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6 Android Security Apps You Should Install Today
There is a debate to be had over whether or not Android security apps are even necessary.
Proponents claim that Android malware is so common you are certain to get infected without adequate protection, while critics say that as long as you're careful about what you download you will ultimately be safe.
The truth is somewhere in the middle; Android security apps extend beyond anti-virus — there are firewall apps, anti-phishing apps, and other anti-malware apps that also need to be considered.
Here we take a look at some of the best security apps out there…
Note: some of the apps below cover multiple security vectors, but for each one we've highlighted what we believe to be its strongest assets.
CM Security Antivirus
Great for: Anti-Virus, Anti-Phishing
CM Security is one of the most popular antivirus apps on Android. It has more than 16 million reviews (with an average rating of 4.7 stars), it's been downloaded almost half a billion times, and plays nicely with almost every version of Android.
It consistently ranks near the top of AV TEST's independent app analyses, with the most recent results in January 2016 scoring it at 4.5/5 for protection and 5/5 for usability.
Its features can be split into two parts – the anti-virus protection and the "AppLock" functionality.
The anti-virus protection lets you check for malicious Wi-Fi hotspots, fix system vulnerabilities, and scan new apps, file systems, and websites. The developer claims that the system scan is 500 percent faster than its rivals. It also boasts great anti-phishing tools, with real-time scanning of URLs and instant warning notifications.
The AppLock will automatically take a selfie of anyone who entered the wrong password twice, let you lock individual apps to keep your data safe from prying eyes, and block unwanted calls – among other things.
Avast! Mobile Security
Great for: Anti-Virus, Anti-Theft
Arguably CM Security's biggest rival is Avast!.
The PC version of the software forms one part of the triumvirate of free anti-virus protection that dominates the market (along with AVG and Avira), and the Android version has been steadily growing in popularity.
Like CM Security, it offers extensive protections. They include a virus and malware scanner, a Trojan removal tool, an app permission management tool, app locking, and a call blocker. It also scores highly on AV TEST, detecting 99.2 percent of the latest Android malware.
Unlike CM Security, however, it does not include features to control or observe the activity of children.
Its standout feature is arguably its anti-theft provisions; you can control your device via SMS, remotely lock and wipe it, force it to sound an alarm, and prevent USB debugging.
NoRoot Firewall
Great for: Firewalls
NoRoot Firewall is the most popular firewall app by some distance.
It works by creating a mock virtual private network (VPN) then rooting your apps' traffic through it. In short, it gives you complete control over how and when individual apps can access the web.
This has many benefits. For example, you can see whether apps are accessing ad data, or prevent apps from using valuable bandwidth.
When an app tries to go online, you'll receive a pop-up notification. You can then permit or deny its access, and save your choice for future attempts. You can also control if an app can only access the Internet over Wi-Fi, mobile Internet, neither, or both, allowing you to prevent cloud storage services from syncing, or apps from updating while you're away from a Wi-Fi connection.
Lastly, you can create filters based on IP addresses, host names, or domain names.
Note: the developer states that the app will not work on LTE networks, but that the team are working on a fix.
Kaspersky Internet Security
Great for: Anti-phishing
Kaspersky is another well-known antivirus suite in the PC market. Its Android app is free to download and use, but it really starts to shine if you pay for the premium version ($14.95 USD per year).
That's because the paid version unlocks the anti-phishing features, an area in which it's best-in-sector. Naturally, it offers real-time phishing protection while using your web-browser, but it will also scan text messages, WhatsApps, and emails for suspicious links.
The premium version also unlocks privacy controls and cloud protection, while the free version provides a powerful anti-virus scanner, anti-theft tools, and a call and text filter.
Great for: Firewalls
Before we begin, it is important to highlight that this app needs your device to be rooted. If it's not rooted, it won't work. However, if you do have a rooted handset, it is arguably more powerful than the aforementioned NoRoot Firewall.
Unlike its competitors, it functions on IPV6 (and by extension, LTE networks), it has a VPN control, a LAN control, tether control, and boasts a lock pattern for application protection. Of course, it also offers all the same features as NoRoot Firewall such as blocking by connection type, IP addresses, and host names, etc.
It works by editing the iptables Linux firewall and it's unclear whether simply deleting and reinstalling an app would edit these, so if you ever want to delete AFWall+ make sure you reset these to the defaults first!
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Great for: Anti-Malware, Privacy
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware claims to protect you from "malware, infected apps, and unauthorized surveillance", and like it's PC-based cousin, it is entirely free to use.
Many of the app's functions are the same as the PC version. For example:
- It will detect and delete malware (including spyware and Trojans)
- It can scan malicious code and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs)
- It can scan for security vulnerabilities
- It monitors location-tracking apps
On the privacy front, it will constantly monitor which apps have access to your data and what they are sharing with third-parties, presenting it all in an easy-to-follow list. You can then enable/disable permissions from that list.
Which Apps Do You Use?
There are many apps that didn't make this list, all of which deserve an honorable mention.
AVG, Lookout, and 360 Security are all excellent antivirus programs, LostNet NoRoot Firewall and Firewall Gold are worthy firewall apps, while services like mSecure (passwords), Ninja SMS (encrypted texts), and SSE (universal encryption) all have an important role to play.
Which apps do you rely on to keep you safe while using your device? Do you even believe in Android security apps, or do you fall into the "they're unnecessary" camp?
We'd love to hear your opinions and tips. You can get in touch via the comments below.


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How To Keep Your Kitchen Always Fresh? (P.1)
|After preparing delicious meals for family, many women are obsessed by unpleasant odors caused by cooking. The smell is not only present in the kitchen, but also spread to other spaces if cannot be handled soon. The most common solution for this problem is a hood.
|A cooker hood is a divide to collect and vent smoke or odors from the air in the kitchen and can be a focal point in living space. However, some customers still do not believe that hood can bring the expected results. The problem is they do not know how to choose the suitable hood to get the best efficiency from the device.
|In the market now, there are so many types of hood with different features, specifications… It's make the customers confuse when choosing a hood for their home. Customers can choose a suitable hood based on its extraction rate by a simple calculus: Extraction rate = Kitchen volume x Coefficient. The coefficient is how many times you want the air in the kitchen changes in 1 hour. If you do not cook frequently and only prepare simple dishes, the coefficient can be 5. If you cook more often with more flavor dishes, the coefficient must be more than 10. For example, you have a 2.5 meters width, 3.5 meters long and 3 meters height kitchen and cook every day, you will need a hood with minimum (2.5 x 3.5 x 3) x 10 = 262.5 m 3/h extraction rate.
|Consumers also can choose kitchen hood by mounting instruction based on their home structure. There are 2 options of exhaust: venting (ducting) and recirculating. The recirculating exhaust is suitable for apartment or townhouse. Advantage of this exhaust system is very easy to mount. The system uses activated charcoal to filter the air so that the air intake ratio will reduce about 20-30% and the noise will increase slightly. Vented mounting method is used for houses that have space for air to go outside with the mounting is more complex. However, with this mounting, air intake ratio will be higher. Modern hood including two exhaust systems allow consumers to choose vented and recirculating mounting depends on their demands.
|How To Keep Your Kitchen Always Fresh? (P.2)

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The Bengals have a full coaching staff once again after the hiring of Jeff FitzGerald. The former Ravens assistant will take over as linebackers coach, the same position he held in Baltimore for the past four-seasons. The 47-year-old is highly respected for his work, including being only one of two LB coaches to have all […]
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FitzGerald Named New Bengals LB Coach
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This article will explain:
Why NowSecure Workstation users should update iOS testing devices with caution because a jailbreak might not yet be available
Why users should keep devices running major iOS versions that are not yet Jailbroken on reserve in anticipation of NowSecure Workstation support for those versions.
To account for all possible scenarios, mobile apps should undergo security testing in a worst-case environment such as on a Jailbroken device. For this reason, NowSecure Workstation tests iOS apps on a Jailbroken version of the iOS operating system.
A jailbreak method for a new version of iOS is not immediately available upon Apple's release of an iOS update. In addition, soon after a jailbreak is available, Apple will release a new version of iOS that patches the jailbreak method.
As soon as a jailbreak method for a newer version of iOS is available to us, our research and development team begins updating NowSecure Workstation and the agent to support testing of apps on that Jailbroken version of iOS. Until that NowSecure Workstation update is released, however, a device running a non-Jailbroken version of iOS will not function with NowSecure Workstation.
Therefore, we recommend that whenever Apple releases a new major version of iOS (e.g., iOS 8, 9, 10, etc.), NowSecure Workstation users do the following:
Update another device not currently used for testing to the new major iOS version
Keep that device on reserve
Refrain from performing any further updates on that device
Do not update your primary testing device as they are usable for Jailbroken testing in Workstation (this includes iOS 11.0 - 12.4 or even 10.x devices that you use regularly). We support up to iOS 12.4. Please only update spares or Jailed devices to iOS 12.4 in anticipation of the upcoming jailbreak.
This will ensure that as soon as NowSecure Workstation supports a new major version of iOS, you have a device on hand you can use to test apps on that Jailbroken version of iOS.
We expect to support iOS 12.4 jailbreak in the near future.
Put the device in DFU mode for device restore.
Restore the new iOS version onto the device.
Settings -> General -> About on the device
Please contact [email protected] with any questions regarding this issue.


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Aside from a few tweets and a Show Announcement post that came before this show was moved from Saturday, April 9, to Thursday, April 7, we kind of glossed over the announcement that Band of Horses would be coming through the region for a stop at the Verizon Theatre as part of its upcoming tour.
Y'know, no local tie, blah, blah, blah.
Well, consider that much changed: Yesterday, on their Facebook page, Band of Horses revealed that this April 7 show would feature Denton's Midlake as a "special guest" opening act.
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Just in case you need inspiration for a Halloween costume! I just love these shots. I especially love that the Cape Breton Zombies were so polite that they used the sidewalk! This event was on October 6th. Thanks to Jay McNeil … Continue reading
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Monday, 24 March 2014
Well, here we are, a mere 3 years and 6 months after my last meaningful post! I am somewhat at a loss to try and recap everything that's happened over the intervening period. Suffice to say there have been many highs - Y's marriage and our family trip to Hawaii probably stands out as the biggest and best; the Tohoku Dai Shinsai in March 2011 was one of the worst. It's true to say there have been many difficult times; not only disasters and economic travails, but also some big domestic and health problems as well. I don't want to dwell on the negative but I think it's true to say I have experienced some pretty miserable periods over the last few years. But, hey, I'm still here and still more-or-less happy with life here in the Land of the Rising Sun.
So what of the now? Well it's been an interesting 18 months or so. Late 2012 I began to experience some real health issues. I was really starting to feel dreadfully tired and my cholesterol levels had shot through the roof. Earlier that year, I'd made the mistake of going to a Japanese dentist for a routine filling (NEVER go to a Japanese dentist - they are all idiots!). He botched it so badly that I ended up in total agony for nearly 3 weeks and with a full-blown systemic infection that required a serious course of antibiotics and a trip back to the UK to finally get on top of. The whole experience left me clinically depressed and at a pretty low ebb. Upon returning to Japan, I had some blood tests done for thyroid function (depression and high cholesterol are both symptoms of hypothyroidism), and low and behold there did seem to be a problem. I started on treatment, but I have never felt comfortable with the idea of long-term medication so I decided to try and find another way to sort myself out. It turns out, that this was the best course of action.
In a nutshell, I had become fixated on the negative aspects of my life. Somewhere along the line I had lost sight of the fact that I am fortunate enough to be living in one of the most fascinating places on Earth, and for the most part I was comfortable and not facing any major health barriers. I decided that I needed to start making the most of this opportunity that been placed in my hands. So, I started doing stuff: exercising in the park every morning, going on walking trips to the mountains, getting back to Iaido which I had shamefully let slip, and even returning to Aikido training. The net result has been a big improvement in health, both physically and mentally, and a much brighter outlook.
I say all this by way of an introduction to some of the topics I intend to be writing about a lot more from now on. In particular, I have re-discovered my love of the outdoors and especially hiking in the mountains. Everyone thinks of Japan, and especially Tokyo, as a hyper-modern environment. And of course it is. But it's also much closer to wilderness areas than you might suppose. Less than an hour by train, I can be in thickly forested valleys or clambering over peaks with incredible views of distant mountain ranges, including the iconic Mt Fuji, of course. True, when the weather's good you do have to share the view with about 6 billion other people on the more popular routes. But even in the peak periods, it's still possible to find solitude off the beaten track.
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Synopsis: Covers the theory and application of analytics specifically in business applications.
Difficulty: Beginner
I'll just jump straight to the point: Provost and Fawcett have produced one of the best all-around books on analytics for business I've read so far.
What makes it so good? The authors start out simply enough with introductory explanations of several key ideas, but by the end of the book one has been exposed to enough theory to understand the "why" of models, not just the "how". They don't spare readers the math involved, but they do go the extra step to make equations more readable by eliminating luxury items like sigma and hat notations.
There is in-depth discussion of several real-life examples, including the now famous (infamous?) Target pregnancy-predicting case. I was very disappointed that Provost and Fawcett chose not to address the ethical implications of Target's actions, choosing instead to opt out of that discussion:
Target was successful enough that this case raised ethical questions on the deployment of such techniques. Concerns of ethics and privacy are interesting and very important, but we leave their discussion for another time and place.
This is an important issue, but nearly every author in Data Science is either giving it a cursory examination or avoiding the topic altogether. Are we going to be self-regulating in this regard, or are we going to invite government intervention because of our inaction?
Other than this oversight, Data Science for Business is an excellent book. Readable, with the right balance of theory and practical application, it hits the spot without feeling bloated. And when you think about it, that is exactly what a business analytics practitioner is looking for.


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Radio 4 to broadcast John Cleese Presents
- Radio 4 is to broadcast John Cleese Presents, a new five-part series from the Monty Python star
- The 15 minute episodes will mix new material with extracts from Cleese's 2014 autobiography
- John Cleese Presents starts on Radio 4 at 9:30am on Wednesday 10th May
Radio 4 is to broadcast John Cleese Presents, a series which features extracts from the Fawlty Towers star's autobiography alongside new material.
The five-part series is set around the idea that John Cleese is having a go at being a radio presenter. The BBC explains: "For the first time in his illustrious career, John Cleese tries his hand at being a BBC Radio disc jockey, which he discovers isn't as easy as it sounds."
The 15 minute episodes will feature extracts from Cleese's audiobook of his autobiography, So, Anyway. Published in 2014, the book tells the story of "how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend."
The audio extracts will be mixed with new material starring Cleese, Harriet Carmichael (Newzoids) and former X Factor announcer Peter Dickson.
The Monty Python star has written John Cleese Presents alongside James Peak from production company Goldhawk Essential.
This news follows last week's confirmation that Cleese will star in new BBC sitcom Edith. In marks a U-turn for Cleese, who said in a 2014 newspaper interview: "The BBC makes crap comedy and would never commission Monty Python now."
John Cleese Presents starts on Radio 4 at 9:30am on Wednesday 10th May.
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Physicians undertaking clinical research are expected to obtain valid consent.
Research is essential for the advancement of medicine. Occasionally the CMPA receives enquiries from physicians about the medico-legal risks of participating in research. As there are many different types of research, the specific questions are varied but always interesting. For example, a member considering participation in a drug trial asked about any special issues related to obtaining patient consent. Another member asked whether there is any obligation to enroll a patient in the study.
Many research projects rely on the recruitment of subjects into a trial by practicing physicians who have not been directly involved in the establishment of the protocol and whose primary purpose is to give the best possible treatment to their patients. These physicians are often motivated to enrol study subjects because they believe the study treatment may prove to be more effective than the current standard. Physicians may also be under a number of other pressures to enroll patients in the study. However, it is important to remember that the courts have affirmed the standard of informed consent in a research context is higher than for routine treatment.
During screening of patients for a trial, the physician should consider inclusion and exclusion criteria outlined in the protocol. Failure to adhere to these criteria may not only invalidate the subject data but also expose the physician to medico-legal risk. Should an adverse event occur, the quality of the informed consent discussion may be relevant. "Informed consent" has been discussed in many CMPA publications, but it is important to reiterate the principles in the context of clinical research:
In summary, while it is exciting to engage in research that has the potential for a major advance in care, it is important to ensure the research protocol is followed explicitly in order to obtain valid results. It is even more important to ensure the patient receives the information necessary to make his or her own choice about being enrolled in the research, and that the choice is voluntary.
Doctors who choose to be part of a research trial should recognize the increased responsibility this involves, both to provide appropriate information to their patients and to follow the research protocol. They should be aware of the applicable policies of relevant regulatory bodies pertaining to research and possible conflicts of interest.
DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this learning material is for general educational purposes only and is not intended to provide specific professional medical or legal advice, nor to constitute a "standard of care" for Canadian healthcare professionals. The use of CMPA learning resources is subject to the foregoing as well as the CMPA's Terms of Use.


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The Trustees of the Rebecca Pomroy Foundation annually make grants to assist worthy charitable organizations whose operations are in conformity with the foundation's charter.
Special preference is accorded to organizations that serve members of the Newton, MA community.
The Trustees make total grants of approximately $75,000 to $90,000 annually. The size of an individual grant will vary; depending upon need and other factors, but is usually within the range of $2,000 to $10,000.
The Trustees will consider repeat support to charitable organizations; however such support must be requested and justified on the basis of both past year performance and future plans. Additionally, multiple year commitments will be considered by the Trustees when, in their opinion, longer than one year is needed to complete a certain task.
The Foundation will consider the following types of support:
a. Capital Grants
b. Operating Support
c. Special Projects
Any tax-exempt organization under 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code may apply for financial support. Organizations able to clearly demonstrate their services to the Newton community are strongly preferred.


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- All-year-round high-performance sports underwear with seamless integrated ventilation zones
- Breathability improved by 20%
- Excellent freedom of movement for intense activities
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I cannot say enough positive things about Urban Baby Co. I have ordered a few things already and my items always arrive much faster than expected with great packaging for each item. I ordered this Birthday Girl onesie for my daughter's first birthday. It was oh so soft and so cute.
— Lindsey E.
I love that it not only was adorable and organic, but arrived in eco friendly packaging! Love this added special touch and I will order again for myself as this was a gift. 💜
— M. Felice
Pleasant business owner and prompt when answering my question and fixing my dilemma. My shirt arrived on time and is exactly what was described. The shirt is adorable and unique, just melts my heart. I've been searching for a mommy shirt that touches me and this one nailed it. Pleased with the item and overall service of the business! 💜
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Scrapbooking Achievements
- 123 DT member August 2014-June 2017
- A2Z Scraplets Guest DT february 2014
- Archiscraps challenge site owner
- Artastic Guest Design Team member November 2013
- Child's play Design Team January-June 2013
- Counterfeit Kit Design Team July 2013--now.
- Feeling Sketchy Design Team 2013
- From Screen to scrap Design Team 2010
- Guest designer Lollipop ladies Nov-Dec 2012
- Lollipop Ladies Design Team 2013
- Made pages for Southern Cross Children's camp
- Memory Maze Design Team 2013
- Organised swaps on Purplescraps
- Published in Scrapbook Creations Nos 77,18,4,11(project)
- Published on Scrapbook news and Reviews
- Published Scrapbooking Memories Vol 4 no 10;vol 5 no 6:
- Scrap that song Design Team 2012
- scrapmatts design team 2011-2012
- Scrapping Everyday Miracles Design Team 2016-
- Selected for 52 card pick-up
- Sketches with a twist DEsign team July-December 2013.
- stampandscrap design team 2009
- Stick it down DT 2017 Jan-
- Supported Bonny Babies by scrapbooking a memory box
- Taught scrapbook lesson @ Scrapbooking'n'craft retreat
- Taught scrapbooking @ Patches on Beaconsfield
- Taught scrapbooking for "Art Stamps"
- Use Your stuff DT June 2019-
- Winner at Paper Issues December 2018
- Winner on Soul Scrappers sketch challenge Dec 2018
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Stuck Sketches Oct 15th
On my recent trip to Broken Hill we visited Marios and saw the Palace hotel murals featured in "Priscilla,queen of the desert" movie.I took several photos which will no doubt appear in my future layouts but these 2 murals suited this stuck sketch.I've cut the doorway(which was plain brown) out of the top photo to let the tree on the patterned paper shine through.The aboriginal painting was on the underside of the stairs.I didn't use too much embellishment as these photos feature a very busy detail.The title was rather long so it stretches across the top of the page as well.
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gorgeous. Love the stuck sketch with the hot air balloons too. Take care x
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Later tonight BBC2 is repeating a documentary on the great MArty Feldman at 11.20, shown on BBC4 earlier this year. Well worth a look. It has interviews with Barry Levinson and Larry Gelbart in among the usual 60s British comic suspects.
Also, you might have missed the rather poorly promoted documentary Black Power Salute on BBC 4 this evening. A fascinating piece with interviews with all major protagonists (and archive footage of the dunderheaded chair of the US Olympic committee, who somehow persuaded Jesse Owens to go to Mexico to try to stop the protests). It's repeated at 2.45 am and as wtih the Marty Feldman doc is well worth setting the PVR for.


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Claviorganum, a Curiosity? A Quest into the History and the Influence of the Claviorganum on Musical Praxis
Bart Naessens
Already in the early years of the development of keyboard-instruments, the claviorganum (a combination of a harpsichord and an organ, played from the same keyboard) plays an important role. It is amazing however to note that nowadays the instrument is hardly used or being heard. After all it offers an interesting alternative for the (sometimes) established obligatory choices between either harpsichord or organ as continuo- and/or soloinstrument. Both instruments can be used at the same time, but in that case two players are necessary. This research will examine to what extent the claviorganum was/is a (a-)typical instrument.
First of all, the research will compile a complete listing of the remaining historical instruments. Then follows a comprehensive and thorough investigation into the actuel impact on the music and historical performance practice of specific keyboard and continuo-repertory. First we will look at what historical sources can be found, on the other hand we will demonstrate (while performing) what the role of the claviorganum could be and to what extent we can or should adjust our musical esthetics. Finally – and perhaps this is the main drive for this project - this research wants to make a contribution to revive the existence of the claviorganum and to promote all kinds of initiatives that give this (wrongly) unknown instrument a renewed future.
Supervisor: Joris Verdin
Co-Supervisor: Carl Van Eyndhoven
Duration: 2011-15
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A local group of soccer veterans with a new business plan is courting investors for $40 million to bring a Major League Soccer team and a new 18,000-seat stadium to the Detroit area.
Jim Duggan, former CEO of the Detroit Rockers indoor soccer team, says his group has mapped out the right formula for a team to succeed in Detroit.
Duggan said the time is right because getting into the MLS will become more expensive as the league expands. MLS will have 12 teams for the 2005 season, two more than last year. The league also signed a 10-year, $150 million sponsorship deal with Adidas two months ago.
He said Philadelphia and Detroit are among the largest cities without an MLS team that could support one. Duggan said Detroit's size and ethnic makeup should be able to support at least the MLS average attendance of 15,000 a game.
"We're looking for our Dan Gilbert," said Duggan, referring to the Quicken Loans chairman who plans to buy the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
Duggan, who with brother Dan owns the Michigan Bucks soccer team of the Premier Development League, also is working with Roger Faulkner, chairman of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and chairman of the 1994 Michigan World Cup bid. Matt Rossetti, president of Southfield-based Rossetti Architects, developed a rough design for an 18,000-seat stadium with 8,000 to 10,000 luxury seats under a canopy. Rossetti has designed numerous stadiums, including Ford Field and the Home Depot National Training Center, home to the Los Angeles Galaxy of the MLS.
The group estimates the stadium, without any public funding, will cost about $45 million. The stadium would have 14 regular-season MLS games, plus special events such as World Cup qualifiers, women's international games, international exhibitions and Olympic qualifiers. Those games should average attendance of about 15,000.
The organizers also worked 22 concerts a year into the business plan with an average attendance of about 7,000.
A proposed stadium would cost about $4 million a year to run and the team about $6 million a year. The business plan calls for revenue from tickets, parking, concessions, suites, and stadium sponsorships to generate between $12 million to $13 million a year, Duggan said. The plan calls for naming rights for a stadium with a freeway marquee to generate about $1.2 million a year, he said.
Duggan said he's spoken to representatives of the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit and land owners in Livonia, Ann Arbor and Washington Township.
The stadium would require an up-front investment of about $30 million and another $10 million to start the MLS team. The balance of stadium costs could be covered by sponsorships, Duggan estimates.
MLS is highly centralized. All player contracts are with the league and it doesn't sell franchises like the other four major sports leagues. Team "owners" buy into MLS ownership and become operators of the teams.
MLS founder Alan Rothenberg, now president of Los Angeles-based sports marketing firm Premier Partnerships, said Duggan's numbers are "reasonable and achievable."
Rothenberg said putting a soccer-specific stadium in the business plan is key. The two profitable teams in the league, Los Angeles and Columbus, have their own dedicated soccer stadiums.
Duggan said it's critical that a new team play in a smaller, soccer-specific stadium rather than an existing stadium. Excess seating capacity leads to a paucity of season tickets and advance ticket sales.
"If you can't get those advance sales, if you rely on walk-up sales, you won't make it," he said.
Duggan isn't just fighting a financial battle. Detroit has had at least three professional soccer teams, one outdoor and two indoor, and all have folded.
A sports analyst said Duggan's proposal will take "an all-out marketing effort" to a select group of people, but it's not out of the question in a market the size of Detroit's.
"It's challenging, but not implausible," said Andrew Appleby, president of Rochester-based General Sports & Entertainment. "The question is whether the numbers make sense to support the debt load for the up-front investment. But in a market this size, with lots of folks from countries where soccer is the No. 1 game, it could work."
Terry Kosdrosky: (313) 446-1626, [email protected]


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Translation Of Text Pabuat Boru From Mandailing Language To English Language
Zukhairiyah, Irfah
Lubis, Syahron
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The objectives of this study are: first, to translate text Pabuat Boru, second, to know the appropriate techniques that were used to translate the cultural text, third,to mention the reasons why those techniques were used to translate the text Pabuat Boru, fourth, to know the shiftings in the process of translating the cultural text. The data resource of the descriptive-kualitative study is a written text of Pabuat Boru in Mandailing language. The data are sentences in the Pabuat Boru text. In translating the text Pabuat Boru the researcher (1) applies some techniques, namely: literal translation, meaning translation, addition, omission, paraphrase, and generalization, (2) analyzes the shiftings in the translation process, level shift and category shift. The translation process of this text goes through several stages, analyzing text structure, transferring the meaning, writing first draft, analyzing the first draft, writing the second draft, evaluating the second draft, writing the third draft, reevaluating, and writing the final draft.


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Did You Keep Your Baby Name a Secret?
Deciding on a baby name isn't always easy, and when you finally do have a name, choosing whether to share before the baby is born can be a back-and-forth discussion.
My husband and I decided to share our babies' names before they were born — even when we didn't know the gender (because we chose a name that would work for either gender). For us, it helped us bond with the baby, and when we had older children, it helped them bond as well, having a name to call their sibling to be.
If you're not sure if you will keep your baby name a secret, read on to find out how six parents came to the decision to share or to keep their baby's name a secret until birth:
No: Feels more real
"We aren't keeping it a secret. It feels more real and exciting when we refer to her by name!" – Christy
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Yes: Didn't want opinions
"Yes because I didn't want opinions. When there is an actual baby with the actual name in front of a person, they'll keep their opinions to themselves and deal with your decision." – Casey
Yes: Didn't want anyone to steal them
"Yes. They were unique names, and I didn't want anyone to steal them from us!" – Alexandra
No: Named after Dad
"We didn't with our first because he was a junior, and what could people say? Tell my husband they didn't like his name? With our other two, we waited until they were born, partly because we weren't 100% sure which name we'd pick and partly because we didn't want opinions. You don't tend to hear much if you present the baby with the name already decided, but you'll hear a lot of opinions ahead of time." – Shell
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Yes: We didn't like the questions
"We had a name earlier in the pregnancy that we were pretty sure of. My husband and I said it all the time to each other when referring to the baby and even spoke to him using it. When others would ask us about it and we said it out loud, their responses made us uncomfortable. Some would wonder how it was spelled or just scrunch up their face and repeat it and go 'Oh … OK.' It made saying it to anyone else awkward, and eventually, we hated it. We then spent months trying to come up with another name.
"We have a couple weeks left until baby 'M' is here and are quite positive this is his name; however, we aren't telling anyone until he is born because of our first experience. As much as you might think you are a person who is unaffected by the opinions of others when it comes to your child, it's easy to be a little more sensitive.
"And, moreover, there are very few surprises in life anymore, especially since we could never wait for birth to find out the gender. The name being a surprise to friends and family kind of builds up the excitement a little." — Sam
Yes: I wanted to know them first
"We kept it a secret! Even though I knew there was a little person/persons (twins) growing inside me, I hadn't met them yet. I couldn't be sure I had chosen the right name(s). Once I saw their little faces, then I could call them by name and share with the world, but I had to be sure the name matched the little person first." – Kristi
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Born in Northern Indiana, to a Plumber and Nurse, Linda has been creating art of one kind or another for most of her life. The first of her family to attend college, she quit art school after two years to become a Plumber. This led to a twenty-five year career as a Contractor/Plumber before retiring fifteen years ago to return to her one great love, making art.
She licensed six of her designs seven years ago, for use in beginner kits to the company that produces the scratchboard product that she uses. Scratchboard, developed in the early twentieth century, primarily for use in graphic illustrating, has re-emerged as a viable fine art medium. The product Linda uses is a rigid board coated with white kaolin clay, sprayed with black ink and scratched and cut with sharp tools to create an image that sometimes resembles a woodcut or etching.
Five years ago she created two illustrated books of rescued animals and their stories, funded via Kickstarter: Dog Scratchin' and Cat Scratchin'.
Her most recent project, still in development, is an illustrated children's book with her adopted Ethiopian niece as inspiration for the main character.
Her work can be found in galleries and private collections around the world.


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'Hiked reservation, tatkal charges will not burden common man'
Bansal fails to 'create a stir'
'Not a rail budget but Rae Bareli budget'
Railways to go for catering overhaul
E-booking train tickets to become faster
Who pays, Mr Bansal?
Railways to invest Rs 63,000 cr in FY14
'Rail Budget practical, implementable'
No fare hike, Bansal assures travel comfort
Railways to introduce 67 express trains
New projects announced in Rail Budget
Freight rates hiked by 5.8%
Superfast, Tatkal charges to go up
Mumbai suburban trains to get AC coaches
Bansal keeps rail fare unchanged
Railways may suffer Rs 24,600 cr loss
SMS alert service for rail passengers soon
Free Wi-Fi to be provided in select trains
Railways to fill up 1.51 lakh vacancies
Rail shares remain under pressure
All eyes on Bansal as he presents Rail Budget
Rail Budget: It's Punjab's turn now, Mr Bansal
'Rail budget should focus on modernisation'
'Railways will introduce helpline for women'
Will Bansal bite the bullet on fare hike?
Freight hike to flare up inflation, say experts on Headlines Today
Railways to launch 100 trains
Revision of freight rate on the cards
Railways to eliminate 902 level crossings
Bansal meets Sonia ahead of Budget session
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Yesterday seemed to be another day for Rafa. A rumour about him leaving Liverpool and some criticism, this time from a player. I guess with all this speculation all you can really do is get on with your job and deal with it if it comes. That appears to be what Rafa is doing
The latest head hunters after Rafa appear to be Inter Milan however I suspect this is idle speculation rather anything concrete, for the moment at least. Juventus, who had shown a more than fleeting interest in employing our man, appear to be out of the picture now with Sampdoria's Luigi Del Neri looked a cert to replace Alberto Zaccheroni. Even if this weren't the case Juve's failure to qualify for the Champions League can hardly have helped their case? If Rafa was going to go anywhere then surely the new club would have to be in the tournament?
However, rather than dismiss any involvement with Rafa and turf him off the Serie A managerial merry go round he has simply been given a different horse – Inter Milan. Jose Mourinho looks Real bound so let's link Rafa with the vacancy at the San Siro? Milan's comments appear to be non committal simply stating that they have had no contact with Rafa and the Mourinho remains their coach. I hate it when clubs come out with such comments as it so non committal. Perhaps I'm reading to much into this but what does it mean? We haven't contacted Rafa but might do and Mourinho is still our coach – of course he is, it's the Champions League final on Saturday but will he be leaving soon? One development to watch should Rafa's position with us suddenly take a turn for the worst?
The criticism comes from an increasingly familiar and disappointing source, Albert Riera. If Riera fails to find another club could do a lot worse than became a road worker or undertaker as digging holes, deep, deep holes is clearly something he is very adept at! Riera has had the cold shoulder since describing Rafa and the team as a "sinking ship" earlier this year. His continued ostracisation shouldn't really be surprise to anyone with a modicum of common sense but not our Albert no, he sees differently. Apparently the board should have intervened to stop him and Rafa having a bust up as if that is the most important concern on their agendas at present! He now says this has cost him a place in Spain's World Cup squad.
"I want to leave. English clubs are run differently that Spanish clubs. In England you have a manager at the club, and the board of the club has done nothing for me. The club has not put up any fight for me. I do not want to quarrel with somebody, but if a club doesn't fight for you, that means that they don't want you."
Forgive if I'm being stupid but surely the best thing to get in the manager's good books is not to blame the board but not a pick a fight with him in the first place and then go blabbing to the media about it. Riera must have realised that he would get nowhere? Perhaps a private chat, voicing his concerns and worries, would have been Ok but no manager is going to cave in and field him every week after the way he chose to play this. Oh and of course his form hasn't really been up rooting any trees recently.
Which brings us to the World Cup issue? Riera must have known that this was around the corner, although given the way he has handled this little episode I'm not so sure! So presumably the best policy would be to work hard, keep your head down, take your chances and play your way back into the team in the hope that you get picked for the squad? Instead he has moaned and found himself out in the wilderness. All his own fault yet when he's realised that he's made a ricket he has the gall to blame others!
No doubt many will criticise Rafa;'s management methods over this however, cold, uncaring etc However, whatever your view over this does Riera, given the way he has reacted, really deserve the treatment he is demanding? At least this summer he and his agent will have plenty of time to contemplate his future as for him at least it appears there will be no footballing distractions!


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Does aldi take credit cards?
This springtime I have actually been making an effort to not only remove the females' closets and also rotate with one season and also measurements of clothing for the following, however I have actually been attempting to perform the exact same along with some of our funds. We aren't super opulent, yet like several other loved ones our experts enter spending habits that could probably be actually evaluated as well as strengthened every now and then.
I currently mentioned just how I am being actually much more persistent about tracking much of our purchases through the Citi Cost Rewind tool to come back some money if the price loses within 60 days of a qualified acquisition. Yet one other significant investing place I have actually been actually messing with lately is grocery stores. I adore my vacations to Entire Foods for some typically hard to get items, yet the nickname Entire Income can easily prove out if you carry out the mass of your shopping there. After serendipitously finding on my own at the center of a discussion regarding the health foods accessible at Aldi just times prior, over the weekend break I made my initial vacation to Aldi since the initial full week it opened up right here years ago.
Aldi is actually a cheap convenience store that originated from Germany as well as is actually connected to Trader Joe's. I kind of loathed my very first trip to Aldi, and also therefore had decided years ago to make it my only visit. They didn't take visa or mastercard, failed to possess the brand names I was actually utilized to, you must place a deposit for a shopping pushcart, and it was actually tough for me to discover everything I yearned for. In retrospect, a major part of my dislike for the adventure was actually simply certainly not recognizing what to anticipate and also not being actually made use of to the method. To prevent those troubles this time around I did some online research study to review the Aldi buying knowledge ahead of time, and also at the same time knew that they now take visa or mastercard!
Conserving Loan on Groceries Thanks to Benefits Credit Scores Cards
The reality that Aldi currently allowed bank card was terrific updates considering that expense discounts was my # 1 vehicle driver in moving back to Aldi, and perks visa or mastercard create that much more feasible due to the fact that The Amex EveryDay ® Preferred Visa Or Mastercard from American Express honors 3x aspects at US supermarkets that can easily slam to 4.5 aspects every dollar with 30 deals in a payment pattern (up to initially $6,000 annually), and also the Hunt Independence at the moment is rewarding 5% cash money back at US food stores (up to $1,500 every area).
Eight Factors to Know Before Buying at Aldi with credit card
In the event you are actually additionally hoping to decrease grocery costs, below are actually 8 points to understand before shopping at Aldi.
- Aldi carries out right now take bank card. I discussed that already, however if you were shut off by the money or money memory cards merely plan in the past, understand that significant visa or mastercard are presently approved.
- Take a quarter to receive a purchasing pushcart. I'll confess, this definitely believes odd, yet isn't a large package if you are planned for it. The fourth literally comes the hair to discharge the cart from the next tethered cart. When you re-secure your cart by the end of your purchasing travel the one-fourth is actually at that point put wiggle out. If you deal with it, certainly not possessing stray carts loose in the great deal is actually definitely an excellent point.
- You will not find many of your normal labels at Aldi, however much of the SimplyNature branded products are actually all natural.
- A few of the products are still in bins or even cages rather than the outlet investing additional money on filling as well as shelving items. It appears a little bit different, but of course is no big deal.
- There are no delicatessens counters, meat counters, etc. There are only pre-packaged items that are valued less than most other retail stores around.
- Aldi is actually physically much smaller than some other United States food store I have actually remained in outside of NYC. Aldi performs certainly not carry every thing I will desire, but the truth that the establishment was literally smaller sized made it a really time reliable journey, so I find this is actually a good.
- Bags set you back extra, thus deliver your own if you can. Naturally it is really good to bring your own bags regardless of whether the store fees, however at Aldi you will pay for additional for every bag you need. The fee was merely 6 cents every paper bag as well as 11 cents per plastic bag when I went to, however no cause to invest additional money when you do not need to.
- You bag your own grocery stores. The Aldi cashier will definitely scan your things and afterwards down payment all of them back into a cart or identical, and also they will definitely not invest their opportunity bagging your grocery stores, even though you have purchased or carried bags along to become made use of. After you spend for your groceries (with a rewards visa or mastercard!) you can easily visit a getting region as well as load all of them right into the bags however you deem greatest.
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Again, I received ta admit I sort of suched as having the capacity to manage which things went together right into which bag because it created it easier when I acquired residence to put the grocery stores away in a dependable way. There actually is actually something to the German productivity that Aldi follows!
Modifying behaviors and patterns can be hard at first, but it is uncommon that I waltz out of Whole Foods spending much lower than $200, and my travel to Aldi was only $60. Now that I am a little bit a lot more equipped for the Aldi buying encounter I fully want on returning to maintain the grocery store cost savings rolling for my family members. Our experts will not carry out each one of our purchasing at Aldi, but if it aids us conserve a handful of hundred a month then I'm more than delighted to deliver a quarter for the purchasing pushcart.
I ensure a few of you are actually a lot more ahead of time in the Aldi activity than I am, so I will like to hear your grocery store cost savings ideas!


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As with recent previous quarters, we remain very optimistic about the demand for engineering, manufacturing & construction professionals and we're continuing to build our own internal team strongly as a result. We believe this will continue into at least the medium term future. The main contributors are solid business confidence and the pipeline of infrastructure projects.
Following are more specific observations of some of the key engineering & technical markets in which we operate.
Building Services
Demand for mechanical services candidates continues to be strong, especially from the contractor side. We have recently successfully placed a number of data centre shift operators and the level of demand looks set to continue as the number of these centres grows rapidly in Australia. We have roles in Sydney and Melbourne. So if you are an electrician or HVAC engineer, ideally with an HV ticket who wants to work easy lifestyle shifts then please get in touch!
We would also like to hear from you if you want to train as a draftsperson in Sydney. Some familiarity with AutoCAD, a love of mechanical building services and a willingness to learn is needed. In more senior roles we continue to seek sustainability engineers in Sydney and Canberra – if you can tune HVAC in a building, please contact us. Demand for mechanical and electrical HVAC service technicians remains very strong.
Construction & Engineering Design
There is an evident rise in the demand for candidates with local experience on state government civil infrastructure projects. The preference for local experience from the tier 2 and tier 1 construction companies is largely due to the local specifications of the various stakeholders involved. The majority of these construction companies are looking for site engineers and project engineers, who have completed at least one significant contract from start to finish, with relevant civil engineering or construction management qualifications.
Exceptional construction and project managers covering the major disciplines of mech, elec & civil with major road & rail or oil & gas industry experience, will raise interest in the eyes of the key players. Hiring managers from local and multi-national EPC(m) firms are looking for candidates with D&C, brownfield and greenfield experience.
Executive HR leaders and MD's/GM's of engineering & construction companies are becoming more open in how they attract skilled professionals to their teams, understanding they can't rely on the perception of their brand alone. Organisations are becoming more creative around their compensation and benefits packages, realising that fewer human resources are available as multiple projects continue to be awarded.
*Civil & Structural Engineering Data
*Project Management Data
General Engineering & Drafting
Recruitment of qualified engineers has been mixed for us in the first quarter of 2018. The good news is that we have been recruiting graduates! At the more experienced levels, we have seen an uptick in demand for managers, especially those with device engineering experience in the medical industry. Other requirements are in areas involving mechanical services, process engineering, and security locking devices.
Drafting-wise there has been an increase in requirements for contract roles for between 2 and 6 months. The CAD packages vary, with AutoCAD and Solidworks still the most popular. Interestingly there is no obvious downward pressure on hourly rates.
*Engineering Management Data
*Electrical Engineering Data
*Mechanical Engineering Data
It seems to be popular belief that manufacturing is an old and dying industry and we can't compete with lower wage nations. The facts state otherwise. The Australian Industry Group's Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) jumped to 63.1 in March. This is a record level and the previous record of 62.1 was set in 2002. Anything above 50 indicates expansion in manufacturing. The index has not been below 50 since 2016.
We are excited by the prospects of growth in recruitment in the sector, even though in Q1 2018 we saw the end of an era in the manufacture of cars locally. Overall, however, the manufacturing sector has showed no sign of slowing with continual requirements for a range of manufacturing personnel across Australia.
Based on our recent experience of jobs filled and upcoming jobs, we can't pick a stand-out sector within manufacturing. We have placed operations managers, service technicians, maintenance & reliability engineers, engineering managers, branch managers, project engineers, sales engineers, and tradespeople in many different manufacturing niches in both Sydney and Melbourne, with growing interest from Brisbane based companies.
We do see particular strength in the smaller businesses that operate in the specialty CNC machining, metal pressing and metal cutting, and additive manufacture sector. We are aligned with a peak industry body that predicts substantial employment growth from apprenticeship level through to production management in the latter half of this year. We are particularly proud of placing a first-year apprentice with a major provider of CNC machine tools whose senior management are going to train him to become a CNC specialist.
*Manufacturing Management Data
*Production, Planning & Scheduling Data
Software & Hardware Engineering
The balance seems to have swung in recent months from a "buyer's" to a "seller's" market – the economy may be warming up. We think this puts the negotiating advantage on the candidate's side. We see candidates with several offers and pressure to remain salary competitive is not an easy one for employers to learn. Demand for embedded developers has (surprisingly) been quite strong and top notch web (classic full stack) developers are highly sought-after.
Does this mean that you can pick up a good job without really trying? Definitely not – employers' expectations remain very high and no one will hire you unless you can demonstrate commitment and genuine ability. Product development companies will only hire you if they are convinced that you can deliver something very special. Why should they do otherwise? The "getting a good job" game still has tough rules, and sadly some candidates have not really learned them and feel that the world owes them a good job. It doesn't. Approach interviews with the mindset of seeking to convince recruiters and employers that you have what it takes and will do whatever you can to accomplish their business goals.
*Hardware Engineering Data
*Software Engineering Data
*Development & Programming Data


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Introduction Extra Theme Elegant Themes
If you're trying to find a new WordPress theme, one name you'll almost certainly encounter is Elegant Themes. But are their products the right choice for your website? Should you sign-up with this WordPress mainstay or continue your search? From the end of this article, you'll hopefully have all you want to generate a well-thought-out, informed decision.Let's begin. Extra Theme Elegant Themes
Elegant Topics have been in operation for eight years, and have served over 500,000 clients to date. In the process, they have grown to a workforce of more than 50 employees working in several nations — a far cry from their humble beginnings working out of founder Nick Roach's college apartment.Elegant Themes currently offer 87 WordPress themes and five plugins. Access to all their topics (for example their flagship'Divi' theme — more on this below) and plugins will set you back $89 a year, which makes them quite competitively priced. If you are planning on using their products for many years, though, it is actually their slightly pricier'Lifetime Access' plan that is the best value alternative, giving you access to all existing and future products to get a one-time fee of $249. But is Elegant Themes the ideal choice for your project? Let us find out.
WordPress Themes
Let's begin looking at the several themes on offer, before continuing on to the plugins.As mentioned, signing up for Elegant Themes gives you access to 87 WordPress topics for the purchase price of everything you could pay for just 1 motif elsewhere. But, there are two alternatives to take into account. Since the advent of Divi at 2013, the focus of Elegant Themes has been around making this the only greatest WordPress theme available. Extra followed shortly afterwards, and together they've come to be the highlights of the Elegant Themes portfolio.
Divi is Elegant's flagship theme, and is really multipurpose, using the ability to make almost any type of website.From blogs and business homepages to ecommerce stores and all in between, Divi is undoubtedly a versatile website building tool.It's also excellent for new WordPress users seeking to make custom websites without having to examine one line of code. However, this powerful theme has also become a popular choice with professional web designers looking for a tool to make building websites for their clients more efficient.Some of the reasons experienced and inexperienced web designers alike choose Divi are its own useful pair of high-quality templates as well as the highly effective drag-and-drop page builder tool. Loading up one of the Divi layouts gives you a fast way to begin your site, and the new-and-improved Divi Builder may be used to customize these layouts through an intuitive front-end drag-and-drop interface. Making your custom designs from scratch is not a problem either with Divi.No matter what your ability level, Divi does a good job of democratizing web design. Those new to WordPress may use the Divi designs, combined with the builder's point-and-click interface to make custom webpage layouts. More seasoned designers can do what they've always done, only much faster.Another feature of this theme that is worth mentioning is your Divi Leads tool. Divi Leads lets you conduct split testing experiments on your site's content and design. If you've ever wondered which headline or colour scheme your visitors will best respond to, Divi Leads removes the guesswork.Divi Leads makes it easy to display multiple variations of your website and its content, so you just have to sit back and await the results. Should you need to create websites that convert against their goals — whether for yourself or to your customers –Divi Leads will be a priceless addition to your toolkit.The sole drawback to Divi when compared with Avada and the other best-selling multipurpose themes is the lack of complete website demos. Divi may provide you with a library of templates to the individual pages of your site, however, unlike Avada or Enfold, there is no one-click importer tool which will populate an whole website with demonstration content.New layouts and templates for Divi are being made available all the time through the Elegant Themes blog. Therefore, despite not having the ability to import an entire site in your WordPress installation, you won't be needing new layouts for your website's pages.Overall, Divi is a superb choice for creatives who would like to create a custom WordPress website irrespective of their technical abilities. Extra Theme Elegant Themes
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The Extra theme (view live presentation ) was launched after Divi, also includes many of its best characteristics. Using this homepage layout provides you the ability to exhibit your best or latest content in a fashionable grid format. It's possible to use post carousels, tabbed areas, mini-article sliders, and custom widgets to show previews of your content.Extra also comprises an image-focused homepage layout which utilizes the featured images from the articles to draw attention to your content. The design of this theme is focused on enticing your customers to click through to more of your articles.As Extra comprises the powerful Divi Builder tool, you are able to customize any of the theme's templates through a front-end drag-and-drop interface. Also, but you may use the builder and its library of modules to create custom designs for each article you publish on your website. If you'd like your blog or online magazine to match the demonstration quality of top news media websites, you finally have a powerful tool that can help.With Extra along with the Divi Builder, then you are able to design custom page designs that overlay pictures with text, add photograph collages, use pull quotes, attribute multiple columns, and add other tried-and-tested content elements to improve your website from a fundamental site to some professional-looking online publication.Even in case you don't need to utilize the incorporated Divi Builder, Extra is still a fantastic choice for bloggers and online magazine websites. The library of templates makes it effortless to add significant pages to your site with very little effort. Using author, timeline, portfolio, and contact webpage templates contained, you can spare yourself a great deal of time when setting up your website.Extra can also be used to make an ecommerce shop with WordPress, due to its entire support for the WooCommerce plugin. If you want to build an online shop or just add physical or digital products to your blog or magazine, Extra is greater than up to the task.While Elegant Themes created Divi together with the objective of making it the best motif for any WordPress website, Extra was made to be the best theme for bloggers and internet books. They have definitely done a fantastic job, and Extra is an aggressive theme that any blogger or magazine-style site operator should consider. Extra Theme Elegant Themes
While Divi, and, to a lesser extent, Extra, are multipurpose themes which can be used to create any type of website, the other topics are somewhat more focused on a specific type of project. |} It is possible you could discover a motif from that the Elegant Themes back catalogue that is ideal for your site. But in the event that you really want to take advantage of what Elegant Themes must offer and has been working on for the last couple of years, you should only consider the Divi and Extra topics from their collection.While signing up using Elegant Themes gets you access to Divi, among the very best WordPress topics around, and the remarkable additional magazine motif, do not get too excited about the other 85 alternatives. However, as we will see in the next section of this Elegant Themes review, you will find far more reasons to select this company than simply their flagship WordPress topics.
The Elegant Themes WordPress Plugins
As mentioned earlier in this review, the group behind Divi and Extra have also produced quite a few high quality WordPress plugins. By linking Elegant Themes on either the mid-level $89 Developer plan or the top tier $249 Lifetime Access program, you get access to all of these plugins.
Let's take a look.
The Divi Builder plugin relies on the webpage builder tool that's incorporated into the Divi and Extra themes. |} The Divi Builder that is found in the latest version of the Divi and Extra themes features a front-end user interface. But, this upgrade has not been implemented to the Divi Builder plugin nevertheless (it will be added later on ). As it is a standalone plugin, you can take advantage of this edition of this Divi Builder using almost any WordPress theme.The Divi Builder plugin may still be used to make custom page designs, albeit via a back-end builder port. Through this interface, you can produce advanced page designs featuring multiple rows and columns. Any of those 46 customizable content modules could be added into your layouts, with the capability to drag and drop them into position.Other useful features of the Divi Builder plugin include the capacity to quickly duplicate any page component, copying and pasting inside the builder, unlimited undos and redos, and an easy way to add custom CSS for your pages.The Divi Builder plugin making it effortless to save any layout, section, or module to your own library for reuse elsewhere on your website. If you update any of these library items, you can selectively apply those changes to each instance of the item during your site.Even if you are not using a motif from Elegant Themes, you need to be able to utilize Divi Builder to personalize your WordPress website. Consequently, if you would rather use a minimal theme (such as the ones produced by StudioPress rather than Divi) but you still want the ability to make customized designs for your content, then the Divi Builder plugin could be a good choice.Divi Builder contrasts favorably to another drag-and-drop page builder plugins for WordPress. But before the live front-end editor is added to the plugin, there are more user friendly WordPress page builder plugins out there. Extra Theme Elegant Themes
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Being able to email your viewers every time you publish a new article, launch a product, or have some other important statement to make has many added benefits. Unfortunately, building a record of email readers isn't easy. Thankfully, Bloom is a plugin which may help encourage your customers to sign up and hand over their email addresses.After activating Bloom, you can begin including a range of email optin or sign-up forms to your website. Form options include pop up, fly-in, under article, inline, and widget types. There's also a locked content type that requires your visitors to enter their email address and subscribe to your list to gain access to a particular piece of content.Bloom also includes a fantastic selection of email optin form templates that can be customized through the plugin's editor.As and the ability to personalize the look of forms, you also receive a good quantity of control over how they operate. It's possible to pick an intro animation which determines how the form looks, and you can also specify a time delay which controls when the form looks. Custom triggers may also be used to restrain the form's visibility, and more.Through the Bloom form display preferences, it is possible to define where on your site each form will be active. These choices include activating the form for your whole website, the home page, individual posts and pages, and even more. Since you are able to create numerous kinds and then display them on particular pieces of your site, you really can tailor the design and content of your forms to coincide with the articles on which they are displayed.Bloom also includes a split testing tool that makes it easy to compare two kinds to discover which one works well with your viewers. As a result of these features, Bloom compares well to another leading email optin type plugins, like OptinMonster and Thrive Leads.Nearly every sort of website can benefit from using a record of email subscribers, and Bloom is a competent tool that can help you develop your list.
The Monarch plugin has been created to help you increase the number of times your content is shared on social networking. Social stocks not only help drive more visitors to your site, but they can also help your articles to rank prominently in search engines like Google.Once Monarch is live, you can exhibit a range of social sharing buttons on your site. Over 20 social networks have been supported, and you can display the buttons in five different places — including on images and videos.As well as displaying floating, always-visible sharing buttons, Monarch enables you to choose from a range of trigger-activated buttons. Timed delays, page scroll position, following commenting or purchasing, and following a period of inactivity can be utilized as triggers to control every time a pop-up or slide-in set of social sharing buttons is exhibited to a visitors.You may also use Monarch to show hyperlinks to your social networking profiles, complete with user friendly counts. This feature gives you a fast way to incorporate social proof to your website.Like the remaining Elegant Themes tools, Monarch offers you a great deal of control over how your social networking buttons and hyperlinks are exhibited. The customization work takes place via a user-friendly interface, with many options and settings to guarantee this plugin operates exactly how you would like it to.Monarch is one of those best social networking plugins for WordPress, so it's great to get access to it within your Elegant Themes membership.
The Elegant Themes Community
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Brazil Weird News
The strange at Brazil. News of Fortean Journalism
Foo Fighters ─ The
Mother of The Gold
MINAS GERAIS ─ Brazil Southwest. Folklore ou Technology? The misterious light that the people call Golden's Mother is a frequent phenomena registrated at Minas Gerais state.
The landscape of the luminous
satellite photo
At Itauna city, folkoric tradition call the attention of the ufologists. For many generations they have been described like light balls, fire in the sky or lights, simply. The secular apparition is like a luminous sphere or a luminous globe. There are many testemonies. It has a small diameter. The sightings are common, especially in deserted areas, rural areas. At these localities the sky is more clean than at urban zone. The color golden-yellow of this light, created the relation with the precious gold. This mineral, had a fundamental role on the cultural e politic evolution of this region of Brazil Colônia.
Several researchers cogitate that the Mother of The Gold is a kind
probe sent by alien civilizations that could be both intraterrestres
as extraterrestrials.
These lights may come from small unmanned spacecraft equipped with devices of spying, with a mission to locate soils rich in certain minerals that are of interest for some species of nonhuman, most likely are more technologically advanced than humans. These space probes could also collect information and materials. Samples of organic tissues, animals, plants, and so on.
Some Cases
In the rural town of Itatiaiuçu, central-western Minas Gerais a family has gone through some scares caused by these luminous spheres. The entries of the objects in the house, became a common thing. However, in some instances, the flaming ball ran around all the rooms of the house. The residents, terrified, take refuged under the beds.
Mata da Onça ─ Returning to Itaúna, at the centre west of Minas state, there, are many cases and legendary episodes relating with the fire spheres. The city and its neighborhoods are the locals where there are the major number of ocurrences of the Mother of The Gold. Like a place named Serra Mata Onça [Forest of Jaguar Sierra].
Since the 1940 and, surely, before this epoch, sightings are narrated. The witnesses, that are of different gender, age, education, social class. All people refer to the light like a wandering sphere. In Those rocky mountains lies the secret of fiery balls.
Mr. Fajardo Experiences
At Itaúna city there is a school farm, a
grange. It's a municipal instituition. Mr. Fajardo José Ribeiro,
that today [2008] is porter of Itauna's prefecture is former
internal of the school. He studied and lived there in the 1950
decade. Since then, he tells - speaking in an interview that was
made in 2000 - knows for self experience that the Mother of the Gold
appears at the region every day, every afternoon. When was teenager,
he, his colleagues and Mr. Luis, supervisor of the internals, they
observed the strange light and its movements for many times.
Mother of the Gold ─ The Legend
Misterious lights at the sky, something beyond the stars and of the other celestial bodies, these luminous apparitions are intriguing for the Humanity from arcane ages. This kind of phenom always was exciting, instigating, for imaginary of the people. The mythology of the balls of light are present in the most different cultures around the world.
At Brazil, the luminous spheres are source of inspiration for many fantastic explanations and stories. From north to the south there are legends about the theme. At the South, the flame balls are the eyes of a monster, the Boitatá, a ghost serpent who kills the live beings but only devours the eyes of the creatures. Its light is the light of the deads's eyes, its victims. They haunt the hills of the gaúcha* landscape. * [GAÚCHA: natural of brazilian federative unit called Rio Grande do Sul]
The researcher of the brazilian folklore, master Câmara Cascudo, in his book, Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro, wrote about this myth:
[The Mother of Gold]... appears with differents features: a little bird, a lizard, a beautiful woman with long hairs. She inhabits mountains regions [or the phenom happens more in these places] like the Pico of Jaraguá, at São Paulo state... At this place, The Mother of Gold is an entity that guards the gold, that still today remains hidden into the mountain. [The mythic treasure is an inheritance of the Golden Cicle, historical period of the social and economic development of colonial Brazil].
[A page of the imaginary of the people]... This or her light seems like a fire ball with a long and bright tail. Many people assert had saw this being enchanted. Just when she is changing the treasure of its place, on these occasions is possible to see her. Those who reach to see the woman, are persons marked. They have one of the two destinies: stay millionaire or stay insane for ever.
Legends of Slaves
At Mato Grosso state [Central Brazil], a legend is told: existed an old slave who was tired of work. He was a gold miner in the Cuiabá river. During seven days, he did not find nor a speck of gold. His boss and owner was a badman. He was worried only with the money. And don't hesitated in explore more and more the old man that was almost to dead. But, in an afternoon, a beautifull woman appeared in front of the slave. She was luminous and helped the poor man in his work. The boss was punished because Mother Gold does not like cruelty.
In another version of the tale, in the region of Santana do Parnaíba, São Paulo, the people tell that jesuits, wanting to hide part of the gold of the taxes, they sent the slaves put a true treasure in the caves of the galleries; in mines. The priests were in a hurry. In the middle of confusion, the walls fell on the men. The slaves, all died suffering an extreme agony. Without air, without to breath. Men were buried alive...
For cause this tragedy, all the years, in the Quadragesima, the penitence period before Easter, screams and weep still are listened; they come from the depths of the earth. At full moon nights, the fire ball wandering, the mysterious sphere, makes your ride haunted making the landscape more luminous.
Who have courage, in one of those nights, if see the light, can try this spell: lie on the floor and to close the eyes saying a prayer dedicated to the Mother of Gold. When open the eyes, the light is gone but a golden ball appears at the side of the person. The gold should be used only to do good things. Never for the evil. Who disobey the law will be punished.
november, 2009
edition: room sofa