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It is a common tendency to avoid difficult questions labelling them to be "intellectual mambo-jumbo". That is the easiest way too. I feel that even the people who argues vehemently for freedom tries to escape from other dimensions of it. In fact, the escape from freedom is a central characteristic of many a people born and brought up in symbiotic and withdrawing families (Ref: Eric Fromm's theory). And especially in India most people come into that category.
Let us look at the case of many a typical Indian women. A girl is usually brought up to be an image her mother itself. The mannerisms, dressing and even so called sense of modesty is rather imposed up on her from the childhood itself. Once I happened to have a chat with a friend of mine. Let us call her Chaithanya (not her actual name). Brought up in a traditional family she got educated in Bombay and I happened to see her after ten long years. She was complaining about the extreme chauvinistic attitude of Keralite men and rightly so. Even the movies made is Malayalam reflects how the male and female stereotype in Kerala are. But when I asked her. Some distant cousin of her had apparently boasted about immodest dressing of women which "provocates" men and she felt irritated. But she had to smile and sit there being a young woman who should be "modest". I asked her why did not she retort and she replied "all though I do not like it, it is a reality that we girls need to act a lot and keep quite in such situations or else it is considered as impudence"
"Well, then you don't approve it ,right. So why not at least speak about that in a casual conversation at home avoiding a heated debate. See Chaithanya, how can you conclude that people won't approve until you try it first and take the freedom that you know you possess." I said.
She replied, "Perhaps,you are right…. But I simply can't. You have to be a woman to understand that…"
"I cannot be a woman which is a fact. But you miss the point here. Nobody can make you free. There is nothing like a person being emancipated by other at the intellectual level. Only you can make you free. And for that you need to be convinced about your freedom and be prepared to take the freedom and its responsibilities… You know I rmember Balachandran Chullikkad's lines
Oru daiva puthranum ninte rakshaykkini
Varikilla kaathirikkendaa.
Neemaathrameeyullu ninte mukthikku nin
Neethi boodham thanne sharanam "
"I can appreciate your thoughts but some how I miss out in action………. I mean most girls do … We are helpless. "
"Dear Chaithanya, you are an old school friend and playmate of mine. We have known each other from very early ages. And you know that we both were just enacting the role our parents and society gave till the time when we began to think by our own. I remember that you had to be near home with other girls when we played football and cricket in the field. And at times you used to ask us whether you could join it. Usually the big boys there had the say and response is typical. A girl cannot possibly play football with boys. We both accepted it then and now I think it as absolute stupidity. If you had been with us on the ground regularly you would have turned a sturdy girl. But then, that is a deviation from the female stereotype that our society has. That fear makes your parents dictate you to be that stereotype girl in all aspects. Of course, I do not see anything wrong in being a 'chocolate loving', 'emotional', 'chaterbox', 'well dressed', 'good looking' and 'modest' girl that you see everywhere. Only that they have taken refuge under authority to escape from freedom. I tell you that freedom is not a chocolate. It is sweet but burns like a fire. All I am telling is there is no point in this blame game alone. The conditions are not desirable, that is a fact. But what is the point in complaining without challenging those powers-that-be. "
There was a moment of pause. Then she continued.
"…… Das, I accept what you said. In fact, these had been the thoughts that dominated me, while doing my graduation at Bombay. Once back, I feel that I am automatically returning to that old self…. And you are one of my good friends, so nothing to hide. You see, we are by design made more earthly creatures…… The menstural cycle itself reminds every women her so called limitations, each month…. You know, the feel is different. I admire women who were really able to challenge all those limits…. I mean they are really something….. But can I be one of them … is a big question ….."
Again a moment of pause.
"Yeah, I understand. At least intellectually, if not with its full emotional strength. Still, those are not answers too. Don't you realize it? …….. Within a few months you will have to enact your part as the heroine of the age old drama of 'pennu kaanal' …. And I could never imagine a more stupid way to for a couple to know each other. The script of the dialogues that goes on is predecided. Directed by a 'vivaha dellal'. It was an issue of 'big fight' in my home once. I had categorically said that I am not in favour of those nonsenses and don't expect me to be an actor in it. And at some point they might press me for it and I will have to deny it…….. It will be painful, I know. But this is a ground rule here, when I do something which I believe to be 'right', the responsibility is mine. I cannot shy away from it. If you cannot justify something others impose upon you by any means, then you need to stick to your freedom. Also never impose your rules up on others too. Other than granted freedoms which comes with love and which should not go to the extend of making a person uncomfortable, we have to fight in order to be free….. it is not lack of love or respect if you stick to your freedom. In fact when you grant the same freedom to others you are loving then and being more loveable by any yardstick……
… or at least, I will not be considering you a 'impudent' girl, if all you demand is your genuine freedom. I will only have more respect for you. …. Think and convince that decisions in your personal life is your freedom at first. Then be prepared to demand it. ………."
She was staring at me, reflecting up on our conversation. She replied with a difficult smile….
"Perhaps I need to. I need to amass the courage for that first. I don't know if I will succeed. Wish me good luck….. But then don't just stare up on me, if after two years,you see me with a kid rushing to kitchen to prepare the breakfast for my husband while he shouts at me…….. "
"Well, I have seen enough contradictions to not to be shocked by something like this, which is least among them….. At least, I have not made you moody by a chat, I suppose."
"No way …. Good to have some of such grilling sessions. They are quite reflective. I thank you for being honest and brutally frank as always you are…. "
"Nice compliments it is… Anyway, if the chat with a beautiful 'balyakaala sakhi' after years didnot turn into a disaster, I am relieved …. "
Aldus Huxley made me confused after his "Brave New World" and Orwell blew the discomfort to the verge of outburst with "1984". Later Alvin Toffler's "Power Shift" and Eric Fromm's "Sane Society" give some reflective inputs. But it was "The Matrix" and "I-Robot" which made some speculations into a vague yet clearer picture. Yes, our basic urge is to define our freedom.
The question of freedom is too wide to be contained by a single example. It has dimensions which spans through the structure and nature of power and humanity's destiny itself. World have seen enough experimentation and evolutions in the social arena. Aristocracy, Democracy, Theocracy, Feudalism, Capitalism, Communism etc. The fundamental question remains unanswered as yet. Do we need to be ruled? How can we define freedom in the light of what we have seen till this day? There are ardent conservatives on one side and liberals on the other side and the battle is always on. The questions are umpty and new ones are added each passing moment. What about the freedom of sexual orientation? Freedom of mobility?Well, could nudity be described as the freedom of expression? …. Endless … But we need answers. Escaping from difficult questions cannot not take us anywhere.


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Retrieving previous mails from mail server if mailbox .pst is corrupted
Retrieving previous mails from the mail server if mailbox.pst is corrupted isn't easy, but here's a tip for doing just that.
This tip was submitted to the SearchEnterpriseLinux.com tip exchange by member KJ Rajesh. Please let other users know how useful it is by rating it below.
Retrieving previous mails from the mail server if mailbox.pst is corrupted isn't easy. You should make a backup of mailbox.pst regularly. Just in case you forgot, here's my retrieval tip for use when your mail server runs on Linux and your mail client on Microsoft Outlook 2000. (I've used periods at the end of some sentences, but don't use them in your code!)
- Logon to mail server linsrv1.
- Go to var/spool/mail directory.
cd /var/spool/mail
- If the mail has to be retrieved for an user named usr1 then do as stated below:
cp usr1 usr1bak
- Go to user's home directory and then go to the directory where mailbox.pst of the user is kept (Personal Folder). If the user name is usr1 and the directory where mailbox.pst file is kept is outlook, inside the home directory then:
cd /home/usr1/outlook
mv mailbox.pst mail1.pst (Use the number for safety.)
- Now, restore user's mailbox.pst file from backup.
cp mailbox.pst /home/usr1/outlook/mailbox.pst
- Change owner and group of the copied file using chown and chgrp command.
- Now log in to Widows server as usr1 and open Outlook.
- Click Send/Retrieve
- Close Outlook and open its Properties. Choose Internet Mail, then properties and uncheck the checkbox in Outlook's Advance Properties (where it says: "Leave a copy of the messages on server").
- Then, open Outlook, and click Send/Retrieve.
- Go to mail server linsrv1 and go /var/spool/mail directory and do as follows:
rm usr1
cp usr1bak usr1
Choose owner and group of the user's file.
- Now in Windows open outlook and click Send/Retrieve.
- Finally, close Outlook, and remember to again check the checkbox in Outlook's Advance Properties ("Leave a copy of the messages on server").

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Condos for sale in Dexter, MI
Condos for sale in Dexter, MI
Dexter, Michigan, located about an hour northwest of Detroit and just northwest of Ann Arbor, is a quiet village of around 4,000 residents. Dexter sits along the banks of the Huron River and Mill Creek, and is one of the fastest-growing communities in southeast Michigan, more than doubling its population in the last 20 years. Dexter offers a small town ambiance, while still being only a short drive away from big city health care, education, job opportunities, and cultural attractions.
About Dexter, Michigan
Dexter residents have plenty of shops and restaurants from which to choose. The heart of the village's shopping district is located in the historic downtown area, and boasts a number of antique stores, gift stores, and food markets. There's also a seasonal farmers' market, which sets up in downtown Dexter twice a week from June through October.
Restaurants in Dexter range from an elegant, restored farmhouse, to coffee shops, to Italian eateries. Of course, there are plenty of other restaurant choices just a little down the road in Ann Arbor.
The Village of Dexter owns and operates four city parks, with facilities that range from hiking and biking trails, to ball parks and playgrounds. In addition, the Huron River provides a wealth of boating, fishing and swimming opportunities and connects the area to both Ann Arbor, and several other area parks located northwest and southeast of town.
Condos for sale in Dexter Michigan
Because Dexter has grown so quickly, most of the housing stock in the village has been built within the last 20 years. This includes condos for sale in Dexter, Michigan as well as single family homes. The village offers a variety of condo styles, from traditional apartment-style condos, to semi-detached homes, to spacious townhouses.
The median home sales price in Dexter for the first quarter of 2013 for all types of homes was $206,500. That's a 13.5% increase from the same period in 2012. As single-family homes are generally more expensive in Dexter than condos, the median sales price for condos alone should be less than the aggregate number.
If you're looking for condos for sale in Dexter, Michigan, call us today. We can help you find the new home that's just right for you and your family. Click here for more information


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It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your capacity is?
Virtualization can free up capacity in your infrastructure, but also shed light on the need to manage that capacity better. That makes capacity planning a delicate balancing act.
In a rapidly changing business environment, delays caused by a lack of capacity can lead to missed opportunities. There is no net under this tightrope. You have to get the balance right.
How much server capacity do you have right now? Are you actively monitoring capacity, or are you just setting alarms to let you know when it is almost gone? And as your capacity is consumed, do you know where it is going? Five different project planners may think they have sufficient capacity available, but if they were all looking at the same pool of available resources, you could be in serious trouble if even two of those five projects move forward.
Virtualization exposes previously masked deficiencies as it decreases provisioning times and speeds up server deployments. For example, before you virtualized, you may have provisioned hardware and scheduled firewall rules concurrently. If provisioning hardware took, say, three weeks, it didn't matter that it took two weeks to schedule firewall rules. But as soon as virtualization shortened the hardware provisioning time to three days, the firewall scheduling suddenly became the roadblock. This is just one of the factors that can work to upset the capacity planning balancing act.
Organizations can usually consume resources pretty quickly, but replenishing those resources can involve bidding, quotes and a number of signatures before orders are even placed -- and then there is shipping, receiving, racking, cabling, etc. You cannot do capacity planning for tomorrow, because by the time you get your additional resources, you'll already need even more. You need to be looking at least two months out.
You may also need to re-evaluate and consider streamlining your procurement process to address capacity planning needs. If you are in a position to have your vendors deliver excess resources that you will not pay for until powering them on, that could be a good option to help you respond to demand more quickly.
Capacity planning is a critical task for IT shops. If you are implementing virtualization or managing a cloud computing infrastructure, you have placed your capacity planning and management under a microscope. The success or failure of your environment is directly tied to your ability to manage capacity.
About the expert
Mark Vaughn (MBA, VCP, BEA-CA) serves as an enterprise architect for a multinational corporation. Vaughn has more than 14 years of experience in IT as a Unix administrator, developer, Web hosting administrator, IT manager and enterprise architect. For several years, he has focused on using the benefits of virtualization to consolidate data centers, reduce total cost of ownership, and implement policies for high availability and disaster recovery. Vaughn is a recipient of the 2009 vExpert award and has delivered several presentations at VMworld and BEAWorld conferences in the U.S. and Europe. Read his blog at http://blog.mvaughn.us/.


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Voice: An Introduction

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For adults 18+

Level: Beginner

The importance of vocal training...
For adults 18+
Level: Beginner
The importance of vocal training to a successful performance is immeasurable. Spend a day focusing on this most necessary of tools for an actor.
Course components
- Discover your breath, resonance and articulators, then project with ease as you participate in vocal warm ups.
- Gain personal guidance from an industry expert as you find your physical self and understand the importance of neutral position in relation to your vocal ability.
- Apply vocal technique when using your voice to bring characters to life.
- Ability to perform a vocal warm up.
- Use of voice to communicate text to an audience.
- Understanding of how physicality influences vocal ability.
Not sure which course is most suitable for you?
Read about our adults course categories to find a level that is right for you.
No experience necessary
Important information
- Please read our Cancellation and Transfer Policy.
- Flights and Accommodation: From time to time we may need to cancel an advertised course. Before booking flights and accommodation for travel to attend a NIDA Open course, please contact the NIDA Open office to confirm if your course will proceed as planned. NIDA does not accept liability for any associated costs of attendance or cancellation.
- Please wear comfortable clothing you can move in for all drama and performance related courses. Clothing that restricts movement is inappropriate.
- Please wear closed-in shoes. Shoes may be removed in the rehearsal room on the direction of the class tutor.
- Please bring along a pen, notebook or electronic device and a bottle of water to all classes.
NIDA Kensington, Sydney
Site Directions
NIDA Kensington
215 Anzac Parade, Kensington NSW 2033
There is no parking on-site at NIDA however there is paid parking on the University of NSW campus. The parking is a 10-15 minute walk from the NIDA building and is located at Gate 14 of the campus on Barker Street.
The UNSW parking area next door to NIDA, entrance via Day street, has free parking on weekends only. Other times it has permit parking for UNSW staff only.
There is also free all-day parking on some of the streets behind NIDA, but places are limited and can fill early.
As you may be aware, Sydney Light Rail construction is currently underway on Anzac Parade. From 8pm on Friday 25 November, the following changes to traffic conditions will be implemented:
- Parking and bus lanes on both sides of Anzac Parade, from High Street to Barker Street, will be removed and a 24 hour clearway will be introduced.
- A 50km/h speed limit will be introduced in this section of Anzac Parade.
- There will be no right turn from Day Avenue onto Anzac Parade.
- Most bus stops located outside NIDA or UNSW will either be relocated around clearways or closed through the construction period. Public transport to NIDA is still available; please visit transportnsw.info for the latest transport updates and to plan your trip.
For further information on how the light rail construction may impact your course, please view the attached PDF document at the bottom of the page.
Public Transport
Public Transport
The following buses come past NIDA:
From Circular Quay 302, 303, 391, 392, 394, 396, 397, 399, Express L94
From Central Railway 393, 395, Express 895
From Bondi Junction 400, 410, 348
From Leichhardt, Glebe, Newtown 370
The Metro 10 bus also comes past NIDA
Other Information
As a NIDA course attendee you have the opportunity to take advantage of TFE Hotels corporate rate. Find out more information regarding hotel locations and to make a booking.
The closest hotel to NIDA is the Adina Apartment Hotel in Coogee.
|Session Notes
|Sun 29 Sep 2019
|10am - 1pm (UTC+10:00)
|NIDA Kensington, Sydney
|Sun 29 Sep 2019
|1:45pm - 5pm (UTC+10:00)
|NIDA Kensington, Sydney


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I've been working on this list for a while, and I want to release it. This is pretty much all the useful PHP commands that you'll need on a common day basis. I've kept this as simple as I can so that beginners can pick this up as a tutorial of sorts. I go from easy to hard and broad to focused commands.
This is meant to be a 'manual' for if you are confused on how to use a command (or something among those lines). However, if you don't know PHP, reading this will get you well on your way.
PHP start/end
This is how you can start/end your PHP script.
<?php ?>
Newer versions of PHP can also use the shorthand version (not recommended for lack of compatibility!):
<? ?>
Echo is the command that displays things. Basically, whatever is in the echo is treated as HTML
<?php echo 'test. Bold test. italics'; ?>
If you use the short hand PHP starter, you can also echo using this (not recommended for lack of compatibility!):
<?='test. Bold test. italics'?>
Variables are like a 'mask' for a specific thing. You store variables like this:
<?php $name = 'Bob'; ?>
The correct syntax for a variable is:
You can do tons of stuff with variables. For example, echo it.
<?php $name = 'Bob'; echo $name; ?>
If you want to add text you add a concatenator (a period).
<?php $name = 'Bob'; echo 'My name is' . $name; ?>
Echoing two variables side by side is the same as a variable and text.
<?php $name= 'Bob'; $lastname = 'Herman'; echo 'My name is' . $name . $lastname; ?>
You'll find that sometimes you'll need to do math in your script. Unlike texts, numbers do not have to be in quotation marks. However, they can be if it makes sense (such as echoing 'I will be back in 2 hours')
Math is simple. You can add ( + ), subtract ( - ), multiply ( * ) and divide ( / ). You use a variable to store the result.
<?php $result = 2 * 2; echo 'I wonder what 2 times 2 is. Oh wait a sec, it\'s: ' . $result; ?>
(The \ is a commenting slash, which negates the ' effect. Without it, the variable would be ended there that the quotation mark, which would of most likely caused an error. A double slash \\ completely negates a line). With division you can also find the remainder.
<?php $remainder1 = 10%2; $remainder2 = 10%3; echo $remainder1 . ', ' . $remainder2; ?>
That echoes:
0, 1
You can also do increments. These are useful for when you are counting a specific action. For example, you want to know how many times an action has been done. You can store the amount of times the action has happened with a variable, but you can increase it by one using the increment function. This is how you do it:
<?php $action = '11'; if($_GET['buy'] == 'true') $action++; echo $action;
Although you may not understand everything here, what basically happens is that the script checks if buy is true, and if it is, increment the action by one. What ends up echoing is 12 (if buy is true).
If/Else Statements
If/Else statements is something you'll use a lot in php. Here's the format.
if(condition) { do this }
For example:
<?php $number = '11'; if($number == '11') { echo 'The number is 11'; } ?>
You can also add else statements. This says that if none of the conditions set by the if are met, then do this. For example:
<?php $number = '10'; if($x == '11') { echo 'The number is 11'; } else { echo 'The number is not 11'; } ?>
There is also the intermediate of the if/else... the elseif! The elseif checks if none of the conditions set by the if are met, then do this. The elseif, like the if, has conditions.
<?php $x = '10'; if($x == '11') { echo 'The number is 11'; } elseif ($x == '10') { echo 'The number is 10'; } else { echo 'The number is not 11 nor 10'; } ?>
For one line actions, you can do something like this (I'm using the example from before so that you can compare)
<?php $x = '10'; if($x == '11') echo 'The number is 11'; elseif ($x == '10') echo 'The number is 10'; else echo 'The number is not 11 nor 10'; ?>


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Peter Turi hat ein Video – Interview geposted, dass er mit mir auf dem DLD 09 geführt haben. Darin stellt er solche spannenden Fragen wie:
1) Ist Rezession eine schlechte Zeit für Startups?
2) Wird sich bei den Startups die Spreu vom Weizen trennen?
3) Wird YouTube sevenload verdrängen?
4) Was ist das "nächste große Ding?"
Hier sind meine Antworten:
Interview Turi2 (2009): Interview with Axel Schmiegelow about his entrepreneurship (German) from curtis newton gmbh on Vimeo.
Reflecting on the current discussions, last at the Delphi Executive conference in Bonn, and at CeBIT which I both attended as a speaker, I recalled the very lively panel at DLD 09 around online video and social media. If you are interested in the topic, the video gives you insights with Brightcove, Endemol, sevenload and Termor Media and a great moderator, David Kirkpatrick from Fortune Magazine.
About the specifics of how we perceive the value of recurring WebTV Content, please check my Interview at ETRE in Stockholm:
ETRE 2008: Axel Schmiegelow describes the sevenload community and "The Future of TV" from curtis newton gmbh on Vimeo.
In a recent post, emarketer quoted a study by Deloitte stating that TV was still the lead influencer of purchasing decisions by consumers, even in the US.
I beg to differ.
Studies on the share of TV in media consumption do not differentiate enough as to the level of attention that the medium is consumed with. So many households have TV running virtually all day with a minimum of attention as opposed to an online usage that is still predominantly active, targeted (in the sense of the user pursuing a search or e-commerce activity), or socially interactive, that the two types of consumption cannot be equated – it's comparing apples and pears.
The is all the more true if we consider the demographics, with a larger portion of low-income households letting the TV running indiscriminately. Besides, if you discount the number of TVs running 12 hours a day in Bars and Restaurants, I would wager that in terms of full attention media consumption, online has already overtaken TV.
We lack a study that compares – from the vantage point of an advertiser – conversion rates on campaigns running on TV and non-display-ads online.
The trend will increase with the further roll-out of online video.
The "Gretchenfrage" most discussed in the advertising industry right now is whether we will have a full-fledged downturn in advertising spending across all media, or whether there are niches and segments of the advertising /media industry that could even benefit from the recession. This being the 2nd downturn that I have experienced in my career, I am firmly convinced that the latter will happen.
I make this assumption based on several factors:
The coming year will see providers of Web 2.0 campaign solutions and media ad placements achieving disproportionate success considering the downturn and cutbacks of media budgets. This will happen for precisely the reason that in the past 1 ½ years many showcases of Social Marketing have been started that have proven or will prove to have been successful to an unexpected degree. After the Beacon disaster these showcases will turn the tide, much in the way keyword advertising established itself in 2002 – 2004.
Our best reference is http://bmw-web.tv, which generated considerable brand awareness for our client BMW. BMW itself doubled that success by creating, at the same time, a national web TV project that was equally successful called BMW TV which greatly enhanced traction to its own site. For confidentiality reasons I cannot give you figures, but trust me the impact was measurable.
Advertisers of the old school often argue that performance marketing or traditional lead generation marketing does not help the brand gain emotional traction and awareness. That dichotomy is of the past. Social relevance, rich media and video formats allow the digital sphere to create a branding experience that is as emotionally compelling as television and as measurably successful as search engine marketing. That has always been the holy grail of advertising, and we seem to have found it.
If you want more information or need help achieving that success, contact me.
In my previous post, I tried to describe what I call viral social commerce as the commercial dimension to Web 2.0. This Blog entry will focus on the opportunities and strategic demands that viral social commerce presents to existing companies- especially such companies that have a dominant position in their market. If viral social commerce describes an increasingly commercial nature to the interaction presented by users on the web, then this has deep implications for a relationship between companies and their customers.
On the communication level, much has already been written about the need for companies to go from a broadcast model to an interactive/interaction model, and many companies have already experimented with blogging, viral marketing and other forms of "Web 2.0 marketing". So far, these endeavors have been met with mixed success. This has a number of reasons- which I will try to sum up in 3 axioms:
1) A day still has only 24 hrs, and our wallets have not gotten fatter.
What this means, is that for all the novelty and increased value in communication that Web 2.0 methods can create in their relationship between customers and companies, engaging in these for more than a fleeting moment of curiosity will require any customer to make a sacrifice of both time and effort to the detriment of something else they'd rather be doing. What this means is that you need axiom number 2.
2) Real people seek real value.
Axiom number 2 is probably the central answer to any strategic or implementation question connected to any type of new technology. Technologies do not usually fail because of technical questions, in fact, the success of technologies is often independent of the quality of the technology involved or its implementation- in other words, abject products are sometimes more successful than perfect technologies (the old, if not entirely true, Microsoft – Apple adage).
Technologies do fail however, when they do not meet a market in a way that creates significant value for a significant value for a significant segment of potential customers. This is the Holy Grail of start-up and business success and it has often been described and is easily worded, but hard to execute.
So cutting back on Web 2.0 technology by seeking not a mash-up of all the functionalities that happen to be the talk of the town and instead looking for ways to create real value with Web 2.0 technologies requires, first, an analysis not of Web 2.0, of these technologies or even of the Web 2.0 early adopter crowd. Much rather, it requires a thorough analysis of the existing market, existing distribution communication channels in those markets and existing or potential customer segments. Then and only then, but then with the strongest impact, can the potential, use and value of a specific Web 2.0 technology be found. This is where competitive advantages are born. This leads me to axiom number 3.
3) Innovation begins with a thorough understanding of the existing weaknesses of the existing market.
This attitude best summarized and methodized in the book Blue Ocean Strategy by Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. This approach is at the core of most technological successes and I am more than certain that in the existing wave of new start-ups, those start-ups will succeed which have best understood this lesson.
For companies in existing markets, this means that hunting for the weaknesses of their own methods of communication, of production and sourcing, and of other interaction (for example, service interaction with their customers) and then hunting for solutions to these weaknesses which were before impossible, but can now be enabled by Web 2.0 technologies, is the key to success.
You may find that direct communication with customers or sourcing in of product or feature feedback from customers was, until now, on a snail mail or even E-mail or call center paradigm, impossible to manage efficiently and to link back to the production and design process for some products. In the environment of a web 2.0 community and / or user to user communication interface, this sourcing process, suddenly becomes manageable because of the combination of ratings, feedback and systematic analysis in a technology-enabled low-cost framework. At the very least, such a platform will bind your most active customers.
The task of sifting through all the feedback and identifying the most valuable feedback from customers now does not have to be preformed by the organization alone, but can be delegated at least in part to the community- and this can apply to almost any market.
In the following model, I've tried to sum up the paradigm shift that this entails for companies in existing markets. Until now, you had the classic paradigm of production and product identification followed by (retail) marketing and distribution, and the cherry on the top was communicating to customers through combined PR and advertising.
On all levels of that process, a redefinition can now take place by including interaction with customers. At the very least, the communication/advertising end of the classic model of value creation within the business organization can undergo a paradigm shift from communication to interaction that links back into the organization. This is exemplified in the drawing below- and creates a whole new set of requirements for the company including, for example, new tracking tools, new analysis tools and a new mindset in marketing. Marketing then becomes not just a communication task but becomes much more a framework for the company's role as the
host of a community of customers.
These are the concepts that we've been working on for years now at denkwerk and which we try to reflect in our everyday work for our clients, such as Nokia, Obi and other retail giants. This paradigm shift leads to surprising successes each time the department of the company we are working with and we are mandated to not only think, but also act in a radically different way.
"Quo diata Diferenta"??- as Guy Kawasaki puts it.
These past months have, in a way that I would not have thought possible, created a start-up market situation closely resembling a certain period in time that we had in 1999. A number of new start-ups have sprung up that stem from what I call "feature-itis", that is: their main business idea is not the creation of a value that addresses a particular market in a way that is commercially feasible, but much more the "hey- wouldn't it be cool if it were possible to do this or that on the web" impulse.
If you sift through the business history of the first and second wave of the internet and try to analyze which companies ended up being successful, which companies were moped up as additional features to Yahoo! and bought out, and which companies simply failed, you find out that at the end of the day it's not at all about a new economy, it's about very old principles of
– servicing viable markets
- with a viable market proposition/value proposition
- and at an affordable price
in the widest sense of price, that is: convenience, access, time, budget and eventually price in dollars.
If we now look at what I like to call Web 3.0, that is, the commercial maturity of the social phenomena that we are observing with Web 2.0, then remembering that business history and applying the method of identifying customers for a market that are prepared to pay a given price, is a healthy mental exercise.
You'll allow me to refer to myself and my earlier Blog entry about the distinction between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 and briefly describe Web 2.0 as the discovery that the internet is not only a repository for information and data, and a network through which e-mail and chat communication can happen, but has become a medium where
the human source of information
and human source of opinion and entertainment becomes as accessible as the data that he/she has created, that is at the core of the Web 2.0 social revolution. And as any revolution, it creates a whole new set of social behavioural changes, business opportunities, political implications and essentially an entirely new medium- which incidentally is not only confined to the Blog or Social Network phenomenon.
Stating these now commonplace insights into Web 2.0 leads me to reflect upon the Web 3.0 phenomenon, that is the commercial viability of all of these changes. As described in my Blog entry, I believe strongly that this will be the era where the source of data and information, and essentially this means the
human individual as a source of expertise,
can more and more market that expertise in many different ways- either
- by being accessible as an expert or
- by offering more in depth information or
- services related to the information
- transactions / products related to the information
for any kind of currency (this may be a social reward or a commercial reward/payment) in a variety of models that can range from subscription to micro-payments or even other forms of transaction that we may not yet even imagine (my informed hunch is "subscription" will mean many different rental models that are being imagined right now). As of now, the main focus of business endeavour in the Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 transition era, is to create and monetize exactly these kinds of platforms- much in the way that sevenload is doing for the video world.
In the future, business focus will be to harness the technologies, communication methods and social behaviour of Web 3.0 to create new value and new markets, thereby disrupting existing business structures. Increasingly, this will be achieved by individuals and small companies rather than larger companies.
The challenge is to identify these markets beyond advertising. If we look at what is happening right now in the Web 2.0 sphere, it is essentially one giant cannibalization of the editorial market, trying to supplement old media and replace them with "Facebook-", "MySpace-", and "YouTube-" (new) models of broad- and selfcasting and interaction with the user. That will, of course, be successful, but it is hardly imaginable that more than a productivity or effiency increase of more than 25-35% (maybe even 40% or 50% through better targeting) with relation to the advertising market can be sustained.
Even more market volume may be created by opening the advertising market to new segments that, until now, had a high cost barrier towards advertising, for example in the Long Tail of smaller and mid-sized companies, or in niche markets which had to rely on direct marketing because there was no medium for them to address at sales efficient cost on a large scale.
This disruption of the advertising marjet is of course fueled by the radically changed cost-dynamics of Web 2.0 platforms and the possibility to address the long-tail of content and offering highly specific audiences to as specific advertisers.
This opening of niche markets for advertising may one day – probably soon to come – come as far as user groups and communities centered around exotic topics such as the nuts and bolts of drilling joints (or something similar).
But by and all, if advertising is the only focus of what is happening right now, there will inevitably be a crunch at the moment of realization that there is just not enough money in these markets to create hundreds of new billion dollar companies. Even though a return to the Nuclear Winter of The Internet of 2001-2003 seems unlikely, it is highly probable that we will have a structurally similar shake-down and that just one or two more Yahoo!(s) or Google(s) will crop up, having found the holy grail of
on-demand fully trackable horizontal niche long tail CPA advertising
By the way, addressing that advertising market will also have to overcome a formidable opponent which is very well positioned to address the long-tail of advertising, and that is Google.
My point in this Blog post is that there have to be, and there will be business models beyond advertising and they are starting to emerge. Essentially these will be transaction based and will be centered either around the handling of goods in an e-commerce sense (that is already being seen in a number of start-ups) for example, by itravel, but there will also more and more be transaction platforms centered around services, much in the sourcing logic mentioned above.
The sum of these developments is what I call "viral social commerce". It is viral in the sense that its dynamics of growth/expansion are very much word-of-mouth and very much based on the social phenomena of Web 2.0.
*I might add, that these phenomena are not new, word-of-mouth has always been the most powerful marketing instrument, it's just that technology has enabled it to travel at light-speed, where before it was at a horse carriage pace.
It is social in the sense that, not only communication, but also increasingly parts of the production process and the definition of the product/service offered will be defined not by an entity that is producing it, but rather by a group of people or a community that adds a significant part of the value that is being created. An example for that is again itravel, where the travel community creates a lot of the product knowledge and even product sourcing that is necessary to create its catalogue of once-in-a-lifetime-experiences. Another example is ChariTees, where the community sources not only the designs, but also decides which designs will appear on t-shirts and also decides which institution would benefit from that part of the proceeds of ChariTees that is being spent on charity.
The commerce part of the "viral social commerce" idiom, reflects on what I was describing at the beginning of my post, namely that this is more than a social communication phenomenon and it is also more than pure interaction, it is in essence a whole new commercial dimension to what happens in our increasingly web-enabled society.
Viral social commerce is, for me, the essence of what will happen with Web 3.0. In my next post, I will describe how companies can confront this development and attain competitive advantages by harnessing them.
As always, that's a difficult discussion. First of all it's important to remember that "Versioning" the web is initially a marketing trick, albeit a powerful and a valid one. It does make sense to try to assess the pace and scope of change in and through the Digital Revolution. In our internal discussions at http://www.denkwerk.com we differentiate the technical, the social and the business levels of analysis. Our very broad clusters are as follows:
Web 1.0:
It is particularly inexact to retroactively dub the pre-2004 era as "Web 1.0", since that is a rather vast period of time which underwent different phases in itself. When did it start? With Tim Berners-Lee & the appearance of Mozilla in 1993? With the first Social Network (sic!), the Well, in the 1980s?, With the ARPANET in 1968?
Tim O'Reilly coined "Web 2.0" as a call to reconsider the then ruling technical paradigms and the generalized underestimation of the social and economic impact of the internet in post-bubble headache times. But the 90s, the bubble, and 2001 – 2003 constitute a wild rollercoaster of different developments. In our view in short:
The first simple websites evolved to more and more interactive, from static to dynamically generated, from handcrafted to cms-driven, from pure media to more and more transactive, and these vast increases in value remained through independently of the vast hyperbole of expectations that the New Economy and Irrational Exuberance engendered. In software paradigms though, simple web development and early script-based architectures and languages were supplanted by Enterprise Application thinking, the advent of web services, and the JAVA Revolution. After 2001, you were a wimp if you stuck to PHP.
Mostly Early Adopters went from discovering the web and portals as sources of information to accepting shopping, then dating and other increasingly interactive services and transactions.
The Internet, however, was never "lean-back", a prerogative of TV.
The only really working business models (at high volumes) were
a) lead generation for existing brick and mortar business ("click and mortar")
b) Online Advertising (mostly banner, after 2002 more and more search engine marketing)
c) E-Commerce (online sales, B2C or B2B )
BTW: Many ideas that now resurface in Web 2.0 were imagined just then, but failed because user behaviour and markets weren't there yet. We founded http://www.oneview.com as a very early precursor of deli.cio.us, for example.
Web 2.0:
Somewhere around 2003, disgruntled entrepreneurs, the aforementioned PHP Wimps, the Linuxites, and others started reforming and having Galilean Moments ("eppure si muove" – "and the Earth does rotate"). That is what O'Reilly picked up at his conference in Fall 2004 when he coined Web 2.0.
On the technology side, Web 2.0 can be oversimplified by describing it as a set of new or renewed technical paradigms:
a) the return of scripting and DHTML.
b) AJAX and the transformation of websites into dynamic applications
c) much faster development speed, prototyping
d) APIs and total interoperability of all digital services (mashups, microformats etc..), the rebirth of standards
e) the end of the concept of "the site", with functionalities spreading across converging media (web, mobile, TV) instead
a) You Are Not Alone:
If "Web 1.0" was all about discovering the potential of interactive services, then Web 2.0 is the discovery of the Fellow Users, of the immense potential of finding online people that you can share interests and needs with.
b) You Can Do Things Together / User Generated Content:
New Web 2.0 tools let the vision of the web as a collaborative platform slowly become true: every type of content can be shared, discussed, rated, and messaging allows constant and instant, but also deferred and intermittent interlocution with other users (networking, messaging, Blogging, co-shopping etc…).
c) Mashup Everything / User Generated Functionalities:
The combination of different services, information, and functionalities that the technical paradigm shift of web 2.0 makes possible opens a whole new set of possibilities for networked and collaborative behaviour on the web that creates value from the wisdom of crowds and the knowledge of the few.
a) Businesses are under pressure and with the opportunity of adapting to the fact that the consumer / customer has an increasingly wide, reliable, and truthful range of sources of information and first-hand experiences with any given product.
b) Creating customer communities becomes increasingly relevant as a business factor. This increases the demand on long-term accountability and trustworthiness of business institutions
c) In the same vein, Business and Media monopolies on information and broadcasting power are dwindling with the advent of increasingly differentiated access to the opinions and knowledge of customers and the creation of increasingly valuable User Generated Content and Community-Based or Collaborative Functionalities. This doesn't mean a perfect world of truthfulness, but it certainly shifts power to the customer.
d) an open question is by whom and how is this information power, the interlinking of customers, and the long tail of business, going to be aggregated, thus creating the next Googles?
e) On the long tail of business, even the most absurd niche markets can network worldwide, thus creating market volume until now completely untapped.
Web 3.0:
We don't really need a new term – but it is clear that versioning will somehow be inflationary, since it is such a nifty marketing tool. So we might as well tackle the definition now (and secure some mind share early on, hehe).
In our view, Web 3.0 describes where the different patterns and revolutions might lead to. Think "minority report", "Neuromancer", "Matrix", for early paradigms (not literally of course, we're between 30 and 1000 years away from that). It is hard to describe and open for discussion, but we see the following trends:
a) Interoperability and total convergence of all media and networks to form the Evernet
b) The End of The Site: Functionalities can be used by any user on any device in any network.
c) Everything is mashed or modular or snippeted or microformatted, so that a search on your handheld will deliver a topical article, four experts, seven alternative topical products to be ordered along with their ratings and reviews, three according services and information about what your friends or respected contacts think about the topic, all in one fell swoop.
a) The rise of the "Digital Boheme" – in a No Man's Land between employment, freelance and artistic lifestyle, everyone on the web can "market" whatever talents he has, whenever and however much he wants.
b) Thus, "virtual environments" will play a much bigger role in determining the social status of an individual much more than his geographic environment used to. In other words, the lost liberal hippie tech geek living in, say, Oklahoma suddenly gets a life and recognition – that's one of the reasons for the hype about Second Life.
c) Thus a) and b) become more and more determining for the identity of the individual – with all due consequences
d) Technology and the networking of individuals and their expertise will lead to an increasingly efficient tapping of the Deep Web (that has been building up since 1974), thus creating a "semantic and human web", where searching and finding delivers increasingly complex results, ranging from data / documents to Evernet functionalities and sites, to experts and interest groups and events.
Business – we call it VIRAL SOCIAL COMMERCE
In the virtual worlds of the web 3.0 or Evernet, every individual will get a much fairer share of his or her social and economic status. If until now, the consumer was an object of the economy, he increasingly becomes a an active element in every one of his areas of expertise and interests. (Someone who is into handmade puppets from the Münsterland [a region of Northern Germany] can connect to fans of handmade puppets worldwide an be recognized as an expert and set up business selling access, expertise, or even the puppets themselves – if he chooses to do so).
We could call it the Ebaying of life – but the differences to the Ebay model are:
a) it expands virally along social network lines
b) it is not focused on price, and probably not even profit-oriented, but is a blend of social and economic rewards that triggers individual behaviour
c) it is in an elementary sense democratic, with almost any space for very individual definitions of success and lifestyles.
d) thriving in such environments will require new business, communication, and marketing models in almost any industry.
In Science Fiction, the various visions of the emergence of a web interlinking society almost invariably include that web become a determining factor of social and economic status in the real world. We aren't that far away from that, even if reality always tends to be mundane. What is almost certain is that already today, the web liberates the individual even from very difficult forms of seclusion, allowing him to overcome niche market intransparency and increase his social and economic impact in society.
What we are doing at sevenload (http://www.sevenload.com), itravel (http://www.itravel,de), oneview (http://www.oneview.com) and Qype (http://www.qype.com) is working toward that vision.
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Robots Are Coming for Your Crop Protection (and Other Inputs …)
The market for agricultural robotics market is small but burgeoning, and their impact is likely to be quite a bit more widespread than the robotic hands of orchard, grove, vineyard, field, and packinghouse so common in the popular imagination.
That was the reigning sentiment at the second annual International Forum of Agricultural Robotics (FIRA) in Toulouse, France, where nearly 500 attendees more than doubled that of 2016's inaugural event. FIRA is organized by a number of robotics-focused organizations with support from media partners including Meister Media Worldwide, parent company of PrecisionAg.
There are several distinct classes of robotics — including vision systems, field robotics, and stationery robots, said Dan Harburg of the Dutch ag-tech venture capital firm Anterra Capital. Technologies which are "more about materials handling or augmenting human labor, as opposed to fully replacing human labor, are a little bit closer to market and are therefore closer to invest-ability," Harburg said.
Indeed, "agricultural robots are here," asserted Simon Blackmore, Head of Agricultural Robotics and Director of the National Centre for Precision Farming (NCPF) at Harper Adams University in the U.K. "They are moving from academia into the commercial sector. I'm aware at the moment of 12 agricultural robot startup companies. I think that now is the time when we need to think about things in different ways and be able to let farmers take advantage of all the opportunities that we've been able to create."
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Moving Beyond the Era of Big Machines
For nearly a century large tractors literally have shaped farms around the world while making them increasingly more efficient. But that era is nearing an end, and in fact is hitting a wall, Blackmore suggested. Machines are now reaching their maximum size, and agriculture still uses far too much energy — in no smart part because farmers perennially have to use heavy equipment to cultivate soil that's become compacted by … you guessed it, heavy equipment. Blackmore estimates 90% of the energy that goes into cultivation is to "repair the damage that is caused by the big machines in the first place.
"You cannot change the soil. You cannot change the weather. But you can change the tractor," he said. "We need to move toward controlled-traffic farming for the big machines, and ultralight machines for the robots." A few years ago Blackmore challenged his students to come up with an ultralight machine. They robotized a garden-variety lawn mower to a point at which it left no trace in a very wet field where even footprints made an indentation. The clear promise is that one day "small, smart machines" will be able to do seeding and cultivating work in any weather condition while leaving no agronomic damage.
Will this work in the real world? Harper Adams' "Hands-Free Hectare" project demonstrated that a crop could be raised on an experimental plot without anyone ever going into the field. Drones surveyed the crop, robots did the soil sampling, and robotized tractors and combines conducted normal operations. The result: 3.5 tons of harvested spring barley.
Also in play for robotics is the crop protection industry, where few new active ingredients are being developed due to the high cost, even as existing compounds including dicamba and glyphosate fall under regulatory siege. "There is nothing wrong with glyphosate," Blackmore said. "We should ban the dumb machines that are applying glyphosate in the wrong places." He noted developments like Harper Adams' just-completed "Hyperweeding" project funded by Syngenta, which uses vision guidance to identify weeds and robotic gimbal control of a sprayer or laser to eradicate them.
"We can see that with some straightforward technology, most of which is commercially available now, we can be able to save 99.99% of the chemical" through what Blackmore calls "intelligently targeted inputs." Developing such technologies creates "a symbiotic relationship between the chemicals and the machines" and may extend the life of older AIs when used with more exact application, he said.
Harvesting is due to become far more efficient too — all the way through the distribution chain, where anywhere from 20% to 60% of a harvested produce crop can be thrown away because individual pieces are too large or too small or don't otherwise meet today's grading standards. Imagine instead, Blackmore said, a backyard garden where you pluck only the fruits or vegetables that are ripe for eating. A developmental robotic strawberry harvester called AUTOPIC uses advanced sensing, pattern recognition, and robotic technologies to inspect, pick, and pack berries.
Other developments Blackmore cited included a sub-canopy robot that can go underneath a crop to take measurements, and a scouting robot for vineyards that uses cameras to monitor irrigation and nutrient status.
Impacts on Energy and Labor
It all sounds fantastic — so what are the potential downsides?
Blackmore noted that the issue of "energy density" — maintaining adequate power supply for long hours in the field — continues to vex robotics, "but we really need to reduce the use of energy overall anyway." And while robotics developers have awaited fuel cells for many years, he said he's hopeful that once non-agricultural developers such as Tesla refine battery-powered mobility, agriculture will be quick to adopt it.
Blackmore took head-on the issue of whether robotics will do away with people. He cited the precedent of automobiles, which in their earliest years required human manipulation of multiple functions that today are automated — yet humans are still very much in the driver's seat in determining where a car will go, where it will turn, how fast it will go, etc.
"We would never have a totally, 100%-automated farm," he said. "A farm manager decides which crops to grow, where to grow, what types they are, what rates they want to have. How those decisions are then supported — whether through the cloud, through artificial intelligence, through modeling as we do now, how they'll be implemented in the field — will be done by robots, but they'll only be representing what the farmer wants to do."
A potentially stickier subject will be robotics' impact on the farmworker pool. Blackmore said he believes that the "big tractors" through the decades already have driven down the number of workers per farm. Seasonal labor that conducts repetitive work will go, he said, but permanent labor will stay and will be redeployed to other, more value-added areas of the farm.
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Anterra's Harburg, who worked with U.S. ag-tech startup Soft Robotics before moving to venture capital, suggested that agriculture need look no further than Amazon for a model of how to use robots for base and peak labor while retaining the best and most experienced labor. Yet the transition to robotics is nearly certain to be more difficult for agriculture than it was for Amazon. "If we automate that and robotize that, and [permanent] labor doesn't go away," the farmer doesn't immediately achieve cost savings that may be necessary to implement robotics. "To me, that's a real challenge for agricultural robots," he said.


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It's common that hCG dieters feel as if they're stuffing themselves in order to reach that 500 calorie limit! Human chorionic gonadotropin interacts with the LHCG receptor of the ovary and promotes the maintenance of the corpus luteum during the beginning of pregnancy This allows the corpus luteum to secrete the hormone progesterone through the first trimester.
Moreover, women with undiagnosed uterine bleeding, a history of breast cancer or another gynecologic cancer must not be on HCG. There is also some concern that patients may become weak and might lose muscles to the homeopathic drops, whereas this does not occur with all the injectable HCG.
HCG helped halt the cycle and jump started my new life with all the loss of 25 pounds in 32 days. HCG promotes added hormone production in the entire body, which ensures healthy metabolic and also other body functioning that promotes weight loss success. A little volume of HCG taken through the whole treatment in combination with all the diet, gives a astonishing consequence having an average decrease of weight of three fourths to a pound or more per day when following the plan precisely.
This is the reason the diet along with the drops with this hormone happen to be conceptualized and formulated for this kind of purpose. Don't use HCG without telling your doctor if you are breast feeding a baby. Usually do not self-inject HCG if you usually do not entirely understand how exactly to give the shot and properly dispose of used needles and syringes.
In the event you are carrying it out for a quick fix, then yeah, you'll gain the weight right back" HCG user, Latonia McKinnie included nI don't think anytime you lose weight it's magic, it's a lot of work.
As the most considerable biological source is women that are currently pregnant, some organizations collect urine from pregnant girls to express hCG for use in fertility treatment 12 13. Due to its likeness to LH , hCG can also be utilized clinically to induce ovulation in the ovaries in addition to testosterone production in the testes. It has additionally been implied that hCG levels are linked to the severity of morning sickness in pregnant girls.
HCG diet shots cause the body to mobilize the fat from the fat storage locations, to ensure it is available for use nOther low calorie diets cause a substantial loss of muscle tissue, a decrease in the basal metabolic rate, exhaustion, and skin laxity — and the weight is eventually regained.
A diet plan that offers you the results that you're expecting or perhaps even better results! Through diet, behavior and medication, patients can turn off the "bad" genes and turn on the "good" genes for optimal wellness and stellar weight loss results!
You always need to talk with your doctor before changing or discontinuing your medications. During menses, women commonly won't drop because of the body holding water for menstruation, but thereafter, the weight will drop again.
Her husband, Oliver jump started his weight reduction journey with diy Hcg Drops – his total was 59 pounds and counting. Instead, our hCG diet strategy adopts rediscovered science together with an all-natural application to healthily readjust your body and get it work for you instead of against you. As it does that, the body will have the chance to manage itself so removing unwanted or dangerous materials that get in the way of your fat loss.
Men can help you reach your weight loss targets in a safe, seasoned weight-loss center. The HCG used for the HCG weight-loss protocol is really already found in guys. Several people have reported significant weight loss on the HCG diet.
HCG will help people conquer their food cravings and go by means of this period without the struggling. My wife had attempted everything that was accessible so as to get control of her weight problem. Should you add the cost of the mixing kits, of syringes, solutions and clinic fees, the expenses could be fairly to the high side.
You will see a minimum quantity of exercise will be sufficient for keeping an extremely healthy body- from yoga, to 15 minutes of cardio every day, or whatever you love, that gets your heart moving. This is partly due to your hypothalamus adjusting your metabolic rate, but mainly due to the number of calories circulating in the body from the fat being released.
HCG weight loss is neither a new "fad" diet, nor does it discount the value of homeopathic and all-natural strategies to medically supervised weight loss. The weight loss comes directly from this fat loss and never at the expense of your other body systems. This specialized and distinctive combination of medical weight loss coupled with the all-natural approach is based in the usage of liquid hCG, or human Chorionic Gonadotropin, for successful weight reduction results.


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Nathan Kensinger's Camera Obscura column at Curbed is back this week with a look at the Flushing River in Queens, and a hands-on lesson in nature's persistence, even in the face of decades of human development and destruction.
Kensinger deems it "one of the most tortured waterways in New York City," and as he follows the river's altered four-mile path through Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and into Flushing Bay, it's easy to see why.
Forced along an artificial route, the river emerges from underneath an MTA train yard, transforms into man-made Willow Lake and Meadow Lake, squeezes into narrow canals underneath a maze of highway overpasses, fills the Pool of Industry and the Fountain of the Planets, and passes through an underground pipe into the Pitch 'N Putt pond.
The banks of the waterway are lined with storage facilities, auto repair shops, train tracks and bulkheads; its body is criss-crossed by bridges, highways, and overpasses. Because many of the natural marshlands have been destroyed, the river floods often, even with the slightest rainfall. And as if these indignities weren't enough,
"the area's waters receive approximately 10 truckloads of human feces a year from sewer overflows," according to the Times Ledger.
But Kensinger catches glimmers of hope beneath the sludge and muck, too. Fish and turtles that survive despite the pollution, Parks Department efforts to restore marsh grasses and wetlands, and
The Willow Lake Preserve, which recently reopened. In 2011, the Parks Department planted over 13,000 trees, 5,000 shrubs, and 66,000 herbaceous plants here, according to a sign posted onsite.
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A municipal bond index is essentially a compilation of a number of municipal bonds and their current values or prices. Like any other kind of index, the municipal bond index typically includes previous price information in a line graph form, showing how values have fluctuated in the past. Putting all of the relevant municipal bonds together shows a kind of "average" movement and performance.
Municipal bonds are bonds that are issued by a municipality, such as a town, city, county, or other local government. Many tend to think of municipal bonds as issued by cities, which are generally more "visible" municipalities with large budgets. A municipal bond can be from any municipality, however.
When a municipality engages debt, that party can issue a bond. The bond offers others the opportunity to invest in the municipal debt. Further, municipal bonds can be refinanced and packaged into various types of funds, so that the yield from the bonds is delivered to individual investors.
Traders and analysts use municipal bonds to evaluate the performance of the bond market in general, or of one single municipal bond against the greater set of bonds involved in the index. This can be a good way to "do homework" on a bond investment. Experts are also recommending that investors look at the big picture of a municipal bond or "muni bond" before making it part of a portfolio.
In past eras, financial professionals tended to think of municipal bonds as one of the safest parts of the greater market. The idea was that a municipal bond would not "default" because municipalities always covered their risks. The idea of stable tax revenues also contributed to this way of thinking.
More recently, state governors and other public officials have come forward with troubling news about state and local budgets. Some municipalities have defaulted on municipal bonds. The "muni bond" market seems to still be highly rated by ratings agencies, but some professionals are hinting that the municipal bond may not be the "lock-box" that it previously had been for pension funds and other investments.
A municipal bond index will show how the bond market is responding to any current events, related to either the local economy, or the greater national or global financial realities. Using a municipal bond index will be a strategic way to try to predict value changes for those who have significant money invested in "muni bonds." As with any investment, diversification, equity tracking, and good fund research will help a single investor stay afloat in various volatility events.
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In a world where cellphones make communication possible anytime and anywhere, it has become a priority for many companies to have their calls answered at all times of the day. Stericycle Communication Solutions, a leader in the call center industry, provides live operator services to assist commercial and healthcare businesses process their telephone calls more effectively and efficiently. Whether it's a phone call to a plumber about a leak or a call to a physician about a sick baby or an appointment, we are here to help, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are currently recruiting for front line customer experience agents to help process inbound and outbound calls in one of our many fast-growing call centers across the U.S. No prior customer service or healthcare experience is necessary; however, we do look for energetic, customer centric, detail-oriented individuals who fit in well with our strong company culture. Various shift options, competitive benefits, including tuition reimbursement and paid time-off, are just some of the things you can expect as an employee at Stericycle. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: - Answer urgent and non-urgent phone calls using computer-telephony integration - Provide information, document interactions, or schedule appointments using predefined scripts and templates - Deliver message content back to clients
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Most Delicious Salsa
I've eyed the recipe in the Rebar cookbook for Parmesan corn risotto cakes many times. Of course this was always at times of the year when there was no fresh corn to be had. Finally it happened where I looked at the recipe and I knew I could get fresh corn. I set out to make these one day for lunch for a friend and myself, but without a lot of foresight. The risotto needs time to completely cool before it can be made into cakes. I spread it out on a cookie sheet and put it in the fridge (then was scared that that was the reason our fridge broke but no it wasn't) hoping it would cool down fast enough but it just didn't really work. It was really difficult to shape the corn risotto into balls (oh and did I mention that I completely forgot to add the Parmesan, it still tasted good though!) The next day when I had leftovers, I just took them to work instead of trying to make them into cakes again.
You can really see here how the risotto didn't shape very well into patties.
The risotto is made with corn stock (made using fresh ears of corn that have had the kernels sliced off), shaped into balls, covered in cornmeal, then pan fried. And of course you add the freshly cut corn kernels to the risotto. I had no idea how delicious fresh raw corn is when cut off the cob (and hopefully this is something that's okay to eat and not going to screw up my digestive system or something). The taste of the risotto was good, and the crispy cornmeal bits on the outside were good too. I have definitely discovered that I do not enjoy shaping things into patties and pan frying them though - unless the things I'm pan frying are really going to stick together. One time I tried to make potato patties but I must have let the potatoes boil too long because the patties were too moist - or maybe I should've just added some flour or bread crumbs to them. I really love the idea of risotto balls or risotto cakes (one time I saw Emeril using leftover risotto to make risotto balls that he stuck a piece of cheese in the middle of, then deep fried), so I'd like to say that I'd try it again. But if nothing else, the corn risotto was good on its own (with or without the Parmesan!)
Anyway, it was the grape tomato basil salsa that really stole the show here. I've seen the recipe before and thought I'd like to try it, but salsa was one of the many things I feared making (along with pie crusts savoury and sweet), and it requires fresh basil so I'd prefer to make it in the summer when basil is cheap. (Though now that I know how delicious it is, I'd like to make it all year round.) It was very strange that I had all the ingredients in the house to make this salsa (which was the salsa suggested to go with the Parmesan corn risotto cakes), because I don't usually have grape tomatoes or basil in the house. I'm extremely happy that I did though because this salsa is amazing. Truly truly amazing and so delicious. I will be making it again and again. (Which reminds me that I should make a list somewhere of all my favourite food so I have this wonderful master list to refer to.) There's balsamic vinegar in the salsa which seemed different because I've never had vinegar in a salsa (to my knowledge), but it was oh so good.
I served the cakes and salsa with sauteed zucchini on the side - local yellow zucchini at that. I was very excited about this yellow zucchini, but for some reason it ended up tasting very odd to me, like seafood or something. Now I want to stay away from yellow zucchini, though I really should give it another chance.
I wasn't going to post the recipe for the Parmesan corn risotto cakes but then after I wrote all about it, I'm sure someone might be interested in it so I'll just post both recipes. Though if you're only going to make one of them, make the salsa! Make it soon while things are still in season. If you're looking for other risotto recipes, you can check out the baked sweet potato and beet risotto with peas I made.
Grape Tomato Salsa
(adapted from Rebar)
1 pint grape tomatoes
1 garlic clove, minced
3 scallions, greens only, minced
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
salt and cracked pepper to taste
Slice grape tomatoes into quarters. Toss with remaining ingredients, season to taste.
Parmesan Corn Risotto Cakes
(from Rebar)
Fresh corn stock
4 ears fresh corn, kernels removed and reserved
1 yellow onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves, crushed
2 bay leaves
few springs fresh oregano, parsley or thyme
1 tsp black peppercorns
2 tsp coarse salt
8 cups cold water
Risotto cakes
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 small yellow onion, finely diced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup arborio rice
2 cups fresh corn
1 cup white wine
1 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 cup fine cornmeal
Note: Make the risotto the day before you want to make the cakes so the risotto has lots of time to cool completely. If you just want to eat the risotto and not make cakes, then obviously this doesn't apply.
1. Place stock into a pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and simmer, partially covered, for 45 minutes. Strain to a boil and simmer, partially covered, for 45 minutes. Strain and keep warm (you will need 4-5 cups in total).
2. Heat butter and olive oil in a large heavy saucepan and saute onion and garlic until translucent. Add the rice and cook, stirring until the rice is well coated. Add the corn, season with salt and saute for several minutes. Pour in the wine and simmer until asborbed. Now start adding warm corn stock, one cup at a time. Keep stirring and add the next cup of stock only when most of the liquid is absorbed. Now start adding warm corn stock, one cup at a time. Keep stirring and add the next cup of stock only when most of the liquid is basorbed and the rice still looks creamy. When the rice is tender but the grains still slightly firm to the bite, remove risotto from the heat and stir in the parmesan cheese. (Stop here if you are just making the risotto and not the cakes.) Season to taste and spraed the risotto into a baking pan to speed cooling. Cover and refrigerate.
3. To saute cakes, form the risotto into 2 1/2" round cakes and dredge in cornmeal. Fry in hot olive oil unitl golden and crispy on both sides.


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Hey all,
This is the beta episode of a podcast we're throwing together called "The Waffling Taylors Podcast".
A couple of things that you need to know going in:
- I forgot to bring the microphone
We ended up having to use my laptop's built in mic for this one, as such it sounds a bit weird
almost like we're in a cave
I've cleaned up the audio as well as I can, but there are a few points were Chief Problem and I talk over each other.
- There are a few loud points
We had a few laughs making this podcast, as such we have a few laughs. Chief Problem and I were closer to the microphone than Squidgey was, so you'll hear us laughing louder than him.
- Chief Problem
Chief Problem (or "Chief" as he became known) is a friend of ours and honorary waffler. He joined us for the beta and is willing to join us again
if we can tempt him back, that is.
Show Notes
In the beta episode of our new podcast, we talk with Chief Problem
who decided to go by"Chief" part way through
about the games we have been playing recently.
Here are the games we've been playing:
Squidgey's Recent Games
- Resident Evil Revelations
- Skyrim
Chief Problem's Recent Games
- Metro Redux
- Pro-Evolution Soccer 2018
- Pillars of Eternity
Jay's Recent Games
- Rygar
- Pokemon Blue
We also managed to talk about 56 games in 63 minutes, which averages out at one game every 88 seconds
which has to be some kind of record, right?
But it never feels like we're bouncing between topics - at least it didn't to me.
Games Discussed
For the sake of completeness, here is a list of the games we talked about (in order of appearance):
- Resident Evil Revelations
- Skyrim
- Wolfenstein 2: The New Collossus
- Metro Redux
- Call of Duty: WW2
- Call of Duty
- Medal of Honour (PlayStation)
- Mario Kart
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
- Halo
- Just Cause 3
- Pillars of Eternity
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Diablo
- Neverwinter Nights
- Arc: Survival Evolved
- Rust
- Fallout 3, 4 & New Vegas
- Phantasy Star Online
- Pokemon Gold
- Resident Evil
- Metal Gear Solid 3 & 4
- Resident Evil 5
- Resident Evil Revelations 2
- Ghouls and Goblins
- Die Hard Arcade
- Fighting Force
- Streets of Rage
- Die Hard Trilogy
- Time Crisis
- Duck Hunt
- The House of the Dead
- Rygar
- Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
- Legend of Zelda
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Pokemon Blue
- Mario Odyssey
- 1⁄2 Switch
- Sonic Mania, 2, CD
- Mario Kart 8
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Final Fantasy 7, 8 & 9
- Phantasy Star IV
- Metal Gear Solid
- Castlevania
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
We've already written about some of the games we discussed, so here are some links to those posts:
- Resident Evil Revelations (Part 1, Part 2)
- Phantasy Star Online (PSO Challenge)
- Resident Evil (What a Mansion)
- Rygar (And You Thought Dark Souls Was Hard)
- TMNT (First Summer of Video Games)
External Links of Interest
We discussed a few cool things in this episode and here are links to them:
- How To Trigger Jessica Chobot! (NSFW Language)
- Die Hard Arcade (wikipedia)
- G-Con (wikipedia)
- Bulbasaur isn't the sharpest tool in the box (tumblr)
Links to the music used in the podcast can be found below. Definitely check them out, because they're amazing tracks by awesome musicians.
- Intro music is Behind the Lines by Ian Sutherland (BandCamp)
- Outro Music is I N e e d Y o u 私の側て by G.K (BandCamp)
- Spoiler Break music is Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz (BandCamp)
- Pallet Cleanser music is Breath Deep Breath Clear (Wu Chi) by Siobhan Dakay (ccmixter)
Leave a comment in the section on this page and let us know what you liked, what you didn't like and which games you'd like to hear us waffle on about next time.
Until then,
Game on!


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For reasons I cannot fully comprehend, rhythm games seem to be making a comeback with the announcement of a next-gen Rock Band game. How exciting this must be for those who actually bought the plastic instruments.
I, however, have neither the space nor the money necessary to get such rubbish, so I set out on a search to find a rhythm game from the PS1 era, one that would offer fun and challenging rhythm gameplay with a great soundtrack and cool characters. Disappointed that I'd probably have to play PaRappa the Rapper again, I nearly gave up, until I came across a strange sight on the PS Store.
A rabbit. Drawn in vector graphics. No colour. No filled-in polygons. Barely even a picture.
I had never seen anything like it on the PlayStation, let alone any console going back to the Atari 2600. I instantly knew I had found that game. I had found Vib Ribbon.
If you've never had the pleasure of playing this weird little rarity, you are in for a real treat. Combining a simple but effective graphical style with a soundtrack of insane J-pop (courtesy of the group Laugh and Peace) and a surprisingly deep gameplay that is simple to learn but hard to master, Vib Ribbon is a fun little game that could only have come from Japan. Controlling Vibri the rabbit along that line is addictive and frustrating, but ultimately rewarding on the game's base tracks.
The real meat of the game, however, is being able to use any music CD with the game, generating a unique level from any track off any album you want. Unfortunately, I bought a copy to use with my PSP, so I couldn't use this feature. If anyone can get around that, let me know, or at least let me borrow your PS3.


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National Park
The power of getting back to nature is quite underestimated and anyone of any age can enjoy the wonders of this sanctuary. Waterfalls, lookouts, dense bush and open plains can all be experienced from a number of different ways including walking, picnics, mountain bike riding, horse riding, four wheel driving or even hang gliding. Dynamic Flight Hang Gliding School has been operating full time since 1991 in the Beaufort area and is one of the few hang gliding schools in Australia that operates year round. Their location provides access to a large variety of launch sites which cater for every wind direction.
With such an interesting variety of things to do, visitors are surprised by what can be experienced in both a long or short stay in the area. Come and see for yourself what the Pyrenees has to offer.
Walk through cool fern gullies and alpine plateaus then rest to take in the views across the spreading plains to Langi Ghiran and the Grampians. Experience a night at the charming Beeripmo campground, then descend through spectacular tall forests.
Located one hours drive west of Ballarat, just off the Western Highway, Mt Cole State Forest is 25 kilometres from the township of Beaufort.
The mountain was created 390 million years ago when hot magma pushing up from deep beneath the earth, but failing to break through, crystallised to form granite rock. Daily for millions of years nature continued to sculpt the area eroding the softer sediment, leaving the hard rock protruding from the plains below.
Large native trees including Messmate, Manna Gum, and Blue Gums can be seen on the wetter southern half, while woodland species such as Yellow box and Red Stringybark grow to the north. Plants such as the rare Mt Cole Grevillea can be found in a few locations, as can native orchids and a plethora of wild flowers. Bird watching can be very rewarding with more than 130 species of birds sighted in the forest. Kangaroos, wallabies, echidna, koalas and possums are also often seen.
Mt Cole is a walker's paradise. Whether you have a day or a week to spend here, there is a walk for you:
Beeripmo Walk
Distance 21 km 11 hours 2 day return (moderate) Starting at Richards campground, the most recent walk at Mt Cole is a journey of discovery for the novice and experienced hiker. Walkers can experience a variety of different forest environments from lush forests with ferns, falls with a gentle sound of running water, the brilliant green of the moss covered rocks, weather beaten rocky outcrops and magnificent vistas of the tablelands below and surrounding mountain ranges.
Grevillea Walk
Distance 1.8 km 45 min one way to Richards (moderate) The Glut picnic area is the starting point for this walk that takes you on a short journey through Mt Cole to Richards and return. Other walking tracks in the area include:
Woods Gully Walk
Distance 1.4 km 40 min return (moderate)
Paradise Walk
Distance 9.2 km 4 hours one way (difficult)
Borella Walk
Distance 5 km, 3 hours one way (moderate)
This walk from Chinamans to Ben Nevis is a bird watchers delight. It was named in memory of noted local bird observer Max Borella and offers great lookouts. As the walk can be quite steep in places, it is recommended that you take your time and enjoy the views.
Choose appropriate footwear for the terrain. Solid but lightweight walking boots are best. Avoid sensitive vegetation by staying on the walking tracks. Stay on tracks even if they are rough or muddy. Walking on the track edges and cutting corners on steep `zigzag' tracks will increase the risk of damage to the environment and the risk to personal safety.
Four-wheel driving
Popular for both private and organised 4WD club activities, a range of different forest types and
topographies mean there is something for everyone. Remember that seasonal road closures apply in a number of areas from mid June to early November.
Horse Riding
Riders are welcome to use most areas of the State Forest, the majority of riding opportunities are along existing State Forest roads. Smith's Bridge picnic area provides the best base for horse riding in the Mt Cole area. Horse riding on walking tracks is not permitted.
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What the h*ll is that word?
UKOY ~ U (sounds like the 'o' vowel in TWO); KOY (sounds like COY in McCoy)
Seriously, Ukoy is Shrimp Fritter in Pinoy language.
Ukoy is one of only few (alas!) Pinoy dishes my husband likes. Mr. Wonderful is NOT a foodie. He does not get excited about it; will only eat for the sake of survival, nothing more. Now if you add BEER, then that's a different story there. Anyway, one Christmastime years ago, we discovered a Filipino restaurant somewhere in SoHo, NYC called Manila. No doubt, just the name itself is well-known as the biggest city in the Philippines, the hub of the country. Manila, the restaurant (I don't think it's still around anymore), had a splendid array of regional Filipino dishes, one of which was the UKOY. Mr. Wonderful was amazed with the taste of the dish. He was sold to this dish; wanted me to replicate it. But I couldn't promise him that I would/could. Cooking does not come naturally to me. It's considered an absolutely necessary chore, like ironing; not quite the joy of dancing.
After reading about Ukoy from the blog, Burnt Lumpia, decided it's time to make it. Burnt Lumpia is such an inspiration to me. First, because Marvin loves to cook. He's dedicated himself to hang on to his parents' heritage especially when it came to cooking. He's detail-oriented. Second, he's one funny guy.
So, the best person to describe this dish would be Marvin. I promised him that I was going to test-cook this dish. I did mention to Marvin I was going to make the dish on my husband's birthday. However, the hubby requested prime rib instead and I never mentioned about the Ukoy. I did buy the ingredients at that time and I really, really wanted to make the dish soon enough. And here it is. So check out Marvin's blog for the recipe, while I provide that not-so-great photos of my attempt on the dish.
My only substitute to Burnt Lumpia's Ukoy recipe was jicama for the red onion; and added mushrooms as well. And the sweet potato and jicama were roughly cut since I do not have a mandolin to finely julienne them. Also, PATIS (fish sauce) was not included in the batter. That would have been a HUGE TURNOFF for the hubby; it has a strong smell and taste that some non-Asian folks have a hard time getting used to. However, having no patis around, a store-bought Fish Sauce for Springroll was substituted. Good enough. And not as smelly.
The dish is a success! Mr. Wonderful asked for seconds and thirds.


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Official: 54 killed in Republican Guard clashes
CAIRO – A medical source from Egypt's health ministry said on Wednesday that 54 people were killed and 480 were injured in Monday's clashes.
Violent confrontations erupted between supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi and security forces by the Republican Guard's headquarters in Cairo on Monday.
The source added that no women or children were killed in the clashes, according to the state news agency MENA.
He added that 293 of the wounded have been dismissed from the local hospitals where they were admitted for treatment while 187 remain hospitalized.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Mohamed Ibrahim El-Beltagy, a Brotherhood MP, described the incident during dawn prayers after police had stormed the site, as a "massacre".
The MB version of events claim that at around 3:30 in the morning, army and police forces started firing at sit-in protesters in front of the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo. Morsi-supporters believe that security forces are holding him captive in the Republican Guard building.
A post on the New York Times' The Lede, includes a video that appears to show how the attack on the protesters started.
A subsequent post shows how photojournalist Ahmed Assem for the MB newspaper Freedom and Justice was killed by an army sniper he killed. According to The Lede
on Wednesday, the victim's brother said in a telephone interview that the family planned to take legal action against the soldier, whose image was captured on video a split-second before the fatal shot was fired.
Source: Aswat Masriya Al Jazeera.


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