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Tel Aviv, the city that never stops dining
"This is our own small cultural center," says Dunevich. "We have our music, the books, a large-screen television and people who come to visit. Even when they're renovating the large municipal cultural center, the play goes on here and we cook the best food in the world. Here we don't eat boiled chicken, endlessly reheated potatoes or burned carrots. This is the home of people who love to eat."
Ruti Dunevich is the mistress of the kitchen. The attractive woman who danced in Berta Yampolsky's troupe in addition to working as a school nurse looks as though she emerged from one of the theatrical operas she loves. Everything is colorful and bold − hair and eyebrows dyed a bright red, flowered dresses, necklaces and earrings that she makes herself − as are the appetizers she serves to guests.
In the kitchen there are collections of exotic spices, placed in boxes and carefully cataloged, kitschy toothpicks and hundreds of other attractive eating utensils. Ruti Dunevich continues to go to specialty shops to buy the ingredients she needs for the dozens of delicacies seen in the refrigerator and pantry − we swear we've never seen such an orderly array of good things to eat.
To avoid problems, she says it's better to stay away from the large supermarkets. One shop specializes in importing pickled fish; reasonably priced Italian wines can be purchased from a veteran beverage merchant on De Pijoto Street; and every vegetable, cut of meat or fresh fish is carefully chosen.
Italian food is the greatest love of Dunevich, who learned to read and write Italian fluently in order to understand the opera librettos and to read beloved works in the original language. But foods from all over the world have also attained citizenship in her home kitchen, as long as they delight the palate of the masters of the house.
The loving husband, her No. 1 admirer, as he puts it, sits in the kitchen when she cooks, "ready at any moment to taste and express an opinion." Only in the past year, due to ill health, have they stopped going out to the restaurants of Tel Aviv, which they have frequented together during more than 50 years of marriage. They miss Yaron Shalev's Toto, the now-defunct Mika, and the days when they returned from the Romanian restaurants on Hakishon Street drunk and happy. Those restaurants, as well as their predecessors, star in Natan's new book, "From a Soda Kiosk to a Chef's Restaurant − 100 Years of Food in Tel Aviv" (published in Hebrew by Achuzat Bayit).
"I started writing this book two years ago," he says, "when I realized how important food has become in the present leisure culture. I thought that someone who was born in the early 20th-century in Little Tel Aviv, and saw the beginning with his own eyes, could provide an interesting perspective on the subject, due to his age and experience. First of all it's a book about personal experiences. Some of it was taken from the column I published for years in Haaretz, which discussed people and places.
"But when I began writing I looked for archival material and historical sources to complement my memory. You can't rely on memory alone, because it's deceptive. This is first and foremost a book about people who brought their native cuisine with them from all over the world. There aren't many examples of cities with a population of slightly over 400,000 that have ingredients, stores and restaurants representing over 50 countries, from the North Sea to New Zealand."
Natan Dunevich was born in 1926 in Tel Aviv, to a well-to-do family of grain merchants from the Russian city of Saratov on the banks of the Volga River, who decided to immigrate to Palestine after the rise of anti-Semitism in their native land. His father, who built the family home on Nahalat Binyamin Street, was manager of a bank that provided loans to small businesses in the new city. His mother, he writes in the introduction to the book, gave birth to him prematurely − on the dining room table at the home of the local doctor.
"Mother was a gifted cook, and she used to prepare genuine Russian cuisine, not Russian-Jewish cuisine, which has remained etched in my memory forever. In the summer Father would give Mother a vacation from the kitchen and take us to restaurants every day. That's how, although I was young, I became personally acquainted with the restaurants and the people involved in the culinary history of Little Tel Aviv."
In 1944, when he finished his studies at Gymnasia Herzliya high school, Dunevich began writing for newspapers; in the summer of 1947 he joined Haaretz, where he launched an impressive and varied journalistic career than lasted for over 50 years. In 1954 he suggested to his editors that he publish a personal column of human interest stories about life in the big city ("The model was the column of the American Jewish journalist Meyer Berger in The New York Times, and in those days it was a revolutionary innovation in the Hebrew press") which was called "My Town."
In 1956 he married Ruth Rotter; they have two children, attorney Shira Dunevich and mystery writer Roni Dunevich. In 1963 he became the founder and first editor of the Haaretz weekend supplement, the first such magazine in Israel.
Dunevich: "We're talking about the days before television. Reshet Bet on Israel Radio, which was a 'lighter' channel, was starting to attract listeners, and Haaretz was in need of more readers. At the time the publishers brought a modern printing press that was supposed to be able to print magazines in color, and it was decided that a small supplement called Biduron would be added to the Friday newspaper. Since I was writing a regular entertainment column at the time called 'Kokhavim Umazalot' (Stars and Heavenly Signs) I was asked to edit Biduron, which was supposed to be a small entertainment magazine the size of a school notebook. I thought it was an opportunity to create a real magazine, and convinced the managers at the newspaper.
"They sent me to London, to sit on the editorial board of the Sunday Times magazine, considered a leader in its field; I learned the ABCs of editing a magazine there. When I returned to Israel I realized that a cast had to be found for this show. I received almost no cooperation from the daily and started to recruit the best people from outside: Silvie Keshet, Michael Ohad, Roman Frister, photographer Yaakov Agur and caricaturist Ze'ev [Yaakov Farkash].
"About a year after the supplement first came out, and was very successful, Amnon Rubinstein, today Prof. Rubinstein, suggested that we hire Rene Mokadi − a teacher of guitar, French and other languages, who in the past had been a sailor on cargo ships and ate at every port − as a restaurant critic. Mokadi signed his columns with the name R. Istanis (aesthete). As opposed to today's critics, he was anonymous [when he went out to eat]; people didn't prepare special meals for him that differed from those of the ordinary customers. Gershom Schocken approached me personally after a number of columns and asked that Mokadi include in his critique his impressions of the condition of the bathrooms, which were terribly neglected at the time even in the expensive restaurants."
The thick book by Dunevich that is now available in book stores does not presume to document Tel Aviv's culinary history chronologically, but does aim to describe the social history of the city via its eating habits.The book has 44 chapters, dedicated to such subjects as the history of Levinsky Street, the "ice age" before the electric refrigerator, the golden age of steak joints and the modern sushi revolution. The most fascinating parts are those that describe, compassionately and with sensitivity, the fate of food industry people, since fortune did not always smile on restaurateurs.
Other intriguing sections are those devoted to the distant and insufficiently documented past of local culinary history. In 1958 the so-called Tel Aviv Gastronomic Circle held a festive banquet to encourage excellence in local cuisine. In 1968 the fifth World Congress of Gastronomy was held in Jerusalem (the State of Israel competed with Switzerland and Mexico for the right to host it). And the 1960s and '70s saw the emergence of the first local chefs who wanted to raise their own vegetables as ingredients for their dishes.
Is the common perception that the local culinary revolution has only really taken place in the past two decades mistaken? Dunevich thinks not. He says there were initial attempts by pioneer gastronomists from the early days of the city, but the vision was shared by only a few people.
"In the beginning most of the population of Little and 'medium-sized' Tel Aviv ate at home, or brought food from home to work. There were also restaurants and delicatessens selling delicacies from all over the world − business was so lively that a Portuguese sardine cannery even sent over cans bearing the pictures of [Zionist leaders] Herzl and Sokolov − but few people were wealthy enough to be able to afford them. Alongside them, popularly priced restaurants gradually opened, which subsidized and supplied filling food for workers and clerks from the lower and middle class.
"The huge gaps between the upper and lower classes shrank during the early years of the state, and with the flourishing of Mizrahi cuisine [originating in North Africa and the Middle East], which pushed out European cooking. At the table with hummus and tahini and grilled meat, people of all classes sat shoulder to shoulder. In the 1970s the culture of espresso, pizza, hamburgers and Chinese food first emerged, but only in the 1990s − thanks to outstanding individuals such as chef Tzachi Buchester − the dominance of television and the trend of traveling abroad, did the real culinary big bang take place."
To my taste - Dunevich answers the culinary questionnaire
My last meal on earth: "Since I will be embarking on a long journey, to somewhere beyond the clouds, I will choose food that is not heavy, rather the kind that preserves the original and high-quality flavor of its ingredients. Thin and crisp Viennese schnitzel made with veal, potato puree, homemade cucumbers pickled in brine, and for dessert: vanilla and cherry ice cream with Belgian chocolate flakes. I'll finish with a cold shot of peach grappa."
An unforgettable childhood memory: "On Friday afternoons my late mother used to bake cakes and small pastries for Shabbat. Everyone else went to visit my grandmother and left me alone in the house with a large tray of apple halves covered in batter. As soon as my parents left the house my feet led me to the heady fragrances coming from the kitchen. I picked up one pastry, hot and smelling of cinnamon, I went to my room and already on the way I yearned for the rest of the pastries on the tray. When my parents returned they saw an empty tray, a guilty look and a big belly: 24 pastries had disappeared as though they never existed! Father didn't conceal his anger, while Mother looked at him and said, 'Haim, the main thing is that the child doesn't get sick.' From that day on I had to accompany my parents on their weekly visits to my grandmother."
An unforgettable eating experience: "In the summer of 1949 I was invited by an American reporter, for whom I had helped to collect material for an article, to lunch in the new French restaurant Ciro's in the Central Hotel. In the early afternoon we were the only guests, and the head and only waiter had all the time in the world. He approached our table, dressed in a black tuxedo, a starched white shirt and a black bow tie, with a professional smile on his nicely shaven face, which smelled of aftershave. My host called him by his French name, Michel, and whispered to me that the man had previously been a waiter in Bucharest.
"When I dared to ask about the dish he had suggested in fluent French, cocktail de crevettes, his disdainful glance said it all: I'd be better off returning to the treetops. My host, a man of the world, explained to me, the native, that it was a kind of seafood, and that in English it was called shrimps. Michel brought two cups with the 'French' creatures in a tasty pinkish sauce. That was the beginning of my long friendship with seafood."
An unfulfilled food fantasy: "I want to return in a time machine to my childhood, to my mother's wonderful food. Not that I'm suffering now, God forbid. I've been married for 56 years to Ruti, who is famous for her wonderful cooking."
I'll never touch: "Lamb tongues or ox testicles."
An unforgettable cultural food memory: "From 'Babette's Feast,' the charming Danish film about the Parisian chef who is forced to flee France penniless, and prepares a royal feast for the inhabitants of a remote village in Denmark. I watched and was envious of them. The person sitting next to me continued to eat popcorn."
Tel Aviv's pioneering eateries
The first delicatessen: Pesach Shor's grocery, 18 Herzl St., Tel Aviv, opened in 1927. In the late 1920s Shor, an importer whose business involved bringing in delicacies from Europe, Egypt and Lebanon, moved his Jaffa store to young Tel Aviv. In the spanking clean shop, he sold cheeses and butter from Holland and Switzerland, sausages and canned fish, fruit Sharona quarter of the city.and vegetables. Under the counter Shor secretly kept pork supplied to him by a German from the Sharona quarter of the city.
The first steak restaurant: Victoria's Restaurant, Salameh, Tel Aviv, opened in 1954. Victoria, a woman without means, of Bulgarian origin, made a meager living from the sale of meats grilled under a canvas tent in an empty lot in the south of the city. The steaks and skewered meats attracted night owls, and within a few years her business moved to a permanent location at 35 Petah Tikva (now Begin) Road and began to go downhill. Eventually the place switched owners and names until, in 1968, it was bought by an energetic redheaded restaurateur named Moshe Kruvi, who called it Mi Vami.
The first pizzeria: Pizza, 93 Dizengoff, Tel Aviv, opened in 1957. Entrepreneur and restaurateur Alex Shor was the first to open a modern, well-designed fast-food restaurant of this type, with a large, shiny neon sign in front. The crowning glory was Italian-New York pizza; masses of people streamed in and waited patiently for a hot slice.
The first Chinese restaurant: Rickshaw, corner of Tayelet Hayam and Trumpeldor, opened in 1957. On the top floor of the Central Hotel, restaurants and their owners changed at a dizzying pace. In one of those incarnations the place that claims the title "the first authentic Chinese restaurant in Israel" opened. The cook was Lao-Tse Marom, the daughter of parents of Russian Jewish and Chinese descent, and mother of the former Israel Air Force commander Eliezer (Chiney) Marom.
The first hamburger joint: California, Frishman St., Tel Aviv, opened in 1959. The eatery owned by Abie Nathan − the human rights activist and founder of the Voice of Peace radio station − was the first to offer a non-kosher American-style hamburger, with french fries and ketchup. Cheeseburgers were also on the menu.
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Every first day of the year, I have a ritual of setting an intention for the year by answering a series of questions. And here's one that I wrote on Jan 1st, 2016.
What would I like to be the biggest triumph in 2016?
To live a life that I truly want by following my intuition and not because someone said so or because the thing is something I have to do (by society's standard or whatsoever).
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I have been living the last 6.5 months by asking the question "What do I want?". Or to be exact, "If I had all the money in the world right now, what do I want?". And every time I asked the question, the answer had been to see the world and to continue building a closer relationship with my family. I realized that everything else become secondary to those 2 things.
I've been blessed to have been able to do both of them.
So far, these are the cities/ regions I've stepped on my travels (counted for every new place I stepped on): Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay, Belitung, Bali (twice), Solo, Ciwidey, Rome, Asisi, Monaco, Nice, Lourdes, Salamanca, Burgos, Fatima, Lisbon, Maribaya.
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And after 17 years living away from home, I now feel comfortable being at home and I'm closer to my family every single day. I'm thankful for the love I'm surrounded by and I'm also thankful for all the little arguments and fights I've had in the last few months, without which, the relationship can't evolve.
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2012 has been a sad year for a number of our members with the loss of a beloved horse due to accident or illness. On Saturday, while Bill and Marybeth were riding above their home, Rusty, Bill Appy, who he raised from a four month old colt, stepped in a hole and broke his neck. Bill was not injured.
Laurie Bryan lost her mare Phyre due to colic while she was at a trainer getting her basic education . Phyre was a Thoroughbred mare Laurie adopted when a breeding farm sold off a number of their mare by the pound for slaughter.
Phil Ryan lost his beloved mustang Wild Bill this spring to colic. Wild Bill had been a member of Phil and Kay's family for over 20 years.
Robbin Schindele big paint Pancho was put down in July due to failing joints and old age. Pancho was a regular at a number of projects over the years, and was a steadfast and true friend.
October 2012 Ellen Knapp said good by to her trusted friend Warrior. 26 years old. He and I have been together for 22 years. Thousands of miles together. Trail partner, pack horse, and Civil War horse. #7 in the NW in 1999 for 50 mile endurance rides. Civil War demo horse extraordinaire.


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{ one: EB Pennant Banners used as decoration for a casual Easter brunch | two: EB Pennant Banners featured on Bride-Buzz | three: Kiki La Ru cake bunting via Design*Sponge | four: wedding inspiration via Style Me Pretty | five: decor inspiration via The Purl Bee | six: EB Pennant Banners for Kate and Ben's 2010 wedding photographed by Jeffrey and Julia Woods | seven and eight: photos by welovepictures via East Side Bride }
A while back, I made my friend Graham some fabric pennants and gave them to him as a going-away/housewarming gift before he moved to Boston. Yesterday, he sent a photo of the banner hanging in his apartment as an Easter decoration. I love how the fabric adds a touch of playful, handmade charm to his rustic yet modern kitchen. Our original pennants were designed for Kate, one of our all-time favorite brides, as a way to incorporate the colorful Liberty of London prints we used for the groomsmen's custom neckties into another part of her wedding. Over the past couple years, bunting in all forms has been popping up in magazines and on blogs as a trend in wedding and home decor. I think it is an especially attractive and resourceful idea for a wedding because it can easily be saved and repurposed for another occasion.


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Reports starting to appear on some of the forums from people fishing below the Dells Dam. Plenty of room to get the boat in there, but be careful, conditions can change very quickly this time of year.
Also hearing trickles of information about fishing at the Jefferson and Indianford Dams on the Rock River. Ice on the main river is still thick, but there's open water for shore fisherman below both dams.
John Gillespie filmed a show in the Milwaukee Harbor this week, imagine it will be a zoo out there this weekend.
Reminder: Gamefish season is closed on inland lakes until the first Saturday in May.
I'll have more for you next week as I hear back from the people who have been heading out.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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It's the dish everyone's expecting on the holidays, but it's so easy to make, you can serve it any day. Beyond the creamy, silky-smooth sauce and unmatchable flavor, its simplicity is what makes Campbell's Green Bean Casserole so appealing. Just six ingredients and 10 minutes to put together, this family-pleasing side has been a favorite for over 60 years. Not only that, it's easy to make ahead! See Recipe Tips to learn how.
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cans (10 1/2 ounces) Campbell's® Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup or Campbell's® Condensed 98% Fat Free Cream of Mushroom Soup
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teaspoons soy sauce
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Stir the soup, milk, soy sauce, black pepper, beans and 1 1/3 cups onions in a 13x9x2-inch baking dish or a 3-quart casserole.
Bake at 350°F. for 25 minutes or until the bean mixture is hot and bubbling. Stir the bean mixture. Sprinkle with the remaining onions.
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Newt Gingrich is surging – but the GOP establishment still opposes him (and many believe he is unelectable).
Mitt Romney is still the presumed front-runner and has a big lead on money, organization, and endorsement from key Republicans, but he just lost a massive lead in Florida seemingly overnight. State and national polls show a swing against Mr. Romney of more than 20 points.
More than ever, the 2012 nominating process is confounding pundits and proving unpredictable. It's unlikely that any candidate will wrap up the nomination quickly, and now buzz – which has been present for some time – is increasing about the possibility of a brokered convention and even a late-entrant candidate.
In the past week, influential conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh and Joe Scarborough, have discussed the growing rumblings. According to Mr. LImbaugh, many in the Republican party are welcoming Gingrich's resurgence, not because they like him as a candidate but because they have misgivings about Romney. They want the race to continue all the way to the convention in Tampa, Fla., so that the party elite can pick the nominee there.
Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey (R) of Texas predicted a brokered convention on CNBC Monday night, and Michael Steele, the former national chairman of the Republican party, recently put the chances of a brokered convention at 50-50. "The base wants its chance to have their say," he told the The Huffington Post. "They aren't going to want it to end early, before they get their chance, which means that the process could go all the way to Tampa."
And several other notable conservatives, including Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post and William Kristol at the Weekly Standard have been making pleas - hardly new, but now they seem to have an added urgency – for someone like Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor who will deliver the GOP rebuttal to the State of the Union address Tuesday night, to enter the race.
Ms. Rubin addressed her "open letter" to 10 Republican governors, senators, and congressmen, none of whom has yet made an endorsement and all of whom she says "would be preferable as a candidate to Newt Gingrich," to either make an endorsement or, better yet, to get in the race themselves.
"Here's the thing," Rubin writes in her blog, outlining why she finds a surging Gingrich so untenable. "The voters in their infinite wisdom have just given a huge boost to perhaps the only GOP candidate who could shift the spotlight from President Obama to himself, alienate virtually all independent voters, lose more than 40 states and put the House majority in jeopardy."
So, could a brokered, or open, convention really happen? And could a dark-horse candidate still enter the race? It's certainly not inconceivable, although Mr. Steele's 50-50 odds seem a bit high.
A brokered convention is one in which no candidate has a majority of pledged delegates by the time of the convention, and so the nominee gets decided at the convention by a series of votes, re-votes, and political horse trading. Pledged delegates can be freed from their allegiance, and in practice, it would be party elites who decide the nominee.
They weren't uncommon before the current binding primary system was put in place (both Adlai Stevenson, a Democrat, and Thomas Dewey, a Republican, were selected in brokered conventions in 1952 and 1948). Since then, they're often discussed but the only open convention to occur was in 1976, when Republican delegates went to their convention unsure if they'd be nominating Ronald Reagan or Gerald Ford. (Ford managed to win on the first ballot, avoiding a truly brokered convention.)
"A brokered convention might be a lot of fun in theory, but right now it's just a theory," wrote Aaron Blake in the Washington Post earlier this month, as he explained the many ways Romney could rack up a large majority of delegates even without widespread popular support. (Mr. Blake's piece was written before Gingrich's latest surge.)
Polling expert Nate Silver, meanwhile, discusses the possibility at length in the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog, and gives it a real – if somewhat long shot – chance.
"Late-entry candidates and brokered conventions have not occurred in the recent past," writes Mr. Silver. "But there has also not been a case in the recent past in which a candidate like Mr. Gingrich, so vehemently opposed by party elites, was surging ahead in key national and state polls at this stage of the nomination process."
Moreover, he notes, it might have a lot of appeal to some in the GOP elite: "It would not just be a ploy to prevent Mr. Gingrich's nomination. "It would also open the door to the party's nominee being someone like Mr. Daniels or [former Florida Gov. Jeb] Bush or [Wisconsin Congressman Paul] Ryan – candidates whom some influential conservatives have preferred to Mr. Romney all along.
So what will happen? If the last few months have taught journalists anything, it's that making predictions is a dangerous business.


text: Careers Forbes writer to Mayer: You can't have it all Dave Webb @itworldca Published: July 19th, 2012It was a bit of a stunner when Google exec Marissa Mayer announced she was taking the helm of embattled archrival Yahoo. News has since come out that Mayer is six months pregnant. Mayer claims she'll only take a couple of month so of mat leave, and that she'll work through it. Forbes contributor Tim Worstall argues (under a poorly punctuated headline that obscures his point) that women can't have it all, especially at the corporate pinnacle of the CEO's office. Worstall has argued for years that, in his U.K. homeland, at least, there's not a gender pay gap — young women on average out-earn young men — but a motherhood pay gap: Women take time out of the rat race to have children, thus losing opportunities for promotion.RELATED CONTENT: Marissa Mayer tapped for top Yahoo jobWorstall takes credit for upcoming legislation in the U.K. that will change maternity leave to parental leave, which would allow parents to decide who takes off how much time and alleviate the problem, something we've been doing in Ontario for the past dozen years.Read the full story here. Careers Yahoo


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Take a look around you – in your family, your school or workplace, in the streets, and you see boys & girls in about equal proportion, and without any easily visible gender patterns in case of siblings. So, to the famous first order of statistical approximation, we're all the results of hierarchical cascades of independent coin tosses through history, with each little fate determined by a 0.50-0.50 coin. This is not entirely correct, as one discovers with careful analysis and enough data: the coins of fate are (a little) imbalanced; they vary (a little) from family to family; there is a (slight) dependence in your children's gender sequence; and there are (slightly) more only-girls and only-boys families than predicted from binomial conditions. In this blog post I use the opportunity to talk also about how sample sizes influence p-values and statistical detection power.


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By Longfei Zhang and Yining Xu
Mewtwo at Times Square. Rayquaza flying over Burj Khalifa Dubai. Dialga runs near Big Ben. We have been busy traveling between the real world and virtual world lately. Those Pokémons that we have run into are part of the augmented reality mobile game Pokémon GO. It encourages the players to explore the surroundings while catching the Pokémon. Along the journey, players would be able to find supplies such as Pokéball and potion by stopping at the predetermined Pokéstops such as landmarks, restaurants, and shops. Also, they can compete with other players at the gyms, which are usually high-profile public places such as train stations and museums. Not only individuals are obsessed with this game, but also mega companies and small firms, since plenty of opportunities are booming in this game-related fields. There is no doubt that wise business owners want to chip in.
Successful Business Campaigns
Nintendo's stock surged almost 100% after the successful launch of Pokémon GO on July 7th, which lasted for 10 days. It came to an abrupt halt on July 22nd, an 8.18% decline from the previous day, and then closed the day with a 4.86% down from the starting price. This Pokémon GO madness brings prime business opportunities for all kinds of business. Niantic CEO John Hanke confirmed to the New York Times that, the company will be announcing details about sponsored locations inside Pokémon GO in the near future. Meanwhile, some big firms are already linking their business to this popular game.
- McDonald's Japan just announced that they would be the first paying sponsor of Pokémon GO in Japan. By making 3,000 of their outlets as the "gyms" for battle location, McDonald's would most likely to increase their revenue as the game players decide to get a meal while they're playing the battle game.
- T-Mobile provides free and unlimited high speed data to Pokémon GO gaming till August 2017 since players could easily used up their data and get overcharged. On top of that, there will be 250 lucky players winning $100 in PokéCoins, which is the currency in the game that you can earn by leaving a Pokémon at a Gym to defend it. If you want to use real money to get PokéCoins, 100 PokéCoins are $0.99; so, $100 in PokéCoins is $99 in reality! In addition, five players could win the Pokémon GO hunting trip anywhere in the U.S. for themselves and a guest!
However, some local businesses including restaurant, coffee shop, clothing store are already profiting or getting ready to profit from this widespread mobile game.
- L'inizio Pizza Bar's business went up to 75% after the shop owner Tom Lattanzio spent $10 to have a dozen of the Pokémon characters lured to the store, since lots of players came to catch the Pokémon while having some beer or pizza at the restaurant.
- Fasten, a Boston-based ride-share company, offered a flat fee of $5 for a ride from nine "hot spots" for Pokémon hunting.
- An indie clothing store made a larger poster of Pokéstop in their front door and attracted enthusiastic players to come inside to get their Pokéballs.
- Kaleidoscope Café in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania offers a 10 percent discount to anyone who played Pokémon GO.
- It's A Grind Coffee House in California, being one of the Pokéstop, offers a fresh Lure in their stop for every 15 paid drinks purchased.
- Tanghui, a high-end Chinese restaurant in Sydney, just announced that it would spread the Lure at lunch and dinner times in order to attract massive Pokémon GO players.
- Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden — same as many other museum and art galleries — is reportedly to have 60% plus their visitors one day playing the game; and those museums are encouraging players to drop by and take advantage.
Emerging Business Models
- PokéDates, a new social App, charges $20 every time to set up an offline date at the gym or Pokéstop based on the online questions you fill out.
- Pokémon GO Driver. Some drivers also take advantage of the physical movability of Pokémon GO, and advertise the Pokémon Ride for about $30 an hour, which basically drive players around the city for couple hours to catch the Pokémons that don't reside in the players' neighborhoods. From our point of view, those Pokémon drivers might be able to cooperate with the Pokéstop restaurant owners – they can drive around the restaurant area and lure the players in when they are hungry, or just simply tell the players that there are some restaurants giving out discounts/coupons to Pokémon GO players. This is a win-win for both Pokémon drivers and restaurant owners, as the drivers could get advertisement fee and the owners could boost their business.
- Professional Pokémon Egg Walker. Don't get me wrong – it's not dog walker, but Pokémon Egg walker. Pokémon Eggs are found randomly from Pokéstops until you reach a maximum of 9 in your bag. In order to hatch them, you'll need to walk around in order to satisfy the egg mileage showing on the screen. There are already some people providing the hatching service. Narcis Radoi, from London, charges £5 for a 10km egg, £3 for a 5km egg, and £1 for a 2km egg. And he will catch any pokémon that pops up along the way as a bonus for you.
Furthermore, Crowdfunding is also very hot topic in the market, after thorough research in Kickstarter and Indiegogo, innovative products and ideas as derivatives of Pokémon GO are found.
- PokéBall Charger is invented by Robbie Savage. This Pokémon GO Power Bank Shaped like Pokémon catching ball, the PokéBall Charger gives player all the juice needed for a full day of Pokémon GO adventuring.
- Pokémon GO Badges and Certificate are designed by Nova Nocturne. Every player would be able to get their own specialized badges if they pay a few bucks, and the badges could be traded offline. Each gym winners could get not only badges, but also T-shirts and certificates.
- "Pokémon Go – The Story Behind Viral Success" is a documentary focusing on what is driving the phenomenon of Pokémon GO by Filip Arnqvist-Eiritz. It will also include interviews with Niantic Lab, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company.
- Pokemon Go Home, a free day-long event, aims at promoting community cohesion in Birmingham, UK. This event uses Lure and Incense modules to draw people's attention to visit the minority societies, cultural organizations, and places of worship in a single day. This crowdfunding has already successfully raised £1,580 from 49 backers.
- PokéGloves by Lewis B combines the Pokémon Team color concept and smart phone heat sensor gloves in order to promote more sales. PokéGloves are targeted at the players who want to make friends within their teams.
- Straight Ball Thrower is designed by Diyang Zhang and Pei Jian that enables people to throw the ball straightly so that the chances to catch Pokémon can be increased.
- PokeCase is invented to let people have a better shot at catching the difficult Pokémons.
- Pokémon Go Locator Band by Daniil Verhovskiy from Ukraine is charged $150. The wearable device will vibrate every time you pass a Pokémon and show you the direction to that Pokémon.
How to Use Pokémon GO to Boost Your Buisness
This is a global phenomenon. 7.5 million more players are obsessed with this game right now, thus, whichever business takes advantage of this large amount customer set would definitely ascend to a new level. Here are some of our suggestions to boost your business with Pokémon GO:
- Use Incense and Lure. Spend a few bucks on the Incense and Lure on your business location to attract the Pokémon catchers. What is incense? Incense attracts Pokémon to you for 30 minutes. When you activate an Incense, it will go with you wherever you walk. What is Lure? Lures are placed in a PokéStop which attract Pokémon to this specific location for 30 minutes. When you place a Lure module at a Pokéstop, it remains at that location, even if you leave.
- Check if there is a Pokéstop around or in your business by using PokéVision or Pokémapper
- Do the math. Calculate the price and return on investment.
For example, with $39.99 netting you get 5,200 PokéCoins, an eight-pack of Lures costing 680 PokéCoins:
5,200 PokéCoins / 680 =7 eight-pack of Lures
(7 * 8)/2 = 28 hours
$39.99/28 hours = $1.43 per hour
- What are you still waiting for? Buy the Lure now and activate it! It only costs you 1.5 bucks an hour to attract two times or even three times more customers than usual.
- Be an active supporter of the game. Reward the players with coupons and discounts, giving them a reason to stay and support your business. Give out free appetizers if the players catch a Pokémon in your place using the augmented reality camera and post it on his/her social media. Make sure they screenshotted the Pokémons that are in your shop. Remind them of tagging your business.
- Tag example: #LeoPizzaPokémonGo #Zubat@Leopizzashop
- Draw 10 lucky customers with those tags everyday, give out coupons to them, and re-post on your official account
- Be a protester of the game. It is inevitable that people would be focusing on their smartphones when they are playing Pokémon GO. There won't be a lot of communication while people are all on their phones, and people will not pay attention to the business/meal itself. So protesting this game at your business zone protects normal social interaction. Also, if your business targets elderly customers that are not interested in Pokémon, you could advertise your business place as a Pokémon-free zone.
- Pokémon GO Tip Jar. Pokémon GO players are split into three teams when they reach level 5 – Valor (Red), Instinct (Yellow), Mystic (Blue). Put three tip bottles based on those teams. The winning team naturally would tip more, so if you have three tip jars, you are for sure getting the most tips from all the Pokémon GO players.
- PokéHunt. Design a route which has the most Pokémons that starts and ends at your business location. The player who catches the highest combat power (CP) Pokémon could be awarded as the best Pokémon player of the day with some coupons or free beers.
- For instance, Leo's pizza shop's PokéHunt starts at 3 p.m., and ends at 5 p.m. The winner can get free appetizers and the participants could get 5% off on their orders. Naturally, everyone comes back to Leo's pizza shop to grab dinner when the PokéHunt is over, as well as socialize and make new friends.
- Happy Pokémon GO Hour. Usually during the regular happy hour (3-5pm), it is the slowest time of the day. So try change the happy hour into "Happy Pokémon GO hour" in order to attract more catchers during the regular happy hour.
- For example, during the Happy Pokémon GO Hour, if the player catches a CP 400+ Pokémon, he/she could get 30% off on his bill; if the player catches a CP 200+ Pokémon, he/she could get 20% off; if the Pokémon CP is under 200, only 10% off. Also, be aware of free riders using other people's account, you could ask the servers to write down each account.
- Official Site
- Pokéstop
- Gym
- Pokécoin
- PokéDex
- Pokémon Egg
- Pokémon GO Glossary
- Submit a request
- Pokémon GO Wiki Guide
- Data Usage Tips
- Battery Usage Tips
- How to remove Pokémon GO's full access to your Google account
Download Pokémon GO from App Store, Google Play


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An Arizona attorney and his family were killed when their small plane crashed in a dense forest en route to a ski resort, according to published reports.
Scottsdale-based lawyer Eric Falbe was flying the Cessna 210 with his wife and two daughters aboard when it plunged near the rugged Payson area of Gila County, Ariz., Monday night, the Arizona Republic reported.
Falbe, 44, his wife, Carrie, 31, and daughters Victoria, 14, and Skylar, 12, from a previous marriage had taken off from Scottsdale and were heading to Telluride, Colo., for a ski vacation, the Daily Mail reported.
The trip was the family's annual Christmas-season vacation, according to relatives.
Gila County sheriff's officers began searching for the plane after receiving a 9:48 p.m. call that the Cessna was "reported overdue," the Republic said, quoting a police report.
Carrie's father became "deeply concerned" and phoned Scottsdale police after his daughter hadn't texted or called to alert him that the family had landed safely, the Republic said.
Her dad had frantically tried to contact her, to no avail, investigators said.
Authorities then called several airports along the pilot's likely route in the hope that with mechanical problems Eric might have been able to land at one them, the police report said.
Police then tried pinging the cellphones of the victims and found the crash site about 14 miles north of Payson in dense trees and hills.
The Sheriff's Office later confirmed that the plane's tail number matched Federal Aviation Administration records identifying Eric Falbe as the owner of the craft.
After an hour of hiking, searchers reached the crash site Tuesday and found four bodies in the wreckage.
"The terrain up there is just really super rugged," Gila County Sheriff Adam Shepherd said. "It's pretty rough, steep, straight up and down."
The FAA is investigating the cause of the crash.


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As Terence McKenna said in this interview, "Culture is not your friend."
I know, I know. How can I have a go at culture? What's culture ever done to hurt me? Why aren't I thankful to culture for providing me with such a rich and varied, erm, culture?
It's easy to paint culture as some kind of essential framework, without which all the rich bounty of Western civilisation would turn to ash and be taken by the winds. But that's the thing: our culture has a vested interest in ensuring that your conception of 'culture' is a positive one. It would be considered quite the faux pas to instead characterise culture as a form of bondage to which you never consented, which serves only to exclude and to characterise the foreign as 'Other.'
The very word itself, "culture," finds its etymological root in the Latin 'colere', a term for cultivating crops. While not without a sense of romance, this origin damns culture at its very roots as being a force which staves off true creativity. The reasoning behind this, if we're going to continue to entertain the rather tortured metaphor I'm setting up here, is that the artefacts produced by a culture will always be template and predictable, as certain fields yield certain crops, and barring some truly seismic shift in the culture's paradigm we can foresee future artistic endeavours and trends, even if only in the abstract. Even subversion is subservient to culture: works become defined by disparity and dialectic difference. I am a work of B, because I oppose A.
What was Ginsberg's Moloch if not an unflinching characterisation of his own culture, one which he perceived as brutal, unfeeling, mechanical and fuelled by the lives of children, symbolic of his countrymen and their futures? Given, Ginsberg was a particular person at a particular time in a particular place when he wrote Howl, but the snapshot he took of his culture and it's inhumanity and viciousness can only stand as a damning, rather than celebratory, characterisation.
Culture means borders. Culture means language barriers. Culture means economic disparity. Culture is always defended by the aged agents of tradition, the traditional enemies of progression.
In The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944), Adorno & Horkheimer accurately predict the path of Western culture. They foresaw that it would become an assembly-line of sensory spectacle, repeated ad nauseam for the sake of profit, bereft of deeper meaning and only ever questioning or critiquing the culture in as much as it can viably profit within the pre-existing space of definitions, hierarchies and power structures.
Of course, all this is to be taken with a shaker of salt. Without my culture, I would have no way to disseminate these ramblings, no language or communicative forms with which to convey them. But that which is inflexible is doomed to shatter, and the defenders of culture and its homogeneity cling to a sinking ship's mast, a crumbling tower's parapets, shunning a greater patchwork of identity and community for the sake of preserving the relics of an ahistorical Golden Age.


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What is it that we all yearn for in our lives?
The answer? Control.
We are all just one breath away from losing everything, from our health and jobs to love. Life is fragile, we long to control our destiny. As for money, we try and earn money to ensure our future, to give us control over the future.
Many of us we can't let go of the need for control. And why should we?
We all have an agenda. We live our lives by our needs and desires. Morality plays some part for some of us, while for others — getting from point A. to point B. has no rules.
All of these lives are points in time crossing each other affecting the control of others over one another destiny. A car crash could mean a loved one won't come home today. A heart attack could leave the breadwinner of a family out of work affecting everyone, opening a path for someone else.
In my life — I admit I cannot control everything.
You can't make a woman love you but you can put yourself in her path to find you. In that, you force fate.
While I work for survival, I don't allow the lack of control in some areas to affect the happiness I seek.
We all look to the future with very little true consideration. Some of us have well laid out plans. Some of us have an agenda playing everyone as mere pawns.
But in the end, the future has the last laugh.


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As you research internship opportunities, review the following internship programs that provide specialized internship experiences.
The Los Angeles Internship
In connection with Temple University's Film and Media Arts program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students may take part in this program. Students from the Communication and English departments take part in this program from late May to the middle of July. Students who are interested in careers in the entertainment industry have found this to be a very valuable experience. To understand all requirements, students need to contact Dr. John O'Leary.
The Vatican Program
Villanova University is the only institution of higher education in the world with an internship program in the Vatican. Students from the Departments of Computing Sciences and Communication go to Rome, take courses and intern at The Internet Office of the Holy See. Students interested in exploring this program should contact Jill Flanagan as early in the fall semester as possible.
Office of Education Abroad
Internships that are part of a study abroad experience are administered by the Office of Education Abroad. There are currently programs in London, Ireland, Australia, South America and Switzerland. Students should contact International Studies early, as there are very strict deadlines for these highly popular programs.


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PlayStation Move
It wasn't that long ago when your kids were nagging you for the Nintendo Wii, the ultra-sophisticated 3-D game-playing console. The intuitive Wii had everyone bowling, golfing and playing tennis in the living room. All we had to do was pick up the wireless nunchuk and start swinging. Heck, even senior citizens got in to the game. Brace yourself for more nagging. This year, Sony introduced its own interactive 3-D game-playing system for its PlayStation 3. Sony engineers designed PlayStation Move with its own wireless wand. The basic Move package, which includes one controller and a sports game, costs $99.99. An additional controller retails for around $29.95. A review in The New York Times gives the PlayStation Move high marks for its sophistication and ease of movement [source: Schiesel]. Unlike Wii, the Move doesn't use batteries, so you're going to need a recharger for the wand. The recharger costs about $30.


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The Sane Society
A talk based on the book by Eric Fromm
Given by Dr. Chris Maddox
Tonight's talk is based on the book "The Sane Society" written by Eric Fromm
in which he argues for a Humanistic and Democratic Socialism. Although Fromm
was influenced by Karl Marx, he believed in the ideal of freedom and
considered that both Western Capitalism and Soviet Communism have a
dehumanising effect on the members of society.
The talk will focus on the main theme of the book: the problem of alienation
in late industrial society. Is alienation inevitable? If not, how is
dis-alienation possible? In a society with increasingly destructive and
senseless competition, anti-social behaviour, irrational violence, the
spread of narcissism, consumerism as an end in itself, financial crisis,
ecological crisis, mass unemployment and concurrent loss of meaning and
purpose in life, Fromm's analysis is as relevant to the contemporary world
as when it was written.
Fromm's radical psychoanalysis shows how false needs created and manipulated
by vested interests give rise to feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness
which prevent the character-structure required to create a dis-alienated,
sane society.
Chris Maddox, Ph.D., has lectured at Birkbeck College, Regent's College, the
Adlerian Society and the New School for Psychotherapy & Counselling, and is
a qualified psychotherapist and sociologist.
Date: 5th March 2012 at 7.30pm
Tickets: £5.00
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EPA appointment offers a glimmer of hope for Pebble Project in Alaska
The election of Donald Trump and the subsequent appointment of Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given rise to hopes that the Pebble Project in Alaska could get a new chance at being developed.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R, TX), chairman of the House Science Committee, sparked the new interest in the mine when he wrote a letter asking Pruitt to rescind the 2014 veto of the Pebble Mine project amid claims that the agency overstepped its statutory authority under President Barack Obama.
"The committee has determined that the preemptive action taken for the Pebble Mine Project was unprecedented under the Clean Water Act and was justified by a questionable scientific assessment that relied on predetermined conclusions developed by EPA officials," Smith wrote.
Smith added that rescinding the 2014 veto "will allow a return to the long-established Clean Water Act permitting process and stop attempts by the EPA to improperly expand its authority."
Northern Dynasty Minerals, the Canadian company looking to develop the project that could be one of the largest copper, gold and molybdenum deposits in the world, praised Smith's letter in a press release and said the company only hoped for a fair assessment from the EPA.
"All we have ever asked is for the opportunity to propose a comprehensive development plan for the Pebble Project, and to have it fairly and objectively reviewed against the extremely rigorous environmental standards and permitting requirements enforced in Alaska and the United States," Northern Dynasty President and CEO Ron Thiessen said in the press release. "Today, we are one step closer to earning that opportunity."
According to environmental lawyers, however, Northern Dynasty has always been allowed to apply for a permit despite the veto from the EPA.
"Nothing in the Section 404(c) prevents the company from applying for a dredging permit," Joel Reynolds, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Fox News. "There have been claims that the EPA has prevented the company from applying because of 404(c), but there is no rule that prevents them from applying. The owners of Pebble Mine have chosen not to apply."
While Smith's letter to Pruitt has once again brought Pebble Mine back into the spotlight, the chances of the mine actually becoming a reality appear far from certain.
The project may have the backing of pro-mining lawmakers in Washington who want to see the Obama-era environmental regulations rolled back, but the mine does not enjoy the same among environmentalists, Alaska's indigenous communities and the state's large-scale salmon fishing industry, Fox News reported.
The project has been hampered for decades over concerns that toxic residue from the mine could harm the world's largest population of sockeye salmon and endanger the 14,000 jobs and $252 million-a-year generated by the local fishing industry.
Adding to the ubiquitous local opposition in Bristol Bay toward the mine are the financial problems that consistently have plagued the project.
Earlier in February, New York-based investment firm Kerrisdale Capital released a damning report on the state of Northern Dynasty – the Pebble deposit's current owners.


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Driving back from LA on Friday, traffic was stopped: dead stopped. You know, the kind of stopped you just know will turn you and several thousand of your nearest friends into a 30-second segment on the 6:00 evening news. While the rest of us watching groan with an at-too-well understanding of your plight.
Traffic started to move slowly on both sides of the freeway, but not in the middle. Fortunately, I was on one of the the sides that was moving, not too far from the start of the traffic jam. Within a car length or two, I saw what was going on.
One 6x6x8 piece of lumber lay askance in the middle lane, blocking traffic. It looked like it had already been run over; a couple of chunks of lumber (the size of 2x4's) were scattered nearby.
Perhaps realizing the futility of his position, the guy driving - ok, well parked - in the middle lane immediately behind the offending tree trunk, was getting out of his car.
On the 405 freeway.
In Los Angeles.
One of the busiest freeway in the world.
As he got out of his car, his intent became clear. That tree trunk was going into the back seat so he could go forward. It became apparent that the lumber was too big for the back seat, so he finagled it forward into the passenger seat. Good thing for bucket seats.
And all without a weaving California Highway Patrol car to create a traffic stop, we all waited behind him, stopping the rest of the traffic behind us.
On our own. Cooperating. Without talking.
In the hustle and bustle of the season, we took a moment and by stopping, paid our respects to a honorable citizen doing his duty to all of us on the freeway - at great danger to himself.
Once the lumber was in the car and the back door shut, he got back in the driver's seat and drove off.
I have no idea who you were, but my thanks go out to you for reaffirming my faith in California freeway drivers.
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Bağdat Avenue (Turkish: Bağdat Caddesi, literally Baghdad Avenue) is a notable high street located on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, Turkey. Bağdat Caddesi is a popular street in Kadıköy on the Asian side. It was called Bağdat Caddesi (street) because it was used by the Roman and Ottoman armies for the eastern campaigns. In time the street became a settlement and a modern street today with cafes, sops, restaurants etc.
It is a main street in an upper-scale residential area. The one-way avenue with old plane trees is flanked with shopping malls, department stores, fashion garment stores, elegant shops offering world famous brands, restaurants of international and local cuisine, pubs and cafés, luxury car dealers and bank agencies. Bağdat Avenue can also be considered as a large open-air shopping mall. Most of the retail stores are open on all days of the week, including Sunday afternoon.
In summer time and on weekends, the sidewalks of the avenue are crowded with people window-shopping and youngsters lingering around. Traffic congestion is almost a standard situation on the three-lane Bağdat Avenue.
Bağdat Avenue can be considered as the celebration center of the Asian side. Just as Taksim is where people gather for huge national events on the European side, people on the Asian side gather on Bağdat Avenue to celebrate events such as a sport victory or a national holiday.
Another grand celebration takes place on Bağdat Avenue whenever the home football team Fenerbahçe SK wins the championship title in the Turkish Super League. Fenerbahçe fans gather in the avenue and celebrate carnival on it, while singing, dancing, driving and sounding their car horns all night.


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One of the biggest advantages to filing first is knowing it is filed and the process has started. You will not be sitting around waiting for the other side or the constable to serve you with papers. More importantly, either side can ask for temporary orders pertaining to the residence (who is moving out if you still live together) and either side can ask for temporary support for themselves and/or the children and in this proceeding, the party who asks for the temporary orders gets to go first. As petitioner, if you need or want temporary orders, you can ask first by asking in the Original Petition.
Going first at the hearing has a very distinct advantage: besides the obvious that you get the first word (in other words, you get to make the first impression on the Court) you and your attorney will get the control the order of witnesses at trial. While it is common for the Petitioner to testify first, you do not have to follow tradition. Your lawyer can call any witness, even your spouse (the Respondent) as the first witness. This means your experts, if any, don't sit in hall charging you for their time, friends who are there to testify for you can plan their time and not be stuck in the courthouse all day, etc.
I love to call one of Respondent´s witnesses up front, sometimes because I know the witness will say something to help both sides and I want them to help my client first, sometimes because I want the Respondent to see me cross examine someone, so he or she will start to worry (this assumes I have information and plan to play rough with the witness) and sometimes it is to simply set out a simple fact that I then blow up into a big deal with a second witness. I also like to call the Respondent when I think he or she is not ready or expecting it. There is a sadistic pleasure in seeing shock on a witnesses face as he looks at his lawyer and says "you said she would go first". Since the Petitioner gets to control the order of witnesses at trial, it is almost always better to be the Petitioner in a contested divorce or child custody case. Yes, Respondent can call witnesses in any order they choose, but the Respondent calls witnesses after the Petitioner is done; and why call someone who has already testified?
The advantage of making your spouse file are simple: he or she has to pay the filing fee, he or she has to hire a lawyer first, and he or she must make the commitment to follow through. If there are very little issues, nothing to fight over except hurt feelings, letting the other side do all the heavy lifting is easy, who cares who goes first if there is nothing to fight over. The Respondent can usually get away with a simple answer and signing the Final Decree and thereby save a lot on attorneys fees and cost. The Petitioner in this case pays all the cost and has to take time off work, etc. But, as stated above, the advantage in my opinion goes to being first. If you and your spouse have no assets and nothing to fight over, then you should consider an uncontested divorce where both of you use one lawyer, and get it over with quick and painlessly as possible and no one gets to go first.
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In business, actionable information is king.
Accordingly, eye tracking heat maps, a key technique for optimizing website usability, should be considered royalty. They're designed to point out the hotspots customers are drawn to once they land on your site, and they offer valuable insights that go beyond already available analytical data.
Eye tracking makes it simple for your business to understand more about your customers' behavior on a deeper level than just numerical data by offering a visual representation of the way they interact with your website.
The result is better insights from your user testing and a more precise understanding of how your market is viewing your pages.
Not All Insights Are Created Equal
Mouse click heat maps without any eye tracking have also been used to try to understand user interaction – but this method lacks the precision and depth of eye tracking, which means your business may miss out on important data.
Modern eye tracking solutions are able to track both mouse clicks and eye movement, ensuring no data is lost. But what's the real difference between the two methods, and what additional insights can your company gain from looking at eye fixation heat maps?
Mouse Click Heat Maps Explained
A mouse click heat map makes it possible to analyze the clicking behavior of visitors as they navigate through your site and, at a glance, provides your business with the ability to identify popular links and areas of a page – whether it's text, images, links or dead space that your leads are mistaking for areas they can interact. Visitors are usually unaware they're being tested, which results in more "natural" user behavior.
Typically, mouse click tests operate remotely, which means an increase in the number of variables – different participants, browsers, operating systems and monitor sizes.
This helps your business to establish spots where the conversion funnel – the route a customer takes from finding your site, navigating their way through your content and ultimately converting into a sale – may become jammed. By using a mouse click heat map, you can quickly gauge what advertisements are earning users' clicks as well as which links and call-to-action buttons are being given the cold shoulder.
That said, a click is not the only measure of attention – nor is it the only factor along the conversion path. Without being able to track a user's eye movement, you cannot fully form a case for WHY a particular link or ad placement is failing, or which other areas are stealing away user attention.
It's a more two-dimensional approach that leaves some serious questions left unanswered.
The Advantages of Eye Tracking Heat Maps
The main advantage of eye tracking is its accuracy. You can use the cutting-edge eye tracking technology to track eye movement across all elements of your page – not just links. When you can understand where a user's gaze is drawn to, you can gather deeper insights into how to improve poor or distracting design areas.
With eye tracking software, you can literally track anything that can be viewed – even beyond your website or web assets. This would include:
- Full websites
- Home page layouts
- Landing pages
- Conversion funnels
- Display banner ads
- Email marketing designs
- Restaurant menus
- Print advertisements
You're able to see not only what users looked at, but how long they lingered. This is displayed by using different color levels depending on the intensity of the gaze, with blue and uncolored areas signifying that the eye did not fixate for very long – or at all – in those areas.
Conversely, areas colored red on an eye fixation heat map show positions where the gaze is more intense, with a larger amount of fixation in this area.
A mouse click only tells you about an end action, but eye tracking can tell the story of the customer journey before that interaction took place. It's not longer the case of link vs. link, but a more holistic understanding of how page elements interact, how visuals do (or do not) compliment the text they surround and other important decision questions.
Measure Up the Competition
Another benefit of eye tracking over mouse click tracking is that any piece of online digital media can be tracked – whether you own it or not. Eye tracking studies can be performed on competitor websites for better analysis of what's working for them. You can analyze competitor ads and websites, pulling insights that can be used to shape or refine your own strategy.
Eye tracking heat maps can also be made of search result pages in Google, highlighting how visible your listing actually is against all of the other listings, advertisements, videos and photos that appear.
Test Before It's Live
Mouse click tracking requires that a site be completely built and functional before a test can be performed. To A/B test, resources must be devoted to actually build the assets you want to test. Not so with eye tracking, where prototypes and images of potential designs can be put to the test immediately, before you absorb the cost of implementing. You can gain powerful insights before signing off on a new redesign project.
Better Information That's Easy to Acquire
Where in the past eye tracking tests were expensive and difficult to perform, modern technology has made conducting this kind of testing affordable and easy to undertake. The software and testing procedures take all the guesswork out of the analysis, so you'll know exactly what to change.
The bottom line: mouse click heat mapping doesn't tell the whole story – and when it comes to conversions, it pays to see the whole picture.


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When road improvements brought greater commercial visibility to a blighted parcel in De Pere, Wisconsin, a developer sought to transform the acreage into a drugstore. However, estimates for environmental remediation and utility relocation came in higher than expected.
The Husch Blackwell team was instrumental in helping the developer work with the city and state to utilize a combination of cooperative funding sources that moved the project forward. The new store has increased property tax receipts, created new jobs and provided convenient access to shopping for area residents.
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When Parenting Is Harder Than You Expected
When Parenting Is Harder Than You Expected
Tips for dealing with the stress of parenting a baby
You're so tired, stressed, and overwhelmed that you feel like you've lost touch with everyone and everything. What are you supposed to do now?
It happens to all of us at one point or another.
- It seems like your baby never stops crying, and half the time you're right there with him.
- You're surrounded by unfolded laundry, three types of colic remedy (none of which work), and you just realized that the jumbo box of diapers you bought to save money gives your baby a terrible rash.
- You've read all the parenting books, magazines, and websites and you still don't know what to do.
The truth is, no one is ever ready for parenting.
Everyone's experience of this parenting gig is different, but here are a few tips that have helped us along the way:
- Give yourself permission. A new baby can bring out really intense feelings of anxiety, worry, and stress, and all of that is compounded by the fact that you're trying to adjust to a new life on little sleep. We've been there. Take time to do something restorative for yourself. A well-grounded parent is a better parent, so it's not selfish to take time to reduce your stress and feed your soul.
- Give yourself time. It's normal to feel a little overwhelmed or blue sometimes after you bring a new baby home. It's a major life change, so it takes time to adjust. But if you're feeling hopeless and sad most of the time, or if those feelings are persistent, please contact your doctor or pediatrician to get help.
- Give yourself peace of mind. When you're stressed and overwhelmed it's hard to be a good parent. Get the peace of mind you need to lean in to your new life as a family by finding tools and solutions that simplify baby care without compromising safety. And remember you're not alone. Stay plugged in to sanity-saving advice on common new parent situations from people and sources you trust.
Parenting is hard, but it's also a fantastic adventure. Some moments are more difficult than you ever imagined, but others are so breath-takingly beautiful you can hardly believe it. You're doing a great job as a parent and it's so worth it.


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Ichthys or Ikhthus (Greek: ἰχθύς, capitalized ΙΧΘΥΣ or ΙΧΘΥC) is the ancient and classical Greek word for "fish." In English it refers to a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish, said to have been used by early Christians as a secret symbol and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or the "Jesus fish."
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P.S. If you would like to be uplifted in your spirit (something akin to hearing the angels sing), then click here to listen to the Hallelujah Chorus
sung by a group of average people in an average American mall – appropriate at any time of year.
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