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Here is a list of direct mail stats that show why direct mail is still the best medium for cutting through the clutter and getting your marketing message directly in the hands of your customers.
Direct Mail Still Gets the Best Response
- Direct mail household response rate is 5.1% (compared to .6% email, .6% paid search, .2% online display, .4% social media). This is the highest response rate the DMA has ever reported, since coming out with the Response Rate Report in 2003. (Source: DMA)
- Direct mail median household return on investment is 29% (compared to 124% email, 23% paid search, 16% online display, 30% social media). (Source: DMA)
- At 6.6%, oversized envelopes have the greatest household response rates over other mediums (followed by postcards at 5.7% and letter-sized envelopes at 4.3%). (Source: DMA)
- At 37%, oversized envelopes have the greatest household return on investment over other mediums (followed by postcards and letter-sized envelopes at 29%). (Source: DMA)
- The response rate for direct mail among people aged 18-21 years old is 12.4%. (Source: DMA)
- The top response rate tracking methods are online tracking such as PURLs (61%), call center or telephone (53%), and code or coupon (42%). (Source: DMA)
- For every $167 spent of direct mail in the US, marketers sell $2095 in goods. (Source: Print is Big)
The Bottom Line – Direct mail has the greatest impact because it offers a tangible experience for the customer. Oversized pieces stand out the most.
Personalization Boosts the Response Even Further
- Adding a person's name and full color in the direct mail can increase response by 135%. (Source: Canon Solutions America)
- Adding a person's name, full color and more sophisticated database information can increase the response rate by up to 500% vs not doing any of these things. (Source: Canon Solutions America)
- Targeting customers on a 1:1 level increases response rates up to 50% or more. (Source: DMA)
The Bottom Line – People are even more likely to respond to a marketing message when it feels like it was written just for them.
It's a Multi-Channel World Out There
- The average person receives more than 2900 marketing messages a day. (Source: FireSnap)
- It can take up to 18-20 touchpoints to reach a customer for the first time. (Source: Compu-Mail)
- The average number of mediums used by marketers is 3.4% (up from 2.7% in last year's study). (Source: DMA)
- Only 11% of marketers are just using one medium. (Source: DMA)
- Single media users are most likely to use email (54%) or direct mail (22%). (Source: DMA)
The Bottom Line – Your customers are on multiple platforms. Are your messages clear and consistent across all of them?
Direct Mail and Digital Work Together
- 90% visit website first before calling. (Source: Huffington Post)
- 96% leave without making a purchase. (Source: Google Analytics)
- Direct mail with digital ads yield 28% higher conversion rate. (Source: NonProfit PRO)
- Marketing campaigns that used direct mail and 1 or more digital media experienced 118% lift in response rate compared to using direct mail only. (Source: Merkle)
- Website visitors who are retargeted are 70% more likely to convert. (Source: Criteo)
- 26% of customers will return to a site through retargeting. (Source: Wishpond)
The Bottom Line – Direct mail response rate can be difficult to track, because not everyone calls in right away. Most customers head straight to the web to learn more about the product online, rather than calling to speak to a sales representative about the product directly.
It's Easier to Nurture Existing Interest than Create New Interest
- It is 10X harder to create new interest than nurture existing interest. (Source: Invesp)
- It can cost as much as 5-12X more to acquire a new customer than retain an existing customer. (Source: Invesp)
- The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60-70%, vs. the probability to sell to a new customer at 5-20%. (Source: Invesp)
- A 5% increase in retention yields profit increases of 25-95%. (Source: Small Business Trends)
- The average response rate for direct mail pieces sent to former customers of a given brand is 18.4 percent. (Source: USPS)
- The household cost per acquisition for direct mail is $26.40 (compared to $10.32 email, $20.32 social media, $16.22 paid search, $24.75 internet display). (Source: DMA)
The Bottom Line – Use direct mail to nurture existing interest, keeping current customers and prospects engaged and delighted. While the cost per acquisition is higher for direct mail, average response rate and median return on investment is competitive enough to make up the difference.
Success is in the Data
- 40% of a direct marketing campaign's success is in the data. (Source: Above the Fold)
- In general, purchased lists have a margin of error as high as 20-30% for various reasons (people move, change jobs, get married/divorced).
- 73% of firms aspire to be data-driven but only 29% of firms succeed at turning data into action. (Source: Forrester)
The Bottom Line – It's critical to keep an accurate, updated customer database list.
Editor's Notes:
- You may have been redirected to this page from "25 Direct Mail Statistics for 2016" "15 for '15: More Direct Mail Statistics" or "25 Direct Marketing Statistics Prove Direct Mail Works." Please email marketing [at] compu-mail [dot] com if you are looking for a particular stat from one of those articles.
- This is a compilation of statistics we have collected from other sources. Please contact the original source with any inquiries regarding the statistics.


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Massachusetts Home Sales Drop as Inventory Reaches New Low for Month of September
Massachusetts Home Sales Drop as Inventory Reaches New Low for Month of September
by Eric Berman of Massachusetts Association of Realtors Oct 24, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. – October 24, 2017 – The Massachusetts Association of Realtors® (MAR) reported today that closed sales for single-family homes dropped almost six percent this September over last year, while prices rose eight percent. Year-over-year condominium sales also saw a dip, with prices rising almost four percent. Inventory reached a record low for the month of September. See the full press release here
"This is the sixth month in a row of year-over-year decreases in single-family home sales," said 2017 MAR President Paul Yorkis, president of Patriot Real Estate in Medway. "Unfortunately, the low inventory situation coupled with rising prices are taking a toll on some buyers' ability to compete in this market."
"We need to see more listings come on to the market to deal with these record inventory lows," said Yorkis. "These listings could come from new production, people moving in with their families or in accessory dwelling units— any way it comes, young and first-time home buyers especially will be grateful."
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The period we are in now could not be any better for selling a home. If you are planning on making a move South or downsizing you could capitalize on this market opportunity. Given that real estate market cycles go up and down, it would be the best time to consider a sale if you are Baby Boomer looking to downsize. Chances are you won't even have to do anything given the lack of inventory. Even the Pepto Bismol bathrooms sell in this market.
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Miley Cyrus made The Voice history with the first all female team for season 13 and the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." In the above sneak peek from Monday's episode of the battle rounds, Addison Agen and Karli Webster put a unique spin on the iconic Cyndi Lauper song.
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Last weekend, my mom came to school and helped me rearrange my classroom furniture.
I wasn't happy with my set-up. I love carpet time with first graders, and our carpet at the side of the classroom limited what we could accomplish there. I also have wiggly kids who need to spread out, and the carpet is a great place for them to do this.
With the carpet front and center, I have eliminated a couple transition times. The carpet is closer to the SMART board, so we won't have to transition from the carpet back to our desks in order to see the board. It's amazing how a small change gives us more learning time!
Before: I loved my corner carpet spot, however, we couldn't see the board very well. When I taught from the board, students had to transition back to their desks.
After: I moved the carpet to the center of the classroom, this way, we did not have to transition back to our desks. Students who need a break from their table group can work on the carpet.
I moved my couch, which was the biggest bummer of the rearrangement. I love my wicker couch, and am sad to see it hidden. Oh, well! My couch potatoes are my two helpers of the day. It is a special place for my kiddos! They love being a helper and sitting in such a comfy spot!
I moved my shelf to the back of the classroom. I am going to have to do a bit more rearranging! This will soon become our math wall. It's a Christmas break project! And the white stuff on the trees... It's supposed to be snow, haha! I think I missed the mark on that one!
As I move the bulletin boards around, I'll be sure and share my classroom's new look!


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The thin single red wire is used to eliminate the spark when connecting
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Solder a small connector (2mm or 3.5mm - male half) on to the
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Oops!-Thanks for the warning, i've been drinking a glass of Pom juice every day, didn't care about the price i pay. I thought i was doing myself a favor. up until now. as of today, out it goes!
We've talked at length about the health benefits of certain foods, even going so far as to label them "Smart Fuels." And, while we stand by our statements that there are foods out there that are particularly good for you once the marketing masterminds at food manufacturing firms catch wind of it, these poor foods are hailed as the new wonder food. In fact, they become so popular that they become buzz terms in the industry, able to sell just about any product provided it gets an honorable mention on a product label. Our beef? These so-called super foods can never live up to the hype and certainly can't confer any kind of health benefit when they are served up in processed food items such as gum, candy, yogurt chips and sugar-laden juices! Read on to see our list of the top 10 health foods that have tried, and failed, to live up to the hype:
If Comedian Kathy Griffin had it right when she said people are afraid to speak ill of Oprah, then label us brave because we're calling out the Queen of Media for hailing açai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) as the next super food. Touted by Oprah's minions as "nature's energy fruit," this item boasts 10 times the antioxidant power of red grapes and a "synergy" of fats and fiber to promote digestive and cardiovascular health and essential amino acids for muscle regeneration. While there are certainly health benefits associated with the berries, the folks over at a Friendly Skeptic note that "the antioxidants in açai are not necessarily as potent as has been claimed" and that there is "no scientific basis whatsoever for making medical or health promoting claims for açai."
Pomegranate juice, pomegranate jam, pomegranate chutney, pomegranate martinis: Once a food is a super food, it weasels its way in to just about everything! We're not knocking the benefits of pomegranate – which range from promises that it can prevent coronary artery disease to claims that it can stave off erectile dysfunction – what we're having a hard time with is the price! Ranging from $5 to as high as $8 for a 16 oz serving, POM (and its various tea and pill derivatives) this is one outrageously priced tipple! Also, it should be noted, dear readers, that just one 8 oz serving of POM packs 34 grams of sugar. You've been warned.
How could we not love Goji Berries when we ourselves even named them a Smart Fuel once upon a blog? Again, we stand by our statements that they do confer a number of health benefits – including stemming cancer activity and promoting eye health – but at about $60 a bag, we have a hard time recommending them as an integral part of a daily diet! After all, it is a berry we're talking about here.
It seems that if you slap an organic label on anything (fruit, vegetable, granola bars, vodka (seriously) you get free reign to hike up the price and still have your item fly off the shelves! Indeed, it seems that whenever you add the term "organic," it ultimately registers as "healthy" with Joe Consumer. Unfortunately, however, this isn't necessarily the case. Case in point? Our May Top 10 Junk Foods in Disguise, nearly half of which was dedicated to profiling items that were labeled organic but were still unhealthy. Sigh. Next.
Of all the recent health buzz words, green tea is probably the most frequently used (and abused) word in the lexicon. Green tea chewing gum… really? Do you seriously think your sugar-free stick of supped-up Bubble Yum is going to confer the health benefits associated with this ancient Chinese medicine? And the green tea "just add water" supplements? Don't even get us started! In our searches we even found Green Tea Kit Kat Bars hailing from Japan. Ugg. Hopefully, people can see right through these marketing schemes. While we don't doubt that the polyphenols at work in Green Tea have their benefits, we recommend that you stick with green tea in its purest form – straight out of a teacup. Expect more to come.
With its fancy name, its fancy country of origin (Brazil) and the fact that its added to just about every herbal supplement and energy drink, it would be plausible to believe that guarana conveys some kind of health benefit, right? Unfortunately, if you do a little research, you'll find that guarana is… well, basically just a fancy way of saying… uhhh… caffeine. True, it comes from a berry, and we'll give you the benefit of the doubt that the berry itself is rich in tannins and other phytochemicals, but at the end of the day, this is a prime example of a relatively healthy food being blown up as the answer to all of our health needs.
Another fancy name, another relatively un-super super food. Kombucha is really just a fancy name for a sweetened tea grown from yeast and Acetobacter cultures. Early studies of kombucha suggest that it may help detoxify the body, but once in the hands of marketing peons, the benefits of the drink are completely blown out of proportion, with one kombucha drink manufacturer using the tag line "can a drink change your life." Our answer? Not likely. But, at about $3 a pop, it sure will change the size of your wallet.
The easiest way to sell a new item? Tell people that it will help them lose weight or stay trim. Enviga was just the beginning. The latest for your radar? PinnoThin, a polyunsaturated fatty acid pinolenic acid derived from the seeds of the Korean pine nut tree that is thought to act as an appetite suppressant while also delaying the emptying of the stomach so that people feel fuller, longer. The new compound received the top prize at the First International Conference on Innovations and Trends in Weight Loss and Weight Management, but according to a release, that award was based on a study involving only 18 women. We advise that before you get caught up in the hype (toasted pine nuts on everything!), wait for more conclusive evidence of the pros (and cons) of this new product!
Uchuva may sound appealing, but what if we told you it was really nothing more than a plain ol' gooseberry? While it conveys some strong health benefits – providing the heftiest dose of fiber in the dried fruit realm – is it going to change your life? Probably not, but it sure does make a cute garnish for summer fruit dishes or a sweet addition to a ho-hum trail mix.
We started with Equal and Sweet & Low, but quickly abandoned the little pink and blue packets when Splenda hit the scene (It tastes just like sugar! You can bake with it! It won't give you the runs!). Now brace yourself for the newest kid on the block: Cweet. The compound – which is derived from brazzein, a sweet fruit found in West Africa – is thought to be 3000 times sweeter than sucrose and 1,000 times sweeter than plain ol' cane sugar and is already slated for inclusion in products including chewing gum, sports drinks and candy. Want to know where you can pick some up? Unfortunately this compound is still awaiting FDA approval and, even if awarded "generally recognized as safe" status, still won't hit stores until 2009.
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Oops!-Thanks for the warning, i've been drinking a glass of Pom juice every day, didn't care about the price i pay. I thought i was doing myself a favor. up until now. as of today, out it goes!
I saw your comment online and I advise you not to stop drinking POM, it's wonderful for your body. A lot of antioxidants. The sugar is pretty high all you have to do is maintain your daily recommended intake of sugar. Here's an example; a cheese burger at McDonald's isn't bad for you if you eat just a burger and nothing else for the rest of the day. When you eat in excess then you should start cutting some of the bad foods. you must always keep a balance diet. I hope this has helped on your decision.;) Nice sweater.
You blatantly work for that company. The 'Nice Sweater' comment is a cheap psychological / marketing trick to try and get your point across.
The 'Eating our crap is ok as long as you have a balanced diet' is a scam too.
The same tactic has been used by the tobacco industry to say that if you live in a place with bad air quality, then you may as well smoke.
Nice try… but you have been spotted.
I guess I'm a fan of kombucha because it has successfully weaned me from worse drinks. But damn, is it acidic. It has a pH of ~2! Now that I know that, I'm careful about drinking it because I kind of like having enamel on my teeth.
As for the other things, let's not forget that most of these superfoods are imported. Does that mean the ol' U.S.A. is devoid of superfoods? No, it just means that importing companies can make mucho dollar marketing them to you. I'm sure if you tested neglected American crops like red currants or regular gooseberries, many would show similar benefits. Except they are growing on a bush at my house…so I guess companies can't make $$$ on them and won't bother testing them.
Just as I was thinking "well, if people in Asia want to market their common berries to us as superfoods, we should market our common berries to them as superfoods" when I ran across this Canadian blackcurrant market' route to Japan
Pomegranate juice is a huge buzz word I have noticed. Marketing is like politics it doth seem. As long as you put a good healthy word in front of whatever product is being pushed and pictures of maybe a polar bear swimming in clear blue water, that obviously means that the product is healthy. But, 8 oz. serving of POM packs 34 grams of sugar, now how healthy is that? Not so much
No one wants to believe that the best "superfoods" are right under their noses: liver, grass-fed butter, pastured eggs, shellfish and spinach!
It's easier to believe something is healthy if it comes form the Amazon rainforest and costs the shirt off your back.
The POM thing is indeed getting ridiculous. The other day I saw a billboard for POM coffee. The ad said something like "Get a health buzz." POM coffee? Does the coffee have pomegranate in it (digusting), or are they claiming it's healthier than regular coffee simply because it's made by POM? I like pomegranate, I really, really like it. Too bad it's been so exploited.
Forget POM. Once winter rolls around, I can't wait to sink my teeth into ripe pomegranates (and inadvertently stain my shirt red)!
As other people have commented, these foods are imported. They travel long distances and aren't the freshest compared to "ordinary" local produce when sold. As for the juices, they're pasteurized and processed from the fruits that are too blemished to sell in the produce dept. Just not tasty.
A bit surprised soybeans aren't up there on the list anymore. Maybe it's going stale in superfood? Mangosteen is another fruit paired along with açai and pomegranate "superfoods."
Ah, but how I do love kombucha. Not for supposed health benefits (though if there are any, I won't turn them down), but because I love sour things! It is expensive, which is why I'm seriously tempted to hunt down my own mushroom and grow my own.
But, to be fair, green tea kitkats have no pretense to health. Japanese people just dig on the flavor. They have all sorts of kooky seasonal kitkat flavors here.
Oh and goji berries are nightshades which many dont know!!
Questionable health benefits aside, I've always been a sucker for anything pomegranate flavored. It's so sweet, I like to add about an ounce of it to iced tea as a sweetener and flavor.
Goji berries: Ugh, nasty tasting little brutes! I got conned into buying a bag a while back, and wound up throwing it out because nobody I knew could stand the things!
Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I searched for a while to find the right answer to my questions!
Great list of super-foods here. I have not heard of enviga, but it looks interesting. However I do take acai berry supplements every day.
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i find wheatgrass is pretty good and im always hearing about that when i go down the local smoothie bar.
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The green tea flavoured kitkats in Japan aren't a health gimick. People there have been eating green tea flavoured sweets for years. It's a popular flavour… the same as how we have rum and butter icecream here (ok, that was a bad example because not a lot of people get excited over rum and butter).
An Uchuva is a "Cape Gooseberry" which is not the same as a "gooseberry." The look and taste very different. NOt sure about the health benefits, but I do know that they are not the same.
I am so grateful to K.T. and Griffin and S.Somers "Knockout" I had Lung cancer, liver disease, and diabetes, all are history and My blood test show I have perfect blood. nothing out of the normal range. That's rare. LOL I do watch what I eat. I even have eternal life. Food as GOD maid it is the best.
I have been delivered from Lung cancer,diabetes,liver disease, everything in My blood test is in the center of the middle of the normal range. My gratitude goes to K.T. Griffin and Suzan Somers. Also J.C. I have eternal life. Food as GOD
created it, unaffected by greedy man. I am so impressed with truth, Thank You all.
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UCN @ Sophia Quarterly Newsletter 2-2016
Labex UCN @ Sophia General Assembly: come and join us!
June, 13 - 8:30-18:00 - FORUM Amphitheater of the SophiaTech campus
On the 13th of June 2016, the Labex UCN @ Sophia organizes a General Assembly to present its research activity over the 2012-2016 period. This will be the opportunity to give to the scientific community in User-Centric Networks a complete overview of the Labex activity, to disseminate the Labex action and to receive input from the Labex Scientific Advisory Board.
Workshop UCN @ Sophia "Future challenges in User-Centric Networks": registration now open
June, 14 - 10:30-18:30 - Juan-les-Pins congress centre
The Labex UCN @ Sophia organises on June,14 a workshop on "Future challenges in User-Centric Networks" in conjunction with the ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP PERFORMANCE 2016 conference.
This prospective workshop focus on three core-themes for the future of the networks "Data-centric networking", "Network virtualization" and "Network security & user privacy". It will be the opportunity to invite high profile keynote speakers (Don Towsley, Sachin Katti and Krishna Gummadi) and Labex researchers to present their vision and discuss perspectives in these areas. The workshop will end with a panel discussion.
Registration is handled jointly with the SIGMETRICS conference registration. More information about the event
Scientific Advisory Board. Eric Hardouin (Orange Labs) has been appointed Chairman of the Labex UCN @ Sophia Scientific Advisory board. The others members are:
- Krishna Gummadi, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
- Sachin Katti, Stanford University, USA
- Harald Sack, Universität Potsdam, Germany
- Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts, USA
- Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA
Welcome. Marion Mounier joined the Labex UCN @ Sophia as a communications officer on March, the 1st. She is in charge of the development of a greater visibility of the Labex among its scientific and institutional community. She is also the new key-contact for innovative companies who would like to take advantage of the transferable research results and technologies that emerge from the Labex program to improve their products and services.
Meddays 2016: successful seduction campaign. 38 students hosted, including 16 women: the 4th edition of the Mediterranean Students Days achieved new records this year.
On March 9-11, the attendees from Mediterranean Countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, Morocco, Turkey, Algeria, Lebanon and Egypt), all selected for their excellent academic results, were given presentations from Labex UCN @ Sophia, Inria Sophia Antipolis Mediterranée, I3S and LEAT laboratory and also from former students now working on the site. As they gave very positive feedback on the assets of the SophiaTech Campus and the wide range of education, research and innovation opportunities available at the Sophia Antipolis technology park, these students will become « ambassadors » back in their countries to promote the Campus.
The 4th edition of the Mediterranean Students Days was sponsored by the French Embassy in Spain and the Sophia Club Entreprises.
Post-doctoral contracts funding. The call for applications which ended in March 25th of this year was a real success, attracting talented young researchers from the USA, Italy and France. Three new postdoctoral fellows will be hired at I3S and Inria to work on the following topics:
- Osama Arouk: "Software Defined Radio Access and Core Networks for 5G" (Inria/DIANA)
- Carlos Edgard Colman Meixner: "Cloud-Based Virtualized Optical Networks for 5G Access Network (C-RAN)" (I3S/SIS)
- Geoffrey Portelli: "Deep learning: a biological perspective" (I3S/SPARKS)
A new series of technical seminars. Following the success of the former "eSAME Technical seminars", the Labex UCN @ Sophia launches a new series of technical seminars with support from the Conception CIM/PACA platform. Complementarily with the regular Labex scientific seminars, those seminars will provide useful technical information and a discussion area to engineers and researchers in microelectronics and telecommunications in Sophia Antipolis. They will take place once a month at Sophia Business Pole and involve industrial actors in these domains. The next issues will cover various technical topics around embedded systems, hardware, wireless networks and security (see Agenda below).
|Technical seminars
May, 12 – Model-Based Systems & Software Engineering, applications to energy programs
Business pôle Sophia-Antipolis – 12:00-14:00
Speakers: Chloe Dasse, Jair Gonzalez (Esterel Technologies)
Abstract: Best Practices in Model-Based Systems & Software Engineering to improve time to market and control certification risks. Today's systems are getting more complex and difficult to manage at very detailed levels. ANSYS-Esterel Technologies proposes a methodology and tools not only to allow cost savings at the various stages of development, verification and certification, but also improve risk management thanks to a better and faster definition of product requirements at system level, for a faster and more predictable time to market. It raises the level at which Energy systems are described and allows for virtual prototyping, static analysis and automatic generation of implementation artefacts.
Registration (free but mandatory, closes on 11/05 at 12:00): https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-model-based-systems-software-engineering-applications-to-energy-programs-24349203122
June,16 – A Journey into Silicon Security
Business pôle Sophia-Antipolis – 12:00-14:00
Speaker: Olivier Thomas, Texplained
Abstract : Over the past decade (hardware) piracy has significantly evolved. In the past, attackers could perform analysis with simple methods for injecting transient faults, such as electrical glitching. More recently, such forms of analysis have been obsoleted by advanced analysis techniques that utilize capital-intensive failure analysis equipment and require extensive technical skills. One such technique, laser glitching, has recently been included into Common Criteria evaluations. The transient faults produced by laser glitching are similar in nature to electrical glitching. However, the spatial resolution provided by the positionable laser stage means such attacks offer far more precision and are far more potent than, for example, electrical glitching. Even if this technique is quite effective on some particular kind of devices, more efficient attacks are used by pirates that are willing to create emulators and clones so as to reach mass markets in the form of counterfeited products. IC vendors are well aware of such attacks and have implemented several layers of obfuscation to thwart straight-forward analysis. Modern ICs transfer exclusively encrypted or obfuscated data over on-die memory buses. With the help of sample preparation and imaging, sufficient information about the core logic implementation can be obtained. This includes identifying areas of the IC where data is processed in the clear. Such areas can then be abused to recover the entire memory content. This presentation will cover the evolution of silicon attacks from glitching to software assisted Reverse-Engineering based on real-world examples and will cover the process from sample preparation to the actual attack.
Registration (free but mandatory, closes on 15/06 at 12h00): https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-a-journey-into-silicon-security-olivier-thomas-texplained-24365625241
|Visiting researcher: Lars Jonsson
LEAT is hosting Pr Lars Jonsson (KTH, Sweeden), a Labex invited researcher, from mid-April to mid-May. The topic of this research is to explore the limits of antennas miniaturization, directivity, and the margin left for improvement. Optimization of antenna performances is moreover critical for the development of future 5G networks which will be based on Massive MIMO technology. The on-going work aims at consolidating antenna theoretical models, their physical assumptions, and paving the way towards new antenna array design with figure of merit closer to theoritical limitations.
Lars Jonsson is a Professor in electromagnetic fields at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden since 2015. He received the M.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Umeå University, Sweden, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic theory in 2001 from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto, Canada and a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (postdoc) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
May, 11. Scientific seminar "On multidimensional passivity with applications to electrodynamics". Read more
May, 12. Technical seminar "Model-Based Systems & Software Engineering, applications to energy programs". Register!
June, 13. Labex General Assembly in campus SophiaTech FORUM amphitheater. Register!.
June, 14. "User Centric Networking" workshop joint with the ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2016 conference in Juan les Pins congress centre. Register!
June, 16. Technical seminar "A Journey into Silicon Security". Register!
The next scientific seminars will be held on May,19 - June, 2 and June,30 (topics to be announced).
|Open calls
Visiting researcher call. The UCN @ Sophia Labex call for funding high-profile researcher visits is still open. The Labex now also accept successive visits spread over a period of 2 to 3 years. Requests forms are available in PDF, ODT and DOCX formats.
Project developement engineers Labex funding: Third call coming soon. The Labex UCN @ Sophia tightens its links with the industrial world by funding project development engineers. The role of these engineers will be to consolidate the existing platforms, to develop demonstrators and/or to facilitate transfer of research activities of the Labex UCN @ Sophia to the industry. More information coming soon on the Labex website.


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The Music and Theatre Department Library has available a number of playscripts, dialect tapes, dance videos, musical theatre scores, and audition materials. This collection is located in PAC 130, and maintained by Gerald Snodgrass who is available M-F, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Failure to return scripts will result in your script services being revoked, the cost of the script being added to your student account and a university hold being placed on future registration, transcript release, etc. If you lose a script, you must pay the cost of its replacement.
Lockers located in PAC are available to Theatre majors. Reservations are managed by Gerald Snodgrass who is available M-F, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.


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Release Date: March 4, 2014
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In this beautiful and moving story of love, growth, and redemption among the stunning red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, Sydney—a teenaged Army orphan—discovers that love knows no bounds and life has many twists and turns of fate. After she is forced to move in with her late mother's sister Blanche and Blanche's abusive alcoholic husband Dean, Sidney finds purpose and friendship in Lexy, the daughter of Max Heller the City's most prominent widower and business magnate. Unknowingly, the girls' antics awaken Blanche's lost and suppressed passions and stirs Max's long-thwarted drive to build a loving and complete family. What emerges is the wonderfully successful Epicurian Café, the brainchild of Blanche and Sydney actively encouraged by Max and Lexy. The Café quickly becomes a center of the community, the start of a new life for Blanche and Sydney, and a chance for Max and Lexy to discover true love and the meaning of commitment. An emotional roller-coaster with its exciting twists and turns, Wildflower is an exhilarating and satisfying read.
Alexandra Forry is familiar with life's challenges. She was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she lives with her loving grandparents. Alexandra has conquered the limitations of Cerebral Palsy to write exciting and engaging novels. She has completed a number of talks and internet book tours and is a member of the Las Vegas Romance Writers and RWA.
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False premonitions
False premonitions: The unconscious mind behaving badly
Often when you get involved in dream interpretation the tendency is to get yourself involved in all kinds of mind experiments and explorations. It is natural for people to be curious. But just how successful are such experiments.
People often try to use dreams for inspiration. They may place piece of paper under their pillow and hope for a poem to come when they wake up. They may hope for inspiration with artwork or song writing.
However, the dream mind may play along with such experiments for a short while it will not put up with this continually.
When I first became interested in psychic dreams I used horse racing as a subject. Although some success was achieved at first once this became a production line things started to go wrong. The dreams became harder to decipher. And although the experiments had some success they ended up with totally random dreams. And in the end dreams hinted very openly that these experiments should stop.
I have also used dreams for song writing. The experiments were successful in that I dreamt of tunes for songs. But however, the songs were not very good. However, they were the best I could do.
Dreams do allow you to communicate telepthically and also to access the future but your abilities seem to be limited by your own ability. If you cannot write songs even if you access the deepest parts of the unconscious you still will not be able to write songs.


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Sorry Denver Haters...I've been on an extended business trip....
Wow, that's quite a memory! No, the Broncos were not a very good football team in their THEIR FOURTH YEAR OF EXISTENCE
However, we did have a few positive high points for the 1963 season:
Most points scored, 50, team record, S.D. at Den.
Most first downs, 27, AFL record, Den. at K.C.
Most yards rushing, 216, team record, Den. at K.C.
Most field goals, 5, AFL record, S.D. at Den.
Longest kickoff return, 90 yards, Charles Mitchell, ties club record, Den. at Houston
There are other note worthy team and individual highlights for the 1963 season, as listed and including the above records in the official 1964 Press - TV - Radio Guide
The next "worst" team in the AFL in 1963 was K.C. 5-7-2
The two teams we beat that year:
Denver 50 S.D. 34 Denver must not have been sloppy and erratic that game!
Denver 14 Boston 10 Ditto!
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Utah Bronco Freak
Of the 12 teams to make the playoffs last year, 7 lost week one..........on to Chicago!!!!!!
Chicago and Denver are similar in the fact that both offenses are not very good and both have good defenses. The difference is Chicagos defense is better.
13-6 Chicago is my prediction
That offensive line in Chicago is no better than Denvers but I would take the veteran Joe Flacco over the young Mitch Trubisky at this point in time.
Denver over Chicago 22-17
My proposed CP bet is strictly for whoever is victorious so Ill take the Broncos over your pick of the Bears.
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Dear readers, I applaud my friend and fellow New School for Social Research alumnus, J.K. Fowler, for creating a very interesting and unique journal, Nomadic Sojourns, which takes the subject of movement as its inspiration and overall theme. The first issue came out in September and contains a memoir about my first foray into ethnographic research in Guyana as a 20-year-old college student, as well as pieces of nonfiction and fiction by writers of every shape and size. There will be readings (at which I suspect I will, at some point, read something from my piece), so stay tuned for those–but in the meantime, please take a look at the journal on McNally Jackson's website, or walk right into their Prince Street shop and admire it on their shelves. Below is an excerpt from my piece, to tease you into shelling out the very nominal $17.99 for the beautifully-designed and one-of-a-kind journal.
"The next morning, the shaman was expecting me. Again his family joined Milton and me inside the hut. Malcolm performed the washcloth ritual once more, and then instructed me to return after lunch.
The same people were there when I came back. There were also a couple of tiny, scrappy puppies flailing about on the dirt floor, so young that they hadn't even opened their eyes. Malcolm and Mavis were resting in hammocks, having a post-lunch nap. Malcolm's daughter, who looked to be about five, appeared with a stick of sugar cane, which she peeled and chopped expertly with a machete. I was offered a bit and sat there sucking on it, enjoying its sweetness, watching the puppies, waiting for something to happen, for the shaman to turn his attention to me. But Malcolm and his wife remained in the hammocks until finally, Milton told me that I was to return that evening.
I spent the afternoon, as I did most days, interviewing people involved in the village's eco-tourism industry. Most told me that it was an exciting step forward for the village and that exposure to Westerners was beneficial to the children—a chance to practice their English, at least–though some complained that it brought in noisy and culturally-different outsiders.
The development of a tourism infrastructure had begun in Surama about eight years ago, with the construction of the guest lodge we were staying in. For some time, the village economy had been depressed, people told me. Guyana had once had a socialist economy, led by the democratically elected, adamantly Marxist Prime Minister, Cheddi Jagan. But after Jagan was removed in a coup in the 1950s, aided by the CIA and the British army (when Guyana was still their colony), Guyana saw the advent of free-market economics as their national policy. And not long after that, Surama and other villages in Guyana's interior saw a decline in the demand coming from the nation's urban coastline for their produce. The coast was being flooded with imported goods, and things like Coca-Cola were introduced as well. As a result, what little cash was coming into the Amerindian villages began to wane. Soon, young men who would have been able to raise families in the villages where they grew up were leaving to find jobs in Georgetown, or across the border in Brazil, where they often got involved in the profitable drug trade. "


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In 1995 the LX Club was formed to provide a vehicle for selecting the best players (O60 years) to compete in matches and tournaments of a national representative nature with similar teams from other countries. It also enabled players who had formerly played at a good level to enjoy games with their peers. For nine years the LX Club flew the national flag until official recognition for Over 60 and Over 65 teams was given by the England Hockey Association in 2004, and subsequently endorsed by England Hockey.
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Nutzwerk GmbH a German IT firm based in Leipzig has banned whining and complaining from the workplace. After moving to brand new spacious facilities a few years ago, head of the company, Ramona Wonneberger witnessed the downward spiral of moral and energy when the Telecom company was slow hooking up their new telephones and computer lines.
The complaining about the Telecom took root among staff and spread into further complaints about neighbours and spouses like a virus, sapping the positive energy of the move to new premises. So she banned complaining in the workplace. She writes, "When anger arises, there are three questions one can ask:
Do I want to change it?
Can I change it?
Is it worth the effort?
If these questions are answered with yes, then change it!
Change it as soon as possible, because every further minute of anger is a waste of time, life energy and happiness.
If one of these questions is answered with no, then therés only one more thing to do: Accept the people and things as they are.
Anything else is truly a waste of time. Life is much to short to be angry.
Complaining is allowed if the person complaining also offers suggestions for improvement or solutions, meaning he or she wants to change something positively, can change something and is willing to initiate the change!
Meaningless complaining affects your own well-being and that of the people listening in a negative, detrimental way. So this type of complaining does have direct influence on the general well-being and productivity of Nutzwerk employees. It pollutes the working atmosphere and pulls down the overall results of this company."
Details of the blitzkrieg on bitching can be found at: www.freuteuch.de . Look for the little flags at the top left of the landing page for the English version of the site.


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Autodesk Inc. ADSK, +1.29% said late Monday its board of directors has named Andrew Anagnost the software company's chief executive officer, effectively immediately. He will also join Autodesk's board of directors, the company said in a statement. Anagnost previously served as interim co-chief executive officer and chief marketing officer. In the same statement, Autodesk announced that interim co-CEO Amar Hanspal has decided to leave the company. Shares of Autodesk were flat in late trading and ended the regular session up 1.2%.
Autodesk names Andrew Anagnost its CEO
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How organic yeast extracts can thrive amid new demands
The growing demand for organic products is creating new potential and challenges within the ingredients space too. Dirk Lindemann of Lesaffre division Biospringer discusses how organic yeast extracts can thrive amid these new demands, what going organic in yeast extracts means on the supplier front and where the emerging applications are.
At Fi Europe 2019 in Paris, France, Tereos exhibited its certified organic beet sugar. Produced just two months ahead of the event, the beet sugar taps into the organic products trend. Guillaume Planque, Head of Product Management at Tereos, elaborated on why certification is essential for this trend as... Read More
As consumer interest continues to drive the hemp "mega trend," hemp-based products are increasingly arriving to the food and beverage industry. Agneta Hoffmann, Teamleader Marketing Flavors, speaks with FoodIngredientsFirst at Fi Europe 2019 in Paris, France, about Bell Flavors and Fragrances' endeavor into... Read More
Netherlands-based Niacet was exhibiting its range of preservation solutions with both artificial and natural solutions around organic acids at the Foodvalley section of Fi Europe 2019 in Paris. Vinegar is the basis of the natural solutions, meaning it can be placed on the label, which is appealing to clean... Read More
Food formulators face the challenge of maintaining freshness when using a fruit or vegetable powder. At Fi Europe 2019, Diana Food showcased its vegetable powders and liquids created with a new technology that allows the company to capture the volatile ingredients which naturally occur in the fruit or... Read More
The Italy-based food ingredients distributor Faravelli supplies the industry with an A-Z range of ingredients for texture, stabilization and finished formulations. Silvia di Tommaso, PR and Corporate Communication Manager, speaks about the company's move to rebrand last year. The new campaign won the Best in... Read More
In addition to participating in a panel discussing consumption habits, Gil Horsky of SnackFutures, Mondelez's innovation hub, sat down with FoodIngredientsFirst at Future Food-Tech London. He explained how consumers are more engaged with food than ever before, meaning that the pace that consumer habits... Read More
The company that started over 150 years ago in caramel colors recently added two new bright, natural and fully traceable colors to its portfolio. Dr. Connie Sandusky, Global Marketing Director at DDW The Color House discusses a new anthocyanin red at Fi Europe 2019. The red comes from purple corn, which can... Read More
Just two years in the making, CP Kelco's Nutrava Citrus Fiber taps into the clean label trend as an orange peel-based ingredient. With consumer demand for natural, recognizable ingredients rising, Susanne Soergel, Senior Director-Platform Strategy Pectin & Carrageenan, explains more about Nutrava, the R&D... Read More
Corbion launches a range of new natural solutions to keep chilled food safer for longer. The Verdad portfolio uses natural processing like fermentation to protect food from food safety hazards such as listeria growth. The six new ingredients within its Verdad and PuraQ Arome portfolios, launched at Fi Europe... Read More
Lacprodan ISO.Water is positioned as the first flavorless protein water, which has also been optimized for taste and mouthfeel. With the unique formulation, Joe Katterfield, Sales Development Manager for Sports Nutrition and Health Foods at Arla Foods Ingredients, says the mass market is ready to embrace... Read More
As industry looks for new ways to cut down its carbon footprint, IXON offers advanced sous-vide aseptic packaging, which saves cuts out a major chunk refrigeration, water and spoilage. By processing meat at a gentle temperature, products be made shelf stable for two years, while maintaining a pink,... Read More
California-based BlueNalu specializes in lab-grown seafood and has recently announced its five-phase commercialization strategy. President and CEO Lou Cooperhouse spoke to FoodIngredientsFirst at Future Food-Tech London about how the so-called "cellular aquaculture" space can create a third leg to the global... Read More
Bayer is addressing how to provide enough food and access to healthcare for a growing and ageing population. At Future Food-Tech London, Monika Lessl notes that it is crucial to examine how this can be done in a sustainable way that is within the planetary boundaries. Efficiency is key to this, as are... Read More
Due to restrictive EU legislation the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council was aiming to network with companies based in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America at Anuga 2019. Greg D. Tyler discussed the potential for trading with the UK market following its departure from the single market, although... Read More
French bakery St Michel is targeting a new age range with its baked Doonut, as showcased at Anuga 2019. While the company traditionally appeals to consumers between the age of 40 and 50, the new launch appeals to families and to children. Clean label is also a crucial consideration, with consumers seeking... Read More
The rise of social media means the appearance of food is more important than ever. This is one of the reasons behind the launch of Mission Foods black tortilla chips. Javier Zúñiga talks about the "Instagrammable" appeal of the company's products during Anuga 2019.
The bakery sector is well positioned to benefit from the plant-based trend due to the inherently vegan nature of many breads. Chris Houston explains how Lantmännen Unibake's range of products at Anuga 2019 also appeals to the broad spectrum of millennials, many whom are polarized to either seek healthier... Read More


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Upcoming 2018 Audi Q8 Will Not Be Bigger
Audi is expanding their SUV model lineup. It should compete with other German brands like BMW and Mercedes-Benz, fight for a customer, so they bring more compact models when BMW introduced X3 and X5, and now they prepare 2018 Audi Q8.
You might think that it means the new model will be bigger than current Q7? Seems legit, but nope. The new Q8 will compete with sporty-looking SUV, or so-called coupe-SUV, like Mercedes GLE Coupe and BMW X6. Why Q8 then, not Q4 or Q6? Well, to connect it with luxurious A8 and... maybe because eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture.
When to expect and for what price
Actually, some claimed that Q8 will be released not early than in 2019, with the reveal on late 2018. Or it might be presented in the middle of 2018 and then released by the end of the year.
Nevertheless, the car will be quite expensive, we expect around $75,000 for the base trim level car, which could be expensive than basic X6, for instance.
2018 Audi Q8 Specs
All experts agree that Q8 will share a platform with Q7 model, as well as most of the engine range. It is likely to be relatively the same in size, compared with the three-row model.
We expect only the best engines available for VAG cars: all-new V6 and V8 units, including powerful and efficient diesel engines. All those would be mated with 8-speed automatic and quattro AWD only.
SQ8 is also possible, likely to share the same complicated powertrain, used in SQ7 - V8 turbocharged diesel with the electric supercharger. As for hybrid modification, we could expect unique diesel-powered mild hybrid, able to goes on EV mode 30 miles or so.
Some expect Q8 RS with 500+ horsepower rating and twin-turbo V8, but we believe it is unlikely to be released soon, maybe closer to 2020.
Design Features of Audi Q8 2018
Audi has released 2 concept cars of Q8 in previous years - Q8 sport concept and Q8 Concept. Both cars are similar in styling, and the newer one – Q8 sport concept, is more precise, looking almost like a production version of the car.
We assume, that the real 2018 Q8 might look something in between those two, but closer to the Q8 concept. It features the new Audi corporate style - grille become even larger, dramatically wide, making the whole with headlights. Looks interesting, and recent spy shots show that production car has the same lines.
Coupe-SUV has less practicality compared to normal SUV. But due to large size, Q8 tends to avoid this problem. Looking at concept car, the interior is spacious and has lots of headroom and legroom space. It is also very similar to new-generation Audi A8, which is nice. So, the equipment level could be the nearly the same, especially in top-trim levels, to compete with Cayenne and even Bentley Bentayga.


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The 2016 theme for International Women's Day is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality". The United Nations observance on 8 March will reflect on how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals. It will equally focus on new commitments under UN Women's Step It Up initiative, and other existing commitments on gender equality, women's empowerment and women's human rights.
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Tasked with developing indicators to monitor global progress on these new goals, an Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators was established and UN Women contributes as an observer. The Group's proposal will be presented for approval to the Statistical Commission at its forty-seventh session in March 2016.
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- Humane Canada™ believes that transgenic manipulation denies the intrinsic value, nature and meaning of each species of living thing and is therefore strongly opposed to the manipulation and patenting of such animals.
- Humane Canada™ supports stringent regulatory controls on the biotechnology industry and urgently seeks national and international debate by government, industry, animal protection organizations and the public on the ethical, environmental, economic and social implications of genetic engineering.


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Before my vacation, I had plans of updating my blog at least everyday. Of course that didn't happen. I was a little too ambitious on that plan. The only time I actually updated the blog was when i was in Amsterdam on my way over to Nigeria and on my way back from Nigeria.
But, I actually tried to type some stuff while i was home. so here we go…..
It's Great to be home.
I don't even know what the date is today. I don't keep track of time anymore. I just wake up, brush my teeth, have a shower if I please, roam around the home and eventually move from one relative's home to another.
I am on vacation.
No, I am not on vacation in just any country. I am on vacation in Nigeria, in Jos. I've been home for more than a week and everything has been going well.
There's no place I'd rather be. Well, there are but being with family right now is the number one place.
My plan initially, was to blog each day of my trip home. I think that was a bit too ambitious. I'll try give just summary of my time so far.
When I landed Jos, I was shocked at the state of the airport. That wasn't the place I remembered when I left about eight years ago. But oh well, my disappointment over the dilapidated structure quickly vanished when I saw my crazy sister Kangyang already screaming my name from outside baggage claim.
I cleared my luggage and when I went outside and met my brother Dafwam waiting to meet their long lost sibling. I had been stressed and anxious for about five days prior to my arrival. Seeing my own blood/family made that anxiety immediately vanish. To my own embarrassment, I started doing all sorts of dance moves. I'm sure I looked like an idiot in front of all those folks at the airport. Looking like a fool was the least of my worries at the time. As a matter of fact, I don't think I had any. The world was instantly a nicer place. All the elements were in my favour.
On our way home from the airport, I almost reenacted the Nigerian movie "Osofia in London." I hailed almost everyone we passed in the village of Riyom. I was like a monkey who had just been let out of a cage.
My mom and dad knew I was going to be visiting home, but were not sure which day I was arriving, so when they saw me, as anyone would expect, they were shocked. My mom and I cried as we embraced each other. My dad played a little hard to get, he waited for me to hug him first…lol I didn't mind.
The flood of emotions had just begun. I was greeted by a lot of relatives, some of whom I didn't remember, some I did. The next couple days would be filled screaming and memory jerking.
I've been home for more than a week now, and I'm still meeting new faces. Just that by this time, I don't have all the energy in the world to scream or act so hyper about meeting folks I remember.
It's been great being home, seeing old familiar faces. It's not been very fun trying to remember everyone. I feel safe at home. Home is indeed where the heart is. My heart is here in Jos with my family. I am at peace.


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Tag Archives: Winter
17-02-14 Feels Like A Russian Valentine's Day Here In The States
FYI: Double Exposure/self portrait taken during blizzard.
17-02-09 So It Snowed Today
Winter finally visited…
Yesterday it was 62 degrees…
17-01-08 Snow Meditation
"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches."
e e cummings
12-11-16 NYC First Snow
It started snowing late this afternoon while I was at a meeting in midtown. The meeting was on the east side. This meant that I had to walk cross town through Rockefeller Center where there where only 8 gazillion people out to see the tree.
Very pretty evening though…
16-02-19 Weekly Photo Challenge -Seasons (Hudson River Edition)
The challenge this week is seasons. We have not had much winter in the northeast yet but the last few weeks have done their best.
These images were shot in and around Highland Falls, West Point, and Little Stoney Point.
16-01-23 Winter On The Hudson
16-01-04 Drop Me In The Water
"Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago."
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Wolff
15-06-17 Silent Day 1
15-04-24 Weekly Photo Challenge – Motion
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
Isaac Newton
This week's challenge is motion.
I went digging in the archives and came up with these two varieties of motion on the river.
Other movements for your consideration…


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By Kesha Rogers
Fort Bend County Democratic Party Chair Steve Brown recently penned a lying, hate-filled editorial against me, in a transparent attempt to avoid debating real policies, by engaging in petty character assassination. Let's be honest, these attacks are coming from the top, from Obama, because I represent the only credible alternative to what he represents.
What Brown writes off as my "obscure 1933 banking standard" policy, is nothing less than the Glass-Steagall Act of President Franklin Roosevelt, the law which made it illegal to bail out Wall Street speculators with other peoples' money. The speculative bubble that blew out in 2008 never could have even formed, if Glass-Steagall hadn't been repealed, and major national labor organizations (AFL-CIO, machinists, teachers, and farmers), numerous Democratic Party organizations (including the Harris County Democratic Party), and 59 members of Congress have endorsed reinstating this "obscure" law. President Obama, however, opposes Glass-Steagall, because he is a puppet of international finance. Thus, the world is experiencing a hyperinflationary financial meltdown, while crooks on Wall Street and the City of London are being given trillions, instead of jail sentences.
The Democratic Party of Obama has written off colonizing the Moon and Mars. Had President John Kennedy's legacy not been abandoned, the United States would already have landed a woman on Mars by 1984. Doing so would have employed millions of people in science, technology, engineering and math. We would have developed fusion energy, and a myriad of other fundamental breakthroughs, and every aspect of society would be upgraded by the spin off technologies. Instead, today, our next door neighbors are being laid off in the tens of thousands, and decades of skilled labor and scientific insight is being lost, because Obama has left us without a national mission in space exploration. Additionally, Obama's defunding of crucial weather satellites, is threatening to leave us in the dark about even simple long-term weather forecasting. By 2020, Galveston might be as vulnerable to hurricanes as it was in 1900.
What then, if he rejects the outlook of the two greatest Democratic presidents in American history, is the tradition of Obama?
Since 9/11, an internationally financed coup d'êtat of executive power has been run against our Constitution. Obama promised to reverse this, but has instead accelerated it. He extended the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, and secret prisons. Obama declared himself above Congress, in his authority to declare and conduct war, as in the bloody regime change of Libya. He demanded the NDAA include authority to indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens without trial. He's declared the authority to assassinate U.S. citizens with drones, based on secret evidence, without due process. He chairs an unelected "SuperCongress", mandated to cut the budget without the consent of the regular Congress. His healthcare legislation uses "cost-effectiveness" methods to ration care deemed "too expensive" by an unelected board, and when the Supreme Court questioned its Constitutionality, he attacked them as unelected activists. This is the president that Steve Brown, and my opponent KP George, is defending when they attack me.
If this sounds all too familiar to you, then let me adapt a popular saying: "If the mustache fits, wear it." I have placed the Hitler mustache on Obama, but he earned it by his actions. Impeach him now, or by November, we may already have had thermonuclear world war rain its terrible hell down upon our heads.
I stand with World War II veteran Lyndon LaRouche, as a Democrat, and loyal patriot, proudly in the tradition of Roosevelt and Kennedy, in opposition to Obama. I am calling on you, my fellow patriots, to join with me, as I organize everywhere in the last two weeks before the May 29th primary.
Kesha Rogers is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination to U.S. Congress in the 22nd congressional district of Texas.


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April continues to astonish and amaze in the rain department. With another inch plus of water in the rain gauge, we are now nearing 5 1/2 inches this month! That makes this the wettest month since last October, and the biggest surplus (+1.98") since December 2014.
Take that drought.
We'll dry out and warm up, but it's a slow process. There is a lot of leftover moisture (AKA clouds) swirling about our decaying storm, and fog will be forming tonight. It should take the better part of tomorrow for the Sun to chew through the clouds. Nevertheless, I'm expecting highs to be in the 60s for most, upper 50s at the coast. Winds won't be much of a help to shake out the cloud deck.
U.S. & World
Onward and upward to Friday, which sees a lot more sun. One exception is in the morning, with a speedy front sliding through with a couple of showers. Highs will manage mid and upper 70s, so the finish is worth minor interruption.
We soar near 80 on Saturday as a cool front slices through in the afternoon and evening with a SLIGHT chance at a shower. Cooler weather takes over on Sunday...but it's still bright.
Here's to a taste of summer!


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Since the creation of MAME, fans of classic arcade games can revisit their favorites without a weight mad cross-country tour for surviving old-school arcades. My first order of business with this MAME project is to figure out what style cabinet and controls I want – the only real reason I'm worrying about cabinet design at this point in time may be the number of buttons/joysticks and placement are going to rely on the cabinet design I choose. After months of researching and visiting a lot of different websites I came up with an economic plan that did not require a lot of time and the end result was a highly polished professional arcade system. Doesn't it seem to have your own arcade machine that can play over 3,500 of the favorite arcade hits? There is something about the games you played as a youth in an arcade that cannot be reproduced.
MAME strives for a perfect emulation of old games, but it still has some flaws. Particularly, the sound circuits of some older games are too complicated to properly emulate so MAME "cheats" a bit by using samples of the sounds used in the game. So what are the main items you'll need? A cabinet, a monitor, a computer and a joystick are the big things in your list.
Ordered a 28″ Monitor bezel from Happ Controls and used a utility knife to trim to fit. This hides everything on the TV except the screen.
In the classic standup cabinets like Centipede, with its loud sideart, towards the behemoth six-player, two-screen X-Men machines to the sit-down cocktail Galaga cabinets every game was its very own distinct experience.
I used some piano hinge to make the panel pivot up for maintenance.
There is a really slick power strip that allows you to have one device function as the control power for numerous other devices. For example, my PC may be the control so if I power up then the strip powers alternatively devices including the TV, marquee lights, and sound. Since every switch connects to the ground, you can save a lot of wire and reduce clutter by daisy-chaining your grounds. Ball-top Joystick: Joystick with a colorful ball as the handle. Often utilized in Japanese arcade cabinets. Sanwa and Seimitsu are renowned for quality ball-top joysticks. This is the type of joystick that gives you a "claw-hand" as seen in the sitcom Friends. My hand was claw-like before playing arcade games though. Happ: Manufacturer of crap control parts. Often mounts well in wooden panels. However, several classic older games such as Pac-Man Donkey Kong and Dig-Dug can't handle diagonal inputs and therefore need a 4-way joystick.


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We are focused on making the lives of our clients easier and helping them achieve their hopes and dreams.
We don't sell outsourcing. We sell a superlative customer experience.
But we realize that these things don't come out of a vending machine. They need the efforts of a dedicated, passionate and well oiled team of highly capable people with different skill sets.
We need people who can put themselves in the shoes of clients and zero in on the simplest solutions to complex problems. We want proactive and smart people who are not afraid to dream big and have the technical expertise to execute through.
We want people who have the mental discipline to work according to set systems and processes like CMMI.
You will have to work hard, but you will get to party harder.
You will never be idle, twiddling your thumbs on the bench.
If you are with us, "stagnant" is one word which will never be used to describe your career.


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There's so much paper at Creations Galore, we're not sure you'll ever see it all. That's why we showcase a new piece every week. Here's today's Paper of the Week:
|DIY Collage
The 12" x 12" paper is from Karen Foster and would be the perfect background for your behind-the-scenes pictures! We've pulled together a few coordinating products for you as well:
|Karen Foster Short Stack
|Jolee's Dimensional Stickers
All these products are available online or in store at Creations Galore,
3164 Coronet Way, Green Bay, WI 54304.
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In this digital age, you can get a powerful message across with the simple tap of a button. One might take it for granted—it's just a simple tap, after all. But as we have all encountered one time or another, what we do on our mobile devices can have noteworthy effects.
Take rating an Uber driver, for example. It's done with a simple tap and you might just feel like you're giving your honest opinion, but before you press that rate button, think—perhaps there's an explanation to whatever misunderstanding you may have had in your ride.
In the video below, pay special attention to the driver. Some might say he's just shy, while others might go as far as calling him a snob. Click play and it might shed some light on a matter that you may not have considered before:
As this video shows, things aren't always what they seem. What might come off as snobbish could be something much, much deeper.
For those with hearing impediments, Uber has their Beethoven feature which gives drivers who are hard-of-hearing an equal chance to earn a living as part of the Uber community. After all, statistics show that about six in every 1,000 Filipino households have a resident who is deaf.
What the Beethoven feature does is replace the methods of communication that deaf drivers can't use to ones that work with their handicap. Trip requests are signaled by flashing lights, and communication with riders is done via messaging. The option to call them is turned off, and the rider is also alerted of the driver's disability. In the video, the riders seemed to have been too preoccupied to notice their phones, but were informed of the situation once they were able to check their phones.
"We believe in the potential of our disabled kababayans and their drive to make a difference in this world," Uber Philippines GM Laurence Cua says of the Beethoven feature.
So the next time you rate your Uber driver, think twice before tapping on your screen. An act of compassion and understanding can go a long way.
What are your #UberSTORIES? Share them here and get Uber credits once yours is featured.


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06.01.17 – EMMA HELLE: NUIT ET ENFANTPublished
Emma Helle´s (b. 1979) works are dramatically voluptuous. They underline the similarities between postmodern and baroque forms. Helle uses ceramics and wood as her primary materials, respecting the best of both materials, while taking the liberty to experiment and ridicule the different opportunities these materials pose.
The exposition will be open from the 6th till the 29th of January.
Welcome to the opening party on January 5th, from 17h00 to 19h00!
Emme Helle will also be at the gallery on Sunday, January 8th, from 2 p.m. till 4 p.m.


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Crimea is gone. Increased sanctions and criticism from the West will not stop Russia's annexation of this largely ethnic-Russian peninsula. As Ukraine now withdraws its troops from Crimea, America and its allies should instead focus their diplomacy on the preservation of a democratic Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin carries deep bitterness over the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. He had risen through the ranks of the Soviet system to become a colonel in the KGB, the Soviet secret police. His birthplace of Leningrad withstood a brutal 900-day siege by the Nazi's during World War II. After the Soviet Union dissolved, Leningrad was given its original name of St. Petersburg. It was built on the Neva River in 1703 by Russia's most legendary tsar, Peter the Great, as a gateway to the Baltic Sea. Tsar Peter not only built that city, he also built a powerful Russian fleet, and he led a cultural revolution that transformed Russia into a more modern society.
Because of his upbringing, President Putin has a tough, energetic and nationalistic mien. He learned how to work within the complex Soviet system, and shrewdly rose to the top.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia underwent severe economic stress. By 1998, Russia, then led by President Boris Yeltsin, suffered huge government deficits that caused a financial crisis and a steep decline in its gross domestic product. Yeltsin suddenly resigned in 1999, and handed the government over to his recently appointed prime minister, Vladimir Putin.
Putin was elected to his first term as president in 2000, and he brought stability to the country while ushering in a long period of economic growth. His accomplishments won him wide acclaim among a discouraged Russian populace. But his critics denounced his suppression of democracy, cronyism and the country's growing corruption.
In 2005, Putin said, "We should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century." He continued, "Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside of Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself."
Putin ruthlessly suppressed unrest in the Russian border province of Chechnya, which resulted in as many as 50,000 dead or missing over a ten-year conflict. In 2008, Putin sent troops into the Georgian states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to quell unrest. Despite outrage from the West, both remain under Russian occupation today.
Putin controlled the corrupt president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych -- a man who became wealthy while leading his country into financial ruin. Putin's intentions were to keep Ukraine in Russia's orbit while keeping it out of the European Union, a move that was favored by a majority of Ukraine's people. When President Yanukovych fled to Russia in February, Putin grabbed the heavily ethnic Russian Crimean peninsula, which is the home of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Crimea was part of Russia until former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in 1954.
Following an illegal referendum in which the largely ethnic Russian population of Crimea voted to undo Khrushchev's deed, Putin reclaimed the peninsula. "After a long, hard and exhaustive journey at sea, Crimea and Sevastopol are returning to their homeland, to the native shores, to the home port, to Russia!" Putin said Tuesday.
But what lies ahead for Ukraine, which has a large Russian population in its eastern regions along the 1,200-mile border with Russia? In his remarks Tuesday, Putin said, "Don't believe those who try to frighten you with Russia and who scream other regions will follow after Crimea." He continued, "We do not want a partition of Ukraine. We do not need this."
Of late, Russia's economy, now eighth globally in GDP, has been in crisis. No doubt Putin's actions in Crimea will play well in the short term with his supporters. But increased sanctions from the West will weigh heavily on the Russian economy. Putin will be forced to ratchet up his anti-West rhetoric.
On Tuesday, Putin denounced the West, saying, "They cheated us again and again, made decisions behind our back." He said, "That's the way it was with the expansion of NATO in the East, with the deployment of military infrastructure at our borders." He continued, "Some Western politicians already threaten us not only with sanctions, but also with the potential for domestic problems."
The fact is that Putin will try to use any response from the West to his political advantage. Nonetheless, the United States and its allies must impose additional tough economic sanctions on the economically strained Russia with the goal of preserving a free democracy for the Ukrainian people.


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I admit that I'm a bit self conscious about the middle aged spread that's besieged my body. I'm having a real hard time these days accepting that I no longer look like Beyonce (ha!) and I have to dress perhaps a bit more conservatively...something like a grown up. Not that I looked like a street walker or court jester back in my 20's , but I certainly tried to stylishly fit in. Nowadays, my body parts seemed to have all gone down south and I live in New York....Sad.
So, the question is: how far should we go to look young, hip and desirable? Are there clothes items that should be restricted to certain body types/weights or does anything go regardless of how big your curves are? Inquiring minds want to know.
I often find myself in a trance when I see women strutting around in apparel (like leggings) that I wouldn't wear. Admittedly, I'm not sure whether I'm horrified at what I see or jealous that I don't have the nerve to pull it off.
How about you?
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A recent Court of Appeals decision held that a law firm was unable to recover a portion of a contingency fee when it was terminated by a number of clients following the principal attorney's indictment.
In The Eichholz Law Firm PC v. Tate Law Group LLC, 2011 Ga. App. LEXIS 671; 2011 Fulton County D. Rep. 2400 (2011), the two named firms entered into a fee sharing agreement in the representation of a number of clients in a group of product liability actions involving oral sodium phosphate (OSP). The OSP Agreement provided that the two firms would share all fees on a 50-50 basis. Eichholz was indicted on various Federal charges, and all the clients chose to go with Tate Law Group, LLC ("Tate"). At this point, no settlement offers had been made and no contingencies had been satisfied.
After termination, Eichholz assigned its half interest in the fee to Weinstock & Scavo (W&S). Each firm sought to enforce the assignment and claimed entitled to split the contingency fee earned by Tate after a settlement. The Court of Appeals held against Eichholz and W&S on the fee agreement, but held that Eichholz could recover in quantum meruit for any work it performed for Tate towards the joint venture.
This case quoted some pretty standard black letter law in support of its holding. The client must agree to the sharing of fees. Rule 1.5(e)(2). Given the termination of Eichholz by the client, allowing fees to be split when the contingency was not earned would violate the right to the client to such consent and violate public policy. Moreover, W&S's assignment was made by Eichholz who had no right to the fee, and thus could not assign that which it did not own.
The lesson is a standard continuation of basic rules, even in a slightly unusual set of circumstances.