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I’ve been reminded that building your author website is a lot easier if you make some of the key decisions before you start. This site was the first I built, and it took weeks—simply because there were so many decisions to be made. The most recent site only took two days, because I made all the big decisions before I started (although we still haven’t officially launched the site … and I’m not responsible for the content).
Website design has come a long way from the days when people had to speak html as a second language in order to be able to develop a website. Now there are a variety of free and paid options that mean even the least tech-savvy person can set up a website.
The most well-known options are Blogger and WordPress. Other options include SquareSpace, Weebly, and Wix. All have free and paid options, with the paid options allowing you to use a custom domain name (i.e. www.iolagoulton.com rather than www.christianreads.blogspot.com).
Blogger (powered by Google) is probably the easiest to use, especially if you’re not especially tech-savvy. However, it’s an old platform, needs investment, and it’s unclear how the death of Google+ will affect Blogger commenting going forward (and existing Google+ comments will be lost, along with images stored in Google+).
WordPress.org (the paid version) has a huge range of themes and plugins you can use to customise your site, but most people would need the assistance of a web designer to undertake any customisation. The advantage of using a WordPress-based site is that it’s designed to be a website not just a blog, so the finished product looks a lot more professional.
WordPress has a virtually unlimited number of themes, both free and paid. It might be tempting to use the standard theme (currently Twenty Nineteen), but that’s soon going to date your site … and you run the risk of your site looking exactly the same as all the other sites using the same theme.
I use the free version of the Make theme from Theme Foundry on this site—it’s fully customisable, but not difficult to use (especially not if you sign up for the 5 Day Website Challenge). A lot of people use and love Divi, available from Elegant Themes.
More and more people access the internet using mobile and tablet devices, so you need to chose a theme that automatically adapts to the size of the screen.
Many themes have a limited number of fonts and colourschemes. That might not matter if you don’t already have your own brand fonts and colours. But if you do, you’ll want a theme you can adapt to your own branding rather than being forced to use the preset colours and fonts.
The problem with picking a colour is you’re not at school any more. You have more than the standard eight colours of crayon on offer at school (although you might have been one of the lucky kids to have Crayola crayons with 64 colours).
No, now you have an almost unlimited choice (somewhere around 16,700,000, if I’ve calculated correctly).
Colour should reflect your genre: black and red probably aren’t the best choices for a contemporary romance author.
How do you choose? What colours go together?
Fonts are both easier and more difficult to pick than colours. Sure, there are less than 16,700,000 choices, but you have to choose two, or maybe even three.
You need an easy-to-read font for your body text, and another font for your headings (perhaps more than one, as you can have several levels of headings and subheadings). You can be a little more creative with this choice, but it still needs to be consistent with your genre and author brand.
It can be tempting to stick with the tried-and-true Arial or Times New Roman fonts, perhaps because it’s hard to decide on a font. But some fonts are best avoided.
As you look through the font lists, you’ll see a lot you don’t like, some you like but which aren’t right for your brand, and (hopefully) a smaller number of appropriate font choices. Then you need to consider which two or three fonts you can use together.
That last resource is very cool. Pick a font, and it doesn’t just tell you what fonts would pair well. It shows you four or five options on a mock website, so you can really see how the fonts look together (hover over the text for it to tell you the font name).
Just set a timer: there are so many options that it’s easy to get lost!
Do you need help in developing your website or your author platform?
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Today I’m talking about secrets.
I was recently browsing through Facebook when an interesting question caught my eye. An author was asking if characters can keep secrets from the reader.
There are two parts to this question. The first is this: Can a character have a secret?
Any character with a credible, interesting secret has a good chance of coming alive.
Bonding with characters is achieved through intimacy … the greatest intimacy is achieved when we are privy to the thoughts and feelings of the characters. When we get to go inside their heads.
But that leads us to the second part of the question: Can the point of view character hold secrets back from the reader?
Yes, but then you’re placing an artificial barrier between the reader and your character. If we were truly inside their heads, we’d know their secrets. Withholding secrets prevents intimacy. And point of view is all about intimacy.
Are you prepared to trade secrets for intimacy?
I’ve recently read the Criss Cross trilogy by CC Warrens. The three novels are all in first person, from the point of view of Holly, a tramatised twenty-eight-year-old photographer living as close to off the grid as anyone can live in modern New York. Holly has intimacy issues. So it works that Holly keeps secrets from those around her … and from the reader.
We find out more about Holly as the stories progress, as she begins to face her fears, make friends, and trust others with her secrets. That’s why she’s keeping secrets from the reader (and from her newfound friends). It’s a protection mechanism. She can’t cope with remembering how she’s been “hurt”.
Holly’s secrets drive the tension which drive the novels forward. And that’s what makes this a brilliant series.
What’s more common is that an untold secret robs the story of tension. For example, I once read a novel where a young woman moves from Ireland to the United States. She’s hiding from something or someone, but we don’t know who or what. All we know is that she has a secret which has sent her into hiding.
Hint: if you don’t want the evildoers to find you, don’t leave a paper trail wider than the Amazon. Between the passport, the airline tickets, the marriage licence, the gym membership, the library membership (all in her own name), there was never any doubt the evildoer would find her.
Anyway, the story goes on and on with references to this secret and how horrible it will be if the unknown evildoer finds her. Every mention of the unknown secret made it bigger and bigger, until I’m thinking this woman must have some ginormous secret. Maybe she’s the secret love child of two ultra-famous people. Maybe she’s got the US nuclear launch codes tattoed on her back. Maybe she’s the only person who knows who committed the crime of the century.
I didn’t know what her secret was, but it was obviously big and unique. Something that had never happened to anyone else in all of human history, or in any novel previously published.
But no. It turned out she’d fallen pregnant after being raped, and was forced to give up the baby. That actually made a lot of sense given her actions in the novel (e.g. joining the gym to get rid of the baby fat, and her fear of her marriage-of-convenience husband). But it was a complete letdown as a plot point, because it felt anticlimactic. Unfortunately, women being raped, falling pregnant, and not keeping their babies is all too common, both in real life and in fiction.
I’m convinced it would have been a stronger story if we’d known her secret from page one. Then we could have empathised with her situation, cheered as she achieved small victories on the road to normal. And there still would have been plenty of tension: would she allow herself to recover? Could she learn to trust men again? Could she fall in love with her marriage-of-convenience husband? Would she tell him her secret?
Keeping the secret turned the climax into an anticlimax.
Readers allow the narrator to withhold the ending, as long as he tells us at each stage in the story all that the character knew at that point in time … [not] hold back information until the end of the story … The author who does this usually thinks she’s increasing the suspense. In fact, she’s weakening the suspense by decreasing the readers’ involvement with and trust in the narrator.
Sharing the secret with the reader is a great way to enhance the conflict and add to the tension.
The other characters don’t need to know the point of view character’s secrets. But the reader does.
A good recent example of this is Shadows of Hope by Georgiana Daniels. The main character, Marissa, is infertile but works in a pregnancy crisis centre. One of her clients is pregnant to Marissa’s husband—except only the reader knows this (well, Kaitlyn obviously knows she’s pregnant to Colin, but Kaitlyn doesn’t even know Colin is married, let alone who he is married to).
Marissa, Kaitlyn, and Colin are all point of view characters. We know what they know, and we also know the secrets they don’t know. This tension keeps the story moving forward as we wait for the inevitable dust-up when everyone discovers what we already know. The story would have no power or tension if it was told entirely from Marissa’s point of view (or Kaitlyn’s, or Colin’s).
The secrets drove the story.
And the result was I could feel and empathise with both Marissa and Kaitlyn. (Colin? Not so much.) Marissa knew her marriage was in trouble, but infertility isn’t an easy problem with a quick fix like, say, a root canal. Kaitlyn believed Colin loved her, and that he’d man up and marry her as soon as he found out she was pregnant. As a reader, I knew that wasn’t going to happen, because I knew about Marissa. But Kaitlyn didn’t know, and that enhanced the suspense.
So can a character keep secrets from the reader?
But keeping secrets comes at a price—intimacy, empathy, tension, and conflict.
Is having your character keep their secret worth the price?
Today’s post is part of the monthly Author Toolbox Blog Hop. The Hop is organised by Raimey Gallant, and has over 40 participating blogs. To find more posts, click here to check out the main page, click here to search #AuthorToolBoxBlogHop on Twitter, or click here to find us on Pinterest.
I had planned to continue my series on email lists and giveaways this week. But I discovered Twitter have announced changes to their rules and policies around automation, and the changes come into effect on Friday (23 March 2018). These changes affect me directly, and indirectly affect all my fellow #AuthorToolBoxBlogHop participants. That’s why I’m covering it today.
Anyone who manages multiple Twitter accounts.
Anyone who posts the same Tweet more than once (i.e. recycles Tweets).
As we all know, social media has become a lot less social. In early 2018, Facebook announced they are changing their algorithm to reduce the number of posts from businesses, brands, and media so we’re better able to use Facebook for the original purpose: to stay connected with the people who matter to us. The subtext to this announcement is that Facebook are going to push businesses, brands, and media to pay to advertise or to boost posts, because that’s how Facebook makes money.
Now Twitter is taking a similar approach.
Direct: A direct Tweet posts immediately from Twitter.
Scheduled: A scheduled Tweet posts at a set date and time in the future, and may be scheduled in Twitter, or in an external app.
Automated: An automated Tweet is when someone uses an external app such as Audiense ,Buffer, CrowdFire, Dlvr.it, Hootsuite, MeetEdgar, SocialJukebox, or TweetDeck to tweet on their behalf. Automated tweets are often duplicate Tweets.
Twitter have noticed (haven’t we all!) that a lot of Tweets are automated sales tweets, fake news, or spam. I often come across accounts where the Tweets all appear to be automated sales Tweets, sometimes coming from multiple accounts. I’m sure I’m not alone.
Authors are not innocent in this. I’ve read blog posts teaching me how to upload hundreds of Tweets to a programme like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite, so the Twitter account can automatically Tweet sales messages. I’ve seen authors Tweeting these sales messages as often as every ten minutes. One author I know of has over 370,000 Tweets, but less than 5,000 followers … and just 16 Likes. If that’s not spam, what is?
I’m sure we all agree that Twitter would be a lot more social if there were fewer automated Tweets … especially automated sales tweets. So Twitter have updated their rules. Twitter now explicitly prohibits certain actions, and these changes come into affect this week, on 23 March 2018.
Twitter will police these changes, and suspend or terminate accounts which break the rules.
The first two points only apply to people who operate more than one Twitter account, so the easy solution is to stick to one account!
People who do operate more than one account now have to be sure they are not duplicating content across the accounts.
This is easy when the accounts have a different focus (e.g. an author who also sells homemade cards on Etsy may have two accounts, but they are unlikely to be posting the same content). It’s a little harder when the two accounts have a different but overlapping focus (e.g. an author account, and an account for a group blog).
I have access to three Twitter accounts: my personal account, and two accounts related to group blogs where I’m part of the administration team. I don’t simultaneously post identical or substantially similar content across all three accounts, but I’ll make sure my team members know not to do this as well. We will also be careful about retweeting between accounts, as that could attract Twitters attention in a negative way.
The third point is the one that has many authors worried: posting identical content.
Twitter is now poised to enforce this policy much more aggressively by restricting all duplicate content posting, even if it the posts are made even days or weeks apart.
Moving forward, it means you should expect scheduling tools that have allowed for automated content recycling to no longer offer that service for Twitter accounts.
MeetEdgar is planning an upgrade that will enable users to upload multiple variations on the same Tweet at the same time. Tweets will be marked as sent, and won’t be resent. They are also considering a spinnable text option.
So recycling Tweets is against the Twitter rules, and has been for some time. The difference is Twitter will now be policing this more strongly. This will directly affect me, and may indirectly affect all my fellow #AuthorToolBoxBlogHop participants. Why?
Because I currently recycle Tweets.
I use Buffer’s Power Scheduler feature to Tweet all my new blog posts seven times over the next year. I currently alternate between two tweets for these, so each individual Tweet gets sent three or four times.
Buffer does allow me to create a unique Tweet for each share, so I will utilise that feature going forward—the only problem will be getting creative enough so each Tweet is not “substantially similar”. This is the approach recommended by Digital Decluttered. Problem solved.
I use SocialJukebox to share my blog posts, #AuthorToolBoxBlogHop posts, and posts from the two group blogs I administer (Australasian Christian Writers and International Christian Fiction Writers).
This is more of a problem, as SocialJukebox (like MeetEdgar) is a once-and-done solution for recycling Tweets, which means repeat Tweets are duplicate Tweets. However, I can control how often the posts repeat, and I have now set this to 90 days. At most, any individual post will be seen no more than three or four times a year.
I hope this will be enough to escape the attention of the Twitter suspension team. But my Twitter account was briefly suspended last year, so I need to be careful. If I get suspended, I’ll pause all my SocialJukebox streams and hope that solves the problem.
I’m not sure what this will mean for SocialJukebox. It’s a paid service, and my renewal is coming up soon. The only reason I use SocialJukebox is to recycle Tweets. SocialJukebox have not made an official announcement about changes to their service relating to this update.
Do you administer more than one account? Or post identical updates to one account? How will this change affect you?

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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I was even on board with Gravity...thought it was a pretty solid collection of songs. Everything since then has been filler, and the cushion has been sat on for so long that the stuffing is flat. This is only a single off of the upcoming album, but it does not inspire. If you like Burn, Burn and Curve, you may be into this style of music, but OLP used to be more. It's been a while since OLP put out an album that had inspiration; it sounds as if they just cobbled together 20 chord progressions and felt obliged to release them as albums. This song points to that trend continuing.
...then read the more recent album reviews. Not only were people fired up about Naveed, but these early ablum reviews were more intelligent– with a noticeable decline in quality of review writing for the post Mike Turner/Arnold Lanni work. It seems the dumbing down of OLP's music once Bob Rock infected the band goes hand-in-hand with the dumbing down of their fans. New reviews hilariously describe sound as 'upbeat' and 'exciting'– as if it's a car and the best thing you can say about it is that it's 'roomy.' I used to be a huge fan, having been to at least a dozen OLP shows between 1997–2002 and it pains me to say that they 'Won't Turn Back' because they CAN'T Turn Back. Without Mike Turner and Arnold Lanni, there is no chemistry and absolutely nothing interesting about this band. Not even listenable anymore. RIP OLP.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Haven’t done a links post in a while.
Exhibit A, why ivory tower eggheads get ignored. Want to stop it, stop suggesting stupid things.
So, GPS mistakes have in the past, by saying “turn now” convinced people to drive into lakes and such. Doctors and nurses sometimes don’t ask “is this reasonable” when a computer error occurs either. Consequences can be deadly to ignoring common sense.
Guns and society. If you think you can’t trust your neighbor with guns, why trust the state? The state is comprised of people like your neighbors.
A statistic to start a conversation.
This is making the rounds (here too). Comparisons to Hitler’s Germany are not apt. But then if the motivations are political then there is also no defense. And … what the heck? You can’t talk about this! That doesn’t sound legal. More importantly, it doesn’t sound ethical and ethics trumps law.
Well that’s because the slaves aren’t homosexuals.

industry_corpus2: Others


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industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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The froe had a couple of dozen other names as well, including "riving ax". It was used to split off pieces from a log. Depending on how large and long the log was, everything from withes to shakes and shingles were produced in the woods. By straining the bolt, held in a crotch, while twisting the froe with its handle, the river (as in user of a riving axe) could steer the split any way he wanted.
The froe had an edge with a pretty obtuse angle, so that if a logger referred to his ax as "a froe", it was understood that his ax needed sharpening!
The maul was used to drive the froe into the wood -- an iron maul couldn't be used without damaging the froe. The one shown here was quickly made from beech wood. Early loggers used similar mauls -- but about half again larger -- to drive their felling wedges.


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The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was established to ensure that there is an accessible forum for people injured by these vaccines. The VICP is a no‑fault alternative to the traditional tort system. The VICP provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines.
If you are considering filing a claim, you may hesitate when you think of the attorney's fees. As a Petitioner, you are not responsible to pay attorney's fees. There is no cost to you to hire our vaccine injury law firm. Our firm will pay the cost of litigating your case such as filing fees, medical records copying fees, expert physician fees, etc. At the conclusion of your case, our firm will seek reimbursement for litigation cost and attorney's fees from the Court. The VICP pays reasonable attorneys' fees and costs separately from any compensation award. Therefore, as a Petitioner, you do not have to pay any fees or costs.
The law requires that claims for vaccine injuries be brought in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Office of the Special Masters instead of against vaccine manufactures or your health care provider. The Court is located in Washington D.C. Every vaccine injury claim is heard by a "special master" who is the Trial Judge and has presiding authority.
The Department of Justice appoints a lawyer to represent the Secretary of Health and Human Services to defend the case.
We can provide advocacy for the Petitioner. If the Special Master decides that the injuries were caused by a vaccination, then the Special Master will decide the amount of compensation the Petitioner is entitled to.
You may file a claim if you or your child received a vaccine covered by the VICP, and believe that you have been injured by this vaccine.
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How long do I have to file my claim in the VICP after my vaccinations?
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industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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TV in The Bathroom, Good or Bad Idea?
A television set used to be considered a luxury item, something most households would eventually have and thoroughly enjoy watching. Though there are some households today that still don’t feel the need to invest in a television set, the majority of homes not only have one television set, but have a number of them.
The TV set was initially designed to sit in the living room of a home as a way of bringing the family together and providing joint entertainment, now, however, people have televisions in their living room, kitchen, bedrooms and some people even have a television installed in their bathroom, often providing a television set per person, and often with a TV to spare.
If you are considering installing a television set into your bathroom, you might be considering the pro’s and con’s of such a task, will it work? Will it be used? Will it look OK? These are all excellent questions to be considering before actually deciding to install a television set into your bathroom.
Some bathroom tasks take a longer time than others, for example, a nice soak in the bath is likely to take much longer than popping in the bathroom to brush your teeth or wash your hands. It is when you are undertaking these longer tasks that the television set is likely to be used and could potentially become relied upon.
Sometimes when you are in the bathroom you want total and complete privacy, the noise of the television set blocks out the noise of the rest of the house, accompany this with a lock on the bathroom door and you will have a complete and solitary retreat.
The bathroom, especially those with a bath and shower in, are very humid. Because of this you will need to install a waterproof television set, or at the very least have your TV encased in something waterproof. If you do not do this then each time you run hot water and the air starts to become steamy, condensation is going to form inside the TV which could end up breaking it.
Though a television in the bathroom is an exciting luxury item we usually only get in five star hotels, the reality of having one in your own bathroom is much different. The excitement of it wears off pretty quickly, and typically speaking, only men will end up using this television set, most women consider a soak in the bath as a way of getting away from the noise of things like the TV set and the family.
Having an extra TV set, that is likely to be left on even after the person has left the room and is no longer watching it, is going to impact upon your electricity bill. Obviously how much depends on how much this television set is going to be used.
Having only one television set in the house will mean the family is forced to sit together, watch a mixture of the family’s favorite program-mes and spend time together. If everyone has the choice to watch their own television what is likely to happen is that people will watch their program-mes on their own TV, rather than compromising and sharing the main TV, thus losing out on the amount of shared family time we get.
The more readily available you make television sets, the more dependent you are making yourself and your family on having some form of entertainment available. This is likely to impact on the family’s ability to concentration themselves which may be an issue at times where there isn’t a TV available to watch.
As you can see, the cons far outweigh the pros, a TV in the bathroom might seem like a good idea, but it is really going to be worth the work involved?


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industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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I meant to get this one out last Friday. Ah well.
It is easy to find lots of economists who are down on protectionism, but the evidence turns out to be rather mixed on exactly what its effects are. There are countries that have done poorly with this policy, and countries that have done very well indeed.
For economists to call these four situations in some sense identical is probably important for analysis, but it probably also warps the mind to do that too regularly.
JASP is an open-source project supported by the University of Amsterdam.
I haven't used JASP myself, but I saw people talking about it on Twitter. I will give it a try, and perhaps report back. I am entirely in favor of easy to use stats tools.
This was a fascinating reflection on fatherhood, spurred by the climax of Return of the Jedi.
I like Dani Rodrik's work, but sometimes I also think he's nuts. This is a good example of why. I think really bad things would happen if we tried to implement this suggestion of globally free labor movement.
A roundup of the animated Tolkien adaptions over the years. The author has a whole series on this subject. Ooh, and one on Conan!
I have said my piece on Disney's decision to reboot the Star Wars universe, but in the time since, I have found the new novels pretty lackluster. There was some crap in the old EU, but the crap to good stuff ratio seems poor in the new canon. Thankfully, the animated series are making up for the deficit.
A retrospective of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, that is a case study of the failures of social science that led to the replication crisis. The first person, and the last person, Philip Zimbardo lied to was himself.
A perennial theme here at the blog: are we sure we really knew what we were doing?
I am an amateur in most of the fields that I enjoy commenting on in this blog. In my own field, I get as annoyed as anyone else when an ill-informed outsider buts in. Nevertheless, like Chesterton, I think amateurs ought to be allowed their say, especially since so many experts are demonstrably incompetent.
In this case, it was the juxaposition of two articles that came across my Twitter feed recently. Arnold Kling's Is the Economy Illegible?, and recent Federal Reserve wage growth data.
First, the wage growth data. This could be seen as a cautionary tale about over-reliance on averages. The average data doesn't look so hot, but that is masking interesting patterns in who is retiring, and who is coming back into the labor force. Even these latter numbers are still averages, but better, more informative ones. It is always worth asking yourself whether an average is the right tool to answer your question, when the metric of interest applies to an individual.
The next one is Kling's article on the broad economic statistics we all use to judge the health and success of our economy. Kling uses the term of art "legible", which seems popular today, but I would probably ask the same question in a different way: does GDP measure something real? Does it measure the same things through time? Do you have any way to verify this?
These are standard questions of data quality that apply to any effort to track and trend data over time. I'm most familiar with this in the context of quality control data, but I think the principles still apply for something as grand as macroeconomics. I especially like Kling's example that the computing power in an iPhone 7 would have been worth $12M USD in 1991. Does this really mean technological progress has made us all that much richer since 1991? I'm dubious this is true, which means that the stats are off in a major way.
The Last Barfighter: An Arcade Game That Pours You A Beer If You Win.
This is an interesting article. I have two primary questions: do all utilities make money the same way? This article claims they only make a profit by building infrastructure. I can imagine other models are possible, and it is a big country. Second, here in the southwest, you can't store energy when the sun is shining and then sell it later when the price is high, because those is the same time here.
A citation from the above article.
I've done a bit of digital archaeology myself, and I know that keeping data current is an on-going job. Access to current data is easier digitally, but archiving is worse. The most durable storage medium we have is fired clay.
I don't find the idea that Pilate was not culpable for the death of Christ terribly obscure, but this is nonetheless an interesting article.
Wayne sounds as weird as the other guys, just in his own unique way.
DARE to Look at the Evidence!
This isn't the first time I have heard the DARE program doesn't produce any good results.
David Hines continues his look at the radical Left through the books they write about themselves. The ways in which protests are made to look spontaneous is particularly interesting to me.
The health risks of salt have been greatly exaggerated, mostly because existing summaries fail to make distinctions between people with much greater risks and the general population.
Razib Khan's Brown Pundits post on whether liberalism broadly construed can stand against the intransigence of Islam.
It is easy to make fun of the expensive culture of wine tasting, but I'm always willing to follow the data.
A beautiful poem about the Church.
I like to poke fun at libertarianism, but this seems like an example where a libertarian critique is warranted. A variety of vested interests created by law defended their prerogatives to the detriment of the public interest. In this case, rather than anti-competitive practices by AT&T, we seem to have a case of neglect.
Ross Douthat ponders what movies deserve attention since 2001. Also see Steve Sailer's response.
Arguing that Louis Pasteur's abortive art career helped him discover chirality.
Gabriel Rossman does a network analysis of battles in the Iliad.
Joel Stein is a funny, funny guy.
I love the movie Cars, and I am very excited about Cars 3, which looks less like a cashing-in on the initial success of the first movie sequel [you gotta pay for studios somehow] and more like a real Pixar-worthy sequel with better animation technology.
This post is nearly ten years old now, and I think still pertinent.
I didn't learn anything new here, but I've got a better memory and a deeper interest in history than the average American. The thing that gets me is no historical figure can stand this kind of scrutiny. For example, here is Lincoln debating with Stephen Douglas. This is the argument of the Progressive Left, that no one before the present is redeemable in any way, but it surprises me when less radical people advocate for ideas that destroy their own position.
It has been a while since I posted something about statistical software and graphs, so here you go!
DECODING GÖBEKLI TEPEWITH ARCHAEOASTRONOMY:WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?
An article attempting to link the Younger Dryas with Göbekli Tepe. I lack subject matter knowledge, but this is an interesting idea. Greg Cochran thinks the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis is bunk.
David Warren argues for the return of unsafe spaces at universities [with tobacco!].
I think I started reading David Warren about the same time I started reading John. J. Reilly, shortly after 9/11. He wrote a column for the Ottowa Citizen at the time, and his beat was terrorism.
Warren was better suited than most. He had been to Afghanistan in his salad days. He ended up a big supporter of George W. Bush and of the War in Iraq as a clash of civilizations. Warren spent quite a bit of time in the wilderness repenting of his sins following 9/11, and I still occasionally read his essays.
How important was colonial trade for the rise of Europe?
I've never felt like the Hobbit was a kid's book, but I have friends who feel otherwise.
The Wall Street Journal has an article up on the CLA+ test, with an accompanying data set from 68 public colleges obtained through FOIA requests. I put all the data in an EXCEL style spreadsheet as well.
Just about the only scatterplot that stands out to me is that higher freshman scores are pretty correlated with higher senior scores. I never would have guessed.
The next most interesting is the relationship between freshman score and the difference between freshmen and senior scores. The correlation is negative, perhaps implying there is a score ceiling in the test, or that average college graduates tend to end up in about the same place by the end of school.
Both freshman scores and senior scores are correlated with graduation rates, but since we are supposed to be using this data to see whether a given college does anything useful, I plotted both freshman and senior scores against graduation rates, but I color-coded the points by the improvement between freshmen and senior scores.
The color-coding looks random on the senior scores graph, but against freshman scores the highest improvements are concentrated at the lower-left. This might be interesting, since point difference versus graduation rates in general looks pretty random in the first scatterplot matrix.
I don't see anything groundbreaking here, which is probably why colleges don't talk about this much. If there was something to crow about, they would.
Niall Gooch's attempt to expand on a distinction between a mystical experience and a religious one.
BD Sixsmith agrees with Niall in poetic form.
As Cameron M. Clark said on Twitter: Does working memory training increase intelligence in healthy adults? No. Not even a little.
Morphing graphs on US government spending over time.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, continues testing on his launch vehicle.
The Swiss have always taken preparedness to a new level.
Every US department now rolls up budgeting data into one source.
A series of analyses to test Kevin Drum's theory that lead exposure explains much crime in the US.
Knowing what doesn't work is important too.
I've long thought the pre-diabetes thing was a bit foolish. While it is a good thing to be able to quantitate, if you don't understand what you are doing it can make you far too certain. Pre-diabetes is a lot like a risk-factor; something that is correlated with diabetes, but is in totality a poor predictor.
Neal Stephenson's review of the movie 300 is now nine years old, but I still enjoyed reading it. I liked 300 when it came out, and mostly for the same reasons Stephenson did.
A nice synopsis of the way in which not particularly devout partially assimilated children of immigrants get radicalized.
A researcher explains the sad truth: we do know how to stop gun violence. But we don't do it.
Unfortunately for this well-meaning researcher, his suggestions involve pattern recognition, which is currently disfavored.
The story is similar for gasoline. Technological progress means we do more with less.
The kind of unglamorous but well-paid job Mike Rowe likes to talk about.
This is a fantastic idea. We have raised the bar to graduate high school so far that we are penalizing people of normal intellectual ability.
This is a recurring pattern in United States history.
Frank Salter's concept of genetic interest is a philosophical concept that is muddled up with a scientific one. Unfortunately, his philosophy isn't too sharp.
How much of the placebo 'effect' is really statistical regression?
Courtesy of the ever contrary Greg Cochran, a reason to doubt the placebo effect. Here is a recent blog post expanding on this idea, with further reading suggestions.
Bryan Caplan is a popular blogger and economist at George Mason University. Caplan was recently interviewed on EconTalk about the value of a college education. Short version: a college education doesn't have much intrinsic value. I'm simplifying a bit, but only a bit. Caplan argues that higher education is more important for sorting out the smart and hard-working from the rest than in teaching anything specific. Of course, I might very well say that. I skipped out on grad school and went into the workforce precisely because I was convinced that more school wouldn't make me any smarter, or teach me anything useful. Of course, I also hated academia.
The signaling theory of education is nothing new to me. I've certainly pooh-poohed American higher education on multiple occasions here. However, it is easy to go too far. Caplan is too careful to say one learns nothing in college. What he is saying is that overall, and for the most part, specific skills are less important than intelligence, the capacity to work hard, and a willingness to play by the rules. These are the things college selects for. These are also correlates of success in America and similar societies.
On the other hand, I can certainly point you to plenty of disgruntled college graduates who cannot readily find work because they have the wrong degree. So there is a sense in which college functions in this signalling fashion that Caplan posits, but there is another sense in which employers, particularly in the much-vaunted STEM fields, really do expect college graduates to know things, very specific things. Personal experience suggests to me that this tendency is perhaps somewhat stronger than necessary to ensure competence, but one needs to understand the difference between ability and skill, or potentia and actualia. Since Caplan is an economist, perhaps he can look at the opportunity cost of hiring an able but unskilled graduate.
[Caplan] The human capital story says that you go to school; they actually teach you a bunch of useful jobs skills; you then finish and the labor market rewards you because you are now able to do more stuff. The signaling model says, no, no, no, no; that's not what's going on. What's going on is that people go to school; they don't actually learn a lot of useful stuff; however, the whole educational process filters out the people who wouldn't have been very good workers. So people who are lower intelligence, lower in work ethic, lower in conformity--those people tend to not do very well in school. They drop out. They get bad grades. And that's why the labor market cares. It's not that the school actually transforms you to a good worker from a bad worker. It's that the schooling, the school puts a little sticker on your head--you know, Grade A student, Grade B student, Grade C student.
[Interviewer] I have a natural skepticism about it. And I think a lot of labor economists do as well. And the reason is that it's an extremely expensive signal. So, you are saying, for 4 years, I give up the chance to work; I pay this tuition, whether it's $5000 or $10,000, or $30,000, or $40,000--at a private university. And for that enormous amount of money, I prove that I am a good worker and I get a sticker on my head. Wouldn't there be an easier, cheaper way to get the sticker? If all it's doing is measuring ability, this 4-year slog that's extremely expensive? That's the best way that people have come up with to get the sticker?
[Caplan] Yes, it's an arms race. And the fact, if it is a fact, the private return is high is really a very bad argument for pouring more money on. Now, the other point, as we were saying, the return that you should be looking at in terms of this argument of not being able to borrow against your future earnings--what you are looking at is return for the marginal people who are just on the edge of going or not going. And as we've seen, the return for those people is actually not, is actually quite mediocre. And then finally if you adjust for ability and everything else, really I would say that once you appreciate signaling you realize that, so we have subsidized education way past the point of [?] returns. So by my calculations, actually, the social return to education is now quite negative. And it would be a much better policy to drastically scale it back, so rather than encouraging more people to go, I think it's better to discourage them from going or at least to encourage them less. So in fact--so, the biggest policy implication that's going to come out of my book is we just have way too much education. I call this the white elephant in the room. There are way too many people going to school, maybe not from their own selfish point of view, but certainly from a social point of view to go and pour more money on this really is just throwing gasoline on the fire. And we need to do less of it.
Intelligence and reaction times Woodley et al.Nice model-fitting boys. Keep up the good work.

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Should Germany do as French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested and give back all museum objects looted from former colonies? It’s not that easy, says the head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
They knew it was coming, says German historian Hermann Parzinger. One of the Humboldt Forum museum's three founders, he was fully expecting critics to one day take aim at the institution's exhibits of objects connected to Germany’s often-bloody colonial past. And now they are.
Mr. Parzinger, who is also president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees Berlin’s many museums, has been attacked for displaying objects that could have been looted from their countries of origin and for not putting enough money or effort into finding out how they got to Germany. The Humboldt Foundation organizers were even accused of “colonial amnesia” by Hamburg University history professor Jürgen Zimmerer, who specializes in the German colonial era.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germany and its Kaisers (emperors) held sway over dozens of colonial possessions. From Togoland, Cameroon and Tanzania in Africa, to Jiaozhou Bay, German New Guinea (now part of Papua New Guinea) and Samoa around the Pacific, the country gained significant global influence - and a reputation for brutality. But its short-lived empire was almost entirely broken up after the First World War.
In an interview with Handelsblatt’s sister publication, Tagesspiegel, Mr. Parzinger didn’t reject the criticisms about the displayed objects outright, but he did sidle around them.
Experts need to debate the question in appropriate forums, Mr. Parzinger says, and any new guidelines “will impact all former colonial powers in Europe,” including the British, the Belgians and the Germans.

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Last Picnic is finding joy in the face of hopelessness. Last Picnic is the audacity to revel in it all as we spiral out. Last Picnic is a last minute invite to everyone we know to share a meal out in nature, knowing not everyone will show up but those that do will be treasured company. Also, the weather will be less than ideal but that's not going to stop us from having a memorable time. Last Picnic is a coproduction with Center, run by Marlee Grace, a creative space in West Marin that works collaboratively with many West Marin artists.
Rob Moss Wilson is an artist currently living in Martinez, California. Through poetry, painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking, Rob attempts to honor what is most zesty, poignant, colorful, and transcendent about being alive on this earth.
Van Waring is an artist based in West Marin but has roots in the Central Valley, which has given her the interest and opportunity to look at the edge of things, the contrast and connection between different thoughts and conversations. Her work examines an ecological awareness encompassing the awkward humanness in it all.


text: What is all to often overlooked in riparian restoration that focuses on what vegetation do we want, is thinking critically about what that vegetation needs to survive. If you can produce and maintain the right mix of surfaces (i.e. bars and floodplains), that create different water availability, then your 90% of the way there much of the time.

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My name is Linda. I am a 49 year old Ghanaian, an Industrial Engineer and also hold an MBA in Leadership and Sustainability. I have extensive experience teaching English Language for different age groups. I have taught Kindergarten to Grade 12, University classes to Corporate Business classes to specialty classes like TOEFL/ IELTS and even travel courses. Through the years of one-on-one tutorials at various levels I have found the most important learning tool is to kindle the learners' own interest and love of their subject. I am passionate about teaching English Language, and enjoy discovering that excitement in new Learners. Confidence is often vital for this, so I encourage students to realize the value of their own ideas by giving thoughtful feedback, and creating a supportive relationship. This helps learners to discover their own questions about a text or a point of grammar, and gently guides their natural intellectual creativity and curiosity.
More importantly I'll make use of the course books, materials and the recommended curriculum to communicate to the learners the four basic language skills which are listening, reading, speaking and writing to establish a sound foundation when this Language is being learnt.
I believe learning is ongoing and that it is important to continually be reading and taking courses, which I have done over my close to 25 years career.


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Labbrand is looking for an imaginative and reliable Senior Designer based in our Shanghai headquarters. You’ll be responsible for leading projects independently from start to finish – taking briefs, developing design concepts through freehand sketches, executing final designs and working with the production team to ensure the high design quality.
Working for a diverse portfolio of clients, you will advocate the key principles of branding from your unique perspective, engage your team to deliver excellent work with high efficiency and sophistication, and create award-winning design solutions that are rooted in solid brand understanding. Furthermore, you will explore business opportunities for new and existing clients.
Graphic designer with a creative solutions provider. Applicants with experience in agency or in design related industry are preferred. The position is based in Shanghai.
The Visual Development Supervisor provides artistic leadership, direction and guidance to Pearl Studio's Visual Development team across all projects and ventures.
Posted 11 days ago by Shenzhen Kyushu Visual Design Co., Ltd.
Plane Model with an outstanding design company. Height of more than 160 cm is required. The position is based in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.
This exceptional opportunity requires graphic and product design skills, excellent communication skills and the ability to be prolific and deliver fresh and creative designs in a fast-paced environment.
Product Copywriter with one-of-a-kind industrial design company. Applicants must have a bachelor degree or above. The position is based in Shanghai.
Willing to work in China;Love in create new and interesting product as always.

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Wormulon is the planet were Slurm is manufactured. The Planet Express crew flew there before and discovered Slurm's terrible secret.
Wormulon is inhabited by worm/snail like creatures with the most famous one being Slurm's partying mascot Slurms MacKenzie. It also has creatures called the Grunka Lunkas who think they have a good union there but are basically slaves to the worms.
The Futurama Encyclopedia by gotfuturama corrections?


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How do I stop home screen backup on my Redmi Note 5?
1. From the device’s Settings, go to Mi Account > Mi Cloud > Home screen backup.
2. Turn off Automatic backups.


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Switch to an acoustic piano as soon as you can afford to. It doesn't necessarily need to be a grand (I practiced on an Everett spinet until I was 16 years old!!), it just needs to have real hammers hitting real strings. Of course, eventually you will need to switch to a grand piano. Electric keyboards are handy (I have a Yamaha P90), but they do not do a very good job of recreating the resonance of a real piano. As a student of the piano, you should be developing your ear for color and timbre, and these pianistic traits are impossible to imitate on an electronic keyboard. Even the action feels different on a real piano - staccato notes in particular!
As for those staccatos that are giving you so much trouble, I'm afraid I can't help you. I do not consider myself to be a specialist in the mechanics of playing the piano. If anything, you should talk to your teacher. Perhaps he or she isn't explaining it effectively, or perhaps your discomfort is a symptom of something else. Your teacher should be able to clear this up for you.


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Some people in Incline suddenly decided that they no longer wanted to coexist with a defenseless family of beavers.
When I was younger my parents would reprimand me for killing a spider due to the fact that it helped keep disease carrying mosquitoes away from me. They carried it outside in a glass. I got reprimanded for killing an ant just for the sake that it’s a living thing. These were my values and the rules that were taught throughout my younger days. What happened to our society now? What are the wchildren?
The fall of 2011, I got to put my values to work by helping out the ones without voices — beavers. I was lucky enough to help put in a Beaver Deceiver with my parents’ friends to prevent a roadway from flooding.
The Beaver Deceiver is basically a pipe with a wire cage that allows the water to go through a beaver dam. Up until lately, the beavers had been living peacefully in the same location, but someone felt they needed to intervene. This intervention caused beavers to be disposed of and then their purpose in nature to disintegrate along with their lives.
I feel that if a fourteen-year-old like me could understand the importance of beavers, like how their dams filter water, make a habitat for various animals, and just the importance of life within itself, then why is an educated adult unable to see the same importance, if not more?


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Modern LCD Plasma TV Stand With Tempered Black Glass Shelf In Black Wood And Chrome Finish. (Item# Vista Furniture CF700652) - Whether your looking for a lcd tv stand, lcd tv cart, plasma tv stand or a plasma tv cart, we got the right tv stand or the right tv cart to place your new flat screen tv on. What about finishes yes, we also offer oak finish, cherry finish, black finish, white finish and many more to fit your homes decor. Contemporary style lcd plasma tv stand with black tempered glass shelf chrome accents in black finish. Please note this television stand hold up to most 48″ lcd plasma televisions up to 250lbs. We also carry large selection of modern and traditional tv stands, tv carts, media carts and tv consoles. (Item# vista furniture cf700652) tv stand 48″ l 18″ w 17″ h.
Hatco HBG-7218 72.34″ Portable Heated Black Glass Shelf - 5shipping weight 64 lbsdimensions 72. Surface color is black and they feature a thermostatically-controlled heated ceramic glass surface to help hold your food hot and delicious. Lighted on/off rocker switch. Build-in models have an optional flush mount control box with a 3′ (914 mm) conduit. 35″d x 2. Quality the following features assure the finest performance for years to come available in portable and built-in models. Ideal for use on pass-through areas, buffet lines, and as hors d’ouevre displays. 34″w x 18. 40″h. Hatco heated black glass shelves are made of approved foodsafe materials allowing you to place food product directly on the glass surface. Specifications volts 120v, single phase, nema 5-15pwatts 1260amps 10. The built-in and portable units are equipped with an attractive trim mounting ring that is available in stainless steel (standard) or designer black powdercoated. Optional angled food stop for portable models keep product on the heat zone. Shelves are made of approved foodsafe materials, allowing you to place food product directly on the glass surface. Portable units are available with designer black powdercoated and plastic handles. All units come with a 6′ (1829 mm) cord, plug and a flush mount electronic control box with a 6′ (1829 mm) conduit. These foodwarmers are available in portable and built-in models. Every heated black glass shelf features a thermostatically-controlled heated base to help hold food hot and delicious.
Bathroom copper metal hanging antique black glass shelf Towel rack bathroom Towel rack double-YUXIN - Installation accessories complete easy to install. View strictly every detail carved secret agents. Bearing strong preservative anti-scratch easy to clean. Edges are edging process avoid bruising comfortable to use safe and secure. Appearance of the atmosphere delicate structure can accommodate more.
Hatco HBG-4818 48.34″ Portable Heated Black Glass Shelf - Lighted on/off rocker switch. 40″h. Ideal for use on pass-through areas, buffet lines, and as hors d’ouevre displays. Build-in models have an optional flush mount control box with a 3′ (914 mm) conduit. Every heated black glass shelf features a thermostatically-controlled heated base to help hold food hot and delicious. Optional angled food stop for portable models keep product on the heat zone. All units come with a 6′ (1829 mm) cord, plug and a flush mount electronic control box with a 6′ (1829 mm) conduit. Shelves are made of approved foodsafe materials, allowing you to place food product directly on the glass surface. These foodwarmers are available in portable and built-in models. 34″w x 18. 1shipping weight 44 lbsdimensions 48. Specifications volts 120v, single phase, nema 5-15pwatts 850amps 7. 35″d x 2. The built-in and portable units are equipped with an attractive trim mounting ring that is available in stainless steel (standard) or designer black powdercoated. Portable units are available with designer black powdercoated and plastic handles. Surface color is black and they feature a thermostatically-controlled heated ceramic glass surface to help hold your food hot and delicious. Hatco heated black glass shelves are made of approved foodsafe materials allowing you to place food product directly on the glass surface. Quality the following features assure the finest performance for years to come available in portable and built-in models.

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Most products are made from recycled material.
Purses, bags, wallets, fascinators, fanny pack, hair towels, travel organizer towels, soap towels.Embroidered kitchen towels, bathroom towels. Recycled material products such as purses, bags, wallets, jean jackets.


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Today there are many people those who take the help of astrology. Astrology is the base of the humanity. There are many things which happened on the earth it is all because of movements of planets and stars. Our good time or our bad time is all depend upon its movements. When a person is facing good time then everything seems to be good but it is always very difficult for every person to come out from difficult time. Famous astrologer in Singapore is an expert who solves every problem of the person with his astrological remedies. Being a famous astrologer is very difficult. It needs experience and practice of many years. He solves all those problems easily and as soon as possible.
Family issues: There are many people those who use astrological branches of famous astrologer in Singapore to solve family issues. Nobody can bear the family problem but still problems are part of the life. It can easily remove if a person performs astrological remedies with pure intentions.
Financial problems: Famous astrologer in Singapore also solves the financial problems of the people. There are many astrological remedies which he suggests according to the problem of the person.


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The Myra Transitional King Louver Bed by Riverside Furniture at Stuckey Furniture in the Mt. Pleasant and Stuckey, South Carolina area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
The Myra collection is a great option if you are looking for Transitional Cottage furniture in the Mt. Pleasant and Stuckey, South Carolina area.
Browse other items in the Myra collection from Stuckey Furniture in the Mt. Pleasant and Stuckey, South Carolina area.


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HI, my name is Brenda Hagen and I am the clerk/treasurer of Glendo. I loved this article. It brought back memories of an event our tiny town has never seen on this scale and never will again in my lifetime. Years of preparing made it go smoothly. Traffic was the only thing out of our control.
Totality itself was incredible. For a grief moment in time people from all over the world became silent and experienced the awe of our solar system and planet. Honestly, this year I feel a little sad it is over.
Thank you for coming to Glendo and for the great pictures and article.
Oh, and we recouped all of our expenses and a little extra thanks to the generosity of people world wide.


text: What makes Champagne so special is the secondary fermentation in the bottle, the so-called "méthode traditionelle" or formerly known as "méthode champeoise". Although this technique is also practised by other producers of sparkling wines all over the world, only the sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France are legally referred to as Chamapgne according to EU wine laws. One could argue that Champagne is the world's most popular noble beverage, always at hand if there is a special occasion to celebrate. There is a famous quote attributed to Mme. Lily Bollinger: "I drink Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty."

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text: Free draining sandy loam. Use as a base for instant turf or in our blended soils. Also used to top dress existing lawns.


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The Centauro family of wheeled armoured fighting vehicles has been developed by Consorzio Iveco Fiat - Otobreda, based in Rome. Iveco Fiat is responsible for the vehicle and powerpack development and Otobreda developed the turrets and weapon systems. Centauro entered production in 1991 and is in service with the Italian Army. The Spanish Army has ordered 22 Centauro vehicles in the armoured reconnaissance configuration, with additional reactive armour package on the frontal arc. Deliveries began in October 2000.
The Centauro family of 8x8 vehicles consists of the Reconnaissance Antitank Vehicle, the VBC Infantry Fighting Vehicle and the Armoured Personnel Carrier, all with a common chassis. Centauro is capable of firing while stationary or on the move, against moving or stationary targets by day or night.
The Centauro has an all welded steel armour hull, which provides protection against 12.7 mm ammunition and shell fragments. Enhanced armour protection over the frontal arc provides protection against 20 mm ammunition.
A nuclear, chemical and biological (NBC) warfare protection system is integrated into the vehicles' air conditioning system. A laser warning receiver can be installed on the vehicle.
The Iveco 6V turbo-charged after-cooled diesel engine is rated at 382 kW (1,865 Nm). The automatic transmission system designed by ZF, and manufactured under license by Iveco Fiat, has 5 forward and 2 reverse gears. There are 8 wheels each with independent suspension and disk type brakes. The steering is on the first, second and fourth axle. The tyres are 14.00 - 20, run flat tyres fitted with Central Tyre Inflation System (CTIS).
All variants of the vehicle provide top speeds in excess of 100 km/hour. The vehicles can negotiate gradients up to 60 %, fording depth of 1.5 m without preparation, and have a turning radius of 9 m.
The Centauro Reconnaissance Antitank Vehicle has a crew of four (commander, gunner, loader and driver) and is equipped with an Otobreda 105 mm/52 calibre gun. The low recoil force rifled gun fires standard NATO ammunition including APFSDS (armour piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot) rounds. The gun is equipped with a thermal sleeve, integrated fume extractor and muzzle reference system. 14 rounds of 105 mm ammunition are carried in the turret and 26 rounds are stored in the hull. An alternative configuration, the 8x8 T, replaces these 26 rounds of ammunition with space for four combat troops.
Two 7.62 mm machine guns are mounted on the turret, one co-axial with the main gun. A four-barrel smoke grenade launcher is mounted on each side of the turret.
The fire control system is the Officine Galileo TURMS, also fitted on the Ariete main battle tank, which includes a digital ballistic computer. The gunner's station is fitted with a stabilised sight with a thermal imager and laser rangefinder. The commander's station is equipped with a panoramic stabilised sight, an image intensifying night sight and a monitor displaying the image from the gunner's thermal sight.
The Centauro 8x8 VBC infantry fighting vehicle carries a crew of three - commander, gunner, driver plus 6 to 8 troops. The main gun is the Oerlikon KBA 25 mm automatic cannon and carries 200 rounds of 25 mm ammunition. The vehicle can be armed with two launchers for TOW anti-tank guided weapons, eight 80 mm smoke grenade launchers and two 7.62 mm NATO machine guns. The fire control system is the same as for the reconnaissance/anti-tank version. However, the commander does not have a monitor displaying the gunner's thermal sight.
Three prototypes of this version have been delivered to the Italian Army, which has a requirement for 240 vehicles.
The Centauro Armoured Personnel Carrier carries a crew of three - commander, gunner and driver plus 8 troops. The main weapon is the Oerlikon KBA 25 mm automatic cannon and a 7.62 mm NATO machine gun is also fitted. Smoke grenade launchers are optional, and a choice of gunner's/commander's sights is available.

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Your Senators and Representatives are back in their home districts for the next two weeks for Easter Recess.
This is a great time to call their district offices and thank them for maintaining protections for wild horses and burros in the 2018 Omnibus spending bill, which passed last week.
Remember, the Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations process is already under way, and the Interior Department is once again doubling down on its plan to slaughter our nation's iconic mustangs and burros.
We have a major battle on our hands again, and we can lay a strong foundation for the fight ahead expressing our gratitude now to Congress for listening to the will of the people and protecting our wild horses and burros.
1. Find the district office for your Representative and Senators and give them a call!
Here's what you need to say: "I'm calling to let Senator/Rep [name] know how much I appreciate Congress' decision to maintain long-standing protections for wild horses and burros from killing and slaughter. Please ask Senator/Rep to ensure that these same protections are carried forward in 2019 spending legislation. Thank you."
2. Follow up with an email.
The American Wild Horse Campaign is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work at the button below or by check to AWHC, P.O. Box 1733, Davis, CA 95617.


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Berry lipsticks look beautiful on an array of skin tones, whether you’re warmer-toned or cooler-toned, fair or deep in complexion. I love pairing a berry lipstick with a soft, neutral eye look (purplish taupes, mauves, or soft browns) or faded pinks or dusty purples. Here are nine of the best berry lipsticks that we’ve tried and tested that you can check out today!
If you have drier lips, consider a more luminous, creamier formula, and I find that less coverage often is kinder and less prone to emphasizing texture. For those who prefer longer wear, look for a liquid lipstick (as long as you don’t mind drying to non-drying in feel!), pair with a lip liner, or blot lightly after initial application.
Who should wear this berry: If you want a creamier, more comfortable formula with cooler undertones and a brighter color.
Why we love it: Long-wearing, pigmented, creamy, and comfortable make Fanny a winner.
Who should wear this berry: Those who like a glossier, more luminous finish on their berry hues.
Why we love it: It has semi-opaque, buildable coverage that goes on evenly and lasts for hours while being hydrating over time.
Who should wear this berry: Anyone who likes a softer berry-hue and lots of coverage.
Why we love it: The Le Rouge formula is superb; creamy, pigmented, long-wearing, and comfortable to wear, and Framboise Velours is no exception!
Who should wear this berry: Anyone who wants more precision during application.
Why we love it: It’s a semi-opaque, buildable coverage shade with a satin finish–not too matte, not too shiny–that wears for hours.
Who should wear this berry: Anyone who likes cooler, more magenta-leaning berry lipsticks with a natural finish.
Why we love it: It’s one of the deeper, cooler berries that isn’t too bright or too dark. The medium to semi-opaque, buildable pigmentation makes it easy to wear.
Who should wear this berry: Anyone who loves deep, rich shades and a more matte finish.
Why we love it: It’s ultra-pigmented and goes on like a dream, which isn’t always easy to find in a liquid lipstick format. This one wears for hours and hours!
Who should wear this berry: For a warmer, pinker berry, this Girl is one to consider.
Why we love it: The GIRL Lip Stylo formula is like a lip balm meets lipstick–balmy, comfortable, and lightweight but more pigmented and longer wearing.
Who should wear this berry: Anyone who wants depth but doesn’t want to get into borderline burgundy territory.
Why we love it: The LuxeTrance Lipstick formula is one of the top ones we’ve tested in over a decade; creamy, comfortable, richly pigmented, and ultra long-wearing.
Who should wear this berry: Anyone who has been looking for a berry lipstick balanced between cooler and warmer undertones.
Why we love it: It’s not a flat matte, so it’s more comfortable, more forgiving, and easier to apply than a matte liquid lipstick. It has good color coverage and wears for hours without drying out the lips.


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A column of data in an Integrify report may be anything for the value of a question submitted on the form to the first name of the individual who started a request.
The Columns tab will have a listing of all the columns that have been selected for this particular report.
Similar to the transition editor while configuring rules on a process you will have the option to select from various Sources within the process (or processes) to select data.
This dialog will be dynamic based on the Source selected. For instance, if you were to select Data as the source then the dialog will change and present you with a list of available tasks in the process to select, and then data attributes associated with the task. Note: if reporting against more than 1 process, you will be presented the option to choose the process before the list of tasks are displayed.
In the above example, a form task called 'New Hire Form' was selected and the Field options are the list of available questions on that particular form which you may have displayed on the report.
Client Profile information associated with the Client of the process such as name, division, cost center, location, etc.
Client’s Manager Profile information associated with the Client’s Manager of the process such as name, division, cost center, location, etc.
Data The Data option will enable you to select any data associated with a given task. When the Data option is selected, a secondary drop-down list of available tasks will be presented.
Depending on the type task selected, the available data elements will vary. For a Form task, it is possible to select data from the questions submitted on a form, for an Approval task you may retrieve the approval option a user selected when the task was completed, etc.
Request High-level data associated with an overall request such as the request id, the date started, date completed, last milestone, last milestone date, etc.
Requester Profile information associated with the Requester of the process such as name, division, cost center, location, etc.
Requester's Manager Profile information associated with the Requester’s Manager of the process such as name, division, cost center, location, etc.
Task High-level data associated with a specific task in the process such as the task name, date started or completed, name, and task status.
Task Completer Profile information associated with the person who completed a specific task within the process. You will need to select both the task and the profile attribute you would like displayed.
Task Completer's Manager Profile information associated with the manager of a person who completed a specific task within the process. You will need to select both the task and the profile attribute you would like displayed.
Task Recipient Profile information associated with the person who was a recipient of a specific task within the process. You will need to select both the task and the profile attribute you would like displayed.
Task Recipients Manager Profile information associated with the manager of a person who was a recipient of a specific task within the process. You will need to select both the task and the profile attribute you would like displayed.
Any Data Option to get to data via a generic identifier (Label, ID, Property). If you want to pull back any data associated with the known ID (i.e. question ID or form ID), then you can use this.
Current Task Option to define the attributes for the current task. Commonly used to view how many tasks are assigned to users, total counts of tasks, time between task assignments and completions, etc.
Data (Matching Iteration) Task reports can display and filter data or attributes from tasks corresponding to the iteration of the current task record. Also, iteration number can be displayed and filtered (choose under the Current Task source option to display as a column in a report). Useful for looping requests and displaying data from multiple tasks within each loop in the same row.
Fixed Value Option to enter a fixed value associated to a task.
Task (Matching Iteration) Task reports can display and filter data or attributes from tasks corresponding to the iteration of the current task record. Also, iteration number can be displayed and filtered (choose under the Current Task source option to display as a column in a report). Useful for looping requests and displaying data from multiple tasks within each loop in the same row.
Once you have selected the particular column you would like added, simply select Save on the column selection dialog and your column list will be updated.
By default when a column is added to a report it will also be given a default column name based on the data it represents such as Data, Form Name, etc.
Type the new Column Alias in the field provided and select Save.
Date - will include a time along with the date.
Short Date - Will display only the date.
Time - Will display only the time in hours and minutes.
Choose to have a column ascend or descend when running the report (for example, you could have it descend by the request's Date Started column).
You will be presented with a list of available functions that may be applied to a given column. Simply select the aggregate function you would like to use and press Save when you are complete.
Always ensure the other columns are report when using the aggregate functions are values which common across multiple requests and group accordingly.
If you choose to create report that displays a chart (line, pie, bar, area or column), select either Series or Datapoint for the columns that you want to use for your chart.


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Heard of it? If you’re on social media, you have. Think about it, how many times have you heard the phrase, “putting the ‘human’ back in human resources” this year? But c’mon, you’re a person – this shouldn’t be hard. In fact , you can actually learn things without having an internet connection. The notion of something so simple, yet something that becomes ridiculously underrated, overlooked, and underutilized.
(Clears throat) – you ARE human, the fact that some of you paused to ask yourself if you actually have what it takes, well, I digress. So often we overlook the human aspect when it comes to recruiting, HR, and the like. It seems like a simple premise.
Be a person and get great candidates!
Be a person and retain great employees!
Treat people like people and they’ll be…people!
Joining us this week on RecruitingLive is the Searchologist herself, Katrina Collier! Katrina will be diving into what it REALLY means to #behuman. We’re going to remove all of the frills that people attach to the stigma of just “doing the right thing” and show you how the idea of being human can make a significant impact on all aspects of your professional (and personal) life.
C’mon humans, let’s learn something together.
Social Media #Recruitment Trainer & Keynote Speaker | Co-host The #SocialRecruiting Show.


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Well, I'm finishing out this week featuring Tropical Party. I hope you got some great ideas using this set! I think it is SO much fun.
Today's Stamping 411 sketch challenge was a lot of fun, too! I hope you take a minute and play along with the Design Operators. Just link your creation to Mr. Linky over on the Stamping 411 blog. We love to see what you do with the sketch!
For my card, I started with a base card of Rose Red cardstock. I ran Whisper White thru the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder. I found a strip of the striped pattern from Island Oasis Designer Paper laying on my desk, so I used it for the base along the Old Olive cardstock. I stamped the large floral in Pumpkin Pie, Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise and Old Olive Classic Ink on Whisper White and cut them out. The Old Olive I used for leaves behind the flowers. I used Mini Brads for the centers and popped them up with Stampin' Dimensionals on the front. I punched three 1/2 circles from Rose Red, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie and lined them up along the top. Then I stamped Just For You in Basic Brown on So Saffron and punched it with the Designer Label Punch. I tucked it under the top of the Old Olive layer.
Great card Connie! So bright and fun – I'm loving the combo of that dsp and the stamp set! It's funny, I almost didn't buy the stamps, but like you, I'm having a hard time now putting them away! LOL!
Clean and beautiful! I love this!
Well, there must've been a meeting I wasn't invited to because so many of the operators have been using the same dsp this week! LOL!!!
Connie, this is stunning! The white background just makes all the other elements "pop" even more!!!! Love it!
Love the warm sunny feeling of this card! Oh how I wish I bought that stamp set!!
This card turned out awesome!! So bright and cheerful!!


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New Travelpony Codes For All Members & $35 Credit For New Signups!
Deals New Travelpony Codes For All Members & $35 Credit For New Signups!
Travelpony is a fantastic hotel booking site that provides very good discounts on hotel stays. I wrote about a deal a few months ago where I was able to save over $100 on my hotel stay for Frequent Traveler University in April.
For those who are new, the way Travelpony works is they make you sign up for an account before you can see the rates. This keeps the rates away from the public and thus more “exclusive”. As always, Travelpony is offering $35 off of your first booking for new members.
While the $35 offer is usually around, for stays through July 1, 2014, Travelpony has a few discounts available to existing members. Use code JUNESAVINGS10 for 10% off bookings of $250 or more or code JUNESAVINGS5 for 5% off of all other bookings. I have updated our Travelpony coupon code page with the new codes.
I have personally used Travelpony a few times and have had absolutely no issues with them. While you may not earn points towards elite status by booking through a third party like Travelpony, sometimes the savings can be substantial.
The other thing I like most about Travelpony is the way they display search results. When searching for a hotel, Travelpony will sort the results by % of savings over the publicly available price. This means you can see if they are giving you a good deal, or the same rate as all of the other travel agents. Of course you can also sort by price and distance, but I enjoy this flexibility and transparency.
In the end, Travelpony should be another tool in your arsenal to find the best hotel rates and save the most money. For new members, take advantage of their savings and the $35 credit provided for your first booking. For existing members, check to see if you can save money by using these new promotion codes which work for all hotels during the month of June.
Note: If you sign up with the links in this post, you receive a $35 credit immediately and I will receive a $25 credit after your first stay. Thank you for the support!

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