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Generally speaking, decisions on petitions for review are not very interesting reading. There are, however, exceptions. I find the present decision worth reading because it comments on a great number of shortcomings to be avoided when drafting such a petition and nicely sums up some of the principles established in previous decisions. The Enlarged Board (EBA) also makes some interesting statements on a false premise it detected in the petition.
This petition for review concerns decision T 79/08 of Board of appeal (BoA) 3.3.03 (also presented on this blog) dismissing the appeal of the patent proprietor against the decision of the Opposition Division to revoke his European patent.
All the independent claims of the patent as granted contained the feature that "at least about 1.5 wt-% of said fluoropolymer particles comprise substantially rod-shaped particles having a length to diameter ratio of greater than about 5". During the oral proceedings (OPs) the OD held that the requirements of A 83 and A 54 were satisfied, but revoked the patent on basis of lack of inventive step. The decision contained a statement on how the weight percentage of rods was determined.
The patent proprietor filed an appeal. In his statement of grounds of appeal he addressed the OD's decision on inventive step but not the statement on how to calculate the weight percentage of rods because, in his view, this aspect related to sufficiency of disclosure which the OD had acknowledged.
In first OPs the parties and the BoA discussed how the weight percentage was to be determined. The BoA decided to continue the procedure in writing to allow the opponent to file better quality photographs. The BoA then gave the parties two months to make further submissions on the correct calculation method. The opponent submitted that the "collective calculation method" yielded the values reported in examples 1 and 2 of the patent. The patent proprietor objected that a skilled person would rather use the "individual calculation method" since this was the only correct mathematical method.
Second OPs were held on October 28, 2010. After discussing sufficiency of disclosure of the main request, the BoA took a decision on all the auxiliary requests and closed the proceedings.
The written decision was issued on December 29, 2010.
The patent proprietor then filed a petition for review. The petition relies on six alleged fundamental procedural violations under A 112a(2)(c) and two further alleged violations under A 112a(2)(d):
(a) The BoA ruled on the auxiliary requests without giving the petitioner a chance to comment on those requests.
(b) The BoA did not admit the affidavit of the petitioner's technical expert into the proceedings. This alleged violation was withdrawn during the OPs before the EBA.
(c) In its written decision BoA failed to acknowledge the correct method of calculation of the weight percentage of rods.
(d) In its written decision the BoA wrongly inferred from the patent that the inventor had not anticipated that the skilled reader would use the incorrect calculation.
(e) The BoA based the reasoning in its written decision on the "poor quality" of images in the patent which was both wrong and never discussed during the proceedings.
(f) The BoA based its decision on a different view of the calculation from that agreed by both parties and which was both completely wrong and not discussed.
(g) The BoA did not give reasons for not admitting the affidavit of the petitioner's technical expert into the proceedings. This alleged violation was withdrawn during the OPs before the EBA.
(h) The BoA's written decision was not reasoned with respect to the auxiliary requests.
The EBA found the petition not to be clearly inadmissible and then dealt with its allowability:
[4] The EBA will consider […] each of the alleged procedural violations (a), (c) to (f) and (h) […] and then consider the general argument relating to all the alleged violations (c) to (h).
(a) No chance to comment on the auxiliary requests
[5.1] The petitioner alleges it was given no chance to comment on the auxiliary requests before the BoA ruled on them. However, a party has no absolute right to be heard separately on each and every one of its auxiliary requests, either at all or in its chosen order of preference. No such right (or necessity) can be derived from the right to be heard under A 113(1). The right provided by that article is to comment on grounds for a decision and not to comment on individual requests or to repeat comments on grounds which apply to two or more requests. Thus, the requirement of that article that the parties have an opportunity to comment on the grounds for a decision is, by definition, satisfied if those grounds have been the grounds for a decision on the main request (or another auxiliary request) and the remaining requests are not allowed on the same grounds.
[5.2] In the present case the finding of non-compliance of the main request with A 83 was based on the conclusion that the person skilled in the art could not be sure of the correct calculation method for the content of the substantially rod-shaped particles […], that content being crucial and requiring the preparation of a dispersion having the correct fraction of substantially rod-shaped particles. However, the necessary information to achieve this was found to be absent from the patent in suit and it was held that the skilled person was not in a position - without undue burden and without inventive effort - to make good this deficit […]. As this reasoning is not in any way related to a particular value of the content in question, it must be equally valid for all those claims according to the auxiliary requests, which "rely on the definition of the content of rod-shaped particles" […]. This means that the reasons given for not allowing the main request also constitute the grounds under A 113(1) in respect of the auxiliary requests (including those with a value of 2 for the lower weight percentage), the essential legal and factual reasoning (see decisions cited in "Case Law of the BoAs of Appeal", 6th Edition, page 438) being identical.
[5.3] As regards the discussion of the issue of sufficiency under A 83, the petitioner argues essentially that its representative had the impression that the BoA would decide in his favour on the main request and only provided part of his arguments supporting sufficiency of disclosure assuming that, even if he had misunderstood the BoA, he would have a chance to make these arguments with respect to the auxiliary requests. However, such considerations of a party (or it's representative) are immaterial to the fulfilment of requirements pursuant to A 113(1). The EBA's jurisprudence makes clear that the right to be heard is satisfied if the party is aware of, and thus has had the possibility to comment on, arguments of the other party on which the decision is based (see R 2/08 [8.2]; and R 4/08 [3.2-3]). That is even more true where a party's representative, in view of the discussions before and with the BoA, felt himself in a position to make a reasoned guess at the BoA's finding on a critical issue and adapted the manner of conducting his case accordingly.
[5.4] The petitioner's contention that a discussion of the claims according to the auxiliary requests would have led to a different decision of the BoA is mere speculation, even if such a consequence of allowing further discussions of an issue in dispute can never be excluded. Of course, whether by opening a discussion of the auxiliary requests or in another way, the BoA could have granted the petitioner a further opportunity to defend its position as to the requirement of A 83 which possibly – although not likely in the given circumstances – might have eventually changed the view of the BoA. However, once the party – as here – has had an adequate opportunity to comment within the meaning of A 113(1), the granting of further such opportunities is purely within the discretion of the BoA in conducting the proceedings and thus a matter which is not open to review by the EBA.
(c) The BoA failed to acknowledge the correct method of calculation
[6] The allegation that in its written decision the BoA failed to acknowledge the correct method of calculation of the weight percentage of rods is pre-eminently a matter which concerns the substantive issues in the case and is thus not amenable to review (see R 1/08 [2.1] and the travaux préparatoires cited there). Even if (which the EBA is in no position to decide) the BoA did fail to acknowledge a correct method, that is not a matter which could lead to a finding of a fundamental violation of A 113(1). The EBA is confined to considering whether or not the parties were heard and, as is again clear from the petition itself which says the parties agreed on the method of calculation, the parties were indeed heard on the matter of that method. If, having heard the parties, a BoA then makes a decision with which one of them disagrees, there can be no violation of A 113(1).
(d) The BoA wrongly inferred from the patent that the inventor had not anticipated that the skilled reader would use the incorrect calculation
[7] This also relates quite clearly to substantive issues in the case and therefore cannot be the subject of review for the same reasons as in point [6] above. The EBA simply cannot decide whether or not the BoA's observation about the patent in point [5.6] of its decision […] is wrong. In reality, the petitioner's complaint in this respect is no more than that the BoA has made a statement with which it disagrees but mere disagreement with a decision by a losing party is not enough to establish a procedural violation.
(e) The BoA based its written decision
on the "poor quality" of images in the patent
[8.1] This also relates quite clearly to substantive issues in the case and therefore cannot be the subject of review for the same reasons as in point [6] above. Whether or not the BoA was wrong to consider the images in the patent to be of poor quality is again just an example of the petitioner disagreeing with the BoA's decision.
[8.2] The additional assertion that the issue was never discussed during the written or oral proceedings appears incorrect. The words in the decision of which the petitioner complains are:
"the patent in suit itself provides no means by which the validity of such an insight could be tested. Raw data is provided only in the nature of images of extremely poor quality".
The whole passage in the decision from which that is taken reads (see point [5.13]):
"Even accepting, for the sake of argument, that such insight would be within the range of normal, non-inventive ability of the skilled person, there remains the obstacle that the patent in suit itself provides no means by which the validity of such an insight could be tested. Raw data is provided only in the nature of images of extremely poor quality. In this connection it is recalled that the images provided by the [respondent] during the opposition proceedings were considered by the [petitioner] to be of insufficient quality to allow analysis (counting of the particles) notwithstanding that these images appear to be significantly clearer and of higher quality than those contained in the patent in suit". [The words underlined were omitted by the petitioner in its quotation from this passage of the decision.]
The "insight" referred to in the opening words is that mentioned in the previous passage of the decision (see point [5.12]) where the BoA discusses at some length submissions of the petitioner. It is thus beyond doubt that the words the petitioner now complains of, far from representing a new issue introduced for the first time in the written decision, were in fact part of a lengthy consideration and ultimate rejection of an argument of the petitioner itself. There can of course be no question of a denying a party an opportunity to be heard in relation to an argument which that party has itself presented. It appears that, at best, the petitioner did not read the decision sufficiently carefully before framing this complaint.
[8.3] While the question of quality of images was discussed during the appeal proceedings, as shown by both the passage from the decision quoted above and the petition itself […], if the petitioner's complaint is that the quality of images was not discussed as part of a reason for the BoA's view of the petitioner's argument, that cannot amount to a violation of A 113(1). The EBA's jurisprudence clearly demonstrates the principle that parties are not entitled to advance indications of the reason or reasons for a decision before it is taken (see the summary of the case-law in R 12/09 [11] and the several other decisions there referred to; and subsequent decisions R 15/09 [4]; R 18/09 [14-15,18]; and R 15/10 [7-9]). If that principle applies to the reasons for a decision generally, it must apply equally to a comment forming only a part of such reasons.
(f) The BoA based its decision on a different view of the calculation
from that agreed by both parties and which was wrong and not discussed.
[9.1] All the EBA's observations in relation to the alleged violation (c) also apply to alleged violation (f). Since this also concerns substantive issues it cannot be the subject of review for the same reasons as in point 6 above. To the extent the BoA may not have discussed its own view of the method of calculation as mentioned in the reasons for its decision, neither the petitioner nor the respondent was entitled to any advance indication of such reasons as explained in point [8.3] above.
[9.2] Moreover, the petitioner's argument is factually fundamentally flawed. It relies […] on the text of point [5.16] of the decision under review which reads as follows:
"Indeed the BoA is aware that the entire foregoing section relies on making a key assumption – namely that the skilled person would identify the nature of the calculation as being the source of the divergences [between the reported values of rod content and the values obtained by using the average values]. This has in fact been assumed by both parties. However, this assumption is in the BoA's view not valid. For example, it takes no account of the possibility of alternative sources of error such as clerical errors in the patent in suit, or even errors in collating or in analysing the data, e.g. instrumental errors." [The words underlined were omitted, and the words in brackets added by the petitioner in its quotations from this text of the decision.]
On the basis of its own selective quotations the petitioner accuses the BoA of denying it the right to be heard and of prejudice […].
[9.3] However, a reading of the whole passage in its context makes quite clear that neither was the case. The passage begins with the words "the BoA is aware that the entire foregoing section relies on making a key assumption". The "foregoing section" begins at point [5.12] which, as mentioned above (see point [8.2]), marks the beginning of the BoA's lengthy consideration of the petitioner's own argument as to the approach the skilled person would take to the method of calculation (which in turn follows a section beginning at point [5], some three pages earlier where, after having already found the disclosure of the patent itself insufficient (see point [4.8]), the BoA turns to consider whether the skilled person could by common general knowledge understand how to calculate the content of rod-shaped particles). In point [5.12] the BoA summarizes the petitioner's argument, disregards another inconsistent argument (of the petitioner), and says that the argument would require a level of insight approaching inventive step. That is the "insight" then referred to in point [5.13] which leads the BoA to the problem that the patent provides no means to test the quality of such an insight (see the passage cited in full in point [8.2] above). Points [5.14-15] then continue the same examination of the petitioner's argument to the conclusion that it had failed to show that the skilled person could rely on common general knowledge (see point [5.15]). The "entire foregoing section" is thus the BoA's own reasoned treatment (in points [5.12-15]) of the petitioner's own argument and the statement in point [5.16] as to that section relying on a key assumption is the BoA's own qualification of its own assessment of the petitioner's argument. Then, after observing that both parties made the same assumption, the BoA proceeds to explain (again, at some length - see points [5.16-18]) why that assumption of both parties was not accepted.
[9.4] The petitioner's reliance on highly selective fragments of the BoA's decision shows at best an unreasonably subjective reading of the decision. When those fragments are read in context it becomes abundantly clear that, far from denying the petitioner the right to be heard by raising matters not previously discussed, the decision goes to great lengths to explain why the BoA did not agree, first with the petitioner's argument and then with an argument apparently agreed by both parties, all being arguments which were indeed discussed. Further, far from showing prejudice, it appears that the BoA was at pains to deal with all the submissions made to it and to explain its own reasons for disagreeing with one or both parties.
(h) The BoA's written decision was not reasoned
with respect to the auxiliary requests
[10] This alleged violation is quite simply factually incorrect. It appears from the decision under review (see point [6], last two paragraphs) that the BoA's written decision did in fact include reasons for rejecting the auxiliary requests, namely that in the view of the BoA the auxiliary requests were subject to the same objection as the main request.
[11] Finally, as regards the petitioner's general argument relating to all the alleged violations (c) to (h), this is based on a wholly false premise, namely that A 112a(2)(d) requires that a BoA's written decision must be reasoned.
[11.1] A 112a(2)(d) imposes no such requirement whatsoever; it merely specifies that petitions for review may be filed on the grounds that
"any other fundamental procedural defect defined in the Implementing Regulations occurred in the appeal proceedings".
The reference to "other fundamental procedural defect" reflects the fact that the opening words of A 112a(2) are: "The petition may only be filed on the grounds that:" which make it completely clear that petitions for review are limited to the grounds appearing after those words in (a) to (e). Thus the grounds included by (d) are limited to those other procedural defects "defined in the Implementing Regulations". The only provision in the Implementing Regulations which defines such grounds is R 104 which reads:
"A fundamental procedural defect under Article 112a, paragraph 2(d), may have occurred where the BoA,(a) contrary to A 116, failed to arrange for the holding of OPs requested by the petitioner, or(b) decided on the appeal without deciding on a request relevant to that decision."
Thus, it is completely and unambiguously clear from R 104 that the Implementing Regulations only add two further grounds for petitions for review to those in A 112a(2) and that the list of possible grounds contained in A 112a(2) and R 104 is exhaustive. This has been made abundantly clear in the EBA's jurisprudence (see R 1/08 [2.1, last paragraph]; R 16/09 [2.3.5-6]; R 10/09 [2.4-5]; R 18/09 [19]; R 1/11 [2.2]; and R 20/10 [2.1]). The grounds enumerated in the legislation being exhaustive, there is no scope for creating an additional ground by analogy with R 111 as the petitioner seeks to do […].
[11.2] Accordingly there is no ground for a petition for review, whether under A 112a(2) or otherwise, such as the petitioner puts forward that a decision of a BoA is not reasoned. In any event, such a provision would be unnecessary in view of the words of A 113(1) and the related grounds for a petition in A 112a(2)(c).
[11.3] Further, for the sake of completeness, the EBA observes that, as already indicated in respect of the particular passages complained of by the petitioner (see points [8.2] and [9.2-4] above), the decision under review in the present case appears to be comprehensively and clearly reasoned. The petitioner's general complaint – that the decision contains inconsistent findings which are not in logical sequence such that the reader is unable to decide which of the various findings are correct and which are false – is a complaint which could only be made by a reader determined to disagree with the decision. An objective reading of the decision merely shows that the complaint itself is false.
[11.4] The decision T 278/00 to which the petitioner referred related to R 68(2) EPC 1973 (now R 111(2)) which requires that decisions which are open to appeal be reasoned. Decisions of BoA, which are open only to review but not to appeal, are clearly not covered by that rule. Further, as made clear above (see point [11.1-2]), it is no ground per se for a petition that a decision is not reasoned. As an interpretation of R 111(2), the principles summarized in the headnote of decision T 278/00 are as follows:
" 1. The reasoning of a decision under appeal must be taken as it stands. The requirements of [R 111(2)] cannot be construed in such a way that in spite of the presence of unintelligible and therefore deficient reasoning, it is up to the BoA or the Appellant to speculate as to what might be the intended meaning of it.
2. The BoA must be in a position to assess on the basis of the reasoning given in the decision under appeal whether the conclusion drawn by the first instance was justified or not. This requirement is not satisfied when the BoA is unable to decide which of the various inconsistent findings indicated in and justifying the decision under appeal is correct and which is false."
Even if those principles were applicable to decisions under review, they would only apply in the presence of unintelligible and therefore deficient reasoning and inconsistent findings such that it is not possible to decide which are correct and which are false. However, as already indicated (see point [11.3] above), the EBA considers that this is not so in the case of the decision under review.
[12] Accordingly the EBA finds no merit in any of the arguments of the petitioner and the petition is therefore unallowable. […]
The petition is unanimously rejected as clearly unallowable.
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Saf shares insight into the BFX competition and explains how YellowDog's Cloud Render Service has helped student competitors deliver their 3D renders with a new level of professionalism.
Originally, the BFX Competition wasn't for charity but before the third year, Peter Truckle, director of The VFX Hub in Bournemouth, talked with Kingston Smith who had just finished funding an animation created by Aardman for charity.
Kingston Smith wanted to do more charity work with animation studios. Peter was able to propose using the BFX competition as a collection of student studios, whilst being mentored by world-class industry practitioners. That is how we started the BFX Competition as people know it today.
This year we had students from universities in Falmouth, Dundee, University South Wales, Ulster, and Northumbria, as well as from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) and Bournemouth University (BU).
Students stay on campus for seven weeks and studios including MPC, ILM, Framestore, DNEG, Blue Zoo, JellyFish Pictures, Hibbert Ralph Animation and Outpost VFX plus freelancers such as Tessa Mapp and Paul Campion commit to coming down every other week to mentor the students. The studios usually send artists who have supervised or directed shots and led teams. It is an incredible collaboration.
We give competitors a shopping list of what pipeline software is available off the shelf. If the students need something that we don't have, then they tell us and we do our best to source it for them. For example, students requested Toon Boom and they provided some licensing. The same happened with TVPaint so I think it is fair to say that we're well looked after by many software vendors.
Most students come from an Arnold background but when they come here, they often use V-Ray for the first time and they pick it up quickly.
The general toolset students use is Maya and Houdini for animation, rigging, FX, shader dev and layout, Z-Brush for sculpt, Mari or Substance Painter for texturing, Nuke for compositing, and the Adobe suite will also be used at various points. As well as learning how to animate a film from start to finish, the students really get to figure out how to move assets from one software to another. That's a skill in itself!
For the first time ever, they used YellowDog for all the rendering.
Tom Box at Blue Zoo referred YellowDog to me and the team here. A referral from one of the best loved animation studios in the UK comes with gravitas. His experience rendering Redshift with YellowDog was really good for some of their work including their Christmas Short 'No More Stuff'.
As Tom and Blue Zoo had been involved in the competition as mentors, he had seen the problems that YellowDog could solve.
Bournemouth University has a local render farm. In previous years, at the same time as the BFX competition, there are 80 post graduate students rendering their films. When we have another 50 students from the competition added to the farm queue, it becomes a bottleneck.
The render farm uses Qube to manage the upload and slots but the students don't really see what's happening. They just send it off from their desktops and hope for the best. It is a stressful time; there have been times when they just didn't get their renders finished.
Being able to give the students a reliable way to produce and manage their renders for the first time ever was invaluable and important to us as staff. We're just so impressed with YellowDog!
Traditionally, the last two weeks of the competition is crazy chaos. It has never been unmanageable but students get tired, they pull famed all-nighters, make mistakes and send off often incorrect renders without being able to control when they'll get them back.
Rendering is the worst part of the pipeline; everything else can move in a production schedule but render deadlines can't. YellowDog enabled students to observe rendering progress and have the power to guarantee correct renders were delivered on time.
YellowDog is ridiculously easy to use, especially in Maya and V-Ray. I can't believe that you can click one YellowDog button from inside Maya and have that scene with all its references and textures zipped up, uploaded, and rendered perfectly without you doing anything else.
The finished frames appear back in a local file without any complex file management; it is a perfect workflow for artists.
The technical support in terms of automated feedback or quick messages from the team was out of this world. It was like working in a studio with a dedicated render wrangler. The whole experience felt as though we had a data operations team looking after us, spotting if something didn't look right. We would love to have that expertise in our university department but we're never going to get that internally so accessing that was invaluable.
Students loved the speed the most. When we wanted to increase the speed of rendering, we could increase the number of machines (36 core, 72 thread) on a job from 10 to 100 in a single click. Without us doing any scripting or further work, progress just got faster. One of the student films (30 seconds of V-Ray for Maya) was rendered in just two hours with YellowDog. Without YellowDog, it would have taken days.
Students have never worked in an environment where they could increase an already lightning rate of production by a factor of 10 without moving from their seats. Some teams would sit and stare at the progress bar of their renders and downloaded frames in disbelief and relief.
It goes back to 2011. NESTA produced a report called 'Next Gen' which was co-authored by Alex Hope, one of the founders at DNEG and Ian Livingstone, probably best known for being co-founder of Games Workshop and Eidos Interactive. The report looked at the UK talent pipeline for visual effects, animation, and games. Bournemouth University were involved in the report; we were asked to feed data and opinion to it alongside hundreds of industry academics and professionals across the country.
It was an accurate analysis of the UK's talent pipeline from primary to higher education and beyond; as well as its ability to compete on a global stage; it was hard to read and certainly a wakeup call for the industry and government. I'm fortunate to be at Bournemouth University which was named as being one of the best talent contributors to the industry, but it laid many of the industry's future challenges squarely at education which I think wasn't the whole picture.
In my view, if you were to look at other universities analysed at the time, the courses were either very new or lacked meaningful industry connections or suffered from both. The collaboration between education and industry is vital and after reading the report, I was determined to be a part of finding ways to improve it.
We played around with a few ideas; one of the more successful models was Abertay University's 'Dare to be Digital' event in Dundee, Scotland. 'Dare to be Digital' challenges students to compete in teams to design and make a game. The 'Ones to Watch Award' at the BAFTAs is in association with Abertay. It resonated with the event that we had begun designing and gave us the confidence to approach different partners across the UK: using Dare as a stellar example of what could be achieved if we focused on Animation and VFX production instead.Discover The Dare Academy
I took it to Alex Hope who co-authored the infamous Next Gen report. I wanted his feedback and input and to see if he and DNEG could offer support to the students through some sort of mentorship.
Alex and DNEG were incredibly enthusiastic about it so we were able to go back to Bournemouth University with a solid plan and industry advocacy which the University were incredibly happy to support. With both DNEG and the University signed up, Framestore, Blue Zoo, MPC, and others committed to mentoring students too. It really was an incredible list of world class studios and that gave everyone confidence that we could make the competition a success.
They all get the finished films that they can use for whatever marketing campaigns they choose. They will (and have done in previous years) make a material difference to a wide number of charitable causes.
You can see all the finished films here.See all the films from BFX 2019
They deal with sensitive issues from domestic abuse to disabilities so they quickly adapt to navigating and producing tricky material to a hard production deadline. They learn how to deal with feedback directly from the charities and their often critical, but supportive, industry mentors. These aren't soft skills; students get first-class real-world experience as well as the tangible upskilling of CG pipeline knowledge.
The format of the competition won't change. It gets better every year and with YellowDog, it really allowed both the look dev and final look to be the best and most consistent it has ever been in 2018. This year was the first time that no-one failed to render something and I hope that we can take that on again next year. We will work with charities again of course.
With the help of technology like YellowDog working alongside our other pipeline tools, we hope that we can continue to make a real difference to student prospects and the talent pipeline for the visual effects, animation, and games industry.
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If you're reading my blog, then you know my blog is optimized with Google Adsense and with a couple of Affiliate Program, one of my biggest partners are Brave, at least that's the only one that brings in a small amount of revenue or as I call it – pizza money.
If you' re only starting with digital marketing or just learning how to start a blog, you might find it useful later down the road.
There's one specific landing page where I compare Google Chrome vs Brave Browser. I had a link at the bottom if you like you can Download this browser here. Some time ago I checked my statistic and I figured I should try to improve the CTR(click-through-rate) to that link. I figured if the link would be more appealing and visual people would click on it more. So I decided to change the link to a button and see how it would increase my conversion rate. Now I feel dumb that I didn't do A/B Test on that, but just changed it straight away, could have made a small case study out of it.
Now sure, there was also a traffic increase during March, but the conversion rate increased by 121.49%. Not so bad is it? Imagine if it was a real business that earns let's say $5000 a month and just by changing one small details your earnings increase to $12 000+
Now, people that work in Marketing knows that this is a no brainer, if you have a clear CTA(call-to-action) button your CTR will increase dramatically, but I just like to measure it anyway. So since I didn't do an A/B test on that, I figured I can do another one.
I will switch the button at the bottom with a banner and let's see what happens.
A/B Test – Button or Banner
- Variant A – The Button or the original. So this is the button that I've been using before this test:
- Variant B – Custom Banner. I found this banner on the internet on a couple of websites so I don't know the original source and I hope the creator won't mind.
- Variant C – Brave's Official Banner. Which can be found on Brave's official website under assets for creators.
That's the three variants I'm going to test out. This is how it should look when you have finished your variants:
My hypothesis is simple – the banner needs to be engaging, clear and of course noticeable. Just by adding a simple download button it already increased the conversion rate dramatically, we saw that already above. I believe if we'll have a bigger banner with clear CTA text our conversion rate will increase even more.
My belief is that Variant B will outperform the rest of the variants. It's engaging with a clear CTA button. Definitely a lot more noticeable than variant A. I don't believe that Variant C will perform that great. It has a great design. From all of the variants I like it the most, but the CTA text is just…bad. It's not clear, it's confusing. By clicking on it I'm not sure what's the next step.
By creating a more noticeable banner with clear CTA text we will increase the conversion rate.
Choosing an Objective
My main goal is to figure out which of the three variants will have the highest conversion rate. I can't track it with 100% accuracy, because the event doesn't happen on my website, but what can I track is how many people actually click on the banner or the button, so that will be my conversion.
As you know Brave pays $5 for each user that downloads the web browser and uses it at least for 30 days. So if you have a question why should I do this kind of test, then the answer is simple – I'm trying to increase my revenue, by changing one simple thing on my website.
Your website or your business might be completely different from mine, so you would just have to create a different structure & objective. Maybe your goal is to increase the average duration time on your website or increase the conversion rate on your email signups or social share or anything else that you could think of and want to improve, regardless all of these things can be optimized and tested.
Now is it hard? Not particularly, but if you would like me to create on how to work with Google Optimize, leave a comment below.
I launched the test on 31. of March.
Now for some reason, the experiment didn't work on all sessions so it took some while to get some traffic inside to make some conclusions. If your website is receiving a high amount of traffic you shouldn't struggle with this. You will need a lot of traffic to prove your hypothesis is false or correct.
A/B Test Results
It's been almost 3-months. In April I accidentally screwed up the code of the website which stopped Google Analytics for a couple of days, so I lost a little data, but regardless, here are the results of the experiment:
My hypothesis was that Variant B (Custom Banner) will outperform the rest of them since it's the biggest banner with clear CTA text, although I believe the design still can be improved, especially the font it still had the highest conversion rate.
Even though it has the highest conversion rate we need to make sure that the statistics are significant enough.
Variant A vs Variant B
So even though the first impression is that Variant B is the winner, but it only has statistically 59% change that it has a higher conversion rate than Variant A.
Variant A vs Variant C
Variant A outperformed Variant C. In this specific calculator we can't create a test with three variants. Even though it seems like a no brainer, but statistically speaking there's only 90% chance that Variant A is better than Variant C in the long term.
If you use a different calculator, please leave a comment below with your suggestion.
I can't say with certainty that Variant B (Custom Banner) was the winner, meaning I can't say that my hypothesis was correct with 100% certainty. Welcome to the statistics. In this case, I will go with my hunch and just choose Variant B on my site. 59% is enough. For the next A/B test, I will gather more statistic so it's more accurate and I can make the change with certainty.
Thanks for reading, if you have any comment drop a line below. If you've had any A/B tests on your site that improved your results I would love to hear them.
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Events at Ogden
Fundraising Carnival
Our grade seven students have been demonstrating our school's virtue of empathy. This year, they organized several fundraisers in order to raise money for five notable non-profit organizations in our community: Alberta Children's Hospital, Inn
Thank You From The Food Bank
Ogden Campus students donated canned and perishable items to the Calgary Food Bank in our Scary Hunger Fundraiser that took place in October 2018.
The Vocabulary Challenge
The ALCA Ogden campus is excited to announce THE VOCABULARY CHALLENGE is back this year. What is the vocabulary challenge? AlMadina students will compete by demonstrating their knowledge of academic vocabulary. Click the link below
A Hollywood Premiere of "Cheaters"
Our grade 8 drama class will hold a performance on the following days: Dec. 20th, 2018 Div II Period 6-7 Dec. 20th, 2018 Div. III Period 4-5 Parents are welcome to attend and watch


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Southern Belle Road Trip day 2 & 3 (Bell reception at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and launch of 525 Relentless)
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My week in pictures – 22-29 January
I ate a lot of this (new Cadburys Dairy Milk Bubbly – looks cool but buggered the healthy eating up somewhat:
Kim made my week much better by giving me these beauties, which I proceeded to wear around the office for a couple of days:
We ordered some mystery shop flowers at work and I got to take one of the bouquets home, here they are in my living room looking lovely:
And I managed to buy and start reading the latest issue of Mollie Makes – full of inspiration as always:
So the lovely bits made up for the madness and late nights caused by the day job :)
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2011 – what a year!
I didn't make an official list of resolutions for 2011, because I had The List to work through instead… I think I've done fairly well with those, not sure on the exact number but I think I've crossed off between 50 and 60 things on it, which is at least one a week!
2011's been an incredible year. Unexpected highs and unexpected lows… but for the most part, the highs have outweighed the lows. It's been amazing… I hope 2012 has as many highs (and fewer, less sideswiping lows, please).
January: An unexpected interview for a new job; Rob called to ask if I wanted to go on a European rally in September; utterly ridiculous snow;
February: My 25th birthday with friends in Colchester; ballet with Emily; got my sunrise lamp which changed my life (or at least my getting up in the morning);
March: I started the new job from hell (i like it now, but I endured months of it before that became the case); gorgeous and very touching leaving drinks from the library;
April: Julia and Ed got engaged; RSVP event; decent amount of crafting and car booting; Wells with uni girlies and Caitlin;
May: Rally planning started in earnest; Spring Ding Day with ROC; drove an S2000; golf day with work so accidental trip to see Hannah; blue hair; Mum's 60th party;
June: Gran's birthday BBQ and pool party; took up roller skating again; Colchester zoo for Father's Day; theatre with the girls from the library;
July: Nick passed away; Open golf at Deal & Sandwich; the Fling, a perfect thing; CAE; vintage typewriters came to live with me.
August: Julia moved out, meaning I lived alone for the first time; I put up bookshelves all by myself; a whole week of sorting and socialising; last bits of rally prep.
September: R2R 2011; first Curiosity Project; surprised Judy for her 60th birthday; Poppy's 6-week-overdue MOT; planning for Teasets to Typerwriters
October: Launch of Project Pin Up; Katerina returned; corsets; swishy hair;
November: Mad happenings at work; Bonfire night with the family; first visit to Stratford; Mum & Dad's 38th anniversary; staycation with Annie;
December: Made a friend who lives in the flat downstairs; old and new work Christmas parties; vintage tea party at Lou's; carol service with Caroline's choir; champagne brunch at 8.30am with the team; Christmas; new year in Nottingham!
I'm sure I've forgotten some stuff, but so much has happened there's no way I'll pack it all in to one post. I am intending to keep track of everything better this year on the blog :)
Significant events in the lives of my friends (and people I know):
Engagements: Julia & Ed; Sophia & Jon; Tom & Cat; (plus Georgie Hall, Mandy Sohal, Danni Cooper, Laura Hinchliffe, Kelly Savage, Rachel (SHF), Rachel Daw, Chris Freeman; Justine Boehm, Jared Cooksey, M-C Savage; Rebecca Davies; Steph Cluett) = 16 (olus some Christmas ones I've probably forgotten)
Weddings: Heather & Steve Tilley (Shephard); Dan & Jo Morgan (Hill); Paul & Claire Jameson (Gratton); Sathya; Pippa Milner (Govett) = 5 (plus I'm sure I've forgotten some)
Babies: Anastasia & Nick's Zoe; Georgia & Ian's Delilah; Paul & Abby's Joseph; Paul & Claire's Shaun; Debbie & Ste's Elizabeth; Emma & James's Jacob; Kelly & Shaun's Finlay; Louise & hubby's Finley; Steve & Zoe's Thea; Jarod & Tara's Hayden = 10 (plus almost definitely some more)
Pregnancies (due in 2012): Krissie Budworth, Jacqui Dowsett = 2
So there's a roundup of sorts… the stand out moment of the year is of course R2R, from a vague 'yeah, why not' to the prep and then the acual trip, it gave me a new sense of perspective on myself and on life, and made me a muchly happy Carla!
Thanks for reading and for all the support and love you guys have given me in 2011, it's muchly appreciated! Here's to 2012… and if you guys have done roundup posts I'd love to see them, tweet me or post them in the comments :)
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Things that make me happy – home edition
I'm heading home to Mum & Dad's for Christmas on Saturday morning, and I was thinking how happy going home makes me. I love my flat and my independence, but there really is no place like home at Christmas time.
Some of the things in their flat that make me happy (and all of which I hope will move to their new place in the new year, so it feels like home still!)
Dad playing his guitar… one day I'll learn too :)
It's five o' clock somewhere… an Alan Jackson song and unarguably the truth! Mmm… cocktails.
Continuing with signs (see where I get it from? I'll have to do a post about mine one day) – Tabasco 'hot stuff'. I don't actually like the stuff, but Mum and Dad are almost addicts :P They put it with everything, including breakfast.
Some of Mum's camel collection and the cross stitch I made for her 60th birthday. To date this is the only cross stitch I've finished!!
My graduation photo. Like a million others across the country I'm sure, but I'm chuffed they keep it in their living room :)
And last but by no means least, the very awesome knitted Aleksandr, made for Mum by one of her (talented) friends – isn't he fabulous?! Simples!
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Snippets from around my home
A little peek into my flat and the pretty things in it that make me happy.
Parts of my bookshelves – A collection of glass bottles, a couple of unicorn ornaments (the one on the right is from Poland, when we went to Krakow for a friend's hen weekend), photos of Ellie and I and Julia and I, some ducks, a Meakin jug and my favourite thing on this shelf, an original painting by the very talented Chloe at Slightly Triangle. Plus a china duck and a western boot on the shelf above.
The bookshelf to the left (I have three across the back wall of my living room). Gil Elvgren's pin ups take pride of place among the books, and on the top are some of my vintage treasures. Some of these were bought for Teasets to Typewriters and will form part of the stock when I eventually launch. The Whistlejacket print is not going anywhere, though!
'Home' applique and vintage glass candle holders adorning the top of my heater. I stitched this entirely freehand and it was the first bit of hand sewing I'd done in over a decade :)
My 'mantelpiece' – clearly, being a flat, I don't have an actual one but this stands in quite well. Full of coffee table books and my vintage china. Then photos (Holly and I, Hannah, Lou and I, a framed Jane Austen quote, Ellie and I on horseback on the beach) and some vintage tins. On the top – a daylight lamp I use when I'm cross stitching, a painting I picked up in an antique shop, a photo of me and my childhood dog Tui, more glass bottles, Singer sewing machine, Rusty's number plate, more vintage tins, a photo of the rally teams in Sibiu, candle holders and a china horse. :)
Juxtaposition of old and new – my old (but working!) landline phone and my Bluetooth headset for my mobile, which both live on my hall table.
And into my bedroom – the ballet print and pairs of pointe shoes that hang above my bed, the vertical patchwork I made last year to hang on the big blank wall above my clothes rails, and my jewellery board (next to my door, so I can grab stuff on the way out!)
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Contrariety Rose's Vintage Tea Party
Last weekend I traversed down to Reading (complete with Rusty's vintage suitcase, pretty shoes and vintage-style party dresses) for a weekend with one of my best friends. She just happens to be behind Contrariety Rose (new site almost done! I'm working on the last bits!) and organised a vintage tea party for a few people while I was down there. It's always wonderful to see Lou, but this was a specially exciting prospect after a fairly hideous week!
We went to a vintage fair at the Hexagon first (I bought a headscarf "for wearing in a sportscar", said the lady at the stall. I couldn't not buy it after that, could I?!) and Lou found this lovely little dress. Rachel found a beautiful 60s shift dress but I couldn't get a photo :(
And here is Lou (first pic) and me (second pic) next to where we'd set out all the bits and pieces…
Tea party details:
Cucumber hearts and lollipop sandwiches from the Vintage Tea Party Book:
Cakes made by Lou's partner's mum – a Contrariety Rose cake and lovely little sparkly fairy cakes:
And the forks that made me think of the Mad Hatter's tea party – there's something wonderfully Alice-ish about them!
It was a fabulous afternoon, and so lovely to see all the girls – some of them I hadn't seen since 2007, and a couple not properly since school. It was gorgeous! :D
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A 'staycation' with Annie :)
Anna and I had planned to go away for a few days in September, then October, and kept getting thwarted. November arrived, the time was booked off work, but neither of us had the money (or the energy) to go away away. So we decided to crash at my flat for a few days, do some shopping, make stuff, watch DVDs, eat lots… generally have an extended relaxing weekend :)
We wrote to Santa while looking at Christmas decorations:
Saw a helicopter tree I desperately want to buy for my parents:
Fell in love with some tree shaped sparkly lights:
Found some flashing tits for Anna *gigglesnort*:
And I made a wreath. Here's me pretending it's a halo (sure. but I can pretend!)
We visited Sudbury and had a lovely wander round all the shops there, and I also bought some vintage Pyrex bowls (squee!), some books and chocolate from the Cadburys factory shop. Can't be bad. Was gorgeous to see her, fab to have four days in a row off work and when I go back I shall feel refreshed and hopefully at least a little bit enthusiastic! :D
You can follow lovely Annie on Twitter – twitter.com/AnnaZEV
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A weekend in the life of me
So, I had every intention of participating in the One Day On Earth project, until I realised that a) 11/11/11 was going to be super-busy, full of train travel and that the project wanted video and I very much work in photos not videos. So here, instead, is a selection of snapshots from my weekend…
This was actually on Tuesday, eating ice cream on the back of a Vespa at Joe Deluccios in Westfield Stratford City.
On the train. My handbag (the red and beige one) snapped on the way to the station, so I had to hastily repack, then ditch it without looking like a terrorist. Not easy when you go through London train and tube stations looking shifty!
I spend quite a lot of time doing this – sitting on the floor of a train, reading books. People think I'm mad for sitting on the floor, but I like being able to stretch my legs.
Twitter Mafia love on a Friday morning – love these ladies!
The reminder email that came round from lovely Kim just before the two minutes' silence for Poppy Day.
Biscuits! Work has a delivery of biscuits and other groceries (tea, coffee etc) every month, and this is what the cupboard looks like just after delivery!
Impromptu trip to Moorgate to buy a new handbag. London is grey but has some striking buildings if you look up while walking.
Mid-afternoon Wispa. Is any day complete without chocolate?!
The emergency/accidental new handbag, to replace the one that snapped in the morning. I like it!
St Pancras station – took this on my way home after a fabulous weekend. It was utter carnage on the way in, and I was trying to sprint which is never a good idea!
And finally home again, with the awesome vintage suitcase we took to Romania. That case started off full of 80s porn magazines, went all the way to Romania on Rusty's roof, and came home with Team Allegro on their roof. It has a lot more character now than it did when we bought it, but I'm in love and it improved the journey home enormously – I felt like a 40s starlet! (for the first couple of hours, anyway – six hours later I just wanted to be back home, lol). The wheelie case under it was bought for Poland and also came on the rally with us – my luggage is well travelled :)
Decisions, decisions, blog-related decisions…
I am currently running too many blogs. One is (obviously) this one. One is Project Pin Up, one is a new one to go with the new Etsy shop (if I ever find time to launch it) and one is London at Lunchtime. I love them all but find it increasingly hard to find time to post, and the longer I'm a blogger, the more I value good posts rather than just posting for the sake of posting.
I think, given how little I've managed to post since I started it (londonatlunchtime.wordpress.com) that I might just make it a category on here (which I have done here – I think it fits in ok with the general tone and utter randomness of my other posts). It's not like my photos are startlingly good, I just find it interesting how much there is to see in London even in the same relatively small space I can get to within a lunchtime.
Love, a very indecisive Carla x
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Working from home, with ice cream
I spent far too long at the station this morning, trying in vain to get on a train to work.
Having established I could work from home, I went to Asda. The sky was absolutely beautiful….
Then I decided to console myself with the special-offer Haagen Dazs. So after lunch (marmite toast) I dug into both of these. Happy days!
It was surprisingly relaxing being at home and working from my sofa under a big snuggly blanket – not as social as the office, but I did get my work done! :) And now, no commute, so I can blog and chill out before making dinner. It's enough to make me want to work from home all the time!
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Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden, Ung Företagsamhet and me was posted in this month newsletter from Profil Stenungsund. Profil Stenungsund is a foundation with representatives from the industrial/business life and the commune, such as Borealis Group and Hogia, in Stenungsund. The purpose of the foundation is to strengthen the trademark of Stenungsund.
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Mountaineering requires a level of fitness most of us don't have right off the couch. If you've made the commitment and investment to sign up for a mountaineering expedition, you owe it to yourself, your guides, and the others on your climb to be in peak physical condition so that the climb can be more successful, safe, and enjoyable.
Right now we are about 7 months out from when the main climbing season begins on Denali and Rainier...which luckily is about the amount of time most fitness experts recommend training before attempting a new activity like mountaineering. Now that time is on your side, coming up with a training regimen that is viable, effective, and fun will give you the structure you need to achieve your fitness goals.
Climbing a mountain is serious business, and your training schedule should reflect that. One of the places that I falter, and see others do the same, is when we let everything else in our lives take priority over training. This is easy to do when you might be the only one in your family or circle of friends attempting a feat like climbing a mountain. But getting into a habit of exercise and following a routine will be your best defense against letting all things trump your training. That being said, having a routine that allows for some flexibility will keep you from feeling resentful about your time spent training, and will help you stay motivated.
When at all possible, a training regimen should have you participating in the activity you are training for. Marathon runners train by running, cyclists train by cycling. Climbers should train by climbing. This means that the more you can find yourself in steep terrain (i.e. hills, stairs) wearing a pack, the more you will be training the muscle groups you will be recruiting from for your climb. The luxury of starting to train early though, means that you can ease into the steep hikes with a full pack.
Conditioning Needs for Mountaineering
Every sport has its own needs as far as training. Some sports require that you acquire more flexibility than speed, or more stamina than strength. Determining what the needs are of your sport first will make sure that your training regimen is focused and successful. The following diagram points out the conditioning needs of mountaineering.
Aim for activities that emphasize cardiovascular fitness and strength endurance. A great example of this is climbing steep terrain with a pack (see, its not a ploy). Really any activity that can get you "huffing and puffing" and "feeling the burn" will do. In the beginning this may look differently than you imagine. In the beginning "huffing and puffing" and "feeling the burn" may be achieved with a jog around the block or a short hike with no pack. The important thing is to start slow and stick to a routine. Build each week by lengthening hikes or runs, and eventually adding a pack with some weight.
Another great way to increase stamina is to incorporate intervals into your training. These help max out your anaerobic threshold allowing your body to learn how to do more with less. Break up a long run by adding some sprints. Or while you are on that long hike, find something in the distance and increase your pace until you reach that object.
Strength training for mountaineering can be a time to step out of the box, and get out of the gym. Weight machines tend to not be as effective as building the smaller muscle groups that are important to providing stability when descending a big mountain. We recommend incorporating different types of isometrics like lunges and squats to tone the muscle groups you will need for climbing when strength training.
So where is the training schedule? I have purposefully left that up to you. Creating a personalized schedule is part of the fun of training, and will give you an ownership of your training that I think helps with commitment and increasing will power. I could tell you to strength train on Tuesdays, hike on Saturdays, and rest on Sundays...but what if that doesn't work for you? The most important part of any training schedule is how easy it is to stick to, so get out the calendar and start planning! You have 7 months to get in the best shape of your life, while achieving one of the most rewarding, awesome goals--climbing a mountain.
Here are some resources to help you along the way:
RMI's Letter on Training
Article on Training by Kathy Colsey-Mountain Guide
Body Results DVD
Climbing: Training for Peak Performance
Conditioning for Outdoor Fitness


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Decks can be functional, such as creating access ramps for people with a disabilities, or they can create a gathering space with built-in benches for outdoor meals. In all of these possibilities a deck can also increase the value of a home or business. Calling a roofing contractor in Vancouver WA who has the expertise to install a deck is the way to get started in adding this value to your home or office.
Decks for Businesses in Vancouver WA
Property value continues to increase with the recovery of the housing market and the influx of people moving into the Portland-Vancouver area. One way to make your property stand out from the rest is by adding a deck. For businesses, adding a ramp and small landing to increase access may be an Americans with Disabilities Act building code requirement. This, of course, increases the value of commercial property as well as broadening potential clientele.
Private Decks in Vancouver WA
Having a handsome space for family and friends to enjoy the yard is a bonus all year. A deck designed to fit your specific needs and style can easily become the favorite space in your home. Roofing can be extended to make your deck a space to gather all year round. Adding your unique touch to a deck, such as decorative pillows, built-in planters, perhaps the trickle of a water fountain, all make for an oasis getaway in your own backyard. It is a space you will love and one that will attract potential buyers if and when you decide to sell your house.
From a meditative retreat to enjoy being outdoors to a functional business access, adding a deck in Vancouver WA can increase the value of a property as well as the joy it brings.


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"We've been underdogs all through this tournament. We have nothing to lose and everything to win. We'll leave everything out there."
-- Boris Vulchanov, interviewed before the Bulgaria v Japan semi-final 2014 (Pm)
Boris Vulchanov was a Beater for the Bulgaria National Team during the Quidditch World Cup tournament in 2014.
He and the other Bulgarian Beater at the 2014 tournament, Dimitar Draganov, are considered to be a "competent" duo (Pm).
Their first fixture of the tournament was an easily won match against New Zealand, as one of the NZ Chasers was sent off for a collision that was ruled to be deliberate.
A very short match of 42 minutes against Norway was won by 170 points to 20 following Seeker Viktor Krum's early catch of the Snitch.
The semi-final match against Japan was won by 610 points to 460. Vulchanov, showing his complete commitment to the success of the team, was knocked unconscious while protecting Krum.
Bulgaria were the winners of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup tournament, finally beating Brazil in a thrilling match by 170 points to 60. Beaters Vulchanov and Draganov were able to prevent Brazil's Chasers from running up the score by their strong defensive tactics during the game (Pm).
Other canon notes and references
Since Bulgaria's Seeker, Viktor Krum (born 1976), was the oldest player at the tournament (Pm), Vulchanov must have been born after 1976.
His father, Vulchanov, was a Beater on the Bulgarian National Team that lost to Ireland in the 1994 Quidditch World Cup (GF8, Pm).
Boris is a Slavonic name, the short form of Borislav and derives from boru (meaning "fight, battle") (Baby Namespedia).
Vulchanov derives from the Bulgarian word вулка́н (vulkan) meaning "volcano" (Dictionary.com) and the name is similar to that of Bulgarian cinema actor and director Rangel Valchanov (Wikipedia).
One of his ancestors may have been the Bulgarian witch Nerida Vulchanova, who was the founder of the Durmstrang Institute wizarding school (Pm).
Lexicon list of Beaters
From the Web
Writing by J.K. Rowling on Pottermore:
- History of the Quidditch World Cup
- 2014 Quidditch World Cup reports
- 2014 Quidditch World Cup final
- The Daily Prophet
Pottermore enhanced reading experience: Quidditch World Cup
Screenshots of the original Daily Prophet coverage of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup on Pottermore: Imgur archive
Harry Potter Wiki: Boris Vulchanov
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Welcome to Boxo!
Hello coffee drinker (or friend of coffee drinker)! Welcome to Boxo, the newest concept in coffee monthly boxes. On our about page, we describe in a few sentences what we do, and what we are about, however I would like this time to extrapolate this a bit further, because this has been a long time in the making.
Back in 2012, Bil and I were working together and constantly comparing coffees in the office. Big news for us was when someone switched from roaster A to roaster B, or from pour-over to aero-press. We're huge into our rituals. We had the idea to start a monthly box that would allow us to explore coffee from all over the nation (and hopefully world), but as the saying goes - life got in the way. Bil moved to Austin, and I accepted an invitation to partake in a startup accelerator.
During that time between, we've been steadily honing our love for coffee and our network of roasters. My career path took me to Hong Kong, where after a year of begging relatives and friends that visited me to bring coffee back in their suitcases, I revisited the idea of a monthly box - this time it was out of personal need. I launched 88Beans in late 2014, three months into my new fatherhood, because coffee was flowing like a river at that point. Couldn't get enough. 88Beans would translate as "double joy" in the local customs of Hong Kong, and it rung true; we have imported coffee from 7 different cities, 14 different roasters and haven't had a single subscriber leave (other than one, who is on extended vacation and needed to pause his subscription).
We have come to call the Hong Kong business "an adventure in coffee", because we don't only source 1 type of bean for you, we provide you with enough coffee (usually 8oz) to try out multiple brew styles, and really get a feel for the mindset of the roaster and their environment. Then, the next month you get the same thing again! It keeps you on your feet, exploring, pioneering.
It was two months ago that Bil, Nick J and Nick K and I were talking - "Hey. We should be doing that here [in the USA] too."
From that early discussion to this October, we have built the groundwork to launch and provide an awesome concept to the USA coffee drinkers - an exploration of the nation's coffee without leaving your couch (or office).
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windstorm and respite
for solo flute
Windstorm and Respite was composed through the UMKC Composers' Guild Co(mp)llaborations Project, in its first year. This program, pairing composers with members of the conservatory's flute studio, was intended to produce artistic bonds between composers and performers at the conservatory.
Windstorm was inspired by notions shared with me by Sophia Tegart, the piece's dedicatee and first performer. She spoke of large storms and the calmness of a storm's eye, of busy schedules and few moments of true rest. In the spirit of collaboration, the piece is written with a blend of traditional notation and brushstroke gestures, the latter of which are intended to guide the performer's improvisations, resulting in individual interpretations of storm elements for each performer.
dedicated to Sophia Tegart
premiered by Sophia Tegart as part of UMKC's co(mp)llaborations program


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With a newly evolved chassis featuring a new cuff closure, padded fingers, accordion stretch inserts, the CE certified road riding SMX-1 AIR V2 glove is fully featured for road riding. With perforated leather and air-mesh the lightweight, has an evolved styling design for improved comfort and an innovative grip zone on palm and thumb for greater sensitivity on the bike's controls the SMX-1 AIR v2 Glove is ideal for street and urban use.
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America's Food Prices Expected To Skyrocket – Catastrophic Floods In Midwest
With America's Food Prices Expected To Skyrocket, Are Catastrophic Floods In Midwest 'A Sign From God' Or Globalists Weather Warfare Upon America?
Now They Warn America's Breadbasket Under Water Could Be 'The New Normal'
By Stefan Stanford – All News Pipeline – Live Free Or Die
While reading the facts and opinions shared within this ANP story, we ask you to please keep the following words in mind allegedly uttered by globalist Henry Kissinger all the way back in 1974: "If you control the food supply, you control the people".
For those who are unaware, following March's 'bomb cyclone' and record amounts of snow across large parts of the country, the Weather Channel recently put out this story warning of historic and widespread flooding across vast swaths of Central and Midwestern USA as snow melts, leaving huge parts of 'America's breadbasket' under water.
As this story over at WYFF reports, Midwestern flooding could become 'the new normal' though officials are blaming 'global warming' and 'climate change' for the disasters that have already caused over $1.4 BILLION worth of losses to the US food supply in Nebraska alone with experts warning that the flooding has only just begun.
As we'll see in the map below, huge parts of the areas where much of America's food is grown are now underwater with severe and moderate flooding all along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, leaving many farms completely under water, with levees compromised, animals dead and crops meant to be eaten instead destroyed. These facts cannot be ignored.:


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Woodland View
- 9 ground floor bedrooms
- 1 Self Contained Flat
- Open plan dining room with track hoist
- living room and kitchen area with track hoist
- Quiet/sensory room with hoist
- Large enclosed rear garden
- 2 adapted ground floor bathrooms with spa bath, hoist facilities and Closomat toilet
- Fully fitted kitchen
- Laundry Room
- Safety devices throughout including electronic access technology and adapted doors
Woodland View provides short breaks for adults with a learning disability and is located in the heart of Walsall. The property can accommodate up to ten people at one time, everyone has their own person centred plan to ensure that they get the most out of their stay, for example working towards gaining increased independence and using local community leisure resources.
The property comprises of nine well-appointed spacious bedrooms that are equipped with ensuite wet rooms, assistive technology call system, door sensors for privacy and security which are set to the individuals needs and requirements, sensory projectors, televisions and ceiling track hoist systems.
The tenth bed is a self-contained one bedroom apartment, containing a lounge/ kitchen/ diner, bedroom and a wet room. The flat has its own separate entrance, but also has an entrance that leads into the main property which ensures staff are able to respond quickly via the assistive technology. The apartment has a very homely feel, the open plan kitchen/diner/lounge is bright and welcoming, with adaptive surfaces in the kitchen to enable wheel chair uses to access the hob and sink.
At the heart of the building is a spectacular light well, this large circular space connects the building together and houses the two large assistive technology bathrooms with Parker Malibu high/low lift reclining Jacuzzi baths, both bathrooms have ceiling hoist tracking systems.
The very large lounge/kitchen/dining area has been designed to be light, airy and welcoming, with two sets of patio doors and lots of windows set into the one side of this space, which enables residents to use the fully accessible garden as part of this room. The kitchen has adaptive surfaces and hob for wheel chair users to hone their cooking skills.
The large beautifully landscaped garden is wheel chair accessible, there are a set of adult swings, raised flower and herb beds and several seating areas.
A wide range of activities are offered both at Woodland View and in the local community including: Arts and Crafts, Games, Gardening, Cooking, Bingo. Trips to Moseley Old Hall, Cannock Chase, Phoenix Park include, Cycling, Fishing, Archery, Falconry, Laser Games, Tai Chi and Nordic Walking. Ackers Adventure Centre has lots to offer such as, Kayaking, Laser clay pigeon shooting, Mountain biking, Pedal go karting, Canoeing, Bell bottom boats, Activity trail challenge, Bush craft survival skills and Orienteering in the forest. Walsall is a convenient base for day trips to the surrounding areas and attractions.
Other attractions in the area: Rodbaston Visitor Centre Animal Zone, Cannock Chase Horse Trekking, Go Ape Cannock, Cannock Chase Forest and The Chasewater Railway
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Custom House receives Environmental Management AwardPosted July 3rd, 2019
The Custom House is leading the way in making government buildings greener places to work. We've worked hard to reduce our energy use, emissions and waste. And on Monday we became the first Government Department to receive an award from the NSAI for Environmental Management Systems (EMS).
I was delighted to accept this certification on behalf of my Department. This Government has recently launched its Climate Action Plan (details here) and at the heart of this plan is the desire to protect our environment, minimise our carbon footprint and promote sustainable development. Under the EMS for the Custom House, we are making a small but valuable contribution to this plan. Our EMS allows us to identify our environmental impacts and to develop actions and procedures aimed at improving our performance. This will result in the use of less electricity, less waste generated and increased recycling, thus saving taxpayers' money.
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Yoga Seminar Kicks Off in Belize City
A first of its kind yoga workshop will be held this coming weekend in Belize City at the Om Shanti Center for Yoga and Healing Arts on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City. The event is for yoga enthusiasts as well as those wanting to discipline the body. Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice that originated from India. Over the years, it is readily becoming a hobby of many Belizeans. At the workshops, yoga instructor, Jaen (Ha-in), will introduce Kundalini, a form of the art that focuses on the human energy. A certified reflexology and bio-magnetism therapist, the instructor will also teach the benefits of Kundalini, marine identification, environmental consciousness and the connections between them. In a one on one with Jaen, News Five found out about the upcoming yoga workshop.
Jaen Kundalini, Yoga Instructor
"Kundalini is an energy that we all have and in a sleeping state of the being it is curled at the bottom of the spine and the purpose of kundalini yoga is to work on that energy to awaken the different centres of energy to reach our full potential because as human beings, we are infinite in our capacity, in our potential; but we might not live our lives at the full potential because of emotional situations or because of physical situation. Any blockage at any level can stop this kundalini energy to flow freely. So the main goal is to allow the energy to flow through our centres of energy so we reach our full potential so we can live the life we deserve. Perhaps at first instance, Kundalini Yoga is not something that is attractive visually because we don't focus on the perfection of the body, of the position of the body; which is the mastery of the polarities through the physical body…find balance and the repercussion and other states of the being, kundalini is not about the; it is through this energy and on its own making this energy flow freely, the body will adjust…it is like a consequence of it. I decided to add the second component because it is merging two passions that I have; two elements that brought me a lot of health, peace, wellbeing—and one is the yoga and the other is the environment. Whenever I feel unbalanced or I don't feel good, I go in the wild or in the sea and I just feel that draining because perhaps my being recognizes where it comes from. So it is just to bring up tools again to diminish this impact that we have and open up the consciousness of our act and then it is also to apply it in a fun way in the sea. If we don't know about the environment, if we don't go and see it and find an interest in it, it is hard to solve environmental problems. So I really love the sea and it is to share how to identify fish, coral. And then on the last day, on the twenty-fourth of May, we will go on a snorkel trip to Caye Caulker and you will know to identify some common fish and see it in the water and have this experience. So to bring together the yoga, the environmental consciousness and the practical component to it."
On all days, the session goes from nine a.m. through to five p.m. and the registration cost is three hundred and fifty dollars.