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Australopithecus sediba fou un homínid australopitec, les restes del qual s'han datat d'entre 1.78 a 1.95 milions d'anys enerera en el Pliocè. Aquesta espècie és coneguda per dos esquelets parcials descoberts a Sud-àfrica, un jove mascle holotip i una femella adulta paratip. Uns 130 elements de l'espècie han estat recuperats fins a la data. Han estat descrits pel professor Lee R. Berger i col·laboradors com una nova espècie antecessora de la humanitat anomenada Australopithecus sediba ("sediba" significa "font natural" en l'idioma sud-africà sesotho).

S'ha suggerit que aquesta espècie pot ser una bona candidata per a ser una espècie de transició entre els Australopithecus africanus i Homo habilis o fins i tot un antecessor directe dHomo erectus. Aquest australopitec tenia els braços llargs, com un simi i les mans curtes i poderoses, una pelvis molt avançada i les cames llargues. La capacitat del crani s'estima en 420–450 cm³.

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 Australopithecus sediba a la Fossil Wiki.
 Fotos del descobriment a National Geographic

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NGC 1033 is een spiraalvormig sterrenstelsel in het sterrenbeeld Walvis. Het hemelobject werd in 1886 ontdekt door de Amerikaanse astronoom Francis Preserved Leavenworth.

Synoniemen
 PGC 10108
 MCG -2-7-53
 NPM1G -08.0109

Zie ook
Lijst van NGC-objecten

Externe links
  NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
  SIMBAD Astronomical Database
  SEDS

NGC-object in Walvis
Sterrenstelsel in Walvis


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Oberlin College to begin 'good neighbor' service plan for students
By Lisa Roberson | The Chronicle-Telegram
Published on Aug. 15, 2018 | Updated 8:39 a. m.
OBERLIN — Students at Oberlin College will learn what it means to be "a good neighbor" to the Oberlin business community in a series of service endeavors the college developed to better integrate students into the Lorain County college town.
In a letter to the Oberlin business community, college President Carmen Twillie Ambar laid out a plan to embrace the business community and help students do the same.
"We want all our local businesses to prosper," Ambar wrote. "With that goal in mind, we are interested in exploring opportunities to ensure our mutual success."
The college will encourage, and in some cases require, student participation in three initiatives. The first, set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 27, encourages new students to shop local. Students who provide receipts from local businesses will be able to enter a drawing to win gift cards from Oberlin businesses.
The college also designed a new orientation program "Community 101: An Obie's Guide to Being a Good Neighbor," to help students think through what it means to be a responsible resident in Oberlin. This is a required student event that brings together several city partners including Oberlin Chief Prosecutor and Assistant Law Director Farah L. Emeka, Fire Chief Robert Hanmer, City Manager Rob Hilliard, Ben Franklin and Mindfair owner Krista Long and Police Chief Ryan Warfield.
"The goal is to introduce students to the town's many special qualities, while communicating clearly the college's expectations for appropriate behavior on a wide range of issues, such as noise, street crossing, bike parking and shoplifting," Ambar wrote.
While the college makes zero mention in the letter of its ongoing lawsuit with Gibson's Bakery, a longstanding downtown Oberlin business, the tone of the letter speaks to ongoing conversations in the business community and attempts to develop a better relationship.
"From talking with some of you, I know you believe as I do that the future of Oberlin College and the city of Oberlin are inextricably intertwined," Ambar wrote. "Neither can flourish without the other."
The rift between the bakery and the college started in 2016 when a student tried to buy alcohol with a fake ID and shoplift from Allyn Gibson, who is the son of the bakery's owner, David Gibson. Allyn Gibson followed the student out of the store and the two got into a physical altercation.
Two other students got involved in the incident, and police have said when they arrived the three student were hitting Allyn Gibson while he was on the ground.
The incident was viewed as racially charged because Allyn Gibson is white and the students are black. All three students pleaded guilty in August 2017 to misdemeanor charges and read statements into the record acknowledging that Allyn Gibson was within his right to detain the shoplifter and that his actions were not racially motivated.
The bakery claims it has suffered a loss of business as a result of the protests by Oberlin College students and community members that ensued after the incident. The business sued the college in 2017 and the lawsuit is ongoing, according to court documents.
The last event scheduled by the college, set for Sept. 1, is community service oriented and takes the incoming Oberlin class into Cleveland for a day of service, exploration and fun.
"Our intent is to show our new students and prospective students how close Oberlin is to a dynamic city," Ambar said. "This work builds on our existing, long-running service programs in Oberlin and Lorain County, and is designed to showcase for students how much they can learn from the vibrant communities in Northeast Ohio."
College spokesman Scott Wargo said Tuesday that the college's initiative has received support from the city and the business community.
"This is a reflection of what is important to the president," he said. "She has had a year to be part of and to observe the Oberlin community and is putting forth initiatives that are meaningful to her and that she hopes will strengthen ties between the college and town."
For many Oberlin students, enrollment in the liberal arts college may represent first-time visits to Ohio and/or Lorain County. According to demographic information from the 2018 applicant pool, Oberlin's first-year enrolling students come from 44 states and 35 countries.
Contact Lisa Roberson at 329-7121 or at lroberson@chroniclet.com. Like her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @LisaRobersonCT.
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One of young men stabbed in Thornton Heath fight is in a critical condition in hospital
Police have provided an update on the three men who were stabbed on Tuesday evening
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One of the three young men stabbed in Thornton Heath on Tuesday evening is in a critical condition in hospital this morning (Wednesday, November 22).
The 24-year-old and two others are being treated in south London hospitals following a fight in an alleyway in London Road at about 6.30pm.
Met Police officers and paramedics from the London Ambulance Service attended and found that a group of four males, believed to be in their teens, had reportedly been fighting.
The Met have also confirmed another of the victims, a 19-year-old man, remains in a stable condition and added his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
The first pictures and video from the scene of a triple stabbing in Thornton Heath
Police still await a condition update on the 23-year-old man injured.
It had been understood that all three were teenagers .
Detectives form Croydon CID are investigating with no arrests so far being made and enquiries continuing.
Police at the scene in the alleyway behind KFC in Thornton Heath
Two police vans were seen on Brigstock Road while four police officers, two on each end of the cordon, remained at the scene until past 10pm last night.
LAS previously told the Advertiser that the three males were "stabilised" at the scene before they were taken to hospital.
An LAS spokesman said: "We were called to London Road at just after 6.35pm. We sent a number of staff to the scene including three ambulance crews, an officer and an emergency paramedic.
"Our staff treated three male patients, who were all conscious."
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using AllReady.Areas.Admin.Features.CampaignManagerInvites;
using AllReady.Models;
using Shouldly;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Xunit;

namespace AllReady.UnitTest.Areas.Admin.Features.CampaignManagerInvites
{
    public class DeclineCampaignManagerInviteCommandHandlerShould : InMemoryContextTest
    {
        private DateTime RejectedTime = new DateTime(2017, 5, 29);
        private int inviteId = 20;

        protected override void LoadTestData()
        {
            Context.CampaignManagerInvites.Add(new CampaignManagerInvite
            {
                Id = inviteId
            });

            Context.SaveChanges();
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task ShouldSetIsRejectedToTrue()
        {
            // Arrange
            var handler = new DeclineCampaignManagerInviteCommandHandler(Context);
            handler.DateTimeUtcNow = () => { return RejectedTime; };

            // Act
            await handler.Handle(new DeclineCampaignManagerInviteCommand
            {
                CampaignManagerInviteId = inviteId
            });

            // Assert
            var invite = Context.CampaignManagerInvites.SingleOrDefault(i => i.Id == inviteId);
            invite.IsRejected.ShouldBe(true);
            invite.RejectedDateTimeUtc.ShouldBe(RejectedTime);
        }
    }
}

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El Castillo de Turís (Valencia) España, localmente llamado "El Castellet", es una fortaleza de origen árabe de reducidas dimensiones construida sobre un asentamiento de la Edad de Bronce, y que se sitúa sobre un cerro alargado al sudoeste de la población que le da su nombre.

El conjunto está clasificado como bien de interés cultural por la declaración genérica que afecta a todos los castillos de España. Recibió la anotación ministerial R-I-51-0010762 de 24 de abril de 2002.

Descripción

La fortaleza dispone de un recinto externo, muy amplio, que debió albergar la primitiva alquería. De este primer recinto se conservan restos de largos lienzos de la muralla y los restos de la torre situada al nordeste y algunos basamentos de otras.

El recinto interior se situaba en la parte más elevada del cerro, con una torre al sur y otras al este construidas con tapial. En la parte más alta se sitúa la torre del homenaje, de planta rectangular, tres plantas y terraza almenada, toda ella construida en mampostería.

Historia
La primera fortificación del actual castillo se construyó a inicios del siglo XI. Ocupaba solo 500 m² y se componía de un oratorio y un torreón, unidos ambos por una doble muralla. El oratorio (zagüiya) contenía la sepultura (maqbara) con los restos de una persona santa. Era visitado por los lugareños, que accedían por el muro de la alquibla, orientado hacia La Meca. Este edificio tenía una cubierta plana diseñada para recoger el agua de lluvia, que se almacenaba en una cisterna en el exterior del recinto. También inicios del siglo XI se edificó el torreón, que servía de residencia a una pequeña guarnición, de forma que se controlaba la ruta del valle del río Magro. Cada uno de los edificios tenía un acceso propio, además de existir una puerta en la zagüiya para el acceso desde el torreón

Con el desarrollo de la taifa de Valencia en la segunda mitad del siglo XI, se hizo necesaria una mejor defensa. La zagüiya fue suprimida, aprovechándose como torre, la torre sur. Se edificó una nueva muralla, en la cual se situó una puerta que sustituía el suprimido acceso por la alquibla. Ante la nueva puerta se construyó un patio de 150 m², el cual se realizaba funciones de barbacana en tiempos de guerra, o albacara en periodos de paz. El gran torreón pasó a servir como residencia y atalaya dentro del recinto agrandado por una nueva muralla que sustituyó a las dos iniciales, arrasadas. Los nuevos accesos incluían un camino carretero. El conjunto alcanzaba una superficie de 3000 m².

Durante el primer tercio del siglo XIII, los almohades realizaron diversas reformas. El torreón se modificó, pasando a ser más alto y estrecho. También se realizaron mejoras en el camino de ronda y nuevas dependencias en el interior, pero la cisterna siguió quedando fuera del recinto. El castillo formaba parte de la red de defensa almohade, en línea de visión directa con los de Macastre y Buñol.

Tras la conquista cristiana en 1238, el castillo se transformó en sede de un señorío. Así era la residencia del gobernador y ocasionalmente del señor, contando también con bodegas y almacenes para los impuestos recaudados, e instalaciones para su transformación. En la parte oriental se construyó la serie de habitaciones para residencia del señor o del gobernador, como la sala grande, el estudio, la cambra y la recambra. También se edificó una gran cocina. Había también un granero, dos lagares, tres bodegas; el torreón fue destinado a mero almacén y armero. En la antigua barbacana se habilitó una porqueriza, una cuadra y pequeños graneros. Se construyó en el interior del recinto una cisterna de 40 m³, mayor que la inicial del complejo.

A inicios del siglo XV, la amenaza del reino de Castilla desde la zona de Requena, llevaron a realizar mejoras en las defensas. Las almenas fueron sustituidas por parapetos con troneras, de forma que facilitaba su uso para disparar espingardas y ballestas. Así mismo, la torre sur fue rebajada para emplazar en ella una bombarda. Con la modificación de la torre sur, la antigua cisterna quedó sin suministro de agua y ya solo se usó como abrevadero.

En 1449 se llevó a cabo un inventario de los contenidos del castillo, a petición de los acreedores del señor local, Pere Boïl de Lladró. Este texto es una de las bases documentales que permiten conocer el uso de la fortaleza en aquel momento. En 1451 se llevaron a cabo reformas imprescindibles en diversas techumbres; el castillo se encontraba ya en muy mal estado.

La unión dinástica entre Aragón y Castilla en 1480 eliminó el interés defensivo del castillo. Los señores locales se trasladaron a una nueva sede en Turís, junto a la iglesia.

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By Adrian Mac Jun 3, 2010, 5:55pm MDT
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On Friday, the NCAA Committee on Infractions is set to release their findings into a multi-year investigation into alleged major infractions in the USC football and basketball program. Why does this matter to UTEP fans? Good question and there's a very simple answer: If the NCAA determines that new Miner basketball coach Tim Floyd did commit violations while he was the head coach at USC, the Committee on Infractions could assess recruiting violations on Floyd personally. UTEP, of course, can't be punished as an institution for whatever may or may not have happened at USC. But the NCAA can restrict Floyd individually- which in essence would create a de facto sanction on UTEP basketball.
The day UTEP hired Tim Floyd, we discussed the likelihood that the NCAA could levy sanctions against him. Here's the quick summary of the allegations I wrote then.
There is a reason why Tim Floyd won 20 games in three consecutive season at USC, went to three straight NCAA Tournaments (including a Sweet 16 appearance) but is no longer coaching Southern Cal. He resigned from USC amid a looming NCAA scandal related to alleged cash payouts to one of O.J. Mayo's personal associates, Rodney Guillory. If you want a complete breakdown of the Floyd allegations, go here, where Yahoo! Sports writers Charles Robinson and Jason Cole run through the alleged payments.
Last month, Floyd testified before the NCAA Committee on Infractions where he, and USC, presented their case denying the allegations made by a "confidant" of Mayo's. Floyd, no longer employed by USC, had no legal obligation to testify. But, he went anyway and stated his case to the committee. He didn't run from the accusations. He faced them head on, even after he felt USC's athletic department turned their back on him.
Before the hearing, USC announced self imposed sanctions, including vacating 21 wins from the 2007-2008 season, scholarship reductions, and a ban on postseason play in 2009 (which included the PAC 10 Tournament).
Monday, AP writer Alicia Caldwell asked UTEP athletic director Bob Stull whether or not he was worried about potential penalties when he hired Floyd.
"Tim had never had a previous NCAA violation and from further investigation we, along with five other universities who were trying to hire him, felt like it was unlikely for (the) allegations to be valid," Stull said.
Tomorrow, the answers to a lot of questions will be answered. We'll finally know if Reggie Bush is ruled ineligible for taking well over $200,000 in cash and gifts while starring for the Trojans football team. The football accusations encompass a bulk of the investigation and obviously have the highest stakes. A national championship and a Heisman Trophy may be swinging in the balance. The basketball accusations are, of course, centered around the accusation that Floyd himself handed $1,000 in cash to Guillory, who in turn, helped secure O.J. Mayo's commitment to USC.
Even if the NCAA does find Floyd broke rules, the NCAA could simply adopt the self-imposed sanctions as the total punishment, right? Yes, that's true. But, there's also the tale of Kelvin Sampson. Which brings me to the key question.
The Key Question: Has the NCAA ever placed sanctions on a coach at a new school for violations that occurred at his old program?
Yes, and it was in a high profile case just like this one. The last time it happened, the violations surrounded former Oklahoma and Indiana head basketball coach Kelvin Sampson. Here's a summary of what happened with Sampson- forgive the formatting, I am having trouble with it as I'm to import this from a paper I wrote on NCAA punishment mechanisms and recruiting.
Prior to being hired at Indiana, Mr. Sampson was the head coach at Oklahoma University. While at Oklahoma, the NCAA enforcement staff investigated Mr. Sampson for potential major infractions. In April of 2007, Indiana, aware of pending investigation, hired him away from OU with a seven year contract that guaranteed him a salary of over $1 million per season. Before Mr. Sampson ever coached a game at Indiana, the NCAA Infractions committee ruled he and his staff had made 577 impermissible phone calls to recruits and that Sampson himself was personally responsible for about half of that total. NCAA Infractions Committee Chairman, Thomas Yeager, noted that Sampson's conduct constituted "deliberate noncompliance" and "willful violations." He also noted that he there were more documented calls, each one its own violation, than he had ever been familiar with and that the violations were successful for Sampson in that four of the recruits he contacted impermissibly signed to play with OU. As a result of the investigation, Sampson was barred from making any phone calls to prospective recruits for one year at Indiana.
Indiana, aware of the investigation, had negotiated a clause in Mr. Sampson's contract that gave the university the option to terminate his employment should the NCAA's punishments exceed the penalties expected for the violations (those self imposed by Oklahoma) which they ultimately did. Indiana declined to exercise the option and elected to let Sampson keep the position of head basketball coach. In October of 2007, less than a year after Sampson started his new job at IU, Indiana self reported potential violations to the NCAA related to 133 impermissible phone calls made by Sampson and assistant coaches. Indiana took no action against Sampson but instead allowed him to terminate an assistant coach in response to the allegations. Only four months later, the NCAA sent notice to Indiana that Sampson had committed five major violations related to even more occurrences of impermissible phone calls with potential recruits. Indiana knew of Mr. Sampson's past recruiting violations before they hired him; allowed an assistant coach to "fall on the sword" for another instance of intentional violations after he had been sanctioned, and then ultimately had to fire him when he was caught breaking the same rule for the third time in two years.
IU knew Sampson was under investigation when they hired him away from Oklahoma (like UTEP did when they hired Floyd)
IU protected their program by negotiating a clause in Sampson's contract that permitted them a way out of the deal should the sanctions be stronger than those self-imposed by OU. (I am not sure if UTEP included a similar provision in Tim Floyd's contract)
IU did not exercise the contractual option when the sanctions were in excess of those self imposed by OU.
The NCAA restricted Sampson's ability to use telephone calls on prospective recruits while at IU for one year.
The key here is that the NCAA found "deliberate noncompliance" and "willful violations" related to Sampson's conduct. Obviously, this was proven to be an accurate finding as Sampson again violated the rules after the NCAA imposed their penalties on him at Indiana. If the NCAA finds that Floyd did in fact give cash to Guillory, then it's safe to say that the conduct will be "deliberate" and "willful" due to the very nature of the claim. So, there is some precedent here that says that the NCAA can place a restriction on Floyd at UTEP.
What kind of restriction? Trust me, as someone who researched and wrote a 25 page paper on NCAA Regulations and Punishment, there's absolutely no way of telling what kind of punishment the NCAA could impose. It literally will differ from case to case. Sampson's punishment was simple, a one year moratorium on telephone recruiting, but that doesn't help us when predicting potential punishment here simply because the alleged violations are quite different.
Well, we'll know soon enough whether or not the NCAA will impose penalties on Floyd and we'll have Floyd's take on the ruling soon thereafter. ESPN's Andy Katz tweeted that Floyd will hold a teleconference for reporters on Monday to address whatever is revealed tomorrow.
Full coverage of the NCAA's findings tomorrow.


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In recent years, established ideas on portfolio construction have been called into question. Investors can now choose from a range of 'smart beta' strategies, offering exposure to market risk premia in a systematic, transparent fashion. Where does the dividing line between active and passive fund management lie today? What is the future role of active managers? As indices evolve, how should standard, capitalisation-weighted benchmarks be used?
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Resolving the taxonomic enigma of the iconic game fish, the hump-backed mahseer from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India.
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Growing to lengths and weights exceeding 1.5 m and 45 kg, the hump-backed mahseer fish of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India, is an iconic, mega-faunal species that is globally recognized as a premier freshwater game fish. Despite reports of their high extinction risk, conservation approaches are currently constrained by their lack of valid taxonomic identity. Using an integrative approach, incorporating morphology, molecular analysis and historical photographs, this fish can now be revealed to be conspecific with Tor remadevii, a species lacking a common name, that was initially, but poorly, described in 2007 from the River Pambar, a tributary of the River Cauvery in Kerala. Currently known to be endemic and restricted to the River Cauvery basin in the Western Ghats, T. remadevii is distinguished from congeners by its prominent hump originating above the pre-opercle and extending to the origin of the dorsal fin, a well-developed mandible resulting in a terminal or slightly superior mouth position, and the dorsal orientation of the eyes. While body colouration varies (silver, bronze, greenish) and is not considered a reliable diagnostic character, orange coloration of the caudal fin (sometimes extending to all fins) is considered a consistent characteristic. Having been first brought to the attention of the scientific community in 1849, and the recreational angling (game fishing) community in 1873, it has taken over 150 years to finally provide this iconic fish with a valid scientific name. This taxonomic clarity should now assist development and delivery of urgent conservation actions commensurate with their extinction risk.
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No Breast Cancer in Israel! | Cancer Shmancer POO POO POO. My journey.
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No Breast Cancer in Israel!
Perhaps it is because my Hebrew isn't fluent, but I have found through personal observation and anecdotal evidence that there is no breast cancer in Israel. I'm here for a conference and decided I would precede the work with some sorely needed R and R. I'm staying with friends in the country between Tel Aviv and Haifa. My friend Seven and I were roommates in the absorption center 14 years ago and recently we found out we are related though marriage. She and I have a very intense, almost spiritual connection, so it was very fitting to find out that after calling each other 'fake sister', we are, indeed, cousins. She and I have been aiding my recuperation by doing lots of retail therapy and helping the Israeli economy. So far, in shops in Karkur, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem, I have seen NO breast cancer-pink kitchen mixers. No pink ribbons at the check out. No food approved and proven to reduce breast cancer. It doesn't exist here!
Now, with all the Ashkenazi-decent women in Israel, breast cancer has to exist. So where is it? Why is this disease treated so differently in Israel that in the US? Perhaps it could be there is so much more to worry about in Israel. Israelis have top-notch medical care, so they can heal the sick and protect the country simultaneously. Diseases here are not trumpeted proudly like in the US. Instead, people deal with their illnesses with there family and those close to them.
Now, this can have many repercussions. People can feel isolated when faced with a difficult illness like breast cancer. However, the people here are of a different breed. You see all kinds of people on the streets of Tel Aviv. People are not slowed down by illnesses or injuries–instead, they carry on their daily lives and get done what they need to survive. Life is too precious to waste on being sick. People face what they need to face in order to survive.
I think the US can take a lot from this approach. I'm not saying can the pink kitchen mixers all together. I'm just saying–WARRIORS! BE A LITTLE ISRAELI IN YOUR FIGHT AGAINST THE GUYS IN THE WHITE VAN! The life you save WILL be your own.
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Each Tuesday Night at 11 we pay tribute to some of the greatest music ever recorded as we revisit one of the most iconic formats for capturing sound, the record. For much of the second half of the 20th century the long playing album was king. Some artists still prefer the warm sound vinyl provides and continue to press records as part of their new releases. Join us Tuesday night at 11pm as we travel all over the musical map making stops from Gershwin to The Clash, Benny Goodman to The Ramones. We mix a side of The Beatles with a side of The Stones or an A side from Sinatra with a B side of Bing as we bring together artists that are related in sound, style or moment in time. More than 300 albums have already been featured but there are so many amazing, influential, beautiful, groundbreaking albums out there that we look forward to sharing with you.


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We're thrilled with the reception that Grackles has received at Origins and Gen Con and can't wait for everyone to have it in hand! Grackles releases September 5! Ask your local game store if you can grab a copy.
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Iran (Islamic Republic of): Earthquake: 2021/11/14
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Two earthquakes of 6.0 and 6.3 M (respectively 6.4 and 6.3 M as reported by the Iranian Seismological Centre) at a depth of 6 km and 10 km respectively occurred in Bandar Abbas County (central Hormozgan Province, southern Iran) on 14 November 2021 at 12:07 and 12:08 UTC (15:37, 15:38 local time). The two epicentres were approximately 20 km northeast of Fin City (Bandar Abbas County).
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The affected area consists of one city and 137 villages, with a total population of approximately 9,121 households (36,484 people). According to the Emergency Medical Services (EMS), 99 individuals were injured, and one died as a result of the power pole collapse.
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M 6.0 - 62 km NNW of Bandar Abbas, Iran


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Worcester Gets a New Library!
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After a five-year renovation, the new Worcester-Schenevus Library opened on Tuesday at 170 Main St. here, Diane Addesso, president, announced today.
A grand opening is planned in mid-May.
The new space is a Victorian former residence built around 1880. The Library's previous location, a single room in the Wieting Theater, was built by philanthropist Hellen Wilder Wieting in 1910 and expanded to two rooms in 1922.
The new library, at over 2400 square feet, is four times the size of the previous one, and is located right next door.
New amenities include: a children's room, seven computer stations, a
conference room, a teen space, a maker's space and a larger collection. An elevator and access ramp comply with ADA accessibility requirements, Addesso said.
A municipal parking lot, outdoor patio and a community garden are planned for the upcoming year.
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the eCommerceFuel Podcast. Thanks so much for joining me. Good to have you with me on the program. And I'm excited today because I get to do a deep dive with a company that I have admired from afar for quite a while, and that's a company called Peak Design. If you're not familiar with them, they create products for photographers, hardware products, but also very innovative, extremely well-built and well thought out backpacks, messenger bags, things like that.
They are, I think it's safe to say, I think it's very safe to say, probably the most successful company today. They're still really active thriving in 2018 that has leveraged Kickstarter to grow their brand and their business. They've raised over $14 million dollars just through Kickstarter alone in the last few years, and that's not the revenues. I'm sure they've done much more than that, but that's just the amount that they do on Kickstarter. And they really leveraged Kickstarter as the platform and medium to launch their new big products to the world. So, we're gonna do a deep dive on that today.
We kick things off with kind of a pretty interesting/disastrous story from one of their Kickstarter campaigns, but then really dive into how they do it. What's their magic sauce for everything, from gearing up for the launch, to thinking through how to make sure when they launch, they've got a huge amount of momentum behind them that they can unleash. We talk about what to do on launch day. We discuss paid traffic. A lot of firms and lot of campaigns today use paid traffic heavily to get where they are, and Peak Design does it too.
They wouldn't necessarily have to, because they have such a great reputation and such a following, but they choose to. We talk about why. And then we talk about even, you know, kind of halfway through the campaign, all the way through as you wrap up, a whole blueprint for how they do this, and their world class of it. So I really want to chat with them about, of course, their blueprint, but why they continue to embrace that platform today when they don't necessarily have to.
So, Adam Saraceno is their Chief Marketing Officer. He's the man joining me today. And hope you enjoy the discussion, because I had a lot of fun.
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And then secondly, an enormous "Thank you." to the team over at Klaviyo, who sponsors the show. Klaviyo, who makes email automation easy and powerful. What they do, in a nutshell, is they let you make more money with email through sophisticated segmentation and personalization. So, marketing is all about getting the right message to the right people, at the right time, and with Klaviyo, you can do that in an…you send the time to set up some of these flows, and they just more or less, generate ROI for you while you sleep.
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All right, thank you to both our sponsors, really appreciate your support. You know, with that being said, let's go ahead and jump into my discussion today with Adam, from Peak Design.
Adam, I wanna kick things off by asking you about the time you guys manufactured a ton of camera straps that had defects, and the ensuing chaos that came after. Can you talk a little bit about that? Hey, Andrew, quick little sidebar. One thing I wanted to clarify after the chat with Adam, after the podcast, was that Peak Design, they went ahead and quarantined all of the units that had this problem in their supply chain, and none of them ever made it out to retail.
So, they were pretty aggressive about getting taken care of. So, I just wanted to make sure that I mention that. All right, back into the discussion.
Adam: Sure. Cool. What a grim thing to open up with? Yeah, so this was in 2014. We launched Slide and Slide Light, or Slide and Clutch, which were a couple of cameras straps, via Kickstarter. And it was a really successful campaign. We raised upwards of $800,000 over 60 days.
Then we get about five emails the next day, and then about 30 emails the next day, and then we realized that we had a major problem whereby there was a manufacturing defect, where one part had been made not quite to tolerance, and because of that, the camera straps would actually drop the camera if just kind of pushed just in the right way.
And then we had a big media hit right about that time on Pedo Pixel and on FStoppers, which are two be camera blogs of…Actually, a writer for that company had basically dropped the camera and broken it, and we thought, "Boy, this is it. This is what's gonna do us in." It didn't, because, luckily we, well, the first thing we did was we went back to our backers and we said, "Hey, guys. We messed up big time. Put down your camera straps, don't use them.
And we just kind of treated it with full transparency. We explained to our backers exactly what the defect was, exactly what had happened. We sent them videos. We immediately booked trips over to factories that we had set up in China that were making the straps.
We were kind of giving them daily and weekly updates on what we were doing to fix it. Within months, luckily, we were able to actually create a kit that people could be sent to just kind of pop up their old spring and pop in a new one, and they would have a camera strap that was totally functional, and totally safe, and good as new.
I think because of that sort of transparency, and because we had that conduit of communication Kickstarter between us and our customers, I think we emerged from it better than what probably had started. We got a ton of goodwill, a ton of support from our backers that were like, "Hey, we get it. Sometimes you mess up. Thanks for being honest with us." So, it didn't do us in. We're still here.
Andrew: And I mean, of all the things that you don't wanna be dropping, you know, $3,000, $4,000 digital cameras comes to mind. I mean, it kind of ties into a question about Kickstarter, you guys have been around for you know, years and years, done over $15 million or close to, you know, over $14 million on Kickstarter, half a dozen campaigns. I would say it just seems like maybe you're definitively, have you raised more money than anyone else on Kickstarter as a company?
Adam: There are companies that I believe has raised more than us, but we are the most crowd funded active brand right now. Pebble has since been purchased by another company. So, yeah, cumulatively, over now seven campaigns, we've raised about $15.5 million.
Andrew: It's amazing. And do you launch all new products on Kickstarter? Is that the only way you bring products to market, or is it only, you know, when it makes sense?
Adam: Not everything, but most of our new big products, yes, we launch on Kickstarter. We will do sort of what we call mid-season launches of, you know, a new color way, or a new size, or maybe a smaller accessory. But, you know, if we have something big and new to share with the world, we definitely will use Kickstarter as the launch platform.
Andrew: And why, so far into the business, why continue to do that? I mean, there's yes, you know, you can tap into the kickstarting platform but you pay for it. I think it's 10% that you pay for, for all the things that you raise. It's a lot of work, as we're gonna get into, designing a great crowd-funding campaign and the video, and, you know, all of that. You've got an audience, you've got a great email list, you've got people who love your products, why continue to do Kickstarter at this point?
Adam: That's a great question, and one that we get asked a lot because I think Kickstarter is often perceived as, well, it's called Kickstarter, it's perceived as a company launch pad and not as a sort of continual business model. But for us, we've actually found that, I mean, we sort of have found no reason to not continue using it. You know, for us, Kickstarter is equal parts marketing and finance.
And that financial independence, you know, because we run a big Kickstarter campaign every year, we are able to kind of run our company without major outside investment.
So, we don't have any like equity shareholders of our company, it's just us, and our customers, and our Kickstarter backers, and therefore, we sort of view Kickstarter as something that allows us to continue doing what we love, which is designing great products.
Without Kickstarter, we feel that we would sort of maybe be burdened by a less pure product design process, one where you have these kind of external stakeholders, people that are investing in your business, that are sort of requiring returns or, you know, just wanna sit at the table on how you're doing stuff. You know, without that, we can kind of just fully focus on designing the products that we think are surely the best.
Andrew: You mentioned the marketing aspect, of course, and the finance, which makes a lot of sense. How much of it is the relationship with customers? I would classify myself as someone who almost never makes impulse purchases, almost never, with one big exception, and that is Kickstarter.
You know, like just this last week, I backed a, you know, a new French press because I thought it was phenomenal, and I loved the design, and I felt like I knew the company, you know, the founder behind it, and there's a…I felt like you almost even build rapport with a well done Kickstarter video that you can't in other ways. I imagine that probably ties into, at least, partially you guys stick with it.
And also, thinking through like that, you know, the snuffing you had with the camera straps failed, I'm guessing because of the Kickstarter campaign, you probably got a lot more understanding and empathy from your backers than you would have just random kind of customers who didn't know you as well.
Adam: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Kickstarter brings us face-to-face with the best customers that you could possibly ask for. And, you know, part of that is that it's a communication platform, but, you know, yeah, it is a platform that allows a customer to become sort of very intimately familiar with the person or company that is making the thing that is solving their need. There's just a lot in goodwill that comes out of that, you know, so I totally agree.
And it's interesting, you know, like I think there's plenty of people that Kickstarter purchases are impulse buys, but it's actually a very, you know, on Kickstarter versus our other platforms, our customers drill us with questions. You know, they wanna know everything. These people are, they tend to be early adopters. They tend to be super passionate about what you're doing and how you're doing it, and they wanna know everything.
So, you know, we go into incredible depth on every nook and cranny of every bag and camera accessory, and everything that we launch on Kickstarter.
We really have to go deep on it. We have like weekly hangouts, video hangouts with our backers, where they can ask us anything, and we'll all stand there and answer it and, you know, kind of give them an inside view on the latest prototype.
Andrew: I mean, you have such a unique, and you probably have more so than maybe anyone else, a really unique perspective on how crowd funding has changed and evolved over the last, you know, seven, eight, nine, ten years. How has it changed launching something on Kickstarter back from your first campaign to today, 2018?
Adam: You know, it hasn't changed that much, I would say. Certainly, the platform itself has not changed that much. Kickstarter has stuck pretty true to their sort of initial goal and platform, with the exception of a few functionalities and features, and usability tweets. You know, the Kickstarter page of today looks a lot like a Kickstarter page of 2011.
Another important thing that hasn't really changed a whole lot is the number of people who have ever backed a Kickstarter campaign. I think it's over 13 million people have ever backed a Kickstarter. And if I remember right, that number three or four years ago was like 11 million. So, it's interesting, like there's not a ton of new people coming to the platform, but the people that are they are kind of continue to come back.
And then, you know, with the public perception of Kickstarter, I think when it first came out, nobody quite knew what to think about it, something that we've…I sometimes think that we hit it at a very lucky spot, because when we launched in 2011, a big key to the success of that campaign was that Gizmodo paid us up on day three, and like ran an article about us, and it was just like, boom, we were on the map.
Nowadays, most, you know, most media sites as a rule, will not cover Kickstarter projects.
So, I think there's maybe a more of an uphill battle than there was before. I think there's also just a ton…there's so many more projects, there's a lot more millions, it's a lot harder to speak out on Kickstarter like we were able to kind of so easily back in 2011.
Andrew: How many more campaigns are competing for that attention? Most, not all, but I would say most campaigns that I see that do six figures these days, they launch organically.
You know, they'll queue up kind of a PR blitz beginning to launch, they'll kind of tap into all these people they have lined up, and then they'll run for two, three, four days, kind off that original burst, and then of course, you get that lull, and they'll supplement that with, you know, a company funded today, or one of others that are out there that will come in, and they specialize in using paid traffic to continue to really grow that campaign.
So, is that something that like…I guess two-part question for you then, one, do you guys do you that? Do you guys kind of use paid advertising to really grow those Kickstarter campaigns that you launch? And if so, do you think that's something that like is, you almost have to do today to get decent traction to break that six-figure mark?
Adam: You know, paid up advertisement is a big part of our strategy. We use a company called Jellop. They're a shop based on a tele-viewed. Super cool guys. We love working with them. You know, it's definitely a part of our strategy, and it's just sort of something that we know we're gonna do.
The great thing about these companies like Jellop and Funded Today, are that, you know, like you said, they're experts at reaching not just the people that might find your widget interesting, but they're finding those people who are also really familiar with the Kickstarter platform, and have likely backed other projects in the past. That's actually the super important part of it, kind of going back to the whole only 13 million people that have backed a campaign, you know.
If you're bringing somebody who's never backed a Kickstarter campaign, or never seen a Kickstarter page to a Kickstarter page, they don't really know what's up at first.
You know, it's a non-standard eCommerce experience, and it doesn't kind of fit the paradigm that's in their head of like, "Okay, add to cart, check out," and so they need a lot more handling.
So, long story short, the beauty, you know, and the value of using something like Jellop is that they're finding those people that are gonna be most likely to convert. They're making sure that those people are getting to your page. I'll say all this with a caveat that we can never just hang our hat on, you know, well, paid ads are gonna make us hit our goal. You know, it's a part of a much bigger strategy that we employ to run successful campaigns.
Andrew: I'd love to, you know, walk through the anatomy of a successful Peak Design Kickstarter launch, because you guys have nailed it so many times. Obviously, a huge part of that is you gotta have a great product, right? And you have to have a good story behind that to tell, but an enormous part also is being able to market it well, and to get the word out. So, how do you… get there kind of focused on the marketing side of this first versus the products side?
Assuming you've got a great product, what do you do before you go live? What are the things you really have to have in place? How are you thinking about making sure that when you launch, you've got that momentum that you can unleash to get the project off to a good start? What are you doing to prepare for that launch?
Andrew: Sorry to interrupt, what did you call…you called them BD, is that business development units?
Adam: Oh, excuse me, media units.
Andrew: Oh, media units? Okay, got you, sorry.
Adam: Yeah. Just being able to get the product in the hands of journalists, and influencers before you launch, or if not before you launch, sometime during the course of that campaign, so that they can kind of feel it and experience it, and really, you know, when they do share your campaign, really do so in a convincing manner, and put a little oomph behind it. That's big for us.
Another thing that we kind of do to build the buzz at the beginning and come out the gate with a bang, is we sort of run a, kind of about hack of an affiliate program where by Kickstarter, in your project, you can create unique tracking links to your project. We create those before we launch. We send it out to, you know, media and influencers, and then we basically say, "Hey, at the end of this campaign, we will sort of pay you a 10% or 15% share of the funds that come through from your link.
And because Kickstarter is tracking uses first click attribution, all the incentive is for them to, you know, share that link first thing right when your project launches.
Andrew: Interesting. So, you kind of broke this down to media and influencers. For media, can you give me a sense of who you're reaching out to? And it's gonna be a little different, you guys obviously have such a good reputation in the space. You've done it half a dozen times, people know you're gonna deliver on great products, so you have a little bit of a, you know, an advantage, a well-earned one.
What do you do, like let's say, do you have any thoughts or suggestions for people thinking about trying to get out to the media maybe if they're less well-known? What are the important things to do, maybe to get in the mindset of that media person? Because I'm sure a lot of, I mean, media people in general just get pitched all the time, so any thoughts on how you can stand out with a physical product and get them to maybe get some coverage for you when they're swamped with other things?
Adam: I think that like that hire, you know, for us, we outsource that. We have a PR agency. They're a real small company called Purple Orange in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and, you know, they manage our media outreach.
And it was something that we tried ourselves, you know? A big part of my job back during our first few campaigns was sending out all these cold emails and follow ups, and trying to get people's addresses to send them things. It's a really hard thing to do, and, you know, it's why PR agencies exist, because there are people who sort of have these relationships with media built up, you know.
So, I guess my long story short recommendation is it's worth hiring a PR agency. There are, I think, a lot of, sort of there's a lot of PR agencies out there, and PR "services" that prey on Kickstarter creators and sort of say offer for, you know, for a certain amount of, you know, for $500 they're gonna send an email out to 50,000 media contacts.
Those are almost, you know, I really think that they are a total farce, and they're taking advantage of people that have limited experience with PR.
So, you know, in the end, I think it's really worth seeking a legitimate PR shop, you know, even if you have to pay them, you know, $3 grand, $4 grand, $5 grand a month, they do really good work.
Andrew: And then influencers was the other side of that. Is that something that you guys also outsource to somebody else? Do you keep that in-house? How does that work?
Adam: I think the line is sort of blurred between media and influencers nowadays. So, there are certain folks that our PR agency managers relationships with, and there are certain people that we manage relationships with. You know, ultimately, our philosophy with influencers is that is basically, we're gonna become friends with people, and, you know, we'll give them products, and in some cases, maybe we'll pay folks to create content or things like that.
But I think over the years, we've built up sort of enough friends, enough like believers, in our company that we don't, you know, we don't sit down with folks before a Kickstarter campaign and say, "Okay, we're gonna pay $500 for this Instagram post, and if you do this Instagram story, $300." We just don't do that anymore. We have our friends in the business, and we sort of scratch their back and they scratch ours.
Andrew: So, you get to launch day, and you get ready to launch. You click the button, and of course, you're telling all, you know, you're probably sending out email to, or your PR firm is sending an email to all the contacts that they have, especially the warm ones. You're reaching out to those influencers, those friends, those good connections that you've made. You're sending your email list out. What else do you do on launch day to get the word out? Or is that, really, the bulk of it?
Adam: That's really the bulk of it, right there. You know, we've done so much tree work up until that point that, you know, on launch day, we press 'Go' and then we just pull all the levers, you know, all of which, you know, there's been quite a bit of pre-work going into it.
I think another general theme that we were often sharing with first time Kickstarter creators is that, you know, when you're pressing a launch on your Kickstarter, you want to have already done, you know, months of pre-work, you know, of creating that collateral, and building that buzz, and kind of priming your network for that day.
There's equal, I mean, equally much more pre-work to be done on the product side too. You know, having a product that's, basically, ready to press the "Produce" button on, the manufacture button on, is also pretty important. I think a lot of first time creators launch with something that's much closer to concept than finished product, and then that's how they kinda get themselves into trouble in that fulfillment stage where they thought something was gonna be ready in October, and it's February next year and they're still ironing out kinks, you know?
Andrew: Yeah, I've backed a few of those. Those are frustrating. Can you give me an anecdote? I mean, I'm thinking about the launch you did recently, of kind the, you had the everyday messenger, which I think is the first one that I kind of really put…where I got to know who you guys were. What's it like in the office when you guys have, you know, months and months of work, you press the button and everyone just kind of sits back?
The closest thing I can imagine is doing like a big site redesign and migration, and you press it live, and four months, five, six months of work, all goes live at once. What's that like? Any thoughts or anecdotes you can share around for when those go live? Because that's gotta be so much fun.
And then we just kind of relax and have some beers that first night, just to let it slide and sort of, you know, kind of take a breath and get ready for the, you know, upcoming 60 days of hard work.
Andrew: In terms of a video, I love you guys' videos. When we first hopped on before we started recording, I instantly could recognize your voice as the, you know, the voice on your videos, which is cool. We could probably do an entire episode just on putting together a great Kickstarter video, but what are the things you really try to do well, you know, maybe the two or three things that you try to really nail in a Kickstarter video for it to be successful?
Because I feel like of all of the Kickstarters I've ever backed, it was because the video was well done, it spoke to me. Obviously, it has to be a good product, but the video is what sold the deal for me.
Adam: Yeah. I mean, for us, you know, specific to Peak Design, we make very, sort of, functional products, and we need to really nail, and do so early, the value proposition. Like, what does this thing do? Why is it the best? And kind of quickly hammer home the main points about why, you know.
We also try to really just go into as much visual detail that we can on the product itself, you know, like get them familiar with every little piece of hardware, and strap, and show the backpack on a bunch of different people in a bunch of different environments. You know, show how the zipper opens up, and how you access this pocket, and you, you know, undo this latch, and really just kind of like…You know, people ultimately, when they're supporting you, they're pretty ordering your product, and you know, they're stoked about your business.
They wanna support you, but ultimately, they're there to get a cool new backpack, and so that's really where we try to keep the focus of our video.
I think secondary to that is telling kind of the story of who we are, and how we got there, sharing our design philosophy and process. You know, Peak Design has a unique business model, so we try to kind of make sure that people understand what that is, and why we think it makes us special.
So, every company has their own story, you know? It's a different ballgame, I think, making a Kickstarter campaign for a new album, or an art installation, you know, or an app, versus a physical thing that you hold. You know, the story's gonna be a little bit different for everybody, and I think that that sort of like video equation is gonna be a little bit different for everybody as well.
Andrew: So once you launch, when do you start using paid traffic? Because I've heard, you kinda make two arguments. I've actually chatted with a couple of different Kickstarter founders who, they wait until that initial launch wears off, because in their minds they say, "Well, if I'm gonna pay…" because, at least, the way they had it set up with the people who are running their paid advertising, is they paid a percentage of every acquisition that came for a certain period of time.
So they used all the bullets they had in their chamber, and then once they didn't have anything left, then they went ahead and brought in someone else so they wouldn't have to pay extra commission unnecessarily.
Whereas you could also make the discussion, I think you probably will, or the argument rather, that, you know, you spend a lot of your paid traffic right from the get go to get as powerful of a launch as possible, is that the way you guys do it? And what makes you do it that way versus the other option?
Adam: Yeah, we're definitely more of the latter. We concentrate our paid ads at the beginning and at the end of the campaign, when we're seeing our highest conversion rates. That's a strategy that's sort of promoted by Jellop, our sort of partner record there. But in general, yeah, during the middle part of the campaign when, you know, when things slow down quite a bit, conversion also slows down quite a bit, and so we find that paid advertising is not necessarily the best strategy to use, unless we really have something kind of new about that campaign to share.
So, one of our strategies for kind of creating bumps during that long, middle period is to, we'll often sort of release a secondary product, or a accessory to that hero product of the campaign midway through. And it gives our backers a reason to come back, gives people a reason to share about, and it gives potentially, media, a reason to talk about it. You know, during then, we will sort of then maybe do a small paid push, but really only if we have, you know, kind of something new to offer there.
Andrew: What about the Kickstarter algorithm in and of itself? Of course, all these other things you're sending to people that are off site, or that are on the email list, or media, or influencers, right to the page. But, of course, you know, a lot of people…though this is the way I usually find campaigns, is I'll just head over to Kickstarter every, you know, couple of times a month, see what is trending, what's popular, what pops up in the technology section. Is there, and I'm sure there is…any thoughts on how you get to the top of that for kind of organic discover when people are on the website?
Is it totally a function of how much money you raised how quickly? Or is it more nuanced than that, like, you know, Kickstarter is looking at the views of the videos? Any thoughts for being able to be as high as possible in the rankings on the Kickstarter homepage?
Adam: Yeah, I don't know the exact algorithm there, but, you know, I think it has to do with your total planning amount, it has to do with how many people are coming to your page and leaving comments, and how many update you're creating and how much engagement there is there.
So, there's definitely a number of factors that go into there. But, you know, that's kind of the reason why we really try to build huge out the gate, so that when we do go big, we sort of get that additional boost by kind of being one of, if not the hottest projects on Kickstarter for a handful of days. And it always blows my mind at the end of a campaign how much of our funds are, you know, attributed to, essentially, people browsing the Kickstarter platform.
Granted, you know, these are Kickstarter's analytics, and so one might argue that maybe they're over attributing. But even if they are, it's still pretty incredible to see how many people find out about our campaign through Kickstarter itself. We do independent surveys after our campaigns, and it's always one of the top, you know, when we say, "How did you first hear about this campaign?" most people, you know, or at least, a big chunk of people say Kickstarter itself.
Andrew: Wow. What percentages is that? Is that a quarter, 30%?
Adam: That is a great question. It's probably closer to a quarter, you know. Thinking back, I know that when we ask people, simply that people got and bought our products, and they're registering them online. So, they could have bought it at a retail store, or at Best Buy, on Kickstarter, on our website. We know that about a quarter of the people that buy and register our products, when we asked them like to close their eyes and think about how they first heard about Peak Design, about 25% say Kickstarter.
So, that's kind of just a testament to, you know…I mean, that's why we keep going back, really.
Andrew: Is that how you phrase it in the survey, "Sit there, close your eyes, hum softly, and try to go back to the time when you first heard about us"?
Adam: Yeah. Put yourself in a happy place, exactly. You know, we try to make our surveys fun and engaging.
Andrew: I love it. I wanna talk a little bit about kinda your culture and stuff, but the last question here before we move on from the Kickstarter mechanics covered, I think most of the lifecycle, at least in terms of, you know, the pre-game, the launch, and then, I guess we didn't talk about wrap up, but maybe as we close out this section, thoughts at all on things you should be doing at the very tail end of your campaign as it closes, or anything else that we've missed that's of real critical importance for launching a successful campaign from a marketing standpoint?
Adam: You know, I think just a general important thing is to really put, Kickstarter is not set it and forget it. I think a lot of first-time creators turn it on, and maybe turn their ads on and kind of sit back and hope for things to happen. And, you know, for us, it's a very different experience. We are sort of every week, trying to get as kind of like intimate and engaged with our backers as possible, to answer their questions, to have hangouts with them, to share with them pictures of our latest factory visit, or, you know, quick videos of our latest prototypes.
It can be stuff that you take on your phone. It doesn't have to be, you know, pretty, it's just people…people eat it up, and people really wanna be a part of it.
You know, when you make people a part of it, you'll often kind of learn things about how you're telling the story, about how you're sort of marketing the product, or maybe even things about the product yourself, that you wouldn't have otherwise learned.
Looking back, there's a number of kind of like little features or tweaks, either to our products themselves, or a messaging, that we learned simply from engaging our backers, you know. And things to do with the end is just, I would recommend having a countdown hangout, that's for sure. Get all our customers in there, you know, and toast together. We've actually, for our last few campaigns, have had like a little countdown party somewhere in San Francisco. I'd just encourage anybody who's out in the bay to come and join us, and have some drinks and, you know, toast to a fun and exciting campaign well done.
Andrew: Hey, guys, Andrew here. I'm gonna jump in, and we're actually gonna end the episode today right here, because we kinda start transitioning from Kickstarter into some other marketing and cultural things with Peak design. But next week, we're gonna have part two of this episode where I talk with Adam about some of the core values of their company, why they've decided to prioritize happiness as a company over growth, what that looks like, what that means.
We're talking about why they decided to start a brick and mortar store in San Francisco. Adam shares what's working best for him and Peak Designed on an ROI/return on ad spend basis. And we just talked about kinda culture and marketing in kind of a general sense beyond the Kickstarter.
So, if you enjoyed the talk today, make sure you check in next week when I pick the discussion back up with him.
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In May 2012, the Department for Education published a discussion paper on increasing parental and community involvement in children's centres. The aim of the paper was to see how we can help parents and communities have more of a say in shaping and delivering children's centre services. A copy of the paper is available to download here. The paper invited expressions of interest from parent and community groups interested in developing their own community management models to bid to run children's centres or children's centre services on behalf of local authorities. Following a competitive tendering exercise, the Department has contracted with 4Children to provide advice and support to these groups. 4Children has begun working with groups and will be helping them to develop their proposals over the coming months.
This Statistical First Release provides 2012 information on Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) achievement by gender, ethnicity, eligibility for free school meals, special educational needs and English as a first language building upon figures in the EYFSP Results published in October.
The percentage of children achieving a good level of development in 2012 was 64 per cent compared to 59 per cent in 2011.
Between 2011 and 2012, the percentage of pupils achieving a good level of development increased for all broad groupings of pupils, regardless of gender, ethnicity, FSM eligibility, SEN stage or first language.
Although the gap between the attainment of children who are eligible for FSM and other children remained broadly the same as in 2011, the proportion of FSM children who reached a good level of development increased from 44% in 2011 to 48% in 2012, this compares to 67% of non-FSM children in 2012.
Girls outperformed boys with 73 per cent of girls achieving a good level of development compared to 55 per cent of boys.
Looking at the broad ethnicity groupings in 2012, the proportion of groups of pupils who achieved a 'good level of development' above the national average were those from White (65 per cent) and Mixed (64 per cent) backgrounds. The groups that achieved below the national average were those from Black (61 per cent) Asian (60 per cent) and Chinese (62 per cent) backgrounds.
A higher proportion (65 per cent) of pupils whose first language is English achieved a good level of development compared with pupils whose first language was other than English (56 per cent).
The Department for Education (DfE) wishes to procure a range of services to be delivered over 2013-15. The services are designed to support the Government in helping the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people and families, and those that work with them. Organisations are required to improve outcomes for children and families, and support the workforce. The Department expects bidders to specify how services will continue beyond 2015 without Government funding. More information can be found on the Department for Education website.


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Q: What's your first impression of "in front of TV"? If you saw the phrase in front of TV, what kind of impression will you get? To me, I will suppose someone is watching TV. But if so, how do you express the meaning that someone is just in front of TV (talking about the position)?

A: Without the article? Probably something like this:  In Mr Couchpotato's list of favorite activities, only eating and sleeping are in front of TV.

A: It depends on context and the use of the specific verb for what is happening in front of the TV.  Put a pillow on the floor in front of the TV, and obviously it's not watching it. If a person is sitting on a chair and a TV is directly in front of them and mentioned, people will (generally) assume it's on and the person is watching it.
"He was sitting in front of the TV eating dinner" assumes that the TV is on. "He was sitting in front of a TV that had landed in the meadow" implies it wasn't. If it's a situation where a person's sitting in the room and the TV isn't on, I would say "across from the TV".

A: My first impression is also someone sitting in front of the television; however, seeing as TV is an initialism standing for the etymological roots of television, which is a countable, singular noun, this phrase is missing an article in this context.
Grammatically, as GEdgar pointed out, this phrase could be used to serve as an indication of priority in listing; I'm not aware of any other ways that one could go with that.

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Rashford wants more goals from forwards
Michael Plant
Monday 28 October 2019 08:00
Manchester United may have found the back of the net three times during Sunday's win over Norwich City, but Marcus Rashford wants more potency from the Reds' attack.
The United no.10, who scored his 50th goal for the Reds in the victory at Carrow Road, was part of a devastating front three against the Canaries, alongside Daniel James and Anthony Martial.
The trio combined for two of our goals on Sunday and for the attack which led to our first penalty in the opening period.
Anthony Martial finished off United's electrifying attacking display at Carrow Road.
But, despite getting in the groove against Norwich, Marcus believes there's plenty more to come from the Reds' dynamic front three.
"I think the one thing we can improve on is making more clear-cut opportunities for each other," the striker told MUTV after the game.
"For me, that's the next step. We're creating and making each other half-chances, but, as forwards, the easier the goals you can get, the better. We want to be able to just square it past the goalkeeper and tap it in.
"We've been working hard and I think, if we keep that up, it'll become easier for us."
United have struggled to kill games off in recent weeks, but with the trident of Rashford, James and Martial all starting a game together for the first time since August, that never looked likely on Sunday.
Marcus explained that much of our threat up front came from a relatively simple aspect of the game.
"I think we're just talking to each other as we're playing and it makes it simpler for you on the ball," he said.
"If we can give information as we pass the ball it just makes it that bit more simple. That's the next step for us.
Rashford: It was a big win for us Video
Rashford: It was a big win for us
Hear what Marcus Rashford had to say to MUTV, after the striker scored in our 3-1 victory at Carrow Road...
"If we are 1-0 up, we need to see the game out, that's something we need to improve on," he added.
"Today, we managed to do that and get a couple of goals. It's positive and we can do better, but we take the three points and just try to improve."
While it's no surprise to see Rashford and Martial looking so menacing, some United fans may have been forgiven for not expecting the same level of consistency from new signing Daniel James.
However, the Welsh winger has more than played his part so far this year, something Marcus was keen to point out after Sunday's match.
Daniel James assisted Rashford's goal with a great through ball.
"He's had a brilliant impact - he's scored important goals and he's assisting as well," said Rashford.
"The main thing is that he's working hard for the team and the other stuff just comes with the game. He's the prime example of that.
"We're all hungry to keep pushing, to keep scoring more goals and keep assisting each other. I think, if us three can keep doing that on a regular basis, then we'll definitely get some more points."
Rashford now has half a century of goals for United in all competitions.
Rashford has now scored for the second Premier League game in a row, and was delighted to reach his half-century for the club.
'It's a nice feeling," the England international admitted. "I think this goal wasn't so bad. The keeper's not really rushing out at you so you can relax and pick your spot.
"It's a brilliant ball from Dan, even to recognise the space and, when we play like that, it's devastating. Like I said, we can keep doing that and keep making chances for each other."
United hit landmark goal article
Read the full story on the Reds becoming the first team to score 2,000 times in the Premier League.
Norwich 1 Manchester United 3 article
The Reds came away with all three points in a hugely entertaining game on the road at Carrow Road.
Ole: We were a joy to watch article
Catch up on the manager's verdict on a welcome first away win of the Premier League campaign.
McTominay wins Man Of The Match article
The midfielder claimed the award after scoring a goal that will go into the record books.
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And then she began to uncover some disturbing answers. Answers that became even more disturbing as she found herself being more and more drawn to the fascinating yet repelling Clint Oakland. Was she falling in love with a murderer?


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Q: I keep receiving 0 byte from TClientSocket Using DbgView, i saw that after i receive a Stream, the server then receives 0 bytes like more than 100 times, what is this ? this is new to me, i never saw this happening.
i personally have a feeling it is a client-side issue, could it ?
this is how i receive the stream server-side:
  FMemStream := Socket.ReceiveStream(FMemStreamSize, cbUpdateStreamProgBar);
    try
      doClientReadStreamEnd;
    finally
      FMemStream.Free;
      FInStreamMode := False; // we're not in stream mode anymore
    end;

function TCustomWinSocketHelpher.ReceiveStream(StreamLen: Integer; Callback: TUpdateProgBarProc): TMemoryStream;
const
  ChunkSize = 4096; // 4kb
var
  PData: PByte;
  ReadAmount: Integer;
begin
  Result := TMemoryStream.Create;
  GetMem(PData, StreamLen);
  try
    while StreamLen > 0 do
    begin
      ReadAmount := ReceiveBuf(PData^, ChunkSize);
      if (ReadAmount > 0) then
      begin
        Result.Write(PData^, ReadAmount);
        Callback(ReadAmount); // update gui
        Inc(PData^, ReadAmount); // update PData current position
        Dec(StreamLen, ReadAmount); // update loop condition
      end;
    end;
  finally
    FreeMem(PData);
  end;
end;

on client-side, this is how i send stream:
FClientSocket.Socket.SendStreamEx(RemoteProcedureCalls.Stream);

procedure TCustomWinSocketHelpher.SendStreamEx(Stream: TStream);
begin
  Stream.Seek(0, TSeekOrigin.soBeginning);
  SendStream(Stream);
end;

Here's a photo of how it looks, it should not continue sending after line 5.

A: When ReceiveBuf() returns 0, it means the socket has been disconnected by the other party.  You are not handling that condition, so you keep looping, getting back 0 again and again.  Any value less than 1 is a failed read and needs to be treated as such.  If ReceiveBuf() returns -1, an actual read error occurred, but that result can only be returned if the error was WSAEWOULDBLOCK, which is not fatal, or you have an OnError event handler assigned that is setting ErrorCode := 0.  Otherwise, ReceiveBuf() would raise an ESocketError exception on a real socket error.
Try this:
function TCustomWinSocketHelpher.ReceiveStream(StreamLen: Integer; Callback: TUpdateProgBarProc): TMemoryStream;
const
  ChunkSize = 4096; // 4kb
var
  PData: PByte;
  ReadAmount: Integer;
begin
  Result := TMemoryStream.Create;
  try
    GetMem(PData, ChunkSize);
    try
      while StreamLen > 0 do
      begin
        ReadAmount := ReceiveBuf(PData^, Min(ChunkSize, StreamLen));
        if ReadAmount < 0 then
        begin
          if WSAGetLastError() = WSAEWOULDBLOCK then
            Continue;
          // an OnError event handler must have disabled an exception being raised
          Exit;
        end;
        if ReadAmount = 0 then
        begin
          // socket disconnected
          raise Exception.Create(''); // or just Exit if you don't mind that the expected data is incomplete
        end;
        Result.WriteBuffer(PData^, ReadAmount);
        Callback(ReadAmount); // update gui
        Dec(StreamLen, ReadAmount); // update loop condition
      end;
    finally
      FreeMem(PData);
    end;
  except
    Result.Free;
    raise;
  end;
end;