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Handmade in the Colorado Rockies, Moots' Mooto X Frame delivers precise steering, unreal climbing, and the magical ride of seamless Moots 3/2.5 titanium. Moots takes their proven geometry and pairs it with 29-inch wheels for extra traction and rollover capability in all terrain. The Mooto X strikes an ideal balance between incredible cornering prowess and the ability to float over rocks, roots, and dips with ease. It also boasts an oversize head tube for stiffness, a formed down tube, and shaped stays so you can run big tires. Build up your Mooto X and experience a whole new world of buttery-smooth off-road speed and control!
Moots knows exactly how it feels to zip on that race number plate, toe the line, and turn yourself inside out while adrenaline courses through your body—they built the Mooto X RSL for just those moments. This impeccable XC race bike is built with the highest grade, US-sourced 3/2.5 seamless butted titanium for low weight, high stiffness, and pure speed. Moots also includes a 44mm head tube, a PressFit 30 BB, and an oversize seat tube so the Mooto X dominates punchy climbs, rails high-speed turns, and rockets off the line to grab the holeshot. Moots' proven geometry and the big 29-inch wheels come together to create a wickedly fast magic carpet that'll make you a regular on the podium.
Moots' objective in building the Mooto-X RSL 29er is the same as yours every time you twist-tie on a number plate: winning! Their finest XC race bike is built with the highest grade 3/2.5 seamless butted titanium for low weight, high stiffness and pure speed. Moots also includes an oversize head tube, a PressFit 30 BB and an oversize seat tube so every climb seems smaller, high-speed turns are carved tighter and holeshot sprints are yours for the taking. Of course, the magical ride of a Moots is still here, and it's further enhanced by their size-specific tubing. Combine this with Moots' proven geometry and 29-inch wheels, and you've got an XC rocket that will make you a regular on the top step of the podium.
The Mooto-X YBB is Moots' most popular mountain bike, and for good reason! It's made from seamless 3/2.5 Ti with Moots' renowned pivotless YBB suspension that takes the edge off of bumpy trails with just over an inch of travel so you can log some serious saddle time. No air, no oil, no pump needed—the legendary YBB rear end is simple, effective and virtually maintenance free! At the other end, Moots' oversize head tube boosts front-end stiffness for excellent steering precision through twisty turns and rocky downhills alike. From solo jaunts in the backcountry to leg-burning XC races, the Mooto-X YBB has the speed and skills to keep you riding your best!
$4,960.00 - $5,070.00
Moots' Psychlo X RSL is designed and built to dismantle the toughest cyclocross courses in the world. Moots uses their painstakingly shaped, custom-butted 3/2.5-titanium tubing to pare weight down to an absolute minimum. This careful construction also imbues the RSL with the legendarily smooth ride ti is known for. An oversize PressFit 30 bottom bracket shell and tapered chainstays give you out-of-this-world power transfer. While the 44mm head tube and Moots carbon RSL fork offer outstanding cornering precision and control. And, there's a flattened, shoulder-friendly top tube, too. Mud, barriers and the competition are no match for you and your Psychlo X RSL!
$3,850.00 - $3,960.00
For dusty, all-day gravel grinders; epic dirt road descents; fire roads that climb to the cerulean heavens; twisty, off-camber forgotten paths; or for the discerning rider who simply wants a do-it-all bike that does it all incredibly well, there's Moots' Routt 45. Moots uses their painstakingly shaped, custom-butted 3/2.5-titanium tubing to pare weight down to an absolute minimum while still maintaining excellent strength. This careful construction also imbues the Routt with the legendarily smooth ride ti is known for. As an evolution of their Psychlo X cyclocross race bike, the Routt is a bit lower and has a more forgiving geometry for miles and miles of hard-packed fun. Taking paved streets? Throw some 23c tires on. Leaving the asphalt for the peaceful openness of unnamed dirt roads? Toss on up to 44mm-wide 'cross tires. Whether you choose the Moots carbon RSL fork and canti brakes or a disc-ready ENVE carbon fork, the front end, with its beefy 44mm tapered head tube, offers outstanding cornering precision and control. And, cables are routed along the top tube to stay clear of any mud or dirt you may pick up along the way. For those routes less traveled, travel on Moots' Routt.
Since 1981, Moots frames have been handcrafted in Steamboat Springs, Colorado by a talented group of dedicated riders and master welders who understand what a bike should do and how it should ride. All that experience culminates in their Vamoots CR Frameset. It boasts aerospace-grade 3/2.5 titanium, a svelte carbon fork, and dialed geometry for a telepathic feel and dreamy ride. The CR accelerates, corners, and climbs with aplomb. Even more, the titanium tubes soak up rough roads so you enjoy luxurious comfort, too. The CR's brilliant ride will motivate you while its impeccable craftsmanship, which has made the Moots name legendary, will inspire you.
Moots' craftsmanship goes well beyond gorgeous welds and dialed geometry; with the Vamoots DR, you get a tailor-made ride for long days in the saddle. Utilizing U.S.-made titanium throughout paired to an ENVE carbon fork, the Vamoots DR is light and snappy for exceptional handling, not to mention vibration damping for hours-long comfort on backroads, gravel, or tarmac. Features abound, such as clearance for 28mm tires, a full 44mm head tube for precise steering, a bump-minimizing 27.2mm seatpost diameter, and a disc-ready rear end for reliable, powerful stopping power. Acceleration, cornering, climbing: Moots has thought of everything, and it's all right here in the Vamoots DR.
$7,000.00 - $14,025.00
If we may be so bold, this is simply the best titanium bike out there. You're looking at Moots because you're already familiar with their quality control, their precision welds, and their timeless style. What sets this model apart from the rest of their line-up is the use of oversized 3/2.5 titanium tubing to maximize performance and their use of seamlessly-drawn 6/4 ti to allow for a smooth, yet connected ride. The description that is constantly over-used in the industry is "laterally stiff while vertically compliant", but this bike really manages to provide a race-level pedaling platform that will please the most aggressive sprinters while being comfortable enough for all-day club rides. There are those that overlook titanium because of the weight penalty over some of the lightest carbon offerings. This frame has weighed in for us at 1220 grams for a 56cm. While this is not as light as some of the carbon offerings in that price range, it's not far off. As a comparison, a Parlee Altum in that size has weighed in at 790g, a Pinarello Dogma hovers around 1100g, depending on the paint job, a Bianchi XR2 is a 1040g frame. When you consider the 454gram to 1 lbs conversion, you're talking about a frame that's within a pound of some of the best bikes on the market, but with the ability to get custom sizing and lifetime durability. If you're a techie, this frame has all the features that you would expect in a bike of this caliber. It has an oversized 44mm head tube for a tapered fork (to improve steering precision), it has a PF30 bottom bracket shell to help maximize torsional and lateral stiffness, it has CNC'd drop-outs, and of course Di2, EPS or eTap compatibility. Moots has recently added finish options such as polished logs, anodizing, and engraved head tubes.
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Year: 1941
Manufacturer(s): Iver Johnson / FMA - USA
Roles: Frontline/Assault;
Manufacturer(s): Iver Johnson / FMA - USA
Roles: Frontline/Assault;
Action: Semi-Automatic; Short-Recoil; Rotating Bolt
Caliber(s): .30-06 Springfield; 7x57mm Mauser
Sights: Adjustable Iron Rear; Iron Front.
Overall Length: 1,165 mm (45.87 in)
Barrel Length: 559 mm (22.01 in)
Weight (Unloaded): 9.50 lb (4.31 kg)
Caliber(s): .30-06 Springfield; 7x57mm Mauser
Sights: Adjustable Iron Rear; Iron Front.
Overall Length: 1,165 mm (45.87 in)
Barrel Length: 559 mm (22.01 in)
Weight (Unloaded): 9.50 lb (4.31 kg)
Muzzle Velocity: 2,840 feet-per-second (866 meters-per-second)
Operators: Canada; Chile; Cuba; Netherlands; Philippines; United States; United Kingdom
The Johnson Model 1941 maintained a most unique appearance as the rotary magazine created a contoured bulge along the underside of the body, just ahead of the trigger group. This proved the identifying characteristic for this rifle from then on. The pistol grip was integrated as a rifle-style handle into the two-piece wooden stock while the wood design also continued just ahead of magazine area to act as a foregrip. The upper portion of the receiver was metal with the forward portion being vented to help cooling of the barrel. The thin barrel itself protruded out from the body upper body and detailed only by an integrated foresight just aft of the muzzle and an underslung forward sling fitting. An iron sight was adjustable along the upper rear of the receiver. A second sling attachment was fitted under the stock behind the main grip, forward of the butt.
The Model 1941 made use of the .30-06 Springfield or the 7x57mm Mauser cartridge, firing from a short-recoil, rotating bolt action. The short recoil firing principle called upon a combined movement of the bolt and barrel. The overall distance utilized by the firing action was less than the cartridge's overall length (opposite of the long-recoil process). While the barrel's movement eventually stopped, the bolt would continue on its way to the rear, eventually activating the ammunition feed mechanism for the successive shot. Muzzle velocity was listed at 2,840 feet per second. The feed system was made up of a detachable internal rotary magazine cylinder holding the 10 ready-fire cartridges. This could be added to at any time by way of stripper clips. Overall weight of the rifle was a manageable 9.5lbs. Overall length topped 45.5 inches with the barrel making up 22 inches of this length. The Model 1941 was designed with a removable barrel which produced a shorter overall rifle - this helpful in general storage of the weapon or in aerial jumps conducted by paratroopers where a compact weapon reigned supreme .
The short-recoil action of the M1941 eventually worked against the design. The distinct barrel action made heavy use of bayoneting actions something to be desired and such action could promote malfunctions in the gun itself. The recoil action was also known to produce "vertical shot dispersion". In general, reliability soon proved an issue with complicated M1941 once in the field when compared to the M1 Garand.
The US Army evaluated the M1941 but rejected it in favor of the M1 Garand, a rifle design receiving much more in the way of attention and financing. Nevertheless, the US Marine Corps took on deliveries of M1941 rifles that were intended for the Netherlands to be used in the Dutch East Indies. These rifles were earmarked for the region but Japanese expansion now dictated that the USMC could make better use of the rifle. The M1941 proved a modern upgrade for the USMC and fired the common .30-06 Springfield round from a then-hefty ammunition count.
Some M1941s eventually reprised their battlefield roles in the post-war world, the most notable of these actions being in the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba.
Variants / Models
• Model 1941 - Base Production Designation

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I am building a cab booking application, and I need to differentiate the various cabs in the vicinity by their age. Age in the sense how long back did they update their current location. If they update their location frequently enough, I need a good green color. But if they dont update for a while, then I need the customer to know that this cab is kind old, and gradually take this cab out of the list.
I have tried color combinations of green (good), yellow (not updated for 5 mins), grey (not updated for 2 hours). But the more I think of it the more I need the age to be subtle, and not so drastic in its colors.
I need shades of green to just pass on the message without giving the feeling of "oh my god, so many old cabs on the system". I hope I am clear. I need help to decide what shades of green can I use for this purpose. I have thought of these color shades


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Souvenir Circ. has unveiled the first footage from the PlayStation Vita version of it's upcoming hack-and-slash title Croixleur Sigma.
The game originally released on the PC, with a PlayStation 4 version following that released on March 5th. Playism are currently busy at work preparing both the PlayStation Vita and the PlayStation 4 versions for a western release.
The short clip below is said to be 'test' footage, released to give PlayStation Vita fans a taste of what the game will look like on the handheld.
Let us know what you think of the footage in the comments below, and be sure to keep an eye on the site for more news on Croixleur Sigma in the coming months!


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WallBlank prints now up
Just a quick update: I mentioned I was having some prints produced a few days ago; they've now been added to WallBank. I wrote up the process in Vector Output, so go have a read if you're curious about how I did it. I have a print sitting on my desk, the paper is a thick high quality archival stock, and the ink is quite a bit richer than the on-site preview.
In an interesting case of things coming around full circle, apparently the whole idea behind WallBlank's site was inspired by a post I wrote on the main blog last year. Seems only fitting that I'd contribute something sooner or later.
Bring on the Trig
2Π. Pythagorean. SOH CAH TOA. Conjures up terms of grade 10, doesn't it? I had to go waaay back into the memory banks to even pull out a starting point for a recent trigonometry refresher.
It started like this: I had an idea to plot some points on a sphere. Now, I understand with some crafty use of the
rotate() function I'd probably be able to get by without doing the math myself, but I guess I had the urge to dig a bit deeper in case I need to really know this (again) at some point.
So I started light and plotted some random points around a circle. By setting the X coordinate, I can reverse the Pythagorean equation enough to work out the math for the Y coordinate:
X = random(0 - radius, radius);
Y = sqrt(pow(radius, 2) - pow(X, 2));
That only gets me a positive value for Y though, which renders as a semicircle. So a bit more randomization was necessary to get the full circle:
int rev = int(random(0, 2));
if (rev == 1) {
Y = sqrt(pow(radius, 2) - pow(X, 2));
} else {
Y = 0 - sqrt(pow(radius, 2) - pow(X, 2));
Which doesn't strike me as terribly elegant, but that's about the limit of my coding ability.
So that was the start. Now that I can plot individual points around a circle, why not use something other than points? With some fairly basic
box() objects and various rotations and transformations, things get interesting quickly:
I still haven't gotten the math for the sphere down yet, though. That was a "walk away for now, and come back to it in a few days" type of problem.
Reading a Google Docs Spreadsheet
There doesn't seem to be much on the web specifically about tying together Processing and Google Docs, but it's fairly simple when you realize the latter has a ton of export options that work pretty easily with Processing. I'm starting with CSV, though the option to work with XML will likely come in handy down the line.
Starting with a spreadsheet filled with a few dozen values, I can get at the CSV with a simple export:
loadStrings function pulls in a local file or a remote URL as a String array:
String[] inputFileLines;
inputFileLines = loadStrings(
"http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub? ->
It's fairly trivial to walk through the array and do something useful with the numbers:
inputFileIndex = 0;
while (inputFileIndex < inputFileLines.length) {
String pieces = inputFileLines[inputFileIndex];
if (pieces.length() > 0) {
// do stuff with the 'pieces' string here,
The data exists as strings though, so it's probably more useful to convert each value to
float() or
int() before using it. With the simple CSV file I linked up earlier as a source, I used the basic loop to assign the data points as the radii values for each of a set of spheres plotted randomly along the Y axis, or the height of a set of bars slightly tilted along the X axis:
If we were to say the linear-increasing X value is time, that makes for a couple of fun 3D graphs that even Tufte can be proud of. (Or not.)
Vector Output
After some idle speculation about taking my last posted sketch further, I've been going back and forth with a boutique print site called Wall Blank about doing a run of prints. This may be as far as I take them, or it may just be the tip of the iceberg; but more on that later (whenever I figure it out).
The immediate challenge was outputting something usable in print. I saw two options; figure out a way to use a canvas thousands of pixels across for the sake of saving out a bitmapped screen grab as a file high-resolution enough to print, or, instead find a way to output as vector.
The latter is clearly the better option and it turns out Processing has a built in PDF library that does all the hard work for you. It's not totally straightforward; you can't just dump the screen contents to a file, instead you have to capture the entire
draw loop from the start and save that out. But even that is fairly simple. My draw loop ended up something like this:
void draw() {
// setup the PDF save
if (writePDF) {
beginRecord(PDF, "frame-####.pdf");
// draw things here
// now that the draw buffer is full,
// dump the contents to a file
if (writePDF) {
writePDF = false;
writePDF variable was an important check; without it I'd be writing PDFs on every frame. Instead I can toggle it on keypress and just capture a single frame:
void keyPressed() {
// if 'p' is pressed, save out a PDF
if (int(key) == 112) {
writePDF = true;
The resulting PDFs are surprisingly svelte; 8000 ellipses saved out to about files around 110k. My PNG screen grabs are usually at least 4 times as large.
What was particularly fun about this project is that I dared to ask whether each print could be unique, or if we were stuck working with the same source PDF for each print. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the printer was totally cool with printing a unique file for each one of the 100-print series, and happy to take advantage of that. With a slight modification to my draw loop:
void draw() {
if ((createStuff > 0) && (createStuff < 101)) {
beginRecord(PDF, "print-####.pdf");
if ((createStuff > 0) && (createStuff < 101)) {
...all I had to do was hit a key and wait about a minute, and voila, 100 totally unique prints, but united as a series with a common palette.
I'll make sure to mention it again on here when the prints are available for purchase, probably closer to the end of August.
I meant to move on from all-ellipses all-the-time already, but I wanted to try some interaction effects. While adapting one of my previous sketches, I stumbled on this neat marble effect that I've been playing with for a few days. Though it started as a happy accident, it's good enough that I think I might actually take this one further and produce some sort of tangible item.
But that's going to take some time and research. In the meantime, here are a few conveniently wallpaper-sized images I've saved out, feel free to nab one for your desktop:
Or, of course, for your iPhone:
Recursive Trees
I spent the better part of this past week trying my hand at creating a decent-looking recursive tree, in between all the sweating this heat wave is causing.
Maybe it's the heat but I think I'm ready to throw in the towel. I got the recursion working reasonably well, but the branch curves look terrible, and most of the logical adjustments I wanted to make ended up in division by zero for some reason I couldn't track down.
Like, a
for loop starting from zero and incrementing
i on each iteration; I get that for the first iteration
i = 0 so you'd think this equation should work, right?
variation = multiplier / (i + 1);
But no such luck. "Division by zero" error. My actual code is more complicated of course, but that's the essence of it; the loop is just not behaving as I'd have expected.
So I think for now it's time to put this sketch to bed and move on to something else. Shame, I had some interesting things I wanted to do with the trees eventually.
Dot Cube
I'm back to dots again. This time I'm stacking them in an orderly cube, and with the random palette some of them look pretty darn good.
I can't get this one exported into anything usable in a browser for some reason; the applet that Processing creates just doesn't want to run. I suspected the photos I'm using to generate the palette are to blame, but after hitting up the troubleshooting guide I appear to be doing everything right. The main symptom (aside from not running) is that the exported applet is only sized to 100×100 in the browser, which is a) wrong and b) strange.
Anyway, in lieu of something you can play with, here are some screen caps:
If for some reason you really really trust me, you can download the native applications Processing generates (Mac OS X, Windows, both around 2.5MB) and play with them on your own system. No guarantees they won't hose your computer, but, they shouldn't.
(Use the mouse to rotate the cube, press a or z to zoom in and out — or the mousewheel, but that's buggy — and you can kind of drag it up and down to reposition, though that doesn't work well either. Hit the spacebar for a fresh palette. Oh, and s will save out a PNG of the current frame if you're so inclined.)
Bezier Stalks
So after yesterday's Bezier celebration I thought I'd try a more structured approach and see if I couldn't capture some interesting movement. Reducing the number of objects down to 3600 and plotting them along a grid as a start, I got the end points and curves moving along Perlin-assisted paths in kind of a wind-blown look.
Still all in 3D space of course, so I saved out a quick capture with some viewpoint shifts and generated palettes. (With the latter you can pretty clearly see that not everything that's generated is usable since I have to cycle through a few different palettes before I get something decent).
Bezier Blossoms
Bezier curves are hard enough to get the hang of in a graphics program with visual handles, but plotting the handles in 3D space is a whole new ball of wax.
I played around a bit tonight with about 80,000 of them by rotating from the origin and randomizing both the endpoint and the end handle of each curve with Perlin noise. The results are neat:
By keeping track of the coordinates of each line I can manipulate the entire blossom in 3D space, though at 80,000 lines it's a pretty slow refresh. I added an animation loop too, to get each line swaying a little; it works well with a few thousand, but not when the numbers get this high.
I'm also sticking with this photo-generated palette idea; it's a great way to get a bunch of interesting colours in a hurry that don't clash too badly. I've upped the photo pool to 10, and one is selected randomly each time the palette is generated. Each of the above examples only uses 5 colours, but I can change that number to whatever; the previous example used something like 25.
Generated Palette
Okay, the generated palette idea was easier than I thought. Importing the photo into an off-screen buffer and grabbing some random pixel values makes for a fairly quick and easy way of generating an interesting palette. Here's the photo:
And here are a few of the results:


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I have a REST API which is fairly typical, except that the id's of resources are not integers, but strings, which often contain
/ characters. So if a customer's id is
string/with/slashes then the URI for that customer should be
http://localhost/customers/string%2Fwith%2Fslashes. When returning a list of customers, I want to construct that URI with a UriBuilder so I can put it in the href of ATOM-style link elements. But it doesn't quite work; here's a small test class that shows what I mean:
public class JerseyTest {
public Customer getCustomer(@PathParam("{id}") String id) {
return null;
public static void main(String[] args) {
buildURI("string#with#hashes"); // => http://localhost/customers/string%23with%23hashes
buildURI("string/with/slashes"); // => http://localhost/customers/string/with/slashes
public static void buildURI(String id) {
UriBuilder builder = UriBuilder.fromUri("http://localhost");
builder.path(JerseyTest.class).path(JerseyTest.class, "getCustomer");
URI uri = builder.build(id);
#'s get encoded as I would expect but the
/'s don't. I tried using
builder.build(URLEncoder.encode(id)) instead, but then the UriBuilder encodes the
%'s so you get
It seems inconsistent to me that it encodes
# and
% but not
/, but I suspect there is a good reason for it which I am not seeing. So my question is:
- How can I get UriBuilder to give me
.../string%2Fwith%2Fslashes, which is the URI that causes Jersey to call
idequal to
string/with/slashes? edit: I discovered a way to solve this:
builder.buildFromEncoded(URLEncoder.encode(id)). Leaving this question open though, in hopes of getting an answer to the second part...
- More generally, why does
UriBuilder.buildencode some special characters, but not others?
I found How do I encode URI parameter values?, where the accepted answer says "Use UriBuilder." Well, I am using it, but apparently I'm using it incorrectly.


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Hello shopaholics,
How is your weekend going on so far? I'm on a 2 Broke Girls Marathon today and already finished one whole season. Anyway coming back to the post for today…
You know how online shopping has taken over the whole of the country in the recent years and everybody now just looks for deals and sales on their favorite online websites all the time. Coupons and cashbacks are a new and interesting way to attract customers to a certain website and it surely does benefit us to save some extra cash. If you read my blogs regularly, I'd recently spoken about a cashback website and today I'll be talking about how you can get some great deals and coupons to shop on your favorite e-commerce websites with the help of the well known website CouponzGuru.com.
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One of the leading coupons and daily deals website in India since 2011 and is also one of the first coupon websites to start in India They started their journey in 2011 with around 10-15 merchants like Makemytrip, Yatra, Myntra, Snapdeal and few more, since then theyhave been growing along with Indian E-Commerce Eco System. They are adding new merchants on their website almost daily and the merchant list is growing. They validate and check each and every coupon manually to make sure that correct information is provided to the users.
When I visited CouponzGuru, I was impressed with the user-friendly and well organized website and they had coupons from various categories like Shopping, Travel, Food and even Banking. Banking is a category which I haven't found in many of it counterparts and it was definitely a great way to attract customers by various online shopping websites. The basic agenda of the website is to direct you to the sale of the website you choose for. The homepage has the "Hot deals" and "offers of the day" displayed and it's super easy to navigate to the respective websites.
Here's a quick and easy step-by-step procedure for you all:
- Enter in your desired website's name in the search bar on top
- The search results will show all the deals and coupons available for that particular website. Click on "Get this Coupon" for the desired deal.
- It'll show you the coupon code which you can copy and click on "Go to Offer Page" and that's it. Shop like the usual way once it's redirected to the online shopping website.
You can easily grab the best discounts offered by popular online shopping sites like Yatra.com, Jabong, Flipkart, Askme.com, MakeMyTrip etc. You'll never miss a deal on your favorite products from clothes to electronics to even travel tickets by using CouponzGuru. Now let's see some Pros and Cons :
- User-friendly interface. Easy navigation to the desired websites.
- Valid and updated coupons everyday.
- Large variety of websites available to choose from.
- Large spectrum of categories available like Food, Fashion, Electronics, Grocery etc.
Cons: Maybe include coupons for international shopping websites.
Ratings: 4.7/5
This website is definitely a yayy for me and I would suggest you all to checkout CouponzGuru.Com for coupons whenever you are shopping online to get great offers and deals and save some extra bucks.
Have you ever used online coupons from CouponzGuru? Do you have more websites to suggest? Make sure to comment below and let me know everything. Also don't forget to participate in my giveaway happening on Facebook and Instagram.
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Joe Stratford from Catch the Fire in Toronto, Ontario, Canada brings us these simply created letters.
To create this they projected letters onto white Coroplast and cut them out with a jigsaw. They hung the letters with fishing line from their truss. They had some normal light bulbs that they hung randomly from their lighting truss as well to add another element.
Overall cost was $100.


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Going on a trip this summer? Check out Domestic CEO's 4 tips for how to create a super-efficient packing list
When I was about 7-years-old, I started going to summer camp. My first years at camp were for just a night or two, but I quickly developed a love for camp. It was a time for me to meet new friends, learn new skills, and most importantly, I got to learn how to pack a suitcase. In all seriousness, making my packing list and getting everything to fit in my suitcase quickly became my favorite summer activity. The 6 weeks leading up to camp were spent modifying my packing list, deciding which luggage I was going to take, and figuring out how to pack a suitcase with enough clothes for my weeks away from home.
To this day, I still pride myself on being an expert in how to pack a suitcase, so every time Mr. Domestic CEO and I go on a trip, I get a little giddy with excitement. If you are planning a summertime vacation or simply want a few more tips on how to pack, then my next few episodes are for you. I'm going to give you my best packing tips to help you get trip off on the right foot.
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This episode will focus on the importance of a packing list. A packing list is the best way to make sure you don't under or over pack for any trip. Think back to your last vacation. When you were 3 days into your vacation, did you find yourself at a local store picking up sunscreen, lotion, or makeup that you forgot to pack? Worse yet, did you have to find a store to purchase a few pairs of underwear because they didn't make it into your suitcase? Or, at the end of your vacation did you have more clean clothes than dirty ones? Were you cursing the fact that you had to pay 2 baggage fees to the airline when you could have gotten everything into one suitcase? If you answered yes to any of these questions, I would put money on the fact that you didn't create a packing list for your trip.
To avoid this sort of calamity in the future, here are my first 4 packing list tips:
Packing Tip #1: Consider the Culture
When creating a packing list, start by considering the culture you are going to visit. Last year I went out to New York City to visit the wonderful Quick and Dirty Tips team at their headquarters. I had created a great packing list, packed just enough clothes to get me through the week, and was super excited to be visiting a city so different from Phoenix.
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Well, it took me about 5 minutes after exiting the airplane to realize that I had packed completely wrong for this metropolitan city. In Phoenix, we wear a lot of light colored clothes. When I stepped onto the subway, I soon realized that all the peach, pink, and yellow clothes I brought made me look like Suzy Sunshine in a sea of black and grey. Ultimately, after I had worn the only pair of jeans I brought so much that they could stand up on their own, I ran to a store and bought a few pieces that I could mix and match to tone down the be beachy feel of my clothes. My packing list should have included more jeans, less yellow skirts, and definitely more flat shoes.
Now, I realize that my lack of research in this situation is more comical than catastrophe, but there are a number of countries where a lack of research can get you in trouble. Does the country you are visiting frown upon women wearing clothes that show off their legs? Imagine you arrive in one of these countries with your shorty shorts and knee-length skirts. Your lack of cultural research may actually cause you problems because you are actively showing disrespect to the local culture. Doing just a little research on the area you're visiting will help you decide which items in your closet can make it onto your packing list.


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A month ago, when the fate of the historic (and now concluded) gas deal between Russia and China was still unknown we wrote that "Isolated Russia Makes Friends: To Hold Military Drill With China", a drill titled "Maritime Cooperation-2014", and which, coincidentally, is taking place in the northern part (ahem Japan and Taiwan) of the East China Sea, just as Russia is conducting another massive airforce drill along its border with Ukraine on the weekend of Ukraine's presidential election.
As part of the drill, which is taking place between May 20 and 26, the Chinese and Russian naval vessels conducted maneuvers in the exercise area covering such missions as joint escort, joint rescue the hijacked ship, a joint verification of identification and joint air, sea assault on joint exercises and other subjects.
Here are some snapshots of what has taken place so far
Chinese and Russian warships lined a single column appeared and began firing drills.
More ships sailing in single line.
Russian warships appeared.
Chinese and Russian warships lined up in a column appeared, ready for sea, air and underwater targets firing.
Destroyer "Zhengzhou" , the supply ship "Qiandaohu" and destroyer "Ningbo"
Ship missile destroyer Harbin firing guns
Missile destroyer Ningbo.
Missile destroyer Ningbo fires its auxiliary ship-to-air gunds
Missile destroyer Ningbo firing its gun
Resulting rocket depth
Russian cruiser Varyag, flagship of the Pacific fleet
Russian warship Admiral Panteleev
Varyag again, with Ka-27 helicopter in background
Liuzhou ship missile frigate conducting real fire drill. At 8:00 on the 24th of May, the first surface ship fleet ship missile destroyer Ningbo, again sounding the alarm combat exercises, joint anti-submarine exercises in full swing. The formation was composed of three warships conducting the submarine search.
The Zhengzhou missile destroyer first discovered the "enemy" submarines, reported the fleet command, guiding Russia "Admiral Panteleyev" large anti-submarine ship-borne helicopters sent successfully implemented on the target submarine attack.
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LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga. – The 12th-ranked Huntingdon baseball team split with Covenant in a doubleheader on Saturday but finished the weekend with another USA South Athletic Conference series win.
Huntingdon lost the first game on Saturday 6-4 before closing the day with a 16-1 win in eight innings. Huntingdon won the first game of the series 12-10 on Friday.
The series win was the fifth for Huntingdon (20-7, 12-5 USA South) in six conference series this season.
Wes Powell, Tri Overby, Garrett Breland, Chris Fisher, Heath Haskins and Colton Clark combined for 18 of Huntingdon's 22 hits in the doubleheader, 11 RBIs and 14 runs.
Powell was 5-for-9 with five runs and an RBI on Saturday and finished the three-game series 7-for-14 with six runs and two RBIs. Breland had three hits and three RBIs on Saturday and finished the series 8-for-14 with seven RBIs, two doubles and a triple. Fisher had three hits and four runs in the final two games and ended the series 7-for-13 with six runs and four RBIs.
Overby was 3-for-6 with three RBIs in the final two games, Haskins had two hits, four RBIs and three runs in the doubleheader and Clark had two hits and two runs on Saturday.
In Saturday's win, Huntingdon scored three runs in the first three innings and added four runs in the fourth inning. Leading 8-1 after six innings, Huntingdon put the game away with four runs in the seventh inning and four runs in the eighth inning.
Powell was 3-for-4 with four runs and an RBI in the game, Fisher was 2-for-5 with three runs, Overby was 2-for-5 with three RBIs and two doubles and Clark was 2-for-5 with two runs. Haskins had three RBIs and two runs, Will Cosby had two RBIs and two runs and Adams Bragg had two runs and an RBI. Breland had two RBIs and Bradley Harris scored one run.
Wallace Henry (5-1) earned the win in seven innings. Henry struck out three, walked three, gave up six hits and allowed one run. Josh Stevens pitched the final inning, striking out two, walking one and allowing one hit.
In Saturday's loss, Huntingdon scored two runs in the first inning and two runs in the middle innings to carry a 4-4 tie into the seventh inning. Covenant (12-14, 5-9 USA South) scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to take the lead for good.
Powell had two hits and a run in the game and Breland had two hits and an RBI. Haskins drove in one run and scored one run and Fisher and Danny Coleman Jr. each scored one run.
Jacob Munn (2-1) took the loss.
Records: Huntingdon (20-7, 12-5 USA South); Covenant (12-14, 5-9 USA South)
Coming Up: Huntingdon plays at Belhaven on Wednesday at 4 p.m.


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Litecoin is not dead, waiting for SegWit
The future of Cryptocurrency in the marketplace
According to a poll done by the Recent street wall journal, 83% of people believe that cryptocurrency has a future and will play an enormous significance in our lives in the Next 5 to 10 years. Since 2013, more than 700 crypto-currencies entered the marketplace. Bitcoin is the leading currency in the marketplace while Litecoin is the seventh largest currency in the marketplace. Litecoin can become the dominant currency for e-commerce. It might supplement bitcoin and other alternatives like Ethereum, Ripple, Dash, Monero in the nearest future.
Satoshi created bitcoins (digital gold version) as a counterfeit to mimic the scarcity of gold. According to research done by Samantha Sharf, 90% of bitcoin users hoard their currency and view it as an investment to wealth rather than a currency for transactions. Therefore, they do not spend bitcoin as a common currency. Many people purchased bitcoins at its worthless stage. After 2 years, the bitcoins became hard drives many times their weight in gold.
Will Litecoin be more popular than Bitcoin?
Litecoin has gained popularity since Charles Lee released the crypto-currency via an open source on Github in 2011. Litecoin is a crypto-coins created by mining. While Bitcoin uses SHA256 for mining, Litecoin uses scrypt algorithm for mining. In November 2013, Litecoin became one of the largest currency used to buy and sell on the dark web as it gained (100% leap within 24 hours) with a $1 billion market cap. In 2016, the market capitalization grew to $177 billion dollars.
Litecoin (poor man's Bitcoin) hasn't gained popularity like Bitcoin but has a future because it can process 4 times bitcoin transactions in 10 minutes. In 2015, bitcoin block discussion became popular in many forums, and customers seek for an immediate network with large transactional capability. According to research done in 2015, Litecoin has a current hash rate of 1,643 GH/s as fast-established network with tight security.
Litecoin experienced a depress moment in 2015 when a Chinese accepted only Litecoin crypto-currency for his Ponzi scheme and offered investors huge profits for their dividends with a total of $30 million transactions but later disappeared with 6000000 Litecoins and $18 million.
In 2016, Litecoin became stable as the owners planned to offer instant transactions with lighting network. But since 2017, no one has seen the implementation of segwit. Segwit claim that there is a stalemate between segwitters and big blockers. Light network sought to create a system for payment channel, which represents signature transactions on a block chain.
Big blockers have no chance except on the moderate approach of bitcoin classic. Once LTC adopt Segwit, it will announce 2 pools and will experience a growing competition from Litecoin Lighting Network.
Although 80% of crypto-currency users have not discovered Litecoin as the best replacement for bitcoin. Litecoin stands as the best choice for customers who lack the enough patience to wait. Litecoin reduces double spending risk attacks and maintains its market value without crashing the market. Litecoin community is sparse unlike the bitcoin community but may rise in the future when other cryptocurrency price rises.


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Carroll Shelby died just over four years ago, but he left a legacy that continues to this day.
Best known for his work on the Shelby Cobra and an association with Ford that resulted in high-performance Shelby Mustangs in the late 1960s and 2000s, Shelby forged a path for himself that also included some lesser known automobiles.
Some of the other projects that bore his name happened in the 1980s and were questionable at best.
We can't deny, however, that Carroll Shelby changed the face of the automotive landscape and set the bar for high-powered muscle cars to this day.
We think of the Dodge Charger and conjure images of the tire-roasting 1960s beasts or the slightly more refined modern 4-door sedan. We tend to forget that the 1980s saw the brief return of the Charger name, which was affixed to higher-performance versions of the front-wheel-drive Dodge Omni.
Then Shelby got involved. Hemmings says,
Starting with the Charger's 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine, the Chrysler Shelby California Development Center in Santa Fe Springs, California, bumped compression up to 9.6:1; added a slightly hotter camshaft; opened up the exhaust for better breathing; and retarded cam timing by four degrees to aid top-end performance. The net result was an increase in output to 107 horsepower and 127 pound-feet of torque, and with the aid of a close-ratio five-speed transmission, the Dodge Shelby Charger could run from 0-60 MPH in 9.0 seconds on the way to a top speed of 117 MPH. The quarter mile went by in 16.8 seconds, at a speed of 82 MPH.
By today's standards those are hardly impressive numbers and are even matched by the base Corolla. Production ended in 1987, at which time the Shelby was Dodge's highest-performing vehicle.
What do we have here? This could be one of the world's first performance pickups. Shelby attached his name to about 1,500 Shelby Dakotas built for the 1989 model year.
What made these trucks different from their non-Shelby brethren? The Shelby truck used the 5.2-liter V8 from Dodge's full-size trucks in place of the standard Dakota's V6. Aside from a fiberglass light bar and some fancy paint, there weren't any other major upgrades of which to speak.
Still the Shelby Dakota is a piece of 1980s nostalgia that remains a rare find on the used market.
The Shelby Lancer continued the tradition of the Shelby Charger. The Shelby-tuned 2.2-liter turbo engine produced 175 hp and completed the 0-60 mph sprint in 7.2 seconds and the quarter mile in just over 15 seconds.
The Truth About Cars summed it up like this:
If you ever see a Dodge Lancer Shelby, count yourself lucky. Rare when new, they are positively unknown, unloved, and non-existent now, which is a shame.
1999-2005 Shelby Series 1
In the late 1990s, Shelby wanted to return to his roots and design a successor to the infamous Shelby Cobra. Design work began in 1994 and promised a carbon fiber body, a rear-mounted Corvette C5 transaxle, a total weight of 2,650 lbs, and 500 hp. By the time the car was finished it weighed nearly 3,000 pounds and was powered by a V8 out of an Oldsmobile Aurora. That was still good enough for 320 hp and a 0-60 spring of 4.4 seconds.
Only 249 cars were produced in 1999, after which the car was sold as a kit to avoid an expensive Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards certification.
The Series 1 is the only car ever designed and engineered by Carroll Shelby and built from the ground up. All other Shelbys are re-engineered models produced by other manufacturers and modified by Shelby.
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The number of passengers flying in and out of Palm Beach International Airport during the busy Thanksgiving week rush is expected to grow by 5 percent this year, airport officials said Friday.
RELATED: More Americans to travel for Thanksgiving as gas prices fall
The airport estimates between 160,000 and 170,000 travelers will pass through its doors during Thanksgiving week, up from 155,000 during the same time period last year.
The busiest travel days are expected to be Wednesday, Nov. 23 and Saturday, Nov. 26, airport officials said.


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Cindy Leach, Town of Berthoud
Congratulations, Cindy Leach, for being nominated Ambassador of the month for February. Cindy attends many of the events the chamber hosts each month. She also volunteers to set up for the luncheons as well as tear down; helps with registrations and even stepped up to become the Chairperson for Berthoud Day. When she volunteers, she makes it enjoyable for those that volunteer with her with her great sense of humor and fun attitude. We appreciate all you do for the chamber.
Congratulations to Jamie Sigley from Wells Fargo Bank for being nominated by her peers as Ambassador of the month for June. Jamie has been very active as an Ambassador since she joined the group. She comes to almost every event to help but also engages with members and helps the newcomers feel welcome. Jamie took the time to volunteer at Berthoud Day and brought one of her co-workers to help too. You can tell that Jamie is a happy person who enjoys life and brings that positive energy to our Chamber. Thank you, Jamie for being such a valuable part of the Berthoud Chamber.
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There are many pages ready for photos with fun garden trimmings.
Composter cans, sunflowers, vegetables,
and the little critters we so enjoy in the garden.
Pumpkins, of course, leaves, gourds, flowers.
Creative border designs for the different seasons.
Spaces for plot plans, harvest records.
And an offer to drop hints when more pages are needed!
And a nice cover with Petunia on it already! Here is Red's garden last June. We go back to first grade (not THAT many years ago) and I always enjoy catching up with her family through her scrapbooks when I visit. She knew I'd never get around to creating the garden album I talked about, so she took care of it for Petunia and me!
Now I'll have some garden in the living room all year around.


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Photographer's Note
This picture was taken on Grand Lake at the Achray Campground in Algonquin park. The campground is just outside Peterborough.
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isabela_sor (47748) 2006-09-10 18:12
So beautiful sunset,I would like so much to go there,it seems and certainly is so peacefull, so quiet, so perfect place for dreams...all those different types of clouds in one sky make a incredible sunset!!!
Thank you Kaitlyn
Greetings from Romania
gelarsen (437) 2006-09-10 21:31
Its a lovely sunset ,and what looks like a canoe on the left is an asset to the photo.
kdien (9367) 2006-09-16 14:52
wspaniale ujecie, piekne kolory, doskonale kolory. Dobry podzial planu. Brawo.
Pozdrawiam, Krzysztof
hoorge (1434) 2006-11-05 11:17
Nice sunset with silhouettes. Picture could be sharpened a little more.
xramm (1831) 2009-02-04 4:49
Spectacular view of lake, I think it was sunset time. Good colors and good detail inside a good composition.
And besides ; a warm welcome to TrekEarth.
ahmetgedikli (25609) 2009-02-16 16:15
Hi Kaitlyn,
Excellent POV, superb light and good reflections. The composition is beautiful. Well done!
Best regards.
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- Genre: Lugares
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- Date Taken: 2006-08-25
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Google has taken its first tentative steps into the world of semantic search, with the launch of the Knowledge Graph.
The search giant constantly tweaks the way its service works but the addition of semantic search to its search engine is the biggest change yet for the search giant.
Instead of pushing people to other sites, it has begun adding information to its own site – something which could have implications for sites such as Wikipedia.
Google reckons it has 3.5 billion facts about 500 million objects, all of which users should start seeing if they search for things like a movie, a famous face or landmark.
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"We've always believed that the perfect search engine should understand exactly what you mean and give you back exactly what you want," said Amit Singhal, SVP of engineering, at Google.
"And we can now sometimes help answer your next question before you've asked it, because the facts we show are informed by what other people have searched for."
Google will also be bringing its semantic search to tablets and smartphones soon, so to see just what Google's on about when it says Knowledge (interesting) Graph (not-so interesting) check out the video below.


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ContactPrivacy: Get Notified When Apps Try To Access Contacts [Cydia]
If you are concerned with your privacy and own an iOS device, then it is likely that you are familiar with the latest uproar created by the popular social networking app, Path, as it was revealed that the app uploads the address book of its every user to their own servers, without asking for any consent or even displaying a warning. This means that the personal data of users is vulnerable to intrusion, and not as safe as they might be inclined to believe. Even more alarming is the knowledge that more apps, other than Path, can be doing the same, leaving your contacts replicated on numerous servers without your knowledge. That is why ContactPrivacy is an important Cydia tweak, which will notify you each time an app tries to access your contacts.
The CEO of Path might have apologized and the app cleansed itself with a new update (which asks for user permission before accessing the address book), but the same can not be said about countless other apps out there in the App Store, which might be using your contacts without your knowledge. To counter this situation, if you're jailbroken, go to the Cydia store, access the Big Boss repo, and download the tweak named ContactPrivacy. It is available for free, and once installed, you will not see any new icon on the Springboard of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The same holds true for the Settings menu, as the tweak is not customizable at all, and starts working as soon as you install it.
After ContactPrivacy has been installed, you will get a push notification as soon as you are in a section of any third-party app which accesses your address book, which usually happens when you are trying to create a new account for any service. As noted in the text of the notification, if you don't allow an app access to your contacts, it might not work properly, so decide wisely if an app really needs your contacts to function or not. For example, if a service focuses solely on contact management, you will have to allow it access, but a camera app snooping around in your address book might be a sign of trouble.
A pretty useful tweak, and for free, it is a must-have if you are concerned about your privacy and want to keep your contacts to yourself. ContactPrivacy doesn't interfere with any other existing functionality of your device, making it absolutely perfect for jailbreak users.


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NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Newmark Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NMRK) ("Newmark", or the "Company"), which, through subsidiaries, operates a leading full-service commercial real estate services business, today announced that BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners" or "BGC") had completed its previously announced distribution of all of the shares of Newmark held by BGC to stockholders of BGC.1 BGC distributed these Newmark shares through a special pro rata stock dividend (the "Spin-Off" or the "Distribution").
The Spin-Off was effective as of 12:01 a.m., New York City time, on November 30, 2018 (the "Distribution Date") to BGC stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 23, 2018 (the "Record Date"). Based on the number of shares of BGC Partners Class A common stock outstanding as of the close of business on the Record Date, stockholders of BGC Partners Class A common stock received 0.463895 of a share of Newmark Class A common stock in the Distribution for every one share of BGC Partners Class A common stock held as of the Record Date.2 Following the Spin-Off, BGC no longer held any shares of Newmark.
Additional Information Regarding the Spin-Off Transaction Newmark's Class A common share count increased from approximately 139 million shares to approximately 155 million shares and float increased from approximately 23 million shares to approximately 150 million shares in connection with the Spin-Off.3 The Newmark shares that were distributed were delivered in book-entry form, and BGC Partners stockholders who hold their shares of BGC Class A common stock through brokers or other nominees will have their shares of Newmark Class A common stock credited to their accounts by their brokers or other nominees. The Spin-Off is intended to qualify as generally tax free to BGC stockholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and BofA Merrill Lynch served as financial advisors to BGC in connection with the Spin-Off, while Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP served as legal advisors.
About Newmark Group, Inc. Newmark Group, Inc. ("Newmark Group") is a publicly traded company that, through subsidiaries, operates as a full-service commercial real estate services business with a complete suite of services and products for both owners and occupiers across the entire commercial real estate industry. Under the Newmark Knight Frank name, the investor/owner services and products of Newmark Group's subsidiaries include capital markets (including investment sales), agency leasing, property management, valuation and advisory, diligence and underwriting. Newmark Group's subsidiaries also offer government sponsored enterprise lending, loan servicing, debt and structured finance, and loan sales. Newmark Group's occupier services and products include tenant representation, global corporate services, real estate management technology systems, workplace and occupancy strategy, consulting, project management, lease administration and facilities management. Newmark Group enhances these services and products through innovative real estate technology solutions and data analytics designed to enable its clients to increase their efficiency and profits by optimizing their real estate portfolio.
Newmark Group has relationships with many of the world's largest commercial property owners, real estate developers and investors, as well as Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies. Newmark Group's Class A common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "NMRK". Newmark is a trademark/service mark and/or registered trademark/service mark of Newmark Group and/or its affiliates. Knight Frank is a service mark of Knight Frank (Nominees) Limited. Find out more about Newmark at http://www.ngkf.com/, https://twitter.com/newmarkkf, https://www.linkedin.com/company/newmark-knight-frank/, and/or http://ir.ngkf.com/investors/investors-home/default.aspx.
Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements about Newmark Statements in this document regarding Newmark that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, Newmark undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see Newmark's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors set forth in these filings and any updates to such risk factors contained in subsequent Forms 10-K, Forms 10-Q or Forms 8-K.
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1 This includes the shares of Newmark Class A and Class B common stock owned by BGC, as well as the shares of Newmark common stock into which the limited partnership units of Newmark Holdings, L.P. and Newmark Partners, L.P. owned by BGC were exchanged prior to and in connection with the Spin-Off.2 The ratio of shares of Newmark Class B common stock distributed in the Distribution in respect of each share of BGC Partners Class B common stock (which is not publicly traded) outstanding on the Record Date is identical. The distribution ratio was determined based on the respective number of shares of BGC Class A and Class B common stock outstanding on the Record Date and the respective number of shares of Newmark Class A and Class B common stock held by BGC immediately prior to the effective time of the Distribution.3 The float is defined as Class A common shares not owned by Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. or its affiliates or by the executive officers and directors of Newmark. BGC's stockholders received cash in lieu of any fraction of a share of Newmark common stock that they otherwise would have received.
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The debut EP from a band so new they've only just played their first couple of shows. Featuring ex-members of Bastions, Funeral For A Friend, Goodtime Boys, Grappler and Crocus, Change Nothing is a short, sharp blast of what's to come from this incredible exciting five piece. The vinyl is co-released with Through Love Records in Germany and limited to just 500, one-sided vinyl copies, including a very special screen printed variant.
Perfect partner: La Dispute - Rooms of the House
1. Change Nothing
2. Mt. Misery
3. They Need You
4. Stone In Me
5. The Sparrow
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Times Square, New York...
So during my trip, I decided to do the "touristy" thing and check out the sites and sounds of New York. Of course I had to check out the stores - especially the 4 stores on Fashion Star - Saks Fifth Avenue, Macys (which I eventually did like 90% of my shopping), H&M and Express. Of course I also made a mental note to check out the factories or at least see where a lot of the manufacturing took place around here.
But first... I had to do some shopping! So off we went down that loooong stretch of road down Times Square. I was just still staring at the video displays and the runways on the huge buildings when AA told me "Check out that HUGE needle and button over there"!
Little did I know that I was RIGHT SMACK in the middle of the garment district! My friend Moji only told me that later.
Don't you just love this picture of me helping out my fellow "tailor"? :-D
And then my own history lesson began down the Fashion Walk of Fame! :-D
Ok... I don't really remember the order in which I took the picture of these large err... coins so I just arranged them in alphabetical order. Oh... I have to make the images really large so you can read what's on them...
SUCH an inspiration! I'm sure there were many more but these were the ones I think I could take without really stopping the flow of traffic. But I enjoyed every minute of it... and hopefully, I can post more pictures of my trip! :-D
Have a great day!


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Method in mind: A methodological perspective on the child-as-scientist debate
Permanent Linkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/4768
Thesis DisciplinePsychology
Degree GrantorUniversity of Canterbury
Degree LevelDoctoral
Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy
During the past decade, an extensive body of cognitive developmental research has emerged that subscribes either implicitly or explicitly to the analogy of the child as an intuitive scientist. This analogy captures the idea that children resemble scientists in their attempts to explain and predict phenomena, and thereby directs research attention to the development of knowledge in science as a potential source model for cognitive development. Foremost among proponents of this analogy are Alison Gopnik and Andrew Meltzoff, whose theory theory account of child-scientist parallels takes the processes sub serving theory change in science and childhood cognitive development to be essentially the same. This thesis critically examines the theory theory and proposes an alternative formulation of the analogy in which the construction of meaningful relations between children and scientists is achieved by developing a methodological perspective on the debate. With this aim in mind, the Introduction comprises a brief review of the recent history of child-scientist parallels in cognitive developmental research and offers some methodological provisions for constructing a productive scientific analogy. Chapter 1 then undertakes a detailed examination of the theory theory, and argues that the major limitation of Gopnik and Meltzoffs account lies in its continued reliance on an inappropriate source model. Following this critique, Chapter 2 presents a general argument for a methods-centred model of child-scientist parallels and examines two orthodox theories of scientific method as candidate source models for the analogy. Having argued that neither account has the capacity to provide an adequate account of scientific inquiry, Chapter 3 details a comprehensive abductive theory of scientific method, and argues for its adoption in a methodological reformulation of the analogy. With this source model in place, Chapter 4 aims to establish meaningful relations between the abductive account of scientific method and the knowledge construction efforts of young children by defining a narrower role for the child-as-scientist analogy within an interactionist account of development. Working within this framework, compelling parallels are identified between the theory building strategies of scientists highlighted by abductive method and the data-to-theory moves uncovered in micro genetic analyses of children's problem solving. Having identified an abductive pattern of reasoning in children's spontaneous theory building, Chapter 5 extends the analogy to the processes by which children evaluate the quality of everyday explanations, drawing on a computational model of theory evaluation for this purpose. In Chapter 6, the focus turns to speculations regarding the cognitive origins of science, in light of the theory theory's appeal to an evolutionary warrant for child-scientist parallels. Finally, Chapter 7 provides a summary of the main arguments and reinforces proposals for the utility of a methodological perspective on the child-as-scientist debate by undertaking a detailed comparative evaluation of the theory theory and the abductive-methods account. A discussion of future directions concludes this study.


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When growing businesses need to compete with incumbents in any industry, they need to bring a secret weapon to the market. Those larger companies have bigger guns, bigger budgets, and serious resources to keep their brands relevant.
Some companies stand out through disruption (Uber and Netflix), some through personality (American Badass Beer, Dollar Shave Club), or a unique take on the product (Man Crate). While those can all be used to attract an audience, they lack a little something on the backend.
Customer delight.
When a brand focuses on customer service and support, it has the greatest growth potential. Companies like Wagepoint go way past "good enough" to solve problems for customers, in addition to the core solutions they provide. They offer value beyond the product, and treat customer support as their USP.
Why Customer Delight is So Critical
If a company wants to stand out among incumbents in any industry, it needs to look beyond acquisition and lead conversion. It can cost 7x more to attract and acquire a new customer over retaining current customers, yet only about 7% of consumers feel that companies have met and exceeded their service expectations.
Shifting the business model toward customer support and retention vs. acquisition not only reduces spend, it also has a dramatic impact on growth. Lowering customer churn by just 5% can increase profitability by as much as 125%.
Creating a Customer Support-Focused Business Model
If you think support is limited to just your service team, it's time to change that perspective. Customer delight isn't just a responsibility of your service reps. Every interaction a customer or prospect has with you (including your site, brand, employees, and content) plays a part in creating an impression.
These interactions also directly impact service and delight.
The happier prospects and leads are, the more likely they are to convert and hang around for a longer period – thus increasing the customer lifetime value.
Here's how you can do the same with your business…
Article Credit: Sijan Patel, Forbes


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This blog post could equally be entitled Love vs Perfectionism. And yes, it is about how writers need to clean their homes.
I mean this both literally and metaphorically. In a previous post I wrote about needing to be able to sit down amidst the chaos, dust and dirty dishes and just open that document. There is a heap of procrastination and work avoidance behaviour (WAB) available to you if you choose that. I agree with the inimitable Ms Hay that procrastination is just a lack of self-love: it's delaying your own good. We all do that sometimes.
That's not what I'm talking about here.
I mean that occasionally you have to put the brakes on and re-group. Even if you have only an hour in which to write, it may be necessary to get your head space organised first. Not in order to write, or to write better. Just for your own sake. Writers can become a bit obsessed and single-minded when it comes to work.
I recommend taking a breath and cleaning the floor. But give it a bit of a ceremonial air. Infuse it with love, rather than more of that deadline-beating angsty energy (my personal worst). You might want to add a few drops of lavender oil to the proceedings. Or go the whole hog and smudge the place. But do dust as well, and sort out that pile of books. Throw a few things out. Light a candle. Get clear.
The place doesn't have to be perfect (nor do you, or your manuscript) but it does need your loving attention. As do you.


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By Rebecca Leigh Rutt
Stephanie Loveless
The red-thread of the day was social sustainability, with Stephanie presenting examples from the new SOW2016 book about social inclusiveness and people-centered development from a number of cities around the world. Sandra discussed the contradictions that can emerge when striving for democratic engagement in diverse societies and an overarching emphasis on public sector efficiency. All three presentations pointed to the importance of social sustainability as part of the equation for creating sustainable cities, alongside perhaps more prominent efforts toward environmental and economic sustainability. Stephanie's presentation also aimed to remind the audience that creating sustainable cities is not just about meeting economic targets or environmental goals, but that in any given place, people will cialis have different visions about how their city should look and what is the right way to get there.
One of the interesting components of inclusive urban planning that Sandra spoke about was the role that technology has played in the ability of municipalities to gather more input from citizens for the processes surrounding new urban developments. Nordic cities are quickly developing digital platforms and modeling tools used in combination with face-to-face interaction as a way to engage more citizens in shaping their communities. Amongst the apparent benefits of inclusive planning Sandra mentioned is that citizen feedback allows for tailor-fit solutions to respond to needs and desires of communities. Of course, inclusive planning does not only mean involving more citizens, but it also calls for incorporating more types of stakeholders, not least the private sector. In addition, she suggested that inclusive planning lends itself to social sustainability by combatting segregation.
Perhaps linking urban planning with citizens through technology is an obvious evolution given that we live in the digital age. The growth of cities appears to be spurring a sense of urgency in city planners and governments to develop cities more quickly and efficiently, in order to accommodate incoming residents and perhaps, under the current circumstances, digital tools assist with these processes. In fact, as Sandra pointed out, by 2050, 90% of the population in both Denmark and Sweden will live in urban areas and these tools help to answer the demands of growing urban centers. Yet, ambitions to include more citizens in planning have also come about in a time of shrinking municipal budgets and rapid urbanization. Moreover, do digital tools maintain or even provide for a greater degree of democracy in a context of increased privatization in urban development? Perhaps it also depends on who has access to participate, or not, in the digitization of inclusive planning.
Sandra's presentation also led us to wonder, do citizens know best what their cities need? Though she clearly sees the potential is inclusive planning, she reminded the audience not to 'romanticize the citizen' (ie, assume they know best) but to recognize that inclusive processes are constituted by diverse voices, and as such are not always easy; rather they have a tendency to be messy, lengthy and result in unintended outcomes. Perhaps something makers of digital planning tools seek to do is not only include more citizen input but also streamline the process. Either way, there is a clear trend in actions to improve inclusive urban planning and only time will tell if such tools and citizen and private sector stakeholders themselves can pick up the slack, or better yet, enhance the activities of municipal urban planners.
A roundtable discussion following the event allowed for the mix of public, private, NGO and academic participants to raise critical lingering questions. Three issues that featured prominently were the importance of failure, the role of degrowth in achieving urban sustainability and the difficult reality of understanding impact.
Failure was highlighted as a needed compliment to 'best practices' and 'success stories'. Those at the roundtable agreed that too often, failures are obscured, despite the fact that they offer some of the best opportunities for learning and making constructive changes upon moving forward with projects. Everyone acknowledged the structural problem of a need to project the image of success for the sake of, for instance, maintaining funding in the uncertain global and national economic contexts. Still, participants called for the involved institutions to engage with more openness about the difficulties encountered in urban planning and management, with an eye to the larger social, environmental and economic sustainability goals for the future.
The difficulties in defining and measuring outcomes and understanding impact were raised often, first in Stephanie's presentation at the start and later at the closing roundtable discussion. Indeed this is a pervasive issue that in reality presents complex trade-offs. Outcomes are clearly very closely connected to images of success (and failure), so there is an immediate incentive to, for instance, define goals that are achievable. We often also see goals being defined according to temporal constraints (short and medium term goals), which has implications for the quality of processes such as for participation. Does this inhibit efforts towards more complex objectives and in our ability to understand outcomes that don't fit into a certain set of criteria? For example, as projects unfold, they likely tend to be a lot messier and less straightforward than planners anticipate, yet, it does not necessarily mean they are either a success or a failure. Rather, unintended outcomes demonstrate how realities on the ground are in fact enormously hard to quantify and as such, these realities should perhaps be legitimated. In other words, could or should the definition of success be left as a partly open question?
Finally, discussions around degrowth, or perhaps misunderstandings around degrowth, was a topic that emerged several times throughout the day, and as usual, served to stimulate animated conversation. Many argued that we must continue to grow our economy while reducing consumption, aka decoupling, while others questioned the viability of this current modus operandi. Yet overall, it was clear to most that resource use at current levels is unsustainable, meaning that reshaping consumption patterns is an overarching requirement for cities of the future.
The first SOW2016 event in Stockholm was stimulating, provocative and engaging and started to paint a picture of how Nordic cities are addressing urban sustainability and mobilizing efforts toward reaching low carbon urban centers. Stay tuned to for highlights from the next SOW2016 events in Helsinki and Reykjavík!
Follow: @worldwatcheuro #sow2016 #sustainablecities #urbansustainability #sitoumus2050 #degrowth
email Stephanie Loveless - email@example.com
Read more about State of the World 2016 - HERE


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This site is meant to be a balance of health and hedonism. Consider this the hedonism, please.
I would not ordinarily make something like this. But I live with a Texan, and after an attempt to purchase tamales for the Super Bowl went awry, I offered to make enchiladas instead.
My enchiladas are killer, with this incredible gluten-free red sauce that he says smells like home. But that's not what he wanted, he said. He wanted enchiladas, but his craving was more specific — he wanted a type of enchiladas he'd never been successful in making himself.
"Bet you can't make sour cream enchiladas," he said.
BAM, the game was on. "Can't" is not in my culinary vocabulary.
For the uninitiated, sour cream enchiladas comprise a chicken, cheese and onion filling seasoned with salt and pepper, wrapped in corn tortillas and topped with a sour cream sauce that usually includes garlic, jalapenos and chicken stock. The dish is then covered with even more cheese and baked until brown.
Don't get me wrong — I love cheese. Cheese is one of the reasons I figured I'd never be paleo long-term. But half a pound of cheddar plus a full pint of sour cream? That is enough dairy to make a cow think twice.
I did it, though, because one doesn't just back down from a challenge. I came, I saw, I made the sour cream enchiladas. And he ate them. And loved them. Mission accomplished.
While enchiladas covered in sour cream are not and will never be one of my favorite foods, there is something appealing about the spice of the jalapenos combined with the smoothness of the sour cream. Tomatillos add an extra tang, and baking the chicken makes it incredibly tender and juicy.
I resisted any attempt to do anything to make this recipe healthier. It's only gluten-free because to make it gluten-free was so easy. Just revel in the dairy products tonight, and have a salad for dinner tomorrow. You know you want to.
- 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter (or olive oil, if you prefer)
- 2 serrano chiles, seeds and stems removed, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 Tbsp masa (corn flour)
- 2 cups chicken broth (I used homemade bone broth)
- 2 cups full-fat sour cream
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- dash of cayenne pepper (or Frank's, if you want a Buffalo twist!)
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 pound fresh tomatillos, husks removed, quartered
- 12 gluten-free corn tortillas
- 1/2 medium yellow onion, diced
- 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- Preheat over to 350 degrees.
- Sprinkle chicken breasts on both sides with salt and pepper. In a cast-iron skillet, heat the oil over medium heat. Add chicken and cook for three minutes on each side, or until browned. Place skillet in oven and bake for 30 minutes or until juices run clear and the chicken is thoroughly done.
- Remove chicken from oven and let cool. Shred with two forks; set aside. DON'T TURN OFF THE OVEN.
- Meanwhile, while your chicken is doing its thing, heat oil over medium heat in a large saucepan. Add chiles and cook until soft, three to four minutes. Add garlic and cook for one minute.
- Whisk in masa and cook for one minute, allowing to brown a bit. Pour broth into the pot and whisk, cooking until slightly thickened. If you think, "Has this thickened?" it probably hasn't yet, so keep going. Remove from heat. Stir in sour cream, cumin, cayenne, and cilantro.
- By this time, your chicken is possibly done. So as it's cooling, place your prepped tomatillos under the broiler and cook on each side until blackened, probably 10 to 15 minutes.
- Then, either add tomatillos to the sour cream sauce in saucepan and blitz with an immersion blender, or place the tomatillos and sour cream sauce in a regular blender and puree until smooth. Either way, the result should be the same.
- Grease a large baking dish (13 x 9). Take your tortillas and wrap in a damp paper towel, six at a time, and microwave on high for 30 seconds. Wrap in a towel to keep warm.
- It's time to assemble! YAY. Okay, pour one cup of the sour cream sauce in the bottom of your pan and spread it around. Then, take each corn tortilla and place 1/4 cup of chicken in it, 1 tsp of those diced onions, and 1 Tbsp of cheese. Roll 'er up, and place seam side down in the dish.
- Repeat with remaining ingredients. If you find you have too much filling for the tortillas, poke it in the dish around the sides.
- Cover with remaining sauce and cheese and bake for 30 minutes, or until the top of the cheese is brown and bubbling. Serve, garnished with cilantro.