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PCGS Newsletter News
June 16, 2015 | Vol 15 Issue 12
Dear Collector,
New auction records were set in the first Stack's Bowers D. Brent Pogue Collection Auction. I encourage you to take a look at a couple of the highlights and what to look forward to in September's auction.
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President, PCGS
In This Issue
Hey Stella! Anyone Have Change for a $12?
With apologies to Marlon Brando, and his iconic scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, we'll take a look this week at another failed denomination, the $4.00 gold piece or "Stella." Unlike the twenty cent piece we discussed last time, this one never even made it out of the pattern stage. Because some 425 pieces were struck of the 1879 Flowing Hair type (for examination by congressmen) it sort of lives in limbo between a pattern and a regular issue.
1795 50C O-121a "Y
Here is your chance to own a coin from the Pogue sale. With strong luster and beautiful original colors that blanket both sides, this coin has...
Great Set's Appeal – Silver Walking Magnificence
At the onset of the 20th century were efforts to bring modern, beautiful designs to U.S. coinage. The Mint used celebrated sculptors of the day to create incredibly appealing works of art. The 1916 Walking Liberty Half Dollar design is arguably the most beautiful of all silver circulating coinage, born in a progressive era where Art Nouveau was a liberating artistic trend in stark contrast to the expanding World War.
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This piece is universally known as the finest 1886-O in existence. It is graded PCGS MS65+ from the Coronet Collection, one of the all-time greatest Morgan Dollar sets ever assembled.
Zimbabwe Banks Trading $175 Quadrillion Zimbabwe Dollars for $5 U.S. Dollars
Recently the Zimbabwe Central Bank announced that local Banks will be exchanging Zimbabwe Currency for U.S. currency. After hitting hyperinflation in 2008, many local residents have converted to U.S. Dollars, South African Rands and Bostwana Pulas as their preferred trading currencies. Zimbabwe residents will have to act quick, as the local Banks will only...
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Frequency is a measure of the number of times a vibration or other cyclic process repeats itself in a specified time. Frequency can also be thought of as the number of waves that pass a given point in the specified time, and it is usually measured in Hertz (Hz), which is the same as cycles per second (cps).
The term frequency can be used to describe different types of signal (such as audio or radio waves), or to specify equipment performance (such as network operating frequencies and system bandwidth). For a radio signal the frequency is equal to the speed of light divided by the signal's wavelength.

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Paper Star Gift Tags
Make gift giving even more special with these festive gift tags in classic Hanukkah colors. Each is adorned with a number to represent which day of the festivities the gift will be given.
Tools & Materials:
- Royal blue paper
- Light blue paper (preferably translucent)
- White paper
- Card stock
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Double-sided tape
- Glue stick
- Optional: Glitter
Step-By-Step Instructions:
- Draw a star on card stock and cut it out to make a star template.
- Use your template to cut out light blue and royal blue stars (you'll need one of each color per gift).
- Layer a light blue star over a royal blue star and rotate the light blue one until you see all points of both stars. Fix them in this position with glue.
- On white paper, use a pencil to draw the numbers 1 through 8 (or go online for a printable template). Cut out each number and use glue to fasten to the top of your gift tag. To add extra sparkle, roll glue stick over each number and dust with glitter before attaching to the gift tag.
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The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director, Tom Homan, tells Fox News that Trump's announcement that he would rejoin the administration to coordinate its response to a surge in illegal border crossings was "premature."
Homan says he's still in discussions with the White House about the position but has reservations about the way the position would be set up.
He says, "I think any sort of border czar needs to be a person who coordinates an all-government response to the border," adding, "that wasn't the way it was set up."
Trump had made the announcement Friday in an interview with the program "Fox & Friends."
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Annalise's Up and Down Day
Continue reading "Featured Book Plus a Giveaway! Annalise's Up and Down Day by Denise L. Jenne"
On A Quest For Great Reads
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In this multiple award-winning book (Reader's Favorite, Feathered Quill), author Patti Tingen takes readers through the four spiritual "seasons" of our lives, sharing scriptural truths and powerful testimonies of God's unfailing love through it all.
Change is a natural part of life, but for most of us it is a difficult process fraught with fear. Change can be difficult, confusing, and painful- or, as A God For All Seasons explores, it can be an exciting opportunity for spiritual growth as we learn to trust in God through faith in His word.
Continue reading "A God for All Seasons: Inspiration and Reflection for All Times by Patti Tingen"
Four Passions: Conversations with Myself is a frank account of the psychological pitfalls that many couples encounter after one or both are obliged to retire.
Author Wallace Peters is a widely renowned scientist in his 90s, whose main interest is tropical medicine. In 2007, he and his wife, Ruth, moved into a peaceful retirement village located in the English countryside. Nine months later, Ruth succumbed to cancer. After her death, the author learned that many of the 200 residents in his community, irrespective of their former careers, struggled to find direction in their lives. Hoping to restore their enthusiasm, Wallace set out to describe his and Ruth's experiences with their positive lifestyle during retirement.
Continue reading "Featured Book: Four Passions: Conversations with Myself by Wallace Peters"
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The Silent Heroes: A Memoir of Holland During World War II is a true story of heroism, survival, and resistance by ordinary people living during extraordinary times.
World War II was marked by fear, despair, and hardship for those living under Nazi occupation. Author Hans Moederzoon van Kuilenburg was a 10-year-old girl living in Amsterdam, when German soldiers invaded Holland in the spring of 1940. The Dutch wanted to stay neutral in the war because its military was no match for the Germans. But within five days, Holland had fallen. The next five years were among the darkest in Dutch history, culminating in the "hunger winter" of 1944, in which 30,000 Dutch people died of hunger and cold.
Ordinary citizens like the author's father fought back in any way they could to mitigate the German war machine. A civilian supervisor of marine supplies, he stole food and clothing from the Germans to feed and clothe Dutch people in need. Eventually his activities attracted notice and he was imprisoned. Says van Kuilenburg, "My mother, with the help of our family doctor, got him out of the claws of the so feared SS. This is his story and that of other Dutch heroes who risked their own lives to help others."
Continue reading "Featured Book: The Silent Heroes by Hans Moederzoon Van Kuilenburg"
I'm about to do something I've never done on this blog, but I have recently come across something so powerfully important that I would be absolutely remiss if I did not share it in every way possible.
If you, or anyone you know, have ever been impacted in any way by cancer or chronic disease, please –please– set a few precious hours of your life aside to watch this docu-series, which will be absolutely free to watch online for only two more days.
The information it contains is so vitally important to anyone who has been diagnosed or at risk for cancer- exposing the truth and risks about chemotherapy and radiation, big pharma, as well as the numerous ways that top doctors and physicians around the world are actually curing cancer naturally, without side-effects, including stage-4 terminal cancer. Continue reading "The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest"
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From a village in the Land of Goshen, a brilliant but physically challenged boy named Yoram manages to make his way into the heart of ancient Egypt.
Firsthand, he witnesses the changing culture of the Children of Israel and the different mindsets of the pharaohs who ascend to the throne.
Connecting the dots between the two histories, Yoram lives through the passions and frustrations that prevail as the weaker young nation falls inevitably into subjugation.
This fascinating novel covers the history of the Hebrew nation from its peak of contentment to its descent into slavery.
Through Yoram's eyes and tribulations, Who Knew Not Joseph presents a real picture of the human side of that first holocaust. It tells how there indeed came a pharaoh who knew not Joseph (Exodus 1:8).
Continue reading "Featured Book: Who Knew Not Joseph by Menachem Mannie Magid"
Fight! offers owners of dog-aggressive canines a wonderfully positive alternative to traditional punishment and intimidation -based training techniques for correcting their dog's social woes.
Written by the award-winning author of The Culture Clash, Jean Donaldson breaks down dog-dog aggression into it's most simplest forms- 1) over-exuberant greeters, 2) proximity sensitivity to other dogs, 3) resource guarding, 4) bullying, 5) play skills deficit, and 6) genetic predisposition. She then takes the reader through each form, discussing the positive training methods that can be used to overcome each, as well as discussing proper training tools and a breakdown of common learning methods used in positive training.
As the owner of a fear-aggressive dog, I've read every book, article, pamphlet and beyond that I can get my hands on regarding training techniques that deal with behavior modification. It seems that everyone has their own magic mix of methods that they gather here and there from a common list of books- and near the top of almost every list is Fight!.
I'll add that almost every book on these lists are now out of print, so it's taken me a while to find the funds to acquire each title, Fight! being my most recent purchase. With such high hopes and downright nerdy excitement, I couldn't wait to dig in- but unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed with this book. Let me explain.
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L5 B7 Prominence Pointe Drive, Anchorage
- Price$162,100
This subdivision offers spectacular city, inlet, and mountain views with city water, sewer and paved roads. Professionally managed Home Owners Assn.
Essential Information
- Price$162,100
- Acres0.54
- TypeVacant Land
- Sub-TypeResidential
- StatusActive
- UtilitiesElec - On Site, Electric-Underground, Nat Gas - On Site, Pub Wtr - On Site, Sewer - On Site, Telephone - On Site
- FeaturesCovenants, DSL/Cable Available, Fire Service Area, Homeowner Assoc, In City Limits, Stub Out - Sewer, Stub Out - Water, Trees - Sparse, View, Will Build to Suit
- ViewCity Lights, Inlet, Mountains, Ocean, Unobstructed
- WaterfrontNone
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- Days on Market271
- ZoningR7 - Intermediate Rural Residential
Community Information
- AddressL5 B7 Prominence Pointe Drive
- Area25 - Dearmoun Rd - Potter Marsh
- SubdivisionProminence Pointe Ph 9 L5 B7
- CityAnchorage
- StateAlaska
- Zip Code99516
School Information
- ElementaryBear Valley
- MiddleGoldenview
- HighSouth Anchorage
Listing Details
- Listing Agent:Gary Kutil
- Listing Office:Re/max Dynamic Properties
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Leadership Starts with You!
Posted on January 15, 2014 by Christy Kessler
Are you a leader who's willing to roll up your sleeves, get your hands dirty and dive into any challenge?
If you really want to lead successfully, you must demonstrate that you are committed to being part of the team. Be willing to dive in and do whatever you would ask others to do, regardless of the task. A key driver of employee engagement revolves around the front-line supervisor or leader. It lies in their ability to handle the basics well. It's the simple things that make a difference – showing up to meetings on time, treating others with respect, valuing their opinions, etc. In high performing organizations, leaders treat their employees with respect and dignity almost 90% of the time. (Source: TNS 2013 High Performing Company Benchmark)
Strong leaders also don't set themselves apart from the team just because they lead. Instead they are right in the middle, playing an essential role just like everyone else. Leading by example with honesty, integrity and loyalty will go a long way in creating a strong organization. Building an effective organizational culture is more than minding the financials. Leaders must balance the day-to-day organizational tasks with fostering the team. If there isn't a team, then there really isn't a culture.
About Christy Kessler
Christy Kessler leads the client services team which includes business development and marketing initiatives for TNS Employee Insights. She also serves as an integral part of our client service team and regularly consults with clients on survey initiatives. With a combination of corporate human resource experience combined with more than 15 years of nonprofit management and leadership experience she brings unique perspectives to her blog posts on a regular basis.


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Organic farming is the fastest growing form of agriculture in the U.S. today. Despite being one of the oldest methods of producing food, organic farming and organic foods have only recently been something more consumers seem to recognize and associate with more nutrition, better flavor, and with less or without harmful chemical residues.
The Early Days
Current Picture
Today, there are more than 130 different organic producers in the state. Organic operations are spread all over Florida — from Homestead to the Panhandle. These producers range from small-scale farmers, to livestock producers, to processors, to large vegetable and fruit farms. Most fruits and vegetables that you can imagine are currently produced organically somewhere in our diverse tropical and subtropical climate.
Organic producers who want to represent, market, and sell their product as organic must adhere to the National Organic Standards. The USDA National Organic Program was created to give assurance to consumers, protect organic farmers, and help grow the young organic industry. The verification process is very strict, and farmers must be able to clearly show that they comply with regulations.
Competitive Edge
Today, traditional farmers in Florida who have realized that the price for their crops fluctuates greatly from season to season and who often cannot break even, often consider organic farming as an alternative to improving their farm's financial status. Compared to conventional food, organic food is often sold at a fair price for the farmer. Organic farming is usually more labor- and management-intensive, and farming tends to be on a smaller scale.
There are many advantages to becoming an organic producer. Organic ag is based on the principles of improving soil quality and protecting our natural resources. By implementing organic practices, farms in Florida can eliminate chemicals and nitrogen from leaching into their soil and water sources. As a consequence, organic farms can continue to grow crops even after other areas in the state have depleted their soils of nutrients or been driven out by poor sales or land development.
Cover crops and other production practices could help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and sequester more carbon into the soil, as well as reduce soil erosion. By reducing the use of pesticides and thus increasing biodiversity of organic farms, farmers in Florida could help restore habitats for beneficial native animals, insects, and plants.
Becoming an organic certified producer can open up new markets for organic producers in Florida. Thousands of tourists come to Florida every year. Many of these visitors are part of the growing population of consumers who want organic food.
For information about organic farming and/or certification, contact Florida Organic Growers at
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Find Snakebusters Shows, parties and education on Facebook, Myspace, YouTube and Twitter
The best kids reptile birthday party in Melbourne is Snakebusters. Consistently rated tops for several reasons, including being the only hands-on childrens reptiles party, letting the kids hold the animals, the only legal venomous snake show in Victoria and everything else that comes with a company owned by Australia's leading reptile expert, the Snake Man, Raymond Hoser. We have been doing hands-on reptile education since 1982 and have a perfect safety record unmatched in the wildlife display business. We do mobile reptile parties and shows for kids birthday events, school wildlife education and incursions, corporate shows and exhibitions, team building activities and high-end snake handler courses and instruction, including for students in veterinary medicine, zoologists for taxonomy studies and more. The snake man has been seen on TV globally by an audiuence measured in the tens of millions and reptile parties with Snakebusters make for the perfect event for any occasion.
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text: The Unscripted Monterey Bay is situated on Monterey's beachfront and offers wonderful views of Monterey Bay's miles of sandy beaches. The hotel has a restaurant serving typical Californian cuisine and a lounge bar which offers light breakfasts (pay locally). There is also a gift shop, heated pool, hot tub and a fitness centre. The rooms are air conditioned and have a telephone, television, fridge, safe, ironing board, iron and a coffee maker. Rooms either have views of the ocean, gardens or swimming pool.


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Hi my angels! Welcome back to my blog!
Today, I'm starting a new series called Maternity Mondays and this first post will be sharing my essential products that I've been reaching for throughout my pregnancy. Now that I'm almost nearing the end I thought it would be helpful to share these items!
One of the first things I changed about my routine was taking vitamins. After my main meal on an evening I take Pregnacare Max vitamins. These were the ones that were recommended to me from my first antenatal appointment and I've used them ever since!
Ginger Biscuits
In the first trimester I felt absolutely rubbish. Horrible. The worst part is that nobody really knows that you're pregnant, and you don't really feel it either. Mainly because you still look the same. I felt extremely dizzy all of the time, I had a permanent headache, stomach cramping and ofcourse the sickness. This is all on top of dealing with your emotions and coming to terms with the fact that you're going to be a parent. What I can promise you though is that this doesn't last forever. I felt a lot better after the first three months and my sickness had completely gone away by week 20. One thing that really helped me combat my sickness was ginger biscuits. They taste disgusting but really are an effective method of balancing your stomach. I kept these by my bed and had a few before I even got up and they really did help me stop feeling so naecous!
Rescue Oil
Everybody says that you can't prevent stretch marks but that doesn't stop me from trying! I've been using this oil 2-3 times a day from being about 10 weeks pregnant. I had done a lot of research about which oil to get and this one came highly recommended by a lot of mums. Even if it doesn't manage to prevent stretch marks, it helps rehydrate my skin as it can become quite dry as your hormones change. Your stomach can also become itchy as you reach the second and third trimesters due to the itching and this really helps relieve some of that!
You can buy this oil from Wilko or through this link HERE
Skin Care
On the subject of dry skin, my face is dryer than ever and so I need to take extra care of it! When I'm out shopping, I feel the need to pick up anything with the words "hydrating" , "moisture boosting" or "for dry skin". This extends to the lips too, so having a good moisturiser that works for you and also keeping a tub of Vaseline in your bag is a huge help!
A circular/electric toothbrush
This might sound a little crazy but the hormones in your body can make your gums extremely sensitive when brushing your teeth, causing them to bleed. Using a rectangle brush and swiping motions can make the bleeding worse and so I recommend getting an electric toothbrush to be a little more gentle on your mouth!
Your midwife will soon become your best friend and you'll spend more time at the hospital or doctors than you do at home. Balancing all these appointments and the antenatal classes with your job, social life or studies can prove difficult so it's good to stay on track so you don't miss anything!
You may find yourself becoming more and more thirsty throughout the day, especially towards the end of your pregnancy and it's really important that you don't allow yourself to become dehydrated. It's recommended that you have 2-3 litres of water a day so I've found it really handy to keep a large bottle of water in my bag a day and keep refilling it once I drink it all.
Baby books!
It's easy to become overwhelmed by the amount of books out there to read, but one I do recommend is "Your Baby" by Simone Cave. This is essentially a week by week guide to what to expect when you bring your bundle of joy home! Although all new borns are different, this gives you a rough idea of how much your baby will sleep and feed. It's good to read this before your baby comes and then in the weeks that follow the birth of your baby!
You can buy this book HERE
I hope you found this post helpful! Good luck to all the mummys to be out there, you're doing great!
All my love,


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After an incredible weekend in New York, it's almost time to get back to the grind. I have so much to share, but I'll do that later. For now, let's get down to business.
If you've taken part in FMM then you know the rules. If you're new, please take a moment to answer this week's question on your own blog then add your link in the comments section here at: www.alltheweigh.com so we can all see your FMM questions and answers. Please invite your blog readers to add their links here too so everyone has to opportunity to be seen. The idea is to connect with other awesome bloggers so take a moment to post your own FMM post and comment on a couple of other posts. Now it's time for this week's topic!
1. What is your favorite thing about Summer? I love the warmth and sunshine.
2. What is your favorite outdoor activity? Riding my bike is definitely at the top of my list…definitely.
3. If you had to choose, would you prefer to be too hot or too cold? I'm too cold most of the time, and I think that's probably better than being too hot.
4. Does your appetite increase or decrease during warmer months? Does it stay the same? I don't think it changes much. If I'm in the sun, I don't really feel like eating until I cool off, but I cool off quickly in the a/c.
5. What is your favorite seasonal Summer fruit? Watermelon!!!!!!
6. Would you prefer to spend a hot summer day at the mall or at a swimming pool? Most of the time I'd choose the pool. I love the sun and the water…
7. Are you more likely to tan or sunburn? Sigh…I burn even when I'm wearing SPF 70.
8. How does your routine change when Summer begins? It didn't change much because I took Summer classes. Now that those are over, it's
9. What is the temperature outside where you are today? over 100 degrees. Whoa!
10. What is your favorite Summer holiday? My favorite is Independence Day, but I love them all.
Now it's your turn. Don't forget to post the answers on your own blog, then come back and link up in the comments! Happy Monday, Friends!


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Way of the Witch Owl Lamp
Keep a watchful eye on your spells with this Way of the Witch Owl print lamp by artist Lisa Parker.
Way of the Witch Owl Lamp by Lisa Parker Gothic and Wildlife Art
A column of polyester is printed in full color with this lovely art print by Lisa Parker. The shade is mounted in a black cast resin base with attached US standard 110v light cord with on/off switch. The entire column lamp lights with a soft glow when on for a magical night light or ambient light anywhere in your home.
The lamp measures 4 3/4 inches in diameter, 10 inches tall.
Light bulb is not included. We recommend a low-watt LED bulb for a soft glow.
Note: This item is made to order. Allow extra time for delivery - usually within 2-3 weeks.
Item Number: PT-B23212F6 | Approximate Size (Inches): 4.75 wide x 4.75 deep x 10.00 high | Approximate Shipping Weight: 1.50 lbs.


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A Perfect Day
I am working hard going through the last nearly 18 months of diary comics trying to assemble some sort of collection to be ready for SPX (hence the older diary entry). Time is dwindling so we'll see if I can pull it off. One of the main issues is that I have far more than I thought I did. As Graham says "this is a good problem." Still, it's teaching me a lot about how my brain works in regards to output and distribution. Mainly, I can be very prolific, but I have this weird squirrel mentality of saving them for some "better" day instead of just putting them out in the world–which is where I want them to be. If I can manage to get this collection together, I am going to start thinking differently in the future about how to get the work out there as it comes instead of hoarding it until I am overwhelmed. In addition to sending them out to magazines and other lit sites, maybe I'll put out mini comics. My output is changing anyway. I am doing less daily stuff and planning out longer pieces. We'll see.
As it is, this month is all about preparing for September when an onslaught of work and events are taking place. In addition to attending SPX, I'll be giving an artist talk at our local library, teaching a comic class to high schoolers, and starting work on two fairly sizable illustration jobs. I am not complaining—this is how I like life to be–but, as the Wicked Witch of the West would day, "these things must be handled DELICATELY."
Cindy Henning permalinkAugust 4, 2014 5:59 pm
Just finished reading your book "The Artist in the Office". It was very helpful and inspiring. I teach art full time and sometimes it's hard to find a balance between teaching art and creating it. Teaching sucks me so dry somedays that I feel I have nothing left over at the end of the day. Thank you for helping me see things differently.
simone permalinkAugust 4, 2014 6:37 pm
Oh!! I just heard an interview with Mimi Pond and wanted to grab this book–now I will!
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7 Craziest Gadgets For Your Party
The expectation of the upcoming party brings a smile on your face. Everyone is happy, cause knows that the evening will be cool and amusing. With such a positive mood, the success of an affair is guaranteed, but how can you make it really stunning and outstanding against the other gatherings? We know the secret
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5/3/2015 – Our curiosity was piqued as we reviewed the year-end reports of the primary gold producers. When we tallied the results, even we were surprised.
The upshot of what you'll see is that at its current pace, new supply will be unable to keep up with demand. It may look like a story that doesn't have much immediate impact, but this emerging new reality is staring us right in the face.
Specifically, there are three developments underway that paint an ominous picture for new gold supply … read more


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TECNIS® Symfony IOL – New Lens Technology for 2016
In July 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the TECNIS® Symfony Intraocular Lenses for the treatment of cataracts. The first in a new category of intraocular lenses (IOLs), the TECNIS® Symfony lenses are currently the only lenses in the United States that provide a full range of continuous high-quality vision following cataract surgery at distance while also mitigating the effects of presbyopia by helping people focus on intermediate to near objects. The FDA approval also includes a version of the lens for people with astigmatism, which is the TECNIS® Symfony Toric IOL.
Cataracts are a very common condition, with almost four million cataract surgeries performed each year. By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery. Although cataracts primarily impact seniors, it is estimated that nearly one in four cataract surgeries will be performed on people younger than 65. Many people who have cataracts experience additional problems with their vision, such as presbyopia and astigmatism, which the Symfony lenses also address. Presbyopia, which affects most people over age 40, is the condition in which people have lost the active focusing ability to see objects up close and at a distance simultaneously. Most often, people require glasses or contacts to perform near visual tasks. Astigmatism occurs when the cornea is more oval-shaped than rounded, which causes blurry or distorted vision.
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Monday- Sweet and Spicy Bacon Chicken from Full Bellies, Happy Kids. Serve with broccoli and potatoes.
Tuesday- Tuscan Vegetable Soup from Cooking Channel. Serve with salad and garlic bread..
Wednesday- Leftovers from Monday
Thursday- Penne with Artichokes from Chicho's Kitchen. Serve with salad.
Friday - School Event=No Cooking (hooray!)
Saturday-Sleepover at our house--order pizza.
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The difference between stars and planets
Is that a star or a planet?
Have you ever gazed up at a star in the sky and wondered if it was really a star and not just a planet like Venus or Mars? Have you ever wondered what the difference between a star and planet really is? Well, wonder no more!
The basic difference between a star and a planet is that a star emits light produced by a nuclear reaction in its core, whereas a planet only shines by reflected light. Not all objects in the universe that don't produce their own light are planets however. It's a gray area, as we'll see.
A star is a mass of gas held together and given its shape by its own gravity. Gravity is constantly squeezing the star, trying to make it collapse. This collapse is prevented by the radiant pressure from the hot gas in the star's interior. This is called hydrostatic support, or equilibrium.
During most of the star's lifetime, the interior heat and radiation is provided by nuclear reactions at the center; this phase of the star's life is called the main sequence.
In a main sequence star, the nuclear reaction in its core is created by the fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei.
The main sequence phase of a star is analogous to the adult life of a human through middle age. What happens after all the hydrogen has been fused into helium and the main sequence phase ends is determined primarily by the mass of the star.
Once all the hydrogen has been converted into helium at the core, stars begin to collapse in on themselves. The star will contract until there is enough pressure to ignite the hydrogen core. This triggers the next phase of a star's life: the hydrogen conversion into carbon phase.
During this phase, the outer layers of the star expand outward and the star swells to a much larger size. Sometimes the collapse and expansion occur very quickly and this process is accompanied by a very large explosion, called a supernova. This expansion makes the star appear brighter but cooler, and it becomes a red giant.
Stars more massive than our sun will eventually collapse into a white dwarf. The leading theory of stellar evolution is that white dwarf stars eventually cool and become black dwarfs.
Stars with an exceptionally high mass will collapse into neutron stars or even black holes. Some neutron stars acquire a spin and become known as "pulsars." While these dead stars do not emit visible light, they often emit other radiation, such as gamma and x-rays that planets lack.
Stars are classified by astronomers based on their surface temperatures. Stellar classifications are: O, B, A, F, G, K, and M. While this may seem complicated, astronomers have a fanciful mnemonic: "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me"[1]. Temperatures range from less than 3,500 degrees Kelvin (Class M, Red stars) up to 60,000 degrees Kelvin (Class O, Blue stars).
As mentioned above, the definition of a planet is not so clear cut. There has been much debate recently over what the word "planet" really means.
The origin of the word "planet" is rooted in Greek and means literally "wanderer." This is no doubt a reference to the apparent motion of planets in the sky. While this is interesting, it is not very helpful as an astronomical definition.
In fact, it was the informal definition for many years. Planets appear to change location in the sky night from night, whereas stars seem not to move appreciably from one night to the next. So it was assumed that noticeable change in location from one night to the next meant the object was a planet.
At the end of the 20th century and into the beginning of this century, there started to be more debate on just what classified an object as a planet. This is mainly due to a large number of planets discovered outside the solar system and, of course, the recent Pluto controversy.
The Pluto controversy explained:
For the first 75 years since its discovery in 1930 it was classified as a planet. It was a large enough body to be seen from Earth based telescopes and it had 2 moons that orbited around it. The thinking was that it wasn't an asteroid and it certainly wasn't a star, so it must be a planet.
As the years passed and technology improved, so did our knowledge of Pluto. With this increased knowledge, came an awareness of just how much Pluto is unlike the other planets in the solar system.
For instance, unlike the other planets, Pluto doesn't really have moons. It's really just one of many in a vast collection of small objects beyond Neptune. It turns out that Pluto has more in common with the asteroid Ceres, in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, than it does with Mars or Jupiter themselves.
All the other planets in the solar system have either captured or ejected other masses in their proximity, but Pluto has been unable to do that.
Differences like these raise questions about Pluto's planetary status.
To further cloud the status of Pluto there is the fact that Pluto has a tiny atmosphere. This may seem like something that is distinctly characterstic of planets but several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also have an atmosphere.
So it seems that Pluto may not be a planet after all, but is it an asteroid?
On Aug 24, 2006, the assembly of IAU (The International Astronomical Union) members voted in favor of Pluto being classified as a "small solar-system body" instead of a planet. Not quite an asteroid, but close.
So, this clears up Pluto's place in the universe, but what exactly is a planet?
The IAU also agreed upon the following definition of a planet in the August 24, 2006 meeting:
"A 'planet' is a celestial body that:
(a) is in orbit around the Sun,
(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and
(c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit." [2]
At last it seems we have our formal definition, at least for now. Regardless of their definitions, both stars and planets offer some of life's most exquisite beauty and can be seen with even modest equipment. Even a good pair of binoculars can produce breathtaking results.
Ya it's really informative and interesting
I used it for school it was awesome.
Very nice and useful article, thank you very much!
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Nice information
For some odd reason my Fiancé still thinks that stars are planets
thanks for the information
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wow I learnt heaps i'm in seventh grade and science just blows my mind
very intresting chapter
This has helped me with a project at school so much thank you very much
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that's some AMAZING information. i am in seventh grade and i cant even explain this if i knew anything about it. so cool that you even decided to put this up here for everyone to see.
i dont get it. what does a planet generate????
Will share info with 4th graders. They will know what I just now found out. Thanks!!
I only recently found out about Antares. Lots to learn.
Nice difference
Amazing work kiddo :)
This is a lot of writing
Nice article, well-explained facts.
Thanks, it was very helpful for my study! :)
i like this arctical because im in school and the level i get for my assesment to do with stars is worth a lot and i owe it all to you!!! :) thank you
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Thanks for the info, these are things that we all should know, again thanks for the share!
can star coverted into planet??
FANTASTIC!!Thank You, for sharing Your knowledge & increasing ours!!We have a collection of Dust from the Moon & Mars, & Meteorite pieces(Stony,Stony-Iron, &Iron).Two of our Grandchildren are studying rocks, meterorites,&fossils.We have marked Your site as Our Favorite!
Extremely enlightening. This is all news to me.
this website is not very good for children ; the makers of this website should have made a list of the differences between planets and stars.
great website, really informational especially since i have exams on this tomorrow. our teacher thought it would be funny to not give us notes so I just come to this website.. Keep it up.
You hub is very informative, it is nice to know the differnce
The article was just brilliant. I really needed the extra info for my science!
Now I can accurately explain stars and planets to my 6 year old son. Thank you!
That was A cool article. Thanx for that information.
thanks for that, i just came back from holiday where i had been watching the sky..I know jupiter is visible at the moment, and I think I saw it, but it got me thinking about what the differences were. I took a photo, and what I guessed was Jupiter came out as a red dot, would that be it?
very good.
love the web page but what is the difference on stars & planets
good for it. Nice article for education
For the past few nights, at band marching band practice, I've been watching the stars speckle the sky one by one as the sun sets and the moon appears. I was wondering what the difference between a star and a planet was, so I Googled it and your article appeared. I appriciated the way that you explained things, much easier than trying to follow a science teacher's scatter-brained facts or read a text book.
Wow That is some really interesting info.
P.S. I have added a link to this hub from my hub "Starry Nights"! Yours makes a great companion piece!
Smiles and Light!
A beautifully written hub! Explanation is well-paced, allowing absorption time!
Smiles and Light
I remember calculating temperatures of stars in astonomy classes and triangulating distances, but we did not have your engaging text.
Excellent, well-researched work and an interesting read. Thanks!
nice article, very educational
Excellent article - nice to see someone post educational material, I'm going to link to this from my telescope article.


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A rather pervasive meme claiming that nothing ever really touches anything else has been circulating on the internet for a number of years. I think, although I'm not entirely certain, that it may well have its origins in an explanation by a certain Michio Kaku. This type of explanation later formed the basis of a video, You Can't Touch Anything, from the immensely successful VSauce YouTube channel, which has now accrued nearly 3.4 million views.
I appreciate just how difficult it is to explain complicated physics for a general audience (see, for example, this article in the education issue of Physics World published earlier this year). And I also fully understand that we all goof at times – particularly, and especially, me. But Kaku has got form when it comes to over-simplifying explanations to the point of incorrectness in order to exploit the 'Wow! Quantum! Physics!' factor. This misleading over-simplification is similarly a hallmark of the 'you can't touch anything' meme.
Why is it that this particular meme winds me up so much? (After all, there's a universe of other, much more egregious, stuff on the internet to worry about.) Well, I think it's mainly because it hits just a little too close to home. My research area is known as non-contact atomic force microscopy (NC-AFM) and there's a very good reason indeed why scientists in the field draw a distinction between the non-contact and contact modes of AFM. I've banged on about the flaws in the meme, as I see them, to Brady Haran on a number of occasions over the last couple of years and this finally led to a video, uploaded to the Sixty Symbols channel last week, where he and I debate whether atoms touch.
If you'll excuse the shameless self-promotion1, of all the Sixty Symbols videos I've done with Brady, I'm most happy with this one. It shows science as a debate with evidence, models, and analogies being thrown into the mix to support a particular viewpoint – not as something which is "done and dusted" by the experts and passed down as received wisdom to the 'masses'. This is exactly how science should work and how it should be seen to work. (Here's the obligatory supporting Feynman quote: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts". Stay tuned – another Feynman quote will be along soon.)
The reason I'm writing this post, however, isn't to rake over the ashes of the debate with Brady (and the associated lengthy comments thread under the video). It's instead to address a big, and quite deliberate, gap in the video: just how does the Pauli exclusion principle affect how atoms interact/touch/bond/connect? This is an absolutely fascinating topic that not only has been the subject of a vast amount of debate and confusion over many decades, but, as we'll see, fundamentally underpins the latest developments in sub-molecular resolution AFM.
Beyond atomic resolution
At about the same time as the Sixty Symbols video was uploaded, and entirely coincidentally, a book chapter my colleagues and I have been working on over the last couple of months appeared on the condensed matter arXiv: Pauli's Principle in Probe Microscopy. The Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) plays an essential role in state-of-the-art scanning probe microscopy, where images like that shown on the right below are increasingly becoming the norm. Scanning probe images of this type are captured by measuring the shift in resonant frequency of a tiny tuning fork to which an atomically (or molecularly) sharp tip is attached. As the probe is moved back and forth on nanometre and sub-nanometre length-scales, the gradient of the force between the tip apex and the molecule changes and this causes a change in the resonant frequency of the tuning fork. These shifts in frequency can be converted to an image or mathematically inverted to determine the tip-sample force. Or they can be listened to.
The image shown above is from recent work by our group at Nottingham but I really must name-check the researchers who pioneered this type of ultrahigh resolution imaging: Leo Gross and co-workers at IBM Zurich. Leo and his colleagues first demonstrated that it is possible to acquire AFM images of molecules where the entire chemical architecture can be visualised. The images show a remarkable, and almost eerie, similarity to the textbook ball-and-stick molecular models so familiar to any scientist. Compare the experimental image of NTCDI molecules on the right above to the ball-and-stick diagram on the left where grey, blue, and red spheres represent carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms respectively. These exceptionally detailed images of molecular structure2 are acquired by exploiting the repulsion of electrons due to the Pauli exclusion force at very small tip-sample separations.
I was explaining all of this to a class of first-year undergraduate students last year, stressing that the repulsion we observe at small tip-sample separations – and, indeed, the repulsion ultimately responsible for the reaction force keeping them from falling through their seats – is not simply due to electrostatic repulsion of 'like' charges. I wound up the lecture, chucking in the throwaway remark, "…of course, the force due to Pauli exclusion isn't really a force like any other. You'll cover this in quantum statistics next year."
By the time I'd got back to my office, two email messages from students in the lecture had already made their way to my inbox: "If it isn't a force like any other, then what the heck is it?"
That'll teach me to be flippant with the first-years. It's a great question. Where does the repulsive force due to Pauli exclusion come from – just why is it that electrons don't want to be 'squeezed' into the same quantum state?
The Quantum Identity Crisis
Ultimately, the Pauli exclusion principle has its origins in the indistinguishability of electrons. (Well, OK, fermions – but let's stick with the PEP in the context of force microscopy.) One frustrating aspect of the discussions of quantum statistics in various textbooks, however, is that the terms 'identical' and 'indistinguishable' are too often assumed to be synonymous. Electrons are certainly identical in the sense that their 'internal' properties such as mass and charge are the same, but are they really indistinguishable?
Fleicschhauer had this to say in an fascinating commentary published a few years ago:
"In the quantum world, particles of the same kind are indistinguishable: the wavefunction that describes them is a superposition of every single particle of that kind occupying every allowed state. Strictly speaking, this means that we can't talk, for instance, about an electron on Earth without mentioning all the electrons on the Moon in the same breath."
Well, in principle, yes, we should consider the entire multi-particle 'universal' wavefunction. But I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, long-of-tooth and grizzled-of-beard experimentalist. I want to see evidence of this universal coupling. And you know what? As hard as I might look, I'm never going to find any experimental evidence that an electron on the Moon has any role at all to play in a force-microscopy experiment (or a chemical reaction, or an intra-atomic transition, or…) involving electrons on Earth.
I'll stress again that in principle, the electrons are indeed indistinguishable as there is always some finite wavefunction overlap, because there is no such thing as the infinite potential well which is the mainstay of introductory quantum physics courses. In this sense, an electron on Earth and an electron on the Moon (or on Alpha Centauri) are indeed 'coupled' to some degree and arguably 'indistinguishable'. But the degree of wavefunction coupling and associated energy splitting are so incredibly tiny and utterly negligible – if I can be forgiven the understatement – that, in any practical sense, the electrons are completely distinguishable.
(Some of you might at this point be having a déjà vu moment. This is possibly connected to the (over-)heated debate that stemmed from Brian Cox's discussion of the exclusion principle in a BBC programme a few years ago. Brian caught a lot of online flak for his explanation, some of it rather too rant-y and intemperate in tone – even for me. One of the best analyses of the furore out there is a pithy blog post by Jon Butterworth for the Guardian – very well worth a read. My colleagues at Nottingham have also discussed the controversy, and Telescoper asked if Brian had Cox-ed up the explanation of the exclusion principle.)
It is only when there is appreciable wavefunction overlap, as when the atom at the very end of the AFM tip is moved very close to a molecule underneath it (or, equivalently, in a chemical bond), that the PEP 'kicks in' in any appreciable way. If you want to know just why indistinguishability and the exclusion principle are so intimately connected, and how electron spin plays into all of this, I'm afraid I'm going to have to refer you to Section 1.3 of that book chapter and references therein. If you're willing to take my word for it for now, however, read on.
Fourier and Force
Let's cut to the chase and elucidate where that repulsive 'Pauli force' comes from. The PEP tells us that we can't have two electrons with the same four quantum numbers, i.e. we can't 'push' them into the same quantum state. But just how does this give rise to a force between two electrons that is beyond their 'natural' electrostatic repulsion? Let's strip the problem right down to its bare bones and consider a simple gedanken experiment.
Take two electrons of the same fixed spin separated by a considerable distance from each other. We're going to move those electrons together until their wavefunctions overlap. As the electrons get closer their wavefunctions effectively change shape so that the mutual overlap is minimal – this is the PEP in action. The figure below, adapted from a description of the origin of the exclusion principle by Julian Su, schematically illustrates this effect.
On the left hand side the electron wavefunctions are not constrained by the exclusion principle, while on the right the PEP has been 'switched on'. The essential point is this: the exclusion principle causes wavefunction curvature to increase. Because the kinetic energy (KE) of an electron is directly proportional to wavefunction curvature via the KE operator in quantum mechanics, increased curvature means increased kinetic energy. Or – and this is the description I much prefer because it's yet another example of the beauty and elegance of Fourier transforms – higher wavefunction curvature requires the introduction of higher spatial frequency (i.e. higher momentum) contributions in Fourier space. It this change in the momentum distribution which gives rise to the Pauli repulsion force.
While this captures some of the essence of the exclusion principle (and certainly is enough to provide important insights into what's going on in force microscopy experiments), it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the underlying physics. I suspect that Pauli himself would dismiss all of the above with his trademark "… es ist nicht einmal falsch". He himself said in his Nobel prize lecture of 1946 that "I was unable to give a logical reason for the Exclusion Principle or to deduce it from more general assumptions…" Almost two decades later, Feynman had the following to say:
"It appears to be one of the few places in physics where there is a rule which can be stated very simply, but for which no one has found a simple and easy explanation. The explanation is deep down in relativistic quantum mechanics. This probably means that we do not have a complete understanding of the fundamental principle involved."
Like Feynman, I remain somewhat perplexed by Pauli's principle.
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1 In these social-media-enabled times, I guess that shameless self-promotion has become the academic's stock-in-trade. Perhaps, however, it was ever thus.
2 There has, however, been a great deal of controversy of late as to the origin of the intermolecular features observed in AFM images by a number of groups, including ourselves. See our chapter on the role of the exclusion principle in probe microscopy for more detail.


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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending an event by Adeptus, called Tunneäly Summit 2019. Tunneäly is the Finnish word for EQ or Emotional Intelligence. The event had some interesting speakers like inventor and key note speaker Perttu Pölönen, Dr Pauliina Airaksinen-Aminoff and many others. The main theme of the day was, how to utilize… Read More
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Reflections and Failure
The easiest thing to do after failure is to look for the culprit. Too often you find it staring back in the mirror. I believe failure is important for self-growth and life without failure is boring. One of my favorite things to do is reflecting. How did I get here? What did I learn there?… Read More
What I removed from my blog yesterday
My biggest passion in life is travelling the world and I had so many posts here from my travels, I think about 30 or so. A lot of fun memories, but the content was quite immature and private, so I deleted them. There was also a bit of other personal history, like posts about my… Read More
Eight years of clean up
Just a couple of weeks ago I got an interesting idea: I decided to create a business name and an actual blog with interesting content. Of course, the easiest way to approach this was to use my existing blog in WordPress. I bought a domain and upgraded my account to Premium. I also cleaned up… Read More
Signed up to Elements of AI
Signed up to Elements of AI, which is a MOOC by University of Helsinki and Reaktor. The course is offered in English and Finnish, and it is free. http://ow.ly/1MoK30n77cP
Polar A360 – Data motivoi
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"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
. Oscar Wilde in Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894).


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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Opinions are like chickens
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Your Place is in the Shadows
I have put together six of my finest short stories in a little collection for Kindle. It's called Your Place is in the Shadows and is retailing at minimum price.
At first the idea was to get some of my short stuff out there in the hope that it leads people to the longer stuff. But then I read these things again, and I'm not sure how similar they are. Some are crime, some more horror, others kind of sf or slipstream. Some are clearly set in a world similar to Mangel (or Warchester), others clearly elsewhere. The earliest was written way before I even thought about Deadfolk, others way later.
But I'm proud of them all. I have have written plenty of shorts, and I'm only picking what I consider to be the good 'uns for this (and one or two subsequent volumes later this year). Most have been published in mags, anthologies and more recently webzines, others not. And sometimes it's your favourites that don't find a home. In this case (and published here for the first time) it's "Shithead" (based on a card game I came across years ago in France).
If you are a fan of Royston Blake, maybe the story "Punchbag" will reveal a bit of where the old bruiser came from. The main character doesn't have the same dubious charm of Blakey, but he clearly shares some of his appetites. This was first published in the British Fantasy Society's magazine Dark Horizons in 2001.
One particular story I like in this batch is "Some Help From Stanley", featuring a spurned husband who yearns for the family from which he has been usurped. Help comes in the unlikely guise of a phonecall from the late Stanley Kubrick. I consider this my first major sale, hitting the pages of The Third Alternative magazine in 2002, which specialised in horror and weird. But I reckon this story could have just as easily been labelled crime.
See what you think.
Your Place is in the Shadows is on sale in the UK, USA, Canada and everywhere else in Amazon-land.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Charlie interviews Royston
CW: So, Royston Blake, we have a new book out called Made of Stone. Tell us a bit about it.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
MADE OF STONE giveaway
Hey, I am giving away copies of Made of Stone to lucky prize draw winners. But there's a catch: you have to be on Goodreads. So get on that thing and sign up for this baby:
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Terrible news about Iain Banks. His Wasp Factory certainly opened a door for me in terms of what you can do with books. I rather petulantly went off him a few years ago after reading RAW SPIRIT (no link provided - for your own good), but I went back on him a couple of years later, in search of the mastery of old and finding it.
But this guy is still alive - why am I talking about him like he is dead?? Let's all go on a Banks-fest (I recommend the slightly unsung Espedair Street) while we wait for his next book, wondering if it will have an "M." in it. (No. Strangely this seems significant.)
Funny, he is someone I feel like I have met, although I definitely haven't. And during this imaginary meeting he thought I was a twat. To be fair, I was probably drunk. On whisky.


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Twisted Roots Wine to Water Weekend
A fundraising campaign for Wine To Water.
About This Campaign
~ Twisted Roots Tasting Room will donate 20% of the sales for all wines by the glass and bottles from Friday, March 18th - Sunday, March 20th in honor of World Water Day.
~ For each new wine club member that signs up they will go home with a bottle of Wine to Water Zinfandel (during this weekend). Also for every customer who makes a purchase of Twisted Roots Wine, they will be entered in a raffle to win a bottle of wine from the same vineyard.
~ In addition, for every wine club member signed up between Friday and Sunday, Twisted Roots will donate $50 to Wine to Water.
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- Address:
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- Carmel Valley, CA
- Time:
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- Mar 20, 2016 05:00 pm
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tiger skirt: c/o Coco Fashion*
crop top: missguided
denim jacket: bought second-hand at a bazaar (similar)
chain necklace: won in a giveaway - you can buy it here
This spell is used to reverse concealing charms, and can presumably render invisible ink visible
Latin apparere, meaning "to appear"; -ium and -cium are common Latin noun endings.
Latin apparere, meaning "to appear"; -ium and -cium are common Latin noun endings.
Firstly, how gorgeous is that skirt? And for a mere US$ 8.44 too!
I was super duper happy when I received this tiger skirt from Coco Fashion! I thought it was a really unique print. The material is of superb quality. Although it did take a while to arrive... so if you don't mind that, then it's definitely value for $$$.
Secondly, excuse my flyaways - they're annoying and I didn't realize until later D:
My mum got me a denim jacket - something that I've been searching for ages - at a bazaar so I combined the two et...voila!
The past weeks have been really hectic with university applications and all that. hopefully things will die down soon!
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San Diego Reader Classified ads, December 4, 2019
3 p.m., Dec. 6
Kilroy Realty is banking on hopes of city council support for their mega-development One Paseo in Carmel Valley. And, local lobbying outfits are banking thousands of dollars Kilroy Realty paid to lobby city council and city staff for support.
But not all registered lobbyists are pro-One Paseo. Today, in a newly filed disclosure, shopping plaza developer and owner of the Del Mar Heights Town Center in Carmel Valley, Donahue Schriber, announced it will be spending $10,000 to convince city officials to "ensure project's consistency [with] existing [community plan] and Del Mar Heights Town Center."
The "project," unnamed in the disclosure, was said to be located at the Southwest corner of Del Mar Heights Road and El Camino Real in Carmel Valley, the exact location of Kilroy's 23.6 acre property.
Tension between the shopping plaza owner and Kilroy is not new. In May 2012, Kilroy's vice president of development Bob Little accused Donahue Schriber of paying for the anti-One Paseo website, What Price Main Street?.
"The opposition is not grassroots. That website is funded by the owner of the shopping center across the street. The owners, Donahue Schriber, had their names on the What Price Main Street? website. They are the ones trying to pose as grassroots for their own economic interests," said Little during a phone interview last year.
A few days later, Ken Farinsky, host of What Price Main Street? denied the allegations, saying Donahue Schriber shared some of the same concerns but had no other connection to the website or the community.
The thousands of dollars put towards lobbying efforts as well as Mayor Bob Filner's appearance at a Carmel Valley planning group meeting are signs that the fate is far from being decided.
Wow, keep rolling out the interesting facts. this is good journalism, not available anywhere else in San Diego.
IMO they really shouldn't do any more building until 5/56 is complete and 56 is widened.
Note that Kilroy spent $1,071,816 in 2012 lobbying the City of San Diego specifically for One Paseo (according to public city records posted at the City website). Their total cost to date on the property, according to their financial reports, is $131.2M*. Their initial purchase price was $80M. It would be interesting to learn more about how the over $1M was used to lobby the City, and where the additional $51.2M has been spent thus far on the property.
https://ssl.netfile.com/pub2/Default.aspx?aid=CSD. See: Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory and Natsis LLP; Atlantis Group LLC; Urban Housing Partners.
I collected signatures from other Carmel Valley residents who are opposed to this mega-development. Myself and all the others volunteered our time because we care about the quality of life in our community. We are grassroots and we are growing as more people wake up to all the negatives that come with development too big for the roads and infrastructure to handle.
This big LA developer likes to emphasize their new reduced plan even though it is still nearly 3 times the size allowed by current zoning. Our roads cannot carry that much more traffic. The effects will reach well beyond Carmel Valley. Congestion will extend to highway 5 and all of San Diego will be get a taste of LA style traffic.


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OAKLAND (CBS/AP) — A new earthquake early-warning system installed by Bay Area Rapid Transit will detect earthquakes precious seconds before the ground starts shaking, allowing trains to be slowed down in an effort to prevent derailments.
The San Jose Mercury News reports that the system was designed with the help of University of California, Berkeley scientists, and is similar to a system already being used in Japan.
State and federal quake scientists have already installed a series of 200 sensors from central California to the Oregon border, and BART's new early warning system taps into this array.
If a 5.0-magnitude-or-stronger quake hits far away, or a 4.0 closer to home, the system sends an alarm to BART's computers, which slow trains by about 2 miles per hour per second.
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Thursday, April 07, 2005
Advertising 2.0
Received a couple of mails essentially saying 'you're right, contextual targeting is so over, behavioral targeting is next'.
In response to my post arguing that contextual advertising is likely to be disrupted this year, because it's value prop to both advertisers and audiences is decaying (growth of click fraud, web spam, etc).
This is intimately related to the emergence of vertical search/ecommerce, which partly is due to innovators seeking incremental efficiency gains in search costs, but also partly due to general search value prop decay. It's becoming
economical to use general engines as the web grows, because the growth of the amount of crap (spam, dead homepages, blogs no one reads, etc) is still accelerating. This gap in market space makes verticalization a dominant strategy.
So what's next? I
think it's gonna be
There are many reasons for this. Remember, we saw early (relatively inefficient) versions of behavioral targeting during the bubble. But ad networks on the Net were clearly a winner-take-all market if ever there was one - and Google won.
Why was contextual advertising superior? The economics of behavioral targeting don't make any sense. The benefits are clear for advertisers, but not for audiences. Since behavioral targeting imposes greater costs on users (cost of privacy loss, cost of lost attention from more invasive ads) than contextual targeting does, it must offer audiences greater gains as well.
How could it do this? Well, the most straightforward way is to push ads that consumers want to see. Unfortunately, behavioral targeting can only be marginally better (if that) at this than contextual targeting can. Assuming behavioral targeting can't offer consumers gains, consumers have great incentives to disable behavioral tracking systems - and they do. What this, in turn, means, is that behavioral targeters have the incentive to hide their actions from consumers - it's a classic case of moral hazard. This is how adware/spyware emerged.
So contextual targeting has, and I think will continue to, be
efficient at advertising to consumers the stuff they're searching for.
What this means is that behavioral targeting will continue to stay locked into the (profitable) niches that it's been successful in: serving ads in places where consumers spend a lot of time (and so can be costlessly tracked). Think NYT. In other words, behavioral targeting will pick up where contextual targeting stops. You search for 'Ferrari Dino' (and see contextual ads), and then visit a car review site (and see behavioral ads). This is the thinking behind the funding of plays like
Revenue Science
from fairly heavy hitters.
So what will disrupt contextual ads? Well, the important bit to note is that the bits of the value prop which are decayed are
contextual targeting: they're the open access mechanism, which enables click fraud, and the general search mechanism, whose efficiency is growing less slowly than web spam/noise growth.
I've talked about insurance and/or risk-sharing mechanisms before - my money's on this reducing the costs of click fraud: solutions that allow the risk of open-access contextual ads to be massively shared or insured. I expect this solution to be implicit, not explicit.
As for search efficiency, there are two solutions. The first is vertical search. The second, I've argued, is going to be horizontal. The first glimmerings of this are beginning to emerge in RSS aggregation.
The natural trajectory is to extend standards like RSS across media, so you can have feeds of all the stuff you like aggregated horizontally. This allows
profile-based targeting
, which I think has the potential to be the aforementioned disruptive tech - it can be superior to both behavioral and contextual targeting on value-driving attributes, but inferior in others.
This is why
FeedBurner's recent B round
is a good bet - though I'm not sure whether this line of analysis fed
Feld's investment rationale
, which equates RSS to SMTP, or
Dick's strategy
, which centers around being a simplicity magnifier.
-- umair // 11:50 AM //
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Awesome post. Your blog is awesome for the type of econ it brings to the net's attention, I think. Fascinating to a non-economist like me.
BTW, with your attention scarcity model, you might be interested to know that your posts on Apple and iTunes where what brought my attention to your blog via Macsurfer.com. And I don't have time to invest in the other econ blogs to which you link.
Alex in Los Angeles
there are two reasons that you haven't yet seen the impact of behavioral targeting: 1/ it's hard to do as a technical matter, much harder than contextual targeting, 2/ only a few players on the web have the kind of behavioral profile on users that you need to do it well (here i mean broad sites like yahoo and msn, but not google, which is only about search), and 3/ yahoo/overture was clinging for too long to the notion of fixed placement paid search listings, which is 100% keyword (context) driven. in fact, when yahoo and google really get going on a combination of contextual and behavioral targeting (applied to the same presentation of results) the power of this will be clearer ...
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Size matters!
Apollocon 2007 has now come to a successful conclusion, and as far as I know, all No Fear of the Future contributors in attendance have safely returned to their normal lives. Myself, Jess Nevins and Alexis Glynn Latner were there, which represents half of our merry little band of commentators. I wanted to get the three of us together for a group shot, but alas, it was not to be. Instead you'll have to settle for this pic of the Sunday morning panel "Size Matters: Knowing or choosing the correct length to tell your tale." Pictured, from right to left, are Julia Mandala, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Shanna Swendson, Alexis Glynn Latner and Chris Roberson, fine writers and good persons one and all. Well, maybe with the exception of that Roberson fellow. You never can trust publisher-types.
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The mountain was originally known as Feihong mountain。It had strolled steps way early in the early han dynasty, in late Western han dynasty, a man named Wei Meifu ,who was once the governor of Nanchang county, du to he was not satisfy the Wang Mang 's dictatorship , He resigned and moved to live in Feihong mountain. Later, in order to honor his exemplary conduct and nobility of character ,people built a Meixian altar on the ridge and a Meixian abbey under the ridge, and changed the name Feihong Mountain as Meiling Mountain. Since the tang dynasty, there are many famous people paid a visit here including five prime minister: Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Shangying, Zhou Bida, Wang Anshi, Zhang Wei, Literaties Ouyang xiu, Zeng gong, Huang Tingjian, Chen Shidao, Tang Xianzu etc and general Yue fei etc. They had left many stone inscriptions , poems ,carvings and so on, This makes Meiling become a desirable place for visitors.
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