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6 Perfectly Preventable Ways Facebook Ads Tend To Go Wrong via @sejournal, @kristileilani
Are your Facebook Ads campaigns in need of a facelift? Make sure you aren't holding yourself back with these common mistakes. The post 6 Perfectly Preventable Ways Facebook Ads Tend To Go Wrong appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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May 31, 2022 - 21:03
Recent data shows that Facebook attracted 2.93 billion active monthly users. in Q1 2022, making it the social media platform used most around the world.
However, even though Facebook is the most popular social media platform, it doesn't mean your ads will reach millions of people.
Nor should that be your goal, since that would expand past your budget and you'd end up targeting audiences who wouldn't resonate with your brand.
How can you carve out an influential audience and customer base on Facebook?
Let's take a look at some common mistakes that hurt ROI and how to avoid them, as well as some Facebook ad campaign strategy tips.
Deciding Facebook Is Not Suited To My CompanyHaving The Wrong Campaign ObjectiveNarrowing Down Into Too Wide (Or Too Specific) Targeted AudiencesUsing The Wrong Ad TypeNot Measuring ConversionsNot A/B TestingConclusion
1. Deciding Facebook Is Not Suited To My Company
Some companies may choose to write off Facebook altogether since they may think it might not be best for their brand and complicated to incorporate or manage. But this would be a mistake.
Another reason brands may disregard Facebook Ads is because they believe it's too expensive, but with a realistic budget and smart strategy, that's far from the truth.
If your brand is considering Facebook ads, then it's valuable to start by breaking down what your budget for Facebook Ads would be, including taking time to understand the different campaign potentials.
There are three crucial aspects of a Facebook campaign to consider when planning, such as the daily budget option, lifetime budget, and overall campaign budget optimization.
As we stated earlier, companies may think that Facebook ads aren't for them because they might not be compatible with company branding for both B2B and B2C companies.
But both company types are sure to reach their target audience if they take the time to cultivate a strategy and get a bit creative.
For B2B brands, companies may believe their ads won't attract professionals because the ad would appear on social media.
If this is a concern, then you might want to try lookalike audiences which are audiences that may be interested in your brand outside of the initial target audience.
A lookalike audience has the potential to broaden the scope of your audience and reach more businesses or individuals you didn't initially consider.
This is a strategy to extend your reach through Facebook algorithms which have the ability to monitor multiple touchpoints as people and companies interact with Facebook.
The Facebook Lookalike Audience is the main feature that can help you connect with more people with similar qualities as your intended target audience.
This capability looks at what pages people like and interact with as well as their interests.
You can get more engagement with your content by adjusting it to answer questions they may have to engage with the audience on a topic, then creating additional supporting content to generate more engagement and traffic.
Then, based on this engagement, you can create a lookalike audience on social media.
For B2C companies that think they are more traditional or have non-digital products, it's still a great way to build an audience and engage with individuals who may want to purchase your product.
It also builds brand authority to have a presence they recognize when searching for your product on social media.
You can create excitement, trust, and general interest that can turn into leads and long-term customers.
Whether you want sales or traffic, Facebook ads can be an effective tool, and Facebook makes the process more accessible through its algorithms and simple ad platform.
Now, let's dive into strategy and objectives a bit more.
2. Having The Wrong Campaign Objective
The beginning of every strategy is setting your objective, and then you can decide the milestones and resources required to achieve it.
Facebook divides these objectives into three categories: awareness, consideration, and conversions.
If your goal is brand awareness, then you want to get people interested in your product or service through your ads and get them excited about your brand.
What makes your brand unique? What problem or problems does it solve? How can you best reach people, so they connect your product or service to your brand each time they see it?
Consideration is where you want to entice people to learn more about your brand and seek more information.
Get them intrigued to visit your website to learn more and potentially generate leads. Get people to like, comment, or message your brand to learn more.
Conversion, of course, is getting more sales. That strong and creative copy that prompts your call to action so they make a purchase.
Your objectives can change over time, but it's crucial to select one objective for each campaign to evaluate its effectiveness since each strategy will have different goals and milestones.
Within the three groups, there are thirteen campaign objectives:
Store Traffic Reach Brand Awareness Traffic Engagement Lead Generation Video Views Messenger Catalog Sales Conversions Event Response Page Likes App Installation
It'll be essential to evaluate and consider each one to make sure you're making the most out of your Facebook ad strategy.
It can seem overwhelming, so testing a few different ones may be the correct route for your brand.
After some practice, you'll be able to see which ones are giving you the results you're looking for, especially if you test multiple objectives over time.
Another vital component of setting a brand's objectives is aligning the company's objectives with its needs.
Correctly completing this aspect can help you optimize your budget, efforts for bidding options, and ad unit options.
Now we talked about milestones, and unfortunately, some companies wrongly measure their success simply through page likes or only consider a high click-through rate, but there's more to it than that.
There are numerous platforms to analyze the analytics, which will get into a bit later.
3. Narrowing Down Into Too Wide (Or Too Specific) Targeted Audiences
Defining your target audience is key.
Even though you picked your objective, you still need to specify your audience, and it can be a bit tricky to make sure it's not too large or too small.
You want to make sure your content targets audiences interested in your ad, and one of the best ways to do this is to create a customer profile of someone you would like to attract to your brand. This profile should be all-encompassing.
While it's good to start with age, gender, income, marital status, and education level, you want to go further into what their hobbies, values, and interests are as well.
To really connect with people, you'll have to consider more detailed factors to create your content for your ads.
Even though you establish a customer profile, you don't want to go too narrow and target solely based on an office type, job title, or daily budget.
On the other hand, if you go too broad, you can target people who wouldn't be interested in your brand and spend more money retargeting.
To solve this conundrum, here are some tips for the best way to build your audience for Facebook ads.
Let's talk about content.
Focus on the different order for each ad, and try to tell a story through each iteration.
How will the customer journey evolve for each ad you present? And what is your intention for each ad along the way?
Then, once you've selected your audience and started your campaign, you can use the audience insights to better target people and redefine your reach. And, you want to observe how the audience is interacting with your page and content.
Additionally, you can layer different audience components such as their interests to reach more audiences in each ad.
It's important to keep in mind some changes Meta is making to Facebook Ad Targeting for 2022.
These changes revolve around how brands connect with audiences based on health causes, sexual orientation, religious practices and groups, and political beliefs.
People were concerned with data privacy, especially when it comes to ad targeting, and Meta has made changes to resolve this issue.
However, Meta may also make further changes down the line, so it's essential to keep these shifts on your radar.
4. Using The Wrong Ad Type
There are numerous ad types you can use on Facebook. These include pictures, infographics, videos, carousels which are multiple images or a video, and product displays such as a collection.
Once you figure out your objective, audience, and the way in which you would like your customer journey to unfold, it'll be easier to select the ad type that will work best for your campaign.
Then, over time as you measure and track engagement for different pieces of content, you'll be able to see which types resonate best with your audience.
Make sure to check the requirements for each format type since there are different view options based on a mobile device, computer, and small pop-up ads.
Also, it's important to consider how your audience will view your content on each device to make sure it's effective.
Myth: Assuming You Need To Have A Big Budget For Image/Video
You can create impactful, high-quality ads with simple tools such as Canva, which has preset templates where you can add your brand color and logo, and photos to your ads.
These types of platforms simplify ad creation and are generally cost-effective.
Additionally, you can use the carousel format to give your audience multiple stock photo images to browse through or create a compelling video.
5. Not Measuring Conversions
If you're not monitoring your campaign or end up abandoning the ad, it'll be hard to measure its true return on investment to better inform future campaigns.
It's the only way to really see if your ads are working or find ways to pivot and re-strategize. Don't let an initial campaign discourage you.
One effective tool to monitor analytics is to use Google Analytics to track various aspects such as consumer location, content, conversions, mobile engagement, and more.
You can check out the guide to Google Analytics here for a step-by-step tutorial.
Facebook will also give you insightful analytics to see the engagement you're receiving for each ad and how it performs compared to others throughout the weeks.
Additionally, through Facebook Business Suite, you can manage campaigns in one location for both your Facebook and Instagram posts, as well as customize or adjust your campaign.
Check out some additional simple tips for driving more conversions once you have set your benchmark, such as remarketing engagement and other capabilities and experimenting by reviewing your data and retargeting ads.
So, maybe you've tried some tactics, and your Facebook Ads aren't converting. Here are some reasons why your ads may not be converting and some tips to improve.
One reason is that your brand might not have enough audience data yet.
If this is your first campaign or you're a newer brand, you might need to gather more analytics and comprehensive audience data to target your ads better.
You can accomplish this through Google Analytics, Microsoft Ads PPC, Facebook analytics, surveys, and questionnaires.
You may also need to take another look at your targeting parameters.
As stated earlier, going too wide or too narrow can diminish the effectiveness of your campaign.
You can improve this by redefining the three boundaries: demographics, psychographics, and behaviors.
Additionally, if customers aren't buying your product or service, it can be impactful to focus on Facebook lead ads.
6. Not A/B Testing
When creating a Facebook ad campaign, it's crucial not to assume you know what will automatically appeal to your intended audience.
Try completing some A/B Testing, and you might be surprised.
For example, you can make minor changes such as switching the call to action, messaging, or image selection to see which best engages with your audience.
Make sure to use the Facebook Ad Library for comparisons with other brands as well as to see trends and longevity.
Look at competitors' ads to see what's working for them within their ad messaging or format to connect with your similar audience.
Timing is also key to ensuring you're reaching your audience at the right time.
Keep in mind the upcoming holidays that you might want to incorporate into your campaign.
Funnel mapping is also great to see where your audience is going when they go to your call to action.
When you look at the ad journey from the customer's perspective, you can pinpoint areas for improvement.
When brands take the time to strategize and consider their objective, needs, audience, content type, and ad journey, Facebook ads become a more manageable option.
They are a cost-effective way to engage and grow a brand's audience and have the potential for a great return on investment.
When you're just getting into social media marketing, learning from your mistakes is an excellent opportunity for growth. It offers the chance to pinpoint areas for improvement.
Then you can course-correct to better connect with and expand your audience and customer base.
Facebook ads can become an influential tool in a brand's market strategy.
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The video adapter that came with your computer may be just fine for ordinary routine tasks: email, Web browsing, a little business or personal writing, etc. But if you play games or watch high definition videos on your computer, you will want better performance than most factory-installed video adapters provide. When shopping for a video adapter card, follow these guidelines.
The GPU is more important than the RAM. GPU stands for Graphics Processor Unit. It is the specialized computing chip that turns bits into dazzling full color, high-definition images moving at lightning speed. RAM is just the GPU's scratchpad as it performs the billions of necessary calculations. Research GPUs to find the one best optimized for your typical uses, then buy a card with that GPU and an adequate amount of RAM – usually 128 MB more than the vendor says is the minimum requirement.
Learn to read the model codes of the most popular video card vendors. The model codes tell you a lot about what you are buying. For example, an ATI 3xxx model card is older than a 4xxx card, but that doesn't mean the 4xxx card is better, necessarily. The second number in the model code, ranging from 3 to 8, tells you the performance level of that card within its model year. So a 38xx high performance card probably outshines 43xx newer card. And newer always costs more than it should.
Match the performance of the GPU to the performance of your CPU. The fastest video card will be hobbled by a slow central processor unit. They have to work together. If you have a mid-range CPU then your best buy is a mid-range vide card.
Make sure before you buy that your computer's power supply can meet the new video card's needs. Video cards are power hungry. Be sure you have enough of the right kind of connectors available on your power supply. You may have to upgrade the power supply.
Like shopping for a car, shopping for a video card can be intoxicating. But at the end of the day when you reach for your credit card, buy what you need and not what makes you feel like a teenaged hot rodder.


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The original Arizona Rangers was organized in 1901 to protect the Arizona Territory from outlaws and rustlers. With the maximum strength of only 26 men, they covered the entire territory. They were picked from law-officers, military men, ranchers and cowboys.
By 1909, the Arizona Rangers had largely accomplished their goals and were disbanded by the Territorial Governor. In total there were only 107 original Territorial Rangers.
Arizona Rangers Fredrikstad cowboy action shooting club was officially founded August 2nd 2000 in our club-cabin in Fredrikstad.
As a proof of membership, we use the Arizona Ranger's badge, of course.
Arizona Rangers Fredrikstad, is a part of Scandinavian Western Shooters, our parent association. SWS is an association approved by the department of justice. Arizona Rangers is also part of "Svartkrutten" or "Fredrikstad Svartkruttklubb" shooting club, and all our members are also members of Svartkrutten (Svartkrutten means Blackpowder). We use Svartkutten`s shooting range and club-cabin at Regimensmyra in Fredrikstad, Norway.
"Hello Group, My name is Jeff, I am a Sergeant with the (real) Arizona Rangers in Scottsdale Arizona.
I have been with the Rangers for three years now. There is actually a lot of history in the original Arizona Rangers, now days we still retain all of the history, but dress and use the latest hi tech weaponry.
We're always looking for new rangers!


My style of practicing is similar to the way I discuss things with Mark. He's a good listener and I appreciate his feedback, so I like to bounce ideas off him, things big and small, issues I have with students, parents, colleagues, teaching challenges, logistics. Usually, I start out with a more or less vague idea of the issue, and as I talk and then listen to his feedback, and talk some more (lots …) and listen some more, things tend to become clearer, more focused. Mark knows that I don't want him to solve my problems. But he understands that it helps me clarify things when I talk about them.
For instance: last week, I judged the KMTA Music Progressions in Kansas City. Over the course of five hours, I saw nine students who each had 30 minutes to show me what they knew: two contrasting pieces (one memorized), music understanding and vocabulary, scales, chords, chord progressions, arpeggios, rhythm clapping, sight-playing; and, for the lower levels, more applied theory such as playing intervals and "sharped and flatted notes", they also did their listening test with me. As we were going down the list of things to do, I wrote comments on the pre-printed form of several pages, I checked off items on the list, giving appropriate points for each. When a student didn't do well on one of the items, I tried to write a little comment on why I only gave, say, 8 points out of 10 points possible, etc. The event was well-organized, most students were well-prepared, some were not, one was a complete disaster. A normal audition/judging situation.
When I finished, around 7:30 p.m., I was exhausted. Not just tired. Exhausted. Wiped out. Mark and I had planned to attend a concert (same location) after my judging duties were done – I had really been looking forward to that. Now all I wanted to do was go home and crawl into bed. I shared this with Mark, and my confusion about it: I didn't understand why I was so exhausted. When I had 25 to 30 students in Manhattan, it wasn't uncommon to be teaching for five hours, with only a short break here and there. Yet at the end of a long teaching day, I was invigorated as much as I was tired. So, why would judging feel so different? We looked at a couple of different reasons: the fact that the audition students are strangers, the time constraints, the having to assign points for accomplishments, the knowing that my written feedback on their performance pieces would carry a certain weight and that therefore I had to choose my words even more carefully than I normally do in a lesson (where I get the chance, if necessary, to clarify any remark or comment at the next lesson), etc and so on and so forth. What made the biggest difference, though, in how I looked at the audition, was this: Mark has experience in both teaching and judging martial arts. As I was complaining about how exhausted I was, he suggested that the energy that the to-be-evaluated students bring into the room is different from the energy they bring to a lesson. That different energy tends to sap yours. This insight didn't take the exhaustion away, but it felt good to be able to put these feelings into words, to be listened to and heard.
Sometimes when we talk about things, we don't get anywhere. Sometimes his feedback results in a new insight. Sometimes, his feedback is brilliant, sometimes it's – not.
Practicing, for me, is similar to these conversations: I play something, with a more or less vague idea of where I want to go with this piece; I listen – to the sound, to my body -, I take mental notes of what I'd like to improve and how, then I play some more, listen, watch, and in the end I have made progress. To an outsider it may look like I just played the same thing over and over, which would be true of course, but every repetition yielded subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, changes. I listen, I pay attention, I use the feedback I receive from my ear, my brain, my body, my heart, to make necessary changes. Sometimes I stray, it's not often a straight road, but in the end, because I listened, I have made some kind of progress. It's what I call mindful practicing.
Simone Weil, French philosopher and passionate teacher, once said (something to the effect) that if you study something and it seems that despite your efforts you do not make progress, you made progress nevertheless. Every attempt, fruitful or not, to learn something results in growth. I try to keep this in mind when I practice. And it occasionally proves true – when, occasionally, things seemingly suddenly fall into place, after having stalled for a while. They were fermenting, gelling under the surface. So, while an individual practice session may not have been as successful as I would wish, it still did its part in the bigger scheme of things. And that, to me, is efficient and effective practice.
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Gian Luca
The true heart of the hotel.
Gian Luca is and always was a restaurateur, working in the Brianza area. With his partner Gabriella, he decides to "do a triple gainer" and move to the center of Venice. And so, in 2012, the couple bought the building where Corte di Gabriela would be born. The core idea of the project is to offer an ever-improving service, and above all to make every customer feel at home. To do so, the two companions thought about every detail: they took care, alongside Marco Poloni of Poloni Arredamenti, and more recently alongside Alberto Maschietto of L'Ambiente, to completely restore the building. By observing and drawing every element, down to the smallest (take a look at the staircase leading to the hotel office: it's a drawing by Gian Luca!). And after the restoration, the philosophy of the hotel: breakfasts as a fundamental basis from which to start, with a quality that increases week by week, and allows guests to savor a timeless Venice. And much more, including the addition of an indoor laundry, an unparalleled luxury in this particular city.
But what is the deal-breaker, the surplus, the final touch?
Well, it's nothing but sheer passion and availability: it's about being the first to arrive every morning, the one who prepares breakfasts for his customers with his own hands and, above all, being always available to give advice on the city. "Go to Giudecca: the emptiness created in those spaces is perhaps the best way to start understanding Venice. And if you need advice for a restaurant or a show, I will always help you, recommending only and exclusively places that I also attend. Real places, like real Venetians ".

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Q: Raster Operations (ROP) in WebGL (no glLogicOp) Question:
Using WebGL, what is the most efficient way I can draw a bitmap on the offscreen buffer given that a raster operation must be performed for every pixel/fragment? Raster operations may vary between draw calls.
Context:
As part of the application I am developing, I have to develop a function used to copy a bitmap onto a destination buffer. The bitmap can be smaller than the canvas and is placed using offsets for the X and Y co-ordinates. Also, given a ROP code, a raster operation can be performed when copying the bitmap. The full list of ROPs can be found here.
In OpenGL ES 1.x, there was a function called glLogicOp() which would perform the required binary operations when drawing. However, since WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0, this function does not exist. I cannot yet think of a straight forward way to solve this problem. I have a few ideas but I am not as yet confident they will offer optimal performance.
Possible solutions:

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*Perform the ROPs in Javascript by keeping a typed array with the colour data for the offscreen buffer. This however would rely on the CPU to compute the ROP for each pixel. On draw I would upload the offscreen data to a texture and draw it on the offscreen buffer using a simple shader.

*Use the ping-pong texture technique described here. Having 2 textures I could sample from one and write on the other, however, I would be forced to draw the whole offscreen buffer on every draw call, even when the bitmap to be drawn covers only a small fraction of the canvas. A possible optimization would be to switch the textures only when an ROP dependent on the destination pixel is used.

*Use readPixels() to read data from the offscreen buffer before a draw call requiring an ROP dependent on the destination pixel. The data of the pixels on which the bitmap will be drawn is read, uploaded to a texture and passed to the shader together with the bitmap itself to be used for sampling. The readPixels function however is said to be one of the slowest WebGL functions since it requires synchronization between the CPU and GPU.

EDIT
Using the ping post texture technique, I think I will have to draw the whole screen every time since, for every drawing, in order to sample the destination pixel correctly I would need a representation of the current offscreen (screen before drawing). Unless I draw the whole screen every time, both textures would only represent alternate drawings rather than the real offscreen image.
It is easier to show this visually but consider this example:
1) I draw a rectangle on the left half of the screen with the first draw call having tex1 as sampling source and tex2 as drawing destination.
2) I draw rectangle on the right half of the screen with the second draw call having tex2 as sampling source and tex1 as drawing destination.
3) When I try to draw a horizontal line across the whole screen on the next draw call, since tex1 (source) does not contain the rectangle drawn in the first draw call, sampling from the left part of the screen would result in wrong colors of destination pixels.

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Q: CDF of $U=(1−X)Y+ XZ$ iid Bernoulli RVs Let $X,Y,Z$ be independent and identically distributed Bernoulli Random Variables with parameter $p$. I am looking for a way to compute the Comulative Distribution Funktion of $U=(1−X)Y+ XZ$
I have only come across easier examples where 2 simple case differentiations were enough but I can't see a simple solution for this one.
Am I missing something?
Bonus points for $\mathbb{E}[U]$ and $Var[U]$

A: So $U=Y$ if $X=0$ and $U=Z$ if $X=1$. So $U\in\{0,1\}$.
Thus $P(U=0)=P(X=0,Y=0)+P(X=1,Z=0)=(1-p)^2+p(1-p)=1-p$ and therefore $P(U=1)=p$.
So $E(U)=p$ and $Var(U)=E(U^2)-(E(U))^2=p-p^2=p(1-p)$.

A: if we condition on $X$ we can use the independence to get the following for $u \in \mathbb R$:
\begin{align}
\mathbb P (U \leq u) &= \mathbb P ( U \leq u \mid X=1) \cdot \mathbb P (X=1)+\mathbb P ( U \leq u \mid X=0) \cdot \mathbb P (X=0) \\
&= \mathbb P (Z \leq u \mid X=1) \cdot p+\mathbb P (Y \leq u \mid X=0) \cdot (1-p)\\
&=\mathbb P (Z \leq u) \cdot p+\mathbb P (Y \leq u) \cdot (1-p)\\
&=\begin{cases}
0\cdot p + 0 \cdot (1-p) = 0, & \text{if} \ u<0, \\
p\cdot p + p\cdot (1-p) = p, & \text{if} \ u \in [0,1), \\
1\cdot p + 1 \cdot (1-p) = 1, &\text{if} \  u\geq 1.
\end{cases}
\end{align}
In particular $U$ has the same distribution as $X,Y$ and $Z$.
Hence
$$
\mathbb{E}[U]=\mathbb{E}[X]=p, \quad Var(U)=Var(X)=p\cdot(1-p).
$$


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Xiaomi-backed wearable brand Huami on Tuesday announced the launch of its Amazfit Bip and Amazfit Stratos smartwatches in India. This comes days after the India launch was teased by the phone maker. The more affordable of the lot, priced at Rs. 5,499, Amazfit Bip sports an Always-On display and is claimed to offer a battery life of 45 days. On the other hand, the Amazfit Stratos, with a circular display, is the more premium of the lot and comes with a price tag of Rs. 15,999. The Amazfit Bip and Amazfit Stratos are already available on Flipkart.
The Amazfit Bip comes in four colour variants - Cinnabar Red, Kokoda Green, Onyx Black, and White Cloud. The Amazfit Stratos is available in only a single Black colour option.
The Huami Amazfit Bip sports a 1.28-inch transreflective always-on colour display with a resolution of 176x176 pixels, 2.5D curved glass, and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. Sensors onboard the smartwatch include a 3-axis acceleration sensor, a barometer, electronic compass, GPS, geomagnetic sensor, and optical (PPG) heart rate sensor. It also comes with IP68 dust and water resistance rating. When used in the basic Watch mode, the 190mAh battery in the Amazfit Bip claims to last up to 4 months on a single full charge that takes about 2.5 hours.
Compatible with both Android and iOS handsets, the Huami-branded Amazfit Bip smartwatch can be paired with smartphones using the Mi Fit 3.0 app. It weighs just about 31 grams, including the 20mm standard width changeable watch band.
The Huami Amazfit Stratos bears a 1.34-inch always-on transreflective colour LCD panel with a resolution of 320x300 pixels, 2.5D curved glass, and Corning Gorilla Glass protection. It is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz SoC, coupled with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of ROM. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS, and GLONASS. Sensors on this smartwatch include an air pressure sensor, ambient light sensor, barometer, geomagnetic sensor, gyroscope, an optical (PPG) heart rate sensor, and a tri-axis accelerometer.
It has a water resistance rating of 5 ATM or about 50 meters. There is a 290mAh battery under the hood, which claims to offer a battery life of 5 days with regular use. Like the Amazfit Bip, the Stratos is also compatible with Android and iOS smartphones using the Mi Fit 3.0 app. Weight of the smartwatch is 70 grams.


The Under 7's Argus Cup Final saw the two strongest under 7's league teams come face to face in what promised to be a thrilling match. With both teams giving everything in what was a very equal match, St Joseph's took the early lead and were pushing for a second but the Lincoln side stayed strong and had chances of their own to level the score.
The turning point of the game hinged on a controversial decision by the referee on awarding a goal that no one bar the referee seemed sure that the ball had actually crossed the line. Despite this huge setback Lincoln bounced back with a powerful free kick by Martinez and then went all out to level the match. Despite further pressure from Lincoln they could not convert their chances and St Joseph's broke away and scored a classic counter attack goal to take the final. A great final with excellent football played by both teams which in the end was deservedly won by St Joseph's.


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Fans of This Morning are diverted when a special guest appears on the ITV show with the world's largest potato.
Christensen is in free transfer talks with Barcelona, while Newcastle is closing in on Lingard and Diego Carlos.
Carmela Zumbado, who plays Anna Avalos on 'Chicago P.D.,' is here to introduce herself.
Bill Gates warns that the 'next time' the world experiences a pandemic, it may be "worse than the coronavirus."
Francis Ngannou claims he accidentally KO'd Ciryl Gane in sparring during the UFC 270 event, but he isn't proud of it.
When are the restrictions on Covid going to be lifted? What the exit strategy for Operation Rampdown means for tests and self-isolation
Despite Anthony Martial's poor form, Manchester United slap a hefty loan fee on him.
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LIVE transfer news: Chelsea's '£33.3 million Frenkie de Jong BID,' Erling Haaland updates, Wood JOINS Newcastle – all the latest.
THE JANUARY TRANSFER MARKET IS NOW OPEN, and deals are being made all over Europe!
After reportedly making a £33.3 million bid for Barcelona's Frenkie de Jong, Chelsea is looking to make a big statement.
According to reports in Catalonia, the Catalans are holding out for £50 million, but their asking price could drop to £41.75 million if youngster Nico Gonzalez and Gavi continue to impress.
And the Germany star is ready to listen in on what could be a watershed moment in contract negotiations.
Erling Haaland, meanwhile, is a summer target for Real Madrid, who are confident of landing both him and Kylian Mbappe.
When does the 2022 January transfer window close?
The transfer window began on January 1 and will end at 11 p.m. on January 31.
The Premier League's winter break is scheduled to take place during the final week of the window, so clubs will be able to sign and sell players during that time.
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Well, this is certainly the strictest diet I've ever been on, but thanks to my food angel…not yet the most painful one. The week got off to a rocky start due to a stomach bug I caught the night before I was to begin. Thankfully the worst was only one night and the next day I spent recovering, but still able to start the diet and keep the food down.
The food has been pretty tasty.
I have found a decrease (not yet eliminated) pain in my joints.
I've had lots of energy.
Husband has noticed my hands being smoother (roughness is a sign of my disease)…and I think I'm taking note of it too.
Was able to cook a couple meals for my family that I am allowed as well…so I'm learning.
Because I'm chasing calories, I feel like my whole day is based around food, thinking of the food, logging the food, seeing that the food is still not enough calories, looking for more food, eating twice as much as I would normally eat and still not reaching my caloric goals.
I've never been one to snack or make a habit of overeating…so dealing with food fantasies of stuffing my face with every last thing I find in my house that isn't allowed is a bit disturbing.
Because I haven't been able to up the calories, I've opted out of exercise this week (although I plan to do it back to regular levels next week).
Joint issues in my left wrist don't feel very different, it always has been my worst one.
Breathing issues feel the same (always on the lookout for that miracle breath!).
Still taking nightly epsom salt baths, but plan to take them aways around week 3 or 4 to see how I feel. I don't want to take too much away at once.
Body still heavy at the end and beginning on the day…muscle fatigue still an issue.
Three more weeks of elimination remain until it is time to start adding ingredients back in one-by-one. Stay tuned for subsequent updates!
Can you make a list of the doors you are for your week one AIP diet?
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Jim'll Watch It
The Christine Keeler Story (1963)
March 3, 2020 Jim McLennan drama, erotic, Jim'll Watch It, reviews
Rating: C
Dir: Robert Spafford
Star: Yvonne Buckingham, John Drew Barrymore, Alicia Brandet, Mel Welles
a.k.a. The Keeler Affair
"The movie they tried to ban" is a common advertising ploy used by B- and exploitation movie makers, with the aim of generating interest in potential viewers. This might be prurient, or might simply be people who react to being told they can't watch something, by wanting to see it. How much truth there are in these claims does vary: I typically want to know who exactly are "they", and what precisely did they try and do? But in the case of this low-budget slice of cheesecake, the claim is solidly justified.
"May I have an assurance that no film dealing with the life of Miss Keeler will be allowed to be shown in this country?" asked Member of Parliament Irene Ward in the House of Commons on November 21, 1963. [It's amusing to see the broad spectrum of other questions, that day, which also included paraffin-vending machines, fire prevention in bingo halls and witchcraft] While the government response was quite restrained – it "would depend on whether the film was obscene" – the BBFC showed no such moderation, dropping the hammer even before the film was made.
Then BBFC secretary, John Trevelyan, wrote to producer John G. Nasht five months prior to Ward's question, responding to Nasht's proposed treatment by saying, "I can hold out no hope that a film made from this treatment… would be granted any form of certificate by this Board." Despite this, Nasht ploughed ahead, though the film ended up having to be shot in Denmark. It was duly completed and sent to Trevelyan in December. If nothing else, the BBFC's subsequent, highly dismissive response was entirely consistent with its earlier warning.
"An almost continuous picture of sordid vice, including sexual perversion, and is, in the opinion of this Board, morally objectionable… Even extensive cutting would not produce a satisfactory solution, since there are several scenes, which have some importance in continuity of narration, which would be completely unacceptable… There is no point in your pursuing the matter with this Board."
Despite that, a second attempt was made in October 1969. At this time, Keeler's memoirs were being serialized in the News of the World. Rights to the film had been sold on, and the new owners sought to exploit her increased profile for their subject. However, by that point, the BBFC President had become Lord Harlech, who had previously served with the scandal's chief victim, John Profumo, in the government. While standards with regard to content had relaxed over the preceding six years, the result was still the same, Trevelyan writing, "Lord Harlech has asked me to tell you that he does not feel able to agree at the present time to the issuing of a certificate for this film."
An attempt by the owners to do an end-run and get certification from the Greater London Council instead proved no more successful. The film was screened once at the New Cinema Club, a nomadic private film club (hence its ability, like the Scala, to screen uncertificated movies) run by Derek Hill, who'd go on to be film buyer at Channel 4 from 1981-1995. But it would not be until more than a quarter-century from the film's original submission, that most Britons would finally be allowed to see a cinematic treatment of events, in the considerably higher-budgeted Scandal.
The first thing to say is that the poster (above right) is not actually exploiting the iconic photograph of Keeler straddling a chair. Because that picture was originally taken by Lewis Morley for the publicity purposes of the film, before being leaked to the Sunday Mirror and becoming part of sixties pop culture – as well as the poster for Scandal. [The chair used, amusingly, now forms part of the collection of the V&A Museum in London, having also played host to the bums of David Frost, Joe Orton and Dame Edna Everage]
The photo is certainly more memorable than the film, which makes a brave stab at being an earnest slice of social drama disguised as (very) soft-porn, but in the end, fails to be either. While much was made of Keeler's appearance, this consists entirely of a few seconds at the beginning and end, as shown at the top. And in terms of political impact, it's particular weak beer. All that's seen of Profumo is his legs (!), hovering over Keeler at a pool party, though he is mentioned by name later. But I guess, this was a considerably fragiler time, in terms of political sensitivities to sex scandals.
It's much more about the relationship of Keeler (Buckingham) with Stephen Ward (Barrymore – Drew's Dad, to be specific!), the society osteopath/artist/pimp who took her under his wing. He turned her from a showgirl into, eventually, the 19-year-old girlfriend of Profumo, then a Cabinet Minister under Prime Minister Harold McMillan. Which wouldn't necessarily have been a problem on its own: fellow minister Ernest Marples was into far weirder shit than banging teenage totty. But Keeler was also palling about with Captain Yevgeny Ivanov (Welles), a Russian diplomat.
The potential security problems resulting from the Secretary of State for War sharing vajayjay with a Soviet naval attaché don't need spelling out. Rumours eventually started to circulate, following a case where another of Keeler's lovers – she got around a bit – fired gunshots at her front door. Profumo initially proclaimed to parliament, "There was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler." However, after the truth was revealed, he was forced to resign, and Ward subsequently committed suicide while being tried for living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and pal Mandy Rice-Davies (Brandet).
This is most successful when Spafford abandons a straight narrative approach that largely plays like bad soap-opera. For example, the general structure is some kind of "dream court" in which Keeler is being tried, and its unusual enough to be interesting. Or there are the stylized goons (above) who accompany dodgy property mogul, Peter Rachman, when he meets her. [Rachman, like Ward, was dead by the time the film came out, so was unable to sue for any libel in his portrayal] Most striking is the upper-class party attended by Ward and Keeler, where the rest of the guests are mannequins (below), a nice bit of class critique. Shame the film didn't thoroughly embrace this surreal approach.
Instead, it's a rather maudlin affair, with Keeler a perpetual victim, forever being manipulated by Ward, and falls well short of Barrymore's belief it is "a modern cross between Svengali and Pygmalion." To 21st-century eyes, it's just a depressing depiction of an abusive relationship, Ward consistently demeaning her: "You'll never be a prostitute, Christine. You haven't the mentality." Though at least this aspect has aged better than some elements. For instance, we learn that if you smoke marijuana, within seconds you apparently need to have hook up with the first black man you find. Reefer Madness wasn't just a thirties thing, I guess.
But it has a couple of oddly poignant moments too, such as Keeler's friend telling her, prophetically, "All you've got is your face and what goes with it. And believe me, that won't be so saleable a few years from now." This perhaps counts as accidental social commentary, reflecting the limited opportunities which women had to make something of their lives in the early sixties. Ironically, part of the reason why the BBFC refused to grant it a certificate was they considered it "grossly unethical" for its release potentially rewarding Keeler financially. Maybe she should just have got a job in a flower-shop.
On the whole, though, it fails to shed any real light on the affair, and ends up being dull and amateurish. Witness the lengthy padding sequence of jazz go-go dancing – three and a half minutes, which feels more like thirty. Or the far too frequent use of newspaper headlines, etc. in lieu of actual narrative. Like most banned films, its reputation is considerably in excess of its impact, and it's hard to see why anyone would be so bothered by this, as to demand its suppression.
For more information on the struggles of the film with British censors, please see Richard Farmer's article in the Journal of British Cinema and Television, which inspired me to find and review the movie.
Alicia Brandet
John Drew Barrymore
Mel Welles
Robert Spafford
Yvonne Buckingham
Natascha – Todesgrüße aus Moskau (1977)
The Institute (2013)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Jack's Apocalypse (2015)
Danny's Doomsday (2014)
Slave Girls (1967)
Code Name Phoenix (2000)
Mark Stirton: More Highland than Hollywood
The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
Asylum (1972)
Residue (2017)
Grindhouse Nightmares (2017)
Possum (2018)
The Viking Queen (1967)


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Q: What is openwall crypt_r's data parameter? char *crypt_r(const char *key, const char *setting, void *data)
What is one supposed to pass as data argument? I can't find the docs for this. The Linux version uses the crypt_data type but that's not available in this header.
http://www.openwall.com/crypt/

A: This is a tricky interface because it wants to allocate and then recycle an opaque-to-the-caller buffer of opaque-to-the-caller size, which is not something that is easy in C.
If I'm reading the OpenWall crypt(3) manpage (PDF) correctly, you should be able to get the crypt_data struct declared by defining _GNU_SOURCE before including any system headers (not just before including crypt.h).  Or, you could use crypt_ra, something like this.  (Note: C++ <string> and <vector> used to avoid a bunch of tedious memory allocation cruft which would obscure the important parts of the example.  Crash-on-failure behavior for the same reason.  Not tested at all; not even compiled.)
#define _OW_SOURCE
#include <crypt.h>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using std::vector;
using std::string;

void crypt_many(vector<string> &encrypted,
                vector<string> const &passwords,
                const char *setting)
{
    void *buffer = 0;
    int bufsiz = 0;

    encrypted.clear();
    encrypted.reserve(passwords.size());
    for (auto p = passwords.begin(), limit = passwords.end();
         p != limit; p++)
    {
        char *enc = crypt_ra(p->c_str(), setting, &buffer, &bufsiz);
        if (!enc) abort();
        encrypted.push_back(string(enc));
    }

    free(buffer);
}

On the first call to crypt_ra, it allocates some amount of memory using malloc and stashes it in buffer (and the size in bufsiz), and does some precomputation, whose results are saved in buffer; the returned enc pointer also points in there.  On subsequent calls, it reuses the space and the precomputed tables, and it may resize the buffer if it notices it's not big enough (this is why the buffer size is an argument).  You, the caller, don't touch buffer or bufsiz at all, except that it is your responsibility to free buffer when you're done using crypt_ra.


TheatreWorks in New Milford will offer its fall/holiday musical, "Annie Jr.," Sept. 29 through Dec. 16.
Youths ages 7 to 17 will meet Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
Professional theatre, music, and dance instructors will take students through the audition and rehearsal process in an authentic theatre setting.
Participants will perform for family and friends the weekend of Dec. 15.
There are many roles available for beginners and experienced theatre kids, including featured roles as well as ensemble parts for orphans, servants, and tourists.
Tuition for this 11-week program is $520.
Registration is open for both programs at http://theatreworks.us/kids.php.
All classes and performances take place at TheatreWorks at 5 Brookside Ave.
For more information, call 860-350-6863.


And the overwhelming questioned being asked is: Can Jose Mourinho end Liverpool's unbeaten run?
EPL 2018-19: How Liverpool Left Manchester United Trailing In Their Wake?
England's two most successful clubs, Liverpool and Manchester United, head into the season's first league meeting. This is one of the most popular fixtures in world football. No matter where they live, every football fan will follow the match.
Premier League leaders Liverpool boast a 16-point lead over their historic rivals at the top of the table just 16 games into the season, with United languishing down in sixth and already eight points off the top four.
Much has changed since the sides last met in March, where a 2-1 victory for United took Jose Mourinho's men five points ahead of Liverpool on their way to securing second-place to runaway winners Manchester City.
Liverpool finished 25 points behind City last season, but now lead the champions by a point thanks to their best ever start to a league season, while United continue to languish in the middle of the table.
Mourinho came under fire last year for failing to attack Liverpool's then leaky defence, settling for a 0-0 draw that cost his side momentum after a fine start to the season.
Normally a draw at Anfield would be a good result but defeat could leave United 11 points off the top four if other results go against them.
Mohamed Salah: After a slow start to the season, the Egyptian King has hit the form. He is now the leading scorer (10) with four assists.
Marcus Rashford: The fearless attacker is likely to play a crucial role again. Remember what happened last time this two teams met in the league.
-Liverpool have scored the opening goal in 13 of 16 league matches so far.
- They are also the best defensive side, with the least goals conceded (6).
- But, United have scored in each of their eight away league games.
- In their last meeting, United beat Liverpool 2-1 at Old Trafford thanks to a Marcus Rashford double.
Prediction: It will not be a classic, but will be a thriller, thanks to Liverpool's own unpredictability. Liverpool win 3-1.


We layered up our Dapper Guy Chad Kochman with a serious yet casual style for fall. It works for a work day where you need to win. It works for an epic date night. It also can step up your weekend brunch style.
We started with a faded pair of slim fit jeans.
Add the blue chambray color dress shirt.
Details include the knit khaki color tie and the tie bar.
The highlight of this look is the vest. Dapper tip: never button the bottom button on a vest.
Shoes matter so we chose a pair of brown wingtips to step up the style.


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Se situa em uma latitude de 27° 38' sul e em uma longitude de 55° 42' oeste.

O município possuí uma população de 413, segundo o censo do ano 2001 (INDEC).

Cidades de Misiones (província)

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Winning Years
Host Years
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Transmission Date: Saturday 28th February 2004
Channel: BBC One
Time: 18:35-19.35
Results: 21.00-21.30
Terry Wogan
Gaby Roslin
Guest Performers: Sertab Erener
Panel: Carrie Grant
Harry Hill
Lorraine Kelly
Regional Announcers: Fearne Cotton (South East)
Justin Ryan & Colin McAllister (Scotland)
Malachi Cush (N Ireland)
Colin Jackson (Wales)
Sonia (North)
Hayley Evetts (Midlands)
Sharron Davies (South West)
Lorraine Kelly (SMS)
Richard Valentine
Producers: Barrie Kelly
Public phone vote - ranked by region and by SMS (Text and Interactive Digital TV) by percentage.
Winning Song:
Hold Onto Our Love
The scoreboard for this event may be viewed on desktop and laptop devices
SMS %
1 Weekend (Gotta Work) Enrap-ture Kelly Beckett, Stacey Ayana Rasch-Olsen & Mercedes Seecoomar) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 9 37 4
2 Hold Onto Our Love James Fox - 12 12 12 12 8 12 12 40 120 1
3 Me Without You Haifa (Kayali) - - 2 - - 2 - - 5 9 6
4 Leading Me On Hyrise Ben Barnes, Matt Kane, Maxwell Roche, & Anthony Scott-Lee 8 8 8 8 12 8 6 24 82 2
5 With You I Believe Haydon Eshun - 2 - 2 2 - 2 2 7 17 5
6 It Just Gets Better Madison Taylor (aka Samantha Gerrard) - 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 15 59 3
Hold Onto Our Love reached No. 13 in the UK charts.
James Fox at The Eurovision Song Contest 2004
At The Eurovision Song Contest 2004
At the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday 15th May 2004, Hold Onto Our Love composed by Gary Miller and Tim Woodcock finished in 16th place with 29 points.
Terry Wogan provided the commentary for BBC One Television. Ken Bruce provided the commentary for BBC Radio 2.
Paddy O'Connell provided the commentary for the first ever semi-final held on Wednesday 12th May 2004 for BBC Three Television.
© 2018-2021 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Gordon Roxburgh EDITOR, DESIGN & LAYOUT: Bryan Thomas CONTACT


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Usual sloppy reporting, or the sound of physics changing?
This report claims actual scientists at CERN appear to have found something -- neutrinos -- exceeding the speed of light. Not by a huge amount (about 2.5 parts in 100,000 if I do my math right), but ANY amount is just not possible as we currently understand things.


Wotton was the first on my list of Evelyn-related places to visit this year, and last weekend I spent my birthday there. The house is now a hotel and conference centre owned by the Principal Hayley group.
In Evelyn's time the house was timber-framed, with a main block flanked by two wings projecting to the north enclosing a u-shaped court. The garden lay to the south, and this is where John Evelyn first experimented with Italian-style design from the 1640's onwards. There he created a parterre with a central fountain and viewing terraces to either side.
To the rear the natural hillside was terraced and fronted by a classical portico and grotto. The grotto was adorned with statues, of which only the Venus now remains.
The walls of the niches were encrusted with corals and shells that glittered behind gushing fountain-jets. All of this was achieved thanks to a system of ingenious conduits that diverted the flow of the natural streams that run through the grounds.
The mound was planted with beech trees which have since vanished, along with apparently all other vestiges of the seventeenth century planting.
There is some uncertainty about the date of the statues of the four seasons that flank the central access stairway. They would certainly fit in with Evelyn's theme here, derived from Epicurean philosophy, of the powers of nature (represented principally by Venus). At any rate, all four seasons apart from Winter are now headless, which is rather sad.
I have to say that the evidence of these and other broken statues, fountains and benches and the detritus of wedding revels leave one feeling that this rare survival of seventeenth century garden design is not being properly cherished by the current owners.
Careful archaeological investigation might be able to recover the plan of the parterre. That area as well as the former orchard and kitchen garden to the east of the house are now just grassed over. If the neglected water features were repaired, and the garden replanted in period style, the result would be truly stunning. It would also, of course, attract many visitors.
The house itself has been much altered since the seventeenth century. Refaced in brick and extended in Victorian Gothic style, when it passed out of the family's hands all its original furnishings and fittings went too.There remain a few beautiful Jacobean and Elizabethan doors, and interesting nooks and crannies. However, all the old heart of the house is reserved for corporate training and conference events, as well as wedding parties. Hotel guests stay in a modern accommodation wing, where the rooms are, frankly, bland and overpriced. It was next to impossible even to get to see any of the older rooms, as they were nearly all declared to be either in use or off-limits. Here, nevertheless, is a glimpse of the room where John Evelyn may have been born – or could it be the one next to it?!
All photos by the author except for the Evelyn sketch scanned by Jacqueline Banerjee, from http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/homes/33c.html For more information on the garden, see Small A. & Small C., John Evelyn and the Garden of Epicurus, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 60 (1997) pp. 194-214. For the basic historical facts on the house, see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotton_House,_Surrey and for details of the architectural features, see here http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1189814.
Sayes Court was not the only garden that John Evelyn had a hand in. His advice was sought on garden design by numerous landowners, including his friend Philip Packer, who lived at Groombridge Place in Kent.
Fortunately, the gardens at Groombridge Place escaped both the ravages of the landscape movement, and the neglect that has afflicted Sayes Court. The original seventeenth century layout that Evelyn was consulted on is still visible, and although most of the actual planting has altered, there are still fascinating remnants of it here and there. This is a good place to visit to get a general feel for how Sayes Court might have been, and, feeling in need of a little inspiration, last Sunday I spent a very enjoyable afternoon there drinking in the atmosphere and taking photos.
As you approach the house, to the right of the bridge over the moat you see a soaring Scots pine, said to be the remaining one of a pair that Evelyn planted in the 1670s. Although the house itself is sadly not open to the public, the outside looks not too dissimilar to what we know from the few surviving depictions of Sayes Court – two main storeys, and classical columns in the porch. Perhaps it is a little grander, but not much – both places started off as mediaeval manor houses, after all.
The paths, walls, gateways and main divisions or rooms of the garden are still much as they were originally set out in the seventeenth century. The central axis pathway is called "The Apostle Walk", because it is bordered on each side by twelve yews clipped into drum shapes, believed to have survived from the 1674 planting.
Another seventeenth century feature which Groombridge Place had in common with Sayes Court was a banqueting house in which the Packers and their guests would have enjoyed light refreshments, more like picnics than what we would call a banquet today, of cakes, fruit ,wine, or tea, still an exotic luxury then. This building, subsequently altered and enlarged into a cottage, leads onto a raised grass walk described in the guidebook as a bowling alley, although it seems rather narrow, and its position leads me to wonder if it might not originally have been a raised terrace perhaps for viewing a parterre below, as at Sayes Court?
The narrow canal that crosses the garden is also part of the original design, although the colourfully-planted "Knot Garden" was only laid out in 1994. I do suspect that (proper!) archaeological investigation might find very interesting evidence for the earlier planting layout in this area and in the adjacent "Draughtsman's Lawn", named after Peter Greenaway's entrancing film "The Draughtsman's Contract", filmed here in 1982. A more recently-filmed version of "Pride and Prejudice" allows a tantalising view inside the house itself.
On the wall in the visitors' restaurant, and rather awkwardly situated to photo (my apologies for the poor quality shot) there is a picture of a nineteenth century plan that purports to show the gardens as they would have appeared in the seventeenth century. What this is based on, I don't know – was there an earlier painting or drawing available to the artist? If anyone reading this can enlighten me about it, I'd be very grateful.
There are three ancient apple trees in the "White rose garden" that remain from the orchard that existed there in the seventeenth century. The one in the photo still apparently produces fruit, despite its great age and the mistletoe growing on it! I wonder what variety it is?


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Ю́ность — малоформатный дальномерный фотоаппарат, выпускавшийся с 1957 по 1961 год на Государственном оптико-механическом заводе в Ленинграде.

Прототипы фотоаппарата были выпущены под названиями «Спорт» и «Маяк». Всего выпущено 51 026 штук.

Технические характеристики
Главной новинкой фотоаппарата стала шкала световых чисел, впервые представленная фирмой Декеля на выставке Photokina 1954 года в затворах Synchro-Compur. Кольцо установки выдержки снабжено дополнительной шкалой со значениями экспозиционных чисел от 7 до 17. На кольце диафрагмы установлена защелка, которая может фиксироваться на любом из этих значений, сцепляя относительное положение обоих колец. Шкалы выдержек и диафрагм равномерны и ориентированы друг другу навстречу. В результате, при совместном повороте колец, изменение обоих параметров съёмки происходит синхронно, обеспечивая автоматическое соблюдение закона взаимозаместимости. Для изменения диафрагмы независимо от выдержки требуется поднять фиксатор.
 Корпус — литой из алюминиевого сплава, со съёмной задней стенкой.
 Значения диафрагмы от 3,5 до 22.
 Видоискатель телескопический, параллаксный, выполнен отдельно от дальномера.
 Дальномер с базой 47 мм, увеличение дальномера 1,0×.
 Курковый взвод затвора и перемотки плёнки. Счётчик кадров с ручной установкой.
 Фотоаппарат «Юность» выпускался в двух модификациях — с несъёмной приёмной катушкой для фотоплёнки и со съёмной катушкой. Вместо приёмной катушки могла применяться стандартная кассета, обратная перемотка фотоплёнки не требовалась.
 Имеется автоспуск.
 Резьба штативного гнезда — 3/8" дюйма.

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Примечания
 Выпуск фотоаппарата был посвящён 40-й годовщине Великой Октябрьской социалистической революции.
 Массовые продажи фотоаппарата совпали с проведением в Москве VI Всемирного фестиваля молодёжи и студентов, аппарат пользовался популярностью у гостей столицы.
 Фотоаппарат «Юность» в СССР занял промежуточную нишу между простыми шкальными и более сложными дальномерными камерами со съёмными объективами. Тем более, что сменной оптикой многие фотолюбители не пользовались (по причине дефицита). Но на ЛОМО одновременно выпускались аналогичные и более дешёвые фотоаппараты «Смена», производство фотоаппарата «Юность» (несмотря на его улучшенные потребительские свойства) прекращено в пользу менее трудоёмкой продукции.
 Фотоаппарат «Юность» в настоящее время является объектом коллекционирования.

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Seilhamer Says Migration is Main Cause of Unemployment Drop
By Dennis Costa on March 15, 2016
SAN JUAN—The minority leader in the Senate for the New Progressive Party (NPP), Larry Seilhamer, said Puerto Rico's unemployment rate has dropped due to the high number of residents leaving the island, which in turn has reduced the number of people working in the U.S. territory.
During his remarks Tuesday, Seilhamer cited the most recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Labor, which show that from December 2012 to January 2016, a total of 47,199 workers have left the island's labor force. In one month alone, from December 2015 to January 2016, the same report said there were 6,006 people less on Puerto Rico's labor force.
"The significant reduction in the labor force is compatible with the massive migration taking place in Puerto Rico," Seilhamer said, noting that unemployment figures do not represent a precise indicator showing there are more people working on the island.
"This also corresponds to demographic statistics showing that during 2014, about 83,000 people left the island, and that during the first six months of 2015, about 72,000 people have left," Seilhamer added. "These are alarming numbers and they represent an economic development crisis in Puerto Rico that does not allow any job creation."
While the latest statistics show there 34,453 fewer people unemployed compared with December 2012, "we cannot forget there are also 12,746 fewer jobs, which means a reduction in the working population has taken place, not job creation."
He added that the lower unemployment numbers are not a cause for celebration. "The reality is that the outgoing and incoming government administrations must have a clear focus on economic development," Seilhamer went on to say. "The debt restructuring and the fiscal control board are necessary, but must go hand in hand with an economic development plan in the short, medium and long term. It is the only way we can guarantee the creation of jobs and thus reduce the massive emigration of Puerto Ricans."
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Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank: 80,000 Jobs Recovered
Labor Dept. Removes 'Controversial' Unemployment-Claim Points
Labor Dept. Disburses $23 million from Lost Wages Assistance Program
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'Murder on the links' - or at least close by!
I've just been out for my final walk with the dog before bed. At this time of night I normally proceed along a level well-lit road which runs past my building and which runs alongside the cricket pitch; this is a photo I took from my apartment last May to illustrate the scene:
- this whole area (obviously completely dark now), and the road which runs along at the right (out of the photo) is tonight blocked off with 'Police do not cross' tape so I turned down the side road which runs between my side of the building and the cricket pitch toward the cricket pavilion at the bottom corner of the pitch, where I saw there was a police car parked. As I approached, the officer got out and came to talk to me and suggested I go around to the other side of the building, the putting pitch side, with my dog. I asked him what was going on, and he replied (just like you see on television) that it was 'a crime scene' and was being guarded until the crime squad could get to the site in daylight tomorrow morning.
I then asked him if it was serious - he replied 'yes, probably'. Now that I have had a chance to look at the BBC Scotland website, I realise that this was a classic British understatement, as the article I found about the incident was headed Bank manager killed in shooting - a pretty sensational development in a small place like Nairn, believe me. Crescent Road, referred to in the BBC article, is a small road running off Marine Road, which is the road I referred to at the beginning, just at the edge of the cricket pitch to the right of the bandstand (the domed structure in the photograph above) - I often cut up through Crescent Road when I walk up into the town, on the rare occasions when I don't just hop in the car. No doubt there'll be more about this in the news bulletins in the morning, although I've just watched a brief report on the incident on BBC News24.
(The heading for this article comes, by the way, from the title of one of Agatha Christie's 'whodunits')
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I haven't been on here in ages. I stopped homeschooling most of my kids last fall. It took me a while to come to grips with that but am now cleaning out my books. I'm keeping some things for afterschooling (lol...we'll see how that goes) and am giving the rest of it away to friends in town. However, I sunk a lot of money into HOD World Geography last fall and am listing it for sale. Here is what I have. I want to sell everything as a set if possible. This is a used set, but barely. <sigh> 1. Teacher Guide...pencil notes through Unit 4. The first day of Unit 1 was wrinkled and flattened back out and somehow managed to remain intact in the book. weird. 2. 2 Expedition Journals. One has been written in through Unit 4 and one through Unit 2. Some of the pages are warped from laying funny in a 3-ring binder and one page has broken holes that needs to be repaired with those 3-ring stickers. 3. 1 Culture Notebook. brand new in packaging 4. 2 Book of Centures. One is brand new in packaging and one has 7 items pasted in & name on front. 5. Mapping the World by Art with DVD's. The DVD package is broken on one corner but works. The DVD's are fine. 6.Must See Places of the World DVD set....slipcover is missing that held all 6 DVD's 7.Timeline Figures CD. great condition 8. Archaeology Book. hardcover. great condition 9. Book of Discovery. softcover. great condition 10. 7 Wonders of the World. great condition 11. World Religions. great condition 12. Japan Diary. new 13. Getting Started with Spanish. good condition. no writing. this is not consumable 14. BJU English 2nd edition. student text (paperback- shows some wear) and 2-part teacher edition with CD. I also have the tests and answer key that HOD doesn't use but I'll just throw them in for free. I'm asking $250 for the set. Free media mail shipping. I prefer paypal. If you have any questions or are interested in purchasing please e-mail me at rebeccawright827@gmail.com Thank you!
I echo many of the things already said. - get started on time (that's 8 for us) but I do NOT get up early. Getting up early on a regular basis makes me physically sick, and then I'm grumpy, and then I'm more likely to slough off on school. - schedule out the day - know what's for dinner before you go to bed and get those dishes done. - don't schedule appts. during school. - school 6 weeks and take 1 week off. I'll also add - work with my highschooler first so he can manage the rest of his day without interruption. He is not nearly so cooperative in the afternoon and during soccer season he wasn't even home. :tongue_smilie: - I moved all of the kids' dressers to my laundry room and had dh hang up a very long, very sturdy clothes bar. I put a TV and a cozy rug and an old thrift store easy chair in there. I really really HATE laundry. I'm fortunate to have a decent sized laundry room to make this work. It's well-lit and cozy and I've turned it into a space that I like spending time in, because I have to spend a lot of time in it. It's very lovely folding straight from the dryer into the dresser. DONE. I don't match boy socks. There is a drawer for white and a drawer for black. I don't fold undies. 2 drawers for undies. Boy undies and girl undies. Kids run downstairs to get clothes for the next day and bring them to their room or run downstairs before a bath to get clothes and a towel.
Gift for a husband who doesn't want/need anything or have any hobbies?
Does he like to eat? Food. something fun, unique, specialty. Not everyday food, of course. lol!
Rules of the game: if you find this (anyone except the cookie thief themselves) then post here to say "I caught the cookie thief! BUT... someone else took 260 cookies from the cookie jar!" That way we know this player has been caught and we'll look on another profile. Next, copy this entire post and paste it onto someone else's profile (player must have more than 100 posts and must have been active in the last month.) Lastly, change the numbers so each increase by one. It will be easier to track that way. Please post your findings in the thread entitled SOMEONE STOLE A COOKIE! Forum Game. Have Fun!
I found the cookie thief...but someone else stole 38 cookies!!
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plain jane stole 34 cookies from the cookie jar!!
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Loved to Death Stole 33 cookies from the cookie jar.
I caught the cookie thief!
25 Things a Teen Boy Can Do Besides Play Computer Games!
I just had 2 teen boys (13) over yesterday and my 13yo makes 3 plus my almost 12 year old. They were getting antsy in the morning waiting to go swimming and I was also trying to keep them away from the allure of the computer games. I was successful with all but 1 when I suggested they bake something yummy. Those boys whipped up a Boston Creme Pie totally from scratch all on their own that was amazing!!