A/B testing is the practice of comparing two variables to see which variable more effective at maximizing a desired outcome. For example, a web designer can A/B test two landing pages to see which page has a higher click-through-rate on an advertisement. Or, an email marketer can compare two email subject lines to determine which one has a higher open rate. Once you have a solid A/B testing strategy in place you can really start to create content that is optimized for engaging your audience and increasing conversions.
We asked 11 digital marketers, what are some must-know digital marketing best practices for A/B testing?
A lot of marketers run A/B tests without segmenting desktop and mobile, when in fact, that's probably one of the most important things to do for your results to be reliable. Sample size is important, but the thing is, you need to have a big enough sample size for both desktop and mobile. Some things work for desktop, and don't for mobile, and vise versa. So, if you don't segment desktop and mobile you might really miss out.
Each week set a new goal tactic that cannot overlap with other goals previously tackled. For example, week 1 = FB ads, week 2 = Leadpages and week 3 = affiliate program. The marketing techniques that are going to work for you all depend on your niche, your target audience, your geographical location, etc. To really know which will work for your business and which will not you have to trial and error. One week is a preferred time length for testing as it is long enough to implement the strategy and get results plus short enough to try multiple marketing techniques over a couple months span. At the end of each month, look back at the marketing tactics you tried and look at your analytics (i.e. did your sales rise or decline? How many man-hours did it cost you to implement and manage that strategy? What was your engagement?). After answering those questions you will have a pretty good idea of what techniques will work for your brand without having to use an expensive complicated software.
If your brand is launching a new product or service, you have to know what your audience responds to better. A/B testing, whether it's through mediums like Facebook, Bing or Google Adwords, provides an excellent way to see what your customers really want. One tip is to alter your images. For example, have the text in the center of the image on test A and the text off to the side on test B. Something as small as text can yield surprising results.
Don't sweat the small stuff. Follow the Pareto Principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) and identify the 20% of your web-pages or communication pieces that generate 80% of your results. Then, when you design your testing strategy for those assets, focus on the elements that have the biggest impact on conversion, such as headline, sub-headline, images and calls to action.
One A/B test to experiment with is including a chat widget on your website. Do users spend more time on your site when there is a chat box? Is it better to have the chat option pop up or hidden until users press a button?
A chat box allows for the first online interaction between a business and its customers. By testing different strategies, you can discover the ideal way to greet potential clients who are peering into your company's virtual window.
The key to testing is setting yourself up to get an actual ROI on your efforts. Avoid jumping in and running tests randomly. Always rank your potential tests by level of effort to implement, potential impact, and confidence of impact, and regularly re-prioritize tests based on new ideas and results.
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When you're first setting up a test, start by giving yourself a pre-test checklist. If you can't answer the following 4 questions, refine your campaign until you can.
What information are you hoping to learn from the test?
Which variable are you changing?
Can you generalize the test results? i.e. can you apply the learnings from this email to future emails, or better yet, can you apply it to other marketing efforts such as the design/UX of your website?
Is your test sample statistically significant?
Don't make A/B Testing more complicated than it is. When it comes to testing, be sure only to test one variable at a time. If you're looking to get a better open rate, then begin with testing the subject line of your email. That's the first thing your audience is going to see and will make or break your campaign. If you're looking to increase the click through rate on purchases, then take a look at the content of your email. It can be many different things that affect your results. Take a look at the copy, images, font, buttons and other potential factors keeping you from getting the results you need. However, you don't want to test more than factor at a time. If you do so, you won't be able to find out where the source of the problem is and how to fix it.
Run search queries using keywords you and your competitors target.
Take the most highly ranked content and study it meticulously.
Create your first test creative to match your competitor's as closely as possible, in structure, content optimization and user experience.
Then draft your second test creative using your own ideas.
This is performance-led (your competitor is giving you the first creative). Monitor the first 1,000 visitors and discard losers quickly!
Allison VanNest , Parse.ly Don't run headline tests for too long if you're running them for 100% of your audience. Create dramatic variations between your tests. The more dramatic you make the changes the more likely you'll find a meaningful winner. If your find a winner in ~1 hour, implement the winner. If the experiment hasn't found a meaningful winner in an hour, pause the experiment and move on, trying more dramatic variations next time. Lastly, set meaningful goals for your organization.
Sometimes big data sources can be right at your fingertips. Leverage your data, combined with publicly available census data, for marketing insights to come up with A/B tests for landing pages and pay channels.
For example, in a recent campaign we ran in Nashville, TN , we ran pay-per-click (PPC) Adwords campaign with one ad targeting the entire metro Nashville area. The headline read 'Local Lawn Pros in Nashville are a click away.' and the performance of the ad was good with a click through rate of over 1% and conversion rate of over 10% on the Nashville landing page but we wanted to improve on it.
We set out to make our brand more contextual and relevant to the viewer. So we researched census data, looking at the average income and home values throughout the Nashville area.
We then created a matching landing page. After running the ad for one month we saw over a 200% lift in the click through rate and and a 30% lift in on-page conversion. Studying the data your own business generates can tell you which of your online marketing campaigns works best. Do the ads appeal to your target market or another market altogether? The data may also point to completely new areas of customer interest.


Using the Walt Disney World Boat transportation system on their extensive waterways is a relaxing, convenient, and unique way of getting from place to place on Disney property. Since not every location is connected by a waterway, it is simply not possible to use Disney World Boat transportation for all your travel needs on Disney property. However, if their routes fit your itinerary, boat transport can be a peaceful escape from the crowded busses, offering a smoother ride and even a cool breeze off the water. In addition, although they travel more slowly, their routes may still get you to your destination more quickly, especially when bus lines are long and nobody realizes the boat line is empty. Not to mention that there are no traffic lights on the waterways, and for that matter, there is no traffic whatsoever!
On your first trip or two to Disney World you may not consider using the boats simply because there is not a lot of readily available info to help you find your way. For my first visit I didn't even realize that the boats in World Showcase Lagoon in Epcot were open to the public. One runs between Canada and Morocco and the other between Mexico and Germany. Each of those boat rides saves a third of a mile walk. That may not sound like a lot saved steps, and you may be able to do the walk in less time, but after a full day in the parks in the 90+ degree August heat, it is a welcome break. Note that these routes run the Friendship boats which are enclosed and air conditioned. There is also limited open air seating in the back of the boat.
Saving some miles in Epcot is just the start. Just outside the World Showcase entrance to Epcot you can pick up a boat that will get you all the way to Hollywood Studios. These are also from the Friendship fleet, offering the same enclosed air conditioned seating. The entire trip to HS will take about 40 minutes, including stops at the Boardwalk, Yacht and Beach Club and the Swan and Dolphin resorts. That may sound like a long boat ride, but if you were already in World Showcase you would have a 15-20 minute walk out to your bus stop, a 5-20 minute wait for your bus and a 15 minute ride to Hollywood Studios. You may also consider walking to Yacht & Beach Club for an ice cream at Beaches-n-Cream and waiting for the next boat headed towards Hollywood Studios. Point is, there are many different ways to utilize the Disney Boat Transportation system to break up the day.
If you are staying at either of the Port Orleans resorts, Saratoga Springs, or Old Key West, you have the option of traveling by boat to Downtown Disney. These boats run to Downtown Disney Marketplace. For Port Orleans, take the Yellow Flag Boats.
The Disney World Boat Transportation also runs between Downtown Disney and the two DVC Resorts, Saratoga Springs and Old Key West. From Downtown Disney, take the Blue Flag boats.
The walk from Downtown Disney West Side to Marketplace is about 0.6 miles. Later in the day you can avoid this hike by taking the Green Flag Boat, which has a dedicated route between the two ends of Downtown Disney. Note that the Green Flag boats do not run until later in the afternoon.
Magic Kingdom has the most extensive options for traveling to and from by boat. There are three docks to catch the four different routes leaving Magic Kingdom. Check the signs to make sure you are waiting at the correct dock. Depending on the time of day, one to three large Ferryboats run back and forth to the Transportation and Ticket Center (TTC). These are the largest boats, carrying up to 600 people on two levels and will accommodate wheelchairs and strollers. There are two dedicated boats for Wilderness Lodge (Red Flag) and two dedicated for Fort Wilderness (Green Flag). There are also two dedicated boats (Gold Flags) that run loops between Magic Kingdom, the Grand Floridian, and the Polynesian. Note that there is no direct boat from Magic Kingdom to The Contemporary. The only way to The Contemporary via boat would be to go to Wilderness Lodge or Fort Wilderness and then take the Blue Flag boat, which runs a dedicated loop between The Contemporary, Wilderness Lodge, and Fort Wilderness.
As you can see, the boat transportation system at Disney World can be somewhat confusing and a bit complex. But once you get it figured out, it can add another dimension to the Disney Magic. It is a relaxing and unique mode of transportation that is sometimes more convenient and possibly more time efficient than other Disney transportation options. Download a Disney Boat Route Map.
For each location on Disney property the Mobile Magic app offers a module for Today's Events, Attractions, Characters, Search, Transportation, Games, My Favorites, Shopping, Guest Services, and Dining. The app works for Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California.
There are a few other apps out there offering information about schedules, wait times and fastpass return times. For these other apps, schedule information is probably fairly reliable, but wait times and fastpass return times are maintained by users of the app. They either enter these times in to a web page for others to view or they click a button when they get in line and click it again when they get on the ride and the system calculates wait times to be posted for others to view. Since it relies on users to maintain the information, it is often out of date or simply incorrect. Disney's Mobile Magic App does not have this limitation.
When you run the app it uses the phones LBS to determine where you are and displays the proper park or resort location. For the app to know your location you must have the LBS (location based services) function enabled on your phone. This is an easy function to turn on and the app can help you if needed.
Being offered by Disney, this app has a distinct advantage over others in that it can pull real time data directly from the Disney network for ride wait times, and Fastpass return times. It does not rely on users to maintain this data.
The wait times and return times for the park you are in are accurate and up to the second that you select the Attractions module in the program. Based on the time it takes to load the Attractions module it seems to be gathering all ride data at once rather than querying it as you select a ride. I can only assume it does not update while you are viewing the times, only each time you select the Attraction module.
Note that Disney limits access to exact wait times and return times to the park you are currently in. It will however let you know if fastpasses are "available", "nearly gone", or "not available" and a general indication of wait times of "see now", "moderate", or "heavy". If a ride is not functioning it will be listed as "down". I did not have another person at another park to verify the accuracy of this information or to tell me the actual time of a "moderate" wait.
The attractions module will also give you a map of the park and locate you and the attraction on the map to help you find your way.
When you select this module it starts with the weather for the day and as you scroll down lists each of the events and the next show time. Selecting the event you see a list of all the show times for the day and can select maps to the location and even set a reminder for the event. This is definitely easier than dealing with those printed schedules that always get buried in a bag somewhere. We all seem to be able to quickly find our cell phone these days.
The Today's Events module is also very accurate and up to date. The Main Street Electrical Parade was something we wanted to see and was on the schedule on the Disney website when we planned our trip. I checked the app the day we planned to see it and it was not listed. I asked two cast members and they checked their printed schedules and said it was running. When we got to Magic Kingdom I asked again and the cast member said there was a lot of confusion but no, the parade was not running that night. So the app had more up to date info than some of the cast members.
I did find the location of some of the events to be incorrect. It showed The Village Beatniks playing under The Tree of Life which was off by quite a bit.
I did not fully check out any of the other modules but I assume they are equally as accurate and functional. I am sure the Characters module would be very helpful in finding those elusive character greeting spots and arriving before the crowds. The Dining module looks very useful as well.
I would recommend this to anyone that has a compatible Verizon phone. I could see where, during the busier times of the year, the ride information could be a great time saver. For people new to the parks the mapping system should be very helpful. And for the geeks like me, I loved it! I am not sure how much data it uses but make sure you have some sort of prepaid data plan because pay as you go would probably cost a fortune.
There is a lot of different information out there on what is available in the way of free wireless internet on Disney World Property. On our last trip to The World, I brought my iPod Touch with me to see for myself what truly is available. The info I share here is by no means comprehensive, but it is at least correct at the time of this post. On each vacation we take to The World, we will gather more info on any available free wi-fi we find. We will post this info on the blog but will also maintain the Free Wi-Fi On Disney World Property page for a single, convenient place to find the free wireless hotspots offered by Disney.
Truly free wireless Internet connections are rare on Disney property. One place to find it is in the Boardwalk area. Both Big River Grill and Brewing Works and The Wyland Gallery offer free wireless Internet. I talked with Cast Members in each location and verified that these are intentional free wireless hotspots provided for guests. To date, the only other legitimately free wireless I have found and verified is in Epcot, at Innoventions West, where the IBM Thinkplace offers free wi-fi.
I have read about many other locations to find free wireless at Disney. On this last trip I found that most of them were incorrect but I have personally verified the few places I mention above. I imagine there are other locations but I will not post them until I have verified them myself. If you know of a location to find free wireless, leave us a comment below. I plan on putting more effort in to finding, verifying, and documenting as many of Disney's free wireless hotspots as possible.


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Previous season
The Blue Devils finished the 2021–22 season 6–20, 4–12 in NEC play to finish in eighth place.

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Review for the film " Sing Is Bling"
Akshay Kumar is an actor who has come a long way in the film industry. There is no doubt that his comic timing and action sequences are good. But he should be alert about choosing the right story because masala entertainers may not always work. Well, it's high time that directors make good use of Akshay's acting abilities.
Plot: Raftaar Singh passes his time by dancing and doing stunts in the hula-hoops in Punjab. Just like a routine film Raftaar's father is very upset with his son's behavior whereas his mother understands. One fine day Akshay's father asks him to decide about his life. There is another story of Sara fleeing to Goa, perturbed by one Mark in Romania. Here, our dear Raftaar is given the task of looking after Sara. Raftaar has no knowledge in English and the pretty Sara doesn't know Hindi. And there is the translator Emily in this film. And our Raftaar falls for Sara.
Akshay is indeed a versatile actor and he can do any sort of role with equal panache. In this film too, he has made use of the opportunity. Akshay Kumar steals the show with his comedy and punch dialogues. The innocence of Akshay Kumar in this film is endearing. And with regard to Amy, she fails to emotionally connect with the audience when she is distressed. However, she is very good in the stunt scenes. Also, she has the commercial appeal which may work in favor of her. Lara Dutta returns to the silver screen with this film and in some scenes she manages to make you laugh.
Kay Kay Menon, an actor who has good acting prowess, is wasted in this flick. The film has superb music. This film is also interspersed with Prabhu Deva's unique style of dancing. On the flip side, the film drags in the second half. What makes this film work? It has bad script, but that's where the test lies for actors like Akshay Kumar. He virtually lifts the film with his comic timing and superb acting.
Verdict: This is a story which lacks in logic, but nevertheless filled with the required commercial elements to make it a wholesome entertainer. For the masala movie buffs, this film is indeed a treat.
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Ladies of London Recap: The Barefoot Baroness
by Erin Martinon September 15th, 2015
We might be a bit late, but RT is now officially here to recap season two of Ladies of London! Considering this season was filmed nearly a year ago, it seems we're not the only ones running late (what's up with that, Bravo?). Nevertheless, the ladies are back, minus Caprice Bourret and Noelle Reno. But fresh faces (and royal titles!) appear in the form of Baroness Caroline Fleming, long time friend of Caroline Stanbury, and former "friend" of the cast, Viscountess Julie Montagu.
The addition of fancy titles does not seem to offer fancier storylines, however, as this season began with the unbelievably pedestrian argument about where to eat a turkey. Last week saw tensions reach a boiling point between fellow Americans Juliet Angus and Marissa Hermer, with Caroline S stuck (or should we say, sticking herself?) in the middle, over what an American Thanksgiving should mean, where it should be held, who should attend, and how to attach one's birthday to the holiday for a little extra helping of holiday guilt! As a fellow Sagittarius whose own birthday falls squarely on Thanksgiving day this year – and does so every four years – I have come to the understanding that the only expectation a birthday girl over the age of 10 can hope for on Turkey Day is a tossed off "Want some pie with a candle in it?" And by now, Juliet should have learned the same. Alas, reality TV is not for learning, but for manipulating and backstabbing! So, let's jump in right where we left off…
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Hot Photos Friday – Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix, Lilly Ghalichi And More
by Reality Teaon July 3rd, 2015
Happy Friday! We have an all new reality TV stars photo roundup for you! Included today are stars from Vanderpump Rules, RHONY, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and more. Tom Sandoval, Ariana Madix, Brody Jenner (who DJ'ed the event) and others stepped out for the SpyChatter Launch at The Argyle Hollywood.
Former Real Housewives of New York star Kelly Bensimon hung out at Letarte boutique on Madison Avenue in NYC. Elsewhere in the city, Caitlyn Jenner showed off a slew of new fashions.
On the West Coast, Lisa Rinna did a little shopping with her daughter Amelia, while co-star Lisa Vanderpump did some shopping of her own in Beverly Hills. Fashionista Lilly Ghalichi glammed it up for the grand opening of Anil Arjandas Jewels Los Angeles Boutique.
Check out these and many more photos below!
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Are The Ladies Of London Still Friends? Which Season One Moments Were Their Favorites?
by Melissaon July 24th, 2014
Season one of Ladies of London came to an end this week.
If I can't have a Caroline Stanbury spinoff, I hope the show returns, but with a few changes to the cast. Caroline can stay, of course, along with Juliet Angus. I enjoy Caroline and Juliet's friendship. Marissa Hermer, a people pleaser who likes everyone, Julie Montagu, whose estate brings major travel porn to the show, Noelle Reno, a pot stirrer who likes gold, can stay. Annabelle Neilson seemed uninterested and checked out all season, so she can go, and I hope to never see Caprice Bourret again.
Bravo caught up with the Ladies of London, as it's been nearly a year since they ceased filming, to see what they've been up to the past year, who are still friends, and which moment from the show they most enjoyed.
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Ladies of London Finale Recap – Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
by Reality Teaon July 22nd, 2014
On last night's Ladies of London season finale Caroline Stanbury and Caprice Bourret's friendship ended, a ton of babies were born, Annabelle Neilson proved to be the wisest person on the show, Marissa Hermer followed all things Royal, Juliet Angus evolved (sort of), and Noelle Reno chose a side. Her own. All in all a good end to the season.
We're back at Caroline's dinner party with everyone wondering about Caprice's whereabouts. And suddenly she appears. Like Beetlejuice. After acknowledging all of the Ladies and some of the waitstaff, Caprice finally says hello to the host. Caroline is angry that she wasn't acknowledged first. Caprice is upset that Caroline didn't stand up to greet her. It's pretty damn awkward around that table. After some chitchat, Caprice announces that her surrogate is dilated and she's about to leave the country to be with her. There's talk of a mucus plug, but I don't even want to know what that's about. Caroline thinks Caprice is being overly dramatic and should just get on the plane already. And she better take the rest of that vegan meal that Caroline had prepared especially for her.
Ladies Of London Recap – I've Been to London to Visit the Queen
by 0123456788on July 15th, 2014
Last night on Ladies of London the women got a lesson in etiquette and then promptly forgot everything they learned. The divide between Caprice Bourret and Caroline Stanbury widened. And Noelle Reno continued to stir the pot. It's what she does best.
We begin at Slades Farm, Annabelle Neilson's home. She has checked herself out of the hospital and is recovering from her accident. Caroline arrives with gifts: DVD's and a huge TV. Where was Caroline when I was sick? Annabelle is doing well, all things considered. She asks what's going on, namely with the Caprice situation. Caroline tells her how Noelle and Marissa are planning a baby shower/going away party for Caprice. She's still irked by it. Annabelle advises her to take the high road. Caroline doesn't think she can, but Annabelle urges her to do it.
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Ladies Of London Recap – New Allegiances
by Reality Teaon July 8th, 2014
Last night on Ladies of London new allegiances were formed while old ones frayed. Showergate continued. And Noelle Reno was somehow in the middle of all of it. Just the way she likes it.
And we're back in Mapperton. It's the morning after the Bambi dinner. Caroline Stanbury, Juliet Angus, and Marissa Hermer convene in Noelle's room at the Lodge. Juliet reports that Caprice Bourret has already checked out. The other three are surprised. Caroline thinks it's due to her and her new friendships with the American women. She can't help it if they think she's fab, Caprice. Juliet starts bagging on Caprice (and Brits in general), but Marissa doesn't want to take sides. She thinks Caprice left early because of her pregnancy. Juliet claims she was the nicest person ever when she was pregnant. Marissa wishes she would have known her back then. Boom. Awkward silence.
Ladies Of London Recap: To The Manner Born
by 0123456788on July 1st, 2014
Last night on Ladies of London the women took a trip to Mapperton. We had shooting, Sandwiches, questionable table manners, and several awkward moments. But, in the end they hugged it out.
We begin with an intense yoga session with Marissa Hermer and Julie. It looks painful and there's talk about looseness, which I'm trying to forget. Julie isn't just a yoga instructor, she also our seventh Lady. And she's an actual Lady…of Hinchingbrooke. She tells us that her life is like a fairy tale. She came to the UK from the Midwest and met her knight, the soon-to-be Earl of Sandwich. Every little girl's dream. She actually seems pretty down to earth for someone with a title.
Marissa and Julie discuss the upcoming trip to Julie's in-law's estate, Mapperton. Annabelle Neilson will of course be attending since she's a longtime friend of the family. She's always out there shooting. And Juliet Angus better watch out because she's a good shot. Speaking of little Daisy Duke, Julie is worried about her attending. We get a flashback to the "keep being ruder" moment. So nasty and so ruder. Marissa and Julie agree that Juliet and Annabelle should be kept far apart. As if that will happen.
Ladies Of London Recap: Mad Hatters
by Mary McClellandon June 24th, 2014
Last night on Ladies of London, there were hats and fashion shows and horse races – and Noelle Reno whining about Scot's misfortune and how sad it is that the press doesn't love her like she's Caprice. A girls gotta have goals, right?!
Juliet Angus throws a hat party to feature a milliner and because British girls like hats. And according to Caroline Stanbury, they also crave borrowing British traditions as Americans have so few. We do? Juliet's other reason for hosting this party is to reunite all the girls after the disastrous Fourth of July party which featured Annabelle Neilson and Juliet arguing on the street "like fish harpies" and Caprice trying to do everything in her power to insert herself into the situation for camera time.
Speaking of Annabelle and Juliet – there is still unresolved drama, which means everyone has to talk about it and talk about who needs to apologize to whom, who is at fault, and how they're all going to resolve this for the sake of the group. There's many more horse-centric events to attend, y'all – we can't have acrimony! It might displace our hats.
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Daughter has been working on a script based on the tv series Angel, its called Angel Education. She imagines a spin off series where the vampire with a soul opens a school for young demons and witches.
Always keen to encourage her literary ambitions I have come up a with some logo ideas for the show.
My first choice is a pretty smart looking, clean logo. It's the sort of thing I'd come up with if I were actually asked to produce a logo for a demonic school. The kind of demonic school that wants to look modern and attract the right kind of demon pupil.
It's got a nice big, educational kind of A, the sort you mind find in an ABC book, plus halo and horns – but it stil looks business-like and serious. I think this is the one Angel would choose.
The next couple on the sheet incorporate the Angel typography from the original series.
But I really wanted to do something that might feature in the story, rather than on the opening credits. That's why all the following ideas are NOT my best attempt at design. I wanted to re-capture the feel of Angel's business cards that Cordelia designed. A lot of the humour in the series came from Angel being over-ruled and I think the logo that the school board chooses would probably anger or annoy him, but he'd be powerless to prevent them.
And then the young people will need uniforms. So I've designed a badge. It really needs some latin phrase to round it. Something like, "we excel at decapitation" but in latin.
Oh – what do you know – there's a website for that – Nos excellunt in DECOLLATIO. I'll add that to the next draft.
The winning design is below. The sort of logo you might get if you get the kids involved in the process. Angel would hate it. The original wouldn't have the horns on – but imagine in the back of shot gangs of teens adding horns to the logo faster than the demon janitor can clean them off.
Do I have to point out that my daughter is still at school as has no links with Fox Media and Angel Education is not a real show?


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Inked expressions tell all
Sunday, August 17th 2008, 1:48 pm
By ChristianPrice, News9.com INsite Team
OKLAHOMA CITY-- The earliest known tattoo belongs to a gentleman called Otiz.
The 5,300-year-old remains of Otiz were discovered in 1991 in the Otztal Alps. Permanently inked in his skin were 57 tattoos.
Years later, 3,294 to be exact, Oklahoma began allowing people to get their own tattoos, legally.
First Amendment Tattoo recently sponsored the 3rd Annual OKC Tattoo Convention where artists and ink lovers came out to appreciate this art form. All Or Nothing manager and artist Dave Tedder traveled from Georgia to display his skills.
"It's just art. It's different every day. You're forced to perform in front of an audience basically and you have to whip out an amazing piece of art," Tedder said. "That's really what keeps you going. It's always something different. It' always a different challenge."
According to Tedder, it takes a special person to be able to wear ink.
"People getting tattooed definitely wear their hearts on their sleeves," Tedder said. "You can tell a lot about somebody just by trying to read the lines between all their tattoos."
Curtis Fletcher is the president of Cannibal Graphics, a tattoo shop in the metro. The legalization of the art form was something he welcomed.
"Before, we had to do it in underground shops or out of our houses. Now we're able to have legitimacy," Fletcher said. "Now there's rules and regulations, which is a great thing; the health department stepping in and setting up a lot of really good foundations to work with."
Nikko Hurtado, with Ignition Tattoo based in Apple Valley California, believes Oklahoma might have had good reason to wait to legalize tattooing.
"It was probably smart of them, you know, just because they were waiting for it to be clean enough and stuff like that," Hurtado said.
Though the ban has been lifted, Hurtado still airs a word of caution.
"They need to research their artist and make sure that they're able to do what you want to get. It's a real important part," Hurtado said. "That way they're not disappointed and have to live with something that they're not happy with the rest of their life."
The art show promoter Chris Brady explained that there is an underlining message behind the convention.
"The reason that we do the show is just to let people in Oklahoma really see what's out there," Brady said.
Brady has artists from all across the world come in and showcase their talents to help to do away with old stigmas.
"When we first started, it was mostly more Oklahoma artists and we just had a couple decent spotted artists here or there," Brady said. "Now it's very, very high quality all the way across the board."
Brady hopes that the annual tattoo show continues to grow and becomes one of the major shows in the nation.
News 9 Tattoos have been around for thousands of years, but in 2006 Oklahoma was the last state to lift the ban on this art form.


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We demand resignation of those responsible for concealing information and introduce systemic changes in the field of environmental protection
Statement by the Yabloko party, 4.06.2020
The large-scale disaster which happened with the spill of oil products at Thermal Power Plant No 3 of the city of Norilsk on May 29 demonstrates the fragility and inefficiency of the state system of environmental protection and insecurity of people and nature.
The tragedy that happened is the largest accident in the history of the Russian Arctic. At the same time, they tried to hide it and thereby exacerbated the consequences. These developments are reminiscent of the Chernobyl's unlearned lessons – when concealing the real scale of the catastrophe only increased the consequences of the accident.
Many words were said at the meetings of different levels, including the presidential, that the accident was predetermined by inaction and the lack of real security control. The reaction to the accident aroused serious criticism: the attempts to conceal the accident, reduce its scale; belated reaction; unpreparedness of government agencies for an operational response. Inspectors of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Usage (Rosprirodnadzor) were not allowed to the scene of the accident, and information about the accident was not transmitted on time to the Ministry of Emergencies and other structures responsible for solving the problem.
Immediately after the accident, it became obvious that this was a disaster of a federal scale, but the emergency regime of the federal scale was declared only five days after the meeting with Vladimir Putin. The state structures have demonstrated their incompetence and irresponsibility.
The accident occurred in the area of responsibility of the richest company – Norilsk Nickel, – which operates an industrial facility of increased environmental hazard, and whose destructive effects [on environment] of a planetary scale have been discussed at the international level for years. What happened next demonstrates that the system of state control and emergency prevention functions poorly even in relation to the facilities it has to pay special attention to. This means that none of the citizens of Russia can feel safe.
Damage from the accident is estimated at dozens of billions of roubles. The effects of a fuel spill will be manifest for decades.
We consider it necessary to dismiss Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss, head of the Federal Service for the Use of Natural Resources Svetlana Radionova and Minister of Natural Resources Dmitry Kobylkin.
We demand the following:
1) from law enforcement agencies: to conduct a full and impartial investigation of what happened regardless of posts and financial possibilities, as well as make objective calculations of environmental damage and recover of it in full;
2) from AO NTEC and PAO "GMK Norilsk Nickel" not to distribute dividends for 2020 in order to compensate for the damage and take necessary measures to eliminate the consequences of the accident;
3) from the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Usage (Rosprirodnadzor), the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Oversight of Russia (Rostekhnadzor) and other competent departments conduct a thorough check of compliance with legislation at all the facilities related to the circulation of significant volumes of oil products, natural gas, hazardous chemical and radioactive substances.
The state and the society must learn a lesson from this disaster:
1) Strengthen environmental control, making it independent, directing the main forces to preventing rather than amending violations;
2) Create an independent body for the protection of nature;
3) Create an efficient institution of public inspectors;
4) Resolutely fight corruption in environmental control bodies and fill their staff with professionals in environmental protection rather than "effective managers";
5) Сonduct checks when receiving information (received both as appeal and publications in the Internet) about threats to the population and the environment;
6) Prevent the adoption of the bill proposed by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation on postponing until March 1, 2021, payments for negative environmental impacts;
7) Abandon all measures on reduction of environmental control and expertise envisaged in the Nationwide Action Plan and providing for reсovery of employment and incomes of the population, economic growth and long-term structural changes, which was proposed by the Government of the Russian Federation on May 31, 2020 (Section "Systemic Issues of Construction of Infrastructure Facilities").
Nikolai Rybakov,
Olga Tzepilova,
Chair of Yabloko's Green Russia Faction
Posted: June 5th, 2020 under Economy, Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Russian Economy, YABLOKO for Nuclear Safety, Без рубрики.


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Der rumänische Fußballpokal Cupa României ist der seit 1933 ausgetragene nationale Pokalwettbewerb für Vereinsmannschaften. Er wird jährlich von der Federația Română de Fotbal (FRF) veranstaltet und ist nach der Liga 1 der zweitwichtigste Titel im nationalen Vereinsfußball. Die aktuelle offizielle Bezeichnung des Wettbewerbs lautete "Cupa României Timișoreana".

Sponsoren
Am 22. Juli 2005 unterschrieb Samsung Electronics einen Einjahresvertrag. Der Cup wurde während der Vertragslaufzeit in "Cupa României Samsung" geändert.

Am 9. Oktober 2006 unterschrieb Ursus einen 3-Jahres-Vertrag. Der Cup wurde während der Vertragslaufzeit in "Cupa României Timișoreana" geändert, um die neue Marke von Ursus bekannter zu machen.

Die Endspiele im Überblick

Rangliste der Sieger und Finalisten
Der Rekordpokalsieger ist der FCSB Bukarest mit 24 Pokalsiegen, gefolgt von Rapid Bukarest und Dinamo Bukarest mit jeweils 13 Titeln.

Rangliste nach Städten
Die Stadt Bukarest dominiert mit ihren Vereinen den Pokalwettbewerb. Zu rund zwei Drittel der bisherigen 83 Austragungen kam der Sieger aus der Hauptstadt.

Weblinks
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KMEA All-State Wind & Percussion
2019-20 Audition Excerpts
Participation Eligibility Requirements
There are three requirements for a student to be eligible to audition for the KMEA All-State Band and Orchestra Winds/Percussion membership:
The student must first be a performing member of their District's 2019-20 KMEA Band, Jazz Ensemble, or Orchestra.
The student's director must be a member of KMEA, will register each audition online, and send the Audition Invoice with appropriate payment to the KMEA Ensembles Manager. These must be completed by the deadline established by KMEA.
The student must be deemed an eligible freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior in good standing in their high school.
Music Requirements for the Live Audition:
A full range chromatic scale slurred up and tongued down. Quarter Note MM= 120. Memorization is not required.
One major scale, two octaves, with up to 4 sharps or 4 flats. Quarter Note MM= 120. Memorization is not required. All scales will start on the lowest possible starting note in the practical range. Each scale is non-transposed (i.e., if a trumpet player is asked to perform a C scale, they will be expected to perform a C scale on their instrument, not a C concert scale.) The major scale for each instrument will be posted by the band chairpersons on the morning of live auditions.
Sections of the required etudes/solos listed below.
Selected Studies for Flute, H. Voxman, Rubank/Hal Leonard (#4470700). Play page 38, Ab Major etude, first six lines plus two measures to the quarter rest, students should play measures 11 and 12 up an octave to avoid the range problem with the low Db and C; page 40, Gigue, the first five lines (no repeat).
Suite in A-Minor, Telemann, published by International Music Co. (2260). Play No. 3 'Air a I'Italien' movement, but no da Capo. Measure 16 should use the same rhythm on count one and two as the rhythm in measure 15. The flute rhythm in the piano part is correct for measure 16.
Concerto in C for Oboe and Orchestra, attributed to Haydn, edited by Rothwell, published by Oxford University Press (#3642131) (#9780193851627). First movement: page 1, begin at letter D (2nd line) and end on quarter note C (end of line 6). Page 5, play all of the Cadenza. Second movement: page 6, play from the beginning to the end of the 4th line.
Concertpiece, Op. 35, Gabriel Pierné, edited by Schubert-Garfield, published by International Music Co. (1617) Play from the beginning to letter C; letter F to letter H; and letter O to the end.
B-Flat Soprano Clarinet
Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74, Carl Maria von Weber, published by Carl Fischer (CU-752). Romance movement: begin after C at Recit. with note E on fermata (Lento) prior to Maestoso and play to the end of movement. Polacca movement: play beginning to ten measures rest, and page 10 (in newer editions page 11), begin playing six measures before M and play to the end of the piece.
Errata: (added Oct. 2, 2013) Measure 24 of the Polacca mvt. should have the same rhythm as measure 9. The correct rhythm is 2-16th notes, dotted 16th & 32nd note.
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat and B-flat Contra Bass Clarinet
Adagio and Allegro, Johann Ernest Galliard, arr. by Lyle Merriman, published by Southern Music Co. (SS-686). (Hal Leonard 3774337). I: Adagio from Sonata No. 3, begin at A and play to the end of the movement. II: Allegro from Sonata No. V, play from the beginning to D.
Saxophones (Alto, Tenor, Baritone)
27 Virtuoso Studies by Bassi, transcribed for Oboe and Sax by Gerardo Iasilli, published by Carl Fischer (O-61). #1, page 4: play 3rd line from the top to the end. #14: play first three lines.
B-flat Cornet and Trumpet
Prelude Et Ballade, by Balay, published by Belwin Mills (BWI-69). Play from line 5, last measure (Expressi) to the end of the first page. Skip to Allegro Moderato section: play all of page 2 and end after the first measure on page 3 (11 measures of rest).
Morceau De Concert, Saint-Saëns, published by Warner Bros. (TS-0002). Play #1 to #2; play #3 to #4; (CHANGE) play from fifth measure after #11 to end (no trill on the D).
Trombone and Euphonium
Morceau Symphonique, Alexander Guilmant, ed. Falaguerra, published by Warner Bros. (TS-0046) Play beginning to 4th measure of 3rd line. Play last three lines of page 1. (CHANGE) Play from the beginning of Allegro Moderato to the end, the last 40 measures of the composition.
Air and Bourée, by Bach, arr. by William Bell, published by Carl Fischer. (W-1647) Play all of the Air. Bourée: Play from the beginning through the half note 1 measure before #4.
Percussionists may audition in one or more areas, but a separate form and payment must be submitted for each audition area.
Masterpieces for Marimba, arr. by Thomas McMillan, Pro Art Publications (1202). Play page 6: Sonatina by Telemann.
Solo Timpanist, Vic Firth, published by Carl Fischer (#04402), play page 4-5, Etude #1, Entire etude. Quarter note = 116-120.
Portraits in Rhythm, Anthony J. Cirone, 50 Studies for Snare Drum, Belwin Mills, (HAB-00101): Play all of #3 (rolls are closed).
All-State Bands
All-State 1234A Band Roster
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They are still providing the opt out option. The fees are the same ($75 dollars initial fee to opt out and $10 dollars monthly), but (this is a good) there will be a "cap" (three years) on how long those fees will be charged.
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Gram-positive: Active against Staphylococcus carnosus TM 300.
Gram-negative: Active against Escherichia coli BL 21.
Authors:Liepke, C., Zucht, H.-D., Forssmann, W.-G., Stndker, L.
Journal: Journal of Chromatography B: Biomedical Sciences and Applications 2001, 752(2).
Abstract: A strategy was established for the identification of novel antimicrobial peptides from human milk. For the generation of bioactive peptides human milk was acidified and proteolyzed with pepsin simulating the digest in infants stomachs. Separation of proteins and resulting fragments was performed by means of reversed-phase chromatography detecting the antimicrobial activity of each fraction using a sensitive radial diffusion assay. In order to avoid the purification of the known abundant antimicrobial milk protein lysozyme, it was identified in HPLC fractions by its enzymatic activity and by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization�mass spectrometry (MALDI�MS). On condition that lysozyme was not detectable and antibacterial activity of HPLC fractions was caused by a peptide, which was confirmed by proteolytic cleavage leading to a loss of activity, further purification was performed by consecutive chromatographic steps guided by the antibacterial assay. Using this strategy, an as yet unknown casein fragment exhibiting antimicrobial activity was purified in addition to antimicrobial lactoferrin fragments. The new antimicrobial peptide resembles a proteolytic fragment of human casein-κ (residues 63�117) and inhibits the growth of Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria, and yeasts. Our results confirm that antimicrobially-active peptides are liberated from human milk proteins during proteolytic hydrolysis and may play an important role in the host defense system of the newborn.


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Features Australia
Not our ABC
Chris Berg & Sinclair Davidson
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a $1.04 billion piece of public policy and we treat it as exactly that: a government intervention into the market for news, entertainment and communications. Policy interventions are financially costly. Policy interventions are also costly in a non-monetary sense. They can have unintended or counterproductive consequences. They can crowd out non-government activity, stifle entrepreneurship or technological innovation, distort the marketplace, systemically favour particular political interests and ideologies, and create fiefdoms of unaccountable bureaucrats.
The ABC was established in a moment of history significantly unlike our own, facing a cultural and political environment greatly different to our own, with technological and economic challenges completely opposite to those we now face. Over the course of eight decades the ABC has embedded itself in the Australian political system and public consciousness. But the original rationales for the ABC have long since expired. Technology has made the concerns of Australian policy makers in the 1930s – or even the 1990s, when the ABC was last subjected to a major review – redundant or anachronistic. Economic justifications for a state-owned media broadcaster simply do not fit the modern media landscape.
The arguments for public broadcasting in the twenty-first century are simply not compelling. It is certainly the case that the ABC has bound within it an enormous amount of cultural capital as a consequence of its eighty years of pre-eminence in the Australian media industry. But that should not be confused with either a claim that a publicly-funded broadcaster was necessary to build that cultural capital or that Australian culture would suffer in a world where the ABC had been reformed or privatised.
The ABC is an Australian 'icon' in the same sense that the Commonwealth Bank was an icon before its privatisation, and in the same anachronistic sense that Qantas, the 'national carrier', is imagined to be an essential part of the Australian psyche. We can celebrate the achievements of the ABC, its cultural significance, and its role in Australian history. But that should not prevent us from looking sceptically – as we should with all costly government interventions into the economy and society – at whether the ABC remains good public policy. Does it have a good reason to exist, now?
That question invites us to speculate as to the rationale for the ABC. The ABC itself denies that it is a market failure broadcaster, while the notion of it being independent is difficult to pin down. Independent of whom? It is publicly funded and its management are required to appear before parliament and answer questions posed by politicians. True, the ABC is independent of the demands of commercial reality, but it is not independent of its political paymaster. Of course that undermines the argument that the ABC is a bulwark of democracy. A free press may well be a necessary condition of democracy but that does not necessarily imply that the government should subsidise the press. To the contrary, many non-democratic nations have maintained very high levels of government ownership and subsidy in the media. A further argument undermining the ABC's claim relates to the large and obvious political bias in its reporting and news coverage. A 2013 survey revealed that ABC journalists are almost five times more likely to be Greens voters than the average voter and twice more likely to vote Greens than the average journalist.
Other arguments for the ABC include quality programming, Australian content, and rural subsidy. What constitutes 'quality', however, is a value judgement. Australian content and rural subsidy can be provided for much less than $1 billion per annum. That is the challenge; the ABC is a massive government program with no clear objectives and no clear accountability.
Few Australians would realise that the ABC charter does not include the word 'fair' nor does it include the word 'balanced'. The charter is at best only a loose guide to what the ABC does. Nor is it any constraint on ABC operations. While the charter is spelled out in legislation, section 6(4) explicitly states that 'Nothing in this section shall be taken to impose on the Corporation a duty that is enforceable by proceedings in a court.' Additionally, there is nothing in the charter that could be described as an enforcement mechanism, nor any penalties detailed for potential breaches. The charter is in law – insofar as it exists on the statute books – but it is not law that the ABC has to abide by.
What should be done about the ABC? It is certainly the case that doing nothing and muddling through is very much underrated as a government policy. Yet lower-cost alternative public policies are available and clear savings can be made. One possibility would be to refine the charter. In the first instance, the ABC could be redesignated to be a market-failure broadcaster. Alternatively, it could be required to be self-funding, i.e. commercialised. Here the ABC could be required to finance its activities through advertising revenue and then pay dividends to the government. A further option would be to reform the governance of the ABC.
Then there is privatisation. The ABC could be sold off to a single bidder or consortium. Or it could be listed on the stock exchange. Our preferred option would be for shares in the ABC to be given away, either to all Australians or to existing and previous staff. The staff are the best people to realise the value of the ABC – and they would pay for their shares over time through the capital gains tax as they sold their shares.
In this sense the privatisation of the ABC would proceed much like higher education is currently funded. ABC employees would receive their shares at zero-price and only pay for them when they disposed of the shares and only then if the shares had increased in value. The proceeds of the privatisation would be realised over time and would not constitute a 'sugar-hit' to the budget. Nor can the privatisation be characterised as a stunt to balance the Budget in the short term. Rather, it is a program to establish a newly-private ABC on a firm footing, vesting it with a cohort of new owners who have the most interest in making it a commercial success.
On the cultural reappropriation of long sleeve dresses
James McCann
Ramsay versus the Kaiser
Salvatore Babones
Fall of the House of Adler
Christopher Akehurst
Planetary perspectives
Ian Plimer
The march of Europe's nationalists
Mark Higgie
Business/Robbery etc
Michael Baume


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Board index ‹ Politics and the Environment ‹ Australian, N.Z., U.K. Environmental Issues
Plane with thermal cameras to check on woodburners
What are the British, Australian, and New Zealand governments doing to stop air pollution?
by Wilberforce » Sun Mar 30, 2014 7:41 pm
By Patrick O'Sullivan patrick osullivan@hbtoday co nz
4:54 PM Sunday Mar 30, 2014 12 comments
Night flights with thermal cameras will be tracking down illegal smog-producing fires in Napier and Hastings.
Hawke's Bay Regional Council's HeatSmart programme co-ordinator Mark Heaney said the programme had been successfully trialled in Canterbury.
By using data already held on compliant fires, illegal ones could easily be identified by the strong chimney heat image.
"We have a record of every compliant fire that has been installed since 2005 through both Napier and Hastings councils when they issue a permit for the installation of a fire under the requirements of the Building Act," he said.
"On top of that, the regional council has records of every loan and every grant that has been given since the programme started in 2009."
By putting all information onto a map it would be easy to identify older wood burners that can produce smog, he said.
The thermal images could also be used for prospective house purchasers, to see how effective the building's insulation was.
"If at the time of the photograph being taken the fire was being used the property would show a hot spot. We can then cross off all of the hot spots that are compliant and it will tell us we are the ones are that aren't compliant."
The regional council is responsible for government targets to lower the amount of tiny air particles, PM 10s, that are hazardous to health.
Urban areas in Napier and Hastings face most of the controls on household fires.
"In the urban areas under the HeatSmart programme there are phase-out dates for non-compliant fires dependent on age.
"The course of events that would normally happen are that if we were able to prove your fire was non-compliant, the phase-out programme had prohibited it from use, then you would first be issued with an abatement notice.
"If you infringed that abatement notice then you would be liable to a fine."
The first offence would be subject to $300 fine, increasing incrementally for further offences.
"The important thing from a regional council's point of view is to encourage people by offering or making the purchase of a compliant fire more affordable, rather than banging them over the head with a stick using the legislation.
"The council recognised that affordability was certainly going to be an issue for some people and they wanted to assist."
The council provides two options.
Homeowners receive $608 cash to decommission their wood burner and replace it with a clean heat source, or the money could go to the supplier of the new clean heat source.
The second option is a loan facility.
The council takes out a bank loan up to $4500 and pays half the interest.
"So the real interest rate for the ratepayer is 3.25 per cent, which is a pretty good rate over 10 years.
"It is a rate on the property.
"They pay that back by automatic payment on a monthly basis."
He said people preferred the grant to the loan by two to one.
"I think that's a reflection of the economic times.
"People don't want to take on debt. It is literally like the regional council discounting the price of the new fire by $700, or a heat pump, gas fire or pellet burner."
He said the pellet burner was not often chosen "but some like the technological side of it".
"It is competitive in terms of fuel costs and of course they have got lower emissions than a normal fire."
The average loan amount since the programme started in 2009 has been about $3500.
The subsidies will be available until 2020.
"Because of the sheer volume we anticipate being exchanged, which is about 10,000 to make a difference, you couldn't do it in one year. The manufacturers couldn't cope with the volume and the installers couldn't cope.
"So part of the plan was to have three phase outs.
"The first phase out was open fires, they are the least efficient, followed by the pre-1996 fires to be phased out as of January.
Pre-1996 fires are now prohibited from use if they are not compliant and the next phase out will be 2016 and that will be the 1996 to 2005 fires.
"Technically the policing starts as of now and it started effectively from January 12."
He said some landlords were writing into tenancy agreements that non-compliant fires were not to be used.
"If it's in writing it puts the onus on the tenant rather than the landlord, but the Tenancy Tribunal had ruled that if a non-compliant fireplace was part of the original tenancy agreement then the property owner has an obligation to provide compliant heating."
He said people needed to do some basic basic mathematics before replacing one heat source with another.
"You can't compare a 5kW heat pump with a 21kW fire, so if people are making a conscious decision to choose a particular heat source they have to do a comparison for running costs and outputs."
Some people had not done that.
"There are examples of people that have taken a fire out and put in a heat pump.
"They have been faced with a high power bill because they have left it on automatic instead of using it economically and have decided that they want to go back to a fire."
There are only three models of wood burner that are permitted to be modified rather than replaced. The council will pay for the modification to the three Firenzo models, made in Hawke's Bay.
Firenzo sales and marketing manager Steve McCarty said the modification meant the fire could not be completely damped down overnight, which caused any fire to smoulder and smoke.
"If they can damp it right down chances are it is a non-compliant fire," he said.
Modern fires also had secondary combustion, which burned up most of the smoke older fires spewed into the atmosphere.
They were designed to burn wood with less than 25 per cent moisture, he said.
"The industry thinks it may have been better to educate wood merchants or the people that use wood fires that if you use dry wood you get a better, more efficient burn.
"It is more economic and you don't get smoke.
"You can have the most compliant fire and if you put damp wood on it and it will smoke."
Council-approved wood merchant Woodstocks owner John Caulton said people were suffering because they had given up their fire because of the high cost of replacement, many were ineligible because their home was not insulated, and were now vulnerable to electricity price rises for a heat pump that only warmed a fraction of the house.
"Given the costs, landlords and homeowners are being herded toward electric heating.
"This will lead to to increased poverty," he said.
"Certainly the HeatSmart programme will help improve air quality and everyone should support that objective.
"The debate is about the method."
He said the programme failed to address the real cause of airborne pollution from home heating wood burners: Poor quality of the firewood.
"Poor quality firewood is often supplied by unscrupulous firewood merchants who are usually unregistered and do not have the expertise, resources or motivation to ensure the optimum product has been burned," he said.
"They are able to undercut registered suppliers because they often deal in cash and therefore evade taxes.
"The public are naturally attracted to the cheaper product without fully appreciating the impacts of buying wet wood.
"It is up to 50 per cent less efficient than dry wood and of course is the main contributor to air pollution.
"There exist numerous local educative protections against these cowboy wood merchants but the matter is poorly policed at both national and local level."
Mr Heaney said the council's hands were tied, noting: "It is not illegal to sell wet wood."
Mr Caulton said he was disappointed in the lack of political will. He said the HeatSmart programme registered wood suppliers but there was little advantage for their designation as approved suppliers.
"It is those who haven't signed up who are the problem.
"They have no obligation to minimum standards and continue as they have always done.
"These are the people who need to be targeted.
"If good quality firewood is regulated and enforced then citizens will be able to enjoy all the benefits of the wood fire and that regional council would will be well on its way to meeting the PM 10 obligations.
"In some instances the registered supplier is struggling to compete and locally and some have ceased trading due to pressure from firewood cowboys."
He said politicians had taken the road of least resistance.
"It is easy to sit in the air-conditioned offices and enact legislation and bylaws that achieve a narrow goal, but fail to take account of negative impacts on the people they are employed to serve."
- HAWKES BAY TODAY
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-to ... d=11229084
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NLMK shareholders do not approve 9M 2022 dividends
At an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 31 December 2022, NLMK shareholders did not approve the payment of 9M 2022 dividends recommended by the Board of Directors.
Upcoming delisting of Global Depositary Shares
Update on NLMK's depositary receipt programme
Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) announces the termination of its depositary receipt programme for common shares due to the decision by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (Depositary Bank) to terminate the deposit agreement effective on 18 January 2023
NLMK Board of Directors recommended shareholders to consider dividend payment for 9M 2022
The Board of Directors recommended shareholders to consider the payment of 9M 2022 dividends in the amount of RUB 2.6 per share
Q4 and 12M 2016 NLMK Group consolidated financial results under IFRS
NLMK Group, a leading global steel company (MICEX and LSE: NLMK) is pleased to announce an EBITDA margin expansion to 25% and a 9% y-o-y growth of free cash flow to $1.1 bn in 2016
Q3 and 9M 2016 NLMK Group consolidated financial results under IFRS
In Q3, revenue increased by 19% qoq to $2.2 bn, driven by a 7% qoq growth in sales to 4.2 m t. EBITDA increased by 46% qoq to $673 m; EBITDA margin reached 30% (+5 p.p. qoq), including 18% for NLMK's international companies. Net income doubled qoq to $385 m. Net debt / EBITDA decreased to 0.4х.
In Q2, steelmaking capacity utilization rates reached 100% (94% in Q1 2016). EBITDA increased by 59% qoq to $460 m; EBITDA margin reached 25% (+7 p.p. qoq). Net debt / EBITDA stood at 0.7.
Q1 2016 NLMK Group Consolidated Financial Results under IFRS
NLMK Q1 2016 revenue was $1.577 billion (-4% qoq), EBITDA margin was 18%. Free cash flow increased by 2.5x to $275 million. NLMK net profit was $57 million.
Q4 2015 and 12m 2015 NLMK Group consolidated financial results under IFRS
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Chris Hewish
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Skydance Media
Chris Hewish is an award winning interactive executive, with decades of experience managing daily operations and long-term strategies for companies of various sizes. Over the years he's been fortunate to work with highly motivated teams producing high quality games. As EVP of Interactive at Skydance Media, Hewish is responsible for helping to set and execute the overall strategy for Skydance Interactive, as well as oversee development, partnerships, and new business opportunities. Hewish most recently served as Head of Studio and Publishing at leading VR company Survios, lead a team responsible for the release of Raw Data, the first VR game to generate over $1M in revenue in its first month and the first VR game to hit the #1 spot for all games available on Steam. Prior to his time at Survios, Hewish served as Chief Executive Officer of social gaming company Bonanza Media, releasing titles including Bingo Home: Race To Earth and Shrek Slots Adventure. Previously, he spent six years as DreamWorks Animation's Head of Global Interactive, where he received an Annie Award for his creative work on the Kung Fu Pandavideo game, as well as an Apple App Store Best of 2013 award for the Turbo Racing League mobile game. This followed a thirteen-year stint at Activision Blizzard, where he held posts including Lead Game Designer and Executive Producer. Hewish holds a B.A. degree from the University of Southern Maine.
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Malaysia Public Limited Companies
The Companies Commission of Malaysia ("SSM" or "the Registrar") have announced that the Companies Act 2016 ("CA 2016") and Company Regulations 2017 (CR 2017) be implemented on a staggered basis with the first phase effective from 31 January 2017.
Kensington Corporate Services (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. is a management services company in Malaysia and is able to assist you with incorporation and administration of your company.
This document covers setting up of public companies limited by shares in Malaysia.
TYPES OF REGISTERED COMPANIES
Limited by shares, either be a private company or a public company;
Limited by guarantee, shall be a public company;
Unlimited companies, either be a private company or a public company.
REQUIREMENTS OF PUBLIC COMPANIES LIMITED BY SHARES IN MALAYSIA
For public company, the name shall end with the word "Berhad" or the abbreviation "Bhd.".
Minimum two (2) natural person who is at least eighteen (18) years of age and shall ordinarily reside in Malaysia by having a principal place of residence in Malaysia.
Minimum one (1), either natural person or corporate body, Malaysian or foreigner.
Minimum one (1) share issued at the price determined by the directors.
Maintain a registered office in Malaysia to which all communications and notices may be addressed and which shall be open and accessible to the public during ordinary business hours.
At least one (1) natural person of at least 18 years of age and a citizen or permanent resident of Malaysia who shall ordinarily reside in Malaysia by having a principal place of residence in Malaysia. The secretary shall meet the qualifications as prescribed in the CA 2016.
A company, may or may not have a constitution. Without its own constitution, the company, each director and member shall have the rights, powers, duties and obligations as set out in the CA 2016. Based on the CA 2016, a company shall not be formed for any unlawful purpose. Hence, if a company has adopted its own constitution, object clauses are now less significant and may or may not be specified in the Constitution.
COMMENCEMENT OF BUSINESS
A public company with share capital which has not issued a prospectus inviting the public to subscribe for its shares or has not issued a prospectus under the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007, cannot commence any business or exercise any borrowing power until -
- a statement in lieu of prospectus which complies with the CA 2016 has been lodged with the Registrar; and
- a statutory declaration verifying the requirements under the relevant paragraphs in CA 2016 have been complied with
The company shall become entitled to commence business or exercise any borrowing powers after lodgement of the statutory declaration with the Registrar.
CORPORATE INCOME TAX IN MALAYSIA
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with a paid-up capital of up to RM2.5m at the beginning of the basis period:
Chargeable Income YA 2020
The first RM600,000 17%
In excess of RM600,000 24%
Company with a paid-up capital above RM2.5m at the beginning of the basis period : 24%
Non-resident company / branch : 24%
ANNUAL OBLIGATIONS OF PUBLIC COMPANIES LIMITED BY SHARES
File with the Registrar each calendar year not later than thirty (30) days from the anniversary of its incorporation date.
Financial statements and reports
Financial statements and reports are to be circulated to members of the Company within six (6) months of its financial year end. A copy of the financial statements and reports shall be lodged with the Registrar within thirty (30) days from the circulation to its members.
Every public company shall hold an AGM:
- Within 18 months from its incorporation for first AGM;
- Within 6 months of the company's financial year end and not more than 15 months after the last preceding AGM.
Annual Tax Return
Under the self-assessment system, submission should be made within seven (7) months from the end of the accounting period of the company which constitutes the basis period for the year of assessment.


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Great Emigration – Utopian Colonies
Finnish Utopian Colonies were an interesting destination for emigration in the early 1900's. Religion, labor conditions, and even "Tropical Fever" were ideas that a single individuals or small groups built on to create new communities of like minded individuals. People moved their entire family following a charismatic individual across oceans in hopes of finding a better place .
Finnish Utopian Communities were not unique to the Americas. In addition to the ten in the Americas there were at least four other Finnish Utopian Communities (two in Russian and one in Australia and Israel).
1899 to 1917 was a tough time for Finns. In Finland, Russia was tightening her reigns with Russification. Newspapers promoted "New World" opportunities. As the Tsar had shut down many of the papers, most of the papers that promoted these opportunities were published in the U.S. and Canada. As such, those papers had Finnish-American readers. In the U.S. and Canada, Finns were getting tired of working conditions, mostly those in mining. Words of equality and sunshine rang with them as well.
There were three main factors for migration to utopian colonies. Some were built on just one factor but many used two or all three of these reasons.
Religion – With the Feburary Manefesto of 1899, the Russian Tzar mandated that the main religion of Finland be the Orthodox Russian Church. People felt that their religious freedoms were being violated. In the Americas, it was not about belonging to a specific religion but rather the freedom of religion that was the factor.
Cooperatives – Labor issues drove much of the Finnish-American migration into utopian communities. Conditions on the job or in the community led to the idea that as a group the utopian community could support the needs of all. A majority of these were mine workers.
"Tropical Fever" – White sandy beaches, colorful birds singing, bright sunshine, and all the fruit you can eat. What more do you need to say to people in the middle of a Finnish winter?
No more than 10,000 would ever migrate to these communities. For some, especially those looking to get rich quick or relax in luxury, the trip became a quick visit. In most cases it was communal living; shared housing, shared meals, and shared labor. The communities were mostly agricultural but most were not farmers and the land was often not suitable for farming, thus making labor difficult. In the end there was often leadership problems. In some cases the people felt they had been swindled. If it wasn't community conditions, the final straw for others was the Great Depression.
As the communities failed, those that could moved elsewhere. Some moved back home. Some of those that had come from Finland moved to the U.S or Canada. Still others stayed around and tried their best. Yet another showing of Finnish Sisu (preservation through adversity). I found a story about one of the last resident of Itabo still living in Cuba.
A brief synopsis of the Finnish Utopian Communities in the Americas:
Sointula, British Columbia, Canada (1901-1905) – Still a community today.
Sointula was a cooperative utopia founded by Matti Kurikka and Austin Mäkelä. It is considered one of the most successful Finnish utopian communities. It was started by Vancouver Island coal miners who were tired of the working conditions. Even after a series of management issues, the town's people remained and built a community based on co-operative values. Many businesses on the town today are co-ops. The town is slowly becoming a summer retreat for Californians. At it's peak the community had 1,000 inhabitants.
Itabo, Cuba (1904-1908)
The location was originally purchased by Eero Erkko but it was never used for his intended purpose. Those early efforts evolved into something new with the Finnish-American community and it became a cooperative utopia. At its peak the community had 12 family.
Sammon Takojat, British Columbia, Canada (1905-1912)
Sammon Takojat was a new cooperative founded by Matti Kurikka with theosophic leanings. Matti Kurikka had been the original manager of Sointula but because of a series of issues with the former community started this new community. As an exclusively all male community, it did not last long. At its peak the community had 50 inhabitants. The town is now called Websters Corner.
Colonia Finlandesa, Misiones, Argentina (1906-1940) – Nationalist
Colonia Finlandesa was founded by Arthur Theslef. The original 120 settlers were mostly upper class Swedish speaking Finns. They expected a land where they could get rich quick. Most returned to Finland. In 1920, a second influx of mostly Eastern Finns moved into the Oberá region and started to develop the land. At its peak the community had 500 inhabitants.
Ponnistus, Omaja, Cuba (1906-1909)
Ponnistus was a cooperative founded by Oscar Norring, a merchant seaman, and William Keskinen. Like Itabo, it was founded by Finnish-Americans who were mostly loggers, miners, and craftsmen. Norring had been in the employ of the Buenvista Fruit Company and his vision for the community was as a citrus grove. Lack of water and poor connections to the railroad made the efforts difficult. Fortunately the local community has decided to maintain some of the history. Today there remains one home and a church from the settlement as well as an example of their carpentry work. While no Finns remained, Finnish delegations have stopped by to see what remains of the community in recent years. At its peak the community had 50 inhabitants.
Redwood Valley, California, United States (1912-1932)
Redwood Valley was a cooperative founded by Alex Kauhanen. The settlers were Finnish-American miners from Butte, Montana with hopes of building a farming community. Farming was never successful and the popularity of the town was mostly for San Francisco Finns traveling up for the weekend or summer breaks. At its peak the community had 120 inhabitants.
Colonia Villa Alborado, Paraguay (1920-1940)
Colonia Villa Alborado was a vegan co-operative founded by Armas Nikkinen and Eero Laulaja. This was situated close to Colonia Finlandesa. At its peak the community had 60 inhabitants.
Georgian Osuusfarmi, Georgia, United States (1921-1966)
Georgian Osuusfarmi was a cooperative founded by Arvo Vitali near Jesup, Georiga in old town of McKinnon. At its peak the community had 50 inhabitants. Like the other Finnish Utopian communities in North America, this was a Finnish-American migration mostly from Brooklyn, NY. If you want to find it on Google Earth, search for "Finland St.", "Sauna St.", or "Sisu St." in Georgia.
Penedo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1929-1940) – Still a community today.
Penedo was founded by Toivo Uusikallio, Penedo was a vegan co-operative utopian colony that had at its peak 150 inhabitants. After initially failing, it acted upon an opportunity becoming a vibrant Finnish (Scandinavian) community still today. I'm writing or have written a longer story on Penedo.
Viljavakka, Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic (1929-1932)
Oskari Jalkio founded the vegan utopian community after he was refused entry to Brazil for lack of immunization. At its peak the community had 140 inhabitants, mostly from Vyborg and Vaasa. The community was intended to grow rice in Villa Vázquez. Very few colonists had farming backgrounds and growing rice in the Caribbean wasn't easy. The Great Depression was the final straw. By 1932, most were either returning home with money borrowed from family or moving to other parts of the Dominican Republic.
Finland's Great Emigration
Finnish Argentine
Finnish Brazilian
Finnish-American
Finnish-Canadian
Sointula
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TV Discussion
TV & Video Entertainment
NCIS (Naval Crime Investigation Service)
Public Club
By Guest WaveCrest
October 10, 2010 in TV Discussion
Guest WaveCrest
I assumed NCIS was set in Washington DC, Virginia, or out on the East Coast of the US. That is a Washington DC landmark at the end of the title sequence? I thought NCIS might be filmed on the East Coast, but if it's filmed in Los Angeles/California, then I'm not too surprised.
I was disappointed to read that Louise Lombard didn't come back for NCIS: Los Angeles, after appearing in the two-part pilot on NCIS.
ethsnafu
Known Aliases: Mark Benjamin Hayden
Located: Yorkshire *Out on the wiley, windy moors*
From what I can gather folks, NCIS is filmed at Santa Clarita, California at the Four Aces Set which has the diner, motel, gas station etc. It's located at 14499 E Avenue Q, Palmdale, Los Angeles, California 93591.
Big shame about Louise Lombard I agree Richard. I wonder if the decision was hers or theirs? Louise just doesn't seem to have had the success she should have had. I know she left the UK due to the lack of decent roles but it seems that with the exception of CSI she has had more hits than misses out in the US.
Earthnut
Known Aliases: Darlene
Located: Mt Ventoux
I think Louise Lombard not continuing to be on the show is why I lost interest in it. She did a fantastic job selling her character and it was so well received, especially since she and Gibbs had history.
"Time is too slow for those who wait; too swift for those who fear;
too long for those who grieve; too short for those who rejoice.
But for those who love, time is eternity."
(Jane Fellowes)
Over here her biggest TV hit must have been The House of Elliot. She later did a short-lived TV series with Sean Pertwee about bodyguards. After that the next thing I read that she had starred in was CSI. Would be nice to see her get her own TV series.
Thanks for the NCIS filming location info Mark. It's very convincing then how they make it look like the East Coast. Santa Clarita is familiar to me from the fourth season of "24", when there were scenes in one or two episodes shot at Santa Clarita. Not 100% certain but I think Medium is shot there.
Another trademark of NCIS, which I noticed early on when I started watching bits of it, was how the show looks overall. It has a glowy look.
Have a look at this link Richard. You are spot on, Medium was filmed there as well as a number of other shows that are listed.
Great way to word it Richard, "a glowy look." Awesome show, with the perfect blend of entertainment. The best part is the interaction between characters.
I read on the TVRage.com page for next Tuesday's new episode of NCIS (on CBS), that it's a
Halloween episode (called "Cracked").
Darlene, NCIS dosen't have what you would call 'notice straight away sharp picture', but the glowy look still looks kind of sharp.
Thanks for sharing the Santa Clarita filming locations link Mark.
The actress who plays Abby recorded a single which is on the NCIS: Official Soundtrack - Volume 1 album (called Fear (Stop Making Friends), but I haven't been able to find it yet on iTunes.
Here's a little info about the Halloween episode for those interested. It's a brief synopsis so not that much of a spoiler folks but if you're not wanting to know a single thing I shall place it in a spoiler box to be sure.
THE TEAM BEGINS TO WORRY ABOUT ABBY WHEN HER CONNECTION TO A VICTIM RUNS TOO DEEP, ON "NCIS," TUESDAY, OCT. 26
- Meredith Monroe ("Criminal Minds, "Dawson's Creek") Guest Stars as April Ferris, An Engineer At Gen-1 Biotech Inc.
- Brennan Elliott ("Strong Medicine") Guest Stars as Martin Stillwell, The CEO Of Gen-1 Biotech Inc.
"Cracked" - Delving into the mind of a brilliant Naval Scientist, Abby becomes fixated on solving her murder, while DiNozzo's latest fling leads to an interesting Halloween, on NCIS, Tuesday, Oct. 26 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.................. Mark Harmon
NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo............. Michael Weatherly
Probationary Special Agent Ziva David..................... Cote de Pablo
Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard................................ David McCallum
Abby Sciuto............................. Pauley Perrette
NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee......................... Sean Murray
NCIS Director Leon Vance....... Rocky Carroll
RECURRING CAST
Jimmy Palmer.............................. Brian Dietzen
GUEST CAST
April Ferris........................... Meredith Monroe
Martin Stillwell........................... Brennan Elliott
Lorrain Thorson................ Robin Pearson Rose
Rupert Kritzer......................... Raphael Sbarge
Professor Daniel Redner........ Steven Anderson
Navy Lieutenant Clea Thorson.......................... Erica Piccininni
DIRECTED BY: Tony Wharmby
WRITTEN BY: Nicole Mirante-Matthews
Here's the video for the song you mentioned Richard. I was reading the comments on Youtube and it would seem others have had a hard time tracking it down at iTunes so good luck with that my friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHG-flRCeQ
You guys are great, thanks for all the info.
What was the Halloween episode of NCIS like then Darlene? One of the recent new episodes got near 20 million viewers in the fast national ratings (source: Zap2it).
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Archival Collections Portal > Rare Book & Manuscript Library > David Lloyd collection on Lao She, 1946-1957
David Lloyd collection on Lao She, 1946-1957
The David Lloyd collection on Lao She consists of records relating to the publications and translations of Lao She's work during and after his stay in New York, dating from 1946 to 1957. Materials in the collection include correspondence, accounts, manuscripts, and a portrait of Lao She.
Lao, She, 1899-1966
1 Linear Feet (2 manuscript boxes)
This collection is located on site. This collection has no restrictions.
Arranged by subject: Correspondence; Accounts; Portrait; Publications and translations; Manuscripts.
The David Lloyd collection on Lao She mainly consists of correspondence, accounts, portrait, manuscripts, and records relating to the publication and translations of Lao She's works into English as well as other languages, dating from 1946 to 1957. The collection includes letters from Lao She, one from Pearl S. Buck, and David Lloyd's correspondence with publishers, agents, translators, editors, and others regarding Lao She's novels. The manuscripts contain the English translation of three short stories and one play. The collection also includes a portrait of Lao She taken in 1946.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); David Lloyd collection on Lao She; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
David Lloyd Agency Records on Pearl S. Buck, 1928-1958 (bulk 1934-1952). Princeton University Library. Finding Aid.
Ida Pruitt and Marjorie King Papers, 1891-1994. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Finding Aid.
June Rose Garrott Papers; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library. Collection contains materials on Lao She and family. Finding Aid.
Entire collection has been microfilmed.
Gift of Andrea Mathews Lloyd, 1982.
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89. Processed in December 2018 by Yingwen Huang.
2018-12-04 Finding aid updated.
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Lao She (pen name: Lao She, Lau Shaw, Lao Shaw, 老舍; courtesy name in pinyin: Shu, Sheyu; Wade-Giles: Shu, Sheh-yu, Shu, S. Y.; Chinese: 舒舍予; original name in pinyin: Shu, Qingchun; Wade-Giles: Shu, Ch'ing Ch'un; traditional Chinese: 舒慶春; simplified Chinese: 舒庆春) was born to a Manchu family in Beijing, 1899. He attended the Beijing Normal University and graduated in 1918. From 1918 to 1924, he was an educator and administrator in various schools in Beijing and Tianjin. He was highly influenced by the May Fourth Movement in 1919 and later motivated to become a writer. In the fall of 1924, he began teaching Chinese at the London University School of Oriental Studies. After returning to China in 1930, he taught in universities in Jinan and Qingdao province. In 1938, Lao She was nominated as the President of the All-China Resistance Association of Writers and Artists, a cultural organization united against Japanese invasion during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1946, he accepted the State Department's invitation to travel to America. During his stay in New York, he wrote a number of novels and published them in English. After returning to China at the end of 1949, he focused on his writing career and produced a number of well-known plays such as Dragon Beard Ditch and Teahouse. He was also the Chairman of the Peking Association of Artists. He died in Beijing, 1966, at the age of 67. Lao She was known as one of the significant contemporary Chinese novelists and playwrights. His most popular works include the novel Rickshaw Boy, Yellow Storm, and the play Teahouse. Other important works are Mr.Ma and Son, Drum Singers, Divorce, Yellow Storm, Cat Country, etc.
Henriette Herz was Lao She's literary agent before 1948, and from 1948, David D. Lloyd was Lao She's literary agent. He was also the literary representative for Pearl S. Buck.