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The UK's ads watchdog has slapped down the London Dungeon for running an animated ad on the tube which showed Mary Tudor, England's last Roman Catholic Queen, morphing into a flesh-eating zombie.
The ad ran on digital billboards on the London Underground, with the text "New for 2010 Bloody Mary: Killer Queen At the London Dungeon".
It featured a "portrait" of Mary "sitting still and passively".
Then, the ASA reports: "Suddenly and quickly she turned to face the viewer and opened her mouth wide in a threatening manner, as if she was screaming. At the same time, her face morphed into that of a zombie-like character, with bloody gashes, white flesh, rotting teeth and red eyes."
She then returned to normal, ready to transmogrify again.
Four people complained "the ad was likely to frighten and distress children, and was therefore inappropriate for display in an untargeted medium". Complainants said their children had been frightened by the ad, while another said he had seen children "visbily upset and shocked by the ad".
Strangely, there were no complaints from Roman Catholics or historians that the UK's biggest attractions vendor, Merlin Entertainment, was portraying the woman who sought to return England to communion with Rome as one of the undead with a taste for raw human flesh. Mary, of course, had recalcitrant Protestants burned at the stake. So even if she did have a taste for human flesh, it would have been cooked. Or at least smoked.
In its defence, Merlin Entertainment, the owner of the London Dungeon, said "'Bloody Mary' killed over 300 heretics during her reign but was one of Britain's lesser known villainous figures, overshadowed by her notorious father Henry VIII."
It said that "the object of the advertising was to show the dark side of her personality and portray her as a villain". Getting more people through the doors at the Dungeon would presumably just be a happy coincidence.
It added that it had "adhered to London Underground's guidelines in avoiding flames and excessive, dripping or running blood".
The ASA disagreed, saying it considered "that when the face morphed into the scary character, the bloody gashes, white flesh, rotting teeth, red eyes and the threatening expression meant it was not suitable for young children to see". It ordered the ad not to be run again.
Interestingly, the ASA did not take issue with the Dungeon's characterisation of the protestants Mary had torched as "heretics", something the Church of England might want to take issue with. Presumably it has no issue with turning the UK's bloody religious conflicts into tourist fodder.
Mary's younger sister Elizabeth 1 had a similar number of Catholics executed during her much longer reign. Her preferred method of bringing recusants to heel was to simply fine them for not turning up to Church of England services. But where's the gory waxen tableau in that? ®


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On his blog today, Brian Moon talks about setting up ForceType directives in Apache, specifically how to make "friendly URLs" without having to use mod_rewrite (which might not be installed on your server).
This has been covered before, but I was just setting up a new force type on our servers and thought I would mention it for the fun of it. You see lots of stuff about using mod_rewrite to make friendly URLs or SEO friendly URLs. But, if you are using PHP (and I guess other Apache modules) you can do it without mod_rewrite.
There's three steps to the process - adding the directive to your Apache config, making the script able to handle the request, avoiding duplication of content and returning a 404 error when there's no matching data.


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The Appalachian Cultural Music Association announces a new musical gathering for bluegrass, old time and Americana musicians and fans to be held at the Wytheville Meeting Center April 12 & 13, 2013. The purpose of "The ACMA Blue Ridge Acoustic Uprising" is to provide an avenue for the Appalachian Cultural Music Association to celebrate, promote, and recognize bluegrass, old time, gospel, classic country, and Appalachian style music through an annual gathering in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountain region.
This gathering titled "ACMA's Blue Ridge Acoustic Uprising" will be an event that brings together and recognizes the music and musicians who play what has been coined as "The Galax Sound". Our region is saturated with tremendous talent who create a unique musical experience. The 'Blue Ridge Acoustic Uprising' will be a unique convention to bring together bluegrass, old time and Americana musicians in a truly unique way.
Karl Cooler, an ACMA member, who came up with this descriptive "Galax Sound" title says, "Our region is saturated with tremendous talent who create a unique musical experience. The 'Blue Ridge Acoustic Uprising' will be a unique convention to bring together old time, bluegrass and Americana musicians in a way that no other gathering does."
Cooler recently released a recording on his Mountain Roads Recordings record label titled "Close Kin" that was the beginning of the idea for the Blue Ridge Acoustic Uprising. The regions of Southwestern Virginia, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia have been the core for the development of bluegrass, old time and many Americana forms of music.
Johnny Williams of Danville, Virginia, chairman of the committee organizing this event, says, "Our event will be unique to other musical gatherings especially noting that we will be 'formally' recognizing 'old time' musicians and their music.
Other than the Galax Fiddler's Convention held annually there is no 'official' recognition of the talents and accomplishments of old time musicians past and present. The ACMA through the Blue Ridge Acoustic Uprising will recognize and promote old time music and musicians as well as bluegrass and other acoustic forms of Americana Music."
The event will be "membership driven" and bands and individuals can sign up and become members at the ACMA website: www.appalachianculturalmusic.org
At the event April 12 & 13, 2013 there will be awards, workshops, children's activities, jam sessions, musical vendors, and a main stage for registered bands to perform and showcase for promoters, record label executives and fans of the music. Plans also include unveilings of artifacts to be placed in the ACMA's "Mountain Music Museum" to recognize pioneers who created and cultivated these forms of music.
Tickets will be available soon as well as information on area motel and hotel accommodations. Organizers are working with officials in Wytheville, Virginia to finalize details for this event. Information can also be found on the Blue Ridge Acoustic Uprising's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/BlueRidgeAcousticUprising
Inquiries concerning sponsorships and vendor applications are available at the ACMA's website shown above. The ACMA is a non-profit 501c3 organization which operates the Mountain Music Museum and Pickin Porch in Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee. www.mountainmusicmuseum.org and www.pickinporch.org
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"Any time a new pope is named, the Jewish community regards him with skepticism" wrote staff writer Marc Tracy in the New Republic recently. In summing up the achievements of the two previous heads of the Catholic Church, Tracy noted that both had affirmed that antisemitism is incompatible with Christianity and that the State of Israel has legitimacy.
Jews hope that the next incumbent will continue in the same vein. There were concerns about the cardinal from Honduras who was one of the frontrunners for the job. Canadian journalist Christine Williams wrote about him that "this outspoken antisemite reportedly blamed the Jews for deflecting attention away from 'Israeli injustices against the Palestinians' by arranging for the media to give undue attention to the Catholic sex abuse scandal."
Therefore, the election of Pope Francis was greeted with relief and enthusiasm throughout the Jewish world. Already the day after the announcement, a photograph was circulated showing the new Pope celebrating Chanukah in Buenos Aires, where he had been archbishop.
It was also reported that he visited another synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and that he hosted a memorial event on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. And he had shown solidarity with the Jewish community after the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. In his forward to a book by prominent Argentine rabbi Sergio Bergman, he described the author as "one of my teachers."
The news media cited Jewish interfaith activists praising the new Pope. Thus Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee described him as a "warm and sweet and modest man." Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League and Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center expressed their enthusiasm in superlatives. The headline of a large article in Israel's leading daily Ha'aretz read: "Francis is good for the Jews."
As soon as he was appointed, the new Pope invited the Chief Rabbi of Rome to his inaugural mass at the Vatican and wrote: "I sincerely hope to be able to contribute to the progress that relations between Jews and Catholics have enjoyed since the Second Vatican Council." Israeli President Shimon Peres hastened to invite the new Pope to Israel, stating that Vatican-Jewish relations are "now at their best in the last 2,000 years."
The suggestion that Pope Francis may not have done enough to protect the more than 30,000 victims of Argentina's Dirty War between 1976 and 1983, when he was a prominent church leader in his country, were vehemently denied by a Vatican spokesperson. In the Pope's defence, he stated that "there have been many declarations of how much he did for many people to protect them from military dictatorship."
But as much as Pope Francis may have reached out to Jews, it's nevertheless legitimate to ask about the attitude of the Catholic Church he now heads to Judaism.
Though the charge of Jewish deicide has been dropped, and the traditional teaching that Christianity has superseded Judaism and thus rendered it irrelevant, even harmful, is no longer openly promulgated, the limits of the relationship between the Catholic – i.e., universal and comprehensive – religion and the faith of Israel can probably never be viewed by the former as symmetrical.
One of the most prominent theologians of interfaith dialogue, the late Krister Stendahl, a former dean of Harvard Divinity School and Lutheran Bishop of Stockholm, wrote in a celebrated essay on religious pluralism that "universalism is the ultimate arrogance in the realm of religion" because it's "by definition and unavoidably spiritual colonialism, spiritual imperialism."
In Rev. Stendhal's view, true interfaith understanding must affirm that "in the eyes of God, we are all minorities." Those who claim "catholic" universal truth may choose to be tolerant of others, but that's not enough. Tolerance, he wrote, has by its very nature "an elitist lining," either because the other doesn't matter too much or out of civil noblesse oblige.
The likelihood of the Vatican telling its 1.3 billion adherents that they're in any sense a minority is difficult to imagine. Therefore, as much as we've reason to applaud the positive statements by the new Pope, we cannot forget that he heads a curia that – unlike the many liberal Catholic individuals and groups it has been my privilege to know and work with – may regard Judaism as inferior.
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DENVER, CO – Great Divide will release three seasonals on October 1st. This release will include: Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout, Fresh Hop Pale Ale and Hibernation Ale. These storied seasonals will be available from October through December.
Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout is Yeti Imperial Stout's sophisticated sibling. They may be from the same clan, but they have entirely different personalities. Oak aging gives a subtle vanilla character, rounding out Yeti's intense roastiness and huge hoppy nature. Who says you can't tame a Yeti? At 9.5% ABV, it is available in 22oz. bottles, growlers out of the Great Divide Tap Room and 5-gallon kegs. It boasts a perfect Ratebeer.com score of 100 and was named one of BeerAdvocate's 2010 "Top 100 Beers On Planet Earth."
Hibernation Ale has been our celebrated winter tradition since 1995 and is Colorado's original Strong Ale. This robust, dry-hopped ale has a malty richness balanced with a complex hop profile and hearty, warming character. At 8.7% ABV and a Ratebeer.com score of 98, Hibernation is available in 6-packs, growler fills out of the Great Divide Tap Room, 5-gallon kegs and 15.5-gallon kegs. Hibernation is a 3-time Great American Beer Festival medalist.
Fresh Hop Pale Ale is brewed with fresh, whole cone hops from the Pacific Northwest. We ship these "wet" hops to Denver overnight and brew shortly after harvest, imparting an intensely grassy hop aroma and citrus hop flavor in a medium-bodied ale. This year's batch was brewed with Cascade, Centennial and Simcoe whole-cone hops. Clocking in at 55 IBUs and 6.1% ABV, Fresh Hop is a labor of love. It has garnered a Ratebeer.com score of 98 and is available in 22oz. bottles, growler fills in the Great Divide Tap Room and 5-gallon kegs.
Great Divide brews some of the globe's most balanced yet assertive and flavorful beers. These beers have landed an impressive amount of acclaim: Great Divide beers have earned 17 Great American Beer Festival awards and 5 World Beer Cup awards. Great Divide was also ranked 14th in Ratebeer.com's 2012 "Best Brewers in the World" and was ranked 7th in Beer Advocate's 2010 "All-Time Top Brewers." But why take their word for it? Crack open a bottle and decide for yourself.
Great Divide brewed 26,070 barrels in 2011, a 34% increase over 2010 production.
Through August 2012, Great Divide's production volume has increased 34% over the same period in 2011.


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General rules for citing sources in scientific writing
When to cite: All ideas and facts that are obtained from other sources must be properly cited, unless they qualify as common knowledge. (If in doubt about whether something is common knowledge, provide a citation).
How to cite: If the author's name is used as part of the sentence, the citation should be in the form "Holsinger (1995) argues that X" If the author's name is not used in the sentence, then the citation should be in the form "(Holsinger, 1995; Jockusch and Simon, 1997; Caira et al., 1998)". If there are one or two authors, list their names in the citation. If there are more than two authors, list the first author followed by et al. rather than listing all of the authors in citations. In the literature cited section, all authors must be listed. Refer to the example by Dr. Schwenk above for general guidelines.
Where to cite: The citation should be placed at the end of the sentence if it applies to the entire sentence (before the punctuation) or immediately following the information it applies to. If several sentences in a row contain information from the same source, the source may be cited at the end of the last sentence.
Scientific writing advice • Special formatting rules apply to scientific names Scientific binomials and trinomials, and genus names used alone are always italicized (or underlined). The genus should be capitalized; the species and subspecies start in lower case. e.g. Homo sapiens Homo sapiens sapiens
The first time the scientific name of a species is mentioned, it should be spelled out in full. After that, the genus name is usually abbreviated (e.g. H. sapiens).
Higher taxonomic categories (e.g. families and phyla) are capitalized but not italicized. e.g. Chordata, Insecta, Pongidae, Plethodontidae, Scincidae
Many taxonomic category names are also used informally (with different endings), in which case they are not capitalized. e.g. Not everyone is as fond of plethodontid salamanders as the author is.
Common names should generally be capitalized (e.g. Turkey Vulture).
• Write in a scientific style. In general, discuss ideas, not "papers" or "articles". Do not talk about the "assignment". Avoid a book report style. Write for a professional audience.
For example, do NOT begin with a long-winded introduction:
Dr. Elizabeth Jockusch and Dr. Ima Nobody of the University of Connecticut published the following paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: "The role of hybridization in salamander evolution."
Appropriate would be:
Jockusch and Nobody (2001) investigated how birds use their sense of smell.
• State the authors' findings in past tense: Jockusch and Nobody (2001) reported a general increase in researcher preferences for smelly birds.
• Avoid excessive quotation: In general, you should paraphrase what the authors say, not quote it, in scientific writing. Quoting is appropriate only when the original phrasing is particularly memorable. Unlike in some fields, where support for a claim comes from citing statements made by authorities, in science, the primary support comes from presentation of the authors' data, not of their words. Remember that you still must use citations to give credit for the ideas, even when you are explaining them in your own words.
• Avoid "touchy-feely" writing that relies on personal experience or feelings. Your papers should not contain the phrase "I feel that X". The important question is what you think and what you can support. (In many cases, "I feel that X" can be appropriately replaced by "I think that X" in scientific writing).
• The word "data" is the plural of "datum". Therefore, it is correct to say that "the data show..." not "the data shows...".


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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans' confidence in the economy in May had its biggest drop in eight months as consumers fretted about slow hiring, a big stock market drop and the global economy, says a private research group.
The Conference Board says its Consumer Confidence Index now stands at 64.9, down from a revised 68.7 in April. It was the biggest drop since October 2011.
Economists were expecting a reading of 70, according to a FactSet poll of analysts. The current level is below February's 71.6, which is the highest level it's been in a year.
Consumer confidence is widely watched because consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity. The measure is significantly below the 90 reading that indicates a healthy economy. But the current level is well above the 40 it hit last October.
But the latest reading is expected to be well above the 40 figure reached last October and the all-time low of 25.3 in February 2009.


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Create a player and enter "Wayne Gretzky" as a case-sensitive name. His stats will all be at 99.Breakaway
When you are coming down on a breakaway, press C-stick Up. This will cause your player drop the puck to his skate, then kick it back up to his skate. This is a highly effective move in the game.Through the leg shot
Press the C-stick Down to shoot the puck through the legs.Easy goal
While holding your shot, move the Analog-stick to find open netting for an easy goal. This can be done for any shot. Note: This can only be done if you have manual aim activated. A target will appear if you have manual aim on.
While skating near the opposing team's goal, hold L and press C-stick in any direction. You will flip the puck up into the air and bat it into the net like a baseball.
While moving in on the net, move Analog-stick Left to Right repeatedly and quickly. The goalie will usually dive, leaving a lot of room for an easy high shot.
While going down the ice (on the left side if your player is left handed), curve across the net then move the C-stick Left and hold the Analog-stick Up/Right to roof it.
When you try to do a special deke with the C-stick with a player that does not have the skills to do it, it can be taken advantage of. When another player on your team is close to you, do one of the special dekes. The player will loose control of the puck and it will be loose on the ice. Then, use the other player to quickly shoot the loose puck. This shot is a very fast one-timer that the goalie usually has no chance against.
Send a player in one-on-one with the goalie. Pass the puck back to either your Right Wing or Left Wing. As soon as your stick leaves the ice, the goalie should dive and the net will be wide open for a shot.
To do the scoop move, stop behind the opponents net. Hold L then move the C-stick Right. You will put the puck on top of your stick and shovel it in the net.Easy money
Intervene in every game in the third period. If you want to play more, intervene in the second period, but you must be winning to get more money.High rated prospects in Dynasty mode
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Santana's outing
Irish or not, the Mets' eyes were smiling after Johan Santana's outing back in St. Lucie this morning against Mets' minor leaguers. During the intrasquad game, the staff ace worked four innings, surrendering six hits and a pair of runs, while whiffing five on 56 pitches, 40 strikes.
Santana stayed back at Traditions Field while the rest of Big League Camp took a 5-1 loss next to Mickey and Minney's place (details below on The Dish).
In other pitching news, Bobby Parnell topped out at 96 mph on the in-stadium gun (a rare luxury at Spring Training sites) while working a perfect frame after Jonathan Niese threw the first four innings.
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- ATL and NYM: Same two teams will face off four of the next six games.
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Josef Frank was inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when he created Hawai. In the museum he found a remarkable collection of Trees of Life from the north side of the Indian peninsula. The Hawaii print, with its matted stems, is similar to these trees. The print was designed in 1943-1945 and is one of Josef Frank's biggest prints with a 180 cm rapport.
Josef Frank's textiles with the 315 linen designation are best suited for curtains, pillows and other textile products. They can also be used as upholstery fabric on furniture that is not exposed to excessive wear, such as in the home.
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June, 2013
Reducing Muscle Hypertonicity with a Deep Muscle Simulator
By Jeffrey Tucker, DC, DACRB
Editor's note: This article is the first in a series on technologies in practice.
The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) has popularized our awareness of checking for asymmetries in the body during movement. Muscle strains and joint dysfunctions caused by asymmetrical movements over time can generally be reduced by treatment using the Deep Muscle Stimulator (DMS).
The DMS is a hand held device that delivers strong vibration, oscillation and percussion. Use of the DMS appears to reduce stiffness by signaling inhibition of the sympathetic nervous system. Palpate tight or stiff fascial tissue or a taut and tender muscle fiber, and then apply the Deep Muscle Stimulator (DMS) device for approximately two to three minutes, the post treatment/application will leave the skin red, warm and it will palpate as "softer." This probably has to do with local changes in the arterioles and capilliaries and the mixing up of tissue viscosity.
To really appreciate the DMS, we need to review some neurology. Golgi receptors are located in dense connective tissues such as ligaments, joint capsules (Golgi end organs) and around myotendinous junctions (Golgi tendon organs).1 Golgi receptors are stimulated by slow active stretching or strong local pressure resulting in a lowered firing rate of associated alpha motor neurons via the spinal cord, this leads to decreased active muscle tone in related muscle fibers.
Pacinian and Ruffini bodies are found in dense connective tissue – muscle fascia, tendons, ligaments, aponeuroses and joint capsules. Pacinian corpuscles are more concentrated in the tendinous portion, deep joint capsules; deep spinal ligaments; plantar and palmer tissues; periosteum and fascia of the antebrachial, crural, abdominal fascia and fascia of the masseter and lateral thigh.2 The Pacinian receptors are stimulated by high-velocity thrust manipulations and vibratory or oscillatory techniques like the DMS (especially if held with constant pressure). Hanna4 suggests this stimulation may improve local neuromuscular coordination.
Ruffini endings are found in joint capsules, the dura mater, the ligaments of peripheral joints, the hand and the knee. The thoracolumbar region has significant amounts of both Pacinian and Ruffini receptors.3 Stimulation of the Ruffini receptors has a local relaxing effect and a whole body relaxing effect, especially if performed with slow and deep tissue techniques and/or faster strokes with the DMS. The DMS device becomes an extension of your hand and you control the speed of movement, depth (superficial or deep) and amount of pressure applied to the tissues.
The Golgi, Pacinian and Ruffini receptors are type I and II receptors and only a small portion of the sensory information comes from these. The majority of the sensory input comes from the type III and IV receptors called interstitial receptors. The majority of these fibers function as mechanoceptors and help in fine tuning the nervous system's regulation of heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration.5
Application of the Deep Muscle Stimulator prepares the paraspinal muscles and soft tissues to receive higher force manipulation that will allow gross structural spinal and postural changes. The DMS cycles seem to mix and re-mix the soft tissue aggregate. Motion palpation allows us to feel parts of tendons, joint capsules, aponeuroses, fascia, ligaments, retinaculae, septa, membranes, etc that become too tight. The DMS can be used to loosen these structures. Then the patient can be taught how to stretch (static or dynamic) the same muscles that were treated with the DMS. If you palpate structures that have become too loose, the patient is taught stabilization or motor control exercises.
One particular technique I like to use with the DMS is covering the posterior myofascial chain or superficial back line as called by Tom Myers. I start this technique by using the DMS on the bottom of the foot and travel cephalad with the DMS going over the posterior calves, thighs, sacrotuberous ligament, gluteals and paraspinals up to the cervicothoracic junction. This procedure takes about two to five minutes per side. This seems to lower the resistance of spinal disks and ligaments, thereby making changes in spinal position easier and pain free.
One of the most practical applications using the DMS includes treating patients with Janda's Lower Crossed Syndrome and the Layer Syndrome. Muscles that tend to tightness and are key to treat using the DMS are the gastroc-soleus, thigh adductors, tensor fascia latae, piriformis, psoas, hamstrings, thoracolumbar erector spinae and levator scapulae. The posterior layer of the lumbodorsal fascia (PLF) connects the spinous processes of the lumbar vertebrae with the iliac crest and the gluteus maximus muscle. Based on the fiber orientation of the PLF and gluteus maximus, the PLF connects all four limbs and acts as a tendon of the gluteus maximus.
As practitioners we deal with client's pain, tension, stiffness, limitations and injuries. The DMS is a useful tool to help you recognize and release faulty habitual patterns of movement and posture.
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The top ecommerce websites in France are Amazon, Cdiscount.com and Fnac. Other top retail sites include eBay, Carrefour, Rakuten, Google Shopping, Leroy Merlin, La Redoute and Apple sites. It's worth checking out those popular ecommerce sites/platforms to see which one(s) would be the best fit for your product in terms of traffic volume, competition and the type of ecommerce buyers they attract.
The top products/product categories for French online buyers include culture, trips, apparel, electronics and shoes. Offering products from these categories can help you establish your presence on the French ecommerce market.
The top payment methods for digital purchases include debit/credit cards, PayPal and direct payment through a bank. It's important to provide your (potential) customers with payment methods of their preference. In many cases, if online shoppers can't find their preferred or trusted methods of payment during checkout, they will abandon the shopping cart.
Optimizing checkout for your customers can have the biggest impact on your conversion rates. This is crucial also for your international online buyers. Thus, take care to provide international payment, currency conversion and suitable shipping methods.
Mobile commerce is shaping the future of ecommerce in France, but also around the world. Ecommerce sellers should bear this in mind when setting up their online stores and product listings. Mobile optimization and great mobile buying experience are a must for all growth-minded online sellers.
To drive French traffic to your website, local marketing & SEO will help you get it right. When you localize your online store for international markets, enable international search engines to index your content to improve your organic international traffic. You can also leverage services, such as Google Shopping and Facebook ads internationally.
To ship your products to France in the most efficient and cost-effective way, use global shipping / parcel forwarding services. This way you can get competitive international shipping rates, on average 30% lower, and pass the lower cost on to your buyers, increasing your competitive advantage.
Selling on the French ecommerce market is a great option for growth-minded online sellers. When you launch your store in other countries, there are a few useful facts and data that you should consider.
There are 55,860,330 Internet users in France and Internet penetration amounts to 86.40%. In terms of device usage, there are 42,399,000 smartphone users and smartphone penetration amounts to 65.30%. On a global scale, smartphones are being more and more widely used for digital purchases.
The total population of France is 65,233,271. The median age is 41.4. The language spoken in France is French and the currency is Euro. The country code top-level domain is .fr and calling code +33.
According to the International Monetary Fund, GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP) is 2,835,746 (millions of Current Int$) and nominal GDP is 2,583,560 (US$MM). GDP (PPP) per capita is 43,550 Int$ and GDP (nominal) per capita is 39,869 US$. Real GDP growth rate is 1.60%.
Country Profile
|Language(s) spoken
|GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP)
|Nominal GDP
|GDP growth rate
|Number of Internet users
|Internet penetration
Top 5 Ecommerce Platforms / Retail Sites
|1. Amazon
|2. Cdiscount.com
|3. Fnac
|4. eBay
|5. Carrefour
Top 5 Products/Product Categories
|1. Culture
|2. Trips
|3. Apparel
|4. Electronics
|5. Shoes
Top 3 Payment Methods for Digital Purchases
|1. Debit/credit cards
|2. PayPal
|3. Direct payment through a bank
Selling in France is worth considering for many international ecommerce sellers. A well thought out international sales strategy should help you overcome the initial burden of translating and localizing your online store.
If you're a global online merchant already exporting to France, you may be happy with your sales figures. However, you may have noticed that your French, and your international traffic in general, converts at a much lower conversion rate than your domestic traffic, even in markets that share the same language. The likely reason being, many of the components of localization, beyond translation alone, have not been optimized.
A fully localized buying experience
Currently, international online retailers must do a great deal of manual work, matching product categories, attributes, sizes, etc. It's not uncommon for them to not even be sure if they're doing it correctly. Instead, trying to localize their online stores by themselves, ecommerce sellers find it time-consuming and confusing.
Luckily, thanks to the developments in machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), online merchants don't have to spend a lot of time on ecommerce translation & localization when launching their stores abroad.
A simple raw description is enough for AI to localize the whole content, extract attributes, convert sizes and map the right category in an accurate, efficient and consistent way. It's just a matter of a quick set up before your localized stores are launched on tens of markets.
Combining machines' capabilities and the intelligence of the human brain is often the easiest and fastest way to make the most of your international sales potential.
Webinterpret enables online retailers and marketplace sellers on eBay and Amazon to instantly expand worldwide and boost their online sales. Our simple Plug & Play solution provides international buyers with a comprehensive end-to-end local shopping experience.
In partnership with PayPal, Webinterpret powers PayPal's Global Sellers program, providing translation, price and size conversion, stock synchronisation, customer service and international shipping.


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HON's 10500 Series office furniture collection features durable laminate with the look of real wood, giving the sturdy desks and storage long-lasting quality. At a spacious 72" wide and 36" deep, this bow-front desk features two 3/4 height file pedestals and dual grommets for wire management.
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Inspired by practicality and invested in understanding the needs of its customers, The HON Company strives to establish meaningful connections resulting in product solutions and customer support that exceed market demands. As a leading designer and manufacturer of workplace furniture including chairs, storage, panel systems, tables and desks, HON's commitment to serving its customers is rooted in reliable performance and a member culture that is approachable, confident, smart and ready to serve. Headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa, The HON Company has numerous manufacturing facilities strategically located throughout the United States, and markets its products through a nationwide network of loyal dealers and retailers. The HON Company is an operating company of HNI Corporation.
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HON is among the biggest names in the office furniture industry because of their commitment to excellence in office storage and organization solutions. Their filing cabinets, pedestals, desks, hutches and complete systems have set a high standard when it comes to merging simple aesthetic quality and high functionality and efficiency. HON started out by creating the best filing cabinets and storage systems in the industry, and their more recent expansion into desks and complete office systems has been marked with that same focus on office furniture excellence.
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"'One Language Fits All' is not how large systems are developed," says AdaCore's Robert Dewar. "Programmers need to mix and match, using different languages that are appropriate for different jobs, or incorporating legacy software components written in different languages. AdaCore is answering that requirement, through both products and support services, for customers who are using other languages along with Ada."
AdaCore's multi-language solutions include GNAT Pro C and GNAT Pro C++ for support of C and C++ development, respectively, as well as a general-purpose multi-language build tool (GPRbuild). For systems that need to work with Java, AdaCore supplies the GNAT Ada-Java Interfacing Suite (for communicating between Java and natively compiled Ada) and GNAT Pro for the JVM. Combining Ada and Python, for example to drive Ada test suites through Python scripts, is supported by the GNAT Component Collection (GNATcoll). And GNAT Pro for .NET allows smooth interfacing, through managed code, between Ada and C# or other languages that compile to Common Language Runtime assemblies. These are in addition to GNAT Pro's existing support for the foreign language interfacing facilities specified in the Ada standard.
Multi-language capabilities are especially important in safety-critical and/or high-security applications. For example avionics systems typically consist of components at different safety levels – such as flight software at DO-178B Level A in Ada, and entertainment software at Level E, perhaps in Java. In the security arena, a MILS-compliant architecture can host different applications at different Evaluation Assurance Levels (EALs), where applications at the highest levels might be written in a language such as SPARK (an Ada subset augmented with annotations / "contracts" that allow formal proofs of security properties), whereas applications at lower levels might be written in languages that do not support such rigor. AdaCore's multi-language solutions address such needs.


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Mohammad El Akkari is a guard for Moutahed, Tripoli, in Lebanon's Division A League Final 8. He scored 113 points in Tuesday's 173-141 victory against Bejjeh, Jbeil—a slight improvement over his season average of 7.6 points per game. Akkari was 40 of 69 from the field, including 32 of 59 from 3-point range, though because there doesn't appear to be a boxscore, it's not known how many shots he took relative to his teammates. Akkari also made his only free-throw attempt, which clearly means he needs to work on drawing fouls.
Akkari breaks into the 100-plus point club! [FIBA Asia, h/t to Trace]
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