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Three of the most important Kardashian sisters, Kim, Khloé, and Kendall, announced their respective pregnancies last week. Though fans have rejoiced, one question remains: Who is the father? Shocking new reports reveal that the father of these children may be none other than the relatable-and-hatable, fresh-faced country pop singer-songwriter, Taylor Swift.
Rumors that Swift is father to a trio of expected Kardashian babies has sent fans into a tizzy, and they're not the only ones upset by the prospect.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again," says Kim. "Taylor is a snake. It's just like her to impregnate me and my sisters with her children and then deny it later."
T-Swizzle indeed has publicly denied her alleged fatherhood, yet sources claim that the musician's coy social media activity contains covert indications to the contrary. Last Monday, for example, Swift tweeted "Happy Father's Day, Yeezy! [blonde baby emoji] @OfficialKanye." Thursday was not Father's Day.
What's more, Instagram has blown up with potentially incriminating photos of Taylor and her "Girl Squad" hanging out in science labs, huddled over large texts and tinkering with test tubes. One popular photo on Selena Gomez's insta account features herself, Swift, and model Gigi Hadid wearing lab coats, captioned, "Making groundbreaking strides for the future of human reproductive capabilities! #tgif."
While members of Team Kim claim these photos aggressively verify that Swift is a "KarJenner Sister Baby Daddy times three," Team Tay fans stand by their down-to-earth pop icon.
Among these loyal followers is Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift's number one fan. "Taylor cannot be the father, because she is a woman!" says Sheeran. "No wait, that sounded… [clears throat] Biologically, I mean. A father literally cannot be… Wait. I suppose… I suppose Caitlyn Jenner would be considered Kendall's father? So, Kendall's father is a woman. Right? Is that right?"
"The old Taylor is dead," explained Swift, when asked directly about her involvement with the Kardashian pregnancies. "Her legacy only lives on through her children. Her metaphorical children. Through Taylor Swift's three, scientifically miraculous, metaphorical celebrity children."
Swift's cryptic responses do nothing to clarify if the rumors are at all valid.
Whether or not Taylor Swift impregnated half the cast of Keeping Up With The Kardashians may never be determined, but it seems a more pressing question now remains: When's the spin off?


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ID: "Univision 2/51"
City: Naples, FL
Owner: Silver Point Capital
Station Info: Low-Power - 3 kW
Market: Ft. Myers - Naples
WUVF-LP is a television station in Naples, FL that serves the Ft. Myers - Naples television market. The station runs programming from the Univision network and identifies itself as "Univision 2/51". WUVF-LP is a low-power television station that operates with 3 kilowatts of power and is owned by Silver Point Capital. This station broadcast primarily in Spanish.
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Chances are you've come across one of the many elaborate rehearsal dinners covered on the Web (Hello, Pinterest!). Some of these rehearsal dinners are fancier than my wedding was for Pete's sake. If you have the time, energy, money/resources and desire to host an affair like this or this, then go for it. Otherwise, I suggest you check out my cheat sheet below. Heck, even if you're planning a wedding with Bill Gates money you'll find these tips valuable because on the eve of your wedding day, anything that will help you stress less is a plus.
DO ensure you're on the same page with all those involved in the planning process. Traditionally the groom's family is responsible for the rehearsal dinner. In modern times, this is changing. Regardless of who is doing what, communication is key. In many cases, this is the first time two families are merging together for an event and expectations can vary greatly. Be vocal in the planning stages but always respectful of course.
DO realize that if someone else is footing the bill you might not have the rehearsal dinner of your dreams. Bottom line, if your future in-laws are picking up the tab then for the most part you should zip it. Unless you're being asked to do, wear or say something that is against your morals, suck it up and smile. Newsflash: You will likely make similiar sacrifices throughout your marriage as well.
DO wear a flirty dress, sexy jumpsuit or show off a new pair of heels. Since Mr. TK and I had such a jam-packed day on the eve of our wedding, I didn't get a chance to change clothes between the actual rehearsal at the Gantt Center and our rehearsal "dinner" as planned. I did however change before we went dancing later that night. My point? The weekend will fly by so those bangin' heels, dress or even lipstick you've been saving for a special occasion? This is the time to wear 'em, honey.
DO write a list of people you want to thank or acknowledge. While it is a good idea to minimize speeches for your wedding reception; the night before go all out! You'll be on an emotional roller coaster so don't underestimate the possibility of forgetting key things. Mr. TK and I wanted to publicly thank our wedding party and I planned to give a speech about my big bro but we both forgot.
DON'T wait until the last minute to do…anything. I cannot stress how quickly your wedding weekend will be so anything that you can do ahead of time should be done ahead of time. It is just that simple. Once your loved ones begin arriving you and your fiance will be asked to take pics every ten minutes and your phone will go off every fifteen minutes.
DON'T assume you cannot afford a welcome gathering for your wedding guests. Although this event is commonly referred to as a dinner, you can remix it however you want. Don't let Pinterest intimidate you! Mr. TK and I wanted to bring a bit of New York City to the Queen City (aka Charlotte, NC) so we had a pizza party meet and greet. New Yorkers are serious about their pizza and we're no exception. In addition to pizza we served an easy salad and beverages (Cocktails were on deck, too!). It was simple but heartfelt. We saved money by having everyone come to my hotel suite for the gathering to avoid the cost of renting another space. We were packed in (literally) and it was hot but there was an abundance of love present and that's ultimately what Mr. TK and I wanted. You can be even more frugal (hindsight is 20/20) by having a meet and greet with coffee, tea and pastries. That way your guests don't expect to be fed a meal but you're still being hospitable and welcoming them to your wedding celebration with open arms.
Are you planning to host a rehearsal dinner before your wedding day? What was the most memorable rehearsal dinner you've attended? Tell me about it! Your comments could help a fellow planning bride.
P.S. – This post was written primarily with those in mind who are getting married during a weekend. But you savvy brides planning to tie the knot on a weekday should weigh in, too!
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If you install Avast 2014 latest version build number 9.0.2011 with 'Regular Installation' option, then GrimeFighter might get installed (since it currently being offered to a limited number of users only) along with unnecessary SecureLine VPN, that's why you should always consider installing a program with custom method if available or offered by an installer.
How to disable GrimeFighter and Popups of Browser Cleanup in Avast?
Recently Avast has acquired JumpShot, they integrated it into their security products including in free AV as GrimeFighter, it is just a connector added for feedback and security vendor has confirmed it will be available as stanaldone paid product.
After installing Avast, it gets your attention on UI status page (available on Tools in UI too for launching) that it has found evidence of grime on your PC, if you click 'Optimize My PC' it will download image and restarts your computer to fix PC problems. Users not all impressed as it doesn't display clear information about issues it going to fix.
- Avast Users Fed Up with the Browser Cleanup Tool
- Be watchful, Avast installs Dropbox if you don't pay Attention
If you too don't like it and want to remove it from Avast here is how that can be done, follow the steps mentioned below.
Uninstalling GrimeFighter from Avast
1. Control Panel>Programs>Programs and Features, select 'Avast Free Antivirus ' and click 'Uninstall/Change'
2. When Avast installation dialog appears, select 'Change' and click 'Continue'
3. On Next step, a dialog asks you which components do you want to install? Remove tick mark for 'GrimerFighter' and other Avast features/components you don't need and click 'Continue'
4. Your requested changes will be made to Avast and GrimeFighter will be removed.
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New research from CultureQ, branding consultancy Onesixtyfourth LLC's ongoing research initiative to monitor sentiment and cultural shifts among Millennials in the U.S. and the UK, finds surprising brand strength among urban Millennials for Trader Joe's, the quirky specialty retailer, on a par with big-name brands like Apple, Ford, and Nike and social media giants like Facebook and Twitter.
"Looking at the Q2 data of our CultureQ research, it's interesting that Trader Joe's has cultivated an eclectic, cult-like following among Millennials, particularly those that we have identified as trend setters and early adopters," says Anne Bahr Thompson, Founding Partner of Onesixtyfourth. "It seems they love everything about Trader Joe's — or TJ's, as many call it — from its products to its employees to its kitschy store design. The result is an intimate connection with the brand."
Qualitatively, CultureQ data shows that many Millennials are drawn to the humor and casualness of the brand: the Hawaiian staff shirts, the quirky product names, and the easy-go ing yet efficient way staff relate to customers. They also love the brand's natural and organic offerings. All of this crafts a brand position for TJ's as a neighborhood staple, especially for young urbanites. Interestingly, rather than devalue the brand, the fact that it is a national chain brings Millennials a sense of security. Overall, Trader Joe's formula is one trend setters and early adopters can easily relate to.
The first Trader Joe's opened in 1967, and has expanded into a small grocery store empire of over 350 stores in some 31 states. And all the while, Trader Joe's has retained its quirky vibe and "neighborhood feel despite being a chain," as one CultureQ participant reflects.
"Despite its 45-year history, Trader Joe's appears to have a unique and admirable appeal with many Millennials, and our early adopter participants who offered insights on the grocer largely perceive the chain as catering to their own generation," says Thompson. "Trader Joe's feels like it's theirs. Its food offerings are inexpensive, interesting and delicious, and most importantly, the brand is hip and cool in that elusive offbeat and alternative way."


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Terminally-ill Bradley Lowery has invited his girlfriend to a party "to say goodbye".
His heartbroken family say the six-year-old is very weak and finding it difficult to breathe and keep food and medicine down.
According to his family, Bradley wanted to hold a get-together with his cousins and his girlfriend.
He was later paid a visit by his footballer hero and best friend, England and Bournemouth footballer Jermain Defoe.
Bradley's family posted a picture of him lying on a bed with Poppy and his cousins and another with him asleep in the arms of the Bournemouth striker.
Bradley, from Blackhall Colliery, near Hartlepool, has neuroblastoma and is receiving palliative care at home, the Mirror reported .
Bradley's family wrote on Facebook on Saturday: "Update on Brad is....he is very weak and finding breathing difficult but he is fighting it.
"He insisted on having a party and he invited his cousins and girlfriend Poppy yesterday.
"They all laid on the bed having cuddles I think it was his way of saying his goodbyes. Late last night his best friend Jermain came to visit him and it was so heart-warming seeing how Bradley reacted.
"He was so happy and laid for ages getting cuddles. Bradley was really relaxed with him."
Defoe, 34, made the trip to see Bradley's family on the same day he joined Bournemouth from Sunderland, the team Bradley supports.
Earlier, his mother Gemma said her son was battling on.
She said: "Bradley is very weak now but is still fighting on in true Bradley style. He will only go when he decides. Xxx"
His Facebook page also went on to warn against fake social media and fundraising sites set up in his name to obtain 'likes' and cash
The family posted: 'We have been made aware of fake pages created in Bradley's name to gain likes and even have JustGiving pages linked to them, please be vigilant.
"Thank you for your continued support and when the time comes it will be put on Bradley's official Facebook (here) and Twitter before anywhere else . Xx"
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Alex OrailogluUniversity of California, San Diego
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114
Tel: (858) 534-0914
Fax: (858) 534-7029
email: email@example.com
Alex Orailoglu is a professor at the
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of California
since 1987. His research interests include
Electronic Design Automation, VLSI Test, and
Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant ICs, where he has
over 80
publications. Professor Orailoglu leads the
Reliable System
Synthesis Group. He has currently 6 Ph.D. and 2 M.S. students.
| S.B. cum laude in in Applied Mathematics,
Harvard University, 1977.
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1979.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1983.
|Program Committee:
|International Test Conference (1997-2002),
|IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (1997-2002),
|International Workshop on Testing Embedded Core-Based Systems (1997-2000),
|International Test Synthesis Workshop (1995-2000),
|International On-Line Testing Workshop (1995-2000),
|TTTC Test Technology Educational Program (2002),
|International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance (1999-2000),
|Design Automation Technical Event in Europe (DATE) (2002),
|Brazilian Symposium on Integrated Circuit Design (1999),
|International Conference on Computer Design (1994-1995),
VHDL International User's Forum (1994).
|Steering Committee:
|High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (1999, General Chair)
|High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (1998, Program Chair)
|High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (2000, Past Chair)
|IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (2000, Publications Chair)
|IEEE Latin American Test Workshop (2000, North America Liaison)
Professional Committee:
IEEE CS Test Technology Technical Committee (1998-1999, Planning Chair)
IEEE CS Test Technology Technical Committee (2000, TAC Chair)
|Panel Participation:
|VLSI Test Symposium (1996),
|International Test Conference (1998)
Testing Embedded Core-Based Systems (1997)
|Panel Organization:
|VLSI Test Symposium (1997)
Session Chair:
International Test Conference (1996-1999),
|VLSI Test Symposium (1996, 1999),
|International Conference on Computer Design (1995),
International OnLine Test Workshop (1996-1999).
|Sponsored Research:
|National Science Foundation,
|Semiconductor Research Corporation,
|Hughes Aircraft Company,
|Intel Corporation,
|Rockwell Corporation,
|Agilent, Inc.,
|Conexant, Inc.,
|Hewlett-Packard, Inc.,
|National Semiconductor Corporation,
|State of California,
|California Space Institute,
|NATO Fellowship,
|SUN Microsystems.
|Graduated Doctoral Students:
Ismet Bayraktaroglu
Member of Technical Staff
Sun Microsystems.
Yiorgos Makris
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering Department,
Yale University
Ian G. Harris,
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
J. Laurence Goodby,
Member of Technical Staff
Agilent, Inc.
Ramesh Karri,
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering Department,
Polytechnic University of New York
|Graduated Master's Students:
| Mahsa Vahidi,
Senior Engineer
Conexant, Inc.


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"The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is the best convertible 2-in-1 around if you want to use it as a tablet."
- Attractive and innovative chassis
- Insanely thin and light
- Solid performance
- Excellent battery life
- Great display for productivity users
- Touchpad is too small
- Expensive
Remember when Lenovo's ThinkPad line was the old standby, a collection of well-built and highly functional but often boring business laptops? Well, no more.
That's a good thing, because what's replaced it is a far more dynamic lineup that never ceases to surprise. The latest example is the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, an exciting new entry in the convertible 2-in-1 laptop category that — on paper at least — promises to compete with some of the very best laptops you can buy.
I received a midrange version of the laptop, with a Core i5-1130G7, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe solid-state drive (SSD), and a 13.5-inch display in the productivity-friendly 3:2 aspect ratio and with a high QHD (2,256 x 1,504) resolution. That's the only display option available, a potential weakness that we'll discuss later. The price for this configuration is $1,685 after e-coupon (the list price is an insane $3,369), making it a very premium 2-in-1 indeed. Let's find out if the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga has what it takes to take on the best?
Jump to: Design | Security | Performance | Display | Keyboard and Touchpad | Battery Life | Our Take
Let's start with this: Titanium is a really cool metal used in airplanes, among other things. Using it in a laptop is even cooler, and so what if it's only used in the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga's lid? It's there, and although it gives the laptop a cumbersome name, I like it. It has a nice texture that's a play on the ThinkPad's usual soft-touch material. At least, I assume that's the titanium I'm touching, given that the lid is made of both titanium and carbon fiber.
The rest of the chassis is a magnesium-aluminum alloy meant to make it both light and durable, and while it succeeds in being very light at just 2.54 pounds, there's a tiny bit of give in the lid and keyboard deck when some pressure is applied.
The HP Spectre x360 14, the most direct competitor to the ThinkPad, weighs in at 2.95 pounds and feels more solid — and both differences are noticeable. Also noticeable is the difference in thickness, with the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga at just 0.45 inches thick compared to the relatively chunky Spectre's 0.67 inches. The Spectre x360 14 is smaller than the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga — specifically, it's not as deep while being almost exactly as wide — thanks to smaller top and bottom bezels. The Dell XPS 13, the best clamshell competition, comes in at 2.8 pounds and 0.58 inches thick. It also feels more robust than the ThinkPad.
The ThinkPad would have benefitted from smaller bezels all around, although the top bezel needs its extra size for some additional components (details can be found in the security section that follows). The XPS 13 is the smallest of the bunch, but it doesn't have to contend with a more complex 2-in-1 hinge. Speaking of the hinge, the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga's is a bit stiff, requiring two hands to open but keeping the lid where it belongs in clamshell, tent, media, and tablet modes. Note that tablet mode is more comfortable on the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga than many other convertibles, thanks to its thin chassis and 3:2 aspect ratio that's closer to a piece of paper in dimensions.
So, how does this thin and light laptop look? Well, to begin with, it barely resembles its all-black ThinkPad siblings. It's a pleasant silver-gray color that eschews all adornment except the logos. Even those are different than usual, with the ThinkPad logo on the lid being a silver embossed version rather than the norma; white, although the "i" dot remains a blinking LED that conveys information about the laptop's status. Directly beneath that is a more pronounced X1 logo that's a mix of red and black, and it looks sharp against the ThinkPad logo. At the rear is an inset Lenovo logo that's barely visible.
Open the lid and you'll find a similar logo on the keyboard deck, the usual red TrackPoint nubbin, and the recognizable ThinkPad keyboard. The TrackPoint buttons above the touchpad skip the red accents, which I think works here. Overall, this is a very modern yet conservative design that I like a lot, almost as much as I like the Spectre x360 14's gem-cut design and the XPS 13's more streamlined appearance.
Unsurprisingly with such a thin machine, connectivity is at a minimum. You get two USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 support, one of which is used to power the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, a Kensington lock port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. That means you'll need dongles for any legacy devices and a docking station if you need to connect more than one device at a time. Wireless connectivity is state of the art, with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1, and there's an option for
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga has the usual ThinkPad security features, such as the ThinkShutter privacy switch for the webcam and the match-on-sensor fingerprint reader. But it also includes the human presence device (HPD) technology and software that I tested on the ThinkPad X1 Nano and found to be fast and reliable.
Basically, HPD, which is configured in the "Intelligent Security" section of Lenovo's Commercial Vantage utility, uses radar to recognize when a user is in front of the laptop and when that user walks away. In the latter case, the technology first dims the display and then eventually — how fast is user-configurable — puts the laptop to sleep (specifically, into Modern Standby). Once the user returns to within a 60-degree arc from the front of the laptop, the machine wakes up and uses Windows Hello to log the user back in. If the infrared camera and facial recognition are set up, then the process is seamless. Walk away, the laptop goes to sleep; return, and it scans your face and you're back to work.
The feature works well, and it's great except when you're running a long process that shouldn't be interrupted. For example, I had to turn HPD off during my longer benchmarks and battery tests unless I wanted to stay locked in front of the laptop. Otherwise, my tests would be interrupted — imagine a long video-rendering session, and you'll get the idea. I tested the same kind of technology on Dell's Latitude 7400 2-in-1, and I've found Lenovo's solution to be more reliable and seamless.
My review unit used the Core i5-1130G7, a version of the 11th-gen Tiger Lake Core i5 with a lower thermal design power (TDP) of seven to 15 watts rather than the usual 12 to 28 watts found in the Core i5-1135G7, as well as a max turbo frequency of 4.0GHz versus 4.2GHz. It includes Intel Iris Xe graphics with the full 80 execution units but at a slower clock speed of 1.1 GHz versus 1.3 GHz. All this is to point out that Lenovo opted for a slower and cooler CPU for the Thinkpad X1 Titanium Yoga, which makes sense given the laptop's thin chassis. Note that this same CPU equipped the ThinkPad X12 Detachable tablet that I reviewed, which, as you can see from the chart below, was slightly slower than the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga in most of our tests.
As you can also see in the chart, the ThinkPad keeps up in Geekbench 5 but falls behind in the other benchmarks. Notably, it outperformed the Lenovo Yoga 7i and its faster Core i5 in the 3DMark Time Spy GPU test, but that didn't translate to real-life gaming. Otherwise, the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga performed right in line with what you might expect given its CPU.
Note that where a machine offered switchable performance modes, I recorded results from the "normal" setting. In most cases — including with the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga — there's only a marginal difference between "normal" and "performance" modes. One outlier is the HP Spectre x360 14, which led the field in performance mode while its normal mode is quite a bit slower.
|Cinebench R23
|PCMark 10
|3DMark Time Spy
|Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga (Core i5-1130G7)
|Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable
(Core i5-1130G7)
|HP Spectre x360 14 (Core i7-1165G7)
|Dell XPS 13 (Core i7-1165G7)
|Lenovo Yoga 7i (Core i5-1135G7)
|Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano
(Core i7-1160G7)
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga's PCMark 10 scores were particularly interesting. It was slightly behind on the main score as listed in the chart, but more importantly, it was particularly slow in the Content Creation portion of the benchmark. This carried over to our Handbrake test, which encodes a 420MB video as H.265, where the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga was even slower than the ThinkPad X12 Detachable by a fair margin. Overall, this laptop performs well enough for typical
This laptop shouldn't be picked for its gaming prowess. I ran Fortnite at 1080p (in a window, since the only full-screen option was the display's full resolution where performance would have been terrible), and it managed 23 frames per second (fps) in high graphics and 17 fps in epic graphics. That's about 10 fps slower than most other Tiger Lake
Lenovo built the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga around a 13.5-inch IPS display in the productivity-friendly 3:2 aspect ratio and with a high resolution of QHD (2,256 x 1,504). As mentioned earlier, the 3:2 aspect ratio makes this thin and light laptop a superior tablet compared to most other convertible 2-in-1s — including the HP Spectre x360 14, which enjoys the same aspect ratio.
But a display also needs to look good, and that's where my colorimeter comes in. According to that device, the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga's display meets the modern premium average in some respects and exceeds it in others . For example, it's quite bright at 431 nits, well above our preferred 300-nit threshold and better than most. The Spectre x360 14's OLED display "only" came in at 374 nits, while the Dell XPS 13's
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga's display was less impressive in the colors department. It managed 71% of AdobeRGB and 96% of sRGB, which is just average for premium displays. The XPS 13
In real-world use, I find out it to be a pleasant display to work on, thanks to the high contrast that produced dark blacks on white backgrounds and plenty of brightness. It's not going to please creative professionals who crave wide and accurate colors, but productivity workers will love it. The
Audio quality was a mixed bag. Volume from the dual downward-firing speakers was just loud enough and there was little distortion. Highs were a bit blown out, though, leaving the midrange to fight for attention. Bass, as usual, was nonexistent. The sound quality is fine for the occasional YouTube video, but if you want to binge Netflix or listen to music, then a good pair of headphones or Bluetooth speakers is recommended.
Keyboard and touchpad
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga has the same basic keyboard as the rest of the ThinkPad line, with identical sculpted keycaps and excellent spacing. It's a bit shallower, though, with good travel but not quite as deep as you'll find on larger ThinkPads. This is an improvement: I find some other ThinkPad keyboards to require too much force to register a click. Here, the feel is light, crisp, and very precise, with confident bottoming action. It can't quite live up to my favorites, HP's Spectre keyboards and Apple's latest Magic Keyboard, but it's close.
The typical ThinkPad TrackPoint sits in the middle of the keyboard and works as well as usual if you're into that sort of thing. Its biggest drawback is that it requires a set of buttons that takes space away from the touchpad. That's a bummer, because one of the advantages of a taller display is more space on the keyboard deck for a larger touchpad. Lenovo didn't take advantage of this space, leaving a touchpad that's much smaller than it could be. The Spectre x360 14's touchpad is much bigger, for example. And this isn't your usual touchpad — it uses haptic feedback rather than physical keys to register clicks, and while it doesn't work as naturally as Apple's version, it's a decent solution. There's the usual Microsoft Precision touchpad support, and so Windows 10 multitouch gestures are nicely supported. Overall, it's a responsive touchpad — it's just too small.
The display is touch-enabled, of course, and it, too, is responsive. It supports Lenovo's active pen, which is included in the box and supports 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity and tilt support. The pen magnetically attaches to the right side of the display. While it's not like some other Lenovo pens that slide into a port for storage and charging, it's a full-size pen and well worth the tradeoff.
Windows 10 Hello is supported by both a fingerprint reader and facial recognition. Both were fast and accurate. As mentioned before, you'll want to use facial recognition to get the most out of the human presence detection features.
Battery life
There are only 44.5 watt-hours of battery in the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga's thin frame, which isn't a lot for a laptop with a high-resolution display of this size. Given the general ThinkPad tendency toward shorter-than-average battery life, I wasn't too confident in impressive longevity.
As it turned out, battery life wasn't great, but it was terrible, either. In our web-browsing test, the ThinkPad managed 9.45 hours, a better-than-average showing and beat out both the Spectre x360 14's seven hours and the XPS 13
I also ran the laptop through the PCMark 10 Gaming battery test that pushes the CPU and GPU, and it lasted for three hours, close to the same as the Spectre x360 14 and about half an hour less than the XPS 13
The net result is that you're likely to get a full day of battery life out of the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, and then some. That's not too shabby for a machine with a high-resolution display and decent productivity performance.
Our take
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is a superior convertible 2-in-1 that gives the best around, HP's Spectre x360 14, a run for its money. It's thin and light and so works well as a tablet, a rarity in this class of machines, and it enjoys a great keyboard and pen, solid security options, and a chassis that feels very modern and robust.
You won't love the performance if you're doing more than the usual productivity tasks, but if you're not looking to run demanding tasks, then the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is for you. And it's partially made of titanium, which, again, is pretty cool.
Are there any alternatives?
The HP Spectre x360 14 is the most logical alternative, and it's faster, as well as slightly smaller while being thicker and heavier, and it offers a superior OLED display. The HP is also close to the same price as the ThinkPad, only with a Core i7-1185G7 and the OLED display, making it a far better value.
If you want a detachable tablet instead of a convertible 2-in-1, Lenovo's own ThinkPad X12 Detachable is a good option. You'll get slightly slower performance and less battery life, but the best detachable tablet available today. It's also several hundred dollars cheaper.
Finally, if you don't need the flexibility of a 2-in-1, then the excellent Dell XPS 13 is a great choice as usual. It remains the
How long will it last?
The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is robust enough to last for several years of hard work, and it enjoys up-to-date components. You should get plenty of productive work out of it. You'll also suffer the insufficient but industry-standard 1-year warranty.
Should you buy it?
Yes. The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga is the best convertible 2-in-1 that can be used as a tablet and provides solid battery life to go with its attractive thin and light design.
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text: GetYourGuide CEO on deploying machine learning and intelligent recs to make travel betterNews / DistributionBy Nick Vivion | April 18, 2018Share This article was originally published on GetYourGuide has been around for quite some time, and continues to grow with global ambitions. The company recently raised a Series D, which was geared towards fueling not only its continued worldwide expansion but also to building the technologies that are foundational to its future.As part of our tnoozLIVE@ITB show, I sat down with GetYourGuide CEO Johannes Reck. In this wide-ranging interview, we discussed just how the company plans to move ahead in defining the future of travel today. Machine learning and AI True success in the future of travel comes down to personalization, Reck said.The company aims to build the AI underpinnings that drive intelligent recommendations to its users. By reducing search time, and connecting travelers more quickly to the right content for them, the company believes it will have a leg up in both stronger customer loyalty and lower marketing-related costs. If you look at the travel landscape today online, the cost of people is negligent. We -- the Pricelines, Expedias, Ctrips, GetYourGuides -- the staff that we employ is such a small part of our P&L versus the marketing. Costs just continue to explode for the benefit of Google and Facebook and everyone else. So making that more efficient is really the name of the game.Share this quote Using technology to personalize more effectively as a cost-efficiency effort will become critical for long-term success of mainstream travel companies, Reck says: So in the next five-to-ten years, you'll be seeing travel companies doing that and doing that very well and those will win and the others who don't do that will lose.Share this quote On China and mobile bookings Like many others in travel, GetYourGuide has seen growth in mobile bookings. Especially when it comes to in-destination activities, travelers are showing more willingness to purchase via mobile.This trend is, in some ways boosted by China, where travelers are venturing further abroad and want to have the same seamless mobile payments experience that now exists across that country. What we're continuously seeing is a strong shift towards mobile. So it's been there for many years, but I think the velocity at which it's happening now is really unprecedented. I think we're at a point where in five to ten years, very, very, few people will book travel on desktop.Share this quote The full interview and transcript are below.Nick: What message are you going to send to people and what are you going to tell people here at ITB?Johannes: Sure, Nick. Thank you so much for inviting me. It's a pleasure to be here. The key piece that I'll be talking about today is actually about how big data's trending travel so we really a divide between the players that you actually harvest big data and machine learning and automate more intelligent recommendations to travelers and attract travelers in a much more efficient way.Those players who frankly don't do it, you see tremendous difference and growth and capturing market share between these two groups. That's what I'll be talking about and how you can basically move from being a small or slow moving player, into a champion that can actually take advantage of the scope of technology that's available today.Ctrip showed on stage how they're using data too. So this is a big thing right? Because you can actually personalize products and understand your customers more. What do you guys do with that data? What are some of the things that you guys are seeing and using?Well we have, I'd say two to three main areas where were working with data.One is actually in the predictive algorithms, where we try to figure out what a customer's actually going to be worth for us, depending on which part of the travel funnel that person enters. Whether there's stuff like very high intent from Google, when you know someone is searching for an Eiffel tower ticket.They already know exactly what they want to do and that's sort of like customer's obviously worth a lot to us because they are very likely to convert over that there's still sort of more on a planning mode and stuff much further up the funnel.I mean it's maybe clicking on something like an inspirational ad Instagram or so. When I'm faraway from the travel purchase decision, but I still want to get to know the brand and flip through the inventory. That entire pieces is quite difficult to work up because you need to have very smart machines that kind of of cluster the different customer intents and traffic sources and price them and make sure that we price that accurately. So that's one area.Then the other area we're really focusing on is in the recommendation algorithms to customers.Depending on who you are and what you're looking for in a destination, a very different set of inventory is relevant. If you've already been to Paris five, ten times right? So it's very unlikely that you'll be interested in the Eiffel tower.That said, if you're a family that's coming in to Paris for the first time, it's very likely that Disneyland is relevant for you right? So the resource page that we need to show you and the inventory that we need to surface to you is widely different, depending on the customer so that entire area of the personalization is very important.And then the last piece is really about the long-term relationship with the customer.That is about how we can reach out to them again at a relevant time point. So you know when for instance, you're just landing again on your next trip in Paris or you know when the right window is for you to get inspired the next time -- and teaching the machines to make intelligent decisions on when you can be relevant and with what time of content. That's also a very big part of big data and machine learning for us.That's a lot of stuff.That's exactly what I'm saying. So in the next five-to-ten years, you'll be seeing travel companies doing that and doing that very well and those will win and the others who don't do that will lose.Because one of the critical pieces is that you'll be able to be more efficient with your marketing spend right? Because you know it costs you a certain amount to get a customer.If you look at the travel landscape today and online, you will see that you know the cost of people is negligent at this point in time. We -- the Pricelines, Expedias, Ctrips, GetYourGuides -- the staff that we employ by now is such a small part of our PNL versus the marketing. Costs just continue to explode for the benefit of Google and Facebook and everyone else. So making that more efficient is really the name of the game.And it's actually for the end user, for Facebook and Google, they want that and they just theoretically help with that too. Because users want to see relevant ads.Absolutely and that's why ultimately, we've seen over the last ten years that in every category, you know whether that's hotels, alternative accommodation, and destination activities, you will see two, three, maybe four if at all winners that can harness all that data and can be good partners to the Facebook and Google. So the consumer, facing advertisement companies and the others just don't have as good of a shot.It takes a lot of money to do these consumer businesses. 75 million is a big amount of money. So what are you gonna do with it?So it might sound like a lot to you, but GetYourGuide is not a very young company anymore. We have very significant revenues and for us basically, that cash was not to be burned on some crazy Mars-like project.But it was really just to fuel the build up of the technology in all core areas and make sure that we still remain independent and can keep a long term vision right? Our space gets increasingly competitive. You see all the big whole sort of names, trying to take a stab at it and we want to make sure that we remain in a position where we can invest and grow to become the leading globally leading player on that space.The capital markets have changed tremendously, right? So If you would've thought of Get Your Guide fifteen years ago, I'm like- we would need to prepare for public offering right now. In fact, we'd be perfectly legit public company at this point in time.Now, you have all these players in the late stage markets thatwant to help companies to stay private for long as so they can just grow and grab more market share and I think that's really beneficial for entrepreneurs.And for those startups who may be watching, how did you get to this point? You have been around for a while. But how did you get to this point? And would you make a recommendation to take larger financing or really only take what you need? Walk us through how you decided to get your financing at the certain points in your business.It really always depends on what type of business you have. Generally, if you're on technology, you wanna target a very large market first. If you have a very large market on site, so a very big price to win as to globally leading platform and that market that you-- and travel tends to be one of these mega-markets like even every sub-market of travel is still a hundred billion dollar market.If that's the case, you wanna raise as much cash as you can. Because at the end of the day, it's not about optimizing for the illusion at a give and run, but it's actually optimizing for market chain in the end game that will come up.If you're really serious about what you're doing, particularly in travel, then for sure the top five travel companies in the world will compete with you at some point and you need to be geared up for that battle. So I think that's why we definitely chose to go very aggressive in terms of funding. Any other company that is in a similar dynamic, I'd recommend to do the same thing.So you're wrapping up data operations, I'm assuming it's already existing. But some of that funding is probably going to that. Is that a correct assumption?Correct, yeah. I would say product, engineering, design, all of that. It's a key element of what we investing in. It's a key element frankly that every digital travel company invest in heavily right now and we definitely see an accelerating race right now in sort of building up this tech functionalities in house and even some of the big players I would say are not as advanced as you might think. But this will change dramatically over the next two years.What skillsets are being the most competitively sought right now? What are you seeing as the harder to find occupations or skillsets?Well I can speak from the lands of Europe and I'd say that for us, it's definitely all of the data positions. Like handling and dealing with large scaled data and sort of like building algorithms that make smart decisions. That's definitely something where we don't have as many people yet, because we also just haven't bought the gigantic internet companies.So lack that part of expertise. We also see lacking, frankly, experienced product managers who can lead engineering teams and know enough software engineering projects.I think in general, Silicon Valley just has the bigger advantage than you know, they've had a lot of very big large scaled consumer internet companies over the last ten, twenty years and so the talent pool is just a lot deeper than what we can deal with here.China, on the flipside, are ramping up these resources very, very quickly. That's the big focus of the government on that to do that and give that education to people and they also have increasing larger amount of big companies. So it's really something that we need more of in Europe.I was reading in BusinessWeek that a lot of Chinese folks are returning from Silicon Valley back to China for these big problems. So you have all these PhDs returning to China and there's only so many PhDs with data science backgrounds. So if you're in college, study data! That seems to be the lesson right? It's data science. Should everybody have some knowledge of how to use data? Even the product managers, the designers?Yeah, that study will be a requirement for most jobs. I'd still recommend that people study what they are passionate about first and foremost, because if you're not passionate about doing something, there's no use in it. I mean you can be a great reporter and so 21st century as well and that's also a great scale right? Not that many around these days.At the end of the day, I think you should do what you're passionate about. But most jobs in the next ten, twenty years will require a very deep understanding of how to deal with large sets of data.So let's get a little bit into travel trends, traveler trends with customers. Are you noticing anything in particular about certain type of bookings that are happening? Or lead times. Has there been anything interesting that has piqued your curiosity with certain customers?Sure. What we're continuously seeing is a strong shift towards mobile. So it's been there for many years, but I think the velocity at which it's happening now is really unprecedented. I think we're at a point where, in five to ten years, very, very, few people will book travel on desktop.How far do you think it will go? Like 90% mobile? I mean, how deep?If you look at -- it depends on what type of travel product. If you look at trains, it's already 80, 90% mobile today. Activities I think will be in the same realm. Maybe complex travel will still remain lower for a longer period of time. But even then, that will shift to voice interfaces and that will ultimately be mobile.The desktop has a shelf life and the clock is ticking at the end of the day. So I'd give it another ten years maybe, at most.Are you seeing any increase in mobile about when looking at regions or even specific countries? Maybe a country is accelerating faster, like more Chinese folks are actually booking on mobile at a faster rate than other areas, or is it all growing at the same rate?China is definitely the leader of the pack one communicate when it comes to mobile. They basically just jumped the entire desktop age and they've been -- those guys already on mobile 70, 80% of people. The US is also very strong on mobile.I'd say at Central Europe, Italy and Germany are a little bit the laggards, so it's taking us longer time to get comfortable to just be spontaneous and book something on a mobile device.The UK and Europe are very interestingly just the opposite. So the UK is actually the most mobile country in Europe. Even more so than the Unites States so we see a very strong mobile trend there. So if you realize stuff like it depends a little bit by country and their mobile ecosystem.So GetYourGuide, when you founded it, what was the premise? What was the original problem that you wanted to solve way back in the day?Now you're taking me way back.Cause things have changed a little bit, yeah?Yeah, it changed a lot. So originally, we were at peer to peer marketplace.Our idea was for students to get online and basically host activities in a city and the idea was that they could show other people a good time and a little incremental dollar for their living. But what we found out very quickly is that students did not have the time to do that and they were not interested to upload tours.I think it's about the same thing that Airbnb realizes now as well with their offering, which is very similar to our original offering. People are either professionals or they do it very rarely and for a very high price point.That was what prompted us to this market because we realized, a lot of the real suppliers of site seeing and attractions and activities, they wanted to be listed on platform, they had good price points, they have good availability and a very good product. But it was just not promoted properly. And that's when we flipped to Getyourguide.com and opened the company and launched it in the way we're operating today.Do you think that having Airbnb Experiences is better distribution for tourism activities, and is going to really help maybe smaller players get in? Or is tours and activities always just going be fragmented?We certainly see professionalization of our space so they're more bigger and better operators. There used to be a lot of big operators but poor operators twenty, thirty years ago when distribution was a means to an end for tour operators. The tour operators today have died and the old suppliers that they had have died alongside with them.Those were the guys who would drive you into souvenir shops and would have overprice tours for a terrible quality.They didn't survive the shift towards digital because on Get Your Guide they'd just get very terrible reviews and people wouldn't book them. So we've really grown a complete new breed of suppliers, but those are all professional suppliers who get increasingly big on our platform alongside with us. I think there will be a place for smaller and fragmented suppliers as well, and that we will be endorsing and also growing as we get better at personalization for people.So if we get better at recommending stuff for the people that have already been to Paris for five times and now are interested in wine and food, then he smaller suppliers also will be relevant.I don't anticipate that there will be a revolution where suddenly everyone will become a host and start to offer things to tourists. It's too complicated of domain for that and frankly, if you have a day job, what we found out time and again is people don't have the time and they don't do it. So I wouldn't see that, but in general, I would say Airbnb experience is a great product and I think they definitely put on big spot light in our industries and we can only be thankful for that.Yeah, consistency matters. If a guide is inconsistent, it gets poor reviews or could get the digital world to push them aside.If you look at the profitability of the product behind it, if you don't have an operation that is consistent and that is scalable in a way, no it's not very profitable and hence it cannot grow.So in that sense, the experience as product as Airbnb stands today is not anything that is destined for scale and I don't think it will work at ten ex or a hundred ex. But I think it's a good step in the right direction, I definitely expect those guys also moving more and more towards the mainstream market as they go alongOr Brian Chesky says, "We're just gonna be an OTA!" It's a big shift.Sure. They'll all be an OTA, I think Expedia and nBooking.com and the idea with all the stuff that comes along with it that.The marketing spend increases, like Expedia had last quarter. It's wild to see the jumps?If you want to be a mainstream company in travel, which ultimately you want to if you wanna capture meaningful market share. Then that comes alongside with it.So let's wrap this interview up with a looking ahead question. So as you want to become a meaningful company, already meaningful but even bigger and more scale, where do you see yourself the next two years? Where are you headed and how are you going to get there?I think for GetYourGuide, it's very simple. We're clearly the leading product in the in destination travel activities vertical. So anything that site seeing tours, day tours, excursions, attractions. We will just continue to sell at an ever increasing scale.And internationalization really is the name of the game. We have clearly locked on Europe at this point, now we'll get into other geographies over the next two, three years.And we'll do that with an increasingly aggressive approach on the marketing side and an increasingly better product for the customers. In order to improve our long term viability. That will be really the key focus of the company. I don't anticipate anything other than that over the next two to three years. I think that will keep us plenty busy. GetYourGuideTours and Activities


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"We have tried to explain Mircea Eliade's view on narration in correlation to the textual meaning and which has to be "free", not controlled by novelistic norms; for him, the book is only a project with cosmic pattern: it rhythmically renews itself by means of the repeated act of reading; its "hybrid" character is the effect of extending the factual dimension into the fictional one that aims at revealing a truth; child of cosmogonic myths, the book has a paradigmatic character, whereas the multiple disseminated meanings are integrated within an organic hierarchical perspective, whose anti-naturalistic character is suggested by its shattered aspect that invites the reader, situated in an intertextual labyrinth to an indirect recreational reading that overlooks the text in order to restate the principles of production of the new novel-novel." (Eliade prin Eliade [Eliade through Eliade], ediţia a II-a, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 2003)
"We define the Eliadian archetype, dissociating us from Ioan-Petru Culianu's and Adrian Marino's considerations of it as a performal transcendent aprioristic category and a morphologic one, realized according to the description of the religious facts and which describe it through the binary opposition historical-anhistorical. We consider that the Eliadian sacred archetype is not only an archetype of origin, but a transcendent and transcendental "chronotope", with a bi-unitary, mobile, self-generative, reversible character, repeatable in the absolute and the re-innovating, upholding ontological meaning. We represent the dynamics of this renovatio, which supposes the preservation and expansion of the sacred archetype in the shape of an endless column, similar to that of Brancuşi, evoking Blaga's mioritic space transposed vertically. We define the Eliadian view on the sacred in relation to his procosmic philosophical anthropology of a religious type, whose model is the Romanian sacramental view on existence, represented by cosmic Christianity; this provides man with the ability to recover origin, to transgress and to oppose history without being against it. The artist, the hermeneutist, the initiated theologian and the specialist in the sacred are those who help man to understand this ability." (Eliade prin Eliade [Eliade through Eliade], ediţia a II-a, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 2003
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I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th, if you celebrated! It was definitely nice to have a long weekend. I thought I'd share where I'm at on my Project Roulette WIP-down. On January 1st, you may remember, I pulled the first project out of the box and it was Hare Pyns. I got to work and finished that one up by the middle of January. Then I dove back into the box and pulled out the next focus project. I have to say I was surprised but happy to see this one come up next. My Anniversaries of the Heart has been a long-standing WIP and I'd really like to see it finished this year. The last block I finished was actually the June block. I skipped March, April, and May because I wanted my dad to see the June block I was personalizing for him and his mother before he died. Unfortunately, I didn't get it finished in time. And I think after that, I just sat this piece aside.
I did eventually pick it back up and I started the March block on the plane to Germany in 2014. I'd worked on it a little bit here and there, but nothing substantial. So, this is what it looked like when I picked it up in January of this year. The before photo, if you will.
I worked steadily on it and was able to get it finished before the end of February. I had to make a couple of thread changes. At the bottom of the house, the "foundation" of the house is charted to be the two brick colors, one thread of each. I am stitching mine on 40ct and only using one thread, so blending two wasn't going to work. My friend Mary suggested using the same color used for the window outlines. And it worked beautifully! Also, the called for color for the window fill in was so close to the outline color that I had to look for something else. After some trial and error, I found something that worked well but wasn't too stark or bright. Mary helped by being a second set of eyes on that decision as well. So, this one is all thanks to her!
Here is the finished block. I love the way it turned out. It is personalized for Eric's grandparents and the year they were married along with their birthdates (both in March).
And here's a little look at how the whole thing was coming together with that March block finished. I love how it's coming together!
And of course, once I finished March it was on to the April block – Pink Hill Manor.
Here's my little bitty start on it.
And here it is finished! I stitched this one for Eric and I. We were married in April of 2006 and this year we celebrated our ten year anniversary! This was a fun one to stitch and went relatively quickly. I finished it up on March 30th.
And here we come to my tale of woe. I took a little break from my AOTH stitching to stitch a little gift for a friend's birthday and then got started on the May block about April 5th or so. I worked on it but I was seriously slow-mo-joe-ing it on this block. Not sure if I was just getting burned out on working on this piece or what the deal was. But, I'd made some pretty good progress on it and I had it with me at my EGA meeting at the end of the month and then when I got home and was getting my things out of the car, disaster struck. I spilled coffee on my project bag. My mesh project bag. Here's the damage.
So, it was coffee with cream and sugar in it so I knew I had to get it out. I attempted to blot it with a damp cloth, which did help with the coffee stain but left a dark line all around the edge of where I got the fabric damp.
I took my case to the Sampler World Facebook group and asked for suggestions. I have to say my friend Kim had the best suggestion (and she knows my sense of humor well):
I recommend voodoo. Bury the linen in a burlap sack in a graveyard at midnight of the next full moon. Sprinkle the earth with a mixture of rat toenails (clipped with your best embroidery scissors), Cheetos dust, and the ashes of a Krispy Kreme donut. Each night for the next seven nights, walk backward around the hole three times. On the seventh night, dig up the burlap sack and swing it over your head five times, facing east. If that doesn't work, do what these other ladies said to do.
LOL! It gave me a good laugh.
Ultimately what it came down to for me was that the piece was basically ruined as is, so I took a deep breath and dunked that corner in cold water. Then I let it start to dry. Same situation – dark ring around where it got wet. So, I rinsed the whole thing in cold water. I let it dry and ended up rinsing it one more time. Once it finally dried, all traces of the coffee were completely gone. I had been most concerned about all the overdyed threads used in this piece. And one stitcher in the group asked specifically about my threads. She said that the Weeks and Gentle Arts (GAST) threads are for the most part colorfast now, but she said with the Crescent Colors threads (now Classic Colorworks), all bets were off. So, I knew I was running a risk that my threads might run, and I actually had some that did. The ones that bled were a charcoal grey and a burgundy. Everything else looked fine. And the bleeding wasn't bad. I may still try to work on those later, but ultimately I decided that I had too much work in this to ditch it and I think I can live with the minor bleeding. So here's what it looked like after its bath.
And I picked it back up and got right back to my May block, working on it at the Tudor Rose guild meeting.
And then finally, in a late night photo you can see the final finish of this block on June 20th. So, it took me basically two months to stitch this one. This block is in honor of Eric's parents and their wedding year of 1972.
I am already hard at work on the July block and hope to really pick up the pace now that I'm over the hump. Needless to say, I leave the coffee well away from my stitching now! Anyway, I'll be sharing better photos of the whole piece soon as well as how my July block is coming along. And of course, you can always follow me on Instagram if you want to watch my progress.
I am grateful for the help of fellow stitchers!


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If you open any triathlon magazine, you'll see pages of ads for aero gear promising dramatic speed gains on race day: bike frames, forks, race wheels, bottles, holders for said bottles, and much, much more. However, the most important component of aerodynamics isn't the bike and all the stuff you hang on it—it's you.
At Endurance Nation, we preach R.O.I.—spending your time on the things that yield the highest Return On Investment. From training time to technique to where you spend your money, we want you to get the biggest bang for your buck.
And we've got news for you: it's not your water bottles that are creating the most wind resistance; it's your riding position. Shouldn't you then consider addressing your riding position before dumping your hard-earned money into low R.O.I. purchases? We think so. A fully tricked-out tri bike is useless if your body presents a sail to the wind.
Are You an Average Age-Group Athlete?
Some athletes feel they are not fast enough to warrant a position change or scrutiny over gear. Or, maybe they think a professional bike fit will be prohibitively expensive. Well, consider this: the speed gains of any changes you make to improve the aerodynamics of the bike-rider system are greater the longer these changes have to express themselves.
The longer you are on the bike course, the longer a better bike fit, aero helmet, or improved bottle setup have to help you save time. Slower riders actually have more to gain from improved fit than faster riders.
Before we delve into the nuts and bolts of bike fit, there are some common mistakes many athletes need to fix before consulting a professional bike fitter or considering a position change.
Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them
To truly benefit from a proper bike fit, you need to make sure that you've corrected these common mistakes:
- Riding with knees splayed out. Keep them close to the top tube. If you can't, something is wrong with your setup—probably cleat position and/or footbed tilt.
- Wearing a scoop neck top. This can be hard to avoid, but if your collar drops down when you are aero, it acts like a parachute, possibly hurting your time far more than those carbon rims help it.
- Loose clothing. Anything else that flaps forms a rough surface and scoops open in the wind—this is bad. This is why time trial cyclists wear skinsuits and shoe covers. Triathletes can't be as smooth, but it pays to eliminate anything that obviously drags.
- Race Number. If you have a number pinned to your body, even above your butt, it is probably causing drag. Try to avoid wearing a race number on the bike (but check the particular race's rules—many require it). Use a number belt for the run.
- Bike Race Number. Those cardboard race numbers that attach with twist ties can really dirty up the front end of your bike. If the race requires one, try cutting the numbers out and taping them flat to each side of your frame with clear packing tape. Or, tape it smoothly around your seat post like a fairing. If the number is a sticker, the same techniques apply. Even if the race specifies that the number must be placed between the top tube and head tube, it can be taped smoothly so it doesn't flap.
Once you've addressed these issues, you are ready to move on and review the principals of bike fit. This will help you understand the philosophies behind why we preach what we preach when it comes to both fit and body positioning.
The 3 Principles of Bike Fit
There's a lot of information about bike fit saturating the internet. So, how did we develop our Endurance Nation perspective on the matter? Our philosophy is based on these principals:
Aerodynamics Trumps Weight
Triathlon is a non-drafting sport. Up, down, flat or turning, we are always pushing our own way through the wind. Therefore, aerodynamics trumps weight in our sport. That's not to say you should load your bike like a pack mule on race day. However, if adding a few grams of weight betters the aerodynamics, don't sweat it.
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Diane Mueller very kindly invited me to share Wardley Maps with the OpenShift Commons, and I can't help but write about the challenge she's shared:
Okay, now I just gotta figure out how to map an entire tech ecosystem that I have near-zero understanding of. No pressure!
First, let's look at the website she shared…
That's… a LOT of logos! Mild overwhelm aside, I think there's enough here to work with.
Step 0: Set Reasonable Expectations
Why would we want to map a tech ecosystem like this? Diane wants something that drives actionable strategies, but because I'm new to the space, I have lots of questions about why, to what end, and for whom! For now let's assume we just want to shorten the time it takes for someone new like me to get oriented to all the different moving parts in the ecosystem. We'll start there and refine our primary goal as we go.
Often times we see how folks have made super complicated Wardley Maps, but I want to emphasize that all maps start small and get bigger over time. And most of the time, it's more helpful to make many separate, smaller maps anyway. So I think it's reasonable that we not worry about making one map to rule them all. We just want to make getting oriented easier.
One final suggestion is to start with a shallow dive and the push all the way to "the end" of the process. You can always do more research, make a more perfect map, and so on. But if you go too deep too soon, you'll drown in detail. Or you'll tire out before you get to learn anything.
Step 1: Make Lists
First thing's first, let's make some lists. Wardley Mapping wants you to figure out what "the things" are and how they relate to each other (primarily in terms of dependency). So first, we gotta find some "things" to write down.
I think getting the right words on the first try is really difficult, so some mostly unguided reading of news articles, blog posts, Wikipedia pages, press releases, etc. about an ecosystem can be super helpful for learning what the things and the words for the things are. John Cutler also taught me a neat trick where you just type a few words you know in an image search and browse quickly through all the diagrams that come up to get a feel for the space.
But, sometimes you don't need to work so hard. It's often more fruitful at first to map out other people's existing assumptions rather than trying to come up with your own based on your research. This is why I wholeheartedly endorse stealing existing ontologies you find and taking them as far as they'll go as you map.
Sidebar: What's an ontology?
Basically… an ontology is "the things" and how they relate. What they're like and how they "be." It's not as complicated as it sounds, promise.
Think of it like decomposing the ecosystem into its component parts, giving those parts names, and identifying what depends on what else, and then considering their evolutionary characteristics. Some things "be" in stage 1 of evolution, where their existence is high failure and high potential future value. Other things "be" in stage 4, where they exist in exactly the opposite ways.
Back to the ontology theft…
Okay, right, stealing ontologies. I noticed in the diagram above that there are headings on the columns and rows. That's a common place for ontologies to lurk. (Another place is bulleted lists, but many times the ontology is just scattered indiscriminately instead of being organized in one place.)
I'm just gonna make a quick list here, based on those headings:
- App Definition and Development
- Database
- Streaming & Messaging
- Application Definition & Image Build
- Continuous Integration & Delivery
- Orchestration & Management
- Scheduling & Orchestration
- Coordination & Service Discovery
- Remote Procedure Call
- Service Proxy
- API Gateway
- Service Mesh
- Runtime
- Cloud Native Storage
- Container Runtime
- Cloud Native Network
- Provisioning
- Automation & Configuration
- Container Registry
- Security & Compliance
- Key Management
- Platform
- Certified Kubernetes – Distribution
- Certified Kubernetes – Hosted
- Certified Kubernetes – Installer
- PaaS / Container Service
- Observability and Analysis
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Tracing
- Chaos Engineering
- Serverless
- Tools
- Security
- Framework
- Hosted Platform
- Installable Platform
- Special
- Kubernetes Certified Service Provider
- Kubernetes Training Partner
- Members
The above took about 5 minutes, mostly just from the reading and typing. I have no assumption that it's the perfect ontology for the space from a Wardley Mapping angle, but it's a pretty decent starting point. I at least know whoever wrote these words put a lot of thought into it, so I feel comfortable starting here. (I've started with lists based on much shakier source material before. You just need a place to start playing, so don't worry about quality.)
Step 2: Learn What the Words Mean
Once you've got some words, start learning about what they mean. Your goal is to understand why they exist and what the things they mean are like.
I'll start with the high level items from the list above:
- App Definition and Development
- Orchestration & Management
- Runtime
- Provisioning
- Platform
- Observability and Analysis
- Serverless
- Special
- Members
Guess what — I've already made my first mapping decision! I've culled the detail, and in doing so decreased the granularity of the ontology.
Sidebar: Uh…. granularity?
Yeah, think literal grains of sand. Increasing granularity is like looking at every single grain of sand individually, while decreasing granularity is like looking at the different piles of sand. You can also think of it like the "level of detail." It's a relative concept, so it's more a gradient than a binary.
…and we're back.
Remember our original expectations: We want a shallow dive, so let's keep granularity not super detailed. The first level of items, without sub-items, will be fine.
Now, let's get back to learning what the words mean. I would bet $5 that the folks who run the website in the image above have definitions of these words written down somewhere. Worst case, we'll just hit up our favorite search engine and see what we find.
My first search:
cncf "App Definition and Development"
The results surprise me, and I think I'm out $5, as I can't find any definitions except for this one blog post from Cherry Servers, which describes almost all of the things in the list. (I'm making a mental note to myself that the space could use some more content about the words, if the CNCF ontology is going to be the one that sticks around. Or perhaps someone else's ontology will have a more accessible presence? I could be wrong here, so I'd need to validate.)
Now, as a reminder, I have no idea if the definitions in the blog post are the right definitions. And I don't actually need them to be right. I'll settle for the opinions of one person in a blog post for now, since I intend to iterate on the knowledge as I build it out.
So here's the definition the post suggests for App Definition and Development:
…components directly involved in enabling application functionality, communication between microservices, application data storage, and image creation.
Not the most comprehensive definition, but it's got enough new words that I can search for and read about:
- software applications
- microservices
- data storage
- image creation
Then I'd repeat the same process for the rest of the words in that high level list of items up above. My goal here is just to learn enough so I know what the words are and a cursory idea of what they mean.
One item in that list, "Members" turns out to just be a list of people in the CNCF membership. I'll remove it, since it doesn't seem to belong with the rest of the "things" in the ontology.
Step 3: Sketch It Out
Okay, I'm probably an hour in at this point. I've done enough reading to be dangerous (and very probably wrong) about the ontology. It's time to sketch out a rough idea of the space so we can at least look at what's happening.
Normally at this point I'll start with something I call a Minimum Viable Wardley Map (MVWM, for short).
Sidebar: What puts the "MV" in the MVWM?
A Minimum Viable Wardley Map just ignores relationships. That's it.
A MVWM is a faster artifact to make, though it is limited in its usefulness as compared to a conventional Wardley Map. The good news is that all you have to do to convert one to or from the other is to add or remove dependency relationships between components. Sometimes the ontology has to change when you do that, but that's totally okay and expected.
If you want a rapid (~1h) intro to Wardley Mapping that uses MVWMs and the strategic thinking process, I made this online course to get you up to speed.
Back to sketching…
To get ready, I'll grab a piece of paper and sketch out the below MVWM template:
It's a basic Wardley Mapping template, minus the Y axis.
The Y axis isn't real anyway, so this isn't too weird yet:
Now we're going to answer a really important question: Who is served by this ecosystem of parts?
Let's review the list of parts real quick:
- App Definition and Development
- Orchestration & Management
- Runtime
- Provisioning
- Platform
- Observability and Analysis
- Special
- Serverless
All this screams "software" to me. So I'm going to lean into my naïveté and assume this system serves humans who use software. I write that exact phrase up top to anchor our minimum viable map on the user:
Next, I'm going to do an overly simplistic categorization exercise for each of the ecosystem parts into the stages of evolution. (Oh yeah, that's the other thing that makes a MVWM "minimally viable" — imprecise evolution. Categorization is good enough for a first pass!)
Wait… what just happened?
If you're new to Wardley Mapping, I just reverse engineered which stage of evolution each thing is in based on a combination of guesswork (based on the reading I've done so far) and Simon Wardley's Evolutionary Characteristic Cheat Sheet (original reproduced below, CC BY-SA 4.0):
Okay, but how can you be so sure about your sketch?
Spoiler alert: I'm not sure whether my MVWM is even remotely right. All I'm doing is getting a (probably wrong) baseline map put together. I'll decide whether it's worth investing in next.
Wait, all of this was too fast.
Yes, I imagine so. This step can take 30 seconds or days and days. I suggest doing the 30-second version. (If you're not sure where something goes, just guess. You'll be coming back around eventually to validate your choices.)
Step 4. Invest and Iterate, or Start Over
Now we have to make a judgement call. Does our MVWM seem remotely worth investing in? If we iterated on our understanding of the space from this map, would we be likely to learn something useful?
It's hard to tell up-front, at least without experience. In this case, I'm not super happy with the ontology as it is. The "things" are too high level, and based on the absence of available definitions for categories from the source, I'm not sure it's going to be right.
The sub-items might be worth a try, though. My likely next move would be ditch the category headings and make a MVWM with a flat ontology of sub-items, like so:
- Database
- Streaming & Messaging
- Application Definition & Image Build
- Continuous Integration & Delivery
- Scheduling & Orchestration
- Coordination & Service Discovery
- Remote Procedure Call
- Service Proxy
- API Gateway
- Service Mesh
- Cloud Native Storage
- Container Runtime
- Cloud Native Network
- Automation & Configuration
- Container Registry
- Security & Compliance
- Key Management
- Certified Kubernetes – Distribution
- Certified Kubernetes – Hosted
- Certified Kubernetes – Installer
- PaaS / Container Service
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Tracing
- Chaos Engineering
- Serverless Tools
- Serverless Security
- Serverless Framework
- Serverless Hosted Platform
- Serverless Installable Platform
- Kubernetes Certified Service Provider
- Kubernetes Training Partner
In some cases I had to change the names to make sure I knew what to research. This feels like a more meaningful ontology, though maybe it's a bit too detailed… Might as well try and see!
You might have to try a few different pathways. Some of them might not work out. That's all part of the process.
Step 5. Repeat the Cycle
I'd want to do more reading about the terms, make another MVWM, and then make a judgement call on whether to invest in the map or start over with a different ontology.
If I do get to a point where "the things" seem pretty solid, that's when I might start working on relationships — articulating which thing depends on which other thing, resulting in a conventional Wardley Map.
I would also want to talk to other people familiar with the ecosystem. Instead of showing them the completed map, I might re-draw it collaboratively with them from scratch. They'll get caught up on my weird understanding of reality and have the ability to provide critique. They might also find that parts of it resonate or parts that they can help expand.
Understanding an ecosystem is a lot of work, no matter what tool you use. Wardley Mapping is a good choice if strategic thinking is the eventual goal, and especially so if defining the ecosystem's parts and sharing those meanings in visual form are useful intermediate milestones.
Too much detail can be an obstacle to the process at first. Looking back, I'm wondering if I should have made the problem smaller from the start. For example, I could have scoped it down to something like Observability and Analysis. I would have ended up with a more specific and useful MVWM encompassing Monitoring, Logging, Tracing, and perhaps their underlying parts.
I could have considered climatic patterns and their implications for the MVWM, which could make change in the ecosystem somewhat anticipable, or at least help us know what's happening in it that we don't have a choice over.
I could have also considered the doctrinal principles with respect to the "things" on the map and the perspectives of organizations I work with. Which principles are worth examining based on the map, and what implications do they have for how organizations in the ecosystem should behave?
And lastly, I could have considered various strategic interventions that are possible given the current state of the ecosystem. (It's tempting to jump straight here, but the previous considerations are important to explore first so we develop an appreciation of the full context before attempting to change it.)
This whole process can feel like it makes a bit of a mess, and that's okay. It's going to feel uncertain, and maybe even frustrating at times. There won't be "right answers" so much as a visual record of assumptions that placehold our thinking and make the occasional "ah-ha!" moment more likely. Stick with it, and you'll be sure to find some wild and amazing insights, just by virtue of looking closely in places others aren't even aware exist.
I'm excited to share this with Diane when we meet!
Update: We met! Here's the video.


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THE STRICKEN NUCLEAR plant at Fukushima in Japan may be on the verge of yet another crisis, after authorities said that 'spent' nuclear waste at a fourth reactor at the plant was in danger of overheating.
Hidehiko Nishiyama confirmed to AP that the storage pond for waste fuel at the number 4 reactor in the plant was beginning to boil and evaporate away – potentially allowing the used-up fuel to begin overheating and become unstable.
Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear watchdog, had refused to discuss the potential risks of such an overheating – but did confirm that the problem had arisen due to the failure of the cooling system.
The report of the overheating had come from the local Kyodo news agency, which has been proven accurate in much of its reporting on the events at Fukushima I.
The International Atomic Energy Agency – the UN's global nuclear watchdog – has confirmed a fire at the reactor earlier today but said the fire had been extinguished overnight.
That fire was likely caused by a hydrogen explosion in the pool, a government spokesman said, and it is not known what level of damage might have been incurred in the reactor by that blast.
The fire did, however, result in further radioactivity being emitted into the surrounding atmosphere.
Explosions at reactors 1 and 3 in the past days are thought only to have affected the containment buildings around those reactors; an overnight explosion at reactor 2, however, is thought to have caused some damage to the internal construction there.
The other two reactors at the six-reactor plant are also having problems with cooling, but authorities are confident that the situation at those reactors can be managed.
The level of radioactive emissions at the plants have dropped in the past few hours, after peaking at an hourly level eight times higher than the usual dosage considered safe on an annual basis.
Although the meteorological agencies of both Japan and South Korea have predicted that any radioactive emissions will be blown out to sea by overnight winds in Japan, where nightfall is approaching, recordings in Tokyo – which is 160 miles to the south-west of Fukushima – have shown a significant, though not serious, increase in the revel of radioactive particles in the air.
That news has caused a significant degree of concern among the capital's residents, with train stations by people hoping to evacuate the city and travel to the south or west.
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Show us some of your bottle labels and other things you do to dress up the beer you share with your friends. You can upload an image and tell us a little about each one. Thanks
11 thoughts on "Packaging Your Beer"
The Big Lebowski as presented at the 2017 Taste of Itasca charity event.
A second label for a 50th birthday…
Thanks for sharing Dave. What program did you use to generate these? Do you have a source for the graphics that you are willing to share?
I hope to see you in Deer River on the 18th.
Label made for a birthday brew – Surly Furious clone
Here is the label for the pale ale that I brewed with my friend Chris. It was brewed at the Big Brew 2014 Event held at Wine Creations in Grand Rapids. It was the extract kit version of the Regal Pale Ale. I did not have high hopes for this beer when I brewed it, but it actually turned out quite nicely. So, I thought it deserved a decent label.
The Brewbarb Pale Ale was a hit at the Deer River Bar-b-Que and Brew Festival this weekend. II was a pale ale base, but featured 8 ounces of rhubarb juice during the boil plus another 12 ounces of fresh squeezed juice at kegging.
There was just a hint of the rhubarb in the taste of the beer, so I think I'll increase the amount of juice in the next keg.
I made this one for my Chocolate Milk Stout. It's one of my favorite labels.
The stout is pretty good too. It's especially tasty over a little vanilla ice cream on a hot day. Okay, any day!
Looking for affordable, custom bottle caps? Then check out Bottlemark.com. I have ordered from them a few times and had very good service and results. You can upload your own image or choose from several pre-defined images.
Here's a photo of the bottle cap that I ordered for my beers. It's a nice way to dress up a bottle in addition to a label.
Here's a label I made for my recently bottled Russian Imperial Stout. I called it Ruza, after a small city located on a river of the same name, situated about 62 miles west of Moscow. It is about the same size as Grand Rapids.
I made the label using LibreOffice Draw (free and open source). I printed them 2.5″x2.5″ and glue them to bottles with a cheap glue stick.


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Glossy green bricks lend woven texture to Belgian primary school by Areal Architecten
Glazed mint-green bricks alternate to create a basketweave pattern across the walls of this school building by Areal Architecten, which also frames a series of terraces and covered play spaces (+ slideshow).
The Antwerp studio added the block to provide extra classrooms and a multipurpose hall for an existing primary school in the Belgian town of Boom.
The small green glazed bricks cover the building's prefabricated concrete structure. Each one has a four-striped surface, and they are arranged both horizontally and vertically to create the effect of a woven pattern.
"A functional volume with a unique and recognisable design casts itself as a catalyst for [an upgrade of] the whole school environment and the neighbourhood," said the architects.
The school is set on a narrow plot, and the only available building space for the extension was the playground.
To preserve as much of this outdoor play space as possible, the architects stacked the elements one on top of the other – with the hall sandwiched on the first floor between two sets of classrooms on the ground and second levels.
Two classrooms for children aged between three and six flank a broad thoroughfare at ground level, which doubles as a covered play area.
On the upper levels, a pair of generous terraces are set alongside the hall and classrooms for older children, up to the age of 12. They are linked by an external staircase, which is revealed by cutaways in the brick facade.
"The aim was to create an open school with a generous message to the neighbourhood, and one of the important elements of the design was the search for an appropriate balance between built and open space," said the architects.
"The building gives birth to a sequence of spaces in- and outside in a continuous movement from the ground up."
"The extension does not position itself as an autonomous volume that draws a hard line with its surroundings, but forges smooth transitions from outside to inside and mediates between two playgrounds," they added.
Internally, the classrooms are finished with white cabinetry and speckled beige floor tiles.
Thomas Cols Chris Eeraerts and Barbara Morisse founded Areal Architecten in 2006, and together have designed buildings including a brick and concrete townhouse near Antwerp and a retirement home arranged about a pair of courtyards.
Photography is by Tim Van De Velde.
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Architecture: Areal Architecten
Client: AG Real Estate / DBFM
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Exhausted, yet full of hope: Colorized portraits bring to life the 19th century Gold Rush migrants who flooded to California in search of a life-changing fortune
- Haunting color photographs bring lives of the California Gold Rush miners and ambitious prospectors to life
- Newly colorized images show the West Coast prospectors during the height of the Gold Rush from 1848 to 55
- Hand colorized portraits show reality of 19th century as thousands flooded to California in search of fortune
These haunting color photographs bring the lives of the California Gold Rush migrants to life.
Matt Loughrey handed colored 13 daguerreotype images of the California Gold Rush from around the 1850, breathing fresh life into one of the turning pointing in the history of America.
The 40-year-old from the west coast of Ireland colorized the stunning images as part of the 'My Colorful Past' project, which aims to bridge a gap between history and art.
These pictures shed new light on the rush that ignited in January 1848 and sent 300,000 flooding to California in pursuit of their fortunes.
The images originally taken on daguerreotype – a tin-type processes on metal surfaces and later onto glass and paper – document the migration towards the West Coast, which lasted for seven years until 1855.
Loughrey used a technique called SMTM, which is an algorithm that understands the relationship between monochrome shades and equivalent hues of red, green and blue to color the images.
The technique is said to be accurate beyond 90 per cent, with the photographs took just over two weeks to bring to life and will be part of a larger visual documentary arriving early next year.
My Colorful Past project is also on Instagram with nearly 16,000 followers and includes colorized pictures throughout history.
A daguerreotypes portrait of a Gold Rush prospector in 1850. The California Gold Rush began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California and lasted until 1855
Portrait of an unknown gold miner posing with an axe and nuggets of gold in a pan in 1851. The news of gold discoveries brought around 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and around the world in the hunt for gold
Unidentified brothers during the Gold Rush, circa 1850. California prospectors were referred to as 'forty-niners', as 1849 was the peak year for Gold Rush immigration to the state, with the San Francisco football team bearing their name in tribute to this day
A portrait of a Chinese man in 1853. The gold rush attracted thousands of prospectors from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and China seeking their fortunes in the mines
A Gold Rush miner posing with tools In 1851. The young miner looks at the camera, defying the conventions of portrait daguerreotype photography at the time, along with his shovels and sieve, the tools that discovered gold in the 1849 Gold Rush in California
A gold miner and his tools. The California rush beckoned all kinds of people to the Western shores and lead to a boom for the American economy as gold flooded into the market
An unidentified California gold miner in 1850 (attributed to photographer Robert H. Vance). The daguerreotype portrait was the first publicly available photographic process and the most popular form of photography during the Gold Rush era and was created using a sheet of silver plated copper to a mirror finish
Placer miners taken on daguerreotype in around the early 1850s, California. The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californian population and resulted in a decline in numbers from disease, starvation and displacement from their lands
A woman posing in portrait in the 1850s. Loughrey said: 'Reading about the [current] droughts in California and how they have ushered in a new wave of pioneers searching for gold, I thought it fitting to revisit the origins of the subject'
A portrait of Daniel J. Butler with gold and mining tools in 1850 by an unknown photographer. Around half of the Gold Rush migrants arrived by sea and half came overland on the California Trail and the Gila River trail
Portrait of two prospectors in the early 1850s. By the end of the gold rush in 1855, California had gone from a sparsely populated former Mexican territory, to having one of its first two U.S. Senators, John C. Frémont, selected to be the first presidential nominee for the new Republican Party, in 1856
A young girl pictured during the Gold Rush (the pictures is attributable to photographer Robert H. Vannce). Loughrey said: 'These daguerreotypes were found some time ago and have been in the back of mind to color ever since. The entertainment factor is all well and good, but the crux of the issue is making history more relatable to younger minds especially'
An unidentified California gold miner in 1852. San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a booming town of about 36,000 six years later in 1852, with new roads, churches, schools and other towns also built throughout the state as migrants flooded west
A California gold miner in 1850 (most likely photographed by Robert H. Vance). Loughrey added: 'I am completely self-taught when it comes to colorization and as an educational tool I see it as very positive. I would urge any interested persons to take a look and see for themselves what's possible, they're guaranteed to see people in history in a far more relatable way'
Gold Miners prospecting in Spanish Flat, California, in 1852. At the beginning of the Gold Rush there was no law regarding property rights in the goldfields and a system of 'staking claims' was developed, whereby prospectors retrieved gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques such as panning for the precious metals
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