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Service Description: Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Geology and Mineral Resources (VADMME), as part of the United States Geoscience Information Network (USGIN), provided a geologic map of the state of Virginia (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1325/#VA). This Service was published by the Kentucky Geological Survey (KYGS) as part of the USGIN initiative to “create and facilitate discovery and access to geoscience information provided by state and federal geological surveys of the United States”. These data were compiled by the VADMME. The layer, Geologic Unit View, is a compilation dataset containing geologic units covering the State of Virginia at a scale of 1:500,000. The features are provided in GeoSciML portrayal schema and are compatible with version 3.0(http://schemas.geosciml.org/geosciml-portrayal/2.0). The dataset table includes geologic name, description, lithology, and geologic history. This service is compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards and the data within is compatible with GeoSciML portrayal view for geoscience data.
Description: Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Geology and Mineral Resources (VADMME), as part of the United States Geoscience Information Network (USGIN), provided a geologic map of the state of Virginia (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1325/#VA). This Service was published by the Kentucky Geological Survey (KYGS) as part of the USGIN initiative to “create and facilitate discovery and access to geoscience information provided by state and federal geological surveys of the United States”. These data were compiled by the VADMME. The layer, Geologic Unit View, is a compilation dataset containing geologic units covering the State of Virginia at a scale of 1:500,000. The features are provided in GeoSciML portrayal schema and are compatible with version 3.0(http://schemas.geosciml.org/geosciml-portrayal/2.0). The dataset table includes geologic name, description, lithology, and geologic history. This service is compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards and the data within is compatible with GeoSciML portrayal view for geoscience data.
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Comments: Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Geology and Mineral Resources (VADMME), as part of the United States Geoscience Information Network (USGIN), provided a geologic map of the state of Virginia (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1325/#VA). This Service was published by the Kentucky Geological Survey (KYGS) as part of the USGIN initiative to “create and facilitate discovery and access to geoscience information provided by state and federal geological surveys of the United States”. These data were compiled by the VADMME. The layer, Geologic Unit View, is a compilation dataset containing geologic units covering the State of Virginia at a scale of 1:500,000. The features are provided in GeoSciML portrayal schema and are compatible with version 3.0(http://schemas.geosciml.org/geosciml-portrayal/2.0). The dataset table includes geologic name, description, lithology, and geologic history. This service is compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards and the data within is compatible with GeoSciML portrayal view for geoscience data. |
Light Of Day benefit for the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. Bruce played for almost two hours with Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers. Other performers from the evening include Willie Nile, Marah, Boccigalupe & The Badboys, and Mr. Reality.
with Jeff Garrison. Concert for Flood Aid, benefiting Pennsylvanians who suffered damage from Hurricane Ivan in September.
The song is written by Joe Grushecky and released on Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' 1997 album Coming Home. |
In recent years, heavy metals have been widely used in manufacture, agriculture and pharmaceutical industry. Human activities also cause frequent occurrence of heavy metal pollution. Therefore, prevention and control of heavy metal pollution has become a worldwide topic. The heavy metals are widely distributed in atmosphere, soil and water. In water, they are mainly in the form of cation. Therefore, the efficient detection of heavy metal ions is of important in the research of the prevention and control of heavy metal contamination. Among numerous detection methods, as a simple and effective method, the fluorescence sensing has received extensive attention. At present, the fluorescent sensors are mainly based on the fluorescent probes used in solutions and embedded in on-surface films. In the development of fluorescence sensing based on solution phase, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have become a hot research subject because they are superior in terms of low toxicity, excellent photostability, high surface area, chemical inertness and high biocompatibility. As for the fluorescence sensing based on solid phase, fabrication of the ordered array of fluorescent probes on solid substrates makes sense for improving the performance of sensing device. In this thesis, we explored the above mentioned two kinds of detection modes, respectively with systematical discussion of the possibility of application of 0D GQDs and 2D molecular self-assemblies on HOPG in the fluorescence sensing of heavy metal ions. The correlation between the structures and optical properties of materials was studied and revealed. The primary contents of the thesis are as follows:First, regarding the fluorescence detection of heavy metal ions in solution phase, we developed a facile top-down preparation of GQDs featured with acid vapour cutting process. A series of novel fluorescent GQDs have been fabricated by using confined nanoreator and precursors with heteroatoms. High-yield synthesis of GQDs with good aqueous solubility via simple, low-cost and fast separation process and utilized for accurate FL detection of Fe3+ were achieved. This section includes three chapters: 1. A low-cost top-down synthesis of GQDs using a SBA-15 template as a confined nanoreactor via a HNO3 vapor cutting and in-situ filtration strategy was presented. With the recyclable ordered mesoporous SBA-15 template enhancing the confined space at nanometer scales, a high-yield (48%) preparation and size-controllable of GQDs has been achieved. Furthermore, application of the obtained GQDs as fluorescent probes for Fe3+ determination was studied. The results showed that the obtained GQDs exhibited high selectivity towards Fe3+. The further study indicate that the fluorescence of the GQD can also be quenched by Cu2+, Co2+, Mn2+, Ni2+ after its surface modification, thus may widen the application of the obtained GQDs.2. By using a nitrogen-rich MOF-derived porous carbon (ZIF-8C) with large specific surface area as precursor, N-GQDs with uniform particle size and abundant superficial functional groups were obtained via the acid vapour cutting strategy. The obtained N-GQDs were used as a platform for the selective and rapid detection of ferric ions with a low detection limit of 80 nM. It is expected that the facile strategy presented in this study can be extended to the synthesis of GQDs doped with other heteroatoms upon an appropriate selection of initial MOF-derived carbon as raw material and also will expand the scope of application of MOF-based materials.3. Two nitrogen and sulfur co-doped GQDs (N, S-GQDs) with different particle sizes and heights were synthesized via HNO3 vapour cutting with a porous polythiophene-derived carbon via serving as the sulfur source and the HNO3 vapour presenting as the scissor and the nitrogen source. The as-prepared N, S-GQDs exhibited blue and yellow-green colored fluorescence. An application of the obtained greenish-yellow N, S-GQDs for highly selective and sensitive fluorescent detection of Fe3+ was demonstrated, with a larger linear range of 0-130 μM than the above two GQDs and a low detection limit of 70 nM. The present rapid achievement of the dual heteroatoms doped GQDs with tunable fluorescence may be applied for biomedical imaging, energy conversion, light-emitting devices and so on.Second, regarding the fluorescence detection of heavy metal ions in solid phase, we fabricated 2D fluorescent assembled film by immobilizing organic functional molecule or host-guest architecture on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) via self-assembly, which remain fluorescence emission of fluorescence molecule, achieving immobilizion of fluorescent probes, provide basis for development of fluorescent film sensors. This section includes three chapters: 1. The fluorescent probe TPE-C4-L2 with well known aggregation-induced emission (AIE) property was selected to fabricate 2D assembled film on HOPG. With the aid of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we investigated the microcosmic structure before and after the addition of Zn(II) and determined its fluorescence (FL) response to Zn(II). The correlation between their optical properties and structures at the molecular level was also revealed. The experimental results demonstrate that metal-ligand coordination is the main factor that caused the change of the SAM structures, leading to a reduced local ordering, and then results in the quenched emission of fluorescence. In this respect, we realized sensing trace amount of Zn(II).2. The luminescent molecule 1-pyrenebutanoic acid (PBA) was introduced into a host template 1,3,5-tris(10-carboxydecyloxy) benzene (TCDB) on HOPG substrate to construct a well-organized 2D nanoarray film. The structural arragment and optical property of the PBA/TCDB network on air/HOPG interface were investigated employing STM and fluorescence spectroscopy. The experimental results show that the SAM on HOPG not only can retain fluorescence emission, but also the FL intensity changed to be very stable in atmosphere condition in contrast to oxygen-induced fluorescence quenching of PBA in solution. The interesting results of such nanoarray film inspired us to explore its potential application in preparation of more stable and highly ordered films and optical devices for sensing other species in the future. In this thesis, a series of GQDs were prepared using a HNO3 vapor cutting strategy and applied for the specific fluorescence detection of Fe3+ in solution. And the fluorescent sensing properties of GQDs was improved by heteroatom doping. In the aspect of solid detection, we achieved immobilized film of fluorescent probes and host-guest complex by self-assembly and accomplished the stimulating detection or provided potential for determining metal ions. In a word, both the sensing studies on GQDs and investigations of functional molecules array on HOPG revealed that structures of materials have the direct influence on fluorescence characteristics. |
It was then that I realized that unless you have walked through the 12 steps yourself in AA, you really couldn’t begin to see the value in it. Who knows how many active addicts, and the people who love them, are missing out on this golden opportunity to reclaim their lives?
So I am here to tell you that I love AA, because it works. It works for me and millions of other people every single day. Yes, every single day. Because it isn’t something I’ve finished; it’s an ongoing process. It’s a whole new lifestyle. Embracing it has taken me from active addiction to recovery.
It starts with acknowledging the existence of a higher power and realizing that you don’t have to keep carrying the heavy burden of addiction all by yourself. You can turn it over to your higher power and, in turn, receive the blueprint for peace and sobriety.
One of the biggest benefits AA has to offer is that it provides you with the opportunity to share your feelings with a group of people who all “get it”. Every emotion that has isolated you fr the rest of the world at large is now being validated.
It also doesn’t matter where you are in your sobriety journey. Each person’s story is relevant to someone in attendance, whether you are still drinking or have been sober for years. It is an amazing feeling to realize that you are helping yourself and others at the same time.
Sometimes, you may have a vague feeling of unease, but you can’t pinpoint the exact cause. Then someone else shares at a meeting, and it shines a light on what you have been feeling so that you can understand it and can take the necessary steps to deal with it.
No one does the work for you nor do they try to sell you any snake oil. Instead, they teach you 12 proven steps that help you regain strength and develop the self-esteem needed to stay that way. You learn to take full responsibility for your actions instead of blaming others. You develop healthy coping methods instead of engaging in reactionary behaviors that create feelings that you want to numb with alcohol.
As you learn and apply these steps in your daily life, you create the positive feelings that come with accomplishment instead of feeling helpless and blaming your actions on others.
AA meetings are everywhere. You are not tied down in your recovery. You can continue your education, accept that new promotion that requires you to move, or travel anywhere you like to visit friends or vacation with complete confidence.
If life throws you a curve ball on a holiday or even in the middle of the night, there is always a meeting in session somewhere. A simple internet search will connect you with times and locations of meetings wherever you are.
You’ll also never meet a stranger at a meeting. We all share that special bond of understanding and unconditional acceptance. The opportunities for making new friends are endless.
AA not only helped me to break the chains of addiction. It also gave me a brand new life. What’s not to love about that? |
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SSS Orthotists' provide a unique approach to Orthotic Management of the foot and ankle. With our in-depth knowledge of biomechanics, evidence based practice and technical skills; we achieve great outcomes for patients with all lower limb pathologies.
SSS was the first facility in Australia to use the full Omega Tracer Computer Aided Technology (CAD CAM) to design and manufacture all our custom foot orthotic devices. These include soft and rigid EVA foot orthoses and UCBL heel cups. |
I've gone from a look with coat and beannie to another with bare legs. Long ago that I have this jumpsuit in my closet and wanted to show it you. It's perfect for halftime and I think combine it with denim it's a wise, what dou you think? Lip color and ready for a family day at the mall. A look without any complications, simple and cute. There are enough photos but I hope you like it. Kisses and thanks for comment! |
It was the best I could do: not a big fan of sparkle, I guess!
This is Pupa Artbase in M031 (a ssparkly silver) and KIKO sparkle touch in 234 used as a topcoat.
I love your shirt - that's my kind of sparkle! Hope that you are enjoying this challenge as much as I am. |
You look beautiful in your outfit! Gorgeous eyes btw! You have a great blog! I'd love if you checked out my blog, and if you like it, can we follow each other on “GFC” (blog followers), “Google+”, and bloglovin? I promise I’ll follow you back <3 |
The first shoe has dropped for the 2016 Dallas Cowboys…or should I say iPhone?
Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett revealed that veteran running back Darren McFadden would miss multiple months after suffering a broken elbow in a home accident.
Cowboys RBs coach Gary Brown said Darren McFadden fell Memorial Day weekend on his right elbow trying to keep from dropping his cell phone.
That’s right. McFadden didn’t want to drop his cell phone. Thus, he sacrificed his elbow to save his cell phone.
@DAVi_DiGi Gary Brown on the fall: "He was trying to keep his iPhone S, his brand new one from hitting the ground and cracked his elbow."
Assuming this is an accurate description of what took place, if McFadden actually bought an Otter Box, he might actually still be healthy.
The 28-year-old McFadden rushed for 1,089 yards in his first season with the Cowboys in 2015. As the likes of Alfred Morris and rookie runner Ezkiel Elliott threaten to steal time away (and probably a starting job) from McFadden, he picked a really bad time to keep his cell phone from hitting the deck. |
Irene / Castellón (Spain) / 19 Fashion blogger, lover dance and music. Stay here and share with me my looks, hobbies, travels and more. Be monísima!
EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP Symphonic Orchestra has already come . AU, VST, Standalone, Intel Mac . was commissioned and performed by the Indianapolis Symphony. . |
We have 6 staff members working between the office and on reception.
At Sir James Clark Building, we have street level units which can be used for a shop or an office.
The land that runs between Mile End Mill and heading down towards Morrisons is privately owned by us. We currently offer this as additional parking space, available to tenants.
If you are thinking of relocating your office and would like to discuss options, please don’t hesitate to make contact. We will talk through studio options on the phone, or in person, to identify if we have the ideal space for your business.
If we don’t have an office space ready for you, we can create a space, bespoke to meet your operational requirements and build an office you can be proud of. |
It’s time for the Obon Festival in Japan. (It usually is held in mid-August. This episode originally aired on August 15, 1997). The challenger is a buddhist monk who prepares what the chairman calls “Nouveau Vegetarian Cuisine.” She is the younger sister of the challenger from episode 237. The chairman announces the theme by talking about its “. . .purple color. Yes, that vegetable. . .” The chairman says to remember that Obon vegetarian dishes should have “light, simple flavor.” (淡味 or “tanmi.” I can’t find it defined but the kanji literally mean “light” and “flavor”. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.)
A big thank you goes out to everyone who have enjoyed any of the clips and episodes on the site. Keep it up.
I still have more ICC Exclusives to add in the coming months. In fact, there is an episode uploading right now. It should be available to watch and download later tonight. (And I’m hoping to make another announcement soon about some possible episode acquisitions. Stay tuned.)
It’s time for another ICC Exclusive episode. This week, I present the second battle of Iron Chef Italian Kobe’s Kitchen Stadium career. Of course, he lost his debut in the Short Pasta Battle (522OA).
Iron Chef Kobe lost his first battle in Kitchen Stadium. Chairman Kaga was not happy. To challenge Kobe this time, the Chairman brings in a true Italian chef. He has cooked for many famous people, including Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bill Gates, and that 3rd tenor guy. He began cooking at the age of 13. At the time of this battle, he had only been in Japan for two months. (BTW, if anyone speaks Italian and can translate what the challenger says, please post it in a comment. Thanks.)
You can tell it’s only Kobe’s second battle. He is quicker to the podium this time than in his debut, but he still isn’t at a full sprint like we are used to seeing.
One of the guests/judges is named Sunplaza Nakano. I tried to find more information about him, but his website is down. And most of the search results were for the Sun Plaza Hotel in Nakano.
The female guest Takahashi Hitomi likes cabbage and is happy that it is the theme. Unfortunately, Sunplaza Nakano said he hates it.
I think the challenger said that he thinks Kobe’s costume makes him look like a clown. And at one point he calls the bald-headed Sunplaza Nakano “Tamago-san,” or Egg-man.
I’m always surprised at how frequently I come across Iron Chef connections in the other Japanese media I enjoy. While I now actively search for BKS videos, a lot of my early contributions to Beyond Kitchen Stadium were found purely by accident while watching other Japanese shows. Today, I present a few new videos that were found when my other Japanese entertainment interests intersected with Iron Chef.
I got this message not too long ago: “Just wondering if that guest judge on Chen bean sprout battle was the guy that Fujimoto Miki did the enka song with. He looked familiar.” I looked up the episode in question and found that it was indeed the same singer. Takao Horiuchi was a judge for three of our episodes. (Judge: Milk-529OA, Spanish Mackerel-612, Bean Sprout-717). Below are six songs that judge Takao Horiuchi sang with members of Hello Project. Most of these came from the Japanese television show Uta Doki! Pop Classics. (You know some of the girls from Hello! Project from Ryori no Tetsu-Kappa, Ryori no Tetsu-Musume, and these two BKS videos.)
Takao Horiuchi with Fujimoto Miki – Okitegami – April 2008 (I also posted Fujimoto’s version of the song for those interested.)
Half way through the Trio Tabata Thursday. AMRAP 6 5 BMU 5 Power Cleans (185/ 130) 2 min rest AMRAP 6 5 BMU 3 Power Cleans (205/145) “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying,… Read more »
Scott deadlifting during Wednesday’s class. Tabata Bike (Cal) 2min rest Tabata Row (Cal) 2min rest Tabata DU *Score is combined calories and DU “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” –Ralph… Read more »
Lindsay using her natural bouncy personality to do a few burpees. Strength E2MOMx8 5 Deadlift 5 HSPU (Deficit) *Score is weight “Tiggers are wonderful things. Their tops are made out of rubber, their bottoms are made out of… Read more »
Mitch getting in thrusters during one of the Saturday wods. MetCon E5MOMx 3 400m Run 21 Thrusters (95/65) Then E3MOMx3 200m Run 15 Thrusters (75/55) “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only… Read more »
Reminder no regular classes tomorrow. Instead come participate in our open house wods. Three Mini classes starting at 9:15. We’ll be here from 9am to noon. See you there!
Class going through the motions with light weights to prepare for going heavy. Strength 5 RM Power Snatch Then Pallof Press “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships… Read more »
Throw back Thursday to the old place to see Andy working those ring muscle ups. Three x AMRAP3 2 RMU 4 Ring dips 8 American Swings (24/16) 3 min rest “If you set goals and go after them… Read more »
Lindsay going for a little row the other day… Conditioning For Time 5K row* *E2MOM= Burpees over Rower **35min cap **Rx=10, Sx1=7, Sx2= 4 “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.”… Read more »
It’s easy to see Erick progressing with his consistent efforts on movements and workouts. Look at him flying through a few double unders last week.
*This workout is the definition of endurance and satamina. There is nothing fancy here, just work and because such is a very mentally challenging workout.
*Building mental toughness, here, to keep going will help carryover to other mentally changing aspects of your life.
Ironwood Commercial Builders, Inc. is completing the framing, drywall, acoustical plaster, and lath & plaster of the Third Street Light Rail Program Phase 2 of San Francisco’s historical Central Subway project. The Subway will improve San Francisco’s public transportation and is expected to carry nearly 73,000 riders per day. ICBI is proud to contribute to such a revolutionary means of transit within the city of San Francisco. |
Write about your strongest memory of a heart-pounding, belly-twisting nervousness: what caused the adrenaline? Was it justified? How did you respond?
Jeb Collier, was a 17 years old, standing 6’7″, 140 pounds, with beautiful strawberry colored hair and the face of a twelve-year-old. He enlisted in the US Army as a Military Policeman before he graduated high school and was scheduled to leave two weeks after his high school graduation.
Suzy Lovell, a pixie at 5’1, ” began dating Jeb in the seventh grade and were high school sweethearts after Jeb gave Suzy a promise ring during their sophomore year and were expected to marry before Jeb left for the Army’s basic training at Fort McClellan Alabama.
When Jeb was in the fifth grade, he stood 5’11 and weighed 95 pounds, so he was always taller than most of his elementary school classmates, and during the summer before he went to the sixth grade, he grew an astonishing 8 inches.
Three weeks before his high school graduation Jeb signed a contract agreement to enter the US Army a week after his high school graduation. This was during the Korean Conflict. Jeb walked out of the recruitment office feeling proud and manly. He rode his bicycle into town and seeking out everyone who called him anything other than Jeb and starting physical fights.
He fought his two older twin sisters who showed him some mercy and three younger brothers, along with several close friends and enemies, who ridiculed and tormented him over the years.
These fights excited and impressed Suzy, who was overwhelmingly proud to be Jeb’s girlfriend.
You see, over the years, they talked about how Jeb should stand up to the people who called him names. For years Suzy repeatedly told him, he needed to demand the respect, he deserved.
After all of the fights, Jeb suffered some bruises but gained a sense of respect from all who lived in the small coal-mining town of 300, in Putney Kentucky.
Two days after their graduation, Jeb and Suzy, hiked along a familiar trail to view the sunset from a nearby mountaintop. For years, they have taken the hike, to see the beauty of nature, talk and most importantly to find privacy to take part in a little heavy petting.
As the sunset on the horizon silhouetting the Kentucky Mountains in colors of reds and pinks against the clouds. The two walked hand and hand along the trail towards their homes in the valley.
After several yards, they heard noises of rustling trees and the crunch of leaves coming from the wood line.
They thought it might be their friends attempting to scare them. So they yelled the names of friends they assumed were trying to frighten them. No one acknowledged as the noises continued.
Fear began swelling within them both on the darkening trail, so they held one another’s hands tighter while walking faster.
Their fear grew dreadful, as the rustling in the woods continued with Jeb’s long strides outpacing Suzy who was trying to keep up while holding his hand. Suzy could hear and feel her heart pounding, as tears streamed down her cheeks while being dragged by Jeb.
Suzy’s sweat-soaked blouse, and tears in her reddened eyes, she looked up to Jeb whispering.
Before Jeb could answer, a giant black bear, appeared fifteen yards behind them standing erect near the edge of the wood line standing two or three feet taller than Jeb.
“You better keep up.” He turned and ran, screaming “Help!” “Help!” “Help!,” towards his home.
Jeb screams were heard at his home, and soon his mother, father, brothers and twin sisters ran towards the sound of his voice. Jeb’s brothers had their shotguns, and one of the twins carried their father’s rifle. They all ran towards the trail with their flashlights furiously moving along the path ahead of them.
When the family ran upon Jeb on the trail, he was breathing so heavy, with sweat dripping from his reddened face and fear in his eyes. He was slow to explain in between breaths, that he saw a bear on the trail.
His siblings pointed their flashlights up the trail, when Jeb’s mother yelled, where is Suzy?
For several seconds, there was an awkward moment of silence, and Jeb stopped breathing when the silence was broken with Suzy’s footsteps on the trail.
The flashlights were turned towards her when she appeared, and with her pixie southern voice, she yelled.
I’m right here, Mama, Collier.
Suzy’s face was red as a summer beet. When she walked past, Jeb, her anger was seething like a thousand suns moving Jeb from where he stood.
She stopped in front of his mother and said that she was ok. The bear ran back into the woods after Jeb ran away screaming.
She turned towards Jeb and said. I do not want to speak to you until you return from your Army training with some courage, gumption, and respect for me.
She turned back around and walked away with Jeb mother, father and his siblings in tow, snickering.
When Jeb returned seven months later from his Army basic training, he begged for forgiveness and Suzy’s hand in marriage.
On the fourth day Suzy relented saying yes, and today we gather to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of my mother and father.
Thank goodness for, fright, flight, courage, and gumption, or else I would not stand here to tell this tale.
Great story! I loved it!
It was true love and courage building during military training. LOL!!!
I’d be afraid till my bones!!!!!! |
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As a qualified psychotherapist, I work with the client to gently explore what it is that they wish to change, whether it be something within themselves, or old patterns of behaviour that no longer serve them well in life, so that they can lead more fulfilling and productive lives. I provide a caring, non-judgemental space where the therapeutic relationship can grow and the client feels nurtured, supported and understood.
Having trained as a somatic psychotherapist, I believe that the body is an integral part of our being, and cannot be separated from the mind. From my training, I also incorporate the latest developments in neurobiology, human developmental theory, attachment theory, trauma theory, selfpsychology and intersubjectivity. I also use mindfulness-based practices.
As a member of the Australian Somatic Psychotherapy Association, I am committed to undertaking ongoing personal and professional development, including regular clinical supervision of my work. I practice in accordance with the stringent ethical guidelines of this association.
I have been assisting people on their personal journeys of self-tranformation, with a variety of issues for the past 8 years, with wonderful results. I have also been a high school teacher for over 30 years and with empathy and compassion, have enabled many students to be the best that they can be and to transform the quality of their lives.
For many years as a high school teacher, I worked with students who did the best that they could with what their life experiences had dealt them, with students who struggled to achieve their full potential. Many of these students had been labelled as troublemakers who impeded the progress of others in the classroom and therefore needed to be (and were) punished for not conforming or behaving. I felt some frustration that in schools, because time and resources are limited, I was not able to help such students as much as I would have liked.
I noticed a huge difference in one particular student who had been labelled as ‘a troublemaker’, after I spent some time really listening to him, rather than reacting to his behaviour. He opened up and eventually became a ‘model student’ who went on, not only to achieve excellent academic results, but also, after seeing a therapist, dealt with his issues and went on to become a wonderful husband and father.
I felt motivated to spend time working as a volunteer, supporting people work through their issues on personal development courses, and during this time, felt a driving passion to retire from full-time teaching so that I could become a therapist.
My training as a Somatic Psychotherapist involved a thorough grounding in a mixture of the best established psychotherapeutic theories, from roots in Freudian psychology, through the many different movements that evolved over the years, as well as the fruits of cutting-edge research into psychotherapy and human development, and neurobiology.
I have been influenced by a number of approaches, beginning with Kohut’s concept of empathic attunement (Selfpsychology ), including infant and child development theory, the enormous contribution of John Bowlby and others in Attachment Theory and Intersubjectivity Theory. I am particularly excited by the new developments in neurobiology, particularly as it relates to trauma and neglect and evidence that people’s brains can be rewired within the therapist-client relationship.
As a Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapist, I embrace a comprehensive approach to personal growth and development which acknowledges that all facets of human experience are interrelated i.e. that the processes of the body/mind not only affect and reflect each other, but are actually inter-functioning aspects of a person's whole being. Each person's individual history, their cultural/biological context and bodily-based subjective reality are all inextricably intertwined.
I also integrate mindfulness practices in to my daily life and in my work as a therapist.
I am particularly interested in the neurobiology of trauma and development and how they impact on the organisation of the brain and subsequently on the organisation of an individual’s experience. I feel that it is immensely important to have an understanding of trauma and its impact, in order to work with traumatised individuals. Longer term and more lasting healing of traumatised individuals have been recently seen as resulting from the laying down of new neural pathways, achieved from repeated new experiences in therapy, in contrast to treatment in the medical model which pathologises and medicates.
The work on infant and child development, including Attachment Theory, and how the brain is affected by neglect, continues to fascinate me, particularly in the context of neurobiology, and how through therapy, healing can be achieved when stages of development which were interrupted in the life-cycle can be reinstated.
As a Somatic Psychotherapist, I believe in a holistic approach, that the mind and body are integrated. I work within a broadly humanistic and psychodynamic framework that is inclusive of the body, where the relationship between the client and myself is developed and valued, taking in to account each of our experiences and with a particular focus on what is happening in the present moment. Because we embody our experience, somatic cues as well as verbal information provided by the client are observed and when necessary, used to give feedback to the client, so that together, we can gently explore what is happening for the client, while the client experiences being supported in this process.
For many people, anxiety and depression are the result of the stresses of a busy lifestyle, where too much is expected of them (by themselves and/or others) and they have lost the ability to self-regulate. Medication is not always the answer, sometimes all that is needed is empathic listening and empathic attunement, so that the client feels safe and can just be, without having to do anything, where they can be listened to, without judgement, and feel understood. This in turn can lead to better self-regulation and the implementation of more successful coping mechanisms. The client then can then, armed with an awareness of what they need to change as well as support, face difficulties and overcome obstacles, so that they can make different choices and thereby have the life that they desire and deserve.
Some clients choose to have Bio-dynamic massage, which is a deeply nurturing experience in its own right, where the emphasis is on soothing the nervous system. This is entirely the client’s choice to work in this way.
Progress will of course vary from client to client, depending on the client’s experience, history, their level of awareness and current circumstance. It can be very slow and extremely subtle, often out of awareness. For some, huge progress may consist of picking up the phone and making that first appointment, then in turning up, then in coming back and continuing in spite of the temptations not to do so. Facing one’s fears and expressing them (either verbally or somatically), then facing them and attempting different coping strategies for difficulties/issues are all examples of significant progress which may be dismissed or minimalised or even overlooked.
I personally feel that the client starts to feel that progress is being made when they truly feel (even out of awareness) that they are heard, understood and accepted, unconditionally and without judgement. This may be a feeling (such as relief, or a sense of trust or of being held or supported), rather than something that can be verbalised, or it can be a bodily experience, such as a deep sigh, or tears. Understanding may come later as to why, but this is something for the client and therapist to gently explore together.
Therapy has made me a better person because it has allowed me to embrace all parts of my self, including the parts that I learnt at an early age to suppress or disavow. It provided a safe place where I felt understood and supported, which in turn led me to want to explore the rationale behind the behaviours and relationships that I was choosing in my life, which invariably were not helpful in attaining the joy that was my birthright. Through a development of my understanding, I was able to further develop my self-reflective and relational capacities.
In becoming more accepting of myself, I am able to empathise with others and to practice non-judgement, be a better listener, as well as provide support for others without losing myself in the process. I am able to ask for and accept support, and see self-care as being a necessity rather than an indulgence.
As a young child, I learnt at an early age that approval from my parents through being a high achiever was paramount to my sense of well-being. Like many, I became a driven by perfectionism, which later in life, invariably led to frustration, because that perfection could not be achieved. Through therapy, I have come to accept and like who I am, warts and all, and no longer needing to seek validation of my self-worth from external sources, but from within. I am able to have more choice in my life. I am grateful for so much more, and as a result, can allow myself to experience a fuller range of emotions and feelings, and to see that as healthy.
I am able to experience each day with whatever it brings, acknowledging the past without regrets, and looking forward to whatever may arise in the future, learning from each experience, whilst remaining true to myself and to my values and beliefs.
What I love most is that a client trusts me enough to take that courageous leap of faith to change something in their life that is not working for them, and allow me to support them on their journey to enhance the quality of their life. I feel very humbled and privileged to be able to do the work that I do and to see clients gradually become empowered to lead more satisfying lives.
It is extremely rewarding to be able to work together to change patterns of behaviour that are not helpful, to have the client experience an increase in their self-esteem, to provide tools and the practice of using those tools so that they can have a different experience, which will lead to the realisation that they have the potential to achieve so much more from their lives.
It is truly heart-warming to see a client feeling safe enough to allow themselves to be vulnerable, to work through difficulties and fears together, to make the brave decision to work more deeply and then to see them come through the other side, having more choice in their lives. In addition, I learn so much more about myself and grow from time spent with each client.
Yes, of course I do. I am, after all, a human being, with all of the fallibilities, vulnerabilities and weaknesses (and strengths) that are part of the human condition. I am also a product of my past experiences and the relationships that have shaped me, and can be, and am, triggered by events that occur, often outside of my awareness. I am fortunate in that I have had training, have done lots of self-development work, engage in mindfulness practices such as meditation, and have ongoing therapy, so that I can deal with my bad hair days in ways that serve me better.
Part of my success in dealing with bad hair days is acceptance that they do (and will) happen, rather than trying to disavow them, or wish that they didn’t happen, or worse still, blaming myself. Awareness of why they happen can be helpful (although not always necessary), although I personally find that awareness of how I react is more useful to me in order to change how I handle similar situations should they arise again (and not surprising, they do!). Asking for and accepting help, something that I used to struggle with, help tremendously too. Spending time in the company of like-minded people also provides ongoing support.
The other key factor for me in handling bad hair days is to connect with nature, such as taking a walk along the beach, spending time playing with my cat, or spending time in my vegie patch with my chooks, for engaging with my environment gives me ‘the bigger picture’ perspective. Having gratitude for my life, my health and the people in it helps me cope with those ‘bad hair’ days.
I think that the most significant problem that we face stems from a lack of harmony, imbalance with our planet, imbalance with each other, and imbalance within ourselves. Many people on this planet are struggling with obesity, whilst many others are dying from starvation. People are killing each other and destroying the planet. There is an inequitable distribution of wealth, success in many places is measured by how much wealth one can acquire in a lifetime, rather than on how humanely or compassionately one lives.
This causes a lot of stress in people’s lives as they feel that they cannot live up to the expectations that they, and others, place on themselves, and this leads in turn, to imbalance. From this stance, for many, it is difficult to feel gratitude or compassion, to extend kindness or to be non-judgemental with others, let alone with oneself.
Many people are more reactive than proactive and change is difficult. It is often difficult for people to communicate honestly and openly about what is going on for them, when it is not safe to do so or when unaware of what is going on internally. When one does not feel good about oneself, it is often difficult to really feel good about anything else, let alone have compassion for others, and so on the cycle continues.
It is important to break the cycle, by providing a safe, non-judgemental space, where a person can feel supported and begin to restore their self-esteem, so that they can begin to restore balance within themselves, then in turn in their lives and within their environment. Sadly, for many people on this planet, their world IS a dangerous place where their very existence is indeed under threat.
There are many books, films, songs, events and works of art that have inspired me and on a daily basis, new ones that inspire me. I am also constantly inspired by people, many of whom would not consider themselves to be inspirational, who are struggling to eke out an existence, overcoming adversity and who exhibit incredible courage battling illness and difficult challenges that life throws them.
Perhaps the most significant piece of writing that inspired me, was one of my textbooks from my training, Robert Karen’s “Becoming Attached - First Relationships and How They Shape the Capacity to Love” (1988).
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Whether you are promoting your own products or someone else's through ClickBank, you'll want to make sure your website is functional, error-free, and sales oriented. You will also want to begin capturing visitor's information as soon as possible by offering a newsletter. This helps you build a dedicated audience to market all of your affiliate offers both now and in the future. If you still have questions about using ClickBank, check out ClickBank University. They offer free videos and tutorials that will help you get set up so you can start earning revenue.
If you are a professional photographer, or have a real flair for photography, then selling your images on other sites could be an idea. This could be done alongside your own photography site, as it is a good way help get your work viewed by a wider audience. There are numerous stock image websites to contribute to, but choosing a popular high-end site like Shutterstock should ensure your photographs make you some money.
Fiverr: Israeli-based Fivver was started in 2010 by Shal Wininger and Micha Kaufam. It's a great resource for selling just about any service online. You can offer gigs as low as $5 but also get paid much more for upgrades and add-ons. There are plenty of providers earning 6 figures on Fiverr so it's definitely a worthwhile cause for generating a healthy income. Just ensure that you provide some serious value.
Don’t set a goal to write 3 blog posts a day… set a goal to write 1 blog post a week and make that post super helpful, long, and filled with information that is so valuable you will say “yeah, people will link to that.” 90% of my traffic/affiliate income comes from just 20 tutorials, many of which are 5+ years old. But I am constantly updating them to make the content better.
Freelancer – refer people to developers, designers, and other freelancers you’ve worked with and make 100% of Freelancer’s project commission for the first 90 days. I get a lot of people requesting WordPress speed optimization services… so I refer them to my developers with a freelancer affiliate link and make $125/month in passive income. You can’t use affiliate links to link to specific freelancer profiles, so I direct people to the homepage via affiliate link and give people my developer’s usernames.
Rather than making money through subscriptions, YouTube channels are based on a traditional advertising system. Meaning the more viewers you get, the more you make. Once you’re approved for the YouTube Partner Program and can start including ads on your videos, with every 1,000 views, you will make approximately $2-$4. Which might not seem like a lot, but if you have 100 videos with 5,000 views a month each, that would be $1,000–$2,000 already. Just imagine if your videos start hitting millions of views!
Let's do a little reality check here, I highly doubt you can buy traffic on Fiverr and have it convert on any ClickBank offer. Quality traffic is not acquired on Fiverr (that's for sure). Focus on building a value adding funnel like described in the post rather than looking for a shortcut. You can't just spend 5 bucks to make 40 in 5 minutes, I'd be a billionaire otherwise :).
If you have a fondness and talent for taking pictures you can make extra money online by becoming a stock photographer and selling your images to a stock photo company like ShutterStock or iStockPhoto. You’ll get royalties every time someone licenses an image you’ve submitted. To really be successful, build your own photography website to be able to showcase your portfolio and start getting higher-paid private corporate work.
He appears to be an individual that is a bit "ticked off" at his govt for outrageous taxes, but in what way is he "a somewhat 'disturbed individual' who appears to have much bigger problems than little old 'Clickbank'?" What are these perceived bigger problems and, other than apparently having the misfortune of living in an apparently highly taxed country, why do you presume to know that his life is in the least bit pathetic? If you're going to slander someone, you should at least provide logical justification. I say this because I'm really sick of seeing it in blogs. A lot of people in the blogosphere (usually those far left of center, in my experience) are rude and crude, and without reason. Now, that's pretty pathetic, IMHO. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you (or better).
The more traffic you have, the more money you can make with ClickBank. In order to maximize your traffic, you should spend some time identifying commonly searched keywords that relate to the product you plan to sell. If you create articles and other content based on those keywords you can often get some traffic from search engines, especially if you target the less competitive long-tail keywords in your niche.
Creating space for banner ads on your website is another way to generate a revenue from adverts. However for this type of advertising you will need to contact businesses directly and ask them if they would like to advertise on your website. The upside is that you can charge a set amount, or even a recurring monthly fee, to business to promote their services on your site. Using a WordPress plugin like AdSanity is an effective way to manage this type of advertising.
Holly told me she started writing content in 2011. At the time, she still worked a full-time job but created content online part-time to supplement her income. Over time, she was able to double and triple her rates until she could quit her full-time job to write. These days, she makes bank as a freelance writer and teaches others to do the same via her online course, Earn More Writing.
Several websites offer money (after a minimum level of earning) by clicking on advertisements. Hence, they are called paid-to-click (PTC) sites. One has to get registered before the project begins. Not all of these sites could be genuine, so be careful. One may also refer friends and earn money in the process. Some such sites are ClixSense.com , BuxP and NeoBux are some of such PTC sites.
The first follows the startup path we outlined above: You have a disruptive idea for an app or piece of software, you validate the idea with real customers, and then raise money to hire developers or a development studio to build, launch, and scale your software. If you’ve done everything right, your software will be accepted to the Apple and Google Stores and you’ll make money every time someone downloads it or pays for a premium feature.
– Project Payday is one of those sites that has testimonials of people who have earned thousands of dollars by getting paid to get trial offers. I’m not saying you’ll earn thousands, but it is legit and you can earn some extra cash. They assume that by paying you to do a free trial, you’ll either like the product and purchase it, or forget to cancel the trial and get charged for it. If you can keep track and cancel before you get charged (if you don’t want the product), then this is a great site for making some money.
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Be professional. When you submit a résumé, don’t type it in ALL CAPS and please don’t avoid the caps lock like the plague. Know how to use it without looking incompetent. Write in complete sentences with proper grammar. Of course, there will be exceptions, but even with the exceptions, you must keep it professional. You’re building their view of you.
You Don’t Need To Track Affiliate Links To Improve Conversions – you will always hear people telling you to track affiliate links. But for me, I generally use the same content about SiteGround on all my speed optimization articles… it is very important it converts well. Change your approach on how you recommend your affiliate product (it’s perfecting your sales pitch).
Ready to enter the ecommerce fray? Why not sell your own stuff. Of course, along with selling your own stuff on your own website comes a whole slew of both responsibilities and technical configuration and requirements. For starters, you'll need a website and a hosting account. You'll also need a merchant account (sure you can use Stripe or PayPal). Then you'll need to design that site, build a sales funnel, create a lead magnet and do some email marketing.
Outbrain is not necessarily the network of choice, it was just an example. As for tracking the ROI usually you'll want to track campaigns in Google analytics and track clicks on affiliate links as event and average value/email or you'll want to duplicate the post and run paid traffic to the duplicate so you know exactly what the conversions are as you can put them in separate email lists etc too.
The more traffic you have, the more money you can make with ClickBank. In order to maximize your traffic, you should spend some time identifying commonly searched keywords that relate to the product you plan to sell. If you create articles and other content based on those keywords you can often get some traffic from search engines, especially if you target the less competitive long-tail keywords in your niche.
As you can see by the above video there are several ways that you can earn from this platform like clicking on 10 ads a day or by referring people to the program. That is were the real money is and were you should focus your efforts on but keep in mind that all the other methods are valid and should be used in conjunction as it all adds up afterwards. A $1 here and $10 there will quickly add up and before you know it, you’ll be earning $100 a day without much effort or work.
The attorney prepares the case submission, which consists of facts from the perspective of each party. EJury converts the attorney's case submission into an HTML format and posts it to a secure location on the website where only eJurors can access the case. EJurors review the facts of the case and answer questions, each clicking a "submit verdict" button upon completion.
As long as there is still the written word, there will always be editors. Freelance editing and proofreading not only pays a decent hourly wage, it also gives you the chance to read about potentially interesting topics too. What's more, pursuing freelance writing & editing as a business idea can afford you a lifestyle that lets you travel the world as a digital nomad. You can find lots of job postings from companies and individuals in need of writing, proofreading, and editing services on Upwork, which makes this a high-demand opportunity to make money online.
If I have a blog that is getting 100,000 page views a month that means that I’m probably getting at least 50,000 people to the site (most blogs will do between 1.2 to 1.4 pages per session). That means I have to try and get some small percentage of those people to buy something from me if I really want to do well. If I can’t get them to buy something then (in some cases) I have ads running on the site that will make me money anyways.
The internet offers boundless possibilities for earning a living online. Upwork and Freelancers Union found that 35% of the American workforce was doing some type of freelance work in 2016, and 73% said technology made it easier to find that work. One of the ways to harness the internet as an income source is pursuing affiliate marketing. It’s intended as a way to generate passive income, but does it really work? Let’s consider. (For more, see The Ultimate Working From Home Guide.)
To earn from affiliate marketing takes a lot of work so don’t expect instant results. Get the right product, create the platform and run the most suitable ads to generate quality traffic to generate leads. If you don’t get it right the first time, don’t worry, you can try it again and improve your mistakes. Remember that learning from other affiliates would help you overcome a lot of errors as well.
As you start regularly putting out content, you’ll hopefully start to build a bit of an audience. But to start seeing real money from YouTube you need to market your videos elsewhere. Share your channel on Twitter and Facebook. Distribute videos anywhere else you can think of. Also, interact with comments and build a community around the videos you’re making so people will share it with their friends.
Regarding “convincing someone to buy your product is not that easy”, I do agree with you, but at the same time, I remember all those products I’ve bought online. I did not search on Google for those products neither I went to the company websites to get information and buy. They were affiliate people and their blogs that inspired to buy them. PrettyLink Pro, SEO Pressor was recommended by Kimberley, I bought Profits Theme, WP Zon builder because Alex Whaley recommended. Similarly I bought CommentLuv Premium because Ileane, Kavita, Steve and many others were talking good about it.
He is the co-founder of Neil Patel Digital. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the top 10 marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies. Neil is a New York Times bestselling author and was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 35 by the United Nations.
Keep in mind though, you don’t need a website to do sponsored content since you can also get paid if you have a lot of social media followers. My wife has a pretty big Instagram following, and she gets all kinds of sponsorships. Not only does she get paid in cash, but we get a lot of free stuff, too. We’ve received free rugs, free lights, and free carpet cleaners. She only promotes things she loves though, so this strategy works really well for her.
If you’re asking, “how much do affiliate marketers make” – well, Michelle Schroeder-Gardner makes over $50,000 / month from affiliate marketing. She is her own boss, and lives the dream life (on the road) with her hubby. She’s recently released a course on affiliate marketing, right from the what-it-is to the how-to-do-it (legally) – and the results her students (like me) have seen so far have been incredible.
I spent much of my time curating quality content and promoting it on social media. Honestly, I still spend a lot of time doing those tough tasks, but now I’ve built a strong foundation and the sales are coming in consistently. These days, I make around $500 in passive affiliate sales each month, in addition to my other blog revenue! I can’t complain. The long haul was worth it.
Those with deep pockets, and I mean deep, who have the resources to buy 1000s of domains, lots of resources working for specialized micro-niche pages, and driving traffic to them, one way or the other, are making money. They have a wide spectrum of websites which is equally balanced with a wide spectrum of website traffic (very high traffic to very low traffic) and they average a very decent income. But they are not on these boards selling their secrets. They stay away from such crap and continue to focus on what works for them. They have the money to do very large scale buying of Adwords and other keywords to drive traffic to their website and keep you out on the periphery.
Ideally, you will already have a website that contains articles and other affiliate offers similar to the ClickBank products you want to promote. If you haven't set one up yet though, don't worry. WordPress is a great free content management system that you can use to start a website and begin publishing articles immediately. Use your articles to draw readers in, then present your ClickBank affiliate offer within the article. You may also want to develop a newsletter for your own website and use it to promote your ClickBank offers to your audience as often as possible. (See: How To Monetize Your Website.)
If you promote say a product from Amazon, the cookie is only valid for 24-hours! Now lets say you have 50,000 visitors a month, realistically, 100-150 or so will click in (I say this from experience and from having seen many high-traffic blogs, who do affiliate marketing). Out of this 100-150 clicks, they usually have 1-3 sales per month. That's it.
Amazon will have you work on micro-projects that require some sort of human interaction. Tasks can include translating a paragraph into English (or another language), rating the search results for certain keywords, or reworking an article. The tasks are simple, and you will be paid a small amount to complete each. But if you do enough tasks quickly, you can make a respectable amount of money.
Video is growing like crazy. And more and more people are looking for professional help cutting their raw footage into viral-worthy content. If you have the right software and a bit of skill, you can easily make money online as a video editor. Check out these article of Fstoppers on how to become an online video editor and then look for relevant jobs on Mandy.com, Creative Cow Job Search, or ProductionHub.
Considering that you have a finite amount of time, passive income should make up a large part of your work. And if you're serious about generating any semblance of income online, then passive income should be one of your sole goals and ambitions. Why? Simply this. Wouldn't you prefer to do the work one time and get paid repeatedly as opposed to relying on your time to generate that income?
Many people fancy themselves as designers. If you have a unique idea for a new product then it may be time to get it designed. This can be a long process involving prototypes, discussions with factories, package design, and much more. However, the profits once the product is on the market could be substantial. And remember, with Amazon FBA, your products can all be stored and shipped by Amazon, giving you time to think up your next invention.
Take good pictures. Some of the options below don’t require you to actually take the picture and sell the product, but for the ones that do, make sure you take a clear picture that makes your product stand out from the others. If you’re going to be taking a lot of pictures, set up a small “studio-like” area in your home with a backdrop and proper lighting to really make your pictures come across as professional. And of course, you’ll want a good camera too.
Tutor students. Many families prefer the flexibility of using an online tutor. Depending on your background, you could be simply helping a child with homework or providing college-level support. You need to have your own computer and high speed internet. Experience required differs among companies. Some require “strong experience,” while others require a specific educational background. However, most companies do require a college degree.
Equally, you can charge businesses to ‘claim’ their listing, a method used by many large directory sites like Google Business and Yelp. This involves companies paying to upgrade their listing and adding information such as their web address, social media links, images, and more. Other revenue streams include charging for ad space, adding affiliate links and even charging for services and products on your directory site.
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This is a great place to start for beginner affiliates. The deeper you get into affiliation, the potential is even great than $50 to $100 in the following industries: Gambling, Adult and Pharma…these industries can get an affiliate a $250+ CPA commission + Rev Share for successful affiliates. The sky is the limit and many people fall into the most amateur affiliate programs which is probably why most affiliates are not successful. I’ve been an affiliate marketer for many years now and if you’re just starting out, the one thing I recommend is first of all: Get familiar with all the tools, affiliation strategies…get to know the programs, establish a connection with your affiliate managers and if you put a lot of time in it and take it seriously…Sooner or later you will succeed. I’ve done it and I am still doing it. I have a few successful sites that I operate, I work both with Click Bank and independent affiliation programs…One word of advice, Amazon and Ebay are over-saturated…Try an affiliate program with a higher CPA and less competition…Competition can be measured simply by using the Google Keyword Tools. Great article! I love your blog. Cheers! Mike
Long-tail keywords are search phrases, rather than one or two words. If you are planning to promote an online poker course for example, you might do some keyword research and decide that the term "online poker course" has too much competition from existing websites, but articles based on things like "When to push during a sit-n-go" don't have as much competition and may yield more traffic.
The gravity is a calculation that determines how many different affiliates had made a sale with this product in the past 12 weeks. This number can give you a good idea what kinds of products are popular and makes a good number of sales. Remember the high gravity score can also indicate a lot of competition. Make sure not to choose a product that has a gravity score of less than 50.
Ask around to find someone who really made it - in affiliate marketing, and the answer is you won't find many. You will however find that most of them transition to some form of a product or service they sell to you, be it content writing, guru-ness teaching, learning the ropes, e-books, sales, etc. all to tell you how to make it in affiliate marketing world. Quite a contradiction.
At the time, I had a ton of people reaching out wanting to hire me (I ranked my self #1 in Google for WordPress SEO Consultant, WordPress SEO Expert, many other good keywords). Unfortunately I struggled with basic things you need to run a service-based business… keeping track of clients, time management, and making sure I was charging clients for my time (and getting them to create content which often seemed impossible).
I will give you a very simple example. Let’s say you build up an audience of 50,000 readers and out of that 50k you have about 1% that trust you (1% of people that trust you online is actually very huge), so that equates to 500 readers. Out of that 500 readers you will have about 10% that will buy your eBook and other affiliate products, so 50 people total. So, if you are selling your eBook for $10, you will make $500. Of course it doesn’t stop there, those people that buy the eBook and like it will most likely recommend it, and you will have a snowball effect where more people keep buying your book and other affiliate products. This is just a rough example that shows you some realistic numbers. Do not ever think that if you build up a huge number of readers that they will all trust you and buy the products that you promote; if it was that easy everyone would be a millionaire by now.
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Running and charging for webinars can be a great way to build a following in your niche, demonstrate that you are an expert in your field, and make a profit. Hosting a webinar can be hard work. They need to first be promoted, provide original and valuable information, and include interactive elements so your audience can ask questions and engage with your topic. However, once you have built up a large blog following, each webinar can be extremely profitable.
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An affiliate marketing program is a lot of work, and in most situations there's a lot of competition so you're not going to be bringing in money immediately. Business owners and entrepreneurs suppose that all you need do is setup a site and choose an affiliate to associate with and then just let it run its course. But according to Three Ladders Marketing, only 0.6% of affiliate marketers surveyed have been in the game since 2013. That means that affiliate marketing takes time and effort to build and make money.
ClickBank is a privately held Internet retailer of both physical and digital products. ClickBank was founded in 1998.[1] The company has more than six-million clients worldwide[2] which secured it in becoming the 87th largest Internet retailer in North America.[3] ClickBank is a subsidiary of Keynetics Inc., one of Idaho's largest privately held technology companies.[4] The company has headquarters in Boise, Idaho, and offices in Broomfield, Colorado.
Not all business owners are tech savvy but the need of the hour is to have a website of their own. Those who have a knack for all- things- tech, especially related to websites, can help small businesses set up their own websites and earn from it. Coding and web designing are the essential ingredients in setting up websites. Further, websites need maintenance and may require frequent updates, which may add to one's revenue. Depending on the client and job, a single project can fetch you anywhere between Rs 20,000 and Rs 1 lakh.
Create a killer course experience: With your course validated and in the works, you need to figure out how people will take it. Most course creators choose to host their courses from their own websites. This way, they get all the value of bringing customers back to their site on a regular basis. I host my own courses from a subdomain on my own site so I can easily add more. The course experience is incredibly important as well. And after trying most of the solutions, I highly recommend Teachable—an online platform designed specifically for courses.
What struck me about Dr. Rose’s experience was how affiliate marketing attracts everyone — from those with no degrees (but with strong work ethics), to those who are fully degreed (and pedigreed), but who want to do their own thing. Dr. Rose stated in that post that her mission was to earn what she earned as a pharmacist in a year — in one month in affilite marketing/blogging.
Hands down I’d say the best thing you can do is research 1 primary keyword, craft an enticing article title that includes your keyword (though it doesn’t have to be an exact match), spend time writing your search engine snippets (SEO titles/meta descriptions), and by far the most important is making your content as VALUABLE as possible through videos, nice graphics, table of contents, bold/colors/styling, etc. Small things like keyword density barely matter.
Now, it’s time to plan out your show. If you’re doing an interview-style show, you’ll now want to start getting some guests involved. You can use your existing social network to reach out to people you already know or are connected with on Twitter or Facebook. You can also head to Medium or Amazon to find authors or experts on topics specific to your niche.
Abby made over $110,000 from sales of digital products (such as eBooks) in 2015, and even more than that in 2016. She started three years ago knowing nothing about blogging and now makes six figures a year, due in large part to her eBooks. She is now teaching others the process she uses to write and launch profitable eBooks, and you guys, it is genius!
Affiliate marketing gives you the chance to make money by promoting products and services by referring them to a site. You are then given the commission once the visitor purchases something or completed an action like signing up for a service or enlisting in the email list. This marketing technique is both favorable for the advertiser and affiliate. Why you ask? This is because the affiliate gets paid while the seller makes the sales they may have not received so all in all it’s a win for both parties.
You must be at least 21 years old, have at least one year of licensed driving experience in the U.S. (three years if you’re under 23 years old), have a valid driver’s license and pass a background check. Also, your car must be a four-door, seat at least four passengers (excluding the driver), be registered in-state and be covered by in-state insurance.
Most platforms follow the process that will ask you to apply by filling in a simple form, and then a teaching demo will have to given their experts. Once selected, documentation and profile creation will be done, followed by training and induction webinar. Once you attend the webinar, you will be listed as a teacher and will get your online sessions to conduct. Beginners can make around Rs 200 per hour, which can increase to Rs 500 as you gain experience and expertise.
Clickbank is a market platform for vendors (product creators) to sell their digital products. Such products could range from ebooks, downloadable resources/programs or online membership sites. On the flip side, it’s also a place that widely attracts affiliate marketers to help these creators sell their products, essentially giving them a source of free publicity and advertising in exchange for a commission fee on every sale.
Learn then selling guidelines. Each marketplace has guidelines that define what you can and cannot sell. State and federal laws also impact what items are prohibited. In general, you cannot sell alcohol, weapons, service contracts, animals or event tickets. Also, while not always prohibited, you may find restrictions on how you can sell items in some categories, such as art, gift cards and coupons.[27] eBay, Craigslist and Amazon publish these guidelines on their websites.
Another thing to consider is that even if you break even on the first sale, you're still winning. All you need to do is create more content about other problems that target market may have following the same principle and queue them one after the other. For example if we target women that want to lose weight they may also have wrinkle problems, digestion problems, diabetes, aging problems etc. We can easily create a chain of issues we run the email list through, let them opt in for what matches their issues and make several sales to that audience.
If you're looking to address some immediate financial needs, then the app economy is likely right for you. Thanks to the global sharing phenomenon, launched in part by our smartphones and ever-burgeoning global connectivity, you could easily opt for some quick active income by using well-known apps. From ride sharing to deliveries and even quick tasks, there's an app for that today, as the saying goes.
Similar to a YouTube vlogger, if you have a large following on Instagram then you could become an Instagram Influencer. You will be paid to promote products in your photos, from wearing certain clothes to action shots of you using particular merchandise. As your Instagram following grows, you may start out simply receiving freebies in return for a picture of you with the item in shot. However, for those with followings running into millions, you can expect large payments to display products in your pictures. Use sites like Hype Factory to help connect you with companies prepared to pay for your influence.
If you have a good idea for an app, and the skills to create it, then producing your own premium app can be profitable. However, with so many free apps available, it may be hard to convince people to pay. If you want to go down the premium app route, consider having a basic free version to encourage people to download the app in the first place. You can then provide the option of upgrading to a premium plan once users realize how useful the app is.
Infographics are currently an extremely popular type of media. An infographic showing information or data in an interesting and fun way can help engage an audience and generate numerous likes and shares. As infographics take more time to create than just simply uploading an image, busy website owners are prepared to pay for custom infographics. And don’t worry, an infographic can be created using simple design software such a Canva. So extensive graphic design skills are not necessary, just a creative eye.
While I was doing WordPress speed optimization I noticed lots of people needed it, but very few people supplied it (there were a lack of services and tutorials when I researched Google). I also knew hosting was the #1 factor of website speed factor and these companies paid up to $200/sale. Hosting is a competitive space but the commissions and lack of supply enticed me.
My situation is I'm a Professor and Program Director for a Community College teaching massage therapy, a very in-demand field yet my college does little marketing. It's my job to recruit students. I have a Facebook page and Twitter, and about 100+ followers on each. Can you see this type of system with funnels etc. working to help recruit potential students? If so, how? I feel like building content and creating opt ins should help, as we too are offering a "product". Thanks for your time!
Consider your expertise. If you take the time to reflect on your experiences, you will realize that you have more knowledge about which to write than you might think. Begin by listing three assets that define you, such as your profession, a special hobby or a personality trait. Next, list three things that inspire you, such as religion, education or charity. Finally, list three of your dreams, such as getting married, traveling or spending more time with your children. These three lists should give you many ideas of topics about which you can write.[13]
If you have graphic design skills then you could make money online by creating and selling your own design elements, like templates, fonts, graphics, and other assets. This is a great way to earn extra money, and build up a portfolio of work, which could lead to you picking up freelance graphic design jobs. Websites like Envato Elements pay you a fee per element sold, which can become quite profitable if your work is popular.
Depends on the Vendor you choose, but most Vendors will supply "affiliate tools" for you to use for marketing. If a vendor does not supply affiliate tools, I would not use them because a good Vendor will make sure that the affiliates has something to work with. If they can't supply proper tools, it is usually not worth promoting the product anyway.
Prior to that group, they had an online community for teachers looking for lesson plans. That probably sounds pretty random, but it's crazy the type of communities you can build and rally people around. If it's something that you're passionate about yourself and you want to connect with others that have that same passion, then an online community is something you should definitely consider.
It can take time to build up your personal freelance business. Yet, there is more demand than ever for freelancers. So, if you want to kick start making money online through freelancing you can join one of the top freelance networks, such as UpWork, Fiverr, Guru, Freelancer.com, or PeoplePerHour. Sign up, build your profile, upload some samples of your work and start making extra money by doing small freelance jobs.
A niche affiliate site often presents like an eCommerce store. To get started with an affiliate site, choose your niche then display products with pictures, descriptions, and prices, just as you would on an online store. However, when visitors click the ‘buy’ button, they will be taken directly to Amazon, to make the purchase. You then make an affiliate fee for sending the traffic to Amazon, but have none of the packaging hassle, or initial financial output creating or buying the products.
Hi Dody! I honestly don’t think that’s a question that can be answered with an one size fits all answer. The best site for affiliate marketing will be based on your niche, what you audience wants and what you are comfortable selling. I know lots of people that RAVE about shareasale.com – I personally haven’t had wild success with them because they don’t offer many products that I personally have found useful / easy to promote on my blog. I would strong suggest taking the making sense of affiliate marketing course – it will clear up any questions you have about affiliate marketing 🙂
You can work as a virtual assistant through dedicated websites, such as Upwork or Zirtual. All kinds of skills are needed, and compensation can vary anywhere between $10 per hour to $100 or more. Obviously, the higher pay will be to people who have more technical skills, such as web building skills and marketing. But you can find work doing administrative tasks at the lower end of the pay scale.
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Tournus Abbey has never been analysed otherwise than by the formalist method. A change in approach will permit to uncover new secrets relating to this monument. A study of the political context – not an easy matter – reveals a very close relationship between Italy and Burgundy around the year 1000, and the twinning of the two construction sites: of Saint-Bénigne in Dijon and that of Saint-Philibert in Tournus.
Almost ignored by historians, the putsch in 1002 at least partially explains the ‘white mantle of churches’, a vast reconstruction movement which Rudolf Glaber believed to have started in that year. Dijon and Tournus are the chefs-d’oeuvre of a co-ordinated wave of construction with a focus on political separatism.
The evocation of Constantine’s accession to power permeates the whole conception of galilee. This is the only part of the abbatial structure analysed here. Several monuments constructed between 310 and 320 served as inspiration to the architect; they are here reproduced in a reduced size. This evocation seems to be connected to Constantine’s Vision of the Cross, an event which, according to an ancient tradition, took place in the Tournus area. This episode is certainly related to the life of Saint Valerien, the evangelist of Tournus, in the second century. This is the first time that such a long legitimising tradition has been described.
The study also reveals that the architect of this abbey can be no other than Guillaume de Volpiano, and the commissioner Otte-Guillaume, duke of Burgundy, his second cousin.
Going beyond the violent imagery conventional to Italian representations of the subject, Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Massacre of the Innocents (1485–1490) presents an unsettling mixture of dazzling beauty and graphic violence. The fresco, located in the high chapel of the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella, juxtaposes sumptuous fabrics and gleaming metal surfaces with bloodied and broken infant bodies. While representations of the Massacre often featured piles of mangled corpses, the prominent inclusion in the fresco of pieces of the Holy Innocents – severed heads and arms – was a highly atypical divergence from the established iconography of the scene. This article considers how the depiction of body parts in the Ghirlandaio fresco – and in a related painting of the same subject by Matteo di Giovanni – shaped the viewing experience. I argue that in their original devotional context, these paintings would have fostered a ‘reliquary mode of seeing’ by combining formal features characteristic of reliquaries with the representation of relic-like body fragments. Furthermore, the relationship with reliquary devotion was made exceptionally palpable and immediate by the presence of relics of the Holy Innocents in the churches were both paintings were located. The body parts in the paintings thus would have served as metonyms for the relics themselves: the depicted heads and limbs framed with painted signs of material splendor, the actual relics encased in precious materials.
The picture now in Antwerp depicting Jacopo Pesaro, the bishop of Paphos, and Pope Alexander VI before Saint Peter is sometimes referred to as Titian’s earliest painting. In writing about it Panofsky suggested ‘there is hardly any trace of blue: St. Peter is clad in a red mantle (Titian did not as yet know, or chose to disregard, the tradition according to which St. Peter should wear a yellow mantle over a blue coat)’. But did such an iconographic cannon of color exist during the Renaissance and if so, was Titian simply too young to know better when he put Peter in red? A quick look at other North Italian paintings by artists such as Mantegna, Girolamo Dai Libri and Giovanni Bellini suggests that Titian was probably well aware of a tradition of dressing Saint Peter in red and yellow. No doubt, he was also fully aware that certain colors were given moral meanings in emblem books and contemporary poetry. Red, for example, was a color of the liturgical calendar marking Christ’s Passion and the blood of the martyrs and was specifically associated with papal authority. Saint Peter, we might posit, is shown in pontifical red because he represents the divinely sanctioned authority of the Church. This authority is underscored by the red and gold papal banner being presented to him, by the pope and Jacopo Pesaro before the papal fleet sailed into battle against the Turks. From at least the eleventh century, popes had personally bestowed specially blessed banners on warriors leading military expeditions. It is hard simply to dismiss Titian’s choice of red in the Antwerp picture as a youthful misstep when one realizes that around 1526 he again used red and yellow for Peter’s garments in the San Nicolò della Lattuga altarpiece. Titian, it seems, was not too young to know that within different contexts, Saint Peter’s role and hence the color of his drapery might change.
GIORGIO TAGLIAFERRO - A New Agony in the Garden by Titian and His Collaborators, and the Problem of Originality in Late Titian (pp. 107-126)
A New Agony in the Garden by Titian and His Collaborators, and the Problem of Originality in Late Titian
Throughout his career, and especially in the last three decades of his life, Titian issued from his workshop a sizeable number of variants and replicas of compositions of any subject and format. The circulation of so many paintings was boosted by a huge request from collectors across Europe, and helped Titian to establish himself as a widely celebrated artist. Over the years, the master developed an unconventional working method that privileged the unevenness of the pictorial surface over uniformity and homogeneity, thus emphasising the process of art-making. Indeed, it is especially for his peculiar, idiosyncratic handling of the brush that he was renowned, and his paintings sought after. Furthermore, this technique matched up with the cult of the personality that Titian himself fostered. At the same time, however, several of the variants and replicas produced in the late years raise the problem of how the collaboration with assistants affected the notion itself of authorship and originality. How did his innovative technique, which highlighted his virtuosity and individuality, go with the documented, extensive contribution by his collaborators? Moreover, if each variant or replica received a unique, distinctive pictorial treatment, can we still draw a clear line between originals and derivations?
By presenting a previously unpublished version of Titian’s Agony in the Garden, whose composition is known through a painting executed for Philip II and now in the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, this study seeks to discuss and establish a new theory of the nature of authorship in Titian’s late collaborative works. The new painting is here acknowledged as a joint work by the master and his collaborators, and stands as an example of how the novel aesthetics developed by Titian tolerated and perhaps even encouraged the incorporation of different hands into many of his late works.
The ‘Loggia della Galatea’ in the Villa Farnesina has a long history among iconographers. We know that the subjects were selected to convey themes involving the Four Elements in order to celebrate the patron Agostino Chigi: Fire in relation to the vault painted by Baldassarre Peruzzi, Air for Sebastiano del Piombo’s lunettes, Earth and Water for the main frescoes on the wall, Sebastiano’s Poliphemus and Raphael’s Galatea. But whereas Chigi’s horoscope has been recognized as a perfect clockwork of astrology, with the mythological gods associated with the planets, and Chigi’s marital plans are alluded to by the Galatea, symbolizing Neoplatonic love, there has been no explanation concerning the Ovidian themes painted in the lunettes, an embarrassing assembly of baleful events, ranging from rape to abduction, violence, betrayal and death. This author provides specific new readings of them, explaining the violent stories taking place in the realm of Air as symbols of the passions according to the sixteenth-century moralizing commentaries on the Metamorphoses (up to now never considered in this context, but crucial to the understanding the overall organization of the decorative programme of the Loggia), closely connecting them to Agostino’s microcosm. Thanks to this newly discovered system of meanings, which allows for the identification of previously misunderstood subjects, such as the Cumaen Sibyl and Apollo, the lunettes can be now firmly placed into a tightly structured and consistent iconographic programme of the Loggia. |
In a huge breakthrough for nanoparticle research, MIT scientists have discovered a way to facilitate the entry of gold nanoparticles into cells without disrupting the cell membrane. The solution? Stripes!
The team found that gold nanoparticles coated with alternating bands of two different kinds of molecules can quickly pass into cells without harming them, while those randomly coated with the same materials cannot. The research was reported in a recent advance online publication of Nature Materials.
“We’ve created the first fully synthetic material that can pass through a cell membrane without rupturing it, and we’ve found that order on the nanometer scale is necessary to provide this property,” said Francesco Stellacci, an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and co-leader of the work with Darrell Irvine, the Eugene Bell Career Development Associate Professor of Tissue Engineering.
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why do I miss you I know you won’t forget me we’ll both remember Sully in Blindspot TV Blindspot – The show came back this week and we actually watched it the day after it aired. Action packed ep and I couldn’t help thinking of Strike Back. Sully still holds his guns the same way,…
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All Church of England dioceses use the National Society's framework for the Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) under Section 48 of the Education Act 2005. SIAS focuses on the effect that the Christian ethos of the church school has on the children that attend it. The principle objective of a SIAS inspection is to evaluate the distinctiveness and effectiveness of the school as a church school.
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The paper discusses the forgeries of El Greco’s paintings from the twentieth century, dividing them into the following categories: a) modern copies that are the same as the original, except for their format and some minor details; b) reinterpretations of original works, amended in order to appear to be ‘variations’ by the artist himself, using different motifs taken from his other paintings; c) more creative combinations, mixing together inspiration from works by both the painter himself and other artists with whom he was undoubtedly in contact; d) images painted in the style of El Greco, but without any actual reference to known original pieces and, if anything, with details that are quite alien to the world of the master; e) signatures on paintings that were contextually similar to the world of El Greco, and which were granted plausibility as his autograph works thanks to these inscriptions. Many examples are provided, mostly relating to works that have appeared on the art market accompanied by the expert opinion of leading specialists.
In the 1630s, Alessandro Sforza distinguished with crowns several Marian images ‘venerated for antiquity and miracles’, including Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà, carved c. 1500. It was crowned in 1637, although there is no record of any miracles believed to have been worked by it. The contention of this paper is that three reasons might have contributed to the crowning of the Vatican Pietà: its reputation as a devotional image, its connection with an artistic rather than religious notion of miraculousness, and its relationship to other Marian images venerated in the Vatican Basilica (above all, the Madonna della Febbre, crowned in 1631).
This article examines a ubiquitous but little noted piece of furniture: the chair. Power and prestige are connoted when a represented subject is seated, and especially when seated in a special sort of chair, commonly known as a ‘Savonarola’ chair. The article investigates the long history of this specific type of furniture, particularly in Italian Renaissance painting, before turning to the message conveyed two eloquent examples of the symbolic power of the chair and its occupant. In two paintings from the ‘Michelangelo Gallery’ in the Casa Buonarroti (by Anastasio Fontebuoni and Cosimo Gamberucci), we see moments in the artist’s life when an x-shaped ‘seat of power’ is central to the narrative episode represented. In each of these works, the chair is a little noticed, yet eloquent protagonist.
This article examines the sepulchral monuments commissioned by Pius V (1566–1572), which include a mausoleum for himself and three tombs for men he held in high esteem. These projects have never before been discussed together and the author reconstructs the circumstances surrounding each of the commissions to demonstrate the personal and political motivations behind them. The author also considers their use of coloured marbles, looking particularly at how this relates to the paragone between painting and sculpture, concluding that these important papal commissions were not only informed by the reforming demands of their patron but by contemporary artistic theory.
Closed in 1806 and later demolished, the little Franciscan church of San Niccolò ai Frari in Venice was previously decorated with an ensemble of sixteenth-century paintings of great distinction. These included, in addition to a major work by Titian above the high altar, a cycle by Paolo Veronese and his family assistants, also involving his younger contemporaries Paolo Fiammingo and Palma Giovane. Using contemporary documents and early printed sources, the present article traces a history of the church and provides a reconstruction of the original arrangement of these paintings, drawing new conclusions about their dating, patronage, and iconography. |
English singer and songwriter, JP Cooper rose to fame featuring on Jonas Blue's platinum-selling 2016 single 'Perfect Strangers', peaking at number 2 on the UK charts. JP has only gone from strength to strength ever since.
With singles like 'September Song', 'Passport Home' and 'She's On My Mind', JP Cooper released his stunning debut album 'Raised Under Grey Skies' which landed a spot inside the top 10 on the UK Album Charts.
Joining the F/H Block family as one of our most recent residents, JP is currently working on his sophomore album and has recently featured on various projects with artists including Craig David, Gorgon City, Yungen and Bugzy Malone. |
Caravaggio’s Saint John the Baptist (Rome, Galleria Borghese) was painted in 1609–1610 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V, and although many scholars have carefully studied and analyzed it in the last decades, the meaning of this unusual image has not been fully revealed. This present article focuses on the parable of the Good Shepherd related in the Gospel of St John (10, 11–21) as a key to the reading of particular aspects of Caravaggio’s work, and interprets its depiction as a visual message conveyed to Cardinal Borghese that the artist strongly wished a pardon from the Pope for the murder that he had committed on 28 May 1606.
Claude Lorrain’s evocation of the world of classical antiquity in his paintings is rightly celebrated, but his indebtedness to antique painting has been the subject of some speculation. This article explores the evidence, in the light of recent research and in the context of a heightened interest in the antique in seventeenth-century Rome. Many of the artist’s noble Roman patrons collected examples of antique painting, or drawings after them by P. S. Bartoli and his son Francesco, while illustrations to the Vatican Virgil (borrowed by both Cassiano dal Pozzo and Camillo Massimo) may have provided the starting point for Claude’s rendering of bucolic subjects.
While it is widely recognized that many successful artists, such as Titian, made autograph replicas of their own paintings, this phenomenon is only beginning to be studied in the work of Guercino. He started making such replicas from the very beginning of his career, since a surprising number of duplicate versions have been identified from before his Roman period (1621–1623). Repetitions made during the period of the artist’s Account Book (from 1629 until the artist’s death in 1666), on the other hand, are a more vexed issue. The debate over prime and second versions by Guercino from his mature period was reopened in 2005 with the re-appearance on the London art market of Guercino’s lost version from Northbrook Park of his 1645 composition, Semiramis at her Toilet Receiving a Messenger, first published by Denis Mahon in 1949 and now in a private collection, New York. Less than five years earlier, another autograph version of the same subject, now in the Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands Park, had come to light and was also endorsed by Mahon. This article examines the differences between the two versions and concludes that the Cobbe version of the composition (commissioned by Cardinal Federigo Cornaro), slightly less finished, was painted first. |
Meet Google's Robot Army. It's Growing.
Google can't stop buying robotics companies. In the past two months, eight of the 12 companies the search giant has acquired have "robotics" in their name or descriptions. Here's your complete breakdown of the robot army presently at Google's command.
As stated in the midst of its buying spree, the company's largely letting its new robotics divisions continue to work on their preexisting projects, and why wouldn't they? The newly acquired companies are doing a damn good job. They're even winning competitions.
Robot technology would help with self-driving cars, certainly, but the range of these acquisitions hints at even broader ambitions. Again, we don't know much. They're all a part of the Google X division, which is top secret by definition. We do know what the new companies in the Google family are up to, though, and that might offer us some clues.
These guys are rockstars. The Japanese team that got its start at Tokyo University just took the top prize at DARPA's Robotics Challenge Trial thanks to the cunning and agility of its 5-foot, 5-inch, 209-pound bipedal robot. After being purchased by Google in early December 2013, Schaft's blue machine proved to be the best at walking on uneven terrain, climbing ladders, clearing debris, and connecting hoses, ultimately scoring an impressive 27 out of 32 possible points.
The company was originally founded to build disaster response robots after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 but has since broadened its scope, thanks in part to funding from the U.S. government. Who knows how far they'll go floating on Google's coffers?
Industrial Perceptions, Inc., is an imaging company that spun off of the Menlo Park robotics company Willow Garage. Before being acquired by Google in December—the day after the Schaft acquisition, in fact—IPI was focusing on building advanced technology for 3D vision-guided robots to be used in manufacturing and logistics. This includes the ability to see and sort different objects, say, in a factory. You could imagine a company like Amazon being very interested in this kind of technology, but it's so far unclear exactly what Google wants to do with it.
Redwood Robotics started as a joint venture between Meka Robotics, SRI International, and Willow Garage, IPI's parent. And like IPI, it's always had a very focused mission. Redwood wants to build the "next generation arm" for robots. Meka Robotics founder Aaron Edsinger once said that he wants to do for robotic arms what the Apple II did for computers. Specifically, Redwood wants to build robotic arms that can work alongside people even in the comfort of their own home. That also means being the common arm manufacturer of service robots, so in the future, everybody's personal robot could have Redwood arms. Well, make that Google arms.
Like its cousin, Redwood Robotics, Meka is dedicated to building robots that can live and work with human beings. The company describes its flagship model, the M1 Mobile Manipulator, as having "human-safe, human-soft, and human scale robot technologies that will enable the robots of tomorrow to work alongside people in the home and the workplace." The human-like faces on the robot can even emote, a feature that's as creepy as you let it be.
Even before joining Google, Holomini was a pretty secretive outfit. All we really know from its now shuttered website is the company describes itself as "Creators of high-tech wheels for omnidirectional motion." The image above is just a stock photo guesstimate of what a "high-tech wheel for omnidirectional motion" might look like.
If Redwood and IPI are the engineers in the family, Bot & Dolly are the artists. The company describes itself as "a design and engineering studio that specializes in automation, robotics, and filmmaking" with a mission "to advance motion control and automation as a creative medium." In reality, this means that Bot and & Dolly use robots to help film commercials and movies like Gravity. This doesn't mean that Google wants to get into the movie business, but hey, if a robot's good enough to make a movie, what else can it do?
Boston Dynamics is the real celebrity of the bunch. After acquiring six robotics companies in six days, Google took a couple of days off before announcing this major acquisition. The company is known for building all kinds of futuristic bots from the bipedal, humanoid robot Atlas (above) to the impossibly fast, four-legged Cheetah. Actually, Boston Dynamics brings a whole robot army to Google, one that the military is very eager to recruit.
Google's latest purchase is less interested in building an actual robot than in designing an intelligent robot brain. The self-described "cutting edge artificial intelligence company" that uses "the best techniques from machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms: comes with a team of 75 researchers and software engineers whose talents could be put to use on anything from the hypothetical Googlebot to the company's flagship search engine and anything in between. Because after all, robots are just another step in Google becoming the company that is everywhere, and does everything. |
We got a chance to sit down with IUSD Superintendent Terry Walker, as well as other IUSD leadership team members for an in-depth conversation in a new video, The State of IUSD. |
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Your executor carries out (or executes) the wishes set out in your will and choosing the right person or persons is an important decision. It should be somebody you trust to do this job. Ideally, it should be a job given to two people to act as co-executors. So what does an executor actually do? |
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This time of the year isn’t just known for the eggnog, christmas trees, presents and good cheer. Some of the most anticipated movies of the year are released. Take a look at the list the Ferrvor Team put together for the movies to checkout in theaters this holiday season.
Who doesn’t love a good movie? Especially on Christmas Day, when all the stores are closed and there’s nothing else to do. Here are a few of the top movies coming out during the holidays. |
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I’ve always loved creating photo albums and scrapbooks and that hasn’t changed since our little one arrived. What has changed are the types of projects I gravitate towards. Instead of scrapbooking, I’ve been making a lot of photo books lately. I’ll talk about two of the books, in addition to some cute thank you cards and handprint ornaments.
The first two photo books I made were actually started before our son was even born. I always use Mixbook for my photo books because their picture and paper quality can’t be beat. Plus, their website is so easy to use. I discovered them when I was looking for a fun thank you card idea after my wedding, and loved that Mixbook allowed me to customize the card in so many ways. I used them again for our wedding albums and had fun ordering albums for my mom and mother in law using their many different paper and album types (the lay flat albums were a big hit!).
Anyway, back to the baby books. Since we live about 3000 miles from family, I wanted to find a way, other than Facetime, for our baby to get to know his relatives. So, I decided to make a picture book for him. Every family member (grandma, grandpa, uncles, aunts, cousins) has their own page and on it is their picture and their message to the baby. Some of the pages also have maps that show where the relative lives. It was a lot of fun putting together and our son loves looking at the pictures of the family faces in his My Family book. Mixbook has tons of templates you can start with, but I found it easier to use a blank canvas this time around. Here is the cover of the book and one of the last pages.
The second photo book I made is called Getting Ready for the Baby. This one incorporates sequence words (first, then, next, last) throughout the book as we tell the story of how mommy and daddy got ready for the baby (e.g., First we went to the baby store to buy a stroller. Then we went to the fire station to get it installed.). Of course, there are large pictures on each page showing each step. Again our baby seems to love seeing our faces in the book and we love that he is learning some key vocabulary about his life along the way!
Another item that counts towards Memory expenses are the thank you cards we sent out for the shower gifts. Again, I turned to Mixbook for this as I wanted to personalize the cards. We waited until we had our newborn pictures taken, which was seven days after he was born. Then, I quickly chose my favorite pictures and put them on one of the Mixbook thank you card templates. They actually had one with an elephant on it (the Baby Blue Elephant template), which was our baby shower theme, so it was perfect! I was able to customize it to fit three pictures on the front instead of just one. The whole project was done and ordered within 20 minutes. These, in addition to an email that we sent out to friends and family, took the place of a formal baby announcement. The last thing I’ll talk about, for now, are the handprint and footprint salt ornaments that I made. I had little faith that these would turn out well, and the first batch proved me right, as the imprints were very faint. The second batch were better and I was able to take them to the next level by filling in the prints with glitter and sealing the whole thing with a few coats of varnish. These are great mementos that I’ll look back on in a few years to remember how tiny our little guy once was.
I’m planning to put together an album of our son’s first year (in Mixbook, of course!), so that will be another cost here that I’ll update once it’s been ordered.
Ways to save money in this category would be to go the regular thank you card route and not order a special card with pictures (although, then you might feel the need to order announcements…). Also, of course, you don’t need to order the custom photo books, make salt ornaments, or pay for newborn pictures– those are all really just nice-to-haves to remember this special time in your lives.
The main thing that I think would increase the total in this category would be the newborn pictures. We were very lucky in that we found a photographer we liked at this price, but many are more expensive.
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Thorpe of the New York Trucking and Delivery Association says the decision to raise penalties won’t solve the parking crisis.
For more than a decade, Ken Thorpe has been a soldier in the fight against parking tickets, which has become part of the escalating war for access to the curb. It's a conflict that has intensified in recent years as ride-hail services have clogged roads, New Yorkers have had more of their purchases delivered, and the streetscape has been remade with bicycle lanes, pedestrian malls and restrictions on parking and unloading.
The city "has whittled away at the commercial parking infrastructure," said Thorpe, the chief executive of the New York Trucking and Delivery Association, which he founded in 2004 to deal with parking issues for small and midsize businesses.
At the same time, trucks are making more deliveries than ever, and they must do that regardless of whether there's unloading space available. "Trucking is not a 'choice' situation," Thorpe said. "It's a necessity."
But now the 600 members of his group, as well as large fleet operators such as UPS and FedEx, are facing higher fines—and possibly more paperwork and time in traffic court—as a little-known yet controversial city policy comes under fire. The stipulated-fine program was established in 2004 by the Department of Finance to let businesses pay slightly reduced fines—and no fines at all for some infractions—in exchange for not contesting their tickets.
It was mainly a way to reduce everyone's administrative costs while having delivery companies pay roughly what they would have otherwise. (The reductions were calculated with an eye on the percentage of tickets that were successfully challenged.) But the program was a sore point with advocacy groups such as Transportation Alternatives, which considered it a corporate giveaway that neutered traffic enforcement.
Last month, in a bid at leveling the playing field for businesses not in the program—and furthering the city's congestion-reduction goals—the Finance Department announced that next month it would raise the program's fines, including those now set at zero.
As if that were not bad enough for Thorpe's membership, in the same week five City Council members introduced a bill to abolish the program. They denounced it as a free pass to large corporations and a contributor to reckless parking and congestion.
Thorpe says it's the council bill that's a giveaway—to parking-ticket brokers, who stand to gain business adjudicating tickets. He sees no way that the Finance Department's plan will change driver behavior or have any impact on congestion.
"The theory of the program was there are bad things, good things and some things in between, and it taught the driver you're going to pay a lot to do bad things and little or none to do the others," Thorpe said. "Now they've put the bad and good closer together, removing the driver's incentive for doing the good, because it's going to cost just a little more to do the bad."
In fact, good and bad parking behavior will not be punished that similarly. The most serious violations that get discounts, such as obstructing traffic ($10 off the $115 total), will now get no break at all, while many of the zero-fine infractions will cost $25.
But Thorpe says those increases could cost some of his members hundreds of dollars a week—enough that he would consider taking them out of the program. The $35 fine for double parking outside Midtown is still better than the official $115, but he notes that double parking is legal for the first 30 minutes, and enforcement is not always scrupulous.
In 2011 he sued the city, which for some years had been slapping double-parked delivery trucks with the more expensive violation of blocking a travel lane, which carried a $40 fine. In 2016 the city settled and paid those covered by the lawsuit $14 million.
Even so, the Finance Department, which worked with the Department of Transportation on the new fine schedule, says more needs to be done to ease congestion. The agency says the stipulated-fine program has been sending the wrong signal to the wider parking universe by not reflecting the fact that not all double-parking tickets are dismissed.
"We need the program to have incentives that are aligned with the city's goals to reduce congestion, and we need the program to be fair," said Finance Deputy Commissioner Jeffrey Shear. "We agree that the conversation about congestion is a larger conversation, and there are many other factors, and this program is one small piece. But we don't want to send the wrong message by saying double parking outside of Midtown will cost businesses nothing."
The Transportation Department maintains that it is doing all it can.
The agency is "committed to improving commercial accessibility throughout the five boroughs, especially in the context of our street-improvement projects," a spokeswoman said. As part of those projects, "new curb regulations are installed that are complementary to the larger curb-management goals of the corridor, such as faster bus mobility, reduction of double parking, and better commercial access."
But the Transportation Department is aware that it's a long way from curing congestion when demand for deliveries from myriad e-commerce businesses, including Amazon and Fresh Direct, is bigger than ever.
"Consumer demands and the amount of available space we have at the curb, they're at odds right now," Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg said at a Crain's breakfast forum last month. She added that parking enforcement can only do so much, and larger fixes, including congestion pricing and technology such as license-plate readers, might be part of the answer.
"Right now the demand for the curb exceeds the supply," she said.
Some members of the City Council are not convinced that higher fines will make the program more effective. They say any solution will include abolishing stipulated fines.
"This program doesn't work," said Costa Constantinides, a City Council member from Queens, who introduced the bill to end the program as one of several parking and transportation proposals. "Trucks are still parking in bike lanes. It's been around for years, and I really feel it's prohibiting us from having a real conversation around parking that we desperately need to have."
As part of that conversation, the councilman introduced a bill that would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which oversees city agencies, to have buildings under its jurisdiction receive deliveries between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.
"The city should lead by example," Constantinides said.
That's not so simple, it turns out. A Transportation Department off-hours delivery program proved unworkable for many businesses, some of which had to add employees to accept the shipments. The councilman said his program would be "one part of the puzzle."
As it happens, parking-ticket broker Glen Bolofsky has contributed more than $4,000 to Constantinides' campaign treasury in the past five years. A spokesman for the councilman dismissed the idea that the bill was intended to help brokers.
"The majority of those that benefit from this [stipulated-fine] program are big-box delivery corporations who flout traffic laws at the expense of pedestrians, cyclists and drivers," the spokesman said.
Bolofsky agreed that ending the program would help brokers, but he insisted the biggest beneficiary would be the public. "Congestion will be reduced," he said. "More money will be raised."
Assuming 70% of double-parking tickets are dismissed, he estimated the city has forfeited $147.5 million over the life of the program by not fining participants for double parking beyond Midtown.
The new schedule will collect about 30% of double-parking fines, but Bolofsky insists the program still benefits the biggest operators the most. He maintains that neither the city nor companies such as UPS will lose money adjudicating tickets, arguing that many companies still have in-house teams for the job, and automation can reduce the expense further. He noted that the city handled 12 million tickets a year in 1990, when they were handwritten, and had to deal with only 10 million last year. Enforcement agents now use handheld devices that reduce the errors and bad handwriting that led to dismissals.
The Finance Department disagrees with his conclusions, saying both the city and the 1,751 companies in the program—encompassing 48,880 vehicles—would spend more without the program.
"We would need more hearing officers," Shear said. "The companies would have to retain brokers or hire staff to defend against these parking tickets. In terms of revenue, there would be no increase to the city."
Apart from whether the program is good for the city, a walk through Midtown with several UPS executives revealed how difficult following parking rules can be.
Another option would be to park at a metered spot a couple of blocks away and cart diamonds by hand truck to recipients, which UPS rules out for security reasons. "It would put our driver and other people in the area at risk," said Axel Carrion, director of state public affairs.
A few blocks away, on West 50th Street, where commercial parking was allowed at that hour, every space between Sixth and Seventh avenues was taken, mostly by delivery and commercial vehicles. There were two idling for-hire vehicles and three cars with "parking authorization" placards—the bane of parking-reform advocates—on their dashboard.
Even when a UPS driver finds a legal spot, regulations can conflict with the company's efforts to operate efficiently. Using new dispatch-planning technology, the company has increased the number of packages a truck will carry to nearly 400 so that one truck does the work of two. But that truck needs to stay in one place much of the workday, doing pickups when it's done with deliveries. Parking rules—which aim to promote the flow of traffic and keep operators from hogging spots—require it to move after three hours.
But circling the block will delay deliveries and the truck could lose the spot, so the driver will stay put. This reduces congestion and pollution. But the ticket, which costs program participants nothing, will set them back $25 under the new schedule.
Overall UPS expects its payments under the fine program to jump 32% next year, to $21.8 million, with a $3.4 million increase from double parking and more than $1 million from unloading in the wrong spot or at the wrong time. The company says it would like to try other solutions, such as paying for spots where a truck could sit all day. Long term, it would like to see new building construction include space for unloading.
Right now the firm is weighing the benefits of staying in the program.
"My drivers can be trained to avoid the ticket, and we have drastically reduced the amount of tickets over the past couple of years," said Dan Byrnes, director of finance at UPS, adding that the city's ticket data aided his efforts. "Now with these changes, [the city] is not really helping. Just raising prices is not going to change behavior." |
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A serene elegance overflows from this timeless Spanish beauty in the Hollywood Hills. Situated at the end of a cul-de-sac at the foot of Runyon Canyon Park, it’s evident that something special awaits as you enter the property through concrete arches and a custom wrought iron gate.
Besides its dramatic presence, the home is loaded with architectural details that are only found in homes from a bygone era.
A rotunda entry with inlaid polished wood floors and stenciled ceiling. The hardwood floors throughout the house are impeccable. It's as though they've never come in contact with the sole of a shoe in their 86 years.
The doors and windows throughout this home are beautiful, and in some cases quite unique. The French doors in the living room open to a large courtyard.
The home features a family Room, large formal dining room with views, a tower room, a 2-room staff wing and guest apartment with large terrace.
The second floor has five bedrooms. The master suite has city views and a generously sized dressing room.
Check out the oval window. Sweet, isn't it?
One of the more unique features I've seen is this space that appears to be a sort of prayer vestibule. The detail of its design is extraordinary.
The outdoor area in the back has three distinct levels. On the main floor is a private and beautifully tiled courtyard.
At the second level of the backyard is this beautiful pool and a terrace..
On the uppermost level of the back yard is a long pergola with that sits high above the house and commands unobstructed views of the city and beyond. |
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How to Make Flapjacks - Quick, Easy and Yummy!
Learn How to Make Flapjacks with this easy recipe. The favourite simple, English, chewy, gooey, kids bake. Add chocolate if you fancy, or use dairy free spread to make them vegan. Use gluten free oats to make them gluten free too.
I’ve got to tell you, my home baking has fallen down a little lately.
We are living in a new house (October, is that still ‘new’?) which has a pretty rubbish kitchen and once I’ve been cooking all day for work, I kind of forget to cook treats for George and Harriet.
I’d like to tell you that Mum guilt got the better of me but actually I accidentally ordered a COMEDY sized huge bag of Jumbo Oats by mistake.
I realised that I’d never shared this recipe and in writing up how to make flapjacks, I’ve realised I MUST make them more. They are SO good!
Before we get into the details I feel I should clarify what a flapjack is for any transatlantic readers.
In America a flapjack is actually a pancake. English flapjacks are more of a gooey oat/granola bar, made with butter, sugar, golden syrup and oats, all baked in the oven.
Flapjacks are a super simple and easy treat.
What ingredients do you need to make flapjacks?
All you need to make flapjacks are butter, sugar, golden syrup and oats.
How do you make flapjacks?
The absolute key in how to make flapjacks is all in the cooking time.
They really are such a simple bake to make. Firstly you melt unsalted butter in a heavy bottomed pan. Once the butter is melted, stir in sugar and golden syrup. As soon as the sugar is dissolved, you remove the pan from the heat.
Now stir in your oats, making sure that they are all coated with the mixture.
Put the flapjack mixture into a baking parchment lined baking tray. Carefully press them down using a spatula to ensure they cook evenly and are the same thickness when you cut them.
Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, the edges of your flapjack should just be starting to brown, but the middle should be soft with a slight amount of wobble.
Which oats should I use in flapjacks?
I used Jumbo whole oats, in this flapjack recipe. They give a lighter, more crumbly texture.
You can also rolled oats, which make a more dense flapjack.
Should flapjacks be crunchy or chewy?
For me the perfect flapjack is a chewy one, with slightly crunchy edges. Anything else is simply not good enough!
However, if you of the crunchy flapjack persuasion, just cook your flapjacks for slightly longer.
What other ingredients can I add to my perfect flapjack recipe?
Once you have mastered the basic flapjack recipe, the world is your oyster in terms of other flavours.
A simple covering of melted chocolate after cooking adds some sugary goodness that will be a hit with the children.
You can also add dried fruits for an extra portion of fruit.
The list is endless, let me know if you find your perfect flapjack flavour!
Do you cut flapjacks hot or cold?
Leave the flapjack in the tin until it is completely cooled before cutting into sixteen squares and removing from the tin.
I think allowing them to cool helps them to keep their shape and means that you don’t need to overcook them.
Can you make Dairy free or vegan flapjacks?
Yep! Just replace the butter with your favourite dairy free spread.
How long do homemade flapjacks last for?
In our house this is about 5 minutes but if you can resist temptation this flapjack recipe will last for around 10 days kept in an air tight container.
You can also freeze flapjack in portions for up to one month.
This perfect sized baking tin.
Great quality baking paper like this.
Always use a good quality baking parchment to line your baking tray. A top tip is to make small cuts in your parchment at each corner to help it fit the baking tray better.
You can vary the type of sugar used in your flapjack. I used soft brown sugar in this recipe to make it chewy and rich. You could also use castor sugar but it won’t be quite as tasty. Dark brown sugar would give a darker appearance and a richer flavour.
I have used 1tsp of salt in this flapjack recipe. You can leave this out if you are cooking for young children, but I do have to say I think it really adds to the recipe and brings out the flavour.
If you prefer you could substitute honey for golden syrup, I haven’t tried this myself, but if you do let me know how you get on.
If you fancy some inspiration for other simple sweet treats or after school snacks then take a look at my Ultimate Banana Muffins or Microwave Brownies recipes.
Hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do. I’d love to know how you got on and what you thought of it if you make this Easy Flapjack recipe. Please rate the recipe and leave me a comment below if you do.
PS. Look at these two getting in on the post photo act. HAHA! Hope your children enjoy this recipe as much as mine do.
Preheat your oven to 170deg (fan) 150deg (conventional).
Line a 20cm x 20 cm baking tray with baking parchment, cut slits in each corner so it fits neatly.
Melt your butter in a large pan over a low heat.
Once melted add your sugar. and golden syrup. Once the sugar has dissolved remove from the heat and stir in the oats.
Give the entire mixture a really good stir so that all of the oats are coated.
Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, the edges should be starting to brown but the middle should still be soft and wobbly.
When the flapjacks are cold, remove from the tin and slice your flapjack into 16 squares with a sharp knife. |
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Jordan Lee Archilbald “Jordy”, 24 of Jamestown NC was called to heaven on May 3, 2018. An informal gathering to celebrate the life of this precious soul will be held on Tuesday, May 8th at 6:00 pm at his mother’s home, 205 Forestdale Dr Jamestown NC 27282.
Jordy will be remembered by all who loved him as having the most beautiful, loving, caring and tender heart. When Jordy loved, he loved deeply. Jordy was kind and so affectionate and made everyone feel important. Jordy was special, that’s for sure and if we mentioned all that we have in our hearts, you would all be reading this for days. That’s how much we all loved our “baby boy”.
Some of the things Jordy loved most was large family gatherings, eating his “Ma’s” good cooking, fun times with friends, playing with Kensleigh and Abri and his little brother Jaidan, he loved his big brother Josh and fishing with his younger brother Jared and his cousin Garrett. His dad, Elmer was his hero. Jordy had much love and respect for his grandparents Kenneth and Virginia Manring and he knew that his Aunt Sissy worshiped the ground he walked on. Jordy loved all of his family so very much.
Jordy was charismatic and full of life. Just being near him made others happy and people were drawn to him. His beautiful smile and that sparkle in his eyes would light up the room and his silly laugh will never be forgotten.
We will miss our precious Jordy every day of our lives. We will continue to find comfort in knowing our God is a loving God and he has our boy in the palm of his hands and Jordy’s Mimi is holding him in her arms. We will see him again. He was and will always be SO LOVED.
In lieu of cut flowers, the family would welcome perennial flowers to create a memory garden for Jordy. |
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What is the fifth wave?
The mid-January defeat in Congress of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and its evil twin, the Stop Piracy Act (or SOPA), is a dramatic illustration of the decline of established authority in the face of a rebellious public. The authorities engaged in this particular farce were political and economic: a handful of senators and congressmen, and the organizational chieftains of the entertainment industry. The performance began with quiet murmurs behind drawn curtains, but ended with a pratfall-filled chase scene in the full light of day, worthy of the Marx Brothers.
The sponsoring politicians clearly believed this was a technical matter, to be settled among lawmakers and interested parties. It never occurred to them that anyone would be paying attention. For their part, representatives of the “creative” establishment felt entitled to reduce the web to something like an occupied country, and co-opt the Justice Department to secure their profits. It never occurred to them to question the outsourcing of their business needs to the government.
This being Washington DC, the line between political and corporate power was fuzzy.
According to Politico, Allison Halatei, former Deputy Chief of Staff to House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith, and Lauren Pastarnack, a Senate Judiciary Committee Senior Aide, just accepted jobs with two of the lobbying firms backing SOPA and PIPA. Halatei and Pastarnack helped write the bills. Halataei is now the National Music Publisher’s Association chief liaison to Congress, and Pasternak is now the director of government relations for the MPAA.
The head of the MPAA is Chris Dodd, a former senator. By law, he is banned from lobbying Congress, but as sultan of the music publishers he can throw fistfuls of coins to his friends from a $100 million lobbying war chest.
PIPA/SOPA enjoyed support from the Republicans who run the House and the Democrats who run the Senate. It was a rare bipartisan effort, mantled in the undivided power and prestige of the federal legislature. That it collapsed so quickly, and in such a comic opera atmosphere, should be considered a symptom of our strange moment in history.
The dispute over SOPA is often framed as pitting Washington-savvy Hollywood against the naïfs of Silicon Valley. This characterization is by no means false. I applied it in my previous post on the subject, and it pretty accurately describes the early phases of the conflict.
But something changed. As the knowledgeable Yochai Benkler observes, it wasn’t Google or Facebook which orchestrated the bills’ astonishing reversal of fortune. It was the eruption into the process – typically sudden and unforeseen – of the hordes of an aroused public.
It turned out many people had been paying attention after all. Marketing campaigns by tech companies helped call attention to the problems with SOPA, but this was largely an organic movement, an internet thing. I don’t know much about the internet, but I know this: virality is unforeseeable. Marketing geniuses, deploying the sexiest technical applications, will fail to achieve it. Yet teenage kids reproducing images of kittens go viral in a trice.
The web is overwhelmingly populated by cute cat communities and their like. This is Ethan Zuckerman’s insight, not mine. Building on the idea, Zuckerman has advanced a “cute cat theory” of web activism: if you mess with the governance of the internet, you will get into serious political trouble at the point when you truly and really piss off the cute cat users – the multitudinous, normally apolitical public. That, in brief, is what happened to Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and to SOPA’s sponsors in Congress.
Some tech companies, in fact, seemed dazed by the ferocity of the public’s reaction. Within a week of Godaddy’s announced support for SOPA, a user boycott had moved over 70,000 domains out of the company’s hosting site, forcing a clearly disoriented management to distance itself from the bill.
The effort to publicize the fight over PIPA/SOPA involved web activists like Rebecca MacKinnon and new media mavens like Jeff Jarvis, nonprofit entities like Wikipedia and multibillion-dollar outfits like Facebook. On 18 January, while Congress continued to ponder various versions of the two bills, Wikipedia, Reddit, and thousands of additional sites – including, let it be noted, the most popular cute cat location – went dark in protest. Other websites maintained service but made their displeasure known. Google, for example, conspicuously blacked out its logo.
First, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a rising Republican star, took to Facebook, one of the vehicles for promoting opposition, to renounce a bill he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who leads the G.O.P.’s Senate campaign efforts, used Facebook to urge his colleagues to slow the bill down. Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina and a Tea Party favorite, announced his opposition on Twitter, which was already boiling over with anti-#SOPA and #PIPA fever.
Then trickle turned to flood — adding Senators Mark Kirk of Illinois and Roy Blunt of Missouri, and Representatives Lee Terry of Nebraska and Ben Quayle of Arizona. At least 10 senators and nearly twice that many House members announced their opposition.
“Thanks for all the calls, e-mails, and tweets. I will be opposing #SOPA and #PIPA,” Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, wrote in a Twitter message. Late Wednesday, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, withdrew his support for a bill he helped write.
Two days after the Wikipedia blackout, both PIPA and SOPA were withdrawn without ever coming up for a vote.
There are lessons from this struggle, for those with eyes to see. Political power sought control, rather than the imposition of any particular ideology. The web is mostly illegible to government. Those who have absorbed James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State know that modern governments everywhere seek to transform the social landscape to make it more legible from the center. On this account, SOPA won’t be the last attempt to impose a policing regime on the web.
Political and business actors argued from authority, rather than the merits of the case. They suffered from tunnel vision, willfully ignoring the unintended consequences of patrolling the public’s means of communication on the web. Political players believed they worked within a club of friends. The entertainment industry looked at its business interests and saw a moral imperative. Neither expected opposition from outside their charmed circle, so neither could muster persuasive arguments when, to their complete surprise, that opposition materialized.
Established authority was blind to the information environment in which the public works and plays. It could not see where the revolt against SOPA came from. Authority emanates from hierarchical structures which once monopolized access to information and communication. Everything produced outside these structures appears worse than illegitimate: unreal. Dodd thus blamed his industry’s legislative disaster on “Internet companies” and their “ability to spread their message globally, without regulation or fact-checking.” He never saw the public that trounced him.
Finally, the nature of the conflict between authority and the public is what the Pentagon would call asymmetric: one is powerful and slow-moving, the other numerous and quicksilver. Principles of action diverge accordingly, with authority worshipping rank and orderly process, while the public, as public, displays informality and a contrarian streak sometimes verging on nihilism. With SOPA, authority tried to make the web more like itself. Disruptive change, I suspect, will soon flow in the opposite direction. |
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Officers who followed a car zig-zagging down a Des Moines street before it crashed were surprised to find a 10-year-old boy at the wheel with his 7-year-old brother riding shotgun.
A 911 caller alerted police to a reckless driver a little before 8:30 a.m. Monday. Officers who spotted the car turned on their flashing lights while following it, but the curb-to-curb excursion didn’t end until the minor crash. Police say neither of the boys was hurt.
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InfusionSoft is a fully functional CRM and marketing solution created for small and medium size businesses. Comparing it to MailChimp or AWeber is like comparing a Lamborghini to a VW Golf. It provides highly advanced features for list segmentation, lead scoring and marketing automation. On top of all that, you can integrate all of these features with your optin form using Infusionsoft Tags + OptinMonster.
Unsubscribe rate. Unsubscribes are always going to happen no matter what, and that’s usually OK because those people probably would never have bought from you anyway. However, a high unsubscribe rate can indicate that you are losing potential customers. Check the following: Why did people subscribe to your list in the first place, and are you delivering on that promise? Is the content of your autoresponder highly relevant to the segment it is being sent to? Are you sending too many sales emails with too little value emails?
Display ads are typically highly targeted to different demographic or behavioral actions. You can select where you want the ads to be seen by choosing an online publication that you feel is a place where your leads spend time, or you can also leverage re-targeter ads that can cookie a lead that views your site. With re-targeter ads, once a person gets cookied, your ads appear on other sites that he or she visits afterwards. Through online ads you can reach more of your target audience, educate potential prospects, and drive leads. Display ads also serve a purpose at every stage in the funnel—building brand and audience at Top of Funnel, educating and helping evaluation at Mid-Funnel, and increasing conversions at Bottom of Funnel.
Auto responders present an excellent opportunity to create email marketing results with minimal effort after the initial build out. However, the key to success is to think through the process during the build out and to monitor the program carefully for the first several months in order to optimize it. We'll discuss auto responders throughout the remainder of this book when talking about email design, implementation, tracking and optimization.
You may think direct mail is a thing of the past. But it’s still effective for targeted communications. Consider a content asset developed for high-level executives. Executives don’t usually browse the web for information. And it can be hard to get through to them via email. That means they may not come across the content you’ve developed with them in mind. This is where direct mail can prove powerful. You could send a direct mail piece to this audience to make them aware of your new, targeted content asset. Direct mail also gives you a chance to grab the attention of a hot prospect by being creative and interesting with your message and presentation.
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Your account can keep track of new prospect lists, of old customer lists, of new customer lists, etc. all in one manageable database. You can import contact data into your account for quick and easy follow-up. And you can export data as needed. Sending regular emailings to past customers encouraging them to buy more, more often are simple to set-up and distribute.
Form-Scraping Tool: A form scraping tool that collects submissions on your website's existing forms helps you automatically consolidate all your leads into your contact database, regardless of which form visitors submitted on your website. HubSpot customers can create and embed forms using HubSpot, which automatically populate into your CMS. Non-HubSpot customers can use a form creation tool like Contact Form 7, JetPack, or Google Forms, and then use HubSpot's free collected forms feature to automatically capture form submissions and input them to a contact database.
If your small business wants more customer conversions (i.e. sales), then learning when and how to use autoresponders is a step in the right direction. These pre-scheduled emails, usually one or more in a series, are triggered by customer behavior and can be used to target, engage and convert prospects to buyers. An individual autoresponder can even become a standalone product by itself.
These examples might make it seem like lead generation is pretty easy; it is not. To get people to divulge information about themselves, you should be able to articulate the value in your business solution. Plus you need to be present in channels that get you closest to your target audience. Articulating value is a broad, multi-layered topic, and it has as much to do with soft skills as it has to do with your knowledge of the business. However, there are specific channels you can tap into when it comes to lead generation, and that’s where we’re heading next.
First, act as though you’re a prospect making their way to your business’s landing page. Start by ensuring that the links to your landing page are working, wherever they may be — email, PPC networks, sponsored social media posts, etc. Are they driving you to the landing page that they’re supposed to? Does everything look the way you intended on every browser? https://1xqdqy285sk7212bfiejcprr-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/email-marketing-process.png
Whenever possible, add a personal element to your emails. Most email tools allow you to enter shortcodes that will be replaced with the recipient’s name when the email is sent out. Emails from Treehouse Co-Founder Ryan are always fun and personal. The subject lines are creative, messages are sent "from" Ryan's email address, and the content is personalized. If you reply to the mail, you'll even get a prompt response from Ryan himself!
An auto responder is generally more similar in content to a newsletter than it is to a direct sales email, though it combines many of the elements of both. The content can vary wildly though based on your industry segment and what you've promised subscribers. The most common type of auto responder content will be tips or advice, but you can also do great things with recipes, serial fiction pieces, inspirational quotes and a variety of other topics. Essentially, you are looking for content that will engage users over a period of time while also providing a platform to encourage sales of your product or service or visits to your website.
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Lead generation is very important for the growth of a business. The buying process has changed and marketeers need to rethink and refocus their efforts in order to stay relevant. If people demonstrate to you that they are interested in your business, when you go to contact them about your offering they are no longer a stranger– but rather a true sales prospect who has “told” you they are interested in your product or service.
Following the alignment process (Step #1), every sales rep should understand how to use the CRM and other lead intelligence tools to be able to quickly evaluate sales qualified leads and reach out to them quickly. Lead intelligence will help reps formulate a strategy for engaging with their prospects, gain their interest and trust, and develop a relationship that leads to a closed sale. This process is called sales nurturing. Every rep needs to update the CRM following every communication to keep lead status up-to-date and make sure that Marketing doesn't step on the sales process with inappropriate content. Once a sale is consummated, Customer Service should be notified via the CRM and take over managing the account. Sales also needs to set up automated reminders for following up with their customers and setting the table for up-sells and retained services. Marketing and Product Development also need to stay in the loop to send supporting, customer-centric content that educates customers on best practices and upcoming releases.
It’s also important to understand that operationally we need to break down silos. Effective lead generation relies on marketers’ ability to connect the website user experience your site serves up, plus what you’re doing with SEO and SEM, email marketing, content marketing, and social media strategy, with a well-integrated blend of sales expertise. None of these things can be effective on their own, although we see companies separating out these services and failing to integrate them all the time. Big mistake.
Write great subject lines. David Ogilvy once said that 80 cents of your dollar should be spent on writing headlines. With emails, the subject line is just as important. If it doesn’t catch your attention, you won’t open it. So, spend the majority of your time writing and polishing your subject line. A great email subject line entices curiosity about the content of the email. It’s also personal, and highly relevant to the recipient. To learn more about how to write amazing subject lines, we have an entire blog post on the topic: 30 Successful Bloggers Share Their Best Converting Email Subject Line. http://dgmseo.com/images/email1.png
Expired Listings. “These are listings that realtors had on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and they didn’t sell. I personally love these because they tend to be more frustrated already, having not sold with a realtor. This will many times translate into immediate appointments opposed to the ‘for sale by owners’ that need some time typically. Where do you get expired listings? It used to be that you had to work with someone that was licensed to get them. Now there are services that offer them so it's super easy to get a constant feed of them.”
Whether you already have a list of subscribers or are starting from scratch, email marketing services can help. All of the services we cover let you add contacts manually using copy and paste or by uploading CSV or Microsoft Excel files. Some integrate with third-party software enabling you to import Gmail and other webmail contacts, Salesforce.com and other customer relationship management (CRM) data, or other software where you might have contacts stored. Depending on the size and location of your list, third-party integration could be key. Verify whether you can export contacts as well (and how easy it is to do so) should you leave the service. Managing users who unsubscribe should also be easy so you're not accidentally contacting anyone who has opted out of your newsletters.
The most advanced email marketing services offer custom workflows where you can specify triggers based on actions (such as opening an email or making a purchase) or on inaction (such as ignoring emails). With these services, you can also set up a series of emails (such as tutorials) to be sent to segments of users, and you can pause or stop a campaign at any time. You can also move contacts into new segments once they have completed tutorials.
An MQL is one step higher than a lead, in terms of the level of engagement with your business. An MQL typically performs an activity, like downloading your ebook, which is a clear indication of their interest in your business. Sometimes an MQL can also be determined based on their demographic profile. MQLs are ready to be nurtured, but they’re not ready to buy just yet. They’re usually handed over by the marketing team to the sales team.
As of mid-2016 email deliverability is still an issue for legitimate marketers. According to the report, legitimate email servers averaged a delivery rate of 73% in the U.S.; six percent were filtered as spam, and 22% were missing. This lags behind other countries: Australia delivers at 90%, Canada at 89%, Britain at 88%, France at 84%, Germany at 80% and Brazil at 79%.[7]
Your website is where the magic happens. This is the place where your audience needs to convert. Whether it is encouraging prospective buyers to sign up for your newsletter or fill out a form for a demo, the key is to optimize your website for converting browsers into actual leads. Pay attention to forms, Calls-to-Action (CTA), layout, design, and content.
Did you know that 74% of companies that weren’t exceeding revenue goals didn't know their visitor, lead, MQL, or sales opportunities numbers? How about that over 70% of companies not achieving their revenue goals generate fewer than 100 leads per month, and only 5% generate more than 2,500 leads per month? These are just a few examples of what you’ll find in the report.
Every week, the folks at InVision send a roundup of their best blog content, their favorite design links from the week, and a new opportunity to win a free t-shirt. (Seriously. They give away a new design every week.) They also sometimes have fun survey questions where they crowdsource for their blog. This week's, for example, asked subscribers what they would do if the internet didn't exist.
: a function of e-mail software that automatically sends a response to incoming messages Unanswered e-mail is as big a turnoff as unanswered calls. Consider using your ISP's autoresponder to acknowledge received e-mail. It lets the visitors know their message arrived and gives you an opportunity to thank them for visiting the site.— Victoria Hall Smith, PC World, January 1999
If you want to integrate your email with your shopping cart but don’t quite want to spring for InfusionSoft, 1ShoppingCart could be your answer. 1ShoppingCart is a one stop solution for payment processing and email marketing. It allows you to segregate lists and mail only buyers or your entire list. It’s one of the more reputable shopping cart services on the net.
The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was passed by Congress as a direct response to the growing number of complaints over spam e-mails.[citation needed] Congress determined that the US government was showing an increased interest in the regulation of commercial electronic mail nationally, that those who send commercial e-mails should not mislead recipients over the source or content of them, and that all recipients of such emails have a right to decline them. The act authorizes a US $16,000 penalty per violation for spamming each individual recipient.[17] However, it does not ban spam emailing outright, but imposes laws on using deceptive marketing methods through headings which are "materially false or misleading". In addition there are conditions which email marketers must meet in terms of their format, their content and labeling. As a result, many commercial email marketers within the United States utilize a service or special software to ensure compliance with the act. A variety of older systems exist that do not ensure compliance with the act. To comply with the act's regulation of commercial email, services also typically require users to authenticate their return address and include a valid physical address, provide a one-click unsubscribe feature, and prohibit importing lists of purchased addresses that may not have given valid permission.[citation needed]
Cost per click advertising (e.g. AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing) overcomes this problem by charging advertisers only when the consumer clicks on the advertisement. However, due to increased competition, search keywords have become very expensive. A 2007 Doubleclick Performics Search trends report shows that there were nearly six times as many keywords with a cost per click (CPC) of more than $1 in January 2007 than the prior year. The cost per keyword increased by 33% and the cost per click rose by as much as 55%.
MailChimp is a fantastic place for beginning marketers to get started. Their “forever free” plan allows you to create a list on MailChimp for free as long as your list is under 500 users. When you’re just starting out, that’s more than enough. If you don’t want to start paying for autoresponders yet, go ahead and give MailChimp a shot, it is a great first step as an email marketing tool.
An email marketing strategy is part of your overall marketing strategy and business plan. It helps you market your products and services with the use of the email channel with the best chances for making a profit and reaching your goals. That is because an effective email marketing strategy takes into consideration what your target customers are, their preferences and benefits they are looking for as well as your products services and industry and which email marketing messages are most effective. http://www.mailigen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/guest-blog-feature-1.2.32.png
Lead generation is a core part of the sales funnel for many B2B companies since their products can cost thousands of dollars and web visitors less likely to buy their product or service directly from the website. Collecting leads allows the businesses to educate and nurture prospective customers through e-mail marketing, before reaching out to them directly via salespeople.
Because lead generation is the first step of the sales process, both quality and quantity are important factors. Quality leads are leads that a salesperson has a good chance of closing, which means they must at least have the potential to become customers. Every lead list will have a number of junk leads – people who are not qualified to buy the product for some reason – but the smaller the percentage of bad leads, the less time salespeople will waste while processing that list. Quantity is also important because even a salesperson with a list of 100% good leads won't be able to close every one of them.
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An email marketing strategy is part of your overall marketing strategy and business plan. It helps you market your products and services with the use of the email channel with the best chances for making a profit and reaching your goals. That is because an effective email marketing strategy takes into consideration what your target customers are, their preferences and benefits they are looking for as well as your products services and industry and which email marketing messages are most effective. http://www.mailigen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/guest-blog-feature-1.2.32.png
Ironpaper works with B2B enterprises and organizations wishes to scale their marketing efforts. We focus on sales qualified lead generation and prospect to lead conversion rates. Our services include lead-generation marketing, automation, advertising, social media, SEO and PPC. We build websites, mobile apps and produce great content to win new business and leads for clients.
If you want to convert the visitors that come to your landing pages and take your lead gen to the next level, you’ve got to continually test out your landing page elements, including the headline, subtitles, bullet points, call-to-actions and more. Consider this a prime piece of real estate in your marketing strategy. In other words, take advantage of what is to offer and experiment with what drives the best results.
Companies considering the use of an email marketing program must make sure that their program does not violate spam laws such as the United States' Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM),[9] the European Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, or their Internet service provider's acceptable use policy.
Your lead generation strategy needs to be as dynamic as the people you’re targeting. Trends change, behaviors shift, opinions morph … so should your lead gen marketing. Use A/B split testing to see what CTAs perform best, which landing pages convert better, and which copy captures your target audience. Experiment with layout changes, design, UX, content, and advertising channels until you find what works.
Why does email list segmentation matter? We know that beyond relevancy, list segmentation is important from a revenue perspective. Data from the DMA indicates that segmented and targeted emails generate 58% of all email revenue. On top of this, our research found that marketers who used segmented campaigns noted as much as a 76% increase in revenue–and more than 76% of marketers say basic segmentation is part of their email marketing strategy.
First, act as though you’re a prospect making their way to your business’s landing page. Start by ensuring that the links to your landing page are working, wherever they may be — email, PPC networks, sponsored social media posts, etc. Are they driving you to the landing page that they’re supposed to? Does everything look the way you intended on every browser?
While almost all reputable email service providers work very hard to make sure that your emails are not blocked by major ISP’s, they can’t control whether or not your emails hit the inbox or the spam box. Although most will help you by providing a quality score to help you determine availability, getting whitelisted is the most effective way to ensure that your emails get delivered properly.
With their service, you can choose from a curated list of email newsletters and sponsor those that share your target customer. Sponsoring allows you to advertise your lead generation campaigns in email newsletters that matter to your target audience. LaunchBit screens all lists to make sure they’re legit and handles the transaction from sponsor to advertiser so the experience is smooth for all.
Use it as a lead magnet/free mini course. You can also use an autoresponder as a lead magnet to attract new subscribers to your email list. This is commonly done in the form of a free “mini course”, or a free “challenge”, which promises to deliver a series of emails containing lessons (or other valuable information) over the course of several days or weeks. There is a high perceived value with a mini course or a challenge like this, which makes it a very effective lead magnet.
Yes, screens are getting smaller. And yes, an ever-expanding percentage of email is being consumed on mobile devices. Understood. But all that said, readers are entirely accustomed to scrolling and will appreciate a tidy and uncluttered look. Use headers, bulleted lists where appropriate, captions, and any other tactics to help go easy on the eyes and communicate effectively with the skimmer.
Because lead generation is the first step of the sales process, both quality and quantity are important factors. Quality leads are leads that a salesperson has a good chance of closing, which means they must at least have the potential to become customers. Every lead list will have a number of junk leads – people who are not qualified to buy the product for some reason – but the smaller the percentage of bad leads, the less time salespeople will waste while processing that list. Quantity is also important because even a salesperson with a list of 100% good leads won't be able to close every one of them.
While constant follow up sounds like a lot of work, SendFree makes it easy. SendFree autoresponders automate the follow-up process for you. First, they’ll immediately deliver your promotional messages to your prospects when they're hot. Then they’ll send automated and personalized follow up messages that build trust, close sales and make you money!
5. Use Personalization Fields: While always important in email marketing, because an auto-responder list can not be easily segmented, be sure to use the features of your email marketing program, such as those at Comm100, that allow you to personalize fields within your auto responder email with the subscriber's first name, handle, user name or other submitted information.
For Campaign Monitor customers, you can either manually upload an existing list (from an Excel file for instance) or you can connect your Campaign Monitor account to the tool where your customer data lives (such as your CRM, accounting, eCommerce tool, and hundreds of others) and automatically sync your customer information into your Campaign Monitor account.
In many cases, outbound techniques can get someone to think about you even if they haven’t thought about you yet, since many of the methods you use should have more of a “wow” factor to make your company stand out. Outbound communication is often highly targeted, with a call-to-action that is very obvious. As a result, good outbound marketing can push someone through the funnel at a faster rate, assuming they are closer to being ready to buy. Inbound alone often does not drive someone to buy. Outbound gives them that extra nudge they need to drive a lead down the funnel.
Set up marketing automation workflows to categorize leads and segment them into lists using criteria established in Step #1. Use these lists to nurture leads with relevant content and personalized email communications. Also use them for targeted campaigns, segmenting leads with a certain role or title or within a certain industry or market segment. https://subiz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/email-marketing-campaign.jpg
The form on your landing page consists of a series of fields (like in our example above) that collect information in exchange for the offer. Forms are typically hosted on landing pages, although they can technically be embedded anywhere on your site. Once a visitor fills this out — voila! — you have a new lead! (That is, as long as you’re following lead-capture form best practices.)
Though they’ve been around for a while, not all small business owners are familiar with the capabilities that autoresponders offer. To help businesses start reaping the benefits, this post provides important definitions, different types of autoresponders and 13 specific examples of how they can be used right away to increase engagement, leads and sales. https://thenextscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/email-marketing2.jpg
The key difference from an autoresponder is that workflows are smart: They can change the course of your automated series based on what your prospect will find useful. For instance, if a new subscriber receives a welcome email and the subsequent email is set up to send them an offer that they already found and downloaded on your site, the workflow tool will know and adapt. In an autoresponder, a user receives a specific set of emails at specific time intervals no matter what action they take.
The focus for marketers now is on being in the right place, at the right time, with the right calls to action, in order to capitalize on opportunities to build relationships with these knowledge-empowered consumers, and to give them what they want when they want it. As a rule, marketers recognize this evolution of the lead generation process, but many are faced with the challenge of how exactly to make that shift and execute effectively.
What's the difference between them? One-off communications versus prolonged, email-based interactions. For example, email marketing tools are excellent for one-off communications. You can use these tools for the one time you'd like to send someone an automated email response when they join a subscriber list, on their birthday, or when you promote a new product. But marketing automation tools are better suited for prolonged, email-based interactions. For example, you can use marketing automation tools whenever you want to guide someone from a subscriber list to a product purchase. Or you can send thank you emails or send new product promotions—all without having to lift a finger after the workflow is designed.
As a growing business, you may also be looking for a CRM solution, and you'll find that the more advanced email marketing services have begun to crossover into CRM. It makes sense: Both types of software deal with managing and communicating with customers. A handful of these services are one-stop shops, either offering both email marketing and CRM out of the box or as add-on services.
Lead nurturing also increases lead to opportunity conversion rate, drives more revenue, and shortens the sales cycle. It is about finding the right buyers at the right time. Lead generation brings buyers into the funnel, but lead nurturing and scoring sends them to sales so that your sales team can close the deal at the right time. In fact, according to MarketingSherpa’s Lead Generation benchmark report, companies who leverage lead nurturing see a 45% lift in lead generation over those companies who do not use lead nurturing.
Focus on the reader first. You should always write your emails to address the needs of your subscribers, not yours. Offer ways to solve their problems, don’t simply talk about your products and how great they are. (This is a part that so many companies get wrong.) Ask yourself, what are the biggest pain points/struggles for my subscribers? How can I solve their current problem in this email?
The biggest culprit here are landing pages and, in particular, your forms. Forms separate your leads from non-leads, and have a huge impact on your conversion rates and overall lead generation results. If you haven’t already, I’d recommend optimising your forms – or using a tool like Leadformly to ensure that you’re not leaving leads behind from your marketing campaigns.
Promotional emails are one of the most economical ways for any business to connect with customers. Research shows a message is five times more likely to be seen through email than on social media like Facebook or Twitter. That’s why musicians use email marketing software to share their performance schedule with their fans, non-profits use it to get donations and photographers use it to promote their portrait services. It just works. https://www.emailtooltester.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/email-marketing-services.jpg
Lead generation is a key element in the sales process that has changed in recent years alongside shifts in sales and marketing landscape. Generated leads are no longer an indiscriminate list of names that marketing hands to sales. Leads are generated today by drawing in potential customers using a variety of methods, offering them useful information, building and nurturing relationships, and evaluating which leads are ready to move forward in their buying journey. For more detailed information, visit our blog post on “5 Ways You Can Generate More Qualified Leads ”.
Flexibility is necessary, but not always easy—especially when you’re trying to get both your marketing and sales teams up to speed. Best practices around the many complex things that comprise marketing today, including website best practices, mobile viewability, email, SEO/SEM, marketing automation, content marketing, and social media change so swiftly that many people find it difficult, if not downright impossible, to keep up.
For example, if you set up an autoresponder with an interval of 24 and you receive an email from user@example.com at 8:00 AM on Monday, the autoresponder immediately responds to the message. If, however, user@example.com continues to email you throughout the day, the autoresponder does not send another response for 24 hours after the initial email (in this case, 8:00 AM on Tuesday). If user@example.com emails you again after the 24-hour interval expires, the system sends them an autoresponse.
Lead generation falls within the second stage of the inbound marketing methodology. It occurs after you've attracted an audience and are ready to convert those visitors into leads for your sales team (namely sales-qualified leads). As you can see in the diagram below, generating leads is a fundamental point in an individual's journey to becoming a delighted customer.
Though they’ve been around for a while, not all small business owners are familiar with the capabilities that autoresponders offer. To help businesses start reaping the benefits, this post provides important definitions, different types of autoresponders and 13 specific examples of how they can be used right away to increase engagement, leads and sales.
Email marketing is the act of sending a commercial message, typically to a group of people, using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It usually involves using email to send advertisements, request business, or solicit sales or donations, and is meant to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness. Marketing emails can be sent to a purchased lead list or a current customer database. The term usually refers to sending email messages with the purpose of enhancing a merchant's relationship with current or previous customers, encouraging customer loyalty and repeat business, acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately, and sharing third-party ads.
When you sign up for Freshsales CRM, you start with a free 30-day trial. Take this time to try the built-in phone, score leads, send and track your emails, create reports and automate repetitive actions. Yes, you can do all this from a single sales tool, which is also GDPR-compliant. This means you discover your leads safely, better and faster, and you know exactly who’s closer to becoming your next customer.
Visitor Tracking: Hotjar has a heatmap tool — a virtual tool which creates a color-coded representation of how a user navigates your site — that helps you understand what users want, care about, and do on your site. It records visitors and tells you where they spend the most time on your site. You can use it to gather information on your lead generation forms, feedback forms and surveys, and more.
Email Newsletters are some of the most common and popular forms of email marketing. Use email newsletters to provide your subscribers with timely, expected, and helpful updates from your brand. Include thought leadership or how-tos, announcements about your product or service, insider-peeks into your business, or any other engaging content that adds value to your subscribers’ inboxes. http://fredericgonzalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/email_2.jpg
Even if you’ve already got a long list of emails for clients and prospects, you should never stop adding to it. Especially since it’s not nearly as hard as it sounds. For example, make sure your list is always growing passively with a signup feature on your website. Subscription forms should be on your home page, blog page and everywhere else you can fit it without taking away from more important content.
Lead generation can be an easy way to increase your return on investment and greatly expand your client base. Approach it just like you would any other advertising endeavor: set aside a reasonable budget to test it and see if it works for your business. The key to being successful in lead generation is to brush up on your sales and marketing skills so that the leads you receive convert at a high sales rate. Do not try to approach this method of marketing without the ability to follow through and close the sale.
Our email editor provides the most flexibility in design with a content block approach rather than a drag-and-drop methodology. With content blocks you can easily add rows of new content elements, move them up and down, and swap content from left to right. With content blocks you can also set the padding or amount of white space between elements, giving your content the room it needs. In addition, free graphics are available in our image library. Neither MailChimp nor Constant Contact offers any of these features.
If you want to code your own emails, you have the freedom to do so. But this is an advanced skill that requires a good bit of technical know-how. Here’s what you need to take the coding leap—whether you’re just getting started, wondering about the basics of HTML emails, or looking for a guide to coding them. We’ve also rounded up a few more resources you might need as you become a certifiable email pro.
The self-directed buyer’s shields are up, and they are ignoring your messages. Developing a relationship to cut through the noise is critical. Not all leads that go to sales are ready to buy, so you have to make sure that you have in place a solid lead nurturing strategy to continue to build awareness and affinity for your brand while your prospect is self-educating. Through paying attention to your MOFU efforts through tactics such as lead nurturing, you can continue to have a relevant conversation with prospects long after your lead generation efforts.
Don't use CTAs to drive people to your homepage, for instance. Even if your CTA is about your brand or product (and perhaps not an offer like a download), you should still be sending them to a targeted landing page that's relevant to what they are looking for and includes an opt-in form. If you have the opportunity to use a CTA, send them to a page that will convert them into a lead.
And that leads us right into understanding service pricing and packaging. The email marketing services we reviewed range from about $5 per month to as much as $20 per month for a range of features. Many email marketing plans include unlimited email sends each month and bill you based on the number of subscribers. If you have a small list, then look for a company that offers a free plan, a low-cost plan for several hundred subscribers, or even a pay-as-you-go plan. On the flip side, many of these services also offer high-volume plans with up to 100,000 or more contacts. Sometimes this requires a custom plan that has to be arranged directly with a sales rep. If you're willing to commit, then look for the companies that offer discounts if you pay yearly rather than monthly. A few offer also money-back guarantees.
If rounds of split testing, segmentation, and resends still result in low engagement scores for some of your subscribers then don’t be afraid to clean your list. Review subscriber data regularly to monitor activity and engagement ratings. Remove or further segment those who aren’t engaging in order to improve the overall open rates of your primary subscriber segments. https://www.websolutions.com/Customer-Content/www/CMS/files/blog/email-must-haves.png
ConvertKit has been incredibly useful to me. I can use it to create complex automations and branching message sequences to deliver the exact right message to the right people. And I can do that without spending an entire weekend trying to figure out how it works. Trust me, if I can figure it out, literally anyone can. ConvertKit is a terrific tool, even if your list is still small. And it will grow as you do. — Sonia Simone, Chief Content Office, Copyblogger
The Modern Marketing lead generation process begins much earlier in the buying cycle than it used to. Through social media and sharing, educational webinars, and search, marketers seek to be found wherever their prospective buyers may be looking for relevant information on the business challenges that the marketer’s solutions can solve. As a prospect engages with the organization, the education process can move into lead nurturing. By providing valuable content over time, the marketer will be able to remain top-of-mind and slowly educate the prospect on key considerations for the purchase decision.
The inbound method attracts leads using online content. You create a website, or you write a blog, and you optimize it for online search through SEO (search engine optimization) techniques. This means the content has the appropriate keywords and answers the questions your target audience is asking. When your content is easily discoverable and begins to engage your readers, they become your leads. Depending on how you interact with them from then on, they can become your customers too. https://www.sendblaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/your-email-marketing-campaign-in-minutes.png
In the old world of information scarcity, the concept of “lead generation” meant marketing found the names of potential buyers and passed them to sales. Buyers expected that they would have to talk to sales and sales expected to speak to uneducated early stage buyers that may not yet be qualified. This has all changed. Today, buyers can do their own research online and can find a variety of educational resources through search engines, social media, and other online channels. Through content resources, today’s buyer can learn a great deal about a product or service before ever having to even speak to a sales person. So businesses must make sure that they build their digital presence.
An email marketing strategy is part of your overall marketing strategy and business plan. It helps you market your products and services with the use of the email channel with the best chances for making a profit and reaching your goals. That is because an effective email marketing strategy takes into consideration what your target customers are, their preferences and benefits they are looking for as well as your products services and industry and which email marketing messages are most effective.
One thing that hasn’t changed with email marketing is that you need to be strategic about how you word every part of marketing emails. One of the best things about email subscriptions of today is that you can count on your prospects having some level of interest in your product or service that encouraged them to sign up for your subscription list to begin with. https://media.sparkpost.com/uploads/2015/11/REI_BlackFridayEmailCampaign_2015.png
In B2B, inbound is the preferred channel of lead generation. The whole process of drawing a lead into doing business with you—by educating first and selling later—matches the B2B business model, where businesses don’t make impulsive purchase decisions. Which is why inbound marketing in B2B takes leads through three levels of the sales funnel: ToFu (top of the funnel), MoFu (middle of the funnel), and Bofu (bottom of the funnel).
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are a hot item, no doubt. They’re everywhere, it seems, including the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival. And, just because they can, they’re giving the paparazzi plenty of great photo shots. Kim and Kanye lit up the red carpet at Cannes on Wednesday night, and it might be one of Kim K.’s best looks yet!
At the premiere of Kanye West’s film Cruel Summer, Kim K. sizzled in a short, beaded, white dress with gold detailing. She actually matched her man, too: Kanye wore a white blazer, white shirt and white jeans. In short, they looked every bit the color coordinated power couple of the moment as they posed for photos together. There’s no denying that since she’s been with Kanye, Kim’s stepped up her glamor game in a major way. Her looks during her time in Europe, specifically, are classic, with less emphasis on sex and far more emphasis on class. Good for her!
At the after party, Kim Kardashian and Kanye were spotted “happily nuzzling” together. Anyone who speculated that Kimye was just for publicity might be seriously rethinking that theory. These two are actually beaming!
Speaking of beaming, Kim K. was still smiling from ear to ear as she glammed it up “old Hollywood” style at the glitzy amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala in Cannes on Thursday. Kim sizzled in a jaw-droppingly gorgeous yellow evening gown. And yes, the dress showed plenty of leg and cleavage, but without being tacky. Kim’s choice of bright red lipstick and side swept, curled hair complemented the look immensely.
Bravo to Kim Kardashian for having a banner fashion week in London and in France! Whether it’s Kanye love or a new stylist, she needs to keep this up.
Has the divorce influenced Kim Kardashian’s future plans? Absolutely not at all. The reality show star is working at her acting skills. She has contracted with Susan Batman, who is to develop Kim’s talent, which must be fully shown on screens in Tyler Perry’s film “The Marriage Consultant”. It is interesting to know that Susan never works with people, who seem to have no chances in the acting profession. So Kim Kardashian is not hopeless.
While preparing for her role, Kim Kardashian manages to solve her problems with divorce. For example, she has hired a lawyer in order to make Johnatan Jaxson, her ex-publicist, keep silence about her wedding, which he considers to be a fake.
Moreover, Kim Kardashian is sued by hair-removal company Radiancy. Kim Kardashian advertised their new hair removal line so passionately, that she has misled lots of people. She recommended making this procedure on the whole body as she did it herself, although it was quite inappropriate for some parts of the body. People usually trust celebrities and their choice, so the matter was unfair towards gullible crowd. Except all the rest, Kim Kardashian sex tape pursues the girl. Recently the press has published details of how hysterically reacted star of a scandalous tape, when Ray J has released a tape in a network.
In a recent statement, Kim Kardashian confessed why she had hurried to the marriage, which was terminated in 72 days after the wedding. Sex tape star said she wants a family, babies and a real life so badly that maybe she rushed into something too soon.
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries’ wedding was a very spectacular and beautiful event. When Kim Kardashian was preparing for her wedding, she completely plunged into the process. However, qualitatively and magnificently prepared wedding was not able to convince Chris to become the father of children which was a desire for 31 year socialite-girl.
Ironically, this week it became known that Kim was cast in Tyler Perry’s movie entitled “The Marriage Counselor”. Heroine Ava whom Kardashian should play, helps the friend to settle serious disorders in the family. It is also known that Tyler Perry’s fans have demanded the director to clean Kim Kardashian from the project. This decision was motivated by the fact that she can not play such roles after such a preposterous marriage. One fan even asked the question: “Kim Kardashian in your movie? Why have you stooped this low?”.
Only one fact remains indisputable for all. A film with participation of Kim Kardashian which has achieved phenomenal success is Kim Kardashian sex tape, where she took part with Ray J.. Therefore, there is only one way to win this irony. Kim is to do her best for the preparation of her role. According to the press, at present, Kim is entirely indulged in this business of which she is expecting great success.
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In this paper I plan to discuss some ideas of military ethics that relate to the Global War on Terrorism. I intend to defend a realist position on two levels, roughly metaphysical and meta-ethical. In the first I will be citing some arguments offered by Michael Gelven in defense of the necessity, even the desirability of war as a self-reflexive cultural activity tied to meaning. On the ethical level, I will cite The Ethics of War by Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill in offering a justification for acting in war to cause harm to an enemy even if the effectiveness and proportionality of the acts must remain unknown.
These discussions, I will maintain, are a necessary antidote to the excessive moral fastidiousness that characterizes some discussion of military ethics in this country, and which is partly the result of military ethicists, to include those in uniform, being trained in the left-leaning “unpatriotic academy” (as it was termed by Richard Rorty).
The origins of this paper may be said to be three: 9/11, the 2002 JSCOPE conference, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. 9/11 provided for me a “moment of clarity” as it did for many others. We were under attack, we were at war, the other enemies, conspiracies, concerns paled in comparison to this. The moment, however, sometimes seemed hard to sustain. The 2002 JSCOPE was, I think, the third JSCOPE I had attended, although the first in which I participated with a group of midshipmen from Kings Point. It may have been partly that I was there with some young and impressionable future officers that I was disturbed by some of what I was hearing. I had expected a greater response to the circumstances of the post -9/11 world, an awareness, not so much of new realities as a renewed awareness of ancient realties, the gods of the copy book headings, as Kipling says in his poem. I also suspect that there may be a deeper problem in effect than the fact that the conference organizers from last year had not time to re-orient the focus of JSCOPE 02, but that what we have to do, as military ethicists, and in particular those of us who are teaching officers and future officers, is to reconsider a kind of disassociation of sensibility (to use TS Eliot’s term) in many minds engaged in the study of military ethics. In becoming ethicists, had we forgotten to be soldiers? It may be that there is an occupational hazard among people who study ethics to over-ethicize, to become even moralistic in their outlook, and I think that this is a dangerous tendency especially among military ethicists, and most especially now.
Based on my misgivings, I prepared an abstract of which this paper is the most evolved state. I submitted the abstract for the 2003 JSCOPE. My work was accepted, but I was prevented from presenting by the fact that by mid-January 3003 I was on a ship bound for Kuwait, and about six weeks later I invaded Iraq as a Marine Corps field historian attached to an infantry regiment. Poor beggar, I was sent to say, stop! One of the reasons I was quite willing to go, aside from curiosity, a sense of professional obligation, and the belief that the invasion was a correct pursuit of policy by other means, was a rather visceral sense of defending the things I help most dear, my family in suburban New York, my mother and other relatives in the city, a renewed sense to the idea of patria since the falling of the towers. The experience of going to war was certainly an education. (I had invaded Norway during the Gulf War, and my only previous active service had been peacekeeping duty in Lebanon, a very different thing from war, I was to conclude). I don’t have the time, and this really isn’t the place, to go into an account of my personal experiences, but overall the experience did give me a sense for war at the business end, as it is gone through by the people I think we serve as military ethicists. What do they need from us?
The theorists Deleuze and Guattari write that the soldier runs the risk of “understanding nothing, or of betraying everything,” that is, of failing to understand war, or of giving in to war so completely that he forgets the cause for which he is enlisted to fight: becoming a diplomat or a gangster, an sedentary intellectual or an atavist, a dandy or a beast. The greater danger for military ethicists is I believe, and based on the impressions of the experiences I’ve briefly described, the former. We know all about ethics, we need to understand war better.
I believe that Michael Gelven’s book War and Existence is a key to such understanding, on a profound level that one may have to go back to Clausewitz to match. Gelven identifies what he calls elements and essences of war. The elements are that war is vast, organized, communal, historical, sacrificial, violent, a game, horrific, and heroic. The essences are love, hatred, pride, and freedom. Note that terrorism does not fit several of the elements and essences identified by Gelven, but his argument is not primarily ethical. Gelven argues for the right of people to fight in a certain way for what is theirs. In Gelven’s account, war is both a necessary concomitant to civilization and an indispensable definer of meaning. It lays down the terms of our existence as individuals and as members of a group. Viewed this way, it is more than a necessary evil, it is a something for which mankind must preserve the capacity if it wants to retain its right to exist. The almost supra-ethical sense of the aim in war is what accompanied me on the ship, across the Kuwaiti desert and into Iraq. I did not even have to believe that my country was always right, or that my sons, for example, were the best of all boys. It was enough for me that they were mine, and that I was engaged in a communal, historical, heroic undertaking in their defense. I had accepted what Gelven calls the us/them logic of war.
Human civilization would be a very different, and perhaps a poorer thing were it not for war. The soldier, in addition to often bearing the heaviest burdens, has carried the banner of meaning and of existence for his fellow mortals. But if war has value, what of individual wars and their usefulness? This question is most often answered by a calculus employing just war theory. Using the standards of this tradition, we may try to gauge the justice, proportionality, chances for success, etc., of a given war, before it is entered into, but the fact is that such matters are for the great majority of soldiers already a given. Soldiers will not be sure that what they are doing right now is right, but then, neither, despite the calculations over just war, is anyone else.
According to Paskins and Dockrill of The Ethics of War, the soldier risks ‘intrinsic failure” of his efforts if it turns out that the war or campaign he/she is pursuing is not worthwhile. Like an artist like Maugham’s Charles Strickland, who abandons his family to paint, or Tolsoy’s Anna Karenina, who leaves them to pursue what she believes is her own heart and a great love, my leaving my family, as it may have been forever, to fight in a war fails the test of utility if it comes to pass that the war was really not for a greater cause, was not worth fighting.
The realist answer to this is that such risks come with the territory. Having decided that one is an artist, lover, or soldier, the risk of intrinsic failure must be embraced. As Henry V says, every man soul is his own. It may be that we lay it on the line when we kill, but kill we must. It is one of those risks of soldiering along with danger to life, limb, and sanity. How high are those risks, what’s the percentage?
To fight without knowing the outcome or justice of the battle is the fate of the soldier. Paskins and Dockrill discuss at some length the allied bombing campaign against Germany in World War II. Some historians and ethicists now believe that the campaign was inefficient and inhumane, a poor use of resources resulting in a disproportionate loss of innocent life. But what of the airmen embarked on the campaign as it was happening, a group that was denied full honors in Britain after the war compared to the members of other majors commands? The authors of The Ethics of War argue that the campaign may be justified given the circumstances at the time, since it offered, at least for a time, the only way of hurting the enemy directly. The airman could not know the judgment of history, or of at least some historians in the future. A similar argument might be offered in defense of preemptive war, that campaigns like that in Iraq offer an opportunity to hurt the enemy. We had justification, a good chance of success, and the appropriate means. The use of conventional forces also restores the struggle to a contest of the kind described by Gelven, to the status of war fought in the communal, historically sanctioned way of armies that show their colors and battle.
Military ethics must be warlike. In Herman Melville’s posthumous short novel Billy Budd, Captain Vere of the HMS Bellipotent tells his officers that the naval Mutiny Act takes its character from “the thing from which it derives - War.” Whether we agree with the conclusion at which Vere is driving, which is that his officers must condemn Billy Budd to death for striking and killing Claggart, the corrupt Master at Arms who falsely accuses him of plotting mutiny, we may still concede that Vere here has a point, and one which may be extended to the aspects of military institutions and cultures in general. Military organizations exist to fight battles and wars. As Army strategist Harrison Summers put it, we kill people and we blow things up. Military ethics, like military justice, must derive its nature from the thing it serves, or risk irrelevance and the indifference of those to whom it is directed.
More than this, we are now engaged in war of a war of a particularly hazardous and unpredictable kind. It may that for our copy book headings we have to go back beyond our own history, to the early warfare that was sometimes internecine, not in the sense that it has acquired, of civil war, but in its original sense, war of destruction, in which war is fought on our own land and in our very homes. The Homeland is a battleground, and this requires an ancient sense of the vulnerability of civilization. Like the Greek city states which had barely and precariously emerged from the primitive “pig state,” referred to by Socrates and which were surrounded by unfriendly neighbors and a wilderness ready to claim them, we are engaged for the gains of this century and the last, the seeming but still unconfirmed triumph of democracy and the open society, for the sake of those of we hold most dear.
War is a unique, subjective sphere of human life. We can approach an understanding of war through books, but except in a few rare cases, a Michael Gelven or Stephen Crane, something will always be missing from our consideration of war if we have not on at least one occasion felt its sting, if we do not know its ceremonies, cares, and forms (this is to paraphrase Shakespeare’s Captain Fluellen, a real professional). I will say that the next best thing to actual wartime service, which I understand is generally not available to the civilian ethicist, is a strong effort to engage in empathy with the soldier’s calling.
Consider the soldier-philosophers. Some of th greatest philosophy in history has arisen from experience of war, as the examples of Socrates, Descartes, and Wittgenstein may demonstrate. Socrates was a distinguished soldier even in old age, and he bases his republic on a class of guardians drawn from the ranks of the military. This might have been a consequence of his obvious regard for the military men of his own time, like the strategos, General Laches. Descartes is supposed to have conceived his first philosophy while on military campaign as he warmed himself inside a dutch oven. Wittgenstein served as a soldier in the Austrian army during World War I, rising to the rank of lieutenant. His experience of military service resulted in his turning from pure logic to the more ethical slant of the Tractatus and his later writings. He continued to value his own service as a soldier, encouraging his American protégé Malcolm to see service in the US Navy in World War II as useful to him as a philosopher. Philosophers and ethicists who work in this bloody field and who have not had the terrible good fortune to participate must try to understand what kind of business this is.
One perpetual problem with just war theories is the abuse of their most critical terms as rationalizations for every color of action in the spectrum of human behavior. Nowhere is this more evident than in the doctrine of preemptive action; Hitler, Stalin, and Milosevic, among others, have all used the familiar moral rhetoric of “self-defense” in different ways to undertake “preemptive” actions against perceived enemies -- actions that are generally seen today as unjust. If the language of virtue in just war theory is so malleable that it can be used to cover any vice, is it really of any use to us at all?
The answer is a qualified yes. If we take the primary goal of a just war theory to be usefulness in normalizing behavior among nations (rather than correspondence to a true or universal moral code), then just war theories in general are possible - but only in a historically contingent sense. I suggest a form for such a theory, based upon pragmatist “foundations”. Philosophical pragmatists are primarily concerned with the usefulness (as opposed to the objective truth) of moral propositions, and they will naturally look toward popular global consensus – its basis, its composition, and the prospects for directing it - as a key criterion for the usefulness of a war convention. Consequently, preemption - and virtually any other type of combat seen today - can be seen as legitimate, if the threat it addresses is widely and strongly perceived to exist and if the response is considered proportional to the threat.
I. In his classic, Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer (1977, 226) recounts an anecdote about an ancient Chinese general named Duke Hsiang. The Duke was preparing his army for combat against a superior force from the rival province of Chu. As he chose his terrain, assembled the troops, and made his battle plan, the Duke’s attention was drawn to one of his field officers, who pointed out that the enemy’s advance was stalled as it forded a river between the armies. “Let us attack them now,” exhorted the officer, “as they slough through the water, and we can secure a decisive victory at little or no expense.” But the Duke demurred, replying, “A gentleman should never attack one who is unprepared.” Hsiang took his ensuing and predictable beating with all the gentility of a true man of honor. His efforts won him fame, not as a strategist, but as a cautionary tale for two and a half millennia’s worth of soldiers and statesmen on the perils of an excess of integrity. No less a successful warrior and politician than Mao Tse-Tung (1967, 166) stated it thusly: “We are not Duke Hsiang of Sung and have no use for his asinine ethics.”
President George W. Bush might not rush to embrace parallels between his political thought and that of the father of Chinese communism, but there are striking similarities in their policies on military preemption. In pressing for the invasion of Iraq, officials in the Bush administration argued that the United States’ national sovereignty and its very survival demanded that it act militarily to stave off the threat posed to it by a nuclear-equipped Saddam Hussein. They contended that the US must act as swiftly as possible, even if the international community could not be convinced of an imminent Iraqi threat or the value of military preemption. The struggle for security could not be left to ride on global deliberations, where evidence and debate might or might not generate a consensus on action against Iraq; international due process, if it delayed Saddam’s disarmament and displacement, would be just another case of “asinine ethics.” As the President’s National Security Advisor put it, “There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons, but we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
In abandoning the niceties of diplomacy and deliberation, the Bush and Mao doctrines highlight, perhaps unconsciously, a serious weakness of just war theory: the bleak fact that justice is what states make of it. Ask a White House spokesperson, and you will probably hear that the war in Iraq is just, that the unique evil of Saddam’s reign made inaction the immoral choice. Ask a European, and you may be told that the Iraq invasion is an unjust war of aggression, attributable to the United States’ less noble interests. Ask government officials in India, Pakistan, Russia, Uzbekistan, or many other nations, and you might hear that America’s preemptive doctrines illustrate precisely why these states are justified in acting unilaterally to preserve life and liberty and stave off the bullies in their own neighborhoods.
Some observers might see progress in the fact that these peoples employ a common vocabulary of global morality and justice. But what is the point of moral rhetoric if its terms can be used and abused to allow or condemn virtually any act? One man’s terrorist is still another man’s freedom fighter, and one state’s just intervention is still another’s naked aggression. Just war theory, it seems nowadays, is less a rational tool for the moral evaluation of actions and more a catch-all rationalization for anything anyone seeks to do.
Central to this problem of justification is the fact that just war theorists have historically sought an indisputable metaphysical basis for the rightness and wrongness of the acts they address. From Augustine, Aquinas, and Grotius to Kant, Webster, and Wilson, these ambitious thinkers based their views of war upon the presumption of a timeless, objective morality -- whether it was provided by God, natural law, or right reason. Even recent liberal theorists place an undue faith in the power of reason or common sense to provide a shared moral code for all states and peoples. John Stuart Mill (1963, 377) sought “a definite and rational test” for “the justifiableness of intervening in the affairs of other countries.” Peter Singer (2004, 144) asserted that “it is our capacity to reason that is the universal solvent.” And Michael Walzer (1977, 107) based his war convention upon “the moral convictions of ordinary men and women,” presuming a baseline human conscience that has been more conspicuous in its absence than its abundance in the 20th and 21st centuries. Even if such a global conscience could be said to exist, at various times it was unmoved by horrors such as slavery, racism, and imperialism but was shocked by minority education, free speech, free religion, the heliocentric theory of the universe, and many other features of the modern world that we accept or tolerate.
The point is that, no matter which theorist we side with, no matter what basis we maintain as the real, true source of moral justification, we are inviting more controversies than we solve and alienating just as many parties as we satisfy. Yet most justice theorists respond that if we abandon this philosophical search for timeless truth, we will collapse into the Hobbesian state of “war of all against all,” a desperate situation of relativism and wanton violence in which states will do what they must to survive, justification be damned. As one philosopher states, “unless the modern experience is to dissolve in the light of the one irresistible, all-encompassing Good, our political future will be one ‘where ignorant armies clash by night’” (Larmore 1996, 151).
It is possible, however, that the choice between asinine ethics and amoral opportunism is a false dichotomy, a dramatization that results when just war theorists and political realists talk at or past each other. Between those two poles lies a gulf of theory and strategy that is largely unexplored. One fresh alternative is based upon the pragmatist tradition in American philosophy, which supposes that justice is possible, not as a turn towards some historically unchanging notion of truth, but as a turn towards an ever-shifting popular consensus. This consensus would have to be carved out of an ongoing dialogue, an argument that meets diverse cultures, faiths, beliefs, and prejudices on their own terms, without reference to an “objective” authority like reason or scripture.
A pragmatist approach to justification should not be such a shocking turn for statesmen and soldiers; other experts in persuasion - namely, commercial advertisers - have for decades assumed that “truth is irrelevant. What matters are the perceptions that exist in the mind,” no matter, one might add, how absurd, immoral, or offensive such perceptions may be to the seller. Instead of directly challenging a targeted population’s perceptions, states one marketer, the essence of successful product positioning is to accept those “perceptions as reality and then restructure those perceptions to create the position you desire” (Ries and Trout 2000, xx).
On this basis, it is possible to position political and moral norms like any other market product. Recent philosophical and legal pragmatists believe that personal and professional values, intuitions, opinions, and so-called common sense “can sometimes be educated by immersion in ‘the facts,’ if by ‘facts’ we mean the myriad lessons of our experiences and interactions with our social and natural environments” (Posner 2002, viii). Hence, by discarding notions of a distinction between justification and truth – indeed, by claiming that there is no truth, independent of what we generally accept as true -- we can achieve moral progress by concentrating on achieving better justificatory ability:
Better to deal with doubts about what we are saying, either by shoring up what we have previously said or by saying something different. The trouble with aiming at truth is that you would not know when you had reached truth, even if you had reached it. But you can aim at ever more justification, the assuagement of ever more doubt (Rorty 1999, 82).
On this view, pragmatism replaces a traditional aim of moral philosophy - the search for objectivity - with the slightly less formidable task of “getting as much intersubjective agreement as you can manage” (Rorty 1999, 15).
All this is well and good, but just what can a pragmatist say concretely about international affairs and war in particular? Implicit in the pragmatist experiment is the premise that, since no vocabulary is a true representation of nature, there is no single golden path to securing consensual justice. But, “even if there is no Way the World Is, even if there is no such thing as ‘the intrinsic nature of reality,’ there are still causal pressures. These pressures will be described in different way at different times and for different purposes, but they are pressures nonetheless” (Rorty 1999, 33). Given a particular account of our current historical circumstances and their attendant “causal pressures,” I favor a particular path to cooperation, one in which the onus is on the so-called “lone superpower” to affirm, honor, and encourage participation in a new war convention. In such a convention, preemption is permitted – but only if the world’s lone superpower agrees to assess threats and preemptive measures in novel ways.
II. From a pragmatist perspective, the paramount objective in constructing a global war convention is not to honor a universal notion of the Right or the Good, but to honor the long-term interests of one’s most vital community, the community which provides us with our notions of what is right and good: our nation. National security policy aims to keep this community and its interests safe from external threats by the most effective means available. For much of the past century, the greatest threat to national security was considered to be the possibility of war between superpowers or other nuclear nations; while this possibility still exists in limited form, the developed world is now convinced that its top security priority is to prevent a catastrophic terrorist attack similar to what occurred on September 11, 2001. Hence American security policy now focuses on limiting terrorists’ freedom to travel and plan operations, both by eliminating them and by controlling the geographical and philosophical ground they occupy.
Such objectives in a war on terror require us to work for an expansion of the “we”, as Richard Rorty calls it: the worldwide extension of the group of people who are more like us than threatening to us. The need to deny terrorists safe havens for their tactics and their ideologies obliges us to ensure that the world is peopled with decent societies that hold a nominal respect for our nation and its objectives.
There are multiple approaches to this task. The direct approach is to unapologetically claim our own moral sentiments to be unequaled and to press for their acceptance by a larger community through any means available, effectively moving to turn the globe into one immense sphere of American influence. This is the approach generally preferred by the current administration, and it is tempting to the soldier and statesman alike. Such a perspective begins from the realist political assumption that security from terrorists and rogue states is too precious to be entrusted to international governmental organizations such as the United Nations. The pragmatist sympathizes with this assumption; the UN is a ponderous, deliberative bureaucracy carved up into factions, each with its own moral and material interests, and the limits of its effectiveness are considerable. Better to entrust one’s security to one’s own armies and politicians. The terrorist threat, however, is unique in the challenges it poses to national security, particularly in its talents for concealment and secrecy. Any state or territory that is an “x factor” in terms of its dedication to American values is a potential haven for the enemy and must be brought into the camp of allies. The Bush administration, consequently, derives a very moral conclusion from its realist assumptions: it sees preemptive action as a right reserved to each nation for use when necessary, and it justifies that right in terms of (what it perceives to be) not only American but universal moral values. The safest world, on this view, is a world that accepts our account of justice; any party that does not is a rogue and must be persuaded - by force, if necessity dictates it. As the President stated in his April 13, 2004 press conference, “Freedom is not this country’s gift to the world; freedom is the Almighty’s gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom.”
Political pragmatism earnestly agrees with the premises of this doctrine: a pragmatist theorist will use international organizations when possible to further American security interests, and will abandon them whenever necessary to preserve those interests. It is in the identification of such “necessities,” however, that pragmatism departs from the Bush doctrine. Without recourse to absolutes such as God’s laws or right reason to anchor one’s views of moral action, it is senseless for the United States to claim an immutable right to preemption against the rest of the world, unless the rest of the world assents to it – and if it does not, then it is the United States’ responsibility to abide by that global consensus, not because it is right to do so, but because it furthers our long-term interests. Only by meeting global resistance to our interests halfway can that resistance be overcome. An expansion of the “we” must be coaxed, not forced as a part of some divine or universal plan. One modern pragmatist states, thusly,
After long and unsatisfactory struggles with the search for a transcultural foundation, there is something quite appealing about giving up the fight, examining the consequences, and seeing that we can still say what we want, with no worse effect. For example, by telling a non-liberal government that there are naturally existing human rights, we are no better off or more convincing than saying that, ‘from the perspective of my liberal culture, your citizens are suffering at the hands of your government, and that is where I stand.’ Indeed, by undermining the universal moral authority of our claims about human rights, we may even serve to enhance our powers of moral persuasion” (Cochran 165).
Pragmatism, then, prefers an approach to national security interests that is less directly confrontational than pure moral reasoning, but that takes moral influence more seriously than traditional realism does. This indirect approach to security is to begin by accommodating some competing interests and moral sentiments from the world at large, molding them into a middle ground compromise which exactly matches neither our moral baseline nor “theirs,” but resembles both to a great enough extent that it secures the allegiance of the greatest number.
For the pragmatist, this is an unending but manageable task and one worth undertaking, and it is best executed by combining strong national advocacy with soft engagement.
This is necessary because unilateral action in the face of international dissent is too often counterproductive of the desired aims of that action. Often times a “moral” course, such as the neoconservative drive for a democratic Middle East created in the West’s likeness, will have to be moderated or abandoned altogether in light of political realities and conflicting moral claims. Michael Walzer illustrates this point finely with an example from recent history:
All the obvious prudential calculations about the costs of intervening, the probability of winning, and the likely aftermath are morally necessary… It would not have been just, for example, for the United States to risk a nuclear war in Hungary in 1956 notwithstanding the justice of the Hungarian revolution. We were bound not to impose that kind of risk on the people of Hungary or on Europe generally… Prudential considerations are integral to the judgment that we have to make. It does not help to imagine some grand conflict of consequentialist and deontological arguments (2004 39).
Walzer’s very important contribution here is to assert that morality and strategy are naturally intertwined and can never be wholly separated: whether one “ought” to do something is very much a function of whether one can succeed in doing it.
The interplay of morality and strategy is not new: Clausewitz flatly stated in his magnum opus, On War, that “no one starts a war – or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it” (579). From this a pragmatist infers that we should dispense with distinctions between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, that we should discard the notion that a war can be justly declared but poorly waged in the event. It is not enough that military action seeks to right a wrong or intends to bring about a state of security and stability; it must as well be reasonably capable of doing so, without bringing about a worse state by its unintended effects.
As we now see, when stripped of the veneer of truth, moral considerations in waging war become wholly prudential. Building upon this perspective, a pragmatist war convention will have to exercise greater restraint both in identifying threats to security and in addressing them. Certain traditional fixtures of just war theory will occasionally have to be ignored, while others will take on a greater importance. For example, when a state considers whether to prosecute unpopular actions in civilian-rich areas, the rule of double-effect or unintended consequences, which absolves an army of guilt for collateral damage caused in the pursuit of a military objective, will have to take a back seat to the rules of proportional response and immunity for non-combatants – for, even if heavenly justice absolves an army of responsibility, the court of public opinion still holds forth on the issue, and popular support is critical to the success of anti-terrorist and counterinsurgency efforts. “Foreign assistance and a determined effort to persuade hostile publics that the United States does not want to be an enemy are crucial, not because they are likely to reduce the number of potential terrorists to a safe number, but because they are likely to make it possible for a friendly state to do that” (Heymann 2001, 27). As in Walzer’s Hungarian example, if an action is likely to exact substantial human and material costs – especially costs that can be witnessed by an international audience via mass media – to achieve its tactical successes, the attacker risks too much in terms of the moral power he will need to achieve ultimate victory, and the action should be dismissed as strategically undesirable.
The consequences of this philosophical turn for preemptive war are enormous. On the pragmatist view, it is simply not enough to believe that a grave security threat exists, especially if a global consensus cannot be reached on the threat’s imminence and gravity. An actor considering preemption must carefully weigh that threat not only against the material costs of intervention, but against the costs assigned to it by the prevailing moral sentiments of the day. But as it was just suggested, even if intervention is warranted by the nature of a threat, and even if that action is tolerated by the international community, such toleration can turn quickly against the intervening power if its actions exact too dear a cost on civilians, property, or global sensibilities by their effects, intended or otherwise. No matter what a particular account of justice or international law has to say about preempting such a threat, if the action taken is unpopular, expensive, and borne by only a few actors, its prospects for success are likely so limited that it would be imprudent to act with overwhelming military force.
This is not to say that a prudent posture would leave us wholly defenseless when a threat against us is not recognized by a larger international community. For if pragmatists are serious about working free of truth-obsessed, foundational thinking, they “would facilitate thinking in terms of ranges rather than oppositions in regard to questions about persons, states and the scope of ethical claims” (Cochran 166). Foundational thinking is more likely to yield static notions of what constitutes a clear threat and what a clear response to it might look like. Just war theory has always approached these critical terms of preemption in sterile and largely unhelpful ways, assuming that state sovereignty, individual freedom, or some other virtue is always the highest value and then focusing on obvious military threats to it. The predictable result is a preoccupation with large-scale (though proportional) military preemption. Such a perspective rarely solves the common “hard cases”, where the nature of a threat, the proper means to address it, indeed the core ethical presumptions that lead to threat assessment, are all open to debate. Pragmatism, rather than dodging conflicts of values, attempts to incorporate them into a prescription for political action. Hence pragmatist theorists can offer a range of preemptive measures for a range of perceived threats.
Walzer gives us an example of this sliding scale of preemptive justice when he encourages us to distinguish between states that actively partner with terrorists and states that harbor them (or are rumored to do so). The right response in the latter cases “involves measures short of war, which are likely to be most effective if they are organized multilaterally. In fact, it should be a goal of US foreign policy to mobilize international support for diplomatic, political, and economic pressure on states that allow terrorist organizations to work from their territory” (Walzer 2004, 38). Cultural diplomacy, economic incentives, sanctions, blockades, covert action, and even isolated strategic air or ground strikes can all be seen as preemptive instruments, each of which can address a variety of situations and each of which is more likely to garner valuable global support than the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops to a trouble spot.
Nor is Walzer alone in this call for moderation in choosing ends and means. Some of the most recent popular books by political scientists have pressed for the United States to rely more heavily upon its “soft power” (Nye 2004) to pursue national security and support an “emerging global normative synthesis” on issues of justice (Etzioni 2004). Academics, foreign ministers, and military professionals worldwide are calling for greater empirical honesty and global consultation to distinguish between grave threats and international nuisances and to address each in a manner proportional to the danger. “Granted,” states one academic, “it takes time and a particular context that can afford the slow, plodding process of persuasion and argument, but in casting aside the arrogance of foundational thinking it may work to provide the strongest basis available for long-term efforts towards the expansion of moral inclusion” (Cochran 167).
Any military officer worth his or her salt will agree with Mao that it is asinine generalship to limit one’s options unnecessarily in a struggle. But we do precisely that by viewing morality as a reflection of truth rather than as a powerful instrument for compelling others to accept our will. A far-sighted war convention that favors American interests will hold the latter view. Its advocates will call for restraint, consultation, and deliberation in threat assessment, even and especially when preemptive action is considered. By adopting such a convention, we will enhance our moral standing in the world, increasing our “soft” power and lessening the need for “hard” military action as a primary tool of foreign policy.
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4. Calculate shipping costs (do you only sell in your own country or worldwide?) and add these to the wholesale price.
If you do not want to add too much shipping costs to the price of one item, you can set a minimum order amount and spread the shipping costs over that amount of items.
My experience here is that or you have to produce them quicker and with cheaper material or you have to choose to make less profit.
In this case, research a bit on what others ask for a simular product, what are their prices? Let's say you can buy nice oven mitts for 25,- a piece.
Minus your material costs of 5,- your 'profit' would be 20,- Maybe once you get the hang of making them, you can make them in 15 minutes (doing a bunch at the same time helps to speed up).
This is up to you, would you like to sell more and make less money a piece but make more money in total or stick to your first price and sell less (but also have to put less time in it).
In my experience the best thing to do is to find ways to speed up the production and lower the material costs instead of a higher price.
For example: my Instant Comfort Pocket Boxes took me 30 minutes each in the beginning!! Now that I make more at the same time of the same design (as a little production line) it takes me 10 minutes each.
-make a pdf file with good photo's of the items you sell and a list of the wholesale prices (incl and excl tax) that you can mail to clients. Also add your terms and information about your products in this file (who made them, are they eco, what are your return policies in case of damage?)
-Be clear about your delivery time and stick to it. This depends on you product. I go for a 'within two weeks' delivery. (Set your time a little bit later than you actually need. It will make you client happy when your products arrive earlier. And happy clients is what we want ;-) )
You can also ask you client when they need the products and make arrangements with them on when you will deliver, most clients are very reasonable and willing to come to an understanding on when to deliver.
-find shops you think will be interested in selling your items and visite them in person (bring the item you want to sell) or email them (figure out who's the person to address and use their name in the mail, not a 'dear sir/madam' or just 'Hello'). Ask if they would want to sell your product in their store and add a good photo to the mail (and/or link to your webshop if you have one).
-Last but not least... make a nice package of the products you send to your clients. Add a personal note or postcard and a business card so they have your contact information. |
It’s never too early to consider protection of your intellectual property or to consider where things stand with your business as you start up or continue forward, grow, and mature.
It all starts with the conception of your idea and how you are going to implement it in your business. The next step is figuring out what exactly you have conceived. You may have heard this called an “IP Audit,” but really it is an overall evaluation of what you have, who owns it, and whether it is protected — or even worth protecting. Is it a patentable subject matter? Do you have a trademark, design, or know-how to be concerned about?
Are there business interests in seeking protections?
What are the best ways to use those resources?
What are the chances of securing the protections?
What’s the potential for a pivot and would those protections be valuable if you go in a different direction?
What are third parties doing and what are investors looking for?
Once you’ve weighed these and other factors that may come up, you craft a plan, and put that plan into action. Then make sure to monitor that plan, keep track of any business, product, or service developments, and reflect on how they fit in with your plan — and address any concerns along the way. It’s really an ongoing process.
The path from the conception of your idea to the protection of your intellectual property is a journey you should not take alone. Even the preliminary audit requires expert knowledge to ensure that you do not put all of your effort into a patent that may not be central to your business etc. A qualified intellectual property attorney can work with you throughout the process, from conception to potential enforcement. For more information, contact me. |
Welcome to my blog! I'm an illustrator and arts teacher living - with my love M, our son J and pet rabbit Seb - in a small town just above Amsterdam (the Netherlands). When I'm not illustrating I love to bake, cook, sew clothes for me and my loved ones (I studied fashion design a long time ago) or read a good book, preferably in our garden. I hope you enjoy this blog! |
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36 Juniors played in today's Junior Open. After the clouds cleared, they enjoyed another sunny day with our course in great condition.
The results are now available under Open s & Invitationals - Open Results on our website . We will post the winners' Scottish Golf vouchers to their home clubs.
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A bit heavy for the price.
The latest update of this old standard improves on past versions while keeping the fit that Specialized is known for.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I am a Specialized fan-boy where shoes are concerned. I have worn their shoes since the mid-nineties and have always appreciated their fit. Especially since the advent of BG, their Body Geometry approach to biomechanics, the shoes seemed to be tailor-made for my feet. Speaking of my feet, I should also disclose something about them. I measure out at an 11D. My feet are medium volume, have an average to mildly narrow heel but are wide at the ball of the foot, especially on the outside at the fifth metatarsal. Most footwear, whether it is a pair of dress shoes, ski boots or cycling shoes, tend to squeeze my fifth metatarsal. Specialized shoes don’t do this. It’s almost as if they modeled their last on my foot. Since fit is the single most important factor in selecting a shoe, you can probably appreciate why I like Specialized shoes so much. Enough about my feet; let’s move on to the shoes.
The Pro MTB shoe sits near the top of Specialized’s off-road line, just below the flagship S-works and S-works EVO MTB shoes. The Pro MTB features two Velcro and one buckle strap which is a pretty common configuration these days as well as being more mud-tolerant than Boa systems. The upper is a combination of a synthetic leather called Micromatrix and nylon mesh. Specialized rates the carbon fiber mid-sole as a 10 on a stiffness scale that maxes out at 12.
And stiff they certainly are. In fact, I would not want them any stiffer. On steep run-ups, I had to tighten down the straps to a borderline uncomfortable degree to minimize heel lift. A full length race with shoes this tight would leave my feet tingling. I preferred to leave them a little looser and suffer the heel lift. Fortunately, the entire heel pocket is lined with synthetic leather which will wear better than the nylon mesh found in cheaper shoes. The stiff soles were appreciated on high power, out-of-the-saddle efforts up steep hills and never gave me hot spots on longer training rides.
While I had mud-clogging problems with the previous generation of Specialized buckles, the 2010 version as well as the 2011 version tested here feature a buckle design that is immune. After repeated dunkings in mud bogs, I was able to easily release the buckles. In fact the “D-link” strap is the engineering gem of this shoe. It is adjustable on both ends so that you can center the comfortable pad over the instep of your foot whether you have a low, medium or high volume foot. On the medial side, a new concealed tool-free adjustment system is easy to fine-tune and holds fast when buckled down. There was one occasion where the strap seemed to adjust itself when packed in a bag on the way to a race. Be sure to check the strap adjustment whenever you pull them out of your gear bag.
The “D-link” strap works in tandem with a new tongue design that magically combines ventilation and stiffness which transfers the force of the strap to a wider area. During cyclocross season, I’m not so concerned about the ventilation aspect of the tongue, but the way Specialized has designed it to spread the load is impressive.
What is not impressive is the weight. While the size 45 shoes I tested were three sizes larger than those that Specialized weighed, they are over 100 grams or a quarter pound heavier. I never felt weighed down by them but for a pair of shoes that cost $300 with tax, I expect them to wow me in the weight department.
Despite that minor issue, Specialized has continued to improve on a very impressive shoe that is well-designed, well-manufactured and does what it’s supposed to do. |
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All nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) and refused to widen the scope of the federal Clean Water Act. In PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana, the Court February 22 unanimously declined to expand the definition of what is considered “navigable” under federal law. The ruling removes a road block that could have needlessly delayed transportation improvements.
ARTBA joined with eight other industry associations in filing a brief, urging the Court to overturn a lower court holding that the entire span of three rivers in Montana was “navigable” because certain remote sections are used for recreational purposes.
For purposes of transportation development, once something is considered “navigable” it is under federal control, and subject to the permitting authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers. An expanded definition of “navigability” could have resulted in a scenario where the EPA and Corps would have the option of exerting jurisdiction over roadside ditches, potentially adding years to already expansive review and approval process for transportation infrastructure projects that are needed for increased mobility and improved safety.
For 20 years, ARTBA has been the transportation design and construction industry’s primary legal advocate. The association has a second case before the Supreme Court relating to the Clean Water Act, with a ruling expected later this year. Two additional ARTBA-supported Clean Water Act cases are pending in the federal courts. In total, ARTBA’s efforts have allowed nearly $50 billion in approved—yet challenged—state, regional and local transportation projects and plans to move forward since 1993.
The full text of the association’s brief can be found in the “current advocacy efforts” section of www.artba.org. |
The village of Eia belongs to the municipality of Parma, in the province of Parma, region Emilia-Romagna.
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Parma.
In the village of Eia live five hundred and thirty-six people: two hundred and seventy-one are males and two hundred and sixty-five are females.
There are two hundred and thirty-four singles (one hundred and thirty-one males and one hundred and three females). There are two hundred and sixty people married, and six people legally separed. There are also ten divorced people and twenty-six widows and widowers.
In Eia live twenty-one foreigners, six are males and fifteen are females. 13 come from Europa, 8 from Africa, 0 from America, 0 from Asia and 0 from Oceania.
There are in Eia four hundred and ninety-one people in school age, two hundred and fourty-three are males and two hundred and fourty-eight females.
There are in Eia 314 people aged 15 years or more. 298 are employed and 12 were previously employed but now are unemployed and seeking for a new job. There are 163 males aged 15 years or more, 155 are employed and 5 were previously employed but now are unemployed and seeking for a new job. There are 151 females aged 15 years or more, 143 are employed and 7 s were previously employed but now are unemployed and seeking for a new job.
There are 232 famiglie living in Eia. 30 live in rented houses, 189 live in houses of their own property and 13 live in houses for different reasons.
There are in Eia 98 buildings, but only 95 are used. 83 buildings are for residential use, 12 buildings are for commercial or productive pourposes. Among the 83 buildings for residential use 18 were build using bricks of tuffs, 1 were built in concrete and 64 were built using other materials like steel, wood and so on. Among the 83 buildings for residential use 43 are in excellent condition, 36 are in good conditions, 1 are in mediocre conditions and 3 are in bad conditions.
In the following three tables the buildings built for residential use in Eia are classified by building year, by floors number and by rooms number.
Look at the interactive map of Eia and get the road maps, the satellite maps and the mixed ones too. Interactive maps of Eia also allow an immediate view of: bar,restaurants,pubs,pizzerias,dancing,night clubs,banks,jewellers,beauty centers,hair stylists,supermarkets,pharmacies.
Please find in what follows both a 3D graphic representation as well as a table representation for the category married females in Santa Croce di Magliano
On the "Ages" axis each points collects the data for ages comprised between the displayed valued and the next one along the axis
As an example, the value 35 collects all the people whose age is comprised between 35 and 39 years, due to the facty that che next point on the "Ages" axis is 40.
For the town of Santa Croce di Magliano are available the statistical data about Single females, Single males, Married females, Married males, Divorced females, Divorced males, Widows, Widowers, about the Number of females and also about the Number of males. |
Noted Catholic inspirational speaker Greg Wasinski shared some thoughts with AM 1260 The Rock business members and advertisers at the second AM 1260 The Rock Business Member Networking Breakfast on Tuesday, June 19th. The event, hosted by Cornerstone of Hope in Independence, allowed Catholic business leaders to network, share some fellowship, and gain insights into living our lives in the image of Christ within the day-to-day demands of their business life.
If you are a Catholic business owner and would like to have a presence on Catholic radio, click on business support for information on becoming a business member and for our commercial advertising rates. We would love to include you among the many businesses who are making new connections with their messages on AM 1260 The Rock. |
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In fact, people over 50 are one of the fastest growing segments.“It’s a product of the growing normalcy of using social media apps,” says Moira Weigel, author of “Labor of Love: The Invention of Online Dating” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016).She signed up for JDate, an online dating site for Jewish singles.“All kinds of people are doing it,” says Caploe, 54, a publisher who lives in New York City.
So when Roberta Caploe was ready to start dating again after a divorce, she didn’t ask her friends to fix her up or feel the need to frequent bars or health clubs.Months after their first date, the couple discovered they had been classmates in preschool, and one year into their relationship Justin arranged to have the young students from their former school hold up signs that asked, "Will you marry me? How to boost the odds with a better profile: Use recent pictures (taken within the past year) and at least one good close-up headshot.Show that you're humble through a joke, a self-effacing story or a humorous anecdote. To make a strong first impression, use anecdotes instead of a string of adjectives describing yourself.match is the most widely-used online dating site in the world and has nearly 1.8 million subscribers.It works in the most traditional way: Simply create a profile, check out your potential matches, send them a few messages and then arrange to meet for a date. |
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This study investigates the influences of tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) warming on tropical cyclone (TC) genesis in different regions of the western North Pacific (WNP) from July to October (JASO) during the decaying El Ni?o. The results show significant negative TC frequency anomalies localized in the southeastern WNP. Correlation analysis indicates that a warm sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) in the TIO strongly suppresses TC genesis south of 21°N and east of 140°E in JASO. Reduced TC genesis over the southeastern WNP results from a weak monsoon trough and divergence and subsidence anomalies associated with an equatorial baroclinic Kelvin wave. Moreover, suppressed convection in response to a cold local SSTA, induced by the increased northeasterly connected by the wind-evaporation-SST positive feedback mechanism, is found unfavorable for TC genesis. Positive TC genesis anomalies are observed over higher latitudinal regions (at around 21°N, 140°E) and the western WNP because of enhanced convection along the northern flank of the WNP anomalous anticyclone and low-level convergence, respectively. Although local modulation (e.g., local SST) could have greater dominance over TC activity at higher latitudes in certain anomalous years (e.g., 1988), a warm TIO SSTA can still suppress TC genesis in lower latitudinal regions of the WNP. A better understanding of the contributions of TIO warming could help improve seasonal TC predictions over different regions of the WNP in years of decaying El Ni?o. |
Michael Schumacher - a seven-time Formula One world champion is "not bedridden or living on tubes", it has been reported as new details about his recovery emerge.
It's nearly five years (December 29, 2013) since the 50 year old hit his head on a rock while skiing with his then 14-year-old son Mick in Meribel in the French Alps.
The multiple head injuries caused blood clots which were not entirely removed by doctors because of the extent of the injury.
He was placed into a medically induced coma to aid recovery from the accident, and he was gradually brought out of the coma in April of 2014.
Schumacher is believed to be receiving nursing and physiotherapy care at an estimated cost of more than £50,000 (Sh6.4m) a week.
According to The Daily Mail via German magazine Bravo, Schumacher is to be moved to a clinic in Dallas, Texas because he is claimed to be either intubated or bedridden.
Mark Weeks, the director, told the magazine: "We have a lot of experience with patients who are suffering this kind of trauma.
Schumacher‘s family have always remained tight-lipped about the German’s condition leaving his fans in the dark about his health.
Currently Schumacher is being cared for by a team of medical experts at his luxury home in Gland near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. |
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Our entire family (on both sides) lives 2 hours away. If you have family that lives 2 hours away, you know what that means--TRAVEL. Well, a few years ago we put our foot (feet?) down and declared Thanksgiving as the one holiday that we would no longer lug two kids across state. Luckily, our families did not call our bluff, and they ended up driving this way. Who knew?
Having only one holiday at our house now means more planning and fretting over holiday decorations. So...the search has begun. Every year I struggle with how to decorate my table, but this year is the year! (Said with hesitation.) This is the look I'm going for...
I love earthtones, and this one was right up my alley. It's not quite holiday-ish enough for me, but it's right on track.
Martha Stewart What are the chances that I'll find a bendable stick in my backyard? Love the colors though.
One more complexity is how busy to make it. You want the visual appeal, but you don't want to have to stand up to see your family on the other side of the table. Don't those colors just evoke warmth? Ahhhh...
And finally, I have been an avid follower of This Young House for some time now, and they wrote this post just for me. Well, they don't know that, but they did. I LOVE green and this tablesetting, and it actually looks like something I could do. Isn't it divine?
And look! Someone must have told them that white is my all time favorite color, so they mixed it up a little bit in case I couldn't picture it for myself! How simple, yet how elegant!
Well, I'm sure I'll be back with some more thoughts on this, but it's certainly "on the brain" right now. Anything's better than more spooky houses and sparkly witches, right?
I loved them all! The first one is such an incredible setting. But, my absolute favorite is the last picture. Oh my - that all-white table setting is so my stlye. I love the one with the white and green too. The punches of green are perfect. I'm in love with fall and the the warm earthy tones, so a table for Thanksgiving would surely be my favorite choice. Someday (sooner than later) this will be my holiday as my parents are getting ready to hand over the torch. (ugh!!).
On Martha this week she made some simple place card holders with a hollowed out lemon/orange, some moss and a flower. Easy and just the right amount of color! All the pictures you've found are great. Any combo of those would look nice. Good luck:)
Wow! all of those are beautiful!! A few years ago I got wedgewood blue chargers as a thrift find. A week later found a fall table cloth with the same blue leaves along with green and orange and yellow. Very fallish even with the blue. A week after that I found out I was hosting Thanksgiving. SOMEONE was providing for me even before I knew I needed it! I still love that table the best and once I find a picture I will send it to you!!
Oh man! You know how I love table settings. Ummm I love the green and white... wait the brown and cream candle one ... wait the white... oh darn, I love them all. What great pictures. Can't wait to see at Thanksgiving dinner which one you have decided to do. The fun of the anticipation. You will like my post tomorrow. My camera battery is dead. Blast!
Oooh, love all of them, especially the artichoke place cards! I remember in grade school we had to weave our own baskets, the relevance of this is that we had to soak the reeds in water in order to bend them. Maybe that would work with sticks?
OMG, I love it all. Oh I wish I had the motivation to do it. What great ideas, thank you for posting :)
I totally did the pear thing when I hosted a few years ago. I actually gave my Thanksgiving a theme, "The fruits of the harvest." I'll be posting about it but not until Nov.
We decided that we will not travel for Christmas this year...so we will do it here. Once you have little ones, it is just easier to stay put. :) Can't wait to see what you choose for your table. :)
Those tables are gorgeous. We live three hours away from my family and I can totally relate to the traveling with kids. It is hard! So I am doing Thanksgiving at my house too. It is my first Thanksgiving, so I need to find the perfect table stuff too. I am excited. Thanks for the great ideas!
Get yourself to a craft store and buy yourself some grapevine for that centerpiece. It comes in rolls in some craft stores. Then you won't have to go trekking through the woods to find a bendable stick! :)
The pear place cards are awesome. Simple and natural yet they make such a statement. I'd go with the pears - they're edible. You'll get your money's worth. Decor and dessert (or at least a snack.) The gourds are cute too, but they'll just be tossed in the end.
You can't go wrong with anything close the any of those tables, but I do love the green table from This Young House.
Could you use a mini pumpkin with a name tag? I love the pear but those mini's would be less than 1/2 the price. They have the white striped ones, bumpy ones, etc. Same sort of look, different color. Ok, maybe it's more different than the same!
You could get a really low long container, stick in some dry foam and do a short version of all that hot mess with some wheat. GREEN wheat even (since I know you love green) With a wide satin bow hot glued around the container in a deep maroon.
Does this make sense at all or are my thoughts getting jumbled as I type them outloud? Trust me, it would look GREAT. :)
Could I write a longer post? Geesh, I need your phone # so I can just call you with all my long winded ideas.
I love the second pictures. Visually interesting but not TOO much that it is not functional. My mom and I are trying to figure out our Thanksgiving table setting as well. Have fun!
You found some beautiful settings. They are gorgeous! I am kind of jealous that the others could pick favorites. I liked so much from all of them!
ok, on the artichokes, i am always so drawn to them, but then i'm all, are my guests going to be all, "um, what do i do with this artichoke?" that last setting with the candle on each plate would be awesome any time you're waiting a bit to eat when people come over! the table would look so warm and inviting and i'd be just dying to sit there!
I see someone has already suggested soaking the sticks or twigs in water for a couple of hours or even overnight to make them more bendable. I did that with a grapevine wreath and it worked out well for my over-the-door decos for fall.
Beatutiful table... scapes? Settings? See how knowledgable I am? I make my kids set the table. All the time. So you can imagine how pretty that is. Some nights we still have newspapers and homework next to the pot of potatoes I didn't bother to put in a serving bowl. Yeah, that's right. I'm a pot server. :o)
Girl, you sooooooooo need to get yourself into your local Target store this weekend (please tell me you have them where you live). They have the most yummy woodsy "holiday" decorations this year. My favorite colors (at the moment) are brown & green, and they have these awesome brown dinner plates w/ these sparkly lt. green votives & off-white accessories (such as a little bird cake stand). Would fit in with all of your wishes! The decorating is the fun part....the cooking, to me...not so much! Good luck!
oy. i'm still needing to hit the store for last minute halloween. I can't keep up. But i have to say - LOVE LOVE LOVE the pics. We're the visitors for thxgvg this year - and family isn't arriving until a few days after xmas - but i'm still planning on a fantabulous tablescape - i LOVE that.
I always have plans, but they never get executed. I've done Thanksgiving at my home 9 of the 10 years I've been married. This year it is just us - the little ones and my hubs and me. I can't wait to see what you do.
You're right, I love those colors. The harvest-y thing is so pretty! I also think the little pears with the nametags are so cute! Can't wait to see your own take on this stuff!
Lovely table ideas all of them, but I'm most in love with the one with the grapevine wreath (bendable stick).... How pretty it is. I might need to steal this idea for my table.
You are so ahead of the game already planning! It was easy for us when we were overseas...no one wanted to fly over for Turkey day! Not sure what this year holds yet~ we shall see! Happy party planning! Can't wait to see how it all turns out! ~ Les
I am looking for ideas for decorating a buffet table for a Ladies' Night Out coming up in November. I came across a couple of these same photos when Googling for ideas the other day. If you know of anything that might work for me, I would love to hear from you! Thanks!
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I love all of the table settings but the warm fall colors one that is the most busy is my fav. Not that I like busy, but I just love that setting. Good luck, and I am sure whatever you decide will be perfect!
Thank you. No really, thank you for not giving up on me. I'm such a dolt for not listing my blog in my profile. Good golly. Thanks for helping me to figure that out. I fixed it and totally appreciate you helping me figure that out. You're a total peach! And, love the tablescapes by the way. I wish you had posted them two weeks ago when I hosted Canadian Thanksgiving at my house. I guess this whole homemaker thing is still way too new to me bc I never thought that I could search for tablescapes myself. Wow. :) Thanks again Chris!!
Stunning tables! For the "bended twig" just take a cheapy grapevine wreath and cut it apart. Voila - bended twigs. Can't wait to see what you come up with! Love your blog! :)
Now that I'm actually taking time to READ everybody elses comments, I'm seeing that the grapevine idea has already been said numerous times! lol...
P.S. At Pier 1 Imports they have fake pears for a dollar, so I am guessing that in the american stores it will be much cheaper!
Re: bendable stick.... find a weeping willow. it doesn't have to be in your yard, just find one. i guarantee there are a ton of branches lying on the ground underneath it. the owners will not mind you grabbing a few pieces. not that i have a weeping willow in my yard or anything ; )
Thanks for all the inspiration. These are the very things on my mind now too. I always have Thanksgiving at my house and can't wait to find just the right color scheme.
I think they are all fantastic! However... the first one really caught my eye. I am always so afraid my guests won't be able to see over my centerpiece, so I definitely think you are smart to consider the conversation aspect at the table. I am sure whatever you do will be great. How many people do you expect? Just wondering how many tables you would have to set. |
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Nice rookie build Lev! What materials did you use for the board, wings, fuselage? More importantly, how does she ride?
I worry the channel and bolt heads/nuts will provide turbulence and reduce performance. Perhaps consider filling in the channel.
I also wonder if the rear vertical stab is too far forward to be effective? You could mount it directly above the rear stab.
Cool shit, like U idea, although why not fill it in where it's not needed. Are those tuttle boxes on the wings?
My first thought looking at your wing thickness was: This reminds me of the old DC3. Won't be fast, but it might fly forever. HUGE back wing.
The idea was just to have some fun and get some experience while building not expensive prototype which I could use for learning....
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Using NSO and the Liverpool Telescope for the first time can sound very daunting, however a lot of effort has gone on behind the scenes to create an intelligent user interface that we call Go Observing.
Go Observing guides you through the task of requesting an observation, and can even help you decide what to observe if you are coming to it without any ideas. You should have a go at requesting an observation yourself before using Go Observing in the classroom. It's extremely easy to do.
There is a Go Observing Video Screencast showing how Go Observing works, and that might be the best way to see how easy Go Observing is to use. The video lasts less than 5 minutes, and then you can have a go at requesting an observation yourself!
The steps below show the same steps that you will see in the video, but this time they are for observing a galaxy.
If you are not already logged in, do that now.
Click Go Observing in the top menu.
Select Galaxies from the menu.
You then see a page with various observing programmes you can do related to Galaxies. For a basic observation click on Observe a Galaxy.
You will be presented with a list of possible galaxies you can request an observation for. Choose the galaxy that has the highest chance of being observed during the next few days. The colour bar indicate the likelihood of an early observation. Today is on the very left of the bar next to each galaxy. When you have selected your galaxy, click Submit Observation.
You will be shown a screen confirming your observation has been sent to the telescope and details of the observation you have submitted. To make life easy at this stage, the Go Observing interface chooses the filter and exposure time for you. In other projects you might be able to choose these yourself.
You can check on the Status of your observation at any time by going to My Observations. In 24 hours come back to the NSO website to see if your observation has been completed. If it has not, then try again the next day and so on until your observation is completed. You will see on the homepage the status of your recent observations if you are logged in.
When your observation is complete, you will be told it is ready for download. You should download your image and open it in LTImage so that you can see your galaxy. You will probably need to scale the image in order to see the galaxy. You will find instructions on how to do this in the Using LTImage section of the website. |
For years we have resisted temptation to move away from how Jaguar built the C Type during the early 1950’s, but to cater for the ever increasing popular trend of modernising classic cars to be more useable, we are excited to now offer what we call our “Super C”.
Based on our most popular “Semi Lightweight” model, we have incorporated some tried and proven modern components that we use on other models, mainly E Type’s, to enhance performance and useability of the C Type. Every upgraded component can be easily swapped for a correct C Type component at any stage, important if re-sale becomes a priority. Apart from seeing the modern brakes through the wire wheels, externally the car is identical to a 1953 car. Even under the bonnet or from underneath the car, it takes a keen eye to spot any difference apart from the tubular exhaust.
Our Super C receives a new, alloy cased 5 speed gearbox to replace the Moss 4 speed. We have used this gearbox in E Type’s, including our Low Drag replicas, and they are simply wonderful. Every component is brand new, they use modified T5 internals and utilise the original Jaguar bell housing. The length is the same, the transmission tunnels remain unchanged and the gearlever position is identical.
The addition of a 5th gear allows easier highway cruising or the ability to fit a lower diff ratio for improved acceleration. The old Moss ‘box is the Achilles heel of any performance Jaguar and this gearbox simply transforms the entire car.
The Dunlop 6 piston front, 4 piston rear callipers give excellent performance but are heavy and expensive to make. We offer lightweight modern billet alloy callipers that adapt to the correct mounting brackets and provide better stopping power with a nice decrease in un sprung weight. When coupled with the larger diameter C Type disc rotors, the braking performance is sensational.
We have been using Quaife torque biasing differential centres in our performance Jaguars for years and they are far superior to Jaguars Limited Slip Differential. C Type’s never used a LSD but they didn’t have 350hp either! The Quaife centre puts the power to the ground in a way an open centre diff or LSD just can’t.
The old adage “there is no substitute for cubic inches” is as true with 6 cylinder Jaguars as it is with any other engine. Starting with a 420 engine nearly 1/2 litre increase in capacity straight away so we start here and the short stud 420 block is very robust and has the engine mounting location as per a 3.4, so correct C Type mounting is retained. In fact, if “4.2” wasn’t cast into the side of the block, no-one would know the difference.
As a minimum, we fit custom forged wedge style pistons but we can also fit a billet Arrow crankshaft with a long rod/short piston combination which gives a nice torque boost. The C Type’s used the small port “A” type cylinder head from the XK120, but our Super C use the legendary straight port head as used on the E Type. We modify the ports using our CNC program and fit it with custom stainless steel valves, oversize buckets, upgraded valve springs and a pair of cams ground to our design. The Weber inlet manifold is custom, it features longer inlet tracts than commercially available units for improved torque then 45DCOE or optional 48DCOE webers are fitted. The C Type exhaust manifolds are very short and we use a longer branch style extractor system for superior torque and top end performance. This engine is fitted with an ultra-light steel flywheel, twin plate AP clutch and a light but powerful gear reduction starter motor. Finally, we fit an all new electronic ignition system which makes a world of difference to even a standard 6 cylinder Jaguar but is an absolute necessity with any performance Jaguar engine.
The engine is completely designed around enhancing the torquey nature of the Jaguar 6 cylinder engine. It will idle smoothly thanks to the Webers, is not “peaky” and will produce 350hp and 380ft/lb of torque on pump unleaded fuel.
The Le Mans cars ran an oil cooler and we have fitted these to a couple of our semi Lightweight spec cars. The kit we have developed uses a modern spin oil filter which gives superior oil filtering and makes life a lot easier to change the filter. The cooler mounts in the correct position in front of the radiator and we use steel braided line with aluminium fittings for total reliability.
Originally the C Type used a generator which was barely up to scratch even for the small amount of electrical components used in the C, but introducing a modern thermo fan and electronic ignition is just too much for the old generator to cope, especially if you turn the headlights on! We have been using this fantastic lightweight alternator conversion on our E Type’s and they are 100% reliable and weigh in at a fraction of the weight of a generator. The kit comes with new pulleys to suit a modern micro V belt system that won’t slip or come off at high revs. With this reliable charging system, electronic ignition and a powerful electric thermo fan can be utilised.
Welcome to Jaguar Recreations, a division of Concours Sports car Restoration situated one hour north of Sydney, Australia.
Established in 1993, Concours Sports car Restoration has a worldwide reputation for restoring Jaguar XK’s and E Type’s to the highest standard. Our recreations started in 1999, when we were asked to build an exact replica of the 1953 Le Mans winning C Type. From there we have built 7 C Type's so far, along with alloy LWT E Type's and Low Drag Coupe's.
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Turbocharging is one of the key technologies in current and future engine development. Due to the increasing requirements that extend beyond power output and torque alone, the internal and external mechanical components of turbochargers are being subjected to an ever-increasing load spectrum.
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I have had a similar experience with precut strips. I no longer assume they are accurate or straight! I think your outcome is really nice though!
I've had at least one jelly roll that did that to me. I like to cut my own now. :) You did a marvelous job of not only finishing the flimsy, but turning it into something equally as interesting as the original pattern. If it were me, I'd use the leftover blocks somehow in the backing, just to get rid of them. I know how good it feels to finish up something I am very tired of looking at. Great job, and very creative!
I remember that debacle! It had me afraid to buy strip sets for years, but I've passed that. I was also thinking "lemonade." I think keeping those frustrating pieces was good, because those ombre colors look so good up there!
Great quilt! Love what you finally arrived at, very creative play.
I haven't been happy with a couple of layer cakes too not being true squares and not cut on the true grain. You made a great job of rescuing the blocks.
Your new flimsy looks fantastic!! Great job!!
Sandy, You are amazing. That was an eye grabbing finish to that less than perfect cut of a jellyroll. It really looks great. I'm getting back on line so stop by sometime. Looking forward to being with you at retreat ....really soon. Will send out info soon. |
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Feb 24, 2010—Artilux NMF, a Lithuanian and Swedish joint venture that manufactures lighting fixtures and lamps, is employing EPC RFID technology to track the movement of pallets loaded with products or raw materials at its 11,000-square-meter (118,000-square-foot) facility in Šiauliai, Lithuania. The system was provided and installed by Lithuanian automation and telecommunication systems integrator UAB Autepra, using RFID tags from UPM Raflatac on pallets loaded with its products, and reusable tags from Omnia Technologies for raw materials. The software, provided by Sprendimu idejos, integrates with the company's existing Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP system.
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"While everyone with an all solid state array is chasing the VDI market, SolidFire's architecture has some unique advantages," said Howard Marks, Chief Scientist at DeepStorage, LLC. "Since most storage systems have extremely limited abilities to manage performance, virtual desktop best practice has been to use dedicated storage devices for VDI. SolidFire's QoS capability allows their customers to guarantee VDI users, and other applications running on the same storage cluster, to receive guaranteed levels of performance."
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In addition to the VMware Horizon View 5.2 reference architecture, SolidFire has also delivered vCenter Web Client Plug-in integration. With the vCenter plug-in, administrators can now manage multiple SolidFire clusters through the vSphere 5.1 web client, as well as manage volumes, access groups and account. The new plug-in enhances ease of use in vCenter managed vSphere environments. Administrators can perform the most common storage operations from within the vSphere web client, mitigating the time spent managing storage separately.
SolidFire is the market leader in all-SSD storage systems designed for next generation data centers. Leveraging SolidFire's all-flash architecture, with volume-level Quality-of-Service (QoS) controls, customers now can guarantee storage performance to thousands of applications within a shared infrastructure. Coupling this functionality with in-line data reduction techniques and system-wide automation results in substantial capital and operating cost savings relative to traditional storage systems.
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In the early part of the 2nd Dynasty and the discovery of humanity, a Goa'uld Queen known as Calypso saw that the nature of whom the Goa'uld were would change in the Birth of the Jaffa. She feared that her prim'ta would become weaker if give to the care of the Jaffa. So against the others she would spawn her prim'ta in secret and go into hiding. However she didn't cut off her interactions with the whole of the Goa'uld Empire. She earned a spot with the High Council after her help in joining the others in the defeat of Anubis, however she was not trusted by Ra.
Though she was considered a friend to Egeria once, but the two fell part after a disagreement about the future of the Goa'uld. As Egeria spawned the Tok'ra, Calypso, built the asteroid home, Nassau which dispite its size and the fact that it was once an mining asteroid; was capable of going into hyperspace. As Ra brought his forces to bear against Egeria, he attempted to go after Calypso, but was unable to capture her. Thus she went into hiding, continuing her belief of keeping the Goa'uld Prim'ta predatory. As the dust settled she remained hidden however her 'children' came back into the fold of the Goa'uld Empire, in the form of Ashrak. However as with her their mentality was predatory, they craved conflict and looting what they need to survive. Years of her Spawning practice had lead to a taste for other Goa'uld prim'ta in their diet. For unknown reasons the Meznarid hosts iris permanently change to crimson in color.
In 1,002 BC Calypso Spawned her favorite 'daughter', Besmara.
Life didn't come easy to them, they spend their time running and secretive from all the Goa'uld. They learned to adapt, and have stolen technology from the Goa'uld and the Tok'ra.
During the emergence of the Tau'ri, they have struggled harder than in the past. The Goa'uld that were their allies and allowing them to 'take' their prim'ta had decreased. The in balance alone had cause a decrease in their numbers. The overall defeat of the Goa'uld had lead them back to raid P3X-888 for Prim'ta and Queens. Though the prim'ta of the primordial goa'uld are still predatory, the prim'ta of the Meznarid still have an upper hand.
The coming of the Ori, caused a near extinction of the Meznarid way of life as the Lucian Alliance cut into the Meznarid 'criminal organizations', the Ori crusade had dealt a blow to the Spawning Sites. As worlds fell to the Ori, they lost the Queens who have been there on their Spawning Pilgrimage. It was a heavy lose, however Besmara was left the eldest of all the Meznarid Queen; with the exemption of Calypso the All-Mother.
All-Mother: The never changed rank, in life or in death there will be no other.
Pirate Queen: The Leader of the Queens, she is in a sense a system lord according to the Meznarid. She commands the main fleet and forces. She dictates the positions of the Asteroid Homesteads.
Monah: Is a Queen whom controls a Asteroid Homestead.
Pirate Lord: The Leader of the Captains, the warlord of all.
Queens: The protectors and spawners of the Bloodlines of the Captains.
Captain: Lord of the their ship, conquer of assets and provider for the Meznarid. Queens have been know to be Captains as well.
Brigand: The Lowest rank of the Meznarid Goa'uld and the Highest rank for the Humans of the Meznarid. They are Commanders of a small vessel like cargo ships and Al'kesh like craft.
Spawning Sites: The Queens of the Meznarid choose worlds that are lush and covered in water. Living amonst the human inhabitants to hide from the Goa'uld whom may or may not live there. They build a dwelling to house their Spawning Pool. And they will stay to care for their Prim'ta until it hits maturity.
Spawning Pilgrimage: It was started to ensure that Nassau would not be found. The Meznarid Queens would leave Nassau 'if they lived there', and head to a Spawning Site or even construct a new one on another world.
Prim'ta Rising: To ensure the predatory instinct of the Meznarid Prim'ta. Prim'tas would devour the weakest until one was left. Rarely was there two whom survived. To keep the Prim'ta healthy they would be feed other Prim'ta from a Goa'uld ally. This fact was hidden from the whole of the Goa'uld Empire, but was not surprising as cannabism is practiced within the empire.
Host investments: The host for all Meznarid are the offspring of the Queens 'mate'. Whom sires children and later those children are choosen ahead of time to be hosts. Even then these kids are trained as assassins and cutthroats. And survival of the fittest.
Humans: Unlike most Goa'uld Lords the backbone of the Meznarid armed forces are the humans that most consider slaves. Though some are slaves however, there are those who serve in the military. Those of the Military are decendents of past pirate lords.
Jaffa: Though Calypso never got into the habit of using Jaffa as incubators for her Prim'ta, there are few Jaffa whom serve the Meznarid. They are brained washed or couxed into service. Used to gain knowledge about info, tech and fighting techniques.
Oranian: This race is treated no different than the humans however they are more or less used as cannon fodder.
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It's crunch time for hand made gifts! If you are running short on time, here are some suggestions for making thoughtful and beautiful gifts with limited time!
This quick and adorable headband will be done before you know it when you use a KnitPro Symfonie Single Pointed Crochet Hook! The KnitPro Symfonie hooks are designed by people who know and understand the art of crochet. These hooks are strong and lightweight, made from beautiful wood with a smooth polished wood surface your stitches will glide off the hook and right into the wrapping paper for gifting!
This elegant cowl is made with super bulky yarn and a 9 mm hook, so it will be done in just a couple of hours! Use the KnitPro Aluminum Crochet hook with its unique ergonomic shape with smooth handle and gentle grip will ensure that you can crochet all day long! Save time by including a KnitPro Symfonie Wood Shawl Pin as a closure rather than sewing on buttons. They come in many colors and styles, so you can easily find one that will perfectly compliment your cowl!
Any lucky person on your gift list would love to receive these fashionable and practical fingerless gloves. Use KnitPro Cubics Double Pointed needles to make knitting these gloves a joy. The cuboid shape in the cross section gradually gives way to perfectly tapered birch wood tips, providing excellent stitch definition. Add the perfect finishing touch with KnitPro wooden buttons, available in all different shapes and colors!
It's the season for giving gifts, and the KnitPro team has put together some great gift ideas for every knitter in your life (or maybe inspiration for your own wish list)!
These are some bright and colorful knitting accessories for those knitters that love vibrant hues and variegated yarns.
1. KnitPro Shawl Pins come in many styles and are a great way to keep your beautiful hand knits in place.
2. Anyone would love to adorn their beautiful hand knit items with these fun KnitPro Wood Buttons. They come in beautiful colors as well as 7 different shapes.
4. KnitPro Fabric Bags are essential for keeping all your knitting needles organized in one place. Use this colorful case to store interchangeable or double pointed needle sets while they are not in use.
5. KnitPro Symfonie Needles are the ultimate needle for knitters that love color. They are strong, lightweight, have perfectly tapered tips and are suitable for any type of yarn and knitting project. Symfonie needles are available as double pointed, single pointed, fixed circular, and interchangeable circular knitting needles.
1. KnitPro Needle Size ID Tags can be slipped on the cable when needle tips are removed, so that you can have multiple projects using the same size needle and never forget which tips to use for which projects!
2. If you like to keep all of your interchangeable needles neatly displayed by size than the KnitPro Interchangeable Needles Stand is essential! It is both beautiful and functional.
3. KnitPro Cubics provide a unique ergonomic shape that makes knitting more comfortable and stitches more even. Although Cubics appeal to a wide range of knitter the geometric shape and sleek look is particularly appropriate for the organized knitter. Cubics are available as single pointed, double pointed, fixed circular, and interchangeable circular knitting needles.
4.The KnitPro Chart Keeper is a great tool for knitters that love to keep all their patterns and charts organized in one place. The Chart Keeper functions not only as a place to store your patterns, but also works as a stand to use while knitting!
1. KnitPro Needle View Sizer is a must for any knitting bag, because you never know when you will need to check that two needles are the same size.
2. The KnitPro Row Counter will help you to save time, because every time you pull your knitting out of your bag you won't need to count how many rows you've already knit-because you can just look on your row counter!
3. KnitPro Point Protectors are perfect for travelling knitters because they will ensure that all of your stitches stay on the needle, and that your knitting needles won't poke holes in your knitting bags.
4. KnitPro Nova needles are engineered from hollowed brass and quality plated nickel. These needles are smooth and lightweight-perfect for knitters on the go! Novas are available as single pointed, double pointed, fixed circular, and interchangeable circular knitting needles.
5. The KnitPro Ring Binder is a great case for carrying circular knitting needles, small knitting accessories, and small knitting projects. For example you could keep your needles, stitch markers, and half knit socks all in this ring binder, so you won't have to worry about forgetting any of your essentials at home! |
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