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TILING ISN'T what it used to be. The development of new technologies and designs has given tiling a whole new image. Now tiling is viewed as a complete water management system designed to boost a field's productivity.
"In previous years, we simply concentrated on getting water off the fields," says Wayne Skaggs, William Neal Reynolds Professor and Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University. Skaggs has been researching water management systems for nearly 40 years. "And what we've been looking at since the 1970s is that not all fields need the same intensity of drainage at all times," he says. That has led to controlled drainage systems that manage how, and when, water moves out of the field, which is why tiling is now more commonly referred to as a water management system.
"New designs and changes to current systems have really improved," says Leonard Binstock, executive director of the Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition. "Now instead of simply going up the slope of a field, we can develop systems that go across the slope."
And it doesn't end there. "Systems can be designed to manage the water table, provide subsurface irrigation, monitor and manage nutrient outflow on a field," Binstock says. "The industry is taking a different approach on the design of these systems so they are truly a water management tool to use as a profit center."
Yield monitors drive tiling
A key driver in producer interest in tiling hasn't been a tiling tool at all. It has been a yield monitor. "The introduction of yield monitors allowed producers to see how their yields would vary depending on where the tile was located in a field," says Truitt Clements, sales manager for Bickett Farm Tiling, Ridgway, IL. "They would see that there was more production over the tile lines." As a result, interest has increased in installing tile on narrower centers (40-ft. centers instead of 60- to 90-ft. centers).
Clements also says more farmers are becoming interested in subsurface irrigation systems, where the tile actually becomes a way to put water back into a field during dry periods. "Those systems are more expensive, because the tile lines are on 12-ft. to 15-ft. centers. But there's a lot of interest, especially with higher commodity prices," he says.
The advent of advanced navigation and positioning systems also has made tiling more precise. Simple GPS-based systems help engineers develop sophisticated maps and drainage systems. "We survey a field with an RTK system, develop a topo map of the field, and provide our customers a detailed map with how all the laterals and mains will be installed," Clements says. "The producer can see exactly how the field will be tiled."
Newer GPS-driven tiling systems allow for a system that is more effectively designed and installed, according to John Downey, business segment sales manager for water management for Trimble. "Today, producers have tools that can develop optimum depth and tile for the producer, providing constant depth ditching and placing the tile at a uniform distance below the ground," he says. "That translates into better crop yields."
Trimble has introduced the latest version of FieldLevel II, which is part of the company's FmX Integrated Display system. "FieldLevel II will design a tiling system based on the constraints you put in, including slope and depth," says Chris van der Loo, product manager at Trimble. "This system can be used for self-propelled or pull-type plows that install tile."
These types of systems also can provide tremendous benefit if installing contour drainage. "Producers are no longer limited to installing tile along a contour," Downey says. "Now they can go across contours to maximize the efficiency of their water management system."
Managing outflow
Tiling also has become a more complex issue as the agricultural community deals with what's coming off the field, and how to better manage that flow. "The management of drainage from tile lines is more of an issue, especially with the export of nitrates into downstream waters," says Matt Helmers, associate professor, Ag and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University.
A major reason to manage nutrient outflow has been the nutrient-enhanced water that is reaching the Gulf of Mexico. "Public perception of agriculture has been that we need to develop a plan to deal with nutrients coming from the soil," Binstock says. "And that being a driver, we are looking at ways we can better manage the outflow from tile lines."
"The fact is that when you move from simply draining water off the field to managing how, and when, it moves off the field, it impacts the way you design and install your system," Skaggs says. The newer GPS-based technologies do a better job of designing controlled drainage systems for a field.
Gated control structures and well-planned patterned tile systems can help manage the water table under farmland. These systems can reduce winter release of nutrient-rich drainage water. They can allow growers to drain the root zone for fieldwork and spring planting, while conserving water in the soil profile for summer crop use.
The new controlled outflow systems can add 8 to 10% to the cost of a tile system. "But that can average out to less than $2 per acre annually for the complete system, amortized over 15 years," Binstock says. "And in a study at Purdue we saw a 2 to 4% yield increase with this system."
Current structures for the controlled drainage system are above ground. However, Agri Drain, Adair, IA, will release WaterGate this spring, an automatic subsurface water management valve that is fully automatic and can be completely buried for field operations (800/232-4742, www.agridrain.com).
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The definition of an affiliate network is:
An intermediary between publishers (affiliates) and merchant affiliate programs.
There are two major types of affiliate networks, with the first type publishers (or affiliates) who are paid a certain share of the revenue generated by them for merchants and the second one involves paying publishers a fee, every time a visitor to a publisher's website or a publisher's mobile app user completes a specific action, commonly called CPA (stands for Call-Per-Action).
The affiliate program industry landscape is presented with a broad range of players, from big companies, such as Commission Junction, Tradedoubler to specialists that are focused on a specific marketing niche, such as mobile and apps. Thanks to the mobile app ecosystem exponential growth for the last 8+ years, the latter became the most dynamic and lucrative industry for affiliates.
The other differentiator for affiliate programs is a business model. On today's affiliate networks market there are several major models, such as:
The affiliate market has been instrumental for selling of many kinds of products and services and in particular helped businesses to gain new leads, offer coupons, get more subscribers and more. With the advance of mobile, new types of offers have been introduced, the most common are mobile content, mobile subscription, mobile games and app installs. Let's take a closer look at each of these:
In recent years among many business verticals the following ones have experienced the most traction with an affiliate marketing:
One of the key factors for an affiliate is payment terms or how frequently he's paid for revenue he generates for a merchant via an affiliate program. There are several industry-accepted payment terms such as Weekly, Semi-weekly, Monthly and Daily. Quote often these payment terms are referred as Net7, Net14, Net30.
Payment transaction gateways provide the technical infrastructure for the affiliate marketing industry. There is a number of ways affiliates get paid and the major ones are:
To start using affiliate marketing as either your additional or primary channel to generate an income, you need to come up with a strategy first.
Find a product(s) that resonate with your personally, something that you would either buy for yourself or just in general you feel positive about. Throughout your journey as an affiliate marketer, you'll need to write lots of text creatives, decide on what photo or video creatives to choose for an ad. All these ad materials will have to be compelling enough for people to click on and purchase a product you're offering. Otherwise it'll be really hard in a long run to promote something that you don't care about.
In terms of financial investments, the most affordable way to start will be to join an existing affiliate network. You need to be careful with your choice of a network to work with. Make sure you'll able to get your earned commissions from that particular affiliate network smoothly. And whenever you'll need any support from their end they'll be capable to provide it.
For any kind of affiliate marketing to work, you need to have your website or a mobile app generating a significant and steady amount of traffic. The important decision for you to make, once you've picked up a network, will be what business model to choose. Read about business models here.
Last but not least, once you've started working with an affiliate network, make sure you keep your taps on the stats you'll be accumulating on your ad campaigns performance to optimize it over time and grow your affiliate marketing business.
In a nutshell, an affiliate advertising is an online marketing channel for businesses to sell their products or services via an affiliate (which are also called publisher) website or mobile app.
It's a way for a company to sell its products or services by establishing a program for individuals or companies (called "affiliates") to sign up and be paid a commission fee for generating leads or closing sales for that company.
It's a program that is established by a company to help it to sell products or services. It regulates all relationships between the company and affiliates who are signed up to that program. It provides affiliates a dashboard to manage advertising campaigns they run, track commissions they earn and creatives they can use to advertise the company's products or services.
There are several ways to find an affiliate program that provides offers for a specific business vertical. The key is to apply multiple techniques to eliminate any possible bias. The place to begin your research would be Affiliate Networks directories, such as the one that mobyaffiliates hosts. To evaluate multiple networks you may pick up from a directory, you need to find people's feedback on these networks on places like Quora, online forums and LinkedIn. Make sure you tried multiple search queries on these resources to find as much feedback as possible, avoid comments that are strictly negative or positive, genuine feedback is usually in between these two extremes. On LinkedIn you can find both affiliate networks company employees to ask questions and groups dedicated to affiliate industry. But again – don't expect an affiliate network employees to share with you any cons of the company they work for, approach these people to figure out in general – do they provide offers for a particular vertical or not.
Use above mentioned technique to find regional affiliate networks but make sure networks you find do work with affiliates from other countries. In many countries local affiliate industry market is presented with big international companies and local-based players. A good example would be India, where you can register as an affiliate to work with Amazon India Affiliate Program, as well as Flipkart Affiliate Program and SnapDeal Affiliate Program.
There are number of challenges that make many startups growth difficult, such as lack of funding, an effective team building is still in progress and a product or service it's trying to bring on a market may not be ready for its prime time. Therefore any extra source of income may help sush startup to fund its growth. For a startup to monetize an existing website or app traffic, initially it's better to join an affiliate program from a company that has a well established brand, such as Amazon or Apple. Over time as a picture of what traffic your inventory is capable of generating emerges, you may consider signing up an affiliate network to broad the spectrum of offers to advertise.
On the pros side of having an in-house affiliate program are such factors as having a control over the whole system, quality assurance and reducing costs if you manage to keep your affiliate program department small. On the cons side such things as it'll take time to build a significant size affiliate base, advertising costs, potentially costly mistakes. Expect for a very few occasions when you're launching a unique product or service and monetizing it with ads from an affiliate network may present a challenge, you better off to just sign up a reputable affiliate network.
There are several ways to search for offers, and mobile offers in particular. The first one is obvious – sign up for multiple affiliate networks and see what offers they have. Next up is searching on Twitter for top offers, top mobile offers to spot offers that affiliate networks may push on a specific day or week, LinkedIn Groups is another place for conducting a similar research.
It's a wise approach for any business but it's really important for affiliate marketing. You need to realize that offers value change over time, having said that it's possible to list several types of offers that historically have a high value:
There are three dominating business models to compare to answer this question – CPM (Cost Per Thousand), CPC (Cost Per Click) and CPA (Cost Per Action). All three are different in what is the subject to pay affiliates for – an ad view, click on an ad or specific action people do on a website or inside an app – sign up, subscribe, buy something and so on. So what model will generate more revenue for you?
The short answer – it depends on your audience and how well you know it. The more in-depth one is the following.
For an affiliate or publisher point of view the CPM model advantage is that they get paid each time ads were shown in their inventory and it doesn't matter if those ads lead to specific actions or not. But on the flip side this model doesn't guarantee that you can make the most of your inventory, your audience may react better and take actions on some particular type of offers but you just don't know what they are. In short it's capable to generate for you a predictable income flow.
On the bright side of the CPC model is that if you, as a publisher, serve ads that you know for certain match your audience interests, you should expect high revenues. But the dark side is that advertisers you serve ads for don't pay you for all ad views that haven't resulted into a click. The worst case scenario – you may serve a big volume of ads and not getting any revenue at all, if you fail to match your audience interests with ads topic(s) you serve. To sums up – this model is lucrative for a target audience only.
Chronologically CPA model is the newest model and from an advertiser point of view it's the one that makes the most sense – they pay only for specific action website visitors or mobile app users take. It means that they're ready to pay a lot more for each action and it opens up the way for publishers to make much more money than with both CPM and CPC models. The downside of this model is that in practice you may end up in a situation when you don't generate any revenue for days or more and then suddenly the offers you've been promoting begin to convert. Unfortunately there is no way of predicting in advance if and when you may get in such trouble. Last but not least, publishers don't have a way of knowing for sure if website visitors or app users they send to advertisers have actually completed actions that advertisers claim they did. The bottom line is – it's the most lucrative but highly unpredictable.
This question can easily be rated on top of all abovementioned questions – at the end of the day models, types of offers and such wouldn't matter if you don't have a reliable channel to get your hard earned affiliate revenue. According to the recent stats, 41% of affiliates have abandoned an affiliate network because of their payments weren't paid on time or at all. More than 65% of affiliates have explicitly stated that they would stop working with an affiliate network because of repeated payment issues.
There are several well established payment systems for affiliates to choose from – PayPal, Payoneer, Wire Transfer and WebMoney.
Above all others is PayPal, which is a payment system that all major affiliate networks support. To its cons we can attribute:
In most cases this is the payment method for any affiliate to work with, but to be on a safe side it's better to clarify for yourself all abovementioned points.
Payoneer is the payment system that usually comes next popularity and adoption wise. Just as PayPal it's an e-wallet platform. To its advantage, compared with PayPal, it wins on the number of countries and currencies it supports, 210+ and 150 respectively against 200 and 25. With $29.95 annual fee affiliates can get a physical Payoneer Master Debit Card to process transactions for any country where MasterCard is supported, which is virtually globally.
WebMoney is extremely popular among countries that used to be a part of the former Soviet Union. Compared to PayPal and Payoneer, it supports only 91 countries with local currencies. For global payments it supports only USD and EURO, it charges fees for wallet-to-wallet transactions.
To its pros side one would attribute low transaction fees – 0.8% of the amount being sent but no more than 50 euro, as well as easy registration and identification processes.
Wire Transfers is in fact the most popular payment method globally, but compared with above mentioned systems, it proceeds transactions slower and charges higher fees. The important part of the equation are intermediary banks that impose their own rules on translations. If you choose this option, you always need to check with your intermediary bank payments terms, fee and specific information it requires for your hard-earned affiliate commissions to be proceeded smoothly.
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As the Dow Jones Industrial Average tops the 17,000 milestone, the blue chips that deserve the most credit for the index's latest 1,000-point advance are Caterpillar, Disney and 3M.
Caterpillar has climbed 34.6% since Nov. 21, when the Dow first closed above 16,000. That's contributed 182 points toward the Dow's 1,000-point gain.
Disney has gained 24.2% over that same time period, contributing about 109 points to the index's move, while 3M has gained 11.7%, contributing 98 points.
The stocks that have held the Dow back the most are Procter & Gamble , Boeing and Wal-Mart , as shown in the chart here that gives the contributions of all 30 Dow components.
P&G has lost 5.9% since Nov. 21, trimming 32 points from the Dow as the consumer-products giant has struggled with sluggish sales growth.
[ Note: The post and chart have been updated to reflect prices as of intraday Thursday. They initially were published on July 1 with prices for that day. ]
--Victor Reklaitis
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The LP+CD version comes in an altered design and printed inner sleeve. SONNE HAGAL are back, and stronger and better than ever! "OCKERWASSER - A Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs" owns all ingredients to be considered as Sonne Hagal's absolute masterpiece! For six years, after releasing their widely acclaimed album Jordansfrost (2008), Sonne Hagal re-treated into themselves, concentrating on realising their visions for that which was to become this new opus. While there were compilation appearances, a collaboration with FIRE + ICE, and a number of live performances, the majority of their artistic efforts were devoted to Ockerwasser, which turns out to have become the quintessence of what makes music GOOD music! Characterised by daedal music compositions, interwoven melodies, and enchanting harmonies, the new album features a kind of dance between folk, jazz, and experimental music, creating sonic dreamscapes that beckon spirits. Ockerwasser is founded upon Sonne Hagal's unmistakable acoustic guitar, and is enhanced with violin, trumpet, percussion, bass, and intelligently placed electronics. Rhythms shape-shift between the delicate and doomful, beginning from the first track on the album. Music, directly from the ether in search for the essence of life. With Ockerwasser Sonne Hagal achieved the finest expression of their artistic voice through their inimitable vocals. It is a collective voice that wrenches beauty and sadness, tragedy and hope, bitterness and strength. The album features guest appearances from an international array of artists, including Kim Larsen (Of the Wand and the Moon), Ericah Hagle (Unto Ashes), Leithana (Ordo Equitum Solis), Bo Rande, Matthias Krause (Vurgart).
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Matt Damon Defends Teachers at Education Rally
Actor Matt Damon got into an intense exchange this past weekend with a reporter that implied that teachers with tenure would not have the necessary incentive to work hard.
The exchange happened over the weekend at a grassroots education rally in Washington D.C. where thousands of protestors turned out for the march.
The Save Our Schools rally was held on Sunday to protest the current education policies of the U.S. government that focus on standardized testing.
Damon's mother, a child development expert, asked her son to speak at the rally.
Damon was one of five speakers at the rally that included Diane Ravitch, Linda Darling-Hammond, Deb Meier, and Jonathan Kozol.
He flew overnight from Vancouver to attend the rally.
Damon's speech focused on his own experiences being raised by a teacher and having partaken in the public school system.
Damon also made the point that had he grown up attending a school system that focused on standardized testing, as opposed to a love for learning and creativity, he would not be where he is today.
Following the speech, Damon held a debate with a reporter on the need for incentivizing teaching.
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Damon argued, "Do you think job insecurity makes me work hard?"
He continued his response with, "It's like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when they have tenure. A teacher wants to teach. Why else would you take a sh*tty salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really love to do it?"
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Asteroids in Hubble Frontier Field Abell 370
As if this Hubble Space Telescope picture isn't cluttered enough with myriad galaxies, nearby asteroids photobomb the image, their trails sometimes mimicking background astronomical phenomena.
The stunningly beautiful galaxy cluster Abell 370 contains an astounding assortment of several hundred galaxies tied together by the mutual pull of gravity. Located approximately 4 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus, the Sea Monster, this immense cluster is a rich mix of a variety of galaxy shapes.
Entangled among the galaxies are thin, white trails that look like curved or S-shaped streaks. These are trails from asteroids that reside, on average, only about 160 million miles from Earth — right around the corner in astronomical terms. The trails appear in multiple Hubble exposures that have been combined into one image. Of the 22 total asteroid sightings for this field, five are unique objects. These asteroids are so faint that they were not previously identified.
The asteroid trails look curved due to an observational effect called parallax. As Hubble orbits around Earth, an asteroid will appear to move along an arc with respect to the vastly more distant background stars and galaxies.
This parallax effect is somewhat similar to the effect you see from a moving car, in which trees by the side of the road appear to be passing by much more rapidly than background objects at much larger distances. The motion of Earth around the Sun, and the motion of the asteroids along their orbits, are other contributing factors to the apparent skewing of asteroid paths.
All the asteroids were found manually, the majority by "blinking" consecutive exposures to capture apparent asteroid motion. Astronomers found a unique asteroid for every 10 to 20 hours of exposure time.
These asteroid trails should not be confused with the mysterious-looking arcs of blue light that are actually distorted images of distant galaxies behind the cluster. Many of these far-flung galaxies are too faint for Hubble to see directly. Instead, in a dramatic example of "gravitational lensing," the cluster functions as a natural telescope, warping space and affecting light traveling through the cluster toward Earth.
The Frontier Fields program is a collaboration among NASA's Great Observatories and other telescopes to study six massive galaxy clusters and their effects. Using a different camera, pointing in a slightly different direction, Hubble photographed six so-called "parallel fields" at the same time it photographed the massive galaxy clusters. This maximized Hubble's observational efficiency in doing deep space exposures.
This picture was assembled from images taken in visible and infrared light. The field's position on the sky is near the ecliptic, the plane of our solar system. This is the zone in which most asteroids reside, which is why Hubble astronomers saw so many crossings. Hubble deep-sky observations taken along a line-of-sight near the plane of our solar system commonly record asteroid trails.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington, D.C.
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Of course, twitter requests won't automatically turn into full requests, and especially not representation or a contract if your book isn't ready. Like, ready-ready. I can't help you with that.
But I can help you with your twitter pitch.
1. Use correct grammar. A "complete" pitch won't help you if it's incomprehensible. Consider the following:
In order 2 sav the wrld Lydie needs 2 work against the evil overlord with a plan. WerewolvesNVampiresNGhosts get involved with her #PitMadThis looks unprofessional, thrown together, and lazy. Skipping punctuation can be okay, especially if it's just the period at the end of the sentence, but don't sacrifice clarity to find a couple extra characters in your tweet-space. Do NOT substitute "your" for "you're" and don't you dare use numbers in place of words unless you're replacing the spelled-out-word. "2" is acceptable if you are replacing "two" but not "to" or "too."
2. Your pitch MUST fit on one tweet. You cannot tweet two- or three-part pitches and expect someone to keep up. You cannot write a blog post and tweet "Click here for my pitch". Make room for the hashtag. Try to include your category or genre, if possible. If not, make those clear in your pitch itself.
3. Use genre code words. Your space is limited and "fantasy" "sci-fi" "thriller" "romance" and such all use up valuable space. If you can manage to encode your genre in your pitch, you save valuable space. Compare the next two tweets:
Her mother's cryptic journal. An ancient spell. A prince on the run. Waking Sleeping Beauty was simpler when it was just a dragon. #PitMad
When Nadina finds Tav, she convinces him to cross the desert with her in order to save an old childhood friend. #PitMad
If you're writing sci-fi, use "droids" and "cyborgs" (if they're in your story), romance can be conveyed with "steamy" and descriptions of the love interest, YA contemp can use more slang, and so on. Dig in and find ways to logically work these into your pitch.
4. Write it out, then re-write it with more powerful words. Consider the same tweet from the example above (this tweet generated five requests from agents/editors):
Her mother's cryptic journal. An ancient spell. A prince on the run. Waking Sleeping Beauty was simpler when it was just a dragon. #PitMad"Cryptic" started as "mysterious" - which was too long and too vague. "Ancient" wasn't in the first draft of this tweet. I'd called him a "handsome prince" the first time, and didn't include that he was "on the run". And instead of comparing this version of Sleeping Beauty to previous versions ("simpler when it was just a dragon"), I'd originally just said it was Sleeping Beauty they were after.
So it looked like this:
Her mother's mysterious journal, a spell, and a handsome prince to keep her company while they try to wake up Sleeping Beauty.
Use punchy, descriptive, unusual words whenever possible. Don't go nuts with your thesaurus... just be different. This helps in query writing, too.
5. Watch the hashtag and adjust accordingly. Every pitch session, a different kind of pitch will come into popularity and you want to NOT use that kind of pitch. Here are the most common types of pitches I see:
- The checklist. "Private lessons with Dumbledore. A new teacher with a fondness for fame. Teenagers in love. A dive into Voldemort's past."
- The X-meets-Y. "Zombie apocalypse meets Jane Austen." Note: in order for this pitch to work, make sure your juxtapositions are actually juxtaposed. "Buffy meets Veronica Mars" isn't a good pitch because those two things are too similar - both blonde, pretty teenaged girls, mixed up in dark, dangerous work that should be way out of their league. Similarly, don't say "Buffy meets fairy princess." Buffy IS the juxtaposition in and of herself. She's a cheerleader, and a petite, pretty girl that you don't expect to be slaying monsters. Crossing a pretty girl with a fairy princess isn't really a cross.
- The rhetorical question. "What if Buffy went down the rabbit hole instead of Alice?" This is a pitch that L.L. McKinney has pitched, and it's a perfect example of this type of pitch. You know automatically that you're looking at a YA horror-ish story, with a fantasy/retelling type of twist. It's pithy and it paints a very vivid picture right up front.
- The when-and-then. "When Lucy finds a hidden world inside a wardrobe she and her siblings are put into a war against a witch and her eternal winter"
6. Watch the hashtag and adjust accordingly, part 2. Also avoid using words and terms that pop up a lot on that particular day. Sometimes, Buffy is used in about half of the pitches, it seems. Other times a phrase or word gets bandied around a lot. One time, I was pitching a Snow White retelling, and for some reason there were about forty other people using the word "princess" in their pitches. I had to avoid it, lest my pitches blend in with all the others.
7. Don't use more than one character name, two tops. We don't care who all these people are. "Bek and her BFF" is better than "Bek and Alyssa". First, it shows that Bek is unequivocally your main character. Second, it's voicey. And arguably, third, it gives category and possibly genre. Sometimes a second character name is okay, but definitely not a third. Just give their function: evil overlord, half-giant teacher, droid sidekick, etc.
8. Lean toward shorter sentences. They're just easier to read. The stream moves quickly and you don't want to lose someone's attention for something silly like long sentences.
8b. Use simple sentence construction. It's a continuation of the same rule, but deserves its own mention. This cuts down on punctuation, which saves you space. And again, the stream moves quickly and you want people to be able to read and understand your pitch in just a few seconds.
9. Use industry-standard abbreviations. There are enough writers, agents, and editors on twitter that some common abbreviations have developed. These are perfectly okay to use in your pitch and don't violate Rule #1. Some of the abbreviations I know of:
- LI: Love Interest
- MC: Main Character
- POV: Point of View
- SFF: Science Fiction and Fantasy
- CR: Contemporary Romance
- PB: Picture Book
- YA: Young Adult
- MG: Middle Grade
- NA: New Adult
- UF: Urban Fantasy
- PNR: Paranormal Romance
- HEA: Happily Ever After
Bonus 11th tip that I thought of later: Don't try to "capture" your whole novel. Your novel is something 80-100k words. You cannot possibly capture its entire essence in a sentence or two. Don't try. Look at the examples I gave for HALF-BLOOD PRINCE and THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE.
Private lessons with Dumbledore. A new teacher with a fondness for fame. Teenagers in love. A dive into Voldemort's past.
When Lucy finds a hidden world inside a wardrobe she and her siblings are put into a war against a witch and her eternal winter
Your job in a twitter pitch party is to catch an agent or editor's attention. PERIOD.
Don't lie. Don't sell your book as something it's not. Don't even misrepresent your story. But don't stress about how "this pitch is missing this really neat part/aspect/character!!!" It doesn't matter. Craft another pitch that does capture that really neat part/aspect/character. The bottom line is it needs to attract attention, not encapsulate your entire work in a sentence.
Now that you know how to do it, go check out The 7 Rules of Twitter Pitching (an etiquette post).
EDIT: The rules of how often you can pitch have changed. Please follow the new rules on Brenda Drake's profile.


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Arm-based computing?
About time for RISC-OS to make a comeback...
Nokia's first netbook, the Booklet 3G, may be based on Wintel technology, but Taiwanese manufacturer moles claim the Finnish phone giant is working on an ARM-based model. The sources, cited by DigiTimes, are vague on the details and admit Nokia's ARM-based netbook - we refuse to use the marketing term 'smartbook'; an ARM chip …
If their ultimate goal is to roll out that ARM gravy train to World+Dog, going the Wintel route could be more of a tactical decision, prove to the market that they aren't just about phones and televisions, get a good following using the new Booklet, then introduce a "revolutionary" low power, long life, all singing and dancing ARM based book for half the price of the competition.
It's classic bate and switch.
10 hrs is good.
But a suitable ARM system will give same Browser/"Office Docs" performance and better HD performance than Atom with 1/2 weight of battery.
If you use the 2 x2 pixel RG BW staggered cell LCD instead of RGB inline triad, you save more power, have cheaper display and brighter panel. You might then get down to 1/3rd or 1/4 as with 10" screen the backlight becomes significant power drain.
Win7 (aka NT 6.2?) won't work on an ARM. Once windows NT did work on MIPS, Power PC, Alpha, 64bit Alpha, x86 and Pentium Pro. That was before Win2K. (NT5.0)
WinMo/CE works on ARM. But really it's a completely different OS, more different than Win3.x/Win9x/WinME family is from NT/XP(NT5.1)/2K/Vista/Win7 family.
Our penguin loving friends are likely. But not the Android flavour as it's GUI is designed for handsets and it's App based designed for Google's version of Java. A Netbook wants a more featured GUI and more native applications (plenty of both available for ARM + Netbook size screen).
Symbian is fine if they ditch S60 etc and do a new decent GUI in QT as rumoured, but you'd not bother with it on a Netbook. Nokia "PDA" Tablet Skunkworks stuff is already Linux based (N800 and related pocket tablets)
My money is waiting for the first ARM & Android netbook
I don't see any reason why Android's GUI can't scale up to a netbook, yes it'll take a while for popular apps to optimise their usage of the new size, but we have already seen demos of android on netbook.
Java is fast enough for a lot of apps, but android will start to support native apps also - but, I am still confused about multi platform support of native apps.
"Adopting ARM is widely seen as leading the way to delivering far greater battery performance than current Atom-based netbooks can provide"
"we refuse to use the marketing term 'smartbook';"
Sorry but anyone who thinks that doubling the battery life (or halving battery weight/cost for the same life) isn't smart... well, duh.
"an argument largely based on extrapolation from mobile phones."
Mobile phones are a start, but by no means the whole ARM/low-power picture.
Add anyone with an ARM based cable or DSL router, which is a lot of people. Most of them don't know or care that they're using an ARM based system, but then nor do the mobile phone folks.
Enough with the Wintel Kool-Aid. There *is* an alternative, and LinArm (I like that name!) is it.
The ARM design is more efficient than x86 because it uses less transistors to do the job. Intel's engineers have done amazing things but their main feats have been about adding more and faster RAM for the different caches. As that is all DRAM it constantly needs power. So for systems that are idling a lot, which is what most of our computers do most of the time, there is a lott to be gained with better chip design. Different matter entirely if you're playing video games or encoding/decoding video but again specialist designs will deliver better performance per Watt.
a whole lot of techniques are used to reduce chip power, lowering the frequency, clock-gating and switching parts of the chip off when not required are some of them. ARM is certainly very strong in this regard.
a huge drain on the battery would also come from the screen. so yes, smaller screen, with less back light will improve battery life.
ARM + linux = winner
I had a 3c, not a 3a, but it too ran for ages on a pair of AAs.
It also took me years to find out it had a "reset" button.
I needed the reset button on my (long abandoned) iPAQ on a daily basis. But that's Windows for you, not ARM's fault. Same for my Jornada 720 which occasionally still gets used.
Bit peeved about the box on my desk at work which is an ARM based embedded computer with Linux in Flash; you can program your own applications and loadable modules but they won't provide the tools to reflash it with your own kernel. But again that's not ARM's fault; the hardware (IXP422 and other bits) is quite nice.
Nokia's Maemo Linux OS is an extremely crippled flavor of Debian. If you want a handheld with a Linux distro that is totally open and will have an open repository, than you have to check out the Pandora http://openpandora.org/
The Pandora uses open hardware so their is no restricted drivers, so you can run any OS and software on this handheld that can compile on an ARM processor. It has a 600mhz processor and 256mb ram, so it can even run lightweight desktop distros like XUbuntu


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It's hard to believe next Sunday I will be in Kenya. I feel excited, nervous, and a little astonished that I am going on this incredible adventure. My heart is full. I hope to come back to Saskatoon a better person with a renewed sense of purpose.
Part of the reason I started this blog was to share the work of other creatives that inspire me. Below are some beautiful, handmade objects from Africa. The boucherouite rugs and toy animals are made from recycled materials. The textiles are made according to traditional African techniques. I love the colours, creativity and ingenuity that go into the creation of these home décor items and toys!
North African Boucherouite Rugs.
Ocean Sole flip-flop recycling.
Maasai Necklace. Mudcloth Fabric. Kenya Print. Kilim Throw.
Le Souk textiles found on decor8 and Design*Sponge.
When I return there will be a canvas waiting to capture of glimmer of what I experienced with Free The Children and Me to We. It will be a difficult artistic project, but I'm up for the challenge.


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Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts
Since 1998, Bethel has teamed up with Hesston (Kan.) College to bring internationally renowned performers to the campuses of Bethel and Hesston through the HBPA series. Bethel student tickets to HBPA events are either free or heavily discounted. In recent years, HBPA performers have included the Wailin' Jennys, Chanticleer, the Soweto Gospel Choir, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Canadian Brass, Opera Kansas, Celtic Crossroads, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Gil Shaham, the Rose Ensemble, John McCutcheon, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Carrie Newcomer.
Greer Fine Arts Visiting Artist Series
This fine arts endowment was established at Bethel College in memory of Milford E. Greer, Jr., a native of Geuda Springs, Kan., and brings visiting artists and scholars to the campus in the areas of music, visual arts or theater.
Bethel College Academy of Performing Arts
The Bethel College Academy of Performing Arts (BCAPA) was founded in 1996 when Bethel College, the Newton community and its neighbors acted on a need for increased opportunities for music instruction for students of all ages. BCAPA began as an Academy of Music, including a Suzuki school for string instruction, with a name change to Academy of Performing Arts in 2004 with the addition of dance instruction.
BCAPA currently serves more than 250 students representing more than 200 families from Newton, the Wichita metropolitan area and Bethel and Hesston colleges, with two locations for instruction, at 123 East Broadway in downtown Newton and in the Bethel College Luyken Fine Arts Center. Bethel music students can gain practical experience as BCAPA instructors in all areas.


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The Phoenix
The closest hostel to People's Square: the Phoenix. Clean, comfortable & convenient - the ideal place to maximise your stay in Shanghai.
The Phoenix reception is open 24hrs, check out is as noon.
As well as a hostel, the Phoenix Shanghai has a rooftop bar overlooking the city centre, a great value Shanxi restaurant and a culture lounge - giving you plenty of opportunities to make the most of your stay in Shanghai.
Our private rooms include towels,
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Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
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- Breakfast Not Included
- Cable TV
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- Card Phones
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- Dryer
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- Free Internet Access
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- Late check-out
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Here is our address in Chinese:上海市黄浦区云南南路17号,老陕客栈。we are close to Dashijie (大世界)metro station line 8 (1 minute by walking) and People's square (人民广场)metro station line 1 ,line 2, line 8 (within 10 minutes by walking)
so,you have 2 choices if you come with metro.
-1. getting off at People's square directly.
turning left when you come out from EXIT 15. going along the Middle Xizang Road( 西藏南路)you will find an overpass in your front. climbing the long stairs and walking down the left stairs. Turning right at the first corner.
We suggest you take the second choice if you have lots of luggage with you. Even though you can enjoy the amazing view on your way.
-2. Transferring line 8 at People's square. Getting off at Dashijie (only 1 stop).
Turning right when you come out from the EXIT 1. Turning left at the first corner(one convenient store at the corner). Going along the road you will find the hostel on your right.
We offer Pick-up and Drop-off service from Pudong airport (PVG). The price as below:1-4 people ,280 RMB
5-6People 380RMB. It is provided your convenience. Welcome to share the bus, the more the merrier, the more the more worth. To get more info and reservation please email us directly. To book our minibus 1 day before at least !
From Pudong airport (PVG 浦东国际机场)
-Taxi: Above 200 RMB 1 Hour at least
-Metro: Getting on Metro from airport, then change line 2 Metro at Guanglan Road(广兰路)This shuttle has time limited. From 9:00-16:00 . it takes 2 hours total.
-Maglev: Getting on the Maglev from airport, then change line 2 Metro at Longyang Road(龙阳路)Maglev service time :from 6:45-21:30
From Shanghai Hongqiao airport (虹桥机场)
Taxi: 65 RMB About 50 minutes
Metro: Line 2
From Shanghai main train station(上海火车站)
Taxi: 25RMB About 25 minutes
Metro: Line 1 (3 stops)
From Shanghai south railway station(上海火车南站)
Taxi: 45 RMB About 40 minutes
Metro: Line 1 (8 stops)
Located Near
We love our location. We are very close to People's Square metro station (a 5 minute walk). It's a perfect place for sightseeing, shopping, people watching, exploring and getting to the far corners of this huge city.
From our hostel, you can walk to the following major sites within 15 minutes:
- The Bund - the famous stretch of buildings on the bank of the Huangpu river
- Shanghai museum, Shanghai art gallery, Shanghai museum of modern art, Shanghai urban planning exhibition centre
- Yuyuan (jade garden), city God temple, the White Cloud Taoist temple, the Confucian temple, the Peach Orchard mosque and the old town
- Nanjing road, Huaihai road and Dongtai road antique market


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Iowa — which President Obama won by a comfortable 6 percentage points in his path to re-election in 2012 — has proven to be one of the strongest swing states for Republican Donald Trump this year.
Results from the NBC News Exit Poll in Iowa explain one reason why: only one in three of the state's white men are supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Iowa remains one of the least racially diverse states in the country, and thus the battle for the state's white voters is key to victory there. Exit polls showed a dramatic gap opening up over the past few elections among white men in Iowa. They split between Obama and GOP rival John McCain in 2008, swung solidly toward Republican Mitt Romney in 2012 and are soundly rejecting Clinton this year.
NBC News characterized Iowa as too close to call when polls closed at 10 p.m. ET on Election Day.


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Accident occurred near Baron and The Beef
Power was fully restored to the 1,820 electric customers affected by the accident as of 12:45 p.m. today, according to Progress Energy Carolinas spokesman Jeff Brooks.
Richard Davis of Gastonia, the driver of the 18-wheeler that crashed into the home of Mary Lou and Curt King this morning, has been treated and released from Lenoir Memorial Hospital, according to spokeswoman Barbara LaRoque.
The crash took place shortly after 10 a.m. today. N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper R.B. Kirk said Davis, 46, told him after the accident he had been driving west on U.S. 70 East when he started feeling unwell.
Davis was looking for somewhere to pull over, but blacked out and traveled more than 450 feet before crossing the highway median and the eastbound lanes, took out a power pole and crashed into the rear of the Kings' single-wide trailer, just east of the intersection of U.S. 70 East and Lynley Place Drive.
The Kings, who own Mary Lou's Grill and the neighboring gas station were not at home at the time of the accident.
NCHP Sgt. G.S. Hemby said about 1,800 Progress Energy customers and about 75 Suddenlink cable and Internet customers were affected by the power outage.
The truck's cab went all the way through the trailer, and sat in the home while power crews secured the downed lines and removed the smashed power pole � the bottom half of the pole had been sheared away by the truck and the top half remained standing on the ground.
Mary Lou's Grill remained open to customers throughout the morning, even though it did not have electricity. The power came back on in the restaurant around 12:30 p.m.
From Free Press reporter David Anderson's Facebook/Twitter pages:
This 18-wheeler has crashed through a single-wide trailer on US 70 East past the Baron and the Beef, taking out at least one power pole in the process. Police have closed one lane and are directing traffic in the area.
The homeowners are Curt and Mary Lou King, owners of Mary Lou's Grill -- grill does not have power but is still open.
See tomorrow's edition of The Free Press for the full story.


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15th August 2008: Wake up, attend mass & flag hoisting ceremony, watch prize distribution kaaryakram for the little Marathi paathshaala affiliated with our church, go home, laze around, eat chicken curry, sleep, wake up, go beaching, come home, eat, sleep.
15th August 2009: Wake up at the crack of dawn, chow down a ginormous breakfast with Aditya while hustling him for graphic novels, catch up on conversations with Rehab, head to The Wall Project at Mahim, spend an entire day painting crazy-whacked graffiti on the walls running parallel to the station, have a smash time painting them with crazy-whacked people, experience culinary nirvana with fun company, come home bone-tired, eat, crash out senseless on the bed.
But oh, I had fun. On Independence Day too!
I have never ever participated in anything quite like The Wall Project. Not on Independence Day, not ever. Come to think of it, I had never heard of the BMC participating in something like The Wall Project either, EVER.
During those two paint-streaked, madly exciting days I saw and viciously thanked my stars for things like:
1. India and Bombay in particular, is cool enough to think about community efforts like these and actively encourage them.
2. I experienced the BMC, children from the neighboring shanties, social workers, activists, hard-core artists, vandals and hit-and-run drivers up close, most of them in their element. Some of these folks turned out to be realities that really bite. The things I saw and the people I experienced meeting and observed that day boggled me.
3. I can haz fun too. Sometimes trudging all the way to that end of town from this end is more than worth it.
4. I am finally getting myself to experience whatever Bombay is throwing my way by way of culture. My last few months in this Burning City are months I am going to experience to their utmost and so far, they are turning out to be utterly fantastic!
5. Best part? I got to go berserk with people like Idea Smith, Rehab, Aditya, Jai, Wanderblah, Shawn, Jhayu, Aniceto, Moksh, Alpana and some more fun people whose names I can't remember but really loved meeting!


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The Ravens made a series of roster moves to get their roster down to the limit of 53 players by the NFL deadline Friday night, and once the dust settled, linebacker Sergio Kindle still had a job with the defending AFC North champions.
Three years ago, Kindle suffered a fractured skull when he fell down two flights of stairs that caused permanent hearing loss in his left ear.
The former second-round draft pick missed his entire rookie season because of the injury, but managed to secure a roster spot last season.
Although Kindle had a quiet preseason this year and was prone to penalties, including a late hit on the quarterback during the Ravens' 31-17 loss to the...


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Parata & Karma
Ministry pay glitch is karma, quips Parata
Education Ministry staff received little sympathy from their minister, Hekia Parata, after their pay did not arrive as expected yesterday morning. The glitch gave an unwanted taste of what teachers have been going through with Novopay - and the minister quipped that it was ''karma''.
She's priceless isn't she? Educations got 99 problems and Hekia Parata is 98 of them. How on earth does pissing on her own staff make her one of National's smoothest communicators?
She's a joke looking for a punchline.
I suppose if I was the Education Minister who had just had information released under the Official Information Act that showed her Government had ignored Treasury and MoE advice not to give more public money to private education because it would hurt public schools, I suppose I would be wanting to make as many bullshit quips to remove media attention as could tumble out of my mouth.
"It's Karma".
"Ha ha, sucks to be them".
"Isn't it ironic. Don't ya think? It's like rain on your wedding day. It's a free ride when you've already paid. It's the good advice that you just didn't take".
What the OIA information shows is that National are prepared to shovel more public cash into private education even if it is at the direct detriment to public schools. This should be headline leading stuff, that would be true karma. Instead with have Hekia's 'quip' dominating attention.


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Liberals are angry that President Obama won a second term, and yet they didn't get the liberal agenda items they wanted passed in 2013, including gun control and amnesty for illegal aliens. The complaint at the end of the year is that this was the "least productive Congress" in 66 years, production always measured by the amount of legislation passed.
But the media complaint here isn't about just any legislation. It's about a liberal wish list. Washington Post reporter Paul Kane lamented the "shrunken ambitions" of congressional Democrats in a front-page story. "Back in 2009, during the heady days of hope and change, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced 90 pieces of legislation. In 2013, amid gridlock and dysfunction, he sponsored just 35 bills. None of them became law."
lamented Congress as "an institution whose historically low approval
rating has been at or below 20 percent for three years." So the problem
on Capitol Hill began in 2011 – the minute Republicans took over the
House majority.
The Post reporter did not explain that journalists just started seizing on an overall approval rating for Congress – an electorally irrelevant number compared to each representative's popularity in the home state or district – as a way of bolstering President Obama by comparison. They didn't seize on any measure of the popularity of Congress in George W. Bush's second term, because they wanted him to look like a complete loser.
This "least productive Congress" rap suggests that the passage of any legislation is the equivalent of progress. Get a load of how Kane offered a brief balance to his own thesis: "For instance, amid all the outcry over congressional dysfunction in 2010, 2011 and 2012, Congress still managed to pass a bounty of landmark laws, including the Affordable Care Act and two tax-and-budget bills that brought a combined $2.8 trillion in deficit savings."
Note to America: reporters still insist Obamacare is a "landmark"
achievement, regardless of how millions of Americans, now without health
care, feel they've been kicked in the teeth by a president who
repeatedly lied to them. Reporters simply ignore the very real deficit
numbers that Barack Obama has rung up – over $5.1 trillion in his first
term – and pretend it's a tremendous achievement that Congress passed by
its own tricky accounting some imaginary "$2.8 trillion in deficit
The deficit in fiscal year 2013 was $680 billion, the lowest of the Obama years. That's what happens when Congress is hounded as "least productive." And yet there is no fiscal achievement here, either, As Terry Jeffrey at CNSNews.com has explained, even adjusted for inflation, that deficit is exceeded by only one pre-Obama deficit – the one the U.S. government ran in 1943, during the height of World War II.
The deficit came down in part because House Republicans forced sequestration on Team Obama – an idea the White House first proposed, even if they meant it only as an empty threat. The sequester clipped the deficit in spite of TV and print reporters screeching about the tsunami of suffering that would result. That turned out to be an assembly line of phony baloney, right down to the silly unnecessary shutdown of White House tours by the Obamas. Whatever money they've "saved," they blew it somewhere else – like endless Christmas vacations.
Back on December 5, CBS congressional reporter Nancy Cordes scolded a "do-nothing Congress" – those were the words on screen. Cordes warned of the price of inaction: "American families could see milk prices spike to seven dollars a gallon if Congress can`t pass a farm bill by the end of the year. Lawmakers are also running out of time to set funding and policy for the Pentagon next year, and they still need to confirm Janet Yellen as the next Federal Reserve chair before Ben Bernanke`s term ends next month."
Since then, Yellen was confirmed, the Pentagon is funded, and milk is still $3.50 a gallon. This is what the "news" business does today – it cajoles and threatens about the need for a more "productive" liberal future instead of reporting on what has already happened. And it does succeed in intimidating squeamish Republicans.
These TV reporters are hardly the ones to drag out the "least productive" scolding. If we measured their productivity by the number of congressional hearings and investigative stories delving into our corrupt government -- IRS harassment, Benghazi cover-up, Fast and Furious cover-up, and on and on -- we could rightly conclude they are the "least productive" journalists in history.


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September 11th was a wake-up call. Our national infrastructures are more vulnerable than we thought. One of the most critical infrastructures is the electric power grid. The grid has been designed to minimize disturbances caused by natural hazards, but it is susceptible to physical and electronic attacks. Redundancy is built into the grid, but only from a capacity standpoint. The contingencies in the grid that provide alternate sources of power are independent of route, location, and facility access. Despite these vulnerabilities, few utilities have implemented protection measures to tighten security or deter attack.
As 9-11 reminded us, the greatest threat is physical attack. A person hell-bent on wreaking havoc could do considerable damage to the power grid. In 1998, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) performed an electric power risk assessment. The findings noted that transformers, microwave communication towers, and transmission substations can often be found in isolated, unpopulated areas. This is also true for multiple-circuit transmission corridors. These locations may be difficult or impossible to secure.
The NSTAC assessment mentions some possible methods of attack, including the use of pipe bombs and high-powered rifles — small, easily obtainable devices. An individual with a basic understanding of power systems and one of these weapons could shut down a substation or bring down a transmission structure. It doesn't take much imagination to think of other ways for someone to severely cripple the electric grid.
The assessment also addresses the possibility of electronic attacks. Committee members could find no outages caused by electronic intrusion, but they did find that a majority of utility members believe an attack causing widespread disruption in excess of 24 hours is feasible.
According to Joe Weiss, technical manager of EPRI's Enterprise Infrastructure Security, many existing monitoring and control systems are vulnerable because they're legacy systems designed for functionality rather than security. Weiss also cites a number of other factors that increase the risk of outside intrusion, including:
- The migration from stand-alone data acquisition systems to Internet-based, real-time monitoring and control.
- Deregulation and the breakup of the vertical utility, which requires more data transfer between operating units and can lead to erroneous data or the loss of confidential information.
- The push for more open systems that interface with customer energy management systems and smart field devices.
Power reliability is critical to everyday business and our nation's economy. We must take preventive measures to better secure our facilities. I believe that state regulators should require each utility to conduct regular risk assessments that identify weak areas in their existing systems and address future needs. These assessments should consider the grid's design, location, and security access — and be kept confidential. Of course, if high-risk areas are found, prudent measures should be taken immediately. Let's not wait for trouble to arrive before we take action.


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Music Monday – "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" in Sign Language
by Sherry Stocking Kline
December 4th, 201
I found this on the 'net and thought that I sure needed to post a "Music Monday" even if I was several days late!
Recently, we were singing along to "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" and to my surprise, my little granddaughter began signing along with the words.
I didn't know that she knew any sign language, and somehow, it made the song even more moving, so we're going to try to brush up on a couple more songs before we go caroling with our church group in a couple of weeks.
We always leave the nursing homes and homes with "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (and because there aren't many different words!) this one will be a great one to learn!
I hope you enjoyed watching this as much as I did
Have a Very Merry Christmas!


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
M Ramus' Big World
This ad extolling the virtues of farm mechanization suits the time in which it appeared perfectly, and the choice of M Ramus to illustrate this concept should have been the ideal one... but fails to deliver to the same degree that his Shell ads do. Let's hope it was due to client interference, and not the fault of the illustrator. I have only a few examples of M Ramus' work, but his pleasing style and the sense of scale he brought to his compositions always caught my eye.
Ramus is another one of those illustrators who has left no trace of a biography, only a small body of work for advertising clients during the 50's - and this curious variation of style: throughout the 50's Ramus showed his cartoony side with a series of line illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post that are entirely unlike his painterly advertising style.
As well, a Google Image Search turned up this excellent war-time poster for The Women's Army Corps.
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