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This week I begin a five-part blog on editing with likely the dullest things, backups and formatting. Best to get the dull things out of the way first.
Whether we've been doing backups or not on a regular basis; whether we've stored material in the cloud, thumb drives, DVDs, or other options, the gap between finishing content and beginning editing is the absolutely essential backup point.
Editing can muck up or even irretrievably erase everything we've worked on so far. We need a copy we can easily get our hands on; a copy that we can use when the computer has eaten everything, including our ability to read the copy we can easily get our hands on; and a worst-case copy that we can use when we had to flee for our lives from some natural or man-made disaster. One of the top three reasons small businesses fail is that they don't have duplicate business records in multiple, widely scattered locations.
Collect everything — research, notes, every saved version, the final working version — everything in one folder.
- Use as many DVDs as needed to make 3 complete copies.
- Copy #1 is our at-home backup copy. Put it in a place we can find it. This is for when the computer eats our files.
- Copy #2 is our local backup copy. Give it to a family member or friend who lives nearby.
- Copy #3 is our flee-for-our-life copy. Give it to a family member or friend who lives at least 500 miles away.
Now that our files are in one place anyway, sort them into three categories: absolutely need for editing, likely need for editing; and not likely to need for editing.
- Absolutely need for editing: a complete copy of the last rewrite.
- Likely need for editing: some notes and background information and our style sheet and glossary. If we've put off starting a style sheet and glossary because we really don't need those silly things, start them now. Yes, we've reached the point that we absolutely need them. To brush up on what a style sheet and glossary are, go here.
- Not likely needed for editing: everything else.
- It helps to make three folders and divide material into those folders. Why have a lot of things we aren't going to look at get in the way when editing?
There are two ways to edit: by chapters or some other divisions of the author's choosing, or the entire document in one file. Some writing assist programs, like Scrivener, make it possible to edit in smaller units, and then combine the edited work into one document. Yes, we can do this in Word, but we run the very real risk of leaving out one or more chapters when compiling and submitting the completed work. This is personal experience speaking, and it was hugely embarrassing.
My preference is to edit chapter by chapter. I simply can't find things in a 300+ page manuscript. I also live in fear of losing everything all at once. Other people are quite comfortable working in the entire manuscript. Go for it. Whatever we choose, we need to be consistent throughout the editing process.
Before twirly ball Selectric typewriters came along in the summer of 1961, there was one font: courier. Words could be in all caps, all lowercase or a mixture; they could be underlined, or not. Line spacing could be set for a limited number of options, but unless the setting was changed manually, it was the same for each line in a document. Because of the machine's limitations, formatting rules were universal and sacrosanct.
If we only get one thing out of this blog, make it this. The computer is not a typewriter.
Formatting Rule #1
If we are writing for a particular publisher, we must use the formatting that publisher wants. Go to their website and look for formatting guidelines. If there are none, or they seem to have been posted more than 6 months ago, send e-mail to the publisher and ask for a copy of their current guidelines.
Formatting Rule #2
In all likelihood, we have no idea who our publisher will be. We need to write a list of the rules we plan to use, or pick someone else's list and stick to those. Yes, our formatting rules need to be written because we won't remember on page 68 or 249 what we did on page 12. Here's a link to the format I use, and why I use it. Feel free to use it if it meets your needs. If it doesn't meet your needs, use it as an outline to develop your own style.
Formatting Rule #3
What drives me absolutely crazy critiquing or editing other writers is that they use their word processing program for tons of other stuff. Either they have never set up personal styles or they have dozens of different styles that they've used for other fiction and non-fiction documents. As a rule, the first thing I do when editing is spend a half a day deleting unnecessary styles and setting up clean styles for their document.
Do ourselves and our editors a favor and set up a limited number of simple styles. Delete everything else we can from the styles palette. And yes, the less than helpful people who put word processing software together, won't let us delete everything. They've done us a favor by protecting a whole raft of useless formats from deletion.
These are the essential styles needed for a work of fiction
- Normal – for 99.9% of the words in the novel.
- First paragraph normal – some publishers require that the first paragraph in a chapter not be indented, while the rest of the chapters are indented.
- Chapter Title – used for the first line in each chapter.
- Quote – for material that the characters are reading, such as notes, newspaper articles, etc. All quotes should be double spaced, just like text.
- Heading – for headers
- Footer – for footers
That's it, the only styles needed.
To those of you in the States, Happy Thanksgiving.
Next week, Tuesday, December 2, I'll be doing Editing – Second Pass – The General Clean-Up. Remember all those things we were going to do later. Later has arrived.

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it's 2018 and still no way to do this simple feature
A quick search on how to permanently delete campaigns shows me that people have been asking the same question for years. I did not dig to much, but saw that it at least dates back to 2012. Seriously Constant Contact?!?!? You cannot add this simple feature that would make a lot of customers happy? I have no need to restore a campaign from 2014, nor do I need to have a staff member accidentally resend it because they are not as well versed with constant contact.
Please add the option to permanently removed deleted campaigns from the deleted items folder. I don't have a single campaign that I need to save which is in the folder, and I prefer the option of being able to "clean the slate".
The deleted folder is actually an archive folder. Which is dumb because I won't put something in deleted unless I'm willing to get rid of it.
CC should rename it archive, append ARCHIVED to everything in it. And if people still want to delete add a trash bin.
Same request. I can't believe people have been asking for this since 2016 and Constant Contact still hasn't added it. I honestly don't see what the problem is? Why won't you add this feature? Even if the Archived folder automatically deleted old campaigns after saving them for 6 months I think people would be happy. Your team has obviously decided for whatever reason it is better for you to not provide this option, and I would really like to know why. I'm sure others would like to know as well.
There is one option for deleting old emails - find an alternative to Constant Contact. It's really too expensive anyway.
On the "home" screen there is a delete folder and a counter of those deleted but it really doesn't delete campaigns. It would be very helpful to be able to permanently delete campaigns. for what we do we send multiple campaigns every school year with 4 different messages and they are the same general message with tweaks made each year depending on the information we get from the school. A constant contact from 2015 is something we would like to permanently delete as those 15-20 constant contacts are obsolete and only taking up room which makes it confusing and cluttered for the next school year, especially when dealing with the communication of over 50 schools.
Hello @JaniceM970,
Sounds like you would like the ability to permanently delete campaigns from the deleted folder. At this time we don't have the ability to do this, but I will gladly track your feedback on this. If you had an option to filter what was recently deleted would this help? You currently have the option to filter new to old, or last modified under deleted, but neither will list them in the order they were deleted in.
Why wouldn't there be an option to delete deleted campaigns?
This feature is much needed! Why keep something that is trash? Doesn't that fill up your servers??
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1-Danica Patrick
Born Danica Sue Patrick in 1982 Danica is probably the most well known female driver today inspiring millions of female drivers around the world (and charming male ones). Danica is much more than just a pretty Sports Illustrated cover with a highly accomplished resume in the Indy Car and NASCAR circuits.
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Venezuelan race car driver who currently competes in the IndyCar Series.
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A Kansas City native who has run sporadically in the NASCAR Camping World Truck and Nationwide Series.
In 2010, Jennifer became the highest finishing points finisher in any of the three major NASCAR Series, finishing 17th in final points.For 2011, Jennifer expects to continue racing her own #10 truck full time in the Camping World Truck Series, and will also drive the first 5 races in the Nationwide Series in the #79 for 2nd Chance Motorsports.
5-Susie Stoddart
Scottish racing driver. She has progressed through the ranks of motorsport, starting off in karting, then moving up to Formula Renault and Formula 3 before moving to the DTM to compete for Mercedes-Benz since 2006. 2010 is her fifth season in the DTM. She lives in Ermatingen, Switzerland with her boyfriend Toto Wolff,[1] an investor in the Williams Formula One team and part-time racing driver.
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She's funny car drag racer for John Force Racing. She is the daughter of 15-time NHRA Funny Car national champion John Force and his wife Laurie Force. She is married to Daniel Hood, who works for John Force Racing.
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American race car driver and environmental activist. She drives in the ARCA Series, a development league of NASCAR and previously drove in the Firestone Indy Lights, the development league of IndyCar.
8-Catharina Felser
German race car driver born in Siegburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Catharina started her career in karting during 1997, moving up to Austrian Formula Ford in 2000. Her performances there resulted in one race in German Formula Ford, also during 2000. In 2001 she competed in German Formula BMW.
9-Alison MacLeod
Alison MacLeod started racing at the age of 7 in go-karts and was hooked after winning her first trophy. She moved up to shifter karts at the age of 12 and was signed by Ford Racing at the age of 14 to run USAC midgets.
For the 2010 season, Macleod was looking for funding to run in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series or ARCA.
10-Amanda Long
Amanda has the fresh-faced good looks of a college coed on any campus in Any town, USA. At first sight, she looks like the girl next-door type, probably on the cheerleading squad.
Then, when you see her on a race you realize there is much more behind the pretty face.
Amanda is a drag radial racer ,a very talented racer at that.
11-Nicole Lyons
Some people are just born to race. It's in their blood and in their heritage. In Drag Racing, a largely male dominated sport, it's unusual though to Pretty woman who could be on the next cover of a glamour magazine and is also a professional car builder and race car driver.
Nicole Lyons is that woman and is truly a lady of Drag Racing from start to finish. Lyons drives a Top Sportsman Comp Eliminator Monte Carlo in the NHRA's Division 7 class and grew up with a natural passion for racing. She and her team were spotted Last year running exhibition and testing at the Pacific Street Car Association's California Nationals. Lyons said they were preparing for an upcoming Lucas Oil series event in Sonoma . The team has been attending some outlaw style street car events like the PSCA to gain extra test time and earn team publicity.


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Gap shares fell by as much as 7% in after-hours trading on Monday after the company reported a third-quarter decline in sales.
Net sales in Q3 fell 3% to $3.86 billion, the retailer said in a statement. And on a constant currency basis, net sales were flat.
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Companies in the S&P 500 that are exposed to markets outside the US were expected to report a hit to their sales, due to the dollar's strength that reduced converted earnings.
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Dr. George Tsetsekos is Dean Emeritus and the Francis Professor of Finance at LeBow's College of Business at Drexel University. He served as Dean of LeBow from 2002 to 2012. Under his transformative leadership, the College achieved important quality milestones and an ambitious capital campaign program that allowed for the completion of two business school buildings.
Dr. Tsetsekos was appointed to LeBow College's finance faculty in 1988. He has published research in many journals including The Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking & Finance and Journal of International Business Studies. He is the author of books on finance and international capital markets and has served on editorial boards for several academic journals.
Dr. Tsetsekos has served as Drexel's vice president for academic administration, as well as in advisory and consulting roles in the U.S. and abroad including: the World Bank, the SEC, Bear Stearns, Calamos Investments, Fannie Mae, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Penjerdel Council, Pennsylvania Economic League, The Conference Board, World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia, and recently has been elected Chairman of the Board of the Global Interdependence Center.
He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Tennessee, an MBA in Finance and a B.Sc/MSc in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Athens, Greece.
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Tsetsekos, George, and Papaioannou, Michael G., Cryptocurrencies in the Global Economy. The Journal of Investing 28 (Apr 2019): 7-12.
Tsetsekos, George, and Papaioannou, Michael G., Regaining Access to Capital Markets: An Overview of Issues and Strategies. Journal of Investing 27 (Oct 2018): 45-52.
Tsetsekos, George, Vivek, Bhargava, and Malhodra, DK, Volatility Spillovers Across the Swap Markets: Evidence from US, Australia and Japanese Swap Markets. International Journal of Bonds and Derivatives 31 (Apr 2016): 121-143.
Tsetsekos, George, Malhodra, DK, and Rand, Martin, Mutual Fund Governance and Fund Performance. The Journal of Index Investing 10 (Summer 2014): 1-19.
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So this is me: I'm Rachel.
A 31 year old, newlywed (how long can you keep that title for?) British girl who's navigating her way around expat life in the U S of A. In 2013 that man of mine, Toby, also known as the German, came home one day and said how about we move to America? He was getting a transfer to Atlanta, Georgia and who was I to say no to that little gem of an opportunity?
So we moved across that big stretch of water they called 'the pond' and here we are. Taking Atlanta, Georgia by storm and trying to fit as many adventures into our daily lives as possible. This is my blog all about life as an expat. The good times and the amazing adventures we find oursleves on as well as the not so good times when expat life might not be what it cracked up to be. Hey, we all have bad days right?
Before upping sticks and leaving the UK I was a journalist who worked in radio for years. I was known as a radio whore having worked for just about every major radio company in the UK! For 7 years I got up in the early hours of the morning to read the news while you were having your breakfast, I was sleep deprived with big bags under my eyes and had no social life all for the love of the job, and I did love it, it sounds like a nightmare but it was FAB!
Now though, after living life as a temporary lady of leisure for just over a year, I'm now working part time whilst exploring our surroundings, comparing life in the UK to life in the US and writing this little piece of blogland I call my own.
So grab a brew or a coffee or if it's already wine o'clock where you are a huge glass of the good stuff and settle down for an insight into life in the States through the eyes of the British girl!
Rachel xx
10 Random facts you might not know about this British girl:
1. The traits of a journalist are ingrained in me – I'm always asking questions. Nothing gets passed me. Just ask the German.
2. I failed my driving test in the UK twice before passing, once for not turning my head to the right. Seriously. Don't judge me though, it doesn't meant I'm a bad driver. Third time lucky and all that.
3. I can't sleep with cracks in a curtain or blind. I genuinely think somebody is spying through them.
4. I was so shy as a child I would cry at men and hide behind my mum's skirt. Things have changed since then.
5. I've interviewed Sir Patrick Stewart.
6. I have a genuine phobia of public toilets. It's true. I'm scared to use them. Often I send the German to the mens to report back on the condition of them or follow a stranger into the ladies so I'm not on my own.
7. I'm a full-blown foodie. I go to restaurants with the good intentions of ordering a salad but instead words like burger or tacos or something similarly unhealthy come out of my mouth instead. It's like having food Tourettes.
8. I am petrified of dogs, cats and basically animals in general. If I see one within seconds I'll be sprinting in the other direction. Not good for the German who's desperate for a dog, claiming they're cute…
9. From the outside I may look like a sensible woman. Behind closed doors though I turn into an idiot. Just ask the German – he has to live with my idiot/nutter tendencies. They say laughter's the best meidicine though, right?
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Jane MilmoreJane Milmore began her career as an actress. After starring in several national TV commercials, she appeared in the TV shows Anything But Love and Sydney, as well as guest-starring on Bless This House, Newhart, Martin, The Hughley's, and The Wayans Bros. Jane also appeared in the television movies If Things Were Different, Desperate Lives, A Cry for Love, and the film A Wake in Providence.
Jane began her writing collaboration with Billy with the 1979 play Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. Jane has created and developed television series for Brooke Shields, Martin Lawrence, Don Rickles, Richard Lewis, Jamie Lee Curtis, DL Hughley, Jean Smart, John Goodman, Olympia Dukakis, Richard Mulligan, Penny Marshall, David Krumholtz, Valerie Bertinelli, Andrew Dice Clay, Cathy Moriarty, and The Wayans Bros. Jane, the oldest of five girls, was born in Laramie, Wyoming and raised in New York and New Jersey. She is a graduate of Keansburg High School. Her sister Maureen is Vice President of Production for the CW Plus. Her sister Kathy is the romance novelist Kaitlyn O'Riley. Her sister Janet works for the School of Rock. Her sister Jennifer is an actress. Jane makes her home in Beverly Hills and Rumson.
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17 teenage girls take together an unexpected decision that will change their peaceful little lives and leave them misunderstood by the boys and adults around them: they decide to get pregnant all at the same time. This is based on a true story that occurred in 2008.
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Dino is a cat that leads a double life. By day, he lives with Zoe, a little girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a police officer. By night, he works with Nico, a burglar with a big heart.One day, Dino the cat brings Zoe a very valuable bracelet. Lucas, Jeanne's second-in-command, notices this bracelet is part of a jewellery collection that has been stolen.One night, Zoe decides to follow Dino. On the way, she overhears some gangsters and discovers that her nanny is part of the gangsters' team...
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The true story of Alain Marécaux and his wife, heartlessly crushed by one of the most important miscarriages of justice of our time, the Outreau case. Alain Marécaux and his wife were arrested in 2001 along with 12 other people for horrible acts of paedophilia they never committed. He will face the descent into hell with an incredibly unjust and inhuman judicial system.
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Louise Wimmer goes from one small job to another. Despite her loud speech and tall height she%u2018d rather stay alone to avoid any conflict. Her past life is now far behind her and everything she owns is in her car. At the dawn of her fifties, she lost everything when separating from her husband, but she wants to make it by herself. Nonetheless it is only if she accepts to open herself to others that she will be able to start her life again.
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Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire his wife and their loving children and grandchildren, surrounded by their friends. In love for more than thirty years, they are proud of their union and political struggles, for their conscience is as clear as their view of life.
This happiness will be shattered when two young armed and masked men beat them up, tie them up, and snatch their wedding rings and their lifetime savings.
The shock will be even more violent when they discover that this brutal attack was organized by one of the young workers laid off at the same time as Michel, by one of their own people.


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Funder: National European Foundations: Children and Violence Evaluation Challenge Fund.
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Centres for the Integral Attention of Children in the Dominican Republic (CIANIs) and Local Community Organizations for Child Protection (LCOCP) are the two community-based programs that will be evaluated. CIANIs operate on the widely accepted theory that healthy early child development is critical and influences outcomes throughout the life course, and promote prevention through enhancing parental capacity, improving parent-child relationships and family functioning, and strengthen communities to support families. LCOCPs complement and extend the work of the CIANIs by monitoring and reporting, peer support and surveillance, and conduct public education and community outreach. Consequently, these two interventions intend to effect change at the individual/family level as well as at the community/societal level. The CIANIs are established in their local communities and ready to be evaluated, while the LCOCPs have been more recently implemented and are ready for the identification of early outcomes. These interventions form a national strategy of violence prevention against children, and thus demonstrating their effectiveness is critical. This evaluation is a participatory partnership that includes the National Council for the Protection of Children (CONANI) representing the CIANIs and LCOCPs.


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S: Curtis & Bernard Christmas 2011
BC: Made by Curtis & Bernard with lots of love!!!!!
FC: Curtis & Bernard 2011
1: Our first day, oh what a blast we had!!! I missed the snow so we decided to have a snow party!!!
4: Ring Toss, Oh what fun!!! Bernard beat me fair and square (even though I let him win)!!!!
7: Movie Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Santa Clause 3 our favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!
9: What a fun game of cards we had!! Curtis won all the diamonds but I ate all the snacks!!!
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18: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
21: Saying good bye is hard to do but we will see you all next year with more fun things to do!! Be good!!!
23: The snow fell gently all the night. It made a blanket soft and white. It covered houses, flowers and ground But did not make a single sound
25: Christmas Day!!!!!


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I meant Velcro-like or hook and. Loop top bags!
I understand, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!
I open my bags only about a third of the length, just enough to reach in with my fingers to open or close. This way I can make a shake without using any scoops, and the bag contents stays fresh for longer. I guess the velcro option is still easier to get to seal than the "single zipline". About once per month I get some powder stuck in the "ridge" where the zip line should close, with the result of not sealing 100%. I solve that by focusing on finishing off that bag quicker, which has worked so far.
I also have had problems closing the bags after opening them for the first time, but simply scraping the "velcro" with a metal spoon works perfectly fine to get all the powder out. And actually this problem is something that also happened with some of the ziplock bags and THOSE are far more difficult to clean the powder out of, so I see the current bags strictly as an improvement in this area.
I prefer the other non Velcro one here.
Not really fussed too much with the current size, but if you move to bulk packs then think it needs to be an airtight seal.
I quite like the velcro locks, much more than the older ziplocs. As said the powder in the loc can be creared by simple tapping with a finger. The initial opening was and still is a pain. The good one in that regard were the packs with the pull strip.The irritation is two-fold. First as delivered the powder bulks all the way to the very top so that care is needed when tearing open. I cope with this by tearing a small opening to break the vacuum and then bang it on the table to settle the powder.Second tearing the top open often doesn't follow the desired tear line see pic
Thanks for sharing your opinions! Guess that - overall - we've made a good decision by replacing the old zip locks with the velcro-method
Are the bags being filled from the bottom side, before getting sealed and shipped? Then maybe it's possible to keep the bag clamped shut just beyond the velcro part, hopefully also keeping the velcro closed so no powder gets in there from the beginning.
Hi Simon!
The bags are filled from the top, so that won't be possible unfortunately.Thanks for the great suggestion though!
Have a nice day
I really like the bulk ready oats sealing too
Tip: Open a new bag by tearing the top off, just so air can get in.Hit hard surface with the bottom so the powder drops.Tear the rest off for a spill free experience!
Hit a hard surface with the bottom a couple more times to remove the left of the powder from the slosing strip for better sealing.
This is really my problem, too, spilling powder all around. I make a full bag with a blender, and there is almost always powder going somewhere it's not supposed to.
The new bags might be easier to reseal (I haven't tried that yet) but the old ones where best to open. You could tear of the strop and then at least you only spill powder when trying to get it into the blender.
I think the ideal bag would have an opening that is much smaller so it can fill a blender or bottle without having to fold the bag onto itself.
Of course this isn't really that important, both bags are fine Just wanted to say the new bags aren't better for everybody.
Every Quealer's opinion is important, thanks for sharing @Dejay! We greatly appreciate that you take the time to share your experiences
I also loved the new velcro-like seal on the new bags, but I also had a problem with tearing up the bag. Most of the times it was still sealed and I had to use a scissor to open it. It's like if the bag was closed below the place where you tear it up.
No big deal, just a comment. Personally I'd still love a bulk order (like 10kg).
Thanks for sharing this experience @rjlouro, we'll take note of it!
I'm sorry to hear, but hope the Queal experience after opening was great
As always =) And there were some stickers to pimp my gear, there's no way I can be even slightly mad with you!
I must be doing the same something weird that @rjlouro is doing because more often than not I also get it where I tear along the strip and then the bag remains sealed.
It's not a massive problem for me because I end up cutting beneath the hook and loop tape (which just gets in the way) and tip the whole contents out into a 1.5L container and, just like @Dejay, mix the whole thing up, which I then consume throughout the day.
While they close easily they might still be a bad idea.
If you put your face close to the opening and press you can feel air blowing out rather easily. As far as I know the bags need to be closed to not let air go in/out, and these zips just don't do that job.
It's more convenient but it's not airtight. And I'd say the conservation and safety should have the priority since we're dealing with food.
Good point if that is the case.
Hey @phyphor! We're sorry to hear about this, but we're aware of it and we'll try to figure out what goes wrong with our production location. Would you mind letting us know the diet type(s), flavour(s) and batch number(s) of these bags?


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* Mediation deal comes after all-night bargaining session
* Eighteen ships diverted to other ports since strike began
* Union spokesman says L.A. mayor helped narrow differences
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Striking harbor clerks and management at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach agreed to federal mediation on Tuesday in a bid to end a week-old labor clash that has idled most of America's biggest cargo shipping complex.
The agreement to mediation, announced by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, came after an all-night bargaining session that a spokesman for the Harbor Employers Association, representing shippers and terminal operators, said had left the parties "still far apart."
But a union spokesman said the opposing sides had "made incredible progress," and he credited the mayor with helping contract negotiators narrow their differences.
The spokesman, Craig Merrilees of the International Longshore and Warehouse Workers Local 63, said a new round of talks would begin once the mediator arrives later in the day.
With mounting economic losses estimated at several billion dollars, the strike marks the largest cargo traffic disruption at the Southern California harbor facilities since a 10-day lockout of longshoremen at several West Coast ports in 2002.
The latest strike has prompted at least 18 freighters to change course and take their cargo to other ports in Northern California, Mexico and Panama, according to the non-profit Maritime Exchange of Southern California, which tracks shipping in the region. Seven of those diversions occurred on Monday.
An additional 13 ships were waiting at anchorages outside the Los Angeles-Long Beach complex on Tuesday, unable to unload their cargo, said Dick McKenna, executive director of the Maritime Exchange.
The two sides in the strike have deadlocked over future staffing levels and union representation for jobs lost to retirement and other attrition.
The 800-member clerical workers unit of the ILWU local walked off the job last Tuesday, with some 10,000 longshoremen and other union members refusing to cross picket lines, forcing a shutdown at 10 of the twin ports' 14 container terminals.
Four other container terminals remained open, along with facilities for handling shipments of automobiles, liquid fuels and break-bulk cargo such as raw steel.
Unlike the labor clash at ports a decade ago, which took place in the fall, the latest dispute is unfolding after the busy pre-holiday shipping season, limiting the scope of its ripple effect.
A number of major U.S. retailers said they have so far been largely unaffected by the strike because most of their Christmastime inventory has already made it to store shelves.
But the National Retail Federation asked President Barack Obama last week to intervene, warning that a prolonged strike could have a "devastating impact on the U.S. economy."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday that Obama was "monitoring the situation" and had urged the opposing sides to remain at the bargaining table.
ILWU leaders say they are demanding that jobs traditionally performed by their members remain classified as union work and subject to the union's contract terms, even after employees holding them retire. They accuse management of seeking to outsource jobs to workers elsewhere for less pay.
The employers insist on reserving the right to fill only those jobs that need to be filled, and they accuse the union of seeking to set staffing at artificially high levels.
Harbor employers spokesman Steve Getzug said the two sides agreed to mediation after a marathon bargaining session that ran from Monday evening until nearly 8 a.m. on Tuesday.
Getzug said Villaraigosa met on Monday night with the two sides together and separately, and was in the room when the employers presented their most recent proposal, but that after the all-night session, "we're still far apart."
"It's always been in the employers' interest to find a way forward in these negotiations because the union continues to refuse to meet us halfway on our core staffing issues," he said.
Union spokesman Merrilees gave a more upbeat assessment, saying, "The mayor helped close the gap, and hopefully the resolution can be reached."
"The fact is a few days ago it was hard to even talk about outsourcing problems with the company," he told Reuters. "We're now talking about nitty-gritty details of a solution to ensure those jobs stay here in the community and don't keep disappearing to other states."
The most immediate casualties of the strike so far have been tens of thousands of longshoremen, truckers, warehouse workers and others left idle in the commercial transportation sector of Southern California, a region struggling to recover from a prolonged economic slump.
The overall economic impact has been estimated at more than $1 billion a day, including lost wages and the value of cargo rerouted away from the two ports, which together accounted for nearly 40 percent of all U.S. cargo container imports last year.
Terminal operators worry about permanently losing business as some cargo is diverted to competing ports.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together handled more than $400 billion in goods arriving or leaving the West Coast by ship last year. Experts say the ports directly or indirectly support some 1.2 million Southern California jobs - workers involved in moving freight to or from the shipping complex.


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Visual brand identity and packaging design for Enterex Kidz, a complete and nutritionally balanced RTD and powdered beverage specially formulated for children. Packaging designed with a link to the adult-directed Enterex Diabetic packaging, also designed by CSB, to leverage the parent brand's reputation for quality and efficacy. The Enterex Kidz brandmark and supporting graphics are stylized to be kid-friendly, fun and dynamic. The design projects a fun-to-drink, mainstream image. Enterex Kidz is sold in bi-lingual English/Spanish packaging for the US and South America, as well as Spanish-only versions for Mexico.


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GrahamH wrote:Fenrir wrote:archibald wrote:
In one of the experiments I linked to, the researcher found that the brain makes a decision before (up to 7 seconds before) the brain's owner becomes aware of it, to the extent that the researchers can predict, significantly above chance, what the brain's owner will do before he or she either does it or is conscious of having decided to do it.
That appears to undermine the idea of free will, and I would love to hear how it does not.
I don't see how this undermines the possibility of free will. Just because I am not conscious of making a decision does not mean I did not. Much is happening below the surface, so what if I'm not directly aware of it?
Unless you cobsider my subconscious as not part of me.
Some people make much of "conscious choosing", even to the extent that they take it as obvious that we have free will because we have this experience of making a choice. If the choice is made before consciousness of choosing that concept of free will is undermined.
Major fail, probably because of the faulty experiments claming to demonstrate that we make decisions before we are aware of them. This was disussed way back in the thread - so far back it would take a while to locate it. However, Graham was involved then (as now), so has no excuse for disregarding that. In a nutshell, the experiments we based on detecting only the nerve impulses transmitted down the arm, that actually cause the subject's hand to go up, not the impulses related to the brain thinking before putting a hand up.


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New technologies are transforming the way you exhibit and connect with attendees. This last installment of our two-part series (part one can be seen here) examines three more technologies that we predict will make an indelible impact on the exhibition industry. By Charles Pappas
In 1952, experts at two trade shows – the International Congress on Astronautics in London and the American Chemical Society – predicted the demise of most diseases and the ascent of rocket ships as the common man's mode of transportation by the year 2000. The forecasters' crystal balls may have been a bit cloudy on those wonders, but other marvels have appeared that eclipse them for sheer awesomeness. You'll see what we mean in the second of a two-part series in which EXHIBITOR magazine takes a look at the technologies bringing the world of tomorrow to the exhibit and event industry today.
What is it?
Defined as an unmanned craft that can navigate autonomously or by a remote without direct human control beyond the line of sight, drones have an ever-increasing variety of military, business, and consumer functions. Drones first developed as instruments of war with the United States' Kettering Bug, a flying bomb with 15-foot wings of cardboard and paper-mache, powered by a 40-horsepower Ford engine. But in recent years, drones – now often called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – have navigated the bridge from bloodshed to business. Currently, they can be broken down into two main categories: rotary drones like the Da-Jiang Innovations Science and Technology Co. Ltd.'s (DJI) Phantom 4 Quadcopter and fixed-wing drones such as Parrot SA's Disco. Rotary-wing drones take off and land vertically, allowing their users to operate in small confines if necessary. With current battery technology, they are limited to around 20 to 30 minutes of flight time between battery changes or recharging. In contrast, drones with fixed wings need a runway for takeoff and landing, while their superior aerodynamic design aids their stability in choppy winds. Generally gas powered, they tend to be able to spend more time aloft.
While marketers commonly use drones for event photography, aerial entertainment, product delivery, and more, there are legal restrictions they must navigate. Most of the aforementioned activities are allowed in the United States because the Federal Aviation Administration sometimes grants exemptions from the standing regulations on drone use – such as the rules that prohibit flying drones above 400 feet and beyond the sight line of their human operators, thus limiting their ability to travel long distances. And last December the FAA began requiring that all drone owners register UAVs weighing more than 0.55 pounds and less than 55 pounds through either an online or an offline paper-based process. (If a UAV weighs more than 55 pounds, it must be registered using the paper-based system.) Drones flown only indoors, however, need not be registered, as the FAA does not regulate indoor UAV use. Marketers planning to use drones should note that FAA exemptions or waivers may take as long as 90 days to be granted.
How fast is it growing?
Adoption of drone technology is hitting Mach speed. Drone sales doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to the Consumer Technology Association, while the FAA has forecast drone-unit sales to grow from 2.5 million last year to 7 million in 2020. BI Intelligence suggests the worldwide figures are much greater, predicting sales of drones to surpass $12 billion in 2021, a figure comprising 29 million consumer shipments. A more general barometer of drones' insinuation into daily life can be inferred from a Pew Research Center survey that found 8 percent of Americans say they own a drone, and 59 percent report they've seen one in action.
The airborne vehicles have, like smartphones, become adopted for all manner of tasks and projects. Drones are now inspecting oil pipelines, replanting forests, monitoring animal migrations, and marketing products. For instance, the World Wildlife Fund and a Brazilian environmental group are using drones to monitor dolphin populations in the Amazon River, while Under Armour Inc. delivered 30 signed pairs of Curry 4 sneakers to customers via drones in San Francisco.
Where can you learn more?How are marketers using it?
"Drones for Dummies" delivers a quick intro to the fascinating world of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Another good launch pad for learning more about UAVs is the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) website, which supplies industry news, an economic outlook, and a list of companies being given the go-head to use drones. Droneflyers.com offers a beginner's guide with a handy glossary of terms and an e-book, "Getting Started with Hobby Drones and Quadcopters." To add to your knowledge, the Center for the Study of the Drone issues a weekly newsletter that updates subscribers on almost every conceivable development in UAVs. Finally, the FAA's registration and FAQ sites are a must-visit to keep drone activity operating aboveboard.
Internal events for companies are often highlighted by team-building activities such as trust falls and rock climbing that, instead of constructing camaraderie, seem almost designed to turn co-workers into curmudgeons. To avoid that fate for an internal sales event held in a hotel in Lima, Peru, Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. looked to the skies for a better solution.
Working with the Vibe Agency, the drug manufacturer fashioned an event where teams of salespeople had to work together to assemble a massive jigsaw puzzle of the firm's logo over several hundred square feet of indoor space. Dividing the 200 attendees into 40 groups of five people each, the company's six event staffers provided each section with 160 cardboard pieces. They then challenged guests to fit the pieces together, first in their own group and then, when they finished, take their completed sections and fit them together with the other groups'. To gauge their progress in a way that wouldn't otherwise be possible on such a spread-out scale, the company lofted a small Phantom drone made by DJI that took one person to operate.
While the miniature craft was airborne, an onboard camera streamed video of the teams' efforts to a 24-by-30-foot video screen. The midair perspective gave guests a better sense of how the dozens of pieces could fit together, as well as added a quirky touch to the team-building exercise. The company flew the drone in increments of 15 minutes, charged it for 15 minutes, and then sent it back up for another quarter hour. Guided by the bird's-eye view that offered a high-tech guide to what might have otherwise been a frustrating process for attendees, the groups assembled the 6,400-piece puzzle in 90 minutes.
Drones are often used for aerial photography to augment an event's entertainment activities, but Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. showed they can also be the entertainment. When the motion-picture titan geared up for the home-entertainment release of "Wonder Woman" last September at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, it wanted an event that would merit the descriptor "wonder" as much as the lasso-wielding superhero herself.
Working with Intel Corp.'s Drone Group, Warner Bros. decided to make Intel's Shooting Star drones the centerpiece of the event. Constructed of Styrofoam and lightweight plastics (each drone weighs a feather-light 0.73 pounds), the drones feature built-in LEDs that can create more than 4 billion color combinations. Further, they can collectively be controlled by one "pilot" working from a single computer. The Shooting Star drones had previously made a splash at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and set a Guinness World Record in 2016 for the most UAVs airborne simultaneously, with 500 at once. Playing off of the ability to fill the sky with hundreds of the aircraft, Warner Bros. and Intel choreographed a complex aerial dance that would evoke both the blockbuster movie and the venerable studio.
When the attendees – a mix of studio executives, VIPs, and media reps – took their seats in Dodger Stadium, they witnessed an atmospheric ballet that rivaled the synchronized swimming and dancing of old Esther Williams films. As Grammy-nominated acoustic/electric cellist Tina Guo played in the stadium below, 300 Shooting Star drones, sometimes flying as little as 5 feet away from each other, performed elaborately coordinated movements hundreds of feet above the attendees' heads. Their lights twinkling like stars, the drones morphed from Warner Bros.', DC Comics', and Wonder Woman's logos to the superhero's sword and likeness, along with a host of words – e.g., "grace" and "wisdom" – that epitomized her essence.
What is it?
Sometimes called proximity sensing or location marketing, geofencing refers to hardware and software that use technologies such as GPS, Wi-Fi, radio frequency identification (RFID), and Bluetooth low energy (BLE), aka Bluetooth Smart, to set up a virtual border – thus the metaphor of a fence – around a geographic location, for instance a store, neighborhood, or exhibit. The technology's origins lie in the livestock industry, where GPS units affixed to cattle allowed ranchers to receive a notification when a member of the herd ventured outside a defined geographic boundary.
In general, when a person with a given device – e.g., a smartphone or an iPad – enters or exits an established boundary, that person's device automatically triggers an activity on the geofencer's part, pushing a text, email, picture, etc., to the potential customer's phone. Depending on the type of hardware or software used, the radius of a geofence can extend from as little as about 60 feet to several miles. To receive those messages, however, customers must generally have their phones' GPS/location settings on and willingly opt in by downloading a company's mobile app or agreeing to accept an incoming communication, such as a coupon.
One hardware-based subset of geofencing gaining popularity is beacons. Beacons, now offered under a variety of names, including Apple Inc.'s iBeacon and Gimbal Inc.'s Gimbal, are small sensors – often not much larger than hockey pucks – that can be deployed throughout a location. Apps installed on a smartphone that listen for the beacons' signals respond when the phone comes within range of the diminutive devices, which generally use BLE to transmit data as far as 250 feet. (While the distance hinges on whether there are physical barriers between the beacon and the phone it is contacting, a radius of about 100 feet is a good rule of thumb.) Because BLE transmits via radio waves, it can penetrate physical obstructions much more efficiently and reliably than Wi-Fi.
How fast is it growing?
While geofencing has been around for several years, two factors account for the technology's continuing growth spurt. First is the viral spread of smartphones, which enables geofencing companies to identify and communicate with the potential recipients of their messages. In 2011, 42 percent of all mobile phone owners in the United States had a smartphone, according to data compiled by ComScore Inc. But by 2017, per the Pew Research Center, that number catapulted to 87 percent and continues to grow.
Second, with the proliferation of smartphones into daily life also comes increased user acceptance and comfort level for all aspects of mobile marketing and purchasing. According to Intuit Inc., 77 percent of smartphone users enable at least one of their apps to follow their location, and about 84 percent who receive special offers from apps use them.
A wildly diverse roster of hundreds of companies now use geofencing, including The North Face Inc., Sonic Corp., and L'Oreal S.A. To appeal to its demographic, Taco Bell, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc., pushes notifications to people under the age of 30 who previously downloaded the fast food chain's app and supplied their age. Whenever such users are within a set proximity of a Taco Bell, the software tempts their taste buds with a reminder that they can order right from the app and then cruise by to pick up their food.
By setting up geofences, exhibitors could interact with booth visitors by issuing welcome messages, updates when they reach certain location checkpoints, and even personalized reminders based on the previously determined interests of the attendees. Further, geofences can act as a supercharged survey and research tool by observing social-media activity within a given area and analyzing where prospects spend time in the exhibit, allowing marketers to gauge interest levels in various products.
Where can you learn more?How are marketers using it?
Software-maker Braze LLC's "When to Choose Geofencing, Geo-Targeting, or Beaconing for Your Location Marketing" will help businesses decide whether geofencing will aid in marketing their products and services. Pulsate offers two indispensable primers, "10 Things to Ask Geofencing Companies Before You Buy Their Platform" and "7 Things About Geofencing You'll Kick Yourself for Not Knowing," that will get anyone sitting on the fence about the technology up to speed. Geomarketing.com lists all the technology's red flags in "The Challenges – and Opportunities – of Location-Based Marketing," while Search Engine Land's "Location Based Geo-Targeting Boosts Paid Search Ad Performanceâ?¦Or Does It?" looks at what metrics are most indicative of success in geofencing.
With more than 25,000 attendees from 50-plus countries, the annual National Automobile Dealers Association event (NADA) is a traffic jam of exhibitors and showgoers. So Carfax Inc. wanted a tool for the 2017 show that would enable it to better connect with the droves of customers and prospects. To do that, it knew it needed to cast as wide a net as possible to promote its new used-car listings.
Joining with the marketing agency Jellyfish LLC, Carfax established a geofence with a half-mile radius around the show site, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Befitting a company with 17 billion vehicle history records, the electronic boundary scrutinized every attendee whose GPS/location settings were on to find those who dovetailed with Carfax's database of potential and current customers. Once the company found those that matched its existing pool, it sent a message designed to lure them to the booth. Featuring the Car Fox, the brand's grinning canid mascot, the animated message asked recipients to play a stylized version of Plinko, the well-known price-guessing game on "The Price is Right." The digital missive displayed a coin that, when touched by a finger, randomly bounced down the message much the way the ball does on the game show. Once the coin hit bottom, another message appeared asking guests to come to Carfax's booth, where they could "win real cash" by playing a more elaborate version of the game. The idea, expanded on by Carfax's staff when recipients of the message made it to the exhibit, was that just as playing a game in the company's booth could win them money, advertising their autos on Carfax's used-car listings could win them customers. The geofence ploy at NADA worked, corralling 33 percent more traffic to the booth than the year before.
Geofencing can be a tool for information gathering as well. For the 2017 Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (ADIHEX), show organizer UAE Informa Middle East Ltd. wanted to collect and analyze attendees' attitudes regarding the event on the fly. To accomplish that, it chose to use a form of geofencing that would corral the data it wanted virtually the moment it was generated.
Working with a Fandealio Inc. software suite called Ampsy, which monitors social-media activities within a prescribed area, UAE Informa geofenced the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre to track the social-media posts produced by ADIHEX's 100,000 attendees. When guests entered the venue, Ampsy automatically started following the deluge of social-media chatter. If a post or tweet mentioned an exhibit, for example, or included the show's hashtag, the show staff could reply with additional information that the attendee might find helpful. Should guests pose a question or express dissatisfaction about some aspect of the show, staff could respond within seconds and lend assistance. (If a post/tweet had no mention of the event or hashtag, Ampsy simply added it to a dashboard for staff to review and decide if they should respond.)
Ampsy also allowed staffers to identify influencers who generated the most positive response to ADIHEX. The balance of monitoring/answering social-media activity created a positive feedback loop, wherein the more comments guests made, the more staff responded, and the more attendees would subsequently tweet or post. The attendees often included more show information, thus creating the impression of an event fine-tuned to their needs and spreading ADIHEX's reputation. While used by show management in this case, Ampsy and similar services could easily be scaled down by exhibitors of any size to gauge social-media responses toward their booths and products.
Conductive Ink
What is it?
Conductive ink is a liquid that allows a figure drawn with it to transmit electricity. Comprising four main components – a solvent, a conductive material, a polymer binder, and an electrical source, such as a battery – conductive inks can be applied to traditional materials and effectively turn them into electronic devices. When activated in some manner (often by touch), these enhanced materials might play a song, illuminate an illustration, or even warm a jacket, as was the case during the Olympic Winter Games last February in South Korea. During the opening and closing ceremonies, members of the U.S. contingent donned Ralph Lauren-designed parkas and bomber jackets coated with conductive ink. Using a smartphone app, the athletes could dial the heat up or down through the clothing's inked-on heating element. Currently, however, items featuring conductive ink are most prevalent in the automotive, health-care, and solar-panel industries.
How fast is it growing?
While conductive ink was mentioned by Thomas Edison, its development and adoption idled in neutral until a trio of recent developments. First, the price of copper and silver, two metals commonly used in the ink's manufacture, has declined steadily over the last few years. Second, advances in manufacturing processes have resulted in conductive inks with substantially better energy efficiency and durability. Third, consumer demand has created an ever-increasing market for thinner and more lightweight devices. All combined, these forces have made conductive ink a viable substitute for traditional wire circuits. Consequently, IDTechEx Ltd. believes that the market for conductive inks will reach $2.8 billion in 2020. Dovetailing with that conclusion is Markets and Markets Research Private Ltd.'s even more optimistic report that growth will reach almost $4 billion by 2021. This expansion will result in a proliferation of products, including wearable electronic readers, textiles, and even tattoos. Conductive ink pens now on the market, like the Circuit Scribe from Electroninks Writeables Inc., offer a rollerball-like stylus that uses a silver conductive ink to create fully functioning circuits.
For exhibitors, this could mean informational activations that shun routine screens in lieu of displays that combine hand-drawn art with illuminated, aural, and tactile interfaces. Additionally, business cards, posters, invitations, and other collateral common to trade shows could be turned into engaging electronic experiences with a simple touch.
How are marketers using it?
Walls by their nature are imposing. From the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall, such partitions have served as cultural stop signs to keep people away. But to promote its "Brilliant Commerce" technology at the 2017 National Retail Federation expo, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. erected walls whose conductive-ink elements drew in, rather than drove away, attendees. Working with Exhibitus Inc., Toshiba wanted to highlight the ease and pleasure its technology can bring consumers. After constructing two 10-by-20-foot walls (and a smaller 10-by-10-foot one) for its 3,000-square-foot booth, Toshiba hand painted them with multiple illustrations that would help tell an engaging story about its tech. On one wall, which was divided into several vignettes ranging from topics such as mobile shopping to checkout, a simple touch of a finger might start a shopper's car zipping across the surface or activate a depiction of a high-tech checkout. Overhead, terms summarizing the benefits of the technology, such as "enriched shopping" and "actionable insights," lit up the wall with neon radiance.
Where can you learn more?On another wall, also covered with a set of vignettes, grazing fingertips triggered a customer to pick up a pair of shoes, which caused bursts of light to travel from the shoes to a "smart" monitor that offered more information on the kicks. Further down, a shopper used an augmented-reality monitor as a cybernetic style advisor.
A good place to start is Applied Ink Solutions, whose site details the many uses of conductive inks and supplies a short but helpful FAQ section. Solid background information is on tap in The New York Times article "Hot Off the Presses, Conductive Ink is Replacing Bulky Wiring," while Popular Science's video "Invention of The Month: Conductive Ink" offers a quick-and-easy explanation of how the technology works. Meanwhile, Bare Conductive's website features several real-world applications of the company's conductive ink, including a hand-drawn boom box.
The final facade offered a van that attendees could tap, an action which prompted the vehicle to speed off as the words "Drive business results" flashed on the wooden surface. Toshiba staff also employed the walls as a narrative backdrop, using the animations to colorfully illustrate what might have been dry technical data.
Not all conductive ink has to be on stationary walls. When The Hershey Co. relaunched its Take 5 Bar, it found a way to put the tech directly in attendees' hands. Introduced in 2004, the Take 5 was a confection without an identity. Compared to the 124-year-old company's sweetened icons like Kisses or Milk Chocolate bars, the mix of chocolate, peanut butter, caramel, pretzels, and peanuts languished in a kind of sugary limbo. In order to change that perception – especially with Millennials, who exhibit less of a collective sweet tooth than previous generations – Hershey joined with Barkley Inc., IPG Media Lab, and Novalia Ltd. to create a conductive-ink experience that would remix perceptions of the brand.
Appearing as part of a Hotel Thrillist event in New Orleans (Thrillist, an online food, drink, travel, and entertainment resource, took over the Royal Sonesta hotel in the Big Easy and dubbed it "Hotel Thrillist" for a three-day bacchanal of food and drink), Hershey offered the mostly Millennial crowd deconstructed Take 5 bars in the form of ice-cream sundaes with a foundation of chicory-coffee ice cream and toppings comprising the candy's ingredients. But knowing that Millennials are more likely to be won over by a brand experience they can share, Hershey added what it called the Take5 Remixer, a kind of portable music remixer like those used by DJs from Moscow to Milwaukee. Looking like a 1980s calculator, the devices were made by Novalia, a Cambridge, England-based firm specializing in interactive print. The Take5 Remixer name did double duty, reminding guests of the sweet treat (each unit was accompanied by a candy bar), but also of a prominent part of the Millennial landscape: DJs and their ever-present remixing equipment. In fact, research by the Urban Land Institute and Lachman Associates LLC shows that slightly more than 60 percent of Millennials venture out to clubs, with the majority doing so for a specific reason, such as to see a particular DJ. Touted as the first-ever packaging in the United States to use conductive ink to generate music on the spot, the remixer offered five rows of three buttons capable of producing more than 30,000 unique sound combinations that could be channeled through built-in speakers. Hundreds of attendees jammed on the battery-powered devices throughout the night, producing impromptu concerts that continued long after the guests carted their music boxes home.
Even more astonishing breakthroughs were hurtling toward the marketplace at warp speed as EXHIBITOR and the Techno-Files series went to press. Uber Technologies Inc. plans a network of flying taxis in Dallas and Dubai by 2020 that may whisk you from hotel to convention center in mere minutes. Flexible lithium-ion batteries based on the design of the human spine will usher in an era of foldable electronics. HaptX Inc.'s augmented/virtual-reality gloves will convince users they're actually feeling textures, from soft grass and jagged rocks to squishy arachnids. The Hydrogen One smartphone from Red.Com LLC will produce holograms on the device's 5.7-inch display. Lastly, Intel Corp.'s new Vaunt smart glasses create the illusion of a data-rich screen hovering in front of you by beaming a laser directly into one eye.
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(Re-edited) Let $k$ be a field and $a,b$ algebraic over $k$ but not inside $k$ and $a \neq b$. Suppose that $[k(a,b) : k]=[k(a):k] [k(b):k]$. What does this tell us about the relation between $a,b$?
By the multiplicativity of the degree, we must have $[k(a)(b):k(a)]=[k(b):k]$ and $[k(a)(b):k(b)]=[k(a):k]$.
Can we say anything about the inseparability of e.g. the extension $k \subseteq k(a)$? Can we deduce any other interesting fact?
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"2 Homes for Sex-Trafficking Victims Struggle to Keep Residents Safe" (news article, Dec. 7) highlights the difficulty of working with girls in residential treatment centers. However, it fails to note that these facilities are too often dumping grounds for vulnerable and traumatized adolescents who have been repeatedly failed by the child welfare system.
Tragically, these "treatment" facilities often provide little treatment, particularly for sexually exploited girls, but instead further isolate them from their families and communities, too often for years on end. That these youths go "AWOL" to families and friends, and even their exploiters, should surprise no one. They crave meaningful, supportive connections, which are rarely available in the treatment centers.
Intensive, community-based wraparound services are a far better alternative for these youths, providing an opportunity to develop healthy long-term relationships and facilitating a transition to independent living. Without sufficient resources, residential treatment centers serve as a warehouse at best, and at worst as a pipeline into the criminal justice system. These youths deserve better.
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