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James Bond car designer Ian Callum gets honorary doctorate
The designer of a car used in a James Bond film has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Glasgow School of Art.
Dumfries-born Ian Callum was the man behind the Aston Martin Vanquish driven by Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day.
GSA director Prof Seona Reid described him as being at the "top of the game in automotive design".
Also honoured was Steve Inch, the recently retired executive director for development and regeneration services at Glasgow City Council.
Mr Callum was a GSA graduate in Industrial Design and helped to revive Aston Martin's DB series before moving to Jaguar in 1999.
"The years I spent at Glasgow School of Art were amongst the happiest and possibly the most creative time I can recall," he said.
"I am deeply honoured to be receiving this award from an institution that means so much to me."
Prof Reid said Mr Inch had had "a seminal influence not only on the regeneration of Glasgow, but on the growth of the arts and creative industries in the city".


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What is the pickup truck with the most seating?
What is the pickup truck with the most seating?
Many seat 6. Two bench seats.
+1 @jimglas
My tundra (back up ICE) seats 6.
How cool would it be if the Tesla truck seated more than 6? It'd be pretty amazing engineering. Can't wait for the unveiling.
Do full sized Suburbans and Escalades count as trucks? Ours can fit 7 adults very comfortably and can haul as much stuff as most pickups do.
Pretty sure Truck is in a class of its own of having some sort of utility bed. Suburbans, Yukon, etc.... are SUVs no matter how large.
Nothing sporty about a Suburban or Escalade...
and we put a full cord of firewood in the 'bed'.
well i mean, it either has a bed or it doesnt. Suburban does not unless you cut the top of the car off. And remove the seats.
Here's a pickup that seats 8: http://blog.arizqi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cabt-the-stretch-truck...
I suspect parking this beast would not be fun.
Andy, I agree. I may be a little rough around the edges but I'm not a barbarian.
I actually just looked at my registration, the Suburban is a station wagon. Who knew?
lol what
TT, I see your six doors and raise you four...
Very nice Andy. There's a paint shop here in town that specializes in off shore powerboats. They take in work from all over the country so there's always one or two of those big pickups in their parking lot while the boat is being painted. Quite the beasts they are.
I'm pretty sure the Cyber-truck will still outperform them all.

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The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Frosty Farm, San Diego Bay Parade of Lights
Events December 12-December 18, 2019
Various Authors noon, Dec. 8
Craft beer and bike rides. They go together like bath salts and cannibalism, and this weekend you'll have a chance to take the frenzy south of the border (the beer and bikes, that is) with Turista Libre rad Tijuana tours.
Meet at Bottlecraft (2161 India St. Little Italy) at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 14 and ride to the College trolley stop, train to the border, and continue by bike to the lively Avenida Revolucion, where over 50 craft brewers from Tijuana, Ensenada, and Mexicali will be slinging suds at the annual Baja Beer Fest.
The festival ends at midnight and riders are free to cross north at their leisure (the last trolley from San Ysidro departs at 1 a.m.) or find accommodation off Revolucion.
Join Turista Libre for a lucha libre wrestling match on Friday night ($35) and get into the beer fest free (else $5).
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Cafeteria Religion
At the close of the twentieth century, theologians in Germany began discussing "theologie im zeitalter der cafeteria-religion," theology in the age of cafeteria-religion. (See, for example, the essay by that name in Theologische Literaturzeituug 121 (1996), 415-30)
Cafeteria religion results from believers abandoning a standard authority. They, instead, pick and choose mismatched elements from a variety of faiths. The results can be strange indeed.
Describing the situation in Germany, Ingolf U. Dalferth wrote in the April 2000 issue of Theology Today:
Every seventh person believes in magic and witchcraft, every third person considers the future predictable, and if Der Spiegel is right, then there are more seers and fortunetellers offering their services than all Protestant and Catholic clergy put together. One thing is indisputable: Religion has not lost its fascination, but the church has lost its power of attraction.
Newsweek, in its November 28, 1994 cover story "The Search for the Sacred," highlights the same patchwork spirituality taking root in America.
Lacking a clear pattern to follow, people wander like sheep without a shepherd. Without the restraining influence of Scripture, religion gets weirder and weirder.
When the Israelites rejected God at the base of Sinai, they worshiped the Golden Calf and embraced immorality. We see the same trend today. When people stop looking to Scripture they fill the void in their lives with religion on their own terms.
In the Lord's church, the current cultural drift away from authority in religion should lead us to hold all the more tightly to the safety and clarity of God's word.
Believing that God knows best, we will seek to follow the Lord's pattern rather than merely indulging our fickle appetites.
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Today, the importance of the photographer at a wedding is just as great as the importance of the wedding dress, the bride's bouquet and other traditional attributes. In other words, photo and video services have no limitations whim bride or groom, but an integral part of the entire wedding process.
And really, how in this age of digital technology without the photographer? All important processes, from the preparation for the wedding and ending with a merry feast, must be sealed.
For each family memories are important, and certainly not one that would not be kept with love and awe family album, to hand him over to the descendants. Of the events formed a family history: here are a couple just married, here - have a baby, and then - succession went christenings, birthdays, morning kindergarten and school ... Each of these events is worthy to be pictured on the camera.
Family photo and video shooting, as the type of service, gaining more and more popularity. Everyone wants a souvenir photo, and of course, much better and more pleasant if these photos are colorful, bright and well-filmed.
It is a mistake to believe that Love story photo shoot is just pre-wedding photography. No, it is not necessary! Many couples, is not going yet tying the knot, order a shot to capture photos on the confirmation of their feelings.
This category of shooting is one of the most popular: almost every couple wants to have in his album are bright, colorful, romantic photo.
So, how do you choose the photographer, if you, too, lit up this idea?
Wedding make-up - the final, but not the last bar on the importance of complementing the image of the beautiful bride. At this point we advise you not to rely on their own, maybe even very good ability and trust in professional make-up artist.
The entire catch is that the make-up of the bride and a festive make-up - not the same thing. You should be aware of the existence of reefs, and a number of tricks and techniques that allow them to overcome. But do not worry - knowledgeable bridal makeup to deal with that. That is why it is very important not to make the wrong choice. Remember, the usual make-up artist you can hardly amiss. Be sure to ask the Master whether he has passed a special course wedding makeup? And what is its experience in this field?
When the phrase "hairstyle" in the imagination immediately arises an abundance of flower beds nalakirovannyh hair, popular with brides for a long time, but today is a bride's hairstyle is something else.
Fashion dictates as much as possible close to natural: the bride of today - not a painted doll dressed, but a natural, sweet, radiant with happiness girl. Modern wedding hairstyles are very diverse and are categorized depending on the style. Your task - to choose the appropriate style, which soaked dress, make-up and the wedding itself.
To date, the photographer profession is one of the most popular, and the Internet is full of abundance and bright and unusual frames.
And here, for example, you need a photo shoot. How to choose the "your" photographer, among the thousands of others?
How important is for you wedding day is so great and laborious preparation for it, and find a videographer, of course, it is an integral part of this process.
With the objective to capture unique moments and arrange staging shooting quite cope photographer, videographer but it will be able to record the process, not to miss a single detail, to create a real movie, makes your heart happy to fade when viewed.
How not to be mistaken with a choice of good videographer?
At the word "bride" in the imagination immediately an association with a wedding dress, too closely over the years, the tradition has connected the two. And, despite the fact that now the XXI century, and sometimes the young bride, as not only excel in order to make your wedding more original and creative than others, traditional white wedding dress is still relevant.
But ... Is White? Traditionally long?
Meeting with the newly-married couple before the wedding - an integral part of my work. The experience is often confronted with the fact that the couple do not understand the difference between single - and multi-camera video.
In this article we will talk about the pros and cons of dual-chamber and single-camera shooting.
One of the most difficult choices that will make the future newlyweds to the wedding - is the choice of photo video services. At first glance, it may seem that the choice is huge.
Advertising agencies, magazines, the Internet - all full of ads for every taste, pocket. What should I look for when choosing a photo video services.


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How to Deal with an Uphill Lie: Professional Golfer's Advice
Dealing with uneven lies is one of the important skills that separates good golfers from average ones. While you might be able to hit a pretty predictable ball flight from a flat lie in the middle of the fairway, it is more difficult to do so from a lie where the ball is on a slope. Hitting from an uphill lie is one of the most challenging situations you will find on the course because it makes it difficult to keep your balance and transfer your weight as you would during a normal swing.
If you would like some help dealing with the difficult uphill lie, consider the following tips.
- Take an extra club. The first adjustment you should make for an uphill lie is to use an extra club to make sure you can cover the full distance of the shot. There are two reasons for this – first, the ball will fly higher off of the uphill lie due to the slope of the ground, so you need to accommodate for that added height. Also, it will be more difficult to generate your full club head speed when standing on an upslope, so using an extra club allows you to not have to swing quite as hard.
- Don't drift away from the target. If you allow your weight to drift back and away from the target during your backswing, there is a good chance you will never recover during the downswing. Make an effort to stay as balanced as possible throughout the swing, keeping your center of gravity in between your feet as much as possible. You will likely find it difficult to shift your weight toward the target during your downswing due to the slope, so focus on a controlled and balanced rotational swing.
- Play for a pull. Often when playing from an uphill lie you will hit a slight pull due to the fact that you can't quite move your weight during the swing as you usually would. This isn't a big deal – as long as you plan on it when picking your target. Figure out where you want the ball to land, then adjust slightly for the pull that you expect to hit. As long as this element is taken into consideration while you are planning the shot, it is okay to hit a little bit of a pull from an uphill lie.


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A pilot scheme to improve council services for deaf people is set to be launched in North Tyneside this week.
A special video link to sign language interpreters has been set up at the Parkhouse customer services office in Wallsend.
And today council staff and people from the deaf community will be trying it out for the first time.
The 12-month project aims to tackle a chronic national shortage of sign language interpreters.
Members of the deaf community will be able to call in at the office and ask for the help of a sign expert.
Trained customer service advisers will then arrange a video link-up with an interpreter in another part of the country.
The system will slash waiting times for sign interpreters from days to just minutes.
Coun Linda Arkley, cabinet member for health and social services, said: "I'm delighted North Tyneside has been chosen to test this service.
"It represents a dramatic advance in bridging the communication gap between deaf and hearing people."
North Tyneside is one of just five areas in the country to try out the video interpreting service.
The new scheme is being backed by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf and the Community Fund.
There are six qualified sign language interpreters North Tyneside can call on at the moment to help the borough's 250 sign users.
Hayley Quinn from the council's sensory support team said: "We're hoping this project will ease the pressure on our own interpreters.
"It is not replacing the existing system, but enhancing it."
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People in financial difficulty who can no longer use their credit cards, or those emerging from bankruptcy who do not have the cards to use, have been turning to debit cards as an alternative. However, when not used responsibly, debit cards can get you into financial trouble just like credit cards.
How Debit Cards Can Cause You Trouble
This is because of "overdraft protection" programs offered by the banks that allow you to use the card even when such purchase would leave your bank account overdrawn. Why? Because the banks can charge fees for it!
That fee, which can be up to $35 every time the card is used, can result in a much higher cost for the purchase than was originally intended, thus digging you further into a hole.
But You Can Avoid That Trouble!
However, as reported in the Huffington Post, that has come to an end. Prior to August 15, 2010, banks could automatically enroll their customers in the service. Now, unless a consumer chooses to opt-in for overdraft protection, their ATM and debit purchases will be declined if an account has insufficient funds.
Potentially embarassing, yes, but better than the financial problems it could cause. This is the second step in an effort to curb banks who have been profiting from careless use of these cards. Starting July 1, 2010, they were prohibited from automatically adding new customers to overdraft protection programs.
This latest Federal Reserve rule takes it a step further by dropping the service for existing customers who never asked for it. This rule may make the use of debit cards more effort, but it is certainly worth it in the long run.


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Normally collecting hidden objects in a video game doesn't net you much - maybe an Achievement/Trophy or two if you're lucky. With Killzone 2, though, you can earn actual stuff in the real world.
Okay, we don't mean "real world rewards" in the sense that it's of any value to anyone in the real world - just that these rewards have physical matter. Anyway, Killzone community editor Victor Zuylen revealed on Playstation Blog today that picking up Helghast intel in KZ2's single-player campaign will net you special content on Killzone.com.
"These unlockable rewards come in various shapes and sizes – some are simply printable versions of the propaganda posters you see in-game, others contain details on the wildlife of the Maelstra Barrens or pages from a Helghast soldier's secret journal," said Zuylen. There's also a few papercraft awards (pictured on right). Woot?
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BANK South Pacific posted an after tax profit of K283.15 million for the financial year 2010, The National reports.
The bank also announced that its assets as of December last year were worth K8.655 billion, up 6% from December 2009.
BSP chairman Kostas Constantinou made the disclosure in a financial result submitted to the Port Moresby Stock Exchange.
The bank's pre-tax profit was K402.10 million, up 6% from K377.96 million posted at the end of 2009.
Constantinou said that emerging from period of some uncertainty into a year that held out some promise of a strengthening global recovery, and some positive expectations about the domestic economy, the BSP Group achieved sound result last year.
He said this was characterised by continued profitability and balance of sheet growth, showing operational and financial stability.
Constantinou said most of the growth was attributed to non-interest income streams following a fall in net interest margins occasioned by a prolonged decline in bank bill rates since late in the second quarter of the year.
The newly-appointed chairman stressed the re-branding of BSP continued to be successful last year with some emphasis given to the appropriate BSP branding of newly-acquired business in
He said overall, the group posted well-rounded financial achievement for last year considering that the bank was progressing with major commitments to transform its programmes.
Constantinou said much work had been required on the integration of the newly acquired
"In 2010, there was evidence of a slow strengthening of global economic conditions with large traditional economic powers in North America and Europe showing more sustained recovery trends and the developing high-growth Asian and South American economies continuing to accelerate," Constantinou said.
"PNG's economy became increasingly exposed to those global trends as we move closer towards major steps change expected as the LNG project reaches production phase.
BSP was striving to get itself into a position where it would be able to achieve solid performances which would be competitive by global standards under these conditions.
"The 2010 results showed that we continue on track with this objective," Constantinou added.


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How good are you at spotting bipolar behavior? Below are five hypothetical situations. Let's get started:
Situation One. You have a crazy idea that dog mascara will be the next big thing. You drive everyone nuts talking about the idea. You become obsessed. You literally bet your life putting your mad scheme into action.
Situation Two. Party time. There is something about John Phillip Sousa that brings out your wild side. You jump onto a table, strip off your top, and start gyrating madly, making suggestive gestures, whooping loudly.
Situation Three. Your sister calls you up. It's coupon night at the Olive Garden she enthuses. Are you interested? Yes you reply. You haven't been out of the house in ages. They might have that all-you-can-eat pasta. How cool is that?
Situation Four. Home alone, with your favorite death scene opera arias, deeply absorbed in a bleak Russian novel, indulging in your most morose existentialist fantasies. You mother calls, deeply upset that you blew off the family barbecue.
Situation Five. You have just been downsized, but you are remarkably upbeat, confident you will find an even better position soon enough. The people around you are amazed at your positive attitude.
Situation One. This is the classic grandiosity scenario, coupled with pressured speech and goal-oriented behavior. Since the DSM only requires three of seven symptoms to meet the mania/hypomania threshold, technically you may have entered into the realm of bipolar.
But wait a minute: Is your dog mascara idea grandiose or visionary? Keep in mind, the chronically normal are the ones who laughed at Columbus and Edison and everyone else who managed to rub two neurons together to form an original idea. These people possess no ability whatsoever to distinguish grandiose from visionary.
So - if you have an idea that excites you, doesn't it make sense to talk about it and maybe do something about it? This is the history of every successful enterprise, from the Sistine Chapel to Disneyland to Apple Computers.
In the final analysis, it's the result that counts. If your dog mascara turns out to be the next Disneyland or Apple Computers, you are considered normal. Hold on - that's all wrong. Walt Disney and Steve Jobs both had their business disasters. Were they crazy? Yes. Is crazy always bad? Food for thought.
Situation Two. This is the classic dancing-on-the-tables scenario. Clearly manic, right? Hold on. What if that person is Marilyn Monroe? If life of the party is normal to you, if no bad things are about to happen as a result (such as picking up an STD), can you truly be regarded as out-of-control? And who decided that the stuck-in-the-muds of this planet, the terminally boring, should be holding us in judgment?
Situation Three. Wait a second. Surely, there is nothing wrong with going to the Olive Garden. Hear me out: Context is everything. Thus, in situation number two dancing on tables may be okay, so long as it is characteristic of the individual's usual behavior, such as being Marilyn. If you're not Marilyn, your friends should definitely be worried.
So what is wrong with going to a family restaurant? Nothing. We are not looking at behavior. We are looking at markers - a sign of cycling activity. Thus, if you have bipolar II or something in the bipolar spectrum (loosely described as "soft" bipolar), then your uncharacteristic acceptance of an invitation to get out of the house may be an indication of the "up" phase to your illness. This may be as high as your up ever goes, not even close to mania or hypomania. Nevertheless, you have cycled up, and the up may not last. Pretty soon, you will be back in your usual depression.
But what kind of depression? Your "up" may tell you that your depressions are of the highly recurrent type, which may mean a bipolar approach to your treatment and coping techniques.
Situation Four. This is your classic depression scenario. But before you rush to judgment: Are you depressed or thinking deep? Our society extremely over-values extraversion and sociability. A good many of us prefer staying home, absorbed in our dark thoughts, playing with ideas, connecting to great thinkers, finding beauty in unexpected places. And your mother is expecting you to give that up so you can hear Aunt Maggie yammer on and on about how you need to find a boyfriend or girlfriend? Give me a break.
Situation Five. Positive thinking is a zillion-dollar industry. Virtually all self-help books are rewrites of each other, each with their own gimmicks such as "the secret." Yes, we can all use help in turning around our negative thinking, our destructive ruminating, and all the rest. But let us not devalue the power of depressive realism. Depression is when the rose-colored glasses come off. If we pay attention, we listen to the signals, we acknowledge reality - then we change our behavior and our lives improve.
When personal disaster strikes, depression may be considered the "normal" response. The positive thinker, by contrast, may be stuck in denial, possibly manic, unable to make the necessary course corrections, headed toward disaster.
By now you get the picture: We are too quick to judge ourselves according to rules established by people who have no business telling us how to run our lives. Likewise, we need to be mindful of when we stray from our usual behavior, even when it appears "normal" to these very same people. The key is "uncharacteristic," a much-overlooked DSM term that is right on the money.
In short, symptom checklists are only the start. This is why to "know thyself" is so vital.
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A freshly brewed coffee is enough to start a day. A perfect cup of coffee in your much loved coffee mug is what all you need to remove your daily stress and drowsiness. Even the aroma of coffee is sufficient to take your sleepiness away and wake up your senses for the day ahead. Coffee is still one of the most favorite drinks that are enjoyed almost by everyone, it has indeed never lost its popularity and people still love to have a cup of coffee anytime and anywhere.
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I'd like to fix the bug in QGIS whereby starting QGIS offline or on a slow connection can kill it, using this revision: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/repository/revisions/bb623a8c94e49ed478f736a58df49732edd338b4
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Just a reminder that Fremantle CLANCYS are hosting a huge South West Bushfire Fundraiser tomorrow Sunday Feb 7th. There will be over 15 acts on 2 stages with all proceeds going to the Lord Mayor's Bushfire appeal. Tickets are only $25.00.
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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers
I'm often asked what's the best way for a new product manager to learn the fundamentals of the role or for an experienced product manager to continue to master their craft. Most folks are looking for a pointer to a book or a class they can take on product management, but I always reply with a collection of blog posts from practitioners sharing their best practices. I still believe these remain the very best resources on the topic. So I wanted to share the collection of posts I've curated in Notejoy over the years from incredible practitioners, writers, and thought leaders across the industry both in and outside of product roles.
I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101. I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Each section covers the best practices for each of these four dimensions of product management. I then have a section on product leadership, which is important for all product managers, but especially for senior folks looking to advance in their career. And finally, I include a set of resources for managing a career in product management. In order to provide a comprehensive resource, I've included a few of my best posts at the bottom of each section.
The best way to take advantage of this collection is to dedicate 10-20 minutes each day to read through a post or two and work your way through the whole collection. Once you have you'll undoubtedly have a deep understanding of the role and what it takes to be a great product manager.
The following section includes posts that cover the fundamentals of what product management is, what the role entails, and gives you a high-level understanding of the skills you need to succeed as a product manager.
- Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager - Ben Horowitz
- Let's talk about Product Management - Josh Elman
- How to Hire a Product Manager - Ken Norton
- Be a Great Product Leader - Adam Nash
- PM at Microsoft - Steve Sinofsky
- What Distinguishes the Top 1% Product Managers from the top 10%? - Ian McAllister
- Essentials of Product Management - Janna Bastow
- The Art of Product Management - Sachin Rekhi
One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product. A compelling vision articulates how the world will be a better place if you succeed. I've found the best way for a product manager to learn to develop a vision is to immerse yourself in a collection of compelling product visions as inspiration for your own. Below is a collection of my favorite vision statements from a variety of successful technology companies over the years.
- Amazon.com - Shareholder Letter, 1997 - Jeff Bezos
- Google - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998 - Larry Page & Sergey Brin
- Tesla - The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan, 2006 - Elon Musk
- Apple - iPhone Introduction, 2007 - Steve Jobs
- Slack - We Don't Sell Saddles Here, 2013 - Stewart Butterfield
- AngelList - Startups are Here to Save the World, 2013 - Naval Ravikant
- Hooked - How We Got 10 Million Teens to Read Fiction on Their Phones, 2017 - Prerna Gupta
Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit. This collection of posts cover many dimensions of putting together a compelling strategy for your product.
- The only thing that matters - Marc Andreessen
- All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club - Bill Gurley
- Distribution - Ben Horowitz
- The Amazon Tax - Ben Thompson
- Product > Strategy > Business Models - Fred Wilson
- Not all good products make good businesses - Des Traynor
- Come for the tool, stay for the network - Chris Dixon
- Taking the wrong lesson from Uber - Sarah Tavel
- What is Good Product Strategy? - Melissa Perri
- Niche to Win, Baby - Dave McClure
- Why it's nice to compete against a large, profitable company - Jason Cohen
- Distribution vs Innovation - Alex Rampell
- A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses - Sachin Rekhi
Design is the third critical dimension of product management. A compelling product design delivers a useful, usable, and delightful experience to your customers. A product manager complements the work of the designers they work closely with by facilitating customer research, generating and prioritizing a roadmap, gathering and spec'ing functional requirements, and everything in between. This collection of essays sheds light on each of these aspects of the product manager's role in designing great products.
- Themes: A Small Change to Product Roadmaps with Large Effects - Jared M. Spool
- Babe Ruth and Feature Lists - Ken Norton
- Using The Kano Model To Prioritize Product Development - Martin Eriksson
- Position, Position, Position! - Ryan Singer
- On Writing Product Specs - Gaurav Oberoi
- Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done" - Clay Christensen
- Working Backwards - Werner Vogels
- If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good - Paul Buchheit
- Building Products - Julie Zhuo
- Crafting The First Mile Of Product - Scott Belsky
- Bad Managers Talk, Good Managers Write - Walter Chen
- UX Crash Course: 31 Fundamentals - Joel Marsh
- The Hierarchy of Engagement - Sarah Tavel
- How Technology Hijacks People's Minds - from a Magician and Google's Design Ethicist - Tristan Harris -
- 10 Things I've Learned About Customer Development - Cindy Alvarez
- Product Designers: Artists of the Intangible - Chrys Bader
- 1 hour of research saves 10 hours of development time - Joshua Porter
- Product Reviews - Avichal Garg
- How to Design Your Customer Validation to Maximize Product/Market Fit - Sachin Rekhi
- Designing Your Product's Continuous Feedback Loop - Sachin Rekhi
The final but most important dimension of product management is execution. Relentless execution ultimately determines whether you'll make your vision a reality. This involves everything from core project management responsibilities, to leveraging analytics for making data-driven decisions, to leading the overall R&D team, and so much more. This collection of essays provides an overview of each of these execution activities.
- 16 Startup Metrics - Jeff Jordan
- Metrics Versus Experience - Julie Zhuo
- The only metric that matters - Josh Elman
- Everything a product manager needs to know about analytics - Simon Cast
- Speed as a Habit - Dave Girouard
- Putting on the shipping goggles - Jason Fried
- A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process - Jim Brikman
- Truly Great Products are Built by People Who Say Yes - Jonathan Sherman-Presser
- Peacetime PM / Wartime PM - Noah Weiss
- How to Work With Engineers - Julie Zhuo
- This is the product Death Cycle. Why it happens, and how to break out of it - Andrew Chen
- Great Products Don't Happen By Accident - Jon Lax
- The Right Way to Ship Software - Jocelyn Goldfein
- The Only Silver Bullet - Christina Wodtke
- The Three Skills of a Great PM - Bubba Murarka
- Modern Project Management for Product Managers - Sachin Rekhi
- The Art of Decision Making as a Product Manager - Sachin Rekhi
Product management is ultimately a leadership role amongst the product development team and developing your leadership skills is tantamount to success in the role. These essays touch upon some of the unique aspects of product leadership.
- Don't create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose - Kimber Lockhart
- What Product VPs at High-Growth Startups Have in Common - Mike Belsito
- The Job of Leadership - Ev Williams
- The VP of Product vs the Product Manager - Ellen Chisa
- Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox - Ben Horowitz
- The Importance of Benevolent Dictators - Mark Suster
- How to be a Great Product Leader - Sachin Rekhi
- The Most Underrated Product Management Skill: Influence Without Authority - Sachin Rekhi
A Career in Product Management
Starting and then navigating a career in product management still remains fairly amorphous for many. These essays dive into the details of getting your first product management role and ultimately developing a career path.
- Find, Vet and Close the Best Product Managers - Todd Jackson
- PM Interviews - Jackie Bavaro
- Getting to "technical enough" as a product manager - Lulu Cheng
- Founder/market fit - Chris Dixon
- 3 Types of Product Managers: Builders, Tuners, Innovators - Sachin Rekhi
- Product Management Career Ladders at 8 Top Technology Firms - Sachin Rekhi
I've tried to curate this list to include the very best content I've found on product management, but I'm sure I've missed many great posts. So please send me a note with any of your favorites for potential inclusion.
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I've been on something of a 1950s sci-fi kick lately. This post from Mockingbird is probably what started it. After reading it, I filled my Amazon wish list with Mockingbird's recommendations, and Amazon gleefully took it from there with that whole "people who bought X also bought Y" thing. I'm now pretty well set for a couple of months' worth of classic sci-fi viewing.
I started with Forbidden Planet (1956), and a terrific starting place it was. Among other things, it introduced me to Robby the Robot. My 50th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition came with lots of bonus Robby the Robot material: Robby's second film, The Invisible Boy (1957); an episode of The Thin Man (1958) where Nick Charles takes Robby on as a client; and a whole feature just on Robby. This robot has had a long and impressive career, appearing on The Gale Storm Show, Goodyear Theatre, Invasion of the Neptune Men, Hazel, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Twilight Zone, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Addams Family, Lost in Space, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, Columbo, Hollywood Boulevard, Ark II, Space Academy, Project U.F.O., Wonder Woman, Mork & Mindy, Likely Stories, Vol. 3, Gremlins, Earth Girls Are Easy, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and Stacked. In 2004 he was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame. And for a cool $32,000, you can have a life-size fully animatronic pre-programmed remote-controlled Robby the Robot of your very own.
Something about Robby clearly resonated with 1950s audiences, and the appeal has held steady over time.
Why? Well, for starters, Robby is just cool. He's powerful, but endearingly awkward-looking, and shaped something like a mid-century washing machine. (Robert Kinoshita, the artist who came up with him, actually used to design washing machines before coming to work for MGM.) At seven feet Robby towers over his human companions, but he's still close enough to human size to be relatable. He's dry, but shows glimmers of rudimentary wit and affection.
But Robby isn't just a swell guy; there's power and possible menace in that gun-metal Michelin Man body. As Morbius explains in Forbidden Planet, Robby is capable of toppling a house off its foundation, and The Invisible Boy shows his physical structure to be proof against bazookas and flamethrowers. The contrast between his potential for destruction and his constant readiness to be of service is part of what makes him so fascinating. There's a stark duality about Robby, which reflects how 1950s Americans viewed technology in general.
Nowhere is this duality more evident than in the gap between how Robby actually comes off in movies and TV, and how he's shown in film posters and teasers. On the one hand you have the helpful, personable robot that people like, and on the other you have this.
See that face grinning malevolently under the transparent dome, sort of like an electronic version of an evil clown? Robby's face looks nothing like that. And at no time in the movie does he carry an unconscious voluptuous woman in his arms. This is just spurious, sensational stuff on the part of MGM's marketing department.
Here's one from The Invisible Boy.
The most accurate thing about this poster is the line of missiles encircling the robot. The rest is hogwash. Robby never runs; he has a ponderous, rolling gait, and his legs aren't all bendy like in the image. See that outstretched claw rendered enormous by foreshortening? And the helpless child writhing in the merciless grip of the other claw? More marketing fabrications. Robby's hands are actually small for his size, totally incapable of grasping a ten-year-old boy around the waist. Notice the tagline: THE SCIENCE-MONSTER WHO WOULD DESTROY THE WORLD! That's actually a pretty good description of the film's real villain, the supercomputer, but Robby looks better on a poster.
Of course it's not unusual for movie posters to play fast and loose with plot and character integrity, but there is obviously something being tapped into here. People liked Robby; that was one reason MGM made a second movie with him and loaned him out for guest appearances. But at the same time there was something about him, or about robots in general, that made people uneasy.
The nice-robot-or-deadly-menace ambiguity shows up in actual film and TV footage as well. Here's a screen shot from "Robot Client," Robby's episode on The Thin Man.
Are you beginning to see a pattern here? The robot didn't kill the guy he's carrying, but at this point the audience doesn't know that.
Here's another screen shot from "Robot Client." Nora isn't being harmed by the robot either. She's actually helping prove his innocence, though you can see from her face that she's not real keen on the idea. The whole scene with the robot carrying Nora is drawn out an uncomfortably long time, with lots of edgy shots of Nora and some wobbly-camera ones from her point of view. It's pretty effective suspense.
That one's from Forbidden Planet. Again, Robby didn't hurt this guy; he's about to set him gently down on the sofa. But there's a lot of tension to be milked from the sight of the robot carrying a helpless human.
Here's the teaser to "Robot Client." The image of the robot's shadow looming over the unsuspecting man is terribly evocative—though, again, misleading in terms of plot, as Robby didn't actually hurt this guy either.
Here's another robot-shadow-over-human shot, this time from The Invisible Boy. Prior to this scene, in an effort to get his robot playmate to lighten up and help him pull off more dangerous stunts, Timmie took Robby to the supercomputer to have his basic directive—the one keeping the robot from harming or permitting harm to humans—overridden. The supercomputer craftily suggested this so it could take control of the robot and use him to implant mind-controlling transistor assemblies into the brains of various scientists and military personnel, which is what Robby's about to do here. So in this case the robot really is about to harm someone, but not of his own volition, and contrary to his original programming.
Another robot shadow shot. This guy is about to get a transistor assembly implant, too.
And here we have a robot shadow over little Timmie himself. (It's a bit harder to make out here, but that circle on Timmie's face is one of Robby's spinning sensors.) The supercomputer has just ordered Robby to gouge out Timmie's eyeballs or something, but Robby is resisting. (How did Robby manage to resist? You may well ask. I'm going to address that subject in a later post.)
The Robot Ambiguity Problem might be boiled down to a few questions. Is the robot a tool, or an independent agent? If a tool, then whose, and for what purpose? If independent, then is he good or evil, helpful or harmful?
These questions are variously addressed in Forbidden Planet, The Invisible Boy, and "Robot Client." FP and TIB should be considered more or less jointly, since Robby plays the same character in both (sometime in between the two films he went from the 24th century to the 1950s through some glossed-over time travel). In FP, Dr. Morbius insists that Robby is just a tool, incapable of emotion or independent action, but we don't really believe him. Dry as Robby is, he shows hints of emerging personhood in his relationships with humans; he's playful with Alta, protective of Morbius, and just plain excited to be working astrogation on the deck of the C-57-D. Perhaps most tellingly of all, he lies to the ship's cook, though intentional deceit is supposed to be impossible for a non-rational being. The human characters either don't notice or don't remark on Robby's nascent personality. Similarly, in TIB Robby is considered a tool—he even describes himself that way—but demonstrates what appears to be a moral will. In fact, after he spends some time in the tool-in-the-wrong-hands category, his moral agency is what saves the day. His personhood actually trumps his toolhood. But, again, nobody notices; Timmie is the only witness to Robby's moral struggle, and Timmie doesn't understand what's happening.
In "Robot Client," Robby the actor plays a different character, also confusingly named Robby. Like FP/TIB Robby, RC Robby is described as a mere tool; Dr. Nyles calls him "an overgrown instrument panel." Unlike FP/TIB Robby, who talks and walks around on his own, RC Robby is remotely controlled by human operators, and his "voice" is just the voice of whichever operator happens to be speaking into the mic at the moment. This Robby comes closest to being a genuine mindless tool—though even here, a couple of scenes cast mild doubt on whether the operators are in complete control.
RC Robby was created for the purpose of handling radioactive materials in atomic plants, doing work that would be impossible for humans. But Dr. Nyles's housekeeper, Mrs. Creavy, doesn't consider him a tool. She insists that he's not only independent, but downright evil; she calls him "a monster, a death machine." Some incidents appear to back her up: one scientist is assaulted, another is killed, and Robby is present both times. But it turns out Robby was being framed. A third scientist, Dr. Hartwick, committed the crimes and made it look like Robby did it. He also planted the seeds of Mrs. Creavy's distrust. His goal is for Robby to be dismantled forever.
So what did the robot ever do to him? Well, this is where the episode gets interesting. From Dr. Hartwick's point of view, Robby really is just a tool—a very sophisticated tool—and to him, that's the horror of the thing. By using a radiation-proof robot, people will be able to carry out tasks in atomic plants far more efficiently than otherwise, leading to arms proliferation and ultimately causing the deaths of millions. In Dr. Hartwick's mind, a morally independent robot that clubs people to death is less horrible than a true tool of a robot that advances nuclear technology.
Nuclear energy was a touchy subject during the 1950s. Many, like Hartwick, feared that the development of nuclear power would lead to arms proliferation or deadly accidents. In his this-is-what-I-did-and-why-I-did-it monologue near the end, Hartwick comes unglued, ranting maniacally, wide-eyed and shrill. For most of the episode his fear and hysteria have been concealed, which could also be said of the 1950s as a whole, but now the mask is off.
It doesn't stay off for long, though. Hartwick is apprehended and that's the end of it. The episode concludes with Robby, remotely controlled, vacuuming the floor while simultaneously walking a dog. Nick goofs around with the mic, pretending to be advertising the robot as a helpful tool for housewives; Nora plays along, eagerly asking to buy one. The dog barks; the robot vacuums; everyone laughs. Hartwick's concerns, which were legitimate enough in themselves, aren't addressed at all, even to be refuted.
And there's that duality again, glossed over and unresolved.
Technology in the 1950s represented security and prosperity but also the potential for large-scale horrific violence. It could make our lives easier one day and wipe us out the next. After the war, with the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brooding in the American subconscious, U.S. scientists had gone to work on a new nuclear weapon. The hydrogen bomb was capable of far worse devastation than the atomic bomb, which was certainly devastating enough. Many scientists who had supported the development of the atomic bomb, including Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project, opposed the hydrogen bomb, but the prevailing thinking was that the Soviets would certainly develop one, so we had better do so as well to keep ourselves safe. The U.S. carried out a successful test of a hydrogen bomb in 1952 at Enewetak Atoll; the Soviets followed with a detonation in their very own Siberia in 1953. This episode of The Thin Man aired in 1958. Reading accounts of the decade, there is a real sense of escalation, of reaction triggering more reaction, of spiraling out of control while putting on a brave face.
This duality is neatly contained in the person of the robot. It's fitting, I think, that so physically strong and imposing a character should have a shape that resembles a household appliance. Just like us, Robby is capable of a wide range of duties, from national defense to flower arrangement. He can clean the house or topple it over, walk the dog or plant a mind-control transistor in your brain, whip up an evening gown or develop nuclear fusion. And because he's anthropomorphic, he binds fear of technology to fear of ourselves. We have our own dualities; we are capable of good and evil, and the tech is our creation, begotten in our image. The strange career of Robby the Robot is not unlike our own.


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"Good Enough" ruining Photography Industry?
When customers settle for lower price over quality many photographers use the term (choosing) "good enough" to describe this frustrating situation- clients who want to cut down our services to the lowest price possible and not concerned with quality. Many photographers attribute this trend as a cause for ruining the photography industry, customers not caring about quality.
The big question is who's fault is this? Can we blame the client or the artist and how can we fix it?
I don't believe people change and all of a sudden want lower quality. I think brides/clients have always wanted the same things today just like brides 10 years ago. It is a case where the bride today has increasingly more price options for photography today than ever before. Digital has enabled an incredible amount of people to take a wide range of image quality and offer a wide range of prices.
When a person has more options in the market they can choose the service that fits their needs and if their needs can be met at a lower price they will choose the lower price, even if this lower price comes with lower quality because higher quality is not always necessary. Who needs a 500 horse power car if they plan to drive no faster than 65mph? Why pay for more quality when not needed and there are lesser priced options available?
People gravitate to "good business" choices
As an example: let's say my business takes me to a small town and I need to find a hotel for just one night- a clean and comfortable place to sleep. Let's say the only hotel in town is $500/night but it is a 5 star hotel. I stay there and I love it, the accommodations are wonderful and awesome service. Let's say I come back to this small town a year later for business and another hotel is available and is only $100 per night and the accommodations are clean and comfortable but it is only a 3 star hotel. Most of us would choose to stay at the $100 hotel. I choose the lower quality because it still meets my needs of providing me a good nights sleep and I save my business $400- a good business decision.
This is exactly what the $500 bride does. Perhaps she is not interested in "artistic" wedding imagery and doesn't need world class photography- she just wants someone to take some basic family pictures. Many $500 photographers can fill this need. Perhaps this bride wants to save on her wedding photography so she can have a nice honeymoon or afford to invite more family to her wedding. Can we blame her? Can we blame anyone for the life choices a person makes? In essence she is making a good financial decision for her needs.
CNN did the same thing when they fired paid photojournalists and hired free prosumer images- it was a business decision. News is about speed- being "first to get the story". Their iReport increased image capture turnaround time, lowered their cost significantly without sacrificing quality they required for the job- a brilliant business move on their part- perhaps that is why their company is valued at $10 billion. However, for those paid photographers, we feel sorry that they lost their jobs and perhaps that CNN lowered their image quality standards.
Getting customers to pay more
1. Change target market to those clients that need higher quality and appreciate it.
If you don't like the heat get out of the kitchen. If you don't like the mentality of the $500 bride- don't serve them! Provide service for those brides who like high quality and are willing to pay for it. Perhaps you may have to go after customers in unlikely places. Here are some ideas…
- Perhaps get involved with charity events, networking/community groups where you're the only photographer and with people with more disposable income.
- Create a profile of your ideal customer and understand what things they like to do, what they buy and how they like to buy them, where they like to socialize, etc. Fish in their ponds, their social circles.
- Network with a complimentary service with the same target customer. For example, choose a jeweler or bridal shop who markets to the same clientèle and create incentives for their clients to check out your work.
- Host your own luxury event featuring your photography only and other complimentary vendors to help split the bill and access their mailing lists, creating a win-win situation for all.
2. Add value to your current product or service which creates a new product- revolutionize the industry, INNOVATE.
The iPhone is a perfect example. The iPhone changed the FUNCTION of the phone and made it so much more- a portable multi-media player, a computer, gps system and ultimate communication device. When Apple released the iPhone, they essentially created a new product and now instead of people paying $50 for a phone, people stood in line around a city block to pay $400 for a phone.
As for the wedding photographer getting hammered on price and is sick of it, here are a few suggestions..
- Make sure your imagery is way above average because average work can mean average prices.
- Hire a photography coach to help with your imagery and business and create an upscale product.
- Create a luxury brand. Make sure your imagery has a signature style and every public aspect of your business conveys class, style, personality, professionalism and luxury.
- Offer complimentary services that make your product more attractive and contemporary- include video services, a photobooth, their images loaded on a free iPad, etc. Get creative.
Truth Hurts, sometimes…
Most of the time, the market is VERY accurate in determining value. We most often deserve the business that we earn. If we are not hitting the client we want, then we must face the music and realize our business is failing in areas that need to be addressed. We must take responsibility, make adjustments and constantly improve our business.
Don't worry about the competition, just work on being the best photographer you can be and all the rest will fall in place. Do you think the great basketball star Kobe Bryant worries about new rookies coming in and signing contracts at 1/100 his asking price? Of course not! The best photographers never worry about new competition offering lower prices with lesser quality because ultimately we get what we deserve if we work hard and aim to be the best. When we start to blame the bride about not getting the price we want, we feel better for a few moments to vent our frustrations but our situation still remains the same and assigning blame is a dangerous trap to fall into because it leads to self pity.
Bring Something to the Picnic
All top photographers bring something useful and innovative to the industry. If this seems impossible, don't worry, your passion will lead you to improve and innovate on your work so keep working hard and it will all come together over time. Don't be surprised if it takes you a decade to put it together- I'm working on over two decades and I'm not there yet!
The human spirit has shown that no matter what we are given in life, we can overcome and make our life what we want it to be if we are willing to work really hard and find the right information. Let us take responsibility, innovate and transform photography into something so beautiful and desirable that people are willing to pay top dollar for our efforts. Together we can change the industry by raising the bar. A change in the world first starts with a courageous change in us. INNOVATION and CREATIVITY with your imagery, services, deliverables and marketing angles are keys to GETTING WHAT YOU WANT!
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We do our best to keep you updated in this important field. The news links cover a worldwide database about today's Vaccination "habits".
Drug Labels Contain 70 Negative Side Effects on Average (article) (full)
Argentina, We Cry For You (article)
February 2012 - National Health Information (England) Leaflet "MMR THE FACTS":
"A baby could respond safely and effectively to around 10,000 vaccines at any one time. So the baby's immune system can and does easily cope with the MMR vaccine." (10000CV)
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U.S. Government & Whistleblowers Sue Merck About Falsely Certified Mumps Vaccine. (article)
Vaccination reference links:
February 11, 2013 - Dumbed-down populations accept outrageous vaccine logic. (article)
January 22, 2013 - Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot. (article) (article) (article)
January 8, 2013 - Teens susceptible to hepatitis B infection despite vaccination as infants. Mom is link to hepatitis B infection. (article)
January 19, 2013 - Regulators Approve New Genetically Engineered Insect-Based Flu Vaccine. (article)
July 3, 2012 - GlaxoSmithKline settlement unzips Tampa whistle-blower's lips.
May 3, 2012 - No jab, no education: New CA law requires middle schoolers to provide proof of Tdap vaccination in order to receive education.
April 25, 2012 - Hidden In Plain Sight: The Pioneering Work of Frederick Robert Klenner, M.D. (article 1 - article 2)
April 21, 2012 - As children's brains are being eaten by vaccines, parents urged to ignore the symptoms and 'soothe' their babies. (article)
April 17, 2012 - History Repeats Itself: Lessons Vaccinators Refuse to Learn, by Jennifer Craig, PhD. (article)
April 17, 2012 - Unconstitutional New York bills would give children the right to consent to vaccines by Alan J. Phillips.
March 29, 2012 - Swine flu vaccines cause 17-fold increase in narcolepsy, horrified scientists discover (1 - 2 / 2a - 3 / 3a)
February 2, 2012 - Microsoft buys eugenics technology from Merck, becomes drug development partner with top global vaccine manufacturer.
January 31, 2012 - Scientists created bird flu superbug that could set off next global pandemic.
January 23, 2012 - Health insurance company preys upon the poor with junk food reward program for vaccinating your baby.
January 17, 20121 - Researching genetics as a cause of autism - An expensive attempt to marginalize vaccine causation.
January 5, 2012 - Secret Drug Trials Conducted on Indian Children. (article)
December 16, 2011 - Medical Personnel Exempt From Mandatory Flu Vaccines. (article - geier document)
December 13, 2011 - Feds urge churches to peddle flu shots to members, partner with drug stores to sponsor flu clinics. (article)
December 12, 2011 - Exposing the hidden epidemic of crippling, painful neurological adverse effects of antibiotics. (must view videos)
December 8, 2011 - If you live in the U.S., Congress has authorized a law allowing public health officials to come to your house to vaccinate you and your children. With all of the shenanigans in Washington, should we be surprised? The Centers for Disease Control will be in the drivers seat for this program... (Public Law No. 111-148)
December 4, 2011 - Hospitals in Houston requiring unvaccinated employees to wear face masks during entire flu season if they refuse flu shot.
December 3, 2011 - Girl, 13, leFt in 'waking coma' and sleeps for 23 hours a day after 'severe reaction to cervical cancer jabs'. Lucy Hinks is unable to walk or talk after having injections at school. (G13LIWCASF23HADASRTCCJ) (article)
November 17, 2011 - Vaccines group plans to buy cervical cancer shots to distribute them in the third world countries. (VGPTBCCSTDTITTWC) (article)
November 15, 2011 - Lysol bribes customers with cash prizes to get their flu shots, recruit others .
November 14, 2011 - Medical Mafia fascism forces parents to hide their children (MMFFPTHTC).
Survey - health of unvaccinated children (PDF with links).
August 31, 2011 - Pro-vaccine agenda in shambles after pivotal Washington meeting. (Bolen article)
August 29, 2011 - NaturalNews exposes secret vaccine industry ties and military involvement with Institute of Medicine, reveals fatal conflicts of interest at IoM.
August 28, 2011 - Institute of Medicine adverse reactions report admits MMR vaccines cause measles, seizures, anaphylaxis and other health problems.
August 3, 2011 - Academics fronting ghostwritten medical journal articles as 'guest authors' should be charged with fraud, say UofT law professors. (PDF)
August 3, 2011 - Colorado joins national trend to implement unconstitutional restrictions on vaccine exemptions: your state could be next by Alan Phillips, J.D.
July 26, 2011 - Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon. Is this the real solution?
July 17, 2011 - Murdoch and Vaccines:
It's a huge material with dozens and dozens of links to different reports, earlier articles, investigations. For easier browsing i put it also in PDF with hyperlinks.
July 5, 2011 - A recent study finds connection between vaccines and higher infant mortality.
(reference 1 - erratum) (reference 2) (reference 3)
June 27, 2011 - USDA Filling Five Vacancies on the National Organic Standards Board.
June 27, 2011 - Clinical study of epilepsy drug may have served primarily to promote drug and increase prescribing. (Another article)
June 27, 2011 - ADA: Type 1 Diabetes Vaccine Fails to Show Benefits (Prime source - Another source)
June 24, 2011 - Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Generic Drug Manufacturers
June 13, 2011 - Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates calls for 'vaccine equality'. (another article)
June 12, 2011 - Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines (article by Alan Phillips, J.D.)
May 9, 2011 - Faking medical reality. (FMR) (article 1 - article 2 - article 3 - article 4)
March 14, 2011 - Vaccine Epidemic
March 14, 2011 - Vaccine Safety, Science and Policy
March 9, 2011 - Secretly Infected with Syphilis, Guatemalan Victims May Sue U.S.
March 7, 2011 - Japan Stops Use of Pfizer, Sanofi Vaccines on Four Deaths
March 1, 2011 - Teacher fired for refusing to remove 'have you drugged your kids today' bumper sticker
February 27, 2011 - Vaccines found to activate moron genes that cause further belief in vaccines (satire)
February 24, 2011 - Supreme Court Immunizes Vaccine Makers Against Lawsuits
February 24, 2011 - Aquifers poisoned with drugs, chemicals and pesticides threaten Mexico's Riviera Maya
February 24, 2011 - History: Vaccine related nerve damage
February 24, 2011 - DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else
February 24, 2011 - The lies of Brian Deer - vaccines, autism and the Lancet 12 parents
February 23, 2011 - DPT vaccine causes permanent brain damage, 150 seizures a day in young girl
February 23, 2011 - DPT vaccine causes permanent brain damage, 150 seizures
February 22, 2011 - Supreme Court and Pharmaceutical Terrorism
February 22, 2011 - U.S. Supreme Court denies parents of vaccine damaged children their right to seek justice
February 22, 2011 - The age-old struggle against vaccination: A rebuttal by Jennifer Craig, PhD; Suzanne Humphries, MD; and Sherri Tenpenny, DO
February 22, 2011 - Proposed new limits on vaccine exemptions: Are they constitutional?
February 22, 2011 - Nearly all drug trials scientifically invalid due to influence of the mind; Big Pharma science dissolves into wishful thinking
February 21, 2011 - A proven cure for autism, vaccine injuries, and chronic disease - Homeopathy
February 18, 2011 - Vaccine philosophical exemptions: A moral and ethical imperative (A HUGE ARTICLE ABOUT VACCINES !!!)
February 17, 2011 - U.S. troops now being killed by Big Pharma
February 12, 2011 - For Some Troops the vaccines are deadly
February 7, 2011 - Flu vaccine causes higher than normal incidence of febrile seizures in toddlers.
February 3, 2011 - Vaccinated Sibling Transmits Rotavirus to Unvaccinated Brother, Gets Rotavirus Gastroenteritis. (PDF)
May 14, 2010 - Rotarix Vaccine Approved for Children By BLOOMBERG NEWS
The Rotarix vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline is again recommended for use in children, two months after some samples were contaminated with a virus found in meat products. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it had no evidence that the virus posed safety concerns and that the vaccine's benefits outweighed any potential risk. The agency urged suspending Rotarix use on March 22 after an academic research team found pieces of porcine circovirus virus type 1, or PCV-1, in materials used to make more than 69 million doses globally. New York Times.
Doctors who do not buy into the vaccine craze.
Vaccination news, articles and information on NaturalNews
Post-Vaccination Syndrome
Homeopathic news, articles and information on NaturalNews
Homeopathic Immunizations - A Proven Alternative to Vaccinations
History of Homeopathic Immunizations
Large-scale application of highly-diluted bacteria for Leptospirosi...
Homeopathic Prevention for Meningococcal Disease
Dr. Isaac Golden's Research on Immunizations
Homeopathy Safe Effective Alternative to Flu Vaccine
Homeopathy for Adverse Reactions To Vaccinations
Homeopathy Offers Alternative to Flu
Dr. Andrew Moulden (Interview): What You Were Never Told About Vaccines
September 17, 2008 - U.S. Government Mandates HPV Vaccine For New US Residents
October 27, 2011 - 300,000 doses of flu vaccine Preflucel withdrawn in alert over side-effects. (300000DOFVPWIAOSD) (article - BSCTUTAFR300000FVFSAR)
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We have here in Finland discussion about H1N1 vaccination, the possibility to get narcolepsy-disease after this vacc. All together 61 patients has been reported after the vaccination. The group who is studying the vacc used here in Finland has found that it is possible that Pandemrix-vacc here has had 9 times more possible to get this disease after vaccination.
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Maryland's swimming beaches have better water quality than those in most coastal states, but still lag neighboring Delaware and Virginia, according to the latest review by an environmental group.
In its annual nationwide survey of beach water quality, the
says that Maryland's public wading and swimming areas ranked 11th among 30 coastal states, including those bordering the Great Lakes.
Delaware ranked first overall, while Virginia ranked sixth, with fewer high-bacteria readings on their beaches. But a stretch of beach in Ocean City running from 126th Street north to 145th Street earned the NRDC's
as one of the 12 cleanest in the nation, for not showing any bacteria problems since 2007 and having strong standards for frequent testing and prompt notification of the public if a problem is found. Delaware's Dewey Beach also earned a five-star rating.
Six percent of water quality samples taken last year at the state's 70 Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay beaches exceeded health standards for bacteria that could make swimmers ill, the NRDC found. Polluted storm-water runoff is one of the most frequent reasons for unsafe levels of bacteria related to human or animal waste being found in beach waters.
The beaches where bacteria levels exceeded state standards most often were in Cecil and Kent counties, followed by Calvert and St. Mary's. Beaches in Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties had waters with excessive bacteria in them on average only 4 percent and 3 percent of the time, respectively. The beaches at Ocean City, which were generally tested twice weekly during the peak summer tourism season, showed no excessive bacteria, the survey reports.
Nationally, 8 percent of beach water samples exceeded health standards last year, indicating the presence of human or animal waste, according to the group's report. The number of beach closings and swimming advisories issued was the third highest in the past 22 years, though down slightly from 2010.
NRDC senior attorney Jon Devine said that beaches nationwide could be healthier places if the Environmental Protection Agency adopted tougher water quality standards for recreational waters, which the agency has said it plans to finalize in the fall. EPA also needs to enact national rules for controlling storm-water pollution, he said.
Jay Apperson, spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment, which oversees beach monitoring in the state, welcomed the NRDC's five-star rating of a portion of Ocean City's beach, but questioned why the resort's entire beach wasn't included.
With a total of 203 coastal, bay and fresh-water beaches monitored in Maryland, Apperson said that overall they were open 97.8 percent of the time last year between Memorial Day and Labor Day, up from 96.5 percent in 2010. He noted that the state recently adopted stricter limits on storm-water runoff and is in the process of requiring reductions in major urban and suburban communities.
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Xerox, the company built on innovating the way the world works, is leading another workplace revolution – today launched 29
Connect Key ® -enabled printers and multifunction devices with simple and secure on-the- go capabilities, cloud connectivity, and access to productivity boosting features and apps.
The new Connect Key portfolio transforms traditional printing devices into smart,connected workplace assistants that reflect the evolving needs of today's businesses. Personalized workflows, one-touch access to the cloud and multi-layered security features are the new print, copy and fax.
The family of products includes a variety of sizes, speeds and capabilities to match the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses as well as large enterprises, with a consistent user experience across the portfolio.
"We understand the changes that are occurring in the workplace," said Jeff Jacobson, chief executive officer, Xerox. "The process of getting work done has moved from the desktop to your pocket. It's very personal, and we've built a portfolio of true workplace assistants tightly connected to the mobile and cloud technology environment that accommodates this evolution."
The new products will be identified as the Xerox VersaLink ® and Xerox AltaLink ® series. The VersaLink devices are designed for small workgroups and distributed teams, and include 19 printers and multifunction printers (MFPs). The AltaLink series includes 10 MFPs designed for larger workgroups or print volume needs.Key attributes include–
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Term 2 - Katie Morag
In Term 2 we really enjoyed learning about Katie Morag and her island home. This topic gave us the opportunity to explore many different subjects!
In Maths we have been busy revisiting and extending concepts from before Christmas. We have been busy looking at different ways to make the same amount. How many ways can you make 50p? Have a go with real money at home!