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Today's show: War (comic) what is it good for?
August 16, 2011
— War Comics
Today on Resonance FM…
Clear Spot: War (comic) what is it good for?
In advance of the Comics and Conflicts two day festival at the Imperial War Museum on 19th and 20th August 2011, Alex Fitch talks to Paul Gravett, Ariel Kahn, Eileen and Francesca Cassavetti about the importance of war comics in culture and bringing the experience of war and conflict to new readers in a way that text alone can't fully realise. The show will also include extracts from episodes of Panel Borders featuring Garth Ennis and Pat Mills who are both talking at the IWM comics events.
8pm, Tuesday 16/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com
Links: Info about the Comics and Conflicts events at the Imperial War Museum
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk (scroll down to find individual events
Info about Francesca and Eileen Cassavetti at fabtoons.blogspot.com
Info about War: The Human Cost
Charley's War website
Wikipedia pages on Garth Ennis' War Stories and Battlefields
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Comics and Conflicts festival , Imperial War Museum
…will be held on 19-20 August, 2011 at the Imperial War Museum in London, and is aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Conference speakers and guests include: Pat Mills (Charley's War); Martin Barker and Roger Sabin on Doonesbury; Garth Ennis (Troubled Souls, War Stories) and Francesca Cassavetti(Fabtoons).
On Friday 19th, there is an academic conference, in which University students and writers will be presenting papers on the subject of War Comics throughout the day, followed by a talk by Charley's War author Pat Mills. There are tickets available for the conference which includes the talk by Pat Mills, or the talk is available as a separate ticket.
On Saturday 20th, there are talks, panels and workshops by small press creators and international authors, including a hour long discussion with Garth Ennis on stage in his first UK appearance at a comics festival in many years.
All Saturday events are £6 / the final event of the weekend, The Comics go to War film screening is FREE!
Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ
Nearest tube: Lambeth North (Bakerloo) / Elephant and Castle (Northern line, City Branch) / Southwark (Jubilee)
Book tickets at http://wartime.iwm.org.uk
The Comics and Conflicts events form part of a Children's literature festival being held from 13-21 August 2011, which accompanies the Imperial War Museum's new exhibition Once Upon A Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children. For more information about the exhibition and the festival visit the Imperial War Museum web site.
Full listing of events at www.panelborders.com/events
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-Be introduced to the London comic scene, attend events, give presentations, network and meet publishers, editors and creators in the comic industry.
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The course is run by professional comic creator Karrie Fransman whose comics have appeared in The Times, The Guardian and who is currently working on her first graphic novel due to be published by Random House.
2 days (14 hours) per week for a six-months. Interns will receive a travel and food expenses budget for two days per week. All londonprintstudio staff and volunteers are required to have a Criminal Records Bureau Check.
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If you grow your own garlic or have a good farmer's market, then you can enjoy a new kind of vegetable — garlic scapes. The scapes are the flower stems that garlic plants produce before the bulbs mature. Growers often remove the scapes to push the plant's energy toward bigger bulbs, and when harvested while they are young and tender, the scapes are delicious.
My first culinary encounter with garlic scapes occurred in a tiny Istrian village on the coast of Slovenia. The people in that part of the country speak Italian and have preserved food ways dating from ancient times. The dish they served me was made by sautéing the chopped scapes in olive oil, then pouring a beaten egg mixture over them, similar to a frittata. The cakelike omelet was then served with a liberal garnish of chopped fresh herbs and a glass of local wine, of course. How could anything so simple be so incredibly delicious?
In most parts of the world, people make use of many things we tend to throw away. In the case of garlic, the unopened flower heads are considered a delicacy — even the leaves are used for making soup stocks. Indeed, no part of the plant is wasted. American produce growers, especially those who cultivate garlic, have begun to look at these traditional foods as a way not only to increase the profitability of their garlic crop, but also to introduce consumers to tasty new approaches to garlic cookery.
The secret to scape cookery is to pick them early — the earlier the better. I do this when they are just beginning to emerge between the leaves; at that point, they are so tender you can eat them raw. The best time of day to harvest scapes is during the afternoon when the sun is hot. That way, the wound you create by cutting off the scapes will dry quicker and heal better. If you harvest early in the morning, the garlic plant may weep its sap for several hours, which is not good for the plant.
There is a lot of discussion among garlic growers about the exact best time to pick scapes — what "early" means. Part of this discussion is due to the fact that there are different varieties of garlic, and some produce large scapes while others produce very small ones. In spite of seed catalog claims, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has identified only 10 major garlic cultivars based on genetic analysis of the 400 garlics in its collection. This huge duplication narrows the field of discussion considerably, and of those 10, probably the best varieties for scapes are 'Chesnok' and 'Purple Italian Easy Peel.' Of course, everyone has personal preferences because different garlics grow better in some parts of the country than in others. As a rule, stick with the varieties that do best in your particular area.
No matter what variety you grow, harvest the scapes before they start to curl. If the stems of the scape are starting their curls, you still can cook them if you trim off the base of the stems much the same way you would trim off the tough ends of asparagus. But, you also should trim off the tips of the garlic flower heads, especially if you intend to sauté or stir-fry them. (The long tips of the flower heads scorch easily.)
Garlic cooks at 120 degrees, so it is not necessary to use very high heat except in the initial stages of sautéing; it's important to remember that the scapes are far more delicate than the bulbs. But cooking them is a delicious way to use something that otherwise would go wasted, and visually, you can create some attractive dishes that are especially nice as starter courses or hors d'oeuvres
After my stint in Slovenia, I began collecting recipes for scapes and discovered that in the United States at least, the most common recipes to turn up on the Internet were for pickling. Pickled garlic scapes are fine, but I think a sauté that I found in Cyprus showcases the scapes, taking advantage of both their subtle flavor, as well as their interesting shape. Best of all, it is a dish that improves by standing overnight so that the flavors can meld and mellow.
I prefer to use duck fat to create the sauce because it is one of the most wonderful cooking mediums for amplifying flavors, but you may want to use olive oil instead. Olive oil does not create quite as thick a sauce but it gives you a vegan option.
Food historian William Woys Weaver is a contributing editor to Gourmet magazine and a professor of culinary arts at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
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Garlic scapes, or "peski" in Slovene. I am an Englishman living in Slovenian Istria and have just discovered "peski". The article mentions eating scapes in an Istrian village. Which one? Just as the wild asparagus season comes to an end, a new and strange vegetable appears on my plate, and I couldn't find a translation in my dictionary. No wonder, I didn't know you could eat garlic stalks, but the are delicious and fresh tasting.
Garlic scapes. The absolute best for me is to make them into pesto with olive oil, walnuts, parm. cheese and the kicker: a pat or two of butter. Good on pasta, pizza, crusty bread. Mmmmmm. Stays fresh all winter in the freezer too.
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Pop sensation Lorde has scrapped an Australian festival appearance so she can concentrate on cracking the States.
The Royals star, who won two Grammy Awards last month (Jan14), was set to play at the Gear Up 2014 music event in Adelaide on 28 February (14), but she has now axed her performance due to her stock rising.
Gear Up spokesperson Anne Marie Parsons says, "It's been an amazing rise for Lorde and we are extremely happy for her success. Unfortunately, this success has meant that she has had to pull out of her commitment to appear at Gear Up 2014.
"Of course we are extremely disappointed Lorde will not perform at Gear Up 2014 - she's a fantastic artist and it would have been amazing to have an artist of that calibre, so early in their career at our festival."
The New Zealander has also reportedly shelved plans for a tour Down Under this year (14), according to Australian media reports.
Her Aussie booking agent Daniel Sant adds, "Unfortunately due to the fact that Lorde is becoming one of the biggest and buzziest (sic) artists in the world right now, she is under a lot of pressure from everywhere in the world and it ultimately leads to timelines and goalposts shifting constantly and very quickly."


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You will need an ssh client to connect to the Padum cluster. CPU login is available through ssh hpc.iitd.ac.in (Use IITD credentials). To copy data use scp to hpc.iitd.ac.in. GPU or Mic (Xeon Phi) nodes can be directly accessed through gpu.hpc.iitd.ac.in and mic.hpc.iitd.ac.in respectively. Please avoid using gpu and mic for large data transfer.
Once logged in to the system, you have access to your home (backed up) and scratch (not backed up) directories. Please generate an ssh key pair in your .ssh directory to start using PBS. (Please see https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys for help.)
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PBS Queue Manager
PBS Pro v13
- Commands:
- qstat is used to view job and job step information for jobs managed by PBS. The default view includes only minimal information. A more detailed table is available using the command qstat -a. For more details, use qstat -as.
- qsub is used to submit a batch script to SLURM
- qsub -I is used to obtain a SLURM job allocation (a set of nodes), execute a command, and then release the allocation when the command is finished
- qdel is used to cancel jobs.
- For more info: PBS Works Documentation
- UPDATE: You must submit yout job to a project that you are a part of. Everyone is part of a default project with the same name as their department dc name: the string that appears after /home/ in your home dierectory's path. (See here for all dc names.) For example a user (whose home path starts with "/home/cc/" will use qsub -P cc to specify her default project as cc.
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- A fraction of the cluster can be subscribed for a maximum of 24/fraction hours. e.g. half the cluster can be requested for 48 hours, quarter of the cluster can be requested for 96 hours etc.
Examples of resource selection:
- 24 CPU cores per node : -l select=2:ncpus=24
- 2 GPUs per node : -l select=2:ngpus=2
- 2 Xeon Phi Per node : -l select=2:nmics=2
- High memory (512GB): -l select=1:highmem=1
Typical submission script
In a blank text file (e.g. pbsbatch.sh) add the following:
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### Request email when job begins and ends #PBS -m bea ### Specify email address to use for notification. #PBS -M $email@example.com #### #PBS -l select=n:ncpus=m ### Specify "wallclock time" required for this job, hhh:mm:ss #PBS -l walltime=01:00:00 #PBS -o stdout_file #PBS -e stderr_file #### Get environment variables from submitting shell
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Preview: The Adventures of Venus collects all-ages work by Gilbert Hernandez
More than 10 years ago Gilbert Hernandez edited and contributed to an anthology of kids' comics called Measles. His stories starred Venus, the comic-loving niece of his Luba character from Love & Rockets. Those stories are now being collected by Fantagraphics into a $10 hardcover, The Adventures of Venus. Here's the description:
A rare foray into all-ages work, "The Adventures of Venus" was Gilbert Hernandez's contribution to the kids' anthology Measles which he edited in 1999 and 2000. This super-affordable little hardcover collects all the previously uncollected "Venus" stories from Measles in which Luba's niece creates and collects comic books, walks through a scary forest, plays soccer, schemes to get the cute boy she likes, laments the snowlessness of a California Christmas, catches measles, and travels to a distant planet (OK, the last one may be a dream). Plus a new story done just for this book!
Courtesy of Fantagraphics, we're pleased to present a preview of the project, which is due in stores later this month. Check it out below.
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I am a modern nomad.
I feel alive when I'm travelling. my motto is :
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I like to smile, and I like the people who smile. I can talk for hours about different topics when I find an interested talkative person.
I like to meet new people and make friendships. I enjoy learning about different cultures, or getting through the varieties of my own culture.
I don't usually travel with my friends, as I prefer to meet new people .
I wash my dishes, I clean my place, I tidy my bed, and I have no problem with sleeping on the floor, then take the blanket back to the closet .
IF YOU ARE MY GUEST, I'd do whatever it takes to make you feel comfortable, I may give you my bed and sleep on the floor myself if I have to.
I have a car, I will show you around and take you to the near tourist attractions if I have time.
I will will take you to have a nice Egyptian dinner, unless I have a financial crisis.
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
Travel is more complicated than just touring and sightseeing. as I visit a place for first time , my interest is more into people more than landscapes and historical stones.
CS introduces me to a selected group of good willing people, selected by their trust and hospitality. we may just hangout and talk, sharing our experience, they may open their house and their hearts for me. they blindly trust me to sleep in their home , a couple of hours after they first met me, this is too much kindness already.
This proves that good intentions and selflessness is the basic nature of humans.
Architecture : I know much about Islamic and Arabic architecture, I'm willing to guide my friends and show them around.
Diving : I have a license. I can help you find a trusted dive guide in Hurghada or Dahab with a good deal.
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A BOOK is the best gift for me.
in MUSIC : all kinds of Middle-eastern music. I don't have a favorite genre of western music. I like reggae, pop, lounge, classic, latin.
A COLLECTION or a good PLAYLIST would be the best gift for me.
in MOVIES : adventure, thriller, drama, war, comedy, philosophy. Hollywood, German , Polish, French, Iranian movies.
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Papillon (1973)
The lives of others (2006)
Fight Club
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The background check "compromise" put forward by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) is full of gun control red tape that greatly expands the government's reach and oversight into the purchase and handling of firearms.
Although it's been praised in some corners because it doesn't create a national gun registry, they have failed to see that it actually trades that one assault on the 2nd Amendment for a handful of others.
Section 122 of the Manchin-Toomey "compromise" expands background checks to cover gun sales at gun shows and on the internet, generally speaking. Far from stopping there, it also requires background checks for guns sold on the grounds of a building in which a gun show is taking place and for guns sold from a "gun for sale" advertisement in publications like newspapers and magazines.
Moreover, the bill isn't clear on what does and doesn't constitute an internet sale. But if it is congruent, it will mean that a "gun for sale" advertisement on an internet classified site will require a background check as well.
Meanwhile, Section 128 of the Manchin-Toomey "compromise" puts forth new rules for the transportation of firearms and ammunition. It says a person shall be "entitled" to transport a firearm "in a vehicle" if "the firearm is not directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle; or if the motor vehicle is without a compartment separate from the passenger compartment, the firearm is in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console, or secured by a secured gun storage or safety device…"
The rules on transportation of ammunition are also contained in this section, and they mandate that ammunition be kept separate from the firearm. The firearm must be unloaded.
Section 103 of the Manchin-Toomey "compromise" creates $100 million in grants each year for fiscal years 2014 to 2017. This money is to be distributed to the states to help cover their expenses in implementing the new system.
Once the bill is passed, states have 4 years to fully implement the new system. States that refuse to do so, or which do so more slowly than the federal government requests, will see the grant money they receive reduced by percentages. Therefore, these hundreds of millions of dollars are basically a way to be sure all states play along or else.
Finally, Section 122 of the bill also sets forward the people to whom you can transfer a gun without going through a background check. These legal private sales can be between "spouses, between parents or spouses of parents and their children or spouses of their children, between siblings or spouses of siblings, or between grandparents or spouses of grandparents and their grandchildren or spouses of their grandchildren, or between aunts or uncles or their spouses and their nieces or nephews or their spouses, or between first cousins."
However, no mention is made of step-children, nor does the bill explain whether step-parents are "entitled" to transfer guns apart from a background check in the way that biological parents and other blood relatives can do.
Despite all these caveats, when Sen. Manchin was on Face the Nation on April 14, he grinned and claimed, "If you're a law-abiding gun owner, you're going to like this bill."


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Coorg In Karnataka
It is no doubt that you may have visited many a place of interest in your life time. Memories of those beautiful places have been definitely remaining in you ever since. Some times it may be haunting. Don't you feel? If you have ever been to Kodagu, your memories should have enriched with those beautiful sights. Its diversity and geography, showcased in the massive and awe inspiring forests, are striking. The lush greenery that veils over this land surely enhances its natural beauty.
Nobody can express its beauty in words because it is the experience who is the real witness here. It is a paradise of sublime water falls, ecological parks, water drafting and more and her dazzling cities embody everything Kodagu people love about their culture. Hence your visit is an awaiting one and we think it is our duty to introduce Coorg to all who wish to know and learn more about this land.
About Coorg
Tropical forest is the most complex and least understood vegetation on earth and is also one of the most complicated of all ecosystems of the world. It consists of a rich array of species and a complex web or interactions. The tropical forests of Western Ghats are in varying stages of development. The varying climatic, edaphic and physiographic conditions of different localities have lead to the development of the different forest types namely, Wet evergreen forests Read more
Coorg History
Coorg or Kodagu has its own history enriched with reigns of various kingdoms. It is known that most of the South Indian Dynasties had ruled over Kodagu. These include Kadambas, the Gangas, the Cholas, the Chalukyas, the Rashtrakutas, the Hoysalas and the Vijayanagar Rayas. From 11th to 14th Century it was ruled by the Hoysalas and later by the Vijayanagar and the Chengalvas. Read more
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hi there..
I got "picoscope cannot open ADC21/50" error when start the application.
I installed the picoscope software to 3 pc. 2 of them are HP compaq d530 and it gives the same error. But when I install the same software into the Hyundai Notebook,it works.
FYI all the computer using WinXP OS. Hope you can help.


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The (beautiful) Little app for new parents
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The Little app
is aimed at new parents/carers and provides ways in which to interact and play with young children. The app and
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The old analogue man in me still struggles with the notion of a smartphone app to entertain kids, but I guess it's current technology that they'll be exposed to soon enough.
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Advertisingthere's an open bug report for the Gentoo VDR ebuilds regarding locale vars: http://bugs.gentoo.de/view.php?id=445 Up till now everything gets set to POSIX and afterwards LC_COLLATE gets set to whatever the user requests in the init script's config file. My suggestion was to make LANG accessible in the config file as well, because both are mentioned in the VDR docs. Is there any final wisdom on which locale vars influence VDR?
VDR itself doesn't react on any environment settings, except when checking for the presence of UTF8 (which it refuses to run with). It's mainly the runtime library that reacts on these locale settings, using them to decide how to sort strings, for instance. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list email@example.com http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr


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Taylor Swift is always known as a giver and she showed that tremendously to her parents when she bought them a $1.4 million house in Tennessee. A close source to Taylor has stated, "It's an incredible house. Taylor's been visiting her parents there and she's so excited for them."
Taylor has also bought herself a home in L.A; since she is always traveling back and forth between L.A and Nashville. The same source also added this comment, "she just bought a beautiful for herself in L.A. She is in L.A so much and she was paying a fortune in hotel charges!"


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Spring Rolls make a wonderful light meal or snack. Although rice paper isn't raw, it is very light and makes a great transitional dish. The rolling process is a little intimidating at first but you quickly get the hang of it. Serve the Spring Rolls with Ginger Dipping Sauce or Peanut Sauce.
Spring Rolls
- Rice paper sheets
- Lettuce leaves, torn into hand size pieces
- Julienned yellow, orange and/or red bell pepper
- Julienned cucumber
- Julienned carrot
- Julienned green onion
- Snowpeas or snap peas
- Avocado strips
- Cilantro
- Sprouts
1. Immerse one sheet of rice paper in a large shallow dish of warm water for a few seconds to soften it up. (You don't want to oversoak it, as it will be hard to work with.) Gently transfer to a clean surface.
2. Working quickly, place a lettuce leaf on the bottom half of the soaked rice paper, folding or tearing to fit, and leaving a 1-inch border along the edges. Top with 2 or 3 pieces of each vegetable, finishing off with a small handful of sprouts. Don't overfill the wraps, as you'll have difficulty rolling them!
3. Pressing down on the filling with your fingers to tighten the roll, fold the bottom end of the sheet (side nearest you) over the vegetables. Fold in the sides, and continue to roll up.
4. Transfer to a plate. If you are not planning on serving the Spring Rolls right away, cover them with plastic wrap to avoid the rice paper drying up. The rolls can stay covered in the refrigerator for several hours.
5. To serve, cut each Spring Roll in half making a straight or diagonal cut. Serve with Ginger Dipping Sauce or the Peanut Sauce.


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Good afternoon girlies!
Apologies for lack of posts at the minute, me and Darren ♥ are in the middle of moving house so I've packed my make up away and just have out my everyday items. Normal posting should resume soon!
This is a new section on my blog, I wanted to do a weekly photo's section but to be honest I don't do that much weekly and some weeks are busier than others so I thought monthly posts would be better.
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Karachi: The chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Zaka Ashraf today said that resumption of bilateral ties with neighbours India will take some time.
Speaking on bilateral relations with India, Ashraf admitted it will take time to revive cricketing ties between the two countries.
"I was not able to meet my Indian counterpart (N Srinivasan) at the ACC meeting in Singapore. But I am looking forward to meet him at the next ICC meeting to have a positive dialogue," Ashraf stated.
The PCB chief has also said that the board didn`t favour appointing a vice-captain with the national team as this could lead to "divisions" within the side.
"The naming of the vice-captain could lead to divisions in the team and it would not be good. The team is doing well under Misbah-ul-Haq`s captaincy so let him continue for as long as he can," Ashraf was quoted as saying by `The News`.
His comments came after being asked why the board was not grooming someone as future vice-captain as Misbah was not getting any younger.
Ashraf credited Misbah for leading the team well and inspiring them to perform well in recent series.
The PCB has not appointed a vice-captain for the last three series against Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Ashraf also made it clear that he would review the financial benefits given to the players when their central contracts end this year.
"I will look into the central contract issue and deliberate upon it with my staff to see what we can do for the betterment of the players," he added.
Pakistani players are presently given central contracts in three different categories.
Those in category A are paid a monthly salary of 250,000 Pakistani rupees, the ones in the second division get 175,000 while the players in C category are paid 100,000 per month.
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Log buildings are embedded deeply into North American history and culture. For more than one thousand years, builders have been weaving logs into homes, shelters, barns, and churches. Today, however, the buildings where we live and work are rarely handmade from natural materials. In this context, handcrafted, scribe-fitted natural log buildings are an attractive and uplifting alternative to conventional buildings and building materials. This book tells you what you need to know to build your own log home and also reveals the deep rhythms and patterns of log construction. Author Robert Chambers shows how to take naturally shaped, tapered, round logs and scribe-fit them one to another so that they look like they actually grew together in the woods. The Log Construction Manual is filled with information available nowhere else, including the Log Selection Rules, Chambers's brilliantly simple method for choosing which log to use next; instructions for building hip and valley log rafters and roof trusses from full-round logs; step-by-step directions for laying out the sill logs for virtually any floor plan, including hexagons, prows, and more; state-of-the-art compression-fit saddle notches and underscribing to keep fits tight over time; details on scribing and cutting long grooves and corner notches just like the pros; and more. Chambers also offers advice on organizing and financing a log home project and has loads of experience to share on cutting costs and avoiding common pitfalls. He presents practical ideas for saving money and controlling costs. Although handcrafted log homes are expensive to buy, they are within reach for many as owner-managed building projects. Writtenconcisely with great care in explaining important details, the Log Construction Manual brings clarity, insight, depth, and even humor to the log builder's craft. This is a comprehensive book for log home owner-builders, beginners as well as professionals.The roof of Kamp Kill Kare is the epitome of shelter for a log home. Learn from these designs. Tomska Texture in Wood By Werner Blaser. Birkhauser Verlag, 1994. Fantastic picture book of spectacular Russian log homes a these black andanbsp;...
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Earthquake magnitude is a measure of the size of an earthquake at its source. It is a logarithmic measure. At the same distance from the earthquake, the amplitude of the seismic waves from which the magnitude is determined are approximately 10 times as large during a magnitude 5 earthquake as during a magnitude 4 earthquake. The total amount of energy released by the earthquake usually goes up by a larger factor: for many commonly used magnitude types, the total energy of an average earthquake goes up by a factor of approximately 32 for each unit increase in magnitude. There are various ways that magnitude may be calculated from seismograms. Different methods are effective for different sizes of earthquakes and different distances between the earthquake source and the recording station. The various magnitude types are generally defined so as to yield magnitude values that agree to within a few-tenths of a magnitude-unit for earthquakes in a middle range of recorded-earthquake sizes, but the various magnitude-types may have values that differ by more than a magnitude-unit for very large and very small earthquakes as well as for some specific classes of seismic source. This is because earthquakes are commonly complex events that release energy over a wide range of frequencies and at varying amounts as the faulting or rupture process occurs. The various types of magnitude measure different aspects of the seismic radiation (e.g., low-frequency energy vs. high-frequency energy). The relationship among values of different magnitude types that are assigned to a particular seismic event may enable the seismologist to better understand the processes at the focus of the seismic event. The various magnitude-types are not all available at the same time for a particular earthquake. Preliminary magnitudes based on incomplete but rapidly-available data are sometimes estimated and reported. For example, the Tsunami Warning Centers will calculate a preliminary magnitude and location for an event as soon as sufficient data are available to make an estimate. In this case, time is of the essence in order to broadcast a warning if tsunami waves are likely to be generated by the event. Such preliminary magnitudes are superseded by improved estimates of magnitude as more data become available. For large earthquakes of the present era, the magnitude that is ultimately selected as the preferred magnitude for reporting to the public is commonly a moment magnitude that is based on the scalar seismic-moment of an earthquake determined by calculation of the seismic moment-tensor that best accounts for the character of the seismic waves generated by the earthquake. The scalar seismic-moment, a parameter of the seismic moment-tensor, can also be estimated via the multiplicative product rigidity of faulted rock x area of fault rupture x average fault displacement during the earthquake.
Magnitudes commonly used by seismic networks include:
|Magnitude type
|Magnitude Range
|Distance Range
|Duration (Md or md)
|< 4
|0 - 400 km
|Based on the duration of shaking as measured by the time decay of the amplitude of the seismogram. Often used to compute magnitude from seismograms with "clipped" waveforms due to limited dynamic recording range of analog instrumentation, which makes it impossible to measure peak amplitudes.
|Local (ML Ml, or ml)
|2 - 7.5
|0 - 600 km
|The original magnitude relationship defined by Richter and Gutenberg for local earthquakes in 1935. It is based on the maximum amplitude of a seismogram recorded on a Wood-Anderson torsion seismograph. Although these instruments are no longer widely in use, ML values are calculated using modern instrumentation with appropriate adjustments.
|Short-period surface wave (mb_Lg, mb_lg, or MLg)
|3.5 - 7
|150 – 1100 km
|A magnitude for regional earthquakes based on the amplitude of the Lg surface waves as recorded on short-period instruments.
|Short-period body wave (mb)
|4 - 7
|15 - 100 degrees
|Based on the amplitude of P body-waves as recorded on short-period instruments that are most sensitive to waves with a period of about 1 s.
|Twenty-second surface wave (Ms or Ms_20)
|5 - 8.5
|20 - 160 degrees
|A magnitude for distant earthquakes based on the amplitude of Rayleigh surface waves measured at a period near 20 sec.
|Moment (generic notation Mw or mw. Specific types denoted Mwb or mwb, Mwc or mwc, Mwr or mwr, and Mww or mww)
|> 3.5
|Based on the scalar seismic-moment of the earthquake, as determined by a moment-tensor inversion. Mwb – Mw based on moment tensor inversion of long-period (~10 - 100 s) body-waves (P- and SH). Mwc -- Moment magnitude derived from a centroid moment tensor inversion of intermediate- and long-period body- and surface-waves. Mwr -- Moment magnitude derived from a moment tensor inversion of complete waveforms at regional distances (less than ~13 degrees). Sometimes called RMT. Mww -- Moment magnitude derived from a centroid moment tensor inversion of the W-phase.
|Moment (Mi or Mwp)
|5 - 8
|Based on an estimate of moment calculated from the integral of the displacement of the P wave recorded on broadband instruments.
|Energy (Me)
|> 3.5
|Based on the seismic energy radiated by the earthquake as estimated by integration of digital waveforms
Event Time
We indicate the date and time when the earthquake initiates rupture, which is known as the "origin" time. Note that large earthquakes can continue rupturing for many 10's of seconds. We provide time in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Seismologists use UTC to avoid confusion caused by local time zones and daylight savings time. On the individual event pages, times are also provided for the time at the epicenter, and your local time based on the time your computer is set.
An earthquake begins to rupture at a hypocenter which is defined by a position on the surface of the earth (epicenter) and a depth below this point (focal depth). We provide the coordinates of the epicenter in units of latitude and longitude. The latitude is the number of degrees north (N) or south (S) of the equator and varies from 0 at the equator to 90 at the poles. The longitude is the number of degrees east (E) or west (W) of the prime meridian which runs through Greenwich, England. The longitude varies from 0 at Greenwich to 180 and the E or W shows the direction from Greenwich. Coordinates are given in the WGS84 reference frame. The position uncertainty of the hypocenter location varies from about 100 m horizontally and 300 meters vertically for the best located events, those in the middle of densely spaced seismograph networks, to 10s of kilometers for global events in many parts of the world.
The depth where the earthquake begins to rupture. This depth may be relative to mean sea-level or the average elevation of the seismic stations which provided arrival-time data for the earthquake location. The choice of reference depth is dependent on the method used to locate the earthquake. Sometimes when depth is poorly constrained by available seismic data, the location program will set the depth at a fixed value. For example, 33 km is often used as a default depth for earthquakes determined to be shallow, but whose depth is not satisfactorily determined by the data, whereas default depths of 5 or 10 km are often used in mid-continental areas and on mid-ocean ridges since earthquakes in these areas are usually shallower than 33 km.
Nearby Cities
We provide distances and directions from nearby geographical reference points to the earthquake. The reference points are towns, cities, and major geographic features derived from US Census data, such as from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html. International places were gathered from a specially created USGS catalog. Selected places were based on minimum population values that were specified for each particular region.
We realize that these distances are uncertain both because of the errors inherent in locating earthquake (typically one or more kilometers) and because of the impossibility of describing the location of a city by a single longitude-latitude entry in a table. For places in the US, rather than rounding off distances to, say, the nearest 10 kilometers, we chose to trust the user's common sense in interpreting the accuracy of these distances. For places outside the US, distances are rounded depending on the location uncertainty. If the computed location is close to an operating quarry which is known to use explosives in its operations, we indicate that the event may be a quarry explosion. We try to always provide at least one widely recognized reference point in the list on the event page, even if the earthquake occurs in a remote location.
Magnitude Uncertainty
The estimated standard error of the magnitude. The uncertainty corresponds to the specific magnitude type being reported and does not take into account magnitude variations and biases between different magnitude scales. We report an "unknown" value if the contributing seismic network does not supply uncertainty estimates.
Location Uncertainty
The horizontal location error, in km, defined as the length of the largest projection of the three principal errors on a horizontal plane. The principal errors are the major axes of the error ellipsoid, and are mutually perpendicular. The horizontal and vertical uncertainties in an event's location varies from about 100 m horizontally and 300 meters vertically for the best located events, those in the middle of densely spaced seismograph networks, to 10s of kilometers for global events in many parts of the world. We report an "unknown" value if the contributing seismic network does not supply uncertainty estimates.
Depth Uncertainty
The depth error, in km, defined as the largest projection of the three principal errors on a vertical line.
Azimuthal Gap
The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees). In general, the smaller this number, the more reliable is the calculated horizontal position of the earthquake. Earthquake locations in which the azimuthal gap exceeds 180 degrees typically have large location and depth uncertainties.
Number of Stations Used
Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake. This number may be larger than the Number of Phases Used if arrival times are rejected because the distance to a seismic station exceeds the maximum allowable distance or because the arrival-time observation is inconsistent with the solution.
Number of Phases Used
Number of P and S arrival-time observations used to compute the hypocenter location. Increased numbers of arrival-time observations generally result in improved earthquake locations.
Minimum Distance
Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in km). In general, the smaller this number, the more reliable is the calculated depth of the earthquake.
Travel Time Residual
The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights. This parameter provides a measure of the fit of the observed arrival times to the predicted arrival times for this location. Smaller numbers reflect a better fit of the data. The value is dependent on the accuracy of the velocity model used to compute the earthquake location, the quality weights assigned to the arrival time data, and the procedure used to locate the earthquake.
Review Status
Review status is either automatic or reviewed. Automatic events are directly posted by automatic processing systems and have not been verified or altered by a human. Reviewed events have been looked at by a human. The level of review can range from a quick validity check to a careful reanalysis of the event.
Event ID
A combination of a 2-letter Seismic Network Code and a number assigned by the contributing seismic network.
Moment Tensors
A mathematical representation of the movement on a fault during an earthquake. The tensor depends on the source strength and fault orientation. See also Focal Mechanisms


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The Flyby: Eye Protection from ESS
by David Hildebrand, PCI #404T/EMSCI #118T
Denton (TX) Police Department
IPMBA President
I have been lucky enough over the last 18 months to have the opportunity to test a pair of sunglasses made by Eye Safety Systems, Inc., otherwise known as ESS. The company is a supplier of eye protection to our U.S. military currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. For that reason, I was excited to give these glasses a run around the block by a domestic bike cop.
On first assessment, the Flyby is definitely a departure from my normal style of sunglasses. For a number of years now, I've worn full "shield" style glasses from a couple of different manufacturers. I've tried Smith's, Smith & Wesson, and Rudy Projects and have good things to say about all of them. The Flybys are a captive dual lens style, meaning that there are two lenses and they are not interchangeable. I wasn't real sure how I would like this. They are solid black with a dark tinted lens. When I first looked at them, I thought, "Men in Black"! They came in a brushed soft case with a lens cloth for cleaning them. The lenses are a high impact 2.2mm polycarbonate, providing broad coverage, comfort, safety, and sporty style. They also provide 100% UVA/UVB protection.
The Flyby fits close to the face and as I was to find out, this was a blessing as well as a curse. The blessing part was that they did a wonderful job of keeping particles and wind away from my eyes. The downside of it was that they would fog up at a moment's notice. The fit was secure with not a lot of movement even during heavy cycling. Here was where I also began to notice something else that I had not experienced with any of my other sunglasses. Due to the tall temple arms and how they attached to the front frame of the glasses, I found that my peripheral vision was somewhat limited.
To do rear scans that usually I could accomplish with a slight turn of my head, I had to dramatically turn my head to see what was coming up behind me. For some folks this would probably not be a problem, for those with some neck issues it could be. I did find that the longer I wore them, the less I noticed it. Another issue that reared its ugly head was the temple arms themselves. As I mentioned earlier, the arms are tall but not very thick. I'm not sure what the process is for making them but it left what felt like a seam on the bottom of the temple arm. After wearing the glasses for a couple of hours, this seam began to irritate the tops of my ears where they connect to my head. I tried hobby sandpaper to smooth it but still have not gotten it to the point where I do not feel any discomfort.
Despite the couple of sniggling little irritants, I do like my Flybys. They currently are my backup glasses behind my Rudy's but in front of my Smith Moab glasses, that is, when I can get them back from my wife, who has taken a liking to them.
You can see all the eye protection that ESS offers at their website, www.esseyepro.com. ESS participates in IPMBA's Product Purchase Program, offering 30-40% off list price.
David Hildebrand is currently the Training Coordinator for the Denton Police Department. He has been a firearms instructor since 1997 and a bike officer since 1996. He currently serves on the IPMBA Board as President. He can be reached at email@example.com.
(c) 2009 IPMBA. This product review appeared in the Winter 2009 issue of IPMBA News.


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Unfortunately, for many, when they think of riding their motorcycle they are thinking of being free and looking sexy and not about their own safety, which is why so many motorcyclists end up severely injured every year.
You can't control what the other drivers on the road will do, but you can take some simple precautions to make sure you have a good shot at walking away if you are in an accident.
Motorcyclists rarely come out on top when in a collision with a automobile so it's essential that you protect yourself by using motorcycle protective gear whenever you ride.
Just stop and think for a minute what it would feel like to slide across a roadway at 55 MPH without adequate protection for your head and body. Not good.
Whether you're riding across town or across the county always wear protective gear, that's the best way to insure you will be riding for many more years to come.
Motorcycle Helmet – When buying a helmet you have a lot of choices in style and price, just make sure the helmet you choose has DOT certification. This means your helmet has passed strict safety tests. You also want to make sure you have the right fit. You want your helmet to be snug on your head, it shouldn't slide back and forth. You also don't want it to be too tight or have uncomfortable pressure points.
Motorcycle Jacket and Long Pants
Motorcycle Boots – Always wear heavy, over the ankle, boots or shoes. Do not even think about wearing open toed sandals or flip flops.
Motorcycle Gloves – Again leather is the preferred choice. But anything is better than leaving your skin exposed.
High Visibility Indicators – It doesn't matter if you wear a neon vest or a brightly colored helmet do everything you can to make sure other motorists can see you. This is the time you want to draw attention to yourself.
For anyone who has ever ridden a motorcycle on the open road you know what a fantastic feeling of freedom it can bring, but you also know that since we are sharing the roadway with other much larger and heavier vehicles it can also be dangerous.
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Motorcycle Protective Gear – What You Absolutely Need To Have
Posted in Motorcycle safety, Uncategorized, tagged Motorcycle Gear, motorcycle safety training, reflective motorcycle gear on August 22, 2009| 3 Comments »
Bald Overlook -picture from a customer of Jafrum
Posted in Motorcycle Riders and Pictures, tagged motorcycle riders, motorcycles, reflective motorcycle gear on July 7, 2009| 1 Comment »
I'm wearing my Pistol Pete premium leather jacket, 5-pocket leather pants and Milwaukee classic harness leather boots from Jafrum in the photo of me standing by the Lone Bald Overlook sign note: I didn't even read the writing on the sign when the picture was taken…noticed later while reviewing the pictures of the day how ironic this particular photo was 😉 Both photos taken on the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville, NC on April 22, 2009. Temperature was sunny and in the low 30's! I was toasty warm and very comfortable. (I'm 6'4" and 250 lbs) Bike is a 2003 Honda Valkyrie pulling an Escapade trailer. (That's ice on the rocks! Bike picture was taken facing across the road from the Lone Bald Overlook picture) Jim R , Florida
Safer Night Riding: Master the Art of Biker Recognition – Part II
Posted in Motorcycle Gear Articles, tagged jafrum international, jafrum motorcycle gear, night motorcycle safety, reflective motorcycle gear on July 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The importance of constantly improving your riding skills cannot be overemphasized. Many bikers take the mandatory course to get their license and ride for years without taking another course.
You can always become a better rider by learning tips from professionals that can improve your ability to avoid an accident.
Defensive riding serves the same purpose as like defensive driving; it makes you less likely to have accidents. Defensive riding technique focuses on improving your ability to:
- Anticipate
- Be alert and observant
- Ride at a speed that will enable you to slow down and stop in good time
- Position yourself in the best place
- Overtake safely
- Take a 'lifesaver' glance over your shoulder before carrying out maneuvers
- Wear gear that makes you easy to be seen and recognized
Protective and reflective motorcycle gear is a must for night riding. You should always wear:
- An approved helmet that fits securely
- Protective clothing; jacket, trousers and boots. Wear something fluorescent during the day and reflective at night.
Keep in mind that there are four steps in the response process:
- Detection
- Identification
- Decision to react
- Action
The goal is to help the driver to use less time to move through the recognition process. The question is: what's the best way to be easily recognizable on the road? Answer: Use the colors that make drivers take evasive action.
Drivers are accustomed to seeing the colors red and white in railroad crossings. The color white is highly reflective, in fact it is five times more than red, but red is used to represent danger and signals the need to stop.
Safer Night Riding: Master the Art of Biker Recognition-Part I
Posted in Motorcycle Gear Articles, tagged jafrum international, jafrum motorcycle gear, motorcycle lighting equipment, motorcycle riders, night motorcycle riding safety, reflective motorcycle gear on July 23, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Motorcycle riders have to take road safety very seriously, especially at night when visibility is reduced. In a car dominated world, being conspicuous is not enough, you have to be easy to recognize by drivers as well.
Some bikers focus solely on making themselves visible at night; some use strobe lights on their helmets, but that doesn't help much to make them recognizable.
A better way to use lighting to make you and your motorcycle easily recognizable is by installing LED accent lights as seen in the photo. These lights are available in several different colors specifically to highlight your bike on a night road. Check out the details at De-Luxcycle
Night riding can be dangerously deceptive: in the dark, what you might think is two motorcycles could actually be the headlights of an oncoming truck: the result of that false judgment would not be pretty.
It is not size that matters on the road, it is providing accurate information to drivers that make the difference. Reflective markings have been proven to provide more safety because it eliminates confusion: it allows the biker to be easily recognized.
When a bike and a car are both in motion, every second counts and the less time used in the process of identification, the more time there is to avoid danger. In the next article we will look at the recognition process and how to make it work for you to keep you safe while riding your bike at night.


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What Makes Your Audience Tick? An Interview With ExactTarget's Jeff Rohrs
Rohrs discusses his new book, the growing importance of audience development, and proprietary audiences. Plus, he's giving away copies of his book to five readers.
Rohrs discusses his new book, the growing importance of audience development, and proprietary audiences. Plus, he's giving away copies of his book to five readers.
Jeff Rohrs really gets the complex world and nuances of customers, prospects, subscribers, fans, and followers and what makes them valuable to your company. Rohrs is a veteran executive of ExactTarget and author of the new book Audience, Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans & Followers, and I was thrilled to talk to him about his new book, what brands are doing well in terms of audience development, and related trends. Plus, he has generously offered up some free books. I am hoping my audience here stays the course with this article as you can see how to some freebies below.
Jenkins: First tell me why audience is important and what is different than our previous and traditional view of what makes up each of our audiences?
Rohrs: Without an audience, all of our marketing — not just content marketing — is a tree falling in the forest that no one hears. That's why since the dawn of marketing, we've been so willing to pay for advertising; we need audiences to grow and thrive. Advertising is a quick way to access audiences without having to worry about their creation, care, or feeding.
But now, thanks to the rise of email, websites, SMS, podcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and more, marketers find themselves with unprecedented opportunities — indeed, responsibilities — to build, nurture, and grow direct, proprietary audiences on behalf of their companies. These direct audiences don't supplant paid media entirely, but they give their developers a much faster, lower cost means to reach a larger number of interested consumers.
Jenkins: What is proprietary audience development and who does it well?
Rohrs: Proprietary audience development is the long-term process of developing, engaging, and increasing the value of audiences that your company and your company alone has access to. Media and entertainment companies are in the business of content creation and audience development, so they have "Directors of Audience Development." However, there are few marketing organizations who have someone focused exclusively on audience development. More often, they have someone focused on content marketing and some organic audience growth.
The prime example is Red Bull. A darling of the content marketing industry, I'm more intrigued by the proprietary audiences they have built — over 3.2 million subscribers on YouTube (and growing). By carving out a sponsorship, content production, and media niche in the world of extreme sports, they have built an on-demand audience that most brands (let alone broadcasters) would kill for. Whereas their competitors post a new video that goes to a few hundred thousand subscribers, theirs go to 3.2 million people — and they don't pay a dime for that distribution. In fact, their videos can be sources of revenue thanks to YouTube advertising and partner distribution. Their success illustrates a critical point — content and audience are different sides of the same coin, each reliant on the other to succeed.
Jenkins: If I have a customer base and have built a strong email and social presence — is that enough?
Rohrs: No. Building is just step one. You then have to engage to increase visibility and performance over time while continuing to add new audience members over the long-term. Proprietary audience development is a core marketing discipline, not a one-and-done campaign.
Jenkins: What are some unique ways companies are building renewable energy sources via email, social, and mobile?
Rohrs: You're beginning to see more companies understand that email, mobile, and social do not and should not be siloed channels. Rather, they should work together to build and engage your proprietary audiences whenever possible. For instance, we've all seen emails designed to generate Facebook FANS (likes) and Facebook tabs/posts designed to generate email SUBSCRIBERS. With the advent of social advertising, however, we're also seeing the rise of advertising products like Facebook's Custom Audiences where your email SUBSCRIBER base can be leveraged as a means to better segment your Facebook advertising such that FANS who aren't SUBSCRIBERS can be served highly targeted ads to encourage them to subscribe via email. This sort of "cross-pollenization" between email and social is just one of many ways proprietary audiences add value beyond direct messaging.
Jenkins: Are amplifiers what every brand wants to acquire and how do you take a typical customer and move her to be an amplifier?
Rohrs: Amplifiers are your audience members with audiences all their owns. They are the fundamental building block of EARNED MEDIA, and the people who make things "go viral." You can't force anyone to amplify your message, but you can incentivize or build relationships and experiences with your brand of such a caliber that people inherently want to share the experience. I see this in my own backyard of Lakewood, Ohio, where Melt Bar & Grilled developed such a reputation for amazing, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches (and an authentic rock club vibe) that anyone who ate there just had to tell someone about the experience. In that case, the very essence of the brand/restaurant/experience yielded the AMPLIFIERS. Thus, marketers who are having a difficult time getting amplification should examine what, if anything, related to their company is worthy of sharing. If not, it may be a yellow flag that the issue isn't with your marketing, it's your products and services.
Jenkins: What's next as it relates to the strategies and tactics in your book? where do great brands go from here?
Rohrs: I think we're going to see brands start naming directors of audience development who will work across channels to increase the size, engagement, and value of their proprietary audiences. We have people in charge of brand, advertising, website, social, and content — all of which benefit greatly from bigger and better direct audiences. So, a director of audience development feels like someone who will add a lot of measurable value across the marketing organization.
Jenkins: Last but not least, as an author myself I am curious on what has been the best and most challenging part of this book project?
Rohrs: The best part is actually having the book publishing and getting feedback from readers around the globe. The worst part was the time between turning in my manuscript and that publication date. You desperately want to discuss the book with people, but have to wait for it to hit the street.
Jenkins: Any last thoughts, especially on how to get the attention of the C-suite on this important topic?
Rohrs: Audiences are a business asset with real monetary value if you calculate the difference between the LCV of customers and customers who are also specific audience members. The C-Suite still thinks of marketing as a cost-center, but Proprietary Audience Development allows you to demonstrate to them how marketing can contribute to the bottom line over the long-term. If marketers embrace more of an asset-based mentality toward their efforts, they'll find themselves gaining more support, respect, and opportunity in the board room.
Now dear readers, thanks to Rohrs, we will try a little contest where five people will win a copy of Audience. To enter, please leave in the comment section below your best description of what makes your customer audience unique and what are you doing to fully engage with that audience.
We will pick the best five responses and contact you to let you know when you should expect your fresh copy of it.
Starting now… go!


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On Thursday, Newsweek released its newest cover, lionizing the Kennedys once again, but also attempting to link the JFK Administration with Twitter:
Here's our latest cover: Camelot in 101 Tweets. Each links to original #newsweek article. We'll be posting all day. pic.twitter.com/vn7bkR1IIm
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 7, 2013
It is unclear why exactly Camelot, the media's bizarre-in-retrospect nickname for the JFK marriage and White House, would require a Twitter summary. But when it comes to running slightly behind the curve, Newsweek takes the cake.
Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller "Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America" (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013). He is also Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org. Follow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro.


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I am pleased to be able to inform you that the
Ministry of Defence is announcing today, by way of a written answer
to a Parliamentary Question, the award of contracts for the next
stage of assessment for the Future Carrier (CVF) project to BAE
SYSTEMS and Thales Naval Ltd. This further strengthens our clear
commitment to the CVF programme.
As you are probably aware, assessment work on
the new carrier project began back in November 1999 when contracts
were awarded to the two competing consortia headed by BAE Systems
and Thales Naval Ltd. Originally, this work was split into two
stages, with progress to the second stage depending on performance
during the first stage and the submission by the contractors of
acceptable proposals for the second stage.
The first stage of Assessment was completed
in June this year. Since then we have been working to determine
the most efficient and cost effective way forward. We have taken
into account the views of both consortia as to the level work
required to minimise the level of risk in the CVF programme.
We have therefore decided to revise the CVF
procurement strategy so as to maximise competition for the remainder
of the assessment phase. For the next twelve months, until November
2002, the competing consortia will concentrate on refining their
designs and taking key trade-off decisions. At that point we will
make a detailed analysis of the merits of the two bids before
announcing a single preferred prime contractor in early 2003.
The preferred consortia will then continue assessment
work through the summer of 2003 in order to provide the robust
cost, time and performance information we need to make our main
investment decision. This will allow us to make a decision to
place a formal build contract in early 2004 and to move seamlessly
from the Assessment to the Build phase of the programme. The selected
prime will be expected to stick to the time, cost and performance
proposals agreed at the end of the assessment phase. Following
the announcement of a preferred contractor, competition will be
maximised at the sub-contractor level to ensure that robust prices
are achieved.
In adopting this revised approach we are seeking
to apply Smart Acquisition principles. This will allow us to maximise
the advantages offered by competition and thus ensure that we
achieve best value for money for the taxpayer. As part of this,
we will make around a further £20 million available to the
contractors during the Assessment Phase. This will enable the
selected prime to prepare more confidently their proposals for
the build programme. Critically, the In-Service Dates of the two
new carriers remain unchanged at 2012 and 2015 respectively.
Both BAE SYSTEMS and Thales have welcomed our
new approach which demonstrates innovative thinking to deliver
value for money.
This decision is good news for the Armed Forces.
When combined with progress on the Type 45 programme, the Astute
submarines, and the Alternative Landing Ship Logistics, it re-affirms
in the strongest possible terms this Government's commitment to
ensuring that our Armed Forces are equipped with battle-winning
equipment. Combined with the Future Joint Combat Aircraft, the
carriers will provide the UK with a formidable force projection
capability. It also highlights the significant opportunities that
currently exist for UK shipbuilders to participate in our extensive
warship-building programme.
I hope that you will support the decision.


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Call Today: 1.877.255.LUNG (877.255.5864) or 303.270.2609 Upcoming Screening Dates & Locations National Jewish Health Main Campus, Denver – two clinics per month Pueblo, CO – every January Montrose, CO – every March or April Craig, CO – every June Casper, WY – August 1-2, Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program (RESEP) Clinic Page, AZ – every October or November To learn more about our outreach clinics, please call us at 303.270.2609, or toll free at 1.877.255.LUNG (1.877.255.5864). Who is eligible for a free screening? You are eligible for a free screening through the Black Lung Clinic if you have been a Colorado miner for six months or more. 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The un-empowered patient
It's become part of received wisdom that today's patient is an active partner in his or her medical care. Since we all accept this as fact, we don't think it's worth questioning.
But perhaps it is: a new research study concludes that most of today's supposedly empowered patients don't ask the doctor what their prescriptions are for or about the benefits or risks. Only rarely do they even answer questions with more than a "yes" or "no." No dialogue, hence no participation.
And here's another shocker: The standard DTC call to action of "ask your doctor" doesn't work. There's data to show that 97 out of 100 of your prospects do no such thing.
Hearing these conclusions caused listeners to sit up in their chairs in surprise at a Coalition for Healthcare Communication meeting earlier this year where Joe Gattuso, the director of strategic insight for the 13 CommonHealth agencies, Power-Pointed them.
For years we have relied on studies, such as those by Prevention magazine, that show that DTC promotion works. And so it does. But how? What actually goes on in the doctor's office when patients exposed to these ads see their doctors? Do they say, "doctor, I saw this ad" or do they ask for, or about, a specific brand? Do they, in fact, give any indication of having been "empowered?"
CommonHealth set out to answer these questions, Gattuso reported, and now has a database of more than 2,500 transcriptions of videotaped doctor/patient encounters. For this particular study, they analyzed 440 office visits, covering 35 therapeutic categories, looking for either direct or indirect mentions of DTC advertising by either party. In addition, they identified all direct statements regarding product benefits or risks made by the physician.
Concentrating on three conditions (allergy, elevated cholesterol, and hypertension) that were being widely promoted through major ad campaigns at the time, they then followed up with post-visit interviews with both the doctors and the patients. Patients were asked, "Were there questions you felt the doctor didn't answer? Or issues you wanted to know more about? If so, why didn't you ask?"
"I didn't know whether I should ask that," they responded. As for the doctors, reviews of the transcripts showed that 60% of the time they provided neither risk nor benefit information, and that, for their part, they felt sure their patients had left the office satisfied.
Clearly, while we have had evidence that DTC works, we didn't know why or how. Says Gattuso: "What is most significant [about] these studies is that they point the way to a new and expanded vision for DTC advertising—one which we believe will encourage and increase the kinds of dialogues we want [between] physicians and patients, resulting in more efficient, robust, and appropriate outcomes."
He cites specific examples of how CommonHealth has applied its findings. Ads for Topamax, for instance, wind up: Tell your doctor your story. Other taglines might be: "Be sure to ask your doctor what your Rx is for," or "Ask about the risk if I don't take this medicine." Anything to open up a dialogue.
That approach could lead to real empowerment—and to better compliance that will improve both sales and patients' well being.
Warren Ross is editor at large of MM&M


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Melanoma is the least common form of skin cancer, but it's considered the most dangerous type. That's because melanomas tend to spread to other parts of the body, and once they've done so, it's difficult to treat them successfully.
Fortunately, the majority of melanomas are diagnosed and treated before they've had a chance to start spreading down into the deeper layers of the skin, and from there to other parts of the body. In fact, most melanomas take years to start spreading downward, although a minority of them start spreading quite early.
Treatment of melanoma depends on the following factors, all of which are included in the staging of melanoma:
Thickness of the melanoma: The depth of the thickest part of the melanoma is an important part of staging melanoma. Treatment varies depending on the stage at diagnosis. The thickness of the melanoma also corresponds to prognosis: Thinner melanomas (less than 2 millimeters thick) have good cure rates, whereas thicker melanomas (4 or more millimeters thick) are more likely to spread and cause death.
Whether the melanoma has spread to nearby lymph nodes: When melanoma spreads, it tends to start by going to nearby lymph nodes. Doctors usually biopsy nearby lymph nodes if the melanoma has a thickness of one millimeter or more.
Whether the melanoma has spread to further parts of the body: After spreading to lymph nodes, some melanomas may spread to other parts of the body. If melanoma is found in the lymph nodes, or if there are other symptoms concerning for metastatic spread to other parts of the body, doctors can check for spread with CT scans, MRI scans, or PET scans.
Depending on the factors above, melanoma is treated with one or more of the following techniques:
Surgical excision
Virtually all melanoma treatment starts with a "wide" surgical excision: The original melanoma is surgically removed from the skin, usually under local anesthesia. The surgery includes the removal of 1 to 2 centimeters of normal skin around the melanoma and should go down to the deepest layer of the skin. This "wide" excision is done to minimize the chance that any stray tumor cells are left behind. (Note: Surgeons used to take up to five millimeters of normal skin with the melanoma; however, research studies found that there's no benefit in taking more than two millimeters.)
For thinner melanomas, a wide excision is often curative. However, in a minority of cases, the melanoma may recur in the same spot.
Lymph node biopsy
If the melanoma is more than one millimeter thick, or if there are other reasons to suspect possible spread to the lymph nodes, doctors will biopsy nearby lymph nodes to check for spread. To identify the lymph nodes to which cancer cells are most likely to spread, they may use a procedure known as "sentinel lymph node biopsy." This involves injecting a mildly radioactive tracing compound into the skin near the melanoma location, then using special imaging to follow the tracer into a nearby lymph node.
Complete lymph node dissection
This process of removing a large cluster of lymph nodes is usually done when lymph node biopsy is positive, or if there are other signs of spread to the lymph nodes.
Interferon alpha
After surgical removal of lymph nodes, there still remains a 30 to 80 percent chance of the melanoma recurring eventually. To reduce the chance of recurrence, most experts recommend a course of interferon alfa. This special compound is a form of "immunotherapy" that involves intravenous or subcutaneous injections of a protein that modulates the body's immune system and tends to interfere with tumor growth. Because treatment with interferon usually takes a year and is associated with significant side effects, it's usually only recommended for patients who are in good health and otherwise likely to live ten years or more.
Radiation therapy
Radiation is only rarely used for the initial treatment for melanoma; it's more often used for palliative purposes in incurable melanoma. In particular, it can be used to reduce pain and symptoms from melanoma that may have spread to the spine or bones. Occasionally, though, radiation is used after surgical removal of melanoma or nearby lymph nodes in an attempt to reduce the chance of the melanoma recurring.
Treatments for advanced melanoma
Unfortunately, advanced melanoma that has spread throughout the body is very difficult to cure. Research is ongoing, and the most promising approaches involve treating patients with strong immunotherapy compounds (drugs that interfere with certain immune system pathways). Surgery and radiation may also be attempted, although usually the goal is pain and symptom relief rather than cure.
See also the FAQs How is skin cancer staged? and What kind of follow-up should I have after treatment for skin cancer?


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