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BnL_Cio1RSAAuBT8bcpi | Boy seriously injured after being hit by vehicle
7:43pm Oct 11, 2018
A pre-schooler has been airlifted to hospital after being hit by a reversing vehicle in Rochester, near Echuca, this afternoon.
Police believe Kruze Mackay, 2, was hit in the driveway of a Hopetoun Street property about 12.30pm.
The boy suffered suspected leg and abdominal injuries, and was airlifted to the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
Rochester boy Kruze has been airlifted to the Royal Children's Hospital in a serious condition. (9NEWS)
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He is now in a serious but stable condition.
“He’s a happy-go-lucky boy, and always on the go,” his grandmother, Karen Cemino, told 9News.
Police believe the boy was hit by the vehicle about 12.30pm. (9NEWS)
Investigations into the incident are underway.
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BnLvi6g07zoDbltVY4g_ | 29. The Master said, “‘One’s mental capacity is vast’ means having no obstructions in one’s mind. If one’s mind has no partiality toward either hatred or love, no limitations of national boundaries, no attachment to favorable or adverse conditions, and is not entrapped by suffering or happiness, then it is said that ‘one’s mental capacity is vast.’” The Master continued, “The great dharma that will save the whole world should be one that is accessible from all directions and applicable in all directions, through simultaneously surmounting the physical barriers of geography and the invisible barriers of mentality.” | en | false | [] | [] | [] |
BnMbLP808U6BPJiI5TYl | At Westacre we aim to inspire our pupils' curiosity to know more about the past. We equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence and develop perspective and judgement. Through a well rounded curriculum pupils develop an understanding of the complexity of people's lives, the diversity of societies as well as their own identity and challenges of their time.
Please find below the skills progression map for History at Westacre. This uses the National Curriculum for History to identify how the children should develop and build upon their skills in five key areas, as they progress from First School through Upper Key Stage 2 and into Key Stage 3.
Skills Map showing the progression of skills across the year group
History Skills Progression.docx.pdf
Enrichment in History
History is brought to life at Westacre using a variety of immersive and well planned activities.
In year 5, students have become archaeologists and "dug up" artefacts to start topics, and will have visits from key figures from the Viking period and local history to bring their topics to life.
In year 6, students examine how a diverse range of civilisations survived, and indeed thrived, across time- from Neanderthals to Ancient Egyptians, Shang Dynasty of Ancient China to nomadic tribes which should excite and engage our students to imagine life in different times.
In year 7, treasure hunts and the placing of key events and resources are used to engage the children with their Conflict topic.
Year 5 Brine Baths Project 20-21
We are delighted to have been asked by the Save Our Brine Baths (SOBBS) campaign to work alongside them in promoting awareness of Droitwich's rich heritage and their campaign for the return of the brine baths to the town.
Please see the Year 5 Photo Gallery page for weekly updates, and visit the Brine Memories website for our findings and experience of the collection of memories.
https://www.westacre-middle-school.co.uk/year-5-photo-gallery-1/
https://www.brinememories.org.uk/westacre.html
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BnMya6TfHsXAGlQ2TlUO | Medical Malpractice Is Tragic Pattern in Military Hospitals, NYT Report Finds
While military hospitals are often the sites of medical malpractice and medical mistakes, these mistakes are rarely scrutinized and reported, a recent New York Times investigation has found. According to this study, researchers have reportedly uncovered the facts that:
A recent study has exposed the high rates of medical malpractice in military hospitals. Here are the details you should know. Contact us if you’ve been the victim of military medical malpractice.
Military hospitals consistently have had higher rates of malpractice and resulting harm to patients when providing maternity care and conducting surgeries (as compared to the rates associated with civilian hospitals).
Although military hospitals have been required to investigate sudden/unexpected patient complications since 2001 (per the Defense Department’s regulations), these investigations are only sporadically conducted.
Less than half of the adverse patient events that would necessitate further investigation were actually looked into by administrators at the impacted facilities.
Given the fact that U.S. military hospitals are currently providing care to about 1.6 million active duty military members, as well as their families, these findings raise serious concerns about the risks to patient safety presented in these facilities.
Medical Malpractice in Military Hospitals: A Closer Look at the Scope of the Problem
The NYT’s findings regarding medical malpractice in military hospitals have been backed up by other recent research, including a study from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). According to this study:
About 50 percent of the nation’s largest military hospitals had higher rates of post-surgical infection and improperly performed surgeries (when compared to benchmark values).
The three military hospitals with the highest rates of surgical complications were the Madigan Army Medical Center, the San Antonio Military Medical Center and the Naval Medical Center San Diego.
In contrast, the top three military hospitals in the U.S. with the lowest rates of post-surgical complications included the Naval Hospital Jacksonville, the Blanchfield Army Community Hospital and Walter Reed National Military Center.
Commenting on these findings regarding medical malpractice in military hospitals, Dr. James P. Bagian (director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety) explained, “if, in fact, unexpected deaths were reported and ignored, there would appear to be no good answer for that expect that someone is sleeping at the switch.”
Military Medical Malpractice Lawyers: We Are Here for You
Have you been hurt by any type of medical negligence in a military hospital or health care facility? If so, it’s time to contact the trusted military medical malpractice lawyers at the Law Firm of Brown Law. Our attorneys have the skills and expertise to get you the justice and compensation you deserve.
Although no amount of money can ever make up for an injury or wrongful death caused by medical malpractice, the compensation we could help you recover will go a long way in covering medical costs and the pain and suffering you have endured. To encourage injured parties to learn more about their legal rights, our law firm provides free initial consultations, consideration even if another law firm has turned you down and availability 24 hours a day seven days a week.
To find out more about how we can help you in your pursuit of justice, please call us toll-free at 1-877-695-8757 – we are available 24 hours a day seven days a week. You can also email us using the online form at the upper right-hand side of the screen. | en | false | [] | [] | [] |
BnMzohzfHv_gGFBbDBi_ | Performance Auto & Sound Magazine (PASMAG) is excited to announce its partnership with Honda Indy Toronto at Exhibition Place (100 Princes' Blvd, Toronto, ON M6K 3C3) on Friday, July 12 - Sunday, July 14, 2019. A Tuner Battlegrounds #TBGLIVE competition will be integrated to the event as a unique award category, similar to a People's Choice award, for Honda and Acura cars only.
THE TOP 2 COMPETITORS RECEIVE:
Display vehicles spot at the PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds booth at Honda Indy Toronto*.
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(1) Official 2019 Honda Indy Toronto souvenir program.
THE WINNER RECEIVES:
Exclusive print feature in PASMAG.
Valvoline Canada prize pack.
Opportunity to sit in a Honda vehicle during the Parade on race day (Sunday).
*vehicle must be available to roll-in Thursday, July 11th (evening) and roll-out Sunday, July 14th (after final race) (subject to change)
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1. Tommy Pham (1991 Acura NSX): 105 (A)
2. Adam Bacchus (2001 Honda S2000): 67 (A)
3. George Gero (2017 Honda Civic Type R): 65
4. Paul Pineda (2012 Honda Civic Si): 32
5. Dennis Kim (2007 Honda S2000): 20
*(A) - Advances to next stage. Vehicles will be displayed at the PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds x Valvoline Canada booth at the Honda Indy Toronto for live online voting.
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(2017 Honda Civic Type R)
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BnM0xpjZLb8gJxI06X6E | Did Toney fail at Newcastle or did Newcastle fail Toney?
By Chris Waugh Dec 21, 2020 38
On his first day with the Newcastle United first team in August 2015, a promising 19-year-old striker, lanky but yet to fill out physically, was put one-on-one with Cheick Tiote.
“For anyone, no matter who you were, that’s a daunting task,” a former player says.
The forward emerged having “been Tioted”, after being floored several times. Yet, on every occasion, he rose back to his feet and even managed to get past the tough-tackling Ivorian a few times. An impressed Tiote sought out Steve McClaren, then the head coach, to plead his new team-mate’s case for a first-team chance.
That forward was Ivan Toney.
Five years on, Newcastle fans may view Tiote’s assessment as prescient, given that Toney is now one of the most sought-after strikers in the EFL.
During three years at St James’ Park, Toney made just four senior appearances, all as a substitute, and none after the 2015-16 season, instead being loaned out six times.
Since departing permanently in August 2018 in search of regular first-team football, he has scored 56 goals in 96 EFL appearances. This season, he has 16 in 20 Championship games for Brentford, at a rate of 0.88 goals per 90, and tops the second-tier scoring charts, marginally ahead of another former Newcastle youngster in Blackburn Rovers’ Adam Armstrong. Some estimate Toney could be worth more than £20 million now.
On Tuesday, Newcastle face Brentford in the Carabao Cup quarter-final, in what is arguably the most important match of Steve Bruce’s tenure to date. The key threat lining up against them will be a 24-year-old they once had on their books but were unable to nurture.
The Athletic asks: did Toney simply fail at Newcastle, or did Newcastle fail Toney? | en | false | [] | [] | [] |
BnMycj7fO-XgJux_6YR3 | Lucas-Girardville monoplane
Loup - monoplane - 1853 - Франция <– –> Mainguet - La Dorade - 1910 - Франция
Lucas-Girardville
Artillery Captain Lucas-Girardville was one of the 3 pilots to be trained by Wilbur Wright at Auvours according to the agreement signed by Lazare Weiller; but he was apparently too old to learn to fly the difficult Wright biplane at the school.
In 1910 he completed a huge military aeroplane developed from models tested at the Eiffel Tower and the Renard wind-tunnel at Chalais-Meudon; it used 2 gyroscopes to control stability. Kept very secret, it was referred to as the Enigma or the Gyroscopic Spinning-Top - but more often, probably, La Baignoire (bathtub). A patent dated 1907 was finally registered in 1910.
It was a high-wing monoplane spanning about 15 m, with rectangular panels of strange airfoil section attached to each side of a large circular surface; and comprised as well 2 forward engines but only one 4-bladed propeller. Some of the controls were manual, others actuated automatically by the gyroscopes. The slatted ailerons were managed by the pilot, the biplane set by one of the gyroscopes; the other was for the elevators. Each gyroscope weighed 5.8 kg and was driven at 12,000 rpm by the engines - and in flight, by wind-driven propellers. The mechanic sat between the engines; there was accommodation for 2 others as well. Loaded, it weighed c 1200 kg with a wing area of 50 sqm.
In June 1910 it was moved from Chalais to the Vincennes parade field; on 11 June it crashed while taxiing, and poor Lucas-Girardville was injured. In 1912, unfazed, he designed an experimental helicopter: we can only hope he was more successful with this one.
The big Lucas-Girardville of 1910. It was wrecked before actually taking the air. | en | false | [] | [] | [] |
BnMdJkA1RiJCqG6ArvGt | praise be to god meaning in tamil
1. Two scenarios of victory provide a context for praise and prayer to the Commander-in-Chief of Israel s king-general. The Importance and Power of Praise Whilst the word of God commands us to praise the Lord, the truth is our daily challenges and life struggles cause us to focus on our difficulties, thus crowding out our genuine praise to God. It means "to be clear, to praise, to shine, to boast, show, to rave, celebrate, to be clamorously foolish." Cross references. I praise the Lord with music and song. Determinately, by the first week of April they began their journey of praising and worship. What happened he was put in prison for 12 years. A call to praise God. This phrase is called Tahmid (Arabic: تَحْمِيد , lit. He is the son of the Hindu God of Destruction, Lord Shiva and the brother of the remover of obstacles, Lord Ganesh (The elephant-headed God).. As far as Indian history goes, Skanda began his existence basically from the beginning. Topic: Praise is an effective weapon against the devil. Let the peoples praise You, O God; Let all the peoples praise You. The two-fold deeds that spring from darkness shall not adhere to those who delight in the true praise of God. And the man praise be to God I just wanted to say it … and praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being. Definition of Every praise is to our God Every word of worship with one accord Every praise every praise is to our God Sing hallelujah to our God Glory hallelujah is due our God Every praise every praise is to our God in the Definitions.net dictionary. 1. Significance. a. 19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. 1. Praise can be a part of worship, but worship goes beyond praise. Psalm 113:1-3 Praise (hallal) ye the Lord, praise (hallal) o ye servants of the Lord, praise (hallal) the name of … But he has not given up. Thank you Jesus in the terrorism is Egyptian Egyptians Master’s wife, huh. So God is present in every obstacles that you face. [baby_names_nav] We have world’s largest collection of Baby names with meaning, including Tamil names.The categories include , Tamil names, God names, Boy twins names, God names,Muslim baby boy names , Muslim baby girl names , Christian baby boy names and Christian baby girl names 100 Christian Baby Names Meaning “Gift Of God” The Bible , the holy book of the Christians, is full of names, and many of them have become very popular nowadays. Transliteration(Tamil to English): iruLsaer iruvinaiyum … 1. Our word "hallelujah" comes from this base word. According to the Bible, our purpose, the reason we are here, is for God’s glory. Because Be persistent to have the vision that God has place in our life. Psalm 21 Meaning Verse By Verse. They have their own microphones, separate from the congregation. வௌகற Tamil Discuss this praise English translation with the community: The intention of this site is to propagate the glory of Lord Anjaneya [Hanuman]. A very popular feature of Christian worship assemblies in churches all over the country, is the matter of praise teams. To the heart of the deal. Read full chapter. Praise starts with a right understanding of God based on God’s own Word. Sermon starts at end of count down. Then I want. Praise be to Baba. Worship Worship Worship Worship [ read more... ], 2 Chronicles 20:15-22 [ read more... ], John 4:24-24 In facts, two reasons are recorded. The reply would be wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu meaning "and may the peace, blessings, and mercy of Allah be upon you." Worship, however, comes from a different place within our spirits. 1. They announced the band as “Eluzaizz” meaning “God is my strength”/ “Sthuthiyudaya Thevan”. However, we must praise God with all sincerity, because He is indeed worthy of all the glory, honour and praise. Find more words! Only remnants of once great civilizations remain and even those have become corrupted. Om The God of our vision, experience and reality Lord Be Praised Om. HALLAL is a primary Hebrew root word for praise. This is what glorifies him. The English translation of this verse is "Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds". The Lord's Prayer is a common name for the Our Father, the prayer that Christ taught to His disciples when they asked Him how to pray (Luke 11:1-4).The name "The Lord's Prayer" is used more often today by Protestants than by Catholics; however, the English translation of the Novus Ordo Mass refers to the recitation of the Our Father as the Lord's Prayer. I praise the Lord, who is glorious! Why a daily prayer? It did not take very long time for them. Baba is our God perceived by our senses and indeed He is Lord Ganesha – the remover of obstacles and easy giver of boons. Meaning. Praise be to God. 3:4). Question: "What does it mean to praise God?" Rather it is a complete way of life for one who follows Christ. Because prayer is the best way to stay in a relationship with God. Let the peoples praise You, O God: We notice that this is first and foremost a prayer to God. Therefore, in this, we find that God has given us a reason for our existence, a meaning for our existence. They raised their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the Lord:For He is good;His faithful love endures forever.The temple, the Lord’s temple, was filled with a cloud. Everyday prayer is the means by which we can talk to the Lord on a daily basis. The ardent devotees of Murugan call him by a variety of names – Karthilkeya, Arumuga, Shanmuga, Guhan, Skanda, Subramanya and Kumara. Typically, a praise team consists of anywhere from 4 to 15 men and women. Dark Souls is a game about a dying world that's fallen to madness. sabah rabih Praise be to god! Second, the praise of Elizabeth and Mary provide us with a model for our own worship and praise. Other than being recited daily during the five prayers, Muslims also … Praise be to God Amen. B. Amen God is present in our problems. The phrase, “God inhabits the praise of His people,” comes from the King James Version of Psalm 22:3, which states of God, “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.” Other translations say, “ Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises ” (NIV) or “ God, you are the Holy One. வல்ஹம்து லில்லாஹி ரப்பில் ஆலமீம் (இன்னும் புகழ் அனைத்தும் அகிலங்களின் இறைவனாகிய … When one sneezes, the reaction is to say Alhamdulillah which can mean "all praise is due to God alone" and the reply by the rest is yah hamuk Allah meaning "may Allah have mercy on you." Verse 1: “The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice; Psalm 68:19: S Ps 65:5; Psalm 68:19: Ps 81:6; Psalm 68:19 in all English translations. (3) A prayer to God for all peoples. In other words, our purpose is to praise God, worship him, to proclaim his greatness, and to accomplish his will. Psalm 67. It’s like you know it was like running like fraud. It’s like you know flow. It is fine to call upon the peoples to praise God; but it is also fine to ask God to bring the nations to Himself. This verse belongs to Al-Fatiha, a surah that is an obligatory part of the salah (prayer) and hence is recited daily. And today’s prayer is a relevant message from God to you, right now. Worship should be reserved for God alone (Luke 4:8). Answer: Christians often speak of “praising God,” and the Bible commands all living creatures to praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6). Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names The Meaning of “Thanks Be to God” For Paul, giving thanks was an action, not a feeling. Welcome to the pages on Son of Wind God Vayu Lord Anjaneya Swami -Vayusuthan. Kindly Subscribe To Our YouTube Channel To Watch Daily Powerful Prayer Videos. Psalm 69. One Hebrew word for “praise” is yadah, meaning “praise, give thanks, or confess.”A second word often translated “praise” in the Old Testament is zamar, “sing praise.” Praise includes a growing reverence for who God is, which, in turn, imparts true wisdom to us. Alhamdulillah (Arabic: ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ , al-Ḥamdu lillāh) is an Arabic phrase meaning "praise be to God", sometimes translated as "thank God". 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BnMTXk01S0UATtm4CYw3 | Miss Florida USA 2015
23 year old Ashleigh Lollie was crowned Miss Florida USA 2015 on Saturday. She will represent Florida at the 2015 Miss USA Pageant in the summer of 2015. The first runner-up was Kailyn Perez and the second runner-up was Jessica Voight. The third runner-up was Lacey Morgan and the fourth runner-up was Heather Martin.
Pretty but not as strong as this year's girl.
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BnMCB5k1RSBCCzW5n66R | What are the Common Causes of Night Sweats in Children?
A fever can sometimes cause night sweats in children.
Written By: N. Swensson
Edited By: Melissa Wiley
The term night sweats is most often used to describe sweating that leaves a person's clothing and sheets soaking wet. Night sweats in children can have a number of causes. Some are simple and temporary, while others may be more serious and require medical attention. Some more common causes of night sweats in children include sleeping in heavy pajamas or with too many blankets or running a fever. Other rarer but serious conditions that can cause night sweats include some types of cancer, HIV/AIDS, and thyroid or autoimmune disorders. Parents may want to call the doctor if there is no obvious cause for a child's night sweats and if the problem persists.
It is sometimes difficult for parents to judge whether a child is too warm at night, especially if the child has a fever. Younger children may not be able to express themselves and tell their parents if they are too hot. Infants are more likely to cry if they are too cold, and even young toddlers may not wake from sleep if they are too warm. Therefore it is not uncommon to check on a sleeping child and find him or her sweaty. The simple solution is removing blankets or lowering the temperature in the bedroom. Putting the child to bed in lighter pajamas can also help to stop night sweats.
Although it's probably less likely that night sweats in children are being caused by a serious condition, it can be a possibility. Night sweats may be an early indicator of certain types of cancer, including Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, malignant melanoma, or liver tumors. A doctor can help to evaluate a child if cancer is a potential concern.
Night sweats in children can also be caused by HIV/AIDS. Although rare, it is possible for a child to become infected with the disease from an improperly sterilized needle or other medical equipment. HIV often has few early warning signs, and night sweats are one of the more common ones in both adults and children.
Tuberculosis is another condition that may cause night sweats in children. Although children in the United States are vaccinated against this disease, infections are still possible and also occur in other parts of the world. Sometimes, the body can fight tuberculosis on its own, but night sweats can be a sign that the infection is progressing. In some cases, children with hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid, or autoimmune disorders such as cerebral palsy may also experience night sweats.
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Night sweats are a common occurrence in small children, since they spend more time in deep sleep and have a lot of sweat glands relative to body size. It is usually not a sign of something serious unless accompanied by other symptoms. Sleep apnea is another possible cause.
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Passengers, Summerhall, Review
Submitted by Jon Cross on Sun, 11 Aug '19 11.43am
Vacuum Theatre
Kit Redstone (writer), Jessica Edwards (director), Jolie Booth (producer), Alberta Jones (designer), Roshan Conn (stage manager), Dan Saggers (light), Owen Crouch (sound and composition), Alexander Eisenthal (production assistant)
Neil Chinneck, Jessica Clark, Kit Redstone, and featuring the voice of Rory Fleck-Byrne
Three masked figures climb and swing on a cube of scaffolding in synchronised movements to the rhythm of a pounding beat. Finally exhausted, they strip off their masks and take a moment to review the situation.
Max has really done it this time. They are very worried about him. It simply cannot go on like this. What a thing to do! In a sudden outburst of pure rage, Max has picked up a chair and hurled it through the front window of a café. All because the waiter had brought him the wrong sandwich! What on earth has brought him to this?
And so the three of them set off to explore the inner workings of Max’s mind. It does not take too long before we rumble the identity of these three very different characters – one with wild, uncontrolled animal instincts, one who grapples with the day-to-day realities and one who judges and criticises. The scaffold cube that frames the drama is the labyrinthine battlefield in which the various parts of Max's personality strive to gain the upper hand.
This clever theatrical device allows for some interesting possibilities. What would happen if one, or even two of the characters were silenced or overpowered? If Max could break free – and just be himself - would he live off the grid in a van in The Amazon, or would he settle down and be safe and sensible in a quiet gated community?
There is a Freudian quest to seek out the childhood trauma at the heart of Max’s anger and pain, but the central idea of the play is that every one of us is carrying a family of passengers, arguing and fighting amongst themselves in a way that is never going to be fully resolved.
Passengers is an inventive, playful and funny piece of theatre which explores the complex realities that make us human.
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BnMZlGI1RxpAniTjrpse | Lloyd’s Analyzes Baden-Baden Reinsurance Renewal Conclave
An article on the Lloyd’s website takes a look at the “insurance and reinsurance specialists,” who “converge in Baden-Baden to begin their ‘renewal season’ discussions in earnest and in preparation for January 1, when deals between primary insurers and their reinsurers come to fruition.”
At the end of October the German town on the edge of the Black Forest plays host to “soberly dressed business people, moving between crowded hotel salons and meeting rooms where intense negotiations take place over the terms, conditions and prices of next year’s reinsurance deals,” said Lloyd’s. “From the immense market noise generated, everyone is trying to discern which way pricing is going and what are the factors that will influence it on a company to company basis.”
Lloyd’s notes that “reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter usually serves as a business barometer.” In a recent presentation Guy Carp’s “Chris Klein set the scene, describing a reinsurance market that was standing up to unprecedented catastrophe losses in the first half of the year, particularly from the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand – as well as continuing uncertainty in the capital markets, a flat economy and sustained low interest rates suppressing investment returns.
“Following speakers, which included Allianz board member Clement Booth and investment analyst Chris Hitchings of KBW, echoed that; despite the difficult environment the reinsurance industry was not sufficiently stressed for rates to rise across the board.” Booth noted that “pricing is still soft. There are as many competitive reinsurers in the game as there are those who are sticking to technical rates.”
Lloyd’s Performance Management Director Tom Bolt outlined a graphic description of the dangers facing all companies. He pointed out that the “industry traditionally provided cover against the ‘four horsemen of the apocalypse’ – pestilence, war, famine and death. Now the industry is confronted by new challenges.”
Bolt also indicated that he believes low interest rates, tough economic conditions, the prospect of inflationary pressure and the uncertainty created by new European solvency regulations have combined to make this the most challenging time for the industry he’s witnessed since starting in 1985.
He did add that prices have increased a little in some pockets of business in response. “But the challenge to make money on underwriting activities has never been higher,” he warned.
Bolt said that Lloyd’s would work hard to protect its franchise and that the performance management directorate would continue to be vigilant in its monitoring of underwriting standards and business planning in the run-up to renewals.
Earlier this year Bolt asked energy underwriters to track their aggregate exposures as losses continue to develop from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now he is also warning the market that it should be aware of the possible fall-out from the financial crisis spreading deeper into professional liability classes of business.
He also pointed out that catastrophe reinsurance underwriters should be aware that the full loss picture from earthquakes earlier this year has not yet emerged.
Contingent business interruption (CBI) is another major concern, which has recently emerged as a full blown risk. Bolt warned that losses from underlying insureds or developing structural damage to infrastructure could amplify cat losses. “The industry is not under reserved – but I’m not sure that this intermediate tail of cat losses is always being included in the calculations when people are making pricing decisions on prospective business,” he concluded.
Source: Lloyd’s of London
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BnLxWlM07R-DU9QDT2rZ | NHS Contents
Glaucoma is the name given to a group of eye conditions in which the optic nerve is damaged where it leaves the eye. This nerve carries information about what is being seen from the eye to the brain and as it becomes damaged vision is lost. Glaucoma affects about two per cent of people over the age of 40 in the UK.
Although any vision which has been lost to glaucoma cannot be recovered, with early diagnosis,careful monitoring and regular use of the prescribed treatments, the vast majority of patients retain useful sight for life.
Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma (COAG) is the most common form of glaucoma. It is a slowlydevelopingcondition in which the eye pressure rises because the flow of fluid in and out of the eye becomes restricted and the pressure in the eye increases, squeezing the optic nerve and killing some of the nerve fibres, which leads to sight loss. This is not because of an obstruction blocking the flow: as the name suggests, the drainage angle remains ‘open’. There is no pain to warn of a problem, even though the optic nerve is being damaged.
Note: In some forms of glaucoma, the eye pressure is not raised. Normal (or low) tension glaucoma can develop where eye pressure is within the statistically ‘normal’ range but the optic nerve still becomes damaged.
High eye pressure does not always cause glaucoma. A common condition is ocular hypertension, where the eye pressure is above the statistically ‘normal’ level, but there is no detectable damage to the field of vision. This condition may be monitored or may be treated in the same way as glaucoma, depending on the specialist’s view of the risk of developing glaucoma.
Most types of glaucoma don't have any symptoms, it doesn’t cause any pain. The first areas to be affected are the off-centre parts of the vision. When part of the field of vision in one eye is damaged, the other eye may ‘fill in’ the gap because the damage may not have occurred in the same part of the field of vision in both eyes. For this reason, much damage will often have been done before the person with glaucoma realises there is a problem with his/her sight. If left untreated, the damage can progress to tunnel vision and eventual loss of central vision, although blindness is rare. It is important to diagnose and start treating sight threatening glaucoma early on, before it has advanced to a stage where there has been extensive sight loss.
There are several risk factors which make the onset of glaucoma more likely and they tend to be cumulative in their effect.
Glaucoma is uncommon below the age of 40, but the number of people with the condition rises from about 2 per cent of people over the age of 40 and doubles for those over the age of 80.
People of African-Caribbean origin have about a four times increased risk of COAG when compared with those of a European origin. The condition also tends to come on at an earlier age and be more severe. Regular testing and treatment are therefore vital if visual impairment is to be avoided.
There is at least a four times increased risk of developing glaucoma if you have a close blood relative with the condition (father, mother, brother, sister, or child). Eye examinations are funded by the NHS for such people from the age of 40 years, but an earlier test is recommended,especially if you also fall into one of the other risk categories. If you have glaucoma, don’t forget to tell your relatives about the condition and the need for them to be tested.
People with severe myopia (very short sight) are known to be at increased risk of developing Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma, and should ensure that they are regularly tested for glaucoma.
People with diabetes may also be at an increased risk of developing glaucoma, although it is not known whether there is a direct link between the two conditions. However, all people with diabetes should have regular routine eye examinations for diabetic eye diseases and glaucoma tests can be requested at the same time.
All those who are at risk of glaucoma should ensure they have an eye test once a year, and ask
for all three glaucoma tests. These can be carried out by most high street opticians.
The three tests for glaucoma are:
• Ophthalmoscopy – an examination of the optic disc with a special torch
• Tonometry – a check on the level of pressure within the eye
• Perimetry – a check of the visual field to see if there are any signs of sight loss in the offcentre
part of the vision
The aim of treating COAG is to reduce the pressure within the eye to a level at which no further damage occurs to the optic nerve. Treatment is usually by means of eye drops. These can work to reduce the amount of fluid being produced by the eye, to increase the rate of drainage of fluid from the eye, or both. Regular appointments with your eye consultants will be necessary to monitor the level of the pressures in your eyes. The NICE glaucoma guidelines published in April 2009 give guidelines on the maximum waiting time between appointments, for more information please visit: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG85. There have been major advances in medical (eye drop) treatment in recent years, and the newer drops are far more effective and have fewer side effects than those which were previously available. Usually, once eye drops have been started, it is necessary to continue using them for the rest of your life. If the eye drops do not provide a sufficient pressure lowering effect, laser or surgical treatments are available.
If you have difficulty getting the drops into your eyes, various compliance aids are available that can help, further information is available from the IGA Sightline on 01233 64 81 70 or by e-mail at [email protected]
Follow your doctor's instructions. Take your medication on time, every time.
Always wash your hands before touching near your eyes or your eye drop bottles.
To avoid contamination, never touch the nozzle of the dropper bottle and avoid contact with the eye.
After the 1st drop, close your eye and press gently on the inside corner with a finger for 1 or 2 minutes. Then wait 5 to 15 minutes before instilling any further drop medication, to prevent the first drop being washed away by the subsequent drops.
Never use drops after their permitted 'opened' expiry date.
If you use soft contact lenses, remove them before instilling eye drops and wait at least 15 minutes after your last eye drop before re-inserting them. Store eye drops and all medicines out of the reach of children.
International Glaucoma Association
The Charity for People with Glaucoma
Woodcote House, 15 Highpoint Business Village
Henwood, Ashford, Kent TN24 8DH
Fax. 01233 64 81 79
Sightline 01233 64 81 70 (Mon-Fri, 9.30am - 5.00pm)
Website: www.glaucoma-association.com
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World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity: UN
Plants, insects and organisms crucial to food production in steep decline, says UN
Independent Online Desk
The world’s capacity to produce food is being undermined by humanity’s failure to protect biodiversity, according to the first UN study of the plants, animals and micro-organisms that help to put meals on our plates.
The stark warning was issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation after scientists found evidence the natural support systems that underpin the human diet are deteriorating around the world as farms, cities and factories gobble up land and pump out chemicals.Over the last two decades, approximately 20% of the earth’s vegetated surface has become less productive, said the report, launched on Friday.
It noted a “debilitating” loss of soil biodiversity, forests, grasslands, coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds and genetic diversity in crop and livestock species. In the oceans, a third of fishing areas are being overharvested.
Many species that are indirectly involved in food production, such as birds that eat crop pests and mangrove trees that help to purify water, are less abundant than in the past, noted the study, which collated global data, academic papers and reports by the governments of 91 countries.
It found 63% of plants, 11% of birds, and 5% of fish and fungi were in decline. Pollinators, which provide essential services to three-quarters of the world’s crops, are under threat. As well as the well-documented decline of bees and other insects, the report noted that 17% of vertebrate pollinators, such as bats and birds, were threatened with extinction.
Once lost, the species that are critical to our food systems cannot be recovered, it said. “This places the future of our food and the environment under severe threat.”
“The foundations of our food systems are being undermined,” wrote Graziano da Silva, the director general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, in an introduction to the study. “Parts of the global report make sombre reading. It is deeply concerning that in so many production systems in so many countries, biodiversity for food and agriculture and the ecosystem services it provides are reported to be in decline.”Agriculture was often to blame, he said, due to land-use changes and unsustainable management practices, such as over-exploitation of the soil and a reliance on pesticides, herbicides and other agro-chemicals.
Most countries said the main driver for biodiversity loss was land conversion, as forests were cut down for farm fields, and meadows covered in concrete for cities, factories and roads. Other causes include overexploitation of water supplies, pollution, over-harvesting, the spread of invasive species and climate change.
The trend is towards uniformity. Although the world is producing more food than in the past, it is relying on ever-expanding monocultures.Two-thirds of crop production comes from just nine species (sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava), while many of the remaining 6,000 cultivated plant species are in decline and wild food sources are becoming harder to find.
Although consumers did not yet notice any impact when they went shopping, the authors of the report said that could change.
“The supermarkets are full of food, but it is mostly imports from other countries and there are not many varieties. The reliance on a small number of species means they are more susceptible to disease outbreaks and climate change. It renders food production less resilient,” warned Julie Bélanger, the coordinator of the report.
As examples, the report noted how overdependence on a narrow range of species was a major factor in the famine caused by potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s, cereal crop failures in the US in the 20th century, and losses of taro production in Samoa in the 1990s.
“There is an urgent need to change the way food is produced and ensure that biodiversity is not something that is swept aside but is treated as an irreplaceable resource and a key part of management strategies,” said Bélanger.The Guardian. | en | false | [] | [] | [] |
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SF Giant Race 2018
Disclaimer: I received free entry to the Giant Raceace as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews!
This was my first time doing this race. We drove to SF the day before to the expo and pick up the bibs for two other BibRavePro’s. The pre-event was very well organized. They had many volunteers on site to help in the various tasks, but also to direct people traffic to the right spot.
The Half and 10K had an earlier start time than the 5K. This was great because by the time the 5K started the other runs had been done their race a long time ago, which meant there was plenty of parking when we arrived later that morning. I also did the pre-paid parking option which made it hassle free. I just printed the receipt and put it on my windshield.
The 5K race was fun. It started outside of the stadium, went down the marina a little, turned around and ended inside the stadium. There were a lot of families running together. It’s awesome to see families getting exercise and having fun together.
Our race swag included a bobblehead, a t-shirt, a finisher’s medal. I’m not a bobblehead collector, but I found plenty of friends who wanted it, so I gave it away.
At the end of the race after you got your medal there were some snacks available for free. They were handing out carrots, yogurt, milk, applesauce, and pretzels. It was the perfect ending to a race in SF.
I know some people told me that they were concerned with running in San Francisco since it’s known to be extremely hilly there, but it was totally flat the entire time for the 5K distance.
I might have to do this run again next year. It was totally worth it.
Posted on September 16, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in BibRavePro, RacesLeave a comment
San Francisco Giant Race (Half, 10K, 5K, & Kids)
Disclaimer: I received free entry to the SF Giant Race as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews.
The San Francisco Giant Race will be held on September 9, 2018.
RACESF2018 gets you $10 off half, 10K or 5K.
I’ll be running the 5K if you want to give me a shout out when you see me. I’ll be wearing my bright orange BibRave shirt.
This is a super family friendly race with lots of distances, including a Kids/Family Relay.
Virtual races available. Run/ walk on your own schedule.
Benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Swag includes shirt, finishers medal, & a Bruce Bochy bobblehead!
Scenic route along the water.
The flattest course in San Francisco.
Come and join the fun!
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Posted on August 10, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in Races, RunningLeave a comment
Big Bunny 5K 2018 in Cupertino
The Big Bunny 5K was loads of fun. It was my first year doing it. I love themed races, and I wasn’t going to miss out on dressing up as a bunny. My outfit included a bunny shirt from Gone for a Run, FlipBelt Crops, Zensah leg sleeves, BibBoards, and Brooks sneakers.
The expo was small with some local companies present. It included a local yoga studio, other local races, and informational booth with kids programs.
I picked up my swag on race day. The line was very long. They did have a system in place, but they really needed more people helping out. The shirt was a dark blue with a pocket painted on the shirt. I have to say it was one of the worst race shirts I’ve gotten. This race did include a finishers medal and age group medals. There was a kids race on a smaller course, which was very cute.
The course was all through residential streets. They did not close fully those streets and we had to on a couple of occasions tell drivers to turn around. It’s amazing how stubborn people can be. The entire course was flat and some of the homeowners came out to cheer the runners on and wish them a Happy Easter.
Aid Stations
There was one water station along the way, which was plenty for such a short distance. There were some portapotties at the beginning of the race and none throughout the course.
It was a family-friendly event. There were many mom, dad, kids, and grandparents running or walking together. There were raffle prizes at the end. The firefighters were there and encouraged runners as they made their way to the finish line.
After the race, there was plenty of green areas for people to sit and recover and wait for the raffle prizes to be called. Kids had some toss games to play with and plenty of space to run around and enjoy the day.
A definite repeat for next year.
Posted on April 5, 2018 April 13, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in RacesLeave a comment
Heart & Soles Run 2018
Heart & Soles was a local San Jose race that took place on March 24, 2018. It had two distances: 6K and 10K. The starting line was located on the campus of Santa Clara University. I arrived early and had no problem finding a parking spot. There were plenty of people already there. As I walked over to the event, I noticed that there were several tents set-up. There were a variety of vendors present at the event from beef jerky sales, other races, to athletic shoe stores. There was a large section with complimentary tea and coffee. There was a sweat check on site.
I did the 6K. The route took us out of Santa Clara University campus and onto closed off streets. We eventually arrived at Avaya Stadium, Home of the San Jose Earthquakes, where our route looped inside the stadium. That was the best part! I had never been inside that stadium and enjoyed the experience. The team mascot was present to take photos with the runners and there were plenty of good photo spots within. The route then turned back and return back the same way we went out.
In the end, we were handed our medals and they were a variety of Kind Bars, apples, and water to get rehydrated. There were both runners and walkers and even dog owners. It wasn’t a high-pressure race, instead, it was a good event to get some exercise without it being intimidating or stressful.
Posted on March 28, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in Races, RunningLeave a comment
Go Green St. Patrick’s Day Race
This was a small local race with less than 300 runners. I picked it because it was close by and because of the theme. I love holiday or themed races. I enjoy dressing up and seeing what the other runners come up with.
The weather was 41F at the starting line. Way too cold for it to be Spring, but at least it wasn’t raining.
All runners received a long-sleeved technical shirt. Women’s shirts were white and men were grey. I wondered why the race was called Go Green and yet our shirts weren’t green. There was no finishers medal in this race. Instead, runners received a pint glass. Runners who placed in their age group received a bottle opener medal.
The race was at Hellyer Park in San Jose. The course was paved and flat the whole way. I did have to make my way around other walkers, runners, bikers that were on the same route.
There were two water stations along the 10K route. The cups were filled with water and ready to go. I hate having to slow down and wait for someone to pour the water. Luckily, I didn’t have to go through that this time.
Many people came to the race dressed up in something related to St. Patrick’s Day whether it was green, leprechauns, or some other character. There was even a group dressed as French mushrooms (that’s the white costumes). I’m not sure how that fits into the theme, but it was festive.
After the race runners, 21 and older could enjoy a beer in their new pint glass. There were plenty of fruit and snacks to refuel on as well as bottles of water. Overall, I thought the race was well organized and well done.
Not bad. I was happy with my results.
Posted on March 21, 2018 March 19, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in bibchat, Races, RunningLeave a comment
Race Review: Sedona Marathon
“Disclaimer: I received free entry to the Sedona Marathon race as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews!”
The expo was in a big open location under a tent. I appreciated that it was open until 8 pm on Friday before the race, however, it would have been nice to know ahead of time that you can pick-up your bib on race day. I flew in on Friday and almost didn’t make it to the pick-up. A stressful experience that could have been easily avoided.
There were a handful of vendors selling everything from Sedona socks and t-shirts to runner specific gear like recovery sandals and hydration packs.
Swag included a t-shirt, bib, and finishers medal. I learned that the medal we received is actually part of a 4 piece set. So, I will definitely need to come next year to claim the next piece of the puzzle.
The 10K course was not too hard. There were some hills, but they were doable. I just made a point to go faster downhill and take my time going uphill. The course was on a paved road the entire time.
Sedona is at a high elevation, so the air is thin with no humidity. I actually got very dehydrated after the race. I know now to drink more water. The scenery is the best part, it’s breathtaking! I kept looking around as I ran and being amazed.
I felt like there were plenty of aid stations throughout the course with both electrolytes and regular water. There were also many volunteers along the race cheering runners on with both handmade signs and cowbells.
There were a lot of portapotties. No long lines waiting to use the restroom, like in other races!
Everyone was so nice! It was a friendly environment. Many tourists came in that weekend just for the race. The locals were very kind and welcoming.
I met up with two other fellow BibRave Pros, @rundeweyrun and @azsungoddess. Dewey did the full marathon, Emily did the half, and I did the 10K. BibRave was well represented that day. It’s always nice to meet and connect with Pros in-person.
There was a beer garden available. I’m not a beer drinker, but there were many people enjoying having a cold beer after the race. There were vendor food trucks available, for those that had worked up an appetite. Some food options that I saw available were pizza, loaded fries, and pork sandwiches.
After the race was done there was plenty to do, since Sedona has been rated as one of the top 10 most beautiful locations in the U.S. There’s a lot of opportunities for sightseeing before or after the race and even if you don’t have the time for that, you will love just looking around at the beautiful red rocks that surround the town.
Run-cation
I made this race a weekend trip. I flew with Jim and Chiquita, our 4-year-old chihuahua to Phoenix. We then rented a car and drove to Sedona. We stayed at the Sedona Rouge, which is a pet-friendly hotel. There was a potty area for her right outside our room, which was very convenient. Chiquita stayed in the room during the race but was otherwise with us. The stores and some restaurants in town were pet-friendly, so it made it easy for all of us to walk around town.
Chiquita has her own Instagram account. Click here to take a look.
Posted on February 5, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in bibchat, BibRavePro, Races, runchat, RunningTagged @sedonamarathon, bibchat, BibRavePro, Running, SME18. Leave a comment
Carb DM 5K Review
Expo:
This was a small race of about 130 people, so there was no expo. It was clear that the intention of the race was to come out and enjoy time with loved ones, support the cause and exercise.
Swag:
The swag was a t-shirt and a bib. No medals were handed out. There was no goodie bag or samples. Typically, fun runs are like this, so it wasn’t a surprise.
The course was a 5K in Coyote Point Recreation Center in San Mateo. It was mainly a flat rate, but it has a hill that put you right above the ocean. The views were ever changing as you passed one mile to the next. It passed by a marina where you could see sailboats to your right, so it wasn’t your average park run.
Aid Stations:
This race promotes diabetes awareness, so it wasn’t surprising to find two aid stations named “low stations” with both insulin and juice bags. There was one water station on the course about half-way through. However, there were plenty of snacks before and after the race.
Many people were there as a family or with other runners. It was a friendly environment where people were out to have fun and get exercise.
Once I passed the finish line, a person ripped off the bottom half of our bib, since it was our first time doing this race, we didn’t know what was that for. There were no chips on the bib. The time was manually kept for the top runners and posted on a board by the finish line. I didn’t stay for long after finishing the race. Based on the photos of the event, it seems like there were prizes raffled out. I thought prizes at the end meant that they were going to hand out medals to the top finishers. Had I known that it was raffle prizes, I might have stayed longer.
There were many tables set-up, but as in many races, the volunteers didn’t know what they were supposed to be doing. A recommendation for next year would be to have someone oversee the volunteers to ensure a smoother process.
There was plenty of parking spaces. You did have to pay $6 to park, but it was announced via email ahead of time and the organizers encouraged people to carpool to save on the parking fee.
I would be happy to do it again next year.
Posted on January 29, 2018 by bsweet321Posted in bibchat, BibRavePro, Races, runchatTagged bibchat, BibRavePro, runchat, Running, werunsocial. Leave a comment | en | false | [] | [] | [] |
BnMzNjndHGTgHLdcAY67 | PEACE, LOVE, AND JOY MY FRIENDS
The Spinster Stitcher, her little dog too, Aunt Chrissy, and Baby Bosco send you love and wishes for all that is merry and bright for you and yours! Be safe, travel well, and enjoy your holiday. We'll do the same and will see you in the new year!
Coni, Crys, Stewey, and Bosco
BACK TO MY ROOTS
This is Laura J. Perin's "Victorian Ribbons" and I'm trading out the recommended Camouflage for Holiday to make it all Christmas-y.
COZY COZY COZY
Here's the damage so far:
What looks like a big pile 'o yarn is actually a shawl (the white/cream thingie) and a Christmas scarf (the red, green, and white thingie).
I've been sporting both around the neighborhood, and must say that the folks at the baby blanket yarn company sure know what they're doing....this stuff is s.o.f.t. and very very warm.
Stewey is unimpressed and has vehemently demanded that I return to counted needlework forthwith, but for now I'm satisfied to play with my bargain a little longer.
(The long loom was about ten bucks and the yarn was no more than seven or eight...all thanks to some well-used JoAnn's coo-puns.)
The outside decorations were hung with care, thanks to the help and supervision of Aunt Chrissy and You Know Who, but that might be as far as we get this year. Would it be so wrong to just stand in the driveway whenever I feel the need to look at twinkle lights? I keep thinking about how easy it will be to put all of the decorations away if I never get them out in the first place.
So that's the story from Lake Woebespinster. I hope that your corner of the world is exactly how you want it to be!
STILL AT IT...
The way this whole thing came about was that Aunt Chrissy and I were in the JoAnn's looking for something to do that would keep us out of the pumpkin pie.
"Hey, lookit!" I said in the yarn aisle. "Doesn't this kinda remind you of the spool thingie that Dad made us that we used to knit on?"
(Actually, it was Aunt Chrissy who spied these....and she said (most articulately, I might add) "Oh, this is a loom. I've always wanted to learn to knit on a loom. Perhaps we should try this....they are remarkably affordable and I see that the resulting accomplishment of finishing a project would be most satisfying.")
OK. maybe she didn't say it EXACTLY that way, but the end result is the same. We've both been loom knitting our fingers off for the better part of three days now and I almost have my first scarf.
It will be quite chunky, it is true, but then again, so am I and we all know how delightful THAT can be!
For those who've asked...this is called knitting on a long loom and you can learn all about it on the YouTube, just like I did.
Stewey and I hope that you are all well and cozy and happy. If we get our chores done tomorrow I've promised him a tummy rub and some time in the studio putting together our Spinster Stitcher Christmas Basket O Stitchy Fun.
Stay tuned!!
OEY....WHAT HAVE I STARTED?
it's either going to be a really fat and chunky scarf, or a blanket big enough to cover a small vehicle.
Either way, we're cozy and ready for turkey!
UH OH.....WHAT'S SHE DOING NOW?
We can blame Aunt Chrissy for tonight's crazypants obsession.
Stay tuned. In a year or two, I might end up with a scarf.
BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING...
Forgive me, but it took me a minute to get smart enough to delete all of the crap from the hacker. Thanks to a loyal and devoted reader explaining it to me, I now know that the only thing that mess was about was trying to spread a virus. And since the LAST thing I want is to cause grief to those I love (that would be all of you) I opted o.u.t.
Here's a little progress on Shepherd's Bush "Harvest of Plenty". It is such a joy to stitch....pulling that silk through that linen is exactly what the doctor ordered.
I REALLY NEED TO GET RID OF THIS DARN BLANKET
Scene: A living room somewhere in the Midwestern United States. A portly spinster is sprawled in her Happy Chair, needle and thread in hand, a stupid-soft throw wrapped about her substantial frame.
A little dog appears.
He hops up onto the spinster, peers over his little reading glasses, checks for a pulse, and then gently pokes her a few times to see if she can be persuaded to either a) stop snoring and let him resume his perusal of the latest New Yorker, or b) haul herself out of said Happy Chair and stumble into the big girl sleigh bed for some shut eye.
The spinster grunts, clutches the stupid-soft blanket tighter to her ample (yet saggy) bosom, and mutters something about Jeffrey Dean Morgan and animal shelters. She does, however, manage to let go of the needle and thread long enough for the little dog to park it safely on the designer pin cushion that the spinster and her sister just had to have during a recent late-night excursion to the WalMart.
Sighing heavily, the little dog turns off the spinster's stitching light, pats her on the head for being the simpleton that she is, and then pees on the ottoman as he makes his way back to his study.
SATURDAY SPINSTER BLISS
Stewey and I are snoodled up under our new cozy blanket, the Irish are playing Navy, and I'm stitching "Harvest of Plenty" by Shepherd's Bush. We had snow for Halloween, I made a lovely cauliflower chowder, and tomorrow is the first official Sunday brisket of the autumnal season.
Who's happier than me?
Yes....you're seeing that correctly. You Know Who insists that his toys remain organized according to season.
I have no idea what the score is....I've been too busy looking at stitchy blogs!
Ahhhhhh. Is there anything better than pulling silk through a gorgeous piece of linen?
Our new blanket is from the Wal-Mart. It's stupid soft, has a sherpa backing, and was $15. I am, however, convinced that it has some kind of magical fairy tale sleeping curse capabilities, since I lapse into a serious coma every time I get under the darn thing.
Please forgive my absence these last several months, dear friends. I don't mean to be away so long, but life keeps getting in the way of things. All will be well. Keep the happy thoughts and here's hoping that your own corner of the world is cozy, too!
SORRY, BETTY
Do you remember our friend, Betty, who wrote to me every day to tell me how much she hated every single thing about me and my stupid little life?
Well, brace yourself, Betty. Because all I have for you today is drivel. No pictures of stitching. No pictures of the lovely autumnal decorations that Aunt Chrissy has strewn about my house. No funny photos of Little Lord Fauntleroy doing whatever it is that makes Little Lord Fauntleroy such an...interesting...companion to one lonely old spinster.
Yes, it's true. I have been eating my fair share of bruschetta and pudding these last few days, but at least I have a good excuse for it. I've re-watched Julie and Julia about a dozen times, and one of the opening cooking scenes is Julie making bruschetta for her husband. You know the one I'm talking about....she fries the thick-cut bread in olive oil and then mixes up some gorgeous heirloom tomatoes and basil.
What can I say? That sounded pretty good to me, so I did what any normal person would do. I went to the grocery store, bought about eight dozen loaves of fancypants bread, a truckload of heirloom tomatoes, a small bush of basil, and went to town. Last night I added crumbled feta just because I could. Here's the way I perfected Bruschetta a 'la Spinster:
Thickly sliced crusty bread (mine was sliced to precisely 1 1/2 inches)
Good olive oil
Feta or Blue Cheese crumbles
Garlic cloves (you need a few really big ones peeled to rub on the bread)
Pre-heat a toaster oven to broil. Brush bread with olive oil, add a little salt and pepper, and put it in to toast while you're dicing and mixing the topping. Chop the tomatoes and basil, drizzle on a little balsamic and olive oil, and salt and pepper to taste. Add cheese, if you're so inclined. Flip the bread over to get the other side golden brown, and when it is, take it out and rub it vigorously with the garlic clove. Top with the tomato mixture, pour yourself a big glass of red wine (or, in my case Raspberry Ice Crystal Light) and enjoy!
Now as for the pudding....I ate that because I wanted something a little sweet and I had two boxes of sugar free/fat free chocolate fudge instant pudding mix in the pantry and I needed to use up the vat of skim milk that I bought because I swore I was going to drink more skim milk. (I'm not much of a milk drinker, as it turns out, so any time I can figure out a way to sneak it into something, I'm pretty happy.)
So there you have it. That's the sum total of the last two months of my life. I have not stitched or even thought about stitching in so long that it's making my skin itch, but I have promised myself a studio day very very soon to remedy that.
Stewey, as you know, is perfectly fine and is getting PLENTY of evening games of Pumpkin(!) in before the snow flies, and Aunt Chrissy and Bosco are making sure that we behave ourselves and don't do anything too terribly stupid.
What's new with you?
SOMEBODY CALL WEIGHT WATCHERS
My mom can't come to the blog right now. She's sitting in the Happy Chair....eyes glazed over....mumbling something about being normal and just doing things like a person does without having to fall into the "all spinster / all the time" trap.
For the last eight days, my stupid Mo-ther has consumed nothing but bruschetta and pudding.
Bruschetta.
And pudding.
What can I say? When the old lady goes on a tear, there's not much that I am able to do that will snap her out of whatever crazypants mess she's got cooking in that hot crock pot full of obsession she owns. Best to just let her tire herself out, and then when she finally falls into a heap, I can call my Aunt Chrissy to come help me clean up the mess.
I hope that your corner of the world is a lot more.....normal. Until we meet again, I remain your loyal and devoted pal.
With much love,
PUMPKIN STORY
Once upon a time, there was a spoiled little dog who loved pumpkins....
IN WHICH OUR HEROINE FINDS A PROFILE PICTURE SHE CAN FINALLY LIVE WITH.....
So I don't suppose it's any secret that I remain anonymous on purpose. The truth of the matter is that I simply cannot STAND to have my big fat face anywhere near a camera and/or profile picture.
Today, at last (!) I have finally found one that I can live with.
You might have heard that there is a football game in these here parts tomorrow night. My beloved Alma Mater (she says with a hearty "Ahem") is playing the University of Michigan. This rivalry goes back a ways and is intense...just like almost every other rivalry we have with schools like USC, Miami, and anybody else that we've ever played in our storied 150+ year history.
(Wait a minute...could it be that a little Irish Pride has started to creep back into my veins?! How the heck did that happen! Somebody alert the authorities...she's starting to cave!!!)
Anywhoose....I thought y'all might get a kick out of having a little inside info in the event that you and yours decide to watch the game:
Notre Dame has officially launched the GOLD GANG. This gang is a group of student ambassadors that will roam the campus wearing full body suits (of gold) along with t-shirts that commemorate each of the 11 years that Notre Dame has won a National Championship. The idea is that these roaming gold guys will generate team spirit, hype the hype, and generally be something cool for devoted fans to look at while they're roasting their tailgate wienies.
Now here's where the inside info comes in.....you can tell everybody you know that you just happen to be close personal friends with the person that decorated the uniforms of the Gold Gang! Yes, that's right, our very own Aunt Chrissy is the person responsible for physically applying the digital transfer to the fronts and backs of all of the Gold Gang's t-shirts! How freakin' cool is THAT?!
Stewey and I will be back soon with updates on all of the shenanigans at Chez Spinster. We've managed to accomplish a LITTLE stitching, a little MORE cooking, a LOT of reading, and a TON of sleeping!
Until we meet again.....here's hoping that your very own corner of the world is indeed....GOLDEN!
A NOTE FROM MASTER STEWEY ANGUS WILLOWSWAMP, HIS VERY LITTLE (AND SNIFFLY) SELF
My mom can't come to the blog right now. The old lady has been on a complete tear ever since THEY revealed the Shamrock Series unis this week. I swear, if it weren't for the fact that I've been feeling poorly lately and have been unable to accompany her, she would have climbed into the Big Girl VeeHickLe and sped over to campus to demand an audience.
So many of you have sent emails asking where the Spinster Stitcher rant is regarding said unis. Mo-ther asked me to pass along the message that she is.....formulating. Stay tuned for what promises to be a rather entertaining few minutes in the life of an idiot spinster.
As for me, I am under the proverbial weather with my allergies. I awoke this morning with puffy eyes and a runny nose, and I have been sorely tempted to chew at my forearms. One quick call to my internist, however, and I am soon to be on the mend once my script is on board.
Now if I could only get a prescription for whatever it is that has my stupid mo-ther such a hot mess, all would indeed be perfectly swell here in Hoosierville.
I'm sorry to report that there has been absolutely NO stitching happening in the friendly confines. I suspect that it is due to the usual August ennui, and that once the temperatures return to something OTHER than that of the surface of the sun the needles will fly once again. In looking at my previous years' reports, I do see that we seem to enter a very major stitchy slump this time of year, so I'm giving it until Labor Day before I call in the (Aunt Chrissy) authorities.
I do hope that this finds you well. Please know that I remain your loyal and devoted friend and send you my very deepest and most heartfelt wishes for a wonderfully happy day.
With love from your pal,
MAYBE THEY REALLY ARE TRYING TO KILL ME...
BANG A RANG
WHAT I'M STITCHING NOW...
This is Zecca's "Bird in a Nest". Threads and stitch guide by Miss Ruth Schmuff Her Very Self of Beadecked and Beadazzled fame...
THEY REALLY SHOULD MAKE PILLS FOR THIS....OH WAIT! MAYBE THEY DO!
Chelloooooo!
I am utterly and totally bobcumdistulated today. I'm pretty sure that it has to do with the fact that I have just spent the last TWO weekends out of town, but the more likely explanation is that I had to be ME out there in the public and not be too MUCH me for more than fourteen seconds at a time.
I think my head is going to explode.
What can I say? You spend the majority of your life hiding in your house with a fussy little dog and you get a little nuts when you have to wear shoes and a bra and carry on polite conversation about something other than ort receptacles.
The first trip outside of my comfort zone (Read that as: outside the eight-foot perimeter of Chez Spinster), was to Donaldson, Indiana and the annual Sit 'n Stitch with 50 of the most amazingly wonderful ladies you will ever meet. It was life-changing for me in many many ways, and I learned how to take a shower in the glove compartment of a Ford Focus.
(If you've ever been to the Lindenwood Retreat Center at Ancilla College in Donaldson...insert your guffaws here.) All I can tell you is that the size of the shower and the amplitude of Yours Truly made for a very interesting morning. At one point, I figured that the best way to get clean would be to apply the body wash to the walls of the shower/glove compartment, and then just shimmy my way to a bright and spot free shine, but the resulting jiggly bits threw me into convulsions that could be heard all the way down the hall.
A fair amount of thread was applied, removed, and applied again to the Zecca Bird in a Nest canvas, but alas, I do not have it or my camera here for photographic evidence. Tomorrow....I promise.
This last weekend found me in Lima, Ohio for my 30th high school class reunion.
(I'll save you from having to do the math in your head. Ready?....I'm 48.)
(You're welcome.)
Now here's where I confess that I fretted and fretted and fretted about this for six months, purposely missed the deadline to attend, and then turned my car around about nine times because of the full-on panic that ensued every single time I thought of having to say "Hi, do you remember me? I was the one sitting in History class trying to look like I had a clue about what I was doing, but all I really wanted to do was go hide in my locker until graduation."
The flop sweat hit ten minutes after I left the hotel and the red blotches appeared right about the time I realized that there was no good way to run screaming from the banquet room without drawing attention to my big fat heiney hastily packed into twelve year old capris pants and a blouse that was apparently made of thermo-nuclear fabric. (I'm pretty sure that I could have baked a ham in there and had plenty of heat left over for the green bean casserole.) (Note to self.....find. better. deodorant.) (Second note to self....burn. blouse.)
By the time the event started (oh, did I mention that I was about four hours early?), I had worked myself up into a froth of bug-eyed, sweaty, blotchy, messiness that could only be contained in the corner stall of the ladies room. I spent a fair amount of time in there quietly gritting my teeth and chanting "Get a freakin grip already. Get a freakin grip already" until it occurred to me that people were probably starting to wonder about the weird girl who spent the night in the john talking to herself.
Yeah. THAT'S the way to rebuild a reputation.
Despite having to be ME, I managed to have the time of my life, and I can't believe that I was actually lucky enough to go to school with this group of people.
Thank God, though, that I've got five years to recover, get a grip, and find better pharmaceuticals.
Stewey sends his love. He was happy to spend some time with his Aunt Chrissy, but a bit miffed that it was not (as I had promised him) a vacation aboard a Viking Cruise through the waterways of Europe. (Can I help it if he's getting harder and harder to please? A mo-ther's gotta do what a mo-ther's gotta do to get the damn dog in the car seat, after all.)
Here's hoping that your last few weeks have been filled with all things happy. If you've gone to your own events this summer and would like to pass along any helpful tips about how one might learn to be a little less....Spinster Stitcher-ish, please drop me a line. I'll take all the help I can get.
JUST ME AND MY EYE PATCH
We awoke at the crack 'o dawn (it really was, but you have to expect that sort of thing when you go to bed at 7:30) , had coffee, and then.....drumroll please...
WE SPENT THE MORNING IN THE STUDIO!!!
I figured out how to turn the record player on and while jamming to Elton, I colorized this:
I'm in the Happy Chair....needle and antiseptic bandaids at the ready, and now....off to stitch!
POKED...
I poked something, all right.
Right in the eye.
No, seriously....I sat down to start stitching and promptly reached up to brush a forelock from my forehead and poked myself in the eyeball with the needle.
If it weren't for the fact the Stewey laughed so hard (*) he peed the ottoman, I would have been really traumatized. As it is, I checked for blood, slapped a cold compress on my head and went to bed.
Sometimes it's just not at all easy being me.
Now here's the good news in all of this. Because I'm stupid enough to do this stuff and then even stupider enough to tell you all about it, I will get thousands of comments expressing sympathy and suggestions as to how I can live in the world and still be me at the same time.
What would I do without you all? Thank you for your kindness...your inspiration...your tolerance...and most of all for just understanding . You ROCK!
Here's to happy weekends all around.
I. Am. Determined. To. Stitch. If. It's. The. Last. Thing. I. Do.
(*) In case you're wondering, his laughter is rather like that of the beloved Snoopy of Peanuts fame....high pitched, squeaky little giggles that make his whole little self jiggle and shake.
IT'S LONELY OUT IN SPACE....
I think there's a line in Elton John's "Rocket Man" that says something about "I miss the Earth, I miss my life".
Or, maybe it's supposed to be "wife". I don't know. Either way, all I know is that I miss my old life. I miss having an entire day to think about stitching and then do the actual stitching and then write about stitching and then do more of the thinking about stitching.
Stewey is completely miffed that we seem to have fallen into a terrible trap of....nothingness....that includes a lot of bad TeeVee and even worse meals. I suspect that if I don't clean up my act soon he's going to hit the road for greener pastures. (I swear I came home the other day to find him furiously stuffing smoking jackets into his little valise while simultaneously berating his stuffed toys for not being more helpful.)
The good news, though, is that I actually had wonderful dreams last night that I WAS stitching. Nothing too Earth-shattering, mind you. Just a very pleasant nine and a half hours of dreaming that I was sitting in a lovely comfy chair with a pretty blanket over my legs stitching away on something wonderful.
I awoke hopeful.
So here's to a Thursday on which I, the Spinster Stitcher Her Very Self, do so solemnly swear to pick up a needle and poke something with it before days' end.
How 'bout you?
STEWEY/MO-THER VERSERY
Mo-ther's version:
"Nine years ago yesterday, Aunt Chrissy and I traveled to the wilds of Indiana to pick up my two and a half pound bundle of joy. I knew the very moment I held that little creature in my arms that my life would never be the same. I looked deeply into his eyes, took a deep breath, and said: "I. Am. Your. Mommie." We drove home, with Stewey sleeping peacefully in his Aunt Chrissy's arms (I think I even made her sit in the back seat for safety purposes!), and then I spent the rest of the night watching my new baby snore happily away in his playpen. He was potty trained the next morning, learned to fetch a ball the next afternoon, and fully in love with his huge basket of fluffy toys by the end of the day. What can I say? Those first several months were sheer bliss and I would not trade one moment of the last 3,285 days for anything in this world."
Stewey's version:
"I couldn't have been picked up by that nice pediatrician and his wife from Cincinnati?"
Hard to believe it, but it's true. Stewey and I celebrated nine years of being.....us.....yesterday. I snuggled him every chance I got and he did his level best not to pee on the drapes. All in all, a very good day.
Happy 4th of July to all of our U.S. friends.....
Stewey and I are gobsmacked by the tons of emails that we've received in the last few days asking if we weathered the storms OK. The short answer is, yes, thank goodness, but many in our area weren't so lucky.
The tornado sirens went off at 1am, we headed for our bathroom bunker shortly thereafter, and the lights went "poof" at about 1:05.
Power is back on and we are none the worse for wear (except for a few trees that look a bit naked), but we're not looking forward to doing THAT again any time soon.
Here's hoping that the weekend is calm and bright and full of stitchy goodness for everybody! Thanks for thinking of us....WOO HOO!
BLOG? WHAT BLOG?
So there I was, minding my very own business, when I looked up.
"Holy crap, Batman!" I exclaimed to nobody in particular. "It's almost the end of June! How the h-e-double-toothpicks did THAT happen?"
The truth of the matter is that time seems to be speeding by us here in Hoosierville quite quickly this summer. It's not due to anything exciting, mind you, but rather just the general blah blah blah that is my life.
Stewey is fine...toes are all in tact and healed very nicely. He was totally miffled that he had to have his little cast removed, especially since the sight of it gave everybody a case of the "Awwwww, isn't he the cutest little thing you've ever seen" bug.
Chez Spinster has remained spiffed up, but no visit from the Jersey Boy just yet. I wait with breath that is batied for the day he crosses the threshold, but am doing my level best not to get too excited about it until I see the license plate in the driveway.
(You have to love that about New Jersey...front license plates! We don't have them here in Indiana and I really do miss them terribly.)
(I find it comforting to know the home whereabouts of the cars that you're careening into on any given day. Don't you?)
Aunt Chrissy is all skinny now and sporting her fancypants glasses where ever she goes. I'm not sure how she did it, but my little sister has managed to get even cuter, all while maintaining her usual aura of exasperated patience with moi and moi's little you know who.
I am stitching a bit. Managed to finish the little all-tent-stitch-all-the-time piece that I was playing with. If I ever find the battery to the camera, I'll show you how it came out.
So that's it, kids. Nothing new. Nothing Earth shattering. Just me,.
I'll make sure that Stewey gets back to it soon and updates you on all of his shenangins. Until then, know that we remain your loyal and devoted friends and hope that you are well and safe and happy and stitching to your heart's content!
Ciao, mee amorays!
WOW. THAT. WAS. FAST.
A LITTLE NOTE FROM ME TO YOU, BY MASTER STEWEY ANGUS WILLOWSWAMP, HIS VERY LITTLE SELF
My mo-ther can't come to the blog right now. I've sent her to the market on a fool's errand of looking for a very special organic dog food that I read about online. We'll just keep it between us chickens that this particular dog food is only available in Australia, OK?
I was doing just fine, sleeping with my silk pajamas and sleep mask firmly in place, when the old lady started bellowing "Oh, what a beautiful morning!" at the top of her ample lungs at 5:30 this morning. We apparently are experiencing some sort of weather related phenomenon that does not involve freezing my little heiney off, so Mo-ther felt compelled to welcome the day in what can only be described as her own special way.
Progress continues on Aunt Laura's Stained Glass Windows. I think this piece is particularly fetching, and have already selected a place for it in my study....just above the davenport. Methinks the color scheme will go quite nicely with a new Persian I've just had my broker bid on for me at Southeby's, so as long as Mo-ther remembered to pay my AMEX bill this month, we should be good to go.
Life continues along quietly here at Chez Spinster. I see my Aunt Chrissy from time to time for a little intellectual stimulation, and make do with whatever inane conversation Mo-ther concocts in the interim. My cousin Bosco continues to amuse me with his antics, and there was a brief moment that I considered joining him on Spring Break this year before I remembered that I care neither for board shorts or beer parties.
I do apologize for my absence, but between trying to keep my idiot mo-ther from doing stupid human tricks that will surely result in a trip to the local emergency room and writing my novel, there just isn't a lot of time in the day.
Are you all well and enjoying your own particular corner of the world?
Until we meet again, know that I remain your loyal and devoted friend. Keep those cards and letters coming!
HOLEY SCHMOLEY!
So there I was, daydreaming about this thing of ours, when I happened upon a comment on this here blog by the lovely JP. In my last post, I mentioned that Stewey and I were captivated by the costumes in Game of Thrones, and JP was kind enough to provide the link to the Embroideress of said costumes.
(Fair warning, kids.....when you go to this sight, you are going to want to quit your day job, move to London, and bang on the door of her studio to beg for an apprenticeship. (At least that's what I am thinking about doing today.)
I mean, come on. How freakin' COOL would THAT be?
RANDOM PERSON AT A COCKTAIL PARTY: So, what do you do for a living?
SPINSTER: I'm a Needleartist.
(OK, so this is the answer I give whenever somebody asks me this question already, but I do so because saying "Oh, I'm a big fat loser who hasn't a clue as to what she was supposed to do with her pitiful little life" kind of kills the moment.)
RANDOM PERSON: A Needleartist? What's that?
SPINSTER: Well, I do hand embroidery on textiles that are used in film and television productions.
RANDOM PERSON: Wow. That's amazing. Have you worked on anything that I would have seen?
SPINSTER: As a matter of fact, I just finished work on this season's costumes for Game of Thrones.
RANDOM PERSON: Wow. That's incredible. You're perhaps the most fascinating person I've ever met in my whole entire life. Can I get your number and take you to dinner sometime to hear more about this?
Ahhhhh. What a happy daydream for today! Thanks for the reference, JP!
Here's the link:
http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com/index.htm
WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY
Chelloooo!
Stewey and I are having a quiet, yet lovely Wednesday morning. The sun is shining, but it's cold. I think the thermometer said it was in the 20's before she muttered "Later, kids" and headed south for the duration.
Sheesh...even the meteorological measuring devices have had enough.
I've been happily stitching away on Laura J. Perin's Stained Glass Windows while re-watching the previous seasons of Game of Thrones. Aunt Chrissy and I decided to get ready for the premier in a few weeks by refreshing ourselves on the characters and plot points, so it's been all things codpieces all the time around here.
Last night, Stewey got such a case of the giggles when he caught sight of Cersei Lannister in her copper breast plate. I looked up from my stitching to see what all the fuss was about, and have to confess that my Stewey Little was right-on with his assessment:
I was thinking that the level of detail was a little extreme for a copper breast plate (since I thought I saw a n***le) but it turns out that it just must have been the lighting in the shot. Here is a close-up of said breast plate:
Isn't the embroidery on that costume swell? Makes me wonder what all of the stuff from the show must look like up-close and in person.
Speaking of up-close and in person.....here's my progress on Stained Glass Windows. In case you're wondering about the odd pattern of completion, may I just point out that I was smart enough to turn the canvas upside down so as not to reach my stubby pork chop arms across an 18-inch stretcher bar set? I figure I'll work the other two boxes in that row and will then head to the center portion of the design last.
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BnMzm1fZLAegKJC62Arl | Kroger’s Seamless Shoppers Has McMullen Bullish on Digital Growth
As consumer behavior shifts with each COVID wave, Kroger is seeing its digital efforts pay off as the grocer retains shoppers within its ecosystem.
Lisa Johnston
Rodney McMullen, chairman and CEO of The Kroger Co., and Krystina Gustafson, SVP content, Groceryshop
Rodney McMullen, chairman and CEO of The Kroger Co., expressed excitement for the future of grocery e-commerce at the Groceryshop trade show in Las Vegas on Sunday, noting that the pandemic accelerated about three years’ worth of transition in two weeks.
While some digital shopping has decreased, he described it as not being much, with this most recent Delta surge causing some shoppers who had been returning into stores to flip back online.
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What’s more, almost every customer that was shopping with Kroger digitally moved to shopping with it in-store, said McMullen. “So we didn't lose them out of our ecosystems. They just went back to the store versus online.”
For Kroger, this seamless migration is the critical part of serving its customers. “We want to have a customer that when you think food, you think Kroger,” noted McMullen. “And when you tie all of it together, it makes it easy. … We've always had the theory of it, but it was the first time we had a true data point that the customer really did switch from one to the other in a totally seamless way.”
As Kroger strives to reach $20 billion in digital sales by 2023, the grocer’s automated Customer Fulfillment Centers, the first of which opened earlier this year, are expected to play a significant role in enabling the company to enter new markets.
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It’s also testing its Hometown grocery pickup services in towns that don’t have a grocery store.
“Usually dollar stores are your biggest competitors in those kinds of markets,” McMullen said, “but it really is trying to be wherever the customer is ever held they want.”
[See also: How Kroger’s Personalization Science Impacts Digital Carts]
Looking at the rapid growth of retail media network, Kroger is taking steps to ensure it stays ahead of the curve. The company was an early entrant to the market, which has become increasingly saturated.
McMullen noted that the Kroger has 11 million people entering its stores and 4 million people visiting it online; while this presents many monetization opportunities for retail media networks, the company is taking a longer-term view in order to ensure it still provides value for its CPG partners.
“We're not going to advertise Coke to Pepsi customer, and vice versa, because that doesn't do us any good,” he said. “I'm sure we can get revenue from it, but we're really trying to figure out a way where all boats rise.”
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BnL1itw1Sz3D_x_WQWsQ | Why being in love may give you superpowers
Emily Baines
Every few months, I browse through my favorite blogs and uncover those amazing stories of a mother lifting a crashed car off her trapped child or father. This phenomenon, known as “hysterical strength,” is impossible to scientifically research because it’s difficult to replicate those conditions for a study. Nonetheless, we know it’s real.
Well, it turns out you don’t just have to be worried about a loved one’s safety to harness this superhuman strength. People who are in love have experienced this phenomenon, as well. According to clinical sexologist and licensed marriage and family therapist Dr. Kat Van Kirk, people who are in love have, as well. “The oxytocin released in your system when you fall in love can actually increase your tolerance for physical pain,” Dr. Kirk explained.
The superpower benefits for lovebirds don’t end there. The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology published a study that showed that married people were less likely than their single peers to have, or die from, a heart attack. Wow. WOW. That’s one heck of a benefit of marriage— far more useful than the tax benefit my father keeps telling me about!
Lead researcher Dr. Aino Lammintausta explained,
“Our study suggests that marriage reduces the risk of acute coronary events and death due to acute coronary events in both men and women and at all ages. Furthermore, especially among middle-aged men and women, being married and cohabiting are associated with considerably better prognosis of incident acute coronary events both before hospitalization and after reaching the hospital alive.”
Well, now I can’t stop humming Huey Lewis and the News’ The Power of Love. What? They were right! Just look at the evidence!
Seriously, this science shouting the benefits of of marriage is blowing our minds. For example, a Journal of Health and Social Behavior study proved that married people’s post-surgery survival rate is three times higher than that of single people. (Great. My single brother has a routine doctor’s appointment later this week and now I am terrified for him.)
Meanwhile, a study conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago found that those in a committed relationship reported a reduction in the stress hormone cortisol. (I, for one, have found myself less stressed since being in a relationship—even when my S.O. forgets to do the dishes.) This finding bolsters an already large body of evidence showing how a healthy romantic partnership can insulate us from stress. But for most of us, this is not surprising information. After all, emotional support can only aid psychological health. People act more stable when they feel someone is looking out for their interests and cares about their welfare.
When I am near my loved one, I feel invincible. I just didn’t know that might actually be the case!
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BnMuews1Sk9CpWfGaUoC | Ohio-Based Sunny D Buys Texas Plant
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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Sunny Delight Beverage Co. plans to buy a Texas factory, upgrade its U.S. factories and sell its western Europe juice drink business.
The Cincinnati-based company said Thursday it is investing $70 million to upgrade five U.S. plants, including upgrading and acquiring the Sherman, Texas, factory from J.M. Smucker Co. Orrville, Ohio-based Smucker produces Folgers coffee there and has leased space to Sunny Delight since 2004.
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BnMxc3HfHIhgGFWMdG-E | Chris Algieri: I've been in Camp with Marcos Maidana and Brandon Rios, Sparring for Weeks
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"My training in Las Vegas was very good, we had terrific sparring and I've been finishing off the last two weeks of camp here in New York City."
"I'm not in awe of fighting Ruslan at all. I've watched him fight in the past and I have a very strong game plan to beat him. I've seen what works against him and just as importantly what doesn't."
"Emmanuel Taylor who I beat in February was a hard punching, strong fighter who had knocked out a high number of opponents. I wasn't supposed to beat him or Jose Peralta. The underdog role fits me perfectly."
"I've always loved boxing, but I had success at kickboxing and initially pursued
that. My favorite fighter was Oscar De La Hoya, at his peak he could do it all. But boxing has always been my passion, my love."
"I was in a couple camps with Marcos Maidana and Brandon Rios, sparring for weeks. Both of them, like Ruslan are aggressive, very strong fighters who I had success against in training."
"Yes, I've go options with my (clinical nutrition) degree, I don't have to fight but I don't think that should be a factor in wanting to win any less. I've wanted to be a world champion since I started boxing and I want to win just as badly as Ruslan does next Saturday."
"Barclays is a beautiful venue and I'm sure both of us will have a large fan bases cheering us on."
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BnLi1pA07zdBXQDhsiDs | Ontario Election Party Profile: Libertarian Party - The Post Millennial - Mika Ryu:
May 26, 2018 - "The Ontario Libertarian Party, founded in 1975, are aiming to win their first ever seat in Queen’s Park. They are running far more candidates than in any previous Ontario general election. There are only 7 provincial ridings without a Libertarian candidate.
"Allen Small is fighting his second election as the leader of a party that has seen remarkable growth under his leadership. The party’s best showing in the last provincial election was 4th in Etobicoke North, getting more votes than the Greens in that riding.
"Government Spending - The Libertarian Party promises to balance the budget, and repay the provincial debt in 30 years. They want to do this by cutting grants and subsidies, including the dissolution of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
"Previously, their platform stated they would sell all crown corporations, which would have included Hydro One. This year, their platform is markedly moderate, at least in tone and emphasis.
"Taxes - The Libertarian Party would scrap carbon pricing and any other government programs related to climate change. They would also eliminate the corporate tax and mandatory WSIB insurance. The Land Transfer Tax would be replaced with a flat fee (of $275).
"Environment & Hydro - The Libertarian Party claims that it will cut hydro rates 'in half'. They promise the repealing of the Green Energy Act, removal of subsidized power from the grid, termination of existing contracts for subsidized power generation, firing of all Liberal public appointees, and general deregulation measures.
"Healthcare - The Libertarian Party would allow non-government health insurance options, including for services already provided by OHIP. They would also allow healthcare professionals to practice for non-government healthcare providers."
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Cultural exemption remains unchanged in trilateral trade deal
NAFTA renegotiations wrapped Sunday night, with protections for Canada's cultural sectors remaining as-is in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
By Jordan Pinto
After more than a year of NAFTA negotiations, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico on Sunday night reached a trade agreement that, crucially for Canada’s cultural industries, will see the full cultural exemption left unchanged.
The cultural exemption allows Canada to exclude certain cultural industries from free trade and covers everything from subsidies to Cancon requirements. The modernized agreement, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), is set to last for 16 years, with a joint review between the three countries after six years. The Canadian government confirmed the continuation of the exemption this morning to Playback Daily.
During the course of the negotiations, media outlets reported cultural protection provisions as a sticking point in the negotiations, though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government consistently stated that Canada would not sign an new agreement that did not contain protections for Canada’s cultural sectors.
A statement from CMPA head Reynolds Mastin applauded the government’s renegotiation and the negotiating team’s defence of “our cultural sovereignty.”
“For more than two decades, Canada and the United States have built a strong and mutually beneficial partnership that has allowed the media production sector to thrive on both sides the border,” added Mastin.
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BnMx05HYunUAKa-wCT0l | Home » General » Top 5 PS3 Exclusives Xbox 360 Would Like
Top 5 PS3 Exclusives Xbox 360 Would Like 12 December, 2010 3 So after yesterday’s Xbox 360 Exclusives We’d Like On PS3, here’s the flipside of the same coin, as we list PlayStation3 exclusives that we’re sure Xbox 360 owners would like. In fact, that we know they want these exclusives. And all in all, wouldn’t you be annoyed to see the following titles exclusively on Xbox 360? Of course you would, because they’re bloody good. Onwards!
The obvious choice. The first game was arguably the best action-adventure of its ilk since Tomb Raider while the sequel is one of the rare examples of a game living up to its lofty expectations. So the third outing, which shifts the series to a sandy setting, with CO-OP and IN 3D makes me USE UNNECESSARY CAPS to convey the SHEER IMPORTANCE of this exclusive. Expect this to be Sony’s trump card to battle Microsoft’s Gears of War 3. They may be very different games but their SHEER IMPORTANCE to their respective consoles cannot be underestimated.
“It’s not even possible on Xbox 360! Ha!” is what developers Sucker Punch had to say about a possible Xbox 360 version, give or take a few words. Cole McGrath has returned, the melee system has been redesigned, the open world has been improved and it’s going to push the PlayStation3 further than ever before! Possibly. They haven’t said that yet. It’ll look pretty damn good though, that’s the point.
Even the beta is incredible, with players stepping up to the plate with their own versions of Heavy Rain, Afterburner, Street Fighter, original RPGs and so on. When you feel yourself in sheer awe of the games being created within the game itself, you have to wonder just how Media Molecule has managed to put this behemoth together. It stands as one of the most innovative titles being released next year and Xbox 360 doesn’t have anything that even attempts to match it.
The same argument can be made for The Last Guardian, the spiritual successor to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Those games are frequent mainstays of top 10 lists for PlayStation2, so Team Ico’s track record means The Last Guardian is a game that everyone will be watching closely. It won’t sell millions but its real value as an exclusive can be found in its originality and the diversity it’ll bring to PlayStation3 owner’s games collections. Again, there’s no real comparable title on Xbox 360.
If Xbox 360 truly is the land of FPS games, then it would be well served by having Killzone 3 on its side. It doesn’t have Killzone 3 on its side though while there’s no confirmed Halo title to prop up the Xbox 360 line-up next year. Until the usual Call of Duty scrum kicks in towards the backend of 2011, Killzone 3 has the FPS landscape to itself providing it measures up and that’s something you won’t find on Xbox 360.
Those are the top five but that doesn’t include Twisted Metal, Resistance 3: Fall of Man, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, Yakuza 4, Final Fantasy Versus XIII… there are more exclusives coming out next year than any other that we can remember. Let’s not even get started on the potential argument about definitive versions…
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I bet this list was easier to write than the other one. The only game that I really wanted that was an Xbox 360 exclusive was Mass Effect 2, but were getting that so I guess a Woop is in order. Woop!
This is by far a better list. I only really care about Gears and Halo on 360 but there’s far more on PS3 and they are better than Halo.
Well,well.
I have been an Xbox360 owner since release day, and have often wondered what a ps3 would be like to own, Over the past 11 years I have struggled financially and have never really been able to afford much…Until now.
I used to hear the odd person talk about their ps3 and then all the 360 owner trying to put a downer on them, and there was me sitting quietly in the corner.
Well I have finally taken the dive and asked my wife to purchase me the 320gb model for Christmas and stated that I only want the exclusive titles, and so I know Im in for Uncharted 1&2, Killzone 2 and Little big planet. Along with a few Bluray titles.
I dont have it in my hands as of yet as it is under lock and key until Christmas day, However I am extremely excited and already thinking of trading my 360 and games in for even more ps3 Titles. Guess its so long Gears of War 3 and hello Killzone 3, Uncharted 3, All Resistance titles, Infamous 1&2 Heavy Rain………Blah blah blah.
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Following MMFN’s decision to restrict access to WFP trucks, hereditary chiefs and environmental advocacy group Sierra BC has expressed its solidarity with the Nation
Hereditary chiefs stand with Gold River-area First Nation in road use battle with logging company
Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation restricting highway access to Western Forest Products
Binny Paul, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Nov. 5, 2020 2:30 p.m.
Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are standing behind a Gold River-area First Nation in its dispute with one of Vancouver Island’s largest forest companies.
North Island hereditary chiefs and the environmental advocacy group Sierra Club B.C. have expressed their support for Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation (MMFN) who are caught in an ongoing feud with Western Forest Products (WFP) over trespassing and road use compensation.
Last week, MMFN announced its intention to restrict access to the portion of Highway 28 that passes Ahaminaquus Indian Reserve Number 12 (IR 12) to the logging company unless a “feasible” road use agreement and compensation plan was arrived at.
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In a statement, Kwakwaka’wakw hereditary chiefs and Sierra Club BC said that they are “standing in solidarity” with Mike Maquinna, the Council of Chiefs of Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation and with affected communities of Tsaxana and Gold River.
“We denounce the reprehensible actions and sustained disrespect shown to the Mowachaht/Muchalaht people with the blatant trespassing on Ahaminaquus IR 12 by Western Forest Products (WFP) and the tacit provincial government approval evidenced by inaction on the matter,” said the statement.
Hereditary Chiefs David Mungo Knox, Walas Numgwis, and Chief Calvin Hunt, Nas’am’yus said that WFP has shown the First Nations’ people their “true colours,” through company’s actions showing they care about their shareholders more than the forest and Indigenous people.
“It pains me to see WFP violating Mowachaht/Muchalaht territory as they also do here. We speak with one voice when we raise our voices in thanks to the Mowachaht/Muchalaht for asserting their rights,” said Knox.
‘Namgis Hereditary Chief Rande Cook (An’anxwisa’gamayi), with the support of ‘Namgis Hereditary Chief William Wasden Jr. (Waxowidi), ‘Namgis Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred (Kwakwaba’las) and Musgamagw Hereditary Chief K’odi Nelson (Maxwayalis) also expressed their support for MMFN.
“We know the damage that Western Forest Products has caused and we will remember the silence of the province who let it happen,” they said in a collective statement.
The group also maintained that despite the government and industry trying to divide them in order to exploit their resources and land, the Kwakwaka’wakw and Nuu-Chah-Nulth people have “deep roots” and “family ties” to the west coast.
“The Mowachaht/Muchalaht struggle to be seen and respected, it is also a Kwakwaka’wakw struggle to be seen and respected and vice versa. A violation of Nuu-chah-nulth law is a violation against all Indigenous people,” said the ‘Namgis hereditary chiefs in the statement.
Calling the trespassing actions of WFP “shameful,” Sierra Club BC has said that it illustrates the “arrogance” WFP shows to the forest and the people who steward them.
“Half a century of blatant trespass is a profoundly disturbing indication of colonial racism. It’s past time for WFP to pay reparations and for the colonial governments to prioritize this once and for all,” said Mark Worthing, Sierra Club BC’s coastal projects lead.
In a statement released at the start of the blockade, WFP spokesperson Babita Khunkhun said the company has been in ongoing discussions regarding the portion of Highway 28 that crosses IR #12 and is working in good faith to quickly resolve this complex issue.
She also said that the company values its relationship with the Mowachaht/Muchalaht and understands the desire of the Nation to resolve the issue.
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Following the lead of Governor Ted Kulongoski in Oregon, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is pushing a statewide healthcare plan to be funded through an increase in the cigarette tax. The increase would raise Indiana’s 55.5 cent tax an extra 25 cents. The tax passed its first hurdle Wednesday as the Senate Health and Provider Services Committee approved the plan by a 9-0 vote. Once again, we see our lawmakers punishing the taxpayers because they can’t control their spending habits. I guess smokers are easy targets in the eyes of Governor Daniels | en | false | [] | [] | [] |
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Unconditional Joy
Lightheaded Reps for Positivity
by Julianne Shepherd
LIGHTHEADED Come hang out with us.
Fri Sept 19
"When somebody pops in a Lightheaded album, I want it to feel like they're hanging out with us, rather than we're 'talking to you' or 'come sit in my class,'" explains Braille, emcee for Portland hiphop group Lightheaded. "That's the vibe we like to give off--I'm gonna share myself with you."
Lightheaded's album, Purethoughts (released on DJ Fisher and MF Grimm's Day by Day Entertainment), totally reps for sunny positivity, a consciousness that's almost gleeful. But Braille's mission works--where some folks would get preachy, especially about the sort of spirituality on which the group bases their music, Lightheaded's enthusiasm is infectious, unfettered, and unfaltering. Like hanging out with your most earnestly happy friends--who can also drop a nice lyric.
Braille and emcee Ohmega Watts met at the BET Soundstage in Florida in 1999; they met emcee Othello a little later in Seattle. Eventually, they all ended up in Portland for the specific purpose of doing their music. They've found a cozy home within the strength and diversity of Portland hiphop. Says Othello, "I think the Northwest has its own unique thing happening; there's a lot of creativity here, and [Portland] has its own sound--there are a lot of intelligent, creative lyricists here, and a lot of jazzy cats."
I wonder what they think about the proliferation of positive-energy hiphop in Portland, why a lot of Portland groups--like themselves, Lifesavas, and Oldominion--are coming on a spirituality vibe. Says Braille, "The Northwest isn't big enough that you can just blow up out of nowhere--you have to work hard. And I think the people who have been more positive have been more passionate about what they do. But this area is funny--so many different kinds of people listen to our record. I think if I did a song called 'Let's Get Butt Naked,' there's a limited amount of people here it would appeal to. You gotta connect with people if you're gonna make some noise."
Braille is more specific about Lightheaded's purpose. "What we represent is 'optimistic thinking in the world of chaos.' That the world is falling apart around you, but if you know where you are you can remain confident in that. Unconditional freedom, joy, love--those are the things we try to contain within our lifestyles and express through our music."
Ohmega Watts is tentatively working with Ubiquity Records for a 12"; Othello is working on a solo EP, as is Braille. For Lightheaded's forthcoming record, they've collaborated with Ninth Wonder from Little Brother, and Lifesavas.
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TimThumb Plugin Contains Another Vulnerability, Websites at Risk
June 30, 2014 ThemeSquirrel
According to ArsTechnica and other sources, the WordPress plugin TimThumb had a “zero-day vulnerability” that “leaves many websites vulnerable to exploits that allow unauthorized attackers to execute malicious code.”
The vulnerability surfaced on June 24 and surrounded TimThumb, a plugin that helps you fiddle with web images. According to SECLists.org, TimThumb was “developed for use in the WordPress theme Mimbo Pro and since used in many other WordPress themes.” It’s widely used, which means plenty of sites could be at risk.
If you have the webshot option enabled, you’re reportedly at risk for an attack, ArsTechnica noted. The site gave the following words of advice to members of the WordPress community who were concerned that their websites would soon erupt into flames: “People who are unsure if their WordPress-enabled site is vulnerable should open the TimThumb file inside their theme or plugin directory, search for the text string ‘Webshot_Enabled,’ and ensure that it’s set to ‘False.'”
Your firewall, if you have one installed, might also help you combat the vulnerability, although ArsTechnica and other news sites recommended disabling the plugin until a fix was implemented. And, according to GrahamCluley.com, a fix was ultimately rolled out: “TimThumb Version 2.8.14 has now been released, fixing the vulnerability. It’s clear, however, that the developers are a little miffed that they weren’t informed about the vulnerability by the researchers who discovered it.”
A blog from Daniel Cid warned that hackers could do some serious damage on your system if the vulnerability is exploited. How? “With a simple command, an attacker can create, remove, and modify any files on your server,” Cid wrote. He promptly showed a command in which he removed a file and then created a new one.
An issue with TimThumb was reported in 2011 that involved “arbitrary file uploads,” according to David Dede. He explained, “Although this is a platform independent issue, it is specially an issue on WordPress, where a lot of theme authors choose to include scripts in themes without any extra security measures.” According to Softpedia, “thousands” of WordPress sites had issues related to TimThumb back in 2011, which probably left a rather salty taste in the mouths of many developers and website owners.
Whether the latest issue with TimThumb was exploited in any way remains to be seen, according to Softpedia. Besides, said the same site, the odds of the flaw resulting in any significant damage appeared to be slim: “Only administrators that activated it from the TimThumb script ran the risk of being plundered. Furthermore, even if enabled, executing the Webshot code requires two server-side extensions to be installed.”
Vulnerabilities related to WordPress are all too common. Take an issue found in recent weeks having to do with the All In One SEO Pack. What would happen if your account were infiltrated, you ask?
As PC World outlined at the time about the All In One issue, “One of the two flaws… can be exploited by a regular user, like an author or a subscriber, to modify a post’s SEO title, description, and keyword meta tags created by the plugin. If used maliciously, this could result in damage to a site’s search result ranking. However, the vulnerability can also be combined with a second flaw to inject malicious JavaScript code on the administrator control panel that would execute when the page is loaded.”
We can’t stress enough the importance of making sure all of your plugins, admin tools, and themes are as up to date as humanly possible. Otherwise, you’ll miss out on critical patches and fixes that will help protect you against malicious software and vulnerabilities. If you’re going to build a website, make sure to protect it
20 must have WordPress plugins for your cool blog
Maintaining a blog, no matter the traffic received, isn’t only about writing and publishing articles. No doubt, the quality of the posts is capital, but a good looking design is also very important. It’s said that the small details make the big difference and this statement is valid regarding the existence of a blog. The competition is very harsh amongst bloggers and each aspect must be treated seriously in order to have a decent number of visitors.
WordPress is the leading platform for blogging and it seems that its supremacy will last, at least, in the near future. The WordPress developers created amazing themes and plugins that allow enhancing any type of website. Practically, a theme and some plugins may completely change the destination and the functionality of a website.
Ironically, the huge number of themes and plugins put in trouble the WordPress users because it’s impossible to make a decent selection of the most beautiful and efficient solutions. Fortunately, we are aware about this situation and as a result we have published articles exhibiting the best themes, templates or plugins.
In this post we searched for various plugins that may be useful for maintaining a blog. These plugins are ideal for different issues, from search engine optimisation to adding nice image sliders. Definitely, the developers created more than 20 plugins for blog owners so we might have missed your favourite one. Please let us know which your favourites are and we will take this into consideration for a new article!
Monetize Now
It’s not shameful to recognize that many blogs are created to bring an extra income to the owner. The monetization of a blog is a very complex and challenging task. Affiliate marketing is an attractive solution to monetize the blog and this plugin is the perfect solution for this activity. By installing it, the blog will become part of Envato Affiliate program and I guess that there is no need to mention what a huge brand Envato is.
nBar
The Internet users developed a special sense; they may scan a website extremely fast. In this context, grabbing the attention of the users is mostly an art. This plugin helps the bloggers to add various notification bars into the headers/footers. Of course, the notification bars are very customisable.
Ad Flap Pro
Another modality of obtaining the attention of the blog visitors is to use this interesting plugin, which is actually in charge with creating cool animated adverts. I really appreciate it because the messages aren’t obtrusive unlike other plugins that „intoxicate” the readers with huge pop up messages.
Mine Flip Book
Some people are still very much in love with the classic format of a book and hate the digital format. This plugin is created in order to satisfy all the tastes: it creates a „book” and it has a feature that people will love: the files may be flipped similarly to a classic manuscript. It’s a really interesting experience and it will surely make the blog stand apart from other competitors.
LoopPress
Almost every blogger adds various videos to his / her posts. Handling these is pretty difficult, but Looppress is a great plugin that makes this job simpler. If you are used to adding videos into your blog, then this plugin is ideal for you!
Handling the images is another challenging task for a blog owner. Fast Gallery is a plugin that helps very much the blogger to arrange the images into galleries. The huge advantage of this plugin is the fact that it’s extremely simple to use…you can configure a gallery in less than a minute!
Buzzcomi
Making people curious is another technique of obtaining traffic. This plugin is able to create a coming soon page with a very interesting countdown timer. The design is very pleasant and it’s very probable that it will make people interested in what is behind the countdown.
Forms are apparently not very important items, but an experienced blogger knows that these are vital for the success of the blog. If you want to create your own cool forms, then this plugin is exactly what you need. It creates tons of form versions and it’s impossible not to be satisfied with a variant. I fell in love with the modern design of the forms. If I were a user, I would definitely spend some time just to complete such a wonderful form.
Premium SEO Pack
A very interesting blog that isn’t search engine optimised is a lost project. Like it or not, the number of the visitors is very important; so a SEO plugin is mandatory for any blog. The market is full of various SEO plugins, but only a few of them are really useful. SEO Pack is one of these useful plugins and you shouldn’t miss it!
Smart SEO
The previous plugin is a very powerful one, but it might happen not to satisfy your tastes. Smart SEO is another solution that should be taken into account!
Keyword Finder
Finding the right keywords isn’t a very difficult task, but it takes valuable time that may be used for other more important activities. Keyword Finder is a plugin that should be used by the entire blogging community. As long as you post a title in the dashboard area, it will provide unlimited potential keywords; therefore your time is saved.
Many bloggers are writing about music topics and a good and reliable audio plugin is golden for their blogs. Uber Audio may be a solution because it allows people to listen to music from the post, page or sidebar. The playlists may be very easily customised and there is no limit regarding the number of tracks that may added into a playlist.
Calendarize
A calendar is very important because it helps people get a constant flow of published articles. Calendarize is a great plugin that will simplify the work of an admin very much.
Banner Rotator
Nowadays, the developers created amazing sliders that simply delight the users. Altogether, it’s quite difficult to find a standing apart slider. Banner Rotator is an original and customisable slider that will surely impress any user.
Posts Slider is another plugin that is created for adding sliders. The same as the previous one, it has many useful features and no doubt, it will add a high level of dynamism.
Share Locker
Social media can’t be ignored by a serious blogger. The different social media appreciations (likes, tweets, shares, pins) are taken into account for the ranking of a website. This plugin hides the content of a post until the users share/like/tweet the respective post.
Social Box
Social Box is another plugin almost mandatory for a modern blog. It allows the admin to add a social widget, which will let the visitors make an idea about the social media presence of the blog. Its sleek design will attract the eyes of the visitors; so you have all the reasons to use it.
People prefer to engage with the ones that provide them interesting information. Having an „About me” section is highly recommended for any blogger – in this way the curious readers may find out who is behind the blog. Luckily, we have this plugin that creates a widget displaying an „About me” section and the latest tweets.
M7 Accordion Menus
By installing this plugin, the admin has the possibility to create accordion menus in the widget area. As far as the admin is concerned, this is simple to install and use, while the users will have more possibilities to access the content- it’s a win-win situation and everyone should profit from it.
This plugin creates a widget consisting of a tabbed panel that displays various types of content, from tweets to recent posts. It’s a simple method of showcasing a lot of information without annoying the visitors.
I hope that these plugins will be really helpful for the bloggers. Anyway, it will be great to share your favourite ones (from this list or from WordPress Repository) with us.
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All In One SEO Pack Vulnerabilities Found, Upgrade Recommended
June 2, 2014 ThemeSquirrel
In news that popped up all over the web in recent days, the WordPress plugin All In One SEO Pack contains several security vulnerabilities that could put users’ sites at risk. Yes, SEO is very important, but so is keeping your website safe. Let’s take a look at what the issues are and what can be done to stop them.
Researchers from Sucuri, who were conducting a code audit when the problem popped up, were quoted in a PC World article from Monday as saying, “If your site has subscribers, authors, and non-admin users logging into wp-admin, you are at risk. If you have open registration, you are at risk, so you have to update the plugin now.” Not updating the plugin could prolong the security issues that exist.
The flaws are pretty major too. PC World said, “One of the two flaws discovered by Sucuri can be exploited by a regular user, like an author or a subscriber, to modify a post’s SEO title, description, and keyword meta tags created by the plugin. If used maliciously, this could result in damage to a site’s search result ranking. However, the vulnerability can also be combined with a second flaw to inject malicious JavaScript code on the administrator control panel that would execute when the page is loaded.”
When we checked the All In One SEO Pack’s download page on WordPress’ website, it was Version 2.1.6, which is the corrected version. The plugin as a whole has had an amazing 18.5 million downloads throughout its lifetime, including almost 4,000 on Monday alone and 26,000 the day the issue was exposed. You can see why security flaws in it could be so damning: the plugin is used by a bundle of sites across the internet.
If you’re not running Version 2.1.6, you should upgrade post-haste. According to PC World, the latest version was released on Sunday, so if you’ve downloaded it since then, you should be fine. The plugin’s overall features include XML sitemap support, Google Analytics support, SEO on WordPress e-commerce sites, and automatic optimization of titles for Google and other search engines. It’s a massively popular plugin.
In several news stories we checked out covering the All In One SEO Pack’s issues, users recommended the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin, which according to its website has been downloaded 10 million times. One user, for example, wrote, “This is just another in the long list of reasons why we advise our customers against using All In One SEO. While the plugin was great at one point, it has been lagging behind Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin for quite some time now. If you’re still using AIO, this is a great excuse to switch over to Yoast.” ThemeSquirrel has reviewed another option called Smart SEO.
WordPress’ widespread use makes it a major target for hacker attacks. One of the most prominent security issues popped up in 2011 via TimThumb. CNN explained, “In this attack, hackers exploit a security flaw in a popular file used by WordPress and other website-building platforms to crop and resize images (Timthumb.php, thus the name).”
CNN added, “Hackers use the security hole to install malicious code or files into a website or server. From there, they can launch spear phishing campaigns and denial-of-service attacks, where hackers overwhelm a website’s server by flooding it with requests, making the site unresponsive.” Google blacklisted some sites that suffered from the hack.
According to another article, TimThumb attacks continued for as long as a year after the problem was exposed, which is evidence why it’s important to update your WordPress plugins and programs as often as humanly possible.
We’ll continue to bring you the latest WordPress news right here on ThemeSquirrel.
20 WordPress plugins to improve your social media presence
May 12, 2014 ThemeSquirrel
Social media was a big hit two years ago but nowadays it seems that people have lost their enthusiasm. Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest still attract new users, but definitely the climax of social media was overtaken.
On the other hand, it doesn’t mean that neglecting social media is a good choice…by far, it’s a huge mistake. The social networks are inestimable for the huge brands because they help them stay connected with people. Being active on various social networks isn’t mandatory only for huge brands, but a good social presence is recommended for local businesses, bloggers or entrepreneurs also. In fact, websites without various social media buttons are very rare. Obviously, the content is the one that determines people to distribute it on social networks but an important role is played by the design. As a result, many designers spend much time searching for the best plugins and methods to improve the social media presence.
Luckily for you, we have collected 20 impressive WordPress plugins that will help you improve your social media presence. The selection was very time-consuming because many talented WordPress developers create brilliant plugins.
Social Fans
Social Counter plugin lets the viewers make a brief opinion about the number of friends/followers/subscribers. The buttons are retina ready, based on Bootstrap. The plugin contains 21 buttons and four skins (Light, Dark, Colored, and Transparent) that may be customized for everybody’s needs and preferences.
Social Sidebar
The huge majority of the WordPress plugins are very customizable, but very few ones benefit from a very clear explanation about how to do it. The developers of Social Sidebar noticed this fact and have created a wonderful and very clear preview. I think that it is better to visit it yourself and play around with the various customization options.
YouTube Grid Video Gallery
If a good image is worth 100 or 1000 words, how many words is good video worth? Definitely, a lot! In conclusion, it’s highly recommendable to pay attention at the manner in which one can display videos and maintain a YouTube account. This plugin will help in handling the YouTube videos, so if you are in need YouTube Grid Video Gallery is a good solution.
Facebook Albums Grid
The previous plugin was responsible for creating a video gallery; this one does the same, but it handles Facebook albums. Of course, it provides the same quality and easiness to install and use it.
Easy Facebook Contest
The social networks are very dynamic and are famous for the high level of interactivity. Facebook contests are very much appreciated and they may produce a lot of buzz around the contest holder. This plugin will help in creating Facebook contests directly from the WordPress website and it may bring a considerable traffic increase.
Easy Social Locker
The monetization of written content is a long and unresolved story. It’s improbable that people will pay for articles as long as the same ideas will appear few minutes later. Still, there is a solution to satisfy the readers and reward the writers/bloggers. A “Like”, “Tweet” or any other form of social media compensation may be the perfect reward for these people. Easy Social Locker is a plugin that once installed will lock the website and it will became accessible only by giving a social media reward.
Twitter Slider
Twitter is a social network that can’t be neglected. This plugin is a great tool for displaying the Twitter feed; it allows displaying the feed in vertical or horizontal position.
Supercharged Twitter Card Management
This plugin is another one that helps people manage their Twitter presence better. I think that it is more powerful than the precedent one so don’t ignore it!
SelectNShare
SelectNShare is a great and very original plugin. I think that this plugin is very useful for blogs because once you install it the user will have the possibility to select a phrase/part of a text and share it via social networks. It is not a very used plugin, but it surely is a very interesting one. Don’t you think?
Sometimes, the social networks buttons are obtrusive and annoying. Altogether, it’s a huge mistake not to insert some of them. This plugin is a very good middle way solution- it hides the latest tweets into a slider. It’s very discrete and anyone that is interested in checking the Twitter activity is just a single click away.
Tweetdis
Tweetdis is another WordPress plugin that helps the owner to improve his / her Twitter presence. It’s simple and useful- it allows the editor to select a phrase and make it “tweetable”. Actually it creates a “tweet” call to action: this means that the user will just have to click the button and voila, here is a new tweet in Twitterverse.
WP Smart Like
WP Smart like is a plugin that consists in displaying the Facebook “likes” into very discrete but visually appealing buttons. At the same time it has inserted a “likes” counter and it’s very customizable, so you have all the reasons to consider adding it into your blog.
Instagram Photo Video
I guess that a very small percentage of the overall number of websites don’t have photos inserted into the layouts. Displaying photos is a very challenging web design issue: these must be high quality, but their size must be very small not to negatively affect the loading time and of course, the images should be well rendered no matter the device used to navigate. Fortunately, this plugin is inestimable in managing the Instagram images.
My Social Counter
This plugin makes a great job- it offers a counter for all the major social networks. My Social Counter plugin offers various schemes of displaying social network buttons in order to fit them better to the website design. Every button looks great, which means that the visitors will be delighted with them!
If the previous plugin offered a bird view over the social media numerical situation, this one is useful in having a complete overview of the social media stream. More exactly, the plugin adds the website a discrete slider that presents the latest actions on the major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Vimeo, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Instagram).
WordPress Social Stream is a very original plugin. It takes various social media streams and incorporates them all into a single WordPress powered website. The plugin is extremely customizable and it allows selecting any type of feeds from multiple networks into a layout that may be modified according to the user’s needs.
Twit Lite
Usually, the bloggers and the website owners are very busy people and they are not able to handle their social presence well, since it is well known that maintaining a coherent social media stream is a time consuming activity. This plugin saves the time and automatically tweets any new post published. It is simple, but effective, isn’t it?
Ring Share
Ring Share isn’t a very used plugin, but it must be treated seriously by the WordPress users. It gives the user the possibility to create a ring of social media icons on various areas on the layout while the visitors may share the page/image/text paragraph via various social networks.
This plugin doesn’t enhance the user experience, but it shouldn’t be missing from the arsenal of a serious WordPress user. It offers a very detailed situation of the social media hits and the dates are showcased using beautifully designed graphics.
WP Social RSS
It was impossible not to mention a plugin that will allow you to better handle the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) options. It’s simple to use and it allows customizing the RSS buttons in order to attract more and more visitors.
The social networks are very important and either if you are willing or not, these will be very appreciated in the next years. These plugins are very efficient and any owner of a WordPress powered website must consider installing some of them. If you appreciate this post, don’t forget to share it with your friends!
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How Vulnerable is Your WordPress Site?
March 31, 2014 ThemeSquirrel
It’s not every day that Forbes, a major media outlet, takes a look at WordPress. The subject: security of WordPress sites, focusing on what you can do to ensure your domain is impenetrable. After all, hacking a WordPress site can involve just a user name and password, so let’s see how you can refrain from falling victim.
One recommendation from Forbes was to back up your website “often.” How often is completely up to you, but the news site recommended at least one update a week. Several plug-ins are available to help you back up your site, including UpdraftPlus, which Forbes recommended. Others we found included BackUpWordPress and BackWPup. Some of these cost money and others didn’t, so check out a few to see which ones match your needs and wallet the best.
Forbes also recommended limiting login attempts rather than allow unlimited cracks at your user name and password. A plugin called Limit Login Attempts was recommended, which helps stop logins by tracking a person’s IP address. You can also keep tabs on attempts using Limit Login Attempts and even have them e-mailed to you.
Just like many computer users have an obvious login name, Forbes recommended, “Most hackers try to get your password by trying to brute-force your ‘admin’ username. If you change your user name to something else, that will protect your website immediately.” In other words, pick a user name that’s not “admin”. It’s amazing how simple security can be sometimes.
Similarly, use a password that’s not inanely obvious like “password” or “WordPress” or one you’ve used on a bunch of other websites. Try to come up with something original that would give hackers a headache to crack. No, your first name is not original.
One final recommendation was to “limit the IP addresses that are allowed to visit /wp-admin/ section of your website. The easiest way to do so is to block all entry except your own IP address with an htaccess file.”
We found a number of plugins that provided e-mail alerts when potential security breaches came to light. Take BulletProof Security, for example, which allows you to be notified whenever a user account is locked out, an administrator logs in, and any user logs in. Think about how much control and oversight you’d have if you were e-mailed when any of these actions occurred.
The All In One WordPress Security plugin (pictured) received rave reviews (113 reviews of five stars out of 119 submitted). According to its site, the plugin “reduces security risk by checking for vulnerabilities and by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques. [The] All In One WP Security also uses an unprecedented security points grading system to measure how well you are protecting your site based on the security features you have activated.”
Not protecting your site can yield pretty grave consequences. Take an incident in mid-March that saw 162,000 WordPress sites launch a DDoS attack. Yes, 162,000 WordPress sites were part of the melee. As one observer put it, “Can you see how powerful it can be? One attacker can use thousands of popular and clean WordPress sites to perform their DDoS attack, while being hidden in the shadows, and that all happens with a simple ping back request to the XML-RPC file.” There’s a tool called WordPress DDOS Scanner you can use if you think your site might be at risk.
Users making comments in various articles about the DDoS attack reiterated the dangers of an “admin” user name. Others added that keeping your plugins and add-ons up-to-date is of paramount importance. Changing your password often is also advised.
Check out some of the other WordPress plugins that can help you be a lean, mean WordPress machine.
7 Reasons Why Your Website Has to Work on a Mobile Phone
February 24, 2014 ThemeSquirrel
Being on the go is the way that most people operate today. Being on the go means that you will not always have the space that you would like to carry a large personal laptop. In lieu of a laptop, most people will carry around other devices. Some of these are mobile phones or tablets. Most smart phones and mobile devices were created to help access the Internet without needing a large screen. Website owners should be aware of the fact that everyone who attempts to access their website will not be accessing the site through a personal computer. The website will more than likely be accessed through a tablet or mobile phone regularly.
For website owners, this means optimizing the web page for mobile phone usage. Here are seven reasons why your website should work on a mobile phone.
1) Phones are more popular than computers
While there are still people who operate without having a personal computer inside of their home, it is rarer to find a person who does not have a cellular phone. The default cellular phone that is being released by manufacturers is a smart phone. Smart phones have internet access, and can access and load webpages as fast as many computers. So, while you may be building your website on a computer, you must build the site with mobile access in mind.
2) People Often Order on the Go
If you offer commodities on your website, having a website that can be accessed via a mobile phone can greatly increase your revenue. If you sell items, the website should be created as a mobile user friendly website. Allowing mobile phone customers to be able to browse, select items, and check out with little hassle can increase your revenue.
3) People Prefer Phones While Relaxing
When people tend to relax, they may not bring their personal laptop with them. This means that a person who is relaxing in bed, or in their living room may not take their computer, but they are likely to have their phone. A customer who is browsing may run across your website and decide to patronize your service.
4) Mobile Friendly Sites are Easy to Build
There are website themes that are available to build websites. Some of these themes already operate as mobile friendly design. These designs translate well on a mobile phone and allow the buttons and screen scaling to match what you would like when it comes to mobile access.
5) It will be Easy for You to Access
Customers are not the only people who need to access the website on the go. Building a mobile friendly website will make it easy for you to access as well. If you wish to log into your website while on the go, with a mobile friendly site, you can log in an access the control panel of the website. During downtime in a commute or while caught in the city, you will be able to access your website and make changes or contact customers as you need to. As a business owner, being available in a number of different ways is necessary to best serve customers. A mobile friendly site will help you to serve them through your phone as well.
6) Bug Finding and Set Up is Easy
There is little reason to stall making the transition to a mobile friendly website. It is easy to make changes to a website in order to be more mobile friendly. Contrary to popular belief, bugs are not a major issue when making this kind of change to a website. BugFinders.com is a website that can help you sort out any bugs that may be found in your software. If there are any bugs found, you can get a quick fix in order to set up your website design properly.
7) Your Conversions may Increase
When you go from a design that was not mobile friendly to a sign that is easily accessible via a smart phone, you may be able to keep customers on your website a little longer. Customers who access websites via their mobile phone and happen upon a design that is not mobile user friendly will often quickly click away and instead look for another site. After implementing a mobile friendly design, you may find that users come to the website and stay a longer time. This is likely to increase your sales and your repeat visitors.
Changing over to a mobile friendly design is a top priority for website owners. Make sure that you have the job done professionally, in order to make sure that the website is performance friendly. Once you have a new mobile design, watch closely to your stats and any sales increases.
5 Best BlackBerry Apps for Graphic Designers
September 25, 2013 Teddy Hunt
New technologies are making life much simpler for graphic designers, and there are some great apps available for controlling your business, getting your life in order and succeeding in the graphic design field. It also can help build your brand. Here are the five best BlackBerry apps for graphic designers.
1. Palettes Lite
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Palettes Lite is the free version of the full software package, but it still has a huge amount of usability and is a more comprehensive tool than ColorRef. With Palettes Lite, you will be able to create a color scheme with color codes, sliders, photos, or the color wheel.
The app is also shows complimentary colors and allows for new pallets to be created based on the merging of other colors. This great app also has a huge online palette sharing location where you can browse and download other user create color pallets.
2. ColorRef
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ColorRef is a simple easy to use color scheme reference tool for graphic designers who like to match up color schemes while out and about. Sometimes in a moment of design inspiration you may want to check the compatibility of colors you are intending to use, and this is where ColorRef comes in.
The app can convert RGB, Hex or even CoreGraphics formatting, meaning that you can source colors from a variety of locations. There are some great online resources teaching about effective use of color schemes in web design if this is an area that you need more help with.
3. Evernote
Hands down one of the best organizational apps out there, Evernote is a comprehensive tool that can be accessed from any device, even newer ones like the BlackBerry Q10, making it ideal for graphic designers who are always on the go. Simply make notes and memos on whatever device you like and then once saved, you can retrieve anywhere anytime.
With a few little add-ons you can also save webpages, bookmarks and create reading lists to refer back to. The premium edition ofEvernote has some extremely useful features such as note and file sharing as well as many other tools.
4. SAP TimeSheet Lite
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If you are the kind of designer who needs help with time management, client rates and other office work, then this app will be a nice addition to your BlackBerry device. TimeSheet Lite is a free version to the full package, and it allows you to track time sheets, project details and client details so that you never have to worry about forgetting to log down your work again.
The full version has some really neat tools that will help to keep you on track up to date with clients.
5. Storage Made Easy
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Many graphic designers work from a variety of locations, which can lead to a messy trail of files, documents and media. Storage Made Easy consolidates your file storage into one central point so you can get access to it from whichever device you are using, meaning that whether you are at your desk or on the train, you will never be without your files.
Mobile devices makes life easier for graphic designers, and the fact that you can use these apps from any place makes them even more convenient for those working in various locations.
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The complete guide of creating a selling WordPress theme
September 4, 2013 ThemeSquirrel
WordPress is just ten years old but it seems to be one of them most important entities of the Internet. There are so many websites based on this content management system (CMS) and so many themes available that the Internet may be considered as the realm of WordPress. The fascinating aspect is that its success seems it’s not reached its peak as long as the number of websites based on CMS is daily growing. The specialists tried to explain the success of the CMS and they identified lots of factors but the most important was the simplicity of using it. Someone said that everyone that is able to work with Microsoft Office Word will be able to handle a WordPress website…personally, I really believe in this statement.
In this context, it’s normal for any designer or developer to ask himself if it’s profitable to sell a WordPress theme. Unfortunately, by reading this post you won’t obtain a clear answer –“yeah, go for it” or “nope, it’s not for you”. The single clear statement is that yes, there are too many WordPress themes available, but definitely, there are way too few high quality ones. In conclusion, instead of wasting time to ask yourself if it’s good or not to create a WordPress theme, it’s better to create a really impressive theme and start making money by selling it.
Important: Many designers prefer to create only custom WordPress themes that are used by a single client. In this post we will not treat this aspect, we will debate only the matter of themes available for multiple sells. In order to help you, here is a small, but complete guide to create selling WordPress themes. Obviously, it may be completed with the opinions or past experiences of the readers; we are waiting for your contributions, therefore use the comment form!
1. Decide the type of the theme
Before making the first scratch of a layout, it’s recommended to establish very clearly the type of the theme. In fact, there are two major solutions:
– a theme that may be suitable for multiple purposes. It’s characterized by general items, it has nothing very particular. The advantage of these themes is constituted by the large amount of potential buyers.
– a particularized theme that has a very clear destination, i.e. a layout for church or kindergarten website. These themes have less potential buyers, but the interested ones are better transformed into effective buyers.
It is up to the designer to select which solution work the best for him, clearly none of the above solutions is wrong or good. Anyway, it’s a good idea to follow a path from the beginning, else changing the concept in the middle of the design phase may represent a very bad decision.
2. A good design remains capital (yeah, it’s a deprecated piece of advice)
I was in doubt about adding or not this tip into the article. I think that no blogger or designer will ever say that the design isn’t important. It’s such a common advice that will bore the readers. Altogether, an impressive number of themes are modest and the design simply has nothing to attract the eyes of the viewers. To conclude, any designer should think twice when creating the design of the layout. It should be original to attract people, but in the same time it should be accessible and usable. The design of a layout requires a lot of time and resources, but this by no means (time and resources) is mandatory to create a product that will be appreciated and bought.
3. A good design attracts clients, a good code maintains them loyal
A good design attracts clients, but selling more themes requires a complete strategy. The main idea is to create a loyal base of clients and definitely it is the basis of a long-term profitable affair. The first step in gaining the loyalty of the clients is to offer them very good products. As long as the design is a subjective matter and it may happen that a good looking theme will not be liked by some people, a clean and correct code is an objective thing. Even if the code is a more discrete presence, it doesn’t mean that coding may be ignored. There is nothing to add: pay close attention to the coding, any mistake affects the rating of the theme and implicitly, it will negatively affect the number of sales.
4. Give options to the users, but don’t let them recreate the theme
Another feature of WordPress that is much appreciated by users is the customization ability. It means that also the themes must be easily customizable and a successful one should have many options to personalize. Many WordPress developers are going too far and add too many options to custom and this situation confuse the clients. There is no recipe to determine which options are necessary and which ones are useless- it’s only the experience of the designer/developer.
5. Customer support is important no matter how high quality is a theme
I bet that even if a theme respects the laws of beautiful design and it’s impeccably coded, at least a client will need support for the respective theme. Customer support seems as an additional activity for WordPress theme creators, but the reality proved that it is very important. On short term perspective, not offering replies to the clients’ demands may not affect the sales, but on medium and long term perspective it is “the perfect solution” to failure.
6. Marketing is as important as coding and design
A common mistake of people selling WordPress themes is the lack of interest regarding the marketing of the theme. As I previously mentioned, the Internet is full of themes and it’s extremely difficult to make some buzz around a new one. The WordPress themes market is characterized by a paradoxical situation: it is full of themes, but very few are really qualitative and people are somehow prudent about a new theme. If the creator doesn’t care about the future of his work, by sure other people won’t either. The conclusion: marketing is a must. Willing or not, creating a selling WordPress theme supposes the next phases: designing, coding and marketing!
In the end, I hope that everyone interested in selling WordPress themes got some useful advices. Once again, I must warn that creating WordPress themes is a taught job, but the rewards are pretty motivating. What do you think, would you start creating and selling WordPress themes?
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How To Compose SSL With Merchant Account?
August 7, 2013 ThemeSquirrel
It can be said that a merchant account is not a typical account like saving or any other account. It is however like a contract between you and your bank. Now people prefer to use credit or debit card payments instead of using hard cash. So if you also want to have the facility in your online or retail store then you can go for opening a merchant account. While generating the bank statement the name of your business along with a specified charge will appear on your customer’s credit card statement. Here the processing dimensions passes through every 7-14 days.
It is not that you will have to work with one account as a business owner you are allowed to have more than one active of merchant accounts at the same time. Generally people go for over-the-counter (OTC) merchant account which is most useful for retail stores. The second types of merchant accounts are termed as Internet Merchant Accounts used by for eCommerce merchants for online webshops, it is though a very high risk Merchant Account associated with a few specific categories like gambling and adult, pharmacy, where there is a more chance of fraud. The next most common kind of merchant account is for the E-mail and telephone made orders account, which provides you services related to the regular Internet Merchant Account as well.
It is true that the common people think it is however difficult to go for a merchant account especially for new businesses as they have experienced that the customers turn away rate regarding payment processors is not up to as high as 98% for all merchants.
Apart from that the most important aspect for small business owners is the cost effectiveness. Though it is associated with many advantages for a business to run but the cost of accepting credit or debit cards for an online business is too high to afford for a small or new business. They can go with 3rd party merchant accounts like PayPal and 2CO as the processing fees here is less as compared to others. Moreover it is suitable for the business of any sizes or all types.
Now it is the era of online business where everybody wants the ability to operate with credit or debit card payments, whether in a retail store or an eCommerce store on the internet. The user will feel comfortable using their cards and if you will be unable in providing them with this facility then you will most likely lose the customers.
SSL means Secure Socket Layer. It is a developing standard discovered by Netscape Communications to transfer important data and information across the Internet. It is however a reliable and secured way of data transfers. Through SSL your customer’s browser will be connected to your web site and can avail a transparent communication channel. After implementation of the connection you can securely exchange the credit card numbers over the web.
For this process you definitely need a verified “Merchant Account” from an accredited financial institution as all the actual processing of the credit card will be done through this. SSL does not use any software to process the credit card transactions, it also based on the Merchant Account for their transaction processing.
If you are making a web-based form of business where you are required to attract the traffic towards your website and need the visitor to enter data and submit the form online, then you can take the help of an SSL encryption service. This is especially helpful and secured way of exchanging sensitive information like entering credit card numbers.
The SSL service thus uses an encrypted form of information transfer technique. Once after receiving from the web server it is automatically decrypted which enable you to read, store and process the information as usual on the web server.
If you are having an SSL certificate previously then you don’t need to go for the whole process again. You can just send a backup file to renew the certificate that has been generated on the previous web server, along with the password associated with the certificate file. By this you can be able to use the facility over the web with a small setup fee.
Mark Wilston is a Content Writer and marketing professional working with PixelCrayons (a reputed Web & Mobile Application development company). He loves to read and write different blogs related to web design and technologies. Contributing in a blog post aids him spreading the words online with a new set of people.
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With 60 Million Websites, WordPress Is All Set to Rule CMS
July 24, 2013 ThemeSquirrel
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One word that can describes WordPress is “evolution.” WordPress has evolved from being a mere blogging tool to a comprehensive Content Management System (CMS) leaving behind its so-called, sophisticated counterparts like Drupal and Joomla. You might be shocked to know the fact WordPress powers nearly 60+ million websites across the globe and nearly 100,000 more pop up each day.
There is no denying that WordPress rules because it is versatile, easy to use, extensible, and above all it is absolutely free. I have developed many sites for my clients and nothing beats it in terms of simplicity. My clients particularly enjoy the fact that WordPress empowers them to easily customize website without requiring technical knowledge and requiring to code.
So what, you might ask? Does increasing popularity of WordPress makes it the best CMS? Should one just rely on statistics to zero down on a CMS? No. Your decision should be based on solid reasons and here are a few reasons to select WordPress:
#1 Non-geek friendly: WordPress wins the battle in terms of ease of use. Yes, you can create a website or blog in less than an hour with just a matter of few clicks. And this is why so many people are selecting this content management system. You don’t have to be a tech geek to maintain the site. Non-techies love this CMS for its downright simplicity which makes the site easy to maintain. Adding new content is not excruciatingly painful in WordPress as compared to other CMS. Users can almost instantly add new content to their website.
#2 Extensible: Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine without coding and there are zillions of plugins available. Plugins allow seamless customization and enhancement to WordPress sites. It is cost-effective as you don’t have to hire developers for small features that you might want to add to your site. You can simply activate, upload and integrate plugin through the administration panel. Voilà, your site transforms from a simple blog to a cutting-edge site in a matter of few clicks.
#3 Booming Community: WordPress is growing at a phenomenal pace. There is no doubt that the WordPress community is one of the most active communities offering support on any information imaginable. The odds are really high that you will find what you are looking for and there will be very little need for custom development or design. The sheer number of themes, plugins, and resources available for WordPress outweigh the other CMS.
#4 Low overhead and training costs: Anyone with bare minimum instructions can use WordPress. There is a little a site owner might want to do that can’t be achieved with a point and click in WordPress. I’ve taught non-technical clients how to use some WordPress features or install plugins over the phone in half an hour flat. Low training overheads is one of the major advantages.
#5 Buit-in user roles: WordPress provides six built-in user roles: Super Admin, administrator, author editor, contributor and finally subscriber. This feature is very useful if you have different people updating your website. You can give predefined rights to different users instead of giving them full right to access your site. This feature minimizes potential threat to your site from multiple users at any given point of time.
Conclusion: Before you launch a blog or website, it’s crucial to figure out how you’re going to manage everything once it’s live, up and running. A good CMS will help you simplify all the activities associated with your site: publishing, editing and modifying content, SEO, as well as manage workflow. There is no denying that WordPress allows you to do all that you need from a CMS and much more.
Author Bio: Harriot Marks works with VITEB – a custom website Development company in India. She helps businesses develop their identities online. In spare time, she likes to research various trends relevant to her field and extensively write about them.
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