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We just enabled 325,000 merchants to sell in messaging, without building a bot.
Our team at Shopify has been working on "conversational commerce" for about year now. On Oct 5th, we launched the ability for hundreds of thousands of Shopify merchants to get their products into chat threads and sell directly to their customers through Facebook Messenger. Check it out:
While we were thrilled to get some awesome press coverage, a part of the story that many got wrong was that Shopify had built a bot. We didn't. In the experience you see above, there's no natural language processing, AI, or even character in the responses. Hardly a bot.
We did something subtly different, but powerful: we simply enabled a merchant's product catalogue to exist richly inside of Messenger, and then we got out of the way.
As much as we love the innovation happening in the conversational commerce space, our opinion today is that bots are not the right medium to drive it forward. Instead, we believe that fostering great human conversations between businesses and customers is the right approach.
To unbundle how we got to that line of thinking, it's good to start from the beginning. Our team's exploration of conversational commerce started a year ago with a simple premise, which I'm sharing verbatim from an internal doc I wrote just after we got started:
Commerce is a deeply human behaviour that our species has been doing since the dawn of civilization, and for millennia things have generally stayed the same: people walked into stores and then bought things.
Then a few decades ago, the internet happened and now we rarely go into a store unless we have to. As consumers, we've saved a lot of time, gained more product selection, and received cheaper prices as a result, but something we've lost was the intimacy with a business that we used to have: that interaction with a shopkeeper, whom we shared our needs with and then relied on to find us the right products.
Although the growth of online shopping has been tremendous, we have failed to bring back that intimacy into the user experience. In fact, as good as we've become at designing shopping websites and apps, we really haven't evolved beyond a simple digitization of the Sears catalogue.
Messaging enables us to rekindle the conversations we used to have with businesses, and recapture that lost intimacy.
The key insight of the premise is that conversational commerce is not something new that we have to teach people to do; it's something natural that we took away with the rise of online shopping.
This being Shopify, the thing we did next was to build some shit, in the form a hack days project on the concept. We used Facebook Messenger as the exploration canvas but this was way before the Messenger Platform even existed, so basically we made it all up using animation prototypes.
Exploration #1: Getting into a thread with a business should be seamless and in context.
Exploration #2: When asked a product question by customer, a business would need quick access to their product catalogues so they could easily respond.
Exploration #3: Since messaging a business still isn't a common thing, we need a better way to foster conversations.
Aside from being hella cool at the time, the discussions and research from the hack days taught us something. Even though online shopping had suppressed our natural commerce-conversation behaviours, people were still finding a way to do it. They were doing it through Facebook comments on a business page, through email back and forth with the business, through messaging friends for advice, and by sharing links.
We recognized then that our work in conversational commerce should be less about prescribing the conversation, and more about enabling it. What "enabling it" actually meant, was facilitating the entire customer journey inside of messaging.
This customer journey became our roadmap:
- Discover — We need a way to get people into conversations.
- Converse — The biggest one, we need a way for both customers and businesses to have rich commerce conversations so they can agree on the right product.
- Buy — We need to facilitate a transaction.
- Support — We need a way to keep an order context in chat after the purchase has been made, in case the customer has a problem or needs to be notified of a change.
In Shopify parlance, we set out to draw the owl. To be honest, at the time we really had no idea how to actually achieve this because the messaging platforms weren't yet public. Around December 2015, we formally partnered with the Messenger team to make something happen, and got access to some of their private SDKs, as well as explored other technologies we could leverage.
Since the beginning of this year, we've launched a set of products that at first glance may seem like experiments or small features, but upon closer inspection were really all pieces towards enabling the conversational commerce journey.
Feb 22nd, 2016 —We launched Shopkey, an iOS keyboard that gives Shopify businesses their product catalogue in their pocket.
The impact to the customer journey:
Businesses could now seamlessly access their shop from their pocket, and the coolest thing was that as an OS-level keyboard, they could do this in any messaging app and even email.
As cool as this was, we felt this feature only gave us 50% progress on the "Converse" part of the journey, since it only the business had access their products, the customer had no way to browse them on their end.
April 12th, 2016 — We launched Messenger Channel at F8, enabling businesses to start conversations with customers by sending them order receipts and delivery notifications in Messenger.
The impact to the customer journey:
This clearly gave us a check mark on the "Support" section of the journey, but also added 50% to the "Discover" section because it created a chat thread with existing customers, who often used it as a starting point for their next purchase. The downside was still that there was no great way for a new customer to enter into a conversation.
May 30th, 2016 — We quietly shipped a feature that enabled businesses to embed a "Message Us" button onto their online stores
The impact to the customer journey:
This bumped up "Discover" to green since it finally enabled new potential customers to have their first transaction with a business go through messaging.
Oct 5, 2016 — We launched the ability to shop in Messenger.
Customers can now access a Shopify business' products in Messenger, share them with friends, and checkout via web-view from the app.
The impact to the customer journey:
This completed the second half of the "Converse" part of the journey by also enabling customers to explore and bring up products in conversations. It also made progress on the payments front, but the experience can still be improved so we're leaving that at yellow for now.
A complete journey, if still imperfect
Those four product launches collectively completed the customer journey we had set out to build nine months prior. In retrospect, it's crazy to reflect on how close some of our earliest — completely made up – hack days ideas came to fruition, and that's exactly what I was doing when I wrote this tweet on launch day:
Our team isn't close to done, we will continue to dive deeper into rekindling the natural interactions of commerce and conversation. But today, we can confidently say that hundreds of thousands of businesses on Shopify can facilitate an entire customer journey through messaging, and they will do so with their own words.
Only time will tell how both customers and businesses adopt these interactions at scale, but if there's anything that Shopify's product history has taught us, it's that businesses will use the tools you give them in ways that you cannot predict, and will ultimately unlock more potential from them that you ever anticipated.


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And your mother too! I guess that's some sort of fancy Mexican insult. I was always a fan of '¡la tuya!,' but more often than not people didn't realize I was speaking Spanish and just thought I had a speech impediment or a bad case of head trauma. I make light, of course, because this film is so goddamn depressing. I literally couldn't look at my DVD player for a week. I don't know if it was the lingering sadness or the reasonably graphic sex scenes in the film (that are about as sexy as slowly suffocating puppies in a locked car in summertime) that did it, but…
Raw male lust is actually quite ugly when you're faced with it on a realistic level. There's no young, studly gardener sweeping the older woman off her feet into the throws of orgasmic pleasure. There's no swelling music and gauzy canopies. We don't even get the table sweep and mad grappling. What we do see is a desperate woman and two boys who, for all of their experience, are amazingly inept at the things that are thought to make a man a man.
I feel like this movie has been made several times before, but as a teenage sex romp comedy that were so popular in the 80s. Imagine Weird Science with a death obsession and full-frontal male nudity. The plot goes off in several directions as our narrator somberly introduces sorrow at every turn. He breaks into the visual narrative in several places, via voiceover, to tell us about some completely unconnected death, leaving a shroud of gloom over all of the proceedings.
Mixing several film genres (road trip, coming-of-age, buddy, last hoorah), the thing feels a little too mundane for its own good. Despite my hatred of talky Linklater movies, I think this script could have used just a tad more talking, and a little less dead air and pretty pictures–oh, and that whole male nudity thing.
This DVD honestly sat unwatched for quite a while, as reading is always such a challenge after a long day at work. It was long enough that I had forgotten the twist at the end (if I had ever known it), and was actually way off base with my assumptions. I blame it on crappy translation. The lead actress' breast implants didn't exactly help me concentrate. I found myself asking myself every three minutes or so whether she was actually pretty or not. I also found myself wondering when the boys would mention her fake boobs. It never happened. You can see I totally didn't get the message behind the film. Quite honestly I'm not sure exactly what the filmmaker was trying to get across, other than the fact that moody, pathetic characters getting naked and driving the Mexican countryside is apparently all the rage.

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White House says Biden will work with Congress to 're-evaluate' relationship with Saudi Arabia
By Betsy Klein, CNN
President Joe Biden feels that the US' relationship with Saudi Arabia needs to be re-evaluated in the wake of the OPEC+ decision last week to decrease oil production.
In an interview with CNN's Brianna Keilar on "New Day," National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said Biden is "willing to work with Congress as we think about what the right relationship with Saudi Arabia needs to be going forward."
"I think the President's been very clear that this is a relationship that that we need to continue to reevaluate, that we need to be willing to revisit. And certainly in light of the OPEC decision, I think that's where he is, and he's willing to work with Congress to think through what that relationship ought to look like going forward," he said.
The comments came after Keilar pressed Kirby on strong words from Senate Foreign Affairs Chairman Bob Menendez tying the US-Saudi relationship to Russia's war as he argued the US should end the relationship. The New Jersey Democrat called for an immediate freeze in US-Saudi relations after OPEC announced decreasing oil production last week, pledging that he "will not green-light any cooperation with Riyadh until the Kingdom reassesses its position with respect to the war in Ukraine."
The Saudi-led OPEC+ oil cartel announced last week it would cut output by 2 million barrels per day. The decision by the grouping of major oil producers rebuffed heavy lobbying from US administration officials and prompted Biden to say he was concerned about the move. It reversed a small increase in output OPEC+ announced shortly after Biden visited Saudi Arabia for a conference in July.
Earlier this year, Biden announced a major release of barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to alleviate pump prices. On Tuesday, the White House said it was not considering additional releases beyond the 180 million previously announced.
But after OPEC+ announced its decision on Wednesday, the White House said Biden would "continue to direct SPR releases as necessary," apparently cracking open the door again to potential releases.
Another top Senate Democrat, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, said Tuesday that Saudi Arabia "clearly" wants Russia to win the war in Ukraine and told CNN's John Berman on 'New Day': "Let's be very candid about this: it is Putin and Saudi Arabia against the United States."
"I think it's time for us to imagine a foreign policy where we do not count on Saudi Arabia," Durbin said, calling the OPEC+ decision to slash oil production "as clear a declaration by the Saudis that they are on the other side of history as we can ask for."
When asked what he's heard from the White House about his and Menendez's latest push, "I have not heard. I'm not going to manufacture something here. I can just tell you that the sentiment in the Senate is strong in terms of what the Saudi Arabians have done, this notion that they're going to raise our gasoline prices and we're supposed to look the other way and call them good old boys. To heck with that. I mean, this is a terrible regime. It is a kingdom in the 21st century that shouldn't be out of business."
Durbin said he is glad Biden tried to reach out to the Saudis to show that the United States was willing to sit down with them, but Durbin said ultimately, Biden's "little fist bump there, it wasn't worth anything," adding, "I don't believe we can trust them in the future when it comes to the key elements and security interests in the United States."
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Gart Westerhout was born 15 June 1927 in The Hague, The Netherlands. He was the son of Gart Westerhout, an architect, and Magda Foppe, an author. His interest in astronomy dates from when his father designed a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients who could gaze at constellations while lying on their backs. Prompted by reading several popular books about astronomy, he became a student at Leiden University in 1945. In early 1950 he started research in radio astronomy, working with Jan Hendrik Oort on a model of the Galactic continuum radiation (Westerhout and Oort 1951, BAN 11, 323), and then became heavily involved in the first 21-cm Galactic hydrogen-line studies carried out with the Kootwijk Wurzburg antenna. In 1954 he had a five-month stint of military service that was cut short when Oort convinced the State Council that his work was indispensable to the Observatory. In 1955 he and Maarten Schmidt developed the first detailed 21-cm map of the Milky Way that showed the first hints of spiral structure in the interstellar gas, revealed differential rotation in our Galaxy, and established a revised Galactic coordinate system still in use today. After 1956, using the Dwingeloo 25-meter radio telescope, Westerhout worked on a major 75-cm survey (Seeger, Westerhout, Conway, Hoekema 1965: BAN 18, 11), and carried out early work on polarization of the Galactic background radiation. He used the Dwingeloo antenna to produce the "Westerhout Radio Catalog" that eventually identified 79 sources that were continuum emitters including some of the largest star formation regions in the Milky Way. During these exciting times at Leiden he was among the youngest in a pioneering group of his contemporaries that included Hendrik van de Hulst, Hugo van Woerden, C. Lex Muller, Maarten Schmidt, Lodewijk Woltjer, and Charles L. Seeger, Jr. (son of the ethnomusicologist and brother of Pete Seeger). Other students included Wim Brouw, Mike Davis, Ernst Raimond, Whitney Shane and Jaap Tinbergen. While at Leiden University, he held the posts of Assistant (1952–56), Scientific Officer (1956–59), and Chief Scientific Officer (1959–62). He was awarded Physics and Astronomy degrees from the University of Leiden: Cand. (1950) and Drs. (1954) and was awarded a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Physics in 1958. At his first IAU General Assembly, at Dublin in 1955, Gart met Judith Monaghan, who worked at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; they fell in love and were married a year later.
Westerhout came to the US in 1962 as Professor and Director of Astronomy at the University of Maryland where, during the next 15 years, he grew a 12-graduate-student department into one of the nation's prominent astronomy programs. In 1972, Dr. Westerhout organized the University of Maryland's division of mathematical, physical and engineering sciences and was named its head the next year. He continued his research with a 21-cm survey that used the 91-m radio telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to extend to higher angular resolution our knowledge of Galactic structure. He often flew a rented plane between Maryland and Green Bank with his programmer, Heinz Wendtland. He continued at Maryland in that role through 1973, with additional responsibilities from 1972-73 as Chairman of the Division of Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Engineering. He was a Visiting Astronomer at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany in 1973-74.
From 1977-1993 he left the University of Maryland to become the Scientific Director of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington DC. While there, he guided the evolution of that observatory toward astronomical data obtained from telescopes at the Flagstaff station. He initiated the radio astrometry in 1979 by using the Green Bank interferometer to improve the absolute positions of celestial objects by a factor of ten over the optical. It yielded measurements of the Earth orientation parameter UT1 that were a factor of four better than the PZTs. In the 1980s, he converted to VLBI, again increasing the precision by a factor of ten. Again in the 1980s he looked into the use of optical long base line astrometry for absolute positions. This now achieves about an order of magnitude precision over other ground-based measurement but is not as precise as space-based measurements. Again in the 1980s, he introduced the use of CCDs at Flagstaff's parallax program that supplanted the use of optical plates, improving the precision by a factor of five. He was responsible for a major expansion of the organization and construction of a network of five radio telescopes from Florida to Hawaii that measured the rotation of the Earth. Westerhout retired in 1993.
Gart Westerhout was an amiable and affable man, a great and noble man, with an exceptional sense of humor and an infectious laugh. We wore a bow tie and had flamboyance seldom found among his academic colleagues. In his early career he smoked cigars, a signature identification. He and Judith became American citizens in 1969. They loved to entertain, and their friendships went far beyond his profession. He was an avid O-gauge model railroader and maintained a detailed layout that took up most of the basement space in his home. He was a communicant of St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church in Hampden.
Westerhout was a member of numerous astronomical organizations, including the Dutch Astronomical Society, International Astronomical Union (Commissions 33, 34, 40, 24 & 5), American Astronomical Society (Councilor 1975-78 & Vice President 1985-87), Royal Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, International Scientific Radio Union (URSI), and Sigma Xi.
He contributed his scientific and management expertise widely, for example to IAU, National Science Foundation (NSF), AAS, National Research Council, Associated Universities Inc., Inter-Union Committee for the Allocation of Frequencies (IUCAF), URSI, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, MPIfR, MIT's Haystack Observatory, Arecibo Observatory, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Westerhout's awards and special recognition included a NATO Fellowship, a CSIRO (Australia) Fellowship, an Award for the Teaching of Science, Washington Academy of Sciences, Humboldt Prize, and listings in: Outstanding Educators of America, American Men and Women in Science, and Who's Who in America.
Westerhout was the author of more than 70 scientific papers, reviews and reports. In recognition of his life's work, Minor Planet 5105, discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell, was renamed Minor Planet Westerhout in 1991.
Gart Westerhout died of congestive heart failure on October 14, 2012, at the age of 85 in his home at the Charlestown Retirement Community, Apt BR 502, 715 Maiden Choice Lane, Catonsville, MD 21228. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, the former Judith Monaghan of Catonsville, Maryland; two daughters, Magda Westerhout Mobley of Roland Park and Brigit Molony of Catonsville; and two sons, Gart Thomas Westerhout in Osugi, Japan, and Julian Westerhout in Bloomington, IL, six grandchildren, and one sister, Marianne Thunnissen in The Netherlands. Dr. Westerhout had lived for three decades in Adelphi before moving to Baltimore and later to Catonsville.
Donations in Gart's name may be made online or by post to: Educational Projects, American Astronomical Society, 2000 Florida Ave., NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009-1231.
Papers published in refereed journals
Astronomy research
"A Comparison of the Intensity Distribution of Radio-Frequency Radiation with a Model of the Galactic System," (with J. H. Oort), Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 11, 323, 1951.
"The Rotation of the Inner Parts of the Galactic System," (with K. K. Kwee and C. A. Muller), Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 12, 211, 1954.
"Search for Polarization of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A at 22 cm Wavelength," Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 12, 309,1956.
"The Flux Densities of some Radio Sources at 400 Mc/s," (with C. L. Seeger and H. C. van de Hulst), Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 13, 89, 1956.
"Continuous Radiation from the Direction of the Galactic Centre at 22 cm," Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 13, 105, 1956.
"A Catalogue of 21-cm Line Profiles," (with C. A. Muller), Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 13, 151, 1957.
"The Distribution of Atomic Hydrogen in the Outer Parts of the Galactic System," Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 13, 201, 1957.
"Observations of Occulations of the Crab Nebula by the Moon at 400 Mc/s," (with C. L. Seeger), Bull Astron. Inst. Neth., 13, 312, 1957.
"Intensites Relatives des Quatre Principales Radiosources Observees sur la Longueur d'Onde 22 cm; Note sur la Radiosource Saggittarius A", Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 245, 35, 1957.
"Observations of Discrete Sources, the Coma Cluster, the Moon, and the Andromeda Nebula at a Wavelength of 75 cm.," (with C. L. Seeger and R. G. Conway), Astrophys. J., 126, 585, 1957.
"A Survey of the Continuous Radiation from the Galactic System at a Frequency of 1390 Mc/s," Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 14, 215, 1958.
"Note on the Density of Ionized Hydrogen in the Galactic System," Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 14, 261, 1958.
"The Galactic System as a Spiral Nebula," (with J. H. Oort and F. J. Kerr), Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 118, 379, 1958.
"The New I.A.U. System of Galactic Coordinates," (with A. Blaauw, C. S. Gum and J. L. Pawsey), Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 121, 123, 1960.
"A 21-cm Determination of the Principal Plane of the Galaxy," (with C. S. Gum and F. J. Kerr), Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., 121, 132, 1960.
"Die Durchmusterung Der Milchstrasse Und Die Quellendurchmusterung Bei 2.7 Gllz," (with W. Altenhoff, P. G. Mezger and H. Wendker), Veroffentl. Sternwarte 59, Bonn, November 1961.
"The Polarization of the Galactic 75-cm Radiation," (with C. L. Seeger, W. N. Brouw and J. Tinbergen), Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 16, 187, 1962.
"The Structure of the Galaxy from Radio Observations," I.E.E.E. Trans., AP-12, 954, 1964.
"A Survey of the Continuous Radiation at 400 Mc/s," (with C. L. Seeger, R. G. Conway and T. Hoekema), Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 18, 11, 1965.
"A Catalogue of Discrete Sources Observed at 400 Mc/s," (with M. M. Davis and L. Gelato-Volders), Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth., 18, 42, 1965.
"21-cm Line Emission in Open Clusters," (with W. E. Howard and C. Gordon), Astrophys. J., 154, 103, 1968.
"The Maryland – Green Bank Galactic 21-cm Line Survey" (with H.-U.Wendlandt), Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 49, 143, 1982.
"Telescope Beam Characteristics and Temperature Scale of the Maryland- Green Bank 21-cm Line Survey" (with G.L.Mader and R.H.Harten), Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 49, 137, 1982.
"Astrometry and Precise Time", with G.M.R.Winkler, Oceanus 33, 89–95. 1991
Instrumentation or techniques
"Table for the Reduction of Velocities to the Local Standard of Rest" (with D. A. MacRae), The Observatory, Lund, Sweden, 1956.
"A Method for Accurately Compensating for the Effects of the Error Beam of the NRAO 300-foot Radio Telescope at 21-cm Wavelength," (with H.-U. Wendlandt and R. H. Harten), Astron. J., 78, 569, 1973.
"Hydrogen 21-cm Line Temperature scale", (with R.H.Harten and F.J.Kerr), Astron.J., 80, 307, 1975
Papers presented at scientific meetings
Invited papers
"Kosmische Bronnen Van Radiostraling," (with H. C. van de Hulst), Sterr. Coll. Ned. Astr. Club., 13, 1956.
"A 21-cm Line Survey of the Outer Parts of the Galaxy," In IAU Symp. 4, ch. 5, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1957.
"Progress Report on 21-cm Research by the Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy and the Leiden Observatory," In IAU Symp 4, ch. 4, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1957.
"Galactic Radiation and its Physical Interpretation", Introductory Report, Comm. V, URSI 13th General Assembly, London, 1960.
"A Summary of our Knowledge of the Neutral Hydrogen in Galaxies", In Problems of Extra-Galactic Research, McMillan and Co., New York, 1962.
"Current Radio Astronomical Research in the Netherlands", Proc.I.R.E. Austr., 24, 214, 1963.
"The Interpretation of Recent 21-cm Line Data in Terms of Large-Scale Galactic Structure," IAU Symp. 20, Australia, 1963.
"Observation and Interpretation of Optical and Radio Polarization," IAU Symp. 20, Australia, 1963.
"Three Years of Galactic Radio Astronomy," Proc. of URSI General Assembly, Tokyo, 1963.
"Brightness Temperatures Expected for a Radio Telescope with High Resolving Power," In Proc. OECD Symp. on Large Antennae, Paris, 1963.
"Site Requirements," In Proc. OECD Symp. on Large Antennae, Paris, 1963.
"The Early History of Radio Astronomy", In International Conference on Education in and History of Modern Astronomy, ed. R. Berendzen, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 198, 211, 1972.
"Some Remarks on the Ideal Automated Observatory," In NRAO/IEEE/URSI Symp. on the Collection and Analysis of Astrophysical Data, ed. R. Burns, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., 15, 327, 1974.
"The Influence of Acquisition Techniques on the Compilation of Astronomical Data", in IAU Colloquium 35 on Data Compilation, Strasbourg 1976, ed. Jaschek and Wilkins, Reidel, Dordrecht, Astrophys. and Space Sc. Lib 64, 49, 1977
"Future Development in U.S. Naval Observatory Time Services",Proc. 9th Ann. PTTI meeting, NASA Tech. Mem. 78104, 1, 1978
"Radio Astrometry and Other Accurate Astrometry Plans at the U.S. Naval Observatory", ESA Colloquium on European Satellite Astrometry, Padua, Ed. C.Barbiery and P.L.Bernacca, Universita di Padova 1979
"Space Astrometry – its Impact on Astronomy and Astrophysics", Highlights of Astronomy Vol.5, 779, Ed. P.A.Wayman, Reidel Dordrecht 1980
"Early Dutch Radio Astronomy", URSI General Assembly Comm. J, Washington 1981, Ed. W.T.Sullivan (not published).
"The Pioneers of HI", in "Seeing through the Dust", eds. A.R.Taylor, T.L.Landecker, A.G.Willis, Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf.Ser. 276, 3, 2002
"The Start of 21-cm line Research: the Early Dutch Years", in "Seeing Through the Dust", eds. A.R.Taylor, T.L.Landecker, A.G.Willis, Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf.Ser. 276, 3, 2002
Contributed papers
"75-cm and 22-cm Continuum Surveys," In IAU Symp. 9, ch. 80, Stanford Univ. Press, 1959.
"75-cm Galactic Background Polarization: Progress Report," (with W. N. Brouw, C. A. Muller and J. Tinbergen), Astron. J., 67, 590, 1962.
"Radio Studies of HII Regions and Galactic Structure," (with M. Komesaroff), IAU Symp. 20, Australia, 1963.
"Galactic 21-cm Iine Observations at Green Bank," Astron. J., 69, 152, 1964.
"Preliminary Observations of 21-cm Line Emission in Open Clusters," (with W. E. Howard), Astron. J., 70, 688, 1965 (Abstract).
"The Maryland-Green Bank Galactic 21-cm Line Survey'", IAU Symp. 31, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 173, Acad. Press, 1967.
"A Motion Picture Film of Galactic 21-cm Line Emission," IAU Symp. 38, paper 19, ed. G. Contopoulos and R. Becker), Reidel, Dordrecht, 1970.
"A High-Resolution Polarization Survey of the North Polar Spur," (with D. Bechis), ln IAU Symp. 60, ed. F. J. Kerr and S. C. Simonson, Springer Verlag, 1974.
"Progress Report on the Maryland-Green Bank Galactic 21-cm Line Survey, In IAU Symp. 60, ed. F. J. Kerr and S. C. Simonson, Springer Verlag, 1974.
"The U.S.Naval Observatory Parallax Program" (with R.H.Harrington), Bull. d'Inf. Centre de Donnees Stell. 20, 24, 1981
"Data on Time and Polar Motion: Immediate Accessibility" (with D.D.McCarthy), I.A.U. Colloq. 64, Automated Data Retrieval in Astronomy, Strasbourg, Ed. C.Jaschek, Reidel Dordrecht, 1982
"U.S.Naval Observatory Parallaxes and the Fundamental Reference Frame – their Interaction with Hipparcos" (with J.A.Hughes), ESA Colloquium on Space Astrometry, Strasbourg 1982
"Concluding Remarks," in IAU Symposium 109, Astrometric Techniques, H.K. Eichhorn and R. J. Leacock (eds), Reidel Dordrecht, 799–803, 1986
"Fricke's Influence on the World of Astronomy," Celestial Mechanics 37, 345–348, 1985
"The USNO/CALTECH Measuring Program" (with D. Monet), Bull d'Information du CDS 37, 75–78, 1989
"Concluding Remarks," Bull d'Information du CDS 37, 91–92, 1989
"Astrometry: New Vitality for an Ancient Science," Aerospace America 27, No. 10, 34–37, 1989
"The Flagstaff Measuring Machine" (with D. Monet), in IAU Symposium 141, Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky, J.H.Lieske and V.K.Abalakin, Eds., Kluwer Dordrecht 1990
"Concluding Remarks", in IAU Symposium 141, Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky, J.H.Lieske and V.K.Abalakin, Eds, Kluwer Dordrecht, 1990
Books or contributions to edited books
"The Radio Galaxy," Sci. Am., 201, 45, 1959.
"The Mapping of the Galaxy, in Tomorrow was Yesterday, C.B.S., George Braziller, New York, 1964.
"Distribution of Interstellar Hydrogen," (with F. J. Kerr), ch. 8, in Stars and Stellar Systems, vol. 5, p. 166, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965
"Radio Emission of the Galaxy," Comm. 40 report, IAU Trans. XII A, Acad. Press, 1965.
"Galactic Radio Astronomy," Comm. 40 reports on Astronomy, lAU Trans. XIVA, 460, Reidel, Dordrecht – Holland, 1970.
"Galactic Radio Emission in the 21-cm Line and the Continuum," In Galactic Astronomy, ed. H. Y. Chiu and A. Muriel, pp. 147–190, Gordon and Breach, 1971.
Technical reports and others
"The Maryland-Green Bank Galactic 21-cm Line Survey," first edition, University of Maryland, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1966.
"Maryland-Green Bank 21-cm Line Survey," second edition, University of Maryland Astronomy Program, 1969.
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Impeachment Manager Says Trump Attempted Bribery, Can't Explain Why It Isn't in the Articles
The difficult thing about Donald Trump's impeachment for Democrats is that he's not accused of any crime.
Scholars have said this isn't a prerequisite for impeachment and removal, especially given that impeachment is an inherently political act, but it helps when you're trying to convince a skeptical public (not to mention Republican senators) of your case when you can point to an actual felony the president has committed.
Democratic impeachment manager Rep. Jason Crow, however, insists that attempted bribery occurred during President Trump's dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Colorado Democrat just can't explain why that wasn't in the articles of impeachment.
Crow was appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday where he made the case yet again for the Senate calling witnesses ("He has said that his call was a perfect call, he has said that he has done nothing wrong, so let's have the people that are in the best position to confirm that come in and testify before the U.S. Senate") and insisted, as a member of the House Democratic majority that ran the vulgarized, fast-track inquiry, that what they really wanted was fairness in the upper chamber ("The American people deserve a fair trial, so let's have that fair trial").
So far, so repetitive. What really set Crow's appearance apart was his willingness to accuse the president of bribery with a total lack of explanation of why the accusation wasn't in the articles of impeachment.
To be fair, Crow didn't bring it up unprompted. "State of the Union" host Brianna Keilar asked whether he thought the president had committed the offense.
"I think that the president did a lot of things that abused his power," Crow responded. When asked if it was bribery specifically, he responded affirmatively.
"Specifically, you know, he did attempt to bribe and coerce a foreign government official," Crow said. "In this case, the president of Ukraine."
"And why isn't that an article?" Keilar asked.
See if you can pick out anything about bribery in Crow's answer:
"We have to look at the entire context of what happened here. That is what this is about. It is about the abuse of power. It's about jeopardizing our national security, our troops. It is about undermining our free and fair elections. The broad context of the pattern of this president is what is really important, and that is why we proceeded with the impeachment."
Keilar pushed the point, especially since Trump defense team member Alan Dershowitz, the constitutional scholar, was on earlier in the show arguing that the articles set forth by the Democrats — obstruction and abuse of power — didn't meet the criteria for impeachment set out in the Constitution. Bribery, however, is specifically mentioned as an impeachable offense.
Check out his answers here:
"You could have had bribery as an article and then abuse of power as an article, and, for instance, Alan Dershowitz is going to argue on the Senate floor, as he basically just stated, that bribery is in the Constitution when it comes to impeachment. He will argue, or will certainly feel, that you, Democrats, would have had a much better case to actually say bribery if you thought it was bribery," Keilar said, asking if Crow thought it would have been a better idea, given what Dershowitz was going to argue, to include bribery in the articles of impeachment.
Again, Crow didn't actually talk about bribery:
"Let's broaden back out here and talk about what is really going on here. The president's team is trying to say that the president can't be indicted, because it is DOJ policy that a standing president or sitting president can't be indicted.
"At the same time, they are also making arguments that the House of Representatives and Congress cannot subpoena documents or witnesses, and that we can't bring an impeachment case, that it has to be a crime. That high crimes and misdemeanors do not include abuse of power and abuse of the public trust," he said.
"So if all of the president's arguments are true, that a president cannot be indicted, that the abuse of power and abuse of the public trust does not constitute impeachable offense. If that is true, then no president can be held accountable, that the president truly is above the law," he said.
"So those arguments can't possibly be true. They can't stand because then our entire system of checks and balances would not hold."
Right. Crow, like plenty of other Democrats, wants to say Trump is guilty of bribery. They can't. They had that opportunity, but they realized it would be difficult to make the point that, statutorily, what Trump did constituted bribery — even if they could prove a quid pro quo.
Federal statutes indicate that bribery occurs when an official "directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally … in return for … being influenced in the performance of any official act."
Members of the Democratic majority in the House likely realized they couldn't prove there was a corrupt demand or that "anything of value" changed hands. So instead, their impeachment case hinges on something more nebulous — which means it's mostly just election-year posturing and making sure the scarlet "I" could finally be applied to the president.
And that's the important thing for Democrats. Just ask Nancy Pelosi: "He has been impeached and you can never erase that," she said at the news conference where she announced the impeachment managers.
But impeached for what? Of the three presidential impeachment trials in the history of the country, this one easily starts with the weakest evidence against the accused. But, as GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming pointed out, at least Democrats got the pens from the signing of the articles of impeachment:
Saying it doesn't make it so, @RepJasonCrow.
You impeached the President with no direct evidence in a totally partisan process where Dems set all the rules, picked all the witnesses, and denied due process.
And you still failed to prove your case.
But you got a cool pen. https://t.co/PvpIsxoJcz
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) January 19, 2020
There was no chance of ever proving bribery and the Democrats knew it. They couldn't even get their own conference to agree to include it in the articles of impeachment, even when those articles were entirely cosmetic.
The time to talk about bribery has passed. Rep. Crow and the Democrats should have spoken then.
Now it's time for them to forever hold their peace, along with those precious pens.
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1. katherine heigl how tall how much does she weighs
2. Katherine heigl 140 pounds
3. Kate Winslet 140 pounds
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I couldn't tell you how much either of these ladies weighs, but clearly the public (ok, three searchers) is concerned. It's funny that 140 is the magic number, possibly the perceived fat threshold.
This is timely since apparently New Yorkers have no idea how many calories are in food. Seriously, who doesn't know that Chipotle burritos contain like a month's worth of fat and carbs? As if natural and organic products are somehow calorie-exempt in their feel-good wholesomeness.
Though not directly related, I see parallels between the inability to discern caloric content and what size/weight constitutes fatness.
I once shared a table with a friend of James's who cluelessly insulted all females present by proclaiming "I wouldn't date anyone over a 6, a size 8 is too large" when the three women other than myself all happened to be absolutely non-large size 8s. (No worries, some time ago the dude accidentally knocked up a mousey coworker and now lives in the suburbs with two kids where he belongs. I only met the unlucky lady once and she totally looked to be size 8, but it was hard to tell because she was clad in frumpy what-not-to-wear overalls. Oh, and the guy gained like twenty pounds, which isn't crazy-fat but kind of for a Korean because you know they're all miniature except Jin on Lost.)
Maybe it's the era in which I was raised but 120-125 always seemed like the ideal weight (or not, I just used my completely scientific TV Super Stars '80 paperback as a reference point and Lynda Carter, 5'8" 122 and Kate Jackson, 5'8" 124 were the only "attractive" women [sorry, Penny Marshall and Flo from Alice] 120 pounds or over. They were also the tallest) and I still have this perception that guys think that's average.
But who's to say anymore with starlets being so tiny, 125 now might seem quaint and plump. 130s are nebulous but once you hit 140 it's pure pig-dom. Obviously, height, as our ESL searcher above notes wisely, is important as to whether or not 140 is acceptable or grotesque.
It could be an old statistic but I always thought the average American woman was around 5'4 and 140 pounds, which is still a normal BMI. You'd have to be pretty midgety to be obese at 140. There are a lot of gaps in this grid, but it's an interesting collection of self-submitted height and weight photos. As you'll see 140 is not huge.
Uh oh, it seems that American women are now 5'4", 163 pounds. Ok, I'll concede that's plump. Well, if anything it just makes 140 seem smaller. 140 is totally the new 120.
Katherine Heigl on Kate Winslet: "Early in my career, I read an interview she gave about how the industry wanted her to lose weight; she basically gave them the finger and said no. I remember thinking, I can do that too. I don't have to look like one of these genetically superior people in order to work."
There's nothing like a not-really-fat actress finding comfort in the wisdom of another not-really-fat actress. I'm surprised that Hollywood's other supposed chunkster Drew Barrymore didn't get dragged into the discussion.
But the question on everyone's mind is how do I make myself one of Bethenny "Real Housewife" Frankel's trademark Skinny Girl's Margaritas?
You can watch a demo on YouTube. I'm still not clear how this veers wildly from the fat girl's margarita, which to my knowledge is also composed of tequila, Triple Sec and lime juice. What makes it skinny? No salt? Blending with ice rather than serving on the rocks? She appears to rim the glass with a salt-and-sugar blend, which is the only way her cocktail diverges from a textbook margarita. Either way, skinny bottoms up.


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"Disruptive Technology" is a vague term. Generally anything like Uber that threatens to change one or more industries or even wipe out an industry, falls under this classification. The disruption has spilled over into commercial real estate in a big way, with some of the better known (and maybe better ideas) in the form of WeWork and Air BnB. However, "disruption" goes way beyond these near-household names and the fervor around this concept and the prospect of making wild profits off of it has caused enormous capital flow to countless startups in all facets of the industry.
I would guess most of you have not heard of Sonder, which is a line of hotels with nine US locations that is run by a mid-20's millennial who has attracted $135 million of startup capital. The concept is that Sonder leases full floors or even entire buildings of conventional floor plate apartments (with input from Sonder during development) fills them with fine furniture and rents them out as hotel rooms, except without any of the typical amenities you would find in a hotel such as room service, a front desk, a workout room or a gift shop. The pitch is that it provides an experience of "authenticity," another widely-used millennial-centric buzzword. Most people when traveling to a strange city on business spend very little time in their room and would rather stay in an attended building, but clearly many believe this disruption in hospitality is the future.
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Almost 150 self-employed in Nerja and Maro have benefitted from municipal grants for business development. COUNCILLOR for Commerce , Javier López, said the council will "continue working to promote as many measures within our reach in order to alleviate the serious consequences of the pandemic ". At a press conference today, Tuesday, January 5, he announced that 148 self-employed from Nerja and Maro have benefited from Municipal Aid for the granting of grants for business development. "These subsidies, the first of this type to be launched in our municipality, are provided for in the Support Plan for Business Development and Economic Dynamization, which corresponds to the economic-tourism measure of the Plan of Municipal Shock in the face of the coronavirus crisis," said the councillor. Grants of €300 have been awarded to the self-employed whose commercial activity was affected by closure during the period of confinement.
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FORT KNOX, Ky. – Cadets from 4th Regiment, Advanced Camp tried their weapons at the pop-up course at the George Blair Qualification Range on June 26, having had the opportunity to qualify with still targets on the Alternate Qualification Course the day before.
Cadet Ben Anderson, a student at Texas A&M University, expressed that the pop-up course is more stressful than shooting at still targets.
"It's a lot harder to locate and you feel really rushed," described Anderson.
Cadet Heather Craven, a student at Marshall University, explained the pop-up course tests the ability to move one's body without moving one's rifle.
"[Y]ou have to move to hit each different target … without moving your rifle so you keep your same sight picture," stated Craven.
Cadet Saul Henriquez, a student at the University of Puerto Rico, said he considers weapons qualification to be one of the most challenging events of CST.
"We don't shoot that much back at our campus," explained Henriquez. "But they teach us the fundamentals of marksmanship."
Today he's trying for an expert score at the pop-up course to qualify for the Recondo Badge, which recognizes Cadets for exemplary performance in several CST events.
"I've met all of the criteria," asserted Henriquez. "This is the event that will tell me if I qualify for Recondo."
Cadet Jacob Paladino, a student at the Virginia Military Institute, stressed the importance of patience and taking the time to assess one's surroundings when shooting.
"You have a narrow window to shoot," stated Paladino. "You have to … always be conscious and ready to look down your sight."
Paladino emphasized shooting always comes down the fundamentals.


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strncat (3p) - Linux Manuals
strncat: concatenate a string with part of another
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.NAME
strncat - concatenate a string with part of another
#include <string.h>
char *strncat(char *restrict s1, const char *restrict
s2, size_t n);
The strncat() function shall append not more than n bytes (a null byte and bytes that follow it are not appended) from the array pointed to by s2 to the end of the string pointed to by s1. The initial byte of s2 overwrites the null byte at the end of s1. A terminating null byte is always appended to the result. If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined.
The strncat() function shall return s1; no return value shall be reserved to indicate an error.
No errors are defined.
The following sections are informative.
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .


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As part of the 30th Anniversary Celebration programs of the New Wing, SJCAA is going to organise an Alumni Basketball Competition (ABC) of New Wing vs. Old Wing on Sunday, 5 July 2009.
ABC will be held from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm at the HKU Flora Ho Sports Centre Basket Ball Court.
Both the New Wing and the Old Wing will form and send out one team for each decade i.e. one for 80's, one for 90's and one for 2000's.
Competition will be held on the basis of New Wing vs. Old Wing. Details rules will be announced in due course.
For the 80's alumni, please contact Mr. James Wong Yuk Loi (firstname.lastname@example.com) – New Wing, and Mr. Alan Cheung Yick Lun (email@example.com) – Old Wing.
For the 90's alumni, please contact Ms. Vicky Li (firstname.lastname@example.com)
For 2000's alumni, please contact Ms. Agnes Kan (email@example.com)
There will be a lot prizes and special CASH award for the overall Champion team. Don't miss this precious opportunity of reunioning and playing a good game of basketball with your fellow St. Johnians at the HKU Flora Ho Sports Centre again.
All are free! For enquiry please contact Mr. James Wong Man Tai at email@example.com
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In Touring We Trust
GLOBUS & COSMOS HAVE ALWAYS GREETED THE MOST FASCINATING PLACES across the globe with unmatched intrigue, curiosity, and wonder. Along the way, we've discovered the sights to see, encountered the people to meet, engaged in the customs to sample, and indulged in the cuisine to taste. And we've done this while bundling unrivalled knowledge from Tour Directors and Local Guides with first-class accommodations and transportation to help you greet the globe on a journey that goes beyond the ordinary. In short, touring offers over-the-moon experiences without overthinking.
When travellers, like you, choose a Globus or Cosmos tour, you say "goodbye" to worry, leaving you free to wander and wonder about the world around you. And that idea—and promise—couldn't be more prevalent and welcomed today.
Today, Globus and Cosmos are reaffirming for travellers six (6) ways they can take comfort in – and trust – the vacation experiences only guided tours can provide:
- Trust in Togetherness.
When travellers book an escorted tour for their vacation, they're choosing to explore the world in a small group of like-minded travellers: People who stick together, from start-to-finish. Now more than ever, there's great comfort – and extraordinary confidence – in that choice. Plus, Globus offers travellers the opportunity to choose "Small-Group Discoveries" (24 or fewer travellers) on itineraries in multiple countries.
- Getting Around, Safe & Sound.
The company's state-of-the-art vehicles have undergone thorough cleaning protocols between tours, and each day, travellers enjoy a freshly cleaned and disinfected motorcoach with touch-ups at every stop. Assigned seating (only next to those in your travel party), required hand sanitization and luggage disinfection (before boarding each vehicle) also offer reassurances for a worry-free getaway.
- TDs Are the Bees Knees.
No one knows the ins and outs of each destination like a Globus or Cosmos Tour Director (TD). And no one is better equipped to ensure a happy and healthy getaway for guests. TDs' local insights and experience – as well as their support from local operations offices – means that someone is always looking out for travellers. In addition, mask-wearing Tour Directors, drivers and local guides are focused on spreading joy, not germs, while also making masks available to guests, as needed, throughout their journey.
- Touching Hearts, Not Hands.
With help from their on-site Tour Director, globetrotters can enjoy the ripple effects of eliminating many travel "touch points" including luggage handling; hotel check-ins and check-outs and the purchase of sightseeing tickets. Even better? Globus and Cosmos Tour Directors secure expedited entry into must-see attractions which means no waiting in long, crowded queues of people. For moments when touch is necessary, Tour Directors are armed with hand sanitizer.
- The Lure of the Less Travelled.
While it might be the iconic sights of the world that first entice globetrotters to pack their bags for adventure, it's often the tucked-away towns, lesser-known nooks and secluded seafronts that beckon them to return. Globus' and Cosmos' "Undiscovered" series of tours invite travellers to trade the Colosseum for the narrow lanes of Tuscan towns; the hustle and bustle of cities for the Scottish countryside; Europe's seas of tourists for the coastal villages of the Mediterranean and the crowded cities of North America for smaller, crowd-pleasing gems.
- Travel with Confidence.
The world has changed, but what remains certain is the Globus family of brands' commitment to guest safety and peace-of-mind while travelling, including offering travellers worry-free, hassle-free and strings-free bookings with a 2021 Peace of Mind Travel Plan. While on trip, travellers can also enjoy many enhanced health and safety protocols with the company's new On-Trip Assurance program.
Leaving nothing to chance, Globus' Global Health & Safety Team has established on-trip protocols that focus on travellers' health and safety as well as the overall, travel experience including:
- Pre-trip health screenings and temperature checks plus daily health checks.
- Social distancing whenever possible, thanks in part to Globus Go Beyond Devices.
- Wearing masks when social distancing is not a possibility.
- Touch-free meals (no self-service options at hotels or alike).
Enhanced cleaning and disinfection standards and protocols at hand-picked hotels.


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Popular Uses for Pinterest
As mentioned, Pinterest essentially revolves around mood boards which are designed to provide inspiration or to collect ideas. One of the most popular types of boards that users will create for this purpose as an example are 'wedding boards'.
When an engaged couple begins planning their wedding, they will often start by creating a Pinterest board and then looking for inspiration. They'll then look at boards created by other users and search for ideas for wedding dresses, for wedding locations, for table decorations, for cakes, for suits etc. (or they may create separate boards for each of those things).
Either way, they can then find new ideas and inspiration to guide their decisions and they can put all of these ideas into one spot to serve as a reference. Because you can work on boards collaboratively, the bride and groom can both go about looking for different ideas together at the same time and add them to the board so they can both see them. They can also add their own notes to read later, etc.
If you have photos on your computer of a wedding you've been to and really enjoyed meanwhile, you can upload photos from there. Or you can write notes and draw sketches and upload those as pins. You can also show other people those same ideas to see what your maid of honor thinks of your ideas so far for example, or you can let other users see your board and get inspiration from you that way.
There are many other common ways that Pinterest gets used. Here are just a few
- Collecting images that you find appealing/inspiring
- Collating ideas and inspiration for a new web design/app UI
- Getting ideas for interior design
- Browsing products and 'window shopping'
- Putting together inspirational images to get you into the gym (moves, 'goal physiques' etc.)
- Staying updated with your favorite brand in a more visual manner
- Looking at fashion and outfit ideas for clothes
- Researching tattoo ideas
- And much more
Of course what we're really interested in though, using Pinterest as a marketing tool…
Marketing With Pinterest
Now you know the basics of how Pinterest works, it's time to look at how this can be used by marketers and why Pinterest is such a powerful tool beyond just being a big platform to reach a large audience. What features in particular make Pinterest a good choice for your business? How do you go about using it to promote your website or company?
As mentioned, a lot of people will use Pinterest primarily for researching ideas and getting inspiration. If they enjoy interior design, graphic design, fashion or fitness, they'll likely have lots of boards relating to that topic. What's more, they'll probably be following some other boards created by big brands in those areas.
As a brand, your objective is to be 'one of those brands' that people follow and to use this as a prime opportunity to show off your products, your services and your website so that you get more visitors and more business. This is particularly easy if you should happen to work in one of the industries that is particularly popular on Instagram.
If you create wedding decorations for instance, then all you need to do is to create a board dedicated to these and then let people pin the items they find there or just browse your site for ideas. The more people you can get to follow you, the more people will see your products, will be exposed to your brand and will likely buy your items. This ultimately means you can get a lot of traffic and engagement from a well thought-out Pinterest board.
What will help here is the ability to easily add links to your website and specific articles and blog posts. If you choose to 'Pin From the Web', you can then type in an URL and select an image from that website to go along with it. Under the pin, it will then say 'Pinned from' and you can click that to follow through to the blog post or article where it was originally posted.
This means that people can follow your boards to stay up-to-date with your new articles and blog posts if they want as well, which they may choose to do if Pinterest is their preferred platform. Beyond the basic features, there are also some more advanced options and tools on Pinterest that are going to be especially useful for marketers.
One example is 'Article Rich Pins'.
These have been around since September 2013 and they basically take the central concept of posting links to blogs and articles and build on it. These allow you to share links as you already could but the additional advantage is that you can add extra information about the article such as the title, the site name, the description and the author. This makes your blog and article links considerably more appealing and it encourages people to sign up automatically.
Article rich pins are actually just one of the advance types of 'rich pins' available for marketers. Another relatively new and big feature of Pinterest that is particularly interesting for marketers is the 'buyable pins' tool. This was introduced relatively recently (June 2015) so not every marketer is making full use of it. As the name suggests, buyable pins are pins showing products that are for sale.
So if you should be browsing the site and see an item of clothing, a desktop accessory, or maybe a piece of furniture that you like, then you can simply click to buy it. In the iPad and iPhone apps, the 'Pin It' button is now accompanied by a 'Buy It' button that lets users immediately buy the products they're interested in. By the end of the very first month, there were already 2 million of these pins on the site.
Pinterest has long been popular as a tool for 'window shopping'. When users are looking through other brand boards because they're looking for ideas for wedding decorations, things to wear or things to decorate their house with, they will often then follow the links to buy the products, or later look up the product. But now with buyable pins, they can buy the product straight through Pinterest itself.
This turns your Pinterest board into an ecommerce store, essentially meaning that anything on your site can now be easily bought. If you imagine that someone has taken a lot of time amassing a selection of items they find inspiring for their wedding, this means they can now eventually whittle that selection down just to the things they want and click 'buy'.
This creates the barrier to sale and makes it a much thinner line between 'discovery' and sale. It's very simple and easy and it's a very tempting new option for businesses. Finally, Pinterest also provides a large amount of analytics data. To get access to this you'll need to convert your personal account to a 'business account' and at the same time, you'll need to verify your account.
From there, you'll then be able to see what pins are getting pinned from your website or blog. This in turn lets you see which content is really performing well and engaging your audience. That's right, if you want to take full advantage of the analytics features on Pinterest, then you need to upgrade to a business account. And there are other advantages of making this switch too.
Can you promote your blog or business with a personal account? Of course you can: to an extent. But there are some considerable advantages of making the switch. For starters, Pinterest actually requires you to make your Pinterest account a business one if you intend on using it to profit. While it's unlikely they'll clamp down on you for posting links to your website, you should switch if you want to tow the official line.
Their statement on the matter is:
"If you're using Pinterest as part of how you make a living, whether by driving traffic to a blog that makes you some money or to build your personal brand to find customers for your products or services, you should sign up for a business account and agree to our Business Terms of Service."
From here, you'll then be able to display your company or brand name as the title of your Pinterest profile instead of your first and last name, you'll be able to get insider tips and strategies from Pinterest (they provide a lot of free educational materials) and you'll be able to verify your website. As mentioned, it's this latter step that enables you to see which of your photos and images are getting shared on Pinterest, getting repined and getting commented on.
Verifying your URL also has another benefit – it adds your hyperlink to the top of your profile. This now means that anyone who discovers your Pinterest account will now be able to quickly discover your website as well and that means more traffic, more ad clicks, more sales etc. Business accounts are also allowed to host contests through their Pinterest, which is something we'll be looking at more further on in this article.
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On October 29, 2020, reports emerged that Epic Games, the creator of the blockbuster Fortnite game, acquired Hyprsense, a facial motion capture software developer. Nonetheless, the details of this deal are yet to be disclosed.
Hyprsense is a Korean startup based in Silicon Valley, the hub of global startups. The Chief Executive Officer, Yu Jihun, launched the company in 2015. The company uses virtual reality and augmented reality technology to develop facial motion capture software.
Hyprface, a real-time facial motion capture program is the company's core program. This program enables users to animate 3D characters in real-time using only their facial expressions. Finbold has contacted Hyprsense for a confirmation of this deal, but they are yet to respond.
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Hyprsense investors
The main members of Hyprsense including CEO Yu will remain at Epic Games for some time, based on the takeover agreement as highlighted by Kedglobal.
Main investors of Hyprsense include Kakao Ventures, Atinum Partners, Pearl Abyss Capital, and KT Investment. Among these investors, Kakao Ventures is the only one that has participated in all the funding rounds. They have participated from the seed funding in 2015 until the Series A funding round of 2018.
Participants and enthusiasts of the virtual reality industry believe that this acquisition is a win-win scenario for both parties.


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Apricots are stone fruits also known as Armenian plums. Round and yellow, they look like a smaller version of a peach but share the tartness of purple plums. They're extremely nutritious and have many health benefits, such as improved digestion and eye health.
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luxury safari tips you can trust
Phinda's multiple sites
Phinda has seven lodge/camp venues, each with a different look and feel.
Click links below for my descriptive pages on them:
Forest Lodge
Getty Lodge
Mountain Lodge
Rock Lodge
Vlei Lodge
Walking Safari Camp
Zuka Lodge
Phinda is not in or near Kruger National Park like Ngala and Kirkman's Kamp. It's situated about 300 kilometers (200 miles) south.
Big 5 and more
The private Phinda reserve has all the Big Five. It is especially noted for its birding, cheetahs, and black rhinos.
Phinda boasts seven distinct habitats, providing a broad variety of wildlife and landscapes.
Non-game-drive activities
You can:
Canoe or take a small boat down the reserve's semi-tropical river,
Make an educational visit to a nearby Zulu village,
Go on snorkeling, diving, or deep-sea fishing daytrips (Phinda is close to the Indian Ocean).
Medal winner
Phinda is one of my Top 1000 Wonders of the World. Click the button below to view my Top 1000 Wonder page on Phinda in my South Africa Wonder Guide:
Phinda's Bronze Medal web page
You will learn the interesting story of how Phinda came to be.
Forest Lodge
Getty Lodge
Mountain Lodge
Rock Lodge
Vlei Lodge
Walking Safari Camp
Zuka Lodge
Tented Safari Camp
Walking Safaris Camp
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Immigrant communities are a part of every city and town in the United States. Sentiments towards immigrants, however, continue to vary, but in recent years, anti-immigrant sentiments have become more widely encountered, especially because of the recent presidential election (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2016). A lack of knowledge and representation of diverse cultures, along with recurring negative rhetoric, may influence how immigrant populations are received. This report argues that acknowledging culture and heritage can strengthen cultural bonds, create and celebrate a unique city identity, and improve cultural representation. The City of Westfield, Massachusetts, located in Hampden County, will be studied in this report. Amongst the several immigrant communities in the city, the Polish population is one that is present, but underrepresented. Through participant interviews, elements of place attachment, cultural representation, and cultural values will be studied. This research hopes to encourage greater cultural representation by enhancing place attachment and representation for present and future immigrant residents. This report will also aim to contribute to the greater studies and literature surrounding cultural planning by examining the importance of culture and heritage in the planning field and offering recommendations.
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Flavia Montenegro-Menezes
Second Advisor
Elizabeth Brabec
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Recommended Citation
Smialek, Alexandra, "Celebrating the Polish Immigrant Community: Strengthening Cultural Bonds and Representation in Westfield, MA" (2017). Masters Theses. 585.


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On this date in 2003, Mililani traveled to Waianae and did its best impression of Searider football.
The Trojans dominated time of possession — usually Waianae's forte — to leave the West side with a key 27-20 victory and control of the OIA Red West.
Peter Ranses led the Trojans with 97 yards rushing and quarterback Maka Kahoano threw for 167 yards, 90 of them on seven catches by Darren Smith.
Mililani improved to 7-0 and won its next two games before finding all kinds of trouble at Aloha Stadium. The Trojans lost 20-13 to Kailua in the OIA semifinals and then fell to Farrington 14-6 in the third-place game. That loss forced James Millwood's crew to return to Halawa to meet top-ranked Saint Louis at states and the Crusaders rolled 47-12.
Mililani won at Leilehua, Waianae, Pearl City and Castle that year. It went 0-3 at Aloha Stadium.


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New Topic By Lenjan_Galak
There have been many complaints received by JPJ in regards to the use of Xenon or High Intensity Discharge Lights headlamps that "blind" and pose danger to other road users. I myself hate when people using xenon headlamp which the colour is white and producing so much glare and disturbing other road user's sight on the road at night!
Those complaints were believed to have involved the use of Xenon modification kits that did not meet the required safety standards. A Xenon system comprises a Xenon light source, ballast, igniter, reflector and lens. All these components are designed to work as a system. You will see so many cars installed with HID lights without the projector, the lights will not concentrated on the road and spreaded all over the place.
Some of the car manufacturer have their cars installed with The Xenon system such as Nissan vehicles meet the international safety requirements and are ECE (Economic Commission of Europe) type approved which pose no danger to other road users as it had been extensively tested. The Nissan models sold in Malaysia which are fitted with Xenon headlamps include Navara 2.5, Latio 1.8Ti, X-Trail 2.5L, and Teana.
For those who have installed the HID headlamp without proper kit and approval from JPJ, we as a road user hope you can uninstall that lamp which is annoying to us!


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A rich green hue is layered with aventurine green, which shines from the mica within, as well as blue and white — fused into bars which are sliced and fitted together in a mold to create overlapping designs. This little beauty will brighten any table or desk. Measuring 4 3/4″ x 3 3/4″ x 5/8″, and weighing 7.8 oz.
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