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As one of the latest gadgets in its category, the Panasonic HC-V520EB HD camcorder enjoys great popularity among buyers. It is more advanced than the basic model in its series, but lacks the extras featured in the most advanced model. Some would say that it is in the golden mean. Is this really the case? Is it a good choice for you? Use this review to find out.
The Panasonic HC-V520EB HD camcorder measures 53 by 61 by 116 mm and weighs 229 grams. It is fairly compact and light for a device with its capabilities. It can fit perfectly in a bag or purse. It is easy to carry around.
Features and Capabilities
The lens has focal length of 2.06 to 103 mm. This is quite good for a device of this type. The aperture can range from f/1.8 to f/4.2. The aperture is superb and its narrowing is not great when you are using the zooming function.
The Full HD resolution of this camcorder is undoubtedly one of its top features. It allows you to produce videos and images with resolution of 1920 x 1080p. You can expect even the most miniature details to be perfectly clear.
The 1/5.8-type BSI MOS sensor of the Panasonic HC-V520EB HD camcorder is more sensitive to light in comparison to its predecessor. It will give you naturally beautiful images without red eye effect and similar issues. The 2.25 megapixels that the sensor comes with provide for improved performance in every respect in comparison to the previous model.
The device offer 62x optical zoom when the Intelligent Zoom system is off. When it is on, you will get 80x zoom. This gives you great flexibility when it comes to shooting videos and taking pictures. You can capture very small and very distant objects with ease.
The I.O.S Lock system for image stabilization does an excellent job in ensuring that there are no blurs. You can expect the videos that you shoot to have perfect dynamics. You will also get the Level Shot Function which will bring dramatic improvement to the quality of the images and videos that you produce.
The 3-inch LCD screen is standard. The same applies to the buttons as well. This camcorder has Wi-Fi connectivity which allows for wireless file sharing.
The Panasonic HC-V520EB HD camcorder is a top performer with the 50 frames per second that it can take. It is quite quick to focus and start recording after it has been powered on. You can be certain that you will never miss the moment. You can always choose to reduce the image resolution and get standard compression like MPEG4. This is a highly practical capability as it allows you to keep image and video shooting and file storage under control.
Image and Video Quality
You can expect the quality of the videos and images produced to be brilliant. The contrast is superb and so is the sharpness. The colors are rich and bright. The dynamics are excellent.
This Panasonic HC-V520EB HD camcorder review finds the device to be one of the top performers in its class. It is full of great features and produces superb images and videos.


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Friday, August 5, 2016
Balance = Beer Pong. Nuff Said.
They say that life is about balance. Hell, I've said it myself, I don't even know how many times.
But what exactly is this elusive prize, and how exactly do we go about getting it? Is it like the characters in Pokemon go? Do we wander around and wait to be told where to go? Or, is it more like tag, where your success is wholly dependent on how fast you can run.
Personally, I'm hoping it's like beer pong. With practice, I can do nothing but improve, and, the more I try, the less I worry about it.
Okay so now we have that figured out. Balance = Beer Pong. Good.
All joking aside, balance can be a pretty hard place to get to. To take care of all of the "have to's" in life takes a lot. The weight and breadth of that list is longer and heavier, for some than it is for others. It depends on your life, lifestyle, life situation etc. It also depends a lot on how you're wired. Some people thrive on the chaos, others find themselves loaded up and overwhelmed on a regular basis. It's tricky, because there is absolutely no way of knowing, from the outside looking in.
We can only look at others' lists through our own perspective. It's simply not possible to do anything else.
When someone tells you they are struggling, don't look at their list, see them. The size, shape and weight of their list ceases to matter. How you would handle it, irrelevant. Judging the list itself, pointless, for you can only see it through your eyes.
When someone tells you they are struggling, listen. Hear them, see them.
Balance. The trick is to have enough self left after the have to's. Carving time out of places where it feels like none currently exists. Challenging situations that are no longer working in your life, and creating the change to make it better.
I think imbalance happens when we slip out of the driver's seat and start riding shotgun. Though I believe it to be true that we have no real control in life, it is our job to navigate and build our way through it the best way we can.
I am of the belief that if you are passive about your life, it will simply pass you by. I can think of nothing that would make me more sad, than getting to the end of my time here, looking back, and seeing nothing but uniform check marks beside a pristine "have to" list.
I know the check marks need to happen, but they are not the only things that need to happen.
Colour outside the lines, create, play, do things. Fun things. If your life is not leaving room for these things, make room. It might be hard, but you can do it with practice. Beer Pong.
Nuff Said.
Well, this week was an interesting one............
Just in case I haven't mentioned it lately, I recently turned 50.
I will never complain about the privilege of getting older, for there are so many who never get to do it.
That does not mean that I am oblivious to some of the challenges it is presenting, small though they may be.
For instance, this week, 50 kicked my ass. Without getting too graphic, let me just say, I would be none too upset if this whole menopause thing would just hurry up and do what it's gonna do, and be done.
I apologize if this offends anyone, but I can't help but think that I'm not the only one frustrated by the process.
Patience. I guess. I don't really have a choice. Sucks. Okay, I'm done now.
I guess the upside of having a bit of downtime is that I was able to get Flitflee Flanderfoodle up on my website! Yay!
I was also able to get some bookmarks ordered for upcoming tradeshows, along with a banner with a big ol' pic of my mug on it. I know I have to get used to the idea of promoting myself, but some things are still pretty uncomfortable for me. Like my face on a giant banner. Colouring outside the lines isn't always as easy as it seems.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure I have become a small claims court expert from all of this week's Judge Judy and People's Court episodes.
The downside to this downtime, is that I was a little too hopped up on pain meds to make any headway on my novel. But, that's what today is for...........................
As for the days ahead............
Spend some time with family, this weekend.................
Get caught up, and then some, at the shop.......................
Squeeze a grandbaby or four................
And with that, I'm going to run off and dive into my novel, it won't ever get done it I don't get get busy putting ink to paper..................................
Until next time....
May your lists be short, your dreams long, and your walk between, filled with colour.
May any obstacles that seem insurmountable in the distance, as you get close, become smaller.
May all that makes your soul sing, come to you, ask for it, for you deserve every ounce of joy you feel.
May you recognize it when it arrives, for sometimes dreams can look different, up close, when real.
May you find balance between what you must do to survive, and what you need to do to be truly content.
May you let go of all of the worry, both past, and future, hanging on does nothing but keep you from being present.
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I cooked this dish about 2 months ago, but the photographs just did not come out well. Yesterday, we were all stocked up on ham, and we have bright evenings, so I thought it would be the perfect time to cook it up again and take some good photographs.
Things didn't quite go to plan, as we had some unexpected guests for dinner and dinner was served much later than I had originally planned. The wait was worth it though.
I have adapted the recipe from The Incredible Spice Men's book (a book well worth getting your hands on!).
- 2 Ham Hocks – weighing 1.2 kg
- 3 small apples, cored and cut into chunks
- 2 pieces of cinnamon
- 3 green chillies – halved and deseeded.
- 1 tbsp crushed coriander seeds
- 1.5 litres Homemade Apple Beer
For the glaze:
- 1 tbsp demerara sugar
- 1/4 tsp chilli flakes
- 4 tbsp. cooking liquid
Place the ham hocks into a large saucepan with all the other ingredients…. adding in the liquid last. If the liquid does not cover the meat completely add some water to just cover.
Bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 1 1/4 hours.
Preheat your oven to 220 deg. C/425 deg. F/ Gas 7.
Take the hocks from the saucepan and remove the skin. Place the hocks on a baking dish – spoon over about four tablespoons on the cooking liquid, and sprinkle over the sugar and chilli flakes. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.
Bring the cooking stock back to the boil and boil rapidly to reduce (about 10 minutes). When the stock has reduced – you could strain it – but I removed the two cinnamon sticks and then just blitzed it.
We served it with mashed potatoes, sweet potato and broccoli. Our impromptu dinner guests, one of whom is Mexican, loved it 🙂
Serves: 4 adults
Cost: c. €4.50 per serving – using our free-range ham, homemade apple beer and including vegetables.


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"hi, my name is puppy nightmare, (insert finger spelling for nightmare), love you all"
So I have had the pleasure of knowing an amazing pup for the last several months. He's a great man in general who speaks highly of everyone he comes into contact with. He's been exploring the pup scene and loves every aspect about it. He's kind, warm hearted, and has a killer smile to boot! Here's the one aspect about Nightmare that stands out: He's Deaf! He's the first pup I have come into contact with over the last 6 months that is deaf, so I wanted to talk with Michael and get into his head a little bit and find out what it's like to be deaf and in our community. So I asked Nightmare to write me a small introduction to himself:
What The Deaf Dog Heard
Welcome to my world where a little madness is encouraged but first of all, I'll start at the beginning so you have a grasp of who I am as a person and a puppy. It all started when I was on my first vacation in Ottawa, Canada and had chosen to go out to Centre Town Pub and unknown to me, it was a fetish night of some sort. There was a man outfitted in what I later would learn was puppy gear and I begun to ask questions about it to his handler, curious and intrigued by this kink, I came home afterwards and down the rabbit hole I went, researching and learning all I could about puppy play.
Later on, I joined Puppy 101 on Facebook and begun to befriend other likeminded individuals which shared the same interests and had my first mosh at the Backlot in Calgary, Alta, Canada. That is where I also first met two puppies in person and have gotten to know them as two spectacular and amazing individuals. (You know who you are). Long story short, I'm an emerging Deaf puppy exploring the world of leather and it's been a wild ride so far.
The conversations I've had, the people I've met and the experiences will shape puppy into who he is supposed to be but I'll say this, people aren't sure what to make of me at first. "How will we communicate?" "How is he able to participate? bark? mosh?" are all questions I've encountered and there is and always will be a way around barriers. I believe that the leather and puppy communities are the most encouraging and accepting when it comes to Deaf and hard of hearing people, they embrace and welcome us into their fold which I'm forever appreciative for that.
To summarize it up fully, I'm still very much an novice and will learn from others as they learn from me and what I have to offer. I'm eager, playful, impulsive which I think is all good traits in a emerging leather puppy, it means I take trust and obedience to heart and hope to someday be an faithful dog and to run for a title. Bring the winds of change and show others that we can do it just as well even though we can't just hear as well as you can.
Pup Nightmare
Here is our conversation following reading this beautiful self discovery
Being deaf, what's the first thing you noticed at your first mosh?
That the others were tentative about getting too close or hurting me. They did welcome me but were careful with their actions.
What sense is your most heightened sense?
That would be my sense of smell, it's why I love to sniff others, otherwise it's how I remember certain people or pups by their scent
Talking smell, close your eyes and think of the first time you smelled leather, what's the one word that come to mind?
Joy. It's what I initially thought the first time, it was like something had awakened inside me.
You've been exploring your bark which I love puppy, don't change it, it's who you are, but because you have no way of hearing a bark, what do you think of when you think the word bark?
I think of it as deep, warm, aggressive.
Arf…since you don't hear them, every bark is unique and different for each puppy out there. No two barks are alike…
That's certainly true.
What is the most unique thing about you puppy?
That's a hard one but I love classical music, even though I can't hear it but I like to imagine the emotions it evokes.
Have you seen Mr Holland's opus? My all time favorite movie ever…
I have, quite a long time ago
My first introduction to classical music was Fantasia, using abstract imagery to describe the music. It's how I really understood the concept
Nice. The reason I was asking was have you ever sat on a speaker or some other way to feel the beat?
Yes I have. Perks of being deaf? Being able to stand next to a loudspeaker without going deaf? Haha! I feel the beat through my feet which travels up to my core and ignites my brain
You mentioned in your story that you may want to run for a title some day, how do you think the community will welcome you in the title field?
To be honest, I hope they'd be accepting and welcoming as I know I can learn from title holders and they learn from I.
What message do you hope to bring to the community?
That anyone regardless of disabilities is able to be involved, that communication is just that and there is always a way around barriers.
How do you think that you will be able to bring this message across the community as a whole?
Well, I am going to start writing blogs for www.Mindlesslybrilliant.us about my life and dealing with being deaf in today's society. I was also thinking of starting an YouTube channel for starters speaking about my experiences as I go forward with meeting people and doing events. Baby steps for this puppy.
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After much intense deliberation within the upper echelons of the District Attorney's Office, Santa Barbara DA Joyce Dudley put Judge Brian Hill on notice Friday afternoon that she intends to seek the death penalty against accused killer Pierre Haobsh, who is charged with murdering Chinese herbalist Henry Han, his wife, Jennie Yu, and their five-year-old daughter, Emily, in March 2016.
Despite the grim details of the case, Dudley's decision was hardly a foregone conclusion. A liberal Democrat, Dudley has never been a fan of the death penalty in general and has been critical in the past of its application in California, calling the system "dysfunctional."
Dudley issued a short statement from the courtroom lectern, stating Haobsh "should be subjected to the most severe punishment under California law, which is the death penalty." In so doing, she stated, she was putting the ultimate decision of life and death "into the good hands of the people of Santa Barbara County."
Dudley had planned to hold a brief press conference afterward explaining the rationale for her decision, but she was precluded from commenting on the case at all by Judge Hill at the instigation of Haobsh defense attorney Christine Voss, who'd filed motions to enjoin anyone on the prosecution side from discussing in public any details of the case with the media or to any third parties. Hill will decide the fate of Voss's motions on September 19, but until then, he issued the gag order Voss sought.
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Don't be fooled by the dating app Bumble's soothing honeycomb yellow wallpaper: each swipe is an earthquake. Men have to wait; women make the first move. Sounds so simple until you really think about it. Women get to choose rather than be chosen.
It nudges aside something so old it feels prehistoric. We go from women demurring—from girls playing princess waiting for the handsome prince to the Faustian bargains we make when we agree to notions like mommy tracks and expecting men to get on their knees and propose —to women taking on the mission of equality, full stop. That shift is what we need today, Equal Pay Day. I am calling for women to make it #EqualAskDay.
Look around. What other seismic shifts should we pay attention to? Here's one: Earlier this year a distinguished list of corporations pledged to work towards rebalancing the parity numbers at the top of their corporations and putting more women in leadership roles. Others have made salary listings transparent or are working toward that end—Buffer, Whole Foods, GoDaddy and more. After women struck for equal pay, Iceland celebrated International Women's Day by passing legislation that requires both public and private companies with 25 or more to prove they are rewarding salaries regardless of gender.
So on this day where women are reminded how much more they should be earning, I want to celebrate the disrupters, the ones who are creating those seismic changes and leading the way to a more gender balanced world. Bumble's Whitney Wolfe is one of a generation of young women starting businesses that change the models. Some won't become as successful—but those who push forward will help to fracture practices that have no practical capitalist underpinning, only hoary social conventions. Here are some of my picks: let's cheer them on and follow their cues.
YouTube star Lilly Singh began amassing fans amongst the young demographic who populate YouTube's channels starting with preteens and up. Her comedic chops, her fearless challenges of dress codes, beauty, career choices and more shows how breaking language can start to break other barriers. Her new book says it out loud: you can be a boss, or you can be a Bawse.
She won the Nobel and she took more risks than hopefully most of us will ever have to: Malala Yousafza with her One Child, One Book is fighting on her own terms for girls to have an education. For those of us women in the West who are now earning more college degrees than men, let's not dishonor her struggle by discounting the worth of those degrees when we negotiate our pay. Let's do the homework and make sure that we buck the trend of women asking for less at the start.
Reesma Saujani who founded Girls Who Code for one reason: to fill the pipelines with women engineers. A non-profit that started with 20 girls in New York City, it now helps more than 40,000 girls in over twenty cities.Partnering up with some of the biggest companies, Saujani's organization ensures that the girls her organization teaches and mentors have a place where they will be valued in the corporate world when they finally graduate. And we'll see an industry long dominated by men—and male culture—accede to the swell tide of young women and the culture women bring along.
If legislation is part of the solution than making voter oversight simpler and engagement more effective is also key. Rachna Choudhry and Marci Harris presciently created POPVOX before the last election. The site is nonpartisan and allows voters to see every bill, connect with their representatives, and easily stay on top of the issues. Read Sarah McKinley's piece in Forbes and you will follow along on how two non-engineers took on political engagement. Along the way the company has won industry awards aplenty.
And back to Whitney Wolfe. She not only extended our Sadie Hawkins holiday to all year long, she did it after she survived a public storm of gossip and innuendo. One of the founders of Tinder, Wolfe went through a difficult in-house romance, break-up, and subsequent sexism and harassment. She didn't back down, she persisted and to this day she retains her share in Tinder. Her company Bumble rose not out of revenge but out of understanding how the practices could be bettered, how a simple ask if switched from women to men could spark a whole new attitude and respect between the sexes.
Today, instead of looking at the statistics that have kept women caged in a decidedly ungilded cage, get online and do some homework on what the going rate is for your job. Start over at Fairygodboss who has partnered today with Payscale so you can use a special calculator to see what you are worth. Go to my organization's site, Take The Lead and spend some time on our Close the Gap App created in partnership with SheNegotiates. It's free today with the code free2day, and gives you a seminar on understanding your strengths—the skills that make you uniquely you—and how to use that to negotiate anything, any time. Check out our training and mentoring programs while you're there and help us get you and all women to leadership parity by 2025.
Make today count towards something bigger. Lead the way in your life—dare to think beyond what you've thought you could do to do to get ahead. What needs change from where you are stand and how can you make that change? Who do you need to help you get there?
What the young women above all have in common is just that: they saw something that they could imagine working better and they didn't wait to be asked. They chose to make their own plan, they investigated and found the information and help they needed and they persevered. Let's make this the year you shift the world too.
Let me know who your favorite female disrupters are and follow me on Facebook and Twitter @GloriaFeldt.
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So tomorrow is yet another weigh in. I have no idea what to expect.
I've really pushed myself with my workouts and tonight at spinning, dear god, it was brutal. But (yup, there is always a but) I drank far far too much on Saturday night. Admittedly I ate jack all but.... well, who the hell knows. I'm wearing clothes that I've unearthed from the back of the wardrobe so I've got nothing to use as a measure.
I gained an unexpected 1.5lbs last week so I'd hope that I'd lose those that at least. I just don't know. All will be revealed soon enough. I've got a mental couple of weeks coming up before I go on holiday which has been the milestone I've had in my head for getting down to a certain weight but until I see what the hell is going on tomorrow I don't know if I'll make it.
I just hope the following exercise was enough to keep me going in the right direction.
Wed: Circuits and 6.5 mile bike ride (with very heavy bag!)
Thurs: 2 miles on bike, gym workout (40 mins cardio mixed with lunges, squats, abs)
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This week for "Wireless Wednesday", we are taking a closer look at the new Google streaming device for the TV, the Chromecast. See the @mashable article pasted below to learn more–
Google has announced a brand new streaming accessory — the Chromecast — that makes it easy to bring web content to the TV.
At first blush, the Chromecast looks like the spiritual successor to the ill-fated Nexus Q. The Chromecast is an HDMI dongle that communicates with video and audio apps — including YouTube, Netflix and Pandora — running on Android or iOS, and transfers that content to your big screen HDTV.
Users can then control content on the big screen using apps on their phones or tablets. Users can also "cast" content from the Chrome browser to the Chromecast. There's also beta support for bringing any Chrome tab to the Chromecast.
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These little beauties are for a family planning a mega-marvelous holiday to America. They are perfect for keeping dirty shoes in or using as a small laundry bag while you're away. Simple but stylish, with a serious dose of all-American awesomeness thanks to the funky star fabric.
Fabulous, right? But can you guess what's going to make this gift that much more fabulous? (Wait for it!)
Yes my friends…a matching zipper pouch!
And it's lined too. Fancy, eh? The lining material was hacked from a piece kindly donated to my stash by a friend. Thanks Emma, I'm getting new life from your old clothes!
If you fancy making your own travel bags, you might want to check out this post, it contains five different ways to make one. For some zipper pouch action, here's the how-to I followed by The Purl Bee. If you have a question or something isn't clear just ask! I hope you find the posts I've shared helpful and I promise you won't stop at one if you do decide to make any.


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LSU Recruiting Recap: Tigers hosting no shortage of 5-star targets
LSU's first week back from spring break has proven to be one of the most impactful in recent memory.
Multiple five-star prospects have been or are scheduled to be on LSU's campus this week for practice sessions, and this weekend should be equally as busy.
While the recruiting trail can be testing at times, the Tigers received a plethora of positive news stemming from the visits.
Nation's No. 2 prospect returns home, takes in LSU practice
It has been quite the week for Dylan Moses as well.
The five-star outside linebacker spent Monday in Alabama before heading back home to Baton Rouge, La., to take in LSU's practice along with some of the nation's elite prospects.
The homecoming was tainted — a bit — by the love Moses expressed for the Crimson Tide. The former Tigers commit reassured the nation that Alabama remains his No. 1 school.
Moses even raised some eyebrows when he suggested he was close to committing after touring through Tuscaloosa, Ala.
However, a lot of momentum carried over to Moses' return to LSU, where the nation's top outside backer met with Tigers coaches and players, including star running back Leonard Fournette. He even joked about possibly inheriting the No. 7 from Fournette, who followed in the footsteps of other LSU legends such as Patrick Peterson and Tyrann Mathieu.
While Moses is leaning toward the Tide, his relationship with LSU is far from over. This visit all but cemented that.
Nation's top athlete and former LSU commit puts Tigers in his top two
JaCoby Stevens was once committed to LSU, and he may not be too far off from reconsidering that pledge.
The nation's No. 1 athlete returned to Baton Rouge, La., on Tuesday to take in the Tigers' spring practice with members of his family, who hail from Louisiana.
Stevens met with coach Les Miles and some of the other assistants, like defensive backs coach Corey Raymond and defensive coordinator Dave Aranda, and afterwards decided that LSU and UGA are his top two schools.
The future college defensive back said his visit reminded him of why he committed to the Tigers in the first place.
The news comes as a bit of a surprise, as many thought Stevens' relationship with LSU was nearing an end after his de-commitment last November.
To the contrary, Stevens has resurfaced as a major target for the Tigers, who are now in a strong position to land the highly-touted athlete.
Nation's No. 4 safety continues to foster relationship with LSU coaches
Todd Harris has made a handful of trips to LSU in recent weeks, and the nation's No. 4 safety finally took in a spring practice on Tuesday.
He was joined by the aforementioned Moses and Stevens, as well as close friend and LSU commit Patrick Queen.
Louisiana's No. 2 prospect in the class, Harris spent much of the practice session observing Raymond working with the defensive backs, then spoke with the coach about an array of topics, including football.
Harris raved about his relationship with Raymond, who he believes fits the total bill of what he is looking for in his future position coach.
Harris is clearly favoring LSU at the moment, but is expected to quiet down his recruitment over the next couple of weeks.
The highly sought-after safety has garnered plenty of interest from across the SEC and national college football powers, but as it stands today, they are all sitting behind the in-state Tigers.
LSU's stock with Harris is at an all-time high, which bodes well for the Tigers' chances of landing the prized safety.
LSU wide receiver target Jhamon Ausbon re-opens recruitment
Jhamon Ausbon was not on LSU's campus this week, but perhaps a future visit is in the cards for the four-star wideout.
The nation's No. 11 wide receiver de-committed from Baylor on Tuesday and re-opened his recruitment.
Ausbon is one of LSU's top wide receiver targets, even when he was committed elsewhere. Upon picking up his offer from the Tigers in February, Ausbon called LSU his "dream school."
Of course, the four-star prospect from IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) re-opened his recruitment 24 hours removed from an unofficial visit to SEC West rival Texas A&M.
While that visit and his interest in the Aggies may be real, do not discount Ausbon's potential ties to LSU. Expect him to be a key target for the Tigers' coaches over the next couple of weeks.
Elite Louisiana CB making trip to LSU before Tennessee, Alabama over the weekend
Stop me when you've heard this before: Cheyenne Labruzza is heading to LSU.
The elite three-star cornerback is set to visit LSU for the third time this spring — and second time in March — on Thursday.
Labruzza continues to lean toward LSU, but is making the trip to take in the Tigers' practice before he hits the road to visit two SEC rivals in Tennessee and Alabama.
The Albany, La., native picked up an offer from the Vols in December and still does not hold an offer from the Tide — yet, at least.
Labruzza is one of the top cornerback targets for LSU in this year's class, but the prized prospect has reiterated to SEC Country he wants to visit as many schools as he can before ultimately deciding upon one.
This is simply part of the process for Labruzza.
5-star DT to take in LSU practice after weekend stop at Alabama
LSU fans should have rightfully been scared to learn Tyler Shelvin enjoyed himself on a visit to Tuscaloosa, Ala., last weekend.
Some of those fears have been pushed aside, however, when SEC Country learned that the nation's No. 2 defensive tackle made arrangements to visit LSU for Thursday's spring practice session.
The five-star prospect from Notre Dame High School (Lafayette, La.) told SEC Country that he "missed LSU" and hadn't been to the campus in some time, which led Shelvin to schedule the visit.
There was good reason to believe that the Crimson Tide were making significant strides with the prized defensive tackle, and that remains a distinct possibility.
However, the Tigers' coaches are firing right back by getting Shelvin back on campus to hopefully solidify their stance with the state's top prospect.
Shelvin and fellow five-star Marvin Wilson are among the top two targets for LSU in the Class of 2017 as the team plans to re-stock along the defensive line following the departures of Christian LaCouture and likely Davon Godchaux.
The three signees from 2016, including five-star Rashard Lawrence, as well as Shelvin and possibly Wilson, are all significant pieces of the long-term puzzle.


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Dishes from Ninotchka! Thank God I am munching on kit kat while posting these food pics.
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The other day I was playing with iphone game, Draw Something. It was quite addictive I played it nonstop in one day till I got bored. I find it more exciting to play with friends than strangers because friends draw stupid things that only both of us know hahaha I only managed to printscreen these four drawings. First and second pics are the most hilarious drawings so far lol. The third and fourth were drawn by me anyway!
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This image is built on Ubuntu 14.04 and runs Docker with AUFS support. It allows you to run an Android Emulator via the Android SDK within the image and view the desktop via NoVNC.
Note! - This only works if your docker host supports AUFS otherwise you'll run out of space.
Follow these instructions to build a compatible docker host or cheat and use the public AMI I made available on AWS.
If you already have a AUFS Docker Host
Just do a docker pull craigw9292/android-emulator
Then run it, docker run -dt -p 6901:6901 craigw9292/android-emulator
You can then surf to your host IP on 6901 and run the vnc_auto.html to see the Desktop.
The default vnc password is "vncpassword".
To build a compatible docker host do the following:
- Setup Ubuntu 14.04 - if on AWS use the Ubuntu Marketplace AMI.
- Make sure your host VM has at least 40GB of space, this image uses ~25GB when running.
- With AUFS Docker can use the entire host file system for image space vs devicemapper which is the docker default but has terrible 10GB limits and increasing it will cause you problems.
- Run the follow commands to install the aufs version of docker.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r) sudo sh -c "wget -qO- https://get.docker.io/gpg | apt-key add -" sudo sh -c "echo deb http://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main\ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install lxc-docker
- Now follow the initial instructions, pull and run the docker image.
Once you're up and running over NoVNC you'll find the Android SDK under the home folder. ~/.
There is also a demo AVD setup which can be run using ./android avd to load the AVD manager then run the supplied emulator.
If you want to build this all from scratch you can follow the instructions here, https://github.com/typemismatch/android-emulator


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The National Museums and Monuments organization has put in place such an attractive reward system that the competition is now very popular with schools all over the country. The competition has been made even more lucrative by the kind sponsorship from the corporate world and the current sponsors are Highveld Financial Services (Pvt) Ltd. It is also strongly supported by the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture. It is an outreach drive that is intended to make children more aware of the museum world and its connectedness with the formal educational syllabi.


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The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has fined a labour hire company working on asparagus farms in the Waikato just under $60,000 for failing to keep employment records.
The firm, BBS Horticulture, was penalised $57,000 by the authority for failing to retain employment agreements, or keep records of wage, time, holiday or leave, and ordered it to pay $1818.02 in arrears to former employees.
BBS also had its access to migrant labour restricted for 24 months.
The ERA said the company had a history of non-compliance.
The Labour Inspectorate first visiting BBS in November 2013 and discovered many employees were working in breach of their visa conditions, and without records of employment.
The inspectorate gave BBS an opportunity to fix its employment practices when an improvement notice was issued, and time and wage records supplied by BBS a few months later suggested that it had complied.
When the inspectorate conducted a follow-up audit in late 2015, it was revealed BBS had disregarded its obligations and reverted back to non-compliant practices. BBS was again unable to supply wage records.
When the inspectorate visited BBS again in October 2016, it found that 11 Chinese employees, one working in breach of visa conditions, had no individual employment agreements or time sheets.
After the inspectorate questioned BBS's sole shareholder and director, Davinder Singh, about the 11 people working for him, Singh could not name a single employee, the ERA said.
Keeping individual employment agreements and time, wage, holiday and leave records, are basic employer obligations in New Zealand, Labour Inspectorate regional manager Kevin Finnegan said.
"BBS Horticulture received multiple warnings along with advice on how to get their practices up to scratch, but they continued to ignore their obligations, and showed themselves to be completely unfit to be an employer," he said in a statement.
"Without records employers may be unable to prove they're providing employees with their minimum employment entitlements, such as the minimum wage, so we take these kinds of breaches very seriously," he said.
"Not only is it unfair to the employees involved, but it's an offence to the wider business community who do meet their obligations - all employers in New Zealand must operate under the same set of rules, there are no exceptions," he said.


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Top Pick Recommendations by Bubbles
These top pick recommendations are in no particular order. These are some of the books that have really stuck with me that I sometimes think about. That's how you know they're good. Check back from time to time for new titles that I find to add to my top pick section because I update my blog frequently.
Scars by Vivian Ward
Category: Contemporary Romance
Book Blurb
"You Know my brother is going to kill you, right?
I tried to clean up my act and swore that I'd stay out of trouble, but when I saw Mia Rivers, I knew it was all over. Not even the threat of death would keep us apart,
But her big brother was standing in the way. He'd kill me if he knew his sister was squirming beneath me at night.
There's just one thing that he doesn't realize, and that's that I'd rather spend all eternity in a wooden box than live without his sister.
Scars is a full-length BWWM Single Parent Romance novel (50,000 words). It contains steamy scenes and there is no cliffhanger."
I love Scars and it's a top pick because the title rightly agrees with both the theme and the plot of the book. This is a second-chance love story that shows how scars from the past carry over to the present and how trying love can be and the complications that our families can sometimes bring. Nick and Mia were high school sweethearts but due to circumstances, went their own ways until they could no longer escape their past. Mia's now a single mom and Nick's been through hell and back with his own addictions and struggles. Ms. Ward does a fantastic job of showing us that true love is never really lost on us and that sometimes second chances are what we need most.
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Category: Religious Cults (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
Book Blurb
"The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.
Carolyn's every move was dictated by her husband's whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife's compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.
Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop's flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs."
Escape sticks with me because it shows how strong a mother can be and how we can do anything we set our minds to. Through perseverance and time, our heroine overcomes one obstacle after the next and lives at the whim of a crazy cult that she can't escape. This top pick book makes you root for Carolyn all the way to the end, and hope and pray that she finally gets to live in peace.
Arsen: A Broken Love Story by Mia Asher
Category: Women's Fiction
Book Blurb
"One glance was all it took…
I'm a cheater.
I'm a liar.
My whole life is a mess.
I love a man.
No, I love two men…
I think.
One makes love to me. The other sets me on fire.
One is my rock. The other is my kryptonite.
I'm broken, lost, and disgusted with myself.
But I can't stop. This is my story.
My broken love story.
OMG! First of all, let me warn you that there IS cheating in this book. But, also let me say that this is not your ordinary "cheating" book. There is so much more going on in this top pick. Cathy and Ben's broken marriage, her inability to conceive that pushes them away, is what ultimately opens her up to Arsen. This book will break your heart, rip it to pieces and rebuild it back up again. But it will never be the same way it was before you started this book. Ms. Asher hasn't released many books, but this is by far my favorite book of all time. It shows you what can happen when you're vulnerable. It teaches us how someone can fall in love with two people at the same time. It makes us feel like our heart gets out of our body and drops like Ben's heart does in the book. I could go on all day talking about this book.
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Category: Dystopian
Book Blurb
"New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real…a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages…A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.
Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future…and our end.
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One Second After really opens your eyes as to how dependent we are on electricity and what would happen if an EMP were to strike the U.S. Saying it's a scary thought doesn't even do it justice. This novel (and series) gives you a very realistic look at what would happen if (and when) America gets attacked. The way people behave, the way our whole "currency" system is replaced with goods the way we don't have medicine. People would rather trade bullets for food because the situation becomes that horrendous. The struggles our characters face in this top pick are challenging and unforgiving. This is a good book to read for people of all ages.


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A/B testing is now an integral part of digital marketing.
But the tests can produce the wrong results if they are not conducted correctly. Here is part one of a three-part series about how you can use data science techniques to avoid making big mistakes with your A/B tests.
Ever since Wired revealed that Amazon ran hundreds, if not thousands, of tests on customers to optimize its site, A/B tests have been hailed as a great way to improve user experience and marketing.
I mean, what could be better than running two different versions of your ads or your site and letting the clicks decide which one is better?
But in the midst of all the hoopla, people forgot that the tests were based in some well-established mathematical techniques - and man started using them incorrectly.
They failed to ensure that they had enough test results and did not let the test run to the end. As a result, many A/B tests were not only invalid, but actually led people to make changes which reduced clicks and conversions.
So, what can you do to avoid this?
Enter data science
Well, one thing you can do is bring the maths back into your testing by using techniques made popular via the recent interest in 'data science'.
What is 'data science'?
According to an accepted definition, data science is the intersection of statistics, hacking, and domain knowledge (digital marketing in our case). Do some of each on a problem and you are, arguably, using data science techniques to solve your issue.
- The statistics help you frame your test so that before you even start, you know that the test will be valid.
- The domain knowledge ensures that when you're finished with the test that you have an actionable result.
- And the 'hacking' is about doing what you have to do to make sure you get the right data - without ruining the statistics, of course!
And, yes, using data science can be complicated. So to help you get started, I've put together three ways in which you can use well-accepted data science techniques to improve the reliability of your A/B tests.
And, though complicated behind-the-scenes, they aren't hard to use. You put in data, the tools handle the stats, and you get results which are statistically valid - and are far more likely to be correct than if you didn't use data science.
Here are the techniques I'll cover:
- A/B Test Sizing Calculator
- Chi-squared Testing
- Bayesian A/B Testing
And as each of the techniques requires some detailed explanation, I'll just cover one per post. Let's start with the first one...
A/B Test Sizing Calculator
As most people in marketing now know, when you do an A/B test you make a single change to your website or ad and then divert traffic evenly between the two.
At the end of the test, you then see which performs better and make the change permanent. That is, you create an 'A' and 'B' version, test them against each other, and declare a winner.
What many marketers do not know, however, is that the results of A/B tests are often totally wrong. Why is that?
Well the main reason for this is that many of the differences between the 'A' and 'B' tests are just random.
As with any test, there is typically a standard amount of difference each time you conduct it - and you need to be able to tell the difference between a significant difference and one which just happens randomly.
But how?
Enter statistics
Well, you can plan an A/B test using statistics and ensure that your test results will be valid before you start.
Though the maths for this is complicated, there are a number of online A/B test sizing tools online which let you benefit from the data science techniques without ever touching Excel, much less an equation.
The A/B Sample Sizer
Have a look at the Sample Sizer on Evan Miller's site. It's simple, but offers very valuable feedback about the test you are about to do.
Basically, you just enter in a couple of data points it tells you how many tests you're going to need. Simple, right?
What data points?
OK, so here's where you need your domain knowledge. To use the calculator you need to make some good guesses about your marketing campaign.
You need to tell the calculator your:
- Typical conversion percentage. How many out of 100 typically convert? Try to come up with the average figure.
- The minimum detectable effect. That is, do you want to know if 'B' is 2% better than 'A'? Or are you OK with just being able to detect a 10% change?
The reason that you need to know these things is that there are two trade-offs when conducting an A/B test.
- The lower your conversion rate, the more test cases you will need.
- The lower the detectable effect, the more test cases you will need.
And that makes sense, if you think about it. I mean, if you want to see a whether a really slight change was real - or just random - then you need to look at a lot of examples, right?
So, using the excellent Evan Miller tool, I input some typical values...
..and wow, I need over 1,000 subjects per branch. That is a lot of tests for most sites - and by the time that many people come through, the test may no longer be relevant.
What can I do to get around that problem?
Now, here is where hacking may come in useful. To run a A/B test with that many examples, you may have to get creative with how you get visitors.
You could increase your ad spend for a few days or entice people to flow to the test from another part of the site. Anything really that will get you the visitors you need to validate your change.
And if you need justification for the change or the increased spend, you're doing this in the name of science! If you want good results, then you have to be prepared to do what it takes to get them.
Keep in mind, though, that if you make a major change, you risk jeopardizing the results. Remember, we're only supposed to be testing A and B. If you add anything new, then you are essentially creating more variations - and then you need even MORE tests.
I wrote about the A/B Test Sizing Calculator first so that you can understand the magnitude of the issue you face when sizing A/B tests. That is, in order for your tests to be statistically valid, you need a LOT of samples - almost certainly more than you think initially.
But knowing how many samples you need doesn't necessarily solve your problem. So for the next two techniques – Chi-Squared Testing and Bayesian A/B testing – I will cover how to deal with a situation where you just can't get enough tests to satisfy the sample calculator.
For more on this topic, read our posts on how to avoid an A/B testing nightmare and software recommendations from four ecommerce experts.
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There are two fundamentally different testing use cases:
(1) Tests when designing short-term marketing, for example deciding which email subject line is better for this week's newsletter.
False positives don't matter much here, so you can use small sample sizes
Suppose there's no real difference between the two subject lines, but you mistakenly decide "A" is better than "B". So what? There's little downside, because you need to send the email anyway and both subjects are similarly good, so you'll get similar results.
Here are some useful links (I've repeated one from the article because it's really good).
(2) Tests when making long-term marketing decisions, for example suppose you are optimizing your ROI by varying website design - font, colors, spacing, order of items on menus etc.
False positives are a major problem here, so you must use big sample sizes and check results by repeating your experiments.
In this case, suppose you choose from 20 shades of blue for your buttons and decide #19 is better than the others. But that's a mistake and the truth is that all the shades all similarly good, and #19 was only the winner by chance. But you believe the test and standardize on this shade of blue.
There's a huge downside here, long term, because you've reduced your designers' freedom to produce a good-looking website, for no good reason. Do this enough times, on all the tiny attributes of your website, and it's going to look worse and perform worse.
In this use case, "false positives", where you think a decision had a beneficial effect on ROI when in fact it makes no difference, can be really bad, so you need to use great care and big samples.
The following link seems pretty good for use case 2 (PDF):
Thanks for that lengthy, and well-written addition!
I agree with your distinction. A lot of the off-the-cuff marketing falls into category 1), so you may not have to worry about the stats every time.
But I think mistakes with category 2) happen all of the time. We *think* we know when one test outperforms - and that belief is encouraged by analytics and ad platforms. (For this reason, I never let FB or LI optimize which ad to show).
So a 2 second review of your results using Evan Miller's calculators can at least help us to question 'obvious' results in a good way.
That Qubit link is great. Aanother useful talk is Jason Cohen's video about A/A testing - and why testing '41 shades of blue' is pretty much always a bad idea.
Great article - thanks for writing!
I personally believe that where most testers go wrong with AB Testing are;
1) Stopping the test after getting the result they want to see, far too quickly
2) Not running AB Tests which solve issues visitors are experiencing
3) Not understanding that you should test big changes to reach the optimal result sooner and test small changes to understand what content makes various desired effects
There are also other things users can do to get more traffic into a page which doesnt receive much, such as linking to it from a busier page or, as you mentioned, invest in paid traffic to the desired page.
Totally agree Daniel.
I think the initial approach in A/B testing - well MY initial approach anyway - was to test and change things that were easy. Button color, copy, etc.
What I now realize is that a lot of the 'winners' in those tests were illusory - and the button color really didn't matter.
Big changes, however, produce much better results - and not always good ones. Which is why we really need a/b tests!


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I'm fascinated by obscure female singers. Claire Austin is one. As far as I know, she recorded only three albums in the mid-1950s, two of them rare. I have one of them (the not-very-rare one): Claire Austin Sings "When Your Lover Has Gone". It's astonishingly good, mostly because Austin has a clear, cheerful, Peggy Lee-like (but a little lower) voice. She was from Yakima, Washington. From a brief Wikipedia article: "She played in nightclubs throughout the northwest in the 1930s, toured with the Chuck Austin Band in the 1940s across the U.S. She had retired from professional singing by the early 1950s, and was working as an accountant for the state of California in West Sacramento[.]" Apparently she sang a little later, but never recorded after the mid-fifties; she died in 1994.
The lyricist of "The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)", on the other hand, is not obscure. (The music songwriter, Basil Adlam, is a little bit obscure, true.) Billy Rose had a hand in writing or co-writing the lyrics for "Me and My Shadow", "It's Only a Paper Moon", "More Than You Know", "Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?", and many others. Billy Rose also was a nightclub owner, a Broadway producer, married Fanny Brice, appeared on the cover of Time, etc etc. "The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)" originally appeared in Ziegfeld Follies of 1934.
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That's extremely of its period, but I liked it. She had a lovely voice, and I liked the horn performance.
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Very loud horn!
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Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Jim Jarmusch, and Little Steven are among those who have sung his praises. His album, American Ride, won "Best Rock Album of the Year" at the Independent Music Awards. It appeared on over one hundred year-end Top Ten lists for 2013 and Bono called it, "One of the great guides to unraveling the mystery that is the troubled beauty of America."
In November 2014 he released an album of piano-based songs, If I Was A River, to universal critical acclaim. "One of the most brilliant singer-songwriters of the past thirty years" said The New Yorker. No Depression raved "Willie Nile's artistic renaissance continues unabated."
His 2016 album World War Willie appeared on numerous year end top ten lists as did hid his live shows. As American Songwriter said "Nile cranks up the volume and tears into these tunes with the same hunger, passion and exuberance he displays in his legendary sweat-soaked shows." World War Willie was voted "Album Of The Year" by Twangville Magazine and the song Forever Wild was named "Coolest Song In The World" by Little Steven's Underground Garage.
"Better than most performers have to offer by far." -- Rolling Stone
"Clash/Social Distortion meets Pete Seeger…a true master songwriter!" – Hits
"Willie's so good I can't believe he's not from New Jersey!" – Little Steven
"Crossing the power of the Clash with the social consciousness of Woody Guthrie…he's stronger than ever!" – The Morton Report
"Wllie Nile is a great artist. If there was any justice in this world, I'd be opening up for him instead of him for me." Lucinda Williams
The epitome of real, true American rock 'n' roll!" – Pop Matters
"He's a rocker's rocker, protégé of the famous." -- USA Today
"A man who embodies the true spirit of rock n' roll." - London Times
"RIVETING!...Springsteen, Mellencamp, Van Morrison…Willie Nile has earned his standing in that esteemed company! – Blurt


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Aerials brought a furry friend in for our Time Off Magazine – "The Guide" section cover shoot this week….no we don't mean their guitarist :p
Read about them in this week's issue #1630.
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SOURCE: Freddie Mac
August 04, 2014 09:46 ET
MCLEAN, VA--(Marketwired - Aug 4, 2014) - Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today announced a new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates ("K Certificates"), backed exclusively by LIBOR-based, floating rate multifamily mortgages with five- and seven-year terms. The company expects to offer approximately $1.2 billion in K Certificates ("K-F04 Certificates"), which are expected to price the week of August 4, 2014, and settle on or about August 25, 2014. This is Freddie Mac's ninth K Certificate offering this year. The company also reached an important milestone of securitizing more than $80 billion in multifamily mortgages through its K-Deal program.
"Achieving $80 billion in K-Deal securitizations is an important milestone for us," said Mitchell Resnick, vice president of Freddie Mac Multifamily Capital Markets. "We've gone from issuing two K-Deals in our first year to 19 last year, and have grown the investor base."
Resnick added, "Since the program's inception in 2009, we have financed over 4,400 properties and 1.2 million units, the majority of which are affordable. While we continue to finance and help preserve an adequate supply of rental housing, we also employ a business strategy that shifts the majority of risk away from the taxpayer by selling it to private investors."
The K-F04 Certificates are backed by recently originated floating rate multifamily mortgages. The K-F04 Certificates will be offered to the market by a syndicate of dealers led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as co-lead managers and joint bookrunners. Barclays Capital Inc., CastleOak Securities, L.P., Jefferies LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC will serve as co-managers.
The K-F04 Certificates will not be rated and include one senior principal and interest class and one interest only class. The K-F04 Certificates are backed by corresponding classes from the FREMF 2014-KF04 Mortgage Trust ("K-F04 Trust"). The K-F04 Trust will also issue class B, C and R certificates, which will be subordinate to the classes backing the K-F04 Certificates and will not be guaranteed by Freddie Mac.
Freddie Mac is a leading issuer of agency-guaranteed structured multifamily securities. K Certificates feature a wide range of investor options with stable cash flows and a structured credit enhancement. K-Deals typically include guaranteed senior principal and interest, and interest only classes.
The preliminary offering circular supplement relating to the K-F04 Certificates can be found at http://www.freddiemac.com/mbs/data/kf04oc.pdf. A Freddie Mac multifamily investor presentation on the K Certificate deal structure and multifamily loan portfolio performance data is available at FreddieMac.com. Freddie Mac also has an online tool for investors and analysts, Multifamily Securities Investor Access. This is a central database that houses all post-securitization data from Investor Reporting Packages to help investors and analysts monitor K-Deal performance.
This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements, which incorporate Freddie Mac's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 27, 2014; all other reports Freddie Mac filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") since December 31, 2013, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K; and all documents that Freddie Mac files with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c) or 14 of the Exchange Act, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K.
Freddie Mac's press releases sometimes contain forward-looking statements. A description of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in these and other forward-looking statements can be found in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, and its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, filed with the SEC and available on the Investor Relations page of the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors and the SEC's Web site at www.sec.gov.
Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Today Freddie Mac is making home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Additional information is available at FreddieMac.com, Twitter @FreddieMac and Freddie Mac's blog FreddieMac.com/blog.
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It was reported on the BBC News website on March 12th 2013 that Google is paying nearly $15m (£10.1m) in bonuses to four of its top executives for their performances in 2012.
Executive chairman and former boss Eric Schmidt will get $6m - the largest reward. The rest of the money will go to its top lawyer, chief financial officer and chief business officer. Lawyer David Drummond is getting $3m, while Patrick Pichette and Nikesh Arora are to receive $2.8m each, the company said in regulatory filings.
Meanwhile, Google has been criticised for its tax avoidance schemes, which the company openly acknowledges. Google's UK unit paid just £6m to the Treasury in 2011 on UK turnover of £395m, according to the Telegraph.
Google operates its European business out of a favourable tax jurisdiction - the Republic of Ireland - chosen due to its favourable 12.5% corporation tax rate.
The rights to the company's non-US intellectual property rights are owned in the tax haven of Bermuda, in order to minimise its costs.
The bonuses announcement came on the same day Google agreed to pay a $7m fine in the US for collecting people's personal data without authorisation as part of its Street View service. As well as agreeing to delete all the harvested data, Google has also been required to launch an employee training program about privacy and data use which it must continue for at least ten years. It must also launch a public service advertising campaign to education consumers about how to secure their information on wireless networks.
The bonuses mean that Google will receive a mark in our Anti Social Finance category in our forthcoming product guide to e-readers and e-books.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - An elderly American missionary who was stabbed to death last week in Haiti was a generous man who dedicated his life to the impoverished country after a devastating 2010 earthquake, churchgoers and friends recalled at a memorial service on Wednesday.
George Knoop, an elder with the Quisqueya Chapel, was attacked inside his home by an unknown assailant in the Delmas suburb of the Haitian capital on May 13.
After the attack, the 77-year-old former Chicago-area teacher managed to place a cellphone call for help but was unable to speak, said Charles Ronald, 28, who was Knoop's roommate for two years.
Friends rushed to his house and found him on the floor in a pool of blood.
""I studied the Bible with him and he helped me a lot. He was generous, helping people, paying for their school, their rents, their food," Ronald said.
During the memorial friends took the microphone to pay tribute, standing next to the Haitian and United States flags.
"We all know how special he was, a beautiful person. He loved to pray," said another roommate, Andy Ripp. "I'm sad but happy because I know now he's in deep sleep with God."
The motive for the stabbing is unknown and no suspects have been arrested, according to police. Some media reports have said that a knife was recovered at the scene.
Knoop also worked in Haiti as a volunteer in Haiti sorting mail and packages for Florida-based Missionary Flights International, a group of pilots who fly Christian charity missions to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.
Joe Karabensh, a senior vice president with the group, said Knoop moved to Haiti after hearing at his church about the Haiti's earthquake.
"He sold everything he had and moved down to Haiti," Karabensh said. "He heard about the desperate need in Haiti and felt God wanted him there."
He said Knoop taught Bible classes and mentored young men. Knoop was divorced and did not have children.
(This version of the story corrects Knoop's age to 77 in paragraph three.)
(Additional reporting by Kevin Gray; Editing by David Adams, Cynthia Osterman and Eric Walsh)


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A General purpose image processing toolkit written in C++ based on ITK, VTK, Qt, and Boost. Main features: algorithms for cell segmentation, cell tracing, cell tracking, and vessel tracing. Registration and mosaicing algorithms for large scale datasets. Visualization tools actively linked to inspect and edit results.
- Open-source, free, multi platform, code is highly parallelized, uses git for version control
- Large scale processing, also efficient visualization of such datasets.
- Active learning module for classification
- Most of the algorithms have been extended to handle 16-bit images, and 3D Images.
- Possibility to create complex pipelines thanks to it's modular architecture
- Editing tools are designed to save the editing operation which can later be used to validate the algorithms performance
- Advance preprocessing algorithms like curvelets, tensor voting, and wrappers around ITK-algorithms
- Multiple viewers included to inspect results such as: Histograms, scatter plots, tables, kymograph, all of them linked together.
- Strong emphasis to work on multichannel images (up to 40 channels)
- Rich number of cell features included
- GUI is suboptimal compared to commercial packages.
- Tracking module requires an external library CPLEX.
- No support for brightfield images
- No native interoperability with other software packages
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While we have made every effort to provide some of the supplies necessary for workshops, we need participants to gather some of their own tools and supplies as well. Our generous vendors are helping as much as they can, but to keep costs reasonable and to make sure you are using clay compatible with your own firing practices, please bring the materials related to your workshop(s).
RAKU – Sue Jensen, Maya Blume-Cantrell and Jo Taylor - Saturday 5:00-8:00 PM
- Bring one piece made of raku clay (no porcelain: the rapid heating and cooling during firing is likely to stress fine clay bodies. Make sure your piece is made of a low-fire, heavily grogged clay) that is already bisqued, no bigger than 5" in any direction. We are NOT providing pre-made pieces!
- If you have a favorite raku glaze you would like to share, please bring about a quart or half-gallon, along with a sample of a piece (or glaze sample) you have made with it, and the formula or recipe.
- We wil set up an early glazing station at the conference center on Saturday afternoon at the hotel. At 4 PM, we have a volunteer willing to take pre-glazed pieces out to AUM for pre-heating.
- Bring some brushes!
DIVIDED DISHES - Chandra DeBuse Saturday 10:00 & Sunday 9:00
- Banding wheel or lazy-susan turntable
- 8" x 10" (or larger) craft foam
- Needle tool
- Sharpie Marker
- Scissors suitable for cutting fabric
- Cut off wire
- Throwing sponge
- Rolling pin
- Metal rib
- Spray bottle
THROWING - Chris Greenman Sunday 9:00
- 8-10 lbs of clay
- Basic clay tools, including a cutting wire
- Texture tools
- Ware board for transporting works
CUPS - Didem Mert Friday 2:00
- Banding wheel or lazy-susan turntable
- Metal ruler
- Round cookie cutters
- Needle tool
- Shear form
- Throwing sponge
- Metal rib
- X-acto knife
- 7" square drywall board
OUTDOOR TILES - Sartorius Friday 3:00
- Walking Shoes
SGRAFFITO - Larry Allen Friday 10:00 and Sunday 11:00
- Banding wheel or lazy-susan turntable
- Sgraffito tools
STAMPS - Margaret Barber Sunday 11:00
- Bring small items to create texture on clay and some sort of pencil or tool to create designs in clay
- If you wish to make a mold of an actual object, it cannot have undercuts, and it must be smaller than 1" in diameter and no bigger than 1/2" tall. A good example is a button.
BRICKS - Meredith Knight Saturday 3:00
- Dinner table knives will be provided.
- Bring your own loop tools, Exacto Knife, Flat head Screw Driver, and any other tool you think would work.
MAYCO Color - Robin Metz Sunday 11:00
- Carving tools
- Small paint brushes
- Any Mayco Stoke & Coat favorite you want to experiment with!
SLIP TRAILING - Stacy Morgan Saturday 11:00
- Water soluable washable Crayola marker, fine tip
- Wareboard to transfer work home
- A 6" wet slab of clay of your choosing, wrapped in plastic