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They come in the night.
Armed militants take young children from their beds, as they sleep: Young recruits for extremist causes.
It happened this week in Nigeria, when heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 200 girls from their boarding school.
And it has been happening in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and other neighboring countries for decades – the work of Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour covered Kony's sick work 16 years ago, for 60 Minutes, when she reported on the abduction of 139 girls from their school.
She spoke with their teacher, Sister Rachele Fassera, who begged for the children's return.
"He bent down and on the ground he wrote, 'The girls are 139. I will give you a 109.' He wrote, 'I keep 30,' Sister Raquelle told Amanpour at the time."
"I knelt in front of him," she said. "And I said, please give me all the girls. He said, 'No.' [crying] Then they started, 'Sister, they will rape us tonight. Sister, will you come back tonight?'"
"That was the last time I saw them."
That story is now the basis for a new novel, "Thirty Girls," by the award-winning American writer Susan Minot.
"It's an amazing story," she told Amanpour in an interview that aired Wednesday.
"I think a lot about it. I've thought about it for the last 16 years, since I heard her story. And the bravery that she went through, the horrible situation that she was in, just haunted me."
In her own coverage of the story, Amanpour also spoke with a girl, Agnes, who had been kept by LRA commanders.
"Did you take part in punishing a girl for trying to escape?" Amanpour asked.
"All of us were made to do so."
"What did you do?"
"They gave us the firewood to beat her."
"And did she die?"
"She died."
"What do you think about having been made to kill somebody?"
"I'm okay at times. But at times I could think of her."
"You still think of her?"
"You see her face?"
"It was unbelievable," Minot said. "Or it wasn't … I won't say 'unbelievable,' because, again, I've thought about this a long time. And it turns out there's nothing that's really unbelievable."
"To me the most horrendous thing about it was this was going on continually and the world was not doing anything to stop it."
Minot has previously written about the story, but never got the kind of reaction she now has, she told Amanpour."
"When I wrote my non-fiction piece, I actually never even heard a peep back about it," she said.
"For about 20 years he was marauding and looting and victimizing children. And so eight years ago, when I was writing this book, it was still going on. So I wanted to try to write about it as a novelist from sort of the inside out."
There is a "human recognition," she said, that "we're not so very far away from the peoples' experience."
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Jesse Crain's MRI results came back on Thursday and revealed his right calf injury suffered on Tuesday is a strain. Astros manager Bo Porter, who announced the results prior to the team's pre-workout stretching, said there's no timetable for Crain's return.
"It's just a strain, and he will continue to work with the training staff, and they'll keep me abreast of his progress," Porter said.
Even before receiving the news that his injury was just a strain, Crain felt good on Thursday morning, saying he did not believe the injury was "anything too major."
"It's getting better, but I don't know how fast [recovery] is going to be," Crain said. "But it's a little easier to walk on today, so that's a good sign."
The right-handed reliever, who is wearing a walking boot, suffered the strain while stepping onto a box during a workout in the weight room on Tuesday.
"It's something I definitely wasn't planning on," Crain said. "It's something that just happened. There was nothing leading up to it or any kind of warning. It just went out on one thing. It's frustrating, but you've just got to keep on moving forward. I've had stuff like this before, so just try to keep a positive attitude and get better."
The Astros signed Crain to a one-year deal on Dec. 31 to help add a veteran presence to their bullpen. In 46 appearances with the White Sox last season, he posted a 0.74 ERA in 37 innings. Crain was traded to the Rays on July 29, but he never threw a pitch for American League East runners-up.
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Oh boy. Well folks, it's come to that time again. No, not the start of fall, though that was last week, officially. It's now about to be October, so we're definitely out of the summer, even if the weather doesn't suggest that. However, we're not here to talk weather, but whether or not some screenplays are getting awards. Yes, today I'm continuing on down the line with the last of the big eight categories and finishing off with the other writing one…yes, Best Original Screenplay.
Yesterday, the cinematic landscape was finally altered by Martin Scorsese's long brewing gangster epic The Irishman. Opening up the 57th New York Film Festival, the movie partners Scorsese with Netflix for their most ambitious work yet. Buzz had been huge for months, but until early Friday morning no one knew if it was truly any good. Well, I can state firsthand that it's one of the year's best films and a surefire awards contender. Scorsese and company knocked this one out of the park, yet again.
We are moving right along with this series folks! As you fine ladies and gentlemen must all know by now and be potentially sick of hearing from me, it's one thing entirely to read early Academy Award predictions. You do it in order to see what pundits like myself think will happen this winter, but, as I've often said, it's a whole separate thing to actually know something about who and what will be in contention.
Back at the Sundance Film Festival, buzz was pretty strong initially for Corporate Animals, a satirical comedy. Most of it centered on how Demi Moore would fare in a baity role. Well, Sundance came and went, with middling response to the film. Sometimes, that's just the nature of the festival. However, in this case, people were on to something. Despite a clever premise and some funny lines here and there, this is a bit of a misfire.
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I received a call from a dealer this week informing me that he was unhappy with the conversion rate of their website. Specifically, he was looking at the unique visitor traffic per month to the number of leads that were generated by the website.
It seems that another dealer claims to have twice the conversion rate of his website platform! If it were true, you could imagine why this dealer was upset.
Comparing website conversion metrics or vendor reports is a slippery slope. For example, some website platforms considers a "conversion" completed when a consumer visits the "hours and directions" page on the dealership website.
Other website platforms count ANY completed website form as a conversion, which includes forms for employment. In both of these examples, these types of "conversions" pale in comparison to a conversion that results in a phone call to the dealership inquiring about an in-stock vehicle.
So, it is time to recognize that not all conversions are created equal!
The topic of conversion is also a delicate conversation because according to AutoTrader sourcing studies, 60-70% of consumers who purchase a car never call the dealership or submit a lead form. If the majority of car buyers do not submit their information or call the dealership, what other metrics can dealers look at to compare the effectiveness of different website platforms?
Right now, it is practically impossible to compare two different dealerships on two different website platforms. There are too many variables that impact car sales, and I think our focus on just calls and lead forms is not in the best interests of the dealer.
Trackable leads, defined as chats, lead forms, and phone calls, can be influenced by the the marketing budget, local demographics, brand awareness, and the customer service record of the dealership. Comparing two dealers with different marketing budgets, time in market, and marketing strategy is like comparing apples and oranges.
I would be more interested in the number of VDP views per visitor by traffic source than how many times the hours and directions page was visited. How many of the visits to hours and directions page are for service? On the other hand, a consumer who is interested in servicing their vehicle does not come to the dealership website to look at Vehicle Detail Pages (VDP).
Our industry needs to come together and decide if they want to create uniform conversion metrics that everyone talks about. This may be an impossible task because everyone seems to bend the numbers to suit their own marketing agenda. However, dealers can demand better uniformity and industry standards for metrics that are closely related to car sales.
If you had to get a movement started to create a dealership website standard set of metrics, what would you want to see included in the reporting? What would you NOT consider a conversion? Share your thoughts in the comments area below. Let's see what ADM members can do to lead our industry to better reporting standards.
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This is an awesome topic...I agree with you there are many facets to "conversions". As a lead generator, I see things from a slightly different lens. Looking at Cobalt Group's most recent eShopper Automotive Experience Study, it's obvious the auto industry as a whole still has some issues with following up on leads of any type.
A few years ago I did an audit of an auto dealer's CRM system to discover 50% of the leads they had purchased over the course of a year had never been opened. They were spending $3-6k per month on leads back then.
So while "conversions" is only one part of the conversation, I think it's important for dealers to look at what they do with a single conversion and move the ball forward from there.
Last week I saw a returned lead come over our fax machine that said "Already bought a vehicle :-(" - Every time I look into one of those types of returns...the dealer took too long to get back in touch with the visitor or "conversion".
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I'm so glad to see this discussion, this is exactly the Genesis of Dataium; to standardize and normalize auto data to define one set of metrics all can be measured by. There are too many data point to make sense of it all from a dealer's perspective. LTV, Lead To Visitor Ratio has been the norm for measuring on-line success almost from the beginning.
The problem? This number continues to go down since 2005 as shoppers find more efficient ways to communicate to dealers other than email. How do you measure yourself or your vendors on the lowest performance metric and one that if fading; email lead submission.
we track over 12000 dealer websites, built by over 150 different web providers thus there could be 150 different set of metrics, or at least 150 ways those metrics are being derived.
Meaning you can't just compare data from two sites and say one is better than the other. Websites are built differently; different languages, different naming conventions, different page structure, pop-up forms, secure forms. Frankly it's a night mare sorting it all out.
But it has to be done because the data from all these different sites first needs to be aggregated to one source but most importantly all that data from all those sources has to be NORMALIZED. meaning adjusted to be measured on the same scale, comparing apples to apples. There is no other way to measure LTV or any other metric, from two different sites, much less thousands.
And there are too many other UN-NORMALIZED performance metrics to consider. Bounce rate by source/page/form, indirect ad source traffic, searches/visitor, VDP views/visitor, maps/directions page views...so many factors that have direct correlation to increased traffic in all forms. All of these metrics need to be standardized so dealers have so sense if they are outperforming or underperforming in any metric to know where to push a specific lever.
We are very excited to help in this effort as we have been doing this for over three years now. By pooling our knowledge and resources, we can truly change this industry by providing the most accurate, relevant and actionable data we can for our dealers, OEMs, vendors and anyone supporting the industry.
J.D. Power has done a nice job and thanks for the information Ralph. I've never come across that data.
"And for those of you chuckling... No, I am NOT KIDDING! Until we stop using terms like "Conversion Rate" which can be any number of specific measurements depending on who is speaking and get more specific, we will have situations like what brian describes above." - Ralph
A complicated equation and Ralph absolutely nailed it. There's no one number or metric for a conversion rate, you can aggregate them as stipulated by Ralph in #12. It really pisses me off to hear that, in fact. "So, what's our conversion rate for our website...?" Really...!? Dealers need to get this out of their heads or the heads of whomever they employ as their business intelligence expert (usually not an expert at all). That's presuming they have a user-centered designed and usable website that contains the options mentioned (does site print, have social media, contain usable forms, contain a maintained chat mechanism) in order for it to convert to the highest degree (a massive task in itself and not something most take into consideration - even the folks at Dealer.com and Cobalt dodge the question when you ask them - I've been there).
Also, most dealerships want to be able to understand which Marketing initiatives lead to one of the many conversions as well (the overused and misunderstood "ROI"), which absolutely does make the entire measurement process even tougher and at times more convoluted.
Google, yes they are doing a much better job at allowing users to set up Conversions and Goals easily. There are some smaller and much more affordable groups out there that could easily measure those metrics Ralph (Adobe Omniture, WebTrends, etc. are going to charge you a small fortune and you're right, generally they want you to define the conversion requirements, which is a pain).
A contact of mine at Metronome Labs, which doesn't use traditional tags and is passive-based analytics @ http://www.metronomelabs.com/solutions/passive-capture.php. Metronome Capture™ seemlessly integrates passively captured web data with your existing solutions, saving your investment. Web analytics, CRM, ERP, data warehousing, Metronome Capture™ can feed them all, breaking your web data out of the silo of an analytics package.
I opened up an ADM Forum for creation of the Website Measurement and Tracking Task Force at: http://www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com/forum/topics/adm-task-for...
The disparities between what one person or reporting system defines as a "conversion" and another calls a "conversion" is something that many ADM Professionals have discussed since the beginning of all dealer web metrics conversations and debates... The simple reality is that like many concepts that have created confusion, we are trying to apply a generic term to a mix of various measurements which are specific and in some cases, difficult to measure. For example, Brian's AutoTrader cited numbers appear to me as being quite conservative, and other sources report different numbers from the same group of customers. The people at J.D. Power and Associates have been measuring various types of dealer website visitor conversions for over ten years and their numbers have remained remarkably consistent, within a narrow range of fluctuations as follows:
Out of Every 100 People Who Visit a Dealership In-Person AFTER Visiting the Dealer's Website online:
Those measurements have not fluctuated by more than 3 percentage points IN OVER TEN YEARS! Which suggests that we are seeing behavior that is more closely driven by human nature than website design.
So, let's just think about this for a moment... We have a situation where the temptation to manipulate the WAY CONVERSION RATE IS MEASURED is being driven by the perception that a higher conversion rate will provide the dealer website supplier with competitive advantage and more revenue/sales. Thus, we need a standard that is measured and monitored by system NOT PROVIDED BY THE DEALER WEBSITE SUPPLIER. It really is that simple... Asking the Fox to guard the Hen-house has never been good guidance, why would it work with dealer website metrics?
Years ago, we had very expensive and sophisticated visitor behavior website measurement systems such as "WebTrends" and "SiteCatalyst". These were expensive but accurate measurement systems that in many ways provided visitor activity before, during and after they came to a dealer's website on a level that may have been overkill. For the website suppliers deploying these systems, the expense was over $100,000 a year, spread out over the entire network of dealer websites.
As someone who was there, who attended the internal meetings where decisions were made and participated in those decisions, let me share the flow of going from independent measurement of conversion rates to the mess we have today...
First, there is a decision made to develop in-house measurement and reporting systems to save on the expense of paying outside and independent measurement systems. This is actually a good thing for dealers because it helps to facilitate lower and more competitive dealer website pricing. I think most dealers would agree that cost recovery and expense reduction is a worthy management endeavor.
But then, that is where our industry has gone astray, because as the measurement systems are developed there is an inevitable and persistent pressure placed on the developers right from the beginning where people like me would write the "Requirements" documentation that guides the actual code creation... Because those of us who write those requirements realize that we have an opportunity to "Make it Better"... That is when measurements such as visiting the "Hours and Directions" page, which is a website visitor activity that actually has a closer correlation to the dealer selling a vehicle than submitting any lead form, was added to the "Actions" that are included in the total number of "Conversions".
I know, because I have been the person writing those requirements... I was the guilty party who took the Ford Motor Company's confidential "Website Behavior Monetization Study" which defined, to the penny, the net real value of each action taken by a dealership or Ford website visitor, and I used it to drive changes in how the software being developed measured a "Conversion"... Including visits to the Hours and Directions page (which I stand by to this day)... EDITOR'S NOTE: When I first read Brian's article above, and saw his mention of measuring visits to the dealer's hours and directions page, I had a brief moment of paranoia that he was personally attacking my work while at Reynolds and Reynolds and then ADP Digital Marketing... Like i said, BRIEFLY... Then the coffee started kicking in and I spotted my own paranoia... ahem...
Contrary to what Brian calls for in this article, or rather to expand upon it, what we should be doing is standardizing the definition (Requirements) around measuring a variety of "Conversion Types"... Why? because once you get outside of automotive, you find that EVERYBODY uses the term "Conversion" differently... For example, we should have a "Form Submission rate" which is quire simply the total number of onsite forms submitted by the site's visitors divided by total number of "unique visitors"... Speaking of which, how about defining a "Unique Visitor"? Is it 30 days? 10 days? 60 days? What about "Visits" versus "Visitor Sessions"? Excuse me for going off on a tangent... It seems VERY clear to me that within the broad category of "Conversion Rate" we need to define specific measurement types that are clearly defined and measured by their very title or name. Let me list my recommendations for an initial dirty dozen "Conversion Types" to be defined and measured as part of a universal set of dealer website visitor "Conversion" tracking metrics:
And for those of you chuckling... No, I am NOT KIDDING! Until we stop using terms like "Conversion Rate" which can be any number of specific measurements depending on who is speaking and get more specific, we will have situations like what brian describes above.
The reason why we need both an "Overall Visitor Engagement Rate" as well as each of the 11 others is that not all website platforms were developed with the architecture necessary to measure each of the 11 other visitor to action conversion types I have listed... Which brings me to my last, but perhaps most important point.
The only way we can have measurement and reporting metrics that are comparable between websites provided to dealers by different suppliers is to use website metrics software provided by a company that is not financially affiliated with any of the dealer website suppliers who are selling the sites being measured (doh!). So, who could that be? What company exists that provides dealer website visitor activity tracking and reporting software that is reliable, generally accepted as accurate and is configurable enough to deliver my 12 conversion types listed? Let me take that one more level... What company provides those capabilities and provides their software at NO CHARGE to the Dealer? C'mon now... You know who I am referring to: GOOGLE!
I recommend that Brian Pasch leads an ADM Dealer Website Metrics Task Force made up of several members, including yours truly, which defines and documents the "Dealer Website Metrics Reporting Requirements" which can be presented to the Google Analytics Product Management team for creating a configuration and setup template that could be installed on as many dealer website architectures as possible. That same set of requirements would be provided to all the dealer website suppliers included in the Automotive Website Awards book and supplier directory.
Brian will receive far too many accolades for triggering this dialogue, so before we induce vomiting among the major dealer website supplier executive ranks, let's take Brian's lead and go forward with an ADM Professional Community Initiative that includes participation by as many as a dozen of our most qualified member professionals.
At DD13 in Vegas I heard the number 4% thrown out there by a speaker, Michael Groves, e-Commerce Director, Apple Auto Group. I believe they are in Canada. I don't know how a Canadian market varies, but I asked him where he got the conversion number, he said that was "industry benchmark" but could not quote a source. I personally would be jumping for joy if we had a 4% Unique to lead submission rate. I completely agree, are we tracking only web leads from our site? Are we including phone ups as well? With all the tools we have for tracking these days I find this stat is more of a pot of gold at the end of rainbow than it is something that I've heard of being empirically tracked. I'm willing to throw out a number, I'm just north of 1.5% from my uniques to lead submission. Good, I hope, bad, maybe. That's where I sit, let me know ...
In a "Criminal World" there are systems of tracking rich guys with chalk marks on their backs. In a perfect world, we could identify the customer in market and temporary tattoo our bar-code on their heads. When they walk through the door, a 2D scanner can recognize a conversion and the Finance manager could scan them for ROI.
People will not let us tattoo their heads. Nor will they wear a mark. Customers are extremely defensive when purchasing a car. SO... If we could find a way to make the customer more comfortable identifying themselves on the internet, and dealership... we have something.
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CHICAGO -- Paul Konerko is 5-for-12 lifetime against the legendary Mariano Rivera, but specifically remembers just one at-bat against Major League Baseball's all-time saves leader from Aug. 8, 2006.
"I had a home run here to tie a game late," said Konerko, who homered in the ninth off Rivera during a game the White Sox won in 11 innings. "I do remember that because any time you have success off a guy, or a home run, off of a Hall of Famer like that, you remember that one. I know he's got me a few times."
Konerko, a classy, talented leader for the past 15 years with the White Sox, had praise for Rivera, the pitcher, who has dominated with an almost unhittable cutter and a perfect demeanor. But that praised extended to Yankees captain Derek Jeter because of the way they conduct their business in the New York spotlight.
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bc44caesar - Feb 16, 2004 1:11 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: 4 May 2002
Awesome bluebird day with the mountain to ourselves!
dkantola - Jul 15, 2003 9:43 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: July 14, 2003
A long day with a large group. The weather was good, although smoke from the Link Fire burning south of Suttle Lake obscured views to the east. The summit, a high point along a knife-edged ridge, is quite an airy perch.
cluck - Oct 8, 2002 7:34 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: October 6 2002
Summitted on a perfect Sunday morning.
For some observations on this climb, check out the trip report.
rmjwinters - Oct 5, 2002 9:57 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: July 1998
This was interesting. Final summit pitch was fun and interesting. Great weather and climbed with my good friend Scott and his wife.
Hammer - Aug 6, 2002 2:37 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: August 3, 2002
After a beautiful day and almost perfect climbing conditions our small party gained the saddle leading to the summit. Unfortunately, a larger group had reached the technical pitch before us and we forced to wait for quite a long time as they shuttled people to the summit and back. After they had retreated we made a fast and furious track to the summit as a large gathering had grown on the saddle awaiting their turns at the summit. Once again TFJ afforded us with spectacular views of Jefferson and Washington. The three Sisters were obscured due to smoke from the many days of fire that had been in the area and you could still see areas that were smoldering.
Bob Bolton - May 20, 2002 8:28 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: Summer 1976
This was so long ago that I don't remember much about it. A group of us from McMinnville, where I lived at the time, climbed it.
Hammer - Oct 11, 2001 11:26 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Route Date Climbed: 8/11/2001
I had looked forward to climbing 3FJ due to it being primarily a rock route. I had only done Mt. Washington in the past and wanted to continue to develop my alpine rock skills.
Originally the climb had been somewhat crowded but by climb day there would only be six of us. This was a good thing since a sizable Mazama group left the trailhead shortly after we did at 0600.
Throughout the morning, we leap frogged their group as we made our way up the 5 miles of PCT. Once we reached the cairn marking the climber's trail we gained a sizable lead on them. As we approached the steeper scree trail we broke right and made our way up thicker underbrush. This was somewhat tedious but it afforded a qucker approach to the the ridge line.
Once we reached the ridge line, a couple that were not sure of the route, decided to tag along behind us as we made our way up the ridge. Toward the top of the ridge, we crossed some great 3rd class trail "Cliffhanger's Trail" that had great exposure before reaching the infamous "Crawl".
Our designated leader led across the "Crawl" and up some additional 3rd and 4th class rock to the base of the pinnacle. The rest of the group prussiked along the fixed line until we reached the base. Once again-some great exposure! We allowed the couple to use our rope as they made their way across also. We had beat the Mazama group up.
Once we reached the base of the pinnacle, Steve led the first pitch up the pinnacle. We all followed up climbing with a prussik safety as he made his way up to the true summit. I was the last one to climb up and being the sixth person up there, there was not room for me on the small knife edge summit. I took a picture for them and then swapped places with my uncle so he could get a shot of me and my celebratory prayer flags.
We descended the pinnacle passing the Mazama group at the base and made our way down the ridge. We reached the scree trail. As we headed down, I enjoyed some great scree skiing. The dust was thick and it was hot! I had brought three liters of water and it was not enough. Others had only brought two and they were in bad shape. After sharing the water that we had, we made our way out to the trailhead for yet another successful climb for the year.
Brian Jenkins - Jul 31, 2001 4:12 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Route Date Climbed: 7/29/01
I left with 3 others at 7 am on 7/29/01 from the Pacific Crest Trailhead and hiked the 5 mile approach through the forest. As you come to the base of the mountain, the forest clears at a scree field. There is an obvious trail up to the base of the ridge. Try to stay on that as we tried to find a better way and got into some thick brush.
Once at the ridge we scrambled up some class 4 or 5 rock to the Crawl. Here 2 of our party turned back due to the weather. It is the end of July but up here it was in the 30's or 40's and alternating rain and hail. I continued on with one other and we roped in for the traverse. Once past that we scrambled more to the summit pinnacle and he led the technical climb in the chimney. There is some webbing there already so he anchored in and I followed up. From there it was a short scramble to the actual summit. We were socked in so we did not stay long. I apologize for the poor photos I am attaching to this page. The weather was nasty but I wanted to show something on it - hopefully others will attach better ones. It's a nice climb and we did it in about 8 and 1/2 hours from the trailhead back to the car.


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To celebrate the release of their latest report, Ageing in the 21st Century: A Celebration and a Challenge, UNFPA and HelpAge International are launching, 60 over 60, a list of 60 inspiring and influential older people over 60, and need your help. You can nominate yourself, or an older person you admire - they are looking for a diverse group representing many nationalities and ages.
There are 3 ways you can nominate your inspiring older person for the 60 over 60 list:
Perceptions of the world's 'age burden' are outdated. Older people can be athletes, statesmen, innovators, entrepreneurs, caregivers, activists. They can teach, inspire, influence, lead, innovate and create. As longevity increases and health improves, older people can contribute more to society than ever before. And their contributions will become increasingly important as the world grows older – a phenomenon that is happening in nearly every country and every region.
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Nicolas Borzee has worked in the kitchen since age 15, first at a traditional restaurant in his native Alsace, and then at L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon. Next, he worked for a year and a half with Michel Troigros, and then he spent four years in the kitchen of Alain Ducasse at Louis XV in Monaco. After a move to San Francisco, he worked at Spruce, and then at Daniel Patterson's Coi, where he spent three and a half years. At Bouche, which opened last December, Borzee is the executive chef. He's 28 years old.
Bouche, a few steps from the walkway over the Stockton Street Tunnel, is not the hushed temple that Coi is. The kitchen is just a narrow space behind the bar, packed with three cooks in frenzied activity. The room buzzes and glasses clink as patrons share plates at the bar or on stools around the windows. The upstairs dining room feels like a bistro housed in the attic of a barn; and though the plates are carefully arranged and scattered with micro-sage, the French-accented waiters and host are flirtatious, not formal.
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The AF2011-A1 Double Barrel Pistol is the very first industrial double barrel pistol of all time. For those of you who love shooting the Colt 1911-A1, the AF2011-A1 was designed in commemoration of its legend. This bad boy packs a punch as a double barrel .45 caliber pistol and is extremely accurate. According to Arsenal Firearms, it will group all 16 bullets, held in a dual, single column magazine, in a target the size of an orange at 15 yards and in a watermelon at 15 yards. In around 3 seconds, with only 8 trigger pulls, you can fire 16 rounds into a target.
Man, if only Chuck Norris could get his hands on this collectors item. Then again, Chuck doesn't need a gun!
The AF2011-A1 double barrel pistol has some pretty cool features.
- Many of it's parts are interchangeable with the 1911-A1, which makes repair and replacement parts cheaper, and more available. Interchangeable parts include the firing pins, recoil springs and rods, magazine bodies and inner parts, grips, sites, etc…
- It has a single slide, single grip safety, single hammer and instead of two magazines, it's a single column with dual magazines. So instead of having to load two single magazines, drop one and load one!
- I read somewhere that it comes with the option to have the ability to fire each trigger separately as well as simultaneously. I didn't see that option anywhere on the Arsenal Firearms website, so I'm just chalking that up to be a rumor.
My first thoughts about a double barrel pistol were:
I've tried to pull the triggers of two pistols while holding them side by side. It's not an easy thing to do. One trigger always gets pulled before the other. So I doubted even wanting to have the option to fire each trigger separately. However, by including two triggers, two barrels and one slide into this double barrel pistol, it automatically eliminates the struggle of holding two pistols side by side. However, if you want separate firing triggers, why not just use two pistols, which can each be pointed at their own targets? Sure, if the AF2011-A1 did come with the option to fire each barrel separately, you could probably pull the left trigger with your left hand and the right with your right hand.
This takes a whole new meaning to the term, "Dual Wielding!"
I think I'd rather have them fire at the same time, delivering twice the impact of a regular .45.
Do the barrels fire straight or are the slightly angled in, toward each other? Maybe this proves my lack of engineering knowledge, but it was one of my first thoughts. If you think about hitting a target, you want to hit it dead center. With the double barrel pistol, you'll always miss dead center and hit one round a little left and one a little right.
But then I realized, would you rather have two rounds enter an assailant through the same hole, or hit them twice…one on each side of his chest? I also wonder what the impact of two rounds would do to bullet proof vests if they were to hit within an inch or two from each other at exactly the same time? Would the vests hold up?
Answered my own question.
PLUS, think about the diversity here when choosing your rounds. You can load one side of the magazine with hollow point rounds while loading the other side with armor piercing rounds. It'll get the job done one way or the other!
In closing, too many guns to buy and so little time! The AF2011-A1 double barrel pistol is definitely one to add to the collection.
Before you click away, you must, and I say MUST watch the video below. The first minute is sort of boring, but right around 1:05 when he starts firing the pistol, it's just plain awesome!
If you can picture the last movie you watched where someone fires a pistol in slow motion…the movement of the slide, the explosion of the bullet from the barrel with the shell being ejected and the lingering puff of smoke! Just picture double of all that, and that's what's in the video.
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If passed, the bill would head to the governor's desk, where it would either be signed into law or vetoed.
At a hearing today in the state capitol in Pierre, the Senate Commerce and Energy committee voted unanimously to pass Senate Bill 84, which would mandate the creation of a state athletic commission to oversee boxing, kickboxing and MMA.
The bill's original sponsor, Senator Mark Johnston, said the passage wasn't surprising despite a recent proposal to ban MMA outright.
"The fact of the matter is that MMA is the fastest-growing sport in the world right now," he said.
Sen. Steve Hickey, who recently called MMA "the child porn of sports," argued in favor of a proposed amendment to make boxing and traditional martial arts the state's only regulated combat sports.
Johnston added that "a couple" of lobbyists for "family values-leaning causes" also testified in opposition to the bill's passage, which was its final hurdle in the state senate before going to the house.
Johnston said the bill's primary intent was to eliminate unregulated MMA events. This past May, a 26-year-old amateur died one week after fighting in one such competition.
"That's what gives MMA the cage-fighting monkier," Johnston said. "Unregulated MMA becomes cage-fighting, and I think we all agree that's wrong. Based on [Hickey's] proposal, where do we draw the line? Do we take on football? Do we take on rodeo? Because some would also argue that whose are violent sports.
"We just concluded the high school wrestling championships in South Dakota. With wrestling be a key component of mixed martial arts, do we ban that?"
South Dakota governor Dennis Daugaard previously has called MMA "cage-fighting" and expressed concern that the state would legitimize the sport.
It's not the first time the state has wrestled with the regulation of combat sports. In 2009, the legislature voted to create the South Dakota Boxing Commission, but didn't appoint commissioners, who would have been personally liable for expenses not covered by regulated events. The law expired this past July.
The current bill needs two-thirds of the house to make it to the governor's desk.
"If we're going to have [MMA], let's regulate it," Johnston said. "Let's do what's right to protect athlete safety, as well as grab onto the opportunities that may come before us in respect to hosting a large event here in South Dakota."


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The first girl I loved; I was not suppose to break her heart; I was not suppose to break her.. and this haunts me to this day because that was not me; something else took over; I have dissociative disorder; and another personality came out and it was antisocial and took over; I had plans; I had created a life and friendship for myself. but the personality destroyed and ripped to pieces by my mother came out and took over when I was on the verge of success. And I was demoralized. As for the girl; she was innocent and led on and had no idea was going to hurt her; God; I hate using that word; looking at what happened; what I did.... or was it me? Another problem; I did not get help concerning it; I had no advice; no help; nothing; by the time I got help for what causes it; it was a life time later.
The girl bounced back fine; or did she! No she didn't; I truly loved her; I was sent by God. She called to God; I was sent to her; and all was right with God and the universe; and then I pulled out; I was not suppose to be that kind of person. The real me is not that kind of person; but their was more then the present me inside me. I did not have the courage to withstand it. I loved someone and didn't follow through.
So; Im learning; and thats what this writing is about; its not about the girl; the girl is long long long long long past; gone. I was smart and called her a few years later; actually, more then a few years; and I told her I loved her, was in love with her and that she had been my best friend; so; I got it out. and then I hung up.... and that was that.... Who ever it was I was talking to on the phone was a stranger from long ago that I didn't know or didn't want to know; I just wanted that person on the end of the phone so I could tell her what I was suppose to tell her in the first place. I was suppose to protect her and take care of her; thats because I loved her; that loved was put in my heart by God; with that love; that powered me to want to protect her; it was the greatest thing of my life. but I failed at it for no reason. Nothing; the girl knew nothing; she thought we had a future together....
The point of this is; what do I do the next time. Ive had women like me; but I pulled away because they were the wrong women.
I like women that are pure and nice; I don't like any other kind. Im not interested in manipulators that pretend to be nice and expect a really nice guy when they don't deserve it. They don't deserve it according to their behavior.
In one newer situation; I had a women like me but she was mean to her children; put them second rate next to getting love from a man; nothing makes me more sick. Those children are human beings; they are citizens of this country; people died in a revolution to make this country what it is; that we have free speech and the ability to carry arms to protect ourselves from the government that we don't get turned into a communist or socialist society like England and the rest of them. These children are under our glorious flag and for that reason; this women should have respected those citizens. She did not; she put her own wants ahead of these children; throwing them aside for her own fantasies; so; once being sickened by this; I pulled back; this was not the person I wanted to associated with. Im not suggesting she doesn't have value with God; but what she is doing is over my head and makes me sick; Im suggesting Im in the wrong place with the wrong people and I have to find the right people to associate with.
Because I didn't like myself anymore; because no one else like me or cared about my life at the core; I found myself around anyone; it didn't matter. no one cared about me anyway. Its interesting to me that I did not turn into a sociopath. In the hight of my dissociative disorder; I was a sociopath; or the equivalent. But I got better.... The deep hatred at the core level for the world around me turned me into a blank hardened animal with no feeling; It was all blanked out; all feeling. Now its better.
As for the girl; She was exposed to someone that was rotten; Me! and she moved on; she was of a higher level innocence and would not put up with this; someone like me acting like a scum back that abandon her; If she had known I was like this; she would have never gotten involved with me in the first place. she just walked away innocent; and I had to look at that and wonder what was going on here with me. why was I a loser; and why now of all times; right on the verge of breaking through to the other side of my independence. I had done a great thing; I had created a friendship and put all my eggs into it; and I had the reward but could not accept that I was actually getting the reward I had worked for. I could not handle it; I could not handle being forced to move on from my childhood. I could not handle success or the thought that I was good enough for the success or handle success. So I pulled back the other direction and chickened out. Im still wondering why I keep acting like a loser. I guess Im angry and I like it; but I dont like it; its my way of getting back at deeper issues; I wanted to continue the fight and not move on; but I did want to move on. The powers that be; they drove me back into submission or the family system that had tortured me and continued to destroy me at any chance they could get; I was 2 comfortable in that family system and when I tried to leave it; I flinched back. But I was always being thrown out of it; over n over n over and that freaked me out everytime. I guess I liked being tortured because I gave up all chances for success to be back submitted to that torture that maybe one more chance Ill get my childhood back; maybe.
I was either thrown out of the family system or tortured in it and then thrown out again and again. So I was put up against a wall of horror over n over n over n over n over; with no where to go and no way out. I was 2 young and did not know this was going to happen to my life over n over; or be in this type of sickening horrific situation of being thrown away from a family into nothingness; darkness and knassing of death.
So now; I have wait upon God to help me. Help me out of it into the right direction.
I could not handle moving on; I did not want to move on or be forced to move on; but moving on would have circled and given me the chance to go back to my childhood again if I wanted to; it would have been a new rout to become anything I wanted and would have allowed me to move forward into new spaces and directions that would allow me to express the child within me in new safe ways... I would have grown back into my childhood...
Im trying to better myself and slowly work my way up the latter to better people again and understand that I have a problem.


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From Camera Technica, a pair of videos showing the aperture blades of a Canon 18-55mm kit lens - the kind of lens you get in a cheap DSLR bundle - opening and closing in slow motion. The mechanics of even this cheapo lens look amazingly sophisticated seen like this.
Aperture blades must not only be precise in the amount of light they allow through, they must be lightning fast. In the split second that you press the shutter button, the razor thin aperture blades must close to a precisely sized hole, await the shutter exposure, and then snap back into the wide open position before you can blink your eye.
Eye-opening, in a manner of speaking.
[Camera Technica via Petapixel]


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NEA joins campaign to protect, strengthen Social Security
Keeping the program healthy is a key concern for educators
WASHINGTON - July 30, 2010 -
The National Education Association (NEA) announced yesterday that it has joined a campaign to protect and strengthen Social Security. NEA, along with 60 national and state labor and other organizations—including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, National Organization of Women, NAACP, SEIU, Alliance for Retired Americans, and Moveon.org—came together today at the National Press Club to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Social Security and to launch the Strengthen Social Security campaign.
NEA is especially concerned about how cuts to Social Security would affect women, as women make up the vast majority of the teachers and school support professionals. More than half of Social Security beneficiaries at age 65 are women, and by age 85, women account for 71 percent of those receiving benefits.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, who spoke at the event, said, "Anything that weakens Social Security is especially bad for women and the members of my organization."
"We have workers who have paid into the system all of their working lives, and to deny them what they deserve is simply wrong. We oppose any cuts to Social Security benefits. We oppose any efforts to privatize Social Security. We oppose raising the retirement age, which would hit educators hard. Educators, who often enter the classroom right out of college, must already work up to 45 years in their profession before they qualify for unreduced Social Security benefits. Increasing the retirement age would be a hardship for those who may not be able to handle the rigors of teaching in their later years."
NEA also strongly supports complete repeal of the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), which penalize some public employees by cutting or eliminating Social Security benefits that they or their spouse have earned. "We cannot keep subjecting our retirees to the GPO and WEP. These offsets are a double whammy. They are unfair and devastating."
The Strengthen Social Security coalition, which represents more than 30 million Americans, says Social Security represents the best of American values—reward for hard work, honoring our parents and caring for our neighbors.
"Social Security is money that American workers paid into the system to support themselves when they reached retirement age," Van Roekel added. "That money belongs to them, not providing it to them when they need it is wrong. We are urging all of our members to work hard to protect Social Security for all Americans."
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It is the year 1419 - the time of Great Explorations. As leader of one of the world's great nations you will change the world and create history. It is a time of great change that the world has never seen before, continents are waiting to be discovered, conquered and colonized, a New World is rising and the old is torn apart by conflict and war.
In a time of enormous hunger for power, honor and wealth it is your destiny to rule your country, accept new challenges, mobilize troops, build amazing cities and exploit your resources. The skilled will gain wealth; the less fortunate can expect poverty, famine and diseases. Do you have what it takes to change the course of world history?
Europa Universalis II is the sequel to one of the greatest strategy games ever made - Europa Universalis. It invites you to a global struggle for supremacy from the dark times of Jeanne D'Arc to the flaming wars of Napoleon. As the leader of a country you have to guide domestic and foreign policies. Engage in religious struggles, set up expeditions to claim the New World, lead your country to prosperity and victory. Send your Privateers to roam the seven seas, muster mercenaries to bolster your defences, and send missionaries to convert infidels to your State Religion. Interact with true historical events and persons to determine which path your nation will take in the game. The new game includes an elaborate and expanded system for diplomacy, trade, military might and development. It also includes new graphics, music, sound, manual and a new tutorial system to lower the learning curve.
Time and Space Europa Universalis II features more than 180 countries; all of them are playable and annexable. The map has been expanded to include 120 new provinces for enjoyable playing. It also includes many non-European countries such as China, Great Zimbabwe and the Cherokees. The player can also easily design new countries and scenarios. The jewel of Europa Universalis II is the Grand Campaign starting in 1419 and ending in 1820.
90 different nations potentially player controlled. Powerful AI with human behavior controls non-player nations
Choose between 9 scenarios including a Grand Campaign Game encompassing 300 years.
Over 500 different historical missions and a dynamic system generating countless of exciting missions ensure many hours of game play!
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800+ named provinces, 550+ named sea zones and 100+ named rivers on a map covering the entire globe!
The real-time game can be set to pause at any time or any given event to give players time to plan ahead, thereby creating a "semi-real-time" environment
User friendly and customizable message system
Involve yourself in colonization, exploration, trade and infrastructure, war, religion and diplomacy against players and computer alike!
Up to 8 players in multiplayer games over LAN or the internet!


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Videos | March 6, 2012
Landing Practice
Mars Science Laboratory engineers have a dress rehearsal for Curiosity's landing day on the Red Planet.
Transcript:Today we did a test of the whole approach and landing all the activities from cruise stage separation through the parachute deploy through the power decent all the way to landing. You would think it was actually landing day, we have everybody in their places in front of the computers looking at what information they would actually see. Essentially it's like a dress rehearsal of the whole mission.
We're simulating what the team will do and see as the vehicle lands on Mars. We don't actually use the spacecraft obviously; we use the test bed as our spacecraft for these tests. Its running just like it was approaching Mars, so it's sending us information, we can send all that data up here and it looks to us like the spacecraft even though obviously it's sitting on the ground.
We also have a simulated data for what the DSN would be getting, for navigation data for example and when we combine all that together pretty intricately actually so it really feels like were actually there and were actually getting ready to land on Mars.
This one is what we call the nominal ORT where everything just goes exactly the way its suppose to. The spacecraft behaves perfectly the navigation is very straight forward and so there's no surprises. Next time we'll have a group of Gremlins through some curve balls at us basically, at the team to make sure they can respond if the spacecraft has a problem, prepare the team for what they'll have to do on actual landing day.
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UCONN HOCKEY: Huskies Marshall resigns from men's hockey team
STORRS, Conn. >> The University of Connecticut says Bruce Marshall has resigned as coach of the men's ice hockey team.
Marshall, the coach with the most wins in program history, had been on medical leave of absence since November. He said he decided during his time away from the program that it was in the best interests of the program and his family for him to resign.
Assistant Dave Berard will continue to serve as the team's coach for the remainder of the season.
Marshall was in his 25th season as head coach. He had 337 career wins and led UConn to a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship in 2000.
UConn says it will begin a national search for a new head coach at the end of the season.


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The above link shows a vintage photo of the original building. Comparing the original with the current location photo on google maps, it seems to me - judging mostly from the masonry sill & lintel of the windows - that much of the original building is still standing there on 6th Avenue.
Yes, so far I think it would be a fair assumption to say that at least the two 'street-wall' sections of the original building art still standing.
I am still not completely sure - but it will be easy to find more. If this is an Historic District, there will be plenty of archival photos & documents: heres hoping this one is landmarked.


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I'm an archaeologist, and I'm also a publisher. Many of my colleagues in the Publications Office of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA, founded in 1881) in Princeton, New Jersey, were archaeologists first, and edit, proofread, typeset, and manage the creation and production of our quarterly journal, Hesperia, as well as a wide variety of books. We work in the field when we can, but our primary job is to publish the work of the School: excavation reports and monographs of the Athenian Agora, of Corinth, and of affiliated excavations, as well as the publication of the work of our friends in the Gennadius Library, the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory, and the Archives, plus the research of scholars working within the broad field of Greek archaeology of all periods. The ASCSA is charged by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism with primary responsibility for all American archaeological research, and seeks to support the investigation, preservation, and presentation of Greece's cultural heritage. ASCSA's publications satisfy the last part of our mission.
The week leading up to the Day of Archaeology has been an extraordinary one for us in Publications. We just received our advance copies of Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia, by Betsey A. Robinson (Vanderbilt University). The creation of this interdisciplinary volume utilized, for the first time at the ASCSA, a dedicated project wiki, and favored the digital exchange of files and comments outside of email. Communication between project team members in several U.S. and in Greece was both constant and transparent making for quick turnaround. We used Google Sites for the wiki which was the project's hub at host for files, Skype for voice/video communication, Adobe Creative Suite 5 for design. We also assigned digital object identifiers (DOIs) for the first time within an ASCSA book so that readers could view large, high-resolution plans online. Post-production, we're using (also for the first time) Facebook and Twitter in conjunction with print media to promote and market the book, and are putting review copies into the hands of traditional reviewers like the Bryn Mawr Classical Review as well as into the in-boxes (and Dropboxes) of archaeologists in the blogosphere. Archaeological publication has to include ways of letting the world know new research has been published.
Other books in production for 2011 include volumes on Greek manuscripts, Bronze Age Tsoungiza, Sikyon, Athenian pottey, Byzantine graves and human remains at Isthmia, dedicatory monument inscriptions from the Athenian Agora, and a collection of articles on houses and households in ancient Crete. We split the editorial and proofreading duties between our full-time staff of editors and freelancers who have been trained in the ASCSA's house style (modified Chicago style) as well as in archaeology and Classics.
Hesperia, the journal of the ASCSA, has recently undergone some changes to make it more contemporary, useful, and accessible to archaeologists and other scholars worldwide. On August 1st, the journal's full run (80 volumes from 1932 until now), becomes available on JSTOR's Current Scholarship Program. All issues of the journal have never been online in a single location before, so now readers can browse across all articles from the past 80 years.
With Hesperia appearing both in print and online, we wanted to be able to begin to take advantage of the Internet in allowing us to host digital editions of issues that contain full-color images, something that is prohibitively expensive to print. For issue 80.2 which will be released on August 1st, we're including a free, LH IIA2 pottery catalogue from Tsoungiza both as a PDF file, but also as an HTML webpage for improved usability. For some archaeological publication of data, we need to think beyond what can be printed, and consider other ways of presenting archaeological data for the use of other scholars and researchers. We hope to host everything from color images to 3D reconstructions to entire data sets. The full-color article and online supplemental material are first-steps in that direction.
We are also venturing into open-access content for Hesperia, and have begun to post articles for free on our website. We expect this section to grow considerably over time.
Lest people think that archaeological publishing consists of musty-dusty tomes, we are currently embarking on a program of eBook creation, providing both print and digital editions of new titles to our readers, ultimately digging into our back-list to make older books available digitally, too, in a format that can be both searched and annotated and are not merely page-scans saved as PDFs.
Ultimately we hope to produce apps that will merge archaeological texts with multimedia, GPS functionality, data, and more, providing a reader full context. As all archaeologists know, context is key.
On July 29th, the Day of Archaeology, I will be meeting with editors and archaeologists both in person and via Skype as we plan a new way to manage our publishing projects with less paper, more speed, and better communication. We'll also be reviewing the f&gs (folded & gathered sheets) for the print edition of Hesperia 80.2 prior to approving the issue for binding. I'll assist our designer with typesetting our monograph on Greek manuscripts. I'll be emailing several of our authors who are currently in the field in Greece and in Turkey about the status of their books and articles. I'll look at a lot of digital images of pots. And I'll probably take a break to go through the Publications archives to catalogue some correspondence from the 1930s and 1940s, finding delight in hand-written notes and typescript pages marked in pencil.
I was an archaeologist before I became a publisher. I excavated at Isthmia (Greece) and Poggio Civitate (Italy). I earned my MA in art history and archaeology at the University of Missouri – Columbia, and my BA in archaeology (double-major with writing) from the University of Evansville. I'm tickled that I am publishing an article by my undergraduate adviser this week. And I am honored to be publishing Agora "blue books", Corinth "red books" as well as Hesperia (and Hesperia supplements), series that I used extensively during my student years. I love being a publisher, and I love publishing the work of my peers and of my heroes.