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updated 10/30/19 - Updated Purity Protocol Oats list from GFWD
updated 04/30/19 - Add GIG and GFWD links
updated 12/31/18 - Updated GFW's purity protocol oats list.
updated 04/20/17 - Add Healio article "Oats appear safe for patients with celiac disease" .
updated 04/11/17 - Add GIG's Purity Protocol definition.
updated 03/02/17 - Added Trader Joes GF Rolled Oats to Purity Protocol Heros
updated 01/25/17 - Added Gluten-Free Watchdog's Updated Position Statement on Oats
updated 01/05/17 - Add more Gluten-Free Watchdog links
updated 10/28/16 - Added video and Dietitians in Gluten Intolerance Diseases (DIGID) Oats handout
updated 06/08/16 - Added Bakery on Main to Purity Protocol Rebels
updated 05/18/16 - Added GFW oat product analysis.
More on that later, but first a little background information on said ingredient of discussion.
Oats have been controversial for over 20 years. Are they acceptable on a GF diet or not?
Please use these excellent articles to help you and your medical professionals to make an educated decision if oats are right for you.
Oats appear safe for patients with celiac disease by Adam Leitenberger Healio.com April 20,2017
Pinto-Sánchez MI, et al. Gastroenterol. 2017;doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2017.04.009.
"These results are "reassuring, and suggest that non-contaminated oats are tolerated by the great majority of patients," Peter H. R. Green, MD, professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, and colleagues wrote. However, they noted that their "confidence is limited by the low quality and limited geographic distribution of the data.""
To better address the controversies surrounding the safety of adding oats to a gluten-free diet, Green and colleagues reviewed studies evaluating the safety of oats as part of a gluten-free diet in patients diagnosed with celiac disease or the related skin condition dermatitis herpetiformis. They ultimately included 28 studies published up to January 2017 in their analysis, six of which were randomized controlled trials that used pure uncontaminated oats, and two of which were non-randomized controlled trials (RCTs, n = 661), while the rest were observational studies. Only RCT data were included in a meta-analysis.
One year of eating oats showed no significant effects on symptoms, histologic findings, intraepithelial lymphocyte counts, or serologic test results. These findings were comparable in both adults and children.
Further, the results of three non-RCTs suggested that dermatitis herpetiformis lesions did not worsen after consumption of oats. No studies compared regular vs. pure oats.
The investigators noted that all available RCTs were conducted in Europe, and because the purity of oats depends on the country of origin and its regulations, there is an "urgent need for studies in North America and other regions of the world where [celiac disease] is prevalent. Results from studies in Europe using locally sourced oats cannot be extrapolated to North America."
They concluded that available data suggest celiac patients can safely consume non-contaminated oats, but more rigorous data are needed
Read more: Healio.com April 20,2017
Anthony J. DiMarino, Jr., MD
"Prolamines are the alcohol-soluble portion of the protein in wheat, rye and barley, and are antigenic in celiac patients. The prolamines in oats are not antigenic, so theoretically it's possible that eating oats should not be harmful to celiac patients. However, some prior studies have suggested that celiac patients may experience a reaction to eating oats.
At the Jefferson Celiac Center, we believe the science behind the idea that the prolamine component of oats is safe as compared with the prolamine in wheat, rye and barley. However, we also recognize that cross-contamination of the oat supply is more likely in the U.S. than in Europe. Therefore, we advise newly diagnosed celiac patients who are still symptomatic to avoid oats. Once their anti-tissue transglutaminase or deamidated anti-gliadin antibody levels normalize, and they become asymptomatic, we advise them to cautiously introduce the purest form of oats available as there are several products that avoid cross contamination. If they become symptomatic again after consuming oats, we know that either cross-contamination has occurred, or they may be one of the perhaps 5% to 10% of patients who also may have an intolerance of oats for reasons unrelated to celiac disease."
William Rorer Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Anthony J. DiMarino, Jr., MD
verywell.com - Oats and the Gluten-Free Diet by Nancy Lapid:
verywell.com - Can People Who Can't Have Gluten Eat Oats? by Jane Anderson:
Gluten Intolerance Group - Hot Topic Oats (Last Updated 06/06/18):
Bottom line Uncontaminated, certified gluten-free oats are considered safe for most people with celiac disease. Consult with your personal healthcare team before introducing oats into the diet. Quantity should be limited to the recommended maximum of ½ cup dry oats per day. The main issue surrounding oats for those following a gluten-free diet is cross-contamination. In light of the fact that purity protocols are not regulated, and that mechanical sorting can vary from processor to processor, only consume oats which are labeled – and preferably certified – gluten-free.
Gluten-Free Watchdog - Updated Position Statement on Oats (1/25/17):
Gluten-Free Watchdog - Special Report: The Use of Oats in Gluten-Free Foods:
Gluten-Free Watchdog - Controversy continues to swirl around oats & their suitability for a gluten-free diet:
Gluten-Free Watchdog - The gluten-free oats situation & why it is such a sticky wicket:
Many in the gluten-free community would beg to differ with that recommendation because they react to gluten-free oats as well. Those in the grain-free/low-carb community offer convincing evidence that supports their lifestyle too.
Regular followup testing is also advised to make sure intestinal damage is not occurring. For those newly diagnosed, it's suggested to restrict the use of oats for up to one year.
Also be aware that some celiacs react to the protein found in oats [known as avenin] just as they react to the proteins in wheat, barley, rye.
If you know they cause you discomfort, do not eat them.
The experts who recommend oats, all agree that only pure, uncontaminated gluten-free oats be used - no commercial oats allowed.
Why? Cross contamination with gluten [wheat, barley, rye].
A 2004 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reveals "regular" oats should not be considered safe for those requiring a gluten-free diet. Four different lots from three different companies found gluten content ranging from less than 3 parts per million to 1807 parts per million. Gluten Contamination of Commercial Oat Products in the United States by Tricia Thompson, MS, RD
Update April 30th, 2019 - Gluten-Free Watchdog, shares more research from PepsiCo (owners of Quaker Oats brand).
Due in large part to data published in the public domain by Quaker, the celiac disease community continues to learn about the nature of gluten grain cross contact in oats, including that:https://www.somatopublications.com/oat-consumption-by-celiac-disease-patients-outcomes-range-from-harmful-to-beneficial-depending-on-the-purity-of-the-oats.pdf
Grains of wheat, barley, and rye are unevenly distributed within a given amount of oats.
Despite what may be the best efforts of suppliers, gluten-containing grains have been found in both final product purity protocol oats and final product mechanically and optically sorted oats.
Read More: Oats Revisited: Quaker Gluten-Free Oats - http://bit.ly/2J8ujmj
Update January 5th, 2017 - Tricia, founder of Gluten-Free Watchdog, shares another article from PepsiCo (owners of Quaker Oats brand) about testing oats.
PepsiCo scientists recently published a second article in the scientific peer-reviewed literature on the difficulties associated with testing oats for gluten contamination. This article entitled "Kernel-based gluten contamination of gluten-free oatmeal complicates gluten assessment as it causes binary-like test outcomes" compliments their first article entitled, "Gluten-containing grains skew gluten assessment in oats due to sample grind non-homogeneity."Bottom Line. Based on the findings of the research by scientists from PepsiCo, Gluten Free Watchdog calls on ALL suppliers and manufacturers of gluten-free oats whether purity protocol or mechanically/optically sorted, and their certifying bodies to reevaluate their testing methodology and requirements for certification, respectively.
Recommendation. The situation with oats continues to evolve. As mentioned above, Gluten Free Watchdog's position statement on oats will be updated in the near future. In the meantime, my advice is:
Choose your oat products based on your comfort level with regard to the level of information provided to you by manufacturers. You may want to consider the following:
Do they disclose their testing protocols?
Do they disclose the assay they use to test oats for gluten contamination?
If a manufacturer refuses to answer any of these questions or responds by saying the information is proprietary, the advice of Gluten Free Watchdog is to move on to another company.
Read More: http://bit.ly/2iePfrv
Quaker's first article on oat testing: http://bit.ly/2hX1JpU
Update May 18th, 2016 - Mining through five years of testing, Gluten-Free Watchdog finds oat products are at higher risk of gluten contamination compared to gluten-free labeled foods as a whole. 35 products containing oats as first or second ingredient were tested. Analysis shows:
Update October 28th, 2016 - Dietitians in Gluten Intolerance Diseases (DIGID) held a breakfast meeting at this year's Food & Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE). Topic: Oats.
This event was sponsored by purity protocol oats producer, GF Harvest Oats. GF Harvest Oats owner, Seaton Smith was the keynote speaker. A mechanically & optically sorted oats supplier was also asked to participate, but declined to speak. Tricia Thompson, RD, MS of Gluten-Free Watchdog volunteered to present information about sorted oats.
Tricia was kind enough for create a video to accompany the DIGID oats meeting handout. Please have the handout open while watching the video.
OK - back to the issue at hand…
Shortly after Cheerios announced their recall of 1.8 million boxes due to gluten contamination, Quaker Oats announced they will now be offering "gluten-free" oat products.
Like General Mills, Quaker Oats will not be using oats grown/harvested/transported using a purity protocol. They are using regular oats that will be "cleaned" via mechanical or optical sorting methods.
On April 7th, 2017, Gluten Intolerance Group of North America and four of the largest Purity Protocol oat producers in North America (Montana Gluten Free Processors LLC, Cream Hill Estates, Ltd., Gluten Free Harvest/Canyon Oats, Avena Foods Limited) published a consensus definition of Purity Protocol oats.
Having a standard definition allows consumers and buyers to know that oat suppliers are following industry-accepted or uniform best practices.
Protocol Requirements.
Purity Protocol oat packagers/processor/millers must ensure that their grower network is adhering to the following farm requirements (as specified in grower agreements):
- Seed Purity: All gluten-free oats must start from seed, either purchased or harvested from the previous crop, that is free from all gluten-containing grains as determined by seed counts.
- Crop Rotations: Growers shall follow a nongluten crop rotation, or a minimum three-year crop rotation between the last gluten-containing crop and the first pure oat crop, and document all previous crops grown.
- Isolation Strips: Isolation strips are required between adjacent gluten-containing crops or conventional oat crops and must be a minimum of 6 feet in width.
- Field Inspection: There must be inspections for potential sources of gluten cross-contamination during the growing season; these should be performed by third party inspectors trained specifically for gluten-free inspection.
- Traceability: The farm must identify the oats by land location, and document the harvesting equipment, cleaning equipment, transports, storage facilities, and final distribution for the grain from each location.
- Equipment Cleaning (trucks, cutters, harvesters, augurs, conveyors): Whenever possible, growers should use dedicated equipment. If not, they must use a validated cleaning process prior to handling gluten-free crops. Growers must also maintain documentation of the previous grains in the equipment.
- Harvest Samples: These must be visually inspected, preferably by a third party laboratory, for purity. Sometimes referred to as a "seed count."
- Storage: Dedicated storage should be maintained for gluten-free oats.
- Cleaned Samples: Growers must visually inspect samples for gluten-containing grains prior to scheduling deliveries.
Conformance with the grower agreement must be documented either by the grower or through an audit by the purchaser. There must be validation that the grower agreement is in compliance with these requirements through documentation and inspection records. The documentation must be reviewed and verified. Samples must be visually inspected by the purchaser for purity prior to receipt or unloading at the purchaser's facility.
Purity Protocol oat packagers/processor/millers must also ensure that they meet the following processing requirements:
- Dedicated gluten-free receiving systems.
- Dedicated gluten-free in-process tanks/silos/storage.
- Dedicated gluten-free grain cleaners, or appropriate procedures for cleaning grain-cleaning equipment and for the storage of portable grain cleaners.
- Dedicated gluten-free milling equipment.
- Dust control/collection procedures and schedules for changing or cleaning filters.
- Dedicated pneumatic equipment/aspirators.
- Dedicated extrusion equipment, or written procedures for cleaning or purging extrusion equipment, if applicable. Must document purge volume, and that purge material tests negative for gluten prior to beginning gluten-free processing.
- Dedicated baggers/fillers.
- Dedicated pre- and postprocess containers (such as totes).
- Dedicated rail cars, trucks, or transports, or procedures for the cleaning and inspection of rail cars, trucks, or transports used to deliver product to other facilities or customers.
- Sorting equipment may not be used for oats as a substitute for obtaining purity, but may be used as a supplement to the purity protocol to ensure purity.
- The final product must meet the 20 ppm threshold in order to be labeled gluten-free in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other countries following the Codex Alimentarius guidelines. The product must meet the regulations for gluten-free labeling in the country of sale.
- The final product must meet the 10 ppm threshold in order to be certified gluten-free by GFCO.
While the requirements of the Purity Protocol are excellent for reducing the risk of gluten contamination from wheat, rye, barley, and their hybrids and related grains, these steps do not remove the requirement that the final product be verified as containing less than 20 ppm gluten in order to be labeled gluten-free, or less than 10 ppm gluten to be certified gluten-free by GFCO.
Definition of the "Purity Protocol" for Producing Gluten-Free Oats
Read more: http://bit.ly/2oqTmpZ
Mechanical or optical sorting are methods to remove all unwanted kernels of wheat, barley, and rye from the oats. These processes "clean" regular oats after they've been harvested and transported to the processing facility.
Mechanical sorting methods of grains and seeds have been around since the late 1960s, according to the USDA. These sorters use a variety of physical characteristics like size, shape, density, texture, terminal velocity, electrical conductivity, color, and resilience.
As technology advances, these processes improve (but is it enough?) General Mills spent five years and millions of dollars to build a seven-story tall building to "clean" the oats.
Optical sorting uses high speed, high resolution cameras and proprietary software to detect size, shape, and color parameters. Rejected items are ejected from the system using blasts of precise, high pressure air.
The jury is still out on the effectiveness of these cleaning methods. Will they create a product that is truly gluten-free? Only time and proper extensive testing will tell.
Quaker Oats have also opted for the optical and mechanical sorting methods (aka "proprietary") of removing gluten grains from their oats. However, Quaker Oats reportedly have instituted better testing protocols than their competitor.
Quaker Oats describes their gluten-free oats processing and testing protocols to Gluten Free Watchdog: http://bit.ly/1OiMboT
Purity Protocol Heros
Tricia Thompson, RD, founder of Gluten Free Watch Dog started building a list of companies that produce and use purity protocol oats.
Purity Protocol Oats List includes (updated Oct 30, 2019):
Creation Nation (uses Avena Foods)
GF Harvest
Gianbia Nutritionals' OatPure Gluten-Free Oats
MGM Seed & Grain Purity Protocol Oats
Montana Gluten-Free Processors
GF Jules (uses GF Harvest Organic)
The GFB Gluten-Free Bar (uses Avena Foods)
GlutenFreeda (uses Avena Foods)
Gluten-Free Prairie (uses Montana Gluten-Free Processors)
Libre Naturals (uses MGM Seed & Grain Purity Protocol Oats)
Only Oats (uses Avena Foods)
Step One Foods (uses GF Harvest and Montana Gluten-Free Processors)
Note: There is no standardization for purity protocol oats, so do your research. For a detail description of their policies & procedures, and their products, see Gluten-Free Watchdog's webpage:
It didn't go unnoticed that a few popular gluten free companies are missing from the list above.
Why the fuss over Purity Protocol Oats? Again, it goes back to [the lack of] cross contamination with gluten [wheat, barley, rye].
For years, the gluten-free community have been told to only use pure, certified gluten-free oats due to the gluten contamination risks. In the past, this meant acceptable oats were produced and processed according to a purity protocol similar to the one described above.
Most recently, it's been difficult to determine the pedigree of oats used in a product. Companies do not always give clear answers when asked about the oats in their products. As some of the manufacturer's statements have shown (see below), they are using a combination of purity protocol oats and "cleaned" oats, or straight "cleaned" oats.
For a more detailed look at this aspect, please read Gluten-Free Watchdog's "Gluten-free oat production: Purity protocol versus mechanical or optical sorting: Does it matter to you?"
Purity Protocol Rebels
Below is a list companies using "cleaned" oats, according to Gluten-Free Watchdog's list.
Bakery On Main, based in East Hartford, CT
"A brand and communications marketing associate responded in part (via email on May 22, 2016), "Bakery On Main's top priority has always been to provide great tasting products that all those with Celiac Disease can trust and know are safe. We recently decided to soon begin using the mechanically sorted oats in some of our products only due to the fact that the supplier that we will be working with has been third party certified gluten free by the GFCO." Please contact Bakery On Main for more information."
Bob's Red Mill, based in Milwaukie, OR
They first describe their gluten-free product protocol:
"For all of our gluten free products, we thoroughly batch test every product in our quality control laboratory upon delivery, during production and after packaging. We adhere to a standard of no more than 19 parts per million of gluten. Should a test show that a product exceeds that limit, it would be simply rejected and made unavailable for distribution to anyone. Every step in the production of our gluten free products is done in a separate gluten free packaging division complete with specialized machinery to make sure that our products maintain their purity."
Then their oats (note, they use both purity protocol oats and optically sorted oats):
"Oats require special care to ensure that they are safely free from gluten. Bob's Red Mill only sources from oat suppliers who are committed to practices for eliminating the presence of gluten.Our suppliers are innovative in controlling the presence of gluten by either avoiding crop rotation with gluten containing grains or using optical sorting technology to remove grain containing gluten. Regardless of our suppliers' chosen methods for meeting our gluten free specification, we require that each lot is tested and confirmed gluten free before authorization for shipment to Bob's Red Mill. To ensure that they stay just as gluten free as the day their seedlings sprouted from the earth, we test each batch in our quality control laboratory when they arrive from the farm, during production and once again after they are packaged in our dedicated gluten free facility."
Nature's Path, based in Richmond, British Columbia Canada
They describe their oats:
"This is to confirm that Natures Path Foods has purchased the Country Choice brand name from Grain Millers. Grain Millers continue to be the supplier of our gluten free oats."
Grain Millers have been mechanically separating oats since 2012, according to Gluten Free Watchdog.
Quaker Oats based in Chicago, IL
Quaker Gluten-Free Oatmeal
Quaker uses traditionally grown oats that have been mechanically and optically sorted to be gluten-free.
Finished product testing (as reported to Gluten Free Watchdog and confirmed July, 2016)
A 40-gram sample is taken from each pouch or tube.
The sample is homogenized.
Two extractions are taken from the homogenized sample and tested using the Ridascreen Gliadin R5 ELISA (R7001) Mendez Method.
If any single extraction from any of the 16 pouches or tubes is above 12 ppm gluten the entire lot is discarded.
Since beginning commercial runs, three early runs were above 12 ppm gluten and these lots were destroyed. Since taking corrective action, 25 additional lots have been run. All but one extraction from finished product gluten-free oatmeal tested below 5 ppm gluten; one extraction tested just above the lower limit of quantification of 5 ppm gluten (6 ppm).
UPDATE Jan 20, 2016: In email correspondence, Quaker writes, "we have continued to implement the testing protocol we shared with you for finished product. Out of our last 50 lots produced, we have had one lot test above 12 ppm; as a result, that entire lot of finished product was destroyed. All other lots produced met or exceeded our standards and were released into market."
Quaker Oats Gluten-Free FAQ - Answers many questions consumers might ask about their oats.
Yes, even a gluten-free certified product may use mechanically separated or optically sorted oats in their products.
Bottom line, we don't always know what type of oats are used in the product unless we ask the food manufacturer.


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FinTech content marketing is quickly becoming the go-to digital marketing strategy for many ambitious FinTech companies looking to raise awareness, generate leads, and bring on new customers.
And this should not come as a shock. Inbound marketing in all its guises is undoubtedly the most effective strategy for any type of business operating in today's digitally-charged world.
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For organisations operating in the FinTech space, a content marketing campaign is indeed one of the strongest tactics in your arsenal to achieve strong lead generation.
What is FinTech Marketing
At its heart, FinTech content marketing and lead nurture is all about delivering good education to your prospects. Finance is of course a subject that is central to both the lives of individuals and businesses. However, there is a concern in the FinTech industry that the solutions on offer are perhaps too boring or esoteric to attract attention to blog posts, eBooks, videos, or other forms of online content.
This simply isn't the case. Regardless of subject matter, successful FinTech content marketing comes down to how engaging the content itself is, how marketers go about promoting that content, and how user journeys are crafted so that lead information can be reliably gathered.
So let's take a look at some of the best lead generation tactics available for today's players in the exciting world of FinTech.
How to Use FinTech Content Marketing to Generate Leads
Step 1 – Create Amazing Content that Engages and Educates
The first step of all great content marketing strategies is of course to start by creating amazing, shareable content to begin with.
Blogging, of course, is go-to tactic – but it shouldn't stop there.
Both finance and technology are complicated concepts for consumers to get their heads around – and when mashed together to form terrifying prospect of FinTech, it's no wonder that many FinTech content marketing teams don't always know where to start.
The trick is to focus on your customers and how they will benefit from your solution, as opposed to concerning yourself (and your prospects) with complexities such as industry regulation and the finer details of the technology at play. Those things are your concerns – all your customers want to know about is what they will get out of signing up.
Indeed, figuring out what your value proposition is could be the key to unlocking your FinTech content marketing strategy. And once you've got this sussed, you can start thinking about all the different ways you can broadcast this message loud and clear.
As we say – don't limit yourself to blogs. Although well-written articles are important – not least from an SEO perspective – there's much traction to be gained from video marketing, infographics, and other visually appealing content tactics.
For instance, check out this 60-second explainer video from US FinTech startup Acorns. As anyone working in financial technology will know, a solution like Acorns – where purchases made from users' bank accounts are automatically rounded up to the nearest dollar, with the difference then being put into a separated savings account and invested in stocks and bonds on behalf of those users – is incredibly complicated to put together.
But, at the end of the day, all customers care about is the basics of the solution (what it does, not the technicalities of how it works), and this is all summed up in under a minute in a piece of compelling, animated, video content.
Step 2 – Keep Producing and Promoting Your Content
Persistency is key to successful Digital marketing especially content marketing.
Once you've figured out what types of content are resonating best with your target audience, make sure you produce more of it.
If your video marketing strategy is proving successful, then make more videos. If you find that your blogs are generating lots of interest and lots of shares, then write more blogs.
With this latter point in mind, it should be noted that once you've written 21-52 blog posts, website traffic has been shown to increase by up to 30%. With 52 or more blogs in circulation, traffic increases by up to 70%.
What's more, lead generation spikes significantly once a website has 300 or more indexed pages – and the best way to amass these pages is through a regular blog.
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Step 3 – Create a Clear User Journey Designed for Lead Generation
To generate leads through your FinTech content marketing efforts, it's not enough to simply give all of your content away without asking for anything in return.
Lead generation is all about capturing contact information – and that means crafting a visitor journey that's enticing and easy to follow for your prospects.
Your blogs, videos, and infographics will attract visitors to your website. But, once these visitors arrive, you need to separate the casual browsers from those looking to buy.
This means creating and promoting a range of "gated" content – i.e., content that can only be accessed by filling out a form, and thereby submitting that all-important contact information.
eBooks, white papers, research reports and case studies are the types of content that we're talking about in terms of generating leads. These pieces of usually long-form, highly-researched and high-value content should be designed to hold interest only to those who are serious about making a purchase.
The logic is simple – if a visitor is in the consideration stage (i.e. comparing your solution against what your competitors are offering), then they will be happy to spend 30 seconds filling out a short form in order to access a case study to find out "How [Company X] Saved [X Amount] a Year with Our Invoice Factoring Solution" (for example).
This is something that financial data company Credit Benchmark wants visitors to do. On the company's home page, visitors' eyes are drawn towards a CTA to download a white paper to learn more about credit risk data – and anyone who does that is surely interested in what Credit Benchmark has to offer. This is the lead generation moment for the company.
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Step 4 – Use Marketing Automation to Streamline Your Processes
With a range of gated content on offer, you will be able to segment your leads into lists based on what they've downloaded, giving you a clear indication as to their specific levels of interest.
Depending on the content they've accessed, some leads will be ready for a sales call, others will require more nurturing, and still more will be existing customers who have accessed additional information.
Without a system to manage all these leads at all the different stages of the lead lifecycle, it's very easy to get confused as to who's who.
Marketing automation platforms such as HubSpot make this process extremely simple, and enable you to optimise your FinTech content marketing tactics with laser-like precision. Leads at all stages will always benefit from additional information – and knowing who to target with what, when the best times are to send emails, and how to build personalisation into all communications is what marketing automation solutions are designed to do.
Take a look at this explainer video from HubSpot so you can see what we're talking about.
Over to You
From traffic generation through to marketing automation, using FinTech content marketing to generate leads is a well-defined process. And the great thing about employing such a strategy is that the longer you let it run, the more you learn, and the more you can optimise the process to get the very best results for your business.
As the demand for digitally-enhanced financial services grows, helping your potential customers find you online is the name of the game, and a robust FinTech content marketing strategy will enable you to master it.
If you want to learn more about FinTech content marketing, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the inbound marketing experts here at Incisive Edge.

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Paul: Okay, this is Paul and I am at the inaugural Cloud Connect event in Chicago and I'm always looking out for new and interesting technologies. As many of you know cloud computing has been based on scale-out in many ways. I am talking to a company here today called ProfitBricks and they are changing things a little bit in the cloud world and adding more of a scale-up approach.
But why don't I introduce you to some of the folks at ProfitBricks and they can give you some deeper perspectives on this. First I'll start with Bob Rizika who is the US CEO of ProfitBricks. Do I have that right Bob?
Bob: Yes. Absolutely Paul.
Paul: So maybe you could tell us just a little bit about yourself, or your role, or dive into the company, however you'd like to go.
Bob: Sure. Well just on a high level really quick, just some background on the company. I'm CEO of the US operations but the company was started 2 ½ years ago in Germany. And actually Achim is the parent company CEO with Andreas Gauger as the CMO and the two of them founded the company. They have a rich background in the technology field. They started a company called 1&1, which most people know. They built it over a billion and a half in sales and then left a couple of years ago to do venture investing and then Achim had an idea for a second generation infrastructure-as-a-service company.
Our company ProfitBricks was started by Achim and Andreas 2 ½ years ago and the whole point really was "how do you address the next generation of needs in infrastructure-as-a-service?" You talked about scale out versus scale up. Horizontal versus vertical scaling. There is a bunch of features for me to talk about but Achim's vision was if you think of how users use technology today, infrastructure-as-a-service, they're sort of stuck in this environment where they can't get large vertical scale instances. Maybe they can go up to 10 cores and 20-30 GBs of RAM but it stops at that point. And if you look at what people are using technology for, it's for traditional applications, or for performance in the web, and most of those services that they are offering use databases. And databases traditionally want to scale vertically. They don't want to scale horizontally. But because first generation infrastructure services only scaled horizontally, all of those companies had to slice up databases into small pieces, scale horizontally, and it's actually really inefficient.
So Achim's vision was "how do you allow customers to scale vertically?" And by vertically with our first introduction here we are introducing 48 cores that you can scale to vertically. You can start with one core and on the fly you can scale that up to 48 cores. On the fly you can start with 1 GB of RAM and go all the way to 192GB of RAM and essentially unlimited storage. On top of that, at Cloud Connect we are introducing one of our key new features, and that is the ability to literally add CPU or add RAM on the fly. So 100% of our competitors, if you have an instance and you want to increase the cores or the RAM, you have to shut that instance down, add the core or RAM or storage, and then restart the instance and continue. But the crazy thing is that if you think about that, when do you want to add performance? Well, when your customers are hitting your service. But that's the one time you don't want to take the instance down to add cores and RAM. So we are solving that whole problem. We have a whole lot of other great features that are going to come out in the future around this vertical scale and around how we help you deliver high QoS and the performance that your customers are going to need.
Paul: That is a great introduction and overview. Are you targeting any particular type of applications? I know you mentioned applications with databases that want to scale up. Those are good ones. Are there others?
Bob: Sure, we actually bill by the minute. And we are one of the first companies to truly bill by the minute because the whole philosophy is "pay only for what you need to use, not what you think you are going to need to use at some future time." And we think we are going to lower everyone's cost significantly with that philosophy. But from a market segmentation we are focused on a couple of different markets. One is e-commerce. Think about all of those websites that you go to where you have to look up "Is this product available? Is it available in that color? When can I get it delivered?" Those are all examples of database lookups, so that is a perfect example for us. Think of a company like Orbitz which is doing high volumes of lookups in databases, but it peaks at certain times of the day and hits ows are at other times of the day. So it's another perfect example.
We are also working with test and development companies. I used to run a company that I sold to Juniper and we spent four million dollars on infrastructure so that our 65 software engineers could come in in the morning, write their code, put it on servers, test it, and pull it down. But I wasn't using the infrastructure at night, and at nine in the morning maybe I used 20% of the infrastructure, and in the afternoon I hit a peak of 95% and then back down. So it's another perfect example of where they can scale up and scale back down, pay by the minute and truly optimize what they are doing in a second generation infrastructure service. The gaming industry where again you're scaling up, scaling down, there is a lot of queries going back and forth, that's another great example.
And then we are also doing startups. And startups are a little bit different. We want to get the word out. We just announced yesterday that we offer 220% performance on the unit benchmark test compared to Amazon. From the IO perspective we're 190% faster than Rackspace. So, for startups that are trying to get their new technology out, who need performance, who are thinking about the cost of infrastructure, we are also a great solution. And another time we can talk about our flexible networking advantage which is a whole other side of the business. But these are just a couple of the features that we think of as infrastructure-as-a-service 2.0
Paul: Okay that's great. And since we've got Achim here maybe I can ask him some additional questions about the technology and how it works. Achim — maybe you could introduce yourself so we can get your role correct here.
Achim: Yeah, okay, I am Weiss (Achim Weiss). I'm CEO of the whole operation. My background is CTO of 1&1 for the last 15 years, that had 800 developers at the end. I'm pretty knowledgeable about highly scalable infrastructures and data centers and stuff. So I put that knowledge to use and redesigned the infrastructure-as-a-service space as we would like to have it actually. So we sat down and we didn't have any legacy, hardware, software, or anything. We could just start from scratch. So we thought "how would you do this for the next ten years? Well let's see what the key points are," and we said "Okay, the first things is, we need a really, really fast network" because we don't have the storage locally attached to the CPU cores anymore like Amazon is doing, or most other guys are doing. If they have a pizza box and they slice it in four pieces and sell it as virtual servers, that's the unit size you get and that's it. And if you need another one you get to move to another machine and you get another slice of a different sized machine and that's it. So we said "Okay, the first thing we need is a really, really fast networking." So we decided to go with InfiniBand, which is known from the HPC (high performance computing) area. It's not so widely used so far in hosting, but I think that is going to change because it is a great technology. Each card has 40 GBps of bandwidth. We have two cards on each server so we have a total of 80GBs available for networking and storage access. So we are really able to scale out for IO requests and that is one of the fundamental design decisions that we took.
On top of that we designed a virtualization layer for the networking, so for the customers it looks like just a normal Ethernet network but it's way faster, has way lower latency. And as Bob mentioned, the whole scaling is not just horizontally. Of course we do horizontal scaling as well. We have an API, the same thing as Amazon is doing. But we also have vertical scaling, and you can slice up your machine as you like. It can go up soon to 64 cores. We offer 48 right now, we are offering 64 very soon, and up to 265 GB of RAM so you can have any size of deployment that you really need. You can have it vertically; you can have it horizontally. And I think that is the core component of the design of our system.
Paul: And do you have some sort of software defined networking layered on that?
Achim: Yes. We have 10 kernel developers that did nothing else but the software defined networking for the last 2 ½ years. So we have totally flexibility networking. You can design whatever you like. You're not bound to every server having one public IP address and one private, and basically you have one subnet and that's it. The last 20 years we learned in the Internet business how to do best practice designs. You have your front-end servers, you have your firewalls and you have separated internal network, your backend servers, and you have a management network and so on. And you can do this with us as you like. We have a graphical user interface that we didn't mention so far. It's basically like a Visio editor. You just design your data center from a sheet of paper, virtual paper really ,in your browser and you can design your networks as you like. You have the same flexibility as you would with your own hardware, your own switches, and your own cables. So you can make use of all the best practices that we developed in the last 20 years in the Internet business, and don't have to throw away all the knowledge and start with a flat network and that's it. So basically it's a very flexible SDN (software defined network).
Paul: That sounds like a great foundation for the whole offering — that is the network — by choosing InfiniBand, getting that low latency, getting that super high throughput with the 80GBbps per second per server, and then layering on top the SDN capabilities. That is another area where I commonly hear people complain about in public clouds that they have trouble configuring the network the way that they would like it. So SDN gives you, I guess I can't say unlimited configuration, but pretty much anything that you can do that's not going to result in circular routing or…
Achim: Yes, I wouldn't know any use case which you could not set on top of our infrastructure to be honest. You can set up your own broadcasting domains, private lines, segments, whatever you like. It's just like having network engineers. It takes a few seconds to implement. You change everything around in a matter of a few seconds. So you're really, really flexible there.
Paul: And so that covers the network pretty well. What about on the server side as Bob was talking about. Not only can you scale up to the large numbers of cores and high quantities of RAM but you can do so dynamically. How did you pull that off?
Achim: That is pretty tricky. We use KVM as the hypervisor and we modified it heavily in many places and we used C-BIOS as the BIOS and that had to be heavily modified. So in the end we basically pretend we are doing hot plugging to the operating system running in the virtual machine and this works really nice right now. So you can really add CPU and RAM on the fly and in a few months we will also have the feature where you can take the RAM and CPU cores out again and then we automate this and call it a "breathing instance" so it really goes up and down with the demand, with the load. We can measure the CPU load, we can measure the RAM pressure the virtual machine is having. And according to that we can go up and down dynamically. So basically we could call it utility computing. You know, just use what you need, and it goes up and down as you need it and you only pay for what you really need. And it's not fixed sizes anymore. It just changes with your load, very dynamically up and down.
Paul: Last question I guess. How about on the storage side? Is there anything that you do special there?
Achim: Well we have developed a replicated RAID10 storage device, which is not so much special I guess right now. It's really fast compared to the other guys. We measure everybody else of course and we are way ahead on throughput. So I think that is a great devise so far. What we are working on is what we call NBD. It's a really distributed block device, distributed over hundreds of thousands of severs with all the capabilities you would want to have, like snapshotting. You can do zillion of snapshots, and all of the snapshots are the same speed and re-writeable. And thin provisioning and you can get what you would expect from a new, very sophisticated storage device. So that is something that we are working on and will be ready to release next year. But, for the customer, the impact will be — it will even be faster for us in the backend, and it has a lot of other advantages. But I think the storage we offer right now is really, really capable and it's proven to be much faster than the competitors.
Paul: And you certainly have the network to make sure that there is no contention getting to and from the storage.
Achim: That's a point. If you think about SSD storage for example, Amazon jus=st offers a new server with 2 terabytes of SSD storage. It costs like $3.50 an hour which is a lot of money. And you have 2 terabytes, which is fine — but there are people around who need more than 2 Terabyte and there are people around who don't need that much. They would be happy with 100-200 GB and say this is for my index of the database, but they have to pay for that huge server. And that is because Amazon cannot split it because it is locally attached and because they don't have a fast network. For SSD we really need fast, fast access and very low latencies. Otherwise you would destroy the performance of the SSD. It doesn't make sense to have an SSD storage array with 5 million IOPs per second and use a 1GB network to access it. So, in our opinion, InfiniBand is more or less the only technology that is currently capable of handling these speeds that modern SSDs provide. And InfiniBand — the roadmap of InfiniBand right now — there are 56 GB cards out there, 112 GB cards are specified and will be available next year, and they are working on 300 GB standard right now. 300 GB per single port, so this is amazing. The Ethernet guys are talking about changing to 40 GBps — but it may be months or even years until it becomes available or cheap enough to become feasible for a mass market. And we are way ahead of that.
Paul: Well thanks so much for spending the time today guys. It's been great to learn more about your solution.
Achim/Bob: You're welcome. Thank you for having us.
Paul: Thanks
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Apparently, when Bill Gates gets nervous, he rocks back and forth like an autistic savant. This video clip claims to be actual footage of Bill Gates being questioned by U.S. anti-trust lawyers in 1998. Needless to say, he doesn't seem to be enjoying the entire process. Even funnier is that at the end of the clip there is an ad to obtain a set of DVDs of the entire deposition. Who the hell would want eight hours of the richest man in the world rocking back and forth like a child? Now that I think about it, I bet Larry Ellison has multiple copies of this DVD collection.
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Maybe he just had to go pee?
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The site of serial killer Anthony Sowell's house could become a place of reflection for use by the community.
A group of local architects will design a memorial for the vacant lot where Sowell murdered 11 women between 2007 and 2009. The type, shape and size of the memorial have not been determined.
Architects from the Cleveland chapter of the American Institute of Architects met with relatives of the Imperial Avenue victims, residents and community and city leaders Thursday to get their input about the design so it does not become another vacant, littered lot.
The city demolished Sowell's two-family house in December.
In the spring, the Imperial Coalition began an effort at the request of business owners, landlords and some residents in Mount Pleasant to do something at the site. They proposed changing the name of the street because of its association to Sowell, who killed and buried the women in and around his home. All of the meetings have been facilitated by the Mount Pleasant Ministerial Alliance.
The group decided to keep the Imperial name and to build a memorial, said the Rev. Jimmy Gates, interim pastor at the Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, who has helped lead some of the community meetings.
"Imperial Avenue is a well-established street in Mount Pleasant and there was a consensus from the community not to change it," Gates said. "But we have decided to move forward with the design phase so we can put something there. We don't want it to just be a vacant lot."
Kevin Robinette, and architect with the AIA Cleveland, said that he approached the alliance and the Imperial Coalition, a group of churches, city and community leaders, almost a year ago and volunteered to design something at the vacant lot.
"For this lot to stay vacant and untended would not be a good way to honor the victims," Robinette said to victims' relatives who attended the meeting. "You have to put something back there."
Robinette told the families their input was vital in the design of the project because he wanted it to respect 'their wishes and also to bring hope to neighborhood residents. "The inclusiveness of the families who suffered losses is the most important thing, " he said.
Some of those attending the meeting said they didn't want the lot to be like a cemetery and didn't want a large memorial that could be vandalized. Others proposed turning the vacant lot into a park with a sitting area.
"I hope whatever they put there can be something where the women can be honored, but I don't want it to be like a cemetery," said Kyana Hunt, daughter of victim Nancy Cobbs,
Quita Thompson, a family friend of victim Telacia Fortson, said she supports a memorial.
"To me, this is sacred ground," she said. "This is where these women took their last breaths; it has to be honored in a respectful manner."
Some grew tearful as they talked about what they would like to go in the lot and even changed their position.
Joanne Moore, sister of victim Janice Webb, said that whether or not they create a memorial, she probably wouldn't drive past it or visit. She once opposed the project, but is now OK with the idea. She said the tragedy still upsets her and that she will always mourn her younger sister.
"As long as it is not a big rock I am OK with it, but my peace is not going to come from going there."
A Cuyahoga County jury convicted Sowell last year of killing the women, many of whom he lured to his house with the promise of alcohol or drugs. He has been sentenced to death, but is appealing his conviction.
Cleveland City Councilman Ken Johnson said the meeting, the group's fourth, was held so everyone could "get on the same page" and so relatives could be kept abreast of what will happen at the site. He said a company has donated $25,000 worth of marble. The project will cost more than $100,000, Johnson said.
Gates said the final renderings of the project should be completed in December and the alliance would hold a meeting to show relatives and the community what the memorial will look like.
"These women shouldn't be forgotten," Thompson said. "I will never forget what happened to them and I think this can be a way we can all move forward in the healing process."


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NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 8 – Kenya's world reigning 3,000 metres steeplechase champions Conseslus Kipruto and Beatrice Chepkoech say the decision to remove their race from the "core" events in the 2020 Diamond League could hold back their career.
World record-holder Chepkoech, who won the Diamond League for the second time this season and claimed her first world title in Doha, said the move came as a complete surprise.
"It came as a total shocker for me when I heard that the women's steeplechase will not feature in the calendar next season," she told AFP.
"This is the time when I feel I am at the top of my running career.
"But it will come to nothing if I am not able to compete at the Diamond League, which I consider as the most lucrative competition and helps us to develop into well-rounded athletes."
Two-time world champion and Olympic gold medallist Kipruto says the race's omission will hit the development of Kenyan athletics.
"I'm so disappointed that the IAAF has taken such a drastic step to scrap the 3,000m steeplechase from the Diamond League," said Kipruto, who stretched Kenya's world championship winning streak in the event to 31 years when he won in Doha in September.
"The 3,000m steeplechase has made me what I have become and many Kenyan youngsters have been motivated to take up running as a career."
Athletics Kenya (AK) has however defended the IAAF decision, saying Kenyan athletes will still have high-quality meetings to choose from in 2020 with good earning potential.
"The 3,000m steeplechase will also feature strongly in the (African) continental tour which will be announced later after Confederation of African Athletics council approval," AK said in a statement.
The International Association of Athletics Federation announced on Thursday that the steeplechase, discus throw, triple jump and the 200m will not be contested in the Diamond League as it shortens the programme to allow for a 90-minute international broadcast window.
"Our objective is to create a faster-paced, more exciting global league that will be the showcase for our sport. A league that broadcasters want to show and fans want to watch," said IAAF President Sebastian Coe.
The IAAF said the steeplechase would still be run at the meetings in Rome, Oslo and Doha, but will neither be broadcast nor count towards the overall Diamond League prize money.
Earlier this year, the IAAF said it would be scrapping the 10,000m and 5,000m from the Diamond League, with the 3,000m being the longest distance event.


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Includes multiplications with answers from 36 to 108.
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Renovation of the Company's web properties includes lowered pricing options and an enhanced store
Los Angeles, CA -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/12/2017 --GTX Corp (OTCMKTS:GTXO), an Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider in the personal location, wearable and wandering assistive GPS technology business, is proud to announce that it has upgraded its web properties and ecommerce platform including the unveiling of a more feature-rich online store – serving as a one stop shop for GTX's full suite of innovative wearable tech products, personal location services and accessories. The renovation includes enhanced capabilities, additional user-friendly features and lower prices as well as new websites for its Take-Along Tracker 3G and Track My Workforce products.
In an effort to simply the process for GTX's diverse customer base and online community to shop with more ease, the Company has been working diligently to streamline consumers' overall online experience by enabling users to purchase all of the Company's various GPS tracking and monitoring products and services under one umbrella. The new online store broadens the shopping capabilities for both direct consumers, caregivers and small businesses that want to purchase multiple products and have specialized business needs. With the new and improved online store experience also comes lower product costs and additional service plans, offering customers flexible payment options.
Meghan Ravada, GTX Corp Community Relations Director, commented, "We are excited to offer a new renovated shopping experience which will enable our customers to take full advantage of our GPS wander assistive technology. We know caregiving can be challenging, so we strive to reduce stress for our customers and provide them with need-to-know purchase information as efficiently and effortlessly as possible."
In celebration of the new online store opening, GTX Corp is including a FREE pair of the signature Sole Protectors, designed specifically for GTX's patented GPS SmartSole®, for the first 100 SmartSole orders. Additionally, in partnership with HeartMath, an acknowledged world leader in stress and resilience technologies, GTX is also pleased to offer a free downloadable "Caregiver's Guide to Coping with Stress" on its website, a quick read that can make a big difference in providing and empowering people, caregivers and organizations to greatly reduce stress associated with caregiving.
Most widely known for its patented GPS SmartSole and Smartphone GPS Tracking App, GTX owns and licenses more than 80 patents and has multiple products in the market place, all available on the new online store, including:
- Take Along Tracker 3G – a single miniature tracking and SOS device that allows for GPS capabilities, plus 2G, 3G, GSM, data and voice as well as a 3-way motion sensor.
- Track My Workforce – a mobile app allowing employers to monitor mobile employees like drivers and sales representatives through their Smartphone.
- GPS SmartSole – a wearable stigma-free GPS tracking, monitoring and recovery solution for those at risk of wandering due to Alzheimer's, dementia and autism.
- Sole Protector for GPS SmartSole – created specifically for the GPS SmartSole® in order to boost longevity, hygiene, covertness, protection and comfort. Extends the life of the SmartSole with increased shock absorption and water resistance.
About GTX Corp
GTX Corp (GTXO) is a pioneer in Smart, Mobile and Wearable GPS tracking and recovery location based solutions, supported through a proprietary IoT enterprise monitoring platform. GTX offers a complete end-to-end solution of hardware, software and connectivity. The Company develops 2 way GPS tracking technologies which seamlessly integrate with consumer products and enterprise applications. GTX Corp utilizes the latest in miniaturized, low power consumption GPS, Cellular and BLE technology and offers a proprietary platform that enables subscribers to track in real time the whereabouts of people or high valued assets through a complete end to end - customizable transceiver module, wireless connectivity gateway, smart phone Apps, middleware, and portal.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with distributors in 14 countries and customers in over 35 countries, GTX is known for its award-winning patented GPS SmartSole® - Think Dr. Scholl's meets LoJack, the world's first invisible GPS wearable technology device created for those at risk of wandering due to Alzheimer's, dementia, autism and traumatic brain injury. Currently there are 100 million people worldwide who are part of this at risk wandering group and that number is expected to reach 277 million by 2050. The Company doesn't just make and sell the best GPS tracking products, they deliver innovative, miniaturized, low power consumption wearable tech that provides safety, security and peace of mind at the touch of a button. GTX puts the "Where" in Wearable Tech.
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Dust Devils
by Robert Smith
4 out of 5 delicious sheep heads
(I received a free copy of this book from New Pulp Press for this review.)
This book starts out with infidelity, murder, more murder and political/police corruption.
Then things really get dark.
Robert Dell is a white South African journalist who protested apartheid. He's a liberal, a committed pacifist and married to a black woman. His father, Bobby Goodbread, proves that sometimes the apple falls a long way from the tree. Goodbread is an American who got up to all kinds of evil deeds as part of his job as a CIA agent fighting communism in various hot spots. He worked with the white right-wing whites in South Africa to keep apartheid in place and liked to brag that it was his information that led to the capture of Nelson Mandela. As you would expect, the two have little to talk about.
Dell is framed for a horrible crime by Inja Mazibuko, a brutal enforcer for a high ranking government official. As he's about to be transferred to a prison where he'll almost certainly be killed Dell is rescued by his estranged father. With no other options, Dell reluctantly joins Goodbread on a mission of revenge.
Mazibuko has returned to a remote region that he runs like a warlord so that he can marry his fourth wife. Sunday is a young girl who has essentially been sold to Mazibuko, and the prospect is terrifying since she witnessed him murdering her family when she was a child. Her desperate attempt to seek help in the form of a fax to an old phone number lands on the desk of Disaster Zondi, a police officer who just saw his department gutted by corruption. Zondi is from the area and used to be part of the same crew as Mazibuko before changing his ways. He also knew Sunday's mother, and he returns to his old stomping grounds for reasons he doesn't fully understand.
The opening chapters of this made me think that his was going to be a fast-paced violent thrill ride, and while the pace is brisk and there's no shortage of carnage, there's a lot more going on in this book than just a story about people trying to kill each other in the wilds of Africa. The poverty stricken area here is a mix of Zulu tribal rituals and superstitions mixed with bits of the modern world like BMWs, cell phones and AK-47s.
The major characters are all extremely well developed, and Smith makes you completely understand them all from the liberal and educated Dell to the teenaged Sunday who has never used a modern bathroom. Zondi's return to the place he grew up stirs mixed emotions about the boy he used to be and the man he became once he left. Goodbread is fascinating as an aging Cold Warrior who thought he was doing the right thing at the time. Particularly disturbing is Mazibuko whose is almost a force of nature in his ruthlessness, and he makes for one spectacularly evil villain.
Just when you think you know where the story is going, there'll be a surprising but logical twist and nothing goes as expected. It's not a happy read, but it's an intriguing one.
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Vancouver police say police went to a home on Sunday on a report of a dog being dragged by a truck to that location. Witnesses told police they had heard a dog yelping and crying loudly and saw a dog hanging by a leash on the side of a truck.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post6899056271934091600..comments2022-09-28T05:18:55.379-05:00Comments on crazy mom quilts: machine quiltingAmanda Jeanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-73634466730269972862012-06-24T19:04:13.971-05:002012-06-24T19:04:13.971-05:00How did I miss this post?? Good thing I saw it bef...How did I miss this post?? Good thing I saw it before I quilted a topper that is almost ready--because now I want to do it Amoeba-style! :) Thanks for sharing this.April (Polkadot Sparrow)https://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-47101503526776948792012-06-14T13:43:40.683-05:002012-06-14T13:43:40.683-05:00well, you know that i just learned to bury my knot...well, you know that i just learned to bury my knots from Flaun at the workshop. i like it. but i also like to start and end quilting on the edge so i don't have to :)quirky granola girlhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-64689551247384116522012-06-14T07:17:27.694-05:002012-06-14T07:17:27.694-05:00I love your confession posts. I always learn so m...I love your confession posts. I always learn so much from the comments that the readers share. There are so many methods out there to discover as techniques.Suzannehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-87071848952937305412012-06-11T16:18:37.825-05:002012-06-11T16:18:37.825-05:00Yes , I've always buried my knots! I try to ha...Yes , I've always buried my knots! I try to have as few as possible.Charhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-55367299159220781112012-06-11T14:51:54.837-05:002012-06-11T14:51:54.837-05:00Denise, I wouldn't have to rotate the quilt, ...Denise,

I wouldn't have to rotate the quilt, but I found that I got the best results from doing that. My stitching is more consistent and looks the best. Hope that helps!

Amanda JeanAmanda Jeanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-63104472304235971362012-06-11T11:11:09.789-05:002012-06-11T11:11:09.789-05:00I have the same question as Cheryl as far as rotat...I have the same question as Cheryl as far as rotating the quilt. Unless you are doing it with a walking foot, it would seem you would not have to rotate email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-13020463172772601662012-06-11T10:35:30.646-05:002012-06-11T10:35:30.646-05:00CBD, thanks for the explanation. I actually watch...CBD, thanks for the explanation. I actually watched a YouTube video after I posted. I will say it probably isn't going to happen here. That is HAND work and that is a four letter word! I don't do anything by hand if I can help it.Maryhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-55582828262050832452012-06-10T20:55:44.925-05:002012-06-10T20:55:44.925-05:00The only kind of know burying I know about is when...The only kind of know burying I know about is when hand quilting. So, inquiring minds want to know -- how the heck do you bury the knots on machine quilting????Thimbleannahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-43558224696851000552012-06-10T09:42:30.523-05:002012-06-10T09:42:30.523-05:00How fun! If you are free motion quilting could you...How fun!
If you are free motion quilting could you not do this without rotating the quilt? Moving it yes, but not rotating?Cheryl Arkisonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-67486171111788610082012-06-10T03:09:11.295-05:002012-06-10T03:09:11.295-05:00Hi Amanda Jean! I love the Amoeba quilting. Darl...Hi Amanda Jean! I love the Amoeba quilting. Darling! I DO bury my knots. I don't understand though why some ladies are saying that they don't know how. So, I'll explain what I do. I knot the thread with a quilter's knot. I find where I want the needle to come up and go down as far as the needle will let me. I then go into that spot and out where I want the needle and therefore the first stitch. I tug on the knot until it disappears between the layers of fabric and batting. If this is what you mean; then yes, I bury my knots. I am curious about this self threading needle. Don't know this! Can't wait to see your finished quilt!Coffeebean's Dailieshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-6250433417474919942012-06-10T00:08:58.330-05:002012-06-10T00:08:58.330-05:00I'd love to know how to do that. Maybe you'...I'd love to know how to do that. Maybe you'll do a tutorial sometime soon :)Jennie P.https://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-45585756005925519092012-06-09T16:37:13.559-05:002012-06-09T16:37:13.559-05:00When I'm hand stitching I bury my knots. Love...When I'm hand stitching I bury my knots.
Love the quilting design. I'll be watching out for the big finish.
They do cool melt glue sticks too.. =D

I'm having a giveaway on my blog. There is one extra day to enter =D
http://ibescheraldine.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/official-150th-post-giveaway.htmlCheriehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-81274005199147903652012-06-09T14:56:21.785-05:002012-06-09T14:56:21.785-05:00I bury my knots too! Your amoeba quilting looks re...I bury my knots too! Your amoeba quilting looks really nice, I love the idea!Kati from Kati's Quiltinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-61936841768363519972012-06-09T11:51:38.676-05:002012-06-09T11:51:38.676-05:00No, I do not. I still to this day do not understa...No, I do not. I still to this day do not understand how or why it is done. I do a locking stitch and snip the threads.

I like your amoeba. I thought it looked like a whirlpool.Maryhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-12963924036216724072012-06-09T11:31:48.944-05:002012-06-09T11:31:48.944-05:00I don't bury my knots on machine quilting, nor...I don't bury my knots on machine quilting, nor do I know how. I do that on my handquilting, though.Clairhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-40476759499532108652012-06-09T11:27:54.065-05:002012-06-09T11:27:54.065-05:00Leah Day has all sorts of info about burying your ...Leah Day has all sorts of info about burying your threads on her blog, but I'm just too impatient to do it I guess. I do a few "back stitches" at the beginning and end of each "run", and call it good. I also have a pair of curved scissors so that I can clip the thread right at the fabric. I use all of my quilts, and can honestly say that I've never had anyone, myself included ever look at the stitching close enough to matter once they're done.Beckyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-17963876803517961122012-06-09T10:34:59.250-05:002012-06-09T10:34:59.250-05:00Amanda Jean, I do not bury my knots but it is on m...Amanda Jean, I do not bury my knots but it is on my list to try if only on the art quilts. I like the idea of using self-threading needles for that. As for the glue gun, somebody tipped me about the low-heat glue guns and I love them! Now I can let my 12-year-old use it on his shells, too. Try it!Pieced Brain Quilt Designshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-18233531492997687962012-06-09T10:23:20.103-05:002012-06-09T10:23:20.103-05:00Bury knots?? First I would have to attempt the FMQ...Bury knots?? First I would have to attempt the FMQ! But for the few times I have done straight line quilting and had to do something in the center of the quilt, I would LOVE to know how to bury the knots!Live a Colorful Lifehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-26215836477112208422012-06-09T10:16:24.269-05:002012-06-09T10:16:24.269-05:00Awesome quilting! I do bury my knots/threads, but...Awesome quilting! I do bury my knots/threads, but apparently I need to get a self-threading needle like some others, because I always dread that job.Beckyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-12374668612660950072012-06-09T09:21:35.567-05:002012-06-09T09:21:35.567-05:00I knot and bury my thread ends from the back of th...I knot and bury my thread ends from the back of the quilt. Using a self-threading needle makes it SO much easier and faster.

That amoeba quilting is fun!Esch House Quiltshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-9455817254264639342012-06-09T09:08:21.889-05:002012-06-09T09:08:21.889-05:00Please..please share how to bury knots...Have no i...Please..please share how to bury knots...Have no idea how..As for the hot glue...I think you always burn your fingers...Maxinehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-8309922405783237122012-06-09T08:07:54.513-05:002012-06-09T08:07:54.513-05:00Yes, please, tell us how you bury your knots. You...Yes, please, tell us how you bury your knots.

You are a brave woman, to attempt that design on such a large quilt.
I'm sure it will be easier once you are done with the center and in a groove.pasqueflowerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-8030451248126505562012-06-09T08:06:04.800-05:002012-06-09T08:06:04.800-05:00I bury my threads sometimes - It depends on the pr...I bury my threads sometimes - It depends on the project and the time constraints. I like the idea of using the self threading needle...would make it a lot easier to help and bury the threads. I find I do not like using the tiny stitches much and I would rather bring the bobbin thread to the top and tie off and bury or clip it....Diane Swetthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-19406159863220157132012-06-09T07:29:43.021-05:002012-06-09T07:29:43.021-05:00I think about burying my knots - LOL. I have a se...I think about burying my knots - LOL. I have a self-threading needle and I think I did it once. I really need to do it always. You may have inspired me to to "just do it!"Denise in PAhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-37018101.post-39338410136402656482012-06-09T07:18:21.837-05:002012-06-09T07:18:21.837-05:00I love the concentric amoeba! It looks so fun.I love the concentric amoeba! It looks so fun.Amandahttps://email@example.com


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In Europe we find that many Christian Churches which have not enough members any more to fill their churches and to cover their costs for keeping those churches open have to close them down and sell them. Many Christian churches in Holland are sold to private owners to give them different apartments or shops, or are finding a new use as community centre, library or theatre.
Perhaps in the States the churches are also facing a similar problem. One of the oldest and historic Christian Churches in Bridgeport, CT, The United Congregational Church said Monday it plans to sell its brick Georgian-Revival style church, built in the 1920s, to the Bridgeport Islamic Cultural Center for $1 million.
The two groups will also form a partnership to provide community programs including soup kitchen and a homeless shelter from the site of the current church.
In recent years, more Muslim communities across the U.S. have begun to engage in the types of fundraisers and social-service projects that Christian congregations and Jewish synagogues often host or organize, said David Grafton, professor of Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn.
"As the national landscape has become much more suspicious of Muslims, and as Islamophobia has become more common, Muslim communities have consciously engaged in the process to normalize—or become part of the religious landscape of organizing into voluntary associations that form the bedrock of American civil and religious life,"
he said.
The lineage of the United Congregational Church dates back to colonial days. It was first established in 1695 and called the Ecclesiastical Society of Stratfield. It later merged in 1916 with another congregation to form the United Congregational Church.
Rev. Sara Smith said the Bridgeport church had 3,000 members when the main structure was built, but the numbers have now dwindled to 300. She said it made financial sense for the congregation to look for a new home.
The United Congregational Church will be renting space in another part of Bridgeport till they find a new space to buy, Rev. Smith said.
"We are not dying, we are just moving,"
she said.
It has been a challenge for Muslim organizations to find real estate for mosques or other religious uses since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that challenge has become more difficult in recent years, said Reza Mansoor, president of the Islamic Association of Greater Hartford.
"The Muslim community has had to reach out to places of worship to buy their properties in Connecticut towns and cities like East Hartford, Avon and New London,"
Dr. Mansoor said.
Ahmed Ebrahim, the leader of the Bridgeport Islamic Cultural Center, said his organization bought the church because it had the space needed for prayers and was zoned for religious use. About 1,000 families in the greater Bridgeport region are expected to use the mosque.
"It's a perfect fit for our needs,"
Dr. Ebrahim said.
The main sanctuary will be used as a prayer space, Dr. Ebrahim said. The congregation from the United Congregational Church will help prepare the space by removing a cross from the altar and modifying the stained-glass windows in the church.
Ellen Carter from Fairfield, Conn., says her family has been a member of the church for 11 generations.
"It's sad"
we are moving locations, Ms. Carter said.
"On the other hand, it's necessary, and we are happy it's again going to be used as a house of worship."
The closing of the sale is scheduled for May 1. The church was designed by Allen & Collens, the architectural firm that also designed the Cloisters Museum in Manhattan and the Central Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. {Source: The Wall Street Journal}


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Hold No Offense
Challenge: Forgive
Whenever God needs me to get a point, He will repeat it in my hearing multiple times from multiple sources and usually by this time, He's tried telling me Himself, but I've not listened (yes, sometimes I'm hard headed). By the second or third time, I usually get the memo and move forward in what He's telling me. Now, I need you to know that it's not always like that with God and I. Most of the time, I do what He tells me the first time but when I am scared, nervous, or feel justified I can be a little stubborn.
A few weeks ago, God dealt with me on a part I played in a very big misunderstanding. I was so upset that someone could treat me with such carelessness, but I did not want to acknowledge that I was also careless with how I was treating them. I decided to pray for this person the way I prayed for so many others who offended me. But this time was different because I had yet to acknowledge my part in the mess, so even though I was praying to forgive them, it was like my prayers were falling to the ground and dying. In the entire month I was praying for them, it was like I still had this stronghold and it would not break.
A week ago I was on Facebook and a T.D. Jakes video popped up on my timeline. In the video, Bishop Jakes was talking about offense and he used the scripture Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil. ~ Ephesians 4:26-27. I listened and liked the post but never thought it was for me. A week later I was watching another message by another preacher and he used the exact same scripture talking about offense and I knew God was speaking but I didn't move because I was stubborn and felt that their offense to me was worse than mine to them - it was a standoff (or so I thought).
The next day I was walking in my house and it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I knew some of the very things I was asking God to fix and change for me were being held up because I was still holding an offense to this person. It was like God was giving me yet another chance to get it right, so I emailed the person and sincerely apologized for my part in our misunderstanding. The beauty of it is that once I apologized I was free from the burden of anger towards that person and I knew immediately that the prayers I prayed before were going to be answered now because my heart was clear of offense. They did not have to ever read or respond to the email, but because I was sincere in my apology, the anger I felt was gone. But even more significant was that my relationship with God was mended in that moment. While I was angry and holding onto this anger, I felt a strain in my relationship with God and I did not like it. I was trying to find out what was going on and all the while, it was because I had this anger in my heart towards someone I was supposed to forgive. Once I let that go, I was free in my relationship with my Heavenly Father again and for me that's the most important relationship I will ever have so nothing can stand in the way of that.
The moral of the story is we must not hold onto offense and we must forgive. I know that forgiving someone can be the hardest thing one can do, but I also know the benefits. Up until this issue, I thought I was doing well with not holding onto offenses and forgiving, but I realized quickly that I still had room to grow and mature. If you are holding onto something, make a choice to sincerely forgive today and if you've hurt someone make a choice today to sincerely apologize because holding onto that stuff will only cause you harm in the long run. Let it go and hold no offense.
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Guest: Megan Adediran
This HemoStories episode highlights excerpts from the speech given by Megan Adediran, the Executive Director of the Haemophilia Foundation of Nigeria, at NHF's annual meeting called "Overcoming the Odds." It is the second segment of our look at hemophilia in Nigeria. It will help listeners to understand how hemophilia is viewed and treated, and the measures that Megan's organization is taking to educate people of this country.
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