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Most campers pitch tents. These pitch start-ups. They are the entrepreneurs at Le Camping, the latest start-up accelerator in Paris, and my role (together with Pierre Morsa) is to help them to make a fantastic pitch on Investor Day, when they will compete for attention from various investors, and hopefully attract funding to develop their businesses.
After our latest coaching session yesterday, I'm pleased to say they have made great strides in terms of using attractive, simple and relevant slides, with few words (in most cases) and some good use of graphics. They have also mostly worked on their introductions, although some can (and must) still make them more memorable and catchy.
Some are still looking back at their slides too often, and there are still plenty of 'ums' and 'ers' to iron out. That will improve with more practice.
Four things in particular are missing though from most of the pitches, and I'd encourage everyone to think about these points in terms of your own presentations (pitches or otherwise), because they are the difference between a good performance and a great one.
Four Steps From Good To Great
1. Adapt your content to meet your audience's objectives. They are still spending too much time talking about their products or ideas. This isn't a sales pitch. Investors want to know you have a product that can make money, of course, but it's the money that's the key point there, not the product. Your product is not your business plan – it is just a way of giving investors confidence that you can achieve your business plan.
While for you it might be your big idea, for an investor it is only your first idea – and hopefully not your last. It might turn out not to work, or a major competitor with a huge cashpile might choose to enter the same market and squash you. What investors need to know is that you are smart enough to come up with other ideas and make them work if the first one doesn't. They are investing, above all, in a team, not in a product. Better a great team with an average idea than an average team with a great idea, as investors often say. So tell them why they should trust you with their cash.
2. Vision. If I'm investing in you and your company, I want to know it's a good bet not just now, but for the future. I want to bet on someone who's going to make it big, or who at least will give it a damn good try. If your vision is limited to "we're going to launch this product", that doesn't give me much long-term confidence. Aim high. Investors don't want small wins – their choices fail so often that it's only big wins that make up for the losses. Better to have a 1% chance of being a $billion company than a 20% chance of being a $10million company.
So docTrackr, for example, should not just aim to sell a great document security solution. Yawn, so what? But if they stated a vision to be the world leader in document security within 3 years, and to be bought out by Microsoft, Adobe or Google within 5 years, then as an investor, that would make me sit up and take interest.
3. Passion. If you're trying to make me enthusiastic about your investment opportunity, I need to know and feel that you are enthusiastic about it. If you present as if you either don't believe in it, don't care about it, or don't want it, then I'm not going to want it either.
Don't be quiet. Don't be monotonous. Don't be boring. Enthusiasm is contagious, so if you present like you really believe this is an exciting investment opportunity and you have a fantastic team, your audience might start to believe it too. Boredom, on the other hand, is even more contagious. So if you sound flat and boring, the audience will just use your talk as an opportunity to check their email.
Be passionate. Don't be afraid to show that you care and that you believe.
4. A great conclusion. Too many of the pitches are currently just dying, as if the speaker has run out of things to say, or run out of time. Yet the conclusion will determine whether people remember something, or nothing. So it absolutely has to be brilliant.
"OK, so that's it. Er, any questions?"
"And that was my last slide."
These do not make good conclusions.
"That was our introduction to Perspecteev. We make money by helping people take care of their money. Now we'd like to take care of yours. Thankyou."
This was one of the better conclusions. It was a clear end-point, it reminded the audience of the company name and its tag-line, and it used a neat play on words to remind investors that they're looking for funding (which was explained earlier in the pitch).
The conclusion is an opportunity to remind people of your key points. In an investor pitch, particularly in a context where there are 11 other pitches happening in the same session, your key points are:
- who you are
- what you do
- what you need
- why they should give it to you
If any of those questions remains unanswered at the end, or the audience forgets the answers, you have failed. Your conclusion should remind people of these points. Remember Lewis Carroll: "What I say three times is the truth." Say something three times, and you significantly increase the chances of it being remembered. Say something once, however, and expect it to be forgotten. So use the conclusion to state your key points for the third time – or at least for the second time.
Think of your talk as a matchstick. When you light a match, it sparks brightly, and then starts burning slowly along the stick. That's your high-impact introduction and the middle part of your talk. But a typical match will then just burn out. So your talk has to be like a double-headed match, with a bright, high-impact conclusion to match the introduction.
Lastly, in a context like this where the pitches will happen in front of a large audience, with no Q&A session, the intention is not to finish presenting and start discussing: each presenter should aim to leave the stage to a large round of applause. I'd therefore point you to this article where I talk about the importance of applause and how to make sure you get the audience to clap.
Adapting to your audience's objectives, communicating vision, presenting with passion, and nailing a great conclusion: if the Campers can get these four points right in the next few weeks, they'll be ready for Investor Day. If you can get them right for your next talk – whatever it is – you'll turn a good presentation into a great one.


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Allen International-The Lab Bank Branch
At Design Interviews
Interview with allen international : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. allen international : We wanted to develop a design for Allied Irish Bank that would challenge peoples preconceptions of what a financial space is. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. allen international : It should inform and educate customers on the most convenient ways to carry out their daily banking, but also showcase and deliver the brand's products and services in an engaging and easy to understand format. It has never been about utilising technology for technologies sake but rather integrating the latest most appropriate digital technology to deliver the vision for the store. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. allen international : The main focus of this branch is as a 'LAB - Lear About Banking, and therefore some/all of the positive aspects from the design will be rolled out across the branch network in the future. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. allen international : 3.5 months from concept through to implementation .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. allen international : Allied Irish Bank approached allen international and Accenture to create a totally unique concept store which would provide a learning and research environment focused on enabling customers to get the most from their current and next generation banking services. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. allen international : allen international worked in conjunction with Accenture .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. allen international : The Allied Irish Bank clients and all Irish public interested in Learning About Banking .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. allen international : This concept is totally unique for the banking sector but borrows look and feel elements from retail eg the Apple store .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. allen international : The LAB = Learn About Banking .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. allen international : All Mac based software. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. allen international : The Mobile Banking Zone – mobile banking table with interactive screens and devices, showcasing mobile banking services, and an internet banking booth as well as The Product Zone – AIB's partnerships with other technology brands via an iconic interactive digital product table and Emerging Technology area. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. allen international : We worked closely with Accenture .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. allen international : It is of paramount importance as it is a digital branch. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. allen international : We've entered these particular awards in the last 2 years and have been very successful .
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors #1) by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Released: October 2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 337
Source: Library
From Goodreads:
"Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove.
Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all–hope–in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world."
My review:
As I've mentioned before, I really enjoy dystopian novels, whether they involve zombies or not. Another blogger, Brittany, read this book before me and said, "It was dystopian without having to go far into the future and very realistic. It really made me think that things like this could really happen and how scary that would be!" After reading it, I totally agree. While the story didn't have super fantastical elements, such as virus', walking dead, survival camps, mass evacuations or martial law, the very fact that it is realistic is the scary part!
A large meteor hits the moon, and shifts it's orbit. As the moon gets closer to earth, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes and erupting volcanoes decimate thousands of acres, cities and even entire states, hundreds of thousands of people are dead, and the government systems are defunct. Miranda's mother immediately tasks the family with filling multiple shopping carts with non-perishable food, hygiene products and first aid supplies. When Miranda's oldest brother, Matt, returns from college they begin chopping and stockpiling wood, months prior to winter.
As the season's progress and food sources run low, the electricity is out, natural gas is gone, the well runs dry and schools close down. The family's world gets smaller and smaller as communication ceases, gasoline supply is exhausted, the volcanic ash turns the sky gray and the air polluted, the family is confined to their home. Diseases spread, the volcanic ash has killed their garden and there is no more food to be had, their strength wanes and lack of privacy wears on their disposition.
Miranda's father and his new wife, Lisa, are expecting a baby, but are unable to reach the kids since the phone system has been down. As the rare radio station program reads lists of the dead, the future seems very uncertain, and in fact, improbable. Miranda doesn't know if her father is dead or alive, if Lisa has had her baby, or if they are even still alive. As asthma, infections and the flu spread in Miranda's hometown, the remaining citizens begin leaving for other places in hopes of finding a utopia in the midst of despair.
The scary part of this book is the fact that it is so realistic. While a zombie apocalypse probably won't happen, a major depression, or some natural or nuclear disaster is possible, and the results would probably be much the same as a large meteor displacing the moon. Lack of electricity, sporadic news or lack of wide spread communication, rations on gas – all of these things have already happened with lesser cause. (Consider Hurricane Katrina for example.) While this novel is a work of fiction, it deals with a future that could be very realistic.
Now, excuse me while I empty my truck, and head to Sam's Club to buy in bulk….
I rated this book a 3.5 out of 5. I enjoyed it.
Other reviews on this book can be found here:
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Could this be the most horrific concept art ever created for a kiddie show? Artist Eric Canete developed these nightmarish visions for a new revival of the Cartoon Network series Ben 10, but he tweeted that they'll probably never be used "because it'll scare your childrens." No freaking kidding.
Check out more of Canete's creations below. And I hope you weren't planning on sleeping any time soon.
These images come from Canete's Twitter stream, via Chris Sims at Comics Alliance, who writes:
For a lot of his designs, Canete's strategy seems to be to take something people are already afraid of and make it even scarier.
It's true that there are a lot of weird animal parts and extra teeth and bulbous eyes jammed together into horrific packages here. But there's also some other elements, like weird amorphous shapes, things that might be brains or might be just weird fibers on top of a creature's skull, and a lot of sharp edges and drool. Basically, the complete package. Here's some more of horrific Canete's revolting designs, and check out much more of his art over at his site.


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AutoCAD for Mac Is Back!4 Feb, 2011 By: Lynn Allen
Circles and Lines Tutorial: After an 18-year absence, Autodesk reintroduces native AutoCAD for the OS X platform.
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the Fall 2010 issue of Cadalyst magazine.
I remember 18 years ago when Autodesk made the announcement that it would no longer be developing AutoCAD for the Macintosh platform. I also remember the myriad sad architects and other Mac users that were distraught about this decision. Nothing could thrill me more than to see AutoCAD back on the Mac and that void filled for Mac lovers everywhere.
It isn't as if users haven't been using AutoCAD on their Macs. In fact, plenty of people have been using Bootcamp, Parallels, or VM Ware Fusion to do exactly that. But it just wasn't the same; it wasn't the true Mac experience. They were essentially living in the Windows world on a Mac — definitely not the same. They wanted the Mac experience with a native Mac application, and that is exactly what they can get now. This new version is not a port — it is the real deal running natively on Apple Mac OS X (pronounced "ten," not "X," if you want to maintain Mac coolness).
For starters, Mac users might have a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad. They also rely heavily on their keyboard trackpads (for those who use laptops) or Magic Trackpads. The Magic Mouse will completely stump Windows users, because it has no physical right-click button or scroll wheel for zooming and panning. (We shudder at the thought!) The good news is that you can choose to use your favorite Windows mouse with your Mac, so no worries there.
AutoCAD for Mac supports Gestures (no, not those types of gestures!). Gestures are one- or multiple-finger motions made across a trackpad or Magic Mouse. For example, they might use a two-finger swipe across the trackpad to pan or the infamous pinch to zoom. A simple swipe up and down the Magic Mouse does an easy zoom — no wheel needed! And who doesn't love the four-finger swipe (Exposé) on the trackpad to view all your open files; I really wish Windows had that one!
The user interface of AutoCAD for Mac also looks and feels like a native Mac application. You won't find a ribbon here, because that is part of the Windows experience. In AutoCAD for Mac you will find the application menu bar expected in a Mac program (pull-down menus, to the standard AutoCAD user). There are tool set palettes, a Layer palette, and a Properties Inspector, which will be much more familiar to a Mac user than a Properties palette. Of course, it has the Command line (heaven knows, we can't live without the Command line) and the UCS icon, status bar, and coordinate display. You'll even find the Viewcube tool to help you orbit around in 3D.
The AutoCAD for Mac user interface looks and feels like a native Mac application.
The tool set palettes work much the same way as the toolbars in standard AutoCAD, with flyouts and the ability to do some basic customization. Three sets of tool set palettes — drafting, annotation, and modeling — are included.
If you're having a problem finding a command in the new user interface, try the Help menu; it is much friendlier than the one in standard AutoCAD. You key in a command you are looking for and AutoCAD for Mac will show you exactly where to find it.
The Help menu bar makes it easy to find commands.
AutoCAD for Mac takes advantage of the robust Spotlight tool, which is a super search engine, and Cover Flow in the Finder, a great file-viewing tool that puts Windows Explorer to shame.
Cover Flow, in the Finder, is a great tool for locating drawings.
AutoCAD for Mac even has 3D surfaces, meshes, and solids from AutoCAD 2011. Now, I won't lie to you — not all the AutoCAD commands made it into AutoCAD for Mac. Autodesk did, however, research the most frequently used commands in AutoCAD and tried to include as many as possible. Think about it. AutoCAD has been adding commands for 28 years. Do you really think everybody uses all those commands? You may miss a couple of features — such as the Express Tools, workspaces, and the Sheet Set Manager — but remember that AutoCAD for Mac was built from the ground up to ensure the ultimate Mac experience, and that meant a few sacrifices to get it out the door. Imagine squeezing 28 years of programming into just a couple! Give Autodesk time, it will definitely catch up and do its best to include your favorite features.
I was hesitant (even reluctant) to give AutoCAD for Mac the old college try — but I am so glad I did! As a PC user of 25 years, I'm not quite ready to make a full-time switch, but I think that Mac users everywhere are going to rejoice and embrace AutoCAD for Mac.
About the Author: Lynn Allen
|Re: AutoCAD for Mac Is Back!
|by: Rob W
on: February 14, 2011 - 8:37pm
|Personally, I don't see the point in adding to the cost of a Cad Station by using Apple Equipment. Our windows stations cost over 5K and with Apple Equipment costing well over 25% of a windows PC it seems like a waist. What I do like is the absence of the ribbon. This article probably should have not been posted in the AEC, i.e. I have never seen anyone in the industry use Cad on a MAC. As far as the MAC experience being any different from a windows experience, there is none when comes to performance. MACs still lag and they still crash. This might be useful for someone who has a MAC and needs to, on an occasion, use ACAD but certainly not anyone the AEC Industry.
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|by: rltomkinson
on: May 24, 2012 - 2:55pm
|When I left my last company in 2003, we had a client that was still using AutoCAD 13 because that was the last version that would work on their Sun microcomputers. They might still be using 13. I don't know.


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THOMSON, Ga. - A coroner has confirmed the identity of a fourth person who died when a business jet collided with a 60-foot utility pole and caught fire after aborting its landing at an east Georgia airport.
The plane was carrying a surgeon and members of his clinic staff when it went down Wednesday night at the Thomson-McDuffie Regional Airport after a flight from Nashville.
McDuffie County Coroner Foster Wiley said early Friday that identities of four people killed had been confirmed: Dr. Steven Roth, a vascular surgeon; nurse anesthetist Lisa Volpitto; secretary Kim Davidson; and Tiffany Porter.
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What's up with Sen. Harry Reid? The Democratic Senate Majority Leader has got his Bachmann on. As in throwing out accusations without any proof.
For weeks, Reid has ripped presumed GOP prez nominee Mitt Romney for not releasing his tax record. Yeah, yeah, which Dem hasn't. Romney has only released his 2010 returns. But Reid ramped up the rant Thursday by saying, "the word's out that he [Romney] hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years."
"The word's out?" What's that?
Where's the evidence of NO TAXES paid, Harry?
Nowhere yet. Until he produces something, Reid's accusation is emptier than his hometown of Searchlight, NV after sundown. (Trust us, we've been there.) You can't throw stuff like that out there. Prove it.
Nope, Harry told Nevada reporters. Don't have to. "I don't think the burden should be on me," Reid said. "The burden should be on him. He's the one I've alleged has not paid any taxes. Why didn't he release his tax returns?"
Originally, Harry based his j'accuse on an "investor" from Bain Capital who contacted him. Noooo, no names.
Double-wow. Even worse is watching
Democratic yes-man er, CNN analyst Paul Begala try to defend this on CNN's "AC360." Painful:
Mitt responded Thursday by saying that Reid is going to have to "put up or shut up."
"Well, it's time for Harry to put up or shut up. Harry's going to have to describe who it is he spoke with because of course, that's totally and completely wrong," Romney told Sean Hannity Thursday on Hannity's radio show.
"It's untrue, dishonest, and inaccurate," Romney said. "It's wrong. So I'm looking forward to have Harry reveal his sources and we'll probably find out it's the White House. Look, the Obama campaign is going to do everything in its power to try and talk about anything besides the president's record. Home prices, median American incomes, gasoline prices, 23 million underemployed or unemployed."
Reid wasn't backing down Thursday, saying his source was "extremely credible." Harry's reaction to Mitt's charge that he was peddling "baloney."
"There is a controversy because the Republican presidential nominee, Governor Mitt Romney, refuses to release his tax returns. As I said before, I was told by an extremely credible source that Romney has not paid taxes for ten years. People who make as much money as Mitt Romney have many tricks at their disposal to avoid paying taxes. We already know that Romney has exploited many of these loopholes, stashing his money in secret, overseas accounts in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands."
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A website isn't the only interface through which companies can interact with their customers and users. Thanks in some part to the success of companies that have used APIs to help build significant business value, a growing number of companies in both the B2C and B2B markets are building and launching their own APIs.
Most APIs, of course, aren't going to achieve Facebook-like success, and companies often make fundamental mistakes when developing an API strategy.
So what are the keys to success when API-ifying your business? Here are seven of them.
1. Know your consumers, and understand their needs
Before designing your API, it pays to know who will be consuming it and what their needs are. While this sounds obvious, it's not too difficult to find APIs that are of limited use and/or are challenging to use because they were clearly not designed with the consumer in mind.
2. Make your business model transparent
In both the B2C and B2B, APIs can be powerful assets and direct and indirect drivers of revenue. But they can also be liabilities when the business model for your API is opaque or worse, not determined. Don't invite the kind of criticisms that plague Twitter: make it clear what your intentions are on the business model front, up front, even if the details haven't been completely ironed out.
3. Think twice about throttling and access limitations
While companies operating the most popular APIs, particularly in the B2C space, may have legitimate technical reasons for putting caps on usage, throttling and access limitations more generally should be implemented in a thoughtful manner. Arbitrary limits can quickly become problematic, and in many cases, they'll be out-of-whack with real-world usage, making your API far less useful, and potentially unviable.
4. Get some REST
The number of APIs built on REST principles has grown significantly in the past several years, and many of the most popular APIs are RESTful. If you've ever had to integrate with a SOAP API, you can understand why.
While REST isn't necessarily the end-all and be-all of API implementation, a decision not to offer a REST API is one that shouldn't be taken lightly
5. Try to get it right the first time
While a good API will almost always evolve over time as a result of feedback, keeping consumers of your API happy typically requires that you don't make too many changes too often. While companies like Facebook can get away with API chaos because of their popularity, the better approach for most companies is to be thoughtful at the API design phase and strive for a good V1.
6. Focus on making integration easy, not on ideological perfection
The success of your API boils down to a few factors. One of them: how easy it is for developers to integrate with it. When integrating your API becomes a nightmare, the value required to make integration worthwhile goes up significantly.
With this in mind, it's worth considering that an API that's easy to work with isn't necessarily going to be one that is perfect from a pure technology standpoint. Many RESTful APIs, for instance, are criticized by purists as not being RESTful enough, but at the end of the day, if forced to choose between building something loved by the people you serve or building something that pleases the purists, the right decision should be apparent.
7. Document, document, document
The best APIs are almost always well-documented APIs.
While there's no single template for API documentation, the best documentation will include, at a minimum, clear, concise descriptions of API endpoints and what they do, and request and response examples. Many developer portals also allow developers to issue requests and receive responses, which can be a big help.


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Not that there's any good time to has a global, cascading failure in your core business, but RIM really picked a bad week to remind everyone that the iPhone really is pretty sexy.
Blackberry's co-ceo Mike Lazaridis told NBC Bay Area that Research and Motion had restored full service after a massive email outage Monday.
The company blames a single network switch for a cascading failure that caused trouble first in Europe at the beginning of the week and moved across the globe, causing email outtages here in North America Wednesday.
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News from around the country and around the globe
"We have disappointed our users, we have disappointed ourselves" said CEO Lazaridis, who posted a video of his apology.
"I decided to make that video", he said, "when I finally had time during the crisis". RIM says it's not certain what caused the switch to fail, but said it was "most likely a hardware failure."
The company pointed out the switch had several redundancies, but those failed too.
A spokesperson for RIM said the company "will make it better" with users, but that the company's focus in the near future was singly on network performance.
Also this week: the iPhone 4 S -- getting rave reviews, including be called a wizard -- is available this weekend.


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My Pasteurella Journey
Diagnosing and treating rabbit ailments. *Caution! These threads may contain graphic content.*
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My Pasteurella Journey
This is a list of threads created over the course of 2-3 months, chronicling our initial brush with a Pasteurella Multocida infection, or "Snuffles" as it sometimes can be called. Hopefully, this will be of help to others experiencing this.
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sorry you guys had to deal with snuffles, it's no fun! very helpful, i will also be bookmarking for quick reference.
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Well, if if helps anyone else to avoid the heartbreak we endured, then I will consider it worth the experience.
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Diamond wrote:What an intense, and disheartening, experience to go through.
I have been researching antibiotic use in rabbits due to a chronic eye problem with one of my does. Most signs point to pasteurella being a culprit - although none of my rabbits have had the 'snuffles', the pasteurella bacteria seem to be a common factor with respiratory and sinus problems.
I read a few studies on long-term bicillin use to treat pasteruella abscesses and am willingly experimenting on my afflicted doe, giving her a 0.25 cc SQ injection every other day. We've been at this for a week now and it is hard to tell if there is any actual improvement, all I can say is that she has not gotten worse. But I lost a lot of time with medicated eye drops, trying to treat the problem topically when it was most likely systemic.
The voice in the back of my head tells me I should cull her, but I want to see if the condition is treatable - there is really nothing to lose at this point.
And if pasteurella does respond to bicillin treatment, it would be worth a try once isolation has been established.
But it does seem that this bacteria 'hangs out' in an average environment, much like staph and e. coli live on our bodies, so the argument for culling afflicted rabbits is very strong - mother Nature does not favor the weak, and those who are not able to thrive should not reproduce.
If you try with a "cillin" type antibiotic, make sure to use the injectable kind and also give probiotics, since "cillins" kill off the good bacteria in the gut as well. I wish you luck, please keep the rabbit quarantined and let us know what happens.
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Maxine wrote:I'm so sorry you had to go through this ordeal.
I haven't wanted to read this thread because I irrationally fear that if I did then my rabbits would come down with it. Superstitious. My doe, Ginger has a bit of a scabby nose and she has always seemed skitterish and doesn't eat or drink as well as my other two rabbits. Now I am worried she has pasteurella. I guess I will get some gloves and go inspect her paws.
Thank you so much for posting all this together. Were you able to keep any of the offspring for breeders?
NO...they all came down with it, over the course of 3 long, heartbreaking months.
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Truly devastating. I'm so sorry.
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It's been a long time. I've wanted to post for awhile, but have nothing to show. We have gotten moved and have everything unpacked except the craft/play room.
This is just a horrible sight...the last room to unpack. Hopefully I can get to work on it this week and next weekend. We've been here for 3 weeks now and all other rooms are good. It takes a lot of time to get settled.
I have nothing crafty to show you. No time for crochet...but I am itching to get back at it. Maybe I'll work on the patchwork or ripple at night after work.
My yarn is still in several boxes...another sad sight...sigh
Ireland is happier now. It took some time for her to get used to her new room, but she is good now.
My Nikon battery charger is still missing, so I'll get photos of the house when it turns up...if it ever does. I may have to order a new one.
I have gotten lots of messages and emails and I promise that I have read all of them. I'm so sorry for not responding to all of them. I'll get to that this week as well.
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A judge presiding over a 44-year-old civil rights case in Manhattan voiced optimism, or at least wishful thinking, and civil rights lawyers are lining up to test the limits of how far Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio will go to settle cases that sometimes challenge the balance between preserving public safety and protecting civil rights. De Blasio had made reforming the policing practice known as stop-and-frisk a centerpiece of his campaign after a judge ruled it discriminated against minorities, and had promised to make a decisive break with some of the positions of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, who argued the tactic dramatically reduced crime.
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The new administration has already signaled it hopes to settle a $250 million lawsuit filed on behalf of five black and Hispanic people convicted in 1990 of raping and beating a white woman jogging in the park a year earlier. After serving six to 13 years in prison, their convictions were tossed in 2002 when evidence emerged linking someone else to the crime.
Just minutes after the city withdrew its challenge Thursday to a court-ordered monitor to oversee a rewriting of the stop-and-frisk program, U.S. District Judge Charles Haight mused in a written order: "Even so neutral and apolitical an individual as a federal judge may be permitted to wonder whether these changes on the thrones and in the corridors of municipal power may have an effect upon the resolution of disputes as this class action, now in its forty-fourth year."
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The Park City bar Rock & Reilly's had some high-profile help last Sunday — Scooter Braun, manager to Justin Bieber and Psy.
Braun — dressed in pajamas, like other servers — poured shots, served up beers and more at the party, which was also attended by Mekhi Phifer and San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson.
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"Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer was not an early adopter of one of the biggest hits to come out of the Sundance Film Festival, the 2004 world-of-weirdoes comedy "Napoleon Dynamite."
Meyer is at Sundance this time with "Napoleon Dynamite" co-writer Jerusha Hess, whose directing debut "Austenland" premiered at the festival. A producer on "Austenland," Meyer said she and Hess hit it off right away and have a lot in common, even though she didn't appreciate "Napoleon Dynamite" when she first saw it.
"I was with another 30-something mom in a theater full of teenage kids, and they're laughing their butts off. And we're sitting there going, 'Am I that old? I don't get it,' " Meyer said. "I kind of was like, wow, I feel bad. I didn't get this.
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Dane DeHaan, one of Daniel Radcliffe's co-stars in the Sundance premiere "Kill Your Darlings," shared a deep, dark secret with the "Harry Potter" star at the festival: DeHaan's just now getting around to catching the flicks about the young wizard.
"Dan, I never told you," DeHaan confessed in an interview on Jan. 19 alongside Radcliffe. "I started watching them when we got finished filming" on "Kill Your Darlings."
Radcliffe asked how many DeHaan had watched and was disheartened that his co-star so far had just caught the first few, when the "Potter" star was a kid still learning his craft.
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Internships were integral to your education. How did the Career Services Office help you identify opportunities?
The people in Career Services were amazing. I got to know my career advisor in my freshman year, and he worked with me the entire time I was at Parsons. He helped me with my résumé, suggested types of positions that would be a good fit, and helped me edit my portfolio before I began interviewing. I would definitely tell entering students to visit the Career Services office when they first get to Parsons.Can you describe the internships you had while at Parsons?I had three big projects at Reebok, my first internship: my own shoe concept, a brainstorming exercise to customize Reebok's brand for the future, and a project to convert sketches into digital drawings.
I then interned for two semesters with John Varvatos, where I worked with the head footwear designer. One of my shoe designs was put into production.How has your interest in sustainability influenced your career?
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Cinnamon Palmiers
Makes 32 to 36 pastries
One 17.3-ounce box parve frozen puff pastry sheets
2/3 cup sugar
4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Flour, for sprinkling on parchment
Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Thaw the puff pastry at room temperature for 45 minutes. The dough is ready to use when you can unroll it easily without breaking it. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon.
Place a piece of parchment on the counter and sprinkle with some flour. Unroll one of the pastry sheets and place on the parchment with the creases vertical. Roll with a rolling pin to smooth out the creases and to roll out the rectangles about two inches larger on each side.
Sprinkle 1/4 of the cinnamon sugar on the dough, covering the entire dough. Place a second piece of parchment on top and use a rolling pin to roll over the dough twice in each direction, pressing the cinnamon sugar into the dough. Place your hand under the parchment and flip it over. Peel off the top piece of parchment and then cover the exposed side of the dough with another ¼ amount of the cinnamon sugar. Return the parchment to the dough and then roll over it with your rolling pin to press the cinnamon sugar into the dough. Remove the parchment from the dough.
Use a dull knife to score (mark, but do not cut completely through) a line horizontally across the middle of the dough, but do not cut through. One side at a time, roll tightly from the outside toward the scored line in the middle, using either your fingers or the parchment to help you roll. Stop rolling at the middle line. Repeat with the other side. Fold the sides of parchment up over the rolled dough and place in the freezer. Repeat with the second sheet of dough.
Take the spare piece of parchment you used over the dough and place it on a cookie sheet.
Remove the first roll from the freezer and slice it across into ¾ inch slices and place cut-side down on the cookie sheet 2 inches apart. The pastries will appear dry; do not worry about that.
Bake for 14 minutes. Turn the palmiers over and bake another 5 minutes, watching so they do not burn. Both sides should be equally golden. Slide the parchment off the cookie sheet onto a cooling rack and let the cookies cool room temperature.
Remove the second roll from the freezer, and slice as you did the first roll. Bake as you did the first batch. Store covered with plastic or in an airtight container at room temperature for four days or freeze for up to three months.
I love these cookies. I make these, but never added the cinnamon in the recipe. Will definitely try it out. It will give these more pizzaz! Thanks!
Yumm! Must try these!
I make the same but replace the cinnamon with vanilla sugar but love this method....


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Don't Sweat It
Your problems are not the end of the world. Unless your job is to prevent the end of the world. Then you're allowed to complain.
It's a hard thing to fathom that our lives are not the most important thing to other people. Most of us think that every time we chip a tooth or break a nail, everyone in our immediate vicinity needs to know the exact details. Our immediate vicinity includes our homes, our hangouts, our buddylists, and half of northern Iowa.
I don't care that your friend Sarah totally bought the same shirt as you. I don't care that Bob at the office mistook your lunch for his. And I certainly don't care that you had the weirdest dream, only you can't really remember what happened in it. And if you did remember, guess who still wouldn't care. If you could see me right now, I'd have both of my thumbs pointing squarely at the center of my chest.
I will be the first to admit that I tell a lot of stories where I'm the main character. It'd be difficult to do otherwise. If all my stories started with "I knew this one guy," not only would I be pathetic for living vicariously through other people, my next three words would probably be "at band camp."
My issue is not with people who tell stories about their lives - we all do that. It's how we allow other people to relate to us, how we kill dead air, and how we try to land a sit-com. My issue lies with people who think that the problems around which their stories revolve are more monumental than everyone else's. If your problems mattered so much, wouldn't we already know what they were? I'd be pissed if the world's media were not covering the most important story out there.
"This is Christiane Amanpour with CNN. Today, someone's friend Sarah totally bought the same shirt as her."
When you're in high school, you don't see much of the outside world, so you think that the biggest problem you'll ever face involves your classmates' opinions of you. When you're in college, you don't see much of the outside world, since your biggest problem is how to make things stop spinning. Once you're out of college, you have no excuse at all. What I'm saying is this: when you're reading about wars and czars and scars and SARS, it doesn't matter that someone cut you off on the way to work. Even if "cars" does rhyme with all those important problems.
It is more common to hear "me, me, me" in a conversation than it is to hear it at an opera. And the worst part about this phenomenon is that people force themselves to ask poorly thought out questions about their conversation partner in an effort to appear less solipsistic. I spoke to a friend shortly after I moved to a new city, started dating someone, and released my first book. I filled her in, and then she actually asked me what else was going on, as if that was not enough. She had unfortunate timing - the very next week, I cured cancer. That would have kept the conversation going for at least another minute before she started talking about herself again.
I do not mean to discourage conversation about oneself. Especially since that's how I make my living. But I do mean to remind people that when you're discussing that chipped tooth or that broken nail, know that even you will forget about it in a week. Please remember that there are bigger things out there - that you can wear another outfit, that you can buy another lunch, and that the guy who cut you off on the way to work may have needed to get to the hospital in order to remove the pole from his ass.
In other words, look around once in a while and realize that your problems aren't all that bad. That your day, no matter how poorly things may appear to be going, is just a day, and will be completely different tomorrow. Unless your job is to prevent the end of the world. Then you're allowed to complain.


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Individual CDVs of four Withington brothers of Boston, Massachusetts and two of their paternal aunt Harriet Louisa Withington:
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- Roland Coolidge Withington, also taken by the A. N. Hardy studio
- Howard Pierce Withington (shown above), taken by the Partridge studio at 2832 Washington St., Boston
- Harriet Louisa Withington, two CDVS, one dated February 1874, by L. W. Cook of the Warren Photographic Studio of 145 Tremont Street; the other by the Frank Rowell studio of 25 Winter Street, Boston
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In December 2016, the officers of Lee County Port Authority won the hearts of children, parents and the staff when it donated 30 state-of-the-art e-learning tablets during a special visit to the Joseph H. Messina Children's Center just before Christmas with Santa in tow. Two months later, teachers are putting the devices through their paces to affect positive learning outcomes for the students at the Child Care of Southwest Florida early learning facility for years and even lifetimes to come.
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Tim Sudall necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We are a Volunteer Fire Company outside of Philadelphia that recently experienced a tragic loss of a child's life due to a non-working smoke detector. This new website project is being launched to provide electronic reminders and education on the value of changing your smoke detector batteries. We have commitments from major TV media to promote our finished program via public service announcements, press releases and print. Your finished logo will serve a centerpiece for this very worthy cause and will assist us in branding this effort that has the potential to be adopted nationally. Your creativity on this project will have the ability to touch many people and I thank you in advance for sharing your talent with our cause.
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New Associate Degree in Natural Science approved for Kapiolani Community CollegeKapiʻolani Community College
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HILO, Hawaiʻi — At its monthly meeting held last week at Hawaiʻi Community College on the Big Island, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) approved the establishment of an Associate in Science degree in Natural Science at Kapiʻolani Community College to be available in Fall 2007.
With a concentration offered in life science or physical science, the degree program will prepare students to transfer to four-year institutions majoring in the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering and mathematics— and will enable the college to contribute to the state's needs for an educated workforce and the nation's needs for a more robust STEM infrastructure.
Earlier this month, Kapiʻolani CC dedicated its newly renovated STEM Center, a unique collaborative space that encourages hands-on learning in a state-of-the-art lab and center for students pursuing STEM fields of study. It will offer tutoring, peer mentoring, tablet PC and desktop computer support, and educational resources.
"Our goal is to enhance the quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics instructional and outreach programs at the college, as well as increase the number of STEM students transferring to four-year degree programs," said STEM Program Director John Rand, who is also a science professor at the college. "We're seeing positive results from our efforts as more and more students are signing up for STEM courses and looking at possible careers in STEM fields."
The STEM Program was started in August 2005 with a five-year, $1.25-million Tribal Colleges and Universities Program grant from the National Science Foundation to strengthen STEM education and support Hawaiian students to transfer into STEM majors. It also included support for the development of this degree program.
For more information about the new degree and the STEM Program at Kapiʻolani CC, visit www.hawaii.edu/kccstem.
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