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Calvin Klein Fall/Winter 2014-2015 Collection – New York Fashion Week
The mysterious chic of black is one of the best guarantees of the absolutely flabbergasting Calvin Klein fall/winter 2014-2015 collection, presented as one of the most matchless and striking fashion shows ever! So it starts with black and eventually develops into logically expected black and white. Thus the diversity of the looks doesn't stop on one single look or shape solely, but introduces a whole conglomeration of anything you might need for a perfect and comfy fall.
The opening pieces of the Calvin Klein fall/winter 2014-2015 collection, however, present the outerwear garments first, offering some cool jackets, one of which comes matched with a comfy black skirt of almost floor length. The cute dress of black shade is the following wonder of this collection, the most spectacular aspect about which is the sporty army-inspired boots counterbalancing the look for a specific boho effect.
The fluffy and white are the say of Calvin Klein for the following elongated coat. The same principle worked for the creation of the next dress cut on tea level. Another interesting texture has been worked out for the other white coat.
Also, we can't but talk about the interesting color plays created with black and white tones and used with different proportions for each look. The single stripe of white on black and the half black half white options are among the best.
The warmer tones come right after this dominance of black and white, introduced with such shades as the brown and the coral. The garments featuring these tones are quite diverse, from knitted dresses to comfortable and warm jackets and coats.
The navy blue shades are also here for the bigger diversity. However, the black and white options shortly take back the control of the looks, coming with some more diversified alternatives like the ones adorned with micro-fringes, some glittery details, and transparency plays.
So this is the striking collection of Calvin Klein this time, and just like in case of all the previous ones, we love every single look presented here, being the best exemplifications of what comfy chic really means. The Calvin Klein fall/winter 2014-2015 collection definitely embellished the last day of New York Fashion Week fall 2014, making it a super-memorable and fashionable period of time in the world of fashion!
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You're Never Stuck
You're never stuck. You need only to have eyes - the ability to take an honest look at yourself and what it would take you to get moving.
Things only stay stagnant when there's a resistance to growth and change.
In order to find that resistance you have to take a good look at yourself, dig and find it.
Seems simple, but people hold on to their identity with everything they have. To part from it feels like self-annihilation, so they have a death grip on it. Scared to loosen their grip, they are locked into a trap.
But once you understand how allowing change actually keeps you alive, keeps things around you alive, you'll look back and grimace at how tightly you held on. You'll count your lucky stars that you're not there anymore.
The effects of holding on so tight are pretty catastrophic. The trick is that in the moment you're called to loosen your grip, to change your identity a bit, that's what feels like the catastrophe. So that is what stops you. Fear stops you.
Alternately, have you ever been afraid that eventually you'll have this lackluster for things in your life? You've experienced it before. Your new TV suddenly seems so trivial. You're over your job, relationship. Things become mundane.
Instead of looking at this and thinking, "Let me begin the process of getting to the root of what truly makes me happy," you invest deeper and deeper into the way your life is now. You build a house on it. You get more invested into it, you engrain it more into your identity - and thus you become even more petrified to break these layers you've invested so much into.
So you're in a relationship. You're married. You have your nice house, your new car, your cushy job.
You want to go to South America. You want to live in Patagonia.
But you consider it just a dream - or unreasonable. Read this slowly: You consider your deepest longing for your life as just a dream. All it is to you is a sentence - you just use your dream in a sentence all the time: "I'd love to live there."
A sentence is all it is to you now because you'd have to change and let go of many 'things' to actually get there, so you don't.
And then, suddenly, you have no interest in your job. Or your relationship falls apart, you lose interest in the other.
Yeah, probably the relationship isn't right for you, but the reason it falls apart, the reason it isn't right for you, is that you two aren't growing together. She's just as comfortable in her half-happy, but settled and controlled life as you are. That's the type of person each of you are. You're not pushing each other. You're each not expanding.
There's nothing wrong with this type of life. Some people love it and are happy with it. It may get you a pleasurable life, but if you have deep and authentic longings for greater things, this way won't get you an authentic and deeply lived and felt life. Everything will eventually become stale if you hop from one material 'thing' or accomplishment to the other.
So, if you do have longings and if you do feel stuck, dig up your root and move to better climate for your variety.
Choose to be awake. Surround yourself with people who are truly awake. Choose not to drown in the numbness of 'things.'
Choose to be more intimately connected to and aware of life, its changes, its ebbs and flows, the internal process of change, and continue to move and grow even when it isn't comfortable anymore. Choose people who want the same.
When you have the divine privilege to go further, you need to go. Let's really examine it: We're not talking some major life setback by getting out of your hometown and to the place you want to be. You're just talking sacrifices or discomfort for a little while. Maybe it creates a smaller budget. Maybe it creates a contraction in your relationship, but you do it together, you do it consciously. You choose life and to grow, together, and there's no way that love will ever die.
Accept change of identity, growth and morph with the seasons. Don't be too scared to do what it takes to truly live in this life. Have the courage to face the unknown.
This is what will free you because this is life.
Merriam-Webster defines "life" as:
An organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction.
Life is about metamorphosis. Not even the seasons can stay the same for more than a few months.
No wonder you can easily get sick of something or someone, when you yourself are sticking to an old, layered identity and suppressing part of your divine potential.
So loosen that grip on your identity already, and live a living, breathing, changing life.
I once heard someone say that luck will show up for people and it will leave them, but if you're constantly working on and improving who you are - game over (in a good way).
And so, I believe that if you're constantly challenging the staircase you're climbing, taking turns up and down new paths, you'll create and enter whole universes of new possibilities for yourself.

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Above you'll find a video from August. It's going viral now in a Reddit post captioned: "I never knew blackheads like this developed in ears until I saw the first of these. Now, I don't know what is more disturbing, that they exist or that they are CONNECTED."
But you didn't come here to read words about a morphed mush of blackhead goodness! Go ahead. Mmm. MmMmMmMmmm. Bye.
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Fragmentation, cross-platform viewing and attribution remain top of mind for many in the media and advertising realms. Media consumption patterns have changed, and new technology has opened the floodgates for limitless possibilities when it comes to how we engage with content. Advertisers are also demanding more for less. They want increased accountability about how their marketing and advertising dollars are being spent and if their efforts are delivering the ROI they promised.
For perspective, Nielsen thought leaders share their thoughts about the current landscape and how innovation and data have opened the door for new content distribution methods, ad models and audience targeting.
Managing Director, Nielsen Agency Solutions
"Agencies need to meet their clients' needs in the most contemporary way, and that means they're adjusting to buyer-based targeting."
SVP, Solutions and Innovation
"During the 2016-17 TV season, 611 brands engaged in on-screen branded integrations over the major English-language broadcast networks during primetime."
SVP, Product Leadership, U.S. Watch
"VOD represents a significant opportunity for advertisers and agencies to find more high-value ad inventory within their cross-media plans."
SVP, Product Leadership, U.S. Watch
"By preparing for the future with measurement that's comprehensive and flexible, the industry will be ready for the new ways that audiences consume content."
Managing Director, Digital
"While KPIs are highly important and necessary, marketers need think about the bigger picture and how attribution and marketing mix fit into their larger goals."


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Dr. Gaeta is a New Jersey native and a graduate of The College of New Jersey where she received a Chubb Scholarship and was a Dean's List Student. She attended Southern College of Optometry earning her degree of Doctorate of Optometry. She is an Optometric Physician licensed by the New Jersey State Board of Optometrists in the treatment and management of ocular diseases. Her training included internships in Pediatrics and Vision Therapy, as well as Ocular Disease and Low Vision at the VA hospital in Memphis, TN.
Dr. Gaeta is an active member of the American Optometric Association, as well as the New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians. She also volunteers for Opening Eyes, a program which provides full eye health exams for special needs participants of the New Jersey Special Olympics. Her community service work also includes performing vision exams for homeless adults and children, as well as fundraising for the American Cancer Society. Dr. Gaeta has special interests in pediatric eye care and treating patients with the newest contact lens technologies.
Dr. Gaeta was named "Young Optometrist of the Year" for 2017 by the New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians.
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Dr. Patel completed her residency in Ocular Disease and Primary Eye Care at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. There she provided optometric care to patients of all ages in a community-based clinical setting and provided treatment for the full spectrum of ophthalmologic disease for a diverse population. She is proficient in Spanish and fluent in Gujarati.
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Since the day it became the best-selling book of 1900, the world has never been without The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum's story about a Kansas girl who ascends via twister to a witch-plagued but otherwise perfect fairyland became a kid-lit classic long before the 1939 film, the most-watched motion picture ever, ensured Oz's everlasting status.
But Wizard was just the first of 14 Oz books by Baum, a series that provides a perfect introduction for younger kids to progressive politics like feminism, socialism, pacifism and multiculturalism. For older kids, however, the author's racist writings about indigenous people outside of the books can be used as an entry point to discuss issues like colonialism and genocide.
A first edition of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz sits on display at Christie's auction house (Reuters)
The woke groundwork is laid in the initial novel as the primary players are all female, from fearless farm girl Dorothy and the two evil witches she takes down to Glinda, the good witch who eventually helps her get home to Kansas.
The book's male characters, on the other hand, include a literal straw man, a cowardly bully, a heartless romantic and the titular dictator who maintains his unearned power through fear and fraud. They do redeem themselves but are comparatively passive.
Dorothy, however, is always proactive. Unlike most fairy tales, she's not waiting for her prince to come. While Alice arrived a few decades earlier, Baum infused his book with feminist inspiration from the then-burgeoning suffragette movements. Baum was surrounded by strong females all his life: his aunt graduated from medical school in 1852 to become one of the U.S.'s first female medical doctors, and his wife, Maude Gage, was educated at Cornell.
Dorothy, however, is always proactive. Unlike most fairy tales, she's not waiting for her prince to come.
But the real influence was his mother-in-law, Matilda Gage, a "radical feminist" who co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony; wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women and dismissed witchcraft accusations as misogynistic oppression: "We have abundant proof that the so-called 'witch' was among the most profoundly scientific persons of the age."
Baum's sequel The Land of Oz starred a young boy named Tip who was actually a girl trapped in a boy's body and eventually revealed to be the country's monarch, Ozma, in a moment capturing the fluidity of gender identity.
"Speaking the words with sweet diffidence, she said: 'I hope none of you will care less for me than you did before. I'm just the same Tip, you know; only — only — '
'Only you're different!' said the Pumpkinhead; and everyone thought it was the wisest speech he had ever made."
General Jinjur and her all-female Army of Revolt invade the Emerald City (Getty)
The primary plot of this second book, however, was a light-hearted suffragette parody abound a female revolution led by munchkin general Jinjur.
"'Friends, fellow-citizens, and girls!' she said; 'we are about to begin our great Revolt against the men of Oz! We march to conquer the Emerald City — to dethrone the Scarecrow King — to acquire thousands of gorgeous gems — to rifle the royal treasury — and to obtain power over our former oppressors!'"
Her all-female "Army of Revolt" overthrows the Scarecrow King, albeit using knitting needles as weapons and narrowly avoiding defeat due to their fear of mice. The men, exhausted from doing housework and childcare, later wonder if "perhaps the women are made of cast-iron."
Jinjur is eventually overthrown — by Glinda's own all-female force — but rather than restoring the stuffed shirt king, Ozma returns the nation to its natural matriarchal state as established by Oz's fairy founder Queen Lurline. In later books, Dorothy returns and is joined by more strong females like Betsy Bobbins, Billina the yellow hen, Patchwork Girl and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter.
The series' feminism sparked numerous bans over the years for "depicting women in strong leadership roles" and for its socialist economics.
"If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world," declared the Tin Woodman in The Road to Oz. "We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use."
Ozma rides her Saw-Horse on the cover of the Emerald City of Oz (Getty)
This is elaborated on in The Emerald City of Oz, where the narrator explains:
"Each man and woman, no matter what he or she produced for the good of the community, was supplied by the neighbours with food and clothing and a house and furniture and ornaments and games. If by chance the supply ever ran short, more was taken from the great storehouses of the Ruler, which were afterward filled up again when there was more of any article than the people needed."
The books are also adamantly pacifist. Baum's final book Glinda of Oz, written near the end of the First World War, was about Dorothy and Ozma trying to stop a war between the Skeezers and the Flatheads, while in Emerald City Ozma argues that "Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same," adding that even in the face of an invasion, "No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they may be, or to hurt them or make them unhappy. I will not fight, even to save my kingdom."
Dorothy and her companions gather in the court of Princess Ozma (Getty)
The books also promote the benefits of multiculturalism with the Munchkins, Winkies, Gillikins and Quadlings living in harmony, and each adventure assembles a diverse collection of races, animals, faeries, animated objects and even a highly magnified Woggle-Bug, who must combine their talents to win the day.
Unlike the film, the books don't pretend it was all a dream and contrast Oz's feminist, socialist and multicultural utopia with a grey, depressed Kansas where the banks eventually foreclose on Aunt 'Em and Uncle Henry's farm.
While he said his books "bear the stamp of our times and depict the progressive fairies of the day," Baum also bore the colonial oppression of his era.
— Ryan McMahon, comedian and activist
That stark contrast unfortunately also exists between his fiction and reality. While Baum said his books "bear the stamp of our times and depict the progressive fairies of the day," he also bore the colonial oppression of his era.
A decade before he created Oz, Baum ran the Saturday Pioneer newspaper in Aberdeen, South Dakota. While he used the paper to "champion the cause of women" and wrote "the key to the success of our country is tolerance," he also wrote two editorials 1890 advocating genocide against the Lakota Sioux before and after the massacre of Wounded Knee.
Aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, South Dakota in 1890 (Getty)
Baum's racism, while pervasive at the time especially in the Dakotas where fighting was still a regular occurrence, cannot excuse calling for the "total annihilation of the few remaining Indians" because "the whites by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent." Even after the massacre, he called on the U.S. government to "wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth."
In 2006, two of his descendants went to South Dakota to apologize to the Sioux Nation: "We stand before you and before the citizens of both our great nations to suggest that 'The Wizard of Oz,' a great American fairy tale, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee, a great American tragedy, be forever joined in the hearts, minds and memories of all our people."
Baum's grotesque hatred doesn't make its way into the books he wrote later but parents can similarly join them to explain to older children how horrifically First Nations were treated and how white supremacy can impact even seemingly progressive people.
Over the past century Oz has grown beyond Baum as it's been adapted and revised as new novels, musicals, comics, films and TV shows. But the social justice messages those original Oz books give children remain as important in 2017 as ever before, as does addressing the author's, and North America's, problematic past.


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Sunday, 6 January 2008
Why backpacker are so cool
Personally I think this is a good way to pass on some of that backpacking gear you don't use anymore, but is to good to throw out.
I must have a cupboard full; of little piece of equipment that I'll never use again and could probably be useful to someone else.
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As I watched the vid, I went from "wow, what a cool idea" to "I'd like that…and that…and that…", and the next person would get an empty box, cos I'd find a use for everything. To be totally honest, I'd even find a use for the empty box.ReplyDelete
You may laugh, but I'm waiting for the feedback from the people who know my flat… I also blame the parents, especially the male side of my family. Engineers, buses, fishing boats, welding…never throw anything awway if it has potential.ReplyDelete
Same here only it's the wife.ReplyDelete
My kids are 10 & 7 but we still have the pram and cot from when they were babies!!.
Just incase!!!
You can see my Dad's 3 outbuildings from space (honest), yet he still can't get the car parked in any of them.
I haven't got a lot to spare, but I wonder if that will work here. Thanks.ReplyDelete


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The History of Bitcoin (according to Wikipedia)
Prior to the release of bitcoin there were a number of digital cash technologies starting with the issuer based ecash protocols of David Chaum [2] and Stefan Brands. Adam Back developed hashcash, a proof-of-work scheme for spam control. The first proposals for distributed digital scarcity based cryptocurrencies were Wei Dai's b-money[3] and Nick Szabo's bit gold.[4][5] Hal Finney developed reusable proof of work(RPOW) using hashcash as its proof of work algorithm.[6]
In the bit gold proposal which proposed a collectible market based mechanism for inflation control, Nick Szabo also investigated some additional enabling aspects including a Byzantine fault-tolerant asset registry to store and transfer the chained proof-of-work solutions.[5]
There has been much speculation as to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto with suspects including Wei Dai, Hal Finney and accompanying denials.[7][8] The possibility that Satoshi Nakamoto was a computer collective in the European financial sector has also been discussed.[9]
Click through the below tabs for a detailed history of Bitcoin's growth according to Wikipedia
On 18 August 2008, the domain name bitcoin.org was registered.[10] In November that year, a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System[11] was posted to a cryptography mailing list.[10] This paper detailed methods of using a peer-to-peer network to generate what was described as "a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust".[12][13][14] In January 2009, the bitcoin network came into existence with the release of the first open source bitcoin client and the issuance of the first bitcoins,[12][15][16][17] with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the first block of bitcoins ever (known as the genesis block), which had a reward of 50 bitcoins. Embedded in the coinbase of this block was the text:
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.[18]
One of the first supporters, adopters, contributor to bitcoin and receiver of the first bitcoin transaction was programmer Hal Finney. Finney downloaded the bitcoin software the day it was released, and received 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto in the world's first bitcoin transaction.[19][20] Other early supporters were Wei Dai, creator of bitcoin predecessor b-money, and Nick Szabo, creator of bitcoin predecessor bit gold.[21]
In the early days, Nakamoto is estimated to have mined 1 million bitcoins.[22] Before disappearing from any involvement in bitcoin, Nakamoto in a sense handed over the reins to developer Gavin Andresen, who then became the bitcoin lead developer at the Bitcoin Foundation, the 'anarchic' bitcoin community's closest thing to an official public face.[23]
The value of the first bitcoin transactions were negotiated by individuals on the bitcointalk forums with one notable transaction of 10,000 BTC used to indirectly purchase two pizzas delivered by Papa John's.[12]
On 6 August 2010, a major vulnerability in the bitcoin protocol was spotted. Transactions weren't properly verified before they were included in the transaction log or blockchain, which let users bypass bitcoin's economic restrictions and create an indefinite number of bitcoins.[24][25] On 15 August, the vulnerability was exploited; over 184 billion bitcoins were generated in a transaction, and sent to two addresses on the network. Within hours, the transaction was spotted and erased from the transaction log after the bug was fixed and the network forked to an updated version of the bitcoin protocol.[26][27] This was the only major security flaw found and exploited in bitcoin's history.[24][25]
Based on bitcoin's open source code, other cryptocurrencies started to emerge.[28]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit group, started accepting bitcoins in January 2011,[29] stopped accepting them in June 2011,[30] and began again in May 2013.[31]
In June 2011 Wikileaks[32] and other organizations began to accept bitcoins for donations. The Electronic Frontier Foundation began, and then temporarily suspended, bitcoin acceptance, citing concerns about a lack of legal precedent about new currency systems.[33] The EFF's decision was reversed on 17 May 2013 when they resumed accepting bitcoin.[34]
On 22 March 2011 WeUseCoins published the first viral video [35] which has had over 6.4 million views. In September 2011 Vitalik Buterin co-founded Bitcoin Magazine. On 23 December 2011, Douglas Feigelson of BitBills filed a patent application for "Creating And Using Digital Currency" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an action which was contested based on prior art in June 2013.[36][37]
In January 2012, bitcoin was featured as the main subject within a fictionalized trial on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife in the third-season episode "Bitcoin for Dummies". The host of CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer, played himself in a courtroom scene where he testifies that he doesn't consider bitcoin a true currency, saying "There's no central bank to regulate it; it's digital and functions completely peer to peer".[38]
In September 2012, the Bitcoin Foundation was launched to "accelerate the global growth of bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol". The founders were Gavin Andresen, Jon Matonis, Patrick Murck, Charlie Shrem, and Peter Vessenes.[39]
In October 2012, BitPay reported having over 1,000 merchants accepting bitcoin under its payment processing service.[40] In November 2012, WordPress had started accepting bitcoins.[41]
In February 2013 the bitcoin-based payment processor Coinbase reported selling US$1 million worth of bitcoins in a single month at over $22 per bitcoin.[42] The Internet Archive announced that it was ready to accept donations as bitcoins and that it intends to give employees the option to receive portions of their salaries in bitcoin currency.[43]
In March the bitcoin transaction log called the blockchain temporarily split into two independent chains with differing rules on how transactions were accepted. For six hours two bitcoin networks operated at the same time, each with its own version of the transaction history. The core developers called for a temporary halt to transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off.[44] Normal operation was restored when the majority of the network downgraded to version 0.7 of the bitcoin software.[44] The Mt. Gox exchange briefly halted bitcoin deposits and the exchange rate briefly dipped by 23% to $37 as the event occurred[45][46] before recovering to previous level of approximately $48 in the following hours.[47] In the US, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) established regulatory guidelines for "decentralized virtual currencies" such as bitcoin, classifying American "bitcoin miners" who sell their generated bitcoins as Money Service Businesses (or MSBs), that may be subject to registration and other legal obligations.[48][49][50]
In April, payment processors BitInstant and Mt. Gox experienced processing delays due to insufficient capacity[51] resulting in the bitcoin exchange rate dropping from $266 to $76 before returning to $160 within six hours.[52] Bitcoin gained greater recognition when services such as OkCupid and Foodler began accepting it for payment.[53]
On 15 May 2013, the US authorities seized accounts associated with Mt. Gox after discovering that it had not registered as a money transmitter with FinCEN in the US.[54][55]
On 17 May 2013, it was reported that BitInstant processed approximately 30 percent of the money going into and out of bitcoin, and in April alone facilitated 30,000 transactions,[56]
On 23 June 2013, it was reported that the US Drug Enforcement Administration listed 11.02 bitcoins as a seized asset in a United States Department of Justice seizure notice pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881.[57] It is the first time a government agency has claimed to have seized bitcoin.[58][59]
In July 2013 a project began in Kenya linking bitcoin with M-Pesa, a popular mobile payments system, in an experiment designed to spur innovative payments in Africa.[60] During the same month the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department in Thailand stated that bitcoin lacks any legal framework and would therefore be illegal, which effectively banned trading on bitcoin exchanges in the country.[61][62] According to Vitalik Buterin, a writer for Bitcoin Magazine, "bitcoin's fate in Thailand may give the electronic currency more credibility in some circles", but he was concerned it didn't bode well for bitcoin in China.[63]
On 6 August 2013, Federal Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas of the Fifth Circuit ruled that bitcoins are "a currency or a form of money" (specifically securities as defined by Federal Securities Laws), and as such were subject to the court's jurisdiction,[64][65] and Germany's Finance Ministry subsumed bitcoins under the term "unit of account"—a financial instrument—though not as e-money or a functional currency, a classification nonetheless having legal and tax implications.[66]
In October 2013, the FBI seized roughly 26,000 BTC from website Silk Road during the arrest of alleged owner Ross William Ulbricht.[67][68][69] Two companies, Robocoin and Bitcoiniacs launched the world's first bitcoin ATM on 29 October 2013 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, allowing clients to sell or purchase bitcoin currency at a downtown coffee shop.[70][71][72] Chinese internet giant Baidu had allowed clients of website security services to pay with bitcoins.[73]
In November 2013, the University of Nicosia announced that it would be accepting bitcoin as payment for tuition fees, with the university's chief financial officer calling it the "gold of tomorrow".[74] During November 2013, the China-based bitcoin exchange BTC China overtook the Japan-based Mt. Gox and the Europe-based Bitstamp to become the largest bitcoin trading exchange by trade volume.[75]
In December 2013, Overstock.com[76] announced plans to accept bitcoin in the second half of 2014. On 5 December 2013, the People's Bank of China prohibited Chinese financial institutions from using bitcoins.[77] After the announcement, the value of bitcoins dropped,[78] and Baidu no longer accepted bitcoins for certain services.[79] Buying real-world goods with any virtual currency has been illegal in China since at least 2009.[80]
In January 2014, Zynga[81] announced it was testing bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets in seven of its games. That same month, The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino properties in downtown Las Vegas announced they would also begin accepting bitcoin, according to an article by USA Today. The article also stated the currency would be accepted in five locations, including the front desk and certain restaurants.[82] The network rate exceeded 10 petahash/sec.[83] TigerDirect[84] and Overstock.com[85] started accepting bitcoin.
In early February 2014, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges, Mt. Gox,[86] suspended withdrawals citing technical issues.[87] By the end of the month, Mt. Gox had filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan amid reports that 744,000 bitcoins had been stolen.[88] Months before the filing, the popularity of Mt. Gox had waned as users experienced difficulties withdrawing funds.[89]
In June 2014 the network exceeded 100 petahash/sec.[90] On 18 June 2014, it was announced that bitcoin payment service provider BitPay would become the new sponsor of St. Petersburg Bowl under a two-year deal, renamed the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. Bitcoin was to be accepted for ticket and concession sales at the game as part of the sponsorship, and the sponsorship itself was also paid for using bitcoin.[91]
In July 2014 Newegg and Dell[92] started accepting bitcoin.
In September 2014 TeraExchange, LLC, received approval from the U.S.Commodity Futures Trading Commission "CFTC" to begin listing an over-the-counter swap product based on the price of a bitcoin. The CFTC swap product approval marks the first time a U.S. regulatory agency approved a bitcoin financial product.[93]
In December 2014 Microsoft began to accept bitcoin to buy Xbox games and Windows software.[94]
In January 2015 Coinbase raised 75 million USD as part of a Series C funding round, smashing the previous record for a bitcoin company.[95] Less than one year after the collapse of Mt. Gox, United Kingdom-based exchange Bitstamp announced that their exchange would be taken offline while they investigate a hack which resulted in about 19,000 bitcoins (equivalent to roughly US$5 million at that time) being stolen from their hot wallet.[96] The exchange remained offline for several days amid speculation that customers had lost their funds. Bitstamp resumed trading on 9 January after increasing security measures and assuring customers that their account balances would not be impacted.[97]
In March 2015 21 Inc announced it had raised 116 million USD in venture funding, the largest amount for any digital currency-related companies.[98]
As of August 2015 it was estimated that 160,000 merchants accept bitcoin payments.[99] Barclays announced that they would become the first UK high street bank to start accepting bitcoin, with a plan to facilitate users to make charitable donations using the cryptocurrency outside their systems.[100] They partnered in April 2016 with mobile payment startup Circle Internet Financial.[101]
In October 2015, a proposal was submitted to the Unicode Consortium to add a codepoint for the bitcoin symbol.[102]
In January 2016, the network rate exceeded 1 exahash/sec.[103]
In March 2016, the Cabinet of Japan recognized virtual currencies like bitcoin as having a function similar to real money.[104] Bidorbuy, the largest South African online marketplace, launched bitcoin payments for both buyers and sellers.[105]
In April 2016, Steam started accepting bitcoin as payment for video games and other online media.[106]
In July 2016, researchers published a paper showing that by November 2013 bitcoin commerce was no longer driven by "sin" activities but instead by legitimate enterprises.[107] Uber switched to bitcoin in Argentina after the government blocked credit card companies from dealing with Uber.[108]
In August 2016, a major bitcoin exchange, Bitfinex, was hacked and nearly 120,000 BTC (around $60m) was stolen.[109]
In September 2016, the number of bitcoin ATMs had doubled over the last 18 months and reached 771 ATMs worldwide.[110]
In November 2016, the Swiss Railway operator SBB (CFF) upgraded all their automated ticket machines so that bitcoin could be bought from them using the scanner on the ticket machine to scan the bitcoin address on a phone app.[111]
Bitcoin generates more academic interest year after year; the number of Google Scholar articles published mentioning bitcoin grew from 83 in 2009, to 424 in 2012, and 3580 in 2016. Also, the academic Ledger (journal) published its first issue. It is edited by Peter Rizun.
The number of businesses accepting bitcoin continues to increase. In January 2017, NHK reported the number of online stores accepting bitcoin in Japan had increased 4.6 times over the past year.[112] BitPay CEO Stephen Pair declared the company's transaction rate grew 3× from January 2016 to February 2017, and explained usage of bitcoin is growing in B2B supply chain payments.[113]
Bitcoin gains more legitimacy among lawmakers and legacy financial companies. For example, Japan passed a law to accept bitcoin as a legal payment method,[114] and Russia has announced that it will legalize the use of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.[115] And Norway's largest online bank, Skandiabanken, integrate bitcoin accounts.[116]
In the first half of 2017, 1 bitcoin surpassed the spot price of an ounce of gold for the first time,[117] and subsequently broke its all-time high, reaching US$1,402.03 on 1 May 2017,[118] and over US$1,800 on 11 May 2017.[119] On 20 May 2017, the price of one bitcoin passed US$2,000 for the first time.
In March 2017, the number of GitHub projects related to bitcoin passed 10,000.[120]
Exchange trading volumes continue to increase. For the 6-month period ending March 2017, Mexican exchange Bitso saw trading volume increase 1500%.[121] Between January and May 2017 Poloniex saw an increase of more than 600% active traders online and regularly processed 640% more transactions.[122]
In June 2017, the bitcoin symbol was encoded in Unicode version 10.0 at position U+20BF (₿) in the Currency Symbols block.[123]
On 1 August 2017 bitcoin split into two derivative digital currencies, the classic bitcoin (BTC) and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH).[124]
On 5 August 2017, the price of one BTC passed US$3,000 for the first time.
On 12 August 2017, the price of one BTC passed US$4,000 for the first time.
Two days later, the price of one BTC passed US$4,400 for the first time.
On 1 September 2017, bitcoin broke US$5,000 for the first time, topping out at US$5,013.91.[125]
On 13 October 2017, bitcoin rose rapidly to a peak of about $5,800 per BTC.
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The last Shishu Prohor (special schedule for the children) will be celebrated on Saturday as part of Amar Ekushey Book Fair.
Bangla Academy authorities announced the special schedule for the children during every Friday and Saturday to focus on the children's participation in the fair, reports UNB.
The authorities said that the children's corner takes a different look with colourful things to allure the children in the fair so that children can get the inspiration to visit the fair again.
On Friday, a good number of children celebrated the Shishu Prohor with their parents.
The long queues were seen at every entry point of both sides from the morning as it was the holiday.
The last Shishu Prohor will be celebrated from 11am and 1pm while the book fair will remain open from 11am to 9pm.
The prize giving ceremony of the children's painting, music, general knowledge and public speaking competition will be held on the day at 10.30am.
Visiting the fair, UNB found most of the children were choosing their favourite books attentively and happily.
The Unmad editor, cartoonist Ahsan Habib said that children can learn everything from here. They will be interested not only in books but also gain knowledge from friendship and sympathy.
Regarding children's books, he said, "Children love books of all kinds. But it is not possible to read all together. So parents have to choose some books for them. The choice of children should be preferred."
Friends of Sisimpur were the centre of interest in the morning. To see Hulum, Ikri, Tuktuki, Shiku, they gathered at the Sisimpur stage of the children's premises.
A total of 100 children books and 82 rhymes hit the fair until the 22nd day. Publishers shared that more books were being sold this year than the previous year. The sales have been increased during the special time. Children are interested in the aesthetically rich, illustrated, coloured books, they said.
A class-three student Rinki shared her feeling to UNB saying that she had visited the fair with her parents. 'I am happy. I like cartoons. The books of Motu Patlu and Doraemon are my favourite ones. My friends have bought the Doorimon books. I will also buy it."


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Bishop Jack Wisor is truly an Apostle of Christ. He gives his all preaching and teaching the Cross of Christ. This is a message that all people need to hear. It is very powerful – so powerful that the Holy Spirit will work in you and change your heart, turning the world upside down. Bishop Jack Wisor was recognized and given the title of Apostle after it was evident that the works and ministry reflected by the Apostles of the first church in the book of Acts was being revealed in Bishop Jack Wisor's anointing and it was evident that he was also fulfilling the five-fold ministry found in Ephesians 4:11 (… some, apostles; some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.)
Bishop Jack Wisor is a powerful preacher and spiritual adviser having been warmly received and used extensively by State and County Parole and Probation Departments, Placement Coordinators at the Jails and Correctional Facilities, the State Police, Magistrates and Judges. Hospitals, Mental Health Units and all forms of Human Service Agencies are increasingly asking him to take people that they must release and who have nowhere to go. He has provided a spiritual resource for all people who are eligible for release from jail, homeless, or in need.
Bishop Jack Wisor is leading the state in the rehabilitation efforts of the released Megan Law Offenders and homeless in general. He has established a foundation of curriculum for a solid faith-based ministry for the State of Pennsylvania. He has helped law enforcement agencies to establish policy and procedures to keep our communities safer. He has also helped to establish laws to help shape the efforts of keeping communities safer. Bishop Jack Wisor works statewide with various influential individuals to speak for the hopeless and less fortunate.
Bishop Jack Wisor has become highly influential in going out into the streets, the hedges and the byways presenting the Gospel and making the people aware of a place which has been prepared for them where they can receive spiritual, emotional and mental support and help.
The God-given message that Bishop Jack Wisor brings to you is personal and powerful. It stirs in each heart. We must not ignore what God has sanctified. Bishop Jack Wisor's message will touch the hearts of all people – leaders, the hungry, the thirsty, the strangers, the naked, the sick, and the prisoners – with powerful results changing lives in a dramatic way just as Jesus changed Bishop Jack Wisor's life, leaving those who hear with a caution to never look back because the throne awaits us. (Be sure and read his powerful testimony on how God delivered him from alcohol, drug, and tobacco addiction)
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The One Thing I NEVER Do
As a skincare specialist, I get frequent questions from patients, friends, and strangers asking for advice about what they should do for their particular skin condition. While there are plenty of wonderful things we CAN do to make our skin healthy, there is one thing I suggest we NEVER do. Simply stopping this one behavior can definitely have a positive impact on how your skin looks and feels - PLUS it will shift your mindset for the better!
Have you ever thought any of the following: "My pores are HUGE!" "My zits look like volcanoes!" "My face is covered in peach fuzz!" If you have, chances are you were looking at your skin in a magnifying mirror. Friends, inspecting your face close-up has NO benefit - small disturbances become giant, it tempts you to pick at any blemishes, and often times we start to see ourselves as all of the flaws that show up under 10x magnification.
Everything looks huge through a magnifying mirror—your pores, the hair on your face, any small blemish that might be present—everything! Constantly looking at a close-up view of your face can give you a skewed view of your skin. Nothing looks normal under magnification! Think about it - NOBODY (and I mean nobody) looks at your skin from the point of view of almost ten times its normal size. So, why would you inspect it that closely?
You can drive yourself crazy by looking at yourself enlarged. What would it be like if we magnified our voices ten times the normal volume or magnified all our sense of smell by ten times? We would have a totally different perception of what our voices sounded like or what things smelled like. Don't magnify your perfectly good skin ten times larger by looking at it through a magnifying mirror! Otherwise you are completely setting yourself up for failure, disappointment, and ultimately for taking steps to solve a problem you probably don't even have.
So, what's the one thing I NEVER do? You guessed it - look at my skin through a magnifying mirror. Trust me, get rid of your magnifying mirror (of give it away to someone you don't like, lol). I always tell my patients they shouldn't use magnifying mirrors for anything other than applying makeup (if you can't see very well), shaping your eyebrows*, or for some other positive reason.
If you do have problems with your skin, looking through a magnifying mirror certainly isn't going to help clear it up. Looking at your lifestyle habits and making better choices will be a surer way to bring about long-term, permanent change.
*using a magnifying mirror to tweeze brows can be equally disastrous: at best you can end up with over-tweezed or uneven brows, at worst, you can end up plucking hairs that aren't ready to be tweezed thereby breaking the skin and causing scabs or even scars.


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Every line has a meaning; every meaning has a line…
We think we have the worst story;
We heard other's, we exclaimed, 'GLORY'
It's cold now, when will it be hot?
Now it's hot, Oh Cold! Be our lot
When it rains, we crave sun;
Now it scorches, we say, 'Rain Is Fun'
We dream, but are afraid of its reality
We see reality but fantasize on fantasy
We despise love—it's cheap but deep;
We idolize hatred—it robs us of sleep
We want the flower, the tower and the shower
We want the whole world in our power
We want this; we want that
But we have neither this nor that
We want to be here, and there
But we are neither here nor there:
Joyful in sorrow; sorrowful in joy
Happy in sadness; sad in happiness
Laughing but crying; crying but laughing
Sane in insanity; insane in sanity
Filthy in holiness; holy in filthiness
Fearful in courage; courageous in fear
Poor in riches; rich in poverty
Healthy in wealth; wealthy in health
Love in lust; lust in love
Beautiful but ugly; ugly but beautiful
Speaking but silent; silent but speaking
Thinking while sleeping; sleeping while thinking
Filled with emptiness; empty in fullness
Abundant in lack; lacking in abundance
Fruitful in barrenness; sterile in fruitfulness
Praying in despair; despair in prayer
Strength for weakness; feeble in strength
Honesty in dishonesty; dishonesty in honesty
Peace in war; war in peace
Civil but military; military but civil
Goodness in evil; evil in goodness
Rising but falling; falling but rising
Coming but going; going but coming
Dead but living; living but dead…
To win or to lose: to be used or to use
Man is man when man knows man
Death will die, and life will live…
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Like your reason for producing an annual report, your audience is dependent on the nature of your organization. For example …
For many non-profits and charities, your key audience(s) might include:
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Today, I recorded a brief audio blog about digital downsizing. Listen in here:
In the audio, I mentioned the following resources:
- Digital Clutter Confessions
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- Plugable
- A 3-Step Cure for Digital Packrats, and How to Know If You're One of Them
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Chilliwack resident Garth McCreedy (left) is being recognized today with a CLBC Widening Our World (WOW) award for his exceptional contribution to supporting people with diverse abilities to lead good lives, have rich relationships and choices in how they live, work and play. He is one of only five B.C. individuals to receive the award this year.
Garth was nominated for the WOW award by his Home Depot colleague, Eddy Solla (right), a Gold Medal Paralympic athlete who is diagnosed with a developmental disability. Garth is a strong supporter and ally, encouraging Eddy to pursue different experiences and to develop different skills. Garth, who is also in a wheelchair, has been helping Eddy get his driver's licence, mentoring him to learn all the departments at the Home Depot. He has also introduced him to people who have helped Eddy modify his everyday chair so he can play golf without having to purchase a special chair. Garth has increased Eddy's independence, seeing only ability, not disability.
Since 2009, CLBC has presented WOW awards to recognize British Columbians who are helping to build community inclusion for the people CLBC serves. The 2015 nomination process invited British Columbians to nominate someone they think is helping to build communities where people of all abilities feel welcome, valued and respected. CLBC received over 50 nominations and the winners were chosen by an evaluation committee of community and family members, CLBC community council members, CLBC staff, service providers and individuals served by CLBC.
In March, four other WOW Awards will be presented to deserving recipients:
- Victoria – Adam Irwin-Gunn will be acknowledged for his tireless volunteer work, support of the self-advocacy movement and raising awareness of what it is like to live with autism
- Powell River – Chris Weekes for helping the people CLBC serves build support networks and skills through music
- Kelowna – Shelley DeCoste for launching the Diversabilities campaign to shift attitudes about the ability of the individuals CLBC serves
- Kelowna – Sunrise Rotary for supporting the people CLBC serves to develop skills and find employment
To learn more about CLBC or past WOW Award winners, visit www.communitylivingbc.ca
Seonag Macrae, CLBC CEO
"I want to congratulate this year's WOW Awards winners and all of the nominees for 2016. It is clear from the nominations received that there is a wealth of innovative ideas, activities and initiatives being spearheaded by community champions across the province. These efforts not only raise awareness about inclusion, but help everyone see that through our individual acceptance of diversity, our communities become richer and more vibrant places to live."
Minister of Social Development and Social Innovation Michelle Stilwell
"Congratulations to these champions of inclusion. As community leaders, you have made a difference by ensuring that people with developmental disabilities are equally treated and given the same opportunities to participate in everyday activities and all aspects of the community. The annual WOW Awards are a reminder of how important it is to recognize people who are simply doing what is natural to them, they don't think its exceptional, when in fact their impact on people is far reaching, sometimes life changing, and should be acknowledged."
MLA Laurie Throness, MLA for Chilliwack/Hope
"Garth and Eddy's story is the very definition of inclusiveness. I was proud to hear someone from Chilliwack has won another WOW CLBC award. These awards highlight the great work that is taking place around diversity, inclusion and citizenship not only here in Chilliwack, but throughout our communities in BC."
MLA John Martin, MLA Chilliwack
"Garth McCreedy's story is truly a special one, worthy of this recognition by his peers. It is heart-warming to see the friendship that has formed between him and his colleague, Eddy. In the workplace and in the community, Garth and Eddy exemplify the ideals of inclusivity and diversity. Congratulations to Garth on receiving this honour from CLBC."
Eddy Solla, Nominator
"Garth has been a mentor at work for me as well as in social settings. He is helping me learn to golf and get my drivers license. Garth is in a wheelchair as well but golf's everyday. Garth connected me with someone who could modify my chair to make golf a possibility. He is working on getting someone to customize clubs for me. I nominated Garth because he has never treated me as someone living with a developmental disability, he is my friend and we genuinely enjoy spending time together, golfing and doing things that friends do."
Garth McCreedy, WOW Award Winner
"When Eddy brought it to my attention that he was nominating me, I was flabbergasted because I didn't think I was doing anything unusual. I enjoy playing golf and being active and I knew Eddy was an athlete, far better than me, and he wanted to play golf so I asked him to join me and we've been going ever since. I thought I was being selfish because I just wanted someone to play golf with. I didn't think what I was doing was worthy of an award of any kind. When CLBC called me to tell me I won an award, I couldn't believe it, I was really honoured."


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We investigate diseases which are leading causes of death both in the UK and worldwide.
Cardiac diseases and conditions
Our research spans inherited and degenerative heart conditions, including:
- inherited cardiac disorders
- arrhythmias
- coronary artery disease
- cardiomyopathies and aortopathies (such as abdominal aortic aneurysm and Marfan syndrome)
Sudden cardiac death in young people
Roughly 12 people under the age of 35 die unexpectedly each week due to a previously undiagnosed heart condition. Our scientists are at the forefront of national screening programmes aimed at identifying electrical and structural defects that can lead to sudden death.
We are performing detailed characterisation of genetic, pathological, electrical and structural markers to improve the diagnosis and risk stratification of people susceptible to unexpected death. This phenotype-genotype characterisation has been recently extended to unexplained sudden death in infants as part of an UK and transatlantic collaboration.
Sports cardiology
Athletes have increased risk for sudden cardiac death due to the extreme stress their hearts are subjected to during strenuous exercise.
The Sports Cardiology Unit within the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute is ranked number one in the world for its research on athlete's heart (cardiovascular adaptation to exercise). It provides screening for many large sporting organisations in the UK.
Coronary artery disease (CAD)
Coronary artery disease (CAD, atherosclerosis) is responsible for more than 73,000 deaths in the UK each year, with more than 2 million people affected in the UK.
Our research concentrates on deciphering the intricate interplay between molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying CAD, for example the role of inflammation in atherosclerosis development and progression. This should enable our researchers to better understand the pathogenesis of CAD, identify biomarkers for better risk stratification and develop effective therapeutic strategies to prevent and/or stop progression of atherosclerosis.
Aortopathies also represent a major underlying cause of sudden death. Scientists in our institute are investigating the cellular, molecular and genetic aetiology of abdominal aortic aneurysm and Marfan syndrome, conditions that can induce dilatation and fatal rupture of the aorta. Current treatment relies on surgical repair of the ruptured aorta, a highly risky and costly procedure.
Research on aortopathies is directed at identification of markers that could be used to improve the diagnosis, monitoring and management of these conditions. Another significant area of work is the characterisation of novel molecules that could be targeted pharmacologically to prevent the growth and rupture of aortic dilatations.
Researchers working in this area
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Professor Stephen Brecker (Head of Research Centre)
Dr Elijah Behr
Professor John Camm
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Professor Juan-Carlos Kaski
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This month for the Brave Quilter challenge, I challenged myself to try to make something artsy using fabric. This was a good choice for me since I'm participating in the Art with Fabric Blog Hop next week and I knew even at the beginning of the month that I would have to push myself to be brave because art quilts are way out of my normal wheelhouse.
I drug my feet most of the month, not even feeling brave enough to cut my fabric. So I did other things instead. For the blog hop, we're supposed to make a piece inspired by a famous piece of art, so I fiddled around for weeks putting off my decision because I knew selecting something would mean I might have to begin working on it.
After choosing Wheatfield with Crows by Vincent Van Gogh as my inspiration piece, I chose my fabric. First I picked some things from my stash. Then I went shopping to enlarge my palette. This had the added benefit of further delaying the start of my art project. Woot!
Finally, I set about figuring out exactly what I wanted to do, and pushed by the Brave Quilter challenge I'm proud to announce I finally cut my fabric!
Next, I arranged my cut fabric on a table in a sort of artist's palette that would inspire me further. Aren't they beautiful? Must pet them....
I even arranged fabric on my design wall to further test it out. Ha! No one suspects this delaying tactic! <grin>
Despite all my efforts to the contrary, I'm happy to report that pushed by the calendar (the end of April was fast approaching at the time) and the Brave Quilter challenge (hey, I didn't want to be embarrassed by not even starting!) I've made some real progress on my art project. I can't show you anything else though because the big reveal is next Friday during the blog hop. Come back on Friday, May 13th to see the result!
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We analyzed the number of "likes" during the MBSJ2012.
Total number of likes
The total number of likes reached over 70,000 likes. The number of likes per day increased two weeks prior to the conference.
Number of likes per participant
The number of participants who "liked" at least once was 2,678 people. Using 6,000 for the total number of participants, 2,678 / 6,000 = 45% of participants used the "like" button more than once.
The total number of participants who logged in at least once was 5,059 people. Using 6,000 for the total number of participants again, 5,059 / 6,000 = 84% of participants logged in. This means that 16% of participants never logged in to the online program system (however, since you can view the program without logging in, the actual percentage of participants who used the system is likely to be higher).
A significant number of people "liked" more than 100 times.
Number of "likes" per presentation
The median number of "likes" for posters was 11 likes. For oral presentations, the median was 31 likes. Most importantly, only 21 presentations were without any likes. The vast majority of presentations had more than a few likes.
Interpretation of the results
According to the theory of Diffusion of Innovations, innovation is communicated over time in a stepwise fashion among members of a social system, via a process that is similar to diffusion. Technology laggards constitute about 16% of a given population and these people tend to have strong negative feeling towards change.
Similarly the Chasm theory describes a chasm between early adopters and the early majority. The Chasm theory dictates that if a product can cross the Chasm and be successfully adopted by the early majority, then the probability of it becoming the de facto standard is high.
These two theories lead us to interpret the above results as following.
Participants not using the online conference system are the laggards
The percentage of participants who did not use the online conference system are likely to be the "laggards". These people are adverse to change and tend to be advanced in age. Since it is difficult to influence these people, making them change will be difficult.
The "Like" feature has crossed the Chasm and is in the early majority
With 45% of participants "liking" at least one presentation, we can conclude that the "like" feature has crossed the Chasm (2.5 + 13.5 = 16% adoption) and is now in the middle of the early majority phase. It is highly probable that the adoption of the "like" feature will continue into the late majority, becoming the de facto standard, assuming that it is provided at future conferences.


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Today, I entered the grilled cheese academy's grilled cheese recipe showdown. I stuck with a pretty basic recipe, but after reviewing the 2015 winners, I hope to get a more complex recipe submitted before the competition closes tomorrow. That said, the one I submitted is pretty dang tasty! Here's what I put together..
Sassy Summer Grilled Cheese Sandwich
- Two slices italian bread
- one slice wisconsin swiss cheese
- one slice wisconsin colby-jack
- 1/4 onion, sliced
- 1/2 avocado, sliced
- 1/2 roma tomato, sliced
- 3 Tbs butter, divided
- 1/8 tsp curry powder
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- salt & pepper to taste
Melt 1 Tbs butter in a small sauté pan, add onions, curry, and turmeric. Saute until soft. Butter one side of each piece of bread (with the remaining 2Tbs of butter). Heat grill pan over medium heat and place one piece of bread butter side down. Top with one piece of swiss cheese and one slice of colby-jack. Once the cheese begins to melt, top with curried onions, tomato slices (sprinkled with salt and pepper), avocado slices (sprinkled with salt), and the remaining piece of bread. Carefully flip the sandwich over and cook until browned.
I can't wait to try this one out with a garden fresh tomato straight from the vine!
If you make this recipe, I'd love to see it on Instagram! Just use the hashtag #FRONTPORCHBLISS and I'll be sure to find it.


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"Ready Or Not" / "Everytime" is the third single released by boy band A1, taken from their debut studio album, Here We Come. The single was released in November 1999, peaking at #3 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the most successful of four consecutive Top 10 singles from the band. "Everytime" re-entered the UK Singles Chart when it was used in an episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
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