You've probably heard the term "unboxing"—quite simply, unboxing is the practice of filming or taking a photo of yourself opening a package from an e-commerce brand and sharing that video on the internet, typically to YouTube or social media.
It's a simple premise that anyone with a camera phone can easily participate in. And for e-commerce brands, the payoff can be absolutely massive: Providing your customers with a great unboxing experience can boost your content marketing efforts, drive engagement, increase sales, and ultimately create a loyal brand following.
The numbers speak for themselves. There are currently 1.6 million videos (and counting) on YouTube devoted to the practice, with popular channels drawing in as many as 2.4 billion views. According to Google, unboxing is anything but niche: popularity is growing by 57% a year.
Unboxing videos allow customers to serve as e-commerce brand ambassadors without feeling like they're shilling for a brand—they're just sharing their experience with their friends, family, and followers on social media. On Instagram, for example, unboxing-related posts get shared an average of 95 million times per day.
Curious but worried your product isn't a fit for the buzzy unboxing industry? Have no fear: these user-generated videos span across industries, from toys and collectibles to fashion and beauty to electronics and even groceries.
The product can be anything: Unboxing is about the package. And at Pregis, you know that's what we're all about!
What do packaging choices convey about a company and its products?
We set out to answer that question in a first-of-its-kind study in partnership with the University of Wisconsin. The objective: To understand how different protective packaging mediums influenced pricing perception and emotions experienced when unboxing.
As retail continues to shift from physical stores to digital, the unboxing experience in consumers' homes is replacing the store experience. Over the years, the retail store experience has become a science which includes branding, placement, merchandising, personalized service, music and even scent. But many retailers have failed to replicate that euphoric in-store experience with home delivery, potentially putting customer lifetime value at risk.
The study results demonstrate how parcel packaging choices are major influencers in delivering a customer experience which elevates the value of the product and the e-commerce brand.
In our study, 60 participants were split into two groups of 30 each. The study participants ranged in age from mid-20s to late 30s—a desirable demographic for online retailers, and an age highly likely to share the aforementioned unboxing videos to their social channels.
While both groups of 30 unboxed the same product—a bamboo bowl, chosen because it could ostensibly range in price from $15 to $200—each group received their bowls in different packaging. Participants saw only their own packaging and were not aware that there was a different option. One package, best described as "economy," consisted of a plain brown box with white polystyrene foam for inside protection and clear carton sealing tape. The other packaging could be considered "premium," with a white box, clear inflated hybrid cushioning featuring a square pattern to protect the contents, soft white foam wrapped around the bowl, white carton sealing tape on the exterior, and even a "thank you" sticker inside the package.
The takeaway was clear: How the exact same product is wrapped has a significant impact on how its value is perceived.
Premium packaging is a clear differentiator, scoring 76% higher in terms of attractiveness to participants. Premium packaging also scored an impressive 56% higher than economy packaging in terms of perceived prestige. Lastly, cost: The premium package product was perceived as having greater value than the product in the economy package—a difference of 32% between the two groups.
Which companies are currently doing premium packaging well?
While unboxing is about the customer's experience receiving and opening a package, creating a great unboxing experience starts with the premium packaging itself. We've rounded up a few brands who are doing it right.
Brands that ship food products, for example, often use protective packaging solutions like those offered by Pregis. Thrive Market, for example, relies on protective elements to make their farmers-market-to-front-door business model a reality. Branded brown cardboard on the outside, the interior shows a branded, wallpaper-like design (more on those branded elements later!). The box is divided lengthwise to protect items from damage. Breakable items like glass jars are wrapped in biodegradable packaging, an expression of the brand's values (interested in using sustainable packaging solutions? Pregis has you covered).
Birchbox, a beauty sample subscription service, created an unboxing experience so spectacular there are nearly a quarter-million unboxing videos on YouTube dedicated to Birchbox alone.
Birchbox demonstrates how to brand an experience. For subscribers, opening and unwrapping each month's samples is the main draw of the company. Birchbox packages differ every time, and so does the box decor. Inside, the layout is dependent on the contents, which also change monthly. Birchbox, not its subscribers, decide on the content of each box—meaning each month's box is a surprise, and opening a Birchbox package is truly like opening a present. To keep with this theme, the boxes include internal wrapping paper to coordinate with the branded box.
Any "best of" packaging list would be remiss without mentioning Apple, a brand famous for incorporating great aesthetics into their products. According to Ordoro Blog, Apple even has an 'unboxing room' where designers experiment with packaging. Unsurprisingly, the unboxing experience they create is gold-standard, with 2.35 million 'unboxing iPhone 6' videos on YouTube alone.
Notably, Apple's unboxing experience is very structured. Unboxing begins on the outside of the box, where a clean, minimal appearance carries the Apple brand to the customer before even opening the box. Inside, the product lays screen-up, with chargers and accessories nestled neatly underneath.
The joy of unboxing videos, and likely a major driver of their popularity, is that they tap into the child-like anticipation we all feel for something shiny and new. As e-commerce becomes more and more popular, the unboxing experience needs to replace the experience of shopping in a store.
Want to get in on the trend? Here's how to get started.
As e-commerce becomes more and more popular, the unboxing experience needs to replace the experience of shopping in a store. Use every element of your packaging to brand the unboxing experience. Choose a protective packaging material that aligns with your branding - printed air pillow, colorful cushioning material or paper to support your sustainability messaging.
Highlight the main product: Once opened, your packaging should display the product prominently. Take a cue from our Apple example and hide the excess: Organize any accessories and documentation simplistically underneath the main product.
Consider including a return label in the box: 92% of customers will repeat purchase if the return policy is easy.
Other extras: Adding a personalized note goes a long way by helping your customer feel valued (sellers on e-commerce platforms like Ebay and Etsy do this all the time, helping to build brand loyalty through a human connection). You could also include marketing materials in your package, inspiring a repeat purchase.
Or better yet, use the packaging materials to help support a cause-based marketing campaign that can help your customers get involved in your social responsibility efforts. Check out Pregis' Inspyre.
And don't be afraid to promote social sharing! Include your brand's handles or relevant hashtags throughout your premium packaging elements to inspire a potential unboxing video and capitalize on the free advertisement it can provide.
Oversized boxes: Try to more closely match the shipping box size with your product so there is not an excess of dead space, requiring an unnecessary amount of packaging material.
Complicated packaging: Assure your product packaging is easy to open, minimizing frustration and maximizing the joy of an unboxing experience.
Damaged boxes—or worse, damaged goods inside. Damage is the single biggest turn off for a consumer!
Get started delivering joy to your customers through an unforgettable unboxing experience: Download our Unboxing Experience Playbook right here. You can also reach us at protectivesales@pregis.com or 877.692.6163. Happy unboxing!


Do not act too stunned, however Pakistan have performed their second consecutive day of constant, sober, clever cricket. For his or her reward, they've a 166-run lead with two wickets in hand – although a type of batsmen could not return as a consequence of damage.
England, in the meantime, have been shabby now and again, lacking 4 catches within the day – two within the area of 4 balls – and lacking one robust run out likelihood. Their bowlers didn't succeed going full as Pakistan had, maybe as a result of the pitch has settled barely, but in addition as a result of Pakistan have been extra skillful on day one.
Ben Stokes did lead one resurgence both facet of tea, discovering success with a collection of brutish bouncers. However then the decrease order stood agency for Pakistan. They rapidly pushed the lead past 150. Nos. 9 and 11 even noticed out four.1 overs earlier than stumps.
Three partnerships, involving six completely different batsmen, constructed this innings. Up the highest have been the in a single day pair, Haris Sohail and Azhar Ali. Including a 37 collectively on the second morning, they introduced up their partnership tally to 75, withstanding the worst of England's swing bowling.
Haris fell for 39, edging Mark Wooden behind. Azhar continued to his half-century, having batted a little bit extra positively on this session, after having scored solely 18 off 72 yesterday. He was out lbw, to a seaming supply from James Anderson.
Within the afternoon, Asad Shafiq and Babar Azam – two males in want of runs for completely different causes – took management of the sport, and produced Pakistan's finest partnership, amounting to 84.
Shafiq, as soon as a wonderful No.6 batsman, has seen his common retreat over the previous 18 months when he has extra usually been requested to bat at No. four. Babar, a blinding limited-overs expertise, is but to crack the Check format, averaging lower than 25 earlier than this match.
Collectively, although, the quelled the final of the swing England have been capable of generate, noticed via one short-ball burst from Mark Wooden, and batted positively towards Dom Bess, the 20-year-old debutant offspinner. Babar's innings contained a number of the regality that has made him a short-format drive: the back-foot punches and canopy drives particularly have been in alluring stream. Shafiq, rather less flash, however extra assured on the crease, strode purposefully alongside.
They each made sensible fifties. Shafiq was out to a snorting Stokes bouncer on 59, ready solely to spasm evasively at a ball that was searching his throat, the resultant catch off the shoulder of the bat floating to the cordon. Babar had moved to 69 when he too was sufferer to a Stokes bouncer, however in numerous style – the ball hit the bony a part of his unprotected forearm as he tried to duck beneath it. He went off the sector, apparently unable to carry the bat, however didn't go for an x-ray whereas play was on.
Stokes had additionally had Sarfraz Ahmed caught at fantastic leg, hooking irresponsibly simply earlier than tea to immediate a annoyed shaking of the pinnacle from coach Mickey Arthur on the balcony. However though three batsmen had fallen to stokes in comparatively fast succession, a younger, inexperienced decrease order pair placed on Pakistan's third glorious stand of the day.
Shadab Khan and Faheem Ashraf did not simply resist England; the truth is, they actively attacked. Their 72 runs collectively got here off 92 balls. This was all of the extra spectacular for having come towards a mostly-new ball – England's seamers getting much less seam motion this night, than they'd on day one.
Anderson had success late within the day, dismissing Ashraf and later Hasan Ali, whereas one other sharp Stokes bouncer had Shadab caught down the leg facet for 59. However England's bowlers will largely be dissatisfied at having allowed the lead to swell this a lot. The pitch is flattening out steadily, however they have been particularly innocuous for stretches. Bess, bowling offbreaks on a still-green floor is but to impose himself on the sport too – his 17 overs have gone for 59 runs – no first Check wicket up to now.


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A thousand new jobs are being created in Leicestershire by one of the UK's biggest retailers.
Marks and Spencers is looking for 1,000 workers to help with the Christmas rush at its huge warehouse in north Leicestershire.
The clothes-to-food-to-homewares chain needs extra staff to pick and pack orders at its 900,000 sq ft distribution centre – one of the biggest buildings in Leicestershire – near East Midlands Airport at Castle Donington.
The extra workers are also needed to co-ordinate deliveries to homes up and down the UK or for collection at more than 700 M&S stores.
The chain is hosting an open day on Monday, October 2 at the warehouse, with posts available through recruitment partner Staffline from as early as the end of next week.
Site manager Jon Adams said: "At M&S we're focused on making every moment special for our customers, especially at Christmas.
"Every year we value the additional colleagues at Castle Donington that help us make Christmas shopping online with M&S a special experience.
Lee Holland, account director at Staffline, said: "There are lots of opportunities for eager candidates at M&S Castle Donington.
"The modern, automated site is an energetic place to work and there is plenty to learn.
Since the site opened in 2013, a lot of the seasonal workers who have passed through its doors have taken on permanent roles.
Lubos Cech, a supervisor who started as a seasonal worker three years ago, said: "There's a great working environment at M&S Castle Donington and good opportunities to progress.
"I started as a warehouse operative, trained in several departments and I am now a supervisor of a large and lively team.
All new joiners will have induction training.
For more information, find out about the careers day hosted by Staffline click here.


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FDA Institutes New Guidance for Supplement Claims
Consumer Groups Blanch As FDA Releases Final Guidelines
for Genetically Engineered Animals
Report: FDA Disregards Researchers' Conflicts of Interest
Sleep Loss Lowers Resistance to Common Cold
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new guidance for dietary supplement manufacturers regarding scientific substantiation for the health claims made on their products. The guidance, published in December 2008, takes the form of recommendations rather than actual policy and refers to all nutritional deficiency, structure/function, or general well-being claims. Open to comment from industry, the recommendations describe the amount, type, and quality of evidence that FDA considers necessary to substantiate claims under section 403(r)(6) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
The new recommendations urge supplement manufacturers to review the support for each label claim and to ensure that the research relates to the specific product and claim, is scientifically sound, and is adequate in the context of the surrounding body of evidence.
The major questions that establish whether supplement information is based on competent and reliable scientific evidence are the following:
Does each study or piece of evidence relate to the specific claim(s)?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of each individual study?
What are the study's type, design, analysis of results, and peer review input?
If multiple studies exist, do those with the most reliable methodologies suggest a particular outcome?
If multiple studies exist, what do the majority suggest or find? Does the totality of the evidence agree with the claim(s)?
FDA's guidance document offers a discussion of each of these points, together with examples of claims that might be made for dietary supplements. To access the guidance, go to www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dsclmgu2.html.
FDA announced on January 15 the final guidelines that will regulate the production of genetically engineered (GE) animals. The agency emphasized that the GE animals in question are not cloned but instead have new characteristics or traits introduced through their DNA. The new guidelines would require all GE animals to go through rigorous scientific testing before being sold on the market and that food from GE animals will not enter the food supply unless FDA has determined that it is safe. Producers have advanced the development of genetically engineered animals in an effort to produce livestock that are resistant to certain diseases.
In response to the guidelines, scores of organizations and individual citizens posted comments on the FDA website about the possibility of genetically engineered animals entering the public's food system, with many comments objecting to the alteration of animals on ethical grounds. To view the comments, go to www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=FDA-2008-D-0394.
Consumer organizations oppose the guidelines because they do not include plans to label food from GE animals. Under the current system, unless the physical makeup of the animal is altered, companies and producers will not be required to let consumers know their food products come from a genetically engineered animal.
After FDA's announcement, Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, issued a statement in which it said that the agency is blatantly ignoring consumers' right to choose. Armed with a recent Consumers Union poll that found 95% of consumers favor labeling of meat and milk from genetically engineered animals, the organization is actively petitioning the Obama administration for a reversal of the new GE guidelines.
FDA offers little supervision of potential financial conflicts that doctors involved in clinical trials of drugs and medical devices may have, according to a report released on January 12 by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The investigation fuels an ongoing debate about how money doctors receive for research could distort study results and ultimately harm patients.
In 42% of the clinical trials tracked by HHS, FDA employees failed to procure disclosure forms from physicians. In 31% of the trials in which the agency did receive the required forms, agency reviewers did not document whether they looked at the information. In 20% of the cases in which doctors revealed significant financial conflicts, neither FDA nor the sponsoring companies took any action to mitigate the conflicts. Furthermore, fewer than 1% of the doctors overseeing clinical trials registered with the agency—totaling about 206 of the 29,691 clinical investigators listed. Even those researchers who filed the required disclosures admitted that they had a significant conflict of interest. Because FDA does not maintain a complete list of these physicians, the agency has no way of knowing whether every doctor required to file conflict-of-interest forms actually did so.
The HHS report urged FDA to strengthen oversight by making certain that companies follow the rules regarding financial disclosures, that agency reviewers actually read these disclosures, and that all of these procedures are completed before trials take place so that patients are protected.
People who get fewer than 7 hours of sleep per night appear about 3 times as likely to develop respiratory illness following exposure to a cold virus than those who sleep 8 hours or more, according to a report in the January 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Previous studies have demonstrated that sleep deprivation impairs some immune function and that those who sleep approximately 7 to 8 hours per night have the lowest rates of heart disease, illness, and death. Until this study, there has been little direct evidence that poor sleep increases susceptibility to the common cold.
A research team from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, studied 153 healthy men and women (average age 37) between 2000 and 2004. Participants were interviewed daily over a 2-week period and reported how many hours they slept per night (sleep duration), what percentage of their time in bed was spent asleep (sleep efficiency), and whether they felt rested from the sleep they received. They were then quarantined and administered nasal drops containing the common cold-causing rhinovirus. For 5 days afterward, the study participants reported any signs and symptoms of illness and had mucus samples collected from their nasal passages for virus cultures; about 28 days later, they submitted blood samples that were tested for antibody responses to the virus.
The less sleep an individual got, the more likely he or she was to develop a cold. Lower sleep efficiency was also associated with developing a cold; participants who spent less than 92% of their time in bed asleep were 5.5 times more likely to become ill than those whose efficiency was 98% or more. Researchers surmised that sleep disturbances influence the regulation of proinflammatory cytokines and histamines that are released in response to infection.

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The Author to her Book: An Annotation of Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet's poem, The Author to her Book, is a twentyfourline metaphor comparing the relationship of an author and her writings to the relationship between a parent and a child. Anne Bradstreet's" The Author to Her Book" expresses the emotions that Bradstreet felt when her most intimate thoughts were published to the world without her consent.
In this poem, Anne Bradstreet uses the conceit of the relationship between mother and child, a common situation that many people can sympathize with and understand. " The Author To Her Book"by Anne Bradstreet is a poem directed towards her previously written book.
The whole poem is an extended metaphor as it is writing about writing. The book is personified as her child and thus there is simple rhyme and rhythm.
The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet Essay Sample. In her book, The Author To Her Book, Anne Bradstreet conveys the deep and intricate demeanor of the author towards her work. Bradstreet uses a controlling metaphor of a child and its mother to describe all of these feelings towards one of her other pieces. The Author to Her Book is an extended metaphor comparing the relationship of an author and her writings to the relationship between a parent and a child.
The Author to Her Book, Anne Bradstreet uses a complex metaphor to describe her attitude towards one of her works that was published without her permission.
Throughout the poem, she compares her anger towards her book to that of an unwanted child. Anne Bradstreets seventeenth century poem, The Author to Her Book she compares the awareness of nurturing and properly raising a child to the writing and revising of a book.
The speaker is caught between conflicting love of her book and shame of its weaknesses, both of which are expressed in the metaphor and in the [ Join now to read essay Poetry Annalysis on the Author to Her Book Poetry Analysis In the poem The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet uses an extended metaphor comparing the artists intense feelings towards one of her works to those of an unsatisfied parent for a child.
After reading" The Author to her Book, " it helps to know about the author's background. Anne Bradstreet wrote this poem after she had received The author to her book metaphors essay recently published book.
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In the poem, she treats the book as a child and uses a satirical tone. The Author to Her Book, An analysis Summary: Analyzes the poem" The Author to Her Book"by Anne Bradstreet. Describes how the poem illustrates an extended metaphor, relating Bradstreet and her poetry to a mother and her child.
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Hoje esteve muito calor, mas também muito vento, por isso foi uma má escolha ter usado saia num dia como o de hoje.
Fui à praia, só para um passeio, e comi um gelado.
Como já disse usei uma saia, um top e umas sandálias da Zara. A saia é do ano passado e eu adoro-a por ser de cinta subida. O top comprei-o na semana passado e adequa-se perfeitamente á situação: praia, estilo navy, riscas!!!
Ao fim da tarde comprei a minha revista de moda preferida: a Vogue. Ainda não a li, primeiro tenho de estudar para o exame de amanhã, e depois já posso ler descansa e ver quais são as novas tendências.
Today was a very hot day, but windy, so it was a bad choice have used a sikrt in a day like today.
I went to the beach, just for a walk, and ate a ice cream.
As I said I used a skirt, a top and sandals from Zara. The skirt is from the last year and I love her beacause is rise waist. The top I bought it last week and is perfectly suited to the situation: beach, navy style, stripes!
By late afternoon I bought my favorite fashion magazine, Vogue. Not yet read it, first I have to study for the exam tomorrow, and then I can read and see the new trends.
I can only see a little but your sandals seems very pretty too!
What a lovely blue outfit! Absolutely adorable!
Love your summer outfit! The blue denim skirts and stripes looks so nautical and cool! I NEEED to get to a beach pronto!
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Nothing brings mankind closer to the earth than digging potatoes. There is a certain joy in working the soil, planting seeds, watching the plants grow, taking care of the plants, then harvesting the fruits of your labor. This is especially true with potatoes.
Digging potatoes like opening a present, you do not know what it is until you open the box. The same is true with potatoes. You do not know what is in the ground until you start digging.
There are other options besides digging potatoes by hand.
If you have a tractor, hook up the middle buster or plow, whatever you have, then slowly run the blade through the middle of the row. The potatoes will roll up to the top of the ground. Once the potatoes have been rolled to the top of the ground, simply walk along and pick them up.
Using a middle buster or plow to harvest potatoes is quick and easy. When you are dealing with a lot of land, quick and easy is good.
If you plan on gardening during a long term SHTF event, the potato is one of your best friends. Not only are potatoes easy to grow, but they also store well, are easy to cook with, and any remaining potatoes at the end of the year can be replanted for next years crop.
Unlike a lot of crops that require special storage, such as canning and/or drying, just keep potatoes dry and in a cool dark place and they will store for close to a year.
Small potatoes can be eaten straight out of the ground. Larger ones can be baked, boiled, mashed, or made into a soup.
Potatoes grow well in loose soil free from rocks, sticks, tree roots and other obstructions. Work the soil with a tiller, plow, disk,,, something that will break the soil up. Make the rows, add fertilizer, I like to mix the fertilizer into the soil using a tiller, then plant the seed potatoes. Plant the seed potatoes about 3 inches deep and about 12 – 18 inches apart.


Chair of Brunel's Council from 2011–2017 and Deputy Chair for three years prior, Jane Kelly's career spans the private, public and charity sectors in a variety of senior management and board roles.
After practising as a solicitor in England, Hong Kong and Brunei, Jane joined AMI Healthcare Group and became leader of the Corporate Health business. Jane has served the NHS for over 20 years, including as Regional Commissioner for London at the NHS Appointments Commission. She is a Member of the Department of Health Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards.
Since 1991, she has run her own consultancy focussed on strategy, leadership development and executive coaching where she has worked with York and Keele Universities.
Jane has combined this with Non-Executive or Trustee roles including at The National Trust, English Nature and the General Council and Register of Osteopaths. She is a Member of the Department of Health Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards. She is also the Founder Patron and a Trustee of cancer charity, The Mulberry Centre. She became a Pro-Chancellor at Brunel in 2017.


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John, Lord Lovell, of Titchmarsh (near Thrapston in Northamptonshire) died in 1408. This lectionary contains a full-page miniature with an inscription stating that he commissioned it as a gift to Salisbury Cathedral, so that the canons would pray for his soul, and for that of his wife, Maud de Holand. The same miniature has the name of the artist, John Siferwas, a Dominican friar and the illuminator of the Sherborne Missal, which is also in the British Library. Siferwas was a successful artist who originated at Guildford but seems to have worked on an itinerant basis. Questions have arisen as to where the manuscript was made. It could well have been produced at Salisbury, although Glastonbury has been suggested. The Sherborne Missal is known to have been made for St Mary's Abbey, Sherborne, in Dorset, and probably was made there. Siferwas probably had been head-hunted for the project after his tour-de-force performance on the 'Lovell Lectionary'. Typical of English medieval art, Christ's Ascension is depicted with his feet disappearing upward out of the picture, while the disciples stand around below. The bas-de-page scene bears no obvious relation to the image, the text, or the rest of the manuscript: it shows a bird or prey about to catch a submerged duck, watched, apparently, by two people wearing bird costumes on their legs.


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Reviews: Inventing the Buddha
by Annabella Pitkin| May 21, 2013
Photo by Mary Wallace
From Stone to Flesh: A Brief History of the Buddha
By Donald Lopez, Jr.
University of Chicago Press, 2013; 304 pages; $26
Imagine opening a book about what we would today call Buddhism and reading that it is an Egyptian religion and that the Buddha was a former Egyptian priest exiled from his country during a Persian invasion twenty-three hundred years ago. Or think of reading, in a different treatise on the Buddha, that "We are compelled therefore to believe… that Buddha and [the Norse god] Woden are the same deity, and consequently that the theology of the Gothic and Saxon tribes was a modification of Buddhism…" These views—the first from a mid-eighteenthcentury Westphalian physician, Engelbert Kaempfer, employed by the Dutch East India Company, the second from the nineteenth-century Anglican biblical scholar George Stanley Faber—seem wildly improbable to us now; not only wrong but spectacularly so. Yet as Donald Lopez, Jr.'s new book demonstrates, ideas such as these are part of the history and circuitous journey to what we now think of as the correct understanding of the Buddha.
From Stone to Flesh: A Brief History of the Buddha tells a complicated tale. It is, like the author's many previous works, fascinating, erudite, and engagingly written. Readers will come away enriched by it, often astonished, and occasionally exasperated. The book is not a biography of the Buddha in the usual sense, although it does recount many wonderfully varied biographies of the Buddha. Nor is it a history of Buddhism either, exactly, although readers will be enchanted by intriguing and little-known facts about the history of Buddhist ideas, texts, and societies. Rather, it is more properly a history of the Buddha himself, specifically of how we have come to know—or at least think we know—the historical founder of a world religion called Buddhism.
Prior to the revolutionary work of a brilliant nineteenth-century French textual scholar named Eugene Burnouf, Europeans struggled to make sense of the Asian religious communities they encountered through trade, missionary projects, empire-building, and the travel writing of other colonials. Lopez's book recovers the long period before Burnouf's groundbreaking work, during which Europeans had little if any ability to read or even speak Asian languages. They often had no idea that the local god they saw in one place had anything to do with the local god of another. "For them," writes Lopez, "the Buddha was just another idol worshipped by pagans in foreign lands, an idol known by various versions of his local name… his story told as various garbled versions of his local biography, with unseemly elements often added."
In fact, early Europeans who wrote about the carved and painted Buddhist images they encountered often could not tell if the Buddha was male or female, to say nothing of how baffled they were by the mysterious figure's race, teachings, and historical origins. Readers may enjoy the curious, vicarious experience of approaching Asian statues, paintings, and stories through these naive colonial eyes. One of Lopez's intentions seems to be to demonstrate that despite their prejudices, early visitors to Asia saw everything with fresh and startled vision, open sometimes to qualities we no longer fully see.
From Stone to Flesh describes the evolution of European ideas and literary images of the Buddha, beginning with the earliest mentions (Saint Clement of Alexandria in the third century CE, writing about the "precepts of Boutta") and moving through a wildly diverse parade of missionaries, adventurers, scoundrels, colonial officials, scientists, accountants, aristocrats, priests, and scholars. Lopez traces the extraordinary arcs of cross-cultural encounter, misunderstanding, attraction, prejudice, and fantasy that shaped Western notions of the Buddha. While From Stone to Flesh does not attempt a complete history of the interactions between Buddhist societies and Western Christian ones, Lopez includes accounts of this history throughout the narrative, adding much to our knowledge of Buddhism in the colonial period.
One of the book's charms is its use of multiple voices, many of them quite strange to our ears. Incorporating substantial excerpts from the original prenineteenth-century European authors, the book is, as Lopez writes, "in many ways… a work of ventriloquism." Sometimes these authors' interpretations are almost prescient in their insight into Buddhist materials; more often they are startlingly, sometimes hilariously, mistaken in ways deeply revealing of their prejudices. The Buddha chronicled in the book's four chapters ("The Idol," "The Myth," "The Man," and "The Text") appears frequently as a dangerous Satanic manipulator blocking the spread of Christian missionizing; sometimes as a planet (Mercury), believed to be the mythological "private secretary" to the Hindu god Shiva; as an Egyptian; as a hybrid Greek philosopher; as a pair of twins, one of whom impersonated Christ; and in many other forms. The names the European writers ascribed to the Buddha, which before the mid-nineteenth century were often assumed to be the names of many different deities, are so extensive that Lopez includes an appendix of three hundred such variations. Among the most familiar, which readers may recognize as transliterations of the name of Buddha in various Asian languages, we find Fo, Chaka-Mouni, Xaka, Somona-Codom, Schakscha-Tuba, and Budsa.
Offering a corrective counterpoint to Western inaccuracies, Lopez juxtaposes passages from Buddhist texts with the writings of missionaries, adventurers, and colonial officials, showing precisely where misunderstandings occurred and giving a sense of how certain European prejudices, whether Catholic, Protestant, imperialist, or humanist, may have shaped those errors. Yet as compelling as this corrective project is, part of the book's purpose is explicitly the recovery of these European voices—the voices of early pioneers (all of them men) who struggled, sometimes heroically, to make sense of the deeply alien cultures about which they wrote.
Lopez is interested in tracing the specifics of the conceptual shift toward our present-day understanding, in which "there is a single Buddha, beloved by both worlds [Asia and the West]," which of course seems utterly natural to us now. Few people reading this review would question the idea that Shakyamuni Buddha was an historical figure of Indian origin, founder of one of the world's great religious traditions, and a peaceful humane teacher of meditation, ethics, and insight into the nature of the mind. Yet Lopez's underlying interest is to complicate our easy grasp of this particular idea of the Buddha—to ask where and how this idea developed, especially outside of Asia, and consider whether our contemporary views have displaced important ideas about the Buddha, Buddhists, and Buddhism.
Lopez argues that our modern view of the Buddha, as a historical figure of Indian origin who founded a religion called Buddhism, was "born in Paris in 1844" when Eugene Burnouf published his Introduction a l'histoire du Budhisme indien (Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism). Indeed, Lopez playfully pokes at readers' modern understanding as he reveals the dubious path to historical certainties: "The new Buddha emerged fully formed from the brow of a single scholar, who never set foot in Asia. And not only did this new Buddha displace the old idol of Europe; in important ways he displaced the Buddha of Asia."
From Stone to Flesh urges us not only to recover an often forgotten period of our own intellectual past but also to ask what might have been lost, as well as gained, when a single international, global, historicized, humanist Buddha came to be shared by Buddhists and scholars in both Asia and the West. Lopez prods at the complacency of our modern worldview by asking us, "Was something lost in the march of scholarly progress, did something disappear when weathered stone turned to smooth flesh, when the idol turned into an 'image'?" He suggests, "Perhaps the collapse of many gods into a single human Buddha effaced a level of detail, of specificity, of locality that can no longer be discerned, yet was glimpsed long ago by the eyes that could still be captivated and astonished, eyes that could not read, eyes that could only see."
Thus Lopez does far more in this book than simply chart the often fantastical misunderstandings and willful prejudices of the European writers of earlier times. In the subtle and elegantly provocative style that readers may remember from Lopez's earlier works, From Stone to Flesh ultimately asks us to reexamine the nature of the Buddha we think we know.
Lopez hints that we might in fact want to question aspects of the so-called "scientific" study of Buddhism that dates from Burnouf. Other scholars, such as Philip Almond in his indispensable book, The British Discovery of Buddhism (and Lopez himself, in earlier works like Prisoners of Shangri-la), have spelled out in detail how European "scientists" of Buddhism working in the shadow of Burnouf came to view Buddhist teachings as best preserved and most correctly understood in Europe by European scholars and not by Asian Buddhists. European (and later American) scholars in this mold believed Asian Buddhists had allowed Buddhism to degenerate and be corrupted with ritual, magic, irrational beliefs, and tantric practices. Least corrupt, in this European view, were the Theravada traditions of Southeast Asia; most corrupt were the northern and East Asian Mahayana traditions, with the worst degeneration being found in the Vajrayana Buddhism of Tibet. Lopez does not explore these points here in full, but he suggests we might want to question our acceptance of the globalized, modernist, and in many ways secularized idea of the Buddha that has become dominant in both Europe and Asia.
In the end, Lopez posits, we may have made mistakes ourselves, wise and well-informed as we are. Perhaps we should not have been so quick to replace the profusion of local presentations of the Buddha, each a focal point of supplication and prayer, with a single figure of rationalism, science, self-help, or even humanism. Perhaps we actually require the infinite local buddhas of miracle and devotion. Lopez opens the door to forgotten possibilities: "The Buddha of Bernouf, though alive in our imagination, is long dead… He is not worshipped, he is remembered… But the idols called Xaca and Fo and Sommona-Codom remain alive, animated by the rituals of the faithful, granting our wishes, speaking to us in our dreams, inspiring our aspirations. It was not a case of mistaken identity. We should restore the idols to their empty thrones."
About Annabella Pitkin
Annabella Pitkin is assistant professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at Lehigh University. She specializes in Tibetan Buddhism and Asian intellectual history.
Topics: Books, Buddhadharma - Summer '13, Pan-Buddhist, Review, Teachings
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47th Annual MARFC Banquet in the Books!
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Thank You goes out to Jim Lamb, Lenny Trinklein, Jim Hanks, and Tim Phillips for bringing out the race cars we had on display at the banquet. It was a wide representation from past to present, Oval Track to Road Racing. We had a Waterford Hills road racer, Old Yeller from Whittemore Speedway, 2 GLS Mini-Cups, and a Winged Sprinter from Must See Racing. Everyone enjoyed the cars and I also want to pass along kudos to Kyle Trinklein and Tim Phillips who were working on the Mini-Cups right up until the doors opened up and they looked fantastic. Many thanks to those who helped with set-up and tear down of this year's banquet as without their help it would be impossible to get this thing done as efficiently as we do every year: Bob Capps, Chuck Horan, Jeff Horan, Bill Walters, Linda Walters, Laura Tucker, Sue Ginter, Scott Menlen, Larry Iacoboni, Al Peltier, and Wild Bill. Set-up was done in record time this year and tear down once again was smooth. Alan Lardie, the voice of Infineon Raceway did a wonderful job as our Emcee this year and was very well prepared and even worked through a few hiccups flawlessly. Paul Anton was once again right on top of everything as the official MARFC Photographer, Thank You Paul. I'd really like to thank our Board of Directors for being there all the time and helping out in any way possible, I appreciate it and I know the members do as well.
Our President's Award went to Harley Boeve and Port City Racecars and it was great to be able to visit with the Boeves and learn a bit more about their business and talk a bit about the success they have enjoyed over the years. One thing that I already knew but was surely reminded of is that these folks are extremely committed to racers, their safety, their success, and their employees. They truly put everything into their business along with the folks working on and assembling every Port City race Car and component that leaves their shop.
The MARFC/Eddie Sachs Jr. Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Open Wheel Veteran and USAC standout, Mr. Tom Bigelow. Tom is the winningest Sprint Car driver in USAC History and is also one of the outstanding color commentators for Must See Racing. Tom's career and accomplishments at tracks all over the United States and his prowess in a USAC Indy Car and many starts in the Indianapolis 500 made Tom a worthy choice for this honor. While Tom is a racer, he is also very active with many of the Fan Based organizations and Clubs in the Mid-West.
"Big Ed" Inloes received our MARFC Writer of the Year Award and gave us a lively acceptance speech and some banter with yours truly. Ed is very deserving of this award for all of his efforts not only this past season but for the many seasons leading up to this past year as well. Ed and his wife Linda can be found at many of the area race tracks when Ed is not in the announcing booth at Spartan Speedway on Friday nights. Ed also directs his energies to the Michigan Short track racing Club's annual Bowling Tournament that raises funds for racers that need a hand up financially. This year's event is on February 9th at the Capital Bowl in Owosso.
Our MARFC Promoter of the Year Award was given to Betty Crook of the Mt. Pleasant Speedway. Betty and her Son Mario celebrated 25 years of ownership and promotion of the speedway in 2012. Jimmy Gullett of Jim's Industrial Catering helped present the award that he sponsors in memory of longtime Toledo and former Mt. Clemens Promoter Sonny Adams.
The MARFC Mechanic of the Year Award once again went to two individuals this year, Jeff Erickson and Richie Lee were recognized by the Board of Directors for their accomplishments not only in 2012 but over the years leading up to their championship seasons.
Fan of the Year for 2012 went to longtime club member and supporter Bob Ryder. Bob helped out at numerous events this past summer at the table and with helping to sign up new members. Bob's contributions to the club over the years are immeasurable and once again this award was sponsored by Jim's Industrial Catering in memory of "Big Jim" Gullett. Bob was very pleased and surprised to be honored with this award. MARFC Appreciation Awards were given out to Jim Lamb, Lenny Trinklein, Jim Hanks/Must See Racing, Tim Phillips/GLS Mini-Cups and John Turnbull Sr.
Joe DeWitte presented the Michigan Speedway Promoters Association (MSPA) Promoter of the Year Award to a very happy and honored Tom Sprague Sr. of the Winston Speedway located just off of US-31 in Rothbury just north of Muskegon.
Terry Fitzwater was on hand to present the Henry J. Fitzwater Driver of the Year awards to Terry Senneker Jr. for asphalt and to Brandon Thirlby for dirt. Both drivers had phenomenal seasons with some very big wins in 2012.
Terry also presented the Tom Carnegie Announcer of the Year award to the voice of the Attica Raceway and the Fremont Speedway, Brian Liskai. Brian shared how very honored and excited He was to win this award and it showed in his acceptance speech. Brian extended an invitation to all present to venture down to Ohio for some great Dirt Track Racing action at both of these excellent race tracks.
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Q: How can I record work history or log including command and output on terminal with fish? I'm trying to edit /.config/fish/config.fish and add script like this env now= date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S ;set path /Users/t/logs/script_{$now}.txt ;script {$path}. But it does not work.
How should I edit config.fish file in order to record terminal log including output ?

A: First, your attempt to incorporate a timestamp in the file name is wrong. It should be now=(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S). Too, prefixing it with the env command means it won't be visible to the subsequent statements because the env causes the var to only be visible to whatever command is part of the env command. What you wrote is the equivalent of
env now=something
path=...
script $path

That first env will simply add now to the env vars then display the list of env vars.
Second, you should ensure this is only done for interactive shells:
if status is-interactive
    now=(...)
    set path /Users/...$now.txt
    script $path
end

Third, you need to avoid infinite recursion. If you don't then the shell started by the script command will start another script'ed session. There are many ways to do this but the simplest is an env var:
if test -z "$SCRIPTED"
    set -gx SCRIPTED nested
    now=(...)
    path=/Users/...$now.txt
    script $path
end

Fourth, you may want to do exec script $path once you're sure this is working reliably. Otherwise when you exit the captured session you're returned to a non-capturing shell and you may not notice the transition. Alternatively, add something like echo WARNING: your session is no longer being captured after the script command to help make it really obvious.

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Wind turbines are used for several reasons but the main reason is to generate energy from the wind. This may sound difficult but it is possible. You experience energy from the wind whenever someone runs past you quickly. A second after they pass you can feel the wind from them going by. This wind that you feel if produced in a great amount can be converted into energy. You may have seen the tall turbines standing in the fields when you drive by.
There is the older classic model windmill that helped to crush grain when the windmill blades would turn, it would turn a mechanism inside which was attached to a device that would crush grain for flour. There are several different locations that are perfect for the wind power and depending on where they are as to how much energy they produce. OffShore Turbines can be placed offshore in order to produce energy from wind in the air and from the water. They don't bother the view as much when they are out on the water and the noise that they make cannot be heard on land. The average wind speed is higher on the water because the water has less surface roughness and can use every part of energy from the wind.
There are several different locations today that you might see wind turbines offshore and there are more building in the future. The one main complaint with people and turbines is the noise they make. It is constant and annoying to some. The other complaint is that they are tall and not pleasant to look at. While all of these are true the main reason for wind turbines is to find an alternative to using fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources to produce our power. When a tower is built offshore it may cost more money in the long run because the towers need to be higher so there will be no restrictions. Turbines access power through undersea cable which may use high voltage direct current. The sea salt may also cut down on the length of time these turbines stay in shape. Near Shore These turbines can be seen but not heard. They are on water so they can produce enough energy compared to being totally on the land.
Because the sea shore lines are considered to be very windy due to the tides coming in and the wind on the water, it becomes the perfect location for a turbine. There are issues and concerns with how wildlife is using these towers and zones for their nesting and habitats. There is another concern that the shoreline wind farms are not in the best interests of those who wish to come to the shore line to visit. It becomes a sight to see and hear the generation of power through these wind mills. The size of the towers can be minimal but this causes controversy as well because the smaller the tower the lesser amount of energy to produce. Off shore and near shore are the choices we have. There are advantages and disadvantages to each one. We have to weigh the results with the problems to see which way may be best for everyone. .


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Differentially Private Optimal Power Flow for Distribution Grids
Vladimir Dvorkin, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Pierre Pinson, Jalal Kazempour
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Although distribution grid customers are obliged to share their consumption data with distribution system operators (DSOs), a possible leakage of this data is often disregarded in operational routines of DSOs. This paper introduces a privacy-preserving optimal power flow (OPF) mechanism for distribution grids that secures customer privacy from unauthorised access to OPF solutions, e.g., current and voltage measurements. The mechanism is based on the framework of differential privacy that allows to control the participation risks of individuals in a dataset by applying a carefully calibrated noise to the output of a computation. Unlike existing private mechanisms, this mechanism does not apply the noise to the optimization parameters or its result. Instead, it optimizes OPF variables as affine functions of the random noise, which weakens the correlation between the grid loads and OPF variables. To ensure feasibility of the randomized OPF solution, the mechanism makes use of chance constraints enforced on the grid limits. The mechanism is further extended to control the optimality loss induced by the random noise, as well as the variance of OPF variables. The paper shows that the differentially private OPF solution does not leak customer loads up to specified parameters.
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3031314
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Dvorkin, V., Fioretto, F., Van Hentenryck, P., Pinson, P., & Kazempour, J. (2021). Differentially Private Optimal Power Flow for Distribution Grids. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 36(3), 2186-2196. [9226144]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3031314
Differentially Private Optimal Power Flow for Distribution Grids. / Dvorkin, Vladimir; Fioretto, Ferdinando; Van Hentenryck, Pascal; Pinson, Pierre; Kazempour, Jalal.
In: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 36, No. 3, 9226144, 05.2021, p. 2186-2196.
Dvorkin, V, Fioretto, F, Van Hentenryck, P, Pinson, P & Kazempour, J 2021, 'Differentially Private Optimal Power Flow for Distribution Grids', IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 3, 9226144, pp. 2186-2196. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3031314
Dvorkin V, Fioretto F, Van Hentenryck P, Pinson P, Kazempour J. Differentially Private Optimal Power Flow for Distribution Grids. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2021 May;36(3):2186-2196. 9226144. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3031314
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T1 - Differentially Private Optimal Power Flow for Distribution Grids
AU - Dvorkin, Vladimir
AU - Fioretto, Ferdinando
AU - Van Hentenryck, Pascal
AU - Pinson, Pierre
AU - Kazempour, Jalal
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 1969-2012 IEEE.
N2 - Although distribution grid customers are obliged to share their consumption data with distribution system operators (DSOs), a possible leakage of this data is often disregarded in operational routines of DSOs. This paper introduces a privacy-preserving optimal power flow (OPF) mechanism for distribution grids that secures customer privacy from unauthorised access to OPF solutions, e.g., current and voltage measurements. The mechanism is based on the framework of differential privacy that allows to control the participation risks of individuals in a dataset by applying a carefully calibrated noise to the output of a computation. Unlike existing private mechanisms, this mechanism does not apply the noise to the optimization parameters or its result. Instead, it optimizes OPF variables as affine functions of the random noise, which weakens the correlation between the grid loads and OPF variables. To ensure feasibility of the randomized OPF solution, the mechanism makes use of chance constraints enforced on the grid limits. The mechanism is further extended to control the optimality loss induced by the random noise, as well as the variance of OPF variables. The paper shows that the differentially private OPF solution does not leak customer loads up to specified parameters.
AB - Although distribution grid customers are obliged to share their consumption data with distribution system operators (DSOs), a possible leakage of this data is often disregarded in operational routines of DSOs. This paper introduces a privacy-preserving optimal power flow (OPF) mechanism for distribution grids that secures customer privacy from unauthorised access to OPF solutions, e.g., current and voltage measurements. The mechanism is based on the framework of differential privacy that allows to control the participation risks of individuals in a dataset by applying a carefully calibrated noise to the output of a computation. Unlike existing private mechanisms, this mechanism does not apply the noise to the optimization parameters or its result. Instead, it optimizes OPF variables as affine functions of the random noise, which weakens the correlation between the grid loads and OPF variables. To ensure feasibility of the randomized OPF solution, the mechanism makes use of chance constraints enforced on the grid limits. The mechanism is further extended to control the optimality loss induced by the random noise, as well as the variance of OPF variables. The paper shows that the differentially private OPF solution does not leak customer loads up to specified parameters.
KW - Data obfuscation
KW - optimization methods
KW - privacy
U2 - 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3031314
DO - 10.1109/TPWRS.2020.3031314
JO - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems