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Rats in the lunchbox, mould in the mattress: living in squalor in London
In three decades a social welfare advisor has not seen the levels of poverty that are routine today.
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Hinterland is the disturbing story of two Afghan children, who embark on a journey across continents when their family is destroyed by the conflict in Afghanistan. Aryan and Kabir seek sanctuary in Europe, but instead find themselves lost in a dangerous, adult underworld, where desperate migrants are fair game for criminals and brutal police officers with unchecked power.
Paradise Lost
Europe is El Dorado for clandestine migrants arriving from Africa. Many survive journeys spanning thousands of miles across the harshest terrain, sustained by the vision of a golden continent of freedom and work. But for those who step off the ferry in Sicily, just 145km from the continent they have left behind, how long does Europe, the gilded continent, retain its' shine?
Sweet prison: migrants in Spanish limbo II
Mention CETI to a taxi driver anywhere in Ceuta and he will know what you mean. Everyone in Ceuta knows about the immigration removal centre perched upon a steep hill overlooking the sea. The conditions are humane, even inviting, compared to similar immigrant-holding centres elsewhere in Europe. This is why the migrants call it a 'sweet prison'.
Is this what gentrification looks like?
I'm not really an opinion blogger; instead I prefer to tell stories based on my reporting and research. However, every now and then, I do like to let off steam. So below are a few of my scattered reflections on the riots in London this summer, which I reported on for the Washington Post here, here and here, and for the New Internationalist here, and Legal Action magazine here. And if you want some meaningful polemic, go read what Gary Younge says about rioting http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/14/young-british-rioters-political-actions And Camila Batmanghelidjh here http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/camila-batmanghelidjh-caring-costs-ndash-but-so-do-riots-2333991.html *** I hate the word gentrification. It carries such unpleasant…
A humanitarian crisis in the forests of northern France
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Recently we showed readers a leaked image purporting to be of the BlackBerry A10 with some initial leaked specs. Following this we gleaned some more details about the phone from some leaked parts, with a battery door showing Verizon 4G LTE branding. Now a new YouTube video has emerged with claims that this is the A10.
The phone has a 5-inch HD AMOLED display, and we've previously heard it will have a dual-core processor. We had not heard anything before about the battery capacity but in the video the back cover is removed to show a very decent 2800 mAh battery. The device shown in the video also has micro-SIM and microSD slots as well as micro-USB and micro-HDMI ports, while the usual BlackBerry volume rocker can be seen on the right with a headphone jack and the power button on the top.
Why not take a look at the video below to get a good idea of what is claimed to be the BlackBerry A10, although we should point out that the narration is in Vietnamese. There are still no details about a possible release date other than a vague rumor mentioning November, but we'll keep our eyes and ears open for further information about this.
If this is genuinely the A10 we think the design looks pretty good, but we'd like to know what you think. Are you impressed with what you see? Would you consider purchasing the BlackBerry A10 based on what you've seen and heard so far? Let us know with your comments.

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That Awkward Moment When You… Complete Social Media Fail
That feeling when you've said something stupid on Twitter and realize you're going to get flamed.
Been there? Well, be thankful that's as bad as it gets for most people. And then there are the real screw-ups.
This week has been full of social media blunders from the criminally stupid, the perpetually petrified and rude business-people in general. It's amazing how big these people messed up. Read on and you'll see why no-one will even remember your own social stumbles. These people are unbelievable!
When He Posted Pics Of His Crime On Instagram
So, this guy Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca decided to rob a bank the other day by politely asking for the money. As he didn't feel this was actually a crime, he thought that videoing the event and posting pictures on Instagram How Are You Doing On Instagram? These Websites Will Tell You Within Instagram itself there aren't any tools to display statistics, but by connecting your account to these websites, you can get loads of interesting, useful and important information. Read More afterwards was all fine and dandy.
All in all, he posted a picture of the note he handed the teller, and videos of her reading the note and her handing over the money. And then he wondered why he got arrested. Seriously.
That Moment When You Like Your Own Wanted Poster
Levi Charlies Reardon was wanted for forgery, as he was suspected to have stolen a wallet and cashed in some missing checks. But the police couldn't find him. That's where things got crazy.
Our criminal mastermind Levi was checking out Facebook when he saw his own wanted post on the Great Falls/Cascade County Crimestoppers Facebook page. What did he do? He clicked "like" Get More Likes On Your Facebook Photos Using Science [Weekly Facebook Tips] Want to know which photos will do best on Facebook? So did a bunch of researchers. And they found out. Read More . Unbelievable.
That Awkward Moment When You Call The Wrong Person A Paedophile
This gem of a story happened in Melbourne, Australia. A lady was out shopping with her kids and she saw a guy take a photo near them.
She got upset, took a photo of him before he left the area and then posted an update on Facebook with the photo saying "Ok people, take a look at this creep". The post went on to claim he'd taken a photo of her kids and that he was going to send it to a 16-yr old. She warned other people to stay safe Missing Child: How Sharing That Picture Can Put Lives At Risk [Weekly Facebook Tips] No doubt you've seen these pleas on Facebook before: Share this photo to help find my missing child. But you could actually be putting the child in danger. Have you ever thought of that? Read More and so the post was shared hundreds of times before the truth came out.
This poor guy found out via a friend who had seen his photo and went straight to the police to clear his name. And what was he doing?
Well, he was taking a selfie (his first!) 5 Things To Avoid When Taking Selfies Selfies shouldn't be taken lightly, and there are many things you need to avoid. Read More next to a "May The 4th Be With You" poster with Darth Vader on it. He thought it would be a daggy dad thing to do and wanted to send it to his kids. As he wandered off he was trying to work out how to send it to them.
Let this be a lesson to all parents not to try to keep up with the things kids do 7 Reasons Snapchat is a Teenager's Favourite Social Network The latest craze amongst the adults of the future is the secretive photo-sharing service Snapchat. Why do they love it? Read More . It could land you in trouble!
When You Call Your Customer Ugly On Your Facebook Page
The last bungle comes thanks to a wedding photographer who has absolutely no business sense whatsoever. After uploading the wedding photos of this couple he left a rather unpleasant comment about the bride.
"Ugliest bride I have ever photographed. Winged [sic] the whole time. Bridezilla #1"
For those of you who aren't Brits or Aussies, saying she "whinged" means she was complaining about everything. And calling her ugly? Not an ideal way to treat a client. And certainly not a great way to get new ones.
Apparently there was a dispute about the quality of the photos he took, so he was not exactly pleased with her when he uploaded this. But you'd think a business person would think about the damage a comment like this might do before they posted it. Wouldn't you?
More Social Media Blunders
Personally I can't get enough of reading about social media blunders. I read about them in the hope that it will minimize the chances of me making quite such grievous errors myself.
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Katie's Family
Stephanie Ashe
Full Name: Stephanie Gayle Ashe Age: 17 Height: 5′ 8″ Weight: 145 lbs. Eyes: Sky Blue Hair: Blonde
Stephanie is Katie's little sister, who is bigger than she is. Even though the sisters are six years apart, Steph is Katie's best friend, and arch supporter. Despite her strong body, Steph feels like a weakling compared to Katie. She has always admired the way her sister endured twelve surgeries and lengthy stays in the hospital without complaint. Katie is Steph's heroine, although she is becoming fond of the new purple vixen, Valkyria.
Steph is the classic "girl next door." A senior at Gifford Pinchot High School, she is a cheerleader and has won state competition trophies for the air split. Steph was also voted Most Popular and Homecoming Queen. She is no dummy, and appears set to be her graduating class' valedictorian. She floats from cool kids to nerds to geeks to jocks and back with ease.
Steph is brash and impulsive. She is also highly protective of Katie. Those two facts combined lead her to stay in trouble with her abusive step-father, Frank. She gets away with mouthing off to Katie and her mother mostly because she's usually right. Perhaps more than even Katie, Steph wants to protect others. She was suspended once for punching a bully (she knocked him cold). She wants to be a psychiatrist, to help protect people from themselves. Steph may have a closet kinky side. Every now and then, she drops a comment to Katie and Jessica about handcuffs and spankings that leave them stunned.
Steph bloomed late, but bloomed well. Even though highly athletic, she is extremely voluptuous, having enough body for both Ashe sisters. That does present a problem, though. Frank has started eyeing her with ulterior motives.
Jessica Ashe
Full Name: Jessica Teal Ashe Age: 21 Height: 5′ 6″ Weight: 135 lbs. Eyes: China Blue Hair: Brown
The third Ashe Girl is Katie and Stephanie's first cousin, the eldest child of their Uncle Bob. The trio are extremely close. Katie and Steph see Jessica as their middle sister, and Jessie returns the sentiment.
Jessie's parents divorced when she was twelve. She took it hard. By 17, she was an alcoholic. At 18, she chain smoked, and was addicted to codeine at 19. Rumor has it she has had two abortions, something she neither denies nor confirms. Jessie doesn't care what people think of her and often does things for shock value. She has a short temper, a foul mouth, and a sarcastic wit.
Even with her flaws, Jessie is fiercely loyal to her cousins, has a good relationship with her once distant father, and still sees Gayle as her aunt. She is a genius mechanic. There seems to be no engine or transmission she doesn't know like an old friend. Jessie can turn a pile of junk into a fine machine, or reduce a quality automobile into scrap just as fast. Jessie's hobby is hotrodding Stephanie's beater of a car behind her back.
Her full name at birth was Corduroy Teal. Her mother was odd. Bob finally convinced her mother to give the poor girl a normal and legal first name just before she started kindergarten. Jessie still has not forgiven her mother for that original first name. It didn't help that her mother ran off with a gangster and never contacted her again.
Gayle Mason
Full Name: Gayle Linda Mason Age: 49 Height: 5′ 4″ Weight: 125 lbs. Eyes: Blue Hair: Silver
Gayle is Katie and Stephanie's mother. The daughter of a cop, she wanted to be Wonder Woman when she grew up. She settled on high school guidance counselor as the closest possible alternative.
Gayle met Stephen Ashe in high school, when he was the first baseman for the baseball team and she was a cheerleader. They married upon graduation. For six years, she was the dutiful Marine Wife, then the dutiful Cop's Wife. She loved it. When Stephen was killed in the line of duty, her heart was crushed, even if she was proud of him.
Her second marriage to Frank Mason is one of convenience. He needed a family for social status, and she needed money to pay for her daughters' education and Katie's astronomical medical bills. As he descended into tyranny and abuse, she descended into the world of romance novels.
As far as the rest of the Ashe family is concerned, Gayle is still one of them. Bob thinks of her as his own sister, not a former in-law. Jessie still calls her Aunt Gayle. That sticks in Frank's craw.
Gayle is the only one who knows her sickly, diminutive daughter Katie is also the powerful Protector of Parthenon, Valkyria. She learned the day after it happened, forcing Katie's hand. Instead of scolding her child for putting herself in harm's way, she encouraged her, going so far as to loan Katie her old Halloween costume as a suit. She is Katie's staunch confidante. Katie draws strength from her mother, and that has become reciprocal. Gayle's spirit is being revived as she watches her now healthy and whole eldest tackle the problems of her city. She may just yet tell Frank to sit down and shut up.
Gayle has a sardonic wit. She coined Katie's nickname "the Electric Grape," which, unfortunately for Valkyria, became popular with the press. It's probably a good thing. Gayle's other suggestions for her daughter were "Captain Cleavage" and "Superboobs."
Frank Mason
Full Name: Franklin Oliver Mason Age: 52 Height: 5′ 11″ Weight: 175 lbs. Eyes: Brown Hair: What hair?
When Frank Mason married the widow Gayle Ashe, he was a decent man. A successful commercial contractor, he worked hard, and provided well for his two step-daughters. Then, he hit paydirt with the contract for a highrise office building downtown. The money, fame, and power went to his head. With each successive contract, he became more and more tyrannical. He demanded perfection and financial savvy from his family, and none of the three Ashe women shared his goals. He felt they embarrassed him in the social circles he needed to win.
Frank verbally, emotionally, and physically abuses Gayle for what he sees as her shortcomings. He has developed indecent interest in Stephanie. Katie especially embarrasses him. Her college major of art was a waste. He saw her career as a comics artist as merely "doodling fairy tales." When she took a job as a short order cook, he threw her out of the house — on Thanksgiving Day.
The only thing that keeps Frank from going too far with Gayle and Katie, and especially Stephanie, is he is terrified of the formidable Bob Ashe. Every now and then, Bob rattles his badge, threatening to see to it that Frank gets a speeding ticket on every block in town for the rest of the year. Frank is aware that his status affords him a level of power that he feels he should be able to leverage against Bob Ashe. However, Bob's immediate superiors, the Chief of Police and the Mayor, cannot be bought or threatened. The notorious gangster Zachariah Kane failed to do that very thing, so what chance does a mere contractor have?
Now that Katie can do something about it, she is keeping a close eye on her step-father. One of these days, he may overstep his boundaries. When he does, he has a date with the fist of Valkyria.
Bob Ashe
Full Name: Robert Groover Ashe, Jr. Age: 47 Height: 6′ 0″ Weight: 195 lbs. Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown
Bob is Katie and Stephanie's uncle, and Jessica's father. He followed his father and older brother's footsteps. He became a US Marine out of high school, served eight years, then became an officer for Parthenon Police Department. Through hard work, and uncanny detective skills, Bob rose to the rank of Lieutenant, specializing in organized crime.
Bob is a good cop and a better detective. He is the classic straight arrow. He cannot be bribed or threatened. He has been known to bend the law, however, especially against those who try to bribe or threaten him. Bob is one of the few law enforcement agents in Parthenon to earn the status "Untouchable." That isn't because he can't be bought. It's because the Mob has a standing order to leave Lt. Ashe alone and not attract his attention. He has a badge and a .44 magnum and he isn't afraid to use them. He is perhaps the last cop remaining in the city that has the respect of organized crime.
Until now. Bob had just about given up, disgusted over the revolving door that permitted the criminals he arrested to go free on technicalities. Then, she appeared. Valkyria. This purple miracle. Sure, she's destructive, and clumsy, and insurance rates are spiraling upward, but she catches criminals that Bob can't reach. And she knows how to preserve evidence. Is she related to a cop, he wonders. For some reason, Valkyria likes Lt. Ashe. She always calls him to make an arrest, and it's never a petty thief, either. She leaves envelopes of evidence on his desk. Her affidavits are thorough. Who is she! Whoever this Valkyira is, she's good enough for him to call in favors, and rap a few knuckles, to have her property damage swept under the city's collective carpet.
Bob may be a good cop, but he was a terrible father. When his wife Barbara left him for a gangster, his self-esteem collapsed. He threw himself into his work, and became an alcoholic. He ignored Jessie and Bobby. While his son found himself through sports, Jessie turned to drugs, booze, and sex. When she stood at the threshold of becoming a heroin dealer, Bob sobered up. He reconciled with Jessie and they now have a fairly good father-daughter relationship, although the damage has been done. He is grateful to his eldest niece for holding his daughter together through her teen years.
Family Members Who Won't Be Seen Much
Stephen Ashe
Katie's late father, and Bob's older brother. He became a cop in Parthenon after six years as a Marine. He rose to the rank of detective sergeant. On November 10, 2007, he was killed while negotiating a hostage release with some thieves in a bank robbery gone wrong. His death saved the lives of the fourteen hostages, and two of the robbers. He is still celebrated in Parthenon as a hero, and is Katie's primary source of inspiration. Stephen was the only one who could call Katie "Kitten." She becomes hostile if anyone else does. Stephanie is named for him. Stephen will be referred to by Katie, Gayle, and Stephanie, and may appear in flashbacks.
Bobby Ashe (Robert Ashe, III)
Uncle Bob's son and Jessica's younger brother. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps upon graduation from high school. He's away from home, and won't be seen much in the comic. The Ashe Girls will talk about him from time to time.
Cathy and Robert Ashe, Sr.
Katie's grandparents. Robert Senior was a lifetime beat cop for Parthenon PD. Although still alive, they won't appear in the comic often. Katie is named for them.


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Madrid Protocols Streamlines European Trademark Registration Process
Madrid Protocols Streamlines European Trademark Registration Process
Registering a trademark in multiple countries used to cost companies much time and a lot of money. Separate applications and fees were required for each nation in which a trademark registration was sought. Fortunately, the bureaucratic hurdles to trademark registration have been removed by governing bodies in the European Union (EU) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Community Trademark
The European Union trademark law allows an EU member country to obtain a trademark that will be valid in all EU countries designated by the applicant nation. Trademarks may be registered under a national system, with individual countries, or across the entire EU by way of a Community Trademark (CTM).
The purpose of a Community Trademark is to streamline the application process and to achieve harmonization of trademark law within the EU. Administered by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, the CTM saves companies time and money, is good for 10 years, and can be renewed indefinitely.
Having a national registration and a CTM registration system can cause confusion as requirements for each may differ. As more countries join the EU, there is greater chance of opposition to an application if new members feel a CTM application conflicts with their trademark rights. One member state's objection to a CTM application can doom the entire application. However, once an application is approved, it is enforceable in all EU countries.
The plusses clearly outweigh the minuses of having a CTM. In addition being a cost effective and time saving application process, a Community Trademark identifies the origin of goods and services; acts as a guarantee of product quality; and provides publicity and advertising benefits.
Earlier Worldwide System Ineffective
Before the CTM there was the Madrid System whose goal was also to streamline the trademark registration process among countries. The system was administered by the International Bureau of WIPO. However, the Madrid System never gained acceptance among enough countries to be effective. Nations who represented the bulk of trademark filings (U.S., Japan, U.K., along with several in Central and South America), failed to sign on to the system.
These countries feared that if a home registration (upon which the international registration is based) got canceled or limited, the international registration would face the same fate. Also, forwarding a uniform application to Madrid System members nations, rather than an actual registration of the applicable trademark in the national registers, precluded a true registration system.
A Protocol is Born
The Madrid Protocol was established to address the problems with the Madrid System. Like the EU's CMT, the Protocol enables countries to get a single trademark registration that will be valid in all member nations. The Protocol includes provisions for a fair and equitable formula under which countries can make decisions related to the implementation of the Protocol.
Another benefit of the Madrid Protocol is that a country can obtain an international registration based on a pending trademark application. Under the old Madrid System, a trademark owner had to hold an existing registration in a member jurisdiction before applying for an international one. This requirement added months or years to the processing time.
The Protocol also solves the problem of home registrations coming under attack from other member nations. Through a process called conversion, a challenged international registration can be transformed into a series of applications in each jurisdiction designated by the applicant.
These improvements satisfied most countries who balked at the Madrid System, including EU members and the United States, who reached an agreement to participate in the Protocol. Protocol participants are especially pleased with the cost savings from filing a single application. The cost to register one trademark in 10 separate countries is at least $14,000. Under the Protocol, the cost drops to a pre-set price of $4700 for one international application.
The cost to amend a trademark also drops considerably. A company with 1000 trademark registrations in ten countries used to spend several thousand dollars to file 10,000 amendment applications. With the Protocol, the company spends $100 to file one amendment application with WIPO.
Both the Community Trademark system and the Madrid Protocol allow EU member states to take advantage of huge cost savings and to speed the process of obtaining trademark registrations in multiple countries - a good example of bureaucracy that actually works.


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Two all-electric tube bending machines from Unison Ltd are helping Ultibend Industries to increase the manufacturing productivity of stainless steel tube fittings for the food and beverage processing systems at their manufacturing facility in Wellington, New Zealand. Ultibend purchased two customised tube bending machines to suit their proprietary manufacturing process, the machines from Unison automate the bending of tube fitting shapes such as elbows and U-bends, in sizes from 1/2 to 4 inches in diameter. Manufacturing operations have demonstrated that the Unison tube bending machines have significantly boosted their manufacturing speed compared with their previous hydraulic bending machines.
Together, these benders are involved in making all Ultibend Industries bends in the sizes ½ inch to 4-inch diameter. Since installation their 130mm single stack tube bender has produced 320,912 bends and the 80mm Single stack tube bending machine bender that works on the smaller sizes has made 558,441 bends. Bends from these tube benders go to projects around New Zealand, Australia and the US, especially dairy factories, breweries, and in some cases to the automotive industry.
As the company expanded, it became essential to upgrade the bending process and replace the original in house built hydraulic bending machines with modern, low maintenance and reliable all-electric tube bending machines, using software-controlled servomotor-controlled bending. "We knew of Unison ltd as we had had dealings with them in the past. We like that being software engineers, Unison could take our ideas and issues and come up with a tailored solution in the form of a customer specific machine. They're also an ethical company whose values aligned with our own. This has been proved in our dealings with them with the excellent support and prompt response to issues we have." Linc Turley, Director at Ultibend Industries.
Describing some of the key advantages to Unison's solution, he adds: "The Unison software has been invaluable as opposed to our old hydraulic system, the all-electric servo driven machines give us greater control over bend parameters and increased accuracy (can meet standards consistently). All the data (i.e. pressure values, mandrel position) is captured and automatically adjusted to the correct position during set up as opposed to manual adjustments. This gives us the ability to put lower skilled operators on these machines, as doing set ups and making adjustments is more straight forward. It is also a lot easier and faster to make minor adjustments to the bender settings via a program rather than having to manually adjust threads. This saves us time on difficult products, as we make minor adjustments to get the required quality finished product."
Ultibend Industries sell their tube fittings to merchants in New Zealand, Australia and the United States who then supply the end user. Their bends are commonly used in wineries, breweries and dairy factories all around New Zealand, California and Australia as well as the automotive and architectural industries in the form of exhausts, other car parts and handrails.
Why Ultibend Love their Unison benders as opposed to their old hydraulic bending machines:
- Higher accuracy and consistency, once a size is set up changes to the bend angle and pressure setting do not have to be made like they had to with the hydraulic benders.
- Electric servos increase flexibility in the running of benders. They can easily vary how far the clamps open for loading, alter the loading positions for 45-degree programs etc
- Less maintenance time spent fixing hydraulic leaks
Safety feature written into the software make the machines MUCH safer than the old hydraulic benders


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CIA agents and officials often pay a psychological price to protect us. By Ursula Wilder.
Dr. Ursula M. Wilder is a clinical psychologist with 16 years of Federal service in the Intelligence Community. She was a 2011-2012 Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she studied the psychological rewards and challenges of professionals who work in counterterrorism.
Deep Cover
Psychologist Ursula Wilder on the unseen physical and mental toll—and true heroes—of the espionage world.


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I'm sorry. I haven't put together Los Links, and I won't have time to do it tonight. Unavoidably detained, you see.
(It's his fault, actually. He's the one what did it. And I adore him for it.)
Anyway, those of you who know what I'm referring to should feel free to babble about how much they adore the show in comments. For those of you not yet addicted, all I can say is that I'm terribly sorry.


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The award, sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemistry and the Law (CHAL), "recognize[s] those making significant contributions to, and/or having significant involvement in, alternative careers in chemistry."
In addition to Lisa's long, selfless, and effective stewardship of the St Louis Section's Career Services, Lisa's professional life as Balbes Consultants has been the very definition of "alternative." She provides technical writing/editing services as well as career management seminars at universities and ACS meetings. She writes career development columns for InChemistry and Chemical & Engineering News, and is a frequent contributor to the ACS Careers blog (but only if more than 125 posts over the past eight years qualifies as frequent). And her book, Nontraditional Careers for Chemists, makes this award particularly meta.
It's gratifying to find that national ACS has recognized what we in the St Louis Section have known for a long time: Lisa is a gem.


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Chardon, Ohio, November 19, 2015- Today e2b teknologies, publishers of Anytime Collect (www.AnytimeCollect.com) accounts receivable management software, announced that a new customer has chosen Anytime Collect to streamline and automate accounts receivable for Microsoft Dynamics AX.
The new customer, a manufacturer of hand blown glass and handmade pottery, distributes premium quality products through a nationwide network of company owned retail stores, wholesale partners, e-commerce sites, and mail-order catalogues. Prior to purchasing Anytime Collect, the company managed invoices with its Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system, a solid solution for managing various financial, distribution, and related business processes, but not a strategic tool to help them stay on top of their accounts receivable.
As with most mid-market ERP solutions, the accounts receivable module within Microsoft Dynamics AX offered limited capabilities to help the company manage invoices, which meant spending a significant amount of time and energy working on non-value added activities and tedious manual processes. With a large number of wholesalers buying thousands of dollars of product on account, the company needed a better way to manage the invoice collection process.
Before hiring on an additional employee in an attempt to improve productivity and increase cash flow, the company set out to investigate other solutions to the problem, which is how they discovered Anytime Collect.
"Our company purchased Anytime Collect with the hope that it will provide a streamlined process for collections," said the company's Senior Accountant. "We look forward to getting up and running on the software as the estimated time savings and efficiencies will help us do more with our current resources, helping us collect invoices faster without having to take on any additional staffing overhead."
Anytime Collect integrates with ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics AX, to extend basic A/R modules with advanced tools and automation features to rid companies of time consuming manual processes that often slow the order to cash cycle. Anytime Collect allows users to automatically send payment reminder emails, prioritize collection activities, archive customer email conversations, schedule follow up activities, manage disputes, forecast cash, centralize critical information, manage credit information, enable customers to pay invoices online via credit card or ACH, and more.
"While many companies follow their gut reaction to throw more resources at a collection problem, this company took a step back and saw that there was a more strategic way to overcome their A/R challenges," said Adam Lynch, Anytime Collect Account Executive at e2b teknologies. "Rather than hiring additional hands to continue to follow an inefficient process, they chose instead to utilize technology to improve the process itself. We are very confident that they will indeed find the cost savings and efficiencies they were looking for with Anytime Collect and look forward to watching their success."
About Anytime Collect:
Anytime Collect, published by e2b teknologies, is a leading cloud-based accounts receivables management system integrated to popular ERP accounting systems including Epicor, Sage ERP, Microsoft Dynamics, Intuit QuickBooks, and others. Anytime Collect is designed specifically for businesses selling to other businesses on credit terms to streamline and automate the entire accounts receivable credit and collections process with a return on investment in as little as two months.


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Frequent Links
Jesus' true relatives
|This article possibly contains original research. (March 2011)
The saying of Jesus concerning his true relatives is found in the Canonical gospels of Mark and Matthew.
In the Bible
From Mark 3:31–35:
There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing
without, sent unto him, calling him. And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is mybrother, and my sister, and mother.
From Matthew 12:46–50:
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and
his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is inheaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Apocryphal version
A re-organized version also appears in the Gospel of Thomas (Patterson-Meyer Translation):
99 The disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your mother are
standing outside." He said to them, "Those here who do what my Father wants are my brothers and my mother. They are the ones who will enter my Father's kingdom." 100 They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "The Roman emperor's people demand taxes from us." He said to them, "Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor, give God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine." 101 "Whoever does not hate [father] and mother as I do cannot be my [disciple], and whoever does [not] love [father and] mother as I do cannot be my [disciple]. For my mother [...], but my true[mother] gave me life."
Verse 100 (Caesar's Coin) is similar to Mark 12:13-17 and Luke 20.22-26. Verse 101 (Love Jesus/God more than your family) is similar to Matthew 10:37 and Luke 14:26-33.
Jesus' true relatives
|Preceded by
Parable of the Strong Man
Parables of Jesus
|New Testament
| Succeeded by
Parable of the Sower
Parables of Jesus


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While testing my proxy with Postman, I get the following error:
Here are the request and error
{ "fault": { "faultstring": "Unable to identify proxy for host: secure and url: /v1/products/%7B%7Bproduct_id%7D%7D", "detail": { "errorcode": "messaging.adaptors.http.flow.ApplicationNotFound" } } }
Answer by Sai Saran Vaidyanathan · May 31, 2018 at 06:05 PM
@Ivan De Los Santos - I hope you imported the Postman collection and the environment json. Once you have imported both, please make sure that the "Apigee-Edge-Dev-Training" environment is selected in the top right dropdown (please check the instructions in Coursera). You will need to update the Environment values with your Org name. Once you do that, Postman should pick those values and hit the endpoint
I followed all the lab's instructions.
The only issue I see is that when I hover over the {{product_id}}, the variable is undefined.
Not sure why you dont see the other params. Use this environment file and try. If you are not able to, then create a new entry in the env in postman. The id is 697690
I think, I discovered what is wrong.
My current URI in Postman was:
This was generating an error. whereas the API Proxy end point in the Apigee console is
I traced both of these requests in the trace console and in Postman.
This one was successful.
I then opened the spec file for the API proxy and noticed that the base path:
"basePath": "/v1", "paths": { "/products": {
Then, I changed to:
"basePath": "/db", "paths": { "/products": {
I executed the request in the spec console and in Postman and It works in both places.
Let me know if this is an acceptable solution. I am afraid to continue with the course and find that this change will haunt me somewhere down the line.
It should not be changed, it should work as expected. Can you confirm that the URL in your Target end point of your Products proxy is https://{org}-test.apigee.net/db ?
Answer by Jyothi K Reddy · Oct 16, 2018 at 12:09 AM
Hello Everyone, It seems that several of us ran into this issue with the second Lab in course two. Lab: Test your Proxy
Im posting these steps here for your reference incase anyone runs into this issue.
I hope this helps anyone who got stuck.
** Edit - dont need to edit spec, You can just rename the path for the existing API.
Hi @Jyothi K Reddy - I do not think any change is required to the spec, just follow the instructions during the create proxy wizard. That has what values you need to pass.
@ssvaidyanathan Yes, I agree. Updated my answer here.
Thanks @Jyothi K Reddy
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Stained glass: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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The church of Santa Luzia at the top of a mount overlooking Viana do Castelo spends a lot of time hidden in the clouds. Looking as spectacular as an Indian temple and with views to match once the sun comes out, it's a wonderful place to spend some time. The camera I took the photo with below doesn't do the glass justice. Continue reading
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At the top of the cable car ride up the imposing mountain of Penha in Guimaraes in Portugal, sits the church of Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Carmo da Penha, surrounded by a beautiful recreation area and spectacular views all round. Continue reading
Stained glass: Bath Abbey
Formerly a Benedictine Monastery. Founded in the 7th century, Bath Abbey was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It is one of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country. (Wikipedia) Continue reading
Stained glass: St John the Evangelist, Carlton-in-Lindrick
Oooh, it's been too long.
A reconstructed window shows some pretty stain work
Stained glass: Worcester Cathedral cloisters
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This new Recommended Practice provides design criteria for the many different types of spaces found within today's libraries. This document addresses the many and varied visual tasks encountered by patrons and staff during the course of their activities in libraries of all types (Public, School, Special, and Academic and Research). As energy criteria have gained predominance throughout our society, so too has a focus on light quality. The relationship between energy demand and light quality is evident within this document.
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Dish Seeks Open-Ended Comcast/NBCU Conditions
Dish Network was doing some last-minute lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission for open-ended conditions on the Comcast/NBCU deal.
The FCC plans to impose more than a dozen conditions on the deal, according to sources, with most lasting seven years.
But according to an ex parte filing at the FCC, Jeff Blum, Dish general counsel and senior vice president, argued that the conditions should remain in force "until Comcast-NBCU can demonstrate that the public interest is no longer served by such conditions."
That came in a phone call Tuesday to Josh Gottheimer, senior counselor to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. Blum also put in a pitch for wholesaling broadband, standstill and arbitration conditions for online content access, and "strong" broadband conditions.
The FCC's transition team has drafted an order approving the joint venture with numerous conditions, including on network neutrality, program access, online access and broadband deployment.
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Developing your leadership image doesn't have to be a complicated process. Often, gaining the awareness of your current image and its limits goes a long way.
For example, if you realize you talk too fast when delivering bad news and are often viewed as nervous, you can make a conscious effort to take a breath, slow down, and remain calm.
But before you make any changes, be sure to get a good, truthful picture of your image. Take time to understand how others see you and why. Seek feedback from colleagues, your boss, and direct reports. Ask your friends, children, and significant other. Each of these points of view will shed light on how your words and behavior are viewed by the people around you.
Next, remind yourself that genuine change is rarely dramatic. For leaders, a significant change is likely to be viewed suspiciously as false or manipulative behavior. You're not likely to make genuine, sustainable change without commitment to small, daily changes.
Practicing new behaviors may feel uncomfortable or strange, but avoid doing anything that doesn't mesh with your values and intentions. An authentic desire to learn and change is what building a leadership image is all about. With that in mind, consider the gap between the image others have of you and the image you would like to project. Decide what you can go to work on immediately, and try these 6 helpful techniques:
- Tell stories. Leaders who give examples through their stories are more engaging. You influence the organization's culture when you tell stories about what happened, about how a problem was solved, or about someone who did something notable.
- Master your message. Clarity of thought and message is key. Think about what you want to say. Every question and every conversation is an opportunity to share ideas, vision, and values. But strike a balance between too much detail and not enough. Also, be sure you can talk vision and concepts, yet show your grasp of the tactical.
- Use vocal variety. People listen better to a pleasant and enthusiastic speech pattern. Pay attention to your intonation, speed, diction, pacing, and volume. Do you regularly overuse a word or forget to breathe and rush through what you have to say?
- Focus on "we." Leaders who use inclusive language, like "we" and "us," inspire their listeners and draw on shared effort and interests.
- Smile. You'll appear friendly if you tap into your personal warmth, and the best way to convey warmth is to smile. Often leaders don't relax or crack a smile unless they're talking about something personal such as a child's school event or a recent vacation. You'll be more effective if you take the same tone when talking about the business.
- Consider visual impact. Your listeners will see you before they hear you, and nonverbal communication is powerful. Change your haircut or update your wardrobe. If you feel good about your appearance, you will project an image of greater confidence.


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Over the past five years the tech company Uber has made huge splashes all over the country. The trendy app/website, which allows you to order a ride through a mobile app and track the car's progress as it approaches, has completely revolutionized the world of transportation and the company is now valued at over 18 billion dollars.
Their enormous success has not come without its share of opposition, however. Taxi and transportation commissions have strongly opposed Uber's business tactics and accused them of operating as "unlicensed taxis." Their shifting prices and fares are harder to regulate than most taxi cabs as Uber is its own separate business. There are still large cities around the country that have yet to allow Uber to operate legally within the city.
The people at Uber are clearly unafraid of opposition considering their newest venture is likely to upset people far beyond the Yellow Cab industry. This upcoming Fall, the company plans to launch Uber Ambulances, an efficient upscale medical service that will take you to the hospital through the Uber Ambulance app.
The process is simple. A customer suffers a serious injury and rather than calling 911 and waiting for an ambulance, which can be very expensive, they simply plug in their location to the Uber Ambulance. Within minutes they will receive a text telling them the name of their driver with a tracking device showing them how close the driver is to picking them up.
"It's going to change the medical field forever," claims company president John Uber. "When you get shot in the face do you really want to deal with a 911 operator? I mean who even talks on the phone anymore, anyway? Plus, paying for an ambulance is tricky, I think you have to use ObamaCare or something. With Uber Ambulances you can just pay upfront with your Uber account."
So far test cases have shown mixed results.
Mike Leonard was hit by a bus and used Uber Ambulance to get to the hospital.
"I mean, I'm still alive, so I guess it worked. I typed in my location and my injury and within minutes it told me that 'Phillip' was on his way in a gray Range Rover. Then I got another text asking how bad I was bleeding and whether Phillip should put down sheets in his back seat to protect his leather seats. It also asked if I wanted to tag any friends in my ambulance experience. Most of my fingers were broken so I declined."
Like the Uber taxi experience, one of the biggest factors that separates the Uber Ambulance is all the amenities that come with the ride. Creative leader John Goober elaborated on the experience.
"We can pretty much guarantee it will be more fun than any ambulance ride you've ever had. Each ambulance has a mini-fridge that carries Fiji water and Greek yogurt. While you wait for your ambulance's arrival you can also create your own Spotify playlist to listen to on your way to the hospital. We're even thinking about putting a First Aid kit under the driver's seat with band-aids and stuff. Oh, and the Beats by Dre headphones! I almost forgot!"
No medical experience is required to be an Uber Ambulance driver, although most of the current drivers who are signed up failed out of nursing school at some point in their lives.
Uber plans to offer plenty of promotions to kick off the venture. If it's your first broken bone using Uber Ambulance then you get $10 dollars credited to your account. If you refer a friend who needs to be taken to the ICU then your next ride will be free.
While the Uber Ambulances do not have the authority to turn on a siren and run red lights they do offer small talk from the driver about how long he has worked for Uber and what the gig is like.
At press time emergency room doctors were urging the public to not use Uber Ambulance and to instead rely on actual medical professionals.
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1897 Poster for the first London revival of The Mikado by John Hassall
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum
(color lithograph)
Then, as now, most producers used posters to promote their shows. It therefore should come as no surprise that the graphic designers of posters for shows set in the Far East would also focus on their exotic settings or costumes in order to give the ticket-buying public an idea of what such shows were about. These posters were usually lithographs, but some were woodcuts. In fact, most of the earliest color posters in the Library of Congress's Theatrical Poster Collection are color woodcut posters of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
(color woodcuts)
The 1890s produced two other monster hits that spawned famous posters. The first, the musical comedy A Trip To Chinatown, with music by Percy Gaunt and book and lyrics by Charles H. Hoyt, opened at Madison Square Theater in New York City on November 9, 1891. It ran for 657 performances, the longest-running Broadway musical up to that point in time, with a plot reminiscent of that of Hello, Dolly! The characters in the show never actually go to San Francisco's Chinatown, however, which probably explains the lack of chinoiserie in the Broadway poster. The famous poster for the London production, however, which opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29, 1894, features the silhouette of a Chinese man.
1894 Poster for A Trip to Chinatown by The Beggarstaff Brothers
Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
(color lithograph)
This poster was designed by The Beggarstaff Brothers, i.e., James Pryde and William Nicholson, whose use of clear outlines and large expanses of flat color was derived from Japanese ukiyo-e prints. The green square on the upper right not only balances the composition but probably was intended to bear the title of the show, mimicking the title cartouches found in Japanese prints. According to Nicholson, the printer, Dangerfield Printing Co, however, "mutilated" the poster by adding "some idiotic imitation of Chinese lettering placed around it to form a border." These changes so infuriated the Beggarstaffs that they refused to put their name on the poster. In 1899, the design was reproduced in a reduced size in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche. Rare even in its day, this poster set a record when it fetched $43,700 at Swann's in 2004.
Courtesy of the Mabey Collection
Right: 1886 Poster for The Geisha by Dudley Hardy
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum
(color lithographs)
The other huge musical comedy hit of the 1890s was The Geisha with music by Sidney Jones, lyrics by Owen Hall, and a book by Harry Greenback (with additional songs by James Philip and Lionel Monckton, the latter of which also wrote songs for The Cingalee, a show set in Ceylon). The Geisha opened at London's Daly's Theatre on April 25, 1896, where it ran for 760 performances, the second longest run of any musical up to that time. Subtitled "A Story of a Tea House," The Geisha concerned a British officer who develops a friendship with the geisha O Mimosa San at the Tea House of Ten Thousand Joys. His English fiance dresses up as a geisha called Roli Poli in an attempt to win him back and ends up being bought by a local Japanese overlord who intends to marry her. Whereas Wilson's poster adopts the use of large areas of flat color from Japanese prints, Hardy's poster is Japonisme viewed through the lens of art nouveau.
1904 Poster for Madama Butterfly by Leopoldo Metlicovitz
(color lithograph)
1904 Poster for Madama Butterfly by Adolfo Hohenstein
(color lithograph)
Giacomo Puccini's producers were able to get two of the most important Italian art nouveau poster designers of the day to create for posters for the initial February 1904 La Scala production of Madama Butterfly: Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Adolfo Hohenstein. The opera was based on a one-act play by David Belasco that had premiered in New York City four years earlier, and incorporated music that Puccini heard performed by the Japanese actress Sadayakko when she appeared in Milan in 1902. Despite Metlicovitz's particularly evocative poster design, the La Scala production was a disaster, only becoming a success after Puccini revised and recast the opera several months later.
1903 Poster for The Darling of the Gods designed by Yoshio Markino
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum
(color lithograph)
I could go on and discuss shows such as Broadway to Tokio, San Toy, A Chinese Honeymoon, A Trip To Japan, and Chu Chin Chow, but I think you get a sense of the theatrical posters of the period. Two other posters, however, are worth mentioning because the artists behind them also designed and/or made woodblock prints. The first is Yoshio Markino's poster for the London production of The Darling of the Gods. Because the artist was Japanese and the show was a drama, not a musical comedy, this poster has greater gravity than any of the earlier posters conceived by Western artists. Although the design is spare, it is more in keeping with Markino's post-Impressionistic paintings than with the art nouveau movement. You can read more about Markino and his involvement with this play in my prior post on Markino.
The noted book illustrator Edmund Dulac created the poster for the London production of the play The Willow Tree by J.H. Benrimo and Harrison Rhodes. The play, which had debuted on Broadway earlier that year, opened at London's Globe Theatre on October 22, 1917. More than a few of the books and stories that Dulac illustrated had oriental settings, such as "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen. Dulac was also friends with Laurence Binyon, a writer, critic, and Japanese art scholar who was the Keeper of Oriental Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. For more information on Dulac's woodblock print output, I recommend this post on Haji baba's Modern Printmakers blog.
1917 poster for The Willow Tree by Edmund Dulac
Personal Collection
(color lithograph)
The noted book illustrator Edmund Dulac created the poster for the London production of the play The Willow Tree by J.H. Benrimo and Harrison Rhodes. The play, which had debuted on Broadway earlier that year, opened at London's Globe Theatre on October 22, 1917. More than a few of the books and stories that Dulac illustrated had oriental settings, such as "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen. Dulac was also friends with Laurence Binyon, a writer, critic, and Japanese art scholar who was the Keeper of Oriental Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. For more information on Dulac's woodblock print output, I recommend this post on Haji baba's Modern Printmakers blog.
Laurence Binyon (c. 1913) by Edmund Dulac
Courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum
(color woodblock print)
(color woodblock print)
To bring things full circle, one needs to remind oneself every now and again that artistic influence is rarely a one-way street. A young Ishikawa Toraji (1875-1964) toured Europe circa 1902-1903 where he was exposed to European posters, especially those by art noveau painters like Alphonse Mucha. (Upon his return, Toraji would publish an article on Mucha in the literary magazine Myōjō.) The posters featured in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche evidently made such an impression on Toraji that he made over 40 copies of various poster designs, especially ones by Mucha, Jules Chéret, and the Beggarstaff Brothers. I'm convinced that Toraji's color sense, particularly his use of solid red backgrounds for his nude prints in the 1930s, can be directly attributed to his exposure to such posters. I refer any readers who are interested in more information about Toraji's composition of his nude prints to a short article I wrote on the subject.
A Trip to Chinatown (c. 1902-1903) by Ishikawa Toraji (after the Beggarstaff Brothers)
Personal Collection
(ink drawing with watercolor)
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A life without a limb, or any added challenge, is just as fulfilling and can promote even more awareness and creativity for the drive to succeed in any endeavour. People who choose to see their situation as merely another growth opportunity, are able to overcome one of the many curve balls that life throws at us all. The temerity to take up a sport like adaptive golf is a courageous endeavor to say the least. You might be interested to know, however, that these individuals have a unique sensitivity for learning the sport of golf correctly.
Adaptive Golf, a Perfect Example of Life Finding a Way
Through our time and research on the Gravity Golf Swing and in teaching it for more than forty years, we have developed a unique view into the human brain and the way it learns. The brain is truly an awesome mechanism and it will never cease to humble and amaze you with its capabilities.
If you sit down at the front door of any store and watch a hundred people walk into the building, you may very well see many adaptations of movement; above ninety percent of everyone who walks in is dysfunctional in one major body joint or another. One may be hunched over and barely able to walk. Others may be dragging one leg behind them or have one shoulder slumped significantly lower than the other. They may have all sorts of maladies, but they all have one thing in common – they all manage to get through the door! Do you remember what Jeff Goldblum said in the movie Jurassic Park? When the scientists told him that the dinosaurs couldn't breed because they had withheld lysine, his reply was, " life finds a way!"
The Secret Awareness of Adaptive Golf Players
Over the years, we've worked with many physically challenged golfers, and it's taught us one thing for certain; life does find a way, and the human brain can elevate itself to deal with almost anything. Amazingly, the adaptive golfer can oftentimes learn much faster than a traditional golfer. As a matter of fact, the challenges of adaptive golf meld perfectly with the way we teach Gravity Golf.
The easiest way to learn and excel in any motor program is through creating a perceived threat to the body, such as challenging one's balance. We accomplish this through a system of very specialized drills designed to heighten the brain's sensitivity to improprieties in power application. The intention of these drills are to make a golfer's awareness extremely sensitive to maladaptive compensations created by sending energy back into the body during the golf swing. Some of the drills heighten the system by practicing with only one arm, creating a specific advantage for an adaptive golfer.
Developing Power With A One Arm Golf Swing
When using only one arm in a golf swing, it trains the body to use core-mass and inertia for power. Practicing with one arm trains a golfer to avoid using the upper body as an inefficient power source that can do damage to the body over time. This is contrary to people's normal perception when they watch a one-armed golfer learning to swing with either the right or left arm. Although it appears they are trying to swing at the ball with their upper body, in reality the exact opposite is true; each arm is being trained to be a "rider," instead of a "hunter" of the golf ball.
A major league baseball pitcher throws with their core-in-rotation, rather than throwing with the arm. A shortstop can catch a grounder and throw to first base with the shoulder and arm, even leaning forwards, but the technique is altered when on the pitcher's mound. A pitcher has to throw more often, and they have to be consistently accurate. If a pitcher threw with his shoulder and arm only, he would not only lose accuracy and velocity, he could potentially damage the shoulder and arm.
Learning the Counter-Fall Through Adaptive Golf Methods
Along with the sensitivity gained by training each arm independently, we magnify misuse of power application through other exercises. We will put a player on one-leg-only, or have him/her cross-the-feet. Doing this shrinks the safety envelope that surrounds the body, and causes the subconscious parts of the brain to kick into high gear during the swing. Anytime a player flexes the shoulders and arms during the downswing, while standing on one-leg or with the feet crossed, energy goes back into the body, and the balance feels threatened. The brain fears this feeling and begins to alter the motor program so that energy is expended properly rather than internalized. It instinctively causes the player to utilize counter-fall and core-rotation for power, instead of muscle from the shoulders and arms.
Balancing Out The Forces To Create An Efficient Adaptive Golf Swing
Learning to counter-fall correctly, preceding the downswing, is one of the major keys to having a technically great golf swing. Anytime a golfer starts the downswing from a position of balance, the core cannot make a free rotational release. This is why you see runners leaning forwards before they leap into a sprint, they are on the edge of their safety envelope making it easier to set the body into motion. If the brain senses that the core cannot easily turn, it will try to drive the rotation with muscle. When this occurs, it causes a change in the swing-plane.
That is not merely a Gravity Golf opinion, it is a physics law! For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The reaction to the muscular flex from the shoulders and arms will come in the form of a path-change. This will either cause the player to hit the golf ball off-line, or, he/she will have to compensate in some manner to get a positive result. Compensations to a changing plane can be made with the grip, ball position, alignment, or posture. Even if a compensation offsets a plane change, it is still different from the ideal way to swing according to the Laws of Motion.
Saving Your Body and The Lifetime of Your Golf Swing
Learning how to use counter-fall to maintain rotary equilibrium (dynamic balance) as the arms and club swing through delivery is critical. When you are playing or practicing on one-leg, or cross-footed, learning to counter-fall correctly happens much faster. A healthy adult can easily hit a driver well over two-hundred yards, standing on one leg, while swinging with only one arm. By the way, one should never practice with the feet side-by-side, touching each other. When this occurs, there is no anchoring effect from the rear leg on the follow through. Sensing this, the brain will stop the core release in fear that the player will trip him/herself. If you will study one-leg or cross-footed drills on our DVD's or in the Gravity Golf Challenge, it is easy to see how to practice properly.
Reaping the Benefits of Gravity in your Golf Swing
Learning to move the golf ball with core-mass-in-rotation is the key to overcoming any physical infirmity. Once a player knows how to partner with gravity, instead of doing all the work with his/her own strength, golf becomes far easier. If you watch certain touring professionals such as Freddie Couples, Ernie Els, or Louie Oosthuizen, you are witnessing a near perfect partnership with gravity in their swings. Notice how some players appear that they are barely working, while others look as if they might jump out of their socks.
The players who are working hard start the downswing from a stable position on their feet, and have to physically drive the rotation with muscle. The ones who are swinging effortlessly, go off-vertical (counter-fall) before the downswing begins. Then they allow the arms to start down in a pure deadfall, and gravity releases the body's core into rotation.
Creating A Rotary Sling For A Free Flowing Golf Swing
Utilizing gravity, the golf swing becomes a rotary "sling" instead of a hit. In Freddie's mind, at the top of the backswing, the ball is stuck to the club-face, instead of sitting on the ground. He simply leans back (counter-falls), drops his arms, and lets the turn sling the ball from the club. There is no attempt whatsoever to make a union between the club and the ball at impact. The ball is simply in-the-path of the swing. Freddie makes contact with the ball by feeling where his center of mass will be at impact. By subconsciously being aware of his mass in motion he is able to control where the bottom of the arc is going to be when he takes his stance-at-address, rather than by anything he consciously changes in the downswing.
A pure Gravity swing is totally counter-intuitive to every instinct that golfers have when they first stand over a golf ball that is sitting still. Instinct tells us to find the ball in the downswing with the arms and club, instead of focusing on moving the momentum of our body towards our intended target.
Work With Gravity or Destroy Your Body, This Is A Universal Law of Physiology
Every time those shoulders and arms flex to hit that ball, some energy goes back into the body and the plane changes. Yes, I already said that, but it's worth repeating until it sinks in. Golf balls almost never sprout feet and walk into the new club-path. Believe it or not, adaptive golfers are more sensitive to improprieties in power application than golfers who have less than obvious challenges to make up for.
Missing a limb changes our learning environment and we are left with the option to make up for this by having a more efficient level of technique. The same is true for each level of competition we progress through. Swinging a golf club while using one arm or leg will exacerbate the change in path to a greater degree if the technique is executed improperly. The brain, in its infinite wisdom, senses this and can figure out how to ideally apply power and maintain path-integrity.
The Benefit of Practicing the Front Route Drill for Adaptive Golf
Before attempting a change-of-direction, as in a conventional swing, a one-armed player should first learn to hit shots from a front-route mode. Click here to view a Front-Route One-Arm Swing Drill. This drill enables the player to quickly adapt into utilizing the full potential arc size of which he/she is physically capable.
Therein lies one of the major keys to achieving maximum power if you are confined to playing golf with one arm; front-route swings are much easier to execute, and give the player a great feel for using the body's core as the power source. You'll be amazed at the power that can be generated from a one-armed, front-route swing mode. A player can legally play golf from a front-route mode if he/she so chooses. In fact, I would highly recommend doing so for one-armed players wanting to achieve maximum distance on full swings.
Adaptive Gravity Golf Provides a Way to Play Golf, for Everyone
The main goal of this article is to create an awareness for everyone seeking viable solutions for their challenges through the Gravity Golf method. Our methodology and drills can give players the ability to effectively deal with their individual challenges and still play satisfying, high level golf.
Unfortunately, most golfers are completely unaware of how well they could play if they fully understood how to partner with gravity when they swing. For physically challenged players, the understanding of gravity becomes even more important. It is absolutely critical for one-armed players to understand the principles of proper power application. When working with diminished shoulder and arm strength or a balance threatened situation, players have to know how to create power using gravity, counter-fall, and core-mass-in-rotation.
In the Beginning, There was David Lee; He Saw the Golf Swing, and it was Good
When I began playing golf as a child (at age 4), I started with a "kill" concept like most everyone else. As a teenager, Arnold Palmer was my hero and I ripped at the ball just like he did. When I began playing the PGA tour in 1970, it became apparent to me that players like Nicklaus and Trevino were using far less effort, yet had greater distance and control. I asked them how they applied power, they couldn't tell me.
After studying those guys and a few others for over ten years, I began to realize the role that gravity played in their golf swings, and it was life-changing for me. Freddie Couples uses no more than about half the energy that Tiger Woods uses to hit the ball about the same distance. Please, don't get the idea that I am casting a disparaging light on Tiger as a player; he is obviously one of the greatest players ever to have played the game. The muscle he has traditionally used to power his swing, however, has taken a substantial toll on his physical health. This year at the Tour Championship in Atlanta he was looking more like a pure gravity player than ever, with far less effort in his swing. Unfortunately, some of the violence returned at the Ryder Cup and his control suffered for it.
The Epiphany of a Golf Swing With Natural Power
In 1982, once I finally learned how the swing should ideally function, it was astounding to realize that I too could move the ball farther with only a fraction of the effort. At that time, I had no idea of the role that gravity played in a proper swing, and neither did anyone else that I knew. It became apparent to me that those individuals who could do it had stumbled into the feeling by trial and error and had learned to trust it; the instinct to use upper-body muscle had almost totally left them. They couldn't explain how they had learned to partner with gravity, but they felt it. Anyone who is unaware that there is a secret to swinging like Freddie Couples has a tremendous opportunity to transform their game. In my opinion, ninety-nine percent of everyone playing the game has unfortunately never felt what Freddie feels in the swing.
Working with Adaptive Golf through Gravity
Anyone working on their swing through adaptive golf definitely needs to understand how to partner with gravity and apply power in the most efficient manner. Currently, there are several organizations around the world for adaptive golfers and the number is growing. Among them are:
USAGA – United States Adaptive Golf Alliance
EDGA – European Disabled Golf Association
NAGA – National Amputee Golf Association
DGA – Disabled Golf Association
SMGA – Salute Military Golf Association
NAOAGA – North American One-Armed Golfers Association
Only recently, I have spoken with representatives of the USGA and it is my understanding that a national championship for physically challenged golfers is in the planning stages. Currently, the information on when it will happen and how different physical challenges will be categorized has not been totally worked out, but I have been told it is forthcoming very soon.
A Bright Future For Adaptive Golfers
If you are an adaptive golfer, or wanting to become one, and regardless of whether you wish to compete or not, there is good news for your future through Gravity Golf. The goal of our company and research has long been to understand how power in the golf swing should ideally be applied, and more importantly, how to easily communicate that information to others. Both those challenges have been accomplished and the information is now available to everyone.
Proper Power Application for Adaptive Golf with the Gravity Swing
Most people are unaware that there are at least five different ways to power a golf swing. Four of those techniques send some level of energy back into the body which, as already mentioned, causes path-change and miss-hit shots. The Gravity swing is the only one of the four that eliminates energy coming back into the body during its execution. It is, therefore, the most compliant with the Laws of Motion and good physiological principles and is ideal for adaptive golfers. Of all the potential ways you could swing a golf club, the Gravity swing is the most efficient because when you partner with gravity, it does a good deal of the work for you.
We have a number of affordable ways that you can access the Gravity Golf technology and learn to enjoy this game. Given the opportunity, we will be happy to help you. Working with golfers of all ages, skill levels, and challenges is what we do. Physical challenges or otherwise, you will be astounded at what you can accomplish; there are solutions for making you function at a level beyond your imagination. We look forward to the opportunity to share that knowledge with you.


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Comment by Errol Caldwell
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