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Now before we head on for the setup process. This is my 2nd Post in the Blogging Series. I suppose you are pretty much clear about BLOGS from my previous post and aware of its work and uses. In the Introduction to Blogging, i had said that there are two ways you can use wordpress for your blogs. For those who are new to blogging, you should first read Introduction to Blogging article and then turn back here again. Today we will look at wordpress Self Hosted. So for those who choose wordpress self hosted blog. This article will help them to know the things they require to setup their own wordpress powered blog on their own domain and own Servers.
Now you must be thinking why only WordPress and no other blogging Platform. So here's the answer to your Question?
WordPress is a great script. When people think of WordPress, they think of it as just a simple blogging script like any other. But that is when you get it wrong. WordPress is not any blogging software; it is the BEST blogging software which is FREE. WordPress is simple, and we agree with that statement. But due to its simplicity, it is open to possibilities. We have seen WordPress being used in many ways and by some of the top businesses in the industry. It is a powerful tool with robust features. We have compiled a few reasons why you should use WordPress, in what ways you can use WordPress, and who is using WordPress. Rest you can read here at WPBeginner.com .
Why Self-Hosted?
If you need full control over all aspects of your blog including the database, themes and plugins you need a self-hosted blog.
Now we have chosen Self Hosted WordPress as we get the entire control over the blog in many ways as Ads, Themes, and Plugins. To understand the difference well read here WPBeginner.com.
Now you need to have some points cleared before you Setup WordPress Blog. Below is the Check list you should have a look at.
It's very important to have an appropriate domain name for your blog. As domain will help you rank your blog at better place in search engines. Picking the right domain name for a blog is an essential step to success. Think of a domain name as a brand to your website, and like any other product, a blog will be really hard to rebrand if you decide to choose another name. Proper keywords also do matter while purchasing a domain name. To get to know more visit the link .
Now you need a domain registrar from whom you will purchase the domain name. There are hundreds of domain registrars on the web that are offering you domain registration and more. But like many other scams on the web, there are scam domain registrars that disappear every three months, and you get left hanging. Therefore we suggest you get a domain from one of these popular registrars that have been around and have earned a good reputation in the industry. I personally suggest BIGROCK. As they provide good Service. VISIT BIGROCK for all your Web Solutions.
Some Other Tools to Consider
Expired Domains Search – Database for Expired Domains.
Domize – Domain Search Portal
Bust A Name – Domain Search
Often people overlook this factor of web host. Before you can have a self-hosted WordPress blog with your very own domain name, you must first select a host for your site. The host is the company that provides the server where your site will be digitally stored on a hard drive and be continually connected to the internet where it can be accessed by billions of internet users. All hosts are not created equally, however, so it pays to learn just a little bit about what you should look for in a quality blog hosting company.
What Specification does WordPress Require?
You will be surprised to hear that WordPress is a very light-weight script and it is compatible with almost all web hosts. The simple requirements that WordPress put forth are:
- PHP 4.3 or greater
- MySQL 4.0 or greater
- The mod_rewrite Apache module
As a matter of fact most Linux web hosts come pre-installed with WordPress, so you won't have to worry about what WordPress requires.
You should see the bandwidth and web space been provided by the web host you choose for yourself.
What you Need?
As i stated above, WordPress is a very light-weight script for a normal blog account, you won't need a dedicated server. So don't get that. Majority of top shared hosting sites are now offering unlimited resource, so take advantage of that. That is all what you really need. But if for some reason, you end up going with a service that doesn't offer unlimited specs what will you do?
You need to evaluate. How much space you do need on the web. A WordPress site can run well under 100 MB space. If you are offering downloads, and hosting your own images then you will need more space.
Evaluate the bandwidth your site will be using? As a goal of every blogger, you want to hit the Front Page of Digg and other social media networks. When you hit that, you receive a lot of traffic. So how much bandwidth should you get? Start low and upgrade when necessary. There is no point of paying extra for something you won't use in the early months. Once your blog starts to get influence in the industry then you can upgrade. Visit MihirNaik.com for related article on this topic
WordPress Hosting Plan Components
A standard hosting environment for blog hosting software will include the following components.
- Apache web server, which is found on almost 100% of Linux hosting services.
- SQL server – usually MySQL which will manage the WordPress blog database.
- A mail host, which allows your WordPress site to send email notifications for things like comments, password resets and administrator functions.
- Fantastico – allows easy installation of WordPress and many other popular website management tools: Drupal (themes), osCommerce, Moveable Type.
- PHP – WordPress runs best on the latest version of php 5+
Web Host's Reputation
Every host that we mention in this post has earned its reputation in the industry. They are top-notch services. If you decide to go with a service other than the ones that we list in this post, make sure you do an extensive research on their reputation, uptime history, and support reviews.
WordPress Web Host Cautions
These are the primary things to be aware of when looking for WordPress blog hosting:
- Windows hosting – WordPress will run on Windows servers, but it can be a hassle and some features like the very important search engine friendly links (permalinks) can be almost impossible. Avoid Windows Servers for WordPress hosting (this has nothing to do with the Windows on your own PC.
- Poor support – Before I sign up for any WordPress hosting, I always like to contact support with a question. Just ask "what version of WordPress is your Fantastico currently installing?" if you can't think of anything else to ask.
- If it isn't the latest version, the blog host may not be the most reliable hosting company.
- If it takes a long time for them to respond to your question (more than a couple hours), move along and select another.
Uday Vaswani's Web Host Recommendation
Below is the list of what we consider to be the Best Web Hosts for WordPress. All of these hosts have an unlimited spec for you.
Bigrock – Our platform powers over 100,000 websites worldwide, makes us one of the most reliable hosting providers globally. We offer Affordable Web Hosting for personal websites, Business Hosting for small business websites and Professional Hosting for large enterprises.
Host Gator – Hosts over 2 million domains and is known as one of the well-reputed web host in the industry. They have plans that will suit all your needs.
Site5 – One of the most popular web hosts that have special plans just for the WordPress community.
Super Green Hosting – A very nice service that is not only WordPress friendly, but it is environment friendly. They have quality customer service and have a good reputation in the industry.
Blue Host – Another reliable web hosting company that has been around for a long time. Blue Host has proven its worth to the users, and it is a legit competitor of Host Gator.
Netspaceindia – An Abit India Group. India's Fastest Growing Web Hosting and Domain Registration Service
Choose from any of the web hosts above, and we guarantee you that you will not be disappointed.
So I suppose you must have now come to know what all are the requirements for setting up a Self Hosted WordPress blog. My next post will be about how to set up Self Hosted blog on wordpress.org platform and on your own servers and with your domain name. By that time you may buy a server space and domain. Hope this post has given you a bit idea about the requirements of Self Hosted WordPress Blog. So happy blogging. Please give your valuable comments so that I come to understand that I was able to convey the information the right way.
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Many of my readers will already have seen the Nature special issue on data, data curation, and data sharing. If you haven't, go now and read; it's impossible to overestimate the importance of this issue turning up in such a widely-read venue.
I read the opening of "Data sharing: Empty archives" with a certain amount of bemusement, as one who has been running institutional repositories in libraries for four years. I think Bryn Nelson has confusingly conflated different notions of "data" in his discussion of the University of Rochester's IR.
By the definition Nelson appears to be thinking about, anything digital is automatically data. Thus "dissertations, preprints, working papers, photographs, music scores…" This is not the definition I use for this weblog, nor is it (I believe I am qualified to say by now) what most academic libraries starting IRs had in mind, either.
For purposes of this weblog, the word "data" means the stuff coming out of the research process that isn't prose aimed at a human audience. That's loosey-goosey (most definitions of "data" are), but you get the general idea. A dissertation is not data. Neither is a preprint or a working paper. A photograph might be. A music score probably isn't (how many music scores are research products?). Research data aren't research documents.
(Historians of science, please close your eyes for a bit; you're different. I know research documents are data to you. That's still not what I mean by the term.)
I can't and don't speak for the University of Rochester; I don't know what their IR's collection-development policy is, nor what was going through their minds when the IR was on the planning table. I do know with fair certainty that for most IRs, the problem of data (in this weblog's definition) wasn't so much as a gleam in anybody's eye at the outset. Indeed, for many IRs it still isn't. Libraries started IRs hoping for open access to the journal literature and better access to and preservation of digital gray literature (dissertations, working papers, technical reports, et cetera).
Perhaps Rochester was an exception; again, I don't know. But attributing the emptiness of IRs to a problem with data-sharing makes my head hurt. It doesn't square at all with my lived experience of IRs.
Now, the emptiness problem meant that most if not all IRs expanded their collection and service scope, simply out of necessity. For an excellent, nuanced discussion of this phenomenon, read a Mellon grant report by Carole Palmer et al. Do datasets fall within IRs' purview now? Well… maybe. Depends whom you ask.
I don't want to wander off into the over-technical weeds here, so I'll limit myself to remarking that the technology underlying most IRs (both hosted and roll-your-own) is extraordinarily poorly suited to much research data, having been optimized for documents. This is a serious stumbling block for IRs wanting to expand into data curation.
That problem aside, however, the important question of incentive remains. Even if we accept my division between research documents and research data, who is to say that institution-based data collection will work any better than institution-based document collection? Will data archives remain as empty as IRs?
I think not. Perhaps over-optimistically, but even so. I think not, and here's why.
When IR managers went to faculty, hat in hand, asking for preprints and postprints, they were charging Quixotesquely against a gigantic windmill: the existing scholarly-communication system, which as far as most faculty in most disciplines are concerned works just fine. Filling IRs with the peer-reviewed literature they were established to collect meant changing minds, hearts, and (most crucially) workflows. In practice, it was an impossible dream, especially as IR technology bears more than a little resemblance to the spavined nag Rosinante, and IR managers had little to wield by way of spear or shield.
Right. Now that I have run that metaphor into the ground and stomped its gravesite flat… why are data repositories different?
First, for most disciplines, there simply is no analogue to the existing scholarly-communication system where data are concerned. For pity's sake, we haven't even worked out how to cite data yet! Where researcher workflows and expectations are not yet formed, opportunity awaits.
Second, data repositories and their managers can offer real, meaningful help to researchers, in ways IRs either didn't or couldn't. Publishers are perceived, rightly or wrongly, as providing meaningful service to research; IRs have not achieved that perception, so they have made few meaningful inroads among researchers. Data repositories, data librarians, and data technicians can solve real-world problems that many researchers are already feeling, and many more are likely to feel soon.
Third, the effects of widely-available data are amassing a fairly impressive track record even at this early date. Genomics, economics, literary text-mining, linguistics, name your disciplinary poison: digital data enable answers to more and different questions, faster. IRs? Not so much with the palpable effects (outside ETDs), I'm sorry to say.
Last, the regulatory framework around data seems likely to solidify a good deal faster than the framework around open access to publications. Part of this, of course, comes from not needing to push against entrenched interests, the way the NIH Public Access Policy had to fend off the large-publisher lobby. I understand funder hesitation surrounding the dearth of data standards and the dearth of sustainable repositories, but I'm willing to hazard that the right hands will eventually shake each other for all that to work itself out.
So on balance, I'm hopeful. Nothing is certain; sometimes the many ways to mess this up keep me awake at night. I see motion on so many levels, though—from individual researchers all the way up to huge government funders—that I think data curation is very nearly a foregone conclusion.
Ways and means… well, I have to have some uncertainty around to keep this weblog active.
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Volunteering Opportunities with The Children & Young People's CommissionerPosted on December 13, 2018
ProjectScotland is delighted to work in partnership with The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland to promote this unique opportunity. There are several volunteer places available. Please apply by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
First things first. Who is the Children and Young People's Commissioner in Scotland?
The Children and Young People's Commissioner is Bruce Adamson and he and his team work as fierce champions of the rights of everyone under 18 (or up to 21 if they are care experienced). We work to make sure that laws that affect their lives are fair, and challenge those in power. We strive to be caring and kind, but be brave when standing up for rights. We put the views of children and young people at the heart of everything we do.
Volunteering Opportunities with The Children and Young People's Commissioner
Are you aged 16-18? Would you like to develop your skills for future employment? Would you like to work in a creative, busy and interesting environment, to promote and protect the human rights of children and young people? If so, then we would love to welcome you as a young volunteer with us.
We are looking for passionate, committed, volunteers who are willing to learn from us as a team, but who will also share their knowledge and experience of being a young person in Scotland.
We will give you lots of opportunities to learn new skills in different areas of our work. Some of these might include:
* digital media – including developing our website
* communications – sharing information about what we do with others in Scotland
* strategy – planning what we should work on and meeting with people who make decisions about children and young people
* budgeting – looking at how the Commissioner spends his money, and what gets priority
* front line – working directly with children and young people all over Scotland
You will have the chance to be involved in planning large events, give your views on how we can give information and advice to children and young people about their rights, support young people who defend rights, take part in meetings, learn how to use Office software packages and much more.
Am I a match?
* Opportunities open to young people aged 16-18 (or up to 21 if care experienced)
* Positions will be based in Edinburgh
* The placement will last 3-6 months, with a 3 month review carried out to establish whether the volunteer wishes to end or extend the placement
* You will be fully supported by a ProjectScotland mentor and Youth Engagement Manager
* Volunteers will also be offered support to undertake an SQA accredited award and given a personal reference by the Commissioner
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The Children and Young People's Commissioner is Bruce Adamson and he works with a team of people to promote and protect the human rights of:
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GLBX Council Leadership
Karen Prescod
Prescod Life and Health
2016 GLBX Chair
Karen Prescod is the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce (GLBX) Council 2016 Chairperson and President of Prescod Life and Health; a Florida based Health Insurance agency that works with small businesses. Karen is also licensed in TX, AZ, NM, IA, OR, PA, OK and UT. Karen is a Certified Medical Insurance Consultant (CMIC) and a Certified Exchange/Marketplace Specialist (EMS). She strives to provide products and services of the highest quality. Karen prides herself in helping small businesses understand their options with the Affordable Care Act and how to navigate all of the confusing rules and regulations. Karen gives seminars and presentations to companies as to the effect(s), rules and regulation of the new Health Care Laws.
Karen Prescod was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago then migrated to the US in her early twenties. She has always had a passion for the Martial Arts and earned a plethora of trophies doing this. Karen also successfully worked in the corporate arena for many years managing multi-million dollar accounts. She has had her fair share of health challenges, and is also legally disabled thus the reason she is in this industry. Karen has a true passion for what she does, and because of what she is challenged with every day. She continues to assist and educate small businesses about having good healthcare.
Ms. Prescod is very involved in the community and stays connected and informed in order to be able to effectively share her knowledge and expertise.
|Chuck Dinsmore
Data Clique, LLC
2016 GLBX Co-Chair
Chuck Dinsmore is co-founder of Data Clique LLC, a Market Intelligence company. A trainer, consultant, and published author in the areas of marketing and business development, Chuck's professional experience spans across many industries, including marketing, public speaking, teaching/training, real estate, healthcare management, retail management and strategy, and business development. Data Clique's primary product, The Customer Store Market Intelligence Report, gives business owners the ability to find more "like-minded" clients within their target market matching their Best Customer Profile. It's like being able to walk into The Customer Store to "buy" customers instead of buying marketing. Chuck is also available for business development training, speaking, and consulting in cutting-edge content marketing - helping the modern business owner position themselves as "The Expert" within their market. Through our entire suite of services, we have developed a WIN-WIN marketing resource allowing the business owner to gain better control of their marketing budget, and a higher closing ratio because their targets are already pre-disposed to buy!
Chuck first joined the Chamber in 2011 and has been affiliated with GLBX since its inception. He i=has served on the GLBX Board of Governors since January 2015.
|Seda Aktas
Aktas | Hinden, PA
Seda Aktas, Esq. is a former prosecutor and a principal attorney at AKTAS⎮HINDEN, P.A., who focuses her practice on business law and litigation as well as criminal defense. Ms. Aktas was chosen by Rue Ratings as one of the "Best Attorneys in America," rated by Martindale Hubbell, and has been given its highest rating AV-Preeminent in the fields of Litigation and Criminal Law. National Association of Distinguished Counsel selected Ms. Aktas as one of the "Nation's Top One Percent," and she was also awarded "Top 10 Under 40" in Florida, by the National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys. She also holds the title of "Top 40 Under 40" by The National Trial Lawyers, and was rated a "Superb" Attorney by avvo.com in addition to being designated as one of "10 Best" in Client Satisfaction by the American Institute of Criminal Law Attorneys. Ms. Aktas is also a member of the Florida Turkish-American community and acts as the elected Southeast Vice President of the Washington D.C. – based umbrella organization ATAA. She enjoys the vibrant culture of South Florida, and born in Istanbul, Turkey, is fluent in Turkish and English.
|Julian Cavazos
Elan 16Forty - Stamina Gym
Originally from Houston, Texas, Julian has been living in Fort Lauderdale since 1998. He's been involved with GLBX for over 7 years and was its first account manager resulting it GLBX exceeding its membership requirements so that it could be voted in as a Counsel. Julian served as GLBX's first Chair for two consecutive years. He has served on several in and out of state boards and currently chair's the Renand Foundation, serves on the board of Citizens of the World and fund raisers for several local charities. His philanthropic work reaches far beyond South Florida and he plans to expand into Latin America this year. Julian is General Manager of Elan 16Forty-Stamina Gym and the co-owner of C&L Gym Management.
|Mark Corbett
Gold Coast Magazine
Mark Corbett is currently spearheading the growth of Gold Coast magazine in every way, from representing the brand in the community to selling total packages across the company's multiple print and digital platforms. He is serving as Associate Publisher of Fort Lauderdale's premier lifestyle publication. Gold Coast magazine celebrated its 50th Anniversary in April of 2015.
Prior to this appointment, Corbett spent over three years as Strategic Marketing Director for the largest tourism publication in the country, Travelhost of Greater Fort Lauderdale. His goal was to target the businesses that marketed to the 13 million tourists visiting Greater Fort Lauderdale. He successfully elevated the brand and initiated Travelhost's digital and social media platforms they enjoy today.
Corbett's start in this city was the transformation of Riverwalk Trust's monthly newsletter into a magazine. Starting in 2002 and continuing for over five years, Mark served as the President of New River Design Group, the entity responsible for publishing Go Riverwalk. He served as a Board member to Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale. He also served as a Board member to the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce and the Project 100 renovation project of the Chamber building and property. Currently, Corbett serves on the Broward House and Birch State Park boards.
|Lisa Harper
Memorial Healthcare System
Dedicated to promoting volunteerism in Broward and beyond, Lisa Harper has lead the Memorial Healthcare employee volunteer program H.E.R.O.s (Healthcare Employees Reaching Out) for over 12 years. Also on the Executive Board of DOVS (Directors of Volunteer Services) of Broward County, she continues to "connect" the dots as she networks volunteer needs and non-profits throughout the county. Fueled by caffeine and armed with excellent organizational skills, she rallies the troops one cause at a time. Lisa's down time is enjoyed in the kitchen or outdoors with her husband and puppy.
|Réquel Lopes
Trinity Acupuncture
Réquel earned her Bachelor's degree from Barnard College of Columbia University, and has spent over 20 years working in public health, development and fundraising including working in the HIV/AIDS community. She started by being a buddy to those living with HIV/AIDS as well as being an activist with ACT-UP and Black AIDS Mobilization (BAM) in New York to working in fundraising with the Broward House, AIDS Rides, Kids In Distress, and the SMART Ride. She currently serves as the vice chair of Broward County's HIV Planning Council.
She earned her Master's in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine from the prestigious AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. Her practice, Trinity Acupuncture, focuses on the integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern western medicine. She views acupuncture as a way of reminding the body what it is meant to do, encouraging the body towards homeostasis. She is one of the founding members of the Live Well Holistic Center, Inc. whose mission is to provide high quality holistic care to low income and underserved communities.
|Doug Nelson
Fort Lauderdale Couples, Family and Individual Therapy, LLC
Doug Nelson has spent more than two decades assisting adults and adolescents with various concerns in outpatient settings, schools and structured substance abuse treatment programs. He has facilitated therapy groups for substance abuse recovery, survivors of childhood abuse, coming out concerns and conducted debriefing groups for persons adversely affected by the loss of a colleague, job loss and workplace violence. Doug was one of the first civilians who entered the US Pentagon on September 13, 2001 to provide crisis response services to personnel who had been working around the clock since the 9/11 attacks.
Doug facilitated a one-day workshop in seven US states that provided continuing education credits for other professional counselors, social workers and psychologists who enrolled in the course which focused on working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients in treatment settings.Doug's clinical practice also allows business owners to refer employees struggling with work performance concerns or personal matters for a brief five session Management Consultation process. Doug enjoys the balance of working with couples, adolescents and their parents, and individuals; hence the name of his clinical practice: Fort Lauderdale Couples, Family and Individual Therapy, LLC
|Andy Perrott
Lightship Media
Andy Perrott is an Emmy Award winning television producer and commercial director. Andy started his company, Lightship Media in 1999 and has produced television series, specials, commercials, and branding videos for companies such as Disney, ABC and Discovery Networks. A graduate of Williams College, Andy received his degree in History and Studio Art. He started his career at WCVB-TV in Boston before moving to Lifetime Television in New York and then to the Walt Disney Company in Orlando. Andy is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and enjoys his home in Oakland Park.
|Solimar Rodriguez-Saez
Circle of Life Legal Services
Solimar Rodriguez-Sáez is the Client Relations Manager and Paralegal for Circle of Life Legal Services. Circle of Life Legal Services is a law firm dedicated to Estate Planning, with special attention to families with kids, Probate, and Family law. With a great understanding of the law, Mrs. Rodríguez, who is also a licensed attorney in Puerto Rico, tailors her professional services with compassion and care when handling such delicate family matters.
Born and raised in the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico with a major in Advertising and Public Relations and a minor in Dramatic Arts. In 2010 Mrs. Rodriguez completed her Juris Doctor Degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, School of Law, and receiving the Litigation Award.
Mrs. Rodríguez charisma, leadership and involvement with the community has earned her recognitions and awards throughout her student and professional career.Currently Mrs. Rodriguez is the Public Relations Chair for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce Gay and Lesbian Business Exchange Council. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL with her husband Jorge and her dog Paco.
|Geph Scarr
Scarr Insurance
GLBX Council & board member of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce Growing up, Geph Scarr was an integral part in starting the first LGBT in-school support group for high school students in Pinellas County. He went on to study Art History and Public Relations at Florida State University and helped to create the first Artopia event in 1998 while working in non-profit development for Big Bend Cares, an HIV/AIDS organization servicing the panhandle region of Florida. Following graduation, Geph worked in Public Relations for 10 years and was a publicist in the beauty, fashion and beverage industries in both New York and Miami.
He launched his second career in 2009 by joining the family business, Scarr Insurance Group – a full service Insurance Agency which also specializes in community associations. Geph has served on the GLBX board for 5 years and currently chairs the GLBX Council and sits on the board of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. He formerly served on the board of the South Florida Human Rights Campaign and has volunteered and been active with local non-profits including The Pantry of Broward, The Pride Center and SunServe.
|Stephanie Schneider
Law Office of Stephanie Schneider
Stephanie Schneider is a Board Certified Elder Law Attorney for 20 years. She is the former chair of The Florida Bar Elder Law Section and is a member of NAELA, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.
Stephanie speaks nationally and locally about elder law issues. She has had articles published in professional journals such as the NAELA Journal, Florida Banking, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal Marketplace, Sun Sentinel and other professional and consumer publications.
The firm specializes in estate & incapacity planning for people of all ages, adult and minor guardianships, probating estates, long term care planning and veterans benefits counseling, planning for domestic partners & the LGBT community. Our services are provided with compassion, respect and commitment.
|James Senior
Edward Jones Investments
With 27 years of financial services experience, I joined Edward Jones in 2012. Serving individual investors and business owners, our resources are dedicated to helping you reach your long-term financial goals. I am Series 7, Series 66, Florida State Insurance 215 (Health, Life & Long-Term Care) licensed. I obtained my M.B.A. in finance from Philadelphia University and my B.S. from Ohio University.
I am an active board member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Director of Planning and Development for Tuesday's Angels.
As an Edward Jones financial advisor, it's important to invest my time to understand what you're working toward before you invest your money. Working closely with you and your CPA, attorney and other trusted professionals, I can help determine the most appropriate financial strategy for you and your loved ones. I can also help with your retirement savings strategy so you have more options when you retire, regardless of what you decide to do.
At Edward Jones, we provide highly personalized service. All aspects of our business are aligned to help us better understand and meet our client's unique goals and needs. We focus on you. Our firm has thousands of people and advanced technology supporting our office so that we can be fully dedicated to helping you plan for your financial future.
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|Doug Frens
GLBX Coordinator
Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce
(954) 462-2570
Doug Frens has a background in Social Work, community marketing and neighborhood improvement projects. Since moving to Florida, Doug has worked for a real estate agency and development projects at the Bonnet House Museum & Gardens.
Doug is responsible for coordination of various Chamber events such as the GLBX Council, Salute to Business, Business After Hours and the Downtown Council.
|Row Iliescu
Equality Florida
Row (short for Rowena) Iliescu is Equality Florida's South Florida Development Coordinator, and oversees the Galas and fund-raising events in 7 regions: Palm Beach, Lee, and Broward Counties, Miami-Dade, Naples, Upper Keys and Key West. Row's activism began as a volunteer for Equality Florida in 2008 when she tirelessly canvassed voters at the polls on Amendment 2.
Since joining the Equality Florida team, Row has developed our Membership Services Program with cheerful dedication, attention to detail, and genuine concern for our members. Working alongside Stratton in South Florida, Row has helped broaden our base of support among small businesses and ally communities, while strengthening our network through increased collaboration with local organizations, and the development of dedicated volunteer teams.
Originally from Toronto, Row has been a weather refugee in South Florida for almost 20 years. She arrived as a successful trainer and exercise rider of thoroughbred racehorses, but following a serious riding accident went back to school earning a Masters Degree in Social Work and beginning doctoral studies in HIV prevention. Finding that she preferred fieldwork, Row worked in the non-profit sector as a therapist to children and families in the foster care system for ten years before joining the Equality Florida team, where she says she feels, "at home.


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Geno Electronics had made a revolutionary breakthrough in robotics
They had created androids known as Maidroids that, as the name implies, were designed for domestic services, and in the case of some models a sexual ones.
These Maidroids were equipped with a complex A.I. capable of independent thought and emotion, one might even argue free will. Though admittedly this "free will" consisted almost entirely of the desire to serve their owner, so such arguments were generally laughed at.
The Maidroids was one of Geno Electronics top selling items. There was, however a large slew of complaints and a half dozen law suites about them. The major theme of which seemed to be that the Maidroids were really dumb.
This is not the say incompetent; they did what they were designed to do perfectly. The issues arose when it came to other, often what one would call simple and mundane, things. To put simply the maidroids had not a drop of common sense.
One example was a man who got fired from his job when he had his boss over for dinner, and his Maidroid happened to tell him how her owner really felt about him.
Another good example was a Maidroid who failed to grasp the significance of putting cloths back on after sex, when answering the door for nuns collecting for charity.
Luckily this was not a major issue. Most people were perfectly happy with their 'dumb machines' they did what they were suppose to and they had limited expectations of anything else.
It was however an issue the company wanted looked into, and corrected for the second generation models.
This is what brought Dr. William Fredrick, head designer of the Maidroids, and Dr. Isablle Fox, another designer on the project, in front of the board of directors.
"Let me start by saying there is nothing inherently wrong with the Maidroids." Dr. Fredrick explained "The logic, emotion, and learning programming all work exactly as they are suppose to, though we may wish to add modesty to the emotions of the non-sex models True none of these are close to what you would call human, but it should be good enough grasp what you would call common sense. The problem is a lack of practical worldly understanding. However given enough time the units should self correct."
The Dr. turned to the board.
"Huh?" One of the members spoke up. "What does that mean?"
"It means that they lack experience," Dr. Fox cut in. "But they can learn."
The Chairman spoke up. "We don't care if they'll eventually learn." The man said with a hint of irritation, "We want them without this problem at the get go."
"I'm getting to that," Dr. Fredrick stated, "Now just straight programming won't fix the problem, the amount of information a person learns in just the first five years of life is staggering complex and almost imposable to create a program to come anywhere near it."
"Are you saying you can't do anything?" the Chairman asked.
"Not at all, it just required a little thinking outside the box." The Doctor replied," I have come up with two possible options. Option A, we take a maidroid and basically teach it, then use its memory for the base for other maidroids. The down side of this is it will probably take at least 10 to 20 years for it to have a large enough experience base to use."
"That doesn't sound very viable." The Chairman stated, "What's B."
"We cheat," the board looked perplexed, Dr. Fredrick continued, "Basically the idea is we copy the memories of a human and used those as a base."
There was a silence, then the chairman spoke. "Don't you think there might be a problem with maidroids with human memories?"
"Though the original prototype will defiantly have them," Dr. Fredrick explained, "But the over all idea is to take the practical data from it without having the memories themselves."
The Chairman seemed to consider this for a moment.
"You might have trouble finding a woman willing to have her memories used for this, given that some units are basically sexbots." the Chairman said, "and it will have to be a woman, consumers might have issues if it was a man."
"I'm willing to volunteer," Dr. Fox spoke up, "With a few provisions of course."
She walked up to the chairman and dropped some papers in front of him.
"Retaining ownership of the raw data, Ownership of prototypes with raw data, 1% of profits on maidroids made with the practical data." the Chairman spoke as he looked over the sheets, "Nothing to unreasonable. We will have to talk this over. We'll get back to you."
Dr. Fredrick and Fox walked out of the room, then out of the building. They stopped outside the doors.
Dr. Fox took out a cigarette and lit it.
"So do you think they'll accept," Fox asked as she took puff.
"You do know this is a no smoking area, right?" Fredrick stated.
Fox looked over at him, "Bite me."
Fredrick shrugged "Yes, they'll probably accept it, but are you sure you want to do this?"
"Well someone had to." Fox explained, "They wouldn't even have considered it otherwise. The chairman was right. No one would want to donate their memories, with or without the sex toy angle; the idea of someone having access to every aspect of your existence is pretty disturbing."
"Then why are you…?" Fredrick began,
"Because if we didn't come up with something workable I suspect it would have been bad for us," Fox replied, as she through her cigarette on the ground and stepped on it "and, if this works, I'm rich."
Fox went to her car, and Fredrick went to his. The next day they got the go ahead for the project.
Part 1
Isabelle woke up suddenly. It wasn't surprise or shock, it was just sudden.
The last thing she remembered was the doctors at Geno Electronics medical division hooking her up to the nuroelectric imager, and giving her a sedative, saying they would be injecting her with a stimulant while she was asleep for a better reading and she might wake up with a mild headache.
Isabelle didn't have a headache, or any kind of ache… but her body did feel odd. Not unpleasant exactly, just… odd. She wasn't exactly sure what it was or how to describe it.
She was on an incline, and Dr. Fredrick and Jack Wendell, an intern on the project were standing over her. It was strange that Wendell would be there, as he didn't come with them for the procedure, but Isabelle didn't give it much thought.
"Fredrick, get those doctors in here," Isabelle requested, "something is seriously off."
Dr. Fredrick got a thoughtful look, and Wendell looked confused, and this was the only response.
"Don't stand there like idiots!" Isabelle shouted, "This could be serious, get the damn doctors before I decide to sue you and Geno's asses!"
"Is it supposed to think it's me?" a vaguely familiar voice asked from out of sight.
Isabelle turned her head, and saw a woman at a table with an ice pack held to her head. The woman's face she realized that it was the same one she saw in the mirror every morning. Then she realized that the voice sounded the same as hers from the video of the Christmas party.
"The procedure was unprecedented." Dr. Fredrick, "Exactly what would happen was unknown. That's why we did it, though this is not entirely unexpected. Your memories are a lot of data, and have likely overwhelmed her."
Isabelle stared at herself.
"Funny joke guys," Isabelle said nervously, "you can stop now."
Fredrick sighed, and pulled out a mirror.
The face in it had shoulder length blond hair and emerald green eyes. It wasn't her face.
She looked at her body now. She had DD breasts now and, was wearing the standard maidroid uniform. A low-cut aqua maid outfit with thigh high stockings, over her chest was the Geno Electronics logo, and printed on the right stocking was"P1-G2-M- S00000001 Nymph type 'Mina'". The Nymph part was just a pretty way to say sexbot.
This was far to elaborate to be a joke. Isabelle knew that those same marking were on her skin underneath where they were on her cloths. She felt under her skirt, and touched the recharge port at the base off her spine.
She was a robot.
When she had worked on the maidroids she had often thought of what it would be like to be one. They were machines, they had no rights, their minds could be reprogrammed or even erased at the whim of a human. She had found the idea terrifying.
Now she was one and she felt strangely absent of fear. Intellectually she understood that it was undesirable, but she was emotionally flatline on the subject. She suspected it was shock.
"I'm a robot." It was a statement not a question.
"Yes." Dr. Fredrick answered.
"Are you going to reprogram me?" Isabelle asked.
"What? No, never." Dr. Fredrick answered casually, "You're an experiment. The point of an experiment is to see what happens. When all is said and done you'll be kept around for posterity's sake if nothing else. We might analyze some data from time to time, but beside that, you're free to do what you want."
Isabelle tried to put her thought in order. She trusted Fredrick, he was a tad eccentric true, but he always had a kind of affection for the maidroids, so she was fairly certain that there was no immanent threat of having her mind altered.
But what to do now? Fredrick said she could do whatever she wanted.
She had had plans for her life. Ok yes the original still had that life and she was now technically a robot,so it might be a bit more difficult and need a tad bit of revision but, why not try to hit the ground running.
She had always hated the maidroid outfit, so first thing was to get new cloths.
"I want new cloths, this outfit sucks." Isabelle stated, perhaps she should have asked a bit more politely given the circumstances, but she had always been straightforward and abrupt, so way change now?
"Of course, what ever you say Isa-" Dr. Fredrick stopped mid reply "Um, it occurs to me that we already have an Isabelle, if we call you Isabelle it might get confusing, any other name we might use?"
He had a point, Isabelle thought. She momentarily thought of Mina, but dismissed it quickly. She was Isabelle, there for logically the name she used should be something Isabelle was called.
She had been called Izzy, as a child. She had hated it, but there was no other name she could think of. She took a moment and thought over the name Izzy. What exactly was wrong with it? In retrospective it didn't seem so bad.
"Call me Izzy." Isabelle or now Izzy now stated.
"Of course Izzy. Now you'll also need lodging, I'm sure you don't want to spend your time stuck in the lab." Dr. Fredrick continued, "Wendell, you have a spare room, how about you take her for awhile."
"What? Ah, well-" Wendell began but was cut off by Dr. Fredrick.
"Oh yes, cloths!" Dr. Fredrick, "Wendell, take her out shopping, buy her what she wants. You'll be reimbursed, and you may as well take her back to your house afterwards so she can get acclimatized."
"Um, but-" Wendell began but was once again interrupted by Dr. Fredrick.
"Come on Chop Chop." Dr. Fredrick continued, unfazed by Wendell attempts at a say in matters.
"Ah, yes sir." Wendell submitted.
Izzy and Wendell left, leavening Fredrick and the original Isabelle alone.
"I didn't say anything," Isabelle began, "because my head feels like I have a nail lodged in my skull, Mild headache my ass! But why did you just give my android over to Wendell?"
"Because, Wendell is spineless and easy to manipulate." Dr. Fredrick stated, "He also live alone, is a slob, and can't cook, and for the record, we are all considered Co-owners for the purposes of testing."
Isabelle stared at him for a moment.
"Let me rephrase that," Isabelle said slowly and in an annoyed voice. "What are you planing?"
"It's an experiment. Observation and analysis of course." Dr. Fredrick , "But to be specific…"
And he told her.
"Ok, I get it. I'll go along with it for now," Isabelle replied when he was done, "but I do have a favor to ask, don't tell anyone I used to be called Izzy."
"Don't like it?" Dr. Fredrick asked "I Hate it."
To be continued...
Identity – Part 2 (revised)
As Wendell and Izzy began to leave the building; Izzy began to figure out exactly why she felt off.
First was her sense of touch, or lack there of. She could still sense things when she touched them but it didn't feel like "touch".
She wondered if this was what it was like when people senses get mixed up and they say they taste blue.
Her sense of temperature was more like looking at a thermometer than experiencing hot and cold.
She noticed that her movements were more calculated and graceful but also more restrictive. Not that any human would notice the last part, as it tended to be little things like not being able to bend her fingers backward, and remembering the designs for a maidroid such things would quickly be overlooked by what her body could do.
A maidroid can do a perfect split both horizontally and vertically, it could put its heel to the back of its head, and perform various gymnastic feats. A maidroid's body was very much divided by the line of perfection/impossible.
Izzy thought she should probably give her new body a go through the motions once she got to Wendell's.
As she walked into the crowded lobby of Geno Electronics Izzy realized she really didn't feel self-conscious. She thought she would; here she was walking through a lobby wearing one of the stupid maidroid uniforms for everyone to gawk at. She should be as embarrassed as all hell.
Then again it wasn't as if really saw her. They just saw was a maidroid; a robot indistinguishable from any of the others that milled about the lobby.
They were everywhere; minding desks, cleaning floors, secretarial models following their owners about ready to record any utterance they spoke. The maidroids were outnumbering the humans a good two too one. She had less presence in that place then a vending machine.
They walked out of the building and entered Wendells car. Izzy hoped the mall would be as equally unawkward.
"You still haven't found something you like?" Wendell complained as they moved from Shop #11 to Shop #12.
"No" she replied, somewhat uncomfortably.
Truthfully, her indecision on the matter was starting to wear her as well. Why couldn't she find an outfit she liked? She didn't remember being this picky. Was the stranger's face and body looking back at her in the mirror?
Compounding this was the fact that walking about in public was starting to feel as awkward as she had originally feared it would, though not for the reasons she thought.
It wasn't the outfit, or the mere fact that she was a maidroid; there were almost as many around the mall as there were at the company.
The fact that several passersby were openly groping and fondling their droids to the complete apathy of the general public made the place seem a bit more relaxing in her mind.
Her problem was with her interactions with Wendell.
He was an intern and she bossed him around. She had always bossed him around; she remembered always bossing him around. But now it was accompanied by an uncomfortable and uneasy feeling. She suspected it was the many eyes it drew.
When she did it everyone looked at them. A maidriod ordering around a human was unheard of. Wendell's constant "Come on, just buy something you like!" were also beginning, to get annoying, but it did provided further motivation to accomplish her task.
Though Izzy was actually starting to get impressed at her own analytical powers, she had started looking at cloths at a normally, but as she went along, she realized she could just scan and extrapolate how the cloths would look on her body, and she could do it at an incredible rate; it got to the point were she was scanning 20 a second.
Not that it did any much good, the concept of "outfit you like" seemed to be getting increasingly epithermal and foreign.
"Come on, hurry it up!", Izzy had already reached 30 scans a second, it was starting to have an impact on her other systems.
"How about this? I'm sure you'd like this." Wendell grabbed some random cloths. "Ok, maybe that's a little to slu-" Wendell started as he actually looked at them, but was interrupted by Izzy.
"Thoseareperfect!Howdidyoudothat!?!Youhaveexcellenttaste!" she grabbed the outfit with mechanical speed and precision, and moved to the check with the same. Wendell ran after her, and quickly paid, as Izzy slowed herself down.
"Ok," Izzy mused to herself, "that was kind of weird."
With her cloths in hand, Wendell rushed her out of the mall; he'd have enough shopping for the day and Izzy didn't really feel like continuing the experience again either.
She looked at the cloths she bought, a tank top and lycra hot pants; the sort of outfit she had never liked, they always seemed awkward on her. But she was sure she liked it; she liked it a lot, but why?
Maybe it was her body.
Isabelle hadn't been unattractive, but she never been described as a "mechanical sex goddess" as penthouse did with their "Nymph" review.
She probably just needed to get used to the look of her new body.
"Ok, get us out of here!" Izzy ordered Wendell, then scanned outside. Not a person in ear shot, but for some reason she still felt uncomfortable doing it.
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The bedspread needs to be the right size for the bed. From smallest to largest, the conventional sizes are twin, full, queen, and king. Full is occasionally called double. There is likewise a California king, even bigger than a standard king. Young children have their own sizes. Some beds are not conventional at all. A king sized bedspread is going to be a problem if you have a twin sized bed.
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This specialist has 8 different ranges of duvet for you to select from in four different sizes so you actually are spoilt for selection. With duvets offered in single, double, king and extremely king, no matter what the size of your bed, you are assured a duvet to fit completely.
A whole universe of options is offered for purchasing low-cost superhero sheets twin sets online. Why is this true? Due to the fact that online vendors have very low overhead. Therefore, a merchant may keep their bedding inside a center located on incredibly low-cost land. If they wish to sell their bedding offline, however, they have to have a shop. All good shops are located on high-priced real estate.
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In buy to stop the dirtiness within the quilts and pillows, it actually is greater to cover them while in the bedding assortiment. If the down quilt or pillow is stained, people actually need to provide it to your dry cleaning stores, whilst other fiber cotton pillows and wholesale quilts could be straight cleaned within the cleaning device. And when it can be warm, people need to definitely just take all the bedding articles to bask in the sunlight at the well-ventilated area without any direct daytime. The appropriate timing is from 10 within the early morning to three while in the afternoon. In addition to that, when you desire to accumulate the bedding posts, it is much better for you to keep them dry and identify them inside the well-ventilated place.
Many individuals like to purchase designer bedding for a variety of reasons. While the fit might not be any different from that of typical duvets cover or fitted sheets, the quality of the material and designs and designs will vary greatly. Fitted sheets occasionally can be made in a contrasting color from the duvets cover for a new look also.
Another wonderful thing about these sets is that it has the typical standard size that is generally offered in dormitory. Nevertheless, simply to be sure, validate this with the university dorm. In addition, you can also decide to purchase these online. So if they need a brand-new set, you can acquire it online and have it directly provided to your daughter's or kid's dorm room. This saves them the trouble of heading out to find a set or having to await you to send them the money to acquire one.
Nowadays individuals likewise adopt matching quilts and bed covers to flatter their bed spreads. If you are going to search for options, they will be limitless. There are patchwork bedspreads, printed bed sheets, vintage bedspreads and lots of more to pick from. They likewise are available in diverse densities. From soft cottons to wool and polyester, there is one for every season. If a pure cotton one provides you a sensation of cool by absorbing the sweat, a woolen one will bring all the heat for the winter season chills.
There is absolutely nothing rather like the ideal lie in on a Sunday morning. After a long, hard week at work it is a Sunday morning relaxing with the national paper and morning meal in bed that all of us anticipate. To make your stay in bed even more comfy, a seasoned seller enables you to buy the most soft and luxurious down duvets in a range of different sizes.
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Between a duvet and a comforter, what is the actual difference? A Duvet is a quilted non- washable filled blanket without decors, it is generally white or off white in color. They likewise have down feathers while a comforter is a washable quilted filled blanket that has a variety of colors and is filled with synthetic fibers.
A lightweight duvet is your best alternative if you're looking to delight in undisturbed sleep. Numerous duvets have various fillings that ultimately decide its general weight. Amongst the several easily accessible alternatives, the goose down filled duvet is among the most comfortable. And, while goose down is one of the most expensive duvet fillings, it's actually worth it. It is durable and also works as a dazzling insulator. While this particular duvet variety could be utilized by practically any person; folks struggling with pain in the back can benefit most from it.


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MVP Project, one of the few (but relatively well-known) professional Counter-Strike teams in South Korea, has disbanded, leaving parent company MVP with one remaining team.
Team MVP announced Sunday via Facebook it would disband MVP Project, citing some problems within the team.
"Although MVP Project has shown consistent performances despite a number of roster changes, there were many issues within the team," the announcement reads. "The team has tried many potential solutions and worked hard to solve this issue, but there weren't any visible effects of that effort, and after spending a long time talking with the players to gather their opinions on the matter, the team has decided to disband."
MVP Project was perhaps one of the most successful Korean CS:GO teams and was active in the meager CS:GO scene in Asia. The team qualified for StarLadder Kiev in April, going up against more well-known teams such as Virtus.pro, Immortals, and Ninjas in Pyjamas.
The team has transitioned its support to MVP PK, which was formerly a professional Counter-Strike 1.6 org under the name project_kr that turned to CS:GO after the roster was acquired by MVP in June 2016. The coach for MVP Project, Ronald "Rambo" Kim, has also been transitioned to MVP PK, according to the announcement. MVP also recently disbanded one of its Overwatch teams, MVP Infinity.
The roster for MVP PK consists of Pyeon "termi" Seon-ho, Kang "solo" Keun-chul, Kim "glow" Min-soo, Jung "peri" Bum-gi, and Park "zeff" Min-seok.


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Absentee Ballots Are In: See the New Cortland County LegislatorsLocal News November 21, 2019
After several tight elections came down to absentee voting, the unofficial results are in filling the remaining vacancies on the 2020 Cortland County Legislature.
In the city of Cortland's District 5, Democrat Susan Wilson appears to have edged Republican Laurie Comfort by a mere three votes (171-168). Incumbent Chad Poli ran on a third party line and was out of consideration before the absentee counting.
The town of Cortlandville's District 12 seat appears to have been flipped, with Republican challenger Joe Nauseef defeating Democratic incumbent Michael Barylski by a 364-328 tally.
The net-neutral result preserves the overall 9-8 Republican majority on the legislature.
Additionally, Legislator Kathy Bischoff was re-elected to her LD-3 seat in the city of Cortland (filled in for Thomas Hartnett, who passed away in February)
Democrat Richard Stock also won back his LD-6 seat in the city of Cortland (filled in for Mary Ann Discenza, who retired in January)
Republican Gene Waldbauer was confirmed as Kevin Whitney's replacement in South Cortland's District 13.
In L.D. 17 (Cincinnatus/Freetown), Republican Mitchel Eccleston has defeated incumbent Joan Coombs, also Republican.
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We take a look at the Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L - the smallest bag in their everyday range.
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Quick Verdict
The Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L is a versatile and stylish bag that's very well made and offeres a lifetime warranty. It's a little on the expansive side but is designed to last a lifetime.
+ Pros
- Stylish
- Versatile dividers
- Very high quality manufacture
- Lifetime warranty
- Cons
- No feet on bottom to protect fomr wear
- Limited tablet space
The Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L is the smallest bags available in the Everyday range of bags, and comes in either black or ash grey. The bag can be worn across the body or as a shoulder bag and can hold a variety of kit from a small DSLR with lens to a compact drone and accessories. Here, we take a look at how it performs.
Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L Features
The Peak Design Everyday sling is a modern, geometric looking bag. We were given the ash colour version, which has tan leather accents on the handle and on the side.
The strap is made of strong, seatbelt-like material and is connected to the bag with pivoting rivets, offering flexibility for comfort when the bag is worn. Each side of the strap is adjustable in length and in the middle of it is a padded shoulder rest, one side of which can be unclipped for adaptability. On top of the bag is a robust and firm padded carry handle, and on the front is a padded zipped pocket.
Unzipping the main compartment gives way to 2 removable and adjustable dividers. There's a back pocket just large enough for a small tablet and on either side are 2 stretchy neoprene pockets. In the roof of the lid there is another zipped pocket with 4 memory card pouches - 2 with red stitching for used cards and 2 with black stitching for usable ones.
The bag is versatile and can be used for a variety of kit sizes and combinations ranging from a single DSLR with lens attached to a mirrorless kit with spare lens, or a small drone with accessories. The dividers are removable so the bag can be used for non-photography purposes aswell.
The bag is made from a weatherproof nylon canvas shell and weatherproof zips. There's also the ability to feed a belt or strap around the back of the bag so you could attach it to a larger rucksack or a robust belt if the contents aren't too heavy.
Key Features
- Holds small DSLR or smaller cameras and accessories
- Fully adjustable strap
- Can be worn as shoulder bag or across the body
- Flexfold dividers for customisable organisation
Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L Handling & Performance
The bag is designed well so that when you are wearing it, you can easily unzip the main compartment and remove your camera kit. The ability to adjust the bag from both ends is also good, for allowing you to change the position of the shoulder cushion according to how you wear it.
The design of the dividers is also very innovative - they're thin, but can be bent along the lines in all sorts of different ways to give you maximum versatility. One of them can even be folded down to create a shelf allowing you to store 2 items on top of each other.
The bag is padded on the back and feels good on the back when worn. It's relatively light as well, only weighing 500g. It's also compatible with the Peak Design Capture Clip, allowing you to attach a camera to the outside of the bag securely.
We were able to fit a Canon EOS 600D with attached 50mm lens and an additional Tamron SP 90mm comfortably in the bag. This is about as large as you can go in regards to cameras - a mirrorless kit and an extra couple of lenses would also fit nicely.
Value For Money
The Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L is available in the UK through 3 Legged Thing, for £100. This is quite expensive considering the size of the beg however it is marketed as a premium camera bag, made from a weatherproof nylon canvas shell.
The bag is extremely well made and comes with a lifetime warranty - so once you have it, you shouldn't need to replace it for a very long time.
Other bags of a similar capacity include the Crumpler Proper Roady 2.0 Camera Sling, which is available for £49. This bag doesn't have the same luxury construction however it is similar in terms of colour schemes. A slightly larger bag but one of a similar build quality is the Think Tank Urban Approach 10, which is available for £85 but doesn't have the same versatility of dividers as the Peak Design option.
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Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L Verdict
Overall, this bag is a stylish and modern option that's really well constructed and uses innovative geometric design to enable lots of different storage combinations.
It is expensive but it offers a lifetime warranty so is designed to last. The weatherproof outer fabric and zips also offer further peace of mind. What's great about this relatively small bag is that it doesn't limit you to one type of kit - many bags are designed solely for mirrorless, or DSLRs.
The versatility also extends to how it can be worn, with the strap working well for shoulder wear as well as crossbody wear.
Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L Pros
- Stylish
- Versatile
- Very high quality
- Lifetime warranty
Peak Design Everyday Sling 5L Cons
- No feet on bottom to prevent wear
- Only certain tablets will fit into the tablet pocket
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Presumably this smaller version is just as good.
It is quite an amazing bag. I can fit the Sony A7III with the 100-400mm zoom attached and still have room for my wide angle.
Or I can put in the camera with the Tamron 28-75mm zoom attached, two primes and a flash.
It just swallows things!
What it needs is a bottom plate.
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Merrill Lynch has lost big teams this year. Does it matter?
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Merrill Lynch has lost several multibillion-dollar teams during the first six months of 2018, but those high-profile losses don't appear to be slowing the thundering herd.
Six of the top 10 financial advisor recruits so far this year — who managed roughly $13.2 billion in client assets — came from Merrill Lynch, according to hiring announcements and recruiting data analyzed by On Wall Street.
However, those and other departures have not had a noticeable impact on Merrill Lynch's head count. The firm, which is enjoying low attrition, recently reported its advisor ranks fell by only nine brokers from the previous quarter to land at 14,820 for the second quarter.
By comparison, Wells Fargo's head count, at 14,226 advisors, was down by 173 advisors from the previous quarter, the bank reported in its second-quarter earnings release, issued July 13.
In total, the top ten advisor teams to switch firms so far this year managed $18 billion at their former employers, according to the data. The majority went independent, moved to regional broker-dealers or went to boutique firm J.P. Morgan Securities. None went to another wirehouse.
"I think that things have gotten much busier this year than last year," says Frank LaRosa, CEO at wealth advisor recruiting company Elite Consulting.
Regulatory uncertainties overshadowed the industry in 2017. At this time last year, advisors were waiting to see what policy changes, if any, the Department of Labor would take with regard to its fiduciary rule. The regulation was vacated by a federal appeals court earlier this year, ending a period of uncertainty for advisors, some of whom were concerned about how their firms would operate under fiduciary principles.
Of the largest teams by AUM to quit Merrill Lynch this year, most chose to go independent or head to J.P. Morgan Securities.
But while the teams might be big, the attrition is nothing out of the ordinary, says recruiter Michael Terrana.
"It's just normal attrition," says Terrana. "I don't see it as Merrill doing something that would provoke their advisors from leaving at this point."
LaRosa thinks these departing brokers are pursuing more sophisticated platforms and better technology for their clients, not necessarily a different culture.
However, one of the Merrill teams that went indie spoke otherwise.
"What really happened is we started to see a change and a shift from being client-focused to product-focused," says Melissa Bouchillon, one of the five advisors of Sound View Partners, which managed $1 billion in assets at while at Merrill Lynch.
The firm's FA ranks at 14,820 were down by only nine brokers from the previous quarter.July 16
A massive acquisition, the possible end of the Broker Protocol and other issues will shape the industry in 2018.November 28
Jim Senderling and John Robbie had been with Merrill Lynch for 27 and 25 years, respectively.July 16
Another team member, Emerson Ham, says that management started to add layers of time-consuming compliance. Despite his team's tenure and AUM, they had to follow all the same processes as an advisor who joined the wirehouse only a year ago.
"It just seemed to us that the business was being more and more run by regulators and by bank lawyers than by experienced people who had sat in our shoes," Ham says.
Whatever their motivations, advisors often expend considerable time deliberating whether to move, and once they do, it all happens very quickly.
"Our experience allows us to do a pretty quick turnaround," says Jerry Lombard, president of the private client group at Janney Montgomery Scott, which hired the $2 billion Glasgow group from Avondale Partners this year. "[It takes] generally 24 to 36 hours from the moment the financial advisor resigns until communications and paperwork are getting out to their clients."
For Janney, this has been a big year so far — the Glasgow group was the most significant team the firm has hired since 2014. J.P. Morgan Securities has had a good year as well; four of the ten biggest recruits joined the elite wealth management unit.
"These moves ― there's a lot of thought that goes into [them], a lot of anxiety, if you will, and you really question yourself." - Jim Aid
Lombard says that, while a firm can try to make the transition process as pain-free as possible, it really depends on the strength of the relationships between clients and advisor.
Jim Aid, an advisor managing $900 million in assets, who moved to RBC from Wells Fargo, says he hasn't taken a day off since his move in early June. The 12- to 14-hour days he has been working seem pretty routine by now.
"A move like this is not a 'what the heck' thing," says Aid. "These moves ― there's a lot of thought that goes into [them], a lot of anxiety, if you will, and you really question yourself."
Many of those leaving Wells Fargo have opted to join regional brokerage firms, including Aid, who was among the biggest recruiting moves of the year thus far.
While many of the advisors who contemplate leaving Merrill struggle with whether to pull the trigger, the firm itself does not appear to be sweating the departures.
Advisor headcount has been relatively unaffected, according to the second quarter earnings report. This was also the case for Morgan Stanley and UBS as well, who have managed to slow down their attrition since leaving the Broker Protocol.
A spokeswoman at Merrill Lynch says the firm is actively recruiting advisors with three to eight years of experience.
"We believe that experienced advisors see Merrill Lynch as the brokerage firm of choice to serve their clients' financial and life goals, and our numbers bear that out," said the spokeswoman.
Not only has headcount been relatively unaffected, assets are up, too.
Client balances reached $2.3 trillion for the second quarter, up from $2.2 trillion for the same period a year ago, a 4.5% increase, the company reported as part of its earnings. And Bank of America's wealth management unit, which includes Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust, reported net income increased to $968 million from $804 million, an approximately 20% increase.
But to the advisors making a career change, it's not about the data points.
"I think most advisors that do make a transition, what they're looking for, and what I was looking for … is true improvement," says Aid. "To be in an environment that just feels comfortable, [where] the energy level is high, [where] you're surrounded by optimism."
And anxieties aside, advisors expressed satisfaction in their decision, and said most of their clients shared the feeling.
"I remember the first couple of weeks, clients were bringing baskets of food, champagne, letters," says Ham. "That was not something I was expecting."
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Montagny Should Be Banned For Life, Says Racing Legend
Montagny Should Be Banned For Life, Says Racing Legend
Racing legend Mario Andretti has remarked that Franck Montagny should be permanently banned from the sport. Andretti made this comment after Montagny tested positive for a cocaine derivative recently.
Mario told reporter Simon Pausch in an interview with Germany's Die Welt that the career of Franck Montagny would be over if he had his way. Andretti said it is a big disappointment for us all, as he also endangered every other driver on the track and added what he did is unforgivable in our sport.
However, Mario remarked doping is far from widespread in the sport. The racing legend said current anti-doping regulations in place are doing what they are designed to do. Mario remarked there are always some black sheep but there is no doping or drug problem in racing. He went on to remark that the fact that Montagny was busted just shows that the control system works.
Franck Montagny recently competed in the first two races of the 2014-15 FIA Formula E season for Andretti Autosport that is run by Michael Andretti, Mario's son and former open-wheel standout. The French motor racing driver, who competes in Formula E for Andretti Autosport, briefly raced for the Super Aguri Formula One team in 2006. It is believed by some that the 37-year-old Frenchman's brush with cocaine may actually date all the way back to his F1 career that spanned test roles at Toyota and Renault.
Once considered a top prodigy in formula and endurance racing, the French driver won five American Le Mans Series races (including thrice at the Petit Le Mans). Montagny finished the 24 Hours of Le Mans on the podium four times and contested seven grands prix for the Super Aguri team. In 1988, Montagny started racing karts and won the cadet class in the French Karting Championship in 1992 and the National 1 class in 1993. In 1994, he made his debut in cars and won the French Renault Campus championship. In 1998, Franck Montagny had a breakthrough year in Formula Three where he went ahead of experienced drivers including Luciano Burti, Mark Webber, Enrique Bernoldi, and Peter Dumbreck. In 2009, Montagny made his IndyCar Series debut with Andretti Green Racing at the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma at Infineon Raceway.
Andretti Autosport has now announced that Montagny was replaced in Punta Del Este by Jean-Eric Vergne.
The former Super Aguri driver fears his motorsport career may be over after he was suspended from competition pending final confirmation of any sanction. French newspaper L'Equipe has quoted that the ex-Formula 1 driver has not contested the result of a test carried out after the second Formula E round in Malaysia on November 22 2014. Montagny was quoted as saying that auto sports is perhaps over for him and said he saw the guy who tests signaling to him at the end of the race and he understood immediately that it was dead. Montagny told French publication L'Equipe that he is at fault and he will not argue. Montagny now waits for a final ruling from the FIA.
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