Singapore is often voted best city for business by various financial organizations. Almost any type of business, if set up and run properly, can become prosperous and successful there. The city is a popular global tourist destination and contains many of the iconic buildings that everyone is familiar with seeing in photographs. In addition, there is a great diversity of restaurants, housing and shopping. All this explains why Singapore is still a favorite world city for business people and travelers.
If you have a great idea for a business, then Singapore is the perfect place to build your legacy. The city is very business-friendly and an excellent place for investors to earn a good return. With a strong forex market, highly skilled labor, and a stable financial structure, entrepreneurs can feel confident about starting a new business there. Many of the world's largest companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, DBS Bank, and Google currently have offices in Singapore.
Choosing a business type and then developing a sound business plan are the first steps. Since tourism provides a large part of the economy, any type of business that caters to tourists would be a good idea. A business that could provide services to the larger corporations there would also be a winner. Spend some time researching the markets and learn about the types of goods and services that sell the best. Business entertainment is a huge industry in Singapore and millions of dollars are spent each year on this sector.
The Global Investment Programme was designed to help foreigners cut through the red tape and get their business set up easily. The Entrepass is a type of work visa that allows you and your immediate family to come to Singapore and stay for up to two years to build your company. It is renewable as long as you continue to operate a business in the country. There are other visas available for those who simply want to come and check out the financial opportunities.
The Singapore government's website offers quite a wide array of information about registering your business, paying taxes, and hiring employees. Special licenses are required for some business types such as insurance and banking. Finding the right location for your company is also very important and there are spaces available all around the city for various budgets. Find the space that is most appropriate for your category of business. Space is available in the financial district, the industrial parks and manufacturing locations.
Singapore has a low crime rate, amazing exotic plants and animals, and many historic sites and over 11,000,000 tourists come each year. If you think you might be interested in moving to Singapore for business or personal reasons, the Singapore Tourism Board offers a great deal of information. Visiting first is a good way to get a feel for the cultural diversity.


Today, we have an unusual subject cause it'll be about tattoos.
Not everyone has them and not everyone likes them.
I love his tattoos and I never really had any idea that tattoos require special care because otherwise the colours will fade and skin in the area of tattoo can suffer from dryness. Until recently, all owners of tattoos were moisturising tattoos with petroleum jelly, oils or creams such as Nivea, but it was not a solution enough to protect colourful tattoos against fading.
Lately, while searching the Internet, I came across Reprintic. According to the manufacturer, it is expected to hydrate and take care of skin with a tattoo, it is intended to refresh colours and ensure tattoos with expressive appearance. It contains UV filter, so protects tattoo against the sun. Reprintic has 100 ml volume and is quite effective — obviously depending on how many tattoos you have and how large those are.
Another great quality of Reprintic is that beside tattoo care (it is able to restore colour to the faded tattoos), it also takes care of permanent make-up. Thanks to it, the pigment in skin treated with permanent make-up does not fade but is refreshed constantly.
I decided to buy Reprintic for my man. His tattoo has a few years now and lost its colours, so I was curious whether those can be enhanced with this product.
The result? After a week, we have observed a significant improvement in the tattoo and skin appearance. Colours became more expressive and entire tattoo "gained power". I saw how impressed he was with the effect and I knew that it was the best present I could give him.
Reprintic contains one unique component, i.e. Croton Lechlei extract also called "dragon blood" — it is the ingredient that takes such a good care of skin and tattoo colours while — great news for ladies with permanent make-up — stimulating collagen and elastin, so has anti-ageing properties. Other precious ingredients that take care of skin are natural oils: linseed, monoi, rose. These smooth out and deeply regenerate skin while providing hydration.
I recommend it to all of you who wish to preserve your tattoo in the best shape.


Lumen opened in Amsterdam on January 9th 2015, with its first show in The Netherlands at the elegant Art 'otel Amsterdam's Gallery 5&33.
For the first time in Lumen's history, the show included original work created for the venue by Lumen Exhibition artists. These works were made for the Art 'otel's interactive curtain, the longest in Europe. The show also included a Digital Art Seminar and was featured as part of Amsterdam Fashion Week. You can read a blog about it here.


Where do your best email subscribers, leads, and customers come from?
Email is one of the oldest online channels, but it's still crushing it. Smart marketers invest in email marketing.
Robert Rose, of the Content Marketing Institute, argues that the value of content is building a "subscribed audience." Email fits the bill.
As everyone hops on the email acquisition train, some parts of email acquisition are getting harder.
It used to be you could slap up a free ebook and rake in those sweet, sweet email addresses.
Across the board, it's getting harder and harder to reach audiences online. Platforms like Facebook are sending less and less traffic out to websites like yours. According to one study, traffic from organic (non-paid) Facebook posts has declined by 450% since 2015.
(Don't worry—if you target the right channels, your email list will still grow just fine. Changes to online platforms just mean you have to be smart about it, and we'll talk about how).
Similarly Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz and SparkToro, has pointed out that virtually all sources of online traffic are sending you fewer visitors than they used to.
This is what makes email acquisition critical.
Because even if no one sends you traffic—you can still send emails.
Let's talk more about how to increase email subscribers, grow your email list, and build lists that get you more customers.
I have a trick question for you.
How valuable is an email list with 2,000 people on it?
How much money will that list make you?
Like I said, this is a trick question. There's no good answer without knowing the details.
Because it all depends who's on the list.
An email list of 2,000 people could power an entire business. Or it could make no money and just be an expense.
It could outperform an email list of 50,000 people (the biggest email list doesn't always win). Or it could underperform compared to a list of just 100 people.
Here are three, actual, real-life email lists that I've come across in my marketing career.
A 2,000-person list that makes no money. It's essentially a hobby blog that sends out weekly inspirational blog posts.
A 2,000-person list that brings in ~$500,000 a year. It sells multi-thousand dollar courses to a niche audience, and makes a handful of sales each month.
A 2,000-person list that powers a $7 million business. It reaches executives and director-level professionals who are in need of consulting services.
The lists are roughly the same size. Everyone involved knows how to write a good subject line, and they all have good open rates and response rates.
The difference is who's on the list.
As you build your mailing list, it's critical to keep this in mind.
A marketing executive isn't going to Google "how do I get more leads," download an ebook, and wind up on your email list.
Different audiences hang out in different places. And when you do email acquisition, you don't just need to know how to grow an email list fast.
You need to find potential customers.
I'm about to walk through the best ways to collect email addresses.
Your idea email acquisition strategies depend on your business. The email acquisition tactics you use will need to be customized.
Whether you need to know how to build an email list from scratch or are looking to bring in more qualified leads for an established business—this breakdown of traffic sources and tactics will help you understand how to reach the right audience for your business.
So you can find your best customers.
What's the best way to collect email addresses?
How should you choose where to focus your marketing campaigns?
What should your top priorities be when it comes to email marketing list building?
This section is about that first step—finding ways to reach people. We'll talk about conversion rate optimization a little later.
For now—remember that not every channel is created equal. Some channels are better for some topics, and some are better for some audiences.
If you're purely trying to get the biggest email list, you're going to want some combination of viral social media list building and search engine optimization. You'll also need to have a value proposition with mass appeal.
That isn't always the goal.
Look, we both know I'm trying to get your email address. In return, we'll send you one email each week with in-depth articles like this one.
Here are the top channels to grow your email list, along with their pros and cons.
If you don't do SEO, search engine optimization can feel like a confusing minefield. It seems like any step you take can blow up your website by accident.
Search engine optimization is the practice of getting your stuff to show up when someone searches for something. Usually that means Google searches, but SEO can also apply to Amazon, YouTube, Bing, and other searchable platforms.
Remember that table from Rand Fishkin? Google sends more traffic than anything else. By a lot.
SEO is complicated in some ways—and the Google algorithm is definitely complicated—but there are also simpler versions of SEO that can help.
If you need to learn how to do SEO, there are a variety of resources out there.
I've looked at the Google Analytics for dozens of websites, and there's a consistent trend. If a website has been around for a while, most of its traffic comes from Google.
A week of traffic to the blog I run on the side. Most traffic comes from organic search (SEO), which is typical for websites that have been around for a while.
If you want a lot of traffic, you will eventually need to think about SEO.
But do you need to do SEO now? What are the cons of SEO?
Google refers by far the most traffic. This is the biggest source of traffic available.
When someone searches, they're looking to solve a specific problem. That often means they're more likely to convert into email newsletter subscribers, or other contacts.
Once you rank, you get traffic for a long time. It doesn't take a ton of work to maintain the traffic you bring in from SEO. You just keep getting more traffic.
SEO has the potential to get you a lot of subscribers. And once you start getting them, you don't need to do a ton to keep the flow of traffic coming.
SEO also delivers high quality traffic, because people come with a specific problem in mind.
But when is SEO not a good fit for email acquisition?
When people aren't sure what to search. Sometimes people don't know what to search—even though they have a problem you solve.
When the people you want to reach don't Google things. If you're trying to reach business-to-business executives, they're not as likely to turn to Google for answers.
When people don't search for you much. Traffic in Google is limited by how many people search for you. If there aren't many searches for what you do (because you're in a new industry, or a niche industry), it will be hard to get traffic.
When there's a more efficient channel for your business. Why go through the trouble of learning and doing SEO if you could go to a networking event and pick up three qualified leads—that give you all the business you need for the next year?
SEO is often a good fit, and it's often the best option for people who want to build a big email list. If your marketing strategies require reaching a lot of people, SEO can work.
And it might not be the best way.
What if you serve a really specific audience? Or there are no searches for what you do? Or it's not worth learning SEO, because you don't really need 1000s of visitors—just a few customers?
How do you do email acquisition?
Online groups and forums are one of the best ways to get targeted email addresses.
No one is Googling "productivity for poker players." It's too specific.
But if you were a member of the poker-playing community and heard about a guy who focused on productivity for poker players—why would you ever turn to anyone else?
Yup, this is a real person. Poker News wrote about him getting featured in Business Insider.
Online groups and forums are a great way to collect email addresses because you know that everyone in the group is part of your audience.
Here are the major pros of using online groups and forums to build your email list.
Everyone in the group is part of your audience. You don't need to worry that you're reaching the wrong people.
Conversion rates are likely to be high. People who are active in groups are more likely to take action, and you know what you're offering is relevant.
You can build a lot of trust over time. Being active in a group lets people recognize you—so that you're already trustworthy by the time you ask for an email address.
Of course, there are some potential drawbacks.
It takes time to build trust. You can't just dive into a group and start spamming your website. Making this tactic work takes sustained effort over time.
Numbers will be low. This might not always matter, but you will get fewer subscribers per unit of effort.
It can be hard to find groups that are relevant and allow self-promotion.
How do you find groups and forums? There are three types that get the best results.
You might get some hits.
In my experience, this is more likely to get you to the low-quality groups. The highest quality groups out there are harder to find—because when a group becomes easy to find, people do things like this and start spamming it.
To find high quality groups, you'll want to get intimately familiar with your industry. Constantly ask people what groups they're a part of, and keep exploring content on your own.
Once you find groups that you think are a good fit, follow these steps.
Listen. Start by following the conversation in the group, so you can get a feel for the tone before posting.
Reply. Add value on posts by answering questions. Do this is a positive tone of voice.
Keep replying. Keep adding value. Keep getting to know people. Get to the point where people in the group recognize you. They may even discover your business on their own.
Post. Only once you've been adding value for a while can you post your own stuff. If you've done this right, you might not have to—someone else in the group who know your business might share it for you.
Online groups and forums are a huge opportunity (especially on sites like Reddit, there may even be some viral opportunities). You can reach people who want exactly what you offer.
It just takes a good, up-front investment of time.
That's Ryan Holiday, writing in his book Perennial Seller about the power of platforms.
When you're trying to build your list, one of the best ways to do it is to build on top of an existing platform.
In the tech world, there are a few famous examples of using the power of an existing platform.
All of those examples happen at a massive scale. But they illustrate the idea—when you're trying to build your own platform, tap into someone else's audience.
Why do you think author Robert Greene decided to write a book with rapper 50 cent?
Ryan Holiday himself was able to piggyback on the massive reach of Tim Ferriss to promote his books (including Perennial Seller). He wrote about the "Tim Ferriss Effect" in The Observer.
Not everyone can build a connection to Craigslist, work with 50 cent, or get promoted by Tim Ferriss.
But you might be able to write guest posts.
Especially if you're just starting, you don't have great ways to promote your email list. Other people have established audiences—and if those audiences also care about what you offer, they could become members of your audience.
They're a great source of people for email acquisition.
Reach an established audience. You can reach an existing group of people relatively easily, without needing to build a platform on your own.
Reach a targeted audience. If you're trying to reach bowling alley owners, podcasts about bowling alleys are going to make it easier to find the people you need.
Build long-term relationships. It's good to have relationships with people who have audiences. The long-term benefits might not be clearly defined, but they're hard to overstate.
It can be a lot of work. Especially if you need to write new content yourself, guest posting can take a ton of work. Ramit Sethi has said that it took 20+ hours to write this guest post for Tim Ferriss' blog.
It can be hard to find good opportunities. Because guest posting got popular, influencers are more hesitant to accept posts that come from cold pitches. And if you're in a niche space, there might not be that many people to post with.
It can take a long time. You don't want to spam out guest post requests—website owners are wise to that tactic now. Building relationships is the way to go, but that also takes significantly longer.
It used to be that you could take a generic guest post pitch, send a cold email to some bloggers, and score a bunch of guest posts.
Unfortunately, too many people started doing that.
Also, a lot of the guest posts people pitch are low quality (trust me, I get dozens of pitches through both my role at ActiveCampaign and my personal website).
One of the many bad guest post pitches I get daily. This is one related to my personal website (notice it's 2 of about 94).
When it comes right down to it, the best way to get guest posts and promotion from influencers in your industry (and therefore send traffic back to your website) is to build relationships before you pitch.
Intrigued? This is an article by Leslie Chen, who used the meetup platform…Meetup…to build her email list.
Worth noting—this kind of advice often comes from marketers who do marketing for other marketers. But not in this case. Chen runs a health-related business.
(By the way, this is also an example of a guest post. Leslie Chen contributed it to GrowthLab, an online publication).
Famously, Kevin Hart used to collect email addresses from fans at shows when he was still a small-time, touring comedian. By taking advantage of the offline opportunity to build an online platform, he was able to rise to prominence much faster.
Your offline networking opportunities will depend on where you live. Meetup might be a platform that works for you, or you can look for other opportunities.
What kinds of offline opportunities are those?
Teaching an offline class. A local coffee shop brings in guest speakers, who almost always bring a way to collect email addresses. Could you be one of them?
Small group meetups. I go to a monthly meetup with some other marketers. It's been incredibly valuable—but you can't find info about it online. Go to events like this regularly to build relationships.
Sponsored events (even "networking" events). Lots of organizations run events that are open to the public. Going to one event and schmoozing probably won't get you much. Going to all of the events and making connections with the same people over and over will.
If offline networking events are terrifying to you (the way they used to be for me) I would say this—the image of the "business-card slinging social butterfly" is largely inaccurate.
I remember going a meetup where, before I'd even said my name, I was holding a guy's business card. After what would be generously called a short "conversation," he dipped off to sling a business card at someone else.
I didn't get to say my name. I don't remember his. He didn't come to the next meetup.
Instead of that kind of behavior (which is the offline equivalent of spam email), go to the same meetups consistently. Become known there. Meet people. Make friends. Over time, they'll learn what you do.
I don't even have business cards any more.
Incredibly personal. Someone who signs up for your email list after meeting you in person is likely to be highly engaged.
Highly targeted. Because you meet people at relevant meetups, they're likely to be interested in your topic.
Highly qualified leads. This is most important for business to business or especially expensive purchases. If you're selling expensive stuff, there's no substitute for facetime.
As an added bonus, offline networking puts you directly in your market. Super useful for market research.
You have to actually go places. Actually going places seems less and less popular nowadays, but offline networking does mean getting out of the house.
It takes a long time. You can't just go in and start taking names. It takes time to build relationships.
Numbers will be low. There's a limit to how many people you can reach with offline meetups. Unless you really want to #hustle, this might be a better tactic when you're just getting started (or only need to reach a small number of people.
If you're struggling to get your first few subscribers or you're in a business where you don't need many customers (B2B, or a well-paid freelancer/consultant) offline networking could be a great fit for your list building.
Word of mouth makes a lot of sense intuitively—of course you're more likely to trust recommendations from people that you already know.
So why don't marketers like word of mouth? Because it's harder to measure and harder to predict. Which makes it harder to argue for a budget.
How can you use word of mouth to build your email list?
Check out this example from tech copywriter Josh Garofalo.
Oh yeah, you're going to get experimented on.
That short message is at the bottom of each email Josh sends. (And in the spirit of supporting his mission, here's the link to sign up for his newsletter).
Josh knows other copywriters. When you have that first group of people to start spreading your work, you can get a nice jumpstart. I found the newsletter when someone else shared it in a copywriting group on Facebook.
Josh doesn't need a massive audience. As a high-end freelance copywriter, Josh can't take on a 1,000 new clients—and he doesn't need to. He just needs to reach the right people.
Josh is really good at what he does—and the content proves it. The emails are good. It shouldn't have to be said, but it does. The emails are good! People want to share them because they're really insightful.
If you want to spread via word of mouth, you need to have a message worth spreading.
Or, the even shorter version—make stuff that's really good. Then make it better. Then ask people to share it.
Here are the pros of word of mouth, when it comes to building your email list.
High trust. You are more likely to get a highly engaged audience, because the people you reach heard about you from someone they trust.
Highly targeted. You are more likely to get a highly relevant audience, because people only recommend things that they expect their friends to be interested in.
Let's you focus on your work. If you can get the word-of-mouth engine started, it may bring in enough business for you to do less other marketing. This will mostly be true for smaller businesses (especially consultants and freelancers).
Here are the cons of word of mouth.
Hard to measure; ephemeral. How good of a word is ephemeral? Anyway, word of mouth is hard to predict/measure—and there's no "playbook" for getting it the way there is for some other tactics.
The first share is difficult. Word of mouth spreads through existing networks. If you can get into those, you should be in good shape—but that initial penetration is tricky.
Less important at massive scale. This isn't important unless you get really big, but if you do get super huge, word of mouth just doesn't have the same reach as other channels.
If you're a small business, word of mouth can also be helped by having a hyper-specific niche. If you're the only business that does fitness for ultimate frisbee players, you better believe that ultimate frisbee players will recommend you to each other.
Google ads, Facebook ads, Quora ads, Twitter ads, LinkedIn ads, and Reddit ads. The major search and social networks make their money with your advertising, and they're very good at it.
Regardless of the specific platform you choose for this, the process of collecting email addresses from paid ads looks similar.
This part is important: only do paid email acquisition if you have a way to make money from getting email addresses.
If you collect a bunch of emails, but don't have the bottom of your funnel set up—you're just throwing money away. Paid search and social only make sense for businesses that already have ways to make money and track their leads.
Customer tracking looks maybe a little different from this kind, but you should have it in place before spending a lot on paid search and social.
Here are the pros of paid search and social.
Highly trackable. If the bottom of your funnel is good, you can track exactly how many customers you get from paid search and social—and how much it costs to get them.
Highly targeted. You can reach people with extremely specific interests, which makes it easier to find people who are otherwise hard to find.
Easy to turn on and off. If you have something to launch, run ads! If you don't, stop running ads! Paid social and search make it easy to control the flow of leads.
Here are the cons of paid search and social for email acquisition.
They cost money. Duh. But also—it's easy to spend more than you want to if you aren't all that familiar with the platforms you advertise on.
Costs are rising. As more people advertise to the same group of people, costs go up. Also, your costs are likely to go up over time (after you reach the easiest to reach people).
Easy to take up lots of time. It's easy to get caught up in micro-optimizations that change your conversion rate by a few tenths of a percentage point. If you're advertising at scale that can be a big difference—but if you're a smaller business, that energy is probably better spent elsewhere.
Paid search and social are big opportunities that make it easier for small businesses to reach new audiences. Before you start, make sure you're the type of business that can benefit from the channel.
Which list building tactics should you ignore?
There are two list building tactics that are common, but not worth your time. They are social media contests and buying lists.
Social media contests are essentially online raffles. People give you their email address to get an entry, and can get more entries by sharing the contest on social media. The winner gets a prize.
It's not that social media contests can't get you a lot of email addresses fast. They can.
The problem is that the people who give you their email for a contest are probably never going to turn into customers. They aren't interested in what you have to offer—they just wanted a free iPad.
In most cases, social media contests are more energy than they're worth.
It's scummy. It's spammy. Depending on the details, it could be illegal. And it doesn't work.
Yeah, there people out there who will sell you email lists.
But conversions rates will be low. Your deliverability will take a huge hit from all the people marking you as spam. You'll have spent a bunch of money to get the list—and get negative results in return.
Search engine optimization, online groups and forums, guest posts, offline networking, and word of mouth are really all the tools you need to get traffic that grows your list.
If you make an offline connection who gives you their email address right then and there, that's awesome!
You just combined "traffic" and "conversion" into one step.
For most other channels, getting people to come to your website is only the beginning. When someone finds you in Google, reads your guest post, or otherwise winds up on your website—you need a way to get them to sign up.
As you've probably figured out on your own, it isn't enough to say "join our email list" and put up some opt in forms. It takes more than that.
Here are the key conversion rate optimization things you should think about.
Phew. Take a deep breath. That's three things.
If you make them choose, they start thinking. Which slows them down and makes them less likely to give you their email address.
"One call to action" is one of the best-known rules of conversion rate optimization. Let me give you an example that shows what this is like in practice.
Here's an email sent by WhirlPool (via MarketingSherpa).
And here's the updated version they tested.
The result was a 42% increase in clicks. Outside of choosing plan tiers (which is a bit of a different circumstance), I've never seen a simplified CTA like this lose a test.
Opt-in copy is one of the most overlooked parts of list building. You can try all the email acquisition tactics and quick-tips you like – if your copy isn't good, your conversion rates won't be good either.
Why? Because the more people understand what they're getting and why they should care, the more likely they are to give you their info.
We've written plenty about how to find messages that your audience craves. You can read more about how to write incredible marketing copy in this article.
For quick tips, here are five guidelines that can help your conversion rates.
Be clear (not clever). Step one is being understood. If people don't understand you, they won't convert. Get rid of marketing-speak and save the puns until you have a message as clear as glass.
Sound like a human. "We'll help you optimize your life through transformative…" No. Stop. Get rid of jargon and sound like a real person. Even technical, smart people prefer to read jargon-less copy.
Add emotion. Emotion leads to action. The best copy pokes at strong emotions. Make your copy reflect the burning pains that your audience has.
A low-friction CTA. You need to ask people for their email address at the end. CTAs like "Get your free" or "See how" usually do better than ones like "Learn more" or "Sign up," which sound like more work.
Ok, all that is great hypothetically. What does it actually look like in action?
I love this example from Darya Rose of Summer Tomato.
AND she has a PhD? Definitely show me!
How does Darya do on each of our five points?
Be clear, check. It's a video with three steps. Easy to understand.
Sound human, check. Darya has a PhD, but the words she uses are conversational.
Offer specific benefits, check. "Body you love without dieting." Not to mention the sub-benefits she lists.
A low-friction CTA, check. "Show Me." Can't be clearer or lower friction than that!
The better your opt-in copy, the more people will sign up for your email list.
Unfortunately, "sign up for our newsletter" isn't the most compelling offer.
In olden times (by which I mean, the mid-2000s), there weren't that many newsletters around. The opportunity to get a weekly email from someone smart was actually a pretty big deal.
Nowadays, there are so many newsletters that the thought of reading all of them is a bore. So if you want to know how to build and email list fast – you're going to need some lead magnets.
There are literally dozens of ways to offer people a lead magnet—and many types of lead magnets you can offer. We wrote up a huge, 6,000+ word guide to lead magnets here. It should cover what you need to know.
If you don't have time for that right now, here are the three most important things to think about when you offer a lead magnet.
Target it at a specific problem. A great lead magnet solves one problem really well. Your lead magnets will do better if they don't solve a long list of problems—but if they instead give people a single, compelling benefit to focus on.
Offers a quick win. The best lead magnets solve a problem right now. Even if it isn't the biggest problem, or the one that needs solving long-term. Offering a quick win means fast results—which people like.
Offer a quick win in return for an email address. You'll get more email addresses and grow your list faster.
If it's hard to find your form…no one will find your form.
I learned this the hard way. When I had a blog post go viral on Reddit, I brought ~42,000 people to my personal blog in the first 24 hours.
How many do you think signed up? 42,000? 4,000? 400?
I had a form at the bottom of the blog post, and on the sidebar of my website. Unfortunately, people don't really submit those forms (and I wasn't offering a lead magnet yet).
Content marketer Andy Crestodina shares four ways to make your sign-up forms more prominent, in his blog post Email Signup Forms: The 3 Factors in Boosting your Email Signup Form.
Can popups be annoying? Yes. Do they work? Also yes.
On my personal website, I added a popup and moved my CTA higher in the blog post. Even though I missed the initial wave of traffic, I still picked up a few hundred email addresses.
All email acquisition strategies ultimately come down to two steps.
Choose the channels that make sense, based on your business model and your audience. Ignore social media contests and paid email lists.
Follow those steps and your email list will grow.


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Wayne's Legacy
Public Exhibitions
Writings About June Wayne
Film, Videos, Interviews, Speeches, and Writings
June Wayne
June Wayne's artworks are in the permanent collection of dozens of museums world wide. Here is a partial list of those public collections. Click links in blue to view works in museums showing their collections online.
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris
Bibliotheque royale de Belgique, Brussels
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Brodsky Center (formerly Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Cincinnati Art Museum
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Des Moines Art Center
DePauw University Art Center, Greencastle, Indiana
Fresno Art Museum
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, University of California at Los Angeles
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jewish Museum, New York
Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Long Beach Museum of Art
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Austrailia, Canberra
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Oakland Museum of California
Palm Springs Desert Museum
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California
Princeton University Library, New Jersey
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
San Diego Museum of Art
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
Syracuse University Art Collection, New York
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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There are many Software Development Lifecycles, but probably the most ubiquitous is the Waterfall Methodology. I first encountered it as a young software engineer in the form of MIL-STD-2167A. The waterfall method instructs you to develop a detailed requirements specification, followed by a design specification, and then on to software implementation, and testing. This method is appropriate and necessary when you're building big systems, especially when components are being sourced from multiple vendors. But increasingly, this technique is causing software projects to fail.
The fundamental flaw in Waterfall is the myth that you know "the requirements" up front. This is difficult in many industries, but in our industry; life sciences, it's virtually impossible. Scientists experiment. They form a hypothesis, design an experimental method, capture data and make inferences about whether the data support or negate their original thesis. And then they do it again. They let real world experience guide future experiments. We have adopted this technique when building scientific software and it has yielded terrific results and high affinity with our customers. We call this technique Functional Prototyping.
But in order to build computer systems using this approach, you must trade "certainty" for "ambiguity". You must be comfortable proceeding without knowing exactly what you will build. You must admit that you don't "know" all the requirements. You must trust that, together with your customer, you will make the appropriate choices between functionality, organization impact, and cost.
At BioIT Solutions, we use functional prototyping as a requirements gathering tool. We can rapidly configure a working prototype that captures or analyzes actual data. The customer can "see and feel" the actual system in-situ. The "real requirements" are revealed with this "hands on" approach.
Contrast this with the typical waterfall project that expects the customer to read a requirements specification to determine completeness. We have been "held hostage" by inappropriate, incomplete, or just plain wrong requirements once they have been approved in a requirements spec. Even when the customer agrees they didn't understand the document, we often needed slow, costly change orders to enact the desired change.
If you're in the life sciences industry and have been underwhelmed by "Big Bang" software projects that have failed to deliver on their promises, you may want to examine the methodology, not just the technology. You just might find the myth of the waterfall was the real culprit.


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Introduction to Apache Spark
Tags: Apache Spark, Data Processing, Distributed Systems
This is the first blog in this series to analyze Big Data using Spark. It provides an introduction to Spark and its ecosystem.
By Suvro Banerjee, Machine Learning Engineer @ Juniper Networks
By Alexander Savchuk
What is Apache Spark ?
Apache Spark is a cluster computing platform designed to be fast and general-purpose.
At its core, Spark is a "computational engine" that is responsible for scheduling, distributing, and monitoring applications consisting of many computational tasks across many worker machines, or a computing cluster.
On the speed side, Spark extends the popular MapReduce model to efficiently support more types of computations, including interactive queries and stream processing. One of the main features Spark offers for speed is the ability to run computations in memory.
On the generality side, Spark is designed to cover a wide range of workloads that previously required separate distributed systems, including batch applications, iterative algorithms, interactive queries, and streaming which is often necessary in production data analysis pipelines.
Spark is designed to be highly accessible, offering simple APIs in Python, Java, Scala, and SQL, and rich built-in libraries. It also integrates closely with other Big Data tools. In particular, Spark can run in Hadoop clusters and access any Hadoop data source, including Cassandra (NoSQL database management system)
Briefly introduce each of Spark's components
Spark Core : Spark Core contains the basic functionality of Spark, including components for task scheduling, memory management, fault recovery, interacting with storage systems etc. Spark Core is also home to the API that defines resilient distributed datasets (RDDs), which are Spark's main programming abstraction. RDDs represent a collection of items distributed across many compute nodes that can be manipulated in parallel.
Spark SQL : Spark SQL is Spark's package for working with structured data. It allows querying data via SQL as well as the Apache Hive variant of SQL — called the Hive Query Language (HQL) — and it supports many sources of data, including Hive tables, Parquet, and JSON.
Spark Streaming : Spark Streaming is a Spark component that enables processing of live streams of data. Examples of data streams include logfiles generated by production web servers, or queues of messages containing status updates posted by users of a web service.
MLlib : Spark comes with a library containing common machine learning (ML) functionality, called MLlib. MLlib provides multiple types of machine learning algorithms, including classification, regression, clustering, and collaborative filtering, as well as supporting functionality such as model evaluation and data import etc. All of these methods are designed to scale out across a cluster.
GraphX : GraphX is a library for manipulating graphs (e.g., a social network's friend graph) and performing graph-parallel computations.
Cluster Managers : Under the hood, Spark is designed to efficiently scale up from one to many thousands of compute nodes. To achieve this while maximizing flexibility, Spark can run over a variety of cluster managers, including Hadoop YARN, Apache Tez, Apache Mesos, and a simple cluster manager included in Spark itself called the Standalone Scheduler. If you are just installing Spark on an empty set of machines, the Standalone Scheduler provides an easy way to get started; if you already have a Hadoop YARN or Apache Tez cluster, however, Spark's support for these cluster managers allows your applications to also run on them.
Who uses Spark, and for What ?
Because Spark is a general-purpose framework for cluster computing, it is used for a diverse range of applications.
Data Science Tasks : For our purposes a data scientist is somebody whose main task is to analyze and model data. Data scientists may have experience with SQL, statistics, predictive modeling (machine learning), and programming, usually in Python, Matlab, or R. Data scientists also have experience with techniques necessary to transform data into formats that can be analyzed for insights (sometimes referred to as data wrangling).
The Spark shell makes it easy to do interactive data analysis using Python or Scala. Spark SQL also has a separate SQL shell that can be used to do data exploration using SQL. Machine learning and data analysis is supported through the MLLib libraries.
After initial exploration phase, the work of a data scientist will be "productized," or extended, hardened (i.e., made fault-tolerant), and tuned to become a production data processing application, e.g. Production Recommender System that is integrated into a web application and used to generate product suggestions to users.
Data Processing Applications : The other main use case of Spark can be described in the context of the engineer persona. For our purposes here, we think of engineers as a large class of software developers who use Spark to build production data processing applications. These developers usually have an understanding of the principles of software engineering, such as encapsulation, interface design, and object-oriented programming.
For engineers, Spark provides a simple way to parallelize these applications across clusters, and hides the complexity of distributed systems programming, network communication, and fault tolerance.
A Brief History of Spark
Spark started in 2009 as a research project in the UC Berkeley RAD Lab, later to become the AMPLab. The researchers in the lab had previously been working on Hadoop MapReduce, and observed that MapReduce was inefficient for iterative and interactive computing jobs. Thus, from the beginning, Spark was designed to be fast for interactive queries and iterative algorithms, bringing in ideas like support for in-memory storage and efficient fault recovery.
Soon after its creation it was already 10–20× faster than MapReduce for certain jobs.
Some of Spark's first users were other groups inside UC Berkeley, including machine learning researchers such as the Mobile Millennium project, which used Spark to monitor and predict traffic congestion in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Spark was first open sourced in March 2010, and was transferred to the Apache Software Foundation in June 2013, where it is now a top-level project. It is an open source project that has been built and is maintained by a thriving and diverse community of developers. In addition to UC Berkeley, major contributors to Spark include Databricks, Yahoo!, and Intel.
Internet powerhouses such as Netflix, Yahoo, and eBay have deployed Spark at massive scale, collectively processing multiple petabytes of data on clusters of over 8,000 nodes. It has quickly become the largest open source community in big data, with over 1000 contributors from 250+ organizations.
Concluding Note
Spark can create distributed datasets from any file stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem (HDFS) or other storage systems supported by the Hadoop APIs (including your local filesystem, Amazon S3, Cassandra, Hive, HBase, etc.).
It's important to remember that Spark does not require Hadoop; it simply has support for storage systems implementing the Hadoop APIs. Spark supports text files, SequenceFiles, Avro, Parquet, and any other Hadoop InputFormat.
My next blog in this Series
Downloading Spark and getting started with Python notebooks
Learning Spark by Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Holden Karau
Databricks — Unifying Data Science, Engineering and Business
Bio: Suvro Banerjee is a Machine Learning Engineer @ Juniper Networks.
Apache Spark : Python vs. Scala
Deep Learning With Apache Spark: Part 1
The Data Scientist's Guide to Apache Spark™


Nottingham Forest manager Stuart Pearce hailed the impact his new signings have made since arriving at the club after today's 4-0 win over Reading.
Michail Antonio, Britt Assombalonga and Matty Fryatt all got on the scoresheet at The City Ground and every goal The Reds have scored this season has come from a new player.
Speaking after the match, Pearce said: "The most important thing for me is not the results, it's probably how well the new faces have come and settled straight into this team.
"I have to give credit to the likes of Andy Reid, Chris Cohen and Jack Hobbs who have made them feel very welcome. The message I get from every new signing is that they have fitted in straight away.
But Pearce, who also revealed Jack Hobbs was absent due to an ankle knock, wasn't entirely happy with how his side played in the opening 45 minutes against The Royals, despite taking a 1-0 lead into half-time.
He said: "When we play at home we have to go out and take the game by the scruff of the neck and I don't think we did that.
Pearce changed the shape of his side at the break and it had the desired effect.
He said: "Reading played with a 4-1-4-1 and we felt as though Ryan Edwards was causing us a slight problem in the number ten role.
"We changed the shape, put Matty Fryatt out on the right, brought Burke inside and put three in midfield.


FIP, or Feline Infectious Peritonitis, is a viral disease of cats that is almost universally fatal. However, it's a really complicated condition, and (bizarrely) the "FIP Virus" probably isn't transmissible from cat to cat in most cases.
OK, so what causes it?
There's a virus in cats called Feline Coronavirus (FCoV). This virus usually causes mild diarrhoea, as it replicates in the cells of the cat's gut lining (as a result, it may also be called Feline Enteric Coronavirus, FECV). About 25% of pet cats have or are exposed to this virus, but that number goes up to over 80% in multi-cat households and may reach 100% in large colonies.
Now, most cats, once infected, are a bit poorly and have diarrhoea for a few days, but then recover. In the meantime, however, they have shed the virus (mainly in the faeces) to every other cat in the area. Some cats develop a strong, long-term immunity to it, but for most, their immunity fades over time, and they then become reinfected later.
How does that relate to FIP though?
The problem occurs when one of the virus particles in the cat's body mutates in a specific way. This mutation (which occurs periodically but randomly as a result of the way the FCoV replicates itself) means that the virus can no longer replicate in the gut lining, but instead attacks the cat's immune system and blood vessels. We call this the FIP Virus, but really it's just a damaged and defective Feline Coronavirus. The good news is that, because it doesn't replicate in the intestine, it is very unlikely to be spread to other cats; but the bad news is that it is a much, much more serious infection.
Some cats are able to mount a very strong "cell-mediated" immune response and kill the virus rapidly at this stage – these cats never develop the disease, despite being infected with the mutated FIP Virus.
Most cats, however, are unable to do this, and instead make antibodies – which doesn't kill the virus, and in fact makes the symptoms worse. These cats will almost always die of the infection.
Any cat infected with FCoV – this is predominantly younger cats (80% of FIP cases are less than two years old), and those in multi-cat homes or large colonies.
The initial symptoms (that may persist for days or even weeks) are very vague and non-specific – typically lethargy, loss of appetite and a low fever. If the cat's immune system cannot clear the virus at this stage, the condition will progress to one of the two main forms of the disease (although some cats may develop both simultaneously).
This is characterised by damage to blood vessels, so they leak fluid. This causes fluid build-up and inflammation in body cavities.
Peritonitis – fluid in the abdomen, causing a pot-bellied appearance.
Lumps or masses forming in the abdomen – these aren't tumours but are essentially abscesses (pyogranulomas) in the gut, lymph nodes or other organs.
Pleural effusion – fluid in the chest, causing difficulty breathing. Many infected cats eventually suffocate or drown.
These cats usually deteriorate rapidly, and die or have to be put to sleep in a matter of days or at most weeks.
This occurs when the immune system is able to slow down the replication of the virus, but not stop it completely. It is characterised by chronic inflammation of blood vessels in the organs.
Inflammation of the eyes (about 30% of cases) causing changes in shape and colour of the iris and fluid, bleeding into the eye, and often severe pain and sensitivity to light.
Inflammation of the brain (encephalitis, and/or meningitis, also seen in about a third of cases), causing wobbliness, paralysis or seizures.
Inflammation of any other organ, causing it to gradually fail.
Cats with dry FIP will eventually die, but it is usually a much slower disease process, with cats surviving for potentially many months.
The only way to conclusively prove that the cat has FIP is by taking a biopsy (a surgical sample) of an infected tissue and sending it off to a lab to check if the mutated virus is present – blood tests cannot distinguish between normal FCoV and FIP virus. Unfortunately, many cats with the disease are too sick for surgery, so we would usually diagnose it based on the clinical signs, and the exact nature of the fluid (in wet FIP).
There is no cure for FIP. Anti-inflammatory drugs such as steroids may improve the cat's quality of life, but almost all cats infected will die. That said, cats with Dry FIP may be kept comfortable for months with appropriate medication.
No. There is a vaccine against the Feline Coronavirus (although it's not widely available in the UK), but unfortunately, it can only be given once the cat is almost fully grown – by which point they are likely to be already infected.
The best prevention is to keep cats in small, stable groups (or ideally just one or two cats per household), and practising good hygiene to minimise the spread of FCoV!
If you are concerned your cat may have FIP, make an appointment for them to be seen by one of our vets as soon as possible.
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Nebraska State Fair Carnival Brings New Rides
Wade Shows, the carnival midway provider for the Nebraska State Fair is bringing new rides this year to complement what many describe as an amusement park on wheels.
State Fair executive director, Joseph McDermott says, "As the number 3 carnival provider in the United States, according to Carnival Warehouse, Wade shows has consistently outdone themselves with rides, entertainment, games and food. We knew the first time we visited them, we wanted to form a long-lasting relationship. We have, and it continues to pay big dividends."
"Landscaping, shaded areas for fair guests, clean and safe rides. They're even working very hard to reduce their carbon footprint by going green in a number of areas with LED lighting on their rides, the most efficient generators money can buy and using biodiesel when available. These traits are important to all of us, and now they're going to add to an already top notch midway with new rides," McDermott said.
Frank Zaitshik, owner of Wade Shows says, "We have seen such tremendous growth over the past few years, we invested heavily in new rides for the Nebraska State Fair and other events, big and small, we're privileged to play every year. I cannot tell you how successful our partnership with the Nebraska State Fair has been – it made perfect sense to make the additional investment to keep our Nebraska fair fans asking for more."
New rides this year include:
Mighty Mouse – a large roller coaster -- with a twist! As the cars travel around the track through twists and dips, the cars themselves spin as the ride progresses.
Street Fighter Revolution -- The Street Fighter, with its iconic claw and high spinning arm was a midway staple for many years. Now with the new Street Fighter Revolution, the ride takes you to a whole new level. As the claw rocks back and forth, spinning high in the air, it is now able to take you "over the top" in a complete 360 degree rotation! Only for the most daring, the Street Fighter Revolution is the latest in amusement thrills.
Jungle Twist – If the Mighty Mouse coaster is a little too much thrill for your younger children or even for Mom and Dad, the Jungle Twist, gives you the same sensation on a milder ride. As the cars travel around the track, they spin around in a circle, giving the rider two actions at once.
The Puppy Roll – The newest addition to the spin ride family. Like its cousins the strawberries and the bears, the large tubs spin around as the ride goes in a circle. The all new cars are shaped like Puppies and it adds a cute new dimension to the midway.
Rides for every member of the family from the Lil' Pardner's Kiddie Land, to thrill rides and spectaculars. Riders must meet height requirements.
McDermott said, "This is exactly what we expect from Wade Shows and I believe it's the reason they've seen tremendous growth. Attention to detail in every facet of their operation is a hallmark that makes them so attractive to ride enthusiasts and their fair partners across the country."
The Nebraska State Fair begins Friday and runs through Labor Day in Grand Island.
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GEM OF THE PRAIRIE
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer recently completed a $7 million dollar restoration of the Edward Durell Stone building that anchors their property.
The people of Grand Island represent the true make up the community. Meet some of the characters of the city in these interviews.


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FEMA issues dire warnings ahead of strongest hurricane 'in decades'
By Daniella Silva with NBC News U.S. News • Updated: 12/09/2018
A calm before the storm on Holden Beach in North Carolina - Copyright Reuters
Hurricane Florence is strongest storm to target the Carolinas and Virginia region "in decades," the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday while issuing dire warnings for the roughly one million people ordered to evacuate before the Category 4 storm makes landfall.
"Hurricane Florence is a very dangerous storm," Jeffrey Byard, FEMA's associate administrator for response and recovery, said at a news conference.
More than one million citizens from the Carolinas and Virginia were currently under mandatory evacuations he said."We cannot stress the importance to our citizens that are in evacuations to heed the local and state warnings," he said, adding, "Hurricane Florence is the strongest storm to target the Carolinas and this part of our country in decades."
"There is currently nothing that's projected to slow the storm down, to weaken the storm," he added. "We are planning for a hard impact of a Category 4 storm.
Byard said FEMA expected power outages, infrastructure damage and potential loss of life.
Florence is expected to approach the coast of the Carolinas on Thursday, said FEMA's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration liaison Steve Goldstein.
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If you have never heard of a 32 gauge shotgun, you're not alone. Most shooters, especially in the U.S., either have no need for or no knowledge of this elusive gun and its ammunition. Made by American manufacturers until the 1930s, 32 gauge quickly became obsolete due to its similarities with 20 gauge, 28 gauge and the .410. This is why the very rare 32 gauge is sought after mostly by collectors and those looking to shoot something out of the norm.
What Are Gauges and Shot?
It's worth taking a second to step back and talk about what a gauge is and what a shotgun is. This sheds light on why someone might use a 32 gauge instead of a 12 gauge shotgun. One is not ever a substitute for the other. Rather they are different tools for different jobs. Sure, you can hammer a nail with the butt end of a screwdriver, but you're better off just grabbing a hammer and doing it the right way.
Shotguns are supposed to throw distinct patterns of pellets (known as "shot"). This makes hitting targets – especially moving targets – a lot easier, hence their popularity for bird hunting. Different sizes of shot are used for different types of game. The shot you might use to bring down a turkey is not going to be a valuable shell for hunting quail.
The "gauge" in a shotgun shell's size refers to the bore diameter of the shotgun. The only difference is with the .410, which isn't a gauge, but a caliber. The number is based on the diameter of the ball and its relation to a pound of lead. For example, the shot inside a 12-gauge shell is 1/12th of a pound. The 16-gauge is precisely one ounce. And so on.
The most common gauges today are the 12 and the 20, but you still see the .410 (not a gauge, but worth including in the list) and occasionally more esoteric gauges like the 16, the 28 and even the 10 gauge. In olden times, some hunters would use absolute beasts, like the 8 gauge and the 4 gauge. The two most popular are, again, the 20 (which is for smaller game and clay pigeon track shooting) and the 12 (which is for home defense and larger game like turkeys and deer).
You may have heard the terms "buckshot" and "birdshot" used. This is an informal way of referring to the distinction between shot used for birds and shot used for bucks. Shots are usually made entirely of lead, though they are sometimes covered in another metal, most commonly copper.
Sometimes shotguns have slugs instead of pellets. Slugs are a large, single piece of "shot" generally used for hunting much larger game – deer and even sometimes bear. Shotguns for slugs are often rifled and generally considered a class apart from all other kinds of shotguns.
The length of a shotgun shell is likewise an important metric. Even if you use the correct gauge, using the wrong length of the shell can be extremely dangerous for a shooter. Generally speaking, you can chamber any shotgun shell that is the same length or shorter than what is recommended for the weapon. You can never substitute gauges, as this will cause great damage to the weapon and potentially injure the shooter.
The Origin of the Shotgun
In the days of the musket, there was no reason why a weapon couldn't fire shot as well as a ball. After all, basically anything that could be packed down into a barrel could then be fired out, provided it could withstand the blast of the black powder. Some weapons, known as "fowling pieces," were designed specifically to wing birds in flight. This was the origin of the modern shotgun.
It wasn't long until weapons were being designed with the same principles, but for warfare. The term "shotgun" first entered the English lexicon in Kentucky in 1776. When smaller bores and rifling emerged, the shotgun became an entirely separate weapon class. Once the boxlock was developed in 1875, the double-barrel shotgun assumed the form that it takes to this very day.
In the 19th century, the shotgun was primarily a weapon used by mounted cavalry. This was because of the shorter barrel length and its overall effectiveness at hitting moving targets. It was the exclusive weapon of the United States cavalry during the Indian Wars of this century. This is one reason the shotgun became synonymous with the Old West. Another is that Doc Holliday's sole confirmed kill was with a shotgun. Short-barrelled shotguns were also used to guard stagecoaches, which is where the term "riding shotgun" comes from.
MIlitary use of the shotgun was in decline until the First World War. American forces introduced them into the war, where they were bayoneted and called "trench guns." Official European forces did not use them much during the Second World War, but they were a preferred weapon of Allied partisans, such as the French Resistance. On the other hand, the Marines fighting in the Pacific Theater found them to be the perfect weapon for thick, jungle canopy combat. The weapon continued to see use in the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq Wars.
The 32 Gauge Shotgun Shell
Thus, the 32 is a very, very small shotgun shell without a great deal of impact. It was originally designed by American manufacturers in the 1870s. By the 1930s, it had largely fallen off of the map. Because of its popularity in Europe and Russia, it continues to hang on. And while brass and plastic shells can be found, cardboard is generally the default for this shell. Most are 2.5" shells, but they do go up to as long as three inches.
One of the reasons why the 32 gauge was never able to make a decent inroad into the American market (though it continues to have modest sales in Europe and South America) is that it's barely any different from a 28 gauge – a mere twenty-four thousandths of an inch smaller in the bore diameter. Compare that to the difference between the 28 and the 20 gauge: sixty-five thousandths of an inch. The market could easily have preferred the 32 to the 28 and the .410, but it didn't. And now the 32 has a very limited market, both domestically and internationally.
This means that ammunition can be very hard to come by. For the most part, you're not going to find ammo for a 32 gauge shotgun at your local sporting goods store, big box or otherwise. Even when you do find 32 gauge shotgun shells, they're not going to be cheap, due to the general scarcity of the product. What's more, reloading components can be hard to come by.
But, while similar to the 410 in many ways, those who have used the 32 gauge sing its praises and tout its superiority over the more common round. Some of the features touted by the partisans of 32 gauge include a more efficient shot column and superior wad designs. And for some shooters, there's just the kick out of owning a weapon in every conceivable chambering – the more unusual the better.
As Whittier Daily News reporter Jim Matthews once put it, "It's not about practical, it's about fun." He compares owning a 32 gauge shotgun to being the only person on the block driving a '63 Mustang. Is this the most practical choice for a means of transportation? Absolutely not. But is it cool? Anyone who says otherwise is obviously lying. This puts the 32 gauge in the same family as the 28 gauge and 14 gauge, but not quite the 16 gauge – which is unusual, but not as downright exotic as the other rounds. It's a collectors item and those aren't for everyone. But if you have the means and the interest, you'll probably have a lot of fun.
The 32 Gauge Shotgun Shell Today
While over the years 32 gauge guns have been made by American Arms, Iver Johnson, Winchester, Remington and others – 32 gauge remains common throughout Europe to this day, with ammo still available from Fiocchi. In fact, rumor has it that quite a few 32 gauge shotguns made their way back to the States at the end of WWII. Since GIs were allowed to send a foot locker home (packed with just about anything due to poor inspections), many were able to return with guns from Nazi stockpiles that were confiscated from German citizens. These guns, known to be fine-crafted and some chambered for the 32, can be of great value if in good condition.
Beyond its lack of availability and the historical value, what draws shooters to the 32 gauge? Efficiency seems to be the biggest benefit, with novelty shooters raving about efficient shot columns and stellar wad designs. But being barely smaller than a 28 gauge, the 32 never differentiated itself enough to stay relevant in the world of firearms.
If you're looking for a shotgun that doubles as a conversation piece, the 32 gauge will get fellow shooters talking. This rare find is a collector's dream, and also a comparable shot to the 28 gauge or .410.
Bullet Points: 32 Gauge Ammo
The 32 gauge is largely unknown due to its similarities with 20 gauge, 28 gauge and .410 – which also caused its obscurity in the U.S. in the early 1900s. However, the 32 gauge remains common in Europe, where Fiocchi continues to produce the ammunition.
Many 32 gauge shotguns were discovered in Nazi stockpiles after WWII and were brought back to the United States by GIs. These rare guns are collectibles today, which is why 32 gauge ammo is popular among collectors.
Those who shoot 32 gauge rave about its efficiency and stellar wad design. But other than these benefits, nothing is distinct about this ammo when compared to the 28 gauge or .410.


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Third Candidate Joins Louisiana Senate Race
Kennedy has announced his campaign for Senate, joining the race for the Louisiana Senate Seat being vacated by Vitter, above, after his loss in the 2015 governor's race. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
By Eli Yokley
Posted January 26, 2016 at 3:07pm
Only a few weeks after Sen. David Vitter lost the 2015 Louisiana governor's race and said he would not seek re-election to the Senate, two other Republicans in the state's congressional delegation — Reps. Charles Boustany Jr., and John Fleming — said they would begin campaigns to replace him.
On Tuesday, the two were joined by another, State Treasurer John N. Kennedy, who announced his own, long-awaited bid in the race. If nobody gets more than 50 percent of the vote on Nov. 8, the race could move into a runoff and be the last Senate contest decided this year. Kennedy has run for Senate twice before – once in 2004 as a Democrat, and another four years later as a Republican.
"Some politicians call me a troublemaker, a misfit, a rebel, a square peg in a round hole, because I'm not part of the club," he said in a statement announcing his third campaign for the job. "I think I make the right people mad. My job is to protect taxpayers, not seek the approval of my political peers. I hope voters will give me a chance to do the same thing in the United States Senate."
Kennedy, whose federal campaign committee will start from scratch, joins the race with a cash disadvantage, compared to his two opponents. As of October, Boustany had $1.5 million in the bank and Fleming had $2.3 million.
Still, Kennedy spent heavily on positive ads for himself during his 2015 re-election campaign, and some have suggested that he could transfer the nearly $3 million in leftover funds from his state campaign account to a federal super PAC, though some Republican lawyers have suggested the law on that is not entirely settled.
According to a December survey of Louisiana by Market Research Insight obtained by Roll Call, Kennedy, who enjoys a 56 percent favorability rating among voters, would enter the race tied with Boustany at 22 percent each, with the two trailed by Fleming at 8 percent.
That survey assumed Democrat Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, would be in the mix of the state's "jungle primary" (when candidates run in the same primary regardless of political party), pulling 32 percent during the November match-up; but he has subsequently said he would not run. No other major Democrat has announced a campaign.
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Site Isolation
Site Isolation is a security feature in Chrome that offers additional protection against some types of security bugs. It uses Chrome's sandbox to make it harder for untrustworthy websites to access or steal information from your accounts on other websites.
Websites are typically not allowed to access each other's data inside the browser, thanks to code that enforces the Same Origin Policy. Occasionally, security bugs are found in this code and malicious websites may try to bypass these rules to attack other websites. The Chrome team aims to fix such bugs as quickly as possible.
Site Isolation offers an extra line of defense to make such attacks less likely to succeed. It ensures that pages from different websites are always put into different processes, each running in a sandbox that limits what the process is allowed to do. It also makes it possible to block the process from receiving most types of sensitive data from other sites. As a result, a malicious website will find it much more difficult to steal data from other sites, even if it can break some of the rules in its own process.
This protection is made possible by the following changes in Chrome's behavior:
Cross-site documents are always put into a different process, whether the navigation is in the current tab, a new tab, or an iframe (i.e., one web page embedded inside another). Note that only a subset of sites are isolated on Android, to reduce overhead.
Cross-site data (such as HTML, XML, JSON, and PDF files) is not delivered to a web page's process unless the server says it should be allowed (using CORS).
Security checks in the browser process can detect and terminate a misbehaving renderer process (only on desktop platforms for the time being).
Here, we use a precise definition for a site: the scheme and registered domain name, including the public suffix, but ignoring subdomains, port, or path. For example, an origin like https://foo.example.com:8080 would have a site of https://example.com. We use sites instead of origins to avoid breaking compatibility with existing web pages that might modify their document.domain to communicate across multiple subdomains of a site.
For more technical information about the protections offered by Site Isolation and how they are built, please see the project's design document.
4 Related Blog Posts
6 Tradeoffs
7 How to Configure
7.1 1) Isolating All Sites (Android)
7.2 2) Isolating Specific Origins
7.3 3) Isolating All Origins
7.4 Diagnosing Issues
7.5 Verifying
8 Recommendations for Web Developers
Web browser security is important: browsers must defend against untrustworthy web pages that try to attack other sites or access the user's machine. Given the complexity of the browser, it is necessary to use a "defense in depth" approach to limit the damage that occurs even if an attacker finds a way around the Same Origin Policy or other security logic in the browser. As a result, Chrome uses a sandbox and Site Isolation to try to defend against even powerful attackers (e.g., who might know about bugs in the browser). This is motivated by several different types of attacks.
First, compromised renderer processes (also known as "arbitrary code execution" attacks in the renderer process) need to be explicitly included in a browser's security threat model. We assume that determined attackers will be able to find a way to compromise a renderer process, for several reasons:
Past experience suggests that potentially exploitable bugs will be present in future Chrome releases. There were 10 potentially exploitable bugs in renderer components in M69, 5 in M70, 13 in M71, 13 in M72, 15 in M73. This volume of bugs holds steady despite years of investment into developer education, fuzzing, Vulnerability Reward Programs, etc. Note that this only includes bugs that are reported to us or are found by our team.
Security bugs can often be made exploitable: even 1-byte buffer overruns can be turned into an exploit.
Deployed mitigations (like ASLR or DEP) are not always effective.
Second, universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) bugs pose a similar threat. Security bugs of this form would normally let an attacker bypass the Same Origin Policy within the renderer process, though they don't give the attacker complete control over the process. Such UXSS bugs tend to be common.
Third, side channel attacks such as Spectre make reading arbitrary renderer process memory possible, even without bugs in Chrome. This poses additional risks to sensitive data in the renderer process, and it can make exploitation easier.
Chrome's architecture provides additional defenses against these powerful attacks. Chrome's sandbox helps prevent a compromised renderer process from being able to access arbitrary local resources (e.g. files, devices). Site Isolation helps protect websites against attacks from compromised renderer processes, UXSS, and side-channel attacks like Spectre.
For more background and motivation, see our Usenix Security 2019 conference paper on Site Isolation, and Chrome's Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think.
Desktop Platforms:
Site Isolation was enabled by default for all sites in Chrome 67 on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS to help to defend against attacks that are able to read otherwise inaccessible data within a process, such as speculative side-channel attack techniques like Spectre/Meltdown. As of Chrome 77, Site Isolation also now defends against fully compromised renderer processes and UXSS bugs on desktop platforms. In M92, Site Isolation expanded to isolate all extensions from each other as well.
On Android devices with at least 2 GB of RAM, Site Isolation has been enabled for sites that users log into since Chrome 77. In Chrome 92, this expanded to include sites that use third-party login providers (e.g., OAuth) and sites that adopt Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy headers.
Improving extension security with out-of-process iframes - May 2017
Mitigating Spectre with Site Isolation in Chrome - July 2018
Improving Site Isolation for Stronger Browser Security / Recent Site Isolation improvements - October 2019
Mitigating Side-Channel Attacks / A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web - March 2021
Protecting more with Site Isolation / Privacy and performance, working together in Chrome - July 2021
Sites vs Origins: Compatibility with document.domain changes currently requires us to use sites (e.g., https://example.com) rather than origins (e.g., https://foo.example.com) for defining process boundaries. This allows multiple origins within a site to share the same process.
Filtering cross-site data: Cross-Origin Read Blocking (CORB) is a best effort approach that tries to protect as much sensitive content as possible, but it is limited by the need to preserve compatibility with incorrectly labeled resources (e.g., JavaScript files labeled as HTML).
Unavailable in some settings: Site Isolation is not yet supported in Android WebView, or on Chrome for Android devices with less than 2GB of RAM, or in the <webview> tags used in Chrome Apps.
Site Isolation represents a major architecture change for Chrome, so there are some tradeoffs when enabling it, such as increased memory overhead. The team has worked hard to minimize this overhead and fix as many functional issues as possible. A few known issues remain:
For users:
Higher overall memory use in Chrome. On desktop in Chrome 67, this is about 10-13% when isolating all sites with many tabs open. On Android in Chrome 77, this is about 3-5% overhead when isolating sites that users log into.
For web developers:
Full-page layout is no longer synchronous, since the frames of a page may be spread across multiple processes. This may affect pages that change the size of a frame and then send a postMessage to it, since the receiving frame may not yet know its new size when receiving the message. One workaround is to send the new size in the postMessage itself if the receiving frame needs it. As of Chrome 68, pages can also work around this by forcing a layout in the sending frame before sending the postMessage. See Site Isolation for web developers for more details.
Unload handlers may not always run when the tab is closed. postMessage might not work from an unload handler (964950).
When debugging with --disable-web-security, it may also be necessary to disable Site Isolation (using --disable-features=IsolateOrigins,site-per-process) to access cross-origin frames.
For most users, no action is required, and Site Isolation is enabled at an appropriate level based on available resources.
For more advanced cases, it is possible to isolate additional sites and origins in a few ways. Note that changes to chrome://flags and the command line only affect the current device, and are not synced to your other instances of Chrome.
1) Isolating All Sites (Android)
This mode is already enabled by default for 100% of Chrome users on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. The instructions below can still be useful on Android, for users desiring the highest security on devices with sufficient RAM.
This mode ensures that all sites are put into dedicated processes that are not shared with other sites. It can be enabled in either of the following ways:
Visit chrome://flags#enable-site-per-process, click Enable, and restart. (See also: help center article. Note that this flag is only present on Android. It is missing on other platforms, where it is already enabled by default.)
Or, use an Enterprise Policy to enable SitePerProcess or SitePerProcessAndroid within your organization.
2) Isolating Specific Origins
This mode allows you to provide a list of specific origins that will be given dedicated processes. On desktop platforms where Site Isolation is already fully enabled, these origins will be isolated at a finer granularity than their site (e.g., https://foo.example.com can be isolated from the rest of https://example.com). On Android, these origins will be isolated in addition to any other sites already isolated. This can be used to isolate any origins that need extra protection, such as any that you log into. (Note that wildcards are supported to isolate all origins underneath a given origin.)
This mode is automatically enabled on Android devices with at least 2 GB of memory as of Chrome 77, for sites that users log into. This mode can be further manually configured in any of the following ways:
In Chrome 77 or later versions: Enable chrome://flags/#isolate-origins, provide the list of origins to isolate (e.g. "https://foo.example.com,https://[*.]corp.example.com"), and restart Chrome.
Use command line flags to start Chrome with --isolate-origins followed by a comma-separated list of origins to isolate. For example:
--isolate-origins=https://foo.example.com,https://[*.]corp.example.com
Be careful not to include effective top-level domains (e.g., https://co.uk or https://appspot.com; see the full list at https://publicsuffix.org), because these will be ignored.
Or, use an Enterprise Policy to enable IsolateOrigins or IsolateOriginsAndroid within your organization.
3) Isolating All Origins
This mode is experimental and will break any pages that depend on modifying document.domain to access a cross-origin but same-site page. It will also increase Chrome's process count and may affect performance. The benefit is that every origin will require its own dedicated process, such that two origins from the same site won't share a process.
This mode can be configured by enabling chrome://flags#strict-origin-isolation
Diagnosing Issues
If you encounter problems when Site Isolation is enabled, you can try turning it off by undoing the steps above, to see if the problem goes away.
You can also try opting out of field trials of Site Isolation to diagnose bugs, by visiting chrome://flags#site-isolation-trial-opt-out, choosing "Disabled (not recommended)," and restarting.
Starting Chrome with the --disable-site-isolation-trials flag is equivalent to the opt-out above.
Note that if Site Isolation has been enabled by enterprise policy, then none of these options can be used to disable it.
We encourage you to file bugs if you encounter problems when using Site Isolation that go away when disabling it. In the bug report, please describe the problem and mention whether it is specific to having Site Isolation enabled.
You can visit chrome://process-internals to see whether a Site Isolation mode is enabled.
If you would like to test that Site Isolation has been successfully turned on in practice, you can follow the steps below:
Navigate to a website that has cross-site subframes. For example:
Navigate to http://csreis.github.io/tests/cross-site-iframe.html.
Click the "Go cross-site (complex page)" button.
The main page will now be on the http://csreis.github.io site and the subframe will be on the https://chromium.org site.
Open Chrome's Task Manager: Chrome Menu -> More tools -> Task manager (Shift+Esc).
Verify that the main page and the subframe are listed in separate rows associated with different processes. For example:
Tab: creis.github.io/tests/cross-site-iframe.html - Process ID = 1234
Subframe: https://chromium.org - Process ID = 5678
If you see the subframe process in Chrome's Task Manager, then Site Isolation is correctly enabled. These steps work when using the "Isolating all sites" approach above (e.g., --site-per-process). They also work when using the "Isolating certain sites" approach above (e.g., --isolate-origins), as long as the list of origins provided includes either http://csreis.github.io or https://chromium.org.
Recommendations for Web Developers
Site Isolation can help protect sensitive data on your website, but only if Chrome can distinguish it from other resources which any site is allowed to request (e.g., images, scripts, etc.). Chrome currently tries to identify URLs that contain HTML, XML, JSON, and PDF files, based on MIME type and other HTTP headers. See Cross-Origin Read Blocking for Web Developers for information on how to ensure that sensitive information on your website will be protected by Site Isolation.
We strongly recommend following the guidelines in Post-Spectre Web Development to protect content, which can help in browsers with and without Site Isolation support. The Mitigating Side-Channel Attacks blog post provides a good overview of these mechanisms and how they help. For example, using HTTP response headers such as Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy and Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy can help control which process a resource can load in. Consider also inspecting the Sec-Fetch- request headers in the HTTP server to identify the source of the request before deciding how to handle a request.
See also Site Isolation for web developers for more discussion of how Site Isolation can protect web page content and in which cases it might affect page behavior.


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Special delivery - secure email is a presentation by Fred Avolio of BAESYSTEMS about encrypted email, from a conference a year ago. It outlines the process of symmetric and asymmetric encryption used for secure message and key exchange, respectively, and briefly mentions the main options available for secure email. The big question remains: why do so few people use email encryption? Is it just 'too hard'? Hushmail is one easy option - it's an encrypted webmail system. Just point and click!


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Kennett Symphony Opening Night
The Hunt Staff September 14, 2012
The Kennett Symphony of Chester County begins its 72nd season with a concert that features two youthful works: Sergei Prokofiev's spirited and elegant Classical Symphony, and Johannes Brahm's passionate First Piano Concerto.
Igor Resnianski
Igor Resnianski performs the First Piano Concerto. He has been awarded prizes in many international piano competitions and was awarded the first prize at the New Orleans International Piano Competition and the second prize at the All Russina Piano Competition Sodrujestvo. Resnianski, who teaches at West Chester University, has performed with numerous orchestras.
Creations, composed by Pulitzer Prize-winner John Corigliano, rounds out the program, which is under the direction of Maestra Mary Woodmansee Green.
Of Creations, Corigliano writes, "Creations challenged me to write specifically for a recorded medium. It also offered me the chance to build music more abstractly than I'd done before; often, in this case, out of pure sonority, rather than harmony and line. Much of my later work uses techniques I developed for the first time while scoring Creations." Leon Spencer Jr., co-owner of Pro Musica Studio in Kenntt Square, will narrate Creations.
Single ticket prices are $35 in advance, $40 at the door, and students are $5. The concert takes place at the Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre at West Chester University. For information, visit www.kennettsymphony.org or call 610.444.6363.
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PaidContent bought by The Guardian
ONE of the very first blogs I popped into my RSS feedreader was Rafat Ali's PaidContent, not only for its insight into digital publishing, but to study as a way for freelancers to create their own online presence.
Well five or more years on the site has become a brilliant example of a publishing venture that has expanded from beyond the web, to be snapped up by The Guardian for a rumoured $30 million.
Although nothing has been officially announced The Guardian's technology editor Charles Arthur practically confirmed the news in a Twitter message.
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Sophomore Western Capital Riley MacDougall remembers celebrating Summerside's 2009 Fred Page Cup victory
Jason Simmonds ([email protected])
Published: Nov 20, 2020 at 2:07 p.m.
Updated: Nov 21, 2020 at 8:22 a.m.
Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals forward Riley MacDougall carries the puck up the ice during a Maritime Junior Hockey League game at Eastlink Arena last season. The Stratford native is in his second season with the Caps. - Jason Simmonds
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. —
As a youngster, Riley MacDougall shared in one of the significant moments in the 40-year history of the Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals.
The six-year-old MacDougall was on the ice celebrating the Capitals' double-overtime win over the host Dieppe Commandos in the winner-take-all final of the 2009 Fred Page Cup Eastern Canadian junior A hockey championship in Moncton. His father, Kenny MacDougall, was the Caps' head coach that season.
One of the memories the MacDougalls have from that Sunday afternoon in late April is posing together with overtime hero Mike MacIsaac for a photo with the Fred Page Cup.
"Being around for that was pretty special for me," said MacDougall, a first-year engineering student at UPEI. "Now being able to play (with the Capitals), and trying to recreate something like that, is pretty special."
"Being around for that was pretty special for me. Now being able to play (with the Capitals), and trying to recreate something like that, is pretty special."
- Riley MacDougall
The 18-year-old forward from Stratford is in his sophomore season with the Maritime Junior Hockey League (MHL) team. After recording 15 points in 49 regular-season games on a veteran-laden squad last year, MacDougall is looking to "elevate" his game while taking on more responsibility.
"I'm trying to be a bigger player in scoring more goals, make more plays and try to lead by example a little bit more," said MacDougall, who can play both the wing and centre.
Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals' sophomore forward Riley MacDougall has fond memories celebrating the franchise winning the 2009 Fred Page Cup Eastern Canadian junior A hockey championship in Moncton, N.B. Riley, who was six years old at the time, posed with his father, Kenny MacDougall, who was Caps head coach for the 2008-09 season, and forward Mike MacIsaac for a photo with the Fred Page Cup. MacIsaac scored the championship-clinching goal in double overtime against the Dieppe Commandos. - Contributed
Perfect teammate
Capitals head coach Billy McGuigan described MacDougall as the perfect teammate – an individual everyone loves to be around and a combination of sarcasm and funny characteristics produce an "infectious personality".
But, on the ice, MacDougall, who has three years of junior A eligibility remaining, is all business.
"He's a player whose role is a hard-working guy who plays a defensive style and is in your face," said McGuigan. "He's gritty and is the type of player who will get under the (other) team's skin, and he's hard to play against. Those are the characteristics I like about him.
"He's more of a shut-down, gritty type of guy at this point in his career, but I think there is some offensive upside that will come with some time."
Road to Caps
MacDougall's road to the Caps included three different programs in three years. After playing under-15 with the Eastern Express, MacDougall played his first year of under-18 eligibility with the Luke Beck-coached Charlottetown Bulk Carriers Pride (now Knights) in 2017-18. The Capitals drafted him in the eighth round, 89th overall, in 2018.
MacDougall captained the Charlottetown-based Mount Academy Saints' under-16 team during the 2018-19 season before joining the Capitals.
"(Playing with the Pride) was a great experience for me, and there was a great coaching staff," said MacDougall. "Then, at the Mount, I really developed as a player and a person. It was a great opportunity, and it led me to come here."
A look at Riley MacDougall's statistics from recent years:
Summerside, Maritime Junior Hockey League
GP G A Pts
Mount Academy Saints
Prep School Hockey Federation Under-16
East Coast Elite League
Charlottetown Pride
N.B./P.E.I. Major Under-18 Hockey League
P.E.I. Major Under-15 Hockey League
Like most players who transition into junior A hockey, the five-foot-nine, 155-pound MacDougall said it was a big jump and did take some adjustments.
"You don't realize how big it is until you make it," said MacDougall. "The speed is different, but even the style of play and how you have to carry yourself is different than minor hockey."
McGuigan said MacDougall transitioned well, and he always comes to the rink ready to compete.
"Every day at practice, he works hard, he works hard in games, he's tenacious on the forecheck and defends well," the bench boss said. "He has a good IQ and understands how to play.
We like him, and he's a good team guy."
Riley MacDougall prepares to release a shot on goal while warming up for the Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals' practice at Eastlink Arena earlier this week. - Jason Simmonds
MacDougall doesn't have far to look for advice. He consistently seeks feedback from his father, who has extensive coaching and playing experience at many levels.
Along with coaching the Caps, the senior MacDougall played four years of junior A, including serving as team captain, with the Forbie Kennedy-coached Charlottetown Abbies.
"After I play a game, I usually ask him, 'What could I have done better here?' And he usually has something to tell me," said Riley. "He gives me great feedback, good or bad, after every game. That's something I am glad to have."
Summerside Western Capitals' game day notes:
Next game – Saturday at 7 p.m.
Where – Eastlink Arena.
Opponent – South Shore Lumberjacks.
Records – Capitals: 2-1-1 (won-lost-overtime losses); Lumberjacks: 0-7-0.
At home – Capitals: 1-0-0.
On the road – Lumberjacks: 0-3-0.
Points leaders – Capitals: Owen Gilhula (3 GP, 2-2—4); Lumberjacks: Bair Gendunov (7 GP, 3-5—8).
Previous meeting – Capitals won 4-2 in Bridgewater, N.S., on Nov. 13.
Quote – Caps head coach Billy McGuigan: "I thought we had a good game in South Shore. We stuck with our plan for 60 minutes. Our team is a hard-working team, and we are hard to play against. I don't think anything comes easy when you play us, and that was the theme of the last three games. Over in South Shore, I felt we dominated aspects of the game, and were the better team."
Jason Simmonds is a sports reporter for The Guardian.
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A welcome return. Part II
Fri 3 Jan 2020 Mark Edgeley Mark Edgeley
1874 are delighted to announce the re-signing of Lucas Weir after his return from his football scholarship in America. At training Club Media Officer Matt Waters caught up with Lucas to discuss the move.
After making an instant impact to the squad during the 2017/18 season, Lucas went way for a scholarship playing football in America, and after learning a lot during his time abroad, he was delighted to return to 1874. He said, "I'm really looking forward to back with lads after some time away. They've done some really good things whilst I've been away so im excited to be a part of the squad for the rest of the season."
During his first short stint for the club Lucas made 11 appearances before leaving for America. However, he admitted he'd grown a lot as a person, which would only benefit him as a player. "After being away for a while it made me grow as an individual. I've learnt to play football at a fast pace against some extremely athletic opponents which was a learning curve for me. I feel after a year's football over there I'm physically fitter than I was before and it's been another years' experience playing football. I believe that the style of football I played in the last year will help me when I come back into the side and continue the good work that the lads have done."
When asked what his aims were for the remainder of the season, it was clear that Lucas had one thing on his mind. He explained, "With the team doing so well I just want to help out where I can or wherever I'm needed to play to help the team win promotion. They've got us in a really good position so hopefully I can help with that."
As no international clearance was needed for Lucas' transfer, he is available straight away for selection against Litherland REMCYA.
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