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10 Tips for New Hubbers from an Almost New Hubber
Some Helpful Tips I Have Learned Early On
I didn't come to HubPages with a lot of writing or social networking experience. The only work that I have ever had published were a few letters to the editor. Truth be told, I didn't belong to a social network, have a blog, or earn money on the internet. Networking, backlinking, keywords, search engine optimization (SEO) and monetizing my work are still foreign to me.
I have had a few experienced Hubbers, directly or indirectly, help me as I have gotten started. I also think I have figured out a few things along the way.
Here are 10 helpful tips, pearls of wisdom, or suggestions that may help you as you begin your writing career on HubPages.
As I approach a year on HubPages, I stand by my recommendations. In fact, probably the most important recommendation is to write quality Hubs. It may take time, but quality, well written Hubs will be found and you will be rewarded in the long run.
#1 Write and Read
Experienced hubbers often suggest to new hubbers to write, write, and write more. I agree. Writing more and reading others work has several benefits:
- Writing more will make you a better writer. The more you do something, the better you get at it. You develop a writing style and find your niche. You discover what works for you.
- I see writing Hubs as an investment that will pay off over time. The more hubs you write, the more traffic that will see your work. The more page views, the more followers, the more links and backlinks, the higher your work will appear in search engine results which will ultimately lead to more income for your efforts.
- Read the work of other Hubbers, particularly quality writers who have had success on HubPages. Study their work. Try to figure out the style, techniques, or presentation that help make them so successful.
- Still not motivated, maybe this Hub by J.S. Matthew will help, 5 Things New Hubbers Can Do to Get Motivated and Noticed Writing on HubPages.
#2 Use Your Own Work
Plagiarism is never right. You don't want someone taking your work, don't use the work of others. If you must, give credit where credit is due.
- First and foremost, write your own material. Do not copy or otherwise use the work of others. As I understand it, do not use your HubPage work as original work on other sites.
- When you do research, use credible sites. Reference the material that you do use.
- Get a camera to take your own pictures. A small camera is easy to carry with you. You never know when you may get an idea for a new Hub and want a photo for it. If you would like more info about a good affordable camera, check out this J.S. Matthew Hub.
- If you need a picture that you don't have, get it from an open source. Missolive and ChristianS have written great hubs on sources for free photos. I have also used royalty free photos from Fotolia.com. Do NOT use pixelated or watermarked photos.
#3 Nothing But the Best
"Excellence is a Standard, Not a Goal"
Always try to be the best.
- Write Quality Always try to write the best quality Hubs that you can. Reread and edit your Hubs, even after they are published. Edit them for grammar and spelling. Continuously strive to improve them. Quality Hubs will attract readers, hold their attention, and help develop a following.
- Follow Quality Follow Hubbers that write about topics that interest you. But, maybe even more important, follow quality Hubbers. Try to identify what works for them and apply it to your work.
- Be Quality Participate in the HubPages community. Leave quality comments. Ask good questions. Answer questions from other Hubbers. Sometimes a question can lead to an idea for a Hub like this one. Join a forum. Participation will lead to accolades and help to establish your credibility. While these accolades can seem like merit badges, quality Hubbers participate in the community and earn their accolades.
- Share Quality You can use the link at the bottom of a Hub to share it with your HubPage followers, as well as FaceBook, Twitter, Google+, etc. followers. You can also use the "Suggest Links" tool for suggestions to link phrases in your Hub to other Hubbers. As Hubber sholland suggests, 'share and share alike'.
#4 In a Capsule
Hubs are formatted into capsules. You assemble the capsules, adding or positioning them to produce the look you want for your Hub. Types of capsules include: text, photo, video, link, comment, map, table, poll, and advertising (Amazon and eBay).
When you start a new Hub you have options for commonly used layouts. The default layout for an article includes 3 capsules: a text capsule with a photo capsule to the right and a comment capsule below. There is also an option for a video Hub that includes a video capsule at the top. Specialty templates are being developed such as the one for recipes that includes capsules for rating, ingredients, cook time, nutrition, and instructions. You can also use one of your current Hubs as a template.
Through trial and error, this is what I have found works for me with regard to capsules:
- Almost always add more capsules to the template (sholland suggests at least 5 text capsules). I like to break my hubs up, even if they will be almost exclusively text hubs such as this one. I find that multiple text capsules are like paragraphs and they make it easier for me to write and edit my hubs. It also allows me to insert photos, maps, polls, or ads so that they appear in the middle of my text in the final product.
- Rearrange your capsules to create the optimal final product.
- Some capsules you can place side-by-side, some you can't. You can place a photo hub to the right of a text capsule, but you can't place it to the left. You can place Amazon and/or eBay capsules side-by-side, but you can't place photo capsules side-by-side.
Preview Modes
#5 Make Your Hubs Look Good on a Mobile Device
The HubPages App is no longer available, but Hubs are often viewed with a browser on a mobile device. Check to see how your Hubs will look when viewed on a mobile device.
- In the "Edit" Hub Mode, click on the "Preview" button at the top of the page.
- You then have the option of viewing the Hub you are editing in either the "Desktop Preview" (default) or "Mobile Preview" modes.
- Check BOTH modes.
- Edit and re-edit your Hubs until they look the way you want.
#6 Spruce Up Your Hubs
By design, there are only limited things you can do to alter the appearance of your Hubs. HubPages wants to keep the look professional but they are continuously trying to improve (such as the trial of the blue background for some Hubs). Tricked out pages can look spammy. Even within these limitations, you can make your Hubs attractive to your readers.
From the "edit" options for the text capsule, you can change the type to bold, italic or underlined.
You can change the size of your type from the "format" pull down options.
- Use a photo capsule for something other than a photo. Homesteadbound wrote a hub "Creating Dividers to Use on Your Hubs" that demonstrates how to use dividers to place between your capsules. (See between this text capsule and the next.)
- For long Hubs, create a Table of Contents. Links can help your reader navigate around the Hub to the specific area that interests them. Darkside wrote a Table of Contents Hub and SidKemp expanded on the idea in his Hub, Create a Table of Contents for Your Hub - Quick and Easy.
- Use an ad capsule for a photograph and as a recommendation. For instance Outbound Dan, an expert on hiking and hiking equipment, in his hub on "Why Cotton Can Kill You on a Hike", used an Amazon ad for a synthetic t-shirt as a picture and as his recommendation for an alternative to a cotton t-shirt.
- Missolive has a Hub with suggestions on how to bling your hub.
#7 Don't Be Afraid To Ask For Help
For a novice internet writer, HubPages can be intimidating. Don't worry, help is available.
- The HubPages Learning Center has a lot of Hubs that can answer the questions of newbie, as well as experienced, Hubbers.
- Post your question in the "Help Forum". The HubPage community is quick to respond and help you out.
- Study hubs of experienced Hubbers. What did they do that attracted you to their Hub? Was it the topic, the style of writing, or the presentation? Learn from their style and use it to help develop your own style.
#8 Pearls of Wisdom to Keep Your Readers
Once you have your readers, keep your readers.
- We write our Hubs for our readers, to keep our readers, and to attract more readers. Hubs that are well written will attract readers which leads to followers, shares, and more readers.
- Interesting, well written Hubs will hold the attention of a reader from start to finish. Use, but not overuse, of photos, polls, maps, tables and videos will also help to keep your reader engaged.
- Sinea Pies wrote a great hub, "Readers--How to Keep Them" that included the instructions on how to have links in your hub open in a different window. This involves using the HTML option for editing text capsules. By adding target="_blank" after the href (see the Hub for details on how to do this), when a reader clicks on your link, the link opens in another window. Your Hub is still open in a window that the reader can easily go back to. You haven't lost your reader or more importantly, they haven't lost you.
- A word of caution about the Link Capsule. It does not appear that you can use this trick to open these links in another window. I suggest you place the Link Capsule at or near the bottom of your Hub. If your reader gets that far, they will have read most or all of your Hub. If they click on a link, they will leave your page, but not before reading your Hub.
#9 If You Have A Mac, You May Be On Your Own
Some of the technical questions suggest ways to do things and assume you have a PC with Microsoft Office. If you are using a Mac, you may be on your own. Here are a few suggestions that may help Apple users out.
- In Homesteadbound's Hub on creating dividers, she mentions right and left clicking with a mouse (PC set-up). If you have a MacBook like I do, I have a track pad with one bar to click. There is no obvious right or left click option. Clicking on the bar is the same as "right clicking" with a PC mouse. To left click, you have to press the "control" button at the same time as you press the bar.
- PC keyboards have a "screenshot" button to quickly take a picture of your screen (often useful for explaining or demonstrating something). My Mac keyboard doesn't have a 'screenshot' button. For a Mac, you have 3 ways to capture a screenshot on an Apple computer.
- If you have an iPhone or an iPad, here are 3 ways to capture a screenshot with one of these devices.
What do you think of this Hub?
#10 Final Thoughts
HubPages is not a get rich quick scheme. It takes a lot of time and effort to be successful. Here are 2 more Hubbers who have put in the time and their efforts have paid off. Hopefully, their success and the success of the other Hubbers I have mentioned here will help to motivate you.
- At the beginning, I was happy when I passed a 1000 total page views and had a 100 page view day. I am know well over 100,000 on my way to 1,000,000!
- I had been on HubPages a little over 2 months when I originally wrote this Hub. When sholland was on HubPages a 1 year, she celebrated with this Hub, First Year at HubPages: What I Wish I Had Known from the Beginning.
New Hubbers, check out the links I have provided. They are to great Hubbers and you can learn from them like I did. Hubbers like to help other Hubbers.
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Great advice
H ibankscottage
Very interesting hub with wonderful tips. Really thanking you for sharing your great ideas.
I guess I should alrady know most of this stuff, but it's good to see it all written down. Great Hub.
This was a powerful and well written hub, I'm going to take your advice and ask you to review a couple of my CellAllure hubs and tell me if I'm doing a good job as far as content and writing goes. thank you for the great advice
Great tips and advice for new hubbers! #5 is very useful to me. I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out how to get my photos between my paragraphs until I discovered that I could use several capsules in each hub. I've been around now for almost 2 months and am still learning. Thanks for your info.
All the 10 tips mentioned are a gem - I totally second your though "writing Hubs as an investment that will pay off over time. "
I have been on HubPages for quite a few years now but still consider myself a newbie as I haven't written a lot of hubs.. but I do have some blogging and social networking experience and will look forward to using your tips while hubbing here... Cheers!
Just to follow up, I've been using the app for a couple of days, it's not bad, quite basic though and still prefer to come on site through a browser but maybe it will just take some getting used to.
A great hub with very practical tips and great links to additional information. Smart!
I know I'm probably beginning to sound like a broken record to my keyboard but thank you for writing this, as I am new to Hubpages I have been looking for the best ways to do things and this well written Hub is another in a chain of Hubs I've read that are amazingly informative and helpful. Funny enough I have a Mac and those particulars weren't a problem for me but I know many that it might be. Ahhhhhh, PC'S vs. MACS.
Thanks for this! I am also a newbie to hubpages! Didn't even realise there was a hubpages app, il be checking that out! Thank you and well done
Very helpful for new hubbers like me!!! Voted up!!! :)
Excellent article with a lot of information to absorb for a new hubber! Thank you!
Bankscottage, I'm so glad I came across this hub. I must say it's one of the best "tutorials" I've seen on hp. I've learned things here that I didn't know in my brief 3 months here. Thank you so much for this. Voted up, useful, and awesome.
This is great advice. I didn't really know what I was doing when I started out. It was very hit and miss. Reading advice like this from other Hubbers was a huge help. Voted up and shared also.
These are very useful tips which I am bookmarking for future use. Keep up the good work! Voted up and sharing!
Hi bankscottage,
Although responding to a lot of comments can be overwhelming, posting feedback to comment is very important and am glad you did point it here. The readers of the article find time to comment on our hubs so it is only fair that we respond to those comments as well. Personally i tend to feel guilty when i don't respond to comments. Great tips, voted up and useful.
Thanks so much for writing this. I've just started writing Hubs on a regular basis and had no idea how to use Adwords to choose topics and keywords. Very helpful.
Excellent hub....I enjoyed reading your helpful hints....I think no matter how long a person has been on HubPages they can still learn more about HubPages. Your 10 tips are very useful ones and it sounds like you are well on your way to 100K views....keep up the good work. Voted up and useful.
As a new Hubber myself of just over 3 weeks, these tips are definitely very useful! I'll be keeping these handy from now own :) Thank you!
As a fairly new Hubber, I appreciate this great advice!
You have an excellent hub with some great tips. I've been here for a little over a year and I'm still learning. Thanks for your advice.
Very good Hub Bankscottage
Great Advice. You sound like a seasoned veteran. Also wish I had read this when I started. Voting up.
I wish I had read this when I first started out on Hubpages. This is one of the best HOW TO DO HUBPAGES articles that I've ever come across. You have definitely done your research and incorporated what you've learned in this hub. Several links here that I want to hop into as soon as I finish this comment and click on the follow you button. Wonderful hub! I will share this one too!
Voted up, useful and shared. I'm not that new but sometimes it still feels like it! I'm not very technically minded so am still learning. I was especially interested to read your AppleMac advice - brilliant! Thanks for that. I'm often asking for such things and find it very difficult to get answers. Excellent advice for new hubbers and anyone still wanting to learn! You also mentioned Sinea Pies and MissOlive; they are full of good advice, all of which works! This is a well presented, clear hub packed with sensible options, some of which I knew but needed reminding about. Well done for doing such a lot in 3 months.
Hi BanksCottage,
great Hub, full of excellent tips and advice. As a newbie myself I found the links to other Hubbers, invaluable and essential resources for even more tips,
thanks for writing,
Thank you:) If you have any questions just let me know!
For an "almost new hubber" you are on a roll. Excellent tips and information for others to learn from. I'm still learning after 14 months on HP, there's always something new and exciting or annoying on HP:) Well done!
A wonderful and very welcome hub! Your writing and layout skills are excellent. Thanks for the tips and the reminders. You are right, bankscottage, there are quite a few excellent hubbers who have shared a great deal of information and ideas with us.
Welcome to HubPages. I wish you continued success. Voted Up, interesting, useful and beautiful.
What a great hub you have here! You have put together some wonderful information here for newbies as well as those of us who have been here a while.
Thanks for mentioning my divider hub! I have created quite a few hubs to help other hubbers, many at their request, and most have been here longer than I have so I know this will be beneficial to many.
Welcome to HubPages! It's a great place to be!
Wow! This is really interesting and wonderful information. You have listed some great tips which are really useful for newbies. Thanks for sharing and voted up :)
Well I will be sure to thank homesteadbound for the info, and I will thank you again for getting it to me at the perfect moment. :)
A hubtastic Hub on hubbing and internet writing in general. I think most new Hubbers tend to write huge blocks of text without breaking it up with capsules and pictures. The information is there, it just makes it difficult to read.
Thanks for the shout out!
This is a great hub with a lot of good advice. Thank you for #5! The look of my hubs is definitely something I have been a little lazy with. I was a bit overwhelmed thinking about getting into all of that. Now that you have given me some ideas and resources I feel a lot more comforatble about getting started with some ideas.
To comment on JaneA's comment: I am a wordy gal myself. I have a teacher who gave me some of the best editing advice ever. "Go back and take out half of the words."
Some great ideas here. Your comment on improving writing reminded me of something I think TS Eliot said: If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter! Being succinct is key. Image-wise, I like to use my own images but also free stock images occasionally on my hubs.


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A black and white bedroom has a great timeless quality, but should the colours be equal within the space, or is it better to tip the balance one way more than the other? Try an all-white room with black accent pieces, or black walls with white bedroom furniture for example.
This might all be down to the effect you want. A predominantly white bedroom gives the feeling of space – go for white walls, a white bed and white wardrobes, then supplement with a black mirror and other black accessories. Paint the walls black, or just one wall, and it can make the room feel cosier. Brighten up a black room with mirrors, lamps and wall art.
The trick is to find the right balance, as this will give a more cohesive look. A hotel-style feel can work, with stark white walls, silk bed linen and black cushions. Finish with black bedside tables and lampshades.
Another good idea when planning your black and white bedroom ideas is to make the most of the contrast between these two neutrals – use white in areas where natural light can highlight it, and black where the room's focal points should be.
Black and white will definitely make an impact, so keep the furniture to a minimum and let the contrast shine. A black and white bedroom can still be practical, yet look highly effective, with a careful selection of items.
Start with your choice of bed. You could make this a strong focal point with a dramatic statement piece. A black ottoman bed with built-in storage will look impressive and be useful for hiding away clutter. Or try the stand-out lines of a black metal bed frame, paired with an elaborate headboard. Use fresh white bed linen in either case.
Space-saving furniture elsewhere in the room will complement the look. Be strict on the number of other pieces you include, keeping it to the essentials and focusing on items to help minimise clutter - such as a roomy white chest of drawers.
To complement your black and white bedroom ideas, marry your chosen furniture with a glossy wooden floor. Adding a single eye-catching piece for detail, such as a modern chandelier, works well too.
Having two strong neutral colours in a room can sometimes make it feel flat, but you can avoid this by mixing up the textures, patterns and materials in your accessories as part of your black and white bedroom ideas. This will give added warmth and interest.
A good space for this is on top of the bed itself. Choose finishing touches such as cushions and pillow covers of varying fabrics, including chunky wool knits, silk or suede. Look for striped or floral black-and-white patterns too. The same applies to your choice of blankets, throws or rugs.
You can vary the colour scheme slightly also – grey, cream or silver work very well with a bedroom that's monochrome. Try adding a grey rug or a silver mirror. Black and white together will create hard edges, but differing the textures helps to soften this. Vary the lighting too, with pendants and floor lamps, to add more drama.
Mix black and white together – what do you get? Grey, of course. The perfect colour to bridge the divide between the two, and another neutral to include as part of your black and white bedroom. Plus grey is very on-trend right now, with lots of bedroom furniture in this versatile colour.
Start very simply with a grey bed frame, sat against a white wall, with a black chest of drawers either side, or vice-versa. Try some grey wardrobes, a black bed frame and white sheets – there are many combinations.
Perhaps work grey in as the colour of your accessories. Choose a grey headboard, then build on this with grey cushions and a grey rug. Grey is also the colour of shadow, so some creative lighting, casting a grey shadow onto a white surface, can set the mood in a black white and grey bedroom.
Also try a metallic or a silver instead of a flat grey – adding a mirror, some silver cushions, or maybe some black-and-white photographs. Luxe materials come in grey too, consider a pair of marble side tables next to the bed.
The great thing about a simple black and white colour scheme is that bright colours will stand out against it. So it's no surprise that black and white bedroom ideas often include a zesty accent colour or single colourful trophy item.
Yellow works well with black and white, adding an explosion of energy. Use a single yellow cushion on your bed, or perhaps try a warm mustard rug. You could introduce an eye catching floral pattern in the wonderful hue too.
If you have a black white and grey bedroom, try adding pops of colour. Perhaps opt for a pink sofa, or something as equally unexpected, like an orange rug.
Citrus shades work well with black and white, as do metallics. Help to draw the eye with a gold mirror hanging above the bed, or wall art with silver frames.
A monochrome colour scheme is perfect for a guest bedroom as it suits both masculine and feminine styling. With some clever black and white bedroom ideas, everyone will feel at home.
Often a guest bedroom will be quite small, so you might want white on the walls rather than black to increase the feeling of space. If a double bed overwhelms the room, consider a smaller bed such as a day bed, or opt for a black sofa bed for versatile style.
Bedroom furniture for guests is usually simplistic – just somewhere to sleep, storage, and a few home comforts like a reading lamp on top of a bedside table. A mirrored wardrobe will help to increase the feelings of space if the room is small, while black side tables will add a slick touch. Add a pair of black table lamps to finish. Go for a number of cushions on the bed, plus multiple blankets and throws, this allows the guests to tailor their temperature and comfort.
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We didn't get a 3G iPhone at Macworld, but at least we got a software update that brings pseudo-GPS abilities, customizable home pages and more to Apple's coveted handheld. Here's a few quick first impressions.
GPS: Actually, we're not talking actual GPS here; instead, this update to the iPhone's Maps app triangulates your position according to your distance from the nearest cell phone towers. You activate the feature by tapping a little bulls-eye in the left-hand corner of the Maps interface; 10 to 30 seconds later, a blue circle appears on the map showing your approximate location-and "approximate" is the key word. In my first few tries, the circle encompassed almost a third of Manhattan-a pretty massive swath of land, and not terribly helpful for, say, finding the nearest ATM. A couple of tries later, however, Maps found my location within a block; not bad at all.


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Greetings Hikers,
For the past six months I have had the opportunity to use incredibly unique 2013 Double Diamond Vest manufactured exclusively by Klymit. This is a vest that stands apart from the rest of the hiking vest community. It does not have down inside of it, nor does it have synthetic material inside of it to help keep you warm. Rather it uses NobleTex insultion, which is the use of specific materials combined together with the noble gas called Argon. Klymit over the last year or two has perhaps become more known for its sleeping pads than its vests, which is all that Klymit originally offered when they got started back in August of 2007. They reminded the hiking world of the fact that they are also a clothing manufacturer in October of 2012 when they announced their Ulaar Jacket via a Kickstarter project.
For 2013 they also made a few changes to their flagship vest, the Double Diamond vest. It, like their sleeping pads and other garments, features their signature welding process for material – giving it that distinct tube style design. Just to put this out there as a disclaimer before I go any further, Klymit sent this vest to me for T&E and I was/am under no obligation to publicly share my thoughts on this vest. I was intending to return the vest within sixty days or so after getting it, but here I am almost 200 days later and I am still wearing, testing, and trying to find my full thoughts on this product. More and more I am trying to spend at least 200 days using a product before I write my thoughts about it. In the early days of my hiking and writing articles I had no problem pushing out an article with a product I only had for a few days or maybe a week or two. The internet is becoming flooded with gear reviewers who do articles after getting their product and maybe using it for a day or two, if at all.
The more predominant I become the more I realize that is not fair to my readers, so I want to say a huge thank you to Klymit for allowing me to keep this vest way beyond their standard T&E duration. I will also disclose that I rarely discuss T&E gear. Usually if I accept a piece of gear from a company to do testing and evaluation I will do what needs to be done, and if I end up liking it I ship it back to them, buy one, and only then write an article about it. This vest, however, is one of those rare pieces of gear that so intrigues me that I have just not been able to give it up and send it back to them. I have had a serious use/not-use/use relationship with this vest. I have used it for a few hundred miles out on the trail, then it would sit on my table at home for weeks on end, only to make it back into my backpack. It has become extremely rare for me to have a piece of gear that seems so specific at being able to solve a specific set of requirements for certain weather conditions, and to be completely honest, I am still not sure if this could be one of those "all weather conditions" garments or if it should just stay at home for part of the year.
But, moving on from my own thoughts and uses on this vest, let us get into the specs and details. All of this can, of course, be found on the products website. The vest comes in at a little over 13 ounces – which is extremely heavy for any vest in this day and age. But the weight of this vest is one of the things that makes it stand apart from the rest of the vest industry, which has tended to focus on ultralight material and higher loft down. The direction that Klymit has taken has been to pretty much say you can wear this vest in any weather conditions and it does not matter one bit if it gets wet. Forget about ever having to worry about this vest getting wet and becoming worthless. Even if you have a down vest made of Gore-Tex, this vest by Klymit can still do what a Gore-Tex vest cannot do… it can get completely soaked and still provide warmth. Gore-Tex, eVENT, WPBCF, Toray Dermizax, blah to all of you. Through the use of Argon and the heavier 4-way stretch material, the Klymit 2013 Double Diamond Vest has helped me keep my core-temperature regulated in the most torrential rain storms that we can get here in the Redwood rain forests of Northern California. When controlling your core body temperature is more important than a few ounces of weight, I do not think a more logical choice for a vest exists. A few years ago I bought a Nuntak Torre Expedition Parkas with the Nextec 'Epic' material and that material is extremely water resistant, but even then I had worries at times about the parka not being able to handle long term rain storms without having a WP barrier over it. With the Klymit Double Vest that is something I never once had to worry about. I could/have cross streams, jump into rivers, stand under waterfalls, and not once did I have to worry about this vest having problems, because it does not use any down/syn material that we normally have to do everything we possibly can to keep dry. The question of weight versus usability is one that only you can answer, but the longer I have owned this vest the more I have ended up using it here in the rainforest of Northern California.
The material, as I mentioned above, is a 4-way stretch material, which makes it really able to handle moving around, crawling over downed trees, trying to find my way through half-mile patches of 6-foot tall ferns, and everything else I have been able to throw at it. I have no idea what denier material it is, but I have utterly beat the crap out of it and have not had a single problem with the material not holding up. At times I have used the vest as a sit-pad and even as a quasi air-pad (yeah, that is probably a good way to void the warranty) and it never let me down. It has suffered no issues from rubbing from the shoulder pads of my backpack for the few hundred miles I have worn it out on the trail. It has double zippers so you can easily vent from either the top of the vest or the bottom if you find yourself overheating. If you would like to see a video that really shows off this vests material check out this video which is for the Klymit Ulaar Jacket, but the jacket and vest are made from the same material, so it is all applicable.
The vest has two external pockets, but it also has a couple of huge internal pockets. By huge, I mean huge. You could easily stuff two snow skiing gloves inside just one side of the vest. What I have found that I end up doing is to place my Mountain Laurel Design eVENT gloves and my Black Rock Gear Nobul Hat into one side, and my snacks and compass into the other side of the internal pockets.
Within the left-side pocket is the inflator (dry air pump) that allows you to fill up the vest with air. Additionally, if you acquire the Argon Starter Kit, which I highly recommend you do, then you pull off the inflator pump and the Argon inflator attaches to the tube. Now here is one of the things that has made me put the vest aside a few times: for the 2013 edition of the vest Klymit did away with the control valve that use to be on the outside of the vest, located on the left-front shoulder region – reference this photograph – and now, instead, it exists within the left-side external pocket. I took this photograph to be able to present it, as Klymit does not display this on their website. The problem seems to be that if you have a few items in this outside pocket, say a pair of heavy gloves, the little button can get pressed in and it lets all of the air or argon that is inside of the vest and next thing you know, your vest is deflated. This is, and has been, my only complaint with this jacket in the six months that I I have been using it. If you are using regular air with the hand air pump, it is not all that big of a deal, but if you are carrying around the argon inflator (aka: klmitizer) and the 53.33 gram (1.88 ounce) argon canisters it can get frustrating, because it results in carrying more weight that you should not have too and because the argon canisters cost 20 bucks for a three-pack. So again, my only real complaint with this vest is this one issue.
So let's talk about the warmth of this vest. Not being down or synthetic it depends on heavy material, pockets of air, and if you use it, argon, to keep you warm. There is one really huge trick that I learned (thanks to Grant Sible, Ron Moak and Ken Thompson, who were all telling me to do this on me on a hike just after I got it) is to use the draw strings on the bottom of the vest to really tighten it up and prevent air-flow. With all of my down vests I have never needed to do that, but that seems to be a big key when wearing this vest. Once I finally listened to those three guys and started doing this, within about 20 minutes I could easily notice a good twenty degree or more warmth difference.
When I asked Klymit about what temps the Argon really starts to play a role in things they indicated to me that you should 'be able to feel the difference when you get below about 20-25 F'. For me, it was closer to 38(f) but I am a cold weather woosie and anytime I expect it to be under forty degrees or so I just filled it up with Argon.
Regarding inflation durations, I get about one week of it staying inflated (if I happen to not press the little deflate valve inside the pocket) with it inflated with regular air and once I had it stay inflated for a little over two weeks. With the argon I am able to keep it inflated for a solid week, so long as I am wearing it all day long. I have noticed that with both air and argon if tends to deflate a bit sooner if I am not wearing it all day, and instead putting it into my backpacks front pocket.
Speaking of putting it inside of a backpack, one of the neat tricks I have been using it for at times is a quasi pack frame. Sort of like the Klymit AirBeam. I had this idea after using it as a sleeping pad one night on a SUL hike (I could not find a soft piece of ground to sleep on) and the next morning rather than deflate it (I had put argon into it and did not want to deflate it – it costs ~$2.50 to fill it up with argon) I was packing all my gear into my backpack and had the idea to use it as one of those inflatable air frames that I first saw Klymit and MLD partner together to make, called the Klymit Inflatable Back Pad. I figured it would be worth a try, so I zipped it up, put it into my backpack before anything else, and sure enough, it worked out pretty well to provide some nice rigidity to the pack. Highly doubt it helped with providing an real world load distribution to my hip, but it made the pack stiffer and that is all that I really cared about.
So what are my final thoughts on the Klymit 2013 Double Diamond Vest? I now wear it on an almost daily basis here in the Redwood rain forest of Northern California, both out on the trail and around town. I get a whole lot of folks looking at it and asking questions about it, and that is always a good thing. This vest is a top of the line hiking product that can be used in all four seasons – from torrential rain storms to mild summer evenings. It is extra long in length and that has its good points and its bad points – if you have it inflated and forget to unzip it before you sit down, it'll hit you in the chin because the material is so stiff, but it is also nice because just about everywhere here in the Redwoods is wet year-around, so it makes it so I can sit down without getting my butt all wet. The vest has done an amazing job at keeping my core body warm – even when it and the rest of my cloths were completely wet from hours and hours of walking in the rain. My only final thought on this vest is that if it continues to perform as well as it has the last six months, and I fully expect it to do so, is that I just wish that the Klymit Ulaar Jacket was not 300 bucks, because that jacket could be very very tempting for me to buy as a four season jacket, for here in the rainforest of Northern California!
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In accordance of USA Federal Trade Commission 16 CFR, Part 255: I hereby declare that the Klymit product(s) mentioned within the content of this article were supplied to me on a temporary basis as T&E product(s).
As of the day of publication of this article I am a sponsored hiker of Montbell America, Gossamer Gear, Black Rock Gear, Suluk46.


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With the constant opening and closing that car doors take from their owners, it's no surprise that they eventually get misaligned. From hard-to-close doors to annoying rattling noises from the latch, a loose, misaligned door can definitely be a bother. If it takes nothing less than slamming your door fiercely to get it to close, then your door striker needs a little fix up. Replacing this tiny U-shaped metal part can make all the difference to your door issues, all for a fraction of your time and minimal cost.
Since door strikers are relatively cheap replacement parts, it is wise to invest in sturdy, corrosion-resistant ones such as those that are zinc-coated.
Step 1: Mark the location of your old striker using a pencil.
Step 2: Unscrew the old striker and make sure that the area is free from wax that can accumulate from carwashes. If the door striker pins are worn or corroded, make sure to replace them as well.
Step 3: Place the new striker on the marked location and screw it in a bit loosely.
Step 4: Close your door to check the alignment. Move the striker around with your hammer until you figure out the exact position that will allow your doors to latch properly.
Step 5: Fully tighten the screws making sure that the striker plate is securely in place.
Step 6: Repeat the procedure for any remaining problematic door strikers.
While door strikers only cost around 20 to 50 bucks and about 15 minutes to replace, it's still advisable to perform regular maintenance on them. Cleaning debris that gather around the latch and applying lubricant about twice a year ensures a longer-lasting door striker plus the feel of a brand new door with that crisp closing sound.


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Santa Teresa di Gallura, Sardinia
The town runs along a promontory that looks north to the southern coast of Corsica from which it is separated from the Bocche di Bonifacio, just 11 miles from Capo Pertusato, to the north-east the archipelago of La Maddalena, and to the west it overlooks the sea. of Sardinia.
The rocks of Monte Russu, Colombaia and Munichedda belong to the territory of Santa Teresa.
Formerly known as Longosardo (or Longo Sardo or Longone), it was already in the Roman period a port of considerable importance. This notoriety was due to the granite extracted in the surroundings that was transported to Rome. These premises make it plausible the hypothesis that in the area was located the ancient city of Tibula. The Capo Testa quarries provided granite for the cathedral and the baptistery of Pisa and, it is said, also for the Pantheon of Rome.
In the Middle Ages the locality, inserted in the curatoria of Taras or Montanea, passed under the judges of Gallura; the village of Longosardo was probably founded by Pisan merchants in the twelfth century to encourage local trade.
In the fourteenth century the Aragonese, shortly after the conquest of the island, built a castle from scratch, then long disputed during the Sardinian-Catalan war. After the end of the hostilities, the village and the castle of Longosardo were donated as fiefdom to Ferrando de Castrillo. The situation lasted until 1442 when Longosardo was assaulted by the Genoese led by Francesco Spinola who plundered both the castle and the village. So the following year Alfonso V of Aragon ordered their final demolition. The territory of Longone was then assigned as a fief, along with its port, to Pietro Maça Carroz d'Arborea.
A historical site of particular interest is the tower of Longosardo (built around the 16th century by order of the king of Spain, Philip II) located on the most extreme strip of rock in the country.
When in 1720 the island passed to the Savoy, Francesco Maria Magnon was sent as tower commander, who understood the need to create a town near the fortress. On 12 August 1808 a decree of Vittorio Emanuele I began the foundation of Santa Teresa, was the same king who designed the plan of the village and decided the name in honor of his wife: Queen Maria Teresa of Habsburg-Este.
At 3 km from the center, the Buoncammino church, built in the seventeenth century, is born under an ancient pine forest.
The inhabited center, characterized by low buildings, develops around two inlets: that of Porto Longone, a deep natural fjord at the bottom of which there is the port, and that of Rena Bianca, which contains the famous beach of fine sand and white.
One of the peculiar characteristics of the conformation of the town is the Roman plant, that is an urban structure made of a network of streets that intersect perpendicularly. The shape is typical of the Piedmontese settlements of military origin (for example, as Carloforte and Calasetta built for the Tabar- dini coming from Tunisia) and this demonstrates the incidence that the Piedmontese contingent has had in these places.
A very popular tourist destination, the economy of the village is based on a strong tourist presence, both Italian and foreign. The port, which has gained a considerable importance of importance, with the European free trade treaties, has long lost what for decades has been the old frontier connotation. Currently, by means of multi-day ferries, it ensures continuous connections for tourists and goods with Bonifacio, a common crossroads in Corsica.


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'Chiu on This' is a short and regular opinion blast
Both rOtk and BurNIng are legends of the Dota 2 scene. They both love each other like brothers but have never been able to successfully play together despite their mutual respect and friendship. Even though rOtk has been eliminated, he has come to Seattle to coach iG, BurNIng's team. For those who don't understand the relationship between the two, I'll post some translated comments from when they casted TI6 last year.
Wings vs TNC, Rotk reading BanPick:
R: Wings will take Beast Master. If they don't pick it, I will eat shit.
B: Do I have to prepare some for you?
LGD vs OG, Moon's TideHunter 4-man ravaged.
B: With your years of experience on TideHunter, have you ever experienced a 4 man ravage? haven't you? not even blink ravage?
On a huskar strat
R: I have a strat that can give Wings easy 2-0.
R: Huskar, beat-everything.
B: So why didn't you pick these beat-everything hero for us in our games?
R: … (Silence)
B: I can play anything.
R: You eat shit man.
R: Did Faith just lasso a illusion? or a creep?
B: I dunno, you like to lasso creep.
R: That was your order! You ask me to kill the easiest enemy!
When Newbee is demolishing Fnatic, Burning started to play poker on stream.
R: The fuck you playing poker half into the game observing! These Fnatic players are playing Mahjong on their high ground and you are playing poker?
Liquid with Antimage pick.
B: Look at this AM, he didn't use my set.
R: Why use your set?
B: How can you win without using my set.
OG with the Antimage pick
B: 9k God's AM isn't that good man.
R: He used your set that's why.
B: He only used the head piece, if he used the set he will be good.
General flames
R: Navi's off lane is strong!
B: Yeah sure, He's better than you.
R: Praise me.
B: I can't find any angle.
B: This morph should get BKB. Without it he's useless. Once he has it he'll be like a brand new hero.
R: without bkb he's you, once he has bkb he becomes me.
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Stretch your cubicle-cramped legs on Cypress Mountain's Olympic freestyle and snowboarding runs. Overlooking Vancouver's harbor, they're lit until 10:30 p.m.
High-tail it to Squamish and hop on an A-Star bird with Black Tusk Helicopter. As the sun rises, you're zooming from 200 to 9,000 feet: In short order, you'll be making your mark on 30-degree untracked powderfields the size of Luxembourg. Check in at the Howe Sound Inn and Brewing Company, a 20-room hotel attached to a brewery in Squamish, and finish the day with a Mettleman Hemp and Honey Ale.
Drop your sweaty long johns with the Pan Pacific hotel in the center of Whistler Village and boot-pack 30 steps up Spanky's Ladder at Blackcomb, which accesses four cliff-studded bowls, or West Cirque in Whistler Bowl, a heavily corniced 50-degree couloir. Just be sure to get off the hill early and sign up for a nighttime outing with Ziptrek Ecotours. They'll have you flying at a butterfly-inducing 40 miles per hour on zip-line cables that cross the hairy ravine between Whistler and Blackcomb.
Need a day to hang out? Fine. Take a private ice-climbing lesson with Squamish Rock Guides and learn the ins and outs of hazard assessment, ice ax usage, and hanging balance. Finish the weekend with a rubdown at Skoah, Vancouver's unspa-like spa (no Enya CDs-the massagers talk sports). From Skoah, walk a block south, and settle into swanky velvet at the Opus Hotel lounge for a martini du jour. Too content to drive home? Get a room upstairs.
Sick Day
Go backcountry with Whistler Alpine Guides Bureau. Depending on how many donuts you've wolfed from Tim Hortons in Vancouver (pick up a dozen for the weekend), you could rack up 6,000 vertical feet in the craggy Garibaldi Park area.
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Open Source Ad-Server company Openads has been in the news recently for many good things — it got a $15.5 million Series B fund. Earlier, it got a $5 million in Series A capital fund, led by Index Ventures, with participation from First Round Capital, Mangrove Capital Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.
Openads also rebranded itself yet again as OpenX. It may be noted that OpenAds was re-branded from its earlier incarnation — PHPAdsNew. OpenX is perhaps one of the most popular Ad-Server used by many Publishers. They've an estimated 30,000 Publishers using the software on over 100,000 sites spreading across 150 odd countries, in more than 20 languages. Even Federated Media is built on top of OpenX and TechCrunch uses OpenX to serve ads on its site.
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A scarf! It's only a scarf – oh no, it's so much more!
My soft, grey scarf: it's been my favourite for almost two years now. Not only my favourite scarf (I only own two of those), it's my favourite accessory. Come thinking of it, it might just be my favourite piece of clothing altogether. But why? Is it because It's so large, it could be a blanket? Actually, sometimes it becomes just that. When I have nobody to cuddle, I'm seeking my scarf's company. Or is it, because sometimes, it simply warms my neck in the most beautiful, minimal fashion? Because It is a true statement, the ultimate style piece, as you could already see in this outfit post from Paris? Or is it, because it's so soft, I sometimes wrap it around my shoulders and live in it all day long? I guess it's a combination of all that. This scarf is so much more than just a scarf. This scarf is home to me.
Lenor* asked me what my favourite piece of clothing was. The one I cared about the most. Well, now you know. I hope to keep this one with me for a very long time. I hope to keep it as soft and as beautiful as it is today. But I'm sure, by giving it the amount of care it deserves (just like my hair deserves its conditioner after shampooing) with the Lenor softeners with freshness depot technology, it will stay just as gorgeous, beautifully fragrant and a true companion, no matter if I'm at home or on the road. Just remember, always check beforehand what kind of care your favourite garments need. In this way, nothing can ever go wrong with your care routine anymore.
By the way, Lenor created a couple of beautiful odes to our favourite pieces of clothing. A proof, that clothes are so much more than just laundry. Have a look and discover Lenor's ode to the marvellous scarf on YouTube. Isn't the video just lovely?!


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The Seventh Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival is a week-long celebration of innovators, visionaries, and artists who are shaping small cities. The Festival occurs at dozens of venues throughout downtown Charlottesville.
Dr. Welleford has taught extensively in the areas of Lifespan Development, and Developmental Gerontology, Geropsychology, as well as Ethical Decision Making and Human Values. As Associate Professor and Chair of VCU's Department of Gerontology, she currently works to #DisruptAgeism while "Promoting Optimal Aging for Individuals and Communities" through her Teaching, Scholarship, and Community Engagement.


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YACHT Announce New LP Via Google Maps
Published Jul 29, 2015Here's something for YACHT fans look forward to. With the use of a billboard and some Google Maps coordinates, the Los Angeles-based electro-pop outfit have announced their first official full-length in four years. Though an exact due date has yet to be delivered, their I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler lands this September, via Downtown Records.
Earlier today (July 29), the band sent out a cryptic tweet stating "We made a new album & this is what it's called." A link was proffered, which reroutes browsers to a map of Southern California on which a virtual pin was placed just off of the corner of N Sycamore Ave and Santa Monica Blvd.
Shortly thereafter, a trailer for the set was delivered, which shows the outfit giving us a friendly wave as they stand beneath a billboard emblazoned with the message/album title, "I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler."
A statement from the band adds that the new record "contains some speculations about the future that are big and distant as science fiction stories." Though a tracklisting has yet to be revealed, a bit of new music was unveiled in the video.
You'll find the clip, as well as YACHT's statement in full, down below.
YACHT's last LP was 2011's Shangri-La.
The future is an impossible goal. It's something we chase after, believing in an illusion of control. That isn't to say our actions don't affect what the future is like— in our case, hot, dry, loud, unjust—but that once we catch up to yesterday's future, it's no longer what we imagined. It's just the present all over again. And so on.
We've made an album about that. It contains some speculations about the future that are big and distant as science fiction stories. But it's also about looking carefully at the world around us and trying to understand what we've done with the imaginations of those who came before us. Would they believe it?
We live in a complex moment. There seem to be networks at every level of reality; as with all our technologies, we can't keep ourselves from grabbing them, turning them around, and using them as a mirror. Every person is a node. Our technological economy is full of entities selling our own lives back to us. It's easy to feel disillusioned, if only it wasn't all so funny sometimes.


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Uber to Resume Self Driving Tests This Year
Following a "top-to-bottom" internal safety review.
Uber has now announced plans to resume the tests, after stopping its self driving car tests in the wake of a fatal collision earlier this year. According to the ride sharing company's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, the tests will begin "in a few months" after revealing that Uber had been waiting for a preliminary report from federal traffic investigators before decided to resume the tests. Despite early findings pointing towards no fault from Uber, later investigations seemed to illustrate that the company bore some responsibility.
Speaking at Uber's annual Elevate conference in L.A., Khosrowshahi said that there will be a "top-to-bottom" internal safety review alongside the federal investigation. The CEO seemed confident about the restarted program, announcing that Uber "will win because of the talent of the technical people we have in our offices."
More big news from the Elevate conference was the arrival of a flying taxi prototype.


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When a CSM customer contract tries to create a case from the CSM portal , it throws an error
Steps to Reproduce
- Activate Customer service plugin
- Activate Customer service portal plugin
- Impersonate as customer contact
- Navigate to CSM portal i.e. /CSM
- Create a case
- This action throws an error ("You are not authorized...")
- Query the table "sc_cat_item_user_criteria_no_mtom" for the Record producer (e.g. "Create Case")
- If there is a record and the "Not Available for" field is also populated, delete this record.
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I didn't even want to dignify NoWhereElse's "find" with a post, but Steve's a good guy and maybe… and this is a big maybe… he found a case for the upcoming "iPhone 4S" at "Claire's." The best part is when Google translates his article the last line comes up as "So authentic dumpling or simple typo in your opinion? …" which is how I'm going to end all of my posts from now on.
Grain of salt, people. Remember: there will be no hardware at WWDC this year.


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My good friend Dr. Tom Larkin joins the show today.
Dr. Larkin has been an outlier from day one. He built and sold his first dental practice before graduating dental school, in his first year as a professor he received the outstanding teacher award from Creighton University, and he has created his own MBA course. In 2018, he founded Proactive Oral Wellness, a coaching and implementation web portal- tune in to the show to hear more.
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Eden Hazard arrives for medical ahead of Real Madrid presentation
Eden Hazard is currently undergoing a medical ahead of his Real Madrid presentation later on Thursday.
The Belgian winger was filmed getting out of a car outside the Hospital Sanitas La Moraleja.
He signed autographs for a group of Madrid fans, who had been waiting for his arrival, before heading through the hospital doors.
Hazard is poised to become the biggest signing of the summer transfer market so far.
Real Madrid and Chelsea have agreed a fee of €100 million (£88.5 million) plus add-ons for the 28-year-old.
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Watch the video of Hazard in Madrid here…
All going well with the medical, Hazard will be presented in front of supporters and the media at the Bernabeu at 7pm (Spanish time) on Thursday.
Fans were queuing outside the Bernabeu hours before the presentation began.
He has agreed to sign a five-year deal with the Spanish giants and has been tipped to become the club's new number seven.
The sight of Hazard wearing the famous white shirt of Madrid will be hard to view for Chelsea fans, who are gutted to lose the Belgium international but have wished him all the best for the future after seven years of tremendous service.
"To my Chelsea friends and family," Eden Hazard wrote in a message posted across his official social media accounts last week.
"You now know that I will be joining Real Madrid. It's no secret that it was my dream to play for them since I was a young boy just scoring my first goal.
"I have tried my very best not to distract myself or the team through this difficult period of speculation and media attention, especially the last 6 months.
"Now the Clubs have reached an agreement I hope you understand I had to pursue my next chapter, just as each and every one of you should when you have the chance to pursue your dreams.
"Leaving Chelsea is the biggest and toughest decision in my career to date. Now it's in the open I would like to put on record one thing was always clear to me, I have loved every moment at Chelsea and not once did I ever consider, nor would I have left for any other Club.
"I was only 21 when I joined, so I have grown up as a man and a player with all of you, you have helped me become Captain of the Belgium National team after all.
"There have of course been tough times, for the team as a whole and for me personally, this is professional football.
"However, football to me is about having a ball at my feet, playing games and enjoying every moment, we are lucky to play the beautiful game and this is always my advice to those who ask for a coaching tip! Play football and have fun!
"Even when we were not playing well, I tried to do my best and this has been thanks to your amazing support. That fighting spirit, desire and the refusal to ever give up is part of the culture here at Chelsea and it comes directly from you.
"When I think back over my special moments in a Chelsea shirt, there are so many, we are lucky to win many more games than we have lost.
"Those who know me understand it is not me to list what I have won, all I can say is each and every award both as a team and as an individual have been incredible.
"One day I will be able to sit down over a beer and talk about or laugh with pride about my missed penalty that set up my header to win the league against [Crystal] Palace, or those goals against Tottenham, Arsenal or Liverpool.
"The memories are so vivid because of the atmosphere and occasion you create, I hope you always remember them with pride, as I do.
"Whether it's on tour in the USA, or at Sunderland on a Tuesday night, in Russia on a Thursday, or of course EVERY game at The Bridge – you've always supported me and encouraged me to play football and be me – Like I have enjoyed myself I hope you have enjoyed yourselves, I am only sorry not leave with a defending award amongst my honours!
"We have many great players and my proudest moments were always as part of the team. We've won the FA Cup, League Cups, Europa Leagues and Premier Leagues all as a family.
"Each one so special in its own way and of course the game in Baku a couple of weeks ago is the perfect way to sign off from a long tough season after the World Cup.
"Chelsea and especially Chelsea fans will always be special to me and next season I will look for your results first. I hope that we are drawn against each other in the Champions League next season and every season so we can meet again.
"Before I go, one last thank you to everyone at the Club for their tremendous effort as we lived through every moment.
"To all of my ex-Colleagues we will say our goodbyes at the right time but I must thank the owner Mr Abramovich and his board for helping me realise not one, but two dreams, my first in becoming a Chelsea player and today my second, becoming a player at Real Madrid.
"I wish each and every one of you the very best my friends. Eden."News Now - Sport News


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A Venus in Furs
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Venus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration heavily from Sacher-Masoch's own life. The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man. This manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, who is so infatuated with a woman, Wanda von Dunajew, that he asks to be her slave, and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not understand or accede to the request, but after humouring Severin a bit she finds the advantages of the method to be interesting and enthusiastically embraces the idea, although at the same time she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so. Severin describes his feelings during these experiences as suprasensuality. Severin and Wanda travel to Florence. Along the way, Severin takes the generic Russian servant's name of "Gregor" and the role of Wanda's servant. In Florence, Wanda treats him brutally as a servant, and recruits a trio of African women to dominate him. The relationship arrives at a crisis when Wanda herself meets a man to whom she would like to submit, a Byronic hero known as Alexis Papadopolis. At the end of the book, Severin, humiliated by Wanda's new lover, loses the desire to submit. He says of Wanda: That woman, as nature has created her, and man at present is educating her, is man's enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he and is his equal in education and work.
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Good morning.
1. The US Fed hiked rates and no one was surprised. But they can't complain too much anyway – it's still the lowest interest rates anyone has enjoyed since back when writing was the new disruptive technology:
Fed chair Janet Yellen began her explanation by "recognising the considerable progress the economy has made towards our dual objectives of maximum employment and price stability". We're covering that speech in full as it happens.
2. So, markets had something else to think about besides Trumponomics. With the hawks suddenly in view, the big moves came. Stocks fell, the US dollar got on the march and commodities were under pressure. Back here in Australia, it's not going to be a great day. Futures traders have the SPI 200 17 points down, the Aussie dollar is plunging and iron ore's also getting whacked.
3. And if that's not bad enough, Payless Shoes went bust. Yet somewhere in the world, people are rich and lazy enough to fork out $970 for sneakers that lace themselves. Dennis Green finally got to try on the Nikes the world's been waiting for since 1989.
4. It's a big three days for office Christmas parties. And if the telly can rerun Die Hard, Bad Santa and Trading Places, we can rerun GS Elevator's rules for surviving your office Christmas party. Because they're also excellent, including such wisdom nuggets as:
- Spread rumours about people you don't like: "Danny's made three trips to the bathroom stall in the last hour. That's weird, right?"
- Don't check your work emails. No one is impressed, and
- Don't flirt or dance with junior staff at the main event. Wait until the after party
There are 18 more here. Pay attention.
5. Amazon Prime Video has arrived in Australia. All you need to know is you'll not only get The Grand Tour, all the content is available offline. And it's a lot cheaper than Netflix and Stan – about $8 a month once the six-month $4 introductory period is up. Which is amazing value, and we're not saying that just because Amazon boss Jeff Bezos owns a bit of us. Check out the catalogue. And know that Facebook is about to get into producing its own shows too.
6. Meanwhile, somewhere in the English countryside:
Amazon Prime began actually delivering actual packages to people with actual drones. It's allowed to because in July, the UK government said it could fly drones "beyond line of sight".
7. Bezos himself was making his way to Trump Tower while all this was going on, along with Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Ginny Rometty, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg, Tim Cook, Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt. The shots from the lobby as they all piled in to meet president-elect Donald Trump were as star-studded and about 100 times wealthier than any Hollywood red carpet. Check out the seating:
Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick have already joined Trump's economic advisory team.
8. "Donald Trump is gonna get us killed." That's Michael Moore's latest prediction after learning that Trump isn't interested in daily security briefings. So when the head of the US Pacific Command says the US is "ready to confront" China in the South Pacific, it's good to know we can now at least count on a solid deployment of the world's most deadly planes winging its way to our shores.
9. The startup space in Australia just got a major new player. There's no point waiting for half-baked government support when a big player like RocketSpace comes to town. It's opening up campuses in Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane next year which will be replicas of its San Francisco workspaces. The ones which helped incubate Uber, Spotify and 16 other unicorns.
10. A retiree found a 530-year-old sketch by Leonardo da Vinci and it's already worth $21 million. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
BONUS ITEM: The trailer for Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" is out, and it's got Kenneth Branagh in it. But we've had enough doom, gloom and war today, so here's the trailer for Despicable Me 3:
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St. Mary's Menston Academy, located in West Yorkshire, England saw my Macbeth poster online and asked if they could use it for their Macbeth production. I was flattered and readily agreed to license the image.
Congratulations to the students and staff on their hard work! I heard the play was a resounding success. I am glad I was able to contribute.


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Explore the New 2019 Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Fuel Your Inner Driving Enthusiast
Compact crossovers don't typically impress when it comes to style or driving dynamics. Many of them are somewhat appliance-like in nature, a tool in your arsenal to help you manage the daily grind. The 2019 Alfa Romeo Stelvio, on the other hand, breaks the mold with distinctive styling and exciting driving manners that make it a unique offering in the segment. If you're searching for a vehicle that's eager to hit the road, you're sure to love the precise handling and spirited acceleration that the Alfa Romeo Stelvio offers.
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Stellar performance comes standard on the new Alfa Romeo Stelvio. Most models come with an all-aluminum 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder engine that produces up to 280 horsepower and 306 pound-feet of torque. That's enough punch to get the Alfa Romeo Stelvio from zero to sixty miles per hour in 5.4 seconds! If that's not enough, you can upgrade to a 2.9L V6 engine that yields up to 505 horsepower and 443 pound-feet of torque for incredible performance.
All new Alfa Romeo Stelvio models are available with all-wheel drive to help you conquer tough driving conditions and enjoy better traction and stability even when the pavement is perfect.
Exterior and Interior
The Alfa Romeo Stelvio brims with Italian style that comes through in its sleek musculature, unique front end, and premium lighting system featuring signature LED daytime running lamps and more. Step inside, and you'll find that this crossover's cabin is just as stunning with features like leather upholstery, power-adjustable front seats, keyless ignition and entry, and more to provide a comfortable driving experience.
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The Alfa Romeo Stelvio offers a wide range of features to enhance your daily drive, many of which come standard on the base model. Some of the most popular offerings include:
- Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support
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A crowd of about 130 people gathered for a "family reunion" on Tuesday, June 12, at the Dallas Country Club. Officially, the gathering was the inaugural dinner and program for the Methodist Health System Foundation's Eagle Society. That's a new society consisting of current and retired board members, donors and leaders of all stripes across the Methodist system.
But unofficially, foundation President Jim Johnston declared from the podium before the dinner began, the new group is "our family. The Methodist family. And tonight is the beginning of a family reunion. … We'll have meetings throughout the year," he went on. "We're not going to talk about gettin' old, or what to eat, or what medicines we take. We're going to enjoy our family reunion!"
Those attending the event were well-known supporters of Methodist, including Gail and Gerald Turner, Carol Seay, Penny and Dr. Richard Dickerman, Jimmy Westcott, Nancy Bierman, Marilyn Mansfield, Eileen and Ron Ricks, Bernie DiFiore, Julie Yarbrough, Joy and Harold Duncan, Cindy and Dr. Armond Schwartz, Bina and Dr. Nimesh Patel, Alina and Ruben Esquivel and Bobby Lyle. Also spotted were Margo Keyes (Jim Keyes was in California on business), Ashlee and Chris Kleinert and Kim and Greg Hext.
Following the reception and then an invocation by Rev. Dr. Keith Boone of the University Park United Methodist Church, the guests enjoyed dinner (baby greens/poached pear salad, braised short ribs and fingerling potatoes, chocolate mousse cake) after brief welcoming remarks by Methodist President and CEO Steve Mansfield.
Steve talked about the critical importance of physicians to the health system, and lamented that the legendary veteran Dr. Phil Berry Jr., who was in the audience, was performing his final procedure for the hospital. "This is a prayer un-answered for me," Steve said. "I've prayed for 12 years that I would retire before he does!" On the brighter side the CEO added that Methodist is the largest employer in southern Dallas, and had been named a Best Place to Work for 14 years in a row.
Then Steve gave way to the evening's keynote speaker: Jonathan Sandys, the great-grandson of the iconic World War II leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Winston Churchill. "I love speaking at this event because if I have a heart attack, there's always a doctor in the house," Jonathan began, laughing.
Disclosing that it's "very awe-inspiring" to be the descendant of Churchill, who died 10 years before Jonathan was born, the keynoter said his great-grandfather displayed three primary leadership traits during his long career: courage, faith, and integrity. Although Churchill was often unpopular with the British people, Jonathan said, he had the courage of his convictions.
At this, Sandys asked everyone in the audience to stand up and repeat the phrase "God save the queen!" three times. After they had done so, he asked, "Be honest and trust me, now: Who said it? And who didn't stand up?" Perhaps half a dozen people in the crowd 'fessed up to staying glued to their seats—including Turner of SMU.
Instead of berating these holdouts as black sheep, Jonathan said, "They were the Churchills. They stood up against the majority." And those who rose unquestioningly to recite the queen's praises? They "represented the Germans of the 1930s," he said, providing the Eagles with much food for thought. It's important, Jonathan concluded, to "always stand up for what you believe."
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Sterilex® Ssterilizing solution cold 8-12.5% of glutaraldehyde, to prepare a dilution of final use of the 2 to 3.5%.
To be used in instrumental clean heat-sensitive and no organic material.
Code SSA.
060 066 0880
Internal Key.
The solution of glutaraldehyde in the alkaline medium and ambient temperature, quickly reacts with the amino groups of proteins, denaturing them, reason why it is used as a broad-spectrum disinfectant.
Technical specifications.
Glutaraldehyde: 8.5%
Purified water: 1000mL.
The solution of glutaraldehyde is used for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of delicate clinical material and surfaces.
Glutaraldehyde is a skin irritant eyes, respiratory tract and sensitising, and restrict its use in those cases that are essential.
The application of good practices of handling is essential to reduce the exposure.
Due to its exceptional qualities bactericidal and virucidal, its use has increased progressively.
- Using googles and gloves is recommended when handling.
- Do not ingest the product.
- In case of contact with skin or eyes, rinse with abundant water.
- If swallowed accidentally drink abundant water.
- Use in ventilated areas.
Directions for use.
- A liter of glutaraldehyde can prepare up to 50 litres of disinfectant solution at a dose of 20mL per litre of water, in a time of immersion of only 15 minutes.
- Prior use any enzymatic detergent is recommended to assure sanitization. 1 litre of glutaraldehyde can prepare 16 liters of sterilizing solution at a dose of 60mL per litre of water, in a time of immersion of only 60 minutes.


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Product packaging can influence the buying behaviour of the consumers. Did you know that your product will have a 60 percent higher chance of getting attention from the consumers if it looks nice and attractive? Fifty two percent of the global respondents surveyed during a 2014 study conducted by the The Nielsen Global Survey admitted that product packaging greatly influences their purchase decision most of the times
This means, if you're trying to sale catering tea bags and create awareness for your premium tea, you will need to do more than being focused on the product quality itself. You will have to rethink about your product packaging. Here are the reasons why exclusive packaging is important.
Best Medium to Show Your Product Strength
Packaging gives customers product clarity. This is the place where you are supposed to mention why your product is different. Come up with creative product packaging design ideas which can effectively communicate with the target consumers.
If you're selling premium quality Kenyan black tea, this should be mentioned on the catering tea bag packaging in such a way that the printed text is the first thing that consumers notice. If it's an exclusive green tea, the packaging should say something like it has a remarkable percentage of polyphenol and is a great source of EGCG. The important things to notice here are –
• Consumers need to be informed about your product's strength.
• Consumers love to be educated. So if you can justify why the product is going to be healthy for them, you will gain their trust.
Exclusive Packaging Builds Brand Identity
Dozens of retailers or wholesalers are trying to position their brands in the market. When your target clients from the hotel or catering industry like the overwhelming taste of your tea, you will need a distinctive identity to help them recognize your brand. Points to be noted here are –
• Your catering tea bags will need distinctive brand identity for product marketing and visibility.
• You need exclusive packaging designs to establish your brand in the target niche.
Packaging Matters Because It Stands for Your Reputation
Most consumers prefer eco-friendly products these days. So if you want to sell your premium catering tea bags only to hotels, offices or other industries, you have to make sure that you give special attention to the material of the packaging.
As your premium tea is going to be served only to the elite clients, any flaw with respect to product quality and packaging will be taken seriously. Any complaints from the end consumers can extensively damage your brand reputation.
Build a class and niche for your product with a solid marketing strategy. If you're selling kenya tea bags in the UK, you have to understand that this industry is going to be very competitive. If you're not particular about the product quality and design, your struggle will be even harder. Your exclusive product packaging will speak for your brand reputation. So, the quality of the product and the packaging design must complement each other.
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UDUMALPET: Those who drive down to remote villages in the Udumalpet region can see huge trucks carrying large blades and gigantic towers meant for wind turbines. While travelling along the Pollachi-Udumalpet, Palladam-Udumalpet, Pollachi-Palladam highways, wind turbines with gigantic blades greet us on both sides.
Though it may appear like a big fan with wings, its size and weight will amaze you. The tower of a turbine goes up to 78 metres and the length of each blade is 40 metres. The nosal atop the tower, where the generator works, weighs around 50 tonnes.
With land not available in wind-rich Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts and with inadequate grid facility, industrialists are shifting focus to the Udumalpet-Palladam region on the Palakkad pass.
Wind turbines are not new to this place. But, there has been a spurt in their growth during the last six months.
"Fifty to 60 towers were installed every year during the last decade. Nearly 400 turbines were installed during the five months from March. This is an all-time high figure and has never happened,'' says a senior Tamil Nadu Electricity Board official.
The area has been witnessing a steady increase in the installation of wind turbines during the past three years as the textile sector, particularly in Tirupur and Coimbatore, is expanding and are interested in availing the five per cent interest subsidy under the technology upgradation fund scheme.
At present, around 2,200 wind turbines with a capacity of 850 MW are operational in the region and installation of about 200 turbines is progressing.
The TNEB has sent proposals for a grid facility and establishment of sub-stations to add another 500 MW.
According to K.V. Sajai, Area Sales Manager of NEG MICON, the region has the potential for 500 more turbines provided the TNEB upgrades the grid to tap the power generated by the turbines.
The capacity of turbines ranges from 225 KV(electricity generated in an hour) to 1,650 KV and they need six acres of land depending on their size. According to a rough estimate, if the wind is good, a 1,650 KV turbine generates 54 lakh units of power a year.
The TNEB buys a unit of electricity at Rs. 2.70.
Farmers, who were reluctant to sell their land five years ago, are now coming forward to sell as the price offered by wind farms are fabulous. Banks in the region, particularly in Poolavadi, Thungavi, Metrathi, Ponnapuram, Andhiyur, Sultanpet, Kethanur, Edayarpalayam and Puthupalayam are flooded with deposits from farmers.
Udumalpet, once popular for having dozens of spinning mills, is slowly turning into a town of windmills.
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Background: Recordings of Negotiations
After negotiations between Direct Energy Marketing and Unifor failed to produce a new collective agreement, the union went on strike. The labour dispute ended with the signing of a Memorandum of Settlement in April 2012. The union alleged that the employer violated the undertakings it made in the Memorandum and the negotiations by failing or refusing to negotiate shift schedules.
Between December 2011 and April 2012, a member of the union's bargaining committee surreptitiously recorded some of the negotiation sessions. The recordings were then edited to delete the dead space and a transcript was made. The union sought to rely on both the recordings and the transcript as evidence to establish what representations were made by the employer during the negotiations.
In the meantime, in another grievance between the same parties before a different arbitrator, the same evidentiary issue in respect of the same audio recording arose. In that proceeding, the arbitrator declined to admit the transcript as evidence due to concerns about its reliability, but determined that the relevance and probative value of the audio recording was such that it should be admitted with any potential defects it contained going to weight.
In the subsequent case, the union asked that the second arbitrator defer to the first arbitrator's earlier ruling and admit the audio recording as evidence. The employer argued that the surreptitiousness in making the recording was such a heinous affront to acceptable labour relations conduct that the recording should not be admitted as a matter of policy.
Decision: Union Entitled to Introduce Recordings
In the result, the second arbitrator allowed the audio recording be admitted as evidence out of deference to the earlier ruling on the same issue between the same parties.
The second arbitrator identified two lines of jurisprudence regarding the admission of surreptitiously obtained evidence. The "relevancy" approach, adopted by the first arbitrator, admits all relevant evidence regardless of how it is obtained. The more restrictive approach, which the second arbitrator noted he generally endorses, takes greater account of the impact of admitting the evidence on the collective bargaining relationship. In this regard, most instances of surreptitious recording violates the reasonable expectation of the parties and the standard of acceptable conduct in bargaining and is therefore a serious breach of trust.
However, the second arbitrator noted the importance of consistency in the decisions of arbitrators, particularly those made under the same collective agreement between the same parties. Therefore, in order to avoid conflicting interpretations of the same collective agreement, an arbitrator should not deviate from a prior arbitral award unless convinced that the prior award is clearly wrong. This decision of course begs the question of whether the opposite outcome would have been reached solely by virtue of the two cases being scheduled by the parties and decided in reverse order.
Implications for Employers
Arbitrators are not strictly bound by the doctrine of precedent, and they are not obliged to follow one another's decisions. However, recognizing the importance of consistency and predictability, arbitrators generally follow an earlier decision involving the same issue between the same parties, unless the arbitrator is convinced the earlier decision was clearly wrong.
The application of arbitral deference can be particularly striking when there are competing lines of jurisprudence on an issue leading to conflicting conclusions, as in the case here in respect to admissibility of surreptitious audio recordings. Given that the two approaches of dealing with surreptitious audio recordings are both reasonable and well accepted, a party would face significant uncertainty when first seeking to introduce such recording as evidence. However, once successful in the first instance, the early victory may yield benefits for all subsequent proceedings where the same issue arises.
by George Waggott and William Wu, Student-at-Law
a cautionary note The foregoing provides only an overview and does not constitute legal advice. Readers are cautioned against making any decisions based on this material alone. Rather, specific legal advice should be obtained. © McMillan LLP 2014