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Tickets for ANA's Sydney-Tokyo Boeing 787-9 flights now on sale
Japanese airline ANA will begin Boeing 787-9 flights between Sydney and Tokyo from 11 December 2015, introducing competition for Qantas on the resurgent Australia-Japan route.
The daily service will be flown by a Boeing 787-9, which will depart from Tokyo's downtown Haneda Airport at 10.10pm as NH879 to reach Sydney at 9.35am the next day.
After spending the day in Sydney, ANA's Dreamliner will be wheels-up at 9.30pm as flight NH880, allowing business travellers to hit the ground running in Haneda – perhaps fuelled by an extra strong shot of coffee – at 5.05am the next day.
Inbound travellers headed for elsewhere in Japan will have plenty of domestic ANA connections to choose from, with the airline offering an add-on 'Experience Japan' fare of ¥10,800 (A$120) for any domestic segment.
Tickets for the new route are now on sale, with return business class prices from the December 11 debut of ANA's flight NH879 through to early January 2016 start at ¥304,720 or $3,312.
Tickets can also be snapped up using frequent flyer points from a diverse array of sources including Virgin Australia, Singapore Airlines, American Express Membership Rewards and Westpac Altitude Rewards, as well as miles bought 'in bulk' from Avianca and United.
Read: How to book ANA's Sydney-Tokyo flights with frequent flyer points
ANA pulled out of the Sydney-Tokyo route in July 1999, leaving the corridor in the hands of Qantas and its Oneworld partner Japan Airlines.
Qantas currently runs a daily flight between Sydney and Tokyo's Haneda Airport, while Japan Airlines operates a daily Boeing 777 service between Sydney and Narita. Qantas' low-cost arm Jetstar flies from several Australia cities into Tokyo and Osaka.
Inside ANA's Boeing 787-9
ANA has the world's largest fleet of Boeing 787s, with both the original 787-8 (for which it was the launch airline) and the larger, longer-range 787-9.
Sydney will be seeing an 'international' version of ANA's Boeing 787-9, rather than the model used for domestic flights (which has more seats overall, and only recliners in business class instead of fully-flat beds).
The international Dreamliner has 215 seats split between business class, premium economy and economy cabins.
The 48 business class seats, arranged in a staggered 1-2-1 layout so that each passenger enjoys privacy as well as direct aisle access, convert to a fully flat bed.
A cosy 21 seat premium economy zone offers more legroom across the 2-3-2 configuration, with a swing-up legrest in the front row and swing-down footrests in all other rows, plus AC and USB power for every seat.
There are no surprises in economy, with 146 seats arranged 3-3-3 at a respectable 34 inch pitch and AC and USB sockets close at hand.
ANA has also dressed one of its Boeing 787-9s in an eye-catching Star Wars livery...
... inspired by R2-D2, to be precise...
Read: New Boeing 787 has unique Star Wars livery
Also read: ANA's fleet now includes the Millennium Falcon?
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Before they start flying here it might be good if they allowed ticketing here. For some bizarre reason, when they pulled out of Australia they cancelled all ticketing rights so Australian travel agents cannot sell any routes on this airline. Despite being a major member of Star Alliance and a very big airline, I can ticket for instance Velavia from Minsk to Prague without problem but cannot ticket ANA from Tokyo to Los Angeles. So they obviously don't consider Australia very highly.
Australia - Japan market has been dominant by Japan Airlines, Qantas and Jetstar in recent years. It is good to see ANA back.
However, I hope ANA can consider codesharing and tie up with Virgin Australia so Velocity members can earn and burn points on ANA and vice versa, along with their frequent flyer benefit, codesharing and interlining, to increase the catchment of passengers, particularly from Adelaide and Tullamarine.
Of course, on return, Velocity members will then be able to get shorter flying time between Australia and North East Asia via Haneda rather than Changi, which I believe it is important for VA if they want their virtual flying network to outweigh Qantas.
re My comment about Flat beds in Business class, now that we know they are flying the dreamliner ,the business class flat bed is confirmed. There was some doubt about whether they may have used the 767 with a cradle type non flat bed seat in business. I think the expectation of a flat bed in business class is reasonable these days if you are Forking out that kind of money, so I can't understand why you have a problem with that Hugo.
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Finally some good respresentation fro *A. Now we're not beholden to OW and QF. With NH, SQ, TK, TZ, TG we finally get some good representations. QFF is a joke, a fraud and I can't wait to see the end of the bastards.Bring it on ACCC, the sooner the better
Assuming the times posted in this story are true (given that ANA declined to comment), then it is likely related to the long haul slot times available at HND. The Australia route hasn't been given any of the day time long haul slots.
ANA could also tie the flight times into a long haul ex-HND flight that does have day time slots, such as Europe.
With these assumed flight times almost the same as the QF HND flights, is it likely that the extra seats NH puts in the market will trigger the QF flight to downgrade to a 330?
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Or put on a tag flight to MEL
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The business class on the seat map looks like staggered seat as their 77W, but the video looks like reverse herringbone. Do you know which one will we get?
Hope they don't reverse the decision.
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Excellent news for skiers, and with a 5 am arrival and additional AUD$120 fare through to Sapporo you could be knee-deep in Niseko powder at 2 pm ! Actually Hyperdia suggests that there is a 7:30 am monorail that could see you connecting to the Shinkansen for a 10 am arrival in Nagano - amazing.
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so so so excited! I hope this competition encourages Japan Airlines to permanently put the 777ER with the suites on the Syd route.
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Can get to Hakuba by 9.30am
Monorail to Hamamatsucho then Yamanote sen to Tokyo then 7.20 Shinkansen to Nagano arrive 8.48am
Did this trip in May
"No surprises in economy" ...are you kidding ! 34in pitch - wow that's huge ! Yes it has the now infamously standard 3-3-3 but 34in pitch will make a huge difference to passenger comfort - I would go out of my way to fly with them even though I have QF FF !
I agree Richard, if I had to choose between knee crushing 31' seating pitch and 3-3-3 seating with >32' pitch I'd choose the 3-3-3 seating anyday. At least you can book at the back of the aircraft where the seating reduces to 2-4-2 so it's more bearable.
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Any word when Star Alliance miles will be usable for award bookings?
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Over the past couple of decades, the popularity of low-carbohydrate diets such as South Beach and Atkins have helped to propagate the common misconception that carbs are bad. And despite the fact that dietitians have and continue to promote all things, including carbs, in moderation, the stigma of the word scares away many prospective dieters.
Diets emphasizing a carb-cutting approach still have a stronghold among those seeking to shed pounds quickly. But a growing body of research indicates that, from a long-term perspective, this is not an effective strategy. In fact, a large, multi-center study found that the thinnest people ate the most carbs; the heaviest people ate the fewest.
If you're a hamburger (bun included) away from giving up on your diet, pay attention. Carbs are not the enemy. Incorporated wisely into a balanced diet, they can actually promote and help maintain weight loss. Here's how.
- Carbs curb your appetite. High in fiber and slow to digest, these appetite tamers can effectively satisfy you (or at least take the edge off your hunger) on fewer calories, while keeping you from overdoing it at meals or between. In general, "good" carbs refer to those that are not processed, says registered dietitian Dawn Blatner, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. Dieters may have good luck with foods high in resistant starch. Some nutritious, diet-friendly carb options are whole grains, beans, pasta, bread, potatoes, and fruits and vegetables.
- Carbs boost energy and mood. Weight loss aside, the body needs 130 grams of carbs each day to ensure proper brain functioning. Additionally, "carbohydrates in a well-balanced diet can help produce adequate amounts of feel-good compounds such as serotonin," Blatner says. "They are also the main group of foods used by our body for energy, so eating unprocessed carbs in moderation helps keep energy levels up." That's particularly important when you're trying to lose weight, as an energy boost may be just what you need to supercharge your workouts.
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The View From Beijing
Speaking of possible Sino-American enmity, one good way to ensure that 21st century geopolitics is dominated by conflict between the United States and China would be to listen to listen to Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagan about legitimacy (via Brian Beutler):
The traditional answer, the U.N. Security Council, no longer suffices, if it ever did. Under the United Nations Charter, states are prohibited from using force except in cases of self-defense or when explicitly authorized by the Security Council. But this presupposes that the members of the Security Council can agree on the threat and the appropriate response. From Rwanda to Kosovo to Darfur, however, and from Iraq to North Korea to Iran, the Security Council has not been able to agree and has failed to act decisively. Its permanent members are deeply divided by conflicting interests as well as by clashing beliefs about the nature of sovereignty and the right of the international community to intervene in the internal affairs of nations.
If not the Security Council, then who? The answer is the world's democracies, the United States and its democratic partners in Europe and Asia. As the war in Kosovo showed, democracies can agree and act effectively even when major non-democracies, such as Russia and China, do not. Because they share a common view of what constitutes a just order within states, they tend to agree on when the international community has an obligation to intervene. Shared principles provide the foundation for legitimacy.
What is a patriotic Chinese defense official supposed to make of the idea that the United States claims that it and its key allies should be permitted to invade any country anywhere without China's agreement while China, presumably, can only intervene with the approval of UNSC P-5 members like the US, France, and England? It would be one thing to try to read the Kosovo precedent as saying that NATO won't give China a veto over actions in its own backyard.
But to survey the wreckage in Iraq, and conclude that despite the lessons seen there we can't defer to the UN (even with an exception for self defense) on the grounds that the UN might sometimes say no is very weak tea. Meanwhile, for all this talk of an alliance of democracies, I see no particular sign that India, South Africa, Brazil, etc., are actually clamoring for a more interventionist United States or Russia's marginalization on the world stage. I don't say we should give China and absolute veto over US policy, but if we don't want China to become an enemy we need the international rules of the road to be something a responsible Chinese leader could possibly accept. Two-tiered sovereignty that classes China among the disfavored nations isn't going to cut it.


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Making your own gold: Who needs colliding neutron stars?
So, if you wanted to, how would you make gold? Well, according to scientists, you need two neutron stars. Then, get them to collide.
Neutron stars, relates the story of the discovery of the origin of gold, as told in USA Today (Oct. 16), are the smallest, densest stars. The collision of two is known as a kilonova. After the explosion, some of the debris coalesces into heavy elements, including gold, platinum and uranium.
Of course, who needs neutron stars when, in the 1800s, the method of making gold had already been discovered? According to the Morning Republican (Aug. 28, 1872) of Little Rock, Ark. (in a story datelined to the Aug. 11 San Francisco Chronicle), there had been an amazing discovery of "a chemical process, which, when applied to base metals, transmutes them into gold—pure, shining, veritable gold."
The paper, noting that the news was too important to be withheld from the public, told that three months ago, "a plain-looking man, of American birth, presented himself at one of our leading banks and solicited an interview with the manager." He then took from his valise a "mass of dingy metal, looking half like copper and half like brass."
A prominent assayer was called in, who took it away with him, and the next day reported that it was nearly pure gold.
The stranger asked the bank to send it to the Mint for coinage. "It was there again submitted to the tests usual, and the next day its value was retuned in double eagles—something more than eight thousand dollars—and it was placed to the credit of the stranger."
The stranger returned again, a week later, with a much larger piece of this same metal. He was asked where he got it from to which "The answer was very brief, yet in it were involved the most momentous consequences to commerce, to the vast system of labor and capital employed in the mining enterprises of the state, to the precious metal basis of trade in every land, and to the maintenance of government."
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"I will make you the depository of my gold," he told the banker. "You may control its issue, and we will together share the power it brings, but the process must remain forever in my own heart."
After that, he kept returning with more and more of his homemade gold.
"Some of it has been converted into coin and put circulation," reported the newspaper. "Many of our readers who believe they are handling the product of our gold mines, now daily receive and pay out this substance, created from base metals by one of our most unobtrusive citizens."
The Morning Republican's version of the story left out an important disclaimer at the end of the Chronicle's telling. It read, "The above extraordinary story is told upon the authority of a gentleman who is a stranger to the editor of the Chronicle… We simply give the startling recital, leaving our readers to form their own estimate of its credibility."
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Even as the country's rhino population bounces back with record numbers, a new jungle lodge by the Taj Group is seeking to redefine the wilderness experience in Nepal.
Photographs by Carol Sachs
The jungle was so still that the snap of a twig sounded like a gunshot. I froze, hunched over in a half-crouch, and peered through a thicket of rosewood and acacia. A dozen strides away, a one-horned rhinoceros cow wallowed in a muddy stream on the edge of the tall grass. "Can you see the calf?" whispered my guide, Mankumar. I sank to my haunches and craned my neck as the rhino splashed toward some succulent reeds to reveal a baby version of herself, seemingly tethered to its mother's hip.
It was a stunning moment. To my surprise and delight, I had glimpsed several rhinos here in Nepal's Chitwan National Park the day before. But those sightings had come from the isolated safety of a safari jeep, which is why I hadn't batted an eye when a big, nearsighted bull stared us down, weighing whether or not to charge. Today was different. Together with Mankumar and naturalist Dipu Sasi, I'd tracked the rhino cow through the jungle on foot, following colossal dung piles and flat, featureless footprints as big as dinner plates. Now, the only thing between me and the 1,600-kilogram animal was a stand of brambles no thicker than my pinky finger.
Mankumar and I watched in awed silence for a few tense minutes until the rhino and her calf lumbered deeper into the reeds. As we crept back to join Dipu on the game trail, our feet crunching in the apricot-colored fallen leaves of the sal trees towering above us, I knew this was one animal encounter that I'd never forget.


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Top Speed Of Polaris Sportsman
The Sportsman is definitely one of the most common ATVs around today. Polaris has really cemented a reputation for making premium, high-quality products, and the Sportsman is no exception. Most modern Sportsmans have everything that you look for in an ATV, including very smooth performance and great acceleration numbers. And talking about performance, there's something that many Polaris fans often ask about their ATV: what is the top speed and the 0-60 time of the sportsman? I personally used to own a Sportsman years ago, so I know the answer!
And the answer is that the top speed & 0-60 numbers will depend on the ATVs trim. The most common Sportsman, the 570, will achieve a maximum top speed of 62 MPH and a 0-60 time of 11.5 seconds. The Sportsman XP 1000 will achieve a maximum top speed of 79 MPH and a 0-60 time of 6-7 seconds. The Sportsman 850 will achieve a top speed of 66 MPH and a 0-60 time of 10 seconds. The Sportsman 450 will achieve a top speed of 57 MPH and it will achieve that speed in about 11 seconds.
These numbers have been confirmed by hundreds of enthusiasts recording their speeds using a GPS. As long as the ATV doesn't have a rev/speed limiter installed, these will be the maximum velocities the Sportsman will reach. Also, there are other Sportsmans that I didn't mention on the top, like for example the kids models. If you want to know the top speeds of those models, please check below! I also talk about why you aren't achieving top speeds in your Sportsman below.
Top Speed Of Polaris Sportsman 90
The Polaris Sportsman 90, as you probably know, is the kid's version of the Sportsman, and it's going to achieve a top speed of about 34 MPH and it's going to take about 10 seconds for the quad to get to that speed. Now, remember that this is without the speed/rev limiter installed. If your kid's quad has a limiter (which it probably does) then it's probably won't even get to 10 MPH.
Top Speed Of Polaris Sportsman 400
The Sportsman 400 was introduced about 20 years ago, and it was well-received by the Polaris faithful for being well powered for its size and also because it was pretty affordable compared to other ATVs in its class. The top speed of this Sportsman has been clocked at 54 MPH in a straight line. This model was unfortunately discontinued because people stopped buying it but it seems that the model hasn't lost any popularity because resale values stay very high on the used market.
Top Speed Of Polaris Sportsman 800
Just like the Sportsman 400 above, this sportsman was introduced more than 15 years ago because people were demanding an ATV with high displacement to compete with the quads Yamaha was making at the time. The result was this beast with an 800cc engine. The top speed of this one has been clocked as high as 57 MPH, and the 0-60 times have been clocked at 9.5 seconds. Polaris discontinued this model when they introduced the Sportsman 850.
Top Speed Of Polaris Sportsman 335
This is a very old model made by Polaris, and as the name implies, the engine's displacement of this model is 334cc. Because this model is so light compared to other ones in its class, this model has great acceleration and top speed. This will reach a top speed of about 51 MPH, which is excellent when you consider how old this model is. Like the other sportsman models I have posted, Polaris eventually discontinued this one when they introduced the 250.
How To Make The Polaris Sportsman Faster
There's a high chance that most of you reading this article are interested in making your rides faster. If this is the case, then let me tell you that Sportsmans are among the easiest ATVs to power up! these are the best ways to make a sportsman faster, both for people on a budget and folks looking to spend some cash. (NOTE: For a more comprehensive how to guide on making your ATV faster that applies to all models, please click here)
- Install A Performance Air Filter: One of the first things I say to somebody looking to make their rides faster is to upgrade their air filter. To be more specific, I'm talking about a performance air filter from a brand like K&N that will really make your ATV absorb as much air as possible. Most stock air filters are pretty crappy after a few months, so if you have some time with your sportsman already, this might be the most effective mod you could make. When it comes to the pricing, a performance filter isn't super expensive, but it isn't super cheap either. It's, in my opinion, the best way to make any quad faster.
- Reduce Your ATV's Weight: If you are on a budget and aren't willing to spend any money on improving your ATV, then this is what's recommended. If you didn't know, there are several plastics and parts that you could remove from your sportsman with a wrench. These parts are much heavier than what you think and some folks have managed to remove up to 20 pounds of unnecessary parts from their quads. You are going to need some special tools for some of these parts so it's recommended that you contact your local Polaris dealer if you are willing to do this.
- Change The Gear Ratio: Another great way to improve your sportsman is by changing the gear ratio. There are some decent spur gears out there and if you could easily improve your speed over 5 MPH on a straight line. When it comes to the pricing, this is a very affordable change. You could easily get a decent spur & pinion gear for less than $50 dollars.
Top Speeds Of Other Popular ATVs
I have also made an article about the top speeds of other ATVs. I currently own a Raptor 700, YFZ450 and a TRX250, among other models. If you want to know the top speeds of those ATVs, please click below.


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The title sounds like science fiction, but it is as real as you and me.Can you imagine the distance of 3,000 light years away? That means it takes 3000 years for the light from this object(see photo below) to arrive at planet earth.And compare that distance to the distance of the sun which light only takes about 8 minutes to arrive here.Then try to visualise the vastness of space...MasyaAllah.All glories to You,my Lord-Allahu Rabul'alamin.
[50:6] Do they not look at the sky above them? How We have made it and adorned it, and there are no flaws in it?
I just wonder how come we are still arrogant and refuse to obey His commands?
[7:40] To those who reject Our Signs and treat them with arrogance, no opening will there be of the gates of heaven, nor will they enter the Garden, until the camel can pass through the eye of the needle: such is Our reward for those in sin.
[53:61] Sedang kamu adalah orang-orang yang sombong angkuh, lagi yang melalaikan kewajipan?[53:62] Oleh yang demikian, hendaklah kamu sujud kepada Allah (yang telah menurunkan Al-Quran itu) dan beribadatlah kamu kepadaNya (dengan sepenuh-penuh tauhid).
Below is a news I picked from Telegraph.Enjoy the beauty of Allah's creations:-
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in April 1990. After the problems with its main mirror were fixed, it started sending beautifully detailed images of space back to earth. Here are some of the best
Staring across interstellar space, the Cat's Eye Nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. One of the most famous planetary nebulae, NGC 6543 is over half a light-year across and represents a final, brief yet glorious phase in the life of a sun-like star
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The flaw in the plan here is that you can run the best ads in the world. You can take the best photos, you can edit them with the best presets in the most amazing trendy way, but at the end of the day, if you do not have a process in place to actually sell the product you create, you will fail.
Hey, Chris here. Today, we're starting a quick three-part series I'm calling, 'The Photo Business Refocus' and my goal with this series is to help you shift your focus to the things that will make the biggest impact in your business and away from the things that are really just distracting. Now, today, we're going to discuss the most pervasive issue that I see with photographers right now, other than COVID. That is, that they're hustling to grow their business, but they're not seeing any meaningful growth because they're focusing their attention on the wrong problems.
I get it, all right? As business owners, we're pulled in far too many directions. We're expected to market our business, run our own ads, blog consistently, be active and engaged on social media, AND create our own branding. This is just a tiny piece and it doesn't even touch our actual job of shooting sessions and editing and delivering products, and all of that fun stuff.
So, it's easy to see why we're overwhelmed and why we're overworked—and honestly, underpaid. So what's the answer then? Well, I can tell you what doesn't work. What doesn't work is what you're doing right now. That's multitasking, trying to balance everything, and do it ALL.
What works and what sure as hell doesn't work
The truth is multitasking is a lie. What multitasking really is, is doing a lot of things, but doing them all really crappy. So, instead, we need to refocus our attention on the one thing that's going to make the biggest impact, that's going to make the most dramatic changes in our business with the least amount of time.
I'm going to say that again: We need to refocus our attention on the one thing that's going to make the biggest, most dramatic impact on our business with the least amount of time to see results from it.
Until we're running these multi-member teams, if it's just you running this thing or you and your spouse, or you and a partner—then you have to focus on one thing. So, which one thing should you focus on? Well, I'd be willing to bet that I can guess what you think that one thing is: figuring out how to market your business.
Maybe you're meeting with local businesses or vendors to establish co-marketing relationships or you're learning about new advertising channels or maybe you're taking a course on Facebook Ads or something like that. Or you're just trying to figure out how to boost your social media following. In other words, your main focus right now—I would be willing to bet—is on bringing more clients into your business. More clients can't be a bad thing, right? Right?
Well, let's illustrate the flaw in that plan with just this little story. So, your new ad campaign, it's a work of art in and of itself. It's deserving of a Facebook Ad Pulitzer, if such a thing existed. You brought in dozens of new leads and you quickly filled your calendar to the brim with excited clients, the first of which had their session just yesterday.
That session, man, it was perfect. The beautiful golden hour light created this magical haze in your perfectly exposed, masterfully composed, wall-worthy photos. You edited those photos to pixel perfection. You posted a teaser, holding back from sharing everything right now, because they're just that good. Now the time had come. It was finally time to…what? Send them an online gallery and hope that you hear something back or deliver the digital files and pray that they actually do something with these masterpieces that you created for them?
That's where everything goes wrong.
Why you need a Sales Process
You see, the flaw in the plan, here, is that you can run the best ads in the world. You can take the best photos. You can edit them with the best presets in the most amazing, trendy way. You can have the most beautiful branding, but at the end of the day, if you do not have a process in place to actually sell the product you create, you will fail. Period. Full stop.
Without the ability to sell your work and make a profit in your business, nothing else matters.
Those fancy new ads could send thousands of new clients into your business. But if no money is coming out the other end, you're either going to work yourself to death shooting for peanuts or you're going to go out of business. Spoiler alert: 85% of your peers are going to do that within the next 12 to 24 months.
That's a big problem guys. And, it's because of this constant focus on getting more clients in the door. More clients don't matter if you don't have sales. Sales trumps everything. Now, if that's you though, you've been focusing on attracting more clients instead of serving the clients you already have and making more money from each of them as a result of that, then I want you to stop beating yourself up right now, okay? Because, of course, that's what you've been focusing on.
The Myth of More
You're surrounded by an industry and a society, in general, that says more is better. Take a look around. You're constantly pummelled with ads telling you that you need more clients, more sessions, more bookings, more leads. Why wouldn't you be constantly chasing more new clients? It's what everyone is telling you that you need, right? So, really, because you didn't know any better, that was the most responsible thing you could do as a business owner. You were doing the thing that everyone was telling you that you need to do.
I call this The Myth of More and it drives me absolutely crazy. So, I'm going to make it my job right now to tell you not to do that anymore. Let's look at this in a way that we're familiar with, that has nothing to do with photography.
You have a cell phone, right? You're probably listening to me on that cell phone right now. So, how does it make you feel when you see that the cell company that you've been paying thousands of dollars to every year puts out an offer for a free iPhone XR Two Pro Plus, or whatever we're at now? They put in an offer for a free iPhone when you sign a two-year contract.
So, you call them up and you ask if you can get the same deal. After all, you've given them like six grand over the last eight years or something, right? BUT, they say: 'No. It's only for new contracts.' They don't care that you've been a loyal customer for six years. This is only for new people. How does that make you feel? It sucks, right? But how is your constant focus on attracting new clients, while not fully serving the clients that you already have, any different from that? How is your constant focus on attracting new clients instead of fully serving the clients you already have, how is that any different?
This focus on 'more clients' comes at the detriment to the people who have already trusted you. They've already told you they want your work and they've backed it up with dollars. They deserve better, and so do you. Okay, so you're saying, "Yeah, I get it. I need to focus on selling instead of chasing new clients. That's what you're saying." But then, you also say, "Well, I sell digital, so I'm good. Ha. Suck it, Chris."
Well, no. No. Remember we're looking for the one thing that we can focus on that will make the biggest impact with the least input and that is selling prints, not files. That's selling physical printed products. Selling products, printed products is the single fastest and easiest way to quickly increase your income.
- You don't have to go out and find new clients.
- You don't have to spend a bunch of time and money learning how to run ads and putting ads together and putting them out there.
- You can take the clients you already have and increase your income right now by simply selling physical products.
Think about it this way. As photographers, our "raw materials" are the photo files. That's kind of what we work in. Our cost to create those files is practically the same, no matter what we sell on the backend.
But your ability to turn a profit on those raw materials, those files, skyrockets as soon as you sell printed products. Your ability to turn a profit on those raw materials—you're already creating them—so, let's get the most out of them. Okay? Not to mention, this is actually better for your clients too, because they actually get something for their money and for the time that they spent with you. You're not just handing them ones and zeros on a thumb drive.
You're giving them an actual photo. And, at the end of the day, that's what you are, right? A photographer. Not a fileographer. Your job is to create photos, not files.
We're going to come back to that because I don't want to get down into the weeds and you can tell that I'm about to jump on a soap box. So, we're going to leave it and we're going to revisit this whole prints versus files thing later. Let's just zoom back out of that for right now.
So, I said, you need to be focusing on sales, but really it's more than just sales. It's a sales process and more specifically, it's a system of processes in your business that will naturally lead clients from inquiry to purchasing products. Preferably, that system of processes will help you do all of this without feeling like a sleazy salesperson. We're going to get into the nuts and bolts of what that system looks like in the next episode, but for now, you just need to know that with the right system in place, you'll have consistent and predictable income.
What is that? What? Predictable income? What?
Yes, You Can Have a Predictable Income!
- You're going to have more confidence in yourself and in your ability to run your business, and you're going to have happier clients.
- You'll have a reduced workload and you'll have the ability to pick and choose the clients that you want to work with.
- You'll also have clients who come to you for what you do, not for how little you cost.
- You'll be regarded as a trusted expert in your market. Not as a hired gun.
- You'll be the go-to photographer in your market for products and all of that will mean that you'll be able to justify higher prices.
But wait, there's more. No, really. There's actually more because, remember, all of that stuff that I said you shouldn't be focusing on right now, that doesn't mean that those things aren't important. It means that's not what you should be focusing on right now.
Selling and the ability to create income in a consistent and predictable way puts its fingers into every other piece of your business. What that means is that everything else becomes easier.
- With consistent and predictable income, you'll be naturally generating more word-of-mouth marketing from clients who are thrilled with their experience with you.
- You'll be collecting amazing testimonials that you can use across all of your marketing channels and you'll have more money to invest in those fancy pants ads of yours, leading to larger ad spends and faster results.
- You'll have the money to spend on hiring or learning from experts in any domain that you're not already proficient in.
So marketing, branding, advertising. You can either hire an expert or learn from an expert so you can quickly implement everything that you're learning. You'll have a framework for blogging with purpose rather than just blogging for the sake of blogging. We're going to talk about this more in another episode and you'll have money to hire a pro to fix that DIY branding and that website that we know you just kind of threw together and just been trying to kind of duct tape it together.
With consistent and predictable income, all of those other things that you need to be doing in your business will be easier. That's why you need to focus first on setting up those processes and systems to consistently sell to every client who comes through your door, because you can take that money and make everything else easier.
Putting it ALL TOGETHER
So, let's recap real quick. If you don't have a well-defined process in place for attracting high-quality clients and then nurturing the sale, making consistent and predictable print sales from each client, then no amount of getting more clients is going to help you. If you don't have that well-defined process for predictable and consistent income, then no amount of getting more clients is going to help. It's just spending time and money hustling in the wrong direction.
If you think about it, if you're hustling in the wrong direction, then you'd actually be better off standing completely still. That's not what we want. So, to be successful, you must have a process in place to sell the product you create before you focus on getting more clients in the door. As we've said, that product should be printed products, not files.
I can hear you right now thinking, so I'm just going to go ahead and say it out loud: "Now, Chris, my clients only want the files and, yeah, you're right. They do only want files." So, that's what we're going to tackle in the next episode.
Today was all about refocusing your attention from the things that are just distracting you, and not actually growing your business, to the thing that you actually need to focus on. In the next episode, we're going to talk about refocusing your audience from wanting files to wanting printed products. So, if you are in a market where everyone sells the files and you're terrified to be the only sucker out there trying to sell prints, then you're going to want to listen to the next episode. We're going to discuss how the deal with those. 'I only want files clients.'
Thanks for being here!
Jump straight to Part 2 & 3 in the 'The Photo Business Refocus':
Part 2: How To Deal With "My Clients Only Want The Files" Once And For All…
Part 3: A Simple Strategy For Consistently Hitting Your Photography Sales Goals


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Feinstein and Strazza make their Broadway debut with the musical by Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly. Feinstein has appeared on stage previously in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Bright Star; Strazza's stage credits include A Loss of Roses off-Broadway. Madore returns to the Great White Way after appearing in Once. Shuck's theater credits include Annie on Broadway, as well as Beaches and Randy Newman's Faust.
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How popular is Rosamonde?
Rosamonde is an unusual given name for women. Rosamonde is an uncommon last name too for both adults and children. (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
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Research has previously shown that upper-class individuals are more likely to behave unethically than lower-class people. But, says David Dubois, lead researcher of a new paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, it's not that simple: both groups behave unethically in different contexts.
Dubois' research group found that people with higher socioeconomic status (SES) were more likely to behave unethically when the behavior benefitted themselves, while lower-SES people were more likely to be unethical to benefit other individuals. "Many people think of unethical behaviour in terms of selfish behavior—violating moral standards to give yourself an advantage," explains Jared Piazza, who was not involved with the research. "But the researchers here draw a distinction between violating a moral standard like 'it's wrong to steal' to benefit others, and violating a moral standard to benefit yourself."
This distinction is important, says Dubois. Previous research has only tested unethical behavior that is selfish—it turns out that when unselfish unethical behavior is tested too, lower-SES individuals are just as likely to be unethical.
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To look into this issue, the researchers conducted a series of experiments manipulating different variables. In the first, they surveyed 151 participants to determine their social class. These individuals then participated in a computer-based die-rolling game, where the goal was to achieve a total of more than 14 from rolling a die five times. Winners were told they would be entered into a lottery for a $50 gift card. The virtual die was programmed to always add up to 12, but participants were not monitored, so they were able to lie about their results—any participant who reported rolling a total of more than 14 was clearly cheating.
Participants were split into two groups: in the first group, they were told that they would enter the gift-card lottery directly. In the second group, they were able to indicate the name and email address of another person who would receive the gift card if they won. The results showed that higher-class individuals were significantly more likely to cheat to win the gift card themselves, while lower-class individuals were more likely to cheat if someone else would be getting the gift card.
Obviously, social class is a complex mix of factors, and the researchers wanted to tease out which of two primary facets of class (income and education) had more bearing on the results. They surveyed 81 participants on their annual household income and education, and then presented them with a series of scenarios describing unethical behavior with either selfish or unselfish goals, asking which of those behaviors the respondents would be likely to engage in.
Selfish behavior was more likely overall than unselfish behavior. Although education didn't affect the results, higher income was more strongly associated with selfish behavior, while low income more associated with unselfish behavior.
Why income? The cause suggested by the researchers is power. Power is often described as a momentary state, says Dubois. It's true that people can shift between high- and low-power positions, sometimes in the course of a single day. However, it's becoming increasingly clear, Dubois explains, that high SES results in people experiencing a regular flow of high power situations, while low SES results in an accumulation of low power experiences.
"The fact that income, a difference in resources, was more influential than education provides indirect support for our proposition that social class affects unethical behavior through power," write the authors. However, this research only showed that power and selfish unethical behavior coincided, and couldn't prove that enhanced feelings of power were actually causing the selfishness.
Power to the selfish
To get at cause and effect, the researchers created an experiment that affected the power experienced by 122 new participants: each individual was assigned to either a boss or employee role. They were told that the computer would automatically assign the next task, either a boring, repetitive task (if the computer displayed "1"), or a fun, creative task ("2"). One group was told that they would have to complete this task themselves, while the other group was told that the task would be for the next participant.
After the experimenter left the room, the computer would display "1" and then freeze, displaying no number. This guaranteed that, when the experimenter returned and asked what the number was, anyone answering "2" would be lying. Once again, high-power participants—those who were told they were in the boss role—lied for themselves more, and low-power participants more frequently did so for the benefit of others.
"So far we've only thought about behavior in a uniform way, but this suggests people have different reasons for unethical behavior, predicted by different things," says Dubois. Power is one reason, but behavior is complex enough that it's not likely to be the only one. "We want to reinforce the point that social class cannot be distilled to power," write the authors of the study. "Power might be but one pathway by which social class can impact people's thoughts and behaviors."
There are some questions to be raised about the methods and reporting used in the study, says Dr Tom Farsides, who researches altruism and selfishness and was not involved in this research. For instance, the paper mentions that the participants were approached by a researcher in a public place, but it isn't clear whether that researcher knew the hypothesis, which could have led to subtle biases in who was chosen to participate, or the participants' answers.
While the overall sample sizes were reasonable, when they're broken down by class and condition they become quite small, sometimes as low as six or seven people. This makes it unwise to extrapolate to an entire social class, Farsides notes. And finally, the researchers use terms and measures "not well-validated beyond the confines of this paper," he explains—it's not clear how "power" relates to well-defined concepts such as self-efficacy and self-confidence, whether it involves power over other individuals or society as a whole, and whether it varies between situations, such as home and work. "Very compelling evidence is required if researchers want to seriously make very bold and sweeping claims," he says.
There's also a question about what actually counts as wrong in people's minds, Piazza notes. Past research has shown that powerless people think that working for the welfare of others is the highest moral value, while powerful people care more about rules and order. "It may be that powerless individuals are less inclined to view actions that help others as actual transgressions even though a moral rule has been violated," he suggests.
Beyond clarifying these points, there are questions to follow up in the future, Dubois adds. For one, this paper didn't look at the effect of power or SES on the amount of unethical behavior. That is, the researchers looked at how people would behave in a single test, but not at whether a certain group was more likely to be unethical more of the time. There's also the possibility that different cultures with different moral codes and ideas about power and responsibility might respond differently.
It could have useful application in persuasion, he adds: communicating with different audiences about ethical behavior could emphasize different consequences, either for the self or for others, to discourage the behavior.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2015. DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000008 (About DOIs).


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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's Highest 14 Peaks.
E d V i e s t u r s a n d D a v i d R o b e r t s . N e w Y o r k : B r o a d w a y
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The old adage about bold climbers and old climbers is hackneyed jargon to most of us, but in Ed Viesturs fascinating account of his quest to climb the fourteen 8,000ers (without bottled oxygen), few sayings have rarely been as apropos. Himalayan climbing legends typically seem to get away with seemingly impossible feats on a diet of sheer balls and superhuman willpower—at least from the public's vantage. No Shortcuts to the Top undermines that notion by describing howone extremely careful mountaineer managed to climb all fourteen peaks, but did so within his own, very healthy, margins of safety.
The story begins with a truly hairy account of Viesturs' 1992 ascent of K2, and describes a heroic effort by Viesturs and Fischer to rescue the late Chantal Maudit and Thor Keiser from high on the mountain. His subsequent climb to the top with Fischer and Charley Mace introduces the reader to Viesturs' notion of "acceptable risk"—a theme that is repeated, quite appropriately, throughout the rest of the book.
From there, the story jumps back and gets real, so to speak, and describes Viesturs' upbringing in the Midwest and his subsequent collegiate life, as well as the on-again off-again life of a guy trying to fit a professional career into the climbing life (eventually climbing wins). As a Rainier guide, "acceptable risk" became a theme in Viesturs' life, as did his adage "getting down is mandatory."
Through the 1990s, as Viesturs juggles work and climbing more and more 8,000ers, the tale becomes, honestly, more and more frightening as super-safe Ed watches the many accidents, illnesses, mistakes, and deaths that are, literally, waiting around every corner.
At one point he even lists a handful of his early '90s climbing partners and friends, commenting, sadly, that they'd all since died.
The final section of the book includes a white-knuckle series of attempts on Annapurna, from the north, from the east, from the north again. While Viesturs' own obsession with the mountain is quite a story, he weaves it together with the haunting Annapurna-obsession story of the late Jean-Christophe LaFaille, one of his partners on the east ridge.
One of the best parts of No Shortcuts deals with a story about an article on Viesturs written for Men's Journal, and the author of that piece, who was, apparently, something of a statistician. Viesturs describes the writer's theory of risk on high mountains ("… [he] had counted up all the members of all the expeditions that had gone to 8,000-meter peaks and divided them by the num ber of deaths on those expeditions…"), and then goes on to explain that so safety conscious was Viesturs' own approach to mountaineering—one nurtured by years as a Rainier guide—that the numbers simply didn't apply.
Take a chapter from Ed if you ever need to explain the risk/safety equation of mountaineering to a critic. But don't forget the underpinning lesson: this sport is dangerous and only an individual can assess his or her own vulnerability in life-threatening situations.
Pete Athans once told me "you can't believe your own press releases." That's clear here, and Viesturs clearly is a man who knows what the headlines are, how many are true, and what the real story is. This is a humble, honest book by one of the world's greatest mountaineers— the best thing is he just happens to be a real person, too.
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Learn about your Nebraska Speeding Ticket, points, and how to dismiss a NE speeding ticket
No one wants to have to deal with a speeding citation, but unfortunately for many people its something which we must do at some time in our lives. And when you receive a Nebraska speeding ticket, the consequences extend beyond just paying a fine. To start with, the fine that is on the ticket commonly is far less expensive than what you will in reality end up paying for the speeding citation. The court and processing service fees that go with the fine will set you back above $100 on top of the speeding ticket fine. In addition to that, points will be added to your record for your speeding citation in Nebraska. And the more points you possess against your Nebraska driving record, the more costly car insurance will cost you. You most likely are curious about simply how much points really impact your insurance costs. For just one speeding ticket, costs can increase by about 20% and then for three Nebraska speeding tickets, motor insurance fees can increase by 50%. Given that points stay with your Nebraska record for five years, obtaining even a single speeding citation could be very costly.
To record speeding tickets as well as other traffic tickets, Nebraska works with a point system. The results in this system for amassing lots of points are more expensive insurance payments and often license suspension. Find out how many points Nebraska speeding tickets have below:
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Using and completing a Nebraska traffic school training course is relatively easy. Get the traffic ticket dismissed by using a few simple steps so you don't need to pay for many years to come for the ticket.
Before enrolling in traffic school, you must find the contact information for the court. Get in touch with the court and find out if you are able to use traffic school for ticket dismissal.
Now that you've authorization through the court, register fora Nebraska traffic school program online.
To dismiss your citation, complete the traffic school program prior to your due date. Using our recommended Nebraska online traffic school program you can take the course from the convenience of your own home, on any computer, and sign in and out as you please. Also, you will be able to take the final exam as many times as you need until you pass.
The Nebraska traffic school program will be sending you a certificate of completion once you finish. You'll then either have to bring it to the court or mail it in depending on the specific court instructions.


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This week, Ella Baldwin heads to the city to mingle with 'the money'
Where? Ember, Monument
Why go? Because Monument is always frantic - you need boxing gloves to escape the Tube at rush hour, and Ember is the perfect place for time out.
As soon as you walk through the door, you'll become blissfully unaware of the sirens and angry commuters outside. It's the tinkle of soft music that lures you in, followed by an impossibly cheery lady who offers to take your bag. You'll notice your shoulders drop in a flash.
The actual bar is underground. The stairs lead to a dark and sexy den decked out in squishy leather booths and a lit-up bar that looks as if it's been plucked straight from the set of Tron.
The crowd is a mix of suited-and-booted City types - it's very sophisticated, but apparently the bar ramps up a notch on Fridays when the DJs take the decks. Don't worry, there's a separate secret wine bar for the dormouse in you.
The food is pan-Asian but served on small tapas-style plates. Don't feel guilty about ordering a few with your drink - you won't regret the prawn and coconut ceviche.
With one sip of Ember's 'Tea Ceremony' (that's jasmine-tea-infused saké and Cremorne sloe gin, lotus-root syrup, lemon and plum bitters), you'll be feeling quite zen.


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There is precious little information available about Erin Durant. She was raised in New Orleans, and now lives in Brooklyn. Complementing those anodyne facts is a beguiling flash of insanity: She refuses to perform on a keyboard, and instead carts her 232-pound stand-up piano to shows around New York City, a Sisyphean folly that earned her a New York Times story in 2015. The tyrannical determination of the image is softened by Durant's tender connection to her instrument, which is evident from her second album, Islands. Her 2016 debut, Blueberry Mountain, was recorded in her bedroom, a DIY setup that muted that vivid symbiosis. With TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone on production, Islands polishes Durant's sound to a resonant and gently rollicking gleam, brightened by dulcimer, guitar, brass, and woodwind.
Durant's songwriting is fine-boned and small-scale, and her lyrics are quietly epic. On "Highway Blue," she stands in a room where she once danced with a beau, her imagery as beautiful as their vanished love: "Now it's just an empty room/Like cigarette smoke left as an evening dew," she sings, marveling that "electricity still plays our records" even though their spirit is long out the window.
Durant lets these moments come and go without stretching them out, and this everyday quality points to her strengths as a writer. She starts "Rising Sun" full of certainty about how "making mistakes" and "costing the game" is "the only way, I think." But as the song goes on, she crumples in real time, admitting she's "so tired and a little drunk" and begging to be held, her confident front falling like a dropped beach towel. In the near-seven-minute epic "Good Ol' Night," she tells the story of her abandonment with a gimlet eye for details: one minute the "crystal chandelier is turned up bright," the next, she's "intensely lonely, sleeping in the car." The picaresque narrative earns the boozy mariachi band that sways in halfway through.
The careful detail of her writing is sometimes obscured by the blinding brightness of the music, and weakened by the songs' relative structural similarities. "Take a Load Off" is a gorgeous invitation to trust in friends that could do with less pedal steel and fewer syllables. The devastation of "Islands"—in which Durant takes advice to go on vacation, only to find the suggestion was an excuse for the advice giver to disappear from her life—doesn't register easily amidst the sweetly swaying arrangement and Durant's cooing voice.
As Bill Callahan once sang, Durant finds that "all this leaving is never ending." As people, places, and time all slip away, you begin to see why Durant might lug a piano around as an anchor. On the final song, the lulling desert drone of "Another Town," she rues those who "whisper in the wind/Thinking it'll come back again," and promises to seize any second chances that may come her way with hand-waving, love-pledging impetuousness. More of that spirit in her future songwriting will be the making of her.


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Brides and grooms often underestimate the role of the Wedding stationer. Yet it's the stationery – save the date or the actual invitation – that first sets the scene of the wedding for the majority of the guests. The stationery not only has to befit the style of the wedding but it's got to be perfect! I'll waste no time then in introducing the exceptionally talented Lauren from Heart Invites in Kent. Over to Lauren…
"Paper pretties & creative design is my passion. More specifically, design for life's most beautiful moments. Ever since I designed stationery for my own wedding 7 years ago I fell in love with wedding stationery design and the joy that comes with working with excited couples about to embark on one of life's most magical journeys!"
"I love to create lasting memories of those moments through my 'heart' felt stationery that can be kept forever as a cherished keep-sake."
"I work from my little seaside studio at my home in Deal, Kent, spending each day designing pretty things for wonderful people. With 10 years experience within the design industry and several industry awards under my belt, I know I am doing exactly what I was made for & I just love it!"
"I have been very fortunate in my job to have worked with hundred's of Bride & Grooms, and revel in the joy of designing for weddings & life's other greatest milestones."
The British Wedding Awards Nominee 2017
The British Wedding Awards Finalist 2016
Kent Wedding Awards Finalist 2015
Wedding Ideas Awards Nominee 2015
Wedding Ideas Awards Finalist 2014
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Queens
The Parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is one of the oldest parishes in Long Island, having been organized in 1841. The Parish grew steadily and by 1869 the original church building was inadequate. Funds were raised to purchase the current site at the corner of Newtown Avenue and Crescent Street and construction began on a new and larger church. The cornerstone was laid September 9, 1871, and the completed church was dedicated by Bishop Loughlin on August 7, 1873.
On May 1, 1881, an acre adjoining the church was purchased to build a rectory. The parish school was opened on September 14, 1891, with 300 children and a staff of six Sisters of St Joseph of Brentwood, L.I. The Parish Center, or "Institute," a two-story and basement structure designed by F. J. Berlenbach of Brooklyn, was erected across the street from the rectory and opened in 1910. On January 30, 1951, Monsignor Kelaher presided over the groundbreaking to renovate and enlarge the rectory. Under his leadership, the new school was built on property adjacent to the rectory. It opened in September 1954, and in December of that year, the Sisters moved into the new convent.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel has welcomed all members of the community throughout its history. Starting in 1971, masses in the Czech and Slovak languages were offered in the Lower Church, and the Spanish Mass began in 1977.
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Its time for another Clip of the Week! 13 year old, Michael Weber, plays The Doors'-"Light My Fire" on his Farfisa Compact Organ. There will be a new clip posted next week on Wednesday.
Farfisa's first line or portable organs released in the 1960s. The quintisential red Compact Combo organ was the star of the line, but it was surrounded by the more feature rich Compact Deluxe, the dual keyboard Compact Duo, and the smaller entry level Mini Compact.
Its time for another Clip of the Week! 13 year old, Michael Weber, plays The Doors'-"Light My Fire" on his Farfisa Compact Organ. There will be a new clip posted next week on Wednesday.
Hey, check out this cool video from the mid sixties of an unknown group playing a house party. This is a silent film, taken on 8mm film, but it is very cool to see the boys groovin' and the girls dancing. I wish there was a better shot of the organ, but I am terribly happy to have found this piece of history!
A Blast from long long ago. My first band from the mid 60's features Russ DeFilippis and John Zias on guitars,(Rickenbackers) Rich De Simone on bass.
Silent was taken from old 8mm film.
Jerry LaRosa on Farfisa organ and our dear wonderful friend the late Tony Corbiscello playing wipeout on his gold sparkle Ludwigs.
Also seen dancing my cousins Joyce Castle and Lois Schneider-Novak
Check out this great performance by Charles Bradley backed up by The Menahan Street Band at The Leedervile Hotel in Perth, Australia. "Just carve yourselves a corner of the floor to set up boys, the kids will dig it." Hells yeah they will. I am so stealing that to the sky, drop to the knees move from you Charlie! I'm pretty sure that I spy the Budos Band Farfisa in the background.
You probably know Tara Busch from her famously singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow backwards or her ridiculously awesome analogsuicide blog. Here is a great video where she is playing her Farfisa Compact Combo Deluxe through a Moogerfooger Low Pass Filter, something that I have been known to do, just not as well!
Check out Paul's sexy new Farfisa and his sensitive man music. Don't worry, he also delves into the darker side with what he calls increasingly irritating sounds, although they sound better and better to me, so I don't know what to say about that!
Seriously though, this is one hell of a great video if you didn't get that from the title. There is like math and and science and history and stuff, and super extra awesome bonus points for including the cat!


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Our studio members are very passionate and everyone at our studio is ambitious and alert to the latest developments and trends. Our Studio consists of several professional studio rooms. This way you can work on your production in complete peace and freedom. With our studio, you can reach the dream that you are aiming towards. Because we believe that the end result is just as important as the road to it, and our music producers always ensure both musical and personal growth.
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Mesa's $1 million green efforts pay off
Mesa Associates, Inc., an engineering and consulting company, spent approximately $1 million on upgrades at its two facilities in 2015.
The company's flagship office in Knoxville improved the recycling system, installed electric vehicle hookups, added LED lighting and added permeable pavers to its parking lot. The Chattanooga location received a new HVAC system, which provides approximately 30 percent savings.
"We wanted to change what we've done in the past," Executive Vice President Tim Cutshaw said. "I view sustainability as similar to safety. It's something you want to keep on the minds of the people, and the way to do that is you have to be promoting it. We want to promote a change in the culture."
Step one for Mesa was to put the company's sustainability in the employee's hands. To generate the best ideas and ensure Mesa employees were aware of green efforts, the executive team formed the Mesa Environmental Sustainability Committee, made up of individuals who experience various aspects of Mesa's day-to-day culture.
Recycling revamp
One glance around Mesa's office space is enough to tip any visitor off about the company's recycling practices. Beside each occupied cubicle is a blue bin with paper stuffed into it, nearly spilling out.
That wasn't always the case.
Cutshaw said the company had larger recycling bins out for years with the idea that employees would collect recyclable materials at his or her desk and make trips to the bins. But the committee proposed convenience.
"By them actually having a separate bin at their desk, we've increased our recycling by about four times," Cutshaw said.
In 2016, 83,533 pounds of paper were recycled, which Director of Engineeing Darrell Christman said is approximately 90 percent of the paper used at Mesa.
A "Green Purchase Best Practices Guide" was issued to all employees with purchasing authority, encouraging digital options to paper, stopping all polystyrene foam usage and encouraging use of recycled materials.
Rebecca Moore said minimizing paper usage and increasing paper recycling is a significant step for Mesa.
"Design is what we do," she said. "It's our bread and butter, so recycling is a huge effort."
Mesa's custom equipment machine shop recycles what space allows. Various metals, wire and batteries are the materials being recycled until a larger building is complete in November and cardboard and plastics can be added to the list.
Upgrading the old
Mesa's existing building in Knoxville replaced all exterior lights with LED bulbs and is in the midst of replacing all interior lights, many of which include motion detection technology.
The parking lot is made up of permeable pavers, which work to reduce water run off and filter water underground to recharge the groundwater supply.
"If you brought a firetruck out and put a hose on the (old) parking lot, all that water runs off," Cutshaw said. "If you bring a firetruck out and spray a hose on the (new lot), virtually none of it runs off. It all goes into the ground."
The Chattanooga office building was built in 1898, so the focus there was on upgrading the HVAC system to give Mesa the ability to monitor power consumption. Christman said there are times when the new system is running at 19 percent, since it's possible to monitor what is necessary in varying weather conditions. The previous system operated at 100 percent at all times.
"With a building that large, it's going to pay for itself," Christman said.


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Filesystem checker (mini_fscheck) for OpenWrt
As mentioned previously, I'm a believer in monitoring things closely and another tool that is useful. Some form of filesystem checker which reports changes is useful even if it is only to remind me of changes I've made.
Like my mini_logcheck script this also has to be very lightweight and based on standard busybox tools.
How it works
What we do is maintain a database of the filesystem the last time we looked at it. This includes inodes, MD5 checksums, permissions, sizes etc., then on each run we do a diff against the last time, and email that if stuff has changed.
Installation & Configuration
Download mini_fscheck for OpenWrt and ensure you also have the following packages installed:
Put mini_fscheck somewhere suitable (eg. /usr/sbin though /etc would arguably be OK considering it contains email configuration). You will need to edit the file to set the email configuration appropriately for your needs.
You may also want to modify the find command to include/exclude things that you want to monitor.
If you are using my mini_logcheck then don't forget to add a rule rule in for running this for crond:
crond\[[0-9]+\]: USER root pid [0-9]+ cmd /usr/sbin/mini_fscheck$
This will be logged each time the cron runs the script so if you don't have this you will get an email every time.
Then add a cron entry (create a a new file if needed) in /etc/crontabs/root to run the script:
# m h dom mon dow command
How often you run the filesystem check is up to you - more often will catch problems earlier but this is fairly CPU and IO intensive and if the rules are not perfect it risks filling your mailbox with messages.
Restart cron to read the new crontab and start things off:
# /etc/init.d/cron restart
Then each time the script runs it should email you any new log lines which are not excluded by the patterns on the find lines.
The first run should email you about generating the databases, and after that you should get diffs of the files that change.
Disclaimer: This is a load of random thoughts, ideas and other nonsense and is not intended to be taken seriously. I have no idea what I am doing with most of this so if you are stupid and naive enough to believe any of it, it is your own fault and you can live with the consequences. More importantly this blog may contain substances such as humor which have not yet been approved for human (or machine) consumption and could seriously damage your health if taken seriously. If you still feel the need to litigate (or whatever other legal nonsense people have dreamed up now), then please address all complaints and other stupidity to yourself as you clearly "don't get it".
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