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A day before its official release, I spoke with a couple of Autodesk Fusion 360 staffers, Daniel Graham, Fusion 360 Senior Product Manager and Bill Danon about what to expect in the newest update.
The biggest news was the inclusion of simulation capabilities in Fusion 360 – at no additional cost – at least not for now or the foreseeable future. That in itself is pretty significant. Of course, there were some other improvements and enhancements, but let's start with simulation
Simulation in Fusion 360 lets you perform linear stress analysis that assumes linear elastic behavior and infinitesimally small displacements and strains, as well as modal analysis for study the dynamic properties of structures undergoing vibration. With Fusion 360 simulation you can define materials, add constraints, and add loads to solve for weaknesses in assemblies, within the design environment.
When in the Fusion 360 design environment, a workspace labeled "SIM" under the workspace switcher is where you choose from two types of simulation studies: Static Stress and Modal Frequencies.
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Be among the first to check out our new art and architecture catalog!
Of particular interest is Ai Weiwei's Weiwei-isms, edited by Larry Warsh. Ai Weiwei is one of China's most influential and inspiring figures. Artist, architect, curator, and activist, he has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government's stance on human rights and democracy. This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life.
Also be sure to note Robert Geddes' Fit: An Architect's Manifesto, a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. For further reading on architecture, check out the POINT: Essays on Architecture series, featuring titles such as David Joselit's trenchant illustrated After Art in which the author describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google.
We'll also see you at the College Art Association's annual conference February 13-16 in New York, NY at booth 107. Random drawings for two signed copies of Weiwei-isms will be held. Stop by for a visit and to enter for a chance to win!


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Last week I celebrated the new WhitneyBond.com in style by hosting an official rebranding party downtown San Diego!
A HUGE thank you to the 300+ guests that attended the event including the real MVP, my Mom 😉 , Claudia Sandoval (winner of MasterChef, you go girl!), Dining Out Magazine, Where San Diego and tons of my loyal, supportive and amazing friends!


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Using secret recipes from the Little Red Cookbook, The Chairman Truck is leading the Great Culinary Leap Forward. Our food is inspired by the original street food of Asia - it's bold, spicy, unique, fast and delicious. We offer steamed and baked buns that use the freshest ingredients that are savory and addictive.
About The Chairman
Chef Hiroo Nagahara is the culinary mastermind behind the Chairman. He was formerly restaurateur Charlie Trotter's executive chef at Bar Charlie in Las Vegas and partnered with Mobi Munch to bring his food to the masses. As Chef Hiroo explains, "Mobi Munch challenged me to blur the lines between brick-and-mortars and the food truck scene. We wanted to see how far we could push street food using techniques from high-end restaurants and The Chairman was my first concept."
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The Chairman's visual branding is designed by Taiwanese-American visual artist, James Jean, who is known in the American comics industry as a prominent cover artist for various books published by DC Comics, as wells as for his work with Prada, ESPN, and Atlantic Records. His work, which has been collected in numerous volumes, has been compared by The New York Times to that of Maxfield Parrish.


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Everett's stances on several issues indicate he is a true conservative
Last Tuesday I attended the Republican candidate debate for Senate District 22 between Justin Everett and Loren Bauman in an effort to decide whom I will support in the primary. The candidates differed on many issues; however, their stances on ObamaCare, the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR), and illegal immigration stood out the most.
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LONDON (Reuters) - American R&B singer Jason Derulo notched up his third British number one single on Sunday with "Talk Dirty", ending U.S. singer Katy Perry's two-week run in the No. 1 slot, sales figures showed.
The Official Charts Company said with sales of nearly 160,000 copies over the past week, "Talk Dirty" has become the fastest selling single of Derulo's career in Britain and the fourth fastest selling single of 2013.
"Talk Dirty", which also features rapper 2 Chainz, is the second single from Derulo's third album, "Tattoos", which will be released in Britain on Monday.
Perry's "Roar", which follows her previous hits "Firework" and "I Kissed a Girl", fell one place to No. 2 while British singer-songwriter Jessie J was new in at No. 3 with "It's My Party".
American rock band OneRepublic dropped two places to No. 4 with "Counting Stars", while Swedish DJ Avicii took up two places in the Top 10 with "You Make Me" entering new at No. 5 and former chart topper "Wake Me Up" in sixth place.
Indie rock group Arctic Monkeys claimed top spot in the British albums chart for a second week with "AM", after setting a new chart record last weekend by becoming the first independent act to have five No. 1 studio albums in a row.
The band from Sheffield, England, fought off tough competition from Avicii and Britain's Elton John to hold onto the No. 1 position for a second week.
Avicii scored the week's highest new entry with his debut album, "True", entering the albums chart at No. 2.
Elton John was new in at No. 3 with his 31st studio album, "The Diving Board".
Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers were new in at No. 4 with "Rewind The Film", their 11th Top 10 album, while English indie pop trio London Grammar rounded off the week's Top 5 with "If You Wait".
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The Crown Pub, fresh from being a regional winner is now in the national final of the Parliamentary Pub of the year. The chairman of the all party parliamentary pub group, Toby Perkins, launched the competition In the summer of 2018 seeking to recognise the important role pubs play in British life and the value they add to the local communities and economy. On the 15th January the overall winner will be revealed after a panel of judges review all the finalists. Hoping to be the king of all pubs, The Crown in Hastings was nominated by Amber Rudd to be in the parliamentary pub competition. Now in the final 14, the competition will be much stiffer. The Crown, however, is due to put it's best drinks forward to try to impress. Head bartender Nathan Paige weighed in saying "winning the competition will help bolster the local community. The Pub will now be hoping for their Drinks to be ready for competition and for the crown to impress by looking flawless on the inside and out. Frank kehinde Brighton broadcaster news
Hastings Artist Eden Kötting Launches New Exhibition at Sea Spray Gallery
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Hastings artist Eden Kötting has displayed her new collection "AHOY! Their, There, They're" at the See Spray Gallery in Queens Road, which will be running until the 25th of January.
Rachel Glittenberg New Exhibition Preview
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In May, Rachel Glittenberg was one of the twenty-four artists who took part in the 15th Anniversary show of the Hastings Arts Forum. This weekend, she will be holding a demonstration of her paintings on a much larger scale.
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To mark the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, a series of events are planned for Hastings this Sunday.


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Is it true that professional scrapbookers use only the newest and greatest products? Is it true that they all scrap in the same trendy style? The Roundtable took on those questions and so much more in episode #23!
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This episode of Roundtable is sponsored by Big Picture Scrapbooking! Click here for a promo code for Paperclipping Roundtable listeners to use to save 10% on any class at Big Picture Scrapbooking!
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- American Crafts D Ring Binder – Leaf with Embroidered Roses
- Studio Calico Storytime Alphabet
- Compendium of Curiosities Idea Book – Tim Holtz
- Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
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- Julie's description of her first time on the Paperclipping Roundtable
- DropBox.com
- A nice Marc Jacobs coat
And by popular demand….here is the infamous Cinderella layout:
I'm not exactly in love with how it came out but at least it is done and I can move on to something else, and start having fun again! I'm not sure why it gave me so much trouble but this layout became a chore that was no longer fun by the time I completed it after wrestling with it over the course of multiple sessions over several weeks. But I was determined to finish it and not add another item to my "unfinished" pile.
Supplies – Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye (Tres Jolie Handsome), Sandylion (Snowfall by Aby Simons); Specialty Paper: American Crafts (Glitter), KI Memories (Flower Child die cut paper); Stamps: Autumn Leaves (Everyday Sentiments by Rhonna Farrer); Ink: Staz-on Metallic Silver; Die Cut: Cricut (Graphically Speaking).


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Quickly Manage Your Reminders and Alerts with Spyvo
"Spyvo is a unique way of using the internet to find information and remember important occasions, whenever and however you choose." It combines a free reminder service with mail forwarding, an eBay search tool and automated tweets. You can register a mobile number in order to receive SMS alerts as well.
There are 5 types of reminders that you can add: birthday, dentist/doctor appointments, insurance, wedding anniversary or custom. Reminders are not complicated and quick to setup. For example, when setting up a birthday alert you can enter the name of the person, the date of their birthday (by selecting it on a calendar) and a custom message (optional). Next you can specify what type of alert you'd like to receive like email, SMS, or IM (instant messenger).
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Here is where you can add eBay search queries and receive alerts every time an item is listed that matches your query. You can also setup email forwarded and have all or certain emails forwarded to you by SMS or IM (instant messenger). Lastly you can use Twitter OAuth to schedule automated tweets.
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You can also use Spyvo to receive weather alerts. Just enter your city or zip code and add a custom message (optional). You can choose how often you'd like to receive alerts and when. What better way to keep up with the weather then having it sent to you by SMS first thing in the morning.
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If you register your mobile number with Spyvo not only can you receive SMS alerts, but you can also send an SMS message to anyone in the world. To do this though, you'll need to buy credits. Spyvo credits cost £0.05 per credit and you can pay using Google Checkout or PayPal.
A neat feature that Spyvo offers is the ability to hibernate your account. If you would like to suspend all alerts at once, you can simply go to settings and select the "hibernate my account" option. This is also where you can manage your mobile number(s), IM accounts and Twitter account.
Spyvo may seem like a small tool from the outside but once you dig in deeper you'll see that it offers quite a lot of useful features. I hope you find Spyvo as useful as I have. Be sure to leave your thoughts in the comments.
Meteora Automates Instagram Engagement to Grow Sales
Back before the days of the Internet as we know it today, businesses could usually expect to reach out to their customers en masse in purely a broadcast style format. They'd take out advertisements on television, radio and the newspaper, blasting out a message to everyone and hoping that some sales come in through the door. Even in the realm of direct marketing, the messages were almost never custom tailored to individual prospects. There was no need or desire to connect with customers on a one-on-one basis.
That has changed considerably in recent years, particularly as it pertains to social media. It is no longer enough for companies to broadcast their marketing messages from atop a soapbox. They have to engage and interact with their audiences on a much more personalized level. They need to connect with them as individuals, but this can be overwhelmingly time-consuming, especially when you start looking at hundreds, thousands, or even millions of users.
That's where you can take advantage of Meteora. That's where automation steps in.
Growing Sales Using Instagram
When it comes to social networks, Instagram stands far above the rest in regards to engagement rates. And engaged users much more readily convert into paying customers.
Meteora is designed to "help businesses and influencers grow sales using Instagram." It achieves this by automating much of the engagement and interaction that you need to have on the platform, all by setting up the parameters for your campaigns ahead of time. You grow your following (which can then convert into real customers) automatically, as Meteora likes, follows and comments on social posts made by the "ideal customer" as defined by your parameters and criteria.
Through your dashboard, you are able to tell Meteora who you would like to target. This can be based on hashtag, for instance, which can demonstrate clear interest in a certain niche or vertical. You can also target based on location, event, or even target based on competitor. If someone already follows and engages with Starbucks, they may be interested in what your coffee brand has to offer too.
How Does the Campaign Work?
The structure of a Meteora campaign is relatively simple and straightforward to understand.
After you provide the specifications for who you would like to target, Meteora can then engage with potential prospects that fit that profile automatically. You will naturally need to grant permission to Meteora to use and post from your Instagram account on your behalf. As mentioned, this includes likes, follows and comments, but it can also include direct messages too. This makes for a much more personalized and active engagement.
While you may be tempted to grow your follower count by any means necessary, that may not necessarily be in your best interest. That is why Meteora leverages artificial intelligence to block fake followers for you. These bots can wreak havoc on your engagement rate, which in turn impacts your discoverability and visibility in the eyes of the algorithm.
This also means that Meteora will only engage with real people and not the bots. This increases your sales ROI over time.
Targeting and Messaging
As you make your way through the dashboard, you'll find the opportunity to define all those targeting parameters. This is also where you can decide exactly how you want to interact with the audience you describe.
For instance, you can choose whether you'd like to direct message the user who made that post, comment on the post, like the post, or follow the user that made the post. You'll notice that under the option to follow the user, Meteora will automatically unfollow that user the next day to keep your feed clean.
In the case of leaving a comment, you can write out the comment that you'd like to leave, utilizing macros to personalize the message based on day of the week, the username, the first name, the location or the target. It would be useful to you to change up this wording periodically, so that your comments continue to appear fresh and authentic.
Once your campaign has been running for a while, you'll be able to review the key data and metrics that come out of that campaign. For instance, you may have chosen to target a number of different fitness-related hashtags.
When you first start out, it can be really hard to say exactly which hashtags will be the most successful in terms of the followers you gain or the conversion rate you achieve. But once that data comes in, you can further refine your targeting options to focus in on the ones that are working the best.
Similarly, the main reporting screen from your dashboard can give you more of a global view of how Meteora has been performing for you thus far. This includes data on the number of followers you've gained, how many likes have been performed, how many follows have been completed, how many fake users have been blocked, and so forth. There's also the live feed of exactly what is happening with your Instagram account at any given time.
Through this automated engagement and your continued refinement of your targeting options, you'll find that you'll more effectively market to loyal followers and prospects. Meteora is great for anyone who sells products on eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Etsy or any number of other online marketplaces.
By growing your fanbase, you grow your potential to earn more revenue, particularly by informing these new followers about your new products and deals.
Pricing Options
Meteora offers three pricing plans depending on your level of need.
- The basic plan is $49 per month. It includes all engagement types and allows for targeting through locations and hashtags.
- You might opt for the $99 per month premium plan, which is geared more toward "serious social marketing professionals" who desire unlimited targets, event target, competitor targeting, follower nurturing and other advanced features.
- At the highest end is the $249 pro setup with direct message interactions, Google AI sentiment detection, and 1-on-1 target setup with an expert.
Get started today and you'll be building more relationships and growing your sales in no time.
Sell More with Omnisend: Ecommerce Marketing Automation for Smart Marketers
Email marketing has withstood the test of time. While other marketing techniques and fads have come and gone, email has remained vigilant. It's still far and away one of the most reliable and consistent ways to reach your current and potential customers, but generic email marketing platforms may no longer be enough for your business. As a smart marketer, you need a more robust and versatile solution, and that's where Omnisend can elevate your email marketing to a whole other level.
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Let's be perfectly honest. The reason why you want to be able to reach out to your customers is that you want to drive sales. Brand recognition and site visits are enough. What can you do to actually boost sales figures and improve conversions?
With Omnisend, you gain access to "omnichannel tools for sales-driven marketers that have outgrown the generic email marketing platforms." So, what does this actually mean? You still get the standard email marketing tools at your disposal, creating and distributing email newsletters to your subscribers, but Omnisend is designed specifically with sales in mind.
If you want to improve your sales figures, you must first gain an understanding of your customers' shopping behavior. What are they actually doing when they're on your e-commerce site? Where are the sticking points? Where are the lost opportunities that could be turned around? Omnisend helps you connect those dots with actionable data.
And remember that not all customers are going to be the same. It wouldn't make sense if you put everyone through the exact same sales funnel. That'd be like trying to use a hammer where a screwdriver is needed. With Omnisend, you get flexible segmentation so that the the messages you send are much more relevant and targeted. Better personalization leads to higher engagement and better conversions. And Omnisend supports both SMS and email too.
Walking Through an A/B Test Campaign
You can use Omnisend to set up a fairly traditional email marketing campaign, pushing out newsletters to promote current offers and deals in your e-commerce store. The same is true with an SMS campaign. To take it just a smidge further, I tried to set up an A/B split test. Basically, this lets you send out two different versions of an email to see which one works the best.
After choosing the A/B test from the available options, I was shown this initial setup screen. You can see all the steps of the easy-to-follow wizard near the top. You can choose to perform a split test based on the email subject line or based on the sender's name. You enter the corresponding information in the fields below.
As of this writing, there are five standard templates that you can use for your email message. Each of these is easily previewed before you select it.
Filling in the content and customizing the layout is performed through a straightforward WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop type editor. Click on any of the elements to customize them, like adding in your own images. In the case of a product listing, the product name, description, current price, and original price are filled out in the right sidebar rather than in the "live" preview on the left.
It only takes a minute or two to design a professional-looking email, complete with branding and a professional layout that looks great on both desktop and mobile. Here's a quick mockup I put together with some filler text and images. Then, all you need to do is define your recipients, finalize your A/B settings, and send the email! It's really, really easy to do.
Automation and Workflows
Perhaps one of the more powerful implementations you'll find in Omnisend is the automation. These are then organized into workflows that you can customize to fit your particular situation. The welcome email is one of the most basic workflows, but you'll find that something like the cart recovery workflow can be much more powerful.
You have the customer who visited your site, clearly expressed interest in product, and added the item to the cart, but then left without completing the sale. How can you recover that potential sale? With this automated workflow! The workflow is first triggered by the abandoned cart.
After a one-hour delay, the first email can be sent as a gentle reminder to see if they're "still shopping." If they don't come back to complete the sale, a second email is sent 11 hours later as another reminder. After another 12 hours, a third email is sent with a bit more urgency, telling the customer that they should hurry as their cart "is about to expire."
You can see exactly how many customers have entered the workflow, are currently in the workflow, and have exited the workflow at any given time. An "exit" is defined as making a purchase or receiving the final follow-up email.
Other workflows include an abandoned cart with just one email, browse abandonment, a 3-email welcome drip, and a birthday email, as well as the opportunity construct your own custom workflow.
With Omnisend, you naturally also have full access to launching new signup forms, reviewing and managing your list of subscribers, and going through all your reports to analyze your customer data. There's also a live view so you can see who is visiting your website in real time and what they are doing there.
Free Demo, Free Trial, and Pricing Schemes
If you'd like to get a handle on how Omnisend could work for you, you can sign up for a free personal demo. This includes a 1-on-1 interaction where you can get a full product walkthrough, asking any specific questions you may have about Omnisend. If you'd rather take it for a spin yourself, there's also the 14-day trial where you have access to all the benefits with no credit card required.
Once you do decide to sign up, you'll find that the pricing schedule for Omnisend depends on the number of subscribers that you have. There's also a 20% savings when you opt for annual billing rather than monthly billing.
Pricing starts at just $8 per month (when paying annually) for the standard plan with 500 subscribers. For reference, the equivalent standard plan for 1,000 subscribers, 2,500 subscribers, and 5,000 subscribers is $12/month, $24/month, and $40/month, respectively. There's also the free plan (with limited features), and the pro plan (starting at $160/month) with more personalization and scale.
The 'What the Aff' Daily Newsletter for Affiliate Marketers
It can be difficult to keep up with the world of affiliate marketing, just like with any other fast-moving industry. There's always something happening, and these changes and new developments can have an immediate and dramatic impact on your bottom line. What can you expect with the next Google algorithm update? Is there a new Facebook feature you should know about and integrate into your marketing campaigns?
At the same time, your time is understandably at a premium and you can't spend hours on end every day catching up on every affiliate marketing news stories that passes through the web. You just want the freshest content delivered in a convenient and easily understood way. To that end, What the Aff is an especially appealing newsletter that caters specifically to this kind of audience.
Be in the Know
You may already be familiar with Manu Cinca from his other ventures in the online world. And the What the Aff newsletter is his "absolute focus" right now.
Rather than bombard you with dozens and dozens of lengthy news articles, rather than provide a bottomless lists of links around the web that'll occupy you for hours without the equivalent benefit, What the Aff is an affiliate daily newsletter with "carefully curated affiliate marketing news, tech, and actionable advice."
Cinca is taking the time to find and share only the stories that matter the most to affiliate marketers. The newsletter is delivered fresh every weekday to your inbox via email, making for a quick and convenient update on what you need to know about affiliate marketing today. The newsletter is designed to be consumed in five minutes or less, so you can "be in the know" and get on with your day.
Your Daily Fresh Take
The newsletter isn't "over-designed," and is instead offered in a lightweight, easy to skim format. Each daily newsletter typically contains about five stories in total; in addition to the title for each story, you'll also find a convenient highlighted "category" like "Facebook" or "GDPR," so you'll know what to expect. That way, you can even focus on the stories that interest you the most and skip the others.
The writing is conversational yet authoritative in tone. The information is presented in easy to understand language, including relevant links as appropriate if you're interested in learning more. You might learn about finding great e-commerce suppliers one day, Bing Ads artificial intelligence the next, and the psychology behind clicking search ads in another.
Paragraphs are rarely more than a few sentences, making for easily digestible (and skimmable) content. Opinions are backed up by relevant statistics and data, and you are oftentimes provided with actionable steps or guidance for where you can go from here. For example, in learning about clicking on search ads, you're reminded to "always make sure your ad copy is highly relevant to the users' search query." You're also told YouTube ads, display ads and Facebook ads should be used together "to build the brand awareness" before you start creating "branded campaigns using Search Ads to drive the final push" toward conversions.
At the end of each newsletter is a section called "Poolside Chat." This is where you'll find "cool tech, (funny) business, lifestyle and all other things affiliates like to chat about." Some of this stuff might not be directly related to affiliate marketing but still of interest to people who are in the business of affiliate marketing. And you'll get some clever memes along the way too.
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While there is certainly a website component to What the Aff (more on that in just a moment), the primary focus is understandably on the email newsletter. What you'll find with some other websites and newsletters in this space is that they can overwhelm you with all the ads, burying the actual content that you want to read. That's not at all the case with What the Aff.
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A hub of activity, the popular intersection of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue touts a subway station, bus terminal, shopping centre and various commercial and residential towers.
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The Yonge Street 'strip' both north and south of Eglinton Avenue features as diverse a retail selection as one would find in any large suburban shopping mall. Local and out-of-area shoppers converge on this retail mecca for the wonderful outdoor & indoor experience the area delivers. Combine an eclectic mix of boutiques and shops, with a host of local, national, and international chain stores and one needs to go no further than several city blocks to satisfy virtually every need. From antiques to hardware, cupcakes to designer fashions, it's all here and more.
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If shopping or clubbing isn't really your style – then why not try fitness? From boxing clubs to gyms to yoga studios, the Yonge Eglinton community has something for every sports and fitness buff – even those craving outdoor activity.
Eglinton Park, immediately behind the modern North Toronto Community Centre and Arena on Eglinton Ave. West, is the areas largest 'sports-field' park. Sport teams can also take advantage of the ball fields at the local area high schools as well as at Davisville Park, which offers both baseball and tennis. Just minutes north of Eglinton Ave. off Yonge Street is the Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens, Lawrence Park Tennis and Lawn Bowling Clubs, the Blythwood Ravine Park and Sherwood Park. Here, along the nature trails, walkers, joggers and the areas most playful dogs, can be found enjoying the surroundings.
The beautiful and historic Mount Pleasant Cemetery and the connecting Belt Line Trail, running from the cemetery to the Allen Expressway, are also a favorite for bikers, joggers and walking enthusiasts.
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If you're in the market for a home, then the Yonge Eglinton community provides many options. Popular Apartments For Rent can be found on streets like Holly and Dunfield, Roehampton and Erskine. The recent boom in condominium development - offering Condos For Rent and Condos For Sale - from starter one bedroom units to Condo Townhomes to million dollar penthouses - has brought a new, modern-style homeowner into the area.
If a more traditional property is what you have in mind, then look no further than this much-sought-after North Toronto community.
For the most part, these 'house properties' are a mix of 2-storey semis and classic 2-storey brick detached homes which offer the discriminating homebuyer a sense of security and belonging. Couple the classic look and feel of these homes with their vicinity to the downtown core, main thoroughfares and upscale retail areas and the result is a perfect place to live, work and play.
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When I went to write a post after the long, luxurious holiday weekend, I realized I had way too many lovely discoveries saved up, so I'm putting them all in one place! Happy Tuesday!
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Mathematicians discover new 13-million-digit prime number. He hates perfume. Is stupid making us Google? The new white people are bigoted, but not they way you think -- or they'll admit.
Mathematicians discover new 13-million-digit prime number. He hates perfume. Is stupid making us Google? The new white people are bigoted, but not they way you think -- or they'll admit.
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From the Sacrament of the Sick tour in 2007. (Tankz Thomasina!)
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Speak like yoda, want to, hmm? Hmm... (with thanks to The Comical Hat). A decade ago, Jakob Nielsen published an essay entitled "How Users Read on the Web." It opened bluntly: "They don't." Why Kenyan women cannot stop eating stones.
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Mighty Ike. What Babar brought. How to cheat at everything. A big hand for the sound of silence.
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English departments don't read celebrated travel writer Paul Theroux; he's too rude about people: "Japan doesn't have suspicion of strangers. They just have an utter lack of interest." Voters in the US are not as deeply informed as some may have us believe: "Political scientists Michael Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter found that just 49 percent of Americans know that the only country ever to use a nuclear weapon in a war is their own." Funner, blowiest, interestinger, huger, bestest -- such words may not be in the dictionary but if they work like a word, why not just spit them out. Smelling bad.
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What not to do if a dead whale washes up on a beach near you...
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Tokyo, Japan– More than two-dozen cardboard boxes were taken into police custody this morning as investigators from the National Fraud Squad scrambled to trace the present whereabouts of investment funds worth ¥7 billion that went missing from the Social Security Centre's weekly bingo kitty last week.
Investigators suspect that one of the cardboard boxes now in custody concealed the funds during a regular stationary inventory before walking out of the building through the front door after passing through a handful of security checks undetected.
A spokesperson from the Fraud Squad would not divulge any information regarding the expected duration of the boxes' stay.
"There are many issues we need to address before we simply let them go," said Detective Sugimoto. " The first question we want answered is: Where is the money?"
No cardboard boxes were believed to have been drenched with water during their ordeal.
Sometimes you encounter a person with a real chip on their shoulder, sometimes they seem to have an entire scoop.
"Do you have any pineapple rings?" I asked the broody waitress as she made a note of my drink order – beer – but as this was an Italian-style pizza establishment I doubted whether she understood the joke.
"Sorry but we only have pizza," she replied with a snarl, "With cheese or without?"
It was a limited menu but one that made cents – in both senses of the word. There were four of us, so we decided to really chance our arm and order one of each.
As we waited, the waitress muttered something that sounded like "Last drinks!" but we decided to decline her kind offer, as we were a little embarrassed to take further advantage of her generous hospitality.
Ironically, the Cheese Pizza arrived before its cheese-less counterpart and we were just debating how to attack the steaming rings of dough when the waitress came over and told us very matter-of-factly that it tastes better if eaten when piping hot.
"But–," started my companion, as he sought to draw attention to what was missing from the table.
"No buts," the waitress snapped. "Eat them while they've still got some fire left in their belly."
"But," continued my companion, ignoring her specific request, "it would help us to have a knife or something to cut the pizza into smaller pieces. There are four of us after all."
The waitress was tall to begin with but she drew herself up to be her full height and towered above the table like Roppongi Hills at dusk. She stood as all matriarchal woman stand when they want to make sure their statement is clearly understood, which seemed surprisingly natural from a person who looked to be pushing thirty-two. She wiped her hands on a grubby apron before placing both on her hips.
"All you had to do was ask," she finally blurted out, and with that she turned on her heels and disappeared in a trail of table dust. A few loud thumps could be heard resounding from the kitchen and by the time she returned, the pizzas were looking decidedly cold and forlorn.
"Remember to pay at the counter on your way out," she said as she placed the knife on the table, looking at the four of us as if she knew we were planning to sneak out the bathroom window between our dessert and digestive. She might have been unfriendly to the point of being rude but her intuition was pre-programmed to foil such plots long before they occurred.
"Have you got any vinegar?" I gulped, unable to restrain myself from a last subtle dig. My companions looked at me with a mixture of horror and disbelief.
"We close in twenty minutes," she said bluntly. "If I were you, I'd get a move on."
And believe you me, we did.
Mental Note to Self: Fish & Chips always taste better by the sea; save Italian for Italy.
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I had come down to the station to report the loss of a piece of paper. Not just any piece of paper, but the immigration form I filled out when I arrived at Noi Bai international airport. Alongside your passport, this yellow piece of paper is one of the single most important pieces of paper you will ever receive in Vietnam. I mean, you will get other fairly meaningless pieces of paper – tickets, bills, love letters and so forth – but your immigration form is of utmost importance. Lose this and you will not be allowed to leave the country – even if you are deported.
So important is this piece of paper that should you lose it you are expected to head down to your local police station and report it missing. The boys in peach are expected to file a written statement on the matter. And that's just what I had gone to do.
But I had made the fatal mistake of going a little bit too early. It's common in Vietnam for people to take a nap after lunch. Something to do with assisting the digestion process, I believe. Try to do anything during this period of the day and you will only be met with a solid wall of open mouths (a little bit like that revolving head game at the fairground, minus the clowns). Even if you do manage to stir someone from their slumber, they will generally only be able to point outside and mumble something that sounds like, "what does it look like I'm doing?"
Anyway, in my case (actually case number CSGT/197608327-11-03) I was fortunate because the policeman woke as I stood there, uncertain of my next move.
"What do you want nephew?" the rotund man asked. He had definitely had one too many banh baos, the local version of a meat pie.
"I lost my customs form," I replied, taking a step towards the desk that, just moments ago, was used as an incubator.
"Lost it, huh?" the man asked. "What were you doing?"
I thought briefly about telling him the full story, that my immigration form had actually been lost by my embassy, which perhaps should have known better in such circumstances. But I merely shrugged my shoulders and pursed my lips together in mock confusion.
"You should be more careful," the policeman retorted.
I had been anticipating a comment such as this. If there's one thing I've learnt during my time in this godforsaken country it's never ask an older person for help and expect to avoid a lecture.
"I understand," I said. "Want do I need to do?"
"You must fill out these," he said, and threw three forms in front of me.
"So you're telling me that I have to fill out three pieces of paper to say that I've lost one piece of paper?"
"And pay money."
"Of course. How much?"
"How much do you think?"
"I don't know. Aren't you a policeman?"
"Yes. I must work hard, you know… filling out paper work all the time."
At this last remark I choose to bite my tongue, swallow my pride and leave it there. I didn't think it was such a good idea to point out that I was the one who was actually going to fill out the paper work.
I answered the questions in the spaces provided, which were generally insufficient for the screeds of information requested. But as with all forms in Vietnam, it's not the information you give that is important, it's the fact that the piece of paper exists in the first place.
Existence, as Albert Camus once said, is everything.
copyright elliott samuels 2003
Author's Note
This story is based on actual events that occurred on August 17, 2003. However, please note that certain liberties have been taken in the English translation of the conversation that may or may not have been intended by the participants. As a result, the author may have distorted some of the phrases used in the course of this encounter in a bid to capture the essence of a typical conversation that takes place in numerous small retail outlets in Hanoi on a daily basis. Anyone who has spent any amount of time in Vietnam will know what I'm talking about; anyone else will make of it what you will…
But first, let's introduce the conversation's participants…
Name: Nguyen Oanh
Age: 51-ish
Occupation: Pharmacist
Nationality: Vietnam
Marital Status: Married
Eyesight: Failing
Hair Colour: Black-black
Hairstyle: Parted perm
Make-up: Heavy
Name: James Sycamore
Age: 29
Occupation: International Man of Mystery
Nationality: New Zealand
Marital Status: Single
Eyesight: 20/20
Hair Colour: Black-brown
Hairstyle: Short back & wide
Make-up: Light
James Sycamore strolls confidently into a chemist that sits prominently on the corner of a major intersection in Hanoi. The street outside bustles with myriad motor vehicles and little can be heard above the cacophony of horns. He is greeted by a ruddy-cheeked, middle-aged woman standing behind the counter wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a spotlessly white tunic. The name-tag pinned onto her uniform introduces her as Nguyen Oanh.
Nguyen Oanh: [Hears footsteps, looks up] Oh nephew! Aunt help nephew how?
James Sycamore: Hello Aunt. [Steps towards the counter, accidentally startling the middle-aged woman by moving "too quickly" ] Aunt has health, no?
NO: Have. Nephew buy what?
JS: [Remembers the time] Aunt eat rice yet?
NO: Not yet, [states the obvious] I am working. [Puts down her clipboard] Nephew buy what?
JS: Umm… Nephew wants to buy, er… [Looks around and sees no-one – at least, not yet] …er, nephew no know what call that thing in Vietnamese.
NO: Medicine? [Reaches for vitamin C tablets]
JS: No… er, [Glances over left shoulder, then right] …er, OK?
JS: Yes… OK. How much? [Reaches into pocket and unfolds a big wad of cash, which has been arranged before arriving in order to make the purchase snappy]
NO: OK… mmm [Looks him up and down] Friend a boy or a girl?
JS: [Deepens voice] A boy.
NO: Is nephew sure? Nephew looks pretty like a girl.
JS: Thank you. [Bows, curses]
NO: Nephew, this year how much old?
JS: Er... [Looks her straight in the eye] Thirty. But aunt also looks young, pretty even.
NO: True, no?
JS: True. [Shuffles feet politely]
NO: Nephew person country which?
JS: New Zealand, and aunt?
NO: [Chortles] Vietnam.
JS: Yes, er… [Begins fidgeting, tries to change tack] Sky beautiful. [Nods assuredly, as if to convince himself. It is, in fact, grey and overcast]
NO: Beautiful. [Begins to think aloud] Nephew like woman Vietnam, no?
JS: [Expecting this] Of course. Woman Vietnam very beautiful, beautiful very [Pauses slightly for effect, a well-rehearsed line] …a little bit beautiful.
NO: A little bit beautiful. [Beams] Nephew take wife Vietnam, no?
JS: No. [Squirms]
NO: Why nephew no take wife Vietnam [Looks personally insulted]
JS: No have money.
NO: Oh… [Understands & slowly nods head] Oh… so nephew buy what?
At that moment, another woman dressed in a white tunic enters. Her name is Yen Anh, but she has the same hair, same make-up, same uniform and same all-knowing eyes. Sycamore's ruse has been rumbled.
JS: Uh… er…
YA: Nephew capital city which come?
JS: Sorry? Nephew no hear Aunt clearly?
YA: Person country which?
NO: New Zealand, near America. [Pauses slightly] Nephew wants to take wife Vietnam.
YA: Really? But wife Vietnam ugly very.
NO: That's why nephew wants to buy OK.
YA: OK? [Looks startled, places hand over mouth]
NO: But nephew no have money.
YA: Really? But person country foreign has much money [Looks accusingly at him, daring him to deny it]
JS: Er… well… sometimes person country foreign has money, sometimes person country foreign has no money.
YA & NO: Oh... [Both nod in understanding]
JS: [Becoming flustered, blushes] OK, how much?
NO: OK? Oh, wait a moment… One thousand Vietnam dong a thing. Three thousand Vietnam dong a box. [Reaches into a box that is already open].
JS: One box [Looks over left shoulder and catches sight of a man selling baby rabbits on the footpath outside the pharmacy] Sorry… fifteen boxes.
NO: Fifteen? [Looks surprised but grabs a plastic bag]
JS: Hey Aunt! Nephew no need bag at all.
NO: No need bag eh? [Looks him straight in the eye] Nephew no want have problem yeah."
JS: No, nephew no.
Sycamore crams the boxes into his shoulder bag, pays the pharmacist a twenty thousand dong note, turns on his heels and heads for the door.
NO: Hey nephew! Five thousand Vietnam dong price back again!
Sycamore chooses to ignore her, but in his haste a box falls out of his bag and skids across the floor. By chance it falls at the feet of a traffic officer who has just stepped into the pharmacy for a quick rest in the shade while on duty. The traffic officer bends over and picks the box up.
TO: OK of young brother?
JS: Yes.
TO: [Looks amused] Young brother… person country which?
JS: [Limply holds out his hand] New Zealand.
TO: [Placing box in his outstretched hand] Young brother go play yeah.
JS: Yes, young brother go play.
A little background...
OK is a popular brand of condoms sold by chemists in Vietnam. Chemists are almost always staffed by middle-aged Vietnamese women with perms.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:45 PM GMT on September 28, 2012
Powerful Typhoon Jelawat is hammering Japan's Ryukyu Islands as the typhoon steams northeastwards towards Okinawa at 12 mph. Jelawat has weakened to a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds, thanks to an eyewall replacement cycle and an increase in wind shear to a high 20 - 30 knots. At 7 pm local time, the winds today at Shimoji Shima Island were 66 mph, gusting to 85 mph. Jelawat has dumped 308.5 mm (12.1") rain in 12 hours at Tarama Airport. Satellite loops and radar loops show an impressive, well-organized typhoon with a 33 mile-wide eye, and a large, symmetric area of heavy thunderstorms with cold cloud tops.
The models are in close agreement that Jelawat will pass over or very close to Okinawa, Japan, as a Category 2 or 3 typhoon on Saturday, between 03 - 06 UTC. Jelawat could hit the main island of Honshu in Japan as a tropical storm or Category 1 typhoon on Sunday. Wind shear will continue to increase over Jelawat for the remainder of its life, causing a steady weakening of the storm.
Figure 1. Radar image of Typhoon Jelawat over Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands at 11:05 pm local time on September 28, 2012. Image credit: Japan Meteorological Agency.
A Jelawat mystery
Jelawat has had a classic appearance on satellite imagery during its long stint as a Super Typhoon, with a large symmetric eye surrounded by intense thunderstorms with very cold cloud tops. However, at two points in its life--for several hours on September 25 (Figure 2), and again near 08 UTC September 27--both visible and infrared satellite images showed a very odd boundary extending north-northwestwards from the northeast side of the eye for about 50 miles. I've never seen any such feature in a tropical cyclone, and am a loss to explain what is going on. The typhoon was not close enough to any land areas for this to be a topographic effect, and there wasn't any obvious dry air or significant wind shear that could have caused a perturbation like this.
Figure 2. High resolution visible (left) and infrared (right) satellite imagery of Super Typhoon Jelawat from the new Suomi VIIRS instrument, taken at 0431 UTC on September 25, 2012. At the time, Jelawat was a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds. A very odd line appears along the north side of the eye. Image credit: Dan Lindsey, Colorado State University.
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Nadine a hurricane again
Non-stop Nadine has regenerated to hurricane strength again, as the long-lived storm enters its 16th day of life. Nadine is not expected to be a threat to any land areas for the next seven days, but moisture associated with Nadine has flowed eastwards over Spain, bringing heavy rains and flooding problems. The GFS model shows Nadine getting caught up in a trough of low pressure on Wednesday and lifted to the northeast over colder waters, where it would likely die. The 00Z run of the ECMWF model predicts that Nadine will hang around an extra two days, finally getting pulled northeastward over cold waters next Friday. Nadine is already in eighth place for longest-lived named storm since 1950, according to a list compiled by Dr. Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University:
1) Ginger, 1971: 21.25 named storm days
2) Carrie, 1957: 19.5 named storm days
3) Alberto, 2000: 19.25 named storm days
4) Bertha, 2008: 17 named storm days
5) Inga, 1969: 17 named storm days
6) Kyle, 2002: 16.75 named storm days
7) Inez, 1966: 16.25 named storm days
8) Nadine, 2012: 16.0 named storm days
The all-time record is held by the San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899, which had 28 named storm days.
Figure 3. MODIS satellite image of Tropical Storm Nadine taken at 8:30 am EDT Friday, September 28, 2012. At the time, Nadine had top winds of 70 mph, and would be declared a hurricane 3 hours later. Image credit: Navy Research Lab, Monterey.
Tropical Storm Norman forms near Baja, Mexico; associated moisture feeding heavy rains in Texas
Tropical Storm Norman has formed this morning near the tip of Baja, Mexico, and promises to be a potent rain-maker for Mexico and the Southern U.S. Norman's moisture will feed the formation of an extratropical storm that will form in South Texas on Saturday. The storm's center will potentially move over the Northern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and Monday, but the storm will probably not have enough time over water to convert to a tropical system. The storm will bring heavy flooding rains to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle Saturday through Monday. Flooding has already been observed in West Texas this morning. Midland-Odessa picked up 3.12" of rain so far today, making it the 3rd wettest September day on record. The wettest day in city history is August 24th, 1934, when 5.32" fell.
Figure 4. Predicted rainfall totals for the 5-day period ending at 8 am EDT Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Moisture from the Eastern Pacific's Tropical Storm Norman is expected to surge eastwards and bring heavy rains to much of Texas and the North Gulf Coast. Image credit: NOAA/Hydrometeorological Prediction Center.
New African wave may develop next week
A tropical wave expected to move off the coast of Africa on Sunday will develop into a tropical depression by next Wednesday, predicts today's 06Z run of the NOGAPS model. The wave is predicted to recurve to the north more than 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles Islands.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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This frame and fork are going to Taiwan.
This is the second order I have gotten from the country that makes more bikes than just about anybody. All of the features on this frame were specified by the customer in Taipei. I believe he has a number of custom bikes but this is his first from me. It is a steel 'cross frame and fork made to accept fenders. The tubeset is Reynolds 853/725 throughout except for the True Temper head tube and Dedaccai wishbone seatstays.
Fender mounts were added to the bottom of the wishbone extension and the chainstay crossmember. I usually don't put a crossmember between the chainstays but it makes for a much more secure fender installation.
I put a little flip in the end of the stays for style and heel clearance. The reynolds tubing is always great to work with although it is hell on the cutters with all that surface hardness.It should be a nice riding bike.
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It's like an exchange program! 2 down, a few million to go?
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