South Africa travel advice. Helping Dreamers Do.
Read insider tips from our holiday companies - from how to really get under the skin of South Africa and where to see wildlife in Kruger, to the best way to explore Table Mountain. We share health and safety tips plus South Africa travel advice from our holiday reviews - you'll be well prepared for your journey south after reading all of these suggestions.
Will Fox is the founder of our supplier On Track Safaris, and a conservationist specialising in leopard behaviour. Here's his South Africa travel advice: "So many people come back from Africa and say, "that was nice, but I wish I'd been more involved." They don't want to just be shown animals, it's not Disney World. Safaris shouldn't just be about seeing animals and staying in a nice lodge with a spa. That's wonderful, but it should also be about understanding the real issues in Africa and learning more about whatever it is you're keen on. We teach our guests a few native words. If you thank the lodge staff in their own language, you'll get such a beaming smile. They're just so impressed that someone has learned a few words of their language."
"Kruger National Park is one of the most diverse natural areas left in the whole of southern Africa. Because it's such a long, thin reserve, it covers an extremely wide variety of habitats and the diversity of animals you find there is much greater than in Botswana, Zambia or Zimbabwe. It's got a little bit of everything. Most people don't go to the northern part of Kruger though. I think it's a very underrated part, and well worth looking into."
Anne Smellie, from our supplier Oyster Worldwide, which specialises in gap year and volunteer trips, shares her South Africa travel advice for volunteers: "South Africa is ideal for first time volunteers. They want to do something different, they're tired of traditional holidays and they're looking for something more real where they can make a difference and know that what they're doing is good. It's not a "sit-on-the-beach-and-get-a-suntan" trip, it's giving something and learning something as well. So South Africa is perfect for that. It's got great infrastructure, English is spoken and it's a very approachable country.
A month is the recommended time for volunteering, depending on the type of placement. The first week is usually taken up with training and just generally fitting in - it's so different to people's daily lives. By the second week you're starting to get into the flow of it. So four weeks allows you to get more out of it, but you also contribute more - which is really the point of volunteering."
"In my opinion, the Table Mountain cable car is overrated. You're with hordes of people, and then most visitors just stay on the western table in a very small area, where the crowded restaurants are, and you're queuing for coffees. That's not the way to experience it - I definitely recommend hiking. Even if you are not able to hike up the mountain, you should still take a gentle walk around the table itself to get away from the crowds. You'll see the birdlife, and the fynbos, which is unique floral diversity."
"Some cultural experiences are quite fake and touristy, while others can be quite intrusive. If you took a busload of people to a village in England and went into somebody's house, they wouldn't be impressed at all! So one thing we like to do is utilise smaller accommodation that's locally owned. So you get to meet the people that own the homestead and that live in the surrounding village, and get to chat to them and understand them in that way. Right now it's still at grassroots level, but it's something that's growing."
Visit your GP at least 6-8 weeks before you travel to ensure you are up-to-date with vaccinations. The southern and western regions of the country are malaria-free, so it is possible to come here and even go on safari without the need for antimalarial medication. However, malaria is present in the northeast – including Kruger National Park. Cities have good health facilities, but do be sure to take out good travel insurance that covers all the activities you may be doing, along with emergency repatriation. Be careful of temperature extremes, which can include cold winter nights and uncomfortably humid heat during day, particularly in the northeast. Keep kids well hydrated and covered in the sun, even in cooler temperatures. Tap water is safe to drink in most of South Africa, though check with your lodge or campsite if staying in remote areas. Check the latest health advice on South Africa.
Crime levels are notoriously high in South Africa, particularly in cities, townships and public transport. However, violent crime generally takes place away from popular tourist areas, and most visits are incident-free. Larger towns and cities have tourist police. Be careful at ATMs. Avoid using them in secluded places and after dark and don't withdraw large amounts of cash. Check to see if the machine has been tampered with; scams include damaging the machine so that your card gets stuck, so that money can be withdrawn from your account once you've gone into the bank to report the jammed card. Keep all valuables out of sight in cars – even when you are driving – as robberies can occur at traffic lights or in jams. It's also best to keep all your valuables in your carry-on luggage – thefts have been reported at Johannesburg airport. Be alert when driving. Speed limits are often broken, and overtaking can occur from any lane, including the hard shoulder. Avoid driving at night if possible, especially on the approach roads to Kruger National Park and around KwaZulu-Natal. Do not pick up hitchhikers or stop to assist seemingly distressed travellers – these techniques are often used by hijackers. If you want to do a township tour, be sure you go with a registered guide. Take note of the nationwide emergency number – 10111.
We have selected some of the most useful South Africa travel tips that our guests have provided over the years to help you make the very most of your holiday - and the space inside your suitcase.
Don't panic if you don't see the Big Five straight away, there are so many other animals and creatures out there that will enthral you. And don't expect to stay on your diet – the food is superb and plentiful!
Be prepared for variable weather out of high summer (the Garden Route is very green for a reason!), make the most of the team's great advice and help organising activities.


London, capital of England is an exciting place to live and work.
Whether it's the boroughs of Bexley, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth, Redbridge or Waltham Forest, everywhere within London has something to offer. With an array of iconic buildings such as The Palace of Westminster, British Museum, Heron Tower, BT Tower and Wembley Stadium, it's an exciting scene to look at every day. Employment-wise, London is a world leader in spheres such as finance and journalism with a perpetual requirement for greater people and has unique potency for top salaries and personal growth.
Where would you observe such an abundance of creativity in one city like the Victoria and Albert Museum, Imperial War Museum, British Library and V&A Museum of Childhood? And let's not miss out the Charles Dickens Museum, the Fan Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Of course, there is the West End, 'Theatreland', with venues like Duchess Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatre. London's universities include Imperial College London, Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Roehampton.
Travelling in London's thirty-two boroughs is simple but can be painfully slow as anyone who has visited will have experienced. Public transport options include the iconic London buses, the tube, overground train, public bicycle hiring, black cabs, Docklands Light Railway (East/South East), River buses, trams, cable car across the Thames and rickshaw.
When you are wanting greenery in London, Bushy Park, Thames Path and Hampstead Heath are some spaces to enjoy. Fine places to dine include Clos Maggiore in Covent Garden, Hakkasan Mayfair in Mayfair, Perilla in Newington Green and The Wolseley in St James'. The best hotels in London are The Dorchester in Hyde Park, The Langham in Marylebone and Claridge's in Mayfair, say we.
Useful factoids about London include that in 1750 the city only had 6 police officers, Rudolf Hess was the last prisoner held at the Tower of London in the 40s, it has hosted the Olympics 3 times and the River Thames is over two hundred miles in length!
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The RBA is driven by low voltage electronics. Cooling of the laser is accomplished with a simple recirculating water chiller running on filtered water, eliminating the need for deionized water systems.
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Q: What's the difference between IN TIME and ON TIME? Consider a situation where a meeting is scheduled to start at 12:00 pm but one of the participants happens to appear at 12:15.
Did that individual come "in time" or "on time"? What's the difference between "in time" and "on time" as applied to this situation?

A: I think what you may be asking is, what is the difference between:

He arrived in time for the train.

and

He arrived on time for the train.

In the first scenario, the message is that:

He arrived within the time allowed to catch the train.

If the train was leaving at 10:13, and the person arrived at 10:12, he arrived within the time required to catch the train.
The second example means:

He arrived at the right time to catch the train.

This could mean he arrived within the normal range of minutes before the train departed, in order to not miss the train.
Normally however, to distinguish between the two - a sense of urgency or other context is provided, consider the difference:

He arrived just in time for the train.

Here it is clear the person arrived at the last possible chance to catch the train.
Here are some more examples for on time:

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*He arrived exactly on time for the train.

*He was always on time for meetings.

*He was never on time for meetings.

However, as Sven mentioned in their comment, this is just one of many ways you can use the phrases.

A: "In time" refers to the "necessary" time. That is, the time needed to accomplish a task. Sometimes it is an unexpected or impromptu task.

The firemen came in time to save the house from burning.

"On time" means for a "scheduled" time.

He arrived on time for the bus' 3:00 p.m. departure.

It's possible, (though not likely), to be "on time" and not "in time."  That is, "He arrived on time for the bus' (scheduled) 3:00 p.m. departure, but not "in time." (The bus left 5 minutes early.)
In your example, on the other hand, the man did not arrive "on time" at 12:15 for a meeting scheduled for 12:00. But he may have arrived "in time," if others also arrived late, and the meeting actually started at 12:15.

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Fayard Nicholas (October 28, 1914, Mobile, Alabama, USA – January 24, 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA) and Harold Nicholas (1921 – 2000), constituted what was, without a doubt, the most talented and spectacular power tap-dancing duo in the history of show business. They grew up in Philadelphia where their parents played in the orchestra at the Standard Theatre, a vaudeville house for blacks. The brothers were soon in vaudeville themselves, billed initially as the Nicholas Kids. By 1932, they had graduated to the renowned Cotton Club in Harlem, where, for the next two years, they delighted the all-white audiences and rubbed shoulders with great black entertainers such as Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway. In 1936, the Nicholas Brothers made their Broadway debut with Bob Hope and Fanny Brice in Ziegfeld Follies and appeared in London in Lew Leslie's revue, Blackbirds of 1936.
A year later, they were back on Broadway in the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart hit musical, Babes in Arms. Their film career had begun in 1932 with two short films, Black Network and Pie Pie Blackbird (featuring Eubie Blake And His Band), and it continued via Calling All Stars (1936), and the Don Ameche – Betty Grable musical, Down Argentine Way (1940), in which the brothers did a breathtaking dance to the lively number "Down Argentina Way." The sequence was choreographed by Nick Castle who worked with the duo on most of their subsequent pictures, and gained them a five year contract with 20th Century-Fox. During the rest of the '40s, the Nicholas Brothers contributed some electrifying and superbly acrobatic dances to films such as Tin Pan Alley, The Great American Broadcast, Sun Valley Serenade, Orchestra Wives, Stormy Weather, and The Pirate (1948). In 1946, they both starred in the Broadway musical, St. Louis Woman, in which Harold introduced Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's appealing 'Ridin' On The Moon' and (with Ruby Hill) the all-time standard, "Come Rain Or Come Shine." Of course, as blacks, in films, they were only allowed to be a speciality act and were never considered for leading roles.
This is apparently one of the main reasons why, in the '50s, they worked in Europe for several years where audiences and managements were more racially tolerant. When Fayard decided to return to the USA, Harold stayed in France and carved out a solo career for himself there. After seven years, they were reunited in America and played in nightclubs and on television until Fayard contracted arthritis and underwent two hip-replacement operations. Harold continued as a solo performer and was top-billed in the musical Back In The Big Time (1986). Fayard was still active in non-performing areas of the business and won a Tony Award when he co-choreographed 1989's Broadway musical Black And Blue, with Cholly Atkins, Henry LeTang and Frank Manning. In 1991, the Nicholas Brothers received Kennedy Center Honours for their outstanding work over a period of more than 60 years. A year later, a documentary film, We Sing & We Dance, celebrated their wonderful careers and included tributes from Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, M.C. Hammer, and Clarke Peters. In 1994, members of the cast of Hot Shoe Shuffle, London's 'New Tap Musical', also paid tribute to their 'inspiration' – the Nicholas Brothers.
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Q: Comparing metrics with mean and standard deviation I have been running some experiments for a problem using different models. Those experiment run on 10 different datasets and each of them yields a value for RMSE.
After all the 10 experiments are finished I get a mean value and standard deviation for the RMSE of that model. I repeat this process for all the models and end up with some mean values and std that I should compare to choose the best/bests ones. Obviously I am not interested in the result on each dataset but on the average performance of the model in all datasets.
For example I may get this mean RMSE results for let's say 3 models (std in parenthesis):
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|      Model 1        |     Model 2      |      Model 3     |
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|     5.53 (0.12)     |    5.61 (0.10)   |    5.69 (0.10)   |
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It is clear that the model 1 gets the bests mean results (the lower the better) but when taking into account the standard deviation, model 2 is really close to it. Model 3 is a bit off.
I know there must be some way of doing this statically, proving that both model 1 and model 2 get (almost) the same results. I thought about using z-test or t-test but I don't know how to fit that here.
Any idea how can I proceed to select the best models taking into account the standard deviation?


*Basra fell early Sunday morning EST, Sunday afternoon Baghdad time. Actually what appears to have happened was that the largely British force surrounding the city negotiated its surrender with the Iraqi army officials. The bulk of the British forces, supported by US Marines, has now headed north for Baghdad. Had the Baathist military put up a fight, it could have tied the British down and made them shell the city even more extensively than they did, maybe even entice them into deadly house to house fighting. By surrendering they gave a huge lift to the Anglo-British war effort. We all expected that the Shiite South would not be so hard to take, but the speed with which it has fallen, and the relative lack of fight it has put up, exceeds expectations. There have been a few "decent" firefights, at Umm Qasr, Nasiriya, and around Basra. But all three urban areas have fallen, despite pockets of resistance. Indeed, the victory has been so fast and so extensive that some worry it will leave chaos in its wake. Apparently there has already been a good deal of looting and disorder inside Basra, and this disorder could spread as the bulk of the US and British forces head to Baghdad. According to the Washington Post, however, some in the administration welcome the civil turmoil, hoping it will initiate an era of de-Baathification. I just hope we don't have another Panama on our hands, when the mission to capture Manuel Noriega was so badly thought out that it plunged the city into a paroxysm of looting. In contrast to the occasional fighting in the South where the British are, the fighter jets bombing Saddam's palaces and other targets have reportedly been astonished at how little resistance they have encountered.
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Cheney, Bush, Rice and other key players, then it would not have happened.
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*Joschka Fischer, the Foreign Minister of Germany, warned against the possibility that the Bush administration intends to pursue a whole series of wars after Iraq, aimed at disarming one country after another. He said a way had to be found between complacency toward the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and the impulse to go to war to stop such proliferation.


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Le glacier Crater ou glacier Tulutson est un jeune glacier situé sur le mont Saint Helens, dans l'État américain de Washington.

Géographie
Le glacier Crater est situé sur la face nord du cratère volcanique apparu lors de l'éruption du mont Saint Helens en 1980. Un dôme important constitué de laves s'est constitué de 1980 à 1987 au centre de ce jeune cratère et un glacier s'est formé à l'ombre de celui-ci. Le glacier possède deux terminaisons (moraines) sur ses côtés est et ouest. L'activité volcanique de 2004 a créé un nouveau dôme qui a presque découpé le glacier en deux parties. La glace a une épaisseur d'environ  avec des pointes par endroits jusque  ce qui est presque aussi profond que pour le glacier Carbon Glacier localisé sur le mont Rainier. La glace d'avant 1980 disparut lors de l'éruption ce qui signifie que la glace actuelle est postérieure à 1980. Néanmoins, le volume actuel de glace est déjà identique au volume d'avant éruption. Les chutes de neige importantes en hiver, les avalanches fréquentes causées par l'activité du volcan et le faible ensoleillement à cet endroit ont favorisé une extension rapide du glacier.

La surface du glacier paraît sombre et sale à cause des résidus volcaniques en quantité à proximité.

Histoire
Durant l'hiver 1980-1981, le glacier commence à grandir très rapidement ( d'épaisseur par an) à l'ombre du cratère. Des scientifiques découvrent cette accroissement 7 à 9 ans plus tard bien qu'aucune publication ne soit faite avant 1999. En 2004, le glacier recouvre une surface de . À cause des gaz émis par le cratère, il existait des cavernes naturelles de glace. Celles-ci furent explorées à la fin des années 1990. Lors des activités du volcan en 2004, le glacier est soulevé et poussé plus loin par le mouvement du dôme volcanique. Le glacier qui était auparavant assez lisse est devenu crevassé et recouvert de séracs à la suite des mouvements du volcan. Son apparence s'est donc rapidement modifiée en fonction des chutes importantes de neige et à la suite de l'activité volcanique. En 2007, le glacier continuait encore à s'étendre. Son avancée orientale était plus importante car ce côté est plus fortement protégé par l'ombre du volcan.

Cavernes de glace
En 2000, des grottes de glace furent découvertes sur le glacier. Elles furent explorées tout comme celle au sommet du mont Rainier. Les grottes se trouvaient à proximité du dôme de lave de 1980 où des vapeurs chaudes et des gaz étaient toujours expulsées via des fumerolles. Environ  de grottes ont été étudiées et cartographiées.

Lors de la nouvelle période d'activité de 2004, des parties du glacier et des grottes furent fondues tout en créant des explosions de vapeur alimentées par la glace fondue. Les grottes restantes furent également déformées ou obstruées par les mouvements du volcan. De nouvelles cavernes se sont probablement créées mais il était très dangereux de les étudier en 2007 vu la fragilisation de la glace existante depuis le début de la période d'activité plus intense.

Autres glaciers
Depuis 2004, de nouveaux glaciers se sont formés sur les flancs du cratère au-dessus de glacier Crater en fournissant celui-ci en nouvelle glace et en rocher. D'autres accumulations de neige laissent à penser que de nouveaux glaciers pourraient se développer dans le futur.

Toponymie
Depuis la découverte du glacier à la fin des années 1980, les scientifiques le nommèrent  entre eux de façon informelle. Ce terme fut couramment utilisé également dans le public tout en apparaissant dans différentes publications. Un journal scientifique l'a toutefois nommé , mais ce nom ne fut jamais employé ailleurs.

En dépit de nombreuses publications sur le glacier dans les années 1990, aucun nom officiel ne fut donné au glacier avant 2004. À ce moment, une personne de la tribu amérindienne Cowlitz suggéra de nommer le glacier  ce qui signifie « glace » en langage cowlitz. En mars 2005, le service géographique des noms de l'État de Washington choisit ce nom parmi trois autres propositions (Crater, Spirit et Tamanawas).

Cependant, le service national américain des noms géographiques avait déjà été contacté pour décider également du nom. Les propositions étaient « Tuluston », « Crater » et « Kraffts Glacier » en hommage aux volcanologues Katia et Maurice Krafft tués en mission en 1991. En juin 2006, le choix se porta finalement sur  pour respecter sa forte utilisation dans le passé et cela même si l'État de Washington et le Service des forêts des États-Unis contestèrent l'appellation. Les scientifiques de l'observatoire des volcans de la chaîne montagneuse des Cascades accepta cette dénomination en disant que Tuluston ne serait plus un terme approprié d'autant plus que la région n'était pas habitées par les Cowlitz mais par des tribus ayant une autre langue.

Après cette décision, l'État de Washington décréta que Tulutson serait encore employé dans l'État de Washington contrairement au reste des États-Unis. Une proposition d'après 2006 est en cours de réflexion pour que le glacier soit séparé en  et .

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Comté de Skamania
Forêt nationale Gifford Pinchot
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Where's the Nude Beach at Newport Park?
By Jackson Parr, Peninsula Pulse – September 1st, 2017
At the end of my conversation with Newport State Park superintendent Michelle Hefty in her office for the fall issue of our sister publication Door County Living magazine, I asked her the standard final question for interviews as a journalist: Is there anything I'm missing?
After her universal response that she had just been blathering and hopefully I found something useful, she brought up the 2016 Peninsula RePulse, the April Fool's edition of the Pulse. The cover featured a photoshopped nudist sitting on a bench overlooking the beach at sunset with a sign that said "Nude Beach, Newport State Park."
Hefty noted that the beach in the image was actually Whitefish Dunes, not Newport State Park. But it turned out that was just about the only inaccuracy in the April Fool's story about the nudists and their roost at Newport State Park.
"There was a publication out that was like the world recreation guide to nude beaches," said Hefty, remembering back to the late '80s and early '90s when she first started at the state park. "Newport and Toft Point were in there. We'd be walking Europe Bay beach and the standard was, 'Despite what you read or heard, this is not a clothing-optional beach, it's a family beach. You're either going to put your clothes on or you're going to leave, or I'm going to write you a ticket.'"
Although Hefty believes she has a photocopy of the original page somewhere in her stacked filing cabinets, she has not been able to track down the publication that sent the nudists to Newport.
"I cannot find it anymore, anywhere, anything."
My paperback copy of Lee Baxandall's World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation landed in my PO box about two weeks after meeting with Hefty. Despite the sensitive content, I opened the full color and full frontal pages right there on the post office counter and went to the section on Wisconsin. There were no Door County locales to be found.
Heading back to the internet, I learned I had purchased (for one cent and $3.99 in shipping) the second edition of Baxandall's travel guide. It must be in the first edition of the book, published in 1980. The first edition was nowhere to be found.
A quick search for Baxandall brought me to The Naturist Society, which Baxandall founded in 1980 after years of being involved in the "free beach" movement. I assumed he was a West Coast hippie, floating around shorelines in the nude while waiting to get kicked out. But Baxandall is an Oshkosh native and the Naturist Society headquarters remain in his hometown, at the mouth of the Fox River on the shores of Lake Winnebago.
I emailed their offices, hoping they could help me track down a copy of Baxandall's first publication, which must hold the pages of Newport and Toft Point. The managing editor responded and told me that several years ago, there was one selling on eBay for $100.
Detailing this treasure hunt during one of our editorial meetings, our Arts, Entertainment & Literature Editor Alyssa Skiba sent me the link to the website that eluded me.
A clothing-optional swimming area in Brillon, Wis. compiled all of Baxandall's northeast Wisconsin locations on their website.
Under the section for Lake Michigan sites, it reads:
Door County is Wisconsin's thumb in Lake Michigan. And Newport State Park is at its northeast tip, one-hour drive north of Sturgeon Bay. Newport State Park rangers don't bother discreet skinny dippers at Europe Bay. Food and lodging nearby. Roads are less crowded on weekdays. Drive to Ellison Bay then east on Route 42 and where it again swings north, continue east on Europe Bay Road to its end; park. Walk to the shallow Europe Bay, then north (left) to the seclusion of fallen trees where the beach is the best. Behind this beach is Lake Europe, warmer than Europe Bay with a shallow sandy bottom. Bring a float.
Hefty said the instructions were spot on.
"People would come up to me, they would see us walking and they would say, 'Where's the nude beach?' I mean dead serious, 'Where's the nude beach?'"
For more on Hefty's 28-year career at Newport State Park, pick up a copy of the autumn 2017 issue of Door County Living, on newsstands now.
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CVS Caremark (CVS) and Walgreen (WAG) are the leading pharmacy chains in the U.S., each with a strong network of over 7,000 retail stores. While both have been aggressively expanding their retail footprints, there has been a gradual decrease in the average size of the newly opened stores.
This is particularly noteworthy given that general merchandise, which by nature demands more retail space, makes up a significant 33% of our $39.55 Trefis price estimate for CVS Caremark's stock and 41% of our $43.73 Trefis price estimate for Walgreen's stock.
CVS Caremark and Walgreen earn in excess of two-thirds of their revenues from prescription drugs sales. From the consumer's perspective, the accessibility of those prescriptions is more important than the store size. Hence, pharmacy chains prefer to have more stores in closer proximity to more customers, as opposed to fewer but larger stores.
CVS Caremark and Walgreen pharmacies are mostly present in the densely populated regions and urban areas where access to consumers is greater. Densely populated areas command higher rental rates compared to suburban and rural areas, where large retail chains such as Walmart (WMT) and Costco (COST) have a strong presence. The high rental rates help explain why the size of pharmacies is shrinking. But pharmacies also have to sell general merchandise to make up for those high rents, as well as shrinking margins on pharmaceutical drugs.
You can drag the graphs above to see the impact of store size on CVS Caremark's and Walgreen's stock price estimate.
Since non-pharmacy sales, which are dependent on the store size, contribute more to Walgreen's stock than CVS Caremark's stock, Walgreen is more sensitive to changes in its store size equation than CVS Caremark.
While pharmacies will continue to stock general merchandise, going forward we expect them to reduce their dependence on non-drug sales. Hence, the size of their stores is likely to continue decreasing in the future.
View our detailed analysis for CVS Caremark and Walgreen here.


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Biden hails IBM's US$20b investment announcement
POUGHKEEPSIE (New York): IBM hosted US President Joe Biden on Thursday (Oct 6) to celebrate the announcement of a US$20 billion (RM92.75 billion) investment in semiconductors, quantum computing and other cutting-edge technology in New York state.
CEO Arvind Krishna unveiled the spending, which will take place over a decade, in a speech alongside Biden in the tech giant's Poughkeepsie facility.
"We are proud to announce that IBM is pledging to invest US$20 billion across the region," he told cheering workers.
"This investment includes breakthroughs in semiconductor technology, mainframe computers, quantum computers and artificial intelligence," Krishna said.
Biden, who flew in to Poughkeepsie earlier for a tour of the site, hailed the pledge from the "iconic American company" as another sign that his strategy of rebuilding the US innovative edge is working.
"It's here at this factory and the factories of other companies across America where America's future is literally being built," he said.
Biden has made a priority of encouraging growth in high-tech manufacturing, hoping to rebuild domestic supply chains in crucial components such as microchips that for years have been left to foreign companies based as far away as Taiwan.
Other major projects currently under way include Micron's announcement of a US$100 billion investment to manufacture semiconductors in New York and Wolfspeed's pledge to spend US$5 billion on a new semiconductor plant in North Carolina.
In early September, Biden visited the nascent site of Intel's future US$20 billion facility in Ohio.
"We're better positioned globally than any time in a long time," he said, hailing the US investment climate created by "the most productive workers in the world", the "best research universities", dynamic venture capitalists and his administration's pushing through of the biggest federal infrastructure spending plans in decades. – AFP
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"As Representative for the 63rd district, I will apply my training and experience as a scientist to develop sound policies for today and tomorrow based on core principles and objective evidence rather than opinion, ideology, or financial incentive.
I am not a politician. I am a scientist trained to investigate and solve complex problems. I have a Ph.D. and am board-certified in toxicology (the study of poisons). I have applied my knowledge in the real world for nearly 30 years as an environmental consultant, successfully collaborating with others to develop solutions based on the best available science.
My family has lived in Wentzville for 17 years. My late husband Ian taught math at Wright City High School for 12 years. The son of Ukrainian immigrants who came to the United States in the aftermath of World War II, Ian was a Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran and saw active duty as an Army Reservist during Desert Storm. Our two daughters attended Wentzville public schools and obtained college degrees from Missouri institutions.
We are all created equal, with the unalienable rights that define a free society: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Health, education, and a sufficient, sustainable livelihood are the fundamental expression of these rights.
As Missouri's motto affirms, "Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law." The duty of government is to serve and protect its citizens' rights, guiding the engine of capitalism so that it provides not only corporate profits but also well-paying jobs, safe products, and a clean environment.
"No man [or woman] is an island." We are much more alike than we are different, and we're all in this together! Our future depends on not allowing differences to divide our communities, but finding and building on common ground.
One of the highest privileges in a democratic society is the opportunity to serve fellow citizens as their representative in government. My growing concern about where Missouri stands in 2018 – and where it is headed in the future -- made it no longer possible to just sit by and hope for the return of competence and responsibility. I strongly support the Clean Missouri Initiative to limit the influence of big money in our legislature.
- Janet Kester, MWLC's endorsed candidate for Missouri House District 63.
It takes big money to run. Consider making a donation to the MWLC PAC to provide the important financial support to Janet and other progressive women who are running for State office from areas outside Missouri's two major cities.


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In his 14 months as president, Dr. Rajiv Shah has rededicated the Rockefeller Foundation to eliminating worldwide poverty while also focusing more energy on its U.S. efforts. Ten programs were closed to concentrate on five: food, health, power, resilience and U.S. job growth. Shah has held leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and he was the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2009 to 2015. He also founded private-equity firm Latitude Capital.
What is the Rockefeller Foundation's impact in New York City?
In the past decade we've granted tens of millions of dollars to city-based entities. Every month kids from across the U.S. get to see Hamilton thanks to our support. In New York alone, 30,000 kids have participated in the program, and at least 90% of the students participating in the program we sponsor for low-income students have never been to a Broadway show. After Hurricane Sandy, we worked with the city and others to support building a more resilient New York—and that inspired our 100 Resilient Cities initiative around the world.
Is your approach here different from how you look at any other city?
Yes, for sure. We're part of New York. We have deep relationships with civic and cultural institutions, with business leaders. Our work to found the field of impact investing, for instance, may not have been possible without our presence in the world's financial capital.
CAREER DETOUR Shah never practiced pediatric medicine, his chosen specialty. His interest in politics and economics led him to volunteer on Al Gore's presidential campaign, which set him on a career path in nonprofits and government.
AT EASE During his first town hall meeting with the Rockefeller staff, he instructed everyone to call him Raj.
LEADERSHIP MODEL An earthquake struck Haiti the first week Shah was in his job at USAID. "President Barack Obama called and laid out an extraordinarily specific rationale for why we should do everything possible to support our neighbors through this tragedy and how to do it. His logic helped guide me through the next months. He said, 'This is a way to show the best of American values,' and I keep that with me in this role. Rockefeller is the best way to show and deliver American values around the world."
What are some of the programs you eliminated?
We had initiatives for digital jobs and fresh water in Africa. It isn't that we don't think they are important. We want to focus our limited resources on fewer things and deliver truly dramatic results.
Why the focus on U.S. programs?
Studies show that today 50% or fewer Americans will do better than their parents. My grandfather emptied his retirement account for my dad to come here. There was an abiding faith that in America, if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could succeed. This last election laid bare that so many people, from inner-city New Orleans to rural Ohio, didn't feel like they had access to the American dream.
We got commitments last year from 75 employers to extend their impact hiring practices for youths in at-risk communities. We launched a $10 million partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to identify the most promising, practical, data-driven solutions to expand jobs and opportunities in communities left behind. We are also launching a pilot with gig-economy companies to provide collective benefits to help improve outcomes for gig workers.
The ones families rely on to provide stability—health care, paid leave, pensions, planned retirement savings—are becoming harder to come by. Today 47% of Americans say they couldn't cover an unplanned $400 expense, such as a medical bill. So we're focused on modernizing benefits. It may be that something equivalent to an emergency fund works well; it ensures independent workers can access resources when money is tight. Or it could be retirement and health care accounts that can travel with an employee from job to job without penalties. We're working closely with the Workers Lab accelerator to pilot portable benefits that increase financial stability for workers in the U.S.


German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says American nuclear missiles must not be stationed in Germany, or anywhere in Europe, in Washington's arms control debate with Moscow.
"The deployment of new medium-range missiles would meet with widespread resistance in Germany," Maas said in an interview with German news agency dpa.
"By no means should Europe become the scene of a debate on weapons build-up," Maas said.


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I look forward to it! Especially since I'm now on the list for NEO JDRF events!
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Through the food you find the people.
This article is based on an interview that took place on the McNally family farm. Although written in the first person, the text is not verbatim. It has been reviewed and approved by the interviewee.
Sarah McNally has grown up to the rhythm of the seasons. Her parents are both farmers in North County Dublin. They first met at their local Macra na Feirme, a youth organisation for young Irish farmers founded in 1944.
The McNally Market farm found its feet by supplying local fruit and vegetable shops in the early eighties. However, the amount of fresh produce returns for supposed aesthetic reasons eventually led the family to sell directly to the public, removing the middle man. In 1997 the McNallys became stallholders in the then young Temple Bar Food Market. Their green canopy has since become a cornerstone of the weekly market.
Sarah has gone from weeding, climbing and falling from trees, sucking on fresh swede to kill a thirst, hunting hidden eggs and sitting under market stalls to setting up her own independent food business. Along with Liadain Kaminski, Sarah runs The Market Kitchen, a cookhouse that translates the wide range of Temple Bar Market foodstuffs into belly fillers and table chatter. I met up with her in the McNally farm shop in Ring Commons, Balbriggan, to discover a part of her story.
How did growing up on a market vegetable farm affect your idea of food?
A farm childhood is all play, from the weeding to the egg hunting. We spent years in the fields, always outdoors .
The farm has never used man-made chemicals. Mainly this was because my mum did not want to spray where kids were playing. Our customers then asked for us to apply for the "Organic" label. McNally Farm is organic but not in an evangelical way.
In 2013 I undertook a 6 week stage in River Cottage Restaurant.It was not until I went to England that I began to understand the value in our work. Ironically, considering the inherent healthiness of River Cottage cooking, it was the first time I put on weight. Living on a tight budget, in between shifts I would feed myself from Tesco. Because all the vegetables tasted collectively like nothing, I ended up surviving on potatoes and butter. The tastelessness of the supermarket vegetables combined with my positive experience of River Cottage itself and its seasonal ethos helped to cement how I felt about food, and about the farm. Behind the food is a person, a grower, a breeder, and we cannot afford to put price over quality. Our living comes from the land.
Is farming a contemporary career choice? Could it be in the future?
I decided when I was young that I would not be a farmer. You have to love farming to be able to do it every day. I do see myself living in the country, probably here [Ring Commons] or nearby.
We have recently opened a farm shop which provides evidence of the farm, in a sense. It is helpful when our customers can see the production reality behind the produce and understand things like the "Hunger Gap", a between-season period from March to May when everything is green, and the fact that sometimes our beets are large and sometimes they are small but either way they are delicious.
Farming is hard work but that is not something to be afraid of. It is unrealistic for one person to be able to grow enough to feed themselves year round while working another job but maybe as food awareness and consciousness rise, as seems to be happening, there will be more incentive for others to set up and commit to farms like ours.
What does the market mean to you?
Olive Oil from a neighbouring trader.
Sometimes you receive comments such as "you have great produce, have you ever thought of selling to (enter well-known retailer)?" This suggests that market selling and growing is only a step in a certain direction, a temporary reality. But we chose the market and we are happy in what we are doing. A market is different to a supermarket. A community forms naturally in the early morning line at the stand. People are comparing cooking techniques, discussing a new or unfamiliar vegetable or anticipating the next crop of flower sprouts or choy sum.
We are busiest at 9am. All nationalities, especially those with a strong market culture, get up early to do their weekly shop. Generally, people who shop in the market come for the freshness, the quality and the craic.
Market Kitchen has emerged directly from this food hub of many passionate producers. At the moment our menu consists of soups, sandwiches and an egg dish. Where we are going is being explored. I recently made a dish of alexander greens I realised had been growing in our garden for years. It is hard to predict what will inspire or taste good week by week.
Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I was not a farm kid. Would I have come out every Saturday to the market anyway? Would I love leek as much?
Can you share a food culture or place that has inspired you.
Norway. What they have, they use. Cod roe, cod skin, cod tongue.
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On January 15, 2021, U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden nominated geneticist Dr. Eric Lander to be his Science Advisor and head of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP). Concurrently, the President-Elect also announced he would elevate OSTP to cabinet-level, a first since the position was created in the early-1970's.
In a letter to Dr. Lander [PDF] released at the time of his announcement, President-Elect Biden asked five specific questions on how science can and should benefit the nation. Citing the questions posed by Franklin Roosevelt to his science advisor, Vannevar Bush in 1944 that resulted in Bush's landmark report, Science: The Endless Frontier, Biden asked five specific questions on how science can meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Biden asked that Dr. Lander should call on the entire U.S. science enterprise to make recommendations "on the general strategies, specific actions, and new structures that the federal government should adopt to ensure that our nation can continue to harness the full power of science and technology on behalf of the American people".
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What can we learn from the pandemic about what is possible—or what ought to be possible—to address the widest range of needs related to our public health?
How can breakthroughs in science and technology create powerful new solutions to address climate change—propelling market-driven change, jump-starting economic growth, improving health, and growing jobs, especially in communities that have been left behind?
How can the United States ensure that it is the world leader in the technologies and industries of the future that will be critical to our economic prosperity and national security, especially in competition with China?
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Facebook has banned Frontpage Editor and Glazov Gang host Jamie Glazov for seven days. Jamie's crime is posting/reporting on his Facebook page a physical threat that was made to him personally on his FB page by a member of the Religion of Peace.
Jamie then made two posts about this threat, showing the screenshot of it and (1) asking Mark Zuckerberg if Ayoub's threat is unsafe to the community and (2) pointing out that if a kafir (Islam's secret dirty word for the unbeliever) said this to Ayoub on Facebook that there would be a lifelong ban and police would be at the kafir's door within 12 hours.
The next day, on Sunday, April 15, 2018, Facebook notified Jamie that he was now being punished with a seven day ban for the post he made asking Mr. Zuckerberg about whether or not Ayoub's threat is unsafe to the FB community.
Facebook has not responded to Jamie and the ban remains in place. It is now obvious what the rule is at Facebook: If a member of the Religion of Peace threatens to break a kafir's mouth, that is safe for the FB community and the kafir obviously deserves the threat because he is violating Islamic blasphemy laws in some way. And the kafir must be punished if he reports or complains about the threat. But if a kafir physically threatens a Muslim, then that is a completely different matter. That for sure is unsafe for the FB community and the kafir obviously needs to be punished.
The thread on which all of this occurred is a video post by Jamie of human rights activist Anni Cyrus telling her personal story of being a child bride under Sharia in Iran — and how she was able to escape the barbarities of Sharia. Anni discusses how little girls are being literally sold every day into sexual slavery under Islamic law. See the video post and discussion thread HERE before Facebook might take it down.
We request that everyone who cares about free speech and who is concerned about Facebook's surrender to Islamic blasphemy laws, to protest this shameful and shameless banning of Jamie Glazov and also Facebook's overall persecution of truth-tellers about the totalitarian and terrorist threat our civilization is facing.
Please share this article and this news everywhere, write to Facebook, to protest its banning of Jamie and its surrender to Sharia, and encourage everyone to do the same.
FB has become a total screw up. They censor conservatives, protect islamic viewpoints, and track people who don't even have a FB account. FB should now be called BB: big brother.
Jamie, you know you're doing something right when FB bans you!! Carry on as usual and wear the badge with pride!!
I certainly hope that you'll soon be able lift the curse of that little POS camel jockey!! Facebook is SO annoying!! Maybe if the muzzies targeted ZuckerFxxk's trust fund kid Marc might change his tune. But don't count on it !
Only a week? I'm banned for a month for writing "Muhammed was a bloodthirsty warlord". Muslims are reporting us to Facebook and it appears Zuckerburg has HIRED Muslims to ban us!! The woman's name was a musleema that "reviewed" my protest for my ban. So what to do? I wrote Senator Cruz, my Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Jihad Senator Tim Kaine ans my Congressman Wittman. I also sent in Dr Bill Warner's booklets on islam to them all. So let's do a MASS write in to your senators, Cingressmen And Senator Cruz supporting his questioning Zuckerman again! Even Diamond &Silk are Banned. I am a writer of WWII biography and I am banned. This is no accident!! Fb is hiring Muslims to screen us!
I have just been banned for 30 days for saying that trudeau is a lying sack of poop!!
Not sure how much longer I am going to stay on that piece of crap site.
That is hilarious! I have heard him being called way worse names than that!
DUMP FB. It ius a 14 yr old brat that needs to be taught a lesson, and used as a lesson for us all not to be duped by influential sources.
Try Gab.ai, Minds.com and others who protect free speech!
I found that mewe.com is open to conservatives. Watching a very revealing show on fox Sunday night, Life, Liberty and Mark Levin.
It was a consensus that Conservative voices, need a social media that is open to the (truth) voices that FB shuts down.
Mr. Zuckerberg cares more about number of Facebook subscribers. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. Free speech doesn't apply to FB. Despite being a Jew he has only Jewish last name, nothing else.
Mr Zuckerberg is a terrorist and ought to be treated as such.
Well FB takes the cake for down right dumbness. I stopped using them long ago. No worries Jamie. Keeping doing good!
Facebook. Never had it, never will. What little family I have i have told to never mention me on their Facebook pages in any way shape or form………for all the good that will do.
It's not just Mr. Zuckerberg. It's a strong, secret organization going after its plan.
Little by little, freedom is lost. A mob of ignorant "liberals" bully everyone into silence, preventing them from pointing at the hate which must not be criticised and accusing them of hate for doing so. We seem to have bred a generation of nincompoops who are so dim that they deserve to live under Islam, but they must not be allowed to drag the rest of us down with them.
LOL. I got banned for 7 days for posting this photo to my page, "This Is The Left" , a left-watch page.
Cannot say that I am surprised. I watch America from another continent where socialism, communism and Islam, the latter presently a small minority not too visibly politically dominant but fast growing as a result of a combination of high birth rates and immigration, both legal and illegal. I can see the enclaves growing in our city and in other major canters of the country. It seems that most locals are oblivious to this gathering wolf packs. I do know however, that if the US falls, we will all fall like flies to tyranny – be it Communist or Islamist.


Georg Hinderling, Rechtsnorm und Verstehen – Die methodischen Folgen einer allgemeinen Hermeneutik für die Prinzipien der Verfassungsauslegung (in: Abhandlungen zum schweizerischen Recht), Bern: Stämpfli, 1971, pp. 95-101 and 238-169.
The invention of hermeneutics by Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher originally consisted in a means to the end of reconciling different and divergent interpretation of the Holy Bible. It can be considered as the art of interpreting textual documents by relating the significance of each part to the whole that results from all the meanings of the parts it includes (leading to the so-called hermeneutical circle that is not at all vicious). Moreover, it also enables to situate a text within its context in a cultural view. In Wilhelm Dilthey this method has been enlarged and applied to cultural phenomenon ("Lebenskreise", "Kultursysteme"). The difficulty, however, is how to interpret entities that are not concluded and represent an open and dynamic development or progress.
Hermeneutics, as a tool for inclusive interpretation, have been further developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer to a veritable hermeneutical approach to philosophy itself, i.e. broadened to provide a foundation for philosophical thought in the domain of human sciences. This current has been very influential for the progress of modern philosophy in the Twentieth Century.
Another aspect of hermeneutics has lead Emilio Betti to construct a comprehensive theory of legal interpretation (compare the essays in Vito Rizzo (Ed.): Emilio Betti e l'interpretazione (Università degli Studi di Camerino, vol. 14), Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1991; and in Vittorio Frosini/Francesco Riccobono (Eds.): L'Ermeneutica giuridica di Emilio Betti (Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Teoria della Interpretazione e di Informatica Giuridica dell'Università "La Sapienza", Roma, vol. 10), Milano: A. Giuffrè, 1994). It is deplorable that this application of hermeneutics as a method for the interpretation of legal norms and legal order has not been widely adopted in jurisprudence, although eminent legal scholars have received inspiration by this current.
The core of the hermeneutical question, with respect to legal thought, consists therein, that the text of a legal norm has not only to be interpreted in general, but also to be applicated to a specific case (see the contributions in "Text und Applikation" as selected for further reading). This would be the very link between rule based and precedent orientated legal systems, and also be a key to a deeper understanding of the relation between more general legal rules or principles and more specific legal norms. Hermeneutics could enable to widen the methodological stricture in legal theory, when reconsidered in a creative manner, following the examples of historicism and hermeneutics (consult no 3.15 of this Legal Anthology).
Georg Hinderling counts to the first legal thinkers who have elaborated the implications of hermeneutics on legal interpretation in general, and especially on the interpretation of constitutional law. In his dissertation entitled "Rechtsnorm und Verstehen", the author provides rich material to inform constitutional interpretation with hermeneutical principles. The discussion opens with a presentation of the similarities and differences between the approaches inaugurated by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Emilio Betti. A convincing argumentation in theological hermeneutics leads the author to the opinion that historical understanding tends to refer to existential truths. The question of whether there can be an existentialistic philosophical interpretation of legal order, however, is omitted. The crucial point seems to be, whether the interpretation is allowed to be creative, i.e. participate in the creation of the very meaning of the legal text, or whether it is restrained to be merely a comprehension in the sense of a reproduction. Critical reflection shows that interpreting a text is always and necessarily creative and even inventive, as the subject of cognition has to contribute to the recognised object, and such even in a considerable degree. If one is ready to accept this contribution, the according paradox or dilemma vanishes.
In a second part of this investigations, Georg Hinderling discusses the specific juridical aspects of hermeneutics, as the acclaimed method, the problem of vacancies within the legal order, and general legal principles as well as topical understanding. The author favours an existentialistic interpretation in general (see the passage selected for reading).
So to say as a direct consequence, the concept of substantialisation or concretisation is proposed by Georg Hinderling. In any given case of possible application, the norm included in the positive legal order has to be specified in order to be able to provide a rule of decision (Wolfgang Fikentscher) or a so-called case-norm (Friedrich Müller), i.e. jurisdiction will always take an active and creative part in the process of application. The normative density of constitutional norms is necessarily more abstract, and the necessity of such a procedure even increased or more evident. Therefore, these norms have to be made more concrete to serve as a starting point of interpretation and application. The whole process not only of interpretation, but rather of application can very well be conceptualised in terms of hermeneutics (this is also the case in the domain of theology, where the texts of the Holy Bible are applicated to the community by the priest's sermon). Also in this specific respect of constitutional law, hermeneutical interpretation has an inclination towards existentialistic understanding, according to the author. In conclusion two special questions are addressed: constitutional rules form an order insofar as they are based on a certain set of valuations, and constitutional rights and freedoms demand for an adequate interpretation. In these two cases, the tool of hermeneutical insights enables to provide convincing solutions.
In conclusion, hermeneutics do not stand for a sophisticated method of interpretation, but rather for a comprehensive and inclusive modality to understand the prescriptions of the legal order. It should occur that this art of hermeneutical interpretation eventually evolves to a veritable standard, to the state-of-the-art level. The province of hermeneutics, i.e. theology, can help to sharpen the consciousness of the absolute in the law on one side, and to bridge or overcome the tension between divergent possibilities of interpretations that refer to the very same text. It must be taken into consideration that legal interpretation has to tend to a unique and ascertained meaning or significance of legal texts.
Hans Georg Hinderling received his doctorate in 1971 at the University of Basel, and in 1973 he also received an LL.M. of Harvard Law School. Since 1971, he is an independent advocate in Basel; he is chairman of the Swiss section (VDF) of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA).
Joachim Wach: Das Verstehen – Grundzüge einer Geschichte der hermeneutischen Theorie im 19. Jahrhundert (vol. 1: Die grossen Systeme; vol. 2: Die theologische Hermeneutik von Schleiermacher bis Hofmann), Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1926/ 1929.
You can find a scan (PDF) of the original text here: Hinderling Verstehen.


3D text effects are a growing and awesome design trend. They can add angles, lighting and interest that many 2D text effects can't bring. Here is an awesome Showcase of 3D Typography that was put together a little while back by Angie Bowen. I've also been seen and been inspired by tutorials like 3D Text on Fire and this Fresh Text Effect .
After some experimenting with what can be accomplished using Illustrator's 3D capabilities and Photoshop's texturing I came up with the design for this tutorial. In the steps that follow you will learn some pretty helpful techniques and tricks all while designing your own slick 3D ice text effect. Let's get started.
Fire up Illustrator and type in your word(s) at the size you are designing for. I used Diavlo bold for my font of choice. Be sure to change the font color to a mid-tone gray. It's not important to choose a specific color yet, but we do need something that will have a strong enough contrast to stand out when we transform the text into 3D.
Now it's time to utilize Illustrator's simple, but awesome 3D capabilities. With your text selected choose Menu > Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel . Make sure to tick on the preview option so that you can view your results as you go along (be warned this 3D effect with preview turned on is a huge memory" slower computers beware). Then manipulate the text into the angle that you desire. Bear in mind, perspective is the trickiest and most important part of a 3D text effect, so take your time here. The cube in the top left is a great visual tool. Simply click and drag on different parts to manipulate the x, y and z axis. Or if you prefer the cliff notes, just alter the settings to what is referenced below.
Now it's time to move our project over to Photoshop. Open up a new document in Photoshop, then click back to Illustrator and put the two documents side by side. Grab the move tool in Illustrator and drag the 3D text from Illustrator into the Photoshop document. Then in Photoshop select the background layer and fill it with black.
Filters offer a huge range of possibilities, but they can lead to some pretty horrific results when they are overdone or used inproperly. In our case, we are going to add a couple of minor tweaks, to start the illusion of highlights and shadows on raised ice.
The Filter Gallery is a very handy interface that you can use to add and combine various filters. To get started click Filter->Filter Gallery . First, add 'Accented Edges'. Play around with the settings until you have some simple, but not blown out highlights on the edges of your 3D text. Below are the settings that I used. Now, click to add a second filter (using the small 'Add Filter' button in the bottom right), choose 'Plastic Wrap' and select settings similar to what is referenced below. Then click ok.
Our filters gave us some nice highlights on the edges of the 3D text, but I think we could do a little better yet. Let's take advantage of some of the things layer styles have to offer. Double click on the 3D text layer to bring up the layer styles box. Add a bevel and emboss, and a drop shadow to our text. The drop shadow will be rather unnoticeable against our black background, but it will look good when we set up the ice background. Use settings that are similar to those shown below.
That's starting to look cool, but we could definitely use some more contrast. To add some, click Image->Adjustments->Shadows/Highlights . There are a ton of sliders to play around with in here, and quite honestly moving them around and experimenting is the best way to learn what they do. It's also good to note, that since we brought over this text from Illustrator it should be a smart object. Which means that these filters are non-destructive and can be easily tweaked at a later point.
In this step we are going to start working on the background ice. We need an interesting ice texture with some bright colors (even though we'll be altering them later). I found this really cool ice texture on Flickr. Download that one or something similar and place it on a layer below the text layer and above the black background. Add a layer mask to your new layer by clicking Layer->Vector Mask->Reveal All . We want to gradually fade our design out to the black background, so add a radial gradient to that layer mask that goes from black on the outside to white on the inside. Touch up some of the mask with a soft brush with low opacity if necessary. Lastly, drop the opacity of this layer to about 90%.
The background is starting to look interesting, but the texture could definitely be simplified and smoothed out a bit. I personally like to make those kinds of changes on a smart object so that I can adjust them later if I change my mind. So, right click on the layer and choose 'Covert to Smart Object'. Then click Menu > Filter > Blur > Surface Blur . Use this blur to soften the texture and contrast some. Then add a bit of simple noise back in by clicking Filter > Noise > Add Noise . The settings I used are shown below as a reference.
Let's add some of this same texture to the text to help with realism and consistency. Duplicate the ice background layer and place it at the top of the layers palette. Add a layer mask to this layer just like you did before. Fill the layer mask with all black. Then select the shape of the ice text by 'Ctrl/ cmd + click' on the thumbnail in the layers palette as circled below. Fill the shape that you just selected on the layer mask with white. This will reveal the texture only on the ice text. Now, change the layer mode to Overlay and the opacity to about 85%. Lastly, you can unlink the mask and the layer to move the texture independent of the mask. This give you great flexibility to change the texture on the text to something you find visually striking.
In the next two steps I want to work on the coloring. Add a new layer to the top of your layers palette. Then grab the gradient tool and make a colorful gradient that begins and ends with the same color and goes to two other colors toward the middle. This gives our illustration a nice smooth base color to work from. Drag out a linear gradient horizontally across your canvas. Change the blend mode for this layer to overlay.
Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer by clicking on the icon at the bottom of the layers palette (referenced below). Adjust the sliders until you have a nice cool colored gradient.
Since our subject is ice and we have some cool lighting effects going on we definitely need to add a nice reflection. This can be a tad tricky with 3D objects, as the extra dimension can play tricks on your eyes. Because the refection on the ice is really only 2D I found the best and simplest way to add that is to create a new flat text layer that mimics the size and perspective of the 3D text. Make a new text layer and retype 'ice' or whatever the word you choose to use was in the same font. Then click 'cmd + t' to bring up the free transform tool. Click and drag downward from the top middle anchor to reflect the text. Next rotate it by hovering over a corner point to get the rotate cursor. Then adjust the corners while holding down 'cmd' to skew the text. Get it to the point that it fits pretty well over the 3D text, like the image below, bear in mind that it doesn't need to be perfect.
Now drag the refection into place and move the reflection layer below the 3D text layer. Change the blend mode to overlay and the opacity to 45%. Rasterize the layer by right clicking and choosing 'Rasterize Layer. Then click Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur and blur the shadow a bit. Lastly, add a layer mask and fade it out toward the bottom of the reflection.
We're almost done here, but a lot of times it's the finishing touches that can take a design from good to great. I went on the look out for some cool brushes and found this awesome set . Go ahead and download them or something similar. Add a new layer and use the same masking technique that you used in step 9, so that the brush you use will only show on the 3D text. Then grab a star brush, use white for your color and dab on some interesting texture. Change your blend mode to overlay and drop your opacity to about half.
Lastly add a couple more layers and utilize a couple of the star brushes to make some sparkle highlights. Be careful not to overdo this step. It's also a good idea to put each one on a different layer, so that you can experiment with where the sparkle looks best and vary the brightness by lowering the opacity a bit.
There are so many creative directions you can take these techniques. The main thing I wanted to get across was the simplicity of 3D text in Illustrator and the power of combining Illustrator and Photoshop.


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