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Learn the dos and don'ts of maternity hair
Hair Coloring during Pregnancy
There is a great deal of controversy about coloring or perming hair during pregnancy. Most experts advise expectant women not to undergo any chemical processes that may undermine their own or their baby's health, especially during the first trimester. As a result, most stylists recommend that clients seek out their OB-GYN's advice before undergoing any chemical hair procedures.
There are natural, vegetable-based dyes that can be used as a substitute to synthetic chemicals. Pure henna, which comes in a variety of colors, is a classic example—but be wary. Many products that claim to be "all natural" may contain the same chemicals that are found in brand name permanent hair dyes, so be sure to check out all the ingredients prior to use.
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Pregnant women's forums abound with moms-to-be expressing concerns about perming their hair. One mom sums it up saying, "I hear that hair responds unpredictably under the influence of pregnancy hormones; a perm might not take at all, or might result in an unflattering frizz instead of bouncy waves." In addition to this concern, the chemical solutions used in perms are absorbed through the scalp into the bloodstream, and raise questions for many moms-to-be about the safety of their use during pregnancy.
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However, the family does plan to reopen the restaurant soon, said Parker Sjolander, whose family has owned the restaurant in the Eastgate neighborhood since his uncle founded it in 1967.
Just the kitchen was damaged, leaving the rest of the restaurant intact.
"It'll take a week to clean everything out and tear it all down and I don't know how long it will take to build it all back up," he said. "It's just the kitchen though, which is lucky. The dining room is fine the coffee shop is fine."
Sjolander said that the restaurant is usually full at lunchtime.
"It's kind of tough to see all the cars drive by. I'm just really more worried about our customers. They come in here all the time. They expect us to be open every day. So, we're just going to work as hard as we can to get reopen for them as soon as possible," he said.
Around noon Thursday, some found out about the fire as they pulled in to have lunch.
"It's always packed," said Keith Henry, who was on a lunch break with friends when they saw that Lil' Jon was closed.
Henry said he comes to the restaurant often, despite the distance from his workplace.
"I work at Microsoft, so it's a little ways" away, he said.Lil' Jon Restaurant and Lounge features a menu of classic diner options, including 19 different varieties of hot and cold sandwiches. Breakfast is served all day, and they have been known to serve a tasty version of "SOS" in homage to military veterans.
Fire crews from Bellevue, Mercer Island, and Eastside Fire/Rescue battled the kitchen fire, according to a press release from Bellevue Fire Department spokesman Lt. Michael Luquette.
A janitor at the restaurant at 3080 148th Ave. SE in Eastgate reported the blaze just after 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning.
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A language barrier made it difficult for dispatchers to decipher the exact nature of the situation so a single engine company was sent to investigate, according to the press release. Upon the engine's arrival five minutes later, firefighters saw heavy smoke and flames from the roof and called for more engines. By the time the fire was deemed under control 30 minutes later the entire kitchen was heavily damaged by, smoke, fire and the water used to extinguish it.
Forty fire fighters responded to the fire, according to the Bellevue Fire Department, including Bellevue Engine Companies 2, 4, 1, and 8; Mercer Island Engine 91; Eastside Fire & Rescue Engine 72; two ladder companies; two aid units; a paramedic unit and a paramedic supervisor. The fire scene was commanded by two Battalion commanders, one from Bellevue and one from Mercer Island.
According to Luquette, the final damage estimate will likely be approximately $475,000.
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Home prices are surging this spring. One big reason: Wall Street investors are buying.
Home prices rose sharply in April, buoying the nation's economic recovery.
Big private equity firms that started out buying up foreclosures as investment properties are now moving into the new home market.
Economic health is returning to the California homebuilding industry. What's not returning? The skilled workers.
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An Inspector General report says more than half a billion dollars in Hurricane Katrina relief money may have been misspent. Most Katrina victims who were awarded $30,000 apiece to elevate their houses never documented that the work was done.
Congress authorized funding for Hurricane Sandy emergency relief in January. But the actual money hasn't started flowing yet.
"PVC farms" at the stalled developments around Savannah, Georgia, may finally start bearing fruit this spring.
The New Energy Efficient Home Tax Credit was extended to the end of 2013.
Sandy has been a drag on the U.S. economy. But will the long-run effect be good for the region?
After months of political maneuvering, Congress has acted on a relief package for the region impacted by Superstorm Sandy, but there is no telling when the money authorized by Congress will actually reach the people who need it.
Florida is the slowest of the so-called "sand states" to emerge from the housing recession. One reason is the sluggish pace of court action on foreclosures.
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Australian winemakers are amongst the world's best when it comes to creating blends, wines that in many cases can prove far more rewarding than straight varietals.
And a very interesting, and yes rewarding, blend that's now on bottle shop shelves is Fifth Leg's 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Merlot, a drop that winemaker, Oliver Crawford sums up as "a serious wine in a fun package."
Indeed Fifth Leg is a fun and quality label, produced by Devil's Lair Wines in the heart of Western Australia's Margaret River region, and so named after the fossilised remains of a Tasmanian Tiger with a mysterious fifth leg were found in a cave near the winery. How it got there from Tasmania, and how it came to have a fifth leg, will doubtless remain forever two of life's little mysteries.
The Cabernet Sauvignon component gives this wine dark cherry and blackberry fruit notes and grippy tannins, the Shiraz provides plum, pepper and spice, and the Merlot adds nice juicy red fruits on the nose and palate.
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It was another day on Alternia, it being gloomy a bit as usual. But it was a different feeling and emotionfor Gamzee Makara. He was doing his usual sopor dosage and Faygo drinking, in a pretty good mood. "HmM.." He hummed softly, sliding a handful of sopor into his mouth. He had his phone next to him, it then beginning to ring with his theme of circus music. "Oh..It'S mY mOtHeRfUcKiN' bEsT-fRiEnD." He smiled like a goof, picking the device up with his spare hand and clicking 'ANSWER'. The text message read, "HEY GAMZEE...TEREZI WAS SAYING THAT YOU WANTED ME TO COME OVER. IS THAT TRUE?" He then just typed back, "YeAh, ShE's AlL uP aNd RiGhT. :o)". He waited a few minutes, getting another message. "OH. WELL, I GUESS IF YOU DON'T MIND IF I COME OVER SOON? LIKE FIFTEEN MINUTES?" He just thought about it, answering back with a yes and a ':o)'. Karkat then did'nt answer back but said to himself "FUCKING DOPE" and shook his head, smiling slightly. (As if he ever wouldshow his smile) About twenty minutes, Karkat was rushing because he knew he was five minutes late in his hoodie that was black hoodie and grey tight jeans as usual (though the hoodie was different), and knocked on the other's hive door. The Capricorn answered the door, smiling. "HeY bEsT-fRiEnD." Karkat rolled his eyes, "YEAH, YEAH. SORRY I'M LATE."..Gamzee shrugged. "It'S fInE, nO mOtHeRfUcKiN' sOrRyS." He hugged the Cancer, though knowing the shorter was touchy. "HEY, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" He frowned slightly. "BuT yOu'Re SuCh A WaRm ThInG." He then nuzzled his neck, Karkat then beginning to purr softly. "WoAh.." The subjuggulator looked at him. "SHUT UP, YOU HEARD ABOSO-FUCKING-LUTELY NOTHING." He blushed a light red, looking to the side. "I dId'Nt KnOw YoU cOuLd Do ThAt.." Karkat blushed even deeper. "JUST SHUT U-" He got cut off, Gamzee having kissing him gently. "UP..?" He blushed a dark red, having finished his sentence in a question. "GAMZEE..WHA.." He was in a bit of shock. "WhAt?" He smirked slightly, wrapping his arms around the other's waist, picking him up and sitting down on the couch that was against a wall, the Cancer in the Capricorn's lap. "G-GAMZEE!" The other buried his face into the taller's chest. "Hm?" The clown tilted his head slightly. "NEVERMIND.." His face was a light red. The make-up faced troll was obviously interested in the other. He had been since first glance, more than his other friend Tavros, having not as much love for him than Karkat. He thought about Karkat all the time, loved talking to him via anyway possible like text, computer, or just talking in general. "WHY DID YOU PUT ME IN YOUR LAP, GAMZEE..?" He looked up at him, raising his eyebrow slightly. "BeCaUsE." Did'nt even give a reason at all to the mutant. "THAT DOES'NT MAKE ANY SENSE, WHAT THE FUCK?" He frowned a bit more than before, it having been there this entire time. "i DuNnO, jUsT fElT lIkE iT." Well, that sorta was a reason. "WHATEVER."..Gamzee then just smiled and tilted the other's chin upward, kissing him softly again. Karkat this time did'nt really mind, maybe even liking it. The indigo blooded troll wrapped his arms around him once again, kissing him deeper. The mutant moaned softly, his cheeks a bright red. He wished he did'nt show his color of blush still, it being unacceptable to the other eleven trolls. His ancestor got killed for it, so he can understand the reason why he should be scared to show it. But long ago, when Karkat first blushed and Gamzee saw, Gamzee did'nt judge or anything. Just smiled and said 'WhAt A mOtHeRfUcKiN' cOlOr BlUsH yOu GoT' in admiration. Ever since then, Karkat mostly did'nt care, but still had a bit of guilt about the whole mutant thing... "Nn.." Gamzee moaned softly. He then pulled back, having half-lidded eyes. Karkat just stared into the others eyes, then snuggling into his neck. (Will be continued, thank you for reading! :D)
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As inbox engagement evolves, marketers must adapt their email programs. Here's how. Second in a two-part series.
In part one, I discussed how email fundamentals still rule when it comes to getting your email opened in the inbox. Today, let's examine more recent strategic trends and how digital marketers must adapt their email program to prevent being ignored as inbox engagement evolves.
The Smartphone and Tablet Impact
Speaking of mobile consumption of emails, any forward-thinking digital marketer should be considering the implications of how their emails are viewed, as well as when and where. It used to be easy, with consumers reading emails at night and on the weekends, and B2B marketers having their messages read during the business day (at least, that was the very broad assumption). Now your email might be read by the soccer mom minutes after deployment in the carpool line with her smartphone, and the busy executive at night on the tablet as she catches up on emails that survived the triage process during the business day. So that means everything from the aforementioned from and subject lines to the creative, coding, and messaging (as they will render and impact uniquely compared to a PC) needs to be considered with this in mind. When utilizing proprietary methods that deliver content and designs are optimized for multiple devices (desktop, smartphone, tablets, etc.), and are in real time from a single campaign, what matters is the core content that is most relevant to a user on each device.
Integrated Channels and Leveraging Social
Want your emails read? Try giving a clear call to action that uses the email as a jumping-off point to a preferred (for you and the subscriber) channel that closes the loop on conversions. More specifically, ensure that it jumps out in the subject line. VIP 25% Offer (Buckhead Location Only) Ends Thursday, August 25 5PM ET. While this sample subject line may be long and some mobile devices may not show the whole message, it sets up the value proposition, sense of urgency, and enough detail to drive the sense of location, and the VIP status can trigger a response.
Socially-driven emails perform very well as long as you move beyond the buttons and icons (follow us, "like" us, and other generic calls to action) and toward a more specific and benefit-oriented message. Ensure that the message to drive adoption of social channels features a clear reason (Q: Why would I want to check in on Foursquare at your location? A: The mayor eats for free every Monday) and that there is some substance behind the initial push (meaning after you "buy" your "likes" with a coupon, there is a community behind the offer worth engaging with). Teasing this in the pre-header, subject lines, and your current email foreshadowing the value of the next email they will receive can all trigger interest.
Of course, the list goes on and on (deliverability, segmentation, brand quality, etc.) and varies by client, but remember, all the hard work and bells and whistles in your email don't mean much if you don't get noticed and read. What are your magic bullets for getting through to your subscribers?
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Through a new £1m programme, Rethinking Parks, Nesta, Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund will support the most innovative and promising new business models for public parks.
The Rethinking Parks: Exploring New Business Models for Parks in the 21st Century report published today reflects on how public parks have been the centre of both urban and rural communities since the turn of the nineteenth Century, delivering multiple social, environmental and economic benefits for local communities. Today, 90 per cent of people regularly visit their parks and green spaces.
But with public sector funding for discretionary and non-statutory services like parks projected to fall by 60 per cent or more over the next decade, ambitious new business, management and partnership models are needed to create a more sustainable future for UK public parks.
Through grant funding of up to £100,000 per project and a package of non-financial support, the Rethinking Parks programme will back organisations and partnerships to develop, test and scale new approaches to help local parks thrive. The programme will help park managers and those responsible for park funding and maintenance to test new options for generating income and managing their park.
The report looked at the promising areas for UK park innovation that will make-up the four broad themes within the Rethinking Parks programme:
Anyone with an idea can apply for their stake of the £1m pot. To help people develop their ideas the programme is holding workshops around the country and online in January 2014. The best ideas will be chosen to receive funding in early summer.
Vicki Sellick, Director of the Rethinking Parks programme, said: "Parks have an inherent value in providing space for rest, relaxation and to connect with nature. But with public subsidy diminishing, public parks could easily become overlooked. We need new ways of generating income for parks, new ways of getting communities involved and new ways of getting under-used green spaces used again. We need to Rethink Parks."
She added: "Inspired by the Victorians, the UK has an amazing legacy of public parks. We need to ensure they remain vibrant and resilient for future generations to enjoy. This is an opportunity not to simply maintain the status-quo and bridge a growing funding gap, but to provide the impetus to rethink in an ecologically and financially sustainable way, parks and parks services that can be better equipped, more attractive and of higher quality in the future."
Organisations interested in attending the Rethinking Parks innovation workshops should register their interest at Rethinking Parks website. A copy of the Rethinking Parks: Exploring New Business Models in the 21st Century report is available to download free of charge from the Rethinking Parks website.
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The Rethinking Parks: Exploring new business models for parks in the 21st Century report explored a diverse range of successful parks business models to surface examples of new management approaches for parks including the establishment of a successful parks trust in Shenley, Hertfordshire; a creative social enterprise that manages a large network of green spaces in one of Sheffield's most deprived neighbourhoods; an independent charity responsible for a number of country parks in Fife, Scotland; and, a cemetery in Bristol that is now managed by a local friends group. It also looked abroad for inspiration of new business models and methods for generating income including innovative funding of both traditional and modern parks in New York, a city wide parks foundation in Los Angeles; a parks service in Freiburg, Germany that adopts strict environmental principles and for cost effective management; and, an intensively used park in Perth, Australia, that maximises its income though programmed events and facilities.
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Michel Bras: Every Day I Discover and Rediscover My VegetablesMichel Bras
At the age of 25, Michel Bras assembled a dish of the best the garden in his native Aubrac had to offer. It changed gastronomy. The gargouillou was an intuitive, meticulous reflection of the landscape that evolved with nearly every passing day. The preparation has become one of the most emulated dishes in modern gastronomy and the symbol of a vegetable-based cuisine that has influenced contemporary chefs around the globe (Bras cooked a version of the gargouillou at the first MAD Symposium). In an interview with the blog Food Snob in 2009, the chef Wylie Dufresne put it succinctly: "Bras has been copied by every chef in the world. We've all taken a page out of his book — the smear, the spoon drag, putting food on a plate like it fell off a tree."
We recently asked Bras to devote some thought to how he fell under the spell of vegetables. In the following essay, the chef describes formative experiences growing up in Aubrac, where he explored the land, taught himself how to cook, developed an exhaustive knowledge of the plant kingdom, and eventually opened the restaurant we now know as Bras.
Here is his piece (the original version, in French, is included at the end):
This article was part of a series on Filipino expatriates, published in Rogue Magazine.
You can read the full article on Medium here: The Singapore I Got To Know
The Mac turns 30 today. Here is an unreleased version of Apple's iconic "Think Different" commercial by TBWA, narrated by Steve Jobs himself. In the end, they ended up using Richard Dreyfus's voice in the final version, as Jobs wanted people to relate to the Apple, not to him. And yet, 30 years later, we relate to both.
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"We don't need menus," M says with authority. "There are only two things to order here: the baccala, and the puntarelle."
We've just sat down inside the long, cramped dining room at Dar Filettaro a Santa Barbara, a popular, reasonably-priced restaurant that specializes in deep-fried salted cod. All the clichés are represented: quaint courtyard next to ancient church in Rome's historic center, incredibly busy staff, a queue of hungry — and therefore antsy — locals crowded near the entrance on a Friday night. In the kitchen at the back, old women in stockinged feet watch over giant vats of extremely hot oil, cooking batches of their self-proclaimed "best fillets in Rome" to crisp perfection.
Tourists prefer tables outside, wanting the atmosphere of the piazza. Italians invariably sit inside, focused on their cod and their conversation. A single waiter navigates the aisle, not much wider than the economy class variety, orchestrating orders, while runners carry heaping platters of hot fried fish through the room at high speed, inches from our heads. Oblivious to this controlled chaos, someone from the neighborhood strolls in, sweater-over-button-down-shirt-and-red-pants, orders take away, and just as calmly walks out nibbling on his fish wrapped in white paper.
The baccala has been built up beyond expectation — by travel guides and blogs, reviewers on Yelp and TripAdvisor, by Natgeo Travel and Anthony Bourdain, and by M, who on the drive over kept the name secret, just describing the place as one of his temples of gastronomy. Dar Filettaro was even the venue of a little celebratory dinner when the paperwork on the flat he and his brother were buying finally came through. So there's nothing left to say about the cod, except to reaffirm that yes, there's a reason everyone recommends it.
Served alongside the baccala was a puntarelle salad. Before eating here, I had no idea what it was. Puntarelle is a Roman vegetable, a member of the chicory family available through winter, sometimes into spring. Its name, as Italian Notebook explains, comes from the fact that one eats the tip, or punta. The vegetable grows as a big fluffy bulb, and turning them into curly tips requires a lot of prep time. Rome food blogger Elizabeth Minchilli explains the lengthy process with great pictures and video, with kitchen tools that include a bespoke puntarelle cutter.
Vegetable sellers in Rome do their customers a service by prepping the greens for them, peeling the points and soaking them in cold water to keep them fresh. This also has the added aesthetic benefit of making them curl. As with all Italian food there is a specific way to prepare a dish, so the puntarelle are tossed in a dressing of anchovies, garlic and olive oil.
This humble green, in that anchovy dressing, was a discovery, and — fighting words — more memorable for me than the fish to which it is supposed to play second fiddle.Dar Filettaro a Santa Barbara
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Monthly Archive for January, 2013
Stupid human tricks (and the animals victimized by them)
A recent news item caught my eye, and just in case you missed it: In the effort to win a prize (which happened to be a live python), a Florida man choked to death attempting to swallow dozens of live roaches. The Broward County coroner's report noted cause of death as "asphyxia due to choking […] [Read More]
The Big Death of a Small Dog
The phrase "It takes a village to raise a child" is now in common usage. Despite how often one hears it, the wisdom of those few words helps the phrase from getting tagged as overly sentimental in all but the most jaded quarters. Most of us know the phrase from Hilary Clinton's book by the […] [Read More]
The Man the Elephants Adopted
We lost a lot of interesting and some important people in 2012, and the media made much of that. The story I found the most touching, the death I feel the most worthy our attention (and the loss I will mourn for a long time) was that of Lawrence Anthony. A name you may not […] [Read More]


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Posting on Rome site jokingly seeks "leader of international religion"
CONFIRMED: Although a prank, comprehensive listing is under site's 'sales jobs' category
Need a new job? Willing to relocate to Vatican City? Well, as conversations abound over who would be most suitable to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, Daily Dot came across this Craigslist posting Monday morning.
The posting, under the job title, "Bishop of Rome / Successor of Saint Peter / Holy See / Pontifex / 'The Pope,'" lists several duties, including "waving hands to large crowds of people" and "sitting in (comfortable) chairs for long periods of time."
The position is highly competitive, the ad notes, with "applications expected from superstars including Beyoncé."
Let the jokes, and rants, begin
Predictably, the pope's surprising retirement also brought the Twitterverse to life. Daily Dot published a sampling of the jokes that were bandied about shortly after the announcement. Other reactions to his news weren't as light-hearted, as some Twitter rants included hate and death wishes.
According to ABC News, the Los Angeles Times and other news outlets, the Pope didn't use his new Twitter account, @Pontifex, as a vehicle to deliver news of his resignation, prompting former New York Times editor Jim Roberts to tweet: "What's a Twitter account for if you can't drop bombshell news on it?"
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Drugs have always played a part in religion. Peyote, wine, Xanax. Their advocates claim their substance of choice as a sacrament.
Take the Reverend Craig X Rubin, an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church (just like everyone else), of the Hollywood based 420 Temple. He and his parishioners light up during services. The state seems to take a dim view of this, however, and have smacked The Right Reverend with the charge of distributing marijuana for sale. He's been in court since, what, February?
Fighting the good fight and lighting a spliff for God, Mr. Rubin has finally lost. He faces up to four years and eight months in prison.
With any luck, his church members will rally around him, turn a staff into a snake and demand of Pharaoh that he be released. Right after they, you know, chill a bit and maybe take a nap.


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QUICK WIN: How 4 quick design changes improved split test results by 362.5%
The Situation
We'd recently set up a split test for a client on their homepage, that I thought would absolutely kill it. There were huge improvements in the copy, design, and overall strategy.
We expected a huge conversion improvement – and I anxiously checked our split test reports every day, waiting for the conclusion.
The First Stage Of Results
The split test did okay. After some exciting leaps in conversion ahead early on, the results stabilised and stopped looking so exciting. After 26 days, the improvement was only 4.73% on the original homepage.
"4.73%!?!" You can imagine what I was thinking. We couldn't believe it, but the data doesn't lie… we'd only managed to improve conversion by 4.73%. It does prove that one should always test, but considering our usual split test results, I wasn't too happy.
So, I decided to redo the test – with some strategic tweaks. I re-evaluated the page from top to bottom and found a couple of key things that were worth testing:
- We'd added in buttons to the splash to segment the audience that were sending visitors to pages that weren't yet optimised for conversion. There weren't any navigation paths there before. Could this be distracting to conversion?
- The form had moved further down the page. While it was still visible, was it still AS visible as the old form?
- We'd tested a new type of CTA on the page. Instead of "Quick Enquiry", we'd changed to "Free ____ Proposal". Could this language be wrong for the visitor, and reducing conversion?
We redesigned the homepage with these questions in mind. The new homepage had the following changes (see the screenshots for an anonymised comparison):
- Removal of buttons from the splash.
- Form higher on the page.
- Addition of an arrow graphic to increase attention to the form.
- Change of call-to-action to Enquire Now
That was all we changed! Everything else remained the same, including all the copy and any of the other design elements.
Then, we waited for the data to come in…
The Second Stage Of Results
Conversion had now increased by 21.86% when compared to the control – an improvement of 362.15% from the original test. Hooray!
Original Test New Test
+ 4.73% +21.86%
This was a really interesting example of why you should always test – and why you shouldn't give up after one test. If we hadn't tested at all, we never would have known it was only a slight improvement.
Our initial hypotheses were "sort of" right (it did improve conversion…just not by much…) – but the next round of testing proved to be much more beneficial. With a few strategic changes, we were able to get much better results. A quick win for the client and for us!
(Edit: We've continued split testing with this client since this test concluded. We used what we learnt here in the next round– and our next test increased conversion by 210%! A good reminder of why it's important to KEEP testing.)
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Great post Steph. The analysis is great, and it is awesome to see tangible results from small strategic tweaks. Nice tangiblisation.
Thanks for sharing the insight. Based on your feedback, I will work with my design and hosting company to test few of these ideas.
It appears, based on your screen shot, your site is simple and leads are generated off the home page. Our site is more complicated though.
Take care.
Great stuff! Just goes to show the importance of testing things out, and not just assuming this or the other will work. Test, test, test, improve, rinse and repeat!
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Classy Combos with the Newest Perennials
New shipments of plants are arriving every day. This week, we celebrate perennials: the newest and prettiest! We've put together a few winning combinations for you to plant in your garden.
For sunny sites, we've put together a brilliant show off combo of Salvia 'Endless Love' , with the new crisp white daisy, LaCrosse. The fascinating "quill" shapes of the flower petals on LaCrosse will have everyone saying "WOW!" Add Coreposis Star Cluster, which is creamy white with a burgundy spot at each petal's base, and your garden will be showy long after dusk.
LaCrosse, May-August, 8-10 inches tall x 10-12 inches wide, compact stature. Bright yellow center.
Endless Love Salvia, 12 inches tall x 14 -16 inches wide. Soft purple blossoms with lime green and purple sepals.
Star Cluster Coreposis, 18-24 inches tall by 18-24 inches wide. Creamy white w/purple splotch.
Campanula 'Freya's' , rich periwinkle blooms are perfect for cottage gardens, butterfly gardens, and for bouquests , as well. Blooming continuously from May through July and needing lots of sun, they would be perfect with any of the Knockout roses, and the new LaCrosse daisy.
Freya is 10-15 inches tall x 15-18 inches wide. Full sun, well drained soil. Sturdy and non-invasive. Blooms May through July.
Knock Out Roses in all colors bloom from May until a very hard frost.
LaCrosse daisy, May-August, 8-10 inches tall x 10-12 inches wide, compact stature. Bright yellow center.
If you have a shady spot or woodland setting, try the new Japanese Forest Grass, 'Fubuki', paired with the sensational rosy- hued Hellebore, 'Rosemary'. To fill out the planting, add several clumps of the palest pink Tiarella, 'Octoraro." The cloudlike blossoms of the Tiarella will light up the woodland garden until late May. Fubuki means snowstorm in Japanese, and the leaves are brilliantly variegated. Cool weather will cause them to develop a beautiful rosy hue.
'Octoraro' Tiarella 18 inches tall by 24 inches wide, part sun/part shade.
'Rosemary' Hellebore, dry shade, 18 inches tall by 20 inches wide, rosy pink buds open to pale pink flowers and mature to rosy pink again. Hellebores bloom from March –June.
'Fubuki' grass is 14-18 inches tall and as wide. A nice compact variety, Fubuki will look pretty in the garden from May until autumn.


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Thursday, February 09, 2012, 05:05 am PT (08:05 am ET)
Pictured Sharp LCD panel claimed to be Retina Display for Apple's 'iPad 3'Another leaked component photo shows an LCD panel manufactured by Sharp that is claimed to be a 9.7-inch Retina Display for Apple's anticipated third-generation iPad.
The pictured component, highlighted by the Japanese-language site Macotakara, clearly shows on the connector that it is manufactured by Sharp. But the site also claims it is a QXGA 9.7-inch display that "seems to be for the next iPad."
The display has three flat cables that connect to the base of the LCD, which is said to sport a high-resolution 2,048-by-1,536-pixel display. That's the same size that has been rumored for an Apple-branded Retina Display on the third-generation iPad.
The resolution suggests that Apple's so-called "iPad 3" will not match the 326 pixel-per-inch density of the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPod touch. Rather, the rumored resolution would be a pixel density of around 260 pixels-per-inch, with quadruple the resolution found on the current iPad.
Currently, the iPad 2 and first-generation iPad have a resolution of 1,024-by-768 pixels, which has a density of 132 pixels-per-inch. That falls well short of Apple's "Retina Display" distinction, named so because the individual pixels are so small that they are all but impossible for the human eye to discern.
The purported iPad 3 LCD is the latest in a flurry of components claimed to show off parts from Apple's third-generation iPad. It comes on the heels of a photo claiming to show the back cover of the next-generation device, as well as another one that showed the inside of the back panel, suggesting the device will sport a larger battery.
The photos of the back panel suggest that the device will be nearly identical in form factor to the current iPad 2. But inside, the part shows signs that the LCD display, camera, and logic board have been redesigned, in addition to the prospect of a larger battery.
On Topic: iPad
- Apple paces field in PC consumer satisfaction for 11th consecutive year
- Rumor: Next-gen iPad Air to debut in October, Retina iPad mini in early 2015
- Next-gen iPad Air with Touch ID, new gold color option may also debut at Apple's Sept. 9 event
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Has anyone seen, or know where to find a forward pistol grip like this in the pic.. Thanks.
The rest of the world gets it,why can't we?
"The United States can survive a Barack Obama,who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president".
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looks like the same grip as the pistol grip just screwed onto a picatany rail mount.
"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." L. Neil Smith
The problem with being stupid is you cannot simply decide to stop doing dumb things...
I agree. However its clearly on a hand guard that has a rail. It looks just like the primary pistol grip (possibly a Tango Down) , but with an adapter to fit it to the rail. I have seen something kinda like it that SOG guys would do to there CAR-15s during Vietnam. Just haven't seen anything like it since.
Like this.
Glass has a similar grip but it has finger grooves like a old Thompson.
"In Vermont authenticity is all, they do not try to keep it real, they are real."- NY Times.
Thank you, Glass had that long before she had me and it's her preferred duty shotgun. I personally prefer the Remington 870 as I shoot and cycle faster than the 37 can keep up and I tend to jam it up on rapid fire. This has been a constant discussion subject between Glass and me for over 17 years.
Anybody know what kind of handguard is on that first rifle?
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Electrical Rough-In Wiring of Earthship Tire Walls
Posted on 22. Jul, 2011 by Chris in Construction, Earthship, Electrical, Tires
It has been a few days since we finished our rough-in wiring, but I thought I would post about it before I forget the details.
As mentioned previously we spent some time after getting our electrical permit figuring out what type of wire would be required for the tire walls; the electrical inspector initially wanted us to use metallic or non-metallic conduit to protect against corrosion and moisture. Based on our research of other buildings of cob construction in British Columbia we were able to show the building inspector that standard wiring and boxes have been used in buildings with similar construction techniques.
Last week we finally started the rough-in wiring of the tire walls. I started working on the ends of the interior tire walls; we have wire running in channels at the tops of these walls and there will be switch outlets on the ends of all of these walls. We decided to frame a wiring chase on the end of every wall rather than cob over this wiring. There were two reasons for this choice; I was worried that there would not be a lot of cob covering the wire runs on the ends of the walls, and we intend to finish these chases so that they look like posts at the ends of the interior walls … we hope that it will be aesthetically pleasing. Making these boxes was slow work as the 2×6 forming the box had to be custom fit to the tire stack. Eventually we will cob over the custom edges of the 2×6 when we finish mudding the walls.
On each of the end walls I put a 3 or 4 gang electrical box approximately 4′ above finished floor height. These boxes will hold the light switches for the main room lights. The intention is for all of the lighting circuits to be on DC power. I ran some of these branch circuits using #10 AWG wire due to the length of the runs and number of lights on the circuit; I did not want any issues with voltage drop due to insufficient wire sizes. I also placed a single gang box approximately 1′ above finished floor level in these chases. This allows me to have a DC plugin in every room, something I was not sure how I was going to accomplish otherwise. I did not include these DC plugins when ensuring that there was no point along the wall of the room further than 12′ from an electrical outlet; I ensured that you are always within 12′ of an AC plugin.
Once these end wall chases were finished we moved on to the wiring beside the east and west exterior doorways. Here again electrical wiring for room lights travelled in a channel at the top of the tire wall. This wiring was brought down to approximately 4′ above finished grade into a switch receptacle gang box by running it in the recessed grooves between the tires. The wires were attached to the tires using 3/4″ screws and CSA approved wire clips. Here again, a single gang plugin was placed underneath the switch box.
Finally, all of the branch circuits were run for the plug receptacles on the tire walls. All of these gang boxes were mounted on plywood screwed over the cavity between two tires in the wall. A box was cut out of the plywood using a jigsaw and the gang box was mounted and screwed to the plywood. Before mounting the gang box 6 mil poly and stucco lathe was stapled over the exposed face of the plywood. The lathe extends beyond the edges of the plywood. As described above the electrical wire was stapled in the cavities formed between the tires.
We passed the wire between rooms by drilling through the cob packed between the tires. This worked well and reduced the wire runs as we did not have to go right out to the end of each wall. We made sure the wire was stapled within 6″ of entering a gang box and at least every 5′ feet along its length. At least 6″ of conductor was run into the gang boxes.
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Sóc Mateu i aquesta és la meva vida.
So I got new glasses — and yes, I'm aware they make me look like a total fucking hipster. But unlike your run-of-the-mill Brunswick dweller I actually NEED glasses to, you know, have vision and actually see.
Without glasses or contacts I'm disadvantaged. I'm one of those need-glasses-to-find-my-glasses kind of people.
I ordered these specs at visiondirect.com.au (not actually based in Australia, just quietly) and it's the most frustrating transaction I've ever dealt with. I bought them in January and they arrived late March; enough said really. It's the price you pay for huge discounts which—let's be honest—is the deciding factor here.
I'm hoping these glasses aren't too ridiculous for work — they do cover like a third of my face after all.
Oh well, just one more thing I hope will slip by unnoticed. No one's pulled me up on my shoddy ironing yet. And by shoddy, I mean I that barely ever iron at all. Shhh.
Can you tell I'm bored?
Today I caught up with a friend from five hundred years ago. We had Starbucks and a bird pooped on him. Twice. Then we got kebabs.
He's an Aussie-American with one of those sweet-as hybrid accents. He told me of his dubious party antics, living in San Diego, and I lapped all that shit up.
Just FYI, I'm insanely jealous he has a second passport. Someone from overseas—marry me, please?
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The Big Bang Theory claimed another victory Thursday, while 30 Rock kicked off its final season on a low note.Leading off NBC's night, 30 Rock nabbed 3.4 million viewers and a 1.3 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, off of what Community's season premiere (3.9 million, 1.7) delivered in the slot last year. Up All Night (3.1 million, 1.4) and The Office (4.1 million, 2.1) held steady, while ...read more
Songs in the key of angst: a Glee specialty, and tonight the show pulls out the emotional stops in the best episode yet (9/8c on Fox) for what's shaping up to be a mostly terrific transitional season. One caveat: I wish it had been this easy to flit between the heartland and New York City back when I was in college, not to mention high school.
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There's nothing suspect about Elementary's premiere numbers. The CBS drama opened big Thursday, bowing to 13.2 million viewers and a 3.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, winning the 10 p.m. hour in both measures. The Sherlock Holmes update also built on lead-in ...
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Thursday night was no laughing matter for NBC.The network's comedy lineup premieres were down across the board, averaging 4 million viewers and a 1.5 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demographic for the night.Saturday Night Live's Thursday prime-time special opened the night with 5.2 million viewers and a 1.6, sliding 69 ...
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Glee got off to a decent start in its new Thursday timeslot, but it was off from its Season 3 premiere.Season 4 bowed to 8.1 million viewers and a 3.3 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down from last year's 9.2 million and 4.0 on a Tuesday. Glee, however, was the top-rated show ...
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Well done to Bideford Rotary, a well-deserved win. It a great float! Well done to all the organisers and participants in last weekend's Bideford Carnival. It was my first Carnival and it was very impressive to see so many floats, bands and people lining the streets in support.
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A new ABC News Washington Post poll released Wednesday say 57% of all Americans support Hillary Clinton's run for president in 2016. Clinton has said she won't run for president.
Those poll numbers look good, but what are her weaknesses if she runs?
OutFront tonight: CNN Contributors David Frum and Donna Brazile. FULL POST
We are only 14 days from Election day and the polls show a dead heat between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. A day after the last presidential debate, both campaigns are making the tough choices in order to obtain 270 electoral votes.
According to the CNN Electorial Map, President Obama is currently leading 237 to 191. But remember there is still time for an October surprise.
OutFront tonight: Chief National Correspondent John King in Occuquan, Virginia.
As thousands of young undocumented immigrants across the country begin lining up for the forms that will allow them to take advantage of President Obama's executive order sparing them from deportation for at least two years, questions are already being raised about the long-term effectiveness and permanence of the program.
Should these young people be concerned about officially revealing themselves as illegal immigrants? Will the President's order face future challenges from Congress? And what happens if Mitt Romney wins in November? Joining us tonight to discuss are journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas, famous for penning a 2011 New York Times Magazine piece revealing his illegal status, and David Leopold, the former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.


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This is a list of pet transport services I have been able to find through research to prepare this list. Each will have different policies and requirements. Please check references of anyone you select – there are many great transport success stories, but a few reports of individuals that take gas money and abandoned the pet to be transported. I have not used any of these services personally. Thank you to everyone who helped research this list, especially Jo and Amber! Listed in alpha order.
AHeinz57 Pet Rescue & Transport (Midwest & Canada):
All Breed Rescue (a yahoo networking group)
Animal Transporters (International): http://animaltransporters.com/international.asp
Chihuahua Rescue & Transport: http://www.chihuahua-rescue.com
Dogster Transport Discussion Forum
Facebook Pawsitively Texas Volunteer List
Heart's Hope Truckers Pet Transport
I-10 / I-20 Rescue and Transport (a yahoo networking group)
I-35 Rescue and Transport (a yahoo networking group)
Mobile Mutts Rescue Transports
On the Road Again (a yahoo networking group)
Operation Roger (Texas Truckers Transport)
P.E.T.S. LLC (Peterson Express Transport Service) – This is the transport group on the show Last Chance Highway Pet Transport website
Pet Travel (a yahoo networking group)
Rescue Angels on Wheels (a yahoo networking group)
Rescue Transport: (a yahoo networking
Rolling Rescues (a yahoo networking group)
SkyArk Nonprofit
Animal Air Transport
Texas Transports (a private Facebook group that coordinates transports)
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a staircase that dreams are made of
it's a toss up between which one I would need more.
better stock-up on both.
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how was your day?
keep track of the good ones with the life calendar.
I'm afraid to see how mine would turn out.
anything but bland business cards
CMYK soft drinks
Cyan – Gatorade Cool Blue
Magenta – Fernandes Cherry Bouquet
Yellow – Orangeade
Black – Coca-Cola
swamp water anyone?
mason jar chandelier
love it.
a tribute to gingers.
it just so happens, 2 of my band mates are of this origin.
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lavish wedding invites (each piece costs a whopping $25!)
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By Jean Wise
This is so cool, Jean! Good listening!
God has surprised me on a billboard, of all places. I'd been asking for a sign, wondering why He doesn't give me a sign. So he gave me a billboard, which said, "Someday you will die. And then you will meet God."
Now that's a sign. He knows nothing short of a billboard will do for me!
Read the writing on the gas pump? How wonderful! We always do make things difficult.
Thanks for the nice comments. Yes His instructions are not always as clear and specific as we want but I think if we continue to focus on Him, the details will fall into place.
Love this post … so true, but I wish His instructions were clearer sometimes … that I understood where He was going with inexplicable circumstances in my life. I know it comes down to trust.
God's instructions on the gas pump! Oh Jean I love your mind and the way you think. And if only we could follow His instructions, and I want to , but my selfish desires just keep getting in the way.thanks for this post. Clella
I love your analogy! Truly, God wishes for our obedience more than anything. I love this post. Tweeting it out for Tweet Me Tuesday!
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Wow! Excellent way of putting this. Isn't it wonderful what Jesus did, and is continuing to do, to bless us with His awesome salvation and life with Him! Thank you for this terrific analogy!
How neat!! Isn't it amazing how God shows us all the answers we're looking for…if we pause long enough to see what he's showing us?
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Topics: Politics, Health Reform
Jackie Judd talks with PBS NewsHour's David Chalian about the GOP presidential candidates' health law repeal rhetoric, the varying level of nuance among their viewpoints and how each is attacking the President's – and each other's – stances.
You can read the transcript or listen to the audio.
-- Related: GOP Presidential Hopefuls: Where They Stand On Health Care
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Morel-and-Asparagus Salad with Frisée and Butter Lettuce
Lisa Linder
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Recipe Time
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- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 36 small fresh morels, rinsed, or dried morels, soaked in boiling water for 30 minutes, drained and rinsed
- 1/2 cup chicken stock or low-sodium broth
- 1 pound asparagus, tough ends discarded, asparagus halved lengthwise and cut into 2-inch lengths
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 5 ounces frisée, torn into bite-size pieces
- 1 head medium butter lettuce, torn
- 2 tablespoons (small) chervil sprigs
- Argan oil, for drizzling (optional; see Note)
- In a large skillet, melt the butter. Add the morels and stock, cover and cook over moderately high heat until softened, 5 minutes. Add the asparagus, cover and cook until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and cook uncovered until the broth is nearly absorbed, 1 minute longer.
- In a large bowl, whisk the olive oil with the lemon juice and season with salt and pepper. Add the frisée, butter lettuce and chervil and toss to coat. Arrange the morels and asparagus on plates and mound the salad alongside. Drizzle with argan oil, if using, and serve.
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Standard Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
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Hotel in Liverpool (Liverpool City Center) near University of Liverpool
Located in the heart of Liverpool, this hotel is within walking distance of Everyman Theatre and University of Liverpool. Also nearby are Walker Art Gallery and St. George's Hall.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Best Western Feathers Liverpool Hotel features a bar/lounge. Other amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access and 24-hour room service.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wired high-speed Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities include conference space and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available 24 hours). This Liverpool hotel also offers dry cleaning/laundry services, 24-hour room service, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
- 24-hour front desk
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- Total number of rooms - 81
- Number of floors - 5
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Names include punny EV-ergreen and environMINT
After 13,000 entries, Chevy has narrowed it down to three finalists in its Volt Color Contest. Among them are Devin McQuarrie of San Jose, CA, with the name EV-ergreen; Dave Thomas of Sanford, FL, with the name Viridian Joule; and Matthew Valbuena of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, with environMINT.
Chevy is now asking the public to visit http://www.chevroletvoltage.com to vote for their favorite. Votes will be accepted until 8 a.m. Eastern Time on Dec. 1st. All finalists will be flown to Los Angeles for an event prior to the LA Auto Show, where the winner will be announced. The winner will be one of the very first individuals outside General Motors to drive the company's revolutionary new plug-in hybrid.
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Assume the database is at:
In Scrivener, use the following in the meta-data page, which is the first page in the manuscript:
Base Header Level: 1 Title: Rethinking the EHR Author: Martin Wehlou, MD, CISSP BibTeX: ../BibRef mycopyright: 2014 Man in The Middle AB, Sweden.
Then, in the base folder of your book or article, create a symbolic link to the real BibDesk database file:
ln -s ~/Documents/BibDesk/Database/References.bib BibRef.bib
The "base folder" is the folder where your .scriv file is. Scrivener creates the .tex files in a subfolder, so that's why you need the ".." before "BibRef" above. By the way, I called the link "BibRef" just to make it clearly different from the actual database name, but you can use anything you like. As long as it doesn't contain blanks or strange symbols.
Now everything works and life is good.]]>
This draft is significantly shorter and more focused than earlier drafts. I've also incorporated the "combinatorial matching" idea from L.L. Weed, and modified it to be more scalable. With that, I have a knowledge-based support and documentation system, with a complete flow from first patient contact to treatment. It goes way beyond what any current EHR systems do, and would be the help we need as doctors, instead of the drag of the current generation.
Any comments are welcome. My email can be found under the section "Draft Versions" in the manuscript. You can also comment on the blog itself, of course. At least during the first two weeks, then they're closed (due to spam).]]>
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let strings = numbers.map { (var number) -> String in var output = "" while number > 0 { output = digitNames[number % 10]! + output number /= 10 } return output }
Everything between braces is the block, um.., trailing closure.
Excerpt From: Apple Inc. "The Swift Programming Language." iBooks.]]>
var mathFunction: (Int, Int) -> Int
In this example: mathFunction is a variable that can hold any function that takes two Int as parameters and returns one Int. Fine, so far.
Functions can take such functions as parameters and also return them. For instance, a function taking a function like the above as parameter would be declared as:
func printMathResult(mathFunction: (Int, Int) -> Int)
A function returning a function taking a Bool as parameter and returning an Int could look like:
func chooseFunction(choice: Bool) -> (Int) -> Int
Notice how the two pointer operators (->) mean to entirely different things. The first indicates a return value, the second is part of the function signature of the returned value.
Let's imagine what a function type would look like if it takes a function of an Int, returning an Int as parameters, and returns a similar function:
func confusingFunction(number: Int) -> (Int) -> (Int) -> Int
I may very well have written that wrong, but can you tell? This is totally different from old school C declaration of function prototypes, but I'm far from sure it's any easier to understand. Maybe judicious use of "function types" (or "typedefs" as we used to call them 30 years ago…) could make this clearer.]]>
mysteriousFunction(15.2, "yeah, right", "only on a sunday", -1)
…just like in the good(?) old days of plain C/C++. Yes, you can force naming of parameters on the caller's side, but it's more work than the sloppy old way. Guess how often we'll see that now? So, simple, inscrutable, and bug prone is the new default.]]>
I'm reading the iBooks book on Swift. When I got to closed and halfopen ranges on page 100, I thought this was a big mistake. It's very hard to see at a glance which is which. We've been trained for so many years to see ranges in for loops as closed, and react immediately if that expected "-1″ as in "(0 to n-1)" or equivalent, is missing.
Sure enough, go to page 135 in the same book, and the example given is clearly wrong, where the author of the book confused the two. Two dots is a halfopen interval, three dots a closed interval, and the example is:
"shoppingList[4...6] = ["Bananas", "Apples"]"
(Excerpt From: Apple Inc. "The Swift Programming Language." iBooks.)
This is not going to end well.
Update: I was wrong. See the comments.]]>
You can find a diff file for version 10 there as well, if you want to focus on the changes.
Update May 13, 2014: I stupidly linked to a particular draft in the above post. A much better link is this:
…which always points to the most recent draft. Currently I'm on draft 15 and will upload 16 later today.
Sorry about that piece of bad information.]]>
Current systems are a marvel of bad design and misunderstandings of purpose. I'm trying in the book to figure out why, and what to do to improve on things. The contents range between the medical and the technical, taking side roads into politics, both the office kind and the real kind.
The contents are mainly based on the Swedish situation, but I welcome any input on how it is elsewhere. If I can be made to understand the differences, I'll only be too happy to take that into account in the text.
I'm hoping with this book to make the stakeholder ask the right questions, else there is no hope we'll ever get the right answers.
From today, I'll publish my latest draft weekly (if I can keep it up) at:
I'll welcome any comments in any form, but you'll have to email them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com, or even better, post them as messages on our forum. You can register for the forum at:
The intention is to have it ready for publication sometime in June 2014. I'll publish it under our own name through one of the publish on demand sites.]]>
So this is what I needed to accomplish: get one single SRX100 running Junos 12.1X44D20 to have a site-to-site VPN to another SRX100, while also having a dynamic VPN working with both Windows 7 clients and Mac OSX 10.9 clients. And I succeeded, except not for free. I'm not mentioning the site-to-site setup in what follows, since it does not interact with dynamic VPNs.
The SRX100 has a Windows VPN client built in, such that if you connect with a Win7 machine, it lets you log in using a web interface, then offers you a download of the Junos Pulse client, already completely configured for that SRX100. This works like a charm. The problem is that there is no Junos Pulse client for OSX, which I think is really weird. I love Juniper, but man, what's up with this?
The client everyone recommends for this is VPN Tracker, a pretty expensive piece of very nice software from Equinux. But, of course, even though VPNTracker supports a truckload of firewalls, the SRX series is not among them. The software is very configurable, however, so even though there's no guide, there's a way.
First, take the lazy way and fire up the J-Web interface to the SRX100 (yes, I know, I lost all cred by doing this, but having to choose between self-respect and actually having a life, I finally crumbled, left the command line and took to the browser). To my defence, the J-Web interface is actually pretty darn good, at least compared to the Netscreen interface on the SSG5.
From experiments and a lot of searching on the interwebs, it's clear there is a problem somehow with the DES and/or 3DES algorithms with the SRX100 and/or VPNTracker. They just can't negotiate a phase 1 proposal, with VPNTracker failing in phase 1.
The solution is to set the SRX100 to not use DES or 3DES, by selecting "Standard" in both "IKE Security Level" and "IPSec Security Level".
The solution is to create a custom phase 1 proposal and phase 2 proposal that does not include DES or 3DES. In the SRX configuration, do:
set security ike proposal ike_prop_aesonly description "reduced proposal for vpntracker" set security ike proposal ike_prop_aesonly authentication-method pre-shared-keys set security ike proposal ike_prop_aesonly dh-group group2 set security ike proposal ike_prop_aesonly authentication-algorithm sha1 set security ike proposal ike_prop_aesonly encryption-algorithm aes-128-cbc set security ike proposal ike_prop_aesonly lifetime-seconds 86400 set security ike policy ike_pol_wizard_dyn_vpn proposals ike_prop_aesonly
Don't forget to remove the policy-set standard you had from before. The "ike_pol_wizard_dyn_vpn" can have another name on your system, of course.
set security ipsec proposal ipsec_prop_aesonly description "reduced proposal for vpntracker" set security ipsec proposal ipsec_prop_aesonly protocol esp set security ipsec proposal ipsec_prop_aesonly authentication-algorithm hmac-sha1-96 set security ipsec proposal ipsec_prop_aesonly encryption-algorithm aes-128-cbc set security ipsec proposal ipsec_prop_aesonly lifetime-seconds 3600 set security ipsec policy ipsec_pol_wizard_dyn_vpn proposals ipsec_prop_aesonly
Also, choose group 2 in IPSec Perfect Forward Secrecy (I haven't experimented with other values here). With these choices, there's no use of DES or 3DES. Note the IKE Preshared key and Remote Identity values. In the next screen, you choose users and stuff, and I'm not going to show you mine. Nothing there has a bearing on this description anyway.
So, with this set, first try to log in using Win7, download the Junos Pulse client and connect. This should work without anything else but your login credentials that you set in the screen "Remote Users" (that I didn't show) in the VPN Wizard on the SRX100.
Now, back to VPNTracker. In the "Basic screen" of your connection setup, you enter the following:
And in the second, "Advanced", you enter the following:
Notable items in the first of the two screens ("Basic") are:
Notable items in the second ("Advanced") screen, where we take care to only select the algorithms included in the Junos SRX100 "Standard" set, which is AES-128, SHA-1, and DH Group2 in both phase 1 and phase 2, and DH Group2 for PFS in phase 2:
There's one last, hard to find, little detail: you have to change the ike-user-type on the SRX100 from "shared-ike-id", as the wizard generated it, to "group-ike-id", through the commandline on the SRX100, assuming your SRX100 VPN Wizard generated the gateway name to be "gw_wizard_dyn_vpn", which it probably did, like so:
set security ike gateway gw_wizard_dyn_vpn dynamic ike-user-type group-ike-id commit
Interestingly, you don't have to change your remote identifier in any way, neither in the SRX100 or the VPNTracker. From now on, you can connect.
Now, amazingly, you can connect with VPNTracker from OSX 10.9 while at the same time using the Junos Pulse client from Win7. All you have to do now is cough up $100 or $200 for VPNTracker (depending on version).
The SRX100 comes with a default two simultaneous dynamic VPN connections. You can get five connections with an extra license (SRX-RAC-5-LTU) for around $150, but I don't know if that leaves you with a total of five or seven simultaneous connections.]]>


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|07 May 2009
Windows 7 Build 7077 x64
Why Windows 7 is Snappier than Vista
Because I've seen benchmarks coming out showing Windows 7 not to be much quicker than vista in raw power, I thought it would be important for people to see why why 7 is indeed snappier than vista. It's not a placebo effect.
Gizmodo - Why Windows 7 Is Snappier Than Vista - windows 7
Most people will tell you that Windows 7 is snappier than Vista, even though the raw numbers say otherwise. But it's not in your head. Windows 7 is more responsive than Vista. Here's why.
I meant to post this a few days ago, but it fits in really nicely with our benchmark testing to explain what's going on under Windows 7's hood. Microsoft obviously focused a lot on the user experience in Windows 7, so a lot of work went into improving desktop responsivenesssmoothing out the little snags or hangs up that made people feel like Vista was too slow. Which is apparently a hard thing to do, since a million different things can cause slowdown. But the most frequent cause of hangups is a bottleneck caused by one graphics device interface applicationan app that taps your graphics cardwaiting on another GDI app that's being all slow and crappy.
In Vista, this could happen because the way the GDI was designed, a single app could hold a system-wide global lock, so apps running simultaneously constantly jockey for the lock in order to render on the screen, and if one asshole app doesn't let go, it screws every other app waiting in line. So Microsoft re-designed the way this stuff is orchestrated, so multiple apps can "reliably" render at the same time, meaning less bottlenecks. Besides improving reliability, the redesign actually improved performance with multiple GDI apps running simultaneously on multi-core processors, so you'll see real benefits from going multi-core, which no doubt makes Intel's Craig Barrett happy.
Oh yes, they also reduced the memory footprint, but anybody running Windows 7 already noticed this. So yes, Windows 7 really is more responsive, even if run-of-the-mill benchmarks can't exactly measure how that is.
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I'm not a great believer in benchmarks as such because imo you have to perform them on the same machine and I wonder if they performed the same tests on exactly the same system as they did vista.. It's a bit like asking one question to ten different psychologists, you'll get ten different answers. It's the same when they rate processors or gpu each and every one is in a different set up so it stands to reason results will vary.
But of course windows 7 is snappier and we know its not in the head because for those of us who have used both operating systems have probably used them on the same machine, well at least I have so any performance increase/decrease will be quantifiable because the hardware is exactly the same.
Thanks anyway.
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The suburb of Arakoon is a part of the larger town of South West Rocks which is towards the north of the state of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. Arakoon is actually said to have been the first settlement in the area, but South West Rocks grew larger and eventually swallowed it up. Most people choose to take their holidays in Arakoon because they love the idea of being in a quiet part of Australia that still has plenty to offer when it comes to activities to get involved in and places to visit. The self catering accommodation in Arakoon will have been vetted before being offered for rent through the public and this ensures you have all the facilities and comfort you will need for a fantastic stay in the area.
One of the biggest draws of your holiday in Arakoon is going to be the gorgeous, sandy beaches that can be found in this part of New South Wales. Here you can enjoy water-based activities such as swimming, snorkelling, jet-skiing, surfing, wind surfing, pleasure boat cruises, sailing, scuba diving and deep-sea fishing excursions are available for you to book yourself on from the harbour. Other more land-based pastimes include the likes of coastal walks, cycling and mountain biking, canoeing and there are even a couple of golf courses in and around Arakoon to keep you happy.
Whilst enjoying your holidays in Arakoon there are a couple of attractions close to home that you may wish to pay a visit. Firstly, you have The Smoky Cape Lighthouse which has been warding ships away from the dangers of the local rocks for many decades now; also Trial Bay Gaol is definitely well worth a look and here you will definitely learn a lot about the history of this part of Australia. For the shopaholics amongst you, fear not, as there is an excellent street lined with shops for you to explore at Prince of Wales of Avenue and there is also a relatively new shopping mall for you to investigate in South West Rocks known as The Rocks Shopping Fair. If you feel like travelling further afield for a day or two the cities of Newcastleand Port Macquarie might be good ideas for you; Sydney is a bit too far from this area for a day trip!
You can look forward to a glorious sub-tropical climate on your holidays in Arakoon, with temperatures remaining either mild or hot throughout the whole year. Temperatures between the months of June and August (the Australian winter) are around the high-teens degrees Celsius. From December until February, this is more likely to be around the mid- to high-twenties degrees. Arakoon receives quite a high rainfall, with well over 50 inches falling in any one year.
The airport at Sydney: Kingsford Smith (SYD), will always be the best bet from the UK to Australia. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic both have direct flights from London Heathrow (LHR). You would then need to arrange to collect a car from the airport for your long drive up to Arakoon.


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MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) - Wisconsin Congressman Tammy Baldwin is calling for an investigation into the vote count in Waukesha County.
Baldwin has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to assign the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section to the case. That unit handles federal prosecution of election crimes. The Justice Department hasn't agreed to take this on yet, but a spokesperson is quoted as saying it would review Baldwin's letter.
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus has blamed human error for the miscount. The late discovery of 14 thousand votes took a tight race and gave incumbent State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a 75 hundred vote lead.


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What Will Happen to the King Eddy Saloon?
What's in a name? For downtown's The King Eddy Saloon, perhaps everything - and nothing.
Often dubbed the last authentic dive bar in Los Angeles, the Skid Row staple is slowly preparing for a change of ownership, and that's got some folks nervous. Fans of the corner bar's grimy appeal are worried that new owners Michael Leko and Will Shamlian won't be as gentle with the aging space as time has been. Leko and Shamlian are in familiar territory with the purchase, having previously become partners in Library Bar, Pizzeria Urbano and a host of other revamped downtown spaces. For their part, Leko and Shamlian have expressed an interest to the LA Times and elsewhere that they would simply like to revive the sagging saloon with the purchase. If anything, it seems, the men would like to trade on its history against the backdrop of a revitalized downtown Los Angeles. What that means for the barstools and the patrons who frequent them remains to be seen. At least they're keeping the name.
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