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Ah yes, the beaver, the large nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent. Ok, maybe that doesn’t make it sound like the most elegant animal out there but hey, we all know that beavers are adorable and resourceful creatures! They're like the architects of the animal world, very smart, and they know how to use those big flat tails as useful tools. Some animals are just amazing, and beavers are definitely in that group!
Have you ever dreamed of having your very own lodge? You might think you've got to call a real estate agent to make that happen, but no way, you just need this plus size beaver costume! Now, we don't recommend getting too crazy with just that... be sure to wear a hard hat first. Beside the fact that they can do crazy cool things, we can agree on one thing we have in common with this cuddly creatures, the whole nocturnal thing. Like beavers we too enjoy doing random activities all throughout the night and sleeping all day. Welcome to being a millennial! If you feel you one with this rodent of the river then why not dress the part for Halloween this year.
The best part of this costume is that it’s made by yours truly! That’s right, we knew you would be looking for the perfect animal costume that is sure to get you a few laughs that’s why we decided on this Adult Plus Size Beaver Costume. Throw this luxurious brown jumpsuit on and you’ll be building damns all night, you know because you’re nocturnal and all.


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A durable track suit to prepare for rigorous drills.
Warm up with signature 3-Stripes style in the comfort of this mens training track suit. Made in long-wearing doubleknit, the pants are designed with tapered legs and a drawcord adjustable waist for easy removal when its time to shed a layer.

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Established more than 30 years ago, Liss Transport, which is a Lyon family firm whose core business is road transport, specialising in the transport of hazardous and non-hazardous bulk liquids and foods, is a partner you can trust when it comes to managing and transporting your tank containers thanks to our Extra Services.
We monitor every stage of the service that we provide to you (Transport and Services) along with a guaranteed quality communication system.
Optimal and efficient flexibility for your transport.
An “all inclusive”, tank container transport service thanks to our Extra Services.

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Breathable and anti-allergy cork wedge sandals.
Sizing: Order your usual size. MADE IN PORTUGAL Upper: Cork. Lining: Breathable and anti-allergy microfiber. Ecological, CO2 free manufacturing system. Inner sole: Paperboard agglomerate. Microfiber lined. Heel: Cork coated plastic. 8cm. Outer sole: Cork.

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text: dc.description.abstract Mental health nurses are required to be able to identify and access the current evidence surrounding a particular topic and evaluate and decide upon the best care approach to people with mental health problems. This is aided by specific guidance on how to facilitate access to and deliver the best quality evidence-based care. This is most commonly acquired by accessing evidence through hand searching publications or through electronic sources (databases, web search engines or internet publications). However, evidence indicates that only a small proportion of mental health nursing research is published and that many nurses carry out research that is not published. Although, it is difficult to judge the quality of unpublished research the likelihood is that a number of high quality mental health nursing research projects are not published and are therefore not available to be evaluated as part of the evidence base of care. There has been relatively little examination of the reasons underpinning publication of nursing research. This project examined the factors that influence the publication or non-publication of mental health nursing research presented at national or international nursing conferences in the UK.

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Global Interactive and Self-Service Kiosk Market 2019-2025 – Global Trends, Statistics, Size, Share, Regional Analysis by Key Players, Application & Products.
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WA DUI Laws Get Tougher!
The city of Federal Way sees Seattle - and a specific city proposal there - as a problem citing that a new proposal which may extend the operating hours for Seattle area bars is a public safety issue. A Deputy Chief at Federal Way Police stated, "When you extend the hours (of bars), clearly you're looking at higher levels of potential intoxication."
The proposal before the Washington State Liquor Control Board which, if approved, would give Seattle the option to stagger the closing time of city bars. Right now, state law mandates that bars close by 2 a.m.
This week, the mayor of Federal Way along with the City Council sent a letter to the state, saying that the proposal, if passed, would likely lead to "more drunk drivers on the road during peak early morning commute times," "increases in alcohol related injury and death," and "greater service related demands on the Federal Way Police Department and surrounding jurisdictions."
At Clever Rebel Tattoo on the north end of Federal Way, owner and tattoo artist Joe Meyer was skeptical that the proposal would impact the quality of life in his hometown.
"Just 'cause a bar is open later doesn't mean it's going to get worse," Meyer said, as he applied fresh ink on a customer's arm. "I think I'd be tired. If the bar closed at 3, I'd be tired. I want to go home and sleep."
The state Liquor Control Board hopes to have a decision on the proposal by early May. If enacted, it would allow other cities to extend their hours as well.
If you or a loved one is faced with an alcohol or drug related offense in Western Washington, you deserve nothing less than the very best representation from a reputable and qualified Seattle criminal attorney who will relentlessly defend your case. You deserve a Seattle criminal lawyer who has an intimate understanding of not only Washington’s criminal laws, but also the legal issues that could win your case. You deserve a Seattle criminal lawyer who is not afraid to stand up against the prosecution and aggressively fight for your rights and interests. SQ Attorneys is the right Western Washington criminal law firm for the job. Call for a free initial consultation – (206) 441-0900 (Seattle); (425) 998-8384 (Eastside) – it will be the best decision you make all day.

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As part of their Workplace Health and Wellness program, your employer is providing onsite work skin checks. This is a great initiative!
They see the importance of ensuring you are aware of any potential skin cancer risks and encourage you to take the right steps to minimise your sun exposure. A work skin check also allows you to identify and manage any skin spots that may be changing or need to be watched.
In preparation for your upcoming skin check, please print and complete the below Skin Check questionnaire and bring it with you on the day of your appointment. We look forward to seeing you soon.


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In the legal world, there was a simpler time – a time before the “e” in e-discovery. When the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were established in 1938, handwritten and typewritten documents were the primary methods for creating content. If you wanted to duplicate content, mimeographs and offset printing were the main machine options.
New technology continued to develop, and, with it, the discovery landscape and supporting processes matured. Word processing and laser printing are major examples of progress, but it did not stop there. Automated OCR, machine coding and deduplication have all been added to the toolbox. Now you can even use automation to categorize data. All of these have strengthened the capabilities of attorneys to navigate through the discovery process and into trial.
Today, discovery is filled with automation. We can extract metadata, visualize data trends and cull information. Additionally, many technology solutions have been designed to hand human tasks off to machines. Graphic images and audio files can be converted to searchable text without manually transcribing the content. The goal is to make the process of discovery more efficient and less expensive, and to allow attorneys to paint a more detailed picture of the facts.
What is the next evolution? What will the next technological breakthrough be?
Today, we are starting to see a shift that is less about needing the shiny new object and more about leveraging tools and data that already exist in novel ways. Achieving efficiencies and cost reductions remain important, but there’s a greater emphasis on being informed in ways that can drive the development of strong case strategies. In short, we believe that the shift from documents and content to data-based discovery and the search for context is underway.
Leading this shift to data-based discovery are attorneys who seek to understand what information sources exist, why these sources are created, how they are used, what value they contain and what they contribute to context. These attorneys understand that while users may generate files, the systems that interact with these files may automatically create information as useful, sometimes even more useful, than the content itself. They also recognize that new systems humans interact with as part of their jobs (e.g., sensory systems in automobiles) are creating both active and passive data. These data components are key tools that help counsel recognize and leverage context and build a stronger narrative.
This shift in focus from content to context requires legal professionals to take a more targeted approach to the discovery process. And a targeted approach does not necessarily mean narrower. Data sources have increased, and so has the variety of data. It’s important to complete a comprehensive review of all data systems and create a data map in order to know where data lives, how it was created, when it moves and why it exists. Only then can these sources be effectively evaluated to see their potential contribution to context. With an understanding of contextual possibilities, a more detailed and informative data picture can be created.
Computer users interact with structured data and its repositories daily: from logging into a computer, to sending an email, to clocking in and out of work, to opening a file in your document management system, to searching in your SharePoint portal. Additionally, structured data systems are used beyond individual computer connections. Consider your daily financial activity. When you use a credit or debit card, a virtual wallet or a platform like Paypal, you are accessing and creating structured data.
The transactions are made possible by, and saved in, databases. A database is a context wonderland, full of data descriptions and relationships. When this context is overlaid with email or instant messages sent, a skilled legal professional can sometimes use it all to gauge the intent, state-of-mind or disposition of a computer user. For example, if you know that one of your employees parked near a competitor’s building, and you know that he or she sent text messages to that competitor, the combination of the two together adds context.
Mobile devices generate massive amounts of data and also contain multiple layers of information and detail. There are apps for messaging, phone calls, photos, games, directions, currency exchange, encrypted communications and more. Mobile devices interface with email and social media accounts while connecting to signal towers and generating geo-location data. The device in your hand is constantly interacting with structured data. Some of it is stored on the device, while other silos reside in the cloud. That data is rich with both content and context. The context offered might include location, timing and activity.
IoT data is now everywhere. Fitness trackers, home automation devices, environmental controls, automobiles, traffic monitors, artificial intelligence devices, media players and a host of other electronic items all contain useful, and contextual, data. Many of these connect to apps over networks, gathering data that may be retrieved and analyzed when needed. When you ask Alexa, Siri or Google a question, structured data is the engine driving the process. And don’t assume that it is all in the same place.
With the Amazon Echo, your recorded voice commands are converted to electronic queries. These lead to computer-generated responses or actions. This data is parsed and stored in multiple locations, including the device itself, your smartphone or tablet, and the cloud. When all is said and done, you have structured data, mobile data and IoT data stored in disparate locations – all generated from a single verbal command. These systems leverage structured data to answer your questions. Even the questions themselves are stored and may prove useful when a case arises.
These three major categories of data are needed to complete a Big Data picture. And more than ever, attorneys are able to use the information gained from these for greater contextual detail.
The process of determining what data exists and where it is stored is integral to understanding the potential context. This information will inform collection and downstream analytic strategies. While physical bit-for-bit or logical collections of computer hard drives are not always required, data must be collected defensibly. Additionally, preserving and analyzing key databases or IoT sources may be preferred, since crucial data needed for context can be almost anything, including GPS coordinates, on/off commands, audit logs or time/date stamps.
To guide our clients through the identification of these information sources, we emphasize the need to map systems and data within each source. During the mapping process, we can identify all systems, learn data initiation and storage points, and understand how the systems interact. Properly using data often requires an evaluation of what happens to it during its lifecycle. We also want to understand how data is named, described and categorized within each structured data system.
As we have discussed, data is now collected from many different sources. There must be a process to normalize the metadata from each. For analysis purposes, metadata fields from different sources with different formats and field names must be moved into an environment with a common format. Aggregating the data this way allows for the integration and comparison of frequently found key data points, such as time, date and location. This common format must also accommodate other nuanced data elements, such as volume, action, change, repetition, device commands and environmental states.
Once the process of aggregating the data is completed, the complex data from different sources now exists in a single framework, helping us see the story it tells more clearly and concisely. Now that the data sources have been identified, mapped, consolidated and analyzed, reports and visualizations can quickly be generated.
Additionally, concepts such as sentiment analysis (understanding the meaning of, and/or intent behind, communications) can be realized when disparate data groups are combined. This allows for patterns and inconsistencies to stand out for each individual.
If you then analyze the sentiment in the emails and texts, you may be able to parse negative and positive intent. Layering that analysis with the timeline could allow you to focus your investigation on key actors and build effective case strategies for a more positive outcome.
What data should you collect? Which sources should be evaluated? What narrative does the data support? It’s almost impossible to answer these questions before going through the process of recognizing your sources. Taking a focused approach to locate and understand all the data at your disposal will help bring invaluable context front and center.
Once data is aggregated, an experienced data analytics team can help you can identify the most appropriate case strategy, leverage the right data for that strategy and compile the necessary visualizations and reports. Prioritizing context over content can help your team decide to fight, or move to settle, before a document request is ever fulfilled.


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I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big fan of Annie Lennox. I couldn’t resist this song when it was suggested to me.
A collaboration between Gavin Graham & Taikan Liao.
This is another one those classic early 80’s songs by Australian Singer/Songwriter , that gets the occasional revival. It’s been used in Boogie Nights and also in an episode of Glee.
It has been my (dis)pleasure to work again the the talented Taikan Liao on this song. Although it took a lot of time to get it right, Taikan has provided what is one of the best vocal performances I’ve heard.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood only made two albums and their first, “Welcome to the Pleasuredome” had multiple massive hits. Their music videos got banned then edited or replaced. They were ever so briefly huge!
Just another classic FGTH song gone Lo-Fi.
I started doing a cover of Stayin’ Alive by my ex-neighbours, The Bee Gees but the bass riff morphed into Superstition so I gave up fighting it and decided to do Superstition instead.
Merry Christmas you bunch of marvellous fuckers.
I wanted to do this one as a bit of a Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway hybrid in its feel. I don’t know if I’ve pulled it off bit I hope so.
Queen have gotta be my favourite band back in the 80s when I was growing up. I went back into their 70s stuff at the same time because they fascinated me with their “virtuoso” approach to music.
I remember when I was friends with this guy I went to college with saying that “this should be my anthem”. He said that as a devout Christian making an unfounded assumption about my sexuality as being a promiscuous person. Haha. Boy, did he get that wrong! – I don’t consider it a bad thing if you do run wild and free, btw. More power to you!
Still, this song just brings back a memory.
Hugo was rather influential as an electronic musician but he also penned (or co-penned) some of the most iconic themes. To his credit are “The Partridge Family”, “Outcasts” and covers of “The Man With No Name” & “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”.
Once he added Moog Synths to his instruments, he help shape the musical landscape for future electronic musicians. His version of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is a classic example.
Another case on coincidental timing here as Bill Daily just passed away. He was an American actor and comedian known for his sitcom work as Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show.
Hawaii Five-O was made with the the sounds of the Commodore 64 8bit home computer from the 80s.
Morton is probably best known for composing the theme music for Hawaii Five-O, a television series for which he won two Emmy Awards (in 1970 and 1974), and was nominated seven other times for work on television programs including Gunsmoke and Police Woman.
Another progressive synth artist favourite of mine. He’s done some awesome scores for movies over the years but my first run-in was the duo of Jon & Vangelis with the song “I’ll find my way home”. He’s still a favourite and he’s definitely a legend.
This interpretation is a bit heavy on effects but I wanted a full sound without extending into more sound channels.
The song, “Calypso 1” was the lead song off the album ‘En attendant Cousteau’ (English title: Waiting for Cousteau) is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. Allmusic described the album as “groundbreaking stuff”, due to its extreme stylistic differences from his other albums. The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts.
It may not be too well known but Jarre was a hero of mine when I was growing up and doing music on the C64. This album was different to anything else of his that I had previously heard and for that reason, it’s memorable.
The theme is written in a 5/4 time signature which Schifrin has jokingly explained as being “for people who have five legs”. However, a more likely explanation is that Schifrin started from the Morse Code for M.I. which is dah dah dit dit. If a dit is one beat and a dah is one and a half beats then this gives a bar of five beats exactly matching the underlying rhythm.
In 1996, the theme was remade by U2 members Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. for the soundtrack to the film.
I love Jan Hammer’s work and not just his music in Miami Vice. Particularly his music in Vanishing Son. That said, he’s probably best known for Miami Vice and out of his work on that series, Crockett’s Theme has to be my personal favourite.
Cover version of a great dance song by the Scissor Sisters. Made with the sounds of the Commodore 64 home computer.
The original song has a segment after the first chorus that was composed on the Commodore 64 using the onboard SID sound chip in the computer. Now here’s the whole song done with the Commodore 64’s onboard SID chip.
Rude [Bitpop/Chiptune] – Tribute to Magic!
8 bit cover version of Magic! – Rude: Made with the sounds of the Commodore 64 home computer.
One of those hybrid SID waveforms of mixing triangle with a thin pulse makes an appearance in this one. Sawtooth bass, very minimal PWM – just to mix up the flavour a bit. Oh, and SID 6581 R4 filter goodness in the instrumental solo.
I love a bit of reggae, even if it is watered down for pop music. Hahaha.
8 bit Bitpop/Chiptune cover of the Electric Light Orchestra song, Don’t Bring Me Down – Made with the sounds of the Commodore 64 home computer.
This is another one of those songs I heard repeatedly while spending my 20 cent pieces at the Caloundra Amusement Centre (“Pinnie Parlour”).
I found that there was an unusual harmony between this song and the laser sound effects of Space Invaders.
8 bit Bitpop (Chiptune with vocals and effects) of Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling – Made with the sounds of the Commodore 64 home computer.
Every song a hit – every hit a smack! This song absolutely blew up on a massive scale when it first came out.


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Leading Festival of Fashion Pure London is delighted to announce a collaboration with the Conscious Fashion Campaign (CFC) supported by the United Nations Office for Partnerships at the February 2019 show.
A dedicated installation, located within the Conscious section, will highlight fashion brands that are working to end poverty, protect the planet, practice sustainability, and raise awareness through meaningful philanthropic and customer engagement initiatives in an effort to transform our world through fashion.
United Nations representatives will take part in the Pure London Content Programme of seminars to discuss and address the key issues facing the fashion industry and the importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Lucie Brigham, Chief of Office, United Nations Office for Partnerships says: “Supported by the United Nations Office for Partnerships, the Conscious Fashion Campaign drives awareness and advocacy to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Consumers across the globe expect sustainability and transparency from their favourite fashion brands."

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Tomorrow, we have our final classes of the year in IdeaMath, a weekend contest math program run by former US International Math Olympiad team coach Zuming Feng that I’ve been teaching at for the last five years. It’s always tough to say goodbye, having spent over a dozen Saturday afternoons with these middle and high school students, helping to teach them problem solving skills and having some fun along the way.
I’m not yet sure whether I’ll be returning to the program in the fall during my last year of grad school here, so this could be my last regular teaching opportunity in grad school, or possibly ever. I joined IdeaMath in my first year partly as a way to give back to the math contest community that I grew up in, and partly as a way to keep up my involvement with teaching while in a graduate program with a light teaching load.
My teaching experiences at MIT were also very positive — in fact, between the teaching I’ve done online with the Art of Problem Solving, Caltech, and MIT, I’ve somehow managed to help teach five different calculus classes. Some were aimed at the strongest students, and some at the weakest (albeit the weakest Caltech and MIT students). Some attempted to be fully rigorous, while others simply provided an upgraded version of Calculus BC. All were very rewarding personally, as I got to see students grasp the material for their first time.
Given my experiences and passion for teaching, I’ve often been asked if teaching is a career I’d consider. The question makes sense; I like to teach. I enjoy being able to inspire another generation of students with neat tricks, clever ideas, and powerful results. Even more than inspiring, I enjoy bringing clarity, helping students better grasp important concepts and form appropriate intuitions around them.
That passion and experience has made me into quite a proficient teacher, if I do say so myself. The MIT Math department administrator was quite impressed with my teaching ratings from students at MIT and my senior year at Caltech, I received a teaching prize meant for graduate students for my TA work there. In a surreal turn of events, one day the Caltech math department head called me into his office, wondering if he could pay me to essentially rescue a statistics class that had gone awry from poor teaching by holding a bunch of recitations and office hours. (I turned him down since I was too busy at that point, and suggested that he make the same offer to a few of the TAs instead.) Given my false starts with various research projects in grad school, it seems pretty clear that I’m generally better at teaching than research.
And yet, despite this passion, experience and success, I actually don’t see myself continuing to teach full-time or long-term. Why not?
It’s not because teaching is less lucrative or prestigious than other career directions. There’s definitely a widespread sentiment at the schools I’ve been to (though Caltech more than MIT) that research is where the most important work is done, and teaching is either secondary or a distraction. I find that attitude selfish and short-sighted. Yet even out of that sort of environment, I’ve seen close friends who have chosen to teach, an honorable decision.
But I could never do it myself.
This realization began with my last official teaching experience at MIT. I was put in charge of a month-long remedial calculus class specifically for students who fell just short of passing in their first semester. There were only six students in the class, and it was up to me to decide everything: when and for how long we met, what material I would cover and focus on, how the tests would be structured, and how well they’d need to do to pass. The wide range of choices was daunting.
Fortunately, I had a bunch of help in the form of materials and schedules from previous years, as well as the lecture notes and tests for the calculus class that these students had just taken in the fall. I ended up mimicking much of the previous schedule, with practice problem packets and tests every week.
I did choose to rearrange the topics, since the class seemed to more neatly divide into three parts, which let me use the last week for review and a big final test rather than covering more material. As I did that, though, I realized that I would have to shorten the coverage of some topics over others. Did the students really need to learn how to calculate the surface area of a volume of revolution? How much time should I spend on integration techniques like partial fractions?
The other big question was the pass line: How well did the students need to do for me to sign off on them “knowing calculus?” I decided it would only be fair to announce a line at the beginning of the month, and let them land where they did. Fortunately, in the end, it was pretty clear to me based on effort which students “should” have passed, and the criterion I set gave me the correct result.
But the experience still raised major questions in my mind going forward. As I discussed this with my adviser, he explained that everyone who teaches starts to wonder those things, and being in full charge of that class gave me that experience a little bit earlier than most.
Why do they need to learn?
As I reflected more on this experience, my concerns about the pass line faded — tests might not be perfect measures of ability, but they’re probably the best we can work with, especially in a month’s time. By contrast, my concerns about how we choose what to teach only kept growing.
I realized that I still didn’t have answers to any of my previous questions. Are students ever going to need to calculate the surface area of volumes of revolution again? Even if they will, do they need to know how to derive the formula, or just get the intuition that it exists and they could look it up if they needed to?
Once that can of worms is opened, there’s no going back. Do students really need to be able to integrate by hand when they have Wolfram Alpha? Do they even need to know the limit definition of a derivative, or will they be just fine understanding it intuitively? Do these somewhat silly word problems we write about how the height of a cone changes if its volume is decreasing at a certain rate actually bear any significance to problems they’ll face in the future?
The heuristics of tradition and feedback are rather useless to answering this question in practice. Tradition only helps keep a curriculum the same; it doesn’t adapt to a world where Wolfram Alpha is now accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
Feedback and communication do sound more promising in theory. In an ideal world, professors would spend their copious hours of free time comparing curricula and asking these questions of each other. Alumni would give feedback about which classes ended up being most useful to their careers, and what they wish they’d learned but hadn’t. Prospective employers would tell departments what classes they’d like to see taught. Departments would conduct regular curriculum audits to make sure that class time was spent on the most valuable topics possible.
But in reality, very little of that ideal world exists. I actually got a better glimpse of this than most during my time at Caltech, where I served on the undergraduate-led Academics and Research Committee for a couple years. It was encouraging to be part of an organization that played a small role in improving academics at Caltech, primarily by voicing student frustration with notorious classes and pressuring professors and departments to improve them.
At the same time, although I didn’t realize it then, serving on the ARC showed me how little of that ideal world existed. One of the major initiatives of the Caltech administration comes to mind: They wanted to encourage us to write more, mainly (if I recall correctly) by adding an additional requirement to take a certain number of writing-intensive humanities classes. This was a big deal and occupied a bunch of their time as they had to get this approved by the faculty board.
The motivation behind this change, however, was rather flimsy at best. I saw multiple presentations on the subject, and it all came back to a single question on an alumni survey. On a scale, alumni were asked to rate how much they improved while at Caltech in various ways. Compared with understanding their field of science or how to do research, many fewer alumni said that Caltech improved their ability to write.
This would seem to be a clear-cut example of the ideal world I’ve described, but there were several problems. For one, the question hadn’t clearly distinguished between scientific writing (research papers) and humanities essay writing, and given this, it wasn’t clear that adding more humanities classes with essays would even solve this “problem.” More importantly, the question hadn’t asked whether this lack of writing advancement had actually been detrimental for the alumni in any respect — it could just have reflected the balance of classes that most Caltech students took and still take. Even as a regular blogger myself, I don’t expect that additional humanities essay writing would have significantly helped me.
It got worse. The much bigger shift that started while I was on the ARC was the gutting transition of Caltech’s core requirements down to one year of math and one year of physics (from five trimesters, i.e. 1 2/3 years). This motivation was similarly well-justified: Students in some of the newer (or newly popular) majors like biology and computer science didn’t need to know quantum physics, as nerdy-cool as that requirement was to be able to advertise. Yet as I saw this debate unfold, the main drivers seemed to be essentially emotional: What should it mean to get a degree from Caltech?
Those emotions are certainly valid, and it’s appropriate to weigh the cost to the brand. But tradition is only useful so long as it preserves something of value, and there seemed to be very little attempt to actually gauge the value of a biologist learning quantum mechanics. It’s not that measuring that value would be easy, but it didn’t even seem to occur to some of the smartest people in the world to even try.
Upon getting to graduate school, though, my thinking matured, especially when I found myself asking for funding to study my own curiosities. I realized that all along the links to applications that would have motivated and utilized my research in pure math were actually much more tenuous than I had expected. This motivated my journey down the chain of potential applications, a journey that very well might end up taking me straight out of academia.
My story and message about teaching are very similar. As I’ve matured and advanced in the teaching world as well, I’ve begun to see that the links and constraints holding curricula together and improving them are also much more tenuous than I had expected or hoped. My observations are obviously limited to my personal experience, but the bit I have seen is not exactly encouraging.
We use math to teach problem solving because it is the most fundamental logical discipline. Not only is it the foundation upon which sciences are built, it is the clearest way to learn and understand how to develop a rigorous logical argument. There are no loopholes, there are no half-truths. The language of mathematics is precise, as is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ (or ‘proven’ and ‘unproven’). Success and failure are immediate and indisputable; there isn’t room for subjectivity. This is not to say that those who cannot do math cannot solve problems. There are many paths to strong problem solving skills. Mathematics is the shortest.
Problem solving is crucial in mathematics education because it transcends mathematics. By developing problem solving skills, we learn not only how to tackle math problems, but also how to logically work our way through any problems we may face. The memorizer can only solve problems he has encountered already, but the problem solver can solve problems she’s never seen before. The problem solver is flexible; she can diversify. Above all, she can create.
While inspirational, this message spoke to me as a fundamentally applied motivation for teaching math. And yet, just as I’ve reasoned through in my research, it’s struck me that Rusczyk’s beautiful language should be more like the beginning to the discussion than the end. How do we know that “problem solving skill” generalizes like he claims? Can we actually demonstrate that math is actually the shortest path to it? What’s second-shortest, and does this vary by student? It seems that we could attempt to test this sentiment with a lot more than Rusczyk’s single anecdote preceding this about how those with and without this problem solving skill approached organic chemistry at Princeton.
Again, this isn’t to say that these questions are easy to answer. My point is mainly to highlight how rare such questions even are.
I don’t mean to suggest that every teacher needs to understand the usefulness of everything they teach. If the system was functioning like it should, this would be the responsibility of department heads, administrators, and education researchers. I’d be happy to just be a teacher if I was confident in the system around me to make sure that what I’m teaching is ultimately useful. It’s precisely because the system has offered me such little confidence that I’d be hesitant to commit my life to it.
Actually, this is one reason why I’ve stuck with the IdeaMath program: Within the self-contained world of math competitions, the goal of improving student performance on that style of problem under time pressure is fairly clear. This isn’t to say that I focus exclusively on this goal, just that it helps to answer these sorts of questions and keep the proper focus of the class. But while it’s been a well-motivated side job, I want the bulk of my life to contribute to more than the arms race around high school math competitions these days.
In that world of math competitions, there’s already a broad understanding that all of the time we spend learning to solve olympiad-level plane geometry problems is basically useless after we leave the competition scene, no matter what we do. Imagine if we raised the same skepticism towards the whole of the typical high school math curriculum: Is trigonometry just a holdout from the days of navigation by compass rather than GPS? Is geometry really the best way to learn logical reasoning (applying a second level of Rusczyk’s argument above)? And why does no one learn statistics?!?
I’m reminded of a high school math teacher who vented to me and others about students who complained about having to learn the quadratic formula. “Why do we need to know how to solve these equations?” they asked, not seeing any practical applications in their lives. He ultimately justified it to them by saying that it would help them get a high-paying job, apparently not very convincingly.
If I became a teacher, those are the sorts of questions I’d ask myself every day. And it would bug me to teach, not knowing their answers. It would haunt me to think of all of the effort I put in just to cram some useless technique into a teenager’s brain. Even if I succeeded and he remembered the quadratic equation for the rest of his life, what difference would it make?
I don’t think I can overstate the significance of this realization. Education is a gigantic sector of the economy and world, affecting every single person for over a decade of their lives, and yet it still hasn’t even tried to answer some of the basic questions about why we do what we do. This feels similar to my realization a couple weeks ago that from a pro-life perspective, a third of all humans are dying before they’re born and, you know, maybe we should try to do something about it.
It’s also similar to the realization that Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfield made a decade ago, when they realized what a mess charitable giving was in, leading them to found the charity evaluator GiveWell. Education is arguably even more long-term and complicated, and no, I’m not looking to start an effective education consulting company.
As I’ve concluded that teaching is not for me, I’ve always kept one small caveat: I’m still open to returning to teach some time later in life, after I’ve experienced enough (first- and second-hand) to be able to motivate substantial parts of the curriculum.
How cool would that be to be able to tell a student that I used precisely this technique to solve a problem in a real-world industry? This is related to another outlandish proposal of mine: that academia itself should be populated primarily by late career professionals and retirees rather than recent college graduates with minimal relevant experience. Without going that far, though, the first baby steps towards addressing this problem would be to simply increase the interaction between the professional world and schools, both at the high school and college levels.
Instead, in our current system, those who are responsible for deciding what should be taught typically haven’t spent much time outside academia or the classroom. Career academics and educators are naturally excellent at giving advice and picking curricula that will be relevant for others that follow that narrow career path, but the vast majority of students don’t.
What would this look like in practice? A good friend of mine working at a startup has told me that he’s used something from every engineering class he took in college on just his current project. Clearly some parts of our education system are working! After the project is done, he’s talked about giving a talk at schools which could serve both as motivation for the students and a recruiting pitch for his company.
Even those who do plan to go into academia or education full-time should consider spending some time on the outside. On a similar note, one of my pastors worked at Apple for a year; he’s told me how he values that experience in helping him empathize with those in the more typical working world.
Those are certainly natural questions to ask. But some clarification is in order. When I say that I’m good at teaching, this primarily means two things: that I’m able to find effective methods for transmitting material I’m given, and that I’m good at making students happy (to be honest, that’s all teaching scores measure). It doesn’t mean that I’d be remotely effective at curriculum review, the social science of education research, or building networks of working professionals, some of the ingredients I’ve identified that could potentially fix this mess.
The best I can do for teaching from my current position is to point to what seems like a major problem with education that no one is even trying to address, and hope that someone reading this can do something about it.
I entered teaching with many of the same questions and concerns. At Stanford and the University of Chicago, I found that I was good at getting pre-med students ready for the MCAT. Physics education research had begun to have an impact at the university level, and the new tools were extremely useful to me and my students. After graduating, I turned it into a nice tutoring business while my wife was in medical school.
After we moved to Fort Collins and my son entered elementary school, I started looking at career options. While physics education research was improving physics instruction at the university level, I couldn’t see much improvement in K-12 education. I got involved with the education and outreach programs for some big science projects, and quickly learned of the complete futility of that endeavor.
Poudre High School seemed like the right place to start looking for answers. I believed that I could only learn to identify and address the problems if I got into a classroom and faced them myself. After ten year of teaching high school (and working with some fantastic students) I am convinced that this was the right thing for me to do.
I’ve moved to Liberty Common High School, where all students are required to take physics. I’m learning how to connect physics with the other areas of their education: music, art, language and history. I’ve redesigned the sequence of topics to address the issues of what students need to know, and to explore the things that many students yearn to know. I’m sorry to hear that quantum mechanics is on the chopping block at Caltech. I teach it to high school kids, as you probably remember!
I have a plan now, which starts with writing a new textbook for algebra based physics. There is a lot to do after that, and I certainly need help. If you, or anyone else reading this post, wants to get involved, contact me (contact info at the Liberty Common High School web page). The challenge still looks big, but it no longer looks too big. Every day I am excited to be working on it.
I’m going to answer a few of the specific issues you raise as my time allows. The most discouraging issue is the one I want to address first. Assuming we figure out what should be taught and how it can be taught, how can we possibly get it out there to make a difference?
The solution to this has become completely clear to me: produce quality resources for a well structured course at a price that schools can afford. Schools are absolutely desperate for good materials and they are being fleeced by the textbook publishing industry. Book prices are ridiculous, the content is often questionable and always outdated, the writing is terrible, and the supplemental resources are mostly useless.
– An actual author who cares about the content, rather than a committee churring out frequent new editions.
– Less clutter, because they focused on the central content rather than distracting sidebars on careers and unconvincing applications.
– Lower cost, in part due to the reduced size and less dependance on glossy pictures.
In physics there is growing research showing that these sorts of books are actually much more effective, in addition to being cheaper. Two example of calculus-based physics books of this type are “Matter and Interactions” and “Six Ideas that Shaped Physics.” I have not found any books like this for an algebra-based physics course, which is why I am writing my own.
When I taught Calculus III at LCHS, I used a pair of books by Alan Macdonald that really hit these points: “Linear and Geometric Algebra” and “Vector and Geometric Calculus.” They are terrific, each is about 200 pages, and they cost about $30 each. No, I did not forget a zero. I have had many conversations with the author. He was able to keep costs down by self publishing. I am convinced that this is the way to go.
I intend to produce a physics book that is effective and inexpensive, along with good problem sets, assessments, instructor resources, and a lab manual. Then, I intend go to teacher conferences to sell it. If all of that works, it will have a huge impact on how people understand the physical world.
I never would have thought of this without getting into teaching. Aren’t there plenty of good books? Nope. They stink. Can’t teachers get what they need off of the internet? Nope. The deluge of content on the internet is totally incoherent. Teachers don’t have the time or the expertise to find the diamonds in the gravel pile.
At this point, I’ve moved from near despair to confidence. Lots of great teachers are asking for answers to the same questions, and they need those answers in the form of usable materials. In order to produce a good book and good materials I need to be in a classroom using them myself. I am very luck to have the patience of the LCHS community while I pull this together.
When I get a chance I will say something about what we should teach in a physics or math course.
I teach students the truth, to the extent that we understand it, about how the world works. I show them how to apply that truth to understand the world around them right now. I never teach something because it’s going to be practical in some career.
Of course, there are limits. The two great theories we have right now, General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory, are not very accessible using high-school algebra. However, I use these two theories as guides in everything I do, constantly asking myself if what I am teaching is moving my students in the right direction, or leading them astray. This has driven some big changes. For example, I do not teach F=ma. It’s not true for relativistic objects, and photons, which are part of are every-day experience, are always relativistic. I teach that force is the rate of change of momentum. This is correct, and it is also how Newton originally stated his second law.
Bruce Sherwood and Ruth Chabay, the authors of “Matter and Interactions,” gave me the confidence to ditch F=ma. They apply the how-to-teach lessons of physics education research, but they also made bold decisions about what to teach. They wanted a thoroughly modern approach. They teach the four fundamental forces from the beginning. Special relativity is introduced before acceleration. Statistics and quantum mechanics are used to derive the second law of thermodynamics. All of this is in a one semester, calculus-based mechanics course. Obviously, they had to make some choices. Waves, to give one example, are completely gone.
I’m making some different choices in my book, but nothing goes in unless there are multiple reasons for it. It must be part of the story about how we came to understand the universe. It must be current or absolutely necessary for getting to the current understanding. It must connect to things around them right now. For example, we hit music and color hard because they are doing music and art right now and because these reveal deep connections between frequency and energy.
Teachers in other disciplines have been very helpful in answering the what-to-teach question. I have asked them what physics they want students to know, and they have a lot to say. History teachers want them to understand the scientific revolution and the atomic bomb. The music teacher wants that to understand what sound is and how it is made. The Latin teacher is helped me with a lab that uses the Galileo’s original 1613 observations of the moons of Jupiter. The data tables are written in Latin! Kids love these connections, and they aren’t forced because I always connect them to the main ideas of my course.
Now that I’ve got my plan in place, we are doing some Quantum Field Theory. My students are learning the particles and interactions and drawing Feynman diagrams to understand the how weak interactions drive key reactions that power the sun. We do a little GR too, so we can understand the detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes.
The what-to-teach question is a hard one that I have to answer every day, but the goal of connecting current physics knowledge to my student’s experience is a good guide for answering that question.
I haven’t though about math as much, but I have thought about it quite a bit. We need a geometry course based on vectors. I can’t use Euclidian geometry in my class, and if I don’t use it, nobody will. As a string theorist, I’ve spent some time with mathematicians, and even they don’t use Euclidian geometry. Vectors are more practical. They can be manipulated graphically or algebraically. They easily generalize to more dimensions. They can be taught with the same devotion to axioms, theorems and proofs. They are the foundation for many great ideas, like Fourier decomposition. They have a great story with interesting characters and surprising twists. This is on my to-do-list, but it is several years away. If anyone wants it, go for it…and send me a copy when it’s done.
Thank you for this excellent article! I agree that identifying what to teach is probably the hardest problem in education. (In comparison, we know lots and lots about _how_ to teach; but even there, most education systems are slow to take the extant evidence into account.) It also seems widely neglected, at least if you expect something more of an improvement than just stacking additionall skills and requirements on top of existing curricula and syllabuses, more in reaction to pressure from special-interest groups than through any evidence-informed process.
I also think you correctly identified two of the most promising levers for improvement: establishing better feedback loops (either through institutional change or by providing the necessary incentives) and involving professionals from various walks of life in education.
How to achieve this in a short timeframe may be the second hardest question. A dedicated and rigorous educational consulting operation modeled after GiveWell might even work these days, when so much educational content is available globally and ripe for in-depth evaluation and curation. My own approach at the moment is creating a scalable open-source model for specialized micro-schools catering to specific age groups and needs that has short and long feedback loops and community/expert integration built into its basic structure. The idea there is to circumvent the inertia of public school systems by enabling as many people as possible to start their own locally-integrated schools, and at the same time to create incentives for curating and creating high-quality teaching materials that can be shared and evaluated collectively. So far we’re in the intermediate stages of implementing the pilot project (a school for 12-15-year-olds in Austria) and working on making the model accessible and flexible enough to serve different needs up to university level. Your article has been a valuable piece of input for that last part, so thanks again!

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Both of these two teams started their 2018 season with a loss, but we need to say that the Giants definitely showed a lot more than the Cowboys. Anyway, we are preparing for the week 2, and we are sure that both squads will be better than in their first outing.
Looking at the NFC East division, it is more bad news for Dallas and New York franchises as Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins are on a 1-0 start. Going 0-2 would mean huge trouble for America’s Team and Giants, but it doesn’t mean that they would lose the chance to compete for the playoffs.
Let’s get back to odds. Vegas Insider reported that the Cowboys opened a 3-point favorite while another sportsbook set Dallas at -3.5 points. In Week 1 Cowboys managed to add a total of eight points to the scoreboard while Giants were slightly better with 15 points. As a result, the over/under for their clash is set to 43 points. To be honest, Jacksonville Jaguars played very well on the defense while the Panthers performed above-average in that segment.
These teams made some important changes in the offseason with New York bringing in a few players that helped them resolve some of the roster issues. On the other hand, Dallas lost valuable veterans like Jason Witten, Dez Bryant, and Dan Bailey. Cowboys still have a dominant offensive line, and just to remind you, Travis Frederick is out due to the injury, but Dak Prescott simply couldn’t connect with his receivers.
Giants and Cowboys have a long history, and this will be their 113th match with Dallas franchise leading with 64 wins against 46 amassed by New York and two that were a tie. Last two duels that were played during the previous season also went to America’s Team.
Who do you pick to win this one? Who will go 1-1 and who will end up with a 0-2 score?


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The user pointed out that their leadership has not set a good example and was “indulging in the fruits of capitalism by wearing imported luxury Italian clothing” and shared a photo of the designer label on the ‘Commander-in-Chief’s jeans.
He added that the jeans were Amani and mainly manufactured in China, Hong Kong and Italy. “And it still means he paid at least R2500 for a pair of jeans that didn't cost more than R100 to produce. He's funding the ‘exploitation of workers’.
He added that he felt Malema could lead by example and wear clothing made in South Africa, Briefly.co.za found.
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It’s “Get out of your rut!” day here on Ear to the Ground, and I have a fun little review on Rimfaxe, an album by Gjallarhorn, a Nordic band bringing traditional Nordic folk to new ears. The whole thing started when I was speaking with a Norwegian artist friend and he brought up this group because rumor has it that they’ll have a new album out later this year. His initial attempt to introduce me to Gjallarhorn’s music lead to a bit of a mix-up, as there’s also a similarly-named group that puts traditional Nordic stories to heavy-metal music going by the name of Gjallarhorn Metal. I half Jokingly proposed the latest heavy metal album to Greg, and to my shock he said he trusted my judgment (never a good idea). Emboldened by that confidence-builder, I decided to go ahead and write this piece, because frankly we could all do with trying new music occasionally, right?
Gjallarhorn, or the “sounding horn,” was founded in the Swedish speaking areas of western Finland in 1994. They work in both Swedish and English at times, and both versions are touching. Really, the distinction between Gjallarhorn and Gjallarhorn Metal is the mode of delivery only. Both deal with different stories than we’re accustomed, both have a different (although similar) sound than we typically hear, and both are classed as “traditional Nordic folk” music. This really makes one ask a number of questions, like what the purpose of folk music is, what makes something “folk,” how one’s own identity influences their idea of folk, and more.
Gjallarhorn has a sound that brings to mind our concept of fairies and pastoral scenes, much more calm and earthy than Gjallarhorn Metal’s treatment of the same material. They almost sound close to Gaelic musicians like Loreena McKennit or the Chieftains. The instrumentation is variable, and can range from very simple fiddle, vocals, and pipes to intricate arrangements with some members trading off instruments during one song or otherwise calling upon more than one sound in close succession. Their music truly spins an enchantment as you listen.
Rimfaxe was the last album released before Gjallarhorn disappeared for a bit. Produced and recorded in the US with the help of Bruce Swedien. Swedien is recognizable in the US from his work with the likes of Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and recently Jennifer Lopez. The title Rimfaxe comes from a magical horse that appears frequently in Norse mythology. The first and title track is variable in tone, and changes tempo through the song, vaguely like riding a horse from starting out to gallop to stop. Kokkovirsi dances and twirls as a bonfire or dancers circling a bonfire, more dark and dramatic than soft and light. Systrarna is a string-driven familiar song, and like any sisterly relationship has its harsher and softer moments, all weaving together a beautiful tapestry. Most versions of Blacken available on the web include an English introduction which tells one story of the magical horse, in this incarnation a king’s favorite battle steed. The driving back beat mimics horse hooves, while the haunting melody remind us of the magic that is woven into these and all myths. Hymn has a somber, prayerful tone, but with a foreign quality that feels more Marakesh market than Northern European. It’s a great reminder of connections we all share.
Breaking from this more serious tone to lighthearted Sylvklar (or Villfar og Slyvklar) and its almost dancing spirit seems as natural as a summer festival on a Sunday afternoon. Norafields has some similarities with our own mountain folk music- fiddle and pipe accompany human voice- although there’s more complexity than found in Appalachian folk music. Shrieking begins iVall, a word with no direct English translation and a song with no real US comparison. Digeridoo, drums, pipes highlight, and the song’s exotic urbane feel lead one to think of all the cultures that one has yet to experience. Taklax is one of the few instrumental songs on Rimfaxe, and sticks out for the intricacy of the playing that is required even for simple percussion instruments. This is, in my opinion, the most technically skilled of the tracks. Staffan has a lullaby quality to start, put picks up half way through. The more confident tone of the second half is spritely and uplifting, and has moments of near teasing sounds before fading out. The album ends with Graning and its accapella beginning. Jenny’s voice carries the song off perfectly until the winds take over a bit, and they trade and accompany each other into a wonderful ending to this world music gem.
Gjallarhorn had been lying low for a number of years, until their tour began in 2011 and continued through 2012. While the extended hiatus slowed their growth, there continues to be interest in Gjallarhorn both in their homeland and abroad. The recent tour seems to have renewed interest in them, as indicated by the number of their videos and covers posted on YouTube. They have toured successfully over the years across North America, Australia, Europe, and Japan thanks to their broad appeal and technical skill. If we’re lucky, the rumors of a new album will be true. In that case, 2013 will be quite an exciting year, but no matter what, there’s music available from this group on their website, on YouTube, MySpace, and for sale on Amazon. Go ahead, try some other folk’s folk, and treat your ear to a Nordic ballad or two. And check out Gjallarhorn Metal, as well, if you want to really change things up.
Tracks: Rimfaxe (Rimemane), Kokkovirsi (Bonfire Song), Systrarna (The Sisters), Blacken [Grey & Frost Club Mix], Hymn (Hymn), Sylvklar (Silverbright), Norafields (Mountain Poem), iVall (@ley), Taklax 1037, Taklax 1034, Staffan (Stephen), Graning (Dawn).


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The “rag trade” has come a long way from its humble beginnings. These days, online clothing stores are gaining traction across the US and elsewhere. So many advantages: simple to set up, no need for a physical boutique, low-cost entry to market. But there are also some aspects to be wary of, including choice of courier service, returns policy and website creation — your point-of-sale imperative. We look at these and other aspects of establishing an online clothing store, including how MightyCall can help with your telephone and social media needs.
With the modern pace of life wandering around a shopping mall is a kind of luxury. People prefer to buy everything via the internet — it’s easier and less time-consuming. Almost anything can be found on the web. Online clothing stores appeared relatively recently. They gained fans quickly due to numerous advantages. Now even more people trust online clothing stores. And that demand creates supply. Opening an online store is an excellent investment.
The costs to launch an online boutique are much lower than for bricks-and-mortar salons. You don’t need to rent or buy premises. Partnership with drop-shippers removes the need for stock. Just take and facilitate orders. Another advantage is that only a small team required. It can be even one person responsible for everything.
With few tips of eСommerce and passion for fashion, you can initiate an online clothing store.
Aiming to cover the total marketplace at once is shortsighted. A new online shop should be oriented towards a discrete group of customers. You need to analyze your prospective key clients.
Who would pay for the product? Teenagers, men, women, expectant mothers — in the first steps of the store, don’t plan to cater to all consumers. Choose one or two segments and explore their trends, tastes and expectations. For example, DaisyDuxie.com applies only to teens and young women all over the world.
How to find and attract target customers? You need to know their shopping patterns, online presence, typical search requests.
What is more likely to be the beginning of expansion? Consider room for scaling. Confidence of success is essential for a start-upper. At the phase of planning, think of future delivery locations and client groups.
Without one of these — also known as a USP (unique selling proposition) — it’s almost impossible to get loyal customers. Benchmarking against rivals helps to identify a niche for a defining feature. Most evident differences are price and product diversity. But in online stores prices are rather low; setting price points too low can lead to absence of margins and therefore unprofitability. Product diversity is also an advantage. You should have a vast range of proven apparel vendors to present clothing for any occasion or taste: from classic basics to hipsters. Consider a wide choice of accessories. Fashionistas are mad about them.
Besides the abovementioned points, a clothing reseller can emphasize a website’s glamor and convenience. Make client and technical support flawless. Rely on social media presence.
You can even go further and present your clothing store as environmentally- and animal-friendly (definitely no fur, no leather fabrics). Have a look at Matt & Nat eco-friendly bags and accessories. Or you could give part of your profit to charity, and report about how the money is benefiting the designated project on your site.
Most clients expect free-shipping or low-cost option of delivery. One of the pitfalls of online clothing stores is a high rate of returns. Make your return-policy clear and open for clients. More often than not apparel shops offer free returns.
Select drop shippers for your clothing store very carefully. Their reputation should be spotless, the delivery time and order quality faultless. WorldwideBrands.com is a trusted service for a credible drop shipper search. The names in the list offered by the service are checked so you won’t be scammed.
Being a reseller means your office is on-screen. All operations are managed at your laptop.
An eCommerce platform is a basis of an attractive site. For a quick start of a small store Shopify is perfect. The handy solution with lack functionality. But for business aiming to grow, eBay-owned Magento is the best-in-class.
At the very beginning of the site development, bear in mind mobile optimization. About of 50% of all retail operations are done from mobile devices, according to an IBM report. A mobile application for the shop is the way to attract more clients who make orders on the go. River Island, Nordstrom, Lyst — most stores have already measured incomes from its applications.
Pay close attention to site content and design. Apparel online sale starts with excellent quality photos and vivid descriptions. Hire a photographer if a seller can’t provide you with appropriate pictures. A user-friendly site contains basic information about the store, sizing, store policies and terms, FAQs, blog and “Contact us” section. Connect your site to social media accounts; these need to be updated simultaneously with the webpage.
The more automated the business processes, the more smooth-running a retail business is. Odoo is great all-in-one management software. It has solutions for accounting, purchase order maintenance, human resources, CRM and many more features. One system for all processes management is easy to control, update and support.
MightyCall offers a solution in communications for online clothing stores. Our software perfectly suits all retailers’ needs. Besides WebPhone and customized Business Number with extensions in case you have a team, we offer tailored features, as Working/Non-working calls processing, Caller Greetings, Voicemail, Call Forwarding and many others.
Our Social Media Tracker gathers all notifications, messages and posts about the store in Activity Dashboard with assigned person to process.
Platforms for your store ads depend on the target audience. Social media is an evident scene to apply first for an online boutique promotion. Today people of almost all ages have accounts. Pay-per-click ads are effective tools for market entrance, and can reach those who avoid social media.
Special offers and promos on Holidays and each new season, competitions among customers, a small gift with a purchase (e.g. an accessory) — think what you as a client would like to expect from a clothing store.
Build a relationship with your customers and followers, consider their feedback so they would like to come back to your online store. “Attitude is everything” — none other than iconic fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg said this.


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If you are a progressive, if you are a moderate, you have a wide range of local and national media outlets that present empirical evidence and provide skilled analysis. The Washington Post may now be the flagship publication because it has almost unlimited resources thanks to the ownership of Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame.
But obviously the New York Times, the Boston Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle and a host of other newspapers and magazines are constantly providing credible journalism. When it comes to electronic media, there is PBS, NPR as well as CNN, MSNBC and CBS. Then there are the exclusively on-line newspapers such as the Huffington Post.
If you’re a Roy Moore supporter in Alabama, a follower of Steve Bannon and Breitbart, a member of the Tea Party, you have to feel that you are consistently being piled on by this national media.
Yes, this credible media makes mistakes, witness the writings of Judith Miller of the New York Times on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but by and large they apply the type of thinking reflective of the Enlightenment that has been a cornerstone of America democracy throughout its history.
It’s possible that if the Founding Fathers were still amongst us, one of their biggest disappointments would be the disdain that so many Americans have for using empirical evidence as the basis of reaching conclusions. Part of the dissonance between the Founding Fathers and those currently on the right wing is that the Fathers tended to be skeptical of literal interpretation of the Bible. To many on the right, a literal interpretation of the Bible (when convenient) provides a respite from the challenges of rational thinking.
If there are few in the land of Roy Moore who want to, or are capable of, providing rational analysis of contemporary events, then the people are truly at a loss. If it is more important to the people to believe that they are a persecuted minority, then what they might read in the Washington Post, etc. just further reinforces their notion of being the little people who are kicked around.
What is interesting and equally sad is that many other minorities seem to be able to cut through the B.S., correctly identify their oppressors, and develop strategies to improve their situations. The civil right movement was based on a commitment to the values delineated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There was a minimal amount of “poor me” and a great deal more emphasis on self-improvement and building bridges with one-time and even current oppressors.
Irony of ironies may be that white Southerners who historically have berated and discriminated against African-Americans now see a landscape in which more and more African-Americans are reaching the American dream and thriving in an information society. At the same time, so many on the right, particularly those who are white, just seem flummoxed by the way the world operates. Their frustration leads to resentment towards the main branches of this information society including such credible media points as the Washington Post.
As upsetting as it can be to have one of our fifty states seriously considering sending the likes of Roy Moore to represent them in the United States Senate, it is also saddening. It is even understandable that those who are so left behind modern society would rather fight for non-separation of church and state, fight to protect a likely sexual abuser, fight for someone who seems incapable of trying to advance the economic and human rights interests of the people of Alabama, than to see Roy Moore as he is and cast him aside for someone more modern.
Reconstruction has had its successes, look at Atlanta. But there is still so far to go.

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Lieutenant Colonel George Washington Goethals saw the Panama Canal to its completion. From 1907 to 1914 he successfully oversaw the project that for almost 25 years had consumed millions of dollars and thousands of lives. He was called "the Genius of the Panama Canal." But Goethals felt unworthy of this title, saying that his predecessor, John F. Stevens, truly deserved it.
John Stevens was appointed chief engineer of the Panama Canal Project in 1905 based on his accomplishments -- some might call them feats -- at James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway. The fearless Maine native helped Hill carry out his plan to expand his American rail lines west, and thus contribute to the white settlement of the Pacific Northwest.
Native Americans had long described a traversable gap in the Rockies that white explorers had not yet found. In December 1889, aided by a Flathead Indian guide, Stevens walked the Marias Pass in Montana -- in 40-below weather, no less. What Lewis and Clark and countless others had tried, Stevens accomplished. The Marias Pass, the lowest crossing of the Rocky Mountains, allowed the Great Northern to expand through the Rockies without a tunnel. The following year, Stevens conquered another pass - now called the Stevens Pass -- in Washington's Cascade Mountains.
President Theodore Roosevelt knew Stevens was the right man -- perhaps the only man -- to tackle the catastrophic Panama Canal Project. The Canal's "affairs [were] in a devil of a mess," TR said. The French had begun work on the canal in 1883 lacking experience in Panama's jungle terrain, and also lacking a blueprint. Unskilled excavation led to deadly landslides; outbreaks of malaria and yellow fever took hundreds of lives a week; and effort and money were wasted when railroad track was laid that didn't fit the gauges of the existing railroad. When the project changed hands, American workers didn't fare much better.
Enter John Stevens. The foremost civil engineer of his day, Stevens stepped in when his predecessor abruptly quit, and he approached the project as a humanitarian effort, as well as an engineering one. With confidence and morale desperately low among the workers, one of Stevens' first actions was to introduce a food car, a haven of entertainment and much-needed sustenance for the men.
In addition, Stevens parted company with most high-ranking officials by taking seriously the threat of yellow fever-carrying mosquitoes, and he insisted that workers be immunized against yellow fever (it was impossible, unfortunately, to immunize against malaria). The last case of yellow fever was reported on November 11, 1905, shortly after Stevens' arrival.
His workers' welfare on the mend, Stevens drew up logical plans for the canal's construction. One of the first things he did was to call on 27-year-old Ralph Budd, a gifted manager who would go on to develop streamliner trains at the Burlington Railroad. Stevens had supervised Budd at the Rock Island Railroad in Kansas City, and he recruited him for the difficult job of building a railroad across the Panamanian isthmus. Engineering advances, including Stevens' successful push to build a loch system instead of a sea-level canal, were coupled with social ones. Like his Great Northern boss, Stevens built transportation infrastructure and new communities side by side.
Lacking the advanced degrees of many of his colleagues, Stevens shunned any special treatment as an officer. The living quarters reserved for him -- palatial by camp standards -- remained empty as he bunked nearer to the workers. Straight-talking and cigar-chomping (a habit that earned him the nickname "Big Smoke"), he and politics didn't mix well. Signing on in 1905 "until he could predict success or failure according to his own judgment," Stevens resigned in 1907, the plans for further construction in place.
After Panama, Stevens returned to the railroads, both at home and abroad. In 1917 he led Woodrow Wilson's American Advisory Committee of Railway Experts to Russia, designed to assist Russia's provisional government in improving the Trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern Railways; and in 1919 he became president of the Inter-Allied Technical Board in Manchuria.
Stevens retired in 1923, but for 20 years, until his death at age 90, he constantly received accolades for his contributions to engineering. Despite numerous honors, nothing ever compared to his send-off from the in-progress Panama Canal in 1907. One historian noted: "It was as if the people were honoring a man who had already built the Panama Canal."


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Consensual and pleasurable touch is an inherent component of our wellbeing and thriving health. Happy Touch Healing is committed to changing the landscape of pleasure; in your body, in your relationships, in the cities and cultures around us.
Developing a listing of Certified Practitioners worldwide, we are dedicated to facilitating a simple and accessible platform to connect clients to their pleasure technicians.
It is essential to your core being, to living, to access your joy, to learn your body. To learn every inch.


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We are hitting the Spring/Summer season and this a great time for everyone to “Show Off” their new summer upgrades and/or spring cleaning. This means more invites for dinner parties and “Open House” parties. Therefore, a small token gift of appreciation of their hospitality should be given.
There are different ways you can approach this gift. How well do you know the host/hostess or how extravagant is the event?
For a casual event between friends, a bottle of wine or vodka is perfect (make sure you are bringing what you are planning on drinking! Don’t bring a 2 Buck Wine but then only drink Patron Tequila). But when maybe it’s a dinner party or a friend’s “House Warming” party, I love a set of these appetizer/dessert plates from D.L. & Company with one of them holding a dessert or assortment of cheeses.
Also from D. L. & Company, they have a range of candles and matches that are in all price ranges that anyone would love to have!
For your friend that focus on cocktail parties, a lacquer trey from D. L. & Company is an impressive give but is surprisingly inexpensive.
And if you are bringing a bottle of fine wine to the dinner party, you can open and share the wine that night withe the host/hostess and leave the cool DOUBLE CROSS – CHOMPS WINE STOPPER as a reminder of the night.
Host & Hostess Gift Ideas!
Celebrity stylist, Shelli Moore recently had an opportunity to review some of our SALE ITEMS at J RANSOM. She offered style ideas for some of her favorite items.
Shelli really likes the custom embellishments on these vintage pieces from JUNKER DESIGNS. Each one is made by hand ensuring that each is unique.
Shelli picks these jeans from KENTUCKY DENIM, first because they are such a great deal, and second because the gray color is gives a cool vintage look. Gray jeans are perfect with a black leather jacket. With the money you save on the jeans, Shelli suggests taking them to your local tailor for a custom fit.
Other ways to achieve the vintage look, Shelli says to look for unique and custom fabric washes or items that have been distressed.
These t-shirts from from Los Angeles based JUNKER DESIGNS have a unique Tea Stain wash that gives the t-shirt a kind of dirty/vintage look.
To complete the look, Shelli recommends adding accessories like these from I.V.Y. Dimensions to give that cool vintage feel.
Shelli Moore has styled everyone from Johnny Depp to Marc Anthony and we thank you for giving us great ways to wear and combine these Steals and Deals from J. RANSOM to get a personal vintage/custom look!
This entry was posted in Sale, Steals and Deals, Style Secrets, Trends and tagged IVY Dimensions, Junker Designs, Kentucky Denim, Men's T-Shirts, SALE, Shelli Moore, Vintage on February 4, 2013 by jransomla.
SALE, SALE, SALE!!!! OK – We love these guys at J. Steger. The designer, Jason Steger, is the brother of actor Michael Steger one of the stars of the TV show 90210.
The jeans fit great (and one of my favorite pairs of jeans is a J. STEGER jean!).
This entry was posted in Celebrities, Denim, Designer Profile, Sale and tagged 90210, J. Steger, Jeans, Men's T-Shirts, Michael Steger, SALE on January 21, 2013 by jransomla.
I can’t believe it has been 8 years since we started J. Ransom and JRansomLA.com. I want to thank each of our customers and the companies that supported us to make J. RANSOM what we are today.
We genuinely appreciate your business and continued support.
This entry was posted in Press, Sale and tagged Promo Codes on March 28, 2012 by jransomla.

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What feelings does it create? Explain Joe’s metaphor, “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together...Diwisions amongst such must come, and must be met as such.” Do you agree with his philosophy?
Joe is pretty wise. In life we meet people and we lose people. One can't expect to have relationships with everybody that go smoothly. Divisions, for many reasons, happen. This is part of living and must be understood as such. I do agree with this. Consider how many people you have met in your life that are no longer a part of it. We can't hang on to everybody, even people that mean a lot to us. Life happens and some people drift apart.


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The Creepy Bard | Folk musician specializing in Celtic, Period, and Naughty Music.
Gather round to hear as David Anthony, The Creepy Bard regales you with songs of drinking, roving, fighting, and things to keep secret from your mother. You will laugh, cry, blush and wonder where you left the whiskey.
Just look up The Creepy Bard on facebook anf shoot me a message.
Hi! I was at CT Renfaire the weekend before Halloween and loved your performance! And the a cappella verse you sang to me was completely hilarious and embarrassing (and 90% accurate :-P) I can’t wait to see you perform again!
Only discovered you today, when i searched out a good rendition of Hal & Tow for May Day! You are wonderful, but I guess you know that. Hoping you make it over to the UK festivals sometime!


text: Love this exquisite look! The silvery glittering effect makes the party lit! I proclaimed myself as Shining Queen during the parties. It boosts your confidence to mingle with your friends at the party.


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Coming soon at BPDS -Tattoo removal using Laser treatment.
Tattoo removal works by laser light passing through the outer layer of skin and being absorbed by the pigments of the tattoo. This causes the pigments to break down sufficiently that they can be removed by the body. The treatments depends on colour difference between the tattoo and the skin. Dark tattoos on light skin will respond best – multicoloured tattoos may respond differently for the different colours.
The treatment only takes a few minutes for a session and is uncomfortable – but most people do not need an anesthetic Most tattoos take 4-10 treatments to remove. After the treatment the area will need a dressing for a week and needs to be kept out of the sun for 6 weeks.
Laser treatment is safe, with virtually no medical contra-indications. There is a small risk of scarring post treatment (around 1 in 20) which can be minimised by following some simple advice.
Cost varies on the size and colour of the tattoo. For information on treatments, prices and a free “e-consultation” email a photo of the area to lasertreatment@chepstow-botox.com.
Price depending on size and colour. Usually up to 10 treatments required.


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The eighth and final issue of Vile Magazine, published between 1974 – 1983. This critical issue contains a history of the magazine, a summary of Anna Banana’s events in San Francisco, and of Futurist Sound, her and Gaglione’s 1978 European Tour. Included in the extensive documentation is a letter David Buchan wrote in 1977 from Art Metropole to Vile, regarding copies that had been sent to AM, but were held at the border by Canadian Customs.
From an edition of 1000 copies.


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A short time ago I received a notice that a newsletter I was interested in was available. When I followed the link I ended up at something called Issuu. When I registered I was able to get the newsletter. In the process of registering I allowed Issuu to begin issuing invitation to my Gmail mailing list. I have no way of knowing how many invitations when out.
Several of you have already joined.
Sorry about that. It may be a wonderful service, but I don’t like to receive unwanted Emails and I normally try to avoid sending them.


text: Data is everywhere and it's time to do more than just put it into spreadsheets. That’s why SAP created SAP Analytics Cloud, an innovative solution for you to connect data and unify business insights once and for all. From planning to business intelligence to predictive analytics - do it all with SAP Analytics Cloud.


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Welcome Evelyn! Tell us a little about yourself.
I am a 51-year-old mother raising a miracle named Samuel. My son was born with a rare form of dwarfism called Thanatophoric Dysplasia which is considered not compatible with life. But God had other plans, and he is now eleven-years-old. He is a little guy at 25 pounds, 25 inches but has a big smile which lights up the room. I am also a first- time author, long time writer. As a teenager, I wrote travel articles for a local paper and worked on my high school newspaper. Last year I started a blog which received over one million hits. Now, I have my memoir, Miracle In My Living Room being released this month.
My memoir’s message is to encourage others giving them hope that nothing is impossible with God. And to encourage others to believe that miracles still happen today. Before having my son, I’d heard of miracles happening to other people but not myself. Then my son was given a diagnosis which in Greek means “death bringing.” His survival shared in the memoir is miraculous.
When God throws us a challenge we either curl up in a ball and surrender to defeat, or we trust in Him. How did you keep your faith in God, knowing that Samuel might die?
A verse I knew well came alive the day the doctors told us our son may not live. Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. In the unthinkable circumstance of receiving a negative pregnancy diagnosis, God showed up and gave me a sustaining peace helping me to trust in Him. Were there days I wavered? Yes, and I write about this in the book. But, overall, my faith sustained me through the storm.
The hardest challenge was fishing against the stream. We were given no hope for our son's survival. Yet, we believed. We instead found our hope in God, in praying friends offering believing prayer and a peace knowing that somehow our son would be okay. We didn't know how but God did. His life has exceeded all the doctors predictions. Against all odds, my son is now a miracle in my living room.
Is there a message in your book that you want reader's to grasp?
I am a co-author on a book in the Make This Matter series for Special Needs Moms. This non-fiction book is geared for the new special mom to help navigate her new normal. I plan to write a Best of Blog book sharing my life raising a miracle. Another future project is writing a children’s book about Dwarfism.
My best advice is to join a good writer’s critique group. I am a member of Word Weavers where I bring 1500 words and get advice on how to improve my work. I’ve learned many “how to’s” there which improved my writing. I also received advice to start a blog before my memoir was finished as a way to build a platform. This is a great way to have your audience get to know you and your writing.
I have many, but for the memoir, I’d say it’s Psalm 139:14: I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Samuel has a unique type of dwarfism, but he is still a model that God has made. My husband likes to call my son, God’s Alternate Construction. I agree.
Thank you Evelyn, for sharing your story with us. Miracle In My Living Room is available for pre-order on Evelyn's blog and will be released for launch on November 30th of this month. If you are in the Tampa Bay area, the book launch will kick off with a book signing at Barnes & Noble at 11802 Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, Florida on November 30, 2016 from 6pm - 8pm.


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