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A Network Marketing Revolution
Network Marketing Revolution | Work At Home Dad
I have been talking about a Revolution In Network Marketing over the last two months whenever I present the Eiro Research Business Opportunity, so my interest was peaked when I got an email from John Fogg talking about Randy Gages new manifesto related to a Revolution in Network Marketing.
I haven't read Randy's manifesto yet, (I don't think it has been released yet), but I thought I would outline what I mean by a Revolution so that there is no confusion…
1. Social Media and Social Commerce have hit the mainstream with Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and eBay and overall acceptance of affiliate programs as a way to generate income online has opened the door for a clearer understanding of what Network Marketing really is. Network Marketers adopted Social Commerce about 60 years ago. Its nice to see the world catching on.
2. Billionaires are promoting and/or investing in the Network Marketing industry including Warren Buffett, Richard Branson and Donald Trump.
3. After 60 years of compensation plans not falling far from the Amway tree (arguably the worst compensation plan in Network Marketing), there are some interesting Hybrid Network Marketing Compensation plans popping up that actually learn from the past. These plans are taking the very best of what worked and throwing out what doesn't work to create a hybrid plan that will allow the average person to create a generous part time income and the high achiever to create significant wealth.
4. The world wide economy is perfect for a major Network Marketing growth period. A couple of years ago in the U.S., someone with an entrepreneur's mind could watch a TV show about flipping a house, purchase a property for $200K, add some paint and landscaping and turn around and sell the house 4 months later for $275K. No more. Network Marketing is the most attractive business in the marketplace today when you consider the potential return and the start up of less than $1,000 in most cases.
5. Network Marketing companies are getting more professional. Six years ago, Xango changed the way Network Marketing companies brand and market themselves. Other companies followed in the footsteps of Xango, creating professional web sites and consistant branding across their product line. In fact, I can think of one company that is built around their bottle. The contents of the bottle have been proven to be weak on many levels but the bottle has first class branding and continues to sell.
6. We are now seeing successful business people from other industries bring a new professionalism to the Network Marketing industry.
The revolution in Network Marketing is not any one of these six factors, it is all of them coming together in a unique time frame. Don't miss the revolution!
- Ty Tribble
December 30, 2008 in Evaluating MLM, Network Marketing - MLM, Network Marketing News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
5 Great Ways To Make 2009 Your Best Year Ever
I wrote a short article about kicking off the New Year on the right foot over at my newly designed Work At Home Dad Blog.
5 Keys To Making 2009 Your Best Year Ever
December 30, 2008 in Personal Development | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Best Of MLM Blog 2008
As 2008 comes to an end, I thought I would give you a link to some of the best posts of the year. Of course "best" is certainly subjective so I will include posts from three categories, posts that either got a lot of feedback (positive and negative), posts that got a lot of traffic or posts that I thought were particularly good and/or funny.
Business Tip: Google The Person Before You Spam Them
UGH! If you are going to spam me...at least "Google" my name first so that you don't look like an idiot.
What Makes A Good Network Marketing Company
Remember, just because a company is the biggest and oldest, doesn't mean it is the best place for you to carve out your own success. This is about your personal success in your marketplace, not about a companies 50 year track record and billions in sales in other countries.
Fixing Quixtar - Amway In North America
Here are what I see as the biggest issues with Quixtar/Amway in North America (not in any order):
1. Outdated Compensation
2. Poor Reputation
3. Lack of Product Focus
4. High Prices
By the way, I offer several solutions to the problems in the post. = )
Xango Leader Bob Schmidt Dies In Tragic Accident
Bob Schmidt, a former Amway Double Diamond, former top earner in New Vision and current leader in Xango died Monday from an apparent drowning.
I did not know Bob personally, but from what I hear, he was a true leader and an inspiration to thousands.
MonaVie: The Culture Of Claims
Then a few months later, I was on YouTube and found dozens of MonaVie distributors talking about the product and diseases such as Lyme Disease and Arthritis. I wrote about and posted one of the videos on this blog. A day later, I found a comment on the YouTube video saying the following:
"who said there is no cure for Cancer Logon to the monavie,com and use ID # 580838 from the Enroll to get ur health better,Cancer no more"
At this point, it was obvious that the culture in MonaVie was to make claims. Culture does not travel up from the newest distributor. Culture filters down from the leadership.
ASD - Ad Surf Daily Cash Generator Business Frozen By U.S. Attorney General
I am sad to say that I know (good) people who have banked on this company as the key to their future. My guess is ASD is not coming back. It is a classic money moving game paying out only when more people join and pay in.
Trouble At Agel? Randy Schroeder Leaves
Randy Schroeder, reportedly the # 2 income earner and a Triple Diamond Director at Agel has left the company.
More as it comes in...
More: I am hearing from multiple sources that MonaVie paid Randy Schroeder $3 Million to leave Agel.
The Seasons Of Network Marketing
Like any business, the Network Marketing industry has it's seasons. I put these seasons in three categories: Primary Building, Secondary Building and Casual Building.
December 29, 2008 in MLM Blog News | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Bumping Into Orrin Woodward
A couple of weeks ago I was doing a Pre-Launch meeting for Eiro Research in Dallas, Texas and who happened to be doing a meeting next door?
None other than Orrin Woodward.
While there are more than 18 million Network Marketers in the U.S., it's still a small world. Orrin and I only chatted for a second before we got back to our meetings.
Also while at the same hotel I met Steve Carter of 5Linx. Steve was kind enough to show us around Dallas in his Bentley that he earned from Network Marketing. Yes, I said Bentley.
Network Marketing works, kids. Make 2009 your year.
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December 28, 2008 in Network Marketing - MLM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Amway Attempts U.S. Brand Makeover and Relaunch
The Canadian Press: Direct-seller Amway angling for a comeback in United States
ADA, Mich. — Once a household name and reputedly the key to great fortune for modern salesmen hoping to live out a Horatio Alger myth, the Amway brand faded from the American market years ago, tarnished by legal and regulatory problems.
The direct-seller of everything from health and beauty items to household cleaners repeatedly fought allegations that it was a pyramid scheme. The company also paid $20 million in fines in a Canadian criminal fraud case in 1983.
In 2000, after Amway become part of an umbrella company called Alticor Inc., the Amway name was dropped in the United States and Canada. The hope was that the company could emerge wholly remade in the world of online sales under a new moniker: Quixtar.
Now, as Amway's 50th anniversary approaches in May, Alticor is retiring the inert Quixtar label and pouring millions of dollars into reviving the Amway brand in North America with market research, national television commercials and ads in newspapers and magazines and online. The company will use a transitional name, Amway Global, before reverting in about a year to Amway.
"We thought, well, if we're going to build a brand, build the brand that everybody knows already," Alticor president and co-CEO Doug DeVos said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's going to be much more successful and cost a lot less and happen a lot faster."
Despite predictions of continuing economic gloom, Alticor executives hope to repeat in the United States the kind of growth they've seen abroad in the past - and to revive the mystique that helped the company spread throughout the Midwest and, by the mid-1960s, the rest of the U.S. Amway's hundreds of thousands of distributor dreamed of getting rich by selling cleaning products and by recruiting their acquaintances to join the fold.
Still operating on that basic model, including prices that tend to be higher than those of their competitors, Amway saw global sales revenue top $7.1 billion in its 2007 financial year. The company predicts another $1 billion increase this year. And most of its recent growth, in such developing Asian markets as China, India and Russia, has been under the Amway name.
"In the late 1980s, about three-quarters of our business was here in the U.S.," says Steve Van Andel, Alticor's chairman and co-chief executive and - like DeVos - the son of one of Amway's founders. "Now about 80 per cent of it is outside the country."
The company is gambling that consumers at home, where sales have been flat for years, will remember the days when Amway was known less for scandal and more for unrelenting pitches from well-scrubbed and optimistic door-to-door salesmen.
Marketing experts say that, despite the baggage attached to the brand, the company is doing the right thing by bringing Amway back to North America in a campaign that launched in March and first made a splash in October with sponsorship of a Tina Turner concert tour that concludes in April.
"My sense is that many of the negative associations of Amway have now begun to fade," says Tridib Mazumdar, a marketing professor at Syracuse University.
Daniel Howard, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University, says each term he asks his students whether they have heard of Amway, and each term "the vast majority" respond affirmatively.
"Branding is what marketing is all about, and the decision to do away with Quixtar was an excellent decision," he says. "The Amway name is already fairly well established in the minds of the American consumer."
The Quixtar name simply never caught on, company executives say.
"The research said Quixtar had a recognition (rate) of three per cent; Amway had a recognition of 76 per cent, as I remember," says DeVos, referring to a study Alticor that commissioned in 2006.
Van Andel's and DeVos' fathers, Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos, founded Amway - an abbreviation of American Way - in 1959, offering the promise that anyone who worked hard could operate their own successful business.
Amway focused at first on household cleaners, then expanded its product line in the 1970s to include more nutritional products and, a decade later, more cosmetics. The company manufactures all its own products.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission examined Amway's business model during the 1970s, concluding in 1979 that it was not an illegal pyramid scheme because compensation is based on retail sales to consumers and because sales people are not paid for recruiting new colleagues.
Still, it continues to draw critics and government scrutiny, including recent investigations in England, India and China.
Van Andel and DeVos have brought in two key marketing executives to help revitalize the Amway brand in North America.
One is Steve Lieberman, managing director of Amway Global, who spent much of his career at S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., which makes such household products as Windex window cleaner and Ziploc plastic storage bags. The other is Alticor chief marketing officer Candace Matthews, who has worked at The Coca-Cola Co., Procter & Gamble Co. and L'Oreal SA.
Matthews says her job is to "bring the discipline of marketing to an organization that's been really sales-driven."
Lieberman came aboard after hearing from a recruiter about an opening at Quixtar.
"I said, 'Quixtar? I've never heard of Quixtar.' So I went on the Internet and went, 'Oh, it's the old Amway company.' I didn't know they still existed," he says.
His two-pronged attack consists of rebuilding the Amway brand and educating distributors and customers. The new ads phase out the Quixtar brand by showing it gradually decreasing in prominence over the course of the ad campaign.
The Amway Global logo modifies the Amway logo that has been used throughout the rest of the world since 2000. Directly below the blue Amway name on a white background now lies the word "Global" in smaller letters, with a thin, red swoosh separating the words.
Officials declined to say how much Alticor is spending on marketing, but Lieberman said it's spending about as much as other large direct-sales companies, such as Mary Kay Inc., Herbalife International Inc. and the industry's top-seller, Avon Products Inc.
"Before, our spending was relatively non-existent," he says.
The privately owned company, based in Ada, about 10 miles east of Grand Rapids, still makes and sells the L.O.C. household cleaners that made Amway famous, as well as food, apparel, baby-care items and jewelry. But the new push focuses on Nutrilite vitamin supplements and Artistry skin care products.
Amway does business in most of the world, except northern Africa and the Middle East because expanding there would be "too complicated," Van Andel says. The most logical move was to reinvent Amway in the U.S.
"We've got to take a look at the markets that we've been in a while, like the U.S., that are mature, that have been kind of just kind of stable and going along but haven't had any huge growth spurts," Van Andel says. "We've got to take a look at what we can do now to get those markets up and moving again."
December 28, 2008 in Amway | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Just want to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Watch this space in January for a cool new site design and (near) daily updates.
Enjoy this holiday with your family and remember in the hustle and bustle of presents and feasts, the reason we are celebrating:
Mary and her husband-to-be, Joseph, lived in a town called Nazareth. But they had to travel to the city of Bethlehem to register for a census ordered by the Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus. Both Nazareth and Bethlehem are in the country now called Israel. It is about 65 miles (105 km) from Nazareth to Bethlehem, and the trip probably took them several days.
When Joseph and Mary got to Bethlehem, there was no place for them to stay because the inn was already full. They ended up spending the night in a stable, a place where animals were kept. There was probably fresh hay on the floor that they used for beds.
That night, Jesus was born. There was no crib, so they laid baby Jesus in a manger, a feeding trough for animals.
December 24, 2008 in Other Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
XanGo Investors Take Company To Supreme Court
Deseret News:
The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Monday from a group of investors who are challenging the dismissal of a case they filed against six founding members of Lehi multilevel-marketing company XanGo LLC.
The legal issue that the justices will consider is whether 4th District Judge Fred Howard rightfully dismissed the case and correctly applied Utah Rules of Civil Procedure.
The investors, who identified themselves as Angel Investors LLC and as a "few neighbors and friends" who "pooled their savings and invested it in an unknown startup company called XanGo," filed lawsuits in 2006 and 2007 against the company, which sells juices and personal-care products.
The original court complaints are sealed, but at the court proceeding Monday, the Angel Investors' attorney, Mary Anne Wood, said the investors "became concerned by evidence of extravagant lifestyle and compensation" of the six founders — Aaron Garrity, Bryan Davis, Gary Hollister, Gordon Morton, Joseph Morton and Kent Wood.
The investors claim XanGo paid the founding six men high salaries, paid for luxury automobiles and houses, covered family vacations and even the purchase of a piano for personal use, Wood said. When some minority investors began to question the expenditures, "XanGo's founding members began buying minority interest from the original investors" by taking loans from XanGo, instead of the company buying back the interests, according to a brief for the Supreme Court.
December 09, 2008 in Network Marketing News | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
A "Why I Quit Amway" Rant About WWDB
I was having a conversation with two friends (very successful people) who were both personally sponsored by me in Amway 15 years ago. They know that I have left Amway and gone on to create a multiple six figure income in Network Marketing and they asked what I think happened to Amway.
The problem with Amway is two-fold. First the compensation plan is horrible. If it's not the worst compensation plan in the industry, I don't know what is. Many will ask if the compensation plan is so bad, why would people (especially leaders) stay with the company long term and the answer is simple. These leaders make a significant amount of their income from training and tools that are sold independently of Amway.
Amway could never have grown to the levels they have while paying out such small bonuses without the help of the leaders who many times make more money from the training then they do from Amway and the leaders could never offer this type of training in the open marketplace without the Amway business.
I don't complain about my time in Amway, I did learn a lot and was taught to really focus on personal development and reading which has changed my life and allowed me to create great success in another company outside of Amway. I look at my time in Amway as education.
Anyways, I ran across the following video on YouTube. Please keep in mind, (THIS IS NOT ME!)
This is a video by someone who used to be associated with World Wide Dreambuilders, an Amway support organization.:
December 08, 2008 in Amway, WWDB - World Wide Group | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
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December 03, 2008 in Eiro Research | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that her Chief of Staff, Marva Lewis will leave her administration and head back to the private sector after the first quarter of this year.
Lewis, suspended her corporate career in 2017 to serve as campaign manager for then-candidate Bottoms.
Lewis will remain in her current role through March 2019, working closely with Bottoms to ensure a smooth transition, along with the successful execution of Super Bowl LIII, the 2019 State of the City meeting, and priority initiatives.
In her role as chief of staff, Lewis is one of the highest-ranking advisors to the mayor, overseeing top personnel, policy and legislative matters.
Lewis earned a master's degree in human resources from Central Michigan University and a bachelor's degree in political science from Francis Marian University.
Prior to joining the city, she worked for Cousins Properties and Equifax. She currently serves on the board of the Metro Atlanta Red Cross and the McPherson Implementing Local Redevelopment Authority Board. She is a member of the Leadership Atlanta class of 2017, and is participating in the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Development Program.


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The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur news and links for Wednesday, October 3
Paulo Gazzaniga, his dog, and a hidden talent.
By Pardeep Cattry@pcattry Oct 3, 2018, 7:30am BST
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Hey, everyone!
I was very close to rambling about something else today, but I ended up stumbling upon a form of ramble jackpot.
Ramble of the Day
We all know Paulo Gazzaniga, third-choice Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper currently getting a run of games because Hugo Lloris and Michel Vorm are out injured. We know that he's done rather well in this stretch, and that he adds to Argentinian contingent on the team. Did you know, though, that he has a dog named Teo?
Teo enjoys the snow! ❄ Teo disfruta mucho de la nieve!
A post shared by Paulo Gazzaniga (@gazzanigapaulo) on Mar 1, 2018 at 9:14am PST
Not to be confused with Teo, the singer of Belarus's 2014 Eurovision entry "Cheesecake," Teo is a dog that clearly enjoys the snow. He's adorable, and Gazzaniga knows how to take good pictures of him, or at least knows people who can do that. (Could you imagine if he hired a photographer for a snowy Instagram photoshoot? It might not be the weirdest thing in the world, actually, and I'm sure a bunch of people have done it.)
Anyway, it seems like a rather normal existence for Teo and Gazzaniga, even though he doesn't post about him a lot. In fact, there is only one other Instagram post of this adorable dog, and either this one is out of left field or the snowy photoshoot is.
Teo THUG LIFE
A post shared by Paulo Gazzaniga (@gazzanigapaulo) on Apr 9, 2018 at 6:22am PDT
The first question has to be: Why? I don't mean this as a critique in any sense. It's a pretty funny video, which is exactly what it's supposed to be. I am curious, though: How did he come up with the idea?
Seeing as I won't ever get the answer to that question, I will move on to my other thoughts. In addition to being a capable goalkeeper, Gazzaniga clearly knows how to direct a video. This is a skillfully created production. The costume and set designs are perfect, and the actual direction is sublime. He tells his story perfectly; the video starts off completely unassumingly, and finishes off that way after the surprise hits you.
Gazzaniga has only one other video on his account, which is of him verifying that that is his official account. That, too, is well produced, but it is a much simpler production. I'd love to see what else he can do with a camera and a story, because he seems promising.
tl;dr: A hidden talent of Paulo Gazzaniga.
Links of the Day
Jadon Sancho has signed a contract extension with Borussia Dortmund, keeping him at the club until 2022.
Someone threw a cabbage at Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce before the team's 3-3 draw with Preston North End.
David Squires's latest cartoon is about Manchester United's poor start to the season.
Today's longer read: Tom Marshall reports on the early days of Diego Maradona's tenure at Mexican second division club Dorados for ESPN

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Trade war: US wary of China's growing power – Rawlings
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Former President Jerry John Rawlings and other leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were among those who graced the memorial mass marking the fifth anniversary of the death of Paul Victor Obeng. Samuel Ofosu […]
Rawlings rejects offer to rename UDS after him
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Dr. Kwabena Adjei was a passionate man who lived his conviction. – Rawlings
The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President Jerry John Rawlings, has paid tribute to former party chairman, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, describing him as a very strong and passionate man who lived his […]
I've forgiven Rawlings — Chairman of Dara Salaam Group
An entrepreneur and Executive Chairman of the Dara Salaam Group, Alhaji Yusif Ibrahim, says he has long forgiven former President Jerry John Rawlings under whose administration his $5 million hotel was demolished. Speaking about the […]
JM visits Rawlings a day after winning NDC race
The re-elected leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) former president John Mahama has paid a courtesy call on former boss and founder of the NDC, former president Jerry John Rawling, a day after winning […]
E/R: Rawlings pays final respect to Osabarima Boakye Dankwa
Former President Jerry John Rawlings was in Kyebi on Friday to pay his last respects to the late Osabarima Kyeretwie Boakye Dankwa. Until his demise at the age of 80, Osabarima Boakye Dankwa was the […]
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Former President Jerry John Rawlings yesterday Monday 25th February 2019 took matters into his own hands by directing traffic on Pampram Road. Traffic in Accra is becoming uncontrollable and it is argued that, it could […]
Rawlings congratulates John Mahama
Former President Flt Lt J.J. Rawlings has congratulated former President John Mahama on his election as flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Mr Rawling also took the opportunity to congratulate the other contestant for the […]
Rawlings calls for dignity, transparency and fairness in NDC polls
Opposition National Democratic Congress founder, former President Jerry John Rawlings has tweeted his 'best wishes' to candidates in the party's presidential primaries currently underway across the country. Rawlings on Saturday tweeted a terse message in […]
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Kenyan teacher voted the best in the world, wins $1m
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Q: Need Help in Configuring Links React Native Navigation I am trying to configure links of the below nested navigation. I wanted to navigate user to bdetails or adetails or alist or blist views based on data that comes from firebase notification.
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<Stack.Screen name="alist" component={AList} />
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const RootNav = () => <Drawer.Navigator>
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    prefixes: ['cdpharmacy://'],
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      screens: {
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          screens: {
            tabnav: {
              path: 'nav',
              screens: {
                app: {
                  path: 'app',
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                    A: {
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                      screens: {
                        alist: 'list/:param1',
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The below link is not working in the app.
linkTo('/root/nav/app/a/details/param1/param2')

A: You dont need to use deeplinking for that simply check notification data in App.js when recieved in setBackgroundMessageHandler() if data equal to something navigate to that page.
See in this e.g. if my data.action== "open_map" im navigating user to RouteMap page.
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messaging().setBackgroundMessageHandler(async remoteMessage => {
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      navigate('RouteMap', {data: data.eventsteamID});
    } else if (data.action == 'open_home') {
      navigate('Home');
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      console.log('Something went wrong.');
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    console.log('Message handled in the background!', remoteMessage);
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Bala, Ontario
Bala is a community located in Muskoka Lakes Township where Lake Muskoka drains into the Moon River.
It is considered one of the hubs of cottage country located north of Toronto, Ontario. Thus, its year-round population of several hundred is swamped by thousands of seasonal residents and day-trippers. It is known as the Cranberry Capital of Ontario.
It was settled by Thomas Burgess in 1868. He named it after the town of Bala in Wales with which it is officially twinned. Located on the Canadian Shield, it proved unsuitable for farming and its fortunes declined as logging became less economically viable.
In 1914, the town incorporated with Burgess' son as the first mayor. Three years later, a small hydroelectric dam was set up on the river. Muskoka Road 169 still traverses the top of the dam. The town was large enough to be served by the Ontario Provincial Police. In 1971, the town was amalgamated with other townships and municipalities to form the Township of Muskoka Lakes.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the "Anne of Green Gables" books, visited Bala in 1922. Based on a tenuous connection to a beloved Canadian author, Bala's Museum, a community museum featuring L.M. Montgomery, was opened in the 1990s. The more established, larger and more wide-ranging community museum remains at the Muskoka Lakes Museum in nearby Port Carling, Ontario.
Bala maintains a link with its agrarian past by hosting the [http://www.balacranberryfestival.on.ca Bala Cranberry Festival] each fall on the weekend after Canadian Thanksgiving. Other notable sources of food are Don's Bakery, which has sold delicious bread, pastries and cookies for decades. Don's is famous for scones and people drive through Bala specifically to purchase them. They also put in larger orders to take home to their freezer for a reminder of summer in the winter months when the bakery is closed.
Since 1942, under various management and names, the community and the surrounding area was offered [http://www.thekee.com live musical entertainment] . In the 1940s and '50s, Big Bands like Mart Kenney, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and Louis Armstrong played at Dunn's Pavilion. Since the 1960s, rock musicians like David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell, The Ramones, April Wine, Burton Cummings and Jeff Healey played at The Kee to Bala, as it had become then. More recently, bands such as Sum 41, The Tragically Hip, The Sam Roberts Band, Hinder, Finger 11, Three Days Grace, Sloan and Theory of a Deadman grace the stage at The KEE. In the 1980s, Bala and Port Carling were also featured in a hilarious skit by The Frantics on "Boot to the Head". In the skit, a man on his way to Bala bores his companion to distraction in part by endlessly enumerating the communities' features.
Once a week in the summer months, students from a nearby water ski school perform aquatic stunts for audiences at a local park. Students form pyramids, jump obstacles, ski barefoot, and, on occasion, ski while wearing alpine skis.
* [http://www.bala.net Bala] semi-official website
* [http://www.bala.muskoka-ontario.com Bala] unofficial website
* [http://bala.net/museum/ Bala's Museum] featuring Lucy Maud Montgomery
* [http://www.balacranberryfestival.on.ca Bala Cranberry Festival]
* [http://wahta.ca/ Wahta Mohawks]
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Q: Embedly.oembed not adhering to the maxwidth parameter I am trying to use Embedly to generate a thumbnail for a given url. I need the thumbnail to be smaller than a maximum size, so I call the api like so:
url = "http://embed.ly"
embedly_api = Embedly::API.new(key: ENV['EMBEDLY_KEY'])
obj = embedly_api.oembed(url: url, maxwidth: 50, type: 'photo').first

json_obj = JSON.pretty_generate(obj.marshal_dump)

or
http://api.embed.ly/1/oembed?key=[KEY_VALUE]&url=http://embed.ly&maxwidth=50&type=photo

In either case the result is:
{
  provider_url: "http://embed.ly",
  description: "Embedly delivers the ultra-fast,...",
  title: "Embedly makes your content more engaging and easier...",
  mean_alpha: 32.7480314961,
  thumbnail_width: 399,
  url: "http://embed.ly",
  thumbnail_url: "http://embed.ly/static/images/logos/logo_color.png?v=4b245",
  version: "1.0",
  provider_name: "Embedly",
  type: "link",
  thumbnail_height: 127
}

Notice that thumbnail_width is 399 (which is larger than what I passed in for the maxwidth parameter). Am I missing something obvious here?

A: maxwidth only applies to the html, images can be of any width.
Embedly does allow you to set an image_width though. Try:
embedly_api.oembed(url: url, maxwidth: 50, type: 'photo', image_width: 50)

http://embed.ly/docs/api/display/integration


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Palate: Plump dried fruits keep things interesting through waves of smoke and wood spice, which are then joined by sea breeze and vanilla custard.
Finish: Rich, long and warming, cracked black pepper and a little liquorice root are present.


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Q: Unauthorized error on GetProvisioningTemplate I have Provider Hosted Add-In and everything is working as expected but fails on 'web.GetProvisioningTemplate(creationInfo)'.
it gives me below error

The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized

Below is the complete code,
    var siteUrl = "<siteurl>"; //This is not the same url from where add in is running
var tenantAdminUrl = "";
var appId = "";
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Q: With vagrant-berkshelf deprecated, will it be possible to drive builds from Vagrant, with Chef solely as a provisioner? I have had a number of issues recently with vagrant-berkshelf not syncing Chef cookbooks on an existing machine reliably.  And, basically, when doing research on workarounds, I see something like:
vagrant-berkshelf is deprecated, use Test Kitchen instead.
My use case is that I have Vagrantfiles, used to build VMs and DigitalOcean droplets, that are hand-written and only use Chef to provision the VMs.  I am most definitely approaching Chef as a user, not an author or tester of cookbooks.
So, I am in a case of Vagrant -> Chef, not Chef -> Vagrant.
When looking at Kitche-Vagrant, I see that:
The kitchen-vagrant driver for Kitchen generates a single Vagrantfile for each instance of Kitchen in a sandboxed directory..
My question is:  if my workflow relies on hand-written, complex, Vagrantfiles, can I continue to use Chef as a provisioner without having to rely on vagrant-berkshelf?
Some of the possible alternatives I see are:

*

*mangle Test Kitchen configuration to work with my exiting Vagrantfile.  I fear that this is not the intent of this tool and will not end well.

*use chef.cookbooks_path attribute in vagrant and let it take the place of vagrant-berkshelf.

*switch out provisioners and use say Vagrant->Ansible.
The Vagrantfile below is somewhat simplified, but the gist is that the Vagrantfile is in charge and Chef is just used to provision.
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

#...grab some variables from my host environment...
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY = ENV['BUILD_DJANGO_SECRET_KEY']

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|

  config.vm.define "myserver" do |config|
      config.vm.provider :digital_ocean do |provider, override|
        override.ssh.private_key_path = digoconf.private_key_path
        override.vm.box_url = "https://github.com/devopsgroup-io/vagrant-digitalocean/raw/master/box/digital_ocean.box"
        provider.token = digoconf.TOKEN
        ...
      end

      #had chef_client before, that worked too.
      config.vm.provision "chef_zero" do |chef|

        chef.log_level = "info"

        #I haven't tested these out
        #chef.cookbooks_path = ["../community/cookbooks","../.berkshelf/cookbooks"]

        env_for_chef = " DJANGO_SECRET_KEY='#{DJANGO_SECRET_KEY}'"
        chef.binary_env = env_for_chef

        chef.environment = "digitalocean"
        chef.add_recipe "base::install"
      end
  end
end

A: It isn't deprecated per se, but it does no longer have a maintainer and does highly recommend against its use. There is no replacement for the workflow you describe. Sorry. If you are interested in taking over as maintainer, I can put you in contact with the team.


Very tardy in getting some photos and footage of the happenings that are keeping me from blogging, they will appear soon. Delivered second batch of organic sweet navel "Washington" oranges to Ooooby today. Brilliant idea, Ooooby stands for Out Of Our Own Back Yard. Very clever scheme where they take small volumes of produce that people grow - in their back yards - and then create fresh fruit/vege boxes that are delivered to households. So that way the people with excess can supply local people.
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Short Pre-viewing Panel, showing the film while enjoying the Pizza, Panel featuring local community leader, Chetana R. Narasimhajois with questions following the viewing. The Civic and Community Engagement , Psychology, HDFS and Communications Arts and Sciences classes, and Multicultural Club members will attend.
The Northeast Regional Media Literacy Conference invites K-16 educators, librarians, school library media specialists, after school program directors, media professionals, researchers, cultural workers, and college students to collaborate about the potential and challenges for media literacy and its essential role in education today.
We will be screening the film and having an audience discussion with Dr. Pamela O'Brien and Dr. Jennifer Erdman regarding the messages discussed in the film. Special attention will be paid to the possibility that the show may be removing the character in the coming season.
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This week schools and organizations around the world are celebrating the 4th annual Media Literacy Week. Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, communicate, and create using all forms of communication. In this session, explore fun, engaging, and essential media literacy practices for the Ed Tech classroom.
A team of three undergraduate students will be conducting and filming interviews throughout Media Literacy Week across Saint Vincent College's campus. The interviewing team will appear at random times at different locations on campus asking students about their media use, understanding of media literacy, and other probing questions to encourage students to think more critically about their media use.
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Best DevOps Practices and Principles to Adopt Right Now
By Ami Dias|2021-05-07T10:06:02+00:00May 7th, 2021|Development|
DevOps is all about forging a strong collaborative bond between software development and operations teams. This culture is built on DevOps practices and principles of success such as slow and steady development updates, shared responsibilities and early problem solving techniques. Moving forward, we'll see what are DevOps practices and principles and how they affect an organization.
Few DevOps principles that you must follow:
Create a Collaborative Atmosphere in the Organization:
The primary goal of DevOps principle is to combine operations and development to establish a unilateral team that concentrates on providing common goals. If brands want to attain this, they must motivate development and operations to communicate regularly, share problems and ideas, and work on solving them together. With DevOps, processes get aligned, and they enable the creation of a fluid experience throughout the deployment and development process. This further reduces surprises that the developers may get along their way.
A collaborative environment also pertains to embrace a cultural shift within a business.
Customer-Centric Action:
With DevOps, businesses have to act like a lean startup because they have to keep up with innovative things. Furthermore, they need to pivot when a particular strategy is not working and invest in elements that satisfy the needs of their consumers. They have to meet the changing demands of the consumers, and therefore, they should stay attentive to the pulse. The information they collect from automated processes should be reviewed regularly to ensure that the performance targets are met. Also, for businesses to deliver customer-centric action, focusing on the correct data is imperative.
Develop End-to-End Responsibilities:
In the conventional model of software development, both operations and development had separate roles. However, when it comes to DevOps, both the groups work unitedly as a team that is entirely responsible for the application right from the beginning to its delivery. The core principle of DevOps is the responsibility and control of services, from the concept to its grave. With DevOps, no inefficiency will be experienced and there will be no production or performance problems.
Adapt to the Continuous Improvement Process:
End-to-end responsibilities determine that brands should readily and continuously adapt to the changing environment, irrespective of if it is a new technology, changes in legislation, or consumer needs. DevOps strongly concentrates on continuous enhancement to optimize performance, cost, and the speed of delivery. The best part? DevOps support continuous improvements. Teams get united to support continuous delivery and continuous integration.
Automate Everything You Can:
For continuous enhancements with high cycle rates, and immediate proficient responses to consumer feedback, brands need to leverage automated processes. Recently, some notable improvements in automation tools have been made to get streamlined results, including both CD/CI pipelines. Automation will help developers take a step forward and quickly release the software to their consumers. It encompasses automating the infrastructure provisioning, developing new systems, developing the software, and an array of tests to ascertain that everything right from functionality to security compliance is in place.
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Best DevOps Practices for Optimal Results
Set a Business Standard:
DevOps is different from the traditional development practices, and hence, the process consists of several tools that include Splunk and Jenkins. You should set a business standard for DevOps development. That said, there should be a dedicated unit to create such tools and operating techniques. The same unit will be responsible for inculcating agility into the development team. Also, the team leader should share several beneficial tools for the company.
Shift Left with CI/CD:
The earlier defects in an application get detected, the better their quality. This can be achieved by shifting the task to the left. That said, they will have to move them early in the development cycle. The DevOps team follows continuous integration and delivery. The CI/CD strategy enables frequent delivery of robust quality software in the market. It further makes software delivery highly predictable. The CI/CD shift depicts that the major focus is on preventing problems instead of solving them. Issues are detected earlier, which results in a manageable resolution of errors.
Implement Continuous Deployment:
Build creation, versioning, testing, environment creation, and post-deployment practices are the sub-processes of deployment. Once the codes clear different QA tests, operations teams start deploying the code in the production environment. Continuous deployment involves the release of code in different versions rather than deploying all at once. Several tools are available for continuous deployment. A DevOps enabled company starts with staging and goes up till production. Human intervention is minimal.
Improve the Quality of Automated Tests:
Regular software testing ensures the composition of quality code. DevOps enables developers to fix issues during the development procedure. They will not have to leave everything for the last moment. Manual testing slows things down, whereas automated testing speeds up the process. Implementation of automated testing is a smart move. QA engineers don't have to waste valuable time in such mundane tasks with DevOps. Hence, they can spend their time coming with innovative test cases and working with developers to prevent bugs.
Consider DevOps to be Cultural Change:
Adaptation of DevOps gets hampered when people think DevOps to be a big investment of effort. Instead of considering DevOps as a burden, they should think of DevOps as a cultural change. IT teams often work in silos. There will be no working in silos with DevOps, and they will be able to work as a single unit. Adopting this change is beneficial not only for the teams but also for the entire firm.
If a DevOps company wants to thrive, it has to rise to a high level and unleash its true potential. With organizations striving to accelerate their digital transformation, more than ever, DevOps has become integral to the success of a business. DevOps has evolved to suit the modifying needs of companies, and it can reshape the business landscape in the future.
The conventional software development cycles face several problems: bugs that are identified at the end, isolated development, increased time to the market, high costs, and numerous SDLC cycles. DevOps mitigate such issues, and the tools make the job of DevOps professionals a lot easy. The development goals are achieved, delivery takes less time, quality is improved, and development costs are reduced. That said, DevOps makes the life of software developers easy.
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N.J. Supreme Court rejects nuclear subsidy appeal
The Salem nuclear power plant. (Photo: Peretzp)
In the latest legal action over the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities' (BPU) April 2019 order providing subsidies to the Hope Creek and Salem nuclear plants, the state's Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal.
The high court, without comment, on July 9 denied certification of an appeal submitted by the New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel, an independent state agency representing consumer interests. The appeal, dated April 19, argued against an appellate court's decision, rendered the previous month, to uphold the Hope Creek/Salem subsidies, offered in the form of zero emission credits. (ZECs allow nuclear plants to enter capacity auctions at a lower price point in order to compete with historically low natural gas prices and federally subsidized renewable generation.)
The Rate Counsel had appealed the BPU's decision to the appellate court in May 2019, contending that Public Service Enterprise Group—owner of Hope Creek and co-owner, with Exelon, of Salem—had failed to prove financial need.
"We thought at least we could get a hearing," said Stefanie Brand, director of the Rate Counsel, in response to the Supreme Court's ruling. "It is hard to understand why this case is not in the public interest."
In case you missed it: On April 27, the BPU voted unanimously to extend the ZEC program for an additional three years. PSEG had filed applications to extend the ZECs in October of last year, citing the state's clean energy policy, the lower cost of ZECs compared with solar and offshore wind subsidies, and the continued deterioration of power markets.
Background: Ralph Izzo, PSEG's chairman and chief executive officer, told a committee of New Jersey lawmakers in December 2017 that Hope Creek and Salem would be unprofitable within two years. He noted that without financial support from the state, the nuclear plants would have to be retired. Legislation to address the issue was introduced the following March, and in May 2018 S. 2313 was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy. S. 2313 directed the BPU to establish a ZEC program—similar to programs implemented in Illinois and New York—with each certificate representing "the fuel diversity, air quality, and other environmental attributes of one megawatt-hour of electricity generated by an eligible nuclear power plant."
The New Jersey ZECs would be purchased by the state's public utilities, with costs recovered via a $0.004 per kilowatt-hour tariff applied to the utilities' retail distribution customers. Most experts predicted a hike of $41 in customers' annual electric bills. The program was estimated to be worth about $300 million in annual subsidies to PSEG.
Hope Creek is home to a single 1,237-MWe boiling water reactor, while Salem houses two pressurized water reactors, with Unit 1 rated at 1,169 MWe and Unit 2 at 1,181 MWe. The plants are colocated in Hancocks Bridge, N.J. The two facilities produce more than 90 percent of New Jersey's carbon-free electricity and about 40 percent of its overall power.
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Share this Story: Ed Willes: Maybe it's too early to talk playoffs, but Canucks are in conversation
Ed Willes: Maybe it's too early to talk playoffs, but Canucks are in conversation
OPINION: It's fair to ask if (the current) rate of production is sustainable. But there's more to this team than the front-end talent and that's shown up a couple of times this season, most notably in Washington on Saturday
Ed Willes
Captain Bo Horvat of the visiting Vancouver Canucks celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in the seventh round of a shootout on Saturday against Washington Capitals' goaltender Braden Holtby. Photo by Geoff Burke /USA TODAY Sports
Granted, the opinion wasn't unanimous but at the outset of this season the consensus view of the Vancouver Canucks went something like this:
Yes, the team will be improved and, yes, they should be playing meaningful games in March. But to qualify for the NHL playoffs, they'd have to improve by 12 to 14 points over last season while crawling over four teams that finished ahead of them.
Ed Willes: Maybe it's too early to talk playoffs, but Canucks are in conversation Back to video
For a team that was emerging from four lost years, the playoffs seemed like a bridge too far. Still, as long as the Canucks — everybody now — took another step forward in 2019-20, the faithful could live with another playoff-free spring.
The next question is will they have to?
Travis Green's team is now 24 games into the fight and while a million different things can happen between now and Game 82, those 24 games represent an adequate sample size to draw some conclusions.
First and foremost, they're better than anyone could have reasonably expected. The record — 12-8-4 good for third in the Pacific — is one thing. The larger issue is the in-team improvements that suggest the ledger is an accurate reflection of this ensemble.
Vancouver Canucks #40 Elias Petterson wears the Skate jerseys as they skate prior tp playing the Colorado Avalanche in a regular season NHL hockey game at Rogers Arena, Vancouver, November 16 2019. Photo by Gerry Kahrmann /PNG
Heading into this season, for example, the belief was Elias Pettersson could improve on his rookie campaign. How much he'd improve was a matter of some conjecture but after 24 games, Pettersson is on pace for 34 goals and 99 points.
He's also coming off a standout performance on Saturday when he might have been the best player on the ice against the Capitals in a big boys' game. In no particular order he scored a power-play goal, registered five shots on net, hounded the puck all game and drove the Canucks' offence.
A 70-point centre in today's NHL is a very good player. A 100-point centre is a top-10 player in the league and if Pettersson is that guy, it changes a lot of things for the Canucks.
The in-house improvement also goes deeper than Pettersson. Brock Boeser is on pace for 34 goals and 79 points. J.T. Miller represented a huge variable in the Canucks' equation this season. He's on pace for 30 goals and 79 points.
Vancouver Canucks blueliner Quinn Hughes does the post goal-scoring skate past his team's bench during the Canucks' game against the St. Louis Blues at Rogers Arena on Nov. 5, 2019. Photo by Rich Lam /Getty Images
Everyone was excited about Quinn Hughes at the start of the year but did anyone see a 64-point defenceman who's quarterbacking the league's fourth-ranked power play?
Now, it's fair to ask if that rate of production is sustainable. But there's more to this team than the front-end talent and that's shown up a couple of times this season, most notably in Washington on Saturday.
As is their wont, the Canucks surrendered the game's first goal just over two minutes in. Workhorse defenceman Alex Edler was then lost for the game midway through the first period with an undisclosed injury.
Unfazed, the visitors leaned on a four-man blue-line rotation of Hughes (25:13 of ice time), Chris Tanev (25:41), Tyler Myers (25:21) and Jordie Benn (22:37). Bo Horvat also contributed a bone-wearying 26 minutes, then scored the game winner in Round 7 of the shootout. And Miller chipped in with 24 heavy minutes.
Easy it wasn't but if the Canucks were curious about what lies ahead, they now have a clearer idea, which brings us back to the playoff question.
Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) battles for the puck with Vancouver Canucks defenceman Alexander Edler (23) and Canucks defenceman Tyler Myers (57) in the first period at Capital One Arena. Photo by Geoff Burke /USA TODAY Sports
Again, it's early days but there are a couple of points to ponder as we dream about April. Overall, the Canucks can't complain too loudly about their health. Before Edler went down Saturday, their nine leading scorers had missed, collectively, one game. That was Hughes three weeks ago.
But the Canucks were also missing five regulars from their lineup Saturday, including four who started opening night: Brandon Sutter, Michael Ferland, Jay Beagle and Tyler Motte.
The irrepressible Antoine Roussel is the fifth and some of those players should start returning to the lineup. Collectively, they're not going to light up the scoreboard but they represent size and experience to a team that can use both.
Edler, of course, is a different animal. They can cover his minutes short term but long term, you can't lose your best defenceman without leaving a scar.
In the meantime, the Canucks boast the league's eighth-ranked penalty kill and fourth-ranked power play. Their goaltending, by and large, has been playoff-quality and they're on pace to score 266 goals as a team which would be their highest total since 2009-10.
But here's the most important consideration for the Canucks as their playoff chances are contemplated. While the number fluctuates from year to year, it usually takes 94 to 95 points to qualify in the West.
After 24 games the Canucks are on pace for 96 points. They've also played 14 of those 24 on the road.
To reach 94 points they'll require 66 points over their final 58 games and, suddenly, that ask doesn't seem as onerous.
To borrow from Denny Green, it could be the Canucks are who we thought they were back in October. It's also possible, just possible, they're something different.
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Q: ExtJS Theme Centralization I have multiple ExtJS apps based on a custom theme say "my-ux-theme" (extension of "ext-theme-crisp").
I have bunch of .SCSS files repeated in each one of the apps. Every time I make any change to the theme, I have to make change in each of the SCSS files across the apps.
I want to centralize my theme
I am planning to attach "my-ux-theme" to the KitchenSink application and then I am building the entire KitchenSink which produces the .CSS files I need. I then deploy this CSS to my CDN and linking all my apps to this theme (CSS files). Is this a good approach?
Is this a safe assumption that KitchenSink is a big app covering all the components in ExtJS and is generating all the CSS I would ever need?
Can you all please suggest?
The basic question is when we do Sencha Command on an ExtJS application (sencha app build) then the generated CSS files by the theme covers only those components which are used/present in the application? Or it doesn't matter?

A: Using Kitchen Sink does not feel right to me, Here is what you can do.

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*Create a Sencha Work Space

*Create a Theme Package

*Build the Theme Package using "sencha package build"

*It will generate one single CSS file for your theme in build/resource/theme-name-all.css

Here are commands for it
sencha -sdk {path/to/Ext-JS-5-SDK} generate workspace my-workspace
sencha generate package -type theme my-custom-theme
sencha package build


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Questions..The cats and the seat keyway [Archive] - ApriliaForum sponsored by AF1 Racing, inc.
Cat is in the twisty bit of the pipes, see links for elimination parts - not sure how they run after mind, 2nd link seems to suggest you need mufflers changed as well.
Rear stand - do you mean the swing arm bobbin mounts - look like 6mm to me, need to get some hooks for me stand!
The keyway is relocated onto the tailtidy mounting plate, directly above the back wheel. Keep it oiled well, as alot of gunk gets built up on the cover fascia for the keyway. It still works fine when remounted. Must do mod the tidy Locky.
The cat on the 1200 is actually in the first half of the muffler not the mid pipe like the 750. I took out a portion of it in each pipe but the only real way to do it is replace the mufflers. The mid pipe on the 1200 is straight through.
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I suggest this mod. I could post a sound clip if someone wants to hear it.
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Like vapor smell from the bikes exhaust? Yeah it smells when idling cold, goes away once warm.


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Q: What is the latest working version of videojs-transcript? The "working sample" for videojs-transcript, whose link is on the author's Github page uses an old version, 0.7.1, from 2014. The master branch is 3 versions ahead at 0.8.1, from 2017. When I attempt to run 0.8.1, it fails:
"Uncaught TypeError: my._options is undefined" in videojs-transcript.js:379:5"
The only way that I could get something working was to download the files used by the sample from the author's github.io page.
The author did not create an npm package. But I noticed that there are two npm packages for this component:

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*https://www.npmjs.com/package/videojs-transcript-ac

*https://www.npmjs.com/package/@packt/videojs-transcript
I couldn't find a corresponding code repository for videojs-transcript-acvideojs-transcript-ac. But there is a bitbucket repo for @packt/videojs-transcript.
The original author's (walsh9) working sample is from 2014. I noticed that there are much more recent stackoverflow Q&A for videojs-transcript, even a couple from this year.
What and where is the latest working version for this package? Is there a fix to the author's latest 0.8.1 version available? (There hasn't been any activity on https://github.com/walsh9/videojs-transcript since 2017)


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by Brain, A. E., Macovski, A., Childress, C. O., Forsen, G. E., Baer, J. A., Novikoff, A. B., and Bourne, C. P.
Note: Report No. 3. Quarterly Progress Report 3. Covering the period 1 October to 31 December 1960. SRI Project 3192. Prepared for US Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory. Contract DA 36-039 SC-78343.
Objective: To conduct a research study and experimental investigation of techniques and equipment characteristics suitable for practical application to graphical data processing for military requirements.


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Fair Courts
We believe that independent, fair, and impartial courts that reflect our state's diversity are essential for democracy.
NEW MEXICANS DESERVE FAIR COURTS
The ultimate vision for a healthy, functioning, and fair judiciary is multifaceted and includes:
A fully participating, informed electorate in judicial elections
Judges across the bench who reflect diverse communities across the state
Black, indigenous and people of color not being incarcerated at an alarming rate
Attorneys and judges who serve the public and not campaign donors
Laws that reflect and respect all New Mexicans
How do we achieve this vision? Through commonsense reforms such as:
Public financing of judicial campaigns to allow more candidates to run and reduce real and perceived conflicts of interest
Increased pay for judges to attract the best pool of candidates
Reduce the overall number of people in the criminal justice system (diversion programs, bail reform, etc.)
Strong disclosure laws, locally and statewide
Increase access to justice by introducing "plain language" law and other reforms that help people representing themselves
PUBLIC FINANCING OF JUDICIAL RACES
We advocated and worked to expand judicial campaign public financing to include not only the state Supreme and Appellate courts, but District Court races as well, making New Mexico the first state in the nation to do so. By allowing qualifying judicial candidates to utilize the Voter Action Act to fund their campaigns, rather than dialing for dollars, judges are empowered to focus their time on their case dockets.
As the costs of election campaigns continue to increase, candidates are required to raise so much money that running for office is prohibitive for many well-qualified New Mexicans. This includes candidates running for elected judicial positions, and it often precludes a more diverse set of candidates who are women, community members of color and younger New Mexicans.
Particularly for a state like New Mexico with a majority BIPOC population, it is crucial we have a reflective and representative court system. Unfortunately, we continue to lack representation from marginalized communities in the courtroom and at all levels of the judiciary. Public financing will provide a pathway to close that gap.
Candidates who run privately financed are often obligated to their biggest donors. The overwhelming influence of money in politics, especially in courts, affects all New Mexicans. Their voices are drowned out by those who can write much larger campaign checks, decisions are made by the wealthy and well-connected, and diverse communities are excluded from opportunities to be part of the process. The influence of money in courts most egregiously impedes the judiciary from remaining fair and impartial, creating real and perceived conflicts of interest.
Alongside providing a public financing option for District Court campaigns, we also worked to pass legislation to stagger judicial terms. In staggering these races, New Mexicans can be assured there are adequate funds available in the Voter Action Act since fewer campaigns are tapping into the fund at once. Additionally, this reform keeps ballots shorter and more manageable, making it easier for voters to research the candidates running.
Our Fair Courts campaign began as a public education and awareness project. We recognized a void of broad public education about our hybrid judicial-selection system, and especially lacking in our communities of color, including our tribal communities in New Mexico. As with many other states, New Mexico's data consistently shows a lack of civic participation and knowledge about our judicial candidates and elections.
We began working with Native American communities to address specific inequities in their access to the ballot, information about judicial candidates on tribal lands, and an overall education campaign within our fair courts framework. We also educated communities about the importance of keeping our courts independent from other branches of government, not subject to improper influence from either private or partisan interests in their elections.
We are deepening and broadening our community outreach and public education to help everyday New Mexicans across the state better understand the court system as a whole, the process of judicial election and selection, and encourage their active and engaged participation.
Furthermore, CCNM is working to increase public participation in judicial nominating commissions. In New Mexico, citizens can join these commissions but there is little outreach done to encourage communities of interest to apply and participate. In order to have a diverse and fair judiciary, we believe it is critical that the nominating commissions are truly representative of our population and must include young people, women, citizens of color and more. Each of the 33 New Mexico counties has their own specific process, and we will conduct outreach campaigns across the state to engage citizens.
New Mexicans deserve free and equal access to justice and an impartial court system. The foundation of that work must address racial inequity among three key components: access to our courts (public education and participation), lack of representation on the bench (judicial diversity), and equity in the judiciary (public financing and access to nominating commissions).
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I recently had the joyous opportunity to travel to southern France to spend a week and record the wedding ceremonies of a beloved friend.
While there, I would write a series of three articles about my journey to connect with my art practice on Medium. They are linked below.


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The need for a formalized program of professional study for municipal administrators had long been recognized. Its development was the culmination of many years of effort and commitment by the Nova Scotia Department of Municipal Affairs, the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities, and the Provincial Chapter of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association.
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LITERARY AGENT SCAMS
Lisa Hackney/Melanie Mills: Coda
POSTED BY VICTORIA-STRAUSS FOR WRITER BEWARE® ON APR 20, 2006 May 9, 2022
Last time we checked in on the saga of Melanie Mills, a.k.a. Lisa Hackney, a.k.a. Elisabeth von Hullessem, now calling herself Raswitha Elisabeth Melanie Mills, this outrageously bizarre literary scammer and alleged mother-murder attempter had been extradited to the USA from Canada, and was sitting in an Arkansas jail awaiting sentencing on six charges of failure to appear (jumping bail back in 1999), first-degree battery (pinning her mother to a picnic table with a car), aggravated assault (ditto), and theft of property (embezzling part of her mother's estate and kiting bad checks).
On February 10, 2006, she pleaded guilty to all six charges, and was sentenced to two prison terms in the Arkansas Department of Correction, one of 15 years and one of 10 years, to run concurrently.
However, she won't do any jail time.
Well, according to this article in the Northwest Arkansas Times, all but 23 months of the 15-year sentence was suspended, and all but 22 months of the 10-year sentence was suspended, and she was credited with the 23 months she served in Canadian jails awaiting extradition. I can't speak to the logic behind this; I assume that Arkansas was not eager to house and feed another prisoner, and since Hackney has Canadian citizenship, was just as happy to bundle her off to the Great White North and let the Mounties deal with her. So, having been returned to the US by means of much paperwork and, presumably, expense, she has been deported back to Canada.
Have we heard the last of our favorite wacky scammer? I don't think so.
For one thing, scammers don't generally change their stripes. Hackney has repeatedly attempted the same kinds of scams; she has even used the same aliases. I'm confident she'll show up on the Writer Beware scamdar again at some point (and you can bet that we'll be watching.)
For another thing, Hackney still has literary aspirations. That's right, folks–she has written a book (or, if you want to get technical, another book, if we count the vanity-published Sins). And she's trying to sell it.
Several (reputable) literary agents have received a (poorly written) book proposal from one Raswitha Elisabeth Melanie Mills for something called The MM Journal. It's the tale of "Melanie Mills (Literary Agent); Elisabeth von Hullessem (Banff Writer's Conference); Lisa Hackney (fugitive); L.R. Thomas (author of the novel 'Sins').
Based on her life story, 'The MM Journal' is about a German aristocratic family with its torrid, dirty little secrets." Its heroine is "a woman who desperately attempted to live the so called 'American dream life'…[but was] unable to escape fate no matter how hard she tried."
Among other things, the book proposes to explain the events of MM's life, such as the attempted mother-squashing ("One fateful night after a bizarre chain of events, her mother, the Countess von Hullessem, who ultimately grew to hate her daughter so much through no fault of her own, and MM have a horrible confrontation in November of 1 999, resulting in the Countess partially pinned beneath MM's car"), and MM's many failed ventures, such as the Melanie Mills Literary Agency ("…the economy bottomed out due to the Iraqui [sic]war. Suddenly, publishers were not interested, let alone buying, manuscripts from new, un-established writers") and the writers' conference in North Carolina ("people were not vacationing due to a deadly Asian flu outbreak and Mad Cow's Disease by now and the failing economy").
I swear I am not making this up. One of the agents kindly shared the proposal with me. Here it is, for your reading…pleasure.
UPDATE: Apparently unable to interest either agents or publishers in her masterwork, Hackney has self-published it.
The scandal, international intrigue, betrayal, the adventure, the sensual moments, the ecstasy, this sinfully hot autobiography based on Ms. von Hullessem's life story, "The MM Journal", is about a 'German aristocratic family' with its torrid, dirty little secrets and the attempt to live the 'American Dream', then wind up later living as a 'fugitive' on the run from the law while working with the literary world; New York City publishing houses.
Juicy!
roach says:
OMG. If ever someone deserved it I'd say tell her to try PublishAmerica. I'm presuming the excerpts, misspellings and all, are straight from her proposals?
Dear…ghod…
BWAHahahhahahaha!!!
Yup–all excerpts are from the actual proposal, complete with errors and grammatical infelicities.
Believe it or not, she's a PA alum already–her "autobiographical" novel Sins was pubbed by PA.
BWAH! Is it wrong that I really want to read that book?
For free, of course…
Bernita says:
~gags~
As one of my buds has been known to say, "Oh my dear frelling goddess."
That ain't just purple prose; it has drifted over into the ultraviolet range. I'm looking for my radiation badge in a minute.
Yanno–one of us aspiring scriptwriters could adapt the actual incidents into a Law and Order script.
Only you can bet that on the TV show she would actually serve time.
Jill Elaine Hughes says:
This is such a bad precedent to set. The main reason why white-collar scam crime is so rampant in the US is because virtually no one goes to jail for it. We should all bombard the district attorney who let her go with nasty letters. And MM isn't just a scam artist, she's a violent criminal. The woman tried to kill her mother, for God's sake!
Thanks! I'll get P&E's listing on her updated.
Stacia says:
("One fateful night after a bizarre chain of events, her mother, the Countess von Hullessem, who ultimately grew to hate her daughter so much through no fault of her own, and MM have a horrible confrontation in November of 1999, resulting in the Countess partially pinned beneath MM's car")
This is one of the best examples of passive voice I've ever read. And pronoun confusion. Whose fault wasn't it that the Countess hated her daughter? The Countess's, or the daughter's?
My money is on the Countess.
Oh, dear…another scam agent who has little to no command of written language. Is that the biggest red flag, or what?
Jillian says:
Thank you for this. I hope that many, many writers will discover the value of this blog.
Heather Brewer says:
Dear goddess, I can't believe this! That weoman never goes away!
OMG. This made me gaga almost as hard as reading Lyn Cheney declared over 250,000 dollars in royalties.
Or maybe I read that wrong and she deducted it as a 250,000$ loss?
One can only hope so.
And I'm not holding my breath to see if scammer's book is a best seller, lol.
JahStorm says:
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TwistableSim says:
Mad Cow's Disease, huh? That one actually made me laugh out loud.
(Reuters) Dallas, TX. The Mad Cow has struck again, spreading disease and ruin in yet another city. This makes five so far, including Boston, Chicago, Portland, Maine, and Los Angeles. A White House source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Mad Cow was said to have spoken those fateful words, "Baaaaah," that has so terrorized the land.
This is just brilliant. I read every post with delight! I must get our own resident Shark Hunter to update our Writer's Scam pages to link to this wonderful blog at once!!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=81394211
her Myspace profile with a link to her website business and her fictional resume' LOL
MysteryKnitter says:
So the Hackney saga continues. I'd better keep reading. But that woman is chilling, I must say that.
Deconstructing an Agent's Website
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Just hours ago in Carmichael, Ca a suburb of Sacramento county, a fatal accident occurred, involving two motorcycles and a car. Witnesses on the scene said they saw the two bikes riding fast eastbound on Fair Oaks Blvd when a white Ford Taurus pulled out in front of them causing them to lock up their brakes.
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As of 5:30 PM Fair Oaks Blvd. has reopened however the accident is still under investigation.


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The Seventh Karmapa, Chödrag Gyatsho (1454-1506)
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THE SEVENTH KARMAPA, Chödrak Gyatso, was heard to say "A ma la" (mother) when born and to declare, "AH HUNG, there is nothing in the world but voidness," at five months of age. At nine months his parents took him to Gyaltsab Rinpoche, who recognized the new Karmapa incarnation. When only some five years of age, he brought peace to the southernmost parts of the Tibetan plateau, where the people of Nagaland and Bhutan were at war.
He worked hard for the protection of animals and instigated all sorts of projects, such as the construction of bridges. In particular, he encouraged individuals and groups of people to recite many millions of Mani mantras—"The best cure for anything."
Chödrak Gyatso spent much of his life in retreat or half-retreat. He was an extremely erudite scholar and author and it was he who founded the monastic university at Tsurphu. He also restored the large statue commissioned by Karma Pakshi.
Often a peacemaker, he is remembered for his visions of Guru Rinpoche which led him to discover hidden valleys of refuge for people in times of war. He maintained contact with the remaining Buddhists of India and sent much gold to Bodh Gaya for the Buddha image there to be gilded.
Knowing that he would pass away at the age of 52, he left details of his next incarnation and passed on the lineage to Tashi Paljor.
Text reprinted with permission of Altea Publishing from Karmapa, by Ken Holmes. Copyright 1995 by Altea Publishing.
The Thirteenth Karmapa, Dudul Dorje (1733-1797)
The Fifth Karmapa, Dezhin Shegpa (1384-1415)
The Fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyap Dorje (1871-1922)
Karmapa Teachings
100 Short Instructions of Mikyo Dorje
Recorded at Tergar Monastery, Bodhgaya, India. January 17-22, 2017.
Heart Sutra
Recorded at the Hyatt Hotel, Gurgaon, New Delhi, India. August 15-18, 2016.
Dhamra Talks in Paris
Recorded at the Marriott Hotel, Paris 14th arrondissement, France. June 4-5, 2016.
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
Lama Namse Rinpoche
Seventh Yongey Mingyur Dorje Rinpoche
The Teaching on the Practice of Chenrezik