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for Iterations - Day 1 - Part 14
When working with data or objects (such as controls) in applications, you often need to loop or, rather, iterate through groups. This video explains how to work with a simple "for iteration" statement. Since we'll be working with lots of different groups (such as collections of objects and collections of data) we'll need to understand a little about how to navigate through the collection, or list, of those items.
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Hi Bob, great series of videos. just finished day 1 and coming back to this video because....
i understand the theory of what the for loop is doing etc just fine. but this line i get confused...
message = message + i.ToString() + System.Environment.NewLine;
when i go through loop in my head i come to the conclusion you shouldnt need the "message +" part.. as in effect "message" has no value/string. yet when you remove it only "9" is displayed. also if you put "message = i.ToString() + message + System.Environment.NewLine;" the NewLine is being initiated.
if you could clear this up for me i would appreciate it! cheers
@james: sorry the .NewLine is NOT being initiated....
@james: System.Environment.NewLine doesn't have to be initiated.
He did create message and on every loop, he is recreating message with what was there, the loop counter, then a new line character. Without the new line character there, it would look like this:
instead of:
@james: you could also use message += i.ToString() + System.Environment.NewLine;
This is the same as message = message + i.ToString() + System.Environment.NewLine;
Yes I have to say overall the concept was clear but the lines of code were very unclear to me... More clarification would be better... for example
when the variable is set to this string userValue = myTextBox.Text = "2";
myResultReturned.Text = "You have won a million dollars";
LOL, I know this is probably wrong but the point I am asking/illustrating is that why does the first line take a value in and why does the second line read a value out... how does the code know the difference of what it is displaying / running onto the screen versus taking in???
I have no idea what I am doing wrong. This is my code:
private void myButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
string message = "";
for (int i = 0; 1 < 10; i++)
message = message + i.ToString() + System.
myTextBlock.Text = message;
and for some reason it has a green line under myTextBlock and said there is unreachable code detected. What am I doing wrong?
@magicwin31: try to change from this for (int i = 0; 1 < 10; i++) to this for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
@shamelesstoad that worked, thank you so much.
@Christian, thats because the first line is used with a textBox, wich takes values "in", and the second line is used with a textBlock, wich takes values "out".
There's something unclear to me,
Why does the next code just writes down "9"? I mean, shouldnt it start with "1", print it, goes for the "2", prints it and so? I tried this code as i've done it several times in Java and it does print the whole secuence instead of just "9", so why isnt this working here?
privatevoid myButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
mytxtBlock.Text = i.ToString() + System.Environment.NewLine;
EDIT: Actually it should start with "0" :P
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On June 9, we invited some very special guests, Surfer Blood, to Stage 19 to record an acoustic version of their hit song, "Demon Dance" exclusively for AE. Learn more about some of the nicest dudes we have ever met and the personalities behind their indie rock sound.
11:00 am: After a long night traveling from one state to the next and only getting a measly two hours of sleep, the men of Surfer Blood met us at Stage 19 with excitement and energy.
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"We do get ourselves in a position to build in our community which is a big deal," she says. "Because, we have people -homeowners that have sustained damage to their homes as well as schools that need to grow and infrastructure that needs to be put in."
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Although Tatum has been on screen for eight years, there's no doubt that 2012 was his year, making women faint in Magic Mike, showing his romantic side in The Vow and proving he has comedic chops in 21 Jump Street. And if those films weren't enough reasons to make him sexy, he's also a sculptor, he quotes Edgar Allen Poe and he wants to start a family with his wife who he met on the set of 2006 movie Step Up.
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FOOTBALL debates tend to be a bit like fashion, the same subjects are flavour of the month for a while then slip from public consciousness, only to be revived down the track with some minor adjustments.
The uneven AFL draw is a good example. It was a hot topic when the competition went from 12 teams to 16 over the space of a 10-season period between 1986-95, then seemed to go the way flares and platform heels did in the 1980s, save for the odd flurry of retro cool.
That's all changed again since 16 became 18 with the admission over the past two years of Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney, the entry of two (for now) relative easybeats upping the ante on who each club plays twice in the five return bouts they get in a 22-game season.
This year, it was Adelaide and North Melbourne who received the largesse of playing the Suns and Giants twice each, the fact both clubs performed well and made the final eight turning up the volume on the ''unfair'' cries.
Obviously, we're never going to have a 34-game season, so the popular refrain now, pumped up again by Richmond president Gary March during the week, is a reduction to 17 games with perhaps an extended finals series, and breaks for marquee games such as the old state-of-origin format.
It sounds logical enough from a ''wear-and-tear'' perspective, though the shortfall in revenue both from the gate and in terms of a broadcasting rights deal that guarantees a lot more football than that is just as obvious a hurdle.
But does an uneven draw actually have as big an impact on how the AFL season pans out, as many critics would have us believe? I'm far from convinced.
Let's start with a look at the 2012 fixture based on 17 games, removing all those rematches in the second half of the season and adjusting wins, losses and percentage accordingly. How far would Adelaide and North, those clubs with supposedly the biggest free kicks, have come back to the field? Not that much, as it turns out.
The Crows finished the regular season second with 17 wins, five losses, and a percentage of 132. Take away their return clashes with Port Adelaide, Geelong, Fremantle and those two ''gimmes'' against the Suns and Giants, and they still would have finished fourth with a 13-4 record and a percentage of 122.
North wound up eighth this season with a 14-8 record and a percentage of 112. Remove the Roos' second games against West Coast, the Bulldogs, Essendon and the Suns and Giants, and it becomes 10-7 and a percentage of 108.7, still good enough to finish in exactly the same position.
The biggest beneficiaries of a 17-game 2012 on this basis would in fact have been Collingwood, which on an adjusted ladder, would have finished one game clear on top instead of fourth, and the Bombers, for whom the season did indeed run six or seven weeks too long. Essendon would have finished seventh instead of 11th, avoiding return losses against North, Carlton, Richmond and Collingwood.
Of course, playing five teams twice and a dozen once isn't ideal, but 22 games are still enough clearly to sort the wheat from the chaff. And as long and draining as the season is, was anyone complaining about the standard of one of the greatest grand finals we've seen, or a ripping preliminary final which preceded it?
If Adelaide was in the eight under false pretences, would it really have been able to finish within a kick of a grand final berth, running a warm flag favourite in Hawthorn to the last seconds on preliminary final night? And were the September claims of the likes of also-rans St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon and Richmond really any stronger than North's?
Just by the by, does every team playing each other only once guarantee complete evenness anyway? For instance, some Victorian teams are still going to have to travel to Perth twice in a season while others go just once. That might even out over a few seasons, but you can argue exactly the same with the current format.
And while the AFL's various tweaks to rules have been over-the-top at times, its adjustments to the fixture continue to make it that little bit closer to as fair as is possible in a 22-game season.
Next year, for example, only two absolute strugglers from season 2012, Melbourne and Port Adelaide, play both Gold Coast and GWS twice. And in 2013 as a rule, so will the top teams of this year be playing the bottom teams less and each other more.
Then there's the season that starts in September. Even those who simply can't abide the concept of 18 teams into a 22-game season, fearing the prospect of an unworthy premier, would have to admit the current final eight system is a more than effective safeguard against the luck of the draw playing a big part in a flag win.
Since the revamp in 2000, we've had 26 preliminary finals contested by 52 teams, 50 of whom had finished the regular season in the top four. Not one of them, nor for that matter the two exceptions, could have been called anything but worthy by the time they got there.
We've had some of the best grand finals of our generation in the past decade, contested by not only the best-qualified, but also the most capable teams of each particular year. And none have needed to get there via the free kick of an easy draw that seems to be inspiring so much concern.
The sort of hand-wringing that's pretty fashionable right now - until, of course, some other alleged crisis rears its head again.
Rohan Connolly, a senior football writer for The Age and radio broadcaster with sports radio station 1116 SEN, has been covering the game since 1983. A multi-AFL Media Association award-winner known for his passion and love of the game, he analyses the AFL for the newspaper and contributes a blog and weekly video, "Footy Fix", for The Age's football website, Real Footy.


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Nocturia is defined as waking up one or more times at night to void,1 and is a common affliction among elderly.2,3 The prevalence of nocturia increases across age groups to more than 50% reporting 2 or more voids per night at age of 70.3 Higher prevalence of nocturia in this age group is multifactorial, and possible contributing causative factors include impaired bladder voiding, reduced bladder capacity, decreased vasopressin levels at night, increased comorbid conditions, and sleep disturbances.4
Nocturia has been associated with lower quality of life, cardiovascular disease, mortality, falls, and hip fractures.5,6 It has been suggested that decreased quality of life and some of the adverse health outcomes could be due to sleep disruption from nocturia.7 Several studies have looked at self reported sleep measures and suggest a causal association between nocturia and poor sleep after controlling for confounders such as diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, and diuretics.8 These studies used questionnaires or survey and report poor sleep quality, increased awakening, difficulty in falling back to sleep, decreased total hours of sleep, and daytime fatigue in subjects with nocturia.9–11 In these studies, sleep histories were not validated with objective measures such as wrist actigraphy or polysomnography (PSG).
In a study by Parthasarathy et al. of 6,342 Sleep Heart Health Study subjects who had PSG and filled questionnaires about sleep habits that was summarized over 1 month, nocturia was associated with less total sleep period, poor sleep efficiency, higher arousal index, and sleep disordered breathing (SDB). These objective sleep parameters were not adjusted for SDB and other factors.12 The primary aim of the study was to understand if the association between nocturia and cardiovascular disease was independent of SDB. Another study looked at objective sleep measure of sleep using PSG in 20 subjects with benign prostate hypertrophy. Nocturia was associated with increased daytime sleepiness but not with sleep efficiency or total sleep time. This was a small study, only 70% had nocturia, and more than half also had had sleep apnea.13
In this issue of the Journal, additional evidence is presented relating to the putative association between nocturia and sleep.14 Zeitter et al. studied association between nocturia and sleep via simultaneous assessment of both subjective and objective sleep measures in older subjects with insomnia. The mean age of males (n = 55) was 64.3 years and mean age of females (n = 92) was 62.5 years. All subjects maintained sleep logs for 2 weeks, and a subset (n = 60) wore an actigraph for a week. The mean RDI was 3.4, and only 2 subjects had SDB. Only 54.2% of nocturnal awakenings were associated with bathroom use. The number of trips to the bathroom was positively associated with wake time after sleep onset (WASO) (r = 0.24, linear regression; F6,409 = 5.66, p < 0.001 ANOVA), number (r = 0.23, linear regression; F6,409 = 5.03, p < 0.001 ANOVA), and length of wake bouts (r = 0.13, linear regression; F6,409 = 3.48, p < 0.01 ANOVA) measured using actigraph and negatively with feeling of restedness (r = -0.13, linear regression; F4,1093 = 4.27, p < 0.01 ANOVA) and sleep efficiency (r = -0.22, linear regression; F4,1768 = 24.5, p < 0.001 ANOVA) obtained from sleep diary. Furthermore, in subset of subjects (n = 19) who had 2 nights of bathroom use and 2 nights of no bathroom use, the bathroom use was associated with longer wake time, but there was no difference in total sleep time or sleep structure. The authors reported that nocturia in subjects with insomnia is associated with increased wake time and subjective feeling of decreased restedness.
However, the study has several limitations. Even though the regression coefficients were statistically significant, as evident in the ANOVA F p-values, the residual error levels, that is, variance in the dependent variables, are extremely high. These as such indicate very weak precision in the models (Table 1). Also, the authors do not indicate whether or not the categorical groupings of the independent variable were indicator or dummy coded, since the groupings of trips were made into a categorical variable they need to be indicator coded (k-1).
Unexplained variance of dependent variables
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Regarding the magnitude of the effect, taking just one of the six measures, mean wake bout length, if we look at the difference from zero trips in actual seconds, we can see the data demonstrate a very tiny effect (Table 2). There was a 9 second difference in the wake bout length if there was 1 trip and -3 seconds if there were 2 trips.
Difference in wake bout length in seconds
The subjects with insomnia were recruited in the study, what is unclear is if insomnia per se prompts more trips to the bathroom. With age, insomnia is the most common sleep complaint, and adults tend to experience more awakenings and difficulty in maintaining sleep.15
In conclusion, the relation between nocturia and its causal effect on sleep parameters needs to be further elucidated. Further, prospective studies controlling for major confounders need to be conducted to better clarify this relationship. Future studies should consider polysomnogram to capture awakening and associated voids, bladder monitoring to study if sleep disturbances per se cause awakening and hence nocturia, or vice versa by looking at the effect of bladder manipulation on sleep. This would help to tailor the treatment according to patient and possibly improve sleep and related consequences.
The author has indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
Budhiraja P. Nocturia and disturbed sleep: where do we stand? J Clin Sleep Med 2013;9(3):263-264.
van Kerrebroeck P, Abrams P, Chaikin D, et al., authors. The standardisation of terminology in nocturia: Report from the standardisation sub-committee of the International Continence Society. Neurourol Urodyn. 2002;21:179–83. [PubMed]
Fitzgerald MP, Litman HJ, Link CL, McKinlay JB, authors; BACH Survey Investigators. The association of nocturia with cardiac disease, diabetes, body mass index, age and diuretic use: results from the BACH survey. J Urol. 2007;177:1385–9. [PubMed]
Burgio KL, Johnson TM 2nd, Goode PS, et al., authors. Prevalence and correlates of nocturia in community-dwelling older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010;58:861–6. [PubMed Central][PubMed]
Bosch JL, Weiss JP, authors. The prevalence and causes of nocturia. J Urol. 2013;189 1 Suppl:S86–92. [PubMed]
Donovan JL, author. Measuring the impact of nocturia on quality of life. BJU Int. 1999;84 Suppl 1:21–5. [PubMed]
Asplund R, author. Mortality in the elderly in relation to nocturnal micturition. BJU Int. 1999;84:297–301. [PubMed]
van Dijk L, Kooij DG, Schellevis FG, Kaptein AA, Boon TA, Wooning M, authors. Nocturia: impact on quality of life in a Dutch adult population. BJU Int. 2004;93:1001–4. [PubMed]
Rembratt A, Norgaard JP, Andersson KE, authors. Nocturia and associated morbidity in a community-dwelling elderly population. BJU Int. 2003;92:726–30. [PubMed]
Asplund R, Aberg H, authors. Health of the elderly with regard to sleep and nocturnal micturition. Scand J Prim Health Care. 1992;10:98–104. [PubMed]
Yu HJ, Chen FY, Huang PC, Chen TH, Chie WC, Liu CY, authors. Impact of nocturia on symptom-specific quality of life among community-dwelling adults aged 40 years and older. Urology. 2006;67:713–8. [PubMed]
Bliwise DL, Foley DJ, Vitiello MV, Ansari FP, Ancoli-Israel S, Walsh JK, authors. Nocturia and disturbed sleep in the elderly. Sleep Med. 2009;10:540–8. [PubMed Central][PubMed]
Parthasarathy S, Fitzgerald M, Goodwin JL, Unruh M, Guerra S, Quan SF, authors. Nocturia, sleep-disordered breathing, and cardiovascular morbidity in a community-based cohort. PLoS One. 2012;7:e30969[PubMed Central][PubMed]
Bal K, Ayik S, Issi Y, Bolukbasi A, Akhan G, authors. Sleep analysis of patients with nocturia and benign prostatic obstruction. Urology. 2012;80:383–8. [PubMed]
Zeitzer JM, Bliwise DL, Hernandez B, Friedman L, Yesavage JA, authors. Nocturia compounds nocturnal wakefulness in older individuals with insomnia. J Clin Sleep Med. 2013;9:259–262
Stepnowsky CJ Jr, Ancoli-Israel S, authors. Sleep and its disorders in seniors. Sleep Med Clin. 2008;3:281–93. [PubMed Central][PubMed]


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Quick side-note: as Ive mentioned previously, although I use the term wedding album throughout this article, the principles are transferable to any market or any product for that matter. All you need to do is replace the word wedding album with newborn album or family book and the principles still apply. Take my specificity to the wedding market as an example, and read more into the principles behind the example than the details of the example itself if wedding photography isnt your market.
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How to price your wedding albums as a photographer
You know that I love the topic of pricing and Ive written a number of times about it. Its a topic that is often brought up and discussed on the podcast and Ive been interviewed countless times on other podcasts and web shows about it as well.
For reference and further reading on the topic of pricing, if youre interested in going deeper, Id love to point your attention to the following articles that Ive written:
- How to note compete on price in your photography studio on SproutingPhotographer.com
- How to set your prices as a photographer on SproutingPhotographer.com
- Increasing prices on SproutingPhotographer.com
- How to price a newborn session on NewbornPhotography.com
- Photography finances and calculating studio profits on PhotographySpark.com
- Photography pricing and influencing factors on Skip Cohen University
Lastly (and a shameless plug), Ive also co-written a book on the topic of pricing called Pricing for Profit with Sprouting Photographer content creator Robert Nowell that you may want to check out where we dive deep into the mechanics of pricing.
Why calculating based off of your costs is best
I dont necessarily think that I need to re-state my entire philosophy on why setting a foundation for your prices based on your costs is the best approach, and nor would you want me to dive too deep into that right now because it would make this article significantly longer! Instead, let me summarize in a few sentences.
The only real measurable, repeatable and sustainable approach to pricing yourself is to do so based on your costs. Its a universally accepted and adopted model for businesses of every size and in every industry. Its the only known, repeatable, quantifiable and objective factor that affects your pricing. That being said, once you do have a baseline using your costs as a guide, you may find it beneficial (or required) to adjust your prices using the other influencing factors of confidence, quality, perceived value and competition.
If we can agree that the best place to start pricing your albums is by looking at your cost-of-goods, then lets talk about that process now.
In the cost-based pricing model that I have been teaching and applying for years, there are essentially four steps:
1. Determine the soft inputs
2. Add up the hard costs
3. Calculate the total cost
4. Factor in your mark-up
2. Add up the hard costs
3. Calculate the total cost
4. Factor in your mark-up
Step #1: Determine the soft inputs
I like to think of the soft inputs for a product (an album in this case) as everything non-material that goes into it until the moment it gets to your client. This is mostly measured as your time. In the context of an album, lets use an example to look at the time it may take a photographer to produce a finished album. This example will assume the following:
- The album has an average of 8 images per spread
- The album has 20 spreads
- It takes the photographer 1 minute to retouch an image
- It takes the photographer 5 minutes to design each spread
Assuming all this, we can conclude that it takes this photographer 160 minutes to retouch every image in the album, and 100 minutes to design the entire album. If we add in other time inputs such as correspondence and revisions with the client (60 minutes), ordering time (15 minutes), packaging time (15 minutes) and delivery time (30 minutes), we can conclude the following total soft inputs:
- Design: 100 minutes
- Correspondence: 60 minutes
- Retouching: 160 minutes
- Ordering: 15 minutes
- Packaging: 15 minutes
- Delivery: 30 minutes
This means that the photographers total soft input (time) is 380 minutes.
Note: As you follow along, dont worry about figuring out your numbers of calculating anything for yourself just yet. At the end of this article, Ill share a free calculator that weve created for you where you can plug all of your details in to a simple form and it will tell you how to price your album.
Step #2: Add up the hard costs
The hard costs are the actual fees that we pay to have the album produced, which include the actual cost for the album from our lab as well as any other fees, supplies and/or material.
In our example here, lets say that the album costs $350 from the lab, with an additional $20 shipping charge and that the packaging costs $15. That means that the total hard costs for the album is $385.
Step #3: Calculate the total cost
We need to add up the soft cost (time) to the hard costs in order to calculate the total cost of the album.
In this example, we know that the total soft cost (time) was 380 minutes. In order to turn this into a dollar value, we need to determine the per-minute wage. Lets say that the photographer in this example wants to be paid $60,000 per year. This means that his hourly wage is $30/hour (calculated as $60,000/year divided by 50 weeks divided by 40 hours per week), and therefore his per-minute wage is $0.50/minute (calculated as $30/hour divided by 60 minutes).
This now shows us that the total soft cost (time) is $190 (calculated as 380 minutes x $0.50/minute), and if we add in the hard costs of $385, we can calculate that the total album cost is $575.
Step #4: Factor in your mark-up
Its common sense to not make the retail price of a product be equal to its cost, as we need to consider overhead, ongoing expenses, utilities, rent, equipment, software, insurance, association fees, and so on. We also need to factor in a reasonably modest amount of business profit.
In order to account for our these ongoing fixed expenses and to factor for some business profit, we need to multiply our cost by a mark-up factor, which is recommended to be 2.85 for a home-based studio. We talk more about the PPA benchmark survey, why to use 2.85 and the mechanics of mark-up in our book, but for the purposes of this article, youll have to just trust me on it.
In our ongoing example here, when we multiply our total cost of $575 by our mark-up of 2.85, we arrive at a recommended retail price of $1638.75, which is actually a fairly reasonable retail price for a 20-spread album.
Thats it! This is exactly how to calculate the price for your wedding album for guaranteed sustainability and profitability!
The dangers of not following this process
The mechanics of pricing your albums is fairly straightforward, and its built upon a system that is the foundation to all successful businesses. Hopefully this article (and process) was enlightening for you and gave you a step-by-step guide for calculating your prices moving forward.
If you are not following the process outlined above, its ok its never too late to make a change. Start implementing this system right away in your business to turn things around and start on the path of success. If you dont apply this process over the long-run, however, itll mean one of a three things is happening in your business:
1. You are not paying yourself at all.
2. You are working long hours for little pay and will burn out eventually.
3. You are not making enough money to pay for your expenses.
2. You are working long hours for little pay and will burn out eventually.
3. You are not making enough money to pay for your expenses.
None of these three options above are a good place to be in as a business, and all of them will undoubtedly lead you to have to close up shop eventually. Thats not what I want for you, and I dont think its what you want. Thats why I wrote this article (and others like it) to help guide you through the process, show you the why and, more importantly, show you the how. Follow the steps above and I promise that youll have a successful and sustainable photography business.
To calculate the suggested retail price on your wedding albums without going through all the math yourself, please check out our FREE album pricing calculator.
I said earlier that the calculations in the example were based on a specific design and retouching efficiency assumption. Here are two quick post-script notes about those assumptions, and how you may not fall into them:
1. If you are taking longer to design an album, then that has a direct influence on your price and will exponentially increase it. You need to become efficient with album design (using software like Fundy Album Designer) or outsource it if it isnt the best use of your time.
2. If you are taking longer to retouch each image in the album, then it also has a direct influence on your price. You may want to consider using actions or look at your workflow for places to become more efficient. You may find that retouching isnt the best use of your time, and so in that case you may want to outsource it.
2. If you are taking longer to retouch each image in the album, then it also has a direct influence on your price. You may want to consider using actions or look at your workflow for places to become more efficient. You may find that retouching isnt the best use of your time, and so in that case you may want to outsource it.
Up next: the face of your prices
Once you know (and understand) the basic mechanics of how to price your albums, you need to put a face to them. Put another way, you wouldnt walk through this mechanical, cost-based calculation with your client when discussing their album theyd be confused, overwhelmed and thrown off. You need to have a clear, precise and pre-determined way of presenting your album prices to your clients, and thats what I call the face of your prices.
There are three ways to face your album prices to your clients:
1. Base album up front, up-sell afterwards
2. Pre-packaged albums with different page-count and sizes
3. Unlimited album
1. Base album up front, up-sell afterwards
2. Pre-packaged albums with different page-count and sizes
3. Unlimited album
Ive tried all three and have seen the ups and downs of each. In my article next week, in the last part of this series all about wedding albums, Ill be diving more into these three methods, the pros and cons of them, and how to figure out which one works best for you. Stick around!
The Business of Wedding Albums Series
Part #1 of the Business of Wedding Albums series How to sell a wedding album to every bride
Part #2 of the Business of Wedding Albums series 6 Principles to turn sample albums into a sales tool
Part #3 of the Business of Wedding Albums series How to price your wedding albums as a photographer
Part #4 of the Business of Wedding Albums series Wedding album pricing strategies for photographers
We are very excited to bring to you an informative series on Album Sales from award-winning photographer Bryan Caporicci. This series will help you to price and sell albums to all of your clients. Be sure to visit his educational site at http://www.sproutingphotographer.com


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Over the weekend, the anonymous gadfly behind @TVSportsratings—one of the more interesting sports-biz Twitter feeds around, unless you count @darrenrovell, which you shouldn't—nuked his own account after sending the following direct message to John Ourand of SportsBusiness Journal:
Not worth the bother to me. Like I said, I gain nothing from this personally or professionally.
As the handle suggests, @TVSportsratings was primarily concerned with television ratings for particular sporting events, which he would post with breakdowns by key demographics (gender, age, live or taped). Sample tweet: "Kentucky Derby on NBC: 3.06 in Men 18-49 (-8% vs. last year) & 14.8 mil viewers (+2%). Median age of 60 years." As of last week, the account had close to 8,500 followers, and for good reason: The information was nearly instant and didn't come pre-spun by the networks, as ratings info often does. Another sample: "On the daily rank, a 6am airing of Family Matters on Nick (846k viewers) was just ahead of PIT/PHI NHL on NBCS (844k)." He was combative, too. Take this series of tweets questioning the necessity of broadcasters. Read from the bottom:
He didn't tweet out any proprietary information, so far as we can tell. Anyone with a Nielsen subscription has access to the same kinds of numbers. Still, networks hated the account, for obvious reasons. It got to the point where two different networks spent resources trying to uncover the owner of the account. Ourand writes:
The Twitter feed was under the skin of network executives, who tried for months to figure out who was behind it. One network's research department pegged the tweeter as a research executive for a smaller network. Another network's research department believes the person works for an advertising agency.
They all believed the person behind the feed was a middle-aged man who lives in northern New Jersey, based on some of the Twitter feeds that the account followed, like Port Authority and Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue. They believed the person is in the television industry and is a big baseball fan who supports the Yankees. And that his or her birthday is April 6, based on other tweets.
We'd like to know more, too. Got any info on the @TVSportsratings guy? Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. We won't narc on the dude, promise. We have no interest in outing him—we just like his work.
[SportsBusiness Daily; image by Jim Cooke]


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I always wanted to use that in a relevant context…. my apologies to Coolio, but I hear Outkast in my head….
Hi. How are you?
Yes… I've been gone for a few months. I know, I know.
It's not that I haven't been thinking about you – I have. It's just that I work in the finance industry, and things got a little crazy for a while. Then there was the election, the expansion, the Turkey…..
And the whole time, Matt kept quietly hinting that maybe he'd like me to come back and write some content. Maybe the Horde is under-represented… maybe… maybe the world needs a little more Troll to brighten it up.
And it hits me like a ton of Twitter-requested messages:
You have to make time for things that are important to you. Whether it's WoW in general, working out, your relationships, or blogging. If you wait until inspiration strikes to be productive, you'll at best limit yourself to spurts of creativity and at worst, end up slowly not doing anything at all.
(See: Inertia)
So, my apologies. To Matt, for not being the disciplined buddy he's always been to me. (And for not taking the time to put a headline image on this – i figured better to get it posted than to procrastinate further.) To Syd, for recruiting her and then running-running-running away. (Hey! She's an amazing and therefore intimidating co-blogger!) To all of you, for leaving you in a world devoid of fabulous Red Mohawks. And mostly to myself, for burning out and giving up on my passion for so long.
Thanks for reading. Thanks for writing.
Some things I've been working on:
- My gear upgrade spreadsheet. (it's as laborious as it sounds. Thanks to DwarfPriest for the starting point.)
- My rep-faction grind
- Achievements (Yes, they're mostly frivolous….but some aren't.)
- Professions
- Updating my UI
Drop me a line in the comments and let me know what you'd like to hear about first, and I'll make that the subject of my next post. And it will come out by the end of the weekend – I promise. (I'm very good with deadlines.)
Thanks again, to all of you that wrote to say you missed me…. it really did mean a lot.


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Project update, October 2012
- HARITA, a project by Oxfam America and REST, has broken new ground to integrate disaster risk reduction and affordable insurance by allowing poor farmers to pay insurance premiums with their labor through risk reduction projects in their communities. Scaling from 200 households in one village in 2009 enrolled in the financial package to more than 13,000 enrolled households in 43 villages in 2011, by end of 2012 HARITA aims to have reached approximately 70 villages and 15,000 households.
- One of the key achievements in 2012 is that farmers are now purchasing insurance either with partial or full cash instead of purchasing it entirely with labor, reflecting progress towards the establishment of commercial insurance market in rural Ethiopia.
- Building on the success of HARITA, the activity is currently being expanded within Ethiopia and in Senegal as part of the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative, led jointly by Oxfam America and WFP. Expansion to two additional countries is also planned over the next five years.
- For more detailed project update, read the latest quarterly progress report here.
Project Background
Location: Africa, Ethiopia, Tigray
Date project established: 7/1/2008
For the 1.3 billion people living on less than a dollar a day who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, vulnerability to weather-related shocks is a constant threat to security and well-being. As climate change drives an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, the challenges faced by food-insecure communities struggling to improve their lives and livelihoods will also increase. The question of how to build rural resilience for climate change adaptation is critical for addressing global poverty.
In response to these challenges, Oxfam America, Swiss Re and their partners developed a holistic risk management framework to enable poor farmers in the drought-prone northern state of Tigray in Ethiopia to strengthen their food and income security through a combination of community climate resilience projects (risk reduction), insurance (risk transfer), microcredit ("prudent" risk taking), and savings (risk reserves): the Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) project.
HARITA brought together a network of partners including Ethiopian farmers, the Relief Society of Tigray (REST), Nyala Insurance Share Company, Africa Insurance Company, Dedebit Credit and Savings Institution (DECSI), Mekelle University, the Tigray Regional Food Security Coordination Office and the Tigray Cooperative Promotion Office, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Swiss Re and Oxfam America. The project is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and Swiss Re.
Existing approaches to providing drought insurance to the poorest have not been effective due to high administrative costs and the inability of cash-poor smallholders to afford premiums. In conversations with farmers, they themselves suggested a solution – they could pay for insurance with their labor. Oxfam America worked with the Relief Society of Tigray, the Tigray Regional Food Security Coordination Office and the Tigray Cooperative Promotion Office – to build an "insurance-for-work" program on top of the government's "food- and cash-for-work" Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), a well-established program that serves eight million chronically food-insecure households in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian National Meteorological Agency also played a strong role in supporting weather data collection and analysis for the weather index insurance.
The resulting innovation allows cash-poor farmers the option to work for their insurance premiums by engaging in community-identified projects to reduce risk and build climate resilience, such as improved irrigation or soil management. In the event of a seasonal drought, insurance payouts are triggered automatically when rainfall drops below a pre-determined threshold, enabling farmers to afford the seeds and inputs necessary to plant in the following season and protecting them from having to sell off productive assets to survive. In partnership with local microfinance institutions, the model allows farmers the option to bundle insurance with credit and savings.
More prosperous farmers will pay their insurance premiums in cash. Over time, as the poorest farmers become more prosperous, they can "graduate" from the need to pay through labor, and begin paying in cash, helping to ensure the project's commercial viability and long-term success.
Mitigation and/or Adaptation
HARITA is an integrated approach to risk management. The financial package is a tool for individual farmers to adapt to climate change (discussed in this section), and the risk reduction projects provide social benefits to the broader community (discussed in the following section). Taken together, these services protect farmers from the consequences of climate-related disasters.
The benefit of the project is illustrated by a statement from Gebru Kahsay, a 52-year-old farmer in Tigray who depends on rain to grow teff, a staple grain. "According to my belief, this insurance is important to protect us from migrating in a drought in search of food," says Kahsay.
Oxfam America funds and oversees an impact monitoring, evaluation and learning (IMEL) plan to assess the impacts of HARITA and to improve its delivery as it expands. We use a rigorous mixed methods approach that combines quantitative surveys and qualitative focus groups and interviews. In 2011, the IMEL team will continue an ongoing evaluation of 400 households in eight villages in Tigray, Ethiopia, with five program villages and three control villages.
The evaluation explores how effective the HARITA approach is in improving resilience to risk under different conditions. With regard to the financial package as a tool for climate change adaptation, the evaluation addresses such questions as:
- What are the impacts of index insurance on farmers' risk management and production decisions and livelihoods, including decisions related to credit and savings?
- Who benefits, who does not benefit, and under what conditions do benefits occur or not occur, and why?
Although it is too early in the project cycle to make a definitive assessment of the overall effectiveness of the model, the results of prior seasons are promising.
Social Benefits
The labor used to pay for weather index insurance is contributed towards community-identified projects to reduce risk and build climate resilience, such as improved irrigation or soil management. Farmers identify these activities through community-driven participatory capacity and vulnerability assessments.
In 2010, eligible farmers contributed their labor towards the following risk reduction projects in five villages: five runoff diversion structures for spate irrigation were constructed, with over 8,000 meters of diverting canal and 265 hectares of land irrigated; 15,000 trees were planted; 2,000 meters of erosion-preventing trenches were constructed; 600 compost-making pits were prepared, and 700 farmers and over 40 local leaders and extension agents were trained on composting practices.
The impact monitoring, evaluation and learning (IMEL) plan discussed above also pertains to measurement of social benefits. With regard to community risk reduction activities, the evaluation addresses such questions as:
- Which risk reduction activities were implemented? When and where?
- How do the implemented risk reduction activities relate to the particular needs of participating farmers and their villages?
Potential for Scaling-up and replication of project
HARITA represents a dynamic public-private partnership in action, with groundbreaking innovations in integrated risk management and service delivery. In its three years of delivery in Ethiopia, HARITA has shown promising results for replication. The project has scaled from two hundred households in one village in 2009 enrolled in the financial package, to over 13,000 enrolled households in 43 villages in 2011 – directly affecting approximately 75,000 people.
Early results demonstrate that the HARITA model can effectively reach vulnerable families, who had once been viewed as uninsurable. In the 2010 season, 39 percent of the households that purchased the insurance were female-headed and 83 percent were participants of the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP). With such rapid growth, HARITA holds the potential for much larger scale within Ethiopia and in other countries.
HARITA's success led, in 2010, to an agreement by Oxfam America and the World Food Programme (WFP) to take the HARITA model to a multi-national scale by launching, as equal partners, a joint project, the Rural Resilience Initiative (or "R4," for Risk Reduction – Prudent Risk Taking – Risk Transfer – Risk Reserves). R4 will operate across four countries – Ethiopia, Senegal, and two more in the developing world – uniting Oxfam America's HARITA model and WFP's extensive network of safety nets and cash-for-work programs, in close coordination with local partners and government agencies. Under R4, WFP programs will operate as "insurance-for-work" for the poorest of the participating farmers, leveraging this core HARITA innovation to build a profitable market for small-scale agricultural insurance at commercial scale. In Ethiopia, Oxfam America will continue to operate in partnership with the Relief Society of Tigray.
The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is a strategic collaboration between the World Food Programme and Oxfam America. Each partner has its own sponsors: WFP is sponsored by USAID, and Oxfam America by Swiss Re and the Rockefeller Foundation.
From a donor perspective, the R4 model doubles investment value: while a certain dollar amount of aid could be used in "traditional" development programs either to pay an insurance premium or to pay farmers to carry out risk reduction measures, in this project, the same amount of money yields insurance and risk reduction simultaneously.
R4 is a strategic collaboration to build upon HARITA's success in Ethiopia and replicate the model in other countries. The mission of R4 is to achieve rural resilience by enabling adaptation to climate risk through a community oriented, risk management focused, and market-based approach that supports the most vulnerable people to graduate from food insecurity and escape the poverty trap.
R4 provides a replicable and scalable model for building resilience, using existing government-owned and -led productive safety nets to reduce disaster risk and as a delivery mechanism to expand insurance and other financial services to create an enabling environment for pro-poor market growth. By working in diverse microclimates, R4 allows insurance companies to diversify risk and open up new markets. This will attract additional insurance and reinsurance companies to the agricultural market in developing countries. In turn, farmers will benefit from an increasingly broad array of insurance products from which to choose and competitive pricing that should bring down premium rates over time. Founded on the principles of collaboration and mutual support by the public and private sectors, farmer-owned agricultural cooperatives, and intergovernmental organizations, R4 focuses on long-term, sustainable solutions to reduce poverty and hunger by building rural resiliency.


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PowerPoint presentation | Briefing notes | Press release
ISBN: 9264036083 Publication: 24/1/2006
Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World?: What PISA Studies Tell Us
Information and communication technology (ICT) is associated with unprecedented global flows of information, products, people, capital and ideas, connecting vast networks of individuals across geographic boundaries at negligible marginal cost. ICT is an important part of the policy agendas of OECD countries, with profound implications for education, both because ICT can facilitate new forms of learning and because it has become important for young people to master ICT in preparation for adult life. But how extensive is access to ICT in schools and informal settings and how is it used by students?
Drawing on data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World? What PISA Studies Tell Us, examines:
Chapter 1: ICT in PISA and educational policy
Chapter 2: Students' access to ICT
Chapter 3: Students' use of and attitudes towards ICT
Chapter 4: Students' access to and use of ICT and their performance in PISA 2003
Annex A: Technical background
Annex A1: Questionnaire indices
Annex A2: Are principals' assessments of the extent to which lack of computers hinders
instruction comparable across schools and countries?
Annex A3: Standard errors, significance tests and subgroup comparisons
Annex A4: Information and communication technology (ICT) questionnaire
Annex B: Data tables
Annex B1: Data tables for the chapters
Annex B2: Performance differences between regions within countries
How to obtain this publication
Readers can access the full version of Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World?: What PISA Studies Tell Us choosing from the following options:
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They have recently added this feature to their Seneca Fedora-Firefox repository and today I would like to share with you what getting updates on Fedora looks like.
Note that this is just a proof-of-concept and that they will (hopefully) continue dealing with all issues and get it integrated into our Mozilla systems and/or with Fedora's (suggestions/directions welcome!) in following quarters.
This post proves again that a well defined problem when given to Seneca's open-source students helps us move forward when we lack man-power. This is one of the first fruits out of the several MozillaReleng-Seneca projects.
The structure of the post will follow as:
- Getting the repository
- Install Minefield
- New update available
- Feedback
- Files
- What's next?
- Known issues or problems
First we have to make Fedora to know where to pull the package from.
This means that we have to add our "Firefox Nightly" repository to our list of Software Sources.
To do so download this rpm and install it: firefox-repo-0.3-2.noarch.rpm
Once installed you should be able to see the following screen shot when you do this:
- System -> Administration -> Software Sources
|Software Sources view with "Firefox Nightly" integrated into it
Install Minefield (a.k.a. Firefox nightly build)
Now that the software source has been added we can decide to install the latest Firefox nightly.
To do so follow one of these two methods:
- System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software
- Search for "Minefield"
- Check the latest build and select "Apply"
|Once installed, Fedora prompts you to run the application and it reminds you from where you can run the application
- yum install minefield
- /usr/lib/minefield-4.0b8pre/
- /usr/bin/minefield -> /usr/lib/minefield-4.0b8pre/firefox
- Add a Menu item under "Applications->Internet"
NOTE: I am not comfortable about where we unpack (/usr/lib/minefield-4.0b8pre) as I don't know what will happen when we bump the version.
New update available
How do I receive updates?
|Software Update window showing a "Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Nightly" update
Let me know what your thoughts are or what we are doing wrong by:
- Adding a comment to this post.
- Adding a comment to Bug 600317.
- or you can email me directly armenzg [AT] mozilla.com
In case you wanted to have a look at the different files in the repository:
- no-arch
- i686
- x86_64
- we need to make sure that we are doing everything according to the guidelines that Fedora has for packaging and third party sources
- get people to test it and take input from Fedora/Linux veterans
- integrate it into Release Engineering systems
- does our setup work for other distributions using yum? if not, why not?
- set things up for more branches than just "mozilla-central"
- set things up for all locales
- set things up for betas
- define what the ideal world would look like
- Current and previous Minefield nightly show up under "Add/Remove Software"
- Setting Minefield as the default browser seems to mess up the "Preferred Web Browser" icon (I need to verify).
- Using the "Preferred Web Browser" launcher opens "file://home/armenzg/". Is it supposed to be like that?
- Should we be listed under "debug and development software sources" on the Software Sources manager?
- Minefield gets unpacked under /usr/lib/minefield-4.0b8pre. Should this be instead /usr/lib/minefield? (version agnostic)
- Minefield when launched from Applications->Internet->Minefield starts with the ProfileManager and allows running the nightly build with the other instances of Firefox ("minefield --no-remote --ProfileManager); should this not be a feature?
- Since /usr/lib/minefield-4.0b8 is owned by "root" Firefox's update system doesn't work. If we change ownership then updates work again and I wonder what bug would I hit if I can receive updates through yum and through AUS. Only one way to find out!
- I also believe that there is not a way to offer partial updates through yum as we do through our normal update system
This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.


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SAN DIEGO, July 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- aTyr Pharma, an innovative protein therapeutics enterprise focused on rare diseases, announced today the close of $10 million debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank to support the clinical development of aTyr's first therapeutic program to treat rare autoimmune diseases and a rare disease pipeline in immune disorders.
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"In conjunction with our Series D financing, this loan provides additional funding as we translate Physiocrine biology into a new class of protein therapeutics to treat many different types of immune disorders," said John Mendlein, Ph.D., CEO and executive chairman of aTyr Pharma.
"We're proud to be a partner of aTyr Pharma, offering the added flexibility the company needs to pursue its meaningful goals," said Mike White, managing director in life sciences for Silicon Valley Bank in San Diego. "Working with life sciences companies like aTyr, which are in pursuit of innovations that will directly impact the quality of people's lives, is inspiring and rewarding."
About Physiocrines
Physiocrines act as extracellular signaling molecules to orchestrate cellular homeostasis in response to stress. Physiocrines are naturally occurring proteins derived from tRNA synthetases that play fundamental roles in the function of human physiology and the resolution of inflammation. As potent endogenous modulators of inflammation, Physiocrines offer the opportunity for modulating biological pathways through new naturally occurring mechanisms, many of which have multiple therapeutic advantages, including improved selectivity, efficacy and reduced side effect profiles compared to many existing anti-inflammatory therapeutics.
About Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank is the premier bank for technology, life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine businesses. SVB provides industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services to its clients worldwide through 28 U.S. offices and six international operations. (Nasdaq: SIVB) www.svb.com.
Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary and the commercial banking operation of SVB Financial Group. Banking services are provided by Silicon Valley Bank, a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. SVB Financial Group is also a member of the Federal Reserve System.
About aTyr Pharma
aTyr Therapeutics plans to build a pipeline of innovative therapeutic products based on Physiocrine biology. aTyr has established a dominant intellectual property estate to protect the core therapeutics as well as associated diagnostics. aTyr's key programs are currently focused on rare immunomodulation disorders in the areas of inflammation and auto-immunity. These diseases are serious potentially life threatening autoimmune conditions, for which there are currently no effective, safe, long term treatments. The privately held biotech was founded by The Scripps Research Institute Professor Paul Schimmel, a leading aminoacyl tRNA synthetase scientist, and is backed by top life sciences investors Alta Partners, Cardinal Partners, Domain Associates and Polaris Partners. For more information, please visit http://www.atyrpharma.com.
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Rising above the Grand Rapids skyline, River House condos offer the sophistication of urban living. With more than 300 units sold, there has never been a better time to make River House home. Call Chuck Gallagher at 616.726.2900 or 616.299.5837 to schedule a tour and see how River House puts all of downtown at your doorstep.
River House Sales & Marketing LLC. Sales: Chuck Gallagher, Realtor, Greenridge Realty, Inc 335 Bridge Street Ste 100, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504 Gomaps (616) 726-2900 or (616) 299-5837


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It is widely believed that our parents become our greatest influence, and this theory is proven by the fact that many of us have chosen similar career paths to our parents within our adult lives. Danny Neri and his brothers follow this line of thinking, as they have all become automobile painters like their father John (Tony) Neri. Danny fondly reminisces about the childhood days he spent going to his father's body shop, a place where he served as an unofficial apprentice, helping to sand and clean the cars. Danny's father taught the Neri boys everything he knew about the auto body business, so it was only natural for them to follow in his footsteps. He also introduced them to the Lowrider Culture, as the Neri boys all adored his 1954 Chevy, which he had painted a candy apple red.
As Danny made the transition from child to teenager, he started to build Lowrider bicycles. He used his father's shop to modify and paint his bikes, and he also started to attend shows in and around his hometown of Oxnard, California. Danny was a natural, and his efforts were rewarded quickly, as the young builder began collecting trophies at every show. One of Danny's builds was even featured in the summer 1999 issue of Lowrider Bicycle Magazine. In between bike builds, Danny also built a 1967 Chevy Impala, which he proudly rolled the streets with and showed off on the weekends.
When it came time for his latest build, Danny wanted to build something more unique. As luck would have it, Danny found a 1935 Sky King tricycle at an antique swap meet in Ventura, California. Danny took the tricycle home and started going through the color swatches to find the perfect color. He knew he wanted a color and a theme that would stand out, so he decided on Pagan Gold over Silver Flake. Danny also decided on a Pirate theme for the build. Once he finished spraying the tricycle, Danny sent it to David Velasquez in Oxnard, California, for some pinstripping, which would help to accent the Sky King's sheet metal. After David worked his magic, He then took the tricycle to Joe Montano, also of Oxnard, to add the Pirate-themed murals. Oxnard's Robert's Upholstery covered the seat and grips with Ostrich hide. To complete the build, Danny bought the mirrors, lights and antenna from Don Gollo's Bike Shop. He etched the mirrors himself, and made his own custom Continental kit. Danny tasked Pacific Iron to cast the pedals and swords, and he then sent them out for chrome finishing, which really took the trike to the next level. Finally, Hernan's Custom Engraving added some exquisite detail to the tricycle.
The build took Danny six months to complete, and once the tricycle was show ready, Danny took it to Lowrider Magazine's 2009 San Bernardino show, and promptly took first place in his class. Danny also took first place at Lowrider Magazine's 2009 Super Show in Las Vegas. Danny set a couple of goals when building "Lost Treasure"; one was to win a Lowrider Magazine show, and the other was to be featured in Lowrider Magazine. He accomplished both in a short amount of time, thanks to this amazing build.
Danny would like to thank his wife, Christina, and his children, Alan and Samantha, for supporting him and his hobby. He would like to dedicate this feature to his father, who taught him how to paint and introduced him to Lowriding. Great work, Danny!


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Spain Home Kit, Official Adidas Spain Strip
Welcome to the Spain home kit shop at Soccer Box. Here you can shop for all the latest Spain football kits. Order the Spain home shirt, shorts and socks with fast international shipping. You can wear the Spain kit and cheer on the team from anywhere in the world.
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The Spain home jersey is red in color, this color scheme reflects the colors of the Spanish national flag. Yellow is usually used as the trim color and the shirts are often teamed with blue shorts. The brand new Spain home football kit is a slight alteration to the traditional design, it is an all red outfit that features gold colored trim; this has been controversial amongst some fans. However, the bold look is driving sales. The Spain home shirts are selling fast you can shop for yours now at Soccer Box.
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Adidas manufactures the Spain strip. Adidas initially teamed up with Spain in 1982, a brief interlude occurred from 1984 – 1992 in which Le Coq Sportif manufactured the team's kits. In 1992 Adidas rejoined with Spain and have since had a winning partnership, their current deal is due to expire in 2018.
Recent years have been successful for the Spain national football team. The Spain football kits have featured a single star since 2010. The star is now included in the design following the 2010 World Cup that was won by Spain. For each world cup title won national football teams are allowed to include a star on their football jerseys. The brand new Spain home jerseys have a single embroidered gold star above the Spanish national crest. This is a celebration of the teams success. The red and gold colored kit is a bold celebration of the recent achievements of the Spanish national football team. Join in the celebrations and get your kits today.
The Spain home kits are a fantastic choice for supporters of this top team. Spain has been ranked in the FIFA rankings number 1 position for much of the last few years. In addition to winning the World Cup the players have lifted the UEFA European Championship trophy twice wearing their Spain strips.
As well as the home kits, you can shop for the Spain away kit, training kits and a range of accessories at Soccer Box. Explore the store and order you Spain football kits today.
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Alemany Farm- Saturday Workparty
September 10, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm| Free
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Join the friends of Alemany Farm in a Saturday volunteer workparty. All skill levels are welcome to do as much or as little for any portion of the day. Please wear closed toed shoes, long pants and layers. Be aware that there are no bathrooms on site. Meet at the main entrance on Alemany Blvd, just west of Ellsworth. For more info and a complete calendar of workdays check the 'Get involved' section of the website www.alemanyfarm.org.
Alemany Farm is a 3.5 acre organic farm in southeast San Francisco managed by the Friends of Alemany Farm, a vibrant community group of volunteers who grow food and educate neighbors on how to become their own food producers. The farm volunteers pursue economic and environmental justice by through the cultivation of hands-on knowledge of ecology and agriculture.


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A physician and native of Warwick, Mass., Amory Gale worked as an allopath after his graduation from Brown College in 1824, before turning to homeopathy in the mid-1850s. Often struggling with ill health, Gale plied his trade in a long succession of towns, including Canton, Scituate, Mansfield, and Medway, Massachusetts, as well as towns in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Between 1844 and 1853, he interrupted his medical practice for a turn in the pulpit.
Gale's surviving ledgers include accounts with patients, their form of payment, lists of medical fees, and a draft of a business agreement with a fellow homeopath in Woonsocket, J.S. Nichols.


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Co-captain Carly Dickson looks to lead the Crimson to its first Ivy win.
The Harvard field hockey team plays its first Ivy League road game of the season Saturday when it visits Penn at noon.
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Live video of Saturday's game will be available via subscription through PennAthletics.com. Live statistics will be provided free of charge.
Last Time Out
Northeastern scored three first-half goals and went on to defeat the Crimson, 4-0, Wednesday evening at Jordan Field. Sophomore Cynthia Tassopoulos matched a season high with 11 saves, and junior Georgia McGillivray led Harvard with two shots.
Crimson Capsule
Senior Chloe Keating continues to pace the Crimson (2-5, 0-1 Ivy League) in points (11), goals (four), assists (three) and game-winning goals (two). Her points total remains tied for the Ivy League's third-highest, while her goals mark is tied for sixth in the league.
A Different Surface
While most collegiate field hockey is played on flat, smooth-rolling AstroTurf fields, Penn's Franklin Field features FieldTurf, which feels more like natural grass. In preparation for Saturday's game, the Crimson practiced Thursday on the FieldTurf of the Cumnock fields beyond the fence of Jordan Field. Harvard will get in a practice Friday at Franklin Field after traveling to Philadelphia.
History Lesson
Harvard held a 1-0 halftime lead and a 14-11 edge in shots in the game, but Penn scored four second-half goals to rally to a 4-1 defeat of the Crimson last season at Jordan Field. Sarah Hasson scored twice for the Quakers, while Kieran Sweeney made seven saves. Cynthia Tassopoulos made two stops for the Crimson. Penn has won three of the last four meetings between the teams, following a streak of 10 straight series wins for Harvard.
Scouting the Quakers
Penn (1-3, 0-1) enters Saturday's matchup on a three-game skid, having suffered consecutive 4-0 road losses to Cornell and Villanova. The Quakers' lone win came Sept. 11 at William & Mary, 1-0. Kieran Sweeney registered a seven-save shutout in that game has averaged an Ivy League-high nine saves per game thus far.
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Cornell and Columbia both seek their second Ivy League win as they kick off the Ivy weekend schedule Friday afternoon in New York City. Princeton and Yale also look to move to 2-0 in the Ancient Eight Saturday in New Haven, Conn., while Brown and Dartmouth seek their first Ivy win in Hanover, N.H. Sunny Stirwalt and Kyle deSandes-Moyer share the team lead with two goals and four points apiece.


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Over time, hard surface flooring like ceramic tile and natural stone can become embedded with dirt, grease, and grime that regular cleaners and mops just can no longer remove, especially those hard-to-clean grout lines.
This is where our King of Prussia, PA hard flooring, tile and grout cleaning services can help. With our restorative cleaning process, we can bring back the appearance of your King of Prussia, PA home, office or business flooring to the way it used to be. We strip, finish, and burnish floors. We clean and restore grout to almost brand-new status.
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Author: Grinder
Date: 5/17/2008 9:27 pm EDT
I am putting Avaire tile in my foyer, where one edge will be butting up to carpeting. Is there a molding strip that should be used along this edge or can the carpet just butt to the edge of the tile? If it makes any difference, the carpet is a berber type carpet.
Author: Jonathan
Date: 5/18/2008 5:33 pm EDT
You have several options.
1) If the height difference between the Avaire tile and the capret are about the same, you can leave it as a butt-joint. If you do, I'd suggest cutting the connecting tabs off the tray (if it is not a cut edge already) so you can get the tile and carpet as close as possible (minimize the gap). Make sure you secure the carpet down along the edge with a double sided carpet tape. And, I'd suggest running a bead of construction adhesive under the outside edge of the Avaire tile. This is how we've finished our carpet-to-Avaire tile transition between our Master Bath and the bedroom.
2) There are a variety of transition components that can be placed between the Avaire tile and your carpet. Most of them will have an anchoring element that attaches to the floor, and a finished transition piece that plugs into the anchor. I've seen these in wood, metal, and vinyl.
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OWINGS MILLS, Md.—In their first-ever NCAA appearance, the Birmingham-Southern Panthers lost to No. 5 Stevenson University, 13-2, Wednesday evening in Mustang Stadium in the first round of the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship.
BSC ends its season at 14-5, while Stevenson moves to 16-4 and will advance to the next round to face No. 20 Gettysburg on Saturday.
The Panthers scored the first goal of the game less than three minutes in, courtesy of freshman Erik Klein's 62nd goal of the year and sophomore Michael Sanicola's 20th assist.
The BSC lead was short-lived as Stevenson scored less than 30 seconds later to tie it up, then took the lead at the 9:15 mark of the first quarter. The Mustangs scored once more before the end of the quarter, and then out-scored the Panthers 6-0 in the second quarter to go up 9-1 by halftime.
Stevenson scored once to open the third quarter before the Panthers scored their second - and final - goal of the game at the 5:54 mark, an unassisted goal by senior Jacob McPherson, putting his season total at 43.
The Mustangs scored once more before the end of the third quarter, then twice more in the fourth.
Junior goalkeeper Andrew Huffman made a strong defensive effort for BSC, recording 15 saves. Senior Chris Clarke also had six ground balls to lead the Panthers, and he ends the season with 118 total.
The Mustangs out-shot the Panthers 47-25 and picked up more ground balls, 32-12. BSC missed several man-up opportunities, going 1-9 in extra-man situations while Stevenson was 4-10. The Mustangs also won 13-of-18 face-offs and were 16-of-17 on clears while BSC was 15-of-19.


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- Preheat oven to 500ºF.
- Rub the pork with the lime juice, and then drizzle with the oil. Season all sides of the pork with the cumin, coriander, salt, and pepper.
- Roast pork in center of oven for 20 minutes. Remove the pork, tent it with foil, and let it rest 10 minutes before serving.


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On May 11th, Becky Roberts and I will present "Tweet Jams: Facilitated Social Media or Chaos?" at the International Association of Facilitators North America (IAFNA) Conference 2012, in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
We will explore how to apply the concepts of facilitation to Twitter, as we teach how to facilitate a Tweet Jam / Tweet Chat, from 9:00 to 10:30 Atlantic Time.
Join us using the hashtag #IAFNAjam, or join our non-conference facilitation discussions using #facilichat. We will be tweeting out more information shortly.


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Adeste FidelesGreg Gilpin - Heritage Music Press
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DENVER, April 5 (UPI) -- Andre Iguodala hit a layup with 2.8 seconds remaining Thursday that brought Denver what could be a costly 95-94 victory over Dallas.
The Mavericks took a seven-point lead into the fourth quarter, but failed to score a point over the final 2:06 while the Nuggets were rallying.
The win was tempered, however, by what appeared to be a serious knee injury suffered by the Nuggets' Danilo Gallinari, who yelled out in pain when he hit the floor with less than 5 minutes remaining in the second period.
Team officials said Gallinari will undergo an MRI Friday. He is averaging 16 points a game this season.
Denver won for the 18th time in 20 games and improved to 34-3 at home. The loss further dimmed Dallas' fast-fading playoff hopes.
Andre Miller led the Nuggets with 22 points and Kenneth Faried contributed 12 points and 19 rebounds.
Brandan Wright scored 16 points off the bench for the Mavericks.


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Notre Monde's glass trays are stain resistant, but not impossible to mark. We recommend removing spills immediately to prevent staining. Always use coasters to prevent hot surfaces from leaving marks. Rim is wooden.
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Founded by artist Dawn Sweitzer, Notre Monde aims to offer more than distinctive home accessories, but to also enliven traditional techniques with fresh ideas of global origin. Dawn draws her inspiration not only from extensive European travels, but also her experience from making a home in Russia and Western Europe before settling in Columbus, Ohio. Indeed, the Notre Monde line is a direct expression of the artists' cheerful, ongoing immersion into various cultures. Motifs and methods used in her products show their particular interest in the art and design of Eastern and Western Europe, but perhaps even more important, her respect for ways in which other communities embrace the good life.
The Notre Monde studio is a dynamic combination of approaches. Dawn has the fanciful stylistic intuition of an aesthete, though one firmly grounded in the disciplines of mural painting and contemporary Art and Design. Melding luxury with practicality, in the spirit of decorative objects from 18th century Europe to present day.