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Last night Cova Santa lived a memorable night by FACT, Ellum and an spectacular Boiler Room on the terrace which was followed by thousands of people around the world by streaming.
On Live, Maceo Plex, Odd Parents, Shall Ocin, Herr and Architectural offered us brilliant sets that surprised everyone beside a perfect weather and an exceptional natural landscape that made us live another unforgettable night.
The night did not end on the terrace and after midnight the party moved to the club where FACT greeted us with a party that lasted till the morning came.
It was another successful night at Cova Santa, where the wild nature and the best music found its place on the Island.

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Fortunately, I'm in the safety of my warm comfy home, in my warm comfy pants, enjoying the warmth of the wee fuzzball lying next to me, and savouring the extra hot tea I've just made. All told, a fantastic situation.
However, things could have been much worse.
You see, after another long day of work and meetings and other academic pursuits, I arrived home to realize I had no idea where my keys were. I spent several minutes checking and re-checking my pockets, searching the ground, checking my school bag – but to no avail. I know they didn't just up and walk away, nor did they simply vanish into the ether; they're out there, somewhere, waiting for me to find them. And find them I will.
But Dan, you're in your house – how is that possible if your keys still need to be found?
Excellent point. You are correct – I am in my home, and my keys are still at large. Fortunately, like some sort of über boy scout, I am always prepared. In this case, always prepared means having friends who have copies of my keys. Specifically, friends who don't mind getting late night texts that read Save me! It's cold outside and there are wolves after me. Friends who, after receiving said pleas, will jump in their cars and head across town to deliver to me the very keys I am in so desperate need of.
Tonight my friend Mark – the Dr. Mark – came through for me in a big way, and reminded me how lucky I am to have such amazing friends in my life. So here's to you Dr. Mark. You sir are a huge slice of awesome pie, and I owe you huge.
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Being in a relationship is a very special feeling. but being in a long distance relationship is a very challenging part your life. Its show the real side of your love. in this article we have covered long distance relationship quotes for Him & Her (Girlfriend & Boyfriend).
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart… I'll always be with you. – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.– Frank Lloyd Wright
Definition of a long distance relationship: "Inconveniently the most effective way to find out if you really love each other.– unknown
But I must admit, I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. – Lemony Snicket
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
Long distance relationships are hard, but they're also incredible. If you can love, trust, respect, and support each other from a distance then you'll be unstoppable once you're physically together. – unknown
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal." – Vita Sackville-West
That is when time stands still – when you watch the one you love, walk away. – Mallika Nawal
When you come back you will not be you.
And I may not be I. – E.M. Forster
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller
If love cannot stand the test of time, then it has failed the test of love. – Bernard Byer
Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough. – Meghan Daum
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart). – e.e. cummings
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof. – Barbara Kingsolver
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. – Aleksandar Hemon
When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference. – Michael Bassey Johnson
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. – Michael Bassey Johnson
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her.
To feel that I have lost her.
To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. – Pablo Neruda
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. – Edward Thomas
Love is what you've been through with somebody. – James Thurber
Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennesse Williams
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love in the years we were apart. – Nicholas Sparks
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end. – Ed Sheeran
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. – Erica Jong
What I have with you is worth it. It is worth every lonely night, every tear I cry from missing you, and the pain I feel from not having you close. It is worth it because you are my one and only. When I picture myself years from now, I see only you. No matter how painful distance can be, not having you in my life would be worse. – Unknown
In many ways, the art of love is largely the art of persistence. – Albert Ellis
If distance were measured in terms of the heart we'd never be more than a minute apart. – Unknown
Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without. – Rafael Ortiz
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall. – Doug Fetherling
That one short minute gives me in her sight. – Shakespeare – Romeo & Juliet
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. – A.A. Milne – Winnie The Poo
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. – Jodi Picoult
I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him. – Donna Lynn Hope
The value of love is slowly lost when we have way too much. There is just no time to appreciate it. It is in times of separation and distance that you truly understand the meaning of love. – Tiffany Health
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky. – Lemony Snicket
Being close is the first and last desire of lovers, but being far and loving each other without an inch's difference is the characteristic of real love. – Senora Ray
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Saint-Exupery
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. – Colley Cibbe
If you think missing me is hard, you should try missing you. – Unknown
Love is begun by time
And time qualifies the spark and fire of it. – Shakespeare – Hamlet
It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does? – Peter McWilliams
The harder the fight, the greater the victory. – Chris Burkmenn
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. – Erica Jong
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller
Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process. – Alexandra Stoddard
Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennesse Williams
Love will travel as far as you let it. It has no limits. – unknown
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. – Kay Knudson
I want to be with you. It's as simple, as as complicated as that.Charles Bukowski
I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Albert Einstein
I wonder why people still underestimate the authenticity of long distance relationships. I fell in love with his soul before I could even touch his skin. If that isn't true love, then please tell me what is. – Unknown
Be the success story you're looking for. Be the ones to survive your long distance relationship. Be the inspiration for others to follow. – Dee King
When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.– Robert Brault
Without a single thought, two hands collide and the world finally makes sense again. – Kayla Dawn
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. – La Rochefoucauld
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. – Leo Buscaglia
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. – Loretta Young
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. – Rainer Maria Rilke
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. – Lawrence Durrell
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. – Thich Nhat Hanh


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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has the capacity to reshape plant operations. The IIoT serves to connect the digital and physical worlds through the latest technology in order to improve the quality and speed of critical information. That information can be shared and used to make better-informed decisions.
Many factories use a preventive maintenance (PM) program to check critical equipment with portable tools to find signs of degradation. These essential methods for discovering system glitches often miss intermittent problems. If a maintenance technician does not capture critical information at the right time, intermittent unnoticed faults can escalate into complete failure. This is where the latest portable condition monitoring devices and software enter the picture.
Plants often deal with underperforming motors, and it is crucial to figure out the root cause of the motor's failure. In this common scenario, technicians may discover the motor is running hot because of insufficient insulation in the windings. Narrowing down the reason can be difficult.
The traditional solution to this problem relies on standard tools and research, logging and temperature readings. This hands-on method can produce incomplete data because it is difficult to isolate variables and correlate among current, voltage and temperature while operational conditions change. Overcompensation could happen if the maintenance team fails to isolate variables, which may lead to a temporary solution with an unfavorable outcome, like
replacing the deteriorated motor with an oversized motor. This approach trades one set of problems for another.
A newer approach uses smart technology that communicates between plants, equipment and employees. Wireless sensors that are networked to data systems create a trend of volt and current measurements over time. In the motor example, logging becomes unnecessary with portable condition monitoring because phase discrepancies can be remotely pinpointed as occurring at specific times during the equipment's duty cycle.
Detecting Glitches
Some plants have at least one multimillion-dollar machine, also known as a tier one asset, that is powered by smaller equipment down the line. Often, these tier one machines are equipped with monitoring sensors by design, so plant managers can keep tabs on these machines' performance.
A step down leads to second tier assets, which are often worth many thousands of dollars and are process-critical. These assets rarely have fixed sensors, so plant operators are often in the dark when it comes to raw data. For example, if a circuit is tripping intermittently and shorting a motor, and the conditions revert to normal by the time a technician arrives at the panel to troubleshoot, there is not much to do other than wait for the next circuit trip.
With portable condition monitoring sensors mounted on panels of this second tier equipment, managers and technicians can see intermittent faults as they happen or over time from their desktop, mobile phone or tablet. The equipment condition data allows "eyes" into what is going on with operating equipment, leading to better decision making on repairs, adjustments or replacement.
Portable condition monitoring sensors, for example, can simultaneously measure all three legs of three-phase power.
A technician can attach one current sensor to each phase or use the power monitor and then view the results on a smartphone. Since all three phases can be viewed simultaneously in real time, it is easy to quickly see differences between phases.
Setting a threshold on the sensor and the real-time alarms informs the technician of a sudden spike or drop in current to help quickly identify intermittent faults. The results help to identify overloads as well as degradation or failure of one or more phases before they cause a safety hazard or a breakdown.
Correlating Data
Before getting into the assessing measurement needs, the maintenance manager needs to set a baseline for comparison or control. This will set a uniform starting point for what good looks like and lead to trending, the visual process of collecting data on a routine basis to identify patterns and anticipate imminent machine failures.
After plant operators find fault indications, they can analyze, take action and approach the dilemma with a productive mindset. Temperature, current and voltage sensors, as well as associated cloud-based software, allow technicians to capture and monitor remote readings, all without disrupting operations.
When these versatile devices are mounted and connected to operational equipment or in electrical panels, collaborative maintenance managers and technicians can check circuit breakers in an electrical panel for overload, find three-phase power imbalances from harmonic distortion, or degradation or failure of one or more phases.
These sensors can capture changes in temperature within the panels to prevent failure in busbars, overload relays and other components. To dive deeper into motor health, positioning sensors can identify motor amperage spikes or overheating from bad bearings or insulation breakdowns.


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10 Things To Do In Sheffield This Weekend
A round-up of what's on offer in the Steel City this weekend…
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O2 Academy // December 2-3
This weekend, the stage at the O2 Academy will play host to 25 (Yes, twenty-five) legendary bands within the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Girlschool, Venom Inc, and Blitzkrieg (amongst others) will all take to the stage across the two-day event.
Tickets here.
Last Laugh Christmas Comedy Club
Sheffield City Hall // From December 2
Last Laugh has worked with some of the finest comedians the UK has to offer, and never fails to deliver on a big night of big laughs. This Friday will be no exception, as the first Christmas installment of Last Laugh promises to be a big night of food, drink, laughs, and a cheesy disco, with Jim Smallman, Paul Pirie, Jamie Sutherland and Sol Bernstein taking to the stage. The nights continue weekly through December and tickets can be purchased through the City Hall hotline on 01226 743048.
More info here.
Emmy The Great
The Leadmill // December 3
With a roster of collaborations stretching from Fatboy Slim to Kate Nash, Dev Hynes (Lightspeed Champion, Blood Orange), Ash, Gabriel Bruce and Noah & the Whale, artist Emmy The Great is turning pop music on its head, writing in both Mandarin and English, taking influences from folk, electronica and indie. She brings her unique sound to The Leadmill, on the tour of her third studio album Second Love.
Tickets here.
Victorian Christmas Markets
Kelham Island // December 3-4
Immerse yourself in the Christmas spirit straight from the get-go with the 24th instalment of the Victorian Christmas Markets. The cobbled streets of the ambient market carry both the traders and craftspeople selling their own unique wares (the ideal place to pick up a novel stocking filler) as well as actors roaming the streets in traditional Victorian dress, all of which really lends to that magical Dickensian Christmas feel the markets never fail to create.
More info here.
Kate Tempest
Plug // December 3
Poet, playwright, novelist, and recording artist … is there anything Kate Tempest can't do? The recent release of her newest album, 'Let them eat Chaos', marked the launch of Kate's UK tour, and this Saturday sees one of the UK's most talented poet-come-songwriters around at the moment take to the stage at Plug.
Pedlar's Corner Car Boot Sale
Abbeydale Picture House // December 4
Expected to attract 40-50 traders (weather dependent) as well as charity organisations and even buskers, the Pedlar's Corner car boot sale takes place in the charming Antiques Quarter, right by the majestic Abbeydale Picture House.
More info here.
Masquerade Ball
Ponds Forge // December 3
In a brand new £3 million refurbishment, this weekend sees the first of four (the others being on the 10th, 16th and 17th of December) Masquerade Balls in the Ponds Forge Sports Centre. While tickets are £48, the event will prove more than worth the money, with an exquisite dining experience, live entertainment from The English Gentlemen, and, what masquerade ball will be complete without a dance?
Get tickets here.
Maurice Fulton
Trafalgar Warehouse // December 3
Legendary DJ and House Producer Maurice Fulton will be banging his way through a manic three-hour set in Trafalgar Warehouse this weekend, with support from Dan J and Dino.
Tickets here.
Slowcoaches / The Hipshakes / Bad Girlfriend / Sleep Terminal
Picture House Social // December 3
Purveyors of fuzzy pop with a relentless punk energy, Leeds/Notts trio Slowcoaches bring a taste of their new album Nothing Gives (released today) to the PHS ballroom. Support comes from garage punk four-piece The Hipshakes, blues rockers Bad Girlfriend and Sheffield psych punk band Sleep Terminal.
Tickets here.
Peddler Market
92 Burton Road // December 2-3
The Christmas edition of popular street food market peddler is here! Expect mulled wine, craft beer and cocktails plus whiskey tastings alongside live music, art and some of the best street food on offer in the UK.
More info here.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The dollar regained some ground versus the euro but remained in negative territory on Thursday after U.S. economic reports showed initial jobless claims fell 10,000 to 514,000 in the latest week, while consumer prices rose 0.2%, more than economists forecast. The euro bought $1.4893, down from $1.4916 in North American trade late Wednesday. The dollar index DXY, -0.06%, a measure of the greenback against a trade-weighted basket of currencies, traded at 75.557, compared to 75.513 Wednesday. Also, manufacturing activity in New York rose to its highest level in five years in October, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said. Still to come is a report on business activity in the Philadelphia Fed's region.
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Within this Market Hero review, I'm going to show some email advertising secrets which are so good, you are going to want to crawl buck-naked across broken glass just to locate them. Autoresponder Series Templates
But first, I wish to say"thank you" to Alex Becker, the creator of Market Hero.
I began watching Alex Becker's YouTube videos back in 2016. He taught me that a bunch of stuff regarding entrepreneurship advertising, and how to run a Shopify shop.
It was right around that time that Alex released his book, The 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of The World's Richest People. I got that book once I watched it and I proceeded to highlight it and then mark it up. I might go re-read it as soon as I finish this.
Actually, Market Hero is not even his sole multi-million dollar business. The search engine optimization software development firm Source Wave was founded by him and now he is running a supplement brand. He's also got a couple of courses out there in the market teaching people market more and how to increase their lists.
The dude is a freaking machine. My hat's off to you, Alex.
Sign up for the free trial : Market Hero
What's Market Hero?
Anyhow, Market Hero is among the best email Because it concentrates on sales metrics autoresponders on the market today and it's so much better than its competitors.
I have used a lot of email autoresponder software through time, such as MadMimi and Drip. Drip was my favorite up until I started using Market Hero. Drip allows you to do a lot of things that is cool, like monitor your rates and tag your subscribers.
But if you are anything like me, as you take care of open rates and click-through rates, the thing that matters most is SALES. Earnings are the lifeblood of your enterprise and earnings is what puts cold, hard cash in your pocket. Market Hero makes it possible to track sales, plain and simple.
Market Hero Support
While I did not have to use Market Hero support that They return to me, Much because everything is quite self-explanatory, the couple times I did reach out to them. Autoresponder Series Templates
The support isn't amazing to the point where they supply you with detailed step-by-step videos and also hold your hand through each step of the way, but it isn't terrible. Besides, if you want that degree of coddling and hand-holding, possibly Market Hero isn't for you.
Market Hero has English-speaking support staff available to respond to your queries through live chat for free. You do not have to be a part of any plan or updated package to have priority service, like some companies do. You just log in and begin chatting.
Could Market Hero Truly 4X Your Enterprise?
On Market Hero's homepage You will see says,"4X Your Email Business With Unequaled Delivery and Revenue Metrics". This immediately set off my B.S. sensor because I know how hard it is to 4X an email sequence, particularly if you're any good at everything you're doing.
However, Market Hero offers a free trial so I figured I'd sign up and see if it was any good. I figured that I just need a little increase in earnings for Market Hero to pay for itself and when it did 4X my business, I would be flying high.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure I do want to tell you Market Hero has NOT increased my earnings 4X (yet), but I am getting more earnings than before and Market Hero IS paying for itself. Rather easily, actually. I had my game tight and was doing well, so I understood a 4X increase could be tough.
But in case you're new to email marketing or if you have a smaller online business, Market Hero could very likely 4X your earnings. Here's the way:
It monitors your customers' lifetime value.
I know I already mentioned this, but the secret to Market Hero is how it retains your customers' lifetime value (LTV) in front of you constantly and it changes as you send out emails and tweak your autoresponder. Once you know your customer worth, you can literally"buy" clients. What Market Hero does is each conversion for each and every lead on your listing and monitor every sale. It then averages together everything and gives you.
If you're to do this manually, then you would most likely have to go through different programs, various spreadsheets, and go back through your previous earnings. You may have to crunch on a great deal of numbers that are different which you probably don't even have anymore. Market Hero simplifies this issue better than anybody else available on the market.
You can segment using tags.
Sign up for the free trial here: Market Hero
I know that you're probably thinking,"Tags? Okay… big deal." But the manner that Market Hero lets you use tags is a lot better. This is why…
Let's say that I'm running two different campaigns for the same audience. Anyone who opts-in to the very first campaign will be labeled as"A" and anyone who opts-in into the second campaign is going to be labeled as"B".
I will enter Market Hero and filter out all of the"B" opt-ins and find out just how much they are worth in contrast to"A" opt-ins. If I find out that the"B" opt-ins are making more money, I understand that I must be pouring more advertising dollars into advertising the"B" opt-in. Autoresponder Series Templates
Should you do this again and again, you can build a strong business because you will always be split-testing to see which types of people are worth more to your enterprise.
And getting this up and running is super-easy too. All you need to do is choose the pixel which Market Hero provides you and put it in the areas which you would like to track. From that point, Market Hero will keep tabs on all of your clients, sales, conversions, etc., to give you the information which you will need to grow your organization.
You're able to integrate with a lot of different services.
Inside Market Hero, there is a button called"integrations" that – you guessed it helps you incorporate with things like ClickFunnels, SamCart, Shopify, Leadpages, Zapier, and much more.
I think that this is a wise move by Alex Becker since it indicates that he knows his market. He knows that the people that are serious about making money online are using things and he wants to be certain that his applications integrates.
My sole criticism is that a lot of the software I use, for example OptinMonster and Thrive Themes hasn't been put in the"integrations" tab. That does not mean that you CAN'T incorporate them, because you can (you use Zapier to make them speak to each other) but it's not quite as easy as something like ClickFunnels or Shopify.
Speaking of Shopify…
How Is This Different From Autoresponders?
The best way for me to describe it is of The email autoresponders were created for marketers. Their thinking has its limits and that I send emails although I've nothing against marketers that are email. Market Hero was built by means of a business owner FOR company owners.
Market Hero differs because it provides you with a bunch of different ways that will assist you track ROI and create more profit from the emails.
By way of example, one of the coolest features is the fact that it shows you how much each lead is worth. Imagine logging into your email autoresponder and seeing that each lead is worth $6.87 to you. That means you could go out and"purchase" email addresses to make money. What you do is that you buy paid traffic from Google, Facebook, etc. and send traffic into a opt-in page. You have a small business that is profitable if it's possible to find a successful opt-in for significantly less money than it's worth. Simply wash and repeat as many times as possible.
It also allows you to segment your listing in far deeper ways than other autoresponder services out there. I utilized Drip plus they have some segmentation tools from the ability to use tags to your prospects , like I said, but it is small potatoes compared to Market Hero. I really don't want to give away any of Market Hero's proprietary information, but let's just say that you will most likely be impressed by the segmentation ability. Autoresponder Series Templates
Is Market Hero a Scam?
From what I've seen, certainly not. I think that At this time, by being a scam artist, Alex Becker has to lose. Companies's running and he is smart enough to realize that when he tarnished his reputation, he would be screwed.
From what I have seen, people have complained about his refund policy. These individuals are usually the ones who have utilized Market Hero for weeks and try to get their money back. These are the scammers. You are scum, if you aren't willing to pay money for a service which can improve your business and your life. Plain and simple.
Market Hero's free trial offer is pretty clear-cut. It states that in case you cancel within 14 days anything won't be charged.
Rest assured, gentle reader. Market Hero is legit.
If You Have Shopify (Or Any Online Business…)
When I started composing this Market Hero review Was worried that it was going to lean a bit too much. That's why I want to stress this Market Hero can help you in ANY online business, not Shopify.
On his YouTube station, Alex has posted a lot of different videos about Shopify. You discover he provides a lot of info on how to earn money with Shopify, once you get beyond the clickbait-style names. Part of this reason is because he needs to get people to check out Market Hero because he knows it can help them.
By way of instance, Market Hero allows you to create abandoned cart strings. Whenever someone starts the checkout procedure in Shopify (by entering their email) but does not complete it, that has monitored in Market Hero. From there, you can follow up with that individual and get them back to finish their purchase.
The ability to make those cart strings is just one of the ways that it is possible to earn Market Hero literally pay for itself. Let us do some math…
based on the analysis that you read, the average cart abandonment rate for an online shop is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-80%. Are there individuals with abandonment prices? Sure, but this is actually the typical.
Imagine that you have 100 people go through your checkout process and 80 of those individuals abandon your cart. That means you have 80 non-customers and 20 clients. Imagine if a cart retrieval sequence got a 10 percent of this non-customers to purchase?
That would get you an extra 8 customers. Which means that you would increase your earnings 40%! (Because 8 additional sales is 40 percent of the 20 earnings you already had.)
If you boosted your sales 40 percent, would that justify the investment in Market Hero? But that is not all…
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This Cathedral In Louisville Is Incredibly Unique
Louisville has a number of beautiful, historic churches spanning across the city. Today we'll take a look at the interior of Cathedral of the Assumption, which has a stunning amount of detail and intricacy in its design. If you enjoy architecture and old buildings you'll be amazed at this cathedral's interior.
Of course, there are so many beautiful churches in Louisville that it's practically impossible to name only one as the most beautiful, but I really love the interior of this cathedral!
Check out this article about some other incredible churches in the city.


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This Is Beyond Politics with Michael Vandenbergh & Jonathan Gilligan
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Mike Vandenbergh & Jonathan Gilligan explain the role of private governance in reducing carbon emissions even more since the US pulled out of the Paris Accord and how taking action now on climate is actually the best way to ensure small government intervention, how common misconceptions like idling your car and washing your hands with hot water can lead to unnecessary emissions, and the powerful impact we can all have by changing our behavior at home.
Show Notes
Professor Jonathan Gilligan
Check out his website at www.jonathangilligan.org
More about Jonathan's background: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ees/people/faculty/JonathanGilligan.php
Find him on Twitter @jg_environ
Professor Michael Vandenbergh
Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com
Their book: Beyond Politics
Buy It on Amazon
Book Website: www.beyondpoliticsbook.com
Recommended Further Reading: www.beyondpoliticsbook.com/reading/
Jonathan Haidt. The Righteous Mind
Benjamin Barber. Cool Cities
David G. Victor. Global Warming Gridlock
Habit Change: Sources & Additional Reading
See page 280 of the book Beyond Politics
Minute 0:30: Erin & Allyson discuss their strategies for improving your performance at sports with one glass of wine and a future podcast episode taste testing sustainable wines.
Minute 01:30: Allyson tells us about her new natural gum option, Simply Gum.
Minute 3:00: Erin explains some composting complications involving frozen compost and small toddlers, and how she is now OBSESSED with composting!
Minute 5:00: Our guests today will be speaking about the role of private governance in addressing carbon emission reductions.
Minute 5:30: One example of this is Walmart, who voluntarily committed to reducing carbon emissons by 20 million metric tons in 2010, a goal which they exceeded by 2015 with 28 million metric tons. What's motivating Walmart to take steps like these?
Minute 6:00: Erin gives some background on our esteemed guests.
Minute 08:30: Prof. Jonathan Gilligan describes his normal workday, mostly centered around his teaching schedule.
Minute 9:30: Prof. Mike Vandenbergh describes how his job is as much fun as Babe Ruth's…teaching students, pursuing important ideas, and regularly joining an 8 AM meeting with experts from many different fields to brainstorm how to solve these challenging issues.
Minute 12:15: Mike summarizes the two key points of the book:
- People don't start with a blank slate, they start with a worldview. And then they use motivated reasoning and confirmation bias to pick and choose among the facts they are presented with. It's not enough to just provide people with the facts because people may resist that if they think it comes with big government. 66%-75% of the American population think big government is the greatest challenge we face. They suggest that what matters equally is the solution, not just what the problem is. The private sector
- The private sector can't solve the problem, but they can play a big role by reducing 1 billion tons, an equivalent to one of the largest countries by emissions.
Minute 14:15: Jonathan explains why this problem is urgent, and what one person can do to have an impact. People's actions around the environment are strongly influenced by whether they think a lot of people are doing something, or no one is doing something.
Minute 15:30: Mike tells us how this is similar to smoking or seatbelts. People are influenced by the behavior of owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwthers around them.
Minute 16:00: Climate change: is it real? Is it reversible? What's our timeline? Jonathan explains it to us. Basic principles of thermodynamics (heat flow) which hold up across sectors. When you add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, it will warm, which is consistent with other technologies we use—you can't carve out an exception for the atmosphere because you don't like the result. Secondly, models can predict the planet will warm slightly differently, but the models line up nicely with the fact that it's driven by human activity.
Minute 18:45: Let's assume your fear of big government means you're looking for reasons why Jonathan is wrong. Why don't we set up a private prediction market about the temperature, and you can trade on your beliefs? It's already happening in the UK and New Zealand. Let's see if the market matches Jonathan's prediction or not. Would you be willing to put money on your bet that it's not driven by anthropogenic impacts or that it's not happening at all?
Minute 20:45: The role of individuals and their willingness to implement better behaviors based on their neighbors. Mike and Jonathan explain what the "behavioral wedge" which represents the consumer portion of carbon emissions. US households emit as many carbon emissions as all of the countries in South America combined.
Minute 22:00: The private energy consumption in people's daily lives (heating their homes, driving, etc.) is bigger than any other sector of the US economy. There are many ways to reduce energy use without negatively affecting your life and might even save you money—so what stops people from doing it? People misunderstand energy use. They think the wrong thing to do is the right thing to do.
Minute 23:25: Jonathan explains why idling is bad for your car, wastes gas and money, and is worse for the environment than turning off your car and back on.
Minute 24:10: If efforts to reduce energy use are inconvenient for consumers, how can we get them to implement change? Private sector can play an important role here—Walmart wanted to provide LED lightbulbs in their stores for consumers and asked their suppliers to innovate and compete to develop the best low-cost LED lightbulb, and now sells them for less than $10. If you change the 5 lightbulbs you use the most, you'd save $70/year. We need to take away the financial and informational barriers that prevent implementation. No government redtape needed.
Minute 26:45: It's not practical to treat households as a side-issue in trying to reduce emissions because it is such a significant sector.
Minute 27:55: Sometimes market failures lead to energy waste. For example, a renter of an apartment would be interested in reducing their energy use, but weatherizing and installing high-efficiency appliances is up to the landlord, and he won't necessarily reap the financial benefits of the investment. We should work to bridge the gap between those incentives.
Minute 28:45: Jonathan and Mike partner with sociologists in their research because how people understand and apply these solutions is critical to their success.
Minute 29:00: What is motivating Walmart to take these environmentally friendly steps? Business. They see a competitive market edge. In addition, the people running the company care about these issues.
Minute 30:15: Tech companies are trying to go carbon neutral because recruiting and keeping the best talent requires having a positive environmental image. Other companies are really concerned with their reputation. The majority of consumers may not be willing to pay more for green goods, but they may not buy from a company at all if that company has a bad environmental reputation, so corporate executives paying attention to these issues signals that they are aware that reputation matters more and more in consumer decisions.
Minute 31:55: Companies have significant potential to reduce energy use even further through educating their employees, who may be aware of more opportunities to reduce energy waste. Example: Virgin Atlantic started giving fuel information to pilots, and pilots realized they could save millions of dollars a year and significant amounts of fuel. Virgin found the pilots also had much higher job satisfaction.
Minute 33:35: Walker's Crisps, largest potato chip company in England, realized that because they were buying potatoes by the pound, farmers were picking potatoes when wet, storing them in humidified warehouses, and then they had to be dried before being turned into potato chips! By changing the pricing structure, Walker's Crisps was able to save money and reduce a significant source of CO2 in its supply chain. There are lots of these kinds of efficiencies out there, but because climate is urgent, we need to accelerate these innovations from the marketplace to buy time.
Minute 35:15: Private governance is not intended to be the only solution. In 2015, the Paris Agreement was signed and people felt hope that agreement was reached. Jonathan tells us about the "Paris Gap", which is the gap between country commitments and the total CO2 reductions needed to keep us below 2 degrees Celsius. There is a strong agreement that as temperatures rise above certain levels, the danger becomes a lot greater. Sort of arbitrarily, policy people have chosen 2 degrees Celsius and said that should be the target. If we keep going as-is, we will blow right past that. If all the companies met their Paris commitments, we would slow down our rate, but we still have a high probability of crossing that threshold. Over the next 15 years, emissions would be 30-90 billions of CO2 above the threshold, and that gap would get even bigger after 2030. In the short term, what can be done to close the gap down, because once we cross that threshold, all that carbon stays in the atmosphere for thousands of years.
Minute 38:45: We're still in. When the US pulled out of the Paris Agreement, social scientists would have thought businesses would pull back from their efforts. Instead, thousands of cities, businesses, and organizations reiterated their commitment. There are still tons of other market drivers for carbon reductions, so even though the US government can say that they won't regulate certain kinds of energy, that doesn't mean anyone will want to buy it.
Minute 40:15: The Southeast states in the US would be the 6th largest country in terms of carbon emissions, but private partnerships are changing that. Facebook and Dominion Power just announced a new data center powered by renewable energy.
Minute 41:00: Hypothetically, if there was government regulation, the pace of change would accelerate, both from the private sector, but more importantly, if carbon was priced.
Minute 43:00: The government can play an important role around clean energy. There's a revolution going on with wind and solar, but the nuclear renaissance was also promising in contributing to this. Jesse Jenkins at MIT just published a paper detailing how fracking and cheap natural gas prevented the spread of nuclear. Jonathan thinks we need new development of nuclear as well as wind and solar, which would need big government investment. Bill Gates has also been an advocate for government and private investment in energy infrastructure, possibly through subsidies.
Minute 45:00: Nuclear is complicated, though, because of potential harm to human health from waste or nuclear accidents. Jonathan argues that its all about trade-offs, and the risks to human health from fossil fuels are so much more significant and result in so many more deaths than nuclear ever has (10x every year the number of people that have ever died from nuclear).
Minute 46:00: We are always looking for "solutions" or the "optimal response"—we already know what that is: a price on carbon, but some don't want to implement that and it's not currently a reality. But while we wait for the perfect solution, we are wasting time that we don't have. We need to look for second best. It's always important to consider "compared to what." You're not going to solve the answer with the private sector, but you can have a significant impact because compared to the alternative of nothing, it's pretty effective.
Minute 49:00: There is no silver bullet, no single solution. And it's not a small government solution to say that the problem is not happening, because the longer we wait, the greater the need for a more intrusive government solution.
Minute 49:50: Sometimes this gets a little scary when we talk about a threshold that we may or may not hit. Mike explains how he stays optimistic—human nature and the ability of markets to find more efficient solutions. The research is identifying win-win solutions that will allow people to implement better systems. We won't be able to avoid climate change altogether—it's already happening and will continue, but we can limit impacts further.
Minute 52:00: Jonathan's crazy idea for environmental change – would like to see some marketing and money to go into implementing these solutions and making it easier for the majority of people to do the right thing. Richard Thaler's book, "Nudge", discusses how we can nudge people's behavior toward the right thing. Mike mentions a "Legacy Registry": if you had $100, how much of that would you spend on having a better reputation today versus your reputation after your dead. The real harms of climate change will continue many generations beyond ours, so the private sector could put together a registry where you can put information in about what you think and what you did to mitigate the effects of climate change, and then they will know who did the right thing, and who didn't. It might help people feel connected to future generations. When asking computer scientists how to best preserve it, they say to print it out! One idea on how you could change ideas today—a time capsule. They have a link on their website where people can submit ideas.
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Mike's book recommendations: The Righteous Mind, Climate Change Gridlock
Jonathan's book recommendation: Benjamin Barber, Cool Cities
Minute 58:30: Why the way we frame things matters so much: if we take emissions from consumer electricity use and count it toward the "electricity generation" sector, and emissions from consumer motor vehicles and count it toward the "transportation" sector, what's leftover in the residential sector is only 5% of U.S. carbon emissions. If you attribute consumer behavior to the residential sector, that sector becomes 1/3 of all U.S. carbon emissions.
Minute 1:00:00: Mike explains how changing your handwashing behavior can be a powerful tool for reducing carbon emissions. Mike and Jonathan's research showed that although people believe hot water = clean hands, what they actually found was that hot water didn't make hands any cleaner than comfortable water (You should still wash your hands, BTW). We could save about 1 million tons of carbon emissions in the U.S. if buildings supplied comfortable water instead of hot.
Minute 1:01:30: A lot of these things occur because of a lack of understanding about how technology is advancing. Misunderstanding about idling cars has a lot to do with the fact that newer cars don't need to be "warmed up." Same with washing machines—new enzyme-based detergents actually work better with cooler water instead of hot water, which uses less electricity.
Minute 1:02:15: We underestimate by 40% the amount of energy used by a clothes dryer. Research shows 5-15% electricity reduction when you have that information in real-time. These present opportunities for non-governmental solutions, but nonprofit groups are not focused on the household sector, so this could be a great opportunity for private investment.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer returned to familiar surroundings as he took charge of Manchester United for the first time against his former club Cardiff City and witnessed an emphatic 5-1 victory at his old stadium.
The new boss was off his seat less than four minutes into the game as Marcus Rashford skidded a free-kick into the bottom corner and he had further reason to celebrate when Ander Herrera's deflected long-range strike spun wickedly away from Neil Etheridge for the second.
Victor Camarasa's penalty after a contentious Michael Oliver decision brought Cardiff to within a goal of the visitors but only for three minutes as Anthony Martial was on hand to apply the finishing touches to a wonderful team move that involved Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard.
Lingard then got himself on the scoresheet in the second half, clinically converting a penalty that he had won himself after tangling with Sol Bamba before sealing a convincing win with a well-taken goal in the final minute of normal time.
It was the first time United had scored five in a Premier League game since Sir Alex Ferguson's final game in charge in May 2013.
What a start for the new man…
Local lads unleashed
If there is one thing that Solskjaer will look to do during his time in charge, it will be to re-position United's values and traditions to the centre of all he does; get the team playing attacking football in Sir Alex's image and give the young players a chance.
Angel Gomes, 18, and James Garner, 17, may not have made the 18-man squad after travelling down to South Wales, yet two other local lads played a key role in United's win as Rashford and Lingard both got on the scoresheet. They, along with Martial, wreaked havoc throughout.
In fairness, Jose Mourinho played both players regularly during his time in charge, but against Cardiff they looked free from the restrictive shackles the Portuguese used to place on them. Rashford, playing in his favoured central striker role, caused Cardiff untold problems with his pace and movement and could have scored more than one.
It was in that position that he made his sensational breakthrough under Louis Van Gaal in 2016 yet too frequently under Mourinho he was thrust into the 'Danny Welbeck role' that of the hard-working diligent winger, spending as much time tracking back as flying forward.
As for Lingard, he was one of few United players to develop under Mourinho and one of an even more exclusive number to send his old boss a message of support after his sacking. Against Cardiff, he started out on the right, but he gravitated more centrally as the game wore on to good effect.
With Rashford substituted late on, it was Lingard who stepped into a central attacking role for the finish and he was there to end the scoring by bursting onto a Pogba pass and rounding Etheridge for the final goal. A good night for all the players in red, but an even better one for the local lads.
Paul Pogba takes centre stage
While much of the criticism directed towards Paul Pogba from the 'real football men™' brigade is often OTT, the Frenchman doesn't help himself sometimes. The Instagram post on Wednesday whether scheduled or not put him in a bad light, while he looked positively ecstatic as he bounced off the United bus ahead of the game in the Welsh capital.
Regardless of whether reports that stated Pogba shouting 'he f***** with the wrong baller' are true or over-exaggerated, it is hardly a secret that Pogba and Mourinho's relationship broke down entirely. Of all the players to benefit from a managerial change, Pogba was the most obvious.
Solskjaer, who spoke glowingly about Pogba back in August, instantly restored him to his starting line-up and placed him in his favoured role on the left of a midfield three. It was inevitable that Pogba would be a central figure in the first game of the post-Mourinho era and so it proved as he was involved in the first three goals as well as the fifth late on.
Pogba was fouled for the free-kick that led to United's first, teed up Herrera for the second and played the pass before the final pass as Martial finished off a wonderful free-flowing move. After going close to scoring with a sublime effort from range, Pogba then slid in Lingard for the game's final goal at the end.
By the end, Pogba had the most touches (114), completed the most passes (84), won the joint-most number of duels (14), got two assists and a fantasy assist. An influential, all-action display, the likes of which was rarely seen in the Mourinho era.
To say that United universally played objectively 'bad' football under Mourinho would be a little unfair. They did have their moments, yet this season, in particular, there didn't appear to be much of a plan when the players got to the final third. It all became a bit hopeful.
Solskjaer will have tougher tests than Cardiff to come, but it was encouraging that United's players moved the ball so much more quickly and inter-changed positions more freely, in his first game in charge. The verve that United lacked under Mourinho was back with a vengeance here.
United's new-found liberty going forward was best emphasised during their third goal, finished off coolly by the returning Martial. It was he who initiated the increase in tempo initially, popping the ball into Pogba's feet at speed before latching on to Lingard's return pass, darting around Sean Morrison and sliding the ball past Etheridge.
The chant 'attack, attack, attack' has been belted around the Old Trafford terraces frequently since Ferguson's departure, particularly during the pedestrian days of Van Gaal and Mourinho. Solskjaer might not be the man long-term, but it does at least look as though he will try to get his team playing more enterprising football.


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Dow splits with Flushing: Cone pitches two complete games for Chargers
Dow High junior righthander Hannah Cone pitched two complete games Friday to help the host Chargers bounce back and split a nonleague softball doubleheader with Flushing.
Cone took a tough 2-0 loss in the opener before Dow came back with a 9-3 victory in the second game.
"Hannah's been pitching really well this year," Dow coach Jason Gehoski said of Cone, who is now 3-1. "She's physically and mentally stronger, and also more experienced (this year). She's going to play a key role in how we do."
The opener featured a great pitching duel between Cone and Flushing's Caitlyn Hensel. The Raiders scored both of their runs in the top of the second inning on their only three hits of the game.
Susan Fennell had Dow's only hit of the game in the third inning, a single. Hensel also pitched a complete game for the win.
Gehoski said he wasn't too concerned about his team going into the second game.
"In the first game we were putting the ball in play, and defensively (Flushing) did pretty well," he noted. "We were really one key hit away from getting things started our way. Overall we played well in that first game."
And the Chargers came out and took control quickly in the nightcap with three runs in the second inning and five in the third to build an 8-2 lead. Dow took advantage of three errors and several passed balls by the Raiders in the game.
"Flushing wasn't as strong on defense (in the second game) and I was proud of how our girls took advantage of some of their mistakes and ended up getting the win," Gehoski said.
Cone, meanwhile, allowed two earned runs on six hits to earn the victory.
"I'm very pleased that she's gotten to a point where she can pitch more innings than she has in the past," Gehoski said.
Fennell was 2-for-3 and hit a two-run double in the third inning, and Brooke Headley also doubled for the Chargers, who had six hits in the nightcap.
Dow is 4-2 and visits Saginaw High on Monday.


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This striking image was snapped by wildlife filmmakers Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone in Kenya. Spending more than two years documenting the lives of 'river horses', they discovered the tiny fish who rely on them for food and which, in turn, clean the hippo's body. The scene features in the beautiful new book, National Geographic. Around the World in 125 Years. Africa (TASCHEN, £50), which illustrates the continent's spectacular landscapes, incredible wildlife and diversity.
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This is no time for celebration
I suppose all hatred has an element of irrationality. Yet some hatreds are more irrational than others. For thousands of years, hatred of Jews has been unique.
Sometimes acts of hatred, such as confiscating Jewish wealth or property, served utilitarian purposes for rulers or mobs. But often nations deliberately wounded themselves and their prospects by expelling Jews, persecuting them, and killing them.
I write these words in the eternal city of Rome, where Jews were confined to a ghetto, a tiny space where the Tiber river often flooded, forcing them to periodically escape by boat until they could return to their moldering, crowded homes. As the population grew, they had to build up because they were not allowed a square inch more space. Jews were permitted to have one synagogue, and it, too, had to be subdivided to accommodate different customs. It was less than 150 years ago that Jews were finally permitted to live elsewhere in Rome.
If you think this has nothing to do with the Iran nuclear deal, then you are in good company. Here is President Barack Obama, speaking to Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine:
And so I think it is not at all contradictory to say that there are deep strains of anti-Semitism in the core regime, but that they also are interested in maintaining power, having some semblance of legitimacy inside their own country, which requires that they get themselves out of what is a deep economic rut that we've put them in, and on that basis they are then willing and prepared potentially to strike an agreement on their nuclear program.
I dearly wish it were so. Having never lived in Iran, I still offer my own life as counter-evidence. Fully half of the membership of my congregation in Los Angeles are Persian Jews. The vast majority came to the U.S. after 1979, when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi fell and Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took over. They left not only because of the summary execution of a respected philanthropist and leader of the community, but because it was increasingly clear that confiscation and brutality were replacing the shah's regime of tolerance. As a result, many of the best and brightest of Iranian society—doctors, business leaders, even government officials, left or were hounded out. Listening to their stories, it's clear the degree of self-inflicted damage the Iranian regime did is astonishing.
It would be a better world if anti-Semitic regimes put aside their hatreds to pursue their vital interests, but history militates against that illusion. You don't need to invoke the famous and egregious example of Nazis diverting precious resources, trucks, and other war materials, in order to keep transporting Jews to the concentration camps. You don't have to recall how some Nazis busily executed Jews even as they ran from the conquering allied troops. You can invoke Vichy, France, turning over the Jews who were its best and brightest, or the Soviet Union, which lost so much cultural and business acumen and capital through years of suppression. Anti-Semites cannot help themselves. To them, the injury is worthwhile if they can savage the Jews.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Op-Ed: Iranian Nuclear Deal Is a Win for Anti-Semitism
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10-10: Impact of Payment for Environmental Services
Households' Decisions to Participate in China's Sloping Land Conversion Program and Reallocate Their Labour Times: Is There Endogeneity Bias?
1Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, United States of America; 2China National Forestry Economics and Development Research Center, No. 18 East Heping Street, Beijing, 100714; 3College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, 311300, China
Past impact evaluations of China's largest ecological restoration program have assumed the absence of self-selection (endogeneity) in the likelihood and extent of participation. Using appropriate testing procedures and a panel dataset of more than 1,000 households over 11 years in two primary provinces, we found evidence of self-selection in household behavior of generating off-farm income. But the hypothesis was rejected that there was a significant self-selection component in households' decision to participate in the program and generate farming income. Evaluations ignoring the self-section for off-farm labor were found to be biased and overly positive on program impact. Self-selection should be explicitly included, unless there is counter evidence, in any study of this kind.
Triggers and Outcomes to Collective Action in Common-Pool Resources Management: A Devolution Case of Collective Forests in China
1University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 2World Bank
This paper examines determinants and consequences of collective action in forest management in China. Since 2003, a devolution reform has given villages the right to decentralize their collectively-owned forests to households. Based on village collective decisions the following tenure types are observed and regarded "collective action": (i) collective management in villages with the reform versus (ii) where no reform, and (iii) partnership, ie household joint management on a voluntary basis. Analyzing a two-period panel dataset of 3,000 randomly surveyed households in 256 villages, we test two hypotheses: 1) clear and secured tenure rights incentivize cooperation as transaction costs to achieving a collective action are reduced; 2) cooperation improves efficiency in allocating resources and thus has a positive impact on household income growth and poverty alleviation. The estimation considers heterogeneity in plot tenure rights, household management skills, opportunity costs, social capital, village size and pre-existing preferences (pro-cooperative or pro-independent management).
Effect Analysis of Market-based Grassland Management and Reciprocal Grassland Management: A Study on Inner Mongolian Pastoral Area
Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of
After the Grassland Contracting System initiated in 1990s, the traditional community-based grassland management was replaced by single-house grassland management. To achieve more efficient grassland management, two grassland management patterns were developed on the basis of the single-household management : the market-based grassland management and the reciprocal grassland management. In the market-based pattern, households re-allocate grassland resource through participating in grassland market. In the reciprocal grassland management, households jointly use grasslands through personnel negotiation. The market-based grassland management and the reciprocal grassland management have raised increasingly attention from policy and academic aspects. But the management effects of the two patterns, especially the comparative management effects of the two patterns has not been well studied . This study analyses and compares the effects of the market-based grassland management and the reciprocal grassland management from economical, ecological and social aspects using the 417 household data of Inner Mongolia collected during our field work in 2011.
Land Conservation Payments Also Conserve Communal Social Capital
1Department of Applied Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.; 2Economics Department, Environmental Studies Affiliate, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA.; 3World Bank Development Impact Evaluation Unit, Washington, D.C., USA.; 4Evaluation Department, National Forestry Commission of Mexico, Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX.
Payments for Ecosystem Services programs incentivize landowners to protect or improve natural resources. Many conservationists fear that introducing compensation for actions previously offered voluntarily will reduce social capital – the institutions, relationships, attitudes, and values that govern human interactions – yet little rigorous research investigates this concern. We examined the social capital impacts of Mexico's federal conservation payments program, one of the largest in the world. We used regression discontinuity to identify impacts, comparing outcomes for beneficiaries and similar rejected applicants close to scoring cutoffs. We found that payments increased land-cover management activities while maintaining or slightly improving pro-social work effort and social capital. These findings demonstrate that major environmental conditional cash transfer programs can support land management and also conserve the attitudes and institutions underpinning pro-social behavior.


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Five Challenges When Running A Home Business
Working for yourself is a wonderful thing. The freedom to be your own boss is exhilarating and comes with many positives, but there are challenges as well.
Here are five challenges when starting a business from home:
1. It's all on your shoulders.
When you are an employee, you usually have your duties and other employees run other parts of the business. Running your own business from home means that you are responsible for everything. Even the mundane tasks cannot be put off for someone else to do. As your business grows, you must be able to rely on yourself to get them done, unless you can afford to pay someone else to do it.
2. Loneliness.
Even though I loved being able to be at home to greet my children when they got home from school, I found myself missing adult contact. Loneliness is a big complaint from people who work at home. You must prepare yourself for the isolation that a home business brings. Make sure you keep in contact with friends by planning lunch dates, or meet with business clients in person when you are able to to build a social element into your day.
3. Keeping a proper work schedule.
You never really turn it off when you run a business. You don't have that time clock telling you it's quiting time, so it's hard to step away from your work. The more successful your business, the more hours you may need to put in as well.
Try to disconnect yourself from your business by setting some kind of schedule. This doesn't mean you tell yourself you are going to work 9-5 Monday-Friday. That's probably not realistic if you want your business to grow. Instead, put in three 16 hour days, then one short day. You may never be on a regular schedule again, but you can avoid one that will burn you out.
3. Maintaining a quiet work place.
Mompreneurs face a big challenge when running a business from home. A mom with small (or even teenagers!) children will have many chances of being interrupted during their work day. Without a boss to scold you for phone calls from the kids or spouse, you may allow too many interruptions.
To eliminate disruptions, set aside periods of quiet time when throughout the day when you don't allow phone calls, family problems, or emails.
4. Letting your business take over your home.
Running a home business saves overhead, but also can be a burden to everyone living there. It's all too easy to start letting your business take over every room.
Even if you set aside a small area for business supplies. Creating an "office" will set your business apart from your home living. If you must work in the same environment such as using the kitchen table, you can still separate it by packing away office supplies at the end of the day.
On the flip side, make sure it feels like a work environment during the day by creating an office atmosphere. Put up a divider to separate you from distractions like dirty dishes or television.
5. Setting your goals for the day.
When you run a business, there isn't a boss telling you what needs to get done that day. You need a goal, or plan for the day to accomplish business tasks to keep your business running smoothly and productively. A day without a plan can get away from you. I've been guilty of letting a day or two get away from me when I have access to the Internet and some day dreaming get the best of me.
Purchase a planner and create a schedule that you can stick to-and do it. This will give you deadlines to help complete a task that might get swept under the rug. Always fit some free time in for unexpected issues.


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IT'S AN ACT. Pete Costello is accused of faking mental retardation -- or at least exaggerating it -- for 20 years. Along the way, his mom collected thousands of dollars in disability benefits.
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In meetings with Social Security officials and psychologists, [Costello] appeared mentally retarded and unable to communicate. His mother insisted he couldn't read or write, shower, take care of himself or drive a car.We at The Lightning Round are hearing the foundation of the Costellos' defense: "Those evil Democrats exploited us to further their welfare-state agenda -- just like they did with Michael J. Fox!"
But now prosecutors said it was all a huge fraud, and they have video of Costello contesting a traffic ticket to prove it.
HIS DIS-HONOR. The former mayor of Appalachia, Tennessee has pleaded guilty to 243 felonies, including corruption and vote rigging. According to the AP, prosecutors say Ben Cooper "masterminded a scheme to buy votes with beer, cigarettes and even pork rinds."
At most, he'll go to prison for a little less than two years as part of a plea agreement.
And then he'll start a job with Diebold.
GIVING IT ALL AWAY. Charity has its limits, at least for two of the worlds richest people. Unlike the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, which have long outlived their founders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will spend all its money no later than 50 years following the death of the longest serving trustee, according to the Wall Street Journal.
After that, the needy of the world will just have to survive on Windows upgrades.
THE WHIFF OF DISCONTENT. The people behind the "Got Milk" campaign added cookies to the mix, specifically, the smell of cookies to several milk ads at bus stops in San Francisco.
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The technology that creates the scent is very similar to that used in magazine ads. Scented adhesives are placed throughout the interior of the bus shelters, including under the benches.But wouldn't you know, somebody had to complain. From KGO-TV:
But the company with the advertising contract for the city's bus shelters has ordered the strips be taken down.Taunting the homeless? With the smell of cookies?
Muni (the bus company) got complaints from advocates who worried the scent would taunt the homeless and also from people concerned about allergic reactions.
Forgive me for sounding like Scrooge this time of year, but are there no bakeries, no restaurants? Establishments which emit the tempting taunting odor of food?
IT'S ABOUT NOTHING. British mathematician Dr. James Anderson says he's solved the problem of not being able to divide by zero by creating a new number: "nullity."
From BBC:
"Imagine you're landing on an aeroplane and the automatic pilot's working," he suggests. "If it divides by zero and the computer stops working -- you're in big trouble. If your heart pacemaker divides by zero, you're dead."I didn't know a pacemaker needed to divide in the first place. But anyway, Dr. Anderson's solution isn't a solution to other math experts. Writes one commenter on the BBC site:
The "problem" of a computer with divide-by-zero errors is not a problem, it's a feature. It's not something you need to or even want to fix. You could easily design a computer that doesn't have an error in that situation if that's what you want. Replacing the error condition with a new symbol accomplishes nothing. The program still has to deal with the issue in order to present a real-world result to the user.If you have ten apples and divide them among zero people, are you left with ten apples (because there's no people to divide them among) or none (because zero is nothing)? My high-school algebra textbook called division by zero "undefined" -- and now you see there's a good reason why it's undefined. How do you like them apples?


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A professional longarm machine quilter for hire and some of the work I've done.
Oh my! Just look at all the precise piecing of all those points and curves. He must have great patience.
This quilt required a long stand and stare time. If I can't think of what to quilt then I just start quilting something. As usual I started with the stabilizing by SID around certain areas to be sure its going to be even and squared. There was quite alot of bias in the pieces.
The points along the outside border reminded me of pointy leaves so that's what I stitched there.
I did a loop design on the inside points of the border. It may be hard to see but you can click the photo for a larger view.
I knew I wanted to emphasize the circles of the piecing so I did circles on the centers then I added a design on the center circle and inside one of the rings.
I did a point to point design with a loop between the points.
I wasn't happy about the raised ridge around the circles so I went back and added another stitched ring around the circles to flatten that area.
I can't believe it but I don't have more photos of this quilt. I really thought I took many more. On the inside of the border I did the leaf design and on the pieces around the circles I did this leaf design.
Gordon's quilts are always so colorful. I'm hoping he'll be bringing more for me to do.
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Lehigh Valley Tempest midfielder Emily Banashefski has led a resurgent squad into the midst of the Keyston Division title race. [Mark Lineberger, MLine Images]
As Lehigh Valley Tempest coach Erik Burnstein began preparing for the 2019 WPSL season, he wanted to see a marked improvement from last season's campaign.
Last year, Lehigh struggled in a highly competitive Mid-Atlantic Conference, sputtering to a 2-6 record. But now Lehigh is back with a mix of veteran talent and exciting newcomers and Burnstein's team is playing at an incredibly high level.
After opening up the season with a 1-1 draw against Hershey FC, Lehigh has rattled off consecutive wins, including a dominant 5-0 victory in their rematch against Hershey this past weekend. Burnstein firmly believes that the opening game against Hershey served as a wake-up call for the team.
"During our home match with Hershey, we conceded the equalizer very late in the second half," Burnstein said. "We were very disappointed with that, and we all felt we had dropped points on the day. In the Keystone Division, every point is crucial."
The rematch served as Lehigh's coming out party, scoring five goals, dominating possession and shutting out Hershey in the process. Lehigh's star offensive duo of Kate Bonshak and Emily Banashefski tallied all five of the team's goals.
The first three goals of the game all came off of Lehigh set pieces, a clear testament to the extensive work the team has been putting in during training sessions. Burnstein has been pleased with the efforts of both Bonshak and Banashefski throughout the entirety of Lehigh's campaign.
"Kate Bonshak and Emily Banashefski were just fantastic for us the entire game, as they have been all season so far," Burnstein said.
The final goal of the game was a truly impressive display of technical skill and sheer will from Bonshak. She dribbled through five defenders to find herself in front of goal before calmly slotting the ball home and providing the final nail in Hershey's coffin.
The collective performance was especially impressive considering that Lehigh entered the match without their full squad.
"Heading into the Hersey game, the players were aware that we didn't have our entire first team squad available," Burnestein said. "To get a result on the road, especially in the manner we went about the game, was a great lift to the players and the organization as a whole. We have started the season well, and we really wanted to keep that momentum going as we head into a very difficult stretch of games to end the season."
That difficult stretch will begin on Thursday when Lehigh faces off against undefeated Penn Fusion SA. With both clubs yet to lose throughout the early portions of the season, the match could ultimately prove to be a fight for the conference title.
With a duo of quality forwards and an outstanding supporting cast, a win over Penn Fusion could be the first step towards a surprising playoff push for Lehigh. More than anything, though, Burnstein is hoping that this season provides his players with a number of lasting memories and a highly competitive experience.
"As an organization, the Tempest is deeply committed to the player experience. We want every member of the squad to fully enjoy their time with the organization," Burnstein said. "We truly value the players who commit their time and energy to the Tempest, so we want to make sure they have the best possible experience in training, during games and through our community service efforts."