a competitor in the last day, week, month or six months. See things that cause you to slap your head and say ‘we were going to do that?’ Maybe you’ll get there first now that you’re watching closely.
Mention Monitoring
You can set up an alert to be notifed every time a brand is mentioned in any web content such as an article or blog on the web. If your competitor’s brand name is not unique you can use advanced operators eg + or – to narrow your alerts. As with all alerts you can decide to receive your alerts in real time or as a daily digest and choose the language. As a competitor alert we suggest you leave the minimum number of shares at zero so you see everything.
Your alerts will also appear in your dashboard. Below is data on the number of mentions of Brandwatch and BuzzSumo in web content over the last month.
You still get a detailed note on every mention under the charts and a link to the post.
Mentions in web content are powerful as they build over time and have a flywheel effect, you brand will be seen each time the content is accessed, links are even more powerful. Mentions on Twitter by contrast are important in terms of buzz but they don’t build in the same way, as it is very rare for someone to search back through tweets compared to searching web content. However, you can track both public Facebook mentions and Twitter mentions.
Facebook Mentions
You also look at mentions of a competitor’s brand on Facebook using BuzzSumo’s new Facebook Analyzer tool. Below are the top performing Facebook posts mentioning Moz.
The tool will show you the total volume of interactions with posts over time, recent trends, top post formats and much more.
Twitter Mentions
If you want to see mentions of a competitor’s brand on Twitter you can use Topsy’s free analysis tool. Below is an example of mentions showing mentions of Buzzsumo recently. You can see the peak in mentions when we launched our new Facebook Analyzer tool.
2. In-Depth Review of Competitor Content Performance
So now you know the relative level of mentions and social shares your competitors are getting. But for really actionable insights, you need to go deeper to get to the why. Start with the content analysis section in BuzzSumo and undertake an overview of your competitor’s content for the last year, or any shorter period such as the last month.
In BuzzSumo Pro you can run detailed content analysis reports for a competitor. Simply enter a competitor’s domain, and you can run a detailed report showing the total articles published in a defined time period; the average shares per post; the shares by network and day published; and a breakdown by content format such as infographics, list posts, how to posts, videos, etc.
In BuzzSumo Pro you can also run this report as a domain comparison, which allows you to compare the performance of content published on your domain with a competitor’s content. Below is an example of Moz v BuzzSumo. Moz is way out in front with total volumes but BuzzSumo is winning in terms of average shares per article.
Review a Competitor’s Most Shared Content
Maybe the most direct analysis to to check out your competitors best performing content, and see how it compares to yours. By typing your competitor’s domain into BuzzSumo’s Most Shared search, you can see your competitor’s most shared content across all the main social networks. Thus at a glance you will be able to see your competitor’s top performing content including the headline, content type, and the networks where they are getting the most traction. Below as an example is Moz’s top content in the last month.
BuzzSumo will sort the list of most shared content by the number of total shares by default. You can re-sort the list by any of the networks such as by your competitor’s most shared content on LinkedIn.
3. Identify Where Can You Win
Knowledge isn’t power until you apply it. So you need to take all of these insights and decide how you can turn them to your advantage.
I like the comparison of tall city buildings and content marketing. No one visits the 5th tallest building in a city, all of the competitive advantage goes to the tallest buildings. Much the same is true in content marketing. Top content outperforms average content significantly, by a factor of ten or more. It is increasingly a winner-takes-all game as Rand Fishkin pointed out in his recent post on creating 10x content. People link and share the best post on a topic rather than an average article. To gain traction you need to make sure you have the best content that meets the needs of your audience.
So who has the best content on the latest developments in your market or the best practical case studies? You or your competitors? Where are the opportunities for you to develop the very best content?
The key is to identify the areas where you can dominate, relative to your competitors, where you can be the tallest building. Your competitive edge could stem from research, case studies or specific knowledge. Or you could produce the most comprehensive content or the best video. It takes time to become the tallest building. But on the way you could be the fastest growing, quirkiest, most different…in some way your content has to stand out.
4. How Is Their Content Amplified?
Content amplification is a critical part of any content marketing strategy. You may actually produce better content than your competitors but fail to amplify it as well as they do. There are a number of aspects to content amplification including:
people sharing content
sites linking to content
Facebook promotion
paid amplification via ads and promotion
Influential sharers
With BuzzSumo you can see who is sharing and amplifying your competitor’s content by clicking on ‘view sharers’ for a particular content item. This will bring back a list of the influential people that have shared their content. For example, here are four influencers that shared their top post this month.
Are there influential shares who amplify your competitors’ content, but not yours? If so, what can you do about that?
BuzzSumo will show you whether you already follow the influencer on Twitter and give you the option to follow them and add them to a Twitter list. You might want to set up a Twitter list of people that share competitor content. From there it’s about building a relationship and making it mutual. But you have to start by finding them.
Backlinks
Both BuzzSumo and SEMrush will allow you to see who is linking to your competitor’s content. In BuzzSumo you can see who is linking to a specific blog post or the domain as a whole. In SEMrush you can do comparisons across multiple competitors as shown below.
Facebook Promotion
Facebook now drives 25% of all web traffic and we are seeing Facebook grow in importance.
Using BuzzSumo’s Facebook Analyzer you can review how your competitors are promoting and engaging their audience on Facebook. Below is a simple list view of Moz’s most engaging Facebook posts.
You can analyze by type, by date and time of posts to examine what is working best for them and draw conclusions for me.
Paid Ads
SEMrush is a great tool for reviewing the performance of paid Google ads. You can review the keywords they bid on, an estimate of how much they spend and even the ads themselves. Below is an example for Moz.
5. Refine Your Amplification Strategy
So once you’ve seen how your competitors are getting their content shared, What can you learn from your competitor’s amplification strategy?
Do they have different influencers and amplifiers? Can you build relationships with them?
Where are they attracting links from? Are these opportunities for you?
What do they do well or poorly in terms of Facebook amplification that you can learn from?
Do they use paid ads and what ideas can you steal?
10 questions you should be able to answer about your competitors
We’re all busy. You don’t have time to obsess about what your competitors are doing 24/7, you have your own business to drive on. But you need to be looking left and right. So focus on a set of questions to help you stay on top. Try to ask them at least once a month about your nearest competitor set.
1. What’s their best performing content this week / month?
2. How well shared is their content compared to ours?
3. How much do they publish compared to us?
4. What type of content do they produce? How long, what formats? Are we the same or different?
5. When do they publish it? Do they get more traction on a certain day?
6. Who amplifies it – who are their top 10 most influential sharers, are they different to ours?
7. Who links to them- what are the top 10 most authoritative domain links, are they different to ours?
8. What keywords do they target in ads? Same as ours or different?
9. What’s working best for them on Facebook?
10. What content is trending fastest for them today?
And a bonus 2 questions to turn insights into action:
9. What’s the number one thing they do way better than us?
10. How are we going to get better than them at it?
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Federative Republic of
BrazilConfederação Brasileira de FutebolFoundation:
20 August 1914
Colours by
Country:
England vs.
Brazil
The question of whether the games
between England and Brazil warranted a change of colours, must have caused
quite a dilemma over the years. For the first twenty years of meetings, it
was only deemed necessary to change England's shorts and socks, but for
the next 25 years, full change-uniforms were worn in all of their
encounters, apart from in a couple of games.
To begin with, it is probably
fortunate that Brazil lost to Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup. At the time,
they wore an all white kit, not the canary yellow and blue outfit that they
have become synonymous with. White, clearly, would have caused a colour
clash with England's white shirts, but in 1953, the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol
held a national competition to decide on a
new kit, which allowed them to discard the all-white in favour of a strip
that matched the Brazilian national flag.
England did not meet Brazil for the
first time until 1956. This was a period when England's socks were black, yet for some reason, they changed them to red against Brazil. Perhaps
they were under the impression that Brazil would wear blue socks, even
though they were white throughout the 1954 World Cup. Apart from this, there
was no real problem. England's Umbro white shirts and Brazil's yellow were
distinctive enough, especially in contrast to England's dark navy shorts and
red socks, as opposed to Brazil's much lighter blue shorts and white
socks. The only other change was to England's goalkeeper, Reg Matthews, who had to change from the usual yellow jersey
into a blue one.
By the time of the 1958 World Cup,
England's socks had become red as first choice, so again, there was no
real problem, but when England visited Brazil for the first time, the
following year, it was felt that England should change to white shorts, to
avoid any possibility that there would be a clash with their opponents'
colours.
In the 1962 World Cup quarter-final,
England, now in Bukta uniforms, switched to all white against Brazil, the red socks having been
reduced to the role of spare pairs, though it appeared that some players had
plain white socks, whilst others had a red and a blue stripe across the
tops. This did not prompt Brazil to change from their white socks.
At Wembley, in 1963, England wore red
socks, knowing that Brazil were going to wear white, and for their next
three meetings, the first two of which were in Brazil, England switched to
all white. They had also switched back to Umbro by the time of the 1969
fixture.
For the 1970 World Cup tournament,
just as in the previous year's end-of-season tour, England had decided to
wear all white, believing it would help control their body temperatures
better in the Mexican heat and this decision finally prompted Brazil to make
a first change to their uniform in eight meetings with England, though it
was only to wear a rather unflattering pair of grey socks. This, of
course, did not stop their relentless charge to the Jules Rimet Trophy.
England's
Colours Against Brazil 1956-70
No.
Date
Shirts
Shorts
Socks
Gk
Venue
Shirts
Shorts
Socks
303
9 May 1956
Empire Stadium,
Wembley, London
323
11 June 1958
Nya
Ullevi Stadion, Göteborg, Sweden
331
13 May 1959
Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho,
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
362
10 June 1962
Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile
368
8 May 1963
Empire Stadium,
Wembley, London
380
30 May 1964
Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho,
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
435
12 June 1969
Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho,
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
446
7 June 1970
Estadio
Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico
By 1976,
England were wearing Admiral uniforms and came
face-to-face with Brazil at the American
Bicentennial Tournament. Once again, England swapped
their blue shorts for white, a pair yet to be
unveiled as part of their new red change uniform.
Compared to the five previous occasions when they
had donned white shorts against Brazil, this was
probably the closest in shade that their
first-choice blue shorts had been to Brazil's
lighter blue. To top the outfit off in a most
unexpected fashion, a pair of what has been
described elsewhere on this website as 'ghastly pale
yellow socks' was worn. This was no error,
either, as England wore an all plain-yellow uniform
against Team America in the final game of the
tournament. The game against Brazil also introduced
a new Admiral blue change jersey for Ray Clemence to
wear in England's goal.
The following
year saw England back in Rio de Janeiro and this
time, their choice of socks was almost certainly
an error. For the first time in ten meetings with
Brazil, England decided to wear their red change
uniform, which was to appear for every game of their
South American tour. However, unlike the two
remaining games in Argentina and Uruguay, England
did not wear the red socks. Instead, they turned
out in a navy blue pair, which we can only assume,
was borrowed from their hosts.
Having made
their decision to switch to red against Brazil,
England did the same in their next two meetings,
still with no sign of their opponents switching from
their famous yellow shirts, or even any part of
their traditional uniform. Perhaps, they were just
too famous to be asked to wear an alternative kit.
In 1978, at
Wembley, Brazil revealed the name of their kit
manufacturer for the first time against England, as
the adidas logo appeared on their shirts and shorts.
Meanwhile, Joe Corrigan, in England's goal managed
to pair the blue Admiral jersey with the black
shorts and socks from the first-choice yellow
uniform, an unlikely combination given that these
were edged with yellow, whilst the jersey had red
and white piping.
This possibly
prompted the F.A. and Admiral to change the blue
jersey, and by the time Brazil were next back in
town, in 1981, it had undergone an overhaul and was
now edged with yellow and black to fit better with
the black shorts and socks. It was also a
lighter shade of blue.
England were
back in Umbro uniforms in 1984 and John Barnes raced
through the Brazilian defence to score his wonder
goal, with England having once again reverted back
to white shirts and shorts, with red socks, a
combination not worn in any international since the
1959 trip to Rio. This match also heralded a switch
from the endless succession of blue goalkeeper
jerseys, with Peter Shilton decked out in grey, with
black sleeves.
The 1987 Rous
Cup fixture was unique in uniform terms, as both
teams stuck to their first-choice kits, which
meant that only the shirts were distinctly different
colours, though England were now back in darker
shorts. This was followed, in 1990, by a momentous
event. Brazil marched out at Wembley in their
second-choice blue uniform. It was the first time
ever that they had conceded colours against England
and this was their 15th meeting. Brazil were
possibly prompted to change because their shorts
were now a darker blue, more of a royal blue,
bringing them closer to England's, though still
lighter in shade than the home team's dark navy.
Six more
fixtures followed in which one or other of the teams
wore their second-choice uniform. In the 1995 Umbro
Cup, at Wembley, England wore an all-red strip,
described as 'wine-coloured'. Two years later, with
echoes of 1966, England managed to lift a trophy in
their red uniform, despite losing to Brazil in Le
Tournoi, in Paris.
Another
dramatic World Cup encounter took place in Japan in
2002, when a blue-shirted Ronaldinho broke English
hearts with a long-range lob over David Seaman as
Brazil marched on to their record fifth World Cup.
For the new
Wembley's first international, in 2007, the teams
reverted back to the old days of wearing their
first-choice with minor concessions and this time,
Brazil wore a pair of blue socks to match
their shorts. They repeated this combination in
2009, in Qatar, and again, back at Wembley, in 2013, as England appeared in all white
against their old rivals. Four months later, England
launched a new red kit in Rio, allowing Brazil to
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The surge in tips followed the release of a new video clip retrieved from the cellphone of one of the victims, 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German. When police played some audio from the clip at a news conference in the town of Delphi on Wednesday morning, reporters heard just three words from a deep voice: "Down the hill."
The audio quality is not great, but police said it's enough for someone to recognize the individual's voice. Investigators believe the clip was recorded just before the attack.
"Libby had the presence of mind to turn on her video camera," Indiana State Police spokesman Capt. David Bursten said Wednesday. "There's no doubt in our minds that that young lady is a hero."
The rest of the video will not be released at this time because of the ongoing investigation. Investigators recovered other evidence from the girl's phone that is also not being released, Bursten said.
German and 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams, both of Carroll County, were reported missing by their families Feb. 13 after the two did not return from a hike.
After organized searches, the bodies of the two girls were found Feb. 14 outside Delphi in the woods near Deer Creek, about three-quarters of a mile from an abandoned railroad bridge where they were dropped off the day before to go hiking. An autopsy revealed their identities.
"Evidence in this case has led investigators to believe that this is a double homicide, and that's what we're investigating at this time," Indiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Tony Slocum told reporters Wednesday.
Indiana State Police on Monday said a man in a photograph is the primary suspect in the investigation. The man — dressed in blue jeans, a blue jacket and a hoodie — was photographed on a nature trial around the same time the two girls disappeared.
He was previously labeled a person of interest, and police had said he might be only a witness to the crime.
"We are actively looking for this person. We believe this person is our suspect," Slocum said.
Authorities spent much of Wednesday's news conference delivering an emotional appeal to the public to submit tips to track down the man in the photograph and the person whose voice is in the audio clip.
Investigators said that there is the possibility of more than one suspect and that it's unclear whether the voice in the audio clip belongs to the man in the photograph.
The FBI has been assisting local authorities in the investigation since last week. Agents have briefed FBI Director James Comey on the case on two occasions.
Gregory Massa, the FBI assistant special agent in charge in Indianapolis, asked the public to think back to Feb. 13, the day the girls went missing.
"Just think if you had an interaction with an individual who inexplicably canceled an appointment that you had together," Massa said Wednesday. "Or an individual called into work sick and canceled a social engagement. At the time, they gave what would have been a plausible explanation."
Suspicious behavior or a change in someone's behavior should also be a red flag, Massa said.
"Did [an] individual travel unexpectedly?" he asked. "Did they change their appearance? Did they shave their beard, cut their hair or change the color of their hair? Did they change the way they dress?"
Authorities and community leaders are offering a $41,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest.
Citizens can provide information about this case by calling the Delphi murder tip line at 844-459-5786. Information can be reported anonymously. Tips can also be emailed to [email protected].
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Liberal MP Rob Oliphant, who co-chaired the special joint parliamentary committee on assisted dying, told The Canadian Press it would be "both smart and compassionate" to pre-empt those challenges by referring the new law to the Supreme Court.
"Any law presented on assisted dying could benefit from a referral to the Supreme Court," Oliphant said, noting it's a "complex subject and largely uncharted territory in Canada."
"By quickly referring it to the Supreme Court with specific questions, we ensure the law is broad enough to guarantee the rights of all Canadians — without them having to fight their way to the Supreme Court alone."
"By enacting the law immediately, we ensure the court's initial challenge to Parliament (to end the ban on assisted death) is met. By quickly referring it to the Supreme Court with specific questions, we ensure the law is broad enough to guarantee the rights of all Canadians — without them having to fight their way to the Supreme Court alone."
Law less permissive than expected
As The Canadian Press reported last week, the new legislation is expected to take a less permissive approach to medical assistance in dying than was recommended in February by Oliphant's committee.
It is not expected to allow people diagnosed with degenerative competence-eroding conditions like dementia to make advance requests for medical help to die. Nor is it expected to extend the right to an assisted death to so-called mature minors
It is also expected to tread warily around the right of people with mental illnesses to seek doctor assisted death.
The legislation is in response to a Supreme Court ruling last year, which concluded that Canada's ban on assisted suicide violates the right to life, liberty and security of the person, as guaranteed in the charter.
The court gave the federal government until Feb. 6, 2016 — later extended to June 6 — to come up with a new law that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical or mental suffering to seek medical help in ending their lives.
Advocacy group is 'really concerned'
Shanaaz Gokool, head of Dying with Dignity Canada, said her group is "really concerned" that the government appears intent on introducing a relatively restrictive law that "discriminates against whole groups of people."
"If they want to exclude groups of people based on age as opposed to capacity, if they want to exclude groups of people because they have a particular kind of illness that will lead them to incompetency, then they're faced with a few options," she said.
"One is that there will be a sick or dying 16 or 17-year-old who's going to have to be dragged to court, with their families, to establish what may very well be their charter right or they're going to be dragging somebody who's got a diagnosis for dementia also to court to establish what may very well be their charter right."
'An elegant solution'
Far preferable, Gokool said, would be to refer the law to the Supreme Court as soon as it's passed.
"It's an elegant solution here because it means you may not have to drag sick and dying people to court. It's a cost-effective option and it allows the government to have legislation that's in compliance with the charter."
"There's really no downside for the federal government doing this."
What's more, she said taking further direction from the court would give the government "an opt-out" from criticism by those who want the most restrictive response possible to the Supreme Court's original ruling.
"There's really no downside for the federal government doing this."
Independent Liberal Sen. Serge Joyal, an acknowledged constitutional authority and a member of Oliphant's committee, agreed a Supreme Court reference would be "the most credible" option for the government. It would also be consistent with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vow to ensure all legislation introduced by his fledgling Liberal government respects the charter, he said.
To refuse, thereby compelling individuals to "exhaust all the steps" of court challenges and appeals up to the Supreme Court, would be "inhumane," Joyal said, particularly for individuals diagnosed with dementia who would almost certainly be incompetent by the time they'd jumped through all the legal hoops.
"You don't expect that the government will fight you to the end, to the extreme limit with all the might of the state before your right is recognized in such a circumstance."
"You don't expect that the government will fight you to the end."
Sara Bennett Fox, whose mother Gillian Bennett committed suicide two years ago rather than lose her identity in a dementia fog, said refusing to allow advance directives will mean thousands of Canadians will have to make the choice her mother made: "She had to end her life while she was sure she could still do it without assistance," even though she was still able to "argue about Shakespeare" at the time.
And it's not just dementia sufferers who would be effected, Bennett Fox argued. Anyone in severe pain or on pain medication could potentially be judged "cognitively cloudy" and not competent to choose medical assistance to die.
To force such people to fight in court for the right to an assisted death would be "grossly unfair," an option available only to those with money and ready access to the legal system, she added.
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To make exercise fun, work out with friends
My husband once told me that one of the things that attracted him to me was that I ate vegetables. At the time I laughed, but I understood what he meant. When you’re looking for someone to share your life with, it’s probably wise to choose the person who will influence you to eat well, exercise, and stay healthy rather than someone who encourages you to make unhealthy choices. This works for spouses as well as friendships.
Earlier this month was National Friendship Day, which got me thinking about friends and how they affect health. Here’s where I ended up: friends can be the best influences and the worst influences. They can encourage better eating habits and regular exercise, and sometimes they can encourage not-so-great food and lifestyle choices (I’m sure many of us have succumbed to the words “c’mon, just stay for ONE more glass of wine!”). While those naughty influences can be fun -- and we all need those once in a while too -- the friends who get you outside for a walk, to the gym, or to try cooking instead of ordering General Tzo’s Chicken have a more positive impact overall. And you’ll feel much better the next morning than when you had the extra glass of wine.
If you haven’t tried combining friendship and exercise, give it a shot. Studies show that having an exercise buddy actually increases a person’s commitment to consistent exercise, plus it makes the workout more enjoyable. Ask a friend to start up a weekly workout schedule with you. You’ll be less likely to hit the snooze button again if you know someone’s waiting for you at the gym. Plan a regular walk with one of your buddies where you can catch up on each other’s lives while getting outside and moving.
Exercise can also help you develop new friendships -- ask a coworker to be your workout buddy or post a bulletin in your community. Visit a Website where you can connect with like-minded people to workout with, such as Exercise Friends or MeetUp.com. Sites like this can help you find a local hiking group or intramural sports team.
Food offers another way to encourage a healthy lifestyle between friends. Share tasty, healthy recipes with each other, or take turns hosting dinner gatherings where you try out new, low-calorie recipes. Just make sure to save those rich dessert recipes for only the special occasions. | {
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Dr. Isobel M. Findlay, University Co-Director, Community-University Institute for Social Research, University of Saskatchewan
Summary: On April 18, 2018, a huge community effort combined in Saskatoon’s fourth Point-in-Time (PIT) Homelessness Count, its first in the national coordinated count. Knowledge mobilization before, during, and after the count ensured that everyone counts in preventing and ending homelessness.
Case study: Mass homelessness is a phenomenon of human making. Disinvestment in safe, affordable housing and social supports along with economic shifts mean that 235,000 Canadians experience homelessness yearly, 50,000 face “hidden homelessness,” and many more are at risk. What once impacted few older males now impacts young and old, men and women, families, veterans, people with disabilities—and Indigenous people disproportionately. Coordinated, multi-sector human interventions, mobilizing diverse knowledges, are showing signs of preventing or even ending homelessness.
Guided by a thirty-organization Community Advisory Committee, Saskatoon Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) and Community-University Institute for Social Research (CUISR), University of Saskatchewan, completed Saskatoon’s fourth PIT count and first national count on April 18. From 2008, successive CUISR PIT counts have developed community networks, shared learning, and common purpose, teaching CUISR to rethink methods and knowledge mobilization to promote a community conversation—and a more comprehensive, multi-faceted evidence base. A PIT count “is a critical piece to shaping policy,” according to SHIP’s PIT Coordinator Colleen Christopherson-Cote.
Including hidden homelessness and expanding knowledge mobilization before, within, and after the count, in 2015 we engaged housed and unhoused in questions gauging perceptions of homelessness:
Opening an important conversation, building awareness, and establishing baseline data
Addressing ethical concerns around social stigma when only unhoused were surveyed
Thanks to HPS support in 2018, we added a youth magnet event at White Buffalo Youth Lodge (youth represent 20% of homelessness) with diverse ways to participate and document views—and we were able to thank survey participants (with a $10 gift card) for sharing their time and knowledge, respecting the ethical principle of Nothing about US without Us.
Thanks also to 120 volunteer surveyors (many repeats from previous counts) who completed three-hour training and contributed four-hour shifts to walk Saskatoon streets, we have data from 14 core questions comparable across the country and contextually-sensitive data based on local questions.
Now we begin communicating PIT count results—a sense-making, engaging, and educating process that can unpack myths, shape policy and programs, and rebuild our sense of community.
Refining our communication plan means knowing our own context and community, what has changed or not, so that we explain the meaning of the numbers. We need to be sensitive to (colonial) stories about those who have felt researched to death, yet neither respected nor heard. Giving life to the numbers, the voices of those experiencing homelessness help address costly systemic inequalities.
Using different media (infographics, posters, new releases, social media, debriefs, community events, reports, and articles), we will tell the stories of participants and of volunteers who have themselves experienced homelessness. We will contribute to the reconciliation narrative, acting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, so that we all understand our shared history on Treaty Six territory and the homelands of the Métis. | {
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Shooting for the Moon: A Joint Venture“We are on the cusp of a new era of innovation and entrepreneurship in education that was almost unimaginable a decade ago. I am convinced that every problem in education has been solved before, somewhere – and often with philanthropic support.”
The Secretary was pushing the foundation community to highlight its solutions and help take them to scale, and to continue to invest in the innovations outside of the status quo that have now become such a key part of the Administration’s education reform agenda.
The Obama Administration has created the environment for education reform's moon shot – a chance to dramatically change the playing field for children and parents in this country. And this means that it is truly a moment for an “all hands on deck” approach. Past administrations have surely said that government can’t do it alone. This Administration, perhaps louder and clearer than ever before, has made it a priority to work strategically with the private sector to jointly leverage each other’s resources. In the field of American education, the unprecedented funding through ARRA demands no less.
“All Hands” Includes Philanthropies
The Department wants to work with philanthropic actors across the country and at every level, to catalyze engagement in a whole new way. Community, family, corporate, and institutional foundations each have a unique role to play in the ecosystem. In order to do the truly transformative – and not merely incremental – work that the Department is setting out to do in a very short period of time, everyone needs to be at the table. Foundations of course bring essential financial resources in this time of contraction across all sectors. Perhaps more importantly, education funders can offer informed out-of-the-box thinking, along with the capacity to convene, advocate, and share intellectual capital.
If the Department is successful in meeting the President's goal of becoming once again the world leader on an economic scale, the country must follow his plan to “educate our way to economic recovery.” The President’s goal means we must graduate 60 percent of our college students by 2020. In order to get there, the Department has taken bold steps to change the way educators do business by changing the incentives for transformation and achievement in school systems at the local and state level. This is difficult work. It requires a herculean effort of collaboration, strategic planning, resource allocation, and tough choices about priorities. Foundations need to be a part of this strategy because they are uniquely positioned in many instances to provide flexible funding and access to new tools for decision-making and strategy-building, often bringing nontraditional partners to the table.
At the Department, philanthropic engagement means providing an open door to foundations to become a part of the educational reform conversation at the highest level. Just as teachers, students, administrators, community organizations, and others are considered key stakeholders in this transformative work, foundations are now at the table, too. Because of this, the Department is challenging funders to act differently along with the rest of the education sector. All stakeholders must be innovative in order to rise above the status quo of reform. Secretary Duncan is asking everyone to think and act differently. Not only teachers and students, but universities, parents, unions, school boards, government…and now philanthropists, too.
The Benefits of Alignment—Past and Present
The Foundation Center estimates that U.S. foundations provided more than $8 billion for education in 2008. With ARRA funding as a one-time investment for recovery, government can’t afford to act alone. If both sectors seize the opportunity to align their multibillion dollar investments, they can help avoid a funding cliff after the ARRA funds are allocated. The Department can co-invest with philanthropy in transformative strategies that will help make education more cost-effective and equitable.
The Department has truly embraced the foundation community by creating a position within the Office of the Secretary for the Director of Philanthropic Engagement. This dedicated role within the Secretary’s Office signals to the philanthropic world that the Department is “open for business.”
While the Department recognizes that government has no business controlling private sector resources, nor telling private foundations how they should invest their philanthropic dollars, the Department does believe that there is a leadership opportunity at hand. At a minimum, the Department can provide transparency around its own decisions and investments, to assist others in making the most informed choices about how to invest their limited resources. Even better, the Department can provide leadership to the field, and offer guidance as to where gaps in funding, research, and knowledge exist along the spectrum of an overall strategy for comprehensive change.
There is a long history within the social and civic sectors of partnerships to achieve shared goals. And this is not the first time that he Department has worked with foundations. In 1997, the Administration was interested in expanding afterschool and community learning programs, especially in low-income schools and communities. At the time, there was an existing federal $1 million 21st Century Community Learning Center demonstration project, but competing interests within Congress made expansion difficult. Mott Foundation President Bill White seized the opportunity and offered to become the Department’s partner by using its philanthropic support to fund the roll out and implementation of an expansion, based on the success of the demonstration project.
The Mott Foundation’s initial commitment of $10 million quickly grew to $50 million and then increased to $100 million. Congress was watching; by 2002, the Congressional appropriation for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers grew to almost $1 billion per year. Without a doubt, the initial funding for scalability, along with the convening of stakeholders, advocacy, and sustained investments by the Mott Foundation were critical in building consensus within the Administration for this expansion of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers.
The Department hopes to foster similar long-term, highly leveraged opportunities for scaling what works by working in close collaboration with foundations.
Building a “Better Rocket”
With respect to broad philanthropic engagement, the Department hastwo overarching goals that hopefully will not only help change the way that government works with philanthropy, but also help to change the way that the philanthropic sector does business.
If the Department of Education can catalyze a portfolio of investor collaboration tools to allow philanthropy and government to operate from shared platforms to make decisions and investments around shared goals, it will create a much more efficient and effective education sector, which will lead to greater opportunities for children, and easier access to funding for schools and districts.
"Secretary Duncan understands that the results we need to
see are compromised, diminished, and frustrated by the affection we have for
familiar silos...The Secretary is using the bully pulpit to help us figure out
how to build fewer fences and more bridges between early childhood, K-12, and higher education, between agencies and departments, and between the public, private and social sectors."
-- Ralph Smith, Executive Vice
President of the Annie E. Casey
Foundation and Chair of the Council
on Foundations
There are two foundational/fundamental tools for this work. The first is a roadmap that outlines the Department’s strategies and goals, and delineates how government funding supports and invests in those particular goals. This will be complemented by an assessment of how current philanthropic investments align with the Department’s strategies and funding gaps. This map will provide a comprehensive picture of how public and private dollars are flowing toward education systems and outcomes and will help identify opportunities for new investment.
The goal is to demonstrate where foundations are currently investing, where alignment already exists, and what gaps would best merit the consideration of joint or parallel investment. This concept is comparable to a wedding registry for philanthropists interested in investing in the public education system in America. This would not only help direct dollars in a systemic and strategic manner, but also allow individual grantmakers to view their investments as part of a larger and greater whole. If everyone is working from the same set of blueprints, the rocket ships needed to accomplish the moon shot challenge are far more likely to be within reach.
The second interactive tool that the Department would like to catalyze is a network platform to pool information and expertise, research, data, and evaluation results within the education sector. If someone preparing to make a grant in Ohio to improve third-grade reading knows that she can access the best and latest proven thinking and action on achieving these results in similar communities, she will have wasted fewer resources on the effort to make the grant and have made a more thoughtful and wise investment. This tool would be valuable throughout the Department of Education and the halls of foundation offices around the country, and potentially the globe.
Investing in Innovation and More
With the announcement of the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund and the proposed priorities for grant awards, there is an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to inform government about true innovations in education. The draft priorities (see “What’s New”) for i3 suggest that government awards will have to be supported by a 20-percent investment of private dollars or in-kind services. This demands that philanthropic sources commit to the most scalable and proven innovations.
In addition, there is a multitude of opportunities for foundations to support i3 beyond the match requirement. As Secretary Duncan announced at the Grantmakers for Education Conference, there are multiple ways that private funders can support innovation in education. The following are just some of his examples:
Coinvest in intermediaries to complement the i3 awards, providing support for promising, high-risk innovations not funded through the federal program;
Collaborate in the development of college and career-ready standards;
Collaborate across states on curriculum, learning tools, technology innovation, and teacher preparation;
Enable states and districts to make the best use of new federal funds from ARRA by helping states put together great applications for the Race to the Top competition;
Assist local districts with the complex planning process for school turnarounds; and
Support rigorous evaluations of education reform. Without compelling research studies, promising innovations rarely get to scale.
Achieving the Dream
The moment has come for government to work with the philanthropic sector to identify what is working and take it to scale – and for philanthropy to help nurture the next generation of solutions and innovations. The Department’s ultimate goal is to create a pipeline of innovation in the education sector that mirrors the best of innovation pipelines in the private sphere, while creating a clarion call to the world that aligning investments in strategic ways is the best and perhaps only way to achieve the dream.
By working together, a high-quality education for every child in this country is within reach.
What's NewFrom the U.S. Department of EducationSecretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the Department's priorities for grants under the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund (i3). The fund, which is part of the historic $5 billion investment in school reform in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will support local efforts to start or expand research-based innovative programs that help close the achievement gap and improve outcomes for students. "We're making an unprecedented investment in cutting-edge ideas that will produce the next generation of school reforms," Secretary Duncan said. "The i3 competition will provide seed money for fresh ideas, help grow promising programs with a good track record, and scale up programs with proven results to a national level." Individual school districts or groups of districts can apply for the i3 grants, and entrepreneurial nonprofits can join with school districts to submit applications. Colleges and universities, companies, and other stakeholders can be supporters of the projects. The Department of Education will collect public comment on the proposed priorities for the i3 Fund for 30 days, and then plans to publish a final notice inviting applications in early 2010 with a projected closing date in the spring. All grants funded under the program will be obligated by September 30, 2010. (October 2009)
Secretary Duncan announced 314 schools as 2009 National Blue Ribbon Schools. He made the announcement at Highland Elementary School, a 2009 Blue Ribbon School in Silver Spring, Maryland. The schools—264 public and 50 private—will be honored at an awards ceremony on November 3 in Washington, DC. “These Blue Ribbon Schools have shown that all children can learn with appropriate supports,” Duncan said. “They are producing outstanding results for their students. Some have shown dramatic improvements in places where students are overcoming the challenges of poverty, and others serve as examples of consistent excellence that can be a resource for other schools.” (September 2009)
“Today’s teachers and aspiring teachers in our colleges of education can help transform the lives of their students by boosting student learning and helping them access higher education and new economic opportunities,” Secretary Duncan told an audience of students from the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. He assured them that they are answering a call that is as important as any career available to them now and in the future. (October 2009)
Secretary Duncan called on more than 200 leaders of major education groups to join him and the Department of Education to “build a transformative education law that guarantees every child the education they want and need—a law that recognizes and reinforces the proper role of the federal government to support and drive reform at the state and local level." In his first major speech concerning the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Secretary said that the NCLB law has significant flaws but that he looks forward to working with Congress to address the law’s problems. The session was the first of a series of forums where education stakeholders will offer input about the law. Upcoming meetings at the Department’s headquarters on the reauthorization are scheduled for November 4 and 20, and December 2. The forums are part of the Department’s “Listening and Learning” tour seeking public input about changes to the ESEA. (September 2009)
On October’s special edition of “Education News Parents Can Use,” Secretary Arne Duncan engaged teachers across the country in a town hall forum about what’s working and what’s not working in our nation’s schools. The Secretary took comments and questions from teachers in the studio audience and via telephone. This special event is one stop on Secretary Duncan’s national “Listening and Learning” tour. To watch the archived broadcast, go to http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews. (October 2009)
From the Office of Innovation and ImprovementAssistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement Jim Shelton hosted a webinar to discuss the notice of proposed priorities for the i3 Fund. More than 600 people across the country in school districts, foundations, postsecondary institutions, and the private sector participated in the webinar. A round of questions and answers followed on a wide range of issues. A recording of the webinar and the presentation PowerPoint Presentation-[1.6MB] is available. (October 2009)
Secretary Duncan announced the award of $43 million for 28 new Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) grants to improve instruction in struggling schools. These grants will be used to reform traditional university teacher preparation and teacher residency programs. The partnerships include high-need school districts, their high-need schools, and institutions of higher education and their colleges or departments of education, arts, and sciences. It is a unique collaboration of the key stakeholders to improve the quality of teaching in public elementary and secondary schools where children are in greatest need of support to accelerate their learning. The TQP grants are managed by the OII Teacher Quality Programs office. (September 2009)
From the Institute for Education SciencesERIC, the world’s largest and most frequently used digital library of education operated by the Department of Education is getting a set of enhancements over the next five years. The improvements include collaboration with the Library of Education to digitize and process archival materials related to the history of the Department, an enhanced online submission format, and Optical Character Recognition of 486,000 digitized microfiche documents to ensure universal access. (September 2009)
The latest report in a series on high school dropout and completion rates by the National Center for Education Statistics presents estimates of national and regional dropout rates for 2007, calculates the average percentage of freshmen who graduated in four years with the class of 2006, and provides data about national trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three and a half decades, from 1972 to 2007. The report also examines characteristics of dropouts and completers in these years by race, income, gender, and region. (October 2009)
A new practice guide from the What Works Clearinghouse titled “Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision-Making,” offers five recommendations to help educators effectively use data to monitor students’ academic progress and evaluate instructional practices. The guide suggests schools set a clear vision for school-wide data use, develop a data-driven culture, and make data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement. The guide also suggests teaching students how to use their own data to set learning goals. (September 2009)
The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final Report includes two parallel impact studies, a math program study ("Mathletics" developed by Harcourt School Publishers) and a reading program study ("Adventure Island" developed by the Success for All Foundation) in which students attending an afterschool program are assigned by lottery to either receive the structured academic programming or the afterschool programming regularly offered. For each academic program, the evaluation design allows for information about the one-year impact in the first and second years of operation as well as the two-year impact in which the program was offered to students for two consecutive years. The study was conducted by MDRC, a nonprofit organization known for its large-scale evaluations of social programs. (September 2009)
American HistoryThe Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History launched History Now, a quarterly online journal for history teachers and students. The journal attempts to grapple with the ambiguities that define the historical circumstances surrounding the birth of the United States, offering thoughtful suggestions about how to teach the struggle for independence. The inaugural issue includes an interactive feature revolving around three original documentaries about the American Revolution. (October 2009)
Charter Schools/ChoiceThe recent closing of a number of Catholic schools that reopened as charter schools in the District of Columbia is the subject of a new case study. The study chronicles the Archdiocese of Washington as it used the chartering mechanism to save a set of its schools from permanent closure. The collective experiences of the schools provide lessons for other cities and religious communities contemplating the future of their financially struggling, inner-city, faith-based schools. (September 2009)
Closing the Achievement GapThe Center on Education Policy (CEP) issued the latest in a series of reports analyzing the achievement gaps between low-income students and their peers, and between white and minority students. In this, the third year of a multi-year study of student achievement, testing data was reviewed from all 50 states. Among the general findings, the report showed that “achievement for minority and low-income children has gone up and achievement gaps have narrowed in most states, although gaps are still large.” The narrowing was attributed to increases in achievement by low-performing subgroups, but the data also indicated that gaps are “still widening in 23 percent of cases.” The good news, according to CEP, is that “states have made progress in closing achievement gaps,” but the Center cautioned that “now is not the time to let up.” (October 2009)
The National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released the draft college and career-readiness standards for public input. National organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Education Association, and others provided input to NGA and CCSSO. The standards presented were developed by Achieve Inc, the College Board, and the ACT testing program. The next phase of development involves review by a validation committee to ensure alignment with college and workforce training program expectations, as well as the rigor of the content and skills and the adherence to international benchmarks. (September 2009)
Mathematics and ScienceThe Nation’s Report Card: Mathematics 2009 details the achievement of fourth- and eighth-grade students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), administered by the Department earlier this year. The report compares national results in 2009 with each prior assessment year back to 1990, and state results back to 1992 at grade 4 and 1990 at grade 8. For the first time since the assessment began, fourth-graders showed no overall increase at the national level, although they scored significantly higher in 2009 than 1990. Among eighth-graders, scores were higher when compared to both 1990 and 2007. These nationwide patterns held for most student subgroups. (October 2009)
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics released “Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making,” a follow-up to its 2006 document, “Curriculum Focal Points,” which addressed grade-by-grade content standards in math for prekindergarten through 8th grade. The new document “constitutes a substantial rethinking” of the high school math curriculum, according to NCTM. “A high school mathematics curriculum based on reasoning and sense making,” said NCTM President Henry Kepner, “will prepare students for higher learning, career success, and productive citizenship.” (October 2009)
Involvement in 4-H, according to a new study PDF-[8.16MB] conducted by the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, helps students to perform better in science, technology, and engineering. The multiyear study involved 1,300 tenth graders who participated in 4-H as well as a control group of 800 students. The study was commissioned by the National 4-H Council and funded by corporations supportive of the organization; an independent advisory board helped to ensure the objectivity of the research.
School ImprovementThe estimated cost to the U.S. economy of the students who did not graduate in 2009 is a staggering $335 billion over the course of their lifetimes, according to The HighCost of High School Dropouts: What the Nation Pays for Inadequate High Schools, an issue brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE). “The best economic stimulus is a high school diploma,” noted AEE’s president, Bob Wise. According to the brief, the average annual income for a high school dropout in 2005 was $17,299, compared to $26,933 for a high school graduate. (September 2009)
Another insightful analysis PDF-[32KB] about the societal costs of high school dropouts states that “nearly 23 percent of all young black men ages 16 to 24 who have dropped out of school are in jail, prison, or a juvenile justice institution.” This analysis was released in Chicago by a national coalition that includes the National Urban League, the National Education Association, and the Alternative Schools Network. The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data in order to “provide a detailed portrait of the employment, earnings and family income, incarceration, and parenting experiences of dropouts, ages 16 to 24, compared to their better-educated peers.” (October 2009)
Technology in EducationA new study shows preschool children who participated in a media-rich literary curriculum integrating public media video content and educational games were better prepared for kindergarten than students who did not use the curriculum. The study evaluated educational video content and associated interactive games from Super Why!, Between the Lions, and Sesame Street, which are produced as part of the Ready To Learn (RTL) initiative. RTL is supported by OII’s Technology in Education Program. (October 2009)
Charter Schools/ChoiceThe United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), a Latino advocacy group and charter management organization, received a $98 million grant from the state of Illinois to double the current number of charter schools it operates in Chicago. UNO opened its first charter in 1998, and currently oversees eight K-8 schools and one high school in Chicago. The student populations of the UNO-run schools are primarily Latino, and the schools’ philosophy of assimilation into the American society is pursued by using an English-immersion approach. For the 2007-08 school year, students at each of the UNO schools met or exceeded state standards in reading, mathematics, and science in greater proportions than students in regular Chicago public schools. [More—The Education Week] (October 2) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
On the first stop of their national tour, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich toured Mastery Charter School-Shoemaker campus and McDaniel Elementary. The Mastery approach, pioneered in Philadelphia by former local businessman Scott Gordon, employs a longer school day and year, a demanding curriculum, and an emphasis on personal responsibility to prepare all of its students for college. The trio of high-profile visitors was collectively impressed; the Rev. Sharpton calling it a “breakthrough moment,” and Secretary Duncan noted that Philadelphia could take the lead in a national conversation about school improvement. [More—Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Inquirer] (September 30 and October 1)
Raising Student AchievementActing on their belief that nontraditional high schools students can succeed in alternative circumstances, school leaders in Henderson, Texas, opened the PRIDE (Producing Responsible Individuals and Developing Excellence) Academy this year for juniors and seniors with a variety of needs for a different approach to the traditional school day and learning paradigm. The academy is structured around two, four-hour sessions each weekday, and students learn independently in large measure, using computers and online resources and working at their own pace. The new program, according to PRIDE Academy principal Debra Brown, is patterned on similar programs in nearby school districts.
[More—The Tyler (TX) Morning Telegraph] (October 8)
In the 1990s, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, using a personal monitoring technique, identified a state of “flow” in adults and then distilled the conditions in life that can foster flow-like experiences. Researchers at Northern Illinois University used the same research techniques to study teens in middle and high school. In analyzing the data, teens approached a flow-like state most often during sports and extracurricular activities, and rarely when they were alone, which is not true of adults. Teens are most apt to experience it when they are with both their peers and adults. Not surprisingly, a least half of the teens reported that school classes were boring when only 15 percent of the time was interactive in nature.
[More—Newsweek] (October 7)
Executive function, a set of abilities and skills that includes self-regulation and avoidance of distractions, may be increased with practice, according to some researchers. Tools of the Mind, a program for children as young as age 3, is dedicated to improving self–regulation through a prekindergarten and kindergarten curriculum rich in “dramatic play,” which involves “complex, extended make-believe scenarios” that can be employed for hours and even days. The program, which currently reaches 18,000 prekindergarten and kindergarten students in 12 states, teaches children how to master their thoughts and avoid acting on impulses. Studies of Tools of the Mind, while not experimental in nature, suggest effectiveness on measures of literacy ability and executive function.
[More—The New York Times Magazine] (September 27)
School ImprovementThe instructional approach in the Aldine School District that helped it garner the 2009 Broad Prize for Urban Education has been steadily honed for effectiveness over the past decade. The district’s system of managed instruction began in response to several strategic factors at work in the Aldine schools – more than eight of every 10 students were eligible for free or reduced-price meals, a third of students did not speak English as their first language, and the district had a very high student-mobility rate. In addition to ensuring that schools are in the same places in the curriculum throughout the year, teachers benefit from professional development that is linked to student achievement data. Moreover, the centralized approach to curriculum hasn’t stifled individual schools’ ability to innovate, so long as the proposed changes are backed with data.
[More—Education Week] (October 5) (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org)
New Haven schools in Connecticut are at the “forefront of a movement to build schools that are aesthetically pleasing as well as functional,” but the art that enhances the buildings is more than decorative; it is an integral part of lessons in the arts, math and sciences, and the humanities. Nearly half of the public schools built or renovated in New Haven since 1999 have merged art and the buildings’ architecture with the curriculum. For example, in the Christopher Columbus Family Academy, sculpture is incorporated throughout the school, and the art is accompanied by a new curriculum guide.
[More—The New York Times] (October 2)
All present and accounted for – that’s the hope for districts across Michigan in late September when Count Day occurs. The annual fall roll call largely determines the amount of funding each district receives under the state’s per-pupil support system. In Detroit, where enrollment has shrunk by nearly 50 percent in the past decade, school leaders offered a plethora of incentives, from free meals to T-shirts to chances to win iPods and plasma-screen TVs, to students for being in the count. Leading up to Count Day, Detroit schools mounted an “I’m In” campaign that included radio and television ads featuring Bill Cosby. Private donations helped to cover the costs of the Count Day festivities.
[More—The Wall Street Journal] (October 1)
Teacher Quality and DevelopmentIncentive pay does help to attract qualified teachers to high-poverty schools, according to an evaluation of that effort to date in Hillsborough County Schools in Florida. Since 2003, when teachers were offered a five- to 10-percent bonus to teach in the county’s low-income Renaissance schools, the number of teachers applying has doubled, and a majority of the applicants indicate that the incentive pay has influenced their decisions to stay. The evaluation also revealed that for a majority of the teachers who left positions despite the extra compensation, poor leadership was cited as a primary reason.
[More—The St. Petersburg Times] (September 27)
Efforts to increase the percentage of black male teachers in Georgia and elsewhere may get help from such programs as Clemson University’s Call Me MISTER program, which has placed more than 50 black men in classrooms and has another 165 preparing for teaching careers in colleges across South Carolina as well as in six other states, including Georgia’s Albany State University. Principals like Machelle Matthews at Martin Luther King Elementary in Clayton County, Ga., who is striving to create an environment where students see male teachers, are looking to Call Me MISTER and advocacy groups like MenTeach to make their goal achievable.
[More—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution] (September 25)
In Chesterfield County, Va., teachers and other instructional personnel will be developing professional development growth plans tied to student academic performance, their school improvement plan, and their individual evaluations. The plans are being developed this year and will be implemented with the 2010-11 school year. The new approach was piloted in 16 schools in the district last year and those schools are continuing the initiative. Principals will be expected to show teachers not only where they are coming up short, but what has been done to help them improve, according to Lyle Evans, the district’s assistant superintendent of human resources and administrative services. The plan has the support of the Chesterfield Education Association, according to its president, Frank Cardella.
[More—The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch] (September 24)
Technology in EducationA pair of new resources from the National Association for State Title I Directors (NASTID) and the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) offer information to school districts that want to maximize their education technology funds. The report, Leveraging Title I and Title IID: Maximizing the Impact of Technology in Education, and the guide, A Resource Guide Identifying Technology Tools for Schools, were released together by the national groups. The report notes that "classroom technology use is not limited to computers," and that "in fact, innovative technology use incorporates cell phones, MP3 players, and other mobile devices, as long as they are used to reinforce learning and not for the sake of the technology itself." The resource guide includes explanations of various school technology structures and computing forms and examples of a wide range of hardware, software, and online tools.
[More—eSchool News] (September 25) | {
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Best Gun For Self Defense
There are few things more likely to start a fight than the discussion of firearms and more specifically, what are the best options for a defensive weapon. While there are entire forums full of this type of information of people’s opinions, there are a lot of options and reasons why you should pick the best weapon based on your needs.
Speaking of opinions, I have my own on the subject of the best weapon you can buy for defense and I will share it along with my reasons for having said opinion and I welcome anyone to comment if you agree or if you disagree.
I will say that when I make this recommendation I am speaking to people who do not have any other firearms currently. If you are realizing just now that you may need a firearm for home defense and are looking for the best weapon to purchase your first, this post is intended for you.
A 12 gauge shotgun is the absolute best option you should consider for home defense. I honestly believe that when all else is considered, it is the best gun for home defense. Let the discussion begin! Why do I say a shotgun and not a pistol or AR or AK? I’m glad you asked!
Cost
A 12 gauge shotgun is about the cheapest gun you can buy when you consider that most handguns now are selling for over $500 unless you buy a .380 concealed carry. Can you spend $3500 on a fancy shotgun that will be a collector’s piece? Of course you can but that isn’t what I am talking about. If you have a ton of money you would obviously not stop here, but for the average person trying to make wise decisions with their finances, a shotgun is practical and affordable for most of you out there.
When people start looking for a defensive or tactical shotgun the focus turns to 2 main models, Remington and Mossberg. The Remington 870 is a legend and is the standard issue shotgun for a lot of police departments and armed forces. That alone drives the cost up. Adding all sorts of cool hardware like Picatinny rails, foregrips and pistol grips run the cost up too. You don’t need all of that stuff. Not now anyway. You need something to protect your family and the nice Benelli semi-auto isn’t called for here either.
I recommend buying a used shotgun that you don’t pay more than $300 for. Go to your local gun show and you will find lots of options. If you are looking in the right place you can get a new Mossberg for less than $200 but with each passing day that gets harder and harder. Is the Mossberg any good? Yes they are. Is it better and more reliable than a Remington 870? I don’t know. Here is what I do know though and that is if you do not have anything, you will wish you had something, even an old Mossberg when the Zombies or bad guys start coming in the front door.
Availability of Ammo
Just a quick check online finds plenty of ammo for the 12 gauge. You can’t say that for most common pistol calibers especially with the DHS purchasing 1.6 billion rounds for their own use. Another plus is there is a pretty wide variety of ammunition you can use in most shotguns. Most shotguns accept either 2 ¾ inch or 3 inch shells. Some, like my particular Mossberg model accept both. You then have Buckshot which is the most deadly, Slug, steel shot, bird shot, turkey or varmint loads and target loads. So many choices, so little time! You can easily buy a few boxes and have plenty of security for most any scenario. Now, in a total grid-down, end of the world apocalypse you will wish you have millions of rounds stored up, but we have to start somewhere. I like to buy a box of each caliber that I have (when I can) whenever I go to a sporting goods store and keep it locked away.
Usefulness
A 12 gauge shotgun is one of the most versatile weapons you can have if the SHTF. You can, of course, use this as your defensive weapon and you can hunt small and even large game with it. A 12 gauge with bird shot is good for most small critters or birds but you want to be careful you don’t blow them to pieces. Throw some buckshot in there and you can go deer hunting with ease. A .22 is similarly good at plinking and shooting small game, but I wouldn’t want to face down a gang of intruders with a .22 rimfire.
Accuracy
One good thing about shotguns from the perspective of someone defending their home is that you don’t have to be as accurate as you do with a handgun. A shotgun has a nice blast pattern that will hit anyone in the general direction down range to a certain extent. The flip side is that a shotgun is not generally relied on for its accuracy or range. This is a close quarters type of defensive weapon so you won’t be picking off the bad guys at 100 yards with this. When the Mutant Zombie Motorcycle gang rolls into your town, they will need to get a little closer before you can take them out, but that is for a different post. Another consideration since we are discussing accuracy is that you have to practice common sense. If someone is in your house and you shoot a shotgun, those rounds will go through sheet-rock walls and could hit someone on the other side. This is no different from just about any other type of common round though.
Ease of Use
A good shotgun is pretty simple; point and shoot. In some cases, the wracking part to get another round into the chamber takes a little practice. You want to make sure you don’t eject the good shell you had in the chamber so it isn’t perfect, but with practice, this can be minimized. Most people will recommend a 20 gauge for a woman because they kick less but I guarantee you that your wife won’t mind the kick at all if someone is coming after her and she is forced to fire. A shotgun is easily handled by a woman and has less moving pieces to remember when you are stressed. That goes for guys too. Just the simple act of racking the shotgun and the unmistakable sound that causes may prevent you from having to use it in the first place.
So for all of those reasons, the 12 gauge is my hands down favorite for your first defensive weapon for the home. If you have more money, there is a few other items I would recommend for your survival battery of arms, but I will save that for later too.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts on the best weapon for home defense.
(Founder) Michael is an avid hunter that enjoys sharing his experience to help others learn about hunting. He lives and breathes hunting and the outdoor lifestyle and wants to educate and entertain hunting enthusiasts all over the world! | {
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December 24, 2015
I have had the privilege of three women being "mothers" to me in my lifetime. Yesterday I celebrated the birthday here at home of the one I have grown up with and think of as my mother. And even as we celebrated, the phone rang, and I finally spoke to my birth mother for the first time ever. Then last night, the one who I have often referred to in the past as "my other mother", who offered wise advice during some rebellious teenage years, passed away. All a bit surreal.... but makes me appreciate the importance of family and friends, Wishing you all a happy Xmas xx
Facebook brought it back as a memory today... interesting to read it again and think how things have changed in the last three years ...
Yesterday we celebrated my lovely mother's birthday again which is always a special day in the lead up to Xmas. We thought of Elizabeth...
Yes, I talk to my first mother in England regularly which is lovely. I know so much more about where I come from now and have many photos of my ancestors! Plus I know I have sisters and brothers and nieces and nephews! And no, I haven't met any of them. Life is complicated and things aren't always straightforward. But its ok..... and although I cant post any pictures of them publicly, I can see them and I am glad I searched and filled the hole in my past.
Meanwhile my brother Alistair has been over from Vancouver for a holiday and we have been able to catch up... distance makes it hard but we do our best! We celebrated Dad's birthday while he was here... he will be 90 next month so had to make the most of us all being here together.
Today I am looking forward to a lovely long Xmas weekend filled with family and friends here in Christchurch and thinking of everyone overseas that I can't be with.
Wishing you all a Merry Xmas xx
Here are a few pics from our recent ( early) birthday celebrations for Dad. We will do it all again in January!
The bearded bloke is my nephew Blair and his lovely girlfriend Katie also joined us... | {
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