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On Eric Liddell
"Often in an evening I would see him bent over a chessboard or a model boat, or directing some sort of square dance – absorbed, weary and interested, pouring all of himself into this effort to capture the imagination of these penned-up youths. He was overflowing with good humour and love for life, and with enthusiasm and charm. It is rare indeed that a person has the good fortune to meet a saint, but he came as close to it as anyone I have ever known."
His last words were "It's complete surrender", in reference to how he had given his life to his God
Johnny Mullagh XI at Willowfest 2011
Slide show and Gallery of pics from the Johnny Mullagh Squad at the Willowfest Australian Club Cricket Championships at Mildura 2011.
Another wonderful week of challenging cricket and fun as families came together to again ensure the spirit and story of the 1868 'First XI' remains a 'living heritage'.
Thanks to Aboriginal Community Justice Panel, Grampians Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group, Barengi Gadgin Land Council and Victorian Tank Services for their generous support.
Dragon Juniors at Renegades T20
The Dragon Juniors enjoyed their first visit to Etihad Stadium on December 22 for the inaugural Renegades T20 Match as part of their Club Membership Package. The group included two Vietnamese, four Indians, a Filipino, and four Anglo-Aussies many of whom hadn't been to a cricket match before. Thanks to parents Bill Field, Darren Andrews and our new Good Cricket Allround intern for 2012 Jesse Schram.
134 Sam!
Great knock of 134 by Sam Field for Dragon Juniors. Full write up at http://barklystreetcc.org/barklyst/?p=642
Filming for GLoBALL Cricket Launch 2011
Had fun commentating and umpiring the Laneway Cricket local Derby headed up by Dirk Nannes for the Renegades and James Pattinson for the Stars. Julie Hunter was also present for the VicSpirit. Great work Stephanie Newton from Cricket Victoria pulling it together and Ray Kuffer for umpiring.
'Tons of Runs' by Paul Daley
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Pictures of 'Tons of Runs' Book Launch by Paul Daley including launch of the Indigenous Heritage River Walk and Pigeon Ponds vs Edenhope Cricket Match at Johnny Mullagh Oval, Harrow, October 29, 2011. 'Tons of Runs' is a remarkable research and publishing … Continue reading
Credo Parkies vs. Outer East Trailblazers 2011
The Credo Parkies commenced their Reclink Australia Twenty20 season for the Clem Briggs Jnr Memorial Trophy at Lilydale yesterday. Outer East Trailblazers made 168 off their 20 overs with Gavin the best of the bowlers with 2/23. Alan made a quickfire 17 with the bat creating a solid foundation before Credo Parkies crashed to be bowled out for 50.
Credo Parkies play Laneway Cricket
Excited to see Urban Seed's Credo Cricket lads joining forces with the Aboriginal Fitzroy Parkies to form CREDO PARKIES for the upcoming Reclink Australia cricket season.
A full Facebook Gallery from the warm up in Melbourne's Laneways!
OB Ellemor at Twenty20=40 Big Birthday Bash
Slideshow highlights of OB Ellemor at Marcus Curnow's Twenty20=40 Big Birthday Bash. Cricket Willow, Shepherds Flat, Victoria, September 11, 2011.
Photos: Ben Liney, Rohit Khanna
Name: OB Ellemor
Nickname: O, The Big O, Obiwan
Song: Underdog by Sly and the Family Stone
Sunday Game 1:
Batting: 19 (3×4's)
Bowling: 3 overs 0/10
Sunday Game 2:
Batting: Run Out 19 (1×4)
Bowling: …beautifully shaped out swingers with the damp ball!

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Online marketing attribution attracts a lot of discussion, as it should. But the industry would be well served by having a more complete discussion about attribution so analysts and marketers fully understand the benefits and pitfalls of various approaches to attribution and set themselves up for success in the future.
Marketing attribution, at the core, is about answering this question: what is the optimal mix of messaging that moves people from discovery through to end goal completion most efficiently?
What's the problem attribution is trying to solve?
Two concepts worth considering when thinking through attribution measurement models are accuracy and precision:
High accuracy, but low precision
High precision, but low accuracy
Most management people I have worked with prefer the consistent repeatable outcome delivered by leaning towards precision – every time I put X into marketing I get Y return / profit each time.
In contrast, one might think they have accurate knowledge of a process, but each time X is put in the result can be an output of T, Q, or 6 - with no ability to forecast which outcome will occur. If you are looking to build credibility and consistency in your analytical practice, I'd lean towards precision over accuracy; most management people really do not care about the details of how you got there anyway.
What they are financing is the outcome (return) and prefer consistent results to having the details of an interaction model that is unreliable.
Enter the media mix model
Media mix models are the proper and mathematical way to assign the value of marketing touches and deliver answers to the question "how much should I spend on each media to optimize marketing value creation?"
Yes, they are expensive to build and require significant corporate stamina to execute. But mix models are the gold standard for answering the attribution question. Here's a few interesting things about media mix models worth knowing and thinking about:
- Mix models generally do not consider touches "first" or "last" or assume any media sequence at all. The model realizes people will move in and out and across different media types and exposure situations that will affect people differently, depending on who they are.
- Mix models assume that the same piece of media and any impression or touch can perform different jobs, creating Awareness, Intent, Desire, or Action (the AIDA model) even though specific media are often better at some of these tasks than others. What's important in a mix model is the way all the marketing touches react with and reinforce each other. This approach is very representative of what actually happens to humans in the real world of media and marketing.
The output of a mix model usually specifies the "weights" of each media in the mix that will achieve maximum impact, based on a series of controlled tests where specific media types are added or removed. These models are quite precise in terms of predicting outcome. But they never attempt to be accurate if you are looking for "how" the outcome occurs; the model is not about what each piece of media does by itself or how the media interact, it's about X input reliably delivers Y output.
Alternative Approach
Most companies are not ready to go the media mix model route, so cheaper and faster alternatives are desired.
Here's a way to get a feel for mix issues: when launching a new product or line, initiate one fully measured marketing channel at a time and "let it run" before introducing another channel, then another, etc. Measure the performance of each channel unto itself and the performance of the different mixes against each other.
When a new channel is added how does the performance of the new mix change? This approach does not create a mathematical model or a scientific measurement, but if you measure carefully it can give you a very solid "feeling" for how different media interact and produce results for a specific product or line. Of course you'll need enough corporate stamina to do this.
Sequential attribution
We all know last click attribution is just a partial story, which is why all the vendor effort to support moving up the source chain. This frequently results in what I would call "sequential attribution", a chain of marketing touches or other events of different kinds that happen first, second, third and so on before end value is created.
When people see these sequences of events, their reaction is to try to assign values to each step in the chain. In fact, analytics vendors offer different models of allocating value creation to the different steps, and ability to compare the different outcomes.
This is all very interesting and certainly worth looking at; sequential attribution provides great fodder for speculation on what might be going on in the value creation process. But a list of events is not a measurement, and it's difficult to take authoritative action on these touch chains for several reasons:
- Touch sequence often does not include touches through multiple browsers, computers and devices, so the "online chain" itself is not representative of reality. Add in offline media and it's a real mess in terms of actual touches.
- There is no ability to measure the actual contribution of each touch, which just begs people to start jumping to conclusions about step contribution and engaging in often-political weighting schemes. This is a really bad idea because it builds faux confidence, opens the door for damaging business decisions, and could eventually lead to lack of faith in the analytical team.
In fact, I have seen the vendors caution people against jumping to these sorts of value-contribution conclusions. This Econsultancy whitepaper Marketing Attribution: Valuing the Customer Journey has more info on the current practices in this area.
Here's an example of these human (as opposed to mathematical) weighting schemes going badly. I've never seen one of these weighting schemes assign a zero or negative value to a touch. How can that be? Controlled testing of campaigns often shows it's possible for a campaign to contribute zero or negative net value to marketing outcome. But when there are people with budgets in the cross hairs sitting around a table? All media always generates net positive value, right?
In other words, sequential attribution models can't be accurate, even though the visual representation of them surely implies they are. And they can't be precise either, because humans are randomly assigning values to the steps based on speculation, gut feel, and political considerations rather than the mathematics of marketing lift measurement.
Using the attribution sequence to justify or tweak current media budgets quarter after quarter with virtually the same outcome each time is not "proof" of anything. This is not a model and the result of this exercise does not optimize media spend for value creation.
In fact, this approach to attribution sounds a lot like the fractional allocation between online and offline discussion back in 2007.
Here's what can be done with sequential attribution – people can learn a quite a bit about pieces of the story and create tests that might prove or disprove any theories. But I'd suggest a different thought process than the above "budget games" should be used for this activity, one with more concrete (precise) goals and outcomes.
Alternative Approach
Instead of trying to figure out what each step contributes to final outcome, focus on the ability of a particular media type to move people to the next step in a sequence. Why? Because while you cannot predict or control a sequence, you can influence the interactions of two media types. If certain patterns in the sequences are detected, and clues are found on how different media tend to interact with each other for your company or product line, attempts can be made to boost the performance of these interactions.
For example, let's say when looking at sequential attribution chains, among the highest volume value creation interactions, you find a common pattern in many different touch sequences that looks like this:
Display > Social
Now, we don't know why or how this happens or necessarily the value of it, but if this sequence keeps occurring in multiple situations generating high value, it's pretty safe to assume it is important.
So, instead of spending your time arguing about what these two touches might contribute to final value – a concept you can't determine without proper controlled testing / mix models – start by asking yourself why this interaction is happening, looking for hard evidence of this interaction that might expose more details, and using this information to amplify the natural effect that is already taking place.
Ask yourself, what is it about our display campaign(s) that might create social interaction? If this sequence is desirable because it leads to positive outcomes, how can we amplify it? If the ads do not currently promote a social component, yet people are following this touch sequence somehow, perhaps you should test an intentional social-driving component in the display ads? Maybe create a new "social display" campaign, and see if it drives more value creation than the previous campaigns did?
Each media / channel should drive and be measured by movement to next step in sequence, not to end goal, because the level of precision you can achieve with this approach is much better than guessing at step value in a sequence, which lacks precision and accuracy.
Not ready for this level of complexity? Try this next idea.
First click - with a goal / value twist
Here's something many people do not know: first click segments are reliably predictive of value creation over time. Note the phrase "over time", meaning heading this way requires a change in the marketing value definition for the attribution efforts from "single conversion" to "value at 3 months" or "value at 6 months". Said another way, the visitor or customer coming back and repeating the value creation event again and again has to be meaningful to the business. In most business models, this repeat action is desirable.
And yes, first impressions count – a lot. If some mental justification is needed for why this scenario might be true (other than simply testing it), think about it this way: initial expectations created by the first interaction continue to persist throughout the customer journey. The closer the match between expectations and remaining customer experience, the more likely the customer will proceed and continue the relationship in the future. Different types of marketing effort attract different audiences, create different expectations, and result in different values over time.
The outcome of this attribution model is very consistent and creates a durable tie between campaign spend and business value generated. However, this approach requires ignoring potential value contributed by the other media "in the middle", between first touch and outcome. In other words, this approach is quite precise (which appeals to management) though it lacks accuracy because the "complete story", the contribution of all marketing touches, is never told.
Not a perfect world, but it's much better than sitting around a table and guessing – at least the result is a consistent value that can be acted on. The fact there is some value not being measured is known, and as with the sequential attribution example above, one can test different levels of other types of media to see how first click volume or value could be improved, optimizing movement through to end goal.
The downside of this approach is the value over time component. Depending on the tools available, it may be difficult to tie the first click to customer value over time, though this is getting much easier as the tools get better and new innovations emerge.
For example, the email vendor Listrak is building customer value profiles for commerce clients using tagged checkout pages, which eliminates the need for determining customer value using back end operations data. This same data also enables the customizing of communications based on where the customer is in their lifecycle.
Alternative Approach
Can't go this route? Many have found first click is also predictive of initial goal achievement, and that result certainly lines up with the experience of first click as predictive of value creation over time. So if you can't get to value over time as in the example above, you could stick with the immediate goal conversion as value and still be better off than using last click. However, this method is not as precise as using value over time as the goal; there will be larger fluctations in the predicted outcome.
Failing this approach, lots of people still get along fine with…
Last click – trusted and reliable
It's well known last click attribution is a partial story. The upside of this approach is reliable and easy to implement measurement of cause and effect. It's no wonder this approach is still so popular; it's both accurate and precise within the definition of the measurement.
Meaning, there's an accurate link between last click and action, and the outcome is very precise over time. Sure, lots of touches happened prior to the last touch, but by definition, those touches are not included in this model, so they're not a concern.
Alternative Approach
Since we're at the bottom of the attribution stack, there are not a lot of alternatives here other than what I suspect people are already looking at. You can't really improve the practice of attribution at this level because it's already pretty darn good. But you can borrow from the ideas outlined above. It's perfectly acceptable to admit you can't measure the contribution of other media to last click, but you can test more ways to drive people into a last click scenario.
For example, let's say when you look at your sequential attribution mapping you see some common patterns covering the interaction previous to a specifc last click touch. As in the sequential attribution example above, you can try modifying your approach in these media and testing whether you can bring people into the last click scenario more efficiently or effectively. Then let the last click model take the Awareness, Intent, and Desire you have created in other media and turn it into action – with accurate and precise attribution to source of this last action.
There has been a lot of excellent work done by the analytics vendors in the area of online marketing attribution, and the data they now provide opens up tons of exciting new territory to be explored. If you're not evaluating these new insights, you are surely missing out on developing promising ideas on how to optimize media spend for value creation.
At the same time, we need to be prudent about how this data is interpreted and used. I'm pretty sure when the analytics vendors are ready, they will start providing the capability to actually measure the contribution to value creation of the different pieces in a media mix. Until they are, let's just work with exactly what the vendors have provided and avoid assigning values to events / touches that so far cannot be properly measured for contribution to end goal.
Editors note: If you'd like to know more about this topic, James Novo will be speaking at the upcoming eMetrics Summit in Boston October 2nd, and would be glad to answer questions as part of the session or at any point you run into each other during the show.
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Really interesting article. Two questions though:-
* With the media mix option, what vendors do you actually feel are doing a good job of this currently as a lot of the ones I've seen seem to be making a lot of assumptions to determine their results?
* With the first touch, how can you base a model on this when based on cookie deletion and the use of multiple devices, you can't be sure that the first touch you are reporting was actually the first engagement of the customer? Certainly looking at data for some clients, customers who have been purchasing with them online for 3-4 years are still regarded as having their first interaction recently due to a loss of this data.
If you mean traditional "web analytics" vendors, I do not know of any who are trying to deliver mix modeling or say they are. Customers wanted to see touch sequences and that is what they are delivering.
The real challenge with mix modeling is not with the analytics vendors it's with the corp - can they organize a very structured effort that could last quite some time, can they monitor and ensure proper execution, can they collect the appropriate data?
The modeling itself is not that unusual; there are many folks out there with experience building multivariate regression models, and for many of the CPG's who have done this for years offline, online is just another data source.
Whether you have a skilled analyst or a web analytics vendor package auto-crunching the numbers, the real challenge is how to get the various media silos to play the game, how to get mangers to accept their campaigns will be turned off and on or otherwise restricted, etc.
Regarding the 2nd question if I'm understanding correctly, your challenge is relying on cookies as opposed to databases. Bring the first click data in with the first order submission and store it in the customer profile or with first transaction, and you don't have to worry about cookie deletion.
This is certainly not difficult to do with today's technology, but perhaps a matter of convincing management how important this data could be to the company and putting resources behind the effort. You don't have to be a big company to make this happen, though it sure would help if the cart vendors started building in some of these capabilities.
In the end, my concern is people will use these new data displays to jump to conclusions not supported by the data itself, and it's worth considering the tradeoff between trusting bits of a value creation picture that are highly reliable versus having a "whole picture" that is not.
Hello Jim,
Thank you very much for this article. The article is very educational and very easy to read. I like the part when you talk about the strategy, "when launching a new product or line, initiate one fully measured marketing channel at a time and "let it run" before introducing another channel, then another, etc. Measure the performance of each channel unto itself and the performance of the different mixes against each other." In my opinion, it's very simple and logical approach, but the funny part is that a lot of companies don't use/like it, they just dump everything at the same time and try to figure out which/what/when performs better/worst. After analyzing the channels, they pick the worst one and they say that, "at least it brings brand awareness" (that what happened to me, when I worked in one company). Ok, now to the question that I have for you. What do you think about Data-Driven Attribution in Google Analytics Premium, and what advantages and disadvantages it has.
Hi Boris,
I've not had much exposure to the inner workings of the attribution function in Premium, so not sure I'm qualified to comment on your specific question...
From what I've read, this approach is certainly a step up from the attribution models in the free version, as you might expect. I've long thought Google has access to enough info to model outcomes back to contacts and could put together some automated forecasting. You might say this offering is getting close to what an "online media mix model" might look like.
In the end, no model is perfect for all applications and it all comes down to this: can the data generated from these models help you improve your marketing efficiency and effectiveness?
If the answer is yes, then the functionality is "good".
What I would very much like to see, and no doubt this is discussed at Google and other providers, is the next step from here: give us the ability to create real control groups and test the media allocation ideas these models generate so we can prove out the models for our own specific business / customer segments.
When we get there, it will be very clear to all that online attribution has finally arrived. I can't wait!


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On the band's last tour, Wood and his wife Sally organised a backgammon tournament in which all the band participated. The tournament will resume when their next tour begins in October.
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Commemorative Quilt
Column 176: Crimean War Military
Uniform Quilts
Column 175: The Changi Prison Quilts
Column 173: Cowbelles Brand Quilts
Column 172: Quilts Providing Hope
for the Homeless
Column 170: Chuck Threat - A Quilter's Story
Column 166: The Superstitious Quilter
Column 164: The Michael Jackson
Story Quilt
Column 163: Oakland Quilters & The
Great Migration
Column 162: Quilting Through A Tragedy
Column 161: The Boise Peace Quilt Project
Column 160: Bikers Like Quilts, Too!
Column 159: The Willy Nelson Picnic Collection
Column 158: Muslin - Workhorse or Rarity?
Column 157: Governor's Necktie Quilts
Column 155: The Magna Carta Quilt
Column 154: U.S. National Park
Centennial Quilts
Column 153: Suzy's explores the rich history
of cotton and quilting.
Column 152: Haiti "Peacequilts"
Column 151: Plains Indian Star Quilts
Column 148: Quilt of Belonging
Column 147: Kanthas—The Quilts of Bangladesh
Column 145: Suzy on Carolyn Mazloomi's Groundbreaking Quilt Exhibit
Column 144: Texas Community Marks Juneteenth Sesquicentennial with History Quilts
Column 143: Maya Embroidered Patchwork
Column 142: Huipil Patchwork Quilts
Column 141: Tom Korn's Military
Medal Quilts
Column 140: The Return of Double Knits!
Column 138: Home of the Brave Quilts
Column 137: The Story of Fabric Yo-Yos
Column 134: Deaf Initiatives—Communicating Through Quilts
Column 133: My Betty Boop Quilt
Column 132: Maura Grace Ambrose
Column 131: All You Need Is Love
Column 129: The Quilted Chuppah
Column 128: Patchwork Around the World: Yoruba Dance Costumes
Column 127: The Bowers Co-Op Quilts
Column 126: Fon Appliqué and Haitian Voodoo Flags
Column 125: The Quilt Garden at The North Carolina Arboretum
Column 124: Harriet Powers and
Handful's Mauma
Column 123: Quilters de Mexico
Back in 1939 in Douglas, Arizona when 16 ranch wives decided to form a club "to promote family and social relations between cattle people and to cooperate for the best interests of our [beef] industry, our community, and our country," none of the women would have dreamed that their informal group would spread throughout Arizona and 29 states, eventually leading to the creation of the American National Cattle Women's Association.
The 2015 Cowbelles quilt, held by members of the quilt committee. Left to right Paula Neal, Mary Ellen McComb, Ann Neely, and Joylene Higgins. Photo courtesy of Paula Neal.
The women called themselves "Cowbelles," and although at first the group was purely social, it quickly evolved into a service organization, promoting western heritage and beef production through education and community interaction.
One of their first service projects was making quilts for the Arizona Children's Home in Tucson. In the 77 years that have passed since the first Cowbelle Club was started, making quilts—although certainly not the main focus of the group—has become a staple item in the long list of activities carried out by scores of Cowbelle clubs all across the United States. Not surprisingly, many of the quilts made by Cowbelle club members feature cattle brands.
This is certainly the case with the Southwestern Cowbelles of Cortez, Colorado, in the scenic area noted for Mesa Verde National Park, Monument Valley, and the Four Corners. This group has been making cattle brand quilts for 51 years.
During that time, the Southwestern Cowbelles have established a basic routine for how their quilts are made. Each quilt consists of 42, 12-inch quilt blocks. Forty-one blocks depict the cattle brands of Southwestern Cowbelle members, and one block features the Southwestern Cowbelle logo. Brands may be added or removed when new ranches start or old ones leave the area (a practice which, through the years, has provided a unique record of the local industry), but for the most part, the quilts remain the same each year.
"Only legal, registered brands are allowed on a quilt," says Paula Neal, one of four members of the quilt committee. "We make at least two tops each year. One is given away by drawing at our Christmas Party in December to a Cowbelle member who has not already received a quilt or quilt top. The other quilt is raffled off to the public at the annual Southwestern Livestock Association annual meeting in February. When one of our members turns 60 years old, she is given a quilt top as long as she has a legal registered brand, has made quilt blocks for at least five years, and has not previously received a quilt or quilt top."
Brand designs are rendered in brown fabric appliquéd with a satin stitch on a white ground. The quilt is set together with dark brown and machine quilted by committee member Ann Neely. Tradition and heritage are important elements of the brand quilts. "I guess some might think it would get boring having the same thing all the time, but it's an important part of local history," Neal continues. "People really look forward to the quilt every year and for their chance to win."
Neal, who learned to sew on a treadle sewing machine when she was four years old, has been around quilts all her life. "I still remember the first time I saw somebody buy a blanket," she laughs. "We always slept under quilts." When asked what working on the annual Cowbelles brand quilt means to her, she paused and thought a moment before replying: "Livestock and ranching are my life—and I love to sew!"


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My Top 5 Summer Beauty Tips
July 18, 2013 by admin
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For me, waking up with wide awake and fresh eyes is a thing of the past. Even if I get my eight hours of sleep, I still need a little help from my mascara. I have a five minute makeup routine that I use year round, but during the summer it always needs a little tweaking. The humidity doesn't let my powder foundation stay put, lipstick never ever sounds appealing if you're sweating all day, and my trusty mascara needs a little more staying power. Now when I have a tan I can get away with just mascara, but it needs to withstand the 100 degree weather and even a day at the beach (yes, I wear mascara even to the beach). Check out my five tips to keep your makeup looking fresh all summer long!
Go Light
Now is the time to sport your tan, and ditch the heavy foundation or powders. Try a tinted moisturizer of a BB cream with SPF, a light cheek stain or, even better for your skin, a bronzing powder. Tip: focus on the parts where the sun naturally hits the bridge of your nose, temple and top of cheeks for a natural look.
Save your pretty colored lipsticks for the cooler weather or try dabbing a little on your cheeks. On your lips use lip gloss and balms for a nude lip to compliment your summer skin routine. Tip: I've mentioned here how I dab bronzing powder over lip balm for some color and even on my eyes but lately I've been using a tiny bit of concealer mixed with lip gloss for a nude lip and it looks great!
Take advantage of summer's most favorite hair trend: beachy waves. Skip the hair drier and try making your own sea salt spray for your hair (click here for Free People's awesome concoction that I personally use). After spraying your hair pull it up into a bun and let dry. I know most women prefer a braid but I don't like the way it leaves my thick hair. The bun gives it a looser wave and lasts longer. Tip: if you have naturally wavy hair like me then try blow drying just the front of your hair, and then apply sea salt by hand. This minimizes front-end frizz, which is the worst!
Mascara, mascara, mascara! During the summer I switch to a waterproof mascara so I can wear it all day without worrying about smudging if I am at the pool or beach. It really is a lifesaver. Tip: skip the mascara on the lower lashes. Waterproof mascaras can be tougher to remove and the skin around the eyes is the most delicate. It will give you an even more natural look if you apply enough at the top lashes.
Opt for the popular gel manicure. A bit pricier than a regular mani, but so worth it especially during the summer if your busy with kids like me. They dry instantly and stay shiny for up to two weeks.
What are some of your favorite summer beauty tips?


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Folic acid is a nutrient found in green leafy vegetables and in some fruits and grains. Medical researchers have known for some time that that if pregnant women don't consume enough folic acid early in their pregnancy, it increases their babies' risk for neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
Now, new research performed by Allen Wilcox from the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences confirms folic acid deficiency also contributes to the risk of cleft lip. "A cleft lip or what used to be called a hare lip, is a defect in which the upper lip and sometimes the upper bone of the mouth that form the upper teeth, does not form properly," he explains. "A cleft palate is when that defect occurs back further in the mouth, in the roof of the mouth."
Wilcox says the birth defects make it difficult for the baby to breast feed. "It also interferes with speech and infections in the ears, and there's all kinds of complications that can ensue," he adds.
The epidemiologist studied Norwegian babies born with cleft lip, cleft palate or both. He asked their mothers to recall whether they had taken pre-natal vitamins, or eaten diets high in folic acid and other folates. The usual amount of folic acid in prenatal vitamins is 400 micrograms.
"What we found was that the risk of cleft lip and cleft palate was reduced by about one-third among the women who reported that they were taking at least 400 micrograms of folic acid every day," he reports. Wilcox says women who took folic acid, but took less than 400 micrograms, "did not have any protection against cleft lip."
Wilcox says the effect of folic acid intake on the formation of cleft palates was not as strong. But he also says researchers think that defect has a slightly different cause than cleft lips.
Cleft lip and palate are two of the most common birth defects in the world. About two in every 1,000 babies are born with the problem.
Wilcox stresses that it's important for women to be taking folic acid if there's even the slightest chance of getting pregnant. "If women wait until they're pregnant to start taking vitamins, they may have already missed the early crucial stages of embryonic development where these birth defects are formed."
The research was published in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal.


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Winter reads - 13 great books for Christmas and beyond
From a monthly guide to Britain's wildflowers to an enticing browse through our finest pubs, we've chosen 13 of our favourite reads this month. They'll delight you and make great gifts for book lovers this Christmas
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to British Birds
Author: Bill Bailey
Is there no end to Bill Bailey's talents? The musician, comedian and actor proves himself a gifted naturalist, writer and illustrator in this Remarkable Guide.
A keen twitcher since childhood, Bailey presents an A to Z of some of the country's most well-known birds, complete with offbeat descriptions, curious facts and amusing sketches. We hear about the incredible migration of the Arctic tern, the undeserved low reputation of the crow family and how human couples might get cohabitation tips from the tawny owl.
Taking pleasure in the ordinary is a prominent theme. As Bailey says, "beauty is often in the commonplace" and some of the most engaging passages are saved for widespread birds such as the Wood Pigeon and the Robin. A master of observing life and injecting it with surreal humour, Bailey applies his whimsy to the avian world, likening an encounter with puffins to meeting a 'gang of tiny pirates from Somerset'.
Bailey's passion for the subject shines throughout and he gives a real sense of birdwatching as a grounding experience that can enrich your life. As well as inspiring and entertaining, the book also serves as a gentle reminder that many species are in decline, with others having returned from the brink of extinction, and the importance of continued conservation efforts to protect them.
Quercus Books: £20
Reviewer, Sam Swannack
The Pub
Author: Pete Brown
In this beautifully presented compendium of Britain's finest pubs, author and beer expert Pete Brown reveals a treasure trove of UK watering holes. The tone is lively, entertaining and informal, as though you are sat at a table listening to "the beer drinker's Bill Bryson" over a pint. Brown captures the character and quirks of each establishment, its publican and customers, and groups his findings in loose categories that range from 'architecturally interesting pubs' to 'great food pubs' and 'railway pubs'.
Pubs are notoriously difficult to photograph well, but the charming, colourful images here convey the distinct flavour of each of the various inns and taverns. It's fascinating to explore the broad and varied scope of the nation's locals, and to witness the importance of these cultural and communal institutions. A large coffee-table tome, The Pub is an enticing book that will make you long to wet your whistle as you browse its pages.
Jacqui Small: £22
Reviewer, Maria Hodson
Author: Nick Hayes
Something a little different, Nick Hayes's handsome Cormorance is a graphic novel without words. It tells the moving story of two children, each of whom is struggling with the loss of a loved one, who find something of a safe haven in a deserted reservoir hidden in the heart of London's East End. This urban wilderness provides the beating heart of the book, beautifully brought to life in Hayes's sumptuous illustrations, most notably in the stunning fold-out four-page spread that marks a turning point in the narrative in which the reservoir is depicted in panorama – a city skyline on the horizon, the flora and fauna around the water's edge, bulrushes, willowy grasses and butterflies blowing in the wind, bees supping on blossoming flowers, a majestic kingfisher surveying his kingdom, swans drifting across the water, a heron swooping in to land. It's a wordless book, but not a silent one. The "caaaawwk" of the cormorance runs like a refrain throughout the story, eventually joined by other feathered friends; each "cheep", "kreeyah" and "cheyahcheyah" a distinctive voice. Although set in the modern day – there's a hipster dad, complete with groomed moustache and pipe – Hayes's work has the feel of that of William Morris.
Jonathan Cape, £18.99
Reviewer, Lucy Scholes
The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present
Author: Nicholas Crane
Most of us know Nicholas Crane as either 'the map man' or the amiable, enthusiastic host of BBC TV's superb Coast, but his TV persona is but a jaunty porthole on the expertise and knowledge behind The Making of the British Landscape.
It's a doorstop of a volume at well over 500 pages, but it twinkles with more than enough enthusiasm to propel the reader through a 12,000 year journey over the British landscape. Crane, who is a longtime Fellow and now President of the Royal Geographical Society, has pulled together archeology, history, geography, geology and cartography into an eminently readable study of Britain and how the concept of 'place' evolved on these islands, from the first colonisers that followed the retreat of the glaciers to the application of asphalt and installation of traffic lights twelve millennia later.
It's a fulsome account and every page of it is spent in the moment that Crane is lingering in, painting landscapes as they once were, noting the wildlife and the likely weather, transporting us in every sense to the there and then. And he doesn't take it all too seriously either, slipping in observations of how the Romans 'gave us a good duffing' or digressing to caricature the curmudgeonly author of The Making of the English Landscape – W G Hoskins – mostly in Hoskins' own words.
A definitive, encyclopaedic read, but also an evocative paean to the evolution of our scenery, The Making of the British Landscape is a revealing glimpse of the Britain that once was and how we made it the place we know today.
BBC Books: £20
Reviewer, Ian Vince
Author: Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge traverses certain parts of Britain in Denise and Fernando, the walking boots he's named after his grown children. Steve Coogan's comedy creation stalks the hills and towns of Britain in his entertainingly small-minded and large-ego style.
Commended by its publishers as "beautifully punctuated" and packed with "nod-inducing pieces of wisdom", Nomad charts Alan's attempt to walk 160 miles in the footsteps of his father, the man he simply called 'Papa'. Venturing from his birthplace of Norwich to the mighty form of Dungeness Nuclear Power Station on the Kent coast, Alan dons his Denise-and-Fernando walking boots, windcheater and John Lewis scarf in his deeply personal quest to write a deeply personal memoir.
Trapeze: £20
Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
Author: Madeline Bunting
"As early as the 1800s visitors were already complaining of sharing their visit" with other tourists in search of "wilderness, solitude and contemplation", writes historian Madeline Bunting of the Inner Herbridean island of Staffa in Love of Country. It's sort of comforting to know that even then people were trying and failing to escape each other. This Hebridean journey is both a personal one, to recapture the islands of Bunting's childhood holidays, and a historical one, which traces the islander identity up to modern Scotland.
She finds great rewards from braving the inhospitable conditions and shorelines, "no friend to boats or people", often borrowing the words of writers from Virginia Woolf to George Orwell, to evoke the feeling of going 'north', to the edge of the continent.
By the end of the 18th century, the Hebrides were drawn into Britain's impulse to map itself, of its people's desire to know the country and therefore themselves, opening it up to an influx of visitors, writers and artists who would record their emotional responses to its landscapes and isolation. Keats would lament in a poem that his fellow visitors could "Unweave/All the magic of the place".
With stronger links to civilization, industry and commerce, came the transferring of the islands from its people to landowners, leading to the ruthless eviction of their inhabitants. The repercussions of this are still felt in Scottish politics and identity today.
Bunting effectively weaves together the islands' rich histories and culture with her own experience of feeling "both at home and abroad" on these often uninviting but welcoming islands.
Granta: £18.99
Reviewed by Rachael Stiles
Author: Cynan Jones
Cynan Jones' Cove is a mere slip of a book, but the story it tells, of the battle between a lone fisherman and the elements, packs a punch far above its weight.
Having headed out to sea in his kayak, a nameless man is swept up in a sudden storm. Clouds roll in, the waves whip up and then lightning strikes. He wakes, goodness knows how long later – "The time in between was gone. Like a cigarette burn in a map" – injured, adrift far from the shore, and with just the dimmest of recollections where his memory should be: "The idea of breath on his neck lay under everything. A suspicion someone had been left behind."
So begins a race against time as, struggling with the pain of his injuries and relying only on the pitiful resources available to him, he attempts to make it back to land. It's a gruelling, gripping read, a ragged, desperate search for a safe haven: "Find a cove. Get yourself a cove with fresh water, and you will survive," our hero tells himself. "You can eat limpets if you have to."
There's no slack here, every word counts in prose that's stripped back and pared down to something akin to poetry. It's Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea meets JC Chandor's maritime disaster film All is Lost. Nature at its most brutal, and man at his most exposed, poised between "myth" – if he doesn't return – and "legend" – if he does.
Granta: £9.99
Reviewer, Lucy Scholes
Peaks and Troughs
Author: Nick Perry
It's 1969 and Nick Perry and his brother Jack inherit the tidy sum of £6,000 each. Tired with swinging London and inspired by the organic philosophies of Rudolf Steiner, Nick decides to buy a farm in the hills of North Wales, and sets off in a rickety van with his wife Ros and two young twins in tow. Arriving at a dilapidated property in the middle of nowhere, he wonders what he has let himself in for and sets about giving himself a crash-course in agriculture.
At Nick's new home we meet a range of charming and not-so-charming folk - cheeky odd job man Harry, hippy Rob, jovial postman Dewi and Nick's fiery, disapproving mother-in-law Eryl. Also central is Nick's prize boar, Rattlerow King David the 57th - Dave for short - whose personality and prodigious sexual appetite provide much comic relief. These colourful characters provide a range of friendships and feuds that keep you engaged throughout.
Peaks and Troughs is a humorous, touching memoir about the trials of being an outsider and the challenge of making a new life for yourself. It charts Perry's efforts to build a profitable business where others had failed, and the satisfaction of being self-sufficient and living off the land. Surprisingly for such an outwardly breezy book, it also touches upon the deep ways in which tragedy can affect our outlook and behaviour. A solid debut.
Birlinn: £14.99
Reviewer, Sam Swannack
Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
Author: Margaret Wilson
A lovely little guide through Britain's wildflowers by month. Margaret Erskine Wilson's watercolour illustrations, made over a 45-year period, comprise over 1,000 species and are truly charming.
Wilson was president of the Kendal Natural History Society and a keen amateur botanist. In 1999, she donated 150 sheets of watercolour paintings of wildflowers, painted in situ over many years throughout Britain. She began her paintings in 1943, when a friend said to her; "I might learn the names of flowers if you drew them for me, in the months they're in flower". So she did, and the results are enchanting. Wilson's love of the subject matter and her wonderfully accurate paintings leap from the page, and help readers learn the names of our delicate and delightful wildflowers. A botanical treasure.
Merlin Unwin Books: £8.99
Reviewer, Maria Hodson
The Ethical Carnivore
Author: Louise Gray
This book is a mix of an expose of 'factory' farming blended with a John Buchan novel on hunting, shooting and fishing. The author takes us on a personal journey of her year's quest to kill and source her meat. It's not without heartfelt emotion, from when she shoots her first rabbit, to her trauma at experiencing abattoir operations first-hand - "the evisceration is too strong, no wonder we protect ourselves from it".
The author doesn't shy from difficult subjects. She meets 'pragmatic, unsentimental' RSPCA inspectors, delves into halal slaughter and engages with those 'looking like businessman not farmers' on indoor poultry and caged salmon. She shoots a lamb, stalks a stag and annoys trawler men over dogfish ('you know it's a shark?'), nibbles insects and hunts roadkill.
Either seeking to please all readers or being conflicted by her experiences, the author wobbles on the fence. She happily kills 'vermin' rabbit for the pot, yet finds it hard to stomach other types of shooting already subject to condemnation by those wishing to ban most field sports (On being told to be a predator, she admits 'I have no killer instinct'). As someone versed in the relevant subjects, I was conscious that little space was given to framing the complex conservation issues around both game shooting and farming practices.
Rightly lambasting us for only eating five species of fish and questioning why conservation organisations don't challenge their members' diet, she concludes, in a thoughtful 'Author's Note', that we can empower ourselves to think more about from where our meat originates.
Bloomsbury: £16.99
Reviewer, Rob Yorke
Hidden Histories: A Spotter's Guide to the British Landscape
Author: Mary-Ann Ochota
Recent growth of 'nature writing' as a literary genre of its own threatens to eclipse the contribution made by field guides – the very books that satisfy curiosity, identify species and help us understand natural processes in the first place. Works like Peterson, Mountfort and Hollom's Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe and Oliver Rackham's History of the Countryside are as important to appreciation of the poetry of our countryside as any narrative journey through it and in Hidden Histories, a definitive classic field guide on a neglected area of interest – the landscape itself – is born.
Billed as 'a spotter's guide to the British landscape', Hidden Histories is all of that and much more – a synthesis of enough salient points of archeology, architecture, geography and anthropology to answer the questions of any landscape or village history detective.
Split into logical, discrete sections of landscape features, the text doesn't stop at identification alone, adding detail, context and colour to every feature. There is more than enough detail in Hidden Histories to satisfy landscape detectives from the merely curious to the advanced. With seemingly everything covered from Neolithic hummocks to Gothic parapet spires, its scope is as magnificent as our countryside itself.
Frances Lincoln: £25
Reviewed by Ian Vince
Land Rover
Author: Ben Fogle
Not only a history of Land Rover from 1947 to 2016, this is also a history of Britain and the countries in which Land Rover has been involved in a wide variety of situations, from military conflicts to expeditions of discovery.
Author Ben Fogle is no stranger to this machine and has spent years driving one, travelling to television shoots and taking the family around town. In the course of his book, he meets enthusiasts and businesses making a living from the vehicle. Many landscapes blend in to its historic journey, from Islay in Scotland, where the first trials were conducted, to its use in the Falklands. Colour photographs illustrate the wide range of machines into which the 4x4s have been converted, from hearses to the world's most expensive mobile phone. This is not just for the motor freak but for anyone interested in history and the countryside at large.
HarperCollins: £20
Reviewer, John Miles
Arboreal: A collection of words from the woods
Ed. by Adrain Cooper
Arboreal is a beautiful collection that brings together a chorus of highly distinct voices describing the majesty of Britain's woodlands. This, of course, is a landscape that's changed irrevocably over the last two centuries, and along with it our relationship with trees – no longer primarily identified as sources of heat, food and shelter – is increasingly distant in the contemporary day and age.
If many of us don't have an intimate relationship with the woodlands around us – "dynamic, living societies," as the volume's editor Adrian Cooper reminds us – the writers, woodland ecologists, architects and foresters et al writing here each make visceral their own experiences with a patch of woodland close to their heart (plotted on a map at the beginning of the collection, together these cover the length and breadth of the country).
Poetry, fiction, memoir, history; each contributor chooses a different medium, and descriptions of real coppices sit side-by-side with fictional copses, metaphorical spinneys and memory forests. Complementing the text are images of the artistic works that constituted Common Ground's 1986 Trees, Woods and the Green Man project, the aim of which was to explore "the natural and cultural value of trees," and this new collection provides the perfect follow-up/companion piece to the earlier endeavour.
Like the rich, dense British woodlands of yore that supported a wealth of different species of trees, Arboreal – dedicated to the late historical ecologist Oliver Rackham, whose final book, The Ash Tree, was also published by this volume's editor – is teeming with life.
Little Toller Books: £20
Reviewer, Lucy Scholes
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The new Stormwatch writer plans to change everything. EVERYTHING!
Source: Newsarama
Jim Starlin is famous for writing basically the same Thanos story over and over, to great success mind you, at Marvel Comics. Fans of that story were excited to hear that Starlin would be taking over DC's Stormwatch, and they'll be even more excited about the changes he has in store. In an interview with Newsarama, Starlin promised that "everything you know about the series, up until that point, is altered: new outfits, characters, villains."
The Outhouse found this intriguing, so we contacted Starlin for a follow-up interview. He ignored us, of course, because we're industry pariahs, so we decided to just imagine how the interview would have probably gone if he'd agreed to talk to us:
OH: So you're going to change things up in Stormwatch?
Starlin: Yeah, I felt like it was time for something different, you know?
OH: So what can we expect? How will the characters change?
Starlin: Well, I'm thinking we'll get some new looks to start with. Apollo, for instance, will get a new costume, basically nude, silver kind of look. Oh, and he'll ride a flying surfboard.
OH: Oh. Well, that's...
Starlin: And Martian Manhunter will change too. I think readers are tired of the bald, green look. We're going to give him some hair, and change his color to golden. He'll have a soul gem on his head.
OH: Yeah, that's... you know what, let's talk about something else. You mentioned new villains?
Starlin: Oh, readers are gonna love this! I'm thinking that the team should face off against someone new. I'm going to introduce a cosmic villain with unlimited power and an obsession with death. He'll be purple and have a wrinkly chin. I call him Anos.
OH: Anus?
Starlin: Anos! And it's gonna be a really interesting story. Anos learns of six magical stones that, when combined, grant the wielder all of the power in the universe. Stormwatch will have to gather all of the heroes in the DC Universe to stop him. But ultimately, it will be Anos who stops himself, thanks to his self-defeating nihilism.
OH: This all sounds kind of familiar.
Starlin: I have no idea what you're talking about.
OH: Thank you for your time.
Starlin's Stormwatch run begins in April. You can read his "real" interview over at Newsarama.


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Attention!Posted: September 30, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: attention, how-to, zen 4 Comments
"63 ways happy people stay happy"
"5 ways to become more mindful"
"83 things to think about other than Breaking Bad"
"3 mantras to help with anxiety" (For only a $1 more you get a free mudra)
"365 days of the "right" food"
"7, 9, or 12 steps to Financial Freedom"
"These 12 Exercises are the only ones you need!"
and on and on and on….
What is one thing that makes all these other "how-to's" obsolete?
Just that.
What am I paying attention to today?
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Attention to…
being happy; being more mindful; things other than Breaking Bad; one mantra to help with anxiety; how the food feels as energy; how my buying decisions play a part in my Financial Freedom; an exercise to feel _…
…in the moment
Multi-tasking is a rather unhealthy practice that I used to endorse. I apologize everyone affected.
I kept trying to click on the sentences to find out how people stay happy and what I should eat


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DOE reports US ethanol exports surge
In Washington, the US Department of Energy reports that U.S. ethanol exports surged to 82.4 million gallons (mg) in November, with large volumes finding their way into new or emerging markets such as China and India, as well as the Philippines, Tunisia, Panama, and Mexico. Total exports were up 54 percent from October, reaching the highest monthly level since March 2012, which can be seen in the chart below. Canada was once again the leading importer of U.S. product, receiving 28.5 mg in November. The Philippines followed with an annual high of 14.0 mg, while India (8.1 mg), Brazil (4.3 mg), and Norway (4.3 mg) were other top destinations. For the first time since 2002, a sizable volume of fuel ethanol was exported to China (3.5 mg). Similarly, Panama imported meaningful volumes of U.S. fuel ethanol (2.0 mg) for the first time since 1992. Tunisia (2.3 mg) and Mexico (1.7 mg) are other relatively new markets that imported U.S. product in November. Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, "U.S. produced ethanol continues to be the lowest cost liquid transportation fuel on the planet. The fact that rapidly developing countries like China and India are turning to the U.S. for fuel supply is both a reflection of that economic reality and the effort of U.S. producers to look beyond our borders to build demand.
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When I started this blog eleven months ago, I was thinking pretty seriously about Catholicism, wondering whether I might actually convert, but it wasn't a foregone conclusion. Since then, of course, I crossed the Tiber in September, and the blog has naturally changed focus. Though I do still post zany stuff with no detectable theological content, most everything here reflects a growing Catholic sensibility, so for some time now it hasn't really made sense to group posts under the category "Catholicism."
When I'm earning a living, I write (among other things) back-of-the-book indexes, and Catholicism has become for this blog what's known in the indexing trade as the "metatopic." Do Mi Stauber explains,
The metatopic is the structural center of the index: every single heading you create will be implicitly related to it.
And there's precious little information value in a blog category that includes virtually every post. So I'm officially retiring the "Catholicism" category and will be instituting some finer-grained alternatives-- maybe doctrine and teaching, liturgy, priesthood, saints, devotions,… we'll see.


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Chandigarh: In Harbhajan Singh's absence, Yuvraj Singh will lead Punjab in their opening Ranji Trophy match against Railways, to be played at the Palam Ground from October 6 to 9.
Off-spinner Harbhajan, who was named the skipper, is not available for the first match, PCA spokesperson Sushil Kapoor said today.
"Off spinner Arpit Pannu will be replacing Harbhajan in the match," Kapoor said.
The other members of the team are Jeevanjot Singh, Manan Vohra, Uday Kaul, Mandeep Singh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Gitansh Khera (wicket keeper), Vinay Chaudhary, Siddharth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma, Manpreet Singh Grewal, Mayank Sidana, Rajwinder Singh, Subek Gill and Arpit Singh Pannu.


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According to the National Center for Education Statistics, college tuition costs have risen by more than 26 percent since 2005. As a result, student loan debt is rising too, currently estimated at $986 billion nationally. A recent study by TransUnion reports more than half of all student loans are now delinquent or in deferral.
"Falling behind on your student loan payments can be very costly," said Emily Caropreso, Director of Communications & Marketing, ICUL. "It also damages your credit, which can have a negative effect on all aspects of your financial life."
According to the Associated Press, 53.6 percent of Americans under the age of 25 are either unemployed or underemployed. More than 13 percent of college graduates default on their student loans within three years of leaving school, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Caropreso encourages people who are deciding where to go to college to consider how much to borrow very carefully. "It's easy to get caught up in finding the perfect college experience," said Caropreso. "However, students should investigate the long-term ramifications. In the long run, it may be wiser to choose a less expensive option or work part-time in order to borrow less."
New graduates with student loan debt can be overwhelmed with this burden. These tips are recommended to help students repay their loans in a timely manner.
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The Chiefs will practice without three crucial starters for the second straight day Thursday as the team announced left tackle Branden Albert (knee), outside linebacker Justin Houston (elbow) and tight end Anthony Fasano (concussion) would sit out.
Albert was carted off the field in the second half of Sunday's loss to Denver because of a hyperextended knee. Houston missed the Denver game because of a subluxation of his right elbow. Fasano is undergoing protocol for a concussion.
It appears Fasano will be out for Sunday's game at Washington. Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson said Dominique Jones will likely be the top backup behind Sean McGrath at tight end. Jones would have to be promoted from the practice squad.


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Want to exchange your old mobile with a new smartphone in Flipkart? There are some rules and regulations which you should meet for exchanging your old mobile. So read here the flipkart mobile exchange terms and conditions.
Latest range of smartphones arrives every time in the market and we buy them but our old mobiles are just occupying space in our homes. So the old mobiles aren't useful anyone. But if the mobiles are recycled then it will be beneficial to the mobile phone manufacturers and the users can also get some discount for their new mobiles. The production cost of new smartphones will also reduced since recycled parts are being used.
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In order to change your old smartphone then it has to meet the following criteria:-
- Your old mobile should be in working condition.
- You need to provide the IMEI number of your old mobile.
- There should not be any cracks in the display or in the front / back panel.
- The old mobile model should be still selling in the market and should not be too old.
- In some cases, Flipkart will show a list of mobile models which are only accepted for the exchange offer.
- You don't need to provide any accessories that comes with your old mobile phone.
- You don't have to provide bill of your old mobile phone.
- You might need to accept the cost for transferring the old mobile to the Flipkart.
- You won't get any special offers of the new smartphone.
- The exchange offer is not available for all mobile phones.
- The exchange rate differs from mobile to mobile. The iPhone 4 had an exchange rate 5000 rupees but Moto G had only the exchange rate of 2000 rupees.
How does Flipkart and the mobile manufacturer benefits from the exchange offer?
- Due to the higher cost of mobile phones, many products are not selling good. The exchange offer reduces the cost of the product and so the sales increases.
- Old mobiles will be sold in the second hand market or the mobile will be assembled and will be sold as spare parts.
Things you should consider before exchanging your mobile phone?
- If you feel the exchange rate is not good then you can check the other shopping sites which offers mobile exchange. You can also try to post in OLX or Quikr sell your old phone with a better price.
- You can also visit a local shop and try to sell your old smartphone if they offer a good price.
- You can also check the mobile phone exchange offer of The Mobile Store, Univercell & Sangeetha mobiles and mobile phone exchange offer of snapdeal.
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IHSE KVM extenders transmit critical data at Sofia Airport
Oberteuringen, March 7, 2016 – IHSE KVM extenders have recently been integrated at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria to transmit critical data between Airport building and ATC tower. The KVM extenders provide real-time access to the most relevant and up-to-date information with 24/7 reliability for operators in the tower.
The state-owned 'Bulgarian Air Traffic Services Authority' (BULATSA), provides air navigation services over the Republic of Bulgaria. BULATSA recently upgraded the air traffic management system architecture at Sofia Airport.
The upgrade aimed to relocate all equipment in one central equipment room (CER) in the main building and extend the signals to the workstations located in the visual control room on top of the ATC tower.
BULATSA integrated IHSE KVM extenders to provide bidirectional signal transmission over fiber cabling, bridging the distances of several hundred meters with no visual image quality loss and near-zero latency. All computer signals are handled simultaneously; in this case video signals to monitors, USB for keyboard and mouse input and serial signals for strip printer output. Operators can access real-time data and instantly respond to it. The system operates as though the computers were located alongside the desks.
In addition to removing noisy, heat-generating processing units form the operators' environment, making it quieter and more comfortable, centralizing the equipment in the CER improves security, ease of maintenance and environmental management.
The IHSE KVM extenders deliver the level of performance that is critical to high security applications like air traffic management with 24/7 operation. An extension to the KVM system is planned for implementation shortly.
"The KVM system was extremely quick and easy to install, so we were up and running with only a minimal amount of delay." Said Iavor Pavlov, Head of Surveillance at BULATSA. "It has been totally reliable since installation which gives us great confidence in these products."
The full range of IHSE KVM products will be available for demonstration at the World ATM Congress in Madrid, 8-10 March 2016. Booth 407.
About IHSE
IHSE is a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) devices with more than 30 years of experience. KVM technology enables the remote switching, bidirectional extension and conversion of primary computer signals including DVI, HDMI, 4K DisplayPort, audio and USB. IHSE develops and manufactures an extensive range of KVM switches and extenders with visually lossless signal transmission from headquarters near Lake Constance, Germany.
IHSE products have been certified for outstanding manufacturing quality, security, operability, resilience and high transfer speeds. Many renowned companies and institutions across vertical sectors including Broadcast, Post Production, Air Traffic Control, Control Rooms, Banking, Industrial, Healthcare, Maritime, Education, Venues and Government rely on KVM solutions made by IHSE, Germany.
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Today is All Saints' Day, the day in the Church Year when we remember the saints that have gone before us into those ineffable joys that await us when our earthly life is over. In this short and straightforward sermon, I want to ask the question, "Who is a saint?" and peek briefly into those ineffable joys that God has prepared "for all the saints who from their labor rest."
Who is a saint? The term "saint" is usually understood by this definition: "one who has been recognized for having an exceptional degree of holiness, sanctity, and virtue." I don't know about you, but if this definition is accurate, then I'm left out the ineffable joys. I don't want to be left out of any joy, must less ineffable ones!!! If an exceptional degree of holiness is the litmus test for a saint, then the day would be better known as "Few Saints Day" rather than All Saints' Day.
Who is a saint? Well, who's to say? As French Catholic theologian Jean-Luc Marion says," no one can claim to define the concept of holiness without running the risk of the most obvious of idolatries. Indeed, when a group declares someone a saint, their definition is restricted to what this group imagines as holiness."
And if you're sort of thinking that you just might fall into the category of saint yourself, then Marion says, "we know perfectly well that no one can say "I am a saint" without total deception…someone who lays claim to sanctity disproves it in himself." As to our own growing degree of exceptional holiness, we would be better to follow the New Yorker cartoon in which a husband says to his wife over dinner, "Look, I can't promise that I'll change, but I can promise that I'll pretend to change."
Biblically, the idea that a saint is defined by exceptional holiness is as erroneous as the notion that only good people go to heaven, or that we reach those ineffable joys by being good while we are on earth. Thankfully, as we often say, Christianity is not about good people getting better. Rather it's about flawed and broken people trying to cope with their failure to be good.
Thankfully, sainthood is no exclusive club, although most of us like exclusivity because it flatters us. A first grader I know was invited to participate in the Quest Program at her school – a program for advanced learners. Her mother was very careful about how she phrased the invitation.
"Honey, you've been invited to be a part of the Quest Program."
"What's that?"
"It's a program for students to continue learning wonderful things."
"Is everyone in it?"
"Um… well, no." Pause……
"YESSSS!!!!! I want in!!!!"
Because of our instinctive leaning toward self-righteousness and exclusion, it's a good thing that the common definition of a saint is a long way from the apostle Paul's understanding of a saint. A saint is not someone who is holy and virtuous. Paul addresses the people at Corinth as "saints." We know that the Corinthians were sleeping around, getting drunk on communion wine, snubbing the poor, and arguing about who had the best spiritual gifts. No exceptional degree of holiness there.
So being a saint clearly isn't about behavior. Instead, a saint is anyone and everyone who has, as he puts it in his letter to the Ephesians, "set our hope on Christ." And Christ invites all, not a few, not some, but all to set our hope on Him.
What does it mean to set our hope on Christ? Fundamentally, it means not setting our hope on ourselves, or our own ability to be good or virtuous or holy. I'll share a few stories of people who set their hope on Christ.
During the 1970's, there was a revival of sorts in England among students at Cambridge and Oxford. The current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was converted as a student at Cambridge. During this time, the gospel was presented and summarized in a simple, yet very effective way – ABC. A – admit that you are a sinner who needs help, B – believe that Christ died on the cross in your place for your sins, and C – come to Christ, who has already come to you and for you with His open arms of welcome. That's what it means to set your hope on Christ.
Sila Lee was one of these Cambridge students who, although having grown up in the Church of England, responded powerfully to the message. "It was a revelation to me. I kept saying to myself, 'Why did nobody ever tell me before why Jesus died on the cross?' It was as if everything I had ever known fitted together, not just intellectually, but also emotionally and spiritually."
She and her boyfriend told their friend Nicky Gumbel, that they had become Christians and set their hope on Christ and not themselves. At first, Nicky was horrified. But he agreed to talk through the real meaning of Christianity with them over lunch. He went back to his room and picked up the Bible he was given at his old school.
"I was completely gripped by what I read. I had read it before and it had meant virtually nothing to me. This time it came alive and I could not put it down. It had a ring of truth about it. I knew as I read it that I had to respond because it spoke so powerfully to me. Very shortly afterward, I came to put my faith in Jesus Christ."
I tell you this story on All Saints' Day because it's the story of normal people, like you and me, who are saints, not because they are good or special, but because they, like the Ephesians, have set their hope on Christ. They did go on to start the Alpha Movement, which has led countless other to set their hope on Christ, but they would clearly not claim any special saintly status. They are just people who realized they could not set their hope on themselves.
On All Saints' Day we read a list of our own Christ Church saints who have died in the past year. Today is the day we especially trust that they have come to those ineffable joys that God has prepared for those whose hope is set on Christ. No one knows what awaits us of course, although I'm certain that it is better and richer and more joyous than any of us could ever imagine.
C.S. Lewis, who wrote so movingly about our yearning for heaven, fell into a coma near the end of his life. His next of kin were contacted and a clergyman came to give him last rites. To the astonishment of his doctors, Lewis awoke from his coma and asked for a cup of tea. Later, he told friends that he wished he'd died during the coma. "The whole experience was very gentle," he said. It seemed a shame "having reached the gate so easily, not to be allowed through…. Poor Lazarus!"
I'll close with a short poem a son-in-law wrote when he imagined meeting his father-in-law in heaven. He loved his father-in-law, who was like a father and a best friend to him. His nickname was "Honey," so named by his granddaughter. Honey nicknamed his son-in-law "P-Boy," a name he loves just because Honey had named him. The poem is called "Cheers, Honey." It was written shortly after his death.
To name someone is to know who they are
And (harder) who they will become.
When will I ever stop being "P-boy?"
No, when it is my turn to enter into His
Gates with thanksgiving
And into His courts with praise,
You will be around the corner, calling
"P-boy! P-boy! Over here!"
Can there be a better sound than that?
Well, perhaps there will be one better sound. The sound of Jesus saying to you and to everyone who has set his or her hope on Christ, "Welcome Home." Amen.
Bible References
- Ephesians 1:11 - 23


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BLOG: Listen to your muse: A cryptographer's tale
I am here at the RSA Conference 2012 which is being held in San Francisco from 27 February to 2 March. It is a major security industry event that brings together all security thought leaders to deliberate on the security challenges of our time.
You name any decent company that is engaged in the security business and it is here at the Moscone Centre. A huge hall at the basement is chock-a-block with their exhibits. Most of the general sessions and panel discussions are being held at another hall. There are some by-invitation only panel discussions and closed door expert sessions.
Yesterday, Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, was given the RSA Lifetime Achievement Award here. And his story is one of the most interesting ones that I have heard here. I wanted to share it with you.
Martin E. Hellman, Professor Emeritus at Stanford, is best known for his invention, with Diffie and Merkle, of public key cryptography. In addition to many other uses, this technology forms the basis for secure transactions on the Internet. He has also been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate, starting with the issue of DES key size in 1975 and culminating with service (1994-96) on the National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptographic Policy, whose main recommendations have since been implemented.
Prior to joining Stanford's faculty in 1971, Hellman was at IBM's Watson Research Center and served as an Assistant Professor of EE at MIT. Hellman received his B.E. from New York University in 1966, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1967 and 1969, all in Electrical Engineering.
Before he came on stage to receive the award, we were shown a video of Professor Hellman. In the video, he talked about his childhood. He was a shy child growing up in the Bronx in 1950s and being studious, it was difficult for him to fit in with other kids. But he turned his inward nature into a kind of creative defiance. "Who wants to be a normal kid?" he would say to others who mocked his social inadequacies.
Years later, he became a pioneering cryptographer. When he was doing his research in the area of his choice, many said he was wasting his time, he said on stage. They said he was foolish. But he stuck to his guns. The result was the public key cryptography which is now widely adopted.
"Sometimes, wisdom can masquerade as foolishness," he said on the stage, accepting the award. Listen to the muse that whispers to your ears-that was his parting advice.
Professor Hellman's life is yet another example of believing in oneself, of having the courage of conviction. I wish God gives all of us that kind of courage and self-belief.
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Offer available from 05/12/2018 to 09/16/2018
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Fun City Entertainment Complex
Exhilarating High Speed Go-Kart Racing! Just $12 for 50 Laps for One Person, $19 for Two People, $35 for Four People or $49 for Six People. Or Become a Pro with a Massive 96 Laps, Only $19 for One Person, $29 for Two People, $55 for Four People or $79 for Six People. Valued from $27
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Get your blood pumping as you fly past the scenery on Fun City's ultimate Formula E go-kart track
50 Laps: Only $12 for one person (valued at $27), $19 for two people (valued at $54), $35 for four people (valued at $108), or $49 for six people (valued at $162)
96 Laps: Only $19 for one person (valued at $50), $29 for two people (valued at $99), $55 for four people (valued at $198), or $79 for six people (Valued at $297)
Own the track in a Sodi RX7 9HP kart, capable of hitting speeds of up to 62kph
Encourage some healthy competition and race against the clock to compare times
Bookings are available seven days a week - it's the perfect school holiday activity!
What We Like
The European-designed sprint track will keep you on your toes with an amazing set of challenging corners and the ambitious S bend - there are no long straights to let you catch your breath as you race around Melbourne's most challenging track!
Those new to Fun City will be required to purchase a $12 Formula E racing licence and will receive a bonus cap (valued at $25)
Beat boredom and escape the hot sun for a day with the kids these school holidays
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Offer expires on 24 March 2015
We strongly encourage bookings to be made by 10 March 2015. Bookings after this date cannot be guaranteed. If there are no available bookings after 10 March 2015, simply contact our Customer Support Team before 24 March 2015 and you will be entitled to a full credit back to your account
Bookings are absolutely essential and subject to availability. Please note, Saturday bookings are strictly limited so please book early to avoid disappointment
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