I was originally drawn to this British television series because of the main actor. David Tennant had finished his stint as The Doctor, on Doctor Who. Appreciating this Scottish actor's charm and talent, I was eager to continue watching him, even in another role.
My grandson Dayan and I added Broadchurch season one to our Wednesday afternoon viewing lineup, watching an episode each week after catching the latest Legends of Tomorrow. We completed season one last week, and I feel ready to share a review as we launch into season two.
Broadchurch stars David Tennant, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Andrew Buchan, Arthur Darvill, Jonathan Bailey, Matthew Gravelle, Adam Wilson, Joe Sims, Oskar McNamara and Charlotte Beaumont. This crime/drama/mystery is the creation of Chris Chibnall and, commercial-free, has a run time of 48 minutes. Dayan and I watch Broadchurch on Netflix.
Broadchurch is a close-knit coastal community in England, shaken to its core by the inexplicable murder of an 11 year old boy named Danny (McNamara), whose body is discovered at the base of cliffs near the sea. Danny's family is devastated and shocked, as is the entire town. Lead detective Alec Hardy (Tennant) arrives to head up the investigation, partnering with local detective Ellie Miller (Colman).
But in a community where it seems that everyone knows everyone else, Hardy discovers that each resident has secrets that they will hide at any cost. Danny's dad Mark (Buchan) is bored with his marriage, asking his friend and co-worker Nigel (Sims) to cover for his mysterious absences, while his mom Beth (Whittaker) is hiding news that should have been shared with joy. Danny's sister Chloe (Beaumont) is sneaking out to meet an older boyfriend, and his best friend Tommy (Wilson) deletes text messages and attempts to destroy his laptop.
From the town priest (Darvill), to the ambitious young newspaper journalist (Bailey), to Detective Miller's stay at home husband Joe (Gravelle), everyone knows more than they are telling. Even Hardy has a dark past that haunts him and a medical condition that he refuses to disclose. His attempts to redeem himself in this new town are met with suspicion and resentment.
At the heart of this drama is a dead boy, who had secrets of his own, and who is deeply missed by his family. All of season one focuses on unraveling the town's mysteries and examining the complex and often sorrowful backstories of the residents of Broadchurch. At the end of the series' first year, Danny's killer is identified, in the startling conclusion.
I like whodunnits. I like the challenge of following the story and attempting to stay ahead of the reveal, so that at the end I've guessed who the perpetrator is. Broadchurch is tightly written, edgy, full of angst and secrets…and surprises. At the end, I was blown away and totally wrong in figuring out who did it. Although it was very difficult for me that the victim is a child, this series is so finely crafted that I was enthralled.
David Tennant is amazing in this role. He portrays the life weary and embittered Hardy so well, that when I met him recently at Comic Con I was surprised at how youthful he looked and how full of life he was. Olivia Colman is equally captivating, eliciting heart felt emotional responses from me. The two characters have a great love/hate relationship that plays out well as the season progresses.
Many life lessons are presented throughout the series. Hardy and Miller learn to trust each other and their instincts. And in a town seeking justice, many injustices are committed, with innocent decent people hurt in the process. Looking for a monster hidden in their midst brings out the ugliness and the beasts of prejudice in so many.
As always, I enjoy watching these thought provoking shows with my grandson. We talk about what's going on. We exclaim, we mutter in surprise, and during the heart-wrenching scenes, we look at each other with woe in our faces. We connect what we've seen with life and the journey.
This afternoon we began season two of Broadchurch, with episode one. Immediately we were back with familiar characters and some new faces, and a tense, surprising opening scenario. Hardy and Miller have grown into a more relaxed and easy relationship that contained hints of humor. And for the first time, I caught a glimpse of The Doctor peeking out through Alec Hardy's careworn face.
It's going to be a great second season of Broadchurch.
Another birthday to celebrate arrived today, of another dear family member. Nicole is the wife of my nephew Scott, mommy to Weston and Lola, daughter-in-law to my sister Linda. And although she fulfills all those roles lovingly and well, Nicole is very much her own delightful person.
Nicole, you have a vivid imagination and can bring inspired messages to the world. You are intuitive and might be interested in the arts, drama or science.
Dependable, very down-to-earth and well grounded, you are always looking for meaningful work, a career where you can take pride in your work and do the best job you are capable of. Your prime desire is to build a protected and secure environment at home and at work. You can be very persuasive in achieving goals and gaining objectives. You can be very detailed and well-organized and you possess great organizational skills. At times you may appear stubborn and overly critical to others, but your practical approach to life and productivity makes you one of the most beneficent members of community.
True words, about Nicole. Thinking about this determined young woman today, feeling gratitude for her, the words that came to mind echo the characteristics listed above…dependable, down to earth, grounded. Nicole is one of the most grounded and reliable people that I know, always willing to offer her help.
She does desire to create a protected environment at home for her family, and a fun one as well. She is a supportive wife to Scott, allowing him to be who he is, while she grows as her own beautiful self. And as mommy to three year old Weston and one year old Lola, she provides a balance of nurturing love and freedom, letting her kids experience independence as they are growing into their personalities.
And while Nicole posssses all of the other traits listed…being capable and hardworking, detailed and organized…she does not sacrifice her creative or intuitive sides. I've had the pleasure of watching those areas in her life blossom in recent years, and I'm excited to see where Nicole's journey takes her as she continues to explore who she is and all that she has to offer to the world.
Nicole's practical approach to life makes her not only "one of the most beneficial members of the community", but one of the most beneficial members of our family. I'm thankful she said yes to Scott 10 years ago. Happiest of birthdays, sweet Nicole, do something that you enjoy. I love you!
Today is Tell a Story Day. What's funny is, I didn't know that when I woke up. And yet I arose with a story running through my head, a true story, that still amazes me when I think about it. This week I'm encountering a reoccurring theme of Light, of letting my light shine. And this event in my life was about that very thing. I checked today's holidays this afternoon, and when I saw it was Tell a Story Day, understanding dawned. I was being invited to share this story about Light. I surrendered.
As anxiety grew in me, I cried out, one word, "Help." Immediately, a small red dot appeared, glowing faintly in the darkness. My heart beat even harder. What was that? My fear of being lost in the blackness was greater than my fear of the red dot. I crept toward it, moving through a doorway and into the basement kitchen. The glowing red light was on the stove. There was not enough light to illuminate the room, but it was enough for me to get my bearings. Feeling my way along the countertop, I found the door that led to the hallway and then to the stairs. My hands were still trembling as I locked the front door.
What was the red light that appeared on the stove in the basement? After I calmed down at home, I began to worry. I realized what I had seen was an indicator light, and that meant the oven must be on. I didn't want the oven to remain on until Sunday. What if there was a fire? Reluctantly, I returned to the church, and the basement, turning on every light I could find as I wound my way to the kitchen below. When I checked the stove, the red indicator light was not on. Nor was the oven warm. The stove was completely cold.
I still get a fluttery feeling in my gut when I tell that story. I have no explanation for how that tiny red light winked on precisely when I needed it to. Except, I asked for help and help was given.
The message is clear though. As dark as that basement was, it isn't the darkest place I've ever been. We've all had times of despair, times of feeling lost in the dark with no clue which way to turn to find our way out. I've been there. I never know who is standing near me, silently crying out for help, straining to see more clearly. It is so important that I allow my light to shine, for the joy I feel in doing so, and to cast out a ray of hope for someone groping in the darkness of fear or isolation.
In truth I am a conduit for Divine light to flow through me. The little red light on the stove lit up as a result of the energy that surged through it. It didn't create light on its own. It responded and glowed. And I saw it, gratefully, and I was drawn to it. The red dot led me to the path I sought and I found my way.
My desire is to draw, to walk alongside for a time, to point out the path for those who are searching, without letting myself get in the way. Just shine. Just be who I am. Just glow with the flowing Light of the Divine.
I am a red dot.
Tonight was movie night, with Best Picture nominated film number six of eight, The Revenant. I've heard excellent remarks about this movie. And yet, I wondered if the level of violence would be so high that I wouldn't enjoy this story that many have called the "manliest" film of the year. Or would DiCaprio's stellar performance win me over? I'd soon find out.
The Revenant stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson and Forrest Goodluck. The action drama, based on true events, was directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu. The movie is rated R for violence, strong language and intense sequences and has a run time of 2 hours and 36 minutes.
The Revenant was nominated for 12 academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for DiCaprio and Best Supporting Actor for Hardy. It won three Oscars…for DiCaprio, for Inarritu for directing, and for Best Cinematography.
Set in the 1820s, Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) and his son Hawk (Goodluck) are members of a hunting party led by Captain Ashley (Gleeson). As the large group of wilderness men are preparing their bales of hides for shipment back to Camp Kiowa, they are ambushed by the Arikara tribe. Only ten men survive the attack. Stashing the hides for later retrieval, the survivors' priority becomes making the long trek back to camp, without horses and in harsh wintry conditions.
Dissension among the men threatens the bedraggled party as much as the weather. John Fitzgerald (Hardy), wild eyed and traumatized by a previous tribal attack, strongly opposes every decision Captain Ashley makes. He especially resents Glass, who because of his keen tracking abilities, naturally assumes leadership of the group.
When a brutal bear attack leaves Glass severely wounded, Fitzgerald seizes the opportunity to rid the group of the man's expertise. Ashley commissions Fitzgerald and the young Bridger (Poulter) to remain behind with Glass and his son while the rest of the party pushes onward. No one believes that Glass will survive for long, so grave are his injuries. Bridger and Fitzgerald are charged with giving the man a proper burial and then catching up with the group, bringing Hawk with them.
Further tragedy results in Glass being abandoned, left for dead, suffering from his severe wounds. He is without food, water or weapons, unable to walk because of a broken leg. Camp Kiowa is 200 miles away, over rugged terrain, in the middle of a relentless winter.
But the desire for retribution drives Glass to undertake a journey that is fueled by fierce determination and memories of a woman he once loved and lost. During his lowest moments, he hears her voice softly urging him onward, reminding him that as long as he draws breath, he must fight for life.
I was right that this would be a difficult movie for me to watch. At times I chose to look away, from bloody woundings or battle scenes that were very graphic. These were brief, thankfully. Overall, The Revenant was a powerful film depicting a man who fights against all odds for survival.
Warring tribes, French hunters competing for hides, animals, the terrain, his own men and the frigid cold and ever swirling snow all sought to destroy Glass. His life became as fragile as the wisps of breath that wheezed through his parched lips. And yet, this man refused to accept defeat, surviving by way of knowledge accumulated from years of living in the wilderness.
While Hardy gave a remarkable performance as the crazed betrayer, this film belonged to DiCaprio. I physically hurt, watching his struggles. I groaned with him when yet another challenge threatened to end his journey. I looked up the film's title word.
The word perfectly describes DiCaprio's character. Not dead. Not defeated. Not finished with his mission or his life. This is a man who has returned from the dead and has nothing to lose, much to the dread of his enemy.
Intense and starkly beautiful, look away from some scenes if you must, as I did, but experience this incredible film that honors the human spirit and the ability to endure for the sake of justice. Watch The Revenant, and Leonardo's role of a lifetime.
This evening I had time to do something with the yard sale minnow bucket that I received. I'm all about repurposing common objects, giving them new life as they serve a new purpose. It's fun. It's play. It gives my creativity freedom to go wild.
I was excited to acquire this minnow bucket. The exterior part is perfect as a metal planter in my garden. I love using metal containers of all types, grouped together, to hold an assortment of flowering plants. I have wash tubs and buckets, watering cans and tall containers, a rectangular box with handles and a red toolbox.
Holes were drilled into the bottom of the outer bucket, so that water can drain out. I learned by trial and error, mostly error, to do this as a first step. No drainage means soggy soil which results in dead plants!
The bucket was then filled with soil and I popped colorful verbana plants into it. This newly planted metal piece will join a group of containers on the brickio.
My imagination immediately repurposed the interior of the minnow bucket into a candle holder. I actually have such a container already, serving as a planter. I found it in a flea market. But it is lacking a top and doesn't have the interesting pattern of holes on the sides. This adorable version has so much cuteness going for it, including a star pattern punched on the lid.
Watching the movie A Little Chaos, I determined to bring more candlelight into my own garden. And here came the first opportunity. I never would have guessed that a minnow bucket would bring light and joy into my backyard paradise.
I could barely wait for the sun to set. I confess that I lit a candle within the interior while it was still daylight and checked frequently, ready to catch the glow. I was not disappointed! What a beautiful and whimsical candle holder that minnow bucket makes. I am thrilled with the look. After this next round of stormy weather passes, I will create a permanent place in the garden for my new candle holder.
Mesmerized by the soft flickering glow emanating from the bucket, I was reminded of a childhood song. "This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine…" I thought too of the scripture that says don't hide your light under a basket…but allow it to shine, giving light to others.
Don't hide my light away. Make sure there are clear spaces for the light to shine through. I used to hide my light, or barely allow my light to shine. I tried to get by in life unnoticed. I no longer seek to be invisible. I shine, by being who I am, by expressing myself in creative ways.
This spring day was gorgeous…warm, but with a cooling breeze, sunny, but with occasional cloudiness. It was the perfect weather for spending the day outdoors, working in the garden. I say working, because I accomplished so much. However, playing would be the more appropriate word, playing with colors and containers.
Three gardening projects drew my focus.
I planted most of my containers today, 27 of them. I have seven more to plant tomorrow, but I'm very happy with today's results. My Aunt Annie's old red box received its summer update, with flower pots filled with begonias and coleas. More begonias fill containers next to the box. The shallow bowl was another treasure from my aunt's house, pressed into service holding flowers.
The yellow baker's rack was filled with a variety of colorful containers and equally colorful flowers and plants. I saw a quote once that said that gardening is an art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and that's my experience. I focus on creating pleasing arrangements that balance color, look whimsical and have touches of surprise.
…and turned my attention to the second project, planting perennials that my friend Beth gave me from her garden. I love how gardeners are so willing to share, both knowledge and plants. I visited Beth and viewed her charming garden, and left with native phlox and Becky shasta daisies. I hope to return the favor by giving my friend plants from my garden that she doesn't have. These new plants were tucked into the ground, successfully filling a couple of bare spots in my southern border.
…and a minnow bucket that Greg brought to me from a friend's yard sale. Plants will go into the colanders and the solid bucket. The interior of the minnow bucket will make a whimsical candle holder. More on these projects later!
Finally, I completely redid a section of the garden. I had a great idea for the space just inside the Peace Gate, as shown in the picture above from 2014. I still like the way it looked. However, in reality the idea wasn't practical and didn't work. When it rains, water comes under the fence and floods the area, creating a little river that follows the path. I can't keep mulch in the area, as the water carries it away and deposits it around the corner.
Janet Kilburn Phillips says, "There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments." I acknowledged that this experiment failed. Time for a fresh idea. With Greg's help, five slabs of concrete, left over from a demolished sidewalk, were repurposed to create stepping stones. Forgoing mulch, I am filling in the area with ground cover.
I'm very pleased that I'm partially accomplishing this task by using creeping phlox from the garden of Greg's mother. Leta had a beautiful phlox garden. Although it's been at least 20 years since that garden has been tended, the phlox returns every spring. This weekend I dug up the creeping phlox and brought it home. This re-created space is currently muddy and raw looking, and I'm going to love it.
What an incredibly lovely day, engaging in one of my favorite activities. I'm tired, and wind blown, and extremely thrilled with today's creative playtime. Oscar de la Renta is the person who said, "Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors." I totally agree!
In 2014, during my Year of Firsts, I discovered a handy website that listed unique holidays for each day. While I didn't choose one to celebrate every day…that would have become a Year of Celebrations…I often checked out the list and enjoyed firsts such as Face Your Fear Day. I still refer frequently to the list.
There were so many unique holidays listed for today's date that I decided to see how many I could celebrate on this beautiful Saturday. Many of the events were connected, and seemed to flow into one another, which is perfect for one who is surrendered and living in that flow.
Impossible Astronaut Day is a Doctor Who related holiday, so of course I wanted to celebrate this one. On April 23rd, 2011, the Doctor Who episode The Impossible Astronaut premiered, starting off series 6 with mind-blowing plot twists and new monsters, the Silence. The Silence are creatures that you can't remember seeing the second you look away from them. To combat this unusual type of warfare, The Doctor and his companions draw tally marks on their skin to remind them that they've had an encounter.
Connected to Doctor Who, today the new companion for the Twelfth Doctor was announced. Pearl Mackie joins Peter Capaldi when the new season begins.
Doctor Who is a British production and many of today's holidays are English inspired. English Language Day is a United Nations initiative, recognizing English, one of six official UN languages. The other five are celebrated on different days throughout the year.
St. George's Day recognizes the patron saint of England, who supposedly slew a dragon. Which explains why today is also Slay a Dragon Day. I have English heritage as well as Scottish and Irish and I enjoyed reading about St. George. I did not, however, cross paths with any dragons today.
Talk Like Shakespeare Day falls on the date recognized as the bard's birthday. According to my research, this date also marks Shakespeare's death anniversary as well. As this is also Lover's Day, who better than Will to share a few words appropriate for the day.
Take a Chance Day, observed as I dug up 20-25 year old creeping phlox at the Arkansas house, to transplant into my garden. I truly hope it survives.
And National Lost Dog Awareness Day happened spontaneously as a stray dog appeared in my backyard while I was gardening. Fortunately his owner lives nearby and there was a happy reunion.
Who? I had to look him up.
At the end of this joy-filled and gorgeous day, I am enjoying National Cherry Cheesecake Day and World Book Night, curled up with a tiny piece of dessert, a cup of hot tea, and the newest Dean Koontz book, Ashley Bell.
Truthfully every day is full of moments to celebrate, recognized holidays or not. But what a fun, and full, day as I was especially mindful of today's unique opportunities. Who knows, perhaps I will have a Year of Celebrations in the not so distant future.
I had the privilege this evening of attending the opening reception for artist Taylor Kubicek, held downtown at the classy Infuxn Vodka Bar. This is Taylor's Senior Exhibit, and while I have followed his work online, I looked forward to seeing new pieces on display for the first time.
I've known Taylor for nine plus years. We met when he began the search for a first home. Over the years, I've worked with this bright young man as he's bought and sold homes, moving often as he married and then welcomed two sons to his growing family.
Taylor has always demonstrated creativity as he fixed up the homes that he purchased. I admired his ability to transform a house, doing the work himself. He created fresh interiors with clean, modern lines that were pleasing to the eye and homey.
It was no surprise when, just a few years ago, Taylor explored his artistic side more deeply as a student at Missouri Southern State University. What did surprise me was the high quality of Taylor's art work.
Described as a contemporary realist style, Taylor's art lends itself to contemplative symbolism by exploring the subtle emotional qualities of familiar objects. I observed Taylor's early work with wonder and appreciation. He wasn't just good. He was phenomenal, painting pieces that mixed technology with common objects.
And he wasn't timid about what he painted, creating portraits showcasing thought provoking subjects interacting with older forms of technology. It's one thing to render a pastoral landscape and quite another to paint people in such a way that their likenesses are captured along with their emotions.
The reception was well attended, Infuxn's interior full of people studying the paintings on display, and seeking out Taylor to discuss his work. I was thrilled for him and spoke to him briefly, asking permission to take pictures and feature him in today's blog. Taylor's sweet wife Lindsay was present too, on her birthday no less, beaming with pride.
I'm proud of Taylor as well. He followed his heart, willing to explore a new area of creativity. I love to see people express fully who they are, discovering what their gifts are and then offering their magic to the world. And the world is receptive, paying attention to Taylor Kubicek. What fun for him to see where this journey takes him. I'll be watching too.
It's been a full, and fun day, with many surrendered moments, and many reasons to celebrate. I stopped by the Webb City Farmer's Market this morning, the first time it has opened on a Thursday. I love the market, and took home fresh produce and freshly baked wheat berry bread. I had intended to attend Third Thursday in downtown Joplin this evening, where all kinds of activities were underway.
However, the moments that I surrendered to and chose to write about are the ones that made me laugh the most.
I picked up granddaughter Aubrey from school. Rather than hang around Joplin as we normally do, until her dad or stepmom get home from work, we spent the afternoon at her house, where she had access to the backyard trampoline. Aubrey self-prescribed jumping and doing stunts as a way of moving energy after a long day at school. I respect and admire how Aubrey knows exactly what's right for her in the moment.
As the spectator to her acrobatic feats, I asked if I could take photos. That's when the hilarity began. Aubrey requested that I take slo-mo pictures. My phone has that capability, but I've never used it. My seven old year granddaughter showed me how to use the app. I'm not surprised. Aubrey has been teaching me about functions on my various phones since she was 18 months old! The app was not difficult at all, and in moments, we were taking turns capturing slow motion videos.
These little slo-mo clips, each under 20 seconds long, made us giggle so much. I'll spare you the one Aubrey captured of me talking about the cloudy day. I'd much rather share Aubrey's graceful moves on the trampoline. Here is a still of me though, gazing skyward, mid sentence, as I spoke soooo sloooowly.
What a fun afternoon, spending time with my granddaughter, learning something new and engaging in joyous shared laughter. These moments with my grandchildren are going by so fast as the kids grow into young adults. For once, it was wonderful to slow time down.


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De Schaopedobbe (of Schapenpoel) is een natuurgebied bij Elsloo in de provincie Friesland.

Het gebied is eigendom van It Fryske Gea en bestaat uit een afwisseling van droge en minder droge heideveldjes, voormalige hooilandjes, boomgroepen, bos en singels, en een zandverstuiving.

De Schaopedobbe kwam aan haar naam doordat de heideschapen hierin vroeger werden gewassen voordat ze werden geschoren. De dobbe ligt ongeveer 1,5 meter boven de omgeving.
Aan de zuidwestzijde is 22 hectare landbouwgebied aan het gebied toegevoegd. De bovenste laag werd machinaal verwijderd om de heide te laten terugkeren. Op drie plekken zijn tevens oude watertjes teruggekeerd. De werkzaamheden waren onderdeel van de werken ter realisatie van het Natuurnetwerk Nederland.

Natuurgebied in Friesland
Geografie van Ooststellingwerf

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at the unveiling of her portrait, 1955 (Ref: Q/PH2/11)Queen Elizabeth College enjoyed the patronage and support of several generations of the royal family. From its inception, the establishment of the Household and Social Science Department at King's College for Women was of great interest to Queen Mary, who felt the development of this initiative for the higher education of women to be of much importance.
Following the naming of the student residence - Queen Mary Hostel - in her honour, The Queen's first visit to the College took place on 18 February 1916, and in subsequent years she provided a scholarship to the Three Year Course, intended to benefit one student during the war years.
Later royal visits followed in 1920 and again in 1931, following which the College received photographs of Queen Mary and copies of famous portraits and landscapes in the Royal Collections. These were in addition to other regular gifts, including books, magazines and journals such as Architectural Review, Antiquaries Journal and Archaeologia, which ran until her death in 1953.
Queen Mother at Jubilee celebrations, 1958 (Ref: Q/PH2/32)The College also received considerable royal support from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, whose first visit took place on 22 June 1955. The Queen Mother inspected the work of the College and viewed, in the College Refectory, the portrait of herself – wearing the blue ribbon of the Garter – which had been painted by Mr Maurice Codner and presented to the College by Women's Journal.
During her visit, The Queen Mother stated how glad she was that the College which bore her name should be the first she had visited since her election as Chancellor of the University of London, and paid tribute to the work of Sir John Atkins, mentioning that the institution of degrees of BSc Household Science and BSc Nutrition were recognition of the importance of subjects which the College had always taught.
The Queen Mother also attended Golden Jubilee celebrations at the College on 30 April 1958, and provided an additional social highlight in 1970, when she accepted an invitation to the annual Commemoration Ball and danced several times with a number of students to a band from the Grenadier Guards.
For more images of royal visits, see our gallery.


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"You are my hero", His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet told Richard Moore on 17th July 2007 whilst celebrating the tenth anniversary of Children in Crossfire in Derry. Gripping Richards hand, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists said. "Whether you believe it or not, you are my hero and a wonderful son of humanity. Despite your tremendously painful experience, you don't have any anger or hate. You accept what has happened and keep your peace of mind. You are a good example and model".
During this visit, the Dalai Lama met privately with Richard and Charles, the soldier who blinded him in 1972. "It is wonderful to see the person who suffered and the person who caused the suffering become true friends, peace-process, " said the Dalai Lama. "Their's is genuine friendship and happiness which is based on forgiveness".
In May 2010 Richard and Charles travelled to India for a special audience with His Holiness at his residence in Dharamsala. Whilst in India Richard and Charles spoke at an event at The Tibetan Children's Village School, attended by over 2500 students, when His Holiness honoured Richard with a citation which the Tibetan leader read himself. In it, His Holiness says of Richard "Among the billions of people in the world you have provided a living example of the true practice of forgiveness and therefore a source of hope for every one of us".
It was during this visit to Dharamsala that Richard asked His Holiness to become Patron of Children in Crossfire, an invitation which he readily accepted.The extraordinary relationship between these two incredible exemplars has continued to grow and deepen. His Holiness has been a keynote speaker at various Children in Crossfire events and he and Richard are often asked to appear together. In his recent book "Beyond Religion" the Dalai Lama refers to Richard as being "a marvellous example of the power of compassion and forgiveness".
The Dalai Lama has been a key inspiration behind Children in Crossfire's Educating the Heart initiative and specifically to the development of its TIDAL programme which seeks to provide a resource for teachers in addressing the issue of global citizenship in a way that results in a 'felt' understanding.
The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the spiritual leader of Tibetan people and a key proponent of world peace, the transformative power of compassion and the universal right to happiness. He has lived in exile in Dharamsala, India since 1959. His tireless efforts on behalf of world peace and human rights have brought him international recognition, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
The preservation of Tibet's Buddhist culture of peace and non-violence.
The Dalai Lama, Richard Moore and Charles Innis, the British Soldier who blinded Richard as a 10-year-old, 2007.
The Dalai Lama pictured with Richard Moore and Joe Murray (AFRI) at the 'Possibilities' event in Dublin in 2011.
The Dalai Lama and Richard Moore are presented with the St. Brigid's Flame in Kildare 2011.
Dalai Lama giving a public talk at the 'Venue', Ebrington as part of his visit to Derry/Londonderry in 2013.
Dalai Lama and Richard give a public talk at the 'Venue', Ebrington as part of his visit to Derry/Londonderry in 2013.


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Q: Deferring linking of shared libs If I'm using a shared library in linux, why do I need to link it with -l if the application has to find the library at runtime?
Couldn't I just pass in a dummy .so with the proper function signatures during the linking step and replace it with a real .so at runtime and still have it work properly?
Is there a way to compile an application with just a header file and have the linking take place at runtime?

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If I'm using a shared library in linux, why do I need to link it with -l if the application has to find the library at runtime?

So that the loader knows which libraries have to be loaded at runtime.

Couldn't I just pass in a dummy .so with the proper function signatures during the linking step and replace it with a real .so at runtime and still have it work properly?

Absolutely.

Is there a way to compile an application with just a header file and have the linking take place at runtime?

Yes, but then it's your responsibility to call dlopen(3) and dlsym(3) yourself to load the libraries and functions.

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Showing just how diverse this grape is, every region ended up with at least one wine with a Buy rating. California had a remarkable showing with 3 of the 5 wines in the competition ending up on the top 5 list. In the end; however, the Boschendal Chardonnay from South Africa comes out on top taking home the crown in the first ever Reverse Wine Snob Chardonnay Showdown. Congratulations to our winner and thanks for following along…now go out and buy some Chardonnay!
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Abstract: We applied the clustering technique using DTW (dynamic time wrapping) analysis to XRD (X-ray diffraction) spectrum patterns in order to identify the microscopic structures of substituents introduced in the main phase of magnetic alloys. The clustering is found to perform well to identify the concentrations of the substituents with successful rates (around 90%). The sufficient performance is attributed to the nature of DTW processing to filter out irrelevant informations such as the peak intensities (due to the incontrollability of diffraction conditions in polycrystalline samples) and the uniform shift of peak positions (due to the thermal expansions of lattices).


Long before the clocks are reset by an hour, the days have been growing markedly shorter. Overcast grey skies have meant that many of us use additional lighting during the day. In doing so, it's probably made you to reconsider how you use light. For example, where in the room should the lights be, how strong should they be and can they be a feature in their own right? Autumn lighting is as much about creating an ambience as it is brightening up the autumn gloom, so let the ani M INTERIORS team light the way.
When it comes to making a statement, it doesn't get much grander than a chandelier. Giant collections of shimmering star-like crystal, they scatter light around space. But if the traditional clear chandeliers aren't quite what you are after, this glorious Eternity III version from Koket will no doubt hit the mark. Brass clusters of dark crystal look other-worldly and once it's lit, the crystal and brass glow like the embers of a volcano.
Traditional pendent lamps beam light in one direction while spotlights can feel a little utilitarian and stark. Enter the Atomic suspension light from Delightfull. Resembling a cluster of atoms, it spins diffused light in different directions from a central point. What's more, this pendant can evoke different moods. In a child's room it can look like a rising bunch of balloons, in a sophisticated dining space it can look like an orbiting satellite.
From the 17th century onwards, the popular thing to do for those of means was to undertake a Grand Tour. The returning gentry would bring back souvenirs, renderings of the wonders of the world they had seen in miniature. The Gyro Crystal Table Lamp from Timothy Oulton recaptures the spirit of this bygone glory. This miniature model of a grand traditional chandelier, sitting in a display case of metal spheres, wouldn't look out of place among a collection of objects d'art from around the world.
The blog on Autumn Trends 2015 explored the effects of the changing light on the colour spectrum. Southerly summer light has plenty of yellow and orange hues while northerly winter light has blue and grey hues. So the change in seasons has a dramatic affect on your décor. A great way to cheer up autumn is to choose vibrant colours that are enriched by the cool light rather than drained by it. This is true for this Tommy lamp from Habitat, the simple shape has great character while the bold splash of yellow can't fail to raise a smile.
The Modernist movement created clean, strong furniture forms. Whilst, their beauty was often in their simplicity, some furnishings took on an austere air. Not so with Greta Grossman's '40s and '50s Gräshoppa and Cobra floor lamps. These timeless, structural pieces have great personality and irresistible charm. Reproduced here by GUBI, the Gräshoppa floor light is a true work of art.
Floor lamps have taken an unexpected turn with Boca Do Lobo's Skyscraper design. Tradition fuses with modern as the ornate, side-table base rises through a series of turned mahogany globes to a traditional silk lampshade. The lacquer effect of the wood is treated to primary colours and the two-tone treatment makes the base strangely transparent. It is as though the lamp is rising out of the ether like a skyscraper.
So much of design is about doing something unexpected, looking at an everyday object in a different way, changing the shape, the texture, the form. That's exactly what Uber has done with its Abstract wall lights. Made from a single sheet of brushed metal, these jewel-like objects have more in common with art gallery sculptures than with domestic wall lights. These strange, glowing stones will create a cosy ambiance of defused light.
In the ancient world, the lotus flower symbolised rebirth because it closes and sinks beneath the water at nightfall and rises and opens again at daybreak. Interesting then that as we are feeling the effects of the autumn's weakening sun, Arenas Collection has created a wall light in the shape of a lotus flower to bring the light and warmth of the sunshine to the home. The Discoco's opaque discs will spread the light like a sunrise.
While autumn is a magical season of colour outside, inside our homes can feel dull and gloomy, but clever lighting can change that. Subtle, diffused light from sculptural wall designs, scattered beams from show-stopping pendants and structural floor lamps with character will lift your interior beyond the gloom. Now is the season to see your home in a new light.
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The Go Blog
Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go
Rob Pike
The previous blog post explained how slices work in Go, using a number of examples to illustrate the mechanism behind their implementation. Building on that background, this post discusses strings in Go. At first, strings might seem too simple a topic for a blog post, but to use them well requires understanding not only how they work, but also the difference between a byte, a character, and a rune, the difference between Unicode and UTF-8, the difference between a string and a string literal, and other even more subtle distinctions.
One way to approach this topic is to think of it as an answer to the frequently asked question, "When I index a Go string at position n, why don't I get the nth character?" As you'll see, this question leads us to many details about how text works in the modern world.
An excellent introduction to some of these issues, independent of Go, is Joel Spolsky's famous blog post, The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!). Many of the points he raises will be echoed here.
What is a string?
Let's start with some basics.
In Go, a string is in effect a read-only slice of bytes. If you're at all uncertain about what a slice of bytes is or how it works, please read the previous blog post; we'll assume here that you have.
It's important to state right up front that a string holds arbitrary bytes. It is not required to hold Unicode text, UTF-8 text, or any other predefined format. As far as the content of a string is concerned, it is exactly equivalent to a slice of bytes.
Here is a string literal (more about those soon) that uses the \xNN notation to define a string constant holding some peculiar byte values. (Of course, bytes range from hexadecimal values 00 through FF, inclusive.)
const sample = "\xbd\xb2\x3d\xbc\x20\xe2\x8c\x98"
Printing strings
Because some of the bytes in our sample string are not valid ASCII, not even valid UTF-8, printing the string directly will produce ugly output. The simple print statement
fmt.Println(sample)
produces this mess (whose exact appearance varies with the environment):
��=� ⌘
To find out what that string really holds, we need to take it apart and examine the pieces. There are several ways to do this. The most obvious is to loop over its contents and pull out the bytes individually, as in this for loop:
for i := 0; i < len(sample); i++ {
fmt.Printf("%x ", sample[i])
As implied up front, indexing a string accesses individual bytes, not characters. We'll return to that topic in detail below. For now, let's stick with just the bytes. This is the output from the byte-by-byte loop:
bd b2 3d bc 20 e2 8c 98
Notice how the individual bytes match the hexadecimal escapes that defined the string.
A shorter way to generate presentable output for a messy string is to use the %x (hexadecimal) format verb of fmt.Printf. It just dumps out the sequential bytes of the string as hexadecimal digits, two per byte.
fmt.Printf("%x\n", sample)
Compare its output to that above:
bdb23dbc20e28c98
A nice trick is to use the "space" flag in that format, putting a space between the % and the x. Compare the format string used here to the one above,
fmt.Printf("% x\n", sample)
and notice how the bytes come out with spaces between, making the result a little less imposing:
There's more. The %q (quoted) verb will escape any non-printable byte sequences in a string so the output is unambiguous.
fmt.Printf("%q\n", sample)
This technique is handy when much of the string is intelligible as text but there are peculiarities to root out; it produces:
"\xbd\xb2=\xbc ⌘"
If we squint at that, we can see that buried in the noise is one ASCII equals sign, along with a regular space, and at the end appears the well-known Swedish "Place of Interest" symbol. That symbol has Unicode value U+2318, encoded as UTF-8 by the bytes after the space (hex value 20): e2 8c 98.
If we are unfamiliar or confused by strange values in the string, we can use the "plus" flag to the %q verb. This flag causes the output to escape not only non-printable sequences, but also any non-ASCII bytes, all while interpreting UTF-8. The result is that it exposes the Unicode values of properly formatted UTF-8 that represents non-ASCII data in the string:
fmt.Printf("%+q\n", sample)
With that format, the Unicode value of the Swedish symbol shows up as a \u escape:
"\xbd\xb2=\xbc \u2318"
These printing techniques are good to know when debugging the contents of strings, and will be handy in the discussion that follows. It's worth pointing out as well that all these methods behave exactly the same for byte slices as they do for strings.
Here's the full set of printing options we've listed, presented as a complete program you can run (and edit) right in the browser:
// +build OMIT
fmt.Println("Println:")
fmt.Println("Byte loop:")
fmt.Printf("\n")
fmt.Println("Printf with %x:")
fmt.Println("Printf with % x:")
fmt.Println("Printf with %q:")
fmt.Println("Printf with %+q:")
[Exercise: Modify the examples above to use a slice of bytes instead of a string. Hint: Use a conversion to create the slice.]
[Exercise: Loop over the string using the %q format on each byte. What does the output tell you?]
UTF-8 and string literals
As we saw, indexing a string yields its bytes, not its characters: a string is just a bunch of bytes. That means that when we store a character value in a string, we store its byte-at-a-time representation. Let's look at a more controlled example to see how that happens.
Here's a simple program that prints a string constant with a single character three different ways, once as a plain string, once as an ASCII-only quoted string, and once as individual bytes in hexadecimal. To avoid any confusion, we create a "raw string", enclosed by back quotes, so it can contain only literal text. (Regular strings, enclosed by double quotes, can contain escape sequences as we showed above.)
const placeOfInterest = `⌘`
fmt.Printf("plain string: ")
fmt.Printf("%s", placeOfInterest)
fmt.Printf("quoted string: ")
fmt.Printf("%+q", placeOfInterest)
fmt.Printf("hex bytes: ")
for i := 0; i < len(placeOfInterest); i++ {
fmt.Printf("%x ", placeOfInterest[i])
plain string: ⌘
quoted string: "\u2318"
hex bytes: e2 8c 98
which reminds us that the Unicode character value U+2318, the "Place of Interest" symbol ⌘, is represented by the bytes e2 8c 98, and that those bytes are the UTF-8 encoding of the hexadecimal value 2318.
It may be obvious or it may be subtle, depending on your familiarity with UTF-8, but it's worth taking a moment to explain how the UTF-8 representation of the string was created. The simple fact is: it was created when the source code was written.
Source code in Go is defined to be UTF-8 text; no other representation is allowed. That implies that when, in the source code, we write the text
`⌘`
the text editor used to create the program places the UTF-8 encoding of the symbol ⌘ into the source text. When we print out the hexadecimal bytes, we're just dumping the data the editor placed in the file.
In short, Go source code is UTF-8, so the source code for the string literal is UTF-8 text. If that string literal contains no escape sequences, which a raw string cannot, the constructed string will hold exactly the source text between the quotes. Thus by definition and by construction the raw string will always contain a valid UTF-8 representation of its contents. Similarly, unless it contains UTF-8-breaking escapes like those from the previous section, a regular string literal will also always contain valid UTF-8.
Some people think Go strings are always UTF-8, but they are not: only string literals are UTF-8. As we showed in the previous section, string values can contain arbitrary bytes; as we showed in this one, string literals always contain UTF-8 text as long as they have no byte-level escapes.
To summarize, strings can contain arbitrary bytes, but when constructed from string literals, those bytes are (almost always) UTF-8.
Code points, characters, and runes
We've been very careful so far in how we use the words "byte" and "character". That's partly because strings hold bytes, and partly because the idea of "character" is a little hard to define. The Unicode standard uses the term "code point" to refer to the item represented by a single value. The code point U+2318, with hexadecimal value 2318, represents the symbol ⌘. (For lots more information about that code point, see its Unicode page.)
To pick a more prosaic example, the Unicode code point U+0061 is the lower case Latin letter 'A': a.
But what about the lower case grave-accented letter 'A', à? That's a character, and it's also a code point (U+00E0), but it has other representations. For example we can use the "combining" grave accent code point, U+0300, and attach it to the lower case letter a, U+0061, to create the same character à. In general, a character may be represented by a number of different sequences of code points, and therefore different sequences of UTF-8 bytes.
The concept of character in computing is therefore ambiguous, or at least confusing, so we use it with care. To make things dependable, there are normalization techniques that guarantee that a given character is always represented by the same code points, but that subject takes us too far off the topic for now. A later blog post will explain how the Go libraries address normalization.
"Code point" is a bit of a mouthful, so Go introduces a shorter term for the concept: rune. The term appears in the libraries and source code, and means exactly the same as "code point", with one interesting addition.
The Go language defines the word rune as an alias for the type int32, so programs can be clear when an integer value represents a code point. Moreover, what you might think of as a character constant is called a rune constant in Go. The type and value of the expression
'⌘'
is rune with integer value 0x2318.
To summarize, here are the salient points:
Go source code is always UTF-8.
A string holds arbitrary bytes.
A string literal, absent byte-level escapes, always holds valid UTF-8 sequences.
Those sequences represent Unicode code points, called runes.
No guarantee is made in Go that characters in strings are normalized.
Range loops
Besides the axiomatic detail that Go source code is UTF-8, there's really only one way that Go treats UTF-8 specially, and that is when using a for range loop on a string.
We've seen what happens with a regular for loop. A for range loop, by contrast, decodes one UTF-8-encoded rune on each iteration. Each time around the loop, the index of the loop is the starting position of the current rune, measured in bytes, and the code point is its value. Here's an example using yet another handy Printf format, %#U, which shows the code point's Unicode value and its printed representation:
const nihongo = "日本語"
for index, runeValue := range nihongo {
fmt.Printf("%#U starts at byte position %d\n", runeValue, index)
The output shows how each code point occupies multiple bytes:
U+65E5 '日' starts at byte position 0
U+672C '本' starts at byte position 3
U+8A9E '語' starts at byte position 6
[Exercise: Put an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence into the string. (How?) What happens to the iterations of the loop?]
Go's standard library provides strong support for interpreting UTF-8 text. If a for range loop isn't sufficient for your purposes, chances are the facility you need is provided by a package in the library.
The most important such package is unicode/utf8, which contains helper routines to validate, disassemble, and reassemble UTF-8 strings. Here is a program equivalent to the for range example above, but using the DecodeRuneInString function from that package to do the work. The return values from the function are the rune and its width in UTF-8-encoded bytes.
"unicode/utf8"
for i, w := 0, 0; i < len(nihongo); i += w {
runeValue, width := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(nihongo[i:])
fmt.Printf("%#U starts at byte position %d\n", runeValue, i)
w = width
Run it to see that it performs the same. The for range loop and DecodeRuneInString are defined to produce exactly the same iteration sequence.
Look at the documentation for the unicode/utf8 package to see what other facilities it provides.
To answer the question posed at the beginning: Strings are built from bytes so indexing them yields bytes, not characters. A string might not even hold characters. In fact, the definition of "character" is ambiguous and it would be a mistake to try to resolve the ambiguity by defining that strings are made of characters.
There's much more to say about Unicode, UTF-8, and the world of multilingual text processing, but it can wait for another post. For now, we hope you have a better understanding of how Go strings behave and that, although they may contain arbitrary bytes, UTF-8 is a central part of their design.
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import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;

public class DefinedIcon {

  protected static HashMap<Character, String> map = new HashMap<Character, String>();

  public static void clear() {
    map.clear();
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  public static int size() {
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Technological advancements have made our social and professional life simpler. Smart watches and fitness bands revolutionize the way we exercise and interact with our environment. Automation software makes record keeping and customer relations a breeze. Robotics is making the workplace safer by taking over risk-prone production phases. Any successful entrepreneur should understand and embrace automation and the technology concept as a whole.
Business management software will help you take care of everything, from production to selling and employee management. By putting the basic operations of a company on a closed loop, you will stand a better chance at evaluating your business model and optimizing it to cut down on costs while maximizing production.
Most of the business automation processes will focus on automating redundant tasks and getting rid of the extra running costs. Your pest control software will do the invoicing and ticketing automatically. It will calculate due payments for each employee without forcing you to employ a dedicated accountant or support person to do the paperwork.
Let's face it. Everyone owns and loves a smartphone. Taking your employees off their phones would soon be next to impossible. The most intelligent thing to do would be bringing work into their phones. Think of how effective smartphone software would be to your business. Your field agents will not have to sit down at a terminal to log a new client's order. Everything will happen out in the field, and faster.
Choosing a good business automation process will help you cut down on costs, according to the experts from Pest Mate. It will make your employees more effective and allow them to enjoy their work. Motivation and enthusiasm will translate to bigger profit.


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'The French Dispatch' serves up humorous and melancholy European tales
"I can no longer imagine being a grown-up in my parents world."
The French Dispatch begins with death. Specifically, the demise of Arthur Howitzer Jr. (Bill Murray), the founder and editor of the newspaper The French Dispatch. With him now being deceased, this iconic publication will also soon cease to exist. The issue containing his obituary will also be the final gasp for The French Dispatch. The film that follows, the 10th directorial effort from Wes Anderson, brings to life the segments within that concluding issue, with much of the focus going into three extended stories.
The first of these tales concerns a prisoner, Moses Rosenthaler (Benicio del Toro), who's also a brilliant artist and finding his works to be in high demand from rich collectors. The next story focuses on a rebellion from college-aged youngsters (their slogan is "the youth are grumpy") against the French government. This gets reported on by Lucinda Krementz (Frances McDormand), who finds herself constantly trying to maintain objectivity but always getting lured into this student protest. Finally, there's the ballad of Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright), whose endeavor to report on police cooking ends up getting him ensnared in a much larger kidnapping plot!
Across these assorted tales are the constant concepts of death and loneliness. Throughout The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson is conveying the idea that what unites us all is that we're all going to die and we're all prone to feeling alone. It's a melancholy anchor for a story that's jam-packed with whimsical and fanciful touches, the kind that Anderson has made his bread-and-butter. But Anderson's works don't just get by on their eccentricities. They get you to care about unorthodox hotel managers, stop-motion animated foxes, and precocious High Schoolers who organize stage play adaptations of Serpico. The French Dispatch, with its irresistible balance of the farcical and poignancy, is an exquisite depiction of Anderson's tonal complexities.
The care with which Anderson handles this nuanced tone is matched by the apparent craftsmanship on display in the visuals. Shocking nobody at this point in his career, The French Dispatch is absolutely gorgeous in eye candy. Even the murkiest alleyway is covered in purple paint, a hive of rats next to train tracks can burst with bright hues, while a student rebellion is often depicted as a stage play, complete with parts of the set getting shuffled off of the screen. The ornately blocked and staged sets reflect the core theme of The French Dispatch, as all environments, no matter how seemingly disposable, get rendered with such affection. Bonus points too for employing brief bursts of color during black-and-white segments that echoed Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor, never a bad thing to remind me of Samuel Fuller!
Along with his superb visual style, Anderson has also maintained his affinity for sprawling ensemble casts from his last two movies, with a bunch of Anderson regulars (Owen Wilson, Murray, Tilda Swinton, etc.) cropping up here alongside newcomers like Timothee Chalamet and Benicio del Toro. The singularity of Anderson's style as a filmmaker is wonderfully manifested by this collection of performers. It's hard to pick just one performance that's the absolute best in this project. Adrien Brody maybe got the biggest laugh from me with his confusion over how parole hearings are conducted while I could listen to Jeffrey Wright read a telephone book, I'll just say that.
Judging from its title and Anderson's love for paying tribute to other films, I wasn't surprised that The French Dispatch was packed with tributes to French cinema. I caught nods to Tout Va Bien and Le Bonheur, among many others. But one French film I didn't expect The French Dispatch to evoke was BPM (Beats per Minute), specifically in a tear-inducing conclusion that brings together the leads of the individual stories to touchingly suggest how death isn't necessarily the end of our lives. The way we touch others, whether it's through our actions or writing, or any other means, leaves ripple effects that linger long after our souls have departed this mortal coil.
The French Dispatch takes place against a world that's full of sorrow and problems, like violent altar boys drunk off communion wine or art dealers who only see the value of painting through dollars and cents. Being so cognizant of that makes this one of Anderson's most melancholy works. But being similarly aware, like in the conclusion to BPM (Beats per Minute) also ensures there's more than a kernel of hope in there. A work as varied in tone as it is in visuals, The French Dispatch is absolutely wonderful, a microcosm of the complexities and joy that make Wes Anderson such an incredible filmmaker.


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- ADDITIONAL GAME MODE: Besides the 45 second Quick Play, there is the terrific PROGRESSIVE MODE where you progress from one level to the next. PROGRESSIVE MODE is so addicting that you will not be able to stop as you move level to level! How many levels will you achieve? Win one level, and get to the next? Win prizes such as tiny rabbits, large ducks and giant bears.
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Retargeting ads are a powerful way of acquiring new customers through strategically focusing ads on the needs or intent of warm leads. They are a great opportunity for businesses to create more successful Facebook advertisements and get a higher return on investment. Getting the most out of your Facebook advertising does require learning not only how Facebook Ads Manager works, but also pairing that with a good understanding of digital marketing.
So, why should Facebook bots matter to marketers? For starters, Messenger has 1.3 billion monthly active users. And since bots are a form of artificial intelligence, their natural language capabilities will undoubtedly get smarter over time. From the perspective of the customer, bots make the shopping and customer support processes much smoother, eliminating the need to scroll through pages and pages of product choices or talk on the phone with a customer service rep. In fact, a HubSpot Research report found that 47% of people are interested in buying items from a bot.
Facebook is creating its own virtual world, a world built on openness and transparency, where friends connect with each other about things they care about. By giving you the power to share, connect, and market your business to this community, Facebook hopes you will do your best to enhance the positive aspects of this community, and avoid creating unpleasant experiences.
Advanced tip: Use Facebook Connect as a sign up option on your site. When users connect via Facebook, you'll be able to analyze their interests. Index these interests against the number of fans of their respective Facebook Pages. You'll be left with your high-affinity interests. Using this method, we created a target group that has been our best performer (out of hundreds of test groups) for nearly a year.
Whether you're new to Facebook for business or want to add something new to your current Facebook marketing plan, you've come to the right place. This guide is intended to help marketers of all experience levels, from beginner through to advanced. We'll teach you how to leverage Facebook pages, profiles, groups, ads, live video, analytics, contests, and more – everything your business needs to shine.
The most efficient way to create a Facebook 360 video is to use a 360-degree camera such as an ALLie or RICOH THETA. The THETA, for example, has two lens that together capture the 360-degree look. Since there's no viewfinder, you'll need to use the corresponding mobile app to set the shot and a tripod to keep the camera steady. The app then allows you to share directly to Facebook.
In April of 2016, Shirley Weir of Menopause Chicks posted an online survey asking women what topics they wanted to learn more about. She had planned to use the answers to inform the content she would develop for her website, but when she learned that 70 percent of respondents said they didn't have anyone to talk to about perimenopause or menopause (or that they would never talk about it with anyone), she decided it was high time to create a safe place for those discussions to happen.
If your business has an offer or event going on at your store, set up a few Facebook Reach ads that appear only to people within a short distance of your store. Have these ads appear a few days prior to the event and on mobile devices while the event is happening. You may want to reach some people the day of the event who happen to be in the area and checking their Facebook account on their smartphones.
It's possible to further refine your custom audiences by combining any of the ad sets created—based on the time lag data, content grouping, and location in the sales funnel—and use this information to set exclusions within Facebook around any pairings. Most of the time, this allows you to discover a variety of different segments. However, it can also help define smaller audiences and the best piece of content to show them next.
As we've already indicated, Facebook Messenger is a powerful customer support tool. It's not inaccurate to refer to it as the front lines of customer care. Doing business has always been a little conversational – by providing your customers with the notion that they can reach out to you for immediate interaction and assistance, you can greatly improve customer care.
Frequency: Frequency is how often someone saw your ad. An ideal frequency should vary depending on the type of ad you ran. For example, you'd probably only want someone to see a promoted piece of content once. But it might take multiple views of a Page Like ad before someone takes an action. If any of your ads have a very high frequency but low performance, it may be time to retire the ad.
Check out our Facebook Ads Retargeting Tutorial for Beginners, which is updated for 2017 and 2018. Facebook advertising retargeting campaigns and retargeting audiences are a great way to reach targeted consumers that are the most likely to convert. We will take you through the process of adding a Facebook pixel to your website, creating Facebook audiences based on your pixel, creating custom conversions to exclude people who have already converted, and how to target Facebook Retargeting audiences with your ad campaigns.
The pixel is a small piece of Facebook code installed on your website. This allows Facebook to track how many people clicked on your post or ad and visited your website, as well as how many people from Facebook signed up for offers or took other predetermined actions. With this information, agents can learn what ads work and how best to convert site visitors to leads. Find out more about how to use the Facebook pixel for remarketing. How To Post Everyday on Instagram with Ease
You'll also need to get familiar with Facebook demographics. Once you know who uses the platform and how that maps back to your target customer, you can take a look at Facebook Audience Insights. Use the tool to drill down into the nitty-gritty details about potential customers. Find information on things like age, gender, education, relationship status, location, language, Facebook usage, and even past purchase activity. (For more details, check out our full tutorial on Facebook analytics.)
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Note for HubSpot customers: You can integrate Facebook Ads reporting into the HubSpot Ads App to make reporting and analyzing your advertising ROI easier. You'll be able to easily see which Facebook Ads generate leads and increase your ROI without having to analyze the data yourself. You can also use this integration to edit Facebook Ads from directly within your HubSpot portal. Customers can sign up to test this integration here.
He is the co-founder of NP Digital. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, Forbes says he is one of the top 10 marketers, and Entrepreneur Magazine says he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies. Neil is a New York Times bestselling author and was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 35 by the United Nations. How To Check Who Visited My Facebook Profile l How to Check who Visited My Fb Pr
Advertisers use the information from the Facebook Pixel to better understand their audience. They can then create ads tailored to their audience using this information. By understanding site visitors, advertisers not only have a warm audience that is more likely to convert, but they can also design ads specifically to them. This gives advertisers the ability to create ad messaging that makes more of an impact, leading to more sales and a higher return on ad spend.
It's true that, overall, user adoption of Facebook has slowed in some parts of the world, such as the United States and parts of Asia. However, with so many people already using the service, market saturation was bound to have an impact on Facebook's growth trajectory eventually. This is not the death knell you may have heard about, however. Facebook remains the most popular social network in the world, and slower growth is still growth. Other social networks have grown, but they're still nowhere close to even approaching Facebook's market penetration. Torchaudio 0.3 with Kaldi Compatibility, New Transforms: A Quick Introduction by
Where do you go to see this "search" button? I'm on my own Facebook page and there's just one "search" space, you can type things in, it will show results, but there is no word "join" and no words "join group' anywhere on the page or beside the groups listed, as described and semi-shown here, and when I go to the site I'm interested in (they begged ME to join), there are no such words anywhere on any of their pages as "join this group."
Be consistent in naming URLs and use referral URLs to easily differentiate among content grouping. You can then build a separate custom audience inside of Facebook for each group and let them grow over time. When you're ready to market to a given subset, you can amplify information or products to people based on the content that they've consumed from your site. Because they've already indicated some interest in your brand, they'll be more receptive to your ads. Create a Cover Image for your Facebook Business Page - 2019
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For example, an auto dealership gets a large number of visitors who search for specific makes and models, but they do not click the call to action "schedule a test drive." The dealership uses this information to create ads that provide additional sales information on the cars the visitors were looking at, which further helps develop the user's interest in the vehicle, leading them closer to converting users to take action, such as schedule a test drive or value trade-in.
This Guide was first produced by Marie Page who you may know as a regular Expert Commentator contributing to Smart Insights focusing on social media marketing and in particular Facebook. Marie is co-founder and senior consultant at The Digiterati, a collective of specialist digital marketing consultants providing actionable training and proven tactical marketing input to clients.
On the right sidebar of the homepage is Stories, Facebook's name for a different stream of information about your friends. Instead of status updates or posts, Stories shows your friends' published Stories, just like on Instagram and Snapchat. They're usually a few seconds of video or still photos. You can add media to your own stories, too, with the big Plus button.
The good news is, Facebook is a online platform dedicated to relationships. Social media is all about building, sharing and maintaining relationships with other people. This is important, because the success or failure of your Facebook marketing will depend on your ability to use the social, relationship-focused nature of Facebook to build positive relationships with your potential customers.
With the basic skeleton of your Page complete, there's an important step you'll want to take before you send the Page out to the world … or even your co-workers. Remember how Facebook creates business Pages separate from personal profiles? One benefit of this is so multiple people from an organization can edit and post from the Page without sharing login credentials. But that also means you need to designate who has what levels of editing access. That's where Page Roles comes in.
"To convert users over the internet without a personal touch is very difficult. They have to trust you, and that takes time. Therefore, the approach and the converting angle has to be a contact form, where they could leave their name, email, and telephone number. Then, be sure to call them—going that extra mile will definitely make them feel more secure."
"People are naturally curious and want to see more than just the outside of their future home or one home you're working with. Using the carousel ad format, you can highlight multiple features of the house that will drive more click-through traffic—or you can use it to show what homes you have available at the moment to drive more brand awareness."
Timing can also be seasonal. Retailers that do most of their business during the Q4 gifting season can create a custom audience targeting those who don't buy from them year-round. Susan uses the example of women visiting a men's retailer site based on clicks from a holiday gift guide. Knowing that traffic from this particular piece of content is likely driven by people who aren't shopping for themselves, you can retarget this audience during other gift-giving times of the year such as Father's Day.
Do you want to make more specific audiences than just all traffic to your website? Create another audience by following the steps above (you only have to place the pixel once), but instead of targeting all traffic in step 4, click the dropdown box and choose "people who visit specific web pages" – then paste in the url of the pages you want to target!
Just like no one wants to be first to arrive at a party, no one want to be the first person to join a Facebook group. Invite some colleagues, employees, or friends to get the ball rolling. You may also want to reach out to some of the more active participants on your Facebook Page and let them know you're creating a group you'd love them to be a part of. Programmer Motivation - Learning to Code is Hard - Get Motivated
If groups related to your business already exist, you should definitely get involved to keep an eye on the conversation, learn from what people are saying about you, and help provide the brand's perspective. You might even uncover some potential ideas for new product development. (We'll get into more detail about finding and joining existing groups below.) But you should also create your own official group as the brand-endorsed meeting place for fans on Facebook, so that you can grow those relationships in a context that gives you greater control.
The competitive value of a Facebook ad is the sum of an advertiser's maximum bid – how much an advertiser is willing to pay every time a user takes the desired action – and the ad's intrinsic quality bid, or how much engagement an ad brings to Facebook and the user experience. Although the precise methodology behind how Facebook calculates intrinsic quality bid is a closely guarded secret, Facebook does concede that factors such as the volume of clicks, likes, and shares is included in this calculation, as is general feedback on an ad.


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#ifndef Prerender_h
#define Prerender_h

#include "platform/PlatformExport.h"
#include "platform/weborigin/KURL.h"
#include "platform/weborigin/ReferrerPolicy.h"
#include "wtf/OwnPtr.h"
#include "wtf/PassOwnPtr.h"
#include "wtf/PassRefPtr.h"
#include "wtf/RefCounted.h"
#include "wtf/RefPtr.h"
#include "wtf/text/WTFString.h"

namespace blink {
class WebPrerender;
}

namespace WebCore {

class PrerenderClient;

class PLATFORM_EXPORT Prerender : public RefCounted<Prerender> {
    WTF_MAKE_NONCOPYABLE(Prerender);
public:
    class ExtraData : public RefCounted<ExtraData> {
    public:
        virtual ~ExtraData() { }
    };

    static PassRefPtr<Prerender> create(PrerenderClient*, const KURL&, const String& referrer, ReferrerPolicy);
    ~Prerender();

    void removeClient();

    void add();
    void cancel();
    void abandon();

    const KURL& url() const { return m_url; }
    const String& referrer() const { return m_referrer; }
    ReferrerPolicy referrerPolicy() const { return m_referrerPolicy; }

    void setExtraData(PassRefPtr<ExtraData> extraData) { m_extraData = extraData; }
    ExtraData* extraData() { return m_extraData.get(); }

    void didStartPrerender();
    void didStopPrerender();
    void didSendLoadForPrerender();
    void didSendDOMContentLoadedForPrerender();

private:
    Prerender(PrerenderClient*, const KURL&, const String& referrer, ReferrerPolicy);

    PrerenderClient* m_client;

    const KURL m_url;
    const String m_referrer;
    const ReferrerPolicy m_referrerPolicy;

    RefPtr<ExtraData> m_extraData;
};

}

#endif // Prerender_h