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6 Steps Retailers Can Take to Improve Their Retargeting Campaigns
Be clear on who you want to target, use your own data and don't be annoying.
Nearly two-thirds of consumers spend at least 16 minutes comparison shopping before making a purchase decision. The vast majority of in-market shoppers don't convert on their first site visit, because they are still making their way through the comparison process.
So how can you lure the browsers and researchers back when they are ready to buy? Retargeting is a popular option, but many retailers lose the sale by failing to properly tailor their campaigns. Here are six best practices to improve performance of your retargeting efforts:
1. Set thoughtful criteria
Start by answering these important questions:
– Who do you want to reach with this campaign? A specific demographic or segment?
– Where in the funnel are these shoppers? Anyone who hits your site, or shoppers who've taken a specific action (or set of actions)? For example, are you trying to convert cart abandoners who are more bottom-funnel in the purchase process, or do you want to target top-funnel site visitors who didn't click on specific products (but who you'd like to keep your brand top-of-mind)?
– What are your KPIs (key performance indicators)? What specific action do you want retargeted prospects to take? Ultimately retargeting goals should focus on metrics such as conversions, subscriptions, completed checkouts, average order size, brand favorability and the lifetime value.
– Is it the campaign around a particular promotion, or a seasonal event? Will timing play a key role?
2. Identify first-party data assets
Your first-party data set can include site visitors, subscribers, past customers, app users, loyalty members, and more; this first-party data will often come from your CRM (such as Salesforce) or your own website. You can upload this data and target directly through services like Google, Facebook, LiveRamp or Connexity.
3. Conscientious creative and messaging: With your goals and audience in place, the next step is to match your creative and landing pages with the prospect's journey in order to gently push them to the next stage of the funnel. Rather than showing people the same product over and over again, consider what piece of content you can provide to help them make the next decision.
For example, you might retarget a cart abandoner with a 20% discount for the item, but retarget shoppers who more passively browsed a category page with information about the quality of your products or your newsletter so that you can nurture the relationship.
4. Stick with one platform partner, at first
If this is your first retargeting test, it may be a good idea to partner with one provider before trying others.
"One thing I don't encourage is for retailers to run site retargeting with more than one provider at the same time. It's okay to experiment with different partners, but make sure they don't bid on the same exchanges against the same set of users in real-time," explains Craig Teich, Executive Vice President of Global Media Sales at Connexity.
Bidding against yourself can drive up costs and increase the likelihood of your target audience seeing the same ads too many times.
Bidding optimization requires monitoring; you should track when prospects visit different media and content sites you are targeting, what channels and creative are driving conversions, and how much it costs to serve impressions and acquire new customers. As you gain additional insights, then you can consider adding additional data providers.
5. Don't be annoying
No one likes the feeling of being stalked, so be mindful of how blatantly you promote products they recently viewed or details based on their personal data. A better approach could be to offer helpful decision-making information, stories about the craft behind your product creation, or access to customer reviews.
You can also set a "frequency cap" on the number of times customers see your retargeted ads—perhaps to three to five impressions—and place a code on your site that will "untarget" new customers post-purchase.
"Design and marketing should start with empathy," says Mark Donatelli, Global Head of Data Strategy & Planning at Ogilvy & Mather. "When it comes to designing your relationship with your customers, it's not just about your product. It's not about the colors, or the product photos. It's what does the customer want? What do they feel? What's important to them?"
6. Creative optimization with constant testing
As always, it's crucial not to make assumptions. Always A/B testing your creative, copy and landing pages to ensure they are optimized based on what shoppers actually respond to. Beyond the basics, don't be afraid to get creative with the elements you test in your ads. For example, you could test highlighting different elements:
Free shipping or flexible delivery options
Different price points
Time-sensitive promotions
Promotional codes or coupons
Remember: after seeing the same retargeted banner over and over, a prospect's' interest will wane, they will be become blind to your ads. By mixing up your creative, you can keep your ads fresh and interesting. It's even more important to tailor your creative around the goals of the campaign and the comparison stage of your audience—rather than pushing your products, focus on helping the shoppers make a decision and moving further down the purchase funnel.

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Newly appointed Executive Chef Rick Starr has brought his farm-to-table concept to the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel's restaurant, Filini.
Picking fresh ingredients from the hotel's rooftop garden and importing quality ingredients from local Illinois farms and overseas in Italy, Starr has put together a new five-course menu.
The appetizer list is overwhelming with options to start but some dishes, like always, stand above the rest. My guests and I were first presented with The Board: a wide array of artisanal meats and cheeses accompanied by honeycomb, warm toasted bread and salad greens all presented on a cutting board!
Next was one of the stars of the night in the Grilled Baby Spanish Octopus. The beauty of the dish was not only its flavor but also its simplicity as the only thing required to make the dish complete was a vinaigrette created from vegetables reaped from the rooftop garden.
To keep with the seafood theme, we were next presented with the Maine Lobster Broth. At first, we were just provided with a bowl with a unshelled lobster claw but then Chef Starr poured summer truffle broth over it, creating a balance of lobster and truffle flavor and a soup appropriate for any season.
For the second course, we were presented with a tasting of three pastas that made all of us feel like we were somewhere in Italy with how fresh the ingredients and flavors were. Chef Starr brought out his bucatini carbonara cooked with cob smoked bacon, braised pork belly, duck egg yolk and topped with pecorino cheese. His proud dish of tortelli was next with rainbow swiss chard, bufala ricotta and house-made reggiano butter. Lastly, was traditional spaghetti topped with three-meat meatballs, pomodoro and reggiano.
The main entrees were no disappointment to the load of food we had already consumed. Chef Starr's braised veal cheeks were cooked tenderly atop a generous dollop of garlic and Parmesan mashed potatoes.
On the fishy side of things, Chef Starr brought out Wild Alaskan Salmon and Day Boat Scallops, both accompanied by ingredients picked from the rooftop garden and drizzled with butters made in-house daily.
The desserts were just in time. Although we were stuffed, the desserts were light and easy to consume after all of the meat and seafood. The coffee crème brulee was a nice pick-me-up and the fruit garnished on top was super fresh. The funkiest creation was a lime sorbet accompanied by homemade whipped crème, fresh strawberries and Chicago favorite, caramel corn.
The five-course tasting menu is offered at $75 per person or $100 per person with a wine pairing.


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Plans to fly 30,000 Brits on Corfu holidays.
Fast growing airline and holiday company Jet2holidays is to target holidays on Corfu in 2014 with plans to increase holiday visitors by 50%.
The tour operator, which is based in the north of England, already flies weekly charters that carry more than 20,000 British holidaymakers to the island of Corfu over the holiday season.
After talks last year between Corfu's mayor with officials from Hellenic Island Services, which is the official representative of the company in Corfu, Jet2 plans to boost that number by at least 10,000.
The company jet2.com owns 52 aircraft and operates all over the Mediterranean. Over the past three years the firm has earmarked five aircraft to fly to Corfu holiday destinations on a weekly basis from May to September.
The aircraft have a seat capacity of 250 and fly from airports across northern England including Manchester, Newcastle, East Midlands, Leeds and Glasgow.
This means that Jet2.com now carries more than 20,000 British visitors on holidays to Corfu. Now company bosses plan to add two more aircraft to the weekly schedule.
It will take the Corfu holiday target for the 2014 season to more than 30,000, showing the company has great confidence in the Greek island holidays market despite the country's economic problems.
The tour operating branch of the company,Jet2holidays.com, was formed four years ago as part of the airline jet2.com.
The Jet2holidays.com arm is mainly engaged in selling complete tourist package holidays that include flight and lodging and has experienced rapid growth, doubling its customers each year.
This rapid growth has turned Jet2holidays from a minor player in the British holiday market to the third largest tour operator in Britain.
Corfu saw a major boost in holiday visitors in 2013, as did many of the Greek Islands. Latest figures from the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises) show a double-digit rise for holidaymakers in Corfu with an 11.6% increase on the previous year with 892,202 holiday visitors to the island up to the end of September.


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I got to experience virtual reality today! So while it MIGHT look like I'm in a plain, boring conference room, I'm actually at a villa in Italy.
Mostly, though, it just made me feel sick. Also, they weren't serving wine at the villa, so I think I'll stick to the real places from now on.


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My Brother the Israeli Prime Minister
An Interview with Yossi Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister's Brother
Yossi Olmert is not merely a top journalist, Middle East scholar and political insider who's worked for the Israeli national government and run for local office several times in Israel. He's also the younger brother of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister of Israel.
Yossi Olmert, 56, came to the United States in 2004 following a string of financial setbacks and a bankruptcy filing in Israel, according to the Jewish newspaper, the Forward. He now lives in New York City and has been hired by several American Jewish organizations for speaking engagements across the country. I talked to him May 31 by phone from Corpus Christi, Texas.
Q: Has the war in Iraq been a plus or minus so far, in terms of its effect on the chances for more peace and prosperity in the Middle East?
A: I don't think that the war in Iraq has made any major change, either positive or negative, on the overall Middle Eastern picture. Clearly the removal of Saddam Hussein removed a danger from the face of the earth -- a mini-Hitler. And when you have a mini-Hitler you have to prevent it from becoming a big Hitler. So that was a positive development, clearly. But over all, one can see that the basic forces which are militating against stability and peace in the Middle East are still at play and are still causing a lot of damage and they are still very much a force to reckon with, unfortunately.
Q: Is Israel more or less secure today than it was five years ago?
A: All together, Israel is more powerful and stronger than it was five years ago, because the strength of a nation emanates from a combination of factors. The economy is an important part of it. And the morale, the national sense of solidarity, the national spirit, and also the international standing of the country and of course its military power. When you put together all those factors into the equation, there is no question Israel is getting stronger.
Q: Some Americans believe the United States has not been an honest broker of peace in the Middle East, that we are too pro-Israel. When you have someone say that to you at some of your university appearances, what do you say to them?
A: Those who protested me at the University of California at Irvine used tactics of academic terrorism, pure and simple. They should not be allowed to do it. Nobody should stand up and say that Israel should be destroyed. And even the First Amendment and freedom of speech should not allow, and does not have to allow, people saying to other people "You ought to be destroyed." I don't even care about these people. I will go and talk and most of the people I talk to are very supportive and friendly. All together, American public opinion is very, very pro-Israel. Therefore, it is not surprising that the administration is pro-Israel.
But to be pro-Israel is not to be anti-Arab. America is very friendly with most of the Arab countries in the Middle East. The fact of the matter is, the main pillars of stability in the Middle East, for example, the Israel-Egyptian peace treaty, were brokered through American good offices. In that sense, one can see that America is maintaining a policy of dialogue and openness towards all the parties. Of course, those who don't want to talk to America and hate America will always blame America for everything.
Q: Condoleezza Rice has been talking to the Iranians. Do you think the issue over Iran's nuclear enrichment program will be settled diplomatically?
A: I hope.
Q: Will Israel strike the nuclear facilities in Iran?
A: There is a worldwide coalition that is poised against the Iranian military and nuclear build-up. This coalition should prove effective enough through the U.N. or any other means to stop the Iranians. We are part of this worldwide coalition, so there is no question about Israel doing anything by itself. We are part of the worldwide coalition. We are not leading this coalition. Clearly, the leader is the U.S. and therefore it remains to be seen what will be done. There still is time to prevent the Iranians from having the atomic bomb through diplomatic means.
Q: What's the most important thing Americans should know about your brother the prime minister?
A: He's a good guy!He's coming from a good family.That's something good to start with, you know. He's a very determined leader that wants to do the best for the Israeli people in cooperation and friendship with the U.S. He's a great admirer of the U.S. He's a great believer in democracy. He wants to achieve peace, but he's determined beyond any doubt to take care of the Israeli security interests in the first place. That means taking care of these security interests with regard to the Palestinians, with regard to Iran or with regard to any other threat towards Israel. At the end of the day, he's interested in maintaining and intensifying the economic recovery in Israel -- which is nothing short of miraculous -- and I believe he will prove to be a great prime minister.
Q: Is it realistic to think that the Palestinians will accept the building of the 'Separation Wall' or the Wall?
A: It is a security defensive measure and if it saves even one life, so be it. Lives of Palestinians and Israelis are sacred. Those who do not want to see the fence are basically those who advocate the continuing killing of innocent civilians. This is a measure that is totally designed to prevent further killings of both Israelis and Palestinians.
Q: Is it realistic to expect the Palestinians will put up with the Wall, the loss of Jerusalem, the --
A: Is it realistic to expect the Palestinians will once and for all cease to use terrorism and start to understand the realities of the world, in which people would like to live in peace, to maintain economic progress and prosperity,and to start building and construction, rather than destroying? The only realistic expectation is that people will understand that conflict and terrorism will not lead them anywhere. They will lead them only to destruction.
Q: If you could put yourself in the position of a good moderate Palestinian leader who wants the same goals you want -- prosperity, freedom, all that good stuff -- is there anything that the state of Israel is doing that you think it should not be doing?
A: The state of Israel is doing the right things. Six years ago, a prime minister of Israel called Ehud Barakoffered the Palestinians 97 percent of the disputed lands. He was rejected through a war of terrorism. For the Palestinians, as Abba Eban used to say, 'never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." I can't put myself in the shoes of the Palestinians because I am too much of an Israeli to be in the shoes of others. All I can expect is to see Palestinians understand that compromise means exactly that -- "You don't get 100 percent, I don't get 100 percent. Let's negotiate and see what could be done.'
Q: Are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to ever solving the Israeli-Palestinian issue?
A: I am totally optimistic. As a die-hard Zionist, I must be an optimist because Zionism is all about optimism and hope and prospect, as we have proved by maintaining ourselves for so many years under persecution and then coming back to our homeland, rebuilding it and creating a great state. I am a die-hard optimist and nothing will change it. At the end of the day, there will be a resolution of the conflict. But the end of the day means what? I can not tell you.
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Hosting a notebook SOLSC for your students?
I would like to invite those of you who will not be blogging with your students in March to participate in the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge. You can dip in and dip out of the Classroom Challenge in one or both of the following ways:
1. If your students will be writing daily in writers notebooks, consider scanning some of their notebook entries to a page of your personal or classroom blog. Then, share that unique URL on the daily call for classroom slice of life stories.
2. Craft a shared writing slice of life story with your students daily (M-F). Let it be about something that happens to you as a class. (Think about strong emotions. For instance, something that got everyone laughing together is a good place to start.) Post it on your personal or classroom blog. Link it to the daily call for classroom slice of life stories.
If you do decide to participate in one of the above-mentioned ways, please make sure that you and your students are still leaving comments on other classrooms' blog posts (i.e., who link through the daily calls for classroom sol stories). I think will be key if you want your students to get feedback on the writing you post on their behalf.
The shared writing slice of life idea came to me after reading a question Rissa Zimmerman asked in her recent comment. Therefore, if you have another way you think a class who isn't planning to blog could participate, feel free to leave a comment below. As you know, this classroom challenge is brand-new. Having kids write slice of life stories is not new. Therefore, I hope to gather multiple ways to invite classrooms into this challenge so it positively mpact all classrooms who are slicing.
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Marion B. Prust
MARION B. PRUST, 84, passed away on July 2, 2014 at Alden Estates after suffering a stroke, surrounded by her family.
Marion was born on September 7, 1929 in Richmond, Illinois, the daughter of Arthur and Anna (Cairns) Carlson. Marion grew up in the Genoa City, Wisconsin area where she attended country school. Her family moved to a farm near Jefferson, Wisconsin in 1944.
She met the love of her life at Schweiger Industries where both she and Chuck worked. On July 3, 1948 Marion married Charles Prust at Saint Mark's Lutheran Church in Jefferson, WI. They took over his grandfather's dairy farm in 1950. Five children were born to this union.
Marion was a kind and generous person who saw the good in everyone. In her own words, her children were her greatest accomplishment and she made the world a better place by bringing them into it. She said that honesty and commitment to family were what she tried to teach her children.
Marion lived her dream of becoming a teacher by actively working with children as a General Leader of the South Side Eagles 4-H Club in Lake Mills for many years. She was instrumental in the coordination of the first Market Animal Sale at the Jefferson County fair. Marion also spent many years driving school bus and milking cows.
Later in life, Marion enjoyed flower gardening, bird watching and spending time at Lake Arrowhead during retirement. She bowled, played golf and loved to dance. Marion's close association with her group of lady friends the "Puffin Muffins" was very special to her. In her spare time she expressed her artistic abilities through sewing and crafts. She sewed many beautiful things for her children, grandchildren and for craft fairs.
Marion will be remembered by her family for her love of Christmas. She loved this time of the year and no matter how little time she may have had she always baked many delicious cookies, pies, and breads.
Marion is survived by her husband of 65 years, Charles Prust; Sons, Paul (Jo) of Marshall, Wi, Jeff (Sheila), Hurley, WI and John and special friend Tina Dunkleberger of Jefferson; Two daughters, Barbara (Larry) Lee, Jefferson, WI and Patty (Doug) Heckart of Dakota City, NE, eleven grandchildren and six great grandchildren, 2 sisters Myrtle Lavasser-Licari (Vince), Jefferson, WI and Shirley (Stanley) Sitts, McFarland, WI.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Arthur Carlson, Jr. and Leonard Carlson; a sister, Inez Zarnstorff; a granddaughter, Marion Tyler; and a great granddaughter, Molly Pechan.
Visitation will be held at Schneider-Michaelis Funeral Home from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday July 3, 2014
Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 5, at 11 am at Saint Mark's Lutheran Church in Jefferson with Reverend Jeanette Thorp officiating. Visitation will be held at the Church from 10 am until the time of service. Burial will take place in Union Cemetery, Jefferson.
The family would like to thank Fort Memorial Hospital, Alden Estates, and Rainbow Hospice for all of their help and support.
Visit www.schneidermichaelisfuneralhome.com to leave a condolence or light a candle in her memory.


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That's right. After a creative drought, I have finally started to get back on the old riding horse of inspiration.
It helps that I have been able to work more on my ideas and manuscripts and worry less about the everyday concerns that plague us as humans.
So many times, people think that we writers, indeed, any artist, spends our days in deep contemplation. As we mill about our beautifully appointed flats, waiting for the spirit of inspiration to hit, we are often with a flute of champagne in our hands, staring at mundane objects, waiting for something to spark.
In all reality, I don't have time to mill. As for a beautifully appointed flat, mine is more a cozy apartment in the middle of downtown Albuquerque. And I am usually busier than a one-armed paper hanger. So, there is no waiting. Inspiration often hits, for me, at the most inconvenient of times. In rush hour traffic, in the grocery store check out line. Any time I am not near my computer. Hence the pad of paper I carry in my purse.
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MacKenzie Gore (LHP) – Let's play a game of word association. Mackenzie Gore….Balance. Athleticism. Projection. Gore encapsulates these words in human form. Watching him live, it's easy to forget he was a 2017 draft pick and surreal to think this kid was in high school last year at this time. Seeing Gore on 3/10, it was hard not to draw comparisons to prep lefty Matthew Liberatore who I had seen a few days earlier. About one year apart in age, Gore proved to be lightyears ahead in terms of his development.
At 6'3″ 180 lbs, there's undoubtedly room for some good weight. The fastball already sits 93-94 with command that is advanced beyond his years. His three secondary offerings: a high 70s curve, a mid 80s change, and a mid 80s slider all project to be average over better. It's no wonder I have heard 70 OFPs thrown on Gore in unhushed tones. Expect him to move quickly, especially for a high school draftee. Not that I am adding anything new, but if they are not already, it's time for Padres fans to get excited. There is bona fide ace potential here.
Adrian Morejon (LHP) – It's really an embarrassment of riches over at Padres camp in Peoria. One day after taking in MacKenzie Gore (3/14, 3/15), I had the pleasure of seeing Cuban lefty Adrian Morejon. He's listed at 6'0″ 165, but I think he's closer to 5'11". Some believe his fastball will play down due to poor extension and his diminutive frame. I saw a natural cutting action that I believe will counteract this and allow the pitch to play to plus. It was 93-95. Additionally, his fastball/changeup combo is the best I have seen all year. The change rested in the 81-83 range with big, late depth. Hitters looked helpless distinguishing it from his fastball and the velocity differential left many hitters stabbing weakly out in front of it. His arm speed and release point for both pitches looked identical. There was a lot of swing and miss on the change, around six or seven in only three innings. It projects to a 70. The curve was mixed in less frequently, but it had a sharp, tight shape. There's potential for three plus pitches (60 FB, 70 CHG, 60 CB) and a number two ceiling is well within reach.
Cal Quantrill (RHP) – The 8th overall pick in 2016's draft, Quantrill has been among the most divisive prospects among evaluators I have spoken with. On 3/16, he had the look of a back-end starter. His fastball was low 90s, touching 93 with moderate sink and some run. I think it plays down due to poor extension. The change was his best secondary, mostly in the 79-82 range with quality depth. Quantrill had good feel for it and was adept at using it as a put-away pitch. The slider was low to mid 80s and hung up in the zone far too often, a flaw that would be fatal at the highest level. At times it played to above average but not with any reliability. Lastly, but perhaps most notably, Quantrill threw a handful of high 80s two-seam fastballs, a pitch he has been experimenting on. At present it looked fringey to average, but it's something to watch out for. This is hardly a novel idea, but whether or not Quantrill can develop a viable third pitch will go a long way in determining his effectiveness as a starter.
Dauris Valdez (RHP) – A towering 6'8″ 221 lb righty, Valdez thew one inning in a 3/16 minor league game. His fastball sat 96-98 and touched 99. There is some crossfire action in his delivery and natural plane due to his height. Valdez threw exclusively from the stretch in this outing. His control was below average but the stuff was good enough to cover up for it; at times Valdez missed his spot within the zone but did not get punished for it. He leaned heavily on the fastball but also busted out a mid 80s slider. Having only seen it once, it's difficult to slap a grade on it. But it looked to be an effective offering, perhaps even 60 grade. The release point and arm speed for his slider were difficult to distinguish from his fastball. There's some effort in the delivery but when said player is comfortably high 90s, who cares? Valdez has the look of a high-leverage pen arm with a chance to close pending the utility of his secondaries.
Quick Hits:
- Esteury Ruiz (2B/SS) – I have not seen a lot of Ruiz, but my first impression was he has surprising power for his size. He hit an impressive opposite field home run on 3/16, and it should surprise no one if he makes a meteoric rise on prospect lists this year.
- Miguel Diaz (RHP) – Acquired via trade as a part of the the 2016 Rule 5 draft, Diaz is a straight fireballer. On 3/10, he sat 95-97 and touched 99. It's worth noting four days later his fastball looked more effective at a lower velocity band, sitting 93-95 and touching 97. There's little effort in the delivery considering how hard he throws. His changeup and breaking ball flashed above average but were both inconsistent and left up in the zone at times. Diaz has high-leverage bullpen potential.
- Jeisson Rosario (CF) – In a 3/14 intrasquad game, Rosario made an excellent diving catch in right-center, showing off plus range and a good jump to reach a ball few other guys can get to. Later on in the same intrasquad game, I timed him 4.11 seconds home to first from the left, a solid 60 speed grade.
- Tirso Ornelas (OF) – An 18-year-old outfield prospecting hailing from Tijuana, Mexico, Ornelas launched a majestic home run off of Angel Acevedo in a 3/14 intrasquad game. It was an easy, aesthetically pleasing swing. Consider my interest piqued.
- Cole Rutherford (1B) – The older brother of White Sox prospect Blake Rutherford, it wasn't too surprising to learn he was a college signee out of Cornell. I say not too surprising because he looked more mature/polished than his comPadres (zing, had to do it!) who partook in BP on 3/16. Rutherford has legitimate 60 raw power.


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Anyone agree with me?
I mean just look at General Discussion now. There are at least 5 brand new consecutive threads started by this one guy, all during the same day (this morning).
My suggestion is put a maximum posts-per-day limit for new members that would then be lifted after something like 48 hours. Even now, this is slowly coming to the point where it's getting out of hand.
Thank you for your attention.


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Antananarivo, Madagascar
For most travellers, they see Antananarivo or Tana for short as merely the gateway to the far-flung island of Madagascar. A quick hop onto your 4×4 and you're out of there as fast as possible. Those who linger here longer find something much different. Underneath the traffic-clogged streets, decaying buildings and mess of power lines is the lifeblood of Madagascar as a whole. In Tana, you will find the new face of Madagascar, but also the old mixed with its diverse population that hails from the tribes from every corner of Madagascar. Tana is also where you can see the island history, from the kingdoms of Malagasy tribes to the colonising French, it's all here in one big wonderful melting mix. Before you think all Madagascar has is lemurs you need to see its equally impressive culture, starting here in Madagascar's capital city, Antananarivo.Read More


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The guys at Examine.com are awesome when it comes to sifting through nutritional research and finding the most direct answers possible to the most common questions about supplements, their effectiveness, and how to use them properly to get specific results. They've previously been gracious enough to write guest posts on whey protein, vitamin D, and creatine, and are back again today to continue their series on fish oils. They always knock these out of the park and today is no exception.
To say fish oil is popular would be understating it. When it comes to the athletic population, many take it, expect it to reduce post-workout soreness and to improve cognition, and even improve cholesterol. Does it hold up?
1. One of the most important things to worry about when supplementing fish oil is the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6.
One of the most important things to keep in mind when supplementing fish oil is the ratio your body maintains of omega-3 fatty acids to omega-6 fatty acids. Fish oil is 'stored' in the body, in the cellular membrane (the barrier that protects each cell). This membrane is made up of fatty acids. The body can use the fish oil stored around each cell to make signaling molecules called eicosanoids.
The mechanism your body employs to to create eicosanoids doesn't care if the fatty acids it calls upon are omega-3 or omega-6. If your cellular membranes are packed full of omega-3 fatty acids, then the body will release primarily omega-3. Similarly, if you have an overabundance of omega-6, the body will choose to release omega-6 instead.
The body functions best when there is a balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. There is no consensus on whether a 2:1, 1:2 or 1:1 ratio is ideal, but either of the three is far more beneficial than a ratio of 10:1 or 1:10. Our typical western diet tends to be heavy on omega-6 fatty acids and light on omega-3s.
2. Fish oil is a very potent triglyceride reducing agent, but it is only moderately beneficial in reducing cholesterol
Have you heard of the pharmaceutical Lovaza? It's a patented blend of eicosapentaenoic acid ethyl ester and docosahexaenoic acid ethyl ether, made for the treatment of hyperlipidemia. In other words, EPA and DHA in ethyl ester combine to reduce triglycerides. It's one of the best supplemental options to reduce triglycerides available today, potentially cutting triglyceride levels 20 to 40 percent, depending on how high triglyceride levels originally were.
Fish oil, on the other hand, is comparatively lackluster. In otherwise healthy people with elevated cholesterol, fish oil supplementation will decrease the LDL cholesterol while increasing HDL. However, people with poor cholesterol will experience a mild elevation of LDL. This increase is too small to be of concern to most people, but the only people to actually experience this increase already have poor cholesterol and thus should be wary.
For this reason, Lovaza should be considered alongside statin use. For supplement users, fish oil should be considered alongside garlic or berberine (other supplemental options for reducing cholesterol).
3. Fish oil augments muscle protein synthesis and muscle cell metabolism
There are two main mechanisms by which fish oil benefits muscular health (beyond joint benefits and inflammation) which can result in increased physical performance and muscle growth.
The first is known as metabolic flexibility, or how fast and easily a cell can switch from using glucose as its primary fuel source to using fatty acids. Metabolically flexible cells are correlated with better physical performance in tasks that benefit from switching energy sources. Activities like football, martial arts, or intermittent exercise are great examples of these tasks. They are characterized by alternating from a relatively low intensity waiting period to a high intensity activity.
When a cell receives omega-3 fatty acids, it tends to become much more metabolically flexible.
Fish oil can also aid in protein synthesis and muscle growth. Cells contain a protein called mTOR, which mediates muscle protein synthesis. Activating the mTOR protein can promote muscle growth. While fish oil does not directly activate mTOR, it enhances the activation of mTOR from other stimuli, like leucine or insulin.
1. Not all effects of fish oil supplementation are due to the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6
Many fatty acids work by being stored in the cell membrane, waiting to be called upon by the body in times of need. The PUFAs (omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids) are by far the most important fatty acids to be stored in your cells, since they form potent eicosanoids.
A cell can be in one of three stages:
The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is 10:1, with total PUFAs making up 5% of the cell membrane. This suggests an inflammatory state.
The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is 1:1, with a total PUFA content of 15%. This might happen if you overload your diet with fish oil in an attempt to normalize the ratio. This cell is balanced in omega fatty acids, but due to the high PUFA content, the cell membrane is more easily oxidized (not a good thing), but it is more flexible.
The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is 1:1, with a total PUFA content of 5%. This leads to a similar inflammatory state as stage 2, but with less vulnerability to oxidation and less flexibility.
There will always be debate on whether a higher or lower total PUFA content is good or bad, since the increased susceptibility to oxidation is usually considered to be a bad thing, but greater cell flexibility is not.
People that warn against fish oil consumption tend to be referencing the cellular vulnerability to oxidation, which occurs due the general effect of PUFAs, but does not depend on omega ratios. These concerns are warranted, but fearmongering is not, since this issue should not deter anyone from fish oil consumption. A daily dose of anthocyanin rich foods, with some vitamin E, will more than negate the increased susceptibility to oxidation.
2. The benefits of fish oil on cognition are not as consistent as you think
When it comes to determining the effects of supplements on cognition, there are three distinct demographics of people that need to be considered:
Older individuals beginning the process of cognitive decline, or those who are already in a state of cognitive decline.
Young people with a cognitive incapacity or condition (i.e, a brain injury or chronic depression).
Young people with no known cognitive incapacity or condition.
Fish oil is beneficial for people with severe depression and for people that have suffered from brain damage (assuming that antioxidants are also being supplemented in the latter case). Fish oil is also generally reliable for older people, though not 100 percent of the time.
Young people that want to increase cognition may want to look elsewhere. Fish oil is incredibly unreliable at increasing memory and cognitive processing. Though individual studies will show the benefits of fish oil on these processes, the collective body of study will show an inconsistency in results, suggesting a missing factor that still remains to be isolated. For this reason, fish oil cannot be relied upon to increase cognitive capacity in young people.
3. The differences between forms of fish oil are really overrated
Fish oil comes in a variety of packages. You could purchase the triglyceride form (the most common), the ethyl ester form (Lovaza), a phospholid form (krill oil), and oils from specific species, including cod, salmon, and shark. Due to the popularity of fish oil, there is a lot of debate on the best kind of fish oil.
Phospholipid forms are better than the triglyceride, which in turn is better than ethyl ester, strictly based on absorption rates. If, for example, triglycerides are absorbed at a value of 100% (this figure used for example only), then ethyl ester checks in at 66%, while phospholipids hits the high mark at 150%.
However, the rates of absorption and overall bioavailability only matter if the compound needs to hit its peak efficiency in the blood at a specific time. Fish oil is not time dependent and only needs to be present in the diet. For this reason, absorption rates should be used as a guideline when taking multiple forms of fish oil. For example, if a subject supplements with 1g of fish oil, they may only need 700mg of krill oil to achieve the same effect.
Krill oil appears to be the most useful on paper, due the lower required dosage, but its prohibitive price does not validate its usage. Salmon and cod liver oil should be used if a dose of astaxanthin or Vitamin A and D is desired, while shark oil should be avoided due to mercury concerns.
Since the benefits of fish oil are primarily derived from the fatty acids themselves, the differences between the various forms of fish oil are interesting but not worth micromanaging and worrying about.
A fewyears ago Examine.com released a supplement goals reference guidebook, which I reviewed HERE, and they're putting it on sale to celebrate their 6th year of being in existence and putting this, as well as every other product they have, on sale for 50% off for a limited time only.
The thing is, they're limiting the sale to only November 15-17th, 2017 at midnight, so if you want to get quality supplement information on the cheap, you should check it out as soon as possible.
This is the kind of resource that should be on every fitness professional, rehab professional, medical professional, recreational lifter, fitness enthusiast, gym rat, puck bunny, weekend warrior, or pro athletes' resource list in order to quickly look up what a supplement can do, as well as what supplements can be useful for specific conditions, all while compiling over 1900 human nutritional studies and distilling them into easy to use information.
Again, it's only on sale until midnight on Friday, but even past then it would be a great resource to get, and the regular price is a remarkable value for everything you get as it is.


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Scientific Highlights
Solar eclipse in one hundred spectra
12 September 2017. A solar eclipse gives researchers the opportunity to observe parts of the sun that are normally invisible. With the Solar Disk Integrated Telescope (SDI) on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA, scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have remotely observed the solar eclipse on 21 August 2017. During the course of the eclipse, they obtained about one hundred spectra in two wavelength regions. The SDI feeds light into the PEPSI high-resolution spectrograph in the pier of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT).
Stars and galaxies with MUSE - extra clear
02 August 2017. Spectacular improvement of astronomical observations with MUSE using adaptive optics. Astronomers have been observing distant galaxies and nebulae with unprecedented quality using the MUSE instrument at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This was made possible by commissioning of a new adaptive optics facility at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Chilean Atacama desert.
X-Ray Telescope STIX Ready for Launch to the Sun
13 July 2017. To observe the Sun at close range and measure its activity: with launch in February 2019, as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft, STIX will study solar X-ray radiation in unprecedented detail. An international team with researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has developed STIX and now completed it. The AIP is the only German institute involved in this instrument.
Rediscovering our Galaxy
7 July 2017. What do we know about our home galaxy, the Milky Way? How was the Galaxy assembled and how did it evolve from the most pristine eras to its present state? About 200 astronomers meet from Monday, 10 July 2017, till Friday, 14 July 2014, on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam at the IAU symposium "Rediscovering our Galaxy" to debate the latest research results and surveys in the field of galactic archaeology. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) supports the event, which the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is organising and hosting, with further support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).
Supercomputer to prove theory of sunspot formation
15 May 2017. Where do sunspots form? Just below the Sun's surface or deep down inside? The SPOTSIM project, that studies the origin of sunspots using magnetohydrodynamic simulations has now been awarded competed time on the MareNostrum supercomputer in Spain.
Peeking Through the Cloud's Dusty Veil
5 May 2017. The biggest infrared image ever taken of the Small Magellanic Cloud: With the telescope VISTA, an international team of astronomers led by AIP researcher Prof. Dr. Maria-Rosa Cioni has been able to see the myriad of stars in this neighbouring galaxy much more clearly than ever before.
Virtual Reality meets Astrophysics
6 April 2017. The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is launching a new Virtual Reality (VR) website. Offering 360 degree videos and panoramas, the new web portal vr.aip.de invites visitors to experience the cosmos and to take virtual tours through astronomical observatories. The website can be navigated either in VR mode, using a VR-headset, or via touch and click on any display. All media is based on scientific results, simulations from supercomputers, or images from telescopes and observatories.
New professor simulates galaxy formation on the computer
3 April 2017. How do galaxies and galaxy clusters, which are among the largest structures in the universe, form? Do cosmic rays have an impact on galaxy and cluster formation? Prof. Dr. Christoph Pfrommer is seeking answers to these questions. Starting in April, Pfrommer is leading the research group Cosmology and Large-scale Structure at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and doing research as a jointly appointed professor at the University of Potsdam. The astrophysicist has moved to Potsdam from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS).
The Dynamic Duo: RAVE complements Gaia
19 September 2016. The new data release of the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is the fifth spectroscopic release of a survey of stars in the southern celestial hemisphere. It contains radial velocities for 520 781 spectra of 457 588 unique stars that were observed over ten years. With these measurements RAVE complements the first data release of the Gaia survey published by the European Space Agency ESA last week by providing radial velocities and stellar parameters, like temperatures, gravities and metallicities of stars in our Milky Way.
Starving Black Hole Returns Brilliant Galaxy to the Shadows
15 September 2016. The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved by an international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope along with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. It seems that the black hole has fallen on hard times and is no longer being fed enough fuel to make its surroundings shine.
Gaia mission publishes first results
14. September 2016. The European Space Agency's (ESA) mission Gaia published its first set of results on 14th of September 2016. The first data release contains parallaxes and proper motions of about two million stars. These measurements have been eagerly awaited by astronomers because they will enable them to study the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.
ESO and AIP Sign Agreement to Build 4MOST
23 August 2016. ESO has signed an agreement with a consortium led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) to build 4MOST, a unique, next-generation spectroscopic instrument, which will be mounted on the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. 4MOST, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope, is expected to collect approximately 75 million spectra over its planned fifteen-year lifetime.
Real-time analysis for medical diagnostics
16 August 2016. In the context of current technology transfer projects, scientists at AIP have managed to successfully apply the spectral imaging method, developed in astrophysics, to diagnostics in the field of medicine. In contrast to digital cameras, which only register a brightness value for each pixel, this method detects an entire spectrum. AIP has made a name for itself internationally with this method, referred to also as integral field spectroscopy (IFS). The method is used for instruments such as PMAS and MUSE.
The secrets of dark energy
14 July 2016. Astronomers announced this week the sharpest results yet on the properties of dark energy driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe. For their studies, scientists from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) programme mapped a record-breaking 1.2 million galaxies observed within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). A collection of papers from the BOSS collaboration describing these results was submitted this week to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has actively participated with important contributions to data analysis and theoretical modelling.
Other Suns got the right spin
17 May 2016. Astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have for the first time measured the rotation periods of stars in a cluster nearly as old as the Sun and found them to be similar. It turns out that these stars spin around once in about twenty-six days – just like our Sun. This discovery significantly strengthens what is known as the solar-stellar connection, a fundamental principle that guides much of modern solar and stellar astrophysics.
Cosmic Beacons Reveal the Milky Way's Ancient Core
22 April 2016. An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany and Dr. R. Michael Rich of UCLA has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars. These stars are more than 10 billion years old and their orbits in space preserve the early history of the formation of the Milky Way.
Third CALIFA data release: an inspiration to be curious about galaxies
11 April 2016. The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey (CALIFA) has released all of the data assembled over six years of work. The data of more than 600 galaxies are accessible for anyone interested at http://califa.caha.es/DR3. The astronomical community thus obtains free access to the largest dataset of spatially resolved properties of galaxies ever obtained.
The Missing Brown Dwarfs
8 April 2016. When re-analysing catalogued and updated observational data of brown dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood, astronomers from Potsdam have found that a significant number of nearby brown dwarfs should still be out there, awaiting their discovery. The corresponding study by Gabriel Bihain and Ralf-Dieter Scholz from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) challenges the previously established picture of brown dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood.
Radio detection of cosmic rays
3 March 2016. LOFAR, the Low-Frequency Array Radio Telescope, observed ultra-short, bright radio pulses of elementary particles entering the Earth atmosphere at almost the speed of light. The particles were fired off by a cosmic accelerator millions of years ago. An international team of astronomers including a number of scientists from the German Long Wavelength consortium (GLOW) have now unraveled the radio code of these intruders to determine their nature and constrain their origin. Their results are published in today's edition of Nature.
Reproducing the large-scale Universe
16 February 2016. The BOSS survey has scanned the sky measuring the redshifts of more than 1 million galaxies, yielding a three dimensional picture of luminous sources in our Universe covering about 4.5 billion years. An international team of astronomers has now reproduced the observed galaxy clustering and determined the uncertainties in the measurement of observed quantities by generating thousands of simulated galaxy catalogues. For the first time, the separation between pairs of galaxies, and the separation between triplets of galaxies has been explicitly constrained to reproduce the observations. Hence, the cosmic web in particular the empty regions between galaxies are described.


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Public Awareness in Other Disciplines
Public Awareness in Other Disciplines
The AAA Foundation is committed to helping educate the public and related disciplines about the importance of hearing and balance wellness as well as to address common misconceptions about audiology. In this effort, the Foundation supported the U13 Bedside-to-Bench Conference Series, Sensory Impairment and Cognitive Decline sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the American Geriatrics Society.
The Foundation's participation as an underwriter was to determine how the Academy and the AAAF will support work in sensory impairment and cognitive decline in terms of research, education, and public awareness. Therese Walden, AuD, former Foundation Chair, attended the conference on behalf of the AAA Foundation and the American Academy of Audiology on October 2-3, 2017 and presented some of her observations:
The purpose of the conference was to determine how "converging epidemiologic evidence links sensory impairment (vision/hearing) to risk of cognitive decline and incident dementia." The conference presenters and participants reviewed how the "functional challenges imposed by sensory impairment are more difficult to overcome when accompanied by even mild cognitive impairments, and vice versa."
Although some of the discussion was good and moderately informed, there was a great deal of misrepresentation and misinformation about hearing and balance issues. Audiology took many hard hits at the meeting. A community health nurse stood up to say that she has been involved in a hearing screening programs where individuals are referred for diagnostic testing/treatment and she is told by the audiologist that "there is nothing that can be done with someone who has a mild loss". There is always something that can be done, always. Audiologists, as a group, are uninformed and unaware of what groups like the Geriatrics Society and the NIA are doing to get in front of symptoms and disease processes to mitigate long-term deleterious effects of non-diagnosis and non-treatment.
The Foundation and the Academy need to focus on public awareness of and education on the risks of untreated hearing loss and balance deficits and the benefit of early detection and treatment for better long-term outcomes. Audiologists need to be educated, especially clinical audiologists and students about the contemporary models of healthcare delivery. We cannot wait for patients to be referred to us by MDs, we must be in the community working with those who see individuals with hearing and balance problems every day: Community health workers, in-home care specialists, assisted care providers, skilled nursing providers, etc., these individuals see thousands and thousands of patients every day and they are our best referral source to address hearing and balance deficits.


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Collaboration requires us to share our work, communicate our ideas, and collect each other's thoughts in order to understand whether the designs we're producing meet the objectives of a given project. But we often wrestle with collecting feedback. We get comments that are less than helpful because they are irrelevant or unclear, or we find that we're getting feedback and reactions at inopportune times, rather than at points in the process where they would have been useful in informing design decisions.
Our ability to critique speaks directly to the quality of the conversations we have with teammates, whether they are designers, developers, stakeholders, etc. Real critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, not allow individual members to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback." Designers frequently complain about the quality and usefulness of the feedback they are given, but we rarely examine our own processes to identify how to collect useful feedback and make critiques of our designs more productive.
Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry explore critique as both an activity and an aspect of any communication or collaboration. Attendees will learn what separates critique from other forms of feedback, best practices for giving and receiving critique, tools for focusing and facilitating discussions (even with challenging participants), where and when critique falls within a project's timeline, and how to use critique to build not only stronger designs, but stronger collaboration.
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Viewpoint on Dover Intelligent Design Opinion
Viewpoint has a thoughtful, five-part series on Judge John Jones and his opinion in the Dover intelligent design trial:
It is our opinion that the judge was correct in finding that the defendents were motivated by their religious beliefs and that he was correct to find fault with the consistency of their testimony. He was therefore constrained by Supreme Court precedent to find in favor of the plaintiffs. Nevertheless, much of his reasoning seems to us to be flawed and his decision is much broader than is warranted by his written opinion.
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This blog, with quite a few others, gets a run in an Age Media Blog story headlined When are bloggers journalists? (hat-tip Jozef Imrich)
3 thoughts on "Making it in the MSM"
One of my favorite sites on the internet is http://www.creators.com/opinion.html – for high quality opinion pieces written by leading americans. It presents a fair mix of left and right wing idealogy, and i've attempted to classify some of the authors in this list below. These aren't blogs – they are opinion pieces worthy of being published in major newspapers. Infact you can try to encourage local newspapers to publish content – although given our partisan and belligerent australian media – i presume columns from the losers category would most likey be published by the Australian and even the ABC (thanks janet).
One of the best from this week is http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=pbu
Molly Ivins
Mark Shields
Paul Craig Roberts
Robert Scheer
Deb Price
Jacob Sullum
Patrick J. Buchanan
Crispin Sartwell (http://eyeofthestorm.blogs.com/)
Ray Hanania
Joe Conason
Michelle Malkin
Bill O'Reilly
Linda Chavez
Austin Bay
Oliver North
P.S. my blog still lives at http://alphacoward.blog-city.com/
John, for some reason, when I follow the link from this page I get a snapshot of the Age blog at the time the link was posted. Refreshing it doesn't seem to make a difference.
If you go via the Age website, you can see that substantially more comments have been made on the thread there than if you go through the link here.
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thod, the obligations are equal, and therefore it was formerly the custom mutually to present, but now it is customary only for the gentlemen." This drawing of valentines is remarked in Poor Robin's Almanac for 1676, under St. Valentine's day: "Now Andrew, Anthony, and William, For Valentines draw Prue, Kate, Jilian." Misson, a learned traveller, who died in England about 1721, describes the amusing practices of his time:—"On the eve of the 14th of February, St. Valentine's day, the young folks in Engand and Scotland, by a very ancient custom, celebrate a little festival. An equal number of maids and bachelors get together, each writes their true or some feigned name upon separate billets, which they roll up, and draw by way of lots, the maids taking the men's billets, and the men the maids'; so that each of the young men lights upon a girl that he calls his valentine, and each of the girls
upon a young man which she calls hers. By this means each has two valentines: but the man sticks faster to the valentine that is fallen to him, than to the valentine to whom he is fallen. Fortune having thus divided the company into so many couples, the valentines give balls and treats to their mistresses, wear their billets several days upon their bosoms or sleeves, and this little sport often ends in love. This ceremony is practised differently in different counties, and according to the freedom or severity of madam Valentine. There is another kind of valentine, which is the first young man or woman that chance throws in your way in the street, or elsewhere, on that day." In some places, at this time, and more particularly in London, the lad's valentine is the first lass he sees in the morning, who is not an inmate of the house; the lass's valentine is the first youth she sees. Gay mentions this usage on St. Valentine's day: he makes a rustic housewife remind her good man,—
So also in the "Connoisseur" there is mention of the same usage preceded by certain mysterious ceremonies the night before; one of these being almost certain to ensure an indigestion is therefore likely to occasion a dream favourable to the dreamer's waking wishes.—"Last Friday was Valentine's day, and, the night before, I got five bay-leaves,and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk, and filled it with salt; and when I went to bed, ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We also wrote our lowers' names upon bits of paper, and toiled them up in clay, and put them into water: and the first that rose up was to be our valentine. Would you think it, Mr. Blossom was my man. I lay a-bed and shut my eyes all the morning, till he came to our house; for I would not have seen another man before him for all the world."
Shakspeare bears witness to the custom of looking for your valentine, or desiring to be one, through poor Ophelia's singing Good morrow : 'tis St. Valentine's day All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine!
Sylvanus Urban, in 1779, was informed by Kitty Curious, that on St. Valentine's day in that year, at a little obscure village in Kent, she found an odd kind of sport. The girls from five or six to eighteen years old were assembled in a crowd, burning an uncouth figy which they called a "holly boy, and which they had stolen from the boys; while in another part of the village the boys were burning what they called an "ivy girl," which they had stolen from the girls. The ceremony of each burning was accompanied by acclamations, huzzas, and other noise. Kitty inquired the meaning of this from the oldest people in the place, but she could learn no more than that it had always been a sport at that season.
A correspondent communicates to the Every-Day Book a singular custom, which
revailed many years since in the west of !. Three single young men went out together before daylight on St. Valentine's day, with a clapnet to catch an old owl and two sparrows in a neighbouring barn. If they were successful, and could bring the birds to the inn without injury before the females of the house had risen, they were rewarded by the hostess with three pots of purl in honour of St. Valentine, and enjoyed the privilege of demanding at any other house in the neigh
bourhood a similar boon. This was done, says our correspondent, as an emblem, that the owl being the bird of wisdom, could influence the feathered race to enter the net of love as mates on that day, whereon both single lads and maidens should be reminded that happiness could alone be secured by an early union.
On this ancient festival, it was formerly the custom for men to make presents to the women. In Scotland these valentine gifts were reciprocal, as indeed they are still in some parts.
Hurdis calls this
St. Valentine is the lover's saint. Not that lovers have more superstition than other people, but their imaginings are more. As it is fabled that Orpheus "played so well, he moved old Nick;" so it is true that Love, "cruel tyrant," moves the veriest brute. Its influence renders the coarsest nature somewhat interesting. A being of this kind, so possessed, is almost as agreeable as a parish cage with an owl inside ; you hear its melancholy tee-whit tee-who, and wonder how it got there. Its place of settlement becomes a place of sentiment; nobody can liberate the starveling, and it will stay there. Its mural notes seem so many calls for pity, which are much abated on the recollection,that there are openings enough for its escape. The "tender passion" in the two mile an hour Jehu of an eighthorse waggon, puzzles him mightily. He "sighs and drives, sighs and drives, and drives and sighs again," till the approach of this festival enables him to buy "a valentine," with a "halter" and a "couple o' hearts" transfixed by an arrow in the form of a weathercock, inscribed
"I'll be yours, if you'll be mine, I am your pleasing Valentine."
This he gets his name written under by the shopkeeper, and will be quite sure that it is his name, before he walks after his waggon, which he has left to go on, because neither that nor his passion can brook delay. After he is out of the town, he looks behind him, lest anybody should see, and for a mile or two on the road, ponders
vice her who resigned, on being called "to the happy estate of matrimony" by a neighbouring carter. He gives her the mysterious paper in the yard, she receives it with a "what be this 2" and with a smack on the lips, and a smack from the whip on the gown. The gods have made him poetical, and, from his recollection of a play he saw at the statute-fair, he tells her that "love, like a worm in the mud, has played upon his Lammas cheek" ever since last Lammas-tide, and she knows it has, and that she's his valentine. With such persons and with nature, this is the season of breaking the ice. St. Valentine, be it repeated, is the saint of all true lovers of every degree, and hence the letters missive to the fair, from wooers on his festival,bear his name. Brand thinks "one of the most elegant jeu-d'esprits on this occasion," is one wherein an admirer reminds his mistress of the choice attributed by the legend to the choristers of the air on this da and inquires of her— -
Shall only you and I forbear
But should some generous youth appear,
Though in this wilderness below
IPit at a pinch.
A gentleman who left his snuffbox at a friend's on St. Valentine's Eve, 1825, received it soon after his return home in an envelope, sealed, and superscribed— To J– E—, Esq. Dear Sir, I've just found proof enough, You are not worth a pinch of snuff; Receive the proof, seal'd up with care, And ertract from it, that you are. Palentine, 1825
SIR WILLIAM Blackston E died on the 14th of February, 1780. He was born at the house of his father, a silkman, in Cheapside, London, on the 10th of July, 1723; sent to the Charter-house in 1730; entered Pembroke-college, Cambridge, in 1738; of the Middle Temple, 1741; called to the bar in 1746; elected recorder of Wallingford in 1749; made doctor of civil law in 1750; elected Vinerian professor of common law in 1758; returned a representative to Parliament in 1761; married in 1761; became a justice of the court of Common Pleas in 1770. In the course of his life he filled other offices. He was just and benevolent in all his relations, and, on the judicial seat, able and impartial. In English literature and jurisprudence he holds a distinguished rank for his "Commentaries on the Laws of England." This work originated in the legal lectures he commenced in 1753: the first volume was published in 1759, and the remaining three in the four succeeding years. Through these his name is popular, and so will remain while law exists. The twork is not for the lawyer alone, it is for every body. It is not so praiseworthy to be learned, as it is disgraceful to be igno
rant of the laws which regulate liberty and property. The absence of all information in some men when serving upon juries and coroners' inquests, or as constables, and in parochial offices, is scandalous to themselves and injurious to their fellow men. The "Commentaries" of Blackstone require only common capacity to understand. Wynne's "Eunomus" is an excellent introduction to Blackstone, if any be wanting. With these two works no man can be ignorant of his rights or obligations; and, indeed, the "Commentaries" are so essential, that he who has not read them has no claim to be considered qualified for the exercise of his public duties as an Englishman. He is at liberty, it is true, for the law leaves him at liberty, to assume the character he may be called on to bear in common with his fellow-citizens; but, with this liberty, he is only more or less than a savage, as he is more than a savage by his birth in a civilized country, and less than a savage in the animal instinct, which teaches that self-preservation is the first law of nature; and still further is he less, because, beside the safety of others, it may fall to him, in this state of ignorance, to watch and ward the safety of the commonwealth itself. Blackstone, on making choice of his profession, wrote an elegant little poem, entitled " The Lawyer's Farewell to his Nurse." It is not more to be admired for ease and grace, than for the strong feeling it evinces in relinquishing the pleasures of poesy and art, and parting for ever from scenes wherein he had happily spent his youthful days. Its conclusion describes his anticipations—
Lost to the field and torn from you—
A SU it At LAW.
. Its origin and progress may be traced in the Tree engraved on the opposite page.


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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Bathing Beauty
Now, I can't be alone in wanting a swimsuit that you can actually swim in, can I? I don't want cut-out sides, a plunging neckline or fussy embellishments - just a simple, slimming black one-piece.
Whilst there might not be lots of choice around, it was relatively easy finding one. I've got this black M&S swimsuit with neon pink double strap detail (pictured left) - perfect and just £15!
Whilst I wanted something as a plain as possible I do love the retro styling of these patterned bathing suits...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Bah Humbug!
For me it's all about the stripes and have been quick off the mark to snap up a bargain blouse from H&M (pictured left, £12.99).
Just for you, here are some more must-have humbug stripes to make your mouth water...
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Saturday, 16 February 2013
Nicola Roberts at LFW
London Fashion Week is in full swing and my favourite look from the FROW so far has to be this combo from none other than Nicola Roberts...
I love it!
I love it!
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Year of the Snake
Today marks the start of the Chinese New Year - and 2013 is the year of the snake. The stars must be aligned or something because snakeprint has slithered its way into style in perfect timing to celebrate! It's no secret that I utterly and completely hate snakes, but that said I am quite partial to a chic pair of snakeprint pumps - explain that one?!
Here's a selection of some of the best snakeprint stuff around...
Here's a selection of some of the best snakeprint stuff around...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Becks In His Kecks!
Needless to say this made my day! Yes, it's the ad directed by Guy Richie to celebrate the launch of David Beckham's latest bodywear range. Gotta be his best work yet, what do you say?
Friday, 1 February 2013
Tartan Bargain
Debenhams A/W press show and I've had my beady eyes on it ever since. I don't know why I didn't snap this one up as soon as it came in store (probably something to do with a total lack of wardrobe space) but after finding it in the sale reduced from £49 - £15 I'm glad I held off. It was the last one left on the rails and in my size - how perfect is that?! Just goes to show, good things come to those who wait.
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FilmOn X, an Aereo copycat that also uses arrays of tiny antennas to stream local over-the-air broadcast television via the Internet, stumbled again in court, and the ruling may have hit Aereo with some collateral damage.
A U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday rejected FilmOn X's motion to stay a preliminary injunction or to limit the injunction to the D.C. area. Instead, the judge affirmed a preliminary injunction from earlier this week against the Aereo-like service.
The ruling solidifies a win for broadcasters that are suing not only FilmOn X (previously known as Aereokiller and BarryDriller.com) but also Aereo itself, which is backed by IAC Chairman Barry Diller and has so far been much more adept at keeping court rulings on its side.
In her opinion upholding the preliminary injunction against FilmOn X, Judge Rosemary Collyer for the U.S. District Court in D.C. questioned the decisions by another court that has sided with Aereo -- the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit based in New York. Collyer referred to Aereo as a "similar service that also appears to infringe...copyrights" and disagreed with the appeals court's ruling, calling it "myopically focused" on how Aereo transmits programming rather than on whether the programming is a so-dubbed public performance.
The broadcasters are suing the two services for allegedly violating their public performance rights for copyrighted television programs. Aereo declined to comment on the latest decision by Collyer.
FilmOn X launched in August 2012 as a rival to Aereo. Both companies, which do not pay retransmission licensing fees to the networks, argue that they are simply providing consumers with individual antennas that let anyone watch over-the-air programming for free. Aereo charges a subscription for delivering the video streams online and storing programming as a DVR does.
The emergence of FilmOn X has been a boon for broadcasters in their fight against Aereo, which is more sophisticated in its legal approach. The major networks first sued FilmOn X quickly after its launch, and won a preliminary injunction in California in December that prevented the service from retransmitting broadcasters' signals there and in other Western states.
Collyer's injunction in D.C. expanded upon the California one by enjoining LiveOn X from operating nearly nationwide, excluding only the region where Aereo has been successful in brushing aside the broadcasters' injunction attempts.
But it isn't certain whether the D.C. and California decisions will be relevant to Aereo. In addition to the suit in New York that Aereo is fighting, it is also battling a suit in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. Earlier this week, it filed a response in its Massachusetts case to Collyer's injunction ruling, saying that Collyer incorrectly interpreted the copyright law and that it isn't a relevant decision in the Massachusetts court.
However, the diverging direction of opinions in the different regions raises the possibility that courts will issue directly conflicting final rulings, and this raises the prospect of the Supreme Court being called upon to be the final arbiter.


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Aaargh, I did not post anything for a whole month. It has been crazy busy. I cannot believe I neglected my blog.
It's that time again when another is over. The first quarter of the year is gone just like that.
My March was pretty special. Me and my boys went on a bucket list trip. I have yet to blog about our trip. Give me a week or so. The rest of my March went like this.
1. Yellow (Javi attended his very first Sports Day in school and he is on Team Yellow.)
2. Something borrowed (I haven't finished the book yet so I couldn't return yet. And I hate the feeling as I always want to return what is not mine. But them I want to say I finished the book.)
3. My name is... (I-R-M-A)
4. On my mind (Too many things)
5. Something beginning with "I" (A miniature India Gate)
6. Chair (This Bumbo seat has been passed on from Javi. Now Caleb enjoys it.)
7. Fly (Bird sighting next to a street vendor.)
8. In the corner (The colorful kiddie shirts at Uniqlo)
9. 10AM (Someone is napping in my arms.)
10. Far away (My magnets from all over the world. Mostly from fellow mug collectors.)
11. Something good (After taking care of two sick kids the whole day, I get to enjoy a cone of ice cream while watching The Hunger Games.)
12. Partial (We are missing Caleb's birthday mug. At the back are my incomplete Harry Potter and Twilight series.)
13. Fresh (I really love baby cologne. I use Baby Bench Lemondrop. Yup, for me and not for my sons.)
14. Care (I've been sick the last couple of days. First, it was my eldest son, then the baby, and lastly me! It's no fun being sick so hello Zithromax.)
15. Evening (Father and son walking the night market of Siem Reap)
16. Beautifully ordinary (Watching the sunrise is ordinary for me as I enjoy early mornings. But watching the sunrise at Angkor Wat is beyond amazing.)
17. Today's weather (In Siem Reap, it is hot hot hot. 35C but feels like 38C.)
18. Five years ago (On March 2009, I sent out my very first tweet most likely from Cebu where we lived then. I was two months pregnant then with our first son.)
19. Cropped (Found this at the airport in Siem Reap. My four year old was ecstatic.)
20. Letter(s)
21. Full (My cup of cappuccino. Was out for brunch with two girlfriends. We had a foot massage after.)
22. Morning (Caught the sunrise. Another amazing day.)
23. I'm loving... (Getting mail from people I love. And I do love postcards, make up, Starbucks cards and a handwritten note.)
24. One of a kind (My baby's personalized bearista.)
25. Soft (What could be softer than a baby's skin? For me, none. So grateful for this season of raising another baby.)
26. I am here (Caleb and I were out for our mid-week grocery run.)
27. Something I made (Dinner is a simplified kid-friendly "nilagang baka." I tweak most recipes to make it easy for me.)
28. Nostalgia (We brought Caleb home from the hospital wearing the overall on the left. That was six months ago. Time is moving too fast.)
29. Sticky (Oh dear.. I accidentally threw a diaper in Javi's clothes hamper. Then I put all clothes in the washer; I did not see the diaper. The clothes were, of course, full of lint when the washing was done. Lint remover, you'd be put to good use.)
30. Fast (How I need a functioning electric fan. A fast one is better. Summer heat is here and it is beginning to be unbearable.)
31. Faux (My artificial sweetener. Some time ago, it was Equal, then Splenda and now it's Stevia.)
Hope your March was as special as mine.


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Amazing Grades for the Highest Achievers!
Cardinal Langley students continue to shine with a total of 28 achieving the new Grade 9, which is only awarded to the highest performers. In a year when the news headlines are focussed on national changes, it is a fantastic achievement that so many students perform at the highest standard.
The Headteacher, Mr Bridson, said 'Our students have once again achieved some amazing results and thoroughly deserve their success. Staff and students have worked incredibly hard to prepare for these new qualifications and I am proud of how they have coped with the changes in the course content and style of exam. It is a reflection of the high standards that despite the exams being more difficult, we have seen an increase in the number of students gaining the grades to enter the Sixth Form.'
Students continued to achieve success in a wide range of subjects with 100% achieving a 'standard' pass in Physical Education and over 90% gaining the new benchmark in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Further high achieving subjects with over 80% achieving a 'standard' pass were Art, Business Studies, ICT and Textiles. The new reformed BTEC qualifications continued to be extremely successful with a 100% pass rate at Sports Studies and 90% pass rate at Health & Social Care with 23% gaining distinctions.
This year saw the introduction of the new reformed GCSEs in the majority of subjects and we are proud that the number achieving 5 'standard' passes, including English and maths, has increased despite the exams being more demanding.
All of our students have their own success stories with Alice McNally who achieved eight Grade 9s and two Grade 8s being one of the highest achievers in the country. Alice will remain at Cardinal Langley to study A Levels in Chemistry, Biology, Maths and Further Maths. Alice said she was 'literally amazed' at her results, "I know I worked very hard but I was not expecting so many Grade 9s." Anna Gifford who achieved four Grade 9s, one Grade 8 and five Grade 7s plans to study Drama at A Level and Jamie Sigsworth who achieved three Grade 9s, five Grade 8s and one Grade 7 is delighted to stay at Cardinal Langley to study Maths, Spanish and Business Studies. Isobel Coughlan who achieved two Grade 9s, four Grade 8s, three Grade 7s and one Grade 6 has been accepted at Chetham's School of Music and Annie O'Loughlin who will study Literature, History, French and PE here at Cardinal Langley achieved two Grade 9s, six Grade 8s and two Grade 7s. Bailey Haynes who achieved three Grade 8s, two Grade 7s and four Grade 6s will also remain here at Cardinal Langley to study A Levels in Maths, Geography, Business and Economics along with Ella Frost who achieved one Grade 9, two Grade 8s, five Grade 7s and one Grade 6.


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Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling for DSGE Models
NBER Working Paper No. 19152
We develop a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithm for estimating Bayesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, wherein a particle approximation to the posterior is built iteratively through tempering the likelihood. Using three examples consisting of an artificial state-space model, the Smets and Wouters (2007) model, and Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe's (2012) news shock model we show that the SMC algorithm is better suited for multimodal and irregular posterior distributions than the widely-used random walk Metropolis- Hastings algorithm. We find that a more diffuse prior for the Smets and Wouters (2007) model improves its marginal data density and that a slight modification of the prior for the news shock model leads to drastic changes in the posterior inference about the importance of news shocks for fluctuations in hours worked. Unlike standard Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques, the SMC algorithm is well suited for parallel computing.
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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w19152
Published: Edward Herbst & Frank Schorfheide, 2014. "Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling For Dsge Models," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(7), pages 1073-1098, November. citation courtesy of
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