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Space travelers informed by ibiblio are now on the UNC School of Information and Library Science's Vimeo channel.
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Space travelers informed by ibiblio are now on the UNC School of Information and Library Science's Vimeo channel.
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We were lucky and privileged in the course of Seamus Heaney's live to have crossed paths with him several times. First when he agreed to be part of an early experiment in putting poetry on the WWW by not only granting us the use of some of his poems, but he agreed to record his readings of those poems himself with the help of Harvard's Poetry Room in the 1994. Heaney had not yet won the Nobel Prize at that point. That would come the next year when his work was cited "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".
Certainly the poems he chose for the Internet Poetry Archive are exemplars of that sense of beauty, depth and exaltation.
Heaney returned to Chapel Hill in May 12, 1996 to deliver our commencement address.
To send off our graduates into their new lives, he quoted from a ballad he had heard whilst growing up in Derry in which a young woman was going off into the world leaving on the 12th of May. There was much wise reflection in his interpretation of that ballad in the context of commencement, but I recalled and recall now the final verse which is a hopeful send off for graduates and for Heaney himself:
So I bade them all good evening and there I hoisted sail, Let the best betide my countryside, my fortune never fail. Then night coming on, all hopes being gone, I think I will try elsewhere, at a dance or a wake my chance I'll take and leave Magherafelt May Fair.
We've gotten a lot of nice coverage of my rediscovery of perhaps the earliest World Wide Web pages this past week.
Fact is that those pages — Tim Berners-Lee's Demonstration Page for Hypertext 91 and my own personal page — have been on the net almost continually since they were developed and/or modified on my NeXT cube during Tim's visit to UNC in the late Fall of 1991 on his way to San Antonio and the ACM conference in December 1991. While the pages have moved from server to server as we upgraded, the pages mostly worked just fine even in modern web browsers without modification. True, there are HTML tags that are strange to us now: DD, DT, DL, NEXTID, and a requirement that each A link have a NAME field. (place view-source:http://ibiblio.org/pjones/old.page.html and view-source:http://ibiblio.org/pjones/old.paul.html in Chrome to see the old school html unrendered).
But how did those pages get created and how did they end up in Chapel Hill on my NeXT in first place?
Wide Area Information Servers and the WWW gateway
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Judd Knott and I led a network services research group at UNC in the Office for Information Technologies. Among the projects we developed was an internet bulletin board service that allowed access to all kinds of software for information sharing, Free software (as in Freedom), USENET News, Gopher, etc — even email. LaUNChpad quickly had hundreds of users and allowed us experiment in a living world and in the process contribute to information access in a small way.
We were often implementers of access protocols and very early software releases. One particular project really caught our interest; Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), a Z39.50 database searching software suite, was being developed at Thinking Machines, Inc (a company mostly out of MIT that included Brewster Kahle who would later found Internet Archive). We, Jim Fullton in particular, quickly became a participant in development of a free and robust version of WAIS (wais-8-b2) in the spring of 1991.
Not long after, Jim made contact (via one of the hypertext newgroups) with Tim Berners-Lee of CERN who was interested in developing a gateway between WAIS servers and his project modestly called The WorldWideWeb. By about September, Jim and Tim had something working although not ready for general use. By October, Tim announced the gateway.
On The Way to Hypertext 91
Not long after, Jim got email from Tim saying that he was submitting a paper on what was now called more briefly WWW at the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference Hypertext 91 in San Antonio in December. Tim made plans to stop by UNC and visit with us before going on to Texas. He was confident given the immediate acceptance of WWW on newsgroups and as seen in his logs that he would get a good speaking slot at the conference.
A few weeks later, we learned differently. Tim's paper had been rejected. But he had been offered a spot to demonstrate the WWW. Only a couple of catches. There was to be no Internet connectivity at the conference. And as Tim's demonstration required a NeXT computer, he would have to bring his from Europe. Tim was intrepid and soldiered on.
A Call to an Expert
Anticipating Tim's arrival, I called a nearby Computer Science department. The voice at the other end had heard of Tim's project but was not impressed. He immediately recited what he saw as deadly problems with the WWW:
I didn't take Tim to meet with the person who owned that voice.
Tim Berners-Lee's visit to Chapel Hill
When Tim did come to visit, he already knew that I too had a NeXT just like his. He stopped by. We talked about WAIS and WWW and beer and he pulled out a floptical drive (NeXT pioneered a read-write optical disk in a case. No one followed). I installed Tim's graphical browser on my NeXT. Tim talked me through using WWW by using a copy of his Hypertext 91 demonstration page.
There was, as you see now, a link to the WWW< >WAIS gateway for searching a database in the next room. When I clicked on the link, my information request first went to CERN in Switzerland then back to UNC to search the database. The results then left UNC for Switzerland where html was added and then the results sent back to my NeXT.
Tim showed me how simple and easy editing and creating a WWW page could be. First he showed how straightforward editing was by changing "demonstration" to "demonfdgfgstration." I created my own page and added a link to an FTP site in Denmark that hosted a sound collection among other things. I wanted to see if the NeXT and Tim's WWW browser would be able to pass the sound to a player. I think it did, but I really can't remember if it did.
Beers near English Scholars
That night, I invited Tim, Jim, Judd and others working on our project to my home. My wife, Sally Greene, was having a bunch of her friends, all PhD students in English over as well.
The geeks and literature folks didn't really mix. The geeks were out on the deck in the warm North Carolina fall night. The scholars were in the kitchen. I think some of the talk inside was of "Afternoon, a Story" a hypertext composition by Michael Joyce. Someone was interested in how current theory impacted (yes that word) and was impacted by hypertext. No one had actually experienced hypertext other than Apple's Hypercard though. Yet just a few feet and a few drinks away…
Links for now. Story later.
The title says it all Give Up Email Altogether
Read and heed.
As folks getting my announcements on Facebook know, I was a speaker in the Tea at Two series at UNC's Ackland Art Museum last Thursday. We were celebrating and adding a bit to the More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s show at the museum.
Here's how the program was described:
"The Work of Art, Technology, and Love in the Age of Digital Reproduction"
What do light-weight, long-lasting batteries, Match.com, 4chan, Kittehz, SnapChat, Skype, Open Source software, Wikileaks and texting have to do with love and art? They put very contemporary twists on Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and on More Love's subtitle: "Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s."
In the spirit of the description and in the spirit of the works in the show, I first began my talk weeks before by creating a conversation on the Facebook event page for the talk. First I collected as many versions of Bert Berns' "Tell Him" from YouTube. There are easily 30 or more versions of this song done since the first recording by Johnny Thunder in 1962 and the more famous cover by the Exciters that same year. I love the beginning, the lead in and the first line "I know something about love." The song has been covered by the Mod singer Billie Davis in the UK, Kenny Loggins in the US, Alma Cogan in several languages, by the glam rock bands Hello and Glitter Band, as Northern Soul by Dean Parrish, by the cast of Glee, incorporated into a musical "Return to the Forbidden Planet," and parodied on Saturday Night Live.
I made a YouTube list of 34 of these.
Along the way, I managed to pick up the idea of inviting people to join the talk via Google+ HangOut. Part of this idea came from a conversation with Mark Katz who was expressing his regrets that he would be in Venice on the day of the talk. Mark said something like "I'll be in the City of Love tho." It struck me that there are several Cities of Love — San Francisco especially the Haight, Philadelphia, Paris and to some degree Boston (where couples of all genders may marry). I arranged a HangOut with Bebo White who lives in the Haight, Lorraine Richards who is on the faculty of Drexel in Philadelphia, Courtney Pulitzer who lives in Paris, and Edwin Huff in Boston.
One of the interesting side effects of this Hangout is that while I know Ed, Courtney, Lori and Bebo none of them knew any of the others. Each was from some different time of my own life. Still we all played together well.
Part of the idea for the Hangout was to bring Citizens of Cities of Love into the museum by using common consumer technology, but another part was to mirror and draw attention to Emily Jacir's piece "Where We Come From." Jacir solicites and performs small acts of remembrance and love in Israel on behalf of Palestinians who are forbidden to return to the places of their birth. Our aim was not so charged. Each Citizen offered to perform some small task for some one attending the talk. But as love should be bidirectional, the person requesting was asked by the Citizen to perform some small act on behalf of the Citizen.
Bebo will be documenting a visit to Spike, a coffee house in the Castro where Michael Williams' friend Austin Miller is a barrista. Michael in turn will be recreating a human pyramid that Bebo and his friends created at UNC during the 1967 Human Be-in. Bebo also took us on a stroll thru the Haight using his phone camera including an interview with a modern flower girl.
Edwin showed us the spring snow outside his window. He was asked by Iris Tillman Hill to run out and toss a snowball. Ed grabbed his phone and took us out while he did just that. Iris was only asked to enjoy the warm sunshine on Ed's behalf.
Lori, who introduced herself by describing the complex relationship between Philly and sk8erz in the Love Park (a great story worth reading), was asked to visit the successful skateboard park under the Interstate in FDR Park by Jeff Shear. Jeff will visit Carrburritos for Lori.
French PhD student, Rox Ane, asked Courtney to attend a Paris Saint-Germain soccer/football game. UNC stand out Tobin Heath is signed to PSG for 6 months. Ideally, Courtney will get a photo of Tobin Heath in PSG uniform. Rox Ane will feast on a plate of Allen and Son BBQ as Courtney's proxy.
Reflecting Frances Stark's "My Best Thing" which uses Xtranormal characters to enact a sexually charged internet chat, I took to Xtranormal to present instead four quotes/discussions on technological determinism by Paul LaFargue, Marshall McLuhan, me and Larry Page. I took the Dude as my proxy and our guide.
Additionally, I did a short presentation on Walter Benjamin using Prezi which included a video explaining part of his "Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) made by Warren Hedges. Also included in the presentation is a heart shaped word cloud I created in Tagxedo.
As much as time allowed, I spoke about the timeline for the Technologies for Hooking Up from Minitel to SnapChat that I created with Tiki-toki.
Thanks to the Ackland and especially to Amanda Hughes and Allison Portnow for making this possible. Amanda helped document expressions of love by the Citizens who in return are at this moment receiving prisms as tokens of love from Yoko Ono as part of her "Time to Tell Your Love" piece.
During questions someone asked more about Benjamin's ideas. I referred them to John Berger's 1972 BBC series "Ways of Seeing" Particularly the first episode. Here it is:
John Berger / Ways of Seeing , Episode 1 (1972) from shihlun on Vimeo.
Four things ibiblian and/or Jonesian:
In June 2005, we visited Chicago and Wired's NextFest where we met (and I blogged about) the Philip K Dick Android:
Our visit with Philip K Dick
Words of Philip K. Dick
But in January 2006, Dick went missing. Missing: Philip K. Dick Android
Now David Dufty has written about book about the stories behind the PKD Android: "How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection" which draws in very small part on those post and include at bit of the bit about PKDA's words.
Nice to have been a very very small part of that.
Official PKDA site: http://www.pkdandroid.org/
We've had a busy past few months from end of semester to a summer seminar in London followed by a trip around the Balkans: Croatia > Serbia > Istanbul > Bulgaria > Serbia. It's time to do a little catch up on the state of #noemail.
* Whilst in London, we met up with pioneer #noemail er Luis Suarez aka @elsua. Besides visiting his favorite dim sum shop, Luis offered some insight into his first steps away from email.
Luis realized that while email was touted as a way to increase cooperation and comradely interactions that it was largely being used as a way to CC higher ups on discussions in ways that actually put a damper on cooperation and decrease trusted interactions — and of course filled up everyone's mailboxes with unnecessary reports and discussions. Team members spent more time looking over their shoulders than acting like a team as managers were flooded with with chitchat. No one was winning and most people were frustrated by the overload.
* I offered a couple of my own insights — later tweeted into the #noemail stream:
Friends have been keeping me up on new #noemail articles:
* Joe Bob Hester sends: How useless is email? Two new studies weigh in http://gigaom.com/collaboration/how-useless-is-email-two-new-studies-weigh-in/ which leads us to a GigaOM piece what plays down the kind of gossip and small talk that builds social bonding. Yes there is a lot of that in email, but there it's annoying and almost not work the cost. Unlike, say, the News Feed on Facebook or a Tweet stream both of which are designed, well-designed, for skimming and sharing in a small talk and social way. What in email is weighed toward being a time sink are positives in more social environments.
* Paul Valach alerts us to a new Pew Internet report: Teens love texting and social networks but ignore e-mail http://pewinternet.org/Commentary/2012/April/Pew-Internet-Teens.aspx
This builds on reports and studies referenced earlier on this blog and by Pew itself. Amongst the interesting numbers are:
35% of all teens socialize with others in person outside of school on a daily basis.
29% of all teens exchange messages daily through social network sites.
22% of teens use instant messaging daily to talk to others.
19% of teens talk on landlines with people in their lives daily.
6% of teens exchange email daily.
Teens would rather use a land line than send email!
But Texting is the dominant daily teen communication channel. "Texting dominates teens general communication choices. Overall, 75% of all teens text, and 63% say that they use text to communicate with others every day."
* Don Sizemore tells us of the need to redesign email using a "new protocol [that] should be a todo list" in a ReTweet from @hackernewsbot on Replacing Email – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4228402. I think the hackers miss the point. There are a lot of communications protocol and even print drivers that we've dropped and reconceived over the years. The whole concept of email should be dropped and reinvented.
* Stacey Devine was the first to alert me to this New York Times article "Disruptions: Life'sToo Short for So Much E-Mail" by Nick Bilton http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/life%E2%80%99s-too-short-for-so-much-e-mail/. Nick notes most of the same points raised in this blog about email — and he even comes to similar conclusions:
Since technology hasnt solved the problem it has created with e-mail, it looks as if some younger people might come up with their own answer not to use e-mail at all.
So Im taking a cue from them.
Ill look at my e-mail as it comes in. Maybe Ill respond with a text, Google Chat, Twitter or Facebook message. But chances are, as with many messages sent via Facebook or Twitter, I wont need to respond at all
UnifiedInBox lets us know of Rachel Woodlock's post on "Experimenting with managing email overload (or how to ease into #noemail)" which includes disposable customized email addresses for mailing lists aka bizSpam and discouraging .vacation messages and autoresponders. http://www.rachelwoodlock.com/2012/06/experimenting-with-managing-email-overload-or-how-to-ease-into-noemail/ Good ideas and suggestions here from Rachel.
* Luis Suarez and Chris Brogan and others like John Cox's notes on his "Vacation from Email" http://associationnavigator.com/2012/07/02/take-a-vacation-from-email/ which is really an essay on work life balance. Log off and live. Nice work if you can get it.
* Beth McNichol of the Carolina Alumni Review did a bang up job writing on a tough subject – me — in "Geek Poet Strikes Back" http://www.carolinaalumnireview.com/carolinaalumnireview/20120506/?pg=18#pg18. Lots of my person story as relates to #noemail there. Recommended.
[more to be added as I catch up]
The new digital divide By Joel Achenbach in Washington Post
Yammer as a Time Inc Game Changer
Here are the benefits to scrap the e-mail in ComputerWorld.DK [Danish – use Google Translate or Chrome]
Starting with the past, Washington Post got some hoax busting advice from email historians that resulted in a long but not quite satisfying article with some very good links to orthodox and substantiated email histories including a section on email from Dave Crocker's Living Internet and Tom Van Vleck's entry that credits Noel Morris as Tom's partner in electronic mail creation starting in 1965 (and noted by Noel's brother film-maker Earl as discussed earlier on this blog). Success has many fathers, but Tom and Noel are clearly the first to implement a mail program.
Meanwhile Megan Garber writing in The Atlantic discovers what I (and many others) have been claiming right along, "'The Future of Email' … Looks a Lot Like Twitter". What she discovers is:
Fluent, a new service that integrates with Gmail (and eventually, its creators say, with other email platforms) to deliver messages in the flowing fashion of a social media feed. The service, built by a team of former Google developers — the guys responsible for Wave, but don't hold that against them — converts Gmail's grids into a message-sharing service that's more dynamic and fluid than any kind of letter-writing has been before, giving way to an inbox that's not a box at all so much as a Twitter-like feed of information.
I think I've mentioned earlier that Wave was a good idea executed terribly from a social point of view (to say the least). Nonetheless I found it useful as it combined many of my styles of communicating, integrated many of the sites and environments that I used to communicate and allowed me to "slice and dice" the various threads and conversations.
I'm no longer interested in how to improve email or it's best current implementation – Gmail — but if I were I'd be giving Fluent.io a test drive.
Steve Gillmor of Gillmor Gang writes in TechCrunch about "Remembering Email" which is much like remembering the magic of Top 40 Radio or maybe the first clear FM stations. Steve notes that notifications have taken over his attention and ours, but even more the attention of our kids.
Readers of this blog won't be surprised by this. Short, fast, highly interactive, mobile. That's the future of messaging. And that ain't email. And in case, you haven't noticed that ain't even voice anymore. Kids text more than voice and more than email. Many of us older folks do as well. The trend lines are set and the practices of business are changing (again see this blog).
Email puts knowledge in siloed inboxes; social (as Luis Suarez has been saying) makes knowledge more open, additive and makes us all richer. The business case, at least internally, is clear.
Steve notices that email serves most often as the default way to notify us of social updates. But, as he also notices, the new robust iOS notifications do a much better job. Those changes sent many folks running to shut off email notifications and get the notification clutter out of the inbox and on the palm top where they are Short, fast, highly interactive, mobile
Steve has additional observations about authority, command and control, sharing, and even the privacy of direct messages.
All good. Email contains the seeds of its own destruction. "The reason email will disappear is because it is the single most effective tool for moving to social." Once that bridge is effectively crossed, we'll burn it behind us.
A tribute to Luis Suarez (aka @elsua) in the form of a Dutch/English language site — Moving/Collaborating/Sharing/Connecting/Thinking/Helping/Innovating/Working/Living Outside the Inbox — from IBM Netherlands. Includes the Prezi from my talk at Duke last month "#noemail – Why you could/should/must use better ways of communicating than email" and this interview with Luis:
Great, if a bit noisy, hall interview with Luis Suarez at Jamcamp yesterday. He is down to three social networks: Twitter, Google Plus and IBM Connections (for work) –no Facebook (because he dislikes the Terms of Service).
Good insights. Including how to stay in contact with your clients without email.
Just back from giving a talk and having a talk with the folks at Duke University who do Web and Communications work there. The subject? Productivity in the form of #noemail
Here's the Prezi:
A calendar page dated Wednesday August 3 showed up in my atom-based faculty mailbox today from my ever alert colleague, Cal Lee.
Angela: Um. Do you not answer e-mails anymore? Because I have e-mailed you four times asking you to come to my desk.
Phyllis: Honey, if I don't have time to answer an e-mail, I definitely don't have time to walk over to your desk.
A little of what I learned about #noemail so far.
I started with an auto-responder/vacation/away message one month in advance of going #noemail telling folks about my plans and offering many various alternatives — perhaps too many and too various — and offering to accept suggestions of additional alternatives.
Some lists are archived on blogs or other sites that have their own RSS feeds.
Keep in mind that most studies show that casual calls, sales offers and chitchat while important are bigger timesinks than even email.
Kinda covers the main point, especially the title: Is email the new "snail mail?"
Nick Mehta writing in Mashable blames your overflowing email inbox and your desire to check in on it on — YOU! Yes, you loser, you are just too lonely, vain, anxious, and self-deceiving. Nick assumes somehow if you are social, self-effacing, calmly unparanoid and have a clear self-perception — tada! — your email problems will be solved.
Note to Nick: email comes to your inbox from somewhere other than yourself. Mostly not even from people, as I've seen in the past weeks are people are redirected to other more sane means of communications, but from various automatic mailings, alerts, confirmations, and the like. No psychological changes on your part will have much impact on the amount of email you receive. You may change your reading and responding habits, but there will be email as sure as the sun rises in the east.
Yes, I'm ranting this time and I hope uncharacteristically. I admit I've been infected with a rant-virus after having read the rants posing as comments following the WRAL interview. ;->
I have however read not only Nick's article but also the ongoing Google+ discussion of that article lead by Luis Suarez. I invite you to join Luis and others in a very civil discussion of behaviors and email.
The bigger question looms: Can normative email behaviors of humans and of machines acting on behalf of humans be changed by charters, rules or by your own behaviors?
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The luxury Ilio Mare resort hotel in Thassos emerges through the tropical palm trees and the turquoise waters of its golden coast. It is a beach 5-star hotel, ideal for family holidays, favoured for its romantic atmosphere, elegant luxury and natural beauty of the landscape, enjoyed by families, groups of friends or couples and it is perfect for combining a bit of pleasure with work when it comes to conferences and the organisation of events.
The perfect setting for a summer holiday in Thassos.
Here, on the beautiful Dasillio beach of Skala Prinou, on the Northwest coast of the island, visitors keep returning. The Ilio Mare resort is both a retreat and a base for adventures, a permanent stop on the road of desires. The elegant ambience of this luxury resort hotel is artfully combined with elements of colonial architecture and influences from the time when the island of Thassos was occupied by the Egyptians in the early 19th century. Amazing cascades, falling into the hotel's pools, blossomed gardens, tropical vegetation with towering palm trees and purple sunsets over the Aegean Sea, compose the backdrop to the perfect summer holidays.
Amenities, facilities, infrastructure and service that moves you
At the Ilio Mare resort hotel you will find an enchanting atmosphere, a spotless beach, an attractive view and a region that has not been spoiled by mass tourism. Here, refined taste meets the kindness and warm welcome of the people. The elegant suites and the beautiful rooms, the hotel's three restaurants with a variety of unique flavours, the four different bars, the rejuvenating spa services, the sports' courts and modern facilities for the safe entertainment of children, the exceptional infrastructure with facilities suitable for receptions, conferences and meetings, the recommended activities, such as horse riding or hiking, as well as the high quality services attract every summer an ever increasing number of faithful friends of the Dasillio beach and the Ilio Mare resort.
Quality tourism and protection of the environment
On this blessed side of Thassos, the dense vegetation and the natural wealth are protected and showcased. The Ilio Mare resort has been honouring the "emerald island" each year through its distinctions.
Among other awards, it has received the blue flag for its crystal–clear waters and the green key, an eco–label awarded by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature to hotels which ensure that they are properly managed from an environmental aspect and that their staff, guests and external associates are environmentally educated.
The ideal choice for a holiday you will never forget in Thassos
Thanks to its location, the natural beauty of the area, and the luxury accommodation it offers, the 5-star Ilio Mare hotel is one of the top resorts of Thassos. Close to the village of Prinos, right across and with frequent connections to the city of Kavala, standing on the seafront, it inspires feelings of tranquillity and relaxation, but also the desire to discover the unexpected treasures of the Aegean, the lush landscape and the island's picturesque interior.

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This is National Invasive Species Awareness Week, a time when all Americans can reflect on how much we wish alien invaders like Asian carp, Burmese pythons and kudzu (pictured) weren't killing our ecosystems. But the event — which centers around a weeklong convention in Washington, D.C. — isn't meant to be a downer. According to its website, it aims to "highlight what is being done across the nation and around the world to stop and slow the spread of invasive species." Sponsored by vested interests like the U.S. Interior Department, the Dow Chemical Company and the Weed Science Society of America, it's as much about prevention and eradication as awareness.
Tuesday's keynote speech in D.C. was delivered by U.S. Asian carp czar John Goss, whose unusual job title underscores how politics can complicate efforts to fight invasive species. Several Great Lakes states are locked in a protracted battle with Chicago and the Obama administration over how to handle the invasive carp, namely over whether to close shipping canals that seem to be helping them infiltrate the Great Lakes. But as both NPR and the New York Times report, the best way to beat invasive species isn't to wage war on them — it works much better to create a market that can overexploit them, much like we've already done with some native species. That's the logic behind efforts to rebrand Asian carp as a delicious fish — renamed something like "silverfin" or "Kentucky tuna." It's also what motivates D.C.-area artist Patterson Clark, who uses invasive weeds to make paper, ink, paintbrushes and even paintings, which he showcases on his website, Alien Weeds.
Invasive species are certainly wreaking havoc around the world, but there's a fine line between native and invasive, points out a new study led by researchers at Iowa State University. Ecologist Stan Harpole explains that we tend to focus on harmful invaders like kudzu, even though only about 10 percent of all foreign plants that arrive in a new area can survive there, and just 10 percent of those end up causing problems. Plus, when glaciers receded from the U.S. Midwest 10,000 years ago, they left a barren landscape devoid of any native plants. "All the plants that are now seen as native were invasive in the past, in the sense that they had to spread across the landscape," Harpole says. "What's different today is that we move plants so much faster than they would move by themselves. Now a species can become global in a matter of years, where it may have taken tens of thousands of years in the past."
(Sources: NISAW, TIME, NPR, New York Times, e! Science News)
African lions are a symbol of their continent like no other animal, but according to a coalition of conservation groups, these iconic cats are now being driven to extinction at an alarming pace. Traditional threats like poaching, conflict killing and habitat loss are the main culprits, but there's also another growing danger that's often overlooked, the wildlife groups warn: Americans.
Wealthy American hunters have been increasingly traveling to Africa for trophy hunts, the groups warn, with two-thirds of all lions killed for sport being brought back to the U.S. over the last 10 years. This alone isn't driving the species extinct, but combined with pre-existing local pressures — not to mention the international trade of animal parts that's also killing off tigers — it could be the straw that broke the lion's back, conservationists say. "The African lion is a species in crisis," says Jeff Flocken of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "The king of the jungle is heading toward extinction, and yet Americans continue to kill lions for sport." The IFAW, along with the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society International, Born Free and Defenders of Wildlife, is calling on the Obama administration to list African lions as an endangered species, thereby banning the import of lion trophies and body parts.
There were as many as 200,000 lions roaming across Africa a century ago, but today there are between 23,000 and 40,000 of them remaining. They have vanished from 80 percent of their former range, and are already extinct in 26 countries. Most killing of African lions is by local farmers or poachers, but Americans are responsible for a large amount, too: 64 percent of the 5,663 wild lions killed for sport between 1999 and 2008 were shipped to America, with the total number doubling during that span. But some experts don't want to end hunting completely, just manage it better. As they argue, responsible hunting helps prevent lions' habitat from being developed. "If you remove hunting, the very real risk is that you force African governments to generate revenue from that land and the obvious thing is cattle and crops which just wipe out habitats," an official with the conservation group Panthera says.
(Source: Guardian)
Apparently the deranged Alabama football fan who poisoned Auburn University's 130-year-old oak trees isn't alone — there has been another case of mascot murder this week, and while it may not have been premeditated like the tree poisonings, it's being met with no less condemnation from fans. A Panamanian soccer player became a pariah in Colombia over the weekend after he kicked the other team's owl mascot off the field, spurring chants of "murderer" from angry fans.
Luis Moreno is a defender for Panama's Deportivo Pereira, which was playing against Colombia's Atletico Junior when an errant kick hit Atletico Junior's owl mascot near the Pereira penalty area. Stunned, the owl fell to the field, where it lay motionless. Moreno approached and, without showing even a moment of hesitation, kicked the bird out of the way. This sent the Atletico Junior players and fans into a rage, while the owl was rushed to a veterinary hospital. Local vet Camilo Tapia tried to save the mascot's life, but it had already gone into shock and apparently couldn't be saved. It was pronounced dead at 2:57 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
"My family is very worried about what happened because an entire country is against me," Moreno tells the Daily Telegraph after becoming a hated figure throughout Colombia. "I believe what happened is regrettable and I apologized to the entire country." That may not be enough, however, at least according to Dimayor president Ramon Jesurum, who says "the player should be severely punished for this painful, horrible act of intolerance." The case is going before the soccer league's disciplinary committee, and a Colombian environmental agency is also investigating levying sanctions against Moreno.
(Source: Daily Telegraph)
Much like lions in Africa, Indian elephants are increasingly butting heads with local farmers and other landowners who see them as a menace. This souring relationship has begun to pose an existential threat to elephants as India's human population explodes, but as the London Independent reports, conservationists have come up with a potential solution: chili peppers.
Elephants are famed for their memory, but their long noses also possess a much stronger sense of smell than ours, making pachyderms especially susceptible to the power of peppers. Conservationists at the Chester Zoo are now helping Indian villagers make DIY "super-hot chili bombs" and "chili fences" to keep elephants at bay, offering a way to repel the animals without using lethal force. In addition to barraging elephants with "bombs" made of spicy peppers, the so-called "chili fence" involves crushed peppers mixed with used motor oil and soaked into a cloth, which can be tied to fences surrounding crop fields. The noxious fumes drive away the elephants before they can ruin a farmer's crops.
The project has grown to cover six villages and 800 households in the past six years, the Independent reports, and has been so successful that it's now being extended to another eight villages that have recently suffered a spate of human-elephant conflicts. "We are hopeful that the extension of the program will result in more villagers buying into the concept of elephants living alongside human populations in harmony," says project leader Alexandra Zimmerman. "The elephants' continued survival depends on it."
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Many patients struggle with weight gain after bariatric surgery. The doctors and counselors working through the Tijuana Bariatric Center can advise patients who are frustrated with unexpected weight gain after bariatric surgery at a Tijuana, Mexico, hospital. Whether you need professional advice or are considering revisional surgery, the Tijuana Bariatric team can help get you back on track. And by separating fact from myths and misconceptions, the team can also help you maintain a positive outlook and healthy habits.
Bariatric surgery is known for producing dramatic weight loss: patients often report losing up to 60 to 75 percent of their original weight. However, despite these staggering statistics, just as many patients notice their weight plateau or even begin to creep up again months or years after their procedure.
There are several reasons that can lead to weight gain. Sometimes, the cause is as simple as a patient slipping in their dieting or exercise routine. Other times, it may signal post-surgical complications. But weight gain is often just the result of normal physiology. The human body is designed to store energy reserves in case of periods of starvation. Once your body adjusts to its new digestive system, it will begin to maximize energy absorption. As a result, patients often start to gain weight back.
Patients may regain as much as eight to ten percent of their original weight.
The amount of weight gain a patient will experience depends largely on the type of bariatric surgery performed. With restrictive surgeries, such as LAP-BAND® or gastric sleeve surgery, which reduce intake by reducing stomach capacity, patients may regain as much as eight to ten percent of their original weight. In addition to restricting the size of the stomach, malabsorptive surgeries like gastric bypass or duodenal switch surgery change how your system digests food. As a result, patients undergoing these types of procedures often regain less weight.
Patients can take a number of measures to limit weight regain even before surgery. One of the most important steps you can take is changing your food and exercise habits. By starting early, you can ease the stress of change on your body and begin to lose weight ahead of time. The lower a patient's BMI (body mass index) at the time they undergo surgery, the less weight they will need to keep off afterward.
If you struggle with addiction or an eating disorder, it is vital that you pursue treatment before bariatric surgery.
Eating disorders, alcoholism, and drug addiction can also complicate your results. All three conditions can interfere with your metabolism, affecting not only your weight loss but your overall health, as well. If you struggle with addiction, it is vital that you pursue treatment before bariatric surgery. Many people fall back into old habits to cope with stress after bariatric surgery, and recovery is stressful enough without other complications.
It is important to understand that even these precautions cannot always prevent weight regain.
If you have noticed weight gain despite your best efforts, several methods can help you get back on track:
Unfortunately, the root of the problem cannot always be dealt with through nonsurgical means. In some cases, revisional bariatric surgery may be necessary.
However, these routes are only recommended as a last resort. For example, your surgeon may perform another procedure if a LAP-BAND® has slipped or if the stomach has stretched out after a gastric sleeve procedure.
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Pip is hanging out at the run-down Barnard's Inn waiting on young Mr Pocket. Pocket finally arrives carrying a sack under each arm and a basket of strawberries. He has been to the Covent Garden Market shopping for some goodies to make Pip feel more at home.
They seem to get along well, laughing while struggling to get the door open. I think they will become fast friends!
I wondered if Covent Garden Market still exists in London after all these years. This is what I found out:
Yes, it does! It is a district in London that currently contains some trendy shops, restaurants, markets and theatres on the eastern fringes of the West End. It was once a small open-air fruit and vegetable market.
It fell into disrepute (brothels and taverns took over) in the 1700s, becoming a well-known red light district of London! The Parliament intervened and by the early 1900s it became a nice place to shop, see a show and gather with friends and family, as it is today.
At one point, a massive, beautiful arched ceiling with green beams was built over a large portion, creating an indoor market and shopping mall. I did this sketch based on several pictures I found. I got out my ruler and attempted some perspective! Haven't done that in a very long time. And probably won't do it again for a long time!
If any of you have been to Covent Garden Market, let me know what you thought of it. I would love to go to London someday and check it out for myself!


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Lately she's seen reasons for hope: Far more houses had been exhibiting up in their value range, and others she'd seen a 12 months ago had been being relisted at decreased asking prices. Melissa decided it was time to look around again, and final weekend she requested me to come alongside on a tour of open homes in her worth range. My sister had an inventory of houses she'd discovered on-line, but I instructed we tour as many open homes as we could to get a feel for the market.
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The AfrEA International Conference happens each year and is organised by the Africa Evaluation Association. This year 2017, 8th AfrEA International Conference will be held in Kampala Uganda at Munyonyo Common Wealth Resort and aims at promoting exchange between researchers, academia, emerging evaluators and practitioners on demand and supply of credible evaluative evidence in support of the SDGs in Africa. It will also build capacity to design, manage and use evaluations to help Governments achieve their national and international development agendas, particularly around the SDGs and the Africa2063 Agenda.
In line with the above objectives, Lida Africa submitted a comprehensive Workshop Paper that was warmly accepted entitled "Strengthening M&E Data Management and Analysis capacity Using Microsoft Excel" under the " Made in Africa Evaluation Strand"
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Kindergartners from Henry A. Coffeen Elementary School in Sheridan donned orange aprons for an hour Thursday as part of Home Depot's Kids Workshop. Representatives from Home Depot were on hand, along with the kids parents, to help teach their little ones how to build organizers and picture frames.
Bike to Work Week is May 13 through the 19 and the Wellness Council of Sheridan County is putting on a bicycle competition to encourage people to get fit on two wheels. Wellness Council Executive Director Michele Fritz explains.
Next Monday, Sheridan County will begin week two of their mag chloride project as a means of dust suppression on county roads.
The Sheridan/Johnson County Model A and Pioneer Car Club will have a fun tour to Kaycee this weekend, after rescheduling the run from last month, which was postponed due to weather.
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The first of two public information-gathering workshops on the feasibility study for possible uses of the old Clear Creek School was held Wednesday evening in Buffalo.
The Sheridan College Twisted Stair Theater Company will present its Twisted Stair Night of Comedy onThursday, May 2 at the Sheridan College C-TEL Auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. and on Friday, May 3, at the Carriage House Theater at 7 p.m. as well.
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The Salter,
Origins of the Marblehead Salt Co.
Wanting to pray more, I visited Mount Athos. Much to my surprise, the fathers there welcomed me and helped me to focus my prayer. Three planned nights became unplanned weeks metamorphosed into months transfigured into years ....
Every moment was luminous. Quiet and stillness make it easier to enter into the heart.
And during my time there, I learned about salt the way salt was meant to be, the salt that the monks had made centuries ago for the Roman Emperors in Rome and Constantinople. At the time I didn't think much about building a business around salt. My mind was on other things while praying and working alongside the monks and monk-priests of one of the oldest Athonite monasteries whose Brotherhood stretches back to the 4th century.
When I was ready to return to America, I had new focus managing a new incarnation of an ancient monastic expression of love and charity: St. Paul's Foundation. Above all the monastic life is the way of quality — quality in prayer and worship certainly, but also quality in our relationships with others, our work and all our endeavors.
And the best way to run a charity is to have no administrative overhead. This is firmly in the heart of the monastic tradition of work and prayer: it's why the Trappists have their beer, why Father Perignon had his wine and even why things called "corporations" exist today. So sitting at Fort Sewall during the winter of 2012, vexed with this problem, I began to cry. So you could say that Marblehead Salt gave itself as an answer to my prayers. After all, monks take food very seriously ....
Along the way I found another brotherhood, and a sisterhood also to be sure, of people who love and appreciate well prepared food and approach the meal with dedication and discipline which sometimes awes me. It has served as a way to meet a shockingly wonderful variety of people from all walks of life who understand that elemental grace arising from sharing a good meal with others. Not just chefs and foodies, but groundskeepers and laborers, stewardesses and sales associates, luthiers and lawyers, bankers and bricklayers, doctors and dentists, and many, many other people of goodwill.
So in the beginning, every day I made salt, I would pull over 500 pounds of sea water by hand from over 14 different locations, salt blooms, off the coast of Marblehead where tide and temperature conspire in currents of perfectly blended waters showcasing the naturally occurring minerals and metals for which sea salt is known. Now there are others to help me, and gratefully, save my shoulders!.
And as we pack the salt, we think of all of the wonderful people who will share a meal seasoned with Marblehead Salt — the laughter, the joy, the good and bad news. It's like a little bit of our hearts go into the meal that you prepare. And of course buying our salt means that we can continue works of charity which have lasted over 1,600 years. And that makes our hearts swell with gratitude and joy that through salt we are part of your lives and you are part of ours.
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Adopt a Panther was started three years ago with a dream and a vision to bring hope to families during the holiday season. The first year we scrambled. Families in desperation to have a Christmas for their children came forth to counselors and interventions asking for assistance. We contacted the few families that were part of our community team and provided Christmas gifts to 6 families. This year we are blown away by the growth that we have seen. Adopt a Panther 2015 serviced 78 families which came out to almost 300 children. We had over 70 volunteers that consisted of community members as well as Paschal families, staff, and even students. We serviced not only Paschal families but also pyramid families in McLean Middle, Daggett Middle, Daggett Elementary, De Zavala Elementary, Westcliff Elementary, and Alice Contreras Elementary. We are overwhelmed by the response we received from our community this year. As we continued to recruit for families to service we worried that we would not have enough volunteers to take on these families. However, towards the end of recruitment we had more volunteers than we did families! With each gift that we received we were reminded of the love and compassion this community has for one another; the dedication that we have for taking care of our own. As we labeled each gifts with the child's name we were overwhelmed with what each gift meant. It wasn't just a gift. It was love and hope extended from one person to the other.
The sweetest moments came to us with an element we had added in an effort to efficiently distribute gifts to families: a Christmas party! We generated invitations and distributed them to all the families. In an effort to maintain confidentiality we gave families their anonymous profile names. Even a small detail like this became special as students giggled and voiced that it was their favorite reindeer or their favorite Christmas thing. As they entered we sang carols led by Santa and they watched a Christmas movie as they waited for their name to be called. Once called, they entered a room with cookies, punch, and Santa pictures. Every detail made it special. Children who were late in middle school excitedly showed their Polaroid with Santa because they had never taken a picture with him. Mothers joyfully talked about putting those pictures in scrap books to keep them as little memoirs. Children snacked on cookies and punch while laughing and playing with their siblings, and they came up to pick up their gifts with faces filled with joy and excitement. Parents would tear-up at the sight of gifts that a stranger would so carefully and lovingly pick out and wrap for their children. It was a perfect night that didn't feel like a handout or a charity for a family but that truly was a resemblance of a community coming around struggling families to show that they are loved and cared for. Families may have come for gifts that night but they left with that feeling.
To those who volunteered we thank you. Thank you for loving your community and coming alongside us to give hope to our families. You didn't just serve someone in the city of Fort Worth, but you gave hope and love to children and families that share the same schools, streets, and places with you in this little south side corner of the city we call home.
These are the humans of Paschal. Individuals who struggle, who give generously, who come together to change our community and teach resilience to the next generation leaders.


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The Women's Center of Wake County has served our community for more than 40 years! The original mission of a small group of volunteers was to serve women re-entering the community from prison. The ex-offenders needed assistance in obtaining employment, reconnecting with family and friends, and strengthening their self esteem to become active citizens in the community.
In the early 1980s, the women's movement catalyzed the evolution of the services to a much broader population of women. Career development, consciousness raising groups, peer counseling, and support groups were created to meet the new demand.
In the early 1990s, the Women's Center relocated to downtown Raleigh. With that relocation there came a new population of women in need of services – women who were homeless or living on the margin. The Women's Center restructured its programs and services to address these needs. With the creation of Basic Needs, Support, and Housing Services, we continue to support, educate and advocate to improve outcomes for these women.


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Effort to formalize negotiation analysis have always been a central focus of PON's research and teaching. Drawing on a wide-range of disciplines including microeconomics, social psychology, behavior economics, statistics, management science, decision analysis and game theory, the Teaching Negotiation Resource Center (TNRC) has developed teaching materials that have been used all over the world for more than three decades. The application of the Prisoner's Dilemmas and other strategy games have led to the creation of all kinds of two- party and multi-party negotiation exercises, both scorable and non-scorable.
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Biomarker data from Astra Zeneca demonstrates that biomarkers enhance success in every aspect (safety, dosing, efficacy, patient selection) of every state of the drug development process. The huge investment in a new testing paradigm to address the new types of therapeutics was worth it for AZ, and will benefit not only all companies in the pharmaceutical industry, but mankind since we can expect to see an increase in the number of efficacious therapies sooner rather than later!
Lessons learned from the fate of AstraZeneca's drug pipeline: a five-dimensional framework. David Cook,Dearg Brown, Robert Alexander, Ruth March, Paul Morgan, Gemma Satterthwaite & Menelas N. Pangalos. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (2014). DOI: doi:10.1038/nrd4309. Published online 16 May 2014


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Les Enfants Preschool offers a total preschool education experience for children two and a half to five years of age as well as a Summer Day Camp program which extends to ten years of age. We provide a loving, safe, and clean environment where children grow and learn each day. Speak to families who have been a part of Les Enfants, and you'll find out that we truly are a special place.
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How to Deliver Value Through your Emails
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So you've built your email list, but now what?
This is where the really important stuff comes into play. You don't want your subscribers to read your emails just once you see: you need them to keep reading them and to keep opening them.
This is why you need to make sure that you're consistently delivering value and making sure that people are glad they opened your messages. If you do this well, then people might even share your emails and you may find that you start attracting new members organically.
A fantastic example of this is Brain Pickings. Brain Pickings is a massive blog run by Maria Popova. The blog is huge today and has millions of readers – and it's regularly featured by the likes of Wired and The Times.
How did it get to this point? Well it actually started out as a mailing list that Maria made for her friends and some colleagues.
She would simply put a few things she was interested in into an email and send it to a select few members along with some comments of her own (this is aggregated content).
People on her list found the content so fascinating and entertaining, that they started recommending their friends to sign up and passing them around. Gradually, more and more people signed up and her e-mails became more and more in-depth. Eventually, she launched the site in response to demand and the rest is history.
In this case, Maria did no marketing and started out very small. What made her emails success was the pure value she was delivering. You need to make sure you do the same.
How do you do that? The answer is simple: you focus on delivering unique, fascinating and valuable content.
Here's the problem with 99% of content marketing: it's incredibly dull.
How often do you see articles on fitness with titles like '10 Pec Exercises You Can Do At Home!'?
How many SEO articles are there on '10 Mistakes in SEO'.
These topics just sound incredibly dull and they're highly derivative and overdone – you'll struggle to stand out with subjects like that.
On the other hand though, an example of something from Brain Pickings would be:
'Adam Gopnik on Darwin's Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius'
Or how about:
'Nicole Krauss' Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns'
Now that is some content with real meat. That's content that has you imaging the potential implications as soon as you read the title and you just know it's going to be thoughtful, in-depth and something you can enjoy over a nice warm mug of tea.
Or Hell, how about one of my OWN examples that's been very effective: How to Lose 7 Lbs in 7 Days WITHOUT Dieting or Working out.
I think you'll agree that's much better than 'The Secrets to Weight Loss' and THIS is where the value comes in.
Of course you need to make sure you're remaining on topic and staying within your niche or your industry, but while doing that, you need to come up with topics, information and discussion that isn't anywhere else. You need to convey that information in an entirely new way and you need to put as much effort into creating stunning content as possible.
Then people will read your emails and they will look forward to the next ones!
What's more, this will help you to build trust in your brand and in you as a marketer and ultimately that will make your audience much more likely to buy products you subsequently recommend.
And to reiterate, this is also what you need to be doing on your website, so that people want to subscribe in the first place. Look at studies, be inspired by historical texts, find interesting people – explore your subject and bring something new to the table!
Email Marketing Standards
As well as offering excellent value, you also need to think about conforming to some of the standards and the expectations inherent in content marketing.
For starters, while the 'recommended length' for a blog post is roughly 1,800 words, the average email should be much shorter. When people read blog posts, they're doing it through their favorite browser at a time when they've set out to read something interesting.
Reading in the inbox when they're checking their emails in the morning though is something quite different. Aim for roughly 400-700 words, depending on the format of your email.
And this is another point: the format of your email. What is your email going to be? What purpose does it serve?
Some emails effectively work as blog posts, just like Maria's did. A newsletter though is something slightly different again. This will be a roundup of news that will pertain both to your website or blog and to your industry or niche. This can be a little longer.
Other options are to create an e-course which will be slightly different again, or to promote special offers. Most likely, your email will be a bit of an amalgamation with an introduction from you, followed by a feature and some highlights from your site and maybe a bit about your latest deals and offers. This is what can be considered a newsletter.
Another consideration is frequency. How often are you going to send your emails? The key here is to avoid sending emails too regularly, thereby frustrating and irritating your subscribers. At the same time though, you also don't want to go long stretches with no correspondence at all as this will make your list seem 'abandoned' – which isn't great for your brand visibility or for demonstrating your commitment to your site and your business.
A good rough guide then is to send an email about once a week. You can make this a little less (about once a month) or you can increase the frequency as you begin selling.
As for timing, this is another area where there is some debate but the main thing you want to avoid is your email being one of several in your audience's inbox. That means avoiding sending your email when they'll be sleeping, as that's when emails will get the chance to stockpile. Fortunately, you can use your autoresponder to send emails at different times to different time zones.
Striking the Right Tone
Also important with your mailing list is to write with the right tone and the write 'voice'. Partly, this is going to depend on your industry and niche, which will determine the 'persona' that you're targeting. Are these young people reading about a hobby and interest? Or are these professionals?
Regardless of the specific target though, your emails will likely be a little more 'friendly' in tone than your blog posts and articles. The difference here is that you're speaking directly to your audience and as such you should use plenty of 'I' and 'you' throughout the message.
If you can open up and be a little vulnerable in these messages, it will help you to avoid coming across as simply trying to sell a product and it will make your audience feel as though they're getting more privileged access to your brand. Feeling worried about writing your first email? Great! Tell your audience that and ask for their feedback, it's endearing and it encourages engagement.
More Ways to Create Value
There are other ways you can create value through your mailing list though and this is where you can really set yourself apart from all the other email marketers.
For instance, consider sending out free gifts to your mailing list occasionally that you aren't advertising. In other words, don't just send the free eBook as the incentive when they sign up – use the strategy later as well in order to provide even more value.
In other words, why not just send your subscribers a free eBook or report occasionally on top of the one they already received?
Think about how this might come across to your readers. If they've forgotten about you and are currently ignoring your messages, then seeing a message in their inbox from you with an attachment and a subject heading saying they've got a free gift – then how likely are they to open that? And how likely are they to subsequently start looking out for your messages again?
This not only draws attention to your messages again, but it also makes people feel good and they'll associate that good feeling with your business. This is a great way to gain good will because it's unexpected.
This strategy is known in business as 'over delivering' – it means that people will be even more impressed with a freebie that wasn't advertised because it means they're getting more value than they were promised in the original deal. And if your ebook or report is great quality, it will encourage them further to consider buying products you subsequently promote.
And don't just give away books. How about giving away a free mobile app? Or what about doing a deal with another product creator to offer a heavy discount?
For more info on how to build YOUR list, check out my blog post: Using Giveaways To Build Your Email List & check out Inbox Blueprint 2.0 after April 18th, 2016.


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"Daddy, what's your favorite color?"
I was a very artsy child, before the winds of science blew me off course, and the design of my father's Christmas present waited with bated breath for the answer that would decide its fate. And probably the fates of his next several birthday and Christmas presents, given my creativity and lack of access to store-bought gifts.
My dad couldn't resist. "Oh… probably bright brown."
My face prompted his laugh, and an alternative answer: "Or maybe neon gray."
I had memorized the contents of the Crayola box, even the "cerulean" and "fuschia" sorts that seemed to wear more normal names in everyday life. "What's 'neon gray'?"
He wouldn't tell me, and in only a few more seconds I was accusing him of joking, and demanding to know his real favorite color.
It took a whole high school and college education to show me that he wasn't joking at all; my father's views on many of the issues in life were colored in brilliant shades of neon gray. And to my surprise, I found that mine were too.
The more I studied the world, the more its ceruleans and fuschias muddied themselves into a mess of brown, a mess that had me, at times, scrubbing hard to find any traces of reflection of my rainbow God. I stubbornly studied his creation because I loved the stars, white holes in a black cover that beckoned me onto my tiptoes to peep through and catch a glimpse of him. But studying them only made them more of a gray puzzle, a puzzle that seemed to have a million- and even billion-year-old answer, one that I wasn't sure I liked.
Not all puzzles need to be tackled by all Christians, and the answer that the Creator created, no matter how, is enough answer for many. But this was one battle I had no choice but to choose, for my beloved stars were the battlefield. And I'm too stubborn to switch fields.
I won't pretend to have solved the puzzle. I suspect it spans more dimensions than I can manage while stuck in these that I call temporary home. But the last six years of studying the puzzle have slowly shifted my black and white sky into an aurora of gray.
For a while, I pitted the two polar ends of the debate (Creation-ism vs. Evolution-ism) against one another, waiting to see what happened as they repelled each other. But the tête-à-tête grew quickly tiring, and I began to see the attraction of the moderate middle ground. I now believe that God created a universe that can grow and change, using the created tools of evolution to do so.
Both sides of the debate have called me soft for this, shaking their black and white heads at my compromising gray. And sometimes I myself feel like I'm taking the easy way out. It takes a lot of some sort of guts to stand on a pole and shout at the other side, guts that I don't currently have, at least not for this issue.
But I do have guts. I will defend my gray middle to the death… or until someone logically and lovingly puts forward a reason to move to either side. I'm no boring shade of Winter Cloud gray; I'm Neon gray.
I don't want to be so black and white that I miss the nuance of the Creator's world, and of what he's doing in it. But I'm not going to blend into the gray background of ambivalence.
This is one of the legacies that my dad passed on to me, even unaware. It's okay to be gray on some issues, and leave the sorting out of the blacks and whites to the dimensionless Creator.
But make yours a neon sort of gray.
Melissa (Haegert) Dykhuis ('10) lives in Lafayette, Colorado, with her husband Nathan, cat Sophie, and sons Matthew and Jonathan. She graduated from Calvin with a physics degree and then got a PhD in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2015. After years of science, she's ready for science fiction again and is currently writing and editing young adult sci-fi novels.
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Geneva Langeland on September 13, 2013 at 4:52 pm
As a biologist, I know all too well how difficult it can be to tight-rope between those two poles. Thanks for being willing to defend that valuable grey middle ground!
Melissa Dykhuis on September 22, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Thanks Geneva! I think it would be even harder as a biologist, and I have great respect for my Christian biologist friends. If you have any good book recommendations on the subject of biology and the Christian faith, I'd love to hear them!


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Brain injury can cause a many emotional difficulties. It can change the ways in which a person functions emotionally and in the way he or she expresses emotions. There could be a wide range of emotional difficulties, such as difficulty with controlling mood swings.
While some brain injury victims experience a change in emotions right away, others may take months to show changes in the way they behave. Some people with brain injuries will experience quick and intense emotional changes, but they will calm down again quickly. Alternatively, they may experience emotional lability, or severe mood swings.
These behavioural changes are sometimes the result of damage to the emotional center in the brain. There is not always a specific trigger that causes the sudden emotional response in the patient, and that can be very confusing for loved ones. They will often take the blame for the sudden outbursts on themselves, thinking that they did something to upset the patient. In some cases, the person might express emotions they don't feel at all, because they are unable to control the emotions they express.
In most cases, symptoms dissipate in the months following the brain injury, allowing the patient to return to more balanced emotional balance. However, people with brain injury and their families have found hope in working closely with a therapists. A therapists who offers brain injury counselling will help establish the cause of emotional changes and reassure the family and friends, while equipping them with better coping skills. A range of therapies can help improve emotional expression in brain injury patients.
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Well monsoon fashion is similar as monsoon season, it does has beautiful refreshing vibes . Monsoon fashion is all about divalicious us.
The seasons's splashes of rain & lovely weather after facing summers it's just relaxing . Summers can have popping bright colors & neutrals too . This season you can reuse your some of summer clothes with a twist to create your own monsoon fashion wardrobe. Well without wasting any more of time let's just get into it .
Women's Best Monsoon Fashion Guide for 2018
Ditch the Denims – Fighting humidity & for enjoying the seasonal rains & cold breeze in evenings ditch the denims . Choose shorts or 3/4th instead . Be the casual chic .
Relax the feet – Monsoon fashion in terms of footwear is even relaxed one . The muddy roads , water all over the path ways can't be handled by heel. For comfortable season perfect you yet stylish footwear should be bang on with flip flops, flat sandals or switch to trendy sneakers .Embed from Getty Images
Wish for something Indian – Kurti leggings , light flared salwar suits & cotton sarees are few options in indian ethnic wear that you should try for monsoon fashion & styling this season . Well unlike the below picture I wold suggest wear Indian wear with flats for comfortable monsoon fashion flaunting.
Fabric choices – This season demands easy drying , comfy clothes so choose fabrics like Cotton , Sheer fabrics , khadi & linen.
Color Choices – Do the color splash in rains with this monsoon fashion you are going to flaunt as well , this is the best time for wearing bright colors & even light shades of bright colors & neutral ones will also be in . Thus some top wear from summers can be repeated . No dark colors are up for this season .
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Play Rain coat & umbrella game like a pro – Well it's needless to say to save yourself from getting wet you need to have umbrella or raincoat added to your monsoon fashion wardrobe . But choose the styles that make you look diva even at those times .
I found this one amazon , isn't it chic ?? you can click on the image to reach and buy if you wish .
Or add pretty rain boots or a pretty umbrella #cute and #girly monsoon fashion accessory .
Now lets categorize the Monsoon Fashion ,
Wanna be Classy Diva in Monsoon –
Jumpsuits : Cotton airy , casual , chic , easy going yet very comfortable for tea parties , hangouts & evening short outings are jumpsuits . There are shorter one's , longer one's , casual one's , printed ones , formal one's . So without worrying a lot you can carry them off to almost any kind of occasions . Pair them with a statement neck piece it gets a galm look . You can dress them glam with jewelry & makeup . You can make them subtle by minimal jewelry & natural makeup and you are good to go . Have a clutch handy to make it more glam added , that's an extra tip .
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Short Jumpsuits –
Shirt Dress : Comfy , classy , chic & dressy . Shirt dress is elegant & wowie . I just love the stylish look that a shirt dress gives perfect for monsoon fashion diva . Its bossy , swaggy & stylish , that's why its so much my choice of style . I surely am going to buy one for myself soon .
Skater Dress : The dress which is more fitted than a shirt dress , has more girly effects & is mostly shorter in length but definitely cute , elegant & lovable . Its also great for party & outing . I always feel like aww after watching a skater outfit .
Kurta & palazzo: Airy , comfy , causal & lovely Indian outfit . Ethnic function or family meetings or casual outings , elegant dress up that you can definitely flaunt this seasons with confidence . This one is perfect Indian style hack for enjoying the monsoon fashionably .
Salwar Suit : Indian salwar suit which should be cotton , khadi or linen to enjoy the season greatly . Elegance mixed in airy fabric just makes this outfit perfect for the season.
Wanna be Chic Diva in Monsoon –
Skirts are my personal girly and glam favorite I use them happily in summer and now in monsoon fashion as well . This style never fades away & you must have a cool skirt as its so versatile .
Top or shirt & skirt :
Off Shoulder dresses :
Lovely benefit of monsoon fashion is to show some skin & not having any sun damage on it . So wear some off shoulders this season .
Well the shorts story in short is this was your summer fashion that you can take ahead in monsoon fashion too . Shorts are in for both the seasons .
Wear sheer tops or tank tops or crop tops with shorts :
Cotton tops & pajamas or 3/4th bottoms : My casual at home style for cheering monsoon fashion #relax outfit . This is literally what I do when rain happens , just watch it through the window & hear the sound of rain .
Short dungaree dress : I soo much wish to buy this girly monsoon fashion stuff . A dungaree is in my next buy bucket list for sure .
Dresses : I have a few dresses which I love to pair in monsoon as fashion statement with sneakers . Just a cool sporty me or to add glam try on wearing dresses with long flat boots . That's a glam monsoon fashion hack .
The monsoon fashion shoe story – Heels are a big no as mentioned earlier . Dress with sneakers, salwar suit with flat sandals , shorts paired with sneakers, shorts paired with flip flops are few outfit ideas I would recommend to try , fly & flaunt this season .
Points to remember –
- If you are equally lazy as me and you don't go out often like me , so stay happy in tops and pajamas at home . LOL .
- Don't forget to stay bright & colorful , to enjoy the season happily as monsoon is a happy season & monsoon fashion should be equally happening .
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Motorcyclists who are involved in accidents in Arlington often receive very serious injuries, particularly if the accident occurred at a high speed. Motorcyclists have very little equipment to protect them from a collision. Tens of thousand of motorcyclists are injured in accidents each year, some of them very seriously. About 5,000 motorcyclists are killed each year.
If you have been injured in an accident in Arlington, it's likely the accident was caused by the actions of another driver on the road. There are a number of common situations in which other drivers are negligent towards motorcyclists. The drivers may drive while distracted, such as by using a cell phone, and may simply fail to see the motorcycle. The driver may be speeding, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or may have failed to yield.
When a motorcyclist in Arlington is injured in an accident, it typically impacts both the motorcyclist and his or her family members. It's important to speak with an Arlington motorcycle accident attorney as soon as possible after the accident. An attorney can begin working aggressively on your case immediately so that it can be presented in the most favorable light possible for either settlement or for when the case goes to court. To build a strong case, an attorney will often order police reports and medical records, take statements from witnesses, photograph the crash scene, hire accident reconstructionists, and review any video footage of the scene.
If you or a loved one has been injured in a motorcycle accident in Arlington, call the Arlington motorcycle accident attorneys at the Barber Law Firm at 972-231-5800. We can help build a strong case for you. Call us today to learn more or to schedule a free consultation.


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A FEW weeks ago, Katy Butler, 16, updated her status on
Katy, a high school junior in
Though Google created the "other" option for privacy reasons rather than as a transgender choice, young supporters of preferred gender pronouns (or P.G.P.'s as they are called) could not help but rejoice. Katy is one of a growing number of high school and college students who are questioning the gender roles society assigns individuals simply because they have been born male or female.
"You have to understand, this has nothing to do with your sexuality and everything to do with who you feel like inside," Katy said, explaining that at the start of every LGBTQQA meeting, participants are first asked if they would like to share their P.G.P.'s. "Mine are 'she,' 'her' and 'hers' and sometimes 'they,' 'them' and 'theirs.' "
P.G.P.'s can change as often as one likes. If the pronouns in the dictionary don't suffice, there are numerous made-up ones now in use, including "ze," "hir" and "hirs," words that connote both genders because, as Katy explained, "Maybe one day you wake up and feel more like a boy."Continue reading the main story
Teenagers are by nature prone to rebellion against adult conventions, and as the gender nonconformity movement gains momentum among young people, "it is about rejecting the boxes adults try to put kids in by assuming their sexual identity labels their personal identity," said Dr. Ritch C. Savin-Williams, director of the
Dr. Savin-Williams, who is also the author of the book "The New Gay Teenager," went on to list some of the new adjectives young people use to describe themselves: "bi-curious," "heteroflexible," "polyamorous" and even "wiggly."
The semantic variations are part of a nascent effort worldwide to acknowledge some sort of neutral ground between male and female, starting at the youngest ages. Last year, a preschool in
In the
"More students today than ever are thinking about what gender means and are using this language to get away from masculine and feminine gender assumptions," said Eliza Byard, the network's executive director.
Some colleges, too, are starting to adopt nongender language. Last month, students at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., voted to edit the student constitution so that it contains only gender-neutral language. And in 2009, the
From an early age, it was obvious to Loan Tran, 16 (whose P.G.P.'s, are "he, him and his," and "they, them and theirs"), that his "assigned" gender did not align with the roles society prescribed. "If I don't state my P.G.P.'s, people assume I am a 'she, her, hers,' from my high-pitched voice," said Loan, who is president of the Gay-Straight Alliance at his high school in
When told that because of the nature of his name and the fact that the interview was being conducted over the phone, I now actually had no idea if Loan was born a boy or girl, Loan replied, "Awesome."
It was only toward the end of the conversation that Loan revealed that he was "assigned female" at birth.
Loan said he grew up in a traditional Vietnamese family, where men's and women's roles are strictly defined. "At first it made my parents angry that I was not this perfect extension of them," Loan said. "But now they are trying to learn more about the community."
Loan is a student ambassador for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. "Today more people are O.K. with the gay and lesbian community than the gender-neutral community, which feels more threatening, I suppose, because it impacts a greater portion of society," Loan said. "But the important thing is we have a safe meeting place as teens to express our P.G.P.'s and show our true selves to one another."Continue reading the main story


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Supercela severně od Booker Texas, 3.6. 2013
Some timelapse and general shots of a supercell north of Booker, Texas, just into the Oklahoma panhandle. We were on the original cells which fired near the OK, KS border and dropped off the dominant north cell to be on this cell very early. We were able to watch from zobrazit více
a single vantage point as the storm cycled stationary for almost an hour before rain from a downburst caused us to move a couple of miles south. The clip finishes with the amazing structure as twilight approaches. The second storm which the majority of chasers were still following is shown to the ENE. That storm produced some of the best CG barrages of the year but Ill take this structure any day!
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I have always placed an importance on looking smart when out and about with my horse – I like to have nice pictures to put on the blog, and I feel it's important to leave a good impression and represent ourselves well! So I put in effort into sourcing tack and clothing for my horses and I that will paint a good picture. After all, we may not do well, but at least we'll look good trying! I try to wear a smart outfit that will complement whatever Paddy is wearing too – and tend to go for muted colours like Navy, Black, Grey or Brown so everything goes!
I was delighted to find a pair of very smart breeches while rummaging through the rails of the showroom of Dressage by Design – the Eurostar Easy Rider Dela Full Seat Breeches in Graphite. I fell in love with these breeches when I felt the material – cool, yet perfect for shielding the odd light showers – and the design – the diamantes on the pockets, and the contrasting beige full seat.
These are my 'good breeches' – I keep them for lessons and schooling primarily. However for a period of time I was out 1-2 times a week, so they were well worn! They are so comfortable, and definitely my go to breeches for looking smart – but are also very functional with the full seat (I only ride in full seat breeches). The colour means they go with pretty much every saddlepad the horse wears, or top I wear – super practical! They are also nice and high waisted, so hold it all in!
I've had these breeches for a year now, and so I can safely say I have put them through the most rigourous of product testing – they have been worn in the rain, in the wind, in the snow, out cross-country, in dressage lessons, and in showjumping lessons. They are still like new, and have no signs of wear or tear around the seat, no rips in the lining, and no stretching of the material. I have found them to be showerproof (not the same as waterproof), and somehow manage to be cool enough in summer, and warm enough in winter – though they're a bit 'brrr' when you put them on first due to the nature of the material.
The RRP on these breeches is €129.95 (I paid a little less than this, if I recall correctly), and in my opinion they are worth every penny.If you're unable to find the Dela breeches, I'd recommend looking at the wider Easy Rider line. They have the quality you'd expect from Eurostar, with a cost-effective price tag.
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Round-up of Daily Violence in Iraq - Saturday 14 August 2010
The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It's posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy's Washington Bureau.
- Gunmen killed two policemen while they were asleep in their patrol car in New Baghdad neighborhood, east Baghdad, and then set the car on fire and fled the place around 6 a.m.
- Gunmen using guns fitted with silencers killed two policemen from the federal police in a drive-by shooting in Amil neighborhood, southwest Baghdad, around 7 a.m.
- Gunmen attacked a checkpoint of Sahwa militia, A U.S. backed militia, in Shaab neighborhood, northeast Baghdad, killing one militia man and injuring another around 7:15 a.m.
- A sticky bomb stuck to a civilian car exploded as the car entered an Iraqi police checkpoint in Al Amil neighborhood injuring the driver and one policeman.
- A roadside bomb targeted civilians in Al Jihad neighborhood caused injuries to three civilians.


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