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5G aside, operators need to keep pushing 4G coverage
Nokia's recently announced contract to upgrade TIM Brasil's LTE network to LTE-A Pro at 700MHz will help to boost the operator's rural and indoor coverage.
It also reinforces the importance to all mobile operators of growing coverage and hence usage on LTE networks, primarily through the use of the lower, sub-1GHz spectrum bands.
Coverage is critical for driving LTE usage
In the Brazilian market, which has recently seen a slowdown in mobile revenue growth, the rollout of LTE at 700MHz promises to provide a timely boost for TIM, as it should do for the other operators deploying services in the same band.
With so much recent focus on 5G, it is easy to overlook the importance to mobile operators of continuing to drive up usage over their LTE networks. In achieving this increased uptake of 4G services, the lower (coverage) bands below 1GHz are proving critical.
Just as Verizon and AT&T in the US employed the 700MHz band to deliver nationwide coverage, operators in markets such as Brazil, where LTE buildout still has some way to go, can use these lower bands to drive usage on 4G networks.
Nokia will upgrade approximately 9,000 sites for TIM to support LTE-A Pro using the vendor's AirScale radio access platform. The operator will use tri-band carrier aggregation to combine the 700MHz spectrum with its existing 2600MHz and 1800MHz holdings.
In common with other vendors, Nokia regards upgrading today's LTE networks as an essential stepping stone toward 5G.
The vendor says that for mobile operators, particularly those with an aging installed base, progression to LTE-A Pro (described by Nokia as 4.5G Pro) and then to what it terms 4.9G is essential in order to take advantage of higher throughput and lower latency, and support a move to new cloud-based architectures of the kind that will be required for 5G.
Harmonized band for LTE?
The wider availability of what is often digital dividend spectrum in the 700MHz band around the world may help the industry to at last settle on something close to a harmonised global spectrum band for LTE, at least outside the US, where the 700MHz spectrum is subject to a different set of band plans.
In addition to being widely deployed in the Asia-Pacific region, further launches in the APT700 band are planned this year in Latin America, and auctions are already under way in Europe, with those in France and Germany having already been completed.
As broadcasters in Brazil free up spectrum in the 700MHz frequencies, other mobile broadband providers can also reap the benefits. As well as TIM Brasil, Vivo and Claro were granted access to nationwide frequencies when 2 x 45MHz of spectrum in the range 698–806MHz (Band 28) were auctioned in 2014.
These frequencies are expected to finally be freed up this year, leaving operators free to roll out their networks. Earlier attempts to provide rural coverage in Brazil using the 450MHz band and which were encouraged by the regulator, Anatel, foundered due in large part to lack of support from operators and a significant ecosystem.
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Bitcoin is 10 years old: Here's what to expect in the cryptocurrency's second decade
What began as an email chain between a bunch of cypherpunk's has turned into one of the hottest technologies of our time
MarketWatch photo illustration/Everett Collection
Oct. 31 marks the 10th birthday of one of the most promising, yet divisive technological advancements of the 21st century: Bitcoin.
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the first and most famous cryptocurrency emerged from an underground network of libertarian-leaning cypherpunks. Over the past decade its popularity has soared, but so has the number of its detractors. On the eve of its anniversary, here's a look back at some of the glorious — and infamous — moments in the short life of the world's most famous cryptocurrency.
And where it all began:
'I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party'
Satoshi Nakamoto, Oct. 31, 2008, 06:10:00 PM
That was the first email in a series of messages sent by Satoshi Nakamoto, the presumed pseudonym adopted by the creator of bitcoin, in a proposal for a payment system that is completely anonymous running on a decentralized distributed ledger, known as the blockchain.
Today, there are over 2,000 cryptocurrencies, most of which will fail and become worthless, according to Barry Silbert, chief executive officer of the Digital Currency Group, and there are already close to 1,000 dead coins, ones that either failed before launching or have ceased operation, according to a website that tracks such failures.
But the very first digital currency is still going strong, albeit with plenty of ups and downs. Once worth less than 1 cent, a single bitcoin fetched nearly $20,000 in December 2017. Today, one bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.61% changes hands for about $6,500.
Bitcoin's 10-year run
After the release of the Bitcoin white paper a decade ago, Satoshi started a chain of emails to a cryptography mailing list, largely made up of cypherpunks — those who promote increased financial privacy — looking to spread and champion computer encryption. The early emails were met with both enthusiasm and skepticism.
"Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power of honest participants outweighs that of the attacker," wrote computer programmer Hal Finney in an email exchange with the group.
Read: Here are all the early email exchanges between Satoshi and the cryptographers
It was at least two months before the blockchain and bitcoin experiment got under way with the creation of the Genesis Block, the first 50 bitcoins ever mined.
A note that accompanied the copy of the Genesis Block gave rise to the notion that bitcoin, in part, may have been a response to the financial crisis. "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks," the message said.
However, in an interview with MarketWatch, New York University professor David Yermack, debunked this theory, but did say that the timing definitely contributed to the hype around bitcoin.
The Genesis block
Read: Here's how much it costs to mine a single bitcoin in your country
But what were people meant to do with these bitcoins once they had been created, or mined?
"I guess the key problem right now is that once you generate coins, there's nobody to test it with, even for dummy transactions. Is there a plan for a mailing list or some kind of trivial marketplace to give people something to do with their newly minted bitcoins?" wrote Mike Hearn, a software developer and early bitcoin developer in the cryptography email chain.
One year later, his question was answered.
First recorded transaction
While there were a number of early test transactions — the first being a transfer between Satoshi and Finney — the first documented transaction didn't occur until 2010.
On May 22, 2010, Jacksonville programmer Laszlo Hanyecz, convinced Jeremy Sturdivant to send him two pizzas, and in return, Hanyecz would give him 10,000 bitcoin, which in today's terms is more than $30 million per pizza. The transaction would become part of crypto folklore and May 22 will always be known as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Eight years on, bitcoin is traded freely on more than 200 exchanges, with volume dominated by speculators hoping to make a quick buck buying and selling the most liquid cryptocurrency. There are now more than 250,000 on-ledger transactions per day, according to data from Blockchain.com.
Transactions per day, per Blockchain.com
At its peak in late 2017, there were nearly half a million transactions happening each day.
Mt. Gox hack
Four years after the first bitcoin transaction, the industry hit one of its lowest points. In February 2014, Japanese-based cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox was hacked, resulting in the loss of more than 800,000 bitcoins. At the time, Mt. Gox was handling more than half of all bitcoin transactions world-wide. The heist was the first big snag in the coming out of the opaque industry.
The Mt. Gox scandal was met with hostility and the company was forced to move its headquarters to its previous offices citing security concerns, the company said at the time.
But what it did do was put bitcoin on the front page of the news.
"I became enthralled in bitcoin when Mt. Gox 'disappeared' my bitcoin," said Tim Draper, founder and director of Draper Associates. "When that happened, I thought bitcoin would collapse, but it didn't, so I knew it was more important than it seemed on the surface."
Draper would later become a household name in the crypto industry when he purchased the bitcoins the U.S. Justice Department seized in the Silk Road case. The bitcoins were sold for an average price of just over $300. Draper said he weighed the risk/reward at the time and figured there is a chance they could be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars at some stage. "At this point, It looks like it will be the former, so I lucked out," he said.
Read: Former Mt. Gox CEO does not want his billion dollars
Yet, security remains one of the technology's biggest hurdles.
Limitations and headwinds
The Mt. Gox hack is just one in a number of thefts that has undermined the integrity of digital assets. In 2016, two years after the Mt. Gox fiasco, the Bitfinex exchange was infiltrated resulting in the theft of 120,000 bitcoins. All totaled, some estimate that more than 1 million bitcoins have been stolen.
However, the pressing question for bitcoin evangelists is adoption: Is there a place for it in the financial ecosystem? Right now that answer is not quite yet.
As a payment device, bitcoin can process around five transactions per second, while credit card companies like Visa V, -0.70% and Mastercard MA, -0.98% can process more than 5,000 per second. As a store of wealth its security flaws, as discussed earlier, mean it is far from becoming digital gold.
But according to Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group, a U.K. consulting firm, that will change: "There's an ongoing shift away from fiat money, and the momentum of this is only set to increase over the next 10 years."
Read: Winklevoss: If you can't see bitcoin at $320,000, you just lack imagination
On the eve of its 10th birthday, 2018 has unveiled another flaw in bitcoin: volatility. While the trading community lap up the wild price swings, those pushing for mainstream use have had to withstand a collapse in the price of the No. 1 digital currency.
As euphoria was building, highlighted by the introduction of bitcoin futures, bitcoin fell more than 60% from its all-time high on Dec 17, 2017.
Read: What's more volatile than bitcoin? You may be surprised
What the future holds
Depending on who you ask, the future of bitcoin looks like anything from the next U.S. dollar or digital gold, to a total bust that will be nothing but a footnote in financial textbooks.
As bitcoin proponents push for more complex financial products, most notably a bitcoin-backed exchange-traded fund, or ETF, regulators now play a pivotal role in the advancement of the cryptocurrency and blockchain movement. Lawmakers and regulators are weighing investor protection in an industry that is rife with nefarious characters, yet offers much potential.
Read: These may be the 3 biggest hurdles to a bitcoin ETF
For detractors, bitcoin is just a passing fad. One of the most vocal critics is prominent New York University economics professor, Nouriel Roubini, who has called bitcoin the mother of all bubbles, compared blockchain with a glorified excel spreadsheet and lambasted the crypto community as a bunch of "self-serving white men pretending to be messiahs for the world's impoverished, marginalized, and unbanked masses."
Read: Opinion: Roubini calls out the big blockchain lie
However, the nascent product may have received its biggest stamp of approval just weeks before its 10th birthday when financial services giant Fidelity Investments announced it was opening a cryptocurrency trading service for funds and sophisticated investors. Previously, large institutions had largely remained on the sidelines.
But now, coming upon 10 years since the inception of cryptocurrencies, the decentralized technology that began with bitcoin may have started a path where the so-called trusted third parties are mining bitcoin instead of printing money.
"I see bitcoin becoming the most important and most transacted currency in the world, not just for remittances, or cross-border transactions, but for every use currency. It won't be long before bitcoin eclipses the dollar as the most popular currency," said Draper.
Read: This is where cryptocurrencies are actually making a difference in the world
Bitcoin USD CoinDesk: BTCUSD
Visa Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE: V
Mastercard Inc. U.S.: NYSE: MA
P/E Ratio 46.2

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Lovely nails with beautiful designs are every girl's fashion statement. In fact, the nail art images that you are dreaming for are here itself. Previously, I have written about Wedding hairstyles for long hair, Wedding hairstyles for short hair and much more.
Now…. it's the time to decorate your nails both short and long. Furthermore, why just your fingernails? Don't you like to decorate your toenails with beautiful easy nail art designs? Well, I've got lists of 15 nail art images gallery for finger nails and toe nails that will bring magical designs to life art.
Hence, before I speak about all the nail art images in details, first, let us go through the lists.
Light Pink Mixed and Matched.
Golden and White Polka Dot With Stripes.
Glittery Valentine's Day Nail Art.
Natural Green With Leaves and Flowers.
Beauty and the Beast Theme.
Flowery Red for Valentine's Day.
This nail art design gallery will help you to update beautiful nails and improve your skills & performance for creating pretty designs. Also, along with your nails check some Wedding hairstyles for long hair and Wedding hairstyles for short hair.
Firstly, remove the old nail polish with a good-quality remover and a cotton ball.
Secondly, clean your cuticles with manicure kit.
Thirdly, trim and shape your nails with a nail buffer, cutter, nail file, cuticle pusher etc.
Finally, manicure it with good quality manicure set like hand soak, hand scrub, and hand massage cream.
This will bring the glow to your nails as well as hands. Once everything is done let's go to the next list of simple and easy nail art designs. Before that have a quick look at some other different nail designs in a slide show.
Let's start with the short and long nail designs followed by toenail designs.
Starting with this pretty different short nail designs of light pink, it just looks attractive for summer. In fact, it's the summer season now, so always go for a light shade. And mixing different shades of light pink makes your nails look glamorous. Wear an outfit of something white in color to match with this pretty simple but beautiful nail art.
As a matter of fact, to follow up with this designs you will require two different shades of pink nail paints and two different shades of glittery nail paint. Just like the image that I have attached, apply same two same nail paints to four fingers. Accordingly, apply double shades of pinkish glittery nail polish in one middle finger. And the other silver nail paint above the light pink nail paint.
This nail art design is very simple and easy. In fact, I have tried this nail art images once and my friends' circle were giving a positive compliment. They were asking me how did I create the style. Well, I felt very proud of myself that I could do such pretty design on my short nails.
Firstly, I have done the manicure stuff and then applied the white base coat twice. When it got dried, I took out red nail polish and a nail dotting tool set from my wardrobe. Yes, nail dotting tool kit is my life saver, this is one of the secrets for my beautiful nails. I have created a beautiful heart design with a red nail paint. you can create more extra touch to your nails with the dotting kit. Hence, they are lovely!!!
Do you love to be near the beach during your holidays? Well, this designs will suit you if you paint it when you go for a holiday near the beach especially in the afternoon. Even so, you wear whatever outfit, this nail art images still going to go awesome. And yes, this will also require a dotting tool.
Create a beautiful seashell mixed with starfish designs. I have never tried them but when I go for holidays outing I will definitely try the nail art. Presumably, if you don't find this design suitable you can go for the next one.
This nail art images that I have included with golden and white is also not bad. They look quite good, in fact, it does match with any dress you wear. The are a mixture of white polka dots with a zig zag stripes. In some of your fingers apply the golden paint and some white paint as a base.
Now in the golden nails, do some polka dot tricks with white nail polish. Therefore to proceed further, you will require a tape, cut it in a zig zag manner and place it on your nails. Simultaneously, apply the golden or the white paints. Now you are ready to go.
Summer season is always hot and warm and during that time if you wear dark color then you will feel the heat in your body. Even your nail paints must be a little light in color just like the nail art images colorful polka dots. However, take five different shades of light color nail paint. If you don't have then buy it from the nearby departmental store.
Start apply the different nail paints in five different nails. Make sure you do apply a double coat and when it gets totally dry start polka dotting with any sharp thing. To last the nail art design, do apply a clear top coat. And suppose if you are feeling too hot then why don't you drink a Refreshing Coconut Drink For Summer.
Red is always the favorite of all the girls especially if you have long nails. and on the Valentine's Day, red will just suit you. Even going for winter parties or occasions red is famous amongst women. Therefore, apply a red nail polish and stripe it with some silver nail paint. This will make your nails look slightly different and stylish. Even for the toenail, you can try this color. Oh yes!! Below I have included a red color toe nail design that would match with this nail art. Have a look.
When you apply something green in color on your nails, it seems like you wanted to be close to Nature. Henceforth, to proceed further you will require a dotting toolkit. Easily you could make a flowery design if you have one and also some leaves art. It is the time to show the world that your long nails also can look much prettier.
I love the movie the Beauty and the Beast. the Beauty and love for the Beast could change everything. Even this nail art design just look lovely. Decorating with a red rose and tea cups looks simply cute. Adding some glittering gold and blue brings out the real beauty.
The sky looks very clear, so why don't you try this pretty sky color mixed with flower art. In fact, even an unprofessional stylist could try this art. Just a sky color base coat and some extra work with a dotting pen will do awesome. You can also use the toothpick to create this look.
The Purple and pink combination nail art images are just cool. In fact, this matte pink color looks just the way I like. Don't you think this nail art image looks smart and stylish? They are fit to decorate for a formal look. Finally, with the help of a toothpick, you can achieve your goal.
I could only say wow!!!
Is there anyone of you who does not like this design? As a matter of fact, they are little difficult to create but never impossible.The only thing you need is a Nail Art Set, without that, it's not possible to get this colorful pretty nail designs. You know, I just can't blink my eyes from this toenails. In fact, I have no words to describe how beautiful this toenail looks.
On the above, I was speaking about this red color toenail art. Definitely, you can match it with the long nail art design mentioned above in point no. 6. See, they are lovely right? They are a piece of art with a white flower.
This design is one of the simplest and easiest as because even my 8 years niece could try it. But they are such a lovely design. Peach and gold just go perfectly with the combination. A little gold and a slight peachy makes toenails makes the toenails lovely.
As the people from the United States of America always likes to show off their flags, ultimately, this design of nail paint would look beautiful. The stars with some beautiful stripes look pretty cute. They look good, especially on your toenails. However, you can also try on your finger nails.
This turquoise color nail art image is also loved by many women with a light silver texture. Just look at how gracefully the nail paint goes on your toenails. Grow your nails little long and get this pretty shiny design. Even if I don't give you a step by step guide, one can eventually follow the picture and just go with the style.
There you go, I hope the nail art images & the tutorials with beautiful designs had given you some idea how to decorate your nails. With just a few clicks you can get the nail art designs on your nails. If you love the designs just try once and you will love it. Also, eat some Protein Rich Food to look after your entire health along with manicuring.


Your Health Matters: Why did I become a nurse?
Today's post is written by Jim Recabo, RN BSN, Administrative Nursing Supervisor at Meritus Medical Center, and a Nurse of the Year. I asked Jim to tell us why he decided to become a nurse.
I was a young father to two small girls and my wife was doing an awesome job as a stay at home mother. My employment situation may sound familiar to some of you. I worked in retail because it was one of the types of jobs available to those of us who had not gone to college. I worked hard selling shoes, and before long I was offered a great opportunity to manage my own store. This basically meant that you could work as many hours as it took to get the job done (as long as it was at least 48hrs a week) and you never made any overtime. Sounds like a great deal doesn't it? Well after a few years of 60 hour weeks for very little pay and the increased responsibility of supervising multiple stores, I came to the realization that I was giving away too much time that I should be spending with my family and I was not doing anything to make the world a better place for them. I sat down with my wife and we talked about career options. I knew that I wanted to feel good about the work I would do and that I wanted the opportunity to have a positive impact on my community. As I reflected on my situation, I thought about some of my family members who had been nurses and considered how this career might work for me. You see, my maternal grandmother had been a nurse and of her five daughters, three of them had chosen nursing as well. I did a little research and found that nursing could allow me to help in my community, take pride in the work I do and provide for my young family. I decided that nursing could be a good fit for me.
That was when I was 27. Now I am 40 and I am thankful everyday that I chose nursing. I have found all of my suppositions to be true and learned many other things about nursing. I learned that I could share in the joy of a newborn child or revel in the exhilaration of working with trauma patients in one day at work. I learned that, under life and death pressure, I rise to the occasion. I found out that the patients tell the nurses much more than they ever reveal to the doctors. In fact, people in general seem compelled to tell nurses some of the strangest things. I learned how to sit quietly with my patients, keeping them company as they left this world. I discovered that even a big, tough man can cry. I have found that my neighbors seek me out when they are in the hospital because I am a familiar face in a stressful moment in their life. I found that one of my patients will see me at a restaurant and sneakily pay the bill for my family's breakfast after sitting down next to my mother to tell her that I took great care of him and that she should be proud of her son. It has been reassuring to know that even in a recession with 10% unemployment, I have been able to provide for my family. I also found that if you work twelve-hour shifts, you are off for four days every week. Nursing has been rewarding, challenging, exciting, sobering and without a doubt the right career choice for me.
I have worked at Meritus Medical Center, formerly Washington County Hospital, for 6 years now, and there has never been a better time to be a nurse here. The opportunity to provide nursing care in a state-of-the-art facility cannot be underestimated. Whether you are interested in pediatrics, emergency nursing or cardiac cath lab, Meritus Health can offer you an environment to practice your current nursing specialty or venture into a whole new care area. I invite you to check out Meritus Medical Center and consider joining a truly special team of nurses.
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19 Aug 2021 WorldFilmGeekLeave a Comment on A Tribute to Sonny Chiba (1939-2021)
A Tribute to Sonny Chiba (1939-2021)
The action film world has lost an icon.
Sonny Chiba, the Japanese martial arts legend whose film The Street Fighter became the stuff of legends when it was the 1st film to get an "X" rating for violence, had died at the age of 82 after testing positive for coronavirus.
With a career spanning over six decades, Chiba is considered to be one of the most internationally recognized Japanese action stars in the world with his use of karate and kenjutsu in his prolific career.
Sonny Chiba was born Sadaho Maeda on January 22, 1939 in Fukuoka, Japan. His father was a military test pilot and he was the third of five children, including actor brother Jiro Chiba. During his days in junior high, Chiba excelled in sports, particularly gymnastics. After an injury caused him to lose a chance to be on the Japanese Olympic team, his life changed while studying in university.
It was there where he met karate legend Masatatsu "Mas" Oyama, a Korean-born Japanese master who began training China in his art of Kyokushin-kai Karate. On October 15, 1965, he received his 1st-dan black belt in the art. In 1960, he was discovered as a "New Face" talent for Toei Company. He would be called "Shinichi Chiba" and his acting career began with the tokukatsu series Seven Color Mask.
His experiences in television and film would lead him in 1970 to form his own training school for aspiring actors and stunt performers. The Japan Action Club as it would be called would offer lessons on stunts and fight choreography. During this time, Chiba continued to make films such as the Karate Kiba films and Battle Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima in 1973.
In 1974, his martial arts film The Street Fighter was picked up to be released in the United States by Robert Shaye's New Line Cinema, at the time only a distribution company. However, the MPAA gave the film an "X" rating not because of nudity or sex, but because of its violent content. Kill scenes involved a man getting castrated by Chiba's bare hands and Chiba ripping the throat off another opponent to say the least. The film surprisingly did well enough despite the rating that New Line Cinema picked up two sequels, Return of the Street Fighter and The Street Fighter's Last Revenge as well as the spin-off Sister Street Fighter. Upon the U.S. release, New Line changed Shinichi Chiba's name to "Sonny Chiba" to gain an international audience. This was a practice Western distributors would do to ensure international recognition for the actors in the films.
Two of Chiba's JAC team, Hiroyuki Sanada and Etsuko Shihomi would gain fame in the late 70s and early 80's on an international front due to their collaborations with Chiba. Sanada would star in 1982's Roaring Fire with New Line calling him "Duke Sanada" and with Sister Street Fighter, New Line would shorten Etsuko's name to just "Sue Shiomi". While Shihomi would retire from acting in 1986 after marrying pop star Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi and become a floral arranger, Sanada, now credited under his real name, continues success as an internationally known actor, recently appearing as Hanzo Hisashi/Scorpion in Mortal Kombat.
Chiba continued success as an actor in Japanese martial arts and fantasy action films. In 1992, he made his Hollywood debut opposite Louis Gossett Jr. as a former Japanese WWII pilot who teams up with Gossett's Chappy Sinclair in Aces: Iron Eagle III. He would go on to have a successful international career, teaming up with the late Roddy Piper in Immortal Combat to appearing in 2006's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift as the Yakuza boss uncle of the antagonist DK. He would even train Uma Thurman in Kenjutsu and play a descendance of the legendary ninja Hanzo Hattori in the first Kill Bill movie in 2003 alongside fellow JAC member and current leader of the team, Keiji Ohba.
In 2009, while on the set of an action series in Japan, Chiba suffered an asthma attack. Rethinking his plan, he had decided to continue as an actor but no longer doing action roles. He also made the decision to revert back to his birth name while acting in Japan but because international audiences would known him as "Sonny Chiba", he added a slight change to the name and thus became "J.J. Sonny Chiba", the "J.J." standing for "Justice Japan". He also had a credit as a director with the pseudonym "Rindo Wachinaga".
Chiba is survived by his second wife, Tamami, his sons Mackenyu Arata and Gordon, and daughter Juri Manase, from his first marriage.
WorldFilmGeek sends its condolences to the family of Sonny Chiba aka Sadaho Maeda. Here is YouTube user Dan Chup's tribute to Sonny Chiba as we saw goodbye to this action icon. RIP Sadaho Maeda…Viva Chiba!
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An Origami-Inspired Drone Could One Day Deliver Your Packages
Chelsea Gohd
Thursday, 14 September 2017 - 8:45PM
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Origami has long inspired technological innovation. From NASA's shape-shifting radiator to foldable solar panels, the Japanese art of paper folding has lent itself to the advancement of tech related to spaceflight, renewable energy, and more.
So it's no surprise that this well of inspiration is being drawn from yet again, as researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Intelligent Systems have developed a drone that can fold down when not in use.
The drone is spherically shaped, like a cage, and made out of carbon-fiber. Other similarly shaped drones have felt lackluster success as their bulky exteriors limit their capabilities. But this drone can fold up when not in use, making it much more practical than previous models.
In addition to folding down into a compact device, the drone can also expand to hold up to 500 g (17.6 oz). This allows the device to carry objects and, therefore, make deliveries. There is a building excitement surrounding the possibility of having packages and mail delivered by drone; Amazon is well on its way to making this a widespread reality.
So it's possible that, while previous moments of progress may have been halted or slowed due to the bulky exterior of a drone capable of carrying a parcel, drones like the one designed here could provide a unique solution.
This concept makes the prospect of drone-delivery realistic. A lightweight carbon-fiber build could lend itself to fuel conservation while the origami-inspired cage design could protect and transport items when in use, and then fold down for easy, compact storage when not in use.
Perhaps origami will continue to inspire developing technologies and the future will hold fantastical devices like foldable bikes, cars, even homes. But there's nothing wrong with starting with package deliveries - this concept could actualize drone-delivery while potentially inspiring a wealth of future technology.
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Your website has served you well. You've paid to have it created by a professional and it provides the basic information about your company and services while giving people the opportunity to contact you for more information.
Your website is your business' number one marketing tool. Often, it's your brand's first impression on a potential customer. More importantly, your website is your best opportunity to create a dialogue with your audience. Is your existing site doing absolutely everything it can to effectively convert visitors into leads, leads into customers and customers into evangelists?
Here are 10 of the most common indicators that your website is due for a redesign.
Time moves fast online. What was fashionable yesterday has today been replaced by something better, easier to use and more intuitive. If your Content Management System (CMS) is outdated or no longer supported, you may be vulnerable to security breaches and hacks. Not to mention finding competent coders to maintain your site can be difficult and costly.
In the age of Google, if a visitor doesn't see exactly what they're looking for within seconds of hitting your website, you'll lose them to the next link in their search results. And they'll never look back. Optimizing your website requires a commitment to ongoing keyword management based on a sound SEO strategy. A redesign is a great chance to align your SEO strategy with your company's goals. Learning which SEO Tools are most valuable to you is essential in creating a winning SEO strategy.
You've managed to get someone to visit your website (maybe more than once) but now what? Get them to DO something! A free download of a whitepaper may be the perfect incentive to get someone to provide their contact information. Maybe they want to subscribe to your newsletter. You can provide a link to download a PDF of your latest catalog. By engaging your visitors, you're more likely to convert them into customers. You can then track your conversions to find out what works and why!
As a business grows and evolves to meet challenges and adapt to changing market climates, its audience may change as well. For instance, as a start-up, your main concern may have been to educate the public about who you are and what you do. A couple of years may have passed and you now find that your consumers are more savvy than they once were. It may be time to redesign your site to reflect the change in your audience.
Your website has done its job. It's generating leads, which you're then able to convert into sales. Things are going so well that you've expanded your capabilities. Where you were once happy with small, one-off jobs, your focus has shifted to large, bulk orders. You're website needs to be able to reflect this change and evolve with your business.
More and more, users are accessing websites through their cellphones. Google has recently upgraded their algorithm to improve search results on mobile devices by boosting the rankings of sites that are mobile-friendly. By embracing responsive design, you're ensuring that whether viewed on a desktop, tablet or mobile device, your site is reaching the widest audience possible.
With so many Content Management System options available (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal) there's no reason to be beholden to a web designer or developer to make edits to your own website. Maybe you've lost your login credentials, or the employee that handled the website registration is no longer with the company. With WordPress, the power of updating and editing your website's content is in your hands!
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In the excitement of getting the latest news and capabilities onto your site as quickly as possible, it's easy to fall into the trap of adding content to your website without a filter. Your website content should align with your mission and core values. Is your business' story being conveyed in the most clear and articulate manner possible? Maybe you've added so many items to the navigation that the viewer gets confused by where to go to find exactly what they're looking for. Maybe you've added and deleted so many pages over the years that there are actually dead links that don't go anywhere anymore. A redesign is the perfect opportunity to reprioritize your content by crafting a sitemap that will deliver a clean and organized user experience.
Web standards are continually evolving. What serves as the industry standard today will most likely seem laughable this time next year. If a viewer's initial reaction to your site is that it looks outdated, they may assume that the content is just as old. Ideally, your website should convey your company as professional, relevant and timely. As a general rule, three to five years is the normal lifespan for a website design.
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6 vendors have this plant for sale.118 members have or want this plant for trade.
As a northerner I just discovered this plant when I saw some wild specimens growing in southern Florida. It is a good-looking shrub. It has larger leaves ( 4 to 8 inches long x 2 to 4 inches wide) than the three East Asian species that are used in landscaping (which have leaves 2 to 5 inches long) and the leaves and twigs are very soft hairy. It gets to be a taller shrub from 3 to 10 feet high. Its berries cluster around the nodes in big clusters. It is native from southwest Maryland down through Florida into the West Indies and west over into Arkansas and then down into Texas and Mexico. It should be hardy to Zone 6a and then good to Zone 11. Native plant nurseries grow some in the South and Mid-Atlantic. It should be used more in landscapes. Being a native species, it offers itself as a ... read morebetter food source for native beneficial insects and birds than the Asian species.
We have these growing "wild" all over our property. The birds enjoy them including our chickens. In fact, I have fed these berries to chickens when they seemed ill and they seem to perk right up. I have done this several years and I think there must be some potent antioxidants in the berries. I wonder if there has been any studies on what is in them and if it would be beneficial for humans?
I have tried a few fresh ripe berries and they don't have much flavor and have a pleasant perfumey aroma. I thought they would taste nasty but they weren't that bad lol. I know people make jelly from them. I might try that. Cooking them probably reduces the antioxidants from them. I haven't read anything about the fresh berries being poisonous to humans but people should research on their own b... read moreefore trying anything.
This plant appears on none of the reliable toxic plant databases.
I find the Japanese species C. dichotoma and C. japonica to be more graceful in habit.
It is native here in Western Arkansas but I haven't noticed it being invasive here. That being said, the plants I have grown were volunteers that "just showed up", probably deposited by birds. I had good results from pinching back branches to get the plant to produce more of them. Next year I intend to try pruning to a single stem to achieve a "standard". Birds clean the berries off as they ripen in my yard.
Not invasive here, I have not seen a seedling at all in 20 years of my father's bush growing next door, in the yards, or the woods around our houses. But interestingly enough, if I clean the fruit off the seed, sow the seed in a pot, and store in the refrigerator for a month or two, I get almost 100 percent germination. Only explanation that makes sense to me is the birds eat them all, since they will get the cold and damp treatment naturally outdoors. Only issues I see with it is while stopping by to eat the beauty berry seeds, birds tend to drop off seeds of other invasive plants like Chinese Privet, and Japanese Honeysuckle, and its hard to remove them out of the beauty bush when they sprout and get entangled which can be a chore.
You can add Madisonville, Louisiana to your list of locations for this plant. I just discovered it in the woods next to my house, and I am going to try and transplant it to the yard as it is known to attract birds. Surprisingly, I am adjacent to the shores of Lake Ponchartrain, have lived here a month, and have only attracted a couple of very shy cardinals to my feeders.
Love this plant. I am new to beauty berry but the past few years have been making beauty berry jelly. It is wonderful. The berries are edible but awful tasting. The jelly is a nice deep pink. You won't want them off your property once you try the jelly. Recipes are available on the web.
I love beautyberry because the birds love it! With so much habitat destruction, providing food for birds and butterflies is my primary objective when choosing plants for the garden. Mockingbirds love the berries! Cardinals like them, too, and I have also observed a red-eyed vireo and gray catbird eating the berries. Squirrels eat them, too. There are some seedlings dispersed by the birds. I dig them up and give them away. I wish I had room for more beautyberries in my suburban yard. The berries are eaten so quickly in the fall. It is an important food source for the birds.
I was recently told that rubbing beautyberry leaves on your skin repels mosquitos. I am going to try that.
I live on the Gulf coast of Florida, the violet version of the Beautyberry grows well in the wild here.
Some of you seem to be trying to grow it, so I'll tell you what it likes.
People don't realise it, but Florida is actually quite dry all winter, but never quite too dry for at least a moderate morning dew. There are quite a few wild cactus. The Palms accumulate moisture through the leaves at night, these leaves lead the moisture directly into the trunk of the tree. Dew lifts by 10:30 every summer morning, 9:30 in the winter.
The Beautyberry likes the well drained sand, a little top dirt about enough for the weeds, but not enough for it to actually grow in the hedgerow. It grows on the South side of any thicket where there isnt enough top... read more dirt for any thing to grow taller than waist height. Where the hardier grasses have good enough soil to grow into an actual mat, it does not compete.
Hope that is of help to you.
There are but a handful of negatives out of all these posts, and I can see it some cases it's a problem. On my property in Valkaria, Fl, I have broadcast the seeds and finally one has germinated and is growing nicely. Looks like I may have to keep it under control. So far it's very attractive. I read the berries are edible, but I have my doubts.
I wasn't impressed with this 'nothing special' bush when I first moved to this house in the spring of 2009. Then around August I saw the purple berries and fell in love! I gave it no extra attention during the drought last year and it survived beautifully! Super easy to root tip cuttings too! As a side note, my dog loves to lay under it and has no fleas or tics. Kinda makes me wonder if the old settlers who broke off branches and stuck them under the horses yokes to ward off mosquitoes and biting flies has some merit.
Beautyberry is not fussy, requires virtually no care, and will provide shelter, nesting habitat, and important winter food for songbirds. Several years ago, I stumbled onto the idea of transplanting several volunteer seedlings to the beds under our living room windows, and as a result we now enjoy watching mockingbirds, Carolina wrens, and other friends visiting the berry-laden branches just outside our windows throughout fall and winter.
I love this plant! We moved to SC from CA and had never seen it before. There was one in the yard when we moved in, living under an oak tree. As it was winter, all I did was trim it back, not having any idea what it was. I still didn't pay any attention to it as summer came. One day I looked out the window and lost my breath. It was ablaze with glorious purple berries! It has been a favorite ever since and I can't get enough of taking pictures of the lovely berries. It was my sister in Georgia who finally told me what it was. Now I am moving to the country where I will have plenty of space for any plants I want. I need to try to get some seeds and grow some plants of my own that I can have there, but I have worked full time all my life - I am not a gardener! Help! I need details ... read moreon how to do this. Can someone help me?
THE AMERICAN BEAUTY BERRY IS ABSOLUTELY THE HARDEST PLANT ON MY RANCH TO CONTROL. IT TAKES AWAY FOOD FOR MY CATTLE BY SMOTHERING OUT THE GRASS. WE MOW IT DOWN WITH MOWER WHICH GIVES A FEW WEEKS FOR THE GRASS TO REESTABLISH THEN THE GROWTH OF THE BEAUTY BERRY OVERTAKES THE GRASS. TO THIS DATE I HAVE NOT FOUND A HERBICIDE THAT WILL KILL IT. ALL THAT IS SAID ABOUT THE BEAUTY IS TRUE BUT IT IS NOT A CATTLEMAN'S FRIEND.
Easy to grow, easy to control. Provides food for lots of wildlife and birds. Grows in shade, sun, or any combo thereof. I move volunteers to group these together because they look great planted in masses.
We're in Western Orange County, NY State. Planted 2 of these a few years ago and forgot about them. Nothing happened for years, then this summer they flowered and now, in November, still have those electric-violet berries on them! My husband wants more of them, and so do I - don't need a lot of care, and the deer (usually) seem to leave them alone. I'm interested to read about propagating them and also wonder how much luck people have had growing them from seed. Does anyone know how vigorously to remove the fleshy coating? I've picked them but I don't want to totally "scarify" them if that will damage them.
Originally I commented on this plant under "Callicarpa rubella", but the plants growing in my yard are actually American Beautyberries. They are natives here in NE Florida, and can be found growing everywhere on my property. The small flowers are attractive to bees and some betterflies, the berries are a natural food source for Mockingbirds & other wild life. They make attractive bushes either singular or grouped together, and one plant can give rise to several "volunteers" which are easy to transplant. They are fairly easily controlled so they don't take over your yard. I love them so much I just dig up the volunteers & transplant them where needed. Mine grow in full sun or shade, they are not picky. They are also drought-tolerant & add interest to the winter landscape with their ... read morebeautiful fuschia berries. They look incredible when grouped together with my pyracanthas, the brilliant fuschia berries mixing with the red berries of the Firethorn, creating a natural winter "bouquet". I aggressively prune mine in early spring, resulting in tighter, thicker bushes with larger leaves, as compared to the leggier, "weepier" appearance of the unpruned bushes, so I prune where I want thicker, lusher bushes, and don't prune where I want leggier, more graceful looking bushes. A wonderful plant, one of my very favorites.
I live in the very western part of Maryland, the mountain section with the Alleghenies a constant. The climate can be a challenge for gardening because it ranges from very cold, windy, and snowy, to hot and humid. The wind is always present.
Last year I planted a Callicarpa because of the beautiful berries and its native plant status. Looking at the USADA Plant Profile, it lists Callicarpa as Endangered, Extirpated in the state of Maryland. I also noticed there is no listing for the plant on Dave' Garden. I can't say I've ever been first at anything. Are there other Marylanders growing this plant?
Looking at the comments about the plant surviving under pine trees, it is a given that I will plant more. The berry color is spectacular and everything else... read more is a bonus.
I am pleased and surprised to see a 6' Beautyberry bush/tree growing in my new backyard. This was planted by the previous owner, who left the identification tag on the base of the tree. After reading all the comments, I thought some people might find it interesting that this plant, a native to the south east is thriving up here in the Pacific North West (aka-wet) coast!
We have beautyberry all over our 10+ acres of pine / live oak forest, and it's wonderful. I appreciate all the "from seed" propagation advice, as we want to grow it as a border along our driveway. It seems to grow fullest near the road, where it gets the most sun, but it's prolific deep in the woods as well as close to the house on the edge of the woods, and the deer love it! We recently attended a wild edibles presentation at a local county park, and beautyberry jam was on the menu. I can't think of any other plant I'd rather have running roughshod around our place. It's welcome here!
I can't count the number of American Beautyberry "bushes" we have on our eight acres here in south Mississippi. I rate the bush "positive" because it's useful to wildlife, it's beautiful, AND it's not what I thought it was - Poison Sumac or some other dangerous plant.
Much of our place is overgrown (for a shield from the road and for wildlife habitat), and the Beautyberry grows wild amongst amongst all the other wild brush and briers, and grows well, it seems. Of course, we have few heavily shaded areas, so most of the place gets lots of sun.
Grow, American Beautyberry, grow !!
Aromatic and attractive shrub. Seemingly fairly easy to transplant from wild. Can grow in shade or sun, moist or dry conditions. Have seen specimens in Bell Co. growing in holes in limestone rock in full sun- obviously very tough and drought tolerant.
Purple berries are eaten by birds, and plant is an excellent xeriscape consideration.
I have to laugh at people in Florida who give this plant a negative rating, then use "native" & "invasive" in the same sentence while talking about it.
A plant can not be invasive in its native territory.
I love this plant, its Berry's make a great jam & are delicious in pancakes. I found just 1 on my property, so I harvested the berries dried them & grew more plants from seed. I now have a hedge row of beautyberry bushes & I love it.
To keep it from getting to legging pinch off the tops of the taller stems.
I have found that the berries and the leaves, when crushed in your hands, you can rub it on yourself as a fairly good mosquito deterent!! It dates back at least some 200 years as a mosquito repellent and branches of the plant were once used by farmers to keep mosquitoes and horse flies off the horse and cattle. Since moving to East Texas from Houston in June, this was one of the first plants I discovered on the property with it's pretty pastel pink blooms. It seems like "just one day" the blooms turned into striking purple/magenta berries. I have recently made a jelly from the berries of one of the plants that tastes pretty good. Next year I think I'll try American Beautyberry wine-well I hope to since it will be an experiment because I have never made wine before!! Unless of course I d... read moreiscover that the birds or other wildlife want them; as of this date they have not been interested.
Zone 8 near Austin, TX: Not only do my resident wild birds eat these berries in winter (some years more so than others) but a small thicket of these shrubs is the perfect gathering place for them when they seek shelter. The leaves are soft enough to be gentle to birds on the move but large enough to provide excellent cover. Summer residents and Fall migrating warblers, vireos, tanagers, grosbeaks and buntings use ours for shelter every year and they sometimes pop out to show themselves at the end of branches to pose for pictures near the berries. Plant these near a water feature and you will have a dependable spot to view rare birds that are passing through your property. The berries are supposed to be good for creating fabric dye.
I purchased this shrub three years ago thru the mail. It was a stick when I planted it and growth was very slow. It didn't seem very attractive to me and I was wondering what had prompted me to purchase this plant. Last spring I moved it to a sunnier location and it produced the purple berries for the first time. I was working in the garden and noticed the birds flocking around this shrub and wondered what was up. When I took a closer look, I noticed the purple berries. I had almost tossed this plant. Very happy I didn't because watching the birds flock around this shrub was worth the wait. I was a little worried about it surviving our winter but it's flourishing.
Here's an odd one for you all.
In October of 2006, I cut some sprigs of beautyberry (Callicarpa) (with the beautiful berries, of course!) and inserted them into a little bottle with a tight neck, and put in water.
I noticed around Feb. of 2007 that one of the beautyberry sprigs had sprouted leaves....without putting out root, mind you!
Isn't that odd?? I thought maybe it was a fluke, or some kind of bionic plant, or something!
I couldn't think of another plant where I'd seen leaf come out before root.
So I tried it again this season. October 2007, I again cut twigs of beautyberry and again put the twigs into a narrow-necked bottle with water at the base. The same thing happened!!
I'd like to hear your thoughts about this, and whether anyone knows of other plants that put up leaf before roots when they're put as twigs into water.
This grows where it pleases on my land. It survives being mowed to the ground, often. It's attractive and tough, and the purple of the berries is stunning and seems uncapturable on film (maybe one could Photoshop a digital image to capture the true color). People sell some non-native species as ornamentals: why bother? This one is pretty impressive. I haven't tried eating the berries. I wonder whether careful selection and breeding could improve size, flavor, and yield. I can see how it could become weedy, but compared with some of the weeds I have here it's a wimp.
For some reason mine doesn't grow fast. I have had it three or four years and it is still shorter and thinner than me.
American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana is Native to Texas and other States.
If you live in my zone I would say stay away from this plant. It is a horrible weed here at my house. I have one that has taken over an 8 foot azalea. Once they get established they are really hard to kill. They also freely send seedlings all over the property. This is a very hard weed to control.
This is one of the toughest, most drought tolerant shrubs in my yard with pretty foliage and beautiful berries. I've never had any it self sow at all.
I would add that the notes above say it requires acid to neutral soil. Mine is about 10 years old and is thriving in very alkaline soil.
The internet provides differing opinions as to whether beautyberries are edible or not, and some people say that they taste bad. I've tried them and thought they were good. They are sweet and some have a mild spicey flavor. They are not juicy like a blackberry and have a pulp that reminds me of a soft, mealy apple. I don't believe that they are poisonous because they didn't seem to have any negative effect on me for having eaten them. They grow wild and plentifully here in Tampa and produce a huge number of berries. I think that they are pretty. I'll harvest a bunch this fall and try to make some beautyberry wine.
This plant is a native and I am always pulling them up out of my ditch. However, it is not quite as invasive as some of the other undesirables that grow here.
This plant is a native here, it is all over my property and grows very big and invasive. I think of it more as a weed and have been fighting to get it off my property.
I had this growing in a full sun flower bed, surrounded by periwinkles and it made a beautiful carefree color bed. By the end of April the beautyberry was about 4 feet tall and already had a load of berries and was still producing blooms. We had a good rain during the night and I found all the stalks on the plant had broken about 1 foot or so above ground. The main stem of the plant was about 1 inch diameter and semi woody, but I'm assuming the weight of the leaves and berries were too heavy for it to support once they were rained on. I'll try again by putting it in a more protected area.
Wonderful plant indigenous to North America.
The photographer of the plant said this about it, "American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is a good nectar and pollen plant. The fruits are not terribly popular with birds, but are occassionally eaten by mockingbirds".
This has been in the garden for about 6 months. It has set many berries. It seems to like a moderately moist area in part sun.
I have grown this species now in Pennsylvania and New England (Zone 5) and it performs beautifully. It needs a bit of extra mulch in the winter but will go over fine. It is absolutely lovely when the leaves come off and the berries are hanging on by themselves. It is an old fashioned or heirloom variety and I highly recommend it.
We bought 15 acres in the Capote Sandhills south of Seguin, Texas. It is heavily forested with sandy loam soil, and is LOADED with beautyberries!! I was delighted this summer to find a white-berried one close to the house, but my heart still belongs to the more populous magenta-berried variety. They seem to grow readily in anything from part sun to full shade, and I'm told they can be propagated by either seeds or cuttings, but that I will have more success getting other white-berried shrubs with cuttings rather than seeds. I haven't ever cut one back, but will try it in late fall and see what happens.
I am a new admirer of the American Beautyberry and so far I haven't found the place that it seems to thrive. I live in west central Ga, where we are famous for red clay. With our wet spring, my shrub has begun to drop it leaves as though it is dying. I removed it from the ground and put it back into the pot til I could determine the problem. I'm hoping that it will recover and I can relocate it later this year so I can begin to enjoy this beautiful plant. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.
Great plant for shade. Native Texan as well. Long lived ~ one plant I have has been in the same spot for over 25 years, is now 5 feet tall and twelve feet wide.
Although I never tried growing them, as a canoe tour guide throughout the state of Florida I see them in a variety of habitats everywhere I paddle. In my experience the best tasting ones are on plants growing on or near a riverbank that provides more sun than shade with a lot of leaf litter over the soil their growing in. They're shorter but bushier and produce more berries. Since I only remove 10 to 20% of the berries on any plant I'm leaving plenty for wildlife and the plant's reproduction, thereby creating as little human impact as possible and still enjoy a breakfast of Beautyberry pancakes.
If you don't use this plant in your landscaping for any other reason plant it for the birds - they enjoy the purple berries and will reward you with their songs.
I live in north central Florida, and I like to use native plants, particularly "volunteers", in my landscaping. In that regards, Beautyberry is a positive addition to my landscaping.
This plant grows native and flourishes on my heavily wooded property in Magnolia (near Houston), Texas. In searching the Web to try and find out what it was, I found this site, and I am so glad!
I have one plant in a shaded, secluded area that is around 8 feet tall, and many other smaller plants, most of them under Oak trees. The beautiful purple berries are adding much-needed color to the landscape. Most of the plants didn't bloom well this year, and right now the leaves are yellowing and dying off, but I plan to prune as the colder temps arrive and hope to have fuller plants next year.
Beautyberry is one of the plants I have grown over the years that always gets favorable attention. I am creating a new garden now, but the 3 gal potted beautyberry I planted here in early spring is doing fantastic and is over 3' tall with a large crop of berries. These shrubs are quite tolerant of drought once established, but they are much happier in moist woodland dappled shade and sun. Mine gets morning sun and afternoon shade next to a young cypress tree, and it is very well foliaged. In fact, I need to rescue some daylilies from its shade!
I just planted one about two months ago. It had flowers on it when I got it but now just the berries. It has not grown any but it doesn't seem to be bothered by any insects either. I am hoping that it can survive our winters. Of course in Texas you never know what kind of winters we will get mild or severe.
I live on six acres in an oak hammock in Northcentral Florida, zone 8b, and beauty berry is growing everywhere on my property. It is native, and in the shade of my oak trees grows quite lanky, up to about six feet tall. Where it gets more sun, in some cleared areas, it's more attractive, and gets quite bushy, with the branches arching over. It is a quick grower and spreader, but is so attractive that I don't really mind. I prefer it to poison oak and Virginia creeper as a native plant to have everywhere. I'm constantly finding baby plants by the larger plants, but don't know yet if they are suckers or come from fallen seed.
In midsummer the small, shortlived, pale pink flowers are quite attractive, and the later purple berry clusters are outstanding--their color is quit... read moree intense. I've read that it can be severely pruned almost to the ground in late winter to encourage heavy flowers and fruiting later in the year. The plant is deciduous, and not very attractive in the winter--just a lot of bare brown branches sticking up out of the ground, so in the garden I would put it someplace where this won't seem out of place or unattractive, such as in a "naturalistic" part of the garden.
It grows naturally on the forest floor, so I would think that if you try to replicate those conditions of filtered sun, a rich, organic soil and lots of water--we average 60 inches or so of rain, but will probably get over 90 inches this year--you can grow this very attractive native plant in a garden.
This is one of my favorite shrubs. It provides interest from spring through fall; first in the spring and summer with the flowers and the pollinators it attracts, then following with beautiful clusters of purple or white berries. The white-berried plants are albino (var. alba) and are also native.
Mockingbirds will sit on the plant and eat the berries one at a time. I have also seen squirrels eat the berries. They are edible for human consumption "as is" though they don't have much flavor to them. They are delicious when made into jelly. I have had only a few volunteer plants and have not noticed them to be susceptible to any plant pests.
This shrub should be planted in amongst other plants/greenery to hide it when it it goes dormant in the winter. It... read more can be pruned in late winter to about 6" just before the leaves start to flush out. This will make it much fuller and reduce the shrub height. They can get tall and a little leggy if left unpruned. I recommend pruning if it will be in a more formal landscape situation. Pruning will increase the flowering and fruiting as flowers occur only on the new growth.
Early Floridians, and possibly latter day ones also, made jelly from the berries. I have not done so, but have a recipe that i expect to try one of these years. But note, mockingbirds love these berries and will sow them everywhere.
American Beautyberry has done extremely well for me on a dry hill in Zone 8b Florida. It is native here, and can become a quite large shrub. The purple berries in late summer and fall are spectacular. It can self seed some.


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Charles Dickens's opening to A Tale of Two Cities is probably one of the most famous first lines in literature. Not only is it poetic, but the contrast sets up some expectations for the reader, without giving away too much of the love story in war-torn France.
The first moments in your product experience are even more important. They don't just set the tone for your product's value, but they also determine whether or not users stay. Vivek Bedi, Head of Product at LearnVest and founder of mySwapp, describes a common first user experience:
Ever go to a website and based on the first ten seconds you decide to stay on it or not? Or ever download an app and can't figure it out how to use it within the first minute and subsequently delete it? Well that's reality. Humans are impatient people. We are selfish by nature and our time and attention is valuable. If you don't have something to say that we care about you will lose us instantly. It's important when crafting your story to focus heavily on the first few minutes.
One way to capture attention and set the right tone for your product is to welcome users. A friendly welcome page is a nice way to thank users for trying your product and remind them that they've made the right decision.
The meditation app Insight Timer has a great, straight-forward message for new users.
The welcome screen greets new users by their name and gives a brief overview of the app's benefits. There's even a few forms of social proof to help validate the product's value.
2. Have a hero that everyone can root for
Atticus Finch. Jane Eyre. Holden Caulfield. Some of the most enduring stories rest on having a hero character that we all want to win, no matter how insurmountable the odds. We become engaged in their story because we want to see our heroes achieve their missions.
Mascots are kind of like your product's hero. They are often consistent characters in the user journey, appearing in marketing pages all the way through to the in-product experience. Like heroes to a story, they exemplify the main themes of your product.
Mascots, even when they're animal characters, can build a more human connection with customers, says Janet Choi, Senior Manager of Product Marketing and Content at Customer.io. She describes what Ami, their delightfully adorable mascot, does for the customer experience:
It's that small but meaningful emotional connection to a character that feels human and expressive. Ami catches the eye, conveys a friendly personality, and ever since she came to life, we've found that people are naturally drawn to her.
Ami's whimsy and cuteness give our users tiny boosts of emotional support and delight as they navigate around our platform, where they can get in the weeds of features.
Having a mascot like Ami is a visual representation of how we want to come across, communicating who we are as a company with our audience, users, and customers.
The best mascots are more than just a pretty sight. As eye-catching as Ami is, what is most impressive is her journey towards representing the powerful email platform. Customer.io's designer sketched up several different characters, including a robot and bear, before landing on a carrier pigeon. The team had to go through several iterations to make sure that they completely nailed the mascot.
And hard work paid off.
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When the team finally did choose Ami, they made sure she had more depth than just being cute. Ami is named after Cher Ami, a real-life pigeon that saved a battalion of soldiers during World War I by delivering a message despite being wounded.
"Of course those are totally different circumstance, but there are strong connections to our mission to help businesses and organizations be able to reach the right people at the right time," said Janet.
3. Use suspense to keep users coming back
Stories often use cliffhangers to keep people engaged. J.K. Rowling kept millions of readers waiting for the next Harry Potter book by planting bits of anticipation at the end of her stories. The result? A billion-dollar franchise.
While keeping people waiting in your product with cliffhangers sounds like a bad onboarding idea, variable rewards can inspire a similar feeling of uncertainty and excitement. Best described by Nir Eyal in Hooked, his best-selling book on customer experience, variable rewards are distributed on a seemingly random schedule. Our desire for predictability makes us crave these things (think video games and slot machines) all the more.
Some products have variability built into them. Tinder in effect creates many tiny cliffhangers (will the other person swipe left? will they message me? what they look like? will they be the one?). Users experience variable rewards with every product interaction, driving engagement all the more.
4. Craft an actual story in your product
What better way to use storytelling techniques in your product than by creating an actual story?
A new trend in selling SaaS—the self-service product demo—lets product owners and sales teams engage trialers by pre-populating a trial account with sandbox data. This tactic works well for products that require installation, input from other teammates, or time to populate with meaningful data.
Amplitude's product demo lets users slice and dice user behaviors for a hypothetical music app.
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At any point during the trial, users can install Amplitude to start using the product with their real data or contact sales to learn more.
If a product demo doesn't make sense for your customer experience, you can also craft a story by embedding a mission into onboarding. Ptengine's user onboarding flow does a similar thing as a self-service product demo on a smaller scale. It sends users on a mission as a fictional clothing store owner, Emily.
5. Build conflict and resolution
Most good stories contain conflict that the protagonist has to resolve. Whether it's an external force, like Ahab's Moby Dick, or an ongoing internal dialogue, as in Crime and Punishment, conflict builds suspense and often serves as a pedometer for the story.
Conflict translates naturally to storytelling in products. People use your product to solve a specific problem or to get a specific job done. Applying conflict makes the most sense while marketing the product. Take a look at Basecamp's home page.
Basecamp has marketed its project management software with an eye towards the jobs-to-be-done framework. But once users are inside the product, they receive helpful tips on how to use the software.
In most cases, it doesn't really make sense to harp on conflict once users have identified with the problem and are already exploring your product as a solution.
6. Use time to evoke emotion
Endless stories have been built around the element of time and how we perceive it. Writers like Proust and Borges have played with our faulty sense of memory to craft fantastic, creative storylines.
From Timehop to #tbt, it seems like more and more products are appealing to our sense of nostalgia. There is psychology to back this up. Research suggests that thinking about the past makes us fosters a sense of social connectedness. For social products, evoking a sense of nostalgia may make us want to reach out to others more, ideally by engaging more and more with the product (interestingly, feeling more socially connected also weakens our hold on money, which may explain the resurgence of throwback beer cans and vintage cereal boxes).
The folks at Google are experts at perfecting the user experience and integrating services across multiple platforms. Consider Google Photo. Compared Google's other products, users probably don't check Google Photo that often. To drive engagement towards Photo, Google uses an in-app widget that appears across their other products.
When users click on the "rediscover this day" alert, they're not simply taken to an album with photos from the day in question. Instead, Google uses the opportunity to build suspense by blurring out the picture and compelling users to "think back."
Another way to play with time in your product is to paint an inspiring future for the user. Fitness products and money management software are especially poised to do so.
7. Signal the importance of something
Writers often signal the importance of something through themes. In your product, you'd have to use more obvious tactics to indicate when something is worth doing.
One straight-forward way to signal importance is through social proof. While social proof is often used in customer stories and other marketing assets, social proof can help move users along key actions as well. PayPal uses social proof in "see for yourself why millions of people love PayPal" to ease the anxiety of trying a new product.
Once users are engaged with your product, they may need nudges to indicate what's important. This can happen because there's a new feature that they should know about, or they've forgotten about an old feature.
Unobtrusive UI patterns like slideouts can help indicate where a user can explore more. See how Indiegogo uses slideouts to announce a new integration with Apple Pay.
Indiegogo uses Appcues to communicate product updates contextually
Make your product a best-seller
Rudyard Kipling once wrote, "If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
While storytelling techniques might not make your product last forever, they can change attitudes and behaviors. This isn't a guarantee of engagement, but it's a great start to building a fruitful customer relationship.
Harnessing the power of storytelling in your product, even in small and subtle ways, can help build a convincing use case for your product. By evoking emotion and spurring curiosity, stories can help your product become more than just another tool.


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I wish I had developed Julia a little more before I introduced her, but I've been itching to start this Sam-centric arch.
SAM: Hey Julia, where is everybody?
JULIA: Oh, Maggie had to work. And I think Pat's on vacation in Alaska or something?
SAM: Oh. Well, I guess it's just the two of us, then.
SAM: So! I was totally charmed by this month's book. The way Kelly Link constructs a narrative is so mesmerizing. I read the whole thing in one day. What did you think, Jules?
JULIA: It was, uh, good. I liked the characters.
SAM: Which one was your favorite?
SAM: …it's a collection of short stories.
JULIA: Yeah, I meant, ALL the protagonists!
SAM: Why did you even join this book club if you have no intention of reading?
JULIA: Maybe I would read if the club took my suggestions!
SAM: Julia, we can't read a Sookie Stackhouse novel every month.
Julia, we can't read a Sookie Stackhouse novel every month.
You can't? But why not?
Also, I love Sam's shirt.
Oh hello from another new reader linked from Tiger Beatdown who'll definitely be sticking around. Just had to give a "Yay!" to Kelly Link.
Yet another reader from Tiger Beatdown… I'm loving everything I've read so far. If you make the shirts that Sam's wearing here, I will totally buy one.
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In 2015, a year before the event, Ilyumzhinov had been sanctioned for financially assisting Bashar Assad's government, in Syria. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned him for the aid to Assad, whose regime purchased oil from the terrorist group and also inflicted violence on its citizens. As much as the sanction was extreme for any sports leader, Ilyumzhinov wasn't an ordinary chess president. He served both as a regional Russian leader and a steward of chess for years. Thanks to his authoritative ruling method, IIyumzhinov turned into a valuable kremlin talent.
Well, all this drama had to end; thus, election was set in place to find a replacement for the Russian chess leader. Arkady Dvorkovich, a Russian politician was among the most popular candidate for the post, and as expected, he was voted in as the new president of the federation. The election was held in Batumi, Georgia, where delegates from 182 nations did vote to select the new leader.
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David Bazan on The Influence Of Tom Petty In His Music
Last spring, after 11 years of performing and recording under his own name, Dave Bazan's growing fatigue with working alone hit a tipping point. "I missed the energy of making music with other people on stage and constantly traveling alone was starting to really sting", Bazan recalls. "I needed to be in a band again".
At that point, assuming this new band would be billed as "David Bazan Band" or similar, he began to set the wheels in motion to make it happen. He rented a rehearsal space again, hired a couple buddies for upcoming tours, and started fleshing out demos for the band to cue off of.
He didn't realize it at first, but by mid-summer something big started to dawn on him: he had stumbled back into the very same process that yielded the first three Pedro the Lion records. "To my surprise, it felt a bit like coming home." Bazan is very excited to be back playing rock & roll as Pedro the Lion again.
Last time I saw you in Pittsburgh, you covered Tom Petty's "Climb that Hill." Can you talk about his influence on you?
He's the only person whose work I've known that intimately who's died. I'm a big Bowie fan and a big Prince fan, but Tom Petty's catalog I just know more intimately. It was more of a native language for me. And maybe it was because folk music — strumming an acoustic guitar, I know how to do that.
… Basically Wildflowers is how I got into it, because I didn't listen to any secular music when I was a kid. So I didn't know any of the earlier stuff, even the way that most people do because it's just in the air. I was in a different air. But when Wildflowers hit me I kind of fell in love with it. … It appealed to me that he took standard — and almost stock — forms and imbued them with his real vibrant personality in a way that transcended the form. And he was able to take simple phrases and simple ways of doing things, and by being real within those forms was able to convey something totally unique and worthy of study, almost. Wildflowers is just a record of tremendous depth even though it's really just strumming acoustic guitars to drums.
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Kossisko has a hedonistic fever dream in his "Superficial" video
The Berkeley artist shares a new video from last year's LOW project.
By Ben Dandridge-Lemco
In 2012, Kossisko emerged onto the scene as 100s, a perm-wearing, slick-talking rapper telling stories of pimp exploits and debauchery. Over the course of the last seven years, he's shed his rap moniker, shifting into more avant-garde territory under his real name with projects like Red White N Cruel.
At times, these recent releases alienated fans of his former pimp-rap persona, skewing somewhere in between glam rock and electronic music, but his latest project, last November's LOW, feels like a happy medium. One of the standout tracks from that project, "Superficial," found the 26-year-old maintaining the same indulgent charisma as his earlier work over glossy production that allows plenty of space for his vocals.
In the video, which premieres on The FADER today, he performs the song in a variety of vividly colored settings. He describes the video as "that feeling you get when you're just being flagrant as fuck with the check."
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     */
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    {
        $block = new Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_GaConversion();
        $this->assertTrue(
            $block->isConvertCurrencyEnabled(),
            'Convert Currency is not enabled please check config'
        );
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    /**
     * Tests whether Adwords Conversion is enabled.
     *
     * @test
     * @loadFixture
     * @covers Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_GaConversion::isEnabled
     */
    public function testIsAdwordsConversionEnabled()
    {
        $block = new Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_GaConversion();
        $this->assertTrue(
            $block->isEnabled(),
            'Adwords Conversion is not enabled please check config'
        );
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    /**
     * Tests whether Universal Analytics is enabled.
     *
     * @test
     * @loadFixture
     * @covers Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_Universal::isUniversalEnabled
     */
    public function testIsUniversalEnabled()
    {
        $block = new Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_Universal();
        $this->assertTrue(
            $block->isUniversalEnabled(),
            'Universal Analytics is not enabled please check config'
        );
    }
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     * Tests whether TagManager is enabled.
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     * @test
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     */
    public function testIsTagManagerEnabled()
    {
        $block = new Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_TagManager();
        $this->assertTrue(
            $block->isTagManagerEnabled(),
            'Universal Analytics is not enabled please check config'
        );
    }
    /**
     * Tests whether Dynamic Remarketing is enabled.
     *
     * @test
     * @loadFixture
     * @covers Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_Remarketing::isDynamicRemarketingEnabled
     */
    public function testIsDynamicRemarketingEnabled()
    {
        $block = new Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_Remarketing();
        $this->assertTrue(
            $block->isDynamicRemarketingEnabled(),
            'Dynamic Remarketing is not enabled please check config'
        );
    }
    /**
     * Tests whether Enhanced Commerce is enabled.
     *
     * @test
     * @loadFixture
     * @covers Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_Universal::getEnhancedEcommerce
     */
    public function testIsEnhancedCommerceEnabled()
    {
        $block = new Ffuenf_GoogleAnalyticsPlus_Block_Universal();
        $this->assertTrue(
            $block->getEnhancedEcommerce(),
            'Enhanced Commerce is not enabled please check config'
        );
    }
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     * Tests whether the OptOut Cookie is enabled.
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     */
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        $this->assertTrue(
            $block->shouldIncludeOptOut(),
            'OptOut Cookie is not enabled please check config'
        );
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                $offendingExtensions[] = $router->args->module;
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        }
        $this->assertEquals(
            count($offendingExtensions),
            0,
            'This extension uses old-style admin routing which is not compatible with SUPEE-6788 / Magento 1.9.2.2+'
        );
    }
}

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use strict;
use warnings;
use base qw(Google::Ads::GoogleAds::BaseEntity);

use Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Utils::GoogleAdsHelper;

sub new {
  my ($class, $args) = @_;
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  # Delete the unassigned fields in this object for a more concise JSON payload
  remove_unassigned_fields($self, $args);

  bless $self, $class;
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}

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