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Jaybird 3.0.5 has been released.
The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.5.
This release is largely a bugfix release, but contains additional support for Firebird 3.0.4 and Firebird 4.
Jaybird 3.0.5 contains the following fixes and changes:
- Fixed:
FBManagerdoes not accept page size of 32768 (Firebird 4 and higher) (JDBC-468)
- Fixed: Jaybird cannot parse Firebird version numbers with revisions (JDBC-534)
- Fixed: Incorrect parsing of Firebird version numbers (JDBC-535)
- New feature: Added support for the Srp256 authentication plugin (JDBC-536)
- Fixed: Incorrect warning "Specified statement was not created by this connection" logged for statements that fail with an exception on prepare (JDBC-538)
- Fixed: Remote close of event channel (eg on Firebird server stop or crash) leads to high CPU usage and excessive error logging as socket channel is not removed from selector (JDBC-542)
- Fixed: Properties
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- Documentation: wire protocol encryption requires unlimited strength Cryptographic Jurisdiction Policy (or equivalent), this was previously not documented (JDBC-545)
See the Jaybird 3.0.5 release notes for more information. Jaybird 3.0.5 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.


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MCC art exhibit opens Nov. 20
Montcalm Community College presents its annual Winter Artists' Market art exhibit and sale Nov. 20-21, Nov. 27-30 and Dec. 4-7.
The exhibit features artwork created by MCC students, the MCC Art Club and local artists for viewing and for sale. The event is from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Instruction North Building on MCC's Sidney campus. Admission is free.
MCC students Makenna Anderson, of Howard City, and Sarah Rittersdorf, of Belding, are currently taking Introduction to Art with MCC Art Instructor Debbie Bell.
"I never had a chance to take an art class in high school, so I figured now would be the best time to get a good underlying base for my art education before I head off to a university," Anderson said.
Anderson is also in Drawing I with MCC Art Instructor Carolyn Johnson.
"As the K-12 curriculum gets narrower due to budget cuts and continuous standardized testing, MCC can be the open door to quality higher education in the arts," Johnson said.
"As time goes on, I see more and more students like Makenna who have not had access to art classes before coming to MCC," she added. "It's sad to see gifted and motivated students denied opportunities, but how wonderful that we have MCC to be a leader in arts education for our community."
Anderson and Rittersdorf both plan to create art for a living.
"Both student artists have had a passion for and interest in art prior to this class, but practice has helped them to see more and grow as artists," Bell said.
"I want to be an artist for a living, so putting my pieces in this exhibit will be a good experience," Rittersdorf said.
Anderson said the exhibit is also beneficial for the community.
"Art is such a wonderful thing," Anderson added. "I think the exhibit is a great way for others to experience art created by those in our community."
For more information about the exhibit, contact Johnson at email@example.com or (989) 328-1248.

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The Sweat Lodge, also known as, Temascal or Inipi, was developed to gather in a sacred ceremony before hunting, Sundance, vision quests, and as a way of life to connect with the Sacred Mystery. The intention is to clean the mind, the body, and be in balance within.
It is an ancient and pure medicine ceremony, a temple to honor the elements of earth, fire, water and air. An opportunity to experience a spiritual reunion with the creator and a respectful connection to the earth itself.
The Sweat Lodge is a small, round, closed structure, meticulously hand constructed with natural products. Red hot, fire heated, rocks are placed in the center pit where medicinal herbs are added. Water is poured over the rocks which produce steam that purifies and heals. The Shaman opens the ceremony with words of intention, rattle sounds, drum beats, songs, and pouring water over the heated rocks. The ceremony lasts four rounds, also known as "doors" representing the four directions - north, east, south and west. Each round consists of adding 7 heated rocks to the center of the lodge, gradually building heat. At the conclusion of the Sweat Lodge participants exit the lodge in silence.
To the Native Americans the Sweat Lodge symbolizes the womb of Grandmother Earth. The fire represents the opening of the Sacred Mystery, the source of all life and power. The 28 stones represent the bones of the earth, while the steam supports purification and healing. Entering the Sweat Lodge represents going into the womb, life's starting place, to be born again.
The ceremony begins with a fire ceremony followed by the Sweat Lodge. The ceremony lasts approximately 2-hours in total.
C a c a o C e r e m o n y
Cacao has been used in ancient ceremonies throughout the Americas for thousands of years. It has an active ingredient in it called theobromine — which can be translated to, 'Food of the Gods'.
It is said that the word cacao actually came from the Maya word Ka'kau, and the Maya word Chokola'j — which means to drink chocolate together.
Cacao comes from the cacao bean — which is also used to make chocolate. The cacao plant is seen as a medicinal plant, and has been used for a number of spiritual, medicinal and ceremonial purposes throughout history. Ritual cacao is made from mostly cacao beans, water, and cacao butter.
In ceremony, cacao is consumed in a warm liquid form out of a cup or mug, and typically has a bitter taste to it.
The cacao ceremony will involve sitting in a sacred circle, taking prayer, and setting intentions to be received. Gathering in a circle as one people, one nation to drink cacao, for some clans represents blood. This medicinal brew awakens our ancestral memory, honoring and remembering our ancestors. Cacao opens the spirit world. We travel this journey held by songs and ancestral sounds that help us look inside and open our heart to unconditional love.
Shamanic healing is one of the oldest holistic healing practices, which has been used by ancient cultures worldwide for centuries. Cacao ceremonies are actually a type of shamanic healing, but they don't have hallucinogenic or "out of body" effects, unlike some of the other shamanic experiences.
Cacao ceremonies are rooted in helping to re-balance the energies within us, and restore good health. For centuries, cacao has been used to heal the mental, physical, and spiritual body.
Native shamanic tools like drumming, feather cleansing, smudging, and shamanic sound journeys may be used in the ceremony. The ceremony lasts approximately 3-hours in total.


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Forbidden Broadway, Vols. 1-4 synopsis
Forbidden Broadway, Vols. 1-4 Synopsis - Broadway musicalRecord number 1 was without a number at the opening (it was added after the show has had subsequent versions). Gerard Alessandrini is the creator of the show, author of music, lyrics and dancing, and he also participated in several shows in this series as an actor. The first record came out in 1984 in New York, and it included parodies of such Broadway musicals like Evita, Annie, Amadeus, as well as on individual persons, Ethel Merman, Carol Channing were amongst them.
The second record came out in 1991 (at that time, already 3rd version of the show was produced), and according to the creator – Gerard Alessandrini – many fans asked for the release of music collection number two. As a result, he combines altogether things staged during 85, 86 & 90th & out them in one volume. Main parody in this collection: Into the Woods, Les Misérables & Sweeney Todd & of following personalities, amongst others: Madonna, Sondheim.
Though the third record was managed to release in 1994, it has been recorded in 1993. Again in New York City. At that point, the show of Gerard Alessandrini went for 12 years (or more precisely, its variations, not the original show), and he was thinking to give up production but, according to him, new musicals were asking themselves to be parodied. These included a parody of the Grand Hotel, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and such people: Michael Crawford, Dustin Hoffman and Ethel Merman, among others. Like the previous collections, it did not contain a record of all the actors of the original structure, and therefore has been flagged as not genuine.
Last here – part 4 – the only one among all the performances and parts, which did not contain the word "Broadway" in its name – it was replaced by the "Hollywood", which can be considered as creative experiment. It was dedicated exceptionally to movies parodies: Forrest Gump, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Pulp Fiction, Aladdin and others. And of their songs. In addition, it carefully walked amongst the stars of Hollywood: Keanu Reeves, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand and others. It was a bad release, because it has been criticized that Alessandrini sees in Hollywood his rival, not a partner in the common effort to make a show business and even that he did not understood well enough the intricacies to make a good parody. This recording came out only "occasionally funny". This release took place in 1995 and, unlike the previous ones, was not recorded in NY but in Hollywood. Phillip George, creative partner of Alessandrini, largely helped with the creation of this.
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J.Barba Painting is a professional painting and staining contractor based out of Missoula, Montana.
This is a web site to promote an interior and exterior painting business in Missoula, Montana.
Josh and Justin needed an updated look to their site, but didn't want to particularly change the appearance. They also needed the layout updated so that they could upgrade Wordpress as necessary.
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How copywriters and editors can foil the scammers
Wouldn't it be marvellous if there was a stealthy punctuation expert zipping around removing unnecessary apostrophes and commas? Wherever someone got a their, they're or there confused, Grammar Guy/Girl (delete as applicable) (GG for short) would leap into action.
Oh, my. It would be wonderful. GG would appear – pants on the outside, obvs – whenever grammar was mangled or jargon deployed. S/he would smite anyone who was reaching out, going forward or even actioning before close of play. (Special smiting for the architect of completioning.)
But sadly, GG has been reluctant to cast off the unassuming cardigan of alter-ego… until now that is.
Scammers are at large, trying to fool us into handing over our hard-earned by way of sneakiness and other underhand tactics. They don't have the decency to do it face-to-face. No. Instead, they sidle into our in-boxes and pretend to be someone they aren't.
However, they have a fatal weakness which, once revealed, means you will never fall for them again. They cannot punctuate, spell or lay out a communication properly. Even those who are especially sly will let themselves down by way of rogue capitalisation.
The truth is that only the good and just can walk the path of righteous grammar to the land of the correctly used Oxford comma. Those who are pure of heart will punctuate properly, be consistent in all matters and never, ever be tautologous. Forget cleanliness, it's punctiliousness that'll get you to heaven.
You honest and trust-worthy business types know what I'm talking about. It's your secret. The most important asset in your organisation is your copywriter, editor or similarly-titled person who guards your messages (adverts, content, websites, campaigns, yadda, yadda) with their life. They are your credibility.
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The Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), sponsored annually by the Special Database Commission of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), has brought together since 1986 researchers, students and professionals from Brazil and abroad, who present and discuss topics related to the last advances in the area. Traditionally, SBBD has gathered around 500 participants and is the largest event in Latin America for the presentation and discussion of research results related to the field of database.
- The first edition of SBBD takes place on April 11 and 12, 1986 at PUC-Rio. "A fundamental objective of the Symposium on Databases is the creation of a forum for the presentation and discussion of research, development and applications in the area of Databases, bringing together researchers and Brazilian professionals interested in the subject."
- Organizing committee:
- Josefino Cabral Melo Lima (PUC-RJ)
- Luciana Ferraz Thome (PUC-RJ)
- Maria Helena Braz (PUC-RJ)
- Rubens Nascimento Melo (PUC-RJ) – Coordinator
- Program Committee:
- Antonio Luiz Furtado (PUC-RJ)
- José Mauro V. Castilho (PUC-RJ)
- Léo Pini Magalhães (UNICAMP)
- Rubens Nascimento Melo (PUC-RJ) – Coordinator
- Sonia Sette (UFPe)
- Call for papers includes topics in Computer Graphics
- Invited speakers: Marco A. Casanova (IBM Scientific Center) and Léo Pini Magalhães (Unicamp)
- Organizing committee:
- José Mauro V. Castilho (UFRGS) – Coordinator
- Lia Goldstein Golendznier (UFRGS)
- Carla Dal Sasse Freitas (UFRGS)
- José Palazzo M. de Oliveira (UFRGS)
- Program Committee:
- José Mauro V. Castilho (UFRGS)
- Alberto Laender (UFMG)
- Anatélio Laschuk (UFRGS)
- Clésio S. dos Santos (UFRGS)
- Léo P. Magalhães (UNICAMP)
- Luciana Ferraz Thome (IME)
- Rosana Lanzelotte (UNICAMP)
- Rubens M. Melo (PUC-RJ)
- Sonia Sette (UFPE)
- Call for papers includes topics in Computer Graphics
- Project reports are included in the annals
- Best works published in the Brazilian Journal of Computing
- First call of tutorials (2 guests, 2 selected)
- CP includes the first foreign members
- CP meeting is held by teleconference
- SBBD starts to take place in the second semester (September)
- Mini courses are organized for the first time
- First published edition in partnership with SBES
- SBBD starts to take place in October
- The coordination of tutorials is established (Mário Nascimento)
- José Mauro Volkmer de Castilho Award for the best article is created (Souza & Sampaio, UFPb)
- Posthumous tribute paid to José Mauro Volkmer de Castilho and Lia Goldstein Golendziner
- Best article is published on SIGMOD Record
- The program includes international sessions
- The Steering Committee is created, formed by Karin Becker (PUC-RS), Marta L. Queirós Mattoso (COPPE / UFRJ), Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros (UNICAMP), Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (UFMG) and Vânia Vidal (UFC)
- The best article published on SIGMOD Record
- Articles Included in ACM SIGMOD Disc
- Tutorials committee is established, headed by Ana Carolina Salgado (UFPE) and formed by Berthier Ribeiro-Neto(UFMG), Carlos Heuser (UFRGS), Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros (UNICAMP), Marcus Sampaio (UFPB), Marina Pires Vieira (UFSCar) and Karin Ribeiro-Neto Becker (PUC-RS), Marta Mattoso (UFRJ), Sérgio Lifschitz (PUC-Rio) and Vânia Vidal (UFC)
- The best articles are published in JBCS, edition published in partnership with SBES
- Support from VLDB Endowment and ACM SIGMOD
- First edition of the Thesis and Dissertations Workshop on Databases (WTDBD).
- CP expands with strong internationalization
- Record number of submissions (112)
- Articles are indexed by DBLP and BDBComp
- Demos session takes place for the first time, coordinated by Carina Dorneles and Eduardo Kroth
- Tribute paid to Professor Antonio Furtado
- The best articles are published in Data & Knowledge Engineering special issue
- CP coordinated for the first time by a researcher from a foreign institution (Mário Nascimento)
- The best articles are published in the Journal of Systems and Software special issue, in partnership with SBES
- Record number of articles in English included in the program (19/24)
- The best articles are published in Information Systems (Elsevier)
- First edition of the Poster Session, coordinated by Renata Galante
- First edition of Women in Databases
- The Call for articles included two lines: research, and applications and experiences
- Top articles to be published in Information Systems (Elsevier), published in partnership with SBES
- Annals are published by the IEEE, through its Conference Publishing Services, with the articles available on IEEE digital libraries (IEEE Xplore, IEEE IEL, CSDL)
- SBBD annals are available on ACM digital library. Previously, they were published in ACM SIGMOD DiSC, which no longer exists
- SBBD is held in partnership with WebMedia, IHC and SBSC, and for the last time with SBES
- The best articles are published in the 2nd edition of JIDM – Journal of Information and Data Management, a publication of the SBC Special Database Commission
- The track format was modified in order to fall into four additional sessions: Core Database Foundations and Technology (Carlos A. Heuser – UFRGS), Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Caetano Traina – USP-SC), Knowledge Modeling and Management (Ana Carolina Salgado – UFPE), Management of Data and Information (Edleno Moura – UFAM)
- SBBD 25th anniversary celebration pays tribute to Rubens Melo (1st event coordinator and program committee) and Caetano Traina Jr (SBBD 25th Anniversary Highlights)
- Accepted papers are published in the October issue of JIDM (Journal of Information and Data Management)
- The program includes full articles only in English
- Published edition in partnership among WebMedia, IHC and SBSC
- Implementation of Minute Madness, a one-minute presentation for accepted papers as Demos and as Short Paper
- Submissions of videos for demonstrations are included
- SBBD Steering Committee members have the period of their terms changed: 2 years for senior members; 3 years for the JIDM editor; and 4 years for the other members
- Early release of the articles competing for the JMC Award
- Panel on Education in Databases, coordinated by prof. José M. M. de Oliveira (UFRGS)
- Published edition in partnership with SBSC
- SBBD Proceedings return
- First edition of the Context of Thesis and Dissertations in Databases, coordinated by prof. José M. M. de Oliveira (UFRGS)
- The tutorial coordinator is no longer the next year's program committee coordinator, which is now given to the coordinator of short papers
- Together with BRACIS and KDMile, the first KDD-BR competition is launched
- Two thematic Workshops were held:
- SBBD Dataset Showcase
- Databases meet Bioinformatics
- Coffee with the honored ones
- Meeting of the new participants of the event with the honored researcher of the 2017 edition for chatting and experience exchanging purposes, all around a coffee-break table specially set for this conversation
- SBBD Best Reviewer Award was implemented, which honored the best reviewer of the articles of the Symposium
- For the first time, a Distinguished Published Papers call was done for the SBBD
- SBBD took place in Rio during the weekend before the VLDB 2018. It was a pocket format, with no short courses.
- SBBD Best Student Paper Award was implemented with the goal of giving honor to the best paper presented by a student. The paper "PrivLBS: uma Abordagem para Preservação de Privacidade de Dados em Serviços Baseados em Localização", by Eduardo R.D. Neto, André L.C. Mendonça, Felipe T. Brito and Javam C. Machado was the winner of this first edition award.


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The way to Meet Women was launched on March seventh, 2000, by the now defunct Honest Don's record label (an imprint of Fats Wreck Chords ). Joey Cape, lead singer and songwriter for the punk band Lagwagon, produced the album. Public locations are a very good place to fulfill women however you'll have extra success when you suss out – BEFORE any contact (capitalised for emphasis, not shouting) – whether she might be receptive. Geneva's Kristin Higgins misses her final attempt within the Class 3A High Leap on the state women track and subject meet finals on Saturday at Jap Illinois College in Charleston.
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Asana has beefed up its workplace task management software to make it viable for enterprises with thousands of users.
Specifically, the product now features more comprehensive views across team projects for both business managers and employees, as well as stronger IT control and management capabilities.
With the new Team Browser feature, employees can get a single view of all the projects they're involved in, so that they can prioritize the tasks they need to do. This feature also lets managers see all the projects under way in the company.
New IT administration capabilities include the ability to monitor user activity, establish security and access policies and manage user accounts.
"This opens us up to companies of any size," said Kenny Van Zant, who is in charge of business and operations at Asana.
Asana was founded in 2009 on the belief that the key to workplace productivity is the management of tasks. It launched its product in 2011, and it was at that time limited to teams of 30 people. Later, it was improved to support teams of hundreds.
Despite the development of a variety of tools for knowledge workers over the past 30 years, organizations still rely mostly on email and on physical whiteboards and notebooks to capture tasks and track their team project workflows, he said.
For a variety of reasons, project management software, wikis, collaboration servers like SharePoint and enterprise social networking suites have all fallen short, he said.
"Starting with tasks is fundamental to solving this problem for real," Van Zant said.
The SaaS (software-as-a-service) application is free for teams of up to 15 members, and fee-based for larger teams. For example, it costs $800 per month for a 100-member team.
The enterprise features announced on Wednesday are part of the new Organizations tier.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is an Asana co-founder, and the company has raised almost $40 million in venture financing so far.


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NEW: Learning electronics? Ask your questions on the new Electronics Questions & Answers site hosted by CircuitLab.
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May 13, 2009
by tony
I am have been brewing beer for some time. I need to accurately control the temp of a mini frig to keep my kegs at the right temp. I have seen the Freezer set up you elude to on this site. Can you please list some of the parts you used to control your temp?
May 19, 2009
by mrobbins
(NerdKits Staff)
Hi Tony,
We used the LM34 that we include with the kit, and we also used a relay to switch the compressor on and off. There was additionally a 2N7000 to drive the relay coil, like we show in the Servo Squirter That's really it!
One of the important concepts is hysteresis -- the idea of having a "dead zone" near your desired operating point where your controller simply refuses to change its current state. Because the temperature sensor data comes in with some noise, if you're trying to maintain 39 degrees in your fridge, you don't want it to keep switching the compressor on and off every time it's 0.1 degrees higher or lower! (If it did that, you would quickly burn out the compressor.)
So instead of picking one temperature to maintain, you basically pick two temperatures, maybe 38 and 40 degrees. The compressor turns on when the measured temperature is greater than 40 degrees. The compressor turns off when the measured temperature is below 38 degrees. But between 38 and 40, it will simply remember it's current on/off state, and won't change it. You have to adjust this hysteresis width (here 40-38 = 2 degrees) depending on the noise level, the "inertia" of the system (how slow it is for temperature to respond with time), and how often you want to be restarting your compressor.
Hope that makes sense.
May 19, 2009
by tony
Mike thanks for the help and the explanation. Sorry I've taken so long to come back but summer classes are gearing up...
One more question, when choosing a relay what should one consider?
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Volotea, the airline of mid and small-sized European cities, has reached its 20 million passenger carried since its operations started in 2012.
Volotea has reached its 20 million passengers carried since 2012. The passenger, Laurent Lannou, was flying from Bordeaux to Majorca and was awarded with a year-long free flights prize to any destination from Bordeaux.
The airline reaches this mark after carrying more than three and a half million passengers between last June and September, with an average 95% load factor.
Volotea has carried 20 million passengers and will operate more than 44,000 flights this year. The airline has more than 30 aircraft on its fleet and operates a total of 293 routes in 2018 connecting 78 European cities in 13 countries, including: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Albania, Portugal, Malta, Austria, Ireland and Luxembourg. Volotea grows profitably since 2014 and has employed more than 1,000 people this year.
Volotea's Growth
Volotea has carried 20 million passengers since its first flight in 2012 and more than 4.8 million in 2017.
In 2018, Volotea has opened 58 new routes to serve a lineup of 293 routes, operating flights to 78 mid and small-sized European cities in 13 countries: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Albania, Portugal, Malta, Austria, Ireland and Luxembourg. The airline expects to carry between 5.7m and 6.0 passengers at the end of 2018.
Volotea has currently twelve bases: Venice, Nantes, Bordeaux, Palermo, Strasbourg, Asturias, Verona, Toulouse, Genoa, Bilbao, Marseille and Athens. These last three have been inaugurated recently in 2018. Volotea will inaugurate a new base in Cagliari.
Volotea employs over 1,000 people in summer 2018, a year in which it added 250 new positions.
In 2018, Volotea operates its network with 32 aircraft, Boeing 717s and Airbus A319s. Both models are recognized for their comfort and reliability, with Volotea offering reclining seats which are 5% wider than the average in airlines.
The Airbus A319 is the aircraft model selected for its future growth and will allow the company to increase its passenger capacity by 20% to 150 seats and to serve longer routes.
Top Copyright Photo (all others by Volotea): Volotea Boeing 717-2BL EI-FCU (msn 55190) PMI (Ton Jochems). Image: 943837.
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Debt And Departure
By: Robert H.
So there's a mixed bag of good news and bad, Grifters fans. First, some bad: word has it that the Grifters are, at least, temporarily, on hold, if not permanently disbanded. Dave Shouse evidently feels that his songwriting is going in a direction other than that of the band and so wants to spend at least a little time doing his own thing. The good news, however, is that his new project, Those Bastard Souls, carries the Grifters banner with a great deal of the old character, retaining much of the familiar but unusual tone that made the Memphis band great.
Appropriate to Shouse's purpose, the songs themselves are more foregrounded on Debt and Departure than they tended to be on the Grifters' albums. While a Grifters tune might feel like several complete songs splashing into each other in a confluence of sounds, Those Bastard Souls strive to hone and perfect one good song. The result is a less busy sound, but one that is hauntingly compelling nonetheless. The second track of the album, "Telegram", is probably the best song Shouse has ever written and provides reason enough, in my book, to have the album. The lyrics are dead-on depictions of post-relationship wanderings and longings, focusing alternately on backyard images, gin hopes, and "three words/that never left me/'cause I thought they never could." The arrangement progresses from acoustic rhythm guitars, to violin, to distorted guitars, and back to violins, all the while over a piano bass line: it accomplishes diachronically what Grifters songs did synchronically, and the result is unmistakable perfection. But Those Bastard Souls doesn't reach this peak again, and the result is that the album feels a little spotty. Many of the other songs are more straightforward, gritty, and blues-influenced pop songs that feature one driving catch. The title track is an exception and deserves to share space with "Telegram." Once again, the lyrics keep us grounded "and the pale half-moon hangs overhead/as if half way between all or nothing/should count for something", and the song develops its energy alongside the narrative desperation.
When Those Bastard Souls shines, it is because of a tension building over the length of a song that finds vent in a cathartic crescendo, finally tapering to a reflective aftermath. Songs like "Up to You", "The Wake of Your Flood" and "Spaced Out" (a toned-down reprise from Full Blown Possession) near success with this formula, but don't quite reach the complex heights for one reason or another. (Now and again, Shouse gets a little over-ambitious lyrically: "I'm restless/like a compass/just before the earth splinters and burns." A danger for the poetically inclined. Other times, there's just not enough development in the melodic structure of the song.)
Those Bastard Souls is best when it's mellow and precisely orchestrated. Heavier tunes such as "Train from Terminal Boredom" and "Curious State" will leave Grifters fans wistful. The fact is, about half the songs on this album cry out for that extra layer of sound and twist the Grifters were so good at placing. They are good songs, but they are not what they could be. (They miss, actually, some of the slop that made the Grifters songs so engaging.) So, while I hope Shouse continues in his current direction, I also hope he recognizes that he is still writing quite a few Grifters songs and that for those, no one does it better than his old band.


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The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 has now been posted. The dialog of representative government as started with enlightenment on what is important to a different interest. Coincidentally, this act is directly applicable to the principle of aggressive private-to-private collaboration with public participation. The act 'could' significantly help our cyber-security capabilities OR it could dramatically hurt the successful International collaboration has been gaining momentum.
The act follows a model of US Government centered public-private partnership. "Public-private partnership" is a phrase used frequently when a policy maker has no other capable recommendation. When pressed to elaborate what is meant by public-private partnership, the answers are non-specific with a core theme of private industry informing the government about the threat, providing data on the threat, and giving them their analysis on the threat. In essence, the term "public-private" partnership describes a relationship where private industry has to feed information into the government. Here lies the problem. Private industry has no sustainable interest in a one-way partnership.
Over the past decade, cyber-security public-private partnership has not delivered results. We have learned public-private partnership does NOT lead to action. Without action, there is no progress in our endeavors to strengthen our cyber-security posture. Our experience in operations ranging from Conficker, to Coreflood, to Waldec, to Auora have all shown that "public-private" partnership which is driven by one government was never a driving factor for action. It does not mean that Public-Private Partnership is a broken (watch for the next article in the series). It just means that public-private partnership is limited – for which the industry has found ways to compensate for those limitations with aggressive private industry to private industry collaboration before governments (in plural) are pulled into the investigation.
Quietly and successfully, the industry has found that the prerequisite to action is an environment for which private industry collaborates with each other in ways that benefit their mutual defense. Private-to-Private collaboration has always been the first step to our cyber-security takedowns. Postmortems on all the successful malware takedowns uncover that the first phases of the operation are always private industry collaboration. Private industry uses their resources to map out the crime, scope the threat, and determine a proposed plan of action. This investigation leads to enough information to reach out to the appropriate public partners (in plural) to launch an official investigation. These public partners are plural with law enforcement agencies in several countries.
Private industry collaboration for their collective defense is increasing. The dialog is already reaching legislators to find the balance between industry – as part of cyber-civic society – to be able to protect itself and the interest of the public to insure private industry is not violating collusive trade practices. As in the past, this dialog for balance takes time, but should not be an impediment to progress. Hundreds of billions in loss to cyber-security activities demands industry response. 2012 is the year where collective self-interest leads to a persistent principle of collective self-defense as a persistent value on the Internet.
Does the industry need new legislation to facilitate aggressive private-to-private collaboration? Yes & No. Existing contract law provides many tools required to facilitate this sort of collaboration. So, the industry would continue forward using the existing laws and build new contracts that facilitate the "peering" of security information. Yet, collaborative investigations would be easier if there was better clarity in the laws. It will remain to be seen if the final evolution of a new Cybersecurity Act would foster private industry collaboration or put limitations that prevent effective action.
What Can My Organization Do Now?
"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is…" everyone on the Internet who I collaborate with in our mutual self-defense. No Yoda did not say that in Star Wars, but the point is valid. Organizations of any size – even someone's broadband connection at home – can collaborate with everyone else to make a difference.
Jump into private industry collaboration! All legitimate organizations on the Internet can contribute to the "make the Internet safer" cause while benefiting from their contributions. The next article will walk through some of the options available to join the private industry collaboration. What will it cost? Time and effort with NO need to buy any new equipment!


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Current Account Balance (cab)
Whether it's a whole country or just you and me, CAB is the amount of money going out subtracted from the amount of money coming in. When it comes to national economies, the CAB is the truest indicator of economic well-being if viewed over a reasonable length of time. It's also the least-reported statistic in Canada. While StatsCan is willing to tell us that we have a trade surplus, and the corporations use it to convince us that the economy is performing well even though we have a huge public deficit and too much unemployment, we never hear a word about the woeful condition of our national CAB. If we did, we'd figure out that the outflow of profits to offshore corporations have been impoverishing the country for the last 15 years, and have made Canadian governments incapable of paying off debts. Try to extract the numbers on this out of StatsCan.


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My Dearest F#cking Phone Eef Hilgers
Claudia is 14 and doesn't think she's photogenic. Every day her friends post pretty photos of themselves on the Web. A major part of these girls' lives happens on the social networks, where it's all about how many friends you have and how many likes you get for your selfie.


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"I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents.
— Homosexual fashion designer Stefano Gabbana
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Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria gave birth to her first child Thursday, a baby girl who will one day become queen, prompting banner headlines and 21-gun salutes across the country.
The news gave the royal family a respite from the negative headlines that have dogged King Carl XVI Gustaf, Victoria's father, after a 2010 book made scandalous claims about his private life.
The girl, who is second in line to the Swedish throne, was born at 4:26 a.m. (0326 GMT), said Victoria's husband, Prince Daniel. She was 20 inches (51 cms) long and weighed 7.23 pounds (3.28 kg).
Both the crown princess and the baby are "doing very well," an emotional Daniel told reporters who had waited for the announcement all night at the Karolinska University Hospital in the Stockholm suburb of Solna.
"My feelings are a bit all over the place," he said, switching to English mid-sentence.
"When I left the room, the little princess was sleeping on her mother's chest and they were looking very cozy," he continued in Swedish, folding his arms as if cradling a baby.
Victoria, 34, is next in line to the throne held by her father since 1973. Sweden changed the constitution in 1980, three years after Victoria was born, to allow the eldest heir to inherit the throne regardless of gender. Before that female heirs were excluded.
Victoria married Daniel, 38, a commoner and her former personal trainer, in June 2010.
Swedish media proclaimed the royal birth with bold headlines and live broadcasts Thursday from the hospital, where dozens of reporters gathered after the Royal Court confirmed after midnight that Victoria had checked into the hospital.
The court announced the birth on its website and on its Facebook page, where it also published the first picture of the couple carrying the newborn in a baby carrier. It said the family returned to Haga Castle later Thursday and the king plans to announce the girl's name at a ceremony Friday.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt congratulated the couple, noting that Sweden stands before "a new era of queens." Sweden's last female monarch was Queen Ulrika Eleonora, who ruled for just one year until 1720.
As is custom when an heir to the throne is born, the Swedish Armed Forces celebrated the news with two 21-gun salutes at noon in Stockholm and other cities.
Like in neighboring Scandinavian countries, Sweden's monarch is primarily a figurehead, representing the country as the head of state but with powers limited to ceremonial functions. One of the Swedish monarch's most prominent duties is to hand out the prestigious Nobel Prizes at an annual awards ceremony in December.
Victoria is widely admired by Swedes for being down-to-earth and unassuming. She and Prince Daniel have often ventured out of their lakeside palace for a stroll in a nearby park, abeit with security guards in tow.
Dr. Lennart Nordstrom, who was present during the delivery, said the royal couple had requested that they not receive any special treatment.
"Both the crown princess and Daniel have been adamant that they should receive the same care as everyone else," Nordstrom told The Associated Press, adding there were no complications during the delivery.
The popularity of the royal family in general and Victoria in particular helps explain why the centuries-old monarchy has survived even though the concept of inherited privilege runs counter to the egalitarian character of modern Swedish society.
Voices calling for a republic have been emboldened, however, following an unauthorized biography of the king in 2010 that claimed he had seedy nightclub visits and an extramarital affair.
A close friend of the king caused him further embarrassment when he was caught on tape negotiating with mobsters in an apparent attempt to keep unflattering information about the king's entourage from the public.
The Swedish Republican Association, which calls for the monarchy to be abolished, sent its congratulations to Victoria and Daniel while still urging Parliament to change the constitution "for the good of the child and of Sweden."
The Swedish monarchy rests on traditions stretching back to the end of the Viking age more than 1,000 years ago. The current dynasty, however, was founded in 1810, when French marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was elected as successor to the throne.
Associated Press writer Karl Ritter contributed to this report.
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Ad's Thoughts and Practices
Attention: Fragile
Ad Reinhardt would willingly agree: it is easier to talk about his paintings in negatives than in positives. Easier to say what it is not than to say what it is. Easier and, perhaps, more appropriate, more pertinent. In fact, Reinhardt never hid the fact that the power of negation that inhabits art and gives it its resilience was highly important to him, and exclusively so ("Negative and positive aren't good terms. I would stay with the negative all the time.").
In the Anxious Object, Harold Rosenberg reports that during the exhibition Americans 1963 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, it was necessary to rope off Reinhardt's monochrome paintings to keep visitors at a distance and prevent any attacks. But "attack" in what sense? An attack against him or against what, an attack from where, by whom, with what? An attack by the public on the paintings, of which the extreme material fragility could only exasperate, make even more unacceptable the intentions that they seem to obey, and which this same public could only perceive as a provocation susceptible to arouse in it a resistance that could go as far as physical rejection? Or, as Rosenberg would have it, an attack devised by the painting itself against a public that had to be prevented from looking too closely to better protect it from the consequences of such a violation and of such rage: a public itself, as well, obviously fragile, despite the repeated shocks to which it had nonetheless been exposed for half a century.
Twenty or 30 years later, Reinhardt's paintings have scarcely lost their virulence. But this virulence has shifted as the context changed. It is even more remarkable to observe, retrospectively, that Rosenberg's critique, originally published in the New Yorker, participates with the same violence as that which he denounces in Reinhardt, a violence that he did not hesitate to characterize as political to try to turn it against itself. But he had well understood that Reinhardt's art targeted in fact less the public than his painter colleagues, and that here it was an art for in-house use, an art—according to Nietzsche's wish—"for artists" but which was, actually, neither clear nor lighthearted (which is not to say, as Reinhardt's writings show, that he disallowed humor). What Rosenberg citing Lenin: "the enemy is amongst us" could not forgive Reinhardt for was having shattered the appearance of solidarity, of complicity, that had developed amongst the disciples of Abstract Expressionism in the face of the public's indifference or animosity, and to have brought the battle into the field of art itself: as though the artists had no other nor worse enemy than their peers, which everyone knows but which obviously should not be stated.
The "communion"—the word he uses—of which Rosenberg speaks in all seriousness, that communion was itself singularly fragile, so much so that it needed nothing more to put it in danger—or call it into question—than some paintings in which color had turned to black and which Reinhardt, renewing with the common ground of the avant-garde, did not hesitate to qualify as "ultimate."
There was nothing, if not at first glance at least with the initial impression, particularly new about this operation. Forty years before, Rodchenko had already exhibited three monochrome panels, a red, a blue, and a yellow one, and announced at the same time the end of painting: "Here we have the three primary colors. Every plane is a discrete plane and there will no longer be any representation." The critic Nikolai Tarabukin quickly took it at its word: "Each time that a painter has wanted to try to cast aside representation, he could only do so at the price of a painting's destruction and his own suicide as a painter." Without seeing the contradiction, the same Tarabukin would no less request that the Tretiakov Gallery, presumed to present an exhaustive image of the developments in contemporary art, purchase one of these paintings (in this case the red one, fittingly). A painting that while being the "last" was no less called upon, according to him, to mark a stage in the history of art, to "make history." But, the terms "ultimate," or "last," do not have here the meaning generally given to them in this case.
As Reinhardt would state—to be understood in the Nietzschean perspective of an "eternal return" or that of the "eternal present of art" of which the painter speaks—"it is always the end of art." Just as there is no first beginning, there is no final end; the end, like the beginning, always precedes itself and if it gives rise to repetition, it is because it is always already here. In this sense, we have some right to maintain that Rodchenko "repeats" Reinhardt as much as Reinhardt "repeats" Rodchenko.
What has been called the modern effort involved a sort of going back to the source, the bases themselves of art, to its origin if not its essence, and not the addition of a new branch to an old, already well-endowed tree, but—drawing on the words of Walter Gropius—"a new shoot growing from the root": an offshoot. Rodchenko triptych (triptych, I emphasize, because there cannot be a "last" painting. The "last" painting is necessarily several, and at least three, like the colors called "primary," or multiple, as was Rodcheko's triptych. Uniformly black, at least upon first glance, Reinhardt's first 1960 black painting cannot be called the "last" painting either. Rodchenko's triptych demonstrates that going back to the primary components of painting (the colors, but just as much the support) coincides with the end of the historic cycle of the form called "picture," to the extent that it supposes the putting into brackets of any circumstantial determination or a reduction, in the phenomenological sense of the term, and which being pushed to its conclusion, amounts to putting it out of play.
The first word in painting, for as much as it is truly radical, will also be the last. And "offshoot" should be understood here with a double meaning: that of positive, of a new departure, from the roots, and that of negative, of a rejection of any extended match ("No chess-playing"). But a double negative makes a positive. The mistake would be to want to judge in terms of history a process that, all said and done, falls into the realm of the subconscious: the compulsion for repetition, Freud's Wiederholungszwang, as it finds its illustration in the field of art, and—a fortiori—in that of modern art, modernity caught in its trap and reduced to undermining, through the denial mode, its own end.
In 1923, art could dream of abandoning itself in the production circuit. Forty years later, after having been able to consider at leisure to what would have led the watchword of a politicization of art that Walter Benjamin thought could challenge the fascist one of estheticization of politics, Reinhardt will repeat the operation, but from an exactly opposite perspective and in order to affirm on the contrary the absolute autonomy of art, through the itself repetitive tautology art as art as art... ("The only revolution in art, eternal and permanent, is still the refusal to use art for any ends except its own.")
All this would be nothing without Reinhardt's painting. Lawrence Alloway and others have shown what art called minimal or art called conceptual could both owe to Reinhardt's "example." However, it is possible that, here again, we are taken in by a retrospective illusion—a moreover inevitable illusion, even a necessary one if the word "history" is to have a meaning and something like "history of art" proves to be thinkable. Indeed, paradox would have it that, those paintings that have nothing to do with either automatism or chance, those paintings that we call monochromes, based on a schema as simple and methodical as that of a cross marked into and dividing a square into nine equal squares can obey an explicit program that just comes down to the hand to execute without changing anything a schema, nonetheless still originate from the material organization that is part of painting. There is no doubt that here art no longer accords anything to representation in way: the shift to black aimed at nothing other for Reinhardt, than denying the canvas its quality as a screen, and forestalling any idea of projection as much as any possibility of distinguishing between any forms (not even that of the cross) and the background on which they figure ("Black is negation"). In the all black canvas nothing can happen that results from painting itself in the physical sense of the term. Starting with the braided effect that, in the absence of any contrast of colors, is engendered only by the juxtaposition of squares of the same color (or the same absence of color) but pushed to different degrees of intensity—rather than value—and not without their relative brilliance or matte quality playing their role, excepting any regard for texture or "impasto."
Such an effect is linked in principle to a type of pictorial work that, as strictly deliberated as it may be, still breaks with modernity's program on a decisive point: there where modernity would distinguish itself in painting, by a practice based on the flat area of color, the juxtaposition within the plane, the strokes or pictorial units, the simultaneous contrast, a practice without top or bottom.
Reinhardt went back in his manner to the traditional practice of base coats, transparence and glazing. Hence the extreme fragility of his canvases, protected by no varnish. Hence, as well, the near impossibility to reproduce them, which delighted him and which corresponded to one of the articles of his own program. An art that is not dependent on the techniques of reproduction nor in their service, but chooses to "repeat" itself to better escape the obsession with context. Have we ourselves become so fragile and so little reassured about our cultural situation that we have to call upon history and ideological critique to defend us against the possibility of a return amongst us of art of a nature that owes nothing except to itself and has nothing, necessarily, "amicable" (as Hegel understood the word), instead of doing our period of mourning and moving on to something else, or preparing, on the contrary, this return and preparing ourselves for it?
The last word must always be secretly the first.
Translated from the French by Sandra Bieniek. Originally printed in the exhibition catalogue Art Minimal II. De la surface au plan (CAPC Museé d'Art Contemporain Bordeaux, 1987).
ContributorHubert Damisch
HUBERT DAMISCH is a French philosopher.
Elaine Reichek: Material GirlBy Norman L Kleeblatt
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Elaine Reichek scavenges among sources from literature, history, mythology, and art, fabricating images and texts she transforms into textiles. Trained as a painter by avant-garde, intellectually rigorous icons, notably Ad Reinhardt, her career has been defined by her strategic use of the textile mediuma feminist, postmodern strategy.


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The Gallifreyan Gazette Pages
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Details and Cover For Doctor Who Magazine Issue 501 Tom Baker Special
Out now in the UK is issue 501 of Doctor Who Magazine. It is another special issue as it is devoted to the 4th Doctor Tom Baker. They are billing it as his last interview so this may be one to go out and get.
Following the spectacular 500th issue, Doctor Who Magazine is continuing its celebrations with an issue dedicated entirely to Tom Baker and the Fourth Doctor's era of Doctor Who.
Tom Baker: The Ultimate Interview is an extravaganza split into several gripping parts, in which Tom talks about life, death and, of course, Doctor Who…
"Life is too short to be dull. Be interesting. Because not very much else matters does it? In large areas of our lives, hardly anything matters at all. I mean, nothing can beat being with loving friends, and a few wines, and a few beers, and a few lies, and a few yarns. And to still be adored after 40-odd years… yeah that's the life. Maybe I'm the longest-serving actor, in the whole history of actors, who's actually still, 40-odd years later, adored for the same part and enjoying it in the same way. When I get sent messages from middle-aged men… or from the wives of middle-aged men, who say, 'Tell Mr Baker he cannot imagine how important he was to my beloved husband when he was a boy'… it moves me deeply to think about it. I was just going to work. I didn't know, to begin with, how far-reaching this role would be. I was aware of the excitement, and the generosity, and the affection of the fans, but how could I ever have dreamed of all this?"
The interview extravaganza is split into seven gripping parts: The Unbreakable Tom Baker, The Insatiable Tom Baker, The Impeccable Tom Baker (with June Hudson), The Irrepressible Tom Baker, The Unstoppable Tom Baker (with Louise Jameson, John Leeson and Geoffrey Beevers), The Unforgettable Tom Baker and The Irreplaceable Tom Baker.
Also featured in the magazine is Part One of brand-new comic strip The Pestilent Heart, an extended Gallifrey Guardian reporting on the latest news from the set of the new series, and DWM's Issue 500 celebrations, competitions and the much-anticipated Cave of 500 Eyes answers.
The collectable souvenir edition, available from 30 June and priced £5.99, comes in a polybag containing four amazing art cards, two classic mini-posters, and a massive multi-Doctor poster.
Doctor Who Magazine 501 is on sale from Thursday 30 June 2016, price £5.99.
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Sunday, 20 May 2018
How to make Bouillabaisse.
There is more rubbish spoken about the recipe for Bouillabaisse, than there is even for Cassoulet.
To add to all this rubbish here is the 100% authentic version; complete with the accent required to make it. I don't seem able to post the video itself, but just click on the link.... you won't be sorry!
You can't argue with this bloke....Enjoy.
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The photo looks more like a proper meal than a soup.ReplyDelete
Oh, maybe that's what bouillabaisse is all about...
I didn't go to the link, pressed for time today at the computer.
It's both; you start with the soup, then finish with the fish etc.Delete
I saw Rick Stein do a Cassoulet the other night on his old French barge trip. He made it look and sound very simple. Perhaps I will see him do a bouillabaissse when he reaches Marseille.ReplyDeleteReplies
Specialites de Marseille.I love it.ReplyDeleteReplies
They were all drinking Pastis, and no doubt all played Pétanque afterwards.Delete
What is the milky looking liquid they are drinking in the tiny glass?ReplyDelete
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Pastis; the drink of Marseilles. Lovely in Summer.Delete
Reminded me of eating bouillabaisse in Marseilles when I went on the "exchange" with Vincent in the late 50's.ReplyDeleteReplies
I was tempted to order one after reading a poem called Bouillabaise. It came in a big pot like you'd use for an indoor plant. It was hot and filling. Ideal on a winters day.ReplyDeleteReplies
They can be very different, from left-over cheap fish with a few spuds, to a selection of exotic fish with a variety of seasonal vegetables.Delete
Sorry Cro - I love fish and eat a lot of it - but my fishmonger deals with heads and tails. I can't bear the guilt of eatinc a fish with its accusing eyes looking at me.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous20 May 2018 at 10:55
"Guilt"? My mother (about your age) used to suck the eyes out of fish served whole. Which made my father's [eyes] roll; her children torn between admiring her audacity or plain recoil.Delete
I never bother what food looks like; for me it's only what it tastes like.Delete
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Does that mean you can only see the video if you have a facebook account? I didn't know. Sorry.Delete
Haha, this is great! All the modern shows with hipster men bonding over the cooking pot seem so contrived when you see this. All you need for a proper meal is one guy in charge to shake the pot and a gang of sous-chefs to smoke, drink and make agreeable noises around you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Exactly. A wonderful glimpse of everyday life in Marseilles. And what an accent!Delete


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Jumbo LED
I decided to create a Jumbo LED for the Element14 "A Question of Scale" Project14 challenge. I ordered some 10W Red LEDs from AliExpress, some silver and gold filament from Rigid Ink and found a dome in the junk section at IKEA.
The legs were designed in Fusion360, thanks to Enrico Miglino for reminding me that the anode (positive) leg is a bit longer than the cathode (negative) one. I decided to print in silver as I had more of that.
Printing Challenges
The legs were right on the limits of the printer bed and due to a slight misalignment of the
The base also caused a problem. I'd added the stepped part to the legs which
The models can be found on the Workshopshed Github. At the time of writing the base has not been fixed up and needs splitting in 2.
Nothing much here, just a series resistor and a 12v power supply. I've not actually checked the forward voltage of the LED so the resistor was selected based on a value that was not blinding when testing. The LED module was soldered to some stiff copper wires to look like the bonding wires used for the semiconductor. I used the thickest flexible wire I had to hand but even that looks dwarfed by the other components. I'll see if I can get some scale wire to improve the look.
Have you made anything in giant scale? Let us know in the comments below.
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I love it. Great idea.


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The New Year always feels the same. As December draws to a close, we contemplate the past 12 months with a mixed bag of emotions — pride in long-sought accomplishment and disappointment with a loss of a job, poor test grades, or growing distance between friends. Setbacks are an important part of life, but you don't have to let them drag down your morale for long. Home repair and renovation is a great way to boost yourself out of a funk. Even simple home habits such as keeping flowers on the table or adding new pictures around the house can contribute in overwhelmingly positive ways to your mood. The best part of home improvement planning is that many of the fixes you might hope to make can be done on your own or with the help of a general contractor. Reach out to friends or small businesses to find the right commercial construction company for major repairs like a foundation maintenance, installing vinyl siding, or other work your home needs.
As December approaches this year, think about some home improvement projects that are long overdue in your own home. Re-evaluate that list of fixes you hope to make and dedicate yourself to tackling a few — or even all of them — and start the new year with a fresh outlook and a more modern home environment that gives you joy to return home to every day.
Jump-start your home improvement goals
If you have a list of fixes you'd like to make but are unsure about how to achieve them – or are just approaching the idea of making some updates to your home, then a trip to a home design center may be the best first step for you. For the unfamiliar, home design centers are dedicated showrooms that display models of flooring options, paint samples, window choices, and even drapery and wall paper options.
A visit to your local showroom can be much needed help in visualizing the renovations you hope to make in your home. Color, style, and even layout design is hard for many of us to see in our living space. Most homeowners are so accustomed to the way it has always been that they can't picture the changes they want to make — even with a vague idea of how they want to remodel. A trip to the showroom can ease this mental block completely. Not only will you see splashes of color and artistic flourish at every turn, you can compare design elements and price in a way that cannot be done with simple online searches. The best way to decipher your preference between hardwood flooring and carpet — feel them, walk around in shoes, socks, sit down on each flooring choice. At a showroom, you can "test drive" some of the features you are considering adding to your living space.
Tackle big problems before they spread
Some troubles that creep up on us in our homes are simply too difficult or skill oriented to address on our own. For issues such as air conditioning or foundation repair, the most important thing you can do is not to delay. By waiting to call a professional, you will only make matters worse.
These troubles can sometimes present themselves as regionally specific issues, but they aren't confined to one location by any stretch of the imagination. Searching for an HVAC contractor in Cumming, GA, is a routine search for the residents of this north Georgia community, where the summertime is blistering and temperatures in the winter drop into freezing. AC units are pushed for all they are worth here, but communities like this exist all around the country — and air conditioning repair is certainly not confined to residents of the southern states. General temperature fluctuations sharing striking similarity exist in New York, Seattle, and Texas, to name a few. The only difference is the elements that attack your exterior devices while you sit comfortably indoors basking in your home's climate control capabilities. In fact, while the typical air conditioning equipment that sits outside your home now is likely estimated to last for 15 to 20 years, it has and will continue to require routine maintenance to run at all. As well, experts recommend considering your options for replacement with a new, more efficient model after just 10 years.
While we often think about AC troubles affecting Southerners, it is often assumed that slushy conditions in the north are to blame for foundation problems in homes. Home foundation repair in Stow, OH, for instance, is a routine project for many locals. This affects Americans all over the country, however. Foundation damage is caused by expansive soil movement that occurs with high presence of moisture in the ground. Snow can contribute to these troubles, but so can rain or even tectonic activity that is a feature of California suburbs.
Foundation damage can represent more than a simple home repair, though. Homes with foundation damage have historically had a hard time selling, and often lose value exponentially as the problem gets worse. This is one fix you will want to make immediately if you find yourself facing a cracked or degraded foundation. Beyond that, foundation damage can permit water into your home, bringing even more damage to walls, flooring, furniture, and the very stability of your home.
Commit to vanity improvements, too
Not all repairs or upgrades in your home will constitute immediately essential fixes like a broken window or cracked foundation. That doesn't mean that these aren't important though. Aesthetic improvements to your home are a great way to improve your mood or boost the value of your asset if you are planning to sell your house. Minor home improvement projects like new indoor paint or replacement tile in the kitchen can freshen up the monotony of your home life, but major bathroom remodeling projects or installing new kitchen counters can serve to drastically change the feel and modernization of your home. Bathroom updates can take many forms. You can tear out the entire room and build it back from scratch, or simply install new hardware to fit your style. No matter the changes you hope to make, a fresh bathroom always makes a great impression on your attitude and morning ritual. You spend a significant amount of your day in the bathroom, either getting ready to go out for the day or cleaning up at the end of one – make the bathroom your space with a little personal flair and style.
Another important addition to your to do list is exterior painting. This is another big job that must be tackled regularly and can vary wildly in frequency as well. Exterior house painting in Massachusetts, for instance, is an often-needed update because of the proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and harsh environmental changes that occur throughout the yearly weather cycle. Five to seven years is normal in New England, whereas in central Texas, the need for a fresh coat of paint may be more spread out across the lifetime of your residence, requiring a new coat every 10 or 12 years.
No matter where you live, home improvement projects are a constant surprise for those who aren't keeping a watchful eye on the status of their home's structural features. Make sure to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to roofing and structural repairs, painting, interior designs, and air conditioning unit integrity. By keeping up with your home's ever-changing needs, you will always find yourself well-equipped to solve whatever issue arises in your home next. It's a constant battle, but one that can be won easily with just a little diligence.


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Martin Gude's report in the January issue (of the "Jaguar Enthusiast", '09) on the US Route 66 tour brought back many wonderful memories of my trip the length of that fabled road, one of the last that could be made. Spring of '57, my first year at college, I fulfilled the goal I'd formed when I first saw the MGTCs that the GIs were bringing back after the war. (The later XK120s were out of my price range.) Regrettably, soon after purchase, something locked up in the front end and I flipped over. That summer, while a few friends and I were putting the TC back together, a man in our Chicagosuburb offered his Mark IV drophead for sale. I was again smitten, and since I was transferring to Berkeley (Univ of California) and since I knew several fellows who were buying sports or collector cars in the Midwest and driving them to Los Angeles for profit—such was the craze out there at that time—I borrowed the money and grabbed it.
The recent bout with illness delayed a few projects, led to the postponement of others, and left me longing for some quite time in the shadow of the Grand Wash Cliffs at Grand Canyon Western Ranch. Among the delayed projects was the plan to begin sharing your Route 66 stories, one each week, and establishment of a new page where those stories would be archived. As you may recall, at the end of each month I will select the best story submitted and send the winner a copy of my book Travel Route 66.
I haven't had an opportunity to set up the page yet but at the end of today's post, the first reader submitted story will be shared with you. So, please, submit the story of your most memorable Route 66 adventure today.
This weekend, on Saturday at 5:00 PM, at Beale Celebrations, the Route 66 Association of Kingman kicks off the fund raising for their ambitious 66 Celebrates 90 initiative. The centerpiece for the endeavor is historic neon sign acquisition or reproduction, restoration, and installation. In addition, the plan is to initiate a mural program, install custom benches created by Lomeli Garden Arts, an association member, throughout the historic district, and bolster promotional endeavors to expand on Chillin' on Beale this year.
The first fund raiser will include a silent auction, dinner, and presentation entitled An Armchair Tour of Route 66. Tickets are $25.00 per person. For more information contact Jamie Taylor at (928)530-2056.
Canyon 66 Restaurant and Lounge at Ramada Kingman is expanding menu options, and introducing a new $4.99 breakfast. Stage two of the motels remodel and update project is also commencing soon. This will move the property one step closer to being the cities only full service Route 66 resort.
The House of Hops in the historic district, with its restored Kingman Club neon sign, is also expanding. Likewise with Rednecks Southern Barbecue that is adding a wood fired pizza restaurant in an adjoining building.
Rutherford's Route 66 Family Diner is also making a few changes. By this spring the plan is for the restaurant to have patio seating.
Dunton Motors has plans for inclusion of a gift shop by spring with an inventory of exclusive merchandise, including Mr' D'z items. To expand on their plans to be both an automotive museum and dealership, they are also looking to purchase vintage vehicles, or take them on consignment. This too will be a destination in 2016.
These are just a few of the exciting projects under development in Kingman. So, if your plans this year include an adventure on Route 66 in western Arizona, you might want to add a day or two to the schedule.
Okay, now, a Route 66 story. This one comes from Keith Carlson.
So—in late August '57 I drove out over many days, mostly sleeping in the back seat whenever necessary, and thus finding that, in the high desert, uncomfortable daytime heat turns to uncomfortable nighttime cold; I was awakened and had to keep driving to ward off uncontrollable shivering! Fortunately, and amazingly, I made the 2,400-plus miles without mishap: not even a belt or hose out in the desert. I made no profit—actually lost a bit—but all worth the adventure and the several months' enjoyment of an exquisite automobile.
Often on the journey I saw the beginnings of the US interstate system (limited-access superhighways) that had just been approved, as the new highway paralleled 66 in close proximity in several places; often, a new two-lane road was built alongside, traffic transferred to it while the original two lanes were widened and resurfaced, and the thusly-created four-lane divided highway then replacing 66. (Most of 66 was two lanes.) In many other ways the original road was eventually obliterated or abandoned in most sections, and my trip—in one of the best vehicles to have gone the entire length—was thus one of the last to cover the entirety.


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Check it out bredren, shotta here with the realness. Part II of the Mike Barrett Interview is now in full effect. If you missed Part I, go here.
In this section we pretty much dork it out, talking at length about blogs. But, hey, that's what bloggers do, right? We also discuss whether he is a "company man" and whether team websites should break stories, before we probe the details of his more-than-a-friendship with Kevin Pritchard. Simmah down now.
Perhaps my favorite part of this section is hearing him self-critique his blogging. He is so dang critical of himself and I think that this constant self-criticism is something that a lot of writers can relate to. Bloggers, especially, who know that they will receive instant feedback from thousands of readers. I know I can relate to what he's saying; I mean, I'm already regretting the lame opening to this post and I still have 3,000 words left to edit.
Please note in this section of the interview there were no Tom Penn interruptions.
There are (probably) 2 more parts to this coming later this week. If you are enjoying this interview, I encourage you to head over to Mr. Barrett's blog and thank him for taking the time to speak with Blazersedge at such length.
Blazersedge: You do the TV play by play obviously. You're now a radio host, filling in on 95.5FM and also you do your own Courtside show. You write for Rip City Magazine. You're also blogging. Does anyone else do all four of those? Is this some kind one-of-a-kind 4 tool announcer setup they've got going for you or what?
The funny thing is that when the blog started at Summer League like 3 or 4 years ago, they said write some stuff for training camp, and that was kind of strange, but then they saw I could write in a real conversational way, that involved people. It was one of those odd things that you stumble into and all of a sudden you've created a lot of work for yourself. It's not a bad thing it's a good thing.
It takes a lot of time, as you know. To do something like that and to maintain it-I moderate 95% of the comments, I see them all, I put the picture up, I do the headline, it's like my own little newspaper. And that's pretty cool for somebody who was into journalism anyway. Writing has always been pretty easy. To sit down to write after a game or after an event, positive or negative news, it's almost my way of going home and unwinding and reliving it. I think a lot of writers would say that. That's my way of going home and coming down from the high of the night...
Blazersedge: And processing?
Yeah exactly. But there are nights when we are out on a road trip, the 8th or 9th day, and we just played, and I don't want to go to the hotel [and write] at 3AM in Boston and it's 5 degrees outside, I want to go to bed.
But once you started it, you owe that to the people who are there for you. I think I've created a lot of relationships. Whether or not it's a 2 way relationship I don't know, but I've created a lot of relationships through that website, through that blog, and you get different things on a blog that you can't get in a newspaper. Although our writers are great: Quick, Freeman, Hendrickson, all of our writers are great.
But the funny thing about what you asked is that in the 2nd year, I didn't know of any other broadcasters that were doing blogs like that, now they all are. There are a few of them that joke that walk up to me and say, "thanks a hell of a lot," because as soon as other teams saw it was working all of a sudden they made their guys doing it. I'm not going to say I started it, but I don't remember it being around a lot until this.
I know for some guys that don't have a writing background it's probably not as fun to do. I get wordy, I get long, I start writing. They tell me, "just write a paragraph," and I said, "I get going, I can't. The next thing I know I'm at 2,000 words. I've enjoyed sitting down after my kids and wife go to bed, sit down, and process through some things. It helps me remember the game better, it helps me realize it, the next time we play somebody, I remember not only the game but the blog. I can go back and review it if I want to.
The comments to the blog, and the people who read it, I moderate the comments, in the past year I have probably rejected one comment, because it had a foul word in it. It's just great people who read the blog and they all respond really well to it. That's reflective of our fans. They are good people. They are educated.
Blazersedge: It seems like in all of your roles you are really out front acting as a face for the organization. Is that something that has come down from up top? Is that a calculated thing, you've said you stumbled in to the blog, but with 95.5FM it seemed like a no-brainer that your role would be expanded. Is this a structured thing putting you at the forefront or ...?
No. It just kind of organically grew. It's funny because there are certain things where, I've talked to my wife about this too, you get asked to do a lot of things, it's expanded, different auctions, not to get overly spiritual here, but I feel like some of this is me, some of this is stuff I've worked through, you're given certain gifts, and I owe that to my creator, to make the most of what he's done for me. If I can help not only the organization but a group of people while still maintaining a healthy balance with my time at home, I want to do it. That's where some of that has been born.
I think a lot of people thing that in business everything is contrived and everything is born in a meeting or something. No. This blog just started happening. People thing, somebody is picking your photo, somebody does the headline, somebody moderates the comments... no, it's just a one man operation. It's like a back room newspaper. People would probably be disappointed if they knew how many people were involved in that.
When it started out, an entirely different group of people were running things then, it was like "well, when you write something we need to run that through a couple of people first," then I said, "well I don't want to do it then. I don't want to have people changing what I've written. If you want me to do this, and you trust me to be on the air live on TV for 8 hours a week, then you sure as hell better trust what I'm going to write. I think through time I've earned that trust through them, so they don't even think about that now.
The only thing that becomes a sticking point is if there is [a situation] like Brandon's surgery last week on his knee. I knew 2 hours before anyone else knew that everything was ok. And I had a blog post written and ready to publish. I could have clicked and had it done."
Blazersedge: So why hold off?
Because I work for the team and because it's the team's website and because I don't want my access to be thrown in the face of the local media or our writers, who do a great job. I have access they can't get. And that's obvious. And they understand that. I don't want to say, "I broke this first."
My job is not to break news. I'm not going to get into battles like that. That's never been the way I've felt about the radio show or the blog. We're a team website and I'm going to do what's best for the club. Some guys think differently.
Some broadcasters think differently. Some people in the organization think, "put it on our website first and we'll drive traffic." Not only are the other media guys friends of mine, I get emails and I get phone calls, and I have guys that I talk to that trust me to use better judgment than that.
Blazersedge: As kind of an ethical issue, do you think your stance developed from your journalism background? Do you think it's motivated not only by your friendships with the other writers but also by the relationship that should exist between a team and an independent media?
Yes. And that's not even an issue now. It used to be. When there was such an adversarial relationship between the club and the media. You can't fool people. If you've got bad guys, you've got bad guys. You can't polish that. You can try, through PR. Some teams try to do that.
As Beijing has found out, you can't fool people. You can try.
Whereas that was an issue in the past, it's not an issue now. If you can find a negative story, I guess you can always find one, when you are truly doing it right, being honest and open, with nothing to hide, there's no reason to have a bad relationship with the media.
It comes down to managing things story by story, if there is an injury or some troubling news at some point, a a fight in practice, or little silly things that happen, you just deal with them then. If you go to the writer and say, "I'd really appreciate it if you'd let us get our ducks in a row before you bust the story, so we can at least come up with a statement that makes sense," then they're going to give you that latitude. If you don't treat them that way, then they're going to look to burn you.
And I'm part of that. And if I were coming out and throwing news up, things that I knew early, not only would I tick off our PR department, I'd probably upset local writers-I mean Jason Quick and I went to college together. I want our club and our PR people to trust me with our judgment, just like I would trust them with their job, and I feel pretty good about that.
Blazersedge: You said your first loyalty before anything is to the team, and if there's a criticism of you that I've heard, it's that you're a "company man." Do you perceive that as a criticism or do you flip that back as a positive?
You mean, being a homer on the air?
Blazersedge: No, not only that, but also your overall portrayal of the players, their personalities. Perhaps there is a disconnect between when they are your players compared to when they're not your players? Or perhaps it's in your support of management decisions, like trades?
Well, since when I've been in the job to where I've had any experience to the point where I could have that attitude, there hasn't been anything to get upset about. There hasn't been anything to be dishonest about. I mean, Kevin hasn't made a bad move. He's going to... but he hasn't yet.
Our players haven't run afoul... and I guess the most recent guy was Zach [Randolph]. When Zach was here, I did my best to look at the positives, and if negatives were there, I think we were fair. When Darius was on the floor, I think we tried to call it like it is. Again, you can't fool people. But I'm not going to go out of my way to crack somebody.
And when it comes to actually calling a game, is being a homer to want your team to win? I'm not sure. Or is a homer hiding news or always supporting the team? I don't know what that means. I don't want to be a ridiculous homer to the point where you get sick or it sounds pathetic. But at the same time, I'm not going to hide it if the team is doing well. The people who feel that I'm a homer, well that's ok, it just depends on what your style is. I think they're in the minority.
I'm not going to sacrifice the access I have to the players and the management group and the coaches which can bring me a whole lot better news than it can at a time when it would be worth it to me to fracture a relationship over one incident or one bad night. Why would I put that at risk?
I mean, the last 80 blogs you've read are because I have access, because I'm in the locker room, on the team plane and in practice, that's why you got all this. Now you want me to potentially fracture that relationship and end all of this good? Just to bare my chest and rip a guy or crack a guy? It's just not worth it to me. It's all risk/reward.
Blazersedge: How would you describe your relationship with Kevin Pritchard? It's an ongoing friendship?
Blazersedge: Business relationship?
Blazersedge: More than that?
... Yeah. When Kevin got here, he was something like Assistant GM.
Blazersedge: Director of Player Personnel?
Yeah. He didn't know a lot of people and he didn't have his staff in place as much as he does now obviously. And we're exactly the same age. Yeah, I spend a lot of time with him.
He would come on road trips. Then he took over as interim coach of that team for that short stretch and we were both on the road, and I spent a lot of time with him.
I think we identified with the same things growing up, he went to the NBA obviously so our athletic careers went to a Y in the road, but the thing I used to see about Kevin was that he always had these big ideas, he always had these semi-cheesy catchphrases he would use about what he wanted to do.
I remember one of our former GMs telling me as I'm sitting next to Kevin at a Christmas party, and we're talking about trades and what we should do, and then I heard the comment "Oh, Kevin is a little naïve... he has some good ideas but, well, whether or not that could get implemented...."
But then I realized once he took over, is that he could do it. He makes everybody feel like everybody has an equal share in what's happening. He's the least arrogant executive. Of anybody I know who could be arrogant or full of themselves, he isn't at all. He has a belief in the way that you do things and the way that you treat people and we've all gotten on board with that. He's genuinely a good guy and has terrific values.
I know things about Kevin that I would never say in our personal relationship. Does that make me root harder for him or protect him? Maybe. I don't know. But I'd do for him what I would do for any friend.
Blazersedge: So when are we going to get KP bobblehead night?
That's gotta happen doesn't it. People were wanting a Mike Rice bobblehead night. The Indiana announcers actually had a bobblehead night, with a little desk, a few years back. That's a good idea but he'd fight it. He wouldn't like it.
Blazersedge: What I'm getting at is that there's almost as much excitement among hardcore Blazers fans around him as there is about anybody on the floor. He's almost as good a selling point in terms of generating interest and getting the message out, "here's where we were, here's where we are, here's where we are going."
But he's as bad at taking a compliment as I am. I can't take a compliment and Kevin is the same way. Kevin will never admit that this is all because of him, or that this wouldn't have happened without him - which it wouldn't have-there's no question in my mind that we would not be here, we would not be talking about this if he were not here. We might be better, a better team with some decent players, but this wouldn't have happened. He'd argue against that.
And at times I've tried to be there to remind him. Rough times, last season, once in awhile I'd just fire off an email because everyone needs to be propped up once in awhile. To remind him that, "hey, you're the reason why this is happening. Your vision and what you've started here." We all kind of do that for each other. It comes off as strange when somebody doesn't want to take credit for anything, Kevin is certainly like that. But I do think he realizes what he means to the fans and to the team.
Again, big ups to Mike Barrett.
-- Ben (firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Back in 2009, when the earliest Paid-To-Click websites opened their doors, people had access to the very first ways to earn money online without investment.
In PTCs, clicking ads is the poorest way of earning money and a bona fide waste of time, though that's the whole point behind them and some have tasks that must be completed on a daily basis. Which takes me to the next point: the referrals.
They work a lot like Multi-Level Marketing; the more you recruit, the higher is your earning potential. Logically, having one or more active recruits under you will mean that your account becomes fatter and faster. The daily tasks enable you to earn from your recruits on the next day.
One of the most sure-fire ways of getting recruits at that time, which is now obsolete but still used, was going to Blogger, setting up a site with a bunch of banners from the PTC and a few pages containing basic guides explaining how to earn money with them and the advantages. The next step was heading over to traffic exchanges and voilà.
Instant sign-ups overnight.
Another easy way of earning money online was through Google AdSense, its terms are stricter now but it's still doable. The process was always the same then as it currently is now, but the site had to have a certain age and amount of content and/or traffic, which Google is yet to disclose.
This was 8 years ago.
Fast forward to 2K17.
People still try their lucks and venture themselves in no cost opportunities with the same strategies but instead of PTCs, which in my opinion, are pretty much dead horses, what's hip and dandy today are micro jobs, from Get-Paid-To websites.
Google AdSense's Program Policy is tighter and ad blockers are available for even mobile devices.
It's still common to see websites running advertisements from other networks, which aren't as rigid as Google but the site is still under construction or lacks content. This is just a wild guess, but I would think that, to counter those new browsing "enhancements", those networks made more options to display their advertisements, and some of them are quite intrusive and frustrate user experience while browsing:
In-text links
The first two, most of are already aware of.
I want to make money with my site
Which is a fantastic idea. Monetizing it from day one, not so much.
There are plenty of other matters that must be dealt with and achieved before even starting to think about how to printing cash through it. Let's go through some of them step-by-step.
The rise of a website
1 – Niche
The absolute first should be picking your niche. The niche is simply another word for the topic(s) or theme(s) your website deals and offers support to.
An example of a popular niche is "Technology". Under "Technology", we have more subcategories that can be discussed, such as "computers", "laptops", "smartphones", "gadgets", "apps", "tricks and hints" and news about any of those.
Webmasters normally start blogs about something they are already comfortable with because it's much easier to write about something you like and know.
But if you're still undecided and the above examples aren't enough, ClickBank has an article containing several categories of topics you might be interested in. It's an affiliate product site but the general idea still applies. Just don't get too distracted with them; there will be plenty of time for making money when you master the basics.
2 – Planning the website
The Portal you are able to see at Triplestrata.com was written on an A5 paper before going live, after 75 revisions. Seems like a lot for a homepage, doesn't it? Few get it right at first, Thomas Edison to say so, but if you can't get the page everyone will see first right, what follows probably won't be inviting either, no matter how many Christmas lights you put around it.
Seek inspiration in other sites you go to, make notes of what widgets and apps you'd like to use and plan the basic layout of your site.
In case you already have an application you can build a website, like Dreamweaver, you can split test a couple designs you want.
The planning phase should encompass the following:
- Site name
- General site layout
- Widgets (share buttons, email newsletters, contact)
- Required pages (home page, blog, legal statements)
Fan pages are also something worth considering in the event you already have a lot of friends or subscribers you want to vector them to the new site.
3 – Building the website
We are yet to make our own tutorial about this but there are already plenty of good ones out there nowadays. And it really isn't that hard.
However, it's the part that matters just as much as keeping it alive and updating it with fresh new content. Hide your site from view if you're still building it, so people don't have to see the ugly unfinished pages and lack of content (like it happened to our Portal and the Gaming site).
4 – First posts
I personally recommend having 5-20 high-quality posts just before going live. High-quality posts don't mean long, although I think it's difficult to get anyone's attention with two paragraphs.
Yoast average
TRI's average
The Yoast Team, the masterminds behind an SEO plugin for WordPress, has posts exceeded the above. We, at the TRI, rarely do not exceed 1000 words.
It's not just about the length of your post but also how you convey the message. Our themes support a native page builder with numerous ways of displaying content, of any type:
Layout modules
That makes it attractive for the reader since it's more than just text. In long posts like ours, it's a primary concern to avoid tiring the audience.
From here on, you can share your site, build an audience and go from there.
What does "Go from there" mean?
Reaching the part where you can make a profit through a website is part of an ongoing process. Construction workers don't start a building from its roof but from the ground up.
In a bid to monetize their websites and quit their day jobs (which is a common empty promise to the layman) a large number of new webmasters always place several ads on their site of every affiliate marketing opportunity they come across.
To earn money, through whatever, takes traffic. And traffic is a website's own currency. Look at what you can "buy" with traffic:
Monetizing from day one – The Conclusion
Those of you with a keen eye might have noticed that I placed "Customers" last. In the last post, we explained that people are more likely to buy from other people they know and trust. That trust must be nurtured.
Too many ads and affiliate links repel that much-needed traffic that can be converted into all of the above and more.
Hence, it's not only safer but more reliable to develop those ties first and go where your audience is telling you. Understand; there's no problem with advertisements – we serve them too – it's the money grabbing that may turn off surfers that could one day become your users.
Give your readers something to read so they have a valid reason to come, stay and return to your site.
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