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Marina Patsay. Development Director of the LTD Wildlife Discovery Club.
Was born on July, 26, 1968, Yaroslavl.
Education: Yaroslavl State University, 1993, mathematician-researcher. Central Russian branch of the Interdisciplinary Institution of Further Training and Federal State Statistics Service, 1994, accounting and the analysis of financial activity. International University of Business and New Technologies, 2007 Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Activity: Consulting and teaching activity, management, starting the projects from the ground up, situational and administrative conceptual foresight, logistic calculations of extreme expeditions with the high degree of uncertainty and risk.
Achievements: organization of international expeditions to the North Pole, to the arctic islands. Realization of the project of building tourist infrastructure on the White Sea shore, starting the eco-resort «Letnyaya Zolotitsa», creation of the building project regarding an integrated ecological agricultural system to meet the needs of the local population and tourism infrastructure in the district of the Solovetsky archipelago and the Onega peninsula on the territory of the municipal formation of the «Letnyaya Zolotitsa».
Enthusiasm about what she does today impelled a desire to help the husband and the saying «If not me, who then? »
The Belief: «If you want to have the things you have never had, start doing the things you have never done»
Hobby: reading, gymnastics, dances, self-training, building, design, knitting, plants and animals.
Personal qualities: creative approach toward business; ability to build effective teamwork; emotional intelligence; responsibility; sense of purpose; integrity; ability to take risks; orientation to the self-expression and improving; the ability to transform the space around.


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Prof. Gene Freuder wrote a position paper "Complete Explanations" for The Second Workshop on Progress Towards the Holy Grail that will be held on Aug 27, 2018 during CP 2018 in Lille, France. Gene writes: "As AI becomes more ubiquitous there is a renewed interest in computers being able to provide explanations, and the European GPDR provides special impetus." Geen's paper concentrates on constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), but, as I'd shown in my 2016 paper, we may consider a decision model as a CSP, and everything Gene is talking about directly applies to business decision modeling. Continue reading
Goal-Oriented Decision Modeling with OpenRules-7
The major Release 7.0.0 is making OpenRules even more user-friendly without losing any of the sophistication of already proven decision modeling technology. Our customers don't have anymore to define an execution sequence of their decision tables in special tables of the type "Decision" – these tables can be automatically generated. Now it is sufficient for a human decision modeler to define only Glossary and Decision Tables that specify business logic for all included goals and subgoals. Then for any selected business goal, OpenRules Engine will execute all related decision tables in an automatically calculated order to determine the goal's value. You may watch this short video that uses simple examples to explain the goal-oriented approach to decision modeling supported by OpenRules-7. Continue reading
OpenRules will Present and Exhibit at BBC-2018 in November
This year OpenRules, Inc. again will be a sponsor, exhibitor, and a presenter at BBC-2018 that will be held on Nov. 6-9, 2018, JW MARRIOTT SAN ANTONIO HILL COUNTRY RESORT & SPA, SAN ANTONIO, TX. The presentation Replacing Legacy Bank Account Management System Using Business Rules will be presented on Nov. 8 together with our customer, one of the largest CA banks. Continue reading
Keep DMN Simple
People who started decision modeling standardization years ago were all agreed that the DMN standard is supposed to be oriented to subject matter experts, should be simple, friendly enough while powerful to cover the common denominator in operational decision modeling. It was a good start for DMN in 2013 and an enthusiastic acceptance since then. However, today DMN is full of complex, programmer-oriented features which seem to get even more complex in new releases. There are plenty examples of unnecessary complexity being proudly promoted for their "elegance". Here are a few examples to compare. Continue reading
Old Decision Model "Credit Card Application" Implemented with New OpenRules-7
The latest June-2018 DMCommunity Challenge"Credit Card Application" gives me a good chance to demonstrate the new upcoming OpenRules Release 7.0.0. I remember that Nick Broom was one of the first who published a real-world decision model right after the DMN introduction. I also remember that at the same day I implemented and published Nick's model using only Excel and OpenRules available at that time (it was release 6.2.6). It would be interesting to compare this old implementation with a new one below that takes advantages of new OpenRules-7. Continue reading
DMCommunity Challenge April-2018 "Up-Selling Rules"
In this post we will provide a response to the DMCommunity.org Apr-2018 Challenge "Up-Selling Rules" that deals with two decision tables: 1) up-selling rules that offer new products to a customer based on the customer profile and the products which the customer already has; 2) customer profiling rules. We will use for the first time the latest OpenRules version (not released yet to public) that removes a need for ordering of multiple decision tables. Continue reading
Decision Management and Semantic Reasoning
DMCommunity Challenge Feb-2018
There are two interesting responses to the DMCommunity.org Feb-2018 Challenge provided by Mike Parish and Bob Moore. Mike effectively used Corticon to validate and fix incompleteness, redundancy, and ambiguity problems he found in the following, relatively simple decision table: Continue reading
Happy 15th Birthday, OpenRules!
Today is exactly 15 years since OpenRules, Inc. was incorporated on Feb. 24, 2003. It's a quite serious milestone, so I decided to write a few words for this occasion. A year ago, I described a brief history of our company and key factors that made it successful. 2018 was an extremely successful year for OpenRules as well: we improved the product and many major corporations became our new customers. But in this post I want to look to the future and to share some of our upcoming and long term plans. Continue reading
A New Look of OpenRules.com
Our website www.OpenRules.com has been redesigned. Now it provides a better support for mobile and tablets and is loaded with cool features which hopefully will be appreciated by our customers and visitors. If you notice any issues, please report them to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Introducing DMN to Business Analysts in 15 Minutes
Last year BBC-2017 organizers gave me 20 minutes to introduce DMN to business analysts at the "Technology Theater", an open space in the Expo hall. Based on the positive feedback from people who attended my presentation, I decided to share it with more people. You may look at my slides in the PDF format. Below I will describe an example I believe is very useful to introduce major DMN concepts in 15 minutes. Continue reading
Decision Model for Sales Order Promotions
DMCommunity.org Jan-2018 Challenge is looking for a decision model that can define promotions for different sales orders. It provides a simple example of promotion: reduce the total cost of the order by $3.50 if it contains at least 5 items 1108 and 4 item 2639. Let's build the proper decision model. Continue reading
OpenRules Solution for the Christmas Challenge
DMCommunity.org offered a new Dec-2017 Challenge called "Reindeer Ordering". It has a nice Christmas formulation:
Santa always leaves plans for his elves to determine the order in which the reindeer will pull his sleigh. This year, for the European leg of his journey, his elves are working to the following schedule, which will form a single line of nine reindeer. Here are the rules: Continue reading
OpenRules Release 6.4.3
OpenRules® Release 6.4.3 generates new, more compact execution reports with explanations, adds decision importing to integrate loosely coupled decision models, allows using lists along with arrays and extends various operators on them, enhances date/time manipulations and adds more features requested by customers. Here is the list of of newly added capabilities: Continue reading
Decision Modeling: LEGO Style
Recently I helped one of our larger customers to build a set of their business decision models. At the end I said that now they can continue to assemble new decision models themselves. Then one of their business analysts said that our decision modeling approach reminds him of LEGO. I believe this is a really good analogy and I will elaborate on it using specific examples.
OpenRules Knowledge Repository for both QA and Production Processes
I'd like to share experience of large OpenRules customers who create and maintain enterprise-level knowledge repositories. Such repositories usually contain two major components: 1. Decisions and Rules 2. Tests
Defining DMN Knowledge and Information Requirements Automatically
Knowledge and Information Requirements are essential components of the current version of the DMN standard, which defines them in the section 6.2.2 as follows: Continue reading
Calculating Aggregated Values for Collections of Business Objects
The latest DMCommunity.org Challenge "Classify Department Employees" deals with calculation of aggregated values for arrays of business objects such as Employees. Below I describe an OpenRules solution for this challenge. Continue reading
Book "DMN in Action with OpenRules" – Free Chapters
Based on the growing interest in the book "DMN in Action with OpenRules", we decided to make the first 3 chapters available for free. Please click here to read/download them in the PDF format. You also may download the entire book from Amazon for just $9.95 – the price includes a free download of OpenRules evaluation software.
Transforming DMN XML to OpenRules
OpenRules already can read and execute decision models represented in the DML XML format. To test new DMN-to-OpenRules capabilities I decided to implement DMCommunity's June-2017 Challenge using the DMN Modeling tool from Trisotech that allows non-technical people to create DMN-compliant decision models and import them to the DMN XML format. My objective was to create DMN XML for the Loan Origination problem described in the Section 11 of the DMN specification and then execute this DMN XML using OpenRules. Continue reading
Loosely Coupled Decision Models for Loan Origination
DMCommunity.org June-2017 Challenge is looking for the best decision models that implement a well-known Loan Origination problem described in in the Section 11 of the DMN specification. So, I decided to address this challenge using the core DMN constructs implemented in OpenRules. I will describe my solution in the form of dialog between a fictional READER who is assumed to be a business analyst (not a programmer) and the AUTHOR, who represents myself. It is similar to the dialog-sessions described in my recent book "DMN in Action with OpenRules". While it may look long it doesn't omit any implementation detail. Besides serving as a good solution for the Challenge, this document describes a good decision modeling practice for OpenRules customers.
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Presenting at DecisionCAMP and BBC 2017
Soon we will participate in the major annual decision management events:
- DecisionCAMP in London on July 12-14
- BBC in Orlando on Nov 6-10
This year I am the chair of DecisionCAMP and will give a tutorial "Decision Modeling with DMN and OpenRules" at the co-located RuleML+RR on July 12 at 14:00-15:45.
At the BBC-2017 I will present "How Business Analysts Can Build Decision Models with DMN but Without Programming" on Nov 10 at 9:00-10:00. As usual, OpenRules will be a sponsor and an exhibitor – stop at our booth #T8 to see the latest version of OpenRules with "DMN in Action".
Solving Flight Rebooking Challenge With and Without Programming Constructs
DMCommunity.org announced its Challenge "Rebooking Passengers from Cancelled Flights" in Oct-2016 and until now 4 different solutions have been submitted. It is a relatively complex use case for decision modeling. In this post I will describe different implementation approaches for this challenge and will discuss good and not so good DMN constructs used to support the underlying decisioning logic. I hope this post will initiate more discussions which may lead to the future DMN improvements by replacing the existing programming constructs to more business-friendly representations. Continue reading
DMN: Iterating Over Arrays Without Explicit Loops
I consider myself among the initiators and big supporters of the DMN standard, and I do my best to help bringing the standard to the real-world business decision modeling. Naturally, the current release of DMN includes some constructs with which I strongly disagree but I am trying not to criticize DMN too much as the standard itself is not mature enough yet and I hope it will be gradually improved based on the real-world acceptance. Continue reading
Raymond Smullyan's Retro-Analysis and Decision Modeling
When I learned that the famous Prof. Raymond Smullyan passed away this February at the age of 97, I felt grateful to the man whose books and puzzles my friends and I enjoyed reading as young programmers many years ago. Later on we shared them with our children. I wanted somehow to mark this event and decided to buy his book "The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" to read on vacation. Ten days ago I started to read the book during my flight from Newark to Jamaica and… haven't even noticed as we landed. Continue reading
Happy 14th Birthday, OpenRules!
This week during a conference call with a large potential customer I had shown them our release history. Suddenly I realized that OpenRules just passed its 14th birthday. I remember as we started in 2003 with just a few people and a strong desire to build the best Business Rules Product. And now, 14 years later, I am glad to share multiple OpenRules success stories at the world largest international corporations and government agencies. In this post I will briefly look back to better understand the factors that contributed to the commercial success we enjoy as a company today. Continue reading
A new book "DMN in Action with OpenRules"
This month I published a new book "DMN in Action with OpenRules" at Amazon. This is a practical guide for people who want to understand how to create and maintain business decision models. The guide is based on the DMN standard and OpenRules. It is oriented to business analysts looking to build operational decision models for their own business environment.
OpenRules Implementation of the Loan Approval Challenge
In Dec-2016 DMCommunity.org published a new Challenge called "Loan Approval". This challenge actually was proposed by myself based on real-world experience with one of our customers (a large bank). The most important point of this challenge was a general architecture that allows to invoke the same business logic based on real-time events coming from external sources. I described how such architecture may look like at this video that demonstrates a decision engine integrated with a PUB/SUB message broker.
However, the business logic itself also may be interesting especially if implemented using the latest DMN approach. So, I decided to do a new implementation that is described below. Everything is defined in Excel tables with zero Java code. Continue reading
New OpenRules Release 6.4.1 with DMN Why-Analyzer
"Imagine you had a Why Button handy whenever you encountered some disconnect in day-to-day business operations. Hit the Why Button and presto – answers appear in the form of relevant business rules" – Ron Ross, 2013
The release OpenRules Release 6.4.1 introduces a new add-on called "Why-Analyzer for Decision Modeling" that provides such a Why Button for decision models created in accordance with the DMN standard. Actually it is much more than just a button but rather a graphical interface that allows business analysts to analyze the results produced by their decision models using their own test cases created directly in Excel. See a brief video and try it yourself without any downloads from here. There are several more product improvements described in the release notes. You may download the latest release and try your own decision models with OpenRules Why-Analyzer. Continue reading
Building a Custom Scheduler with OpenRules and JSR-331
One of the largest Japanese telecom company is successfully using OpenRules being integrated with a BPM product produced by our partner Intra-Mart. Last month this customer asked us to help with development of a custom scheduler capable to schedule thousands of cable construction operations subject to various precedence and exclusivity constraints. Continue reading
This year OpenRules will again be an exhibitor and a presenter at the major Business Rules and Decisions Forum 2016 at BBC conference on Oct 31- Nov 4, 2016, Las Vegas, NV. We are sponsoring this major BR&DM event for 13 years in a row. Our event theme will be "DMN in Action" as we will show our latest advances supporting the DMN standard. We will also present our newly developed "Why-Analyzer for Decision Modeling". If you decide to attend BBC-2016 you still may receive a 20% discount when you register using our discount code "OPENRLV1620". Stop by at our booth T5.
Dealing With Unknown Data
DMCommunity.org published an interesting challenge "Greeting a Customer with Unknown Data" that deals with the real-world decision modeling issue: your decision model has to produce a meaningful outcome even when expected input is not available. We provided our DMN-like solution utilizing various OpenRules constructs – it is described here.
Developing Custom Decision Modeling Languages with Enhanced DMN
The modern Business Rules and Decision Management Systems help users to move business logic from a code to business rules controlled by subject matter experts (not developers). In particular, the latest Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard [1] defines powerful and broadly applicable concepts for decision modeling that allowed experts [2] to call DMN a "decision modeling language". DMN even includes a friendly enough expression language, FEEL, to express complex relationships between different decision variables. However, DMN is a general purpose "decision modeling language" that naturally stays away from domain-specific decision modeling constructs. In this article I will discuss how to enhance DMN to support specialized decision modeling languages. Continue reading
OpenRules Release 6.4.0 Supports DMN FEEL and DMN Interchange
OpenRules, Inc. was among the first Business Rules vendors who announced its support of the DMN standard and published a DMN Primer implementation just two weeks after the first DMN announcement in 2013. Since then we are steadily improving our DMN compliance. Continue reading
OpenRules Wins 10th International Rule Challenge Award
Congratulations to OpenRules team: I've just learned that our "What-If Analyzer for DMN-based Decision Models" won the 10th International Rule Challenge Award. Here is the certificate: Continue reading
DecisionCAMP 2016
Last year the organizers of the DecisionCAMP (including myself) were not able to organize this very popular event that started in 2008 (see the history below). So, this year I put a lot of time and efforts to revive the Decision CAMP and have become its Chair and the main driving force behind the event. Thanks to support of our colleagues from RuleML and DMCommunity.org, we will hold DecisionCAMP-2016 on July 7-8, 2016 at Stony Brook University, New York. Continue reading
DMN Interchange
The DMN 1.1 standard includes a new interchange format that soon will become public. Meanwhile, DMCommunity Apr-2016 Challenge provides a very simple xml-file for the decision model "Vacation Days" created by Bruce Silver. Ideally, DM vendors may take this file (and much more complex DMN XML files), transform it to their own format, and execute using their own tools. While vendors are not in a hurry to support DMN XML yet, this weekend I decided to give it a try. Below I will describe the results. Continue reading
OpenRules at BBC 2016
This year OpenRules will again be an exhibitor at the Business Rules and Decisions Forum 2016 at BBC conference on Oct 31- Nov 4, 2016, Las Vegas, NV. We are sponsoring this major BR&DM event for 13 years in a row. I've just received a confirmation that my presentation"Why" and "What-If" Buttons for Business Decision Management" has been accepted. Here is an abstract: Continue reading
Business Rules and Tacit Knowledge
Listening several recent presentations of Pragmatic Dave Thomas (see this and this), I cannot help getting back to the fundamental decision modeling problem: Rules vs. Tacit Knowledge (or Intuition). Continue reading
After bpmNEXT-2016
Today was the last day of bpmNext-2016 – a great event concentrated around 3 closely related technologies and their standards: BPMN, CMMN, and DMN. You may look at the program to see how many well-known experts and vendors attended the conference. The quality of presentations and informal discussions during and after the sessions was something that we all will remember after this event. Continue reading
Decision Models: Finding Alternative and Optimal Decisions
People frequently assume that a good, consistent decision model should produce one and only one decision (solution) for any valid input. However, in real-world applications we frequently deal with situations when a decision model may produce multiple feasible solutions for the same input. And it does not mean that the decision model is incomplete – simply a user may choose the most appropriate solution among all produced decisions. It can be done interactively or by adding more rules. I've already provided an example "Monkey Business Analyzed" that describes how to deal with multiple decisions using OpenRules What-If Analyzer. In this post I will describe another decision model that also shows how to choose an optimal decision among multiple feasible decisions. Continue reading
RuleML and DecisionCAMP 2016
This year OpenRules will sponsor the 10th International Web Rule Symposium RuleML that will take place at the Stony Brook University, New York on July 6-9, 2016. RuleML is well-known for building bridges between academia and industry in the field of business rules. Our CTO Dr. Jacob Feldman is a publicity chair of the conference. He is also the organizer of DecisionCAMP-2016 that will be held on July 7-8 at RuleML. This year DecisionCAMP will focus on the new OMG standard "Decision Model and Notation (DMN)" and an emerging best practice. If you attend, you will have a chance to meet face-to-face with many well-known decision management gurus, vendors, and practitioners.
"Monkey Business" Analyzed
I decided to add the decision model "Monkey Business" to our new What-If Analyzer. It brought several considerations missed by other solutions. In this post I will discuss my implementation and will show how What-If Analyzer helps to do a through analysis of usually unnoticed aspects of business decision modeling. Continue reading
bpmNEXT 2016
This year OpenRules will participate in the bpmNEXT 2016 that will take place at Santa Barbara, CA on April 19-21, 2016. This is a very selective conference that does not allow marketing and forces the presenters to do only live demonstrations of specific achievements that have a chance to shape the next generation of Business Process Management software – including intelligent operations, the Internet of Things, case management, business decision management, and goal-directed processes. I will present "Dynamic Decision Models: Activation/Deactivation of Business Rules in Real Time" on Apr. 21 at 14:00. Continue reading
Decision Model for Vacation Days Calculation
This month DMCommunity.org asked to present the best design of the notorious decision tables offered by Prof. Jan Vanthienen. It should implement the following business logic: Continue reading
OpenRules 6.3.4 Introduces What-If Analyzer of Decision Models
On December 28, 2015 we published a new OpenRules release 6.3.4 that introduces What-If Analyzer, the first tool of this type in the Decision Management domain. Its main purpose is to support what-if analysis of decision models built in accordance with the DMN standard. What-if analysis is the process of changing the business rules that represent business logic to see how those changes will affect the outcome of the decision model. Here is the main view of the What-If Analyzer for the decision model "Make a Good Burger" offered by the DMCommunity.org: Continue reading
Automatically Learned Business Rules: Should We Understand Them?
Question: Should we worry that we're building systems whose increasingly accurate decisions are based on incomprehensible foundations?
I've just posted an article with the same name at the LinkedIn Pulse that addresses this question. It is especially important in the context of rules-based decision making when rules that govern our decisions have been automatically generated using predictive analytics techniques. I shared two examples from OpenRules experience that explain why the automatically generated business rules should be comprehensible. The first one talks about the use of our Rule Learner at IRS. The second example deals with our Rule Compressor.
OpenRules at BBC-2015
Since its incorporation in 2003, every year OpenRules, Inc. attends, sponsors, and presents at the Business Rules Forums. This year OpenRules will again be a sponsor and a presenter at this largest Business Rules and Decision Management event now called BBC-2015 that will be held in Las Vegas on November 2-6, 2015. Continue reading
"Old" and "New" Business Rules Approaches
The recent LinkedIn discussion "What rules representation to choose for which audience?" came to the question about business analysts handing their business rules written in plain English over to IT for an implementation. Continue reading
Identification of the Executed Rules
Our customers often want to identify the actually executed rules. By default they may look at the automatically generated execution reports in the HTML format Continue reading

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A Pit Bull Is A Kid's Best Friend
gkotaosPublished: July 17, 2017Updated: July 18, 2017446 views
Published: July 17, 2017Updated: July 18, 2017
Myths and stereotypes surrounding pit bulls have continued to spread far and wide causing many people to fear and persecute dogs whose only real crime is the way they look. The stigma that follows them has led to unfounded breed discriminatory policies across the country, but their advocates are working hard to dispel the myths and educate the public about the true nature of bully breeds.
Thanks to the tireless work of their advocates, people are learning the truth, and it's getting harder and harder not to accept that pit bulls, who have been affectionately dubbed 'pibbles,' are just like any other dog and no less deserving of loving homes.


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"A Waltz For A Night" By Julie Delpy From "Before Sunset" (2004) This is a beautiful and simple little piece from one of my favorite movies. I tabbed it so my friend could play it while learning how to play guitar. So the main parts of the song are called "Intro/Verse" and "Bridge 1". I only diagrammed them once, then throughout the song, I indicated when to play them over the corresponding lyrics. There is only one major variation (besides some rhythmic changes) called "Bridge 2/Change", it is diagrammed in the middle of the song for you. Good Luck! Tabbed/Arranged By Blaine Dunkley (Original Tab Credits to heymaria)(Intro/Verse)E|---3-3-|---2---|---0-0-|---2---|B|---0-0-|---0---|---0-0-|---0---|G|---0-0-|---0---|---0-0-|---0---|D|-------|-------|-------|-------|A|-------|-------|-------|-------|E|-3-----|-2-----|-0-----|-2-----|Let me sing you a waltz Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts Let me sing you a waltz About this one night stand(Bridge 1)E|-----5-|-----4-|-----3-|-----2-|B|-----5-|-----5-|-----5-|-----3-|G|-----5-|-----5-|-----5-|-----2-|D|-------|-------|-------|-------|A|-------|-------|-------|-0-----|E|-5-----|-4-----|-3-----|-------|You were for me that night (Intro/Verse) Everything I always dreamt of in life But now you're gone You are far gone All the way to your island of rain (Bridge 1) It was for you just a one night thing (Intro/Verse) But you were much more to me Just so you know I don't care what they say I know what you meant for me that day(Bridge 2/Change)E|-----5-|-----4-|-----3-|-----4-|B|-----5-|-----5-|-----5-|-----5-|G|-----5-|-----5-|-----5-|-----5-|D|-------|-------|-------|-------|A|-------|-------|-------|-------|E|-5-----|-4-----|-3-----|-4-----|I just wanted another try (Bridge 1) I just wanted another night (Intro/Verse) Even if it doesn't seem quite right You meant for me much more Than anyone I've met before (Bridge 1) One single night with you little Jesse (Intro/Verse) Is worth a thousand with anybody I have no bitterness, my sweet I'll never forget this one night thing (Bridge 1) Even tomorrow, in other arms (Intro/Verse) My heart will stay yours until I die Let me sing you a waltz Out of nowhere, out of my blues Let me sing you a waltz About this lovely one night stand(Outro Arpeggio)E|-3-----|-2-----|-0-----|-2-----|B|---0---|---0---|---0---|---0---|G|-----0-|-----0-|-----0-|-----0-|D|-------|-------|-------|-------|A|-------|-------|-------|-------|E|-3-----|-2-----|-0-----|-2-----|Repeat x1Then End On G:E|-3-----|B|-0-----|G|-0-----|D|-0-----|A|-------|E|-3-----|


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January Newsletter
January 2014
Message from Charles Ricci - Co-founder/Owner of Altus Brands
I just returned from the SHOT Show in Vegas. What a show! This year we showed off some of our new products, such as the Sniper Seat 360 and the Benchmaster Weapon RAC and we received a tremendous response! We are very excited to be bringing these innovative new products to market and can't wait for you to try them out!
More exciting news from Altus Brands
One of bowhunting's iconic brands, Kwikee Kwiver was recently acquired by Altus Brands, and also introduced some new products, including this 5-arrow quiver that can be adjusted up or down to ensure better balance and arrow protection. - See more here.
As always, this newsletter is being sent from my personal email, so feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you may have. Have a great tip or technique? Send them my way and we may incorporate them into one of our upcoming newletters. I look forward to hearing from you.
Good hunting!
This month's featured articles
Top 10 Tips to Get Ready for Spring Turkey Season!by Jay Decker www.gunhook.com
Time to get ready for Turkey Season
Now that deer season is coming to a close in most places, it's time to start thinking about spring turkey season. So is my TOP 10 list to get ready for turkey season.
Location: Get out to your lease and scout before the season starts. Try to get an idea where the turkeys are roosting at night, and where they are headed to feed during the day. Knowing where they roost gives you advantage when the time comes to hunt, as you position yourself to cut the birds off on the way to their feeding areas.
Practice your shot: If you are bow hunting for turkeys this spring, then keep practicing with your bow. Turkeys are surprisingly hard to kill with a bow and recover. They leave very little blood trail and when shot, love to play hide and seek. Find a good broadhead with a large cutting diameter for turkeys.
Invest in a pop-up blind: For some reason, pop-up blinds do not disturb turkeys at all. It takes deer several weeks to get used to a pop-up blind most of the time, but you can set one up for turkey hunting the morning of, and they just don't see it.
Coverage: If you can't get a pop up blind, then get some good camouflage, a good camo headnet, and a comfy turkey seat to get hidden at the base of a tree or in some brush. It's a good idea to paint your face as well. The key is to move as little as possible. Be in a position where you can shoot your shotgun, rifle, or bow with little to no movement when the birds come in. Turkeys can't smell worth a darn, but they have very good vision and very good hearing. If you are lucky to have just a little wind, you don't have to worry about the birds hearing your movement. However, they will pick up even the slightest movement. Practice your call. Get your calls out and practice. Don't wait until the morning you are going out to find your slate or glass calls need to be tuned,or that your mouth call is torn from dropping it in the briars at the end of last season.
Check your decoys: It only takes a couple of decoys placed strategically to fool even a mature gobbler. I like to hunt with just a jake and a hen usually. That is enough to really fire up a gobbler most of the time.
Once it is time to go out and hunt, here are a few last tips and tricks!
Show up early: Use a locator call to see if the birds will talk from their roost. I have used a crow call before and they work great. If you're in a pinch, a simple shut of a truck door can get the birds to talk. Then you know where they are! Under cover of darkness, try to slip in and get set up undetected. Get your decoys set up and your blind positioned for a shot. Once the birds start to come out of their roost, listen for them.
Be mobile: If the turkeys decide to head another direction from their roost, then make a move and try to flank them. Sometimes the toms will gobble all the way in, but sometimes they don't make a sound and then they are 10 yards in front of you.
Be ready for all these scenarios: We have several turkey hunts ready to go on our site and we are getting some great products in for turkey season as well. Gobble Gobble!
Four Fundamentals of MarksmanshipArmy Study Guide
The soldier must understand and apply the four key fundamentals before he approaches the firing line. He must establish a steady position allowing observation of the target. He must aim the rifle at the target by aligning the sight system, and fire the rifle without disturbing this alignment by improper breathing or during trigger squeeze. These skills are known collectively as the four fundamentals. Applying these four fundamentals rapidly and consistently is the integrated act of firing.
Steady Position: When the soldier approaches the firing line, he should assume a comfortable, steady firing position. The time and supervision each soldier has on the firing line are limited. He must learn how to establish a steady position during integrated act of dry-fire training. The firer is the best judge of the quality of his position. If he can hold the front sight post steady through the fall of the hammer, he has a good position. The steady position elements are as follows.
Non-firing Hand Grip: The rifle hand guard rests on the heel of the hand in the V formed by the thumb and fingers. The grip of the non-firing hand is light. Rifle Butt Position. The butt of the rifle is placed in the pocket of the firing shoulder. This reduces the effect of recoil and helps ensure a steady position.
Firing Hand Grip: The firing hand grasps the pistol grip so it fits the V formed by the thumb and forefinger. The forefinger is placed on the trigger so the lay of the rifle is not disturbed when the trigger is squeezed. A slight rearward pressure is exerted by the remaining three fingers to ensure that the butt of the stock remains in the pocket of the shoulder, minimizing the effect of recoil.
Firing Elbow Placement: The firing elbow is important in providing balance. Its exact location depends on the firing/fighting position used. Placement should allow shoulders to remain level.
Non-firing Elbow Placement: The non-firing elbow is positioned firmly under the rifle to allow a comfortable and stable position. When the soldier engages a wide sector of fire, moving targets, and targets at various elevations, his non-firing elbow should remain free from support.
Cheek-to-Stock Weld: The stock weld should provide a natural line of sight through the center of the rear sight aperture to the front sight post and on to the target. The firer's neck should be relaxed, allowing his cheek to fall naturally onto the stock. Through dry-fire training, the soldier practices this position until he assumes the same cheek-to-stock weld each time he assumes a given position, which provides consistency in aiming. Proper eye relief is obtained when a soldier establishes a good cheek-to-stock weld. A small change in eye relief normally occurs each time that the firer assumes a different firing position. The soldier should begin by trying to touch the charging handle with his nose when assuming a firing position. This will aid the soldier in maintaining the same cheek-to-stock weld hold each time the weapon is aimed. The soldier should be mindful of how the nose touches the charging handle and should be consistent when doing so. This should be critiqued and reinforced during dry-fire training.
Steady Position
Support: When artificial support (sandbags, logs, stumps) is available, it should be used to steady the position and support the rifle. If it is not available, then the bones, not the muscles, in the firer's upper body must support the rifle.
Muscle Relaxation: If support is used properly, the soldier should be able to relax most of his muscles. Using artificial support or bones in the upper body as support allows him to relax and settle into position. Using muscles to support the rifle can cause it to move due to muscle fatigue.
Natural Point of Aim: When the soldier first assumes his firing position, he orients his rifle in the general direction of his target. Then he adjusts his body to bring the rifle and sights exactly in line with the desired aiming point. When using proper support and consistent cheek to stock weld the soldier should have his rifle and sights aligned naturally on the target. When correct body-rifle-target alignment is achieved, the front sight post must be held on target, using muscular support and effort. As the rifle fires, muscles tend to relax, causing the front sight to move away from the target toward the natural point of aim. Adjusting this point to the desired point of aim eliminates this movement. When multiple target exposures are expected (or a sector of fire must be covered), the soldier adjusts his natural point of aim to the center of the expected target exposure area (or center of sector).
Aiming: Having mastered the task of holding the rifle steady, the soldier must align the rifle with the target in exactly the same way for each firing. The firer is the final judge as to where his eye is focused. The instructor or trainer emphasizes this point by having the firer focus on the target and then focus back on the front sight post. He checks the position of the firing eye to ensure it is in line with the rear sight aperture.
Rifle Sight Alignment: Alignment of the rifle with the target is critical. It involves placing the tip of the front sight post in the center of the rear sight aperture. Any alignment error between the front and rear sights repeats itself for every 1/2 meter the bullet travels. For example, at the 25-meter line, any error in rifle alignment is multiplied 50 times. If the bullet is misaligned by 1/10 inch, it causes a target at 300 meters to be missed by 5 feet.
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Deuba's Nepal: The challenges he faces
- SD Muni,
Deuba needs to combine the decisiveness of GP Koirala and the dynamism of Prachanda, by amending the Constitution to incorporate the aspirations of the Madhes & Janjatis, as he becomes prime minister of Nepal for the fourth time
Sher Bahadur Deuba has become Nepal's Prime Minister for the fourth time. He secured massive support in the Parliament; 388 out of a total of 558 persons voting. The Nepali Congress (NC) leader was the only candidate and should have been elected uncontested, but the opposition Nepal Communist Party (United Marxist Leninist- UML) decided to vote against him; it could muster only 170 votes.
His election was necessitated by the resignation of his coalition colleague, Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), who honoured his coalition commitment to the NC of sharing power, by vacating the post after nine months and initiating local bodies' elections.
Prachanda could have refused to give up power by breaking with the NC and seeking UML's support. It was good that he didn't. Instead, he kept his promise to the NC as well as to the country.
Deuba's first challenge is to maintain this political stability and consolidate the NC-Maoist coalition. It was this coalition that led to Nepal's second Jan Andolan in 2005-06, whose goal was to create a 'New Nepal'. But that vision was soon overtaken by instability and confusion as the NC-Maoist coalition broke down after the election of the first Constituent Assembly in 2008, unable to work out a mutual power sharing arrangement.
Subsequently, both Nepali Congress and Maoists have led governments in coalition with the UML. Such coalitions have kept them in power but not given Nepal much-needed stability and development. The NC-UML coalition did give Nepal its first republican Constitution in 2015, but this proved to be a divisive Constitution. It left out marginalised social groups like Madhesis, Jan Jatis, Dalits and women and left them dissatisfied and agitating.
That is why this NC-Maoist coalition has a better chance of giving Nepal much needed stability and development as these two major parties do not have a conflict of interest at the grassroots/constituencies level. Nor do they suffer from ideological or ethnic disagreements against the Madhesi and Jan Jati groups, like the UML does.
The UML, in coalition with the Maoists, eroded the Maoists social base in order to broadbase its own constituencies, which eventually forced Prachanda to walk out of the coalition in May 2016. Unfortunately, the UML doesn't hesitate to invoke the social polarisation between upper castes Nepalis who live in the "pahad" — a metaphor for those who live in the hills and mountains — on the one hand, and those who live in the lowlands, the plains, also known as the "Madhes", and Jan Jatis on the other.
Deuba, in his first statement as prime minister, has underlined three priorities; implementing the Constitution; accommodating the aspirations of the marginalised groups by amending the Constitution; and advancing the development of the people of Nepal.
All the three issues are mutually linked, particularly the one regarding implementing the Constitution while amending it. This hinges on the holding of local, provincial and national elections by January 2018. There may not be much difficulty in going ahead with the second phase of local elections on June 28. Some Madhes parties are agitating for an amendment to the Constitution as the pre-condition for participation, but they can be persuaded to give up this agitation if credible assurances are given to them that the amendments registered during Prachanda's prime ministership after the local elections.
If both Deuba and Prachanda are to work sincerely, mobilising the required two third vote for amending the Constitution wont be impossible, even if it is difficult and challenging. Difficulties will be encountered in keeping the Deuba vote of 388 intact as some in the royalist Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) like Kamal Thapa may ask for their ideological pound of flesh in the form of a Hindu State and/or greater share of power in the government.
There are also groups within the NC and the Maoists who have reservations about the extent to which Madhesis and Jan Jatis should be accommodated. A two-thirds majority in the existing situation means that Deuba only needs nine more votes to the 388 he already has – this may not be very difficult as there were 35 abstentions at the time of his election.
The UML which is expected to oppose the requisite amendments to the Constitution, failed to get its members to vote against Deuba's election. Some small parties which abstained may be willing to strike political deals with the Deuba-led coalition. That's why Deuba can very easily push the amendments to the Constitution, provided he has the political will and determination to do that.
What Deuba needs today is a combination of the decisiveness of his late leader G P Koirala and the resilience and dynamism of his coalition colleague and successor Prachanda.
Another challenge in front of Deuba, which he is acutely aware of, is to maintain a credible balance between India and China. India has publicly supported the NC-Maoist coalition and is expected to continue to do so. India must widen and reinforce its development cooperation with Nepal. Importantly, it should not let the unstated and sectarian agenda of a section of political stakeholders within the ruling BJP, around the revival of the Nepal monarchy and a presumed "Hindu state" vitiate wider national interests in the Himalayan republic.
Similarly, Deuba must engage actively with China, not only because of China's assertive push into South Asia as a whole. But he must also remain careful and attentive to ensure that Nepal's signature on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) doesn't mean that his country is dragged into a relationship of economic dependency with its northern neighbour nor is it allowed to become a strategic cockpit between India and China.
There is much Nepal can learn from the experience of China's role in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and even Pakistan. In all these countries, China has resolutely pushed its strategic objectives as well under the cover of economic cooperation and infrastructural projects.


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My previous blog post describes how I went about getting my laptop to connect to WiFi after some initial hiccoughs. Here I'm going to describe the quick-and-dirty way - during those times when you have just installed a Linux distro and have issues getting wireless to work but have no access to an Ethernet cable and happen to have an Android device lying around.
All you need is an Android device (phone/tablet, SIM not necessary). Here are the steps you can follow:
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Getting broadcom-wl driver working on Fedora 21 with akmod-wl - for BCM4312 Wireless
I upgraded to Fedora 21 from Fedora 20 a few hours back. Had issues with getting my wireless interface, Broadcom BCM4312 working on my eMachines E725 laptop. This is a known PITA wireless interface to work with. Posting my experience in getting things to work after some hair pulling moments.
tl;dr: running sudo yum install kernel-devel akmod-wl should fix the wireless problem (assuming you have enabled rpm-fusion).
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The New basic level tutorial – the snare , In this tutorial we are going to cover the idea why it's important to have many snare sounds in your arsenal, many beginner beatboxers have the same problem of concentrating on only one snare in their beats , they do only the classic snare , or only the clap so they are not being versatile with their music , and I
think this is very important.
In this beatbox tutorial we are going to teach you 3 different sounds of snares :The classic snare , the Synth snare, and throat snare. In this tutorial you will learn how to beatbox better on it. we give you 3 new snares to your Beat Box to play around with, even if you are an experienced beatboxer and you already know those sounds it's still can help understand how to have more control over your mouth. we show different ways to get to the snare sound, that will probably expand your understanding about how to use your muscles inside your mouth and how the sound is been build.
Well the First snare is the classic snare , we teach it with the same technique that we used to explain The Kick Drum. so we advise you to go and see the kick drum tutorial first and
learn how to do the kick before jumping to snare.
To do the throat snare it's sound is based on the Bongo drum sound and added to this sound the word "Ish" that's how it's been made.
The synth snare is symbolized with the letters "Tsh" you really pronounce the letter "T" and then push your air out with the "Sh" in the end, So it's "T-sh" .
So good luck to you all and keep working hard.
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Like the first edition, the central question this book addresses is how virtual reality can be used in the design, production and management of the built environment. The book aims to consider three key questions. What are the business drivers for the use of virtual reality? What are its…
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Music! Food! Games! FUN!
GSA's annual fall Carnival and Music Festival is October 7th from 2-5pm. We invite all of Santa Barbara to come enjoy our lively outdoor fundraiser at our beautiful campus on the upper east side of Santa Barbara.
This event has free admission and will feature a variety of live performances including the Original Garden Street Academy Jazz Band. A $12 wristband purchase provides all-inclusive and unlimited access to vintage-style boardwalk games, bouncy houses, face painting, a mini-salon (including henna tattoos, nails, hair-styling including tinsel, braiding and spray color), UCSB Climbing Wall, Santa Barbara Museum of Art activity, Speed Stacking demo and more. Food available for purchase features a BBQ meal prepared by the South Coast Kiwani's Club (see discount option below), a beer tent, Pinkberry booth for frozen treats, popcorn, pizza and cotton candy.
The Original Garden Street Academy Jazz Band
GSA Rock Bands
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Fun and Games
Carnival style games, bounce houses, face painting, raffles and more will entertain kids, teenagers, and parents alike.
The Kiwanis Club of South Coast will serve BBQ meals (Hamburgers, Chicken and Hot Dogs all served with beans, salad and garlic bread). The carnival will also feature a beer tent and a Pinkberry booth for refreshing frozen treats. Popcorn, cotton candy, pizza and beverages will also be available for purchase.
Raffle Prizes
1. Disneyland Four 1- day Park Hopper tickets $628 Value
2. Skateboard and Beanie
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3. Zodos Bowling and Rusty's Pizza ($88 value)
– 1 hour of bowling and 4 shoe rentals
– Rusty's Large Pizza, wings and garlic bread
4. Movies & In n Out ($75 value)
– 4 Metropolitan Theatres Movie passes
– 4 In n Out meal vouchers (burger, fries and drink)
5. Shopping Spree ($200 value)
– $50 VISA gift card from LaCumbre Plaza
– $50 Whole Foods gift card
– $25 Mountain Air Sports gift card
– $25 Chaucer's Books gift card
– $25 Pink gift card
– $25 Costco gift card
6. Night on the Town ($343 value)
– Santa Barbara Symphony: 2 tickets to a 2017-2018 season Classical Series concert at the Granada
– Lure Fish House $75 gift card
7. Family 4 pack of tickets to Cirque Eloize at the Granada ($216 value)
– Donated by UCSB Arts & Lectures
– French-Canadian Cirque Extraordinaire
– Cirque Éloize
– Saloon
– Wed, Feb 7 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre
8. Sweets and Treats ($75 value)
– $50 gift card to Chooket Your Cake Baker
– $25 gift card to Lovin Spoonful – premium frozen yogurt shop on the Mesa
Raffle tickets are $1.00 and can be purchased before and the day of the carnival.


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the basis for this build is the frozen mallet, plus some dps action and you have a beast of a combo.
100% chance of slow
above average health
tends to get underestimated early
more versatile when it comes to killing or assisting
not very good soloing
kinda squishy later :\ weird right?
targeted late game
not as powerful as some other builds
This is my first build and I'm sort of new to this so for the masteries i put what i think ill have. But i don't really have any solid reasoning on that and the build isn't dependent on it so have fun with that. As for the runes... i like attack speed, right now mine is seriously all alacrity stuff. probably not the best way to go about it, but i have fun.
early game
if you get your team to help you gank on a 3v3 go for it, your make it rain will help you all pull off some awesome kills early. other than that farm, stay out of harms way and save your abilities for dissuading enemies from coming too close. by the time you go back to base you should have enough money to get your berserker boots, then start working on phage, on your way to frozen mallet.
mid game
its around this time you should be getting the frozen mallet, unless you were careless and died a lot... happens to the best of us. If that's the case then FARM FARM FARM. once you get your mallet find a buddy, bestest friend in the world. and start hitting ppl. draw them out just past their comfort zone, the area they like to hover around the tower. and start off with a make it rain. then switch off to some normal attacks, by this time your buddy should have caught up to them and is beating the snot out of them. once you finish them and maybe their friend if they had one, i'd say push some towers, but mainly get lots of kills, next items are expensive and you need them to survive.
late game
late game is tricky, you've now killed enough ppl, or at least assisted in the killing. that you will be targeted just to deal with the slow. use flash to flee through walls. and if you feel comfortable you can rejoin the fray with a make it rain or your ulti. if not don't be afraid to stay back, if your teammates are running, use your frozen mallet to slow down their pursuers, and counterattack. if you get the chance impure shots attack speed boost is great for turrets.
this build may not carry the team, but if you find some competent buddies you can quickly turn the tides and clean house. this was my first build so comment and criticize. love to see if i could improve this. also ideas for masteries and runes would be welcome.


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Fort Lytton hosts a wide variety of historical re-enactments. Some re-enactments occur at regular intervals, while others occur on an occasional basis.
Regular Re-enactments at Fort Lytton
- Gun-firing – first Sunday of even months i.e. Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec
- History Alive – June each year
Occasional Re-enactments at Fort Lytton
- Light Horse
- Queensland Living History Federation
- Various military bands
- Various military vehicle clubs


text: Hello all, new to the scene I have recently ordered the M3 DS Real perfect bundle. I'm planning on also playing GBA games on my DS. I have a few questions: 1. Many of my GBA roms are no-intro. Will they still work just as well as those that do have intros? 2. I also plan on trimming both my NDS and GBA roms before flashing them with NDSTokyoTrimmer. As I understand, trimming is pretty common place and will not effect the roms from playing, correct?


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The Wondrous Words Wednesday meme is hosted by Kathy of BermudaOnion's Weblog. I'm playing into week three now (hurrah!). For today, I would like to share three new words I found and liked from my most recent self-study on Babbel.com. Self-promotion: If you want to, you could check out all my previous posts about my progress here.
Tisane meaning herbal tea.
Berrai meno alcol e piu tisane.
In English: You are going to drink less alcohol and more herbal tea.
Propositi meaning resolutions.
Raccontami i tuoi buoni propositi per il nuovo anno.
In English: Tell me about your good resolutions for the New Year.
Luna di miele meaning honeymoon.
Spiritoso. Hai chiamato l'agenzia per la luna di miele?
In English: Funny. Have you called the agency for our honeymoon?
How do you like these words? Please share yours too!


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Cheapo Cheapo perhaps ... Bought some classic reggae myself there in the late 80's. Quick bit of trivia - that's the shop where Billy Bragg used to work.
It could well have been but this was in the late 70's I think so not sure if Cheapo Cheapo was around then? It may not even have been Barking but West Ham High St. now I come to think of it. Although I did get the train from Stepney to Barking occasionally to root around the record shops there too.
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Was a great reggae stall in the Market on West Ham High St. Didn't buy much reggae there as it was full price (lots of pre-release) but they used to underprice their punk stuff.


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People no longer understand that their schools and universities are coaching them to turn into entrepreneurs the best way they did just a few years ago. Shortly after K12 went public, Packard acknowledges, the company's pupil demographics started to shift from average college students looking for a distinct faculty expertise (corresponding to residence schoolers, rural students, or frequent travelers like athletes and actors) to incorporate more struggling college students performing below grade level, for whom online education is a last resort.
Entrepreneurship Training Programs- are inclined to focus on building information and skills to begin or function an enterprise. At this time, I'm happy to announce the call for the supply of entrepreneurship summer time camps. But as these innovators have moved their ideas out of the lab and into the market, it's grow to be increasingly clear that in order to start truly solving the biggest issues—eliminating them long-term—the ecosystems within which the problems lie need to alter.
There is a sense of urgency among education entrepreneurs for radical transformation that ends in improved efficiency outcomes, particularly in terms of youngsters who haven't been served nicely by public education methods. Professor Linton is the Editor-in-Chief of Technovation: The Journal of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Know-how Management.
However, the nature of training and entrepreneurship wants to alter and turn out to be more revolutionary, creative, and collaborative in right this moment's quickly altering economic environment. Despite this growth, insufficient attention has been given to the importance of policies and applications, and minimal guidance has been supplied on how you can help one of these schooling and on what insurance policies are needed.
Yong Suk Lee and Chuck Eesley (a Stanford professor on the Division of Administration Science and Engineering) explore the distinction in entrepreneurship between Asians and Asian-People by analyzing Stanford alumni and their background in relation with parental entrepreneurship. This status ostensibly frees them to contemplate unlimited possibilities for K-12 training.
Some college students will enter with their very own entrepreneurial training ventures, either already started or within the concept conceptualization stage. At Bellwether, we assist entrepreneurs construct an appreciation for the truth that program and finances are deeply intertwined. This analysis initiative is to judge the current state of education and entrepreneurship and suggest new instructions vital for the following phases of economic progress in Korea.Read More


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Clemson vs Georgia viewing party at Death Valley?
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Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich tweeted on Saturday that Clemson officials are possibly looking into a way for student and fans to watch the Clemson vs Georgia game in Death Valley.
This could lead to possible revenue streams with concessions, souvenirs, etc for the University.
Is this something that Clemson fans would support in a big way?
Hearing from students and fans wanting to watch @ClemsonFB at UGA at Death Valley...could be a fun idea and staff will look into it.— Dan Radakovich (@ClemsonDRad) July 19, 2014
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The increasing frequency of drones carrying out "unauthorized intrusions" over nuclear facilities poses a "growing threat," according to the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command.
"Of recent concern have been the unauthorized flights of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) over Navy and Air Force installations," said Gen. John E. Hyten to Congress on Wednesday. "These intrusions represent a growing threat to the safety and security of nuclear weapons and personnel."
"We are continually assessing threats to ensure our security apparatus is capable of denying unauthorized access or use of nuclear weapons," he continued, before adding that they are working on "counter-unmanned aerial system defenses ," that will "effectively detect, track and, if necessary, engage small UAS vehicles."
In November, it was revealed that "DroneGun," a new product from company DroneShield, would allow users to take down drones by scrambling and cutting off the machine's electronic communications and returning it either to the "offending party" or a safe area, while in October, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that allows emergency responders in the state to take out drones without fear of liability for the damage.
In August, a 65-year-old woman from Virginia shot down a drone after she spotted it hovering over her property, while a Kentucky man also made the news last year after he shot down a drone that was allegedly hovering over his daughters in the backyard.
Charlie Nash is a reporter for Breitbart Tech. You can follow him on Twitter @MrNashington or like his page at Facebook.


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Spend the last days of summer immersed in hands-on workshops on web-related topics
Hands-on and engaging web-oriented workshops give you practical experience and broaden your knowledge.
Hanging out with fellow web professionals in an informal between- and after-workshops setting with fine food and drinks involved.
Everyday morning activities – swimming and running – give your body energy to keep you going through a workshop-filled day.
Time to choose your track
Engaging workshops on the UX track, spread over 3 days, will focus on user experience and user research topics.
For the 7th time around, we will host experienced eZ experts with topics on the newest developments in the field.
Hands-on workshops will be dedicated to PHP and its frameworks, especially Symfony, spread on two tracks.
For the 2nd time in a row, frontend web professionals will participate in hands-on JavaScript-oriented workshops.
A new track intended for web project leaders and decision makers imagined as a peer discussion group.
Goodbye Hrvatska! It was an amazing #websc: to be repeated!
Bye bye Rovinj and #websc ! As always, awesome conference and people. See you next year ! @ymc_ch @rogamoore @cc_maha signing out
It was a great week indeed. Successfully completed @outreachy and delivered my first workshop at a conference #websc
Going home after a incredible time at #websc. Great workshops, great activities, great place, venue, people. Highly recommended!


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The need to update the Classification of Occupations in accordance with the Standard International Classification of Occupations (ISCO 08) led the Ministry of Labor and Social Justice to approve Order 198/2017 that became effective on April 4, 2017 and that introduces a series of new occupations.
Most of the newly introduced occupations refer to the major group of electrical engineers, with positions such as wind plants engineer, photovoltaic plants engineer, engineer for the management and control of energy utility systems, and engineers in thermoelectric and hydroelectric plants. The Order also introduced the concepts of electro-energy and thermos energy auditor, which were not previously regulated under the Romanian Code of Occupations.


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select SIFISO Blogs is a weblog that initially began with Sifiso Ndlovu sharing his experiences on working with Microsoft's SQL Server Integration Services but has since extended to cover a variety of technologies such as Microsoft enterprise software offerings (i.e. SQL Server, Windows Server, SharePoint), Open Source technologies (i.e. PHP, JQuery), Mobile Development platforms, as well as, Big Data concepts and implementations.
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Homeopathy can cure swine flu, claims practitioner
"The individuals can take a few of cost-effective and clinically proved homeopathic medicines for swine flu remedy in addition to prevention," Batra's Constructive Clinic's chairman and managing director, Dr Mukesh Batra, mentioned.
Batra recommends `Oscilococcinium 30′ and `Influenzium 200′ for swine flu prevention in addition to to enhance the immune system among the many normal public in direction of the flu.
"The homeopathy medication 'Gelsemium 30' has been proved efficient clinically within the remedy of swine flu in France a decade again and has been reported within the British journal of Scientific Drugs," Batra mentioned.
Equally, remedy for swine-flu was finished in Spain throughout 1917-18 conflict interval with 'Bryonia 30' and proved efficient, he mentioned.
Within the case of Spanish flu, homeopathy introduced mortality charge from 30 per cent to at least one per cent, he claimed.


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Lana Del Rey for Hennes and Mauritz
This new up and coming artist is taking the music industry and the fashion industry by storm. Lana Del Rey's 50's inspired prints and outfits are becoming more and more popular. As of this month, Lana has teamed up with Hennes & Mauritz (aka H&M), modelling their newest Fall Collection for 2012. Her advertisements have been popping up everywhere!
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I'm definitely a huge fan of this collaboration; Lana's fresh sense of style is inspiring and exciting! I'm a fan of her music and the store, so I'm looking forward to see what else Lana can bring to H&M. What do you think of this collaboration? Leave comments!
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As a marketer at an ecommerce site, there is constant pressure to deliver more sales.
See how quizzes can help by personalizing your product selection.
Personalizing your ecommerce site to offer up a tailored product for each visitor can increase conversions by 30% or more.
Unfortunately, the reality is that personalization software can be expensive and time-consuming to implement - until recently.
A few months back, ecommerce sites began to adopt the quiz as a mechanism for providing targeted product recommendations, and the results have been nothing but impressive.
Today I want to show you two example quizzes that combined to drive $15,686 in revenue. We'll examine the exact process these sites used so you can implement it for your own products.
Using a quiz to differentiate between similar products and make $7,260
Rising star ecommerce site Birchbox created a quiz called "Find your facemask soulmate" that takes buyers through a journey ending with a product offering that's irresistible.
Let's follow along.
The quiz was implemented on the Birchbox magazine, which runs on a simple CMS so implementing it didn't take too much time (compared to other methods for personalization).
It was a main feature for March 2015 and was quite popular.
Once a potential buyer begins taking the quiz, it asks personal questions, really doing its best to understand the person taking the quiz so as to deliver up an accurate result.
The logic for the quiz was built up using research compiled from studies online for accuracy.
After five short questions, a facemask product is recommended, and of course there is a link to purchase the mask right there as part of the results.
This quiz result is where Birchbox really gets to utilize the personalization aspect of the quiz by providing a description that refers back to the way in which quiz takers answered the questions.
They do an excellent job of describing the product in a warm way that entices click-through to the purchase page. The way they accomplish this is by being very uplifting with the wording, but also honest.
So for example "is best for oily skin and removes pore-cloggers, leaving skin radiant, clear, and less susceptible to acne" that statement is both very poignant and very kind all at once, the exact combination that makes someone want to purchase the product.
Results: 11,000 quiz takers, 3% sales conversion rate, average sale price of $22, $7,260 in new sales.
This quiz was wildly successful. It not only drove sales, but it was also a fun enough piece of content on its own to be share-able and drive social traffic.
This quiz achieved the rare combination of fun and practical, as it delighted readers and led to sales all at once.
This Birchbox example shows us that a quiz can be used to help differentiate between similar products.
For them it was Facemasks, but it could very well be sweaters or wallets or cell phones. When you're in a business that has several variations of a product, providing some level of personalization with a quiz is an excellent way to break through product confusion and increase sales.
Successfully launching an ecommerce site using the power of personalization through quizzes
A slightly more irreverent quiz, this one comes from a yet-to-be-launched startup running a Kickstarter campaign.
The quiz asks you a series of questions before identifying which kind of Elephant pants you should get.
This quiz appeals to the type of people who actually buy products like Elephant Pants in that there are mentions of travel, gourmet foods, and Friday night adventures.
The questions work to not only build up a portfolio for the quiz taker which will be used to provide a recommendation, but also build some trust with the person taking the quiz.
Given that this is a brand that doesn't even exist yet, trust is important if the quiz is going to be effective at convincing people to pre-order the product, and the personable nature of the questions certainly work to build that trust.
Once finished taking the quiz, a certain type of Elephant pants are recommended - again a stellar example of personalization. There is a link to the Kickstarter campaign to actually pre-order the recommended pair as well.
Results: $8,426 raised on Kickstarter. Also, The Elephant Pants brand has since beomce a thriving company with a full website outside of Kickstarter and healthy sales.
This quiz was an integral part of launching a successful stand-alone E-commerce website.
As a marketer within an ecommerce company you need to find ways to make sales.
Quizzes can work for any industry to help personalize your website and sell products without a huge up-front investment.
Personalized recommendations can increase sales by 30% or more, and quizzes are the quick and easy way to personalize your online shop.
Comments (5)
This was interesting as far as it went, but not actually a "how to"...
Great article. I work in an ecommerce start that creates personal offers for each customer. We have learned to gather data about our users by asking them fun questions each time they make a purchase. And it really works. We are able to create more tailored offers for them and our conversion rate is over 30% . Asking questions is the best way to get an answer,huh? Who would have thought :)
Hi Josh,
Interesting article. Don't we Brits just love answering questions?? Marketers need to make sure that this 'tactic' isn't over-used though, otherwise it'll soon become a turn-off for e-commerce customers.
Alijca - That's awesome! I always tell people that you can try to re-create those fun questions using a quiz to scale up your efforts - I would assume that a lot of the questions are similar for each customer, which would lend itself to making a quiz?
Roger - I agree, and I think the key to not over-using the tactic is to keep the quality really high. If you don't release a quiz until it's amazing, there just won't be enough time to over-use the quizzes.
Good reading Josh! Really enjoyed it. Here are my 2 cents :)
I agree with you that e-commerce sales quizzes, if done right, help increase conversions, but can do much more. Higher customer satisfaction, reduced return rates, increased sales, reduced customer care costs are just to name a few. And, taking into account that today's shopper is usually confronted with a multitude of options (choice overload is real!) quizzes can have a major impact on alleviating decision anxiety.
Choice overload is one of the most common reasons why shoppers decide not to decide. Providing support and advice in e-commerce in the form of quizzes aka Guided Selling, product finders, product wizards etc is somewhat critical if not a must for retailers today. Here's an interesting article that talks about the benefits of this approach:


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Australia's premium sportswear brand and world leader in advanced compression technology opens flagship store in Westfield Century City Mall
Australia's premium sportswear brand and world leader in advanced compression technology opens flagship store in Westfield Century City Mall
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 6, 2017) - The world leader in sports compression 2XU is set to make its mark on the Los Angeles retail scene with a new store to open at Westfield Century City Mall.
A favorite with celebrities and elite athletes, the new flagship retail store will allow all LA athletes, fitness fanatics and weekend warriors the chance to experience 2XU's world-leading performance-enhancing compression technology.
"We chose the Los Angeles market for our new flagship store because people in LA are active, fit and on the leading edge of the hottest trends," said Paul Higgins, 2XU CEO. "With so many locals into running, high-intensity fitness and numerous other sports, we are excited to offer our advanced compression and other high-quality performance apparel to LA residents."
2XU is the compression wear of choice for world champion athletes and is used as the secret recovery weapon by various professional sports teams including basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer and football. A little-known secret is that over 80% of all NBA and NFL teams buy and wear 2XU to enhance performance and recovery.
2XU's graduated compression garments have a significant impact on performance and an even greater impact on muscle repair and recovery by preventing muscle micro-tearing and stimulating blood circulation.
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