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New Places To Go, Things To See
My friend, Holly, talks about how much she enjoys the "social serendipity" of discovering new websites or fresh ideas from her Facebook feed.
Here are a few of my recent favorite discoveries, the home of interesting curators assembling original ideas. Add these to your app readers, your real time feeds, or like their Facebook pages.
Notcot http://notcot.com offers Ideas + Aesthetics + Amusement
Design Milk http://design-milk.com and its sister site Dog Milk http://dog-milk.com are online magazines dedicated to modern design
Doodlers Anonymous http://www.doodlersanonymous.com is the permanent home of spontaneous doodle art.
Favorite Tweets Of The Holiday Weekend
@kenradio Why Bing "Likes" Facebook, Facebook should give Microsoft an edge against search rival Google -http://bit.ly/g6CJQ4
@bgershon Ad Execs Gaze Into 2011 Crystal Ball - Great overview.... http://tumblr.com/xsb16mkrnd
Social Media in 2011: Expect a Big Dose of STFUhttp://networkedblogs.com/cvGB1 from my pal @BigGuyD
Great article from @Jabaldaia to start the new year, Design Thinking and the courage to do things http://bit.ly/gTboJu
RT@quirkyinc The NY Times Pogies celebrates product features which are "clever twists that make life just a little bit better" http://qrky.co/hwMqe3
Favorite Tweets of the Day
RT @DesignerDepot: The Dos and Do Nots of Mobile Applications http://bit.ly/cxyhNs Sez don't mix mobile app and mobile web
RT @ tonyadam My thoughts on the hot topic - A resume doesn't tell the whole story - http://bit.ly/ci4jIUhttp://ow.ly/1CRtv Well said.
Have You Created An Information Gap?
Despite the cartoonish example that appears to be co-opted from a children's public television show, this short video is worth a few minutes of your time. If you are a product manager, product marketer or product designer, the simple theory about consumer behavior which is illustrated here is pretty compelling.
Balancing Work-Life Memory
The folks over at Holycool.net pointed me to this double duty USB memory stick (that launched last summer), which makes it easy to separate home photos and files from work documents and spreadsheets in a single drive housing. I don't know about you, but I always hate it when I need to transfer a slide deck to a colleague on a USB stick that has photos named "car accident" or "dog tricks." They inevitably want to open them, and I'd just as soon avoid the conversation altogether. Thanks to the segregated, double-sided USB memory stick which works with the flick of a switch, I can keep my personal media separated from co-worker's prying eyes.
Ten Original Sites Designed to Inspire and Provoke
Some times it pays to wander off the beaten path to find your inspiration. These ten sites all deserve credit for focusing on original content, not becoming blog clones.
Information Architecture Quotes
My Blog As a Song
Code Organ turns web pages into music. It's fun to compare the style and beat of different URLs. The Code Organ algorithm uses letters on the page to find the most used note, selects a major or minor scale, and then based on the total characters on the page, it chooses a synthesizer. There are 10 different drum loops from which one is selected, based on the percentage of characters on the page that are actually musical notes. For example, listen to CNN's music versus the sound of FoxNews.com. Here's how the Code Organ's creators, describe the magic.
The Code Organ analyzes the 'body' content of any web page and translates that content into music. The Codeorgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content.
Firstly, the Code Organ scans the page contents and removes all characters not found in the musical scale (A to G), and then analyzes the remaining characters to find the most commonly used "note". If this is an even number the page is translated to the major pentatonic scale of that particular note, it becomes minor if there is an uneven number.
If my blog took a shower, this is what it would sing. Enter your favorite URL. It's very entertaining. Thanks to Lost at E Minor for discovering the Code Organ. It's a great way to feel the hidden vibe in content. And it gives added dimension to the written word.
Google Shares Nexus One Design Thinking
While this video also sits in my Vodpod collection on the right side of this page, I wanted to highlight the video not for the design secrets it reveals (there really aren't any revelations in the video) but because of how it highlights the importance of an integrated hardware and software user experience. I find that positioning most interesting in light of the UI fragmentation concerns that persist around Android.
Favorite Tweets of the Day - AKA It's Dave McClure Day
Ok, Dave seems to have hit a couple of my favorite topics over the last few days.
@HelenWaters BusinessWeek Special @davemcclure on why design matters more 2 startups than enginrng: http://bit.ly/dx7x8s
@davemcclure: Subscriptions are New Black http://ow.ly/12PYy
The Most Important Unboxing Day of the Year
Boxing Day is a holiday around the world, also known in America as the day of many returns.
Presents under the tree leave an indelible first impression when the paper is gone and the box is opened. The real surprise, though, may not be the gift, but the way the product is experienced once the ribbons and bows are gone.
I recently purchased a new pair of stereo in-ear headphones with a microphone for my iPhone made by VModa. I like to listen to music on my iPhone but my stereo headphones didn't have a microphone, so this product seemed like a great solution. Once I got them home and tried to unwrap them, I found the unboxing experience made me want to reconsider the choice. The packaging was aggravating. I am completely aware that retailers require packaging that prevents loss from theft by customers or employees. But this design defied reason. The amount of time it took to figure out how to set the headphones free was at least 15 minutes. And the experience was complicated by the fact the packaging made it really difficult to guess where the safest place was to cut it open. The cord was black, the packaging was black and there was black tape holding the cord to the plastic. There were instructions, but they were buried under a corner of the plastic you had to fold back to read. I sliced my finger pulling back the tab to read them. I am certain the product managers and designers didn't mean to leave me with such a sour attitude by the time I started using the headphones 20 minutes later.
Every part of the customer experience tells you something about what matters most to the company behind the brand. Does the company put their processes ahead of yours? In this case, was theft prevention the prevailing design goal? Does the set of business rules around the company's service department give the consumer the benefit of the doubt? Does the company empower front line sales and support people to solve problems for customers? How much does a customer have to adapt to the company, and how far does the company go to ensure not only their products but their processes align with their consumers' needs and goals? Acquiring the product and then getting the product to the first use can be as important to the whole product experience as features, price and durability. As Oprah says, "Love is in the details," although, admittedly, I believe she was speaking about a more macro-global level of love. The companies that seem to "get" that the total consumer experience matters are the ones that build relationships with their customers from the first interaction. They think about their customers' entire journey from consideration to purchase to out of the box experiences and support over the product's lifetime, and are especially prepared when problems unexpectedly arise.
We always hope to make great Christmas memories each year in our house. Often, though, the memories that are most unforgettable are the ones least expected - the dropped turkey or the present we received that cost us some bandages just to get it out of the box.
Is This a Real Good Experiment? [Video]
It seems the easiest way to create a viral video, like this one from Blu Dot, is to use a hidden camera to film someone doing something when they think no one is watching. America's Funniest Home Videos, You Tube and Facebook have made a cottage industry out of laughing at other people's secret single behaviors.
Innovation firms like Ideo also consider this "consumer anthropology", or ethnography, essential in their market studies, and critical to develop their point of view in the fuzzy front end of new product development.
I question the actionable insights in the above embedded video, and am curious to understand if anything about this story sells more Blu Dot product. Maybe it's meant to be just entertainment, but in this economy, how do you build a brand your consumer doesn't understand? Uncovering a new behavior, like curb scavenging, is intriguing, but it's only useful as fuel for innovation if it drives a business agenda. What's the business agenda of building your brand on a story about people who "co-opt" anything from the curb, not just Blu Dot chairs?
Can An Open OS Ever Really Be Mainstream?
The recent announcement that Google plans to deliver an unlocked mobile phone into the market sometime next year has been an encouraging sign for fans of the open operating system that finally wireless carriers won't be able to control what phones their service customers can use. Many feel as the Wall Street Journal technology columnist, Walt Mossberg does that carriers have been acting like "soviet ministries" as they intermediate between the consumer and the providers of the handsets they use to connect to the carrier networks.
Having launched the T-Mobile G1 as an executive with the company, I have a great affinity for the open Android platform. I appreciate that the Android marketplace enables garage developers to create magic as moonlighting inventors, and brings innovation to the masses through the power of the open programming interfaces and developer tools Google provides online. But I also saw first hand the customers who, after downloading 10 random apps, wondered why their battery life halved or the screen seemed no longer responsive.
The open developer model has given anyone who can code access to consumers without an accompanying process to ensure they put quality product on the shelves, and as a result more developers step in and create solutions like Astro, an Android task manager to help manage processes, tasks and files that may impact your Android device's performance. Much like on my Windows PC, I find I am delighted to have such a tool and aggravated when I have to use it. It seems I rarely find myself on my iMac, iPod or iPhone worrying about multi-threaded processes or unresponsive programs. And for most consumers, that's one more thing to love about the Apple OS. Sure, it comes with the cost that I can't have apps running in the background on my iPhone, but my iPhone rarely hangs, crashes or has a radical change in the battery life with each new app I might download to it.
Ratings and reviews of apps in the open market are meant to help consumers, but I often wonder which reviewers to trust and whether one app offers the complete solution I need or a more usable interaction model for my tastes. In the case of Astro, several apps purport to do some or all of the capabilities. Some charge. I then wonder, will the quality be the same for the developer who isn't getting paid? Will they maintain the app? Will they support me if I have trouble? Will they care if the application doesn't work well with other applications I may download? And how will I know if they conflict until I download them. A reviewer of the application may not have the same things on their phone that I do, or want to use their phone as I do.
In a world where there are infinite ways to configure a phone with settings and application combos that meet any user's specific needs, the best solution a service rep can offer when a customer complains about their device's performance is to wipe it clean and start over. But facing that experience when you need to place a call and your phone is frozen is daunting. As an example, last night, my home screen theme application was corrupted and the home screen displayed a message compelling me to force it to close. After five times of doing that and not being able to break the cycle, I removed the battery and I removed the SIM. Neither action, both typically offered as the first cure by carrier care reps who don't know what apps I may have downloaded and configured, repaired the problem. The device seemed completely inaccessible and unusable. After a trip to the T-Mobile Forums and a hard reset, which removed all settings and personalizations, I was able to make a call more than twenty minutes later. But now, which apps to re-load? How do I know what was the offending piece of code?
As geeky as I am, I still want things to just work, and I get frustrated when I use applications that allow me to do things I really shouldn't or require me to understand arcane technical jargon. And I don't have the time to fuss with bad design to engage and interact with a solution. The challenge with open is that everyone can play, but maybe for consumers that isn't always going to be a simple way to have compelling experiences.
My Nexus One arrived while I was at CES. Having launched the first Android device, the T-Mobile G1, as a VP of Product Development at T-Mobile, I have a particular insight into what Google values and doesn't value about the existing business model for mobile phones. So I was particularly intrigued to see their unlocked phone experience. Under the banner of "do no evil" they represent that the company – and the Android team – know what's best for consumers. But if they did, they would know that sending an auto-generated email response to a customer care issue that suggests that a service response will come within 72 hours is not a good consumer experience. While they do not have a recurring subscription relationship with the customer that the carriers do, their brand is on the device, the consumer bought the product from their web site, and they have a responsibility to provide the service level a $500+ product should deliver. The fact that a GREAT customer experience may have been triaged for launch is no excuse not to have at least a good one.
I also believe that the consumer does not know how to use or trust the "community" in the apps marketplace. Reviews and ratings mean nothing if they come from the gang of software hackers and pirates in collusion with the developer who published the app. Enabling apps to enter your phone that can steal personal data also doesn't feel like it falls under the banner of "do no evil." For an open OS to be mainstream, the consumer MUST know where to place their trust. Apparently GigaOM agrees...
Favorite Tweet(s) of the Day
Interesting reading today from the Twitterverse
@brandchannelhub The Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2010 http://bit.ly/4z80Ho
@timoreilly Google Android:on Inevitability the Dawn of Mobile,& the Missing Leg http://bit.ly/4R6QLF
@thinkbig_blog Consumers are more discerning, critical & design-centric than ever. Brands must be as well – or face irrelevance. http://bit.ly/yEtjt
@julespieri Funny little indirect jab at consumer culture. http://bit.ly/5S57xN via @TheOnion - New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable
[Video] Bad design decisions as economic stimulus
I have an iPhone TED application and I have, as you can see in the siderail of this site, a number of videos from TED, a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. TED started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. What could be more closely aligned to the intersection of my passions, eh?
Some of the talks are timeless and riveting from the first frame. Some are actually a little dense and challenging to track to a key takeaway. I try to select the videos in my Vodpod Vodspot that are most accessible to the broadest group of readers. But occasionally I want to highlight some of the more arcane videos I love, and here's one I'd encourage you to watch, even though the set up to the key takeaway requires a little investment.
As you can see, during the early days of the Internet, people had not really envisioned all the implications of the design decisions engineers made. What innovators can contribute to the economy can occasionally be the necessity of continued support of a bad design decision.
The Middle Class of Products
What has become of the middle class of products? You know, the dependable ones that weren't luxury brands or disposable discounts? I have been lamenting with my friends lately how the stuff for sale looks like junk and how that appears to be even more frighteningly true as we approach the Christmas shopping season.There seems to be a chasm developing with high end luxury goods on one cliff and cheaply-made value products on the other. The idea of getting what you pay for is more about what you expect you are paying for. Is it the name on the label or the utility and durability of the product? As a consumer, what matter most to you is what you'll fork over your hard earned dollars for, and if that is quality you might be disappointed.
A middle class American works hard for a day's pay. And as an employee they are likely being asked to do more work with less benefits or resources. Margins are being cut everyhere in the supply chain, and nowhere more than in manufacturing and industrial design. Mass produced items that just hint at artisan craftsmanship pass as luxury goods these days because people yearn for even the appearance of qualty. No place is this more true than in consumer electronics. A pretty face can carry a cheap imitator into a consumer's home easily these days. And like a wolf in sheep's clothing, it can mask as a shiny new cell phone, digital camera or GPS device that could change your life.
But before long the wolf reveals, through the headset jack jiggling or the speaker crackling or dropped signals or the paint chips off the shiny finish. And then you wonder, is the aggravation to buy cheaper products worth the savings? This is where my friends and I ended our rant tonight - agreeing that sometimes it is worth it to pay for the luxury brand just for the peace of mind that quality brings when you know you can depend on it. Pride of craftsmanship, especially pushing against the prevailing tide of economic downsizing, is getting harder and harder to find. Just like the middle class.
The Power of Emotion in Design
reprinted from DailyGrommet.com
Photo sources: Http://constance-reader.blogspot.com
I love books. And libraries. And bookstores. I love the idea I can own thoughts, and I can see them physically on a shelf. My mother was an English professor and I have a lot of memories around the smell of books, libraries and bookstores. I spent a lot of my childhood buried in stacks of books. I own a lot of books. Memories are a powerful thing. They frame so many choices we make – from the media we consume, to our favorite foods, even to the places we live. We also create new "memories" all the time.
It should follow, therefore, that deep connections to the products we buy are informed by those memories as well as the emotions they conjure up. It doesn't take a lot to do that. The look, sound, smell and taste of an experience can telegraph how we should "feel" about a product or service. Emotional bonds with products are also created from the perfect marriage of utility and appeal. I have recently discovered a set of cases that look like miniaturized eyeglass cases, made from "eco-leather" in bright, candy colors. They are palm sized, smooth and polished. I carry a big tote bag when I travel with all sorts of little odds and ends I toss inside. I have bought a lot of cases of all shapes and materials to try to help me stay organized, but I adore these. Why? Because the colors make me happy. They're easy to spot and even when they are closed, they communicate to me. My stereo earbuds are white, and fit inside the white case. My Jawbone Prime is candy apple red, so it resides in the red case. The material is durable, so when it bangs around in the bottom of my bag it stays glossy and bright, and the hinge stays closed. They are stylish and functional at the same time, and because I love to use them, I find I want to carry them even when I don't travel.
Online shopping has made it dramatically harder to sense everything about a product, and predict if or how you might emotionally attach to it, since comparing and purchasing have become mostly visual experiences in a digital world. Don't get me wrong, online shopping has been a huge innovation that has changed my behavior around shopping dramatically. The accessibility of world goods from local craftspeople and the convenience of 24/7 purchasing are windfall benefits. But they come at a cost. You don't always evaluate products by touch or interaction as much as our parents and grandparents did. Manufacturers and retailers seem to worry less about our "out of the box" experience, since a product may come in cellophane wrap within a cardboard box or appear drowning in a sea of Styrofoam peanuts.
Products communicate to consumers through design, and design makes products useful. In a digital world, though, it is only getting harder for us to connect with the things we buy, and product designers must be even more inventive to create emotional attachment. If it's impossible to assess the physical form and substance of a product prior to buying it, the design will have to work harder to convey the product value. I still love physical books and the smell of pulp, so I thought I'd never buy an e-Reader, but I have to admit I have got a crush on my Kindle. As someone who chooses what I read based on my mood, the big win for me is that I no longer have to decide what to pack in my carry-on bag or drag to the beach. In fact, my Kindle will let me carry 1,500 books with me everywhere I go, and I can read a book review and own the book within seconds. All of those books I adore are now with me all the time, any time. What's not to love about that? Technology will never supplant the power of products to connect a consumer to their emotions or memories. But great product design can seal those connections with customers that will last a lifetime.
First Citizen Journalists, and Now Citizen Designers
The power of social media to enable news to spread quickly is something we have understood for a while now. Breaking news headlines that race across Twitter and Facebook and status screens on your phone today are instrumental in saving lives, avoiding disasters and catalyzing change.
Should that same power be applied to improving the quality and agenda of product designers? For years, I have worked with designers who have tried to keep a mystique about what they do, separating themselves from the common Dilbert-cube masses through their discerning eye and high brow approach to the process of design evoution. But with the emergence of design thinking as a viable business approach to creating sustainable innovation and differentiation for companies, there is a burning need for empathy for design processes among the cube crowd.
In a non-corporate world, consumers also are fed up with low quality products that don't work as merchandised. They've taken to their social media soapboxes to catalog their woes, their bitterness and their disappointment with design for design's sake. Without formal design training they can tell you where you've missed their expectations, and show you how they have to work around the flaws designed into their product to produce a better outcome for themselves. More importantly they advise their circle of friends how to solve their problems with technology, too.
In his new book, ""Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life and Maybe Even the World", Warren Berger describes this phenomenon of "citizen designers". He asserts that the power of the individual consumer to influence product design through accessible technologies and tools has dramatically increased in just a few years. This direct connection to the products which consumers love and hate creates new and diverse interactions for manufacturers, which can and should inform design.
Read more about the book in an interview with the author on cnn.com, or check out the book in my Favorite Reads section on the sidebar.
The Illusion of Brand Control - Related opinion from the Harvard Business Blog,
You've probably heard by now that "your brand is no longer yours." The assertion's based on simple math. In the era of blogs, discussion boards, Facebook, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 tools, virtually everyone can get online and talk about your company and its offerings. Read more here
Font Cultivated In eColi Bacteria
It changes color and size with the bacteria shelf life and it shows that people can invent new ways to communicate - imagine assembling bacteria that formulate into coded messages? Is this the next innovation in germ warfare? Or will everyone stop Twittering and just pass bacteria back and forth?
Last week, Jelte van Abbema won the Dutch Design Awards' €10,000 Rado Prize, which goes to a promising young designer. One work that caught the judges' attention is Symbiosis, a font printed in bacteria


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Politics can impact the marketplace in a big way. In Leaving Liberty?, author Martin Mazorra presents a collection of essays that explores the important relationship between politics and economics. Delivered in a daily devotional format of thirty-one essays, Leaving Liberty? provides insight into the long-term effects of a growing government and answers a host of related questions: Will extending unemployment benefits inspire longer terms of unemployment? Is raising the minimum wage ultimately good for young and unskilled workers? How can governments spend beyond their means and rack up debt, while a company or a household doing the same would have gone bankrupt long ago? Is bailing out failed institutions truly in our best interest? Why do seemingly bright people in high positions continue to make egregious mistakes? Clear and concise, this collection touts the benefits of a free-market economy while offering a fundamental understanding of the global economy and the integral economic role that politics plays throughout the world.qEssays on Politics and Free-market Thinking Martin Mazorra ... Back to my childhood, to a simpler time, to a time when kids could entertain themselves for hours on endawithout the luxuries ofvideo games or cable television. I literally gotanbsp;...
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John W. Huckert directed this thriller that begins when bearded Jack (Malcolm Moorman) picks up a young desert hitchhiker. Homosexual homicide detective Ray Vates (Noel Palomaria) hangs out at a bar where his ex, Doug (Arron Zeffron), is the bartender. As a rookie, Ray gets a razzing from other cops, so he doesn't discuss his gay way of life. Meanwhile, with bodies of various hitchhikers surfacing, Ray and his partner Ellis (Charles Lanyer) investigate. Ray's encounter with Jack doesn't go well, since Ray is seduced by Jack, who confesses to the killings but then leaves Ray handcuffed to the bed. It's an awkward situation, since Ray must "out" himself so he won't be viewed as a suspect. Homophobic reactions from the other cops (Ellis excepted) eliminates any possibility of police back-up during the final horrific showdown at an abandoned theater. Shown at the 1998 San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Festival.
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The mighty Inca Trail! Everyone talks about doing it one day, and you hopefully you will. It is a four-day trek through the Andes mountains in Peru. You begin from colonial town of Cusco, where it is wise to spend a couple days to acclimate before you begin the trek. There are many outfitters and options in doing your trek, so research a bit and choose best one for you re comfort, length, porters, food style etc... I have used United Mice over the years, and have always had great experiences for my clients and myself. http://www.unitedmice.com/ They have different options and prices of course, with a wealth of experience and passionate local guides. Backin the day, we did the trek in three days, now 4 seems to be the norm. I remember the second day being the most brutal, as it is all incline with a lot of steps. But when you reach the Sun Gate on the last day, you feel nothing but jubilation in seeing the ruins of Machu Picchu in the early morning. The trail has gotten crowded these days, and permits are required now to lessen the impact on the trail itself. Permits are given from March to December. The altitude rises to over 12,000 ft on the trail so take it slow, consume much water, and enjoy every moment! I shot this on a sectio of the trail with Velvia film and a f100 nikon camera; the days of film!!!
Lunch In The Clouds
High up in the Andes Mountains, along the Inca Trail. This is day 3 on the trail. It is almost 8 hours of hiking, but every step along the way is worth it. The first stop is Runkurakay, a structure that is more like an outpost. It has a commanding view of the valley below. After passing a ridge and forging ahead over stones laid by the Incas themselves, you come upon another fortress called Sayacmarca, which again looks over the valley below it. A well needed stop for lunch (shown above) marks the middle of the day, but it is far from over. After lunch, the first stop is Phuyupatamarca, or, "Cloud Level Town," and it doesn't take long to realize where the name came from. The clouds gently rool over and through the stone structure. And the last stop of the day is impressive indeed. Winay Wayna is a terraced town at a lower elevation, and has the final campsite nearby. Next stop, Machu Picchu in the morning. We hiked with Peru Treks, who were amazing. The guides were knowledgeable, the food was amazing, and the experiences unforgettable!
By Blake Burton
Llama Faceoff
We were taking a break on day 2 of our 4-day trek to Machu Picchu on the Inca Trail when we happened upon some grazing llamas. This one seems to be having a stare down with one of our hiking group members, who is clearly wearing a llama wool hat.
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As I start writing, am thinking of the adage that holds true, 'To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.' With this, let me wish you success and the experience to enjoy new things this year. I am quite positive that with a comprehensive list of things that you want to accomplish, you are ready to take on the year. While we resolve to do different things, we need the resolve to do things differently. I will let that statement sink in for a moment.
Well then, with that thought let me continue. Did you know that one of the most popular resolutions made in 2017 (according to survey by CareerBuilder) include learning something new by attending more seminars or courses etc? This brings me to the crux of this conversation on how do you decide which is the right conference/ summit/ seminar to attend. What is that ONE key deciding factor, you may ask? Let me tell you, there isn't one, it is a mix of a few critical points that you need to bear in mind.
You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve – Steve Jobs
With any task, you want to accomplish in life – be it personal or professional, it is important for you to set clear goals. If you don't list out your objective of attending a conference, your presence at the event will be futile. MICE industry is on a high growth trajectory1 with an overwhelming number of conferences varying in nature organized month after month. It is solely your discretion which one you choose to attend and which one to give a miss. It's suffice to say ask as many as possible questions to the organizers. Mostly beginners tend to hold back asking any question to avoid looking foolish. To you I say, no question is a silly question and be sure to clear any doubts that you may have. You will be surprised that people are happy to answer your questions to help you make a decision.
You need to decide on what exactly you want to gain by attending a conference – enhancing your brand awareness, getting exposure to new trends and skills or connecting with industry peers? Once this is done, the next step is to research and choose amongst the many conferences being held and narrow down your choices to determine the right fit for you.
The second most important point for you to remember is the budget. While having said that, please remember that expense doesn't always equal quality. This brings me to my next point, that is location. It is a smart decision to attend events based locally. If you are willing to travel intercity to attend the summit, you would need to factor in the travel and accommodation costs, which will increase the budget by a significant degree.
Now that you have shortlisted few summits/ events to attend, you must carefully weigh the pros and cons to determine the quality of the event – has it been running for many years now? How well-established is it? Events that are renowned have a certain credibility attached to their name. That is not to say, the inaugural events can be skipped. Find out information on the organizers, go through past testimonials or ask past attendees for feedback. To ascertain what the event has to offer and if it is worth your money and time, request for a post-show report of the previous edition of the event. You will be well-equipped with all the information – the various topics covered under the conference agenda and quality of the speakers, whether the speakers are regionally renowned or internationally based, their background, expertise and if this matches with your line of work. Aside from this, it is crucial to know the attendee profiles visiting to find out whether the target audience is relevant for you to expand your business connections and increase your brand visibility.
Always keep in mind your objective while you evaluate an event that is of interest to you. At the end of it all, most importantly you should be able prove to your management that your connections made and skills you learnt has outweighed the expenditure incurred.
To new beginnings.
1 Conferences and trade shows are predicted to be the largest events in nearly every region, with per event attendee increase ranging from 209 in Asia to 455 in North America (Source – 2016 Global Meetings and Events Forecast)
– Dhruv Jain, Director, Expotrade Global
The article originally appeared in LinkedIn


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In 1976, CNIB established the Arthur Napier Magill Distinguished Service Award as a tribute to Arthur Magill, who dedicated his long and distinguished career to improving the lives of Canadians who are deafblind or living with vision loss. The award recognizes an outstanding CNIB volunteer for his or her contribution towards enhancing the lives of people who are blind or partially sighted.
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BROWNIES are one of Australians' favourite treats whether it's for tea time or to pop into the kids' lunch box.
Easier to make than a cake and far more indulgent these tiles of fudgy chocolatey goodness can be tricked up to make a nice and sexy dessert.
First up though, you need to make a batch of brownies (see my recipe). Once you have your brownies, let's think about how you could turn them into a cool dessert.
FIRST you need to work out whether you want to warm up the brownies, which is as easy popping them in the microwave for a few seconds just before you'll plate them.
The next decision is as easy as working out what flavours go best with chocolate.
For me, chocolate goes really well with oranges so think about topping them with curls of candied orange zest and an orange syrup made from gently reducing a cup of orange juice.
Alternatively, thinly slice an orange and candy the slices with a little sugar and a splash of brandy. Serve with whipped cream and in the brownie recipe, instead of almonds use 100g dark chocolate pieces as the bling in your brownie.
MUSCAT is a classic wine pairing for chocolate so take this idea and run with it.
Plump 1/2 cup raisins or sultanas by warming them with 1/2 cup muscat and then leave them to soak up the booze. Serve this with whipped cream and a muscat granita.
To make this, freeze two cups muscat in a small plastic container. When frozen, scrape the surface to make muscat ice.
Top the brownie with cream and then the muscat ice. Scatter muscat-infused fruit around the plate.
THE sharpness of raspberries is another great foil to the richness of chocolate, so make a coulis by gently warming 200g frozen (or fresh) raspberries with a little (40g) sugar.
When the raspberries break down, mash them and then pass them through a fine sieve.
Dress the plate with raspberry coulis, a few fresh raspberries and mascarpone or creme fraiche.
To make this a little more exotic, add a drop of rose water into coulis after the raspberries have been put through the sieve.
IF you've used a really dark chocolate for your brownie, then think about the classic Mexican combination of chilli and chocolate.
This can be as simple as making a chilli chocolate ice- cream or a chilli chocolate ganache to serve with the brownie and vanilla ice-cream. You can always substitute fresh ginger juice for the chilli and then cut sweet, preserved cake-making ginger into small lumps to act as the bling in your brownies.
THEN there is always the option of playing with those mocha flavours of coffee and chocolate. So how about knocking up a coffee syrup and serving the brownie with a Tia Maria flavoured-chantilly cream. Alternatively, take your lead from the world of chocolate bars. This can be as simple as serving the brownies with vanilla ice-cream and a salty peanut caramel or buying some mint choc-chip ice-cream and a packet of Peppermint Crisp.
Plate a scoop of ice-cream with each brownie. Smash the chocolate bar into shards and sprinkle over the plate.
GIVEN that cherries are so lush and good (and well-priced) at the moment I reckon that's the right way to go.
And cherries work so well with almonds and chocolate. Add the tang of sour cream to balance the intensity of the chocolate and you have a gem of a dessert built on little more than the humble brownie.
-- Serves 10+
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Skills needed: Intermediate
200g good-quality dark chocolate
120g unsalted butter, chopped
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g brown sugar
2 eggs
150g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
100g slivered almonds or white chocolate (vary to your taste, see note)
Preheat the oven to 170C.
Melt the chocolate with butter and vanilla extract.
Stir until smooth. You can use the microwave for this or a bowl over (but not touching) a small saucepan of boiling water. Glove up and mind the steam if you use this latter method. When smooth, remove from heat. Stir in the sugar until it has dissolved into the chocolate. Whisk in one egg and then the next.
Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together. Sift a little of this flour into the chocolate mix and fold it in. Keep adding the flour into the mix until all of it is incorporated.
Butter a low-sided metal slice tray, line with a sheet of baking paper that will lay across the tray and cover both the long sides and the bottom of the tray, and will act as a sling to lift the brownie out of the tin once its cooked.
Fill the tin with the mixture. Sprinkle with a few grains of flaked salt. Bake for 2530 minutes, by which time the brownie should have risen, the top will look shiny and cracked in places, and if you jab it with a skewer in the middle it will still be a bit sticky and fudgy.
Cook a little longer if the centre is still wet and sludgy.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
Cut into squares and eat.
Almonds work best in these brownies if you want to pair them with cherry elements.
I'm torn between these and the sultry and rather exotic malty lure of Tehan's Fabulous Brownies aka The "Other" Brownie. To make these, melt 310g butter and 250g grated dark chocolate in a saucepan.
When melted add 2 cups brown sugar and 5 eggs. Then add 1 1/4 cup plain flour, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, 5 tablespoons cocoa and mix. Lastly, add 1 cup malt powder and 1 cup chocolate chips. Pour into tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 50 minutes at 160C.
Originally published as Matt Preston's brownie desserts


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...Safeguarding Jerusalem is a key concern ... the Holy City; a strategic linchpin not only for my region but for the world. This is a priority for me personally, and for all Muslims. We utterly reject attacks on Muslim and Christian Holy Sites ... and any attempts to alter the historic Muslim, Christian and Arab identity of the Holy City. As the Custodian of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem, I will continue my efforts to protect these places, and stand up against all violations of their sanctity, including attempts for temporal and spatial division of Al Aqsa Mosque/Al Haram Al Sharif.
Sir, there are no "attacks" but visits, with Jews being restricted by Israel's governments to tours only, as if Jews had no rights to this holy site.
The only "altering" is the work done by the Waqf funded by you to either destroy, deface or cover-up the Temple Mount's Jewish past or to new construction.
It is you who seek to change the "identity" of the site or falsify it or deny it.
If you do not adhere to the terms of the Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty which are
Each party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance...The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations among the three monotheistic religions, with the aim of working towards religious understanding, moral commitment, freedom of religious worship, and tolerance and peace...The Parties will seek to foster mutual understanding and tolerance based on shared historic values, and accordingly undertake: to abstain from hostile or discriminatory propaganda against each other, and to take all possible legal and administrative measures to prevent the dissemination of such propaganda by any organisation or individual present in the territory of either Party;
then you are the one to be pilloried in international forums.
I realized that I need to clarify a point for the newcomers to my blog.
Abdullah refers to sites. That means not only the Haram Courtyard but all over (is that "conquest expansion"?) and as an example here is an item from 2013:
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Nasser Judeh on Thursday voiced Jordan's total rejection of what has been reported by the media on Israeli plans to expand the Buraq Square in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Mosque in a way that threatens the Islamic monuments.
The Buraq Square is none other than the Western Wall Plaza which is outside the Haram precincts. That is definitely upsetting any status quo.


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The magic of hashtag campaigns is based on the benefits that people can get by using your hashtag. You motivate and incentivise participants to publish content with your hashtag by offering discounts or a competition with a great prize.
At the same time, their photos, tweets, and posts — and with them your hashtag — spread to their own friends and followers.
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There are many ways and reasons to run a hashtag campaign. You can raise awareness for a social cause, run a promotion for a service, create buzz for a new product and much more.
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Pick a unique hashtag that aligns with your campaign goals and is easy to understand. Avoid convoluted acronyms and make sure your hashtag can't be misread as something embarrassing. Research is essential. Read more about finding the perfect hashtag on our blog .
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An important part of your hashtag campaign is managing it. Come up with exciting competitions, giveaways, and prizes. Reply to and amplify user's posts. React to negative posts fast and decisively. Create new content throughout the campaign and keep your users engaged.
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Royal & SunAlliance's sale of its troubled US business is unlikely to be completed by the end of this year following an 11th-hour delay in gaining regulatory clearance for the sale.
The revelation of the delay will come as a surprise to investors, who are keen to see the division sold as new owners Arrowpoint will take on all future provisions for claims and a series of potentially costly legal cases.
The Daily Telegraph has learned that American attorney Linda Kaiser, who had been appointed by the Delaware Insurance Commissioner as hearing officer to preside over the sale of Royal & Sun's US business to Arrowpoint, is no longer involved in the hearing.
Miss Kaiser, an attorney for Cozen O'Connor, said only: "My participation in that matter has concluded." Cozen O'Connor has acted for Royal & Sun in the US in the past. Objections had been voiced, led by General Motors, as to whether her appointment was potentially a conflict of interest.
GM fears the ability to pay out on its $1bn (£513m) of asbestos-linked personal injury claims against Royal & Sun's US arm will be affected by the sale. Royal & Sun has consistently denied any liability over the claims.
It remains unclear when a full hearing will now take place given the absence of a hearing officer, and even when a decision is reached, a 30-day period must elapse until it can become final.
A spokesman for Royal & Sun said: "This is a regulated process. We want to see a robust process and we're comfortable with the decision made. In terms of timing, we are still hopeful the US sale will be in the 2006 financial year in terms of our reporting."


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Saturday, April 25, 2015
Tickets $15 tickets are available for this concert by emailing Cali:
Enjoy a great set of music by each artist!
Cali Briana
Cali Briana is a singer-songwriter originally from Renfrew, Ontario and describes her music as a "folksy version of pop country, with a hint of the blues." In July 2012, Cali made the Top 12 in Ottawa's Great Canadian Showcase, which led her to meet with Eric Eggleston, producer and owner of Johnny Hall Productions. The two began working on her first EP which was released in December 2012.
Visit her website at www.CaliBriana.com
Riley James New
According to Riley's Twitter bio, he is a "singer/songwriter/connoisseur of thought triggery." Riley is also from Renfrew, Ontario and currently the lead vocalist in the Riley New Band.
Check out his Facebook page


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With innovative ICT, Huawei is reshaping the traditional IT platform architecture, data value, and service channel experience. This enables banks to implement innovative technology to support financial services, reform banking service processes, and accelerate digital banking transformation.
Huawei's Financial Cloud Solution accelerates financial product innovation. High-performance x86 servers and software-defined storage replace traditional closed architectures, significantly reducing banks' IT costs.
Huawei's Omni-Channel Banking Solution enables video interaction between banks and consumers through screen terminals, such as Virtual Teller Machines, smart phones, tablets, and TVs.
Massive amounts of unstructured data is difficult to manage, protect, access, and process
Too many isolated physical networks make it difficult to efficiently adapt to new or upgraded services
Limited self-services are sending customers straight to your counters, slowing the pace of business
Brazil's Caixa transformed itself into a digitalized, modern bank with Huawei's AR1200 routers.
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In the journal Science, astronomers report finding the closest thing yet to our planetary twin: a planet just slightly larger in diameter than the Earth, orbiting the star Kepler 186 at a distance perfect for liquid water—if there is any water, that is. Study author Elisa Quintana, a research scientist at the SETI Institute and the NASA Ames Research Center, talks about how she detected this cosmic cousin, named Kepler 186f, and how we might determine what its surface is really like.


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Have you noticed as you drive or walk past the bus shelter in front of the Chamber Visitors Center there is a panel that gives a brief glimpse of Montford history? What a great way to show pride in our neighborhood and give the casual passerby an idea of Montford's story. Pack Memorial library, North Carolina room (downstairs) has a collection of material relating to Montford if you are interested in additional information.
Ross Terry of KRT Graphic Design did the design work and Sharon Fahrer of History At Hand wrote the copy. Here's hoping other neighborhoods will follow our example and Asheville can create a "history museum without walls."


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How do I know if I have the latest version of IDE Tools installed
First of all, you need to know what version of IDE Tools is currently installed on your machine. Sometimes it is not as obvious as it should be, especially for the free product versions like CodeRush Xpress, Refactor! for ASP.NET, Refactor for C++. If you have the DevExpress menu inside the Visual Studio environment, go to the DevExpress | About menu item:
and note the version shown there:
The version is 10.1.10 in the sample.
If you use free alternative versions of the IDE Tools, and don't see the DevExpress menu, you might want to make it visible. See the following topic, to learn how to do it.
Now, the most recent versions of IDE tools are listed on the DevExpress version info page. There you may also obtain instructions on how to update them:
Scroll down the page, to see where the latest official version is:
If the version you have currently installed is not the same as the version listed on the version info page, I would strongly recommend updating to the latest version.—– Products: all Versions: all VS IDEs: any Updated: Apr/01/2011 ID: T045


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My name is Tehseen Mirza and I am studying Dental Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Yesterday I and four other members of the UK Youth Climate Network, funded by Plan UK, travelled to the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices in Westminster.
It marked the culmination of our One Step campaign that we've been running this year. We've collected nearly 2000 pledges from young people all over the UK – telling how they'll make one simple change to combat climate change. Every pledge is written on a individually-designed footprint. They range from "I will take shorter showers" to "I will grow my own vegetables" to "I won't leave the TV on standby". The aim of the campaign was to hand these pledges to the UK government, to build momentum for change before the UN Climate Summit in Durban at the end of November.
First we attended a special climate webcast. The panel consisted of the Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne, the foreign secretary William Hague, South Africa's Ambassador at Large for Climate Change, Nozipho Mxakato-Diskeko and the Chief Executive of the British Council, Martin Davidson.
The webcast was really interesting and it was beneficial to have the opportunity to address the issues that we were concerned about. I asked a question to the panel which was 'What can be done to educate the public more on climate change' and in fairness I got a good response and felt like the panel understood the importance of making the public aware of positive ways to combat climate change.
After the webcast we had the opportunity to speak to Chris Huhne and present the 'One Step' campaign. We told him what we had been doing and how we have had success collecting pledges from young people from different parts of the UK. We even showed him one of the "steps" sent in from Bradford that was designed by 4 year olds in a reception class at Peel Park school in Bradford! We also stressed the importance of Mr. Huhne taking young people's voices on climate change issues to the COP17 in Durban and making young people's voices heard. Cat Hudson, from the Youth Climate Network, is going to be in Durban and she will be keeping in touch with Chris Huhne during the summit.
Tehseen Mirza from the Youth Climate Network
Blog posted on the Make the Link – Climate exChange website


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A Private Ski Safari in the European Alps
This experience takes you beyond the crowds of commercial pistes to otherwise inaccessible descents over spectacular mountain terrain.
The tours are designed to take advantage of the quickly changing weather patterns in the Alps whilst guaranteeing your safety at the hand of professional mountain guides.
This means that on any given day your itinerary may change to allow you to ski the best conditions that Switzerland, France and Italy have to offer, across glaciers or from mountain hut to ancient monastery, enjoying authentic mountain life and unique cuisines along the way.
Day 1: Geneva, Switzerland to Courmayeur, Italy
Fly into Geneva where you will be met by a Lightfoot representative who will take you by private transfer to your hotel in Courmayeur via the Mont Blanc tunnel, alternatively you can fly into Turin. On arrival at the mountain village of Courmayeur you will be taken to you private chalet known as Pitit Chalet which will provide quiet cozy relaxation, as well as the ideal setting and base for your journey through this wonderful Italian region of the Alps over the next 8 days. Your guide will rendezvous with you for an aperitif in the evening while looking at a detailed map of the coming journey.
Enjoy the setting, in a local bar overlooking Mont Blanc, which gives a dramatic viewpoint from close up. Mont Blanc remains the icon of the Alps and you will be skiing in its presence through your time here. Enjoy Italy as the Italians do with an evening in the cobblestoned streets of the village amongst the charming, effusive Italian personalities.
Day 2: Val Veny
Today you will begin to explore the spectacular skiing that this area of Italy has to offer. Three cable cars will take you to the very top of this ski domain up to 3000 meters. You will pass through a variety of valleys near the groomed runs before enjoying lunch on the slopes of the ski resort of Courmayeur. Spend the last hour of the day with some relaxed carving on the groomed runs of this charming ski resort. Unwind this evening in the hot waters, whirlpools, saunas and Turkish baths of the thermal springs in this region that have been frequented since roman times.
Tonight your guides invite you to join them for an aperitif in a local bar where the furnishings are a testimony to five centuries of architecture and beauty. Admire the 18th century details of the coats of arms carved during the French revolution above the 15th century fireplace. Then walk through the cobbled stones streets, bubbling with Italian locals to dinner in one of the local restaurants.
Day 3: Courmayeur
Today's skiing starts in a small family ski resort that offers lovely off-piste skiing not far from the ski lift system. There are many possibilities today as this small ski resort borders many charming Italian villages. Depending on which descent you take through the forests you will find yourself in beautiful open snow covered fields that lead you to the wooden chalets and small winding streets of snow covered villages. It is then a short transfer by road to meet up again at the bottom of the ski lifts. Enjoy a last descent at the end of the day across the top of the mountain, all the way to the valley floor.
Day 4: Vallee Blanche
Today's high altitude off-piste skiing is the most spectacular of all, among the tumbling ice-falls and dizzying crevasses of the Mer de glace down the Vallée Blanc. Today you will take the cable car up to the Point de Helbrunner at 10 000 feet. The ride in this cable car is an event in itself, offering stunning views of the valley and the mountain massif. While this descent is at high altitude, it is not difficult but rather a long leisurely descent through some of the most spectacular mountain scenery anywhere in the world. It is a 27-kilometre descent that finishes in the village of Chamonix and is one of the mythic descents in Europe.
Enjoy lunch in France with time to explore this little French Alpine village before your transfer back across the border to Italy. Enjoy an aperitif this evening, at a spot well known amongst the locals and mountain guides from the region, a small hidden restaurant where many a mountain story has been told.
Day 5: La Thuile
Today's skiing will be in a large isolated valley with spectacular views. You will be a short distance away from the village of Courmayeur, close to the French border near the town of La Rosiere. The skiing in this area offers long descents crowned by spectacular summits. Here you are in the center of the Alps across the French border in huge open landscapes. You will be skiing amongst the charming and authentic hamlets of this area, which is a delightful mix between the old and the new.
Day 6: La Pila
Today you will be skiing more off-piste runs with many steep and powdery decents. Skiing down the gladed runs in amongst the trees is an exhilarating feeling. The runs come out onto open snow covered fields taking you down to a peaceful Italian village where a short transfer by road will take you to the bottom of the ski lifts. From here you can enjoy one last run before the slopes close for the day. You will need to cross the top of the mountain and ski all the way to the valley floor.
Day 7: Between Switzerland and Italy
Today you will be skiing the area that borders Switzerland and Italy. Skiing in the area around the small family resort of Super St Bernard is breathtaking. It is a valley abounding in wildlife and as you will be a small group, there is a good chance of catching a glimpse of a wild ibex or chamois, both native to the mountains in Europe. You will hike with touring ski's to the hospice on the border between Switzerland and Italy. In use since the Bronze Age, the St. Bernard pass was for centuries the only route linking northern and southern Europe. You will be following in the footsteps of Napoleon, who used the pass to enter Italy in 1900. The monks have guarded this hospice at the top of the pass since the 10th Century.
The day will end with the descent from the Swiss side of the border into Italy, After your descent enjoy an aperitif and late lunch at a small café catering to locals whose colourful patron will greet you with Italian hospitality.
Day 8: Couremayeur - Home
Relax at the hotel this morning before your departure home or on elsewhere.
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- Prices are generally based on two people travelling together (unless stated otherwise) on a shared room basis.
- Prices can fluctuate depending on season, standard of accommodation, excursions selected (private versus shared) etc.
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- Capital: Rome
- Main Language: Italian
- Population: 60.78m (2011)
- Time Zone: GMT +1
- Currency: Euros (EUR)
- Best time to go: Cities – Spring and Autumn; South – Summer; Alps – December to late March.
Itinerary Highlights
- Relaxing evening aperitifs
- Thermal springs frequented since Roman times
- High-altitude skiing down the 27km route of the Vallee Blanc
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Global Music Streaming Market 2017-2021, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
About Music Streaming
Music streaming refers to a service that enables users to stream and listen to music/songs using a device connected to the Internet. Two types of services are available to users: paid music streaming and free music streaming. Music streaming allows the service providers to purchase digital rights from music recording companies. Users can access tracks listed on the service provider's application and website, based on the subscription type they purchase. These subscribers can also download music and playlists directly to their devices for offline listening, which does not require an Internet connection.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Their most prolific receiver confined to the trainer's table after twisting an ankle during the game's first series, the Manatee Hurricanes went back to what they do best: ground and pound the football, grind down the opponent and grind down the clock.
With that reliable approach came a customary result: a district championship.
The Hurricanes sped past St. Petersburg 51-13 on Friday at Stewart Field, a result that coupled with Riverview's win over Palm Harbor University, allowed Manatee to clinch the Class 8A-District 7 title.
It's the fifth straight championship for the Hurricanes (8-0, 2-0), who open the Region 2 playoffs Nov. 15 at
Hawkins Stadium. Manatee hasn't lost a postseason game at home since December 2005.
"That's what we want," said coach Joe Kinnan, whose team has made the playoffs in eight of the past nine seasons.
Fueling Friday's attack was senior running back Trevon Walters, who rushed for 283 yards on 27 carries and three touchdowns. Walters saved his best for the game's final two quarters, stockpiling 214 yards during the second half, when Manatee outscored the Green Devils (5-2, 1-1) 35-7.
"We picked it up as a team," Walters said. "The offensive line started blocking well. The perimeter, the wide receivers started blocking well."
The Missouri-bound back endured a scary moment in the first half, when he took a blow to the head while trying to catch a pass. After being tended to by Manatee's trainers, Walters returned and ripped off a 22-yard run to help set up Austin Snowden's 27-yard field goal, which gave Manatee a 16-6 at the half.
"It kind of made me mad, because my teammates and trainers said it was a cheap shot," Walters said. "It kind of woke me up, tooIt kind of scared me a little bit, but it was all right. I'm good."
Each team blocked a punt in the first half, with St. Petersburg recovering the ball at the Manatee 13 and scoring on an 8-yard run by Deangelo Reaves, which trimmed Manatee's lead to 7-6 with six seconds left in the first quarter. Travon Rumph got a hand on a Green Devils' kick in second quarter, setting up Walters' 1-yard touchdown run and a 13-6 Manatee lead 7:00 before halftime.
A 2-yard run by Walters gave the Canes a 23-6 lead early in the third quarter before a 95-yard interception return by Jake Moore brought St. Petersburg to within 23-13 with 3:05 left in the third quarter.
But Walters added another touchdown run late in the quarter, and Manatee scored three times in the span of four minutes during the fourth period to pull away and claim the district crown.
"First step, win the district," Walters said. "Now we get to the playoffs and try to get to state."
Before that, Manatee hosts Fort Lauderdale's University School next, which entered the week ranked 12th in the nation by Rivals and 20th by USA Today. Manatee is ranked 15th by Rivals and 24th by USA Today.
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CHICAGO, May 17, 1999 — Providing patients with bone marrow from the same donor as the organ being transplanted significantly reduces rejection, especially if multiple doses of the donor bone marrow cells are given, according to results of a major, ongoing study at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition, preliminary results of the first-ever human trial involving children who received bone marrow injections into the thymus during heart transplantation indicate the procedure is both safe and feasible and has potential to promote long-term acceptance of the organ. Findings from both studies are being presented at the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Transplantation May 15–19 and at the 25th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons May 19–21 in Chicago.
How to achieve long-term acceptance, or tolerance, of transplanted organs is a major area of study at the University of Pittsburgh. Much of the clinical research has evolved from the landmark observation by Thomas E. Starzl, M.D., Ph.D., that donor and recipient cells continue to coexist many years after transplantation. Dr. Starzl is professor of surgery and founder of the University of Pittsburgh's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute . For the past six years, UPMC researchers have been conducting a study—the largest of its kind—to determine if infusions of donor bone marrow at the time of transplant surgery can boost the cellular environment the team believes is necessary for tolerance.
Recently, the Pittsburgh team initiated a similar study with children undergoing heart transplantation. But instead of infusing bone marrow into the peripheral blood, researchers inject the bone marrow into the patient's thymus, where key cells of the immune system are educated to recognize self and non-self. This study represents the first human trial of its kind.
Following are summaries of the results of these clinical studies with contact information.
Donor Bone Marrow Reduces Rejection of Transplanted Organs
Patients who receive donor bone marrow, a rich source of donor immune system cells, experience less organ rejection, report University of Pittsburgh researchers at the American Society of Transplantation annual meeting. Rejection might be less of a problem for these patients because the bone marrow makes the recipient's immune system more passive to the donor organ, their findings also suggest.
Moreover, those patients who receive multiple infusions of bone marrow have the lowest risk of acute rejection.
There were 402 organ transplant recipients in the study, 271 of whom received bone marrow with their transplants of either liver, heart, lung, kidney, pancreas, intestine or pancreatic islet cells. While the risk of acute rejection was 69 percent for the overall group of bone marrow patients, compared to 79 percent for the 131 patients who did not receive bone marrow, the risk of acute rejection for those who had multiple infusions was 54 percent. Of the 271 bone marrow patients, 229 received a single infusion of bone marrow during transplant surgery and 42 patients received the bone marrow in three separate doses—one during surgery, and one each in the following two days.
As previously reported, 62 percent of the heart and bone marrow recipients were free of acute cellular rejection in the first six months versus 18 percent in the control group. Similar results are being seen in those patients followed for more than 18 months. Chronic rejection in lung transplant patients was also significantly less for the bone marrow patients, 4.7 percent in the bone marrow patients and 31 percent in those who did not receive bone marrow.
Donor-specific hyporeactivity was more prevalent in the overall bone marrow group than the control patients. This indicates the recipient's immune system is capable of fighting unwanted infections but is less likely to initiate an attack against the donor organ.
"We believe this measure of unresponsiveness to the donor graft is correlated to the reduced incidence of rejection. Bone marrow augmentation not only is safe, but it confers an immunological advantage to some patients," says Abdul Rao, M.D., D.Phil., assistant professor of surgery and pathology, and director, section of cellular transplantation, at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute.
The researchers believe that by giving donor bone marrow, anti-rejection drugs can work more effectively and the cellular environment seen in long-term survivors of organ transplants can be landscaped more swiftly. For some, the presence of stable chimerism—the coexistence of donor and recipient immune system cells—might allow the drugs to be reduced or weaned altogether.
Early Results of First Human Trial of Bone Marrow Infusion to Thymus Reported
For years, animal studies have suggested that bone marrow injections into the thymus can induce tolerance of a transplanted organ from the same donor, but the procedure has never been tried before in humans. Reporting at the American Society of Transplantation preliminary results of the first-ever human trial of its kind, a team from the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh say they are encouraged by their observations in pediatric heart transplant recipients.
The thymus, where immune system T cells from bone marrow are educated to distinguish cells of self from those that are foreign, is most active during infancy and childhood. Because of its location behind the breastbone, it is accessible during heart transplant surgery.
The idea behind infusing donor bone marrow is to fool the recipient's T cells that are being educated in the thymus into thinking that the donor bone marrow is "self" as well. Those T cells that see the donor tissue as foreign are not permitted to leave the thymus and die. Without these cells in circulation, an immune system attack against the donor organ is avoided.
In fact, routine biopsies taken from the transplanted hearts of the seven children who received bone marrow indicated their immune systems were not sounding the usual alarms, as measured by the number of activated recipient T cells infiltrating the organs. In addition, three of the seven patients had some evidence of donor-specific hyporeactivity, whereas only one of the eight controls showed such evidence. Such a measure indicates the degree to which a recipient's immune system is indifferent to the donor organ but is still responsive to other foreign substances.
While rates of acute rejection were comparable in the two groups of patients, more patients will need to be studied and longer follow-up will be required to determine if chronic rejection can be abated. Within five years of transplantation, chronic rejection occurs in about 15 to 20 percent of all pediatric heart recipients and is the leading cause of death.
"Animal studies to date gave us every indication that the time was right for a human trial, and we have proven the procedure is safe and feasible. Time will tell if we are able to effectively induce tolerance in these children," says Steven A. Webber, MBChB, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and medical director of the pediatric heart/lung transplant program at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
None of the patients who received bone marrow developed graft vs. host disease, a common complication of bone marrow transplantation whereby donor immune cells attack recipient tissues. Dr. Webber and his team are also looking at the feasibility of bone marrow infusions in lung transplant patients.
Bone Marrow Improves Outcomes for Pancreas Transplant Patients
Patients who had kidney/pancreas transplants with donor bone marrow augmentation were more likely to be weaned from steroid medications, had fewer episodes of rejection and - had better pancreas graft function and survival than patients who did not receive added bone marrow, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh report at the American Society for Transplant Surgeons annual meeting.
As part of a large trial involving all types of organ transplants, 53 patients undergoing kidney/pancreas transplantation between 1994 and 1998 also received donor bone marrow infusions immediately following surgery, providing a boost of donor immune system cells to enhance the cellular environment the team believes is necessary for long-term acceptance of organs. Various clinical parameters were compared to 98 kidney/pancreas patients who did not receive bone marrow.
Acute cellular rejection occurred in 67 percent of the bone marrow patients and in 83 percent of the control patients. Three months after transplantation, seven of the 98 patients who did not receive bone marrow had to have their pancreata removed due to rejection, yet none in the bone marrow group lost their grafts. And while about half in each group could be weaned off steroids one year after transplantation, by three years, 83 percent of the bone marrow patients were completely off steroids, but 62 percent of the other patients were steroid-free.
"Donor bone marrow may have a protective effect in pancreas transplantation. If we are able to achieve a significant reduction in rejection-related graft loss, more patients with diabetes could benefit from pancreas transplantation," reports Robert J. Corry, M.D., professor of surgery and director of pancreas transplantation at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute.
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Many people struggle to deal with unsightly, painful ingrown hairs. This condition occurs when hair continues to grow beneath the skin's surface. In some cases, the follicle can also become infected, causing the location of the ingrown hair to swell with pus and become very painful.
Squeezing an infected ingrown hair can cause terrible scarring, so most people look for alternative treatments instead. There are creams, lotions, and ointments available that are supposed to help remedy ingrown hairs. However, these do not always have the effects you want.
What Causes Ingrown Hairs?
It's long been known that waxing or shaving can cause ingrown hairs. In fact, anything that causes hair to break off unevenly at the skin's surface can cause a hair to grow inward beneath the skin. For some people, constantly wearing tight clothing can trigger an ingrown hair.
Home Treatments for Ingrown Hair
Many people resort to using tweezers to try and remove the offending hair from beneath the skin. Unfortunately, this can result in further infection, especially if you need to break the skin to reach the hair.
Another option could be to re-consider your home hair removal treatment choices. If you regularly shave and you suffer with ingrown hairs, you may want to use a different alternative for your body hair removal regime.
Some people may opt to use a depilatory cream instead of damaging the skin's surface with a razor. Others opt for painful and messy waxing. Unfortunately, both alternatives are temporary options and can still cause more ingrown hairs to appear.
Treating Ingrown Hairs Permanently
Laser hair removal treatment offers significant benefits for anyone suffering with ingrown hairs. As the laser targets each individual hair follicle, even the ones growing beneath the skin are treated. The laser targets the follicle so that it cannot support any regrowth.
Permanent laser hair removal treatments are virtually painless and each session is quick and easy. There's no hot wax to worry about and no violent yanking hair out by the roots. Instead, the laser sends a pulse of light and heat into the follicle that lasts for a fraction of a second.
If you already have ingrown hairs, treating them with laser can stop them from progressing any further. You also won't have the issue of new ingrown forming, as hair in the surrounding treated areas won't grow.
Consult with a Professional Skin Laser Clinic
If you're sick and tired of dealing with painful ingrown hairs, consider booking a consultation with a professional skin laser clinic. Your technician will advise you on the best course of treatment for your particular hair and skin type and suggest options to suit your needs. Laser by Sia is the top skin laser clinic in the Sydney CBD, Bondi Junction, and Castle Hill areas, and would be able to provide you with permanent laser hair removal using only the best and latest laser technology.
There are plenty of other benefits to permanent body hair reduction and even facial hair removal. Aside from not being plagued by ingrown hairs, you also do not have to worry about shaving every day or getting to the salon every few weeks to wax. You have the ability to reduce unwanted body hair quickly and easily and ensure that any regrowth is very minimal.
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Make Greer Great Grant
The Greater Greer community is your community and this is your chance to make it great! Introducing the "Make Greer Great Grant" program through the Partnership for Tomorrow. Do you or your organization have an idea that will make Greer a better place? This program is designed to support projects or ideas and help turn them into reality. As a reimbursement grant opportunity, the goal is to allow for individuals and groups to improve Greer in a variety of ways.
In order to be considered, please apply below. Between 4-7 grants will be awarded with the average grant awarded approximately $1,500. Project must be completed by June 30, 2016. Thank you for your interest and commitment to our community; let's make it great together!
What is the Partnership For Tomorrow (PFT)?
The PFT is a community initiative for the future of Greer. The PFT was formed in 1998 by a concerned group of business, civic, government and community leaders to address the issues and concerns related to the growth of the Greater Greer community and the opportunities it would bring to the area. With significant and positive results of their first three five-year plans, the Board of Trustees of the PFT iscontinuing their work with a new Strategic Plan to guide their actions over the next five years, and encouraging continued and increased participation of corporate, community and government leaders in meeting the future needs of the Greater Greer community.
What is the mission of the Partnership For Tomorrow?
The mission of the PFT is to provide the City of Greer and surrounding areas with the resources necessary to address a variety of issues that will benefit our community and make Greer a better place to live and work.
More about the Grant:
- This is a reimbursement grant program and the receipt of grant funds is dependent upon completion of the project that is approved.
- Grant funds cannot be reimbursed for any work that is performed before the grant is awarded and the project is approved.
- Grant recipient agrees to hold the Partnership harmless for any damages and injuries that may unexpectedly occur.
- The committee is making the determination based on a decision without the benefit of any identifying information of the grant requestor. This will provide a fair, unbiased, and non-discriminatory method of selection.
Grant applications due September 30th


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Marketing departments use psychographic studies quite often to determine a fixed marketing plan. The details are broken down into three main groups.


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