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Hello everyone,
I have around 500 daily visitors in my website, but no sales. Could you please give any recommendations?
Thank you.
Here's a tip from the Shopify team.
I work with Answerbase, so we can certainly help you turn that traffic into conversions as well with product Q&A...which I see you don't currently support and will help with both conversion and growing more traffic. I suggest that you try a free 30 day trial on our product question and answer app and we can help you get it installed...and typically with your activity we see a good amount of questions coming in and we have some customers where 75% of the answered questions convert to a sale. We'll be able to track that activity within the trial period for you.
Hi, where is your traffic coming from? If it's from ads, please describe how are you running ads exactly.
Also, have you tried to install an app like Hotjar? You can see exactly what people are doing when they come to your site.
So 450+ visitors are coming from ads that you are running? How much are you spending daily then? Let's assume $0.5 CPC, you are spending $225+/day?
How did you set up your ads? What's your objective? What country are you targeting?
Besides looking at your ads, I really think that something like Hotjar could help you a lot.
Hi Haykos,
Nice store, I like the color palatte. My only suggestion is to overhaul your product page. Obviously you need a really strong ad creative, but when directing them from ad to store, your product page seals the deal.
Right now I can see you're using default AliExpress descriptions and reviews. But there's a couple of things I;d be wary of.
1. People don't care as much about features as you think.
Model number, voltage, certification etc aren't really relevant, so I'd look at deleting these and writing your own description. Rather than features, lay out the benefits of the product. You already have great images, you now need compelling words to convince them to part with their money.
2. Filtering reviews.
Found this on one of your product pages, which just shows the importance of filtering reviews when you import them from AliExpress. With the coronavirus scare, this isn't going to help you caprture sales in any way.
Other than these, your pixel might need time to optimize your audience. But with a strong ad creative and compelling product page content, your audience will eventually bite. Everything else seems to be in place!
Good luck.
Hi there,
Here's an article on this exact topic: http://bit.ly/2VmvMeY
You should really consider retargeting ads, as this ensures you're getting traffic from people who have already engaged with your products and thus are more likely to convert
Hi Haykos!
That's a frustrating situation to be in. The good news is that you're already using Lucky Orange! You have a ton of insight that should help.
How is your bounce rate? Look into the differences between your bounce rate for different sources, like paid social media and organic search traffic. If you're seeing a higher bounce rate on ads, for example, your target audience for the ads may need to be re-evaluated. Basically, are there changes you can make to the campaign to drive traffic that's more interested in buying? Also, use your heatmap to look at your top device types. If you have higher desktop traffic than phone traffic, you may be missing the mark with your Instagram ads.
Make the journey easier for people. Instead of making them change the currency at the bottom of the page, make it automatic. I see you have chat on your site, but it's not very engaging. Have you considered using Lucky Orange's chat? It's included in your trial and all plans. You could set up an auto invite that will ask people to chat. So if you have a visitor who added a product to their cart but didn't do anything for several seconds, the system would automatically invite the person to chat. It can give you a chance to answer questions and save that sale!
Are you doing enough to entice someone? I see the rewards button, but is it used much? Also, how many people are really redeeming a 5% promo code? Let's say we're talking about your Star Moon Lamp. It costs €18,99, which means you would only save €1 with your promo code. You may want to start investigating if the promo code is really working or whether it would be more helpful to just remove it.
A few more things to consider:
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Dear haykos,
As per your comments we found that you are running ads, please do following things.
1. Do remarketing
2. Target as per interest
3. Check your insights
4. Exclude the country from where do not want traffic
5. Do A/B Testing
Hey I had a look at your website and it looks awesome.
As you said you are already getting traffic from Facebook with no conversions, I would suggest you to start with google ads.
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First of all, change your main menu for a link to the products you're selling and instead of having ''all products'' you should have something like ''tees'' and ''pants''. Also consider adding a live chat, and something at the bottom of the product page like ''other products''.
Targeting is always the most important part of getting sales and that's the part we don't' see. With all honesty stop the ads or targeting the people you're currently going after, with 500 clicks you should have at least 2 orders.
Consider some paid ads options if you have the budget with Facebook, Pinterest, and Google ads. Also, there are many ways of getting relevant traffic at a low cost like Google or Pinterest SEO. I can not speak for Google SEO, but I have handled many Pinterest accounts for organic reach over the last three years and Pinterest is a great platform to start building your foundation. Pinterest currently has 300 million monthly active users and half of those users are in the US, aside from that almost 90% of users reported using the platform for a buying decision.
Feel to take a look at Test 82 for more information regarding Pinterest.
This issue happens when you get not related traffic from several websites. Most of the time you have to analyze the traffic, where it comes from, whether it is organic or paid, referral...etc.
After analyzing you have to check your landing pages i.e. if your traffic comes on your proper page that you want to be land then you have to reoptimize it because the landing page is more IMP for lead conversion.
I hope this will helpful for you.
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Following news reports about the closure of the Amonix solar manufacturing plant in Nevada, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association ® (SEIA®), released the following statement.
"The closure of any plant and loss of jobs is always unfortunate. Amonix plans to restructure its operations to build a successful long-term future. Amonix has been supported with great hope by an array of private investors as well as Republican and Democratic policymakers, who all understand our need to invest in this growing industry. None of them expected this innovative company led by a true American entrepreneur to face such tough challenges; but that's the reality of today's intensely competitive solar industry.
"This should not be a political story, but rather a story of an evolving and competitive industry that is benefitting all of us, across the country. The solar industry employs 100,000 Americans at 5,600 companies in all 50 states and last year the industry more than doubled. Most of those companies are small, the true engines of economic growth and innovation.
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TDK Corporation announces the introduction of the 20W TDK-Lambda brand PYD20 series of DC-DC converters. Featuring an 18:1 ultra-wide input range of 8.5 to 160Vdc, these board mount products are packaged in the industry-standard 2" x 1".
The plastic case is silicone potted to provide a high level of resistance to shock and vibration, beneficial for applications according to EN 50155, the standard for electronic equipment used on railway rolling stock. Applications also include industrial and measurement equipment requiring battery back-up or a DC source.
The PYD20 series has three nominal single outputs, 5V, 12V and 15V, adjustable over a -20% to +10% range for non-standard voltages. Three dual fixed output models, ±12V, ±15V and ±24V, are also available and can be configured to operate as a single 24V, 30V and 48V outputs. All models have overcurrent, output-overvoltage and overtemperature protection. Remote on/off is standard. The power modules have efficiencies of up to 90% and can operate with a case temperature of between -40°C to +105°C with derating at high temperatures.
The input to output isolation is 3000Vac and the PYD20 series has been certified to the IEC/UL/CSA/EN 62368-1 safety standards with the CE and UKCA marks for the Low Voltage and RoHS Directives. In combination with a typical test setup, the PYD20 series has been tested to meet the EN 50155 railway standard.


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At Dunbar and Boardman we keep a watching brief on innovation within the vertical transportation industry and bring it to your attention. In 2013 new technology was installed into the 5 Otis traction lifts at the QT hotel in Sydney located in the historic Gowings Building. The new technology created interactive installations and was the work of a company called Alchemy.This technology enables the lift to change music dependent upon who's inside much to the amusement of passengers riding the lift. The interactive installations have cemented the hotel's quirkiness and have been largely well received.
The hotel's lifts have heat sensors that detect how many people are in them. Fewer people will generate slower music and more people equals party music. Specifically if the lift senses that travelling alone, it plays songs like Elvis's "Are You Lonely Tonight?" or Eric Carmen's "All by Myself." Should another person hop on the lift, the music will adjust to different tunes, including "Just the Two of Us" by Bill Withers and "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor. Get four people in the elevator and it's fiesta hour: everything from Prince's "1999" to Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" will get the party started. It is worth pointing out that interactive music installations can be muted. In addition to the music the lifts also feature the digital art installations of Daniel Boyd, which combine elements of indigenous Aboriginal art with the European artistic traditions.
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The QT hotel has been able to generate a lot of publicity related to their unique lifts and anecdotal evidence indicates that some people are visiting specifically to ride in the lifts.
Dunbar and Boardman keep a watching brief on technological advances within the vertical transportation industry to better serve our clients. Dunbar and Boardman is the lift, escalator and access equipment consultancy. Do you have a current or planned project that would benefit from using an interactive installation? We would be happy to discuss any such requirements and how we may be able to assist. Give us a call on T +44 (0) 20 7739 5093 or send us an email via email@example.com to start the conversation. We look forward to hearing from you.


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NG9-1-1 operations will require a far more sophisticated analytics and reporting solution than most PSAPs are using today. Daniel Biagé explains what PSAPs need to look for and why.
Almost every NG9-1-1 system vendor offers some level of analytics and reporting functionality. The key for PSAPs is to choose a solution that provides the features they really can't live without as they migrate to NG9-1-1 operations. These are the features that PSAPs need to:
- Meet local, state, and national reporting requirements throughout their evolution
- Comply with NENA i3 standards for call tracking and logging
- Streamline operations and increase efficiency to better serve callers
Legacy and Modern Data Formats
Evolution to NG9-1-1 is a gradual process and you must be able to generate reports at every stage of evolution.
That means the analytics and reporting solution must have the flexibility to process data that is in legacy formats, modern formats, and the formats you're expecting to deal with in the short and long term.
Think about location data. Today, you're likely still using Automatic Location Information (ALI) and Master Street Address Guide (MSAG) databases that provide data in a simple string. But, NG9-1-1 systems use geographic information system (GIS) databases that break data into standard, named fields. At some point, you may also need to support data in the NENA ALI Query Service (AQS) format or another standard format for ALI data exchange and GIS mapping.
A Lot More Call Detail
To comply with the NENA i3 standard, you'll need to capture considerably more data about each call than you are today. Make sure the data captured includes:
- Call taker actions, such as answering calls, transferring calls, putting calls on hold, and muting them
- Call times, including start time, transfer time, and end time
- The number of times calls rang at different call taker positions
- Attachments, such as screen captures taken during the call
- ALI from an ALI provider
- Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) protocol data
- HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery (HELD) protocol data
Also make sure the database that stores all of this data can be customized so you can meet information storage and disposal requirements for your jurisdiction.
Real-Time Data Collection and Display
9-1-1 PSAPs operate in real time. The goal is to answer every call in less than 10 seconds. That means you need to monitor incoming call volumes, call types, ring times, call transfers, and answer rates in as close to real time as possible so you can align staffing levels and priorities with what's happening.
An analytics and reporting solution that tracks call data in real time and presents it visually will allow everyone to focus on keeping performance levels and call efficiency as high as possible.
More to Think About
This is just a very brief description of three of the seven analytics and reporting features you can't live without. You also need:
- Text-to-911 call tracking and logging
- Flexible report generation
- Security and role-based permissions
- A customizable, fully integrated solution
To learn more about the key features for next-gen analytics and reporting, read our guide:
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The university farm is almost as old as the institution itself, having started in 1908. The college farm was used to raise income crops to supplement the college budget, supply grain for dairy, hog and poultry projects, and to furnish food for the dining hall. It also was used to train students to work on family farms. Today, the farm includes crop, beef, swine and sheep divisions that give agriculture students hands-on experience in a real-world setting as they pursue their degree programs.
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Edward Cohen, composer, performer and senior lecturer in music at MIT, died at his home in Belmont Saturday, April 27 after a long illness. He was 61.
Cohen was a classically trained musician inspired by jazz and devoted to new music. His compositions include pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra, as well as two operas. One of these, "The Bridal Night," his last major work, was premiered this past January by the Collage New Music Ensemble in Boston.
"He was a great musician and a wonderful teacher," said Professor of Music Ellen Harris, director of the music and theater arts section at MIT.
"His vision, commitment and perenially renewable enthusiasm were the guiding forces for MIT's music theory curriculum," said Peter Child, professor of music.
"Eddie was a deeply serious musician, uncompromising in his artistic standards. He was modest to a fault, yet he knew his worth and demanded as much of others as he did of himself," said David Deveau, senior lecturer in music.
A 60th birthday concert celebrating Cohen's career as a composer was held last year at MIT. Following it, Cohen, who had had an electric piano brought to his hospital room while he underwent cancer treatments, modestly described his life in music: "In the mornings I compose at home, and in the afternoons I come into MIT and teach," he said.
The MIT concert, held in Killian Hall, drew colleagues from MIT and Brandeis, along with students, area musicians and critics. Cohen, depleted by illness, attended in a wheelchair.
"He was clearly satisfied, and I'll never forget his smile after that concert," said Deveau.
The critics did more than smile.
"Forgive the stereotype, but university professors aren't supposed to compose music like this. The piano quartet was a continuation of Shostakovich's music; the piano sonata, a big-scaled vigorous enterprise," Richard Buell, music critic, wrote in his review of the Cohen concert for The Boston Globe.
"What kind of 'voice' is this music? A surprisingly lyric, long-spanned one, striking, obviously 'modern.' And all of it built like a steel trap. Gripping music, beautiful performances, a wonderful concert," Buell wrote.
Bogdan Fedeles, writing for The Tech, described Cohen as a "living master" of chamber music that is "fascinating in its complex polyphonic sonority."
Cohen received numerous awards and commissions for his works from many sources including the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, the MIT Council for the Arts, Tanglewood Music Center and Brandeis University. His clarinet quintet was released on the CRI label.
Cohen began teaching at MIT in 1977. Colleagues and students alike pointed to Cohen's generosity of spirit and seriousness of purpose in their memories of working and studying with him.
"He was my lifelong teacher. His steadfast devotion to truth and honesty in his music and in his personal relations were always an example to me. Most of my most cherished musical ideas around which I continue to grow as a musician stemmed from discussions with Ed," Child said.
His students recalled a man of high expectations and low tolerance for distraction or discouragement.
Dawn Perlner (S.B. 2001) studied composition with Cohen and recalled his teaching style as both exacting and enthusiastic.
"I'll never forget the time Professor Cohen was explaining how to compose a sonata form and someone jokingly challenged him to write one for us on the spot. He improvised it at the piano--it was beautiful and in perfect form."
Perlner also recalled Cohen's patient resourcefulness as a teacher and mentor.
"I flunked one exam, yet he did not tell me to drop the class. Instead he told me to go over the exam and re-do all the questions, which I did. He knew how to make students feel talented and in need of improvement at the same time, the perfect balance to get us to learn to be the best musicians possible," said Perlner.
Ed Kohler (S.B. 1995, S.M., Ph.D.) said, "He was patient and kind. He never skimped on feedback. He treated every piece of work we produced as worthy of respect. And he wrote all his comments in complete sentences."
Kohler also recalled a moment one Valentine's Day, when the Logarhythms interrupted one of Cohen's classes to serenade a female student. Cohen resisted, then allowed the a cappella group to sing.
"About a minute in, Professor Cohen put his hands on the piano and joined them, slipping in without a break. His version was all chords, jazzier, hugely harmonized, perfectly in time and in tune. They finished together with a huge crescendo. We clapped like crazy. I was overwhelmed with joy. The Logs left, and Professor Cohen said, 'Very simple harmony. Too bad.' Then he went on with class," Kohler said.
Born in New York City in 1940, Cohen played piano and trumpet and attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. While writing music in a classical vein, he was inspired by jazz and improvisation. As a teenager he worked as a jazz pianist at resorts in the Catskills, and he retained an avid interest in jazz throughout his life. He frequently entertained family and friends with sparkling and original renditions of jazz standards.
Cohen's summer jobs in the Catskills may have nourished an avocation, too. He became an avid pool player and liked to take breaks from composing by shooting pool on a table he kept in his basement, his wife, Marjorie Merryman, said.
Cohen's formal musical training was entirely classical. He received the B.A. with honors in music from Brandeis University in 1961 and the M.A. in 1965 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he won the Ladd Prix de Paris, which sponsored two years of composing in Paris.
Before coming to MIT, Cohen taught at Brandeis University for 13 years. He also taught at Harvard.
Although he was strongly focused on the creation of new music, Cohen found time for other pursuits. He spoke French fluently and had a lifelong interest in French literature and film. He was a determined distance runner who ran the Boston Marathon four times in the 1970s.
Cohen is survived by his wife; two daughters, Sarah of Somerville, and Jane of Belmont; his parents, Lawrence and Naomi Cohen of Westport, Conn.; two brothers, Jonathan of Chicago, and Frederick of New York City; and eight nieces and nephews.
A memorial service is planned for October 20 from 3 to 5 p.m. in Wong Auditorium and MIT is establishing the Edward Cohen Fund for New Music. Contributions may be sent to MIT, Music and Theater Arts, Cambridge, MA 02139.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 8, 2002.


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Angela Cummings has been a widow for over ten long years. She thinks she's found Mr. Right in Greg Thompson, he's smart, handsome, respectable and what more could she ask for? Except maybe...her son to like him.
Then Cooper Johnson rides into town on a broken down Harley looking sexier than a man has a right to. Angela grew up with Coop, he even knew her husband.
Cooper is a searching man, looking for the elusive thing called a home. He's wandered far and wide and wants to settle down, but he doesn't show any outward signs of having much to offer a woman...except his love.
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Angela Cummings let out a muffled wail, as John Wayne stood above the rocks watching his mother's funeral in The Sons of Katie Elder, a little old man half turned in his seat to shush her from a couple of aisles down. She didn't know him personally, but she'd seen him in the theatre before.
"Sorry," she muttered, swiping at her eyes with the back of her hand.
"You always were a sucker for this one, Angel," A deep, husky voice startled and awakened her senses.
Angela whirled about, knocking half her popcorn onto the floor and nearly spilling her soft drink.
"I don't believe it—Cooper Johnson?" she shrieked as several people glanced their way.
"The one and only, but you're obstructing my view with all that hair artillery. I thought curlers went out a long time ago."
Angela's mouth hung a in lowly whispered gasp. She must have looked pretty ridiculous, as Cooper Johnson reached the distance to close it for her. His warm hand sent a shiver of unexpected reactions through her.
"Watch out, Angel, I might think you're glad to see me."
"Just a little surprised," she said trying to find her voice.
He leaned forward again, his warm breath tickling her scalp as he spoke. "Missed me?"
"Not really," she said and turned back around as though dismissing a pestky fly. "What brings you back to town?"
"You, naturally," he said smiling devilishly as she glanced at him over her shoulder.
Without warning, he slid a leg over the seat next to her and joined her. Her heart did a quick flip‑flop when she met him almost eye-to-eye. She had forgotten how lethal he was, and how easily he aroused her senses.
He took her popcorn. "Maybe I better hold this, if we don't want it all over the floor."
He offered her the popcorn, her popcorn.
Exasperation climbed all over her, but she squashed it with a purpose.
"I love this movie." She whispered instead.
His eyes swept over her like a broom leaving wisps in its journey. "Yeah," he said with a husky note, and finally chuckled softly, his long arm stretching behind her. "They don't make them like the Duke anymore, do they?"
Again the little man in front turned around, "Do you mind? I'm trying to watch this movie."
Cooper nodded.
"No, they don't." Angela deliberately ignored the little man. "I love John Wayne, though." She saw the look Cooper Johnson was giving her and rushed to explain. "I mean, oh, not like you're thinking. More like a father. He's an icon, an image of what a real man should be."
"I can relate to that. He's a hard image to live up to, though."
"I seriously doubt anyone could," she quipped.
Suddenly, Cooper Johnson was smiling at her, a devastating smile that curled her toes, and made her heartbeat quicken. "There is, was, and always will be only one John Wayne."
"Darn straight."
Obviously perturbed by their constant talking, the little man got up and moved to the other side of the theatre.
"Oops," Angela chuckled softly.
His hand fell against her shoulder, and she practically jumped out of her seat. Again he chuckled, obviously delighted by her reactions. The devil was in Cooper Johnson's eyes.
"You know," he drawled, his eyes traveling about the theatre with open amusement. "It's hard to believe this place is still open. A lot of the older theaters are closing down these days. Nice to see some things don't change. Gosh, I remember hitching rides with my grandfather just to see the Saturday Matinees. John Wayne was usually a special back then. I'd get up before daylight to get my chores done in time. Most of the kids were here to watch Superman, but not me. No, I loved the shoot‑'em‑ups."
Angela's mind fluttered back in time to her younger years. Cooper had been the big kid on the neighbouring farm. They both walked to school on the same road every day, but never together. Cooper paid little or no attention to a skinny little girl in pig‑tails and braces.
"It was the only place to be on those long, hot Saturdays," she said with a slight curl to her lips. "They tried to tear this place down once. But the townspeople got together and asked the owners if they would leave it open for late night oldies."
"And were you one of those townspeople?"
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Copyright © by Dylan Garcia-Wahl, 12/20/06
Many great actors (some even knighted) have played Hitler on film. All have failed in one sense or another. Sir Alec Guinness played him in Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) and Sir Anthony Hopkins donned the armband for The Bunker (1981), Welsh accent and all (he actually did a better job playing Mussolini years later). Both these first rate actors couldn't fully capture the part so what chance did the likes of Mike Gwilym have when he turned in a robotic caricature in 1990's The Plot To Kill Hitler – none.
The definitive problem with portraying Adolf Hitler is the irresistible need to overplay him. When we think of Hitler we tend to think of the monster so it's only natural to represent him as either incessantly brooding or boiling over in volcanic rants. Were this truly Hitler at any point of his life, he could have never accomplished what he did; both the good and the evil. At some point the film industry (and history itself) had to come to the realization that Hitler was human and not merely Satan incarnate. But even when the aforementioned Guinness and Hopkins attempted a human touch to the Führer, it comes across as phony and therein their further failure; but this also comes down to failures in script and filmmaker, as much as the tendency to play him over the top.
It took Germany and actor Bruno Ganz to get the depiction just right in Der Untergang (2004). We've seen actors play Hitler time and again and director Oliver Hirschbiegel manipulates this and strikes a stroke of brilliance when he makes us anticipate seeing this Hitler. In one of the earliest moments of the movie, a group of young women are led down into the bunker to interview for the position as Hitler's secretary. They are given their instructions in protocol and are asked to wait for the Führer to finish feeding his dog. When the waiting is over and the door is opened for Hitler to enter there is a pause. The women crane their necks in an anxious attempt to see him through the open door. Both times I've seen this movie I've found myself somewhat straining, in ridiculous futility, to get a glimpse earlier than permitted. The anticipation is high on the part of both characters on the screen and audience to see what this man will be. Suddenly we are as much in the film as those secretarial candidates. That pause after the opening of the door is perfect filmmaking.
When Bruno Ganz does enter the room he is not parody, satire, ridiculous, or frothing; he is – human. We begin (and believably, at that) with a kind and patient man. Here we begin the story of Traudl Junge (Hitler's secretary) but this movie is not about Fraulein Junge nor is it about the dozen other characters who cover subplots. Really it's not a story about Hitler. It is the story of the fall of Berlin to the Russians from the German side. The various Nazi officers, Traudl Junge, her friends, a young boy and his father, the resistance in the street, Hitler, Eva Braun, and oncoming Russian soldiers are all parts of the puzzle to pull this movie together in a wider span of those final days.
Within that depiction of those days in 1945, Berlin is another grand feature to this film. It shows us correctly how the suicide of Hitler and his wife was not the end of the Third Reich. So many films make it seem that the suicide ended it. This is untrue. The Third Reich went on beyond Hitler. Following the death of Hitler his place was taken ineffectively. There were still Nazis who fought on. There were still Nazis that went on living, Nazis that killed, Nazis that died, Nazis that had to escape. The credits do not roll when the bodies of Hitler and Braun are burned. The movie continues, as did the lives of these people and the dying movement they were involved in.
But, with all this said, Hitler is still the focus of the film as, in real life, he was the focus of all these people's lives. In his final days, we see him as a complete man. In one moment he is drooling over a model of the "new Rome" he wishes to make of Berlin and the next he is playing with his dog. He is seen thoroughly enjoying the company of the Goebbels children in relaxed moments and then he is worried about the realization of his goal to exterminate the Jewish race. He proudly pinches the cheek of a German boy soon before handing out a paranoid laundry list of executions. He goes from fanatic ranting to sincere melancholy. He is stubborn and disorganized and he is the well tuned leader of a country. We see both the loving, caring man and the God awful monster. No matter what human window we peer through, both emotional and psychological, Ganz plays them all with great believability while capturing every underlying essence. Even in moments when he doesn't need to speak or take action, Ganz proves he can illuminate the scene. At the wedding of Hitler and Eva Braun, Ganz can practically make the audience curl into fetal position without making a sound when the officiator is required, by Hitler's own law, to ask the Führer whether or not he is of Jewish blood.
The cast surrounding Bruno Ganz is also flawless. Alexandra Maria Lara showcases Traudl Junge's naiveté perfectly (an interview with the real Traudl Junge bookends the film). Ulrich Matthes adds a brilliant layer to Goebbels' level of evil and madness. The swinging pendulum of Magda Goebbels (Corinna Harfouch) from good mother to ceaseless, unthinking devotee to Hitler is sensational. When the time comes for Frau Goebbels to murder her children (of course in order to protect them), Harfouch's acting makes the scene all the more tender and brutally horrible. After Harfouch and Ganz, the most difficult role fell to Juliane Köhler (portraying Eva Braun). Kohler is nothing short of sensational. Again, the believability factor needed to be applied and it is fully there. It falls to Braun to keep the moral high despite the growing realization that the dream is coming to an end. She trusts Hitler without second thought all the while in confusion over who he has become. Still she is eager to explain that there is Hitler the man (kind and generous) and there is Hitler the leader of the Third Reich (who says things that inspire nightmares).
In one of Kohler's more enjoyable moments, another gift within this film is presented. All too often in film the bunker itself is shown to be cold, dank, and grey. This bunker has that, too, but it also shows that the bunker had well decorated offices and, in this one particular scene, a large dining hall replete with luxurious furnishings and Roman marble columns. In this room, Eva hosts parties that epitomize that 1930's and 40's Berlin excess of lore. Kohler even dances on the table like a true flapper. It is the party that seems endless until a bombing raid fills the hall with dust.
It is for movies like this, where every element comes together with remarkable precision, that the Oscar was made. Why Der Untergang had to be relegated to a mere nomination for Best Foreign Film nod is beyond me. Almost as curious is how it lost to Mar Adentro (Spain). This film deserved to be in the Best Film category with the supporting cast filling up their nominated slots. Would it be so awful to have Bruno Ganz (a Swiss), deservingly so, garner a nomination for Best Actor?
Bruno Ganz succeeded in one further thing that I have not mentioned. In the film when it is revealed to Ganz (as Hitler), time and time again, that he has been betrayed by those under his command - orders blatantly not carried out, treason committed, the actual poor status of regiments kept secret, etc. - we see the real human in Hitler. Of course he froths at the mouth, screams psychotically, and orders those who have betrayed him to be shot immediately, but he does so much more. Hitler falls back into despondency. The gloom and the sorrow are as real and earnest as an actor can make it. It is here that the truest element of the human Hitler is portrayed. I can say this because it is here that we are made to feel sorry for Adolf Hitler. This sympathy goes against every fiber of our being. We know the evil that this man was and the evil he invoked. We do not let down our guard enough to forgive him but he is human and we can always find some measure of sympathy for the human state. And, when all is said and done, we need to see the human in order to be all the more appalled by the monster. Look at, on a smaller scale, Ralph Fiennes in Red Dragon (2002) where he plays a serial killer insultingly referred to as the Tooth Fairy. We needed to be shown the caring and touching side of Fiennes' character to be all the more sickened by his murders. We may not fully understand the process by which one extreme slides to the other but the human commonality we all share permits us to grasp onto something and understand and sympathize with more than we would otherwise.
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Patience is a trait that is in increasingly short supply when it comes to college football (and reflects a larger trend within all big-time team sports). And it's understandable why - there's a lot of money at stake, and administrators feel the pressure to win now and bring in the money that comes with winning. But it hasn't always been this way, at least not to the extent that you see today - look back at the career of Rich Brooks at Oregon or Jim Walden at WSU. Or consider the following case:
Imagine it's 1984. You are the fan of a team that, while not one of the premier programs in the game, has been successful much more than not with 10 bowl games and 9 top-20 finishes. As recently as 1972, it finished 10-2 and ranked #3 in the country. But it had fallen on hard times recently; a successful coach had been let go after a dispute with the school administration, and the replacement - a coach that had found great success earlier in the decade at a conference rival before moving on to the NFL - had bombed, going 3-8, 1-10 and 3-8 before getting fired after the 1981 season.
The replacement had not fared much better - in his first season he had posted a 2-8-1 record, then a modest improvement to 4-7 the next year, but in year three the team crashed back to another 1-10 disaster. If you are that fan, are you convinced this guy has to go? If it's 2013, the answer is probably yes.
Fortunately for Colorado Buffalo fans, the AD exercised patience and stuck with his coach - Bill McCartney. In year four, he showed reasons for optimism by leading the Buffs to a 7-4 regular season before losing in the Freedom Bowl (their first bowl game eight years) to the Washington Huskies. Another bowl game (and another bowl loss) followed in 1986 after a 6-5 regular season. At that point McCartney had compiled a mark of 20-36-1 (.360) in his five seasons at the helm; in the five seasons prior to his arrival, they had gone 20-34-1 (.373).
But the trend was upward, and after another 7-4 regular season (no bowl game this time) and an 8-3 regular season (capped by another bowl loss), the Buffaloes finally busted out in a big way in 1989 as Colorado finished the regular season undefeated and ranked #1 before falling in the Orange Bowl to Notre Dame and allowing Miami to claim another National Championship. The Buffs had played that season in both mourning and in celebration of Sal Aunese, the starting QB in 1987 & 1988 who had succumbed suddenly to stomach cancer in September of that year, and the team was clearly able to use his death as inspiration.
After coming so close to a title in 1989, they finally claimed one the following year. Despite a tough start to the season that saw a tie with Tennessee in game 1, a close call vs. Stanford in game 2 and a loss to Illinois in game 3, they were able to run the table to conclude the season, including getting revenge in the Orange Bowl by squeaking by Notre Dame 10-9 and claiming the final #1 ranking in the AP Poll to win their first National Championship.
Colorado remained a national power under McCartney, posting seasons of 8-3-1, 9-2-1, 8-3-1 and 11-1. That 1994 team suffered their only loss to eventual National Champions Nebraska, and featured their first (and only) Heisman Trophy winner in RB Rashaan Salaam.
But Coach McCartney shocked the college football world by retiring after the season. McCartney - a deeply religious man who had co-founded the Promise Keepers organization in 1990 - has always maintained that this decision was about spending more time with his wife, and he never returned to coaching.


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HSN has formed a new partnership with an investment company as the retailer continues to expand its American Dreams entrepreneur program.
The company has partnered with Carter and Courtney Reum, two brothers who manage Los Angeles-based M13, a hybrid operating investment company focused on consumer products, technology, and media businesses. The firm will work with American Dreams entrepreneurs to help them develop sustainable and growing businesses.
The American Dreams platform aims to find and support small businesses, innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs. Through American Dreams, HSN has developed strategic partnerships with Good Housekeeping, Ion's Hatched and more to further discover and elevate entrepreneurs across the country.
M13 focuses on building emerging entrepreneurial businesses in Los Angeles, leading more than $100 million of investments over the next five years, the company said. M13 said it has investments and involvement in more than 100 companies spanning consumer brands, media and technology. Early investments include Lyft, Pinterest, Bonobos, Birchbox, Warby Parker, Krave Jerky, Kevita and Blue Bottle Coffee.
"We're excited to bring what we know about building sustainable brands and profitable businesses to a partnership with HSN and American Dreams," said Courtney Reum. "As entrepreneurs and investors that have worked at the intersection of consumer products, technology and media, we're focused on helping businesses we work with accelerate growth and drive bottom line performance. HSN and American Dreams is a great platform to help identify the innovators with the kind of big product ideas that can create real value."


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Longtime basketball coach Jeremiah Faber has been named the director of athletics at Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School. He will remain as the school's head boys basketball coach.
Faber, who has notched more than 500 career victories as the head boys basketball coach across several incarnations of the Ridgeland school since 1985, also served as the school's athletics director from 1988-2010.
"Certain things haven't changed that much," said Faber, who has remained in an administrative role in recent years, handling eligibility and scheduling, among other responsibilities. "It's still a major responsibility, and it's a challenge I look forward to, getting the program back where it needs to be."
Faber has been a fixture in Jasper County athletics for more than three decades, initially beginning his career as a teacher and assistant coach at West Hardeeville High School. He has coached the boys basketball team since taking over at the old Ridgeland High School in 1985 and maintained the position at Jasper County High School (1986-2007), Ridgeland High School (2007-12), and Ridgeland-Hardeeville High School (2012-present).
Toward the end of Faber's last tenure as AD, the Jasper County School District installed a district-wide AD, a move that Faber felt resulted in a loss of the hands-on connection between administration and the coaches and student-athletes they serve. Among his priorities, Faber hopes to work one-on-one to mentor coaches and rejuvenate the school's programs that have struggled in recent years.
"The only programs that have really been competitive the past few years have been the girls and boys basketball programs," Faber said. "We have to rebuild those programs that have sort of drifted away from us a little bit. One of the greatest challenges we're faced with is our kids are being recruited, and we've got to find ways to keep our kids interested in the program."
Of particular concern is the football program, which has won only two games each of the past two seasons after going 8-4 in coach Jahmaal Nelson's first season in 2014.
"We have to rebuild our football program back to a competitive level," Faber said. "I'm going to work very closely with coach Nelson and do all that I can to help him revive the football program."


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Set Auto-Reminders with Emails via NudgeMail
Is there a way to remind myself of some specific task with advance emails? or there is an email that I didn't want to receive now but after 4 hours. What should I do? Should I leave it unread? Or should I keep it as a reminder note in diary/mobile alarm/Google Calendar?
There is a better way. I can use NudgeMail to get advance auto-reminders with emails at whatever time I want. They do not spam, no sign-up is required and they are very intuitive.
In the simplest case, I will send a mail with reminder note in the subject or message body to firstname.lastname@example.com. This is re-deliver my mail back to me after 4 hours.
Another way is to forward a mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. This will cause the same mail to come back to me at specific time but tomorrow.
Because –
#. It offers me to work from my email. There is no sites to open; no applications to run. It sets up in seconds.
#. I don't have to sign-up. It works for everybody.
#. It doesn't spam my mailbox.
#. It is very intuitive. I can include any time-format I want in the subject or mail address and it recognizes it all.
#. I can even snooze reminders, view my history, or delete all active setups via mails.
The idea behind NudgeMail is very simple, a email reminder system at its core. But its usefulness and easiness makes is worth to use. For example, mail can be send to any address like firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com or email@example.com.
You can find out more ways to use NudgeMail from this how to article. Alternately, send an email to email@example.com for full list of commands.


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They tend to make fun of ethnic minorities in Turkey. A lot of jokes are held at the Laz people's expense. The Laz are a group in the Black Sea region, and are widely stereotyped as stupid and weird.
As for rival countries, nearly every single country in the region can be considered Turkey's rival, especially the ones that were part of the Ottoman empire. A lot of these conflicts (I.e. with Bulgaria, Greece, and Armenia, or with the hypothetical "Kurdistan") are not exactly joking material and can get really heavy- not recommended at all.
If you need a target for humor, try the French or tourists in general.


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Mobile data charges abroad can be prohibitively expensive and tethering for wifi burns through the phone's battery. The new Fonebud W wireless hotspot solves this problem for over 80 countries worldwide. Don chats with Dixon about the features of this new device.
Using your home SIM while in a foreign land typically ends with a large bill when you get back, though seasoned travellers will have a pocketful of SIMs for local telcos. Mind you, it's still a pain making sure that your smartphone is unlocked and forwarding your calls to your new number (unless you have a dual SIM phone). A much better solution would be the upcoming Fonebud W personal WiFi hotspot which works in over 80 countries, particularly in Asia and China. The 10,000 mAh battery will run the Fonebud W for well over a day and can be used to wirelessly charge a smartphone. Yes, it has a wireless charger built-in, though you can still charge with a cable. The small LED screen shows details of connectivity and battery life.
The Fonebud W will be available in Q2 2018 and will cost US$129-$169 including 24 GB data which is valid for a year.
Don Baine is the Gadget Professor and gives lectures at TheGadgetProfessor.com.
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I've seen Spielberg's movie of 'THE WAR OF THE WORLDS' so I know what's buried underneath all that asphalt. Martian Tripod War Machines!
View From a Hotel Window, 4/4/17: Cleveland!
Posted on April 4, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi 20 Comments
Ah, the classic parking lot view. So relaxing.
We had a bit of excitement today when my connecting flight into Cleveland was delayed until 5pm (from 2:30 pm originally), which means as I write this, it still hasn't taken off. It leaving then would have meant I would have missed commitments, so I ended up renting a car in Detroit and driving into the Cleveland area. I arrived basically when my connecting flight would have taken off, so technically, I'm ahead of schedule! Go me.
Tonight's event is at 7pm at the Parma-Snow branch of the Cuyahoga Public Library. If you're in the Cleveland area, please come to see me.
Tomorrow: Boston! Or more accurate, Brookline, which is close enough. I'll be at Brookline Booksmith for an evening of wacky hijinks. Please come see me.
Also, hey, did you know this year's Hugo finalists are out? They are, and generally speaking it's a very excellent ballot! Mind you, there's still a couple of attempts by assholes to be assholes to everyone, but, as the kids might say, lol, that shit's going below "No Award" like it has for the last few years. Meanwhile everything else looks pretty good. Congratulations to all my friends and the other excellently talented folks who have made the ballot this year. I'm proud of you.
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Decent parking lot. Room out Back. The transmisson lines add some homeliness. Not bad at all.
I'd vote for Becky, but not bet on her winning.
Car in the middle is parked on the line; Sad!
Now THAT'S a parking lot :P
Do we have to finish the book before the talk? Will there be a quiz?
Re: Hugos. Ohmygoodness, ohmygoodness, someone I personally know like in person is nominated! *Kermit flail*
So excited!
Hugo question:
I'm curious about Hidden Figures being included in the dramatic presentation category. Wouldn't it count as "science fact" (e.g. History) rather than "science fiction"?
However, I'm not familiar enough with the awards to know what's usually included.
The dramatic presentation categories include "… and related subjects". The news coverage of Apollo 11 is a previous winner, the movie "Apollo 13" a finalist.
There are few of these, most finalists are SF or fantasy.
From the looks of that parking lot I hope you got an entire floor for the price of a room!
I wondered, after your Austin visit, what your travel plans were. Getting to Houston could be quicker by car if any airport delays happen. But I wasn't going to volunteer to drive you there, nope, not going to deal with that Houston traffic again. Unless you agreed to read a few more chapters of Head On during the trip. Hop in, Let's go!
Re: Hugo nominees, it's always a thrill when something I nominated makes the final ballot. Yay!
Have fun in Cleveland!
So, does Cleveland rock?
Are you out in the boondocks some where? I mean there is so much room the car parking doesn't have to be built up – just buy another paddock, seal it and paint some lines.
Do you request the parking lot views, or are you just lucky?
@Sparrow: After seeing (and enjoying) Hidden Figures, I did some research online and discovered that it's pretty heavily fictionalized. I don't know if that qualifies it as "sci-fi," but I don't think it can be classified as non-fiction, either.
Booksmith used to be my local. It's an amazing store. Have fun! Sorry I can't make it this time.
Thanks for stopping by last night. Until we meet again!
Thanks for an entertaining evening yesterday. I am so looking forward to reading your new book!
Just looked over the Hugo nominees this year; although I can't vote, the list is highly acceptable, with quality writing and far fewer shenanigans.
The parking lot is typical suburban Cleveland; once you get out of downtown, there's a lot more sprawl where cornfields used to be, and sometimes still are.
I haven't read any of the other Pup picks, but J Mulrooney's An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity isn't shit. It's good! Though I haven't made up my mind on the Campbell yet, it's a good field.
The puppies aren't entirely bad, some of them have decent taste or are acceptable writers (this applies almost entirely to the Sad side of the equation). Heck, even He Who Shall Not be Named likes some things that are not horrible, probably by mistake but there you go.


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Anomalous resistivity and the non-linear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability
Petkaki, P.; Freeman, M.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8653-8279; Kirk, T.; Watt, C.E.J.; Horne, R.B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0412-6407. 2006 Anomalous resistivity and the non-linear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111 (A1), A01205. 12, pp. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JA010793Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
Collisionless magnetic reconnection requires the violation of ideal MHD by various kinetic-scale effects whose relative importance is uncertain. Recent research has highlighted the potential importance of wave-particle interactions by showing that Vlasov simulations of unstable ion-acoustic waves predict an anomalous resistivity that can be at least an order of magnitude higher than a popular analytical quasi-linear estimate. Here, we investigate the nonlinear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability and its resulting anomalous resistivity by examining the properties of a statistical ensemble of Vlasov simulations. The simulations differ in their initial electric noise field but are otherwise identical with a Maxwellian electron-ion plasma of low number density and low electron to ion temperature ratio, appropriate to collisionless space plasmas. By studying the evolution of an ensemble of 104 Vlasov simulations with reduced mass ratio mi/me = 25, we show that (1) the probability distribution of anomalous resistivity values produced during the linear, quasi-linear, and nonlinear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability is approximately Gaussian, (2) the ensemble mean of the ion-acoustic resistivity during the nonlinear regime is higher than estimates at quasi-linear saturation, and (3) the ensemble standard deviation is comparable to the ensemble mean. We argue that the large variability during the nonlinear phase is due to electron and ion bounce motion which is sensitive to the initial conditions. We demonstrate that the results are essentially similar for a real mass ratio simulation
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As followers of my Twitter feed will know, I spent much of last week at the first Defence Heritage Conference, splendidly organised by Wessex Institute of Technology and held at the Royal Beach Hotel in Portsmouth. This proved to be an excellent event with some great networking and interesting papers, ranging geographically from Taiwan to South Carolina and Australia to Trondheim via detours to Lithuanian forts and the palace of the Deys at Algiers. My own paper, on the first fifteen years of the Naval Dockyards Society, was the first on the conference schedule and seemed to go down well, although I'm not entirely certain whether this was because of my delivery or whether, at just after 9 in the morning, the audience was still half asleep. Several papers got me thinking about some of my own concerns: for example, there were some insights that will be useful to me for Britannia's Dragon, and many others relevant to me as chairman of the NDS. As far as the latter is concerned, the most important was the question of to what extent can we or should we preserve the larger survivals of our naval heritage, both ashore and afloat.
One paper that really got me thinking about this was given by a Belgian speaker who was talking about the 19th century campaign to preserve some of Antwerp's historic 16th century fortifications, notably two impressive city gates. Although the campaign had influential support, it struggled against a widespread perception that the fortifications represented a history of foreign occupation and oppression – very similar to the attitude in some former colonies to the military heritage of the British empire. There was even a widely supported petition in favour of the demolition, which duly went ahead. But 19th century Belgians – and Britons, too – also understood 'heritage preservation' differently to us. We would probably demand nothing less than the physical preservation of the gates, but in Antwerp the compromise of assembling a detailed photographic record was widely acceptable. We are clearly more sentimental about preserving the actual physical objects than the Victorians were (witness how they ripped out the medieval hearts of so many churches to replace them with frequently ghastly 'restorations'). But the Victorians, in turn, were less sentimental than some previous eras; the Elizabethans retained Drake's Golden Hind as a tourist attraction, but so many visitors chipped away pieces of it as souvenirs that the ship slowly disappeared.1So there is no guarantee that future generations will agree with our priorities, or agree with us over what should be preserved. At the moment, for example, the NDS is opposing a planning application within the historic dockyard site at Sheerness which would see a historic and listed early 19th century mast house being demolished to make way for a wind turbine manufacturing facility. Is preserving the mast house intact more important than the jobs that the wind turbines might create? But then again, are those jobs in fact illusory, and will the wind turbine industry prove about as enduring as the Sinclair C5?
A couple of other examples that have been in the news recently. HMS Caroline, the cruiser and last British survivor of Jutland, seems likely to be towed from Belfast to Portsmouth for preservation there, despite a growing campaign to keep her in Northern Ireland. Meanwhile HMS Plymouth, which distinguished herself in the Falklands War, is likely to go for scrap despite repeated attempts to save her. The harsh truth is that many people would consider Caroline more 'important' than Plymouth, and it has a major organisation – the National Museum of the Royal Navy – behind the attempt to preserve it, whereas Plymouth is reliant primarily on volunteers, many of whom served on the ship and have an understandable sentimental attachment to it. Preserving a warship is a very expensive business, and rightly or wrongly, World War I and Jutland probably form a better long term 'business case' than the Falklands. It is all very well arguing that Plymouth or some other Cold War vessel represents a good example of a warship of a particular era, but that sort of reasoning is likely only to appeal to dedicated 'warship buffs'; a general public largely ignorant of the sea and of the role of navies (partly because their knowledge is formed to a great extent by a stunningly ignorant media, such as the woeful bunch of incompetents that the BBC deployed for its coverage of the Jubilee river pageant2) needs a very strong 'back story' such as those presented by the Mary Rose, the Victory and – debatably – HMS Caroline. Because of the less sentimental attitudes of earlier ages, many of the ships that have survived to be preserved today have done so by pure chance, and that chance has thrown up some bizarre anomalies. Whole categories of warship have vanished entirely, yet we have two ships from the same nineteenth century frigate class, HMS Trincomalee and Unicorn, neither of which had distinguished service careers, which in geographical terms lie relatively close to each other (Hartlepool and Dundee), and, some might argue, which might well be competing for the same funding.
In British naval heritage terms, the scuttling of Trafalgar survivor HMS Implacable in 1949 was a watershed: the slogan 'never again' was adopted, notably by the World Ship Trust, and the imperative to preserve historic warships grew. Admittedly, it was a slow process: as part of my research for Britannia's Dragon I've read Admiralty documents of the 1960s which talk matter-of-factly about scrapping HMS Warrior, Britain's first ironclad and now a major tourist attraction at Portsmouth, which was then in use as an oil fuel jetty in Milford Haven. Within just five to ten years, though, the attitude to the future of the ship changed markedly. But ultimately, just what are we 'preserving'? Warrior is really just the bare iron hull – the ferocious looking guns are fibreglass, and most of the other fittings are modern replicas too. Only about 10% of HMS Victory is original; large areas of the ship are post-1922 reconstructions put in place to revert her to her Trafalgar appearance. In that sense Victory and other preserved warships like USS Constitution (of which roughly the same amount of the original structure survives) are at least partly pastiches, modern recreations of what we think (but cannot be entirely certain) the ship looked like at a particular point in its past, and even on the busiest day of the year for visitor numbers, they cannot hope to recreate the most important reality of any warship – that this impossibly small, cramped space was home to a large number of men, their smell, their noise and their belongings.
Of course, most of the same issues apply to heritage preservation ashore too. Should buildings be preserved a la National Trust, as though frozen at a particular moment in time; allowed to fall into ruin; or be restored if already ruinous? For example, we had an interesting discussion at Portsmouth about the iconic dome at the Dounreay nuclear power plant. Is it actually feasible to preserve this at all, given its likely upkeep costs and remoteness? If not, should it be cleared or just allowed to fall down?
Probably only one thing is certain: future generations will look at many of the decisions we have taken over heritage preservation, think 'why on earth did they keep that but get rid of that?', and curse us loudly for so doing.
1 There are different views about what happened to the Golden Hind – see here and here.
2 An honourable exception was Huw Edwards, who even corrected Simon Schama on a matter of historical fact – but then, Huw went to a good school!


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Serena Williams can dance if she wants to!
The 30-year-old tennis superstar made history on Sunday when she beat Maria Sharapova — winning her first singles gold medal ever and becoming the second woman in history to nab the "Golden Slam" title. (Following in the footsteps of Steffi Graf, Williams earned the "Golden Slam" by winning all four major "Slam" tennis tournaments plus an Olympic gold medal.)
Williams celebrated on the court with her own rendition of the "crip walk," a dance move popularized by gang members in Compton, Calif.. The impromptu routine led some critics to complain that it sent out the wrong message to the athlete's millions of fans.
"What Serena did was akin to cracking a tasteless, X-rated joke inside a church," Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock wrote. "Serena deserved to be called out. What she did was immature and classless."
"It's getting so much attention," Williams told Us Weekly Monday in London. "It just happened. I was so excited that it just came out," she said, laughing. "I guess I'm good at it!"
What does Williams have to say about the "crip walk" complaints? "I dont' care. That's the least of my worries . . . I'm so excited I was able to do the dance. I'm glad I did it!"
And Williams' musical tastes are way wider than West Coast hip-hop, too. She and her sister Venus Williams (they won the gold medal in doubles last week) "love karaoke!" she admitted.
"We have a machine in our house and throw big karaoke parties! It gets intense!" she revealed. "At some points, people are just singing randomly at our house!"
Her fave karaoke inspiration? "Air Supply. That is my jam."
Before nabbing that elusive "Golden Slam" title, Williams admitted she tried to put the lofty goal out of sight and mind.
"It was always my dream, and I didn't think it would happen," she told Us. "You try not to get your hopes up for it in case you lose that one match."
And though sister Venus didn't make it to the finals round at this Olympics, "she's so supportive," Serena said. "I went to all her matches and she came to mine. She influenced me, the way she played in one of our matches …If I don't play like Venus, I won't win."


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This story had so many unanswered questions in this case that may have finally been answered & given his family closure with the 2 arrests (Probably more) Of thug turned church goer Billy Turner & greedy ex wife Sherra Wright-Robinson. Even though it took 7 years, its still good to this case finally be resolved.
Side Note: Make sure to check out her twitter page (Link below) & look at what she posted.


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Universal Studios is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year by restoring classic films like "Jaws" and "The Birds." In honor of the milestone, we're taking a look back at some of the studio's classic flicks, such as "All Quiet on the Western Front," starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres and John Wray. The 1930 war drama took home two Academy Awards, best picture and best director.
Universal Studios developed monster movies like "Frankenstein," "The Invisible Man" and "The Mummy" in the 1930s. In 1931, the studio released "Dracula," a thriller starring Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler and David Manners.
Oscar-nominated "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham and Robert Duvall starred in the movie, which was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1995.
"The Birds," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was released in 1963. The horror film stars Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor and Veronica Cartwright.
Kicking off the popular disaster genre, 1970's "Airport" stars Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset and Helen Hayes. With an estimated budget of $10 million, "Airport" grossed more than $100 million domestically. The film earned Hayes an Oscar for best actress in a supporting role.
"The Sting," which takes place in the 1930s, was released in 1973. Starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw, "The Sting" won seven Academy Awards, including best picture.
Oscar-nominated "American Graffiti" stars Ron Howard as a recent high school graduate. George Lucas directed the 1973 film shortly after founding his production company, Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" is regarded as the first summer blockbuster. The underwater thriller grossed $260 million domestically and spent 14 weeks at No. 1 after its June 1975 release. It won three Oscars, but lost best picture to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is another Spielberg classic. Starring Henry Thomas and Drew Barrymore, "E.T." took home four of the nine Academy Awards it was nominated for in 1983. The film was added to the National Film Registry in 1994.
Preceded by the 1932 version, 1983's "Scarface" starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer is regarded as a cult classic. Artists like Jay-Z often pay homage to drug lord Tony Montana through music. "(Rappers) really get it, and they understand it, and that's a great thing," Pacino told MTV in 2011.
The beloved ride inspired by 1985's "Back to the Future" no longer exists at Universal's stateside theme parks, but the legacy of this time travel flick continues. The Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd film won an Academy Award for best effects.
Spielberg's "Schindler's List," starring Liam Neeson, won seven of the 12 Oscars it was nominated for in 1994. Sidney Sheinberg, the former president and COO of Universal Pictures who is credited with discovering Spielberg, backed many of the director/producer's early projects, including "Jurassic Park." Spielberg directed the 1993 dinosaur adventure right before beginning work on "Schindler's List."
"Apollo 13" was nominated for nine Oscars in 1996. Starring Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton, the Ron Howard-directed drama was inspired by the 1970 Apollo 13 mission.
"American Pie" (1999); "Jurassic Park" (1993); "Dazed and Confused" (1993); "Babe" (1995); "Shakespeare in Love" (1998); "Meet the Parents" (2000); and "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) are each Universal classics in their own right.


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'Tour de CLARIN: Austria' blog post written by Darja Fišer and Jakob Lenardič
The Austrian CLARIN group is part of CLARIAH-AT, a network of Austrian institutions participating in the two European research infrastructure consortia CLARIN and DARIAH. The network comprises of eleven research departments at leading Austrian universities and heritage institutions, the full list of which can be found here. The Austrian network has been a founding member of CLARIN and is being coordinated by Karlheinz Mörth, director of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The main Austrian infrastructure for language resources is CLARIN Centre Vienna, which is hosted by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Operating as a B-certified repository that received the Data Seal of Approval in 2014, CLARIN Centre Vienna is a language-resource portal that offers researchers the opportunity to deposit and host language resources, language data and tools. The repository is currently being reimplemented and will go online and apply for reassessment in October 2017.
The focus of many activities of the group have been non-standard and historical language varieties. Among the corpora that can be accessed through the centre are the historical Mecmua corpus, which consists of language data from the early modern Ottoman period, the VICAV corpus, which pools language data for the research of Modern Spoken Arabic, and the Austrian Baroque Corpus, which is a specialized historical corpus of German texts from the memento mori genre written in the Baroque period.
Additionally, the Centre also hosts DictGate, a platform for exchanging lexicographic tools and freely accessible lexical data such as small dictionaries of vernacular Arabic and a bilingual Persian-English dictionary that is still in development.
State-of-the-art tools that have been developed at the Austrian consortium can be freely obtained from the Centre as well. One such tool is the Viennese Lexicographic Editor, an XML-based dictionary writing system which serves as a user-friendly and dynamic tool for compiling and editing digital dictionaries. Another one is the SMC browser, which is a web application that offers users the ability to efficiently explore the Component Metadata Infrastructure by visualizing its data.
As a very successful user involvement activity, the Austrian consortium hosts the ACDH Tool Galleries three times a year. The Tool Galleries are workshops in which established scholars give lectures on the usage of digital tools relevant in digitally grounded humanities research. The consortium thereby promotes knowledge-sharing among its participants and propagates a multifaceted approach to research that is crucial when working in the Digital Humanities.
Click here to read more about Tour de CLARIN


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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) today celebrated the outstanding accomplishments of pioneering individuals and organizations in the area of diversity at the fourth annual NASCAR Diversity Luncheon.
"Teams, tracks, sponsors and other stakeholders play a vital role in our efforts to further diversify our sport," said Marcus Jadotte, NASCAR managing director of public affairs. "The NASCAR Diversity Awards are a small way to say thank you and recognize a few special people who create awareness and opportunity in NASCAR."
At a ceremony held at The DAYTONA 500 Club at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR recognized the following individuals and organizations across the industry for their outstanding impact:
Drive for Diversity Participant: Darrell Wallace Jr.
Darrell Wallace Jr. became the first African American and youngest driver in history to win a race in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. Darrell was also crowned rookie of the year and became the first African American to achieve the honor. Wallace Jr., 17, who lives in Concord, N.C., started racing when he was 9 years old and has found plenty of success along the way. In 2009, Wallace was named a development driver for Joe Gibbs Racing. With support from JGR, he competed with his family-operated team in a number of late model events throughout the Southeast. He won his first late model race at Franklin County Speedway (Callaway, Va.) in 2008, becoming the youngest driver to win a late model race at the historic speedway, at age 14. He graduated last month from North West Cabarrus High School in Concord, N.C., on the honor roll.
Young Racer Award: Elijah Bacon
Elijah Bacon, 12, hails from Mooresville, N.C., where an interest in auto racing blossomed. Bacon, who is African American, was identified for the Revolution Racing Youth Driver Program last year after a community auto racing event at the New Birth Church in Huntersville, N.C. Last year marked his first year in racing, driving Bandoleros for Revolution Racing where he had three podium finishes. His most memorable experience came when he finished second in just the third race of his career.
NASCAR Diversity Internship Program Award: Kathryn Lee and Brittani Parker
Kathryn Lee, 20, of Jacksonville, Fla., interned last summer in the NASCAR Human Resources department in Daytona Beach, Fla. She's currently a senior at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Some of the projects she worked on included "Bring Your Kids to Work Day," NASCAR University, and creating the framework for the new NASCAR employment website. Lee also did administrative research, including employee reference and background checks, and researching job posting databases.
Brittani Parker, 22, of Winston-Salem, N.C., was an intern last summer with The NASCAR Foundation in Charlotte where she performed a number of key duties. She's a graduate of Winston-Salem State University. Parker also served as lead coordinator for a NASCAR Foundation-sponsored event at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, where 3,000 inner city youth and 1,000 business community members came together at the Hall of Fame to celebrate summer learning and the Freedom Schools program. She Assisted with NASCAR Day projects, including event planning and project coordination of the Ronald McDonald playground built in Kansas City, and coordinated donor receipts and gift records for events such as the Rusty Wallace Roast in Iowa.
The NASCAR Diversity Internship Program is a 10-week paid summer internship program that exposes students to the many career opportunities within the motorsports industry.
Educational Institutional Award: Virginia State University
Virginia State University is awarded this prestigious honor because of their role in shaping tomorrow's industry leaders. The school has set a high standard of excellence in the motorsports industry, and it is a prime example of the level of involvement and passion its students portray in regard to NASCAR and the entire motorsports industry. The institution has inspired and raised the student body's interest and appreciation of motorsports. Professor Dr. Leon Bey received the award on behalf of Virginia State University, who has made great contributions to the advancement of the motorsports program at the school.
NASCAR Partner Award: Toyota
Toyota is recognized for their exemplary effort to incorporate diversity and inclusion within the motorsports industry. Toyota will be a vital component of Revolution Racing, the team all NASCAR Drive for Diversity racers will drive for this coming season. They have recognized the value and accomplishments of the team's mission and will play a major role in the success of Revolution Racing. Revolution Racing will be the only team in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East without an affiliation to a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team that will receive Toyota Racing Development support. Toyota was the primary sponsor to Darrell Wallace Jr.'s No. 6 car at the Toyota All-Star Showdown last month, and they will have a year-long primary sponsorship of one car in both the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and NASCAR Whelen All American Series.
Industry Ambassador Award: Phil Horton
Phil Horton is the strength and conditioning coach for Revolution Racing, and is a 10-year veteran in NASCAR. Horton is a former pit crew coach for Chip Ganassi Racing, and driver Juan Pablo Montoya. He has accumulated 15 NASCAR Sprint Cup, 11 NASCAR Nationwide Series and five NASCAR Camping World Truck Series wins with notable drivers such as Rick Crawford, Jason Keller, Dale Jarrett, and Juan Pablo Montoya. Horton is honored for being an outstanding figure in this industry for his commitment to diversity in the motorsports industry, growing the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Crew Member Development Program, and his ability to bring talented people to the program. A total of 40 athletes have participated in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Crew Member Development Program since its inception in 2004, and last year program participants competed in 160 races, including 34 at the NASCAR Camping World Truck or NASCAR Nationwide Series levels. Horton is from Lenoir, N.C.


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Private Surveillance Is a Lethal Weapon Anybody Can Buy: Is it too late to rein it in?
Sharon Weinberger, The New York Times, July 19, 2019
. . . One thing is clear: The private surveillance industry is growing. A firm that creates a catalog of these technologies, once named the "Little Black Book of Electronic Surveillance," changed the name in 2016 to the "Big BlackBook." It had doubled in size in its first three years. The 2017 edition includes 150 vendors.
The genesis of this global spy bazaar can be traced back to the frenetic weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Congress rushed through the Patriot Act, a law that vastly expanded the American government's wiretapping authorities. In the process, lawmakers inadvertently created a market for companies interested in providing services and technologies to collect and analyze the new trove of data. . . .
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Letter from ACLU and 40 other groups requesting that Congress review Section 215 of the Patriot Act
March 18, 2019
The Honorable Jerrold Nadler
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Doug Collins
Ranking Member Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Chairman Nadler and Ranking Member Collins:
The undersigned organizations, which are dedicated to preserving privacy, civil liberties, and advancing transparency and accountability, write to request that you hold hearings and make public information critical to permit an informed debate over the reauthorization of Section 215 and other provisions of the Patriot Act, which are set to expire December 15, 2019. . . .
Access Now, ADC American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, American Library Association, Americans for Prosperity, Arab American Institute, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Call Detail Records, Carpenter v. United States 138 S.Ct. 2206, Cell Phones, Center for Democracy & Technology, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Color Of Change, Committee on the Judiciary, Consumer Action, Council on American-Islamic Relations, CREDO Action, Committee on Oversight and Reform, Defending Rights & Dissent, Demand Progress, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Fight for the Future, First Amendment, FISA Amendments Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Free Press Action, FreedomWorks, Government Accountability Project, Government Information Watch, Government Transparency, Human Rights Watch, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Indivisible, Liberty Coalition, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, Muslim Justice League, Muslim Public Affairs Council, NAACP, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Immigration Law Center, National Security, National Security Agency, New America's Open Technology Institute, Open the Government, Patriot Act, PEN America, Privacy, Project on Government Oversight, Restore The Fourth Inc., Section 215 of the Patriot Act, Section 702 of FISA Amendments Act, TechFreedom, Telephones, Transparency International, "Unique Identifiers", USA Freedom Act, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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At the conclusion of each assessment process the IPCC generally reflects on the report preparation process and draws lessons to inform consideration of the IPCC's future work
programmes and processes. In this context it also addresses questions such as mandate of the IPCC Working Groups, structure and scope of future reports, and timing of IPCC products.
At its 37th Session (Batumi, Georgia, 14-18 October 2013) the Panel initiated a discussion about future work of the IPCC after the completion of the Fifth Assessment cycle.
In preparation of the Session governments were invited to submit their initial views on which topics and questions should be addressed with respect to the future work of the IPCC.
The Panel at its 37th Session decided to set up a Task Group to help the IPCC to continue to improve its operation and products. The Task Group developed options and recommendations
for consideration by the Panel on future products of the IPCC, the appropriate structure and modus operandi for the production of these IPCC products and ways to ensure enhancement of
the participation and contribution of developing countries in the future work of the IPCC. The Task Group drew on multiple sources, including input and submissions from scientists, governments,
observer organizations and other relevant stakeholders.
The process was completed at the 41st Session of the IPCC (Nairobi, Kenya, 24-27 February 2015) when, according to IPCC procedures, the Panel agreed on the size,
structure and composition of the next IPCC Bureau. Decisions from that meeting are here.
Elections for the new IPCC Bureau and Task force Bureau were held during the 42nd Session of the IPCC in Dubrovnik, Croatia in October 2015. Results of the elections are available here.
In the year 2010 the InterAcademy Council (IAC) carried out an independent review of IPCC processes and procedures upon request by the UN Secretary-General,
Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and the IPCC Chair, Mr. Rajendra K. Pachauri. Relevant information and documentation can be found on here.
Following completion of the 4th Assessment Report the IPCC Chair developed a discussion paper on "Some issues related to the future of the IPCC". Governments, observer organizations
and authors which have contributed to IPCC work during the 4th assessment process were invited to submit their comments:
The comments received were collated and synthesized for consideration and decision by the Twenty-Eighth Session of the IPCC (Budapest, Hungary, 9-10 April 2008)


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Fundraising website and supporting campaign mailer for CHAS
Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) is a well known registered charity that provides the country's only hospice services for children and young people with life-shortening conditions.
We were delighted to work with CHAS to help them develop both online and offline materials to promote their annual Christmas fundraising campaign.
As well as a highly creative, interactive website, we also designed and print managed a successful supportive mail-shot campaign.


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After applying the June update for Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013 or Outlook 2016 (MSI) some attachments may be blocked from being opened. There are two issues here;
Attachments could get blocked as they are deemed "potentially unsafe attachments" even when they don't have an unsafe file extension (like pdf, docx, xlsx).
The blocked attachments are mentioned in the Infobar.
This issue applies to files that have two dots or an exclamation mark in front of their file extension;
- Attachments that are embedded (with the file icon shown in the message body) in an RTF formatted message, calendar item, contact item or task item can't be opened. Trying to do so produces the error;
- The program used to create this object is Outlook. That program is either not installed on your computer or it is not responding. To edit this object, install Outlook or ensure that any dialog boxes in Outlook are closed.
Error when trying to open an embedded attachment after applying the June 2017 update.
Update July 27: New fixes are now available for all versions
New updates have been released for all versions of Outlook which fixes these issues.
Current workarounds are;
- For the first issue; Download the files via web mail. Exchange and Outlook.com users can use Outlook on the Web (OWA) for this, Gmail users can use the Gmail website, etc…
- For the second issue, you can save the files to your Desktop (drag & drop also works) and open the files from there.
- Uninstall the June update for your Outlook version. Please note that this is a security update, so uninstalling the update is only recommended when you know the risks and can't use the other workarounds.
For further information and descriptions of other issues regarding these updates also see; Outlook known issues in the June 2017 security updates.


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Here's a giant digital wall clock that will let you substitute an LCD TV.
The Big Time Digital Wall Clock is probably one of the more futuristic and striking looking clocks available. Being 100 x 50cms in size you will soon notice the time and probably take a second look as this would not look out of place on the wall next to the big screen in NASA.
Made from lightweight materials, flat and flexible is is easy to hang in your office or bedroom. You can even choose the colour to match the colour scheme of your room.
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