For most Facebook users, Targeted Advertising has already become a fact of life. At first, the very idea of the social networking site gathering information from our comments and posts and using this information to send us 'targeted ads' caused ripples of protest to run through the entire user base. It was considered a violation of our privacy, an abuse of trust. It did not seem fair for Facebook to use our data in such a way, especially since we had no idea it would be used as such and had given no explicit consent. But then, Facebook went ahead with it despite the protests and soon the protests died out. Now, most users hardly even give a thought for that pizza ad that appears right after they post a status update about how they're craving for pizza.
Facebook's coffers, in turn, grew fat from such advertising. Never before had advertisers such specific access to their target market. Facebook was not selling personal information per se, but was instead acting as some sort of mediator between the target demographic and the advertiser.
However, if the European Union is to have its way, then Facebook might just have to let its Golden Goose loose. Targeted Advertising is said to be under investigation in the EU, particularly on how the site gathers, stores, and uses the data of its users. The new directive will force Facebook to make targeted ads 'Opt In' for users.
So, Facebook will have to specifically ask for users' permission for data harvesting. Users will have to allow themselves to be 'targeted' by the ads. This will be, of course, a great boon for users, especially privacy advocates.
Such a move will probably land a huge blow on Facebook's revenue, especially since they're just planning to announce their IPO next year. Then again, with over 800 million users, perhaps this will not make that much of a difference to Facebook, after all. In fact, in the most optimistic sense, it might push them into the right direction and actually give them enough credibility as a respectable company for years to come.
However, skeptics believe that it won't make much of a difference to Facebook at all because the social networking site could just sneakily get their users to agree anyway, in much the same way that they're getting some people to give their consent for Frictionless Sharing.


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Troost mixed-use development starts with a community garden
Jun 10th, 2016 – by midtownkcposter2
A Denver developer is working on a project around the Wonder Bread Building at 30th and Troost.
Soil at 30th and Harrison will become a community garden soon, but it is part of a plan to grow more than vegetables.
Denver developer and gardener Ilan Salzberg provided that 20,000 square feet of land called Troostdale Farm. The way he sees it, residents of about 80 new apartments could one day stroll over to get produce.
Developer Ilan Salzberg envisions residents of the redeveloped Wonder Bread Building getting fresh produce from this garden just across Troost.
They would come from a planned mixed-use project he's working on for the historic Wonder Bread Building at 30th and Troost.
Built for Campbell Baking Co. in 1915, it has been vacant since 1997. Before that, up to 300 workers there produced Wonder and Hostess products.
In what would be Salzberg's first Kansas City project, he wants to turn the building's 120,000 square feet into the apartments and 40,000 square feet of commercial space, working with local architect Caleb Buland.
And he chose to do it on Troost.
"I think it's an exciting place," he said. "I believe in it."
People are moving into the city, starting charter schools and community gardens, he noted. "Kansas City looks like Denver 10 years ago."
The new garden will be across the street from the existing Longfellow Community garden.
When he met with Longfellow neighborhood residents to talk about donating the garden space and money to work it, he heard what Denver residents told him a decade ago, he said. "I could have sworn I had just gone into a time warp."
Salzberg, 40, once owned and ran an organic farm outside Boulder, before he moved to Denver to get a law degree and start his 15-year career in real estate.
"I'm interested in all kinds of things you can do with land," he said.
In urban Denver he also started Ekar Farm, which still operates without him and donates food to the poor.
In the Wonder Bread Building, he wants to create what is called a third place, a spot where people can gather, a home away from their homes and offices.
That can be done with things like coffee shops or a brew pub, he said, and he is talking with a Denver brew pub and others in Kansas City.
Giant upstairs bathroom space in the two-story building would be perfect for a fitness club, he added. "When you clean it up, it's going to shine."
He is working with city planners and with financing groups, he said, and hopes to start the project late this year.
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The company plans to start a single shift with up to 900 production workers in the 925,000-square foot plant.
SIOUX CITY, IOWA -- After nearly two years of construction, the first hogs have been slaughtered at a giant Sioux City pork plant that is eventually expected to employ 2,000 people and process 21,000 hogs a day.
Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott told the Sioux City Journal that Seaboard Triumph Foods processed about 100 hogs Wednesday as crews test equipment ahead of a Sept. 5 opening.
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The $300 million plant was announced in May 2015.
Seaboard Triumph plans to hire a second shift by next summer, bringing total employment to about 2,000 workers who could slaughter about 6 million hogs annually.
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The company needs to hire workers at a time when the Sioux City metropolitan area's unemployment is hovering near historic lows around 3 percent, prompting questions about where the company can find enough workers.
Scott said company leaders told him several weeks ago that they were in the process of hiring more than 500 employees and were optimistic about meeting their staffing requirements.
Two-thirds of the hogs that will be slaughtered at the plant will come from the plant owners, which is a joint venture between Guymon, Oklahoma-based Seaboard and St. Joseph, Missouri-based Triumph Foods. The other hogs will be bought on the open market from independent producers.
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BMW – The Hire
Posted: July 5, 2011 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Cannes Lions, Car, Case History, Digital, Legendary, TV/Film, USA |6 Comments
One of the great marketing campaigns of this millennium, BMW's The Hire was lauded for its embrace of online marketing and branded content. Bolstered by tangible results and heaps of awards, it also helped launch the career of Clive Owen into the mainstream.
In 2000 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) posted total sales of $33 billion, a slight decrease from its 1999 earnings of $34 billion. Afraid of further backsliding, the Bavarian automaker decided to reshape its advertising to better target the Internet-savvy BMW customer. Before 2001 the company's advertisements had typically consisted of product-driven campaigns with immaculate BMWs clinging to mountain roads. BMW asked its longtime advertising partner, Fallon Worldwide, to create something different. In 2001 five action-packed short films emerged under the campaign title ''The Hire,'' which became one of the most acclaimed campaigns in advertising history.
After working with BMW to develop the idea of a James Bond-type hero who drove various BMWs, Fallon enlisted David Fincher's film-production company, Anonymous Content. Fincher then successfully wrangled some of Hollywood's biggest guns—including directors Guy Ritchie and John Frankenheimer and actors Madonna, Forrest Whittaker, and Mickey Rourke—to create the five short films. Three more films were created in 2002 to promote BMW's new Z4 roadster. All eight starred Clive Owen (Croupier, The Bourne Identity) as the ''hired'' driver who found himself driving a BMW in every spot. ''The Hire'' was promoted much like a feature film would have been, with movie trailers, print ads, and Web ads.
The five initial films cost an estimated $15 million, and the three made in 2002 cost about $10 million. ''The Hire'' catapulted BMW's exposure into film festivals, awards shows, and even an exclusive BMW DirecTV channel. By 2002 BMW sales were up 17 percent, while some of its competitors, such as Volkswagen and General Motors, floundered. By June 2003 more than 45 million people had viewed the films, overshooting the original goal of reaching 2 million viewers. ''The Hire'' garnered numerous ad industry awards. The campaign's final spot, ''Beat the Devil,'' aired November 21, 2002.
Initially, Fallon and BMW had decided to film one serialized 45-to-60-minute film featuring a suave hero who saved, kidnapped, and escorted people using different BMW models. Fallon approached production company Anonymous Content, headed by David Fincher (director of Se7en and Fight Club), to produce the film. Fincher recommended that the spots be broken into five different films in order to facilitate file downloading and allow more flexibility in attracting talent to work on the project.
Following Fincher's advice, Fallon developed scripts for five short films. In producing ''The Hire,'' Fincher and Fallon went so far as to create a dossier, complete with FBI and CIA files, just to flesh out the films' hero. Fincher then solicited some of Hollywood's top directors. The final list included Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express), Guy Ritchie (Snatch), and Alejandro Gonza´lez In˜a´rritu (Amores Perros). The scripts, ranging from dark to hilarious, were distributed according to each director's style. Anonymous Content chairman Steve Golin told Shoot, ''The good news is that these weren't commercials. We had very few restrictions. The budgets were equivalent to [those of] high-end commercials.''
Fallon flipped the advertising equation upside down by spending 90 percent of its budget on production and only 10 percent on media. The reduced media expenditure was initially seen as a huge risk. According to Advertising Age's Creativity, a BMW rep warned Fallon, ''Either nobody will notice, or this will be a smashing success.''
For each of the six-to-seven-minute films, subplots were also created in an attempt to weave the film storylines together. British actor Clive Owen, whose character became the common thread for the entire campaign, always played the skillful hired driver. Frankenheimer's ''Ambush,'' the campaign's debut film, first became available for download on http://www.bmwfilms.com on April 26, 2001. It featured the hired driver saving a diamond smuggler from machine-gun toting assailants in a cargo van. Fallon released each of the following four spots every two weeks. Typical Hollywood methods, including broadcast spots, billboards, and free posters, were used to promote the films. Print ads ran in Hollywood trade magazines Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone. The trailers for ''The Hire,'' resembling regular movie trailers, aired on VH1, Bravo, and the Independent Film Channel. One of Fallon's biggest challenges was to pitch the films as entertainment but to still disclose BMW's involvement. ''We wanted to avoid the 'microbrew syndrome,''' Bildsten explained to Brandweek, ''like where you look down and see that [your beer] was actually made by Anheuser-Busch.'' ''The Hire'' was also uniquely filmed to fit computer screens. ''No one had ever done an internet project of this magnitude, and we had a lot to learn,'' Fallon producer Robyn Boardman told Advertising Age's Creativity. ''There are different things to keep in mind when shooting for the web. File size, for starters, and the fact that wide shots don't play well.''
Due to overwhelming Web traffic, ad-industry praise, and BMW's bottom-line success in 2002, a ''second season'' consisting of three films began airing October 24, 2002. The second crop involved an equally renowned roster of names. Instead of Anonymous Content, all spots were produced by Ridley Scott (director of Blade Runner and Gladiator), who recruited directors Tony Scott (Top Gun), John Woo (Face/Off ), and Joe Carnahan (Narc). The actors included Gary Oldman, James Brown, Don Cheadle, Ray Liotta, and of course, Clive Owen, returning to star in the final three films. The last of the films was released at the end of 2002.
Even though BMW ended their 10-year relationship with Fallon in 2005, the eight films remained available on http://www.bmwfilms.com.
''The Hire'' raked in a plethora of advertising awards, including two Grand Clio Awards and a Grand Prix Cyber Lion at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, France, along with Best of Show at the One Show Interactive competition. The campaign was praised not just by the ad industry; it earned kudos within the entertainment arena as well. ''Hostage,'' from the second series of films, earned the award for Best Action Short during the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival in 2002. Entertainment magazines began reviewing the films. Even the New York Times gave the films a favorable review. Their entertainment value garnered media coverage not accessible to typical advertisement. ''We'd hoped for a good response, but we never thought it would be as strong as it was,'' Bildsten told Shoot in 2001. ''BMW recorded over eleven million film-views. And according to their research, it really worked. [The films] got people to not just pay attention, but to buy cars.'' By June 2003 the films had been viewed more than 45 million times. BMW's sales rose 17.2 percent between 2001 and 2002, helping the automaker to outsell Mercedes and placing it second only to Lexus in the luxury-car market. From an ad industry perspective, the greatest pinnacle of ''The Hire'' may have been winning the first-ever Titanium Lion, the highest honor at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. The award recognized a campaign that caused ''the industry to stop in its tracks and reconsider the way forward.''
Success and Accolades
Tangible Love
– In 2001, BMW sales increased by 12.5% compared to 2000, surpassing the 200,000 mark for the first time in history
– The following year, BMW's sales rose 17.2 percent between 2001 and 2002, helping the automaker to outsell Mercedes and placing it second only to Lexus in the luxury-car market
– During the four month core of the promotion (series 1), the films were viewed more than 11 million times, with more than100+ million views to date
Industry Love
– Awarded the Cyber Lion Grand Prix at Cannes in 2002 (Cannes is the 'Academy Awards' of advertising)
– Awarded "Best Excuse for Broadband" at WIRED Magazine's third annual Rave Awards in 2001
– Recipient of two Grand Clio Awards and Best of Show at the One Show Interactive competition
– In 2002, the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival's "Best Action Short" award was given to director John Woo for Hostage
– Won the first-ever Titanium Lion, the highest honor at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. The award recognizes campaigns that caused ''the industry to stop in its tracks and reconsider the way forward.''
– In 2003, The Hire series was inducted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
The five initial films cost an estimated $15 million, and the three made in 2002 cost about $10 million.
AMBUSH – starring Clive Owen, Tomas Milian and the BMW 7-series. Directed by John Frankenheimer.
While escorting an elderly man to an undisclosed location, The Driver is confronted by a van full of armed men and is warned that the old man has stolen a large amount of diamonds. The old man claims to have swallowed the diamonds and that the men will likely cut him open to retrieve them. The Driver decides at the last minute to help him, participating in a car chase and shootout with the van. The Driver eventually evades his pursuers and watches their destruction. He then delivers the old man to a town nearby and asks the merchant if he did indeed swallow the diamonds. The client merely chuckles and walks away. The Driver then leaves.
CHOSEN -starring Clive Owen and the BMW 5-series. Directed by Ang Lee.
The Driver protects a holy Asian child that was brought to America by boat. The child gives the Driver a gift but says that he is not supposed to open it yet. After being pursued by many armed assassins, and being grazed in the ear, he delivers the boy to another holy man. The Boy however signals silently to the Driver that the man is not actually a monk, indicated by his footwear. The Driver defeats the impostor holy man and rescues the boy. As he leaves the Driver opens the gift which is revealed to be a Hulk bandage for his bleeding ear.
THE FOLLOW – starring Clive Owen, Adriana Lima, Mickey Rourke, Forest Whitaker and the BMW Z3. Directed by Wong Kar-wai
The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way to tail someone. As he follows her he begins to fear what he might learn of her apparently tragic life. He discovers the wife is fleeing the country and returning to her mother's, and that she's been given a black eye, likely by her husband. He returns the money for the job, refusing to tell where the wife is, and drives off telling the manager never to call him again.
STAR – starring Clive Owen, Madonna and the BMW M5. Directed by Guy Ritchie.
The Driver is chosen by a spoiled and shallow celebrity to drive her to a venue. Unbeknownst to her, her manager has actually hired the Driver to teach the celebrity a lesson. Pretending to escape her pursuing bodyguards, the Driver recklessly drives through the city, tossing the hapless celebrity all around the backseat. They arrive at the venue, where she is thrown out of the car and photographed by paparazzi in an embarrassing end on the red carpet.
POWDERKEG – starring Clive Owen, Lois Smith, Stellan Skarsgard and the BMW X5. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
The Driver is chosen by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from a hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help war victims. Jacobs answers the Driver's curiosity about why he is a photographer by saying how his mother taught him to see. He gives the Driver the camera film needed for a New York Times story and also his to give to his mother. When they reach the border, they are confronted by a guard who begins to draw arms as Jacobs begins taking pictures, seemingly trying to get himself killed. The Driver drives through a hail of gunfire to the border, but finds Jacobs killed by a bullet through the seat. The Driver arrives in America to visit Jacobs' mother and share the news of him winning the Pulitzer Prize and hand over the dog tags, only to discover that she is blind.
HOSTAGE – starring Clive Owen and the BMW Z4. Directed by John Woo.
The Driver is hired by the FBI to help defuse a hostage situation. A disgruntled employee has kidnapped a CEO and has hidden her, demanding $5,088,042. The Driver delivers the money, writing the sum on his hand as instructed by the hostage taker. After he is told that he holds the life of a person in his hand, he is ordered to burn the money. As he complies, the federal agents break in and attempt to subdue the man, who shoots himself in the head without revealing where the woman is hidden. The Driver then tries to find the hostage before she drowns in the trunk of a sinking car. As a twist, the kidnapped woman is revealed to be the hostage taker's lover. She coldly taunts the dying man in the hospital.
TICKER – starring Clive Owen, Don Cheadle, F. Murray Abraham, Ray Liotta, Robert Patrick and the BMW Z4. Directed by Joe Carnahan.
In an unnamed foreign country, the Driver drives a wounded man who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by a bullet, causing a display on it to begin counting down, and it to leak an unknown fluid from the bullet hole. The Driver manages to cause the helicopter to crash, but refuses to proceed without knowing the contents of the damaged briefcase. It is revealed that the man guards a human heart for transplant to a statesman (shown in military uniform), whose life and peacemaking is needed for the continued freedom of the country's people. The case is delivered by the Driver in time for the surgery. Also present are another military officer whom the passenger had said would take over the country with tyranny if his superior died (and whose uniform matches the soldiers who had tried to intercept the heart), and US agents who ensure that he does not interfere with the surgery, and so is forced to give up his attempt to take the country by force.
BEAT THE DEVIL – starring Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, James Brown, Marilyn Manson and the BMW Z4. Directed by Tony Scott.
The Driver is employed by James Brown, who goes to meet the Devil to re-negotiate the deal he made as a young man in 1954 to trade his soul for fame and fortune. He is worried about his ageing and the fact he can no longer do his moves like the splits, and says his lessened ability to perform means he cannot maintain his fame and fortune. He proposes a new wager, for the stakes of the Driver's soul against another 50 years for his career, betting on the Driver drag racing against the Devil's doorman/driver Bob on the Las Vegas Strip at dawn. The race ends with the Driver swerving to pass around a train while the Devil's car crashes and explodes. Having won the race, the Driver leaves James Brown in the desert, but as he drives away he sees him as a young man again, who then does a handspring into the splits. The final scene shows Marilyn Manson who lives down the hall from the Devil, complaining that the noise is disturbing his bible reading, much to the Devil's fear.
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History made as Dallas agrees to $2 million tax break needed to turn Deep Ellum landmark into a hotel
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History was made at Dallas City Hall on Wednesday.
For the first time in city history, the City Council decided a bare patch of land qualifies for tax incentives meant to preserve historic buildings.
All but two council members voted to give owner Westdale Properties and the developers of the high-rise Epic project in Deep Ellum about $2 million in tax breaks over the next decade. About $640,000 of that will go toward rescuing the 102-year-old Grand Lodge of the Colored Knights of Pythias Temple on Elm Street, designed by William Sidney Pittman, son-in-law of Booker T. Washington. The other $1.3 million will help construction a seven-story, 164-room hotel behind the historic structure.
If Dallas wants to revive Deep Ellum's most historic landmark, we will have to help pay for a new building
Collectively, the two buildings will be known as the Pittman — the first hotel in Deep Ellum since, perhaps, the Boyd Hotel opened its doors to blues musicians more than a century ago.
The Pittman's developers, Vine Street Ventures and boutique-hotel builders Archtower, told the council they need the $2 million to cover gaps in their financing — that without the incentives, they would not be able to restore the Pythian Temple.
Jeff Cohen, who heads Vine Street, told the council Wednesday that once the temple is restored and the addition is constructed, the Pittman may well be "one of the most expensive hotels ever developed in Dallas."
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Cohen also brought up what had in recent weeks become a touchy subject around City Hall — this question of using historic tax incentives for brand-new construction. Several city staffers, among them the head of Sustainable Development and Dallas' historic preservation officer, had come to believe the Epic's developers were using tax breaks in order to dodge affordable housing requirements attached to money that would have come from the Deep Ellum Tax Increment Financing District.
Cohen says nothing could be further from the truth, and that "this request is not some diabolical scheme."
In fact, Cohen said, the idea of using historic tax breaks came from members of the Landmark Commission and from Preservation Dallas, whose executive director David Preziosi spoke on the developers' behalf Wednesday. And besides, he said, the Epic's office and residential towers are being developed by separate entities — though Westdale will own a piece of the entire project.
Your first look at the Epic office complex and hotel planned at the entrance to Deep Ellum
City officials have said, repeatedly, that the Pittman's developers submitted a TIF request in 2015 but pulled it two years later. The developers' attorney, Tommy Mann, told the council that officials in the economic development department actually rejected the TIF application. But city officials could not immediately corroborate that story during Wednesday's meeting.
In the end, it did not matter who did what when — even when North Dallas council member Lee Kleinman tried make the case that such an agreement went against the spirit of the state's tax code concerning historic preservation. A majority of the council was simply thrilled that an official city landmark — once the hub of black Dallas life — will be reopened to the public three decades after it was last used.
"If it is true the city of Dallas has historically done a bad job of preserving its history, it has done a particularly bad job of preserving its African-American history," said downtown council member Philip Kingston. "We're really making a change, and this project is a symbol of that change."


A massive library in South Africa has become the country's highest-rated Green Star building in the public and education sector. It's located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape and known as the National English Literary Museum (NELM). The building has recently accomplished its goals of limiting energy, recycling water, and creating local job opportunities in the area.
Hailed as a literary treasure, the NELM was completed last June. It totaled 145 million South American Rand, or just a shade above $11,159,000 USD. The entire property stretches out to nearly 116,380 square feet, but it includes a treasure trove of amenities such as exhibits, theaters, and an outdoor stage.
The National English Literary Museum was designed by Intsika Architects, who has been responsible for recent projects such as the Kevali Residential Estate and Landrover Showroom. The company became a member of the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) back in 2013, which was when the museum was first designed.
This particular organization uses the Green Star South Africa rating system and awards certifications by four, five, or six stars. The NELM was able to receive a five-star certification, the first building in the public and education category, and the first in the Eastern Cape province among all categories. Construction began in February 2014 and was completed 28 months later. It created over 200 job opportunities in the area.
How is this amazing building so eco-friendly? One major feature is their ability to stifle water usage. All of it is heavily monitored throughout the building and any rain that falls on the roof is harvested. That precipitation is converted into water for growing plants and plumbing. Other green aspects of the building include using recycled rubber, bamboo, and carpets for the floor, along with many other recycled materials throughout the building.
In order to reach the five-star designation, the building houses carefully chosen equipment that uses as little energy as possible. Both heating and air conditioning systems work with each other, according to a feature on the NELM by Property Wheel. Specifically, it is a Variable Refrigerant Volume system that can recover heat, and it has the ability to cool and heat separate parts of the building at the same time.
Initially, the museum started as a collection of documents created by South African authors back in 1972. One unique aspect is that all writings are in the English language, just one of the 11 official languages in the nation. According to the Republic of South Africa website, a wide range of genres were covered, such as "novels, short stories, plays, essays, poetry, theatre, television and film scripts, autobiography, travel, letters, memoirs and diaries." It turned into a cultural institution in 1980.


The Board of Selectmen this week thanked John H. �Jack� Bowles for nearly 40 years as chairman of the Parks and Cemetery Commission.
Mr. Bowles was appointed to the Parks and Cemetery Commission in 1970 and he became chairman in 1973, a position he held until he retired in June.
Under his leadership, the town�s July 4th celebration was started and is still going strong today. Mr. Bowles was also instrumental in the development of community recreation programs, the Dean Park baseball fields and tennis courts, many renovation projects and land purchases for recreational purposes and the expansion of Mountain View Cemetery.
The 72-year-old Shrewsbury native said he still has plenty of things to keep him busy.
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Co-sleeping & SIDS in India!
This is not a scientific or statistical post. This is my opinion.
That's perhaps the most serious topic I've ever written in this blog (may be next to the one of Organ Donation).
Being a new mom, its only normal for me to read tons of sites about do's & dont's when it comes to the baby! One of things that I came across was SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)! Since we follow co-sleeping in our household, I got really freaked out reading about SIDS with all the AAP regulations.... But then, I came across this article (PDF link) in European Child Safety Alliance and this article in Mom Junction. So basically everything from co-sleeping to sling carry babywearing to walkers to bunk beds, are allllllllll dangerous!!!! That gave me the necessary insight - not to give a damn about it!!!
Here are a thing or two about India that may be flabbergasting to the world! We believe in family system! Till date, there are several households where 3 generations live together. Adult children live with retired parents! Only the breadwinner changes, but the family is still intact! We are essentially co-sleepers. If women do not sleep with their newborns or toddlers, they're considered weird! Babies are usually put in a hammock in daytime and co-sleeps at night. A newborn child is a family responsibility and all 4 grand parents generally pitch-in, in care taking!
Of all the statistics regarding SIDS and other 'dangerous' stuff, I found that the direction of the study was always like this - of all the infant deaths, how many are due to SIDS/Walker/Sling vs how many due to other reasons. My question is simple - I've survived co-sleeping and hammock (pic above) and walker (pic below)! So has the billion population of India! Has there been a statistics of the number of children who made it to adulthood 'inspite' of these practices vs number of children who died??? Infant mortality rate in India is relatively high but the reasons are mainly diarrhea, pneumonia etc and hardly any SIDS.
There is something called India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library which in available in English, Spanish, German, French & Japanese languages that is an extensive but not yet an exhaustive list of our local medicinal knowledge, health knowledge (like yoga) etc that we've practicing since centuries!!!
So here it goes - We've been co-sleeping since centuries, using our traditional walkers since centuries, wearing our babies in slings since centuries (till date, you can see women wearing their babies and doing heavy work like carrying a load of bricks on their head or plucking tea leaves!), adding clarified butter (called ghee) while introducing solids since centuries, cloth diapering our babies since centuries (I was, my mom was cloth diapered!), used cloth menstrual pads since centuries. There's a gorgeous, decades (probably a century) old cradle (like in above pic) at my granny's place and I wanted to use it for my daughter, but somehow we ended up in a different country so I couldn't! Like always & everything else, now USA & Europe have declared our practices dangerous. In a couple decades, the tables will turn and some firm in USA or Europe will try to patent these too and propagate the goodness of these things as well!!!!
On the other hand, UNICEF (PDF link) actually promotes co-sleeping! As of now, there's only one fool proof guide for child safety. Its called - Mother's Instinct (also may be father's or granny's instinct)!
I know some parents who practice co-sleeping because it is the only way to get their kids to sleep. I also know of some children who regularly wake up during the night, climb out of their beds and then go to or even jump to (if their bed is next to) their parents' bed. I've never heard that co-sleeping caused any harm to anyone, I suppose that accidents are always possible, but accidents also happen when kids are left on their own in their cradles or their beds. I haven't read any statistics so I can't compare, but many things can be potentially dangerous and accidents always happen, both to adults and children.
I read somewhere that passive smoking is the main cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. I'm not sure is it true, but it makes sense. The infant lungs aren't properly developed, so even small amount of cigarette smoke can be potentially dangerous to them. Passive smoking is dangerous even for adults and obviously more so for kids. When I see people smoking in front of their kids and babies, it makes me so frustrated.
I know that these hammocks are also being used in some of the provinces and faraway neighborhoods in the Philippines. They're not deemed as unsafe here, I think.
SIDS is a new term I learn from your blog and it's definitely a must learn for all, not just for moms.
May your baby grow stronger, safe and healthy following the said safety standards.
Hearing about SIDS makes me a bit sad, I just realized that there are many unfortunate victims all around the world and it's just the cruelty of nature. I hope more campaigns and events are publicly available for more awareness.


Should I put off buying a home or investing till the uncertainty clears?
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Is this the wrong time to buy your next home or investment property?
Currently there's a lot of uncertainty surrounding our property markets, much of it related to the outcome of the upcoming Federal election with concerns about how the Opposition's housing tax policy will affect property.
So it's understandable that some home buyers and investors are considering putting their purchase plans on hold until after the election.
What are the proposed changes people are worried about?
They also intend to increase the Capital Gains Tax payable on the sale of any investment property, either established and new and bought after July 1st 2017, from the current rate of 50% to 75% of any capital gains accrued when the property is sold.
The opposition says it intends to increase housing supply because it's concerned about housing affordability.
On the other hand a cynic might suggest the real objective is to raise additional tax revenue and save the Budget around $32 billion over the next decade.
Will removing negative gearing really increase affordability?
There is nothing in either party's policies that will likely improve wages growth or increase affordability.
Disenfranchise over 7 million current home owners and reduce the value of their homes to please a small group of aspiring first-time buyers.
Build more affordable properties, but these are likely to be in areas where first-time buyers don't want to live – in the outer suburbs far away from all the amenities and action, or a motel style room in a high-rise monolith in the CBD.
Now don't think me harsh… with 6 children and 8 grandchildren, many still working their way into property, I understand the difficulty first home buyers have getting into the market.
I'm just saying that removing negative gearing isn't the answer.
What will happen to property if Labor wins?
It's likely we'll see a mini boom in established properties as investors bring forward demand and purchase before the new legislation takes effect in July 2017. This is likely to be followed by a lull as demand falls.
We've seen much the same occur when the end dates for stamp duty concessions or First Home Owner Grants were announced.
Developers will be overzealous and deliver too many new dwellings.
Many investors will get burned as they buy new high-rise apartments in our CBDs or new house and land packages in the outer suburbs, naïvely believing these will make good investments. Unfortunately, many will suffer the same fate the majority of investors in these sub- submarkets have endured in the past, with no scarcity, low capital growth and lack of rental growth.
Some disenchanted investors will try and sell up, but lose out as they will be selling "second hand" properties and find the value of their properties have fallen significantly as now only owner occupiers, and not investors, will be interested in them.
Even worse, the young owner occupiers, who own the houses the same new estate as investors, will find the value of their homes have been decimated by the lower prices achieved by the investors who sell up.
Just to make things clear… this is not meant to be a political monologue. These are just my thoughts based on investing through numerous tax changes over the years.
In the 1980's when the removal of negative gearing caused a short term rise in rentals.
In 1985 when the introduction of capital gains tax was going to decimate the property investment industry.
In July 2000 when the introduction of GST was going to stifle the new home market because the tax didn't apply to established properties.
Through various increases in stamp duty rates and multiple introductions and removals of First Home Buyer grants.
My recommendation is that this is not a time to panic or make rash emotional decisions.
Instead it's a time to learn from history and remember that while all of the above changes which were supposedly going to seriously impact property's performance, while causing short term uncertainty, did little to halt the relentless rise in the value of well-located properties.
History has also shown that investors who chase tax incentives (like negative gearing) or the next fad or hot spot tend to lose out; but those remain focused on accruing quality capital city properties and then hold them for the long term tend to thrive.
The markets are creating a window of opportunity for those ready to take advantage of the upcoming lull and find their next home or investment property.
Isn't it too late to get into this property cycle?
Sure we're at a mature stretch of the property cycle, but it's likely that all the capital city property markets will end up higher at the end of the year they they are now; driven by slow but steady economic growth, mild wages growth, population growth, falling interest rates and rising consumer confidence after the election.
So if you have the means to buy your next home or investment property, now could well be the right time to do it, rather than putting off the decision for a number of months till the dust settles, because the result of the upcoming election is unlikely to matter as much as the politicians would like us to think it will.


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What Does the "Perfect Storm of Innovation" Mean for Your Supply Chain?
We're living in a historic era of technology, innovation, and economic growth. Consumers expectations are rising and new technologies are upending the status quo. These two "storm fronts" are clashing together to form a "perfect storm of innovation" which is shaking up the supply chain industry. Between customers' empowerment to get exactly what they want and a diverse and expanding realm of digitally connected smart technology, companies can be left feeling lost in the storm. However, with a little foresight, companies can navigate these new straights and position themselves for success in this brave new world.
In the modern age, if a customer is dissatisfied with a purchase, they don't just complain to the store manager or forget about it. Instead, they might take to social media to lament their experience. This can be a huge hurdle for any company to overcome. Social media is a double-edged sword. If used correctly, however, social media can be a huge asset to a company.
Taking a personal approach to customer service can help with dissatisfied customers. Whether you are replying to a negative tweet or responding to a direct call to your support team, the customer no longer needs to put up with poor service. It's a buyer's market, and consumers can easily move their loyalty to a competitor. Consider leveraging tools like automatic chat on your website and providing them self-help visibility to the status of their orders.
Visibility is a huge buzzword in the supply chain industry right now. Giving your customers visibility means being able to show them where their orders are when their orders are going to be delivered, and being able to explain any delays in transit. To be able to give your customers this level of insight, however, you first need to have visibility to your entire supply chain. Technology like a transportation management system (TMS) with advanced tracking capabilities can give you this.
With a TMS you can view the status of any order at any stage of the supply chain and even have automatic alerts sent to you when something goes wrong, that way you can proactively warn your customers. Customer loyalty can be developed through proactive and personal communication and you can even turn what would likely have been a negative experience for your customer into a positive one.
Technology and managing customer expectations go hand in hand. If consumer preferences stayed the same, there would be no reason to modernize your supply chain to meet changing expectations. Customers are demanding more and more customization of their purchases. Companies can leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect the moving pieces of their supply chain and compile Big Data about their operations to analyze and make strategic improvements.
Some companies are going as far as to employ 3D printing or additive manufacturing techniques to accommodate this new demand for customization and to help with the cost of R&D. Mass-customization is taking the place of mass-production, and supply chains and manufacturers need to be nimble and react to feedback from customers quickly.
Speed of delivery is another hot-button issue for consumers which can be solved with the help of technology. To keep up with mega-giants like Amazon which dominate the e-commerce market, companies need to offer faster shipping at greatly reduced or free rates. To do this, companies can leverage technology to find and book freight with the most cost-effective carriers at the best service levels. With a transportation management system, you should be able to compare several modes, such as air, LTL, or TL to find the carrier that can meet the customer's expectations. TMS technology can also help companies improve the flow of their inbound and outbound operations to reduce delays in the yard and speed final mile delivery.
It's anticipated that drone technology will eventually take over as a main method of delivering orders to individual customers. That isn't quite a reality at this time, but companies can already leverage drone and robotic technology in their warehousing processes. GPS technology, sensors, and RFID tags can improve operations in the warehouse and streamline the movement of individual orders.
Many companies are struggling to keep pace with changing consumer expectations and new technological advancements. These companies should take a step back and review how they can leverage technology to meet the needs of their customers. Consider social media as an asset as well as the power of giving customers end-to-end visibility to their orders. Think about ways to speed up the supply chain by finding and capitalizing on different carrier rates and service levels. Can additional technology in the warehouse improve selection times? Companies who get ahead of customer expectations by leveraging technology will find the eye of the innovation storm and be able to benefit from the changes taking place in the industry!


Yanggabara was an artist in residence project run with HEADSPACE Gold Coast in 2016.
Artwork: Yanggabara – a Jandai (Quandamooka) word meaning safe camp.
The Artwork on the walls around HEADSPACE was made during Sept – Dec 2016 by Quandamooka (Moreton Bay) artist Libby Harward: aka Mz Murricod in consultation with a team of young artists, HEADSPACE young people and Aboriginal community Elders and artists. The design was developed through a series of workshops, drop in style art making sessions and conversations.
Participants included many HEADSPACE youth and young artists Nina Rae Smith, Jackii Thearle, Annika Keefer, Sarah Hermann, Shannen Sembrano, and Aboriginal community Elders and artists Glennys Briggs, Joyce Summers, Daphne Houston and Glenda Nalder.
The artwork design was designed in collaboration, it depicts that Headspace is a safe space to rest, sitting on traditional country where since time before memory people have come to meet, heal through ceremony, feast and celebrate.
Concepts explored included: Safety – Safe camp, Connection, Belonging, Hope, Healing, Celebration, Tides, Change.
The Artwork you see in the window was adapted from a work created by Glennys Briggs a Taungwurrung-Yorta Yorta artist based on the Gold Coast. The work is telling a pertinent story about the splitting of the sand islands and Southport area. All these islands were once joined. The artwork also features a Dilly Bag, which is a representation of holding and carrying to safety whilst in the midst of change.
Above the stairwell it is a hanging mobile hammock. This is to represent safety, wind and change and also memories and stories collected in a net overtime. Natural and artificial fibres have been woven together. The natural colours with bright colours represent the old times and the new times as well as young and old. Negatives from photographs taken of all the art workshops held during this residency are interwoven. This symbolically brings in what is currently happening in the space, in a youthful way. Weaving is a traditional practice in the area. If you look closely you will see traditional language woven into the work.
Yanggabara – a Jandai (Quandamooka) word meaning safe camp. and words in Yugambeh Langauge (Gold Coast) told to Libby by Hague Best as he recalled his mother's favourite quote: Yana yehyinbaia (go with the rising tide).
The surfboard was donated by headspace staff and represents the surfing program that happens at HEADSPACE.
This Artwork is a depiction of a poem by Aunty Daphne Houston/Smith/Currie painted in acrylic and spraypaint by young Artists Nina Rae Smith and Jackii Thearle. In this work you can see reference to the landscape and the Dingo footprints that link to local Aboriginal stories.
or quiet if that's how I feel.
And I can trust without fear.
maybe not to everyone, but to some.
and guidance through a scarred landscape.
To a place where I belong.
– Aunty Daphne Houston / Smith / Currie 10/2016.
1. Take something you have or create something that symbolizes what you want to LET GO OF or LEAVE BEHIND.
2. Place it in the box and watch the artwork grow over time.
Overtime the boxes will fill and symbolise all the people and energy that come through HEADSPACE. It also is hoped it will remind people of the footprint they leave behind.
This box references the middens (cultural sites that are built up of shellfish remains that traditional people would leave in an area, they have built up over hundreds of thousands of years) many of these middens have been found in the Southport and Island areas.
Artwork on these boxes were designed by Nina Rae Smith.


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],
function(declare, lang, html, array, on, string, _WidgetBase, _TemplatedMixin) {
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    baseClass: 'jimu-search',
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Fables » Fables #61 - The Good Prince, Chapter Two: Forsworn released by Vertigo on July 1, 2007.
Flycatcher's just had the most important conversation of his life at the farm. But now that things are in flux for the Frog Prince, where will life take him? What will be his new role in Fabletown and beyond?


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Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
Over 50K cyber security incidents reported this fiscal: Government
These incidents were reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) by various Indian organisations, individuals and agencies from other countries.PTI | December 02, 2015, 17:53 IST
NEW DELHI: As many as 54,483 cyber security incidents such as phishing, spam and malicious code have been reported in the current financial year, Parliament was informed today.
These incidents were reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) by various Indian organisations, individuals and agencies from other countries, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
The area of information technology (IT) is characterised by rapid developments and fast changing obsolescence, Prasad said, adding that "with every IT product introduced into the market, newer vulnerabilities are discovered, leaving scope for malicious actions".
He said however that CERT-In does not maintain any separate data with regard to the losses incurred by the Indian companies due to cyber attacks.
The minister said the government has taken various steps to curb cyber attacks.
Tags : Internet, Ravi Shankar, phishing, Lok Sabha, IT, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team


This week I sand casted aluminum sun for my father in law garden.
I started by making a plaster pattern in a plastic mould. I painted the plaster cast yellow to hang it on the bathroom wall (decorative and could be used as pattern again). After the paint was dry I varnished the plaster cast so it will be easy to remove it out of the petrobond sand.
To get the plaster pattern out of the mould I used 2 screws on the back, The mould was perfect.
Then I made the sprue and riser on the back of the sun, I predicted there will be some aluminum shrinkage because the amount of molten aluminum used in this casting.
The pouring part was the easy part I was all most short with the molten aluminum but it was just enough to fill the sprue and riser extension half way up.
The sun casting turned out very well, some shrinkage on the back because the lack of aluminum to feed the mould. You can see in the image that the sprue and riser extension did their part. The only thing left to do was to cut off the sprue and riser with a grinder make two holes for screws and hang it on the wall.


Qualifying for car loans is much easier when you happen to have good credit, but not everyone can say that they have it. Fortunately, there are several things you can do to improve your credit score in as little as just a few months. So, without further ado, here are three simple, but effective, tips for how to increase your credit score quickly so that you can qualify for the best possible car loan!
Request to have free copies of your complete credit report sent to you by at least three well-established credit bureaus. Once you have the documents in hand, take a good long look at each of them to see if there is anything on there you don't recognize.
If you notice there is an account listed you're not familiar with, or any other problems dragging your credit score down, you should proceed forward with officially disputing these mistakes and attempting to have them corrected on your report.
Make all your payments on time. You can do this by enrolling in auto-pay, so that bills are deducted automatically from your account every month, or using a digital calendar or payments journal to help keep yourself on track.
If you have any disposable funds whatsoever, it's also a good idea to make bulk payments on outstanding debts, such as bills that are a few months late, or other expenses that will likely be sent out to collection otherwise. If you already have collections bothering you, do what you can to reduce those debts as well. Just remember, if your funds are really limited, its better for you to make payments on bills to keep them from going out to collections than for you to make small dents in debts that are already there.
Never close credit car accounts or reduce your limit if you have debt and you're struggling with your credit score. Although you may feel like this will make it easier for you to prevent overspending, it can actually make what debt you do have look worse. Instead, focus on making payments to reduce balances and improve your credit utilization. This will also protect your credit age as opposed to closing current accounts and opening new ones, which can lower your credit score.
Never open any new accounts, ever! Although new credit could in theory improve your credit utilization by increasing your total borrowing power, applying for new credit also requires credit inquiries, which can significantly hurt your score – not to mention make it easier for you to fall off the wagon in terms of any uncontrollable spending that may have led to your troubles in the first place.
The most important thing you can do to increase your credit score quickly is stay committed and keep striving toward progress. Do everything you can to stay informed about your current financial status and get reputable outside help if and/or when you need it. If you make a reasonable effort to take care of your finances, you'll be surprised how easy it is for you to breeze through life – and get the car loans you need! For more information on getting approved for car loans with bad credit, get in touch with our bad credit car loans experts at Suburban Auto Finance. Find a car dealership you can trust near you today by putting your trust in our virtuous car-buying experts at Suburban Auto Finance. Don't wait any longer to see how the experts at Suburban Auto Finance can help you.


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In this post we are going to slip into Scott's shoes – our "user" persona as discussed in the previous post.
Scott is primarily interested in being able to request catalog items, as well as interacting with items that he requested previously.
Navigate to the catalog-service using the drop down in the top right hand corner of the page.
As mentioned in the previous post, authentication is the first thing that you should do within a session. Hence I won't call it out explicitly below.
You may be wondering why I am referring to the catalog-service as the "Consumer API". There are a number of administrative functions also available in the catalog-service – the Consumer functions are a subset of the catalog-service that don't need special permissions to interact with.
While there are a few different ways to request a Catalog Item via the API, but there is really only one way that you shoud request it.
Check what Catalog Items you are entitled to.
Check what the request body should be.
Track the progress of your request.
In your swagger docs, do a search for "entitled". It should show up the following results. You may need to click on the "catalog" hyperlink at the bottom of the page to expand out the available URIs.
Make note of the descriptions associated with each of these, and then find them in Postman. Execute them both and take a look at the results.
While both work, the first includes the hypermedia values required to both get the request template and to submit your request. Neat right?
This is pretty straightforward now – you already know the URI to get the request template because it was returned in the body of the previous request.
While this is a hyperlink, I don't recommend clicking on it in Postman. This will open up a new request that is missing the headers you need in order to make a successful request.
There are a few ways around this – from within Postman, under the Headers tab, create a Preset. This will allow you to easily add a group of headers to a request. Alternatively, copy and paste the URI from the body of your previous request, and paste it into the address bar of Postman. Since you already have the headers defined this will work fine. Just don't save the request!
Give it a go now, the result should look like the snipped result below.
Now that you have the body of your request, you could submit it using the "POST: Submit Request" link from Step 1. Doing so would submit your request with the default values. What happens if you want to change the defaults though? Do you simply keep guessing until you are within the bounds of permissible values? The good news is that you can check a request schema. These are specific to each catalog item, in the same way that the request template itself is specific to a given Catalog Item.
Search the swagger doc for "schema".
This example shows memory, but the same data is available for other ranges.
At this point you have the request template, the permissible values that you can tweak should you choose to do so, and the URI to submit the request to.
Submit the request, and if all is well you will receive a 201 status code, and a body response that contains the below (and quite a bit more).
You should pay attention to line 3 "id". This is the request id, and can be used to track the status of the request.
To find the API needed, switch over to the swagger docs and search for "requests".
Using the id value from the previous request, submit the call and take a look at the response that comes back. The key called "STATE" tracks the progress, and you can check this as many times as you like until your request completes successfully.
Hopefully now you feel a bit more comfortable with making requests via the API. In the next post we will take a look at triggering Day 2 actions via the API.


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