One of the big debates in internet marketing is free traffic vs paid traffic. This article will explain the real differences between the two, the pros and cons of each, and the strategy I use. It might not be what you expect! So let's find out about the difference between free traffic vs paid traffic.
OK so we all know what traffic is. It basically means visitors to your website, landing page, offer, etc. The question is, how do you get it. Well, there are different kinds of traffic and different approaches.
The main distinction people use when talking about traffic is free vs paid. Basically, traffic that you pay for versus traffic that you don't. But it's not quite as simple as that.
Traffic doesn't just have the free versus paid dimension. You also have to think about where it came from.
To speak (very) broadly, most traffic is either search or social. Not all, but 90% of traffic comes from one of those two places. So, in fact, you have a kind of traffic quadrant.
An affiliate guru came up with this concept (he probably got it from someone else actually) called the traffic quadrant. And basically, you have free versus paid and search versus social. So it looks like this.
You thus have four types of traffic, not two. I'll go through each traffic type in detail, and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.
This is social media marketing – putting out your content on free social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and so on. This is good in that these platforms are huge and that it's free to put stuff up there and potentially get eyeballs on it. It's bad in that these platforms are very crowded and getting more crowded every day. And some of them (like Facebook) are moving towards a "pay to play" model, where you have to cough up money to get people to see your content.
It's also not very warm traffic. People here are often just browsing. They're not necessarily interested in your content and they probably aren't looking to buy something. So converting people, even those that follow your social media accounts, can be hard.
This is for me the holy grail of traffic. It's free, there are huge piles of it, and it's warm! People are already searching for whatever your content is about! So, of course, everybody wants it, so the battle for organic search rankings is hugely competitive.
This is what SEO is all about – getting the rankings in the SERPs for valuable keywords. This is a topic I find intensely interesting since it is essentially the no-holds-barred full-contact kickboxing deathmatch of internet marketing. No prisoners are taken and no mercy is shown! And it is winner takes all.
And the really crazy thing about it is, once it is set up and working, you can basically leave it for a long time, and you'll still be getting good results. If you do no work on your site at all, it will slip after a while, but it will be a year or two before it really falls off the front page.
So free organic search is the most valuable traffic of all but the hardest to get (in large volumes).
This is where you pay for traffic on a social media platform. The biggest and most well-known is obviously Facebook ads, but there is also Instagram ads (Facebook owns Instagram remember), Twitter ads (I've heard this is a good and underrated/cheap source of traffic), Pinterest ads (I've tried these, they are great, very cheap targeted traffic), and Youtube ads (haven't done these, apparently these are good).
The bad thing about this traffic source is that it can be quite expensive. Facebook especially charges a pretty penny for advertising on its giant platform. And you have to constantly monitor it, test it, tweak and optimise it to get your best ROI (Return On Investment).
But the good news is, these platforms are huge, they have (pretty) good targeting, and you can scale up as big as you want. But I would advise to start small and scale up once you have tested and optimised a winning campaign.
Also, if you build up a retargeting list, you can reduce your cost per click significantly. I wrote an article that explains how retargeting works. Or if you want to learn how to execute profitable retargeting campaigns from an expert, you can check out the Increaserr or Fuego Breakout courses.
Much like free search, paid search requires a lot of thought and investment but can lead to big rewards.
So overall, the pros and cons of traffic are pretty simple. Obviously, it's free! But be careful. It might be free in money, but it is not necessarily free in time. You might need to spend a lot of time to get it to work, and time is essentially money (you could have spent that time doing something that earned money).
But the work can pay off and generate returns in the long run.
Personally, I like free search, because the effort you put into free search pays off over a long time. Posts on social media networks can disappear in days, if not hours. (Pinterest is the exception – posts there last for months on average, one of the reasons I am focusing an increasing amount of attention on Pinterest).
But building content that generates search results can lead to traffic for a long, long time. Just make sure it is on your own website, not on some crappy web 2.0 property.
If you're unsure about starting your own blog or website, I have a free guide that shows you how to get started.
The pro of paid traffic is that it fast! You can get views on your offer or landing page right away. And you can scale up easily. If you pump in more money, you get more traffic!
But more traffic doesn't necessarily lead to more sales – that's a common myth! I busted a whole bunch of those misconceptions in this article on common affiliate marketing myths.
You need an offer that converts! So paid traffic can be risky. You can pour money in, and get nothing out, if your offer isn't good, or it just doesn't suit the specific traffic source.
So start small, test, test, test. And once you have something working, scale it all the way up.
So what do I use? All of them! Yes, all four traffic sources on the quadrant.
I get free search traffic from this blog.
I get free social traffic from my Twitter, Instagram account, Facebook account and Pinterest account.
I do some paid ads on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.
And I have some small PPC campaigns running.
My paid traffic investments are pretty small, because I'm still learning and testing. And because my main focus is actually free search traffic – the biggest, best and hardest of all.
What can I say, I love a challenge!
I hope you found this article on free versus paid traffic helpful. What kind of traffic source do you use? Or are you like me, and mix it up? Let me know in the comments!


The preventive services coverage requirement. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (P.L. 111-148) amended Public Health Service Act sec. 2713 to require employer-sponsored health insurance plans to cover the preventive services rated A or B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force and any additional preventive services for women recommended in comprehensive guidelines issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). As Wolters Kluwer has reported, HRSA added all FDA-approved contraceptives to the list based upon the recommendations in a report by the Institute of Medicine. HHS adopted the HRSA list in a Final rule in August 2011.
The RFRA issues. Hobby Lobby, Inc. owns a national craft store chain. Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. (Conestoga) owns a for-profit business manufacturing wood parts that are incorporated into the products of others. Both Hobby Lobby and Conestoga are closely-held corporations owned by members of one family. The Greens, owners of Hobby Lobby and a chain of Christian bookstores called Mardel, are Christians who believe that both emergency contraception and two intrauterine devices (IUDs) cause abortion, so that coverage violates their beliefs. The Hahns, owners of Conestoga, believed that two forms of emergency contraception approved by the FDA cause abortion, so that coverage violates their Mennonite beliefs. The corporations and their individual shareholders sought injunctions against the enforcement of the contraceptive coverage mandate against them.
The lower court decisions. Initially, the district court in Oklahoma denied Hobby Lobby's request for an injunction, and the district court in Pennsylvania denied Conestoga's request. Both courts accepted the government's argument that for-profit corporations do not exercise religion. Therefore, neither court found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits. On appeal, the Tenth Circuit reversed and directed the district court to enter the injunction in favor of Hobby Lobby. The Third Circuit upheld the denial of the injunction requested by Conestoga.
Corporations as separate persons. The majority opinion rejected the government's argument that closely held corporations' legal obligations were separate from those of the owners. It framed the government's position as forcing the owners of family businesses to choose between protection of their right to practice their faith in the operation of their business and the advantages of incorporation. The court reasoned that the corporate form exists to protect the human beings who create them and the corporation acts only through those human beings.
The application of RFRA. The Court found that the language of the RFRA referred to "persons" but did not define the term. Therefore, the Court determined that the definition in the Dictionary Act in the U.S. Code applied "unless the context suggests otherwise." That definition included corporations as well as partnerships, individuals, and other entities, and it did not distinguish between for-profit and other corporations.
For-profit corporations. All parties agreed that the RFRA had been properly applied to churches organized as nonprofit corporations. The majority referred to them as nonprofit corporations and held that there was no basis for distinguishing among nonprofits or between nonprofits and for-profit corporations.
Compelling interest test. The RFRA requires that the federal law serve a compelling interest and provide for the least restrictive means of accomplishing that interest. The Court declined to rule on whether the government's interest was compelling because it found that the agency did not use the least restrictive means to accomplish its goal. The agency had created an exemption for religious institutions, as defined in the tax code, and it had created an "accommodation" for certain related nonprofit entities, whereby the insurer administered the contraceptive benefit separately (76 FR 46621, August 3, 2011). The majority saw no reason why a similar accommodation could not be made for the for-profit plaintiffs.
Incidental effect. The dissent concluded that any Free Exercise Clause claim the plaintiffs assert is foreclosed by the Supreme Court's decision in Smith. In Smith, two members of the Native American Church were fired from their jobs after ingesting peyote at a religious ceremony. The Court in that case held that no First Amendment violation occurs when prohibiting the exercise of religion is an incidental effect of a generally applicable and otherwise valid regulation. Justice Ginsburg asserted that the ACA's contraceptive coverage requirement applies generally, is "otherwise valid," and "trains on women's well-being," not on the exercise of religion, such that the effect it has on such exercise is incidental.
RFRA claim. The dissent criticized the majority's view of the RFRA. Justice Ginsburg reasoned that the RFRA reinstated the law as it was before Smith; however, the majority saw the RFRA as setting a new course departing from pre-Smith jurisprudence. The RFRA applies to government actions that "substantially burden a person's exercise of religion." Justice Ginsburg contended, however, that there is no support for the idea that free exercise rights apply to a for-profit corporation. While religious organizations exist to serve a community of believers, no religion-based criterion can restrict the work force of for-profit corporations, which use labor to make a profit, not perpetuate religious values. For this same reason, Justice Ginsburg disagreed with the majority's suggestion that the accommodation afforded to nonprofit religious-based organizations be extended to commercial enterprises.
Breyer and Kagan. Justices Breyer and Kagan agreed with the dissent's conclusion that the challenge to the contraceptive coverage requirement failed on the merits but asserted that it was unnecessary to decide whether for-profit organizations may bring claims under the RFRA.
Further response to verdict. Lori Windham, senior counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and counsel for Hobby Lobby, said "This ruling will protect people of all faiths. The Court's reasoning was clear, and it should have been clear to the government. You can't argue there are no alternative means when your agency is busy creating alternative means for other people." According to the Beckett Fund, over 100 cases against the mandate have been filed, almost equally divided between for profit and not-for-profit companies.
Attorneys: S. Kyle Duncan (The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty) for Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Mardel, Inc., Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation. Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. for Sylvia Burwell, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Thomas Perez, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, Jacob Lew, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury.


I am still blogging. And yes, life has gotten in the way lately. I truly appreciate all three of you who bother to stop by my little place here still...I feel like a lame-o for not updating more regularly. The truth is, I don't know how y'all with kids and full time jobs DO IT. Seriously. I leave at 8:40, get home around 4, then I feel like the work has just BEGUN! I have to force myself to sit down and not, before I've taken off my shoes or ID lanyard, do the dishes. It drives me crazy to come in the door and see dishes in the sink, a pile of laundry by the washing machine, and a carpet full of dog hair, and not immediately do something about it. Not that my house will ever win the Martha award for cleanliness, but I am not a total pig either. I am slowly learning to give myself a break and not feel like I have to do it all. Coach is helping with dinner sometimes, and once in awhile he will start a load of clothes (which i then feel obligated to finish, even though I was NOT in the mood for laundry). I try to sit for a few, then do a chore or two, then help with homework. After that, I make dinner, then get a chance to chill and do facebook (shhhh). T has been practicing three times a week since the beginning of January, and luckily, it's been close to home, not twenty minutes away like it will be soon. Alex will start practices next week, three times a week as well. I have a stupid all day training this saturday, dammit, and today I was marveling that, just when I think I can't do another. thing. I do. I keep going, and eventually, it all gets done. I was pretty encouraged to see that we have two half days next week, and a day off Friday, not to mention that daylight savings time starts soon! We go to Disney in a few weeks, so that's something to look forward to, and baseball games will start in April. Camping starts in May, and that just may save my sanity! So as you see, things go on in the baseball household...how are YOU doin'?


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John Rapley leads seminar on new book
5 Apr 2018 at 12:00 am
On Thursday 5 April 2018, Dr John Rapley led a pop-up seminar at JIAS on his new book entitled Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a religion, and how it all went wrong.
Imagine one day you went to a cash-machine and found your money was gone. You rushed to your branch, where a teller said that overnight people had stopped believing in money, and it all vanished. Seem incredible? It happened, and it could happen again.
Although it calls itself a science, economics is really a belief system. As capitalism arose and the old order died, it explained a rapidly changing world, and gave us new moral codes for living. But today, ten years after a devastating financial crisis it largely failed to anticipate, and with economic growth in the West suddenly falling behind that of the developing world for the first time in two centuries, economics is struggling to explain a world that is changing beyond recognition.
So writes Dr John Rapley in his new book, Twilight of the Money Gods. In this pop-up seminar, John discussed the book and its implications for South Africa's future.
About John Rapley
Dr John Rapley has made a vocation of working, and living, at the frontier where theory meets practice. After beginning his career at Oxford University's International Development Centre, he left for the developing world, where he spent the next two decades working as an academic, journalist and ultimately the co-creator and director of a policy think tank. Along the way, he worked at universities on three continents and, upon returning to the UK, lectured at the University of Cambridge's Centre of Development Studies. He now lives in London as a writer.
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is a town located in Oda District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

As of june 1 2020, the town has an estimated population of 14,041 and a density of 147 persons per km². The total area is 90.62 km².

The town is home to a former post station along the San'yōdō and contains a sub-honjin from the Edo period. A samurai parade (大名行列) is held every November in commemoration of the town's history as a major stopping point on the daimyōs trip to Edo during the era of sankin-kōtai.

Geography

Neighbouring municipalities

 Kurashiki
 Asakuchi
 Ibara
 Kasaoka
 Soja

Transportation

Railway

 Ibara Railway: Ibara Line
 Mitani - Yakage - Oda

Highway

 Japan National Route 486

Notable people from Yakage
Okanoyama Yoshiro, former sumo wrestler
Go Ibuki , Japanese actor.

References

External links

Yakage official website
Tourist Guide

Towns in Okayama Prefecture

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John Fogerty Releases Vinyl for "Fogerty's Factory" Album - Out Tomorrow
Following the late November CD and digital release of Fogerty's Factory, featuring John Fogerty and his children, the album is now available to purchase in the vinyl format via BMG. While self-quarantining together the Fogerty Family, featuring John with his sons Shane, Tyler and daughter Kelsy, gathered in their home studio to play music together.
Hearty Har (Tyler and Shane Fogerty) blast off with debut album
Hearty Har
Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock band, Hearty Har have shared "Scream and Shout!" the first taste of what's to come from their forthcoming debut album RADIO ASTRO (BMG) due out on February 19.
John Fogerty To Release "Fogerty's Factory" on November 20
What was released earlier this summer as a digital EP has now become a full album release. Via BMG, Fogerty's Factory, will be available digitally and physically on CD, as of November 20, 2020. The vinyl release will follow on January 15, 2021.
John Fogerty & Family Release "Lean on Me"
Debuting today, "Lean on Me," a new video from Fogerty's Factory – the popular weekly video series from John Fogerty and his family, sons Tyler and Shane, joined by sister Kelsy. The video can be seen HERE.
New music video for CCR's "Long As I Can See The Light" launches today
Continuing the 50th anniversary of America's all-time greatest rock 'n' roll band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Craft Recordings is honored to unveil a special fan-generated video for the beloved Cosmo's Factory closer, "Long as I Can See the Light." In the lead-up to Father's Day 2020, Creedence fans worldwide were encouraged to submit videos and photos documenting cherished memories with their fathers, grandfathers or other guiding lights in their life.
John Fogerty & Family Release "Fogerty's Factory" Today - his 75th Birthday!
What began as some quality time together, playing music as a family, has now become a digital EP. Via BMG, Fogerty's Factory, is available on all digital platforms today- in celebration of John Fogerty's 75th Birthday!
John Fogerty's "50 Year Trip: Live at Red Rocks" out January 24, 2020
Recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado last June, John Fogerty's 50 Year Trip - Live at Red Rocks will now be released as a double LP and live DVD on January 24, 2020, via BMG. The set was previously released in only the CD format to coincide with the cinematic release of the concert film which played, for one night only, on November 11th - Veteran's Day.
John Fogerty's "50 Year Trip: Live at Red Rocks" out Now
Recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado this past June, the 50 Year Trip - Live at Red Rocks was released on CD and digitally Friday, November 8, 2019, via BMG. The release of the live album will coincide with the cinematic release of a new concert film, in theatres for one night only, November 11, Veteran's Day.
John Fogerty - 50 Year Trip: Live at Red Rocks
Recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado this past June, the John Fogerty – 50 Year Trip: Live at Red Rocks will be released on CD and digitally, November 8, 2019 via BMG. The release of the live album will coincide with the cinematic release of a new concert film, for one night only, November 11, Veteran's Day.
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The All Results Journals: Why do we have negative results in antidepressant addiction treatments?
Why do we have negative results in antidepressant addiction treatments?
At present, there are about 30 different antidepressants available in the drugs stores classified in five different groups: tricyclics, monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and noradrenaline and specific serotoninergic antidepressants (NASSAs). Antidepressants are not addictive or chemically addictive in the same way that other drugs such as heroin, cocaine, crack, etc., however, it is true that many people find it very difficult to get off these drugs, and in addition, many people that consume them experience suicidal cravings and withdrawal symptoms when they stop them. The higher the dose, more difficult it is to get off these substances.
When many people try to get off antidepressants, they stop the drug abruptly instead of reducing the dose slowly. In this way, withdrawal symptoms are very hard and suicidal behavior can arise. This is normally the main reason why antidepressant addiction treatment fails. The dose must be reduced slowly over weeks or months to avoid relapse. The dose must be reduced sequentially and, previously to reduce the dose again, the addict must be stabilized in the new dosage, although many doctors prescribe to stop patients from using antidepressants since these drugs don't present addictive substances. But the truth is that even though you cannot feel physically addicted, psychological addiction is possible. For this reason antidepressant addiction treatments are mainly based on psychological counseling, support and treatment. In this sense, it is very important that the addict feels that they are in a safe environment. Counseling sessions and group therapy provide this environment to treat the main problem of the addiction, the main problem of the depression. If the main problem of the depression is suppressed, the addiction will be eradicated easier.
The therapy for antidepressant addiction must be effective, non-harmful and fun. A fun treatment will be more effective than any other. Therefore, the treatment should be complemented with other activities such as massage therapy, exercise, yoga, relaxation, etc. Theoretically, antidepressants are not physically addictive, considering this fact: the treatment of the addiction doesn't follow a conventional line. In other addictions, the first step is the detoxification process. In other addictions, detoxification is achieved using agonist, treating the symptoms of the withdrawal and with psychological help. In antidepressant addiction, the detoxification must be addressed with a reduction of the dose of the drug and with behavioral and/or psychological support. If these treatments are not combined, the detoxification will not be successful.
After the detoxification process the prevention of relapses is very important. Many treatments fail because the tracking of addiction evolution is not correct. The addiction must be tracked periodically and psychological and behavioral therapies must be applied in combination with support to achieve the social re-adaptation of the addict.
Finally, the post-treatment support is also very important to ensure the treatment's success and avoid relapses. In this step, the tracking of the addict is very similar to the tracking after the detoxification process, but in this case the addict must attend group meetings, and psychological meetings in longer periods than in the previous case.
In many cases, we consider that the treatment ends after the addict's detoxification, and this is not true. The treatment must continue beyond after the detoxification; in many cases, lack of post-attention is the main reason of the bad results on the treatments for antidepressant addiction. This attention might be found in specialized detox centers like Oregon inpatient detoxification center.


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Indian vocational schools of the pioneer missionaries
Charles Penney Coates
(a quadricentennial narrative)
by Charles Penney Coates
Published 1937 by The Franklin press in Glendale, Calif .
Indians of Mexico -- Education.,
Indians of North America -- Education.,
Vocational education -- History.
Statement by Charles Penney Coates.
LC Classifications LC2631 .C6
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Go Books as ePub
Go Books has been a solid success: 134 books by a dozen publishers and over 40 authors, containing over 70,000 diagrams and 8,000 problems, all about the game of Go. However, so far the books have been limited to the Apple ecosystem: iPad, iPhone, and Mac. I've gotten requests from many of you on Android and Windows, and I'm sorry I didn't have a solution for you. For a while, I explored the possibility of creating separate apps for those platforms, but that turned out to be too hard and expensive to create and maintain.
I finally have some good news: I've been working on converting Go books to ePub, the standard for digital books, supported on all popular platforms. I've been able to bring the main dynamic elements from the Go Books app to ePub format: interactive replay of diagrams as well as interactive solving of problems. ePub reading apps differ in how well they support this; reading apps not supporting JavaScript will simply display diagrams as static images.
While ePub can't offer all the features of the Go Books app, it has other advantages:
Platform-agnostic: You can move to different platforms without losing your investment in books.
Future-proof: ePubs will continue to work even if the Go Books app and gobooks.com were to wither away at some point. Future devices are very likely to support ePub.
User-friendly: You can choose ePub readers that already support your favorite features, instead of begging me to add those to the app.
That said, to implement interactive books, I'm using parts of ePub that not all readers support, and even those that do support JavaScript and SVG are often buggy. Please let the authors of these ePub reading apps know about any issues you run into.
The following are the apps that have been working best for me; please let me know about other apps that can handle these ePubs.
Android: Gitden and Lithium
Windows: Calibre
iOS, macOS: Apple Books (formerly iBooks)
Here are three Go book samples converted to ePub:
The Games of Fujisawa Shuko by John Power
200 Endgame Problems by Shirae Haruhiko 7 dan
The Monkey Jump by Richard Hunter
Questions? Some answers below; let me know what else you're wondering about.
Will all books be available as ePub?
My goal is to get all the publishers onboard. Most books for sure; can't promise every book at this point.
How will this work?
You'll buy the book directly on the gobooks.com website (as you can already do now), and in addition to reading the book in the Go Books app, you'll have the option of downloading an ePub file of the book. You can then read that in your ePub reader of choice.
Will the ePubs include DRM?
No, the ePubs won't be encumbered by DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM would reduce your choice of ePub reader and add unnecessary complications. We trust you to respect that the ePub file is for your personal use only.
What about books I've already bought?
You'll be able to download ePub files for the books you've previously bought (assuming you've associated them with your email), so you can enjoy those books again on a different device.
Will the Go Books app go away?
No, the Go Books app will still be able to deliver better layout, better features, and better integration than an ePub. The Go Books app will still remain the best way to read about Go, and the iPad is still the device I'd recommend for anyone who wants to study Go — not just for Go Books, but also for SmartGo Kifu.
Will the ePubs be updated over time?
Yes, as I find ways to support new features or improve existing features, or simply fix typos, the ePub files will be updated. I plan to provide an email notification when your books get a significant update, so you can download the newest version. For example, inline diagrams won't be supported in the initial version, but I hope to add that in the future.
What about multi-lingual books?
In the Go Books app, you can switch the language of a multi-lingual book on the fly. I have not found a good way to support that in ePub; instead, you'll download a separate ePub for each language.
When will this be available?
It will be available when it's ready. (Sorry, I've been burned too often by giving even vague dates.) There are still corner-cases to work out, server code to write, websites to update, and agreements to ink, so definitely not 2018.
Meanwhile, please try out the ePubs above with different reading apps on your devices, and provide feedback to me and to the app authors.
Anders Kierulf
More Privacy
Tired of all those privacy updates? I bet you are.
I've made it as simple as I could: https://smartgo.com/privacy.html. I was already collecting very little personal data, but I've been able to trim it some more:
I've removed third-party analytics (Fabric/Crashlytics) from all my apps. I was close to doing that when Fabric was bought by Google; the upcoming GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) gave me the final push. There's no reason for Google to have any information about how you're using my apps.
I've also removed Google Analytics from my websites. The small benefit of knowing the number of visitors and where they came from was not worth the hassle of having to tell you about this and getting your permission to collect that information. Again, it's data about you that I don't want to share with Google. Feels good to be tracker-free.
I have two favors to ask you:
When Apple asks you to share anonymous usage data and crash reports with developers, please agree. Those crash reports really help developers improve their apps.
For the mailing lists, I will need your affirmative consent to continue to send you email. No consent, no more Go Books Newsletter for you. So please agree to update your settings when that mail comes.
I know very little about you and how you're using my apps, and that's perfect. But that also means that I rely on you to tell me when the apps are less than perfect. And of course, if you're happy with the apps, please tell your friends. Thank you in advance – I'll never know that they heard it from you.
SmartOthello Postmortem
SmartOthello is not dead yet, but the app has not lived up to expectations. It's time for an assessment of this project: why I started it, obstacles along the way, and where to go from here.
I needed a project to learn Swift and to experiment with different business models. I settled on Othello for several reasons:
Expertise: Expert knowledge of the game, and contacts in the Othello community. (I was the 1992 US Othello champion and have played at six Othello world championships.)
Similar domain: A two-player board game close enough to Go that much of the foundation code could carry over.
Potential customers: A more popular game than Go (think of all the people playing it as Reversi on Windows).
In addition, a trademark dispute had recently been resolved, with Megahouse of Japan making more efforts to license use of the name "Othello" and the trademarked board design.
My three Go apps (SmartGo Kifu – $20, SmartGo Player – $3, and Go Books – free with IAP) were all doing reasonably well, with roughly similar profits. I had hoped SmartOthello might add a fourth leg to that stool, and thought I had several things going for me:
Experience: I had years of experience with Go apps in the App Store.
Marketing: I had a good marketing angle (former US Othello champion).
Design: All the existing Othello/Reversi apps in the App Store sucked. I knew I could create an app that gave players a better experience. (And some of those apps were ranked similar to my Go apps on the top grossing charts.)
Social: Game Center online play and leaderboards should help spread the app socially, something I didn't have in my Go apps.
I made good progress on the app in the fall of 2015, learning Swift along the way. Not everthing went smoothly:
Licensing: I wanted to use the official name Othello, so I had to negotiate with Megahouse. We reached a deal on a reasonable licensing fee (10% after Apple's cut), but I was not able to get them to agree to any business model other than a fixed paid-up-front price for the app.
iAd: Apple announcing the end of iAd didn't help. So I was stuck with a paid up-front app for the first year; I figured I could re-negotiate after that (which I did, more below). However, not being free means the installed base becomes much smaller, thus Game Center play would not work as well (there may not always be a player available when you're looking for a match).
Game Center: Implementing Game Center support was a mixed bag. Achievements and leaderboards were easy, but turn-based game play took a lot longer than expected, due to poor documentation, bugs, and APIs that are not fully baked. I could have implemented my own server in the time I spent getting Game Center play to work.
Those obstacles slowed me down, but didn't stop me. (Maybe they should have.) I finally got SmartOthello released on August 15, 2016, localized into Japanese, German, and French. In my unbiased opinion, I think design, game play, and usability are the best of any Othello app on the App Store.
Sales were underwhelming. Some possible contributing factors:
Press: I had created a press kit and reached out to press, but didn't manage to get much coverage. August may not have been the best time to launch.
Go Players: I expected to be able to get some of my Go customers interested in Othello, but turns out there's little crossover interest between the two games.
Othello players: My contacts in the Othello community were not as relevant as I thought, for several reasons:
(1) The community of serious Othello players is very small.
(2) There are some strong Othello analysis apps on Android, and thus most strong players are using Android, not iOS.
(3) The core Othello community doesn't really connect much with the general game-playing public, which is my audience.
Megahouse: I had expected Megahouse to help promote the app in Japan, a major Othello-playing country. Nothing.
Unlicensed apps: Lots of apps in the App Store continue to use the name Othello without being properly licensed. Megahouse has had little success getting those apps removed.
So the launch was not perfect. But it got worse.
At WWDC 2016, Apple announced that the Game Center app was going away, and that Game Center match-making was going through iMessage. This was ominous, but at least during the beta period, things worked reasonably well.
When iOS 10 was released in September, the avatar pictures disappeared. As the design of SmartOthello was heavily based around the avatars, I had to create my own bandaid for that.
Together with the cumbersome match-making using iMessage, I think the loss of the avatars was the death-knell for Game Center. (It's still technically alive, but without any improvements in iOS 11, it's not the technology to bet on.)
I had heard people complain about App Store search for years, but my Go apps always ranked reasonably well in search. With SmartOthello, search was a clear problem. Adding a space to change the app name to Smart Othello actually helped a bit, which is ridiculous. (The licensing restriction of not being able to include Reversi in the name also hurt.)
Since SmartOthello was a $2.99 app, I could at least benefit from Search Ads, but not enough for the app to get real traction.
Advertising and sale
In November 2016, I got the chance to advertise at the Othello World Championship in Japan. The resulting bump in sales? Minuscule. Again, it shows a disconnect between the serious player community and the general public I'm trying to reach.
I got permission from Megahouse to run a $0.99 sale over the holidays. More sales, slightly less profit. Back to $2.99.
Free with IAP and ads
By April 2017, I got the agreement with Megahouse renegotiated, allowing me to experiment with different business models and prices. So I tried free with ads and in-app purchase.
That experiment failed miserably. Sales went from low to near zero. While usage of the app went way up, I was not able to get the number of downloads that would be needed for the ads to generate significant revenue, and too few users upgraded to the Pro version. (My ads may have been too nice, and I may have included too much in the free version, but without more downloads, experimenting with those parameters would be futile.)
It's possible this business model might have worked better when I first released the app and it got its initial attention; it's much harder to generate interest with a new business model than with a new app.
Swift worked out really well. I'm very happy with the Swift foundation I got from the Othello project, and the conversion of my Go apps to Swift is continuing.
I'm glad I figured out issues with Game Center before trying to integrate that into my Go apps. At least that disaster was averted.
From an App Store perspective, Othello is more different from Go than I expected. The audience seems to consist more of casual players rather than people interested in a specific game, and as such they are probably less willing to spend money on the game. Thus my experience with Go was not as valuable; also, any conclusions based on this Othello experience might not transfer back to Go.
I still love how the SmartOthello app turned out, and I will leave it in the App Store, giving it a chance to get noticed and grow over time. There's much more I could do with it, but I can't afford to invest more development effort into it at this point. Major changes (such as replacing Game Center, for instance) will have to wait until I get the Go apps converted to Swift and updated for iOS 11, get Go Books available on other platforms, and more: it will be a while.
SmartOthello will go back to paid shortly. Grab it for free while you can.
SmartOthello with 'Ads'
SmartOthello achieved two of my goals for the app: it helped me learn Swift, and it gave me a reboot of the user interface that will influence the next versions of my Go apps. However, due to licensing restrictions, I couldn't experiment with business models. For the first year, MegaHouse (who owns the license to Othello) was only willing to accept a paid-up-front app. I priced it at $2.99 — same as SmartGo Player, which is selling well. It turns out that Othello apps are a crowded market to compete in, and sales have been disappointing.
After renegotiating that license, SmartOthello 2.0 is now free, with a $2.99 Pro Pack in-app purchase that:
unlocks stronger computer play,
enables download of the WTHOR games database,
enables opening analysis,
and removes 'ads'.
As for ads, I don't want to give over part of my app's screen to something garish that I don't control. I've decided to follow Marco Arment's lead and just roll my own. Their main purpose is to give you an extra kick to invest in the app so you can enjoy the full experience as it was designed.
Some of the ads promote the Pro Pack. For example:
Some promote my own apps:
Some promote apps that I personally enjoy and recommend, mostly by indie developers. If people tap on the ad and purchase those apps, the affiliate fee (still at 7%?) helps, but more importantly, it helps another indie.
And a few are links to books on Amazon that I've enjoyed, again with an affiliate link.
I expect income from those affiliate links to be minimal, but if those 'ads' nudge you to upgrade to the full experience, they have fulfilled their purpose. And they're reasonably stylish, they're accessible and localizable, there's no user tracking, and you can even swipe to the next/previous ad anytime.
It's an experiment. I've tried to find the right balance between being obtrusive and being obnoxious; most likely, I have not made them obnoxious enough. SmartOthello will be my guinea pig before I make any changes to the business model of my paid Go apps, SmartGo Player ($2.99) and SmartGo Kifu ($19.99).
SmartOthello as released mid-August:
And here's SmartOthello mid-October:
The layout of the app was designed with profile pictures in mind. These player avatars disappeared when iOS 10 was released: Game Center leaderboards show boring gray circles, GKPlayer.loadPhoto returns nil.
Some bug reports and a Technical Support Incident later, this appears to be Apple's intended behavior, not just a glitch. This behavior is so wrong and unlike Game Center that I think Apple will eventually backtrack, but waiting and hoping is not an option: I could not leave SmartOthello in that broken state. The newest version adds the ability to set your own profile picture and uses CloudKit to share these between players.
Matchmaking with iMessage
At WWDC in June, Apple announced that the Game Center app was going away, but not to worry, the Game Center functions were all still going to be there. Player invites would be using the newly improved iMessage; no code change needed. (Sure.)
That may have been true for the simplest matchmaking scenarios, but not for SmartOthello. I'm allowing players to set their color preference to black, white, or neutral, and their opening preference to regular or random. To start a game, I thus need that information from both players. (If they both prefer the same color, color choice will be random; random opening will only be applied if both players agree.) This added negotiation step needed extra work in iOS 10.
Starting a game over iMessage is cumbersome, adding several extra taps to specify opponent and start the game, as well as context switches. Apple has work left to do there. In particular, there needs to be a way to bypass the confusing auto-match screen.
Why no profile pictures?
My guess is that the missing profile pictures are related to using iMessage for matchmaking. Many iMessage users have images associated with them, but those are through the user's contacts. There's no way to map Game Center players to contacts, and for privacy reasons, it's obvious that Apple won't make those images available through Game Center.
It would be easy for Apple to add back a profile picture in Settings > Game Center. However, when starting a match through iMessage, that opponent would then have two images: one from Game Center and one from iMessage. It's a mess, and that may be why the Game Center images were removed. Apple dug this hole for themselves; I hope they can dig their way back out.
Game Center in SmartGo
One of my goals with SmartOthello was to learn Swift (which worked out perfectly) as well as gain experience with technologies like Game Center and iCloud before including them in SmartGo. My experience with Game Center has not been good (poor and outdated documentation, APIs not working as advertised, no way to avoid polling for invites), and Apple doesn't seem to be paying a lot of attention to the future of Game Center. Removing the avatars was a poor decision, and matchmaking using iMessage needs a lot of work.
At least I know to steer clear of Game Center for SmartGo.
My Path to Swift
After some experiments with Swift, I've been spending an increasing amount of time on a new project written completely in Swift. (Project to be revealed in due time.) Faster development, fewer bugs, and more fun — I'm hooked, and I don't want to go back.
With the open source announcement of Swift delivering everything I wanted and more, there's no reason to go back. Swift will be my main language for the next decade.
My programming language history
Most of my career has been focused on two large code bases, PowerPoint and SmartGo, and just a few programming languages. These languages have paved my path to Swift.
6502 assembler: After the TI-59 pocket calculator, my first real computer was a KIM-1. With a blistering speed of 1 MHz and a whole 1KB of RAM, that was an amazing machine. I squeezed my first Othello program into that computer, and learned a lot about performance and knowing every bit.
Modula-2: After some Pascal on Apple II, my time at ETH Zürich and UNC Chapel Hill was spent with Modula-2, first on the Lilith and then on the Mac. The original Smart Go Board for Macintosh was written in Modula-2. With the strong influence of Niklaus Wirth, I got drilled in the fundamentals of strong typing and modularity.
C++: When I started at Microsoft in 1991, most of the PowerPoint code was in C, with some Pascal in Mac-specific files (PowerPoint originally started as a Pascal program on the Mac). Over the next several releases, piece by piece, we successfully rewrote the whole program in C++, completely object-oriented. Both speed and memory usage were critical, and we learned how to use a subset of C++ to achieve high performance. (At one time, six of the twenty developers on PowerPoint had a connection to ETH Zürich — the Swiss influence was strong on that team. Still is.)
Once I left Microsoft in 1999 to work on SmartGo, C++ on Windows was the natural choice. C++ worked really well for Go, from fast low-level bitset operations to object-oriented UI code. But Vista pushed me over the edge and back to the Mac.
Objective-C: The Mac version of SmartGo got interrupted when Apple opened the iPhone for development. Keeping the base code in C++, I added the UI for SmartGo on iOS as I learned Objective-C. Seven years later, I've written a lot of Objective-C code, but it's not my language of choice. The lack of type safety, the convenience of nil objects hiding potential errors, the need to avoid dynamic allocations and message passing in tight loops: these all worked against my nature. And having to interface with Go-specific code in C++ kept me from taking advantage of the full power of Objective-C.
Swift: With just a few months of Swift experience, it's already clear that it gives me the building blocks for writing fast, high-quality software for the game of Go. It has strong typing and performance rivaling C++. It supports operator overloading (useful for bitset operations in Go) and generics (useful for arrays indexed by .Black and .White). Unicode string handling is a godsend for a game that originated in the Far East. Value semantics. Returning tuples. No crazy block syntax. Functional programming. And good riddance to semicolons.
I'm still in the early stages of learning Swift, and I'm already writing code better and faster than with the subset of C++ I had been using for 20 years. Did I mention it's more fun too? So to me, it's a clear choice.
I know where I'm going: my apps are transitioning to Swift. I know the first step: a separate Swift project to help me master the language and build up some base modules. After that? It will take me a while, but I will figure it out.
Transitioning a large code base is risky and never easy. I have no illusions that this will be simple. (Moving PowerPoint to C++ was good practice, but also a warning.) The fact that Swift doesn't interoperate with C++ makes it harder. And it all has to be done while keeping the existing apps healthy and customers happy and dealing with any other curve balls Apple throws my way.
Yes, this will slow down development on my Go apps for the next years. It's a risk I have to take: I've worked on these apps for fifteen years, and plan to work on them for many more. As an indie developer, I need to invest in my apps and in myself.
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SmartGo for Macintosh
It's been a long road. But today you can download an early beta version of SmartGo for Macintosh.
I know a lot of you doubted this day would ever come. I've been promising a Mac version since practically forever, and it kept not happening. Sorry about that. Some history is in order.
Smart Go Board for the Macintosh was released in 1987, with frequent updates until I joined Microsoft in 1991, where I worked on PowerPoint until 1999. SmartGo for Windows was released in 2002; Windows Vista finally pushed me over the edge and I switched back to the Mac in 2007.
So in early 2008 I had made good progress on the Mac version, but was running into issues with the cross-platform approach I had started with (using wxWidgets). When Apple announced the iPhone SDK, it seemed like a great way to gain experience with Objective-C development before getting back to building a fully native Mac version. I knew I wanted thousands of pro games in my pocket, and figured other Go players would too; I had no clue it was going to take off as it did.
So in 2009 I added computer play, and more games, and then had some time to work on the Mac version again. And what does Apple do in 2010? They announce the iPad. SmartGo Kifu was born, available on day one. A big success, but that first iPad version demanded a lot of rethinking and refinement.
The iPad also inspired a new way to visualize annotated games: book view. That gave me this crazy idea of putting Go books on the iPad. Basically, I wanted to read "Invincible" on the iPad; I had no clue that a few years later I would end up with a new file format and 100 Go books. (And no time to work on the Mac version.)
Turned out it made sense to split off Go Books for the Mac as a separate app, and that actually shipped a few months ago. Which finally left some time to make significant progress on SmartGo for Macintosh.
So is the Mac version done yet? No. But it has gotten to the point where it's useful to me. Getting it to a 1.0 release will take time, as there are many big and lots of small issues to work on, and I still need to keep updating the iOS versions as well as Go Books. Meanwhile, I want to give you the opportunity to use what I have so far.
As promised, the Mac version is free if you already own the Windows version. The two platforms are bundled: buy one, get both. So if you're already using SmartGo for Windows, and now have access to a Mac, just download the Mac version and start using it. (If your email has changed, let me know.) If you're new to SmartGo, take the 15-day free trial for a spin.
The Mac version inherits the GoGoD game collection and the problem collection from SmartGo for Windows and SmartGo Kifu. It inherits the tree view and joseki matching from SmartGo Kifu. It adds built-in access to Kogo's Joseki Dictionary. However, there are still significant holes; for example, there's not even a way to edit game info yet. Over time, those holes will be filled, and more of the advanced functions from the Windows version will make their way to the Mac. (Some, like playing on IGS, will remain Windows-only.)
It's still a long road ahead. But now you can join me for the rest of the journey.
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Q: Is it common practice to redirect for skipping www? I want to advertize my website as mydomain.com. For me it looks nicer than www.mydomain.com. Is it a common practice to trim this www. part with redirection? Somebody would go to www.mydomain.com/books and I would redirect him to mydomain.com/books. Are there any potential traps behind this idea?
Another reason is making third party callback URLs simple. For now, I need to declare both mydomain.com/oauth/google and www.mydomain.com/oauth/google as my redirect URLs, because Google considers them different. It's not a huge deal, but something extra to take into account.
If it's safe to trim www., how can that be achieved? I'm using PHP on Apache. My current .htaccess looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

A: Should you use www?
You should normalize on either www.example.com or example.com, which you choose is mostly up to your preference.  There are varying opinions on which is correct or which should be used.
no-www.org advocates that it is redundant to use the www subdomain as using the http protocol implies the web.

By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the 'http://' onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.

yes-www.org on the other hand advocates using the www subdomain because it allows your website to be more flexiable. By using the www subdomain you can use things like CDN's / cloud hosting easier by using a CNAME in your dns records.

When using a provider such as Heroku or Akamai to host your web site, the provider wants to be able to update DNS records in case it needs to redirect traffic from a failing server to a healthy server. This is set up using DNS CNAME records, and the naked domain cannot have a CNAME record.

It can also help prevent unnecessary cookie traffic when you have static assets hosted on another domain.

One common web site optimization is to serve static content from a subdomain, such as static.example.com. If you are using www, then this is no problem; your site's cookies won't be sent to the static subdomain (unless you explicitly set them up to do so).

Once you've decided
You'll want to redirect all traffic to which ever version you end up using.  With apache this can be done using mod_rewrite as shown in other answers:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

If you are able to edit the main apache configuration, another option is to setup two Virtual Hosts where one just redirects to the other.  I do this for my site and it's worked well.
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com

    Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www
    #The rest of your configuration
</VirtualHost>

A: Here's my answer from the SEO perspective.
As SEO MOZ suggests in their awesome Beginner's Guide to SEO:

Often, two or more copies of the exact same content appear on
  your website under different URLs. For example, the following
  URLs can all refer to a single homepage:

*

*http://www.example.com/

*http://www.example.com/default.asp

*http://example.com/

*http://example.com/default.asp

*http://Example.com/Default.asp
To search engines, these appear as five separate pages. Because
  the content is identical on each page, this can cause the search
  engines to devalue the content and its potential rankings.

From this we may conclude, that it does not matter if you set your page with or without www.. But it is a good idea to redirect with HTTP code 301 to one "unified" domain. Apache 2 supports .htaccess settings for this purposes:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

A: You do this with a .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

A: If you can use .htaccess you can redirect in a simple way:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

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Earth In Concert: Protecting The Planet Through Music
Ziggy Marley with Panther Chameleon. Photo by Robin Moore, GWC
Ziggy Marley, Dwight Yoakam, Judith Hill To Perform AT "Earth In Concert: Protecting The Planet Through Music" Nov. 11 in Los Angeles
Benefit concert to support Global Wildlife Conservation and the GRAMMY Museum, and raise awareness of the need to preserve Earth's biodiversity
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 3, 2015) — Seven-time GRAMMY-winning reggae artist Ziggy Marley, 21-time GRAMMY-nominated and multiple GRAMMY-winning country legend Dwight Yoakam and GRAMMY-winning soul singer/songwriter Judith Hill are set to perform at "Earth in Concert: Protecting the Planet Through Music" on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. The event, which showcases artists and performers committed to raising awareness of the need for preserving Earth's biodiversity, will benefit Global Wildlife Conservation and the GRAMMY Museum.
"As habitants of this planet, it is our individual duty to take steps to maintain, as best we can, the survival of the Earth's biodiversity," said Bob Santelli, Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum. "With this incredible night of music, and these inspiring artists who will take the stage for this cause, we will raise awareness for the need for us all to do what we can to protect our planet."
"This exciting new partnership between Global Wildlife Conservation and the GRAMMY Museum blends art and science to celebrate the richness of life on our planet and our imperative to protect it," said Brian Sheth, Chair, Global Wildlife Conservation. "We hope that the concert and associated exhibit will inspire and empower people from all walks of life to join us in becoming stewards of our Earth's endangered biodiversity."
A limited number of tickets for "Earth in Concert: Protecting the Planet Through Music" are $24.50 (including service fees) and can be purchased at AXS.com. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Club Nokia is located at 800 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90015.
Following the concert, the California Science Center, in partnership with the GRAMMY Museum and Global Wildlife Conservation, will debut Earth in Concert: Protecting the Planet Through Music. Featuring multimedia and interactive experiences, Earth in Concert examines the status of biodiversity in our oceans, grasslands and forests, while exploring how several artists and musicians have helped to raise awareness of the global issues that present threats to our planet. Artists featured in the exhibit include Sheryl Crow, Jack Johnson, Ziggy Marley, Willie Nelson, Sting, and Pharrell Williams. Earth in Concert opens at the California Science Center on November 12, 2015.
The "Earth in Concert: Protecting the Environment Through Music" event is made possible by the Sangreal Foundation and Brian & Adria Sheth in partnership with the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE and Global Wildlife Conservation.
For information on purchasing sponsorship packages, please contact Valentina Martinez in the Development department, 213.765.6812.
MEDIA RSVP MANDATORY: media@grammymuseum.org
About Global Wildlife Conservation
Global Wildlife Conservation protects our natural world by conserving species and ecosystems at imminent risk of disappearing forever. GWC works with an extensive network of allied researchers and conservationists to protect endangered plants, animals, and their habitats. Together, GWC and partners implement biodiversity exploration, research, education, and conservation action. Priorities include searching for 'lost' species, creating new reserves to save the homes of the world's most endangered plants and animals, implementing innovative programs to thwart the international wildlife trade, strengthening anti-poaching and protected area management, training and educating the next generation of environmental leaders, and rewilding of degraded ecosystems through species reintroductions. For more information, visit globalwildlife.org.
About the GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum is an educational and interactive music museum in downtown Los Angeles committed to engaging children and adults in the power of music – through music education programs, interactive exhibits, workshops, and performances celebrating all musical genres. With four floors of dynamic and innovative exhibits, the GRAMMY Museum takes visitors on an unparalleled musical journey. For more information, please call 213-765-6800 or visit www.grammymuseum.org. For breaking news and exclusive content, follow @TheGRAMMYMuseum on Twitter and Instagram, and like "The GRAMMY Museum" on Facebook.
Robin Moore, Global Wildlife Conservation: rdmoore@globalwildlife.org
Crystal Larsen, GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE: clarsen@grammymuseum.org
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By Lindsay Renick Mayer on September 18, 2018
Sheth Sangreal Foundation Matching Grant Results In $32 Million To Conserve Imperiled Wildlife And Wildlands Worldwide
By Lindsay Renick Mayer on April 20, 2019
Wild Night for Wildlife Raises Record Support for Protecting the Planet


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Le HCME a été reconnu d'utilité publique par un décret adopté en Conseil des ministres le .

Notes et références

Association ou organisme ayant son siège au Mali
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The Crab Nebula (NGC 1952) is easily visible through small telescopes, which has allowed astronomers to observe its growth and evolution, ever since its birth in the stellar fires of the supernova that created it became visible in 1054. In 1968, a pulsar was found at the center of the nebula. The rapidly rotating neutron star is the core of the star that went supernova. A new model suggests that the areas near the pulsar are acting as rapid particle accelerators, boosting electrons and heavier particles alike to speeds close to the speed of light.
The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way. The Crab pulsar is one of the brightest sources of gamma rays observable from Earth.
The new model was proposed by F. A. Aharonian, S. V. Bogovalov, and D. Khangulyan, in the journal Nature and hopes to explain some of the blanks missing in the previous models of this pulsar. The Crab pulsar is about 30 km in diameter, but contains nearly two solar masses (2 M☉). The intense gravitational influence and rapid rotation of pulsar allows them to carry enormous amounts of energy, which are typically only encountered in particle accelerators.
The pulsar wind is composed of plasma that moves very close to the speed of light. It is not yet known how the pulsar wind transitions from electromagnetic energy into the kinetic energy of fast-moving particles.
The gamma ray signature negates the explanation of a gradual acceleration, which is why the new model indicates a rapid acceleration that results in electrons moving at the same speed as heavier particles.
The electrons and positrons driving the pulsar wind originate in the light cylinder around the Crab pulsar. The new model postulates that the electron-positron plasma cannot be moving rapidly close to the pulsar, since too much of the energy situated there is electromagnetic in nature. The pulsar wind gather momentum in a process that's known as inverse Compton scattering.
This model is plausible for the production of high-intensity gamma ray pulses but further observations are needed to determine if the pulsar wind acceleration and region of gamma ray production correspond to what has been proposed.
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Christin Neddens (* 13. Oktober 1986 in Uelzen) ist eine deutsche Jazz- und Fusion-Schlagzeugerin. Die Hamburger Musikerin arbeitet als Live-Drummerin, Studio-Drummerin und Komponistin.

Ausbildung
Neddens kommt aus einer musikalischen Familie und begann in frühester Kindheit Akkordeon zu spielen, bevor sie im Alter von sieben Jahren zum Schlagzeug und Klavier wechselte. Nach dem Abitur studierte sie bei Heinz Lichius an der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, bei Ralph Peterson Jr. und Steve Altenberg am Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen (Niederlande), an der University Of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA) bei Peter Erskine (ferner bei Jeff Hamilton) und später bei Holger Nell an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater in der Hansestadt Hamburg, wo sie auch heute noch lebt. 2016 nahm sie am Popkurs teil und spielte zeitgleich in diversen Large Ensembles unter der Leitung von Jiggs Whigham.

Karriere
Neddens gastierte auf internationalen Festivals in Skandinavien, Middle East, Südeuropa, Indien, Afrika, China, den USA wie auch in Deutschland wie JazzBaltica, Elbjazz und den Leverkusener Jazztagen. Ihr Schlagzeug-Spiel wurzelt im amerikanischen Jazz- und Big-Band-Drumming und weist eine Mixtur aus R'n'B-, Pop-, Soul- und Modern Fusion-Elementen auf.

Ihr Stil wurde anfangs stark von Weather Report, John Scofield und Jaco Pastorius' World Of Mouth Big Band beeinflusst, später dann von den Yellowjackets, Alben der Bob Mintzer Big Band, Film Musiken von Lalo Schifrin und Ennio Morricone und Kompositionen von Maria Schneider und Pat Metheny. Christins stärksten Schlagzeug spezifischen Einflüsse stammen von Keith Carlock, Peter Erskine, Will Kennedy, Wolfgang Haffner, Jeff Hamilton und Rex Hardy Jr.

Neddens ist in mehreren von Genre übergreifenden Projekten unterwegs, spielte mit Jazzmusikern wie z. B. Nils Landgren und Helge Schneider oder Pop-Künstlern wie z. B. Rea Garvey, Calum Scott und Silbermond. Sie gastierte u. a. bei der NDR Bigband und wirkte in diversen ARD- und ZDF-Produktionen wie z. B. bei der Carolin Kebekus Show mit. Sie schrieb die Filmmusik zu Heikko Deutschmanns Kurzfilm "Noch ein Seufzer und es wird Nacht", dessen Ausstrahlung 2017 auf ARD und Arte stattfand, eine Nominierung für die beste Filmmusik beim vierten  Delhi Shorts International Film Festival erhielt und erscheint als Komponistin mit eigenen instrumentalen Fusion-Formationen.

Weiterhin ist Neddens auch als Dozentin tätig. Sie unterrichtet an der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover und am Institut für Musik Osnabrück, hatte Gastdozenturen an der Marin School Of The Arts, San Francisco Area (USA), am Prins Claus Conservatorium (Niederlande) und an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

Christin Neddens ist auch aktiv in den Sozialen Medien vertreten. Ihr Instagram-Account hat mittlerweile bereits 100.000 Follower (Stand: 3. März 2023).

Diskographische Hinweise

LPs
 Christin Neddens als Drummerin von Grenzbereiche, Grenzbereiche, 2011, Schoener Hören Music
 "Ten Wishes", Bajazzo, 2019, Raumer Records

Filmmusik
 Filmmusik zu Heikko Deutschmanns Kurzfilm "Noch ein Seufzer und es wird Nacht"

Singles
 Christin Neddens Orange Line "Buttermilk" (Eigenvertrieb) 2019
 Christin Neddens Orange Line "Echo Park" (Eigenvertrieb) 2019

Hörfunkfauftritte
 2022: Jazz – Round Midnight, Lady Liberty #22: Die Schlagzeugerin Christin Neddens, NDR Kultur
 2020: Christin Neddens' Orange Line live beim Hamburger Jazz Open 2020, NDR Info

Weblinks

 www.christinneddens.de
 Christin Neddens bei der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover

Einzelnachweise

Jazz-Schlagzeuger
Deutscher
Geboren 1986
Frau


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package org.apereo.cas.util.spring.boot;

import org.apereo.cas.util.InetAddressUtils;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.boot.WebApplicationType;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnProperty;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.TestConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.test.util.TestPropertyValues;
import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment;
import org.springframework.core.env.StandardEnvironment;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

/**
 * This is {@link ConditionalOnMatchingHostnameTests}.
 *
 * @author Hal Deadman
 * @since 6.4.0
 */
@Tag("Simple")
public class ConditionalOnMatchingHostnameTests {

    private static String HOSTNAME;

    private ConfigurableApplicationContext context;

    private final ConfigurableEnvironment environment = new StandardEnvironment();

    @BeforeAll
    public static void setup() {
        HOSTNAME = InetAddressUtils.getCasServerHostName();
    }

    @AfterEach
    void tearDown() {
        if (this.context != null) {
            this.context.close();
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void regexMatch() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHost.class, "hostname=.*");
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("foo")).isTrue();
    }

    @Test
    public void exactMatch() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHost.class, "hostname=" + HOSTNAME);
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("foo")).isTrue();
    }

    @Test
    public void blankMatch() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHost.class, "hostname=");
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("foo")).isTrue();
    }

    @Test
    public void doesNotMatch() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHost.class, "hostname=notright");
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("foo")).isFalse();
    }

    @Test
    public void doesNotMatch2() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHost.class, "hostname=" + HOSTNAME + '2');
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("foo")).isFalse();
    }

    @Test
    public void exactMatchAndPropertyTrue() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHostAndProperty.class, "hostname=" + HOSTNAME, "someproperty=true");
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("bar")).isTrue();
    }

    @Test
    public void exactMatchAndPropertyFalse() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHostAndProperty.class, "hostname=" + HOSTNAME, "someproperty=false");
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("bar")).isFalse();
    }

    @Test
    public void hostnamePropertyNotSet() {
        load(ConfigurationBeansDependOnHostAndProperty.class, "someproperty=true");
        assertThat(this.context.containsBean("bar")).isTrue();
    }

    @TestConfiguration(value = "ConfigurationBeansDependOnHost", proxyBeanMethods = false)
    @ConditionalOnMatchingHostname(name = "hostname")
    static class ConfigurationBeansDependOnHost {
        @Bean
        public String foo() {
            return "foo";
        }
    }

    @TestConfiguration(value = "ConfigurationBeansDependOnHostAndProperty", proxyBeanMethods = false)
    @ConditionalOnProperty(name = "someproperty", havingValue="true")
    @ConditionalOnMatchingHostname(name = "hostname")
    static class ConfigurationBeansDependOnHostAndProperty {

        @Bean
        public String bar() {
            return "bar";
        }

    }

    private void load(final Class<?> config, final String... environment) {
        TestPropertyValues.of(environment).applyTo(this.environment);
        this.context = new SpringApplicationBuilder(config).environment(this.environment).web(WebApplicationType.NONE)
            .run();
    }
}

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