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namespace Microsoft.Azure.Search.Models
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;

    /// <summary>
    /// Defines extension methods for the IndexingParameters class.
    /// </summary>
    public static class IndexingParametersExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies that the indexer will index only the storage metadata and completely skip the document extraction process. This is useful when
        /// you don't need the document content, nor do you need any of the content type-specific metadata properties.
        /// See <see href="https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage" /> for details.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="parameters">IndexingParameters to configure.</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This option only applies to indexers that index Azure Blob Storage.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>The IndexingParameters instance.</returns>
        [Obsolete("This method is obsolete. Please use SetBlobExtractionMode(BlobExtractionMode.StorageMetadata).")]
        public static IndexingParameters IndexStorageMetadataOnly(this IndexingParameters parameters)
        {
            return parameters.SetBlobExtractionMode(BlobExtractionMode.StorageMetadata);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies that the indexer will index only the blobs with the file name extensions you specify. Each string is a file extensions with a
        /// leading dot. For example, ".pdf", ".docx", etc. If you pass the same file extension to this method and ExcludeFileNameExtensions, blobs
        /// with that extension will be excluded from indexing (that is, ExcludeFileNameExtensions takes precedence).
        /// See <see href="https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage" /> for details.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="parameters">IndexingParameters to configure.</param>
        /// <param name="extensions">File extensions to include in indexing.</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This option only applies to indexers that index Azure Blob Storage.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>The IndexingParameters instance.</returns>
        public static IndexingParameters IndexFileNameExtensions(this IndexingParameters parameters, params string[] extensions)
        {
            if (extensions?.Length > 0)
            {
                Configure(
                    parameters,
                    "indexedFileNameExtensions",
                    extensions.Select(ValidateExtension).Select(FixUpExtension).ToCommaSeparatedString());
            }

            return parameters;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies that the indexer will not index blobs with the file name extensions you specify. Each string is a file extensions with a
        /// leading dot. For example, ".pdf", ".docx", etc. If you pass the same file extension to this method and IndexFileNameExtensions, blobs
        /// with that extension will be excluded from indexing (that is, this method takes precedence).
        /// See <see href="https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage" /> for details.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="parameters">IndexingParameters to configure.</param>
        /// <param name="extensions">File extensions to exclude from indexing.</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This option only applies to indexers that index Azure Blob Storage.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>The IndexingParameters instance.</returns>
        public static IndexingParameters ExcludeFileNameExtensions(this IndexingParameters parameters, params string[] extensions)
        {
            if (extensions?.Length > 0)
            {
                Configure(
                    parameters,
                    "excludedFileNameExtensions",
                    extensions.Select(ValidateExtension).Select(FixUpExtension).ToCommaSeparatedString());
            }

            return parameters;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies that the indexer will extract metadata, but skip content extraction for all blobs. If you want to skip content extraction for
        /// only some blobs, add AzureSearch_SkipContent metadata to those blobs individually instead of using this option.
        /// See <see href="https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage" /> for details.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="parameters">IndexingParameters to configure.</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This option only applies to indexers that index Azure Blob Storage.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>The IndexingParameters instance.</returns>
        [Obsolete("This method is obsolete. Please use SetBlobExtractionMode(BlobExtractionMode.AllMetadata).")]
        public static IndexingParameters SkipContent(this IndexingParameters parameters)
        {
            return parameters.SetBlobExtractionMode(BlobExtractionMode.AllMetadata);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies which parts of a blob will be indexed by the blob storage indexer.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This option only applies to indexers that index Azure Blob Storage.
        /// <see href="https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage" />
        /// </remarks>
        /// <param name="parameters">IndexingParameters to configure.</param>
        /// <param name="extractionMode">A <c cref="BlobExtractionMode">BlobExtractionMode</c> value specifying what to index.</param>
        /// <returns>The IndexingParameters instance.</returns>
        public static IndexingParameters SetBlobExtractionMode(this IndexingParameters parameters, BlobExtractionMode extractionMode)
        {
            return Configure(parameters, "dataToExtract", (string)extractionMode);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies that <c cref="BlobExtractionMode.StorageMetadata">BlobExtractionMode.StorageMetadata</c> blob extraction mode will be
        /// automatically used for blobs of unsupported content types. The default is false.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This option only applies to indexers that index Azure Blob Storage.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <param name="parameters">IndexingParameters to configure.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        /// <returns>The IndexingParameters instance.</returns>
        public static IndexingParameters DoNotFailOnUnsupportedContentType(this IndexingParameters parameters)
        {
            return Configure(parameters, "failOnUnsupportedContentType", false);
        }

        private static IndexingParameters Configure(IndexingParameters parameters, string key, object value)
        {
            Throw.IfArgumentNull(parameters, nameof(parameters));

            if (parameters.Configuration == null)
            {
                parameters.Configuration = new Dictionary<string, object>();
            }

            parameters.Configuration[key] = value;
            return parameters;
        }

        private static string ValidateExtension(string extension)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(extension))
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("Extension cannot be null or empty string.");
            }

            if (extension.Contains("*"))
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("Extension cannot contain the wildcard character '*'.");
            }

            return extension;
        }

        private static string FixUpExtension(string extension)
        {
            if (!extension.StartsWith(".", StringComparison.Ordinal))
            {
                return "." + extension;
            }

            return extension;
        }
    }
}

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Boat with figures measures approximately 11cm tall, 13cm long, and 4.5cm wide.


Business blogging "best practices" instruct bloggers to include a relevant call-to-action at the bottom of every blog post. This is nothing groundbreaking -- it's how you convert visitors to your blog into valuable inbound leads for your business.
But are those end-of-post calls-to-action (CTAs) really the best option? After all, any conversion rate optimization expert worth their salt knows to take industry "best practices" with, well, a grain of salt.
Over the years, I've spent a lot of time analyzing HubSpot's Marketing Blog. While I've been able to identify which individual blog posts generate the most leads, I'd never dug any deeper to understand which specific calls-to-action within those blog posts people were actually converting on.
When we introduced a new type of CTA to our blog posts as part of the historical optimization project last year, we ultimately doubled the conversion rates of the posts we added it to. So it got me wondering: Are end-of-post CTAs really the best way to generate leads from our blog? How do different types of CTAs within a post compare?
To get a better understanding of where our blog leads are coming from on the post level, I analyzed a cohort of 11 posts on the blog that generate an above average number of leads every month.
To do so, I created unique tracking URLs (using HubSpot) for the CTAs used within each blog post. Essentially, any individual link within a blog post that led to a landing page got its own tracking URL. So for a post with 10 different CTAs, I created 10 unique tracking URLs. Then I replaced the links within those posts using my unique tracking URLs, and waited four weeks to collect data.
End-of-post banner CTAs contributed an average of just 6% of posts' total leads.
Crazy, huh? Actually, when you think about it, it's really not that surprising that these CTAs get very little play. We'll talk about the reasons why in just a minute.
Here's how an end-of-post banner CTA might look on our blog. It's essentially a full-width banner CTA at the very bottom of the post, and it typically includes some copy, an image, and a "download" button.
So, if our leads aren't coming from the CTAs at the bottom of our blog posts, where are they coming from … and why?
Anchor text CTAs are responsible for the majority of our blog leads.
An anchor text CTA is the term I've given to a specific kind of text-based call-to-action. It's a standalone line of text linked to a landing page, and it's styled as an H3 or an H4 to make it stand out from the rest of the post's body copy. On HubSpot's Marketing Blog, we mainly use these between the post's first few introductory paragraphs, but we may also add them throughout the post in cases like this.
In every single post we tracked, the anchor text CTA was responsible for the largest percentage of that post's leads (by far).
In fact, between 47% and 93% of a post's leads came from the anchor text CTA alone.
And the data gets even more compelling when you factor in the anchor text CTA's cousin -- the internal link CTA.
An 'internal link CTA' is my term for what is essentially an anchor text CTA, but rather than being styled as an H3 or an H3 in a separate line of text, it's positioned within a paragraph block, making it blend in more with the content around it. It could be something as discrete as hyperlinking a keyword to a landing page like you see in image A below, or something more direct like you see in image B (which we found to be the most successful type of internal link CTA).
Between 83% and 93% of each post's leads came from anchor text CTAs and internal link CTAs.
1) People tend to develop "banner blindness," and these text-based CTAs don't look like ads.
The fact that these anchor text CTAs blend in more with the rest of the post may be one of the reasons they perform well. Like I mentioned earlier, because people are so accustomed to seeing and ignoring ads, they're more likely to ignore CTAs that resemble them. I'd say this is especially true for marketers -- and marketers are the target audience for this blog.
And aside from the fact that anchor text CTAs are slightly larger than the rest of the blog's body copy, there are really no bells and whistles or gimmicks associated with this type of CTA. Because they're so straightforward, people may also perceive them as being more genuine than the typical image-based, banner CTA.
2) Readers rarely make it to the end of a blog post, so showing relevant CTAs sooner is more effective.
There are quite a few studies out there that show that most people don't read articles in their entirety. In fact, scroll map tracking we've done on this very blog supports this data, too. We recently tracked a bunch of blog posts in Crazy Egg, and the scroll maps all show that our readers rarely see the CTA at the bottom of posts because few of them even make it to the bottom.
And those who do make it to the end seem to bounce as soon as they read the last line of text, completely avoiding the image-based CTA at the bottom -- which supports our first theory about banner blindness.
3) Relevant anchor text CTAs give visitors exactly what they were searching for right off the bat.
Many of our top lead generating posts have highly relevant anchor text CTAs that include the exact keywords visitors were searching for when they found the post. This is one of the main goals of our historical optimization project: Knowing that the majority of the blog's new traffic and leads comes from organic search, we've optimized our highest traffic posts using the keywords they rank for.
To explain using an example, let's say you search for "press release template" in Google, and you click on the first organic result, which is currently our blog post about how to write a press release. As a searcher, the next thing you'd probably do is quickly scan the post to see if it satisfies your search. Now, if one of the first things that catches your eye is an anchor text CTA that reads, "Download our free press release template here" -- which happens to be exactly what you were looking for when you searched "press release template" -- then there's a pretty good chance you're going to click on it.
In other words, the anchor text CTA works really well in this case because it satisfies the visitor's need right away -- within the first few paragraphs of the blog post. What's important to emphasize here is relevancy. The more relevant the anchor text CTA is to what the visitor is looking for, the better it performs.
This means that simply adding an anchor text CTA near the top of every blog post won't necessarily mean it will generate a ton more leads; the relevancy of the CTA to the content of the blog post is a critical factor in its success.
In analyzing the varying lead gen effectiveness of different posts that include anchor text CTAs, it's easy to identify why some perform better than others, and it all boils down to how relevant the anchor text CTA (and thus the offer it promotes) is to the content of the blog post.
Based on my analysis, slide-in CTAs do seem to perform better than end-of-post CTAs. This makes sense since visitors see them sooner (they slide in at about 25%-50% of the way down the post), and they're more interactive (they slide out at the visitor and catch their eye). That said, they still don't come close to matching the effectiveness of text-based CTAs.
Once we knew how valuable anchor text CTAs were for generating leads from our blog, we doubled down and added them to about 80 other old, high-traffic blog posts that didn't already have them.
The view-to-lead conversion rate of posts that didn't previously have an anchor text CTA increased by an average of 121% when anchor text CTAs were added.
While we now know how valuable anchor text CTAs are, our team is still very selective about which posts we add them to. We mainly target old posts that rank in search because it allows us to identify which keywords searchers are using to find those posts and match that intent with a highly relevant offer/anchor text CTA.
We also know that the majority (68%) of traffic we get to our blog comes from organic search, and the majority of that organic search traffic (74%) is made up of brand new site visitors who can't possibly be leads in our database. This means our older posts, which pull in all that organic search traffic, have the highest potential to generate new leads.
On the flip side, we know that the majority (60%-70%) of initial traffic we generate to a brand new post we publish comes from our email subscribers. We also know that 80% of the email traffic to the blog is made up of returning visitors, and 79% of our email subscribers are already leads in our database. In other words, our brand new content doesn't have as much potential to generate leads because of the type of traffic it attracts.
As a result, we purposely limit our use of anchor text CTAs on brand new posts, because most of the traffic we get to those posts are A) already leads, and B) some of the biggest fans of our content, whom we want to have the best possible user experience.
One Final Note About "Best Practices"
Remember, while we've found that end-of-post banner CTAs don't perform very well for our particular blog, that doesn't mean they won't for yours. Each blog is unique, attracting different types of audiences and publishing different types of content -- among a slew of other variables.
In a perfect world, every blog manager would run this CTA study and conduct a lot of testing themselves to determine the best conversion strategy for their individual blog. But it's also important to understand that not every blog has access to the resources necessary -- like a dedicated optimization team and a high volume of traffic -- to do a lot of in-depth testing.
So while conversion rate optimization experts warn against relying on "best practices," taking direction from them isn't a bad approach when you're just getting started with a new tactic or you don't have a lot of resources, time, or traffic to test things out for yourself.


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Semiretired Nuclear Physician and now a budding PET / CT expert. I finished up at my private NM practice at The Mount Hospital in Perth in 2014. I then trained in PET/CT reporting at Westmead and Monash and have gained experience with the technique in Albury, Sydney (St George Hospital), Canberra and Brisbane / Gold Coast since that time. It is challenging work but I find it most rewarding. I'm off to work in Hobart and Mackay in newly established PET/CT services in early 2018.


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The Magech River () is a river of Ethiopia. It rises just off the city of Gondar, and flows south into Lake Tana at the latitude and longitude of . Its tributaries include the Dmaza, the Lesser Angereb, and the Ahyamezoriya.

The Magech is known for having two bridges cross it which were built either by Portuguese artisans or during the reign of Fasilides: one of five arches, and another of three arches upstream near Gondar.

On 21 June 2007, the World Bank announced that it had approved an International Development Association credit of US$100 million for an Irrigation and Drainage project covering the Magech and Reb rivers, as part of the Nile Basin Initiative. With the goal of increasing irrigated agricultural output, this proposed project will develop incrementally a total area of 20,000 hectares.

See also
 List of rivers of Ethiopia

References

Tributaries of Lake Tana
Rivers of Ethiopia

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Winter months' are the least appropriate for planting cuttings and re-potting. Unless you are in the mildest of areas where growing conditions continue during this season, hold off planting new cuttings. Usually cuttings can be successfully stored in a cool, dark, damp place till warmer weather arrives. The same recommendation applies to re-potting. If a plant shows signs of stress it is likely due to cold weather and will rectify its appearance the following spring. If however you feel the plant is suffering from a waterlogged root system due to poor pot drainage or excessive rainfall, remove the plant from the pot and inspect the root system. When a root mass has rotted away from water or frost the best remedy is to remove the roots completely. As long as the plant remains in a humid environment it will survive out of the pot until planting season returns. Store the plant as you would un-rooted cuttings. Call our Nursery at 619.987-6251 with questions or to ask about availability or email us.
Winter is the "traditional" time not to fertilize. This dormancy period allows new growth to mature or "harden-off". However, Plants that are too young to flower the following season should continue to be fed during the dormancy period with a balanced "slow released" fertilizer such as 10-10-10 or 14-14-14. Call Garden Jewels Nursery at 619-987-6251 if you have any questions or you can email us.
Cooler weather can still deceptively wick moisture from your plants unless humidity levels are high. Continue to check your plants weekly for soil moisture and follow the August watering directions. Call Garden Jewels Nursery at 619-987-6251 if you have any questions or you can email us.
It is important that you continue to groom your plants. If you were diligent when your plants stopped blooming at the end of the growing season, then you can take a well deserved rest. Remember, your epie will let you know which branches need to be removed. Remove all dead plant material by breaking off branches or using sterilized shears. Call Garden Jewels Nursery at 619-987-6251 if you have any questions or you can email us.
Winter months are the least appropriate for planting cuttings and re-potting. You should be able to store any unspotted cuttings in a cool, dark, damp place until warmer weather arrives. If you feel that your plant is suffering from too much water and that the roots might be rotting, then you need to remove the plant from the pot. You then need to completely remove the roots. As long as you keep your epie in a humid environment it will survive out of the pot until planting season. You should store this plant just like you would unrooted cuttings. Call Garden Jewels Nursery at 619-987-6251 if you have any questions or you can email us.
Provide as much light for your epies as possible during the winter months. Epies do not want direct sunlight Remember – if you need to cover your plants during a rain – if possible remove this layer as soon as practical to allow more light for your epies. Call Garden Jewels Nursery at 619-987-6251 if you have any questions or you can email us.


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Visa abandons $5.3 billion acquisition after DOJ objections
2020 was the best year for PC shipments in a decade
Amazon buys planes for the first time to expand its cargo air fleet
Magic Leap settles sex discrimination lawsuit with former employee
The original complaint contained allegations of racism and ageism, too.
Rob LeFebvre, @roblef
Mike Blake / Reuters
Magic Leap created some serious buzz back in 2014 when Google, Qualcomm and other tech giants lined up to heavily invest in its mysterious mixed reality headset. Unfortunately, the tech may not live up to its own hype. Making things even worse, the company was sued for sex discrimination this past February by former employee Tannen Campbell, who, ironically, was hired to help create a more female-friendly product. While no specific terms have been revealed, the company filed a notice of settlement May 8th; the suit should be officially dismissed by June 2nd.
Campbell initially sued Magic Leap for "hostile environment sex discrimination and retaliation," citing anecdotes that paint Magic Leap as having a misogynist culture. The lawsuit says that the company does not value women for their technical skills, while it also stereotypes them as homemakers, wives and sex objects. The suit alleges that Magic Leap's management are aware of the gender-based hostility within the company. It describes a 50-slide presentation Tannen created about gender diversity in the workplace that was cancelled six times, a "Female Brain Trust Initiative" that was only window dressing and an app that was to be bundled with the company's headset in which the sole female character was only shown groveling at a male protagonist's feet.
It's not just reports of sexism, either. The lawsuit also claims that when IT support lead Euen Thompson was asked a question during a tutorial session for new hires, he reportedly said that women always have trouble with computers. He then followed up with, "In IT We have a saying; stay away from the Three Os: Orientals, Old People and Ovaries."
While a settlement isn't a legal admission of guilt, it's hard to see Magic Leap as doing anything here except damage control around a typically privileged tech startup culture. Creating an augmented reality system to rival that of even Microsoft's Hololens is likely tough, and an environment that only supports its white male employees won't make it any easier.
In this article: ageism, business, court, gear, lawsuit, magicleap, personal computing, personalcomputing, racism, settlement, sexdiscrimination

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Another medtech initial public offering is in the offing: this time, molecular diagnostic specialist Signal Genetics hopes to raise around $25m by offering 2.3 million shares at $10-12 each. At the midpoint of this range, this would give Signal a market cap of $53m. The New York-based firm plans to list on the Nasdaq market under the ticker symbol SGNL. Founded in 2010, Signal booked sales of $4.3m in 2013, down 2% year-on-year; but narrowed its net loss to $2.4m from $7.6m in 2012.


Hayes & Yeading needed an extra 30 minutes at the SKYex on Tuesday evening to finally move into the next round of the Emirates FA Cup after yet another 3-3 draw against Maldon & Tiptree, you cannot say these 2 teams don't entertain!
With both sides missing key personnel courtesy of injuries picked up on Saturday, it was United who struck the first blow on 10 minutes when Joakim Ehui received the ball on the right of the box from Rohdell Gordon, the wing-back cutting the ball back from the bye-line to Josh Chamberlain who fired home from just inside the box.
United tried to push further with the advantage and soon afterwards, a long pass by Danny Blanchett perfectly picked out Joakim Ehui on the flank, he fed older brother Ismael who in turn switched the ball into the path of the on-coming Rowan Vine, the striker's shot just clearing the Jammers crossbar.
Vine forced another opening minutes later when he outpaced his marker only to be denied by Jammers 'keeper Andy Walker who blocked his shot away.
Just before the half hour though the visitors from Essex got themselves level. Johnville Renee collected a pass inside the box and instantly picked out Suliaman Bah just outside the six yard box, Jack Smith did very well to keep out his first effort but could do nothing to keep out the close range volleyed follow-up by the same player.
Far from being discouraged by the Jammers equaliser, United continued to push for more, and more duly arrived before the break. The lead was restored on 37 minutes by as direct a route as you will see, Jack Smith's long clearance just cleared the centre of the Jammers defence, Vine ran on past the turning defenders before slipping the ball past Walker.
A minute from the break United were to extend the lead with Ismael Ehui collecting Chamberlain's miss-hit shot before curling the ball beyond Walker into the far corner.
The visitors re-shaped for the start of the second half by switching to a flat back four and this approach was to pay dividends fairly quickly as they got back in the game within ten minutes.
United actually went close to a fourth first as Gordon's free-kick from wide on the left skipped past all and sundry only to be pushed away by the diving Walker. The Jammers pulled to within one of United in the 53rd minute when Ryan Clampin broke away on the left, he outpaced Joakim Ehui before crossing low to former United striker Junior Ogedi-Uzokwe who beat Smith from close range.
The Jammers were now in control of the ball for the most part, Ogedi-Uzokwe received the ball in the box only to be denied by an excellent sliding block by Blanchett as he shaped to shoot. As we moved in to the final fifteen minutes, Alfie Rowland broke on the left and crossed to fellow substitute Kieran Bailey, Smith getting down quickly to gather the ball in.
Ten minutes from time Spyros Mentis met a Chamberlain centre but his header was off target and then with just two minutes left the Jammers earned a free-kick 20 yards out, skipper Matt Lock stepped up but could not keep the effort down.
Into stoppage time we moved and the Jammers were again awarded a free-kick in a similar position, this time Renee took the kick, beat the wall only for the ball to come back off the post to Kieran Bailey who nodded it back across the six yard box to full-back George Keys who thumped it into the roof of the net from close range to force extra time.
With many pairs of tired legs on show by now and the rain blowing across the pitch, the first chance fell to the visitors, Smith doing well to tip a Renee drive over the crossbar just three minutes in.
Still the visitors pushed and at this time looked the more likely to break the deadlock. Keys picked out Ogedi-Uzokwe in the middle, his header being blocked on the line by Matthew Hall who then cleared the danger and this was quickly followed by Bailey pouncing on a loose ball on the edge of the United box and forcing another save from Smith who pushed his drive away to safety.
What was to be the blow that finally ended the visitors resistance came just ten minutes before a penalty shoot-out. Chamberlain curled a dangerous free-kick into the Jammers box, a defender inadvertently headed the ball back across his own six yard box and as he had on Saturday, defender Harly Wise met the ball and slotted it past Walker.
With a minute to go United could have had a fifth when Gordon collected the ball from Frankie Jones and broke away, he was held up on the edge by retreating defenders before feeding the ball back to Jones who saw his effort blocked away however the final whistle blew minutes later and it's United who will make the trip to "Bucharest" in the next round to face FC Romania.


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Home NEWS Three things about 3D printing
Three things about 3D printing
3D-printed excavator moves dirt at ConExpo 2017's Tech Experience pavilion.Photo: Keith Norbury
MILWAUKEE — The 3D-printed excavator unveiled at ConExpo-Con/Agg and IFPE in Las Vegas in March 2017 was more than just an attention-getter.
It demonstrated how three-dimensional printing has slowly but surely developed into a disruptive technology poised to have far-reaching effects on the equipment industry.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers was part of the team effort that developed that 3D-printed excavator, which was displayed at the event's inaugural Tech Experience.
(Editor's note: Mark Noakes, a senior researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory who was explaining at the pavilion how 3D printing works, told Service Truck Magazine that only a few of the excavator's components were actually 3D printed. They included parts of the cab and an arm of the boom.)
The AEM relays three things to keep in mind when looking at 3D printing and its potential for equipment manufacturing.
Enormous potential, but still evolving
The consensus right now among leading additive manufacturing experts is that the technology's immediate potential can be most readily found in smaller-scale deployments, according to Dr. Lonnie Love, corporate research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
"(3D printing) is not going to change all of manufacturing overnight," Love says. "It's not going to displace casting. It's not going to displace welding."
One key hurdle to adoption is that 3D printing is not yet fast enough, Love says.
"When you make these great parts at low volumes, you don't care that it takes a week or a month … but we've got to go faster because it drives the productivity up and the costs down (for manufacturers)."
Does things never done before
Love and his colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can attest to both the technology's incredible capabilities and its value proposition for manufacturers.
They were involved in building the world's first operational 3D-printed excavator unveiled at ConExpo.
Known as Project AME (Additive Manufactured Excavator), the excavator was 3D printed using a variety of machines to create and assemble three components: a cab, a boom, and a heat exchanger. The excavator's boom was fabricated using a cutting-edge free-form additive manufacturing technique to print large-scale metal components.
It was an incredible undertaking, and the success of Project AME proved the sky's really the limit in terms of what 3D-printing technology can do.
Creates efficiencies and save money
The costly and time-consuming process of tooling is a prime example of an opportunity for manufacturers to leverage 3D printing to create efficiencies.
According to Love, the production of molds, jigs and fixtures used in the mass production of heavy equipment can take months, run six-figure costs and very often involve tooling companies based overseas. However, Love says the widespread adoption of additive manufacturing could change all that.
"This may be a mechanism to rapidly get tooling back in the U.S., to make it take days and not months," Love says. "It costs thousands instead of hundreds of thousands. We've already proven this on the automotive and aerospace sides. Now it's time to take a look at construction and see where it fits."
The equipment industry has earned a well-deserved reputation for designing and building machinery that stays in use for decades. But manufacturers spend heavily to keep massive inventories of spare parts on hand to meet customer needs.
According to Love, companies are now combating that challenge by cutting back on the overhead costs of warehouse space through 3D printing.
"The advantage of this technology is you could actually print a replacement part without having to have that inventory," Love says. "That, to me, has tremendous potential."
The Tech Experience returns to the next ConExpo in 2020. For more information, visit www.conexpoconagg.com.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers has more than 950 member companies, including dozens of makers of service trucks and related accessories.
Editor's note: The following is a lightly edited version of an article submitted by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.
3D printing Association of Equipment Manufacturers


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On this day in 2001, Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel joined Villa from Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon.
The man known as the Great Dane had previously been hugely successful as a Manchester United player.
He spent only one season at Villa Park, making 36 appearances, although he created two records at Everton in October 2001 when he became both the first keeper to score for Villa and the oldest scorer in the club's history.


Summary The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive authentication information via vectors involving error messages.
description Christian Holler, Terrence Cole, Jesse Ruderman, Gary Kwong, Eric Rescorla, Jonathan Kew, Dan Gohman, Ryan VanderMeulen, Carsten Book, Andrew Sutherland, Byron Campen, Nicholas Nethercote, Paul Adenot, David Baron, Julian Seward and Sotaro Ikeda discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1477, CVE-2014-1478) Cody Crews discovered a method to bypass System Only Wrappers. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential data or execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1479) Jordi Chancel discovered that the downloads dialog did not implement a security timeout before button presses are processed. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2014-1480) Fredrik Lonnqvist discovered a use-after-free in Firefox. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1482) Jordan Milne discovered a timing flaw when using document.elementFromPoint and document.caretPositionFromPoint on cross-origin iframes. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential imformation. (CVE-2014-1483) Frederik Braun discovered that the CSP implementation in Firefox did not handle XSLT stylesheets in accordance with the specification, potentially resulting in unexpected script execution in some circumstances (CVE-2014-1485) Arthur Gerkis discovered a use-after-free in Firefox. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1486) Masato Kinugawa discovered a cross-origin information leak in web worker error messages. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential information. (CVE-2014-1487) Yazan Tommalieh discovered that web pages could activate buttons on the default Firefox startpage (about:home) in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause data loss by triggering a session restore. (CVE-2014-1489) Soeren Balko discovered a crash in Firefox when terminating web workers running asm.js code in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1488) Several issues were discovered with ticket handling in NSS. An attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service or bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms. (CVE-2014-1490, CVE-2014-1491) Boris Zbarsky discovered that security restrictions on window objects could be bypassed under certain circumstances. (CVE-2014-1481). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description USN-2102-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update introduced a regression which could make Firefox crash under some circumstances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Christian Holler, Terrence Cole, Jesse Ruderman, Gary Kwong, Eric Rescorla, Jonathan Kew, Dan Gohman, Ryan VanderMeulen, Carsten Book, Andrew Sutherland, Byron Campen, Nicholas Nethercote, Paul Adenot, David Baron, Julian Seward and Sotaro Ikeda discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1477, CVE-2014-1478) Cody Crews discovered a method to bypass System Only Wrappers. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential data or execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1479) Jordi Chancel discovered that the downloads dialog did not implement a security timeout before button presses are processed. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2014-1480) Fredrik Lonnqvist discovered a use-after-free in Firefox. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1482) Jordan Milne discovered a timing flaw when using document.elementFromPoint and document.caretPositionFromPoint on cross-origin iframes. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential imformation. (CVE-2014-1483) Frederik Braun discovered that the CSP implementation in Firefox did not handle XSLT stylesheets in accordance with the specification, potentially resulting in unexpected script execution in some circumstances (CVE-2014-1485) Arthur Gerkis discovered a use-after-free in Firefox. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1486) Masato Kinugawa discovered a cross-origin information leak in web worker error messages. An attacker could potentially exploit this to steal confidential information. (CVE-2014-1487) Yazan Tommalieh discovered that web pages could activate buttons on the default Firefox startpage (about:home) in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause data loss by triggering a session restore. (CVE-2014-1489) Soeren Balko discovered a crash in Firefox when terminating web workers running asm.js code in some circumstances. An attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1488) Several issues were discovered with ticket handling in NSS. An attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service or bypass cryptographic protection mechanisms. (CVE-2014-1490, CVE-2014-1491) Boris Zbarsky discovered that security restrictions on window objects could be bypassed under certain circumstances. (CVE-2014-1481). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
description Multiple security issues have been found in Iceweasel, Debian's version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-frees, too-verbose error messages and missing permission checks may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, the bypass of security checks or information disclosure. This update also addresses security issues in the bundled version of the NSS crypto library. This update updates Iceweasel to the ESR24 series of Firefox.
description See http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/24.3.0/releasenotes/ for changelog. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.


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Joshua Buatsi had no problems with the first defence of his WBA international light-heavyweight title as he took just two minutes and 53 seconds to knock out Tony Averlant in Newcastle.
Buatsi moved his record to 8-0 and recorded a sixth stoppage victory at the Metro Radio Arena on Saturday night.
And the Croydon puncher's quick finish was made more impressive by the fact that Frenchman Averlant (26-11-2) had gone seven rounds with world-ranked Anthony Yarde in his previous bout.
"I didn't expect it [a quick finish," said Buatsi. "He is a seasoned fighter. I didn't expect it or go looking for it. I noticed early I had hurt him to the body.
Newcastle's Hosea Burton (22-1) was ringside to demand a showdown.
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Mobile Phones Will Reshape Our Personal Digital Experience: Huawei
The company has said that it will be investing 35 million Euros in Paris OpenLab over next five years. The US Government is blacklisting Huawei
"As personal computing centers, mobile phones will integrate more naturally with devices like tablets, PCs, TVs, and cars to form a more user-centric ecosystem, which will provide a seamless and more intuitive digital experience", said an official statement released by Huawei.
Huawei Deputy Chairman Ken Hu, while addressing VivaTech Conference in Paris, said "It doesn't matter if you are a startup or an established business, you need to figure out how to maximize the potential of digital technologies and seize the opportunity to innovate."
It is to be noted here that the Government of USA is blacklisting Huawei in America. The blacklisting has limited Huawei's access to US suppliers. Huawei is being prosecuted by the Justice Department (USA) over accusations of bank fraud and technology.
Huawei in a statement said, "This decision is in no one's interest. It will do significant economic harm to the American companies with which Huawei does business."
Huawei now sees France as the next global innovation hub
The company said that its decision of investing 35 million Euros in Paris Openlab shows that France was on the way to become a global innovation hub.
In a keynote speech titled "Our Shared Ambition", Hu shared how converging digital technologies are bringing revolutionary change, and highlighted that openness and collaboration is the only way to drive innovation forward. "This is the best time for innovation," Hu said. "Here in France, you've got world-leading basic research, so many talented people, and an innovation-friendly environment. France is in a great position to be a global hub for innovation. Huawei has been here for 17 years, and we are so proud to be part of this ambition."
5G, cloud, and AI main drivers of innovation
Technologies like 5G, cloud, and AI, as per Hu, are the main drivers of innovation, accelerating digital transformation across all industries. Huawei shared that by 2025, there will be 100 billion connections around the world, all companies will use cloud, and 77 per cent of cloud applications will be powered by AI.
Hu remarked, "When these technologies are combined, there will be fundamental changes to all industries. These technologies will also reshape everything we are familiar with today," Hu explained.
According to Hu, mobile phones will reshape our personal digital experience. As personal computing centers, mobile phones will integrate more naturally with devices like tablets, PCs, TVs, and cars to form a more user-centric ecosystem, which will provide a seamless and more intuitive digital experience.
Ken Hu
Paris openlab
VivaTech Conference
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Masquerading as Ransomware
Wiperware is only ransomware in that it masquerades as such when performing a campaign against a specific target, Blumira's Matthew Warner said.
"Ransomware and pseudo ransomware do use the same mechanisms to download and deploy their functionality against the impacted hosts, such as PowerShell, wscript and registry modifications," he said. "The main difference is that the attackers must craft their attacks in a way that allows for maximum success in data destruction rather than trying to encrypt as much as possible while still allowing access for future decryption. Ransomware, especially ransomware as a service, often has a component of 'customer service' to allow for bounty payment and recovery of data, and must be built to allow this behavior by the victim."
For wiperware, the attackers must not only ensure that they can erase data from all useful drives, but do so while their own attack persists on the host until completion, Warner said.
"In the case of the Trellix sample, the attackers maintained an open ping until they completed the deletion of all potentially useful files on the host with a final clean-up step," he said. "While this data may be recoverable by an incident response team on a case-by-case basis, it would require significant effort and cost per-machine to do so."
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Carol Watkins, MD
Northern County Psychiatric Associates
Carol Watkins, M.D.
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Diplomate: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
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My patients have always taught me critical lessons about the challenges of living with mental illness. Even more important, they taught me one very valuable lesson that I continue to hold in the highest esteem today: My role as a psychiatrist is to not only alleviate the symptoms of mental illness, but o also help individuals redefine themselves. Through proper treatment, I am able to help my patients make lasting changes in their sense of self, their relationships, and their lives.
Chief Child Fellow, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: University of Maryland
Fellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: University of Maryland
General Psychiatry Residency: University of Maryland
Externship: Developmental Pediatrics: University of Virginia
Externship: Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback: University of Virginia
MD: University of Virginia
BS, Magna Cum Laude: Davidson College
Brodie Award for Psychotherapy
Muncie Award for Research
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I believe that to work successfully with my patients, I must be knowledgeable of the changing issues they face in their lives, the limitations they have encountered based on their history, and do my best to understand life from their perspective. My work requires not only a solid understanding of the developmental and mental-health issues, it also requires rigorous and ongoing interaction with my peers to stay abreast of the latest breakthroughs.
Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
Editorial Board: Diabetes Forecast
Editorial Board: Maryland Medicine
Chair: Women's Issues Committee, Baltimore County Medical Association
Professional Advisory Board for Greater Baltimore CHADD
Professional Advisory Board National ADDA (Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder)
Member: American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Maryland Med Chi, Maryland Regional Council for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Professional Advisory Board, Greater Baltimore CHADD, American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, American Association for Therapeutic Humor, Society for the Study of Light and Biological Rhythms.
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2360 West Joppa Road #223, Lutherville, MD 21093
Visit our web site to download our articles on AD/HD, Depression, Bereavement, OCD, Parenting and More! www.ncpamd.com
View slides from our previous lectures and presentations
Dr. Watkins will present a conference at the national meeting of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder in October 2002. The topic will be practical management of stimulant medications in AD/HD.
Dr. Watkins will present a talk on diagnosis or Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults at a meeting of GUILD, an organization for adults with learning differences, December 12, 2002.
Dr. Watkins presented an interactive workshop on bullying at Norbell School April 23, 2002
Dr. Watkins spoke on Psychopharmacology for Children and Adolescents and on Stimulant Medications for Maryland Chapter of the NASW.
Dr. Watkins was apresenter at the Mid-Atlantic Interdisciplinary Conference on AD/HD March 9, 2002, Loyola College Graduate Center, Timonium, MD. Her talk deal with side effects of medications used to treat AD/HD.
Dr. Brynes was featured in an article for The Reporter, the Online Journal for the American Anxiety Disorders Association, September, 2001, New Thinking on Anxiety and Aging: Anxiety Disorders Common in the Elderly
Dr. Watkins was interviewed for an article on bullying in the Prince George's Sentinel Newspaper, September 2001.
Dr. Watkins given the Volunteer of the Year Award by National CHADD at their annual conference in Los Angeles, October 2001.
Ms. Preller was featured on the television show, "Teens Talk Back" discussing family issues related to drug and alcohol abuse.
"Dr. Watkins will be the featured speaker at the First Annual CHADD Charity Golf Tournament, May 14, 2001 in Ijamsville, MD Call the CHADD National Office at (301) 306-7070x110 for more information.
Dr. Watkins was appointed to the editorial board of Maryland Medicine
Dr. Watkins was appointed to the editorial board of Diabetes Forecast, a journal of the American Diabetes Association.
Attention Deficit Disorder in Girls and Women
Dr. Watkins will present a talk at the BCMA Women's Issues Committee May 18, 2001 at 12:30PM. This meeting is open to Maryland physicians and members of the medical auxiliary societies. Call 410-296-1232 for more information.
Dr Watkins was elected to be a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association Fall 2000.
Families Involved Together: Dr. Watkins will present a workshop on "Your ADHD Child" at the F.I.T. annual meeting November 4, 2000 1:00 to 2:30 PM in Baltimore. For more information call F.I.T. at 410-464-2606.
Dr. Watkins will present a talk on Medications for Adults and Children with AD/HD at Greater Baltimore CHADD on December 6 at 7 PM. The meeting will be at the Towson Unitarian Universalist Church, 1701 Dulaney Valley Road. Call 410-377-0249 for more information.
Prevention Magazine Dr. Watkins was quoted in the November 2000 article "More than the blues: learn how to spot kids' depression"
Baltimore Magazine: October 2000 Dr. Watkins was interviewed about Medications for Preschoolers with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder.
Dr. Watkins will present a talk on social skills at the White Oak School in Baltimore County on October 12, 2000 at 7 PM.
Dr. Watkins will be featured on a live web conference at 9 PM Eastern Daylight Time September 27, 2000 on http://www.healthyplace.com Medications for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Dr. Brynes will be featured on a live web conference at 9 PM Eastern Daylight Time September 28, 2000 on http://www.healthyplace.com Medications for Depression.
Dr Watkins was quoted in the Baltimore Sun September 17, 2000 Personal Finance Column, "Be careful when lending to relatives."
Dr. Watkins presented an all-day workshop on "Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents" in Orlando, Florida for the Florida Association of School Psychologists May 12, 2000.
Dr. Watkins presented a talk on Dealing with Bullies and How Not To Be One at Pinewood Elementary School. May 10, 2000.
Dr. Watkins appeared on NewsNight Maryland to discuss Shyness and Social Phobia. WMPT Channel 22 Tuesday, 7PM March 7, 2000.
Dr. Watkins presented a talk on Managing Your Challenging Child at Timonium Elementary School on January 13, 2000
On October 20, 1999, Dr. Watkins chaired a panel discussion on "New Developments and Research in AD/HD. She will present on Comorbidity in Adults with AD/HD and New medications for Adult AD/HD. The Conference will be held at GBMC in Towson, MD.
Dr. Watkins presented grand rounds for the department of Pediatrics at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, MD. The Topic will be Parent Coach, Advocate and Partner: Counseling Parents of AD/HD Children and Adolescents October 13, 1999. Union Memorial Hospital.
October 1, 1999 Dr. Watkins chaired a panel discussion on Medicine and Motherhood at the quarterly Women's Issues Committee of the Baltimore County Medical Society.
"Coping with Your Diagnosis" by Carol Watkins, M.D. in Diabetes Forecast June 2002
"Pharmaceutical Companies and Our Education" by Carol Watkins, M.D. in Maryland Medicine Summer, 2001
"Does Competition Build Kids' Self Esteem?" By Carol Watkins, M.D. in Attention Magazine August 2001
"When It's Not AD/HD" By Carol Watkins, M.D. and Glenn Brynes, Ph.D., M.D. in Attention Magazine June 2001
"Generations: Pioneering Women Psychiatrists in Maryland" by Carol Watkins, M.D. The Maryland Psychiatrist, Fall 1999. The first in a series of articles looking at the experiences of female psychiatrists at various phases in their careers.
"The Gifted AD/HD Child and Adolescent: Between Two Worlds" by Carol Watkins, M.D. Hypertalk Fall and Winter 1999-2000.
"Depression and Anxiety in the Person with Diabetes" by Carol Watkins, M.D. Practical Diabetology, December, 1998.
"Neurobiological Diagnosis and Personal Responsibility: How Does Morality Fit In With AD/HD?" Addvance Magazine, Summer, 1998.
"Adult Attention Deficit Disorder and Comorbidity" by Glenn Brynes, M.D. Hypertalk Spring 2000.
Diabetes and Stress: Look for an interview with Dr. Watkins in Diabetes Forecast in April 2000.
Look for an interview with Dr. Watkins concerning weight loss in Fitness Magazine, Spring 2000.
"New Medications for Attention Deficit Disorder" in Hypertalk Fall/Winter 2000. by Dr. Watkins
Presentations and Seminars by Dr. Watkins
Postal address: We have two locations in Baltimore County
Monkton Office16829 York Road/PO Box 544/Monkton, MD 21111
Lutherville Office: 2360 West Joppa Road Suite 223/ Lutherville, MD
Please use telephone for appointments or medical questions.
Glenn Brynes, Ph.D., M.D.
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Case study: Phoenix Games
How Prezly helped launch a family of games companies
An interview with Phoenix Games' Matt Suckley
How do you successfully launch a brand new company? Better still, how do you successfully launch a brand new holding company, attract new acquisitions and then manage them? That's exactly what Phoenix Games had to figure out when they launched in April 2019.
"The biggest challenge we ran into was building the Phoenix Games brand from scratch." That's Matt Suckley, PR Manager for the fledgling business. So how did he overcome this significant obstacle?
The answer: campaigns, targeting and a clever use of multiple newsrooms. As a result, Phoenix's campaigns already register a 50% open rate – practically unheard of in the industry for such a young business.
"We were able to generate a considerable amount of high-profile coverage through these campaigns, and that has so far been the primary driver of our growing reputation in the industry."
Read on to find out how just how Matt and his team used careful planning, multiple newsrooms and a targeted comms strategy to carve out a niche in the industry.
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Unveiled to the public in April 2019, Phoenix Games is the latest venture from serial gaming entrepreneur and investor Klaas Kersting, who created it inspired by the struggles facing many small-to-midsize games companies across the world: access to capital and liquidity in an increasingly competitive market.
With Phoenix Games, Klaas intends to unite a number of games developers and service providers in an ecosystem where each company benefits from one another's success.
Klaas Kersting, Phoenix Games CEO
"Every game company is looking to reach the next level, where they can really reap the benefits of their good work, however, for all but the biggest and best-positioned, this is a long and difficult road," announced Klaas in Phoenix's launch announcement.
"Phoenix Games moves beyond what's possible with single-game publishing deals, promoting a more long-term, strategic approach whereby everyone in the family benefits from and is supported by the successes of one another."
In May 2019, Well Played Games, a small, fast and flexible team of video game developers based in Leamington Spa, became the first member of the Phoenix Games family. Three months later, they launched Warhammer Combat Cards, which broke new ground as the first digital card game to draw on the entire breadth of the Warhammer 40,000 universe and its miniatures. It quickly became a top-grossing mobile app.
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Now, launching a holding company is a bit different from launching your straightforward, one-brand business. To understand the unique challenges Phoenix was about to face, let's have a little recap.
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A holding company is a parent corporation, limited liability company, or limited partnership that owns enough voting stock in another company, that it can control that company's policies and oversee its management decisions. – Investopedia
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So basically, to successfully launch as a brand new holding company, Phoenix Games had to:
Establish a brand and immediately cultivate trust within the industry
Start to onboard new developers into the Phoenix family to demonstrate traction
Maintain its own brand while preserving the individual identities and comms channels for its underlying businesses
The bottom line: Phoenix needed to build a big B2B presence, fast.
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"We've used Prezly from day one," says Matt Suckley, PR Manager for Phoenix Games. "Our Phoenix email campaigns already have an average open rate higher than 50% and have landed us coverage in nearly all of our key target publications. That's remarkable for a brand new company."
Remarkable is putting it lightly: the average open rate for email campaigns in the gaming industry is around 20%. But that wasn't all.
"We were also able to generate a considerable amount of high-profile coverage through these campaigns, and that has so far been the primary driver of our growing reputation in the industry."
"Our Phoenix email campaigns already have an average open rate higher than 50%. That's remarkable for a brand new company."
Visibility is everything when it comes to B2B relations, and getting a reputable level of coverage fast can be the make-or-break factor for a young business looking to get other businesses onboard. Fortunately, Matt knew exactly what he was doing.
Using Prezly gave Matt the ability to professionally format his campaigns, including all necessary media and assets, and personalise them depending on what contact or group of contacts he reached out to.
In addition, by getting visibility on exactly who opened, clicked and engaged with the campaigns in real time, Matt was able to target his pitch with precision and decide how to approach individual contacts, while getting some nice statistics for any reporting.
Working smarter, not harder
That's not the end of the story. You know the saying: behind every great campaign is a – that's right – company newsroom. Or in Matt's case, it's several company newsrooms, which he uses to publish stories so they get picked up again and again.
"I've seen it from both sides, so I completely understand why it happens, but the non-replies, attempting to get through to journalists and having no responses, or not being able to break through to certain publications, is always the biggest challenge," says Matt.
The team at Well Played Games, Phoenix's first acquisition
"Prezly, again, is a really useful tool for easing that process because it makes it so easy to host the press release in a newsroom and have it be not only a one-time thing, but something that you can refocus and repurpose in different ways, and create new pitches around constantly."
This is something Kolibri Games' PR Editor, Tom Weber, also mentioned in a recent case study and it's a great demonstration of working smarter, not harder. By publishing your press release in a newsroom, you're giving that story repeat value not only because you can pitch it at the click of a button again and again, but also because you can choose to make it discoverable by Google search, giving you an added avenue to gain exposure.
"On top of that, just the segmenting of audiences and being able to schedule pitches. I don't think we'd be able to work in the same way without it."
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Establishing an identity
While Phoenix was building up its own reputation in the industry as the unifier of ambitious young games companies, it was important to show that those entering the Phoenix fold wouldn't be overshadowed by the business, but rather empowered by it.
"We have found that by setting up unique pressrooms for the different developers within Phoenix Games, we are able give each of them their own identity, while still having Phoenix itself be the big B2B presence," explains Matt. "It's been really useful for us."
Phoenix uses its newsroom to make stories discoverable again and again
Creating multiple related newsrooms within Prezly has additional operational benefits, such as making it easy to mirror relevant stories across different companies. The newsroom for Well Played Games is currently being rolled out, and as more studios are acquired and announced, each will get its own space within the Phoenix umbrella.
"In using Prezly as a hub for all these newsrooms, we gain access to easy, centralised management of PR across all the companies in the group."
"Having multiple newsrooms allows us to have a main space for all key B2B Phoenix announcements – e.g. acquisitions, deals, milestones – as well as for studios to have their own space to highlight stories to a different audience, such as B2C announcements for game releases and so on," Matt explains.
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Running operations on multiple fronts is an exhausting business, so having a single hub from which you can organise content and distribution for all your underlying companies helps a lot.
Through linking together newsrooms, segmenting audiences, and making his stories work overtime through repeated pitching and organic traffic, Matt was able to not only launch Phoenix Games, but also land some key coverage and a whopping 50% open rate straight off the bat.
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I'm certain he would have found a way to swing it on his own, but it's extremely gratifying to see the tangible role Prezly played in making the process smooth and rewarding. Thank you, Matt, for you time and insights – we can't wait to see what the future holds for Phoenix :)
For more news on Phoenix Games, visit their newsroom, where you can see all their latest updates and sign up to their newsletter, or find them on Twitter and LinkedIn. If you're in the games business and would be interested in opportunities to collaborate with Phoenix, then the team is keen to hear from you at business@phoenixgames.com!
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BC Theater Continues Season With "Water By The Spoonful"
December 1, 2021 Gabriela Flores Arts 0
Promotional image./The Dept. of Theater at Brooklyn College
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As the Department of Theater comes to the end of its 2021 winter season, production continued last week with "Water By The Spoonful," a show that interchangeably moves from a struggling Puerto Rican-rooted family dealing with death and other tensions to an online support group for recovering addicts. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Quiara Alegría Hudes, and directed by Francisco Solorzano, the play goes knee-deep into the importance of human connection. In doing so, it illustrates the emotional tolls of PTSD, overdose, and other internal struggles.
The play first opened up with cousins Elliot (Michael Adrian Burgos) and Yaz (Monica Ugarte), who are seemingly polar opposites. Elliot wears a Subway shirt as his work uniform and speaks Spanglish, while the latter sports a suit and is later revealed to be a professor who struggles to speak Spanish. As Elliot and Yaz talk, one quickly realizes how close yet so unaware of each other's problems they are – with one cousin hesitant to share why he needs something translated and the other going through a complicated divorce. At the backdrop of it all, Elliot talks about his concerns over his adopted mother Ginny, who's his biological aunt and is undergoing chemo.
As the opening scene unravels at a steady pace that carries on throughout the show and lets out the many layers of each character, the audience finds out Elliot is an Iraq War veteran with some secrets. Going into scene 2, the audience finds themself in the digital world of a recovering addicts support group with Chutes&Ladders (Ebenezer Adjei), Orangutan (Estelle Lee), and HaikuMom (Camila Pérez Santiago), who's later revealed to be Elliot's biological mother.
There was incredible chemistry between the three, who were first introduced in a triangle formation with each in their respective spaces: Odessa in her living room at a desktop; Chutes&Ladders in his IRS workplace; Orangutan in Japan pursuing a job. Noticeably, you see that the actors are feeding off each other's energy, making for a tight-knit and playful bond connected through the struggle of maintaining sobriety. The comedic relief of such heavy topics like drug addiction is added by the one-liner of HaikuMom, or Odessa, who flatly says "censored" for every curse word used between Orangutan and Chutes&Ladders.
Once introductions are made, the audience looks into the nitty-gritty of Elliot's post-traumatic disorder from the war: a ghost who repeats an Arabic phrase Elliot wanted to be translated earlier in the show. The ghost (Brendan Ahmed) comes out with exposed flesh across half of his face. The lighting, paired with the ghost's eerie calls towards Elliot, speaks volumes of war trauma. Sure, not everyone may have been on the battlefield, but you gain a sense of the emotional scarring prevalent years after discharge through Burgos and Ahmed's exchange. For as long as Ahmed stays in the scene, Burgos doesn't make any eye contact – but the ghost's presence ultimately torments him.
The complexity of "Water by the Spoonful" doesn't lag whatsoever afterward. There are moments where subtleties of each actor's performances carry the show's immersion for viewers. Whether it be through an intimate fight between Elliot and his ghost when they finally meet eye-to-eye, or the introduction of new user Fountainhead (Harrison Hernandez) on the recovering addicts' site, each actor undoubtedly gave their all on closing night.
Not to mention, many scenes beautifully depict the humanity of each character and their gradual understanding of self and others. There's no dull moment, all serving a purpose to the larger scheme of the show. One of the most noteworthy is when Odessa relapses after a tense conversation with her son Elliot and niece Yaz, where they talk about her late daughter who died from dehydration. It's this shoveled-up past that explains the family's strains and inevitably forces the audience to reckon with the high emotions exuding from the stage.
Pérez Santiago's portrayal of Odessa encompasses the high stakes of her character's return to drugs – not only for herself but for those closest to her. When Elliot and Yaz arrive at Odessa's home, they find her lying on the ground, and they soon begin to panic and worry they have pushed her over the edge. On cue, the light follows Pérez Santiago's spirit as she sheds tears, and Yaz looks up to the same light and calls on her aunt to be free. This scene translated so powerfully to the audience despite it being the most difficult to tap into for actress Ugarte as Yaz.
"I don't know what happened, but that is the first time that I've ever really been connected to that scene. I remember crying, looking at Camila [Pérez Santiago], and just like taking in the whole scene. And it was so different," Ugarte told The Vanguard when describing the weight of the scene during the production's opening day.
Besides these challenges, Ugarte found comfort and friendship with her colleagues, making her first in-person BC production memorable.
"It was such a great environment that you never dreaded coming to rehearsal and working with each other, especially because everyone was also so professional and funny. So out of those, like really heart-wrenching moments, we could just try to pull ourselves out together and have a laugh," she said.
This closeness carried on from behind the scenes to center stage and into pairings like Orangutan and Chutes&Ladders. Though they mostly communicated over their screens, the audience saw them experience a full-circle moment where they met face-to-face in Japan. Lee and Adjei's performance was awe-inspiring, with the audience feeling the relief and joy of their respective characters in finally meeting a longtime friend.
The cast's chemistry doesn't end there. Once Odessa heads into her recovery after relapsing, she quickly becomes dependent on Fountainhead, who is ultimately pushed by circumstances to be there for his one friend that made him realize his drug problems. It's this selflessness that actor Hernandez perfectly portrayed through his individual performance and care for Pérez Santiago's character that shows a side far less self-absorbed than what was initially introduced of Fountainhead.
With the play's departure set on a beach in the family's native Puerto Rico, and Odessa's home in the background, the audience sees the show in its totality. As Burgos steps into a prop that emanates a waterfall, and Pérez Santiago rises from her tub with Fountainhead's aid, one sees the production's key: as cliche as it may sound, life is worth living in spite of the hurdles.
"Whatever anybody believes in religiously or if they're not religious, it just makes you think about the afterlife and just making sure that you make your time on this earth worth it. I would say that's really what I've gained from this show," said Ugarte.
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Israeli Supermarket Mogul Makes Top Bid for Local Airline, Trustee Says
Israir was controlled by the indebted IDB Group and was put up on the block in a bid to pay off some of its debts
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An Israir plane lands in Slovakia, March 2019.Credit: Moni Shapir
Supermarket mogul Rami Levy is close to a deal to buy Israeli airline Israir, in partnership with the brothers and food importers Shalom and Dror Haim.
Israir was controlled until recently by Argentinian businessman Eduardo Elzstain via the indebted IDB Group. Attorney Ophir Naor, the trustee for IDB Development's assets, put Israir up on the block in a bid to pay off some of IDB's debts.
On Wednesday, Naor announced that he'd chosen a proposal by BGI, controlled by Levy and the Haim brothers, to buy control of Israir as well as its subsidiaries Sky Deal, Natour and Diesenhaus. In a statement to the court, Naor asked to approve the group's proposal to buy Israir for 110 million shekels ($33 million). In response, BGI's share price shot up 15% on Wednesday, while El Al's dropped 2%.
The proposal includes graduated payments. In addition, 75 million will be paid in cash. Furthermore, IDB's creditors will receive 20% of BGI's publicly sold share capital. The buyers also agreed to forgive a $5 million debt by IDB to Israir.
"Israir is a company with assets and great potential, along with risks, with all the implications of this. The responsible thing is to transfer control from a company in liquidation to a solvent company with the means and capacity to control it shares and contribute to its operations," said Naor.
Naor cited the advantages of BGI's bid as including the high purchase price, the certainty regarding payment, the upside that would raise value for shareholders, the financial stability of the buyers, Levy and the Haim brothers' commitment to fund the deal themselves, the regulators' willingness to approve the deal given that BGI does not have any other business dealings in tourism or aviation, and the guarantees presented to the court. This will maximize the creditors' value and ensure Israir continues operating during the coronavirus pandemic, Naor stated.
Levy has come a long way since he made a name for himself selling chicken for a shekel at his discount supermarket. Since then, he has established himself among Israel's tycoons, and is sitting on significant cash thanks to his profitable discount stores. He maintains close ties with the Likud Central Committee and speaks directly with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Levy currently holds 40% of the supermarket chain he founded, Rami Levy Shivuk Hashikma, and his shares are worth some 1.2 billion shekels ($365 million). The chain has 52 branches with annual turnover of 6 billion shekels. Levy expanded into the cellular sector in 2010, launching Rami Levy Communications, which now has 260,000 customers. He also controls 40% of Hashikma International Communications and 50% of pharmaceutical chain Good Pharm, which has 24 outlets.
The company that Levy is seeking to buy, Israir, is a stock exchange shell company. This will enable Israir to be publicly traded through a back door, and will make it Israel's second publicly-traded airline, along with El Al.
Rami Levy, poses for a photograph alongside shelves of tinned food inside a Rami Levy Supermarket in Jerusalem, November 23, 2014. Credit: Bloomberg
Levy and his partners beat out a line of prospective buyers, including Dor Alon and Global Knafayim.
"We're pleased by the faith placed in us and that our offer was chosen, and we're waiting for the court's final approval," said BGI Chairman Moti Hazan.
Despite Naor's recommendation, it's not clear that the deal is done.
Levy's interest in Israir stems from the synergy between the airline and his other businesses. His businesses have partnered with Israir on marketing campaigns, including pushing the airline's routes to Baku, Azerbaijan and Tirana, Albania. The companies both focus on low price points and have small, pared down headquarters.
Israir, led by Uri Sirkis, has gotten through the coronavirus crisis relatively well. While the company was forced to shut operations along with other airlines, it sustained relatively little damage compared to its competitors. The company managed to turn an operating profit (EBITDA) in the third quarter, compared to a loss of $4.5 million in the second quarter.


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Episode 167 - The Only Safe Way 0
Many years ago, the Jews were departing so far from God and following their own ways, that Jehovah called upon them to stand in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and they should find rest in their souls. But they said, "We will not walk therein." But, you know, there may have never been a time when people needed to seek the old paths and walk in the true way marked out by the Lord more than today. And that's the topic of this episode: "The Only Safe Way."
Episode 166 - Holy Ghost Baptism 0
We hear a lot today about "Holy Ghost Baptism," especially in some of the denominations. It gets attention in a lot of revivals (especially those who feature the practice of what some people call, "speaking in tongues")...and you'll hear some preachers calling for it. So, I thought we might spend some time in this episode discovering what God's Word says about "Holy Ghost Baptism," if it's possible to experience it today, and how it compares with water baptism, as it's commanded in the Bible.
Episode 165 - Moses, Christ, and Salvation 0
The Bible is filled with figures, parables, and object lessons to help us understand what God has promised to do for us, if we do what He says. A lot of religious people today simply don't understand God'splan of salvation and have come up with their own ideas as to what we need to do to be saved from sin. So, for today's episode, I want us to think about how oursalvation is parallel with, or similar to the salvation of Israel from Egyptian bondage, back during Old Testament times. You know, the apostle Paul said, in Romans 15, verse 4, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning" -- and I believe the topic of today's lesson fits that statement perfectly.
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There may be no greater question that anyone could be asked than, "Why aren't you a Christian?" And it's a question that doesn't come up just once in our lifetime -- it comes to us in every way and at every turn...and it never loses any of its importance. In Acts 26:28, King Agrippa told the apostle Paul, "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." You know, a lot of people today say the same thing...and the same question remains for you or those we love -- "Why are you not a Christian?"
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There's an expression that says, "We can't all see alike." But, when it comes to the Bible, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, when it comes to religion, God commands us to all see (or believe) alike. How is that possible? What does the Bible say?