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It is a well-trodden path. Tech start-up is founded by 20-something graduate. Company rockets to success. A few years later, it is bought or floats for an eye-watering sum, never mind that it has never made a profit.
But last week Facebook's attention alighted on a technology business cast from a rather different mould. Tucked away in Soho's narrow streets is King.com, a decade-old enterprise which the social network has suddenly hailed as "the poster child for the fast-growing European games industry". King.com produces addictive games such as Bubblewitch Saga and Pool King, which appeal to so-called "casual players" who want something to entertain them on the move.
Play is free, but users can gain "game advantages", such as extra "lives", by paying for them accepting advertising. The games can be played on multiple different platforms but have lately been gaining traction on Facebook.
Three of the seven games that King.com has released on the social network so far have made it into the top 10 of the most played games on the social network. The biggest, Candy Crush Saga, is played 55m times a day and has knocked King.com's major rival, Zynga, off the top of the chart.
No wonder Facebook is taking notice. Its founder, Mark Zuckerberg – a man now charging $100 just to deliver a message to his inbox – recently enjoyed a private dinner with King.com's executives. Suddenly, the American technology industry is feting King.com as if it were the newest, brightest kid on the block.
But far from being a shiny new start-up, King.com has its roots in the 1999 dotcom boom. Riccardo Zacconi, the urbane Italian at its helm, met its co-founders when he was chief executive of the German unit of a fledgling news, search and email portal called Spray. They hoped to make an initial public offering in March 2000 but the dotcom bubble burst and put paid to their plans. Instead of floating, they sold – for considerably less than they had hoped. The so-called "fold friends" – as Zacconi refers to them given that Spray all but folded – dusted themselves off and, three years later, founded King.com. Zuckerberg would not launch his social network for another year.
The idea was to specialise in games that could be played on Yahoo!, which was still riding high as one of the most popular portals on the web. Zacconi and his co-founders, King.com's chief creative officer Sebastian Knutsson, chief technical officer Thomas Hartwig, studio chief Lars Markgren and developer Patrik Stymne, poured their money into the project, chasing after serious gamers.
A few heart-stopping moments occurred along the way, where the business almost ran out of cash. Zacconi recalls one Christmas Eve when the fax machine got stuck as it cranked out an investment contract that was the difference between the company going bankrupt or keeping it afloat. It shows his age. At 46, Zacconi might be young for the average chief executive, but he is a relative grandfather in the ever-more youthful world of technology.
These experiences have served Zacconi and King.com well, however. The company moved into profit in 2005 and has stayed firmly in the black ever since, exercising discipline over its spending in a manner not usually associated with rapidly-growing technology businesses. "The dotcom crash was a wake-up call. It was not a very pleasant experience but it was very rich. We learnt that you have got to think long-term and stick to healthy economic principles," he says.
Even with a conservative balance sheet, King.com has managed to expand pretty rapidly. Last year, with backing from private equity firms Apax and Index, it opened new offices in Bucharest and Barcelona, and took on heavyweight executives from Zynga and Electronic Arts.
This year it plans to nearly double its workforce from just shy of 400 people to 700. Although King.com has offices in San Francisco, Zacconi favours hiring across Europe, where it also has offices in Malta, and Stockholm and Malmo in Sweden. "A lot of fantastic talent is here. Also, there is better [staff] retention in general. In the Valley, there is a lot of hopping around to the newest hot thing."
Meanwhile, King.com's fan base has been growing fast, he adds. Some 5bn people play its games each month, up from 1bn a year ago – helped in part by soaring mobile usage.
"There is something really dramatic happening in the way users consume content," says Zacconi. Increasingly, they are after "snackable" entertainment that they can dip in and out of.
King.com has taken full advantage of this trend by ensuring that users can start playing games on one device, for example a PC, and pick up at exactly the same point in the game on another device later on. It sounds an obvious step, but it is complex to deliver and King.com was one of the first in its field to do so.
Zacconi will not reveal how this translates to King.com's balance sheet, but the company's growth trajectory is exceeding even its own expectations, he claims. "The company is growing explosively. We are continuously reforecasting upwards. We already have to increase the target which we upped in December." Revenues are thought to have quadrupled from around €100m (£84m) 12 months ago.
Investors have heard these sorts of boasts before, however, not least from Zynga, to which King.com is regularly compared. The San Francisco company shot to fame with so-called "resource management" games such as Farmville, which seemingly produced money from thin air by persuading players to part with their real-world dollars in order to buy virtual-world goods, such as livestock and animal feed.
The business was widely regarded as one of the hottest technology start-ups in the world until December 2011, when it went public and saw its value plummet. Investors weren't quite as happy as Farmville devotees to pump their money into the business and it has been forced to radically scale back since.
Zacconi, who was once happy for King.com to be billed as "Britain's answer to Zynga", is adamant that it will not match its downward path. For starters, the two companies create games in entirely different ways, he says.
While Zynga assigns hundreds of staff to new projects, King.com launches a new game on its website every month, each created by just three or so developers in three months. It then uses this as a test bed to decide which ones it should invest in further. "If a game doesn't work, it fails fast and cheap," Zacconi says. The testing process also helps the company to avoid backing the wrong horse. "We are doing something that no one else can do, which is to hit-proof a hit-driven business."
Many technology-watchers will also be wary of King.com's new love-in with Facebook. Zynga used to be one of the social network's greatest allies, but has found itself increasingly cast out into the cold in recent months. From March, its players will no longer automatically be able to share their progress on Facebook.
Zynga's experience has left some analysts deeply sceptical. "Any business based on Facebook games, especially of this sort, is doomed," says one.
Perhaps mindful of this, Zacconi does his best to downplay the relationship.
Facebook's fondness of King.com has "zero" impact on his business, he says. "We work very closely with them on experimenting, testing features and pushing boundaries, but the features are available to everyone. Facebook is a neutral platform."
All of this sounds suspiciously like paving the way for a King.com flotation.
Certainly, Zacconi said last year that the company was looking at a 2013 initial public offering (IPO) on America's Nasdaq stock exchange. "If we execute well, [that is] what we have put on the agenda," he said at the time.
Seven months on, he appears considerably more circumspect. "It is difficult to say [whether we will float this year]. It depends whether the markets are ready but we have not decided to do an IPO," he says coyly.
The focus for the moment is to scale up and "execute really well", Zacconi says. "I hope we are not just the poster child for European success. I hope we can be the poster child for tech success full stop."
Born 1967
Family Lives in London with his Chinese-Swedish wife and son
Education Studied economics at LUISS University, Rome
Career 1993 Management consultant at Boston Consulting Group; 1999 joined Spray; 2003 launched King.com


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Leadership for Social Justice in Higher Education: The Legacy of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
Terance W. Bigalke and Mary S. Zurbuchen (eds.)
International & Development Education
New York: Palgrave Macmillan
This book examines how the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program, the world's largest private fellowship program in higher education, has succeeded in fostering social justice leadership over the past ten years. Top scholars from Asia Pacific, Latin America, the US, Africa, and Europe inquire into the program's development, implementation, and outcomes in their regions. They analyze the program's background, its effects on institutions, its effects on students' learning environments, and how well changes toward social justice worked. Through in-depth studies of leadership, diversity, social inclusion, and social justice in regional context, this book provides a wealth of comparative information on social justice in higher education worldwide.
Details and ordering information at Palgrave Macmillan
Introduction: Breaking New Ground, Opening New Pathways
Part I. International Fellowships Program (IFP) in Comparative Perspective
Part II. Restructuring Higher Education Systems for Inclusion
Part III. Diversity and Enrichment of the Learning Environment
Part IV. IFP, Social Justice Perspectives, and Institutional Experiences
Conclusion: The Wisdom of Audacity in Purpose, Scope, and Scale

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I haven't been in the attic for weeks. Most of my stash is up there, but I have an embarrasingly large amount of yarn down on the first floor of my ranch-style house. I haven't needed to go up there.
Today, I got inspired to climb the stairs, so I took a few bags of yarn I'm not using up there, and I hunted around for the Lima yarn I bought during last year's North Jersey Yarn Crawl. I knew I had some burgundy and some pink, and I was hoping the pink would harmonize with the 9 balls of pink I bought this year at Trillium Yarns during the Wool Walk.
Was I in for a surprise! The pink I bought last year is the same dye lot as the pink I bought this year. Exact match! You can't ask for more than that. So now, instead of 9 balls of yarn to make a sweater, I have 12, and when you are a large size like me, that's a wonderful thing. In addition, I have 3 balls of the burgundy that I bought last year, should I want to make an intarsia or Fair Isle pattern.
This is a beautiful, winter yarn. It's a blend of 84 percent baby alpaca, 8 percent Merino wool and 8 percent nylon. Not sure yet what I'll do with it, but I'm thinking maybe a jacket. Something I can wear outdoors instead of a coat. Oh my gosh, I'm excited.
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University Symphony's Sunday concert is 'Romantic'
Feb. 2, 2004
KALAMAZOO--The University Symphony Orchestra will perform a "Romantic Survey" concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, in Miller Auditorium at Western Michigan University. The concert is free and open to the public.
The concert features three works which premiered between 1825 to 1830. All three pieces use programmatic material from literature and other "extra musical" forces to conjure vivid depictions of various subjects. The program begins with German Romantic composer Carl Maria von Weber's overture to the opera "Oberon," followed by Italian opera composer Gioacchino Rossini's famous overture to "William Tell."
"Performing these works in succession will offer the audience a glimpse of the fascinating contrast between the German and Italian opera styles," says conductor Bruce Uchimura.
The major work on Sunday's program will be "Symphonie Fantastique" by French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz. "Symphonie Fantastique" is based on the composer's own programmatic material about an artist's struggle with dreams and reality.
"All of these works are wonderfully imaginative and colorful masterpieces for the orchestra," says Uchimura, "and they use the ensemble's forces to their utmost."
Media contact: Kevin West, 269 387-4678, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Collaborative relationships and sharing responsibility (Transitions in ECE)
Tuia te Rangi e tū iho nei, Tuia te papa e takoto nei
Join the sky above to earth below, Just as people join together
Key question
How can relationships between early childhood and primary support transitioning children and families?
Frequently our knowledge is informed by prior experiences that may be outdated. Things are likely to have changed since our own schooling or that of our own children, especially in light of the current implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007).
Children's movement from one education sector setting to the other can be enhanced by:
- teachers in both settings (sharing common goals for children's learning;
- working together to reduce the discontinuities children experience. Supporting children and families/whanau through their transition between sectors involves ECE settings and schools sharing this responsibility.
Teachers from each sector need to develop relationships that involve sharing knowledge and understanding of each other's environment, pedagogy and curriculum. Teachers can be influential mediators of children's experiences when they have an understanding of where transitioning children are moving to, where they come from and what they bring to their new learning context.
Reflective questions
- How confidently can you talk about school programmes, environments and people with families/whanau in your setting?
- Are you equipped to support parents/whanau with their queries or anxieties?
- Can you engage in meaningful conversation with children when their curiosities are aroused by their or their friends' experiences of beginning school?
- On what do you base your decisions about provision of transition programmes?
- Do you feel confident about sharing, with children, what today's schooling is really like?
Sharing responsibility – what the research indicates
Recent New Zealand research studies suggest that an important factor contributing to effective transition to school is the amount of support and scaffolding the child receives. Familiar peers and cross-sector partnerships that contribute to curriculum continuity have been identified as the foundations of effective transitions (Howie, 2001; Margetts, 1999; Peters, 2000).
Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) positions adults in the different environments (home, early childhood and school) as having a crucial role in supporting and scaffolding children during the transitioning process. This view is supported by research undertaken in New Zealand (Dockett, 2001; Howie, 2001; McGee, 1997; Phillips, 2002) that points to the need for teachers, both early childhood and primary, to have a sound knowledge of teaching and learning processes and an understanding of where transitioning children come from and what they bring to their new learning context.
"The task of optimising children's development and learning across the two settings is probably best achieved if teachers in both settings include, in their professional roles, responsibility for offering complementary activities so that children recognise strategies acquired in the early childhood setting can be applied at school" p.33 Timperley et al. (2003).
Developing collaborative relationships
Teachers from both sectors often report barriers to building ongoing relationships with each other, particularly in larger urban areas. Children from early childhood settings do not necessarily feed into a local school and therefore teachers from both sectors require time to manage a large number of contacts and relationships.
The need for collaborative relationships between early childhood and primary is signalled in Pathways to the Future: Ngā Huarahi Arataki – a 10-year strategic plan for early childhood education (Ministry of Education, 2002) with the goal of promoting "coherence of education between birth and eight years" (p.17). The vision for collaborative relationships in 2012 is described as follows. "There are close links between ECE and schools. Teachers from both regularly meet to discuss curriculum linkages, children's learning needs (including special education needs) and how best to manage transition from ECE to school" (p.17).
Currently the majority of relationships between the early childhood and primary sectors are developed informally and are dependent on priorities and proximity within local communities. The most common form of meeting is when teachers accompany children on visits from an early childhood setting to a school or vice versa. These traditional, occasional visits are viewed as insufficient in enabling teachers to share common understandings about teaching and learning (Peters, 2005; Timperley et al., 2003). Timperley et al. suggest that social visits can sometimes be detrimental to relationships, as practice viewed can be questioned if it appears 'different', and is not followed up for understanding through discussion.
The type of collaboration suggested in Pathways to the Future: Ngā Huarahi Arataki, calls for a more planned approach to building relationships between teachers in each sector in order to overcome perceived differences.
Local initiatives
The following cases show how some teachers are supporting transitions between sectors within their local communities. Effective transition-to-school practice involves localised solutions rather than a 'one size fits all' approach.
Case 1: Learning through collaboration in a network group
The Early Years network group consists of a number of teachers from both the early childhood and primary sectors in the Christchurch area. Following a one-day in-service course for early childhood and primary teachers, a group requested the opportunity to continue meeting on a regular basis and so the Early Years group was born. This group has met five times a year for the past seven years to share and explore teaching and learning with the goal of enhancing transition experiences for children and families within local communities. Each year members have identified a particular focus. The group meetings have been supported by written records, so that those unable to attend meetings can be kept up-to-date with the insights and intentions of the group.
Some of the activities of this group have included:
- Meeting in each others' environments
- Sharing knowledge and examples of assessment practices
- Exploring the use of learning stories in school
- Unpacking ideas about 'school readiness'
- Developing transition-to-school information for parents/whanau and children
- Exploring project-work in early childhood
- Sharing literacy and numeracy resources and ideas
- Exploring the synergies between Learning Dispositions and Key Competencies
- Critiquing ministry resources together, for example, the draft New Zealand Curriculum, the draft literacy progressions
- Visiting Early Childhood and primary settings together to view practices related to the group's focus
- Sharing and learning about approaches to inquiry learning
The Early Years group brings together teachers from across a large metropolitan city. They do not necessarily have a relationship within local communities. However, these teachers have developed the type of collaborative relationship that has seen them utilise each other's strengths and knowledge beyond the group meetings. For example, primary teachers have supported early childhood teachers with providing parent workshops on transition to school. Early childhood teachers have supported primary teachers to develop transition-to-school parent information brochures. Establishing a similar network within your own region is possible. In the Christchurch area the network is supported by a professional development contract provider.
Case 2: Building relationships with one local school.
A large early childhood setting located in the central city found that children from their setting transitioned to a total of fifteen schools scattered throughout the city. They raised their hands in despair: "How are we supposed to have a relationship with all of these schools?"
Teachers in the setting began working together, with professional development support, to explore ideas and understandings about supporting children and families during their transition to school. They read research on transitioning to school that drew on the perspectives of teachers, both primary and early childhood, parents and children. They developed some resources including:
- An information brochure for parents
- A clear file for parents that included a list of all the schools in the city area, some research papers and appropriate articles.
An opportunity to build a relationship with one school presented itself. Teachers put aside their reservations about the value of taking children to visit a school that they were not going to attend and began regular 'visit to school' excursions with groups of children.
Two of the teachers from this setting reflect on their experience of developing a close relationship with this school:
"Our regular school visits are an integral part of our programme now. The children are very excited when it is their turn to go and always look forward to it with great anticipation. Before we go the children often talk about the fact that they are going to a different school and so we acknowledge this and discuss the similarities and differences they might find when they start at their school. We use a 'going to school book' we developed using photos from our school visit experiences. Children can access this from the bookshelf and take it home to share with their families.
The school visit is often the children's first school experience and it's quite an eye opener for them. They really have very little idea of what the reality of school is. For this reason I think it is of great benefit to them to go with their early childhood teachers who they have had trusting relationships with over a long period of time, and their peers.
We teachers take the opportunity to have a good look around the classroom to see what's happening for the children and glean ideas for our teaching.
The school children enjoy buddying up with our children and sit with them at the desks when they are doing their literacy activity, they take them to wash their hands, have morning break and some children help them in the playground at playtime. We finish our trip to school with a song to thank the teacher and the children for welcoming us into their class and sharing their learning with us.
Developing our visit to school programme has given us tools for supporting both parents and children in the transition to school. Visiting the school has given us the confidence to talk to parents about all the aspects of transitioning to school; from the early days of looking for a school through to understanding that school visits are a right and it's OK for parents to advocate for their children's needs when they know they will need more than just one or two visits as some schools offer.
The benefits for children have been that it gives them an experience that they can talk about with their peers and teachers, ask questions and discuss their feelings about school from a real 'first-hand' perspective and it gives them an understanding of differences they may experience."
Case 3: Transition practices at one school.
Early childhood settings and school collaborate to develop parent/whānau information about starting school
Cathie, a member of the Early Years network group, is an Assistant Principal in a large metropolitan school. The school enrols over 100 new entrant children each year. Cathie led a review of the school's transition-to-school practices. Participating in the Early Years group provided Cathie with opportunity to meet and share with others who had an interest in transition to school.
Parent information
The Principal, Cathie and junior teachers began by reviewing the information pack the school provided parents at the time they were making initial enquiries about the school, and decided that it contained too much information. They decided to develop a simple pamphlet that would give parents an idea of the flavour of the school. Cathie visited local early childhood settings to gain their input. "I asked the contributing preschools what they felt needed to go into it, what parents wanted to know and what information they needed to support the transition to school."
Early childhood settings and school collaborate to develop parent/whānau information about starting school
The parent information pack provided at the time of enrolment was reviewed to make sure it contained relevant and purposeful information for parents of a transitioning child. Two letters were added to the information pack designed to seek information about each child's background, interests and experiences one letter to parents [DOC, 46 KB](external link) and one letter to the child [DOC, 11 KB](external link).
The letter to parents reminded them to bring in the early childhood portfolio. Typically, responses to these letters are brought to school during the child's pre-entry visits.
Pre-entry visits
While children participate in their pre-school visits to the class, parents are invited to attend parent information sessions. These sessions give parents the opportunity to begin developing their relationship with the Principal, office staff, the Assistant Principal, PTA representatives and the classroom teacher. Topics covered during the parent information sessions include:
Session 1
- Important school information - uniform, stationery, accounts, absences, tuckshop etc (session taken by Principal's secretary)
- Tips for a positive transition to school (session taken by Assistant Principal)
- Tour of the school
Session 2
- Curriculum change – The New Zealand Curriculum (session taken by Principal)
- Supporting your child's learning at home (session taken by Assistant Principal)
Session 3
- Parent Teacher Association (session taken by a PTA member)
- Information about the class programme (session taken by your child's teacher)
Early childhood profile books
The new entrant teachers ask parents to bring their child's early childhood profile book when they begin school. Teachers keep each child's book in the classroom for about their first six weeks at school. Cathie talks about how children and teachers use these portfolios as a way to strengthen relationships, and as a tool to get to know the child. They also become a useful literacy artefact:
"I keep mine in the library corner on a special shelf. The children can just access them there whenever they want to. They often go to the library area if they're doing independent reading. They'll get them out to show each other their books and have conversations comparing their experiences, because they are from different early childhood centres. We also use them sometimes as a prompt for oral language. Perhaps if the new child hasn't bought something to show we might use a favourite page out of their book and they tell us what's happening. And we also use them as class teachers to look through to get an idea of what that child's strengths and interests are. So far we haven't had any come to grief!"
View a learning story that illustrates the usefulness of profile books in school [DOC, 155 KB].
Teachers in the junior school continue to use the familiar early childhood practice of learning stories for assessment. Learning stories regularly capture children's self assessment during whole-class activity. Class learning stories provide opportunity for self assessment [DOC, 170 KB]. Cathie likes to write a learning story for each new child within their first month to six weeks at school:
"I try and do a learning story for each child when they start school, in that first month to six weeks. It's an assessment form that most parents would be familiar with from early childhood experiences. And it's a really nice way of showing parents how they are settling into school and how they're becoming familiar with class routines, showing them how they're socialising with others. Having a photo there of the child interacting and getting involved, and then that going home. It's a powerful way of showing the parent how they are settling in. Usually there's a Key Competency focus, often relating to others or managing self, they often come through quite strongly."
Learning stories offer parents insight into how their child is settling in to school [DOC, 220 KB].
Learning Stories
Learning stories transcript
"I noticed through the Transition to School process that I asked children to bring along any portfolios or profiles or books that they had at kindergarten or preschool, and we began to share them with the current children in the classroom, and I noticed lots of Learning Stories, so it became obvious that the parents who had children who had begun school within the last few years actually had quite a good understanding of Learning Stories, and they knew the format, because they'd kind of experienced them with the Early Childhood education, and they'd kind of grown through with them."
"At the beginning of 2008 when we decided that Learning Stories would be one of our major assessment focuses, we held a Parent Evening where we actually invited parents to come along and we shared with them basically information about learning stories, and we shared with them the reasons that we were moving towards reporting these in Learning Stories, and also the value. And from that we also produced a wee booklet which we had, which got distributed to all the parents so that if they were unable to attend the evening then they still got some of the information, or even if they had attended the meeting it's kind of like once you walk out of the room you forget parts of it, so it's just something to refer back to, and then pretty much straight after that we started sending Learning Stories home."
Further information
- Alton-Lee, A. (2003). Quality teaching for diverse students in schooling: Best evidence synthesis. Wellington, Ministry of Education.
- Biddulph, F., Biddulph, J. and Biddulph, C (2003). The complexity of community and family influences on children's achievement in New Zealand: Best evidence synthesis. Wellington, Ministry of Education.
- Farquhar, S. (2003). Quality teaching early foundations - Best evidence synthesis. Wellington, ChildForum Research Network.
- Howie, L. and Timplerley, H. (2001). Educators responsibilities for providing for effective transitions from early childhood centre to school. Paper presented at the Culture Informs Learning NZARE 2001 Conference, Christchurch.
- Timperley, H., McNaughton, S., Howie, L. and Robinson, V. (2003). Transitioning children from early childhood education to school: Teacher beliefs and transition practices. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 32(2), 32 – 38.
- Peters, S. (2002) Teachers perspectives of transition. In H. Fabian, and A. Dunlop (Eds.). Transitions in the Early Years (pp. 87-97). London: Routledge Falmer.
- Peters, S. (2005). Making links between learning in early childhood education and school using the key competencies framework. Teachers and curriculum. 8, 9-15.
This paper was prepared by Jocelyn Wright, University of Canterbury, 2009.
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Launched in July, the Government white paper sets out an "ambition" that by 2030, at least 50% – and as many as 70% – of new car sales will be ultra-low emission, alongside up to 40% of new vans. This builds on ambitions reiterated in the clean air strategy last summer that the sale of 'conventional' petrol and diesel vehicles would be banned from 2040 and follows ongoing calls, including from city leaders, for the 2040 target to be brought forwards.
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Nanostructures for Electronics Energy and Environment NanoE3
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23-28 September 2007
Australian - Italian School and Workshop on nanotechnology
Chairs: Nunzio Motta, John Bell, Federico Rosei
The rapidly emerging areas of nanoscale science and technology are focussed on the design, fabrication, and characterisation of functional objects having dimensions at the nanometer length scale. New advances in this field are expected to have long range implications in a wide variety of different scientific and engineering disciplines.
The importance of nanoscale science is growing worldwide and it is now widely recognised as a critical component to the future growth of the world economy.
The NanoE3 School and Workshop will allow leading Italian and Australian researchers to present their activities and foster cooperation in the field of nanotechnology, focussing in the areas of electronics, energy and environment. It would be very benefit for both countries to build scientific networks connecting scientists belonging to similar areas of nanotechnology.
About 20 Australian and 20 Italian leading scientists in nanotechnology, all invited, will participate to the 3 days workshop.
The 3 days workshop will be preceded by a 2 days school, to which about 30 PhD and Master Students are expected to participate. Funds from ARCNN and ARNAM have been provided to this purpose.
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Harold and Maude may not have appealed to audiences when it was first released in 1971 but it has since become a cult classic held close to the heart of many film lovers. The strange yet simple tale follows the ultimate odd couple: Harold, a young man obsessed with death, and 79 year old Maude, an eccentric with a lust for life. These two apparent opposites fuse a tender and beautiful friendship which forms the glittering heart of this film that explores themes of alienation and existentialism.
Harold is an awkward young man who drives a hearse, stages mock suicides and attends funerals for amusement. His mother does not seem to understand him, nor make much of an effort to, being concerned mainly with surface appearances and the façade of normalcy. She attempts to set him up on blind dates and strives to ignore him. Harold's life is fairly sombre and without meaning until he spots Maude at a funeral he has crashed. When he sees her at yet another funeral, Maude takes the opportunity to introduce herself and sows the first seeds of their friendship.
The performances in the film are fairly simple, yet engaging. Although he was rarely cast as a leading man in subsequent films, Bud Cort delivers a fantastic performance as Harold, drawing both laughs and compassion from his audience. The story is at once touching and darkly humourous as viewers are simultaneously presented with seemingly opposite views of life, the dark and the beautiful. For instance, while Harold enjoys watching cars being destroyed in a junk yard, Maude revels in nature and has no qualms with liberating trees from public property. Harold's obsession with death and oblivion seem to stem from the fact that he has no stake in this world, and feels no personal connection to anyone around him. Maude is able to curtail Harold's obsession for destruction by showing him the beauty of nature and the fulfillment life can offer when lived with vitality.
This being said the film carries with it a very existentialist perspective. Maude constantly reminds Harold that all in life is transitory, enjoy it while you can, but never trick yourself into thinking that you have true ownership of anything in this realm. Not much is revealed about Maude's past in the film other than her recollections of being involved in social protests and the fleeting glance Harold and the audience is able to catch of a Auschwitz ID number tattooed on her forearm. Maude clearly has a history and allows Harold to see that if he is willing he can create a meaningful future.
If you have yet to see this American film classic, I suggest you correct that unfortunate condition!


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A shank is one of the most frustrating shots in golf. It easily shatters confidence and often results in repeated shanks. A shank occurs when the ball strikes the hosel of the club face and causes the ball to shoot off to the right (for a right-handed golfer). Obviously, you want the ball to strike the sweet spot located in the center of the clubface.
Set Up Correctly
Allow your arms to hang under your shoulders. Setting up in the correct position will allow your arms the correct amount of space to swing past your body. Standing too close to the ball can lead to a shank. Standing slightly farther back could change impact from the hosel to the center of the club.
Poor Impact Position
Allow your hands at impact to return to the same position as your set up. Shanks sometimes occur when the arms and hands extend out through impact. Therefore, swing your hands and arms closer to your body. If your hands and arms are extending a few inches out at impact, the clubface will be moving out a few inches. Contact could move from the center of the clubface to the hosel.
Maintain Balance
Maintain better balance throughout the swing. Make sure you stay off your toes as you swing into impact. In addition, make sure your upper body and head do not move closer to the ball. The swing should be a rotational movement around your fixed spine angle. Maintain your spine angle throughout the swing. Focus on the rotational movement and avoid any lateral movement.
Swing Path
Cutting across the ball also leads to a shank. This is known as an outside-to-inside swing path. The Inside Approach is an effective tool to fix an outside-to-inside swing path. A less expensive way is to place a cardboard box 4 inches to the outside of the golf ball. Swing without hitting the piece of wood. Both of these methods will help teach you the correct swing and steer you away from the outside to inside swing path.
Follow Through
Accelerate through impact. Many players shank the ball because they decelerate into the shot. Focus on maintaining your spine angle and follow through. Simply finishing your swing will often produce more solid golf shots. Many shanks occur around the green due to a large backswing and no follow through.
There is nothing more frustrating than shanking the ball. Avoid some of these common mistakes to hit more consistent shots.


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PRESS RELEASE – Eighth place may not sound like an achievement, but for the children of Lightning Aquatics (LA) Swim Club it most certainly is.
Members of the club received certificates and medals on Saturday, April 9, 2016 at the Pigeon Island National Landmark. The Club amassed a total of 244 points at the recently held Rodney Heights Aquatic Centre Invitational Swim Meet which was held from March 31 to April 3, 2016 in Saint Lucia.
With only 20 swimmers competing, the youngsters ranging from ages 7 to 15 years fought hard over the 4 days to come in at 8th place out of 24 clubs from Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda.
Of the 47 medals received, the swimmers copped 5 gold, 9 silver, 11 bronze, 8 medals for 4th place, 1 medal for 5th place, 6 for 6th place, 4 for 7th place and 3 for 8th place. Many of the swimmers achieved personal best times and some even set new records during the swim meet, those setting records were Karic Charles, Ethan Hazel and Naima Hazel. Two swimmers captured 3rd place in their respective age groups, Naima Hazel for Girls 10 – 11 and Ethan Hazel for Boys 7 to 8.
Amidst the joy of bearing the fruits of their hard work, the children sadly bade farewell to one of their coaches, David Mayers who has embarked on a new chapter in his coaching career. Drained by the competition, some swimmers expressed their desire to increase their pool time in order to improve their performance at the next meet.
According to the Club's President, Mrs. Tessa Charles-Louis, "Lightning swimmers continue to show their resilience not letting any challenges affect them, I am extremely proud of my swimmers they are true champions. To the rest of our LA family I say thanks for your continued support, lets continue to work together to achieve even greater accomplishments for the remainder of 2016!" The President also indicated that the swimmers met their new Coaches, former national swimmers, Marlon and Peter James at the certificate presentation ceremony.
The coaches join Head Coach, Stefania Quaranta-Felix and a senior swimmer who will soon join the team as a trainee coach.
LA Swim Club, albeit small in size, has a few accolades under its belt. LA received the Club of the Year Awards for the 35th and 36th National Sports Awards held in 2015 and 2016 respectively, as well as 3rd Place at the Capri Sun National Time Trials held in October 2015. Lightning Aquatics has been providing opportunities for recreational and competitive swimmers from various socio-economic background since 2011. Special thanks to West Indies Shipping,
Yamaha, St. Lucia Mortgage and Finance, Cyber Eye Security, Mr. Neville Edwin and Mr. Jano James for their financial contribution towards the purchase of the club's redesigned t-shirts. For more information about LA Swim Club and how you can become a part of this family oriented group please email [email protected].


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Starting April 3, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B petitions, a statement issued by the USCIS stated. This suspension may last up to 6 months. While H-1B premium processing is suspended, petitioners will not be able to file Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service for a Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker which requests the H-1B nonimmigrant classification. We will notify the public before resuming premium processing for H-1B petitions.
The premium processing service allows an applicant or his potential employer to pay $1,225 to receive a response to his petition within 15 days. If USCIS has not responded within 15 days, the fee is refunded, though the application still receives expedited processing, according to a bulletin issued by the agency March 3. H-1B visas are used by U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers, most often from India, in specialty occupations.
"This temporary suspension will help us to reduce overall H-1B processing times. By temporarily suspending premium processing, we will be able to process long-pending petitions, which we have currently been unable to process due to the high volume of incoming petitions and the significant surge in premium processing requests over the past few years; and prioritize adjudication of H-1B extension of status cases that are nearing the 240 day mark," said the agency in a bulletin.
USCIS has said the temporary suspension of premium processing could last as long as six months. The agency has said it will reject any form I-907 – request for premium processing – filed with an H-1B petition. If a check is issued to cover both applications, USCIS noted it will have to reject the H-1B application as well.
"Since FY18 cap-subject H-1B petitions cannot be filed before April 3, this suspension will apply to all petitions filed for the FY18 H-1B regular cap and master's advanced degree cap exemption (the 'master's cap')," noted USCIS, adding that the suspension also applies to petitions that may be cap-exempt.
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"One important thing I learned from my parents was not to procrastinate," she tells The Black Star News. "My mom always told me 'Do it Today, Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.'"
Lauren went to Morgan State in Baltimore, MD then to Montclair State in New Jersey, from where she graduated with a BA in Psychology; she was the first in her family with a college degree.
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Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is an intriguing guy...[he] asks great questions and answers others with style, flair, reason and wit. On the blogroll he goes. Make him a part of your regular blogospheric reading. I certainly will.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Common Sense Junction: Misha @ Anti-Idiotarian never ceases to amaze me. He keeps finding other good blogs. I went over to A.I. this morning for my daily Misha fix and he had found this guy named Morgan Freeberg in Fair Oaks, California, that has a blog, House of Eratosthenes. Freeberg says its "The Blog That Nobody Reads" but it may now become the blog that everybody reads.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
The Heat Is On: From House of Eratosthenes comes yet another enlightening piece on liberals. All I can say is "Dayum, does this guy have libs pegged or what?" Excellent work, Morgan. Here's to ya!
Jaded Haven: Good God, Morgan, you cover a topic from front to back with a screwy thoroughness I find mind boggling. I'm in awe of your thought proccesses, my friend, you're an exceptional talent. You start by throwing in the kitchen sink, tie in someone's syphilitic uncle, bend around a rip tide of brilliance and bring it all home in a neat, diamond dripping package of an exceptionally readable moment of damn fine wordsmithing. I love reading you.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
Pajamas Media: Over at The House of Eratosthenes ("The blog nobody reads"), Morgan Freeberg is taking a candid look at one of America's most indulgent habits.
Philmon: When Morgan meanders, stick with him - he's got a point and it'll be worth it in the end. He's not a hit-and-run snarky quip kind of guy. The pieces all fall into place like tumblers in a lock and bang! He's opened a cognative door for you.
Rightlinx: Morgan at House of Eratosthenes is one of the best writers out there. I read him nearly every day because he manages to provide an interesting perspective, even though I don't always agree.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Jotting down a thousand things is not an accomplishment. When I've got an opinion, I've got it, whether I scribble it away or not.
The accomplishment is in meeting up with the "nobodies" who read The Blog That Nobody Reads. I haven't met any of you face-to-face, and who knows, maybe every last one of you is a puppy-raping child-abducting psychopath. I mean, hypothetically.
But in my correspondences with you, online and off, I have to comment on one thing: I'm just completely blown way by the points you have to make about things. This blog — which, throughout two years, I've commented repeatedly "nobody reads anyway" — is read by some incredibly deep thinkers. I would never have anticipated this. I am pleasantly surprised that this is the case.
Some folks can hear "Yes, sir! I agree completely! You are so right, sir!" all day long…every day…seven days a week…never get tired of hearing it. I am not one of those people. So I'm glad that when people comment, and they have a different opinion, they at least know why it is that they think the things they think. Mercifully, this blog tends to attract that kind of reader, moreso than most of what we call "blogs." I'd like to think I've been doing something to make it so, although of course I can't prove it.
You know who you are. Give yourselves a hand. CYL.
Update: By coincidence, Mein Blogovault turned two years old this week.
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From reading the many questions on here that relate to CVs it seems that some items are necessary on a CV and others are more appropriate at the persons difference stages within academia. As someone at the very early stage, masters student with no publications, is conference volunteering a plus or minus on a CV?
In my own situation I helped out at a 2 day conference that my department held. I assisted presenters with setting up their presentations and video recorded the conference for the university. As a smaller conference I was the only grad student that assisted.


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Decided: April 9, 1991.
WAVE ELECTRONICS, PLAINTIFF,v.UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, DEFENDANT
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This is a decision following a plenary bench trial. Plaintiff, Wave Electronics, Inc. brought an action in negligence and breach of contract against defendant, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), who asserted a counterclaim on a book account against Wave.
The facts are as follows. On November 21, 1988, Wave, a purchaser and seller of computer chips, gave two packages to UPS for a C.O.D. delivery to "Advanced Systems", a purchaser located at 129 South Iidalgo, Alhambra, California. Wave had no prior dealings with "Advanced Systems". The C.O.D. amounts were $20,575.40 and $14,171.00 respectively. Plaintiff instructed UPS to accept payment only by cashier's check.
UPS delivered the packages to "Advanced Systems" on November 22, 1988. The purchaser gave the UPS driver one cashier's check for $34,746.40 representing payment for both packages. The driver examined the cashier's check and accepted it. The check bore the imprint of the drawing bank, the California State Bank, and in the lower left corner, "Cashier's Check" was printed. The check was made out to Wave. Subsequently, an UPS representative informed Seymour Lieberman, the Vice President of Wave, that the cashier's check was invalid. However, at the request of counsel and an F.B.I. agent, plaintiff endorsed the check and deposited it into its bank account. The bank did not honor the check which concededly was counterfeit.
Wave contends that UPS was at fault for not recognizing the invalidity of the check, thus breaching its contract with Wave, causing it to suffer an economic loss in the amount of $34,746.40. UPS asserts that it followed its standard procedure as to C.O.D. deliveries, and that the check it received was facially valid, bearing all the required indicia of a cashier's check. Defendant contends that the transaction between Wave and UPS was governed by the tariff published by UPS which expressly states that any risk of non payment in C.O.D. shipments
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due to forgery or fraud is to be borne by the Shipper -- Wave.
In addition, UPS has asserted a counterclaim demanding payment by plaintiff for $33,228.42 on an open current account. Wave had admitted that it owes $32,371.91, for which UPS seeks an Order entering judgment.
As an interstate carrier, UPS, and this transaction are governed by the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C.A. § 10101, et seq. Therefore, Federal law applies. See Semi Metals, Inc. v. Pinter Bros., 135 N.J. Super. 464, 343 A.2d 757 (App.Div.), aff'd. 70 N.J. 437, 360 A.2d 385 (1976); Silvers v. Pennsylvania Railroad, 89 N.J. Super. 475, 215 A.2d 556 (App.Div.1963).
That act permits a carrier to provide transportation services only in accordance with the duly published tariff, to which the parties are bound. UPS had tariffs approved and published. The tariff operates as law which all parties are deemed to have knowledge of. Essex County Welfare Board v. N.J. Bell Telephone Co, 126 N.J. Super. 417, 315 A.2d 40 (App.Div.1974). The current tariff, UPSN 201-E, effective since November 25, 1987, governs the transaction at issue. Item 480 provides in pertinent part:
"All checks (including cashier's checks and certified checks) and money orders tendered in payment of C.O.D.s, will be accepted by the carrier at shipper's risk including, but not limited to risk of non payment and forgery, and carrier shall not be liable under any such instrument." (emphasis added)
The specific terms of Item 480 of the tariff also appear in the UPS Next Day Air/2nd Day Air Service Explanation, 'ROUNDUPS", a UPS Circular and the UPS Air Service Guide. It is UPS' customary ...
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Spidey meets yellow Daredevil and they take on Ringmaster, after they fight of course, in a story that's been duplicated many times in other Spider comics and on TV.
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The history of Korean Hanbok
In the past, only the upper class (yangban) was allowed to wear colourful silk made hanbok. It was made of precious materials while the common people had to wear white traditional clothes, sometimes pastel colours were allowed. That is why Koreans used to be called by their neighbours The white-clad race.
Officially, Koreans wore hanbok until the end of the Korean War (1953) when they changed it to Western-style clothes. However, there is no Korean who has not worn at least once in his life hanbok. During special occasions such as weddings, first-birthday parties (doljanchi), Lunar NewYear, etc. Koreans, especially women will be wearing colourful traditional clothes. Nowadays it is more common to see young Koreans who rent hanbok and visit different historical places (mostly palaces).
Moreover, new fashion designers created modernized hanboks adapted more to the Millennium Koreans' needs. It is cheaper and more practical to wear than it used to be. This kind of clothes is ideal for busy modern-day people who pursue fun. You can always walk along Korean palaces and see young couples wearing hanbok and taking pictures. And I must admit that this makes the palace even more authentic because it gives you the feeling that you were transported in the past.
Even though Hanbok lost its meaning and tradition, Koreans do appreciate it. If in the past, the hierarchy was strict, and only the upper class afforded expensive clothes, nowadays everyone can purchase good quality hanbok. Namdaemun Korea`s biggest traditional market, Dongdaemun, sell hanok at lower prices that you will see in department stores.
Since 1996, Koreans have celebrated Hanbok Day.
Symbolism in Korea traditional clothes
Being an agriculture-oriented country and influenced by China, the Korean Peninsula accorded a lot of importance to rites and nature. This materialized in the creation of different symbols which were taken extremely serious by Koreans. For example, as I mentioned earlier, hanbok is colourful, but this actually has an interesting explanation. It is not only about decoration but there is a whole philosophy that surrounds Korean traditional clothes. Animals, trees, plans, mountains were used as motifs on the hanbok because they were considered to bring good luck, longevity, integrity, prosperity, fertility, protection, chases away malevolent spirits, etc. Blue / Green is for East, White for West, Red for South, black for North and Yellow-Brown for the Center. Saekdong is the type of hanbok that respects this colours and integrates them.
Traditional women' hanbok consists of jeogori (a blouse, jacket) and chima (skirt) while the men` hanbok is composed by jeogori and baji (loose trousers).
Renting traditional clothes in Korea
In recent years, Korean culture enjoyed a lot of popularity not only in Asia but around the world. Foreigners became more and more interested in Korean cuisine and traditional clothes once they fell in love with Korean historical dramas. That is why Korea and its capital is very tourists friendly. Wearing a hanbok while in Korea became a must. Around the historical hotspots and not only there are many places that rent hanbok and the prices vary from 7 dollars to 30 dollars. What is interesting is that if you wear hanbok you can get free entrance at the Korean palaces. As there are five palaces and the entrance fee for them is around 15 dollars I think by renting a hanbok you can make a good deal especially if you are travelling on a budget.
Personally, I have tried hanbok many times, whenever I got the opportunity and I must admit that I loved it. Hanbok`s design is very feminine and graceful. It reflects the long history of the Korean peninsula and by trying it out you get a wider spectre of Koren culture and not only.
Already tried the hanbok? You are now ready to relax at a Korean sauna!


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LifeLock Inc., now part of Symantec Corporation, is an American identity theft protection company. The company offers an identity theft protection system, which is intended to detect fraudulent applications for various credit and non-credit related services. It protects consumers through monitoring identity-related events, such as new account openings and credit-related applications by delivering on-demand identity risk, identity authentication, and credit information about consumers.
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text: Craig Venter on artificial life The geneticist talks about what his breakthrough means for science and ethics. 30 May 2010 09:44 GMT | Politics, Business & Economy, US & Canada, China, Iraq Craig Venter, left, and his research partner, Hamilton Smith, transplanted synthetic DNA into living bacterial cells [EPA] On this episode of Frost over the World: Craig Venter joins the show to discuss the implications for science and ethics of the creation of artificial life; a look at the crisis building between North and South Korea; and paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. This episode aired from Friday, May 28, 2010. Craig Venter Craig Venter has created artificial life. Last week, the geneticist announced that he and his research partner, the Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, had successfully transplanted synthetic DNA into living bacterial cells. He joins Sir David from New York to discuss his startling breakthrough and its implications for both science and ethics. Chun Yung-woo & Richard McGregor Chun Yung-woo, the South Korean vice minister for foreign affairs and trade, joins Sir David from Seoul to discuss the crisis building between North and South Korea following the sinking of the South Korean warship, Cheonan. Plus, Financial Times reporter, Richard McGregor, joins Sir David to talk about his new book, The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, which investigates the mysterious power behind the scenes of this emerging global superpower. General Jack Keane The former vice chief of staff of the US army joins Sir David to talk about the Iraq war and US foreign policy. Oscar Pistorious Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, joins Sir David from the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. He talks about his recent victory in the 400m and his hopes to compete alongside able-bodied athletes at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.Source: Al Jazeera


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I know I've been a bit all over the place in the last few months: I started a new blog, then merged it into this one; I've made announcements that things would change, and then they really didn't. As you can probably tell, I've struggled with the direction of my blogging for a while. I started Another Cuppa four and a half years ago because I needed something to do while I was stuck at my parents house applying for jobs after left university. Lots has changed since then, and this blog has grown with me. It's been a great way to help me articulate how I feel about different ideas, feelings and things that have happened. But like any relationship that needs to come to an end, there is no point dragging it out in a half-hearted way.
I'm too easily led by things that I read and people that I speak to. During and after Alive in Berlin, I've been exposed to so many amazing people and their ideas. But I realised I was getting dragged along in a direction that wasn't my own. Other people have bucket lists – I should have a bucket list! Other people are building an online presence that earns them money – I need to do that too!
So I stopped reading blogs, and started to think about what excites me (not what I feel should). This involved thinking back to my favourite methods of play as a child. I would spend hours at the weekend painting, drawing, cutting, sticking, threading: basically, making a big creative mess. I need to express myself artistically, I need to make things.
I also thought about my values, and how I wanted to get back to living them: being an environmental activist, exploring ways we can live sustainably (a lot of early posts on this blog did talk about this more). I thought about what I was passionate about, and I started forming my own manifesto. I believe right to my core that we are creators: that making things is good for us, and that consuming things is as bad for our souls as it is for the environment. I want to live an empowered, creative life. And I want to share my story in case it inspires others.
Somehow, I had lost sight of this: I became fixated on followers and subscribers and statistics. Of having to have a content schedule, an appropriately sized image to correspond with each post. The pressure meant I stopped feeling inspired and blogging felt like a chore.
All of this leads me to my new project, where I'm sharing my story of living creatively, but not to anyone's schedule or expectations. There will be no regular posting, or monitoring of page views. If something excites you, please let me know. But don't feel you have to.
See you on the other side.
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Damien Johnson felt his Rovers side gave a good account of themselves despite the 2-0 loss to Carlisle United in last night's Checkatrade Trophy group match.
The young Rovers were in the match for long spells at Brunton Park but goals at the end of each half from Shaun Miller and Danny Grainger gave the home side the points.
The development squad boss was pleased with the way the lads approached the game against a Carlisle side that have yet to taste defeat this term, and felt there were plenty of positives to take from the game.
"We are certainly disappointed to lose the game, but we felt there was lots of positives to take from it," Johnson told Rovers PlayerHD.
"The lads from the first team who dropped down to play for us were terrific in terms of their attitude and the way they went about it and they really helped us.
"Then we felt that the young lads stepped up and showed they can compete. We are disappointed to lose the result, but there were loads of positives.
"Carlisle are unbeaten and are playing well and have a spring in their step so we knew it was going to be tough, they are well organised and in the promotion places in League Two for a reason, so it was certainly a difficult game for us on paper.
"But I felt we gave a really good account of ourselves and I think the 2-0 scoreline was a bit harsh on us."
Despite the defeat Rovers can still progress in the competition if they can beat Oldham Athletic by three goals in the final Checkatrade Trophy group at Ewood Park on Tuesday 8th November, kick-off 7.30pm, and hope that Carlisle can defeat Fleetwood town in the other group match.
"We are desperate to stay in the competition and there is still an outside chance," he added.
"It would mean an extra match for us which is great for their development. The guys relish these games so it is great for us that we can possibly still progress."
The development squad are back in Premier League 2 action away at Brighton on Monday 17th October.


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PORTLAND, Ore. – Nike Inc.'s CEO Mark Parker saw his compensation fall 16 per cent to about $11 million during fiscal 2011 largely due to a drop in his pay based on the company's performance, which has hurt during the economic downturn.
Parker has helped lead the world's largest athletic shoe and clothing company through some of its most profitable years. But the Beaverton, Ore., company didn't grant any of its executives long-term incentive pay in the 2011 fiscal year because of the company's performance during the three years prior, which was dampened by a combination of the economic downturn and costs from its acquisition of soccer goods maker Umbro PLC.
Nike weathered the tough economic times better than others. Its revenue slowed during the downturn but it remained profitable as consumers continued to flock to its popular brand worldwide. The company reported a 23 per cent increase in its most recent fiscal year net income to $2.13 billion, or $4.39 per share. But the cumulative three-year growth results fell short of the company's goals.
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The move to not grant executive long-term incentive pay was one of the biggest reasons behind the decline in Parker's pay from the $13.1 million he received in the 2010 fiscal year. Parker's salary rose by 4 per cent to about $1.5 million. The value of his stock awards held steady at $3.5 million, while the value of his options fell 17 per cent to $2.9 million. His incentive compensation, which was absent the long-term incentive he typically receives, was down 38 per cent to $2.7 million.
Parker's other compensation, which includes perks such as contributions to retirement funds, rose 79 per cent to $343,395.
The Associated Press formula calculates an executive's total compensation during the last fiscal year by adding salary, bonuses, perks, above-market interest the company pays on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock and stock options awarded during the year. The AP formula does not count changes in the present value of pension benefits. That makes the AP total slightly different in most cases from the total reported by companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The value that a company assigned to an executive's stock and option awards for 2010 was the present value of what the company expected the awards to be worth to the executive over time. Companies use one of several formulas to calculate that value. However, the number is just an estimate, and what an executive ultimately receives will depend on the performance of the company's stock in the years after the awards are granted. Most stock compensation programs require an executive to wait a specified amount of time to receive shares or exercise options.


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2015 was the summer of fire in Oliver, the home of our Guild and of many members as the hills all around burned and the valley was covered in dark smoke. Even if we did not live in Oliver, all of us were greatly affected by it. In the Fall of 2015, Jen presented this as our Challenge theme, due at our March meeting. There were many outstanding and artistic entries.
|Barb L's Scarf of Flames
in 12 gauge bamboo woven at 32 epi
on an 8 harness table loom
in a block weave twill,
Handwoven Mar/Apr 2015 p 52.
|Knitted Alpaca Scarf representing
the sage hills tinged with fire by
Marie R.using yarn she dyed and hand
spun from the wool of her own alpacas.
|Marie's Fire Challenge scarf represents
the colours of the flames of the forest fire. It is knitted
from her own hand dyed, hand spun, alpaca yarn.
|Marg H's Fire Challenge tea towels
in M's & O's.
|On the left is an Eternity scarf in tensil woven by Lynn B.
and on the right is Linda's shadow weave scarf
also in tensil woven on an 8 harness loom..
|Stephanie's Challenge tea towels: Using
the same warp, on the left is in M & O's with a
black weft and on the right, treadled as a
plain weave with a cotton boucle white thread.
|Randi's striped work socks and her
Fire Challenge Table Runner woven
on a 12 harness loom
|Fire Challenge: Wet felted flower by Patricia,
Lydia's flames of spun yarn and Marianne H tapestry on a Saskatoon twig
frame depicting the smoke, her house and the fire on the hills
|Locker hook chair pad depicting
the flames and burnt trees by Ilse,
|Fire Challenge lined book
bag by Barb H using her
plastic bag weaving piece
and her 1st Inkle band weaving
|Woven scarf, tea towels and socks by Margie
|Two knitted & felted bags by Maggie:
Fire Challenge and Christmas theme
|Jan's fire Challenge
free form knitting &
felted purse of a sheep & the smoke
Hélène had fun creating her Challenge, a papier mache.basket
with clouds of smoke and a bomber dropping fire retardant.
|Michelle's knit scarf and a set of tea towels all
woven from the same warp and in the bottom
left is a pair of child's socks knitted by Klaudia.
|Guest Robbie C made this felted wet
on wet scene
of the road, flames and tree in her yard (on sponge backing)
|Baby dress & hat by Greta


text: Joe Sacco is a cartoonist, journalist, and former Comics Journal staffer best known for his books Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza. Sacco's comic reporting has been featured in Time and The New York Times, and has won an American Book Award, an Eisner Award and a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Portland, OR.


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It's not often I do vlog style videos. When we travel I like to get some of my trips on video since it archives those wonderful memories forever. I also like to share what we get up to with the rest of you in case you are looking to do something similar and need ideas of what to do while away. As explained in my instagram post previewing our video, I am going to be setting this video to private since it has clips with my family- husband, kids and sister. At some point I may make my personal family life a bit less private but for now I feel this is best for many reasons including safety. If you would like to watch the video please do send me your email address as I will be adding some individuals to the privacy list, it will then show up in your subscription box just as my other videos do. We had an absolutely incredible trip from the actual traveling portion to eating out in some of our favorite and new restaurants (more reviews coming on those), family day trips and a walk around South Beach. I've been to Miami, Florida quite a few times and every time I go back I love it even more. We did also spend lots of time at the beach and pool and there were some moments I wish I would have been able to capture on camera that I just didn't get the chance to but all in all it's a good video portraying parts of our 10 days on this family trip.
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In the wee hours of the morning I completed my first blog post. And as promised I completed what I set out to do in that post. To re-review Ramit's Staying Motivated lesson which is part of his exceptional Earn1K program.
I'd like to use this blog as a forum for me to explain what I have learned from the various things I've listened to and will be listening to going forward. For far too long I just consumed information without taking notes about what I found relevant to me from the educator. In 10th grade this was called Active Reading, I never knew how important it was until I set out to learn new non-technical skills.
Ramit explains that most of us face difficulty experiencing failure. We don't know how to react to it and seem to just shut down and move on to the next shiny project. He discussed how Seth Godin rarely commits to ideas but when he does, he relentlessly pursues them and brings them to market. I've been doing more of that since Fall 2011 and have brought to market projects that are contributing to my recurring revenue bottom line which has enabled me to take on less one-off client work.
Yet I still feel that I am not able to surf the motivational wave well enough and sought out to determine the underlying conditions as to why I am struggling with staying motivated.
Ramit suggests that by responding to the off days using systems and positive work, I'll be able to maximize motivation and productivity. I do not want to regurgitate his lesson, I am going to recap the segments that I found relevant to me and show you how I am applying his concepts to my case.
Dealing with Low Energy: Ramit simply accepts that some days he is going to have low energy. I've done the same lately but I knew that I was not following the lesson properly. It's because I did not think about why I choose to deal with low energy periods incorrectly… To maximize productivity during peak motivation periods he recommends understanding the timing when you are most productive.
When am I most productive?
– 1 hour after waking up until lunch.
– 90 minutes after lunch until dinner or
— 90 minutes after lunch til lull then nap for 30-90 minutes, shower, then experience productivity until dinner
My day is over after dinner. I've accepted that. In fact I did not have dinner yesterday until 130AM which is why I churned through so much material and got this blog up on my server. For me, in periods where a high amount of work needs to be accomplished, I should consider snacking and pushing the dinner meal out as far as possible.
Being Overwhelmed: For client work I've been able to break things down into bite sized chunks for my team and for myself. When I do this occasionally for my own products it's been helpful to get through the list. I look forward to making more bite sized items for my own products to keep them moving forward.
Inertia: He talked about Jerry Seinfeld's don't break the chain tactic. He also said that sometimes you need hacks to help you get started but to not go crazy trying to find the perfect hack, just pick one that works and move on. Inertia has got the best of me with respect to exercise, I wonder if the Jerry Seinfeld technique can get me out of this behavior…
Forgetfulness: He says that humans are not good at complex memory tasks. I agree and I've been using systems to keep my clients happy and their work moving forward. While my client work has not faced setbacks my product work has – he suggests weekly reviews on Sundays to look back at the prior week and look forward at the week ahead on what you want to accomplish. I used to do this with Anil Chawla but his availability dried up… that leads into the next item Ramit covered…
Lack of Urgency: He started off by talking directly to me… It's hard to have urgency when you have no boss breathing over your shoulder. He suggests finding an accountability partner – someone you trust and respect – who you can send a commitment to that you can't easily get out of such as "I'll contact 30 leads by Saturday and send you a list of those leads by 9am". A close friend has agreed to be my accountability partner on this.
Discouragement: Sometimes things don't go exactly as planned. Ramit talked about how Howard Schultz overcame discouragement. I haven't read his book but I was able to find a relevant quote from Pour Your Heart Into It:
Fear of failure drove me at first, but as I tackled each challenge, my anxiety was replaced by a growing sense of optimism. Once you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, other hurdles become less daunting. Most people can achieve beyond their dreams if they insist upon it. I'd encourage everyone to dream big, lay your foundations well, absorb information like a sponge, and not be afraid to defy conventional wisdom. Just because it hasn't been done before doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
Ramit recommends a quarterly review to where you write:
– What are you long term goals?
– What are your short term milestones and when do you plan to accomplish it?
– Am I focused on a good market?
– Am I doing the kind of work I love?
– Am I adding value to people?
And staying true to my intentions of this blog, I'm going to use this area to do my quarterly review right now:
What you have you learned?
– I've learned that I love immersing myself in copywriting and sales psychology.
– I've learned that delivering on promises is the most important thing, ever.
– I've learned that taking time out of my day to do research is worth its weight in gold.
– I've learned that it's extremely important to understand who your customers are before they buy and to use the words they would use themselves in the sales messaging is the best way to craft the offer to them.
– I've learned that benefits not features sell products and services.
– I've learned that people will pay for peace of mind and a frustration free experience.
– I've learned that metrics is critically important and using the right strategies is more important than using the right tools.
What have you accomplished, however small?
– I've built my first landing pages, got smacked across the face with criticism, and rebuilt it to glowing reviews.
– I've written persuasively using Joanna Wiebe's Copyhackers book series.
What are your long term goals?
– To shift my business to cater to entirely high value clients that appreciate what my team provides and shed clients who are cost conscious and are not value conscious.
– To offset revenue losses from this shift from one-off revenue to valuable, sticky, recurring revenue products.
What are your short term milestones and when do you plan to accomplish it?
– To launch my first internationally useful consumer product-service by October 15
He ends with "there are no secrets to staying motivated". If you're interested in self improvement, even if you are not a business owner or free lancer, the Earn1K course is brilliant and provides detailed strategies and tactics to help you build the right systems for mastering your own life.
You might be able to get a glimpse of the psychology behind motivation through one of Ramit's older monster posts.