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Short answer: Yes! Long answer: Well, it's very complicated so let me explain it in this post...
Oh man, this is it, this is the blog post. I've been talking about and putting off writing a blog post on this subject that people have both been hoping for and others have been dreading my Darwin Day special on Nicholas Mason and Scott Taylor of the Cornell Lab's Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program's paper on redpoll speciation in Molecular Ecology. This paper basically says that Common, Lesser, and Hoary Redpolls are all the same species based on their genetic evidence. I'm writing this post not because I'm a sadistic lumper that wants to steal lifers, but because I want to increase knowledge about a question that has plagued birders and ornithologists since the Civil war, but now we finally have an answer. For some reason with these three animals in particular, an annoying phenomena has occured and it's people being stubborn with how many species there are based on the scientific evidence, so to make it up to the dissenting party, I'm going to talk about some antitheses to the "one to rule them all" doctrine many have claimed over the question of how many species redpolls are in order to appease that part of my audience. I will be presenting my unbiased scientific opinion, without bringing any of my personal feelings into this discussion whatsoever.
Before I go into depth about redpolls, it's helpful to define the major species concepts that taxonomists use:
The division of redpolls into different species dates back to before the Civil War. In 1861, legendary ornithologist Elliot Coues (one of the founding fathers of the AOU) described eight separate redpoll species based on their visual appearances. Over time the AOU consolidated Coues' list, but Hoary Redpoll, which has a snow-white breast, was still considered a separate species from Common Redpoll, which has a brown-streaked breast.
According to Kenn Kaufman several studies have documented the genetic similarities between Common and Hoary Redpolls since the 1980s. No study has examined more than 11 regions of the redpoll genome, making ornithologists wonder whether they were missing the true differentiating genetic markers. Until now...
Mason and Taylor looked beyond the plumage into strands of the birds' DNA in the most extensive look ever at the redpoll genome. Whereas previous genetic analyses of redpolls looked at just 11 regions of the genome (at most), Mason and Taylor examined 235,000 regions, comparing DNA from 77 redpolls, including specimens from museums around the world. They found no DNA variation that distinguishes Hoary Redpolls from Common Redpolls. Furthermore, another redpoll species found in Europe—the Lesser Redpoll—also had extremely similar DNA sequences. This extreme similarity among all the redpolls stands in marked contrast to studies of other groups of birds—such as Black-capped and Carolina Chickadees—which show differences at many regions of the genome. One of the key differing factors among distinct species is assortative mating, or members of a group breeding with each other more than another group. According to Mason, "There are no clear-cut genetic differences, which is what we would expect to see if assortative mating had been occurring for a long time." Instead, Mason says the world's three redpoll species seem to be "functioning as members of a single gene pool that wraps around the top of the globe."But how could it be that Hoary and Common Redpolls look so different given that their genetic makeup is basically the same? For that answer, Mason and Taylor delved into the birds' RNA. (A quick flashback to high-school biology: If DNA is like the body's blueprints, RNA is like the construction foreman communicating the instructions to build physical features, like hair or feathers.)
The physical differences among redpolls are associated with patterns in their RNA, not their DNA. In other words, the variation we see in plumage and size is probably not a matter of genetic variation, but of genetic expression. It's kind of like how two humans might have the same gene for brown hair, but one person's might be lighter than the other's—that gene is being expressed differently. In the same way, Hoary and Common Redpolls have remarkably similar sets of genes, but those genes are expressed differently, causing the plumage and bill-shape differences we see. Mason has said "We didn't find distinct characteristics to separate the redpoll types, but rather a continuum, or a progression, of physical traits, and many redpolls were somewhere in the middle." Interesting indeed, considering that Redpolls with intermediate plumage are common in certain areas, like north-central Alaska, and are often impossible to ID.
Redpolls follow a gradient of streaking on the flanks from the most streaks on flammea to the least on hornemannii. Then you have intermediate birds like the one in the center which can be real nightmares to ID. This could be either a dark HORE, a light CORE, or a hybrid, which if we use the Biological Species Concept to define a species, would support lumping them. Photos, from left to right, by Sharon Watson, newfoundlander61, Guy Lichter, Stuart Oikawa, and Chris Wood via Flickr.
While the evidence supporting Redpolls as a single species is convincing, it was not mentioned in the 2016 AOS Check-list supplement and rejected in the 2017 supplement (the same tragic year that Thayer's Gull was lumped), to the relief of many listers whom were already annoyed that they lost one tick with Thayer's gone and Yellow-rumped Warbler and Willet not being split. Kenn Kaufman can't imagine there being too much conflict over consolidating the redpolls. "In recent years there have been more 'splits' than 'lumps,' so if continuing taxonomic work occasionally takes one away, it's not that big a deal." Johanna Beam, a young birder studying at St. Olaf university in Minnesota, has actually spoken to Scott Taylor, one of the authors of the paper, and on the topic of the lump, she has said: "but sadly he (Scott Taylor) thinks they're not going to accept it until they get actual breeding data from the arctic, which is some nasty work because of funding, mosquitoes, lodging etc up there."
It's not over yet, Canadian finch expert Ron Pittaway notes that the AOU recently rejected a similar proposal, also based on genetic evidence, to lump the three North American species of rosy-finches, which breed in high mountain areas of western North America,.
To summarize, the consensus on if Common, Lesser, and Hoary Redpolls are all the same species is yes simply based on the Phylogenetic Species Concept I talked about earlier and DNA analysis conducted by Mason and Taylor. I have asked multiple respected people in the birding community for their thoughts and they mostly agree with me. You can choose whether you agree or disagree with me, but for now I offer this quote on the study by Scott Taylor himself: "I think this makes them a more interesting bird, it means they're part of an exciting, complicated system that can make a single species look different across different parts of its range." Keep in mind that if you do disagree with me, this is opinion purely based on evidence.
I would like to thank Tessa Rhinehart and William Von Herff for giving me and supporting the idea to write about this complex subject, as well as Sam Bressler and Ethan Gyllenhaal for helping me find access to the original Mason and Taylor paper (which was unfortunately behind a paywall); this post couldn't exist without your help. I also would like to acknowledge the amount of work Nicholas Mason and Scott Taylor put into their study, as well as Gustave Axelson and Jesse Greenspan for writing concise summaries of the study on the Cornell Lab and Audubon websites respectively. I lastly want to thank Kenn Kaufman, Ron Pittaway, Lindsey Duval, John Puschock, Ryan Zucker, Ethan M, Johanna Beam, Nathan Martineau, Jerald Reb, Jared Gorrell, Ben Sanders, Alex Sundvall, Joseph Kurtz, Greg Neise, Dominic Garcia-Hall, TIm Swain, Ise Varghese Mac, Sharon Steitler, Aidan Place, Alberto Lobato, Brian C. Johnson, Alvaro Jaramillo, and many other birders for offering their diverse opinions on this subject.
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Dean carried a lead into the halftime break on a goal with exactly three minutes left in the first half, but were unable to maintain their advantage as the Lancers controlled the play throughout the contest. Worcester State finally broke through in the 69th minute on an penalty kick goal from junior Lincoln Henry (Kingston, Jamaica) which would eventually force overtime.
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Liang Sicheng: Father of modern Chinese architecture
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Born: April 20, 1901
Died: January 9, 1972
Occupation: Architect
Political Party: Communist Party of China (Joined in 1959)
Spouse: Lin Huiyin, Lin Mo
Liang Sicheng, male, Han nationality, was the son of Liang Qichao, a well-known Chinese thinker in the late Qing Dynasty, and is recognized as the "Father of Modern Chinese Architecture". His first wife was Chinese architect Lin Huiyin.
Liang is the author of China's first modern history on Chinese architecture and was the Chinese representative in the Design Board which designed the United Nations headquarters in New York. He, along with Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Mo Zongjiang (1916–1999), and Ji Yutang (1902–c. 1960s), discovered and analyzed the first and second oldest timber structures still standing in China, located at Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple at Wutai Mountain.
He was born on April 20, 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, where his father Liang Qichao (a well-known Chinese thinker in the late Qing Dynasty) was in exile from China after the failed Hundred Days' Reform.
After the Qing Dynasty was overthrown in 1911, Liang Qichao returned to China from his exile in Japan. He briefly served in the government of the newly-established Republic, which was taken over by a faction of warlords in Northern China (the "Beiyang" clique, meaning Northern Ocean). Liang Qichao quit his government post and initiated a social and literary movement to introduce modern, Western thought to Chinese society.
Liang Sicheng was educated by his father in this progressive environment. In 1915, Liang entered Tsinghua College, a preparatory school in Beijing. In 1924, he went to University of Pennsylvania funded by Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship to study architecture under Paul Cret. Three years later, Liang received his master's degree in architecture. He greatly benefited from his education in America, which also prepared him for his future career as a scholar and professor in China.
When Liang Sicheng went back in 1928, he was invited by the Northeastern University in Shenyang. At that time Shenyang was under the control of Japanese troops, which was a big challenge to perform any professional practice. He went anyway, established the second School of Architecture in China, but also the first curriculum which took a western one (to be precise the curriculum from University of Pennsylvania) as its prototype. It was a pity that his effort was interrupted by Japan's occupation in the following year, but after 18 years, in 1946, Liang was again able to practice his professorship in Tsinghua University in Beijing. This time a more systematic and all-around curriculum was discreetly put forward, consisted of courses of fine arts, theory, history, science, and professional practice. This has become a reference for any other school of architecture later developed in China. This improvement also reflected the change of architectural style from the Beaux-Arts tradition tot the modernist Bauhaus style since the 1920s.
In 1929, Liang and his colleague, Zhang Rui, at Northeast University won an award of the physical plan of Tianjin. This plan incorporates the contemporary American techniques in zoning, public administration, government finance and municipal engineering. Liang's involvement in city planning was further inspired by Clarence Stein, the chairman of the Regional Planning Association of America. They met in Beijing in 1936 during Stein's trip to Asia. Liang and Stein became good friends and in Liang's visit to the US in 1946/7, Liang stayed in Stein's apartment when he came to New York City. Stein played an instrumental role in the establishment of the architectural and planning program at Tsinghua University.
In 1931 Liang became a member of a newly-developed organization in Beijing called the Institute for Research in Chinese Architecture. He felt a strong impulse to study Chinese traditional architecture and that it was his responsibility to interpret and convey its building methods. It was not an easy task. Since the carpenters were generally illiterate, methods of construction were usually conveyed orally from master to apprentice, and were regarded as secrets within every craft. In spite of these difficulties, Liang started his research by "decoding" classical manuals and consulting the workmen who have the traditional skills.
From the start of his new career as a historian, Liang was determined to search and discover what he termed the "grammar" of Chinese architecture. He recognized that throughout China's history the timber-frame had been the fundamental form of construction. He also realized that it was far from enough just to sit in his office day and night engaged in the books. He had to get out searching for the surviving buildings in order to verify his assumptions. His first travel was in April 1932. In the following years he and his colleagues successively discovered some survived traditional buildings, including: the Temple of Buddha's Light (857), the Temple of Solitary Joy (984), the Yingzhou Pagoda (1056), Zhaozhou Bridge (589-617), and many others. Because of their effort, these buildings managed to survive.
During the later stages of World War II, the Americans began to bomb the Japanese homeland. Liang, whose brother-in-law was a pilot who died in the air war against Japan, recommended that the Americans to spare the ancient Japanese city of Nara: "architecture is the epitome of society and the symbol of the people. But it does not belong to one people, for it is the crystallization of the entire human race. Nara's Toshodaiji Temple is the world's earliest wood-structure building. Once destroyed, it is irrecoverable." The US Army accepted Liang's proposal. As a result, even though Japan was heavily attacked, Nara remained intact with its original scenery unaffected by the war.
After the war, Liang was invited to establish the architectural and urban planning programs at Tsinghua University. In 1946, he went to Princeton University as a visiting fellow and served as the Chinese representative in the design of the United Nations Headquarters Building. In 1947, Liang received an honorary doctoral degree from Princeton University. He visited major architectural programs and influential architects in order to develop a model program at Tsinghua before returning China.
Since New China was founded in 1949, Liang was given the responsibility to develop a national style of architecture by the Communist Party of China, his intention was to pass on the essence of Chinese architecture. This specific "essence", was considered to be the "large roof", the temple-style concave curved roofs and overhanging eaves to denote their Chinese origin. Though he was severely criticized for this during political campaigns, a wave of the National Style had already spread out and even continued to be influential after one or two decades. Famous examples include: China Fine Arts Gallery (1959), National Library of China (1987), Beijing west railway station (1996), which are all typical of their large roofs.
With such a deep respect for tradition and the nation's cultural heritage, Liang came up with his biggest ambition: preserving Old Beijing in its entirety. In the 1950s he was named Vice-Director of the Beijing City Planning Commission. In his early recommendations for transforming Beijing into the new national capital, he insisted that the city should be a political and cultural center, not an industrial zone. He later put forward a proposal that a new administrative center for government buildings with a north-south axis be established west of the Forbidden City, far away from the Inner City. He also advocated that the city walls and gates be preserved. He even published an article entitled "Beijing: a Masterpiece of Urban Planning", hoping to win the support of the general public. Very regretfully, these dreams of Liang were not realized, ending only in frustration. Despite his best efforts, most of Beijing's ancient gates and city walls have been torn down, depriving the world of a spectacular example of cultural history.
During the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), Liang Sicheng was condemned as "an authority of counter-revolutionary scholarship" and suffered severe persecution. He died in Beijing in 1972. He was subsequently rehabilitated posthumously.
Liang Sicheng is recognized as the "Father of Modern Chinese Architecture". To cite Princeton University, which awarded him an honorary doctoral degree in 1947, he was "a creative architect who has also been a teacher of architectural history, a pioneer in historical research and exploration in Chinese architecture and planning, and a leader in the restoration and preservation of the priceless monuments of his country."


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In volume 4, there are seven chapters on various topics relevant to multiphase flow and heat transfer.
Chapter 1 deals with modeling of interfacial area transport in two-phase flows. The interfacial area concentration is an important parameter to characterize the interfacial transport of mass, momentum and energy. The dynamic modeling approach of interfacial area, namely, the interfacial area transport equation (IATE) is thus indispensable for an accurate prediction of two-phase flows using the two-fluid model. This chapter reviews the theoretical development of the IATE from two aspects: formulation of the transport equation and modeling of the closures. The first approach to arrive at the IATE is based on the statistical description of a large number of particles using the Boltzmann transport equation. This approach is straightforward to obtain the macroscopic equation of the interfacial area concentration. However, for flows with continuous interface such as annular flow, one has to resort to the second approach, the local instantaneous formulation to derive the macroscopic transport equation. The source and sink terms in the IATE are required to close the problem and they are divided into volume change term, phase change term and particle interaction term. Details on formulating IATE using both approaches and modeling of the closures are discussed.
Chapter 2 presents an experimental study on dynamic behavior of liquid droplet impacting on heated surfaces. The study of a single droplet impact and spread on a heated surface is motivated by its strong relevance to spray cooling technology. The generic view on the study of the spray cooling process exhibits the synthesis of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and surface thermodynamics. Due to the complex phenomena involved, no comprehensive theoretical models are available. The few works that appeared in the literature so far have been largely empirical; the applicability of several correlations proposed is limited. This eBook chapter reports an experimental study of fundamental aspects of the dynamic characteristics of a single droplet impacting on a heated surface. In this experiment, the entire dynamic process of a droplet from the moment of collision with the substrate surface including the rebound was visualized and analyzed using a high-speed CCD camera. The experimental study focused mainly on the spread of a liquid droplet under the influences of substrate temperature varying from 26°C to 240°C, the inclination angle of substrates at 0°, 30°, and 60°, the wettability of substrates with contact angles from 30° to 90°, the viscosity of liquids ranging from 0.00089 up to 0.9161 kg/m-s, and surfactants of different concentrations.
Chapter 3 deals with numerical simulation of multiphase flow and interface mass transfer on particle scale. More and more attentions have been paid to better understanding of the mechanisms of multiphase flow and interphase mass transfer on the mesoscale (particle scale), namely about solid particles, bubbles and drops. The behavior of particle swarms and effects of surfactant are subsequently studied to approximate real industrial processes. Besides, the sub-particle scale Marangoni effect, induced by interphase mass transfer, is also studied for seeking measures of mass transfer enhancement. The computational fluid dynamics and computational transport principles are being developed into reliable and efficient tools for improving the macroscopic performances of unit operations and process equipments.
Chapter 4 deals with the use of the ultrasonic technique for the study and online monitoring of multiphase Flows.Multiphase flows are very common in the petroleum, chemical, and nuclear industries, oftentimes involving harsh media, strict safety regulations, access difficulties, long distances, and aggressive surroundings; accordingly, there is a need to determine the dispersed phase holdup using noninvasive fast responding techniques. Moreover, knowledge of the flow structure is essential for the assessment of the transport processes involved. The ultrasonic technique fulfills these requirements and could have the capability to provide the information required. In this chapter, the current status of the ultrasonic technique in the context of multiphase flow metering (MFM) is thoroughly reviewed; the focus is on multiphase flows of interest in the oil industry. Specific aspects involving the application of the technique to gas-liquid and gas-liquid-solid flows as well as dispersions and slurries are addressed. It is expected that this chapter will provide the reader with a clear view of what is already known about the application of ultrasonics to multiphase flows, its potential, and the research needs so that the technique could be effectively brought to the field.
Chapter 5 presents a topic on direct contact condensation (DCC) of steam injected into water – new developments in condensation regime and steam plume length prediction. The condensation of steam injected into water is one of the least studied forms of condensation. Nevertheless, there is a range of devices which rely heavily on effective use of DCC, such as steam driven jet pumps, steam ejectors and safety valves in nuclear reactors. Therefore, correct prediction and modelling of DCC behaviour are crucial to obtain an optimised design of such devices. In this chapter the process of the DCC of steam injected into water is described in details, where different regions of the process will be presented. The process is compared with other modes of condensation and is described as one of the multi-phase flows. In addition, an analytical model for DCC is presented. Furthermore, the chapter focuses on the behaviour of injected steam, commonly termed as a regime. Different regimes of DCC are presented in details and parameters that determine the DCC regime are discussed. A three dimensional condensation regime diagram is presented, where the DCC regime is shown as a function of steam inflow rate, temperature of the water subcooling and steam injector diameter size. After that, the penetration distance of steam into water or a steam plume length is discussed and a two dimensional steam plume length diagram is presented. The diagram shows the length of the steam plume in relation to the steam Reynolds number and the condensation potential.
Chapter 6 presents a comprehensive review on drag reduction with surfactants and polymeric additives in multiphase flow. Addition of small amount of surfactants or polymeric additives may reduce the drag in multiphase flow systems. This chapter presents an overview on the available studies of drag reduction with surfactants and polymeric additives in multiphase flow including gas-liquid two-phase flow, liquid-liquid two-phase flow and gas-liquid-liquid three-phase flow. First, the research background of drag reduction technologies with additives is presented. Then, basic knowledge of drag reduction surfactants and polymeric additives is briefly described. Measured physical properties of surfactant and polymer solutions such as surface tension and viscosity are shown. Next, the drag reduction mechanisms of polymer and surfactant solutions are discussed. The, comprehensive review on the available studies on drag reduction with polymers and surfactants in multiphase flow is presented. The mechanisms are also reviewed. Based on the present review, future research needs are discussed and recommended.
Chapter 7 deals with an investigation on void fraction and flow patterns of two-phase flow in upward and downward vertical and horizontal pipes. A comparison of the performance of 54 void fraction correlations based on unbiased experimental data set of 3385 data points. A comprehensive literature search was undertaken for the available void fraction correlations and experimental void fraction data for upward and downward vertical and horizontal two-phase flows. The performance of the correlations in correctly predicting the diverse data set was evaluated. Comparisons between the correlations were made and appropriate recommendations were drawn. The analysis showed that most of the correlations developed are very restricted in terms of handling a wide variety of data sets. Based on this analysis void fraction correlations with the best predictive capability are highlighted.
As the founding editors of the eBook series, we are very happy to see that the e-books have been available to our readers since 2009 (two volumes per year). All the chapters have been reviewed by experts in the relevant areas. We are very much grateful to the authors who have contributed to the chapters and the reviewers who took their time and energy for their review. It is our great wishes if the eBook series are able to provide useful knowledge for our community and to facilitate the progress of the research in the field of multiphase flow and heat transfer.
We would like to express our gratitude to our families for their great support to our work on the eBook series.
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EUR/GBP - Daytrade Entry
Reward/Risk: 5.5:1
Concern: Price can still just go down and take me out But if price moves up the Resistance at 0.8910 could something to watch out form.
Trades Taken:
Missed Trades:
Previous Trades:
will be posting a January review
Swing Trades:
I will be going over only the swing trades I have taken to see If I could learn anything. You may be wondering Why? I want to see If I am following my trading plan, if I should have not been in the trade, and see what I can do to improve.
With Trend:
What I learned? Great Entry. Just didn't work out. Will review again in End of March.
The Trade was overall with overall Trend, Support, Wedge, Deceleration, and Low Test. With the following days, price had a false breakout and ended up going towards where my initial take profit would have been.
What I learned? The trade was Great, followed plan but still a loss. It happens.
This trade had great entry from with the trend, support, deceleration, and low test. I was looking to take profit at around 1.3400 because of a possible head a shoulder pattern. Next, on 1/31 a another deceleration candle then 2/01 a high test at the retrace of the breakout of the wedge. The trade ended up being a lost and it happens.
What I learned? I followed my plan on entry and management but I have a weakness in the Weekly time frame which I must work on. I can't say how because of the past few trades I am noticed I must improve my Weekly time-frame Analysis to improve my Swing trades.
Counter Trend:
Hmm… let's start with the daily, it started with a nice decelerating on the 15th at right shoulder and Resistance. I was already paying attention to look for a opportunity but didn't provide a entry signal until the 16th. Yes, great entry but lost and was good trade .The Weekly looks like a different outlook.
Should I have stayed out of the trade? No, If I entered based only on daily but yes looking at the Weekly Chart. On the Weekly chart , price broke out on the 1/01 at the Resistance Zone then on the 1/08 the lower wick meant sellers tried to push sellers but Price CLOSED above the Resistance Zone.
What I learned? When daily has an entry, looking at weekly chart to see what candle formed the previous weeks.
Looking over my plan, entering the trade really makes sense I was looking for a possible false breakout.
January has been pretty crazy month. I started to take swing counter trend trades but they do need improvements. Trading is all about learning and working to get your kinks out the plan. The whole point of this review how I can get better both my PSYCHOLOGY and the trading plan.
To improve:
Weekly - Ascending Triangle with High Test at the top
Daily - Another false break with deceleration at .89135 before coming back down
Daily - Nice Bullish Candle
4H - Breakout of 4H head & Shoulder
1H - Waiting for retrace for entry
Not much really going on, there was a interesting setup at EUR/GBP but isn't part of my plan yet havent really tested it but need to improve my plan.
Not much really going on for my swing trading plan. Just patiently waiting for the market to form some structure before looking for entries.
Good.Watching Eurgbp too.Let me see what ll happen on the bottom?
hey mate, i have a challenge for you IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT… if you are Man enough
see if you can apply that concept that i just taught you in the other post to what is happening here
in my opinion, not hard at all
but, let's see how you go
would you buy or sell here ?
@Martin_K Eurgbp?
I believe it will be up after hit the bottom .
It will happen around 0.7800-0.7850.
So we should watching and waiting.
Trades Taken:
Haven't seen much entries for both day trades and swing. Will be doing a February review to see if I missed anything for the whole month and reviewing my trades.
Swing trading haven't seen much going for the strategy. Waiting for the market to find some structure.
Missed Trades:
Daily - High test, Deceleration, Wedge, Resistance, 1H MACD Divergence
If I was in the trade, I would Target .9200 for take profit. Stop loss would be moved to Break even depending on what happens at the wedge breakout.
EUR/JPY - Breakout H & S (Long)
Trades Taken:
EUR/JPY [DayTrade] 3/13/18 (OPENED) - 3/14/18 (CLOSED) [-1%]
EUR/NZD - PB, Deceleration, Resistance, Triple Top, Weekly H & S, Triangle, 1H H & S
Yes I agree to the fact that a good strategy is the primary requirement for the successful trading career. You have a lot of competitors on the Forex market and you have to left them back by making a good plan for yourself. Are you ready to work on it?
Hey Kreg, Yeah plan is very important but psychology is super important especially during the tough times. I still have much learning to do and improvement both in my plan also my psychology.
Plan does need some improvement , going to go over the past few months. Just not getting much entries just have to wait patiently.
Trades Taken:
EUR/NZD [Swing Trade] - 3/20/18 - 3/21/18 [-1%]
EUR/NZD [Swing Trade] - 3/21/18 (Currently Running)
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Posted November 26, 2015
On reading Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures
I just finished reading Patrick Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures, one of nine novels and a memoir in a fat, densely packed collection of his work entitled Romans (Novels). It's one of the most beautifully written novels I have read in years. I have a particular interest in Modiano, because he focuses on some of the same themes as I do, and I see some stylistic similarities between his work and mine—above all in my more recent work, Ivory Black, for which I will soon be seeking a publisher, and Missing Person, my novel-in-progress.
After I finished reading Rue des Boutiques Obscures, I wanted to recommend a translation to friends, but I didn't think there was one. That's because I looked for a literal translation—Street of Obscure (or dark) Shops. I later discovered a translation does exist—under the title, Missing Person. I found it somehow appropriate that the translated title of Modiano's novel is the same as my novel-in-progress. If I were a character in a novel, this might be a moment of discovery.
A translator translates a text from one culture to another. When I think of our shopping malls and broad city streets filled with sunlight, on the one hand, and, on the other, of a narrow, cobble-stoned street in an European city, with slanted shafts of sunlight, deep shadows, and rows of shops, some of them almost concealed in those shadows, I understand why the translator came up with the title, Missing Person. The French title creates an atmosphere and a mood that an American reader might not get; the translated title announces a theme and evokes a genre—the detective novel—that the American reader will get right away.
Dick Rayburn, the main character in my novel, Ivory Black, and Maria, his girlfriend, are crossing a boulevard in Paris, when Maria pulls to a stop in front of a movie theater, stares at a poster for The Deer Hunter, with a picture of Robert de Niro and a handgun held to his head, and asks Dick how the French title for the film, Voyage au bout de l'enfer ("Voyage to the End of Hell"), can translate the American title. Dick doesn't know and doesn't care, he just wants to be alone with Maria.
There are several reasons for which I put that moment into the book, but only one of them is relevant to my comments here. I suspect the reason the American title was not translated literally, Le Chasseur de cerf, is because there is no deer-hunting culture in France, certainly not like there is in the United States. But why Voyage au bout de l'enfer? The translation repeats almost word for word Voyage au bout de la nuit (Voyage to the End of the Night), the title of a novel that nearly every French person would have read, often as a high-school assignment, the title of the first novel by Céline, one of the greatest French writers of the last century. There are similarities in mood and atmosphere between the voyages of the characters in Michael Cimino's film and in Céline's novel that make the French title work for a French audience. However—and this brings me full circle—in a recent interview, Patrick Modiano mentioned that one of the major influences on his work was Celine, who was also one of the major influences on my work. When you continue to bump into somebody, there's usually a reason.
November 26, 2015
What happened to "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry"?
If you have read earlier posts, you probably noticed the one for July 27, 2010, in which I exclaim that the day before I finished the first draft of a novel entitled, "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry." And I asked you to tip a glass for me. But after 2011, I never mention this title again. So, what happened? I decided to delve a little more deeply into the life of one of those characters, Dick Rayburn, and that exploratory process led to the creation of "Ivory Black," the novel for which I will soon be seeking a publisher. There are still two to three hundred pages of material narrating the stories of Tom Faust and Henry (Harry) Merchant, to which I will return some day, but not until after I have finished my new novel-in-progress, "Missing Person."
Posted: June 10, 2012
The art of disappearing II
When I am writing, I feel that I become a distinctly different person, detached from the person who says "I" and who walks around in the world representing me. I can attribute all kinds of attributes to that person, based on his behavior: he can be kind, considerate, flamboyant, loquacious, honest, dishonest, sullen, taciturn, manipulative, and a total jerk. He can possess all these characteristics and many more. In my everyday life, I identify totally with this person.
But when I am writing-when I disappear into that person who writes-I sense the same distance between me and my other self, or selves, that I have with my characters. I feel I could take that everyday person, put him in a short story or a novel, and treat him as I would any other character.
I am reading Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence and with great delight discovered Paumk uses himself-or someone with the same name-as a character in the novel. The main character, Kemal, is wandering among the guests at his engagement party, when he notices the "fidgety Pamuk family . . . Like so many other formerly rich families that had squandered their fortunes, the Pamuks had turned in on themselves and found it upsetting to come face-to-face with new money. Sitting with his beautiful mother, his father, his elder brother, his uncle, and his cousins was the chain-smoking twenty-three-year-old Orhan, nothing special about him beyond his propensity to act nervous and impatient, affecting a mocking smile" (Vintage International paperback edition, pages 116 - 117).
I don't know if Pamuk's description of the character in the novel bears any resemblance to Pamuk the author, whom other people in his everyday life might recognize. What I find interesting and amusing is that Pamuk invites the reader to contemplate the difference between the writer and a character with the same name as the writer.
There's nothing new or revolutionary about this distinction between the person who writes and the character that he or she is in every day life. Writers have been exploring and articulating these distinctions over the last hundred and fifty years. "Je est un autre," wrote Rimbaud. And Proust demonstrated with extraordinary brilliance the degree of otherness within the subject that says-or writes-"I."
So why dwell on something that isn't in any way a revelation? Because feeling this distinction, working with it, exploring the creative possibilities inherent in it-all this is quite different from recognizing the distinction at a purely intellectual level. I wonder, should I put a Brian Duren in "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry"? And if so, which one? Or maybe I should develop a new work of fiction and people it with several Brian Duren's. That could be a lot of fun.
Posted: March 10, 2012
The art of disappearing
There are very few Radiohead songs that I love more than "How to Disappear Completely." It's intensely beautiful and eerie. Disappearing completely-ceasing to be me-is one of the greatest pleasures I know.
As a teenager and a young man, I was-as the French say-mal dans ma peau. Uncomfortable, or unhappy, in my skin. Like, if I could just get out of my skin and not be me-maybe get into someone else's skin and be that person, or maybe just disappear altogether, become invisible-I would be so much happier. I did what a lot of children, teens, and adults in their early twenties do to get out of their skin: I lived in a world of books and wrote poetry.
When I was a senior in high school, I discovered acting. Not the acting of every day life, which I already knew, but acting in a theatrical production. The school's annual play that year was a particularly hammy melodrama, and I played the hero. How hammy? In one scene I swept the heroine off her feet and carried her off stage. I can't remember what motivated me to audition for the play. I suspect it had to do with the extraordinary amount of coaxing and encouragement I was receiving from a number of teachers who feared I was hell-bent on self-destruction and were determined to save me.
There was no way a kid as insecure-as mal dans ma peau-as I could have walked out on that stage, in front of at least two hundred people, and delivered my lines, if I'd felt I was still in my own skin. Acting gave me the opportunity of discovering the happiness and security of disappearing. I only acted in one more play-an MFA student's production of Strindberg's The Father, at the University of Minnesota, when I was a sophomore.
For a number of reasons, I chose an academic career, became a professor of French and comparative literature, and experienced a fair amount of success and a huge amount of unhappiness, until I started writing fiction and left academe. Once again I started disappearing in my work. I'd like to disappear completely in all of my characters.
I wrote most of this post this morning at my partner's house, while she was preparing breakfast. On the way home in the car, I listened to an interview with Anthony Hopkins on NPR. Hopkins talked about how, when he was a teenager, he loved to disappear in the act of creating art and composing music. What a coincidence! Over the next several decades he developed the art of disappearing in his theatrical roles and attained, I suspect, great happiness. The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra recently recorded the music that he composed in those early years of disappearing and released it on an album entitled Composer. We need a phrase to describe this kind of accomplishment-perhaps, the return of the disappeared (analogous-but in a positive way-to the return of the repressed).
When I got home, I listened online to the interview with Hopkins and the excerpts from Composer, and then listened to Radiohead's "How to disappear completely." And I started writing again, disappearing in my novel-in-progress, "Every Tom, Dick and Harry."
Posted: April 15, 2011
Certain principles inform my writing. For example--and this is just an example: never forget the madeleines and the rosebuds, these metaphors in Proust and Welles that carry so much with them--the craving for love, the fear of never obtaining it, the anxiety of losing it, the rage for having lost it or been denied it, the compulsive pursuit of it. These emotions are forces that drive all of my characters, that frequently overwhelm their judgement and compel them to make irrational and sometimes self-destructive decisions, or to believe things that are patently untrue. The plot reveals these forces as they play out in time through the characters' actions. Plot is an effect, a consequence, perhaps just a symptom.
Posted: April 6, 2011
After completing the first draft of "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry" (ETDH) in July of 2010, I decided to reverse the order of Part I and Part II (the novel has four parts, each of which contains several chapters). I had to write some new material to make that reversal work. By the end of this month, I will have completed all of the new writing and will begin focusing again on rewriting the text, layering the characters, cutting and condensing. I am still on schedule to have a draft of about 450 pages ready to market to agents and publishers by June of 2012. I have a long list of readers who are awaiting the publication of ETDH. I cannot let them down.
Posted: July 27, 2010
I completed the first draft of "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry" Monday afternoon, July 26, 2010, during a vacation on the North Shore, just outside Tofte, Minnesota. Tip a glass for me!
Now that I have finished this draft, I can focus my revisions on layering the characters--adding time and depth.
Tallying the awards: Whiteout won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Midwestern Fiction and the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award for Midwestern Literature; it finished a finalist (second place) in judging for the National Indie Excellence Award for Regional Fiction. Judges reviewing entries for the Ben Franklin Award for Popular Fiction ranked Whiteout fourth. The novel finished a finalist in judging for the Midwest Independent Publishing Association's Midwest Book Award for two- and three-color cover design.
Posted: March 21, 2010
Whiteout won the Reader Views 2010 Reviewers Choice Award for Midwestern Literature. (See http://readerviews.com/Awards2009Winners.html.) The 2010 Reader Views awards recognize outstanding books published in 2009. I thank the reviewers for recognizing the quality of Whiteout.
I also want to thank my readers for inviting me to their book-club meetings and including me in their discussions of Whiteout. I have found you to be smart, perceptive, and funny. (I will never forget the reader who took Whiteout to a session with her psychiatrist and, opening the book to specific passages, said, it's all right here in the book!) The tenacity with which you have focused on significant issues in the book has deeply moved me and reminded me that novels should always take readers on a voyage and never bring them back to the point of departure.
Posted: January 17, 2010
I have heard that some readers and editors disapprove of the use of dreams in literature. The complaint seems to be that dreams are just a gimmick for advancing the plot.
I use a few dreams in Whiteout, primarily to lengthen Paul's shadow in time and/or to represent an underlying emotional state.
The second chapter in Whiteout includes Paul's dream of a boy walking on a plane of snow to the crest of a hill, peering down into a deep, long valley, and then having the sensation of flying above the surface of the snow. The dream haunts Paul, casts its shadow across the entire book, and foreshadows discoveries that Paul will make. It also lengthens his shadow in time, suggests (with much ambiguity) his complex emotional state, and contributes to his depth.
I would love to know what my readers think of the use of dreams in Whiteout. Are the dreams just gimmicks, or do they work? Send me an email at email@example.com.
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I occasionally receive emails from readers telling me how much they loved Whiteout. One of those emails, in which the author talks about the experience of reading my novel bringing her back to look at her childhood again, reminded me that as writers we are trying to do much more than just entertain.
Posted: December 7, 2009 (Pearl Harbor Day!)
Readers talk about characters having depth. What does it mean to have depth?
When we talk about depth, I think we are using space as a metaphor for time. The history of literature is full of examples of writers who have used spatial metaphors to talk about time. (Proust and Freud come to mind.) A character can have depth only if he or she has time. One of the writer's challenges is to find imaginative ways of imbuing his characters with time.
I cannot recall anyone ever talking about child characters having depth. If they have somehow experience that goes beyond their years, then they are weird, like the children in The Turn of the Screw, or perhaps "preternatural," the adjective that the narrator in Moby Dick uses to describe Pip.
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If your company has a need for night shifts, you know how important it is to hire reputable employees. Often, night shift employees are one or some of the only employees at the location while everyone else is at home sleeping. This means that the employee will need to handle issues of safety, customer service, financial matters, and more. Here's how to hire responsible night shift employees:
Have Recommendations
The easiest way to hire responsible night shift employees is to have a reputable staffing agency or people you trust recommend potential new hires. These recommendations can come from friends, family members, or other colleagues. Trusted recommendations increase your chances are that the potential employee is responsible and a good choice.
Ask Hypothetical Questions
Those who are working the night shift often carry greater responsibility. In order to make sure you are hiring the individual or individuals who can successfully handle these tasks effectively, ask them hypothetical questions. This will allow you to assess the potential recruit's ability to think on his or her feet and see whether you agree with their responses.
Check References
If a potential recruit has worked a night shift position before, always check their references. Their previous employers will be able to tell you how long they worked together, if there were ever any potential issues that arose, and why they left. The information you receive from these phone calls could easily steer you in one direction versus another in terms of making a hire.
Do a Supervised Test Run
Because there is so much at stake with putting all your trust in night shift employees, you should do a supervised probation period. This could be as simple as asking a current employee to spend the first few night shifts with the new employee. This not only allows you to see what it will be like with your new employee, but also to provide peace of mind for both of you in terms of duties and task completion before you make the actual hire.
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Unified login like Inky so that I only have to set up the Airmail app with my accounts one time, then I can log in on any device with Airmail app (Mac or iPhone in my case).5 votes
A suite like "Moxier Mail" for Android would be great!!!
-> Support for Microsoft Office 365 (perhaps with calendar, contacts and tasks)
-> tags
-> flags
-> cloud services (Dropbox, OneDrive,12 votes
Junk Filter
A proper Junk mail filter (the one in Mail IOS is a joke and does not work).40 votes
Add Cubby (from LogMeIn) in the list of services
Could you please add support in the iOS and Mac OS version, for Cubby the storage service from LogMeIn.3 votes
Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts for Bluetooth Keyboards
I can really process email quickly on Airmail Mac by using Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts. If I could use Gmail Keyboard shortcuts on the iPad using an external bluetooth keyboard then that would be something that I haven't seen on other iOS Mail apps.10 votes
Acompli + Mailbox
Gesture support exactly like Mailbox with snooze and folder gestures, along with the standard archive and delete, but with a whole file support section like Acompli. The ability to go through files per email in Acompli is really handy!
Don't need the calendar section like in Acompli, as I think everyone uses Fantastical or something similar for their calendar tasks.
Also, the ability to create folders like Mailbox would be great too!
Oh also, support for drafts...9 votes
Categories for email/tasks for quick search and referencing
Categories for email/tasks for quick search and reference14 votes
A toolbar of top or bottom with 3-4 button/space to customize
A toolbar with 3-4 Space you can customise by existing folder or intelligent folder.13 votes
Fast email on iOS8 Notifications Center (and OS X too ?)
can start directly an email from iOS8 Notifications Center. Just 3 textfield, like to: subject: and content:12 votes
Malto UI on the iPad
The Malto mail app on the iPad has a very neat and different interface on the iPad, which I really like!
However, its functionality is not as clean and simple as that of Airmail on the Mac.
If you could somehow manage to merge the look of Malto with the functionality of Airmail, that would be great!3 votes
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Wireless Knowledge plans to develop mobile health management for iMetrikus
Patients who need their blood glucose monitored and uploaded to a file can soon cut the strings that may tie them to their PCs. Wireless Knowledge, Inc. has been selected by MyHealthChannel.com developer iMetrikus to develop wireless-enabled software that will give patients and caregivers the capability to upload personal diagnostics from Internet-enabled devices. The software will make for more frequent health readings and patient mobility.
With the collaboration of iMetrikus and Wireless Knowledge, these data transfers can be moved to mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other Internet-enabled wireless devices. This gives patients more freedom to continue with their lives, while still maintaining a comprehensive, quality data environment.
"We're developing software on the [Qualcomm] PDQ Smart Phone that will read the [blood glucose] meter and will transmit the data through the wireless airlink to the site," said Dan Halibuk, engagement manager, professional services at Wireless Knowledge.
For example, a diabetic patient needs to regularly check his blood glucose level with a blood glucose meter, said Dan Pettus, senior vice president of client services at iMetrikus. The data from the blood glucose meters needs to be presented to caretakers or doctors for the patient to receive the best type of treatment. Currently, the patient can only upload the data via a PC to the MyHealthChannel.com Web site, which utilizes extensible markup language (XML) for its interactive technology.
"That's a problem," Pettus said. "[A desktop computer] is not very mobile."
In looking for a partner for the wireless venture, in order to allow patients to continue with their lives while still receiving this level of care, iMetrikus looked at two main factors, Pettus said. The company wanted a partner that could develop the software so that monitoring devices could directly connect to wireless devices for uploading. Additionally, iMetrikus wanted to work with a company that could provide data transmission through an established standard, he added.
"We found that only Wireless Knowledge could provide both benefits at the same time," Pettus said. "The ability of Wireless Knowledge to provide a custom interface in the wireless phone directly connected to [a patient monitoring device] and provide a standard messaging technology using proprietary licensing software was a huge benefit to us."
"It's an extension of [iMetrikus's] mobile health watch application," Halibuk said. Essentially, it can be unnecessary and costly for patients to go to the doctor's office for routine tests, he said, and this is why the MyHealthChannel Web site was developed.
"We're taking it one step further," Halibuk said. "Patients will not need their PC... and do not need to be at home. Wherever they are, they can run tests with their schedule and sever ties to their PC."
"There are ... a lot of valuable wireless data applications that can be developed for healthcare, and CRM seems to be one of them," said Charul Vyas, research analyst in wireless and mobile communications, IDC. "Obviously, accessing patient information wirelessly will be beneficial to both the patient as well as the health care provider."
There are also plans for the service to monitor when the patient needs to test blood glucose levels and "push" reminders to the mobile devices, according to Halibuk. Other health tips relevant to that user could also show up on the mobile screen, and the patient could log on to look at the testing schedule, test results or to modify the profile, he said.
"We're trying to make [the protocol] as open as possible," Pettus said. The first phase of the wireless development will be using existing technology, he said, but in the future, iMetrikus plans for a more open architecture. "The goal is to open it up to anyone with a chronic condition," he added.
According to Halibuk, the data transmission will be secure hypertext transfer protocol (https) over the Internet, and messages "pushed" to the user will be done with short message service (SMS).
"The first phase will be only glucose monitors," Halibuk said. There are plans to expand this technology to a wider array of medical devices and wireless protocols, which will be driven my iMetrikus, he added.
"In the end, it's about improving outcomes," said Darrell Atkin, vice president of marketing at iMetrikus. The wireless element provides a platform for patients to keep track of their records for their doctor visits, without having to worry about forgetting to report results "because they can do that all interactively, via the wireless solution," he said.
"The healthcare industry has not adopted wireless data as quickly as other industries, such as the financial industry," Vyas said. "It seems that this is changing as more companies, such as iMetrikus and Wireless Knowledge, develop products specifically for this industry."
A prototype of the protocol is expected in less than 60 days, and a commercial release will be available at the end of the second quarter this year, according to Atkin.
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International Cannabis Closes CAD$45 Million Non-Brokered Private Placement
/EIN News/ -- VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ICC International Cannabis Corp. (CSE: WRLD.U)(FWB: 8K51)(OTC: KNHBF) ("ICC" or "International Cannabis" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has closed a non-brokered private placement consisting of 42,187,500 units ("Units") of the Company issued at a price of US$0.32 per Unit and secured convertible debentures (the "Debentures") for total gross proceeds of CAD$45M (the "Offering").
The Company issued 42,187,500 Units at a price of US $0.32 per Unit. Each Unit is comprised of one common share (a "Share") and one-half of one transferable Share purchase warrant (each whole Share purchase warrant being a "Warrant"). Each Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to purchase one additional Share of the Company at a price of US$0.50 for a period of two years from the closing date.
The Debentures were issued at a deemed value of US $0.38, which was the market price on March 6, 2019. The Debentures shall bear interest at a rate of 10.0% per annum from the date of issue, payable semi-annually in arrears on June 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing June 30, 2019. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months. The June 30, 2019 interest payment will represent accrued interest for the period from the closing date to June 30, 2019.
The Company has paid a finder's fees on this Offering.
All securities issued pursuant to the Offering are subject to a statutory four-month and one day hold period from the date of issuance pursuant to applicable securities laws of Canada. Proceeds from the Placement will be used as general working capital to continue its ongoing obligations
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The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes Monday's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday.
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Last night was a great night and I wrote down a few things that I don't want to forget - here is the short list.
- It was almost 90 degrees (IN MARCH!)
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- He ate an entire corndog on a stick - he is such a big boy (he doesn't like to dip in mustard or ketchup)
- He started with an appetizer platter of grapes, yogurt and cheese (his top three foods!)
- There were some bugs, so we had to use a little bug spray
- Daddy took Liam on some very bumpy wagon rides - after each round Liam wanted more and said "just one more time daddy" (one more time turned into about 12 more times)
- We stayed out until dark and watched the sun go down - we brought candles out to light the end of our night
- We all had hooded sweatshirts on... and to Liam's request - it was HOODS UP after dark
- He ended his night outside w/ Daddy and looking at the red and green lights on "his bridge"
- He took a happy bubble bath and even requested to get OUT to go potty! (breakthrough)
- We read three stories (thats our rule at bed time... THREE stories) but it was such a great night, that he got a BONUS book :)
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5 Common Networking Mistakes
First impressions mean everything! They make an impact when it comes to how people perceive you. Everyone has their own motives for attending a networking event – whether it's to gain new clients, find a new employer or just make contacts that have the potential to advance your professional career – there is always a purpose.
However, in a room full of other Young Professionals, it can be easy to start turning people away and not gain a worthwhile experience. Through nearly 4 years of running The Hip Haus Networking events, we've been able to observe areas where individuals can improve their networking skills to build lasting relationships. No matter your reasoning for attending a networking event, there are best practices to keep in mind when interacting with complete strangers.
Speaking Without Listening
One of the most valuable techniques to practice not only for networking events but throughout life is effective communication skills. Keeping the conversation focused solely about you & your endeavours can quickly turn the other person off and make them want to walk away. Start by listening – direct your attention to your counterpart and make mental notes of what they are saying. Not only does demonstrating interest in the other person show that you actually care, it will make them want to communicate with you more in the future.
Constantly Delivering a Sales Pitch
Attending a networking event is about building relationships, not trying to sell your product or service to everyone you come across. It's easy for another person to quickly get deterred and start figuring out ways to escape their conversation with you. Get to know the person and have a normal conversation without continuously pitching your business or opportunities for them to buy something from you. Long-term relationships are much more effective than short-term gains.
Asking "What You Do?" As Your First Question
After a long day of work, the last thing you want to talk about is what you've done all day. While having a job is important, it isn't the definitive characteristic that represents people. Some of the most interesting conversations don't involve talking about careers at all, but about interests, travel stories and cool things to do in Toronto. Come to networking events prepared with icebreaker questions to help create engaging and worthwhile conversations.
Poor Body Language
Have you ever been stuck in a conversation where the opposing party is clearly not listening or is visibly disinterested in what you have to say? There's nothing worse than being stuck in dialogue where someone is visibly expressing how much they don't want to be there. This can leave a poor impression and provide plenty of reasons for people wanting to avoid further interactions. A great example is a lack of eye contact – if the other person isn't directly looking at you while you're speaking, not only is it rude, it's also a tell-tale sign that they are uninterested. Face-to-face communication is vastly different than interacting via online networking, which means how your body language comes across is key.
Failure to Follow Up
This is a big one. While you may have left a great impression on everyone you've met at a networking event, failing to contact your new connections a few days or a week after meeting them can demonstrate a lack of wanting to build a solid relationship. We're in an incredibly fast-paced society where making connections are important but keeping them is critical. Following up shortly after the event keeps you on top of the other party's mind. While they may have met a number of great people, by following up you've shortlisted yourself in the ones they remember. Always follow up. Sidenote: be sure to follow up with a professional email address – firstname.lastname@example.com doesn't cut it. (Our apologies to anyone that has that email address.)
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