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This spring, Information and Educational Technology asked staff and faculty to take a quick survey to help set priorities for new tiles and functions to add to myucdavis this year. The survey was open for three weeks, and drew 266 responses.
The results indicate that respondents are primarily interested in one specific change: "Making MyView the default view on the site." Sixty-one percent said that change is very important, and another 27 percent called it somewhat important. The second most-popular revision: "Add campus/people search to top navigation."
As a next step, the myucdavis team will evaluate the work required to make MyView the default view, and will discuss options with IET leadership and our campus partners.
Myucdavis presents many UC Davis Web applications and services in one location. When the current, improved version of the site debuted last October, it contained most of the popular tools the previous version had. Since then, the site has added Contracts & Grants and is working on enhancements to myOffice, among other upgrades.
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Sept 13 Monday .
10 more pp [pages] of Belisarius Ch [Chapter] IX
Laura doing more 'recommendations'1 & starting The Smuggler again.
No;2 21pp [pages] of Belisarius in all, finishing ch [chapter] IX.
'Les silences de Monsieur×××× [indecipherable] Hache' donnent à penser a Madame L. qui s'inquiète 3.
Editorial Notes
1for Part V, The World and Ourselves eds.
2See beginning of this entry eds.
Hands Referenced
- Annotation: ink correction
- Character: regular
- Ink: black
Places Mentioned
CranleighCranleigh, Surrey, Englandtown closest to Ewhurst KG
People Mentioned
LauraRiding,Laura(1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).
Harry KempKemp, HarryPoet. Met Graves and Riding through James Reeves in August 1936, just after their arrival in England. In their previous correspondence, Riding had been intrigued by his falling-out with Communism. He became associated with their circle, collaborating on various projects. (RPG 248-49)
Alix KempKemp, AlixMarried to poet Harry Kemp. The couple shared a house with Graves and Riding in Ewhurst, Surrey (1937). eds (RPG 277); also referred to as Frau Eierman by RG eds. see Diary August 30, 1936
Graves, RobertAuthor of the diary.
- Title: Smuggler Scenario [projected screenplay for a Korda film RPG]
- Author: Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura
- Date: 1937-08-26
- Title: Count Belisarius [1938]
- Author: Graves, Robert
- PubPlace: London
- Publisher: Cassell
- Idno: A47
- Date: 1937-07-21
- Title: The World and Ourselves [former title: Letter Book]
- Author: Riding, Laura [contributor; with Sally Graves, Sir Edward Marsh et al]
- Editor: Riding, Laura
- PubPlace: London
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- Date: 1938-11

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"The name can be a bit intimidating": Luxury Gold's CEO on agent misconceptions and selling effectively
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All things eco were on the menu when 20 agents recently joined Excite Holidays, the Tourism Authority of Thailand and OzHarvest for a Thai cooking class.
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I don�t think I�ve seen a better movie about domestic abuse than Xavier Legrand�s taut thriller, �Custody.� It�s brutal in content and equally brutal to watch. But it gets to you in unexpected ways in capturing the fear of just being in the presence of a human time bomb capable of detonating at the slightest provocation.
Legrand, in continuing the story begun in his 2013 Oscar-nominated short �Just Before Losing Everything,� gets almost everything right in his first attempt as a feature filmmaker. That includes the casting of pint-sized Thomas Gioria as Julien, the 11-year-old pawn in a borderline insane father�s relentless game of stalking the child�s terrified mother. The boy needn�t speak a word because his body language, especially his expressive eyes, is the very definition of anxiousness.
At first, you think Julien is overreacting to his father�s gruff demeanor during one of his court-mandated weekend visits. Then, as the bearded, barrel-bodied dad commences interrogating the kid in a depraved search for information about his mother�s whereabouts and living situation, you can sense the panic. And it�s frightfully clear this isn�t the first time the child has feared for his mother�s life � or his own. How could it possibly get worse? That it does is all due to Legrand�s laudable knack for continuously raising the stakes while ratcheting up the tension. It�s a gift he liberally exploits to the point you literally can�t stand to bear another moment of the suspense.
To think it all started off so banal, with a hearing in family court, where a judge is hearing arguments as to why Julien�s pretty-but-frail mother, Miriam (L�a Drucker), should share her son with an ex-husband in Denis M�nochet�s intimidatingly brutish, Antoine, who she can�t seem to escape � even after moving hundreds of kilometers away, only to discover he�s quit his job and relocated to the same town. The judge (Saadia Bentaieb) is a bastion of impartiality, at one point noting she�s unable to tell �which of you is the biggest liar.�
It�s all very neat and legal, and it�s clear Legrand thinks it�s so politically correct that it just might get people killed. And there lays the premise for his absorbing film, as Legrand petrifyingly illustrates how the law and human nature don�t necessarily see eye to eye. At the courthouse, Antoine may seem calm and genuine, telling the judge he just wants to share in Julien�s life. But out in the wild, he�s a badgering bully in his passive-aggressive attempts to pump information from Julien, who sits cowering in the front seat of Antoine�s small, claustrophobic van.
There are three or four such scenes, and you marvel at how real these moral confrontations project. It�s as if Legrand has been in the very same position, possibly when he was a child star (appearing in Louis Malle�s �Au Revoir Les Enfants�), and cast as his parents reluctant go-between. Even if that�s not the case, you sense it is because these moments are so genuinely unnerving. Unlike his mother and soon-to-be 18-year-old sister, Josephine (Mathilde Auneveux), Julien has nowhere to hide or retreat. He�s ordered by law to spend time with Antoine whether he likes it or not.
It�s a no-win dilemma that draws long and deep on your empathy, at least when you�re not cursing a legal system that puts young kids in such a potentially dangerous situation. And where is the protection for Julien�s mom, who lives in constant fear of her insanely jealous ex? If there�s a better way, Legrand offers no answers. What he does do, is give us a glimpse at Antoine�s inept excuse for parents, a look that shows the proverbial apple doesn�t fall too far from the tree in a perpetual chain of spousal abuse. Bullies indeed breed bullies. And in �Custody,� it�s a problem that could well end tragically.
Cast includes L�a Drucker, Denis M�nochet, Thomas Gioria and Mathilde Auneveux. (In French with English subtitles.)
Grade: B+
Movie review: Custody' tells harrowing story of domestic violence
I don�t think I�ve seen a better movie about domestic abuse than Xavier Legrand�s taut thriller, �Custody.� It�s brutal in content and equally brutal to watch. But it gets to you in unexpected ways in capturing the fear of just being in the presence of a human time bomb capable of detonating at the slightest provocation.


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Nancy Gribble: The truth is like sunlight. People used to think it's good for you.
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Run the Marathon as a team
The award-winning BMO Vancouver Marathon also features a Relay – a fun option to run one of the world's top destination marathons as a team of two, three or four. Runners of all levels can participate in this team event and experience the excitement of Vancouver's only Marathon! New this year, collect your medal once you complete your portion of the Relay. This event is sold-out annually with Relay distances of approximately 12KM, 12KM, 5KM and 13KM. Note: Gear Check is only available from the first Relay Hub near Oakridge-41st Station with Gear Pickup at the downtown Street Festival.
Date: Annually on the first weekend of May
Time: 8:30am* – must clear start line by 8:40am
Gear Check & Shuttles: near Oakridge-41st Station, Relay Hub
Start Line: Queen Elizabeth Park – Midlothian Ave
Finish Line: W Pender St between Bute & Thurlow
Gear Pickup: W Hastings St and Burrard St, Relay Hub
Course Time Limit: 7hrs
Age: 16+ – anyone under the age of 18 must have parental consent
Relay Hubs and Shuttles
Relay Hubs are featured in the locations following:
Gear Check – Gear Check** and Shuttles Depart from the Relay Hub near Oakridge-41st Station by Cambie and W 41st Ave (Leg A runners walk to the Start Line)
Relay Exchange Zone 1, Start of Leg B – Imperial Dr & W 16th Ave (Shuttle departs at 8am from the Relay Hub near Oakridge-41st to Exchange Zone 1)
Relay Exchange Zone 2, Start of Leg C – NW Marine Dr & W 4th Ave (Shuttle departs at 8:30am from the Relay Hub near Oakridge-41st to Exchange Zone 2)
Relay Exchange Zone 3, Start of Leg D – Chestnut St & Cornwall Ave (Shuttle departs at 9am from the Relay Hub near Oakridge-41st to Exchange Zone 3)
Street Festival – W Hastings St and Burrard St, Relay Hub. **Note: Gear Pickup for all legs will only be available from this Street Festival location.
On-course signage, marshals and mega-phones will help guide you through your exchange zone. There will be 'Relay Exchange 100m ahead' signage to warn you of the upcoming exchange zones, and signs signifying the Relay Exchange Zone itself. Please stay right to enter the exchange zone, and Marathon runners will stay left. Pass your 'baton' bib in the designated Relay Exchange Zone.
The Exchange Zones will be busy with excitement! Please only enter this area when your teammate is near. To help, volunteers will try to radio ahead and notify when Relay runners are near through mega-phones. You should also be aware of your teammates expected arrival time, and may track runners with the RTRT App.
Once you make an exchange by passing the timing belt to your teammate, please exit to your right. The new Relay runner will then rejoin the Marathon course. Post-run, you may also visit the nearby Relay Hub to collect snacks and your medal!
What's included in your registration:
- Relay finisher's medal
- Exclusive tech tee
- Race bib with built-in timing chip
- Free refreshments
- Free, convenient and secure gear check
- On-course services including water, electrolytes, gels, first aid and more
- Live on-course entertainment
- Exciting downtown Finish Line with music, food, and Street Festival
- Free Health, Sports & Lifestyle Expo
- Run & fundraise for charity
- Enter to win Team Prizes
Registering Your Team
The Team Captain is responsible for registering the entire team. The information for each Relay member requested at time of registration is below:
- Name, Gender, Shirt size, Birthdate, Age and Email address
- City, Province, Country
- Estimated Finish Time for each leg
Team Captains will collect information (see relay team form), submit an overall Estimated Finish Time, and pay for the entire team. If you are the Team Captain and want to collect payment from teammates, please coordinate that exchange on your own behalf. If you want to change team members, please email firstname.lastname@example.com. Once registration is successful, an email will be sent to each Relay member and the subsequent e-waiver must be signed.
Relay runners will have a gear check option at the Relay Shuttle Pickup location near Oakridge-41st Station, and will be able to pick up gear at the Relay Reunion area at the Street Festival. Note: The Relay Gear Check location is different than the full Marathon.
Shuttles will transport Leg B, C, and D runners to their designated Relay Exchange Zones at staggered departure times as shown above.
Buses will depart on-time, and take approximately 30 minutes. If you miss your shuttle, it will be your responsibility to reach your designated Exchange Zone. If you make alternative plans to travel to your Relay Exchange Zone, please plan to arrive there at least 30 minutes before you expect your teammate. Shuttles, once they fill back up, will also transport you to the Relay area at the Street Festival if you complete Leg A, B or C.
Runners will receive their medals after finishing their leg at the Relay Hubs. The anchor D runner will receive a Relay medal once crossing the downtown Finish Line.
Timing Belt
If you are unable to complete your Relay leg due to injury or other reasons, please inform a race official who will radio ahead to the next Relay Hub. We will find your team member and notify them to continue racing, but without a timing belt. Medical staff and water stations are available throughout the course to ensure your safety. If your timing belt is lost or a member is unable to complete their leg, your team will not receive an official time, but your team can still complete the race.


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Car Subwoofers & Speakers Market –Market Demand, Growth, Opportunities, Analysis of Top Key Players and Forecast to 2025
PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, September 13, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Car Subwoofers & Speakers Market 2019
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This report provides in depth study of "Car Subwoofers & Speakers Market" using SWOT analysis i.e. Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat to the organization. The Car Subwoofers & Speakers Market report also provides an in-depth survey of key players in the market which is based on the various objectives of an organization such as profiling, the product outline, the quantity of production, required raw material, and the financial health of the organization.
Car Audio Speakers is equipment installed in a car or other vehicle to provide in-car entertainment and information for the vehicle occupants.
A car subwoofer is a woofer dedicated to the reproduction of low-pitched audio frequencies known as bass. This product is intended to augment the low frequency range of loudspeakers covering higher frequency bands.
It covers the sales volume, price, revenue, gross margin, historical growth and future perspectives in the Car Subwoofers & Speakers market.
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Organisations crave creative, engaging and professionally-written subject matter in their blogs which is why content agencies are increasingly recruiting specialist journalists to produce it.
Of course, this makes perfect sense. The writers' names are often familiar to the client's audience and this boosts the credibility of the content and the company associated with posting it.
These writers have a journalist's rather than a PR professional or company director's nose for news. They have their finger on the pulse and produce insightful content that informs, educates and entertains. Topics are conveyed in an engaging yet non-salesy fashion while still conveying vital brand messages.
Here are seven reasons why you should insist that your content marketing agency uses professional writers to pen your blog:
1. Brand journalism
Journalists and authors are great storytellers and can generate new angles on relevant themes so blogs remain informative, timely, creative and original. They can construct the narrative for the company around key industry themes and events.
2. Plan editorial calendars
Their journalistic training means they can plan an effective editorial calendar so content is relevant and topical throughout the year. One of their skills is an ability to balance news versus evergreen content so the audience's needs are met exactly at a particular time. This builds trust in the blog and the brand, and encourages the sharing of credible and perceptive subject matter across social media.
3. Lead generation potential
Many journalists and authors will have written regularly for online versions of respected magazines in the past. As well as having an awareness of the need to deliver great blog content, they also understand the importance of lead generation and conversion and working closely with the sales and marketing teams.
4. Brand reputation
Professional writers working for content agencies tend to have a strong network of other freelance authors the agency can call upon at short notice to provide additional content and perhaps share a different perspective on industry or consumer issues. This enhances the company's reputation as a key opinion former, thought leader and influencer.
5. Deliver accurate industry copy
Journalists are trained to check facts which will avoid any embarrassment or potential legal action against a company. Not all content marketers understand the libel laws. Many journalists will also want to test a product or service they are writing about so they can produce informed copy.
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Journalists know how to write great headlines that grab the readers' attention, while still conveying information in a snappy fashion and ticking the SEO box.
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These guys are ultimately good writers. They can deliver copy quickly and to deadline because they stick to the basics of who, what, when, where, why and how. They write in a way that introduces points in the order of importance, from the headline down. A great blog must never be written like a great gag with the punchline at the end.
For many journalists producing content, including writing blogs, provides a fresh career choice and a new challenge at a time when the world of traditional media is changing rapidly.
The benefit for agencies is that they provide clients and their various audiences with a different perspective. They are great at providing context when discussing a particular issue or trend because of their subject knowledge, experience and wealth of contacts.
They still get to write about the subjects and topics they are knowledgeable about and love, whether a blog carries their own by-line or is ghost-written for a company spokesman. Done well, they know that a blog can have the same air of authority editorially as anything they would have written for a magazine or newspaper.
Of course, many journalists will be employed as freelance writers and are still working for mainstream media. This ensures they remain on top of their game with sharp skills that will benefit any company that needs its blog to stand out, be read and shared.
Steve Hemsley is an experienced freelance journalist and media trainer who writes for The Financial Times, The Sunday Times and for business magazines across many industry sectors from retail and travel to marketing and HR.


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It's not unusual for people to meet at coffee shops and talk. It's not even unusual for the occasional professor to meet his or her students to discuss academic issues or current events. The purpose of coffee shops is to serve as a gathering place, but when Lenore Mullican, assistant professor of the English and modern language department, meets with her students, the conversations are anything but usual.
They gather once a week at a coffee shop right off of campus. It seems normal. The group listens to stories about each other's days, catches up on world-wide current events, sometimes reads passages from the Bible and Mullican will tell them exciting stories about her life. But what makes the meetings abnormal is everything is spoken in Hebrew. From the greeting to the conversation to the goodbye, no English is spoken.
Some students smile pleasantly and say, "She has the best stories to tell." Others will affectionately call her "Morah," meaning "teacher" in Hebrew. Then, just at the mention of her name, some exclaim "I love her."
Student Matthew Delaney, however, thinks of her like a grandma.
"She gave me a love for Hebrew," he said. "[She] encouraged me all the way through, gave me so much of her time, and continues to do so to this day. I have really enjoyed getting to talk to her, listen to her stories and hear the wisdom that she has."
"Morah has many amazing stories," said Delaney who heard her story at the coffee shop. "Stories of her vision and of a nurse that she worked with when Morah worked as a nurse in Gaza is just one example of many amazing stories."
"If you stay with me till you graduate, you're going to have so many stories," laughed Mullican, as she begins one of her many stories.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bullets cut through the air. Bang. Bang. Bang. Windows shattered as people screamed, and the van swerved. Still the terrorists didn't stop shooting their machine guns.
"They said they thought it was a Jewish vehicle," Mullican remembers. "They didn't know it was people working in the hospital—at least that's what they said. We had several different stories, so we don't know what really happened. There is another story that they were targeting them because they were Americans. We never really knew for sure what happened."
A nurse, pastor and his three children were in the van headed toward Israel when terrorists attacked in the evening. The pastor and his children survived, but the head surgical nurse didn't make it.
Mullican was working as a Baptist missionary nurse on the Gaza Strip at the time of the incident. Wars and violence weren't unusual for her. She grew up in the Middle East and had lived through bombs and explosions. This time, however, the attack would change her life.
"When she died, there wasn't another nurse to take her place," she said.
"I was the only nurse, and so they asked me to take over the operating room — my experience had been in out-patient pediatrics. I had to get in there and do it and teach the scrub techs, and I had two little kids."
Eight long months passed. Mullican was adjusting to being the head surgical nurse, thanks to the staff for being so well trained. But they still didn't have a reason why their van had been "shot up."
While the staff was managing the hospital, they were overworked, stressed and tensions grew between the doctors and nurses.
"One day there was this Arab evangelist, and he spoke at the church. It was very different than before," she remembered. "People were raising their hands and speaking in the spirit— they'd never done that in our church."
Mullican was suddenly no longer in a church service, but was standing in front of Jesus in a vision, and to his right stood the nurse. She was smiling down at her.
Unexplainable happiness filled Mullican. She saw the hospital staff laughing and hugging one another when she "forced" herself out of the vision. She believes the nurse was smiling because they were being filled with the Holy Spirit, something the nurse had prayed for every day.
Mullican ends her story abruptly, as though she's relived enough of it, but her students are still hanging on her every word. They'll have to stay there until the next time she takes them on an adventure into her past. Until then, she will continue to inspire them to love the Hebrew language as much as they do her.
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The first ever Galaxy A8 has a high chance of getting Android 7.0 Nougat, we have just learned. The handset launched in 2015 as a new series was seen on Wi-Fi Alliance with the fresh Android 7.0 Nougat version. Of course, this does not guarantee a jump to Nougat for the device but it has pretty good odds. That is because usually devices that get listed on Wi-Fi Alliance with a new OS version pretty much end up with it. Wouldn't that be great? A 2016 device getting Nougat.
Well, if you look at the facts, the first ever Galaxy A8 shipped with Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. So, theoretically, it should get two updates. Hence, that means the device getting Android Nougat is not a surprise at all. Samsung has already pushed a Marshmallow update to the phone last year.
Similarly in 2016, the Samsung has launched a new version of the device with upgraded hardware. Now it is also expected that we will also get the new device with some significant changes.
What do you guys think? Do any of you have the Galaxy A8? How did the Android Marshmallow update perform on the device? let us know in the comments below.
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TV Review: Marvel's Jessica Jones S2E10 AKA Pork Chop
Jeri finagles a deal for her new client in exchange for Karl's location. Trish forges ahead with her own investigation. A prison guard crosses a line.
Jessica is in a bit of a tough spot. Her mother is arrested and to get a better deal she has to give up Dr. Malus. But, the government clearly wants Dr. Malus for his knowledge and experiments. So, her mother gets a better deal, Jessica hands the US government and weapons maker. If she doesn't, she's going away to the Raft where she'll be in solitary for the rest of her life. It's a tough decision for her to be in and interesting in some ways as it puts her in the position where she might have to help a criminal.
There's some revelations in the episode that are the interesting thing that really focuses on the dynamic between Jeri and Jessica. There's a friendship that has been brewing between the two. It's tenuous but it's different than what we witnessed in the previous season and even how Jeri was acting earlier in the season. That makes what Jessica has to tell her more interesting and rather heartbreaking. You can see the two attempting to connect and be friends but it's a struggle. The end result is not surprising but heartbreaking and in a few moments we go from thinking Jeri as a character that's hard to relate to, to one for which we should have tons of sympathy.
Then there's that ending… Not sure what I think but it's a bit odd to go there and can't say I'm necessarily pleased with it all. But, it does bring back that discussion of her being a murderer or not. I'll let you view and decide yourself.
This second season is giving us something a little different in that the solution isn't about punching people. Instead we have had 10 episodes that are focused on personal interactions and moral choices. This was a good episode in some ways and horrible in others. Still what was good was great which feels like a recurring theme of the season.
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Packaging Design: 3 Factors That Affect Success In Online Markets
Did you know that more than 85% of the world's online population has utilized the internet to make a purchase? If you ignore the potential of being able to digitally market your products, you will be missing out on a huge audience base and an opportunity to take your business to new heights. Different techniques are implemented for online marketing, and it is safe to say that the online market has revolutionized and changed the market significantly. Not only is it important to establish an online presence, altering and upgrading the package design of your products is also quite important in making sure that it stands out from competitors and the white background of most websites. Here are 3 factors to consider.
Structural Differences in the Packaging
Let's face it. Most companies package products in the same way. Take a look online at the structural packaging of laundry detergent, for example, and you will find that none of them look identical. Graphics can suffer drastically online, as most images are reduced and differentiating between brands can be rather difficult. However, structural uniqueness will stand out from the crowd. If you adopt the same structural packaging as a competitor, the opportunity to stand out from the crowd will be squandered, and you may miss out on an opportunity to build your company's image.
Simple Details That Stand Out
Regardless of how much time and effort is put into designing the package, intricate details can only be appreciated in person, and it is difficult to market the small details through online marketing, especially when the image of the products may be reduced. To make your product stand out, forget about the intricate details and go for packaging design that's bolder and simpler. Do not be afraid to play around with different color arrangements.
Keep in mind that the shopping pages allow for companies to place long descriptions about the product right on the page with no word or character restrictions. This minimizes the need to add fine print onto the product packaging itself. In short, to make your packaging more aesthetically pleasing and attractive to consumers, most professionals would recommend that you keep it simple.
Packaging Design for Shipping Conveniences
Last but certainly not least, the packaging design needs to be able to cater to the hurdles and obstacles that it may face during shipping. Make sure that your consumers will be overjoyed to receive the package, and not disappointed at how the packaging may have literally come apart during the shipping process. The packaging will be responsible for cushioning the products from all falls, and protecting the products from environmental and even elemental factors, such as rain and water.
During shipping, the package will have to go through a lot, and the durability of the packaging has become one of the main concerns of most consumers. Make sure that the material chosen can tolerate extensive wear. In addition, find out if there is a way that the packaging design can be simplified for the sake of shipping and handling. In fact, many bulky packaging now include handy straps that may allow consumers to easily carry the package from the post office to their homes.
Packaging design for products that are to target an online audience will differ significantly from those that are to be sold in stores. Click here to see more specific examples. New companies that are still building a brand image and looking to expand onto the online market should take advantage of the opportunity and spend some time designing a package that will not only stand out from the crowd, but also offer some practicality. By seducing consumers with an attractive and crafty design, companies have witnessed huge spikes in their sales.


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Email marketing is a big subject by itself, there are many jargons and terms which are email marketing specific.
In this article, we will be talking about the various email marketing jargons and KPIs which we will look out for when executing an email campaign.We will uncover the following common terms in email marketing:
- Click Through Rate (CTR)
- Conversion Rate
- Email Blacklist
- Email Blocking
- Email Whitelist
- False Positive
- Hard Bounce
- Soft Bounce
- HTML Email
- Open Rate
- Opt-In
- Single Opt-In
- Confirmed Opt-In (Double Opt-In)
- Opt-Out
- Permission Based Email
Click Through Rate (CTR)
CTR is defined as the percentage (the number of unique clicks divided by the number that were opened) of recipients that click on a given URL in your email.
Your email might have special offers or links to drive your email receivers to your landing page. Having a CTR in mind ensures you can monitor and experiment with your message to optimise your conversion rate. This leaves us to the next pointer, conversion rate.
Conversion Rate
In contrary to what most people think, conversion rate is the number of percentage of recipients who respond to your call-to-action in a given email marketing campaign or promotion. This is the measure of your email campaign's success.
You may measure conversion in sales, phone calls, appointments etc. It is important that conversion does not necessarily mean a sale — it simply means how many of your email receivers have responded to how you would like them to.
Email Blacklist
It is common for an ISP to use a blacklist to determine which emails should be blocked (see "email blocking"). Blacklists contain list s of domains or IP addresses of known and suspected spammers. If we use our own IP address, we may easily end up on blacklist and our email will get blocked.
Email Blocking
Email blocking occurs when the receiving email server (e.g. Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail etc) prevents an inbound email from reaching the inbox of the intended recipient.
When this happens, the block is total and is unknown to you — you will not be notified and will not even know.This reason is why you may prefer to use a third party email marketing company specialising in this to conduct your email marketing campaign.
Email Whitelist
A whitelist is the opposite of a blacklist. Instead of listing IP addresses to block, a whitelist includes IP addresses that have been approved to deliver email despite blocking measures.
Emails sent from whitelisted email servers will head directly to the inbox. One way to get whitelisted is to ask subscribers to whitelist us/safe-list us.
False Positive
A false positive occurs when a legitimate, permission-based email is incorrectly filtered or blocked as spam. When they have subscribed, but your email still end up in spam folder.
Hard Bounce
A hard bounce is the failed delivery of an email due to a permanent reason like a non-existent address. Permanent reason is that the email maybe no longer exist. If you do not remove these email addresses, the ISP will start to move your messages to spam folder.
Soft Bounce
A soft bounce is the failed delivery of an email due to a temporary issue, like a full mailbox or an unavailable server.
Open Rate
The percentage of emails opened in any given email marketing campaign, or the percentage opened of the total number of emails sent. How does tracking for open rate work?
When email is opened, that pixel is loaded — when it loads 100 times, it indicates that it has been downloaded 100 times, hence the email has been opened 100 times.
One flaw in open rate is that many of the email servers has turn off the option for automatic image download — the pixel will not get download. In this case, people can read your email but not load images, since the image is not triggered, it will not be marked as open.
To opt in or subscribe to an email list is to choose to receive email communications by supplying your email address to a particular company, website or individual thereby giving them permission to email you.
Single Opt-In
A single opt-in list is created by inviting visitors and customers to subscribe to your email list. When you use a sign-up tag on your website, a message immediately goes out to the subscriber acknowledging the subscription.
Confirmed Opt-In (Double Opt-In)
A more stringent method of obtaining permission to send email campaigns. Confirmed opt-in adds an additional step to the opt-in process. It requires the subscriber to respond to a confirmation email by clicking on a confirmation link.
Only those subscribers who take this additional step are added to your list. ISPs and countries now prefer double opt-ins, so it might be advisable to do so for your own email marketing campaign.
To opt out or unsubscribe from an email list is to choose not to receive communications from the sender by requesting the removal of your email address from their list. In all of your emails, there should be an unsubscribe button.
Permission Based Email
Email sent to recipients who have opted-in or subscribed to receive email communications from a particular company, website or individual.
Email Service Provider (ESP)
An ESP is an organization that provides a tool or service that enables marketers to send out mass emails to their clients, prospects and customers.
The article here sums up the email marketing jargons which business owners might face if they want to conduct their very own email marketing. For digital marketers, these email marketing jargons should not be something foreign and should be used frequently as part of their analytics.
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ESC Consultant Gabriele Loebbert's favorite experience in nonprofit consulting is bringing missions to results. She has enjoyed her experiences in expanding client reach and facilitating organizational growth as a part of her consulting project teams.
"You have to capitalize on revenue-generating opportunities," she said. "Growth is vital to expanding an organization's reach and ability to exceed its constituencies needs."
Gabriele is also a shining example of how for-profit experience can translate to exceptional nonprofit consulting skills. Having worked for American Express and Thompson Reuters Product Development and Marketing, she knows there is a great deal of work to do before you can sell a service or product. She applies this knowledge to each consulting project she works on, and she's helped numerous organizations build stronger development processes as a result.
Gabriele is especially energized by consulting projects with a Strategic Planning focus, and she emphasizes the need for Outcomes Measurement in any work she does. She noted that ESC's team structure makes a wealth of difference in consulting projects.
"We are 140 consultants with all different experience who are here to help and inform on any project we're called to," she said. "There's always someone who can be called on for specific issues and areas of need.
Gabriele has an MBA and is an active nonprofit board member in her community.


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Judging a pound-for-pound list in boxing is not an easy thing to do with different weight divisions making it very difficult to compare the great champions.
That said, recent results, records and manner of victories against leading rivals in their divisions can be taken into consideration and using that formula, here is a look at who may be the top five boxers on the planet right now.
1. Oleksandr Usyk
Oleksandr Usyk issues warning to Anthony Joshua after beating Tony Bellewhttps://t.co/UU04j3b6t3 pic.twitter.com/YA2VaiMd9u— Mirror Fighting 🥊 (@MirrorFighting) November 11, 2018
Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk became the latest boxer to become the first ever cruiserweight undisputed world champion in 2018 when he defeated Murat Gassiev in the final of the World Boxing Super Series. Unfortunately for him, he has had to vacate three of those belts as he has stepped up to heavyweight division where he is bidding for a world title shot there.
Usyk was an Olympic gold medallist at London 2012 and since turning professional, he has a 16-0 record. He has looked so dominant against his top rivals in his division so he deserves his place at the top of the rankings.
2. Vasyl Lomachenko
WBA and WBO lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko became a world champion after a record three fights when he claimed the WBO featherweight title following victory over Gary Russell Jr. in 2014. Since then, he has gone on to do special things in the sport.
Lomachenko is already a three-weight world champion and given his style of boxing, he is a huge hit with fans around the world. Victories over Guillermo Rigondeaux, Jorge Linares and Jose Pedraza help him secure the second spot on this list. Lomachenko is in action again in August as he fights a second English fighter in a row, after beating Anthony Crolla, and he is odds-on in the boxing betting to beat Luke Campbell.
3. Canelo Alvarez
WBA, WBC and IBF middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez has been boxing as pro since 2005 and his record of 52-1-2 is very impressive. His one defeat came against Floyd Mayweather, arguably the greatest boxer of his generation. Alvarez beat Gennady Golovkin last September in a rematch, a result which helps him cement his legacy as one of the best middleweight boxers in the history of the sport. They are in talks for a third fight but talks have stalled.
4. Naoya Inoue
Japan's Naoya Inoue is developing a reputation as being a huge hitter for a bantamweight where 16 of his 18 wins have come by stoppages. Inoue helped secure his spot on this list when he added the IBF title to his WBA crown with a second round win over Emmanuel Rodriguez in the semi-final of the World Boxing Super Series in May.
5. Terence Crawford
The welterweight division at the moment in boxing is arguably the strongest of the weight divisions with four very good world champions. The pick of those though with a 35-0 record is Terence Crawford who has stopped Jeff Horn, Jose Benavidez Jr and Amir Khan is his last three fights. A unification contest is sure to come Bud's way sometime soon but on what he has achieved so far in the sport alone, he deserves his place in the top 5.
There are so many great boxers who just missed out on the list above, however, the landscape in boxing can change quickly so it would be no surprise if there were a few new faces at the top end of the pound-for-pound rankings at the end of 2019.


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Geranium and Thistle Body and Bath oil
A relaxing and wonderfully fragrantly floral body and bath oil that is very easily absorbed; will nourish and hydrate leaving the skin soft, supple and radiant. Hot pink Globe Amaranths, beautifully suspended in our nutrient rich Thistle oil, add a glorious aesthetic as well as having their own anti-oxidant qualities. Soothing aromas of Geranium, Lavender, warming sweet Benzoin and de-stressing Bergamot are a perfect uplifting blend to ease worries and rid tension. Zero waste, sustainable beauty as once used up, order a refill and be a friend to the environment as well as your purse.
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Usage: Daily use as a body moisturiser / pour into a warm bath for an end of day soothing soak
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Geranium: Astringent Geranium oil improves skin tone and its cicatrisant properties really help to reduce blemishes. Packed too with antioxidants, Geranium oil stimulates the regeneration of new skin cells rendering a visibly healthier and younger looking skin. A wonderfully useful oil too especially for females having a balancing effect on hormones.
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Great for bath or for an aroma massage - brought as present but decided to use it myself - lovely
I must admit I haven't actually used any of the lip products or bath/shower gel as they look so beautiful I don't want to open them! Some of them were meant to be gifts - I might actually manage to give some away...or not!
Leaves my skin soft and silky. The scent is beautifully floral with a hint of vanilla as it's rubbed into my skin. The pretty flowers floating inside too...very nice.


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The Importance of Being Charitable, not Gullible
Blog post by Daniel Billingsley, Vice President of External Affairs
I have said this in a number of training and speaking events over the past few years, and with tax reform changes that could impact charitable giving, it's even more important to say this.
Donating to a personal money-raising website such as "GoFundMe" type of page is NOT a charitable contribution.
Last week, it surfaced that a couple had raised $400,000 for a homeless man after he had done a good deed. The story turned sour when it was reported that he was never given the money, and he alleged the couple was misusing the funds. By the end of the story, the couple had their brand new BMW confiscated as these allegations came to light.
Another fraud case involved an alleged scheme from a Loveland, Colo., woman who raised $20,000 claiming she had a serious medical issue and needed the money.
It should be no wonder then that the companies operating these pages have teams that look for fraud schemes. The ethics of donating to "individuals" rather than to organizations who have better controls and infrastructure are also in question. While we Americans want to ensure people are well taken care of, we also want our contributions to be properly stewarded.
In the case of the homeless man and the good deed gone punished, that $400,000 in the hands of an organization with proper homeless linkage services could have helped hundreds of people.
Each time we donate to a page like this, we are robbing ourselves of the joy of nonprofit impact. I know that detractors will say that they don't trust charities or that they complain of overhead. However, once you are duped by a scam or fraud from a site that gives the money directly to a person or family, the sting can be much more painful than just knowing 10 percent of your contribution went to a nonprofit's administration.
I also find it interesting that the GoFundMe platform charges different fees among individuals versus nonprofits. The Daily Dot reported that "The platform doesn't take anything from individual campaigns, instead charging a 2.9 percent payment processing fee and $0.30 per donation. Charitable campaigns are a different matter. Registered non-profits that use the GoFundMe platform are charged 7.9 percent plus $0.30 fee for each donation." That's a significant difference.
Unlike kickstarter sites that help entrepreneurs raise venture capital for everything from documentary films to action figures of your favorite Supreme Court justices, these personal money raising sites use some emotional manipulation to draw you into contributions that fail to properly steward donors or notify them of how funds are properly used. Unlike a traditional nonprofit that builds relationships with donors, these sites are merely transactional.
And while it might seem tempting to pull out a credit card and make a small, token gift for a friend, donors should reach out and ask how else they could help. We certainly know that extreme and sudden medical bills can break families apart financially (they are an enormous cause of bankruptcies in the United States). At the same time, donors to these sites do not offer the same protections in the Association of Fundraising Professionals' "Donor Bill of Rights" that we teach about in our Standards for Excellence or Fundraising curricula.
Buyer beware, but contributing to traditional nonprofits is always the safest bet. It is similar to the reminder when you disembark a plane that "the safest part of your journey is ending." When we are driving our own cars, distracted or otherwise, it becomes much more of a gamble.


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Foster Lake & Pond Management is an accredited member of the Society of Lake Management Professionals and recently attended the Annual Summit 2019 in Memphis, TN. This professional organization is comprised of lake, pond, and stormwater management companies and vendors from all over the United States. The Annual Summit brings together industry leaders to discuss current trends, learn about innovative technologies, and share business tips. This open forum allows the industry to grow together and maintain a high level of knowledge and integrity. Topics included nutrient reduction, trophy bass management, beneficial bacteria research, business organization and aeration. SLMP also presented Andrew Howell, a graduate student at NC State University, with a $3,000 scholarship to further his education.
Johnny Foster, Mitchell Morton, Ryan Stanley, and Cole Hulon all attended from Foster Lake & Pond Management. Mitchell, who has served on the Board of Directors the last 2 years, was elected Vice-President and he will be helping to guide the organization over the next few years. Next year's Summit is in St. Petersburg, FL. FLPM will once again send several staff members to attend because we are committed to the professional development of our team and company.
You can learn more about the Society of Lake Management Professionals at www.lakeprofessionals.org.


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I need to test the risk management logic within a strategy which calculates the size of a position as a percentage of the account's cash value.
This seems to be a fairly straight forward process when using real time data, however, back testing using historical data is proving troublesome.
I need to be able to access the current account's Cash Value. I am aware that the Cash Value in back testing remains constant to what ever the Sim101 account value was initially set to. I am trying to code an alternative method which can be used during back testing only to determine the effectiveness of the risk management logic by getting the strategy go keep track of the cash value of the account as the back test is running.
There are various methods of achieving this. Eg. Accessing the open positions profit and loss value, entry/exit price, etc and adding it to a custom series created in the logic.
In my attempts, I have found that Position.AveragePrice and Position.GetUnrealizedProfitLoss() only ever yield a value of 0.
Using Account.Get() with the various account items available to retrieve has not been working either with back testing.
Is there any other way that I can retrieve this kind of data during historical back testing?


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How to blend in health and taste ?
A juicy hamburger or chicken wrap makes your mouth water but not a bowl of salad with small bite size bits of shredded chicken lying in the lap of green lettuce leaves and cherry tomatoes. It does not look tempting and one wants to stay away from it. The juicy wrap tastes good because it contains condiment sauces which gives flavour to the wrap along with the melted cheese and other fried tits and bits giving it the yummy crunchy bite. But the question here is would you like to have this wrap as a morning breakfast right after your daily routine exercise. After losing calories, indulging in some sinful wrap or hamburger will make you gain double calories as it contains fried pieces of meat and cheese which are high on fat.
If you want to manage the calorie intake and not want to feel heavy throughout the day then, the green leafy salad is best for you. Now one must be thinking what about the taste and palatable juices which will crave your stomach to have more. It is very true that a bowl of salad is not very attractive and sometimes it's simply dry. We all know that it is nutritious and right balanced food which will not only keep our stomach full but also light. Still, not convinced to pick the salad bowl and relish it?
Let us now blend in the taste and health together and tell you the secret behind the health and glowing skin of your favourite celebrities. Well they enjoy their salad breakfast every day and stay fit. But they have their secret taste hidden in the salad and it is none other than salad dressings. The Salad Dressing were invented to make your diet food taste delicious and increase your craving for them in a healthy way. Among these the lightest and regular dressings are olive oil dressing and vinaigrette dressing. The former one is olive oil base mayo dressing with the second one is vinegar based. These dressings add the missing taste and also make the salad juicy.
For a buttermilk flavoured dressings with hint of garlic and other herbs, one can try ranch dressings and for full burst of tangy flavour of tomatoes and lemon Thousand Island Dressing is amazing. Veeba Foods offer a wide range of low fat and low calorie salad dressings which are full of taste, Now make innovate your nutritious breakfast as per your taste and enjoy healthy living.


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Summer Lovers Unlimited Gives Away Free SXSW Sampler Download
Published Mar 07, 2008With all the millions of South By Southwest showcases getting the word out for next weeks music mecca down in Austin, Montreals shit-hot Summer Lovers Unlimited has prepped a celebratory free comp featuring the six acts scheduled to play the labels party at the Beauty Bar on Saturday, March 15.
The label showcase features one of the greatest bands on the planet, the brilliant Tough Alliance from Sweden, as well as Canadas own abstract electro queen Dandi Wind, legendary post-punk outfit the Homosexuals, plus emerging acts Apache Beat, Twin Crystals and Cap & Jones. Check out the SLU website for more info.
Click here to download the sampler (28 mb .zip file).
The Tough Alliance "Silly Crimes
Dandi Wind "Adolescent
Apache Beat "Tropics
The Homosexuals "Let's Celebrate
Twin Crystals "Two Girls
Cap & Jones "1970s Heron Flow
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Position: Air Quality Research Fellow
Location: Laredo, Texas or remote
Hours: Part-time, 30 hours/week
Term: Temporary four-month position from January 6, 2020 to May 3, 2020 at 30 hours per week; flexibility on start and end dates of up to one week
Compensation: $15/hour
Benefits: None
Application Deadline: Friday, Dec. 6, 2019
Organization description
Rio Grande International Study Center (RGISC) has been Laredo's leading environmental organization since 1994. Our mission is to preserve and protect the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo, its watershed and environment, through awareness, advocacy, research, education, stewardship and bi-national collaboration for the benefit of present and future generations.
RGISC was established in 1994 by citizens from Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in response to the deteriorating water quality in the Rio Grande, our only source of drinking water. The Rio Grande exists in a water-stressed basin and supports 13 million people in the U.S. and Mexico. It ranks as one of the 10 Most Endangered Rivers in the world by the World Wildlife Fund.
RGISC believes that awareness is the first step to promoting real action in the community.
RGISC forms partnerships and alliances with groups representing diverse stakeholders to improve the environmental health of our community. Working with these groups and agencies, RGISC acts as a catalyst in promoting changes in policy, community attitudes and behavior. RGISC develops and sustains high-impact community projects through the help of hundreds of volunteers who form the heart of the RGISC mission.
RGISC is the only environmental nonprofit in Laredo and the surrounding region. Our focus is preventing and reducing the introduction of toxins and other waste into the Rio Grande and preserving green spaces, regional wetlands and other fragile habitats.
- Earned the Texas Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence.
- Helped establish the river monitoring program for Webb and Zapata counties in the mid-1990s and conducts monthly water quality testing for federal and state agencies for the past 25 years.
- Coordinates the annual student water testing event called the Rio Research Roundup along the entire 1,885-mile Rio Grande watershed for the past nine years, involving nearly 2,500 students from both sides of the river.
- Prevented aerial spraying of herbicides along the Rio Grande by the U.S. Border Patrol, protecting people and ecosystems living along the riverbanks, by organizing a community called Barrio de Colores which ended in a settlement that prohibits aerial spraying along 16.1 Laredo river miles, in perpetuity.
- Successfully mobilized the small historic community of San Ygnacio, Texas to defeat a permit for a "land farm" in the floodplain by the Rio Grande where oil and gas waste sludge from hydraulic fracturing (also known as "fracking") would be disposed.
- Campaigned for and helped craft the City of Laredo's first set of environmental ordinances: hazardous materials, illegal dumping, green spaces preservation, and single-use plastic bag ban.
- Conceptualized and secured seed money to construct and operate the Lamar Bruni Vergara Environmental Science Center, now managed by Laredo College.
Overall function
The role of the Air Quality Research Fellow will be to compile quantitative data and research on cost-effective technologies for reducing emissions from diesel trucking in Laredo, Texas. The Fellow's primary objective will be to produce a user-friendly manual on how owner-operator truck drivers and forwarding and logistics warehouses can adopt new technologies to save money and reduce emissions of harmful air pollutants.
Under the guidance of RGISC's expert consultants and in collaboration with project partners, the Air Quality Research Fellow will:
- Analyze existing research and information, including but not limited to quantitative air quality monitor data; climatological data; public health trends; trends in activity metrics from commercial mobile sources; and cost-effective emission reduction opportunities.
- Produce a guide compiling best practices and cost-effective technologies for emission reductions, including an executive summary with key findings and recommendations with a target audience that includes owner-operator truck drivers and forwarding and logistics warehouse operators.
- Collaborate with graphic designers, videographers, and translators to produce bilingual outreach materials including brochures and videos that can be shared at outreach events and through local media outlets, highlighting actionable insights, with the primary audience being owner-operator truck drivers.
The goal of the project is to develop easy-to-understand resources that can be used by key partners in the logistics and forwarding sector and owner-operator truck drivers to enable these populations to make decisions that will reduce diesel emissions.
Key responsibilities
- Research technical information about emissions from diesel engines used in the logistics sector today, and technologies available to assist with reducing those emissions.
- Compile and analyze quantitative data on air emissions and cost for a variety of technologies.
- Create charts, graphs, and other visual aids to communicate quantitative data.
- Write a guide using the compiled research to communicate cost-effective best practices and technologies for reducing diesel emissions to owner-operator truck drivers and forwarding and logistics warehouse operators.
- Maintain organized files of research sources and citations.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in environmental science, civil engineering, or a related field; master's degree preferred.
- Ability to use Microsoft Excel to organize datasets and perform basic mathematical computations, and willingness to learn advanced analytical techniques if needed.
- Proficiency using Microsoft Word.
- Deep interest in environmental science, air quality, and public health.
- Self-starter, taking initiative to find solutions that are not obvious.
- Strong communication skills, and ability to work effectively with different groups including scientists, regulators, industry representatives, and the general public.
- Ability to tailor messaging and use communication techniques that are best suited for the target audience.
- Must be analytical with attention to detail and well organized.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision and to assume a high level of responsibility.
- Willing to take direction, ask questions, and work on a team.
Desired qualifications, not required
- English and Spanish professional-level proficiency.
- Experience analyzing air quality data and investigating emission reduction technologies.
How to apply
Email a cover letter and resume to Tricia Cortez via firstname.lastname@example.com by Friday, Dec. 6, 2019.
Rio Grande International Study Center is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.


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Two Silver Leaf Lamp Makeovers
As far as I know nobody but nobody decorates with shiny brass anymore. That means there's a boatload of cast-off brass lamps available for transformation. Abby saw beyond the brass, got to work with some silver leaf, and spruced up this reject to a more understated elegance. Now it coordinates with another one of her rescued lamp makeovers.
So these are the BEFORE pics.
Silver leaf, new shades and Voila'. You can see how Abby transformed the shiny brass here and how she figured out how to tone down the shiny silver leaf on the second lamp when it looked a little too much like aluminum foil. Visit Abby at her blog, Tales and Trials.


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Over the weekend, artists and MICA students Melissa Crisco and Sabrina Chin exhibited a site-specific video project outside a vacant duplex on Mount Royal Terrace. Video footage of neighbors engaging in daily indoors activities was projected onto the boarded-up windows on the first floor, briefly bringing the long empty house to life with domestic bustle.
The screening renewed discussion among residents of the neighborhood about the unfortunate eyesore. Though half the duplex is for sale from the city for $20,000, necessary renovations would actually bring the total price up over $300,000, which means it will likely be a long time before the students' images of domestic activity are replaced by the real thing.
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|Three-dimensional modeling of plasma transport in the HIDRA stellarator
|Marcinko, Steven William
|Curreli, Davide
|Ruzic, David
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|Nuclear, Plasma, & Rad Engr
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Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA)
Edge Monte Carlo 3D (EMC3)
|In the edge region of modern nuclear fusion experiments, the interactions between edge plasmas and the materials which ultimately confine them have become increasingly more important as device sizes and powers trend upwards. Devices such as MPEX and PISCES are built to investigate these interactions at the high energies and particle fluxes ejected by transient edge disruption events, but are ultimately linear devices. To extend the diagnostic environments of the greater fusion community to include a dedicated toroidal plasma-material interface (PMI) device, the Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA) has been dedicated. HIDRA is an l=2, m=5 classical stellarator originally built in in the 1970's for RF heating studies. Its most recent users at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics ran the device as WEGA to test heating schemes and train personnel for the recently-completed W-7X advanced stellarator, after which it was gifted to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To improve the theoretical models of the PMI environment in the edge region of HIDRA, computational tools which apply these models are required. Many simulation tools currently in use focus on tokamak magnetic geometries or high-power, fully-ionized devices, necessitating the creation of an integrated suite of codes to handle partial ionization with more disparate operational power conditions and classical diffusivity unique to HIDRA in contemporary devices. To this end, HIDRAmod has been created, encompassing the existing coupled codes Edge Monte Carlo 3D (EMC3) and EIRENE to solve the plasma and neutral transport equations. FIELDLINES has been used in the creation of a field-aligned tetrahedral mesh generation utility TORMESH also integrated into HIDRAmod. In addition to these established codes, utilities for calculating the limiting surface and tetrahedral mesh intersection and for post-processing have been written. EMC3 has been altered to include a Bohm-like diffusivity to handle the uniquely diffusive plasma in a self-consistent manner. Preceding operational data on the device, simulations have been run under the context of bounding the incident heat and particle fluxes onto the limiting surface into a region of confidence based on parameters from previous operational campaigns. An outboard midplane limiter, inboard midplane limiter, and 'trench' limiter (along the bottom of the torus) were tested with RF input to core-edge power deposition efficiencies of 10-50% for a 26 kW 2.45 GHz combined RF input discharge. Axial magnetic field strengths of 87.5 mT and 0.5 T were analyzed, corresponding to two heating schemes tested at WEGA. Electron temperatures and densities were seen to match previous WEGA results of 8-10 eV and 1-3 · 10^12 cm^-3 in the edge region respectively. With these results, 26 kW of operational power translates to heat fluxes of up to 1 MW m^-2 on the inboard limiter, up to 0.2 MW m^-2 on the outboard limiter, and up to 0.15 MW m^-2 on the trench limiter. Particle fluxes have been similarly bound by upper limits of 4.7 · 10^22 m^-2 · s^-1, 5 · 10^21 m^-2 · s^-1, and 5.6 · 10^21 m^-2 · s^-1 for the inboard, outboard and trench limiters respectively. Scaling laws for peak electron temperature, Bohm-like diffusivity, and heat and particle fluxes have been calculated for both low- and high-field discharges; peak electron temperatures, particle diffusivity, and heat fluxes at the outboard limiter were seen to follow approximately a power-law of type f(P_RF) ∝ a · P_RF^b, with typical exponents in the range b ∼ 0.55 - 0.60. Higher magnetic fields have the tendency to linearize the heat flux dependence upon the RF power, with exponents in the range of b ∼ 0.75. Particle fluxes on the outboard limiter are seen to saturate first, and then slightly decline for RF powers in excess of 120 kW in the low-field case and 180 kW in the high-field case. Finally, extensions and applications of HIDRAmod are examined, including a path to a self-consistent full-device model and potential optimization strategies which may be employed to enhance fluxes arriving at the limiting surfaces.
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Ya know what I just realized??? I did not publish a No Spend, De-cluttering brag post for June!! And here it is August already!! Where does the time, (and my mind!) go?
So, to save some time, and my gray matter, I'm gonna combine the past 2 months into 1 post.
{Also, so the savings won't look so incredibly pitiful, since I'd have to repeat zeros.}
Savings: This category tanked, big time. Moving is expensive!! But we have paid off the final loan, on Aug. 3rd, so August will be a lot better, in this category. I'm determined!!
Yep, we are both still wiped out. 🙁 So discouraging!! Well,
June July August is another month. We just have to start again! Buying a new home, even a mobile one, is not cheap!
BUT!! There is good news!
The girls hit the bulls eye!
June items: YTD:
DH, Me: 468 1631
Girls: 45 334
Totals: 513 2058
Did ya notice that combined YTD total?? 2058 YES!!
I am beyond excited!!
I really didn't think this was possible!
July items: YTD:
DH, Me: 180 1811 {This includes the 50, of 90 bazillion weeds, that I counted.}
Girls: 40 374
Totals: 220 2135
DH/ I slam dunked it!!
And it's only August!!! I have until December 24th, to make a year!! Woot ! Woot!! As soon as my personal chart reaches 2018, ya bet your booties I'll start another one!
A 2018 in 2018 , and a No Spend post.
Seriously, I should probably drop the No Spend thing, right??
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Everything I Left Unsaid, #3
Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense
August 9th 2016
A battle for control turns explosive as a beautiful con woman takes a bad-boy biker hostage in this edgy, seductive novel set in the world of Everything I Left Unsaid ("Toe-curlingly sensual."—Katy Evans) and The Truth About Him ("Absolutely one-click worthy"—J. Kenner).
The only thing that matters to me is rescuing my sister from the drug-cooking cult that once enslaved us both. I've run cons my whole life, and I'll use my body to get whatever I need. Max Daniels is the last connection I have to that world, the one person reckless enough to get involved. Besides, now that his brothers have turned on him, he needs me too.
The deal was supposed to be simple: a place to hide in exchange for rescuing my sister. Now he's my prisoner. Totally at my mercy. But I'm the one captivated. Enthralled. Doing everything he asks of me until I'm not sure who's in control.
We both crave the heat. The more it hurts, the better. But what if Max wants a different life now, to leave the game . . . to love me? I thought I knew better than to get burned. Now I'm in too deep to pull away. And the crazy thing is . . . I don't want to.
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I wasn't watching him sleep. I was thinking. I was formulating a plan. An argument that would sway him, that would make him see things my way.
The tiny, white bikini I wore was a visual aid.
Because if there were any breaks I caught in this life, they were a rocking metabolism and Aunt Fern's rack. I made this cheap, white bikini look better than it should.
Sitting on the dresser, I licked yogurt from a spoon and tried to think of what was going to really sway a guy like Max. What was going to make him give up on revenge and instead help me get my sister free.
He was sprawled across the bed, the sheets pulled up to his waist with his injured leg kicked out. Every once in a while he jerked, like the dream he was having had teeth, and the handcuffs rattled against the bed.
This was kidnapping.
I could add that to the list of shit I never thought I'd do.
Finally he stirred in earnest and I held my breath. Trying not be nervous. Trying not to show him that I was scared. Max was a wild animal and if he sensed fear he'd come after me.
He lifted his head off the mattress, his black hair, wild around his head. That spot on his scalp with the stitches was so pink and wounded. Tender. The only soft thing about him. The rest of him, his chest and arms, was rawhide and muscle and grit covered with bright tattoos. And technicolor bruises.
Max was whittled down to the bone. No excess. I recognized it because I felt exactly the same way. Like there was nothing to feed me.
If we weren't in this stupid situation, we might have been friends. Lovers for as long as we could make it work because we were the same kind of people. The same sort of wild and alone.
"Joan?" His voice was rough and deep. He lifted his hands to rub his eyes but the handcuffs stopped him.
"Morning, Max." I licked my spoon. "How are you feeling?"
"I'd feel a whole let better if you let me go."
"Not going to happen."
He lifted his free arm. Stretched. Made a fist out of his hand and then relaxed it. "What's your end game here, Joan? You're going to keep me locked up here forever?"
"Only until you give up on this revenge idea." And agree to my plan.
"Not going to happen," he parroted my words back at me.
"How's the head?" I asked.
He shifted in the bed and only barely winced. "Better."
Good. This was . . . good.
"You think you could eat some soup without spilling it all over yourself?"
"I think I could teach you a lesson about having a smart mouth."
I hummed in my throat as if disappointed in him and then dug up another spoonful of yogurt and put it in my mouth. He watched every motion. My tongue. My hands. He missed nothing.
And maybe it was because he was imagining what it would be like to kill me.
But I preferred to think he was wondering what it would be like to fuck me.
It was a long shot considering his injury, the fever, his being handcuffed to the bed. But I was banking on him being a dude.
And the white bikini. I was banking on the white bikini pretty hard.
"What are you doing?"
I shrugged.
He lifted his eyebrows at me and slowly pushed himself up farther up the bed. He leaned against the cast-iron headboard, exposing all of his skin, which was covered in dark tattoos. He looked like some kind of leopard. Some sleek animal that if unchained would tear me apart.
He would tear me apart.
And I could not wait.
Playlist for Burn Down The Night
Crash This Train by Joshua James –
So God if you can hear me crash this train
I said God if you can hear me crash this train.
I remember hearing this on Sons of Anarchy and thinking I would have to use it for a book. It's incredibly evocative and the chorus with the singer praying to God to "crash this train." Like he knows what's happening is wrong and it would be better for everyone for it just stopped. For a good portion of BURN DOWN THE NIGHT – Max and Joan are like this. (The song ends up being kind of political, which isn't very reflective of my book at all, but I love that chorus)
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Ship To Wreck by Florence and The Machine
And oh my love remind me, what was it that I did?
Did I drink too much
Am I losing touch?
Did I build this ship to wreck?
This song is so perfect for Joan. She knows she's screwing up, hates that she's screwing up but can't seem to find any other way to get where she needs to go.
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Elastic Heart by Sia
Well I've got a thick skin and an elastic heart
But your blade it might be too sharp
I'm like a rubber band and when you pull too hard
Well I may snap and I move fast
You won't see me fall apart
Cause I've got an elastic heart
Another perfect Joan song.
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Do I Wanna Know – Artic Monkeys
(Do I wanna know?)
If this feeling flows both ways
(Sad to see you go)
Sort of hoping that you'd stay
(Baby we both know)
That the nights were mainly made for saying things that you can't say tomorrow day.
Everything about this song makes me think of Max. It's dirty, sexy and dark. And his feelings for Joan are much the same way.
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Hands to Myself – Selena Gomez
Can't keep my hands to myself
I mean, I could but why would I want to?
Frankly, this song is crazy sexy to me and kind of perfectly reflects the dynamic of Max being locked up and Joan doing everything he asks her to do. Sexy and kind of wrong in all the right ways.
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Way Down We Go – Kaleo
Father tell me, we get what we deserve
Oh we get what we deserve
This is another Max song. It's just a sexy masculine song about a bad man coming to terms with his guilt. Love it.
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Guns and Ammunition – July Talk
You take my body as your prize
I'm totally bonkers for this Canadian band. I feel like their whole sound and all of their songs deals with the power dynamic between men and women. And frankly that lyric is so damn sexy….
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Animals – Maroon 5
So what you trying to do to me
It's like we can't stop, we're enemies
But we get along when I'm inside you, eh
You're like a drug that's killing me
This song is perhaps the sexiest thing ever. And it's featured heavily in the free short story that came out in a preorder contest before BURN DOWN THE NIGHT.
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The 3rd International Conference on "Housing" addresses all the aspects of housing aiming to discuss housing issues from different perspectives and research areas. The meeting always attracts a substantial number of participants from all over the world. Thus, the Conference establishes an ideal platform to recent advances and research results in the fields of architecture, planning, urban design and all related areas such as engineering, education, interior architecture, technology, business, politics and policy studies, social sciences and so forth. The scientific quality of the Conference provided by SPACE International Advisory Board and the variety of the topics are the most important reasons behind this success of the series.


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THE distraught family of a father-of-four who was brutally stabbed to death in Gornal have launched a fresh appeal to find those involved in his killing on the first anniversary of the shocking murder.
Yasir Hussain, from Burnley in Lancashire, was stabbed outside the Golden City takeaway on Central Drive on December 4, 2018, while visiting family in Dudley.
The 34-year-old was stabbed three times in the back after the car he was sitting in with his cousin was rammed by a van on the residential street.
Detectives know up to seven people spilled out of the van, armed with knives and machetes, before running away after Mr Hussain was stabbed.
Police are hunting for the six other people thought to be involved in the disorder.
Nabeel Choudhary, aged 21-years-old, was convicted of Mr Hussain's murder following a three-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court on October 30 where he was sentenced to serve a minimum of 26 years in prison.
On this first anniversary of his murder, Yasir's heartbroken brother-in-law Mohammed Azam called for the public to help bring Mr Hussain's killers to justice.
Mr Azam said: "Yasir was good at heart, like a teddy bear. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He couldn't hurt a fly.
"His wife and children deserve justice. His youngest child was so close to his father, he picks up the phone to Facetime his father and then realises he's not here.
"For the community down here [in Dudley] it could be anyone else's child, another family could suffer the same way we're suffering."
Mr Azam, who travelled to the West Midlands from his home in Burnley to make the impassioned appeal, spoke of the devastating impact the murder has made on Mr Hussain's family, and that the need for justice is "eating our family alive".
The family travelled from Lancashire to Birmingham every day during the four-week trial, where they heard how Mr Hussain was the unintended victim of a feud that had seen two warring Dudley families carry out a series of 'tit for tat' attacks against each other.
He said his brother-in-law was never aware of such a feud taking place.
Mr Azam said the trial had been a painful experience, but the family needed to know what happened to Yasir in his final moments.
He also paid tribute to West Midlands Police for helping his family and for regularly travelling up north to offer support.
The 39-year-old said he hopes to launch a charity in Yasir's name to help the homeless in a bid to keep his much-missed brother-in-law's memory alive.
Mr Azam was joined by Detective Inspector Jim Colclough, from West Midlands Police, who said: "The investigation is still live, a man has been sentenced for his part in Yasir's murder but CCTV clearly shows that there are several persons who were involved. They can all be seen carrying weapons and running away from the scene.
"The appeal is very much to members of the public who may have been present or may have loved ones or know other people who may have been seen running away to come forward to the police or anonymously.
"From day one the aim has been to get justice for Yasir and his family but we're only part way in getting that."
Chief Superintendent Sally Bourner, responsible for policing in Dudley, said: "This is a tragic loss of life of a young family man, which has left four children to grow up without their father.
"The levels of violence used on our streets was shocking and unacceptable. We need to find those responsible and bring them to justice – we need your help to do this – so please do the right thing and tell us what you know."
Anyone with information should contact police via Live Chat, at west-midlands.police.uk, via 101, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


text: One of the Samuel S. Hicks Memorial Fund's largest contributions to the community occurred when it purchased a new trainer's cart for the Southmoreland School District. For years, the Southmoreland athletic staff transported equipment the old fashioned way - by hand. Energy drink containers, medical supplies, tables, and other equipment found themselves in the arms of a generous volunteer, as they made their way to and from each event. Now, items can move quickly and efficiently to football games, soccer matches, baseball games, softball games and track events. Brian Pritts, the Assistant Athletic Director said, "We are very thankful and appreciative of the Samuel Hicks Fund and all they are doing to support our school."