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Throughout our lives, we will have many different lifestyle and financial goals that we would like to achieve. Although we all have different goals, there are some key goals that we'll have in common, especially when it comes to retirement.
What do you want from your investments? Supplementing your income? Building your retirement pot? It's essential we tailor your investments to suit your goals. To understand your personal investing goals, you need to take into account all the needs and preferences that may shape your financial life.
When setting goals, you are forced to think hard about the various life aspects you care about and how much they will cost in future. This helps to put your expectations in perspective, so that you can align your savings with future requirements. It also prevents you from underestimating the amount of money you require for the future or being misled about your savings ability.
The simple act of writing your goals down and sharing them with others increases your chances of achieving them. What are your objectives for the money you're investing? Do you want to accumulate money for a longer-term goal, such as a child's or grandchild's university education, or perhaps a comfortable retirement for yourself?
You might even have several goals, and each of those goals may require different investment approaches to achieve them. Before you decide to invest your hard-earned money, it is important to fully understand why you are investing and what you want to achieve.
Growth: how much investment growth is appropriate and realistic to accomplish your objectives and meet your needs?
Cash flow: your portfolio ideally must sustain the ability to generate sufficient cash flow throughout your retirement.
Combination of growth and cash flow: you would like your portfolio to have the necessary growth to provide consistent cash flow. As with the pure growth goal, it's vital to understand what potential returns to expect.
Capital preservation: this aspect of goal-based investing refers to preserving the nominal value of your assets. Nominal values aren't inflation-adjusted, and this goal may be more appropriate for shorter-term cash flow needs than for longer time horizons, as capital preservation over a long period can mean watching your purchasing power diminish.
Capital preservation and growth: these two goals are inherently at odds. Realistically, these cannot be pursued at the same time, as terrific as that may sound. Growth cannot be achieved without putting investment capital at risk. It will be necessary to segment the investment monies to nominate the required amount to be set aside with a view to capital preservation, with an amount being maintained separately for investment with a view to achieving growth potential.
Maintain or improve lifestyle: you have worked hard for your retirement and may wish to maintain or enhance your current lifestyle in your retirement years. This means growing your purchasing power over time. Ultimately, this goal requires a growth strategy that must offset the erosive effects of inflation.
Depletion, or spending every pound: although spending every pound before you die isn't a common goal among retirees, it does exist. But as you might guess, it is a risky proposition. There is no way to accurately predict your lifespan. And should you live longer than you expect, you could run out of money sooner than you had planned.
With your goals in place, you then need to know how much risk you can tolerate. Along the way, there will inevitably be periods of ups and downs – and while the former are celebrated, the latter can be frightening, even to the most seasoned investor.
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Highway to the Imminent Peril Zone!
With TCOW's Market Garden event at FlamesCon, I needed over 30' of highway for the five tables I intended on using.... And I needed it in less than a week's time.
So I got with Patrick and we came up with a plan. Pat had recently purchased a road set from Toshach Miniatures, which is a printable PDF version. I had some cork flooring tiles kicking around and I put two and two together.
Using Photoshop, we merged two road pieces together to form a length of highway about 14" long and printed them on an A3 sheet of paper (11x17). I then cut the cork into 12 x 3" strips. I then beveled the edges of the cork to create the illusion of a raised surface.
With PVA glue, I applied a thin layer on the top of the cork and then stuck the road strips on top. Using a piece of cardboard with a flat, straight edge, I made sure to iron out all of the wrinkles and air bubbles between the two layers. I then let that completely dry.
After the glue completely dried I flipped them over and cut the paper ends off with a very sharp knife.
Next up, I painted the edges brown using cheap craft paint (burnt umber in this case). After this dried the expected warping came in, curling the edges up a bit. I ignored that for the moment.
Once all was dry I applied a quick flocking regimen to the road edges, in this case I used the standard GF9 green, dark green, and meadow flock blend.
Once everything was dry I flipped the roads over and gave them a PVA layer on the bottom. This counter-warped the roads and once that was dry all I needed to do was apply a very light bend to straighten the road piece out.
In the end I did about 20 feet in 12" sections and 10 feet in 6" sections. That seemed to be a good mix.
The main challenge with these roads is that I doubt they will be hard wearing. They are ultimately paper, so I am predicting some damage to the surface and scratches. I've also ignored intersections, curves, and transition pieces, so that's somewhat limiting in terms of what you can do with them.
Finally, I'm sure that the PVA will yellow over time, so I don't see this set as a particularly long-lasting or universal road solution. For that you're much better off with the standard resin flexible types such as those from Battlefield in a Box. However, if you need roads quick, here's a fast solution.
Those look awesome. Thanks for the idea. I posted a long comment but I think it got lost... I may have to try these myself. DId you try some matte or urethane varnish to increase the durability?
I considered a varnish, but I was a bit hesitant to use my precious supply!
Great result with these! A pretty cheap way to make a large amount of roads. Will be interesting to see how they wear.
Looks really good on the table.
Have you tried coating the roads with a clear spray varnish to protect them?
There is a product that you can cover wallpaper with to protect it, I think it is Dead Flat by Polyvine.


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For years, I thought that sports journalist Stephen A. Smith was all style and no substance. Now I'm realizing that I was giving him too much credit.
The style part is admirable. Look at that use of the middle initial and how he branded himself with it; he used to have a blog at stephena.com. Also, he emerged in the late '90s a time when there were several Steve Smiths in the NBA and NFL. I figured he was pretty smart to use Stephen. Finally his visual style was compelling; the dour look when he lowered his eye lids while still looking at the camera and the modulations in his voice struck me as savvy as Chris Paul's change of speeds in his dribbling which freezes defenders every time. And no one in sports journalism puckers their lips more in the routine disagreement of a player's contract negotiations than Stephen A.
I didn't much care that he seemed to be talking loud and saying nothing. No one in their right mind tunes into to listen to a sports journalist on TV for wisdom and insight; that's why blogs exist. Smith was good at being entertaining and occasionally he was the blind squirrel who found the nut. He was the first to forecast that LeBron James and Chris Bosh would join Dwyane Wade in Miami in 2010.
For the most part, I figured he had a big podium and nothing to say.
Wrong. Let him loose on a subject like domestic violence and all hell breaks loose. On last Friday's First Take, Smith began to comment on the pathetically light penalty—a two game suspension–of Ray Rice for knocking his then fiancé/now-wife Janay Palmer out in an Atlantic City hotel room. Rather than directing his outrage at the league for condoning an off field culture of sociopathic violence and failing to demand that the men who make millions and millions of dollars by playing football adhere to the same set of standards that oh say, my mailman does, Smith took the quixotic path of saying we need to teach women not to provoke violence.
You'd like to think that some producer might have decided that an unscheduled commercial break could save everyone a lot of grief. Instead, Smith got in a hole and kept digging.
…and digging. He later tweeted then deleted the following post, "In no way was I accusing a women of being wrong. I was simply saying what that preventive measures always need to be addressed because there's only but so much that can be done after the fact….once the damage is already done. Nothing more."
He also apologized to fellow ESPN anchor Michelle Beadle, who called out the trouble with his words on her own Twitter account. He fell a few billion short of those who deserve an apology for his repugnant ideas (aka "all women.")
The thing is that everyone that works with Smith should have seen this fiasco coming. In 2012, when former all-pro wide receiver Chad Johnson was accused of head butting his then wife Evelyn Lozada, Smith spent nearly four minutes accusing Lozada of being everything short of a gold digger.
On Monday's show, Smith spent the first three minutes of First Take offering a seemingly heartfelt apology for his words last week. Smith called his remarks "the most egregious mistake of my career." He said that it wasn't his intent to say that domestic violence is a woman's fault, and added, "The failure to clearly articulate what I meant lies squarely on my shoulders." He went on to say that "to apologize doesn't do the matter its proper justice."
Then Smith said he has spoken out repeatedly against domestic violence on First Take, though Evelyn Lozada would likely disagree. Host Cari Champion accepted the apology, noting that in certain intimate matters words like "provoke" take on great meaning, and she expressed her dismay with the brevity of Rice's suspension. Then the show shifted gears to discussing what LeBron James's jersey number in Cleveland should be. The abrupt change to light subject matter surely offended some of those who felt that Smith should have been punished or that, at the very least, the show should have spent a bit of time discussing the issue of domestic violence.
Evidently ESPN wasn't satisfied with the apology (or perhaps there was pressure from fans and/or advertisers), because after dawdling for a couple of days, the network suspended Smith for a week. Reaction to this fiasco were largely predictable (from Deadspin's snark, to frequent defender-of-bad-male-behavior Whoopi Goldberg stating on The View that she understood Smith and that if a woman hits a man she should expect to be hit back.)
While it remains to be seen if Stephen A. Smith has actually learned anything about domestic violence, its root causes and what doesn't cause men to strike women (provocation), it seems likely that the host will probably put a guard over that dour pucker before sharing such a controversial opinion in the future. The ball is still in ESPN's court and if they really want to prove their dedication to female audiences, they may not want to let the conversation end here.
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Question regarding cross products and determinants
Thread starter Salamon
I understand how to calculate a vector cross product. I also understand that in order to calculate a vector cross product we are calculating the determinant of a 3 x 3 matrix.
I guess I have a few questions.
1)How did mathematicians or physicists discover how to calculate the determinant of a 3 x 3 matrix, and what does this determinant represent?
For example, A x B = (AyBz - ByAz)i - (AxBz-BxAz)j + (AxBy-BxAy)k.
2) How did we know to put a negative in front of the j term?
3) How did we recognize that phenomena like Torque and Magnetic Force could be described by cross products?
I hope that I am being clear enough and don't sound like a confused idiot. I'd appreciate answers to any of these questions.
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Salamon said:
Hey Salamon and welcome to the forums.
There is a deep history to the subject that is known as geometric algebra.
Lots of different people were considering different kinds of algebras on multi-dimensional vectors (i.e. not scalars) and how to think about them in some kind of unified way.
A german guy known as Hermann Grassmann was considering the idea of multiplication and division of vectors in such a way that if you did (a*b)/b = a you would get something that made sense and fitted those identities.
From that idea you got what is known as a geometric product and from that you get two main quantities known as the interior (or inner) product and the exterior (or outer) product and both of these form a bi-vector describing the product of two vectors (just like a complex number has two independent quantities for the real and imaginary parts).
So in a sense, this idea of being able to multiply and divide vectors helped formulate a lot of the base ideas for the framework of geometric algebra, but only for 3-dimensions but also many dimensions where you could do this.
Now the cross-product does satisfy the above where you can take A X B and then multiply it by a vector corresponding to 1/B to get back A, but it's not the only algebra that allows this: the quaternions are also an example of a division algebra that use a four-dimensional object instead of a three dimensional one and work exactly the same as a 3D vector algebra (if you omit the special scalar term and set it to 0, you'll get your vector term to be the cross product when you multiply the two quaternions).
Now the generalized linear object is just a matrix, so when you consider general results of vector and geometric algebras that have some property of linearity, you are going to get results that deal with matrices and properties of matrices like determinants.
So that should aid you for the first two.
For the third question, one must understand that orientation provides a way to analyze rotation in a general sense and orientation comes about from looking at the vector product and its algebra.
If you look at the development of vector algebra (especially the stuff done by a guy named David Hestenes who introduced a lot of this stuff into physics), you'll find that when you take what Grassmann did and analyze what happens in terms of the bi-vector (remember the inner and outer products: outer product is just cross product and inner product is dot product in three dimensions), you see that there is a rotation going on in the same kind of way that you get when you multiply two complex numbers.
This rotation element is a general feature of these kinds of vector algebras and when considering rotations in 3D space, it is not surprising that the algebra used to describe such systems ends up involving cross-products, quaternions or some high level division algebra (division algebra just means you can do division which is an inverse of multiplication).
Thank you. That helped me a lot.
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NORTH MAN GETS 20 YEARS ON DRUG, WEAPONS CHARGES
By TINA MCCLOUD Daily Press
MATHEWS — George Allen Ward, 33, of North, was sentenced to 50 years in prison, with 30 years suspended, on drug and weapons charges Tuesday in Mathews Circuit Court, according to a court spokeswoman.
Ward received 40 years, with 20 years suspended for 20 years, for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute; five years, suspended, for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony; and five years, suspended, for possessing a firearm while possessing cocaine.
He was convicted in November; the offenses occurred Feb. 18.
Ward is being held without bond by federal authorities while he awaits sentencing on six additional drug and gun charges. He also will be sentenced in Gloucester Friday for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.
In other cases Tuesday in Mathews:
* Floyd Coleman Johnson Jr., 20, of Cobbs Creek, was found guilty of conspiring to rob Alfred M. Swanson Aug. 19. Johnson and a juvenile tried to rob Swanson as he left work at Big L Tire Co., the sheriff said at the time. Johnson will be sentenced March 20.
* Weldon Edward Lockley, 28, of Cardinal, was found guilty of distributing cocaine June 9. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with all suspended except six years that will be served concurrently with an unrelated sentence.
In a plea agreement, a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine was not prosecuted.
* Marvin Rydell Tillage, 32, of Mathews, was found guilty of four drug charges: distribution of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute cocaine on both June 1 and June 3. He will be sentenced July 17.
Under a plea agreement, three charges of cocaine distribution and one charge of conspiracy to distribute were not prosecuted.
* Two drug charges were not prosecuted against William W. Morrisette, 25, of Saluda. He had been charged with attempting to possess cocaine and conspiring to possess cocaine July 12. Commonwealth's Attorney John S. Gill said a key witness could not be located.
* Milford Lawford Solomon, 48, of North, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with 14 years suspended for 10 years, for distributing cocaine May 27. He was convicted in November.
* Tyrone Smith, 26, of Redart, was sentenced to 10 years, with all but 90 days suspended for 10 years, for possession of cocaine Nov. 24, 1993. He was convicted in October.


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Q: How to change the max size of an incoming CometD text message I am trying to send a large message (>130k) to a CometD server that is running under Jetty 9. When the server receives this large message, it generates the following exception:
org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.api.MessageTooLargeException: Text message size [130353] exceeds maximum size [65536]
at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.api.WebSocketPolicy.assertValidTextMessageSize(WebSocketPolicy.java:140)
at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.common.Parser.assertSanePayloadLength(Parser.java:127)
at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.common.Parser.parseFrame(Parser.java:482)
at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.common.Parser.parse(Parser.java:254)
at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.common.io.AbstractWebSocketConnection.readParse(AbstractWebSocketConnection.java:632)
at org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.common.io.AbstractWebSocketConnection.onFillable(AbstractWebSocketConnection.java:480)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
[qtp83954662-20] INFO org.cometd.websocket.server.WebSocketTransport$WebSocketScheduler$1 - WebSocket Error, Address: null
...
(the rest removed for brevity)

I understand what the problem is, and have looked at the CometD documentation. According to the documentation, you can change the buffer size and the maximum message size using the initialization parameters: ws.bufferSize and ws.maxMessageSize. I set those parameters in my web.xml file and restarted Jetty, but the parameter settings seem to have no effect. I am still getting the exact same exception, because the buffer size remains unchanged.
The settings for the web.xml file are provided below:
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>cometd</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.cometd.server.CometDServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
       <param-name>ws.bufferSize</param-name>
       <param-value>400000</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
       <param-name>ws.maxMessageSize</param-name>
       <param-value>400000</param-value>
    </init-param>
     <async-supported>true</async-supported>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>cometd</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/cometd/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Am I missing something? How can I set the maximum message size in a CometD server and have the server actually use that message size?

A: Your web.xml is correct, and that is the right way to address the problem.
There are tests in the CometD test suite that verify that the ws.maxMessageSize parameter works correctly.
I just tried myself to modify the CometD demo, adding ws.maxMessageSize and then sending a large message from a test client, and it just worked perfectly.
Perhaps you have a typo in the parameter name, or something else that resets the parameter to its default value ?

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I started with blogging about COUNT = 0 situation. Then I followed it with COUNT = 1. So, let's do a COUNT = 2 today. No, no, I am just kidding, don't worry 🙂 But I still have to do one more COUNT post, one that will cover all other COUNT situations.
Believe it or not, sometimes you really, honestly, do need to perform an actual COUNT. You just need to know exactly how many of rows there are. It may be 0, 1 or 75 or whatever, but you need to know exactly how many. These situations are few and far between, but every once in a long while this is what you need.
So, let's give the COUNT function one last kick from another angle.
Well, if this is what you need, then that's what you need. And that's exactly what we needed in the team a few days ago.
This is not about new features, crazy new tips and tricks or anything of the sort. It's just a couple short lessons on performance and how to reduce your carbon footprint and make the planet last longer.
It's about how to properly ask the database: are there any records there?


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Mediterranean Gas & Energy Week, key regional summit, starts tomorrow
No chance of energy-sector privatizations, minister insists
Production Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis has reiterated that no privatizations will take place in Greece's energy sector, despite indications strongly suggesting the contrary in a letter forwarded by Finance Minister Yiannis Varoufakis to the Eurogroup.
"Everything I have stated until the present day remains fully valid," remarked Lafazanis, head of the leftist Syriza-led coalition's more radical left, or Left Platform, stressing there would be no privatizations procedures for PPC, the Public Power Corporation, DEPA, the Public Gas Corporation, and ELPE, Hellenic Petroleum.
Responding to Varoufakis's promise of a commitment by Greek authorities to not roll back already introduced privatizations – as part of negotiations with creditors for a four-month extension to the country's bailout – Lafazanis remained adamant in his views. The energy minister insisted that no energy company will be sold and that no public utility privatization will proceed.
Many political analysts have already concluded the two government officials will eventually clash over the country's privatization matters, while some suggested that the first signs of an imminent conflict between Lafazanis and Varoufakis may well emerge today, at a Syriza Parliamentary group meeting. Lafazanis already had harsh remarks to offer about Varoufakis's letter to the Eurogroup yesterday during a lengthy government meeting.
Slightly less than a month following Syriza's election victory, it has already become apparent that conflicting privatization policy views definitely exist within the government's ranks.
In his letter, Varoufakis noted that "privatized companies will need to ensure the provision of public goods and services according to national policy objectives and in compliance with EU law."
This phrase may have been included in the text to offer the Greek government some leeway to renegotiate matters such as the part-privatization of PPC, a plan introduced by the country's previous administration to satisfy a European Commission demand for the electricity market's liberalization, including lignite sources, which are monopolized by PPC.
Just days ago, the Production Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Ministry denied reports that it had agreed to offer private-sector companies access to lignite deposits in the country's Elassona and Drama regions, to offset its disruption of PPC's part-privatization plan through the sale of a 30-percent breakaway company locally dubbed "Little PPC".
A prospective meeting between Lafazanis and the European Commission's Vice President Maros Sefcovic, in charge of Energy Union, should be interesting.


Part 2 will cover more details and case practice.
In homeopathy you look at plant and soil in its whole picture with various symptoms and conditions, to create a case to be treated. Homeopathy treats the whole plant with its roots and leaves and the soil it is growing in. Through exact observation of plants and soil, based on thorough trials and clear experience, the correct treatment can be chosen which parallels those symptoms and conditions in exactly the same energy pattern which the dis-ease and imbalance portrays as the case picture.
The resilience and fitness of the plants and in the soil is strengthened and encouraged. Resilience being understood as a biological systems resistance to interference, stress and incrimination.
During spring you want to sow seeds and transplant grafted trees and vines under optimum soil and weather conditions. Your topsoil is to be teeming with life of the soil food web waiting with a good crumb structure with worm canals and pores to be filled with rain water. At that time be ready to take in the full picture of each case of plant and soil health which is similar to peeling an onion layer by layer.
To encourage germination and good early growth you prepare with a spray or watering application of Arnica C 200 in the same way as you have already done after winter pruning. One week later we can follow up with Calendula C 30, another plant and root strengthening product that also has anti-bacterial qualities and a general revitalising effect which makes it suitable for transplanting and repotting as well. A third spring application is Calcium carbonicum (ex oyster shells) in a D 6 potency which is an ideal tonic to boost plant and root growth during cold water and air conditions.
After germination, once you can see the first tender leaves growing, you want to make sure that they will not get eaten by slugs and snails. To prevent any damage apply Helix tosta D 6 which is made of roasted snails similar to the ashes in biodynamic farming. In our own trials young lettuce plants grown of seeds and transplanted in October last year did extremely well without the slightest bit of snail damage on our Marahau property.
When wet, humid or warm weather is bringing on the risk of your plants being infected with fungi, use the appropriate remedy once or twice to protect them. If the first signs of fungal disease are already visible, it is safer to water or spray your plants every 2-3 days until they show distinct improvement. Once the plants appear to be healthier, it will be sufficient to treat them at longer intervals as needed.
Aconitum napellus C 200 is a very good remedy to treat sudden symptoms where plants wilt and dry out very quickly. Or after weather damage as a result of cold, dry, southerly winds or after warm days and very cold nights. Sudden symptoms also indicate for Belladonna C 200 where leaves turn reddish to reddish brown, mainly after frost followed by intense sunshine periods. Or after long cold periods with rain and leaves are exposed to moisture for too long. Belladonna creates a warmth atmosphere and is also good as a compost starter if you have a compost going.
Another good plant and soil strengthener is Carbo vegetabilis (ex charcoal) which helps to prevent brown rot, canker and monilia, especially after cold and frost and changes from warm to cold weather. Cuprum met. C 30 is the third plant strengthening remedy which can prevent brown rot, downy and powdery mildew. After long rainy periods and after cold, dry wind. This sounds like an incomprehensible paradox but this is part of homeopathy because Cuprum can also both boost and inhibit growth. Similar to Cuprum is Pulsatilla (Anemone) C 200 with its balancing warmth factor that is indicated after longer spells of wet weather with cold rain and after weather changes.
Silicea C 30 is a tonic which strengthens the plant's cell tissue, promotes plant regeneration and helps after weather changes, with consequences of waterlogging around the roots and consequences of heat damage (sunburn) later in the season. Thuja C 200 protects plants from diseases in cold spring or summer seasons and is indiacted with leaf spot, brown rot, leaf curl, mildew and monilia.
Cimicifuga (Black cohosh) C 30 and Staphisagria (Delphinium) C 200 have both proven good results with aphids on roses and mites on fruit trees and on grapevines (own trials). So has Petroleum C 30 on scale. Cimicifuga is indicated if leaves, blossom and new shoots are curling and rolling up. Staphisagria after plants are weakened by damage. Petroleum with sticky leaves and scale insects are on both sides of the leaves.
Homeopathy for plants can guide you safely through the season because you can treat the plants and the soil instead of the pest insect or the disease. In high potencies C 30 and higher, even highly toxic substances are rendered harmless because these remedies only carry the energy imprint but not substance itself any more. Leaves and roots take up the remedies just alike and let you know when you have made the correct choice.
Please let the author know any results of your homeopathic plant use by email or telephone, whether positive or negative and together we can build a future knowledge network.


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Lifestyle / TV
Nigella Lawson discusses lockdown impact on home cooking
(Yui Mok/PA)
Nigella Lawson has said the lockdown taught people that cooking is "all about improvisation".
The TV cook and food writer, 60, said food "really gave a focus to our lives that we were grateful for" while people were forced to stay at home.
She is set to return to TV screens next week to share some of her new recipes.
Lawson said: "I think the reason a lot of people are nervous about cooking is they think there is one perfect way and they are frightened of getting it wrong.
"Lockdown showed people who don't consider themselves confident cooks that cooking is all about improvisation.
"It gave them confidence. You are not talking about making showstoppers, you are talking about cobbling things together to make supper."
Lawson's new series, Nigella's Cook, Eat, Repeat, begins on BBC Two next week.
She said it "feels really lovely to be back".
"I'm lucky enough to work with a team I love, and have worked with forever.
"It feels really wonderful to be able to share my new recipes.
"Of course, for all of us, there was a bit of culture shock at first, having been living and working remotely for so long, suddenly finding ourselves on set, but after two days it felt like we had been doing it forever."
The cook said coronavirus restrictions "did have an impact editorially, not least in the sense that we couldn't have our usual eating scenes with friends".
"But I made the supreme sacrifice and ate everything myself."
Nigella's Cook, Eat, Repeat begins on November 9 at 8pm.
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JBZoo Category List module is needed to display categories and items on a page as tabs or accordion. Below we'll examine how to install and configure this module as tabs.
JBZoo Category List module should be already available in the Module Manager after you install JBZoo App. If for some reason you are unable to find it there, you just need to do some simple things.
Go to Extension Manager and click on the Discover tab there. At the top left corner click Discover.
After the search finishes, added but not installed extensions should appear in the list. Our category module may be there too.
Mark a checkbox and press Install. After installation finishes, go to Module Manager and press New. Now our module should be in the list of available modules.
Configuration of this module is pretty simple and typical for ZOO extensions. It can be divided in two stages.
Templates are located in the Extension Layouts section of your item type.
By default there are two templates: Default and Example. They are similar so there is no difference which one we'll configure. These templates are configured in the same way like other ZOO and JBZoo templates simply by dragging elements to their positions with a mouse.
Template configuration can be finished now. Now we'll configure the module itself.
Let's open module configuration. First three tabs (in Joomla 3 that is) are used for basic settings that almost all modules have. Here you can specify it's name, position, assign menu items etc. On the Select the source tab there are settings of this particular module type.
Source (Parent) - all created JBZoo applications. When you choose an application, new tab with a list of categories will appear. There is one peculiarity here. In order to output some categories, you should choose their direct parent here. If all categories are top-level, then their direct parent is a Frontpage. Attention! This module doesn't work recursively and is unable to use nested categories.
Item type. Different item types can be within one category so you can choose specific item types here.
Categories limit - limits the number of categories that you want to display in the module. If you set 0 then all categories will be displayed.
Items sorting - a field that will be used to sort items. There are two optional checkboxes here.
Items limit - same as categories limit. If you set 0, all items will be displayed.
So, for example, you have a following structure in your catalog and want to display all second-level categories.
Source (Parent): application - Product catalog, category - Product catalog.
Categories limit - set 0 because we want to display all categories.
Items sorting - use a default value.
Items limit - same as categories - 0.
Categories sorting - how categories should be ordered.
Category image - whether to display/hide category image.
Image width - category image width in pixels.
Image height - category image height in pixels.
Category image alignment - image alignment.
Category teaser - whether to show/hide category description.
Number of items - displays a number of items in a category.
Next tab is Items configuration. It has only two options: Display items or not and Item image alignment. We want to remind that you can additionally configure item appearance in the module template configuration.
Default - default template. A category will be displayed first, then the items.
Accordion - jQuery accordion plugin is used. Category names and images are used as headers. Category description and its items are in the expandable blocks.
Tab - jQuery tabs plugin. Category names are used as headers. Category image and description, as well as its items are in the tabs.
Border option adds borders to the items blocks.
Last two tabs with settings are common for all modules. You can configure the caching and settings for Joomla template.


The Group applies a prudent policy to cover its liquidity risks, ensuring the fulfilment of the payment commitments acquired, both commercial and financial, for a minimum period of 12 months, covering its financial needs by recurring cash flow generation from its business, as well as the engagement of long-term loans and credit facilities.
As of 31 December 2015, available liquidity amounted to EUR1,204.8m, including cash, cash equivalents and available credit facilities.
In recent years, the DIA Group has invested close to EUR350m, excluding the acquisitions of shares and a number of stores from competitors. The Group's strategy is focused on investing mainly in markets with higher returns and in store openings. Therefore, between 40% and 50% of the investments are allocated to opening stores and warehouses.
Exceptionally, in 2015 the investment was EUR563m, much higher than the average figure. Adjusting this amount to purchase the Eroski store assets, the investment would have been EUR366m, slightly higher than the average of previous years.
Each business unit prepares an annual investment plan that is submitted to the Group Management through an Investment Committee. At the same time, senior management submits it for approval to the Board of Directors.
In financial terms, return on investment targets are set.
In the current development of the activity, the DIA Group has carried out certain operations that are not included in the balance sheet and that can imply a cash inflow or outflow in the case of having to deal with the commitments arising from these operations. These are mainly operating leases for stores and warehouses.
The total commitments acquired by the Group at 2015 closing that can affect its liquidity amount to EUR403.9m (2014: EUR410.2m). The most significant item corresponds to lease contract commitments signed for the premises where the DIA Group carries out its activity.
Lease contract commitments of premises amounted to EUR212.9m as of 31 December 2015 (31 December 2014: EUR210.7m).
The DIA Group has obligations related to furniture and equipment rental (vehicles, equipment, cleaning contracts, etc.) amounting to EUR9.5m as of 31 December 2015 (EUR9.4m as of 31 December 2014).
The rest of the obligations are classified between Treasury and Expansion operations, for an amount of EUR181.5m at 31 December 2015 (EUR190.1m at 31 December 2014).
Treasury operations include open credit facilities for customers in stores amounted to EUR77.7m at 31 December 2015 (EUR76.2m at 31 December 2014). These credit facilities are related to limits granted originally to customers on payment cards.
Commitments related to expansion operations amounted to EUR103.8m at 31 December 2015, and EUR113.9m in the same period in the previous year. These operations include primarily call and put options for properties, mainly warehouses, and obligations related to commercial operations and contracts, mainly with franchisees.
The DIA Group has also received commitments that can involve a future cash inflow for an amount of EUR954.1m (EUR1,331.4m at 31 December 2014). These received commitments are related to Treasury and include the amounts of the credit facilities, revolving credit, commercial paper and confirming credit, granted and unused. The decrease in these commitments between 2015 and 2014 is mainly due to the partial withdrawal of the syndicated credit contract signed by the Parent with some financial entities, and also the decrease of the confirming credit facilities, mainly in the Parent. Additionally, in DIA Portugal the commitments as debt in the short term signed in 2014 remain defined as "Commercial Paper". They are negotiated lines with banks that allow DIA Portugal to use them as an overdraft in the current account.
With these credit facilities, the Group covers its financial needs for the daily operations and does not consider that any circumstance can occur that will affect the granting of these credit facilities by financial institutions.


Penguin by Illustrators – The follow up to Penguin by Designers. Available from The Penguin Collector's Society.
The latest IDEA magazine has a special feature on iconic Swiss graphic designer Max Huber.
LittlePixel's Flickr set of 'classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books'.
I've just come across these fantastic Penguin sets. A collection of thirteen author and series sets with limited edition posters including a fantastic HG Wells collection, the gothic 'Ten tales of the Supernatural' collection and George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm set with a poster by Shepard Fairey which unfortunately has already sold out. That'll teach me to pay more attention!


text: Q: continuously subscribe to the portfolio data with IBroker package? I tried to use reqUpdateAccounts, but it is just a snapshot. I would like to monitor the portfolio on a continuous basis. I understand .reqUpdateAccounts could subscribe to the portfolio data, but don't know how to present and handle the data properly? I know this is probably very basic, but I am not familiar with R and haven't found a good example. Can someone give a good way to monitor the portfolio data continuously with IBrokers? Thanks.


So I got this email the other day from Jennifer with the Hear the World initiative about a photography contest, sponsored by Phonak, called "Show Us Your Hearing." The project wants to see you in a "conscious pose of hearing" (hand cupped behind your ear) and aims to raise awareness of hearing loss, which affects 16 percent of the world.
Each year in the United States alone, 12,000 babies are born with hearing loss, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery reports that 1.3 million children under age 3 have a hearing impairment.
Clearly, hearing loss affects every aspect of a child's life, from academics to developmental to social issues. Most of you know our story: Our daughter, Riley, was diagnosed with profound deafness when she was around 18 months old. We were devastated, but with education and information we made the right decision for our family. Just before she turned 2, she had cochlear implant surgery and now at age 8, she is a bilateral CI user headed to the third grade, an all-star softball player and an incredible dancer.
Check out the Hear the World photographs—including ones of Annie Lennox, Peter Gabriel, Moby, and Amy Winehouse.
Now the initiative wants you to submit your own photo! Details are below.
1. Register: You will receive an email registration confirmation from Hear the World. If you don't receive an email, please check your Junk Mail folder.
2. Visit: Click the "enter the contest" button, and enter the entry form.
3. Upload a photograph of you, a friend, or family member in the "Conscious Pose of Hearing." The photo must be high res (300dpi), between 1MB – 3MB.
4. Give your photograph a title and provide a description of up to 100 words describing the importance of being aware of your hearing at every age.
5. Click "Send." Your Entry will not be officially entered into the Competition unless you click the final Send button and receive a confirmation screen that states that your Entry was accepted.
To take a moment to think about your sense of hearing and the sounds you are grateful to hear every day.
To support the Hear the World initiative, which is dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of hearing, while also educating the public about the consequences of hearing loss and the available solutions.
For a chance to win a Polaroid 300 Instant Camera and for a chance to see your photograph published in the award-winning Hear the World magazine.
HOW AND WHEN WILL THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER BE DETERMINED?
1. The public will vote on their favorite photo between July 13 – August 3.
2. The top five entries that receive the most votes will be judged by a panel of judges between August 4 – August 10.
3. The grand prize winner will be announced on August 16 on the Hear the World website. Winners will be notified by phone and email.
Disclosure: Riley wore Phonak hearing aids before she received her cochlear implants, but that was in 2003, way before this contest was even a twinkle in the marketing department's eyes. Heck, before I replied to the email, they didn't even know I had a child with hearing loss.
Riley waits for her snack after the softball game. See her blue and pink CIs?
Joey McIntyre of New Kids on the Block and Dancing with the Stars fame shares his family's story of hearing loss in the latest issue of People magazine. His youngest son, 3-month-old Rhys, has been diagnosed with a severe loss and is wearing hearing aids. According to the article, the family is working with an auditory-verbal therapist and might consider cochlear implants.
Many of the comments on the article are insulting, rude, and just plain ignorant. While I have no problem with a family wanting to immerse their hearing-impaired child in Deaf culture, I do have a problem with those same people spreading lies and accusing other families of abuse because they made a different choice.
I'm going to address 20 things posted in the article's comments and clear up a few misconceptions about cochlear implants. Feel free to ask questions in the comments section or share this post with others.
1. Cochlear implants DO NOT require additional surgeries as a child grows. The only reason additional surgery would be needed is if the device failed. CIs have a 1% failure rate.
2. Cochlear implants ARE NOT implanted into the brain. It IS NOT brain surgery.
3. If parents want their child to use spoken language, they CANNOT WAIT until the child is old enough to "make the decision for himself." Most language learning occurs before the age of 3, so waiting would put the child at a terrible disadvantage.
4. Sign language is great, if a family wants to learn it. My family, for instance, is HUGE. I didn't expect all 100 of them to learn ASL. Even if they wanted to, it would be nearly impossible, and Riley would've had no way to communicate with cousins, great aunts, and I didn't want that.
5. My daughter knows a few signs, for those times when she doesn't wear her CI processors, but she doesn't "rely on" ASL and doesn't need to.
6. Speech is available at birth. How do you think typically hearing children learn language? It seems that Rhys is benefiting from his hearing aids, so using spoken language is appropriate.
7. The implant is NOT DRILLED into the skull, like a screw is drilled into a piece of wood. A pocket for the implant is carved into the skull and a small hole is drilled into the mastoid bone so that the electrode array can be inserted into the cochlea. Read more on cochlear implant surgery at Tampa Bay Hearing and Balance Center.
8. Cochlear implants don't "fix" hearing and don't claim to. They offer users access to sound. Just like you have to learn to speak, you also have to learn to hear.
9. AG Bell is a proponent of listening and spoken language, but that doesn't mean the organization is against sign language. It's not either/or.
10. Auditory-Verbal Therapy focuses on teaching a child to use her hearing and learn to speak. It DOES NOT "forbid" all gestures; in fact, a hand cue is used during therapy. It signals the child to listen.
11. If deafness is not a disability, why do so many Deaf people use hearing aids? What are you trying to "fix"?
12. Riley's CIs don't hurt when she puts them on.
13. Riley is a special-needs child. Any child who has an IEP or who has special accommodations at school is a special-needs child. It is not a bad thing.
14. Riley's CIs help her hear, but she is and will always be deaf.
15 A deaf child DOES NOT belong to the Deaf culture. She belongs to her parents.
16. Riley's hearing aids and cochlear implants and speech therapy ARE COVERED by insurance.
17. You CAN have X-rays if you have CIs. Riley has had them done at the dentist.
Jumping from the high dive into 15 feet of water was not a problem for her implants.
18. You CAN swim if you have CIs (you just take off the processors.) No, you can't do deepwater diving, but how many people do you know who are deepwater divers?
19. Children with cochlear implants have a quality of life equal to that of hearing peers.
20. I respect Deaf families wanting to immerse their child in the Deaf culture. Why can't they respect my wanting to immerse my child in the hearing culture?
She climbed up the first time, got about halfway down the board, then turned around and backed down the ladder. The second time, she jumped into water – all 15 feet of it. And the third climb was also a success. She tried a fourth time but decided the board was too "wiggly" and came back down.
Riley is spending the week with my parents, and I call every day to talk to her. I called this morning and my dad told me something she said that nearly broke his and my heart.
He said it broke him up to hear her say that and wondered if someone had told her she couldn't talk right.
It's possible, but I certainly hope not.
When she gets in a big hurry, we tell her to slow down and use her words, but we never tell her she can't talk correctly. We just tell her to use her words so everyone can understand her.
I hope that hasn't prompted her questions. Looks like it's time for more positive reinforcement.
By the way, she's sounded awesome on the phone this week, appropriately answering all my questions about Vacation Bible School, doing math with Pawpaw and having fun.
Nothing is sweeter than hearing my bilateral CI daughter singing The Chipmunk Song and Jingle Bell Rock. Especially considering there was a time when we weren't sure she'd even talk.
Yeah, she misses and messes up a few words, but when I was 7, I didn't get "snowing and blowing up bushels of fun" either. She also loves to belt out We Wish You a Merry Christmas and Jingle Bells. We're still working on Silent Night and Away in a Manger.
And, thanks to A Charlie Brown Christmas, she knows Hark! The Herald Angel Sings. And she sings it exactly as kids do in the cartoon: face upturned toward the heavens and mouth wide open!
This was her first Christmas to hear! She was 2 and loved everything, except Santa.
After her implant was turned on and we were given a lesson in our to work all the buttons and accessories (lots!), we went to eat lunch at O'Charley's.
Which reminds me of a project I need to get started on: scanning in all the surgery and activation photos and uploading the videos.
Anyway, Happy Hearing Anniversary, Riley!! I love you, my girl, and I am so very proud of how hard you've worked and how far you've come.


The coat obsession has been following me for two years now and my cloth racket is bearing the consequences. But one can never get enough coats, right? These beautiful swissmade coats will definitely find their place in my garderobe this winter. La Première is the distinctive label by stylist Karin Anna Biedert and fashion designer Bea Capdevila standing for utterly simple lines and perfect open cuts and slits.
Find their whole autumn/winter collection on the La Première website.


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Augustine's laws
Technology makes progress against former Lockheed CEO's irreverent rules
Tony Velocci
Nearly four decades after former Lockheed Martin chairman and CEO Norm Augustine published his iconic book chronicling the aerospace industry's systemic challenges – struggles common to many industries, in fact – at least five of his observations are giving way to the steady advance of technology.
In the early 1980s, aerospace companies were pushing for increasingly sophisticated systems. But progress came at a price: quality became a recurring problem, and companies struggled to complete projects on time and on budget.
Struck by the escalating cost of jet fighters, Norman R. Augustine, who at the time was an executive with Martin Marietta Corporation (a US aerospace manufacturing company that merged to become Lockheed Martin in 1995), was inspired to write the first of 52 satirical aphorisms about the complexities of managing large aerospace programs. In 1983, he compiled them into a book called Augustine's Laws.
Almost 40 years later, Augustine is confident that many remain valid. Although he wishes that were not the case, he also doesn't believe technology can solve all of the ills chronicled by the laws.
Still, while many of the original laws have withstood the test of time, modern technology is making important inroads in addressing others.
OUT OF STEP
An example of a law that would seem out of step with today's leading software solutions is Number 15, which states: "The last 10% of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems." Aerospace customers refer to this conundrum as the pursuit of "exquisite solutions" – ultimate performance, whatever the cost.
Exquisite solutions were common when Augustine compiled his laws, but government customers now push for innovative technology that's just good enough to meet their requirements affordably. To help the industry achieve this balancing act, many organizations rely on business innovation platforms designed to help engineers optimize designs while keeping a firm eye on costs. Simon Briceno, senior research engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology's Aerospace Systems Design Lab, has a firsthand appreciation for modern digital solutions' ability to help engineers balance performance with cost.
"Past methods of building and testing physical prototypes for each design are just too expensive and time consuming," he said. "We needed a way to reduce the design, integration and testing time of unmanned aerial systems. The way we do this is by creating, analyzing and testing our design and behavior in a virtual environment." In general, testing in a virtual environment using multi-physics, multi-discipline simulations lowers the cost of testing and certifications by more than 25%, compared to physical tests. Virtual tests also can be completed in most cases in about 30 minutes, compared to two weeks or more for physical tests.
Ask aerospace customers what rivals affordability at the top of their wish lists and they're apt to say "shorter development cycles." This goal, however, flies in the face of Augustine's Law Number 24: "The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is the most costly action known to man."
That give-and-take relationship may be changing, however, for aerospace companies that are using the latest state-of-the-art software solutions. For example, at Embraer, a Brazil-based commercial and executive jet manufacturer, about 4,000 members of the company's engineering, technical and product-support team use a concept-through-manufacturing product innovation platform, as do many shop floor, pre-design and customer service-oriented employees. Adoption even extends into Embraer's supply chain.
"This has allowed Embraer to shorten the time it takes to shepherd new products through development, from conceptualization to manufacturing, due to improved communications among functional teams, as well as the elimination of some documentation and intermediate steps," said Humberto Pereira, Embraer's vice president of engineering and technology.
Augustine's Law Number 35 addresses another historical industry weakness: its traditional inability to analyze its data to increase efficiency and quality. The law states: "The weaker the data available upon which to base a conclusion, the greater the precision should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity."
Using the right digital solutions, however, aerospace companies today are getting more skilled at mining big data to improve operating performance in a way they couldn't decades ago. "The ability to connect a complete suite of digital tools is allowing us to address a range of design and manufacturing problems," said Roland Gerhards, chief executive of ZALCenter of Applied Aeronautical Research in Hamburg, Germany. "It's all about big data and making sense of all the information that digital tools provide."
Indeed, the ability to correctly interpret the voluminous information that digital applications generate also threatens Law Number 37: "Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10%, you had no right to expect so much."
PREDICTIVE OUTCOMES
At US-based aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, managers are using a suite of digital solutions to predict performance outcomes earlier, saving time and helping to avoid cost overruns caused by late-cycle discovery of design issues.
"We are incorporating advanced sensors, analytics and IoT (Internet of Things) solutions to provide not just first-time quality of products, but also integrating digital information from key automation assets and business systems to enable unparalleled shop-floor visibility and proactive decisions throughout our factories," said David Tracy, a vice president of production programs at Northrop Grumman.
Law Number 42, another example of the apparent disconnect between the digital age and what was possible in the early 1980s, states: "Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
While physical testing remains time-consuming and costly, engineers using a business innovation platform can rapidly test an infinite combination of components virtually. Digital testing helps engineers confirm not only which design performs best, but also which design can be manufactured and maintained least expensively.
As David Miller, chief technologist of NASA, puts it: "We're at the point where 3D models and testing are coming together. Of the things we're less certain about, we focus on the interplay between the two, using advanced digital tool sets we didn't have until recently."
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In this episode, I am sitting down with Luke Szyrmer, an experienced product manager from London, to discuss his new book, Launch Tomorrow.
Alex Makarski: Hello and welcome. This is Alex Makarski with another episode of StartupGizmo. And today, I have with me Luke Szyrmer hanging out with me from London on the opposite end of the pond, but he's sporting a nice shirt that says University of Pennsylvania, I take it. So I guess there's a story coming up.
Luke is a sought after authority in all things lean and startup and is the one who runs Lean Coffee events in London. And he is an author of Launch Tomorrow, the book on launching a startup, a tech startup, I presume, that hit number one on Amazon in its category recently. So, congratulations on the book, Luke, and welcome to the show.
Luke Szyrmer: Thanks, Alex. Yeah, it's great to catch up with you.
Alex Makarski: Awesome. So what's up with this Pennsylvania theme going on here?
Luke Szyrmer: Well, I grew up in the area. But I went there a while ago and graduated. And it was a good time and it taught me quite a lot, did economics there a long time ago. But somehow I got into IT and it stuck on me for 20 years or more at this point in various forms.
Alex Makarski: Right. So what led you to writing a book?
Luke Szyrmer: So the main reason is that I, at some point, tried to create a product that I thought would be relevant for hedge funds here in London. It was about the time YouTube was becoming a thing and it was a video website, and aimed specifically at that vertical, which at the time I thought was a great idea and I put a lot of heart and soul and savings into it.
And after basically launching it, it turned out that they weren't really all that interested and it didn't resonate with them pretty much at all. And I realized that even though I, from a technical standpoint, had something that was working, that clearly wasn't enough that I very much had a marketing problem.
And at some point, about two or three years later, I discovered the work of Eric Ries – The Lean Startup – and one of the things that he advocates there is going out and speaking with customers, interacting with them long before you even started building some sort of product just to be able to really understand who it is that you're creating something for.
And over time, the part that I found the most interesting was something that he briefly described in The Lean Startup over a couple of pages, it's using a landing page to test out a product idea. So, it's kind of like a smoke test. Originally, the term "smoke test" comes from electrical engineering. So basically, if you plug it in, does smoke come out of it? So, here, it's a slightly different connotation. So, basically, it's just a quick test to make sure that if you are going to go in a certain direction, from a marketing point of view, there is actually somebody who's there, who's waiting for that product to be made.
Alex Makarski: If it's even worth putting any more effort into it.
Luke Szyrmer: Exactly. Exactly, that's the whole point. And it's a slightly different way of approaching the whole topic than, on one hand, customer development, which I just mentioned because there you're trying to get lots of information and speak with lots of people. And it's also a different kind of conversion rate optimization where you already have something that you're selling and you just want to be able to sell better.
And that mentality, that framework, other than that sliver within The Lean Startup and occasionally mentioned here and there, nobody is really covering it, and I realize that it's something worth testing on its own. So what I did was I went to cycle Leanpub which essentially led me start writing a book, basically describe a book, without necessarily having it done yet and to see if people would start buying.
And lo and behold, people did start paying me even though it wasn't done. They were happy to wait for me to finish it, which basically proved that there clearly was unmet demand for this particular topic. And I went ahead and created it and launched it and that went well.
Alex Makarski: Nice. I didn't know you used Leanpub. I love the concept. I think they certainly have their own place in the publishing universe. Figured out very well, they have their own unique selling proposition figured out very well.
Alex Makarski: Beautiful, beautiful concept.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah, especially since pretty much everyone I talk to in terms of publishings, it seems like one of these really irreformable industries. So Leanpub is one of the number of startups that are trying to do something that's allowing authors, certainly, to interact with their audiences.
And for me, it was more of like a product's creator hat. And I'd be talking with lots of entrepreneurs, tech entrepreneurs mostly, through people I'd meet through the meetup. And just seeing what they actually needed if they were doing these kinds of tests or if they were doing lean startup and I've tried to condense all of that into a nice, usable, actionable form.
Alex Makarski: And condense you did. I must say it's previously agreed. I went through a good chapter of the book. It's a lot of stuff packed into just one book. You can probably expand it into like a trilogy or, I don't know, a series of five books or something, easily.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah. Do like a Game of Thrones theme or something.
Alex Makarski: Let's do it. Let's do it. There's no one here to stop you. So, who should avail themselves of your book? Who is it for?
Alex Makarski: And just so that someone uninitiated can understand, what does MVP stand for?
Luke Szyrmer: Sure. So MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product. So this is a term that Eric Ries popularized. It's not actually something I came up with. And the idea is that it's some kind of a product or something similar to a product that you create only for the purpose of testing one specific thing at a given moment.
So with a landing page MVP, what essentially you're trying to do is creating a landing page to make it look like you have a product or that you're preparing a product and either simulate a check-out type of scenario where somebody tries to buy the product and essentially you either return them their money but knowing that there are people who are willing to pay for the product. Or, for example, you pre-sell, where you clearly stay on the landing page that the product is still being prepared. But if you buy now, you can buy it for less, for example.
Alex Makarski: Most recent example being Elon Musk pre-selling a bunch of cars to a whole bunch of people.
Alex Makarski: That's a very good example of MVP.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah. In that sense, yeah. So the critical thing, a lot of people debate whether is the minimum the most important part? Is it the fact that it's a product? Or is the viable bit important? And actually, if anything, of those three, probably the viable bit is the most important, where you're trying to figure out if something is viable.
But beyond, stepping back behind that, it always needs to be framed as an experiment. So what are you trying to learn? And you state it as a hypothesis with a specific success criterion. Then you go and you execute, and then you step back and say, "Is the hypothesis true or not?" Using that kind of an approach, you can find out a lot that you don't know and essentially de-risk quite complicated, complex ideas which would otherwise be very easy to run you into the ground, basically.
So you're basically chipping away all of the bad stuff and just focusing on how particular product idea could work. And if you look at most of the big companies, tech companies today, if you look at their early days, almost every single one of them had a major pivot early in its history. So, for example, Twitter started out as a podcasting service and when they were running out of money they created this thing that did short blogging with 140 characters and that just took off.
Alex Makarski: Airbnb thought people would want to put air mattresses in spare rooms and that's how they started and that's why it's called Airbnb, right?
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah, exactly. So, in fact, the story behind that is that they were putting mattresses in rooms because that was the way that they were making money until they find their big idea. And then they realized that actually is the big idea, that renting out spare rooms is actually a massive market and it's a complete structure of the hotel industry. So they were making money with all kinds of things, like selling cereal boxes with political messages and all kinds of stuff just to be able to make ends meet. And it turned out that that's actually what took off.
So, regardless of whether or not all of these startups were doing a strict lean startup process, I think some of them were doing more so than others. Certainly Dropbox is quite a famous case study for lean startup. There's quite a few other reasonably big ones nowadays coming from that whole account. It's just a way of being very structured about learning what it is you don't know.
The actual niche that my book Launch Tomorrow fills is how you do that online. So it's with web pages, with advertising, as you have people going online interacting with your product, whether it's just that landing page or it's more. There's a whole bunch of different kinds of testing that you can do and essentially market research as you're expanding the product.
Alex Makarski: So the product doesn't have to be a technical product or an online product necessarily. It's just that you target people who launch a product online.
Luke Szyrmer: Yes. So I think at some point most products will have some kind of an online presence and in fact, it's enough just to have one landing page to do this kind of testing. And you can do things such as, first of all, like I was saying before, testing if there is demand, testing how your path to market looks. So, for example, whether or not paid advertising is a good source of traffic for you. So whether Facebook and AdWords would be good for you, how much that would cost.
As you are buying those things that's really valuable to test at that point is a valued proposition and a hook into your audience. So, even if you don't end up using paid advertising as your ultimate traffic source, at least, you've got a tested message that's clear, that speaks to your intended audience, and that you also have tested that it ultimately leads to sale.
So you can still continue, you can essentially build out your funnel as you're initially buying traffic. Then afterwards you can switch to a completely different kind of traffic but, at least, you know how the funnel works and make sense of what percent of people actually come to your page, end up checking out, and then you can do all kinds of things based on that.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah. So that's the big idea. And I think specifically with the Launch Tomorrow, the idea was what I wanted to do to compress into one day a whole series of quick testing tools and planning tools to be able to set up a landing page and buy some advertising. And already do a whole series of tests before you even buy that advertising so that when the people do come and see your page at least you're reasonably confident that you are presenting what you think you're presenting, which is actually a more common problem than most people think, that it's completely unclear to people coming up, even though you think it's fair to you.
Or also to make sure that your pages are loading, that you're actually addressing the right people in the right way and that you're really empathizing with your audience. So, it isn't just talking about my gadget but actually trying to relate that to a particular type of person who you think it will be relevant for. And then it ends up influencing everything – your language, the way you describe it, and then of course you can still test variants of that once you are actually sending people to the page.
Alex Makarski: So basically, with this approach, with the Launch Tomorrow approach, you never put more money at risk than absolutely necessary to figure out if it's worth taking the next step, and also you buying some data to tell you which direction should take this stuff in.
Luke Szyrmer: Yes, exactly. So you're limiting your financial risk by controlling your ad spend and at the same time you're essentially buying market intelligence.
Alex Makarski: Awesome. How did you go about promoting your book?
Luke Szyrmer: So, in terms of promotion it was largely based on my activity through the meetup, so part of that was just people that I met there of course initially. I think the launch itself, I guess at this point you could say the relatively standard things you would do at a book launch. So I had a contest for some books by Alex Osterwalder, who's a well-known lean startup guy that he signed because he'd done an event earlier.
Alex Makarski: Is that The Business Model Canvas guy?
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah, The Business Model Canvas guy. And then also I met with other people coming through London that were doing events, so a lot of them helps tweak to their audiences about it, so that got the word out. And I just did a five-day free launch window. I got a lot of downloads then.
And after that, there's still a few of the big names that were promoting once it was in paid mode, let's say, and it did continue doing well after that, and it's been doing okay since. At this point, I think more of my sales come directly on my site than they do on Amazon. But it's doing well.
Alex Makarski: Congratulations! Speaking of which, what is the website where one should go to buy the book?
Luke Szyrmer: Sure. So the website where you can go is www.launchtomorrow.com.
Alex Makarski: Domain was available for you?
Alex Makarski: You could find a dot com domain for that.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah. It was. It was very much so.
Alex Makarski: People complain all the time they can't find a good dot com domain and you just proved them wrong.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah, you can but it takes some time and in my case, also some testing which I described in the book. But in terms of what domain I actually ended up using, it was that combination. It was available and clearly, people liked it.
Alex Makarski: Well, why don't you take us through this example through this case study? How you came up with the domain name.
Luke Szyrmer: Sure. I guess unlike Tim Ferriss who used AdWords, I mean at this point to use AdWords just to test something like a name is a bit excessive. But it depends on your cost and your budget.
Alex Makarski: And again, sorry, I need to open up the shorthand previews in this conversation a little bit for someone who might not be familiar with the example. So we're talking about The 4-Hour Workweek, it started out as a totally different book. Well, a totally different title originally.
Alex Makarski: And Tim Ferriss went to do Google AdWords, run a few ads, and he came up with The 4-Hour Workweek as the winning one. And also that's what he went to print with.
Luke Szyrmer: Yes, exactly. The original title was Drug Dealing for Fun and Profit.
Alex Makarski: There you go.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah, so 4-Hour Workweek I think just resonated on AdWords certainly more. And at the time when he was doing it in 2009, or '07, something like that, clicks generally across the board were a bit cheaper than they are now.
Luke Szyrmer: So I actually ended up using a tool called PicFu. The way PicFu works is that it hooks into something called Amazon Mechanical Turk, which is a service Amazon provides, where people do small tasks in return for a small amount of money and it's done at a large scale. And they provide an ability for programmers to hook into that and then instead of a computer do something, have a person do it.
PicFu is one of a number of services like this. But what PicFu did is they created a system where they have people vote on two different options of something. So, for example, titles or images or domain names or anything like that. And the way that I did it was I initially came up with, I believe, eight different names and pitted them against each other and this was the one that came up to the top. To be honest, most of the ones that I did discard tended to be pretty, I guess, abstract.
Alex Makarski: Do you remember some of the losers?
Luke Szyrmer: I have to check.
Alex Makarski: And did you go and check if all the dot coms available for all of those?
Alex Makarski: I love the title. I honestly do. Launch Tomorrow is awesome, I think.
Luke Szyrmer: Yeah. I think it hits the right notes and it also, to some extent, gave the book some structure because then it really focused me on that one-day launch sequence, that pre-launch sequence to get ready to get that page up and do a whole bunch of things that you can do in, say, 15 minutes each that end up, actually, if you accumulate them together, have a very big effect on the actual outcome. So the page that you do put up and when you do buy ads, since people are there that it's much more likely to, at least, have any obvious things wrong with it to not go bad.
Alex Makarski: Cool. How much did the whole experiment cost you, if you remember?
Luke Szyrmer: That's a great question. I'm not sure off the top of my head. In terms of just PicFu, I think at the time it was 10 bucks a test, and now they're 20 bucks a test. Just the PicFu side of it would've been 70 bucks U.S., which for that amount of money AdWords it would've been a lot harder to get statistically significant data.
Alex Makarski: Wonderful. That's a great lesson, a great tip. Thank you very much.
Alex Makarski: All right. Any other tips that stick out for you from your publishing process or anything that's in the book that you'd want to open up a little bit?
Luke Szyrmer: Sure, sure. I think one of the biggest surprises for me was that, in terms for landing pages and products and everything, was that if you look at audience selection, what it is that you offer and what's on the landing page, of the three what makes the biggest difference in terms of response, in terms of sales is the actual audience selection. And it's not like a 10% larger difference. It's a seven times larger difference comparing the audience selection to the landing page.
So basically, the importance of selecting your audience and making sure you really understand them is much, much larger than whatever you put on your landing page. In other words, whatever it is your product is, is actually much less important than really, really understanding your audience. And in terms of the proportions, in terms of how do I operationalize this, especially from the beginning those are the proportions where I'd suggest to people that that's something that they should be spending their time and money. So basically, 62% of their time should be spent on analyzing the audience, 26% is figuring out what to offer them, and then the rest, the 12 percentage is actually designing the landing page.
I certainly was thinking in these terms myself. But when you think of something like a landing page MVP, you started thinking of what's on the landing page, how it looks, how it flows, this and that. But actually, it's the off-landing page factors that make it succeed. And it's being really clear on who your audience is and what segment you're going after initially and that part of it is much, much more important than the actual product idea even.
And on a purely intuitive level if you look at in terms of audience selection, there are certain groups like, for example, if you go into a knitting club of senior citizens, you're going to have a hard time selling something like a Metallica t-shirt.
Alex Makarski: I know Metallica, I think they're old enough these days.
Alex Makarski: I mean they're old enough.
Luke Szyrmer: How many of them are old enough? Exactly. Yeah, you might make a sale or two. I'm not saying you won't sell any. But I'd be quite surprised if you'd actually get close to 100% conversion rate in that kind of environment. But if you were selling, I don't know, knitting accessories or something, then that's a very different discussion.
So it's essentially that kind of thing which if you're starting up completely from scratch or entering into a new market with a new product idea, figuring out how to connect those two is critical. And the faster you do it, the cheaper you do it, the better off you're going to be.
Alex Makarski: Awesome. All right. Well, congratulations again on hitting number one on Amazon in your category. Awesome book. I recommend it to everyone. I have it on my Kindle. And the website where someone would go to and buy your book is launchtomorrow.com. And thank you very much, Luke Szyrmer, our lean startup expert. Thank you very much.


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Q: How to prevent multiple browser windows from sharing the same session in asp.net I have ASP.net application that is basically a data entry screen for a physical inspection process.  The users want to be able to have multiple browser windows open and enter data from multiple inspections concurrently.  At first I was using cookie based sessions, and obviously this blew up.
I switched to using cookie-less sessions, which stores the session in the URL and in testing this seemed to resolve the problem.  Each browser window/tab had a different session ID, and data entered in one did not clobber data entered in the other.
However my users are more efficient at breaking things than I expected and it seems that they're still managing to get the same session between browsers sometimes.  I think that they're copying/pasting the address from one tab to the other in order to open the application, but I haven't been able to verify this yet (they're at another location so I can't easily ask them).
Other than telling them don't copy and paste, or convince them to only enter one at a time, how can I prevent this situation from occurring?

A: Think of using ViewState instead of Session, since ViewState renders state information to the client (HTML page). I'm not sure if you'll ever be able to gain detailed control over the browser's session behaviour, because the session ID is maintained by the browser the way the manufacturer did it. So ViewState is more predicable, not only but also for future browser versions.

A: this is a very good question that i have also thought long and hard about.
Store your main web page in an iframe. Have javascript to check if your web page is still in the parent iframe. If not, then they have opened multiple browser windows.
You need to make sure your entire app is iframe friendly.

A: I am unsure why you wish to restrict a session to handle only one inspection process, and then force multiple sessions in order for users to work simultaneously on multiple inspections. That feels like a rather awkward style of isolation.
The web application (and pages) ought to be able to handle multiple inspection processes within a single user session.
Whatever data that is being held in Session variables should not be plainly exposed for singular handling. They ought to be stored in collections that readily identify which set of data belongs to which inspection process. Every page submission back to the web server ought to carry an identifier which inspection process it pertains to, so that the correct session set can be matched and pulled for use.
pseudo code concept
var inspectionID = this.inspectionLabel.Text;
var inspectionSets = (Hashtable)Session["inspections"];
var inspection = (Inspection)inspectionSets[inspectionID];

A: Must the users be logged in with different accounts to access different physical inspections? It seems to me that as long as the PhysicalInspectionID is part of the URL, then there should be no problem in editing multiple physical inspections at the same time.
E.g.,
http://inspections.mydomain.com/edit/23
Of course, if they copy the URL, they will get a duplicate of the other window, but this will teach them not to do that. Instead, they open another window and browse to the proper inspection (or add a new one) via the UI.

A: This is what I use in ASP.NET MVC to forbid authenticated users to open multiple tabs:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    @if(Request.IsAuthenticated)
    {
        <text>
        if (window.name != 'singleWindow') {
            window.location.href = "Content/ErrorPages/SingleTab.htm";
        }
        </text>
    }
    else
    {
        <text>
        window.name = "singleWindow";
        </text>
    }
</script>

Basically, this sets the window name first time when the user visits the login page. After logging in, for each subsequent page load the window name is tested.
Two problems:

*

*does not wok if JavaScript disabled

*if by mistake the user closes the original tab and then pastes some other link to my website in the address bar, the user will always receive the error page. To give the user a chance to recover, I have included "Log out" link in the SingleTab.htm page, so the user can destroy his session cookie and start a new session.

A: A solution to that problem can be implemented by the following:
public static class CommonHelper
{
   public static bool SiteGuard
    {
        get
        {
            if(HttpContext.Current.Session["SiteGuard"] == null)
               return true;
            return (bool)HttpContext.Current.Session["SiteGuard"];
        }
        set
        {
            HttpContext.Current.Session["SiteGuard"] = value;
        }
    }
}

public partial class TestPage : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if(!Page.IsPostBack)
        {
            bool go = false;
            for(int i = 0; i < 50; i++) // wait for the service to work (5 secs max)
            {
                if(CommonHelper.SiteGuard)
                {
                   go = true;
                   break;
                }
                Thread.Sleep(100);
            }
            if(!go)
               Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");

            SiteGuard = false; // from now on, nobody can visit your site
        }
        // Now as long as Page.IsPostBack is true you are in a good shape
    }
}

Add an asmx web service (or any other type of services you think is suitable) to your root project and add the following method to it:
    [WebMethod(EnableSession = true)]
    public void FreeSiteGuard()
    {
        HttpContext.Current.Session["SiteGuard"] = null;
    }

In the master page, or on every page add the following javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
    window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
        e = e || window.event;
        if (e) {
            // Invoke web service
           YourProject.YourWebServiceName.FreeSiteGuard();
        }
    };
</script>

Note that your site response time gets affected by the speed of the web service.

A: Create a new sessionId when the request has no referer.
That solves the copy-paste url problem.
Store the sessionId in the url like you did.


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