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Dear Members
I hope that you are keeping well and are looking forward to spring, in the last few days the first summer migrants have started to return yet it seems like only yesterday that we were reporting on Britain's first Siberian Accentor on Shetland!
I am writing to you to let you know that, after much deliberation, and 13 very enjoyable years at the helm of Birdnet, that I have decided it is time to retire.
The birdnews scene has changed considerably since I took over Birdnet and although the easy option would have been to simply close the doors and turn out the lights, we wanted to make sure we left our long-standing and loyal customers with a continued birdnews service. So we are really delighted to report that we have been working very hard with Rare Bird Alert (RBA), who have agreed to supply you with birdnews going forward.
RBA are more than familiar with both the personal and technical requirements needed to provide you with an expert birdnews service. As you may be aware they are the longest running and most experienced providers of bird information and we believe are the best people to provide you with a first rate customer experience going forward. This transition has been facilitated with the expert help of Spurn Bird Observatory Trust Ltd, who are long-term partners of both Birdnet and the last couple of years RBA too. As Spurn holds a special place in our hearts and to recognise their help making this changeover happen, we are proud to announce that Spurn Bird Observatory will be benefitting financially from the deal.
We have agreed with RBA that whenever any of our customers renew with RBA, a percentage of this renewal will be donated to Spurn Bird Observatory, every year for as long as you continue to re-subscribe. The proceeds will be used to provide new habitat in the Obs garden plus a look-out tower for birders to use. Speaking about this deal SBOT Chairman Rob Adams told us, "We were privileged to be involved in this process. By transitioning your memberships to Rare Bird Alert you will not only have access to a first class news birdnews service but you will also be contributing to the future success of Spurn Bird Observatory. We know this will assist Spurn in providing a safe haven for the thousands of migrants that frequent our shores every year as well as a superb experience for all birders who visit."
So how will the transition work?
From 27th March 2017 RBA will feed their bird news directly to your existing pager or Twitter services. The Birdnet website will no longer be operating but users will be provided with full access to RBA's excellent birdnews website, more on this below.
RBA will continue to send you birdnews right up until the end of your current subscription period. Before the end of this period you will need to notify RBA if you intend to renew your bird news services and subscribe to RBA. They have committed that in the first year your new subscription with them will be at your current rates and going forward they are unlikely to increase their prices for existing customers so we expect you have a great deal for many years to come.
Pager users
Following the changeover, your pager will automatically switch over to receive RBA's news. If you currently have a full subscription you will continue to receive news on Megas, Rarities as well as Scarce birds. RBA send individual messages as and when they get news, so as a result you are likely to receive more messages and in a more timely fashion.
You will also be able to receive news of uncommon species such as Whinchat, Red-necked Grebe, Snow Bunting etc. However you will need to send your pager away to be reprogrammed to receive this news, RBA will advise on the procedure for this if you continue your subscription with them. You will be able to select your local county(s) for 'uncommon' news, which is another improvement. You will not be charged for this service as RBA have kindly agreed to pick up the cost of the reprogramming, nor will there be any additional charges for the extra news.
RBA pager customers get free access to their website and also the Lite version of their smartphone app. RBA have also agreed that you can have access to both these services. Combined with your pager service these two additions mean you will have the most comprehensive bird news service available - a pager for in the field news, website for desktop/laptop use and their app for use… well, whenever you like!
As RBA will be transmitting news on your current pager so it will remain on the PageOne paging network.
It is important to note that as per your original pager contract, at the end of your contract you must return the pager to ensure you are not liable for the £135.00 replacement pager fee. Please return your pager to Rare Bird Alert to ensure you are not liable for this fee.
Twitter users
RBA have not previously run a birdnews service on Twitter. However we are delighted to report that they have agreed to operate a service exclusively for our current Twitter customers. They have invested significant time and resources into developing this new service so we hope that most, if not all of you, will continue with your subscription going forward, which should ensure its continued existence.
The RBA news will come through on the current Birdnet Twitter accounts to which you subscribe. There will be a slight change to the service as the regional area accounts will carry not just uncommon birds but also scarce, rare and mega news. This will be particularly helpful to those of you who really only have an interest in a particular region or county as all the news will be in one place. Otherwise it will be very much as you were although RBA have their own 'house style' for construction of messages but this is similar to ours so you should feel right at home pretty quickly.
Website users
RBA have had their own very comprehensive bird news website since 2001, and it has numerous exciting features. You will receive a full subscription to this website, giving you access to all the live bird news plus all other subscriber only features. You will need to create an account on their website www.rarebirdalert.com and then get in touch with RBA letting them know you are a Birdnet customer and they will then extend your access in line with your current subscription.
So what happens next?
If your next payment is due in April you will need to transfer to RBA immediately if you wish to continue to receive news going forward. You will need to download and complete and contract transfer form and return it to RBA before March 27th. If you pay by standing order, please download and complete a form and return it with the contract, please ensure you cancel your standing order payable to Birdnet before April. If you pay by cheque please send it to RBA, made payable to R A Filby. And if you pay by card please include your card details on the transfer form. If you are unsure of your usual payment amount please contact me for confirmation. If you pay by card or cheque and would like to make future payments by standing order then please download and complete a form and return it to RBA.
RBA have agreed to refund you on a pro-rata basis should you not wish to continue beyond April, after you have made your payment to them of course. You will need to inform RBA before April 30th if you do not wish to continue with their service, after that date, and as per the usual Birdnet terms and conditions, no refunds can be issued, you will continue to receive their service until your next payment date.
If you next payment is due after April then as already discussed RBA will provide you with their services until your next payment is due, you do not need to take any action right now. However if you wish to continue with RBA beyond that you will need to notify them no later than three weeks before your next payment.
If you pay by standing order, please download and complete a form and return it with the contract, please ensure you cancel your standing order payable to Birdnet. If you pay by cheque please send it to RBA, made payable to R A Filby. And if you pay by card please include your card details on the transfer form. If you are unsure of your usual payment amount please contact me for confirmation. If you pay by card or cheque and would like to make future payments by standing order then please download and complete a form and return it to RBA.
If you have any questions for RBA please contact them, by email in the first instance. If you need to speak to them on the phone then they can be reached on 01603 457016 but please be mindful that during the transition over the next few weeks the admin team will be extremely busy and email is the best way to communicate with them.
RBA's address for returning forms is:
Rare Bird Alert, 17 Keswick Close, Norwich, NR4 6UW
If you have any questions for me and Birdnet please get in touch. You can phone on 07863 208 400 or preferably by using our contact page. I will be unavailable from 3rd to 12th of April so for any queries during this period please direct them to RBA.
I really hope that you can see we have done everything possible to ensure you are left with a terrific service following my decision to retire. We also hope that your continued subscriptions will mean that Spurn Bird Observatory will benefit for years to come from your loyal support to RBA. We believe it is a win- win for everyone, knowing that quality and customer care are at the forefront of the service that RBA provide.
I would like to thank you all for your support over the years. I have made many friends and both Jen and I look forward to seeing you in the field and out and about at Spurn in the near future.
Thank you for support and friendship over the last 12 years.
Kindest regards


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Can't get enough of The Waltons? New museum in works
At the turn of the last century, soapstone and titanium were goldmines for Nelson County. Today, it's a television show, The Waltons, and even 30 years after the series debuted, locals continue to mine its popularity with a second museum based on the works of its most famous native son, Earl Hamner Jr.
For a decade, the Walton's Mountain Museum in Schuyler, Hamner's hometown, has been the tiny town's major tourist attraction and has drawn legions of loyal fans from all over America.
Ten years later, things aren't quite so rosy on Walton's Mountain. A bitter shake-up on the museum's board has caused Hamner to withdraw his support and his personal property– from the museum, and plans are under way for a rival Waltons-inspired museum. Now Nelson County will find out whether the tourism demand is there for two museums and one country store devoted to The Waltons.
Hamner, 79, turned his experiences growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the Depression into the most beloved television series of the '70s.
The show first spawned the Walton's Mountain Country Store, which opened in 1982 and still lures unsuspecting passersby who see its sign on U.S. 29 and think that it's The Waltons museum.
Next came the official, Earl Hamner-sanctioned Walton's Mountain Museum, which opened for business in 1992 in the old Schuyler school across the street from the house in which Hamner and his seven siblings grew up.
And from the first, there was trouble.
"One of the problems with the Walton's Mountain Museum," says Hamner in phone call from Studio City, California, "is that I never expected conflict. And over the years, I've been embarrassed by the number of conflicts that have made me seem argumentative and thin-skinned. I'm not."
The latest imbroglio came when Hamner's brother Jim was fired as treasurer of the museum because he wrote a letter of recommendation on museum stationery for an old family friend who was about to be sentenced for embezzling $5,000. The same woman has been accused of forging checks totaling $627.50 on the museum's account.
Jim Hamner's character was known as Jim Bob on The Waltons. After Jim's ouster from the museum, Earl Hamner withdrew his support from the organization and asked his old friend, Woody Greenberg, who dreamed up the original museum, to start looking for a new home for the memorabilia he'd contributed to his hometown project.
Greenberg, dean of communications and the arts at Lynchburg College, recently unveiled plans for the new museum. It's eight acres on U.S. 29, behind the former Lovingston Elementary School. The old school building is undergoing a $2 million transformation into the Nelson Center, which will house elderly day care and recreational programs.
On the open land, Greenberg plans to recreate the Waltons' homestead from the series, which, incidentally, does not look like the white-frame Hamner house in Schuyler. The unofficial name of the new museum is the Nelson County Museum of Rural History.
While Greenberg doesn't discount the possibility of adding the word "Walton," he insists this isn't just another Waltons knockoff.
"The real thrust would be a glimpse of rural life in Nelson County, with an emphasis on the 20th century," he explains, noting in particular the Depression and World War II eras.
With a house that looks just like the one on the television series, plus a location more accessible than the more remote Schuyler, won't the new museum draw visitors away from the Walton's Mountain Museum?
"We're not going to build something that's in direct competition with them," says Greenberg, who plans to cooperate with his allegedly non-rival museum.
"The Walton's Museum is about the show," says Greenberg. "It doesn't pay attention to its historical context."
Over at the Walton's Mountain Museum, interim director Bea Taylor [no relation to Aunt Bee Taylor, a fictitious character on The Andy Griffith Show–ed.] also dispels notions of dueling museums. "We hope it'll bring us more business," she says of the new venture.
At present, there's some uncertainty about the fate of the original museum. Two directors have left this year, the most recent having lasted not even two months. Board members are resigning in droves, and there has been talk of closing the museum and devoting the facility to a community center.
Board president Buck Whitehurst pooh-poohed that notion when he spoke with The Hook in June: "Why would we want to shut down our only income-producing business?" Nevertheless, speculation continues, fueled in no small part by the fan club's decision to hold this year's annual meeting at the Doubletree hotel instead of in Schuyler.
Can the Schuyler museum continue to exist without Hamner's blessing, the support of The Waltons fan club, and visits from series cast members? Whitehurst did not return calls from The Hook. Greenberg says if the Walton's Mountain Museum should close, he'd like to take some of the displays.
The community continues to be torn over the idea of a Waltons museum without its creator. One former museum director wrote a letter to the Nelson County Times suggesting that part of the problem was the information Earl Hamner received from various messengers. She named psychic Isis Ringrose, co-founder of the spiritual community in Schuyler called The Gathering and a Hamner loyalist who's lobbied hard to mend fences between Hamner and the Museum. Presumably one of the messengers would also include Hamner's own brother Jim.
When Ringrose and others were unable to repair the damage between the museum and the Hamners, she said, "I knew this was going to happen but then, I'm a psychic."
Greenberg was given the task of removing Hamner's property from the Schuyler museum, which include scripts, Emmys, portraits of cast members, copies of his books in 10 different translations, and his five honorary degrees.
"Someone at the museum said I was taking away my marbles," Hamner says. "Those items represent a lifetime of hard work."
Hamner doesn't mind that the new museum will encompass the history and culture of Nelson County and not focus solely on The Waltons. "It's an expanded opportunity to document some of the other work I've done," he says, mentioning scripts he wrote for the Twilight Zone with folkish themes reflecting his Nelson County background. (A new book, Twilight Zone Scripts by Earl Hamner, is due out in the spring.)
When Hamner created Falcon Crest, a popular '80s soap about a winemaking dynasty in Napa Valley, that, too, tapped into his Virginia roots. An ancestor of his named Giannini was a gardener for Jefferson. "Wine was in my blood, and I made the family Italian on the show," he says.
Although he plans to be heavily involved in the new museum, Hamner credits Greenberg with making both it and the Schuyler museum happen. "Woody bubbles with ideas," he says.
Greenberg sees a lot of Nelson County history to commemorate: Hurricane Camille in 1969, which took over 100 lives; the Piney River titanium mine and the Alberene soapstone mine in Schuyler, each of which employed about 1,000 people in the 1920s; and the African Americans and Monacan Indians who've played parts in the county's history.
He also envisions a demonstration lumberyard and a collection of old farm equipment, both of which factor into Nelson County's 20th century history.
Lynchburg College will be an invaluable resource for the nascent museum. The school has a media development center that can build multi-media displays, a center for historical culture that focuses on Central Virginia, and a museum studies program. Greenberg, as president of the Nelson County Community Development Foundation, the organization that raised $2 million to renovate the Lovingston School, has the support of that organization, and he hopes to bring the Nelson County Historical Society on board, too.
Currently Greenberg is putting together a board of directors– with Earl Hamner's approval. While he hasn't set a fundraising goal, he says it'll be more than $250,000, a modest figure in the world of museum building.
As for the museum's opening, Greenberg hopes that will be well before 2007, the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of Nelson County.
And as enthusiastic as Hamner is about the new project, he's learned one thing about dealing with museums in his home county: "I'll have my involvement spelled out legally."
He'll be back in the area October 19 to celebrate his newest book, Goodnight, John-Boy, and to raise money for the new museum, according to Greenberg.
The book details Hamner's memories of working on the The Waltons and the scenes behind the series. One chapter looks at the museum and Schuyler, and why he wanted to write a series about the people there.
The book was going to print just as his brother Jim was kicked off the museum board as treasurer, and Hamner could easily have deleted the chapter. But he didn't. "Schuyler is in my blood," he says.
He says he's overcoming his grief at the latest conflict with "people who have no love for Schuyler, no respect for me or my family, and no commitment to the museum based on my work."
Hamner says the whole affair has brought to mind a poem from The Shropshire Lad by British poet A.E. Houseman that he had to memorize his senior year in high school and that haunts him now. Over the phone from Studio City, he recites:
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again
Obviously things have changed since Hamner's idyllic childhood in Schuyler. Now the machinations of the characters involved seem to resemble Falcon Crest more the The Waltons. Or maybe, for Hamner, recent events bring to mind an episode from Twilight Zone.
As for the fates of both museums? Like any good series, to be continued...


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One of our judges, Peter Baynes from Lyman SC, has not judged a Best In Show since November 2007 and will do the Sunday San Mateo KC event. Another, Stephen Hurt from Louisville KY, has judged one final this year, the San Mateo KC show on 22 March in Vallejo CA. At that show he chose the Giant Schnauzer, CH Gaililee's Pure of Spirit in a final that included the Scottish Deerhound, CH Jaraluv Ouija, and the Affenpinscher, CH Tamarin Tug. Mr. Hurt is scheduled to do BIS at Saturday's event hosted by the Kennel Club of Salinas. Scheduled to judge Monday's Santa Cruz Kennel Club final is the poetically named Robert R. Frost. He has been in the big ring twice this year, where he tapped the Smooth Fox Terrier, CH Torquay Demitrio, and the English Springer Spaniel, CH Tara's Master of D Game. Neither of the shows included a top ten dog.
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By far the most interesting is Kimberly Anne Meredith-Cavanna, a local from Pleasant Hill CA. She has done six finals this year and in every one she saw one or more of our top ten dogs. At her first show of the year, on 13 January in Dallas TX, she gave the top prize to the Gordon Setter, Ch. Brodruggan Black Knight over the Affenpinscher, Taser. Two weeks later, at one of the country's last benched shows, the Golden Gate KC, show at San Francisco's Cow Palace, She chose the Deerhound, Ouija, over kennelmate, the Giant Schnauzer, Spirit. In March she was in the Midwest in Columbia MO and found the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, CH Coventry's Vanity Fair in a final without any other top ten dogs.
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A month later, she was back in California for the Sierra-Tuolumne KC show in Merced. The Corgi, Carly, also made the trip, hoping for another big piece of silverware., as did Spirit and Ouija. However, it was the Scottish Terrier, CH Roundtown Mercedes of Maryscot, runing away with the big rosette that day. Three weeks later, Judge Meredith-Cavanna was in Delaware for the Wilmington KC show and the area's two most prominent dogs were there, the Pointer, Ch Cookieland Seasyde Hollyberry, and the Sealyham Terrier, CH Efbe's Hidalgo of Goodspice, and the Pointer prevailed on that day. At her most recent BIS assignment in Eugene OR on 4 September, she surprised some choosing the Affenpinscher over the Giant Schnauzer and the Scottish Deerhound.
What can one make of all this? Just one thing, you can never predict who's going to win an AKC dog show.


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In my last column I did my best to summarize a very disagreeable book. Today, I will be looking at another rather short book, which has an interesting and important central theme. That theme is that "warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind"1 further, that such warfare is everywhere and always "self-defeating" and counterproductive. It is hard to disagree.
The book more or less hot off the press is Caleb Carr's The Lessons of Terror.
The author grew up in the Beatnik milieu and, perhaps in reaction to that, became a military historian. He is best known, however, for his novels. Clearly, such a writer might defy conventional categorization.
Carr has a somewhat different view of Roman antiquity than that held by Mr. Kaplan, whose book I recently treated. Carr writes that Romans only fought "with relentless yet disciplined ferocity" and that, therefore, their wars tended to be total and destructive. Their indiscriminate warfare against an enemy's entire society the most notable case being the eradication of Carthage and their "pronounced taste for revenge" against challengers or rebels became, in the end, "powerful enough to threaten the stability that the empire's brilliant system of citizenship and manumission had made seem so unshakable."2
There is a lesson here, and Carr has already drawn it for us: "we can detect in the example of Rome the most essential truth about warfare against civilians: that when waged without provocation it usually brings on retaliation in kind, and when turned to for retaliatory purposes it only perpetuates a cycle of revenge and outrage than can go on for generations." Interestingly, the most effective and threatening opponents of Roman rule had, surprise, surprise, been trained by the Romans themselves. Carr concludes: "a nation must never think that it can use (and especially train) the agents of terror when convenient and then be rid of them when they are no longer needed."3
With all the inflationary money floating around these days, perhaps some can be found for carving that last sentence in stone at the entrance to the US State Department. Carr gives some historical examples of his principle at work. But we must forge ahead.
I pass over Carr's treatment of the Crusades in the interest of getting on to some other topics. He sees in the famous mercenary armies hired in quarrels between Renaissance Italian city-states the germ of what he calls "progressive war."4 Unluckily, the mercenary captains' code of conduct based on minimal bloodshed and destruction failed to win many friends. Despite its advantages, it seemed unvirtuous, un-martial, and even unpatriotic to many observers, including that ambitious fellow Nicolò Machiavelli.
The wars which followed upon the Reformation were, according to Carr, "particularly savage because of a deadly mixture of outdated military thinking and progressive military technology."5 Cromwell, he argues, improved warfare by creating a disciplined army, which could follow orders to respect civilian lives and property, except as Carr notices in Ireland. On the Continent, French campaigns thrived on violence against society, and in a rather sweeping survey, Carr suggests that the weaknesses (and eventual downfall) of the Ottoman and Aztec empires owed much to their style of war and conquest.
Suddenly, Carr's account touches that of Mr. Kaplan in an appreciation of Thomas Hobbes. Carr presents Hobbes as a serious fellow, who sought to find the foundations of order. There is room for disagreement, I think, about the value of Hobbes' contributions and certainly about their meaning.
But the real hero of the book is Frederick II of Prussia ("the Great"). In Carr's view, this monarch "devised the most powerful statement and proof yet that wars were best fought for particular and realistic political goals by soldiers whose restrained behavior would limit the impact of conflict on civilians and thereby maintain or even win those citizens' loyalty."6 Frederick sought to avoid large-scale pitched battles of destruction, preferred maneuver, and forced his opponents to do likewise.
In 1758, Emmerich de Vattel, a Swiss jurist, theorized Frederick's progressive warfare. He was more interested in how a war was conducted than in the justness of the cause of either side. On his principles, unjust conduct calls into question the cause of those undertaking such conduct. Carr notes that this would apply to terrorist actions against civilians7 but equally well to the conduct of great powers.
Turks, Russians, and European colonists overseas come in for much criticism from Carr along these lines. Partisan warfare in the American Revolution with its ideological dimension often stepped over the line. But it was the French Revolution which let all Hell break loose.
Total war was born (or reborn) with the French Revolution and the campaigns of Napoleon. The latter's "subordination of all other human activities to the needs of his army had an effect equal to any deliberate targeting of civilians."8 This generated opposition and guerrilla movements against French rule.
And here we find what I see as one of the most important points in Carr's book. Carr is able to distinguish in principle between guerrillas and terrorists. It all has to do with his central theme. The question is who they target. Attacks by guerrillas on enemy armed forces are one thing; attacks by them on civilians, another.9
On this basis, Carr can criticize terrorist groups along with states that practice total war. Since he has already shocked common sensibilities by attributing humane warfare to a Prussian monarch in the face of inherited Anglo-American superstitions about all things German, he can hardly shock readers much further by putting many Officially Good causes and leaders on the list of those who have practice, in effect, state terrorism.
Accordingly, Carr casts aspersions on British attacks on American civilians in the War of 1812, Lincoln's use of total warriors like Sherman and Sheridan, the British starvation blockade of Germany in World War I, the German response of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the later career and tactics of the Irish Republican Army. Carl von Clausewitz, who theorized Napoleon's style of warfare and not the Prussian tradition, comes in, finally, for some well-earned revision.10
There is room to disagree with some of Carr's detailed allocations of blame. Much more serious is his set of policy recommendations at the end. These perhaps derive from his Hobbesian-Cromwellian-Frederician concern with discipline as the key to keeping wars "progressive" (roughly, "humane"). Certainly, the situation cries out for strong remedies.
Unfortunately, handing out even more money so as to train up a humane set of intelligence and other operatives sounds to me like a typically conformist-liberal notion. The schools don't work? Spend more money! The rule of law has vanished? Train more lawyers! There's inflation and unemployment simultaneously? Call Alan Greenspan! The military take an amoral view of attacking civilians? Retrain them!
The main "absence" in this very useful book is the US empire. It may be in there, a bit, but its existence gets little treatment as such, certainly not as a structural cause of many of our warlike adventures, and as something whose legitimacy could be debated. Sending the Generals, Colonels, and Captains to ethics seminars might be good; but redefining US foreign policy might take in more of the problems.
Like the abolition of failed or inherently criminal agencies, retreat from empire is not on Carr's agenda. He accepts what is, and just wants to see its defenders behave better. Well, that is something, and it would be wrong to criticize overmuch a book whose central theme is that it is always wrong and ultimately futile to attack civilians and private property. You can forgive a lot for that one point.
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text: Crystal Morey: The Japanese Kirin By Crystal Morey The Japanese Kirin traces its origins to Chinese mythology, but they have diverged quite a bit since then, both in physical appearance and attributes. In Japan, Kirin are believed to be more powerful than the dragon or phoenix, but are much less aggressive... The Kirin is a benevolent creature (a protector) that, while incredibly powerful, will not harm another living creature unnecessarily. They do not hunt or eat meat and supposedly move without disrupting even the grass underfoot. They are said to appear only in lands ruled by a just and virtuous leader, therefore the appearance of a Kirin is a very good omen, (particularly for the ruling family) as they are fierce adversaries of deceit and cruelty. Some legends portray Kirin as a sacred pet of the gods. They are said to have the head of a dragon, the body of a deer, often covered with the scales of a fish or dragon, the legs of a horse and the tail of a bull. They usually have antlers or a single horn in the center of their foreheads. Kirin means giraffe in Japanese, and while the do not resemble a giraffe in appearance, it is believed that the Kirin was fashioned after the giraffe's serene disposition. While Kirin are peaceful creatures, when angered they roar with the sound of thunder and can spit fire. They are unrivaled defenders of the innocent. The images included are from my upcoming book, Japanese Mythical Creatures due out this Fall... (Crystal Morey works for Gomineko Books and is a contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine. For more info on Gomineko Books please visit their website: www.gominekobooks.com.)


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Munich is a great city to explore on foot provided you're staying at a centrally located hotel like The Charles. The five-star establishment is close to the three Pinakothek museums and the Brandhorst Collection – and only roughly 20 minutes from Maximilianstraße, Munich's famous shopping street. Back at the hotel after a busy day on the go, you can soothe your tired feet in the city's longest indoor hotel pool.


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Optinmonster takes an in depth look at 40 creative ways to repurpose your Blog content:
Are you struggling to come up with new content? Repurposing content is a little-known secret that all smart marketers use to keep driving traffic to their site. In this article, we'll share 40 ways to get more mileage out of your blog posts by repurposing them.
Great content can funnel more traffic to your website, strengthen your brand's reputation, and encourage more web visitors to convert. The problem is, creating content takes time and effort.
But what if your best content could go to work for you, again and again, without your having to create anything new?
Repurposing your blog content is taking a post that you've already written and re-packaging it so that it does double duty. This allows you to:
- Reach more potential customers
- Get more organic search engine traffic
- Stop stressing over what to write about
- Devote more time towards making sales
These are big benefits that you can't afford to ignore. If you are not repurposing your content, you are missing out on a huge opportunity for your business.
Now that you know why you should be doing it, let's look at 40 different ways to repurpose your blog posts…
Syndicate Your Posts
Content syndication networks allow you to get your blog posts in front of people who are reading other, related blog posts. All you have to do is pay a little money (usually you pay per click), and your posts will be suggested as "Recommended Reading" or "Related Posts" on other blogs.
These links will usually not count toward SEO, but they will drive traffic to your site.
Here's an example of a "Promoted Stories" section below a blog post on CNN:
Different content syndication networks include:
1. Outbrain
Outbrain is a pretty popular option, used on sites like CNN.
2. Zemanta
Zemanta gives you control over the image and title you want to use.
3. Taboola
Taboola gets your blog posts in front of a huge audience, a lot like Outbrain.
4. SimpleReach
SimpleReach determines which posts are most likely to be shared, and then promotes those.
ARC works by sending your content across various social media, blogs and other sites.
6. LinkWithin
LinkWithin is a widget for showing related posts with a thumbnail image. In the near future, they say they will be releasing revenue sharing features.
7. PR Newswire
PR Newswire gives you access to various content syndication channels, social media networks, and more to help you reach your target audience.
8. ZergNet
ZergNet promotes your posts on relevant sites, and is used by big companies like AOL and MTV.
Republish Your Posts
There are a number of sites which will allow you to republish your old blog posts, getting them in front of a larger audience.
To republish your old posts, simply sign up for an account with one of these sites, copy and paste your article, and hit "publish". How easy is that?
Here are some places for you to republish old blog posts:
9. Medium
Medium allows you to republish your blog posts and get them to a wider audience, almost like a social media platform, but for blog posts. Setting up an account is free and easy– you can even sign up with your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account.
10. Reddit
Reddit is an extremely popular page, offering user-generated news links where users can vote to promote stories to the front page.
11. Growth Hackers
GrowthHackers is a site that allows you to promote content related to startup marketing ("growth hacking"). All you have to do to promote your post is submit its URL.
12. Hacker News
Hacker News is like Reddit for programmers and entrepreneurs. If your content is about computer science or entrepreneurship, it will be perfect for Hacker News.
13. BizSugar
BizSugar is for small business news and tips. Republished posts are categorized into different topics, such as finance, technology, startups, and marketing.
Social Media today allows you to either manually submit your content or automatically submit your content via your RSS feed. The editors select the very best content to be featured on their homepage.
15. Inbound
If your content is related to inbound marketing, Inbound is a great place for your posts to get more exposure. Just make sure you read their guidelines thoroughly.
16. Examiner
Examiner is a lot like Medium, except that you will have to apply to get an account.
17. Blokube
If your content is for other bloggers, Blokube is a perfect place to share it.
Business 2 Community is great if your content falls under marketing, business, finance, entertainment, technology, or news.
Use Snippets for Social Media Posts
A genius way to repurpose your content is by taking a tiny snippet or a small excerpt of your blog post and turning that into a social media post.
The idea here is to build your brand by adding value to your social media profiles, so linking to your blog post is optional. Do include an image wherever possible to make your posts really stand out.
19. Facebook
Take our a small excerpt from your post and use that as your Facebook post.
Here's an example from the Humans of Sackville Facebook Page:
You can post in relevant Facebook groups as well as on your Facebook page.
20. Twitter
Take a small quote from your post and use that as your tweet.
21. Google+
Take a small excerpt from your blog post and use that as your Google+ post.
22. LinkedIn
Include an excerpt from your blog post and "publish a post", or use "share an update" to share a small quote from your post.
23. Pinterest
Take the images from your post and pin them to relevant boards.
24. Quora
Search for a question related to your blog post, and copy and paste a section of your blog post as your answer.
Use a Different Medium
There are so many different mediums you can use to repurpose your blog posts, from images, to video, to audio… all you have to do is re-format the same content.
Here are some different mediums you can use to get more mileage on the same old blog content:
25. Infographics
Take the main points from your blog post and use an infographic maker like Piktochart or Venngage to create the graphic.
(Infographic via QuickSprout.)26. Videos
Create a video on the same topic as your blog post and upload it to YouTube.
27. Emails
Use your best blog posts as a "welcome" autoresponder sequence, a newsletter, or an email course.
28. Downloadable PDF
Take the entire blog post and create a PDF out of it. Then you can use it as an opt-in bribe. Alternatively, you could take just the main points of your blog post and create a downloadable PDF checklist out of it.
29. Slide Deck
Create a slide deck out of your blog post and upload it to SlideShare.
30. Podcast
Simply read your blog post aloud, record it, and upload to iTunes and Stitcher.
31. Webinar
Use your blog post as the basis for your Keynote presentation, and then present it to a live online audience using Google Hangouts.
32. Online Course
Take your best blog posts on a specific topic, turn them into course materials, and upload them to Udemy or Teachable.
33. Live Streaming
Use your content as the outline for your Periscope or Blab presentation.
34. eBook
Use a collection of blog posts to create a downloadable eBook.
35. Physical Book
Use a service like Lulu to turn your blog posts into a physical book.
Publish Spin-Offs
Yet another way to repurpose your old posts is to use them as starting points for other posts. There are a few different ways to do this…
36. Publish an Update
If there is any new information to add, a clarification, or another update, you can publish a new blog post with a "refreshed" version of the same content.
(Via The Huffington Post.)37. Write a Case Study
Take the topic of your old article and find an example that illustrates your point. Highlight that example in a new blog post as a case study, and link to your old post in the new article. Case studies not only increase your traffic, but they give you a great boost in conversions as well.
Here's an example of a case study that we did on how RazorSocial increased their conversions by 520% using content upgrades.
In fact, we've collected all of our case studies together into one big "Case Studies" category:
38. Write an Expert Roundup
Again, taking the same topic of your old article, ask a bunch of experts to answer a brief question about it. Then publish all of their answers as a new post, linking to your old post in this new one.
39. Use Portions for New Posts
When you write on a topic that overlaps with one of your old articles, use some of the old content in the new content. For instance, if you are writing a tutorial on how to edit photos in Photoshop, and you already covered one of the steps in a previous blog post, copy and paste those steps and images into your new blog post.
40. Write a Guest Post
Take the main points of one of your previous articles and use that as inspiration for a guest post. In fact, some blogs will even allow you to republish your old article as-is.
While you're guest posting, just make sure to avoid these 6 guest blogging mistakes.
Have any other favorite ways of repurposing blog content? Let us know in the comments!
Originally Posted: http://optinmonster.com/40-ways-to-repurpose-blog-content/


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Patanjali wrote:"asana is that which is firm and pleasant."
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When learning the Dragon/Diamond Asana I usually recommend using one or two pillows as support. One could be used under the legs and one between them. This leaves out much of the pain, if one do not want to face that "problem" directly.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Allen Iverson is taking a pass on the D-League.
Iverson, the 2001 NBA MVP, has turned down an opportunity to return to basketball with the Dallas Mavericks' Development League affiliate. He posted a series of tweets on Tuesday explaining his decision to decline an offer from Texas Legends' co-owner Donnie Nelson to join the team.
``I thank Donnie and Dallas for the consideration,'' Iverson wrote, ``And while I think the D-League is a great opportunity, it is not the route for me.''
Gary Moore, Iverson's manager, confirmed the decision with The Associated Press. Iverson was not available for an interview.
Moore was in Philadelphia visiting with Sixers owner Josh Harris and CEO Adam Aron about reconnecting Iverson with the 76ers. Iverson led the Sixers to the 2001 NBA finals and is firmly cemented as one of the franchise's all-time great players. He is the franchise leader in 40-point games (76), 3-pointers (885), and is second behind Hal Greer in points (19,931). He had two stints with the Sixers and last played for them in 2009-10.
Moore said there are no immediate plans for the 37-year-old Iverson to retire.
``Once he does do that, I want to ensure that Josh Harris and Adam Aron know how much Allen appreciates what Philadelphia has meant to him, what the NBA has meant to him,'' Moore said, ``And to someday, come back and be a consultant to them, to help them do certain things.''
Aron and the Texas Legends did not immediately return messages for comment.
Under Harris' ownership, the Sixers have made increased efforts to bring back their past stars, like Hall of Fame standout Julius Erving. Erving returned to the Sixers as a strategic adviser in May and is available to the franchise on an as-needed basis.
Iverson earned a roaring standing ovation when he presented the game ball before Philadelphia's Game 6 win over Boston in last season's Eastern Conference semifinals. He watched the game from a suite and his eyes watered up when he was shown later in the game on the big screen as the crowd, thousands wearing No. 3 jerseys, went wild and chanted, ``MVP!'' Iverson later posted on Twitter, ``You can always come home again!!!''
Iverson has not played in the NBA since abruptly leaving the Sixers in March 2010 to deal with a sick daughter. He had a brief stop with a professional team in Turkey and has played exhibition games in China.
Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki recently passed Iverson for 18th on the NBA's career scoring list.
Iverson believed it was more than the three years of NBA inactivity that has kept him from making a comeback. He blamed his behavior, which has included everything from coaching clashes to his infamous ``Practice!'' rant, for making teams shy about offering him a final chance.
``I realize my actions contributed to my early departure from the NBA,'' he wrote on Twitter. ``Should God provide me another opportunity I will give it my all. My dream has always been to complete my legacy in the NBA.''
Moore, who knew Iverson as an 8-year-old boy, said Iverson was focused on staying in shape in case an NBA team made an offer.
``Allen is not so naive of a man that he doesn't understand full well why he's not in the NBA,'' Moore said. ``It not, poor Allen. Allen has done things that have really landed him outside of the NBA. He understands that. He understands the mistakes he's made.''
Iverson spent 10 seasons in Philadelphia before bouncing through Denver, Detroit, and Memphis. He was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1996 draft, a four-time scoring champion, and averaged 26.7 points yet never won a championship.
Moore denied Iverson has financial problems. Iverson recently struck a reported $3 million financial settlement to help finalize his divorce with his wife, Tawanna.
``He's going through probably the most difficult of challenge he's ever faced in his life,'' Moore said. ``There's no doubt he will get past that.''
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Svbyrne necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 116 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
My wife is a florist and I am setting up a new Ecommerce site for her. We have a real bricks and mortar florist shop in Canberra City, Australia. We already have an existing and successful website (different brand) and this is a new venture.
Online flower buyers looking for a genuine Canberra florist (as opposed to the relay networks) to purchase and have flowers delivered in the Canberra region.
I want the logo to appeal to buyers looking for a real local shop. Many of our customers are interstate or overseas buying flowers for their loved ones back in Canberra. I would like bright, colorful, airy and cheerful. It must be clear and legible. It should say "Canberra City Flowers" as well as http://www.canberracityflowers.com.au.
The URL currently points to our existing site. Please don't use it for guidance, I am looking for something new.
I'm not sure how to do this, but I would like some sort of connection with Canberra. Something that really says we are a small business with real people, real florists with a real local shop in Canberra. If you are looking for a Canberra icon, you could try the flagpole on top of Parliament House -
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The icon would however have to be integrated in a clever way and I still need the logo to feel "real Canberra Florist".
Keep it bright, colorful, airy and cheerful.
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Challenging the status quo, connecting with people across the country, imagining new possibilities and bringing them to life. This is what our people do every day.
Being creative means we burst with ideas – delivering the incredible and doing the impossible.
The idea that keeps you up at night. The concept you just can't forget. The character you know even better than your friends. We're always looking for new stories to tell. So pitch us your idea, and it could be the next big thing that India's talking about.
• Key Responsibilities • Designing an EFFECTIVE PROGRAMMING SLATE Work with the VP/ Creative Director – India productions to develop a slate of local / original commissions for NG Tamil , with an eye on ratings, revenue and brand • Produce Quality Content work with independent producers to execute and supervise the programming to the highest possible production standards. • Supervise each production from editorial perspective working with Producers on the highest possible quality – from script and showflows to master delivery. • Commercials and Contracts Work alongside commercial and legal teams to provide creative assumptions and requirements for all legal contracts, commercial negotiations and other paperwork associated with the commissioning process • Timelines and operations Manage operations and timelines across multiple projects, ensuring delivery of materials for dubbing teams, maintain the strict standards of technical checks and requirements for the masters so that the best output makes it on air, well within predetermined costs and timelines • · Building Relationships Develop onscreen talent and new producers to ensure NG Tamil receives the best pipeline of people and ideas. · Build and manage key relationships with external suppliers, Production Companies as well as internal teams, eg marketing / creative services / brand solutions functions and facilitate smooth flow of information • Revenue Focus Manage briefs from the Brand teams and provide creative solutions for advertisers (Fresh concepts as well as integration in local productions) · Competition and Trends follow and stay aware of TV programming across competition and the larger TV landscape. A knowledge of current trends across the gamut infotainment, youth and digital space is a must · Mentoring Mentoring, guiding the junior resource and using their skills effectively · New initiatives - Be a proactive member of the Channel Management Team, contributing to growth ideas across the business.Read more
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15 April 1969 (Korean time) marked the final flight of a Navy VQ-1 EC-121 callsign Deep Sea 129. Roughly 100 nautical miles off the North Korean peninsular site where the Hermit Kingdom today defies the world with its ballistic missile tests, lies the watery grave of 31 Americans (2 bodies were later recovered):
The crew of Deep Sea 129:
LCDR James H. Overstreet, LT John N. Dzema, LT Dennis B. Gleason, LT Peter P. Perrottey, LT John H. Singer, LT Robert F. Taylor, * LTJG Joseph R. Ribar, LTJG Robert J. Sykora, LTJG Norman E. Wilkerson, ADRC Marshall H. McNamara, CTC Frederick A. Randall, CTC Richard E. Smith, * AT1 Richard E. Sweeney, AT1 James Leroy Roach, CT1 John H. Potts, ADR1 Ballard F. Conners, AT1 Stephen C. Chartier, AT1 Bernie J. Colgin, ADR2 Louis F. Balderman, ATR2 Dennis J. Horrigan, ATN2 Richard H. Kincaid, ATR2 Timothy H. McNeil, CT2 Stephen J. Tesmer, ATN3 David M. Willis, CT3 Philip D. Sundby, AMS3 Richard T. Prindle, CT3 John A. Miller, AEC LaVerne A. Greiner, ATN3 Gene K. Graham, CT3 Gary R. DuCharme, SSGT Hugh M. Lynch,(US Marine Corps) [* Recovered]
North Korea not only acknowledged the shoot down, they loudly and boastfully celebrated their action. President Nixon suspended peacetime aerial reconnaissance program (PARPRO) flights in the Sea of Japan for three days and then allowed them to resume, only with escorts. No reparations were ever paid to the United States or the families of the lost airmen.
And Kim Il-Sung celebrated another birthday (April 15th).
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Eight weeks into the trial against Anders Behring Breivik, the case has finally turned to the key unanswered question about the Norwegian man who has admitted to killing 77 last summer in twin terror attacks: Was he sane when he did it?
The court heard testimony today from the first of 17 psychiatric experts scheduled to appear in court over the next two weeks to help the court make that contentious determination. Experts sharply disagree on his diagnosis, which will have a major impact on the severity of his sentence.
Two conflicting psychiatric reports have been presented in the trial. The first, in November, found Breivik to be a paranoid schizophrenic and hence criminally not punishable for the killings, while the second, in April, found that Breivik had personality disorders, but no signs of psychosis.
The psychiatrist who went on the stand today testified that, in his opinion, Mr. Breivik was not psychotic when he placed a car bomb outside Oslo government buildings and then went on a shooting rampage at the Labor party's youth summer camp at Utøya island last July.
Ulrik Fredrik Malt, professor in psychiatry at the University of Oslo, said that after observing Breivik in court for seven days and reading both forensic reports, it was his "academic opinion" that Breivik possibly suffered from narcissistic personality disorders – as the second report found – and possibly Aspergers or Tourette syndrome.
However, although he could not rule paranoid schizophrenia out entirely, there was a "less than 25 percent" chance that Breivik fit the criteria, Mr. Malt said.
"The first thing I saw when I came into court the first day was not a monster, but a deeply lonely man," he said. "This is a tragedy for Norway and for us, but also a tragedy for Breivik," he added.
Malt concluded that Breivik might be suffering from Asperger syndrome, a form of autism in which an otherwise normal person has problems understanding social signals and lacks empathy. He said it was possibly present at an early age, visible from Breivik's inability to form long-standing relations, a period of social isolation after 2006 when he moved back in with his mother and started intensively playing the online game World of Warcraft, and his tendency to repeat things.
Malt also presented the possibility that Breivik had the neurological disorder Tourette syndrome, which causes physical and verbal tics, as proven by his bizarre eye and mouth movements, obsession with numbers, and the "machine-like" way he gunned down the youth on Utøya island and later recounted it as "like cherry picking." As evidenced by his 1,000-page-plus manifesto, Breivik might also suffer from hypergraphia, an overwhelming urge to write that is an occasional symptom of Tourette syndrome, Malt said.
The professor told the Monitor that having Aspergers or Tourette syndrome does not make a person psychotic, and that a person with Aspergers is only slightly more disposed to psychosis than the average person.
Breivik reacted aggressively to Malt's independent psychiatric assessment, saying it was "grossly offensive" and an attempt at "character assassination" and that it was unfair that, unlike Malt, his comments were not allowed to be broadcast. Breivik wants to be considered sane so that, as he says, his anti-Islamic ideology can stand stronger, and has welcomed the public nature of the trial as a way of spreading his beliefs.
The prosecution has recommended he be sentenced to compulsory mental healthcare, based on the conclusions from the first psychiatric report – the only one available at the time.
The court decided today to not allow Per Olav Naess, the child psychiatrist who examined Breivik when he was four, to testify out of concern that it would constitute a breach of patient confidentiality. At that time in 1983, Breivik was nearly removed from his divorced mother's custody. Breivik was also against Naess testifying.
Chipping away at the truth
Today's psychiatric focus comes after a week of expert witnesses both supporting and chipping away at Breivik's defense strategy. Two days ago, the prosecution presented evidence to highlight inconsistencies in Breivik's story, proving that he lied about when he first started planning last summer's twin terror attacks and the extent of his time playing World of Warcraft.
Prosecutors say Breivik spent so much time on the multiplayer online role-playing game that it was impossible that he started writing his manifesto full-time in 2007, as he claims. Inga Bejer Engh, Oslo public prosecutor, told the Monitor that they question in particular when he wrote part three, which deals with the planning phase of his attacks.
Earlier in the week the defense presented a line-up of political experts and anti-Islamist witnesses, such as the former leader of the Norwegian Defense League, to support Breivik's sanity claim. Several of them testified that they share Breivik's opinion that society is on the verge of a civil war because of the culture conflict between Christians and Muslims. The intent was to prove that there were sane people who shared Breivik's beliefs.
The first psychiatric report has been criticized for not taking into account Breivik's extremist ideology.
Engh told the Monitor that one of the key questions behind the first forensic psychiatric report was not whether Breivik believed Norway was in a civil war, but whom had given him the authority to undertake this campaign against the Labor party. Breivik accuses the party of allowing the Muslim colonization of Europe through its lax immigration polices.
In the end, the ultimate question of Breivik's sanity rests with the five judges. If found sane, Breivik faces a maximum sentence of 21 years. A final ruling is expected to come on either July 20 or August 24, the latter of which would come after the one-year anniversary of the Norway's worst atrocity since World War II.


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Weekly auto rail, with a look at the Volvo S60 Concept, bad-weather driving tips and more.
Future Cars: Volvo S60 Concept
Volvo Cars gave its fans a great Christmas present by unveiling the Volvo S60 Concept. The slick car will be on display for the first time at this year's Detroit Auto Show (Jan. 11-25), and it's expected to hit the market in 2010. The new S60 will feature a four-cylinder 1.6L petrol engine using Gasoline Turbocharged Direct Injection (GTDi). For more details, go to www.volvocars.com.
Tip of the Week
Here are some tips from AAA on how to recognize a driving crisis:
When visibility is so limited that you can't see the edges of the road or other vehicles at a safe distance, it's time to pull off and wait for the weather to ease up. If you're on an expressway, it's best to stop at a rest area or exit the expressway and go to a protected area. If the roadside is your only option, pull off the road as far as you can, preferably past the end of a guardrail (vehicles parked at the side of the road are frequently stuck by other drivers). Respect the limitations of reduced visibility and turn headlights off and emergency flashes on to alert other drivers.
Did You Know
Japan's auto production in November was the lowest it has been since 1967, the country reported.
Car Q&A
Question: I am interested in buying an older 1985 to 1990 Mercedes Benz diesel. Do you have any suggestions?
Answer: The best advice is find a car you like, take it to the Mercedes dealer or shop that works on these older cars and have a complete evaluation done. Expect to pay $100 to $300 for a complete evaluation.
-- Junior Damato, Talking Cars columnist
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After quite a bit of researching, I'd like to get some feedback on my plans to treat a couple of rooms. The first is a small (10x10x10) control/mixing room. With a room this small, it seems like tons of bass trapping and absorption is the way to go. The only way to preserve stereo symmetry in front of the listener is to place the listener facing the window, which creates a fairly untreatable back wall. I plan on two large superchunks (24" or 34" face, floor to ceiling, using R-30) in the corners in front of the listener along with 6" panels of Safe 'n Sound at the first reflection points on the walls. Additionally, I can put a large bass trap on top of the built-in bookshelf, 6" absorbers behind the monitors, more absorbers on the walls behind the listener, and cover most of the ceiling with 3" or 6" Safe'n'Sound (Is a full ring around the ceiling too much? Maybe just at first reflections?). The main issue is sound reflecting off the back wall; I can't think of a way to treat that. Would another listener orientation be better? I could use a 10x11x10 room as an alternative; it is rectangular without the angled wall, but has only one full corner available for bass trapping and also makes it more difficult to run cables to the live room.
The next room I want to treat is a 15'x20'x10' living/theater room that will hopefully double as a live room by removing a few pieces of furniture. There is an adjoining 12'x15'x10' dining room, and an opening to the entryway. The room has some nice wood paneling that I'd like to cover as little as possible. The room sounds fairly good as a live room now, but I'm sure some absorption (not too much), bass traps, and diffusion could really make it better. I think some wide-band absorbers (6" safe 'n sound) would work nicely on the walls and ceiling in the middle of the larger sections, but I'm struggling to figure out a good way to implement bass traps in this room (see pictures). I can easily do some bass traps on the ceiling near the entryway or in the corners of the dining room without looking too out of place, if that would help. I'm also wondering if there would be good ways to add diffusers to this room without taking too much wall space. What about doing binary amplitude diffusers on the wide-band traps (not enough surface area?)? Maybe 2-D QRDs put on the floor during recording could reduce flutter between the ceiling and large tile floor?
Thanks in advance.
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Live room: https://picasaweb.google.com/1095848810 ... kPiSnJ6RQA


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NEW YORK (AP) — The bipartisan legal team leading the fight for gay marriage has a book deal.
Democrat David Boies and Republican Theodore B. Olson have signed with Viking for "A Just Cause: Law, Love, and the Case for Marriage Equality." Viking told The Associated Press on Wednesday the book is scheduled for mid-2014.
"Our collective journey tells of a crucial and historical civil rights movement that brings us closer to the ideals on which our country was founded," Boies, 71, said in a statement issued by Viking.
Olson, 72, said he and Boies between them have "nearly 100 years in the law."
"We have never handled a more important, dramatic and emotionally compelling challenge," he said in a statement.
Boies and Olson have formed an unlikely partnership to represent the challengers to Proposition 8, approved by California voters in 2008. The ballot initiative overturned a state Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage. Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the California case on March 26.
Boies and Olson were on opposite sides for one of the court's most historic cases, when Boies represented Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and Olson represented Republican George W. Bush in a dispute over the Florida vote count in 2000. The court ruled 5-4 in Bush's favor.
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), promised the Boies-Olson book will be a "dramatic, intimate, and informed account of this historic issue."


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Rumor: Memphis trading for Marreese Speights?
The Memphis Grizzlies will try to get through the loss of Zach Randolph for up to two months by acquiring Philadelphia 76ers big man Marreese Speights. After learning that Randolph with miss six to eight weeks with a torn medial collateral ligament, suffered Sunday in Chicago, the Grizzlies on Wednesday completed a three-team trade with Philadelphia and New Orleans.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: It's a stop-gap measure, but the Memphis Grizzlies have no choice.
With Darrell Arthur and Zach Randolph out long-term, the Grizzlies acquired Marreese Speights from the Philadelphia 76ers for a pair of second round draft picks.
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Hey, she tried! When Angelina Jolie revealed last week, via New York Times Op-Ed piece, that she'd recently undergone a preventative double mastectomy, every journalist in the world wanted to score an interview with the star — including Ann Curry. The ousted TODAY co-anchor, 56, has long had a special working relationship with Jolie, 37, and partner Brad Pitt, who frequently granted Curry exclusive one-on-one TV chats around the world to help promote their humanitarian efforts and more.
And despite Curry's less-than-affectionate year with NBC following her talked-about exit from TODAY, the network pressured the veteran reporter to ask pal Jolie for an interview, the New York Post's Page Six reports. Alas, Jolie declined the interview — and all media requests for the time being. The Post also reports that, following Curry's June 2012 departure from TODAY, she would not speak with any other NBC reporters.
Curry made a brief return to TODAY earlier this week, reporting from the devastation in Moore, Oklahoma following the tragic May 20 tornado that claimed the lives of 24 people. "She's a real journalist," one source told Us Weekly recently.
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Amid a jumble of circuit boards, power tools, and 3D printers, a group of 180 techies and entrepreneurs hunkered down in teams of three to five last weekend, turning an empty hall on a seaside cliff overlooking the Mediterranean into a noisy workshop.
Fueled by an open bar of cappuccino and craft beer, the mission for participants at "GeekCon,'' an annual weekend hackerspace, was to cobble together half-baked gadgets, ranging from a hummus dipping machine to a paper plane interceptor system, in roughly 48 hours.
Participants secure an invitation based on their project proposal rather than resume or business potential, GeekCon organizers say. The do-it-yourself ethos includes meals featuring "user-generated food.'' The press isn't invited and there no judges.
The absence of competition stimulates creativity, said Eden Shochat, a conference founder and partner at the newly launched Israeli venture capital fund, Aleph. He argues that the retreat isn't a hackathon in which teams of programmers compete to solve computing problems.
" It needs to be useless…this is not a start-up weekend,'' he said. "It's really hardcore hackers having fun. It's kind of a kindergarten for makers.''
Though the projects may be frivolous, the GeekCon gathering is not. Over the first eight installments (the ninth wrapped up on Saturday) the retreat has helped spawn some 12 start-ups – including Face.com, which was acquired by Facebook last year. GeekCon organizers estimate the value of those companies at $160 million.
That may explain why the retreat has caught the attention of technology giants like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, which sponsor the event and sometimes have teams of their own. The Israeli army, also known as a tech powerhouse, now organizes a hackers retreat of its own.
"No one comes here for business… but it inevitably comes out of it,'' said Gilli Cegla, an Israeli start-up founder and business consultant who helps organize GeekCon. "This is structured chaos.''
In one corner of the hall, the sound of small explosions lead to a table where conference participants were sitting nose to nose with balloons on the verge of being popped by an infrared laser.
Erez Shasha, a start-up entrepreneur, and a partner had rigged a digital camera to instantly snap a portrait of the flummoxed subjects.
"We want to produce a video with surprised faces. The idea is to produce something that is fun with technology,'' he said. "It seems it's not such an easy project to build. We have lots of problems technological-wise. It takes too long between when the balloon pops and we can trigger the camera.''
The Thursday- Saturday retreat is held on the grounds of a sailing school near Kibbutz Sdot Yam, about a 45 minute drive north of Tel Aviv. The Friday evening potluck featured a cookout of chicken wings, hotdogs, pita, store-bought hummus and challah bread.
Just outside the hall, Eyal Gruss, a data scientist and artist, and Meron Sellem, a cyber-security hacker, were staring at a computer screen while donning brain sensor headsets. Dubbed "Mind Your Poem,'' the project aimed to create computer generated poems, music and video art based on a person's state of mind.
Gruss said he had difficulty mining the brain data to illustrate emotions because of the limited analytical functionality of commercial headsets. "We have no prior knowledge on neuroscience,'' he said after the competition was over. "I read some papers and tried to devise my own formulas.''
Though Mind Your Poem was conceived as an art project, Gruss speculated it could help the physically impaired express themselves artistically.
In addition to Shochat, whose Aleph fund was recently closed at $140 million, GeekCon teams included, Yaniv Golan, a serial entrepreneur who runs Lool Venture Capital, and Yariv Bash, who heads a team of Israelis competing in an international competition to land a spaceship on the moon.
Though the conference is a purely Israeli affair, this year a handful of techies from China, Iran and the Ukraine were in attendance.
"One of the organizers keeps asking me to come every year,'' said Hercules Fisherman, a serial entrepreneur and artist from London. " It's amazing. The caliber of people here is very good. It's very hard core.''
After two days of tinkering, the final presentations of the projects were made in the sailing school gymnasium on Saturday.
The paper airplane interceptor only could handle very slow moving targets. The poetry mind reader will be further developed at a brain science hackathon on the Google Tel Aviv campus. The hummus dipper worked as well, but is unlikely to change how Middle Easterners consume the ubiquitous street food.
" Here it's just about getting it done. In Europe, it will be tables of straight lines. In the U.S., there would be a competition and a first prize,'' said organizer Mr. Cegla, on the difference between GeekCon and hackathons. "People here care about passing the challenge, but when they leave, it goes in the garbage.''


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The Internet has lately upped its count of roadblocks and dead ends: obligatory e-mail subscription forms, Facebook page "like" prompts, and pages that masquerade as informational only to be a page full of ads. The individual, instantaneous outrage that an encounter with, say, one mandatory e-mail address request is infinitesimally small. But as this strategy of information culling or attention-grabbing rises, the Internetgoers begin to cry out.
One pop-up-shaming site, tabcloseddidntread.com, specifically focuses on sites that tease you with their content before blocking it with some form that requires your attention (creator Andy Beaumont further explained the thinking behind the site in a Medium post). Sometimes they require an e-mail address, other times a social media interaction. Sometimes these things are optional—I can't outright condemn a company for asking—but there are plenty of "membership" sites whose forms cannot be circumvented: Joss and Main, for instance, or Bespoke Post, the *mints (Shoemint, Homemint, etc.), or Fab in its olden days.
This is becoming an all-too-familiar request. It starts out innocently enough—an e-mail address! It just wants an e-mail address. An e-mail address is easy to give, and newsletters are easy to unsubscribe from. Better use a real one in case you actually like anything on the site.
But a "submit" later, and it turns out it's not just your e-mail address that the site wants. Really, if you just give your full name and make up a password, the site promises, pinky swear, you'll be able to get through to the actual material. You hand that over too, only to find yourself in the next few days on a 20-e-mail-a-week roller coaster ride, from which you can only get off if you unsubscribe by logging in using that password you've now forgotten. That's too much effort; you commit the e-mails to spam so they can backfill your Web e-mail storage for eternity.
The drop-in e-mail form must be somewhat effective, given that an increasing number of sites are using it. But for every instance that results in a pleasant, productive interaction with a website that it's a pleasure to see in your inbox, there are 10 more crowding in there whose space and time are not worth the one chair or gadget you wanted to check out once. Hence, this form becomes a dead end—seeing it means saying goodbye to whatever content remains behind it, or else saying goodbye to your ability to innocently browse anonymously. One HackerNews user commented on a post about tabcloseddidntread.com that he keeps a bookmarklet to kill pop-ups such as these.
Perhaps as annoying as the form-request dead end is the mobile-design switchback, when clicking on a link from somewhere takes you anywhere but the intended destination. Another site, Crapshaming, highlights some of these problematic areas: for instance, a page requesting that you download the relevant app instead of using the site. Too often, when we respectfully decline, the browser takes the liberty of sending us to the site's or service's homepage rather than to the page we initially requested.
The problem with apps is that, particularly on iOS, they can't open links from other sources. An app is not the solution to the problem at hand, which is accessing this one particular page on the site. Nor is it the solution to the problem of accessing the site going forward, unless the problem is "I want to use this site exclusively as a source but don't want to bother with a bookmark or typing the first few letters to autocomplete the URL."
Like the newsletter form, the app request is still a little coercive, with that tiny "…or continue to the mobile site" link. But there's no way to explain to companies that no, we don't want your app. There's no way to opt out of this notice, no way to ask the site to leave you alone about the app.
The problem is that asking to install an app presumes a relationship. If the site is being accessed via a Google result, there's no precedent for that request. We're not friends, site and/or app. We've only just met. Maybe we have met before, but for the purposes of evading this encounter, I'll sure pretend like we didn't.
Just as spam is effective because the cost of producing it is practically zero and hence any positive effect is a net positive, asking to install an app costs little other than our annoyance. But a relationship built on the backs of people who agree to install an app because they are hoodwinked into thinking it's the only way—or fill out an e-mail form because they don't realize they don't have to—isn't going to last.
The app request also assumes the mobile app is so much better than the mobile site that it's worth the cost of navigating away from the general browser to a dedicated location. Given that mobile design is still well in its infancy, that is… unlikely. Trying to shepherd customers into being beta testers for a half-baked app is not the best idea either.
Generally speaking, most people don't want the app like that. Most people don't want the newsletter like that. There are newsletters I've signed up for and enjoy, and I didn't get them from an unwelcome form. Each individual action of refusing these things is itself not so bad. But totted up to a few dozen times a day, I'm becoming relieved when a site doesn't have a newsletter or app to cram in my face. This teaches us to look for the tiny X or the "get me out of here" link with no attention paid to what's front and center, and we bail when it can't be easily found. The Internet has, for the most part, my trust that when I click on something, it will take me where it says it will go (assurances that I won the lottery or that my PayPal account has been limited excepted); it's sad when otherwise good companies erode it.


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tkr126 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
DiscoverPierPark is an online directory of Panama City Beach's (Florida) newest outdoor mega shopping mall - Pier Park. The site list all the shopping, restaurants, entertainment, & on going events that take place yearly. It basically helps the traveler plan their visit to Pier Park while on vacation.
The mall is not your average mall - it has a caribbean feel with large sidewalks, palm trees, & is located across the street from the beach & the recently built pier. In one area they have fun events - carousel, mini-bungee jumping & lots more...tons of outdoor sitting areas at many restaurants. It is overall a fun place and travelers absolutely love Pier Park!
With my site I am trying to convey a more personable feel to the area - Panama City Beach - which is in the pensacola area of Florida - with extremely white beaches & blue green clear water! The people are fun and the area is best known as the Spring break capital of the world.
My target audience is pretty wide - mainly tourist. They consist mainly of the middle class families with children throughout the year who stay in middle to upscale hotels & condos. During the spring PCB is flocked with spring breakers.
What I need is a logo designed that conveys the area & is fun! I am pretty much open to any ideas since I am in the process of re-doing my website. I need the the name in the logo: Discover Pier Park along with the wording underneath the logo "Panama City Beach's Premier Outdoor Shopping & Dining Fun! I do like 'blues' but then again am open to anything eyecatching. I will be using this logo not only for the site but twitter/facebook/business cards/brochures and more.
What I am NOT interested in is palm trees (would not fit the area & is overdone on other's sites) & please no clip artsy look. Maybe the use of the sun? beachball? The entrance to pier park has a beach ball but I do NOT want my logo to look anything like this nor the font as you can see in the pictures. I do like the mirrored effect or shadowing also but again this is up to each designers look.
This is the redesign website w/pictures of Pier Park - this is a rough sketch:
Here is the original site (not sure which site I am gearing towards!) I am getting rid of the entire header on this site
I will need the logo in web-ready format along with print ready - in both color and black & white. Please have the format also in .jpeg & other formats (not specifically sure of which ones) - I do not have Photoshop but will be purchasing it so that format would be helpful also! And also what font is used.
Good luck & I am looking forward to seeing all the great designs!
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Suzanne Dimma reveals the completed bathroom renovation of H&H art director Mandy Milks. See how Mandy — with some help from Stacey Smithers — converted one large bathroom into two functional spaces: a main bathroom with an antique clawfoot tub and a smaller ensuite with a luxurious shower. Learn how she combined warm metal faucets, high-end tiles and vintage accessories, all while sticking to a strict budget.
See more of this bathroom in our March 2013 issue, plus take a video tour of Mandy's new kitchen.
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Cops: Robber threatens to stab clerk with HIV positive needle
Casselberry police arrest Casey Garlick at Lake Mary apartment
CASSELBERRY, Fla. – A man claiming to have an HIV positive needle threatened to stab a Casselberry store clerk with a needle unless she handed over money from the cash register, police said.
Casey Garlick, 27, was arrested Tuesday on charges of threatening to bomb or discharge a destructive device, robbery with a weapon and grand theft.
According to police, on Jan. 11 Garlick passed a clerk at Pet Supermarket in Casselberry a note demanding money.
The clerk told police that as she was reading the note, Garlick said, "It's not a joke."
The note stated that he had an HIV positive needle and would stab her, said police, who added that the letter also claimed that he had a bomb.
The clerk handed over the money, and Garlick fled the store with nearly $400 dollars, police said.
Casselberry police said Garlick's fingerprints were left on a Nylabone that he touched at the store.
An investigation led police to Garlick, who was arrested at an apartment in Lake Mary.
Police said a syringe was found in his possession and he was watching a 4-month-old boy.
Garlick was taken to the Seminole County Jail without incident.
Police said it's not known if Garlick has HIV and no medical tests will be conducted on him.
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To be honest I did not hear anything and I was sleeping like a baby at 5 AM today but luckily some citizen in Shubra filmed these two annoying F16. "Old video , sorry"
After couple of hours we found Colonel Ahmed Ali , the official spokesperson posting this statement his official Facebook Page.
OK you test your toys and train your boys as you want but you have to be careful that such actions cause public panic.