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Talking about theft in the taxi business I first need to give you some statistics from psychology, theft-wise. Theft-wise, people are divided into three categories:
The first category is people that can't steal at all. They can't steal and they won't steal ever. If they're starving and a truck passes by and a loaf of bread falls from the truck, they'll pick up the bread and chase the truck, trying to give the bread back to the driver. They'd rather die than steal, literally. Out of the whole population, this category is 5%.
The next category: five percent of people that cannot not steal. These guys steal all the time. There are 5% of those who will never steal and there are these 5%, those who'll be stealing in every possible situation at every possible time. In the taxi business they steal in really stupid ways. It's the drivers that steal calls and just disappear and the dispatcher can't find them. The dispatcher will try to give them a $50 call and he'll not be able to find them, because they're stealing a five dollar call. They can't do the math. They can't see how much they are stealing versus how much they would have made if they were not stealing and if they were working honestly. They're incapable of doing the math because stealing is everything they think about and that's the only way they see themselves and that's the only way they operate in life.
The way to go with these five percent of people is very simple. Such people are really easy to spot. If you spot somebody like this and if you have reasons to believe that they fall into five percent of those who will always steal – kick them out, because there's nothing you can do to make them not steal. Whatever you do they'll still be stealing, so the only way to go here is to get rid of them. There's nothing else that can be done.
The remaining ninety percent, the largest group of population practices what is called "situational ethics." "Situational ethics" means that sometimes we do steal, sometimes we don't steal. It all depends on the situation.
Let me give you an example of what I mean by that. Suppose you are shopping at Wal-Mart and your car is parked in the furthest corner of the parking lot far-far away from the store. You've got this big Wal-mart cart full of stuff that you bought and you get to your car. Then you realize that the cashier gave you five cents more in change than she was supposed to give you. The question is: will you go back to the store to return the five cents?
Now ask yourself the same question, but what if you had three kids with you and a cart full of stuff? Would you go back to return the 5c?, What if it's raining outside? What if it's raining and you haven't got an umbrella? Would you go back? What if it's raining and it's not five cents, but twenty dollars?
We humans make decisions based on emotions and then we supply them with logic, not the other way around. When I was asking you all these questions, first you'd answer yes or no. You'd answer based on how you FEEL. Yes, I would go back. No, I wouldn't go back. Then you'll come up with the reasons that support the decision that you made. These reasons would be in alignment with your decision, but it was the decision that came first and reasons that came second. It's really important to understand that that's how we humans act. That's situational ethics.
We first act on emotions and then we supply our emotions with logic. We decide what we want and what we're going to do and then we explain to ourselves and others why we decided that that's what we were going to do, though the decision was not logical in the first place. That is why I repeat over and over and over again: find out what your customers want and give it to them. You may come up with an offer backed up with strong logical reasoning, but it's not about logic! It's not about needs, it's about wants!
But let's get back to situational ethics and the 90% of thieves-r-us. The good news about these 90% is that those of us who practice situational ethics steal when the following three reasons are true at the same time:
Reason number one is that there is a need. It may be a perceived need or it may be a real need. There's nothing you can do about this reason. Some people have it, some don't and you can't change it. It may be that one of your drivers needs more money and the truth is that he can't possibly make enough money driving a cab, he needs to get a better job. There's nothing you can do about removing a need from somebody, because even if its money and you pay them more, chances are they'll want more. They may have bad spending habits and it they make more – they'll just spend more and still have a need.
Number two is the ability to rationalize stealing. To have reasons that explain why stealing in this specific situation is okay. To be able to explain to himself that though he or she is stealing, they are still a "good person". For employees of a taxi business this is a really easy task. This is a piece of cake. "I'm working a lot", "the owner is never in the office," etc. The sole fact that you are not in the office the time they came in or the time they leave is enough. Now they can say "Hey, you know what? I'm here all the time and this guy just doesn't even show up here. It's his business and yet he's never here. I am always here, but it's him who's making all the money", – that's a perfect rationalization. And here, again, there's nothing you can do about it. You can explain them that the margin is not that big. You can explain them that there's gross and there's net and these are two different things. It's not going to help. They'll find another excuse. They'll tell themselves that they work more than you do. They'll tell themselves that they can be stealing because you drive a better car or you live in a better home or your kids go to a better school.
The third reason for someone to be stealing is an ability to get away with it. This is extremely important. As I've said, people steal when all three of these reasons come together: they have a need and they are able to rationalize stealing and they think they can get away with stealing.
As I explained, there's nothing you can do about the first reason, about a need. It's out of your control. There's nothing you can do about the second one, about rationalization of actions. It's out of your control, too. The only one that you have control over is this one: belief in the ability to getting away with stealing. And the good news is that there are plenty of things that can be done here.
If a person that belongs to the 90% of us that practice situational ethics knows that there's no way that he'll get away with stealing, he will not steal. Stealing only happens when all three reasons are come together. For stealing to happen there should be a need, there should be rationalization for stealing, and there should be confidence that they're getting away with it.
Suppose in your taxi company you've got somebody from the five percent that steal all the time. All the rest of your guys belong to the ninety percent that will steal if all these three reasons come together at the same time. Now they see that the guy that's stealing all the time is being able to get away with it and he doesn't get punished. What will happen now is: those from the ninety percent will start stealing.
That's why you've got to be extremely harsh on that one. Nobody can ever be stealing from you. Even if they have a need and even if they have a rationalization, they've got to know that as soon as you find out, and you will find out, they will not be able to get away with it. They will get punished. The probability of you finding out about it is 100% and the probability of them getting punished 100%. That's the way to fight with theft.
If you'd like more on this subject, I would recommend Dan Kennedy's book called No B. S. Ruthless Management and Michael Levine's book called Broken Windows Broken Business.
The latter book is based on an article that first came in 1982 by two criminologists who suggested that fighting really hard even the smallest crimes actually helps to reduce bigger crimes.
The idea behind it is that if you don't fight small things, like graffiti, it sends a message and bigger things start happening. It starts with graffiti, than it gets to broken windows. If a building is left with a broken window and nothing happens, it again sends a message. It's really easy to steal from such a building, to burglarize such a building and that's how being negligent to small things easily leads to bigger things.
If you look at the history – that's how mayor Giuliani cleaned up New York City. That's what he was doing. His reasoning was: "I don't have time, I don't have resources to go after the big guys, for drug lords, but I can easily find and arrest the small street drug dealer and if we don't have anybody to sell drugs on the streets, there will be nobody whom the drug lord could sell the drugs to".
There will be a broken chain in the distribution channel and because of this broken link the whole chain will fall apart. If you look at many successful people, many of them just go ballistic when something seemingly small goes wrong in their business.
One of people who are very famous for it is Donald Trump. If he goes to one of his buildings or hotels and sees that something's wrong, even if it's a tiny little detail, he goes furious. I believe that that's the right way to go. I do not suggest being a freak at all times, but if something happens, even if this something is small, the person that's guilty for it should not be able get away with it.
Here are some examples of these supposedly little details in the taxi business. For dispatchers it can be a delay in answering the phone calls, not following the script when talking to the customers on the phone, messing up the paperwork and things like that.
For drivers it is not reporting the stops to the dispatcher, stealing calls, even if it's a $5 dollar call here and there. Some tiny minor things on the first sight, but, really, if you look at it and think about it, these things are not that tiny and are not that minor. These details are pretty important. Again, one of the reasons to pay attention to them is that if you don't – it'll lead to bigger things. And you do not want that. You want your taxi service operate like a well-oiled machine. Click here to get a copy of 17 Mistakes You Must Avoid That Can Ruin Your Taxi Business book and 3 best issues of Cab Millionaire Club Letter and get more strategies to learn more about that!


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We begin our annual #AllHallowsRead episode series with "The Night Wire," by H.F. Arnold. Our theme this year will be stories from the American horror/sci-fi magazine, Weird Tales, which published from the 1920s to the 1950s. This story features a very creepy fog and a very creeped-out telegraph operator.
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ICYMI, Ansel Elgort does more than just act in major young-adult book adaptations (The Fault In Our Stars, Divergent). The talented 22 year-old is also an accomplished DJ, producer and songwriter. Could he be adding "international pop star" to the list? Maybe.
With the release of the video for his new single "Thief" and its 80s/American Psycho vibes, a darker, more individual side of the singer is revealed.
Elgort spoke to Rolling Stone about the musical influences for the new track, which included Drive's memorable soundtrack and the cues it took from 80s new wave and synthpop. He also mentioned the inspiration he garnered from classic pop stars for the video's direction, saying, "musicians used to play characters all the time: Bowie, MJ, Freddie Mercury. I'm inspired by those guys [rather than] the modern pop star."
This video may have one too many black turtlenecks and forlorn glances into a mirror to be taken overly seriously, but the track's catchiness makes it hard to complain when the video gets too campy.
The dark and sexy video does feature plenty of shirtless Elgort, and things get pretty steamy with his onscreen love interest (and real life girlfriend) ballerina Violetta Komyshan.
This is only the second track released under Elgort's own name (his previous music endeavours were under the moniker DJ Ansolo), a name change that might indicate a shift to a more radio-friendly pop sound.
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Well, there you have it! It's got the functions and everything! 😉
Archive for September, 2008
quaternions page is finished!September 29, 2008
quaternions page is up + good timesSeptember 29, 2008
Let me get this out of the way – there is a new article about quaternion rotations up. Yes, I know I haven't showed you how to convert to/from them, so it's useless except as a theoretical paper. This will soon change, but TOMORROW. GOD IM TIRED BLARG.
Also to get out of the way, 2D Boy is almost about to release World of Goo, which I'm really geeking about right now. If you order before they release it, you get a profanity sound effects pack. FUCK! 😀
So I've had some good times this past week, which is interesting, seeing as how it literally started out with me on suicide watch. I made a full recovery on Tuesday, ironically because of a Dream Theater song I was listening to. A Change of Seasons, and there's this part that's like "I'm sick of all you hypocrites! I don't need your sympathy to get me through the day! Seasons change, and so can I!…" and it was really inspiring. My main problem, I suddenly realized, was in expecting sympathy for my problems. Whereas in a perfect world I would certainly get some sympathy for the kind of shit I deal with, I realized expecting it from everyone will only make me feel let down.
Then I went skating on Thursday with James, Colleen, and Phillip on 80's night, and we listened to music from the past (i.e. real music) the whole time while skating. On Friday I saw James again, and we basically played Destroy All Humans and such the whole time, but after that we went back to the rink on Saturday and enjoyed a roller derby match! Go RoCo! That was actually a really good time. Then the next morning I went to YRUU (that's youth religious unitarian universalists) again and didn't get picked on really by that girl, so it was actually pretty cool. I had a long conversation afterwards with cool people who like Transformers, Spore, D&D, and other incredibly geeky stuff, making me feel at home. Tomorrow Chuck and Life are on network television, followed by a Tuesday at programming club, where I really just can't feel better. I'm on a roll of engaging in non-suckage! 😀
But my point is, I really forget just how much I can do when I'm in good spirits. I wrote that whole fucking quaternions article in about an hour! I mean, that is just crazy fast. Of course it's not quite finished, but I could have easily just slapped all the functions up there, and didn't. In fact, it was like a mini paper on quaternions before it even gets to rotation, and then there's an extensive discussion on that.
When I get up tomorrow, I'll get straight to work on the menus and hopefully have a usable thing soon. And then I really will get to work on the game. I'm still deciding if it should be pure 2D (aside from the menus obviously) or if I should go all slick and shiny 3D interface on you people, with bells, whistles, and cabbage. All puppies need cabbage to slaughter freemasons! Ahhh, I'm like, intoxicated with not feeling awful. I almost forgot what that was like, you know? ❤
quaternions, I can make them work!September 23, 2008
Now that I have arc ball working, I will show you what a quaternion is. I have a couple of screenshots too, and they are here:
Basically what a quaternion is is a 4 dimensional vector that exists in space over the real numbers. For the purposes I use it for (rotation) it's basically is superior, because it can do perfect great circle rotation easily. The reason is that it isn't constrained by the Euler representation's axes (pitch, yaw, roll) which make the question of arbitrary axis smooth rotation much harder. You have to do something like 3 different space transforms in order to do the rotation, and then you have to go back. Whereas a quaternion essentially produces an imaginary axis that can rotate as though there were no space transform, because the other elements of the vector are relativistic. It is very hard to imagine what this looks like, because it's, you know, hyperspace. Once the rotation operation has been derived through all that complex imaginary number crap, though, all the imaginary elements are gone, so nothing special is needed for the algorithm. This wiki page has info on quaternions, and this NeHeGL example is a good demo of how it works.
epic tabbing + floculateSeptember 22, 2008
I'm still trying to get arcball rotation to work, but in the meantime, I've finished my guitar tableture for this peice I've been working on. I still don't know how to embed the sheet on wordpress though. Sigh.
angst slumpSeptember 21, 2008
In the indie life, your entire success depends on yourself alone. Right now I'm in a serious slump, mostly due to this bitch in a youth group I'm in. I'm incredibly depressed, and it's affecting my ability to work.
Self motivation is vital for someone on a path like this (an indie path) and the fact that I'm wallowing in self pity and rage at this unnamed person just won't do any good. But others with depression problems know exactly what I mean by a slump, it's not an excuse or laziness, it's a failiure of the mind to cope, and this sometimes can't be stopped. But, it can be helped. I find my self in an unusual situation where my own work is comforting. So, the bullying is awful, but I still have my asocial work to distract me and comfort me.
Here's the worry though. What if I'm becoming an antisocial person because of my extensive experiences with emotionally abusive people? I mean, I've always wanted to meet people I would like, but what if I've grown so inward that I'm simply not giving them a chance? I'm social, but I'm afraid of social scenes because they always reject me. It's ironic in a sense. I guess it's funny. To others. But what if the reason is that I come off as hostile? I just don't know.
Please forgive this rant, but I had to post this somewhere, and twitter only gives me 140 characters or less. My question to any readers I might possibly have even if they haven't posted there (pink floyd: "is there anybody out there?" 😛 ) is: how do you deal with slumps in motivation and emotional inner turbulence throughout the day as an indie game developer or musician? Or whatever you do as an indie.
new pieceSeptember 20, 2008
I'm working on a new guitar piece and I'm about halfway done tabbing the beginning, but I'm not at all sure how to post tabs on here. I'll see if my digital tabbing stuff has an export to PDF.
gads, another page!September 19, 2008
This one is about how to do freetype fonts in OpenGL! Enjoy the read! 😀


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Tea is one of the most popular and common beverage across the world. It is rejuvenating and distressing drink that is also seen by many people in their dreams. In material terms, seeing yourself drinking or brewing tea is ...
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What to anticipate of your zodiac sign for 2014 year?


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There are few motifs that have as many possibilities as the classic stripe. Whether you choose thin or thick, vertical or horizontal, multicolor or bold black-and-white, you can't go wrong adding stripes to your space. If you're not quite ready for the permanence—or expense—of wallpaper, we suggest reaching for some buckets of paint and doing it yourself. But even if you can barely draw a straight line on a piece of paper, you can create crisp stripes on your walls. Read on to learn how to paint stripes on a wall and transform your space with this easy and affordable project.
Materials and Tools
- Drop cloths
- Ladder
- Painter's tape
- Paint
- Paint roller and covers
- Paint tray
- Level
- Tape measure
- Pencil
How to Paint Stripes on a Wall
1. Pick Your Stripe
Before you head to the paint store, you'll need to decide on the look you want to create. Do you want vertical or horizontal stripes? Are you using two shades of the same color or creating contrast with two very different hues? Will the stripes be wide or thin, and will they be the same width? Once you have a plan, you can go grab those gallons of paint.
2. Paint the Entire Wall
Choose one color as the base and paint the entire wall or walls. If you're using multiple colors, your base coat should be the lightest of all the colors. Do a second coat if necessary and allow the paint to dry for 48 hours.
3. Measure the Wall
Once your walls are totally dry, it's time to place your stripes. For vertical stripes, measure the width of the wall and for horizontal stripes, measure the height. Divide the measurement by the number of stripes you want to determine the width of each. Also consider what colors you want to begin and end with, as this may impact the number of stripes you paint. If you want the first and last stripes to be the same color, be sure to divide by an odd number.
4. Mark Your Stripes
Use the measuring tape and a pencil to mark the position of your stripes. Now you'll draw the entire stripe using a level as a straight edge. (A laser level can make this process easier.)
5. Tape the Wall
Begin by taping off the edge of the ceiling as well as any woodwork, trim, and outlets. Next, place painter's tape on the pencil line, making sure that the tape is on the correct side of the line so your stripes are even. Press firmly on the tape or seal the edges with a credit card to make sure paint doesn't get under the tape.
6. Paint Your Stripes
Use a paint roller to paint the stripes on the wall. Be sure to paint over the edge of the tape so you have a clean line. Apply a second coat if necessary.
7. Remove Tape
Carefully pull the tape off the wall at an angle. Remove the tape before the stripes have fully dried; otherwise you might pull off some of the paint.
Tips and Tricks
Play with Finish
You're not stuck using the same type of paint for each stripe. Consider alternating between high-gloss and flat paints to add dimension to the wall.
Enhance Your Setting
Use stripes to change the feel of your room. Vertical stripes can make ceilings look loftier, while horizontal stripes can create the illusion of more space.
Minimize Pencil Marks
Use a colored pencil that's close to the wall color to mark the stripes. This will eliminate any stray pencil marks being left after painting.


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Exploring pathways towards resilience: vulnerabilities and adaptation to changes in the Lao Uplands
Organization: NAFRI, DALaM, CIRAD, CDE, TABI and EFICAS
23 February 2018 – NAFRI Soil Center Meeting Room
Vulnerability generally refers to the degree to which a system is unable to cope with, or adapt to, negative effects of external shocks. Most attempts to characterize vulnerability build on three main dimensions: (i) exposure to hazards, (ii) sensitivity, and (iii) response capacities. Mountain regions and their inhabitants have long been associated with certain stereotypes such as their low capacity to adapt to climate change because of poor socioeconomic development. Within this logic, upland people are perceived as more vulnerable. But empirical evidences suggest that the vulnerability of local communities is rooted in complex dynamics that call for investigations beyond mountain stereotypes that supposedly increase vulnerability.
Old versus new vulnerabilities
Upland populations are well known for the adaptation practices they have developed over the years to weather uncertainties through agroecology practices valorizing agrobiodiversity (e.g. mix of different rice cultivars and different crops in upland fields, staggered sowing dates, crop cultivation in different sites to spread the risk of failures) and social practices (e.g. NTFP and livestock safety nets, off-farm activities of some family members). Their production context has changed over the years with their rapid integration to market that increased their dependence to external factors (prices of products, contracts with traders, economic regulations). As a consequence, their risk management practices may not be valid anymore under the new conditions. The profound changes in socioecological systems are well expressed by the upland farmers (Farmers voices, 2012) when they point for example that:
- They have too many children. 7 to 10 children per family was an asset at the time of subsistence farming but is becoming a burden with the change in life style and education requirement that increases very much their need for cash,
- They are entirely dependent on economic fluctuation that are external to their system for the cash crop they produce with a lot of stress brought by changing prices, contract breaking, market uncertainties,
- Forest and fallows conversion into agricultural lands, shortening fallows and intensive use of chemical inputs on cash crops are depleting their natural resource base. The rats have changed status from food to pest. The generalization of mono-cropping and simplification of practices also increase risks of crop failures and decreasing productivity.
Adaptation planning versus adaptive capacity
The vulnerability of upland communities is linked to their adaptive capacities, which refer to the ability of a system to respond to, adjust, or even take advantage of changes or shocks. Effective and sustainable adaptation measures often build on active participation of local stakeholders and sound integration of context-specific knowledge and practices. Strictly top-down adaptation strategies fall short of capturing the great diversity of local upland environments and, consequently, can lead to poorly adapted actions, perceived by communities as good intentions rather than relevant interventions. On the other hand, exclusively grassroots-level perspectives may be too narrow (short vs long-term perspectives) and/or too context specific to allow findings to be scaled up, transposed, and generalized. Increasing resilience thus requires to combine adaptive capacity as a bottom-up dynamic that builds on local creativity, knowledge, and innovation, and adaptation planning as a top-down, institutional approach aimed at generating the conditions for adaptation.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA)
While the occurrence of large-scale disasters is relatively rare in Laos compared to other regions of the world, the high and increasing frequency of smaller-scale events constantly threatens the fragile development gains. Climate change is expected to raise temperatures, modify precipitation patterns and increase both the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather-related events, thereby threatening people's coping and adaptation capacities. In this context, the Government of Laos (GoL) has endorsed the mainstream, globally accepted DRR and CCA agenda, mechanisms, norms, and models (e.g. the Hyogo Framework for Action – HFA), and complied with the paradigm shift from a top-down, response-oriented disaster management approach to a more holistic, bottom-up model that acknowledges the importance of preparedness and mitigation at all levels of society. As a result, community-level development and policy interventions have mushroomed in Laos, often with support from international development partners.
Small Agricultural Rural infrastructure (SARI e.g. small-scale irrigation networks, paddy fields and river bank reinforcement, water supply infrastructure) can also play a key role in DRR an CCA strategies. However, the negotiation of rules and mechanisms for the management and maintenance of such infrastructure is usually neglected, jeopardizing the profitability of such investments.
The development of early warning systems to alert farmers on climatic hazards have mushroomed worldwide and in Laos, with however limited evidence regarding their impact on farming communities vulnerability to climatic hazards.
The purpose of this workshop was to review lessons from these initiatives and to formulate and propose concrete, evidenced-based policy recommendations.
Issues and questions addressed during the workshop
- Approaches and challenges in assessing the vulnerability of mountain communities: rethinking vulnerability beyond stereotypes
- Linkages vulnerability, poverty and adaptation planning to better understand the relations between adaptive capacity and socioeconomic development,
- Potential gaps in the institutional framework and coordination mechanisms from an adaptation perspective,
- Mechanisms to buffer the potentially negative consequences of rapid market integration on people (e.g. through education) as well as on the environment (e.g. through soil and forest conservation)
- Impact of integrated landscape management and small agricultural rural infrastructure on farming community sensitivity to climatic hazards
- Impact of early warning systems on farming community response capacity to climatic hazards
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Team Cyanosis: Expedition Africa Race Report by Nicholas Mulder
"Are you excited?".
That's the common question leading up to any big adventure race. For me, the answer is no. At least not until about five minutes before the start.
Five minutes before the start, we found ourselves lined up on on beach with a red dawn, staring off into the breaking surf and the rising sun behind it. Despite what some other teams may say, the sea was relatively calm, at least compared to some other adventure races that we've been in. But staring at the breakers from this angle is nevertheless guaranteed to generate a good wallop of adrenaline for your system. Ahead of us lay 575km of Expedition Africa race course. 350km of that would be on bikes, 83km in kayaks and the small balance of 142km would be on foot.
With the sound of the start gun, Team Cyanosis headed into the breakers together with the rest of the 40 teams. I was paddling with our new team member and paddling big-shot, Hilary Bruss-Pitchford, whilst the old guard of Clinton 'Mac' Mackintosh and Nathan Thompson paddled together in our other boat. With Hilary's knowledge of surf conditions, it wasn't long before we were successfully out behind the back-line and heading down the coast from Port Edward towards the Mtamvuna River mouth that traditionally marks the northern end of South Africa's Wild Coast.
We found ourselves slotting into about 4/5th position in the early stages on the paddle, mixed in with some of the 17 international and 22 other South African teams. Up front were the Kiwis of Team Seagate, currently world #2, but with more World Champs wins to their name than the number of expedition length races that most competitors have under their belt. We would not see them again until the finish line. Keeping pace with them were our old South African rivals of Team Merrell Adventure Addicts (World #10) whilst just ahead of us on our left were Team Haglofs Silva (World #6) from Sweden. On our other shoulder were Team Warriors (also RSA). Somewhere behind us, we dared not glance back at this stage of the game, were a plethora of other strong teams that made Expedition Africa the second-most hotly contested race on the planet in 2014 after the World Champs itself.
When you charge out from the beach with your kayak, heading for the breaking surf, you know you are going to be in trouble. It's staring you in the face and cannot be ignored. When coming back into shore, there is a calm serenity when viewing the welcoming beach from behind the breakers. You cannot see their anger and their roar is muted. Experience has taught us that coming back in is actually ten times worse than going out. Heading for a sandbar across a river mouth inevitably means that there are going to be some good dumpers and that a combination of skill and luck is required in reaching dry land in one piece. Mac and Nathan found it, Hilary and I didn't.
Five minutes later Hilary and I made it to shore. We dragged our bedraggled selves over the sandbar, put into the lagoon on the other side and quickly paddled up to the first checkpoint (CP), picking up our backpacks that would be with us for the remainder of the race. A hive of activity followed and we left in 6th place, with some teams having moved up the field after a smooth beaching (e.g. Team Painted Wolf – RSA/Chile), whilst others were still coughing up sand and snorting salt water (Sorry, I can't tell tales). We had a short 5km paddle upstream to the Mtamvuna Nature Reserve where we once again had a quick transition onto foot, leaving out boats with a marshal for a later pick-up. In between, we had an uneventful 12km trek that saw us running along hiking trails, clambering over boulders as we made out way down a small side stream and finally running, swimming and wading our way down the Mtamvuna back towards out boats. In the process, we caught and passed Team Warriors after we did a sneaky on them, ducking away from a partially hidden CP marker just before they saw us. At the same time, regular glances over our shoulder revealed that Team Tecnu – U.S.A. (World #4) were slowly closing a gap on us.
The other Great Trek
After picking up our boats and paddling back down to the river mouth, we arrived at the first major transition for the race at the Wild Coast Sun. These transitions get a bit chaotic, as not only do we refill water bladders for the next stage of the race, but we also pick up food (24 hours worth for this next trekking leg!), pick up more compulsory gear (i.e. rope harness and kit), have a quick change into dry clothing and put on clean shoes. For the navigators, there is the added bonus of having to plot onto your maps the locations of check points, the next transition and one or two other pieces of maybe useful information. You then have about 1 minute to also come up with the best route choice for your team between all these checkpoints that span 4 maps sheets and cover 90km of sandy beaches, rural homelands, nature reserves, indigenous bush and a handful of canyon / kloof crossings and traverses.
We had a quick transition. Too quick. Determined to hold on to our current 5th place we left at pace and headed off at speed to CP8, about 4km down the coast. We took a nice inland route to avoid the sandy coastline and nailed finding it at a ruin amongst a grove of tropical bush.
Nathan (with the CP card): "Ah Nic, where's CP7?"
Nic (with the maps): "Ahhh….. SH!%$@#."
So. Three kilometre beach run back to CP7, just short of the last transition, then 3km back again to CP8 and 90km of trekking quickly became 96km. Rule #4 in AR: Learn from your mistakes. Never repeat a mistake! The team put this incident behind them and focused on the job ahead.
The error lost us positions and the team were now in 10th. A few kilometres afterwards, we arrived at the next CP, the abseil section and got to wait as Team Warriors descended the 80m cliff ever so slowly ahead of us. Fifteen minutes later we found out why they had taken so long, as debris from the cliff face rained down on us, and the main rope snaked its way though bushes and trees down the slope. It was definitely not an enjoyable abseil, nor was it safe. I had to unclip about 10m from the end as the remainder of the rope was stuck uselessly in a tree above my head. We regrouped mentally at the bottom of the cliff, as this point also marked a change in race temperament, from short quick legs between points to more open, long legs with big route choices.
The next CP was 18km distant, at a lodge overlooking the Mtentu River. We chose a route choice that brought us back to coast as quickly as possible, making use of a lower tide to cover the bigger distance in as straight a line as possible. We got to the lodge just after dark at the end of the first day, using the opportunity to refill our water bladders and down a coke. We'd moved up to 8th in the field, in a loose gaggle of South African, French and Swedish teams that made up 6th through to 10th. We left quickly, and immediately caught Teams Cinnobaer (the Swedes) and Arverne Outdoor (the French) as we headed inland towards two CPs before crossing the Mtentu River gorge. We managed to get into this gorge fairly easily (on a nice footpath), but struggled to find said footpath on the way out of the other side of the gorge. After about 30 minutes of bundu-bashing, Cinnobaer disappeared, presumably when deciding to tiger-line it up through the bush, up various cliffs and out of the gorge. This was the last we saw of them and they retired a couple of days later. Needless to say, we don't think things went well for them. A short while later Arverne tried to do the same trick. My team almost mutinied on me as I insisted that we keep looking for the path and leave them to it. A few minutes after that, with the sound of falling rocks and some top quality French, my team were once again in agreement with me. Two minutes after that we found the small footpath out of the gorge.
The rest of the night was spent trying to distance ourselves from Arverne, who had turned around from their free-climbing experiment and followed us out of the gorge on the path. By day break, 6 hours and 1 CP later, after various differing route choice, they were nowhere in sight, but presumably somewhere ahead of us rather then our preferred option of behind us. At about 10am we reached the top of Frasier Gorge, with only 10km left of this big trekking leg. I had the advantage (or maybe disadvantage) of once having been in Frasier Gorge before during the Morgan's Run 500km race in 2002. On that occasion, it took us 16 hours to cover the 6km of kloofing, even loosing one of our team members (subsequently re-found in moderately fair health). The kloof is probably the single toughest in South Africa to traverse. Large portions require you to lower team mates over house-sized boulders, swim through deep frigid ponds, rock hop over carpets of slime, or otherwise push your way through dense thorny bush spilling down either canyon wall right to the water's edge. I told my team in no uncertain terms that there was not a hope in hell that I wanted to repeat one of the worst nights of my life in this kloof, where you can be lucky to progress a mere 400m in an hour in the dark. We had 7 hours of day light left. We did it in 5. It was great motivation.
We arrived in the Mbotyi transition an hour before sundown, just behind Team Arverne. We took the opportunity of the warm, cosy environment to catch an hour and a half of sleep before heading out onto the 120km bike leg. With the sleep time logged, we were able to push on nicely through the night and only stopped once for a 15 minute power nap in the long grass on the side of the road in the early hours. We caught Arverne early on in the stage whilst climbing the concrete monster track out of Mbotyi up onto a flatter landscape dotted with tea plantations. Two different route choices to the next CP at Magwa falls saw us each take different options, with Cyanosis sticking on the larger roads and coming out tops by about 10 minutes. After this the gap grew steadily and we didn't see them again. Sixth place was ours!.
The stage pushed on into the rural areas around Lusikisiki. We even found ourselves cycling through the town itself at about 11pm, where a quick stop at the Engen garage saw us have our second dinner for the evening. Despite this, we weren't noticeably fatter afterwards as it all went to replenishing our bodies from the previous 29 hours of trekking. We reached the furthest CP inland at about 3am and then turned back towards the coast and the Mzimvubu River running towards Port St. Johns. The dirt roads that we were following started getting busy just after day break. We found ourselves dodging hundreds of children on their way to school as the route wove through a network of roads linking villages along the ridge-lines. At one stage we had to repair a side wall cut to Hilary's tyre, much to the amusement of the kids. Towards the end of the leg, we faced one final navigation test where a big drop off a ridge line showed no obvious routes on our maps. It looked likely that we would end up portaging our bikes down steep cattle tracks for about 2km, but in the end, we lucked out and found a superb, brake-squealing dirt track downhill that had my team members smelling the resin and hot metal of my brake pads. Another small 'bump' in the landscape brought the total climb on this leg to well over 3500 vertical metres before we did one final high speed descent into the transition in the Mzimvubu valley.
Sand Paddling
We packed our bikes into our boxes, restocked with food and water and quickly left transition, picking up our boats for a nasty 1km drag (oops, sorry, I meant carry) down to the river. This portage was immensely frustrating as the indicated path led us down to the 'wrong' side of a large hairpin bend on the river, forcing us to paddle an additional 3km in boats that we not so fondly call 'bathtubs'. This section of the race had been shortened due to low water levels in the Mzimvubu. Instead of the originally planned 67km, the river paddle was now a mere 18km as too many sand banks and rocky rapids upstream would have resulted in a massive portage for the teams. Even this lower section was pretty dry and we ended up grinding onto sandbanks numerous times. However, with some good knowledgeable reading of the water ahead, we managed to avoid the worst of it, dispatching with the paddle in around 3.5 hours and paddling into a beautiful transition point at the Cremorne Resort just outside Port St. Johns.
With light once again starting to fade, and a daunting navigation leg up ahead, we had a quick transition that involved scoffing down toasted sandwiches bought from the Resort. Some foot care was needed from the medics, as the earlier 90km trekking leg through rivers, down sandy beaches and across grassy plains had played havoc on Hilary's, Nathan's and Mac's feet. My feet were fine, but that just gave me more time to work with the maps for the next leg.
With about 1.5 hours of daylight left we hiked out of transition, heading for the first CP. This was only about 600m away, but as is traditional in Adventure Racing, was located on a Trig Beacon about 360m above our heads. Luckily the resort had recently done some archaeological work to uncover the old hiking trail going through the bush up to the beacon. This made the up section easy, but we also had to get down the mountain on the other side, heading further north-east along the coastline to the next CP. A possible route on the map turned out to be a non-option in reality and with fading daylight we struggled to find a decent or suitable way off the mountain. A network of cattle tracks on the top indicated that there must be a decent route down somewhere, but finding it was proving to be a hassle. We got lucky in the end, finding a trail head that led straight down to the coastal tracks with the last light of dusk.
The coastal track took us in the direction of CP23, just before a small river crossing. With low tide this crossing was not even ankle deep and was over in seconds (it would have been a good swim at high tide). One km further down the beach….
Nathan (with the CP card): "Nic, how much longer before the river crossing with the CP?"
Nic (with the maps): "Ahhh….. SH!%$@#."
So we broke Rule #4 and did it again. Result: Add 2km and 30 minutes of time to this 40km trekking leg. Why did it happen again? I have no idea. I wasn't tired, I wasn't sleepy. At least someone was alert before things got worse.
The trek continued further down the coast, with us often scrambling along steep cliff edges and over rocky shorelines as the slopes beside us dropped off into the sea 40m below. We slept for 2.5 hours at one point on the verandah of a beach house, our longest sleep of the race, before trying to find a path that would take us inland through dense coastal bush to our next CP. We never found the first option indicated on the map and instead pushed on to our #2 choice. Luckily this was a decent path and we made good time along it, passing small little homesteads in the dark. It was mind-boggling to realise that these communities are so isolated that you can't even drive a 4×4 to their houses. The nearest spaza shop was probably a good 15km walk down the very bushy path we were taking, a good 7 hour return trip.
We pushed on through the dark, finding the next CP at a large river crossing after a few minutes of searching for the right crossing. From there it was back onto small trails weaving through dense bush and grassland and back into the most rural parts of South Africa where definitely no census man has ever been before. Just after day break on our third morning, we were joined by two school children who were doing their usual morning commute to Mbotyi village, about 10km away.
We arrived back at Mbotyi Lodge for our final transition, surprised to find that Team Merrell just leaving. Having not seen them since the paddle on Day 1, we realised that we had obviously had a strong last hike and made up some good time. A further surprise was that we had passed Team Painted Wolf sometime during the night and we were now lying in 5th place. They came running into transition just 15 minutes later and the race tempo immediately heated up. It's always amazing when after the solitude of not seeing another team for almost 36 hours, you suddenly find yourselves in head-to-head racing for 4th, 5th and 6th positions.
The Longest Cycle. Ever.
A rushed transition and we were quickly on our bikes for the final leg. A mere 230km cycle through some of the most undulating terrain the old Transkei region has to offer. To put this in perspective, any cycle leg of over 100km is considered long by Adventure Racers. When it goes over 150km, it is called a 'monster'. 230km was the longest. Ever. That's almost half the distance of a standard expedition race!!! We reckoned a good ride would take us 24-30 hours. That's a lot of food and water to carry, so we chucked some out, anticipating a few stops at Spaza shops and water pumps along the way.
We left transition at the same time as Painted Wolf and after a quick divergence over route choice options, rejoined a few kilometres down the beach. A few kilometres after that we had a tough hike-a-bike section away from the coast up the cliffs to the plateau land above. The Wolves pulled away here as I started to suffer from some iffy food in transition. A few kiometres later I needed a short stop and 200m after that, we found Merrell on the side of the road, also looking less than chirpy. A good dice ensued, with the teams taking different route choices at the next split in the road. Merrell won this one, but we caught them again shortly thereafter negotiating a massive canyon crossing across the Msikaba gorge. This involved some highly technical riding down a steep cattle track, a rocky river crossing and then the complementary push-bike up the other side. At the bottom we caught Merrell and gave them assistance with a puncture. Shortly thereafter we left them on the side of the up-path as the face of their team captain, Tweet, quickly started passing from shades of white to green and back again. Merrell had obviously lost quite some time already that day and we pushed hard to capitalise and open a gap, knowing that they would be forced to sleep early that evening, but would probably bounce back with renewed energy for the final 12-15 hour push to the finish line.
We maintained a high pace as the sun dropped in the sky and the stars started coming out. After a few more long climbs we found a police station on the side of the road. We made best use of the opportunity and after some quick sweet-talking by Mac with the constable, we negotiated ourselves our own jail cell where we could sleep in warmth on some mattresses and blankets for a final couple of hours before continuing on through the night and towards the finish. We used a backpack to keep the gate wedged open… just in case.
The sleep did us good and we found some speed through a few more major route choice sections. We were constantly aware that Painted Wolf were out there ahead of us and that Merrell were somewhere out there behind us and that there was no opportunity to rest any more. One of the route choices involved some off-track riding across grassland and a short bike portage across a river. Hilary was suffering badly from blistered feet and a calf muscle tear obtained crossing the Msikaba Canyon, but she soldiered on none the less, trying to ride as much of the terrain as possible to save her feet. Just before daybreak we started hitting sections of soft sand that sometime resulted in us having to push. In the dark, I misjudged one of these when approaching at speed and had a spectacular wipe-out. Apparently I also found the dirt was a good place to sleep once I had crashed, as my team had to pick me up off the ground, something I have no recollection of.
With day break things became easier once again as the cool morning air and the sight of sunlight giving renewed energy for our quest to reach the finish line. The last 60km section was a nasty extended loop into the interior and involved a few more crossings of deep river valleys. We pushed on and even managed to increase our speed once again as we started expecting to see Merrell over our shoulder at any stage. The age of the cycle tracks on the ground showed that Painted Wolf now had a healthy couple of hours lead on us with too little distance left to the finish to catch, but we were determined to hold onto 5th place.
The final couple of CPs were collected without incident and we hit a tar road for the final 30km of downhill back to Port Edward, our original starting point. With the fear of being caught, we reached well over 60km/hr on some of these sections, even with 4-day old legs on us. Two kilometres from the finish we hit a red traffic light at the main road crossing outside town. This was a bit surreal after 100 hours of tramping through the most rural parts of South Africa.
Finally we made it across the line in 100 hours and 30 minutes, taking 5th place with much relief. It was an emotional finish for us as all of the team members had pushed through some very dark places in their minds during this expedition race. We had also pushed ourselves to physical limits and ignored days of pain and agony, all in order to complete the course as a full team, racing against the best in the world.
It would take days and even weeks to recover from this, both mentally and physically. Hilary would still be hobbling around on raw feet for three weeks. I would come down with tick-bite fever whilst both Mac and Nathan aquired the infamous 'Mbotyi Belly' that resulted in them becoming experts on the various types of porcelain as currently used in the South African plumbing industry. It was Hilary though who said it first, even though she was still relying on others to carry her around camp, just a mere 24 hours after we had finished:
"So when is our next race?"
Team Cyanosis is proud to have the following brands supporting them:
– First Ascent outdoor apparel, Salomon adventure footwear, Petzl headlamps and Foodstate vitamins and supplements.
– Specialized bikes and accessories, Concept Cyclery in Fourways and Melrose Arch, Form and Fitness sports supplements and Race Food (Real Food, Serious Energy).
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Lenz v. Universal Music, No. 13-16106 (9th Cir. filed 9/14/2015) [decision].
Copyright owners must consider whether allegedly infringing use is "fair use" before sending takedown notices under the DMCA, holds the 9th Circuit. In the so-called "dancing baby case," Plaintiff alleged that Universal Music violated 17 USC 512(f) by misrepresenting in a takedown notice that a home video of her son dancing to a Prince song and posted on YouTube constituted an infringing use of a portion of a "Prince" composition. The Court held that the DMCA requires copyright owners to consider fair use before sending a takedown notice, and that failure to do so raises an issue of fact whether the copyright owner formed a subjective good faith belief that the use was not authorized by law. Available theories of good faith belief are actual knowledge, and willful blindness. "Universal faces liability if it knowingly misrepresented in the takedown notification that it had formed a good faith belief the video was not authorized by the law, i.e. did not constitute fair use." A prevailing plaintiff in such a case is entitled to nominal damages. Ultimately, the 9th Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of the cross-motions for summary judgment, such that the case would proceed to trial on the issue of whether Universal had actual knowledge, and the amount of damages.
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Fair Use Must Be Considered Before Sending DMCA Takedown Notices; 9th Circuit
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It is such a blessing to live in a state that recognizes equality and brings couples like Alana and Ondrea here to celebrate their union. We were so happy to be a part of Alana & Ondrea's wedding here in Seattle at Urban Light Studios. Alana and Ondrea made the trek from sunny southern California to the emerald city in hopes of some sunshine for their wedding day and that's exactly what Seattle gave them! The light was perfect as we walked through Woodland Park for some pictures in the flower dotted fields and giant trees where our couple relaxed into a happy state of knowing they were about to be married. At the start of their ceremony their sweet flower girl walked down the aisle while the guests covered their eyes because she was shy. Alana and Ondrea each grabbed their father's arm to walk down the aisle to Dave Matthew's You and Me while Ondrea's brother waited to marry them at the end. Tears and emotions were flowing when each bride repeated their vows and felt the overwhelming emotion of being tied to each other in marriage at last.
The Details:
Ceremony & Reception: Urban Light Studios
Food: City Catering Company
Cakes: Honey Crumb
Flowers: Pike's Place Market
There's a funny story here…see if you can guess what happened shortly after cutting the cake.
Congratulations Alana & Ondrea! Thank you for letting us be there for your wedding! ~Erik & Marissa


text: Amid all the gloom and doom in today's headlines, it is sometimes nice to reflect on what goodness there is in the world especially those who are given an opportunity to shine against all of the self-entitled people that live among us. Gustavo Dudamel is a Venezuelan composer who brought together the undiscovered talents of kids from Venezuela's least fortunate areas and through the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar made magic. What these kids, who in many cases hadn't a lick of musical training, transformed into well – judge for yourselves. It is astonishing that in a world of virtue signaling, these kids took an opportunity through benevolent philanthropists and knocked it out of the park because they saw that persistence, hard work and fun can be turned into a talent rather than moaning for someone to feel sorry for them. Bravo. How could you not feel pride? Even if you aren't a fan of classical music I won't be the least bit surprised if you end up buying an album.


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This weeks nail art design is a denim jean nail art. Friday 20th September is Jeans for Genes Day, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to do my jeans nail art. Let me know what you think of my design.
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Kindergarten registration and screening in Middleboro
MIDDLEBORO — Kindergarten registration is underway and screening dates have been set for March 17, 24 and 31.
Registration packets were mailed out the last week in February. If you are not on the Middleborough town census, or aren't certain, please contact the MECC office to leave your name and address for a packet to be mailed, or you can stop by in person to pick one up.
If you have ANY questions, call MECC at 508-946-2032.
Representative Orrall to Hold Office Hours in Lakeville and Middleboro
Lakeville — State Representative Keiko Orrall will host office hours to give constituents an opportunity to meet with her or a staff member and discuss current events and issues. Office hours will be held at the Lakeville COA 1 Dear Crossing on Monday March 13th from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM and at the Middleborough COA Leonard E. Simmons Senior Center on March 13th from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM. Evening Office Hours will be held on Thursday March 16th at the Lakeville Library. Rep Orrall's office may also be contacted at 617-722-2090 or firstname.lastname@example.com to schedule individual appointments.
Rabies clinic set for March 25 in Lakeville
LAKEVILLE — The Town of Lakeville Board of Health would like to inform Town residents of our upcoming 2017 Rabies Clinic that will take place on Saturday, March 25 at the Highway Barn at 6 Montgomery Street. Dogs from 1:30–3pm and cats from 3-3:30pm.
This Clinic is sponsored by the Town of Lakeville Board of Health and the Lakeville Animal Hospital.
Three easy ways to register to vote in Lakeville
LAKEVILLE — Town Clerk, Lillian M. Drane announced that voter registration in Lakeville has never been easier.
All residents of Lakeville (18 years of age and over) who are not already registered voters must be registered to vote by Tuesday, March 14th at 8:00 pm is the final date and time to be registered for the upcoming Annual Town Election which will be held on Monday, April 3.
There are three easy ways to register.
You may visit the Town Clerk's Office in Lakeville located at 346 Bedford Street and complete a voter registration form in person.
Mail-in voter registration forms are available at the Lakeville Town Clerk's Office, Post Office and the Public Library. Mail-in voter registration forms may also be obtained by calling the State Elections Division at (800) 462-VOTE. In addition, the state registries of motor vehicles, social services agencies and military recruitment offices provide voter registration services.
You may also register using the NEW Online Voter Registration System at www.RegisterToVoteMA.com. To submit an online application, you must have a valid driver's license, learner's permit, or non-driver ID issued by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RVM). You must also have a signature on file with the RMV. If you do not have an RMV ID, you may still use the online system to create an application. PRINT and sign the completed form, and then mail or bring it to your local election official. The online system will allow you to: apply to register to vote in Massachusetts, change your name or address for voter registration purposes, enroll in a political party, change your party enrollment, or unenroll from a party.
The polls will be open from 12:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Monday, April 3.
Town to compile building permit date
MIDDLEBORO — The Town of Middleborough has retained Vision Government Solutions Inc. to help complete the data collection of its building permits. The project will commence this February with data collectors visiting all properties with open building permits to record exterior measurements and conduct interior inspections.
Data collectors will carry a letter of identification from the Assessor's Office, a photo ID badge and have their cars registered with the Police Department. All property owners and tenants are respectfully requested to cooperate with data collectors to insure that accurate information is used in the valuation process.
Any property owners who have questions concerning the data collection process can contact the Assessor's Office during working hours, Monday through Friday, 8:45 am to 5:00 pm at 508-946-2410 or you can email us at email@example.com.


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More Innovations To Come As EMMA Turns One
The Readership Works general manager Mal Dale said EMMA (Enhanced Media Metrics Australia) would soon launch another series of innovations.
The cross-platform audience insights survey turns one today.
Last month, EMMA released a raft of product enhancements as part of its innovation roadmap for the rest of this year, including a new geo-targeting tool and additional product and category data. This follows the launch of the EMMA engagement metric in June, the world's largest and most comprehensive study of print engagement.
Dale said more innovations would launch throughout the year, cementing EMMA's position in the market as the pre-eminent audience measurement survey.
"EMMA's world-class and robust methodology has demonstrated that newspaper media brands deliver large and engaged audiences and today we have year on year data available for the first time that validates this audience growth: total national, metropolitan and larger regional newspaper media now reaches 14.5 million people per month, up from 14.3 million this time last year," Dale said.
"While print is down 4% overall, an 11% increase in digital audiences shows the community maintains a voracious appetite for our mastheads' journalism and commercial content.
"We will continue to collaborate with the industry as part of our commitment to continuous innovation. We have been impressed by the ongoing and valuable contribution from the MFA and a number of individual agencies in facilitating further enhancements to the survey, which we plan to make public in the near future.
"We are extremely pleased with the market reaction to emma and continue to work closely with the industry to ensure that emma meets and exceeds market needs."
Ipsos MediaCT managing director Simon Wake said: "Industry transition is well under way and we have been impressed by the ongoing and valuable contribution from our clients in both proposing and facilitating further enhancements to the survey. And it's not just media agencies. We've also had considerable interest from a number of advertisers and advertiser sectors that are actively trialling the EMMA data and providing input into the development of the emma questionnaire.
"We look forward to working with our clients in year two and beyond to help navigate the changing media landscape."
EMMA innovations to date include:
- The EMMA data has now been fused into RDA Research's geoTribes Explorer database enabling the provision of audience profiles at the local area level
- The EMMA survey will now contain even more comprehensive usage and purchase information for key brands within product categories such as travel, airlines, automotive, sport, quick service restaurants, food and health
- Purchase information based on the Household Expenditure Survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has been incorporated into the emma database. This information includes household expenditure data across an initial 34 product categories, with additional categories being added over coming months
- The EMMA survey is now fused with The Health Care and Insurance Australia survey, which provides information on health insurance among Australians
- The Ipsos Food and Health Report, which is an annual survey of 3,000 Australians, is fused with EMMA. The study provides information on the changing mindset, preferences and behaviour of consumers in relation to food and healthy eating
- The EMMA Engagement metric is designed to demonstrate a reader's unique relationship with printed newspapers and magazines, measuring 189 publications, including newspapers, magazines and newspaper inserted magazines. EMMA has undertaken the world's largest and most comprehensive study of print engagement with more than 20,000 respondents, drawn from the EMMA audience insights survey, asked about their relationship with publications
- The fusion of Nielsen Online Ratings data with the EMMA survey
- Australia's largest database of regional and community newspaper readership
- Readership data on individual branded sections of newspapers
- The inclusion of geo-demographic customer segmentation tools
- New contemporary segmentation of the Australian population with 10 new consumer segments identified
- Monthly release of a rolling 12 month database
- Independently audited
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Pancreatic Cancer UK Gala Concert
About the Project
Thursday 11th July 2019, 7.30pm
Cadogan Hall, London
The brilliant Guy Barker and his Jazz Orchestra with award-winning guest soloists Amy Dickson, Benjamin Grosvenor, Clare Teal and Giacomo Smith present an evening of jazz favourites including the exhilarating Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, a Piazzolla medley for saxophone, Artie Shaw's Clarinet Concerto 'Singin the Blues' and much more.
The Artists
Hosted by Sir Michael Parkinson
The Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra
We'd like to extend our thanks to the featured artists, all of whom are donating their services to the cause.
About This Event
The Gala Concert is a Hazard Chase event in support of Pancreatic Cancer UK. Hazard Chase will donate all net proceeds from the Event to Pancreatic Cancer UK, a registered charity in England & Wales (1112708) and Scotland (SC046392).
James Brown, Managing Director of Hazard Chase comments:
"My brother Robert died of pancreatic cancer ten years ago, precisely thirteen weeks from diagnosis. Like most people, until then I knew very little about what I subsequently learned is one of the most intractable problems in medicine. Less than 7% of people with pancreatic cancer will survive for 5 years in the UK. Although there has been a slight improvement in these figures in recent years, due to the efforts so many people have made to fund research in to earlier diagnosis and treatment, vastly more money is needed. Pancreatic Cancer UK is a brilliant charity, which was quite new when we first contacted them in 2008, but is now a substantial organisation, performing a vital role in the fight to beat the disease, not least in lobbying for more generous funding from the government and other charities. They also provide invaluable help for patients and their families. Hazard Chase is proud to support the charity by promoting and managing fundraising concerts in London. Speaking for myself, I continue to do this because if just one family does not have to go through what we did, it is worth it."
About Pancreatic Cancer UK
Pancreatic cancer remains both the lowest surviving and the quickest killing cancer. Facts that are completely unacceptable. Pancreatic Cancer UK is the leading charity in the UK tackling the disease on all fronts with the goal to double survival rates and transform the future for everyone affected. Pancreatic Cancer UK has three key aims:
• To invest in ground-breaking research into early diagnosis and new treatments to find the breakthroughs that are so desperately needed to improve survival outcomes
• To provide specialist information and support for patients and families to cope with their diagnosis and live as well as they can today. This includes running a specialist nurse helpline and information and support programmes
• To campaign for change amongst policy makers and those working in the healthcare system calling for better care, treatment and research as well as demanding that the disease gets the recognition it needs
Pancreatic Cancer UK receives no government funding so is 100% reliant on the generosity and good will of supporters and funders. The charity would like to extend their grateful thanks to James Brown, all at Hazard Chase, the artists, guests and donors for their fantastic support.
The Auction
A live auction will be held during the interval in aid of Pancreatic Cancer UK.
For more information, please visit www.pancreaticcancerukgalaconcert.com
Watch a preview of Benjamin Grosvenor performing Rhapsody in Blue below.


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I recently received a request for more information on how Sjogren's Syndrome and Fibromyalgia may affect pregnancy and birth. Please comment or pass on links if you can help out. I'm especially interested to hear from those who have either deal with these personally, or assisted pregnant or birthing women with these conditions.
UC & general natural childbirth (i.e. w/ a midwife either at home or in a
birthing center) seem to be geared more towards very healthy, low-risk
pregnancies. What about those of us who no matter what we do are
automatically classified as high-risk? I am 25, and have two autoimmune
diseases: Sjogren's Syndrome (attacks moisture producing glands in body), and
Fibromyalgia. Both are mostly under control with medication, mild
exercise, and massage therapy, and my husband and I have begun to think about
children. Sjogren's Syndrome is known to cause fetal heart blocks and,
like any other autoimmune disorder, you can either have a disease-symptom-free
pregnancy or one that will literally knock you flat on your back for nine months
because you are in so much pain. This scares me, yes, but I have felt so
out of control of my body for the last eight years that I want to see what it is
really capable of and welcome pregnancy & labor-- reclaiming myself, if you
Unfortunately, if I become pregnant, I am automatically classified as "High
Risk" and most midwives probably will not want to work with me due to
this. I fear that I will not be allowed to have the kind of birth and
pregnancy I am hoping for, both as natural as possible, with the labor &
delivery in a birthing center.
Do you know of any resources for having a natural pregnancy & delivery
when you are a "High Risk" individual? I do not want to put our children
in any jeopardy of course, but I also do not want unnecessary medicines &


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The "Song of Passing" (昼夜の唄 Chūya no Uta?, Song of Day and Night) is a song from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Link can conduct this song with the Wind Waker. He learns it next to a monument on Windfall Island, where the dancing Tott attempts to change night to day for weeks on end. When Link reveals his Wind Waker to Tott, he suddenly changes his fraying from side to side motion to a dance which seems to illustrate directions for playing the "Song of Passing". Once Link mimics Tott's movements, he acquires the new song, which gives Link the power to turn night to day and vice versa anytime he wishes except during the Endless Night. From daytime, the Song adjusts the time to midnight (0:00); and from nighttime to noon (12:00).
The "Song of Passing" is nearly identical to Ocarina of Time's "Sun's Song", the only differences being the instrumental medium on which they are played and the fact that the notes are not repeated.
The actual pitches of the notes translate as follows: A, F, high D. These notes are the same as the "Sun's Song".


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Impressive. Extraordinary. Kebabs.
I am going to attempt to depict my Duke in Istanbul week-long excursion as briefly as possible, but know that 1000 words cannot speak for the pictures I included in my Photo Gallery Section, which in themselves cannot even reflect the full beauty of what I saw.
However, our trip did not begin as seamlessly. The morning we left, Istanbul was hit with a massive snowstorm. Our 6 am flight was indefinitely delayed, and we did not end up leaving until 8 pm that night. In the process of being trapped in the Domestic Terminal of Ataturk Airport, the group used the extra time to catch up on much needed sleep and practice Turkish. Through eating in each of the terminal's four cafes and falling asleep in nearly every corner of the airport, the group came together, in what I was determined was a grandiose ploy by the program to initiate bonding.
şanliurfa and Harran
We finally arrived in Sanliurfa, a small city 20 km from the Syrian Border (a region most people at home warned me about visiting considering the current Revolution raging on). We were met by our two tour guides, husband and wife Fuat and Sevim. Simply put, we could not have been more lucky to have them guiding us the entire way.
We slept at the first of our five-star hotels, The El Ruha, modeled after an old Urfa Palace. The next day, we made up for lost time and immediately traveled to Harran, a city first inhabited in the Early Bronze Age (~300 BC).
The city was the site of the Grand Mosque of Harran, or the University of Harran, which was once the largest mosque in the world and the center of academia in the Islamic World.
The city is also famous for the Palace of Harran and is currently famous for its beehive houses, both of which we made sure to visit.
We made our way back to Sanliurfa, where we stopped in the Sanliurfa Museum, which houses relics and artifacts that date back ~2000 years. We then visited the Sanliurfa Mosque Complex, which surrounds Abraham's cave (where Abraham is believed to have been born) and the Pool of Sacred Fish. After walking around the Sanliurfa Bazaar, we made our way back to the bus for the 2 hour trip over the Euphrates River to Gaziantep.
Gaziantep is known as one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, dating back to the Hittites in the 18th century BC. Today, the population remains stable at 1.3 million, and is known as the Pistachio center of Turkey (making it subsequently famous for one of my favorite foods of all time, baklava). After going to a small, local bar that night, we slept in the swanky Hotel Tugcan. We woke up the next morning and visited the one place we traveled to Gaziantep to see, the Zeugma Mozaik Muzesi, which houses the largest Mosaic Collection in the world. The mosaics date back to the Greek city of Zeugma, founded under King Seleucus in 300 BC. As one of the three largest cities in the Greek Empire during its heyday in the third and fourth centuries, most Zeugma houses included elaborate pools and courtyards, most of which displayed mosaics as a centerpiece and sign of wealth. The city was eventually abandoned, and the mosaics were not discovered for centuries later.
The most impressive piece in the collection was named "Gypsy Girl," and despite the large portion of the mosaic missing, it has caught the attention of art historians around the world.
We then drove for three hours to the city of Antakya (formerly known as Antioch). The city, founded in the 4th Century BC, was once the cradle of gentile Christianity, and the place where Christians assumed their name. Muslims, Jews, Catholics and Orthodox Christians have lived harmoniously in this city for over 2000 years, and continue to do so today.
The city prides itself on religious tolerance and cross-cultural understanding. Naturally, the trip primarily consisted of trips to some of the most important religious sites in the region, and in the world.
These included visiting the oldest Orthodox Church in the world,the last remaining synagogue in Antakya, one of the
oldest Catholic Churches in Turkey,and a prominent mosque in the region.
We additionally went to St. Peter's Grotto, a cave overlooking the city, considered to be the first church after it was used as the site of Peter's first sermons on Christianity.
The trip was organized by a local college-student, Jean-Pierre, who not only gave us great insight into daily life in one of the most tolerant cities on earth, but also invited us into his home, where his mother, sister and father cooked us one of the most delicious meals I have had in months. In the late afternoon, we traveled to the Daphne Mosaic Museum, with similar collections to that in the Zeugma but from a different city, and then to the Catholic Church to witness a traditional mass. I had never attended a Christian service before, and while the prayers were read in the Turkish, the compassion of the congregation was not hard to grasp.
The evening concluded with me and a few other DII students, a few bottles of wine back at the hotel, and Jean-Pierre's company. From the religious site-seeing to shooting the breeze with Jean-Pierre to to watching woman in hijabs walk side-by-side with women in short skirts and designer heels, the mixing of cultures, values and identities was everywhere, and I think everyone's perception of tolerance and harmony expanded significantly.
The excursion concluded with a two night, three day trip to the region of Cappadocia, located primarily within the Nevşihir Province east of Ankara. The region is known for its geological beauty, rock formations, and ancient underground civilizations. After driving six hours from Antakya, we visited the Eski Gümüşler Cave Monestary, no longer in use, but was once a hiding spot for Christians to worship during the Crusades. We then traveled to the Kaymakli Underground Civilization, where, for centuries, Turkish Christians constructed and lived in an entire city that spanned six different levels under the earth's surface. During our time in Cappadocia, we stayed in the Hotel Alfina, situated in the side of a mountain, in which every room was an individual cave. Keep in mind, the hotel was still 4-stars, but the experience was off the charts.
The next morning, we woke up before the morning call to prayer (unheard of for a group of 19 college students) for the experience of a lifetime.
We had the privilege of hot air ballooning above the valleys and rock formations of Cappadocia.
The experience provided us with views that only pictures can describe. I can confidently say it was truly one of the most extraordinary experiences I have experienced, and I only hope that everyone has the chance to see this place from the sky themselves.
From there, we visited the world famous fairy chimneys,
rock formations protruding from the ground which people have inhabited for centuries. Today, Cappadocia's fairy chimneys are a world heritage site, which again, only pictures can fully describe. We then hiked through the Meskinder Valley. Despite the mud, ice and snow on the ground (and the numerous falls and people stuck in caves) it was a rewarding experience with sights that necessitate getting down and dirty to see.
That night, we witnessed the famous Dervish ceremony, commonly known as the Whirling Dervishes. The small sect of Sufi Islam spins in circles to live guitar, drums and chanting for an hour for meditation and becoming one with the constantly revolving universe. The men in long white robes not only provide viewers with a spectacle, but also hope their performance helps their practice spread to audiences around the world. While the ceremony was extremely relaxing to watch, and the whirl of twirling white dresses nearly put everyone into a trance, it was an experience one could not gain anywhere else.
As it was Valentines Day, we ended our day trip with a tantalizing meal at our tour guide Sevim's friends restaurant, Ziggys, which masterfully incorporated a large variety of spices and flavors into their fresh, local, and traditional Cappadocian cuisine. The array of vegetarian options that we enjoyed at Ziggys, as well as most of the other restaurants during the last few days, was a great change from the kebabs we ate for literally every meal during our first few days in Istanbul.
The last day consisted of visiting a Carpet weaving shop and a ceramics studio in the cities of Mustafapasa, Gureme, and Avanos, as well as eating at a small hole-in-the-wall restaurant run by six of the cutest, shortest 70 year old women one would ever meet. Their mante (or mini-centimeter-sized raviolis cooked in a yogurt and mint sauce), dolma (stuffed grape leaves and peppers), boreks (cheese and potato filled pastries), and corba (lentil soup) was unmatched at any of the fancy restaurants we dined at throughout our journey. The flight back to Istanbul was smooth, and we were all surprised at how excited we were to arrive back on Campus. With an increasing grasp of the language, as well as an increasing awareness of Turkish culture, lifestyle, and mentality, I am finally becoming more and more comfortable in my new home.


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Old Escambia County Courthouse
|Old Escambia County Courthouse
|Building Information
|Palafox Street at Chase
|Pettisen and Pettisen
|S. S. Harvey
|Completion Date
|March 10, 1885
|Date Demolished
|Victorian Romanesque
The Old Escambia County Courthouse was a building on the northeast corner of Palafox and Chase Streets that served as the headquarters of county government from 1885 until 1937. It was razed in 1938 to make way for the United States Post Office and Courthouse.
Escambia County had held court in a building on Plaza Ferdinand VII between 1840 and 1866, when it was destroyed in a fire. After leasing a space from the Pfeiffer family, county operations moved once again to the Old Market House at Main and Palafox.
The Commissioners petitioned the Florida legislature in 1870 for permission to levy a short-term supplementary property tax of three mills to fund a new courthouse. The tax was approved, but funds were collected slowly, drawing criticism.
|The public records of the county for want of a suitable court house have been twice exposed to imminent danger from which they were barely rescued by the self denying efforts and energy of the county clerk, who allowed his own property to burn while rescuing the public archives. … The county is now paying for rent of courtroom and offices more money than is necessary to pay the interest on the bonds…
—J. Dennis Wolfe, editor, Pensacola Commercial
On July 6, 1880, County Attorney Stephen Russell Mallory was authorized to negotiate the purchase of the lot at Palafox and Chase Streets. It was sold by George Brosnaham for $3,250. Plans by the architectual firm Pettisen and Pettisen were approved in April 1883 and called Philadelphia bricks and Vermont marble. (Commissioner John W. Crary, a brick manufacturer by trade, claimed that construction costs could be cut in half by using local brick and Alabama limestone, but he was overruled by fellow commissioners Benjamin R. Pitt, Albert Riera and F. E. Richardson.)
Some controversy arose after Commissioner S. S. Harvey resigned on June 25, 1883 to bid on the courthouse construction. When the bids were unsealed later that day, Harvey's bid of $41,950 was about $500 lower than competing contractors L. C. Bennett and A. V. Clubbs, raising questions of impropriety. Nevertheless, construction went forward and was completed on March 10, 1885.
The two-and-a-half-story courthouse was built in Victorian Romanesque style. The church-like architecture was unusual for the area, and one writer to the Pensacola Commercial said the building "might have been appropriate for bed posts and chair runs for the castle of some giant or fairy."


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Engineers in Saint Paul, MN
Comprehensive list of Saint Paul, Minnesota based civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, structural and environmental engineering companies & consultants.
Business Listings
ECAD is a smaller environmental consulting and engineering firm incorporated in 1996. We are dedicated to helping our clients identify their environmental requirements, and to aid fulfill those requirements in a cost effective manner. Terry Kaiser, president of ECAD, has over three decades of construction and engineering experience.
For over twenty five years Engineering Repro Systems has offered Architects, Contractors, Engineers, and Developers with process enhancing systems for Construction Document Management, Printing, and Distribution. In 1999, ERS became a wholly owned subsidiary of the biggest reprographics firm worldwide, American Reprographics Company ARC. The premier core of ARC's business model is Planwell.
Situated in Eagan, Minnesota Rehder & Associates has been servicing the Twin Cities, Minnesota, and Western Wisconsin since 1990. Our core team includes four registered Professional Engineers PE and four registered Professional Land Surveyors PLS. Additionally, Rehder & Associates has office and field technical team; all working together to make sure that from conception to creation, the Land Surveying
Saving you money is more than just surveying your project. We get down into the details of your project and consider aspects derived from past experience, engineering intuition, and our thorough knowledge of alternatives analysis. We look at every minute detail right down to figuring out how to save you a few extra yards of fill.
In today's marketplace, business challenges are often closely tied to complex engineering challenges. We provide a array of consulting engineering services positioned to suit your challenges. We supply unique and effective capabilities and expertise to assist you attain your business objectives. All consulting engineering companies are not alike.
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This unique model operates as a community of tiny like-minded individuals operating out of a single office. Karl has been employed by several of the biggest design firms in the Midwest and has contributed his engineering talents to firms such as Analogic, SCJohnson, Briggs & Stratton, Minnesota Rubber, SportCraft, Strattec, Wagner, EvenFlo, Georgia Pacific and many more.
Is an industry-leading, full-service electrical and mechanical engineering company. With a great blend of energy, creativity, experience, and vision, our project teams have delivered customer satisfaction over and over again since our inception in 1969. What do customers appreciate about LKPB?
A collaborative group of environmental and design specialists passionate about protecting our waters, restoring healthy ecosystems, and enhancing our community's unique sense of place. We are a medium sized, employee-owned, multi-disciplinary engineering and environmental consulting company that specializes in the fields of water resources engineering and watershed planning, ecosystem restoration and
Jump to: main content, navigation, or top of page. Jump to: main content, navigation, or top of page. Based in the Twin Cities Minnesota, M & E Engineering. supplies electrical and mechanical engineering consulting services for building design and construction.
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Caztek Engineering is an engineering services company specializing in solving design challenges. We use modern computer-aided design and structural analysis techniques to create innovative and efficient designs. Our designs are then built and tested by our own engineers, ensuring quality at every step of the process.
To be recognized as Best in Class as an engineering and technical services company in any market we serve. This will be measured by Client retention, Employee satisfaction and benchmarked financial performance. To increase the responsibility and authority of the Professional Engineer in society by developing new skills and processes during the course of business.
Bloom Engineers specializes in electrical and mechanical engineering solutions for customers in the public and commercial business sectors. We are not your typical engineering company with standardized solutions for electrical and mechanical problems. Our specialty focuses on retrofitting, remodeling and add-on construction to existing structures and systems.
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