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Gifts Your Mom Wants, Seriously.
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She’s the most important woman in your life, which also makes her the toughest person to shop for. And even though she says all she wants is a hug from her kids, a little something extra wouldn’t hurt to show your appreciation. Here are my top gift picks for moms.
1. The coziest fur throw
Because her toes are always cold. Buy it in tons of shades for $29.99
2. A Fire tablet.
For the mom who loves to read (or watch Netflix). Buy it on sale for $39.99
3. Glasses that celebrate her tiger-momness
Fierce. Starting at $14.99
4. A heated foot massager
Ahhhhhhh. Buy it for $43.99
5. An energy drink for her eyes
Because momming is hard. Buy 12 for $16.95
6. A fancy wine opener.
Because she deserves the best. Buy it for $19.99
7. A bag that says what she really wants.
And maybe a ticket out of town. Buy it for $54
8. Best-selling silicone baking mats.
So (hint, hint) she’ll bake her famous cookies. Buy two for $13.79.
9. Unlimited range walkie talkies.
Because you already call her four times per day. Buy them for $189.99.
10. A purifying face mask that magically bubbles
The funnest in-home spa experience. Buy it for $10.98
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https://medium.com/@Get_Margo/gifts-your-mom-wants-seriously-c04b830dabf8
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['Renee Jaffe']
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2016-12-16 20:42:40.253000+00:00
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['Gifts', 'Moms', 'Beauty', 'Wine', 'Shopping']
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Wine Cellar Secrets: A Day In The Life Of Quintessentially Wine
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Wine Cellar Secrets: A Day In The Life Of Quintessentially Wine
Chapter Ten: The Oenophiles
“So, talk to me, Ken. Tell me about wine.”
Wilkes smiled. “Well, it’s made from grapes, sir, and you can get red, white or rose.”
Tinnion paused, half-way down in his chair, and fixed the sergeant with a steely glare that had a glint of humour in his eyes.
“When do you retire again?”
“Not until my family are free of childhood diseases. So at least another ten years.”
“Good.”
Tinnion sat down fully and stretched his legs out under the table. He suppressed a yawn — his body was reminding him that he had been up late the previous night — and crossed his arms across his chest.
“Why do people get so passionate about wines?” he asked. “I mean, why do people care about wine so much? You don’t get connoisseurs of lager — well, not that I’ve heard, anyway — so why do people become connoisseurs of wine?”
“Because of the variety and quality, I think,” Wilkes said. He frowned. “At least, that’s the impression I got from my research. People like the fact that there are so many different vines, types and qualities of wine to choose from, each with their own flavour, taste, smell … well, the list is endless, really. It becomes just as much a social occasion as something to drink.”
Tinnion nodded. He could see that; he always saw adverts for wine tasting around London, being advertised outside pubs, supermarkets, wine stores … well, anywhere there was a piece of advertising hoarding. A lot of people seemed to enjoy coming together to savour wine, and Wilkes’ explanation as to why made sense.
“Matthew Jukes, from Quintessentially Wine, is one of the best-known wine buyers and organisers of specialist wine events in the country,” Wilkes went on. “His reputation precedes him. It’s certainly no surprise that Adam reacted as he has done to the theft; wine wouldn’t just be a job to the staff there, it’s got to be a way of life. With someone like Matthew — and Stevie, the chief exec — leading them, their passion has got to embed itself into the rest of the staff.”
“So, wine lovers see their passion -”
Wilkes interrupted him; “Oenophiles, sir.”
Tinnion blinked. “Say again?”
“Oenophiles.”
“Well, I don’t think that’s any way to talk about them, Ken. I mean, just because it’s not necessarily our cup of tea -”
It was Wilkes’ turn to roll his eyes. “No, sir, an oenophile is the official name of someone who is passionate about wine.”
“Oh.” Tinnion squirmed in his chair. “I thought it was some kind of social disease. Thank god you corrected me before I made a fool of myself — well, more so than usual, anyway.”
Wilkes smiled genially, but didn’t say anything. Tinnion cleared his throat, returned the smile and went on; “So, oenophiles see their passion as more of a lifestyle than just a hobby, is that a fair assessment?”
“Yes, sir,” Wilkes confirmed as he nodded his head. “That’s why businesses like Quintessentially Wine exist in the first place; to help people with their love of wine. Oenophiles like to enjoy, appreciate and, perhaps more importantly, collect wines.”
“Ah yes, wine collectors. I remember reading stories every now and then about people having special rooms built for the collection — underground, or climate controlled, or whatever.”
“Yeah, for those that can afford to do that, that’s definitely a growing trade. Not everyone can afford it, of course, but that doesn’t stop them from building up a collection. People develop particular preferences to wines from certain regions, types, grapes or ways of creating the wine.”
Tinnion raised an eyebrow. “Don’t you just crush a load of grapes in a big vat and squeeze the juice out?”
“Oh dear,” Wilkes said wearily. “Absolutely not. It’s more than just crushing the grape. There’s different needs for white and red grapes, the chemicals needed for the process can vary according to what type of wine you’re trying to create and how much fizz needs to be brought out -”
He stopped as Tinnion raised a hand to forestall any more detailed explanation. “Alright, alright,” he said, “I get the picture. I stand corrected — it’s clearly more complex than I gave it credit for. I’m certainly beginning to appreciate why people enjoy wine so much, given the fact that so much work goes into it.”
“It’s not just that, sir,” Wilkes went on, thoughtfully. “It’s the ability to … well, I don’t know if I’m doing this justice, but it helps a lot of people to widen their palate, understand more about different cultures and how they value wine development, and mix with like-minded people.”
Tinnion was intrigued; Wilkes was waxing lyrical about the wines in a way that made the inspector wonder if he wasn’t a secret oenophile himself. Tinnion asked him the question outright, and Wilkes grinned, but shook his head.
“No, sir,” he replied, “but I know what I like, and the missus and I always share a bottle every Friday night I’m home.” He paused and seemed to think about it for a moment. “Every Saturday night as well, to be honest with you. But I’m not a connoisseur — like the people who belong to places like Quintessentially Wine, for example. We’re rank amateurs compared to people who join wine societies.”
“Yeah, I can appreciate that now,” Tinnion said, feeling thoughtful as he absorbed Wilkes’ briefing. It was a whole other world that he hadn’t fully appreciated before; like Wilkes, he enjoyed a bottle of wine, and knew what he liked, but it paled in comparison to people who knew what they were talking about — and knew what they were drinking.
He could imagine that many of these connoisseurs would only like one thing better than a bottle of wine lovingly poured, and that was a bottle from someone famous. The status and kudos of owning a bottle from Churchill, Shakespeare or even — perhaps whisper the name — Napoleon would be a huge cachet. Whether they ever actually drank it or not was probably irrelevant; it would be the act of owning it that was important.
…stay tuned, Chapter Eleven ‘You Can’t Keep A Secret’ is only a day away.
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https://medium.com/@QuintessentiallyWine/wine-cellar-secrets-a-day-in-the-life-of-quintessentially-wine-e8f6d218887f
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['Quintessentially Wine']
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2015-10-20 12:44:28.531000+00:00
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['Wine', 'Short Story', 'Ficton']
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Surviving New Year’s Eve in One Piece
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New Year’s Eve annually conspires to reduce many of us into blithering, alcohol-infused morons. And some of us will die. The irony is many of us use booze to survive New Year’s Eve — the social anxiety, the holiday emotional hangover, the fear that next year will be even worse than this one. But be forewarned, the elixir of life giveth and taketh…
Step one to surviving New Year’s Eve is assessing how drunk you already are. Fortunately, you can use this very blog to accurately test your level of sobriety.
Instructions: A.) Print this blog out; B.) Roll it up into a tube about the width of a cigarette; C.) Blow into the tube; D.) Repeat five times.
Now, if you followed any of the preceding instructions, you are obviously intoxicated. And possibly stupid (how are you even reading this?). You should head to bed immediately and await your first hangover of 2017. You’ve earned it.
Now, if you wake up and are not in a coma or dead, but are generally dissatisfied with how you feel due to over-consumption, here’s a fix: resume drinking until you are in a coma or dead. Though this will end your hangover, it will also take much of the joy out of the New Year for you.
There are, however, several ways to avoid death this New Year’s — paramount among them is to never, ever, under any circumstances, get behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated. Getting under the wheel of a car while intoxicated is another matter entirely, which will be addressed in a subsequent post.
Buckle in for a lecture
Among the surefire ways to avoid driving drunk is to NOT DRINK as well as NOT DRIVE. Or just pick one — it’s been scientifically proven that it works either way. “Driving while intoxicated” or, as we say in California (with echoes of Cassavetes), “driving under the influence,” is not only preventable, it’s the law in both the legal and cosmic sense.
Here in Wine Country, it’s been my observation that it’s not a question of “if” but “when” one will get a DUI. This is not a rite of passage I care to take and I heartily recommend the same to you dear reader(s). Statistically speaking, one of you will likely get picked up this weekend, either on the side of the road, or off the road with a shovel, thanks to a blood-alcohol level for which you alone are responsible.
Survive New Year’s Eve via Time Travel
I have no idea who you are but let’s pretend this blog is a time machine. Let’s say that you’ve decided to drink and drive (and, mind you, it IS a decision. The predictable legal, financial and medical fallout has already occurred. In those seconds after your life has been irreparably altered, you flashback to this blog. As you (re)read this line — you realize that there’s still time to change the course of events will lead to your tragic DUI…
This is that moment. Let’s make some arrangements, plan a rideshare, designate a driver, jot down some cabbie numbers… Uber for crissakes. Yes, it’s that easy. Though it’s no guarantee you will survive New Year’s Eve, your future self thanks you.
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https://medium.com/winejourno/how-to-survive-new-years-eve-and-not-die-trying-6d9754c4bcf5
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['Daedalus Howell']
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2016-12-31 01:22:13.982000+00:00
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['Wine', 'Drunk Driving', 'Happy New Year']
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Mosaic — reminiscence of a perfect lunch
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Mosaic — reminiscence of a perfect lunch
More notes than a story.
Arrival
It was good to be received by sommelier Germain Léhody and hostess Mari Dartnall, who immediately create an air of confidence around the experience that awaits us. Very different from the the demure reception by docile staff you often encounter in other places.
There is strict entrance control at the gate by forthright attendants, and upon arrival you are escorted from your car through the entrance and up the stairs into the restaurants, in the welcoming warm embrace of aforementioned hostess and sommelier.
These little things set the tone for a fine afternoon (hopefully).
Overview
Mosaic Restaurant is part of the of The Orient boutique hotel, which is an architectural monstrosity in the sticks outside Pretoria, and which in my humble opinion serves no other purpose than harbouring Chantel Dartnall’s culinary brilliance. If she would no longer be there, the palace ought be flattened for reasons of it being an alien/invasive species of architecture.
Inside the restaurant, they have been able to create a more restraint balance between the gauche and the kitsch. Oversized Gustav Klimt reproductions and faux Belle Époque tile murals sum it all up. It feels like the luxury version of the Hansel and Gretel house. I kind of like that, especially retroactively, since it forms such an extreme juxtaposition with the epicurean delights. I want to believe that all the tackiness is there for a reason: to make sure that the overall experience is not too easily brilliant, and to force diners to cut through all the ornamental indiscretions and arrive at the only truth of this place — outstanding food and wine — so that only true gourmands will endure the decorative transgressions and keep coming back all the time. But that would be giving them too much credit. I think they really like to recreate the phantasy world of the Arabian Nights and the Brothers Grimm.
Enough of the negativity now. Based on this particular experience I feel that Chantel Dartnall is the best chef in in Gauteng, possibly in the country. I have not yet been to The Test Kitchen, but from a purely culinary point of view I rate this restaurant higher than for example Five Hundred (actually, by a mile) and The Tasting Room (but not THAT much).
The music is at the right level and supports the meal. Funny that they still seem to use CD players, since the music skips often.
My partner took me into the ladies bathroom, which is very ornate, and sports a mannequin dressed in a 1920’s jazz outfit. Where else do you find a bidet in a restaurant these days, and what are you supposed to do with it?
Table
The table is expertly set, with beautiful, delicately looking cutlery and decent glasses. The side table of equal hight is a nice detail, and turns out to be very useful in light of the wine service.
But beware, the booths are to be avoided if you are somewhat bigger (because of one’s culinary exploits) and/or have a bad back.
They use beautiful cutlery. It looks small, but in light of the size of the portions it actually works out well. As with every other tasting menu, tableware is very different across the dishes, but suits each individual dish well.
Upon arriving, standard restaurant range Schott Zwiesel glasses are on the table, which is better than in most top restaurants, but the rims are still too thick for my liking. After a bit of prodding they bring out proper Riedels (NOT the restaurant range) and at the end of the evening, if the wine warrants it, you can lay your hands on the Sommelier range. Moral of this story: you won’t find yourself drinking the once-in-your-lifetime-wine-find out of substandard glasses.
It seems we were there on the first day of the new tasting menu, so the actual menus look new and fresh.
Menu and wine
The menu, for a change, oozes Belle Époque elegance. Even the font is right. And the paper feels velvety. Chantel took the effort to write down in the greatest amount of detail what the ingredients of the dish are, and what her inspiration was. Germain then added a description of each accompanying wine (if you take the wine pairing, of which there are two levels: ‘Enthusiast’ with local wines and ‘Connoisseur’ with international ones; I recommend that everyone takes the latter since the pairing is perfect).
The clever thing about writing it down is that 1) the staff can read it as many times as they need to also know what is going on (but don’t worry, later it emerges that all of them are superb and DO know what is going on) and 2) the need to ask questions by patrons is vastly reduced. All you need to know is there in front you.
They offer three tasting menus: Petite, Discovery and Grande Dégustation. The first two consist of elements of the latter, and on the first page of the menu the three options are very clearly laid graphically. The number of dishes is 7, 9 and 12 respectively.
All the dishes make sense together and are inspired by the CONCEPT of Spring, and not so much by specific Spring ingredients. Fortunately no attempts are made to fuse different styles from around the world, but solidly European inspired cooking. I can see Escoffier having done this in this day and age — his elaborateness but with a much lighter twist.
The Spring 2014 Menu seems to be inspired by moods, memories, the surroundings and travel inspirations; at least that is what Chantel wants us to believe. Maybe misguided, but I seem to detect some Klimt influences — Sunflower Spring, First Kiss, anyone else? Anyway, to me it all seems authentic and refreshing, different from some other prized restaurants around Johannesburg that rest on their laurels and never really give you an idea of what they are trying to tell through their tasting menus.
The wine list and cellar our out of this world. The wine collections is so vast, so unique, and so NOT pretentious. The reason some wines are very expensive is not because they want to impress the wrong sort of patrons (the nouveau rich bling crowd) but simply because they have had them for so long, and world prices have gone up.
That said, at R3,200 the 2003 Château d’Yquem (375ml) is practically a steal given that realistically you would be paying between R2,000 and R2,500 in a wine store in Europe. Had it been on the wine list at R6,000, I would have found it normal, but NOT bought it. There is some intelligence in the pricing of the wines in that they do not apply a fixed percentage mark-up but rather a reasonable amount in Rands. This is very interesting for serious wine drinkers: for once you can have outstanding, rare-to-find wines, at ‘reasonable’ prices.
Also very clever is that they import their own wines for the international wine pairing menu, mostly directly from the producers. That way, they avoid the wholesale mark-ups, and serve very interesting wines (but not well known) at very attractive prices. Very well worth it.
The class of Germain shines through in how he takes you through the cellar and talks about the crown jewels without ever trying to sell them or giving the impression you are wasting his time. At R37,000 per bottle, we both know that the 1982 Mouton Rothschild will only ever be purchased by a Russian oligarch or BEE tenderpreneur, and in both instances it would be a waste of this 100/100 Parker wine. Real wine lovers actually talk more about wine than they drink it, and this superb sommelier knowingly lets his guests indulge, and partakes, in this utterly senseless passtime. Simply delightful.
Service: summary
We arrived on the second day of their new season opening. There were very few other diners for lunch on this Saturday.
The wait staff blew me away. They are courteous, professional and they know their stuff. When I argued with one of them that the pea puree with my rainbow trout had to be made with a PacoJet, she told me NO (she knew what a PacoJet is!), explaining me how it is done (first pureeing, then pushing through a sieve), proving me utterly wrong. Where else do you find such confident and knowledgeable waiters?
My partner felt rushed at first, but I had to remind her that starting a 12-course tasting menu at 14:00 is a surefire way of putting the kitchen (that has to prep for evening service) under pressures. I, on the contrary, felt the pace absolutely spot on.
Only once did there seem to be a hiccup. When the sommelier came to top up the wine for the lobster course, and apologise for the delay did we realise another course should have arrived by now. Well, an extra glass of wine was welcome given that no inconvenience was experienced. Some recovery there!
Nice details: waiters come with small trays to replace your cutlery. How stylishly outdated.
In short, service is excellent because of Germain’s presence. His hawkish surveying of the dining room betrays that his responsibilities extend beyond pouring wine. Trained at La Tour d’Argent in the 1970s (when it still had three Michelin stars), he brings a wealth of experience regarding the clock-work operations of a fine establishment.
Food
The dishes as described on the menu find their way onto the plate, but not in a way that you expect. And that is a consequence of you creating a picture in your mind beforehand as a result of Chantel’s evocative descriptions. The discrepancy between expectation and reality is therefore rather interesting.
The food was prepared to exacting technical specifications, all the more impressive given the ‘sparse’ kitchen equipments. No Thermomix, no water baths, no PacoJets. A very traditional kitchen with very traditional equipment (a big LaCanche stove) and lots of copper pots from Dehilleren in Paris. I only saw ISI syphons and a dehydrator as modern tools. Very impressive.
The layering in each dish is spectacular, and with almost every dish there is a gentle unfolding of flavours. Take for example the carrot jelly, puree and orange blossom yoghurt cream with rosettes of pickled carrots.
All the dishes together provide a true kaleidoscope of taste experiences. You feel like you are in one of those Samsung handset adverts, where the protagonist slowly walks and the surroundings constantly change, without seeming to upset the wanderer: now a city, then the beach, in the meadows, on the farm.
There is a sensual lightness to all the dishes and the menu overall.
The only thing that did not work for me was the foie gras with the butternut foam. The liver does not stand up to the foam (although we were spooning the foam out of the bowl later), but a sliver of toast added to the foie grass will ‘break’ the dish, and if they ever do it, I will claim credit for it. Please note, we are nitpicking now.
Summary
I’ll be back!
(Based on lunch experience in August 2014)
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https://medium.com/@EpicSybarite/mosaic-reminiscence-of-a-perfect-lunch-77ee9486c37b
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['Epicurean Sybarite']
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2015-10-29 06:48:56.184000+00:00
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['Food', 'Wine']
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Listening, Wine and Bach
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My wife is out-of-town, visiting her sister. That means I can crank up the tunes. I was rockin’ out tonight during dinner. My Sonos was shaking the house with — Glenn Gould’s 1981 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
What’s fascinating about loud Bach is that you feel much the same as if you were listening to The Beatles or the Stones (yes, I’m old). The passion and beat makes you tap your toes. One of the compelling aspects of this recording (listened to loud!) is that you hear Gould’s humming and grunts as he plays Bach with the same emotional intensity that B.B. King plucked Lucille on The Thrill is Gone.
Said Gould, “I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” Can you think of a better description of a great wine?
This is the why a point scale can never hope to define, or explain, much less quantify the experience of wine. It is too complicated to boil down this complex interaction of humans and nature over literally thousands of years to a decimal point.
Dinner tonight was pressure cooker wine-braised pork short-ribs (90 minutes) with a reduction made from the broth and for the wine 2010 Donkey & Goat “Five Thirteen” El Dorado, Red Wine Blend (47% grenache, 21% syrah, 16% mourvèdre, 10% counoise, 6% cinsault). Like Gould, this wine hummed and grunted in the background during its performance with a whiff of volatile acidity and a little funk, but like Gould it delivered. Exciting and fun it lifted the dinner to a new height. How many points? Don’t insult it.
As Bach proved and Gould restated, there is real power in refinement, elegance and discipline. Power itself is not something to be revered. Powerful wines get high points because, as Gould said, they deliver “a momentary ejection of adrenalin.” I think in winemaking a little reflection on Gould’s thoughts on the justification and purpose of art can be applied to our craft. All to often we pursue the external, not the internal, or nature’s purpose for wine.
To repurpose the Gould quote, the purpose of wine is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. Powerful wines may give that injection of adrenalin on the first sip, but they do not deliver a sense of wonder and serenity instead becoming trophies to hoard.
It takes courage to let your own personal vision and passion show through in your work. You’ll be hard pressed to find wine brands that roll off your tongue that have even a bit of courage.
When you first hear the humming on Glenn Gould’s recording of the Goldberg Variations (both the 1955 and 1981 versions) you think something is wrong with the recording. Then, with repeated listening and a little homework on your part you understand that you are hearing something personal and truly expressive. With compelling, memorable wines the experience and requirements are the same.
It’s not how loud it is, it’s how well you’re listening.
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https://medium.com/@craigcamp/listening-wine-and-bach-7129631b2ffa
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['Craig Camp']
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2016-12-19 03:48:26.672000+00:00
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['Wine', 'Food', 'Bach']
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4 Plays to Win The College Bowl Championship Party and Women Game
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4 Plays to Win The College Bowl Championship Party and Women Game
Author: Jessica Altieri — CEO | Certified Sommelier
Wine Channel TV Digital Network
Women are coming over for the game. They probably don’t even know who’s playing. Want the winning play selections to keep them there for the “real game”.
Pre-game Keys: If you plan on getting lucky,. I’d start by cleaning up your dirty socks, nail clippings, and the hidden video camera pointed at your bed. For $20 bucks get a neighbor to vacuum, buy some Febreeze and fresh roll of TP.
1st Down Play: Dump the beer; from your fridge; Decent white and red wine in the $10–20 range; chill some white; clean some glasses. Get a corkscrew; for $10 bucks you can wow the ladies. Wine glasses help over those Red Plastic cups too.
2nd Down Play: Down and Out Veggie Tray — Don’t attempt on your own if you cant tell cauliflower from broccoli. Look downfield, hit the grocery store with a down and out, produce section, ask someone for help and get a tray made for you!
3rd Down Play: Chips and salsa- Ten dollar wine from Wal-Mart like Casillero Del Diablo will bring out the spiciness of the salsa …and the ladies
Get some crisp Sauvignon Blanc like Monkey Bay, it will hit the spot bring out the crispness of the wine.
Cheese dip- something creamy, Cupcake Chardonnay…did you say you wanted some of my cupcake?
4th Down Play: Dessert- Champagne- you can never go wrong… and of course this can be used for celebration…and mimosas for the morning after J
This is JustJess reminding you if all else fails, hell; wine is just a conversation waiting to happen. Make it happen already.
If you want to know more about wine…and ways to wine and dine your woman, visit Wine Channel TV and get your game on!
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https://medium.com/@winechanneltv/4-plays-to-win-the-college-bowl-championship-party-and-women-game-9f4f0b4e176d
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['Jessica Altieri']
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2016-12-30 19:37:05.492000+00:00
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['Wine', 'Food', 'College Football', 'Wine Tasting', 'Football']
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Random Palates
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Welcome To Random Palates
Random Palates is a new feature we do here at Qorkzcru to help you discover more about your wine. Here’s the way it works, we take individuals who have no experience in the wine industry and we pour them wine without telling them anything about it. A completely blind pour from one of the wines sold in the Qorkz Marketplace. We then take it a step further and ask them to taste the wine with four different foods. We discuss and get their feedback then we share with you to help you further determine if this wine is right for you.
First Up, The Players
WHAT SCENTS DO YOU SMELL?
Raja — I smell chocolate, vanilla, and I know it sounds strange, but a hint of banana
Stefania — I smell black pepper and blackberries.
CAN YOU SMELL OR TASTE THE ALCOHOL?
Stefania — I can smell and taste the alcohol
Raja — I can smell it but I can’t taste it
WHAT FRUIT/BERRY FLAVORS DO YOU TASTE?
Raja — I definitely taste blueberry, plums and like a cherry syrup flavor up front and blackberries on the finish
Stefania — I taste rasberries. Definitely rasberries.
WHAT OTHER FLAVORS DO YOU TASTE?
Stefania — There is a spice there, maybe pepper? I can’t place it.
Raja — I don’t taste any additional flavors but I notice the tannins.
DOES THIS WINE HAVE ANY VEGETAL NOTES?
Raja — No. I don’t taste any.
Stefania — No. Not at all.
Winemaker Tasting Notes
“Deep purple in color, a seductive nose of violets, this blockbuster offers a mouthful of boysenberries, blueberries, and blackberries and finishes with chocolate notes. Stands up well to pork, game, or beef but soft enough to pair with chocolate or mixed berries” — Qorkz.com
DOES THIS WINE PAIR WELL WITH THE PLUM?
Stefania — I could eat peaches and plums with this wine all day. This is delicious!
Raja — I love the wine with the plum!
DOES THIS WINE PAIR WELL WITH THE DUBLINER CHEESE?
Raja — I think the cheese stands up well to the tannin
Stefania — Delicious with the cheese because both the cheese and wine flavors stand out. One isn’t overpowering
DOES THIS WINE PAIR WELL WITH THE STEAK?
Stefania — This wasn’t my favorite pairing. I think the wine is too strong for the steak
Raja — I would say these aren’t a match. They were okay together but don’t compliment one another like the plum did.
DOES THIS WINE PAIR WELL WITH THE CHOCOLATE?
Raja — Again, I think it was just okay with the chocolate. Definitely more with the cheese and plums.
Stefania — The chocolate sorta gets lost. I think the wine is too strong for it.
THE VERDICT
WHAT IS YOUR GUESS AS TO THE VARIETAL?
Stefania — I hate this part, this is so hard! It was very fruity so I would guess a Zinfandel?
Raja — I also taste the fruit, so I am guessing Merlot. It tastes like it softened, like it used to be stronger, so I am guessing an older Merlot.
REACTION TO IT BEING PETITE SIRAH
Raja — Oh interesting. I don’t know if I have ever tried that varietal before. It has big fruit flavors. I liked it.
Stefania — Same, it was a first for me as well, but I really liked it.
WOULD YOU CONSIDER BUYING THIS WINE? IF SO, WHAT IS YOUR PRICE ESTIMATE?
Stefania — Yes I would buy this wine. It was bold but without too much of a kick. I would guess it costs $56.00 a bottle.
Raja — Yes I would. There was great balance between the body, tannin, alcohol, and overall flavor. My guess, $59.00 a bottle.
THE ACTUAL PRICE IS $42 A BOTTLE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE VALUE?
Raja — Good deal. I would have thought it would be worth much more, obviously, I thought it was a $60 a bottle wine
Stefania — Oh wow, much cheaper than I expected. Good deal!
HOW WOULD YOU RATE THIS WINE ON A 1–10 SCALE WITH 10 BEING THE BEST WINE YOU HAVE EVER HAD?
Stefania — I would rate it as an 8. I thought it was really good!
Raja — Same, I would rate it as an 8. I enjoyed it.
OVERALL THOUGHTS ON THE WINE?
Stefania — I enjoyed this wine. It fell in the middle for me. It’s the kind of wine that I could have with apps or during dinner. It seems very versatile.
Raja — This is a splurge wine. I would splurge for this wine.
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https://medium.com/@qorkzwine/random-palates-57da4ed36d21
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2015-10-15 05:59:37.016000+00:00
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['Wine', 'Food', 'Wine Tasting']
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A Master of Wine Considers Coffee
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A Master of Wine Considers Coffee
A wine lover doesn’t have to look very hard before the parallels between fine wine and fine coffee become apparent. First, both wine and coffee begin their lives within the fruit of a plant — each one a specific species and variety, selected for its distinctive aromas and exquisite flavors. Coffee Arabica is coffee’s answer to wine’s Vitis vinifera, the species of grape responsible for the world’s finest wines. Next, we can look more closely at the coffee variety, origin and processing, all of which contribute to the final coffee in a way that is familiar to any wine lover.
Some people will always see wine as just wine. And the same is true of coffee. The connoisseur, however, learns to appreciate different qualities and flavors in pursuit of an ethereal experience. When I taste coffee, I do not swirl it, because the heat and steam provide the volatility necessary to release the flavors, but I am tasting it with the same intent as I do wine. Nosing my cup of illy reveals light, delicate and fruity aromatics, as well as heavier, roasted ones. Like great wine, great coffee holds a rich complexity of flavor waiting to be discovered.
Like great wine, great coffee holds a rich complexity of flavor waiting to be discovered.
In the case of illy, this complexity is partly the result of blending different Arabica beans. It’s an idea practiced in Champagne, source of one of the finest wines on the planet, where several grape varieties drawn from many vineyards are blended together. In addition to balance and complexity of flavor, blending also brings consistency. Mother Nature provides, but she is also the biggest challenge to consistency. As in Champagne, the art of the blender is to craft consistent excellence from whatever nature delivers.
If there is one notable distinction between coffee and wine, it’s that coffee is completed only at the moment of consumption, by brewing. With wine, I can be a connoisseur, but I do not make the wine. With coffee, I am able to be both connoisseur and craftsman. Brewing your own coffee adds a layer of ownership that goes beyond wine. Coffee really excites me right now. Similar to wine, I find it more than just a beverage. It is a pleasure that offers beauty and escape for those who take the time to appreciate it.
— Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan
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https://medium.com/coffee-connoisseurship/a-master-of-wine-considers-coffee-b67ab1b2313e
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['Illy Coffee']
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2017-04-04 14:55:22.810000+00:00
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['Wine', 'Coffee', 'Food']
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SEO has opening of Search Engine Optimization.
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SEO has opening of Search Engine Optimization. But it’s became popular as SEO, for this reason in this article I use it as SEO. Abstractly SEO means activities that are done to get higher positions in search engines for specific searches.
Meaning of becoming at top positions in search engines is that people who looking for something your company does, will see in search engine result page firstly. Especially with mobile device revolution, search engines became a very big opportunity to promotion and pull someone into a place. In SEO activities, first step is setting a target. The target in SEO is keywords that describe business your company does or your product you want to sell. People put the keyword in to search box in the search engines. For example, an auto mechanic firm could have a target keyword of “automotive spare parts”.
SETTING A TARGET AND PLAN
Targets have a great importance for SEO study. Because most of studies are conducted depending upon the targets. With opportunities Google provide to us, we can see search count of the keywords and we can compare with other keywords. In this manner, we can figure out true keywords that would provide maximum benefit to us.
While we are setting the targets, state of the website is very important. Both of them are possible either SEO activities would be done with your current website or they would be done with a new website. Usually official websites don’t have plenty of content, they have a home page, about us, services or products and, contact page. But in SEO activities, we need content very much. But if creating a blog in corporate website would be effective. Second option is creating a new website whose domain name matches up target keywords like “automotivespareparts.com” for our book store example. The website includes telephone numbers and addresses of your company. When possible customers desire to get contact, they call your telephone numbers. Generally online store websites don’t need a blog because these websites have very much product pages.
After setting a target, we need a plan. To set a plan, detailed analysis of the website and competition analysis required. Depending upon competition in the target keyword, plan of the achieving the target is generated. Per month, works the SEO firm done and the progress is reported to the customer.
WHY IS GETTING HELP OF A SEO EXPERT NEEDED?
SEO has very changeable parameters. First search engines weren’t very successful at rounding up spam web sites and activities. But now they have very complicated algorithms for spam SEO activities.
Search engines use algorithms to rank websites. Per algorithm assess the web site from a different viewpoint. One of them looks for your links, other one looks for quality of your contents and other one looks for social accounts of your website. There are more algorithms than we wrote.
When Google is created, spam technics that manipulate search results and trick search engines have been very common. As to Google have developed the algorithms for the issues and when it rounded up spam technics, it has punished websites that implement the spam technics. For example most of SEO punishments are implemented due to wrong link building. Link building is most risky thing in a SEO study. It has plenty of criteria to do correctly and it is not easy. When a website has a wrong link profile, the website will lost their current place in search engine and locate worse place. If a website has too wrong link profile, Google will punish it. For example your website has gained 100 backlinks in a day. But 100 people didn’t visit your website in that day. This circumstance is not reasonable and it doesn’t look like organic. Entire the SEO activities should be organic, natural. Otherwise the website can be have punishment or locate worse places.
To avoid from punishment, SEO expert has great importance. Because doing a wrong SEO study is worse than not doing SEO study. Google give punishment to websites that try to trick it like removing the website from search results. For a useful SEO study, help of a SEO expert is needed.
HOW TO CHOOSE A SEO EXPERT?
When you decided to take a help of expert about SEO, you should be careful. There is no certificate, degree or etc. about this topic. But references of an expert would be helpful for you. Numerous customers of a SEO expert show that the expert does this job successfully.
An expert who guarantees the success without analysis is reasonable and trustful. For example in Google search results; university websites have a great importance. So passing the websites is very hard and it needs very much effort. If someone is saying that your website would locate first place in ‘mechanical engineering’ and the website would remain at the same place for ever to you, this person probably is liar. If your web site is not a buddy, chamber or etc. of mechanical engineers, passing university links is not very possible or it needs very very much effort. You can’t say anything in SEO without competition analysis and you can’t give a guarantee for ever. Because algorithms are changing day to day, search results too.
When you decided to take a help about SEO, we recommend take into account all things above. We provide a professional service and reasonable targets to our customers. To use our services, only contacting with us is enough.
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https://medium.com/@veneraseo/seo-has-opening-of-search-engine-optimization-9918d4a1920e
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['Venera Seo']
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2016-10-10 10:11:11.016000+00:00
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['SEO', 'Seo Agency', 'Seo Services']
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How To Rank Your Brand New Website on Google: 23 Easy Tactics
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By: Techlivly
Search engines are highly sophisticated, but they still have virtual limitations that a human brain doesn’t. Discover how to rank a brand new site on Google
Search engine optimization is an accumulation of strategies and techniques used to increase the number of visitors to a website by obtaining a high ranking in search results. An important feature of SEO is making your website intelligible for both users and search engine robots.
SEO helps the engines figure out what a particular page is all about, and how it may be useful for users. In today’s high level of competition, it is imperative to be as high as possible in the search results, and that comes with an efficient SEO strategy. However, many aren’t sure of how to rank a new website on Google.
Let’s have a look at the two types of SEO: On-page SEO and Off-page SEO.
On-page SEO is the practice of optimizing individual pages in order to obtain a higher ranking and earn more relevant organic traffic. In this piece, you will find different tips about On-page SEO:
1. Start title tags with your target keyword:
You company/product may be right up on the Google search results page with the appropriate keyword, channeling a huge amount of traffic to your website. On the contrary, a misadvised or inappropriate keyword can make your site’s chance towards prominence more remote than ever.
The title of the article defines its content, and as such, a keyword rich title holds greater weight with Google. In general, the closer the keyword is to the beginning of the title tag, the more weight it has with search engines. You can see this in action by searching for the competitive keyword in Google.
As you can see, most pages that rank for competitive keywords strategically place them at the beginning of their title tags. Although not mandatory, it’s prudent to do so as it will make your website more relevant to what people search for.
2. Drop Keyword in first 100 words:
The ideal place to start putting keywords in an article is within the first 100 words. There are many to whom these come naturally, but a large number of bloggers prefer a long intro before bothering with a keyword. This is inadvisable because of the obvious reasons that Google wouldn’t find it very relevant in the search results.
A keyword “content marketing” was used at the very beginning of the article. Placing a keyword near the beginning of the article ensures that Google has an easier time in understanding the topic and relevance of the article.
3. Use Outbound Links:
Outbound links are the primary source of bringing more attention to your website. There are a lot of people who make the mistake of not including links to other websites/articles.
Outbound links show Google that the article is both valid and informative and both are vital requisites for ranking. Therefore, make sure that if you aren’t doing so, add outbound links to each of your articles. Just make sure that the links are relevant enough to your content and from authentic and high-quality sources.
4. Write click-worthy meta descriptions for each page:
Meta descriptions are one of the most important and visible elements — next to your title tag and URL- that convince people to click through.
If you want traffic on your latest article and efficiently on your website, make sure that the meta descriptions are attractive and informative. They should arouse the viewer’s curiosity within the 150-word limit.
Remember that YOU too click on a particular result after reading it’s meta description. The same mentality extends to your audience. Pay attention to the meta descriptions, and you will naturally see the results.
5. Put your target keyword in the URL:
As keywords are essentially the backbone of on-page SEO, you need to pay a lot of attention to them. There is no reason not to include them in your URLs. The inclusion has its benefits. When you assimilate the targeted keyword into the URL, you are ensuring that Google’s has another reason and way to consider your article as more relevant for a particular phrase.
6. Add keywords to your post strategically:
Strategical keyword placement is critical to a post’s success and net traffic on a website. As search engines continually become more refined, it is not enough just to randomly stuff articles with keywords and hope for relevance in the search results.
Please look how the Content Marketing Institute has optimized one of their blog posts with a relevant keyword — content marketing.
Strategic placement of said keywords is now paramount to your SEO success.
Note: Don’t force keywords. Insert them where they make sense.
7. Post Long Content:
Studies have shown that longer content helps to improve ranking on Google. A target of around 2000 words should be set in every article with a minimum of 1000 words at least. This would inevitably result in long-tail traffic which would boost your site’s exposure.
Longer content not only helps in adding more keywords to it, but there is also a natural emphasis on information. The authenticity of a post increases with longer text, which means that Google would recognize it as something more relevant than a shorter and concise text. As search patterns are synonymous with long tail keywords nowadays, a longer text also improves the chances of your article/website to be on a higher ranking than others.
The authenticity of a post increases with longer text, which means that Google would recognize it as something more relevant than a shorter and concise text. As search patterns are synonymous with long tail keywords nowadays, a longer text also improves the chances of your article/website to be on a higher ranking than others.
While writing an article that you want to grasp people’s attention with, you must remember to research well before writing the first word. Make sure that all the relevant information is available to you before you start. Good research results in flair, which results in long and comprehensive writing.
8. Take Advantage of Internal Linking:
Internal linking is critical to decreasing a website’s bounce rate and optimization as it links to the different pages of a domain together. When link juice is spread, the users/viewers stay on the website longer and the site traffic also increases. It improves the navigational experience for the user.
Not to mention that it will also contribute to decreasing the bounce rate of your website.
Bounce rate is measured by how many users visit only one page and then leave the entrance page. Easy and accessible internal linking will naturally decrease this as users will be directed to other relevant articles.
Also, Google bots are designed to emulate user behavioral patterns and evaluate your website. A smart and efficient network of links on the pages help crawlers find regions which are not frequently visited by the users, thus boosting your site’s ranking.
Wikipedia is adept at using internal linking which is evident whenever you visit one of their pages.
They add keyword-rich internal links to every entry.
However, don’t overdo it. I recommend a simpler (and safer) approach; link to 2–4 older posts whenever you publish a new one.
9. Image Optimization:
Ensure that the pictures on your website have file names which include the target keyword. Also, your target keyword should be part of your image’s Alt Text. This will improve optimization for your article and also create a clearer picture for the search engines to the relevancy of your article/page. Images are an important component of any website as they make pages visually attractive as well as informative. Optimizing your images should naturally boost your ranking. Also, your image will get a high rank in Google image search.
10. Target less competitive — longtail keywords:
Long tail keywords are queries that are more specific (and usually longer) than more conventional “head” keywords.
Long tail keywords get less search traffic, but will usually have a higher conversion value, as they focus on a more specific product.
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Long tail keywords are more targeted and less competitive than short term keywords. If you have just started your SEO campaign for a brand new website, then I would definitely recommend concentrating on long-tail keywords.
Why?
The truth is that you can’t have your new website ranked with a single word keyword. Trying to optimize your new blog to rank for “ SEO “ is hardly possible.
Take a look at the Google results for this keyword.
As you can see in the above image, Search Engine Land and Wikipedia are ranking for the keyword SEO. There are 51,70,00,000 search results for this single phrase. It’s a huge number.
Should you give up and quit?
For example, You can target “ basic SEO tips for beginners “ in your new SEO campaign. This long tail keyword is less competitive than “SEO.”
Two things to remember are to make the keyword as long as possible and to use Google’s keyword planner to find a relevant keyword for future references.
The question of how to improve search engine ranking is very common, but many of us overlook the significance of keywords as a major contributor to traffic and ranking.
11. Use LSI keywords in your body content:
LSI keywords are the synonyms and variations of your main keywords which may be in the form of a phrase or word. Latent semantic indexing(LSI) keywords are part of Google’s algorithm to understand user search habits and give users the best quality content for their search queries.
The question is: How will you find those LSI keywords?
That’s really simple.
Say your main keyword is “ on page SEO techniques.”Go to Google and search for your target keyword and scroll down to the “Searches Related to…” area at the bottom of the page.
LSI Graph and Google Trends are tools you may also use for this purpose.
A slow website is not only bad for the end-user, but also for search engine optimization.
Thus, a slow website can cause your site to rank lower in the search engine results. That translates to fewer page views and less ad revenue or customer conversions for you. There are a number of ways to optimize a site for better speed.
So try and minimize on plugins both for speed and security.
Finally, page caching, where web pages store data, allows visitors to access that page more quickly since the database does not have to retrieve each file again.
13. Your website must be mobile friendly:
Mobile-friendly websites should display on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in a user-friendly way. This implies that when a user pulls the site up on their smartphone, he or she does not have to pinch and zoom in order to read the content and click on links.
This makes it easy to read and easy to use on a smartphone, eliminating any excess effort.
The recommended Google setup is Fluid Responsive Design.
Responsive design describes a website that dynamically resizes to fit the width of the device or browser that it is being displayed on. Responsive design uses a single code base that works across hundreds of devices. Naturally, more mobile friendliness equates to more viewers which means more traffic on your site.
Use the Mobile-Friendly Test tool by Google to see if pages on your site are mobile-friendly or not.
Off-page SEO
Off-page SEO refers to the techniques that go beyond a website. People associate off-page SEO with link building, however, it is more than that. The different tips related to this are:
14. Build high-quality backlinks only:
Link building is the most important — and the most challenging — SEO strategy. The truth is, without any high-quality backlinks, your website won’t rank for competitive and high traffic keywords.
The websites with the most valuable and relevant backlinks will ultimately rank over the rest. But, the tricky part is how you will get those quality backlinks? Well, today I’m going to show you one of my favorite tactics to get the high-quality backlinks.
15. Broken link building:
Broken link-building tactic is about identifying broken links on websites from your business niche. The main aim is to get the broken link replaced with an active one pointing to your content.
This technique creates a significant opportunity for SEO link building because nobody wants to have broken links on their website.
If you find any broken links on topically related websites, you can immediately contact the website owner and inform him about it. Since you will do him a favor by pointing out a broken link, you can also kindly request a replacement with a link to your relevant resource. Of course, the replacement — your article — must be informative and useful for their audience.
Now, the question is, how to automate the process of finding broken links? You need a tool to do this. In my experience, the best free tool to use for broken link building is Check My Links.
It’s a simple Google Chrome extension. First, you have to install the extension in your Google Chrome browser. Once installed, it will appear as a little checkmark icon beside your address bar. When you click on it, it will immediately start scanning all the links on a particular web page. If a link is broken or dead, it will be highlighted in red, and the error will be shown right beside the text (e.g., “404”).
Let’s say you have a website on “virtual assistance.” Go to Google and search with one of the following search strings.
virtual assistant intitle:resources virtual assistant inurl:resources virtual assistant inurl:useful links virtual assistant + "useful links" virtual assistant + "resources"
To detect broken links, open all the results one by one and scan each page using Check My Links plugin. Once you find one, write an email to the website owner about the dead link and kindly request to replace it with your active page.
15. Skyscraper technique:
Find a linkable asset that you can use again and again, an asset which is both informative and awesome. Authenticity is the ‘name of the game’ here.
Then improve on what exists by making the content longer with more relevant keywords.
Finally, reach out to the right people: those who work in your niche and have websites similar to yours. Rather than sending random cold emails, it’s better to reach out to those who actually have a reputation in the business. Linking to their pages will give you a big boost in traffic.
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16. Guestographics method:
Another link building technique that uses infographics. With this method, instead of publishing an infographic and begging other people to share it, you’re pushing them to release it on their site in exchange for unique content.
The complete steps are:
Step 1: Post an infographic on your site
Step 2: Find sites that write about your infographic’s topic
Step 3: Show them your infographic
Step 4: Offer them unique content
Step 5: Get your contextual backlinks in return
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17. Guest post on relevant blogs
The benefits of guest blogging are clear:
You land backlinks from authority sites.
People look up to you as an expert.
Targeted referral traffic floods to your site.
a. Finding blogs to guest post via Google search strings:
Here are a few search strings:
— write us “your topic.”
— your keyword + “guest post by.”
Say your topic is the virtual assistant. Go to Google and search for “ virtual assistant” + “ guest post by “
Also, you can use Google reverse image search, utilize Twitter and Google to find more posts, and go to alltop.com which has a complete list of the best blogs on the net.
b. Researching your target bloggers is important when you have to separate the winners from the losers and cozy up to them by engaging them on Twitter/Facebook or via emails.
c. Find a great and appropriate topic to write a guest post about. For example, a meat-related post on a vegan blog site is going to get rejected so it’s important to know what you are dealing with.
d. Have a great pitch ready to persuade bloggers to allow you to write for the guest post for them.
e. The final step is to follow up on any and all comments promptly and comprehensively.
18. Answer on Quora:
Quora is a website where users generate the content entirely. They post questions via threads and other users answer them. It’s basically a yahoo answers type social network that works like an internet forum. Both threads and answers can receive “upvotes” which signify the answer was worthy and popular. The answers with the most upvotes are put at the thread’s top.
Quora is great for:
Websites that rely on traffic for revenue (Ad publishers, affiliate sites, content publishers).
Websites that sell information products.
Websites that sell products (SEO tools, children’s sneakers, coffee grinders).
Bloggers that want to establish themselves as an authority on their subject matter.
19. Blog commenting:
Commenting on blogs helps to create backlinks, which in turn create traffic for your blog. Most of these links are worthless and thus carry little value, but the process is still helpful. For new blogs, comments — user generated content — will help get a website indexed faster. Commenting helps drive referral traffic to your blog.
However, it is important to post a valuable comment. Regular commenting is the best way to connect with any blogger personally. While it can take the time to create these connections, you will be noticed by the site’s administrator and other co-bloggers which can be profitable in the long run.
20. Link roundups
Link roundups are selected and organized updates from bloggers that link out to their favorite content during a given period. Roundups are mutually beneficial relationships. It’s really hard to curate content as it involves a lot of work. The bloggers creating these roundups are actively seeking content to link to. You can land links in bunches. Over time, you will gain roundup coverage naturally. After you pitch the blogger who curates the roundup, you should connect on social media. That way, they’ll discover your future updates naturally. I’ve gained some backlinks from link roundups.
20. Be active on social media
Although Google doesn’t hold much stock in social media as far as ranking is concerned, you can actually improve your site’s popularity and traffic by being active on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. The more you post links to your blogs on social networks, the higher the chance people will visit your blog, thus increasing traffic.
21. Promote your new blog
Promoting your blogs is important to let people know of its existence and to improve traffic. The more you promote, the better your blog’s relevance is displayed and popularity soars. Before publishing your new piece of content, reach out to an influential blogger in your industry. Once your content is published, share it on social media and mention the people you’ve referenced. Anytime you mention someone, include a link to someone’s article and inform that person by sending an email.
With LinkedIn, you can get in an influential bloggers inbox even if you don’t have their email address. Contact people who have shared similar content to the item you just published and if possible, turn the content into a video to appeal to an entirely different audience.
22. Stay updated with Google’s algorithm
23. Follow Google’s guidelines
These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here.
Conclusion
Rintu Biswas
Rintu Biswas is an SEO Expert at MyTasker, a professional SEO Company. He is extremely passionate about his work. He has been in the SEO Industry for 6 years and always tries to help people through his informative articles.
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https://medium.com/@noreply-71077/how-to-rank-your-brand-new-website-on-google-23-easy-tactics-7a59c437423
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2021-06-03 17:10:08.393000+00:00
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['SEO', 'Keyword Research', 'Seo Services', 'Free Seo Tools']
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What should you ask your SEO agency in Port Orange?
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What should you ask your SEO agency in Port Orange?
Today many small and medium sized businesses place their trust in an SEO agency in Port Orange to get good online results in terms of huge traffic, good rankings on search results and better conversions. It is a good idea to take help of SEO agency but at the same time, it is also important to keep a track whether they are implementing ethical SEO strategies or not.
You will find many professional SEO agencies in Florida , but still, there is no dearth of companies that use black hat SEO techniques to get fast results. You should keep away from such companies as their assistance may destroy your online presence. Before signing on the dotted line, you should ask your SEO agency about the actual practices they are doing. You have the right to ask for the deliverables. Your SEO partner should be able to provide you a few things in the first few months of your contract with them. They will provide you an SEO audit of your website, an analysis of your site’s link profile, articles with links to your website, and optimized content on your website. These are just a few things they will be providing you. Your SEO agency will also ask for your help as they will need a few details from you in reference to your business. You can also count on them if you need services of graphic design in Port Orange.
Read more at : www.seohounddog.com
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https://medium.com/@seohounddog01/what-should-you-ask-your-seo-agency-in-port-orange-7d4986930dce
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['Seo Hound Dog']
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2016-10-22 12:47:32.862000+00:00
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['SEO', 'Marketing', 'Seo Services']
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Social Media Optimization and Marketing for Promoting Your Business
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Social Media Optimization and Marketing for Promoting Your Business
SMO or social media optimization has often been considered an integral part of Social Media optimization. Needless to say, there are several businesses who have realized the same importance and have invested well in maintaining their online presence through social media platforms as well. However, there are still many business owners who are unaware of the real power of the social media platforms that have successfully brought together and connected millions of individuals all over the world. Perhaps this is why they are not being able to utilize their resources to the fullest of potential. In order to gain success in the marketing front for your business, you need to understand that an exhaustive SEO is necessary, but so is social media optimization that needs to go hand in hand with your online marketing campaign. Be it sponsored ads on platforms like Facebook or simple Tweets and posts — social media platforms give you an unprecedented opportunity to promote your business like never before. However, managing optimization of social media platforms and analyzing the results for real time analysis is easier said than done which is why you require a professional hand to back you up. One of the best SMO companies is DhruvSoft Technology, a well acclaimed web agency offering excellent social media optimization services.
Here, we discuss how you can get simple Social Media Tools to promote your business and get more traffic to your site.
Social Media Advertisements
Social media advertisements are fairly common when it comes to targeting clients on social media. As social media optimization aims to optimize the platform for business promotion, what better way to do so by utilizing the platform’s own resources for getting more traffic to the website in a cheap and easy manner?
Social Media Posts
Apart from social media advertisements, the other way to grab attention is to do so by making social media posts where you get to share some thoughts or text content to engage the followers or customers. This will let the customers and potential leads know that you are still active and working on something or have something in store for them.
Sharing Links
Sharing links of other sites or your own site with content or any other file can also be used as a great way of getting more clicks for your own website. Even though it has a slow response, it is highly efficient.
Inside video or sneak peek through media files
Another way to entice the potential customers or leads is to offer the people or viewers a slight sneak peek behind the scenes. You can show them how you are gearing up to serve them or may be manufacturing of a new product. This tends to make the viewers more curious which would lead them to visit your website and know more about what you are offering and how you are different.
For the best social media optimization services from a well experienced and competent SMO company, contact DhruvSoft Technology today. For more information visit: http://www.dhruvsofttechnology.com/
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https://medium.com/@johnlennondruv/social-media-optimization-and-marketing-for-promoting-your-business-8ad580b1af45
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[]
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2016-10-24 09:43:25.664000+00:00
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['SEO', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Social Media Optimization', 'Seo Services']
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Digital Marketing Agency in Hyderabad-DigitalRank
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Digital Marketing Agency in Hyderabad-DigitalRank
Internet marketing or online businesses have beat unparalleled soaring worldwide, major companies are building their own websites and attempting to provide to the online audiences. However, online marketing is hugely dissimilar than offline marketing system, the rules and terms of drawing customers diverge vastly.
That is why digital marketing agency appears in and promises that internet marketing, from designing of websites to making sure that they are superb and outrival in search engine ranking as well as accessible to all consumers with a complete package. Without support of digital marketing agency, it is impossible for entire companies to come into the online business and gain success.
Due to the sky-scraping competition in the online planet, it is most essential that you should think hiring a digital marketing agency to aid you in competing with other existing online marketing players in the organization.
So, Digital Rank is one of the most paramount Digital marketing agency in Hyderabad, we set our base into the immense cosmos of internet endeavor which we understood the excellent and believe the greatest result, along with bring new marketing tendency towards innovative and yardstick across the empire of digital marketing. Perceptive and reverence value the necessity of your business requires is what we exactly do the first and perfect.
for Digital Marketing Service Visit our website
www.digitalrank.in
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https://medium.com/@teamdigitalrank/digital-marketing-agency-in-hyderabad-digitalrank-492625ae81c0
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['Digitalrank Digital Marketing Solutions']
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2016-10-13 11:54:47.884000+00:00
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['Digital Marketing Agency', 'Digital Marketing Company', 'Seo Services', 'Digital Marketing', 'Hyderabad']
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Current SEO Expert in Bangalore
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1. Produce robust Community on Social Networking Sites
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2016-10-13 06:57:25.058000+00:00
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['SEO', 'Marketing', 'Seo Services']
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Link Building Is Not Illegal (or Inherently Bad) with Matt Cutts — Perficient Blogs
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An interview with Matt Cutts, Google Distinguished Engineer, and head of the Google Webspam Team.
Eric Enge: There are people who think link building is illegal now. Is link building illegal?
Matt Cutts: No, link building is not illegal.
Eric Enge: Really?
Matt Cutts: It’s funny because there are some types of link building that are illegal, but it’s very clear-cut: hacking blogs, that sort of thing is illegal.
Eric Enge: Of course, people are using the term illegal in an imprecise way. So don’t be literal as an engineer with me now. They’re thinking that Google says all link building is bad.
“No, not all link building is bad.”
Matt Cutts: No, not all link building is bad. The philosophy that we’ve always had is if you make something that’s compelling then it would be much easier to get people to write about it and to link to it. And so a lot of people approach it from a direction that’s backward. They try to get the links first and then they want to be grandfathered in or think they will be a successful website as a result.
Their goal should really be to make a fantastic website that people love and tell their friends about and link to and want to experience. As a result, your website starts to become stronger and stronger in the rankings.
Eric Enge: I always liken this to doing marketing the way it used to be done, right? Businesses always tried to create the best product, the best value, of the best something. Then they would find a way to promote it. Then promotion becomes easy. For example, you can even do a press release and it may well attract attention and cause people to write about it.
Matt Cutts: Right. So the link from a press release will probably not count, but if that press release convinces an editor or a reporter to write a story about it, and that’s an editorial decision, then if that newspaper links to your website as a result of that editorial decision to write a story, it doesn’t matter whether it started or was sparked by a press release or it was started by an email that you sent. It’s still someone making a decision to cover it.
“… it is true that a lot of SEO is now circling back around to good old fashioned marketing.”
Going back to something that you said before we started the interview, a lot of SEO has been focused on technical matters and very highly specific ways to configure your website and stuff like that. There are best practices, and you need to make sure you get the basics right, but it is true that a lot of SEO is now circling back around to good old fashioned marketing.
There are lots of ways to do marketing and do it well; there are lots of different ways to get peoples’ attention and to get traction. And the more creative you are or the better the experience is with your website, the more likely you are to be successful. But in a lot of ways, if you think like a good marketer and think about what will appeal to people, you will find your job as an SEO marketing, and getting links or trying to build your links will be easier as well.
Eric Enge: One great way to build links in my vision is to build strong Twitter, Facebook, Google+ presences. Build strong, engaged, followings and then create great content and you push that out and then that audience will likely share it, and start doing other things that cause visibility and help it rank. That’s a cool way to do link building.
Matt Cutts: Absolutely, I completely agree. If you take that big picture view in which you’re really doing marketing, one of the ways to get the word out is to have a devoted following. Musicians could have a mailing list or people could follow you on Twitter or Facebook or Google+ or any social outlet.
I firmly support the idea that people should have a diversified way of reaching their audience. So if you rely only on Google, that might not be as strong of an approach compared to having a wide variety of different avenues by which you can reach people and drive them to your website or whatever your objective is.
Eric Enge: Yes, and as you said in our last interview before this one:
“By doing things that help build your own reputation, you are focusing on the right types of activity. Those are the signals we want to find and value the most anyway.”
You can argue about how good Google is about detecting a particular signal today, or whether a given signal is noisy or not, but over time Google’s capabilities in these areas will continue to get better and better.
“There are certainly people who are widely known on the web, who have a great reputation, who are experts, who are authorities, who everybody listens to or trusts.”
Matt Cutts: It’s definitely the case that we will improve over time at assessing the authority and reputation and all those characteristics of authors and people in general and people on the web. There are certainly people who are widely known on the web, who have a great reputation, who are experts, who are authorities, who everybody listens to or trusts.
Somebody like Nate Silver for example who talks about elections. If he talks about elections, you want to take what he says seriously. You might disagree with him, but you’ll probably pay attention to it.
There’s the same sort of thing with, for example, Danny Sullivan on search engines. You want to be one of those people because that’s useful in and of itself, and over time you can certainly expect that search engines will try and do a better job of saying this person or this website is an authority on this topic and therefore when they write about it, it’s something that users are more likely to be interested in.
Eric Enge: Another concept is the notion of syndicating great content. There are many different ways to do that. You can take content that you’ve published on your own website, and you can distribute that, which has its own issues. Some businesses have really strong fundamental reasons for doing that.
I know one business that has a massive content syndication deal with Yahoo! for example, and they get more traffic from their syndication than they do from search. But it turns out they have the same content on their site as well.
This notion of syndicating great content seems to be another very valid way of building links, particularly if you’re getting on authoritative sites.
Matt Cutts: Syndication can be a valid way to either increase your reputation or to drive traffic and potentially to get more links. The main caution that I would add is that there are some mechanical things that you should pay attention to and try to make sure that you get right.
“So if you are also publishing the article on your site, you want to try and do these mechanical things so you are still seen as the original author.”
Things like rel=canonical help. Embedding a link within the text of the article itself never hurts. Ideally, you’d want to insist on some sort of attribution on the syndicated page. You can use authorship markup. So if you are also publishing the article on your site, you want to try and do these mechanical things so you are still seen as the original author.
Or, see if you can make sure that the article publishes first on your website. Give it a few hours or days or however much of a window you can, and then syndicate it onto another site. If you think about it, search engines are not psychic. They have to use signals and heuristics to make their best guess about what the best website is or who wrote content in the first place.
“The more signals or hints or indications you can give us, the easier job it will be for search engines to make sure that the attribution and the reputation flow in the correct direction so that you enjoy the benefits of syndication but you also do well on search.”
The more signals or hints or indications you can give us, the easier job it will be for search engines to make sure that the attribution and the reputation flow in the correct direction so that you enjoy the benefits of syndication but you also do well on search.
Eric Enge: Right. Of course, a much cleaner way of dealing with this, is to create content for syndication and not publish it on your own site. You can have a simple one-page piece of content that lists key resources for people looking for information on a specific topic.
Another very popular tactic that people like to use is guest posting. Frankly though, more often than not, when I see guest posting, it’s actually not good stuff. But, I would say that creating a very high-quality article and getting it published on a truly authoritative site that has a lot of editorial judgment is still a good thing.
Matt Cutts: Those are certainly good criteria to keep in mind. The challenge with guest posting is that people have different conceptions about what it means. And so for a lot of people, a guest post is something that a fantastic author has thought deeply about, labored over, polished, put a lot of work into and then publishes on a highly reputable domain name.
Posts like that can be a great way to get your name out there, to build your reputation, to make yourself more well-known, potentially build links or traffic or help with your SEO.
The problem is that if we look at the overall volume of guest posting we see a large number of people who are offering guest blogs or guest blog articles where they are writing the same article and producing multiple copies of it and emailing out of the blue and they will create the same low-quality types of articles that people used to put on article directory or article bank sites.
“If people just move away from doing article banks or article directories or article marketing to guest blogging and they don’t raise their quality thresholds for the content, then that can cause problems.”
If people just move away from doing article banks or article directories or article marketing to guest blogging and they don’t raise their quality thresholds for the content, then that can cause problems. On the one hand, it’s an opportunity. On the other hand, we don’t want people to think guest blogging is the panacea that will solve all their problems.
Eric Enge: In the opposite direction, when I advise people on how to accept a guest post, I give very simple criteria. First, I want them to really only work with people who have really strong social presences because it’s a measure of what they’ve done to build their authority.
And then the metric that I give them is if you have to ask them to share it on their social sites, then you don’t want the article, because that means they’re there to trade on your authority rather than they gave you their best stuff.
Matt Cutts: That’s a good way to look at it. There might be other criteria too, but certainly, if someone is proud to share it, that’s a big difference than if you’re pushing them to share it.
Eric Enge: Of course, it is important to look at this in the other direction in guest posting. You should only submit articles where the quality is high enough, and the site it is going on is authoritative enough that you would be proud to share it on your own social media accounts.
There’s also the notion of giving and getting interviews. If you are able to interview people with recognized authority and publish that on your own site, that’s good content. It’s also great if you can get interviewed by people, and have that published on their site with a link back to yours. Those would seem like very good signals as well. Of course, the quality of the content matters, and where it is published counts for a lot here too.
“… interviews can be a fantastic way to build awareness of your brand and to generate and distribute insights.”
Matt Cutts: Yes, absolutely. It’s interesting that you mentioned that because interviews can be a fantastic way to build awareness of your brand and to generate and distribute insights. It’s funny because if you think about it, the entire podcasting industry is often based around this idea of doing interviews or even just people in conversations.
Somebody like Kevin Smith has something he calls the SModcast which is just him talking with friends. He has been able to more or less make a living at just doing tours where he goes around and does his SModcast in an auditorium.
Criteria that come to mind are, “who are you talking to?”, or “how interesting is the conversation”? The beauty of an interview or a podcast for something like that is if you’re not interesting, people won’t tune in. Or they might tune in at first but they’ll tune out. It’s a self-limiting phenomenon. You can’t just do interviews with everybody forever if you’re always giving or getting boring interviews.
There’s a little bit of reinforcement that helps force you to either be interesting or say interesting things or think hard about how to make something compelling.
Eric Enge: You’ve had rel=author tagging for a while and people talk a lot about author rank or author authority. You made a comment back in October that:
“I think if you look further out in the future and look at something that we call social signals or authorship or whatever you want to call it, in ten years, I think knowing that a really reputable guy — if Dan has written an article, whether it’s a comment on a forum or on a blog — I would still want to see that. So that’s the long-term trend.”
Similarly Eric Schmidt said in the New Digital Age:
“Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.”
Basically, as an author you should think about how you develop and build your authority. You should measure things to see how you are doing. Some ideas for this are:
How much engagement does your content get?
Try to develop relationships so you can post on authoritative sites.
The inverse is true too, don’t publish on crappy sites.
Where you write, and who you’re trying to address, I would argue, is as important as what content you contribute.
“… you make a very good point that the outlets and the responsiveness of those outlets is a good way to get an idea of how other people think about you.”
Matt Cutts: While it remains the case that you always want to think about what you’re saying and make sure that that’s interesting and of use to people, you make a very good point that the outlets and the responsiveness of those outlets is a good way to get an idea of how other people think about you.
Just to switch to an analogy from email, Google has something called a priority inbox and we look at things like how often you reply to people and how fast you reply, versus do you always archive something, an email that somebody sent, or never even read it.
The priority inbox can start to get an idea of what is important to you. It might not know that this person is your boss, but it sees that you always respond within 5 minutes. It takes some of those signals and ends up with a pretty good assessment of which emails really matter.
You really want to think about, how do I make sure that in an SEO sense, I’m in somebody’s priority inbox? That I matter to them? That I’m relevant to them? That I can give them something of use? That they find me of value?
If those are the sorts of things you’re thinking about, that will be really useful because you’ll tend not to bore people or be pushing for favors when people are a little leery of doing that. That can be a good attitude to approaching life in general. How can you add value to anybody else’s life?
Eric Enge: Do you still believe that these types of considerations, i.e. the authority that people demonstrate online, will become a ranking factor?
Matt Cutts: I would concentrate on the stuff that people write, the utility that people find in it, and the amount of times that people link to it. All of those are ways that implicitly measure how relevant or important somebody is to someone else.
“Links are still the best way that we’ve found to discover that, and maybe over time social or authorship or other types of markup will give us a lot more information about that.”
Links are still the best way that we’ve found to discover that, and maybe over time social or authorship or other types of markup will give us a lot more information about that.
We’ll always keep chasing after the ideal world in which the search engines do what you would intuitively expect and bring you the best answer, whether it be from someone who is a friend of yours or someone who is an expert in the field or some completely different serendipitous author or person that you didn’t know about before, but they can really help with the information you need at that moment.
Eric Enge: Right. So as always we could speculate until we’re blue in the face as to what signals are driving ranking at the moment, but you shouldn’t necessarily get so wrapped up in that as monitoring the signals yourself to see whether or not you’re getting good reinforcement for what you’re doing.
Matt Cutts: Yes. If your emails are getting replies, if people are replying to you on Twitter or Facebook, if you’re getting good traction on your endeavors, that usually means you’re moving in the right direction. If people suddenly go radio silent or you’re not getting traction, that’s a good time to step back and do an assessment and see if there’s something that’s missing in your approach or something that you could hone in order to resonate with your audience.
Eric Enge: Right. So even if you are currently tracking signals that matter not at all to Google, but they’re really strong signals of the degree that you matter to people, you’re probably also sending off the signals that Google does take into consideration.
Matt Cutts: That’s a reasonable way to look at it. If you’re always trying new things, whatever your criteria is, and if you’re making forward progress on those goals, you’re often showing the signs of making progress in other areas well. It wouldn’t surprise me if in the process of setting and making progress on and achieving your goals you end up also getting traction, reputation as a person, as an individual, as an author, as an expert, as someone on the web and potentially someone in search engines as well.
Eric Enge: Thank you, Matt.
Matt Cutts: Always fun to talk.
About Matt
Matt Cutts joined Google as a Software Engineer in January 2000. Before Google, he was working on his Ph.D. in computer graphics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has an M.S. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and B.S. degrees in both mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky.
Matt wrote SafeSearch, which is Google’s family filter. In addition to his experience at Google, Matt held a top-secret clearance while working for the Department of Defense, and he’s also worked at a game engine company. He claims that Google is the most fun by far.
Matt currently heads up the Webspam team for Google. Matt talks about webmaster-related issues on his blog.
Credit for Matt Cutts conference speaking image: Josh Hallet on Flickr — used by a Creative Commons Attribution License.
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What Can a Digital Marketing Agency in California do For You?
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What Can a Digital Marketing Agency in California do For You?
Today, consumers have too many choices and you need to constantly remind them that you exist. It is best to grab their attention where they spend a good bit of time, which is on the Internet. Consumers are online, and you also need to be online and use effective digital marketing strategies to earn huge profits. A professional digital marketing agency in California can help you interact with your targeted audience and generate returns on your investment. These strategies yield good results for all types of companies, be it small, big or medium.
Here we will discuss few reasons why you should choose a professional digital marketing agency in California to reap real benefits.
It is cost-effective than any other marketing
A small or a start-up business has little resources and capitalization. They have a limited budget for promotion. In that case, digital marketing is better than any other forms of marketing. It provides them a much more cost-effective channel that delivers outstanding results.
It offers good conversion rate
As a business, you must be aware of the importance of conversion. Without conversion, all your traffic would mean nil and all your marketing efforts will simply go waste. There are several digital marketing strategies and techniques you can use for your digital marketing campaign including search engine optimization, social media optimization and content marketing. Take help of SEO experts in Fresno to leverage the benefits of these online marketing strategies. They will help you generate quick and effective communication with your targeted audiences.
It helps generate maximum revenue
Higher conversion rates will yield loads of profitable benefits for your business in terms of higher revenues. With improved revenue growth expectancy, businesses using digital marketing techniques will have better chances of expanding their business.
It builds brand reputation
The power of online marketing lies in its potential for attracting targeted traffic. A professional digital marketing agency in California will devise strategies to offer your target audience the information they are looking forward to. With their help, you will have a robust online presence, which means more people will read your content, know about your offers, products and services and your business message. All this will help you build a robust brand.
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How To Optimize Traffic to Your Website
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A search engine has many ways that it indexes your website. At Ocean Springs Web Designer, we REVEAL SECRETS on how to optimize your website for targeted traffic.
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Web Design in Ocean Springs — Onsite Optimization
Optimize Meta Tags — These tags are what tell the search engines what each of your pages is about. It is desirable to align these meta tags so they perform at the very best to improve your search engine rankings for profitable targeted key phrases. Find out what the most important keywords in your sector or business area are.
— These tags are what tell the search engines what each of your pages is about. It is desirable to align these meta tags so they perform at the very best to improve your search engine rankings for profitable targeted key phrases. Find out what the most important keywords in your sector or business area are. Link Structure Modifications — The Two-Click Rule: your Ocean Springs Web Designer should make your pages so that they are no further than two clicks away from your home page. This gives not only users easier navigation, but the search engine crawlers better ability to index (place pages in their database) your web pages. Make sure your Web Designer in Ocean Springs is following this rule, as it is extremely critical to your search engine ranking.
— The Two-Click Rule: your Ocean Springs Web Designer should make your pages so that they are no further than two clicks away from your home page. This gives not only users easier navigation, but the search engine crawlers better ability to index (place pages in their database) your web pages. Make sure your Web Designer in Ocean Springs is following this rule, as it is extremely critical to your search engine ranking. Create Quality Content that customers and clients will be looking for. Make your terms crystal clear, without jargon, and repeat them naturally in your copy. Hyperlink terms to other places on your site.
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— Use heading tags and keywords in strategic locations to assure a higher search engine rankings score. Change/Add to the Content Often — Static websites don’t get found. Search engines look for changes. Many Web Designers in Ocean Springs don’t use WordPress, but that’s why I love WordPress with its posts and categories!
— Static websites don’t get found. Search engines look for changes. Many Web Designers in Ocean Springs don’t use WordPress, but that’s why I love WordPress with its posts and categories! Use Anchor Text Wisely — Search engines crawl it. Use hyperlink keywords (instead of “click here”) you think your readers are looking for, or you wish they were searching for to find your site.
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Ocean Springs Web Design — Offsite Optimization
SEO Link Building — Obtain links that are theme related to your site. Provide links on your site that are relevant to your niche. Such as if you had a restaurant in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, then your Ocean Springs Web Designing Company shouldn’t be putting links to cat pictures on your website.
— Obtain links that are theme related to your site. Provide links on your site that are relevant to your niche. Such as if you had a restaurant in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, then your Ocean Springs Web Designing Company shouldn’t be putting links to cat pictures on your website. Article Marketing — While content is king to gain better rankings, article marketing is about creating that content and submitting it to thousands of article directories. These article directories are receiving millions of hits a day, so by adding optimized content not only is traffic increased, but links and page rankings are too.
— While content is king to gain better rankings, article marketing is about creating that content and submitting it to thousands of article directories. These article directories are receiving millions of hits a day, so by adding optimized content not only is traffic increased, but links and page rankings are too. Directory Submission — A web directory is a directory of sites that are organized in categories and sub categories. The most crucial directories are the Google directory, Yahoo, Open directory (DMOZ), and LookSmart, etc. By submitting your site to these web directories this will help gain quality theme related one way links to attain better search engine rankings. Directory submissions will increase search engine visibility, link popularity, pin point traffic and business success.
— A web directory is a directory of sites that are organized in categories and sub categories. The most crucial directories are the Google directory, Yahoo, Open directory (DMOZ), and LookSmart, etc. By submitting your site to these web directories this will help gain quality theme related one way links to attain better search engine rankings. Directory submissions will increase search engine visibility, link popularity, pin point traffic and business success. Social Marketing and Blog Posting — Involves posting content on the top web 2.0 marketing sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogger, etc. Although this is a different area of the Internet, it is extremely critical for building your online community and reputation.
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— Paying for the top spots in the search engines. This can be extremely important for “testing” out the waters of a search term. For example, if you own a Web Designing Company called, “Ocean Springs Web Designer,” then you can use pay-per-click to see if anyone is searching for this term. If not, then find a new search term! If yes, then begin writing blog posts on your website targeting your chosen search term. Press Release Syndication — This technique is very beneficial. It involves submitting your content to press release sites and getting the word out to the world.
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I’m Going to Vegas!
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gamblePhoto by Aldric RIVAT on Unsplash
Life’s a gamble.
Will that lottery ticket pay off?
Will the wheel of fortune stop on your number?
Can you roll that lucky seven one more time?
If you could control the dice,
ㅤdetermine the outcome of each throw,
You’d go home rich!
But would that be to your benefit?
Would money solve all your problems?
Or…
Would it lead to more trouble?
More difficulties?
More pain?
If only we could see all.
Realize what would be best for us.
For those around us.
Those we care about.
If only we could know what will happen next.
God does.
He sees the future.
He sees,
ㅤhe understands,
ㅤthe tiniest details of our lives.
And he knows what is best for us.
So…
Instead of putting faith in the dice,
ㅤwe can put faith in him.
Instead of praying when the dice are in the air,
ㅤwe can seek him.
For he will ensure the dice fall as they should.
He will guarantee the best for us.
We have but to follow him.
Lord, today I will not gamble.
Instead I will seek,
ㅤI will follow,
You.
Today I will rest in You.
For you will provide the best possible outcome for me.
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History of Gambling Part I — Origins
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History of Gambling Part I — Origins
History of Gambling Part I — The Origins
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about gambling? Poker and Blackjack? Baccarat and Roulette? Or maybe sumptuous Casinos in Las Vegas? But did you ever think about its origins?
Actually, gambling is a pursuit as old as mankind and there is evidence that many civilizations supported and encouraged this. Moreover, it also played an important role in the history of the nations as we nowadays know them.
The earliest evidence of gambling is dated around 2300 BC. And it comes from Ancient China. Tiles which presumably were used for “chance games” and lottery-type games were unearthed from different sites. Other gambling artifacts, like dices, were discovered in sites from Rome, Greece, Egypt and India. Did you ever think why the 6–6 dice combination is considered to be good luck nowadays? Apparently, the ancient greeks named this “the throw of Aphrodite” and it would have indicate the game’s victory.
In Greek legends, it is said that Zeus — the god of the sky, Hades — the god of the underworld and Poseidon — the god of seas, divided the Universe with the throw of a dice. In the northern countries history, kings of Sweden and Norway are stated to have divided lands by a roll of dice.
When it comes to card games, the credits goes once again to the Chinese people. Evidence relates the chinese used to play cards since the 9th century. But certainly, the cards used in that time were very different from the 52 card-deck we are used to today.
We will continue our tour through gambling history with an upcoming article where we will discuss about Gambling Evolution through time.
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['Dragon Inc.']
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2017-12-16 16:56:00.549000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Gaming', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain']
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['Gambling']
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['Loyola Sophia']
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2017-12-27 09:16:08.856000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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What Is The Gambler’s Fallacy? A few days ago, my group of friends and I were invited to go to lunch with one of our friends who was turning the much anticipated 21. We met up and ate at a nearby casino so our friend could order some drinks and try his luck with money. We knew with little experience, any money he had would be gone fairly quickly, but that’s what we were there for, so we watched him play. As quickly as the money had disappeared, although expected, it was an interesting process to watch how the money disappeared. There was that point where he had more than he came with, which built him up to lose even more within minutes right after. It’s a slippery slope we can all fall down, whether with money or just thinking we are making the right choices when we hit a short stroke of luck. How Does It Work?
The Gambler’s Fallacy is the belief that as something happens more frequently, it will happen less frequently later on. However, this can work in multiple ways as it is a fallacy referencing the impossibility of randomness. Also referred to as the Monte Carlo fallacy because of a casino that had a famous example of this fallacy in action back in 1913, it’s commonly used in gambling because a casino is a place of chance. A functioning example being, if we were to draw sticks, and I drew the short one three times in a row. What are the chance of me getting it a fourth time? Of course if you know, it’s exactly the same. The probability in this doesn’t have a concept of time, it isn’t changing as it goes. So why do we witness those situations of people who are on a winning streak maxing out their luck? Same chance of it happening to you. In reality, it’s all about correctly guessing the series of outcomes, not what may seem like the marginal outcome. It’s the theoretical vs experimental. In every instance, theoretical is right and can’t be broken without any miscalculations; experimental can come out differently every time. But witnessing experimental tested luck, doesn’t guarantee or prove anything. That’s just the way the results came out. Looking at the results as they are printed doesn’t give you a better idea of what’s yet to come. Chance doesn’t let you look into the future. Association With Gambling
As I stated at the start of the article, my friend recently had his 21st birthday and lost some money. As expected, he lost a bit because machines in casinos are often made to be either confusing, fast paced, or psychologically intriguing you to spend more. What I found was interesting, is the machine did what everyone says it will do. It will reward you a bit for playing, and try and draw you in to spend more money. However, if I was playing a slot machine and decide to put $20 in, and I start making money off the $20, I’m more likely to be seeing that as what else I had put in for me and be much more willing to spend it. I never actually had five more dollars, because if I did, it was already in the machine for me, waiting for me to spend it. In the same instance, maybe it was five that was given back to me way after I lost ten. You don’t necessarily know when you are winning or losing. In the moment it feels like you are, but people are greedy and get them to push their luck and they just might lose much more. Is This A Problem?
Although the effect can be seen as a threat, it’s not necessarily unavoidable. It’s the same with any fallacy; if you are aware of it, you can avoid it, but you will start witnessing other people do it themselves. Although, this trick of the mind may not necessarily be a fallacy, because it isn’t a lack of logic, it’s a lack of understanding and willingness to accept that chance doesn’t change. We all want good things to happen to us and all think we have some degree of luck, and although it’s the same for everyone, the ones who do get lucky might anticipate more luck to come their way. The effect starts happening when we are curious to see how much we can get out of a situation trying to benefit ourselves the most, in turn throwing us down to the ground defeated. To be without the fallacy we would have to be anticipating stopping points making sure to avoid looking for a streak and more realistically hoping for a streak. We would have to have unpractical amounts of luck, and to have luck on our side would be indefinitely impossible. If true random exists, it wouldn’t ever have the chance to change.
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https://medium.com/@ethangreavu/what-is-the-gamblers-fallacy-a909ab312849
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['Ethan Greavu']
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2017-12-27 17:07:07.351000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Psychology', 'Money', 'Self Improvement']
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History of Gambling Part 3 — The Modern Day
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History of Gambling Part 3 — The Modern Day
In the last article of this series we have introduced you to the world of the first gambling houses that appeared in Europe. But since then, gambling has been in a roller-coaster ride.
In Europe, the first casino was opened in Venice in 1683. After that, it followed a period of various restrictions regarding the gambling and card playing world, which ended in 1762, when the Redoute Casino opened its gates in Belgium, a casino that remains open to this day under the name of Casino Spa. Other casinos were opened throughout Europe, but the gambling was still under legal limitations. But in 1858, Le Grand Casino de Monte Carlo was opened — the first all-year casino resort, a paradise for gambling enthusiasts of that age and after this, as the saying goes, the rest is history.
In the United States, according to Nelson Rose, a noted gambling law expert, there were three waves of expansion in the gambling industry. The first wave came in with the landing of the first settlers, but spread with the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, so it started around the early 1600’s and ended in the middle 1800s. State and NGO’s sponsored lotteries were the legal gambling forms those days. And they grew so popular that two of the Ivy League colleges nowadays — Yale and Harvard built their dormitories using this type of funding! But the private operators that conducted lotteries often demonstrated to be dishonest in organizing them — therefore there was a gap of time when they were took outside the law in the late 19th Century.
The Gold Rush and the Wild West brought with them the second wave of US gambling world. And with them — thousand of saloons sprouted. The very word itself brings a well known image to our minds — the wooden front, the dusty streets, swinging doors, cowboys and fire water. The first American gambling houses were welcoming travelers to enjoy a game of chance. New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago and San Francisco were home of the most renowned gambling houses, but with the beginning of the 20th Century, the gambling industry was banned and outlawed by the state’s social reforms. This didn’t stop the gambling enthusiasts from their most preferred activity, and the state’s decision took the saloons and gambling houses to an underground operation instead of closing them. 1910 was the year of nationwide prohibition on gambling, but just like the alcohol prohibition, it continued in a discreet way — riverboats were remodeled as the railroad transportation started to gain interest. Riverboats on the Mississippi River incorporated casinos and gaming houses and became refuges for a nation held down by prohibition and increasingly strict gambling laws.
It all lasted until The Great Depression and The Wall Street Crash — the early 1930’s, when it all got legalized again, as a perspective of running away from poverty. In 1931, the entire state of Nevada legalized the gambling industry, paving the course for the young cities as Reno and Las Vegas. Tommy Hull and El Rancho will be a name with forever resonance in the gambling history. The beginning of the 20th Century found the gambling world still illegal in most of the states, these limitations forcing casinos into the hands of organized criminals. And after gambling was made lawful in Nevada, all the money that came from bootlegging spirits during the Prohibition Era, went to Las Vegas. Do Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Lucky Luciano, and Frank Costello sound familiar? After that, New Jersey legalized gambling. Atlantic City, 1977.
Nowadays, the casino experience in the United States includes much more than “a game of chance”. Accoutrements like luxurious hotels and tourist attractions form today a $240 billion industry.
Macau seemed at first an unexpected place to find the second Las Vegas. A tiny area, 11 square miles, situated on the southern coast of The People’s Republic of China, where gambling has been legitimate since the Portuguese government legalised it in this colony. Since then, it has been known worldwide as the “Gambling capital of the world”! Moreover, it is the single place in China where gambling is legal. But we will find more about the history and journey of Macau through time in the next and last series of this article.
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https://medium.com/@DragonINC/history-of-gambling-part-3-the-modern-day-7d54a021fc2e
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['Dragon Inc.']
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2017-12-19 09:34:56.669000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain']
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['Sopa Shia']
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2017-12-27 12:04:04.072000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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2017-12-14 08:54:18.587000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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['Amelia Fernández']
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2017-12-16 04:38:43.913000+00:00
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2017-12-14 09:54:48.510000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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Gamblica at the Cryptospace Moscow 2017
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Gamblica at the Cryptospace Moscow 2017
This weekend in Moscow hosted a global conference on blockchain and cryptocurrency “Cryptospace Conference Moscow.” 59 speakers from 40 countries spoke at this event about the blockchain industry. Our co-founders Dmitry and Nikita were among them.
The conference focused on many problems, such as the safety of smart contracts, marketing strategy mistakes in blockchain start-ups, issues of launching a successful ICO, and many others. Gamblica took part as an expert on the subject of solving problems with the implementation of blockchain into the gambling industry. In addition to Gamblica on the main stage as experts, it was impossible not to notice the presence of the company as one of the sponsors of the conference.
Starting from 10 AM till late night in the main hall of the Skolkovo complex, there was a stand of the Company where anyone could get introduced with the entire Gamblica team and the organization as a whole, as well as ask all questions of interest regarding the project and its implementation. Despite the unpredicted activity among potential investors and more than 3,000 conference guests, the Gamblica team was able to pay attention to every interested participant.
Speech by Dmitry Yakovlev and Nikita Cherenkov touched upon such an essential aspect of the online gambling industry as the imperfection of the system and possible fraud from traditional online casinos. Also in the presentation were touched upon the problems of already existing casinos on blockchain and ways to solve them.
The culmination of the speech was the phrase of one of the founders of the project: “Gamblica is a new era of the online gambling industry.”
On December 12, White paper, as well as a roadmap of the project will be available for all visitors on our website: gamblica.com. Anyone can ask any question using a special form posted on the site.
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2017-12-12 09:21:12.442000+00:00
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['Blockchain', 'ICO', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Gambling', 'Investing']
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Tips For Online Gambling
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4: Never play with money you can’t spare
To put it differently, never gamble with money you’re not willing to lose. Sounds weird? No, not at all! They play to win, naturally. But there is no guarantee that you will actually win.
If you want your money for something significant, such as bills or rent, do not play for real cash. Set yourself a limit and play online in the casino just with the money you do not desire for anything else. Fun88 Indonesia
5: Don’t attempt to make up for losses
If you’re unlucky and have lost a lot of money playing online casino games, get out and have a break. Even if 96% of a casino’s earnings are paid out again, this does not imply that you will win in the next few rounds. This is about typical winnings, and gaming doesn’t guarantee a triumph!
6: Do not drink alcohol while playing online casino games
You might want to have a few drinks once you go online at the casino. However, we would advise against appreciating alcoholic beverages during gaming. Since you’ll be aware, alcoholic drinks influence your way of believing and decrease inhibitions. A player has already discounted money in casinos that he urgently needed for something else because he drank a lot in betting. Some players have lost yard and house in casinos.
Our tip for playing casino online: keep a clear mind when playing!
7: View the odds of winning
Every game in an internet casino has different chances of winning since there’s always a house advantage for the casino. This means that not all the cash collected by the casino will be paid out of winnings. That’s logical, since the casino on the internet is a business and naturally it must make a profit. Learn about the odds of winning distinct games and see the differences between casinos on the internet. Then you can pick a game that has a low house edge, since this will boost your odds of winning.
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Many online casinos provide the possibility to play for free for play money. This is definitely worth it, since it’s possible to discover how the games work and which games you like best. You may not be able to try all the games for free, but you’ll have the ability to play with the most important games for free, such as some of the slot machines with the latest video technologies.
9: Turn your back on the casino
Yes, we actually mean that! If you have made a good profit, cease playing. Especially in slot machines (online and in arcades) you can view it again and again: Someone selects the jackpot or wins a second big win and then puts all of the money back into the machine. Play another game or have a break!
This is especially true if you’ve suffered a great loss. There are times which are just not happiness days. If you’ve lost a lot of cash, don’t continue playing, not even at a different machine or table. Leave the online casino and come back as soon as you’re able to afford another game. Maybe next time you’ll have more luck! Daftar Fun88
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Progressive jackpots have a great deal of money to acquire, it can go into the millions. Next to every slot machine in the internet casino which has a progressive jackpot, then you can see how much cash is already in the jackpot. On occasion the online customer service of an Internet casino may even draw your attention to the virtual slots with the biggest jackpot winnings.
There have been individuals who only put a little sum of money into the online slots and won large.
But have a good look in the principles and stakes of a progressive jackpot machine before playing. You might have to play all lines of pay before you may participate in the jackpot game and if you are not careful, this can be very pricey.
We hope we have helped you with our 10 online casino tips. Have fun playing the game!
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2017-12-14 05:31:21.339000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Online Gambling']
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Gambling Junkets Part II — The Current State
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Gambling Junkets Part II — The Current State
Gambling Junkets Part II — The Current State
Continuing with our series on our original article is this series, Gambling Junkets Part I — Origins and Past, we will continue our series about Gambling Junkets focusing on the state of gambling junkets today.
As some of the largest junkets for high stakes players are now located and focused on Macau, we will use the current process used in Macau and the shortcomings of that market to explain the current state of the junkets market.
Here is a representation of how the current junket market works in Macau:
The greatest number of players that are attracted to the Macau high-roller games run by the Junkets are from Hong Kong and China. Many of these are rich businessman, some of them even billionaires. One of the challenges they face is getting their money to Macau as there are limits according to Chinese law as to how much money is transferable.
As you can see from the diagram above, once a player has interest in joining a game organized by a junket, a high-roller gamer will inform a junket representative of the volume of stake money that he wishes to have available (as a loan) at the gaming tables. This can be many millions of Hong Kong dollars. The availability of this stake money is achieved by the gamer’s junket agent vouching for his client.
These international networks of agents vet the credit worthiness and suitability of high-roller gamers before introducing them to the VIP junkets operators. Agents receive commission from the junket operators for giving credit to the elite gamer and they are responsible to the junket for any debt collection. It is an expensive and traditional system that carries funding costs and credit risks, which is why the typical fee, including commission for the introducing agent, is 5% of stake volume. As an incentive to have the elite gamer attend, and to ease the gamer’s cost of entry, this stake arrangement cost is picked up by the junket.
Once the player arrives at the casino, there is a process to verify the identity of the player and the amount of the stake. Once this is accomplished, the player is giving NON-NEGOTIABLE chips that can only be used for playing at that casino. There is a turnover requirement, normally of one that the player must play all these chips before he receives negotiable chips that he can use to continue playing or cash out.
Once the player decides to cash out his negotiable chips, he will once again require the assistance of the junkets and their agents to do this and credit their money to their bank account. This can be quite expensive, costing the player 5–7% of the transferred amount.
The Dragon Inc. Whitepaper states:
“Maximum stakes at baccarat tables in a Macau VIP Junket can be as high as HK$ 2 million per play, and daily rolling volumes easily reach HK$ 2 billion, with a junket possibly hosting over 100 elite gamers a day. Most will play baccarat but other games of chance are on offer.
The top 40 VIP junkets account for 80% of the total VIP stake ows, which, according to Bloomberg, for Suncity Group, one of the major VIP room operators, recently surpassed a monthly volume of HK$130 billion (US$17 billion).”
As you can imagine the costs of all these transfers exceed US$1 billion. There are also other risks of security and safety of the transferred funds.
We will continue with the Future of the gambling junkets and Dragon Inc.’s solution to these issues in our next post in this series.
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https://medium.com/@DragonINC/gambling-junkets-part-ii-the-current-state-6c72b8377a46
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['Dragon Inc.']
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2017-12-21 07:29:37.297000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Casino', 'Blockchain', 'Cryptocurrency', 'ICO']
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MEDIA RELEASE: Australia blind to match fixing
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AN illegal betting scandal has reportedly been uncovered hours before the first ball of the WACA Test.
MEDIA RELEASE: Australia blind to match fixing
Australia’s ban of in-play betting heightens the risk of match fixing
14 December 2017
“Reports in the UK of match fixing in today’s Ashes test demonstrate the futility of the Australian Government’s ban on in-play betting in Australia”, said Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm.
“With the current ban on in-play betting in Australia, matches could be fixed and all the associated bets would be made through unregulated Indian sites. The current Australian regulator — the Australian Communications and Media Authority — would be none-the-wiser.
“If we regulated in-play betting in Australia, an Australian regulator would see any rapid betting plunge using Australian online betting sites. Investigations and prosecutions for match fixing would soon follow. This would deter match fixing in Australia.
“Australian gamblers are hurt twice by our ban on in-play betting. They are denied an option to gamble on a regulated Australian site, and they suffer a heightened risk of match fixing. And of course, the taint of match fixing hurts Australian sports fans too.
The Government banned in-play online betting with Labor’s support in August through changes to the Interactive Gambling Act.
“This is a head-in-the-sand approach. We should instead pursue the UK’s approach of allowing, rigorously regulating, and taxing online gambling. This helps both gamblers and sports fans in the UK.
Senator Leyonhjelm’s lobbying has prompted a small watering-down of Australia’s ban on in-play betting, with betting during overnight gaps in cricket and other multi-day events now allowed.
Media: Duncan Spender 0401 065 131
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https://medium.com/leyonhjelm/media-release-australia-blind-to-match-fixing-1d734626a368
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['Former Senator David Leyonhjelm']
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2017-12-14 00:59:13.496000+00:00
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['Sports', 'Australian Politics', 'Gambling']
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Heart of Casino-Live Dealer Casino Games Review
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Heart of Casino-Live Dealer Casino Games Review
Have you ever contend a live dealer casino game? Well, if not, you are missing one in the entire most important craze within the world of online gambling. Since live dealer casino games are quite costly on the part of its operators, solely few of the games accessible online are subjected to the present reasonably format. The 3 most well-liked casino games players will undoubtedly play with a live dealer feature embrace blackjack, roulette and baccarat. These 3 games are the foremost exciting and simple to know games accessible online. That is why online casinos began to priorities these games, and as a result, the quantity of casino players increased and also the feedback was satisfying.
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The game of blackjack is one amongst the most effective games you’ll undoubtedly use with a digital camera. This game consists of five to six players at one table, thus though you are playing within the comforts of your own residence, you’ll sure enough have the chance to satisfy new people. Moreover, the sport of blackjack permits players, particularly novices, to practice their ways on totally different situations; and, players can have a much better understanding of the playing varieties of your opponents. Anytime you get an opportunity to play online blackjack, you’ll learn additional and earn additional because the prizes at stake are undoubtedly large.
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Baccarat is one amongst the foremost well-liked casino games that additionally accessible at online casinos with live dealers. This game is commonly known as the Punto Banco. So as to win in baccarat, you want to form a hand worth highest to nine. The sport of cards is kind of difficult, however players can solely got to study the cardboard values to participate. Confine mind that the ace is such as one, and therefore the cards 2 to 9 is such as their face worth. The cards ten up to King don’t have any worth.
More players still contemplate baccarat because the most complex game among the 3, however truly, it’s not as difficult as one player might imagine. Players can simply get to focus on the cardboard movements to induce an opportunity of winning the pot.
Playing The Live Dealer Roulette.
Online roulette is that the most fun game among the 3 most well-liked live dealer games. Before the appearance of live dealer roulette, the traditional online roulette wasn’t that appealing to casino players. However when the launch of this outstanding feature, the live dealer roulette became additional exciting, particularly to nice admirers of roulette. Due to the live video take advantage of the particular game, the players will certainly enter a brand new dimension in online gambling. Players can feel the fun and excitement of awaiting the wheel to prevent and see wherever the ball stops. You may extremely get to catch your breath each time to look at the ball stop at the correct moment.
Without a doubt, these 3 live dealer games are the classic casino games in most of the web casinos these days. If you haven’t had the possibility to play in online casinos with dealer games, then now’s the time attempt your luck to really try the important issue while not going away the comforts of your own residence.
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['Loyola Sophia']
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2018-02-05 08:06:24.334000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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Global Casino Gaming Market 2017–2021
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Global Casino Gaming Market 2017–2021
Technavio’s market research analyst predicts that the global casino gaming market will grow at a CAGR of almost 8% by 2021. Casinos are one of the major revenue-contributing segments in the global gambling market. The easing of gambling regulations across the globe has opened up several opportunities for gamblers to participate in casino gaming in any part of the world through online platforms. Several governments are also expected to ease regulations in countries such as the US, which has a huge potential for growth. Online casino gaming is one of the fastest-growing segments in the market. Online casinos provide high security for users, who have to go through multiple levels of verification before playing games online. Moreover, many countries are legalizing online gambling, which will lead to the exponential growth of the casino gaming market during the forecast period.
The casino gaming market has several types of games such as spread betting, treasures, money line bets, and parlays for various price ranges, where rewards are primarily given in the form of physical goods as well as monetary benefits. Several vendors in the market have introduced the use of online real cash transactions and virtual money to minimize the risks related to cash and enable the prize amount to be distributed as virtual currency. This virtual currency can then be used to play other games or redeemed for cash. Such initiatives also help vendors to track the spending history of customers and create customized marketing plans.
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2017-12-21 21:00:53.531000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Casino']
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Play Slot Machines, Progressive Slots, Video Poker
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['Amelia Fernández']
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2017-12-16 04:32:51.005000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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Enjoy the Thrilling Gambling Experience with Endorphina Casino
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Enjoy the Thrilling Gambling Experience with Endorphina Casino
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['Oscar Rise']
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2017-12-26 09:42:20.221000+00:00
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['Casino', 'Gambling', 'Casino Games', 'Online Casino']
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Videoslots Casino Overview & Ratings
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['Amelia Fernández']
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2017-12-16 04:37:27.928000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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777 Classic Old Vegas Casino Slots
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https://medium.com/@vameliafg/777-classic-old-vegas-casino-slots-afc8006241f5
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['Amelia Fernández']
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2017-12-16 04:31:32.252000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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Scorum and SiGMA Join Forces to Open a Cryptocurrency Betting Solution for Integration
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Scorum and SiGMA Join Forces to Open a Cryptocurrency Betting Solution for Integration
Recently we announced our cooperation with SiGMA.
The response to this news brought up some questions about the details of our sports betting solution. As said, we will launch it on our Scorum platform and allow other developers to build customized betting solutions on top of our blockchain.
The Summit of iGaming in Malta (SiGMA) is the largest event that brings together the titans of the online gambling, gaming, and sports betting industry once a year for a warm week in the Mediterranean every fall. With steady growth continuing across all aspects of this industry, it’s only natural for the progressive players in the gaming world to embrace the utility that blockchain tech can offer.
SiGMA acknowledged the quality betting solution Scorum provides and expressed their willingness to support us and to help our team connect with third party developers and other interested parties.
What SiGMA sees in Scorum’s betting solution
Scorum is keen to offer it’s commission-free betting exchange for integration by other developers and interested established fiat online bookmakers. For Scorum this will be a good opportunity to increase the utility of the SCR token and underpin the mass adoption of cryptocurrency among sports fans and bettors around the world.
While much has been said about the transaction speeds of major cryptocurrencies not being fast enough to sustain a high volume of transactions, Scorum’s Graphene-based blockchain will be capable of sustaining traffic over 3000 transactions per second. This makes it uniquely suited for the international sports betting industry. The high-volume performance of the Graphene framework has already been proven in several projects and there is no fear of cryptokitties clogging the network!
Not only that, the open and transparent nature of distributed digital ledgers (blockchains) means that all bets, payments, and odds will be recorded immediately and available for all to see. By using a Delegated Proof of Stake consensus, there will be no centralized authority to trust when it comes to fair payouts in the exchange. Bettors can be sure that the wagers they place will pay out at the correct odds.
Scorum’s betting exchange offers zero transaction or commission fees for eager bettors around the world.
In the graph below, we compare how Scorum’s commission-free solution (0% margin) increases profits for bettors as compared to the global sports betting platforms Pinnacle (2% margin) and Ladbrokes (6% margin). To show it simply, we’ll use an example where one of two outcomes is expected (total match goals in English Premier League). For ease of perception, take the football total 2.5 (event with two outcomes) and assume the same probability over/under. With zero margin for both outcomes, we get the coefficient 2.0. With a margin of 2% — 1.961, with a margin of 6% — 1.887. The distance effect of such a reduction in the ratio is enormous. Shown is the outcome of 1000 bets with 51% correctly predicted sorted randomly for pluses and minuses.
As you can see, bettors facing 6% margins with Ladbrokes will end up down over 37 units over 1000 bets, even if they predicted correctly in the majority of cases. If 10 USD were placed in each wager, that would be a loss of over 370 USD. Bettors at Pinnacle fare better but only end up drawing even, an unfortunately boring outcome after so many bets.
With Scorum’s 0% margins, the gains are clear as the bettor is up 20 units after 1000 bets — a return of 200 USD if 10 was placed on each bet. Without margins eating into their winnings, avid, occasional, and new bettors can test their analytical betting skills and take home all their earnings.
Coupled with the in-depth sports statistic center and the latest crowdsourced sports coverage in the blogging platform, Scorum gives its users all the tools to place smart bets in real time.
To keep up with the latest updates and connect with the Scorum Team:
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https://medium.com/hackernoon/scorum-and-sigma-join-forces-to-open-a-cryptocurrency-betting-solution-for-integration-8a1157861d21
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2018-02-09 10:27:11.976000+00:00
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['Cryptocurrency', 'Sports', 'Blockchain', 'Gaming', 'Gambling']
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Endorphina’s entry at ICE Totally Gaming
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For those of you who are unaware — the world of gambling has really reached a boiling point. It has practically exploded, and there are new casinos that are opening up very frequently. The interest for gambling is at an all-time high and everyone is wishing to get quick money with little investment and little effort.
One of the top events in the world of gaming is the so-called ICE Totally Gaming. This is an annual event that’s held once every year, and as such, it’s perhaps the grandest event that brings both the offline and online gaming sectors together in one place. There are representatives from gaming companies all around the world at this event — so if you would like to learn more about the latest advances in the field of gambling, then make sure that you visit the ICE Totally Gaming 2018.
Last year, the ICE Totally Gaming conferencewas visited by a record number of people — more than 30,000 people from various sectors, including gaming experts, who came and visited this spectacular event. This year, there are predictions that the record will be toppled, since history shows that this event continues to rise in popularity with each consecutive year.
One of the best features of the forthcoming ICE Totally Gaming Exhibition in Londonfor this year is the fact that Endorphina will participate. If you know your gaming, then you have undoubtedly heard about Endorphina in the past. This is a B2B company that specializes in the field of gaming — specifically in providing gaming services to other businesses. They have worked with some of the greatest businesses in the field of gaming. They have a reputation for working very hard on implementing and integrating the gambling games, and in ensuring success with business partners.
This year they will be present at the ICE 2018convention, so here’s your chance to speak with representatives from this company, face to face, at ICE London 2018. Endorphina has a firm goal of becoming one of the biggest names in the world of iGaming, so be sure to grab this opportunity and talk with their representatives at ICE London 2018.
But as soon as the ICE Totally gaming opening hoursstart, you will find that there are many other companies that specialize in the field of gaming. Regardless if it’s developers of games or regulators of gaming, or even casino owners — you will find various people from this field, and you will be able to create powerful, valuable contacts for your own company. You will come in contact with the staff of many of these businesses, besides those from Endorphina.
And either way — we hope that you will have a grand time at this annual conference. We hope that the ICE Totally conference will help your business grow as a result of your contact with some of the best gaming companies from all around the world.
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https://medium.com/@oscarrise/endorphinas-entry-at-ice-totally-gaming-faae44d71402
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['Oscar Rise']
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2017-12-26 09:35:57.254000+00:00
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['Gaming', 'Gambling', 'Casino', 'Casino Games']
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Gambling Junkets Part I — Origins and Past
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Gambling Junkets Part I — Origins and Past
Casino Junkets were invented in Las Vegas sometime in the 1950s. Junkets and their agents would attract players to a specific location or casino to gain their loyalty and engage them to play at a certain location. In return the player would receive incentives — from free travel, the best hotel rooms entertainment and fine dining for committing to play at that casino during their stay. Different junkets have different requirements for the player to earn these benefits.
The junkets attempt to attract players for various casino games like Blackjack, Baccarat, Roulette and Poker to name a few. There are junkets for the average player and some for high-rollers.
Some of the earliest junkets were run by the mafia or lifelong criminals and caused a lot of problems and misunderstandings. One of the most famous of these individuals was Vincent Teresa. Wikipedia discusses Teresa’s involvement as follows:
“In the mid-1960s, Teresa moved on to two new criminal enterprises. The first was the outwardly legitimate business of gambling junkets. Teresa arranged for large groups of wealthy gamblers to be flown to Las Vegas, Europe and the Caribbean where they gambled at casinos. He used the junkets to convince patrons to subsidize his illegal money lending, promising them high interest rates. He would take their money and not pay the interest, threatening them if they protested.”
Casino junkets have led the way for other benefits for almost all casino players known as “Comps” — these are benefits that any player can get nowadays. These can be found in almost every casino today and can be accessed by almost all players based on their amount of play.
We will continue our discussion of the history of junkets with a following article: “Gambling Junkets Part II — The Current State”
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https://medium.com/@DragonINC/gambling-junkets-part-i-origins-and-past-d39d8874323e
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['Dragon Inc.']
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2017-12-19 12:20:26.076000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Casino']
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Countries That Banned Online Gambling
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Countries That Banned Online Gambling
The fast-paced increase of the online gambling industry is remarkable. It is estimated that the size of the global online gaming market is around $30 billion compared to $21 billion in 2010. Despite this being such a profitable business, enormous potential markets outlawed not only online gaming, but gambling altogether.
Probably the most surprising is that the ban on online gambling in the U.S.. In 2006 the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) crushed the dreams of getting on the internet marketplace of many casino operators. The Act “prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in relation to the involvement of another person at a wager or bet that involves the use of the Internet and that’s unlawful under any state or federal law.” The arguments advanced for the enforcement of the Act concern matters of public policy. Pursuant to this regulation internet casino operators around the globe have shut their doors to U.S. citizens.
In China land-based gambling is permitted, but is allowed only in Macau, which now detroned Las Vegas as a gambling heaven. Nevertheless, Macau stays closed to internet gambling. Prediksi Bola
Another Asian country with an almost complete ban on gaming is Japan, where betting is usually prohibited with the exception of specific sport betting activities and lotteries. This, of course, does not signify that the underground economy linked to gambling activities isn’t thriving.
In the row of nations with a complete ban on gaming are many of the countries adhering to the Muslim faith. Here also, illegal gaming is booming.
Except for a couple kinds of recreation like beano, bingo, and horse betting, Brazil remains a strong competitor of online gambling, albeit unwittingly — many online gambling casinos thankfully welcome Brazilian gamers, and they themselves are not shy at betting either.
In Europe the situation isn’t quite as grim, but online gaming still meets some hurdles. In 2010, the Council of EU in its Spanish Presidency Progress Report defined illegal gambling as “gaming where operators do not comply with the federal law of the nation where services are provided, provided those national laws are according to EU treaty principles”. In essence, each member nation has the right to select the issue of online gaming, and if their aim is to combat fraud and protect consumers’ interests that they may limit online gaming even to a single publicly controlled operator. Bearing this in mind, many members states have devised domestic monopolies (run by either a private or public operator on the basis of exclusive rights) allowing their citizens to play only at online casinos which have permits granted by their associates states (e.g., Hungary, Denmark, France). Prediksi Bola Akurat
With the spread of bitcoin casinos and the deep progress of the “Onion system”, laws on online gambling is going to have trouble keeping up with the technological progress in this field, and it’s hard to phantom that it will ever constitute an actual barrier to internet gambling.
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https://medium.com/@dynfbz/countries-that-banned-online-gambling-c17643fe62c1
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[]
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2017-12-12 13:42:49.819000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Online Gambling']
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History of Gambling Part 2 — The Evolution
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History of Gambling Part 2 — The Evolution
History of Gambling Part 2 — The Evolution
Gambling has been a people’s choice since the dawn of time, but from the advent of the first “chance games” many things have changed. Here we have a look at how gambling has evolved through more modern times.
The early 15th centuries were the days when the foundation of one of the most preferred games of today’s gambling world was created, Baccarat. The two player card game, gained popularity when the French were introduced to it by the Italians. The name of Baccarat comes from the Italian word “baccara” meaning “zero”; This correlates to the game rules — all tens, jacks, queens and kings have a value of zero. It has had numerous transformations from its early days which has brought us to the variant most played today, the “punto-banco” or North American Baccarat which came from Cuba via Great Britain to the United States.
The 17th century, brought us the first form of Blackjack. Derived from a Spanish game called 21 (“veintiuna”) and from the French alternative called 21 (“vingt-et-un”), this highly appreciated game in modern times, came to the United States through the first frenchmen who arrived in The New World. Although a european creation, its popular name represents an american invention of the 19th century, to attract more enthusiasts, 10 to 1 odds were paid out if the player won with a black Jack of Clubs or Spades together with the Ace of Spades.
The first gambling places, which might be compared to modern casinos, appeared in the early 1700, in Italy and started to expand through the whole of Europe during the 19th century. With the first gaming houses of Paris, the first Roulette game appeared — one which we might find similar to the Roulette of today. Although the European style of playing Roulette has changed, the “double zero wheels” can be still found today in the United States Casinos.
This is just the beginning of the evolution of gambling. We will find out how the Gambling World took its turn to modern times, from Las Vegas to Macau, in the 3rd part of this article series!
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https://medium.com/@DragonINC/history-of-gambling-part-2-the-evolution-85759aad5bd7
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['Dragon Inc.']
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2017-12-16 16:57:19.103000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Casino', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain']
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An Overview of Online Gambling in Asia
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The gaming industry grew more popular over the recent years, but there are few places in Asia, such as best online casino Malaysia where players are so dedicated to spending time and money on their favorite casino games, no matter we’re talking about poker, slots, roulette, baccarat games or the traditional Mahjong or Fan Tan.
Playing games online can be quite time consuming and addicting at the same time. Many games are usually just played for leisure, that’s why with m88, we give you insights and information about online casino games and strategies on how to play each game. every player is not just spending endless hours online, but has the opportunity to gain more money by betting some.
The game of risk widely applies here, thus gaining more users and members through and through. W88 holds a variety of games and arcade options to ensure the players top notch quality games and services right from the comfort of their own homes.
The player won’t even need to leave their house to dabble into casino games or play arcade games. All they will need is stable internet connection and a laptop or desk top to be able to maximize their leisure time at W88’s premium gaming site. W88 doesn’t only guarantee every player a good time, but also the opportunity to accomplish fast and safe transactions.
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https://medium.com/@paredessheryl30/an-overview-of-online-gambling-in-asia-f8fccbdaeb80
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[]
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2017-12-14 01:47:45.440000+00:00
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['Gambling', 'Malaysia', 'Casino', 'Asia']
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Oregon’s Premier Gaming Destination
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Oregon’s Premier Gaming Destination
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https://medium.com/@vameliafg/oregons-premier-gaming-destination-384878526bc1
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['Amelia Fernández']
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2017-12-16 04:34:24.537000+00:00
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['Gambling']
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Star Wars Battlefront II Is Blowing Up The Spot On Video Game Gambling
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Want to know how a Star Wars video game led to the most down-voted Reddit comment of all time? Or how they got the attention of the UK Gambling Commission? It’s all the culmination of a witch’s brew made from game developer desperation, game publisher greed, and consumer frustration reaching a boiling point. The reason for this messy mixture to come together? Video game loot boxes.
There’s been a lot of big news and developing stories in the video game industry in 2017, but one of the biggest, especially in recent months, has got to be the loot box fiascos. If the phrase “loot box” barely sounds like English to you or you just want a light recap on the history and details of the practice, I’ve got an informative video just above, and an equally informative mini podcast episode right below.
A long time ago…
It seems like every day these last few months, there’s been another loot box debacle or box backlash from fans and critics. None of this started in 2017, though. At least, loot boxes certainly didn’t.
For decades, the game industry has built up and standardized a multitude of ways to get more out of the player’s pocket than just their initial $60. Before our current days of speedy digital data access, game developers would put out beefy disc-based expansion packs for existing games.
Eventually, internet got fast enough that those packs could just be sold digitally. Then, people realized that you didn’t just have to sell massive game-changing bundles with big price tags. They could just sell a piece of horse armor for $2.50.
From there, developers and publishers continued forging methods to get more money from consumers at little cost to the developers. Microtransactions began cropping up in the last 10 years, asking you to pay a dollar for a tiny item or gameplay boost. In the last 5 or so years, though, loot boxes took that idea one step further; instead of paying a dollar and getting the thing you want, why don’t you pay a dollar for the random chance to get what you’re looking for?
Chicken dinner arms race.
Lootboxes cropped up in games here and there for a while, mostly in free games like Team Fortress 2. However, as more people started noticing that this was where the money was at, it seems like every game going into development, free or priced, was being created with the implementation of loot boxes very much in mind.
Games take years to develop, though, so it would take a while before the industry truly saw a massive shift. Full-priced games here and there would drop with loot box implementation, but in 2017, it finally seemed like every major game in the Holiday season was anchored by loot boxes.
Every anticipated release of late 2017 seemed to be mired in some sort of shady practices. Forza 7 released on October 3rd, and to the surprise of nobody, allowed you to purchase loot boxes.
The ugliness, however, came from the way the game was changed to bring focus to obtaining lootboxes. While previous Forza games let you tweak difficulty options and rewarded you with more in-game currency for using less assists, Forza 7 relegated these difficulty bonuses to single-use card abilities. How do you get more of of those one-time use cards? Oh, right, loot boxes!
Then came the hot Lord of the Rings sequel Shadow of War, a single-player game that, oh, weird, sold some loot crates! These crates gave you new orc allies to use in-game, but many people didn’t see the need for them in the regular game.
Unfortunately, to see the real ending to the story of the game, you need to beat a lengthy bonus mode that requires incredibly powerful orcs with a variety of different skills. Don’t want to buy boxes now? That’s fine, you’ll just be spending triple the amount of time playing this mode to watch a 3 minute video.
These issues and a few more came to light, and they would have been minor in the long run if they were isolated events. They weren’t, however, and they only served to dig a deeper ditch between game consumers and game publishers.
Then, with Star Wars Battlefront II, that ditch became the Grand Canyon.
Shit hits the thermal exhaust port.
The 2015 game Star Wars Battlefront made extra revenue through the sales of a season pass that gave purchasers a wealth of new maps, characters, and weapons throughout the year. Fans felt that charging for this content only split up the community, however, and so with Battlefront 2, EA promised that all of that content would be free.
To make up for the lack of season pass revenue, though, Battlefront II introduced you-know-whats to the game. Loot boxes in Battlefront II seemed especially grimy, though, because the rewards were all abilities and stat-boosts. Selling things like these, people felt, would introduce an unfair advantage for players who simply spent a bunch of money on boxes.
As the game came to launch, dedicated fans crunched the numbers on how the game rewards players, discovering shocking data such as the fact that it takes roughly 40 hours just to unlock a single character.
Many games with loot boxes tend to have them give purely cosmetic rewards that don’t interfere with gameplay, and consumers usually favor that kind of approach. Look at Overwatch, a game with cosmetic-only loot boxes that crossed $1 billion in revenue in only a year. EA soured a lot of people with their loot box methods, and those people were vocal about it.
Band-aid on a bullet wound.
Fans and critics publicly expressed their outrage or concern, and on November 12th, just a few days before the game was set to be released, a representative from EA chose to respond to a specific harsh post about the game on Reddit. In the comment, the representative briefly explained that “ The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.”
People didn’t appreciate that.
The comment was quickly flooded with negative votes, and within just a few hours, had become the most negatively voted comment in the history of Reddit. EA quickly caught wind of the negative press they were receiving, and just a day later, announced that they were cutting the costs to unlock heroes in the game to a quarter of their original price.
Then, 3 days later, hours before the game was about to launch globally, they announced that they would be removing “all in-game purchases” from the video game. In the same announcement, however, EA noted that in-game purchases “will become available at a later date, only after we’ve made changes to the game.”
Once again, fans and critics alike were hardly satisfied. In the eyes of many, EA was doing too little, too late, and it seemed like their primary concern was still bleeding bank accounts. They were simply going to have to do it later, instead of now.
One of these days…
All of this is still unfolding today. It remains unclear why their loot box machinations were so messy, especially with so many parties involved in the game. EA published it, but the Star Wars rights belong to Disney, who are reported to have been “alarmed” by the situation, especially with the new Star Wars film dropping in theaters in the next few weeks.
Consumer outcry over the practice is louder than ever, and multiple government figures are beginning to chime in. There are parallels to the video game age-rating panic of the 90s due to violent games like Mortal Kombat. In that situation, the game industry developed the self-governing body known as the ESRB to keep government control away from video games. Today, however, that very same group insists there is nothing wrong with loot boxes, despite the majority saying otherwise.
It’s hard to say where any of this will lead, or when the camel’s back will truly break on loot boxes. Game prices have remained the same for years, yet development budgets have gone way up. More income has to come from somewhere, and if loot boxes aren’t the answer, it’s up to everyone involved in the industry to devise a method that is, before the matter is taken out of our hands entirely by government officials.
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https://medium.com/@shaqfan1028/star-wars-battlefront-ii-is-blowing-up-the-spot-on-video-game-gambling-b4bca1534f00
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['Miguel Moran']
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2017-12-12 23:41:03.977000+00:00
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['Gaming', 'Gambling', 'Star Wars', 'Overwatch', 'Video Game News']
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How to join coin-bet ico
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How to join coin-bet ico
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6. Save Your Address
7. Choice Keystore / JSON file (Note: If you do not have this file and the password for the previous step, you will not be able to access your account, and you will lose either ETH or LOTC stored in your account.) do it.
8. Select Wallet File … The typical storage path is C: \ Users \ USERNAME \ Downloads /, which may be different.
9. Enter and unlock strong passwords
Send Ethereum
Move to https://www.myetherwallet.com/
MYETHERWALLET LLC [US] Please check the certificate. Select [Send Ether & Token] from the menu. Keystore / JSON file. If you select Wallet File …, it can be found in your local repository. Enter a strong password and unlock it.
6. Enter coin-bet Ethereum Wallet address
[ 0x014aD828044Ed4eb1A31bb79bEEaB6D303977ad0 ]
7. Enter the ETH amount.
8. Enter a gas limit of 100,000
9. Enter the gas price : 90 Gwei
10. Create transaction and mouse wheel.
11. Send a transaction
12. Please check carefully. Yes, I’m sure! Make a deal.
~ Case of metamask ~
Creative Wallet
MetaMask is a plugin for the Chrome browser. You can download and install it from metamask.io.
Go to https://metamask.io/. Enable the Chrome extension and wait for a new tab.
3. Add to Chrome
4. Add an extension and wait a few seconds.
5.Select MetaMask
6. Privacy Notice … Consent
7. Terms and Conditions … Agree
8. Create a strong password and select CREAT.
9. A new ETH account has been created.
Send Ethereum
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https://medium.com/@coin_bet/how-to-participate-cc166659be62
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[]
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2018-04-17 10:40:46.800000+00:00
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['Ethereum', 'ICO', 'Bitcoin', 'Gambling', 'Betting']
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State Director Chris Covert’s Statement on State Sen. Marlon Kimpson (D-Charleston) Legislative Package
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State Director Chris Covert’s Statement on State Sen. Marlon Kimpson (D-Charleston) Legislative Package
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Bernie Sanders South Carolina state director Chris Covert released the following statement on state Sen. Marlon Kimpson’s legislation to pass a $15 minimum wage and comprehensive gun reforms.
“Bernie Sanders’ South Carolina campaign supports state Sen. Marlon Kimpson’s legislation to enact a $15 minimum wage. South Carolinians should unite in demanding a livable wage and serve as an example to the rest of the nation that no American who works 40 hours a week should be forced to live in poverty. Sen. Kimpson’s common-sense proposals to ban assault weapons, strengthen background checks and implement a gun registration system would help address the tragic impact of gun violence on Charleston and keep citizens across South Carolina safe. The legislature should act swiftly to stem the rising tide of gun violence in America.”
State Sen. Kimpson’s full legislative package can be found here.
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https://medium.com/@SouthCarolinaforBernieSanders/south-carolina-for-bernie-state-director-chris-covert-s-statement-on-state-sen-d4010ceeb73
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[]
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2015-12-27 04:33:00.127000+00:00
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['Bernie Sanders', 'Politics']
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My Two Favourite Documentaries with #BernieSanders
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I just thought I would share with folks two of my favourite documentaries staring Bernie Sanders. The reason why I like these documentaries is because Bernie has not changed fundamentally over the 30+ years he has been in office speaking for the Working Class. (links are informational not advertisements)
In my opinion, as a Cultural Activist, the basic thing that has changed is that the American, and indeed the World, Citizenry has awoken to the knowledge that we can sleep no longer. That We are capable of changing the systemic structures in our society. We need and are participating in our political system because We understand that when a small group of people make most of the decisions in our lives Our lives suffer.
Instant, mass, and online communication is preventing those in power from hiding their violence. The near zero marginal cost for this communication is allowing the common human being to research, document, and organize effectively amplifying Our empathy towards each other. This is bringing Our hearts together and helping us redefine 0ur Social Relationships with each other and with nature.
So here we go, the Bernie Sanders’ 1979 Eugene Debs Documentary, I love the fact that Bernie Sanders is the one that speaks the parts of Eugene Debs. Many Americans are not aware how much of our history has been revised, ignored, or buried in plain sight. The video below shows how Bernie thought in 1979 and should provide proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bernie is not supported by us, but that Bernie supports the Working Class, he amplifies our voice. His many c-span videos of his work on the Senate and Congressional floor also support my claim.
For more than 150 years the Social struggles against racism, sexism, violence, centralized authority, and corporatism have always been struggles within the Socialist, Marxist, Communist, and Anarchist communities who have always questioned why workers are not the ones that make the decisions about what they produce, how they produce it, and what is done with the profits created from their collective and individual labor. (The previous link is a Session 1 of a 4 session lecture) These questions depending on how they are answered by social institutions and our workplace determine the very fabric of our political, economic, and social agreements. Any one who works less than 8 hours a day should be thankful to Socialists worldwide.
The next video,Devastating Expose on American Journalism and Media Concentration, I will admit is slightly biased against the Corporate GOP Republican Elites and just barely touches on the harm that the Corporate Democratic Party Elites have done to our society, but it does not ignore them. I like this video because it does not need to rely on fringe conspiracy theories that often have some truth, but often lacks integrity in it’s journalistic efforts.
I also was happy to see Congressman Bernie Sanders speaking and being interviewed. His message has not changed, what has changed is obviously the power of online news media to be shared from pocket to pocket/ desk to desk, the effectiveness of independent local news to report on relevant topics to their community, and the creativity allowed through breaking the chains of so called intellectual property rights that allows us to build upon each other’s ideas instead of relying on a private corporation to tell us what Our ideas are. This video also makes it clear what we are struggling against. However, for those that want encouragement as to how the systemic structures of media has moved enjoy this link to another enlightening documentary that shows how We have changed the world through using social media for the good of humankind.
We are organizing in our communities,
We are changing the very ideas of what media is,
We are creating the world anew,
We are giving voice to the unheard,
We are protecting those bound by chains of fear, greed, and control,
We are remembering our common struggles, our common dreams,
We are sharing our new stories,
We are creative, peaceful, cooperative,
Expect Bernie Sanders to help our visions for a new future,
Expect love, wisdom, and change.
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https://medium.com/@ernestrando/my-two-favourite-documentaries-with-berniesanders-35a215a32b66
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['Ernest Rando']
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2015-12-27 21:43:57.021000+00:00
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['Bernie Sanders', 'Anonymous', 'Activism']
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Why the NGP VAN model has been awesome for democracy (and how it could be more awesome)
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Why the NGP VAN model has been awesome for democracy (and how it could be more awesome) Dan Ancona Dec 23, 2015·10 min read
There has been a ton written about #VANghazi so far. I started writing this for publication but it got a bit long, so I’ve given it a quick edit, broken it up into four parts and posted it here. If the conversation is still going in January, I’ll revisit revising and publishing it then.
Here’s the best writing about VANghazi so far:
Will Conaway, NationBuilder: Why the NGP VAN model hurts democracy (Medium)
Josh Hendler, former DNC: Why The Bernie Breach Isn’t About Technology, And What’s At Stake (Medium)
David Atkins, CA Activist: An Explanation of What Bernie Sanders Staffers Actually Did and Why It Matters (Washington Monthly)
Dave Dayen, Journalist: The real scandal in the Bernie/DNC feud is the one nobody is talking about (Salon)
Earlier this week I had the strange feeling of waking up and checking my social media feeds to find very large numbers of people discussing a topic that has consumed large amounts of my life but, before this week, has seemed utterly inaccessibly nerdy: voter file technology and the rules by which campaigns and parties provide them. The suspension of the Sanders’ campaign access to the national voter file system called the VAN by the DNC has now been a multi day issue and even came up in the debate.
There seems to be some consensus on this issue fizzling out, but here’s why I think it’s important enough that I’m up late writing something about it two days before Christmas: I believe getting this right is critical for the future of the Democratic Party and the progressive movement — and even US democracy itself, given the participation crisis of 47 million (and rising) voters not showing up for off year elections. And contrary to the arguments being made, the party, vendors and the broader movement are doing a pretty good job of it despite the rough sledding this week.
In part I of this article, I’ll look at some of the technical and policy arguments being waged against VAN, and in part II I’ll talk about the situation in California where the party has chosen to use a different voter file system, provided by Political Data, Inc. (PDI)
A bit about my background and biases: I’ve been a software developer for over twenty years, and from 2007 to 2010 I was the California VAN administrator for a small shop called California VoterConnect, and then for a few months afer that working for TargetSmart Communications. I haven’t made a wooden nickel from voter file work since I moved on from TargetSmart in 2011, and while I still follow it and I am active in the civic engagement space, I’m not planning on getting back into data, so I have zero financial incentive for any of this. And I think both Sanders and Clinton would be outstanding presidents; I donated a few bucks to Sanders after the story broke out of frustration with a perceived pattern of Democratic party insiders pulling this kind of thing every four years.
My overall theory of change is cribbed from Joe Trippi’s great book about the Dean campaign, The Revolution Will not Be Televised. Trippi argues that we’re in a slow transition from the top-down, broadcast, money dominated system, to a more networked, participatory and social system. If this hypothesis is true — and I hope it is, since it’s hard to have much hope for American democracy otherwise — then data systems and how they are made available is a critical issue to get right.
But I heard VAN sucks
I have enormous respect for both David Dayen and David Atkins, who both have written widely circulated pieces about this. Unfortunately they’ve made some claimes that are contrary to my experience as both a field organizer, voter file provider and application developer.
David Dayen’s writeup on salon.com claims that:
“What’s important for Democratic campaigns is not the software, but the underlying data. Anyone can serve that data and give campaign tools to slice and dice it.”
And David Atkins claims in his Washington Monthly piece:
“The first thing to understand is that NGPVAN is a creaky voter database system that looks, and feels like it was put together in the 1990s.”
Additionally, Will Conway, an employee of NationBilder (another competing system organizing tool that includes a voter file, which is nonpartisan, but signed the biggest political technology deal with Republican state parties and is currently powering the Trump campaign) writes:
“…a piece of campaign technology broke because it’s bad. The reason the software is bad is not because the developers at NGP VAN are in some way inferior — it’s because there is no incentive to improve their product.
The VAN5 launch video and this analysis of NationBuilder’s data quality are both good rebuttals to these arguments, but I have four more lines of disagreement based on my experience:
First, what VAN, PDI, and NationBuilder all do is technically fairly difficult to do right, but scaling out to the incredible amount of traffic that VAN handles around election day is particularly challenging. I know, because I’m one of not very many people who have both run a campaign data operation and written software for the kinds of tools that can power them. David and David, both of you are invited over to my place in Oakland to talk database architecture and scaling performance next time you’re around if you genuinely thinks it’s so easy that any old firm can do this. We can run some queries, do a little SQL, talk about forecasting infrastructure needs for election day loads. It’ll be great.
Second, while it’s true the data is important, the capabilities of the software are absolutely critical and shape the scope of the kind of field campaign that can be run. More about this shortly.
Third, there is absolutely competition to the VAN. The number of organizations attempting to jump all over this — some of them with borderline ridiculous spin that Will from NationBuilder’s piece included, claiming that NGP has no reason to innovate — should be enough evidence of this. There are a number of different systems available that the DNC and progressive organizations could switch to at any time. Organizer is an outstanding and recently developed app that works with NGPVAN and other back ends. While not a direct competitor, Catalist functions as a sort of data repository for progressive groups and after a somewhat rocky beginning. The DNC and large numbers of progressive organizations pick VAN largely because it does things no other system can do.
Fourth, there is no reason to believe that a more market based approach would produce a better outcome than the more-or-less socialized approach the Democratic party is currently taking. There’s even an existing alternative approach that seems to indicate it would be vastly worse: the famously chaotic data infrastructure on the GOP side.
OK, maybe the VAN is good, but is it more like a monopoly like AT&T, or more like infrastructure, like roads and bridges?
But the question remains: is the political data market more like the market for artisinal chocolate, where lots of small vendors are a good thing for consumers, or is it more like the market for roads and bridges: infrastructure that everyone shares but is expensive and tricky to build and maintain?
I believe strongly it’s the latter. Of course VAN isn’t doing everything right, but I believe there’s a preponderance of evidence that the approach the DNC and VAN have taken by centralizing this service has been a huge structural advantage.
The main counterarguments revolve around VAN being a centralized point of failure. It could have a technical failure, or it could have a policy failure, where party insiders foul something up. The Sanders campaign fiasco last week was arguably a mixture of both.
But here’s the thing: compared to the technical failures on the Republican side — remember Romney’s much hyped turnout tool, Orca, which crashed in a flaming mess on election day in 2012? — the technical issues on the VAN side have been relatively trivial. There’s a saying: good software takes ten years. In my experience that’s true for everything from the VAN to the tool I use to dj from my laptop. While I was working at VoterConnect, slow individual queries or systematic performance issues did crop up periodically. But they were always handled quickly and aggressively by VAN support. It was to this day the single best supported system I’ve ever used, and their rapid turnaround quickly became legendary among our users and campaigns.
That being said, I always encouraged campaigns to have backup lists stored before the last weekend of the election. Any complex technical system is vulnerable to failure. Vendors that make contrary claims should be regarded with deep suspicion.
And on the policy side, what’s amazing about this moment is that there are thousands of people watching the Democratic Party and what it does. They can’t pull this kind of crap anymore. I’m far from the only one who cares enough to stay up late writing up detailed arguments because lots of people now get why this is important.
In the initial wave of spin a lot of my friends said, “screw the Democratic party, they’re so corrupt, Bernie should quit.” But that’s exactly the wrong approach. We’re just now getting to the point where the corruption is becoming visible. The solution isn’t to abandon the party, it’s to get more involved and love it harder, even while admitting there is a hell of a lot more work to do.
Why software (not just data) really matters: VAN vs PDI in California
The PDI vs VAN situation in California, viewed through the lens of the organization I built, California VoterConnect, is an excellent illustration of the importance of the software itself, not just the data. VoterConnect was started in 2007 by some of the sharpest and most strategic progressive donors in California, with Steve Phillips taking the lead on shaping the strategy. They were enormously frustrated with PDI and felt that outsider campaigns, particularly those trying to reach racially and ethnically diverse communities, were priced out of the market.
Our first topic was to do a full technical evaluation of both VAN and PDI. VAN had tremendous, overwhelming technical advantages over PDI: it was vastly faster, had (even at the time) super flexible and granular data sharing capacities, and was cheaper and available and under a much more flexible license that would let us share data between groups. On top of all that, they only worked with progressive and Democratic groups.
After the technical evaluation, when we described our organization’s mission and proposed structure to PDI, their response was succinct: “We don’t think there’s anything interesting here for us.” The contrast with VAN’s founders, who flew to California to talk through our strategy, couldn’t have been more stark. Sure, they wanted our business. But why didn’t PDI?
The primary benefit of the VAN — it’s ease of use — became apparent over the next few years. I was able to go to a nonprofit or small campaign doing voter contact in underserved areas, do a two or four hour training, and leave their team with access to the tools and capacity to run their own field campaign from top to bottom, with only minimal ongoing assistance from me. They could set their own targets, pull their own lists and print them or send them to mobile devices, then put the results back in. I did several trainings to roomfuls of organizers through a translator where I was the only one speaking English.
I have a number of theories as to why CA Dems still haven’t switched to VAN. Part of it was my own fault: VoterConnect’s primary and really only mission was to stay laser focused on delivering voter data to organizations that were serving underrepresented communities. We focused on executing towards that goal and were tremendously successful, including getting to breakeven revenue in three years. Persuading the party appartus to switch never rose above a tertiary goal. But for reasons that were made largely above my pay grade, we ended up selling the project to another firm that eventually shut it down.
But the main reason is that it hasn’t mattered as much as in other states. We are as far from a Presidential battleground as you can get. And for most downticket races, traditional top down field operations with one or two data managers at the top and everyone working off their lists works just fine: there’s no urgent need for a distributed approach. In many places, even more rickety “cosmetic field” operations, that are really just checkboxes for campaign staff but result in very limited volunteer engagement, are plenty to win given the outsized Dem majorities in most places.
But there’s still a lost opportunity here. California should be leading the change from broadcast to participatory politics. Instead, we’re a forgotten backwater.
Virginia 2008: What the Participatory Future Could Look Like
My wife and I were in Northern Virginia two weekends before the election in late October of 2008. The VoterConnect VAN was humming providing data for 140 campaigns across California, but my favorite Aunt had died and I couldn’t bear the thought of not being with my family. We attended her funeral on Saturday and on Sunday we did my aunt would have encouraged us to do if: we ventured out to join the swing state Obama field campaign.
What we found shocked us. We went to four different field offices — the energy was palpable and electric in all of them. The first three kept sending us to smaller and smaller neighborhood offices. When we got to the fourth one, the neighborhood leader who couldn’t stop grinning told us, “You’re never going to believe this. But we’re out of turf. We’re… I think we’re actually done.”
Ordinarily a field campaign that reaches perhaps 10% of the voters in a given area could be considered a raging success. This kind of coverage was basically unheard of. Of course this level of energy didn’t come from VAN: it came from eight years of Bush and an exciting chance for change in Obama.
But having the VAN was what turned that organization from a seething mob of political potential energy into an actual electoral force. It wouldn’t have been possible to do this nearly as effectively with a more difficult, slower, more centralized system like PDI, even if they had been able to handle the incredible technical challenge of scaling their system to handle that kind of national load.
The feeling of that energy, that level of mass participation has stuck with me since then. Eight years later, I remember the expression on that organizer’s face like it was ten minutes ago. That’s how democracy should feel. That’s how it should work. The data matters, but the tools absolutely matter too, and the DNC and NGPVAN have — this recent debacle notwithstanding — done a largely terrific job moving us towards that future so far.
The biggest single problem facing American democracy right now isn’t Donald Trump. It’s our lack of Reflective Democracy. We’re not going to reach the more than 47 million voters that are threatening to go missing again in 2018 by running TV ads at them or even through Facebook. Would a distributed army of engaged activists going door to door be a better bet? Maybe, but if so, the leadership for finding out if that future is possible is not coming from California. But the long-term investments in VAN by the DNC and state parties outside California may yet have laid the foundation for it.
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https://medium.com/@danancona/why-the-ngp-van-model-has-been-awesome-for-democracy-and-how-it-could-be-more-awesome-43e96ce0fdc6
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['Dan Ancona']
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2015-12-23 22:13:44.756000+00:00
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['Politics', 'Bernie Sanders', 'Data']
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30 Reasons Why I’m Voting for Bernie Sanders
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1.) Bernie believes that black lives matter.
2.) Bernie was a civil rights activist and organizer in his youth and participated in the 1963 March on Washington.
3.) When asked about Islamphobia in America by a young Muslim woman, Bernie asked her to come down to the stage, hugged her and responded with “I will do everything I can to rid this country of the ugly stain of racism that has existed here for far too many years.”
4.) Bernie believes in police cameras and demilitarizing and diversifying police forces.
5.) Bernie and Killer Mike are buds.
6.) Bernie believes in restoring the Voting Rights Act.
7.) Bernie wants to make public universities tuition-free by imposing a Wall Street tax.
8.) Bernie released a folk album, and he sounds like if William Shatner grew up in Brooklyn instead of Canada.
9.) Bernie believes in automatically registering all Americans to vote once they turn the age of 18.
10.) Bernie wants a single-payer, universal health care system.
11.) Bernie “filibustered” for eight-and-half hours against Bush-era tax cuts, specifically the provisions that benefited high-income earners.
12.) In 2015, Bernie introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2020.
13.) Because he reminds us of Doc Brown, and we all love Doc Brown.
14.) Bernie wants to invest $1 trillion in fixing our crumbling roads, public transit and waste plantswhich will provide jobs to Americans, particularly veterans.
15.) Bernie wants to reverse NAFTA and bring jobs back to America.
16.) Bernie believes men and women should be paid equally and he wants to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.
17.) Because he inspired this calendar:
18.) Bernie wants to expand funding to Planned Parenthood.
19.) Bernie believes that every employee should have 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, two weeks of paid vacation and seven days of paid sick days.
20.) Bernie does not ask for money from billionaires or Wall Street. He even donated his check from notoriously douchey pharmaceutical CEO, Martin Shkreli, to an HIV clinic.
21.) He’s said “on fleek” before. (He’s also down with playing Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s.)
22.) Because Bernie flies coach.
23.) Bernie wants to break up big banks and end the practice of paying out big bonuses to CEOs. He also wants to reenact Glass-Steagall, a 1933 act that separated risky trading from conventional banking.
24.) Bernie has been a supporter of gay rights for decades. He voted against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and is a co-sponsor of the “Equality Act,” which would expand the Cilvil Rights Act of 1964 to include LGBTQ individuals.
25.) Because Bernie says things like this:
26.) Bernie opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
27.) Bernie was instrumental in pushing 2014 legislation that added billions of additional dollars to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. He also believes in supporting our veterans by offering them excellent health care and getting their benefits to them quickly.
28.) Bernie believes in the Iran Deal because:
29.) Bernie is serious about climate change and has a full plan on how he wants to combat it. This plan includes transitioning away from fossil fuels and investing in clean energy.
30.) Bernie believes in treating immigrants fairly and humanely, while creating a respectful system of legalization; he promises to use executive order if Congress prevents him from doing so.
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https://medium.com/@hipstercrite/30-reasons-why-i-m-voting-for-bernie-sanders-39eda1f5704e
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['Lauren Modery']
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2015-12-23 17:12:38.238000+00:00
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['Bernie Sanders', 'Politics', 'Hillary Clinton']
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Why The Bernie Breach Isn’t About Technology, And What’s At Stake
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Why The Bernie Breach Isn’t About Technology, And What’s At Stake
As someone who has waded deeply in this space and has friends on every side, it’s been hard to watch the DNC/Bernie/Hillary/NGPVAN brouhaha unfold. I led the DNC data program for several years starting in 2005, and then served as the Technology Director from 2010–11. While at the DNC, I was part of a team that created the programs at the core of today’s debate: a uniform agreement with state-parties for data sharing, a national contract with the VAN (now NGPVAN), and Presidential candidate access.
There’s one piece of context required to understand the meaningful implications of the current debate. And it’s not about what Bernie’s team covertly did, or institutional bias on behalf of the Party.
It’s about trust.
The Democratic Party’s technological lead over Republicans has been much heralded and not seriously contested until recently. NGPVAN, to be sure, is one of the reasons for that lead. But it hasn’t been just about one tool. An ecosystem of technologists and companies has made the Democrat’s advantage possible (Blue State Digital, NGPVAN, TargetSmart, Catalist, and more recently, Civis, Blue Labs, etc.) Each of these companies has provided mostly complementary solutions, which make the technological lead possible.
One leading reason for the advantage, however, has been been the widespread adoption and use of the Party’s national voter file tool among candidates. Republicans have simply never seen this level of use. As recently as June, there was an open spat between the Koch brothers and the RNC about what platform candidates should be using.
The story of how Democrats got to a unified national voter file is a strange and twisty one. Before 2007, every state Democratic Party had a separate voter file system. While there were agreements signed to periodically share data, the State Party’s voter file and the DNC’s voter file were not the same thing. During this time, fights between State Parties and candidates over voter file access were plentiful.
But in 2007, there was a bureaucratic development, which would turn out to have long-lasting implications. The vast majority of State Parties signed agreements to trade data back and forth with the DNC, and most critically, they both agreed to use one joint voter file system. This wasn’t merely because of better technology (though it was in part). It was because the state parties decided that while they would be giving up some power, they trusted the DNC to be stewards of the data. As the data director, I often complained that my job was a political one, getting state chairs on the phone and striking up a partnership.
This isn’t a story about how that one moment changed everything. It was a step among many others over the years, many of which involved the amazing work of the Obama data and analytics teams. This is a story about how the Democratic Party’s technological advantage is about more than tech, it’s about candidates and state parties trusting the national party. And it was this single fact, a unified database, and a somewhat unified party apparatus, which gave us a key advantage over Republicans.
So, what?
It means that the stakes are higher than the political fight of the day between Bernie and Hillary. The DNC being seen as a fair arbiter and steward of the data is critical to this continued advantage over Republicans. If the DNC is no longer that trusted broker, we might see candidates using third party systems. This risks the Party’s access to valuable data collected by campaigns, especially during a Presidential.
It’s hard for me not to sympathize with the impossible situation the DNC data team has been placed in. They must live up to a strict agreement, protect the sanctity of the data, and provide an immense amount of customer support. But now that we’re past the immediate crisis, it’s worthwhile for all parties to look towards ways to mend fences and build trust at every level.
It helped us win before and will be needed to win again.
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https://medium.com/@joshhendler/why-the-bernie-breach-isn-t-about-technology-and-what-s-at-stake-c383ee7b840a
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['Josh Hendler']
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2015-12-19 22:21:05.789000+00:00
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['Politics', '2016 Election', 'Bernie Sanders']
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1,000 South Carolina Women Endorse Bernie Sanders for President
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1,000 South Carolina Women Endorse Bernie Sanders for President
CHARLESTON, S.C. — In a signal of the growing support for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in South Carolina, more than 1,000 women across the state have endorsed his candidacy.
“We are thrilled to have such broad enthusiasm among local women for Sen. Sanders,” State Director Christopher Covert said Thursday. “Sanders has fought for women’s rights and economic fairness throughout his life and the support in South Carolina reflects the national movement of American women joining our campaign.”
Christale Spain, the South Carolina Director of Political Outreach, said that “as a black woman and a single mother, it was crucial to support a candidate who has demonstrated a commitment to advocating for me and the issues that impact my community. Sen. Sanders has been a champion of civil rights and economic equality for women for thirty years, and I am proud to endorse him.”
Dr. Gloria Tinubu, the first African-American woman in the state to win the Democratic nomination for Congress, believes that “Sanders is in the tradition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who lead our parents and grandparents through one of the most challenging times in our nation’s history. Like President Roosevelt, Bernie is fighting to protect our democratic way of life and our four freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.”
A new Clemson University Palmetto Poll shows that nearly one in two South Carolina Democratic primary voters remain undecided about whom to support in the February primary.
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https://medium.com/@SouthCarolinaforBernieSanders/1-000-south-carolina-women-endorse-bernie-sanders-for-president-40385aa1f558
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[]
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2015-12-27 04:33:36.244000+00:00
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['Politics', 'Bernie Sanders', 'South Carolina']
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About those Canadians and their second-rate health care…
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You should stop what you’re doing right now and watch all seven minutes of this congressional testimony, made available by the office of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. That’s right — he’s the traitorous, communist pig who wants to drown our flag in maple syrup and trample on our liberty with his vision of socialized medicine.
Speaking of which, the exchange below between Sanders and Dr. Danielle Martin of Women’s College Hospital in Toronto is positively priceless (but again, watch the entire video).
SANDERS: Doctor, is your prime minister [in Canada] a socialist?
MARTIN: No, sir, our prime minister is quite conservative.
SANDERS: Conservative? So obviously as a conservative, he wants to implement the American health care system that the Canadians are very aware of. I gather that was probably the first thing he did when he took power; is that right?
MARTIN: [Laughter] Not exactly.
SANDERS: Why not?
MARTIN: Support for single-payer medicare in Canada goes across all political stripes. Quite famously, we had the leader of the most right-wing party in the Canadian federal debate on television hold up a sign in the middle of the debate on which he’d written in marker “no two-tier” as a means of trying to reassure the Canadian public that if elected he would not dismantle the system.
SANDERS: In other words, you have a nation bordering on the United States — two nations that are probably as close together in so many respects as any two nations in the world — a conservative prime minister, and yet there is no effort to move to an American health care system. I would say to my colleagues [that] there’s not a better example of maybe how people feel about two systems. They know the American system; they have a conservative prime minister. They can move in our direction, but for whatever reason — and, I think, sensible reasons — they understand that a system that guarantees health care to all of their people in a cost-effective way is the way that they want to stay.
I agree. And the very best part of this clip? The most compelling counterargument that the opposition could devise in response to the exchange went something like this: Canadians are “very, vice nice people” and “not impatient,” so we can presume that they don’t mind waiting for health care even as it supposedly kills them en masse.
Oh, that, and they simply aren’t aware of what they’re missing out on with America’s awesome system of care. It’s like the United States is South Korea, and those poor Canadians are the oppressed North, right?
Now, insightful though this testimony may be, we won’t see it publicized much of anywhere other than the Facebook page of the outspoken Vermont senator. After all, the narrative on this issue has already been decided. In fact, it was decided long before the Affordable Care Act — which, by the way, comes nowhere close to the Canadian model — was ever conceived.
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https://peterwarski.com/about-those-canadians-and-their-second-rate-health-care-89fbfb3b3d38
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['Peter Warski']
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2016-09-13 19:31:05.887000+00:00
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['Politics', 'Bernie Sanders', 'Healthcare', 'Single Payer', 'Canada']
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I stand with Bernie!
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Like most of you that take the time to read this, I’m an independent guy. I relish my independent lifestyle, the independence of my being. I go way out of my way to avoid groups of people, because I’m independent. Naturally, I’m an independent voter. I don’t caucus and rarely enjoy mingling. And for the past 10 presidential elections, this has served me just fine. I watch from the sidelines and place my vote in the 11th hour.
Problem is, for most of those elections I have despised everything about them. The process, the people, the groups. All smoke and mirrors, deception, lies. Most of the promises are never met. To his credit, Obama woke me up. So I’m paying more attention. In spite of his herculean efforts, never has the world been so fricked up. Never have our political processes been so fricked up. Yet amidst this darkness, the Fear and all its minions: greed, intimidation and deceit, there is light in Bernie Sanders. Truth, light and transparency. It’s really hard to miss. And most importantly, unlike our reliance on Obama to get somethings changed, Bernie says he can’t do it. Only we, the grass-roots movement rising up to put him in power, can do it. And thus, for the first time in my voting life, I’ve left the sidelines. I’m on the field. I stand with Bernie.
My friends are in, but idle.
And there in lies the problem. Sure, I’ll help, they say. But they gasp when I tell them that to do so, they must first register as a Democrat, because Colorado, and the location of my city of independence, require a Caucus in order to cast one’s vote for Bernie in order to avoid the DNC default of Hillary. And even more frightening is the fact that none of the Republicans of late can beat Bernie, but Hillary can. So we must get folks out to the March 1st Colorado caucuses in order to do so. And they only let registered Democrats into the Dem caucuses to vote. And while temporarily changing your status to Democrat from Independent is relatively effortless, it MUST BE DONE before the end of the 2015 year. Give or take 10 days from now, you will no longer be able to do so. And I know come mid February, everybody will be so fricking fed up with the cluster frick we call the political process, that they’ll all be aligned with Bernie’s messages. But for most of my friends, they won’t have made the 12/31/2015 deadline and thus, sadly, they won’t be able to help.
So I’m spending my Holidays getting the word out. Not what I’d rather be doing. But what I, for the first time in my politically-numb life, feel like I must.
So guys and gals, you’re like me and you despise having to play the political game in order to get a desired political outcome. It is what it is. So, repeat out loud the Bernie Independent Manifesto (below), then click the link at the bottom and sign your name to that Manifesto. Then click the other link, and with a few brief key stokes, you too will be (albeit temporarily) a Democrat.
Bernie Independent Manifesto
In front of God and Everybody, I hereby protest the outrageous requirement that I must surrender my otherwise God given right to an affiliation of my own choosing or the intentional lack thereof. This I must do, in order for me to affirm my Presidential Candidate preference in the Primary Election for Bernie Sanders, against the likes of Hillary Clinton. Yea, I must attach to the very broken system of corruption and buffoonery that I so despise and hence have so far avoided by not affiliating thusly. Yet, hovering far above this sea of political horse shit, there is Bernie. Thus I will willingly give up my political autonomy, by temporarily becoming a Democrat, for the expressed purposes of rallying to Bernie’s cause in the upcoming Primary Caucus election. I will participate in the system I so absolutely abhor, in hopes of achieving a change in this great nation, one that must eventually lead to the rectification of our political process. I do so publically, and I hereby fully intend and announce, that I will return to my original non-Democratic party status or other affiliation of choice, at the completion of said election.
Sign the Manifesto here: www.puentedeluz.com
Colorado, change your affiliation here: www.colorado.puentedeluz.com
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https://medium.com/@aspenick/i-stand-with-bernie-a8d37223d501
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['Nick Nicholson']
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2015-12-20 21:46:05.511000+00:00
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['Politics', 'Bernie Sanders']
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Sanders for President as an Independent?
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Sanders for President as an Independent?
The Game Plan for Winning and Governing with Intelligence and Integrity
Robert David Steele
Now that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has made it clear that it is merely an extension of the Hillary Clinton campaign, and all too willing to sacrifice Bernie Sanders over a brief indiscretion due to a security flaw that the Sanders campaign itself had flagged multiple times to the DNC, the time has come for Bernie Sanders to get real. He was not going to win the DNC nomination before, and he will not win it now.
America is unhinged — from Griftopia [1] to Double Government [2], all the checks and balances are gone. A two-party duopoly that has rejected — nine times — national legislation to assure electoral integrity and open the ballot to independents and small parties, at least for federal offices — is the enabling factor. [3] A country whose institutions — from academia to labor unions to the media to religions — refused to challenge 935 lies [4] leading to an elective and ruinous war on Iraq, is now also near cultural, economic, and social ruin. The unemployment rate is 23%, not 5% (U1) or 10% (U6), but our institutions — particularly Forbes and MSNBC as well as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and others, refuse to get real.
Politically, the two-party tyranny had anointed Jeb Bush on the Right and Hillary Clinton the left — both representing dynasties too easily connected to drugs and money, while suffering the bluster of Donald Trump and the platitudes of Bernie Sanders. There can be no question about the wisdom of Tom Friedman’s declaration, that none of the existing candidates is attractive. [5] There has never been a better opportunity for an Independent candidate to make a bid for the presidency. Fully 60% of all Americans hold the two-party duopoly in disdain and believe an alternative is needed. [6]
Now that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has made it clear that it is merely an extension of the Hillary Clinton campaign, and all too willing to sacrifice Bernie Sanders over a brief indiscretion due to a security flaw that the Sanders campaign itself had flagged multiple times to the DNC, the time has come for Bernie Sanders to get real. He was not going to win the DNC nomination before, and he will not win it now.
If Sanders were to run as an Independent, he must avoid the assumption that merely winning the presidency on the strength of televised debates and a traditional campaign, will suffice. It will not. As long as Congress is in the grip of a two-party duopoly, where Members no longer write or read legislation, whose votes are sold in bloc form to combinations of 40+ billionaires, [7] any President, however well-intentioned, will be very weak.
If Sanders decides to run for real rather than as a placeholder (placemat) for Clinton, he must first restore integrity to the US electoral system, such that he not only wins as an Independent, ideally with a bi-partisan ticket and a coalition cabinet announced in advance; but is also able to govern in partnership with a Congress in which the 20–30 seats being vacated — i.e. without defending incumbents — are taken by small party and Independent candidates — and perhaps some Democrats and Republicans — who make one pledge: to represent their constituents, not caucus with either of the controlling parties, and vote on the basis of ethical evidence-based decision-support. Creating a swing vote independent of the two-party duopoly is the fastest way to restore Article 1 of the Constitution and integrity to the legislative process. This is the other half of “independence,” of being able to govern with intelligence and integrity.
There are seven specific things Sanders could do in the Fall of 2015 in order to not only be assured of winning, and also be assured that the next federal government is inherent honest, governing with intelligence and integrity.
01 Call for a “Virtual” Article V Constitutional Convention. Reach out in a most unorthodox manner and invite Mark Levin [8] to chair and organize the event. Inspire an online and Living Room Conversation [9] process from the county-level up that ultimately sends eight people from each of the 50 states — one each from each of the eight information tribes (academic, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, and non-government/non-profit). There are at least five amendments that need strengthening or revision.
1st Religion & Freedom of Expression
2nd Right to Bear Arms
12th Electoral College
14th Birthright
17th State Appointment of Senators
There are thirteen arguments — an entire book has been written on this — central to defining and inspiring all US citizens that could be discussed as part of this national conversation — this is the substance no candidate today is competent or caring enough to address: [10]
Who Is a Person?
2. Who is an American?
3. The Role of Faith
4. The Limits of Individualism
5. What Can We Know and Say?
6. Who Judges the Law?
7. Debt and Dollar
8. Local versus National Authority
9. Presidential Power
10. The Terms of Trade
11. War and Diplomacy
12. The Environment
13. A Fair, “More Perfect” Union
A “virtual” Article V Constitutional Convention will “air out” in a most constructive way where we all are on the essentials, and will illuminate the possible outcome of a “real” Article V Constitutional Convention should 34 of the 50 states choose to demand a convention. Absent adjustments, I fear the real prospect of a series of state secessions, beginning with Hawaii, followed by Vermont, Alaska, California, and Texas. [11]
02 Host a Workshop on Unemployment. I will not belabor the ignorance of those who refuse to be truthful about unemployment and refer to those of us who are as “unemployment truthers.” The actual unemployment rate in the USA today is no less than 23% [12] and could be as high at 40% according to the Congressional Research Service. [13]
03 Raise Funds for and Lead an Electoral Reform Summit. Sanders, ideally backed up by Tom Steyer and others, to whom I have sent a Memorandum also posted online, [14] and ideally also the Mars Family of Virginia, as well as Lady Lynn Rothschild of New Jersey, has the power to force through — in partnership with Occupy and AdBusters — an Electoral Reform Act of 2016. Imagine an event in January 2016 that includes all past candidates for president as well as major thought leaders — issuing a Statement of Demand that brings back to our process the 100 million eligible voters who chose not to vote in 2012, and includes a fast-track registration process for the 52.7 million unmarried women, people of color, and youth eligible to vote, who have not registered to vote. Show the 39% who identify as Independents today, [15] and the growing number of new voters registering as No Party Preference (NPP), that they have the power to force through an Electoral Reform Act of 2016 that will at a minimum enable Independents, Constitution, Green, and Libertarian candidates to win the 20–30 seats in Congress that are being vacated in 2016. Once organized this larger group could make a deal with the incumbent Members — pass the Act and you get one term to break with your party and start representing your constituents. [16]
Here are the elements of the Act for discussion — 12 distinct but essentially integrated fixes. The Most Holy Father has called for electoral reform [17] — his staff has a copy of the 12 points. Can you think of a more powerful combination than Sanders, perhaps with Elizabeth Warren or a strong Latina if not, Tom Steyer, the Mormons, and the Pope — and the massive engaged public they are capable of mobilizing?
01 Universal Registration
• Opt-Out Option
• Prisoners Remain Voters
02 Free & Equal Ballot Access
03 Tightly-Drawn Districts
04 Free & Equal Public Funding
• Overturn CITIZENS UNITED
05 Free & Equal Media Access
06 Inclusive Debates
• Restore League of Women Voters
• Debates in Every State
• Cabinet Announced in Advance
• Cabinet-Level Debates
07 Open Primaries
08 Election Day Holiday
• Visitors to Disabled
• Free Public Transportation
09 Paper Ballots
• Counted Publicly On Site
• Military and Embassy Sites
• Exit Poll Validation at all Sites
• Mail/Internet Triple Validation
10 End Winner Take All Voting
• Instant Run-Off or
• Range, Concordant, Other
11 Legislative Process Integrity
• End Party-Line Voting
• All Legislation Published in Advance
• No Secret Provisions
• Process for Citizen Guidance to Representatives
12 Article V Constitutional Convention
• 1st Religion & Freedom of Expression
• 2nd Right to Bear Arms
• 12th Electoral College
• 14th Birthright
• 17th State Appointment of Senators
04 Sponsor a Name Your Cabinet Web Site. “Fantasy Football” is big business. Why not a “Fantasy Cabinet” as a basis for emerging citizens into thinking about who — irrespective of party affiliation — they would most trust for each of the Cabinet positions? Should some positions be abolished? Are other positions needed? Why not harness the collective intelligence of the public while using this as a means of re-engaging the public in public governance? [18]
05 Sponsor a Balanced Budget Web Site. What would a balanced budget look like in which true cost of all policies and practices were fully documented (US Government waste is known to be roughly 50% across all domains from Agriculture to Defense to Education to Energy to Health)? Sanders could even invite Ben & Jerry to lead a national conversation on this topic. This would among many benefits exposure the ignorance of all other presidential candidates who do not understand that giving more money to a corrupt military-industrial complex is like pouring gasoline on a fire. The infantry, 4% of the force, takes 80% of the causalities and gets 1% of the budget. The other 99% of the budget is spent on pork that kills. We need a 450 ship Navy, an air-mobile Army, and a long-haul Air Force and we can create such a force while still cutting 30–40% in waste from our Department of Defense as now managed. [19]
All of the presidential candidates now running lack credibility when it comes to discussing what the threats are to America the Beautiful. Immigration is not a threat and China did not take our jobs — it is US business leaders, enabled by corrupt US political leaders, who have systematically refused to respect the laws against paying illegal aliens, while exporting our manufacturing jobs to China without regard to the “true cost” to our country and our communities of disenfranchising — bankrupting — vast swaths of our working class. [20]
There are the ten high-level threats to the USA specifically and humanity generally. [21] The only public figure talking about these threats with intelligence and integrity has been the Pope!
01 Poverty
02 Infectious Disease
03 Environmental Degradation
04 Inter-State Conflict
05 Civil War
06 Genocide
07 Other Atrocities
08 Proliferation
09 Terrorism
10 Transnational Crime
These are the issues that Jesse Gordon is tracking for all the candidates at On the Issues. [22]
Domestic Issues: Civil Rights, Crime, Drugs,Environment, Gun Control, Jobs
Economic Issues: Budget & Economy, Government Reform, Social Security, Tax Reform, Technology & Infrastructure, Welfare & Poverty
International Issues: Energy & Oil, Foreign Policy, Free Trade, Homeland Security, Immigration, War & Peace
Social Issues: Abortion, Corporations, Education, Families & Children, Health Care, Principles & Values
Not a single candidate is offering a coherent, evidence-based, revenue-calculated discussion of these issues. Bombast, buzz words, lies, and platitudes are the order of the day. We need a serious nationwide discussion of all threats, all policies, all issues as a foundation for selecting a new transpartisan executive team and a president who is chosen not on the basis of his or her views on any given issue, but on the basis of being absolutely committed to restoring the integrity of the electoral process and thence of the government, the economy, and our society.
Indeed, the fastest way for Sanders to establish his credibility in relation to national security is to ask the Vice President to lead a Grand Strategy Review such as has not been done since Project Solarium was commissioned by President Eisenhower. I have published a Kindle white paper that could be helpful. [23]
06 Take Over BigBatUSA.org and Raise a Billion Dollars. From a practical business point of view — one that Ross Perot displayed — it makes sense to offer the public a vehicle for buying back its government. I am betting there are 100 million voters out there from across the political spectrum that now see very clearly that the two-party tyranny is in complete betrayal of the public trust. $10 from each is one billion dollars. I fully expect such a site to raise $2 billion if Sanders chooses to champion electoral reform, and forms a coalition on that foundation. This money would fund the Occupation of the home offices and front lawns of every Member refusing to co-sponsor and vote for the Electoral Reform Act of 2016, provide basic income assistance for the unemployed, and help advance Independent and small party campaigns for vacant seats in Congress if the public funding portion of that Act is rejected by the majority. The Electoral Reform Act of 2016 as finally passed may or may not include public funding of all campaigns for federal office — if it does, the balance can be donated to the government fund; if not the balance can be used to create a swing vote. Perhaps more importantly — with a nod of appreciation to Howard Dean, Joe Trippi, and Zepher Teachout who created the Big Bat concept in the first place — it is time we show the US Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street, and the US Supreme Court that people, not billionaires, are sovereign in the USA. Not two million people, which is what Sanders has now, but 120 million or more — THAT is a “Big Bat.”
07 Hire a Catholic Latino Advisor. Now that The Most Holy Father has weighed in on electoral reform [24] — the Franciscan order has the lead in the USA — the time has come to create a grand coalition outside the two-party system, in which youth, single women, and Latinos, as well as prisoners (mostly black) whose vote would be restored by the Electoral Reform Act of 2016 — come together. All of our institutions have failed us; We the People have many legitimate grievances. [25] In my view — I happen to be Latino of a mother born in Colombia — the Latinos and the organizations they have created or dominate — including Voto Latino and the Service Employees International Union as well as the Catholic Church — are ready to lead a renaissance in American political participation. The time has come to displace political parties and put the people — all of the people — back into politics. [26]
Robert David Steele is a former spy, honorary hacker, and the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, reading in 98 categories. He briefed Occupy on electoral reform in a video that went viral, ran briefly for the Reform Party nomination, aggregating good ideas at We the People Reform Coalition, and is today the pro bono CEO of an educational non-profit, Earth Intelligence Network. His most recent books are OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 — Open Source Activist Tool-Kit, The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust, and Intelligence for Earth: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability. A Guardian profile of him has received 68,000 likes.
Endnotes
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https://medium.com/@robert.david.steele.vivas/sanders-for-president-as-an-independent-c3dfde560f00
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[]
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2015-12-19 16:21:12.568000+00:00
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['Bernie Sanders', 'Independent', '2016 Election']
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The Massive Liberal Failure on Race
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by Staff
From Slate Magazine:
“There is no place in the movement for the white liberal. He is our affliction.” — James Baldwin
Five years ago, while fervently supporting the candidacy of the man who would become America’s first black president, I came to the realization that I didn’t actually know any black people. Most of the people I did know (i.e., other white people) didn’t know many black people either. One, maybe two, was the norm. I asked one white guy I knew if he had any black friends, and he replied, “You mean ones that aren’t on television?”
I wanted to know why integration — actual, genuine integration — had failed so spectacularly. The result of that curiosity, published a little more than a year ago, wasSome of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America, which traced the history of the color line back through all the places I have lived and chronicled the various efforts to erase it: school busing, affirmative action, fair housing, etc. Recently, I celebrated my one-year anniversary as an official participant in the National Conversation About Race — writing bits for Slate, speaking at colleges, and sitting on panels moderated by Soledad O’Brien (which is how you really know you’ve made it).
As good as liberal policies on race sound in speeches, many of them don’t hold up in the real world.
When I started the book, after eight miserable years of George W. Bush and the euphoria of the Yes We Can crusade, I’d been driven pretty far left on the political spectrum. Taking on the issue of race, you’d think I’d have kept heading in that direction. But the more I read and researched, the more I went out and talked to people, I found that a funny thing was happening: I was becoming more conservative.
Which is not to say I was becoming a Republican. Because how could I? At this point, the GOP’s rap sheet of racial offenses is almost too long to recount. Pushing undemocratic voter ID laws, trotting out candidates like Herman Cain, calling Barack Obama the “food stamp president” … if it has to do with race, you can count on Republicans being wrong early and often.
The pernicious effects of Republican attitude on race are plain to see. But one of the more subtle consequences of the right’s willful incompetence is that there is rarely any thoughtful critique of the left when it comes to race. Affirmative action is unfair to white people and the Democratic Party is a plantation — that’s about as incisive as the rhetoric usually gets. Even when Republicans have a legitimate point to make about the shortcomings of some government program, it’s almost as if they can’t help blowing their own argument. They’ll start off talking sensibly enough about educational outcome disparities and within seconds they’re rambling incoherently about how black men don’t take care of their babies. It’s really astonishing to watch.
But the fact is that a lot of liberals hold on to some really bad ideas about race too. Some of the arguments they keep trotting out amount to little more than unexamined platitudes, riddled with holes. Fifty years after the March on Washington, America’s high school cafeterias are as racially divided as ever, income inequality is growing, and mass incarceration has hobbled an entire generation of young black men. Do we really think this is entirely due to Republican obstruction? Or is it also possible that the party charged with taking black Americans to the Promised Land has been running around in circles?
The left has been ceded a monopoly on caring about black people, and monopolies are dangerous. They create ossified institutions, paralyzed by groupthink and incapable of self-reflection. To the extent that liberals are willing to be self-critical, it’s generally to flagellate themselves for not being liberal enough, for failing to stand fast with the old, accepted orthodoxies. Monopolies also lead to arrogance and entitlement, and the left is nothing if not arrogant when it comes to constantly and loudly asserting its place as the One True Friend of Black America. And yet, as good as liberal policies on race sound in speeches, many of them don’t hold up in the real world… Read more.
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https://medium.com/stanfordreview/the-massive-liberal-failure-on-race-1313bf49fd3d
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[]
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2016-12-12 03:09:38.813000+00:00
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['Politics', 'Bernie Sanders']
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A Fantasy - On the Seventh Day: How a Burning Babe and Lynn Rothschild Saved Democracy in America
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A Fantasy - On the Seventh Day: How a Burning Babe and Lynn Rothschild Saved Democracy in America
DAY ONE
The fat sweaty Capitol Hill policeman was in lust. The perfect babe was walking past him toward the steps of The Capitol, wearing only a T-shirt and the shortest of shorts, carrying only a cell phone and a jug. The possibilities of a wet T-shirt fully occupied his very small mind.
Then she exploded in flames. She had sat down, poured the jug of what turned out to be gasoline over her body, filmed her short manifesto for broadcast to YouTube, and lit a match. Here’s what she said:
I am a soccer mom My husband is an unemployed drunk, one of the 30% unwillingly unemployed. My child died to a fraudulent vaccine. My home went to bank fraud. And now I am dying of cancer traced to bad water from fracking. What does it say about this country when a guy from Vermont can enchant those left behind without ever calling into question the two-party tyranny, predatory capitalism, the military-industrial complex, and the fact that the US Government is the core enabler of global toxicity and death? With my death I hope to shock all of you into paying attention. God Bless America.
POOF.
DAY TWO
Deep in the woods of New Jersey Lady Lynn Rothschild welcomed Mort Zuckerman, Peter Ackerman, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, and Ross Perot. Others not attending — the Black Sheep Billionaires from the Silicon Valley and the innovation centres of Europe — were known to be ready to support whatever course of action the group selected.
Lady Rothschild:
Gentlemen, we are on the verge of losing everything. In our inbred arrogance we have allowed decisions to be made that have disenfranchised the productive public, concentrated wealth in an obscene manner, and externalized costs to the public that could take a century to address. All of the preconditions of revolution now exist across the West — one spark, such as we had yesterday — could ignite the public, unleash the pitchforks, and lead to all of our Lear Jets being shot from the skies by pissed off veterans who know how to aim a 50 caliber rifle.
I believe we have no alternative but to decentralize wealth and decision-making while promoting the idea that this can be done non-violently. Electoral Reform seems to be “root.” If we support the Electoral Reform Act of 2015 and the election of an honest US Government in 2016, I believe this one intervention will defuse the imminent collapse and limit our losses.
DAY THREE
Jesse Ventura looked at Ralph Nader with obvious skepticism. Meanwhile Al Sharpton and Cornell West were holding forth in opposite corners, while Joan Blades, Jill Stein, Christina Tobin, Elizabeth Warren and Cynthia McKinney tried to look interested in one another. Joan succeeded, the others did not. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich sat quietly, regretting they had come but unable to resist the $100,000 speaker fee they had each been offered. Bernie Sanders mumbled to himself alone in another corner.
Ross Perot called the meeting to order.
Folks, you all know that I was threatened with assassination and my daughter was threatened with great harm as well, in order to force me to leave the race for the presidency in 1996. I have been angry about that ever since — I had to make a practical decision, and while it was the right decision because the forces arrayed against democracy were too powerful at the time, it has eaten away at my guts ever since. It’s time to make things right.
Here’s the deal: I am committing $10 million as a starter fund for this Electoral Reform Summit that will go public at the end of the day with a Statement of Demand; for an IndieGoGo campaign to raise a $1 billion “Big Bat USA” from 100 million Americans who know they are disenfranchised and screwed over; and for a professional staff to organize nine Chautauqua bus tours across the nine regions of North America, to mobilize Occupy, labor unions, college students, veterans, and soccer moms. We will present each Member of Congress with the Electoral Reform Pledge, and give them one day in which to agree to co-sponsor the Electoral Reform Act of 2015.
These are the eight elements of the Act that were first discussed at the Occupy Working Group on Electoral Reform in 2011 and subsequently refined in a Reform Party candidacy still visible as We the People Reform Coalition:
01 Free & Equal Ballot Access for all qualified candidates — an end to the two-party tyranny.
02 Tightly-drawn districts ending gerrymandering, plus at large members for selected voting blocs such as our gay and lesbian communities and religious minorities.
03 Equal public funding for all qualified candidates — we kill CITIZENS UNITED & all donations from any organizations and all foreign countries.
04 Free & Equal Access to print and broadcast media for all qualified candidates and their Cabinet appointees — to be a candidate in the General Election the candidate must appoint a coalition cabinet and produce a balanced budget.
05 Debates to include all Independent and small party candidates including candidates from emerging parties not yet accredited nationally such as Working Families. We terminate the two-party debate Commission and restore the League of Women Voters as debate managers.
06 Paper ballots will be used with those ballots counted publicly and on site — we take both mail and electronic fraud off the table.
07 End winner take all plurality voting and implement a new voting system agreed upon by the public — Instant Run-Off seems the easiest for everyone to grasp and embrace.
08 End party-line voting, demand that all legislation be published in advance for national ballot consideration, end all lobbying, implement line-item citizen vetoes as well as Executive vetoes, and schedule an Article V Constitutional Convention for 2018.
Today, right now, I am asking each of you to commit to co-sponsoring our Statement of Demand tonight, and being part of the Coalition Cabinet that will be sorted out among yourselves tomorrow.
And so it came to pass, making the evening news. Hillary Clinton is reported to have fainted, while Jeb Bush crapped in his pants and went back to drinking heavily.
DAY FOUR
Jon Huntsman, Angus King, Bernie Sanders, and Jim Webb breakfasted quietly today, and agreed that they would trust in the larger process that Lady Rothschild and Ross Perot and others had now made possible. Bernie was visibly uncomfortable — he has never played well with others — but it was made clear to him that the team in formation respected him, embraced his good intentions, and would do everything possible to work with him toward the common good.
The balance of the day was spent in generally convivial conversation agreeing on the following tentative Cabinet assignments to be announced in the evening, after which all members of the team would campaign across the country educating the public on what an honest government can achieve, supporting individual candidates who embrace integrity in the public interest as their primary principle.
PRESIDENT: Angus King or Bernie Sanders or Jim Webb; VICE PRESIDENT: Cynthia McKinney, Jill Stein or Elizabeth Warren (non-selects become Counsels to the President and Vice President); OMB: John Kasich with Dennis Kucinich & Joe Stiglitz; Agriculture: Jim Hightower; Attorney General: Ralph Nader; Commerce: Clyde Prestowitz; Education: Derek Bok and John Taylor Gatto; Defense: Chuck Hagel and Joe Sestak, JCS Mattis & Stavridis; Fed: Ron Paul (close it down, then RP to Supreme Court); Health: Tom Coburn, Howard Dean; Homeland: Steve Flynn (close it down); Intelligence: REDACTED (restore DCI, kill DNI, NSA, NRO, NGA); FBI: Jesse Ventura; Interior: Costanza (integrate Energy & EPA, Herman Daly); Labor: Pat Buchanan, Warren Buffet (Seniors), Max Cleland (Veterans); State: Jon Huntsman, Gary Hart, Mark Palmer; Amb to UN: Carol Mosely Braun; Amb to Israel: Henry Seigman; Trade: Alfred Eckes (fold back into Commerce & downsize); Transportation: Jill Claybrook; Treasury: Yves Smith. NEW POSITIONS Chaplain: Jim Wallis with Michael Lerner; Computational Integrity: Stephen Wolfam (UK); Governor’s Council: Mike Huckabee; Mayor’s Council: Bill DeBlasio; National Research Authority: Larry Brilliant (integrated budget, focus on tools for peace & prosperity; Open Source Agency: Robert Steele; Water Conservation Authority: William J. Cosgrove.
DAY FIVE
BigBatUSA.org opened for business today, and began taking in $25 million dollars a day in $10 to $20 donations, with many donations of $100 and more. Money was immediately allocated to provide guaranteed incomes and mobilize the 40% of all adult citizens who are unemployed (according to the Congressional Research Service in their 15-page report “An Overview of the Employment-Population Ratio” as published on 27 May 2015). New coalitions comprised of Occupy, labor unions, churches, college students, veterans, and soccer moms bringing their Homeowners Associations with them organized the occupation of the front lawns and home offices of every Member of the US Senate and US House of Representatives, demanding they co-sponsor the Electoral Reform Act of 2015 as introduced in the Senate by Angus King and Bernie Sanders, and in the House of Representatives by the delegations from Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and Vermont.
By close of business one third of those targeted had signed the Pledge and co-sponsored the legislation; one third had resigned from office to be replaced by rapidly announced special appointments from the Constitution, Green, Libertarian, Reform, and Working Families parties as well as Independents; and one third were dealing with tens of thousands of people surrounding their home offices and homes — tens of thousands of people armed with money, food, water, power, communications, and a resolve such as has not been seen since the first American Revolution.
At midnight a vote was called and the Electoral Reform Act of 2015 was passed by a four-fifths majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The President signed the bill into law immediately.
DAY SIX
The final stage of the Second American Revolution started quietly, at Starbucks in Redmond, Washington. Mark Surman of Mozilla, Mark Zuckerman of Facebook, and five others met and agreed to fund the Open Source Collaboratorium inclusive of an Open Source Everything Foundation, a World Brain Institute, a United Nations Open-Source Decision-Support Information Network, a School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance, and an Activist Open-Source Decision-Support Tool-Kit.
What no one had realized until Micah Sifry made the point in his book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Had Not Fixed Politics (Yet), was that in their obsession with their individual stove-pipes, they had all forgotten John Gage’s wisdom from the 1980’s: the network is the computer; they had ignored the need for what Howard Rheingold in the 1980’s called “tools for thinking” they had ignored the importance of open geospatial data as a foundation for machine-speed processing of all information in all languages all the time; and they had neglected the urgency of creating a world wiki, a virtual sparse matrix replete with true cost economics information on top of an open geospatial foundation.
The catalyst for their coming together was the combination of several billionaires admitting publicly that their hundreds of billions in donations toward climate change and other good causes had been wasted; the creation of the Open Source Everything category at the P2P Foundation Wiki; and the passage of The Electoral Reform Act of 2015 which opened the door to crowd-sourcing democracy and everything else.
DAY SEVEN
As dawn broke, America the Beautiful came alive. Bernie Sanders and his coalition team were inaugurated along with a Congress that for the first time included a majority of Independent and small party Members pledged to not caucus with the remnants of the two-party tyranny. Marijuana was legalized, the police disarmed, the banks nationalized or localized, health care was made a public service, the guaranteed income established for all, the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service abolished, the Automated Payment Transaction Tax implemented and set by national ballot to eschew elective wars, and a total debt jubilee declared.
Armed with cell phones and the true cost app, citizens flooded the streets to vote products and companies up or down. By the end of the day Coca Cola, Nestle, and Monsanto had declared bankruptcy. All other corporations opened their doors to crowd-sourcing their re-design.
Simultaneously, a local to national town hall and hackathon took place, with community-based solutions for free energy, clean water, organic food, and zero-energy shelter all launched in the moment.
In a climate of Truth & Reconciliation, Extreme Democracy and Open Source Everything took root.
Robert David Steele is a former spy, honorary hacker, and the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, reading in 98 categories. He briefed Occupy on electoral reform in a video that went viral, ran briefly for the Reform Party nomination, aggregating good ideas at We the People Reform Coalition, and is today the pro bono CEO of an educational non-profit, Earth Intelligence Network. His most recent books are OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 — Open Source Activist Tool-Kit, and The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust. A Guardian profile of him has received 67,000 likes.
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https://medium.com/@robert.david.steele.vivas/a-fantasy-on-the-seventh-day-how-a-burning-babe-and-lynn-rothchild-saved-democracy-in-america-a7ca229f8415
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2016-06-05 23:42:29.768000+00:00
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['2016 Election', 'Bernie Sanders', 'Michael Bloomberg']
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Sanders: Trump is ‘Getting Nervous’
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Sanders: Trump is ‘Getting Nervous’
DECEMBER 27, 2015
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Quoting Donald Trump’s assertion that wages in the United States are “too high,” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said Trump’s attempt to back away from his own words shows that the Republican front-runner is “getting nervous that working families are catching on” to his views.
“Donald Trump says that I’m a liar because I said he believes wages in America are too high. Really?” Sanders said in response to Trump’s assertion on Twitter on Sunday. “This is what CNN reported last Nov. 12,” Sanders added. “Trump insisted on Thursday that the U.S. must keep wages low in order to compete with other countries, one day after he dug in on his assertion that ‘wages are too high’ in America. ‘Whether it’s taxes or wages, if they’re too high we’re not going to be able to compete with other countries,’ Trump said Thursday morning on Fox News. Trump first said he believes wages are ‘too high’ during Tuesday night’s Republican debate.”
“It appears that Mr. Trump is getting nervous that working families are catching on that his policies represent the interests of the billionaire class against almost everyone else. He refuses to support raising the minimum wage. He believes wages are too high and he wants to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the very richest families in America. That’s not an agenda that ‘makes America great.’ It’s just another Republican billionaire wanting to make the very rich richer at the expense of working families.”
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https://medium.com/@SouthCarolinaforBernieSanders/sanders-trump-is-getting-nervous-2cde5cefad35
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2015-12-27 20:13:13.441000+00:00
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['Bernie Sanders', 'Donald Trump', '2016 Election']
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DNC adds fuel to the #Bern
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So I’m sure you’ve heard the recent drama regarding a “data breach” with the Bernie campaign allegedly having access to the Clinton campaign’s voter data.
The breach in question is related to a software called VAN, which you can access yourself at americavotesvan.com. It was reported late Thursday that due to a “glitch”, the Bernie campaign had access to things they shouldn’t have, and they read through things that the Clinton team had painstakingly acquired through manual door-knocking, phone calls, etc. The DNC then accused the Bernie campaign of saving this information, and as a result, with the help of the VAN software vendor, cut off the Bernie team from ALL of the data in VAN- including the data the Bernie team themselves had acquired. In the age of data, this amounts to cutting out the eyes and ears of the biggest grassroots campaign in history. If you’re looking for a way to cripple an insurgent grassroots candidate, this is it.
Facing a court challenge from the Bernie campaign, Debbie Wasserman Schultz (DWS) then relented and gave access back to the campaign shortly after midnight last night. What happened in between the drama and last night was classic Bernie — hundreds of thousands of petitioners calling for the DNC chair to be dismissed, more petitions urging the campaign to get it’s own data back, and research that revealed that the CEO of the software VAN, is a supporter of the Clinton campaign.
It’s obvious that something here stinks. And it stinks bad.
The narrative for months in the Bernie camp has been this — we are fighting against a corrupt political system. Not just the Republican party, but both parties are corrupted by the influence of money and corporate interests. Clinton’s biggest financial supporter is Goldman Sachs, while I’ve donated to the Bernie campaign for the first campaign contribution in my life. The reason Bernie is running, and why he has so much support of real people, is that he alone refuses to engage in Big Money and thinks it is time for the influence of the wealthy to end. This latest fiasco by the DNC will only fuel the fire.
On a casual view from the outside, the game looks rigged. With only six debates, the O’Malley and Bernie campaign have been calling foul since this summer. Fewer debates presumably protect Clinton’s status as a frontrunner — many people haven’t even heard of O’Malley or Bernie. And the timing of the debates is atrocious- the ONLY debate in Iowa was during the Saturday of the Iowa-Michigian State Big Ten Championship game. This next debate is on another Saturday night, right after college kids are done with finals and are traveling home. Compare this to the R’s debate schedule — twice as many debates, and scheduled during the week where people can talk about it the next day. This stinks.
So far, Trump has gained support for playing the media to his own advantage. Say something bombastic, the media criticizes him, he continues his story of being victimized by the media — brilliant. Bernie would be wise to take this moment in the same way- he’s been dogged by the DNC this whole time, and this latest failed attempt only showcases how the DNC is out to get him, and is a pawn of the Clinton campaign.
As the dust settles from this latest turn of events, expect it to energize and galvanize the Bernie team — myself included. I may or may not watch the debate tonight, but I’m at that point now where I #FeeltheBern deep in my heart, and this is only fuel to the fire.
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https://medium.com/@coreycooling/dnc-adds-fuel-to-the-bern-60eab865502f
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['Corey Cooling']
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2015-12-19 18:22:14.986000+00:00
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['Politics', '2016 Election', 'Bernie Sanders']
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Elie Saab Furniture: Haute Couture Fashion Brand Launches Home Decor
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Elie Saab Furniture: Haute Couture Fashion Brand Launches Home Decor
The trend for fashion to cross over to interiors continues. This time it is haute couture genius Elie Saab, a Love Happens favorite!! The Lebanese designer announced recently that the brand will be launching an Elie Saab furniture collection in 2020.
Elie Saab Furniture
Elie Saab furniture is set to debut in April at Salone del Mobile in Milan. The collection will come to light through a collaboration with Swiss home design company Corporate Brand Maison. The license agreement is “long-term” with new collections coming each year. It also includes a series of hospitality projects.
“Over the years, Elie Saab has evolved into a lifestyle brand, through the development of diversified product categories that deliver a unique experience of the brand’s universe”, Saab said in a statement.
“Creating a home collection is a natural next step for our lifestyle brand, and we have chosen Corporate Brand Maison as a partner who is perfectly geared toward supporting our ambitions in developing and creating timeless signature furniture collections and interior design projects that embody the DNA of our brand and touch every aspect of ‘living’.”
A Foretaste of Elie Saab Furniture
While this is Saab’s first official collection, it is not the brand’s first foray into interior design. In the spring of 2019, Elie Saab partnered with Dubai real estate development company Emaar to design a 20-tower residential community in Dubai Harbour called Emaar Beachfront. Saab worked with architect Carlo Colombo to create a “total look” reminiscent of the brand’s ethereal and romantic world through living, dining, bedroom and lighting pieces.
Inside the First Collection
Amongst the chic furniture pieces that will debut as part of the first Elie Saab furniture collection, there will be a statement couch with metallic gold storage spaces beneath its armrests, a bed, tables, chairs, and lighting. The renderings show the decor in light warm tones with luxurious metallic details in keeping with the brand’s aesthetic.
Elie Saab: Elegance in the 21st Century
Words by Anna Beck Bimba
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https://medium.com/@lovehappensmag/elie-saab-furniture-haute-couture-fashion-brand-launches-home-decor-3bbd6733501c
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['Love Happens Mag']
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2019-12-12 10:43:39.924000+00:00
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['Interior Design', 'Furniture', 'Designer', 'Fashion Designer']
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How to Tell if You’re Getting Professional Virtual Staging Images
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Staging photos of a home for sale can work wonders in persuading a client to buy your house. However, a poorly done staging picture can also repel buyers. How can you tell if your virtual furniture staging isn’t working? Here are ways to discern amateur digital alteration work from the professionals.
Cut and Paste
Many art programs allow you to click on a particular image and then drag it into the image the artist is manipulating. With this method, you can add everything from material items, vehicles, animals and people into a still image. However, the pasted element has to look like it belongs in the shot and is not pasted in awkwardly. For example, a table or a couch could seem to float in the air, without being placed on a floor. If a table or chair seems to be defying gravity, it will come off as weird.
Furniture Proportions
In addition to poorly positioned furniture, bad virtual alterations can also leave furniture in a shot that is clearly too big. Art programs allow you to resize elements to make them properly fit a space in a shot. However, amateurs may not take these into consideration. Consequently, you can end up with a small end table that looks like it’s as big as a nearby doorway, or a multi-drawer wooden cabinet that seems so small a five year old can put their hands on top of it. Good virtual furniture staging will position all the elements in an image realistically.
Appearances
Experts at virtual staging are going to stock their digital libraries with the proper furniture that can go into a home. The furnishings should be both appropriate and realistic. On the other hand, amateur digital manipulators may use exotic or strange furnishings that don’t belong in your home, or at the least aren’t part of a scheme you requested for the job. And if the digital quality of the furnishings is poor, your virtually staged picture is going to look unrealistic and possibly even ridiculous. Such problems can include furniture with no details or textures, or very bright colors that look like someone just applied digital paint with no eye for detail or shading.
The goal of quality virtual furniture staging is to paint an imaginary picture for possible home buyers that allows them to dream how they can live inside your home. If your virtually staged photos look off or strange, it’s a good bet they will look elsewhere. So pay attention to poor picture qualities and seek the best professionals to virtually stage your home.
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https://medium.com/@virtualstagingrenderinggroup/how-to-tell-if-youre-getting-professional-virtual-staging-images-3870ae0ce7ac
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['Virtual Staging', 'Rendering Group']
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2017-12-27 11:43:21.916000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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WHEN TO BUY FURNITURE AND HOME FURNISHING PRODUCTS IN CHENNAI??
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WHEN TO BUY FURNITURE AND HOME FURNISHING PRODUCTS IN CHENNAI??
Year-end is the best time to buy a host of products that you have on your shopping list. Mostly, you get the offer for clothes, furniture, furnishing, electronics, and any product under the sun around the year. Diwali is the best time to buy, but then, the year-end sale gives you a lot of time to think and re-think! That’s right, if you have missed buying anything during Diwali, you just have to wait for another month. You get tons of products with a lower price tag.
Generally, when we see the huge discounted price, we tend to stuff as many products we can. But, wait a minute my friend, you could be smarter than that. Mostly, during these sales, you end up buying too many things that you would not actually use. To avoid that carefully plan your festive time shopping at the beginning of the year. I’m not asking you to have a huge checklist. Instead, have a mental note of which things to buy when.
Which is the best time what? — 5 Things to look for on a Year-End Sale
1. Air Conditioner
Are you planning to buy an AC for your home? You don’t have to wait till summer. Think about buying it during the winter, you get the best variant at a very low price. You also have the advantage of reading the real reviews of people who have bought it last summer. You can track those products online and check the prices. You get the best discount as well as freebies too.
But if you want the latest products from the market, then you have to wait until the summer. That’s when most of the latest AC models get launched.
2. Appliances
Appliances are best bought during any festival. The year-end sale gives you ample time. As the discounts run for a span of a month, you have your own sweet time to decide whatever you want. But, if you have missed buying any, then you have the Republic day deals to watch for.
3. Mobile Phones
You get the best deals on mobile phones around the year. There is a new rage on the mobile launch technique off late. That is to lure the people to buy by only offering limited numbers on sale. This technique is the present rage in India. Almost, all popular mobiles are getting launched this way. But the only problem with this is, you would not be able to read genuine reviews by people who have actually used it. You should only go by the critics point of view. If you are not a fan of these sales baits. Then, you can get best deals during the year-end sale on many mobile phone models.
You just need to do a research on the latest mobile phones on the internet. Then, finalize one that best suits you. Check for the prices across many websites. Don’t forget to check the prices in the local mobile stores too.
4. Home Furnishing
Though you may not plan anything about this, as it is really need based purchase. It is best to wait until a new year sale. In this sale, you get tons of discounts for mattresses, curtains, cushion covers, and many more home furnishing products. If you are planning to revamp the interiors of your home, you could wait until the new year to get fabulous deals across many products during this season. Check out the best curtain shop in Chennai
5. Furniture
There are deals for dining table, sofa, tv units, cots, etc around the year. But, a sale will give you additional discounts on these products. Here again, you don’t have to buy all the furniture you want in one single sale. You can wait till the next sale. There are few pieces of furniture that you may or may not need. So, don’t get carried away by huge discounts, you would always get another soon. You can shop for best furniture in Chennai here
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https://medium.com/@shezam101/when-to-buy-furniture-and-home-furnishing-products-in-chennai-62c92c144eec
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2017-12-27 06:35:52.617000+00:00
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['Ecommerce', 'Chennai', 'Shopping', 'Christmas Gifts', 'Furniture']
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Uncharted Territory: Pioneer Profile
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Iron Timber
Iron Timber owner Shawn Haverfield
Tucked in a crowded business complex a mile or so off the first westbound freeway exit in Nampa, Idaho, two garage doors stand open and inviting. Each of these two spaces represents one half of a coin. A coin that when forged together create the amazing wood and metal furniture business that is Iron Timber. Through the door on the left, a space filled with tall stacks of lumber, gorgeous live-edge timber slabs and hulking cast iron machinery that’s well-aged and honed for woodworking. And through the right, a modern space of steel sheets, plasma cutters and a thin layer of metal shavings on the floor.
Since 2016, Shawn Haverfield has been crafting some of the most eye-catching and talked about furniture pieces in both the commercial and residential spaces.
Though Iron Timber started in his 300 square foot garage, it didn’t take long for Shawn to expand into the two spaces he currently occupies. After a quick tour of the entire shop, we sat down with Shawn to explore his Pioneer Spirit.
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Let’s go big to start. What does “Pioneer Spirit” mean to you?
For me and what I do, being a pioneer is being a voice of originality. It means putting in the work to stay relevant and push the boundaries of my craft. I’m not the first to do what I’m doing which is why it is so important that I get fresh eyes on my work and make something that is better than the last time someone else did it. The pioneer spirit doesn’t get stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over; it forges ahead an finds a new light. That’s what I strive to do.
In such a competitive market, how did you go about establishing your business?
It was two things. One, I’m really passionate about the things I create, and I work hard to make them the best they can be. I was optimistic that would stand out. Two, I was in the right place at the right time. My first commercial gig was creating all the furniture for Slow by Slow in downtown Boise. After I finished that job, I was contacted by the guys who opened the first Black Rock Coffee franchises in Boise. I ended up making all of their furniture, and when the corporate managers came in for the grand openings, they liked my work and started placing orders. It really took off, and I had to take a leap of faith and bet on myself. Now I do a good mix of commercial and custom residential pieces. I like the variety.
What does success look like to you?
A lot of people get into something like this to make money. You might. You might not. For me, it’s about doing something that I love. Something that I can see myself continuing to do even after retirement. I mean, if I were to walk away from the business today, I would still be doing this for myself at home in my garage. And yeah, being able to sell the product to make a living doesn’t hurt and being relevant to trends and customer demands is important to maintain that, but this is my art, and I’m successful at it when I love doing it.
Where do you draw inspiration for your projects?
Social media has been a big part of seeing what people in the market are liking and what other crafters are doing. Outside of that, mid-century modern has always been a big inspiration of mine. I spend a good amount of time looking at the artists of the past and figuring out how to do what they did and put my own twist on it. I’m also really appreciate something that lasts. So doing something in a way that I know is going to last pushes me forward. I don’t mass produce things. I never put things together quickly. For me it’s never about getting it done, it’s about getting it done right.
How important is pride when it comes to your craft?
I think every artist wants to be proud of their work. Sometimes when I’m trying to be original with a piece, I’ll put something together and ends up not looking exactly like what I envisioned. So starting over and taking the time to do it a different way is worth it. I might be losing money on the project, but I want to be proud of it. My name is on every single product that comes out of here, and I want my name to be associated with something that is done right and done well.
Does starting over happen a lot?
Oh yeah! I’m unwilling to let something be good enough. I want the end result to be exactly what I want it to be, and it’s not finished until I get it there.
What about Idaho pride? How does that play a part in your work?
Being in Idaho was always something I wanted. I’m from here. I love living here. I love working here. I love the people. I mean, I lived in Seattle for five years and learned a lot of great stuff, but I knew I wanted to come back. There are so many amazing influences here, not necessarily style influences for me personally, but the lifestyle itself is the biggest contributor to what I do and why I do it. It’s a feeling of being both laid back and adventurous at the same time. I try to infuse that into my pieces.
Lastly, what’s on the horizon for you? Where do you want to take this thing that you have built?
Honestly, I just want to make sure we stay adaptable. If we continue to get more and more business that would be great! We would grow with that, but I think it’s important to be scalable. I’m willing to scale up if the time is right, but being in a position for success is key. We are in a market right now that is pretty good for growth, but if things dip a little, we need to be able to adapt and change with our needs and needs of the market. I don’t have a goal of a certain number I want to hit by a certain year. I just want to create original things and stay true to myself without compromising. As long as I’m content with what I do and how I do it, the future is looking good.
Talking with Shawn was inspiring. He’s comfortable in craft, yet continues to push himself and his business to new heights. He’s dedicated to pushing the boundaries and doing more than those that came before. What’s more pioneer spirit than that?
For more information on Iron Timber visit: http://www.irontimber.us
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https://medium.com/@44northvodka/uncharted-territory-pioneer-profile-d73db5e3d2c7
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['North']
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2018-10-12 23:55:06.201000+00:00
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['Idaho', 'Design', 'Furniture', 'Pioneer', 'Pacific Northwest']
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4 key things to consider when choosing a shelving unit
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Our design projects are thought out to the smallest details, therefore interiors, made in our unique style, are the representation of luxurious beauty.
A well-chosen rack in your living room, office or in the bedroom would not only organically emphasize the space, but also allow you to diversify the interior with the collection of decorative items, books, and souvenirs.
We would like to present our top 4 solutions for choosing the most perfect shelving that will decorate your room.
You can always check out the details of any particular design-project in our Portfolio.
1.Individual approach for creative individuals
The high price of modular shelving could be explained by the fact that you’re getting the opportunity to “create” your own structure, choose the desired colour of wood, the overall size and number of sections. Furthermore, racks can be used not only as a storage tool but also as a zoning element (if it is an island rack).
If you’re looking for a large and spacious shelving unit, we advise you to pay special attention to the colour of the shelves and the material quality. Design matters, for sure. Glass shelves will add some lightness and elegance to the structure.
“Biblia” shelving unit by Store 54
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https://medium.com/@studia-54/4-key-things-to-consider-when-choosing-a-shelving-unit-c1b36e64e55b
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2020-11-17 09:34:11.513000+00:00
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['Interior Design', 'Luxury', 'Furniture', 'Design', 'Design Thinking']
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Best Office Chairs for Lower Back Pain?
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Many of us will spend more than half of our life working behind a desk. And due to this office chairs cannot be ignored. Choosing the right office chairs that offer proper support for good posture to avoid back pain and other avoidable ailments. Below we have listed the main features to look for and things you can do to reduce lower back pain.
Proper Lumbar Support
Proper support for your lower back is one of the most important things to look for in your chair to reduce discomfort and back pain. While selecting an office chair, you need to make sure to test it by sitting on it and check how good the lumbar support is for your back. With proper support, your hips, shoulders and ears should be aligned with each other and it should flow with the natural curve of your spine.
Adjustable Seat Height
An office chair should have adjustable seat height as it is very much important that you can adjust your office chair to a comfortable height which won’t strain your muscles.
Keep Moving
It does not matter how perfect or ergonomic your chair is, you can still experience pain if you don’t take the effort to move around throughout the day. Sitting on office chairs without moving all day puts strain and pressure on your spine and muscles. You can avoid such stain and pressure by taking short breaks throughout the day and walk around for few minutes.
Conclusion — You need to make sure that you choose your new office chair wisely and consider the points mentioned above to reduce future back pain and to maintain a healthy work environment. Our ergonomic office chairs have all the features you are looking for in an office chair which will allow you to fully adjust the chair as per your needs. We have listed few of our best ergonomic chairs for you that would help you reduce back pain and sit comfortably to work continuously. Below are the ergonomic office chairs listed with best prices.
About furniturein.com — Established in 2000,Furniture-in has been providing superior and upmarket office chairs and furniture to many esteemed Firms, Corporate, Banks and Financial Institutions, Educational Institutions, Government Organizations, Hotel and Catering Industry, Media, etc. all over India. We are a leading brand in office chairs and furniture based in Mumbai with proficient workers and supplies revolving chairs, cafeteria chairs, lounge chairs, visitor chairs, training chairs, tables and office chairs in Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Mangalore, Vadodara, Nashik, Chennai, Jaipur, Delhi, Kerala, Pondicherry, Goa and many other places across India.
Office Chairs Mumbai
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https://medium.com/@mattmeegan78/best-office-chairs-for-lower-back-pain-b6b75ab4f0e
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2019-12-31 05:52:50.597000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Office Chairs']
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The Trend of Antique Furniture in Malaysia— What Makes Malaysian Antique Furniture Special?
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If you, like many of the youngster who want to try out antique furnitures to add some aesthetic sense to your hipster living space , consider these first:
More and more young people want to buy pre-owned furniture for their homes, which tracks more than 2,000 auction houses and hosts more than one million items daily, according to the Barnebys antique search engine.
There is no question that there is more environmental awareness than it has ever been. We see both companies and consumers being motivated to make significant changes in order to be more socially aware. It seems like this trend has reached the interior world too, with more millennials than ever engaging in second-hand, antique furniture.
If your personality does not seem to fit with the sharp sides and symmetry of contemporary designs, and you would prefer furniture with mysteries included, consider stopping to pick up a piece of furniture or decoration that can be considered very rare.
Wood is the cornerstone of the furniture industry in Malaysia. This is due in large part to the outstanding talent and expertise of local producers in making beautiful wood pieces.
Quality is Incredibly Important of The Value of an Antique Furniture
Quality can be seen as a degree of excellence, excellence in the piece’s concept, design excellence, and execution excellence. For instance, well-constructed furniture can advertise its quality through its stability and function. The doors will be easy to open, and the drawers will work smoothly. The finish is clean, the color is fine, the joinery is well done, the material selection is strong and the scale is right.
IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE ANTIQUE, QUALITY IMPLIES ATTENTION TO DETAIL
Quality Malaysian antique furnitures are entirely handcrafted. Quality means consideration on the part of the maker or contractor and is proud of the finished product.
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash
Do Not Confuse Condition with Quality
The manner in which the piece was made is quality. Since its creation, the way it has lasted is called its condition. In bad condition, people value a high-quality item less than a similar item in outstanding condition. The state of the commodity can also be improved by greatwallrosewood.com. In the original location where the piece was made, quality is always fixed.
That is why a poor-quality product in perfect condition in a lower state of affairs will seldom be as valuable as a high-quality piece.
Rarity Shouldn’t Be Mistaken for Age
A very rare piece may not be the antique you are looking for. Some items that were made many years ago might have higher value even if they were made in their millions or thousands. Malaysian antiques are rare and provide the handmade quality antique buyers need.
It’s Surely Environmental-Friendly
From the younger generation of consumers who want exclusive, personal, and quality goods that last over time, we see increased interest. To continue to consume as we do today, and have done for the last few decades, is just not sustainable for our planet. This is why we see a lot of the younger generation consciously opting to furnish pre-owned furniture for their homes.
Malaysian Are Just Good With Furniture
The abundance resources of quality wood available in the country and the surrounding region just make Malaysia one of the most popular furniture producer in the world. As for antique furniture, there are even company like Great Wall Rosewood that specialize in the Chinese antique furniture, and use only premium wood. As far as we know, there’s very little furniture makers will be so particular in terms of wood quality nowsaday. If you’re looking for a piece of Qing or Ming Dynasty antique furniture in Malaysia, check them out!
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https://medium.com/@mike-31/the-trend-of-antique-furniture-in-malaysia-what-makes-malaysian-antique-furniture-special-aaf709823c65
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2020-11-17 09:09:19.765000+00:00
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['Antique Furniture', 'Hipster', 'Furniture', 'Furniture Design']
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Importance of Reupholstering Old Furniture
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There are many reasons that make you think to upholster old furniture, among them the major reason is sentimental value. If you have an old furniture that is years old, you definitely get attached to that and that’s probably worth reupholstering. Because the older, the better. The furniture that stands firm is a great sign of quality.
Reupholstering enables your furniture to go great style and customizing completely to good old-fashioned craftsmanship with modern thoughts to recycle. Although the process can take a long time, Adams allstyle upholstery is one of the wide fame names of perfection as upholstery Brisbane. The main advantage is when you save your hundreds of dollars and get the most updated look of your old furniture that is completely unique to your own style and home.
We at Adams allstyle upholstery start the recovering process of your old furniture with reupholster old furniture, striping back to bare frame checking all joins and structure.
Several reasons why Adams allstyle upholstery is out of the crowd:
• We value your sentimental value attached to your old furniture
• High-quality raw materials are used
• We make sure your furniture last
• Customization is easy and perfect as per our customer’s demand
• We use furniture having hardwood frame
• You get the cost-effective services and products.
We customize the furniture with all the new products rather than leaving the old fabric underneath which can shorten the life of the new fabric. So be assured that with us, you get the whole lot of designed products of higher quality.
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https://medium.com/@adamsallstyleupholstery/importance-of-reupholstering-old-furniture-683a74a37e3a
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['Adams Allstyleupholstery']
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2017-12-15 05:59:11.768000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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Furniture Showroom in Ahmedabad
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Furniture Showroom in Ahmedabad
Better Home is a leading Furniture Showroom in Ahmedabad located near Nehrunagar,Satellite Road.It is the largest furniture showroom in Ahmedabad provides Living Room Furniture,Office Furniture,Bed Room Furniture,Garden Furniture,Dining Room Furniture and Sankheda Furniture. Better Home is major manufacturer, exporters and distributors of quality Indian teak wood furniture, imported furniture, Office Furniture, sankheda furniture, school furniture and garden furniture in India. Better Home is the 60,000sq.ft. the lartgest and oldest furniture showroom in india since from last 16 years, which offers a large array of products ranging from all type of ressidence furniture, Office Furniture, school furniture, garden furniture, and plastic furniture and handicraft and decorative items also.
One of Better Home’s unique selling points is the company’s ability to deliver its products to any trade buyer. The company’s services and facilities allow us to deliver to a wide scope of clients within from a modest sized trader to direct container buyers.
Though the company is growing in size by the day, the company’s personal touch with its clients is an aspect of the company that cannot be found in many organizations.
The company prides itself on providing the right product at the right price and backing it up with reliability and an excellent service since from last 16 years. The company’s products and services are continually updated to suit the market and its needs.
Any Product chosen for the Better Home range must fit the company’s criteria, essentially being:
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https://medium.com/@betterhomeindia/furniture-showroom-in-ahmedabad-82f0d47bb660
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['Better Home India']
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2017-12-20 11:50:47.167000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Manufacturing', 'Manufacturers']
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WHY EVERYONE NEEDS AN ARMCHAIR!
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Photography credit to th2designs
This year 2018, why not make a statement and add a stylish armchair to your home decor? Whether you’re trying to add to your existing set of chairs or just purchasing a standalone piece, you should only settle for the comfiest, most sumptuous armchair available.
Photography credit to Cebatech
While armchairs are known to be popular for their splendid designs and unparalleled comfort; they are also excellent for your back and posture! They provide more support as they take the pressure off your lower back and disperse all the weight onto your entire back. Now here are two stylish armchairs that you might want to consider as your next purchase:
A retro style piece fitted with an edgy copper finished metal rod frame and refined grey fabric. This design will work wonderfully with any neutral color interior. You will never look more classy than when comfortably seated in this armchair.
Conceptualized by acclaimed French engineer Jean Prouvé, the Fauteuil de Salon integrates simple surfaces into a unique armchair structure. With juxtaposed solid wood armrests and sturdy steel legs, this dark grey statement chair is a true showstopper. Supplied with very comfortable seat and backrest foam cushions.
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https://medium.com/@DistinctionF/why-everyone-needs-an-armchair-720b28da7e12
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[]
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2017-12-13 16:40:21.654000+00:00
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['Interior Design', 'Furniture', 'Home', 'News', 'Luxury']
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How to use textures in interior?
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Have you ever stepped into a room, where everything seems perfect? Nevertheless, space leaves you with a feeling of emptiness. Modern concrete walls and digital communication through emails and emojis created a smooth glass and metallic jungles, where we miss real tactile experience. Flat interiors don’t resonate with our inner peace and ruin a feeling of warmth and harmony.
Thus we see new interior design trends deviating to curvy and wood furniture as well as a big emphasis on tactile interiors. Today we are going to talk about layering textures and its superpower in elevating an interior.
Textures superpower
Luxurious interior designs are widely focused on pretty objects that look great and might even be functional, but lack the tactile experience. Touching a fluffy texture of rug while dancing on Friday, touching a cold marble surface while drinking your morning coffee or noticing how sun rays reflect on the coffee table’s bronze elements. It is all about the feel and touch of an interior space just as much as what’s in it.
How to create these warming tactile experiences in your design? Let’s first explain what texture means in interior design.
What is Texture?
Texture can be defined as “the sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch.” To make things more understandable, the texture is how things feel. While textures are usually not given the right praise it deserves, the right combination of fur, glass, metal or wood adds depth to your design.
Bad examples of using texture in the interior
Leaving aside the topic of designs’ subjective nature. I believe we can all agree that the following texture combination is visually unpleasant to look at. The big pattern is too distracting and creates a feeling of irritation and discomfort. Let’s explain the reasons why.
Although, we see a similar color palette and neutral tone combination is good. Moreover, furniture and plan designs are on point. We see the right choice of proportions. However, a wrong combination of textures simply ruins it all.
We can highlight 3 main rules that you need to consider while playing with textures:
Textures should follow one style only Big and small textures should be combined Contrasting textures should be blended with more neural, less contrasting elements
Textures combinations that always look stunning
Leather and Wood
Leather and wood are timeless classic combination used in many mid-century modern furniture pieces. The textured combination always looks stunning and adds a masculine character to any interior scheme.
Interior designers usually recommend avoiding using high textured leather with high textured wood elements. Ideally, you want to see leather stand out next to sleek, waxed finished wood finishes.
Metal and Glass
Metal and Glass give a little more oomph to any room. Bronze heavy elements soared with glass transparent nature combine the best of the two words. Bronze dining and coffee tables are true show stoppers.
Surrounded by upholstered furniture, fuzzy pillows, and wooden shelves, light-reflective surfaces of metal and glass inject glamour to an interior and acts as a visually striking contrast.
Small steps to incorporate texture into an existing color scheme
Pillows, lamps, greenery, and chairs can bring a room together, where the interior lacks warms. Together or separately these simple pieces can easily add dimension and a splash of fun into any room.
Pillows
Affordable and few clicks away from you — pillows are true game-changers. From fluffy and colorful to leather and metallic pillows is an easy step to transform any chair, sofa or bed.
Lamps
Decorating vertical spaces is as important as decorating horizontal spaces such as throwing a blanket on a sofa near a few pillows. Vertical lamps with different textures ad harmony to the compositions and allows you to layer lights to bring brightness to the dullest corners.
Lamps with glass and metallic finishes beautifully reflect the light and ad vertical balance.
Plants
There is nothing like a small jungle in a room. Plants create a feeling of healthier and connected with a natural atmosphere. Something we strive in a concrete jungle. They not only clear the polluted air but also harmoniously inject texture. A big Fig tree or ZZ plant next to a sofa are great options that don’t need much of your attention.
Seating
A bold colored lounge chair or statute like stools transform any interior and make it look stunning. A curvy furniture trend is a particularly interesting option for those seeking something artistic and fun.
And textures of seating that range from walnut wood, leather, marble, Japanese bronze or plastic — a playground of options that you can choose as a contrast to existing interior design.
Simply compare what is already present and add new seating furniture in contrast. It will change the whole dynamic of your apartment.
Take outs from this article:
One last time I’d like to bring your attention to the importance of textures in interior design. We’d looked at bad examples of overplaying with textures that come from different styles, very contrasting and bold. A balance is what differentiates a good interior design from a bad one.
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https://medium.com/white-on-white/how-to-use-textures-in-interior-3d185ff342ed
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['White On White']
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2019-12-29 22:38:28.070000+00:00
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['Interior Design', 'How To', 'Furniture', 'Texture', 'Room']
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How to Find the Best Furniture for Your Home — Open Toss
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Buy new furniture or replace items for home or office can be a very costly affair; if you are considering for purchase by visiting or choose from the furniture store. Everyone is so busy in their lives, working in the office and then do all the housework and chores that they rarely get enough time to do things like that.
The Internet is happiness in our hectic life as it provides for our every need and shower us with everything we need. Buying furniture online rather than retail stores will come with many benefits and advantages. Shopping from any online store will not only save you time and fuel but also makes the process hassle-free shopping. You can easily compare the prices of the products in stores of different e-tail and then purchase from a store or site that offers a wise deal!
Here are five advantages to buying furniture online:
Simple and Time-Saving:
One of the advantages of the most well known and accepted that you get when you buy furniture online is that it is simple and saves time. If you have access to the internet and know how it can help you in finding the right product, then you will certainly have a great furniture shopping experience. When you buy furniture online you do not have to spend hours traveling from one store to another, you do not have to stand for hours waiting to find the perfect piece of furniture. Buying furniture online saves a lot of time, and you are required to spend only a few minutes of your time to find the product of your choice, pay online and wait for the person concerned to deliver products at your doorstep.
Discounts & Offers:
When you shop online, you can often get a discount, which is not available in offline stores. You can choose from a large pool of designs, styles, and patterns while saving money.
Diverse and large inventory:
One advantage of the most famous of buying furniture online is that you can choose from a wide range of products, which means that unlike physical stores that only have a limited number of pieces, the online store has a large number of these products, each the best in quality, When customers are allowed to choose from a wide range of affordable products, their shopping experience to be better and bigger than ever.
Delivery & Installation:
Most stores generic promise rapid installation and delivery, but failed to meet them; however, furniture stores have a presence online stick to their word and provide installation services and delivery as stated in their policies.
Selection of better prices
Selection of better prices:
Prices of products you find in online platforms are generally lower as compared to the prices in physical stores. Once you’ve made the correct research on the online platform then you can easily buy affordable furniture which comes in high quality and make you satisfied with your shopping.
Are you looking for the best furniture? Check out our page Open Toss to find tips and advice about purchasing furniture
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https://medium.com/@shashank-dialect/how-to-find-the-best-furniture-for-your-home-open-toss-3bee3fa4b64b
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['Shashank Dialect']
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2019-12-30 08:16:41.703000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Online', 'California']
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Alias Highframe: The Design, History And Making!
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Alias Highframe: The Design, History And Making!
A piece of furniture is one of the most indispensable items in an interior design. Be it your home, your drawing room or your new office space, chair is a must. But is it just another piece of furniture for you? Well, a piece of furniture does not only serve a specific utility but it is also a piece of unique art. Believe it or not but a perfect furniture sets the tone of the room it is in and enhances the interior beauty of the room. The Alias highframe is one such furniture that can surely bring a lot of class and elegance to your interior. In this post on behalf of Archtypen I will be talking about the making of this chair and the history behind this amazing furniture. So, let’s take a look at them.
Alias Highframe
Alias Highframe: The Design, History And Making!
At first, the Alias Highframe appeared to be small furniture in appearance. However, it has made quite a huge impact especially due to the aluminum. It has a breath-taking design, elegant yet it is very light-weighted. It also has an elegant back-bracket. The Side profiles come with a fixed textile mesh which is characteristic of ‘Highframe’ both formally and structurally to the legendary Eames chairs of the ‘Aluminum Group’.
Alberto Meda had designed this chair which is changeable in nature and this is the only archetypal design that is still famous over the years since it’s time of inception. Also, the mesh fabric is quite suitable for outdoors and thanks to the fabric covering gains it has a soft quality. Finally, with leather upholstery it looks extremely elegant and masculine. Also, the aluminum cream is available in polished, chrome or painted.
Another interesting fact is that this chair represents the final stage of a 50-year development series. Let’s look at some more important facts about the design.
What Is The Alias Design?
The Alias was created around Bellotti’s timeless spaghetti chair in 1979. This is similar to Embrus Altorfer-Liege 1158 , a wrapped PVC tendon provides anatomical comfort. Alias, much like B & B, has fully committed itself to progress and manages time and again to develop timeless designs with advanced technology. This is a technique that is reflected structurally and in the elegant shape of the objects. Needless to say, the author Alberto Meda exemplifies this. He is a trained engineer (formerly Kartell® developer) and he is the man behind the design. Alias high frame 416 chairs, big frame, long frame and frame tables. But also Botta’s chairs Seconda or HäberlisAlias Sec-Regal are part of the timeless repertoire. Founded by Belotti, Forcolini and Baleri, Alias joined Cassina in 2001.
The Very Best of Italian Design:
The Italian firm Alias was launched in 1979 and they have produced furniture of considerable significance to the development of Italian interior design. The innovation marks versatility, innovation and technological lightness and they are the company’s overriding values and the principal motivation. Over the years, several renowned designers have attached their name to that of Alias. With time, they have succeeded in bringing the talent of each of these designers to the fore in its range of products.
So if you are looking to get your hands on the Alias highframe then just visit us at archetypen.ch and explore the reissue products for the best price. Click on the link and explore the deliverables today!
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https://medium.com/@archetypen-ch/alias-highframe-the-design-history-and-making-24a476a51bd7
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['Archetypen Ch']
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2019-12-18 04:01:49.473000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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✨Team highlight: Welcoming Sam Pearson!
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What made you interested in joining Bear?
I saw that Bear is in a unique position by being first movers in a market that isn’t saturated. That gives us a huge opportunity to build a product that is the best of the best and leads the way in the space. Once I met Sam, Ed, and Jeff, I knew I was talking to an organization that I wanted to be a part of!
What are you most excited about doing as you join the team?
I’m excited about working with our team and our customers to build a product that they are excited to log in to every day! The users we are building software for have some complicated problems to solve, and that makes it all the more fun and exciting.
“Collaboration and communication go hand-in-hand with iteration.”
What’s your philosophy for building a great product?
I could go on about for pages and pages, but I’ll keep it to 3 key aspects that I believe are a must when building a great product:
Collaboration. One person doesn’t decide on features for a product, just as one person doesn’t build a product. Creating an amazing product requires collaboration across multiple teams both internally and externally. You never know what ideas a person will have until you bring them into the conversation. A product cannot be built in a silo. Teamwork makes the dream work :). Communication. Open communication amongst all parties involved in a product (both internally and externally) is a key to building a successful product. Being open about product vision, key themes and initiatives, and what we are working on builds a trusting relationship within the company, as well as with our customers. Constant Iteration. Collaboration and communication go hand-in-hand with iteration. Collaborating with others internally and externally and communicating ideas, plans and prototypes allows for the team to iterate quickly. The team must be comfortable with taking feedback and iterating on the product based on that feedback.
What’s the one piece of advice you’d give to people learning product management?
It may sound weird that “learn the product inside and out” is not my one piece of advice, but I think that’s a given. My biggest piece of advice is to build up your relationships… with everyone. Being a good product manager means that you need to gather information from multiple different sources and multiple different perspectives. Building up relationships will allow people to be open and honest about what they are looking for in your product and what needs to be improved. People need to feel comfortable to come to you with ideas, issues and feedback knowing that you will take them into consideration in order to improve the product. Like I said above, teamwork makes the dream work.
“Build up your relationships… with everyone. Being a good product manager means you need to gather information from different sources and perspectives.”
What’s your favourite article of furniture? Do you have a favourite ecomm marketplace?
I actually just began redecorating my entire condo, so it’s very hard for me to choose my favourite piece of furniture. I’d have to go with my new bar stools, they pull my whole boho-modern vibe together!
What do you do in your downtime?
I spend most of my downtime with my two dogs. We love to pack up at the end of the week and spend time exploring at the cottage. When the dogs have gotten sick of me, I spend time attempting (keyword here) to play the guitar, working out or adventuring around the city.
Welcome to the team, Sam!
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https://medium.com/commercebear/team-highlight-welcoming-sam-pearson-2521fe4206b4
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['Will Staunton']
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2020-12-01 17:41:20.322000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'SaaS', 'Ecommerce', 'Product Management', 'Development']
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THE WHO’S WHO OF YOUR PROJECT — My Blog
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You know there will be loads of people involved (many of whom will be in your house on a regular basis), but you may not know who they are, or what they do. Here’s a quick guide to all the parties you’ll be dealing with over the next few months.
The General Contractor:
The star of the show, and the person capable of managing the entire process. Your general contractor will be responsible for the coordination of the project, including engaging the right subcontractors, and the final delivery of the work. You’ll hire him/her directly.
The Architect:
Typically responsible for the design and paperwork and can often be responsible for ongoing design management. You’ll also want to hire him/her directly — unless you decide to work with a design-build firm, in which case the contractor and architect will be a package deal.
The Engineer:
If you’re doing a structural project, this person is crucial, for the simple reason that you don’t want your builder being responsible for building a structure that affects the integrity of the building such as a load-bearing wall.
The Suppliers:
These people will be your lifeline, the source of all your materials for the project. You may not deal with them directly — usually (once you know what you want) it’s better to let your contractor interface with suppliers since they can negotiate better prices (professional discounts and all) as well as manage late or incorrect shipments.
The Subcontractors:
Your army of specialists, who will see to every detail of your remodel. This category includes plumbers, electricians, glazers (a.k.a. window specialists), carpenters, plasterers, painters, tilers, and home entertainment installation experts, to name a few. They will be hired and managed by your general contractor — though be sure to keep track of their names and phone numbers. You always want a record of who is entering your home (plus if they wind up in any pay disputes with your contractor, a subcontractor could put a lien on your home — if that happens, you’ll want to know how to get in touch with them).
Chances are you already know who this person is — the aesthetics-led style maven who will help turn your newly-remodeled home into a stylish, comfortable sanctum that reflects your personality and tastes. You’ll hire your interior designer directly.
The Inspector:
This less glamorous and oft-overlooked party is nonetheless one of the most important. It’s easy to forget or put off the proper inspections in the bustle of finishing a remodeling project, but you’re in for a nasty surprise if an inspector finds the work isn’t up to code (in some municipalities, not having the right permit could even land you in jail). Make the local building department your new friend, and be sure to have all the necessary inspections done on time, to ensure that your new electrical system or plumbing won’t need to be ripped out.
The Loan Officer:
If you’re taking a home equity loan to finance your project, be sure to stay on good terms with this person. He/she will hold the key (and the source of funds) to the successful completion of your project.
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https://medium.com/@ca40000878/the-whos-who-of-your-project-my-blog-44615566468c
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['Aris Khan']
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2019-12-31 06:08:51.878000+00:00
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['Interior Design', 'Home Renovation', 'Furniture', 'Interior']
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6 things that one should consider while choosing retail POS:
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6 things that one should consider while choosing retail POS:
Whether you are an experienced merchant in retail industry or setting up a new retail store, having right POS system is essential for your business. Not all retail POS software has equal features, so it becomes very important to select which suits best to your business.
Need versus Wants
POS systems are being used in different industries ranging from cafes, salons and furniture retail. You know your business process better than anyone else, so create the list of requirements and features that you want in POS and prioritize them. Answers to these questions will help you to determine what your business needs are and what you want to achieve. From there you can begin your search for the best retail POS software.
2.Pricing
Monthly or annual cost of running a great POS software is relative low, but you have to consider the initial pricing to set up POS software. Initial cost to set up POS software can be more than you expect because you have to make sure that POS software is compatible with your current hardware. Hardware includes barcode scanner, credit card reader, display unit or tablet, receipt printer and cash drawer. Make sure to choose POS system which matches the most to your current hardware configurations
3. Customer Support
When you are buying a retail POS system, you are not just buying a software alone but you are entering into relationship with vendor who will be going to support you long term for the success of your business.
Also make sure what the definition of Support for vendor is. For example, vendor provides automatic delivery of upgrades by fixing bugs, or support through FAQ, or through any other online resources.
In evaluating the customer support for retail POS software, inquire about response time in normal working hours, weekend and on holidays. Test yourself phone support and online support during working hours, weekend and in holidays.
4. Training
A great POS system doesn’t means it is easy to use, but also providing training to the store associates on how to take benefit of POS system. Choose a retail POS software that is very user-friendly and offers plenty of training resources.
5. Integration with third-party software
Third-party integrations can help you to reduce many days and months of work, so when you choose POS system check what integrations are available. Integrations with different accounting software, E-commerce website and email marketing software’s should be essential.
6. Scalability
To maximize the return on your retail POS software investment over time, ensure that the solution you select is highly scalable. In other words, make sure it has the capability to grow with your business and its needs. A scalable retail POS software package will easily accommodate additional users and workstations in existing stores, as well as in new ones as they come online.
Contact us today to help you select the right retail POS package for your business. Visit Ordorite.com or + 44 203 2861 202 for more information.
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https://medium.com/@marketing_88907/6-things-that-one-should-consider-while-choosing-retail-pos-b5c32d3377ce
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['Stephen Connoly']
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2019-12-31 08:59:58.815000+00:00
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['Retail', 'Pos', 'Software', 'Furniture', 'Pos Software']
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Choosing the Perfect Sofa Which meet Your Style and Design
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Choosing the Perfect Sofa Which meet Your Style and Design
Definitely, there are several kinds of furniture in your home and the one which have a great effect on the overall design is the sofas in Kenya. Some people prefer using a straight lines as well as minimal design of contemporary sofas. However, other love using sofas with soft cushy pillows as well as floral patterns in Kenya. However, sectional sofas may be the preference of others.
Nowadays, sofas in Kenya come in hundreds of styles with several choices of upholstery. You can easily order your personal sofa from different companies that offer them for sale. Most people usually consider the style of the sofa because it is very paramount. However, the comfort of sofas in Kenya should be considered as well so as to enhance the overall experience. Also, choosing the appropriate sofa would enhance your home. There are several kinds of sofas styles in Kenya which you can choose from, but the manufacturers usually break them down into distinct styles, contemporary and traditional. For example, more traditional styles of sofa would include barrel back, English arm, tufted back, tight back as well as tuxedo.
However, based on the fabric which is used, a tuxedo sofa could be used in a contemporary home. Contemporary styles include sock arm, channel back as well as section. Some sofas likewise come along with pillows which can be used any way you desire. Another amazing thing about sofa is the fabric, whenever you want to make kid’s furniture or visit furniture’s shop, you can easily choose the style of sofa you want for your home and choose the kind of fabric which will meet your need perfectly. Some manufacturers have more than 30 fabrics which can be used while your budget can be the only limitation. Bridge bright colors as well as geometric designs can also be used for kids’ furniture so as to make them appealing at sight.
Leather sofas in Kenya are very popular but routine care is very crucial because leather is a durable upholstery choice on a sofa. Keeping the leather cleaned and moisturized is also essential. Another sofa options which are to be considered is whether you want a sofa bed which is also referred to as sleeper sofa or reclining sofa or a convertible sofa. Obviously a sleeper sofa or convertible sofa can come in very handy as an extra bedroom for someone that live in an apartment or have a smaller home that intend to accommodate guests overnight.
Another option which can be chosen is a reclining sofa. It is the best in the world. This kind of sofa has reclining sofas which generally have two seats that recline to ensure maximum comfort. You can also get a reclining sofa in most styles, contemporary as well as traditional.
Tv cabinets in Kenya can also be designed with the same materials as the furniture and sofas so as to enhance the appearance of the home. This would enhance the aesthetic of the home and make it appealing to the eye.
Benefits of Using Attractive Furniture
Different furniture is used in the house and some of them include Tv cabinets in Kenya, sofas as well as kids furniture. When the appropriate materials are used, it would provide several benefits to the home. Some of such benefits include:
Comfort: The use of classic sofa would ensure you do not compromise quality while ensuring high comfort in your home. The sofa can also be used for relaxation whenever the need arises, this would prevent aching body and ensuring comfort in the home.
The structure of legs: Most sofas are designed with ornately designed legs. The turned legs followed by bun feet with some fluted casters are the common ones. Square tapers make occasional look for the modern style. The leg can also vary between 4 inches to 6 inches and comes in different color which meets your need perfectly.
Style and beauty: Kid’s furniture which is made with attractive materials would ensure style and beauty in the home. However, you shouldn’t compromise with features which give an elegant look to your living room. So consider upholstered in the dark or gemstone such as ruby red, emerald green, deep blue or mushroom brown for a traditional touch.
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https://medium.com/@engineeringke/choosing-the-perfect-sofa-which-meet-your-style-and-design-e975d415cec7
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['Engineering Kenya']
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2018-10-12 12:40:48.399000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Kenya']
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Get Office Reception Furniture From Reputed Online Stores
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When it comes to offices everyone want to offer attractive look to their offices. It is dream of every business owner to decorate their offices in such a manner so that people should admire their offices. For keeping offices in best condition is always essential that business owners should keep most stylish furniture. The furniture of the offices offer extraordinary looks to offices as they cover most of the space of the offices. There are different types of furniture available in market like classical furniture and contemporary style furniture. The different type of furniture offer elegant look to the offices and when you have stylish furniture in offices you can easily able to grab the attention of people.
Even when offices are well decorated with the furniture the employees feel happy and they offer their best performance. However, for buying office furniture business owners need free time to visit to the markets, which is very difficult job as the business owners hardly get free time for shopping. If you want to get office furniture in easiest manner then you can go for online shopping. When you search online you can find free shipping furniture store that will deliver you furniture at your doorstep. These online stores are completely reliable and they always provide timely delivery of furniture. So, without going anywhere now you can buy attractive furniture for your offices.
When anyone enters your office the first thing that person look upon is your office reception. Due to this reason your office reception should always look attractive. When you visit to the markets for buying office reception furniture it costs you very high and there will no business owner who wants to incur extra expenses. At the reputed online stores you can get reception furniture at discount that will reduce your cost. Let us know why you should buy office reception furniture from reputed online stores.
To get timely delivery
In case you are very particular about time then you must order office reception furniture from reputed online store. The reputed online stores always provide delivery of furniture on right time so that your valuable time can be saved.
To save extra expenses
At the reputed online stores you always get office reception furniture at discounted prices. Further, the reputed online stores never charge shipping cost on the furniture so you can get the office reception furniture at very affordable prices.
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https://medium.com/@lucyanderson252/get-office-reception-furniture-from-reputed-online-stores-64d256626bf0
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['Dinazah Store']
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2019-12-30 07:08:57.864000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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iHome Studio — Discovers The Needs Of Inexpensive Contemporary Furniture through Careful Analysis
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iHome Studio is a one-stop shop to purchase the modern and contemporary style of furniture for a home. Whether you’re looking for a bed, sofas, office furniture, or any other kind of furniture to accentuate the décor, they have an amazing collection of premium products. They have hundreds of furniture sets available to suit every person’s taste and lifestyle.
At iHome Studio, each furniture has been focused keeping in mind the intersection of modern design, affordability, and community. Everything they sell- from inexpensive contemporary sofas to vanity table set- is made with one goal in mind; to help their customers express their personal style in the world.
Finding the perfect piece can be a challenge, but finding a perfect piece at the perfect price can be achieved at iHome Studio. If you planning to buy ultra modern office furniture, then iHome Studio offers furniture that ensures style, quality, and craftsmanship you deserve.
Whether you’re furnishing an entire room or simply adding an accent piece for visual flair, they have something for everyone. From contemporary to classic and everything in between, you’ll find A-grade quality furniture at affordable prices. With hundreds of pieces to choose from, you’ll never run out of ideas on what will best suit your home.
At iHome Studio we offer choice in our products and services, helping customers create a home that tells their story while owning it to our customers to do well wherever we can — from providing quality products to improving quality of life. The creative designs will provide a long-lasting and eye-catching impression that will light up your home while making the space more creative and comfortable.
About iHome Studio
iHome Studio is a leading online furniture store that offers modern and exotic furniture of high-quality for your bedroom, dining room, living room, office, outdoor and more. They are committed to enabling you to accomplish your dream home while expressing their unique style and taste. If you are looking for inexpensive contemporary accent chairs for your living room, switch to iHome Studio.
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https://medium.com/@ihomestudio/ihome-studio-discovers-the-needs-of-inexpensive-contemporary-furniture-through-careful-analysis-a85a0cce2ef8
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['Ihome Studio']
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2017-12-20 10:40:36.641000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Office Furniture']
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Biblia. Premium shelving unit by Store 54
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Biblia. Premium shelving unit by Store 54
As per usual, when the process of choosing a storage unit for small items and decor begins, one very concerning question comes into the spotlight — how is it possible to choose a massive rack that will not reduce the space?
Recently, we have launched our own manufacturing facility for Store 54. Today we are glad to introduce the newest shelving unit “Biblia”. Let’s get into the details!
The “Biblia” shelving unit is the embodiment of the functional modern aesthetics. The game of lines of varying thickness, more graceful on the sides and massive on the glazed shelves, natural wood and accent metal make this rack an ideal object for a modern living room, office or bedroom interior.
Shelving unit with glass doors, integrated lighting and fluted back panel
The rear wood panel is made of lacquered wood with a coloured fluted material. Integrated lighting provides soft light, emphasizes the wall relief and focuses on decorative elements that could be placed on both types of shelves.
The “Biblia” name was given in honour of The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the Yale University.
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. From the open sources
You can always check out the details of any particular design-project in our Portfolio.
How often does the overall impression depend on a few seemingly insignificant details? Very often, indeed.
Working on new premium design-projects, we try to do our best and not only to fully comply with the wishes of our clients or maintain our corporate identity but also to surprise our client with something extraordinary, having predicted in advance what he would definitely like.
All projects by Studia 54 are embodiments of the owner’s lifestyle and they have no analogues. Working in our own unique style, we design and produce unique made-to-order furniture.
Check out all the details of this amazing mirror, as well as other furniture, on our website —
Combining our unique stylistics with the latest design solutions, we make dreams come true.
Stay in touch
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📍Saint-Petersburg, Liteyny prospect 46, off. 9 (by prior arrangement)
📞 +7 (931) 270–54–54 — discuss the project
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Monday–Friday from 10AM to 7PM
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https://medium.com/@studia-54/biblia-premium-shelving-unit-by-store-54-11caf9f76ff5
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2020-11-17 10:09:47.708000+00:00
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['Interior Design', 'Design', 'Furniture', 'Luxury', 'Design Thinking']
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Sunbrella fabric has revolutionized the awning and outdoor furniture industry by using acrylic…
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Sunbrella fabric has revolutionized the awning and outdoor furniture industry by using acrylic fibers as an alternative to cotton fabric. Highly durable, fade resistant, water and stain resistant Sunbrella fabrics are very comfortable as well. They are a perfect combination of durability, design and comfort.
Some of the best features that make Sunbrella fabrics the market leader are:
· UV and fade-resistant: Made of solution-dyed acrylic, Sunbrella fabrics are saturated to the core with highly UV-stable pigments. This makes the fabrics resistant to color fading and degrading effects of sunlight.
· Durable and weatherproof: Sunbrella fabrics are all-weather friendly and can be used even in light rain showers and sunlight.
· Eco-friendly: their unique manufacturing and color dyeing technique reduces water and energy consumption and is eco-friendly.
· Comfortable: These fabrics are elegant and comfortable as they are made with light and soft weave and are super soft to touch and are available in many colours, designs and textures
In addition to these qualities, Sunbrella fabrics are easy to maintain for many years. Their performance fabrics are made to look great for the long-haul, with built-in stain resistance, durability, and cleanability.
Following are some wash care which can be followed on Sunbrella fabric, making them easy to care and maintain:
· If you have a spill that is loose dirt or crumbs, just brush off any loose particles. Mix up a solution of mild soap and clean water and spray it on the spill. Use a soft brush to gently work in the soap solution for thorough cleaning. Let the soap solution saturate in the fabric and post that rinse it with clean water and then let the fabric air dry after removing the excess water from the fabric
Perfect weather calls for moving breakfasts, family dinners and nightcaps outside and Sunbrella makes sure you can do so in a stress free way!
For more information visit www.adventinternational.in or www.zoola.co.in
We are just a WhatsApp away -> http://bit.ly/OutdoorFurnitures
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https://medium.com/@adventinternationalmarketing/sunbrella-fabric-has-revolutionized-the-awning-and-outdoor-furniture-industry-by-using-acrylic-c839043702bd
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['Advent International']
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2019-12-12 13:12:11.841000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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The Honor and Recognition bestowed on KONGKA Furniture
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The Honor and Recognition bestowed on KONGKA Furniture
Together with distinguished representatives from 8 different countries, KONGKA Furniture was the only furniture company from Thailand which was invited as a speaker in a royal project of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn to support the preservation of the unique and traditional practice of using natural tree sap as a coloring and protective agent.
KONGKA uses specifically rosewood for all of its products. While rosewood is one of the hardest wood available, the finishing method of using tree sap gives each product an elegant, smooth and soft touch. In addition, with this layer of natural protection, each piece of furniture will be able to withstand heat so much so that a hot cup of tea or even cigarettes will not cause damage to it.
Each piece of furniture takes up to 15 days to undergo this process. It needs to be painstakingly applied and vapor-heated many times to reach the final perfect touch. This laborious, costly and time consuming process demands dedication and devotion to make an outstanding piece of artwork representing culture and heritage, which is what each piece of KONGKA furniture embodies.
Customers of KONGKA furniture can have their collection refurbished with a new coating of color and protection using this time tested method by us. Please contact your sales person or visit any of our branches below.
***Timeless Beauty***
สืบสานวัฒนธรรมจากรุ่นสู่รุ่น
Phone: 02–361–0802 (10.30–19.30 everyday)
Email: info@kongkafurniture.com
Website: www.kongkafurniture.com
Line: https://line.me/ti/p/qfdVXvOFeh
Free Delivery in Bangkok and 4 provinces nearby
Delivery all over Thailand and around the world ( door to door / port to port)
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To see the real products: **6 branches in Bangkok
MBK center 5th floor
google map location: https://goo.gl/maps/yRHoN2tF9j52
2. CDC 1st floor ( building F)
google map location: https://goo.gl/maps/rjWVM9ZANDm
3. Future Park Rungsit 2nd floor
google map location: https://goo.gl/maps/aeytn1xk1Ax
4. Central City Bangna 4th floor
google map location: https://goo.gl/maps/7Gpneky3pq52
5. Yaowaraj Road ( China town)
google map location: https://goo.gl/maps/Tg2gZrJ9jXn
6. Iconsiam (opposite to Iconsiam ): แผนที่: https://g.co/kgs/ecvSYj
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https://medium.com/@madee.lertkachonsuk/the-honor-and-recognition-bestowed-on-kongka-furniture-444b03b765e1
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['Madee Lo']
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2020-07-06 08:20:00.080000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Artist', 'Traditional Chinese', 'Furniture Design', 'Repair Services']
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Modern Trends in Commercial Furniture Must See it
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Modern Trends in Commercial Furniture Must See it
Individuals who work in the business world spend a lot of time at their office. Since they do they usually need to have dependable furniture that provides them with lots of comfort and reliable.
Furniture used within the office should also be comfortable. Employees working routines and schedules change over time and the furniture should reflect the changes that take place. Read about wooden furniture online.
There are many trends in workplace furniture. Collaborative furniture is one type of trend that employees can use in order to change their workplace. Employers can create a workspace that encourage employees to mingle and to share ideas through carefully designed sitting areas.
Furnishings for these areas could include lounge seating and tables. They can be arranged in such a manner to get people motivated to interact and to talk to each other.
Furniture has to be flexible and comfortable for workers. Each piece must fulfill a variety of different needs so that people are not relying on a few pieces for a working area. Mobility is important and tables and chairs should have wheels for easy transportation. This way people can arrange the furniture within a work area in a variety of different ways.
The ergonomic chair design is necessary for the office environment. It helps people with their joints and tender areas. Many business owners and managers usually implement furniture with an ergonomic design within their environment in order to make people more comfortable and relaxed. Many CEOs are willing to pay the extra expense for these comfortable furniture pieces.
Normally, most business environments have seated computer stations. However, the modern trend is moving toward standing up. There are adjustable standing computer stations that people can use to operate their terminals. These terminals can be used in offices to improve a person’s health and blood flow. Visit online furniture stores
Ultimately, the furniture should be designed to help workers to be productive, efficient and stress-free while working in the office. Managers and employers should make sure that the pieces are comfortable, functional and convenient to use.
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https://medium.com/@dreamdecor/modern-trends-in-commercial-furniture-must-see-it-374f49692757
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['Dream Decor']
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2019-12-30 12:22:14.543000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Wooden Furniture Online', 'Online Furniture']
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History of Indian Furniture
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Floor sitting culture of India
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For much of India’s history, furniture has never been a part of the home. Customs and traditions throughout most of India determine that people slept on the floor and meals were also enjoyed seated there. Therefore, homes usually had cushions for seating or perhaps even some low stools. There was definitely no need for other furniture items like beds, dressers, tables, or even desks.
The culture of sitting on the floor is likely to develop etiquette like removing footwear before entering the house or wearing loose clothes and slippers and sandals rather than tight clothes and laced-up shoes. It might also have influenced the architecture of the house like a smooth floor with sitting place covered with mats, low cabinets close to floor level for convenience.
14th century Vijayanagar Empire in Southern India
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Few cultures were in furniture-making tradition, but it was mostly for palaces, temples, or public houses. It was mostly for ceremonial, like royal thrones. Furniture making was at that time more of art and trade than the utility. Craftsmen preserved and immortalized folklore and legends in wood.
Charpai is one of the earliest pieces of furniture that has been used for sitting and sleeping.
15th-century Portuguese Influence
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Portuguese invaded and conquered parts of India. They established residential complexes as well as business settlements, with their headquarters in Southern India. The lack of furniture in India they used back at home dismayed them. They shipped some furniture from their kingdom and commissioned Indian craftsmen to replicate them and thus, influenced the domestic furniture of the country.
This gave birth to the Indo-Portuguese style. Although the style was Portugal, the materials used were Indian. These included furniture like large cabinets with intricately inlaid and incised geometric patterns.
Indian craftsmen created furniture that had very decorative qualities because of wood carving techniques and inlays. For the inlays, they used a variety of precious materials, like ebony and ivory, cut and placed so they lay flush, creating a smooth, flat surface.
16th-century Dutch Influence
Following the Portuguese, Dutch formed trade bases in the Southern part of India. Their furniture making style gave rise to the Indo-Dutch style. These comprised of light-colored hardwoods with incised and inlaid decorations or dark woods like ebony with elaborate carved floral decorations. The indo-Dutch style was more contemporary than the Portuguese style.
Mughal Style
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Mughals arrived in India around the mid-16th Century, bringing along their influence in furniture. Mughal style furniture is mostly found in Northern India. These include furniture like tables and writing desks made of dark hardwoods like ebony with decorations of inlaid bone or ivory or mirrors. It is mostly done in Jodhpur now, where the craftsmen use handcrafted pieces of camel bone put in a traditional motif.
18th-century British Influence
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By the 18th century, a lot of furniture increasingly echoed English styles like Chippendale and Sheraton. But even these furniture included Indian material and decorative flourishes. English cultivated teak as a ‘royal tree’ for the shipping industry as it is resilient to water and weather thus, teak gain popularity for quality woodwork. The furniture included chairs with flat seats and high and straight backs with intricate carvings.
Post Colonisation
The furniture industry in India evolved with the departure of the British, ornamentation and wood varieties have changed, mostly because of price considerations. As the 19th century brought along ornamentation, the 20th century moved to simple and utilitarian furniture. Price considerations have driven down ornamentation to the minimum, and cheaper wood varieties have come to be used to cater to the huge low-cost demand. Furniture eventually also became lighter and was customized to fit our households and busy lifestyle.
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The availability of quality wood has been one of the reasons behind the widespread furniture making in India. However, with the restrictions by the government on the cutting of trees not only the price of wooden furniture is affected but also compelled to explore other materials.
Despite developments in manufacturing techniques and technology, Indian maintains its traditional way of using simple tools in the manufacturing process. Indian furniture is still carved from traditional tools that retain its ethnicity. The traditional furniture making process made Indian furniture the symbol of durability and elegance. This also makes each and every Indian furniture piece unique. But owing to present-day mass consumption, the mastery of making one piece of its kind seems to be vanishing.
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https://medium.com/@artanya29/history-of-indian-furniture-64ec7b8a92ec
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['Tanya Agrawal']
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2020-11-17 12:00:22.811000+00:00
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['Culture', 'Chair', 'Furniture', 'Design', 'India']
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MARBLE TABLE TOP Call +91–9680826540
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MARBLE TABLE TOP Call +91–9680826540
Marble Table Top or Marble Inlay Table Top
If you are looking for Marble Table Top than you came to the right place. Marble tables and tops became the first choice of every craft admirer. KGN Exports House are the leading manufacturer and exporters of the marble inlay table tops. People often love to have such tables in their homes, mansions, hotels, farm house and restaurants because it not only adds creative charm but also offers long-lasting durability. The marble stone inlaid with the finest art which is known as the Pietre Dura, inlay work or as Pacchikari well. We inlaid gorgeous floral, geometric inlay design by using semi-precious stone including turquoise, shell, agate, malachite, lapis lazuli, Jasper, and Italian stones and so on. We create beautiful design in white or black or any other color marble as well. You can use these marble table top as for dining and coffee tables, center, and conference, chess and reading tables, garden, and so on. It can be the wonderful option for indoor or outdoor. Apart from that these are stain free and offer great resistance and can also withstand in any whether condition. We have wide range of collection of marble dining tables and tops with decorative designs that will surely impress you. We can customized the work as per your taste and provide you the best design with best price. Our Marble tabletops collection contains round, rectangular, oval, square and octagonal shapes of table’s tops. We regularly use Makrana Marble as white base and Kudappa Stone as black base. Other bases can be applied according to client’s requirement. We use more than 30 types of mother of pearl, natural stones & semi-precious stones to make the Marble inlay patterns look more natural and facinate. Our inlaid marble tables tops can be utilize in Conference Tables, Center Tables, Side Tables, Dining Tables, Coffee Tables, Counter Tables .
If You need more information you can visit the link below
http://www.kgnmarbleinlay.com/
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https://medium.com/@kgnmarbleinlay/marble-table-top-call-91-9680826540-8c910dc125e4
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2019-12-31 05:33:38.631000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Home Decor', 'Interior Design', 'Interior Decorating', 'Architecture']
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Give Your Home A Finishing Touch With Sofa Upholstery
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If you are searching for sofa upholstery, you ought to lean toward Furnishing Dubai for your purpose. Quality upholstery in Dubai makes each home significantly more welcoming and agreeable. Without utilitarian furniture at home, an inn or even an office, it will look dull, dead, and only a room of void space.With our substantial scope of textures, you will effectively discover one that flawlessly accommodates your taste.The sofa upholstery items which are accessible in this company will upgrade the solace and in addition the look of the sofa along these lines the people won’t get frustrated for picking this company.
Decorate the Drawing Room with the Best
The company is putting forth the sofa upholstery Dubai, things for both private purposes and authority purposes along these lines the people can approach this company for any of these things. The specialist company will actualize the best and most recent upholstery with the end goal to improve the sofa in the better way.
In case you need to know the accessible items in the company then you can visit the official site of this company and investigate those things. We know the significance of having quality and polished furniture. We have the aptitude with regards to assembling numerous kinds of furniture in Dubai. We are about quality. Regardless of whether it’s re upholstery or drapery making; from the texture to craftsmanship we guarantee you get the best administration. sofa upholstery is exceptionally basic with the end goal to guarantee the most extreme solace of the general population. There is number of specialist co-op for Sofa Upholstery in Dubai in this manner the people who need to upgrade the solace of their sofa can approach them and get the most extreme administration. Be that as it may, there is no affirmation whether all the specialist co-ops will offer the best administration as individuals expect thusly it is in every case critical to incline toward the best and most driving specialist company in Dubai
Here Your Search Ends For the Perfect Sofa Upholstery in Dubai
This suggests when you pick us, you can verify that you get capable upholstery experts and a satisfaction from the masters. We give the fantastic sofa upholstery Dubai, sofa repair benefits in Dubai. Regardless of whether you need to remodel your sofa, repair your old one, or give your seat another look by changing its texture, our to a great degree experienced and proficient sOur master and adaptable group at furnishingdubai.com are fit for making your furniture dreams come true. Sofa upholstery in Dubai an accomplish the outcomes you need utilizing the most noteworthy quality froth and materials.
Contact Us:
Modern House Furnishing LLC
PO Box 29189, Karama, Bur
Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
Email: info@furnishingdubai.com
Phone: +971 55 8043423 or +971 4 3972532
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https://medium.com/@furnishingindubai/give-your-home-a-finishing-touch-with-sofa-upholstery-d727a41afc47
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['Furnishing Dubai']
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2018-10-12 05:36:04.394000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Furniture Online', 'Dubai']
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The Decoration of Dinning Space with Attractive furniture
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The designing of a dining room in Kenya is a work of art and require the use of appropriate dining table and dining chair in Kenya. Thus, it is crucial for people to show a great concern towards different aspect of home decoration which involve the use of beds in Kenya, dining table as well as Dinning Chair in Kenya. This would help them to direct their manpower and ensure a proper installation. The dining table in Kenya is very crucial and they should be incorporated into various kinds of decoration.
There are various kinds of dining table in Kenya and several factors are to be considered before making your final selection. Some of the factors include shapes, sizes, fittings as well as the final color matching of the home designing products. It is mostly observed that people like using wooden dining chair in Kenya because of its elegance, full bright color as well as lifelong guarantee. The wood dining tables in Kenya perform nicely and are very durable. Also, the color of the wooden beds in Kenya won’t fade away.
Dining chairs in Kenya should be selected carefully because it is crucial for it to be well balanced, easy to seat on and very beautiful at sight. The chairs should be durable and the dining room should be considered so that it would fit perfectly into the space. Sequel to this, you can order for leather made dining chair in Kenya because they are luxurious and fashionable. The user would feel very comfortable while keeping glued to the leather seats which are smooth and soft.
One thing which you need to note is that there should be adequate dining space to store different sort of units such as cupboard, table with well-designed drawers and book keeping shelves etc. the color is a very crucial factor which should be considered carefully. Teenagers always like gorgeous as well as dazzling hues while old ladies prefer light as well as sober color. Thus, if an individual want to refine his taste by choosing a bright color, he must lay his hands on dining chairs which are deeply colored in Kenya. The old ones would feel pleased to see light colored furniture items which are set in the dinning space keeping in touch with the modern concept as well as theme. Dining tables and chairs in Kenya likewise have several benefits, some of which include:
Connect everyone: The dining table set would allow everyone to sit around it to converse and eat. Regardless of whether it is festive or everyday meal, a dining table set with 6 chairs would be great for sharing memorable time.
A good host for small party: sometimes, just for the sake of enjoying one another company, we organize parties at home. The dining table is an ideal place to host these parties. It also provides a nice platform to enjoy the meals as well as play games.
Enhance the room appearance: A dining area does not only serve as a gathering spot in the home but also enhance the beauty to space. So use dining chair and table in Kenya to enhance the appearance of your home.
Different choices: The dining table comes in different sizes as well as styles. There are foldable units, tables with the extendable feature, six seater dining table with storage and lots more. Also, all these kinds are available in different materials to give the home a unique appearance.
Best to showcase: The wooden dining chairs and tables in Kenya are good for showcasing expensive cutlery set as well as other dining essentials. They are spacious enough to hold centerpieces along with other things which have been cooked.
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https://medium.com/@engineeringke/the-decoration-of-dinning-space-with-attractive-furniture-75535df0f8da
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['Engineering Kenya']
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2018-10-12 12:10:40.877000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Kenya']
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Custom Furniture — Give Your Home or Office a DifferentExpression
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Custom Furniture — Give Your Home or Office a DifferentExpression
Individuals have turned out to be exceptionally cognizant with respect to the stylistic layout of their office or house. While improving a room, one considers the size, for what reason the room will be utilized, the shading plans and in particular the furniture. Bureau producers are making extraordinary business with respect to creating insides. Here comes the significance of custom furniture. Custom media cabinet is winding up exceptionally famous these days.
All things considered, there is an assortment of approaches to have that fantasy furniture piece made. Some furniture outlets need to have a point by point chart while others will acknowledge an illustration on a paper napkin and make a show-stopper superior to anything you expected. You can even take a photo of a question and a furniture creator can without much of a stretch copy the item for you.
Shockingly, specially crafted wood furniture is not any more costly than purchasing a strong household item at your nearby retailer. Also, you get the chance to choose the wood, completions, hues and textures, if important. Obviously, plans that are more advanced or require mind boggling subtle element will be more costly, however the final product will be justified, despite all the trouble. You will have an exceptional uniquely designed furniture thing that will be the envy of the individuals who see it.
Next, you select the wood, kinds of entryways, number of racks and apparatuses with your decision of tallness and width for the ideal custom cabinetry. On the off chance that you are experiencing the errand of making a custom side board item, ensure you have the thing created of premium quality wood materials like mahogany, teak or acacia. Furniture influenced utilizing brilliant materials to will give you numerous times of happiness.
While picking furniture producer to assemble your furniture piece it is best to observe some of their past work. On the off chance that you will have a kitchen table, Pie safe worked for example, take a gander at comparative pieces to give you a thought of their work. Entrenched furniture creators are pleased with their portfolio and references of their past work. Additionally, ensure you see how they need you to present your plan and get all expenses cited in advance with assessed conveyance times.
This will help maintain a strategic distance from shocks when your furniture arrives. Additionally, see whether they are running any specials or have rebates like free transporting. Some of the time changing the material can prompt a value decrease without influencing the quality. A furniture creator takes awesome pride in their art and needs you to be totally content with the item. Presently you can give your home or office the unique look that is in your psyche.
This highlighted review examines about Custom Handmade Furniture for Your Interior Design Project Is a Fit.
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https://medium.com/@kountrykupboards/custom-furniture-give-your-home-or-office-a-differentexpression-ebe30e1d6bbe
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['Dee Grimshaw']
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2017-12-20 07:08:04.607000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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Furnishing your home? Here are 3 things to look out for!
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We all know furniture is one of the main components that make up your interior space. In this article, I’ll show you a) how to know if the furniture is in the right proportion for the space you have. b) How the furniture visually impacts your space (it makes it appear smaller or bigger).
#1: Placement of your Furniture: A common mistake made is placing furniture along the walls of the room to create huge empty spaces in between. Creating a chunk of empty space in between is not going to help bring a sense of spaciousness. It is important to create a layout such that your movement around the space is not affected, but this can be achieved without having to place them against the walls. Create spaces that embrace the activity the room is for.
For example, a common mistake that people make in the family room is placing all their sofa and chairs all facing the TV! The TV is not the only main subject or the activity of the room! The family room is for the family to engage in conversations and the best way to encourage that is by placing furniture facing each other. Place the larger piece of your couch perpendicular to the TV instead, so you can use it as a daybed on a lazy morning!
#2: Furniture style: There are numerous styles of upholstery and designs to choose from. Classical, Indian, Moroccan, country, Scandinavian, mid-century modern, etc. To comprehend different styles and learning to put them together is going to take a while, so let me give you a DIY trick to judge furniture that will suit your home and your style.
The style of any furniture can be judged by the features on its legs. Ball and claw-footed curvy lines, sleek tapered legs; glamorous gold and silver finishes will tell you the style of the piece. Classic silhouettes, curved lines, deep wood finishes represent a traditional style. These features can add visual weight to the furniture while expressing grandeur. If you are looking for a formal yet timeless style to your interiors, these pieces will resonate with you.
Some pieces sit low on the floor. These give off a bulky yet cosy feel to the piece. Gold and silver legs can also add to the visual weight of the furniture. So if you’re going for a soft comfy look, go for a chesterfield sofa or a tub chair, etc. If you are trying to go for a look that makes your space look larger, try ones that have long slender legs, and clean lines without intricate upholstery details like futons, chaise, Lawson and mid-century modern.
#3: Colour and Texture: If you’re looking to keep your room appear more spacious than it is, go for dark colour upholstery/shades of wood. Also, choose ones that are raised at a considerable height from the floor so that the floor space is visible making it seem spacious. Dark colours often give a sense of compactness to the furniture further enhancing the space around it. Keep patterns simple and straightforward. If you’d like to create a warm cozy look, go for neutral-toned cushion colours on your furniture. You can play with bold colourful patterns on the upholstery and rugs. Different fabrics of the same colour can act differently too. For example, a dark velvet upholstery on a chair looks heavier than a dark blue jute or polyester fabric. Leather looks heavier than microfiber. Choose your fabric accordingly, and don’t be afraid to layer them to boost visual interest.
#4: Don’t spread out a collection:
Gone are the days when all the pieces of furniture in the room matched each other. Mix up your pieces of furniture and don’t spread a collection of the same style throughout the room. This could result in a flat design and become boring. For example, when picking out furniture for the living room, choose the main three-seater furniture in a lighter or medium neutral tone and a grand curvy silhouette, choose a chair to compliment the silhouette and accent colour for the room.
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https://medium.com/@ishwarya-s/furnishing-your-home-here-are-3-things-to-look-out-for-5b6970176b23
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2020-11-17 10:12:09.491000+00:00
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['Furnishings', 'Home Improvement', 'Interior Design', 'Furniture', 'Furniture Design']
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What To Keep in Mind While Ordering Bespoke Furniture?
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What To Keep in Mind While Ordering Bespoke Furniture?
There are many things that you need to keep in your mind while ordering a bespoke furniture. Want to know what they are?
Buying bespoke furniture is a great tactic to make your home or office look the way you want it to be. But the thing is you need to be very careful while ordering any bespoke item. There are many things that you need to keep in your mind.
The layout of the space where the furniture is to be placed
Before you start shopping for bespoke furniture for your property in Berkshire, it is important for you to spend some time thinking about the layout of the space where it would be kept. If you have the design scheme in your mind, you can share it with the retailer from where you are planning to buy. There may, in fact, be a lot of choices when it comes to the aesthetic and profile and so it might be hard for you to know what would work best for your space. In such a case, what works best is expert help who can assist you with their decisions like whether the piece of furniture that you’re planning to order would fit well in your space and look good out there.
Know if it is worth customising
According to furniture makers in Berkshire, not all kinds of furniture are worth customising. You should consider placing the bespoke furniture in spaces, which are frequently used such as dining rooms or bedrooms. These rooms are places where you’ll have these furniture pieces for a long time. And seeing this furniture would make you feel more confident as you had the opportunity to customise it. So, you should opt for customising those pieces that you think you can place in bedrooms or dining areas.
Request for samples
If you get a chance to see any sample, you should do so. There is, in fact, nothing like seeing & touching a fabric in person. You will be better able to understand whether you can live with that fabric in your home and whether it suits your lifestyle. Along with the fabric swatches, the wood samples may be helpful as well. The wood tones, after all, vary from one brand to another.
Understanding the returns policy
Before ordering any piece of bespoke furniture it vis very important for you to understand the returns policy of the online furniture maker. Not understanding it prior to buying may disappoint you if you find that the piece you have ordered needs to be changed or altered.
Always consider these four points whenever you are planning to order a piece of bespoke furniture for your property. By considering these, you will be able to get a piece of your choice. The furniture will serve great value for you and your family.
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https://medium.com/@corwellfurniture/what-to-keep-in-mind-while-ordering-bespoke-furniture-da5e2f66fb9c
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2019-12-31 05:02:22.010000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Wood']
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Finding The Best Chair For People With Limited Mobility
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Finding The Best Chair For People With Limited Mobility
The elderly and people with mobility issues typically spend most of their time either sitting on a chair or laying on the bed, and whilst these are designed to offer them comfort, some furniture may not be the right type for them or even contribute to worsen their conditions. Since they are mostly sitting throughout the day, having a chair that makes them slouch or lean towards the edges may be detrimental to their health. That is why getting the best chair that will answer their needs is important to improve their well being. To know the right type of chair, here are the factors you need to consider before purchasing.
Adjustable Features
The elderly have immediate and changing needs that may require the chair to have specific modifications to aid with their comfort. For example, to reduce the risk of bed sores they have to continuously shift their weight, and having a chair that can be tilted to have the desired angle can help with persons who are having a hard time to move independently. With a riser/recliner chair, the features enable the person to have a safe sit to stand transfer when on riser function and have maximum comfort when on recline function.
Made-to-measure Dimensions
Having a riser/recliner chair that is made specifically for your needs can provide you with the perfect sitting position. To aid with your mobility needs, it is important that you consider first the mechanisms before deciding on the design and style that you want your chair to have. Riser/recliner chairs provide a variety of tilt in space features which include full tilt to provide support when standing and independent backrest reclines to allow multiple positions to be achieved.
Comfortable
When choosing for the right chair, the most important to consider is comfort. When trying out furnishings, sit on for at least ten minutes to ensure that you’re comfortable. The upholstery used should also be considered since the feel of the fabric also contributes to having comfort. Consider the different types of armrests, whether you want them to have wooden knuckles for support when standing up or have an added layer of padding for more comfort.
Hygienic
You should pick furnishings that can be easily cleaned since it will be used for the most part of the day. Consider the fabric used, the frames and the corners. It is advisable to veer away from vinyl as this material causes sweating, which can make the seating surface slippery. Ensure that the chair has breathable fabrics and has easy to reach corners to prevent dirt and bacteria from accumulating.
Provides Support
People who have limited mobility need certain features for support in the right places. Armrests should have soft fabric for comfort but should also be firm to bear the weight when standing up or sitting down. Footrest features can also provide support when elevated to support recline positions.
Remember that it’s better to have the elderly and people with mobility issues be on their chairs than to be on their bed, and if the chair is not providing the comfort they need and may even be contributing to their pain, they may find themselves constantly choosing the bed to relieve their discomfort. Having the correct type of chair can reduce their time on their beds thus improving their quality of life.
The Mobility Furniture Company supply luxury chairs that are available in variety of different upholsteries, sizes, motor action types and back rest styles. Because you have a wide range to choose from, you will be sure to find a chair to suit your decor. If you have any inquiries or would like to request for our free 68-page brochure, get in touch with us. Give us a call on 0800 810 8816 to speak with a friendly member of our team today.
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https://medium.com/@hearingsolution/finding-the-best-chair-for-people-with-limited-mobility-bea28d17545d
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['Hearing Solutions Uk']
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2018-10-12 09:48:37.775000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Hearing Loss']
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This Holiday Season, CasaOne is going to make your dreams come true!
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This Holiday Season, CasaOne is going to make your dreams come true!
The Holiday season is well and truly upon us, and at CasaOne we’re celebrating by giving you some of the best offers on renting furniture for the Holidays!
We’ve launched the Mega Holiday Sale from the 20th of December 2017, all the way to the 20th of January 2018. For an entire month, all orders with a minimum term of six months, will come with one month absolutely FREE, on us!
Looking for some state-of-the-art furniture for your Living Room to entertain guests during the Holidays? We have everything from Coffee Tables and Chairs, to Sofas and Storage. And if you’re looking for additional furniture for your Bedroom, we’ve got you covered there as well — CasaOne has everything from Beds to Benches, Lamps to Mattresses, Storage to Mirrors, and everything in between! And if that Dining Room needs a little sprucing up for the Holidays, we have everything from Tables and Chairs, to Barstools and Buffets.
Whatever your furniture needs are, CasaOne has you covered! We’ve even got your back, if you’re looking to build out your very own Home Office in the comfort of your home, to work on the next big idea that might come your way. After all, you never know when inspiration is likely to strike!
And there’s even more reason to celebrate! Not only are we giving away some excellent deals to give your home a touch of festivity for the season, but we’re also giving you access to some of our prime inventory in the CasaOne store, so that your home can stay as trendy as the season.
There’s absolutely nothing you need to do to avail of our Mega Holiday Sale! Simply place your order between the 20th of December 2017 and the 20th of January 2018, and the kind folk in our team will add an extra month to your order, absolutely free! It’s just that simple!
As always, if you have any queries, feel free to reach out to us at support@casaone.com.
Go to the CasaOne site to start renting right away!
Happy Holidays!
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https://medium.com/casaone/this-holiday-season-casaone-is-going-to-make-your-dreams-come-true-4cba454a476a
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['Dean Fernandes']
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2017-12-21 03:58:43.121000+00:00
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['Holidays', 'San Francisco', 'Rental', 'Furniture', 'Sales']
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Factors to Consider When Purchasing Outdoor Furniture in Singapore
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When you are in a country like Singapore, you cannot overlook the need for an outdoor space at you home to spend your time more so when the temperatures in the room are unbearable. It thus goes without saying that you will require some outdoor furniture so that you can enjoy your time when you are not in the room. The outdoor furniture that you include tables and outdoor sofas which are essential for outdoor space. Purchase of outdoor furniture can be a little puzzling, and therefore you will require following some guidelines just to be sure that you will lay hands on the right outdoor furniture. The article will discuss factors to consider when buying outdoor furniture in Singapore. Find out for further details on this link right here.
There is a need to consider the kind of weather that is in the place you live. If the weather is hot, you should make sure that you avoid outdoor furniture that can be destroyed by such climates. You should also avoid furniture that is made of aluminum if you are located in an area where there is a lot of wind blowing. Learn more about cheap outdoor furniture singapore, go here.
The kind of outdoor space that you have should offer you a guideline as to the kind of furniture you should acquire. Ensure that you buy furniture that will fit into the outdoor space that you have correctly. You should not avoid the furniture that has a shape that will look ugly when placed in the space that you possess.
You should not forget to check the luxury that you derive from the furniture that you purchase for the outdoor space. You should see to it that the chairs that you acquire are those who have cushions and if they do not have them you can have a means to put them.
There is a need to ensure that you purchase furniture that does not exceed the financial projection that you had set for the noble project. It is imperative to see to it that you select a chair or table that is not very expensive whereas making sure that the furniture is of the right quality.
It is imperative that you ensure that you check the kind of material that has been to construct the said chair or table. You should ensure that you select a chair that is waterproof in case the outdoor space is not covered. You should ensure that you choose outdoor furniture that will not cost you much regarding the cost of maintenance. Take a look at this link http://homeguides.sfgate.com/redo-cast-aluminum-outdoor-furniture-99177.html for more information.
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https://medium.com/@archermattie/factors-to-consider-when-purchasing-outdoor-furniture-in-singapore-2d47c810d71b
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['Archer Mattie']
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2017-12-13 03:50:00.445000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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IHFRA’s 2018 Furniture Industry Awards Gala
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The recipient of a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Michigan State University, independent sales representative Dave Talboo sells luxury outdoor furniture for manufacturers Gloster and Tuuci. Supplementing his extensive experience in furniture sales, Dave Talboo holds membership with the International Home Furnishings Representatives Association (IHFRA).
The IHFRA is the leading professional organization for furniture representatives and serves to advance industry professionals through legislative advocacy and educational opportunities. Additionally, it hosts the annual Furniture Industry Awards Gala (FIAG) as a means of celebrating the success of its members over the course of the past year.
During the 2018 FIAG scheduled for April 16 at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, three major awards will be presented. Martin Ploy, who has held executive roles with manufacturers and wholesalers such as AICO, BenchCraft Furniture, and RB Furniture, will receive the Pillar of the Industry Award. Rebecca Tronstein of Gardner White Furniture will be honored with the Retailer of the Year Award, and Mark Scharff will be given the Distinguished Service Award.
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https://medium.com/@DaveTalboo/ihfras-2018-furniture-industry-awards-gala-6a642b906e7c
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['Dave Talboo']
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2017-12-15 19:19:24.993000+00:00
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['Innovation', 'Furniture', 'Awards']
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✨Team highlight: 3 years of Clayton Hung!
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That said, let’s hear a little from the dev who started it all…
The first developer of our ever-growing team, Clay single handedly built the first version of our SaaS product. He’s been integral to Bear’s company culture, as a leader and mentor to new team members every step of the way. He’s seen every Bear office, met every Bear team member, and been there for all the highs and lows. Showing a consistent and unwavering commitment to Bear’s goals, there’s a reason we have the saying “in Clay we trust”. It’s been an incredible journey with Clay on the team, and we’re lucky to have him!
As a founding member of the Bear team, Clay has seen it all.
You’ve seen Bear grow from a tiny cub to where it’s at today. What’s your favorite Bear memory?
I showed up one day to find one of our clients’ reclining sofas getting returned to our office. I had seen photos, dimensions, and all the possible data points about the product (there are way more than you think), but never thought I would see it in person. We ended up keeping this extremely comfortable sofa and used it for many of our meetings.
What’s your approach to writing code?
Understanding the problem as much as I can and breaking it down into smaller parts that can be tackled much more easily. I also started writing tests more often to support the code I write.
What advice would you give to new developers?
Find something you want to change and start writing! This will keep you motivated from all the times you feel defeated or overwhelmed. New developers are often scared to make mistakes and fail, but that is probably the best thing you can do to become a better developer. Mistakes happen to all of us all the time, we just need to learn from it.
“Find something you want to change and start writing!”
What’s your favourite thing you’ve coded?
It would have to be my friends and I coding up a recipe generator based on whatever was in my fridge. We all had fun and learned something new at that time. It wasn’t anything complicated, but it was very useful in helping us clear out the fridge and wasting food.
What are you most excited about for the company’s future?
I’m most excited about the impact we can have on the furniture industry. Ecommerce feels like a dark and scary place for the furniture industry because it’s so new and complex. On the other end, the furniture industry is also much more complicated than I first thought. I believe we are the bridge: we can simplify things so both sides can understand each other in a way that meets the need.
What’s your favourite piece of furniture?
I really like walnut coloured tables — it gives it a very earthy and neutral feeling. Reminds me of camping or hiking outside.
What do you do in your down time?
I try to stay outdoors, but it really depends on the weather. I did pick up astrophotography a few years ago so I try to get out for some shots if the stars align… I have phases of gaming (I really only play CS1.6 now) and I also try cooking up something new once a week. Now that winter is coming back, I’ll be busy snowboarding every week.
Here’s to the next three, Clay!
#inclaywetrust
✌🏼🐻
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https://medium.com/commercebear/team-highlight-3-years-of-clayton-hung-b9ff63a2ac93
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['Will Staunton']
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2020-11-10 16:50:39.281000+00:00
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['Ecommerce', 'Inventory', 'SaaS', 'Furniture', 'Development']
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The Leadership behind A Couch.
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The Leadership behind A Couch. Photo by Inside Weather on Unsplash Monday afternoon never be this comforting. I took my sister to a furniture shop to look at their year-end sale — something that a corporate person would never do on typical Mondays. We started to get interested in furniture because we love having coffee in various coffee shops for chillin. Few things that matter when we have coffee is the chair that we sit on, the table in front of us, the ambience, and the design of the shop. We need to at least have furniture and ambience as the top winners, otherwise we would not have it in our go-to list. Ideally we value ergonomic furnitures (literally, lots of chairs and tables are deemed ergonomic but happened otherwise). The ambience has to keep us stay for more than an hour chatting (even if not, if we come to think that it’s also very nice to stay without particular topics, we’re definitely a true customer). We know that having ergonomic furniture would save us from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, well it least the risk can be minimised, and without a good ambience, we would not even think to have a dine-in. In the furniture shop, I was sitting in this exquisite couch while my sister was stumbled upon something else in the upper floor. In the middle of enjoying the mixed brown-cream ambience, I looked left to a British family that is arguing on each other on which couch should fit their new house. I have minimum knowledge on how British people tend to buy furnitures, but I like to play my game of imagination inside me. So I observed how they will come up to the decision. I started with how I see all of them in one simple frame of personality.
Photo by Qin Fan on Unsplash The parents have 2 children, male and female, I think they’re maybe around 3 and 4 years old, the sister is the eldest. The Dad — always be on top of the game. He spoke first, he pointed out first, he compared which colors was best for the family and the house theme, he cared so much about the kids as he looked at their children twice everytime he argued with his wife. He’s very careful and it looked like he’s aware of ergonomic principle, but seemingly not too sensitive about the aesthetics of the furniture. He prefered a couch that is comfortable for him to watch soccer game or any kinds of sports. Doesn’t matter if it has a good design or not. And he mentioned that he needed to have a particular spot in the couch only for him, so if a particular soccer game plays on TV, he wanted to sit on that spot from the couch. Quite interesting though. The Mom — looked like a lavish perfectionist. She always fonded of the valuable couch that was comfortable and deserved a high value. Any couch that she picked that I see was a brand new, some of them were overrated for me. I bet she was looking for brand over functionality. The Eldest Girl —a cheerful being, sometimes demanding for ice cream near the shop lobby or that Frozen’s Elsa pillow that every girl has nowadays. She tended to run here and there with her brother, like they’ve found their playground. I couldn’t observe her interests on the couch because she was too active playing around. The Young Boy— the most cool boy. Didn’t care what people think or do, but always followed where his sister went. But he looked like the most creative and clever in the family. He knows that every “do not sit” sign means he has to sit on it. At first he’s playing cool — he let his parents argue, but then when he knows what he wants, he has to get it. In this case, a particular folding couch that he pointed out to his parents several times, sort of like an outlier between the parents’ list of choices.
I immediately thought, “looks like a dynamic type of family”. This needs a handful of leadership capability to manage all of their unique dominance. And guess who is the winner from the almost-one-hour arguments? The Eldest Girl. Wait, did Elsa save her? Or did she even know which was the best couch? Nope and nope. It is all about her cheerful traits and the result of her running around with her brother, she passed by one of the salesman. With her confidence, she was able to escort the salesman to provide recommendation to the family which is best for their home, that fit with all of their preferences. In addition, the salesman happened to be an ex Interior Designer, so he was able to take another perspective of color and design of their new home and connect it to which type of couch that most fit. Hence, the salesman pointed to this twenty-five-percent-off couch that everyone loved. It’s super comfy for The Dad because for all the coincidences, the couch was displayed in front of the 13" TV and that’s actually the same case happens in their house, hence The Dad could easily visualize what it’s like the be put at home. Though it’s not as luxurious as the other brand new couches, The Mom liked it because it was not an old collection as the salesman said it’s only been one month old (…how lucky). Finally, it of course fit to The Young Boy’s preference because it’s a folding couch! The Girls then deserved a medal.
Photo by Inside Weather on Unsplash Whoa. I didn’t think a simple observation can be this twisted. They do have a really interesting dynamics. Feels like I need to introduce myself before they think I’m creepy. I learned so much about this family in an hour by noticing a thin line between their similar-but-different characteristics: magic over dominance. I do believe in magic of leadership, like the Girl with her cheerful mind, she can get a perfect person to become family’s consultant. This wasn’t observed at all, I might be missing some points by observation, but I do think this can be connected with how we see leadership. Trust the magic. In the back of every truth, we really don’t know how the truth is made until it performs. Though sometime the result may hurt, but trusting the feeling of creating the result is helpful. That may be sort of magic behind the hurt. In the aftermath, a relief comes. Stay positive and trust it will go well, not always, but still well. A point of potential speaks. If we trust the magic in every leadership, we will see a small point of potential, if you see it carefully. Start by thinking something different as an interesting story, like we see difference in people (or like I see difference in the family). Dynamics creates a story, maybe will create a potential that has yet been unleashed, just wait and see. Produce addiction to the addition. Once you see the magic and once you see the potential, trust me, you’ll get addicted of how the story will tell you next. I feel like I should come by to their house and befriend with them, and eventually befriend with their dynamics. I’d be interested in listening to how The Dad and The Mom built the culture of the interestings!
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https://medium.com/@yirps/the-leadership-behind-a-couch-3b37063d51c7
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2019-12-30 14:12:45.577000+00:00
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['Furniture', 'Leadership', 'Family', 'Magic']
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Choosing Quality Fabrics
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Choosing Quality Fabrics
Problem never comes alone. When rusting begins, not just metal becomes weak but many secondary problems go abundant. One such problem is rust discolor.
One within the quickest, easiest and cheapest ways strengthen your house is paint. Whether it is the side or the inside, both areas can look new and transformed. Pick neutral shades and brighter trim colour. Plain white walls tend generate your home look appearing a rental and not owner utilized.
Well I’m working on some projects that I can’t share, but what I’m able to share generally that I have market week coming out for my jewelry line, Jill Zarin Jewelry. I’ve some new pieces coming out. Allison’s home, so I’m sending her off to college in a few months. Read Here !!!
Your drapery is and a big player in the design of a living room. Some people hang some privacy shades and call it a holiday. If this is may have done, you are missing on a huge opportunity generate texture and color in the space. Enjoy the Upholstery fabric, the drapery should complement design and style of space. Also consider the actual natural light will affect the draperies. That is required to upgrade the quality of your window or find a way to protect the drapery fabric your current products are making a big stock market.
Most electric machines have a button a person can press to turn back directions of sewing. This js good for securing the seam hair tips. When you are starting a seam, insert the needle little way in from starting point of the seam, and sew back to Upholstery fabric the side before releasing the button and sewing forwards.
Today you’ve got literally quantity of options in the form of replacing your dining room chairs. Upholstered chairs, wood chairs, Parson’s chairs, or basic models with chair covers are often options. Look into your dining-room to purchase an idea of how new chairs could instantly update your parking space.
The action in creating herbal pillows is decide on the right herbs. Great need quite a few of high quality dried spices. Some of the quality herbs are rosemary, lilac, lavender, sage, thyme, mint, lemon balm, peppermint, rose petals, clove and marjoram. In order to promote sleep, denims these kinds of of herbs.
At a corner, stop with the needle in the fabric but on its way in mid-air. Raise the presser foot and swivel round on the required list. Lower the presser foot and start sewing to come back. To sew a curve, go along slowly, turning the fabric gradually a person sew. In the event the curve is sharp and the edge sets out to buckle, stop with the needle as fabric, raise the foot, reposition the fabric and then lower the foot and continue sewing; you should do this several times round the curvature.
woven fabrics, furniture cleaning, home improvement work, room chairs
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https://medium.com/@okezaskia636/choosing-quality-fabrics-a1a7272424d3
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['Zaskia Oke']
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2017-12-27 04:36:22.613000+00:00
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['Furniture']
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How to choose the right sofa
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The sofa is often the heart of your room. The heart is the basis of the interior, is expensive and should last long enough in daily use. Let’s take a look at the main characteristics of the sofa, from which we start when buying.
Durability
It is known that sofas with a well-dried wooden frame have the most extended lifespan. Plus, a high level of assembly is added, and so it is a guarantee that in a couple of years, the furniture will not begin to creak and crumble.
Convenience
Your sofa can have any functionality, even a purely aesthetic pleasure, even an extra bed. But nothing can rule out its comfort, otherwise, why choose such a sofa at all?
Easy to operate
The sofas can be folded out and have additional compartments, but what’s the use of them if you don’t understand how to use them? Before buying, be sure to understand the mechanisms and test the ease of use.
Functionality
It all depends on your needs and requirements, so make a list of options for yourself. Remember that this will affect the cost, but will make your life somewhat more comfortable. For example, a built-in bar will not hurt at all during movie viewing.
These were the essential characteristics that every sofa needs. Now let’s figure out how to choose a quality sofa or any other furniture. What to look for?
Frame
We have already mentioned earlier, now in more detail. The frame is what the whole sofa is built on its foundation. The choice of material for the frame is directly related to the service life. The metal frame is considered to be the most durable, it is reliable, and it is not so easy to break it. Frames made of natural wood also cannot be scolded, such elements are quite reliable, but they also stand accordingly. If you want to have a structure under a tree, but are not satisfied with the price, but chipboard frames are perfect. They keep their shape well and do not crumble ahead of time, but it is worth choosing those that have a protective layer.
Upholstery
This item directly depends on the funds that you are willing to spend on furniture. The most expensive material is leather not only for its appearance but also for some advantages: protection against moisture and impact, stability, etc. Approximately such benefits will have leatherette products, but the cost will be much cheaper.
If we talk about fabric upholstery, then tapestry, jacquard and chenille are most often chosen. They are stable with daily use and wear little over time.
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https://medium.com/@kellyloeffler/how-to-choose-the-right-sofa-ea91e1335965
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['Corrine Gilbert']
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2020-11-28 14:43:50.632000+00:00
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['Sofa', 'Living', 'Living Room', 'Furniture', 'Furniture Design']
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The Hot Carpenters of Instagram
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The Hot Carpenters of Instagram
The lathe spins clockwise faster than the eye can track. The bandsaw spreads apart a piece of walnut. The belt sander smooths a dowel. Sometimes there’s only a single piece of olive to see, its desaturated grayness traced with veins that look like a watercolor mountain range. But there’s almost always a chair, desk, bench or rocker somewhere nearby.
Welcome to Carpentry Instagram, a small, sacred universe of furniture makers who post real-time shots of their work for the online world to see. The comments are typically filled with other woodworkers asking where they can get an apron like the one pictured, which grade of sandpaper is best and how good the MiniMax bandsaw really is. But there are fans, too. “There’s something so relaxing about just scrolling through photos of these men working on their furniture,” says Bayley Lawrence, a 29-year-old from Colorado.
From the comments, there’s a pretty even distribution of men and women who follow these craftsmen. Their reasons for doing so, however, vary. Every man I spoke to said he found the videos aspirational. “Who doesn’t want to make something with your own hands? It’s awesome,” Chris, an accountant from Denver, writes over email.
There was some of that with the women as well. “I don’t know that I really like furniture that much,” says Karen, an avid fan of Instagram carpenters who echoes Chris’s sentiments. “But it’s soothing to me. I like watching them make things.”
But some of the women I interviewed also didn’t deny that it was a turn-on to watch a man fashion a piece of furniture out of a hunk of wood. “It’s hot,” Lawrence says. “Watch their hands and tell me it’s not.”
“There’s something romantic about building furniture,” adds Karen, conceding that some of this perception stems from pop culture’s romanticization of the hot furniture maker — a la Aidan from Sex and the City and whichever Property Brother is a carpenter.
I became entranced by Carpentry Instagram, too, during a particularly hard period earlier this year. I spent hours watching young men turn a single piece of wood around on a lathe. It was a mesmerizing, hypnotic experience not dissimilar to the joy many people find in slime videos. But unlike slime videos, in which the creators are generally just a pair of hands, these carpenters appear in many of their own photos, and as Lawrence says, they’re undeniably attractive. “I like seeing them work,” she explains. “They often look so happy. I don’t think that many other people are happy at their jobs.”
They do look at peace—probably because they are. “It allows me to be creative every day,” says Philip Morley, a furniture maker with nearly 65,000 Instagram followers who resides just outside of Austin, Texas. “I get to take this raw piece of material and make it into something beautiful yet functional.”
“I’ve always loved doing things with my hands, so finding a profession where I build and create has been amazing,” adds Kylle Sebree, another Austin-area woodworker with 16,000 Instagram followers whose shop uniform includes a leather apron. “Working for a company for 25 years was safe and boring. Our generation is over the fake thought of that being the dream.”
Several of the woodworkers I interviewed say they discovered the trade because they had a lot of trouble in school. For them, working with their hands was a legitimate option in a world that didn’t feel full of them. Others learned to love it just by doing it.
Carpentry and woodworking are among the world’s oldest trades, but they’re not ones promoted by schools or deemed particularly impressive. Sebree admits that almost half of the people who visit his studio think woodworking is a hobby, not a job. Admittedly, there aren’t many such jobs in the country. In fact, according to the Bureau for Labor Statistics, there are just 18,000 “specialty trade carpenters” nationwide. On the flip side, there are 600,000 regular ol’ carpenters in the U.S.; most of whom are employed to work on construction sites and do home renovations.
The difference? “If woodworking is carpentry, I’d consider it the black-belt level,” explains Scott McGlasson, a furniture maker from Minneapolis-St. Paul with 20,000 Instagram followers, gray hair, wire-rimmed glasses and an athletic build. “It’s carpentry at its most refined.”
That level of refinement ain’t cheap either. A black walnut and white ash bed from Sebree’s collection costs $4,500. Most of Morley’s work (everything from jewelry boxes to gun displays to comfy chairs) is commissioned directly by clients. The same is true for McGlasson, whose prices can be inquired about on his site. “I can’t afford to buy any of their work yet,” says Mary, a 28-year-old from Philly, “but I know it’ll be worth it when I can.”
“The biggest challenge is to get yourself in front of the right audience of potential clients,” Morley says. To find these clients, Morley et al take their work to local art shows and teach classes. But they also rely heavily on social media (especially Instagram) to reach a larger audience. “I feel like people can see a bit of my story and personality there just by showing what I do day-in, day-out,” Sebree says.
It also taps into a quintessentially manly man trope — physical labor. Carpentry, farming, or any job that seems physical isn’t only perceived as sexy because it shows a body in motion, it’s sexualized because it plays into a stereotype of masculinity: The unemotional, capable, strong man. Holding a sharp tool while a piece of wood spins dangerously fast, shows not only physical strength, but dexterity and intensity as well.
That said: “It’s definitely not a romantic career,” Morley counters. “I don’t enjoy every single moment in my shop. At times, it’s a job, and at times, it’s a passion.” Money can be tight between projects, and creating an entire piece of furniture from what’s essentially a whole tree isn’t exactly a quick process.
Instagram, though, is a balm for these stressors. Clients are more likely to find woodworkers there, and several of them told me that the majority of their sales are from people who find them through social media.
They also believe it’s changed the perception of them — not to mention, the world around them. “I honestly think that there’s simply a greater awareness of such trades in the last generation or so just through social media,” Morley says. “I think people in general are beginning to realize the pitfalls of mass-produced items and a growing appreciation of handmade crafts.”
Kelsey McKinney is a D.C.-based writer who has written for The New York Times, Buzzfeed and Vanity Fair. This is her first piece for MEL.
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https://medium.com/mel-magazine/the-hot-carpenters-of-instagram-579b510f062f
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['Kelsey Mckinney']
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2017-12-13 17:39:06.606000+00:00
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['DIY', 'Furniture', 'Woodwork', 'Instagram', 'Social Media']
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The Things to Consider Before Buying The Maverick Bedside Tables
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A side table is a table that can be seen in every household. It is a significant part of the interior decor. The very name side table suggests that it is to be placed at the side of any unit of the furniture. It is mostly used along with the beds or in the living room, next to the sofa. They are very useful for you can place almost anything on them.
A side table or bedside table comes with drawers so that you can store the knick-knacks in them and on the top of it decorate it with beautiful vases or photo frames. Their presence can perk up the atmosphere of the room. They can uplift the functionality of the place as they are moved from one place to another as per the convenience of the people of the house. The bedside table can be used for multiple purposes no matter where you place them. There are many points to consider before you choose the bedside for your dear dwelling. Let’s look at them:
The shape of a side table will majorly depend on where do you want to put it and for what purpose do you want to use it. It is very useful and looks equally beautiful if placed rightly. Like if you have a round coffee table than get a square or rectangular side table. The contrast in combination could do wonders for your interior decor.
Ranging from the medicines to varied kinds of clips, a reading lamp, a few books to read and a vessel of drinking water all of this can be placed on a bedside table if you select it wisely. And if you have got the one with the storage facility then you can put the important documents, lotions and money in them so place the stuff you think you need next to your bed.
Bedside tables should be of the same height as that of the bed and if you cannot find them of exact height than go for the taller ones than, the shorter ones. So that you can have an easy access to the things of your desire.
A wooden side table or bedside table can enhance the elegance of the room. You can put them anywhere you want with the things on and inside it. While being highly useful a wooden table will undoubtedly leave many including you speechless. They do carve out their special place in the mainstream furniture pieces.
Mix the styles. Be a little daring and bring forth the combinations that are unimaginable because gone are the days when everything has to be matched or come together. The contrasting things spruce up the mundane and the regular settings of your home and your working place. Same goes with the bedside tables, experiment a bit with the style because it will lit the atmosphere with divinity and life.
Select from the online options available of bedside tables because they are more budget amiable. The designs designated by the expert designers taking care of the needs and requirements of the buyers is terrific. In just a few clicks you can savour the best quality designs.
To conclude it can be said that with the time changing there is a growing need for bedside tables. We are the generation that reads a lot, surf a lot and dress a lot. Everything we do is top notch. So we need the tables that could hold our arsenal properly and make it look more of a piece of art than a mess.
Skim through the important points mentioned above before deciding on the bedside tables. Don’t forget to read the short descriptions of the products to get fully equipped with the choices available online. Go creative, go crazy!
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https://medium.com/@sharmarahankit87/the-things-to-consider-before-buying-the-maverick-bedside-tables-7c385177f712
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['Ankit Sharma']
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2017-12-15 11:03:32.871000+00:00
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['Home Improvement', 'Bedroom Furniture', 'Bedside Table', 'Bedrooms', 'Furniture']
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