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The gulf between the circumstantial case and anything actually linking Julia Gillard to knowingly having done something illegal as a lawyer 19 years ago is a cause of frustration among the Prime Minister's pursuers.
The opposition has been building expectations about this week, the final sitting of Parliament for 2012, and how it was going to go after the Prime Minister.
The shadow attorney-general, George Brandis, and the Deputy Opposition Leader, Julie Bishop, have been teasing about new information that has come to light and Bishop, the head prosecutor, will lead the charge in the House of Representatives on Monday.
On Friday, Bishop, who has been preparing her case for weeks, played down expectations somewhat when she said: ''I'm not looking for a smoking gun.''
''I'm looking for a full and frank explanation from the Prime Minister of her role in setting up an incorporated association that ultimately led to a massive fraud being perpetrated against the Australian Workers Union by Ms Gillard's then boyfriend [Bruce Wilson] and I think the Australian people deserve to hear the Prime Minister's full and frank explanation in the Parliament as to what she knew,'' she told Laura Jayes of Sky News.
It was an effective admission that no smoking gun has been found and it was not the first.
Robert McClelland, the Labor backbencher and former attorney-general, is a rusted-on Kevin Rudd supporter who cannot abide Gillard. He gave the opposition the green light to pursue this matter in June with a speech to Parliament on union corruption.
Two decades ago, McClelland was one of the lawyers representing the Australian Workers Union against Wilson but he tells people today nothing was unearthed back then that could nail Gillard to illegality.
Wilson broke his silence on the weekend to say Gillard knew nothing of the fraud.
Yet Gillard's pursuers ask how she could set up a slush fund for Wilson, in the belief it would be for legitimate purposes, and then be unaware of the true nature of that fund for two more years.
Money from the fund was used to buy a property in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Wilson bought it and it was put in the name of his bagman, Ralph Blewitt. Gillard frequented the house when she was going out with Wilson.
When the whole scam was uncovered in 1995, Gillard said she dumped Wilson straight away. She has refuted allegations she knew the nature of the fund, knowingly benefited from it in any way, or did the conveyancing for the purchase of the Fitzroy property.
Bishop will not try to convict Gillard this week but damage her by questioning her conduct as a lawyer, her integrity and trustworthiness.
A former partner, Nick Styant-Browne, cast doubt on the latter claim last week when he stated ''that there is absolutely no doubt that Ms Gillard not only knew of the Slater & Gordon mortgage in March of 1993 but was specifically involved in taking steps to facilitate that mortgage''.
This was based on the re-emergence of a piece of paper showing she helped arrange the mortgage insurance in 1993.
Gillard told her inquisitors at Slater & Gordon in 1995, after the scandal was uncovered, that she did not know bent money was used to buy the property and she had no recollection the mortgage was done through the Slater & Gordon mortgage register. The 425-page conveyancing file shows she did not handle the conveyancing.
Bishop says Wilson's statement exonerating Gillard does not gel with the material she has seen.
''The recollections of many other people, the opinions of many other people are what counts.'' One assumes she does not mean Blewitt.
The conveyancing file contains eight documents suggesting he knew about the mortgage yet he has claimed the first he knew of it was this year.
Bishop will not try to convict Gillard this week but damage her by questioning her conduct as a lawyer, her integrity and trustworthiness, all to reinforce negative perceptions many voters have of the Prime Minister.
Bishop will ask why Gillard did not report the fraud to the police when it was uncovered and why, when setting up the fund, she thought it was legitimate when Bill Shorten, a former Australian Workers Union national secretary, said last week it was unauthorised, inappropriate and out of bounds.
And what about the $5000 that Wilson allegedly asked another official to put in Gillard's bank account?
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bob Carr, spoke for much of the nation when he said he found the stories on this saga so impenetrable he struggled to make it to the fifth paragraph.
But neither proof nor a thorough understanding among the public of events two decades ago matter so much. Run everything written so far through a word cloud and you would end up with ''union, slush fund, boyfriend, lawyer, corrupt, Gillard'' and that's all that needs to filter out.
Phillip Coorey writes on news specialising in policy, politics and budget. Based in our Canberra newsroom, Phil is the Australian Financial Review's chief political correspondent. He is a former chief political correspondent for The Advertiser and The Sydney Morning Herald, and a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence.

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Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that has raised more than $562 million dollars for over 39,000 projects.
Since Kickstarter was founded in 2009 it has been the go-to crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs. Kickstarter lets you circumnavigate traditional forms of raising funds; as such, they claim no ownership over the projects that come from the funding, and they take a 5% flat rate of the funds raised.
We've had a lot of entrepreneurs fund projects on Kickstarter and grow their business on Shopify. We asked the people behind eleven of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns to share some of their experiences and wisdom in raising capital on Kickstarter and moving on to running a successful ecommerce store.
Goal: $100,000
Raised: $10,266,845
Backers: 68,929
The Campaign:
Pebble is by far the most successful Kickstarter project of all time. If you haven't heard of Pebble already (unlikely), it's a smartwatch that's infinitely customizable. You can connect it to an iPhone or Android using Bluetooth to sync calendars, alerts, emails, even incoming calls. Within hours of going live, the project broke its $100,000 funding goal. Then it kept going, and going, and going until it reached over $10 million dollars. Pebble is pre-selling their watches for $150US.
What They Did Right:
"Probably the best thing we did with our Kickstarter page was our 'use cases'. We knew that no one really wakes up in the morning with a desperate urge to buy a smartwatch, so it was our job to figure out exactly how to explain to future users how they will be able to use Pebble. I asked my mom a lot about what she thought; turns out it's important to target your marketing for people who probably aren't your core user base - you want to expand beyond that."
What They Did Wrong:
"We haven't done too much wrong, but over time the largest lessons we've learned have been just from launching products and listening to users about the problems they have and improving from there!" (Eric Migicovsky, Founder)
Goal: $3,000
Raised: $19,485
Backers: 275
The Campaign:Panda sunglasses are like TOMS Shoes but for your face. They are ecofriendly sunglasses handcrafted from sustainable bamboo, and for every pair you purchase, Panda will provide an eye exam and a pair of prescription glasses to someone in need. Vincent Ko, the founder, decided to post his idea for Panda sunglasses to Kickstarter in late 2011 with a $3,000 goal. He surpassed his goal by over 600%. The funds allowed Ko to start production with a woodworking shop in China. You can buy Panda glasses for $120US which includes free shipping and a lifetime warranty.
What They Did Right"We offered a special offer to the first 100 backers of particular pledge amount, which allowed us to encourage the community to get involved early on in our Kickstarter project. Also, we made the choice to use Shopify so our webstore set-up was extremely easy and quick. This way people interested in pledging on Kickstarter were able to come our site before they pledged and see a well established ecommerce presence. Also, we leveraged the discount feature to seamlessly fulfill pledge prizes. We provided all or backers with unique coupon codes and allowed them to pick the exact style they wanted which eliminated all potential errors with copying information and it saved us countless hours. Now, we leverage Shopify for our wholesale business as well. I think this is something that is overlooked, the backend of Shopify makes it super easy to integrate both an ecommerce store and wholesale ordering system into one online destination."
What They Did Wrong:
Regarding our online store, we tried our best to replicate an in person shopping experience. When we first launched our ecommerce store we lacked high resolution images from multiple angles. We found that many Kickstarter pledgers, although they loved the concept of our company, had trouble picking out the best style for them. Given that Shopify makes it extremely easy to add several photos, and the template editor enables easy implementation of product video we were able to quickly add several high resolution images of the sunglasses, pictures of people wearing the sunglasses, and even a 360 degree video. With all these resources customers were easily able to pick out which style was best for them. Even today, as we provide more visual references of our products we noticed a higher level of conversions."
Coffee Joulies
Goal: $9,500
Raised: $306,944
Backers: 4,818
The Campaign:
What They Did Right:
"The best thing we did was to allow potential customers to opt-in to our email list between ending our Kickstarter campaign and starting to sell using Shopify. We didn't even know it at the time, but building and using a solid email list is one of our companies most valuable assets. After kickstarter ended we continued to get a ton of traffic to our site. Since we were busy fulfilling Kickstarter orders, we weren't selling or even pre-selling any Joulies for several months. Instead, we had a compelling opt-in email box that would notify you when Joulies were ready to order. When the time came to sell again, sending emails to this list was easy and of enormous value."
What They Did Wrong:"Before we opened our Shopify store, we relied on shared hosting that didn't keep up with our sites traffic. We didn't know what our real traffic numbers were like on Kickstarter, and we also didn't really have a clue what levels of hosting were required to host and protect against traffic spikes since it was all behind the scenes during Kickstarter. When we did get spikes, like when a story about us got syndicated on Yahoo! homepage for 12 hours, our 'unlimited' shared hosting crashed within minutes and we lost hundreds of thousands of unique viewers. Bummer."
(Dave Petrillo, Co-Founder)
Goal: $3,000
Raised: $3,439
Backers: 89
The Campaign:
Eddie Tsai used Kickstarter to validate the demand for a moustache tie clip before investing money. Tsaiclips are forged from solid brass and coated in chrome steel or gunmetal, and they sell for $35US.
What They Did Right:
"Publicity really gave us credibility and was the turning point for our Kickstarter campaign. Once we got on one big blog, the snowball effect took over and the next thing you know we're featured on big sites like Uncrate, Cool Material, and Handlebar Magazine. After Kickstarter, Shopify allowed us to take our project to the next level and truly become a sustainable business. Both of these tools, Kickstarter and Shopify, really made it easy for a creative person to make a professional presence and add an amazing amount of credibility to their project."
What They Did Wrong:
"Something I really regret was taking a traditional approach to promoting a non-traditional product. We started off using Google Adwords and were only targeting popular keywords like 'men's dress shirts', 'ties', 'tie-clips', and even some fashion labels. Our strategy was to go for quantity (we wanted lots and lots of clicks) instead of focusing on relevancy. I think we really burned a lot of money by advertising to the wrong crowds. We should have spent more time learning Google Adwords and Analytics. Also we haven't been keeping in touch with our customers - we should really be utilizing our e-mail list."
(Eddie Tsai, Co-Founder)
Goal: $15,000
Raised: $28,303
Backers: 578
The Campaign:Rob Ward and Chris Peters solved a dilema of epic proportions: Having a cold beer but no way of opening it. These two Australians asked themselves, "what's the one thing people have on them at all times?" The answer? Your cell phone. Solution? A sturdy iPhone case beer bottle opener. Confirmation that their idea was a hit came as soon as they listed Opena on Kickstarter. Opena garnered 50% of its target funding in the first week. You can buy Opena in two different colors for $39.95US each on their Shopify store.
What They Did Right:"One thing that really worked in our favor was making sure our online store was 100% ready to go live as soon as our Kickstarter project finished. We received a heap of press on the last day of our funding period and knew tons of people would be going to our Kickstarter project page only to find that the project had ended. Not wanting to lose all those potential backers we re-directed them to our ecommerce store to allow them to pre-order our products. We did this for both our Kickstarter projects (the Opena Case and the Quad Lock Mounting System) and found that the period between the end the Kickstarter project and the date we shipped could bring in just as much, if not more revenue than from the Kickstarter project."
What They Did Wrong:"The one big mistake we made which could have cost us a lot more than it did involved our credit card payment gateway. Payment gateways are a pain to set up and can be a little complex. Without going into to much detail we were informed at the time that our particular payment gateway allowed us to authorize the credit card but hold off on actually processing the payment for a period of up to 30 days. Once the 30 days were up we we're informed that we could re-authorize the card to give us another 30 days before we accepting the funds. In theory this would have allowed us to take orders but not charge the customer until we were ready to ship. We decided this was the right thing to do for our customers and is how we processed orders during the first month of taking orders. On day 29 we tried to extend the authorization period of the first orders and found that the payments had expired! We had almost a full months of orders and no way of processing the payments. Not a great way to start the week. We had no option but to cancel the orders and try our best to get the customers to re-order by emailing them and offering various incentives such as a discount if they re-ordered. In the end we managed to recover around 70% of the expired orders which wasn't too bad but it was an expensive lesson."
(Chris Peters, Co-Founder)
Ramos Alarm Clock
Goal: $75,000
Raised: $153,585
Backers: 525
The Campaign:
Ramos Alarm Clock was founded by a group of young engineers outside of NYC. It's an alarm clock that is beautifully constructed with four glowing nixie tubes that display the time in a very unique way. The clock also comes with a wireless alarm deactivation panel that will get you out of bed to turn off the buzzer. In February 2012, they launched their project on Kickstarter where they received over 400 orders in a month and a half. Ramos clocks range from $200 - $800 and they're currently up for pre-sale. Expected delivery: September 2012.
What They Did Right:
"We seemed to have succeeded in generating a good amount of interest. We made it on the front page of Yahoo!, BBC, lots of tech blogs, and a bunch of news outlets. We even got made fun of on Saturday Night Live! I think having a project that so many people can relate to helped us in getting people to talk about us, regardless of whether they wanted to buy the product or not. I also think Kickstarter served us well in being a reputable and visible platform for us to start our project from. I don't know if we could have generated that much buzz if we had launched elsewhere. Setting up a store very quickly after the Kickstarter campaign was over was also a very good idea. Right after the Kickstarter project closed, we were able to catch the spillover of interest in our own store, that we simply would have lost if we didn't have a storefront in time. With Shopify, we were able to get up and running in very little time, and concentrate most our efforts on running our business, and not on how to make an online store."
What They Did Wrong:
"This whole project has been a learning experience for all of us involved. Planning is always a struggle, especially when the future is so uncertain. We've made decisions that were based on a mindset used to dealing with prototypes. One thing we're constantly being reminded of is doing something once or twice is completely different than doing it 500-600 times. We offered things to customers at the onset of the project that seemed easy to do, but ended up adding a great deal of complexity to the manufacturing process. I would recommend a serious analysis on how to simplify your product and keep variations to a minimum when starting out on launching a mass produced product. Even things like handling communication of different needs for 2-3 hundred people is no easy task." (Paul Sammut, Co-Founder)
Goal: $5,000
Raised: $5,675
Backers: 159
The Campaign:
Jesse Phillips was disillusioned with his computer science degree and became determined to save himself from working in a cubicle for the rest of his life. He semi-quit his day job, began a Kickstarter campaign to help fundraise the development of a gorgeous whole year calendar. The calendar is big (27" x 39"), it's printed on premium quality, cream colored, uncoated card stock, and has a beautiful vellum finish. You can buy the calendar at a discounted price of $19.00.
What They Did Right:
"Our product is an inexpensive niche product. Therefore, we couldn't afford to spend a ton on marketing. We had to get customers for super cheap or free. So, early on, I started using social media (my own personal accounts I had built) to spread the word. This had limited success. What was really helpful for us was finding bloggers to review our product or do giveaways of our product. Because our product is design heavy and productivity related, we were a good fit for design or productivity blogs. I just emailed them, asked if they liked our product, sent them a free sample, and offered to give their readers a discount code (thanks to the handy discount code feature on Shopify). This was amazing for us because it costs only time to send an email and we would usually make between 10 and 50 sales from a blog. The more exposure we got, the more people saw it, they more popular the product was. Before spending hundreds or thousands on an ad campaign or mailer, I suggest using blogs & giveaways to spread the word."
What They Did Wrong:
"I've made lots of mistakes. That's what you do when starting a business - it's how you learn. Mistakes are NOT a bad thing (usually), they are an education. In other words, don't delay starting just to avoid all mistakes. You'll never have all the information and make the perfect decisions, so it's better to do your research, then jump in and make some mistakes and learn from them! One mistake I made is still haunting me today -I didn't do any consumer research with my product, if I had, I would have learned that many people prefer a dry-erase calendar. So I've missed-out on thousands of sales because the product is unusable by several people that otherwise would be interested. I'm going to make a dry-erase version next year, but will they ever come back to find-out? Probably not. If I had simply taken the time to put my product in front of people and get feedback, I would have created a much more usable product. Instead, I was too scared of what people thought, that I just decided to launch on Kickstarter and not ask for opinion. Now, it's definitely true that you can't just give people whatever they say they want (because a lot of times what they say they want and what they buy are different things) but, again, if I had known that many people really want dry-erase, I would have gotten lots more sales."
(Jesse Phillips, Founder)
Goal: $9,000
Raised: $30,329
Backers: 570
The Campaign:
David Murray has run a t-shirt company called SEIBEI for the past few years. He designs and manufactures silly and weird tees and onesies. Not long ago his van and all of his equipment were stolen. David created a bunch of special designs and offered them as Kickstarter exclusives in order to raise some funds and get back on his feet. SEIBEI reached its goal of $9,000 in two days, and it didn't take long for his Kickstarter campaign to reach a whopping $30,329.
What They Did Right:
"I've worked in the printing industry for years and know how to keep costs low (not by cutting corners, but by doing certain parts of the work myself, offering multiple colorways of the same design, etc), so I was able to give everyone a lot for their money while still getting my business back on its feet. I worked it out so that pretty much every shirt that sold through the Kickstarter paid for itself and (at least) one more to be printed, so I was able to print a bunch of inventory for myself that I sold at New York Comic Con shortly after the Kickstarter wrapped up. When I see tee companies offering stuff at full retail price (or more) on Kickstarter, I feel like they're missing the point. You need to reward people for going that extra mile and supporting your work."
What They Did Wrong:
Fire Imp Sculptures
Goal: $5,000
Raised: $10,021
Backers: 156
The Campaign:
What They Did Right:
What They Did Wrong:
(John T. Unger, Founder)
ZPM Espresso
Goal: $20,000
Raised: $369,569
Backers: 1,546
The Campaign:The founders of ZPM Espresso love two things: Coffee and technology. Their creation, the Nocturn, encompasses both by offering PID controls, programmable presets, adjustable temperature and pressure profiles, and even open-source software! The result is delicious high-tech coffee at a good price. hey hit their funding goal of $2,000 on day 2 of the campaign. Nocturn is on presale via their Shopify store for $349.99.
"The most important thing to us during (and after) our Kickstarter campaign was being ultra-responsive to questions and feedback. In our opinion, success on platforms like Kickstarter - where you're asking for money from strangers so you can do what you love - is about being honest and passionate, and convincing people that you're going to get the job done. We responded to thousands of emails during our campaign; we went out and talked to respected people in the coffee field; and we posted frequent updates about our progress to our Kickstarter page."
What They Did Right:
What They Did Wrong:"There are a lot of things we would do differently if we could start our Kickstarter process over, but I think our biggest mistake was failing to do more publicizing of the project ourselves. We hit our funding goal on the second day of the campaign, and we ended up with 18 times the amount of funding we ever expected. When we went into it, we were basically thinking that we'd barely make our $20,000 goal, and that it would be a good way to get some beta machines out there and gauge interest in the market.
Goal: $500
Raised: $860
Backers: 11
The Campaign:Cecilia sells her own handmade silver jewelry on her ecommerce store ShyViolet. To launch her new men's line, she decided to start a Kickstarter campaign to raise $500. With 18 days left her project was fully funded.
"First, I knew how the Kickstarter project fit into my overall business plan. Since I make primarily women's jewelry, I didn't have much of a men's market, and the few male customers I had were mostly buying for their wives or significant others. My Kickstarter project was a way of pre-selling a new line, mitigating my financial risk.
What They Did Right:
What They Did Wrong:
Second, I should have thought about my reward levels a little more. The sterling silver cufflinks were priced about right for my purposes (although again, this is basically a wholesale introductory price for my line), but the copper and silver designs are proving to be more time-consuming. It would have been smarter of me to price them close to the sterling ones; although the materials costs are lower, the time cost is higher. Next time, I'll think through the rewards a little more thoroughly."
(Cecilia Sells, Founder)
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42 comments
June 05 2012, 02:40PM
Great Article!! At Fulfillrite we posted a similar question in the forums:http://forums.shopify.com/categories/1/posts/107543
The feedback we've received has been that The Shopify platform has been a lifesaver in allowing a seamless, smooth transition from a Kickstarter project into ecommerce.
Shopify is a competitively prices e-commerce solution, and what customers like most is it's simple, easy to use interface. (Shopify 2 might improve on that experience too). Another thing to remember is the Shopify support team which is above and beyond helpful, and that's from a developer standpoint. This cannot necessarily be said about all others….
Joe @ Kickstater Order Fulfillment
June 05 2012, 04:37PM
This is an extremely informative article. Very valuable to anyone thinking about or currently running a Kickstarter campaign.
June 05 2012, 04:45PM
Thanks for this writeup showing both what went right AND wrong. Crowdfunding is still creating quite a buzz. I peddle in more traditional waters helping startups go public with IPO, etc.
June 05 2012, 06:00PM
I had no idea all of these Kick-starter campaigns chose Shopify. Impressive guys.
June 05 2012, 06:01PM
Woah Pebble is insane. Over $10 million that's got to be a Kickstarter record. I wonder how much they'll sell on Shopify.
June 05 2012, 06:06PM
The Joulies Dave said they're "Design Engineers" rather than mechanical engineers as this article stated… Putting that aside, their shit doesn't work.
June 05 2012, 06:07PM
Great to see Kickstarter being used successfully for eCommerce! Also, fantastic case studies. Especially love the Pebble product – very cool. I'm fighting the urge to pre-order one. Not quite sure how I missed that the first time around…
June 05 2012, 07:09PM
FYI… NeuYear doesn't seem to be in business anymore. His website is no longer online.
June 05 2012, 08:32PM
What a fantastic read! Who ever created this deserves a big cigar. I too will be approaching Kickstarter and am darn determined to do everything right to increase my chances for success. This article has been a treasure trove of wisdom. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If anyone is interested this is the project I will be entering: http://ploogn.wordpress.com/
June 05 2012, 08:37PM
June 06 2012, 09:51AM
Can someone explain how the shopify store works when the products are still in the 'construction' phase. So between the time a project is launched and the products are ready what is exactly on the shopify site and on the product pages? Are orders able to be placed or is there a 'coming soon' message?
June 06 2012, 11:16AM
The best way to answer your question is to use Panda Sunglasses as an example. During our KS project when our product was in development we set-up a simple Shopify store with mock-ups of our product in development. Overtime we updated the product images at various stages or product development. You can set you inventory levels to 0 and it can either take pre-orders or backorders.
After our KS project ended we supplied all our backers with unique coupon codes. Using Shopify's 'Discount Code' feature we were provided all backers with a unique coupon code. They would then pick the styles they wanted and use their unique coupon codes to order the sunglasses.
Hope that help!
Panda Sunglasses
June 07 2012, 11:37AM
Thanks for including Shy Violet in this article! Great writeup! Congratulations to all the successful project organizers.
June 09 2012, 03:57PM
Brilliant article, Mark!
So many awesome stores, so much awesome art.
Love seeing the success of people and shops like this!
June 11 2012, 10:45AM
Great article, but am I missing something? How is this even possible? One of the main rules of KickStarter is that you can't use it to raise funds for a business. Even using the funds to develop a product (which may fall under the rules as a "project") is still working towards opening a business.
Just confused here because I've looked into KickStarter before but was turned away since it can't be used for funding a business…
June 11 2012, 12:23PM
Hey Ryan:
From what I understand the major 'no-no' is raising funds in exchange for equity. The reason Kickstarter is legit is because the 'prizes' or thank you gifts are not related to ownership of the business.
What someone does with their project after they have raised funds on Kickstarter is up to them.
June 13 2012, 05:01PM
Hey Mark,
Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware of that, otherwise I would have tried using KickStarter long ago!
July 05 2012, 02:17AM
@Vincent Ko, and Shopify
Hi, I'm looking at shopify as an online store platform for a potential project to be funded via either kickstarter or indiegogo (as kickstarter doesn't like people based outside of the US :( ).
My concern is that if we set up pre-order style rewards like used in some of the examples above, that it will be very difficult for us to integrate this into shopify. We ideally want a system just like Vincent mentioned, where we give a coupon to each individual who donates. We need this because we'd prefer if our customers pay shipping separately (having an international market).
However we don't want to have to make hundreds of these coupons by hand – and the extra cost for the upgraded plan which has coupons (which would be the only extra feature we use from that plan) seems like a huge price to pay, especially for something which will still take us days of work to do.
Is there an easier way?
- Myles
July 10 2012, 01:28AM
ZBoard + Kickstarter + Shopify = :)
I just wish Kickstarter offered some kind of CRM like Shopify does.
July 11 2012, 06:39AM
Thank you so much for the info. To spread the love, here are 2 other articles that have helped me. If you have a good product and a large potential audience, these are priceless:
September 27 2012, 05:46PM
Thank you so much for this article! It's exactly what I needed for my research.
January 01 2013, 03:53PM
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March 11 2013, 01:34AM
Found this article whilst searching for help with KS marketing – very interesting. I just hope my KS project works as well as some of these did.
Take a look and let me know.
April 01 2013, 01:35AM
Thank you so much for this article! My Kickstarter is up and running now and reading things like this really energizes me :) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charlottebashep/charlotte-bashs-breakthrough-ep-journey-to-me
April 25 2013, 03:19PM
Wear Panda was one of the coolest I though. Great concept. I have a buddy who wanted to copy it with his own wood sunglasses company (not restricting himself to just bamboo) but kickstarter no longer accepts wood sunglasses (or any sunglasses?) campaigns anymore… it only took 3 submission rejections for kick starter to let him know.
June 25 2013, 04:33AM
A fantastic article! I love that we got (bite size) feedback from a range of totally different projects. It goes to show that not ONE way is the right way when it comes to succeeding on Kickstarter.
I thought I'd also share a Kickstarter tool I wrote at www.kickspy.com. It lets you research a list of Kickstarter projects if you're thinking of starting your own.
For Example:
Let's say you want to launch a Boardgame project for $20,000. You can check the statistics for all boardgames launched between $15K-$25K
From the bottom graph you can see that two thirds of all these boardgame projects are successful.
Great! Now what?
Now we can pick the successful projects and click over to the Funding tab to see how much $ they made.
We can see that most successful projects raised roughly what they set out to, but about one third did significantly better, with 3 projects reaching over $400K.
A quick click on the "> 400,000" bar and another click on the "Show Projects" button reveals the actual projects
From there we could Google these projects and see if there are any post mortems on what they did right and wrong (like this article). You could also search for backlinks to articles on those projects and search twitter and facebook to see what sort of buzz they were able to get.
December 31 2013, 02:03AM
Awesome write up Mike!
Mind if I chime in?
Kickstarter campaign creators should know this:
With their new campaign, they should have a strategy for the following:
a) Getting featured on Kickstarters weekly newsletter and/or becoming the Staff Pick of The Day
b) Using the press effectively, to get your campaign the attention it deserves
c) Getting more Backers to view and/or support your campaign
If they don't have a strategy for these 3 tactics, they are possibly making 3 BIG mistakes.
Here are 2 resources they can use to get their creative juices running -
•Yancey Stickler, co-founder of Kickstarter, shares his thoughts on How To Get Your Campaign On The Front Page Of Kickstarter. It is a quick video (1:30), give it a listen. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkRlk1Eu8Ps]
•Here is an article I wrote for Entrepreneur.com, highlighting 10 Tips from Successful Campaign Creators. Read the quick comments campaign creators left when asked "What is the 1 tip you have for running a succesful campaign?" [http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229782]
People can learn how to promote their campaign to a targeted list of Hardcore Backers at www.BackersHub.com
November 08 2014, 07:59PM
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Student Friendly Grammar / ELA Glossary
Atlas A book of maps or a book of tables, charts, pictures on one subject.
Mr. Taylor has a world atlas in his classroom.
Abbreviation A shorter form of a word or phrase, i.e. AZ for Arizona.
The abbreviation for the United States of America is U.S.A.
Adverb A word that modifies a verb by identifying time, place, speed, etc.
Quickly is an adverb in the sentence "Jose quickly finished his homework. "
Antonyms A word opposite in meaning to another word.
Cold is the antonym of hot.
Apostrophe The mark used to show a letter or letters have been left out of a word or phrase or to show ownership. Example of letters left out: You've is short for "you have" and an apostrophe shows that "have" is missing two letters.
Example of ownership: Mr. Taylor's class reads several books each year.
Example of ownership: The apostrophe in the sentence "Mr. Taylor's class reads several books each year." shows the class belongs to Mr. Taylor.
Bias One meaning of "bias" is to like or dislike one thing over another.
Claudia has bias for chocolate over all other candy.
Chronological order To arrange events in the order they occurred.
In chronological order, our class has computer lab on Monday, music on Tuesday, gym on Wednesday, library on Thursday, and art on Friday.
Complete sentence A complete sentence includes at least a subject and a verb.
"Claudia ran." is a complete sentence.
Context clues Words, phrases or sentences around a new word that helps the reader make a logical guess about the meaning of the new word.
Use context clues to figure out what a new word means.
Contraction A word or phrase shortened by leaving out one or more letters or sounds.
"You'll" is the contraction of "you will."
Compound word A compound word is made when two words are joined to form a new word. The words "shoe" and "string" are joined to form the compound word "Shoestring."
Biography The history of a persons life. If you become famous, someone will write your biography.
Describe To tell or write about something. Please describe your backpack.
Declarative A sentence that makes a statement. "The earth is round." is a declarative sentence.
Dictionary A book of alphabetically listed words with their meanings and other information. Students need a dictionary when they go to college.
Exclamatory A sudden, angry outcry; to cry out; shout; or speak suddenly in surprise, etc. "Lillian, be quiet! shouted her mother is an exclamatory phrase.
Fact Something that really happened; truth; actuality; things as they exist.
It is a fact that the moon revolves around the earth.
Fairy tale A fairy tale is a type of short story with fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.
The story "Jack and the Beanstalk" is a fairy tale.
Folk tale A story or legend originating and traditional among a group of people (folk = people), especially one forming part of the spoken tradition of the everyday people.
The stories about Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox are folk tales.
Interrogative Asking a question. "Do you like chocolate ice cream?" is an interrogative.
Index One meaning of "index" is an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., together with page numbers where they can be found--usually placed at the end of a book.
In this book, the index says there is information about the moon on pages 31 and 73.
Instructions Education; teaching; lessons or a list of steps to be followed to complete an assignment. (1) Every teacher at Rio Vista gives instructions to their students. (2) It is hard to use a TV remote without reading the instructions.
Main characteristics The most important things that identify a person, plant, object--or anything in the universe. The main characteristics of most cars are four wheels, a body where the driver and passengers sit, a steering wheel, an engine, and headlights and taillights.
Nonfiction Books and stories which only include real people, animals, plants, science, events, etc. A book about birds in Tucson is a nonfiction book.
Main idea The main idea of a passage or reading is the the most important thought or message. (In contrast to the term topic, which refers to the subject under discussion.)
The main idea of Mr. Taylor's instructions is that it is important to follow directions.
Mmulti-meaning words Words which have more than one meaning.
Multi-meaning words will have the different meanings listed and numbered (1, 2, 3, etc.) in the dictionary.
Opinion A person's belief based on what seems true, or probable; a person's judgment.
Many people have the opinion that French cooking is the best in the world.
Organization A group of persons organized for some specific purpose, such as a club, business, team, etc. The Rio Vista band is an organization of students with an interest in music.
Personal narrative A story that tells a story based on a personal experience of the writer. Jasmine wrote a personal narrative about a trip to visit her grandmother.
Plural More than one of something. The plural of bone is bones.
Plot The arrangement of the main events in a book, story, poem, or film, also known as the "story line." The plot of most mysteries starts with a murder.
Point of view A way of viewing things; an attitude or the position from which something is observed or considered; a standpoint. It is Mr. Taylor's point of view that students must be held responsible for completing their work.
Possessive The form of a word that shows ownership. The possessive form of John is John's. For example, to say John owns the airplane, you would say "It is John's airplane."
Predicate In a sentence, the verb (action word) or the verb and words that describe the verb. "Runs fast" is the predicate in the sentence "Magalia runs fast."
Prefix A prefix is placed at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.
In the word "unhappy," "un-" is the prefix.
Prefixes Prefixes are placed at the beginning of words to change their meanings.
The prefixes we will see often are "pre-" (before), "post-" (after), "un-" (opposite of), "anti-"(against), "hemi-" (half), "non-" (absence of), "out-" (exceeding), "trans-" (across), etc. The sentence "John was unhappy in preschool" has two prefixes.
Punctuation (commas) Special marks in sentences or phrases that make the sentences or phrases easier to understand. Some common punctuation marks are: . , ' ; ? !
The comma ( , ) tells where to pause or take a breath.
Root word A word that can start to build the meaning of many words. "Corn" is the root word of : popcorn; cornflower; cornmeal; cornbread; and cornmeal: all the words mean something about corn.
Run-on sentence A run-on sentence is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without appropriate punctuation ( ; ) or a conjunction (and, for, nor, but, or, yet and so). "Sydney and Sabrina were in the band Sydney played the saxophone Sabrina played percussion" is an example of three run-on sentences.
Introduction The introduction is at the beginning of a story and it tells you what the main idea(s) will be; it lets you "meet" the main idea. An introduction to your teacher lets you meet.
Singular In grammar, the form of a word that says there is only one of something.
In the sentence "There was only one Juliana in the class, but there were two Gabriels," Juliana is singular and Gabriels is plural.
Sign The word "sign" has many meanings. Among them are: to write your name (signature); a symbol with a specific meaning ( $ meaning dollars); and hand gestures that give information (sign language). When you vote in any election, you have to sign your name. story elements (character, setting, plot) The who, what, where and why--the parts that make up a story. In Harry Potter, the main characters are Harry, Hermione, and Ron; the setting is Castle Hogwarts; and the plot is to learn to be wizards and keep Harry safe from Voldemort.
Schedule The way things are planned to happen in our lives, schools, or work.
Sometimes Mr. Taylor's class schedules a trip to the gem and mineral show in February.
Subject The person, place or thing that does the action in a sentence. In the sentence "Michael finished his report before lunch," "Michael" is the subject, and "finished" is the action (verb).
Suffixes Letters or syllables added to the end of a word to change its meaning.
Suffixes such as "-ish" and "-er" can be added to the word "small" to change its meaning to smallish and smaller.
Summarize To state briefly; to shorten to its most important parts. Mr. Taylor asked us to summarize the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcery's Stone.
Supporting details They come after the topic sentence, making up the body of a paragraph. What do they do? They give details to develop and help the reader better understand the topic sentence (main idea). If your topic sentence is "Harry Potter has a special wand," you could add supporting details about the wand, such as where he got it, what it's made of, and why it's a special wand.
Synonyms Different words that have the same meaning. Synonyms of "bend" are curve and twist.
Verb (types and functions) A word that in a sentence that tells you the action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the sentence "Anthony ran his race and is now standing next to the track," "ran" (the action) and "standing" (state of being) are both verbs.
Acronym A word that is made by putting together parts of other words.
The word "radar" is an acronym that was built from "radio detecting and ranging"
( "ra + d + a + r" ).
Adjective A word or phrase that modifies (describes) a noun. The word "brilliant" is an adjective in the sentence "Yatzari is a brilliant student". "Brilliant" describes the noun "student".
Adverb A word that Modifies (describes) a verb. "Suddenly" is an adverb in the sentence "Anthony suddenly remembered his homework assignment". "Suddenly" describes the verb "remembered."
Almanac A book that gives useful information about a particular subject; sometimes published in a month-by-month order. For example, a gardening almanac might tell when to plant different flowers and vegetables.
Analogy A phrase or sentence that shows how different things may be alike in some ways. "A human heart is like a pump" is an analogy. The heart and pump are alike in one way: they each pump something.
Anthology A book that is a collection of different writers' works (essays, stories, poems, etc.). "Mr. Taylor had so many interesting stories to tell. One day he was going to publish his collection as 'An Artist's Anthology.' "
Antonym word that has an opposite meaning. An antonym of "hot" is "cold"; an antonym of "fast" is "slow".
Aphorism A short, clear, wise statement that tells an opinion or a saying that many people believe is true. An aphorism about a famous musician is the sentence "Irving Berlin has no place in American music - he IS American music." audience (as listeners and readers) A group of people that gather to see or hear a performance - when the performance is an "out-loud" reading, the performers are the readers and the audience are the listeners. For example: "Mr. Taylor and Maria were taking turns reading 'The Chamber of Secrets' to the class. The audience was very quiet as the readers reached a scary part of the story."
Author's purpose The reason for writing - to inform, to question, to entertain.
"Fernando worked hard on his first prompt. His author's purpose was to entertain his readers with his funny story."
Autobiography The story of someone's life, written by that person. "Mr. Taylor had given the students their first assignment of the year: a one-page autobiography."
Bibliography A list of the books and materials consulted; appearing at the end of the text. "Leslie was sure to include her bibliography at the end of her science report."
Brochure A booklet or pamphlet that describes a subject; often an advertisement.
"Mrs. Kuhn carefully read the brochure that announced the opening of the University Science Fair."
Caption A short description or title of an illustration in a text. "Gloria had written the caption ' What I Want to be When I Grow Up ' under her drawing of a jet pilot ."
Category A set of things that are grouped together because they have something in common. "Eric had lots of homework to do. Which category would he start with? Reading, Writing, Science, Math ...? "
cause/effect characteristics Cause is the action that makes something happen; Effect is the something that happens. "Sarah knocked over a glass of water onto her homework pages. Knocking over the glass was the cause of soaking her homework. Wet homework was the effect of knocking over the glass."
Conclusion The part that brings something to an end OR a decision that is made after looking at all the facts. "Andrew thought the conclusion of 'Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets' was really exciting!" "After much thought, Anthony came to the conclusion that the answer to the long division problem was '286' "
Conjunction A connecting word that links sentences or words ("and", "or", "if", "but" ...). "David and Jose wanted to talk to Gage or Sam before school, but the bus was late."
Conjunctions in this sentence were "and", "or", and "but".
Contest An organized test among entrants to find out which is best at doing something.
"On Tuesday there was a contest between the two fourth grades to see which class was best at playing cricket."
Conversation A talk with someone. "Mrs. Kuhn would have a conversation with the "Wheels in Motion" people to learn whether their contest would come to Rio Vista this year."
Diary A book of a person's daily happenings and thoughts. "George Washington's diary was full of interesting things that happened before the United States became a nation."
Double negatives Using two negative forms together in a phrase or sentence; not good English. "I won't never use double negatives when I write a story!"
Drama Works written for performance on stage, television, or radio; usually serious subjects and manner of performance. Sometimes anything that is not a comedy is called a drama. The book "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was dramatized into a movie.
drawing conclusions Reaching a conclusion, or a final decision, about something.
"After Mr. Taylor sees the results of the test, he will be drawing conclusions on on the next homework assignment."
Encyclopedia A reference book or set of books giving much information on all areas or specialized areas of knowledge. "Jade, did you find 'Mount St. Helens' in the encyclopedia?"
Fable A make-believe short story that teaches a moral, especially with animals as characters. In the fable "The Tales of Peter Rabbit", a young rabbit has adventures and learns about the world.
Genre A category of artistic works, based on form, style or subject matter.
For example, a detective novel is a genre of fiction.
Noun A word (or group of words) that names a person, place, or thing.
The sentence "Ellie quickly gathered up her books to fill her backpack ,"
contains three nouns.
making inferences Reaching a conclusion or decision from facts and reasoning.
"Hector and Alexis were making inferences on the cost of their field trip by adding up their lunch expenses."
Outline A rough plan of a written work or speech; a list of main points or features to be covered. "Mr. Taylor's drew an outline of his chapter on the smart board."
Possessive nouns Persons, places, or things that show ownership.
In the sentence "Sally's car is with yellow stripes," the possessive noun is "Sally's" .
Preposition A relation or function word that connects a noun or pronoun to another part of a sentence ( "in", "by", "for", to", etc.). In the sentence "Steven hit the ball and ran for first base," the word "for" is a preposition that joins "first base" to the rest of the sentence.
Pronoun A word that may be substituted for a noun ("I", "you", "them", "who", "ours", "he", "she", "anybody", etc.). "Adriana has been working hard on long division, and it has been worth the effort because she scored high on her math test!" The three pronouns in this sentence are "it", "she", and "her".
Proofread To check written work for errors and mark the changes to be made.
"Pedro just needed to proofread and correct his 'Read and Response' chapter, and he would be finished."
sentence fragment Words that do not form a complete sentence of subject and verb.
"Mr. Taylor for the first time." is a sentence fragment because it has no verb.
simple predicate The verb or action word of a sentence or phrase, without words that modify the verb. "Ran" is the simple predicate of the sentence "Monique expertly ran the cotton candy booth for the Rio Vista's Fantasy Fair."
Simile A figure of speech that compares two different things (often with "as" or "like") .
"Red as a beet" is a simile in the sentence "Tim's face was red as a beet."
simple subject The subject of the verb of a sentence, without words that modify the subject. In the sentence "The shiny spotted horse frisked around the pasture," the word "horse" is the simple subject.
Synonym A word that means the same, or almost the same, as another word.
The word "scholar" is a synonym for "student".
Alliteration Repeating the same sounds at the beginning of words for two or more words in a row. Many men may meet monthly. Girls gladly go gliding.
Caption (identify) A title, short explanation, or description accompanying an drawing or a photograph, or words on the bottom of television or movie.
The caption under the picture read: "Mr. Taylor's 4th grade, 2011-12."
Comparative A form of an adjective or adverb which compares one thing to another.
He is taller than his father. There is less water in Arizona than in Louisiana.
Coordinating conjunctions connect words, phrases, and clauses. The bowl of cereal is hot and delicious. (The coordinating conjunction is "and.")
Excerpt A passage, quotation, or segment taken from a longer work, such as a literary or musical composition, a document, or a film. Mr. Taylor's Eclectic Spelling Book has excerpts from many books and poems.
Fiction Books and stories that come from the imagination of the writer. Novels, short stories, detective mysteries and science fiction are fiction.
Foreshadowing is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story. There are many examples of foreshadowing in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Glossary A list at the back of a book that explains or defines difficult or unusual words and expressions used in the book. Nearly all the science books used at Rio Vista have a glossary in the back.
Graphic organizer A graphic organizer is a you can use to help you plan what you're going to write. Mr. Taylor does everything he can to get students to organize their thoughts using a graphic organizer before they start a writing.
Homonym (also called a homophone) Words that are spelled and pronounced the same way, but have different meanings. The metal lead and the verb lead are homonyms.
Hyperbole Extreme exaggeration or overstatement, especially in written work.
Adalberto used hyperbole when he told the class the fish he caught was big as a shark.
Idiom An accepted expression in a given language that is not grammatically standard or cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual constituents.
She heard is straight from the horse's mouth is an example of an idiom.
Interjections Words, exclamations or phrases inserted into a sentence, often expressing an emotion. ???????
Introductory paragraph The first paragraph of an article or student writing should be attention grabbing and make the reader want to finish the article or story.
The introductory paragraph of an article on polar bears might get your attention by telling you that the estimated number of polar bears has grown from 5,000 to 25,000 between the 1950 and 2000.
Labels Descriptive words applied to persons, groups or objects. Rio Vista Elementary School includes two labels: Elementary School tells you the level of the school; and Rio Vista is the name of a particular school.
Magazine A publication, generally published on a regular schedule (weekly, twice-monthly, monthly, etc.) Time is a news magazine that has been published weekly for about 80 years.
Main point The most important idea in a piece of writing. a speech or a lecture.
The main point in Mr. Taylor's lecture was that students will be held responsible for completing their assignments.
Moral A moral is the lesson (don't steal, don't cheat, be nice, etc.) to be learned from a story or event. One moral in the Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare is that "slow and steady wins the race."
Myth A traditional story that tries to explain nature (origin of man, disease, volcanoes, storms, floods, etc.) in which the main characters are gods and heroes. In one Greek myth Zeus, the most powerful god, was afraid his wife Metis would give birth to a god more powerful than he was, so he swallowed Metis.
main idea/stated and implied The main idea is the most important point in a piece of writing or a lecture. The main idea can be clearly explained (i.e., stated), or hinted at (i.e., implied). The main idea of Mr. Taylor's Reading Boot Camp is stated to be improving student reading abilities so they can read to learn.
Metaphor A metaphor is a figure of speech that uses an image or story represent an idea or quality. Her eyes were glistening jewels is a metaphor.
Narrative A narrative is a story that describes a series of fictional or non-fictional events.
Yatzari's narrative of her experience on the roller coaster held our attention.
Narrator The character within a story who tells the story, or a person who tells the story to an audience. Alivia was the narrator for the 4th grade class play.
News Current events presented on TV, the internet, twitter, in newspapers or magazines, or shared by word of mouth.
More people get their news from TV and the internet than from newspapers.
Novel A novel is a long, fictional story. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a novel.
Onomatopoeia A word that imitates the sound it describes.
Cuckoo, hiccup, zoom, bang, beep, splash and vroom are examples of onomatopoeia.
Parts of speech In grammar, categories of words. Nouns and verbs are parts of speech.
Personification Giving animals, objects or concepts human characteristics.
Cartoon animal characters who talk and act like humans are examples of personification.
Persuade Convincing yourself or another to adopt an idea, attitude, or action using logic.
Sydney tried to persuade Frida to join the Rio Vista band.
Persuasion A process of guiding another person to adopt an idea, attitude, or action using logic. Isaac tried using persuasion to get Hector to play soccer.
Purpose Purpose is a result, end, aim or goal of an action.
The purpose of flash cards is to learn words by reading them over and over.
Plot The order of events in a story. The plot of a novel or story deals with what happens to the main character.
Point of view/perspective Writer's (or your) view of the world consisting of opinions, beliefs and experiences. It is Mr. Taylor's point of view/perspective that reading boot camp will improve your reading ability.
Prompt In a writing assignment, the subject you are told to write about. "What I did during my summer vacation" used to be a common prompt the first day of a new school year.
Punctuation marks (colon/semi-colon) Colon is the punctuation mark (:) used before a long quotation, explanation, example, or list of items. A semi-colon (;) is a punctuation mark used most often to separate closely related clauses in a sentence.
Mr. Taylor expects at least three things from his students: 1) their attention; 2) completion of assignments; and 3) respect for other members of the class.
Reference source A source of information, the most common of which are: a dictionary; an atlas; a thesaurus; the internet, etc. One reference source for my science project was the Encyclopedia Americana.
reference book A source of information in book form, such as a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas or thesaurus. The best reference book for finding synonyms is the thesaurus.
Reports To give information (usually written or spoken) about something (person, place, thing, theory, etc.) to other people. Our science reports are due in the spring.
Resolution Resolution has many meanings, one of which is to set a personal goal.
Mr. Jones' New Year's resolution was to run a mile every day this year.
Resource In education, a resource is something or someone that helps you learn.
The smart board is a resource that Mr. Taylor uses to get excited about learning.
Root words ( as aids in determining meaning) The basic word upon which other words are formed. The meaning of new words can often be determined by identifying the root word The root word of saddlery is saddle, so I can guess that saddlery has something to do with saddles.
Rhythm A regularly occurring physical motion or pattern of speech. Many poems have an interesting rhythm.
Satire A method of criticizing people in which you make fun of their bad habits, abuses and shortcomings--usually with the goal of shaming them into improving.
Punch was a famous British humor magazine which used a great deal of satire.
Simile A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by using the words "like," "as," or "than."
Cristian seemed to run as fast as a speeding bullet.
Stanza In a poem, a grouping of lines set off by a space.
Here are two stanzas of a poem:
Mary had a little lamb,
little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
Mary went, Mary went,
and everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.
Summarize To state briefly.
We summarize the main idea of each chapter in our writing journals.
Summary A brief statement or account covering the main idea.
Each chapter summary in our writing journal must include at least five sentences.
Superlative Superior to or better than all others, of highest quality or supreme, usually a using a word ending in -est. Mt. McKinley (Denali) is the highest mountain in North America.
Thesaurus A reference containing synonyms and antonyms.
The thesaurus says synonyms for small include petite, little , wee, tiny and teeny.
tall tale A story with characters or happenings that are exaggerated or made bigger than real life. "Pecos Bill" is a tall tale of a cowboy who could do unbelievable things, like rope a tornado with his lariat.
Title page (parts of) A title page is a page at the beginning of a book that gives the book's title, the author, and the publisher. The title, "HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE"; the author, "J.K. ROWLING"; and the publisher, "Arthur A. Levine Books" all appear on the title page for the first Harry Potter book.
Verb tense The form of a verb that shows not only the action, but when the action happens (in the past, present, or future). In the sentence " Mr. Taylor's class will leave for lunch in 15 minutes", the verb tense is future; In the sentence "The class is leaving now", the verb tense is present; In the sentence "The class left," the verb tense is past.


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This assay has high sensitivity and excellent specificity for detection of Heat Shock Protein 90 kDa Beta 1 (HSP90b1). No significant cross-reactivity or interference between Heat Shock Protein 90 kDa Beta 1 (HSP90b1) and analogues was observed.
Information on standard material:The standard might be recombinant protein or natural protein, that will depend on the specific kit. Moreover, the expression system is E.coli or yeast or mammal cell. There is 0.05% proclin 300 in the standard as preservative.Information on reagents:The stop solution used in the kit is sulfuric acid with concentration of 1 mol/L. And the wash solution is TBS. The standard diluent contains 0.02 % sodium azide, assay diluent A and assay diluent B contain 0.01% sodium azide. Some kits can contain is BSA in them.Information on antibodies:The provided antibodies and their host vary in different kits.
Average the duplicate readings for each standard, control, and samples and subtract the average zero standard optical density. Create a standard curve on log-log graph paper, with HSP90b1 concentration on the y-axis and absorbance on the x-axis. Draw the best fit straight line through the standard points and it can be determined by regression analysis. Using some plot software, such as curve expert 1.30, is also recommended. If samples have been diluted, the concentration read from the standard curve must be multiplied by the dilution factor.In order to make the calculation easier, we plot the O.D. value of the standard (X-axis) against the known concentration of the standard (Y-axis), although concentration is indeed the independent variable while O.D. value is the dependent variable. Further, in this part, in order to help the customer perform the assay more visual, we provide the customer with the raw data (not the log of data). However, plotting log of the data to construct the curve will be recommended. The O.D. values of the standard curve may vary according to the conditions of assay performance (e.g. operator, pipetting technique, washing technique or temperature effects). This curve is provided for demonstration only. The customers should establish their own standard curve for each test conducted.
Intra-assay Precision (Precision within an assay): 3 samples with low, middle and high level Heat Shock Protein 90kDa Beta 1 (HSP90b1) were tested 20 times on one plate, respectively. Inter-assay Precision (Precision between assays): 3 samples with low, middle and high level Heat Shock Protein 90kDa Beta 1 (HSP90b1) were tested on 3 different plates, 8 replicates in each plate. CV(%) = SD/meanX100 Intra-Assay: CV<10% Inter-Assay: CV<12%


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SACRAMENTO — In his seven-year career with the Denver Broncos, running back Terrell Davis, a former Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, dazzled fans with his speed and elusiveness.
At the end of his rookie year in 1995, he signed a $6.8-million, five-year contract. Off the field he endorsed Campbell's soup. And when he hung up his cleats, he reported for the National Football League Network and appeared in movies and TV shows.
So it may surprise Californians to find out that in 2011, Davis got a $199,000 injury settlement from a California workers' compensation court for injuries related to football. This came despite the fact Davis was employed by a Colorado team and played just nine times in California during an 88-game career, according to the NFL.
Davis was compensated for the lifelong effects of multiple injuries to the head, arms, trunk, legs and general body, according to California workers' compensation records.


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India A have beaten New Zealand A by six wickets in their second One Day match in Visakhapatnam to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the best of three series.
Behind 80 from Carl Cachopa, New Zealand posted 216 all out in the first innings. The Indian top order comfortably reached their target after 38.5 overs, though had New Zealand taken their chances in the field, it could have been a much closer contest.
Having lost the toss New Zealand were put into bat and made solid progress to be 47 for one after nine overs. The next 20 overs however saw wickets fall at regular intervals and New Zealand were in a precarious position at 121 for five after 30 overs.
A timely 68-run sixth wicket partnership between Cachopa and Andrew Ellis (34) looked to have New Zealand back on track, only for both batsmen to be dismissed within eight runs of each other. A late 14 from Adam Milne pushed New Zealand past the 200 mark, but it was still short of a par score.
India were reduced to 44 for two in the early stages of their reply, with Mark Gillespie picking up both scalps. India could have been in further strife had New Zealand held on to their catches, while Anton Devcich also had a wicket disallowed due to a front-foot no-ball.
Unmukt Chand and Mandeep Singh both contributed 59 for India, before Kedhar Jadhav (30 not out) and Ashok Menaria (37 not out) made the remaining required runs to secure the host's second six wicket victory in a row.
Gillespie finished with figures of two for 62 from ten overs, while Milne and Matt Henry both had a wicket apiece.
The third match is to be played on Thursday at 9:00am local time (3:30pm NZ time).


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Part of the road became Route 34
We've learned more about the Cannon Ball Trail, with an assist from SC columnist and Galva native John Sloan.
In our Jan. 9 "Around Town" column we shared a January 1913 Star Courier story about the first meeting held in this area to establish part of a marked road — something new — which would enable "autoists," as they were called, to travel from Kansas City to Chicago without having to ask directions. All they had to do was follow the white posts marked with a black ball, or cannon ball, which were eventually placed at one mile intervals.
The big news in this area was that the new road was going to pass through Galva and Kewanee. From Quincy, the route generally followed the Burlington Railroad tracks.
Sloan saw our column and used the Galva Public Library's new Internet access to old issues of the Galva News, and sent us a link with more than six screens of past issues which carried any reference to the Cannon Ball Trail.
John said library staff told him the past editions of the Galva News, Galva Standard and Galva Weekly News going back to 1879 were digitized from microfilms by a company that specializes in historic archiving. The site is equipped with a search tool which uses indexing so by inserting "cannon ball trail" in the search box, John instantly gathered dozens of articles printed in and after 1913 with everything from a mention to a full story about the trail. John's help, however, eliminated what could have been several weeks of pouring over musty old newspapers in the library basement.
The Cannon Ball Trail was a response to America's rapid change from horse-drawn to motorized transportation in the early 1900s. An excerpt from "Galva History" by Sally Nelson reprinted in the May 26, 2004 Galva News tells about early efforts to promote better roads.
"The Galva Farmers Institute had the credit of placing the county in the forefront (of improving roads). In the spring of 1906, the Galva Institute Road Improvement Association was organized in which farmers on various roads heading out of Galva agreed to do their proportionate share of work necessary to carry out the road improvement scheme of the association." The goal was to "pull the cars out of the mud," since all roads then were dirt-based.
The 2004 article states that from 1900 to 1910 not more than 50 automobiles could be counted in Galva but by 1912, one year before the first area meeting on the Cannon Ball Trail, the number had more than doubled. Automobiles were suddenly a presence on the roads sometimes coming into conflict and contact with horse-drawn buggies and wagons who had previously had the roads to themselves.
Cars were a new means to getting places and people were thinking of more places they wanted to go. Caravans of 20 or 30 cars would travel from town to town promoting what their communities had to offer or shopping at businesses in neighboring towns.
In 1911, the speed limits of motorists in Illinois were 10 mph in business districts, 15 mph in residential areas, and 25 mph outside cities and towns. Even the fastest horses couldn't beat that.
During 1913 and 1914 issues of where the Cannon Ball Trail would go were addressed and resolved by the Illinois association meeting in Galesburg, Princeton and other towns along the proposed route. Each town had a representative and funding raised by assessing towns annually by population. Galva's assessment was $75 a year.
In the fall of 1913 one of the major disputes was decided when the association chose to take the route through Altona. Initially, the favored route went west of Galva 10 miles, then directly south to Oneida, then on to Wataga, Galesburg and so on. Altona residents, however, felt differently. They expended great effort and money on improving the road through their town and lobbied the association to come their way. In was finally decided the route would go seven miles west of Galva — to the present-day junction of Routes 34 and 17 — then turn south to Altona and then west along the Burlington Railroad tracks.
A report on the annual meeting in the Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1915 edition of the Galva Standard reported that the first marker post on the Cannon Ball Trail had been set Dec. 2, 1914 at Quincy by Dr. R.N. Heflin, of Kewanee. Further down in the story we learn Dr. Heflin was not only Kewanee's representative, he was also secretary-treasurer of the Illinois Division of the Cannon Ball Trail Association. Galva's representative was W.S. McClintock.
The story reports that major towns on the trail in this part of the state were to be Macomb, Galesburg, Kewanee and Princeton. A slew of smaller towns, such as Bowen, Plymouth, Altona, Neponset and Buda, were also listed. It was stated that cement posts painted white with a black ball (cannon ball) were installed every mile in rural areas while white strips had been painted on telephone poles and a black ball applied with a stencil in towns.
By the early 1920s, we find the first mention of a system of concrete highways being considered. The Cannon Ball Trail Association, of course, thought they had the best route. Obviously, getting this new, paved road to pass through your town would mean cars could get there faster from greater distances and bring more people to your community.
In the Thursday, July 13, 1922 edition of the Galva News we found a story about a meeting of the Illinois Division of the Cannon Ball Trail Association held in Galva. "A resolution was passed for the association to use its influence with state highway officials to have the state hard road follow the Cannon Ball Trail from Galva to Kewanee instead of going straight east of the city and then north to Kewanee as now planned." It was reported that by the end of the year the trail would be paved from Aurora to Chicago and work on laying concrete between Galesburg and Oneida was "progressing rapidly."
We know now that the association's influence was unsuccessful in getting the road, which eventually became U.S. Route 34, changed from an easterly path to follow the trail, which traveled up what is now Midland Road from Route 34 to Midland Country Club. There it turned east, back north and back east into Wethersfield and Kewanee.
The digital search yielded two tidbits which may support the Midland connection. A "for sale" item in the Thursday, May 5, 1921 Galva News reads "Soy beans (two words, not one) to plant with your corn. R.I. Parks on the Cannon Ball Trail one mile south of Midland." In the Sept. 29, 1921 Galva News we read that "Work on dragging the Cannon Ball Trail from Kewanee to Midland Country Club was completed Friday. Saturday morning, a force of men started oiling this stretch of highway."
Midland Country Club was a newly built center of social and recreational activiity back then and a busy stop on the interurban electric railway between Kewanee and Galva, so putting that destination on the trail would have made sense.
On Dec. 20, 1923, however, the Galva News reported "A great national highway from Chicago to El Paso, Texas, may pass through Galva, according to the tentative advance sheet published by the chief of the U.S. Bureau of Roads." One of several proposed roads, it was to be part of the federal aid highway system which would include 180,000 miles of the most important roads in the United States, so located to form a network of main interstate and intercounty roads. "The system shows a great highway from Chicago to Texas, which apparently follows the Cannon Ball Trail through Kewanee, Galva, Galesburg and Burlington, then through Kansas City to El Paso."
Thus began the transition of the Cannon Ball Trail into what we know today as U.S. Route 34.
Now, about the old photograph which accompanies this column. Our farm, across from Black Hawk College East Campus, lies on what was once a section of U.S. 34. I can remember as a child hearing and seeing large semis and a constant stream of cars going by on what was then a very busy highway, to a "Y" just east of our farm where the road split, one leg north of Kewanee, the other south to Peoria, joining what would later be designated Illinois Route 78. In 1959-60, Route 34 was redirected to the north where it is today, which left quiet our little piece of the old highway, now Black Hawk Road.
While going through some oversized old negatives at the farm the other day I found one that appears to be a crew of men pouring the concrete westward to build Route 34 just west of our mailbox. My grandparents were newlyweds living on the farm in the 1920s and may have taken the shot with an early camera. Using this new information from the old Galva News' I would say the road was built and photo taken in 1924 or 1925.
There was no photo with the nearly 90-year-old negative, which was very thin and blurry. Our friend, Larry Flannery, has a scanner which can download oversized negatives and made a large print for our first real look at the photograph. He also produced a digital image for the newspaper. It's grainy and a little hard to make out, but it's historically significant so we're printing it in hopes that readers can make out the paver with a ribbon of newly poured concrete behind it and an umbrella over the operator indicating it was probably summer.
The leveler which smoothed off the concrete appears to be on the far right. The road bank at the left is now much closer to the road, the soil having shifted down and outward over the years.
Retired Kewanee Township Road Commissioner Bob Hepner, now in his 80s, said what appears to be a Model T Ford pickup in front of the paver appears to be equipped with a tank which he said was used to carry water to be used in the machine to make the concrete. As a young boy, he recalls seeing a similar machine being used to install the first concrete on Route 78 north of Kewanee, where he grew up.
It's amazing after nearly 100 years to not only read first-hand about how one of the major roads in our area was built, but also see (sort of) it being done.


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Using INTERPOL's technology known as FIND, Canada created an interface between two key INTERPOL databases and the national Canadian police database. This means that police across a territory of 10 million square kilometres all have hands-on access to critical data onwanted persons and stolen and lost travel documents, in just seconds.
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