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I have been on a journey over the past 15 years to learn how to live in harmony with my mind, body and spirit.
I formalized this learning by earning a certification as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach (INHC) as as well as Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). I am excited to help you discover your version of deep self-care and resiliency.
My journey
Beginning in high school, I grappled with depression and suicidal tendencies. Graduating college in 1998 from Florida State University with a degree in theatre, I ended up with a retail job that had opportunities to climb the corporate ladder.
I decided that was not my future, quit that job, and started working at a health food store. I became plant-based, and taught myself to cook. I started a journey of seeking rewarding work and found it in environmental advocacy. My love of cooking never left me and in between environmental advocacy jobs, I helped create the original menu for one of Orlando, Florida's first vegetarian restaurants.
I am prone to "impostor syndrome", a mental perception that made it difficult to claim my own successes. Luckily, many people had faith in me and I continued to do well in my environmental advocacy career. While I was able to see the "impostor syndrome" as mental mis-perception, bouts of anxiety started to take over. In 2010, my father passed away and that was the beginning of journey to improve my mental health. I sought therapy, and also began to explore meditation and mindfulness. I began to listen to my inner voice.
What I heard was, "Slow down, take care of yourself, you are SO TIRED".
With that realization and the wonderful support of my partner, I made the difficult decision to leave my environmental advocacy career in 2013.
I nourished myself with rest, cooking and eating healthy food, meditation, yoga, dharma talks, and other kinds of contemplative and self-care practices.
I became inspired to go through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition's health coaching program, not thinking I would want to coach. But I FELL IN LOVE with coaching and the idea that people can uncover what they need for their optimal physical, mental and spiritual health. I did this and continue to do this for myself and I want to share this experience with others.
As a self-care coach, I hold space for self-understanding to occur and deeply listen in order to reflects back what I hear with love and compassion. I am deeply curious about you, and encourage accountability in all aspects of your health, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
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Top 10 Patent Sales of 2012
The team at IdeaBuyer.com has compiled the top 10 patent sales of 2012. These sales add up to a grand total of over $20,000,000,000. The patents these technologies protect are often key strategic acquisitions by the purchasers. This year, a number of the top patent sales were liquidations of patent portfolios from defunct or struggling corporations such as Kodak, Nortel, Motorola, and AOL.
#10 Acacia Research Pays $100 Million for Adaptix Patents
January 2012- Adaptix sold 230 patents to Acacia Research; according to reports, the patents cover 4G technology. This deal was Acacia's first major move to buy patent rights, according to The Wall Street Journal. Acacia has previously partnered with Universities and other organizations to help them enforce patents. Acacia Research makes most of its money by licensing patents and filing lawsuits, earning them a reputation as a Patent Troll.
Total Sale Price: $100 Million
#9 Fujifilm to Universal Display
July 2012- Fujifilm Corp. sold 1,200 patents to Universal Display Corp covering OLED technology. OLEDs are Organic Light Emitting Diodes and are used to make high contrast low energy screens. The deal reportedly doubled the New Jersey based Universal Display's portfolio.
Total Sale Price: $105 Million
#8 Real Network Patents Sold to Intel
January 2012- Real Network's sale of 190 patents to Intel was just the tip of the iceberg. According to Businessinsider.com, the deal also included 170 patents that had been applied for that were awaiting approval. Some video streaming software was also included in the deal, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Total Sale Price: $120 Million
#7 InterDigital Sells 1.700 Patents to Intel
June 2012- Reuter's reports that InterDigital had agreed to sell 1,700 wireless technology patents to Intel. The sale sent InterDigital stocks soaring by 27%. It was a win/win situation; Intel was interested in expanding its chip business beyond computers while InterDigital was hoping a patent sale would boost stock sales.
Total Sale Price: $375 Million
#6 Microsoft Sells 650 Patents to Facebook
April 2012- Microsoft sold 650 patents to Facebook. Part of the deal included a bunch of patents related to mobile, web and instant messaging technology, according to Nick Wingfield of The NY Times. The deal came less than two weeks after the Microsoft deal with AOL, and looks as though Microsoft was splitting that portfolio with Facebook.
Total Sale Price: $550 Million
#5 Kodak Sells Patent Portfolio to Patent Consortium
December 2012- On December 19th, 2012 arstechnica.com reported that a group of 12 buyers was organized by Intellectual Ventures, to purchase Kodak's portfolio of 1100 patents. Part of the deal requires that Kodak drop legal proceedings against certain members of the purchasing group. Kodak sued several of the members for patent infringement. According to the LA Times, the bankruptcy filings show that the buyers are: Google, Apple, Facebook, Research in Motion, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe, Huawei Technologies, HTC, Fujifilm and Shutterfly.
While the group has paid for a portion of the portfolio, Intellectual Ventures will retain ownership but cannot sue these already licensed companies.
Total Sale Price: $525 Million
#4 Apple Buys 695 Nortel Patents from Rockstar Consortium
The deal has slipped under the wire and gone on all year. The Rockstar Consortium won the Nortel auction of 6000 patents for $4.5 Billion in July of 2011. By November of 2012, the US Patent and Trademark Office reported that 695 of 1024 patents had already been registered to Apple as part of a deal. Apple has purchased the patents from the Rockstar Consortium which includes Rockstar, Sony, Microsoft, Research in Motion, Ericsson and EMC.
Total Sale Price: $2.5 Billion
#3 AOL Inks $1.05 Billion Deal with Microsoft
April 2012- AOL sold 925 internet technology patents to Microsoft. The New York Times said that the "lofty price reflects the crucial role that the patents are increasingly playing in the business and legal strategies of the world's ,major technology companies, including Microsoft, Apple Google, Samsung and HTC.
Total Sale Price: $1.05 Billion
#2 Google Sells Off Motorola Home Business to Arris Group
December 2012- As I write this, Google Inc. has announced an agreement to sell its Motorola Home business to Arris Group Inc. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Google wasn't interested in the television set-top boxes that were part of the portfolio purchased from Motorola in May of 2012. Google will focus on expansion of the smartphones and assign the television related patents to Arris.
Total Sale Price: $2.35 Billion
#1 Google Pays $12.5 Billion for Motorola Patent Portfolio
May 2012- In a deal that began in August of 2011; Google Inc. acquired a sizeable portfolio of patents owned by Motorola. The process involved final approval in February from the US Dept. of Justice, and the European Union. Then in May the company received the final stamp of approval from the People's Republic of China. The trading commissions are required to approve deals of such magnitude to prevent monopolies on sensitive technology.
Total Sale Price: $12.5 Billion
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Want to measure how financial markets are faring? Check Dow Jones or the S&P 500. Want to measure how happy the world was yesterday? Check…wait a minute. You can't measure global happiness, can you?
Yes you can — we've built a tool to do the job, say Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth.
These UVM scientists, working with others from the MITRE Corporation, have been gaining international attention over the last few years for the creation of what they're calling a hedonometer. It's a happiness sensor — and it made the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Check it out at www.hedonometer.org.
Now findings from their research are updated every 24 hours (soon to be every hour, and, eventually, every minute) — and are available to the public for free.
Twitter, BBC, Bitly, and beyond
On the hedonometer's front page, a wavering graph rises and falls like a ticker at the New York Stock Exchange. Except, instead of averaging the value of thousands of companies, the hedonometer compiles and averages the emotional state of tens of millions of people.
"What it's doing right now is measuring Twitter, checking the happiness of tweets in English," says Chris Danforth, a mathematician who co-led the creation of the site with the director of UVM's Complex Systems Center, Peter Dodds.
But soon the hedonometer will be drawing in other data streams, like Google Trends, the New York Times, blogs, CNN transcripts, and text captured by the link-shortening service Bitly. And it will be data-mining in twelve languages.
The research team made headlines — including Time Magazine and The Atlantic — when they reported on the happiest and saddest cities in America: Napa, Calif., at the top and Beaumont, Texas, at the bottom. In future versions of the hedonometer, the researchers plan to make this kind of geographically linked data available, allowing as-it-happens observation of how a happiness signal varies, say, between Seattle and San Diego.
"Reporters, policymakers, academics — anyone — can come to the site," says Danforth, "and see population-level responses to major events." Like the Boston Marathon bombings, the saddest day measured by the scientists in nearly five years of observations.
Emotional temperature
The hedonometer draws on what scientists call the "psychological valence" of about 10,000 words. Paid volunteers, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, rated these words for their "emotional temperature," says Dodds.
The volunteers ranked words they perceived as the happiest near the top of a 1-9 scale; sad words near the bottom. Averaging the volunteers' responses, each word received a score: "happy" itself ranked 8.30, "hahaha" 7.94, "cherry" 7.04, and the more-neutral "pancake" 6.96. Truly neutral words, "and" and "the" scored 5.22 and 4.98. At the bottom, "crash" 2.60, the emoticon ":(" 2.36, "war" 1.80, and "jail" 1.76.
Using these scores, the team collects some fifty million tweets from around the world each day — "then we basically toss all the words into a huge bucket," says Dodds — and calculate the bucket's average happiness score. As the site develops, the scientists anticipate that it will be gathering billions of words and sentences daily.
"Our method is only reasonable for large-scale texts, like what's available on the Web," Dodds says. "Any word or expression can be used in different ways. There's too much variability in individual expression" to use this approach to understand small groups or small samples. For example, "sick" may mean something radically different to a 14-year-old skateboarder than it does to his pediatrician.
But that's the beauty of big data. Each word is like an atom in the air when you're trying to figure out the temperature. It's the aggregate effect that registers, and no individual tweet or word makes much difference. In the Boston Marathon bombings example, positively scored words like "prayers" and "families" spiked along with "explosion," "victims," and "kill" but, obviously, not for positive reasons.
"If we remove 'prayers,' 'love,' and 'families,'" says Chris Danforth, "it's not going to change the day's overall deviation from the background, because of all the other words."
Changing which words are used to assess the overall emotional picture, "is like changing the filter on a lens you're using," explains Peter Dodds. "You can take out all the color, or you can turn up the contrast, but you can still see the picture."
The verdict of consciousness
In 1881, a little-known book, Mathematical Psychics, published by Francis Edgeworth, asked the reader to "imagine an ideally perfect instrument, a psychophysical machine, continually registering the height of pleasure experienced by an individual, exactly according to the verdict of consciousness."
In other words, a hedonometer. While Edgeworth's was a thought experiment, Dodds and Danforth's hedonometer is a real device. As such, it's not quite "ideally perfect." They're working now to expand beyond the "atoms" of single words to explore the "molecules" of two-word expressions. But the hedonometer does work.
"The key piece is not whether we're correctly measuring atoms and molecules," says Brian Tivnan, a researcher from MITRE. "It's the relative context that is so important, which is why the sudden drop from the Boston Marathon bombings jumps out at you. The hedonometer shows the pulse of a society."
Of course, happiness isn't simple. Plato, Buddha, Freud and Tina Turner all pondered its meaning. Many Americans rank happiness as what they want most in life, but what is it, really?
"We're not trying to tell you that contentment is better than happiness — we're not trying to define the word," says Danforth. The Nasdaq Index doesn't capture the whole stock market. Gross Domestic Product doesn't define the meaning of the economy. An EKG doesn't tell a doctor everything about your heart. But all these aggregate measures of something remote are widely studied. The hedonometer may prove to be the same.
"We're just saying we're measuring something important and interesting," says Chris Danforth. "And, now, sharing it with the world."


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Grupotel Acapulco Playa - Adults Only
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This luxurious hotel is located in the centre of the tourist district, just across the palm tree-lined promenade from the kilometre-long sandy beach. A range of restaurants, shopping venues, bars, nightclubs and links to the public transport network are located in the hotel's immediate vicinity.
## Adults Only hotel ##
How far is the nearest beach?
The hotel is 60 m from the beach.
Distance from Airport
The airport is approx 7 km from the hotel.
The comfortable rooms come with an en suite bathroom, a hairdryer, direct dial telephone, satellite/ cable TV, minibar (fee), a fridge, central heating, a balcony and a hire safe.
Food & Drink
There is a restaurant which serves food in a buffet format. There is also a bar and snack bar. Gentlemen must wear long trousers for dinner.
Sports & Entertainment
The hotel provides an outdoor pool with a pool bar, sun loungers and parasols. It also features a indoor swimming pool, sauna and a jacuzzi. For an additional fee, guests may take advantage of the spa area from Grupotel Playa de Palma Suites & Spa. Table tennis, a snooker table (fee) and bicycle hire (for an added fee) are also included in the services available.
Other facilities:
24-hour reception
Currency exchange desk
TV room
Conference room
Internet access (with a WLAN access point)
Laundry service
Bicycle hire
Car park
The bar and pool bar open only in summer. It is forbidden to take bicycles to the rooms.
- 24 Hour Reception
- Air Conditioning
- Air Conditioning in public areas
- Bar
- Bicycle Rental
- Buffet Breakfast
- Buffet Restaurant
- By the Beach
- Cafe/ Snack Bar
- Currency Exchange
- Doctors / Medical Centre
- Entertainment
- Hairdryer
- Heated Swimming Pool
- High Chairs
- Indoor Swimming Pool
- Internet Access
- Jacuzzi
- Landscaped Gardens
- Laundry Service
- Lifts
- Luggage Storage
- Minibar
- Pool Bar
- Pool/Billiard Table
- Reception
- Restaurant
- Safety Deposit Box
- Satellite TV
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Zur FinalistInnen-Ausstellung des ArtePrize 2017/18 waren vier KünstlerInnen aus Australien, Deutschland, Indien und Polen in die Delfina Foundation in London eingeladen. Die Jury, die die vier FinalistInnen aus 640 Bewerbungen aus 32 Ländern ausgewählt hat, bestand aus:
"The entries we have received for the ArtePrize were what we had hoped for and more. We have uncovered some incredible talent from all over the world and the finalists we have selected show the very best of these. The young talent we are bringing together could easily never have been discovered if not for art-focused social technology – and we are very excited at the effectiveness of our simple, innovative approach to art prize submissions. The next version of our ArteVue App takes this premise even further in the drive to democratise art and connect the art ecosystem."
– Shohidul Ahad-Choudhury, Founder of ArteVue


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Boston Marathon
Boston Marathon © Peter Farlow
The oldest marathon in the world and ranked as one of the most celebrated and popular road racing events, the marathon sees 20,000 runners take to the streets of Boston every year. Entry is by qualification: would-be runners must complete a certified marathon in a qualifying time determined by age and so qualifying is highly competitive. After the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon in 2013, in which two bombs exploded, killing three people and injuring about 264 others, security has been increased at the marathon and Boston is working hard to put a positive spin on the famous race despite the tragedy.
Date: 14 September 2020
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Dear friends and followers,
I, Harvey Carlisle, the largest third of a bakers dozen, the one who is not only four but five eggs, the man you love and who will never love you back have prepared another list. Much like the first this list starts at 1 and ends at 10. You are expected to listen to these tracks from 1 through 10 if you ever want to see your loved ones again! In time you will feel your love for me growing stronger with each list and I relish the moment when I, Harvey Carlisle am everything you will ever need. This is the real deal my lovers. Enjoy!
I know you will enjoy every track in this list but if you feel the need to shout with joy, please use your inside voice.
1: Magazine - Song From Under the Floorboards
2: John Cale - Gideon's Bible
3: Robyn Hitchcock - If You Were A Priest
4: Psychic TV - Godstar
5: The Associates - A Matter of Gender
6: Duran Duran - Planet Earth
7: The Wipers - Doom Town
8: Beasts of Bourbon - Psycho
9: Husker Du - The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
10: The Flaming Groovies - Slow Death
Never Yours,
The Great and Beautiful Creator of everything,
Harvey Carlisle
The list that you have been given today will be a mandatory list. You will have no choice but to listen to the entire list. If you are unable to listen to the entire list I, Harvey Carlisle, the beautiful creator of all things, expect a doctors note. No other reason will be accepted. Family tragedy is not an excuse.


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The decline of a major Slovenian newspaper shows why journalists must show courage, express solidarity and stand up for the kind of reporting that serves the public interest.
by Sandra Basic Hrvatin
The biggest national daily newspaper in Slovenia, Delo, is becoming an example of the slow demise of journalism.
Every Friday, its journalists tremble with fear in anticipation of a phone call from the human resources department letting them know that they have lost their job. So far, 39 journalists have been faced with this situation.
What is alarming, at least for us Slovenian citizens, is that this has not made the news, or even been mentioned in any of the mainstream media.
One could read a laid-off journalist's blog about who is next in line or come across a reflection about the situation on the blog of a philosopher who dedicates his free time to the critical analysis of the media.
Apart from that, there has been a painful silence.
Journalists who are familiar with trade unionism and class struggle, and who have in the past covered workers' struggles following the demise of the best Slovenian companies, are incapable of speaking up about their own position.
There is no courage, no solidarity. Probably the most symptomatic thing is the attitude displayed by the laid-off journalists towards the colleagues who were laid off before them: they deserved it, because they didn't work hard enough, because they were not good enough, because they got their jobs via political connections.
The media landscape of Slovenia is literally devastated. Journalism has been degraded to a supporting activity in the business models of the media owners. Pre-ordered articles and interviews have become a new norm.
The question is: what can be done to save journalism? The kind of journalism that is not a vocation, a craft or a job, but rather the kind of journalism that is a mission. The mission to serve the public interest.
Nowadays it has become very popular to speak of soft censorship. But censorship is what it is – censorship, no matter if it is done with an iron fist or while wearing a smile.
Censorship is not defined by the restriction of public expression (free speech) but the consequences to public knowledge about fundamental issues in society.
Journalists have long ago stopped representing the solution to the problem and have become part of the problem themselves.
They are caught in the web of power-play relations with media-owners, politicians and advertisers – those who have the power and money.
Even though it is true that there are individual journalists who are attempting to do their jobs professionally, it has become increasingly hard to do so.
Such journalists are an anomaly, a foreign body in a system that drives journalism away from working in the public interest and pushes it towards satisfying private interests. Which happens to be the simplest definition of corruption.
My colleague Brankica Petković and I have been working on an analysis of media-systems in the region. For years, together with a group of excellent researchers and journalists, we have been advocating a very simple idea – the crisis of the media industry is mostly a crisis of trust: the media no longer enjoys the trust of the public.
What we are seeing is, in the words of Wendy Brown, the undoing of the demos. The depoliticisation of the people is not the end of politics, rather it is the political defeat of the people; the victory of politics without the people and against them.
In Slovenia, a survey of public opinion in June 2014 suggested that 87 per cent of people are not content with democracy. If they are not content with democracy, what kind of a system do they want?
Attacks on journalists have become continuous. A new normality. I am not referring only to the fact that journalists are exposed to physical violence and murder. No, I am referring also to the fact that there are journalists who are forced to live under 24-hour police protection because they dared to write about issues those in power don't wish to become known.
Some end up in prison because of their work – the accusations against them are very inventive. Some become the victims of media-lynching, controlled by those with political and economic power. Some leave the journalistic profession and end up working somewhere else – mostly in PR companies. Some try to establish their own media but soon give up, realising that they cannot make ends meet.
Journalism becomes more of a hobby than a profession. Most journalists are working in precarious conditions, being their own employer and employee.
The problem is that the majority of journalists don't want to talk about it. A common excuse provided, when the lack of courage and solidarity is discussed, is that journalists are individualists and as such incapable of any kind of class struggle – working on stories individually, struggling for wages individually.
The present situation can, of course, be changed. Even more importantly, it needs to be changed if we don't want to live in the world of alternative facts and fake news.
Journalism cannot be propaganda. But it also cannot be a passive reporter of events.
Journalism, as I see it, contributes to the shaping of the space of public discourse; truthfully and in the name of those whose rights have been violated.
Journalism is the conscience of society. And what we must be saving, for the future is precisely this kind of journalism.
If journalists want to be part of this struggle, they must state their position clearly. Because as they know well, the public is the strongest protector of journalists' rights.
Sandra Basic Hrvatin is head of the Media Studies Department at Slovenia's University of Primorska.
The article was republished from Balkan Insight with permission.


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A private villa with large pool. For the medium size family or two couples with children, the Suite 3 Bedroom Villa has everything you have dreamed about. From the moment you arrive you will step into a jungle escape.
The large 9 meter long pool will keep the kids entertained for hours while you lay back on your lounger enjoying the soothing sounds of the waterfall with birds singing in the background. Each of the 3 bedrooms has their own private bathroom so there is no waiting and the ensuite bathroom has a deep soothing tub when you want to get away. You can make a simple sandwich or gourmet meal in your fully equipped Italian kitchen to enjoy in the dining room or on your ample terrace between refreshing dips in the pool. This is your luxury jungle holiday! To completely indulge yourself, escape to the onsite Haiku Wellness Center for the ultimate spa experience.


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Facebook Marketing allows businesses to reach their potential customers, connect with their target audience, drive website traffic, boost sales and meet business goals. To be as successful as possible in your Facebook Marketing efforts, it's best to strategize and plan according to your business objectives. However, even with a plan and strategy, unforeseen marketing challenges can arise.
Unfortunately, sometimes these challenges affect our efforts and our Facebook Marketing plan doesn't perform as well as expected. While developing a Facebook Marketing plan is important, recognizing when and how to improve your Facebook Marketing plan is crucial.
Since each brand has a Facebook Marketing strategy that is unique to its business, it is difficult to determine a single way for all brands to measure the success of their efforts. However, there are a few general Facebook Marketing goals that all brands share.
General Facebook Marketing Goals:
- Brand Awareness
- Audience Reach
- Audience Engagement
- Support of Business Objectives
In order to determine whether or not your business is achieving its Facebook Marketing goals, you must first define them. Setting clear Facebook Marketing objectives will ensure that everyone involved in your Facebook Marketing efforts is on the same page, and will also allow for regular reviews of whether or not you are on track to achieve the goals that you have set.
Tracking and Analyzing Your Facebook Marketing
Reviewing the performance of your business's Facebook page, and data involving its page likes, reach, engagement and much more, is made possible with Facebook Insights. To access your page's Facebook Insights, go to your business's Facebook page and click the "See Insights" button in the top right corner.
Facebook Insights is the single best tool for determining whether or not you are on track to achieve your Facebook Marketing goals, and why or why not. Below are some of the advantageous data reports that Facebook Insights provides.
Net Likes – The Net Likes report shows the growth in your Facebook page's number of likes. Monitoring this report regularly is key to keeping track of your page's audience growth – both organic and paid. If one of your Facebook Marketing goals is to reach a specific number of page likes, this is a report that you will find quite helpful.
Total Reach – The Total Reach report shows you the number of people who saw any activity from your business's Facebook page each day over a given period of time. This report includes posts by your page, posts that your fans shared on their own page, posts on your page by your fans, your page like ads, and more. When reviewing the performance of your page in reaching your target audience, both organically and through paid advertising, this report provides the insight you need to get an idea of how close you are to achieving your goals.
Post Reach – In addition to the Total Reach report, Facebook Insights also provides a report that allows you to review the reach your page achieved through its posts alone.
Likes, Comments and Shares – This report provides all of the data involving your Facebook page's engagement with its fan base. The number of likes, shares and comments your page received on its post each day over a specific period of time is presented within this report. Seeing which days your page generated the most engagement, and reviewing what your page posted that day, is critical to reaching any Facebook marketing goals you have set that involve engagement.
With detailed reports on your Facebook page's fan base growth, reach and engagement, Insights is an incredibly valuable tool for monitoring and measuring the success and failure of your business's Facebook Marketing.
In an instance where you are using Facebook Insights to observe your page's performance and you do notice a decrease in audience growth, reach or engagement – a potential weakness in your Facebook Marketing – will you know the proper actions to take to strengthen your efforts and get back on track to achieve your goals?
Improving Your Facebook Marketing
When it comes to determining how to correct an issue in your Facebook Marketing strategy, Facebook Insights is your best solution. Because Insights presents in depth, comprehensive data on your page and its posts, it not only shows how your page is performing, but why your page is performing the way that it is.
For example, Insights not only provides data on the overall likes, reach and engagement of your page, but also provides this information for each individual post! Reviewing which posts are connecting with your audience and which are not will help you to improve your reach and engagement by using the more successful post types and more popular post topics more frequently.
Here is an example of a Facebook Insights report on a page's post.
A very important factor to keep in mind in regards to your posts' reach and engagement is the post type being used. For example, in the above report you will notice a column titled, "Type" and a photograph icon. This means that the post was a photo. Other types of posts include video, status, offer and link. Different post types produce different reach and engagement with different audiences. And, of course, Facebook Insights has a report for how each post type is performing with your page's audience. Facebook also allows you to segment the data by whether or not the posts were targeted (paid).
When it comes to a decrease in your page's reach or engagement with its fans, simply review the Facebook Insights reports relevant to reach and engagement, determine which types of posts have been the most successful in the past, observe the exact posts that performed the best, take note of what their content topics were, and be sure to regularly publish similar posts!
Another variable that may be influencing the reach and engagement of your posts' is the day and time that they are being published. Even the most potentially successful posts will fail to generate engagement with your Facebook audience if they are published at times when your audience is primarily offline. To guarantee that your posts are reaching as many of your fans as possible, it is essential that they are being published at the opportune time. Facebook Insights shows you when the opportune posting day and time is with your page's specific audience.
Another report that can be found in your page's Facebook Insights that is especially helpful in developing engaging post content is the overview of your Facebook fans. The more you know about your Facebook audience, the simpler it is to develop posts that you know they will relate to, find interesting and engage with.
The Your Fans report provides you with an overview of your Facebook Audience including data regarding their genders, ages, countries, cities and languages. Not only does Facebook Insights provide this data for your page's fans, it also provides this data for the Facebook users that your page has reached and the users that have engaged with your page.
Difficult, unpredictable Facebook Marketing challenges are best met with research and solutions. For your business and many others, Facebook Insights provides you with the data needed for both.
To strengthen and improve your Facebook Marketing, use Facebook Insights to regularly review your page's progress, predict potential upcoming challenges and meet them with proven solutions.
How often do you use Facebook Insights for your business's Facebook page? What report do you find the most helpful? We look forward to your feedback!


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@JSW_EdTech yes we did find out that warning light was apparently a bad deal. It eventually went off. We weren't given the legend early tho
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text: We are going to discuss Cisco's proprietary extensions to STP algorithm, namely UplinkFast and BackBone Fast. Those two features aim to reduce the time it takes STP to re-activate topology after a link failure. While UplinkFast seems pretty intuitive, BB Fast is more complicated. See more detailed overview at: http://blog.ine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/understanding-stp-rstp-convergence.pdf UplinkFast Read More


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Colorado's governor issued an executive order June 13 designed to address the state's poor vaccination rates for children, but he insisted that he will respect existing religious and personal exemptions for parents unwilling to inoculate their children against communicable diseases.
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis' order came as new state data suggest Colorado ranks near the bottom for immunization rates among U.S. states. It also comes amid a national resurgence of measles that has affected more than 1,000 people, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some 87.4% of Colorado kindergarten students had vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella in the 2018-19 school year, down 1.3 percentage points from the previous year, according to the state Department of Public Health and Environment. For highly contagious measles, the CDC recommends a 92% threshold to maintain herd immunity.
More than 9,400 children in the state were hospitalized or treated at emergency rooms for vaccine-preventable diseases in 2017, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says.
The state needs to better inform residents about the benefits of vaccines, make parents aware of low-cost vaccination programs, seek out underserved residents and develop a strategy to confront an anti-vaccination movement that contends some shots are unsafe despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, said Tony Cappello, director of the department's Disease Control and Environmental Epidemiology division.
"We need to provide fact-based information to parents so they can make educated, informed decisions," Cappello told a news conference at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver. "This means dispelling misinformation about vaccinations and having correct information in the hands of parents," he said.
Polis' order focuses on the education and information front.
It calls for state officials to work more closely with local health specialists to promote vaccination; studying the reasons for what the governor calls "vaccine hesitancy" among parents, and developing information strategies to address those concerns; and helping families on Medicaid and residents in rural and other underserved areas gain access to and pay for recommended vaccines.
The state allows parents to opt out of required school vaccinations for medical, religious and philosophical reasons. Polis, who's described himself as a libertarian Democrat, stressed June 13 he won't change that policy.
"We believe that Colorado families should be making their own healthcare decisions," he said. "We really view this as the third way between the government forcing people to get shots, which is counterproductive, and simply allowing these rates to go down, which is counterproductive to the public health and results in people dying."
This spring, hundreds of parents, their children in tow, swarmed the Colorado Capitol to oppose a bill that would have made it harder to qualify for religious or personal exemptions. The bill stalled in the Legislature.
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This is the first cold night and look at Zoe! Under the covers. At least she's on Holly's side of the bed. What a nut she is. ■ The temps have finally dropped to the levels we expect in fall. Highs in the low to mid 60s and lows in the 40s. We've got an outdoor gig this Saturday that starts at 5:30 pm. It could be pretty cold before we even start playing. Too bad guitarists can't wear gloves when we play. ■
Monday, September 29, 2008
1st cold night . . .
This is the first cold night and look at Zoe! Under the covers. At least she's on Holly's side of the bed. What a nut she is. ■ The temps have finally dropped to the levels we expect in fall. Highs in the low to mid 60s and lows in the 40s. We've got an outdoor gig this Saturday that starts at 5:30 pm. It could be pretty cold before we even start playing. Too bad guitarists can't wear gloves when we play. ■
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Saturday . . . Lessons, shopping, & a gig.
That's what was/is on the schedule for today. We've done the lesson, shopped and now I'm getting ready for the gig. We leave in a few minutes. Oh, did some delicious steaks on the grill tonight for dinner. Mmmm . . . good! Maybe a post from the gig. Gotta run.
Friday, September 26, 2008
The Bear ... and the Cubs . . . . .
Yes, that's our bear - all dressed up in the Cub's "W" shirt. Holly found the t-shirt at Jewel and put it on our bear. Too bad the Cubs lost tonight. Tomorrow's another day. ■ Still working at the music store. I have some ideas on how to increase business. Everyone has ideas - I just hope I can sell mine and help improve business. ■ Also one of my childhood friends emailed me and said that she and her family live in Cary. It will be great to reconnect. ■ Time - well way past time for bed. ■
Monday, September 22, 2008
Chili Fest . . . . . .
Time for me to go to work. Maybe more later. Life is sooo busy.
■ I've arranged for the plumber to come tomorrow. It appears that in people's desire to help they cleaned up and put so much food down our garbage disposal that the drain in the basement became clogged. Now the plumber will have to rod the thing out. It's just a $250 bill that I hadn't planned on. ■
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Smoking the brisket and pork took a few hours. But it was finished last night and this morning I made the chili - two pots worth. I had one attentive dog - Zoe - watching me intently and waiting for any possible scraps. Mollie was outside lounging on her patio. At any rate the chili is pretty much done. ■ Got to get ready for work. Maybe more tonight. ■
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Chili . . .
This is about 1/4 of the meat that goes into my batch of chili. I've just put it on the grill along with some hickory chips and it'll smoke for about an hour and a half. That's the pork on the grill in this picture. I still have brisket to smoke. Tomorrow I have to actually make the chili. That means about a couple of hours of just cutting up the meat for the chili, aside from the tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc. - Oh, and no beans in my chili. ■ Anyway, it's time for bed now. More tomorrow . . . promise.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Not fishing - just a Koi pond on my iphone. ■ My wife and her sister finally made it back from Louisville. It took them about 9 hours, because roads were closed due to all the rain the midwest has been having. ■ Our great neighbors brought over a delicious speghetti dinner complete witsalad and bread. Mmmm . . . . good! ■ Cubs are winning right now. Go Cubs!
Rain & humidity . . . . . .
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Rain, rain go away . . . . .
Friday, September 12, 2008
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explanation. Instead of taking off at 12:22 it's now going to be
1:45. Good thing I've got a book.
Sent from my iPhone
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Tuesday. It won't be activated, or completed for a few weeks until it
heals. After that she should be able to hear. I should be back at
O'hare around 1:30 and then a limo ride home.
Packed and ready to go
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
At the gig
Friday, September 5, 2008
Poker, gigs and travel . . .
Thursday, September 4, 2008
New pcs . . . . putting your life back together . . . .
Getting a new pc is sort of like putting your life back together after a disaster. Directory structures to rebuild; files to transfer; programs to reinstall; a new operating system to get used to and know. And that's just with 1 pc. I've got 2 of them to setup. It's a long, drawn-out process with me working. I've got a new printer with a built-in scanner/copier. The printer is ok, but the scanner is setup "wrong" for me to scan my drawings. I still have my old scanner and I think I'll have to set that up again. ■ Work is good. Still lots to learn. I like learning, which is good. ■ The weather has really turned. It went from being hot to autumn - just about overnight. I'm hoping that Chili Fest won't be too cold. Ah, heck - we'll warm it up with some hot chili and hot live music. ■ Time for bed. Another late night.


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The Problem with Autographs
This is an edited excerpt from The Modern Inerrancy Debate
Inerrant Autographs
These observations almost always lead to another area that impinges on the topic of inerrancy: the affirmation of the inerrancy of the original autographs of Scripture (autograph = the original manuscripts as they came from the hand of the original author).
Anyone who works with Scripture in the original languages knows that there are errors of spelling, grammar, and syntax in the biblical text as we have it today. It is also an easily demonstrable fact that there are hundreds of variants among the different manuscripts of the biblical text (see Sacred Words or Words about the Sacred). We sometimes forget that the Bible was not written on a word processor in English, and it is difficult to keep in mind that there is no "master text" of the Bible. We only have it in hundreds, even thousands, of manuscripts that all contain differences of greater or lesser degree. Our modern translations are based on an analysis and comparison of all these manuscripts.
On a different level, a careful examination of parallel biblical accounts, where the same story or account occurs in more than one place, reveals that in many places the accounts are different. For example, in the Gospels there are many places where the accounts of Jesus' activity and sayings are recorded in multiple versions that vary from each other (see The Synoptic Problem).
There are places where the events are ordered differently (the cleansing of the temple or the day and time of the crucifixion in the Synoptic Gospels and John; see The Time of the Crucifixion: Chronological Issues in the Gospels), the same sayings are set in different contexts (the sermon on the mount and the sermon on the plain in Matthew and Luke), or the same event is accompanied by different sayings (the confession of Peter in Matthew and Mark). Even when all of these do correspond, there are often different Greek words attributed to Jesus, sometimes closely synonymous, sometimes giving a different nuance to the saying (for example, Matt 5:3, 6 and Luke 6:20-21). There are other places in Scripture where this occurs as well, such as the parallels between Samuel-Kings and Chronicles or between 2 Kings and Isaiah.
On a still different level, if one approaches the biblical text without the presuppositions of inerrancy, there are also historical difficulties. There are biblical accounts that do not correspond to what we know of the events, or the same events are recounted in different places within Scripture in considerably different scenarios (see History and Theology in Joshua and Judges). There are also discrepancies in the use of numbers, genealogies, Scriptural citations, etc. (see The Date of the Exodus).
To many students of Scripture these factors present no serious hindrances to accepting the Bible as the authoritative word of God, beyond needing to understand and interpret the message as it is presented with these factors. However to the inerrantist position these are potentially fatal observations. In an absolutist position, which many inerrantists take, none of these can be allowed to stand. While some of these such as the historical discrepancies can be explained by various means, the difficulties with the biblical text itself is a much more troublesome problem to inerrant views. While they are affirming the absolute inerrant nature of the biblical text, it is obvious that there are physical inaccuracies within the text.
The solution to this dilemma of wanting to maintain an inerrant text while faced with a text that is obviously not inerrant, is to affirm that it is only the original writings that were inerrant. While the inaccurate copies we have now were corrupted in the process of transmission, copying, and translation over the years, the original versions as they came from the hand of the original author were without any such inaccuracies. This position of "inerrant autographs" is a common way of maintaining inerrancy in the face of textual evidence to the contrary. In fact, some churches, for example the Wesleyan Church, incorporate such a statement into their doctrinal position on Scripture.
Now, this may be a valid move solely as a faith affirmation. But I contend that it does not really say much, and certainly does not give us any place to stand in the actual study and use of Scripture in the church beyond making affirmations about it. And it raises questions of credibility from those who do not so readily accept the faith affirmations.
There are several problems with the idea. As I have suggested, I think the main reason for affirming inerrant autographs is the simple fact that the text that we have now is obviously inaccurate in some details. So to maintain the concept of inerrancy, it is simply moved back to a context where the validity of the assertion cannot be verified since we do not have any of the autographs.
However, I find it extremely problematic to assert something about a part of the Christian faith that is as important as Scripture in a way that cannot be confirmed in the light of totally different evidence that can be confirmed. In other words, I think that smacks far too much of a rationalizing effort to bolster a fundamentally flawed idea than it does of good theology or good biblical study. Again, as a faith affirmation about the authority of Scripture, I understand what it tries to say. I just don't think it says it very well.
There are other logical problems, as well, that drift into theological ones. If God supervised the writing of Scripture to the degree that people produced absolutely inerrant writings beyond their own capability to do so, why could God not have, or why didn't he, just as easily superintend the transmission of that text so that it would remain inerrant as it was copied through the centuries. What is the purpose of having inerrant originals if that inerrancy is not to be maintained in some way? What purpose is served in allowing a perfect text to deteriorate?
And if we allow this, how then do we know we can trust the text we have today since it is admittedly inaccurate in some details, and since we do not have the "originals" with which to compare it? If our faith is in an inerrant text, and if that text has been allowed to deteriorate in one area to the point that it is no longer inerrant, how do we know that other areas have not likewise been corrupted? If the trustworthiness of the text depends on it being inerrant, how do we affirm that trustworthiness and reliability when the text we are using is in fact not inerrant?
In other words, if the criteria of inerrancy is to be the judge of truth, it solves nothing to push the inerrancy into the distant past since we only have the text today as it is. If that criteria is valid, then we do not have the truth.
Still another set of problems clusters around the very idea of "autographs." This assumes that there was at one time a single master copy of Scripture, or at least of individual books. But this in turn assumes a certain mode of inspiration and production of Scripture that is not totally supported by the evidence or most (not all) ways of understanding how Scripture came to be.
"Autographs" assumes Scripture (individual books) was written by a single person at a single time, the prophetic model of an inspired author. In other words, by definition and assumption, it eliminates most dynamic views of inspiration that allow a role for the community of faith over a period of time to produce Scripture as God worked within the community. This results in a circular argument. One can only affirm inerrant autographs as inspired by assuming a view of inspiration that produces inerrant autographs.
One step further in this relates to the idea of "sources" used for the Gospels or the Pentateuch. Even many conservative biblical scholars are now willing to acknowledge that the Gospels were likely written from earlier sources, either written or oral, that preserved the teachings of Jesus in the 35 or so years between his life and the writings of the first Gospels. If the Gospel writers used sources, were the sources also inerrant? If so, on what basis do we affirm that the sources are inerrant since they were not Scripture? This would leave open the logical possibility of other documents being inerrant that are not Scripture, which would undermine one of the primary reasons of affirming inerrancy in the first place: the unique authority of Scripture.
If the sources are not seen as inerrant, how can an inerrant text be produced from non-inerrant sources? What theory of inspiration do we invoke to argue that non-inerrant sources can become inerrant by being placed within a different context?
Of course, some question the very existence of sources used to write the biblical texts. Yet, the evidence of biblical passages that are shared in more than one place is undeniable when actually looking at the text apart from the idea of absolute inerrancy and its assumptions. There are many passages that share features ranging rom identical word for word parallels to closely related presentation of narratives and ideas. These can be found in comparing the Synoptic Gospels, 2 Kings and Isaiah, Samuel-Kings and Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Psalms and Samuel, and Micah and Isaiah. These commonalities are difficult to explain without using some version of shared sources or internal borrowing, both of which present complications to the idea of absolute inerrancy and a God-authored Bible.
Along the same line, there is also the issue of biblical texts that obviously quote from or refer to extra-biblical writings. The Book of Jashar, evidently a book of war poetry, is referenced twice in the Old Testament (Josh 10:13, 2 Sam 1:18). Throughout the Books of Kings and Chronicles, official annals are mentioned 36 times. The book of Jude quotes from the Book of Enoch (Jude 9, 14-15). There seems to be several places where Paul or the Pauline tradition is quoting from or referring to popular writings of his time. For example, Titus 1:12 quotes from the Greek philosopher Epimenides. If inerrancy is the primary way to conceptualize Scripture, what standard of inerrancy do we apply to such obviously extra-biblical sources that become part of Scripture?
There are other points that could be made, but perhaps this is enough to illustrate that pushing inerrancy back to the original manuscripts actually creates even more problems for the position than it solves.
There is one other facet of this topic that often comes up in this discussion at this point. It again relates to the sovereignty of God and how we see that working out in relation to Scripture. It is often affirmed that just as God can reveal Himself in the world in quite extraordinary ways that transcend human ability to understand, for example the Incarnation, so God can create and preserve an inerrant text as a medium of revelation of the absolute truth about everything. Again, this is certainly valid on one level as a faith affirmation about the nature of God. But it probably does not help us much in understanding Scripture.
The greatest problem here is the logic in assuming that simply because God can do something then that is, in fact what he does do. There is a great deal of difference between saying that God could do something, and affirming that He did or does, in fact, do it. To say that He could is no proof that He did. This is where the issues often get confused. For example, working from the sovereignty of God, one might ask if God could, because of human incapability of choosing the good, choose the good for a person. Theoretically, the answer is yes. Yet, Wesleyans affirm that God does not, in fact, do what He clearly could do. And there still remains the evidence that the text that we actually have is not, in fact, absolutely inerrant.
So again, the problem here is in asserting something about the Bible based on doctrinal or creedal confessions about the nature of God or ultimate reality or some other assertion that has very little to do with Scripture itself as we actually have it.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Put me out of my misery...
While on the library site I happened to notice that the "book" I had on hold was really the CD recording version.
Oh, no. That will not do.
I jumped out of that queue into the actual-hardback-book queue and I'm at #71. Oh, and my hold? It expires June 12th of 2010. JUNE 12TH??? I may not get this till June 12th? People, this is serious.
Must. Read. Noooooooooooooow...
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- Anna Arnett said...
I don't see the grief. If I were to buy a book today and read it in the order of purchase, I'd be lucky to get to it by June 2020, at my present reading rate.
However, library books are in a different category. I read them first because I have to return them. The books I own can wait patiently.
So, yes, I see the consternation. Have you tried a different library?
- September 17, 2009 at 10:23 PM
- Valerie Ipson said...
This book would certainly rise to the top of the list!
- September 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM
- Anna Arnett said...
Okay. When you finally get it, read it fast and loan it to me BEFORE you have to return it. Okay?
- September 18, 2009 at 10:26 AM
- Valerie Ipson said...
You've got to read Hunger Games first,though--it's BOOK ONE. I did read that one fast--in about 24 hours and then 4 of my kids read it before I had to return it!
- September 18, 2009 at 12:51 PM
- Marilyn said...
Why not buy it, and then you could loan it out to all of your friends!
- September 19, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Valerie Ipson said...
Okay, who wants to go in on it with me! ;)
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- Page 1 Vodafone Smart 4 Mini Review
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- Respectable screen colour/contrast
- Very affordable
- Simple interface
- Quite laggy
- Scratch-prone screen
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- Review Price: £50.00
- Dual-core 1.3GHz Mediatek CPU
- 4-inch 480 x 800 pixel TFT screen
- Android 4.2.2
What is the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini?
The Vodafone Smart 4 Mini is a small, very low cost phone. If you want a mobile you won't have to worry too much about breaking, need to buy someone their first real smartphone or just want a backup, it seems like a good option.
At £50, it is just a tenth the price of the top phones. There are obvious cuts made in almost every area of the Smart 4 Mini that mean we can't fully recommend it, but you do get the full Android experience for very little cash here.
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Vodafone Smart 4 Mini – Design
The Vodafone Smart 4 Mini is typical of a lower-cost Android phone. It's plastic and slightly chunky but ultimately a fairly small phone compared to the giant devices you'll see on sale for several times the price on the high street.
However, it's far from the worst-looking mobile phone we've seen. Front-on it's nice and simple, while its touch keys have none of that over-designed look they have on some lower-cost phones. They don't light up, though.
The Vodafone Smart 4 Mini's plastic back has a hint of stylisation and a neat bronze-ish black finish. There's also a white version available. It couldn't pass for a £250 phone, but a £100 one? Sure.
Its ergonomics aren't too bad either. At 12.3mm it's pretty thick, but as the Smart 4 Mini has a 4-inch screen phone it really doesn't matter. Unless you have tiny hands you'll have no trouble using the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini, and the phone's back has a nice smooth curve to it that makes it comfortable to hold.
The back pops off, and under the easily-removable battery you'll find the microSD card slot and the full-size SIM slot. Where other phones have largely moved on to the microSIM standard, the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini still uses the older, larger kind – it tells you everything you need to know about how cutting-edge this phone is.
For £50, though, we're pretty happy with its build. For those who want to know a bit more, the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini is actually produced by Alcatel, and then re-branded with the Vodafone name. You'll find that almost all network-branded phones like this are made by Alcatel, Huawei or ZTE.
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Vodafone Smart 4 Mini – Screen
The screen is one of the most important elements of any phone. The Vodafone Smart 4 Mini's display is a mixed bag, but given the price we're actually quite impressed with some elements of it.
Sharpness isn't too bad, given we're talking about a £50 device. It uses a 480 x 800 pixel display, and across the four inches of screen that provides you 233ppi. That's actually a fair bit higher than some significantly more expensive phones, including the Nokia Lumia 630.
We've seen entry-level displays like this look very soft, but there's a decent amount of definition to the Smart 4 Mini's screen.
Contrast indoors is pretty good too, leading to images with the sort of 'pop' we don't expect to see in a phone this cheap. And although reds are slightly anaemic-looking, the rest of the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini's colour palette is reasonably good. Our first impression was one of pleasant surprise.
However, the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini is subject to just about every other image quality limitation you normally get at the price.
First, viewing angles are quite rubbish, because this phone uses a TN-type panel rather than the more popular IPS kind. More annoying, the phone has no effective anti-reflective coating.
In bright sunlight, using the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini does become a bit of a struggle. There is, thankfully, an auto brightness setting that'll automatically ramp-up the backlight intensity to compensate when you venture outside, though.
Outdoors visibility is not great
Max brightness can just about cope with the outdoors, meaning you won't need to squint with migraine-inducing intensity. But it's still far from a joy to use.
Another issue is what the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini's screen is made of. Where more expensive phones tend to have a top layer made of glass, this one's all-plastic.
As well as feeling a little less nice than glass – its brand of friction is a little different – it's far more scratch-prone. Our review unit had clearly been taken for a test drive before we got our hands on it, possibly literally along the surface of a road by the looks of things. Keep the Vodafone Smart 4 Mini in a pocket full of change and keys, and you'll earn a few battle scars before long.
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The front scratches fairly easily
Plastic is also far more flexible than glass, and as a result it's very easy to bend the screen's top layer with your finger, causing unnerving distortion in the display itself. You don't need to press too hard at all.
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On Thursday, September 13, at 7 p.m. there will be a public meeting on reducing noise from I-5, co-sponsored by the Eastlake Community Council, Wallingford Community Council, and Portage Bay/Roanoke Park Community Council.
The meeting will take place at Pocock Rowing Center (3320 Fuhrman Ave E.). Rep. Frank Chopp, Rep. Pedersen, Rep. Clibborn, a staff person for Senator Murray, and WSDOT representatives will be in attendance. This is an opportunity for the community to ask about plans for completing I-5 noise walls and what the back up plan is for the failure of WSDOT's test of noise insulation on the I-5 ship canal bridge.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Documents unsealed this week in cases involving Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith show a man fighting multiple agencies in the months before his indictment.
The documents show Smith repeatedly tried to call assistant attorneys general and others before a grand jury while trying to dismiss drug charges against Christopher Butler, as judges and others questioned the wisdom of that course. It also shows Smith closely watching Butler's situation, even trying to subpoena a jail warden days after a search found a contraband phone in Butler's cell.
Smith's September indictment on two felony counts of conspiring to prevent Butler's prosecution and one misdemeanor count of illegally advising him came after months of closed-door maneuvering. The Clarion-Ledger won an order from a judge to unseal those documents.


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Unfair : the new science of criminal injustice / Adam Benforado.
By: Benforado, Adam [author.]Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780770437763; 0770437761Subject(s): Criminal justice, Administration of -- Psychological aspects | Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Psychological aspects | Criminal psychologyDDC classification: 364.3 LOC classification: HV7419 | .B46 2015Online resources: Cover image
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-367) and index.
Investigation. The labels we live by : the victim ; Dangerous confesstions : the detective ; The criminal mind : the suspect -- Adjudication. Breaking the rules : the lawyer ; In the eye of the beholder : the jury ; The corruption of memory : the eyewitness ; How to tell a lie : the expert ; Umpires of activists : the judge -- Punishment. An eye for an eye : the public ; throwing away the key : the prisoner -- Reform. What we must overcome : the challenge ; What we can do : the future.
"A crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful psychological forces that undermine our criminal justice system--and affect us all Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the courtroom, the camera angle of a defendant's taped confession, or a simple word choice or gesture during a cross-examination. In Unfair, law professor Adam Benforado shines a light on this troubling new research, showing, for example, that people with certain facial features receive longer sentences and that judges are far more likely to grant parole first thing in the morning. In fact, over the last two decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces that operate beyond our conscious awareness--and Benforado argues that until we address these hidden biases head-on, the social inequality we see now will only widen, as powerful players and institutions find ways to exploit the weaknesses in our legal system. Weaving together historical examples, scientific studies, and compelling court cases--from the border collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five teenagers who falsely confessed in the Central Park Jogger case--Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold our values and protect society's weakest members, convicting the innocent while letting dangerous criminals go free. With clarity and passion, he lays out the scope of the problem and proposes a wealth of reforms that could prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and equality before the law"-- Provided by publisher.
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London Evening Standard's David Cohen was named reporter of the year at the 24th WorkWorld Media Awards last night.
The awards, which are organised by the Work Foundation, celebrate coverage of work across national and regional newspapers, radio, TV and trade titles.
Judges praised Cohen for his work, saying: "his pieces mix an ability to capture the stuff of contemporary working life with an old fashioned spirit of campaining social journalism".
Full list of last night's winners (with judges' comments):
Broadcast News Reporter of the Year: Emma Simpson, BBC News
'A journalist with a tremendous amount of on-screen warmth and a great knack of telling a story through people, most notably in a series of reports for BBC News about unemployment and public service cuts in the UK's great cities."
Blogger of the Year: Nicola Smith, TUC/Left Foot Forward
"For her ability to look behind the news stories and ground her blogs in serious-minded evidence and data."
Columnist of the Year: Zoe Williams, The Guardian
'Her columns stood out not just for their wit and sheer pleasure, but also for the notes of depth, thoughtfulness and sometimes anger she manages to strike as well."
Broadcast Programme of the Year: Can Pay, Will Pay, BBC Radio 4
'An intelligent three-part series that exhaustively covered a controversial, but very complex subject that is seldom tackled so frankly."
Journalist to Watch: Gareth Iacobucci, Pulse
'For his high quality, punchy, often exclusive reporting.'
Feature writer of the year: Amy Kazmin, Financial Times
'For her strong insight and analysis which really got to grips with many strands of the Indian labour market."
Lifetime Achievement award: Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail
'A profoundly talented and committed journalist whose 40-year career has spanned distinguished spells on both The Guardian and the Daily Mail.
"He's a prolific, highly visible journalist who is consistently on top of his stories and whose daily columns command universal respect."


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My children had a snow day Monday. Bad roads in the early morning hours gave them a three-day weekend. And they were happy. Besides laying around and playing plenty of video games, the kids went outside and made themselves a gigantic snowman. It was quite a process - involving a make-shift ramp for the mid-section, and breaking/re-making the top piece. And since Joshua allowed me to post pictures of him last week, I felt obligated to post this one at his request.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
A Boy and His Snowman
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Are You Worried?
I saw this quote on Facebook a few days ago, and just had to share it with you here. Oh, how true it is!
If you prayed as much as you worry, you wouldn't have anything to worry about.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Can You Help?
I have never done anything like this before - using my blog to ask for donations - but today I'm changing my rules. For this one time.Many years ago, my older brother was dating a woman. I remember inviting the two of them to come to church with me and my family, and he said, "Oh! S would never step foot in a church!" (I recognized his use of her as an excuse... But also noted her disdain for church and all things God-related.) In time they ended their relationship, though I often heard about the things going on in S's life. And I frequently wondered, What is ever going to come of her??? Well, let me just say, things got pretty bad. And at the bottom of her pit, S discovered God and His amazing grace and love for her. Brian and I were shocked when we met S years later - and found out she was the same S who had dated my brother. Only, she wasn't the same, because Jesus had made her into a new creation.S and I have remained friends to this day, and I continue to marvel at the grace of God as He works in her heart and life. It's beautiful! Well, this is S's daughter. She and her husband are facing a huge mountain right now, but I am confident it is not too much for God to handle. Will you please read her story and pray for her? And if God puts it on your heart, will you please make a donation to their fund? Thanks so much!
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Labels: God is Good
Monday, January 28, 2013
A Firm Place to Stand
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Labels: Struggling and Growing, Trusting God, Video Devotions
Friday, January 25, 2013
Lessons From the Edge
This week I have more of a concern than a lesson. As I listen to the wonderful music played by our guests, and as I see the residents' faces light up while they sing along, I have to wonder, What are my children going to listen to when they're in a retirement home in 70 or 80 years?I was recently sitting in the atrium with a resident, listening to a young man playing some big band tunes on the piano. E was all smiles as she told me she'd grown up listening to those songs. And we sang some of them together. E isn't the only one who expresses these feelings about the old songs. Many residents tell me about the special memory they have with this or that song. And the smiles on their faces as they sing along is pure delight.So,I'm a little worried about what my kids are going to do when they're retirees. Somehow I just can't envision a group of 80 & 90-somethings sitting around a piano singing, I'd catch a grenade for you, Throw my hand on a blade for you, I'd jump in front of a train for you, You know I'd do anything for you. Oh, I would go through all this pain, Take a bullet straight through my brain, Yes, I would die for you, baby. But you won't do the same. Am I crazy? *wink*
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Labels: Lessons From the Edge
Thursday, January 24, 2013
A Boy and His Dog
I was laughing as I watched Joshua on the floor with Mindy. He was playing with her as if he, himself, were a dog. He was on all fours, barking and bouncing around. I think she was really enjoying her friend!Of course, as soon as I got the camera out - he stopped. He said, "Mom! I'm 15." Apparently that means I can't get video footage of him being "cute". *ahem!* But he did let me snap these pictures. My 15-year-old little boy, and his dog:He's becoming a giver. He's taking responsibility for schoolwork, and actually puts forth effort. (Not always in a stellar way, but he's improving!) And as I watch my son playing with the dog, I almost don't even remember the struggles we had when he was a young boy. Almost. So thankful for all God has brought us through. And His faithfulness which I know will continue throughout our lives.
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Labels: Adventures in Mothering, As the Children Grow, Joshua
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Imagine This
I sat with seven of my favorite Edgewood residents yesterday and had a great Bible study. We were talking about prayer. Specifically, about praying and not giving up.
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.' 4 "For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'" 6 And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:1-8We shared stories of the times we've prayed and prayed and felt like nothing was happening. We addressed these questions, When you're being persistent in prayer, and it seems like God isn't doing anything, what do you do? and, When you're faithful in prayer and you trust God, and He says, 'NO,' does that mean He isn't faithful? And together we agreed that God's timing is perfect. He's never late. God's will is perfect. His 'no' is better than our 'yes'. God's wisdom is perfect. He can handle what we don't understand. Yet, we admitted - even with this knowledge - waiting is hard. Persevering in prayer can be hard. Then God put a thought in my heart, and I said to the group, "Imagine this..." Imagine you've come to the end of your life and you're sitting in heaven with God, and He speaks to you for the very first time. He says, Well done, my good and faithful servant. And you're expecting Him to say something about how you used your talents. But instead, He goes on to say, I saw you when you were praying. I heard you asking Me to intervene in your circumstance again, and again. I saw the tears you cried. I felt the pain in your heart, and I cared for you. I knew when you felt like I wasn't doing anything, but I saw you continue praying anyway. And when the time was right, I moved. I saw the faith you have in Me, and your perseverance in prayer. My child, you delighted My heart by your prayers of faith. Can you just imagine being there? Oh! I want to delight my Father's heart with prayers of faith!
Posted by Karen Hossink at 6:00 AM 2 surviving with me
Labels: Prayer, Trusting God, Waiting
Monday, January 21, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Lessons From the Edge
I really have no reason to complain.Did you get out of bed today on your own? Can you bend over and pick up something you dropped on the ground? Do you remember the name of the city where you were born? Could you tell me the names of your brothers and sisters? Do you have enough strength in and control over your hands to make your bed? A lot of the wonderful people I encounter at Edgewood each day cannot answer "Yes" to these questions. Yet they are thankful to be alive. To have people around who can help them with what they cannot do. Oh, sometimes they are discouraged by their limitations, but mostly they smile. Then I consider my life and the "troubles" I face:*I don't want to get out of bed, but I can.*I get frustrated by the trash certain family members leave on the floor. And I don't want to pick it up. But I can.*I have too many responsibilities. Too many names and faces and dates and commitments to remember. But I can. Especially with the help of the calendar on my phone. *wink**I don't want to make my bed every day. (After all, I'm not the only one who sleeps in it. *ahem!*) But I can. And after a minute or two of reflecting on these very basic things I can do, I realize:I really have no reason to complain.
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Labels: Lessons From the Edge, Perspective Checks
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Stand-In Pray-er
Saturday night I went to bed and forgot to turn my phone off.When I picked it up Sunday morning I noticed three text messages and started to read them. They were really one message. One very long message - a late-night prayer request which had been sent by a friend. As I stood there reading, I was feeling sorry that I hadn't seen the request Saturday night when my friend was experiencing her deep need. Though I know God is not bound by time, and my prayers for her Sunday morning would still be heard. But just about the same time I had that thought, Elizabeth said something which made me smile. She'd heard three text messages come in Saturday night and wondered if it may be some sort of emergency. So she picked up my phone and read the messages. And she - my dear daughter, who didn't even know the woman sending the text - paused to pray. Because she knew God was listening, and He could do something about this woman's need. What a delight to know my daughter is willing to stand-in and pray when I cannot. I love her!
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
I Turn to You
Experiencing some rough spots over the past 48 hours, and God used this song to calm my heart last night.Praying it will be a blessing to you, too!
Posted by Karen Hossink at 6:00 AM 2 surviving with me
Labels: God is Good, Holy Longing, Hope in Hard Times
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Sunday was Joshua's birthday. We had a family gathering at our house to celebrate, and while I was busy getting things ready in the kitchen Brian came in and asked for the camera. Honestly, I was a bit surprised by his request, as he isn't usually the one going around snapping pictures. But I told him where it was, and got back to my task. Moments later, he came back into the kitchen and showed me this treasure.
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Labels: Communication, Slowing Down
Monday, January 14, 2013
HE Turned to Me
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Labels: HE - Knowing God, Video Devotions
Friday, January 11, 2013
Lessons From the Edge
Saying, "See you tomorrow!" doesn't always mean you will.It's a sad lesson this week. But an important one, nonetheless. When I got into work Monday, everyone was bustling around. The police had just left, and the paramedics were on their way. Because one of our residents died Sunday night in his sleep, I was told. I was shocked. "D died??? But he's so - full of life!" And he was. Took daily walks. Always met me in the hallway with a hearty greeting. Wore a smile wherever he went. And never had a harsh word for anyone. D was a true delight.But - just like that - he was gone. Went to sleep Sunday night, and never woke up. One of the special things D did was looking out for G - whose husband recently died. The one at whose funeral I sang. D sat at their table in the dining room, and always made sure G had what she needed. Salt? Pepper? Butter for her roll? More water? D watched out for her. And at our staff meeting Monday morning, we all wondered, How is G going to handle this news??? I agreed to be the one who would tell her. It took G a short minute to understand what I was saying, but once she got it she repeated several times, "But yesterday he said, 'See you tomorrow, G!' He said, 'See you tomorrow!' How could he be dead?" I prayed with G. And we remembered together the hope we have for eternity because of what Jesus has done for us. His shed blood covers our sin, so we may be forgiven and restored to a right relationship with God when we receive Him. And that's a very good thing! But the pain of earthly loss is real, and I couldn't overlook her sadness. Nor could I forget what she kept repeating. He said, 'See you tomorrow!' How could he be dead? As I played her words over in my head this week I was reminded: None of us owns tomorrow. We aren't guaranteed another day. We can only be sure of this very moment. So living and loving in this moment is what we need to do. Because... Saying, "See you tomorrow!" doesn't always mean you will.
Posted by Karen Hossink at 6:00 AM 2 surviving with me
Labels: Lessons From the Edge
Thursday, January 10, 2013
He's Becoming a Giver
Many days it feels like the majority of my communication with Joshua begins by him asking, "Can I have...?", "Will you take me...?", "Will you get me...?" or in some other way asking for something.Yet, when I have asked him to do something to help me around the house, my request has usually been met with scoffing, pouting, or simple refusal. Such that I began responding to his requests in a different way. I began saying, "You know, Joshua, you're very good at asking for things to be done for you, but not so good at doing things for other people. You need to work on giving, not just taking." And, for the longest time, it seemed like my words went in one of his ears, and right out the other. Fellow moms, you know what I mean, right? In the past week or two I have noticed something happening in Joshua. Sometimes he opens his mouth and starts to ask a question, but then stops. One day when he did this stop-mid-ask-thing, he proceeded to ask me if there was anything around the house I needed done. Well, yeah! I told him the floor needed to be swept and washed. And he did it! Then I told him there was some cleaning which was needed in his(!) bathroom. And he did that, too. Without complaining. Then my son asked me if there was anything else I wanted him to do! (I couldn't come up with anything. I think I was too much in shock. *wink*) At a loss for what else to say, Brian and I asked Joshua what was going on. He said, "I'm becoming a giver." Be still my heart!
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Labels: Adventures in Mothering, As the Children Grow, Joshua
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Wait Patiently
I sat down last Tuesday to reflect on the year gone by, and pray about 2013.This time of reflection has been a habit of mine for several years, and I really love doing it. Rather than a time to consider making "new year's resolutions," I like to think about the ways God has been active in my year - what He's been teaching me, how He's grown me, and the like. Those of you who've been with me for a while may recall that God has taken me through a series of themes over the past four years. (Of course, I didn't catch onto it until the first year had nearly ended. Yeah. I'm slow. *wink*) In 2009, the theme was TRUST. In 2010, God's word for me was OBEY. In 2011, He taught me about SURRENDER. And I was convinced last year was going to be all about PEACE. Seemed like the logical conclusion to TRUST, OBEY and SURRENDER. After reflecting on 2012, I still believe PEACE was the theme. It occurred to me, however, that most of the time PEACE was a conscious choice I made - rather than a feeling I experienced. That is, most of the time I had to choose to be peaceful in the midst of circumstances which were anything but. God continued to show me PEACE is the logical conclusion to TRUST, OBEY, SURRENDER. Even when I am not feeling it, I can choose PEACE because of what I know to be true about God. And that is a very good thing! As I sat in my bedroom with my journal and my thoughts, I began to ask the question, What next? And the phrase I'd been contemplating from verse 1 of Psalm 40 begged for my attention. WAIT PATIENTLY. It seemed like another logical conclusion: *I TRUST God completely. *I will OBEY what He tells me. *I SURRENDER everything to Him. *I will be at PEACE with His actions in my life. *Because of these four postures, I am going to WAIT PATIENTLY for God to move. Friends, I believe 2013 is going to be a wonderful year! Will you WAIT PATIENTLY with me?
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Labels: Reflections, Trusting God, Waiting
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Young Love
Oh.my.word.They are so stinkin' cute! Elizabeth and her beau. All smiles and laughter and happy to be together.
Posted by Karen Hossink at 6:00 AM 2 surviving with me
Labels: As the Children Grow, Elizabeth


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Phillip Schofield, Emilia Fox and Matt Terry lead the glamorous arrivals at The Prince's Trust Celebrate Success Awards
The celebs are coming together to help celebrate the incredible achievements of some of Great Britain's most exceptional young people
PHILLIP Schofield lead the celebrity arrivals at The Prince's Trust Celebrate Success Awards on Wednesday.
The swanky event, which was held at the London Palladium, celebrates the success stories of some of the UK's most exceptional young people.
This Morning host Phil beamed as he arrived and even started to snap some selfies while he was walking the red carpet.
He was later joined by Tom Fletcher and his wife Giovanna who shared pictures of their experience at the ceremony on Instagram.
Meeting two finalists, Faye and Alec, backstage at the event, Giovanna told her followers it was an honour to spend time with the two inspiring youngsters.
She said on Instagram: "They're pretty inspiring! Loved hearing their stories and learning about how The Prince's Trust helped them in times of hardship!"
Emilia Fox put on a pretty denim dress for her turn on the red carpet.
She teamed the revealing number with a pair of sky high, pink court shoes.
Bond actress Gemma Arterton also turned up to the ceremony and posed for pictures with fans on the red carpet.
The Wanted star Nathan Skyes also lent his support to the charity.
Ashley James covered up her revealing dress with a Burberry trench coat.
She teamed her jaw-dropping outfit with a pair of patent, nude heels and a pretty black bag.
The former Made In Chelsea star was later joined on the red carpet by Strictly Come Dancing star Claudia Winkleman and Jenni Falconer.
The Sun has joined forces with the trust to support the Enterprise Award, which recognises young people who have overcome adversity to establish their own company.
TV magician Dynamo and children's suitcase brand Trunki are among those to benefit from early backing from the trust.
It was started in 1976 by the Prince of Wales and the Enterprise programme has helped struggling 18 to 30-year-olds since 1983.
Backed by Natwest, funding and support is available to people who are unemployed or working fewer than 16 hours a week.
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