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Top 5 Mobile Friendly Failures Affecting Your Revenue
Did you know that businesses are regularly losing mobile customers left and right? It's a sad truth and many of those loses have to do with the expectations people have, especially younger ones, for getting what they want when they want it. Yes, I am saying that a lot of people are spoiled and impatient and that can easily affect your bottom line. As one of the more experienced web design companies on the block, we have identified the common Top 5 Mobile Friendly failures affecting your revenue.
What are Mobile Friendly Failures? That is when you think you are setting up an aspect of your website to be effective for both desktop and mobile users, but are failing on the mobile side of things, often unbeknownst to you.
As people have less and less patience along with shortened attention spans, these fails can easily lead to said mobile user jumping ship to find a business with a website that does meet their impatient needs.
Top 5 Mobile Friendly Failures
This list is not going to include the basic step of having a responsive web design, because if you don't then you have a big problem already.
- Bad Content Placement – This happens a lot on retail sites but can cause issues with anyone. Unlike a desktop screen that has more room to work with, mobile devices have a narrow field with limited space. Many people leave Call-to-Action buttons, important information like sales prices or specials and other much need tidbits further down the screen. While yes, people can scroll down to see them, your goal should be to instantly capture attention on that first screen. Make sure you know where your content falls on various devices and adjust as needed so that everyone sees the important items from the get go.
- Font Issues – The top two font problems are size and font shifting. Size is fairly simple; in many cases text size is too small on a smart device and people get tired of zooming in and out. One nice alternative is side swipes for product details and the like that fill the whole screen with larger font. The second issue is font shifting which occurs when a device needs to translate that super cool font you are using into something it actually has available. This can cause a lot of problems with overlapping text or even dropped words.
- Where is the Video – Did you know that flash video does not work on iOS devices? Did you also know that other video displays can have issue with some of the older phone models and cheaper models? If the video is a key aspect of your presentation then you better be sure it will play everywhere!
- Slow Loader – Slow load times are like the blue screen of death to a mobile user. More than 3 seconds and the users are irritated. More than 4 seconds are you will be lucky if they are still there. Once 5 seconds hits the carriage has turned back into a pumpkin and the ball is over. Excellent optimization can reduce load times which in turns increases conversions.
- No Loader – Wouldn't it be horrible if your images or website failed to load on certain devices? Don't laugh because it happens.
The Bottom Line
The truth of the matter is that having any of these failures is going to affect your bottom line in the form of lost conversions and customers. In all cases these are issues that can be avoided by performing thorough testing and optimization to your site. It makes sense to perform some testing to make sure that these top 5 mobile friendly failures won't affect your revenue.
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NWI Times: Lowell High School adds advanced tech classes at a new state-of-the-art building
February 3, 2018
Zak Manno never thought Lowell High School would offer welding, but now that it will next year, the 17-year-old sophomore couldn't be more excited.
"It's very smart," Manno said of the district's decision to provide instruction in more applied arts. Starting next school year, it will add welding and advanced manufacturing to its existing auto technology program in a new state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing technology building.
"It gives you a head start. You learn, get certification and get a job," he said. "I'm real excited."
Already dubbed the Red Devils Trades building, it houses 16 welding stalls with the latest ventilation system; six garage doors for six bays with five hoists for the school's expanded auto technology program; and two machines from Haas Automation, a computer numerical control machine tool manufacturer.
The Gene Haas Foundation already has said it will pay for the certification of each advanced manufacturing student, Wilson said.
Wilson said the building also has two classrooms — one clean and one dirty. This way, he said, students can go directly from the manufacturing floor to the (dirty) classroom to pull out a blueprint, for example, without wasting time for cleanup.
The building is topped with solar panels, has a mezzanine for storage and no ceilings for open mechanicals so students can readily see the building's infrastructure. Duct work and other items are color-coded using the same colors as in industry. There are two bathrooms equipped with showers, one for each gender.
Seventeen-year-old auto tech student Claire Mitsch said the dual bathrooms were a nice surprise. "There are few girls in auto tech right now. This helps us feel more welcome," she said.
With career plans in physical therapy, the three-sport athlete said she plans to continue to the next level in auto tech and take welding as well, for the life skills she will gain.
"I want to be independent and do things for myself. I already tried welding, and I'm really excited. It's kind of like painting; you have to trust your hand," she said.
Six years in the making
Wilson, LHS Principal Lori Pavell and automotive technology teacher Leon Simon were the Tri-Creek School Board's scouting team that visited colleges and other schools to see how existing trades facilities were laid out and what equipment was used. Lowell had the advantage of hearing how others would make changes if they could now that their facilities are operating.
"We took away the best," Wilson said.
Retiring Superintendent Debra Howe had been doing much of the same with applied manufacturing arts in Rochester, Indiana, and the Tri-Creek School Board wanted the same for its students.
"A number of years ago, you could see where everything was headed," Howe said. When Gov. Eric Holcomb appointed her to the Regional Works Council, she heard industry representatives talk of the great need for workers with highly developed, specific skill sets in Northwest Indiana.
"This is a skilled trades area. Those in applied arts tend to stay in town. They tend to be the foundational parts of a community," she said.
The new building, which cost $5.6 million, is part of the second phase of a two-phase $14 million bond issue covering the high school and three elementary schools.
Board President Michelle Dumbsky said she is thrilled with and proud of the end result. She said Derek Anderson, of Skillman Corp., the firm managing the RDT Building project, told the board, "This is very unique compared to other school corporations. You're not going to see this anywhere else in Northwest Indiana."
He said the building will be fully equipped by March.
'Teaching the process'
Howe said career centers do have such facilities, but not high schools. "We want all of our students to have this opportunity," she said.
Howe said there is no reason why academics and applied arts pathways shouldn't converge. It should not be an either-or decision for students, she said. They all can benefit from working together as a team, solving problems and thinking critically in such classes, she said.
Wilson, the assistant principal, said he hopes to have the facility and faculty ready to offer a summer exposure program for students considering an applied arts course. He pointed out that currently all LHS students have at least one Career Technical Education class.
A 1975 graduate of Lowell High School, Wilson remembers the mini-courses in each vocational area offered to him as a freshman. That introduction to drafting led him to an interest in architecture, his first intended major before switching to law enforcement. Eventually becoming the Lowell police chief, he retired and moved into education.
"You know what they say about the jobs today's students will have — they've not been created yet," Wilson said. "We're teaching the process. That's the value."
Article by: Melanie Csepiga, The Northwest Indiana Times (February 3, 2018)
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Dirk and I met at church through our mutual friend Roxanne. This was a few months before we were going to go to Australia on a missions trip with our church. Well while we were in Australia we came across these amazingly delicious "biscuits" called Tim Tams. Throughout the years I have remembered them and their amazing-ness. It has been almost 8 years since we went to Australia and I've only had Tim Tams one time since then. My taste buds occasionally yearn for them.
Well, about two months ago Dirk and I went on a double date with my brother Brad and his girlfriend Kristin. While we were waiting to get into Macaroni Grill we went to Cost Plus World Market. As Dirk was opening the door I jokingly said, "Ooooh we should check to see if they have Tim Tams here." Well, apparently Dirk had heard from his coworker Jonna that they did in fact have them under the alias Arnott's Original (Tim Tam is much more fun to say). After about 6 years of not having a Tim Tam, my taste buds went wild over these gems. I am not a big chocolate fan but these are amazing!!! If you've never had them you HAVE to go to Cost Plus and buy a package. Your tastebuds will thank you.
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From the novel's opening we see reality through the lense of technology, with the words "The Sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" (4). Reality is a sort of fiction to Case and others, as he interacts with and describes the world in terms of the digital in order to evoke substantive feeling. The world of cyberspace bleeds into the world of the real to such an extent that the "artificial" characters of Wintermute, Neuromancer, and even McCoy Pauley/The Dixie Flatline often blur the lines between the physical reality and the psychic reality.
Wintermute cannot actually interact with the characters without assuming the form of another character they have met in their lives. His personality is diffuse and relies on accessing the memory imprints of people and places from others in order to actually have access to the world outside a computer. Similarly Neuromancer is able to call upon the dead memories of others (i.e., Linda Lee) and develops them in a way that Wintermute cannot. Rather than merely accessing the form and familiarity of a character Neuromancer can evoke them in all of their complexities while maintaing an actual separate consciousness from them. As contrasted by the two AIs central to the story this separation of the mind from the body either representing it or a fundamental part of it is reflective of the greater issue of man's separation between the realm of the mental and the physical as shown by Case.
Case routinely decries his own seemingly foolish actions as resulting from "meat" and exalts a form of union with technology in which he is psychically distant from his own body. There is a sort of rebuttal against this desire to severe yourself wholly from the realm of the physical. Before I forget I should address the character of McCoy Pauley as presented through the construct The Dixie Flatline. Dixie or Dix is a remnant of the deceased mentor to Case who suffered from a fatal case of "black ice" when he was probing into the AI Neuromancer's security features. Dix appears dissatisfied with his position as a sort of cyber-ghost, a remnant of a man confined to a computer. His existence does not appear enjoyable. He routinely expresses his desire to be erased as a payment for completing his one last job, which makes sense considering his position: he was literally comodified by a corporation as he now exists in state of pure spirit in the matrix and is solely defined by his role as a hacker. This case of actual psychic and physical severing through Dix's remaining as a cyber imprint whose continued existence is contingent on his role as a hacker shows a fatalistic end to Case's addiction to the realm of the purely psychic.
|As real as unreality can get.
Physical places take on traces of the digital to display Case's fundamental disinterest and removal from the realm of the physical. Even when he returns to his home "BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis" from his two-year exile to Chiba city Gibson's narration denies us a stark physical description of the place. Instead the cities and places of the Sprawl are described in the abstract concept of data exchange. The place is not determined by its physical description but rather by how much abstracted information passes through the city.
~"Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta..." (40)
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A new conundrum emerges from the weaker ringgit
The ringgit has weakened by almost 5% year-to-date against the US dollar. Yet, Bursa Malaysia has remained at levels above 1,800 points.
STOCK markets that remain strong or unaffected amid a weakening currency represent a new conundrum for investors.
The ringgit has weakened by almost 5% year-to-date against the US dollar, and is among the worst-performing currencies in the region. Yet, Bursa Malaysia has remained at levels above 1,800 points. It is 3.1% up since January this year.
The euro has depreciated even more – 13% – against the dollar since the beginning of the year. Yet, the markets are soaring on the back of the European Central Bank embarking on a quantitative easing programme that would result in a weaker currency in Europe.
The Brazilian real has lost almost 24% against the US dollar due to a host of reasons, ranging from a multi-billion corruption scandal at Petrobras, the national oil company, to its president Dilma Rousseff facing mounting opposition to her rule. Despite the Brazilian real depreciating, the stock market has remained somewhat flat over the last year.
Brazil's neighbour Argentina, which saw its peso devalue by almost 26% against the dollar since January last year after it defaulted on a debt, has seen its stock market almost double.
The Argentinian stock market was at 5,283 points in January last year and is now at more than 10,000 points despite the peso being the most under-performing currency in South America.
Each of the countries above is having problems unique to their respective economies.
But the reading seems to be consistent – the weaker the currency against the dollar, the better it is for the stock market. Or, in the worst-case scenario, the stock market remains unaffected.
This is unlike the case in 1998 when a depreciating currency among Asian countries against the US dollar led to a collapse of the stock market. Malaysia was one of the worst affected when the market hit up to 260 points on Sept 2 when former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad imposed capital controls. The capital controls helped rein in the currency speculators, but did not dispel the reasons why the Asian countries came under attack.
The economic logic then was that the Asian countries had sustained their years of high economic growth via debts and a dependence on foreign direct investments (FDIs). Their current account was in negative territory for a few years and governments consistently recorded a deficit in their budgets.
The weak underlying economic fundamentals meant the currencies were over-valued and, hence, the attack from speculators. It started with Thailand and had a knock-on effect on other countries in the region.
The Hong Kong government that had its dollar pegged to the US dollar fought off the speculators, thanks to the heft of China's huge reserves. The Russian rouble also came under attack, as did the Brazilian real.
The currencies only saw some stabilisation due to multiple efforts – including the entry of the International Monetary Fund and the fear that countries could also follow the Malaysian style of imposing currency controls.
But now, that economic logic does not seem to work.
Weak currencies do not mean that the macro-economic fundamentals are necessarily weak. Some countries have deliberately weakened their currencies to be competitive.
This is one reason put forward as to why a weak currency does not necessarily result in a weak stock market.
In fact, based on what the US is experiencing now, the pundits are saying that the strong US dollar is bad for improving the economy of that country.
This is the excuse that fund managers and the various intermediaries of the market are giving, as the Dow Jones struggles to cross the 18,000-mark convincingly.
The US dollar has appreciated against all major currencies, and now investors are saying that the strong currency has its drawbacks. Any business with an international angle to it in the US has had an impact.
Exporters, including farmers, are finding themselves less competitive, while imports are getting cheaper, which means inflation will remain muted.
A low inflation rate does not give an excuse for the Federal Reserve to raise rates.
US-based multinational companies are seeing lower value from the profits of the operations outside the country and this is impacting their earnings.
The stronger dollar has also had an impact on FDI in the US, say the technocrats.
The US generally has been the largest recipient of FDI, but its share of the total global FDI flows has dropped from about one-third in 2000 to less than a fifth in 2013, according to a report. Preliminary data revealed that the FDI flow into the US last year had dropped by almost 60% compared with 2013.
The optimists say the figure in 2013 is distorted because of single corporate transactions that had hiked up the FDI flow. They also say that as the US ties up more trade pacts the investment flows would improve because of the incentives.
A strong currency, which is an indication of a strong economy, is supposed to be good because it means higher income and more private-sector spending and investments. It translates into a buoyant domestic economy that, in turn, tends to attract more foreign flows.
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Blythe Super Bulky Bear Hat by Anne Heidemann
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It feels like I have been gone for a while. I pray everyone is doing well...healthy, happy and full of spirit, although at times that can be tough, but we all do our best. A little update on my life right now. Our son Steve is doing much better..his CAT scan came back clean with some healing left to do, but as a whole, he is back to work and has taken up fishing as a big part of his summer. This morning he and his dad picked up Steve's buddy and they went fishing for the day at a local lake. It is a catch and release lake, but just being outside hanging with the guys is fun for them.
We are working on helping Steve find a used car, so he does not have to borrow one of ours all the time. It is tough to juggle just two vehicles between three people who have erratic schedules, but we have made do. Suburban living can be difficult because of limited bus service and everything is spread out.
Hub and I spent last weekend with friends who bought a camper and invited us up. It was fantastic! The camp fire, bbq-ing, catching up with each other and we are now thinking about buying a small camper next year to set up for the weekends, life is short, have to explore all avenues.
The volunteer program at Meadowbrook Farm is going very well. I love being part of the whole garden experience. As of late, I mostly weed and plant small things, but we are working diligently in the Woodland Shade Garden, which will be my baby as soon as it is ready to cultivate...then I will be able to share experiences and information...everything takes time.
I have had some bad bouts with my Fibromyalgia this summer..the heat and humidity has been treacherous for me, so I spend the really hot days in the AC and I am usually up very early tending to my own garden and outside critters.
Our hummingbirds have arrived and we have one ruby-throated male and two females. They are fun to watch. The sparrows, robins and cow-birds have really over-populated this year as well as the house finch, yellow finch and black-capped chickadees. We have a Carolina wren, Northern flicker and red-bellied woodpecker hanging around, along with the cardinals, blue-jays, grackles, nuthatches and catbirds. The squirrels and chipmunks have fun also. In our small pond, our five fish swim along with our two frogs. Yes, we have a menagerie.
We are looking forward to the rest of the summer. Plans to see my extended family up in Hancock, NY...then a winery trip in August, along with a day or two at the beach.
That is pretty much my life in a nutshell right now. I would love to hear from my friends, feel like time as slipped away. Let me know what is going on with you!
Hi there Marya, good hearing from you.
Glad to hear the test came back with a good report and good luck with your son on finding a car.
Good Morning Mary!
I'm glad to hear your son is doing well and he is gaining strength.
So bad about your fibro acting up but yeah that it's not stopping you all together!
For me I am studying for my real estate license exam and I did accept the job from my old employer. So I have been pretty busy with both. I'm also trying to keep my yard under control and colorful. But with all these high 90's days it's a job keeping them hydrated.
I've been going thru bulb catalogs plotting my fall planting and finalizing my thoughts for my backyard onto paper. I thin over the winter we'll buy the materials that we can so we will be ready come early spring to start the transformation. My poor hubz......
Hi Mary! I'm so glad Steve is doing better. I know that gave you quite a scare.
It sounds like you're having a wonderful summer. The gardening work looks to really be up your alley. And I can just picture all the little creatures around your property. I wish we had hummingbirds. They don't make it all the way to Hawaii. I had them in California and even in Washington State.
Enjoy the rest of your summer. Thanks for keeping us up to date and take care of yourself with that fibromyalgia. You amaze me the way you don't let it slow you down!
Hey Mary!
So glad Steve is doing better!!
If ya get a motor-home, do not forget to come on by and pick me up!!
Yeah Mary! You have been missed. So happy to hear about Steve. Sounds like things are going as well as can be expected. Sorry about the fibro...I know that is no picnic. Take great care of yourself.
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And here's the Beastman that I wanted to paint those 6 months ago but instead did the Minotaur. Looks like a little Minotaur with that head.
Also did another Shield for this one but with a little more design than the other Beastmen. Was just in the mood for painting an eye. After painting this shield it came to my mind that I didn't do any (battle) damage to any of the shields. Will do that for the next ones.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Beastman No.9
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Nice one Oli. He's a really cool mini and one that I saw go for £18 on ebay recently! Well too much me thinks. I really like the shield. Fancy painting about 50 for me? I loath painting shields!ReplyDeleteReplies
18€? You have to be kidding me. That's just hilarious but I see often prices like that. Champion Models for 25€ are not that rare. Totally out of their minds.Delete
50 shields... could offer you 5-10 for starters. Your guys desperately need shields. If you want me doing it just shoot me a mail.
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Some gardening books simply give readers a formula for combining crops and planting times for a particular locale, but Lisa Rayner's new edition of this little masterpiece provides you with principles for living and eating in harmony with northern Arizona's natural habitats. While this book is rich in detail about the ways weather, soils, plants and gardeners interact in the Flagstaff environment, it offers us more than that. It is a primer on how to change our food production and consumption strategies to sustain the natural and cultural heritage of our region. The gardener, in this model, becomes co-designer with nature, and therefore a naturalist observing the ecological interactions between crop and insect, mulch and soil temperature. Instead of merely remaking the environment to fit what vegetables we desire to grow, Lisa offers strategies for better selecting what we grow and when we grow it to fit the prevailing conditions of our home ground. As a writer, she is a match-maker; as a gardener, you will be one too.
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NEWARK, NJ - Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced today that Marquis Armstrong, 24, of Newark pled guilty today to aggravated manslaughter for fatally shooting Rhasan Heath, 23, of Irvington on Sept. 4, 2014.
On the second day of a jury trial before the Honorable James W. Donohue, Judge of the Superior Court, Armstrong asked to enter a guilty plea to aggravated manslaughter and unlawful possession of a .45 caliber handgun in exchange for the state recommending a 25-year sentence.
Under the terms of the plea agreement Armstrong must serve 85 percent of the 25-year sentence before he is eligible for parole.
After conferring with the family, the state decided to accept the plea, said Assistant Prosecutor Eileen O'Connor who handled the case with Assistant Prosecutor Jason Goldberg.
Sentencing is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 18 at 1:30 p.m.
The shooting occurred in the 800 block of Grove Street in Irvington. The state's theory as presented at trial was that Armstrong was angry because his ex-girlfriend had terminated their relationship and started dating Heath. On the day of the homicide, Armstrong's ex-girlfriend and their daughter were at Heath's sister's home.
Earlier in the day, Armstrong repeatedly called and texted the ex-girlfriend to let her know he was upset with her bringing his daughter around Heath. Just before midnight on Sept. 3, 2014 Heath went to the house and waited for the ex-girlfriend and Heath to exit, according to Assistant Prosecutor Goldberg. As they walked toward the ex-girlfriend's red Oldsmobile Alero, Armstrong began shooting at Heath. Heath ran into the street where he was struck by a car, Goldberg said.
Armstrong then came up to Heath as he was laying helpfulness on the ground and shot at Heath five times, striking him three times. Goldberg said the final shot, at the base of Heath's skull, killed him in front of the ex-girlfriend and their one-year-old daughter.
"This is another example of a tragedy that occurred because of the presence of illegal weapons,'' said Assistant Prosecutor O'Connor.
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text: Coverdale(i) 1 For this cause I Paul am a presoner of Iesus Christ for you Heythen, 2 acordinge as ye haue herde of ye office of the grace of God which is geuen me to you warde. 3 For by reuelacion was this mystery shewed vnto me, as I wrote aboue in fewe wordes: 4 wherby whan ye rede it, ye maye perceaue myne vnderstondynge in ye mystery of Christ, 5 which (mystery) in tymes past was not opened vnto the childre of me as it is now declared to his holy Apostles and prophetes by the sprete: namely, 6 that the Heythen shulde be inheritours also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promes in Christ by the Gospell, 7 wherof I am made a mynister acordynge to the gifte of the grace of God, which is geue me acordinge to the workynge of his power. 8 Vnto me the leest of all sayntes is this grace geuen, that I shulde preach amonge the Heythe ye vnsearcheable riches of Christ, 9 and to make all men se, what is the fellishippe of the mystery, which fro the begynnynge of the worlde hath bene hyd in God, which made all thiges thorow Iesus Christ: 10 to the intent that now vnto the rulers and powers in heaue mighte be knowne by the congregacion the manifolde wyssdome off God, 11 acordinge to ye eternall purpose, which he hath shewed in Christ Iesu oure LORDE 12 by whom we haue boldnesse and intraunce in all confidece thorow faith on him. 13 Wherfore I desyre that ye faynte not because of my tribulacions, yt I suffre for you, which is youre prayse. 14 For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, 15 which is the true father, ouer all that is called father in heauen and in earth, 16 that he graunte you (acordinge to ye riches of his glory) to be strengthed with power by his sprete in ye inwarde ma, 17 that Christ maye dwell in youre hertes by faith, that ye beynge roted and grounded in loue, 18 maye be able to coprehende with all sayntes, what is the bredth, and the length, and the deepth, and the heyth: 19 and to knowe the loue of Christ, which loue yet passeth all knowlege: that ye maye be fylled with all maner of fulnesse of God. 20 Vnto him that is able to do exceadinge abundauntly, aboue all that we axe or vnderstonde (acordinge to ye power that worketh in vs) 21 be prayse in the congregacion, which is in Christ Iesu, at all tymes for euer and euer, Amen.


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Not even sure what to write, just know that I want too. I was playing Wizard 101, which is a role playing game online. But couldn't sit through that anymore. I feel bored and restless. I'm tired but can't go to bed quite yet. Am thinking about reading my Kindle but didn't want to. And just don't know what to do. I wrote my paragraph for my church's newsletter that they wanted me to write. Not sure that it's any good. Don't really know how I feel or why. I just know I'm bored and restless. One of my guilty pleasures is a bowl of Chips Ahoy cookies crushed up with Rocky Road ice cream on top. I REALLY want a bowl now but my uncle is down stairs and I don't him to see me make it up because I always feel like he is judging me. A lot of times when I cook and he's in the kitchen, it feels like he is watching everything I do. I try to ignore it but I hate the feeling. So I try to avoid it if I can.
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Cardboard City is over and as you can see, it turned out great! It's being left in place to be viewed by the public for the remainder of the week. On another note, just had an informal interview for an internship position at a practice in Dublin and looks like I'll be getting some good experience for the next two months before I head away for the year come the end of September, all going well. In the meantime, off to London with me for a few days. Hope to visit the 1:1 – Architects Build Small Spaces while I'm there. Unfortunately I'll be missing Penn & Teller, that'll be for the second time then. Either way, I look forward to the view below.
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N.B.A. players make a lot of money, but they spend a lot of money, and when times are tough, they might sell their luxury cars.
We know this because they said it, 13 years ago, when a prolonged labor dispute forced the N.B.A. into hibernation and forced hundreds of players to contemplate life without seven-figure paychecks.
The 204-day lockout in 1998 spawned many regrettable remarks, the kind that cast players as greedy and callous, alienate fans and become instantly enshrined in the unofficial catalog of "Things Pro Athletes Shouldn't Say in Public."
With history as their guide, the N.B.A.'s current generation of locked-out players is striving to play a better public-relations game this time around. They have been in contractual limbo since July 1, with no resolution in sight. But they have largely kept their commentary on point and their Twitter feeds in check.
"It was a huge emphasis," Derek Fisher, the president of the National Basketball Players Association, said in a telephone interview. "The reality is, we're in a great position, where guys have worked to put themselves in this place where they can potentially earn millions of dollars."Continue reading the main story
And fans, generally speaking, do not want to hear about the woes of millionaire athletes — or the billionaire owners who pay them.
At Fisher's direction, the union last fall distributed a 56-page lockout handbook to its 400-plus players. Tucked between tabs on "budgeting" and "player services" is a section devoted to "media," with talking points on everything from the N.B.A.'s financial losses ("vastly overstated") to franchise values ("Warriors just sold for $450M").
But the key point, perhaps, is this simple reminder: "Please be sensitive about interviews or other media displays of a luxurious lifestyle."
This was more than a minor problem in 1998.
On the first day of that lockout, the union president Patrick Ewing declared that players were "fighting for our rights" — a modest overstatement that invited ridicule and presaged the public-relations nightmare to come.
In October, Kenny Anderson, a star guard with a $49 million contract, laid out his finances for The New York Times. Among his expenses: $75,000 for insurance and maintenance on his eight cars. Anderson joked that he might have to sell one.
"You know, just get rid of the Mercedes," he said.
The low point for players came two months later, when agents organized a charity game, with some of the proceeds earmarked for out-of-work players. As Ewing explained then, professional athletes "make a lot of money, but they also spend a lot of money."
Whatever sympathy the players might have enjoyed surely vanished with those 13 words. The statement stands among the biggest gaffes in sports labor history.
"I don't think it helped," said the agent David Falk, who coincidentally represented both Ewing and Anderson. "But I think people soon forgot that when they went back to work."
It was also Falk who, along with the agent Arn Tellem, organized the much-derided charity game. They ultimately donated all the proceeds to charitable causes, after fierce blowback from fans, commentators and other agents, who mocked the idea of raising money for players.
Anderson never did sell any of his cars, though he was subjected to weeks of derision, including a broadside from the comedian Chris Rock. (Anderson's accountant also came under fire from union leaders for saying that players could not withstand the loss of paychecks and would cave to the owners' demands.)
Anderson, who retired in 2005, declined an interview request for this story. Ewing — as a member of the Orlando Magic coaching staff — is forbidden to speak on labor issues, under the threat of heavy fines from the commissioner's office.
Speaking on behalf of his former clients, Falk said: "I'm sure they do regret it, particularly Kenny. I'm sure Kenny regrets having said what he said."
But, Falk added, "I think anyone who is going to evaluate the lockout based on what happened 10 years ago is looking in the wrong direction."
It is Fisher's job, however, to consider the past as he navigates the collective bargaining process. He is one of a handful of holdovers from the 1998 lockout and one of the few who remember the missteps. There was no lockout handbook back then, and fewer avenues for keeping players in touch with union leaders. The union today is using podcasts and social networking tools to keep its players briefed and on message. Even Falk — a frequent critic of Billy Hunter, the N.B.P.A.'s executive director — praised the union's efforts.
The $4 billion battle will not be won or lost in the court of public opinion, but the public's opinion does matter — to owners and players alike.
League officials are clearly campaigning for fan support by emphasizing their financial losses ($300 million a year) and the players' generous compensation ($2.1 billion last season).
The average salary last season was about $5 million, from a minimum of $474,000 to a maximum of $24.8 million (Kobe Bryant).
"We don't expect that people are going to feel sorry for us," Fisher said.
Players have been advised not to make blatant appeals for sympathy, and they have generally heeded the warning. And despite universal access to social media — at least 300 players have Twitter accounts — no one has gone off the rails.
Some, however, have tested the boundaries of political correctness with jokes about collecting unemployment or applying for new jobs.
The Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade was the first, posting, "Any1 hiring?" on July 1. Wade made $14 million last season.
On Aug. 7, the Indiana Pacers' George Hill wrote, "I wonder can I apply for unemployment since it's a lockout!!!!!!!" Hill earned $1.2 million last season.
Others have joked about buying in bulk (the Los Angeles Clippers' Chris Kaman), showing restraint at the mall (Minnesota's Anthony Tolliver) and declining to pick up the restaurant tab (the Knicks' Landry Fields).
"We are going Dutch today," Fields wrote on Aug. 4.
It is relatively early in lockout terms. No games have been canceled, and players will not miss a paycheck until mid-November. At any moment, one of the league's loose cannons could embarrass the union.
But so far, at least, "we haven't had a Kenny Anderson moment," one player advocate said.
That is ultimately a good sign for both sides because, after all, when the lockout is over, the N.B.A. will be promoting the same players it is fighting with today. Given the sluggish economy and high unemployment, it is a bad time for millionaires and billionaires to be waging public-relations battles.
"It just shows you how important it is to be careful of what you're saying in these kinds of environments," Falk said. "There's never been a time, ever, where there would be less sympathy for either side than there is now."Continue reading the main story


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"Performing a white balance with a raw file is quick and easy. You can either adjust the temperature and green-magenta sliders until color casts are removed, or you can simply click on a neutral reference within the image (see next section). Even if only one of your photos contains a neutral reference, you can click on it and then use the resulting WB settings for the remainder of your photos (assuming the same lighting)."
A seagull on the water was as the "neutral reference" in the preceding paragraph. Not sure how to do this. This refers to isolating the neutral object? You need to get it in the full frame, right? (The seagull is very small in the photo.)
And I don't understand what is being referred to in the following: "Common household neutral references are the underside of a lid to a coffee or pringles container. These are both inexpensive and reasonably accurate." What color(s) is he talking about under the lids?


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From 2003 to 2011, Miguel served as the Director of Studies & Innovation, and Head of Technology Transfer, at the Spanish National Foundation for Genomics and Biotechnology (Genoma España). During this period he participated actively and co-led of one of the largest Public Biotechnology Seed Capital Funds in Spain. Before 2003, Miguel held different positions as: Director for Entrepreneurship and Business Development at the Madrid Science Park; Head of the Biotechnology Innovation Program at the Madrid Regional Platform for Science and Technology; and Scientific Agent at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the European Commission. Miguel holds a Degree in Bioprocess Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a Diploma from the Program for General Management (PDD) run by the IESE Business School.
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When Aether Revolt was fully previewed, like many Commander fans, I looked at the new legendary creatures and started sketching out ideas. Some of those turned into decks and I have shared them here. Some have been percolating on the back burner, like Yahenni, Undying Partisan.
My initial sketch centered on killing all my opponent's creatures to grow Yahenni and then utilizing some of those black "if you only control one creature" enchantments like Homicidal Seclusion. The problem with that plan is that Yahenni likes to have other creatures around to consume and become indestructible. Sure, you can sacrifice all the other creatures to turn on the enchantments, but then Yahenni becomes vulnerable on the next turn, which just wouldn't do.
I did not see that they printed enough good Aetherborn to try for Aetherborn tribal, and while I could go mono-black Vampires, there are certainly better choices for Vampire tribal.
So Yahenni sat in the back of my mind, percolating…
Then a card bubbled up that brought me to attention. An old, old favorite…
If you are newer to the game, you may notice an odd thing about this card other than the old wording "bury." Modern-day cards that create temporary tokens tend to exile them to get rid of them, but Tombstone Stairwell destroys them during each end step. Since Tombstone Stairwell makes tokens for everyone, including all your opponents, during each person's turn, and then destroys them at the end of the turn, that seems ideal for providing Yahenni with tons and tons of +1/+1 counters.
Now we're cooking with gas!
Building the Stairs
Okay, in general I eschew free-styling tutors like Sidisi, Undead Vizier and the original gangster Demonic Tutor, but Tombstone Stairwell is going to be so righteous with Yahenni that I think it is worth doing. I mean, you are not going to want to cast it early because you want to have time for everyone's graveyards to get stocked, but when the time is right, you want to get rocking and rolling. One way to stock the graveyards is going to involve killing all the creatures (we'll get to that in a minute), but I also thought that Altar of Dementia would provide another great option, turning each time one of your own creatures is going to die into future Stairwell fodder. Also, let us not forget we can sacrifice Tombspawn tokens to the Altar during each end step.
Destroy All the Creatures
Black is the color of murder (literally), so there is no shortage of ways to kill all the creatures. Yahenni's activated ability means we can get the morbid side of Tragic Slip and Malicious Affliction on demand. Sudden Spoiling does not necessarily kill your opponent's creatures, but the split second ability is important when it comes to picking off creatures with abilities that make them difficult to destroy.
Massacre Wurm is a sweet one—not only does it kill off any small hordes of creatures your opponents have, but if it's on the battlefield while Tombstone Stairwell is going on, your opponents will be losing life each upkeep as their Tombspawn tokens die.
Now, I don't normally advocate playing Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos because I think the cards quickly lead to battlefield states where your opponents cannot cast any cards or their Commander because they'll just have to sacrifice their creatures, but I'm making an exception here. Not only do they play so perfectly with both sides of Yahenni, but also they provide enchantment-removal cover for our real endgame. I feel confident that if Grave Pact or Dictate of Erebos sticks around, it is probably safe to cast Tombstone Stairwell.
Retribution of the Ancients was something I just thought of as I was writing this column, a sweet way to turn all those extra +1/+1 counters into a way to pick off indestructible creatures if Tragic Slip, Toxic Deluge or Sudden Spoiling isn't handling it.
Yahenni Snacks
Okay, so we took care of Yahenni's triggered ability above. Now we want to take care of Yahenni's activated ability. Bloodsoaked Champion, Bloodghast, Reassembling Skeleton, and Nether Traitor keep popping back from the graveyard to offer themselves up as tasty snacks. Phyrexian Reclamation gets back other creatures that might otherwise rest in peace, while Grim Haruspex turns Yahenni snacks into fresh new cards. Animation Module makes food for Yahenni in a roundabout way by triggering off Yahenni's +1/+1 counter trigger.
Of course, sometimes Yahenni isn't hungry, in which case, what is a snack to do? That is why I have added Skullclamp and Viscera Seer to provide some extracurricular activities.
Vampire Stuff
While I did not go deep into the Vampire theme, I did not steer clear either. I mean, Blade of the Bloodchief gives Yahenni two +1/+1 counters when Yahenni snacks on your own creatures, but when your opponent's creatures die, you basically get triple the +1/+1 counters! Eternal Thirst isn't quite as crazy and is a little more vulnerable to creature removal, but Yahenni makes a sturdy target for an Aura, and the lifelink is welcome. Then there is Blood Tribute – since we can reasonably count on having Yahenni around to tap, we can expect this to produce a huge life swing.
I would be playing those cards even if Yahenni were the only Vampire in the deck, but there are a couple more that are worth a slot. Bloodline Keeper can provide Yahenni snacks if need be, and if you get to transform it, then boosting all your Vampires becomes quite sweet. Vampire Nighthawk is just Vampire Nighthawk, but between Blade of the Bloodchief and some of the power-boosting stuff below, I think it more than earns a spot.
Swamp Stuff
Black has some sweet "Swamps matter" cards, so I decided to take advantage of them here and limit the number of nonbasic lands I would normally cram into a single-color Commander deck. Cabal Coffers is one of the oldest ways to take advantage of this, so I included Expedition Map to help go get it. Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth goes along with Cabal Coffers like peas and carrots, so we had to squeeze that in too.
Sidebar on Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth: Did you know you could play Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth in decks that do not have black in their color identity? Seems weird, but it is perfectly legal, since there is not any colored mana indicator on the card and no mana symbol! Like fetchlands and so forth! So if you are playing a white deck with Karma, do not forget your Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth!
Another sidebar on Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth: Did you see John Avon is coming to Grand Prix Richmond? Don't forget to get your Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth signed!
Speaking of Urborg, we have Filth and Zombie Trailblazer that can take advantage of our opponents having Swamps too!
Okay, so Yahenni can get big from opponents' creatures dying, but why stop there? We can pile on with Lashwrithe and Nightmare Lash to make winning with Commander damage a very real option. However, why should Yahenni get all the fun? Pretty sure you unlock some sort of Dark Arts achievement if you equip a Nightmare with a Nightmare Lash.
Nirkana Revenant enjoys all the extra black mana you might have lying around and even helps you make more of it. And it is a Vampire too!
Yahenni Protection
While Yahenni does a good job of protecting against most removal, there are some other arrows they could be vulnerable to (hello, exile), so having Equipment that provides hexproof or shroud can come in handy. Sometimes Yahenni won't have any snacks around to become indestructible, and for those hungry days, we provide the soothing dulcet sounds of Nim Deathmantle and Cauldron of Souls. Cauldron of Souls is particularly nice because it doesn't need mana to activate, and Yahenni's +1/+1 counter triggers will knock off the -1/-1 counter so you can give Yahenni persist again if need be.
Other Stuff
Then there is the group of cleverly named Other Stuff. Crypt of Agadeem and Black Market can provide some additional mana as the game wears on. We can reasonably expect an accumulation of black mana symbols on the battlefield in a mono-black deck, so I have included Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and the insanely silly Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Inspiring Statuary takes advantage of our fair number of non-mana artifacts to provide some virtual colorless mana for our non-artifact spells. Scuttlemutt, Magnifying Glass, and Seer's Lantern provide mana early on and then other uses later when we don't need the mana.
So what are we doing with all this mana? Exsanguinate, of course! Okay, I lied; what we are really doing with all that mana (assuming it is not paying cumulative upkeep on Tombstone Stairwell) is casting Gonti, Lord of Luxury to steal a card from an opponent's deck; sacrificing them to Yahenni; getting them back with Phyrexian Reclamation; and casting Gonti to start the loop again. Then, with all those extra cards from your opponents' deck, you get to choose your own adventure.
Not a bad Plan B, eh?
Okay, so here's how it looks all deck-list-ified:
Creatures (20)
- 1 Scuttlemutt
- 1 Blood Artist
- 1 Bloodghast
- 1 Bloodline Keeper
- 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
- 1 Filth
- 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- 1 Grim Haruspex
- 1 Massacre Wurm
- 1 Nether Traitor
- 1 Nightmare
- 1 Nirkana Revenant
- 1 Reassembling Skeleton
- 1 Vampire Nighthawk
- 1 Veilborn Ghoul
- 1 Viscera Seer
- 1 Zombie Trailblazer
- 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
- 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
- 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
Lands (39)
Spells (40)
- 1 Altar of Dementia
- 1 Animation Module
- 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
- 1 Cauldron of Souls
- 1 Expedition Map
- 1 Inspiring Statuary
- 1 Journeyer's Kite
- 1 Lashwrithe
- 1 Lightning Greaves
- 1 Magnifying Glass
- 1 Nightmare Lash
- 1 Nim Deathmantle
- 1 Seer's Lantern
- 1 Skullclamp
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Swiftfoot Boots
- 1 Black Market
- 1 Dictate of Erebos
- 1 Eternal Thirst
- 1 Grave Pact
- 1 Phyrexian Arena
- 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
- 1 Retribution of the Ancients
- 1 Hero's Downfall
- 1 Malicious Affliction
- 1 Sudden Spoiling
- 1 Tendrils of Corruption
- 1 Tragic Slip
- 1 Sword of the Animist
- 1 Whip of Erebos
- 1 Blood Tribute
- 1 Corrupt
- 1 Crux of Fate
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exsanguinate
- 1 Life's Finale
- 1 Mind Sludge
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Tombstone Stairwell
What do you think? Are there any choices you have questions on? How would you build it differently? Did I forget anything that would make the deck even sweeter?
New to Commander?
If you're just curious about the format, building your first deck, or trying to take your Commander deck up a notch, here are some handy links:
- Commander Primer Part 1 (Why play Commander? Rules Overview, Picking your Commander)
- Commander Primer Part 2 (Mana Requirements, Randomness, Card Advantage)
- Commander Primer Part 3 (Power vs. Synergy, Griefing, Staples, Building a Doran Deck)
- Commander Starter Kits 1 (kick start your allied two-color decks for $25)
- Commander Starter Kits 2 (kick start your enemy two-color decks for $25)
- Commander Starter Kits 3 (kick start your shard three-color decks for $25)
Commander write-ups I've done (and links to decklists):
Zurgo Bellstriker ( Bellstriking Like a Boss )
Dragonlord Ojutai ( Troll Shroud )
Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund ( Dragons, Megamorphs, and Dragons )
Dromoka, the Eternal ( One Flying Bolster Basket )
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest ( Tempests and Teapots )
Tasigur, the Golden Fang ( Hatching Evil Sultai Plots )
Scion of the Ur-Dragon ( Dragon Triggers for Everyone )
Nahiri, The Lithomancer ( Lithomancing for Fun and Profit )
Titania, Protector of Argoth ( Titania's Land and Elemental Exchange )
Reaper King ( All About VILLAINOUS WEALTH )
Feldon of the Third Path ( She Will Come Back to Me )
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant ( Calling Up Ghouls with Sidisi )
Zurgo Helmsmasher ( Two Times the Smashing )
Anafenza, the Foremost ( Anafenza and Your Restless Dead )
Narset, Enlightened Master ( The New Voltron Overlord )
Surrak Dragonclaw ( The Art of Punching Bears )
Avacyn, Guardian Angel; Ob Nixilis, Unshackled; Sliver Hivelord ( Commander Catchup, Part 3 )
Keranos, God of Storms; Marchesa, the Black Rose; Muzzio, Visionary Architect ( Commander Catchup, Part 2 )
Athreos, God of Passage; Kruphix, God of Horizons; Iroas, God of Victory ( Commander Catchup, Journey into Nyx Edition )
Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient ( Ghost in the Machines )
Jalira, Master Polymorphist ( JaliraPOW! )
Mishra, Artificer Prodigy (Possibility Storm Shenanigans)
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard (All-in Yisan)
Selvala, Explorer Returned (Everyone Draws Lots!)
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden (Cleaning Out the Cellar)
Doran, the Siege Tower (All My Faves in One Deck!)
Karador, Ghost Chieftain (my Magic Online deck)
Karador, Ghost Chieftain (Shadowborn Apostles & Demons)
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed (GREED!)
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind ( Chuck's somewhat vicious deck)
Roon of the Hidden Realm (Mean Roon)
Skeleton Ship (Fun with -1/-1 counters)
Vorel of the Hull Clade (Never Trust the Simic)
Anax and Cymede (Heroic Co-Commanders)
Aurelia, the Warleader ( plus Hellkite Tyrant shenanigans)
Borborygmos Enraged (69 land deck)
Bruna, Light of Alabaster (Aura-centric Voltron)
Damia, Sage of Stone ( Ice Cauldron shenanigans)
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician (Tribal Birds)
Emmara Tandris (No Damage Tokens)
Gahiji, Honored One (Enchantment Ga-hijinks)
Geist of Saint Traft (Voltron-ish)
Ghave, Guru of Spores ( Melira Combo)
Glissa Sunseeker (death to artifacts!)
Glissa, the Traitor ( undying artifacts!)
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born (Necrotic Ooze Combo)
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (drain you big time)
Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge ( Suspension of Disbelief)
Johan (Cat Breath of the Infinite)
Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer (replacing Brion Stoutarm in Mo' Myrs)
Karona, False God (Vows of the False God)
Konda, Lord of Eiganjo ( The Indestructibles)
Lord of Tresserhorn (ZOMBIES!)
Marath, Will of the Wild ( Wild About +1/+1 Counters)
Melira, Sylvok Outcast ( combo killa)
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker ( Outside My Comfort Zone with Milling )
Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis (evil and Spike-ish)
Nicol Bolas (Kicking it Old School)
Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius ( new player-friendly)
Nylea, God of the Hunt ( Devoted to Green)
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic (Life Gain)
Oona, Queen of the Fae (by reader request)
Phage the Untouchable ( actually casting Phage from Command Zone!)
Polukranos, World Eater (Monstrous!)
Progenitus ( Fist of Suns and Bringers )
Reaper King (Taking Advantage of the new Legend Rules)
Riku of Two Reflections ( steal all permanents with Deadeye Navigator + Zealous Conscripts )
Roon of the Hidden Realm ( Strolling Through Value Town)
Ruhan of the Fomori (lots of equipment and infinite attack steps)
Savra, Queen of the Golgari ( Demons)
Shattergang Brothers (Breaking Boards)
Sigarda, Host of Herons ( Equipment-centric Voltron)
Skullbriar, the Walking Grave ( how big can it get?)
Sliver Overlord (Featuring the new M14 Slivers!)
Thelon of Havenwood ( Campfire Spores)
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice ( new player-friendly)
Uril, the Miststalker (my "more competitive" deck)
Varolz, the Scar-Striped (scavenging goodness)
Vorosh, the Hunter ( proliferaTION)
Xenagos, God of Revels (Huge Beatings)


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A former student of mine got into a scrape this past week where he was attacked by someone else and was forced to use his training to defend himself. He was able to escape unscathed whilst causing only minimal damage to his attacker. Afterwards he asked me if what he did was alright. Although what he asked me would at first seem to be one question, I viewed it as three questions. The first is was it alright morally, the second legally, and the third martially.
I don't intend here to get into the specifics of what happened, but instead to look at how these three questions are answered in regards to any fight you might get yourself into.
Assuming you've taken any sort of formal martial arts classes, you've likely been lectured on how what you are learning ought only be used for good, how you should never start a fight, how this is a last resort, etc.. Unless you are being taught martial arts in a military context (where you are literally being trained to kill people) this should sound familiar to you. If it doesn't, then I advise you get a different teacher since the purely physical side of martial arts is not something that should ever go unaccompanied without lessons in morality.
In the first two contexts (moral and legal), there are different levels of allowable force depending upon the situation. What you are permitted to do against someone twice your size with a gun is much different than what you are permitted to do against someone your own size with just their bare hands. Although I often advocate for the most peaceful solution, I do not believe in absolute pacifism and as a result see it as morally permissible to cause injury to your attacker if you are in sufficient danger. It is my suggestion that you attempt to cause as little damage as possible to your opponent, you should thus aim for the disarm and the joint lock as opposed to bone breaks or eye gouges, however your priority should be survival. If your only way to run away is by breaking your opponent's knee, then you should do what you must. A situation like this where you might be forced to cause severe damage is easier to think of in a case where your attacker is not alone and thus holding them in a lock would be ill-advised.
By attacking you, the aggressor has made it morally permissible for you to retaliate. your response should never be greater than what your opponent was ready to do to you. This means that if someone swings at you, you would not be justified in shooting them in the face. The situation here becomes less clear when the two sides are mismatched. Assuming all other things are equal, someone being attacked by someone twice their size would find a wider array of options to be morally permissible than if the situation was reversed since force equals mass times acceleration, which means that more mass equal more force and more force equals more damage. In certain situations this would mean that someone would be justified in pulling a weapon on an attacker who either has a less dangerous weapon (such as someone pulling a gun on someone attacking with a stick) or is unarmed. Pepper spray and tasers are the easiest examples of this even though I wouldn't advocate on the use of either in a self-defense situation (pepper spray can blow back at you and taser tase you as well if you are in contact with the person attacking you).
What is permissible in the legal context is generally similar to what is permissible in the moral context, with a few differences. Depending on who you are, what you may or may not be allowed to do can change. David R. Packer wrote a wonderful article about what you are and are not allowed to do depending on the situation if you are a security guard in Canada which can be found here http://boxwrestlefence.com/blog/2012/09/12/structures-of-violence/. As someone whose job does not require you to know the intricacies of self-defense law, you will likely be given more leeway than someone in Packer's position. This does not mean though that everything is necessarily straightforward. In certain states it is even legal for you to kill someone for "invading your home" (http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/01/us/colorado-journal-make-my-day-more-than-a-threat.html).
Laws regarding levels of allowable force are not a new invention. This summer I had a conversation with Christian Tobler who is an expert in medieval and European German martial arts where he told me at which points you were allowed to use different parts of a sword. For lesser offenses you could use the pommel or the flat of the blade. In cases where you were at a larger risk of being seriously inured, you were legally allowed to use the sharp part of the blade. Then, only in the most serious cases, where you allowed to use to point of the sword. The reasoning behind this is that although you could theoretically kill someone with the pommel, the sharp side or the point, they each pose varying degrees of risk. Were you to get hit by the pommel, you might walk away with some bruised ribs but unless you were pummeled (yes, that's where that word comes from) in the head, your chances of survival were pretty good. The sharp part was even more dangerous, but we've all been cut before and survived and most of your vital parts aren't very close to the outside of your body and likely to get cut. It is also important to note that since this was during a little ice age, it was generally much colder out and people in the area would often walk around with padded jackets on, making it much harder to become mortally wounded from a slash. The point of a sword, however, will go straight through fabric with very little force and only has to go about the thickness of three fingers in to be lethal.
Finally there is the martial side of the issue. This is the purely strategic side. What do you do to stay alive? Out of jail? Not have their friends come after you for revenge? The first part here is the bulk of what you will learn in a martial arts class, what you need to do to defend yourself sufficiently so that you can walk away at the end of the day without sustaining any major injuries. The second part is less an issue of what the law advises and more of where the law draws the line and will punish you. It is important to remember here that a court will likely side with a small woman who caused her attacker to sustain serious injuries than it would for a large man to do the same. The last question, although least often addressed, might be the most important one depending on your situation. If their friends are there can you dispatch of the attacker that will cause their friends to laugh without finding reason to join in the fight? Will their family members spend their entire lives searching you out for killing your attacker? Do they have connections to very dangerous, well organized people? These are all important things to consider.
Throughout this entire post, I have only addressed scenarios wherein you are clearly the being attacked. My thoughts on what is and what is not justified when intervening on behalf of someone else will be for another post.


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HIIIII! Holy cow I feel like I haven't talked to you people foreverrrr. Well, we only have an hour to email today since today won't count as our 'p-day'... that'll be on Thanksgiving :) Which, by the way, we're havingg Thanksgiving at the Ness's house... I met them a couple weeks ago.. It'll be fun! Haha so I won't make this letter too too long.
Oh my gosh! I ADORED all of the pictures you've sent. You're all soooooo beautiful. Everyone looks so much older, it freaked me out. Jack is the one that has changed the most... Andy looks bigger too! Claire is a gorgeous skinny minny and Buzz looks like he could grow a beard. You're all so handsome!
Well, we had a baptism!! Whooooo. M:) She's 19 and has a hubby and baby... cutest people in the world. Love them to death. Her baptism was in English/and Spanish, it was special (gave me a tiny taste of the ATM ;))
I'm sleeping a lottttt better, I'm happy, Heavenly Father is the best. We set a goal to get 3 investigators to church yesterday, and Saturday night, one of our investigators was going out of town, another got sick, and another dropped us :( bam bam bam. Our goal got shot dowwwn.
So. We prayed. Hard. And we didn't know how it would be possible, but we both felt we'd have 3 investigators to church. After ward council, we were sitting in the foyer about an hour before church started, and there were 2 young gals... we introduced ourselves and they said they were doing a project for school and our church was the closest to campus, so they decided to come here.... well, we grabbed some pamphlets out of our car, and came back in, when there was another young girl. So we sat down with theses 3 gals, taught them the Restoration, and got 3 return appointments: BAM BAM BAM! We reached our goal..See? Heavenly Father is greeeeat!
We've met some wonderful people this week, and cannot wait to teach them!
My companion has such a good heart, and I'm thankful for her.
I didn't get the pics of Indiana! Send again?
Anyway, thanks for being so wonderful... all of you. Miss you all!!!!
Talk to you in a month.... WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT. :D


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Global meat production continues to increase and pork is gaining on poultry, says a report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
It predicts global pork
production will have reached 118.2 million tonnes in 2017, up by one million from
the agency's 2016 forecast.
It says beef production
will end 2017 at 69.5 million tonnes, up by 1.7 percent from 2016, and Ovine
(sheep and goat) meat will inch up to 14.5 million metric tonnes from 14.4
million tonnes last year.
Driving much of the global
output expansion will be the United States, Brazil, the Russian Federation,
Mexico and India, as well as Argentina, Turkey and Thailand.
China's meat production
will remain stable after two years of farm consolidation and as expansions in
other meats compensate for a marked decline in poultry meat, primarily due to
highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the FAO says.
In terms of trade, beef is
projected to post the fastest expansion, to 9.1 million tonnes, a 2.2 percent increase
from 8.9 million tonnes in 2016.
Poultry will grow to 13.1
million metric tons, up by two per cent over the previous year.
Pork will dip to 8.2 million
metric tons in 2017 from 8.3 million tonnes in 2016, and ovine meat will
stay the same at 900,000 tonnes.
The U,S., Thailand, India,
Argentina, Ukraine and Brazil are all anticipated to step up meat exports in 2017,
while the EU, Australia, New Zealand, Paraguay and Chile may see theirs fall.
The spread of the HPAI is
expected to affect the direction and pace of poultry meat production and trade
across different regions.
On the buy side, Japan,
Angola, Cuba and Mexico, as well as the Republic of Korea, Iraq, Chile, the
United Arab Emirates and Vietnam are expected to step up imports.
Meat imports by Canada, China, the EU, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and South Africa may decline, in some cases a reflection of larger
domestic supplies and, in others, of declining demand due to relatively high international prices.


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I know the Mi4CX is available now but I recently spotted this Mi4LP at a decent price and couldn't resist. I've seen a lot of guys going really fast with this chassis and I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Now the fast guys are fast because they are good and will be fast whatever they drive, the question is will it make me any faster?
Well you never know I remain ever the optimist!
I bought the chassis from a guy on Oople, he was a decent fellow and on arrival it was, as promised, in mint condition, albeit with a rather pink shell.
I set about equipping it with some electrics and have ended up with a Hobbywing speedo and a Team Powers 13.5t motor. I run the Hobbywing speedo in my Xray 009 and think it's great value for money. It's also pretty quick with the correct software installed.
For the steering I settled on the Savox 1251, hoping it will be tough enough to survive my ham-fisted stick twiddling without a fitted servo saver.
After a once over and a little remedial wrenching I took it out for a spin on the Aldershot track. I am a member there so took advantage of a sunny Tuesday to give it a run. One pack down and my first impressions are good, I really enjoyed the way it drove, quick and responsive. Maybe a little too responsive for me but I am sure I can dial that out with a few minor changes.
So is it going to turn me into Chris Grainger overnight? No!
Am I going to enjoy driving it? Yes!
I will take it to Adur on Sunday where they are having a circuit meeting and see how I get on. I am not sure if it will oust my trusty Xray just yet but time will tell.
Repeat after me... "Change is good"