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It is a perfect option for the evening: our new FREE walking PHOTO tour not only giving you a chance to find some unique photographic perspectives of Kraków but also showing you some bit less known, but no less impressive, spots in the town centre.
The walk will lead us around the former medieval city moat, turned into a green belt surrounding the old town some 200 years ago: the Planty Park. Not only a park, but also a promenade of the rich and noble, poor and desperate, poets and homeless, cyclists and dogs. This is the one place that may make you feel truly local: a Krakus, Krakauer.
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English-speaking guide — The Planty Park — The oldest house in Kraków
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Translation, they say, is a good way to improve one's language skills. Translating poetry, specifically, forces the writer to focus on the words — on diction, essentially — because all other elements like poetic structure and literary content are already taken care of.
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Research profile
Bastian Pfleging is Assistant Professor for Design Research on Systems, Products, and Related Services for Future Everyday Mobility in the Future Everyday cluster. He also co-leads the squad on Adaptive Mobility. With a background in computer science, his expertise is in the fields of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous systems, multimodal interaction, natural user interfaces, and specifically automotive user interfaces. His research interests especially include novel concepts for non-driving-related activities in the car and the user experience of vehicles in the transition to full automation. Bastian Pfleging is steering committee member of the AutomotiveUI conference series and served the scientific community in different chair roles at various conferences such as CHI '19 (associate chair, subcommittee on user experience and usability), PerDis'19 (demo chair), Mensch und Computer '19 (demo chair), UIST '18 (treasurer), AutomotiveUI '17 (program chair), AutomotiveUI '15 and 16' (work-in-progress and interactive demo chair). He is also member in program committees of HCI-related scientific conferences and serves as a reviewer and guest editor for various conferences, journals, and magazines.
Academic background
Bastian Pfleging studied Computer Science at TU Dortmund, Germany. In 2009, he started as a researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. From 2010 to 2011, he was a visiting researcher at the BMW Technology Office in Palo Alto/Mountain View, California. In 2011 he continued his research at the University of Stuttgart, where he also defended his PhD thesis on the topic of "Automotive User Interfaces for the Support of Non-Driving-Related Activities" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt. Since July 2015 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the chair for Human-Machine Interaction at LMU Munich, Germany. For the summer term 2018, he additionally was a deputy professor for human-computer interaction at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. In 2018, he joined the Department for Industrial Design of Eindhoven University of Technology.
Education/Academic qualification
User interfaces, multimedia, Doctor, Universität Stuttgart
2011 → 2015
Computer science, other, Master, Universität Dortmund
2003 → 2008
User interfaces, multimedia, Doctor, University of Duisburg-Essen
2009 → 2011
User interfaces, multimedia, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2015 → …
External positions
Deputy Professor, Universität Stuttgart2018
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München2015 → …
Researcher, Universität Stuttgart2011 → 2015
Researcher, BMW of North America2010 → 2011
Researcher, University of Duisburg-Essen2009 → 2011
Self-Employed2001 → …
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Research Output
Color and animation preferences for a light band eHMI in interactions between automated vehicles and pedestriansDey, D. D., Habibovic, A., Pfleging, B., Martens, M. H. & Terken, J. M. B., 2020, Proceedings of the CHI 2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 13 p. 198
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
The effects of explicit intention communication, conspicuous sensors, and pedestrian attitude in interactions with automated vehiclesAckermans, S. C. A., Dey, D. D., Ruijten, P. A. M., Cuijpers, R. H. & Pfleging, B., 2020, Proceedings of the CHI 2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 15 p. 70
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
At your service: Designing voice assistant personalities to improve automotive user interfaces a real world driving studyBraun, M., Mainz, A., Chadowitz, R., Pfleging, B. & Alt, F., 4 May 2019, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 11 p. 40
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Visualizing natural language interaction for conversational in-vehicle information systems to minimize driver distractionBraun, M., Broy, N., Pfleging, B. & Alt, F., Jun 2019, In : Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. 13, 2, p. 71-88 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Improving driver emotions with affective strategiesBraun, M., Schubert, J., Pfleging, B. & Alt, F., 25 Mar 2019, In : Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 3, 1, 19 p., 21.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Honorabe Mention Award
Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamondez (Recipient), Bastian Pfleging (Recipient), Niels Henze (Recipient) & Albrecht Schmidt (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Best paper award
Debargha (Dave) Dey (Recipient), Azra Habibovic (Recipient), B. Pfleging (Recipient), Marieke H. Martens (Recipient) & Jacques M.B. Terken (Recipient), Apr 2020
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Activities per year
Co-supervisor of PhD Thesis "Affective Automotive User Interfaces"B. Pfleging (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › Examination › Scientific
37th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2019)Bastian Pfleging (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Conference › Scientific
9th ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2017)Bastian Pfleging (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Conference › Scientific
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (Journal)Bastian Pfleging (Guest editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity › Scientific
External Car Displays (eHMI) - Exploring & Designing the User Experience Around (Manual and Automated) VehiclesBastian Pfleging (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional


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After last week's powdered milk, I needed to redeem my taste testing reputation. This week we tested something much more pleasant than powdered milk: "Dream Pie." This is a recipe that uses Dream Whip whipped topping mix to make a whipped topping+pudding pie.
What is "Dream Whip" you may ask? Dream Whip whipped topping mix is a powdered mix that is packaged in 4 envelopes to a box. Blend the stuff with milk and vanilla, and voila, instant whipped topping that kind of tastes like homemade whipped heavy cream but not quite. You can just make the stuff as whipped topping or you can use it as a "fluffing" agent in certain recipes. One application of Dream Whip is cake. My mother is making the cake for my wedding reception and was told to use Dream Whip in the cake mix to make the cake extra moist and fluffy. And of course, Dream Whip is used in the infamous "Dream Pie," a pie where you blend Dream Whip mix, any flavor pudding mix, milk, and vanilla together and spoon it into a crust to get "lighter, fluffier, Dream Pie." This lightness and fluffiness added to the pie is explained well by this picture on the back of the older box of Dream Whip:
Different from past taste tests, I didn't have my testers sample just the product itself. Instead I put the product to the test in a recipe to see if the products with different vintages would make any difference in taste and texture in the finished product.
When I tested the two products' water activity using an AquaLab 3TE, I got a reading of 0.153 aw for the older product and a reading of 0.246 aw for the new product. This seems understandable because the two products were packaged similarly, and overtime the older product would have become drier as some of the moisture in the older product would have had a chance to migrate outside the package. The dry mixes looked similar in texture though the older product was slightly yellowed with age.
The recipe for Dream Pie was located on the back of both boxes. The wording on each was slightly different, but all the ingredients were in the same proportions. I started by making the older Dream Whip. The box says to "BEAT whipped topping mix with 1 cup milk and the vanilla…at HIGH with electric mixer for 6 minutes or until topping thickens and forms peaks." Well, it wasn't until at least 6 minutes had passed before I had an indication of "peaks" being formed in the older Dream Whip.
See what I mean? Not super peaky. But maybe you need a comparison. The picture below shows the new Dream Whip after probably only beating 3-4 minutes. For reals.
Much more peaky, and took less time. The new Dream Whip was also a purer white than the older Dream Whip. The older Dream Whip product needed more time to thicken and didn't get quite as thick as the new product even after getting some extra time to whip.
After I added the pudding mix and the rest of the vanilla, the old and new products were visibly comparable. The old product may have looked a little more grainy and the new one a little smoother, but that was were differences stopped, at least visually.
After spooning out the product into the pie crusts I admit to licking the bowls to see if there was a difference in flavor. Even though all ingredients were the same but one, I could taste a difference. The older one tasted somewhat chemical-y, while the new one tasted fresher and creamier. But what's my opinion to that of my testers? Time to bring a fresh crop of them on the scene!
This week I had the highest participation rate yet for a taste test with 17 people. I guess my powdered milk from last week didn't scare them away after all.
The room was near silent as the testers tasted and took notes on the provided feedback sheets. After a few bites I think it was obvious to most which pie contained the old product and which contained the new. In their ratings, 12 out of 17 preferred product B (the pie using new Dream Whip), while 3 preferred the pie using old product and 2 couldn't tell the difference, giving their product the same rating.
Comments were a little varied for both pies, but some general trends existed. Many participants noted something odd about the flavor of Pie A with comments like "slight metallic flavor" "strange flavor" "tiny after taste of rubber" "hint of bleach, little more acidic" "a little pasty" and 'tastes more chemical-y than the other…tastes like plastic…not great at all." An unpleasant aftertaste was noted by at least three people. Comments varied for texture but some said it was "grainy" "slimy" and "thicker than B." The ratings for the product weren't bad, with an average rating of 5.6. Some discrepancy existed though, since the lowest score was a 1 and the highest an 8.
Unsurprisingly, Pie B got many more positive comments than Pie A. Most testers said it was good and/or tasty. My favorite two comments were "Delicious, chocolate-y, lovable, cuddly :)" and "This is how a choco-cream pie should taste. A delightful pas de deux between the chocolate and the graham cracker crust." (Yeah, the people I work with are pretty cool). Some noted that B was "less chocolate-y than A" "not very flavorful" and "weak" but generally the comments regarding B were positive. In regards to texture, many noted that the product was fluffy, smooth, and creamy. The average score of B was 7.9, with the highest score being a 10 and the lowest being a 4.
While some general trends existed to differentiate the two pies, some of my testers weren't able to tell much of a difference between the two. Comments in this regard included "almost exactly the same" "I'm considering disqualifying myself from future taste testing because I can't tell any difference in taste" and "visibly these two products are identical and look delicious!"
In conclusion, I think if you were in a pinch to get a dessert ready and didn't have the time to go the store to get some Dream Whip (or you just wanted to be cheap), you could use Grandma Zollinger's old Dream Whip mix and probably be just fine. The pie might end up tasting a little off, but without a comparison, who's going to complain about Dream Pie?
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I'm writing this post for people who are similar to myself except they have yet to build a DAW. If you have been building machines for years you still might learn something about building a DAW since some considerations are different from building a general use machine. There are lots of guides on DIY computer builds out there. My focus will be on what I learned from the actual build not what I learned from reading .
In my last post I talked about the process of selecting a DAW. The choices were:
- Mac Pro
- Large PC manufactures like Dell and HP. I'm not taking about consumer machines. I'm talking about "workstations" like the HP Z600 or the Dell T5500. Unlike consumer models these run Xeon processors.
- Boutique DAW builders like http://www.reyniersaudio.com
- DIY builds like the one I just finished.
My conclusion was: Buy a workstation model from a big manufacture or a Mac Pro. Before I go into the details of the DIY process I'd like to recap my reasons.
I am technology agnostic. I have no preference for Macs, PCs, or anything else. I only want my technology to perform and be reliable. Over the years I have used 2 Macs (G4s), a big manufacturer PC (Dell precision 380), a boutique DAW builder machine (ADK Intel E6600 Dual Core Processor) and now the DIY build I finished a few months ago (Intel i7 950). The Macs gave me the least amount of trouble. The boutique DAW and my current DIY machine gave me the most trouble. I'd put the Dell in the middle.
As things stand right now my next machine will be a Mac Pro running Bootcamp. In fact, a studio owner in LA told me he only builds and uses that very combo due to performance and reliability.
Here are my arguments against a DIY DAW build. (This is no way to start a long DIY DAW post.)
- DIY will likely not save you money. You have to see the big picture: The price of the parts, your time doing research, assembling, troubleshooting, and necessary software such as Windows 7.
- DIY will take longer to get up and running unless you know exactly what parts you need, can purchase them locally, assemble them fast, have no troubleshooting, and can set up the bios and OS fast.
- It's easy to build your own PC! I've read that many times. Perhaps it's true. But I believe it's not so easy to build a high performance and reliable one.
- Dealing with several manufactures instead of one. I have at least 5 different parts manufacturers in my DIY DAW. If there are hardware problems I will need to figure out which one it is and then deal with that manufacturer. With a Mac I just deal with Apple and they do the troubleshooting. One exception here is if a part fails quickly. In this case you may be able to return to the retailer such as Newegg.
- Boxes and clutter. My DIY DAW build left an array of boxes, packing materials, extras, and manuals in it's wake. I don't want to store these or organize them. With an assembled machine you get one large box.
- Resale. In my experience name brand machines have better resale and a larger pool of buyers.
Still, for better or worse, I just had to build my own DAW. Perhaps because I consider experience to be the best form of information.
So why would you want to DIY? Some people enjoy building things. Some people like to know exactly what components are in their DAW (super quiet fans and hard drives). If you built it yourself chances are you can repair it yourself and not rely on questionable repair shops. Some people have been building computers so long they have streamlined the process.
I want to stress that I did not go into this build without some research. I read a respected book on the topic (Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs 19th Edition). I read many posts online. I asked questions in technical communities. And I received the advice of seasoned DAW builders. There were still holes in my knowledge that I will cover here.
Expect to spend most of your time selecting parts. All the specs you need to know should be available online. If the retailer does not list it you can go to the manufacturers site.
Some tips: Find out what other DIYers and boutique DAW builders are using. Also check online retailers feedback on the item. This feedback is undoubtedly bias since people with problems tend to leave feedback more then happy customers. I still find it useful. I look for well written and specific feedback rather then emotional and general feedback like "this sucks".
Here are the parts I used and why. My cost was around $1,200 including Windows 7, two 1T Drives, and 6Gigs of RAM. I bought everything at newegg.com.
- CPU/processor: Intel i7 950.
This is a low/mid priced Intel processor. I think it's a good bang for the buck. If you plan on overclocking the lower priced processors stand a better change of large gains. The 950 also uses the higher performance LGA 1366 socket. This would allow me to upgrade my CPU to a faster i7 chip such as the Core i7-9xxX Extreme Edition. Checking the Wiki page for the i7 I see they are using a new socket for the latest i7s. Dang. The 2 big things to get right here are the performance of the processor and the socket. For performance you can see what others are using in DAWs. For example many DIYers use the i7 chip as well as some boutique DAW builders. There are benchmarks available but I wouldn't put complete faith in them since they are in part dependant on hardware and software you might not use. Socket! The socket is the connection between the CPU and motherboard. It is actually part of the motherboard. Just like a light bulb a CPU and motherboard MUST have the same socket.
- Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R.
If the CPU is the brain then the motherboard is the central nervous system. It connects the CPU to everything else: Memory, hard drives, audio card, video card, etc. I picked this particular board because it had just what I needed with little extra. My last board was kinda pricey and included all kinds of extras I never used. The big points here are to match the socket with CPU and make sure the board will have the connections/slots you need. For example, I have an old UAD-1 PCI card. PCI is being replaced with newer PCI-e. So I had to make sure this board had a PCI card slot. I also wanted lots of SATA connections for many hard drives, some firewire ports, usb 3… you get the idea.
- Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 590
A case may be more important then you think. Motherboards come in different sizes (form factors) as do cases. So all motherboards will not fit all cases. This case is an ATX form factor. This is the most popular one and my recommendation. There is an advantage with sticking with industry standards as upgrades and future compatibility should be better. A case will play a roll in how your computer is organized. For example it will determine where fans mount, where drives mount, where power supplies mount, how much room you have to work inside the machine, the airflow for cooling, and where front panel connections (usb, firewire) are located. This case is a no frills and inexpensive model. It has plenty of venting and lots of bays for multiple hard drives. Make sure your case form factor and mother board form factor are the same!
- Ram: CORSAIR XMS3 6GB CMX6GX3M3C1600C7
Do not buy cheap off-brand RAM. Figuring out the problem is RAM will take some time. Testing RAM is not fast. Then you will need to remove and replace it. So imo the "savings" of cheap ram are not worth it. Your motherboard must be compatible with your ram. There is a type of memory (ddr3, ddr2), the channel mode (dual-channel, tri-channel), and the speed (1600MTps, 1333MTps). All things the same DDR3 memory is the fastest. Channel mode has to do with how many sticks are accessed at the same time and how fast the ram is. The higher the channel mode the faster the memory. Tri-channel is faster then dual channel. Tri-channel memory is designed for 3 sticks to get accessed at the same time and therefore sold in packs of 3 sticks. If you were to buy 2 sticks of tri-channel memory they might work but not at the faster tri-channel speed. Just don't do it. The speed is what you'd expect. Higher speeds are faster all things the same. Before you buy a ton of RAM make sure you can use it. Windows XP Home Edition can only use about 4 gigs of ram. Even if you can support 64 gigs of ram such as Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit your applications may still be running in 32 bit mode and only use 4 gigs ram. The ram I bought is name brand ddr3 tri-channel at 1600MTps speed. It was mid-price. Unfortunately my motherboard does not officially support 1600 speed ram so that extra cost and speed may be going to waste. One way to test with would be to change my memory settings in the BIOS and do some testing. (I'll put that on my list.) One last thing. When I built my machine it was possible to buy RAM faster then the stock motherboard speeds. So my advice is don't go crazy with expensive high speed ram.
- Hard Dives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
For hard drives I want something quiet with a good DAW track record. Hard drives make a lot of noise. Most of the noise in my system is from hard drives. How do i know? I unplugged them all and restarted into BIOS. Very quiet. Drives are getting super cheap these day and I've heard on good authority they are also getting less reliable. As with ram do not buy cheap off brand drives and always back music up to a second drive. I have one drive for OS, one for music, one for samples, and one for backup. Solid state drives have been around for a while but they are still expensive and don't offer any huge advantages for DAWs. They are good for quick random access times such as booting. But DAWs are mostly reading large continuous files so the price for performance does not make sense to me yet. They are very quiet with no moving parts. That is nice if you record near your DAW.
- Mobile Racks: iStarUSA T-5-SA. These are basically enclosures for your hard drives that allow you to remove the bare drive easily. They are damn handy if you need to swap in drives or run with data in a hurry. I like this model because it does not have a fan. Tiny enclosure fans fail often and can be noisy. This model is open and allows decent air cooling. I have another model that makes some vibration noise. So far this one is quiet.
- PSU or Power Supply Unit: COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M700
Again, don't go cheap-o off brand. When PSUs fail it might not be obvious. Failure can manifest itself in many ways. As with motherboards you need to get the right form factor, most likely ATX. PSUs are rated by how much power they provide (Watts) . There are a few online PSU calculators out there that will put you in the right ballpark. Scott Mueller's book also has some basics wattage numbers for various devices. But wattage is not all-telling. Some quality PSUs rated at 350 watts will outperform a 600 Watt rated cheapo model. So take these numbers with a grains of salt. I bought far more then the minimum I required. Too much power is always better then just enough. Besides, I will undoubtedly add devices and increase power consumption up the road. I prefer modular PSUs. They only use the connections you need making your computer less cluttered and easier to work on.
- Video Card: SAPPHIRE 100292DDR3L Radeon HD 5450
There is no need to spend your money on a high performance graphics card for a DAW. But you don't want one with a crappy and loud fan that burns out in 9 months. The fan on my old graphics card had a protracted and noisy death. Soon after that the card failed probably due to poor cooling. Now I only buy cards with heat sinks. I have two 1280×1024 resolution monitors so I bought a single slot card that will support them. I also wanted to use digital connections so this card has one dvi and one hdmi output. I had to run a hdvi to dvi cable to my second monitor since it does not have an hdvi input.
There are a few other things to consider like an audio card and optical drive. Audio cards or interfaces are their own big topic. Just make sure you motherboard has the proper slot or connection to support it. Optical drives are so cheap all I can say is get something reliable. Mine cost about $20.
Before you buy locally or online make sure you have double checked to make sure everything will work together. My list was revised several times.
If you record quite sources near your computer consider noise. I touch on this in a few other places. Your main culprits are hard drives and fans. Remember there are fans on the heat sink and power supply unit. Here is a cool site that specializes in all things quiet. They give detailed specs which many online retailers to not.
The next phase is assembly. This is supposed to be the easy part and I hope it is for you. I had some snags.
Things to have on hand:
- Manuals. The most handy of which is the motherboard manual. Some things are printed on the board but these can be hard to read or obstructed. I found my motherboard manual indispensable.
- Screwdriver with magnetic bits: Otherwise threading will be difficult and you won't be able to recover dropped screws easily. Don't worry about using this magnet by your machine. It's safe and used by many techs.
- There will be lot of screwing. In this case it won't be enjoyable. A small battery operated screwdriver will save you time and aggravation. One thing to consider if you go this route is the bulk of the screwdriver. Sometimes this will make fitting in tight spots difficult. But you can get extra long bits to remedy this. Be careful with an electric screwdriver. You don't want the bit to jump off the screw and go tracking across the motherboard.
- A good light source. Some of this work is very fine (such as inserting the CPU). You want to be careful and see what you are doing. I read quite a few stories of people bending pins on the CPU socket. LED headlamps are super cheap and very useful so nerd it up.
- I found it impossible to make some front panel connections without needle nose plyers. You may or may not need some.
- Tweezers. You may need them to pull jumpers.
Stay organized. It's pretty temping to just rip open all the new parts and start assembling. In fact, that's what I did. Bad idea. If you ever need to return something in original packaging good luck. Aside from that all the little extras will get mixed together and you'll wonder where that one screw went. I suggest you open one part at a time keeping all extras and packaging organized.
Order of assembly. There is definitely a wrong way to put things together. For example if you install the hard drives first you will probably need to pull them back out to get the motherboard in. The assembly steps below should keep your work and aggravation to a minimum.
One assembly tip is to mount the motherboard on a motherboard tray and install RAM, CPU, and heatsink outside of the case. Having it mounted on a a tray is very important because installing RAM and the heatsink require some force. If you don't mount to a tray you could damage your board. I recommend the tray be on a firm flat surface and not your couch. Installing outside the case gives your hands more room to work. You will have more control while applying force and have more delicacy while installing the CPU.
Unfortunately, I did not have a motherboard tray so my motherboard was installed in the case. Wah.
static discharge: In 2 years I've noticed static discharges only one time in my studio. So I am simply touching my hand to the case to discharge any static and handling parts by their chassis not components. If you have a high static environment (or you aren't brave like me) you may want to consider static discharging devices: The anti-static bracelet with tether and an anti-static mat for laying out parts.
Don't power up anything or even connect a power cord until the machine is fully assembled.
Motherboard Assembly: before the motherboard goes in we need to prep the case. The idea is to make the case as accessible as possible. Remove the side and front panels. If your case shipped with a power supply installed remove that. Btw, most power supplies that come with cases are low quality. You probably want to replace that anyway. If you plan on replacing the fans that came with the case remove them now. Fans that ship with cases also tend to be of low quality. I'll talk about what to look for in fans latter.
Now we'll mount the motherboard on a tray outside the case or mount it in the case.
Motherboards do not mount directly. They mount on stand offs. Here is a picture of some stand offs inside my case. Standoffs create about a 1/4″ space between the board and tray. Without this space your board could short out. Some standoffs screw in like these. Others are like nubs built into the case.
My board has 9 holes for mounting it on the stand offs. It is possible that your case can take more then 9 stand offs. These are for extra support. Just make sure your board is designed to take the extra stand offs.
If you are mounting the motherboard on a tray outside the case you can skip the next 3 paragraphs. After you install the CPU, RAM, and heat sink you can return to them.
It should be pretty obvious how the motherboard fits in the case. The mounting holes in the mother board line up with the stand offs. The back panel connections on the mother board will line up with the i/o shield on the back of your case. This is where most of your connections are like USB, lan, PSU, Firewire, etc.
Before you place the board into the case make sure the back connections of your board will fit the i/o shield on your case. If it doesn't you'll need to remove the shield and replace it with the one that came with your motherboard.
I think it's best to get the i/o shield fitting first and then line up the mounting holes. Make sure none of the little metal grounding tabs on the i/o shield go into the ports on the motherboard.
With everything lined up insert the mounting screws. Now the board is well supported and ready to install RAM, CPU, and heatsink.
If your motheboard is in the case you might want to make a few difficult connections right now. Later, when things are cluttered, it will be harder.
front panel connections:
These are the connections at the front of your case for USB, Firewire, reset, power LED and a few others. On my case they are attached to the chassis and can't be removed with the front panel. Some of these connections are very easy to make. My USB, for example, is just a standard USB header on the motehrboard. But the connections for power LED, reset, speaker, chassis intrusion, and system status are very tiny and hard to make. In this picture you can see that many of them are single wires going into a header on the board. I had to use a needle nose plyers and some patience to get them in. Imagine how much more difficult that would be later when the case has more cables and drives.
(Note: If your front panel connections are attached to your case's front panel you may not be able to make these connections since the front panel may need to be removed to install drives.)
With my particular case and motherboard I needed to do a bit of sleuthing for these connections. When I found the correct motherbaord header in the manual the labeling did not match up exactly with the labeling on the case's connection pins. This would be so much easier if the connections were bundled together in a foolproof inset like so many other connections!
I have heard you can order a header insert to make the job easier. This allows you to plug the small connection tips into the insert and then slip it into the header. but I was unable to find one that would work for my board. My old board came with one. Here is a company worth looking at. You can also check with your motherboard manufacture.
CPU Installation:
This is a somewhat delicate job. Let's do it while the case is uncluttered. The CPU connects to the motherboard via an array of pins that press into a grid. This particular socket (LGA 1366) has 1366 pins. You can bend them easily. The only thing that should touch them is the bottom of your CPU during installation. Bent pins can destroy your board and void your warantee. Be careful.
The CPU should be held by the edges. You don't want to touch any contact points where it connects to the socket.
Both the CPU and the socket have a protective plastic cover which will need to be removed. The plastic cover on the motherboard socket is held down by a load plate. The plate is held down by a load lever.
Push down on the lever and pull it out a bit so that it clears the clip. This will release the the tension on the plate. I'll try to be clear but you may want to check out some videos on You Tube for the nuances. Here's one.
- Push down on the load lever and pull it slightly away from the socket to release it from the clip. Swing the lever up and out of the way.
- If the load plate does not come up with the load lever you can push down on an edge and it will come up. Here you can see the load lever is released and the load plate is up.
- Remove the protective plastic cover on the socket. You should see an array of pins (some sockets have an array of contact points).
- Remove the plastic cover from the CPU. Remember to hold the CPU by the edges.
- Get the CPU oriented correctly for the socket. There are notches on the CPU that will match the socket. Once you have it oriented the right way drop it in the socket. You may need to push it a bit until it falls and seats.
- Put the load plate back on
- Press the load lever down and lock it back under the clip.
Heatsink Installation:
Processors generate a lot of heat and unless they are cooled they will overheat. Next we will install a heat sink/fan. This operates much the same as a radiator on a car. Heat is transferred to a thermally conductive metal with lot of surface area. Then a fan is used to dissipate the hot air. Essentially the heat flows out of the CPU, across a thermal grease or phase change material, into the heat sink, and then is blown into the air.
What is thermal grease or phase change material? Even though the heat sink will be clamped down on top of the processor we still need a thin layer of material between them to insure the best heat flow. This is not optional.
If you are installing the stock heatsink that came with your CPU you will probably already have the thermal conducting material (phase change material) pre-applied to the heatsink. It will look like a few gray strips on the bottom of the heatsink. It will have a protective cover or film on it which needs to come off. If you purchased a heatsink separate from you CPU you will need to apply some thermal grease.
It's worth checking out some You Tube videos on apply thermal greese to get the nuances. Here's one.
Basically, you take a small amount and spread it out evenly over the heat spreader (top of the CPU). Some people use a card to do the spreading. I think it's easier using a finger. You don't want thermal grease on your finger or finger in your thermal grease. Wear a glove or put a plastic bag over your finger. Don't spend lots of time deciding on what brand of thermal grease to buy. They all work about the same.
- Remove the protective film/cover from the heatsink's thermal material.
- Orient the heat sink. The fan on the heat sink needs to plug into the CPU fan header on the motherboard. Make sure your current orientation of the heatsink allows you to reach the CPU fan header. Make sure the wires from the heatsink's fan do not obstruct the fan. When I powered up my machine for the first time a red LED on the board lit up indicating my CPU was too hot. The power wire from the fan was ever so slightly in the fan's path. It stopped the fan and the CPU did not get proper cooling. (Modern CPUs do not burn up when they overheat. They throttle themselves down. I didn't want to test this out.)
- My stock heatsink as 4 retainer pins which are used to hold the heatsink firmly to the CPU. The arrows on the pins are a bit confusing. To install you need to turn the pins opposite of the arrows. The arrows indicate the correct direction for removal not install! So turn them opposite of the arrows and set the pins into the holes on the motherboard. Now you need to a apply a decent amount of pressure downward to lock the pins into place. I like to put a thumb on opposite corners to apply even pressure. You will hear a click when they are locked. Now do the other corners.
- Connect the fans power wire to the CPU fan header on the motherboard. All fan headers are not the same. Make sure you use the fan header for the CPU fan.
Be aware if you are installing a non-stock heat sink the mounting may be quite different since the heatsink may have to fit many different sized sockets. Check out the heatsink's manual for instructions. Before you buy it make sure it fits your socket.
Ram Installation:
Make sure you buy the right RAM. Check your motherboard manual for specs. RAM manufacturer's websites may also have a tool for matching RAM with motherboard. Your motherboard must support the type of RAM (mostly ddr3 these days), the channel mode (dual, tri-channel), and the speed (1333MTps, 1600MTps, etc).
Installing RAM is not as simple as buying RAM and pushing it down into a slot.
- My motherboard manual as well as many other people recommend installing all the same memory. Same brand, speed, chip, model.
- The memory slots on your motherboard are designed to be filled in a certain order. Consult your manual. For my motherboard and tri-channel memory it's pretty straight forward. The first 3 sticks go into slots 1, 3, and 5. These slots are not next to each other but they are all white. So that's pretty simple. The next 3 sticks go into slots 2, 4, and 6 which are all blue. But things can get tricky if, for example, you decide to install dual channel memory.
- Don't mix and match sets. Even if you get the same brand and model you still should not mix them up. For example if you are buying tri-channel memory the first pack (3 sticks) should go in the first three ram slots as specified by your manual. The next pack of ram (3 sticks) should go into the next 3 slots as specified by your manual. In other words don't shuffle 2 packs of ram even if they are exactly the same. If you do mix them up you can sort them back out by looking at the serial numbers or bar codes printed on them
To install:
- At the ends of the ram slots are clips. These need to be open. So push them away from the slot.
- Ram is a bit like the CPU. It has notches and will only fit one way. Align the notches in the ram with the notches on the slot.
- Applying even pressure across the stick press the ram down into the slot. This takes more force then you'd expect. When it is properly seated it should click into place and the clips will close.
- After all the RAM is seated double check that all the clips are back in locked position and the all the RAM appears seated the same.
Now you should have the RAM, CPU, and heatsink installed on your motherboard. If you're installing on the motherboard tray outside of the case you need to put the board in the case now (covered above).
Let's install drives, expansion cards, and the power supply. I am going to install power supply first, then drives, then card. This keeps the center of the case uncluttered for as long as possible. That way we have more room to work.
Power Supply Installation: Depending on your case your power supply can mount in a few different places. Mine mounts on the bottom of my case. One thing that troubled me is the manual did not specify if the fan should be mounted to draw air into the case or push it out. I could mount either way. The manual was about as detailed as Ikea instructions and I couldn't find anything online. Perhaps it does not matter, in which case I'd still like to hear that from the manufacturer. In the end I mounted it with the fan pushing air out of the case via a grill on the bottom of the case. I reasoned that puling air in from essentially the floor of my studio would introduce more dust.
My PSU had 4 screws for mounting to the case and a rubber gasket. I assume the rubber gasket is for a better mount. It should also make for less noise due to vibration. I fit the gasket between the PSU and the case. Then lightly snugged the mounting screws.
Most motherboards will have a 24 pin connection that powers the board (and devices connected to it) and a 4 or 8 pin connection that powers your CPU. Higher performance CPUs will take an extra 4 pins of power. Check your manual for where these are located and plug them in. These connections have a fool proof design and can only be plugin in one way. So look at the headers and the ends of the cables and match them up. You will notice not all the connection pins have the same shape.
You will also need to connect power to your hard drives, optical drive, and perhaps some other devices. This is one reason I like modular power supplies. They allow you to just use the cables you need. This power supply came with an assortment of cables. Pick out the ones you need, connect them to the PSU, and then to the device it powers. My old PSU had a heap of wires hanging off it. Some I needed. Many were just in the way.
Hard Drive Installation: While you have the drive out you should check and see if it has a limiting jumper on the back of it. One of my drives had one. It was the tiniest jumper I've ever seen and I couldn't imagine removing it once the drive was installed. Jumpers make physical connections and change the behavior of components. This particular jumper limited the drive to a slower transfer speed (1.5 GB/s instead of the drives rated 3GB/s). You may need tweezers to pull a jumper out.
Now we need to mount the drive in the case. Drives generate heat and may need cooling but I don't sweat that much. At one point I was reading white papers on drive failure. My rule of thumb is your drive needs a fan if it's too hot to keep your finger on it. I have 3 drives in a 4-in-3 device module with a fan and 2 more drives in mobile racks with no fans. All of them are very touchable.
I dig mobile racks. You can remove the bare drive super fast, swap in a new one, or run with your data.
Mounting my drives inside the 4-in-3 device module was a slow and tedious exercise in threading screws and aligning. You can't remove drives easily. You have to pull the whole unit which means unplugging the fan and all the other drives. Should be called a 3-to-4-times-more-work module.
My case came with tool free mounts. I don't like them. They are fast but they don't hold the drives tightly. I'm suspicious this could cause vibrational noise.
Mounting the drives, mobile racks, 4-in-3 Device Module, etc is pretty straight forward. Some cases may have spaces where a 3.5″ drive mounts directly. In other cases you mount the drive inside a device and then mount the device inside the case. Once mounted we need to make some connections.
Chances are you will be installing SATA drives. They need 2 connection: Power from the PSU and a SATA connection to the motherboard. The power supply connection has 5 pins. The SATA connections to the board are a bit trickier. For example, my board has ports for several different SATA standards. Usually a faster standard will support a slower one. For example I could plug a slower (1.5GB/s) device into a higher speed port (6GB/s). But the opposite will not work. make sure your port supports the speed of your drive. Also, if you are planning on setting up a RAID you need to plug into the ports that support that.
I have noticed that some of my SATA cables have a release clip on them and some don't. A few times I inserted a SATA cable without a release clip on it and found it very difficult to remove later. Perhaps the header was designed for a cable with a release clip. I don't know. Now I only use the cables with a release.
Here is a picture of how I worked my SATA cables out of the way. These run into the space between the rack for hard drives and the side panel. There is about 1″ of space there. It keeps things much cleaner.
As I said earlier I still don't think solid state drives make sense at their current prices. Yes they are dead quiet. Yes they are fast at random access tasks such as boot up. But for audio I never have any issues running 50 48k/24bit tracks off my Barracuda drives. For me the cost of SSDs outwieght the benefits.
Expansion Card Installation (Video and Audio Cards): Make sure your motherboard supports the type of card you are inserting. Cards need to be seated in a slot. They also need to have their bracket mounted on the rear of the case where the port is. Here is the rear of my case. I opened the bracket space by removing the bracket that came installed with my case. You can see the blue plastic tool free mount or clip is also released.
I like to insert the card into the bracket a bit then seat it in the slot. As with RAM try to apply even pressure as you seat it. The slot may have a clip that clicks when the card it seated. Once seated we can secure the bracket. My case has tool free brackets. I don't mind using them for cards since they don't vibrate like hard drives. Otherwise you will have to use a screw to secure the bracket. Done.
Fans: Most people are going to want a quiet DAW. That means quiet fans and few of them. A large fan (120mm) can rotate less and push the same amount of air as a smaller fan (80mm). All things equal a large fan will be quieter pushing the same amount of air.
Note: Fans tend to make a white-ish noise which I find much more listenable then the tonal noise of hard drives. When I was recording very quiet things near my DAW it was tonal noise from the drives and a few other components that was a problem.
Another spec to consider is the bearing type. Cheap fans tend to have cheap bearings that fail sooner. As they approach failing they will get louder. Sleeve bearings don't last as long, and are louder at high rpms. Dual ball bearings last longer and are quieter generally.
I see no reason to run more then 2 case fans. One drawing air into the case. One pushing it out. Remember you also have a heatsink fan and a power supply fan bringing the total to 4 fans. That noise can add up. If you record quiet sources near your machine you should consider that.
I run my case with both side panels and the front panel off. I'm not sure I even need to run my 2 case fans. Some people will argue the case will take on more dust if it is open. Maybe. Maybe not. Your intake fan is going to draw in some dust anyway. Your computer will definitely be a bit louder with the panels off. Even more so if the panels have an acoustic treatment. For me it makes more sense to be able to access my computer easily, see what LEDs on the board light up, and touch components to see if they are hot. Just my personal preference. I also stuck with the stock and cheap fans that came with my case. Replacements may follow.
If you really want to know if your case fans are necessary or if running the machine with panels off makes a difference you can run a CPU stress test for both options. This will tell you which scenario provides better cooling. More on diagnostics at the end of this build.
Fan installation is pretty easy. Make sure your case can mount your fan size. Fans are sized by diameter in millimeters. Common sizes are 80, 92 and 120 mm. Try and plug them into a fan header on the motherboard so that the wires are out of the way. There should be an arrow on the fan indicating the direction of air flow. A common way to set up fans is an intake on the front of the case and an output on the rear.
Powering Up: It would be nice if everything ran perfect the first time. In case it doesn't lets leave the case as open as possible. My side panels and front panel have never been on my machine. With them off I can see all the LEDs on my board. These LEDs can tell you some useful stuff like CPU temperature. Check your manual for what LEDs you have and what colors indicate trouble. With the case open you can feel if something is too hot and check that fans are running.
Plug in a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor.
Connect the power cord to the power supply. Flip the power switch on the power supply. Finally hit the computer's power button.
Installing drivers and OS: There are a few more things you need to do before you are ready to install your DAW software.
Drivers that came with your motherboard: Back when I ran windows XP you needed to install these from the motherboard DVD or find them online. Finding them online was a terrific pain because the motherboard manufacture did not have the latest drivers posted on their site. So you had to download them from the individual vender's sites. But Windows 7 installs with many drivers so you may not need to install any of the ones that came with your motherboard. Not to mention your motherboard's drivers will likely be old. The approach I take is to install Windows 7 and then see what devices are unrecognized in the device manager. If you need to install others find them online at the manufacturer's website. Now, if Windows 7 does not install a working LAN driver you will not be able to get online. In this case you may need to install the LAN driver from the motherboard.
Utilities that came with your motherboard: I don't install any of these. They aren't essential and have caused me problems. IMO the less installed the better.
So, knowing that, you may want to skip any software or drivers that came with your motherboard and go straight to installing Windows 7.
Troubles: Here I will summarize the issues I had with this specific build and how I solved them.
Bad RAM: It took me a few days to figure this one out. When RAM fails you don't exactly get a message "bad RAM, please replace". This goes back to my original idea about buying a pre-build machine from a big manufacturer. When those machines are assembled they are tested. Anyway, I got several cryptic BSOD (blue screen of death) errors. Looking them up on Microsoft's site was not much help either. But I did find that one of the errors could be from bad RAM. I tested the RAM using memtest86. This test takes a few hours. It passed. After a day or so I realized I was testing the memory at my system's default speed (1099Mhz) and not it's rated speed (1600Mhz). At the rated speed one set (3 sticks) quickly failed and went back for exchange.
BIOS freeze: To change the RAM speed I needed to get into a screen of the BIOS called intelligent tweaker. It's the overclocking page of this BIOS. Unfortunately this board will freeze up on that screen unless your keyboard is connected via an old PS2 connection. So several times I had to power down and restart. I had no idea what was going on until I found a few others with the same issue. I hoped the newest BIOS would solve this. It didn't. So I had to run out and buy a $3 USB to PS2 adapter.
Testing and Diagnostic: You don't need to use any of these programs. But after building your DAW you might want to test it a bit and see if it melts.
- Memtest86: This free program allows you to test your RAM. I ran it from the Ultimate boot CD.
- Ultimate Boot CD: This is a free compilation of helpful software on a bootable CD. They allow you to download an ISO image which you burn to CD. Being able to boot from the CD is important since your machine might not be booting from it's OS drive.
- Sandra lite: The free version of this program allows you to get lots of information on your system and run some benchmarks. I used it to benchmark my drives. I wanted to see their actual transfer rate and compare some of the older drives to the newer ones. I also bench marked my CPU.
- Real Temp: Allows you to check the temperature of Intel CPU cores.
- Intel Burn Test: Stress test for CPU. Good for checking cooling. I found Intel Burn Test more stressful on my system then Prime 95. Anyone know a direct link for this? I hate putting up links from software aggregators.
- prime 95: Another stress test for CPU. This is on the Ultimate Boot CD.
- CPU-Z: A good program for getting information on your hardware such as motherboard model, chipset, socket, specific CPU.
Alright. Done! Now, was all that worth it?


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The UK's best known Robo advice firm is struggling to reach profitability three years after launch. Founded in 2012, Nutmeg has attracted large interest in their online investment service through high profile advertising campaigns. But as only a small proportion of this interest has converted into paying clients they have continued to suffer heavy losses with questions now being raised as to their long-term sustainability.
Mounting losses for Nutmeg and low returns for their investors
Nutmeg posted a pre-tax loss of £9m on a turnover of £1.7m in 2015, blaming brand investment, a jump in its wage bill and advertising costs as the primary reasons. While the Robo-advice firm maintains they are confident for the future they have struggled to attract investors into their range of low cost and as identified below, comparatively low growth ETF portfolios.
Continued Struggle To Attract Clients
Since their launch in 2012, Nutmeg have secured £600 million of client funds under management, which in fund management terms is a relatively small sum. To provide a comparison, Neil Woodfords Equity Income fund has secured almost £10 billion of funds under management since launching in June 2014, with his Income Focus fund securing £300 million in under 2 weeks (13/04/2017 – 24/04/2017).
With 25,000 clients investing a total of £600 million, Nutmeg's average client size is £24,000. Many of their clients are made up of first time investors attracted by their hassle free portfolio service. Nutmeg portfolios are constructed using Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's), which have become an increasingly popular investment option primarily due to their low costs. But as most ETF's simply track the index they can't deliver close to the growth achieved by the top performing actively managed funds and therefore limit the potential returns for investors.
Portfolios Offered By Nutmeg
Nutmeg provide investors with 2 types of portfolio options.
- Fully Managed Portfolio
Nutmeg's fully managed portfolio's are comprised of a selection of ETF's with investment allocated to reflect each investors particular risk level. Nutmeg's team then make adjustments to maintain each portfolio's asset allocation and alter fund selections when they see fit.
Nutmeg's Managed Portfolio Fee: 0.75% up to £100k, 0.35% after that.
- Fixed Allocation Portfolio
Their fixed allocation portfolio contains a fixed selection of ETF funds and is automatically monitored to rebalance and stay in line with your chosen risk level. Beyond that they do not make amendments.
Fee: 0.45% up to £100k, 0.25% after that.
Nutmeg's low cost portfolios may be a suitable entry to investing for those with little experience or who have limited sums to invest, but their struggle to attract a wider range of clients suggests that many investors don't view their fully managed or fixed allocation portfolios as competitive investment options.
How Competitive Are Nutmeg Portfolios
Nutmeg provide investors with 10 risk-based managed portfolios ranging from 1 (very defensive) to 10 (aggressive). The below table provides a growth comparison between a selection of their portfolios alongside our model Aggressive, Moderately Aggressive, Balanced, Cautious and Defensive portfolios. All of our model portfolios follow the asset allocation model recommended by the consumer watchdog 'Which?' and contain only consistently top quartile ranking unit trust funds.
The below Nutmeg review table provides percentage returns for 5 of Nutmegs 10 risk-based fully managed portfolios alongside the growth achieved by a selection of our model portfolios.
**This past performance for Nutmegs portfolios are simulated, based on real market transactions implemented across all individual customer portfolios to a single portfolio for each risk level.
Should Investors Be Concerned About Nutmeg's Long-Term Future?
CitiGroup estimates that there could be some $5 trillion in assets being managed by robo-advice operators within the next 10 years but by being the first to market, Nutmeg have unsurprisingly struggled. Despite optimism for the future of the robo-advice model, Nutmeg have relied upon heavy investment (Schroders invested $32 million in 2014) to remain operational and with uncertainty as to when they will be in a position to return a profit, their future is far from secure.
Director of Numis Securities, David McCann has said 'The scale you need to make the business work when you have those fee margins is high. For it to be viable you need around £5 billion in assets, and £10 billion to be economic.'
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Despite Good Intentions, Nutmeg's Portfolios Simply Lack Performance
Despite uncertainty over their long term future, Nutmeg have created a low cost, convenient and functional service, but as demonstrated by the growth of their portfolios we believe investors can achieve significantly greater gains within a suitable risk portfolio that is comprised of funds that have proven to deliver top performance consistently.
As digital technology in the financial sector continues to advance so too has the information and knowledge that investors and advisers can access. And as Investors and financial advisers can conveniently access all fund performance and ranking reports and identify which funds have consistently delivered top performance it is now easier than ever to attain a suitable risk, portfolio that maximises growth.
With top funds reports and portfolio review services, investors are able to identify fund quality and portfolio performance and make informed choices to improve their portfolio or identify suitable independent financial advisers to help them maximise portfolio growth within a suitable risk model.
Despite the lure of low cost portfolios such those provided by Nutmeg, the information age has provided investors with the potential to achieve significantly greater returns on their investments, which is a prominent reason why only a small proportion of investors have decided to invest Nutmeg portfolios to date.


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The 2009 US Open came to a close yesterday. Arguably the most dramatic and unpredictable event in tournament history. The feel good story of Kim Clijsters was nearly eclipsed by the stunning upset of Roger Federer by Juan Martin Del Potro. We will fondly remember the run of the upstart American, Melanie Oudin as well […]


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How would you like to save time with every interaction you have with Contentful? We thought so! That's why we integrated with Zapier, a web automation service, so you can connect your Contentful account to over 300 different services like Gmail, Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, etc. to automate your editorial processes.
There are endless ways you could use Zapier with Contentful, but to provide you with some inspiration and get you started, here are some of the 'Zaps' we are really excited about.
These were just a few of the examples that made us super excited about Zapier, but there are a ton of other opportunities for creating your custom Zaps. Head over to Zapier now and start automating your workflows today!
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VOIQ VoiceBots fully automates your sales and marketing call tasks by having conversations with your leads and customers. They can call your leads/customers to remind them about an upcoming meeting/event/payment, schedule meetings, engage prospects who've recently downloaded marketing content, qualify leads, and so on.
You can watch the video or follow our step-by-step instructions below!
On this screen, enter a name for your workflow at the top and select a workflow type. Since this example workflow will be based on a contact filling out a form, we'll select Start from scratch.
Click Set enrollment triggers, then select the type of triggers you'd like to use to enroll contacts. In this example, we want to enroll contacts who fill out a form, so we'll select Form submission.
Once you select the type of trigger you'd like to use, you'll see options to refine this trigger, such as specific forms or meetings links submissions. In this case, we'll select which form we'd like to use to segment and enroll contacts into this workflow. When you're done refining your trigger, click Done, then Save.
4. Add an action to your workflow: Select your VoiceBot
To add an action, click the + icon. In this example, we want the VoiceBot to call a contact after they've filled out a form, so we'll scroll down to Integrations and select the VoiceBot: VOIQ VoiceBot Flex.
Next, write the message you want to deliver to your contacts. You can also add contact personalization tokens like contact first name, last name or company name. Then click Save to add the action to your workflow.
5. Test your workflow: VoiceBot calls yourself
Click Test in the top-right corner. Choose a test contact from your database to send through this workflow. Your test contact will receive a call from our VoiceBot with the custom message provided.
To activate your workflow, first click Review in the top-right corner.
You'll see an overview of your workflow settings for your review. Click Edit next to any of these settings to make changes. Once you've reviewed your settings and are ready to begin enrolling contacts, click Turn on.
And that's it! Once you set this workflow as live, any contacts enrolled here will be called by Flex.
Check our Support Page or reach us by email at firstname.lastname@example.com for help with any questions related to our VoiceBots for HubSpot.


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milk shake pink leave in conditioner is a limited edition packaging supporting Breast Cancer Awareness in North America. The same identical formula of the bestselling milk shake Leave In Conditioner, it's suitable for normal or dry hair. It gives hair manageability while protecting its structure and moisture balance.
Contains milk protein that gives strength to the hair's structure, fruit and honey extracts revitalize and give shine to the hair. Integrity 41® and vitamin E protect hair from UV rays, helping to maintain hair color.
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Double Impact
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have found traces of two enormous meteorite impacts in the Swedish county of Jmtland, a twin strike that occurred around 460 million years ago.
The researchers have discovered two craters in Jmtland. One is enormous, while the other is a tenth of the size of the first.
"The two meteorite impacts occurred at the same time, 458 million years ago, and formed these two craters," says Erik Sturkell, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Gothenburg.
Erik Sturkell and his research colleagues found one of the craters 20 kilometres south of stersund in Brunsflo. This is an enormous crater, with a diameter of 7.5 kilometres. The smaller crater is located 16 kilometres from there, and has a diameter of 700 metres.
An era of meteorites
The two meteorite impacts 458 million years ago were not the only ones to strike Earth at this time.
"Around 470 million years ago, two large asteroids collided in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and many fragments were thrown off in new orbits. Many of these crashed on Earth, such as these two in Jmtland," says Erik Sturkell.
Jmtland was under the sea at the time, with a water depth of 500 metres at the points where two meteorites simultaneously stuck. Double impacts like this are very unusual. This is the first double impact on Earth that has been conclusively proved.
"Information from drilling operations demonstrates that identical sequences are present in the two craters, and the sediment above the impact sequences is of the same age. In other words, these are simultaneous impacts," says Erik Sturkell.
The water was forced away during the impact, and for a hundred seconds these enormous pits were completely dry.
"The water then rushed back in, bringing with it fragments from the meteorites mixed with material that had been ejected during the explosion and with the gigantic wave that tore away parts of the sea bed," says Erik Sturkell.
Impacts at several locations in Sweden
Several meteorites have also been found on Kinnekulle.
"In the 1940s, an unusual-looking red limestone slab was found in a quarry. A few years later, researchers understood that there was a meteorite in the slab. Large meteors explode and disintegrate almost completely, while small meteors fall as rocks, such as in this limestone," says Erik Sturkell.
Around 90 meteorites from meteorite impacts have been found on Kinnekulle over the past fifteen years.
"Small meteorites survive the fall, while large ones explode and disintegrate. In Jmtland we have only found minerals from the meteorites, small grains of chromite.
The fact that active quarrying is conducted on Kinnekulle is the reason why researchers have found meteorites there. And as a discovery was made as long ago as the 1940s, the individuals working in the quarry know what to look for.
So might it be possible to distinguish slabs in our limestone floors that might come from meteorites?
"Technically speaking, yes, although there is probably not much chance, as the limestone slabs that come from meteors are often rather ugly and will probably have been discarded. But they do exist!
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I often get asked about how to go about giving raises.
My first response is "Why?", something I normally don't ask.
Remember that raises are "permanent" and affect many other elements of your practice, such as taxes, retirement plans, and more. An increase is wages is irreversible and should only be reserved for those team members that are performing exceptionally well consistently. What that means is that they are consistently going above and beyond what you hired them for in the first place, going beyond their job description and assignments.
I always offer pay increases to my team, and I tell them that I increase pay based on performance and not promise. I also use a form I developed (just email me for the form) called a Salary Conference Form, in which the team member fills out the information and schedules a time to meet with me. The form outlines three areas that would be considered for pay raises. These are:
- Increase the productivity and profitability of the practice
- Decrease the overhead of the practice
- Contribute in a tangible way to improve the image of the practice
Once they have completed the form, I meet with them to discuss their plans in any or all of these areas, then assist them in developing a plan to help them reach their goals. We also agree on a time to review their progress and results, and we also decide how much the pay raise would be.
Sounds good, right?
Generally speaking, most team members will not be willing to do what is necessary to deserve an increase in pay, but almost all think they deserve an increase in pay. For this reason, I use a Compensation Review form at the beginning of each year to review with them all of the costs to the practice associated with their employment, since most team members think that what they're being paid is what they see on their paycheck after taxes have been taken out, which will be more this year.
Associated with this is the Cost of Living increase.
This is an increase that you must be careful with, as it is also permanent and can affect your bottom line in a significant way. If your practice is profitable and you feel you can afford this type of increase, then do it, but not by a percentage, since everyone's percentage will be different. Pick a number, say $2000, and give each team member the same $2000 cost of living increase. You can avoid giving these type of increases for several years if your profitability is flat or declining, but you may have to eventually give some sort of cost of living increase. So, make sure you're focused and making enough money each year to be able to do this!


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Interview with Thorsten Pinkepank on the contribution of private sector initiatives in achieving the SDGs
The High Level Political Forum, organized by the UN, is an annual event to review the progress made towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As part of this event, Thorsten Pinkepank, Director Sustainability Relations at BASF, participated in a short SDG interview broadcasted live from the UN TV studio. Together with Ms. Maria Luiza Pinto e Paiva, Director of Sustainability of Fibria, he talked about how private sector initiatives promote the Sustainable Development Goals and what companies like BASF can do to contribute actively to the SDGs.


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These medical professionals look after all aspects of childbirth in prenatal and postnatal periods. Scar tissue developing on the diaphragm can lead to breathing problems. Nursing isn't merely a profession, or a job that you need to perform during your shift timings. One of the high paying jobs in the medical field is to become a mental health professional. Sigmund Freud is also known as the 'Father of Psychoanalysis'. Most of the high school vocational programs and community colleges offer courses teaching typing and office-management skills. A GP can earn anywhere between US$63,423 and US$244,765. If a particular patient asks you repeatedly about a doctor's credibility, how will you answer it? A sebaceous cyst is a closed sac that contains serum, which is an oily white material secreted by the sebaceous glands. investigate this siteThis produce serum, which is an oily secretion that lubricates the skin.
NFL (@NFL) December 26, 2016 The final catch of Browns 10-reception, 98-yard performance on Sunday night may have been the most significant for his team, but as far as his own stats go, it was just a drop in the bucket hes now at 106 catches on the year, joining Marvin Harrison as the only two receivers ever to put up triple digits in four straight seasons. Plenty of other receivers are more physically imposing, but Browns inimitable combination of speed, quickness, sticky hands and intelligence has made him impossible to shut down. With LeVeon Bell once again asserting himself as the best running back in football, the Steelers just need basic competence from their defense to be a Super Bowl contender. Before next we move on to the other winners of the week, lets take a moment to appreciate the latest installment of the Steelers-Ravens rivalry. Its position against the incredible Warriors-Cavs game may have given it a lower national profile than were used to, but it had all the drama weve come to expect from the most consistent rivalry in the NFL and with points this time, no less! Some Mike Ditka types may miss the days of 9-6 bloodbaths, but for unaffiliated fans, this type of game had way more going for it, and we have Enjoyed reading this the Steelers transformation into an offensive juggernaut to thank. Other Week 16 Winners Tramon Williams: The Cleveland Browns won a game, you guys! It took a bizarre ending full of missed field goals to make it happen (of course), but 0-16 is not going to happen this year. Believeland is Thanks back!
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She's obviously a very tough girl who's survived many things, he added. I encourage everyone to pray for her. Todd spoke to multiple news outlets after Fishers hospitalization. She is in the intensive care unit, she is being well looked after, he told Entertainment Tonight Online Friday. most valuable If everyone could just pray for her that would be good. The doctors are doing their thing and we don't want to bug them. We are waiting by patiently. Doctors dont know what happened to the 60-year-old. We hope for the best, Todd told the publication. We certainly do not know her condition, that's why she is in ICU. I'm sure everyone wants to speculate, but now is not the time for that. Fisher remained in intensive care Sunday. The star, who is best known for her role as Princess Leia, had a heart attack during a flight from London to Los Angeles Friday. She didnt have a pulse for 15 minutes and was rushed to UCLA Medical Center by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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Saturday, 14 May 2016
Upcoming - Plein Air at Burford Gardens
This coming Saturday (May 21st) we are getting together for our first plein air trip of the year.
We'll meet at Burford Gardens between 10am and 10.30am, work for a couple of hours before breaking for lunch in the café between 1pm and 1.30pm and carrying on after - but please don't worry if you can't turn up until later, just find the people with the art materials!
I won't be able to get to this one, but if you can I hope you have a great time.
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The Araw Gabi star's real name is Mariam Al-Alawi. A Filipino-Moroccan model is becoming one of the fastest rising actresses in the acting industry.
From the official article released by FHM "You know what, we're calling it.
With Ivana Alawi becoming one of the fastest rising actresses in the industry and in modeling, she might just be one of the most sought-after ladies of our generation. Someone give this girl a leading role".
She modeled as a cover girl in Playboy's September to October issue: "A world filled with sunshine, dreamy smiles, and playful sensuality."
Before she got into the showbiz, she lived in Bahrain with his dad.
Her first audition in the show business was in the reality talent search StarStruck in 2015 where she got to top 14.
In her latest afternoon show "Araw Gabi", she's the best friend of Barbie Imperial together with JM De Guzman who is the leading couple in the series. Their show in Kapamilya Gold dominates the afternoon time slot.
"Precious Hearts Romances: Araw Gabi hits all-time national tv rating.
Those curves ,angelic face with fierce look to convey emotions but she's more than just a gorgeous face and sexy body, she's also a well-talented actress slaying every scene in the show by making the audience love and hate her at the same time and there was a time she even steals the spotlight from female co-start in the set.
She also likes to travel a lot from different countries with her classy, trendy outfits together with mademoiselle pose.
Netizens view on Ivana Alawi
"I like how she portrays her role in acting" "Ang Ganda nya at the same time sobrang fierce din ng tingin nya tapos she can both be sexy and hot on a two-piece at the same time classy."She travels a lot with those trendy outfits."
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Ever thought old people might just have a funny life. I mean hey they have been around to have done every thing and experience every thing. Well Here is a greatest strip that makes me bowl over with laughter every time a new one is posted.
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Samsung Unveiled Details of the Galaxy S10 Blockchain Features
Last week, Samsung presented its flagship smartphone Galaxy S10 with a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. Now the company has revealed the details. In particular, the smartphone will support the most popular cryptocurrencies and a few dapps.
According to CoinDesk, at the Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced the new flagship S10 will support the two largest cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization - bitcoin and ethereum.
In addition, S10 will support the tokens of the decentralized application Cosmee. This project is trying to unite the beauty industry and ordinary users who can receive rewards in Cosmee tokens for publishing reviews. S10 users will be able to store coins directly on their favorite smartphones.
Samsung also announced a collaboration with Enjin. It is developing a blockchain platform for the gaming industry. Players using Enjin, for example, can tokenize items and make money selling them.
- Late last week, Samsung unveiled its new flagship smartphones at a traditional press conference. The company has already opened a pre-order for the S10, the cost of which ranges from $749 to $999.