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Building Information Modelling (BIM) Market Size, Emerging Trends, Leading Players Forecast 2016 to 2022
Market Research Future (MRFR) - Tuesday, February 7, 2017.
The global market for Building Information Modelling is majorly driven by factors such growing construction industry, automation in construction among others.
Market Highlights
The construction industry is expected to grow at substantial during next couple of years. Countries such as U.S., China and India are some of the major leading countries which holds more than of 50% market share in field of construction. Advancement in the current market scenario and adoption of technology in current work process is making the things easier and increasing the efficiency of overall process. It is also expected that over the next couple of years, the time taken in construction of any infrastructure will be less due to the high automation in the process. BIM is a technology/system which helps to synchronize all the aspects of any process in one. It offers software which helps to create a virtual model of infrastructure and analyze with all the aspects. In many countries, government is making new policies in order to make the BIM mandatory for any construction.
Companies such as Autodesk which is one of leading player in BIM Market discovering new platforms and application for better implementation and result from BIM software. In the recent trend, cloud computing and augmented reality is taking place with respect to BIM. Arrival of these technologies will help to reduce the construction time as well as cost. Many studies around the world on the benefits of BIM show that cost and time are the major factor for the adoption of building information modelling.
Whereas some of the factors such as high cost of software and hardware and high training cost are some of the major restraints of the market.
The global BIM market is expected to grow at CAGR of 16% and estimated to reach at market size of US ~$11 billion by the end of forecast period.
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Key Players
- Autodesk (U.S.)
- Bentley Systems
- Incorporated (U.S.)
- GRAITEC (France)
- Intergraph Corporation (U.S.)
- Data Design System (Norway)
- IES Ltd. (U.K.)
- 4M Building Solutions (U.S.)
- Nemetschek Group (Germany)
- Trimble Inc., (U.S.)
Market Research Future Analysis:
The Global Building Information Modeling (BIM) market is estimated to grow at a promising rate in upcoming years. EMEA is the leading region among North America, and Asia-Pacific region. Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region which is estimated to show high growth during forecast period. Increasing technology adoption in automotive & transportation sector is the major growth drivers for BIM market in Asia-Pacific region. Whereas lack of technical awareness about building information modeling and lack of technical support required deploying the software solution is the major barrier for BIM market in Asia-Pacific region.
Intended Audience
- Software developers
- Government Agencies
- Architects
- Constructing Service providers
- Construction Companies
- Research Institutes & Universities
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The Building Information Modelling Market is expected to grow steadily during the forecast period. The major driving factor identified in this report are increasing government interest in construction industry and implementation of BIM, high productivity of BIM, improved quality among others. Growing cloud computing and augmented reality in the field of BIM is also playing very major role in the growth of BIM. BIM Software helps to simulate and design the infrastructure in 3D which helps the project engineer and project manager to find out all the possible required things for the development. Cost estimation feature of BIM allows the user to directly calculate the project cost. Preplanning is always better than the on-ground planning but customization is one thing which only occurs which project is taking place. Variety of feature regarding customization of project and re-calculation of cost and its associated factors gives the project engineer an advantage which helps to control the things.
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by NW Spotlight
In his press conference this past week, the day after the stunning Republican victories, President Obama gave Congress a six-week deadline to send him an immigration reform bill or he'd take executive action.
Answering a question on immigration reform, the President said "You send me a bill that I can sign, and those executive actions go away," followed by a warning reminder that he would "act in the absence of action by Congress. So, before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions that I can take."
So in the time that Congress has until the end of the year, working around the holidays, President Obama expects Congress to accomplish in six weeks what he hasn't been able to accomplish in six years. And this is a Congress where the Senate is still controlled by Democrats until January.
The bigger point, though, is why didn't the President pass immigration reform in the first two of those six years? That's when Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress. There was nothing stopping them.
Candidate Barrack Obama promised back in 2008 to have an immigration bill within his first year that he'd be supporting and promoting. Candidate Obama told an interviewer on Univision "But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I'm promoting." A year and a half into his first term, the left-leaning PolitiFact rated that a "Promise Broken."

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Commentary: Attorney general helps patients by suing Sutter Health
This op-ed ran in the May 5, 2018, edition of the San Francisco Examiner:
Want to know why San Francisco is the nation's second-most expensive city to deliver a baby?
The answer can be found in a lawsuit California Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently filed against The City's largest private hospital operator: Sutter Health.
The complaint, filed last month in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Sutter has used its near monopolistic might across Northern California to unfairly drive up costs for patients, and that part of the windfall is going into the pockets of the nonprofit's millionaire executives.
We all pay for Sutter's greed. A report this year by researchers at UC Berkeley, cited in Becerra's lawsuit, found that the average patient procedure in Northern California, where Sutter is dominant, costs approximately $90,000 more than in Southern California, where there are far more providers.
When it comes to giving birth, the price for a vaginal delivery is $15,204 in San Francisco, where Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center controls one-in-four hospital beds. The only American city where it costs more, unsurprisingly, is Sutter's home base of Sacramento, according to a 2016 report by Castlight Health, a company that analyzes medical costs.
Referencing the UC Berkeley report, Becerra wrote, "Much of the increased cost of healthcare in Northern California is attributable to Sutter and its anti-competitive contractual practices which it has imposed as a result of its market power."
With 24 acute care hospitals, 31 ambulatory surgery centers and 8,200 doctors across 19 Northern California counties, Sutter has "made itself immune from the forces of price competition," Becerra wrote.
Like a cable television provider, Sutter bundles its services, preventing insurers from substituting a less expensive alternative "without also losing access to all of Sutter's other hospitals in Northern California," according to Becerra. He also accused Sutter of setting excessively high out-of-network rates and not being transparent about cost data.
Sutter has used its market share to make health care costs rise even faster than housing prices. Research from the insurer Blue Shield found that it paid hospitals owned by Sutter and Dignity Health more than doubled between 2004 and 2013. Those costs trickle down to patients who pay more for premiums and are often pushed to accept health plans that provide less coverage.
Even Sutter's own employees here in San Francisco haven't been immune. As the union representing hundreds of CPMC employees, we have repeatedly had to fight Sutter's attempt to raise their healthcare costs.
Sutter's conduct has helped it boost its operating revenue from $9.5 billion in 2012 to $11.8 billion in 2016, Becerra found. He also found that the biggest winners weren't patients but Sutter executives, 18 of whom were paid more than $1 million in 2016, according to the company's most recent financial report.
That same year, Sutter provided the second-lowest amount of charity care as a percentage of revenue among the nation's twenty largest health care systems, according to a Modern Healthcare analysis.
Here in San Francisco, we've participated in community coalitions to pressure Sutter to find new homes for patients in its Alzheimer's ward that it's closing, and at least temporarily retain precious beds for patients who need extensive aftercare.
Sutter needs a serious attitude adjustment. It must go from being pro-profit to pro-patient. We can only hope that Becerra's lawsuit starts that transformation. If he succeeds in ending Sutter's "anti-competitive conduct," patients across San Francisco and Northern California will start getting better care at lower prices.
Sal Rosselli is president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents caregivers at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco Nursing Center, Mission Neighborhood Health Center, Seton Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente and many other medical facilities throughout the Bay Area and California.


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Most businesses and organizations are going through major changes due to the economy. Everyone has been affected in some way. Too often though, a business owner or an employee asks me, "Why did this have to happen? How come we weren't told sooner?" Facing change is tough, yes, but sometimes we need to wake up!
If we're paying attention at all, we know we need to do things differently. But, in spite of all the media attention on the economy, all of the memos, and the staff meetings discussing the possibilities of layoffs, people still choose not to see the handwriting on the wall.
In the 1998 national bestseller, "Who Moved My Cheese?" author Spencer Johnson, M.D., provided several basic tenets for handling change. The first is Change Happens. In this maze we call life, they keep moving the cheese on us. As soon as we forget or deny this, we are in trouble. The second and third tenets are Anticipate Change and Monitor for Change. We know they are going to move the cheese, we have to be ready for it, and we need to keep a watch for the signs that tell us when it's going to move!
Dealing with change is not easy, but the handwriting on the wall is there for each of us to see, or not…
If you would like help dealing with your organizational change, or to schedule our fun and dynamic "Dealing With Change Workshop," give us a call at 419-472-3617!


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Adult Chamber Music
By introducing chamber music to students early in their lives, JCM aims to teach young musicians how to enjoy their music all of their lives regardless of what field they choose to pursue as a career.
The Adult Chamber Music program, called Chamber Music Connect (CMC), works in conjunction with JCM to create a network of opportunities and friendships that can support a student all of their lives.
Adults in the Chamber Music Connect program will be matched into ensembles according to their level and location and coached by renowned teachers in the area. There will also be soirees (workshops with hot d'oeuvres and wine), tours (weekend getaways filled with music and laughter), and concerts (ranging from home concerts to more formal events).
We feel that the adults in CMC are great examples to the students of what a lifelong passion and dedication to music feels and looks like. This diverse group will serve as a model in the community and to the students of how vital to life contentment and happiness having a lifelong passion and hobby can be.


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Some good, some bad, some ugly. Here we go:
* TFC beat SKC. How did that happen? There go my hopes for a winless season by TFC. Thanks for nothing SKC.
* Some things never change. Donovan Ricketts now plays for Portland, still wears goalie kits that make him look like a construction pylon.
* Ricketts continues to boggle the ball way too often. Almost got caught a few times. Thank you Portland and De Santis for that wonderful trade!
* Portland's Johnson tried to earn a penalty with a ridiculous dive in the first half. Russian diving ref gave him a perfect 10. MLS refs need to start showing more cards for simulation.
* Camara scored an amazing bicycle kick goal to put the Impact up 1-0. Impact are spreading the scoring love around.
* Camara continues to make Coach Marco look like a genius by keeping him in the starting XI. Something Marsch should have done more of.
* Sanna Nyassi used his 'get out of jail free' card in the first half. He shoved the Portland forward in the box. It should have been a penalty. Nyassi should have gotten a yellow. Poor decision by the ref. Portland fans are right to be mad.
* Portland fans must be wondering 'What if?' What would have been the final score IF had they been awarded that penalty & IF it would have been converted?
* Nyassi played a very solid game. A very good 90 minutes. The question is now his consistency. Can he do it again?
* There is something missing in that Impact midfield. Can't put my finger on it. Ball movement seems too difficult at times through the middle.
* The Timbers Army is impressive. Must be hell to play there. Very loud and very proud.
* Jeb Brovsky is just solid. A rock on this defensive line. He doesn't get mentioned often, he isn't in highlight reels... he just does his job. Thank you Vancouver.
* Di Vaio's offside numbers are not as bad as everyone thought they would be however, he is not yet getting the service he needs to be lethal.
* WELCOME TO MONTREAL ROMERO!!! He made his first touch a productive one setting up Felipe for his first of the season.
* I'd like to see Romero in the starting XI, on the left side instead of Mapp.
* Portland's Valeri is one supremely talented player. The Timbers' success depends heavily on him.
* It took 2 games for the Impact to match their road win total from last season. Something tells me they will be getting a lot more of them. Call it a hunch! They will be great road warriors.
* Montreal goes on the road for the first two games in stadiums where it is known to be extremely hard to come away with points. They got the maximum 6. Dear MLS, it is still early but this Impact team is for real.
* It's early but teams who drop points early in the season may come to regret it later on. Chicago has 0 points in 2 games. The Red Bulls have scored 4 goals in 2 games but have managed only 1 point. Huge points to be dropping.
* Again, it's early but isn't it beautiful seeing the Impact on top in the standings??
* What are you doing on Saturday? If the answer is anything but 'I'll be at the Olympic Stadium for the Impact home opener', you are wasting the day. Seriously. Buy a ticket. Buy 10. Get that place packed!
* It's your kid's baptism? Have the party at the Big O.
* Getting married? Cancel the hall... have the wedding reception at the Big O.
Enjoy your week Impact fans! Until next time,


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By TOM D'ANTONI // "Dream Do Dazzle" a giant concert for the late Oregon music industry giant and her Musicians Relief Fund.
If you were saddened by the death of Lisa Lepine in July, and have been waiting for a public way to express what she meant to you, here's your chance.
On Sunday, November 13 at the Crystal Ballrooom (5-10pm, $15, tickets), there will be a mammoth concert not only to honor her and her life and what a giant force she was for music in Oregon, but to help fund the Lisa Lepine Musicians Relief Fund, a part of the Jeremy Wilson Foundation. In the weeks before her death she worked with Jeremy to get this effort underway but she died before she could use her vast skills to make it happen.
Now it's our turn, and with the looming cuts in federal health insurance, it's more important than ever.
The lineup is pretty damned breathtaking:
Performers (in alphabetical order):
* Adam East & Kris Deelane (www.facebook.com/
* Chervona (www.facebook.com/
* Christopher Worth (http://worth-music.com/)
* Chris Schelske formerly of Reckless Kelly
* Christie Josef (www.facebook.com/
* Darka Dusty (fandalism.com/darkadusty)
* Ed and the Boats/Rainworms
* Hoot Family (www.facebook.com/
* Jaime Lee Christiana
* Janet Julian (https://
* Jeremy Wilson (https://
* John Neff (http://johnneff2.com/)
* Jon Garcia (http://www.jongarcia.tv/)
* Kerosene Dream Trio (http://
* Miss V and Wil Kinky (http://wilkinky.com/)
* Ron Rogers (https://
* Skip VonKuske (https://www.facebook.com/
* Steve Lockwood (https://www.facebook.com/
* Steve Wilkinson (http://
* Thrillbilly Reunion (http://www.lchr.org/a/35/
* The Urban Shaman (https://www.facebook.com/
Emcees: Tom D'Antoni, KMHD DJ & Oregon Music News Editor, will also DJ a Soul set from 5-6pm. John Neff, Mark Baker and Terry Currier will also MC
One of the saddest stories I've ever had to write was the morning of July 5, 2016 when I put up this story on her death. After the death of Allen Toussaint, I made a vow to never write another obit. If anyone on earth deserved a loving remembrance, it was Lisa.
Here is your chance to make a living remembrance of her life...and hear some great music in the company of others who loved Lisa.


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I don't think I actually ever wanted to vote to reopen a question posted on meta until today.
I have had a -2 in my reputation history and wondered where it came from. Went to meta and found this question which was somehow helpful.
The first sentence of the close reason
This question is unlikely to help any future visitors;
is not true as it has helped me and possibly 3 other people who voted up the question.
So I need a 3K rep points here on meta to cast a re-open vote but I'd like to know if any of you agree that the question shouldn't be closed as too localized(which in fact is not a valid close reason any longer).


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Regina King is having a moment. Actually, let's state the facts properly: Regina King has been having a moment since 1985 when she starred in 227. Now, with an Oscar on her shelf and the lead role in HBO's buzzy Watchmen, King is the Hollywood superhero she always wanted to be (and we always knew she was).
In Watchmen, King plays Angela Abar aka Sister Night. In the post-superhero world of the series, Angela is a masked police officer. Her costume is reminiscent of a nun and one of her weapons looks to sort of like rosary beads.
"I had never seen anyone like her," King told THR about her character.
"The idea I would get the opportunity to bring her to life was huge. Because she's not in the source material, I didn't have to feel any of that pressure. I've been wanting to play a superhero all my life, ever since I saw Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, the cartoon. And here's my opportunity. I have the opportunity to design her, along with the creator, to make her into who we think she should be. I really don't have the words to put that into what it means," King continued.
King started working in Hollywood in the sitcom 227 in 1985. She appeared in more than 100 episodes alongside TV icons Jackée Harry and Marla Gibbs. "It was like college," she told Vanity Fair about 227. "Marla was the first boss lady I got to see up close and personal."
From the sitcom world she hit the big screen in Boyz n the Hood and Poetic Justice, with small screen roles in here and there. Her journey to Watchmen included everything from comedy (Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous and Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde) to drama (Ray and her Oscar-winning turn in If Beale Street Could Talk) on the big screen, and turns in several acclaimed TV shows, from Southland to American Crime. King also stepped behind the camera and began directing with a 2013 episode of Southland. She served as director on a number of shows, from Scandal and Insecure to This Is Us and Being Mary Jane.
"It's an opportunity to be more involved in telling the story," she told Variety about directing. "Having a little more control — that might have something to do with it."
Directing, it seems has only helped King with her passion in front of the camera.
"It's an opportunity to be more involved in telling the story," she told Variety about directing. "Having a little more control — that might have something to do with it."
Directing, it seems has only helped King with her passion in front of the camera.
"If you came to this planet from Jupiter and you watched [Regina] on set, you would not know that her path to directing was through acting," Scandal star Kerry Washington told VF about King's work behind the camera. "She speaks so many of the languages of filmmaking as beautifully as the acting part."
King's work in front of the camera continued to be met with fanfare. She won two Emmys for American Crime and a third for the short-lived Netflix series Seven Seconds. Before Watchmen, came her Oscar-winning role as Sharon Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk. And in 2019, she returned to The Big Bang Theory for its final season, reprising a character she played on and off since 2013.
But for King to become the superhero (character, we all know she is on in real life) she always wanted to be, it turns out a late-in-the-game role on The Leftovers would be a gift that kept on giving. On The Leftovers, King started working with the man who brought Watchmen to TV, Damon Lindelof.
A longtime fan of the comic series, Lindelof has been open about his reverence for the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic book series and the hesitation he had in taking on the project. Watchmen is so dear to him, he told King he couldn't see himself doing it with anybody else…even if that meant broke his self-imposed rule about working with an actor twice.
"I still have the letter he wrote to me — this most amazing letter," King told THR. "I'm paraphrasing, but it said, 'This is what I'm working on, and I can't see this without anyone other than you.' I was like, 'I don't need to read the script. Just tell me what day we start.'"
In an interview with Deadline, Lindelof spoke about his relationship with King, specifically now while collaborating on a series that begins with a seminal event in African-American history, the Tulsa race riot of 1921 .
"Obviously I think Regina is a lot more equipped to talk about the trust on her end," he said. "It doesn't really require any trust on my end because, A, I know that it's Regina King. I mean not only have I worked with her before on The Leftovers but as someone who is prone to hyperbole, she is one of the world's greatest living actors. She's got the hardware to prove it now."
After reading the script, Lindelof said the two had a lengthy conversation about what he was trying to do with the series and his take on race relations in America. "Then it was her choice as to whether or not she wanted to jump in. She was pretty game for it. So again, as far as me trusting Regina King, not a problem," he said.
In addition to taking on race, the show has several stories driven by women, specifically King's protagonist Angela.
"This woman was someone I had never seen before. Obviously, because she's black, that has a lot to do with that. But even more than that, just being the lead and being so strong, but so vulnerable. We see that inner turmoil. Even when you're waiting for her to become unhinged, you don't know exactly what 'unhinged' is for her," King told The New York Times.
Unhinged or not, we'll be watching.
Watchmen airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on HBO.


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338 LM load identified
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Found a good load for my 338 LM 28" DT - SAC Bartlein barrel.
90.0 of Retumbo under 300 Berger OTM tactical, Lapua Brass CCI LRM primer. SD of 5.1 and ES of 11 over 7 shots. MV of 2699. A mild load for sure.
Here are some 4 shot group from 300. Had about 20 mph 9 O'clock. Didn't adjust for wind just tried to be consistent.
3 in one hole on the left target and 2 in one hole on the right target. Can't say I pulled any of them as mirage was strong as was the wind. Anyway, those are some of my better groups at 300 yards for any caliber.
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I wouldn't consider that a "mild" load. I'd call that a realistic load. Ignore the people claiming 2800fps with 300's in their 338LM's. The best load is the one that shoots the best and exhibits zero pressure indications. 2700fps in a 28" tube is very respectable and is right in line with what I see when developing loads for a 338LM. They tend to be VERY stable when you don't step on the gas too much.
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Completely agree. I did pressure testing all the way to 94.0 and never had anything but a slight ejector mark and no other visible signs but I stopped there. 92.0 was producing good groups at 100 and good numbers on the chrono, but I just felt that the accuracy should be sub .4 with my reloading ability, shooting ability and components.
So, I really took some time to work on my own fundamentals because these magnums will exploit every weakness within NPA. Then, I started load development all over. I'm pretty happy as I am sure you can tell. 😁


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One Piece Manga #64 Sells 2 Million+ Copies in 3 Days
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The 64th volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece pirate manga sold 2,018,366 copies between its first official day of sales (November 4) and November 6, topping Oricon's comic rankings chart for the week of October 31-November 6.
Volume 64 is the 15th consecutive One Piece volume to sell more than two million copies since Oricon began publishing its book sales ranking charts in April of 2008. It is also the fourth volume to sell more than two million copies in its first week. Volume 63 sold 2,119,400 copies in its first four days, volume 61 sold 2,086,080 copies in its first three days, and volume 60 sold 2,094,123 copies in its first four days.
The Japanese publisher Shueisha had produced four million copies of volume 64 in its first printing in Japan. The volume set a record for the most copies in its first printing in Japan.
As of the 64th volume, Shueisha has published over 250 million copies of the manga series; One Piece has had the highest number of copies printed of any Shueisha manga series in Japan.
The manga follows a rubber-bodied boy named Luffy who aims to become the Pirate King by leading a motley crew, including a three-sword-wielding Zoro and the female navigator Nami. The manga has been running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since 1997, and the ongoing television anime series premiered in 1999.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, Oricon


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Come Home For Christmas!
The Kindleys are hosting "Come Home for Christmas" at the Museum on December 5th! After you enjoy the Christmas Parade sponsored by the Greater Gravette Chamber of Commerce at 4p on Main, come by the museum for a visit and a picture with Santa, make a craft with Santa's elves, and enjoy some holiday music provided by Simply Cello and the GHS Band. Toast your toes by the campfire as you fill up on free chili, Christmas cookies and hot cocoa.


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The face of Marketing in 2015 has rapidly changed and continues to do so at an extremely fast pace. One of the more recent developments in the world of small business marketing is 'growth hacking.'
Now, this term evolved from the hundreds of start-up companies that have exploded over the last 5-10 years like 'Uber,' 'Air BnB,' 'Airtasker,' and many, many more. According to Wikipedia growth hacking is:
Sean Ellis coined the term "growth hacker" in 2010.[7][8] In the blog post, he defined a growth hacker as "a person whose true north is growth."
Read on if you want to get your quick growth hacking wins for your business…
Now, in the US growth hacking has become a science; there are countless courses on how to become a growth hacker, and accelerate the rate of growth for your business.
Leading growth hack education provider, One Month's CEO, Mattan Griffel is constantly giving away his expertise for free. One of these such instances was a presentation he gave at the end of 2014 where he gave away 29 Growth Hacking Quick Wins.
Now this presentation is 198 slides….so I thought I would give you legendary small businesses the quicker, condensed version of just top 13, so you can get to implementation even faster!
These hacks are listed in order of ease. The easiest to implement in your business come first at number 13, then they get progressively more complex leading to number 1 and 2 being highly technical tips! Good luck!
13. Measure Happiness
Using a net promoter score, consistently ask your customers how likely they are to recommend you to your friends.
Some tools are: Qualaroo and Promoter.io to integrate into your website. Ask your promoters to share!
12. Create More Landing Pages
According to Griffel, companies with 10+ landing pages get 55% more signups.
Some tips: Each page should be 90% unique, you should use different offers, target different segments, and highlight different unique selling points. Send advertising to landing pages NOT the homepage.
11. Use Paid Ads to Test Headlines & Images
Most paid ads have the same elements as a landing page including headline, body copy and image. So use your ads to test what people respond best do and then tailor landing pages accordingly. It will save you time and money.
10. Set Up Redirects For Link-Tracking
Use bit.ly to create trackable links for a range of different campaigns, discount codes or landing pages so you can track in real time the results of your many different campaigns.
9. Remove Landing Page Links
Remove links that distract people from your call to action. This includes the menu links at the top of your pages. You will get between 90%-100% better conversion. Also, test minimal landing pages, where all you ask for is customer details.
8. Use Qualaroo To Get Customer Feedback
Discover sign up hesitations and learn what information is missing on your site including customer intentions. This information will help you decide what to TEST.
7. Buy Demographic Data About Your Users
Companies like TowerData (US based) provide intelligent data about your users.
6. Split The Ask
If your ask is too high up front, you're alienating potential users. Now this is another way to talk about 'lead grabbers'. Visit site –> Give them incentive e.g. ebook, whitepaper, video–>Provide email–>build relationship & educate by sending valuable content –> they sign up. This works because you lower your activation risk at each point. It also makes things more simple and you can test more. Get creative!
5. Test Weird Call To Action Copy
Some case studies show that non-standard CTAs convert better than overused 'learn more' and 'sign up' buttons. Just be weirder!
4. Use a Contrasting Colour For Your CTA
This one is pretty straightforward but often overlooked. If your CTA stands out against other information people will more likely click it!
3. Put your CTA on the right
People read from left to right in an F Pattern.
2. Repeat Your CTA Above And Below The Fold
People should be able to click whenever they feel ready and not have to scroll to find it as they are innately lazy and just won't click.
1. Add Reassurance Copy
'Why you'll love it', 'Last week 5,000 companies sign up for 'x".
Meg Rose Russell is Director of Rosy Marketing, a marketing consultancy established to change the face of marketing in Australia. She aims to enable entrepreneurs and small businesses owners to realise their truths through strategic and systematic marketing. With over 10 years of marketing blood sweat and tears invested in growing a range of businesses including companies like IBM and SalesForce across a range of industries from Events and Charity to IT and Finance, she now uses her strategic insights to provide marketing tools, consulting and coaching to small businesses. She is also a proud member of the Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network. Interested in setting up an exploratory call? Check her out at www.rosymarketing.com


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I went for a photowalk along with Nikon team here in Mumbai. The place was a nature park and the theme was Birds and Macro. I did not have the type of lenses for both the genres.
I shot this image with my 35mm 1.8G. The dragonfly was patient enough and persisted there perched up while several others including me went about shooting it.
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Understand Motivations: 9 Key Words to Get You Anywhere
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The key to getting anything done in business or otherwise is first understanding someone's motivations. When dealing with any personality type – whether you feel you can develop a great rapport with someone (which I almost always feel I can) or not – there are nine magical key words that will help you get nearly anything you want accomplished:
What do you need to get out of this?
…precisely that. What do you need to get out of this ________ (fill in the blank)? Meeting. Exchange. Deal. Project. Group. Team. Year. Month. Week. Whatever it is, getting someone to answer that one simple question works 99% of the time. Why? Because everyone has motivations in a situation. Everyone has their own agenda they're working on. They're own urgent and important needs. They may even potentially seem to conflict with your own needs, but if you can both answer that question – what do you need to get out of this and what do I need to get out of this, you're bound to find that Venn Diagram space in the middle where you can mutually benefit each other.
The next time you're encountering a potentially difficult situation where it doesn't seem like anyone's budging, do this:
- Pull those magic words out. What do you need to get out of this? "John, I know we don't seem to be getting anywhere on this but I want to ask you a seemingly simple question. What do you really need to get out of this?"
- Now, LISTEN. Hush for a moment and really listen to what they're saying. You want to encourage them to be as brutally honest and vulnerable with you as possible – because until you get to the real motivation, you're not going anywhere. In the spirit of a great listener, make sure you really understand it. Paraphrase it back to them. "So what I hear you saying is X. Is that right?" You might be surprised by what you hear. Potential motivations: They may be dealing with a demanding boss. Perhaps they have pressures on them that are forcing this issue which you care about to the back burner. Maybe it's actually that they don't understand something and need help but are to0 ashamed to ask. It could be some personal recognition or credit for an idea or project (sometimes you have to read between the lines to see that and be careful with your responses to preserve their ego, so to speak). Whatever it is, your goal is to get to the right answer (if possible) by really listening and asking pertinent questions.
- Express what you need. "Now that I know what you need – and thank you for sharing that – let me tell you what I really need and why." When sharing, be just as vulnerable with them as they were with you. Be truly honest about what it is that you need to get out of this.
- Figure out a way to help each other both get what you need. "So it looks like you need X. I need Y. If you'll help me with X, here's what I can do to help you get Y." It seems really simple, but now, magically, you're helping each other get what you really need.
Motivations are magic. Realize it and use it.
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Four major river systems cut through the Ark, flowing from the dry interior to the sea and creating continentally-significant flyways and unequalled habitat. The most dramatic of these, the Kleena Kleene, tunnels through the Coast Massif, bursting from the lower canyon at the foot of Mt. Waddington, whose polar summit soars 4,000 metres above its mouth. Moisture carried in the bellies of cyclones spawned by the great north Pacific Gyr feed the Waddington, Silverthorne and Homathko glacier complex, forming the largest temperate ice field on Earth. When the Rockies run dry and the Himalayas are parched, the central ice cap of the Ark will still produce fresh water for salmon rivers, and will still slake the thirst of all manner of beings as they move upslope or across space to find new ground. The mosaic of diversity will remain intact. This unity of energies makes the Ark a true refuge, a reservoir from which species can spread to repopulate a ravaged world. Like its namesake Noah's Ark, it is a planetary vessel carrying precious cargo through dangerous times, and a sanctuary for the human spirit. The connections between its myriad ecosystems create a presence that can be sensed, felt, and entered. Our ancestors tapped into it and used it to survive. Today, such rare and truly wild places are the last living sources of knowledge from which we can relearn the axioms of interconnectivity as we blaze a trail into the unknown.


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What's with all the spiders?
As some may notice as we begin upgrading our site and constantly changing/evolving it – it is fitting into a bigger picture. This is the official webpage that we will be using to honor the spirit of technology as it was originally presented to me.
The spirit of Technology and I have had a very interesting ride so far, and the beauty of working with things in a shamanic sense is being able to have a relationship with almost everything out there in the greater web of life. It was almost a "duh" moment when I journeyed to meet the spirit of technology and found a spider. Get it? World wide web? It has the potential to weave people together.
One of the reasons for reaching out to the spirit of technology? It was part of my community work with the cycle teachings (the 4 year shamanic program I'm in) and I really began to see the potential of hosting space for a non-local shamanic community for people that wanted to authentically begin connecting with themselves on a deeper level. If you're interested in the teachings, feel free to visit Why Shamanism Now as well as the Last Mask Center where all of the trainings are listed. I will be able to offer some of the classes/skills as an extension of the community in the years to come, but for now let us focus on what we have here with the Eagle Therapies community.
One of the things that we must realize is that when we begin interacting with different spirits that offer to help us, and us help them – they are a reflection of how we treat the wider universe. Each relationship, wether it is spiritual or in physical reality, must be treated with respect. Hence why creating an altar or shrine is a very authentic and shamanic way in building right relationship with the natural world around us.
This post will over time be gently upgraded in order to reflect my relationship with the spirit of technology. For now this is the virtual spot online, and we will keep adding to it as time goes on!


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Our Friend Rob Schaum, who is building a Murphy Rebel to be powered by a large Corvair, wrote us this note with a number of welding questions related to his quest to build his own motor mount. Rob bought one of our Motor Mount Trays and Spool Sets to get started, and then did some very impressive motor mount calculations that he ran past me. (His work turned out to be very well organized and accurate, best I have seen from a homebuilder.) His questions are far outside the simple scope of building a Corvair engine, but the engine by itself isn't going to fly your plane. Unlike many people who market engines, I actually know how to mount them on planes. Over the years, I have seen a number of companies say things like "liability prevents us from commenting on that." In many cases this is a face saving way of dealing with the fact that they sell imported engines, but don't know any of the details of how you would do a custom installation. I have built more than 50 different Motor Mount designs for the Corvair, and I stand ready to help anyone with a question they may have with their installation, even if it is a one of a kind.
Hi William,
So I'm ready to start fitting tubes, as the motor mount jig is all ready to go and firmly attached to the work bench (see pic).
In preparation, I have read Finch's book, and also L.S. Elzea's WW2-era bible on aircraft welding. I am now all set up to start practicing on the "problems" at the back of the book (essentially practice exercises). I have to say, it's a great book, and the "problems" do a great job describing techniques specific to specific steel tube structures and configurations. I expect that the most challenging parts to this will be joining the tubes to the heavy spools, due to the thicker spools sucking up all the heat. Also the 2-tube cluster (see above) might be challenging. I have some spool "stock" on hand to practice those specific welds, and plan to practice the exact cluster a few times before doing the real thing. Have a look at my set-up in the picture and let me know if there are obvious flaws. It is actually really sturdy front-to-back and laterally, but I am most suspicious of the twisting loads created while tacking-on the tubes. Some questions I had on the actual welding of the motor mount:
1) I can't find any closeup photos of your 2-tube clusters at the lower firewall mount points. It definitely looks like the short tube is fitted first, followed by the long one, saddled primarily on the first tube due to the acute angle with the spool. However, I can't determine whether the shorter tube is completely finish-welded before welding-on the longer tube, or if the shorter tube is tack-welded first, followed by the long one, then the cluster is welded as a unit (the latter appears to be standard practice in the literature). Can you please describe this procedure/area to me?
When you weld a cluster, it is not required to weld the parts of the cluster that are covered by the tubes placed later in the cluster. Basically, you are just welding the seams of the cluster that are visible on the outside of the completed joint. If you think about it, the forces on the joint are going to be transmitted through the outer surfaces of the tubes, and the welds that would be hidden inside would not be doing much work. I have cut apart a lot of welds in certified planes that have been around for decades, and none of the planes had the interior layers of the tubing clusters welded, even in the motor mounts or landing gears. Your assessment of the order of placing the tubes in the jig is correct.
2) Your motor mount 101 writings also refer to finger-straps on the 2 top tubes…do you still advocate that? I like the extra insurance at this location. Seems like one should have them on both ends (spool and tray).
Yes, they are a good idea. If you look at the November update on our website at www.FlyCorvair.com/hangar1111.html you can see photos of our personal Tailwind mount, and if you look closely, you will see that I put the tabs in where the upper tubes contact the tray. In our case, you have to remember that a Tailwind's mount also has very high gear loads going through it. If you are an amateur gas welder, it can't hurt to put the reinforcements in as outlined in our Conversion Manual ( available at the www.FlyCorvair.com/manual.html link). They are there to absorb tension loads on that joint. We do not use them on Mounts like our Zenith designs because I can get the full strength of the tube out of the joint by having it wrap slightly around the Tray at the contact point, and using 30 years of welding experience and a top of the line TIG welder to make our production Mounts. If this is your first mount, and you're using gas, put them in. We don't have them at the top as commonly because the top joint to the spools wraps around the spool, putting a lot more of the weld bead in shear, which is much less failure prone than a straight tension weld.
3) Is there an overall sequence to attaching the tubes to minimize distortions in the geometry due to weld-cooling stresses? Tack weld everything then finish weld? Or tack and finish each tube (or each matching set of tubes) then move on to the next set?
Tack weld everything then finish weld. To minimize distortion, work your way around the mount; it is good to do part of one cluster and then part of the next. There is no harm in this as long as you heat up and cool down the joint you're welding each time. Something like 60 seconds leading in and 120 exiting in still air. Do not gas weld in a room that has air currents in it.
4) I had planned on tack-welding everything, then taking the thing off the wooden jig and test fitting on the plane. If all looked well, I was going use the tacked mount to construct a steel jig (I've been studying photos of yours), and do all the finish welding on the completed steel jig to avoid distortions that might otherwise occur using the wooden jig. Obviously, it would also enable better positioning of the work for the finish welding process. Is a tack-welded mount sufficiently strong to act as a "jig" for a jig, or will distortions generated during the construction of the jig end up "popping" tack welds on the mount itself?
If you are reasonably gentle with it, it will be fine. Try to put at least two tacks on each joint, but three is better. Try to space the tacks around the joint so they are not bunched up on one side. I would resist trying to gas weld a jig. It it is made out of strong enough material, it will be hard to get enough heat into it for welding without distorting the structure though warpage. If you have a buddy with a Mig or stick welder, burn the jig together using one of these techniques; they produce instantaneous heat which keeps distortion in check. Consider bolting your jig together. If you do weld it, pulling the tacked mount off it and checking it on the plane again isn't a big step.
5) If I screw anything up, how structurally sound is it to cut the offending tubes off the tray, grind flat, and start over?
A lot of books act like this is a big deal, but it isn't. If you couldn't do it, then how would repairs be accomplished on steel tube planes? If you don't like something, just cut the tube out, grind the weld bead away, and start again. The main thing that you want to avoid doing is running the flame set to an oxidizing flame (too much O2); this will BBQ the steel and it will take on a slightly rough, baked texture. If you keep going over a weld area with a flame like this, you are harming the base metal. Use good sense, and if you don't like the way things are going, stop, take pictures and send them to me and we will figure it out.
6) Time permitting, are there useful weldments I should be attaching, or are Adel clamps the norm? What about attach points for the SS 1/8″ safety cable?
A safety cable can be threaded through the mount and bolted back onto itself, I would not weld tabs on for it. I would weld a battery ground cable strap onto the right rear corner of the tray; this will go to the back of the right hand cylinder head. Most of the other stuff will use adel clamps.
7) Much has been written about ambient temperatures for welding. How strict must one be in maintaining the ambient around 70 degrees, or can careful withdrawal of the flame compensate for virtually any environment? My garage is unheated, and it is currently 24 degrees F right now….perhaps I should do the finish welding in the basement?
In 1981 I was rabid about motorcycle drag racing. I lived in New Jersey, a state that regards drag racing as a birth right and a modern form of dueling. Englishtown was only 22 miles from my house, but like most young guys we were drawn to the "you can't break the rules, we don't have any" attitude of Atco, a track that was sanctioned by IDBA, the non-family entertainment version of the NHRA. That winter, my friend Ben and I welded up a new frame for our 830cc Kawasaki H-2. It had an all out Denco engine and in a fairly stock chassis had run 11.22 in the quarter. We were hoping that a new frame and an air shifter would get us in the 10's at 120+mph. ( If you ride a 1,000cc Japanese sport bike that may not sound quick, but we are talking about an era where bikes handled like shopping carts with a bad wheel and a $29 Avon Speed Master II was considered a great tire because they usually stayed in the front rim when they went flat.) We welded up the frame using a gas torch in a 30 degree garage. When it was all done it looked as stout as the Pulaski Skyway. A dopey friend asked how we knew it wouldn't break. I considered the question a serious insult. To demonstrate how strong it was I picked it up to chest height and dropped it on the floor in front of him. I was stunned that two of the welds had cracked! It was ugly to think about what might have happened if they had popped in the top end of the first run. No matter how you're dressed, no one wants to think about how far you will slide at 100 mph on pavement.
Do not weld anything in a shop that is below 70F if you are building your own stuff for the first time. Pros can stretch this to a much cooler number, but it is a very bad idea to try to get away with this in your first go around. Find a warm spot and stack the deck in your favor.
The steel jig would go to you in the hope you'll be able to save the next Rebelvair builder some time.
That is the kind of thinking that I have always found to be the best thing about the Corvair movement. I am glad to take the time to help any builder learn something, but it is especially rewarding when I can tell that the guy is already thinking of other builders who will follow him. Most other things you can do in aviation don't have very much of this element anymore. It is unfortunate, but I recognize that I can't change the commercial direction of aviation. The good thing is that I don't need to, I am happy to just make our corner of Corvair power an oasis where builders who are here to learn, create and have fun have a place to be among friends.
Your help/wisdom here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Rob
You're welcome, keep us posted on the progress.
Have a good night,


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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Waiting on Wednesday…
This week we are waiting on...
The grave is one wrong step away.
Having narrowly averted an (under)world war, Cat Crawfield wants nothing more than a little downtime with her vampire husband, Bones. Unfortunately, her gift from New Orleans' voodoo queen just keeps on giving--leading to a personal favor that sends them into battle once again, this time against a villainous spirit.
Centuries ago, Heinrich Kramer was a witch hunter. Now, every All Hallows Eve, he takes physical form to torture innocent women before burning them alive. This year, however, a determined Cat and Bones must risk all to send him back to the other side of eternity--forever. But how do you kill a killer who's already long dead? (From GoodReads)
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Expected publication: August 30th 2011 by Avon Books (Mm)
Why we can't wait: The Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost just keeps getting better. These books are exciting, sexy, and wicked funny! Cat and Bones are the perfectly imperfect couple.
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LONDON – For British Muslim families, the shouts and songs praising Liverpool's star Mohamed Salah reflect how the Muslim player is changing perceptions of Muslims and offering role model to young children.
"At the top of his game, Mohamed Salah is uniting communities," Rabiya Limbada wrote on BBC.
"He will pray on the pitch, he will sport his beard with pride and he will play some of the best football you have seen this year."
Limbada is a British Muslim of Yemeni origin who was born and brought up in east London to parents that emigrated here from Yemen and Burma.
"Unlike many people my age, I never struggled with the notion of belonging to this country," she said.
"However, I am more than aware that in today's climate children from faith and minority backgrounds don't feel the same.
"They are exposed to a news agenda that makes them apprehensive about displaying their Islamic heritage."
The Muslim woman is a mother of two children, Hanaa, aged eight, and Muhammad, six.
When Liverpool played against Rome in the UEFA Champions League semi-final last week, both kids beamed from ear to ear as they watched Salah laid face down on the ground, in his trademark goal celebration.
"He will pray on the pitch, he will sport his beard with pride and he will play some of the best football you have seen this year," she wrote.
"Do you have any idea how powerful that is to children like mine? He's a role model of our time."
Islamic Features
Thanks to Salah, the Muslim man with a beard is no longer a terrorist or a bogeyman.
Young children too are imitating him.
"As with Islamic tradition, many men of the faith have beards. Salah is no different," Limbada wrote.
"So when I catch my six-year-old son standing in front of a mirror trying to pick at tiny baby hairs on his chin and proclaim he too has a beard now just like Salah, my heart soars."
Hailing from a Muslim-majority country, Salah is a devout Muslim who often prostrates to God on the field after scoring goals – a trend in sports that Egyptian players have started since 2006 during the African Cup of Nations in Egypt- hence nicknamed the 'Prostrating Pharaohs'.
Two months ago, the traveling Liverpool fans in the streets of a Portuguese city in midweek struck up a new chant to the tune of the 90s hit "Good Enough" by Dodgy with the line: "If he scores another few, then I'll be Muslim too!"
A recent report by Football Against Racism in Europe (Fare) found that the success of Liverpool Muslim star Mohamed Salah has significantly decreased hate and race crimes in the English Premier League.
Salah is not the only Muslim player in Liverpool and Premier League. More players can be found in the report below.


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Lorenz guns were acquired from several sources; the Hapsburg armories in Vienna and private arms makers in Vienna and Ferlach. The Lorenz rifle-musket had a 37 ˝ inch barrel secured to the gun's stock with three barrel bands. The gun was made with two styles of rear sights; a non-adjustable "block," calibrated to hit a man somewhere on the body up to 300 schritt (paces), issued to line infantry (Type I), and a leaf sight adjustable up to 900 schritt issued to noncommissioned officers and skirmishers (Type II). Both types were imported. Captain Silas Crispin, reported a batch of newly imported .54 caliber as "12,384 of them having the simple block rear sight, and the remainder - 3,144 - being furnished with elevating screws, ranging up to about 800 yards." It seems reasonable to assume that most bulk purchases of surplus Lorenzes, Union and Confederate, probably reflected the same ratio of sight types, as they seem to correlate with Austrian army issue patterns.
Lorenzes were marked on their lock plates with the last three digits of the year of production. For example "860" designates a rifle made in 1860. The Austrians adopted a new version of the Lorenz in 1862, with a steel rather than iron barrel. These were not imported, and guns with "863" and "864" with provenance to the Civil War are contractor guns made specifically for export. These contract pieces are usually threaded for standard US nipples.
Although walnut stocked examples exist, most Lorenzes were stocked in beech, stained dark brown. The Lorenz quadrangular socket bayonet featured a diagonal mounting slot. Both of these characteristics make it immediately identifiable on a dealer's table at an antique gun or Civil War relic show.
The Austrians also issued a Jaeger(a.k.a. Jaegerstutzen) rifle designed for rifle battalions (sighted to 1,000 schritt) and sharpshooters, (1,200 schritt). The Jaegerfeatured a 28 inch, octagon to round, wedge secured barrel, a leaf rear sight sliding in a track not unlike those used on the US M-1 Garand of World War II fame and was fitted for a saber bayonet. Sharpshooter Jaegers differed from rifle battalion Jaegers in that they were fitted with a tige breech, which featured a spike extending from the face of the breechplug into the chamber. Originally designed in France to ram an undersized ball against for expansion, the Jaeger's tige was used to assure that the powder charge would not be crushed, providing more consistent shooting. Jaegers were not originally issued with ramrod channels under the barrels, as Austrian riflemen carried their ramrods separately. Those imported were provided with ramrod channels by the importers.
A fourth Lorenz variant was the Extra Korps, with 26-inch barrel, designed for use by military police, transportation and other rear echelon duties. Extra Korps guns were also issued in limited numbers to artillery batteries where they were carried in limber chests for use in guard duty. A fair number of Jaegers and perhaps a few Extra Korps rifles were imported during the Civil War, but the majority of imports were rifle-muskets.
Although Captain Crispin, who inspected Lorenz rifle-muskets imported for the Union by the Boker company, described them as "fair in workmanship and finish, and in weight and caliber according more nearly with our established model than any other arms of Continental manufacture," Lorenz quality apparently varied. Crispin was impressed by one lot of Austrian rifle-muskets, "finished in some respects, in imitation of the Enfield rifle…" as "somewhat superior, in every respect" to other lots of Lorenzes.
Rebel Lorenz shipments apparently varied as well. Confederate arms buyer Caleb Huse, who claimed he purchased excellent rifle muskets straight from the Vienna arsenal, apparently stretched the truth in this as well as other matters. The arms Huse purchased were, in fact, surplus Austrian army guns, as the Austrians were rearming with a newer model of the Lorenz. In 1863, Major Smith Standbury, a Confederate inspector based in Bermuda, classified a shipment of Lorenzes as "a lot of trash, in horrible condition." After a thorough inspection and cleaning, however, most of these apparently well-used guns were found to be satisfactory. The bulk of them seem to have ended up serving in the Army of Tennessee and forces farther west.
Some Austrian gun dealers no doubt took advantage of the warring Americans' need for firearms and deep pockets to fob off guns of inferior quality. Among these may have been weapons rejected by the Austrian government or culled from some Balkan battlefield or the recent war in northern Italy, as well as hastily made copies of the Lorenz using parts scavenged from older muskets.
Exterior finish on the Lorenz rifle-muskets varied, with some guns blued, others browned and still others, perhaps the majority, polished bright. The bore diameters on Lorenz guns rebored in Europe or America, or manufactured specifically for the American market, varied, with samples noted in .577, .57, .58 and .59 calibers. Lorenz rifle-muskets were widely issued, and there is archeological evidence of their use as far to the west as Glorietta Pass, New Mexico, site of an 1862 battle between Union and Confederate forces.
The Lorenz was well regarded by some troops to whom it was issued, including those of the 5th New Jersey and 104th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiments. Private Alfred Bellard of the 5th praised his .54 caliber Lorenz for being "short, light and very easily cleaned, "while Quartermaster James D. Hendrie of the 104th believed his outfit's Austrian guns to be "very superior weapons, although not so well finished as the American arms." His colonel remembered the regiment's guns as "rough but good and reliable." The men of the 23rd Pennsylvania were delighted to trade in their .69 caliber rifled muskets for Austrian arms, which they found to be "most efficient firearms." An Illinois officer regarded the Lorenz as "although a little heavy, a fine piece for service." Leander Stillwell of the 61st Illinois considered his .54 Lorenz "a wicked shooter." Stillwell and his comrades "were glad to get the Austrians, and were quite proud of them." The Suckers of the 61st carried their Lorenzes until June of 1863, when they exchanged them for Enfields.
Other Yanks were not as enthusiastic. In 1863, a Union inspecting officer condemned the Austrian weapons of the 47th Massachusetts Infantry. Lorenz rifle-muskets issued to western troops in the second year of the war seem to have been decidedly inferior to those issued the previous year. William E. McMillan of the 94th Illinois' Company E wrote that his unit's Lorenzes were "not worth much," while the 100th Illinois reported that its .58 caliber Lorenz guns "are roughly and improperly made and cannot be called an effective weapon. The men of the 106th Illinois complained that the Lorenz was "miserably poor," and the 120th Illinois classified its .54 Lorenz guns as "worthless."
The 125th Illinois was issued Austrian rifle-muskets in .58 caliber of "which not over one-half were perfect…many will not explode a cap." The 125th's regimental historian complained that some of the Austrian guns' nipples "were not entirely drilled out," and some could not mount a bayonet without hammering it on. The 130th Illinois reported that "one-third or three-eights of these arms [Austrian] are defective."
Like Colonel Penrose of the 15th New Jersey Infantry, who exchanged his men's Enfields for Springfields on the battlefield, Major Robert L. Bodine of the 26th Pennsylvania rearmed his regiment on the field at Gettysburg. Bodine's men came to Gettysburg armed "with the Austrian rifle of an inferior quality, and I desired toe exchange them for Springfield rifles; which was done without the red tape processes. Quite a number of them were taken from the Rebels. Like the Jerseymen of the 15th, the Pennsylvanians picked up several Confederate-made rifle-muskets along with the Springfields. Apparently unaware of the production facilities at Richmond, Bodine reported that these guns "had gone through the renovating process, and bore the Richmond C.S. stamp."
Lorenz guns may well have gained a bad reputation from their association with older .71 caliber Austrian "Consol" or tube-lock muskets, which were conversions from flintlock. These guns, some of which were rifled, others not, were converted by a method devised by Giuseppe Consol of Milan. The Consol/Augustin system replaced the flintlock pan and frizzen with a two-piece priming chamber and installed a new hammer.
After muzzle loading the main charge in the usual manner, the Consol/Augustin was primed by bringing the hammer to half cock, lifting the top section of the priming chamber, which replaced the frizzen, inserting a small priming tube filled with percussion powder into a groove in the bottom section, which replaced the pan, then closing the chamber. The gun could then be brought to full cock and fired. The hammer hit a firing pin device in the chamber which, in turn, exploded the percussion tube and ignited the main charge. A number of these guns were converted to the standard percussion system before or after importation, but others, especially in the earliest days of the war, were placed directly in the hands of troops with their peculiar priming system intact.
Continental European arms were more commonly issued and remained in service longer in the Western armies. Major General John C. Fremont purchased 25,000 tube-lock muskets in his desperate search for weapons in 1861 and at least 3,000 Delvigne chambered Austrian "Garibaldi" rifles were issued to Minnesota troops. The men of the 26th Illinois embarked on their military careers in September, 1861 armed with "hickory clubs," and were then issued "old English Tower" muskets, which they later exchanged for "old Austrian fuse primer [guns] altered and rifled. By the end of the year an inspector classified the tubelock Consol/Augustin weapons as "nearly all…unfit for use."
The 33rd Illinois began its career with smoothbore Austrian tubelocks, and company C of the 33rd reported 3,155 "Austrian primers" on hand. One soldier accurately described the "Austrian primers" as "a little copper-covered stick of percussion, with a small twisted wire at the end of it." The men of the 33rd carried their tubelocks until early 1862.
Although the 90th Illinois was armed with .54 caliber Lorenz rifles during the fourth quarter of 1862 and the first quarter of 1863, the recollection of veteran George P. Woodcraft that the 90th's initial armament, "the Austrian rifled musket…a very inferior arm" subject to premature discharge with stocks and bayonets "easily broken," does not seem to jibe of what we know of the Lorenz. The 90th apparently got an extremely bad lot of Lorenz contract guns.
The Lorenz was issued in large numbers to Rebel soldiers as well. In contrast to the Federal experience, the number of Lorenz rifle-muskets in Confederate service actually increased in the final year of the war. In April of 1863, the Army of Tennessee reported 663 Austrian small arms in service; by the following spring, 32% of that army's men shouldered Austrian guns. The Lorenz was among the weapons tested by the Army of Northern Virginia's sharpshooters in the spring of 1864, and was found to be fully equal in accuracy to the Springfield and Enfield up to 500 yards. That summer, VMI Cadets used Lorenzes to good effect at the battle of New Market.
The early years of target shooting with Civil War weapons in the North-South Skirmish Association in the 1950s saw a few .54 Lorenz rifle-muskets among the original Springfields and Enfields on the firing line. They were never very popular, however, and had a reputation for inaccuracy. The reputation was undeserved, and largely due to the use of Minie balls designed for the US Model 1841 "Mississippi" rifle, which used a .535 slug. The Lorenz bore is .556, which provides a lot of "windage" in the bore for a .535 bullet to rattle around in.
The original Lorenz round was not a Minie ball at all, but the British designed Wilkinson solid base bullet. There were two variants of the Wilkinson, the later version having a slightly convex base. Unlike the Minie design, which relied on gas from the powder explosion to expand the bullet's hollow base out into the rifling, the Wilkinson featured two deep grooves, which, on preliminary inspection, appear to be lubrication grooves. They are not, as the Wilkinson was patched with lubricated paper. The grooves allowed the bullet to expand by collapsing in upon itself from the shock of firing. The .54 Austrian bullet was nominally .537 in diameter weighed 450 grains and was loaded in front of a charge of 62 grains of musket powder. Wilkinson slugs in .537, .540 and .568 diameter, for .54 and .58 caliber guns, have been found on Civil War battlefields. Whether they were imported with Lorenz rifle-muskets or manufactured in this country is, at present, unknown.
Lorenz rifles in good condition and properly loaded are good shooting arms. Some modern shooters have had good success firing "maxi balls" or patched round balls in original Lorenz rifle muskets. Others have had their Lorenzes relined to fire the standard US style Minie ball.
Should you consider buying an original Lorenz as a shooter, shop carefully. A large number of these guns were converted to breechloaders in the late 1860s, then reconverted once again to muzzleloaders. Other Lorenzes have been converted to flintlock, then back again to percussion. Many of these guns, assembled in Belgium in the late 19th century for the African trade, use a cast iron breech section of uncertain strength and have had their barrels bored out to smoothbore. They should not be fired.
By the time this article sees print you may well be able to make your own Lorenz - or have a muzzle-loading gunsmith whip one up for you. Greg Edington of Bridesburg Armory (4244 Green Meadows Drive, Enon, OH 45323. (937) 525-0012 http://members.aol.com/Andrew4244/index.html) is producing Lorenz "kits." When I last spoke to him, Greg had virtually all the parts to make a Lorenz and was waiting for breeches from the foundry. He will offer kits for both Type I and Type II Lorenzes, with barrels replicating original bore diameter and twist or rifled to the customer's preference by Bob Hoyt or Colerain Barrels. Greg also has reproduction parts, tools and bayonets available for restoration of original Lorenzes, and S&S Firearms (74-11 Myrtle Avenue, Glendale, NY 11385 (718) 497-1100 http://www.ssfirearms.com/ Catalog $3) has a small number of original Lorenz parts in stock. Since the Lorenz was a "hand made" gun with limited parts interchangeability, parts, even original ones, will probably need to be hand fitted to an original gun. S&S also stocks a reprint (in German) of "Osterrichische Infanterie - Feurgewehr, Wien, 1857," the original Austrian manual for the Lorenz. There may also be an imported reproduction of the Jaegerin the works.
The Lorenz is a very interesting firearm, which played a significant role in the American Civil War and has been neglected for a number of years. A belated but well deserved recognition seems on the horizon.
I would like to thank Bill Adams and Greg Edington for their invaluable assistance in the preparation of this article.