Wendy's Delights: smART Nails Stencil P056 & a GIVEAWAY!!!!
Hi everybody, here's my 2nd review of smART Nails Stencils and I'm just as excited to show you as my 1st post. Again I'm chuffed to bits with the results as they are so easy to use and great results. All you have to decide is the colour combo. I've gone for red painted nails with gold shimmery polish using stencil P056, This could be a fab Christmas or festival mani. If you don't get on with stamping this is a brilliant alternative. The re-usable stencils come in a pack of 10 and there are 65 different designs to choose from. Simply peel off the stencil from the backing paper. The stencil is transparent so you can see exactly where to place it on the nail. Press onto your dry nail and make sure there are no air bubbles. Apply your contrasting polish and immediate remove the stencil. Once dry apply top coat.
I highly recommend these stencils because they are very easy, effective, fun and a great way to decorate you nails. And, they are re-useable! Check out my video demonstration below and to the GIVEAWAY!!!
And now for the GIVEAWAY - YAY!!
smART Nails are very kindly sponsoring a Giveaway of 5 packs of stencils of your choice for THREE winners. All you have to do is like smART Nails on Facebook and write in the comments box your choice of stencils, there are also additional entries in the Rafflecopter.
smART Nails have stipulated that this Giveaway is open to USA, Canada, UK & Australia, however fear not International readers, I'm donating a runner up prize of nail art goodies open to all.
Thank you so much for the chance to win these...they look so amazing! I would love to be able to win numbers: P022, P032, P040, P061, and P064.
I'd love to win sets # P005, P013,P032, P039 and P202. It was difficult to decide because they are ALL so beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win! This is a great giveaway!
It took me a while to narrow this down to 5!
Oh, I love these! Very original! I particularly love P019, P020, P034, P044 and P056. Might have to give these a try!
I've tried stencils before without much luck, but never this brand. This looked great and I'm excited to possibly try a brand that I can see has good results!
(P013)..they are all so cute!
Thank you for the tutorial!lovely result!
I really love P018, P019, P020, P053, and P059!
They look nice! I'm international so I have to hope for that runner up price.
I got my stencils, Wendy! And I LOVE them! They came just in time for my November Alzheimer's Awareness Month nail design and I had requested the awareness ribbon stencil so it was perfect! Thanks again for this awesome giveaway :-) Jessica W.
Fantastic! I look forward to seeing your beautiful nails!


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Combining History and Literature: Why and How
by Susan Wise Bauer
Last updated June 24, 2016 January 25, 2017
The ultimate goal of combining history and literature study is a greater understanding of our own civilization, country, and place in time, stemming from an understanding of what has come before us.
In The Well-Trained Mind, we suggest that history be taught chronologically (see the explanation here). And we also recommend that literature be taught hand-in-hand with history.
When you study literature and history together, you reunite two fields of learning (stories written in the past, and the story of the past itself) that should never have been pulled apart. We know about history from archaeology and anthropology, but our primary source of historical knowledge is the testimony of those who lived in the past. Without the books written by Aristotle, Homer, Plato, Virgil, and Julius Caesar, we would know very little about the politics, religion, culture, and ideals of Greece and Rome; without the myths, legends, and stories of the past, we would not know how women and men who came before us experienced the great events around them.
We suggest that literature follow the same pattern as history studies:
Ancients (5000 B.C.–A.D. 400)
Medieval–early Renaissance (400–1600)
Late Renaissance–early modern (1600–1850)
Modern (1850–present)
During the early grades, try to give the child simplified versions of the original literature that he'll be reading in the higher grades, or introduce him (through stories or biographies) to a writer he'll encounter later. These include retellings of ancient myths, of the Iliad and Odyssey, of Shakespeare and Dickens; fairy tales of ancient China and Japan, stories of the Bible, myths of Rome and Greece, Aesop's fables, stories about the great Greeks and Romans, books about Shakespeare's life; stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and many more (we provide extensive lists in The Well-Trained Mind.)
During the middle grades, the student can add in biographies of great women and men as well as the wonderful historical novels (such as Newbery Medal winners) written for middle school readers. Sixth and seventh graders can make a first run at Shakespeare; seventh and eighth graders can begin to tackle some of the easier classics of early modern and modern literature, such as Gulliver's Travels, the works of Washington Irving, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle (to name just a few).
High school students can move on to the great books themselves. While studying ancient history, ninth graders might read selections from the Old Testament, the Epic of Gilgamesh, excerpts from Herodotus, Josephus, and Plutarch; tenth graders who are learning about the Middle Ages and Renaissance could read Beowulf, Everyman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Prince, and Utopia; eleventh graders can tackle the early modern writers such as Cervantes, Milton, Bunyan, Benjamin Franklin, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley; high school seniors, studying modern history, can begin with Emily Dickinson, move through Harriet Beecher Stow, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hard, and Frederick Douglass, and end up with Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppartd, and Elie Wiesel. (You'll find extensive lists and much more direction on how to this in The Well-Trained Mind. )
"The old books," writes classical schoolmaster David Hicks, "lay a foundation for all later learning and life." The student who has read Aristotle and Plato on human freedom, Thomas Jefferson on liberty, Frederick Douglass on slavery, and Martin Luther King, Jr., on civil rights, all the time studying the history that gave rise to these great works, will read Toni Morrison's Beloved with an understanding denied to the student who comes to the book without any knowledge of its roots. The ultimate goal of combining history and literature study is a greater understanding of our own civilization, country, and place in time, stemming from an understanding of what has come before us.
Susan Wise Bauer is an educator, writer, and historian. She is the co-author of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (now in its fourth edition), and the author of (among others) The Well- Educated Mind, The Story of Western Science, the Story of the World series, the History of the World series, the elementary series Writing With Ease, and the pre-rhetoric series Writing With Skill. Susan was home educated through high school and has taught all four of her children at home. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English language and literature, an M.Div., and a Ph.D. in the history of American religion from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where she taught writing and literature for over fifteen years.
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I am having trouble finding more information on how to do this. Could you provide the link? I would like to combine World History and Literature in the fall. Thanks!
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The most in-depth treatment of this is in the book "The Well-Trained Mind, 4th edition," by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise, chapter 27. The book is available from our website, or Amazon, or your local bookstore or library.
theresamarcazzo says:
Hello, are the lists geared for middle school students or could be used for third grade?
I'm searching the book and the site to find any suggestions on a third grade literature program. Thanks.
A full list of suggested third-grade books, in chronological order, is found in chapter 5, pages 85-94, of the 2016 edition of The Well-Trained Mind (the fourth edition).

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Lamb's C-SPAN brought the inner workings of Congress into American homes.
5 of Brian Lamb's best TV moments
By PATRICK GAVIN
It was announced Sunday that C-SPAN founder and CEO Brian Lamb would be stepping down from the channel's chief executive position on April 1 (Lamb will continue to host his interview program, "Q&A"), marking the end of a legendary career in the world of Washington journalism. Lamb's C-SPAN not only helped to bring the workings of Congress into American homes, but also led the charge in fighting for greater transparency throughout government (C-SPAN continues to fight for camera access in such places as the Supreme Court and House chamber).
POLITICO recalls 5 of Lamb's best moments:
1.) The beginning. Lamb's first "Booknotes" took place in 1988 with author Neil Sheehan and it's classic Lamb: He opened the interview in the simple style that would come to define him: "Why did you write the book?"
2.) On the defense. Be it with offensive callers or C-SPAN critics, Lamb had an artful way of addressing controversy with class … and also a bit of cunning. Take this 2007 clip in which Lamb gives plenty of lip service to a campaign by radio talk show host Michael Savage against C-SPAN, even directing viewers to Savage's website and giving specific instructions on how listeners could support Savage's work. But, then, Lamb went on to read some of the email he had received from Savage's fans, essentially eviscerating the very effort Lamb just brought attention to.
3.) Brit Hume. Although many have tried to press Fox News personalities on the charge that the cable channel leans right, few walked the knife's edge as delicately and respectfully as Lamb did when he interviewed Hume in 2008.
"And it says here that, she says this in this article. "Fox wants to do news from a certain viewpoint." True?" asked Lamb.
"Well, if that's true of us, it's true of everybody. We're no more viewpoint connected than any of the other news organizations are."
"Well, the other news organizations do not think that from what they say," Lamb retorted.
4.) The bloopers. C-SPAN's archives are full of funny (and some obnoxious) calls from viewers and the hosts always handle them with aplomb. Like when Lamb was asked, "When did you lose you virginity?"
5.) Hip to be square. Lest you think C-SPAN plain, or Lamb a tad too grey for the kids these days, you need look no further than his 2010 Q&A with the quirky Gregory Brothers (of Auto-Tune fame). Lamb handled it like a pro. In his opening question that could have been asked for his own benefit as much as the viewers, Lamb asked, "If you tried to explain to somebody who's never seen what you do — Auto-Tune The News — what would you say?"
Brian Lamb


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I always dread Frost, bringing to an end another gardening season. There is so much to be done before it arrives: collecting seeds, taking cuttings of special plants, dragging out covers for other plantings in the hope of keeping pretty them for a few more days. For those tender specimens, I had to figure out a new sheltered location to protect them, since I no longer have big commercial greenhouses. This bench (below) was moved into the basement, where the laundry room used to be, so there is already a floor drain and water faucets. You can see I've already moved my collection of succulents inside. I will have to add additional lights, but that can be a "bad weather" project.
For now, the other plants that need a bit of shelter are in the new hobby greenhouse, since the forecast is for another spell of good weather, with only patchy frost occasionally. The bay tree, lemon tree, dwarf pomegranate, rosemary and others will be fine in there until it turns really cold. I don't plan to heat the greenhouse until next early, early spring. So, later on, on some nice sunny day, I'll move them into the basement bench. Until then, they really enjoy the sunshine.
This year, the first frost came much later than normal and it was only a light patchy one, so I really can't complain too much. We've had a glorious, long late summer into autumn allowing lots of time for soil moving, weeding, and transplanting. I was able to reclaim a garden and begin turning it into Fairyland, plant the front borders on the potager, re-do the garden around the lamp post out front, and add the little shade garden. But, eventually, frost did come, turning all the brilliant colors of zinnias and other tender plants various shades of brown. Sad. I could show you lots of other photographs, but you probably have enough depressing brown in your own gardens, unless you live in a more temperate zone.
The aftermath of frost sometimes makes your mistakes all too glaring. See the poor variegated Mrs. Pollock geranium (photo below) that I forgot to move inside? And the lantana behind it? Too late to save them now. However, the dahlia on the right should be allowed to be zapped by frost.
Then, the stems are trimmed off, most of the soil is removed, and a label is added. I place them in plastic tubs, cover them with moss, and stack them in a cupboard where the mice can't get to them. These are dahlias I grew from seed, so I just label them for color.
Cannas, gladiolas, and other summer-flowering bulbs can be handled the same way. I do check them a couple of times over the winter, and if the bulbs seem to be too dry, I sprinkle them with a bit of water to moisten the moss. I don't want them to shrivel too much, but I also don't want them so moist that they mold.
So, now there's a new job list. No more watering containers daily, or deadheading annuals. Now it is time to remove all the frosted annuals, cut down dead stalks, do a final weeding, and finish planting the bulbs. I also like to check fading labels (Markers just don't last as long as they once did!) and re-write them if necessary. I map all the gardens, so I have a good basis on which to plan over the winter. And, once the ground freezes, I'll add a bit of mulch to those plants that appreciate an extra blanket for the winter. There's always something in the garden to do, and that's just the way I like it.
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Do You Have Concerns About The Changes in Your Skin Appearance?
The number of women who are now more conscious of their appearance and skin care, in general, is rising by the day hence beauty products claiming to have natural ingredients have become more available in the local stores. What manufacturers do not inform users, are the chemical toxins these products contain and the possible harm they cause.
Antioxidants are very potent substances found in most fresh fruits and vegetables. They prevent the oxidation of harmful molecules in your body. Direct consumption or topical application of some of the fruits, together with drinking lots of water is highly beneficial to your general health and that of your skin.
However, these are not quick fixes, and they require a combination of healthy living, frequent detoxifying, stress management, enough sleep, regular exercise, and sunscreen application before exposing yourself to the sun or cold. It's never too late to switch to natural skin care, but before then, start with two days of skin detoxification, body cleansing and steaming.
Topical application of lemon juice helps to clear dark spots, improves complexion, softens dry lips, reduces acne, wrinkles, and improves overall skin texture. A quarter cup of lemon juice has the daily recommended intake of vitamin c, 3% foliate, 2% potassium and an excellent source of flavonoids that fights skin damage and gives protection against skin cancer.
It also boosts the immune system and speeds up weight loss.
This fruit is full of nutrients, fiber, vitamins, and natural sugars. It contains vitamin B6 which helps you to sleep well, magnesium that relaxes muscles and high levels of tryptophan which is mood elevating thus overcoming depression. A banana, when applied directly to the skin, solves the problem of dry skin and leaves it flawless.
You can also mix with eggs and apply to hair for ten to thirty minutes for a natural nourishing treatment.
They contain carotenoids, antioxidants, and anti-cancer properties. They reduce blood pressure and cholesterol, stimulate blood circulation, protect kidneys, relieve diabetes, and improve vision, teeth, bones, and hair. A tomato prevents premature aging, detoxifies the body, protects the skin against UV rays and reduces inflammation and other skin problems.
It is rich in vitamins and minerals that help in the skin whitening too.
They contain 110 calories, high levels of vitamin c, B6, B3, fiber, magnesium, resistant starch, and phosphorus. It has no fat, sodium or cholesterol. Topical application of sliced potatoes removes dark circles under eyes, eliminates dark spots, treat sunburn, dry skin, and wrinkles.
Added to lemon juice, it lightens the skin and improves collagen build up. Applied on to hair, it helps treat gray hair and avoid hair loss.
This natural oil has antibacterial and anti-fungal properties and an excellent moisturizer. It boosts energy and treats yeast infections. It also manages viral diseases like herpes, influenza, and HIV by improving your immunity. It's excellent in lightening and prevents skin flaking and dryness. Applied on lips, it cures soreness on lips and treats sun burns and pimples.
Also known to treat mouth sores and reduce stretch marks.
Aloe Vera is the ultimate solution to skin conditions of all types. It reduces itching, inflammation, eczema, soothes sunburn and inhibits bacterial growth causing infections. Has laxative properties known to treat constipation as well. Mixed with rice flour, it makes a perfect exfoliate that will leave your skin feeling fresh and with open pores.
To decrease the appearance of scars, mix with papaya and apply. It is a solution to acne, dandruff, wounds, and burns. It alleviates allergies and boosts memory too. Taken orally, it suppresses coughs and serves as an energy drink. Its anti-oxidant properties lower blood pressure and your cholesterol levels as well.
To use as a scrub, mix with brown sugar or apply its mixture with milk to exfoliate and hydrate your skin leaving it soft and glowing.
The skin is the largest body organ and requires care just like all others. If neglected, you may suffer some of the skin problems ranging from tanning, stretch marks, cracking, peeling, itchiness, psoriasis, acne, dark circles, wrinkles, age spots, rashes, chapped lips and skin cancer among many others.
These tips to natural beauty will ensure that you save yourself money, be protected against toxins in products available on the shelves and get a rejuvenated, well hydrated and glowing look without running out of products. They will help you manage weight and prevent you from the everyday concerns among women.
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Unveiling Our Updated Gamesroom!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 26, 2020)—Boys & Girls Clubs of Maury County recently unveiled its newly renovated Gamesroom within its Teen Center in Downtown Columbia. The updated space was sponsored by First Farmers and Merchants Bank and Farm Bureau Health Plans.
"The Gamesroom is a really important space in our Teen Center," said Robyn Peery, CEO for Boys & Girls Clubs of Maury County. "We focus a lot on academics, but once our teens finish their homework it is important that they are rewarded by the opportunity to have fun playing in the Gamesroom. A lot of mentoring also happens in the Gamesroom, where our staff members can build positive connections with our teens over a game of pool or ping-pong."
First Farmers and Farm Bureau Health Plans' sponsorship included the addition of new gaming tables such as carpetball for the kids to enjoy and graphics installed by Softspace to highlight the two companies for their contributions. More than 100 young individuals throughout grades 6-12 attend the Teen Center each year. These renovations aim to inspire the youth who walk through the Club's doors each day.
"The words 'Deep Roots' and 'Stable Success' are featured prominently on the walls of the new Gamesroom," said First Farmers' President Brian Williams. "We believe that these words embody the mission of both of our companies, as well as representing what we are trying to build in these young people through the Club."
"We believe strongly in the mission of Boys & Girls Clubs, and we are proud of this partnership between three great local businesses who have come together to invest in our community's next generation of leaders," said Farm Bureau Health Plans' CEO Anthony Kimbrough.
About Boys & Girls Clubs of Maury County
Boys & Girls Clubs of Maury County (BGCMC) is a not-for-profit youth development organization with a mission to "enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens." BGCMC is a chartered member of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the oldest and largest youth serving organization in the country, and part of a global network of 4,300 Clubs serving more than 4 million kids annually. BGCMC serves over 1,200 youth per year at 14 locations in Maury and Giles Counties. The Club provides daily after-school programs for children in grades K-12th and serves youth twelve hours per day on school breaks and all summer long. Programming is targeted around three priority outcome areas for members: 1) Academic Success, 2) Healthy Lifestyles, and 3) Good Character and Citizenship. In 2019, BGCMC was recognized by Boys & Girls Clubs of America as having the #1 Academic Program in the nation. One-hundred percent of Club seniors have graduated on time since the Club's founding in 1999.
About First Farmers and Merchants Corporation and First Farmers and Merchants Bank
First Farmers and Merchants Corporation is the holding company for First Farmers and Merchants Bank, a community bank serving the Middle Tennessee area through 22 offices in seven Middle Tennessee counties. As of September 30, 2020, First Farmers reported total assets of approximately $1.7 billion, total shareholders' equity of approximately $158 million, and administered trust assets of $5.7 billion. For more information about First Farmers, visit us on the Web at www.myfirstfarmers.com under "Investor Relations."
About Farm Bureau Health Plans
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First up, a big thanks to Jim Jacob for his incredible photos of the festival and Fayetteville generally. I could do a story on paint drying and he could make it look good.
A late start to the day was necessary. Yesterday's musical superlatives still ringing in my ears (can superlatives make a sound?) and it was a slow prep for the day.
A little past noon, we left the Lafayette St house and walked south down the hill. As we came to Dickson St, we found a water slide that stretched 1,000 feet long, several blocks of the thoroughfare were closed off. It looked like a lot of fun, slipping down the gentle slope, keeping cool. It felt the hottest of our days here.
We continued around the slide (rather than swim across it) and continued up to Mountain St and the Public Library which was jumping. There was a food truck outside, the interior full cafe was full, CD, DVD and T-shirt merchandise stands, books moving aplenty and a live music show featuring the duo Moors and McCumber. We stayed for about four of the songs and the stories in between and enjoyed the set, before we needed to leave.
Back at the Town Centre, we prepared ourselves for day 3 of fayettevilleroots, including obtaining another set of seats together in the front row.
John Elliott was introduced. He came on, piped music started, he left the stage and proceeded to high-five most of the small crowd which had assembled on time. He said he just wanted to rev. up the crowd on this sleepy Sunday afternoon. It was an impressive entrance.
His good sense of humour continued throughout. A solo singer songwriter with a clear voice and insightful observations, he moved from guitar to piano effortlessly. There was interesting chatting between songs as well. When you see a performance of an artist you haven't heard, or even heard of before, you start with a tabla rasa, a clean slate and can just, well, listen and absorb. Looking a bit like Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, the set was enjoyable, plenty to take away from it. Songs about Germans, flags, prejudice and kindness. A version of the Don Henley song "The Heart Of The Matter" a potent closing song.
Dana Louise & The Glorious Birds provided another style contrast, a four piece singer/guitar, bass, drums and xylophone/banjo/'pukelele' – according to the band). Nice Sunday lounge music with style. Information about tracks were scarce on the net, so I'm guessing the titles here of some good songs "Underwater", the traditional, bluegrass-jamming "When You Gonna Make It Stop Raining", the gentle ballad "Bring Home To Your Heart", an upbeat "Timber" and the cleansing "Dust".
I'd never seen Jimmy LaFave before, but have heard two tracks, one was an absolute blinder, from his new album The Night Tribe. There was a beautiful rendition of one of its new tracks, the original "The Beauty Of You", a biting version of Dylan's "Queen Jane Approximately" and "Just Like A.woman" (the latter having a five-minute, moving fade out), Woody Guthrie's "Oklahoma Hills" song "Indian Nation" another beautiful original song "Only One Angel".
The Watkins Family revolves around a group of musicians that have quietly collaborated episodically over many years. The acclaimed collective released its first album, self-titled, just this month. The touring version of the Watkins Family Hour is much the same as the studio group – siblings Sara and Sean Watkins along with Fiona Apple, Don Heffington and Sebastian Steinberg – tonight the difference was David Garza sitting in for Benmont Tench. Special guests tonight were Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O'Donovan.
The set was wonderful – the variety, the musical skills and enjoyment of the participants highly visible. The set list included the lead song from the album, Lindsay Buckingham's "Steal Your Heart Away", a lively "Tombstone Blues" from Apple (to celebrate today's 50th anniversary of the release of Highway 61 Revisited), a Boswell Singers' cover, Jarosz performing Dylan's "Ring Them Bells", the Watkins doing Nickel Creek's "21st of May", a rousing "In The Pines", O'Donovan's own "Oh Mama" and Dolly Parton's "Joelene". A bustling two-song encore and it was over.
On the way out, we bumped into James Moors and Kort McCumber, who we had seen perform this morning. I'll be saying more about this Americana duo upon my return to Australia, so stay tuned.
Fayetteville has been an absolute delight and the festival was an unabridged joy from end to end.
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Britain to reopen amid new COVID variant worry
Britain has the highest reported toll in Europe. Photo: Getty
Travellers in England are packing their bags, bartenders polishing their glasses and performers warming up as Britain prepares for a major step out of COVID-19 lockdown – but with clouds of worry on the horizon.
Excitement on Sunday at the reopening of travel and hospitality vied with anxiety that a more contagious virus variant first found in India is spreading fast and could delay further plans to reopen.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britons to "take this next step with a heavy dose of caution".
"We are keeping the spread of the variant first identified in India under close observation and taking swift action where infection rates are rising," he said.
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the variant, formally known as B.1.617.2, is more transmissible than the UK's main strain and "it is likely it will become the dominant variant".
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A ban on overseas holidays is also being lifted, with travel now possible to a short list of countries with low infection rates. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are following similar but slightly different reopening paths.
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Mr Johnson has said if the new variant causes a big surge in cases, it could scupper that plan.
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Before I went online I was (surprisingly) offline.
I was in direct mail. In fact there are a few people who kindly read my blog and can remember the early days when I used to write for business opportunity publications.
I had some stunning successes and even more glaring failures and I'd like to share one of the successes with you because it applies just as much to internet marketing as it does to offline marketing. I know because I use this technique in some of my niche sites.
It's possible that some of you might question the ethics of this method. I'll leave that up to you. I have no problem with it at all.
Back in the nineties, at least in the UK, people with less than great credit records could have difficulty in obtaining loans and mortgages, (Interestingly it seems as though things are going down the same road at the moment).
I'd noticed that there were one or two publications on sale that offered to show people where they could go to get credit even if they had poor credit records. Once I'd noticed the publications I spotted more and more ads for the same kind of thing. It seemed that there was a market for them.
So I bought a couple. I remember the cheapest was £9 (about $20) and it was 10 roughly photocopied sheets of A4 folded and printed into a small booklet.
All it contained were adverts for small loan companies, offshore banks and details of larger banks who would look at mortgage applications for people who had previously been blacklisted. I phoned a few of these ads and sure enough it seemed as though they did in fact offer sub-prime lending.
After chatting to a few of these people (some of whom were not nice and I got the impression they would 'send the boys round' if you missed a payment) I decided to do some of my own research.
Taking the publications I'd bought as a starting point I spent about a week (and over £100) phoning round various organistaions and asking about their policies on sub-prime lending. I went through the Yellow pages and when I'd finished I had enough contact information to publish a decent sized booklet. What's more the information was up to date.
In essence I'd back engineered an idea after reading through a few publications (which I'd bought legitimately) and improved on their work. Nothing was plagiarised or in any way stolen or misappropriated from the original except the idea, which can't be copyrighted or 'claimed' by an individual.
So I'd seen a good idea and pinched it OR I'd spotted a niche with a few sellers in there already and entered the market alongside them. You decide.
If you're in Internet Marketing you can't cry or sulk when this happens to you, because happen it WILL at some point. I had a very nice little income stream coming from an ebook I'd produced about setting up a profitable hobby newsletter from home for a couple of years.
Then suddenly someone came along, bought my book, rewrote it and published the information for free on his website. What hit my business hardest was that he got a higher place in the search engines so my sales dried up. He monetised the site with Google ads and offering a printing service for people who wanted to publish their own newsletters. I was impressed. Very clever – even though it had buggered up my income stream.
I could have tried to do the same – publish the info for free, monetize the site and try to SEO my own site higher in the rankings but it wasnt worth it. I seem to remember banking around $600 a month from the book, but had other streams and genuinely valued the lesson.
So what am I saying about Internet Marketing?
Well I don't believe the old saying that 'there's nothing new under the sun', but I don believe that finding it can be damn hard work.
So I suppose what I am saying is don't try to be too different. We publish ebooks about how we make money – we give examples, proof of income – the lot. That's something that's hard to do unless you've made money from IM or unless you're lying to your readers. There are ways into IM without making a penny as Sara wrote about in a free report some time ago, but if you're looking for a way in to niche marketing then take a long hard look at what other people are doing.
I'm not saying buy their books and copy them. I AM saying that ebooks are a legitimate source of information if you're looking to compete in a niche.
Some people have a strange view – that buying a book from a bookshop for research purposes is fine, but buying an ebook with the purposes of entering the same niche isn't. I think that's plain wrong.
If you're looking to get into the viral marketing niche then buy Viral Sneakiness and use the information in it with my blessing. Plagiarise it and I'll be down on you like a ton of bricks but use the information to create your own product and that's cool. See the difference.
So if you're interested in tropical fish, buy some books, some ebooks, read some sites and talk to some people. If there are people in that niche already then COMPETE. Make your product better – make it eaier to read or better value. But don't be put off by people who think they OWN a particular niche because they don't.
A mate of mine in IM – a talented and clever marketer – told me about how he went into a niche and dominated it completely. In the process he basically wiped out the business of the person who was previosly top dog. Now he didn't do this on purpose, it was a by-product of him being better at it and offering better products. But his competitor went crazy. Got very angry and pulled a few underhand stunts.
If you trample on someones income stream it's unfortunate. I don't think many people would want to do that on purpose. But we are in the business of making money and a sale going to you can mean a sale taken away from someone else.
But with niche marketing your competitiors are providing you with all the information you need to successfully enter that niche, whether they're aware of it or not. Look at their ads, buy their products, look at what they offer, their upsells – the whole thing.
Your competitors are almost as important as your customers.
Now you might think that's all well and good but what if you're the person who's book is being used as research. Why spend the time and effort it takes to research and write an ebook just for some lazy marketer to come along and pinch your idea?
Well for a start it WILL happen in you're involved in IM for any length of time. But it doesn't mean it will affect your business, Many people enter niches and find they either don't enjoy them or can't make a profit out of them and leave. Others will enter but won't be as successful as you. And many more – in fact most people – will never enter any niche because they won't take action.
But for me the main answer to the 'why bother' question is that whether someone pinches my idea or I end up making $10,000 a month from it is that we – you and I – are Internet Marketers. We're trying to improve our situation – both financially and from a lifestyle point of view and it simple doesn't matter what other people do. We're doing this for ourselves and our families, and not for anyone else.
And by doing this we find ourselves in that tiny, wonderful minority of people who are taking responsibility for their own lives (I know you've heard this before but it's true) and are striving to be independent, fearless and just plain BETTER people for doing it.
I see your point and agree. Ideas are not patentable or copywriteable, however, how those ideas are made into products are. If I'm stupid enough to pledgerize, I deserve to be nailed for it.
I am capable to legitemately buy an e-book and then create my own version of the concepts presented.
Exactly – there IS a difference.
Normally, I tend toward thinking, if you have to ask if something is ethical, then it's not. However, I think there are some issues here that could use some light.
Anyone who has read more than one book on copywriting knows the basic concepts are the same in nearly every one. Indeed, it would be nearly impossible to write about copywriting and avoid many of these ideas.
You could say the same thing nearly any field – health, golf, tiddlywink farming. It's not what you say, it's how you say it.
One source (http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/research/plagiarism.html)states even paraphrasing or summarizing someone else's ideas is plagarizm. If I hadn't cited the source would I be guilty of the same?
Each of us has something no one else does – our own perspective. If you write or re-write something and add your own unique perspective then you should be all right.
If that well-known beer (ok, then, lager) manufacturer were to run a blog and write posts for it, it would probably be just like this! Excellent stuff, Tony!
I believe it's called RESEARCH.
And the internet is a fabulous place to do it.
But re-write, dont copy… as you say.
Your piece here also highlights the vulnerability of relying on just one product or one business model. Diversify indeed.
I actually think there's a lot of truth in that. I think my methods are 100% ethical but (and since this is a marketing blog and I'm an honest bloke), I knew that mentioning the word 'unethical' would get more people to open my email!
is just plain old wrong.
Great Post mate – thanks.
What a flattering comment – and beer is always a subject that's close to my heart.
I think only UK readers will get this one!
Gary, you've hit the nail on the head. If you do go into a niche and get flak from existing marketers in there, you can bet it'll be from those who don't have any other income sources.
Stealing or plagarizing someone else's content is wrong. But studying their work to learn for yourself is called research and perfectly acceptable in my mind. You mention tropical fish in your post…if I were going to jump into that niche with my own ebook I'd most definitely want to check out the competition and see what kind of content their ebooks contain. More importantly, I'd want to find what they're missing so I can fill in the gaps and offer a better value to my customers.
Your competitors are doing a lot of the work for you.
I mentioned tropical fish because I know of at least one big IM chap has done very well in that niche. Don't let that put you off though.
I completely agree that we all NEED to be aware of our competitors. I entered IM about a year ago and have been mainly focused on Resell Rights and PLR products. That being said, I know there are other resellers out there promoting the same products as me. That doesn't deter me one bit! If anything, it motivates me to out-market my competition. As far as product creation, every IMer out there is guilty of recreating a pre-existing product at one point in their IM career. There are tons of ebooks about ebay, Google, Article Marketing, etc. I believe that whether online or offline, businesses must compete. It doesn't matter if you have 1 employee or 10,000, if you aren't constantly trying to one-up the competition your business WILL fail, period!
Well done. Well Said. And Well recieved. Sometimes I see the heard mentality in for example when Frank Kern says that an email title with "bad news" as the title gets opened more frequent then I got 20 emails the next day with exactly "bad news". People do not realize what you have explained that we need to take the ball and be creative not a duplicate.
Pete – I agree with you.
And as for re-creating existing products, it's a very valuable exercise. if you can put something across in a way that allows people to understand it, then it gains value.
WhoWantsLeads – the herd mentality – what can I say?
From a marketing perspective, people who follow the herd are never a real threat to anyone's business, but show me someone who's a free thinker, original and creative and who's coming into my niche….
Very interesting info here. I was under the impression that ideas CAN be patented? The man who made a coat hanger only to get his boss patenting the clothes-hanger as his own creation became rich beyond his dreams, with not a single extra penny towards the employee who shaped the hanger with bendable wires.
But I totally agree…if someone improves and sells in an already existing niche, then it's purely known as competition. Businesses actually thrive from competition. There are so many ways to get "around" someone who's your competitive match.
~blush~ I've said a lot. Thank you Tony for the chance.
Tony I like your post. It needed to be said.
So I think where is the plagiarism ? Who plagiarises who ?
Great stuff as usual, and right on the ball. It's nice to find people (you and Sara) who think the way I do, and although I AM one of those people who say "there's nothing new under the sun", I really know there is new stuff but it's very difficult to come up with. We haven't discovered or invented everything yet.
My first product – now in version 3 – was SmartDD. I bought 4 existing products and also found a couple of free ones, and I wasn't happy with any of them, and that's how SmartDD was born as my own personal fix for products that didn't live up to the sales pitch.
Did I think to myself at any point "gosh, I'm stealing their ideas"? Did I heck. I looked at all of them, decided which parts were good and which weren't, came up with some ideas of my own, and out went v0.98.
I want to make it clear though that I DO consider myself an ethical marketer, and there are many junk products out there that I know would convert well if I promoted them, but I just couldn't live with the guilt if I did it.
And let's not forget those people who would feel stung or lied to if I pushed them in the direction of iffy products. I'd lose those loyal subscribers who are also my repeat buyers.
So now, like you I tend to look for an existing market, and then see what I can do in that arena. If it means buying a few products to check out what the competition are doing, then I don't see any problem with it. But I always make sure I'm one up on what they're doing when I release my own.
Thanks for posting. We obviously think alike when it comes to marketing and it's nice to hear other 'real life' marketing examples as you've given in your post.
On a side note, I've been meaning for some time to pick up your Support Desk script – a trusted friend of mine says it's excellent (and it's a great price) and she really knows her stuff.
I read online that both Word and Pages (for Mac) both incorporate a function which will reduce text automatically. For example, I could input this blog-post in its entirety and have it reduced to 25-30% of the original content.
The idea being that the user then fleshes out the content again, having formed a rough document plan automatically.
…and we may just perform better at Trivial Pursuit if we take in more of what we read.
There you go. My thoughts.
Good points in the post and the comments made. I guess it is the price we pay for a medium with extremely low barriers to entry. Diversity is the key but it sometimes gives the impression that IM is a 'scramble for cash while it lasts' and this is what could possibily put people with an offline way of thinking – off IM fulltime! I am sure though that Tony and other full-time marketers can testify that their income is far more solid than it first may appear from the outset to an outsider. However, a 'me too' business will always have more to worry about than a dynamic innovative one.
A quick tip – read the other guy's ebook(s) and then put it down. Then dictate as much as you can remember into some sort of recorder. Play it back and transcribe it. Now edit it – fill in gaps, add new observations, etc.
Phil – I like this one – that's a cracking tip.
Tell me about it – i've just become a victim too. Firstly I run a home mail order magazine and recently started to sell a new ebook guide which I was an affliate and reseller. Some ebayer came along, bought a copy of the ebook I was promoting and then got a new a ebay account and sold it. The cheek was was that my ebay advert was taken down at the same time when the new guy uploaded his. What a coincidence by ebay so I'm guess something fishy is going on. Still I shall not be defeated and I totally agree that sometimes things just happen and that we have to super aware of our competitors.
The only snag with the newbie and I hope he doesn't realise is that although he copied my advert, word for word, html for html, what he didn't realised was that my affliate links is still on it – so I guess I'm getting free promotion?
Anyway thanks for your recent resell/rebrandable guides, I bought them and they have been most helpful. I look forward to promoting them as well as any future new guides from both yourself and Sara.
It is also amazing how much information is available for free. I have rethought a lot of free information I have gotten and monetized it with adsense for a good living.


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Anatomy of Horror
Creating a Monster: Practical vs. CGI
By, Kristin Grady
Monsters make or break a horror movie. Often the title characters, a stampede of fantastical creatures have rampaged across the cinematic landscape, trampling the lines between villains and heroes. Compelling monsters are sympathetic, have anthropomorphic features, and have evolved alongside filmmaking technology. Special effects don't need to be spectacular to get an audience emotionally invested. Old-school techniques, though quaint-looking in the future, were as impressive as they were inventive for the time. Elaborate sets, props, and costumes are being pushed behind a green screen, but does that make them better? Subjective as it seems, the most memorable movie monsters were crafted by human hands. Are we losing these stunning feats of artistic engineering in a sea of pixels or are we just learning to wield the sharpest tool in the box?
King Kong and Godzilla
The concept of a giant animal attacking a city has kept special effects artists employed since talkies were first introduced. In the early 20th century, dinosaurs and gorillas had only recently been discovered and to the uneducated eye, these animals looked like evil, ferocious, bloodthirsty beasts. That perception was projected onto the big screen in the form of King Kong and Godzilla, two of the most world-famous monsters in film history. The technology used to create these movie behemoths has been updated as our knowledge of their basis grows.
King Kong creator Merian C. Cooper wanted to bring an actual gorilla to Komodo, make it fight a dragon, and film it. When that proved unfeasible, King Kong (1933) was brought to life using brand-new stop motion animation techniques, painstakingly constructed over several months, shooting an 18-inch-tall puppet running amok at 1/24th of a second at a time. Rear-projection and scale models make this t-rex fight rather enthralling, from the serpentine dinosaur tail to the ape-like wrestling moves, we want Kong to win. Even though he doubles in size on the way to New York and Fay Wray's screaming makes you hope he drops her, the Empire State Building scene has been parodied countless times since. The original King Kong is cemented firmly in our collective consciousness, due to the remarkable efforts of early filmmakers.
The 1976 version gave designers a chance to create a 40-foot-tall, 6.5 ton, animatronic gorilla. Future Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Rick Baker observed gorillas in a zoo for a few weeks before donning an ape costume and a mechanical mask for emotive close-ups. Rather than a t-rex, Kong fights a giant snake whose fangs hilariously change from 6-inch ice picks to little nubs while we're distracted by Jessica Lange's side-boob. Much too long after Baker wrestles a rubber Halloween decoration, Kong climbs the World Trade Center with zero long-shots showing his scale to the entire building. Overall, these updated effects were advanced for 1976, but even state-of-the-art practical effects can fall short of their inspiration.
Peter Jackson applied all of his "Lord of the Rings" technology (and credibility) to the 2005 remake, which was fairly well received by fans and critics. The 1930's allure was cultivated around a digital ape, motion captured by Andy Serkis, the same actor who played Gollum. In what seems like an effort to wildly out-do Baker's performance, Serkis studied gorillas in Rwanda for months to learn their behavior. New technology also captured Serkis's facial movements and vocalizations, which were projected through speakers on set to scare the other actors. The t-rex fight (there's two of them!) is full of heart-pounding close-calls, but the Empire State Building scene goes on for almost triple the time of the original. No one could ever accuse Peter Jackson of being concise. Just because the graphics are visually stunning doesn't mean it's necessary to make us sit through a 3-hour movie starring a monkey.
Cold war monster movies produced in the US always had a thinly veiled soviet villain, destroyed by our military might. In 1954, Toho studios created Gojira, the Tokyo-destroying dinosaur mutated by American nuclear tests, a haunting metaphor for atomic destruction. The beast was actor Haruo Nakajima in a 200-pound suit, knocking over intricate wooden models. Gojira inspired a shadowy, chilling presence, slowly sweeping radioactive wreckage in his wake. The Americanized Godzilla was a box office hit internationally, which was very unusual for 1950's Japanese films.
Pre-2000's computer graphics were nowhere near the hyper-detailed artwork being produced today, but Warner Bros. apparently took notes from the failures of the previous remake to recreate Godzilla in 2014. A distant sequel of the original, this incarnation revived the basic look of the mutated reptile, intricately rendered in modern technology. Facial expressions were added to the character, which lizards are not known for, but hey, it's a monster movie. A most stunning visual difference from the 1954 version, Godzilla uses his radioactive breath to kill the bad guy monsters, becoming the hero. The cascade of sequels spilling from movies like King Kong and Godzilla are never rated higher than the originals because no amount of graphics can make up for the extraordinary amount of sweat equity put into their creation.
The Pinnacle of Practical Effects
An American Werewolf in London was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Makeup, due to this two minute and forty second scene:
What makes this lycanthropic metamorphosis so stunningly horrific? Director John Landis snatched Rick Baker off The Howling to spend several painstaking months creating pneumatic/mechanical "change-o-parts" of actor David Naughton's anatomy. David (also the character's name) is fine one second, screaming in pain the next. The shock is almost funny until the horror of realization sets in. Landis wanted us to feel the excruciating transformation, as one would imagine such spontaneous body contortion to be. Bright lighting illuminates the tortuous process.
Close-ups of his hand lengthening, his vertebrae rising up under the skin, and his knees turning backwards generate a revolting visceral response. Amongst David's agonized screams, popping, stretching, and cracking foley sounds over Sam Cooke's somber rendition of "Blue Moon" feels as absurd as it is disturbing. This inexplicable 4-second shot of a Mickey Mouse figurine, right before the famous "face-extending" shot, breaks the tension just enough to heighten it:
Rick Baker reprised his werewolf-creating skills for Wolfman (2010) and won another Oscar. Benecio Del Toro in final wolf form was impressively crafted and resembled the original Lon Chaney, Jr. monster, but the digital transformation sequences were a significant let-down. The cartoony result lacked the rubbery realness that made the first sequence so memorable. When it comes to werewolves, intensive practical effects have yet to be out-done by CGI.
Frank Oz: Master of Puppets
Little Shop of Horrors (1960) became a cult classic despite the laughably fake-looking effects. Puppetry is a malleable art form, but the two halves of the plant don't even move in sync with the words "Feed me", let alone explain how a lip-less creature can annunciate. Such a campy b-movie had surprising moments of horror amongst the silly attempts at dark comedy. The ending where the faces of Audrey 2's victims bloom on sunflower spawn is by far more disturbing than the remake, which was overall a better film.
Frank Oz pulled in his Jim Henson connections to recreate the carnivorous plant in 1986. New Audrey 2 had sinuous vines and leaves, a human-like mouth, and a sinister seductive quality. The director's commentary explains how the foam-rubber puppet didn't move fast enough to seem alive, so the solution was to film at 16 frames per second and speed it up to 24 frames per second in editing. Pre-CGI directors had to implement such clever solutions, which are often foisted onto digital artists in modern times. In order to match the speed of the plant, Rick Moranis had to act (and sing) in slow motion. The veins on his neck strain to hold this high note for much longer than we see on screen:
The Future: Digital and Practical Melange
Will CGI eventually replace all practical effects despite rampant criticism of the practice? Rendering remarkable characters on a screen can be as intensive as fabricating them by hand, it just puts all of the creative burden on the mind. Notorious monster-maker Guillermo Del Toro has a knack for using just enough digital enhancement to enliven their magic. This behind the scenes still from horror/fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth shows the edited-out legs of actor Doug Jones inside an intricate fawn costume:
Militant horror fans tend to be numb to scares and overly-critical of special effects. Both practical and CGI have been called out as unrealistic, so there's no way to convince everyone. Filmmakers would be wise to take notes from early horror films and stop waving cinematic challenges off to fix in post. Effects go beyond the visual and are only effective when surrounded by a well-crafted movie. Horror films of the future will either be so detailed there will be no difference from reality or Hollywood will revive the practical process, utilizing every resource to create the monsters who haunt our dreams.
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House committee approves bill to increase family office oversight
Posted by Andrew Vincent July 30, 2021
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Legislation that would increase regulation of advisory firms that manage wealthy families' finances is heading to the House floor with only Democratic backing.
The Democratic majority on the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday evening approved the bill on a party-line vote. It would require family offices with more than $750 million in assets under management to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under current law, family offices are exempt from SEC registration.
Written by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the bill also would require any family office with less than $750 million to register with the SEC if it is highly leveraged or engages in "high risk activities."
Another provision would ban from family offices people who had been barred from the financial industry or who are the target of final SEC orders involving fraud, manipulation or deceit. The bill also would end the SEC registration exemption for family offices that include investors who are non-family members, according to a summary of the bill.
The measure is designed to give the SEC more information about the size, portfolios and leverage taken on by family offices while allowing the agency to tailor reporting requirements. It is the first legislative response to the collapse last spring of Archegos Capital Management, which defaulted on $20 billion in swaps transactions and caused nearly $10 billion in losses for major investment banks.
Ocasio-Cortez said the bill would close a loophole that allows family offices to operate in the dark and potentially threaten financial market stability. She and other Democrats cited statistics showing that family offices manage $6 trillion in assets, making them bigger than private equity and venture capital funds combined.
"This is a rather commonsense provision," Ocasio-Cortez said during committee debate. "If we want to prevent systemic risk, I believe it is imminently reasonable that a family office that holds almost a billion dollars in assets simply register with the SEC. And if you have less than $750 million in assets but you are extremely highly leveraged or engaged in very high-risk activities, I think the bare minimum is to require registration with the SEC."
She also expressed concern that family offices are utilized by wealthy individuals to protect their fortunes from taxation.
"Tech titans and the ultra-rich use family offices to exacerbate inequality and leverage tax advantages," Ocasio-Cortez said.
Republicans were wary of overhauling family office rules. Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., said it opened the door for the government to peer into a family's finances.
"Are you concerned by the privacy implications that this bill raises with respect to families managing their own money?" Wagner asked Ocasio-Cortez.
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said there's no conflict of interest surrounding families investing their own money.
"You can't steal from yourself," Huizenga said. "We're trying to go at the wrong target."
It's unclear when the family office bill will be voted on by the whole House. It's certain to pass, given the House's Democratic majority. But the pushback from GOP members of the committee signals that it faces difficult political terrain in the Senate, where Republicans can block most Democratic legislation with a filibuster.
GAMESTOP-INSPIRED BILLS
On Thursday, committee Democrats also approved bills that resulted from the panel's hearings earlier this year on the trading frenzy over GameStop, AMC and other so-called meme stocks.
Partisan tensions emerged over measures that direct the SEC to study brokerages' use of payment for order flow and authorize the Government Accountability Office to study the gamification of investing.
For instance, the parties could not agree on language to instruct the SEC to review whether investors might not get the best price for their trades when a firm like Robinhood accepts payments from another broker for executing the trades.
Republicans asserted that the bill did not mention the benefits of payment for order flow — such as lowering or eliminating commissions — and encouraged the SEC to ban the practice.
Democrats insisted the bill focused on the SEC study and gave the agency the option to write a rule. They opposed a GOP amendment they said would stall an SEC rule.
During the committee's GameStop hearings, the panel heard "that so many investors are being told that they're getting best execution when other investors are getting best execution plus price improvement. Why we would accept such a system, I don't know," said the bill's author, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif. "It's time for the SEC to move forward in this area at least with a study."
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Take off your shoes … let your feet breathe … feel it … be careful … enjoy!
The first contact with barefoot was when we had to decide what shoes to get for our child who starts with the first steps. We liked the idea that the foot is naturally perfect and if it's free it works correctly (as opposite to feet kept in the "right" position in the orthopedic shoes). But to not be "the pot calling the kettle black" we also had to try it. At the beginning we were not even considering to get rid of shoes (now I don't even know why), so we started with minimalist shoes. The first excitement from the shoes' flexibility, toe space and freedom of movement was replaced by tiredness and pain in heels and hips. Now I know it was because of our approach – we changed the shoes but didn't change the style of walking. But then we took a walking course where we were taught to walk consciously and how to walk in minimalist shoes or without shoes.
Later I was further studying various papers and other available materials. I was on a research trip in Italy, Austria and Germany, consulted the barefoot walking in exterior and interior with trainers, coaches, physiatrist and physiotherapists, neurologist, designer of fivefinges shoes and talked with many pro- and anti-barefoot oriented people. During this period I've been walking in minimalist shoes. I was consciously trying to walk correctly but when I was in hurry or not paying attention I moved back to the gait with hard heel strikes. This didn't happen when I was really barefoot outside. The direct stimulation from ground didn't allow me to strike the surface so hard and my feet naturally adapted to various obstacles. That amount of information from feet flooding in to my brain was pushing any other thoughts away and I was forced to concentrate to present and conscious walking. Suddenly I was able to walk correctly. So I was taking my shoes off more and more often. At the beginning I still had some sandals with me, just in case … but I didn't need them … at the main square in Banska Bystrica, on the streets of Bratislava city, in Venice. During the whole season I didn't step on a glass, I didn't cut my feet, didn't have any injury. Two times I was stung by a bee and couple times I stumbled – but nothing more serious. I was able to control and feel the car better while driving. Simply I discovered new sense which completes the information about my surrounding and naturally corrects my gait.
It's very important to support barefoot walking and select right shoes for children – they cannot really take decisions by themselves and they accept also fixing their feet in something uncomfortable and small. The children's feet can be shaped and formed until 8 years of age. Using improper shoes can later lead to health problems not only with feet but also with back or general body posture. Next time you'll see a child who wants to take off shoes, don't stop him and let him to train the muscles and to enjoy the information which will fill his head.
People stare at me and children point fingers at me but I don't care. I use me feet the way they evolved. I don't have problems with lower back pain, I corrected my posture and my body has to absorb much less shocks from heel strikes. I'm slowly adapting to this new movement style and processing all the interesting information coming from my feet. Maybe I'll be able to walk barefoot even in colder season but now I'm already wearing shoes. My (minimalist) shoes fulfill all the requirements to let the feet work correctly – but still it's a huge difference than to be really barefoot. Those 3mm of sole allow me to ignore the natural stimulation from the ground and tend to return to the old "shoe" walking style.
I don't disapprove shoes – there are many reasons for them. But the normal shoes are mainly a fashion accessory not a tool to protect and help the feet. In many situations it's better to wear shoes – on a construction site, in winter, on a hot pavement in summer, in heavily polluted areas, on sharp stones or plants with spikes… but these situations are not so common as you would think. Just listen to your body and your feet.
And why do I try to put stimulation surfaces into interiors when there are so many outside? Most people wear shoes during the whole day and the home interior is the last "barefoot paradise". Unfortunately most of the interiors don't contain any stimulation or obstacles on the floors and therefore the feet don't have any reason to walk cautiously and softly. The result is that people stomp because they keep the shod gait style. Physiatrist recommend wearing slippers on flat and hard floors at home. I understand these recommendations but I don't agree with them – I think that better solution is to find interesting surfaces which enrich the interior and encourage the feet to train and move correctly.


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Q: Can Emscripten compile LLVM to JavaScript for a webbased program language I'm working on my own program language which can be created in a web based editor.
I want to translate my code to LLVM-IR on client side. The IR code will be transfer, translate to instruction set and execute on an embedded device.
Well, my plan is to create a lexer, parser and code-generator in C/C++ which used the LLVM-API to create LLVM-IR code.
Later I will translate my C/C++ code to JavaScript by using emscripten.
However i need to translate the LLVM-toolchain to JavaScript before i can convert my own project to javascript.
But does anybody knows if it is possible to translate the LLVM to JavaScript?
I found a similar question here:
Can Emscripten compile LLVM to JavaScript?
But with no clear result...
Or does anyboy have comments to my plan?
Thanks a lot!

A: LLVM itself has been compiled, but a while ago. It would take some effort to port it now. It's also fairly large, which can be a problem in browsers.
You would also need to port parts of emscripten, which are written in python.
Overall this is all possible, but would take nontrivial effort.


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I finally found a Urologist that is able to help me effectively, is very caring and his staff are always helpful and friendly. Wouldn't go to anyone else.


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