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Simpler web designs create a faster site – and 40% of visitors will leave a website if it doesn't load in three seconds or less.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, August 9, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Creating a functional professional website is crucial in the digital age. Studies show that 70 percent of consumers research brands online before making a purchase – and the key to transforming that research into conversions is through a strong user experience online.
DesignRush.com – an online site that showcases the best designs, digital marketing strategies and business growth tips – recently released a case study detailing how a minimal website interface directly improves UX and creates a successful online platform.
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The following is an article by the Australian Financial Review and Anne Fulwood. We thank and acknowledge the Australian Financial Review and Anne Fulwood for the article and photo.
Photo Caption: Hats off . . . Jan Becker says, 'We train more helicopter pilots per year than the Australian Defence Force and we do it three times faster and three times cheaper.' (Photo: Glenn Hunt)
Enterprising woman
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As a highly skilled midwife and registered nurse for more than two decades, Jan Becker knows the global value of expert training and experience.
She has successfully deployed that philosophy to the business of training helicopter pilots from all over the world at Becker Helicopter Services (BHS) on the Sunshine Coast, her internationally recognised training facility which turned over about $20 million for the 2013 financial year.
BHS is the first civilian helicopter training academy in the country to offer an international helicopter licence – previously the domain of the military – which has been critical to securing multimillion-dollar contracts. "We train more helicopter pilots per year than the Australian Defence Force and we do it three times faster and three times cheaper," says the vivacious Becker.
A full international licence takes 180 hours of flying over 10 months, and includes training in advanced night-vision goggles, advanced formation, mountains, pinnacles, sling-load and fire-fighting.
Becker says: "We are the only place in the world doing this training. Our biggest competitor is the American military doing training at Fort Rucker in Alabama."
The flight school can claim the biggest privately owned fleet of Bell 206 helicopters in the world, behind the military. There are 14, valued at $1 million each.
Aim to pass on skills
It is a business Becker founded about 18 years ago after marvelling at the expertise of her husband, Mike, a helicopter pilot with about 15,000 flying hours, whose skills she thought should be passed on to the next generation. "I told him he could teach, and I would set up a business to make it happen," she laughs. "His experience is a selling point." Much of his know-how includes flying thousands of hours in the mountains of New Guinea with Shell Oil in the mid-1990s.
A confluence of timing and history favoured Becker, now in her late 40s. First she discovered there was no registered training diploma anywhere in the world for an international helicopter pilot's licence. Second, about 60,000 pilots who had trained during the Vietnam era were nearing retirement and who would replace them?
"You could never envisage training that many pilots again," she says. "There has never been a time in history, before or since, that was ripe to start a helicopter business."
She and Mike sold their house, borrowed about $150,000, bought an old 1961 Bell 47 military helicopter for $85,000 and yielded about $198,000 from their first full financial year in 1997.
She will never eradicate from her mind their original hangar adjacent to Noosa Airport, with no lavatory and no air-conditioning. Becker used to plan a timetable on a whiteboard, while caring for their first-born of two daughters. She also did occasional nursing shifts to "keep us from going out the door backwards".
Extra income was generated through charter flights, and sales of DVDs and books on flight instruction.
Becker says when they launched in 1996, about 85 per cent of students were local because it took "a long time to get through the regulatory hurdles" to take international students.
Business revenues grew by 2000 as BHS-trained pilots for various clients including corporate, oil exploration, fire-fighting or surf lifesaving services. Then came September 11, the Bali bombing, the collapse of Ansett Airlines and bird flu.
"It nearly destroyed our business," recalls Becker, who by then had six helicopters, 18 staff and equity in 80 per cent of the fleet.
Global focus
She cut staff, sold four helicopters and wrote a strategic plan with a focus on the international market. "I realised we did not want to be reliant on one economy, one government or one exchange rate."
She also targeted global military clientele.
About 85 per cent of clients in the past five years have been international, and the remainder are from Australia. Of 75 pilots who trained with Becker last year, 15 per cent were women.
The mix of students includes military, paramilitary and emergency services trainees, and about 15 per cent are privately funded individual or corporate students. Consultations with civil aviation departments in the United Kingdom, Norway and the Netherlands, and a meeting with the head of the European Aviation Safety Authority enabled Becker and her husband to develop a model for their training certificate – "a hybrid of the British, European and American licences all rolled into one".
International licence a turning point
Determined and tenacious, Becker finally achieved the goal of becoming a Registered Training Organisation about five years ago, through the Australian Skills Quality Authority. A Certificate 4 is the basic helicopter pilot's licence which, with additional ratings, has "morphed" into the International Helicopter Pilots Licence (IPHL).
"We became the only place in the world where you could get one – it was a marketing success," Becker says, triumphant. All applications and communications are done through the website, which she managed from the start.
Becker says the IHPL proved the turning point for revenues, which had plateaued at about $1.9 million for about 10 years until 2009. That year, they signed a $30 million contract with the Saudi Arabian National Guard to train its pilots. "Regulatory-wise it was huge as it had to be federally approved and it is government to government."
The company is regularly audited, and Becker estimates compliance costs each year run into "the hundreds of thousands".
Among the 30 pilots on staff, Becker says her top five are all highly skilled, from the Australian, South African or British military, and could earn up to $220,000 a year.
Originally from Nelson in New Zealand, Becker has flying in her DNA. Her father helped launch Airfast in Singapore, which became one of the biggest helicopter companies in the world.
Becker herself recently got her commercial helicopter pilot's licence, with nearly 300 flying hours.
As for achieving the dream of training the next generation of pilots, Becker reckons that whether it is fire-fighting in Colorado, Antarctic exploration or animal culling and protection in Africa, chances are the pilot was trained by her team.
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DIMMU BORGIR - Eonian
May 8, 2018, a year ago
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So, you know (or should), the classic trailblazing black metal albums Enthrone Darkness Triumphant and Spiritual Black Dimensions from the late '90s, right? If not, for sure Dimmu's triumphant trilogy of evil mastery; Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, Death Cult Armageddon, and In Sorte Diaboli albums in the 2000s, yes? Well, with the last album, Abrahadabra in 2010, Dimmu went into even more orchestral and melodic territories, which is all fine and good, but a bit too overdone? Yes, at times, losing some of the primal raw intensity from the first two albums. Eight years later, where else is there to go, do they regress, progress, or elaborate more of what they began with Abrahadabra? Eonian is the dark, atmospheric brother boasting even more melodic layers and harmonies to the Dimmu Borgir hellish symphony.
"The Unveiling" opens the album with some classic black metal riffing, followed by several backing vocals harmonies before rolling into an old school musical movement (with those splashes of Enthrone Darkness Triumphant keys), while the strong influence of Nightwish rears its head for the big orchestrated chorus. A catchy guitar and keys work for the first single "Interdimensional Summit", but again, too much Nightwish with the harmonies on that chorus. Great mystery and mysticism too that leads melody on "Ætheric", but could do without (all) the big backing vocals and cascading keys. "Council Of Wolves And Snakes" is much more pure ancient Dimmu in essence - the Indian tribal chants also compliment well, as done the mild orchestrations, and the fiery verse is back to themselves.
By track five, "The Empyrean Phoenix" flows between the speedy black metal riffery, lead solo, back to their roots in structure with orchestrated layered parts not so overwhelming. Backing off a bit on the symphony gives "Lightbringer" space to breathe and be devilish. Same with "I Am Sovereign", and rhythmic "Archaic Correspondance", the theatrical sounds appear in splashes with the dark guitars and melody. So the second half of the album is its strongest point, a balance between old school black metal aesthetics and lush accents. And, while epic and cinematic, the beginning to "Alpha Aeon Omega" doesn't transition smoothly into the aggressive main theme. Earthy instrumental "Rite of Passage" would fit better on the first half of the album.
If Dimmu pulled back on the Nightiwsh/Symphony X vocal melody influence, the excessive use of symphonic sounds for each arrangement, a shuffle of the tracklisting (nine and ten at the beginning), it would make more for a cohesive experience, and a higher rating. It's just too much, less is more should have been the motto for Eonian.


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In a terrifying development, for me at least, O2 (One of the major mobile networks in the UK) are now providing full coverage in five of Glasgow's subway stations.
At the moment, only Buchanan Street, St Enoch, Hillhead, Partick and Govan are being covered, and then only on the platforms themselves; but if consumer reaction is favorable then it will be extended to the tunnels as well.
Gregor Borrie, O2's spokesman said "From today, passengers will be able to walk into the five underground stations, make voice calls, send messages, send photographs, and browse the internet over their phones."
On the plus side: You can now surf the internet and view the wonders of the Escapist whilst nibbling on your deep fried Mars bar.
On the negative side : "HELLO! YES, I'LL BE HOME IN A MINUTE! HAVE YOU GOT THE HAGGIS READY?"
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I actually really like Haggis :) Tis like spicy mince meat and is very tasty!
It will surely only add to the annoyance of the commute, having people chattering on and on. I hate it on public transport anyway.
Thanks for the news Mike
S'alrite. Hope you like the articles, I'll be trying for a mix between the scary, silly and informative.
And perhaps slightly relevant to the Escapist?
However.. I have news that no-one has yet....I'll see you on steam about it
You never know, it might happen. :)
And if not, maybe identified in such a way as to make it more apparent that this has absolutely nothing to do with anything related to the primary subject matter of the site? Far be it from me to suppress humorous tangents and personal expression, but if they're going to go in the News & Columns section, some sort of visual indicator to make them less fungible would be fantastic.
Something like the little man standing next to the paper like Op-Eds, or recurring title like 'Smile and Nod:'...
See, I was more concerned about people blowing things up via cell phone signal in the subway rather than chattering and haggis.
I take your points, and I'm assuming you've already read the two articles below it, and look forward to the two articles yet to come today (fingers crossed); but there's always been a mixture of news and reviews here that don't 'completely' nail the 'Escapist Culture'.
Whilst not running off on the wild tangents of Khell's rants, I'm trying to show things that can affect us, and may interest those with a wider taste to the world.
As for the phones themselves, I'd have thought the idea of a Wifi network in the Underground would be of great relevance to those of us that travel with our computers. YMMV.
My first inclination is to snidery, so believe me when I say that I'm aiming for constructive criticism, even if I miss.
I hadn't really paid attention to the poster of any articles earlier today, but on going back and looking for yours in particular, I recognized that even the ones that had as little to do with gaming as this one did not bug me much, if at all. So, I put a little bit of thought into why that might be.
I think what I settled on is that this post has a very narrow potential audience, while the others have a slightly wider one. Taking into account the greater Glasgow area, from wikipedia numbers, let's say the Glasgow Underground services 1.5 million residents. The subset of that group that have laptops with cellular internet service is probably pretty small, so the potential for that to add an extra element to the post is tenuous. The one about porn, whilst telling the tale of a small group of people, actually hit quite close to home (for reasons I could explain, but no one would really believe, and I wanted to say something nice).
On a more editorial slant: most of us have a wider taste to the world, which is why we frequent more than one website. Specialization is one the hallmarks and building stones of modern civilization. A loss of focus has killed more than one movie/novel/business/dream/website (but, to be fair, so has an overly narrow focus on a given niche). And, I don't typically think of cellular wireless service as Wifi, but I couldn't find a source to prove otherwise.
Meh, I'm used to standing around at bus stations with assholes on their cellphones, so I've just learned to tune it all out.
From small acorns, Geoffrey.
And anyway, it gave some people a laugh, which is much more important these days. :)
I don't see the association to mighty oaks.
I took the 1.2m~ish residents (though it appears on second reading of the wikipedia, the Greater Glasgow Urban Area census figure does NOT include the 500k of the Glasgow City Council; not to mention that my use of "residents" above fails utterly in conveying what I meant), added 10% of the 2.3m in the "commutes to Glasgow" area, and figured non-participation on the part of locals would offset the area underneath the curve down to 10% and tourism. Factoring in the 500k I missed before, I'll adjust my estimate to 2m. I don't know if that's what you meant by "not Glaswegian", but I just wanted to point out that I was trying to factor in non-residents.
It would seem that my local metropolitan subterranean rail system has had cellphone service for several years, though I can't seem to track down a reliable begin date (more than 1.5 years, but that would seem to be when the current company took over an existing network). Rumor has it there's money set aside in some recent funding to provide for more than the one operator who currently has a semi-exclusive contract. (The implication here being that Glasgow is so far up the bleeding edge that little pockets of time-space are curling off the edge and bringing their advanced ideas into the past. I'm losing heart...)
Anyway indeed, it certainly did, and it certainly is. ;)~
I did wonder why I hadn't heard of it, but a quick check round didn't reveal any stations that did have it. AFAIK, Dara O'Brien even made a joke about it last year.
That's ok then. :) I'm trying to keep my "And Finally..." stories to a minimum, but I do so love the weird stories.
Nottingham has an underground system? Why has no one told me of this???
I know they have trams, but pretty sure no underground, lol. But I would hate for this to be rolled out in London, while annoying that you don't have signal. The good thing is that NO BODY ELSE DOES. I don't wanna here thousands of mobiles going off with crappy ring tones, and little kids pissing around. It's bad enough in the streets.
You've not been under Broadmarsh or in the Three Children?
All I know under the Broadmarsh is a bus station? But its not underground? They have a secret train station under their or something?


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Chase and Status Tour Documentary
What can we tell you about Chase and Status? The duo of Will Kennard and Saul Milton got started with some drum and bass in 2003 and since then have grown into one of the prime international electronic acts today. From their debut album 'More Than a Lot' to the 2010 single 'Let You Go' and it's release on 2011's 'No More Idols' Chase and Status have evolved into consistently amazing, yet unpredictable artists.
Chase and Status have a couple of brand new things that you should know about, and should waste no time investigating for yourselves. No More Idols was rereleased this week in its deluxe format. It contains the original 15 tracks, from 'Let You Go' and 'Brixton Briefcase' with Cee-Lo Green to 'End Credits' with Plan B from the film Harry Brown (that Plan B was in). To sweeten the deal this package includes 3 music videos, the digital booklet, and 8 remixes of the original tracks by heavyweights like Nero, Trolley Snatcha, 16bit, Dillon Francis and Brookes Brothers. Click on the album cover to buy it from iTunes.
Hot on the heels of the launch of the deluxe edition is something just as amazing, and infinitely inspiring. Chase and Status teamed with Liam Underwood and RollingStone.com to give an inside look at their American tour in the spring of 2011. Director Liam Underwood filmed Kennard and Milton on the road alongside touring drummer Andy Gangadeen, MC Rage, and singer Delilah to show that touring entails much more than simply playing shows. This is done beautifully, with special attention paid to the audience members at each event and their reaction to the show. Watch it for yourself below!
At just over thirty minutes the film is solid, inspiring and leaves you wanting just that little bit more. The beauty of it, is that Chase and Status have got something special for you. April 23rd marks the release date for Chase and Status live at Brixton Academy. You can pre order the DVD now, just click on the cover below. A limited number of signed tour prints will accompany orders, so don't hesitate.


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It's neat how sometimes there are themes that run through a few shows that I'm in all around the same time, and recently there have been a couple shows that highlight female figurative artists. The Exhibition "Beyond Certainty: Flaws of Forms" will take place at the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (984 Queen St West, Toronto) from June 22 through July 3rd. There will be an opening reception on Friday June 24th from 7 to 9pm. I'm actually in Norway apprenticing with Odd Nerdrum for a couple months right now, so I wont be able to attend, but I hope you all go and take lots of photos for me!! I'll have eight of my latest paintings in it, including the two below as well as the two from my previous post.
"Indigo," oil on canvas, 10"x 8"
"Christina," oil on canvas, 10"x 8"
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Here's a couple new paintings I just finished of my friends here in Toronto. I'm moving away from Toronto next week (flying to Norway first to apprentice with Odd Nerdrum, then I'll probably return to BC for a bit or something). I'm really going to miss all my friends in Ontario and I was so happy to get to paint Christina Mazzulla and Nicki Brooks before I leave!
"Looking Inward," oil on canvas, 24"x 30"
"Nicki," oil on canvas, 18"x 14"
"Looking Inward," oil on canvas, 24"x 30"
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By Peter M. DeLorenzo
Detroit. The news that Cadillac chief Johan de Nysschen parted ways with GM last week was a bit of a surprise, but then again, it wasn't. Anyone who knows de Nysschen, and anyone who knows and understands the GM culture – or what passes for such – knew that it was just a matter of time before the relationship ran its course.
Tired of revamping Cadillac over and over again, and seeing it perpetually languishing in the U.S. market, CEO Mary Barra and Dan Ammann reached out to de Nysschen – the executive who was largely responsible for forging Audi into a formidable force in the U.S. market – where he was temporarily parked at Infiniti, which turned out to be an abbreviated stint after his Audi adventure.
The GM executive team was ultra-aggressive in landing de Nysschen, giving him unprecedented freedom and carte blanche to turn the division around and a five-year contract. But after almost four years into it, the wheels came off, for myriad reasons.
First of all, even though revamping Cadillac was a 15- to 20-year project when looked at realistically, de Nysschen hit the ground running, hell-bent on accomplishing as much as he could for the brand, as fast as he could. Time was wasting, the competition was growing tougher by the minute, and Cadillac, except for a few notable instances, was losing ground at a frightening rate. And GM and the Cadillac dealers embraced the winds of change, going along with de Nysschen's vision, at least for a while.
But de Nysschen's brand of tough love was grating and hard to swallow. He demanded that dealers take the long view, and required them to make considerable financial sacrifices, like Project Pinnacle, in order to get where Cadillac needed to go. And de Nysschen's personality was a complete "180" from what the dealers were used to as well. de Nysschen was viewed as being sober and dour, which, when you get to know him, couldn't be further from the truth, because he is exceedingly bright and noteworthy for his droll humor and acerbic wit. A true glimpse of Johan came across in his social media forays, where he was blunt, sarcastic and entertaining. But he was never going to be the classic, back-slapping "dealer guy," and that added to a lot of the dealers' discomfort.
But beyond that, the "all-in, all hands-on deck" attitude initially displayed by GM management seemed to wane about two years into Johan's reign. After all, GM insists that it no longer wants to live in a world of 30-day sales reports, but who's kidding whom here? GM is still deeply ingrained into the 30-day sales report world, and when Cadillac sales didn't start to show much life beyond the monster sales performance of the Escalade after three years, the natives got restless and started looking at their watches. And once the grumbling and the rancor started in the Silver Silos – fueled by disgruntled dealers – it became a tidal wave.
But de Nysschen didn't do himself any favors either. As I stated a number of times in my previous columns, de Nysschen's quest to remake Cadillac in Audi's image was a nonstarter from the get-go. A product strategy that started with chasing the German ideal of a luxury-performance car not only ignored Cadillac's historical legacy, but it emphatically stomped on it.
(As for the move to New York, that idea originated well before de Nysschen arrived at GM in the summer of 2014. To be sure, Johan was given the "go/no-go" decision, and everyone consequently bought into the idea that to understand the luxury market you had to be in a luxury market. I don't necessarily buy that. Yes, I could see putting a young marketing team there as idea generators, but you have to ask yourself this: If Cadillac had instead refurbished a warehouse space in Detroit with a historical connection to the origins of the automobile industry, wouldn't they look like the mavens of hipness now? And then would the whole New York thing be missed? (How about no?)
And the insipid, Audi-esque alphanumeric naming regimen didn't help either. Cadillac was leaving great names from its past on the shelf, in favor of generic monikers such as ATS, CTS, and CT6. Consumers were confused enough as it was about the size of Cadillac vehicles and their close proximity to each other, and the lack of names made it even harder for consumers to figure things out. Example? The best-selling Cadillac by far is the Escalade. And this just in, it has a name. (Even Lincoln operatives have figured this out, abandoning their alphabet soup designations for real names.) Great Cadillac names were readily available and just sitting there, but the rigid adherence to the Audi playbook just wouldn't allow de Nysschen & Co. to go down that road.
But then again, the pricing strategy that de Nysschen enforced for Cadillac might have been his most strategic error. I understand that de Nysschen and the True Believers at GM Design, Engineering and Product Development believed in their work and were proud of it, as well they should be. But that doesn't mean consumers automatically understood it, and instead of pricing Cadillac sedans notably below their German competitors in order to start to make inroads in the segment, Cadillac sedans hit the market priced right on top of models from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, which just didn't translate into a believable reality for most consumers. (The V series cars were another thing altogether, more on that below.) A perfect example of this? When the much-ballyhooed CT6 hit the dealers, too many of them had stickers in the $80,000+ range, and consumers were perplexed as to why. Yes, de Nysschen could justifiably point to higher transaction prices for Cadillac since he took over, but when you aren't selling enough cars, it was a hollow victory at best.
Add all of these factors together and you have a recipe for Not Very Good. Barra and Ammann had committed $12 Billion to Cadillac's turnaround, and even though there were a lot of positives introduced to the brand by de Nysschen, the results simply weren't there, at least not notable enough or fast enough for GM operatives.
And the pressure was getting ramped up, especially with Cadillac sales down overall in the U.S. market for the second year in a row, despite the fact that Escalade was a consistent hit. (Cadillac is doing well in China, but because of the joint operating agreements, the profitability just isn't enough.) The dealers weren't happy* and demanding more action in the market, meaning more aggressive incentives because they were getting their asses handed to them. In other words, de Nysschen's pricing discipline had run aground, and they wanted relief. (*Let's be clear, dealers are rarely happy, but Johan got off on the wrong foot with too many of the dealers from the beginning and it never got better.)
In the end, de Nysschen was given a list of issues that needed to be addressed, many of them clearly not consistent with his vision for the brand, so he agreed to disagree and walked, saying, "It happens. It's not personal. It's business." He's right, of course, and make no mistake Johan de Nysschen will surface again, as there are any number of car companies that could use his experience and visionary perspectives.
But now, GM has tapped its former head of operations in Canada, Steve Carlisle, to run Cadillac. A longtime GM veteran, Carlisle will be giving a new set of marching orders, many of which will most likely move away from de Nysschen's previous directional attachments.
But as you might expect, I have my own set of recommendations for saving Cadillac:
1. Move Cadillac in a new strategic direction. As I said previously, ignoring Cadillac's historical legacy is a nonstarter and an egregious mistake. Despite decades of German automaking superiority, the Cadillac name still resonates around the world as one representing the best of the best. It may not live up to the classic moniker "Standard of the World," but it's still the legacy that must be pursued. Cadillac should stand for luxury, elegance, power and design leadership. In short, Cadillac should be allowed to be Cadillac. It doesn't have to live up to some other car company's ideals, because living up to its own historical legacy should be impetus enough to aspire to greatness. The True Believers in Design, Engineering and Product Development understand all of this implicitly. And it's time to refocus their energies on creating the Best of Cadillac.
2. Bring the names back. Starting with the established Escalade, rename the XTS the Fleetwood and go from there. Cadillac has a deep reserve of names (Eldorado, anyone?) along with more recent names like Ciel, Elmiraj and Escala. Names resonate. Names imbue character and personality. Cadillac has some of the best names available in this business. Use them. Now.
3. Gut the portfolio and start over. I've seen the new Escalade and it will continue to be a monster hit, if not more so, but from there big changes need to be made. Start by deleting the ATS and the CTS immediately. Then take the Fleetwood (formerly known as CT6) and give it an avant-garde, future-defining Cadillac skin. Cadillac won't need another sedan if it's done right. Do the same with the XT5; it's nice, but nice isn't anywhere near good enough. The XT5 needs to be better by half. The XT4? Start over. There's no "there" there. Cadillac had time to make the XT4 a segment-leading product and it isn't even remotely close, which is disheartening.
4. Say goodbye to the V series. Look, as AE readers know, I like performance machines as much as anyone, and the CTS-V and ATS-V are some of the best driver's cars in this business. They are examples of the kind of work GM's best and brightest can do when they set their minds to it, and they are indeed impressive machines. But that doesn't mean they need to be Cadillacs. In fact, their architectures would be fine starting points for the new Corvette Division that I have been talking about for more than five years now at least. This would take real vision, however, and it would be a real departure in order for GM management hierarchy to seriously consider it. But if Porsche can do it, I firmly believe GM's True Believers could do it just as well if not better for a new Corvette Division.
5. Delete the Cadillac Racing program. As most of you out there know, I am a huge proponent of racing as a genuine marketing tool when it is applied properly. It benefits Engineering Research and Development, and it's the most worthwhile training ground for young engineers that there is. But that doesn't mean every racing program has merit and context. Let's face it, GM Racing's decision to compete in IMSA's top prototype series with "Cadillac-branded" prototypes was a politically expedient one that really had nothing to do with Cadillac as a brand. And it really will have nothing to do with the Cadillac brand going forward. When the new mid-engine Corvette arrives in IMSA's GTLM class, that would be the time to re-brand the GM Racing prototypes as well.
6. And Cadillac marketing needs to be overhauled too. A new divisional strategy will require a new marketing strategy, because flipping a switch to "tune up" the advertising never works, especially in this situation. And it's up to Deborah Wahl, Cadillac's new CMO, to figure it all out. She has the relevant experience, but does she really know what she's getting into? Does she understand that Barra and Ammann fundamentally do not believe in the power of marketing and advertising? At least not enough to hire an actual CMO for the executive suite, who would then lead all of the divisional marketing efforts? Why do you think they leave it to the divisions? Because they don't want another seven-figure salary parked in the executive suite, and they pay dearly for that misguided notion every single day. Does Cadillac marketing and advertising need to be overhauled? Yes, of course it does. But without a carefully thought-out strategy that would point Cadillac in the right direction, none of my previous points will matter one bit.
Ms. Barra and Messrs. Ammann and Carlisle need to ask themselves the following hard questions: What is Cadillac? Better yet, what should Cadillac be about going forward? Then instead of paying lip service to the brand they need to become True Believers, because the Cadillac name has resonance and power and a genuine historical legacy that could and should become the foundation for greatness again.
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Every year, players dominate the preseason, but rarely do they make an impact in fantasy land. However, with so many teams running with a committee in the backfield and holding on to those extra receivers to spread the field, some of these guys might actually be able to help during the regular season.
Blake Bortles - The #3 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft completed 63% (7) of his 11 attempts, gained 117 yards (31 long) and was sacked once. Scouts loved his performance. The Jaguars intend on keeping him benched the entire season behind Chad Henne.
Johnny Manziel - It won't be Week 1, but it could be as soon as Week 5 (Browns have Week 4 Bye) that Manziel is starting for Cleveland, sending Brian Hoyer to the bench. His 1st NFL start was OK, going 7-11 with for 63 yards and did not get sacked. He gained 27 yards on the grond, including a long of 16.
Teddy Bridgewater - The Vikings rookie QB completed just 6 of his 13 attempts and picked up just 49 yards while being sacked twice. Matt Cassel will have to be dreadful for Bridgewater to start a game for the Vikings this season.
Jimmy Garoppolo & Ryan Mallett - Garoppolo shined in his NFL debut while Mallett looked like a career backup. Jimmy completed 9 of his 13 attempts for 157 yards and a touchdown, including a 53 yard play to Brian Tyms, who later caught the TD from 26 yards out. Mallett was 5 of 12 for 55 yards against the Redskins.
Jimmy Clausen - If Jay Cutler misses time in 2014, Clausen is the man. Last season Josh McCown became a household name thanks to Marc Trestman, Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery and Matt Forte. Bears fans better hope he was a product of a system! Claussen hooked up with TE Zach Miller twice in the endzone, 2 of his 7 completions for 150 yards. 3 plays went for more than 20 yards.
Drew Stanton & Logan Thomas - Stanton completed 11 of his 17 attempts for 152 yards and a touchdown while Thomas connected on 11 of his 12 attempts for 113 yards and a score. Thomas took 2 sacks. If Carson Palmer misses time, one of these two will be looking to connect with Andre Ellington, Larry Fitzgerald and Michael Floyd.
Running Backs
So far just 20 RBs have have seen 10+ handoffs, including Rashad Jennings, Andre Williams, Bryce Brown & Anthony Dixon who have played in two games.
Rashad Jennings & Andre Williams - The New York Football Giants look like a different team running the football early in the Preseason. Both Jennings and Williams have combined for 191 rushing yards on 26 attempts against the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers. Jennings busted a 73 yard touchdown run against the Steelers. As a team, they have rushed for 292 yards on 69 carries. The Giants have to run the ball effectively during the regular season if they want to win a division title. Teammate Michael Cox has rushed the ball 15 times, for just 7 yards. Yikes!
Bryce Brown - Brown is trying to jump in the Bills rotation with C.J. Spiller & Fred Jackson. 104 yards on 18 carries will get him some regular season snaps. He is ahead of Anthony Dixon right now who rushed for just 43 yards on 13 carries, but has scored a TD. Brown has added 4 catches out of the backfield.
Lorenzo Taliaferro - This beast of a back is going to fight Bernard Pierce (37 yards on 10 carries) for playing time with Ray Rice sidelined for the first 2 Baltimore Ravens games. The 4th round draft pick out of Coastal Carolina is 6'0 226 lbs and could be valuable at some point this season if Rice can't return to form, or if Pierce suffers an injury. Remember this name!
Cyrus Gray - There is no room for a RB on the Kansas City Chiefs behind Jamaal Charles thanks to Knile Davis, but Gray has gained 55 yards on just 10 carries. Gray has just 16 carries over his first 2 NFL seasons.
Devonta Freeman - This is someone you will hear about all season long. The Atlanta Falcons have Steven Jackson and Jacquizz Rodgers, but Rodgers is not an everydown back so if SJax should msis time, Freeman is the guy add! 50 yards so far on 10 carries.
Dan Herron - The Indianapolis Colts need Trent Richardson to figure out how to run forward for more than 3 yards at a time. Behind him is an injury plagued Ahmad Bradshaw. With Donald Brown a member of the San Diego Chargers, that role could be Boom Herron's at any given point in this season. He caught 6 passes for 36 yards and scored a TD.
Terrance West - The Cleveland Browns added Ben Tate this offseason, and figure to run the ball a ton with an iffy QB situation in Brian Hoyer and Johnny Manziel, and the eventual loss of Josh Gordon. West was rumored to be having a great camp and could take snaps from Tate, but his first 10 carries have gone for just 22 yards, including a 10 yard run!
Tre Mason - The Rams rookie gained 51 yards on 15 carries, including a 20 yard dash.
Wide Receivers
13 players have caught 5 or more passes, only 8 WRs
Robert Woods & Chris Hogan - The Buffalo Bills have a better group of WRs than you might imagine. Sammy Watkins and Mike Williams were added in the offseason, and even though Stevie Johnson is a member of the 49ers, Woods had a good rookie campaign and Hogan is a freak of an athlete. They have combined for 13 catches and 135 yards and a TD. In leagues deeper than 12 teams, I can guarantee one of these guys will be on a roster during BYE weeks.
Brittan Golden & Josh Brown - Behind Larry Fitzgerald and Michael Floyd, the Arizona Cardinals are looking for that 3rd receiver. Andre Roberts is now sitting on the Redskins depth chart and he managed to catch 43 passes for 471 yards and 2 scores last season with Carson Palmer. Ted Ginn Jr. is on the roster but not a legit WR threat, more of a special teams player. Jaron Browns caught 11 of his 18 targets last season and scored a TD. Golden and Josh Brown could win the position battle, they have combined for 12 catches and 132 yards.
Brandin Cooks - This is what the New Orleans Saints & fantasy football owners everywhere wanted to see, 5 catches for 55 yards and TD. He is the new Darren Sproles, and could be PPR gold!
Brian Tyms - The Patriots have a ton of receivers on the roster, but only Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola (when healthy have assigned roles. Tyms is looking to battle Kenbrell Thompkins and Aaron Dobson for playing time. 5 catches for 119 yards (2 for 20+, 1 for 53 yards) and a TD will get you noticed. Last season he caught 2 passes for 12 yards as a member of the Browns. He is suspended for the Pats first 4 games of the regular season.
Tight Ends
Zach Miller - Miller is filling in for the suspended Martellus Bennett. He has 6 receptions for 68 yards and 2 touchdowns. Fantasy owners should pray for that success with Jay Cutler and Bennett.
Alex Bayer - The 6'4 rookie out of Bowling Green caught 5 passes for 71 yards, including a 42 yard gain. Odds of him having an impact during the regular season are slim with Jared Cook and Lance Kendricks on the roster.
Zach Ertz - The Eagles plan on using Ertz, a lot, especially in the Red Zone. He caught 4 passes for 60 yards, including a 34 yard gain.


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Rise of the Tomb Raider PlayStation 4 Release Date Confirmed
Rise of the Tomb Raider release date for PlayStation 4 has been announced. According to the Square Enix the game will launch on PlayStation 4 on October 11 in a new 20 Year Celebration edition, and this version of the game will feature "a completely new story chapter entitled Blood Ties."
Furthermore, it will have new co-op Endurance gameplay; PlayStation VR support for the new Blood Ties chapter, all previously released DLC, extra outfits, weapons, and Expedition Cards as well as a limited edition art book. All this content will also be available for free to Xbox One and PC to players that own the season pass, but not with Virtual Reality support.
A little bit about the game! Rise of the Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. It is the sequel to the Tomb Raider, a reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise. It was released for Xbox One and Xbox 360 in November 2015 and for Microsoft Windows in January 2016. Now it is coming to PlayStation 4 in October, as mentioned above.


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This post about the Nautical baby shower styled by my sister recently reminded me of the last time we did a sea themed party around here. It was my nephew's 1st birthday, and he's nearly three now.
On that occasion my sister also did a great party table. But that's enough about her. This is about my cake. Alright, I mean Oscar's cake!
For Oscar's under the sea party, I made his birthday cake and it was a huge sandcastle. And I must say, even nearly two years on, I look at these photos and I still can't believe I made it. See, I couldn't find one I liked with instructions, so I had to design and make this one completely from scratch. Even the little starfish! And let me tell you, I am not arty or design-y in the least!
So, let me show you how it was done - firstly, just in case the need ever arises for you to make a sandcastle cake and secondly, so I can relive the glory!
|Naked cakes, roughly where they will end up. I needed to make another 4 ramekin cakes though.
You can imagine the air was a light shade of blue when that became apparent!
For a large sandcastle cake like this one, which will easily feed 50 people, you'll need to use a cake that is quite dense and sturdy. I used a butter cake from the Australian Womens' Weekly, which was kind of like a pound cake, depending on where you come from.
Here's a list of what you'll need for this exact cake:
- 2 x square butter or mud cakes of your choice
- 8 x 1-cup ramekin sized butter or mud cakes of your choice
- small pudding basin sized butter or mud cake of your choice
- large bowl of cream/white buttercream icing (or 3-4 tubs of ready made icing)
- 1 packet plain biscuits, processed into crumbs
- 1 large cake board
- 4 large ice cream cones
- 4 long lollipop sticks
- patterned paper and lettering for decoration
- fondant and edible ink pen for decoration
First, make the four pylons by taking two of the ramekin-sized cakes and piling them on top of each other, sticking them together with icing, and then trimming the edges to make them straight. If you need to, cut them down in size so that they are roughly the same height as the square cakes (if they are a bit shorter, you can build them up with icing if you want to).
Then, cover the sides and top of each with icing and leave aside.You don't need to be too particular with any of the icing on this cake. It's eventually going to be covered with 'sand' and the rougher the better to give it texture. Just make sure it's all covered and no cake is peeking through!
|I'm calling these pylons, but I have no idea if that is the right word. You know what I mean!
Next, place one of the square cakes in the centre of your cake board and cover the top with icing, then sandwich the other one on top. Cut off each of the corners in a small circular shape and sit the pylons into each corner of the square cakes. Cover the sides of the square cakes with icing.
Take the cake baked in the small pudding bowl and cut it down to a size you like. Place it on top of the cakes and then cover it and the top of the square cakes with icing.
Then stick the ice cream cones, upside down, on top of the four round cakes and cover them with icing. Process the biscuits and, taking handfuls of crumbs at a time, stick them to the outside of the cake and scatter them around the base as well.
Next, decorate your masterpiece by first, sticking the lettering on the board.
|I wanted to give this a sandy look by rubbing the biscuit crumbs into the letters. I think it worked!
Then, make the flags by cutting a strip from the paper, wrapping it around the top of the lollipop stick and gluing the two sides together. Stick the numbers on the flags. With scissors, cut the very top off the cones and slide the lollipop sticks into them.
|This is such a weird angle! It looks like a creature holding up 4 flags!!
Finally, make the little starfish by colouring some fondant, rolling it out and cutting a star from each piece, about 1/2cm thick. Slightly bend each of the star's points to make the legs, and using a skewer or toothpick, pierce some holes in each leg to make a pattern. Using an edible ink pen, draw a little smiley face! Place your finished starfish on the cake, wherever you like.
So, have you ever made a cake or held a party, and been completely amazed that you pulled it off? Share some photos on the P11 Facebook page here!


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One of the purposes of FaithWriters is to offer members a chance to showcase their work. And one of the most fun aspects of posting your work is to receive feedback from other members. There's nothing quite like seeing that email come through saying a comment has been left on your article.
But maybe you've posted your article, story, poem, or essay and several days have gone by with no comments. Maybe you're getting discouraged because you really want to learn what areas you need to focus on in order to make your work the best it can be. Well, there are many members who would love to help. And there is an easy way for you to request feedback.
On the message boards you'll find a forum set aside for just this purpose. After registering on the boards (go here), visit the Articles/Critiques Forum, where you can post a link directly to your article. This way, members can click on the link and offer their feedback on your work.
As mentioned, one of the purposes of FaithWriters is to allow you to showcase your writing. But the main purpose is to help you grow as a writer. To become as excellent as possible in the talent God has placed inside of you. And, of course, to glorify Him in the process.
And getting constructive feedback on your work is one way to make that happen. http://www.faithwriters.com/Boards/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=21


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New Iowa Blues
Doe Run Farm got 7 new Iowa Blue chickens this weekend. They are a little hard to see in their cage, but they arrived in fine spirits and are settling in nicely.
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This Sunday, September 13, 2015 we present TWO herbal workshops at Q Gardens in Flatbush!
News for 2015: our Healing Herb Garden program is moving to Q Gardens!
Join Sacred Vibes Herbal Apprentices Gillian and Michelle in a discussion on using herbs to heal depression.
Our successful summer workshop series is back!
VOTE NOW and help SUSTAINABLE FLATBUSH earn a SEEDS OF CHANGE GRANT for our HEALING HERB GARDEN PROJECT! Seeds of Change is awarding $190,000 in grants—and our Healing Herb Garden could be one of the recipients.
Join us every 3rd Saturday from May through November for our Garden and Compost Open House!
Sustainable Flatbush is raising money to convert our 340 square foot container vegetable garden into a culinary and medicinal herb garden!
Sustainable Flatbush brings a fun and delicious twist to being green at the Cortelyou Greenmarket on Sunday, December 16 from 11am to 2 pm, with a demonstration of our Bike Blender and Solar Oven!
If you haven't seen our edible garden lately, come check out what we've been up to this summer! Join us for another Special Garden Workday, Saturday, August 18th from 9:30am to 12:30pm, followed by our delicious and healthy Community Meal.
We are excited to partner with Brooklyn Jubilee to host another community meal at noon on Saturday, August 18th!
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-output_ligands_as_separate_chains, causes Rosetta to reassign chain ID of a ligand when it shares with a peptide chain.
RosettaAntibodyDesign Application released - preparing for published paper. Pre-print available here: [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/02/23/183350]
dock_glycans bug fixes
ShearMover bugfix. Yes, this was one of the very earliest Movers we wrote. Imagine our shear disbelief at discovering there has been a bug in it for most of a decade.
More resfile commands: We have 3 new resfile commands: CHARGED, AROMATIC, and PROPERTY. The third is a general command that takes any ResidueProperty. Currently, it only works for Cannonicals, but perhaps that could be generalized int the future for NCs.
ResfileCommandOperation - Applies the equivalent of a resfile line (without the resnums) to residues specified in a residue selector.
CreateSequenceMotifMover - Simple mover to Create a sequence motif in a region of protein using the SequenceMotifTaskOperation. Uses psueo-regular expressions to define the motif.
TrueResidueSelector bugfix
-auto_detect_glycan_connections and
-alternate_3_letter_codes pdb_sugar. For more information, please see WorkingWithGlycans
The XML supporting RosettaScripts has been totally refactored. Rosetta now validates input XML files against an "XML Schema", and can better determine at the start of a run if all XML options are legal and functional. The XML reader can now pinpoint errors much more specifically and offers more helpful error messages.
You can now also get commandline help for XML-enabled classes with the -info flag; e.g.
-info PackRotamersMover and a blank, formatted template rosetta script by running the
rosetta_script application without giving the
-parser:protocol option.
A consequence of this refactoring is that pre-Rosetta3.8 XML scripts are usually no longer legal XML - we offer a tool to convert the old style, pseudo-XML into the current format at tools/xsd_xrw/rewrite_rosetta_script.py (this is in the tools toplevel folder, not the main code folder). The vast majority of classes have complete documentation; when you find one that does not, complain to (doc feedbacks email) and let us know!
A new Job Distributor, JD3, is ready for use. This is mostly invisible to end users, but will allow more complex protocols to be crafted instead of as multi-step and multi-app instructions. Look forward to cool JD3-enabled apps in future releases.
Although most improvements were in Rosetta3.7, we continue to improve the fraction of unmodified PDBs Rosetta can handle. (Don't worry - we've always been able to handle canonical protein well - but we are doing an ever-improving job with strange stuff like the GFP fluorophore, chemically concatenated ligands, glycans, RNA, etc).
Rosetta turned on Cxx11 features in its C++. This deprecates the compatibility of a lot of older compilers. See https://www.rosettacommons.org/docs/latest/build_documentation/Cxx11Support for more information.
We've tweaked the build system such that the built executables are named a little more simply. The tripartite names (rosetta_scripts.default.linuxgccrelease) will work as before, but now the two-part names rosetta_scripts.linuxgccrelease) will always point towards the default build, instead of the most recent build.
We have a new scorefunction brewing! It doesn't have its official name yet, but it is published. You can try it out with -beta_nov15 on command line and
<ScoreFunction name="beta_nov15" weights="beta_nov15"> in RosettaScripts in the meantime. Note that the -beta_nov15 commandline flag is necessary for any use of the new scorefunction, since certain scoring-related objects must be initialized differently (meaning that it is not currently possible to score with talaris2014 and beta_nov15 in the same session of Rosetta.)
Rosetta's Ramachandran scoring code has been greatly refactored. The software now supports Ramachandran potentials for arbitrary amino acids. These are lazily loaded, so they do not contribute to Rosetta's memory footprint unless they are needed. The refactored Ramachandran code is now part of the
rama_prepro score term in the beta_nov15 scorefunction. The Ramachandran scoring also now allows different Ramachandran potentials for positions preceding proline residues and for positions that do not precede proline residues.
The RosettaAntibody protocol has been streamlined and is closer to being a single application instead of a constellation of scripts. New paper outlining the functionality
RosettaScripts now supports inclusion of script fragments in other scripts
loops::restrict_kic_sampling_to_torsion_string repaired (for KIC loop modeling)
After releasing Rosetta 3.5 in 2013, Rosetta transitioned to a weekly release system. Rosetta 3.6 is weekly release v2016.13-dev58602. We are marking it as 3.6 to meet the needs of users that require numbered releases instead of weeklies. This large set of release notes collects changes released in weekly releases since their inception.
Since Rosetta 3.5, the default scorefunction was updated two generations, to Talaris2013 and then to Talaris2014 .
We've also updated the default minimizer to LBGFS, which is expected to provide better performance on the average problem.
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Internet of Learning-Things
Mass access to the Internet is a mere 20 years old and during this time Web Services have completely revolutionised how we interact – so how will the Internet transform us over the next 20 years? This article explains how technologies can be architected to allow learning to flourish in the emerging world of the… Read More
2012 – The Year of Constructive Disruption?
This article is a personal perspective of the key Education Technology trends that we can expect to see in 2012. Whilst not expecting anything as apocalyptic as the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar theory, my belief is that the world of education technology will see new and powerful disruptive forces in 2012. Whilst there are certainly… Read More
Artificial Intelligence in Schooling Systems
Q. "What do you give a hurt lemon?" A. "Lemon aid" Like me, you may have thought that the writer of this joke is a student. Actually, the joke writer in this case is Artificial Intelligence software – a "joke generator" called JAPE. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has growing implications for schooling, and this article aims… Read More
School Technology Innovation Centre, Brussels
For the next few months I'm delighted to be able to be based out of the School Technology Innovation Centre (STIC) in Brussels. For anyone with a passion for Education Technology this is simply Nirvana! If you can get to Brussels, put a visit to the STIC at the top of your agenda. So what… Read More
Putting the "i" into Singapore Schooling
With top rankings in PISA and TIMMS, Singapore is the envy of many schooling systems around the world. Whilst ICT is just one of a range of factors that affect learning outcomes, it is a key tool for meeting at least two of the four key desired outcomes of the Singapore schooling system – for… Read More
What's on the Horizon?
The 2011 NMC Horizon Report on IT in Higher Education has interesting implications for schooling systems. The report, produced by New Media Consortium in partnership with EDUCAUSE, focuses on how new technologies are impacting, and likely to impact, on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in Higher Education. Whilst Higher Education and Schooling have quite different needs, many of… Read More
Kinecting with young learners in South Africa
Games based learning has always offered a lot of opportunity, but Kinect is clearly accelerating innovation in this area. Kinect is a console adapter for Xbox 360 – it has a dual camera system that enables users to control software through their gestures. It's an immersive experience, and learners can use their whole body– arms,… Read More


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I ran this same race last year in 1:57:11, which I wrote about on my old blog if you are interested in reading about it. This year, I ran a full 20 minutes slower at 2:17:12 (net time). I can't even compare the two races though because my circumstances were completely different. Last year, like this year, I was hurt leading up to the race, but last year, I ran three weeks over 40 miles and many in the 30s in the months leading up to the race, whereas this year I have only been able to run two 20-mile weeks in the last six months. Last year, I was looking to run a very ambitious 1:45, whereas this year I was hoping to finish.
So, I was wayyy less fit, some might say injured, and generally feeling unprepared for this race. There had been a few periods leading up to it when I didn't know if I would even be able to run the race, and it was actually still up in the air until Friday afternoon. Given all of that, I am very happy with the way things went.
Matt and I drove up to his grandparents' cabin the day before the race. We arrived at around 3pm, visited for a bit, and then I decided it was time to see how my hip was feeling (I had taken the previous 9 days off running because it had been bugging me). We went for a short 20-minute jog and I felt spectacular, even adding two strides onto the end. That is when I finally decided I would be able to run the race.
Pain free! Bayshore is a go. #knockonwoodpic.twitter.com/8TrN5j8XLB
— Rachel Leggett (@rachmleg) May 23, 2014
We then drove into Traverse City about 45 minutes away to pick up the race packets, which was a breeze. We had no trouble finding a parking spot and there were no lines, which is a huge difference from last year. At packet pick-up, they were selling previous years' shirts for $5, so I bought last year's half marathon shirt in a size up from the one I got last year. The shirts run small, but I didn't quite believe them and I ordered a small that year, which looked like this…
The medium fits great. 🙂
I went to bed around 10:15 on Friday night and wake-up was at 4:15am. Somehow, I woke up at 4:14, before any alarms had gone off, which was pretty convenient. I got dressed right away and sat down with some black coffee. I also spread peanut butter on a plain bagel to bring along and eat at 6am.
We got out the door at 5:15 and Matt's mom drove his dad and me to the half marathon start 45 minutes away so we wouldn't have to take a shuttle, which eliminated a lot of stress. We stood around in the park chatting for quite a while, then I warmed up and it was time for the 7:30 start!
I started with Matt's dad (Bryan) between the 9-minute and 10-minute pace signs, but quickly fell off. New to the course this year is an uphill section before joining the main road. I went out in what felt like a conservative pace and handled the hills just fine–I wasn't tired at the top and felt better than a lot of the people around me sounded–yay Ann Arbor hills! After that section, I decided to continue not to push things and hung back, losing Bryan ahead of me for the rest of the race (he ended up finishing about ten minutes before me).
I ran the first 5k in 30 minutes and I was entertaining thoughts of going slightly faster, but that quickly went downhill as the course did. The course is a net downhill and by mile 5, the fronts of the bottoms of my feet were becoming incredibly painful from sliding forward in my shoes. I have had this problem before in training, but it has never been quite this painful. It felt like the bottoms of my feet were on fire and between miles 5 and 8, it got so bad that I felt like I was running on knives. I'm not exaggerating when I say every step was a mental battle and I thought I might pass out from the pain. It was a struggle to make it to the halfway point, after which I started walking quite a bit.
So there I was, around mile 7 or 8, walking (which did not hurt) and contemplating. I could either not finish, I could walk the whole rest of the way, or I could suck it up and keep going. Sucking it up wasn't an option, but I didn't want not finishing to be an option, either. Well, I am a forefoot striker, and I realized that if I completely changed my stride to heel-strike, kind of like a quick walk/jog, I could run and I could finish. So that's what I did.
I ran the last five miles alternating between walking and my awkward heel-strike method. I would run a mile, take a little break, and then run again. It felt like it took forever, but this finally got me to the last mile. I told myself I would run the whole last mile, but not very far into it, I gave up and started walking. As soon as I did that, a lady about my mom's age came up from behind me and said, "No, I have been following you this whole race and I am NOT going to beat you. Come on." I started running again and we ran all the way to the finish on the track together, where I pulled away in the last 50 meters or so. Even though it took a push from someone else, I am very proud of how I finished as strong as I possibly could (and held on for a lot longer than I usually do). I was in so much pain at the end, from my feet to everything else that comes with being undertrained, yet I was able to push through it and finish literally as fast as I possibly could have in that situation. I had absolutely nothing left at the end.
I don't have a picture from the finish line because I was a lot more concerned with getting hugs and eating food, but I promise I was there ;), and even though the journey was rough, I'm really glad I was able to complete this race. In time, I will get back to the level I once was at and then beyond. 🙂
(And in case you were wondering, my feet are perfectly fine, just blistered. No injuries here.)


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Benjamin Boscolo successfully represented an injured HVAC technician before a Prince George's County jury. Based on the client's neck, shoulder and hand injuries, the Workers' Compensation Commission determined he suffered from a 34 percent permanent disability. This resulted in the client being entitled to slightly more than $35,000 in benefits. Mr. Boscolo appealed this decision to a jury, which reversed the Commission's ruling and found that—as a result of the client's herniated disc in his neck, tendinitis of his shoulder and carpal tunnel syndrome—he suffered a 68 percent disability, entitling him to more than $143,000 in additional, tax-free benefits.


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2018 FB is expected to be a redo of existing commodity programs: Will that work in an era of low prices?
Hardwood D. Schaffer, APAC, 2017
What is the best safety net for grain producers in a prolonged period of low prices? That is the question Hardwood D Schaffer and Daryll Ray from the University of Tennessee have come up with in an article
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The current American main law is arriving to an end in 2018 and the discussions are currently ongoing. The main new element brought up by Hardwood Schaffer and Daryll Ray is that Michael Coaway the Chair of the House Agriculture Committee has indicated that, for crops, the discussions would focus on the three existing safety nets : crop insurances, and counter cyclical payment programs ARC (Agricultural Risk Coverage) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage). Therefore we shouldn't expect drastic changes, but merely some adjustments.
The authors explain again the main characteristics of these three tools by insisting on their efficiency during this low price period. The results are final when staying at low levels, prices don't fluctuate enough for crop insurances to trigger payments. The ARC program additionally suffers of an important limit: the amount of payment is limited to 10% of the value of revenue, revenue decreasing with product prices, payments are lower when prices are low.
On the other hand, PLC is a countercyclical device based on a stationary reference price and high enough to be interesting (202$/ton for wheat). It allows it to be a better safety net during prolonged periods of low prices.
These 3 instruments present a major limitation, they act on the symptoms but they can't cure the deep causes of the problem: an imbalance between offer and demand, which should be reduced. That is when the full relevance of combining these counter cyclical systems with measures to facilitate the adjustment of offer and demand comes to light. It is relevant to act on offer by implementing payments for fallow for example, or stimulating demand by developing alternative outlets such as biofuels. By acting that way, we reduce budgetary spending, because acting beforehand often costs less than paying the price later.
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During a recent teleconference, Chair of the House Agriculture Committee Michael Conaway said that debate on the farm bill would be pushed into early 2018 and the commodity title would be built on the existing programs: crop revenue insurance, Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC), and Price Loss Coverage (PLC).
The monthly price received by US farmers for corn has been on a downward decline since it peaked in the middle of 2012 (see page 12 in following link for a graph of these data: http://tinyurl.com/y7nanas2). That USDA publication also includes graphs for other crops that show similar price patterns. If that downward price trend were to continue, even at a slower pace, how well would modifications of these three programs work?
Two of the three programs—crop revenue insurance and ARC—work whether prices are above or below the full national cost of production. From our perspective, we (the US public) have no business making price payments for programs like ARC and Revenue Insurance when the price is well above the cost of production and there is no disaster, which is what happened in the early years of 2014 Farm Bill.
Now that prices have dropped and may remain low for a string of years, would building legislation on existing crop revenue insurance, ARC, and PLC programs provide an adequate safety net over the life of the next farm bill? In particular, how would these programs perform during a period of generally declining prices when the initial price is already below the cost of production? That is the current situation in US crop agriculture.
Crop revenue insurance has a price component that is set at an announced price when the insurance is purchased. If the price declines by harvest time, the farmer gets the benefit of the price specified in the contract and receives a payment based on the difference between the harvest-time price and the crop insurance price times the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) yield for that farm. The farmer chooses the percentage of production to cover.
Farmers who have a total or partial crop loss, receive a payment based on the lost production. In this described case, revenue insurance keeps things from getting worse, but does nothing to increase total revenue above that expected when the insurance policy was purchased.
The farmer can purchase a harvest price option. In that case, if the harvest time price is higher than the announced price and the farm experiences a production decline the farmer receives a payment based on the higher price and the RMA yield. This allows the farmer to capture a higher price but is still often inadequate if the price remains below the cost of production.
Crop revenue insurance is not designed to provide stability in extended periods of low prices. A benefit of the program is that the payments are based on farm level yields and are paid shortly after a claim is made instead of at the end of the crop year.
The ARC-CO program makes a payment when there is a year-to-year decline in county per acre revenue for a given crop relative to the olympic average per acre revenue in the county for the previous 5 years (benchmark revenue). A payment is made on 85 percent of the acres on a farm in the ARC program.
Even when prices decline, farmers will not receive a payment if the price decline is offset by a proportional increase in yield. In addition, the payment is limited to 10 percent of the benchmark revenue so if the benchmark revenue is $800 per acre, then the ARC payment is limited to $80 per acre. And if prices trend lower, the benchmark revenue also trends lower, which provides farmers less and less actual and potential revenue protection until finally payments depend only on yield variation.
The PLC is a counter-cyclical program that only makes payments to farmers if the season-average price received by farmers falls below the reference price—what used to be called the target price. The payment is the product of 85 percent of the farm's base acres times the farm's FSA established yield times the difference between the reference price and the season-average price down to the current loan rate. The lower the price the greater the payment. In a long period of low prices, the PLC will provide higher payments than the ARC. If prices fall below the loan rate, farmers can also claim a Loan Deficiency Payment.
Farmers complain that the payments for ARC and PLC come at the end of the crop year instead of the beginning like revenue insurance. This leaves them incurring costs while the crop is being produced and having to wait a year to receive the revenue.
So, what are the possible changes that could be made to ARC and PLC? The farm bill could allow farmers to receive their ARC and PLC payments on a more timely basis. They could be given partial payments during the crop year based on the projected season-average price with an adjustment at the end of the crop year when the season-average price is known.
Congress could raise the reference price, but with the budgetary constraints lawmakers are under, it is hard to see how they could do this. The farm bill could be written to allow farmers to split their acres between ARC and PLC to reduce the risk farmers take when they are forced to choose one program over the other. Farmers could also be allowed to reallocate their farm base acres to more adequately reflect the current farm configuration.
From our perspective, there is a serious problem with all three of these programs. They incur massive costs while doing nothing to change the underlying cause of prices that are significantly below the full cost of production. We all know the underlying reason: Several years of exceptionally high prices brought millions of acres into crop production, which coupled with above trend-line yields, have resulted in excess production.
And a little extra production has a drastic effect on prices. In corn, for instance, an increase in year ending stocks by as few as 150 million bushels on 15 billion bushels of production (1 percent of production) can significantly reduce price. The price can decline even if the year ending stocks remain flat if the market expects an increase in ending stocks next year.
With these three programs, US citizens pay a lot of money to provide inadequate protection for something as essential as food while doing nothing to deal with the underlying problem. Farmers, consumers, and taxpayers deserve something better.
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Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari for Windows 7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista/MAC OS/Laptop
There's something inherently fun in riding an elephant and blasting your way passed the obstacles. Add plenty more animals into the mix, and you've got yourself one hell of a game!
From the kitchen of Yodo1 comes a title that plays both as an endless runner and as a park manager. Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari it is called, and it adds a few new twists to both of these well-established formulas.
Wild, Wild Safari!
Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari aims to satisfy your wildest stampede dreams, having you saddle up the zoo creatures and endlessly run through savannahs. But mind you, this is not in the least easy; all of the running animals are, at the start, none too happy with you on their back.
You need to subdue them to your will first, and then try to get your head not to hit any of the numerous obstacles!
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It's all in the combination of tapping and holding and releasing. Holding a tap will allow you to ride, while releasing will make you jump on an unsuspected animal. But to successfully land on it, you'll need to tap once more at the appropriate time.
Sky Zoo? For Real?
Yeah, for real!
When you're not running the prairies and lassoing the beasts, the game will have you managing a zoo. All the animals you caught during your stampede exploits are there, waiting to be taken care of. First you need to jump them, then control them for a few seconds, and them they all yours, nice and tamed!
Building habitats for new animals is the integral part of the zoo management. And this zoo is, oddly enough, seated on a flying airship high up in the clouds.
Attract Visitors
The zoo isn't for your fun only, you can invite visitors to see and marvel at your unique collection.
The bigger the zoo, the more money you can make off of. That money can either be spent to expand the zoo premises or to get awesome new upgrades.
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On top of being is clad in uniquely cartoony graphics, the game is powered by some really goofy animations. These two features combined lend a truly compelling look to the game.
But don't let the playful look of the game deceive you, stampeding is a serious business!
Intrigued? Hyped? Whichever of these categories you belong to, make sure to at least give the game a go. So what are you waiting for? Get that Lasso ready at once!
How To Play/Download Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari for PC
Follow the instructions below, it's really easy and it takes about 5-10 minutes to run the game.
- Download Bluestacks from their official site
- Run and Install it
- Open the bluestacks app and setup your Google Play Store with your gmail, sometime it asks for phone verification
- After that search for "Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari"
- Click the Install button next to game icon
- When it's done, you can find and play Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari in "All Apps" or in "My Applications" sections
Download Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari for Mobile and Tablet Devices
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More Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari Tips Using Bluestacks
- If Bluestacks don't work for you for some reason, you can try Andyroid
- Sometimes when playing Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari, bluestacks ask you fee to pay but gives you option to download some apps. Every time it asks you just select "Install apps" and continue using it free.
- You can configure your keys inside bluestacks. You can map specific key to specific location. And there is options for tilt, swipe, tap, move up/down/right/left…etc
I hope you enjoyed this guide, please rate and share. If you have problems running Rodeo Stampede: Sky Zoo Safari apk on desktop or any other issues, leave a comment below.


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You know that feeling, and so do I. You just remembered someone's birthday or anniversary and you want to order something special but are not quite sure if the present will arrive in time. Have you ever tried our Gift Notices tool? It's one of the features on our website that I love – and use all the time. The option for a Gift Notice is available on every product on our website.
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