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The Last Ritual
A mad surrealist's art threatens to rip open the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch horror and conspiracy, from the wildly popular world of Arkham Horror. Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists q A mad surrealist's art threatens to rip open the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch horror and conspiracy, from the wildly popular world of Arkham Horror. Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists quickly fall under his charismatic spell. Balthazarr throws a string of decadent parties for Arkham's social elite, conjuring arcane illusions which blur the boundaries between nightmare and reality. Only slowly does Alden come to suspect that Balthazarr's mock rituals are intended to break through those walls and free what lies beyond. Alden must act, but it might already be too late to save himself, let alone Arkham.
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Dean Osborne – Oct 22, 2020
I will be keeping a close eye on Arkham Horror from now on. The Last Ritual: An Arkham Horror Novel is the latest work from SA Sidor the mastermind author of The Institute for Singular Antiquities series. As a big fan of the series I knew straight away that I needed to get my hands on a copy of The Last Ritual and I was extremely fortunate to be approved for a eARC. I will note that this in no way swayed my review and I will not allow my love for Fury of from the Tomb to cloud my judgement. That I will be keeping a close eye on Arkham Horror from now on. The Last Ritual: An Arkham Horror Novel is the latest work from SA Sidor the mastermind author of The Institute for Singular Antiquities series. As a big fan of the series I knew straight away that I needed to get my hands on a copy of The Last Ritual and I was extremely fortunate to be approved for a eARC. I will note that this in no way swayed my review and I will not allow my love for Fury of from the Tomb to cloud my judgement. That being said The Last Ritual is a brilliantly eerie and well executed read. This book was instantly recognisable as being written by SA Sidor. Sidor's style shines with this book and the prose are familiar yet original so don't fret that you will not get a unique story. You certainly will be. I would like to point out that I had never heard of Arkham Horror prior to this read and I can certainly say I will be keeping an eye out for more in the future. Think 1920's detective looking into the strange goings on in a classic American setting. Arkham Horror is specifically set in Lovecraft's fictional Massachusetts town of Arkham in the 1920's. "Depends what you mean by strange. Arkham's no stranger to strangeness, is it?" This read was incredibly enjoyable albeit slightly mind boggling at times. I often found myself in as much as a spin as our protagonist, Alden Oakes, as he makes his way around the city trying to puzzle together the odd occurrences that he happens across. This is all good however and it all adds to the mystery, placing us right in the middle of the action. "Yet, even abject terror in the face of monsters reaches a lull over time. You manage somehow to get past it. The panic fades to background terror, a jumpiness. But it's no less a threat once it gets behind you than it was when you faced it head-on. The lingering sense of the monstrous becomes worse than its actual presence. It surrounds you, and fills you with an inescapable pressure that builds and wrecks you inside and out. It's personal, an invisible invader who might manifest at any moment. Expectation of evil is your new sickness. The worrying eats at you like acid. You and the monster become one thing, and that feels like the dirtiest trick of them all." Sidor's use of 1920's slang and terminology really helps build the world up around us and not for a second did I feel I like I was anywhere else but 1920's Arkham. The world building is just where it needs to be. Sidor hit the fine balance between over saturating the read with descriptions and leaving us needing more. The Last Ritual has opened up a whole new genre for me and I can't wait to explore further. I fear that a lot of TBR piles will be growing to the point of tipping if readers pick up a copy. However you will not regret it if you do so. If you are a fan of The Institute of Singular Antiquities as I am then you will love Sidor's latest novel. You would be forgiven for thinking that this was another adventure with Rom Hardy and the gang as it feels so familiar as previously stated. If you are already well established within Arkham Horror then I am sure you will enjoy this read. The Last Ritual is Book Vagabond Recommended, you will enjoy this book.
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Unapologetically Lovecraftian, this novel of terrifying Cosmic Horror, hypnotism, illusion, and mind control is based on the wildly popular board game. In 1925, in Europe and Arkham, Massachusetts, strange forces are afoot. Many individuals of one mind are attempting to "Open the Gate," to call forth an other-dimensional monstrosity. The sorcerer-leader, a Surrealist painter from Spain, chooses Arkham as the locale. A tension-wrought horror novel, I was so engrossed I I devoured it in one session Unapologetically Lovecraftian, this novel of terrifying Cosmic Horror, hypnotism, illusion, and mind control is based on the wildly popular board game. In 1925, in Europe and Arkham, Massachusetts, strange forces are afoot. Many individuals of one mind are attempting to "Open the Gate," to call forth an other-dimensional monstrosity. The sorcerer-leader, a Surrealist painter from Spain, chooses Arkham as the locale. A tension-wrought horror novel, I was so engrossed I I devoured it in one session. There is violence but all intimacy is offstage.
Taylor Hansen – Oct 14, 2020
Combining the life and pluck of a Jazz Age still shadowed by the table-rapping spiritists of the Victorian Age, The Last Ritual reads like a story born of those times would, a sort of blend of Lovecraft meets the Great Gatsby. Sidor brings us into a world like but unlike our own, where things may be a dream or not, where we may be slipping into madness...or being hunted by madness. This book has all the elements that I associate with Lovecraftian fantasy/horror: including abrupt changes in pace Combining the life and pluck of a Jazz Age still shadowed by the table-rapping spiritists of the Victorian Age, The Last Ritual reads like a story born of those times would, a sort of blend of Lovecraft meets the Great Gatsby. Sidor brings us into a world like but unlike our own, where things may be a dream or not, where we may be slipping into madness...or being hunted by madness. This book has all the elements that I associate with Lovecraftian fantasy/horror: including abrupt changes in pace and setting, strange insights and even more strange occurrences, demon (or alien-ish) rituals, black outs, strange visions, mysterious disappearances, dead bodies, shadowy monsters, horned Gods, and more - all against a cosmic/bigger picture backdrop. And while the plot is interesting in that strange meandering sort of dreamy/nightmarish way, the scary high stakes moment that should have been a major wow/scare moment instead sort of flattens under the weight of a more cosmic crescendo: a statement/quest to the truth of reality and art (yes it's a "look at all the strange little things, but don't miss the big picture kind of story"). Overall it's Sidor's writing and actual descriptions that really stood out to me: "Not that Minnie herself was obscene. See, she was like a piece of broken mirror. Small and shiny, and if you weren't careful she'd leave you bleeding. She reflected back places in yourself that were better left unexamined." and on the main character summing up his recent paintings: "While they were good, they lacked something almost palpable, as if the real subject had wandered away just before I started to paint. Haunted by absences. I put them away." or describing one of our Arkham-esque horrors: "The net blob hitched itself along, hauling forth its girth with maximum effort. It shambled onto the bridge. How sluggish it was, but how impressively persistent....A halo of flies buzzed around it, ignoring the cold to feast on morsels hidden in its collapsing chambers - it's honeycomb of well-aged slimes...Inside the rats tumbled round as if they were spinning on a wheel. Somehow I knew the swirling energy of their lifeforces fed and propelled this monster. The motion of their rat bodies animated its horror. If the blob were to consume me, then I would power it like the rats did." and probably my favorite line from the book: "I never want this woman angry at me, I thought. She's the kind of lady who might stab you with a pair of scissors if she figured you deserved it. Or she might die for you. It all depended." A definite read for fans of the genre, Lovecraft, Arkham Horror, or those who like an elegant writing style that is both creatively observant AND creatively expressive.
Sylri – Oct 19, 2020
The second book in the new Arkham Horror series and another fun read! Whereas Wrath of N'kai is a non-stop action romp, The Last Ritual has many more quiet moments- there aren't as many Mythos references or monsters. It delves into the realm of artists, as we know from other Lovecraft stories that artists seem to have a special sensitivity to Mythos influences. I always enjoy returning to this familiar setting with its memorable characters. Each book in this new series by Aconyte Books is a stand The second book in the new Arkham Horror series and another fun read! Whereas Wrath of N'kai is a non-stop action romp, The Last Ritual has many more quiet moments- there aren't as many Mythos references or monsters. It delves into the realm of artists, as we know from other Lovecraft stories that artists seem to have a special sensitivity to Mythos influences. I always enjoy returning to this familiar setting with its memorable characters. Each book in this new series by Aconyte Books is a standalone, so you can pick and choose whichever one sounds most interesting to you. If a moody, end-of-year-seasonal Mythos story is what you're looking for, then you should check out The Last Ritual.
Joel Mitchell – Sep 26, 2020
I have never played any of the H. P. Lovecraft-inspired Arkham Horror cooperative games, so I have no idea how well this novel ties into the characters and mechanics. However, I have read a lot of Lovecraftian fiction and 1920's detective fiction and, to be perfectly honest, this comes across as a watered down version of both. There are some decent moments of surrealistic horror and creeping dread, but outside of those moments the writing and plotting did not impress. The investigation is desulto I have never played any of the H. P. Lovecraft-inspired Arkham Horror cooperative games, so I have no idea how well this novel ties into the characters and mechanics. However, I have read a lot of Lovecraftian fiction and 1920's detective fiction and, to be perfectly honest, this comes across as a watered down version of both. There are some decent moments of surrealistic horror and creeping dread, but outside of those moments the writing and plotting did not impress. The investigation is desultory, characters react to disturbing events with unbelievable sangfroid, and the only real indication that we're in the 1920's is the presence of prohibition and bootleggers. Even "witch-haunted Arkham" seems watered down, deriving its sinister reputation primarily from prohibition-related crime and corruption rather than the sorts of things that Lovecraft et al. wrote about. The horror set pieces saved this from being a complete waste of time, but its thirdhand nature (novel based on a game based on a writer's works) weakened it to the point where it nearly slid into Scooby-Doo territory at times. If you're a fan of Arkham Horror games you might want to give this a try, but if you're just looking for Lovecraftian cosmic horror you can do much better elsewhere.
Lauren – Dec 02, 2020
Alden Oakes, a painter from Arkham's upper crust, left the town and the country in search of the thing his paintings lack. The thing that leaves them incomplete. That separates them from even approaching the same greatness as the works of Juan Hugo Balthazarr, the deeply charismatic darling of the surrealist set. The same surrealist he will meet again and again as strange symbols and run-ins with horrifying creatures leave him searching for answers. Alden's search will reveal a great many of Ark Alden Oakes, a painter from Arkham's upper crust, left the town and the country in search of the thing his paintings lack. The thing that leaves them incomplete. That separates them from even approaching the same greatness as the works of Juan Hugo Balthazarr, the deeply charismatic darling of the surrealist set. The same surrealist he will meet again and again as strange symbols and run-ins with horrifying creatures leave him searching for answers. Alden's search will reveal a great many of Arkham's horrors but will it be enough to prevent the destruction of the city and perhaps the world. I have fewer words about S. A. Sidor's The Last Ritual: An Arkham Horror Novel than I would have expected. And I have something of a hard time figuring out why that is. The novel is good all told. The use of setting is interesting and shows the reader a sort of seedy underside of Arkham that feels like it has a lot of potential. I just find myself uncertain that it lives up to that potential once everything has been said. It feels as though my question of if The Last Ritual lives up to its potential could easily come from the framing of the narrative. The entirety of the story is the protagonist, Alden Oakes, recounting what happened to a reporter a year after the fact. It takes a lot of the punch out of the horror of the story, knowing for certain that nothing too bad can happen to Alden. It makes the danger feel much more distant which staunches the build of any kind of tension. The lack of danger can also have the side effect of making the various threats feel a little silly, the terrifying monster can frighten Alden and leave cryptic messages but there is little else it can do. Of course, part of this might also tie into Alden himself. He can feel more like a character that things happen to rather than the protagonist of the story. I kept finding myself wishing we were following Nina, the firebrand love interest, or Calvin, the dock worker who clearly knows more than he lets anyone know, because they both felt like they were being more active in the mystery of what was going on than Alden. A passive protagonist is not necessarily a bad thing, the hero of a story can be someone else, but with the framing device it feels a little flat here. The combination also leaves the ending feeling more than a little unearned. This may make it sound like I did not enjoy The Last Ritual, I did. That potential I mentioned before is all over the book. Sidor does a fantastic job of painting Alden as helpless in the face of both the actual monsters he faces as well as the sheer weight of Juan Hugo Balthazarr's charisma. The helplessness does tie into how passive Alden can feel but it can also work towards showing just how desperately impressive the antagonist is meant to be. The secondary characters, when they show up, are well crafted and feel quite interesting. The New Colonists are fascinating in concept and I would have loved to see more of them and the upper crust set represented by Alden's old friends. I feel like the sense of being thrown off kilter, of things suddenly being just that side of wrong, was well done and could have been used more. More is, ultimately, what I find myself thinking The Last Ritual could use in several places. It has a ton of potential and does a lot of things well, but it tends to feel like Sidor pulls back on things where he could have pushed them just a little further and had something fantastic. More places where Alden is pulled along on Nina's investigations so the reader could see more of what was happening with Balthazarr's plans, something to build onto his personal mystery and to give the reader more space to dig into the question of how he was accomplishing everything. The Last Ritual is a good book and one that certainly leaves me planning to read more of S. A. Sidor's work. Despite its framing device there is a lot to enjoy here, and there are several scenes that do a fantastic job of balancing tension with an almost dreamlike quality of unreality. I give it a four out of five. I received a copy of The Last Ritual for honest review through netGalley, this has not effected my review.
Michael Botterill – Nov 20, 2020
I have been provided with an advance copy of the new Arkham Horror book The Last Ritual by S. A Sidor, published by Aconyte Books, so here is the honest review I promised in exchange for the book. So here is an important disclaimer which is always important to put out there first. I have a casual work contact with Asmodee to demonstrate board games for them in stores and at conventions. Asmodee being the parent company of Aconyte the publisher. I am going to try my best to not let that cloud my ju I have been provided with an advance copy of the new Arkham Horror book The Last Ritual by S. A Sidor, published by Aconyte Books, so here is the honest review I promised in exchange for the book. So here is an important disclaimer which is always important to put out there first. I have a casual work contact with Asmodee to demonstrate board games for them in stores and at conventions. Asmodee being the parent company of Aconyte the publisher. I am going to try my best to not let that cloud my judgement in this review, but I accept that subconsciously it might. What is Arkham Horror Anyway that put to one side, let's look at this book, by first looking at the game Arkham Horror which is a cooperative game, originally designed by Richard Launius, and is now in its third edition which was released in 2019. It's published by Fantasy Flight Games, a subsidiary of Asmodee, and is set in 1926 in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. Each player takes on the role of an investigator, who are working to stop the Ancient Ones, eldritch horrors which lurk in the void beyond space and time. It's a 1-6 player game and you work together to gather clues and defeat the evil of the Ancient Ones and save the world. As I said I haven't actually played Arkham Horror but I do own its spin off Elder Sign the cooperative dice game. The Story It's a 1920s novel as an aspiring artist in the town of Arkham as he tried to piece together the puzzle of several very odd occurrences along with his love interest a talented young writer. Like the previous novel Wrath of N'kai, which I reviewed earlier this year, it has a very rich setting, and there are subtle crossovers as characters common to the setting get a mention. But we run across bootleggers, odd job men, butlers, privileged rich kids and impoverished artists, as well as the main antagonist, a renowned Spanish surrealists who wishes to open the gate. On Goodreads I saw an excellent comment by Taylor Hanson, this book is "Lovecraft meets The Great Gatsby", and that is as good a term I can think of. The story is told retrospectively as Alden, our protagonist recites the tale to a young reporter, so there is a lot of foreshadowing to a disaster that left him disfigured and scarred. The book is much slower and quietier than Wrath oif N'kai, but its suitably unsettling, there is an almost blurring of the lines between the possible, and the impossible, between dreams and waking. The creeping dread of the story is very tangible and when finished with it after a session, I felt a discomfort in my mind. Conclusion Personally I really enjoyed the book, it was a creepy, yet enjoyable story which whilst grounded in the Cthulhu mythos, like the Wrath of N'kai did not delve into it too deeply, nor did it require me to have more than passing knowledge. Normally, I don't go for horror, and this one nicely doesn't dwell too much on gore, but its absolutely there but mostly happens off screen. The conclusion felt like it came too quickly, and I did find his efforts to find a missing person in the last couple of chapters, a little lacklustre considering what they meant to Alden. I would recommend this book, its certainly an entertaining read and does get the heart pumping.
Stephie | Stephiereads – Nov 24, 2020
I received an earc of this book by netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I'm a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft, which is the main reason why this book and it's synopsis intrigued me so much. I love cosmic horror and the idea of a cult-like society of artists set in 1920s America, led by an enigmatic surrealist named Balthazarr sounded like a fantastic idea. The book starts out like many stories of cosmic horror. With ordinary people living their lives and the horror slowly sta I received an earc of this book by netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I'm a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft, which is the main reason why this book and it's synopsis intrigued me so much. I love cosmic horror and the idea of a cult-like society of artists set in 1920s America, led by an enigmatic surrealist named Balthazarr sounded like a fantastic idea. The book starts out like many stories of cosmic horror. With ordinary people living their lives and the horror slowly starting to creep in to the point were the protagonist and the reader alike are experiencing constant feelings of dread and unease. I'm not gonna say too much about the book because, in my opinion, with stories like that it is always better to not know too much. I found Alden to be a likable protagonist, caught in his desire to create art but also being trapped in the state of his own mediocrity. But things changed for him with his return to his home in Arkham and I have to admit that I couldn't wait for the outerwordly creatures to emerge, for a Cthulhu-like entity to make it's entrance. And I have to say, without spoiling anything, that I really liked the elements of cosmic horror in this book. They were a lot like something out of a Lovecraftian tale, something that Junji Ito could perfectly draw and Guillermo del Toro illustrate. I really enjoyed where this book was taking me. I just wish the pacing in the middle of the storry wouldn't have felt so slow for me. Maybe it was just me but in the beginning there were so many new people and locations, so many things that were keeping me interested and the middle part juft fell a little flat for me at times. There were great scenes strewn in, with great horror elements, but in between I felt a little unmotivated to keep reading. Which is also why I'm not giving it 5 stars. But then again, towards the last third the pacing kept getting better again and culminated in a grand (and great) finale. In the end I would give this book 3.5 to 4 stars.
Cat Treadwell – Nov 09, 2020
Disclaimer: I was so excited to receive this book for review! I'd seen the new Arkham Horror series as Coming Soon for most of the year, and given the popularity of Lovecraft-inspired fiction happening right now (almost as if the world's gone mad), I was hopeful that such a dedicated selection of books from proven writers would be both true to the Mythos and also original for the 21st Century. I'm glad to report that this book hits it out of the park on both fronts. The story is narrated by famed Disclaimer: I was so excited to receive this book for review! I'd seen the new Arkham Horror series as Coming Soon for most of the year, and given the popularity of Lovecraft-inspired fiction happening right now (almost as if the world's gone mad), I was hopeful that such a dedicated selection of books from proven writers would be both true to the Mythos and also original for the 21st Century. I'm glad to report that this book hits it out of the park on both fronts. The story is narrated by famed artist Alden Oakes, and while we are told he is revealing horrific events from his youth, he seems at first to be more of a rich old man simply reminiscing. But soon you're (appropriately) sucked into the tale and the momentum begins to rise… We travel from the Old Ways of Europe to the newer – and stranger – happenings in Arkham itself. The town is as much a character as any of the humans, and it's fascinating to see that while it's comparatively forward-thinking (particularly with regard to women and people of colour), it's built on a truly ancient foundation. It's difficult to speak about the plot without giving anything away, but suffice to say that the tale is the best sort of rollercoaster matinee adventure. By spending time with the protagonists, we become invested and genuinely caring for their wellbeing in a way that Lovecraft never really had time for. I was also relieved that the author has far more liberal views than HP himself – no racism, sexism or xenophobia here. Initially, I felt that the book could be shorter, but I quickly realized that it's precisely as long as it needs to be. While Alden can seem a little Wooster-like with his rank and privilege, he realizes it and tries to use it to help those other than himself. He's a silly young man, who is forced to grow up and face the very real dangers of his home town (hopefully without pranging Father's Rolls). The 1920s setting is both well-researched and appropriate. Prohibition is something that everyone kind of works around; the recent war was its own kind of madness. Arkham is almost an island, tangentially affected by the wider movements of America at large but also looking far beyond, to the stars and the deepest seas, where the mysteries are strangely hypnotic, even attractive. The characters are so well-drawn that I was casting them in my head (and missing Christopher Lee for one crucial baddie!). This would make a wonderful TV serial, akin to the recent 'Lovecraft Country'. I enjoyed my time in this strange land immensely, and am looking forward very much to the next titles in the series. Absolutely recommended.
Steven – Oct 28, 2020
Sadly I really struggled with this. I wanted to love it, but didn't and could not finish it. I found it sluggish and did not find myself particularly liking or loathing any of the characters. Sadly I really struggled with this. I wanted to love it, but didn't and could not finish it. I found it sluggish and did not find myself particularly liking or loathing any of the characters.
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The partnership of Stumbleupon and Google when it comes to marketing and re-marketing dates many years back. The approach is very cheap and efficient, delivering mind blowing results. For a while, I have stopped hearing the news about this approach, so I decided to explain the methodology of the partnership and revive the approach. Stumbleupon is the prodigy of the Web 1.0 world and it eBay bought it in 2007, as it was not used the way it was meant to be. Nevertheless, it was bought back in '09 and even still Stumbleupon is away from press coverage and other exposure, it has been able to maintain good rapport among the users and have been able to generate a loyal following. The bad luck of Stumbleupon is that, since its launch, the ability of it is widely overlooked and people are not aware of the benefits it can generate.
We all have been buying Stumbles for ages now. The thing is, such facility if overshadowed by other competitors in the market, so the Paid Discovery is not well known. On the contrary, it is very effective. The mechanism of paid discovery is just like any other paid advertisement.
You can buy the paid services and target any Stumbleupon user through according to your target location and area of interest. The careful selection of targeted audience is very important as you have a specific business and you should know the cult following of your products. It is vital to target the right audience that is interested in the service or product you are offering.
The other best part about paid search is the price. Buy such, targeted clicks and visits for as low as $0.10/click. The highest usually is $0.20/click. In the initial days, click used to be cheaper but still, it is not that pricy that you have to alter the whole budget.
Many people are still skeptical about the paid searches and its effect on Google analytics. What I say is keep calm and move forward. If your content is received well by users, then you get free traffic or else such small amount to get the desired traffic is something I would go for any day.
Yes, I agree with that Stumbleupon is not very great when it comes to bounce rates and page views. The name Stumble itself explains how it works. The products are not able to generate huge attention thus resulting in low engagement. It is like surfing on TV. You go from one channel to another to find something interesting and even if you do, you are not going to stick to it for too long.
The bounce rate of Stumbleupon is somewhere around 90% with mere 1.1 page views/visit. That is the prime reason that Stumbleupon is not the first choice of marketers. BUT, what is life without a bit of challenge huh! If you are creative enough and understand the business and its audience, you can use Stumbleupon at great advantage repeatedly.
Whether it is nice or not that can be debated, but Stumbleupon actually FORCES the traffic to your page. That does not mean poor user engagement or irrelevant ads, but they do not create pages that will awestruck you at first glance.
The approach of stumble is not to engage the user, but encourage the product. The user experience metrics are not something nicely offered by Stumbleupon. But it makes sure that the users when leaves the page, he still remembers your service.
So, the design of the page for Stumbleupon should be wide, eye catching and it should pass the 5 SECOND test. It is not about engagement, but it is about creating a brand and generating necessary market exposure.
The direct traffic to the web pages after a Stumbleupon campaign is very high, as the user still remembers your page and delivers direct results.
So, now you have generated a good brand exposure. Now, you want to regain the visits and thus enter RE-MARKETING.
The procedure is simple. Put a re-marketing tag on any Stumbleupon page that you want to re-market and it will do the rest. It will target the specific market and its audience and expose your business to more probable visitors.
For more comprehensive re-marketing, it offers a dedicated page to target specific audience and area, age and other details.
Use Google analytics to create the re-marketing list and target the users by tweaking the analytics code to enable the marketing. Keep an eye on the audience flow and using Adwords, create the campaign and start re-marketing.
Re-marketing might cost a bit more, but the generated clicks are organic and the conversion rate would be very high. Smart tactic can also give the desired exposure to the brand.
If you have a product to sell and looking for the targeted audience and create the brand awareness, then the first STUMBLE can create the awareness and once the re-marketing campaign can do wonders. You can also offer white paper or loyalty coupon or free trial version for repeating users to create more loyalty.
Two simple steps to sum up are that, the first exposure is to let people know about your product and the re-marketing is to market the product.
Combine the paid discovery offered by Stumbleupon and Google is re-marketing campaign to boost your sales effectively and efficiently.


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14/07/2009 · Let the person who drinks the coffee swish it using the tumbler and davara. Note: Different brands of coffee powder can be mixed,instead of using a single brand of coffee powder. The decoction you get also depends on how you place the coffee powder in the filter. Try pressing the coffee powder gently till they are well packed.On the other hand,a loosely packed coffee powder will yield a watery... Fill the filter basket to just below the top with the freshly ground coffee (approx. 7-8g for a single shot of 30ml). Tamp the coffee in the filter basket, finishing with a slight twist of the wrist to ensure it's level.
Use a clean filter paper each time. If using a permanent filter (like the Swiss Gold), make sure it's also clean. Stale coffee oils can cause bitterness to subsequent brews. If using a permanent filter (like the Swiss Gold), make sure it's also clean.
I use a "two-phase" method: using first a "primary" or "coarse" filter, like a French press plunger as described here and elsewhere, or a metal mesh tea or coffee filter as described here, or even a sock or cloth as suggested by this question. This strains through quickly, but only filters the larger particles that would very quickly clog a paper filter.
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Bonnie Tyler: "I'm a 'rock girl at heart''
Bonnie Tyler thinks she's a "rock girl at heart".
The 69-year-old singer worked with a host of talented people on her upcoming album 'The Best Is Yet To Come', but it was writer Steve Womack that understood which musical style suits her the best.
Speaking to Classic Pop magazine, she said: "Well, I'm a rock girl at heart. And Steve Womack, he just knows what suits me. He's written some of the great songs on there.
"The title track as well as 'Stuck To My Guns' and 'Call Me Thunder'. Oh my god! I love singing that song, you know, it's really powerful. It has a real Bruce Springsteen kind of full rock sound."
However, not all the songs would have been Bonnie's first choice as to when she first heard some of the tunes, she thought she would be too old to sing them.
She explained: "The very first time I heard 'Call Me Thunder', I do remember saying to David Mackay, 'I just love this song, but the lyrics are so young and passionate...' - I thought that it wouldn't suit me, but it really does.
"There's a song on there called 'I'm Only Guilty (Of Loving You)' and, oh my god, as soon as I heard that song, it reminds me of the old Stax records, it has a lot of soul in it."
The 'I Need A Hero hitmaker reunited with Mackay and bassist Kevin Dunne - who both collaborated with Bonnie on her early records - and thought it was "fate" they were bought back together.
She added: "It's fate really that we got back together. And you know what, it's not all about work. At the end of the day, David's wife cooks a lovely dinner and we have beautiful Champagne and wine. It's fun!"
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Fruitland Park has appointed Orange County Sheriff's Captain Michael A. Fewless Chief of Police.
Fewless, 55, earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Religion from Liberty University in Virginia and joined the Sheriff's Office in 1985. He currently heads the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange (CFIX), one of more than 70 Homeland Security "fusion centers" located throughout the U.S. to help coordinate intelligence information between local and federal agencies to combat terrorism.
Over his 30-year career with Orange County, Fewless has twice headed the agency's Internal Affairs division and served as director of the Sheriff's Special Investigations Division and as Watch Commander.
Fewless came under fire in 2011 when he lobbied a state senate committee considering a bill to allow gun owners with concealed weapons permits to carry their weapons openly.
Acting in conjunction with the Florida Sheriff's Association, Fewless showed committee members photographs of outlaw gang members who would be permitted to carry weapons openly if the bill passed.
While Florida law prohibits the identification of concealed carry permit holders, Fewless was cleared of any wrongdoing. In April, a Tarpon Springs attorney filed a civil suit against the Sheriff's Office over the matter. The attorney claimed it took three years to prepare the claim because of difficulty in locating the gang members Fewless identified.
Married for 35 years, Fewless has two children. His son is a Sheriff's Deputy in Orange County and his daughter serves as Director of Development for the Union Rescue Mission in Orlando. That agency operates the city's homeless shelters.
"I'm looking forward to restoring professionalism, ethics and dignity to the office of the chief of this agency," Fewless told city commissioners Thursday evening.
"This city has been through an unfortunate time and we want to move past that. We want to make Fruitland Park the best agency within this county and I look forward to that challenge," he said.
Fewless replaces former Police Chief Terry Isaacs, who resigned in March after an EEOC complaint that was later withdrawn.
Lake County Sheriff's Captain Todd English has served as Interim Police Chief since April.
Last month, English terminated one police officer and accepted the resignation of a second after an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement revealed they had failed to turn over the personal property of an arrest suspect who was an FDLE undercover agent. The State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute the officers.


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New guidance on transcranial magnetic stimulation echoes Council's call for more evidence collection
New guidance from The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) reflects some key recommendations of the Council's report on novel neurotechnologies.
Find out more about how TMS works
The guidance, issued to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, covers the uses of TMS for the purpose of treating and preventing migraine. It sets out recommendations for the use of TMS as treatment during a migraine, or as a possible preventive measure for those who regularly suffer from migraines. It is based on a review of recent studies which found some evidence of beneficial outcomes and no evidence of serious risks associated with having TMS procedures in the short term.
However, NICE emphasises that there is not enough evidence about how safe or effective it is in the long term or when used often, and recommends that it is only used in specialist clinics and with special arrangements for performance review. Along with the guidance, NICE has produced a 'clinical audit tool' which includes audit criteria and a data collection form to help clinics review on a regular basis how the procedure is used and its outcomes. It also recommends that any serious patient safety incidents should be reported to the National Reporting and Learning System. Finally, they encourage further research on TMS for prevention and treatment of migraine.
This development is in line with recommendations made by the Council in its 2013 report on novel neurotechnologies that more should be done to bring together and make the most of existing evidence from research and from new treatments, such as TMS.
The Council proposed that this could be achieved by the establishment of publicly accessible registers of information about the uses of such technologies in treatment or research, through the joint efforts of professional bodies such as the Association of British Neurologists, Society of British Neurological Surgeons and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Such registers, the Council said, would not only be useful to clinicians and researchers, but also to patients, families and carers in helping them make informed treatment choices. The Council recently held a roundtable meeting with clinicians and other stakeholders to discuss the possibility of setting up a clinical registry for Deep Brain Stimulation, a more invasive form of treatment used in some cases of severe disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
Find out more about the Council's work on novel neurotechnologies.
Read a blog post about the Council's recent workshop on the possibility of creating registries for brain stimulation treatments.
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Shark Tank 2016 enters the New Year with two episodes in the first week. After several weeks of repeats, Shark Tank is back with a vengeance as the first episode, episode 713, airs on a special Tuesday time slot on January 5 at 9 PM on ABC.
Episode 713 features a fashion accessory that keeps neck ties neat and straight, ABS Protein Pancakes, a device that prevents stove-top fires, a heavy construction equipment adventure company, and an update on Cousins Maine Lobster.
Immediately following the Shark Tank 2016 premier is an all-new episode of Beyond the Tank. The first new show since last May has in-depth update segments on Lori's wildly successful investment in Scrub Daddy, Barbara's ongoing success story Grace and Lace, and Daymond John's mentoring of Matt Reed from Bee-Thinking.
Beyond the Tank returns on Thursday, January 7 with another new episode. Featured are updates on Simple Sugars, 180 Cup, Pet Paint, and Biaggi.
Friday, January 8 has Shark Tank right back in its normal Friday night spot with four new businesses and an update on Luminaid. Companies include Controlled Chaos hair care products for curly hair, "ugly" produce, ez pz place mats for kids, and a "dual purpose" breath spray.
One thing is certain, the Sharks are back and casting for season 8 should begin shortly. Watch for open casting calls in your area and never be afraid to submit an application to get on Shark Tank.
Join Shark Tank Blog as we continue to provide previews, reviews, interviews and updates on Shark Tank entrepreneurs that appear on the show. Shark Tank 2016 promises bigger deals, wilder businesses and a few surprises along the way. As always, Shark Tank Blog will continue to be THE SOURCE for information on the popular venture capital reality show.


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Q: Virtual Box with smartcard reader device I'm using HID Omnikey 3121 smartcard reader and I'm trying to use in virtual box windows 7 vm.
On ubuntu(16.04) side I installed pcsc drivers and I see using pscs_scan command that device is connected and smart card is inserted.
The problem is that I can not see this device in vm.
In virtual box I have "Enable USB controller" checked but devices but i see "no devices available" when trying to add smart card reader.
What should I do?

A: As a solution:
Make sure the VirtualBox Extension Pack is installed and also make sure to be a member of the vboxusers group (see commands below).

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*Make sure the group exists: sudo groupadd vboxusers

*Add yourself to this group: sudo usermod -aG vboxusers ${USER}

*Logout and login again (or reboot)
Good luck!

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Explainer: why sea level will rise for decades after we reach net zero carbon
The sea has been rising and falling for eons, but there is compelling evidence that carbon emissions from human activity is speeding the process along.
Published on the 15 Nov 2021 by Lachlan Gilbert
If you were to dig a (very) deep hole that passed through the centre of the Earth and kept going to the other side of the planet, where do you think you'd come out?
Unless you start digging from a handful of locations on the planet, you are very likely to find that the antipodes – or opposite point on Earth to where you are now – will be in the ocean.
While this might be surprising initially, it isn't really when you realise that land only covers 29 per cent of the Earth's surface, and even then, isn't distributed evenly.
So how much water is there actually on the planet – in liquid, solid and gas form? And why are we in danger of the sea reclaiming some of the Earth's land – aka rising sea levels?
Water, water, everywhere
There is estimated to be more than 1 billion cubic kilometres of water on the planet, or 1,386,000,000 km3 to be precise. This includes all of the water in the ocean (about 97 per cent) and the total amount of water in ice sheets, glaciers and snow (1.74 per cent) and in ground water (1.69 per cent, over half of which is saline and much of it is inaccessible).
The accessible fresh water we rely on for drinking and irrigating – from rivers, lakes, dams, aquifers, the atmosphere and melting glaciers – is only a tiny fraction of the world's total fresh water – or 0.4 per cent. The remainder of the world's fresh water – or 2.5 per cent of the world's total water -- is locked away in glaciers, polar ice sheets or underground in aquifers.
It is partly the ratio between liquid and solid form of water at any given time – specifically water in the oceans versus that contained in ice sheets and glaciers – that determines how high our seas rise above a land mass's continental shelf.
Climate scientist and oceanographer Professor John Church says melting ice and freezing water is part of a long pattern of warming and cooling of the planet that goes back millions of years.
All the water in the world would make a sphere 1385km in diameter. By comparison, all fresh water would make a 272km sphere, while the fresh water available for drinking and irrigation would make a 56km sphere. Image: Ian Joson/UNSW
A brief history of sea level
"Sea level has varied throughout history – from the formation of the Earth's supercontinents like Pangea and Gondwanaland right to present times," he says.
"In the last million years, sea level has varied on a 100,000 year cycle by rising and dropping more than 100 metres. The last interglacial period – in other words, the last warm period prior to the present warm period – was about 129,000-116,000 years ago.
"As the world cooled and moved towards what we call the Last Glacial Maximum 23,000-19,000 years ago, sea level fell to more than 120 metres below present-day sea levels. And then when the climate swung towards warming again, sea level rose rapidly at an average rate of more than 1 metre per century for many millennia and peak rates in excess of four metres per century."
That was until about 8000 years ago, when the rate of sea level rise slowed to the point that it took millennia, rather than centuries, to rise a few metres. Then in the last 2000 years, sea level rise slowed virtually to a standstill – changing by just fractions of millimetres per year over this period, Prof. Church says.
"That started to change in the 1800s when sea level measurements showed that sea level started to rise more quickly, accelerating through the 19th century and is continuing to accelerate today."
In fact, rates of sea level rise have escalated from 1.4mm per year throughout most of the 20th century by more than 150 per cent to 3.6mm per year from 2006 to 2015. This is the fastest acceleration of sea level rise in six millennia.
What has caused this acceleration?
While a changing climate has always been part of a natural cycle throughout the Earth's history, the accelerated warming and subsequent rise in sea level has been boosted by a human-induced rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases). Carbon emissions dating back to the industrial revolution in the early 19th century have contributed to the greenhouse effect by trapping heat from the sun that would otherwise have been reflected back into space.
"It has been shown that warming from greenhouse gas emissions has had a dominant effect in sea level rise in the latter half of the 20th century, and most probably the first half as well," Prof. Church says.
What many may not realise, however, is that melting ice sheets at the planet's poles are not the only driver of accelerated sea level rise to date. Prof. Church says the real danger of melting ice sheets will become increasingly important through the 21st century, particularly in the latter half. Three other drivers will also play an important role.
"Thermal expansion of the ocean is one of the largest single components leading to sea level rise over recent decades, which is responsible for a third of sea level rise to date," Prof. Church says.
This relates to the basic physical properties of H2O – as water warms, the atoms and electrons in the water molecules become excited and move about so that they take up more space. In small amounts, the extra volume is difficult to observe as water heats by just a few degrees. But when you scale this up to an unimaginable number of water molecules in the ocean, the tiny expansions add up to something we can see.
Another significant contributor is the loss of mass from glaciers which are large masses of ice in addition to the huge ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
"Melting or loss of mass from glaciers could account for 40cm of sea level rise over the longer term," Prof. Church says. "The glaciers I'm referring to here are in places like the Himalayas, Alaska, Patagonia in particular, and the glaciers on the periphery of the Greenland ice sheet."
A final influence on sea level, although acknowledged as a smaller contribution, is the exchange of water between the land and the ocean.
"We're taking water out of aquifers for irrigation which either evaporates into the atmosphere to fall back on land or into the ocean as rain, or it may run off into oceans or rivers or dams. This is partly counterbalanced by the storage of water in reservoirs. But these effects are not nearly as dominant as thermal expansion and glacial melting over decades, or melting of the ice sheets in the longer term."
There is at least 60 metres worth of sea level rise contained in the ice sheets and glaciers around the world. Photo: Shutterstock
Sea level projections
One way to measure how melting ice sheets and glaciers could affect sea level is to measure their sea level potential.
"The ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland hold a combined volume of more than 60 metres of sea level equivalent," Prof. Church says.
"Water in glaciers meanwhile hold about 40 centimetres of sea level equivalent, and there's a couple of centimetres total in the atmosphere."
But if global warming continues unabated, even if a small fraction of the ice from glaciers and ice sheets melted it could have potentially devastating effects on the human and animal population of the planet.
"If we don't take any mitigation actions to curb our carbon emissions, then by 2100 you're talking about a rise of up to a metre, or maybe more if there is a rapid contribution from Antarctica, and an ongoing rapid rise in sea level. But if we do take significant mitigation steps, then we might limit the rise to 50 or 60cm by the end of the century and a much slower rate of ongoing rise.
"We cannot stop all sea level rise. Even with mitigation, the warming of the oceans and loss of mass from glaciers and ice sheets will contribute to sea level rise for decades and even centuries."
In other words, even if we kept to the Paris Agreement of keeping temperatures from rising above 1.5oC – a feat that most climate scientists agree is challenging but not yet impossible to achieve – sea level is still expected to rise by up to about 50cm by 2100.
What would this look like?
"There would be a lot more coastal flooding, and not just at the coast but along the estuaries as well. And we've already seen that in Australia on the east coast and west coast during the 20th century, the frequency of high sea level events has increased by a factor of three.
"So what used to be a once in 30 year event is now a once in 10 year event. And that impact is felt right around the world. And that impact will become worse during the 21st century."
The rule of thumb is, for every 10cm rise in sea level, you increase the frequency of these one in 100 year coastal flooding events by a factor of three, Prof. Church says. Of course, the high sea level water mark, which you could observe at places like Sydney Harbour, will be higher.
"Mean sea level will be higher which means high tides will be higher, as well as low tides. And even without a storm surge in the future, you could have coastal flooding because the sea level to start with is higher.
The coastal storm that lashed Collaroy Beach in 2016 may be a taste of what is to come as sea level rises by up to a metre by the end of the century. Photo: Shutterstock
"So events like the Collaroy Beach storm event in 2016 will lead to greater coastal erosion."
But if temperatures are not kept well below two degrees, there is a real danger that the melting of ice sheets will pass a point of no return.
"If we have warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius in coming decades, we could expect almost a metre of sea level rise by 2100. And in the coming centuries, several metres from the melting of the ice sheets in Greenland alone.
"The problem is temperatures will cross thresholds where we can no longer stop this process leading to many metres of sea level rise. It's very hard to reduce temperatures, and once we get to a certain level, we might be able to stabilise them, but to bring them down takes time."
Does Prof. Church think we've passed that threshold?
"Probably not as yet for Greenland, but I don't think we can say unequivocally we have not passed that threshold or that there will not be significant contributions to sea level rise from Greenland.
"Similarly, for Antarctica, we are at least approaching thresholds which will lead to ongoing decay of the ice sheet and additional metres of sea level rise. But we don't understand Antarctica well enough to say exactly what the thresholds are and at what rate sea level will rise over coming centuries."
If some sea level rise is inevitable, what can we do?
Prof. Church says there are three ways to deal with sea level rise in addition to major policy-driven initiatives to curb emissions.
"We can protect the coastline by building physical barriers," he says. "Parts of the Netherlands is below sea level and it's protected by dykes. London has the Thames barrier which protects £100 million of infrastructure from storm surges, and Rotterdam has a similar barrier. But this is too expensive to do everywhere."
A second method of dealing with the rising seas is to adapt to it by building infrastructure on poles or by designating outdoor facilities like sports grounds for low lying areas such that flooding will not do huge amounts of damage to them.
"Or we can simply retreat from the coastline.
And we'll do all three of these things in various parts of the world. In fact, we're already doing all three of them," Prof. Church says.
"If we fail to mitigate our emissions adequately, retreat will be the main adaptation method for many parts of the world, resulting in abandoning large tracts of valuable coastal land and displacing hundreds of millions of people."


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Blooms extends stay for two more years!
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Matt Bloomfield felt the Chairboys were very much worthy of their point at Sincil Bank as they played out a pulsating stalemate against play-off chasing Lincoln City.
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Marcelo Huertas, 32-year-old Brazilian point guard, gets first chance in NBA
Brazil's Marcelo Huertas tries to pass the ball past U.S. defenders Rudy Gay, Derrick Rose and Stephen Curry during an Aug. 16, 2014, exhibition game in Chicago.
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By Eric Pincus
Despite joining the NBA as a 32-year-old rookie, Brazilian point guard Marcelo Huertas is eager to make his debut after signing with the Lakers on Wednesday.
"Playing for the Lakers and wearing this jersey ... I really get speechless at the opportunity they gave me," said Huertas at the team's practice facility on Friday.
Huertas has spent his career playing internationally, most recently with FC Barcelona. Finally a free agent, the 6-foot-3 guard passed up more lucrative opportunities.
"I was under contract for the last six years and never had the chance to leave Europe without paying a big buyout, so this was the year I finished contract and I had a real chance to jump to the NBA," Huertas said.
"I couldn't take an early offer in Europe just to make sure I had a job," he continued. "If it was for money, I would have stayed in Europe. I came here to take this chance, and maybe I have a bright future in the NBA. Hopefully I can win my space in here and show what I'm able to do, and so I can stick around for many years."
On the court, Huertas believes he can help the Lakers with his experience and "ability to control a team without having to score."
Huertas also looks forward to playing with All-Star Kobe Bryant, whom he competed against in a 2012 exhibition between Brazil and Team USA in Washington, D.C.
In 30 minutes, Huertas scored 11 points with 13 assists, as his team jumped out to a first-quarter 10-point lead. Bryant finished with eight points as Team USA pulled away in an 80-69 victory.
"Playing against Kobe was just a challenge. He's so competitive," Huertas said. "He's one of those guys who always wants the ball and wants to prove he's better than everyone else."
Now as his teammate, will Huertas give up the ball on Bryant's request, even if it's not the play call?
"He's a player that has won so many games. Even if it's not the play and he's demanding the ball ... I think everyone, not only me, would give him the ball and just say OK, just make it happen," Huertas said. "Ninety percent of the time, he'll make it happen — so for us, it's like a privilege to have a player like this."
Huertas will earn a non-guaranteed rookie minimum contract of $525,093. He'll need to earn a spot on the team's opening-night 15-man roster.
The Lakers have 17 players under contract, 12 fully guaranteed. The team still may add veteran forward Metta World Peace and undrafted center Robert Upshaw. The Lakers can bring up to 20 players to training camp, which starts later this month.
Huertas, also known as "Marcelinho," said he speaks five languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and English.
Email Eric Pincus at eric.pincus@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @EricPincus.
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Q: Quantum Grassmannians? In noncommutative algebraic geometry a commonly studied family of objects are  quantum projective spaces. Theses are certain deformations of the homogeneous coordinate ring of $\mathbb{CP}^n$. For example, see this mathoverflow post. The obvious question I would like to ask is whether or not people consider a Grassmannian generalisation of such objects, and if so, what are some well-known references.

A: apparently, quantum grassmannians come in many variations --- this may be what you are looking for:
Graded quantum cluster algebras and an application to quantum Grassmannians, Grabowksi & Launois, 2010.

Among those who study quantized coordinate rings, it is widely
  acknowledged that Grassmannians have a special place. The intricate
  geometric structures associated to Grassmannians, due in part to their
  Lie-theoretic origins, give a rich structure of their quantized
  coordinate rings, the quantum Grassmannians.

A: There is a deformation quantization approach to the quantization of the Grassmannians taking their Kähler symplectic form as the starting point. You can find this in the preprint by Schirmer arXiv:q-alg/9709021 from the nineties. He wrote a PhD on that. There are many earlier works on the quantization of $\mathbb{CP}^n$ in the same spirit, starting perhaps with works of Moreno and collaborators in the early eighties. You find many references in Schirmer's preprint.
However, this is not directly a $C^*$-algebraic approach, if you are interested in things like that. Nevertheless, the (a priori formal) star product is algebraic on many nice functions (the representative functions).


Since winning the Olympic gold medal in London six years ago, Anthony Joshua has gone unbeaten in 21 professional bouts, has won six consecutive world heavyweight fights and has swaggered with his giant and generous smile through just about every conceivable request made of him. "What more can I do? I'm unbeaten in 21 fights and I do everything right," said the fighter on Wednesday afternoon.
Joshua has also, in private and away from any media involvement, put in appearances for a lot of good causes on time-consuming days; he has never asked for recognition, craved idle praise and there are just signs now that he is ready to be a bit more private, a little less open and a lot more like the other heavyweight champions. The rules of engagement have shifted slightly.
At the latest open-day at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, where Joshua has prepared his body for fights since 2011, there was an attempt to reduce the size of the audience and limit the time Joshua spent being interviewed and filmed.
The day still lasted over four hours, with the unbeaten champion having to explain his taste in music with journalists from Denmark, his hair styles with gossip columnists, duck and dive when pushed on his failure to fight Deontay Wilder and late in the day perform a skit or two with a couple of hired comedians. It would have taken a brave publicist to have asked Mike Tyson to play ball with most of Wednesday's requests.
At the open-day for the Joseph-Parker fight back in March, also at the EIS, the commitment to talk to everybody meant that Joshua was still sitting on the ring being interviewed less than an hour before his crucial evening training session. It was one of his last sparring sessions and he had been forced to miss a meal, had been there in front of the microphones and cameras for the best part of five hours, probably more, and still he continued talking.
Joshua's nutritionist was not impressed -- Joshua needs to eat and digest thousands of calories each day to allow him to put his body through the punishing schedule -- and neither was his trainer, Robert McCracken.
"This is a real gym and there are a lot of other fighters in here," McCracken said on Wednesday. "It's nice having the media here, but there has to be a limit to the numbers and the time it takes. Josh will never say no, he just keeps on going."
It has to be pointed out that Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko never quite had days like Joshua has hosted since last April.
Tyson would hold open sessions and might meet with the press -- all press -- after for a talk. He would stay until dusk or he would get hustled away in an insulting dash after just five minutes. At other Tyson sessions it was possible that the press would have to wait outside whatever gym he had selected. Tyson had enough people near him to slip enough marketable tales out and other journalists found a variety of methods to get "close" to Tyson for one of the millions of Tyson Exclusives. It was, trust me, an unedifying way to make a living.
Lewis would open his camp for a day, the media would be allowed in behind a fence and then sit through a training session. There would be very little contact during the hour or two-hour session. Lewis would then emerge, sit relaxed with the media and talk. He seldom gave much away and his open-days were certainly not five-hours of candid interviews.
As part of the travelling boxing pack then, I can testify that we were often dependent on Frank Maloney giving us something a bit tasty for tomorrow's paper. Maloney, incidentally, seldom failed to make the mundane lurid.
Big Wlad had Joshua in his high-altitude Austrian training camp once and it was a valuable experience for both; Joshua had his eyes open every second, devouring the knowledge and Klitschko took a live gauge of Joshua's ability in the sparring. Klitschko had fabulous open-days at the glorious five-star retreat he used as his training base. The media had excellent access, could film and talk to everybody involved.
However, it always felt like the media were temporary tourists, observers for a few hours and then the hefty door would be closed firmly on our prying eyes. The contact was definitely over at that point.
The open-days with Joshua were so different until this week, when the barriers came down. I understand why it has changed: I don't like it, but I totally understand. It makes sense to limit the accreditation list for Joshua's open-days, especially at a time when he still has critical sparring to do. There has been a tiny caveat on the press invite for a couple of open-days now and it warns the reader not to ask for any selfies or autographs. That sentence is damning enough.
There is also the risk of contamination with so many people packing the gym and getting close face-to-face time with Joshua. I listened on Wednesday and heard several people sneezing, coughing and blowing their noses. It was far worse in the winter last year, when Joshua prepared for the Parker clash amidst the 'Beast from the East'.
Joshua would spend even more time doing interviews if he was allowed and there are, trust me, no shortage of men and women with cameras and microphones desperate for some of his time. The restrictions work and now Joshua and his people are controlling the time he spends being open. It makes sense -- even if it means missing out.


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Brad Pitt had been spending thousands of dollars on Angelina Jolie and his children's living expenses while the two hammered out their divorce, but after the fight over custody began, the funds suddenly started to dry up.
Sources close to Brangelina tell us Pitt did pay a big chunk of change to Jolie — $8 million — following the split. However, we're told it was not a typical "loan," as has been reported, but was actually just an advance on the eventual cash settlement she will be entitled to from the actor. Pitt made the payment so that his estranged wife could buy a new home with the kids, but we're told after the final settlement is hashed out the $8 million will factor into the numbers.
Pitt claims he's already paid around $1.3 million in support to Jolie for living expenses and support of the kids, but sources close to the actress are adamant it is not considered child support. He was sending money to pay for security and private jets for travel, but because it's not court ordered support it may not factor into the retroactive payments Jolie is seeking for the past year and a half.
We're told the short-term financial arrangement between the two was working out just fine, but after Pitt accused Jolie of trying to sabotage his relationship with their children by preventing custody time, we are told he cut back on some payments.
It's an interesting situation, considering the more custody Angelina has with the children the more Brad may end up owing in child support. In CA, the monthly payment is determined partly by how much time each parent has and partly by how much they earn.
Since the split, Jolie has been on the hook for providing most of the daily support for the 6 children, including food and private tutors.
Sources close to the divorce case tell us the two stars have "barely scratched the surface on their financials,"and are anticipating a long road of any final payments and settlement stipulations.
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Earthmate: The Future of CFLs
Becky Hammad July 13, 2009 No Comments
The "Company Profile" is an Earth911.com series highlighting consumer goods and services making a difference through product stewardship and recycling. Products and services featured do not pay for placement and are not endorsed by Earth911.com.
Since the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007 that banned most incandescent bulbs by January 2014, the EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have been promoting the use of light emitting diodes (LED) and compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) as alternative lighting options.
In anticipation of the growing demand for green lighting, light bulb manufacturing company, Earthmate, aims to revolutionize the industry by producing the greenest lighting yet. Earth911.com caught up with Jim Ouellette, founder of Earthmate, to get the scoop on what's in the future for earth-friendly lighting.
Like other light bulbs, CFLs are made of glass and can break. Be careful when handling a CFL. Always hold the base of the bulb, not the glass, when screwing and unscrewing it. Photo: Greendare.com
Earthmate is the consumer products business unit of Litetronics International. Litetronics is a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of a wide variety of light bulbs for the commercial and industrial market, including long-life halogen and incandescent, linear fluorescent, compact fluorescent (CFL), cold cathode compact fluorescent (CCFL) and metal halide.
Earthmate is currently marketing the most energy-efficient, environmentally beneficial subset of these to the residential marketplace.
The Earthmate product line consists of either compact fluorescent or cold cathode compact fluorescent bulbs. The line features several models with T2 glass spirals and micro-ballasts for extremely small profiles, "instant-on" light output, the industry's smallest high output CFLs and three-way CFL and dimmable models.
Also, Earthmate is offers a line of spirals with the lowest mercury content in the industry – an average of 1 milligram per lamp.
Ouellette says Earthmate products use less electricity yet generate equal amounts of light of their incandescent counterparts. "Switching from incandescent bulbs to Earthmate CFLs can have a significant impact on the emission of greenhouse gases," he explains.
In addition to reducing greenhouse gases, Ouellette says use of certain Earthmate products minimizes the risk of mercury contamination from improper waste disposal.
"This is because the primary Earthmate models used to replace standard 60w, 75w and 100w incandescent bulbs contain only an average of 1 milligram of mercury," Ouellette says. "This is 75-percent less than the ENERGY STAR requirement and the lowest documented level in the industry."
Sealed within the glass tubing of CFLs, is a very small amount of mercury. On average, CFLs contain four milligrams of mercury – about the same amount that would fit on the tip of a ballpoint pen. Mercury allows the bulb to be an efficient light source. No mercury is released when the bulbs are intact or not being used. Photo: Powersmartpricing.blogspot.com
Earthmate and Recycling
Earthmate's goal is to educate consumers about how to safely dispose of CFLs. "There are many lamp recycling centers in existence and our goal is to educate the public on the benefits of recycling and try to facilitate the utilization of these resources," Ouellette says.
Earthmate teamed-up with Waste Management to develop the industry's only primary package that doubles as a recycling kit. Earthmate offers a four-pack of 15-watt spirals and a three-pack of 23-watt spirals packaged in a resealable box lined with Waste Management's patent-pending Mercury VaporLok™ technology.
The packaging is designed to reduce the risk of airborne mercury exposure from lamps broken during storage or shipping. The kits include a postage-paid shipping label so consumers can return used CFLs to the lamp recycling center.
Although Litetronics has been in existence since 1970, Earthmate was is a youngster in the industry, launching in 2007. Ouellette observed right off the bat that the CFL industry was large and growing, but homogenous.
"The products were mostly the same, the packaging was mostly the same, and the appeal to consumers was universal – save money on your electric bill," Ouellette says. At that time Ouelette says the existence and importance of climate change and global warming was beginning to be recognized by the general public on a global level and consumers were seeking and expecting green alternatives.
"And since existing CFL brands never effectively communicated their environmental benefits, there was the need and opportunity for a brand to take the leadership position," he explains.
Ouellette also recognizes another trend relating to packaging. When Earthmate got its start, plastic clamshells were the universally accepted retail packaging for CFLs. Ouellette felt it didn't make sense to package ENERGY STAR-approved lighting in difficult-to-recycle clamshell packaging.
It was then that Ouellette devised an idea for a brand that would communicate the benefits of eco-friendly lighting. The name Earthmate was selected with the following tag line: Save Energy. Help Fight Global Warming. Furthermore, kraft packaging made from 100-percent post-consumer waste, with no plastic and printed with soy based ink, was developed for the brand's unique look and eco-friendly delivery.
Earthmate in the Future
According to Ouellette, Earthmate is constantly working on new more energy-efficient and environmentally beneficial lighting technology. In addition to improving their line of CFL and CCFL lamps, Earthmate is developing products that utilize Solid State Lighting (LED, OLED), induction and other cutting edge technologies.
"Plus we will be looking at expanding the Earthmate brand to other lighting and non-lighting product categories that will enhance and support our position as leading provider of environmentally friendly household products," he says.
The industry trend Earthmate is most excited about is the consumers' awareness of, and interest in, environmentally friendly products. "Today's consumer is expecting to find a green alternative in virtually every product category they shop for," Ouellette says.
Favorite of the Three Rs
"That's easy," says Ouellette. "It's Reduce." He says the lighting industry has proven that consumers can reduce energy use without sacrificing comfort, convenience, ambiance or safety.
"We believe the same principal of doing more with less can be applied to other essential product categories, such as heating and cooling, transportation, home electronics and other categories where efficiency will lead to environmental and economic benefits."
Becky Hammad
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Why see it? Piyatat Hemmatat, the founder of RMA Studio who is also an acclaimed multimedia artist, is showcasing four series of his works all in one place: EDEN part 1 (2018), EDEN part 2 (2018), Landscape (2015), 3rd Eye: The New Dawn (2013).
Why see it? Jedsada Tangtrakulwong incorporates the factor of daily weather into his architectural installation, offering audeinces the uncertainty of what will be seen any given day.
Why see it? Yuthana and Siripon are a young Thai couple experiencing the influence of Western popular culture—a theme which never seems to grow irrelevant, especially with Thai youth.
Why see it? Broken Blossoms is artist Maki Ishii's first solo exhibition in Asia outside of Japan. The exhibition focuses on change, life and the feeling of loss through sculpture, drawing, video and sound.
Why see it? Sandy Chichat conveys through portraits and still life the experience and emotions of women in romantic relationships from a female standpoint.
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Tucker Farms in Gabriels is in the midst of what's being described as a good potato harvest. According to co-proprietors Steve and Tom Tucker, the 300-acre farm's crop seems to have escaped late blight.
Less important but surprising: the tomatoes in a shared Saranac Lake garden plot were turned to brown mush by the blight, but untreated potatoes in a mound surrounded by those plants produced lots of apparently healthy tubers.
The Tucker brothers took precautions, spraying the foliage as often as once a week with fungicide. If invisible late blight spores ever reached the Gabriels farm, the fungicide probably killed them. Once the blight enters the plant, however, fungicide won't help, Steve says.
Because this region is remote, high and relatively pest free, the Adirondacks is a source of seed potatoes for the rest of the state. Tucker Farms sells seed potatoes as well as table stock. Tom Tucker explained that Tuckers' eating potatoes can also be planted because, unlike most supermarket potatoes, they're not treated with sprout nip, a chemical that inhibits eye growth. The potatoes in the Saranac Lake garden, by the way, were Tucker Farms' Adirondack Blue variety, and they were delicious.
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