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I was going to write a post about PPC Tips for Valentines campaigns, but as I started to research screens and brand positioning for the main Valentines product areas, I discovered a whole heap of things not working as they should, and a lot of tricks that are potentially being missed for both PPC and SEO.
I also found many things that could affect your bottom line, or issues that you may want to look out for before the busiest shopping period before Valentines Day gets underway…
I don't mean to point fingers as things go wrong with e-commerce all the time, but a lot of these issues I see time and time again and many have simple fixes so I have used the actual examples I came across while doing my research that are currently live.
A quick check now, or a few additions now could save you a little more in advertising costs and make you a little more in sales revenue so don't shoot the messenger! 🙂
(disclaimer: some of these issues may depend on your last delivery dates, regularity of search engine indexing and red-tape you have to go through before you can make any changes!)
Main Valentines Sectors
General consensus is that the top sold Valentines products fall in these areas:
- Flowers
- Chocolates/Confectionary / Candy
- Jewellery
- Lingerie
- Travel/Breaks
- Food & Drink (Meals out/Champagne etc)
- Cards
- Beauty/Fashion Accessories
I wasn't going to put this but since I found no dating ads around the term 'How to break up with your girlfriend on Valentines Day' – I'm adding
- Dating
There will of course be other types of gifts but these are the money spinning areas for Valentines Day.
Find the Gap
Before I move into things I found that were not working, I found a lot of gaps that might be worth filling.
Just because it may not be a highly competitive generic search term, it does not mean that it won't provide any return. Some of my clients can't afford to target generic keywords for prime slot holidays like Valentines and being from the school of affiliate thinking, I am programmed to look for potential gaps of the longer tail variety that 'might' pay off.
I say 'might' as although I often find that there are no advertisers in many places and old blog posts where new blog posts could be. I sometimes find after testing that there may be a reason for there being not many Ads in the space, or that poor performance means they are switched off quickly, but if you are not testing and looking for gaps, you won't know.
To start with I searched for:
- Most Popular Valentines Gifts
- Popular Valentines Gifts
- Best Valentines Gifts
- What to buy for Valentines Day
- Top Selling Valentines Gifts
- What should I get my girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife/pet on Valentines Day
- What Gift should I get my girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife/pet
I then searched for Valentines specifics just to see who was advertising, how they were advertising and whether there were actually different strategies for SEO and PPC
- Valentines Flowers, Valentines Roses
- Valentines Chocolates/Candy/Confectionary
- Valentines Jewellery
- Valentines Lingerie
- Valentines Weekend Breaks (ok so romantic weekend break also fits but trying to keep it 'Valentines')
- Valentines Champagne
- Valentines Cards
- Valentines Meals, Valentines Menu [location]
- Valentines Gifts
Also using the words 'buy', 'send', 'day'
SEO Gaps
Many top positions were from wiki's a few from, National Geographic – really? no major e-commerce brand appears for most popular valentines gifts? or Best Valentines Gifts? Askmen had some blog posts but they had no product links. I also saw a lot of newspaper articles so it may be time to get friendly with your well connected PR 🙂
Of course it may not be worth your while to spend a lot of time gaining SEO positions for lower search traffic areas, but I wouldn't have thought it would take much to rank in some of these places if your site is already a popular e-commerce website.
My Funny Valentine?
I also searched for
- Valentines Gifts under £5
- Cheap Valentines Gifts
Maybe my sense of humour is way off or it's one for the 'bad ideas' draw, but a well-done funny page for Valentines Gifts under a fiver with the cheapskates guide to Valentines Day would certainly get me sharing on LAD networks.
Since writing this the Thorntons 'little gifts' page has started to show as has a Gifts under a tenner for notonthehighstreet, and I was amused to find poundland ranking for Valentines Gifts.
I only had a quick look, so if you find anything worth sharing let me know – I was actually disappointed at the lack of offending your girlfriend listings with only the toxic fox ranking for and actually showing cheap Valentines Gifts.
PPC Gaps
There are always exact match PPC slots and you can always find some reasonably empty spaces surrounding searched for questions such as 'what should I get my wife for Valentine's Day?' My advice is to just search, see what comes up, then refine searches, extend searches and go off on as many tangents as you have time for.
I use the Google AdPreview tool when checking to make sure that ads are not just hidden from me. This helps you to identify searches from any location you wish using any country suffix and saves you logging in and logging out.
I also found a number of gaps for location based queries, particularly with restaurants. I have written more on this a little further down in the article.
If you are looking for gaps in advertising for holiday slots my advice is:
- Start advertising early – you may hit ad approval delays, you may also not get the perfect combination straight away – give yourself time to test.
- Start on very low spend and work up – I have been caught out before in affiliate days by getting too excited about potential gaps in the PPC space including a legendary mistake from a PPC campaign a few years back where I burned the entire budget in an hour playing with a placement from a Google Doodle search term.
- Start exact and move to generic/broad – in case your CTR gets you switched off prematurely
Even if you find no gaps at all, searching manually instead of relying solely on keyword tools can help you brainstorm creative ideas for infographics, posts, and campaigns.
It's not me, it's you(r website)…
Just because it's holiday spend season, there is no reason to assume that people will buy because it's Valentines Day and you have a store. As with all e-commerce, there are things that help conversion and ways to encourage busy (and often last minute) shoppers to buy there and then. At the very least you want them to think about coming back for a second date when they are ready to buy.
Here are just some of the things I found where improvements could be made while searching in the areas above:
Landing Pages
I am always surprised with Christmas and Valentines that there are so many things missing that could trigger a sale… conversely there can be many things that can put people off buying altogether.
My first searches were for Jewellery related terms. H Samuel are top of the UK 'Valentines Jewellery' listings, but if you click through you are faced with some questionable landing pages for PPC and SEO.
The SEO page had a spammy looking content page opposite a huge advert with no link. Really? this was the best SEO page for #1 ranking you could come up with for maximum conversion? When I finally clicked through on Gifts for her under £20 from the PPC landing page – the first items were Mickey Mouse Jewellery #ohtheirony
Compare it to their PPC landing page. If it works, it works. I personally would not buy from either but I am left wondering who does buy from these pages? In fairness, the main site is a lot better when you get past these landing pages, but at busy holiday season, I would have thought you want to bring people in, not put people off!
Last Day for Delivery, Guaranteed Delivery Dates
After quite a few Christmas delivery Fiasco's, many shoppers have learned not to trust delivery dates. At Christmas you can rely on the buy and print gift voucher and 'get-away-with-it', but at Valentines, a Gift Voucher so you can choose what you would like yourself totally misses the point of showing undying love for your partner.
Make it easy for customers to know that you can deliver by X date, and if possible try and trigger a sale based on there being very little time left.
Be Suggestive
Although there were some sites using express buy tactics, many were not. Having worked in online Jewellery Sales for a number of years, we found a few things that help buyers, and especially male buyers at this time of year to stay on site and purchase.
- Gifts for Him/Her
- Gifts under [insert price bracket]
- What type of Girlfriend do you have/Persona based suggestions
- In a hurry? How much do you want to spend >> GO!
- This is where you SHOULD go for a romantic weekend
- Make it easy for people – this example below makes no links to any of their suggested destinations
Make sure your site works!
I found a script error on Interflora – nothing major, but definitely something you don't want popping up with nervous buyers with credit cards.
Watch Those Title Tags
Just because you want to cover all markets, there is no need to get lazy with your Title Tags. These Christmas and New Year Tags are still on the 'holiday' landing page with Valentines Listings.
Not only will this will be costing more in PPC – the page is currently ranked #5 for 'Valentines Weekend Breaks' so tweaking that Title tag could result in easy wins for organic search and PPC and if you're lucky it could happen just in time for the weekend shoppers to catch it.
Watch your Affiliates
Being at #1 for Valentines Roses is a pretty good position at this time of year, but if your affiliate has the wrong links on your affiliate banners, they are not just wasting their own listing, they are affecting your brand.
Check all of your own listings and see who is visible in the space. If your affiliates have outdated links or links that do not work, contact them and ask them to change things. If they are sending you significant traffic, you could always offer them an incentive to put your ad at the top in the most prominent position.
Make sure your product is for sale!
If you've worked hard to be top 10 for 'Valentines Chocolate' – make sure that your product is:
1. Available and 2. your best landing page for Valentines Chocolate (not sure – test it with a PPC split test)..
The Fortnum and Mason Chocolate page could have been the landing page for this term. With a few tweaks and additions, the 'better' page could have been the page found for Valentines in the top 10.
Listings that are out of stock or pages that are no longer available can easily be re-directed to a page that has products for customers to buy.
Make a Perfect Match
Regardless of how many articles you read about conversion and consistency telling you to match the Headline of the Ad or the subject matter to the landing page, we still see advertisers adding a few keywords to the same campaign or using broad match everything. With something as specific as Valentines Day, it is a no brainer to at least match a look and feel to your search terms and titles.
I am not sure if it because Vintners don't sell as much as everyone else does at Valentines or if alcohol sells regardless of look and feel, but searches for 'Valentines Champagne' brought up some lovely examples of how to lower your conversion rate – well I guess it's just booze after all 🙂
I clicked on all of these links below and found fails/misses on quite a lot of them…
Laithwaites, Wines Direct, Vintage Wine Gifts, and lovechampagne had not change anything about their site and are advertising the same site against the same Ads for wine as they are for Valentines Champagne.
Fortnum and Mason had a mismatch on their landing page – Valentines Wine & Spirits as a title for a page with only 1 product that was not champagne from a page optimised for Valentines Champagne.
BolneyWineEstate excelled themselves with their PPC advertising on 'Valentines Champagne' – with a high converting landing page #result
Don't be afraid to be Negative
I could have picked a better example, but I can't tell you how much I love the fact that ASDA are at the top of the PPC listings for the term 'Valentines Dinner'. Fair play to them, they even have a special landing page with hearts, flowers and everything you would expect to need on Valentines Day. Tiffany & Co.® at the other end of the spectrum are appearing for everything Valentines.
Tiffany & Co.® may be able to afford it, but if you're not going to change your PPC Ads to something relevant for the search term (and I don't just mean shoehorn or auto add 'Valentines' into everything), you could be burning the precious pennies that you could put towards a different campaign that IS bringing you conversions.
If you want more information on how to use negative keywords effectively – read this post from the awesome Matt Van Wagner at SearchEngineLand
For the Love of Food!
This is where I bang my head against the walls and wonder what is going on with local purveyors of Food & Drink.
I searched for:
- Valentines Meals Manchester
- Valentines Menu Leeds
- Valentines Meal Offers London
- Valentines Day Restaurants Birmingham
Any Ads? NO! I even searched for Sunday Roast Dinner Manchester City Centre to be sure that I was not imagining things. Even searches for 'romantic restaurants London' and 'Valentines Day [name of restaurant]' were reasonably empty. Apart from TopTable and a theatre that was offering dinner, but didn't mention it on the landing page.
Google bring up loads of map and restaurant listings for online takeway terms but there is no guarantee to be found for Valentines so increase your odds. If you are a local restaurant – advertise LOCALLY
Forget about the Price Tag
I love you darling – hang on – HOW MUCH???
Not really an oversight issue, but an opinion of mine. Links of London – have several splash pages, bracelets, love notes, infinite love etc. Most collections have a mix of prices so that you can see expensive and reasonably priced, but the infinite love collection does not have a mix and is straight in with prices at £900 -£1000+ – that may be the whole purpose of course but I moved straight on to a different site.
I also found when following through from the splash to the the products, I had to scroll through 9 pages of product before I found the item in the picture that encouraged me to click through in the first place.
Happy Valentine?
There are of course many more areas that can Improve wherever you look and this does not just apply to Valentines Day. I could not test infinite search terms but it appears that even big brands don't always think about the buying customer, how they are buying and what they are landing on.
A few press releases this week, some tweaks to text and a few split tests before the weekend could substantially improve your revenue this Valentines. Having a look to see what listings you have currently and not assuming that your prime page is ranked will also make a difference. If you are indexed regularly, you could even get some quick wins.
I may continue to add to this post, and I may even turn 'Valentines bloopers' into a regular feature if not just to get my own back for years of not being able to go for a meal out or a weekend away with friends on my birthday (the day before Valentines Day so I'll be expecting two cards hehe).
Let me know if you find any more frustrating things that could be 'fixed' by sundown!
This post is best suited for in house or agency teams aiming for extra conversion on the lead up to the Valentines Day 2013 shopping weekend


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Little wisps of blonde hair peek through before Eleanor's head pops up from behind the chair. She gives me a big smile, a wave, and then runs off, yelling 'bye-bye' at the top of her little lungs. Eleanor is our first child, she's twenty-months-old, constantly oscillating between feisty and willful, silly and sweet. At this age it's almost as if you can see the neurons connecting in her brain, each new experience bringing the world closer to her tiny baby fingers. As a scientist and nervous first time mom, I know that twenty months is not only a critical age in development but also the best time to catch the early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.
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Adam Wiggins: Open Source on the Business Desktop
TrustCommerce has spent the the last 12 months or so transitioning to KDE/Linux-based desktops for general staff, with "resounding success". As Chief Software Architect, Adam Wiggins has written an excellent essay detailing the situation, requirements, issues, and the process of switchover. Apps such as KMail, Konqueror, and KOrganizer have been successfully deployed, along with the main KDE desktop. Check Part II of the essay for those details
I have posted to the mailinglist and to the Enterpise-forum, but without any luck...
Is there any information available regarding the Linux/KDE-deployment in Largo, Florida? I have contacted the administrator there, and he said that some of the KDE-folks are writing a white-paper on that deployment. I could use the information in my final thesis.
By Janne at Fri, 2002/01/25 - 6:00am
Re: Largo?
Haven't you done even a web search? There are several articles on the subject. Your question is very vague, so I'm not surprised you're not getting any answers to tell you the truth.
By ac at Fri, 2002/01/25 - 6:00am
Re: Largo?
I have searched on the subject. There are articles regarding it, but I would like a bit more detailed information. What kind of server/clients, numbers, software, configuration, network, cost-savings etc. etc.
By Janne at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: Largo?
http://dot.kde.org/995949998/ has all the server details and so forth. It's worth noting that Largo used SCO with KDE before Linux with KDE, so you aren't going to find any Windows to Linux cost savings information there.
By Timothy R. Butler at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: Largo?
Thanks for the link :)!
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Re: Largo?
Glad I could help. :-)
By Timothy R. Butler at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
No Mouse No KDE :(
using KDE without mouse is a real pain. here are some examples:
1. Applets can't be run
I wish KDE implement complete keyboard support. it is rare that mouse fails but it happens and then kde seems a pain. but in windows 98, it is just easy to do work without using the mouse. Hope KDE 3.x will solve this issue.
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Fri, 2002/01/25 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
If you have a decent distribution, all you have to do is press Shift-NumLock and then you can use your keypad to control the pointer.
By ac at Fri, 2002/01/25 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
Thanks a lot pal, ur a life saver :)
By Amr Elshebiny at Mon, 2005/03/07 - 6:00am
Keyboard RHS side keywords(below Num Lock) problem
M problem was , while at KDE , konsole , i cant write through keyboard RHS keywords.
Good day.
By Harpreet Singh at Sun, 2008/08/24 - 5:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
It is rudimentary, but if you hit ALT-F12 you get keyboard emulated mouse movement. Using the arrow keys to move (CTRL moves slower ALT moves faster) and the space bar for left clicking, you can do many of the basic things you need.
I do agree though. I would love more accels.
By Paul Seamons at Fri, 2002/01/25 - 6:00am
thou know everything :)
Thanks "ac" and "paul" for the wonderful shortcut keys, you two have said. My mouse broke and I felt helpless. Thanks again for your help.
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
Mhm, why using kde without a mouse ?
Ok, I'm happy to see Keyboard changes in the kde3 feature list but I think withous a mouse isn't a good idear.
have fun
By hal at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
Other features would be more useful? To you maybe, but this is KDE, where people hack on what they need.
By Carg at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
> Mhm, why using kde without a mouse ?
I think you miss the point here, often things can be done faster without reaching the mouse.
On Win32 you can for example do things like:
2. Winkey+Tab Tab - This moves selection focus to system tray and allows bring up/manipulate things in systray without touching the mouse, move with Left/Right, leftclick action with Enter, rightclick with CMK.
3. Under start menu I have appz/tools/net/etc... folders which contain shortcuts to progz, now when I pop up start menu with Winkey, press A - the appz submenu pops up, press A again and first shortcut which has first letter A is selected or executed if it's the only one with this first letter.
4. Desktop toolbars: instead of having 32x32 icons cluttering desktop theres one toolbar in the left side with 16x16 icons and text to the left, shortcuts on toolbar are easily rearranged by drag&drop.
5. Ctrl+Leftclick on My Computer/My Documents or any other folder on toolbar pops up menu with directory structure.
6. Alt+Leftclick gives properties of toolbar item.
7. And what I find most handy is program called WinKey (http://www.copernic.com/winkey/). I have loads of combinations defined, most frequently used: Winkey+S - Minimize window, Winkey+W - maximize window, Winkey+Q - close window, Winkey+A - minimize all, full list shown at http://www.hot.ee/tar/img/winkey.png
8. In Win32 when window is maximized borders are removed from window.
9. Option to put web page as active desktop item - resizeable, lockable, hideable, rightclick->View source->modify&save&close->rightclick->refresh
10. Hold Ctrl while leftclicking on task on taskbar to select multiple tasks, then rightclick on one of selected task, choose close/maximize/tile/etc.
11. Use of CMK everywhere (for example while cruising in start menu press CMK, then R to get properties for selected item), use of CMK in explorer.
12. Utility PicaView by ACDsystems (2.0 is crap, use 1.31 instead) to view images with CMK in explorer
13. For example in Red Hat installer there's no Shift+Tab to go back to last element, arghhh frustrating...
14. Many things from http://www.hot.ee/tar/tweak.html
and tons of other tiny things...
My point is that with Win32 you _currently_ can do things quicker/easier without reaching for a mouse than in KDE.
I do like what KDE is becoming but for me it's missing some things that I rely on when in Win32 desktop.
By Tar at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
I don't mean a keyboard enabled desktop is not usefull. I also use the keyboard and every day I learn more shortcuts.
This is only my way of using a desktop. If other people don't use a mouse than of course it would be nice to make kde ready for this people.
have fun
By hal at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
> I think you miss the point here,
It would be nice if there are more keyboard features.
By hal at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
Oh, yay, another list :-)
Well, time for my list-like response then:
1. For KDE at least, using KDE style tabbing, you can easily configure the ability to switch between two common tasks with alt+tab. Just alt+tab from task 1 to task 2, and then back to task 1, and from then on, hitting alt+tab just once will switch between these two windows. If you have a need to do this even more, just use ctrl+tab for desktop switch, which I believe has the same feature.
2. In KDE and UNIX the system tray is far less used then in Windows; most Windows daemon-like things go there. However, you can achieve a simlar effect by configuring keyboard shortcuts. Many systray apps are simply shortcuts to another program (kmix, noatun young hickory, korn) and you can then use the global app shortcuts in the K Menu editor to achieve that effect, or by configuring the app in question for it's own keyboard system (Noatun has a great global control setup system). Klipper, one of my favorite systray apps, also has it's own keyboard shortcut configuration.
3. I can do this faster :-) I just hit alt+f2 and type the name of the app. This dialog also has a nice completion facility.
4. Just create another kicker bar to achieve the same effect. If you don't want it taking up space whle your windows are open, configure it to pop in/out automatically upon hitting the side of the screen (which Fitt's law says is extremely fast to do)
5. Control leftclick does selection in KDE, which is needed for when you make icons single click instead of double click (which most do)
6. Rightclick gives properties of toolbar icons too :-) (and just about everything else, as well)
7. KDE can do this too. Go to Prefs/Look n' Feel/Key bindings to set various bindings to window management tasks. And you cna use the KDE menu editor to set app shortcuts.
8. This is configurable in KDE. Go to Prefs/Look n' Feel/Window behavior/Advanced and turn off "allow resize and movement of maximized windows" to make them fill the whole screen.
9. This really doesn't seem that useful to me, but I believe you can achieve the same effect by setting a Konqueror browser as the root desktop window. BTW, I tried this out on various versions of Windows, and it always made it crash quite a bit more often.
10. In KDE3, you can just use dcop to achieve this same effect. Pop up alt+f2 and enter the neccessary DCOP command to the window manager. In addition, KDE's unclutter feature is very nice. And finally, this doesn't seem that great. If I want my current window maximized, I maximize it. I have no reason to want to maximize other windows until I want to use them, in which case I just maximize them then. No time saved by doing it in advance.
11. CMK? Sorry, I don't know what that is.
12. Konqueror has image previews in the icons of images. In addition, it has KOffice docuemnt previews, HTML file previews, text file previews, sound previews, and a whole bunch of stuff like this as well. And you don't need 3rd party software to do it :-)
13. Red Hat installer sucks. Try the Debian, MDK, or Caldera instalelrs, they all do this iirc.
Believe me, Alt+F2 is a godsend. Yes, Windows has this too, but UNIX is better suited to this sort of thing. The nice thing about UNIX is that generally a GUI is just a frontend to a console app or library. KDE's big muscle is the libraries it provides (KHTML and other KIOslaves, KParts, DCOP, etc). This means, generally, that you can do jsut about anything from a CLI. DOS sucks majorly compared to the awesome power contained in bash or zsh or even sh. Just do alt+f2, type konsole, and off you go to doing all sorts of awesome things with just your keyboard, while still keeping your GUI around.
By Carbon at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
to learn about interesting desktop/application behavior and expectations.
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: No Mouse No KDE :(
> Just do alt+f2, type konsole, and off you go to doing all sorts
Or use khotkeys through the menu editor to assign a special key combo specifically to launch konsole. I personally use ctrl-alt-space and using it to fire up a quick konsole has become a second nature.
By Matthijs Sypken... at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
"The first is speed; Konqueror is a relatively fast program, but it is slow to load, and redraw (either as a web browser or a file viewer) flickers and pops"
I have to agree with it. Konqueror does many unnecessary repaintings when loading web pages. Of course, I often get frustrated when wainting for the www pages to load in other browsers. Netscape, IE can display something like 'Loading page ... 85% of 459kB' and nothing more for an hour because they can't find out the size of some table or picture. On the other hand Konqueror refreshes the screen a few times even when displaying simple, local pages. There should be some kind of a built-in timer, to make sure that repaintings don't occur more often then, for example, every two seconds.
By Rumcajs at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
> There are also some serious design flaws in the file manager mode. When I want to to highlight some file, I click on it.
Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse
Actually it would be a design flaw if it were the other way, because with KIO there isn't a difference between a http URL and a file URl, so treating them differently by default would be wrong IMHO.
By Kevin Krammer at Sat, 2002/01/26 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
It worked. Thanks !
>there isn't a difference between a http URL and a file URl
By Rumcajs at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
No there isn't. As far as KIO is concerned, a link is a link, whether it's a link on a web page or a link to a file.
By Carbon at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
There can be link to a file on the web page and it should be opened by a single click, of course. The same link on a list view should be opened by a double click I think. Difference is in the presentation layer and not in whether this is a www URL or a local file.
By Rumcajs at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
"There can be link to a file on the web page and it should be opened by a single click, of course. The same link on a list view should be opened by a double click I think. Difference is in the presentation layer and not in whether this is a www URL or a local file."
a) Why be inconsistent just because the web way didn't exist when GUIs became popular?
b) You *can* select a file. Just ctrl-click on him, like you do to select the second, third and later files.
However, what is the purpose of selecting a single file?
The only half-useful purpose I can think of is "to presss delete and delete it",
By Roberto Alsina at Mon, 2002/01/28 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
a) Why be inconsistent just because the web way didn't exist when GUIs became popular?
ahhh, but ctrl+click on a web URL doesn't select it. So there is a differentiation.
By HRJ at Mon, 2002/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
Well, let's fix that instead ;-)
By Roberto Alsina at Tue, 2002/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror
Selecting one file is also nice when you plan to copy or cut it with ctrl-c or ctrl-x.
The best thing would be if this was configurable separately for different presentations: when managing files single click would select, when browsing web opening the link.
By janza at Tue, 2002/04/09 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror
I, too, am annoyed by the single click opening files.
So I changed it in Control Panel -> peripherals -> Mouse
Now the tree view is broken. Clicking on a folder in the tree view does not open the folder in the list view. Doube click also does not work
But double click does work in control panel. If i double click a tree view item it appears in the main window.
This is inconsistent.
By Mike at Fri, 2002/08/09 - 5:00am
Konqueror double-click
If the double-click to open option is enabled in control Center - peripherals - mouse and konqueror still opens files on a single-click, what do I need to change?
By Richard Bollinger at Mon, 2004/03/08 - 6:00am
Re: Konqueror double-click
I can't find any information pertaining to this problem. Konqueror never retains the double-click preference from mouse configuration on my laptop. Anyone else?
By Josh Schneider at Wed, 2004/12/15 - 6:00am
Creating PDFs?
Maybe I missed this in the article, but...what's the preferred
By steve at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Sorry, found it in the second part of the article
" the absolutely excellent KDE printing architecture (see below) allows one to print to a PDF. So, we simply print to a Postscript (.ps) file, click on that to open it in KGhostView, and then click "Print" and choose "Print to PDF." Voila, you have a gorgeous PDF."
By steve at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Distributions that don't use KDE Control Center
The author notes:
"in my opinion, all distributions should use the same scheme as Caldera OpenLinux and Redmond Linux: integrate 100% of the system configuration tools into the KDE control center."
I would like to point out that SuSE also integrates
IMHO it makes for a very unprofessional UI, and it's
By steve at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Re: Distributions that don't use KDE Control Cente
"I would like to point out that SuSE also integrates
This is not that strange. Mandrake's control center
By Jörgen Lundberg at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Re: Distributions that don't use KDE Control Cente
Yes, I know the technical reasons behind it.
I'm glad to see SuSE and Caldera getting it right
By steve at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Re: Distributions that don't use KDE Control Cente
Isn't it YAST, which stores all its configuration in a private file and flushing it to the "normal" files overwriting all previous contents, so if you use it you can't touch config files ?
By Rumcajs at Sun, 2002/01/27 - 6:00am
Re: Distributions that don't use KDE Control Cente
an MD5 checksum is added to each configfile when it is regenerated. If you modify the configfile, the MD5 checksum will be incorrect and that file will not be processed by Yast (so it leaves your modifications untouched).If you want Yast to process the configfiles again, just remove the checksum completely from the file.
By Jeroen Jacobs at Wed, 2002/01/30 - 6:00am


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Five Polk County veterans of World War II will receive the National Order of the Legion of Honor medal from French military officers Monday during a ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
LAKELAND | Bill Walker of Lakeland and Jack Haight of Lake Wales don't know each other, but they have a lot in common. Both are 87, and as teenagers, both fought in World War II.
They are among five Polk County veterans of that war who will receive the National Order of the Legion of Honor medal from French military officers Monday during a ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. In all, more than a dozen aging former warriors will be honored.
Walker entered France 28 days after D-Day at the age of 18. He was the gunner on an M-10 tank destroyer, a modified Sherman tank with a 3-inch gun, that could deal both with powerful German Panzer tanks and entrenched soldiers in urban warfare.
He had grown up in Haines City and was in the Army as soon as he was old enough.
After brutal fighting through France's hedgerows, overgrown earthen and rock fences that prolonged fighting in Normandy, the 16 tanks in his company turned south and headed to Brest, France. The city contained German submarine pens, which housed subs that continued to threaten Allied transports and supply ships to Normandy.
Bombers had taken out much of the submarine complex, but Walker said his unit was ordered to take the city itself, which contained a concentration of German units.
Fighting across France with Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army, the M-10s of the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion were the first tanks to cross into Germany, said Walker, who celebrated his 19th birthday in Cologne, Germany.
He returned to Haines City after the war and married his sweetheart, Annie, and raised a family.
Haight was assigned to headquarters of the 255th Infantry of the 63rd Infantry Division.
The division landed in Marseilles, France, in December 1944 and January 1945. It headed northeast across Southern France, breaking through Germany's infamous Siegfried Line of forts and tank defenses in February at Saarbr�cken, Germany.
"We were supposed to go to the Pacific, but then the Battle of the Bulge happened, and they had to have more of us in France," Haight said.
His wife, Billie, said that among her favorite stories is one about Jack driving a high-ranking officer who told him to stop the jeep. He noticed an American field telephone lying by the side of the road and wondered why.
They soon found out, as German mortars began landing nearby.
"We had out driven our front line," Haight said. "Nobody was hurt, and we got out fast."
The Haights married after the war and have two sons.
In addition to Walker and Haight, three other Polk County veterans receiving the medal Monday are Henry Eades, Teddy Fisk and Milton Hicks, all of Lakeland.
In all, 14 veterans from Central and West Coast Florida who fought in France will be honored Monday.
The medal presented is for the veterans' service in France in World War II helping to free that country from Nazi domination.
Elaine Machado, who coordinates the Legion of Honor presentations for the French Consulate in Miami, said it is important to present the medals to American veterans who served in her country, who now are in their late 80s and their 90s. The French Embassy in Washington, D.C., and consulates throughout the United States are working in the effort.
"We want to remind them of their help that allowed us to go ahead and move forward. They helped free us from the Nazi occupation and restore our country," she said.
Every American veteran who fought in France against the Germans in World War II is eligible for the medal.
Applications for the Legion of Honor by veterans who served in France in World War II can be obtained by writing the French Consulate at Espirito Santo Plaza, 1395 Brickell Ave., Suite 1050, Miami, Fl. 33131, telephoning 305-403-4180 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Summer in China brings people to the beach, along with tons of garbage! Yuck! (15 Photos)
Hitting the beach in the summer. The pure sunlight, the fresh scent of the wind, the shining sand of the beach. That's the way we want it, anyway. But what we want and what we get are not always the same thing. Especially if we are talking a public beach.
Things can get bad if you have one or two litterbugs who come to the beach, throw their trash around, then leave it there for someone else to pick up. Visitors to Dameisha Beach Park in China would have been glad to put up with only one or two litterbugs. Instead, they got thousands! During last summer's Dragon Boast Festival, more than 480,000 tourists hit the beach for the three-day festival. The 362 tons....yes, TONS...of trash they left behind created one of the biggest, and smelliest, messes ever seen on the beach. The collection of pictures here tells the story.


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I've been working on a little project with Ms. Steeplechase, where the idea was to create an dramatic look suitable for an elegant occasion, like say, NEW YEARS EVE! Kess created the most lovely dress imaginable for Miao – and I put in my 2 cents with a dramatic jewelry set that takes advantage of the lovely low backed design of the dress. The dress, Rosalie, will be a limited edition in sapphire blue (I'm wearing the black). Pearls, that I'm calling the Soiree set, of course, because when fancy is called for, I always want pearls. Pearls draped over an elegant bare back, which IMHO is subtle sexy. I also designed the hair to go with this dress, an updo I am calling, Antonia. I hope you enjoy all these pieces they are available at the Miao and Dark Mouse stores, both in Amira. The poses for the outfit are specially made by Gidge Uriza, of Gesticulate! She's moonlighting as a pose maker! These pics were taken at the lovely Embryo sim, all dressed up for winter.
Outfit Credits
Hair – Antonia (Blond1) – Dark Mouse
Skin – (Dashing Blur – Sorry no longer available, but other gorgeous skins are) – Tres Blah
Eyes – Summer Storm – Poetic Color Eyes
Jewelry – Soiree Set – Dark Mouse Jewelry
Dress – Rosalie (Black) – Miao
Shoes – "Malama" Gold – R2 Fashion
Poses – Gesticulate!


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The Development of Early Pulsation Theory, or, How Cepheids Are Like Steam Engines
Matthew Stanley
Presented at the 100th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, May 22, 2011; received December 23, 2011; revised January 17, 2012; accepted January 17, 2012
The pulsation theory of Cepheid variable stars was a major breakthrough of early twentieth-century astrophysics. At the beginning of that century, the basic physics of normal stars was very poorly understood, and variable stars were even more mysterious. Breaking with accepted explanations in terms of eclipsing binaries, Harlow Shapley and A. S. Eddington pioneered novel theories that considered Cepheids as pulsating spheres of gas. Surprisingly, the pulsation theory not only depended on novel developments in stellar physics, but the theory also drove many of those developments. In particular, models of stars in radiative balance and theories of stellar energy were heavily inspired and shaped by ideas about variable stars. Further, the success of the pulsation theory helped justify the new approaches to astrophysics being developed before World War II.


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by Tom Utescher
Heavy rains last Friday morning chased many afternoon games off the schedule, but Springside Chestnut Hill Academy fans still got to see one of their teams in action as the Lions' volleyball team performed in the Vare Field House.
The SCH spikers took advantage of a break in Girls Inter-Ac League competition by ringing up a 3-0 victory over visiting Harriton High School. The win couldn't affect the Lions' league record, which remained at 1-5 (the win coming against Baldwin School), but it did get them almost back to even overall, with a 6-7 mark on the season.
SCH went ahead in the opening set, 6-1, with kills from senior Gianna Pownall (on a pass) and junior Courtney Hamilton blending in with errors made by the Lady Rams. The visitors dug in their heels and eventually pulled back within three points at 11-8, and from there the score seesawed up to 18-15.
Harriton served into the net for a side-out, and Lions junior Jenna Moriarty then stepped to the baseline and put the ball in play for three more points in a row. The gap narrowed to 22-18 before the visitors gave the ball back on a miscue. With sophomore Bridget McDermott now serving for the home team, Harriton made two more errant hits and the Lions won the set, 25-18.
The Lady Rams had a tall and talented middle hitter in junior Nadira Anderson, and she proved to be the team's best server, as well. Anderson, who just picked up the sport a year ago, could not be everywhere at once, though. In the second set, the SCH squad stayed focused the whole way, turning an 8-1 start into a 25-7 victory. A tip at the net by junior Kathryn Saltzman secured set point for the hosts.
In set three, the Lions leapt ahead once more. Senior Michelle Cybularz served a true (untouched) ace just inside the middle of the baseline for the first point, and after a few more points a hit by Saltzman made it 5-0. Harriton fought back and soon had its deficit down to two, at 7-5.
Springside Chestnut Hill got loose on another 5-0 run that featured hits by Saltzman and McDermott and a scoring pass by Cybularz.
Down 12-5, the stubborn Lady Rams stopped their slide, eventually pulling even with their hosts at 16-16. However, the visitors diminished their own momentum with some mistakes, and over the next few minutes a successful block by Anderson was the only interruption during a 6-1 burst by the locals. Harriton could not catch up again, and eventually a quick push over the net by Pownall secured set (and match) point at 25-19.
The Lady Rams returned to Rosemont still with just one mark in their win column, a victory over Interboro High School.
If SCH hadn't cancelled a match with Interboro that had been scheduled for the previous day, the Lions might have ended the week at the .500 mark.


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Carrie Underwood fans were left confused after the country singing sensation returned to the stage Sunday for the first time after suffering a "gruesome" fall in November.
The singer claims that the fall resulted in her getting 40-50 stitches, and previously she said it changed the way she looked.
In a blog post to fans on New Year's Day, the country singer said she's "not quite looking the same."
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"There is also another part of the story that I haven't been ready to talk about since I have still been living it and there has been much uncertainty as to how things will end up," she wrote. "It's crazy how a freak random accident can change your life. In addition to breaking my wrist, I somehow managed to injure my face as well."
At Sunday night's ACM Awards, fans got a good look at Underwood's "new" face, and for the most part, viewers were flummoxed by Underwood's appearance — she looked exactly the same as she did before, possibly even better.
Many viewers took to Twitter, questioning why they saw no noticeable difference.
Last week, Underwood, 35, gave her fans an update, saying her face "has been healing pretty nicely," and during rehearsal for the ACM Awards, she snapped a selfie backstage. Again, there is no visible scar or any sign of previous injury.
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She also said the recuperation time from the fall has been a "silver lining," since it meant she was able to spend more time with her husband, Mike Fisher, and their son Isaiah.
It wasn't all negativity from social media, however. The majority of fans were ecstatic to see the singer back in action and promoting her new single, Cry Pretty. Underwood's last major album release was 2015's Storyteller.
As of this writing, Underwood hasn't commented on the viewer response.Follow @CJancelewicz
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text: Linnea56 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2012 I've been taking pottery classes for a year. I made some flat wall pieces for a special raku firing. They are flat slab built, about 4 ½ by 6 inches. I carved them extensively, in Frank Lloyd Wright style stained glass designs. I put about 4 hours work into each one. They all got through the bisque firing just fine. But 3 of the 4 cracked during the raku firing. Not along the incised lines I made, I'm pretty sure it was because our instructor set them upon blocks to be able to pick them up from the kiln during firing, and they must have absorbed the heat unevenly. Anyway…I want to make them over again, and fire them conventionally. But I don't want to put in all that carving labor. Studio staff suggested I glue the pieces back together, then make a plaster mold, and push new very moist slabs into the resulting mold. I bought casting plaster already that states on the box it is good for fine detail. But studio staff were sketchy about how to make the plaster mold exactly. No one had ever actually done it. Especially considering the pieces I am molding are flat. How would I get the originals out again? Apply a film of something, like Vaseline? Can you offer me any instructions? Thanks, Lin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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If the holidays still seem a long way off, you clearly haven't done much television channel surfing lately.
NEW YORK (AP) ? If the holidays still seem a long way off, you clearly haven't done much television channel surfing lately.
The Hallmark channel has already begun two months of wall-to-wall holiday programming. Lifetime has ramped up its seasonal selections with 10 new made-for-TV movies, the first one airing last weekend. ABC Family's annual "25 Days of Christmas" programming isn't enough, so they do a "Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas," starting Sunday.
This is in addition to all the old favorites, from Charlie Brown to Frosty the Snowman, that will fill broadcast network schedules during the next month. An already popular television genre is growing in power, judging by the 22 new movies Hallmark and Lifetime are rolling out between them, and a new Disney holiday musical.
"This is a strategy that developed naturally from demand," said Rob Sharenow, executive vice president of programming at the Lifetime networks. "It's really giving people what they want."
A sneak preview of the movie "Christmas Song" on Hallmark Nov. 3 was a hit that left the network second behind ESPN in cable viewership at that time, the Nielsen company said. Hallmark's 2006 movie, "The Christmas Card," is still the network's most-watched original movie and will be repeated again this season.
"Others try and emulate and replicate and copy what we do, but because of our brand, no one can do it like we do," said Bill Abbott, president and CEO of the Hallmark Channels.
Lifetime's aggressive investment makes it the relative newcomer in this area. The longtime maker of TV movies that appeal to women is coming off its biggest success in years, October's "Steel Magnolia" remake with Queen Latifah, which surprised even network executives with its potency.
Its movies feature Mira Sorvino, Shelley Long, George Wendt and Lea Thompson. Wendt and Long play Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus as they're about to meet their future daughter-in-law, Ralph Macchio is a former dance champion who comes back to win a Christmas Eve dance contest, and Thompson is featured in "Love at the Christmas Table."
Happy endings abound. Don't expect any holiday shootouts.
Beyond the new originals, Lifetime is airing more than 50 seasonal films, the biggest commitment in its history.
"In the times we're in, people want to feel good," Sharenow said. "People are definitely gravitating toward feel-good escapism and having fun and that's what these movies do. They're like little Christmas gifts."
Hallmark, part of a company that also sells Christmas cards, is a natural for holiday programming. This is the fourth year that the network essentially shuts down its regular programming for two full months to devote itself to the genre. The holiday focus began on Nov. 9 and ends Jan. 2.
There's a risk both in overkill and having fans get out of the habit of watching the network's regular shows, Abbott said, "but we have found over the years that our viewers really look forward to it and really want it."
Hallmark's original movies are premiering every Saturday and Sunday night heading into Christmas.
With titles like "Hitched for the Holidays," ''A Bride for Christmas," ''Matchmaker Santa," ''Come Dance With Me" and "Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade," the focus is pretty clear.
While confident of the programming strategy's ultimate success, Abbott said it is clear that Hallmark has more competition. "We sleep with one eye open," he said.
ABC Family's holiday focus is primarily on movies that started in theaters, like "Home Alone" and "Elf." Its own production is "The Mistle-Tones," about a woman who creates her own Christmas singing group after being turned down for a spot in a well-known group.
The network's "countdown" programming includes the premiere of the movie "Home Alone: The Holiday Heist" on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.


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Matt Smith may have hinted that the classic monsters, the Ice Warriors, will be returning.
Rumours of the classic villains return to the new series have been going on since the new era of Doctor Who began in 2005. but now, after 38 years, it looks like the Ice Warriors will be returning to the show.
Organiser Sean Harry at 'The 11th Hour Convention' asked Matt 'Ice Warriors are one of the last classic monsters not to make a return to 'Doctor Who', Matt replied ''yes'' and turned to the audience and smiled broadly and knowingly at them before adding ''that's good to know, next question,'' leaving fans in hysterics.
Last week, it was reported, that Mark Gatiss (The Unquiet Dead, The Idiots Lantern, Victory of the Daleks, Night Terrors) had wrote the episode featuring the Ice Warriors as well as new companion - Jenna Louise Coleman.


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In the gaming world, bigger is better, just ask the geeks and tech hounds who covet the very idea of large screen or multi monitor gaming. The higher the resolution, the bigger your bragging rights are in the realm of virtual reality and the only way to get higher resolutions is through your choice of video card, and your monitor setup. Once you get yourself the latest pixel pumping powerhouse money can buy, where do you get the actual equipment to take advantage of this new PC muscle? This is where the hardcore get separated by the cash poor as buying into any monitor or multi monitor setup is not cheap, its not like buying a new car, but the cost will be over a $1000.00 for any 30'' monitor (2560X1600) or in the $700.00 range for a 21.5'' Triple monitor stand (4800X900).
Integrated cable management
- 2-port USB hub on base
- Headphone and microphone passthrough on base
- Integrated hex key storage on base
Pivots 20° up / 10° down for each monitor
16 inch vertical pole
Quick Release Pivots - Allow for one-step mounting and dismounting
Supports monitors from 17 inches up to 24 inches
Supports up to 75 total pounds
VESA compatible - 75mm and 100mm
Package Contents
XFX Triple Display Monitor Stand x 1
1.5" Pole x 1
3.5mm Stereo Audio Cables x 2
3mm Hex Key x 1
5mm Hex Key x 1
Base Cable Management Clip / Hex Key Storage Cover x 1
Cross Bar Cable Management Clips x 3
Extrusion Bar x 1
Fully-adjustable Pivots x 2
Instruction Manual x 1
M4x0.7x12mm Philips Pan Head Monitor Mount Screws x 12
Pole Cable Management Clip x 1
Pole Cap x 1
Semi-adjustable Pivot x 1
Stand Base x 1
USB-A Male to USB-B Male Cable x 1
That said, resolutions on either of these setups is going to be way above the standard 1920X1200 resolution that most Television's and 27'' and below monitors are capable of handling. In the real world, you get what you pay for and both quality and ease of use follow right into line with how something looks. The new XFX triple monitor stand is of a variety different than that of other in this same price point, as the ability to use three 24" monitors has only been seen on stands at a higher markup price. This is one of the key aspects that set this product apart from its peers as is the high-tech savvy look and the ease in which the unit can be fully assembled. I was very eager to get this new stand up and going and since I already have 3 Asus 21.5 monitors from a previous review I was ready to begin my journey into XFX land and have some fun.


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I am confused... up until now, I have always either compiled jars into .exe using JSmooth or run jars from a batch file.
However, I have read in several places that JAR files are supposed to be double-clickable? On my system, it just pops up with a command line and immediately goes away. Does anyone here know how (and if) you can make a jar file launch just from a click?
I am running 64 bit Windows Vista with JRE 1.6_026


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Doctor describes "horror" of Britain's socialist healthcare system
Paul Joseph Watson
November 30, 2012
A physician has told the British Medical Journal about the "unique horror" of watching a newborn baby shrivel up and die under a cost-cutting system of socialized healthcare that withdraws feeding tubes from sick and disabled babies, a method that could be replicated in the United States under Obamacare.
After speaking with doctors who have blown the whistle on how babies are being starved and dehydrated to death in British hospitals, an investigation by the Daily Mail has revealed that the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway end of life regime is being used to kill disabled newborns and young children. It was previously thought that the method was only being used on elderly and terminally ill adult patients.
The method has been criticized as a form of euthanasia because its primary purpose is to kill off patients quicker so as to free up more hospital beds and resources.
One physician spoke of how parents who gave permission for their babies to be put on the 'pathway to death' were making the decision without properly considering the abhorrent reality of what dehydration and starvation does to the human body.
"I know, as they cannot, the unique horror of witnessing a child become smaller and shrunken, as the only route out of a life that has become excruciating to the patient or to the parents who love their baby," the doctor writes. "I reflect on how sanitised this experience seems within the literature about making this decision."
The doctor also dismissed the myth that the baby does not suffer during the process.
"Survival is often much longer than most physicians think…..Parents and care teams are unprepared for the sometimes severe changes that they will witness in the child's physical appearance as severe dehydration ensues," he wrote.
"Some say withdrawing medically provided hydration and nutrition is akin to withdrawing any other form of life support. Maybe, but that is not how it feels," he wrote, describing the mixture of "compassion, revulsion, and pain" the care team had to experience in watching the baby slowly die.
Bernadette Lloyd, a hospice paediatric nurse, also revealed how parents are being coerced into agreeing to put their children on the LCP, and that she "Witnessed a 14 year-old boy with cancer die with his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth when doctors refused to give him liquids by tube. His death was agonising for him, and for us nurses to watch. This is euthanasia by the backdoor."
"I have also seen children die in terrible thirst because fluids are withdrawn from them until they die," added Lloyd.
Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), now under independent investigation by order of government ministers, is a process whereby a doctor identifies a patient who is likely to die and that patient is then heavily sedated while treatment is withdrawn, "including the provision of water and nourishment by tube."
The investigation into LCP will "look at whether cash payments to hospitals to hit death pathway targets have influenced doctors' decisions" to put patients on the 'pathway to death'.
In a recent exposé, Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals and professor of clinical neurosciences at the University of Kent, revealed that of the 450,000 patients who die annually under the care of the NHS, 130,000 of them were on the Liverpool Care Pathway.
"If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying as it is now associated with 29 per cent of NHS deaths," Pullicino said.
The Telegraph's Gerald Warner notes that LCP represents "euthanasia by the back door." Other doctors such as Dr. Peter Hargreaves have highlighted the fact that patients taken off LCP have gone on to live for "significant amounts of time."
Because death occurs on average within 33 hours of a patient being put on LCP, the cost difference between two days of morphine and treatment of a condition for months or even years means the NHS is literally euthanising people to save money.
"In fact, Hargreaves noted, some patients may exhibit signs of dying when their bodies are merely reacting to sedation combined with dehydration and then "be wrongly put on the pathway." Once a patient is sedated under the LCP, University of London geriatrics professor P.H. Millard told the Telegraph, "it is much harder to see that a patient is getting better."
"Pullicino echoed many of these sentiments, saying that "patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of their condition," that "predicting death" at a specific time "is not possible scientifically," and that, as a result, "very likely many patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the LCP."
Could a similar system of euthanasia become commonplace in America under Obamacare?
President Obama has repeatedly expressed his support for the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a group of doctors that would make decisions on cost cutting measures under Obamacare. Opponents of government-run healthcare have dubbed this a system of "death panels" that would have the power to refuse treatment to the elderly or severely ill patients, a de-facto form of mandatory euthanasia.
Last month, Obama adviser Steven Rattner acknowledged that rationed healthcare would be part of Obamacare, brazenly stating, "We need death panels."
The idea that "death panels" would be introduced through Obamacare as a means of rationing healthcare was also discussed during an Aspen Institute conference in 2010 when Obama supporter Bill Gates argued that money should not be spent on treating the elderly.
During a question and answer session, Gates implied that elderly patients undergoing expensive health care treatments should be killed and the money spent elsewhere.
Gates said there was a "lack of willingness" to consider the question of choosing between "spending a million dollars on that last three months of life for that patient" or laying off ten teachers.
"But that's called the death panel and you're not supposed to have that discussion," added Gates.
This eugenicist mindset was also evident in a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Medical Ethics by Alberto Giubilini of Monash University in Melbourne and Francesca Minerva at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne which argued that abortion should be extended to make the killing of newborn babies permissible, even if the baby is perfectly healthy.
Allowing patients to die via the horrifically slow and painful method of dehydration and starvation is not just restricted to the elderly and sick or disabled babies.
In a series of best-selling books, author and bioethics expert Wesley J. Smith has exposed how adults in the United States who regain consciousness after being comatose and are able to exhibit physical and emotional responses are also being starved and dehydrated to death.
If America mimics Britain's notoriously bad socialized healthcare system, thousands upon thousands of sick babies will likely be left to die excruciatingly painful deaths in the name of cost-cutting measures that amount to nothing less than a cruel and inhumane death sentence.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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Average fixed rates moved lower during the week ending Jan. 30, even with the Federal Open Market Committee's recent move forward with rate-lowering bond purchases.
The rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped seven basis points to 4.32% from week-ago averages, and the average 15-year FRM fell by four basis points to 3.4%.
Below-consensus home sales figures and first drop in Standard Poor's closely watched Case-Shiller home price index since November 2012 contributed to the slight easing in rates during the week, according to Freddie Mac chief economist and vice president Frank Nothaft.
The average rate for five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages also fell, dropping three basis points to 3.12%.
The only rate to rise was the one-year Treasury ARM rate, which was up one basis point week-to-week at 2.55%. This also is the only rate lower now than it was a year ago.
At one point recently the 30-year rate was around 1% higher than it was at the same time in 2013, but now the gap between year-ago 30-year rates is less than 1%.
Rates were as follows a year ago: 30-year, 3.53%; 15-year, 2.81%; five-year Treasury hybrid, 2.7%; and one-year Treasury ARM, 2.59%.
Average points remain lowest for the one-year Treasury adjustable-rate mortgage at 0.4 of a point, followed by 0.5 of a point for five-year Treasury hybrids, 0.6 of a point for 15-year FRMs and 0.7 of a point for 30-year FRMs.