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2. Take me there with fonts!
There are times when it’s a good idea to use a soothingly rational font, neutral in its cultural references. Times when you’re wary of putting off a reader by a too-distinctive choice of font. That’s all very well. But this issue of In Your Face is not one of those times, so ... naturally we’ll avoid Times!
Instead we’re talking about how fonts help you evoke countries and cultures with your designs. We’ll take two approaches: the serious and the not-so-serious. With the serious fonts, they’ll be deeply rooted in that culture, probably designed by a native, respectful of history, literature, and all that stuff. And the others? Well, let’s just say they pay their light-hearted respects to peoples from around the world.
If you ever write or make designs about food and drink from around the world, about somewhere you’ve been (or want to go), or about cultures and subcultures that exist nearer home despite the pressure of the mainstream, then this is for you! This issue we highlight Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Ireland and India. Watch out for more in the coming months.
Take me there with fonts!
You’re spoilt for choice if you need fonts and symbols on an Irish theme. The famous Book of Kells from 800AD inspires P22 Kells (& Extras). Ireland confronts its fantastical past (or future?) in P22 Phantasmagoria. Celtic knots get a good showing in Celtic Knots BA and in the totally over-the-top alphabetic font Knotwork. Best of all is Missale Lunea, surely the most delicious Uncial typeface ever created.
With a billion people speaking 22 official languages, I must admit it feels a little silly suggesting a font might conjure up "India" as a whole. Most of our India-pastiche fonts use the "washing line" idea from the Devanagari script – Faux Sanskrit, Modakshar, Sansara, and ITC Simran – one of the most sensual fonts ever created. RA Ganesh is one of several collections of Hindu symbols.
Although the typeface has been with us for so long its nationality is not obvious to other than cognoscenti, Bodoni remains the natural choice for Italian text fonts. However it seems like every foundry has had a go creating their ideal cut of the 18th century master’s work! Which to choose? With its three versions – 6, 12 and 72 – for use at different sizes, ITC Bodoni is the classy choice. Gert Wiescher’s Bodoni Classic is also a strong contender. Both avoid the “designed with compasses” look of some Bodonis, and they have beautiful ornament sets too. Gert adds deco capitals, even humorous swashes!
Going back in time, the ancient Romans would be pleased the letters from Trajan’s Column (120 AD) are exemplars that inspire font designers even today: try Goudy Trajan, La Gioconda (with its superb lower-case), or the easy choice, Adobe Trajan.
The Italians have a splendid history of calligraphy and lettering: try Cresci, Pacioli, and P22 Operina (which, remarkably, even has Cyrillic and Greek). Oh and finally, don’t miss Il Futurismo!
Helvetica and Univers are the clean (some might say soulless...) Swiss faces you see everywhere. Recently, Helvetica’s going even more places with Helvetica World: she speaks Greek, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic among many other languages.
But to avoid the plain one and the scientific one, choose Venus, Folio or Imago.
Reams have been written on reaching high typographic ideals by the Swiss. Let’s sum up: generous margins on the page, conceive a grid and stick to it, don’t change font size, let alone the font, often, never center headings, and (John, can I say this?) never use anything but Helvetica!
In the 20th century European and American foundries added Greek letters to their typefaces. Now we’ve got the verdicts of Greek typography experts: they’re mostly ugly bolt-ons!
So nowadays Linotype, Bitstream and many others regularly seek the advice they should have sought earlier, and the Hellenic font world is a happier place. Local expert Natasha Raissaki tells us that Minion and Myriad (both by Robert Slimbach for Adobe) will please the Greeks.
You might test their patience with Greek pastiches for feta cheese packaging or an ouzo bottle label, but we’ll mention them anyway: Kouros, Skia, Syntax Lapidar, Lithos, Kaffeesatz, and ... (they’ll just love this!) P22 Acropolis.
Samuelstype fonts come from the hand of Hans Samuelson of Stockholm, Sweden. Many of his type designs come out of packaging design projects. Colin Samuels is our favorite of the four families, a super-confident grotesque sans-serif with 4 weights from Thin to Bold. Rosemary Samuels is a much more humanist sans, again in a useful range of weights, while April Samuels and Rebecca Samuels are his serif fonts.
Samuelstype fonts are 40% off for 4 weeks!
Fonticon is the outlet for the remarkable Mannequin font by Joe John Mittler of Finland. Lest some decry this as the bizarre work of an obsessive, we can imagine dressmakers and health professionals finding this collection of 720 line-drawn depictions (yes, 720!) of the female form rather useful. All body sizes covered (and uncovered).
Fonticon fonts are 45% off for 4 weeks!
Outras Fontes is Ricardo Esteves Gomes and Jarbas Barros Gomes, who work out of Vitória in Brazil and started their foundry in 2006. Their font Maryam uses the OpenType format to mimic friendly handwriting, numerous ligatures (specially-designed letter combos) automatically appearing as you type. A more generous character set than is usual with script fonts, plus an accompanying font of a more ‘swash’ nature, round off this well-considered offering.
Outras Fontes’ Maryam family is 35% off for 4 weeks!
Andinistas is a design studio started in 1998 by Carlos Fabián Camargo in Venezuela, later moving to Bogotá, Colombia. Many graphic artists love the work of M.C. Escher. One such was the late Nedo Mion Ferrario, who in the 1970s presented an alphabet on those impossible 3D themes. Carlos has revived and digitized these letters, completing the typeface as Denedo, a superbly original set in three styles. Their other font, Nikona is designed by Carlos with Rafael Rincón, and reflects a fascination with digital imperfection: what happens when computers go wrong, when robots malfunction even while trying to help us? Nice to see that Asimov’s classic Three Laws of Robotics inspired the names of each style in the font.
Andinistas fonts are 30% off for 4 weeks!
New Renaissance Fonts is run by musician/artist David Kettlewell, who has teamed up with artist/calligrapher Richard Bradley and others to bring out a line of charming, decorative fonts. Richard’s an old hand at font-making, with Bible Script, Fine Hand, Calligraphic Ornaments and Bradley Hand to his name. Alice Scrolltip Roman is Richard’s flowing script with a thick and a thin for every stroke. Sevillia starts with a set of tiles inspired by the street names in Seville, Spain, then adds two matching text fonts. Karin’s Lombardy Caps and Soest St Mary – from a church embroidery – complete the initial font collection. The emphasis at New Renaissance is on preserving “hand-measured beauty and human balance”, as David puts it. Lots of examples show you how the fonts can look in use.
New Renaissance 50% off for 4 weeks!
SIAS stands for “Signographical Institute Andreas Stötzner”, a label that indicates the devotion of its designer, who’s from Saxony, Germany. SIAS offers a range of fonts containing graphic symbols. SIAS Gramma gives us a set of basic graphic shapes, SIAS Lineaturen is for composing more ambitious designs from simple elements, while Andron Corpus Publix is a collection of transport-related symbols ideal for maps. There’s also SIAS Freefont which gives you a taste of SIAS fonts, as the name suggests, for free.
SIAS fonts are 25% off for 4 weeks!
Schriftgestaltung is the foundry of Georg Seifert of Leipzig, Germany. His font is Olive Green Mono, a family of four weights, each with a regular and a proper, lively cursive and full European character set. Mono is short for monospace, a kind of typeface that’s difficult to design without giving a lumpy look to paragraphs: narrow ‘i’ and wide ‘W’ must fit to the same width. The name ’Olive Green’, a soothing even color if ever there was one, indicates Georg’s satisfaction that his confidently deployed and fearlessly suppressed serifs (along with the typeface’s other fine touches) have achieved the desired result – ’an even gray value’ in typographic parlance.
Schriftgestaltung’s Olive Green Light is FREE for a limited period! Other weights 40% off for 4 weeks!
Scholtz Fonts of Durban, South Africa, was started by artist and designer Anton Scholtz in 1997, and specializes in fonts with an African flavor. Why? Because there’s a serious lack of African-inspired fonts on the market! Seventeen families, one of them a fascinating font of African Patterns are on offer.
Scholtz Fonts are 45% off for 4 weeks!
Gustavo Lassala is a designer and professor in São Paulo, Brazil. That city’s phenomenon of pixação, a highly distinctive form of narrow, semi-legible graffiti with strange hints of Fraktur letters, simply begs to be examined in more detail. What better way to learn than by doing? Gustavo’s font Adrenalina Normal is his adaptation of the lettering as as font, created from numerous photos of São Paulo pixações. How many professors that you know are also graffiti artists?
Gustavo Lassala fonts 40% off for 4 weeks!
wkklee is the foundry of Wai Lee in Canada. His font Bohy is constructivist, playing with circles and squares and giving a surprisingly legible result. Try making semi-abstract backgrounds with just a few letters set very large. Or make patterns with dense text in a color only subtly different from the background layer. Or multi-colored... the possibilities are endless!
Amber Phillips, from Cary in Illinois, offers us her scratchy, grunge font. Appropriately, it’s named Ambie Skratch. Amber is keen to get into publication design, ideally for an experimental or design mag. I wonder if she’ll dare choose Ambie Skratch for her résumé!
Amber Phillips fonts 40% off for 4 weeks!
LightHouse is run by David Hamuel of Los Angeles. While he is adept with all the great writing systems of Europe and the Mediterranean, the seven typefaces he launches with are all Hebrew designs. What a variety they are: sparkling Shirah 25, monoline Shirah-Joie, chunky and friendly Ayasha, the historically-informed Hamuel Nine Five, and others.
Lindstrom Design is from Glendora, CA, and represents the designs of J. Nils Lindstrom. He’s been an instructor of type and letterforms for 20 years at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He’s come out with Elfin, a wispy, magical, elvish font based on the writing inside the Ring of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”.
Lindstrom Design fonts are 25% off for 4 weeks!
Christian Büning is from Münster in Germany and offers one font, a collection of icons for wayfinding signs – Rolli , drawn by Elisabeth Schwarz. It’s a clear and bold design in an international style, and is specialized for helping disabled people in public places.
Christian Büning fonts 50% off for 4 weeks!
* STOP PRESS * Linotype’s amazing collection has just had a major update at MyFonts: there’s been a freshening up of the whole library. Particularly useful is the expansion of many hundreds of their fonts, including the most well-known, to a full European Latin character set, including not just the familiar French and German characters, but also including Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Turkish and Baltic sets. Choosing fonts for international use just got more exciting! All fonts are in the future-proof OpenType format.
We mentioned Helvetica World in the “Take me there with fonts” feature, but this giant that speaks Hebrew, Arabic and Vietnamese as well as Greek and Russian is worth an extra mention! Among the plethora of new families now available, don’t miss Zapf’swonderful new Palatino Sans and Palatino Sans Informal.
In all, that’s well over 100 new and updated Linotype families now shipping from MyFonts.
For many of us, the experience of typography on the printed page cannot be matched by that on the screen. Let’s face it, even super-duper anti-aliasing with LCD enhancements from boffins at Microsoft, Adobe and Apple (ClearType™, CoolType™ and ATSUI™) is no match for the 2,540 dpi of modern offset lithography on coated paper. That’s over 6.4 megapixels per square inch! So we’re delighted to announce we have in stock the latest of the splendid Indie Fonts specimen books.
Indie Fonts 3, published by P-Type Publications of Buffalo, NY, features the work of 20 independent foundries in a showing of over 1900 fonts. You’ll be impatient to try out many of the fonts in the catalog, so, as with previous Indie Fonts 1 and Indie Fonts 2 (some copies still available) there’s a CD of 53 fonts selected from the foundries in the book.
Note that this is the limited edition hardcover version with dust jacket.
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Lake Mineral Wells State Park & Trailway offers camping and picnicking, the lake boasts swimming, boating, and fishing. The 20-mile Lake Mineral Wells State Trailway snakes through the park for additional hiking, bicycling, and equestrian activities on its way from historic downtown Mineral Wells to Cartwright Park near Weatherford.
Lake Mineral Wells State Park sits along Rock Creek, a large tributary of the Brazos River. This area was an early home to several Native American tribes, including the Comanche.
Hikers, bicyclists, and horseback riders of all ages and abilities can enjoy the Lake Mineral Wells State Trailway. The trail stretches from the northwest of Weatherford and travels 20 miles west to the downtown district of Mineral Wells. The Trailway is 20 miles long and 10 feet wide. It is connected to Lake Mineral Wells State Park, where you can camp and picnic.

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On Sunday, February 19th, the Humane Society of Goodhue County was broken into, with the thief making off with a dog and safety equipment from the shelter. More information on the break-in is available at the Republican-Eagle, or CBSMinnesota.
HSGC is a non-profit organization based in Red Wing, Minnesota which serves the surrounding area by caring for lost, abused and stray animals. As a trusted member of the community, we need your help to continue to ensure this vulnerable population remains safe. Show your support for needy local animals by helping us to replace the stolen equipment and repair the doors that were broken into.
Donations can be made through GiveMN.org, PayPal, our GoFundMe page, or in person at the shelter. We are grateful for donations of any amount.

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Unlike popular opinion, the most productive and successful individuals, stop their goals, all schedules understand what to stop and when to achieve it. On the other hand, if the goal is too simple, you really do not achieve anything. Meanwhile, do not stop meeting the achievable objectives. The main objective of OKR is to help the team focus its efforts and stay in the right direction to succeed.
Your goal must be achievable.
That is why the objectives must be realistic. If your business goal is to increase sales by 20% or search for 5 new customers, choose a deadline to reach your goal. The feasible objectives for small businesses are based on current conditions and the reality of the climate enterprise.Never exclude an objective because you think it is unattainable. If you want to achieve your goals, you need to be calm and analytical, to be able to diagnose your problems, design a plan that allows you to avoid them and it is essential to obtain penetrating results.
The goals are not good in case you can not only play with a certain amount of convenience. For example, its goal is to increase sales in a region by 10% in the next quarter. When it comes to aligning objectives, it is crucial to understand that objectives must be established at different levels within an organization. To ensure that the normal objective is possible and viable, all the pieces are placed on a performance objective. Setting goals for social networks is difficult.
The goals offer clear expectations for everyone about what is expected. First you have to choose what you will do after your goals. So start by setting the objectives you will use to compare with your current performance. Another objective is the decrease in energy consumption. The goals and business objectives are simply not met when there is no calendar linked to the practice that determines the objectives.
You can pursue all the goals you want. You must be incredibly careful with the goals you want to establish and how you can measure success. The better you identify your goals, the easier your teams will be able to discover what needs to be done and how they can get there. Short-term goals can be achieved in a few months. Another short-term objective may be to volunteer in your community to bring positive light to your company. Short-term goals can also lead to rapidly modest victories that help people fulfill their promise to reach more ambitious goals later on.
Achieving your goals will not be easy. Before you can align your objectives with the objectives of your employees, you must be able to define both. That means that you will always understand how far you are to achieve your goals. You also have to believe that you are achieving your goals. Believe that you can achieve your goals and you will achieve them. If you set goals that are too high, you will be bored before you can move forward. Setting a realistic and feasible goal is just one of the most difficult features of fundraising.

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Eighty-five bungalows dot the cul-de-sac that joins West Ontario Avenue and East Ontario Avenue in Atlanta. Twenty-two are vacant, victims of mortgage fraud and foreclosure. Now house fires, prostitution, vandals and burglaries terrorize the residents left in this historic neighborhood called Westview Village.
As defaults surge on mortgages made to borrowers with spotty credit and adjustable-rate loans, more people are noticing that their neighbors are caught up in the meltdown. Their misfortunes are haunting those left living on the same streets. The effects aren�t confined to just low-income or redeveloping communities; they are seeping into middle-class neighborhoods and brand new developments.
Smith, the vice president of Westview Community Organization Inc., keeps a map of the area, tracking each vacant property and notifying local officials when nefarious activity is suspected.
Georgia has the eighth largest foreclosure rate in the nation, one filing for every 142 households, according to a third-quarter report from foreclosure tracker RealtyTrac Inc. Nevada has the worst rate with one filing for every 61 households, while the nationwide rate is one filing for every 196 households.
Some other people in the area have been affected by break-ins, and there have been house fires in several of the vacant homes in the past year, Richardson said.
The rise in crime in Westview is typical of a neighborhood struggling with numerous foreclosures, according to a recent study by Dan Immergluck of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Geoff Smith of Woodstock Institute in Chicago.
That study showed that when the foreclosure rate increases one percentage point, neighborhood violent crime rises 2.33 percent.
��The key here is the concentration of those foreclosures at a neighborhood level. When you have more than one foreclosure in a few block area, that�s when you start to think about the effects on property values and the effects on crime,�� Immergluck said.
A report published Tuesday by the Center for Responsible Lending, a Durham, N.C.-based consumer advocate, estimates that 44.5 million U.S. households will see their property values decline a combined $223 billion as foreclosures surge in coming years, particularly in minority communities.
Historically the most affected areas were lower-income and were prone to subprime and predatory lending, irresponsible house flipping and mortgage fraud, Immergluck said.
However, �the problem now is on a different scale,� he said. ��It�s affecting a lot more suburban, moderate-income places�� as more people of different incomes default on riskier loans.
In the Franklin Reserve neighborhood of Elk Grove, Calif., full of subdivisions with half-million dollar homes, homeowners are fighting inner-city problems like gangs, drugs, theft and graffiti.
During the boom, the suburb just south of Sacramento sprouted 10,000 homes in four years, attracting investors from the San Francisco area. Now many houses stand empty, weeds overtaking lawns, signs lining the street: ��Bank Repo,�� �For Rent,�� ��No trespassing � bank owned property.�� A typical home�s value has dropped from about $570,000 to the low $400,000s.
California ranks second in the nation with one foreclosure filing for every 88 households, RealtyTrac said.
The homeowners sometimes have no options but to accept any renters they can get, said Norm Schriever, a local real estate and loan agent.
��You get some bad renters in there and the weeds start growing and a few windows are broken and it starts descending into a feeling of chaos,�� he said.
Thieves also have looted some empty homes, stripping them of electrical appliances or valuable copper wiring and pipes that can be sold as scrap, he said.
Banks aren�t watching foreclosed properties closely, said Modesto, Calif., Police Chief Roy Wasden.
��As it gets colder, (squatters) will start building fires in these structures and it�s quite dangerous,�� he said.
Franklin Reserve resident Susan McDonald said two of the homes on her block were turned into indoor marijuana farms. Both caught fire last summer after the pot growers tapped into the city�s electric grid with faulty wiring.
But McDonald, who has lived in the community for three years and is president of the residents� association, jokes that they make better neighbors than some.
Crime reports in Franklin Reserve rose 45 percent in May, to 100 from 69 in the same month last year, but record-keeping changed when Elk Grove created its own police force in August 2006, said Officer Chris Trim, spokesman for the Elk Grove Police Department.
To deter crime, the community policing unit is charged with working with code enforcement officers on problems such as unkempt homes and patrol officers swing past vacant homes as part of their normal duties. But there has been no increase in police budget, overtime or staff as a result of the empty homes.
Meanwhile, the neighbors are doing what they can. One Sunday last month, two dozen church members gathered their lawn mowers and weed trimmers and cleaned up 27 vacant homes.
In Shaker Heights near Cleveland, neighbors of the planned community of $1 million Tudor homes can report a foreclosed or vacant house, and the address goes on a police watch list. Of 13,000 housing units in Shaker Heights, 330 are under surveillance by patrol cars and undercover officers, police Chief Walter Ugrinic said.
RealtyTrac reported that Ohio is fifth in the nation with one foreclosure filing for every 107 households.
The city repairs vacant homes if recalcitrant owners won�t, bills the owner and, if unpaid, a lien is filed. So far this year, the city has spent $800,000 to fix up 44 properties, up from $500,000 in 2006. Typical repairs include fixing roofs and painting, with an emphasis on problems visible from the street.
Additionally, before a house is sold, it must pass a housing inspection, which includes a repair-cost escrow requirement created in 2000.
This encourages owners of vacant or foreclosed properties to make repairs, said Kamla Lewis, director of neighborhood revitalization.
��Our goal is that when you drive through, you shouldn�t be able to tell right away which of the houses are vacant and foreclosed,�� Lewis said.


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We started out at our Burntwood River location Nov 2003 and continued to operate there until our kitchen was destroyed by fire Dec 13, 2011. Thankfully no one was hurt but a moment of carelessness changed everything.
After recovering from the shock and reviewing our options we decided to consolidate our three existing restaurants (Burntwood River location est. Nov 2003, RiverView Express Est Dec 2010, and RiverView NCN Est July 2011) into one larger location in the heart of downtown Thompson which opened Jun 2012.
Our new location combines the best features of each of our previous locations into one.

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 10, 2019 / iBank Digital Asset L.P. (“iBank Digital”, “iBankEX” or the “Company”) announced that iBankEX, a no-fee over-the-counter (OTC) trading exchange, will list Litecoin (LTC) for OTC trading on its platform. In addition, iBankEX announced the addition of margin trading for Bitcoin [BTC] and Tether [USDT]. iBankEX launched its Margin Trading function so that users can learn, educate and maximize the value of their crypto assets.
The Company commented that users can utilize leverage to trade up to 5x for the pairs of BTC/USDT, BCH/USDT, and LTC/USDT as of the launch date. ETH/USDT, XRP/BTC, BCH/BTC and additional pairs will be available for trading on its Margin Trading function in the near future.
iBankEX also announced that it would launch trading in Litecoin (LTC), the fifth largest cryptocurrency, on their OTC platform as of April 12, 2019.
iBankEX had previously released its cryptocurrency mobile applications for both Apple and Android users on March 15, 2019, featuring cryptocurrency trading, OTC trading, in-app identity verification, and with mobile 3DS security to all customers who verify their identities. Both Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android apps soared to the Top New Free and Top 100 Free Finance apps, respectively.
iBankEX, one of Vancouver’s very first peer-to-peer (P2P) over-the-counter (OTC) crypto and bitcoin exchanges supported by Huobi Cloud Technology, was officially launched on February 6, 2019. The iBankEX platform was launched to ensure the proper underwriting of crypto trading supported by the Huobi Cloud. And from this, iBank EX launched a lending system through the very first global lending network within the open decentralized platforms. iBankEX is one of the first companies to launch an efficient and intuitive new trading platform utilized by digital currency users spread across the globe.
Huobi Cloud is owned by Huobi Group, the world’s leading blockchain company and one of world’s largest digital asset trading platforms. Established in 2013, Huobi Group’s accumulative turnover exceeds US $1 trillion. It proudly provides safe, secure, and convenient cryptocurrency trading and asset management services to millions of users in 130+ countries. “Bring more efficiency to finance and more freedom to wealth” is the mission of Huobi Group. It always follows the management theory of putting the customer first.
Risk Warning: Digital assets are a higher-risk investment method. Investors should be cautious in purchasing and pay attention to investment risks.
SOURCE: iBank Digital Asset L.P.

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The core issue is not one of marketing but of citizenry.
Last week, I wrote about the use of marketing in elections. This week, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces a congressional hearing on how Facebook data was used during the 2016 presidential election, I will address one of the critical consequences of marketing. It is a tool used on a global basis to delegitimize elections and, with it, democracy.
As I argued last week, the use of marketing, particularly online marketing, has been growing. But this doesn’t necessarily mean it is becoming more effective. It has been claimed that the Russians interfered in the U.S. election by spreading fake news stories to help Donald Trump get elected. It has also been revealed that consulting firm Cambridge Analytica helped run the Trump campaign’s data operations and used social media user data to target certain voters with customized content. The connection between alleged Russian interference and Cambridge Analytica is murky, but they are both being used as examples of how the internet can sway election results. This assumes that such techniques are effective enough to change voters’ minds and influence the outcome of a presidential election.
There is serious doubt about the precision of online campaigns that are supposed to target individual users. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals have little interest in the content that shows up in their Facebook feeds. That means that news stories and political ads may not be targeted at the right people and that there is area bombardment going on, with a wide range of users being served messages in the expectation that many of them will be susceptible to the messages – some of which may be fake news. Marketers, understandably, claim that their methods are highly effective both in reaching the right audience and in convincing that audience to believe what the marketer wants them to believe. But how effective is online marketing really?
Some claim that Cambridge Analytica was a decisive force in Trump’s election. More than anyone, Cambridge Analytica benefits from this belief. Except for the possibility of it having taken illegal action, Cambridge Analytica’s greatest marketing triumph may have been earning the very public reputation of having the expertise to shape history. Imagine what it can now charge customers to help them sell far less controversial products.
The truth is that it is not clear how effective Cambridge Analytica’s activities were. The call to action, as marketers call it, was to have those individuals who received customized ads or other content vote for Trump. But there’s no real way of knowing how these individuals behaved offline, and voting is an offline activity. We don’t know if the ads reached the right people, if they convinced people to vote for Trump, or if they only reached those who intended to vote for him anyway.
Mark Zuckerberg is in a difficult position. On the one hand, his business runs on making his users available for marketing. In selling access to his users, he naturally wants them to be both accessible and persuadable. If he denies these two premises, the value of advertising on Facebook declines. On the other hand, if he affirms the value, he will then be seen as creating an engine that undermines democracy.
The core issue is not one of marketing but one of citizenry. If the citizens’ minds are so vulnerable to lies and manipulation, the ultimate assumption of marketing is that once you find voters, you can persuade them to do things they would not do otherwise. An important question would then be whether this has always been true and the internet simply makes the process more efficient, or whether internet technology vastly increases voters’ susceptibility. And here lies the issue. On the one hand, the willingness of voters to change their minds based on the information they receive ought to be a core component of democracy. A voter incapable of changing his mind weakens democracy. But if the internet has the ability to control – rather than influence – someone’s mind, then democracy is endangered. This is why the question of how effective internet marketing is cuts to the heart of democracy.
The problem is not that a candidate for office tried to shift voter opinion; that is as old as the Republic itself. The problem is that the internet is such a powerful tool that it can compel voters to vote when they didn’t intend to or to vote for a candidate they didn’t initially want to vote for, not because they were persuaded to but because of some unique and non-rational power that a company like Cambridge Analytica can harness. Put differently, we have been seeing 30-second ads on TV for several generations. The internet is orders of magnitude more powerful.
I don’t know this for sure because the data isn’t there, but I suspect that most of the campaign advertising went to people who weren’t susceptible to being manipulated, and that those who were susceptible already had their minds made up. But I do know that the belief in the power of the internet has created a suspicion that an elected candidate can be illegitimate. If the Russian use of the internet was as effective as some imagine, then Donald Trump was elected not through legitimate means but through a kind of manipulation of the voters’ minds that vastly outstripped television and newspapers ads, torchlight rallies and the calm reason of the citizens of the Republic.
Claims of illegitimate elections go back to 1824, when Andrew Jackson charged John Quincy Adams with stealing the election. But the internet issue is different because it ultimately asserts that the voter’s psychology is so vulnerable to the machinations of internet marketing that a Clinton voter can be persuaded to vote for Trump and vice versa.
The truth or falsehood of this statement is not the point. The point is that this has become plausible, and if it is plausible, then many will believe that any election whose outcome they dislike or which surprises them must have been stolen by the nefarious tools provided by the internet. And since all use the internet in some way, all elections become subject to a new notion of fraud.
Of late, the attempt to delegitimize elections has become common. In the United Kingdom, anti-Brexit campaigners have tried to reverse the outcome of the referendum by claiming that the proponents of Brexit lied and misled the ignorant. In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral victory was held suspect by some because of his last-minute warning of high Arab voter turnout in an effort to rally his supporters. But it has been in the United States where the most significant claim was made, and that claim was based extensively on the power of the internet. This was the claim that the Russians intervened in the election, partly by stealing emails and partly by planting lies in the internet. Except for this machination, it’s argued, Trump may not have won. Add to this the Cambridge Analytica affair and the plot grows even thicker.
One of the foundations of a democracy is the willingness of the defeated to accept the outcome of the election and to go into loyal opposition, planning for the next election. If that is lost and elections are no longer definitive, then the governance of the Republic becomes illegitimate. Therefore, the question of whether online marketing is so powerful as to reshape the mind of the voter and thereby the election becomes an issue central to our democracy.
The issue is not a matter of persuasion, which is the point of a campaign. Rather, it is the assumption that a substantial part of the electorate can be manipulated to change its vote not via arguments but via irresistible, targeted and crafted content, some of which may be lies.
I personally don’t think online marketing is nearly as effective as has been claimed. But just the claim that it is that effective legitimizes the idea that the outcome of the election does not reflect the will of the people. Anyone can use the internet, and anyone can use it to market anonymously. So long as that is the case, everyone will try to play the game. But the assumption that the voter is actually manipulated by all this is dubious.
Find out how new technology is helping and hurting politicians.
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The company could use its share of proceeds from the IPO to repay debt and pursue bank acquisitions.
The first quarter has been sluggish for overall merger activity. Still, hear are the notable deals announced in March.
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I mentioned a few days ago about a collaborative effort between myself and several other authors to create a place where readers and authors can interact. Today I'd like to introduce one of the co-authors of this project, Mr. D.H. Starr.
Doug is a dear friend, wonderful voice of reason, the very talented author of Meant for Each Other, Wrestling With Desire, Wrestling With Love, and Premonition, to name a few, and like me, loves chatting about books.
I'm so looking forward to this site going live. It's going to be great.

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Best Valentine's surprise ever - 'Tales from the Fellowship of the Ringlets' is now in print!!
It's something of a limited edition right now - limited in fact to one copy, so that makes it literally one of a kind! Priceless, in fact! I may have to get contents insurance on the flat!
Massive shout-out and enormous thanks across the seas to my little Welsh pal Nicola Daniel for spending her days and precious time secretly doing this when she should have been tending to the needs of her perfect new daughter, Cassie Valentine!
Seeing it all written up like this is fairly overwhelming, not least because I've realised how much I MISS that GODDAMN wig *sob* but also because I've been dithering about over the last few weeks, wondering whether to write FotR up properly or just leave my cat litter'd memories languishing in the bowels of t'interweb for people to eventually stumble across. I am going to read it by the pool this weekend in the Hunter Valley and see if I get bored. If not, then we may just return to this publishing quest...standby for my Amazon rating of my own inane ramblings!
Whatever happens, this is frankly one the most sensational, thoughtful and fabulous gifts ever. If the internet ever collapses (which it eventually will do, probably under the weight of the Fellowship posts), I now have a proper book to remind me of the cancery madness of 2015.
Love you, Davey-Daniel, you Welsh legend. You have made my year (all 6 weeks of it)!!
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Very imposing Georgian coaching inn, still operating as a hotel, with a central arched entranceway and a courtyard beyond. The main bar is furnished in the 'Baronial' style, with a variety of seating areas available. Five real ales on handpump: Doom Bar, Directors, Pride, 6X and Landlord (£3.20). However, I felt that the atmosphere was somewhat lacking during the busy Wirksworth Festival weekend - probably explained by the place being for sale (although continuing to operate normally).
A classic 18th century coaching inn on the market square, with the entrance on the left through the central archway. It has been fitted out rather eccentrically with light fittings made of antlers, a collection of stoneware jars on a very high shelf and window displays of twigs in vases. To the rear is a pizza oven. On the bar are three hand pumps serving a less than inspiring choice of Sharps Doom Bar and Courage Directors. The latter is a beer that I enjoy when it is well kept, but this was just OK. This was my third pub in Wirksworth, with three others being closed (two for time of day/week, the third for refurbishment), and I hadn't found one that I liked. The best around here is probably the Malt Shovel, a mile out of town up a hill, but worth the effort.


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Why did CalSTRS change its investment allocations from 100 percent fixed to 80 percent equity and 17 percent fixed securities?
Until 1966, CalSTRS was statutorily prohibited from purchasing any assets other than fixed income securities. In 1970, Proposition 6 was passed, which permitted the system to invest in real estate and equities but limited the percentage exposure.
For six years, equities remained between 3 and 5 percent of the portfolio, and thereafter grew. At that time all pensions utilized a ‘legal list’ of legislatively approved investments, and later in the decade Blue Chip corporate stocks were also approved. In 1984 California voters passed Proposition 21, which changed the standards for managing the State’s pensions from a ‘legal list’ to the ‘Prudent Person’ standard, and to allow diversification of assets.
With the broader authority to invest in many more types of asset classes, CalSTRS is able to invest in accordance with Modern Portfolio Theory. The theory states that investors can increase their return without an increase in overall risk by diversifying their assets across a wider variety of types of investments.
The validity of this theory is underscored by the fact that CalSTRS averaged a 6.9 percent rate of return annually in the 20 years ending in 1984, even though the overall market earned an average of 7.6 percent annually, whereas CalSTRS has averaged 8.1 percent in annual returns in the last 20 years.


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Things were alot cheaper then, they could have worked and paid on their own, but for some reason they didn't. Today is a different story. Hell, back then you could have 1 income and own 2 cars, a house, a 4 member family, send the kids to college and still go on vacation. Today it can't be done, kids need to take a bigger role in their future than they do.
Here's a radical proposal for many parents who use the public school system: Why don't they take the money that they save on their child's education expenses and apply that towards a college savings account for their child so their child would not be forced to take out costly loans, etc? It may take a little sacrifice but isn't their child's education worth it?
Well the current "parent" generation are boomers..you know the materialistic ones.
The previous generation before them were savers. The boomers may have had their education paid for by their "saver" parents.
Who really knows..me..my parents were "savers" but I told them to keep their money. I joined the military for 8 years and used the GI bill to go to school when I got out.
I have great respect for those who served in our military so thank you. For many young adults, the military isn't a viable option. You made an excellent point concerning saving which is a concept that our nation's young adults desperately need to learn. Parents can set an great example for their children by foregoing some luxuries and saving up for their child's college education.
I can agree with you on this point. I do think that parents can set a positive example for their child by foregoing some luxuries to save up for their child's education. The childen learn the whole ME ME ME nonsense from their parents. If more kids can observe their parents making sacrifices and saving more, they will more likely to do the same when they have their own families.
Not everyone pays property taxes. I do understand your point and many parents pay more in property taxes than it would cost them to educate their child in a private school. The point I was trying to make was that most parents can put away some money each month towards their child's future college expenses.
I spoke with my sister yesterday who went to UCLA in 1986, her tuition was $705.00 a year back then. Why?
"In the 1980s,higher education made up 17 percent of the state budget, and prisons accounted for 3 percent. Today those figures are 9 percent and 10 percent"
These kids do have an alternative..go to community college for 2 years while working P/T and save money. If you're past the first two years, then take a year off to work and save money and then go back.
This is one of my favorite parts about the CA education system. You can get guarenteed entry into schools like UC Berkeley and UC Davis by transfering from a Community College...even if you didn't qualify for either upon graduating from highschool. This "backdoor" entry into elite universities is an amazing opportunity. Yes, you have to maintain certain GPA and take specific lower division classes, but you save so much money in the process! This is the route my son is taking right now and is especially good if you don't have a specific major in mind.
And what most people don't understand is that the first 2 years are the same regardless if you spend it at a CC or at the University. Maybe 1-2 classes get missed (if you know your major). It's all general ed stuff.
Cost is so much less. And when you graduate after 4 years..what they look at is the final piece of paper.
I agree and I'm a strong proponent of the community college system as a "second chance" for those who were ineligible for university admissions as freshmen. They serve an excellent way for students to save money especially when they are undecided. I am concerned with the state's budget affect on the course offerings at the community colleges and how it impacts students who need to take specific coursework to gain admissions to their university of choice. With the CSU and UC campuses getting more selective in their admissions due to fiscal reasons, more and more students are finding themselves trapped at the community colleges with limited transfer options. My heart goes out towards these students.


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This week, Toronto city council approved regulations for short-term rentals in Toronto, allowing homeowners to rent out principal residences only. That means that if homeowners have secondary suites, like basement apartments, they will not be allowed to list those for short-term rentals.
The city of Toronto will create a registry of short-term rental landlords who need to declare their rental property is their principal residence. They will also need to pay an annual fee of $50, according to the Canadian Press.
Around 10,800 Airbnbs were rented out in Toronto in 2016. According to Airbnb, more than three-quarters of their Toronto landlords are renting out their principal residences.
Ontario will be making drastic changes to the auto insurance industry to try to combat fraud and lower insurance rates. According to Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa, the cost of auto insurance fraud is estimated to be as high as $1.6 billion per year.
As part of the Ontario government’s plan to tackle auto insurance fraud, the government will develop standard treatment plans for injuries such as sprains and whiplash. It will also create independent, neutral examinations centres to provide medical assessments for more serious injuries, and will establish a Serious Fraud Office to investigate fraud.
Personal injury lawyers said this plan will make it harder for injury victims trying to file claims, and that it will not adequately meet their needs for treatment.
A growing number of independent retailers across Canada are choosing to go completely cashless. A recent story from CBC News highlighted a trend amongst retailers, such as a ramen shop in Vancouver and Ontario salad company Mad Radish, of accepting non-cash payments only via credit and debit cards.
According to the Bank of Canada, while cash is still legal tender, retailers don’t have to accept bills and coins as payment.
While cash is still king with consumers, there’s evidence that Canadians are rapidly switching to other payment methods including cards, and digital payment systems.
One of the most notable outcomes of this wealth transfer is the Boomers’ support of the next generation of Canadian homebuyers through gifts the sharing of a “living inheritance.” According to the Sotheby’s survey, 33 per cent of Boomer respondents have either already handed down a living inheritance, or plan to in the future. Of those who have already shared inheritance, 25 per cent shared between $50,000 and $100,000 with their children.


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text: I've been looking forward to this four day weekend but I didn't know just how great it was going to be. On Friday, we went on a daytrip to Brighton and discovered a misty covered pier, a collection of delightful shops and, most importantly, the most vegan-friendly restaurants. Seriously, every café and restaurant had a vegan option or served up only Vegetarian and Vegan dishes. We hid from a brief shower of rain inside VBites, an all Vegan café. I was so excited about the promise of whipped cream and marshmallows on top of hot chocolate that I couldn't resist ordering a cup with my Hottie Dog. It was also great to be able to steal some of Duane's BBQ Chicky covered Pizza. I was so full up Duane nearly had to roll me along the pebbled beach. As usual my eyes were bigger than my stomach, so I had to save a Chocolate Strawberry Cupcake until we got home Friday night. It went lovely with a glass of wine!


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Virgin Media is a UK-based broadband ISP that has experienced a few issues with its Wi-Fi service recently. Over the Christmas period, internet blackouts caused their customers lost connectivity. Here are a few potential fixes for Virgin Media Wi-Fi connections.
Downdetector is another good site to check for Virgin Media Wi-Fi issues. This is a website that provides real-time overviews for outages for ISPs and other web services. Click here to open the Virgin Media page on that site.
Even though Virgin was supposed to have fixed its Wi-Fi service by mid-January, its Downdetector page currently highlights that the Virgin Media ISP still has notable internet connection outages. It also highlights that those in London, Birmingham, Manchester and York will probably find their connections down. If you’re in one of the red regions, consider getting in touch with Virgin Media customer support for further details about when your Wi-Fi connection will be restored.
You can also try a few fixes yourself. One of the more basic fixes is to restart all your hardware, include restarting both your PC and Virgin Media Hub by switching off the router and then waiting a few minutes to turn it back on. The,n open your browser in Windows again to see if the connection is fixed.
Other wireless networks sharing the same channel as yours can interfere with your signal, so changing the Wi-Fi router channel might fix the Virgin Media connection. This is how you can switch your Virgin Media Wi-Fi router channel.
First, open this page on the NirSoft website and click Download WifiInfoView to add WifiInfoView to Windows. This software shows you the channels nearby networks are using as in the snapshot below, so you should switch your router to a channel that other networks aren’t using so much.
Now open the Command Prompt by pressing the Win key + X hotkey and selecting Command Prompt from the menu.
Enter ‘ipconfig’ into the Command Prompt and press Return. The Command Prompt will list connection details as below.
Note down your Default Gateway number listed in Command Prompt. Alternatively, you can copy that number with Ctrl + C in Windows 10.
Open your browser, enter (or paste) your Default Gateway number into the URL bar and then press Return. That will open your router page as below, which tells you which wireless channel you’re on.
Next, click Wireless on that page and enter the required authentication.
Then you can select a Basic Wireless Settings tab that includes a Standard Channel drop-down menu. Click that drop-down menu to choose an alternative router channel from there.
Windows has a variety of network troubleshooters that might fix Virgin Media Wi-Fi. The Internet Connections troubleshooter can fix connections. You can open that troubleshooter as follows.
Enter ‘troubleshooter’ into the Cortana search box and select Troubleshooting.
Select Network and Internet to open a list of troubleshooters.
Then select Internet Connections to open the window shown below.
When you press the Next button, the troubleshooter might fix your VM Wi-Fi connection.
Hopefully, Virgin will fixes its Wi-Fi blackout soon. In the meantime, you might also be able to find other Wi-Fi tips on Virgin Media’s Help and Support pages.


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A picture of what should be happening.
Because they make problems visible, so we can fix them. And because a clear picture of Okay/Not Okay, or of right and wrong, allow us to relax and focus on the task at hand.
Standards free us up and enable creativity.
This is true in every industry from design to manufacturing, to business services, and to health care. And it’s also true with respect to personal behavior.
A recent coaching engagement reinforced these fundamentals truths once again.
Working with these fine people is enjoyable and motivating. Their fundamental goodness and humility allow you to relax and focus on the work.
Their mission, a genuinely ‘Noble Goal’, motivates you to do your very best. It’s no surprise the organization has been around for a long time.
Young, immature organizations and industries often lack bedrock standards. Unscrupulous leaders think they can ‘get away with stuff’. To often, they mistreat their employees, suppliers and customers.
Those that survive come to realize the centrality of Ethics. People won’t follow swine, at least not for long.
You can see this process being played out in the newer industries of our day – software design, social media, telecommunications, contract electronics and the like.
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WhiskyIntelligence.com » Blog Archive » ALLT-A-BHAINNE LAUNCH SET TO SHAKE UP THE SINGLE MALT CATEGORY – Scotch Whisky News - whisky industry press releases, newsletters, events, tasting notes, bottlings and comments.
Allt-A-Bhainne, the latest release from Scotch whisky specialist Chivas Brothers, is here to shake up the single malt category by mixing the smokiness of peat with the fruity sweetness of the Speyside region in Scotland. The challenger whisky will push conventional boundaries in a bid to attract a whole new generation of drinkers.
Established in 1975, an era of punks, mods and breaking with convention, the Allt-A-Bhainne distillery is truly a product of its time. It is liberated, open and original – and those who have visited can testify that it’s a place for whisky-making, not picture-taking. Now ready to launch its first large-scale offering, Allt-A-Bhainne goes against the grain and stands out as different from more traditional Speyside whiskies, with a distinctive taste and bold personality to match.
At a time when peated malts are growing globally by 7.6% (CAGR 2012/2017 IWSR), Allt-A-Bhainne is the answer for those out-of-the-ordinary special occasions or for valuable time spent unwinding in good company. Bottled at 40% ABV, it is aimed at active single malt explorers looking to experience something a bit different, while also appealing to new single malt drinkers with its straight-talking attitude.
Capturing its bold personality, the clean bottle design features strong, geometric shapes to create an energetic look that resonates with the 70s style of the Allt-A-Bhainne distillery on the label. The clean, uncluttered design of the bottle shows off the liquid and screams confidence in what’s inside. The wooden stopper is a gesture towards the craftsmanship at the heart of the brand.
Allt-A-Bhainne has now hit the shelves in the UK at an RRP of £37.00 and will also be rolling out in Australia.
Allt-A-Bhainne is a Scottish single malt distillery in the heart of Speyside which began distilling whisky in 1975, a time when everyone was going against the status quo. At the time, convention said that we shouldn’t mix peat with Speyside, but we followed our nose and distilled the whisky our way. Allt-A-Bhainne is a sophisticated and multidimensional liquid, mildly peated, with fruity undertones that create the perfect balance between peatiness and fruitiness. Long used as the heart of multiple blends in the iconic Chivas Brothers portfolio, Allt-A-Bhainne launched its first official single malt Scotch whisky in September 2018.

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