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Vibram FiveFingers. Don't believe the Signa hype.
I was curious about Vibram FiveFinger shoes that keeps popping up in stores and web stores. I own a couple of Vibram-soled shoes. Many which I can swear by. From RockPorts to UGG which have outlasted other shoes I own. If you haven't heard about the FiveFingers, these are basically extremely light ninja-like shoes like those of the dorky fingered socks.. except made of more durable material and a sole to cushion your feet from the impacts it receives from various form of exercises and activities. They make these for distance running, trail running and just daily use too. In favour of the weightless ergonomic look and since I do tonnes of dragon boating and stand up paddling, I kinda got my eyes set on one of their products which markets specifically for water activities.
There are various kind of shoes you can wear while doing water activities. Most of these would be neoprene based from 2mm to 5mm for various weather conditions. These are good but it usually gets pretty hot and sweaty when you're wearing them in the peak of summer. This design however are derived from scuba diving or snorkelling as they cool you down when you're submerged in water. But when you're staying on ground exposed to hot sun or winter's weather, it can be pretty unbearable. Then there is the netted top material aqua-shoe that's sprawling the market with a thick polyurythane sole underneath. Even though they work for its purpose, you tend to however lose your sole senses due to its thick unflexible soles. Despite all the comfort claims, this shoes make your toes and feet completely senseless; like having on gum boots when you want to feel the grass under your feet. If you catch my drift.
When in water, and on a paddle board, you want to feel connected to the water. Many will either go bare feet as it gives you that connection while you're applying pressure on the deck of the board whilst paddling. On a dragonboat or SUP in summer weather, barefeet feels great but you don't want to step off the board into old deck splinters or unexpected sharp rocks. And for us who trains on fresh water, these murky water sometimes makes your feet slippery during the power phase of your stroke. You're transferring the full weight of the paddle to the bottom of your feet and the last thing you'd want it to do is slip.
Less about paddling technique, back about the Signa shoe and its advertising claims.
Whether kayaking, surfing, paddle boarding or simply walking the rocky shores all summer, the FiveFingers® Signa is the shoe for you. The segmented Coral outsole made of Vibram® TC-4 Plus rubber ensures ultimate grip and protection in the water and allows natural foot flexion when swimming. Small perforations in the sole encourage water drainage, minimize weight, and speedup drying time. The upper is built with a combination of synthetic and abrasion resistant fabrics to protect the foot. The Signa is finished off with a structural hook and loop strap for a secured fit. Machine washable. Air dry.
So I bought myself the Vibram FiveFingers Signa in January 17, 2015. I decided on these vs the TrekSport which also claims to be water specialized design due to its breathing sole. Water in – water out. Quick dry. It takes a bit of practise to get these on and off your feet. As advised, you should choose the proper size that allow your heel to firmly seat in the heel cup and for me this was one size smaller than the normal shoe size I wear. So in general, if you're like me wearing a 44 you'd want to get a 43 to have a proper snug fit. So Jack is happy with his shoe fit. But through time and putting it to its paces, that's where it becomes less desirable. Jack is starting to not like it.
After less than six months of use (2nd June 2015 at the time of writing) the shoe is starting to break apart. The first to snap off was the rear loop. You have to understand the snugness of these shoes when you try to get them on. The thing just decided it's had enough and snapped off exactly where the stitches are. It was a perfect rip. Like that of a postage stamp. This was just the first of many other failure symptoms to come.
The following week during my SUP race here in Netherlands, I thought the shoe had a less snug feel. A closer look unveiled that the rubber seal which connects the sole to the upper synthetic material is also torn. I'm beginning to doubt that this shoe was ever tested on and off water for this length of use. But 3x a week and about 2 hours average each time is not too much I think.
And the rest just starts to fall apart. The glue adhesive on the bottom of the toes have also started to give way and if you look closely to the upper synthetic material, it has started to tear in various places. It may be made for water, but I think its just not weather-proofed. This shoes dry fast but it feel like the materials used couldn't withstand the repeated wet-wear and dry over a repeated period – of I say 6 months.
So now I am at a loss of whether the shoe was well worth the $90 I paid for when it starts to deteriorate after 6 months of use. I wear them on average 3x a week for my dragonboat and SUP trainings. Nothing extreme like jumping rocks / running distances what so ever. To make matters slightly more complicated, I got these in Florida during my travel and I doubt the retailers in Netherlands would even want to bother with my issue on this shoe even if they stock them here on the shelves. But one thing for sure, I'd be more wary to look for feedbacks on this water-claim Signa shoes before giving them your hard earned money.
If any of you know where I can get this fixed, replaced or warrantied, do direct me to the right pls. I twittered about the torn loop once on Twitter with @FiveFingers tagged on it but never got any response from them. Too busy selling I guess.
@Vibram5Fingers 3rd time using my Signa (on SUP) and its already torn. What now. pic.twitter.com/VNldhUHGCn
— rastAsia (@rastAsia) May 4, 2015
Needless to say. It might be the last time I look into FiveFingers as a watersports wear. I was sceptical when I got it, and despite the great feel it gives, the sudden wear and break down on its material and build makes it an undesirable product for its claimed purpose. I guess I'm back to the old smelly neoprene boots when I hit the water. At least they can take the 5 year beatings without a problem. Don't believe the hype. And don't fall for false marketing.
Sounds we hear..
Finally found time to experiment the use of head-worn binaural earphone CS-10EM with static directional sound in a visual mix. Its very sensitive and highly susceptible to wind noise thus the fluffy beanie helps well in winter as a windjammer. You should notice how it captures the low rumbles coming from the school at a distance and cars driving by. Quiet pre-amps from the R-26 surprised me again here. Mind you these are connected to the Plug-In mic I/O, not the XLR. The XLR connections are much quieter. CS-10EM picks up a full range of 20Hz-20KHz well but I'd only trust the built-in earphone solely for level monitoring and nothing else. And for that, the big gain knob on the R-26 helped greatly to dial in the right level.
For those who are new to Binaural Audio, the next paragraph is a brief introduction about it. If not just skip to the video to hear it for yourself. WAIT!! Before you get to that, grab yourself a good headphone.
Binaural hearing has been emulated in sound laboratories by using mannequin heads with built-in microphones. Except this time, I'm the living breathing head. 🙂 From these signals, human beings can determine characteristics such as inter-aural time and level differences and—based on the listening experience—information about the spatial origin of the sounds being heard. Are they coming from in front or behind, from the left or right, or above or below? This ability to perceive where a sound originates from is referred to as binaural hearing.
Interesting? Read more about binaural audio.
Also noted, that GoPro WiFi app does not work well in snow somehow. It was -5ºC that morning and the range was somehow drastically reduced. My iPhone sees an connect to the GoPro ad hoc WiFi connection but buttons initiation does not relay well even at this rope length. It could be either the iPhone or GoPro. But phone is warm in my pocket while GoPro is close to the freezing floor.
Oh well, only the sound matters here..
Tech specs:
Binaural Mic
Roland CS-10EM
Field Recorder
Roland R-26 which also powers the binaural mics internally.
GoPro Hero2 + Wifi BacPac + Dive Housing
Velbon Alu Mini Ball Head QHD-51Q
Bluetooth Speakers
I finally backed on something I liked on kickstarter last Christmas. Since I'm always in search of a good mini speaker(s) to lug around when I travel, I figured there'd be something in there that could improve the way we listen to audio coming from our smartphones apart from being attached to cords of headphones and such. Notice how I said audio and not just music? You see, music this days are primarily still mixed in stereo (and I say so coz music engineers rarely do Mono testing compatibility this days) and if your hardware only supports Mono, chances is that you're only listening to the Left channel of the audio mix. I sure hope that's not the case with the product we're gonna be talking about here..
Hidden Radio & Bluetooth Speaker
I've been using Singapore-produced X-Mini Max II where ever I roam; to the beach, the park, in Bali, on the boat or just right in the living room with an iPad to listen to webcasts. But last Christmas, when I saw the design from John and Vitor… I thought it's about time I try something untethered, and a pretty looking one to boot.
What John van Den Nieuwenhuizen said about their design made me want to try their speaker out.
"Radios and speakers are often large and obtrusive, we created the HiddenRadio + BT Speaker using simple, unassuming, intuitive design so it can be loved in any home."
This is true.. The thing that never got emphasized though is that this radio is an FM based receiver. So I don't know if it'd receive all stations when you bring it with you across different hemispheres. In Europe the stations are spaced at 9kHz intervals, and in the US they use 10kHz spacing. Most modern radios won't let you tune between these spacings. Since there is no AM then no problem. Smartly enough, the unit uses simple 2-button Up/Down Scan function to lock on to any good FM transmission available. You'd have to guess what station you're listening to as there's no LCD indicator on the frequency you're on.Thus the name is true, there is a 'Hidden Radio' built into the Bluetooth speaker. Something to add about the FM radio, you'd have to plug in an external FM antennae for better reception. Curious why they didn't use the knob itself as a brushless antennae.
The Bluetooth Speaker would crank audio up til just over 80dB . Pretty loud claim for something its size. There's a video comparison on the audio quality compared against well known Jawbone speaker. But seeking deep into HRBS site, there's no where in tech specs that they mention the speaker's range for Frequency Response. Proprietary 360° sound diffuser.. that's all that's written under Audio Specs.
No buttons, just one giant knob to lift and turn. The higher you lift the cover, the louder it gets. That simple? Not so.. Two things..
I'm curious how the mechanism is designed for this to work smoothly. They claim that it should be effortless to lift the lid without having to hold the base. There's gotta be some sort of gummy rubber placed on the base to create friction from the base to spin as you turn the top cap. And if I'm right, then you'd need a little practise to actually do the twist-to-turn-on-and-raise-up-the-volume functionality. Eitherwise it'd be a grab and turn like what I saw on SlashGear's video review. And notice how the lid is twitsted clockwise to lift? Its counter intuitive on how we always twist anti-clockwise to open a lid.
Its a gimmick I think. If you don't turn that knob all the way up, the sound is bound to be muffled. Looking at the picture again, you see that the speaker grills sit all around under the knob casing. You don't adjust the volume of a speaker by blocking the face of the tweeter or cones do you? Even when you lower down the volume, that speaker cone needs to be free and unblocked to continue reproducing the full frequency range of audio that you're listening to. So I'm curious how they'd overcome that issue based on their design. I believe you just have to keep it wide open to get the full range and adjust audio from the playback device. If this falls true, then there's a huge design flaw against the aesthetic idea. Well even I fell for it!
With AirPlay enabled on the iOS device and paired via bluetooth, HiddenRadio will now appear as one of your external audio device. Switching speakers is effortless.
Built-in battery is claimed to give about 15hrs of play time. Which I hope is made easily replaceable when shelf-life is reached. I can't even remember what their final decision was.. as to whether a wall plug would be delivered with the product or not.
Looking further into the design itself I think all is good except for two critical items..
ONE: They forgot to add in a microphone. Kinda defeat its purpose if you have to run back to the phone to speak and listen back via HRBS. It should work fine for Skype and FaceTime video chats fine as you'd have to be close to your phone for video framing anyhow, thus using the mic on mobile device is inevitable.
TWO. I wish they had a Call Answer or Call Reject button. Think about it. It's almost a 'speakerphone' but you can't talk into it or stop the phone from ringing when somebody dials in.
Alternatively, if you're looking for quality speakers that offer wireless bluetooth functionality which focuses on sound quality as well as functionality apart from clean looks, checkout Soundmatters' foxL v2.2 speakers. Claimed as worlds best bluetooth stereo speaker, which comes with a hands-free microphone that enables better speakerphone / conferencing. And with no surprise, foxL also comes with one-touch answer/reject/end-call button. Batteries lasts only about 8 hours it makes sense as you get full fidelity stereo sound. Shame I only learnt about Soundmatters' foxL after pledging for HRBS! Aarrghh!!!
Shame that I cannot do any audio comparison of Foxl against the HRBS right now. But come the time, you bet that I will do back-to-back referencing on the audio spectrum from HRBS. I sure hope it stands to its competitors even if its not a stereo speaker.
We're just days away before receiving our Hidden Radio and Bluetooth Speaker here in Holland.. and with the new announcement of iPhone5 yesterday, audio is triumphantly one of the most focussed enhancements in recent comm tech developments. High Fidelity audio is the way forward. Not just about being wireless. Not just about sitting pretty. For now, we wait, see and listen.
Adidas vs Puma in the European Soccer Finals 2012
If you just saw that painful loss Germany suffered playing against Italy during the semi-finals to the European Cup, you would probably feel the loss the team felt. It's a long rivalry, not only based on the sport of football but also on the brands who sponsored their jerseys. Germany wears Adidas. Italy wearing Puma. What's the significance? A plenty actually.
The greatest sports rivalry is not Man U v Liverpool, or Ghana v Nigeria or Kotoko v Heats of Oak or Usain Bolt v Tyson Gay, or any other of those playground "my team can beat your team" fairytales listed on ESPN or Sky sports. No, the greatest sports rivalry revolves around two siblings: the brothers who created the companies Adidas and Puma.
In 1924, in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, two brothers started a shoe business. The older Rudi was a veteran of the Great War. The younger, Adolf or Adi, as his family called him had used their mother's large washroom to start making shoes in 1920, out of whatever materials he could scrounge.
They named their company Gebruder Dassler Schulfabrik. According to Sneakerhead.com, the brothers had 25 employees and were turning out 100 pairs of athletic shoes a day by 1927.
In the early 1930s, Dassler began designing shoes for specific sports. Dutch athletes in the 1928 Olympics wore Dassler shoes, and sales went up the roof.
In 1936, the brothers hit gold literally: "Competing at the Berlin Olympic Games, American hero Jesse Owens won four Gold medals wearing Dassler shoes. During the Games, almost every member of the German Football team wears Dassler shoes. In total there were seven Gold and five Bronze medal winners wearing Dassler shoes at the competition. Additionally, athletes wearing Dassler shoes shattered two world and three Olympic records."
- Adidas Owen Dassler
- Puma Atom
If you know history, then you know what happened next. Company profiles are a bit vague on the brothers' wartime activities, but sneakerhead.com claims the Nazis seized the factories. Bookrags.com says that while older brother Rudi was drafted into the German army, Adi ran the business and produced footwear for the soldiers. They fell out during World War II, probably over political differences, and founded rival firms. They refused to work together any longer.
Rudi moved across town and across the river to open his own company, and then named it PUMA. That same year he introduced the ATOM, his first soccer or football boot. The West German National team wore it during their first post-war match, and player Herbert Burdenski scored the team's first goal while wearing the Puma ATOM.
Adi Dassler named his company Adidas, of course. He'd developed the 3-stripe logo in 1941, and registered it as Adidas' trademark. In the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, Adidas shoes reigned: Czech runner Emil Zátopek won three gold medals wearing Adidas: the 5000 meter, the 10,000 meter, and the marathon. To top it off, his wife Dana Ingrova took the gold in the women's javelin event also wearing Adidas shoes.
The brothers never reconciled, or even spoke to each other again. As for Herzogenaurach, it split down the middle. Adidas and Puma were the biggest employers around and everyone was loyal to one brother or the other.
In an interview by Frank Dassler, grandson of Rudi, who said, "There was an Adidas butcher and a Puma butcher. If there was a chance to avoid being in the same class as another Adidas person, from the Puma perspective, then we certainly tried to avoid this. Certainly, the restaurants were split, so there was a typical Adidas hotel or Adidas restaurant and the other guys didn't want to go there." Frank Dassler also raised some eyebrows in the town by working for both Puma and Adidas.
Rudi succumbed to lung cancer in 1974, leaving Puma to his son. The family sold the company in 1989. Adi died in 1978, and his son took over Adidas till his death in 1987. Even in the Herzogenaurach cemetery, their graves are as far apart as possible.
Since 2007, Puma has been majority-owned by PPR, the French luxury goods maker that also owns Gucci. Adidas Group is much more widely owned, with no individual shareholder having more than 5%.
But in September this year, both Adidas and Puma decided to put their rivalry past behind them and join forces towards peace. The 60-year-old feud was ended when employees from both companies shook hands and then played a football match in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, where both are based. The match was the first joint activity held by the two companies since the brothers left their shared firm in 1948. Don't ask me who won because there were no actual winners. The match ended 7 – 5 but the teams were not split into Adidas and Puma – with both sides made up of staff from both companies. Adidas boss Herbert Hainer played as a striker for the winning team, which also included Puma chief Jochen Zeitz in goal.
I'm not a keen admirer of Puma designs, so I guess if I lived in the town of Herzogenaurach you would know where my loyalty lies. Unfortunately the closest I come to Herzogenaurach is Stuttgart- Wangen, right in the mist of Mercedes and Porsche.
Not to forget. Spain will be wearing Adidas. Against Puma dorned Italians.
– Original post available from Ghanaweb
Have you met Cinemagram yet?
If you been reading my blog, you'd know I love creating cinemagraphs. It's basically a still picture laid in front of a short frame of video looped behind an area of exposed mask. Not too sure if you can make any sense out of that. But if you Google on the subject on creating Cinemagraphs you'd probably understand the lil painstaking process of creating this modern-day gif animations. But not until recently..
Now there's an app to feed myself further into this subtle art of emphasizing motion within a momentary period. Cinemagram allows you to create gifs right out of your iPhone. Yep. No computer needed. The app has yet to be polished but its basic function works a charm. It's so awesome that by the time you read this there's almost 400,000 cinemagrams created within a week from it's date of release with version 1.
Below are examples of cinemagrams I was able to create in matter of minutes. Compare that to possibly an hour spent for one like above using a DSLR camera and selected frames processed in Photoshop. Oh btw, they call it Cinemagram to compliment the ever famous and successful Instagram iPhone App. The developers are not related in any way. I think.
Basic fundamental of cinemagraphs uses a sequence of moving images kept at a minimum 15 frames for ideal playback when inserted to the web. Keeping the file small is key. Thanks to today's fast processors and lightning fast internet speed, this modern-day GIF revelation is making a come back with a BANG!
Cinemagram seems to select up to 44 frames of the video that you shoot within the app. But the primary frame that you want to choose as the masking source is not selectable. I hope this would be updated soon in future updates. On default it uses the first frame of the selected video selection. Creating these cinemagrams is pretty simple:
- Shoot the video of the subject you want to animate as steady as you can. I have my iPhone 4 in a KUNGL thus it's always easy to set it up on a tripod of any sort. You can also use snapmountforiphone adapter or equivalent. From this video capture, only 2-3 seconds of the video would be used. Select the the In and Out point of your animated frames that's to be used in the loop. Tap and Hold to zoom in. Press Play to preview the loop. When happy click SAVE and the video loop will be compressed for editing. I think Cinemagram compress the video into approximately 15 frames per second. But I'm not gonna do the maths..
- You now can pinch zoom and finger paint (draw a mask) on the area that you want exposed, this selected space will reveal the looped video in background.
- Once happy with your mask, you're given the option to COLORIZE. The options currently available are : Raw, Xpro, Toaster, Redscale and B&W.
- Let it render couple of seconds and you're presented with the animated gif which is defaulted to play in Auto Reverse mode. This aids to create a smoother animation. If your video crop is smooth enough to be played in a continuous cycle like the bicycle wheel above, then you can turn off the Reverse function.
It's tricky to make a seamless continuous cycle in cinemagram, the option to choose the specific 1st and last frame is
still not made possible. Most I made have default Reverse mode turned on. I do have a looped example below with the Towards Europoort cinemagraph. But it's a shame that this does not even show who created it, when, or how many people have liked or viewed it. These are key features on how to raise users (and developers) awareness and satisfactions I think. Below I've made the animation bigger as the ones used in Cinemagram browser link are pretty small at it's original resolution. Bigger = Better 🙂 Right?
Can you spot the 1st and last frame? Compare this with the seamless GIF of the bicycle wheel above.
Try viewing it in the Original Link. Bigger is better right? 🙂
With REVERSE mode ON: You barely see that the drink is pouring OUT.. and then pouring IN. Original Link.
My sleeping tiger. Original Link
- Easy to create short cinemagraphs.
- With 3G network or WiFi, you can share links to Twitter, Facebook & Tumblr.
- Great way to discipline and focus on details you want emphasized while shooting video / picture.
- HTML EMBED code to help share your Cinemagram in a blog.
- Cinemagraph tool in your pocket. Hard to beat that.
- Costs $1.99 with compatible iPhone. No need for external frame editor / computer.
- Induce creative fun. Totally addictive.
- Cannot import from video from Camera Roll Library
- Cannot add Hashtags or add Comments
- Limited to sharing on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr
- You don't get notified if anyone Liked or Shared your Cinemagram 😦
- There is no FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE option
- No search option via Title or Tag for cinemagrams already created
Cinemagram App costs $1.99 on iTunes and brings further addiction and anti-socializing when you have your iPhone with you in public. But yea, they'll understand why when they see your masterpiece. Mail me your's when you're done!
For an interesting PBS short about GIFs and its modern uses in Cinemagraph check this video.
Microsoft TAG re-invents the QR Code
– "Let's re-invent the wheel when it works…" Right? And re-veal it to the world! –
Came across an announcement on the release of MicroSoft TAG app using HCCB technology. On first glance I thought, " Now, why'd they have to do that?"
I remember 2 years ago when I got my N95 that it had this BarCode reader function built-in. Did anybody in Europe actually use that technology? For a while, I thought its going to be the future of super market shopping! Tag your product and then scan your payment through at the cashier(less) counter on your way out. All by using your smart phone. Right??! Nop. The technology just never caught on here.
Apparently, that is how its being used in Japan. You scan the product you intend to buy then place it in your shopping basket then complete your payment via either scanning your bank code at the cashier or (like in Australia) complete that retail purchase via encrypted sms banking as introduced by NAB.
Dutch supermarket franchise Albert Hein is almost close to this. The only exception is that you pick up the chunky bar code reader from the front of store. You then scan as you shop, with your cart's value and item listed on the scanner, and then swipe your card at the exit without having any human intervene at all. The bar code reader is returned to its dock and its batteries re-charge for the next registered shopper that comes in. Scan and Go. Clean – but not as green. They COULD eliminate that bar code reader altogether in future equation with the emergence of secured mobile banking and of course the application of this codes in todays' smart phones. Each tagged product would not only show its pricing, but when purchased, also be given the opportunity to 'advertise for free' by leaving URLs that could be accessed later on whenever the customer please. There is more to this. Since the data exchanged can be used for a broader spectrum of possibilities, just think what companies could do with efficient market research data collection. Of course then, there need to be a buyer and distributor agreement for such a transaction to take place. But that's definitely the near future. And a lot of security measures to be planted on privacy issues of sort.
QR Code two years ago was already the future in Japan. You get codes printed on bus ads, banners, magazines, food products, etc, you name it. The codes are great because they're small. It gives designers the complete canvas to be creative with ideas without the clutter and worry of text placements for that dreaded boring URL. OK I may be exaggerating there. But after scanning, interested customers are quickly brought into the product realm within their mobile device. Given the lightning speed of mobile communication in Japan, large information could be transfered instantaneously. They could be watching the video advertisement directly from the clouds of your very own server, further saving the costs for magazine prints, radio or tv adverts.
With the emergence of more 3G phones globally, Microsoft tries to add some color to the rest of the world. And of course by that, they'd want a piece of pie to control this upcoming trend. Its a new and improved way of selling the idea of an already existing system. Only this time, polished by MS. Enter Microsoft TAG…
The Tag creation option is currently available for free on its Beta stage. You need to have a current Microsoft Live or hotmail account and you're set to create your TAG. The fact that you can place a duration date greatly helps. This will void a TAG which becomes handy for fixed-date product promotion. Think stickers or badges. Even though I prefer the looks of the QR code more than MS's colored forms, there's more behind its 'pastel' technology. Right now its just a matter of form over function. And definitely a great great plus for advertising companies.
With QR Code, the only way to monitor its response is from the date of event itself. With MS TAG you can monitor in real time. You log into your tag account and on the statistics chart it shows how many times somebody actually flashed their phone to 'view' your advertisement.
This becomes a highly important statistics for advertisors. How often have companies placed their ads in magazines and blindly left to guess how it did in response to sales? Chances of consumers viewing the picture/slogan and going on to the following page or bulletin is left to chance. On the other hand if its MS TAGged, the information is relayed to the advertiser right away. By default that adverts would remain in the mobile device for later viewing. How many times have you forgotten to clip that coupon where that perfume or DVD is going on 50% discount, just until you got somewhere near the store and say, "Damn, that ads sitting at home!" Now you can tell if the ads placed on say the train station is less effective than what's placed in front of the ladies restrooms!
Here's what it says on Microsoft's page. "Creating tags is easy, and during our beta, free! Just supply the text or the URL to a mobile page you want to display when the Tag is snapped, and we'll instantly create a Tag you can use. Come back and monitor Tag analytics or create some more."
Chart above shows how many times the Microsoft TAG I created in Flickr has been scanned for 'viewing'.
Thus TAG creators can now see in real time how many times your TAG has actually been scanned. It works similarly like Google analytics for URLs visits. THIS is a huge step forward. THIS MONITORING OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE WITH QR CODES. It gives a cost effective way on how or where to improve your ads. And remember, this is your phone sending the 2 way data to Microsoft each time you scan an ad. Its just time before you get GPS input on which location the TAG is most 'viewed' at.
But crikey!? Would this give rise to a customer privacy issue? Only time will tell. This wold mean that Microsoft have upper hand info on what you've scanned, collecting data from individuals, knowing exactly what ads you've scanned based on interest. Remember that web-based mobile devices has its own IP to be able to be on the web for such data transfer to happen. Yes, somebody is watching over you. Should we be worried. Who will MS give this data to? Next thing you know, advertisement pop-ups will start appearing on your mobile cell phone. Or even through your home mail box. Did telephone companies say they will not share your home address? Yep its definitely possible. Your information is value to one business or the other. Information trading is big money these days.
Tag Reader is available for free download for most mobile phones and on iTunes for the iPhone. And whether you're going to go with QR Code or Microsoft Tag, I think its all a matter of what's trendy and what's not. But many in the applied field of business marketing and advertising seems to have already chosen.
Hope its not that too complicated to see who's tagging you. Thanks for reading.
* PS I am in no way a marketing surveyor. But it doesn't take much to read and understand onto which direction information technology is going, especially when its handled by Microsoft. Do leave a comment if you agree or disagree about this blog. And don't worry, it just helps me to know if I'm blabbering all for the wrong/right reasons. ; )


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Remember when this all went down? I do. It's been a few months now and, well, I'm still growing a beard, the reason being that's it's easier to grow one than to not grow one (at least in my world). I, for one, am all for ease.
I was at church this past Sunday (because I do go, provided I can wake up) when I was approached by a guy who was smiling way, waaaay too much. I can't help but be slightly suspicious of the constant smilers. He introduced himself and let on that he was just passing through. Then he let me have it ... he was filled with beard curiosity and he had to let loose. All previous questions had been mere niceties.
Guy Smiley: "If you don't mind me asking, how long have you had your beard?"
Me: "Oh, I dunno ... a few months maybe? It comes and goes."
Guy Smiley: "And do you think you'll keep it for a while?"
Me: "Maybe?"
Weird, right? As it turns out, he does "religious" painting on a fairly regular basis. Finding bearded men hasn't been all that easy for him. So he asked me if I wouldn't mind modeling this old beard at a later date. Took my e-mail and number down and such. Well, why not? I'm all for making this facial hair famous.
I just hope he doesn't paint me as Jesus. My aunt is confused enough as it is.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
More religiosity.
3 comments:
- Mel said...
- 12/30/2008
- Zachery said...
Did you see the This American Life episode called "God is Close Up"? It takes place in Utah, and it is about a Mormon painter named Ben (I think) who re-creates scenes from the Bible and then paints them. He is always trying to find dudes with beards. It would be a long shot, but maybe that is the same guy. If it is, you should watch the episode. His paintings are pretty dope.
- 12/30/2008
- sir mister landlord sir said...
I've never wanted a beard as bad as I do now.
- 1/02/2009
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Tudor Roses
Crafts & Hobbies
Dover Publications
Crafts & Hobbies
Dover Publications
Created by one of the top names in knitting, this splendid hardcover volume features hand-knitted designs inspired by members of the Tudor dynasty. Includes charts and instructions, color photographs, and fascinating historical background.
my Review
If you watch my videos, you probably know, I love history. Especially English history. I'm a first-generation American. My mother was born in England and moved to the US when she was 8 years old. I grew up in a house steeped in British culture. I grew up eating British food and watching British TV shows, and now that I've gotten into crafting, I like to work on English-style and inspired projects. So when I got an email from Dover Publications about maybe reviewing a knitting book called Tudor Roses, I was intrigued. And man…I'm in love. This book was made for me.
This book includes 14 knitting pattern inspired by the women of the Tudor era. Starmore drew inspiration from Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, Elizabeth of York, Margaret Tudor, Katherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor, Lady Mary, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth the First, and Mary Queen of Scots to create these amazing historically inspired knits.
Each pattern section starts with a writing attributed to the woman who inspired the piece and is a great way to set the mood for the sections. All patterns are accompanied with several photographs that show each piece to great detail (my photos do NOT do them justice). All the patterns are clear and easy to read, even for someone like me who is relatively inexperienced knitter. The end of the book includes a great section where Alice Starmore talks more in detail about how she drew inspiration from each woman and how the designs and their details represent the subject in question.
If you like historically inspired crafting, definitely check this one out. It just came out in paperback, so you can get it at a very reasonable price. I don't think you'll regret it.
**I received this copy via Dover Publications in exchange for an honest review**


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A wall of moss for the YACHTLINE exhibition stand at XX International restaurant exhibition for professionals. In this project we used stabilized moss, which were fixed on relief plywood panels for the most simple and quick installation.
Client: YACHTLINE
Date: 20.09.2017
Project type: Space decoration
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It was an honour for members of Harrogate and Knaresborough WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) to be part of the Harrogate Pride in Diversity March last Saturday.
We too are often discriminated against. In fact, we are invisible.
We are women born in the 1950s who are fighting for a fair deal regarding our pensions. Many women of our age have worked since age 15, brought up families without childcare support, been subject to low pay and were not eligible to join company pensions schemes. We did not receive notification that our pension age had changed from 60 to 63 and, even worse, that in 2013 the State Pension Age was again raised.
Many women who planned to retire at 60, some who took early retirement in anticipation of this, now find themselves having to work another five, six or seven years and have been robbed of up to £45,000 of pension contributions.
Ill-health can make working longer difficult and finding a job for the over 60s is not easy. The recommendation by one MP that these women should apply for modern apprenticeships showed a complete lack of respect for WASPI women. We are not entitled to a bus pass or winter fuel allowance until retirement. Many women have lost their homes and are reliant on their families for financial support.
We hope our Harrogate and Knaresborough MP, Andrew Jones, will be true to the words of his speech at the Diversity Parade about "fighting against discrimination of all kinds" and support the WASPI women in his constituency.
D Howard
Harrogate and Knaresborough WASPI


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The Fish Shack Vegan Sunday will be held on the 25th of March 2018 from 11:00am with the last food order being taken at 7:30pm. The Fish Shack will be open during its normal closing time between 4pm-5pm.
To ensure there is no cross-contamination, the oil of the deep fryer will be changed in the morning and no animal products will be used. There is also coffee, soy milkshakes, soft drinks, sugar cane juice and ice teas available.
10% of the profits from The Fish Shack will be donated to Canberra Animal Save (CAS). CAS is a newly established non-profit organisation based in Canberra using the strategy of bearing witness to animals in their final moments as they approach slaughterhouses, live markets and auctions. They use a love-based community-organising approach based on non violence, love and truth as informed by Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi. They advocate veganism and activism, namely the idea that everyone has the duty to bear witness. There is a zero tolerance approach to animal exploitation by exposing the truth behind animal agriculture, farm shows, and entertainment.


text: Hailing from London, The Busy Twist is a collective focused on rejoining the dots between Afro, Latin and UK Bass music by developing a sound which not only melds the sonic genealogy of all three palettes but also presents such crossovers faithfully. Their debut EP 'Friday Night' with Soundway Records is preoccupied with the ever-decreasing gap between London and Ghanian music in an effort to capture the vibrancy and warmth shared by both cultures. Beyond the banks of West Africa a resonance with Columbian roots is increasingly present in their music – a link they have developed over a series of trips to the country in recent years, and furthered by productions alongside locals Nidia Gongora and Chongo de Colombia. The group continue to commission remix work for Palenque Records, Systema Solar and Ghetto Kumbé, and with a slew of original releases scheduled for 2018 there is no doubt you will catch The Busy Twist raising temperatures on dance floors worldwide in the not so distant future.


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6 Steps for a Successful Mobile App Launch
Whether you're launching a new mobile app, undergoing a relaunch, or updating your app, a launch can either save or cost you a lot of time and money.
These 6 steps will help your team, whether large or small, maximize user retention, drive daily usage, and reduce abandonment rates after launch. Nonetheless, you should always be prepared to adjust accordingly and remain flexible as your plan is likely to change along the way.
Step One: Know Your Audience
The first step of your mobile app launch should be market research. Getting to know your audience before beginning with the following steps will save a lot of time and money rather than blindly launching your mobile app into the market. Knowing exactly what your audience wants will help you to better understand their pain points and what they dislike about the apps that are already in the market. It's important to uncover the underlying reasons for your user's pain by examining their behaviors and attitudes. If you start your mobile app launch without knowing your audience, you won't be able to foresee any imminent threats. Investing in your market research will ensure that you have a steady foundation for the rest of your mobile app launch.
Ask the following questions:
- Who is your app built for?
- What is the problem your users need a solution for?
- How is your app delivering value to its users?
Once you have the answers to these fundamental questions, you can center your marketing plan around who your mobile app is built for. This will inform all decisions when launching and marketing your app.
Step Two: Define Your Positioning Statement
After all of your market research is complete, you need to turn it into a deliverable by first, knowing your mobile app's strengths and weaknesses and sharing your message with your internal team and key stakeholders.
There are over 2.2 million apps in the App Store. If your app is going to be successful, you need to offer something unique and valuable so that users are enticed to download your app. After you have determined who it is that you're targeting, you need to determine what makes your app better than your competitors. This is called a Unique Value Proposition which describes why your product is valuable to your customer and why they should buy-in. With so many mobile apps on the market, you need to let your audience know why yours, in particular, is the most valuable. Your message will be drowned out if you simply describe what your app does. Instead, focus on why it's different than any other product on the market.
Further, you need to ensure that your internal team is on the same page with your messaging. Strong internal communications is an essential part of a mobile launch because if you aren't able to communicate effectively to your internal team, you won't be able to properly communicate your message to your external stakeholders and in turn, you won't be able to the achieve the buy-in that you anticipated.
Step Three: Define Your Success Criteria
In order to know whether your mobile app launch is succeeding or not, you'll need to set some goals. What does success look like for your team? Keep it simple. Set your goals around active install rates, number of reviews, and average rating score, for example.
Step Four: Prepare Launch Activities
You've done all of your market research and now it's time to focus on the execution of the mobile app launch. For a launch to be successful, there should be an established marketing plan to ensure that every step is made and executed properly in a timely manner.
Promoting your content: Now is a good time to make a list of marketing activities which might include social media, early access for bloggers, advertising, website design, etc. Map out a timeline of events leading up to your mobile app launch, and set your launch date ahead of time.
Identify key influencers and reporters: It's really important to identify industry influencers and reporters if you want your app to get attention. Identify the people who are talking about other apps and connect with them via social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. Craft a persuasive pitch that will convince reporters and influencers to promote your app.
Create a press kit: To maximize your odds of getting press coverage, make it as easy as possible for bloggers and journalists to feature your app. Gather resources to give out so reporters have all the information they need to promote your app. Here are a few examples of what you can include in your press kit:
- Graphics & Creatives (Your app's logo, icon, screenshots, and promo video)
- A description of your app
- Links to your website, social media accounts, etc.
- Contact information
Product curation sites: There are a number of sites that curate new products and startups that can help you create some hype. Many, such as Product Hunt, have an upvote/downvote or review section, so you want to be sure that you are ready with at least a minimum viable product when this kind of rating system is in place. Here is a collection of these kinds of sites that you should explore:
Choose a product curation site that properly fits your target market and mobile app.
Create your product page's description: How will you craft your message to get potential users to download your app? In the App Store, users will only see the first five lines of your description at first glance, unless they click through to read more. This means you want to pique interest in the first few lines of the description.
Every successful app has one thing in common: they solve a problem for users. Make sure this is clear in the description of your product. Mention a few key features in the description and let the users discover the rest of the app after they've downloaded it.
Treat your app store description as advertising copy. Get your users excited about downloading and using the app.
Always follow ASO best practices to help your app rank higher in the app store. What are the keywords your users are entering in search to find the apps they want to download? Include the keyword(s) in the title and description of your app.
Recommended Reading: How to Drive Downloads With App Store Optimization
After you've planned all of your launch activities, you need to assess what resources you'll need such as demo decks, product screenshots, design materials, and other design resources. Your audience will gather information from different sources, which means that you need to tailor your message to optimize the efficiency of each outlet. Planning your marketing strategy ahead of time and being proactive is just as important as getting the product ready.
Step Five: Launch Your Mobile App!
Now it's time to finally submit your app to the app store(s). At this step, you should be aware of the submission guidelines and are able to get your app approved.
According to a survey by Quettra, 77% of daily mobile users stop using an app after just three days. If you want your app to have a high download and user retention rate, it needs to make a good first impression within the first few days prior to the launch. This is a critical time to focus on highlighting the value of the app in order to optimize the onboarding process. If you don't impress your new users quickly, you'll likely lose their interest altogether.
Recommended Reading: How to Submit Your App to the App Store
Alert your email list of your app's launch: Once you've submitted your app, you should be spreading the word to a press list, influencers, and communities to let them know about your app's release, encouraging them to test it out.
Spread the word: Promote your app on social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and so on.
Step Six: Post Launch Follow-Up
Measure: After your mobile app launch, you need to consider how you'll measure the success of the launch by assessing what went well and what needs to be improved. Your follow-up should include customer satisfaction, engagement, and retention rates. Customer reviews and feedback will help you gauge whether or not you met your mobile app launch goals. Some reasons why users abandon an app are the lack of interest, change in user needs, and simply the lack of usefulness. You need to be aware of the change in market demands and adapt to the shifts in user expectations. We've written in length about mobile app metrics you should be tracking to boost performance.
Listen to your users: Apps are iterative, whether they are minimum viable products or mature, polished, and fully functional. Ensuring that you update the app experience and add new features and personalized content regularly will help keep users interested and engaged. By using analytics, tracking user behavior, and listening to user feedback, you can determine what your users want and what features of the app are driving usage, which can be used to inform product roadmapping and ensure the updates you make are compelling and valuable to your users. When updating your app based on user feedback you need to consider if this feature meets your business objectives while adding value for your users. Be selective. You can't address everyone's needs.
Incentivize continued usage: If you want to drive engagement and retention, giving users incentive to use your app can go a long way. Mobile-specific rewards, specialized content access, coupons, special promotions, and other offers will help drive conversions and encourage engagement.
The ways you can incentivize users will depend on the nature of the app. For example, apps that use in-app purchasing as a monetization model will benefit from time-sensitive discounts, whereas freemium apps can incentivize users by providing usage-based rewards.
Recommended Reading: 5 Methods For Increasing App Engagement And User Retention
Re-engage your users with marketing communications: Push is an effective tool to encourage re-engagement, however, people don't want to be overwhelmed with spam so choose wisely and make sure the messaging is valuable to the user. Push notifications will engage, encourage activity, and even re-engage inactive users.
Keep ratings high: The rationale behind using ratings and reviews as a ranking factor is that they are reflective of user experience. When people are deciding to download an app or not, one of the first things they look at is the app's ratings. A safe spot is to maintain a 4.5 rating or higher. A good user experience and a useful app will often amount to high ratings and positive reviews.
Developers should encourage their users to submit reviews, be diligent in managing and seeking to resolve negative reviews, and should keep communication channels open to field user feedback.
Closing Thoughts
A mobile app launch isn't a one-time event. There will always be room for improvement which makes the mobile app launch a cyclical process that requires reassessment as market demands change. Recently launched mobile apps should be updated and relaunched regularly to keep users engaged through new updates and features.


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I got Max in June of 2004. He was 4 years old. He came from an abusive situation. He was scared to death and bit me several times out of fear when I first handled him. With much patience and persistence, we won Max over. He loved to snuggle with all of us. He got to the point that he would even go to strangers and jump in their lap. (after a few minutes warm up) Pam Sutton can tell you how he jumped in her husband's lap and just sat there. We almost fainted!
I never thought he would be adopted. He was a good example of bad breeding. He was just always weird and so ugly he was cute. He had bug eyes and huge ears. His potty habits never got better. He would pee and poop where ever he felt the need. He was just too cute to scold. When he knew you were upset with him, he would wiggle his little nub so hard that he wagged his whole body.
Then one day out of the blue, an angel came along. (you all know the type.) She fell in love with him for the same reasons that I loved him. She overlooked his flaws.
Just a month after Danielle adopted him, he got sick. She had tests run and learned from her vet that he had a congenital heart defect that was causing him to go into heart failure. His liver was also already very damaged. There was no hope for improvement. His liver wouldn't tolerate the heart medication. They had no choice but to let nature take it's course. Today I received word that Max is in a better place and no longer has any pain. Danielle loved him for 6 months ...he was her little punky nose, her baby, spoiled and pampered.
This picture of Max captures his personality. He was always scared but too curious and mischevious to leave things alone. He was Max, Maxi doodle, Cutiepie Max. My heart aches. He joins my Lady, Honey, Brandy, Sockie and my fosters Teeny and Cita. Please say a prayer for Danielle and her Mom. Their hearts are aching as well.


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Bushnell Tour V3 Rangefinders Review
Sometimes, for you to be able to select the right rangefinder for your outdoor activities, you must first know the most fundamental purposes that it's supposed to serve.
There are lots of amazing models designed for golfing, even though some models are always better than others.
Bushnell Tour V3 Rangefinders is one of the rangefinders that many golfers have praised for its design and accuracy. Some of the reasons they give for liking it include its ease of use and elegance.
A friend of mine who own this model say that it is a durable rangefinder that no harsh weather condition can damage. Now, because golfing it done in the open glare of burning sun, and sometimes under the rain, it will save you a lot of trouble.
Ergonomic Design
The design of this rangefinder offers great contribution to its general performance in providing accurate distance provision.
Largely, it is its ergonomic design and stable grip that allows you to hold it comfortable in your hands as you try to spot that golf ball, flag, or any other object on the course.
With all the other activities you engage yourself in on the course, your rangefinder should give you easy time so that you can concentrate more on playing golf.
Being a largely outdoor activity, golf is often interrupted by rain, but only if there are delicate gadgets involved. This rangefinder is rainproof, and can be used to determine actual distances of objects on the course come rain come sunshine.
No game has to be interrupted just because it's raining and you don't want to expose some equipment to destruction. Constructed with a highly protective outer case, this gadget still gives accurate readings in extreme weather conditions.
Pin Seeker Technology
Everything about this rangefinder ensures that you get only accurate readings, besides making your viewing easier. It boasts Pin Seeker Technology with JOLT technology that makes it possible to zero in on the flag.
Jolt vibration is activated when you trigger the pin seekers. This is one of the innovative characteristics of this gadget, and which adds great value to it. I'm glad so many users have praised it for its inventive features, which only make me realize I'm not the only one seeing its greatness.
5 Times Magnification
With 5x magnification and 24mm objective, your images are entirely visible, with a pretty impressive clarity. Whether you are playing in the full glare of sunshine, on in the evening when the light has become dim, this rangefinder is made to work under both of these situations.
This magnification is better than what most rangefinders provide and keeps it above the rest. The images are very clear, and no matter the distance, you can spot the flag without must trouble.
Maximum Accuracy
It can find ranges between 10 to 1000 yards, and 300 yards to flag with an accuracy of plus or minus one yard. Though it might not be the most accurate rangefinder in the market, I don't see why I can't consider it one of the most accurate rangefinders.
It provides ranges within a very large distance, which makes it a really good choice for professional golfers who want nothing but to come out victorious.
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- Stable grip
- Rainproof case
- Two year warranty
- Maximum accuracy
- Encompasses technology
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What's the ranging performance of this Tour V3?
A: It's between 5 yards to 1000 yards ranging performance and 400+ yards to the flag.
Q: What it the battery voltage? Is battery life good?
A: The rangefinder comes with 3-volt battery included. When fully charged, the battery will last you longer hours of constant use, though you'll have to replace or recharge it at some point.
Q: Does it have a carrying case?
A: It comes with a premium carrying case that is of excellent quality.
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Final Verdict
This is an amazing piece of technology. It will impress you with its looks to the way it performs. It is, of course, a classy rangefinder, decent enough to carry around when playing in an important tournament. The rangefinder is legal for tournament play.
Any you can also use it for playing professional games. I can't find a better way to find the actual distances of the subjects on the course than this. I would advise anyone who wants to get a new rangefinder to try it out.


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1.1 This test method covers the determination of distribution coefficients, Kd, of chemical species to quantify uptake onto solid materials by a batch sorption technique. It is a laboratory method primarily intended to assess sorption of dissolved ionic species subject to migration through pores and interstices of site specific geomedia, or other solid material. It may also be applied to other materials such as manufactured adsorption media and construction materials. Application of the results to long-term field behavior is not addressed in this method. Kd for radionuclides in selected geomedia or other solid materials are commonly determined for the purpose of assessing potential migratory behavior of contaminants in the subsurface of contaminated sites and out of a waste form and in the surface of waste disposal facilities. This test method is also applicable to studies for parametric studies of the variables and mechanisms which contribute to the measured Kd.
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Spend any time in Idyllwild and you'll see why people love it. The pure air, scenic views, and seasonal weather make the mountain town the perfect getaway from chaotic city life. Getting outdoors is a priority for locals and visitors alike. Luckily, Idyllwild has several local hiking trails to choose from. On a recent trip to Idyllwild we decided to hike the Ernie Maxwell Scenic Trail, a scenic 5.2-mile out-and-back hike just north of Idyllwild's town center.
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The trail head can be found at Humber Park, just off Fern Valley Road. To get to the trail head, drive north along N. Circle Drive (town center) and turn right at South Circle drive. Take the first left onto Fern Valley Road, twisting and turning until you reach Humber Park.
We were told to arrive early to secure parking, as the small lot fills quickly on weekend mornings. Sure enough, the lot was full by 10am when we arrived. We followed the lead of other hikers and parked alongside the road, making sure to get a far off the pavement as we could to allow cars to pass. After displaying our National Adventure Day Pass (available for $5 at the Idyllwild Visitor's Center) we set off to enjoy some crisp, mountain air.
Almost immediately we noticed how busy the trail was, leading us to conclude the trail is popular with locals as well as visitors. Hikers and runners of all ages were enjoying the trail. Leashed dogs are allowed on the trail, making it popular with nature-loving pet owners. The leisurely trail attracts hikers of all levels and boasts a moderately challenging elevation change of approximately 700 ft.
We started the slow, gentle decent into the forest. A small stream usually flows just after the trail head, but draught had clearly taken it's toll as the stream bed was nearly dry. We moved ahead, settling into a rhythmic pace along the well-worn dirt path that cuts through the hillside.
Native trees and shrubs edge the trail, giving much needed shade on sunny days. Wildflowers were also in bloom during our May visit, adding pops of color to the otherwise neutral palette. Lizards bathed in the sun's warm glow on rocks and fallen trees along the path, oblivious to our passing.
Being surrounded by the San Jacinto peaks was the best part of the entire hike. At many points along the trail the tree line broke, giving way to amazing views of the surrounding mountains. Two of the more prominent peaks are known as Suicide Rock and Tahquitz Rock . Both of the granite towers are popular with rock climbers. I was happy just to admire them from afar.
The trail lead through the forest along the edge of the hillside for 2.6 miles until finally reaching a rather anti-climatic end. We scratched our head, looked around for bathrooms (but found none) and turned around to head back up the trail.
Although the return hike was slightly more arduous, the amazing vistas made the effort worthwhile. And, as with most hikes, the return seemed much shorter even though we took a few more breaks going back. We passed familiar faces along the way as others returned to their start at the opposite trail head. Soon we were back at our car, slightly winded but full of vigor and pep.
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Palm Resource Code (PRC) is the file format for Palm OS applications.
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Due to memory and processing power available on a device, the verification process of classes are split into two processes. The first process is the preverification which is off-device and done using the preverify tool. The second process is verification which is done on-device.
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A profile is a set of APIs added to a configuration to support specific uses of a mobile device. Along with its underlying configuration, a profile defines a complete, and usually self-contained, general-purpose application environment. Profiles often, but not always, define APIs for user interface and persistence; the MIDP profile, based on the CLDC configuration, fits this pattern. Profiles may be supersets or subsets of other profiles; the Personal Basis Profile is a subset of the Personal Profile and a superset of the Foundation Profile. See also configuration, optional package.
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In telecommunications terms, provisioning means to provide telecommunications services to a user. This includes providing all necessary hardware, software, and wiring or transmission devices.
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The public service telephone network (PSTN) is the traditional, land-line based system for exchanging phone calls.


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Well compared to lucky you, or else you are like myself and also have method too many points that require your time. OK so once in a great while I will certainly discover myself able to sit down for longer than I feel I ought to and also play some old-fashioned Mario kart 64 or something. This however is extremely rare and also I spend most my time trying to make certain my costs are paid. Luckily there is a solution. the Browser RPG.
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Unlike most multiplayer games, a Web browser RPG is a lot less demanding of your time. Generally actions required by the player refer a couple of clicks. Multiplayer components are left intact by big team events typically being spread out over a couple of days and even weeks. Throughout this time a player could be needed to place in 5 mines of real time right into the game.
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"Women today read, and write, biographies to gain perspective on their own lives." Mary Catherine Bateson (Margaret Mead's daughter) describes the choices and rhythms of women's lives through comments on the lives of five women. Although technically Dana Ivey's execution is very clear and easily understood, she reads each chapter as if giving a lecture,--without emotional investment. At times the material seems thin, and almost trite reflecting poorly on the abridgment process. Although the audio presentation is lacking, the author's scholarship is worth listening to. M.S. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: NOV 92]
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Charitable revenue grew overall and online in the three months ended in May, compared to the same period in 2010, two new reports say.
Overall charitable revenue grew 11.3 percent for the period, marking the 10th straight month of growth and the first three-month period of year-to-year growth since the three months ended in April 2010, a new report says.
And for the first time since the start of the recession, nonprofits of all sizes are experiencing that growth, says The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving, which is based on $2.3 billion in 12 months' revenue at 1,383 nonprofits.
Online revenue grew 6.7 percent for the period, according to a separate report, The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving, which is based on $427 million in 12 months' online revenue from 1,833 nonprofits.
The two reports are updated on the 15th of each month and are based on a three-month moving average of year-to-year percent changes in charitable giving.
Blackbaud also introduced a new specialty index focused on international-affairs nonprofits that includes organizations involved in international aid, development and relief, as well as policy and analysis.
Overall charitable revenue grew to international-affairs nonprofits grew 13 percent for the three months ended in May, compared to the same period in 2010, while online revenue for those organizations fell 0.3 percent.
The report on overall revenue for those groups is based on $375 million in 12-month revenue from 17 organizations, while the report on online revenue is based on $53 million in 12-month revenue from 52 organizations.


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March dwelling permits for metro Milwaukee show a 67% increase
By Michele Derus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 4, 1998
Metro Milwaukee's residential construction market continued its applaudable 1998 performance in March with 747 new dwelling permits, up 67% from a year earlier.
"We are really on the receiving end of a terrific economic boom," marveled Mike Fabishak, executive director of the Metropolitan Builders Association of Greater Milwaukee Inc.
With the area's decade-long housing prosperity, "every year has a nuance, and this one is quiet. You don't hear much from builders because they are very busy," Fabishak said.
Multiunit housing, which typically has more peaks and valleys, is clearly at a rise, according to data from Allied Construction Employers' Association Inc. in Brookfield.
ACEA's March report on Milwaukee, Washington, Waukesha and Ozaukee counties' dwelling permits, released Friday, shows that:
Multiunit housing accounted for more than half the March construction trade — 395 new units, more than a tripling from the 118 in March 1997.
For the year, the multifamily market is up 25%, with 605 new units vs. 483 in the first quarter of 1997.
There were 318 new single-family homes, a healthy boost from the 280 in March 1997.
For the year, the single-family market is up nearly 26%, with 760 new homes vs. 604 in the first quarter of 1998.
Right now, the apartment construction spotlight is in the city of Milwaukee, where a 180-unit upscale development called Arbor Ridge is under way on 14-plus acres east of N. 107th St. and south of W. Bradley Road.
Tom Capp, real estate development director for Gorman & Co., a Madison developer, said Friday that the first of 14 buildings will be ready for occupancy next week. Gorman also built the nearby Menomonee Parkway apartments.
"This is Phase 1; our plan is one building a month" through next year, he said.
Monthly rents on the amenity-rich apartments are to be $754 for a one-bedroom and $929 for a two-bedroom.
"We've come to believe there's a very strong demand for rental property in Milwaukee for renters by choice — people who could afford a home, but prefer to rent," Capp said.
"There's a segment that either needs to live in the city of Milwaukee or wants to be close to (northwest side) transportation corridors. We happen to be building on the last open land there."
The city of Greenfield accounted for the other major chunk of the March multifamily housing market — a 120-unit apartment building for older people. The $6 million Lexington Village development is being developed by MSP Real Estate Inc. of Minneapolis on 4.5 acres at the northeast corner of Highway 100 and W. Edgerton Ave.
Lexington Village will have 50 two-bedroom apartments and 70 one-bedroom apartments that are expected to be available by September. The one-bedroom units will have monthly rents of $560; most of the two-bedroom units will rent for $670.


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Metal crown caps used for capping glass beer bottles. Sold in packs of 100.
Wikipedia Explanation: The crown cork (also known as a crown seal, crown cap or just a cap), the first form of bottle cap, was invented by William Painter in 1892 in Baltimore. The company making it was originally called the Bottle Seal Company, but it changed its name with the almost immediate success of the crown cork to the Crown Cork and Seal Company. It still informally goes by that name, but is officially Crown Holdings. Crown corks are similar to the Pilfer proof caps, as usage of both products is to seal the bottle.


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1. Solve it on first contact (First Contact Resolution).
2. Own it till resolved, closed when validated by the customer (Total Contact Ownership).
3. Eliminate the problem (Problem Management/Root Cause Analysis).
4. Deflect to another channel (Self-service, email or chat).
5. A balanced approach to measuring performance and cost-effectiveness (Driving Continuous Improvement).
Read his article: First Contact Resolution: The Performance Driver!


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Dangerous colors [PCBs] the poisoning of the Spokane River
"I've learned, among other things, that phthalo pigments, besides inks and paints, are found in paper, textiles, cosmetics, leather products, foods and a multitude of other "household" goods. But the PCBs…"
EPA Has Legalized PCBs in Paint, Clothing, Newspapers and Magazines For Years While Duping the Public Into Believing that the 1978 Toxic Substance Control Act Stopped PCB Production
Since 1978, when the Toxic Substance Control Act banned the production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the EPA has duped the public into believing that PCB contamination of air, soils and water, which is ubiquitous worldwide, is the result of past usage.
The Search for Science, Technology, etc.
The shift of emphasis from containment to monitoring does not solve the waste management problem.
A Stakeholders' Collaborative Coal Ash Cleanup Model
Statement 1: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed an enforceable agreement with Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke) to perform a comprehensive assessment, determine the location of coal ash deposits and to remove deposits along the Dan River as deemed appropriate by EPA in consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service as a result of the coal ash spill that occurred at the Dan River Steam Station on February 2, 2014."
NY Times: "…How Watchdog Was Defanged"
This New York Times article has a very good flyover video of the coal ash breach at the Dan River.


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Dear Friends, colleagues
This text is about your important show on opioids that will be on the air and in Wash Post on Sunday. We are in the same business as you, we are two PhD´s (my wife and me) that have studied the painkilling substance and opioid – that now is forgotten - (Dextro) Propoxyphene DXP ( Brands: Darvon and Darvocet) since 1994. We are behind the decision to ban DXP all over the world, in US 2010. Our CV http://bit.ly/2tsVOPL
I was just aware of your investigation a couple of hours ago and I was very happy about what I now have read about your investigations. It looks great. We have been fighting DXP since more that 20 years now - and the drug is now banned all over the word, and we have done a lot to make this possible. We were the whistle-blowers in Sweden, UK, European Union (EU) and US.
(Just now I am on a trip to Stockholm, we usually live in a small town nowadays Katrineholm, after living in the university town of Uppsala since 1965. I became very eager to write to you as soon as possible, but my research data are at home and I will now write "from my memory", so to say. I hope you will excuse me when my words are not so exact and the structure of my words may not be the same it would be when I write and have all my research at hand. Thanks.)
My spontaneous thoughts after reading about your program:
If you want to solve a problem of today – the opioid-epidemic – you have to know something about its history. The big opioids-problems didn´t start yesterday, maybe it started more than 50 years ago with the painkilling substance (Dextro) Propoxyphene (DXP). It is an opioid and quite close to Methadone, but it was more toxic than any other drug.
The substance was synthesized 1953 and it took FDA four years to approve after a really bad article from Eli Lily to FDA. The drug was tested on animals, not any human being . In the early 60s it started to appear scientific articles that show how fatal DXP was.
After studying the substance since 1994 we have lots of important data to share with you, primary from the largest county in USA – Los Angeles county – with the coroner system – and the FDLE - Florida Department of Law Enforsement – and they have the Medical examiner system. These systems differs a lot from each other, in LA they search/scan for illegal drugs but in Florida they search for prescribed drugs. In LA they did not find one since case with DXP, but in Florida the found o lot – after studying our published scientific articles.
We have important data from these two places over a period of ten years.
We also have consumption data from INCB – The International Narcotic Control Board in Vienna (WHO) since 1980´s for DXP. This organisation appreciated our research so they helped us twice with lots of data.
We have also prescription data concerning DXP during the years 2000-2012.
In Sweden we got a new system in the forensic medicine 1992, a couple of years before we started our research. This system – was the most updated and modern in the whole world. In US you have these two different systems, The Medical Examiners and The coroners – which mostly is old organization. One example; in Sweden we always screen for prescribed drugs – that means of course DXP. When a person dies outside a hospital you will be brought to the forensic medicine system and almost every test for all legal drugs I done. Therefore our data are extremely good. We publish seven scientific articles about our DXP-research and also wrote – as we mention in our CV two doctoral dissertations.
Nobody in the whole world have studied DXP as long and wide as we had. We did our work within the academic world - with all that means, referees and so on. I started my PhD study when I became 50 years, my wife was 44. We founded our research by teaching about alcohol and drugs in the Public Health, you can name it pro bono.
In US you have around 3200 counties in the country and all of them decide they decide for themselves if there will be any blood test or not. "Bloodtests cost money" . And the two systems are so different.
Our articles and dissertations was also examined in a proper way. Before DXP was banned the FDA presented a report about the banning. This report was written "from the inside", and as you know how strong the pharmaceutic industry is. When I read this report I became quite sure that there would be no trials about the victims of DXP – and unfortunately I was right. I do not know this is so well known, but I wrote to the court in Kentucky where the trial supposed to be. The judge would be Danny C Reeves.
There were some thousand plaintiffs who sued 70-80 different companies, some hundred lawyers worked in many years – and suddenly the court told me that there will be no trials.
I have visited US and DC several times during our work, I met with David D Dorsey twice who worked for senator Kennedy, I met people from Public Citizen: Larry Sasich Pharm Dr, I was also in contact with Sid Wolf, MD at Public Citizen. He told me once that he had tried in many years to ban DXP but he did not succeed. Now when we how your data I think we will succeed. We were invited by Sid to cosign the two letters that Sid Wolf wrote to FDA.
There was also a congressional hearing about DXP, I think it was 1985, I have the protocol at home. I also met with Nora Volkov at NIDA at one of my visits, I was once invited by the Swedish ambassador Gunnar Lund some year ago - I met him in Sigtuna in Sweden at a semiar for Dag Hammarskjöld – it was 100 years since he was born 1905 and at that meeting one of the ambassador coworker Magnus Härviden asked me if I wanted to meet a journalist at Washington Post, his name was Nis Bruzelius. It was a great memory for me to visit the Post and meet Nils, whose father came from Sweden.
Four years ago I visited The National Press Club and had a press-conference there. See my tweet:
My Press-conference at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington DC about Darvon 10 th Sept 2013 http://bit.ly/1PAAMUg
I have now written down some thoughts and wonderings I got after reading about your up coming show and Post article.
I am working with the last article about DXP, where I will present data from Los Angeles and FDLE. It is very difficult to estimate the number of deaths, due to poisoning from DXP, but as we have really good data from the modern Swedish forensic medicine. We have also estimated the numbers of death from using DXP. DXP was on the market 53 years, and to compare the consumption of DXP in Sweden with the consumption of DXP in US we were able to make an estimate.
The numbers of deaths during this period (1953 – 2010) - was around 6 000 fatalities every year, some 300 000 fatalities all together, probably even more. Nobody have ever spoken about this.
I think that some people have this knowledge, even some in the official business, and I also think that this is a nightmare, a bad conscience, but most people dare not to talk.
You are really doing a great job, and I think we have some very good information that cold ne of great help for you. You can dig ever deeper.
I am also planning to write two debate articles about our latest data; my headings are: ( I just happen to have this text with me to work with)
No trials at all about Darvon/Darvocet victims in court in Kentucky East
Thousands of plaintiffs had to wait – in vain. Decision after six years of waiting
Opioid-related mortality increases, heroin epidemic kills more and more – but do not forget
The Propoxyphene era (1953-2010 - 57 years)
I found in my paper the following:
"All cases in the 2_11-md-2226 have been closed and there will be no trials"
- I got this answer on a mail from Susan Conner, Case Coordinator, US district court, Easter District to Kentucky, 2016-08-25 – 21.05. The same day I asked her when the trials about the painkilling substance propoxyphene would start.
Good Luck with the program I will watch it of course
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind regards
Ulf Jonasson
Doctor in Public Health (PhD) and Journalist
Stortorget 6, SE-641 30 Katrineholm, Sweden
Phone: + 46 (0)730-23 26 00, + 46(0)150-10290


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Following the old tradition, on October 13th the Armenian Society for the Protection of Birds, as the previous years, gathered together all IBA Caretakers of Armenia right in one place. This time the annual meeting took place at the heart of Dsegh IBA - in Dsegh Village.
Before starting the main discussion, the IBA Caretakers expressed their desire to congratulate all those present with the opening of Nature Visitor Center in Dsegh Community. They stressed the importance of having such kind of conservational institution directly within the IBA, which will promote the eco-tourism in the region, in that way financially supporting the local communities. Moreover, such centers will encourage the link between human being and the surrounding nature. So, they felt hopeful that the current strategy will allow opening next centers in the other IBAs as well.
As it was mentioned before, ASPB chose the Dsegh IBA as a hosting destination, which gave the Caretakers an opportunity to see firsthand the Nature Visitor Center, and to estimate its potential and possibilities. Steps like these allow us to motivate and to encourage people to be more active and supportive, when it comes to the part of realizing similar projects across the country.
The annual meeting was opened with the welcome words of Mr. Ghasabyan, the founder and the director of ASPB. He extended his gratitude to all Caretakers for being supportive throughout many years. Also, he claimed all of them to share with their problems and suggestions. The main discussion followed then, which highlighted all the issues existing in IBAs of Armenia.
With the kind help of ASPB staff, they tried to explore the most effective and accurate solutions, and afterwards to modify the strategy, which aims to regulate the similar environmental issues through the IBAs.
During the session strengths and possibilities of IBA Caretakers network were highlighted, which have never been implemented through the ongoing projects in IBAs before. Thus, ASPB made some steps to revise and to enlarge the magnitude of the support, expected from the Caretakers.
Summarizing the results of annual IBA Caretakers' meeting, Armenian Society for the Protection of Birds got the opportunity to learn about the situation in IBAs and to review the strategy of projects implemented there, in order to make our extensive activities more efficient and strong.
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GODSENT roster ready for 2018
New, young and hungry GODSENT roster ready for 2018 and beyond.
GODSENT is adding Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin and Hampus "hampus" Poser to the line-up, essentially replacing Andreas "znajder" Lindberg and Dennis "dennis" Edmann.
With the new line-up, the average age of the team is just above 20 years, which is in line with the strategy laid out for the team.
Kasper Hvidt, Director of Sports at RFRSH Entertainment:
We have been working with different team and player profiles for a while, both from a skill and performance perspective for the individual players with the general psychological match between profiles on a team. One result of this work is the new roster at GODSENT.
We wanted to revitalize the team and to create a younger, hungry and eager profile. With twist, disco doplan, freddieb on the team and by adding hampus and Brollan, we've set together an extremely skilled team which I am confident will be able to produce results. When setting together a new team, you'll most often have a period of fluctuating results, but on mid and long term, this roster will take GODSENT back to a position as a serious and strong contender.
Hampus "hampus" Poser
Age: 19
Teams: Passions, Red Reserve, Epsilon Hype
Played for GODSENT: 21 maps, 14 won
Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin
Age: 15 (turns 16 in June)
Teams: Passions, Fnatic (WESG Europe 2017)
GODSENT's full roster from January 1st:
Simon "twist" Eliasson, 23
Joakim "disco doplan" Gidetun, 22
Fredrik "freddieb" Buö, 23
Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin, 15
Hampus "hampus" Poser, 19


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Eventhough brewing methods are quite enough to derive mild alcohols like beer alcohol plant, heavier alcohols and spirits like whiskey and vodka absolutely need a new process named distillation, and just after distillation alcohol of an intense nature can prove to be created.
Several cases of distilleries can generate drinking alcohols and spirits such as brandy, whiskey, and vodka among others and select distilleries also produce bioethanol to propel automobiles.
Distillation will involve boiling the required mixture because it helps to vaporize diverse substances that have different boiling points and then simply reduce these vapors all over again to turn them back into liquid form. In case of vaporizing many alcohols, the toughness of the desired alcohol raises up hugely after they go through the distillation practice. Tough alcohols like for example whiskey, vodka, and brandy, among others really need to be distilled in a special whiskey distillery, vodka distillery or brandy distillery to finally end up with definitely high proof levels.
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The fermentation procedure vaporizes alcoholic beverage in the mixture first due to the fact its boiling point is lower as compared with that of water. These kinds of vapors are consequently cooled and condensed straight into a different unit. Various types of consuming alcohols and spirits are created by using the distillation procedure, and this unique procedure has also caught the stylish of the automobile industry since bioethanol is now made use of as a bio fuel to supplement regular fuel up to 10 per cent too. This has resulted in extended needs for such distilled alcohols and with distillation alcohol of numerous kinds can now be produced to assist unique industries.
Moreover to proper distillation, the use of matching yeast also works a significant role in making certain that the very last product is produced with the desired strength, color, acidity and taste, especially in case of drinking alcohol. The fermentation of ethanol is a tough and complex course of action that needs to be finished with greatest care and a keen eye on various parameters which includes temperature and strength in order that the resultant alcohol can be deeply strengthened with a matching distillation method. Strong yeast similar to turbo yeast can make certain increased yields of alcohols and spirits simply because they could actually coax weak fermenting mash to make superior and higher quantities of alcohols.
Distillation of alcohols is critical to draw out new forms of alcohols and spirits that have amplified strength levels. Then again, without the need of accurate fermentation that gives prime-quality alcohol in the first place, this distillation practice would not offer for preferred alcohols with enhanced proof levels. After distillation alcohol of a strong nature can be taken, provided professional and home-based distillers keep an eagle eye on the fermentation process itself.