It's that time of year, when I start looking for appropriate gifts for friends and family. I work out what I think people would like, and what I think they might need. My BF is quite difficult in many ways, as he buys what he needs as soon as he needs it. The trick is to buy him something that he doesn't realise he needs…but I've never really been successful in that…yet!
But, this is also the time of year when I feel guilty and sad. My Gran is in a home in Yorkshire – close to the extended family – where she wanted to be, but no-one is taking her out of the home for Christmas. She'll be on her own. That's terrible. No-one cares enough to go get her, spend the day with her and share the family day with my Gran. I wish I lived closer. I would pull the stops out to show her the kind of Christmas that she deserves.
I also feel sad that the family is so spread out. My sister is in Berumda, and my parents are in the North of Scotland. My boyfriend and I live in Surrey. My gut tells me we should go home for Christmas – to Ardchroskie – before it is sold. But, it's never that easy is it?
I don't actually know what to do for the best.
My sister (the wise one, you know), says I need to do what's best for me. But, I've never done that.
Next year, Sis and I have a plan to make sure we're all together somewhere. I hope that will include dear old Gran, but I might be hoping for too much.It depends on a lot. My sister living closer; Ardchroskie not being on the market; BF having a definite answer about the boys; and various sets of parents being fit to travel.
I've been feeling tired for a while now. Quite a while actually. I thought it was just a combination of starting a new job, getting used to the long commute, and the elements of stress that seem to plague my every day and now I'm not so sure.
I've never been good at sleeping. I can easily fall asleep, but never stay asleep all night. My mum, gran and uncles are the same. (My sister breaks the mould though). At the weekend I take a sleeping pill so that I 'catch' up a little bit and try to decrease the sleep deficit. But, why am I still so tired?
Yesterday, something happened that made me think about my health. And without wanting to sound like a complete hypochondriac, I think I'm anaemic.
Add to that the fact I've been monitoring my food recently and yesterday only consumed 990 calories, I'm not really helping myself.
It's time to rethink my nutritional plan & the way I do things to pull me out of this (hypochondriac speaking here) unhealthy, unwell phase in life. First things first – get to grips with the diet. Stop eating cereal when you can't be bothered cooking anything or using lack of time as an excuse. Plan menus for a week in advance and stick to it. NO PROCESSED FOODS AT ALL. Oh, and live a little.
I can't quite believe that it's time to prepare for another birthday (well, not the birthday, but the party/drinks evening we will have). Another year, another few wrinkles and lots of changes in life.
I look back over the year with mixed feelings. I'm healthy, OK just got a new job, and I have a great boyfriend, but the year was full of challenges…redundancy, Gran's illness and move to Yorkshire, mum's illness, my sister's nightmare emergency surgery, and, and, and…ugh. What a year.
I'm hopefull for the next year. The year that will take me to a milestone. Am I ready for that one ? (See earlier entry about ticking clocks…;-)).
If you're reading this and haven't had an invite to the drinks, send me an email to remind me I forgot. (I'm getting older…see!).
Yep, I'm nearing and big 4 0 and for the first time in my life, I'm going to be on my own for Christmas. First. Time. Ever. OK, so let's just caveat the 'on my own' – technically, I'll have BF, his parents, sons and brothers, so not really on my own. The real difference is I'll be without my mum, dad and gran.
Gran is in Yorkshire and will be with Tuck and his family. Mum and Dad will be in Scotland, at home in the Glen. Wierd. Bizarre and very, very odd.
Many of you are thinking, why is it so weird. Well, Christmas is about family. It's about tradition. It's about what you do together and how you do it.
I've never woken up and not gone to wake my mum & dad. Since being a little girl, Christmas morning has been about waking them & gran, preparing buck's fizz, eating Quality Streets in bed, and then the present giving…my sister and I taking it in turns to hand out gifts.
So, what happens this year? I don't know.
The big risk is that I'll drink all the bucks fizz on my own before anyone gets here.
Really wonder what he'd make of it…?
The last 8-10 weeks have seen very little to laugh about, but with a bit of positive news in the last couple of days, I'm starting to see the funny side of what's happened/happening.
Gran's funding has finally been allocated. Next Friday, the Granster will move to her new home in Yorkshire. I haven't seen her for a few weeks, but apparently this news has resulted in her being more upbeat, and so much happier than she has been in a long time. For my mum the news has been well received, even though she's going to miss gran terribly. She's really pleased that gran finally gets her wish to be nearer the extended family. Christmas seems to be taken care of too, with Aunty S. taking control of the arrangements to ensure gran isn't on her own at all during the period. Had plans been complete, we would have been there to take Gran with us to mum & dad's new place at the coast…but that's not going to happen, not this year at least.
So, mum, sis and her BF left me on Thursday to journey back up North. Sis was dreading the temperature difference…of all things. Here it's averaging 13-16 during the day…there, they have snow and minus temperatures. It's a big leap from the summer time she thought she'd face in NZ!
What of NZ? Well, her BF still awaits news. Sis still wants to go. Who knows what will happen there…?
I mentioned the funny side…well, every time I think of the hospital incident I think of morphine and how it took away the pain in an instant. My sister was high on morphine…her face, her mood, the manner in which she spoke were all affected by morphine and now I can look back, it was funny. And the nurse who gave her the morphine as so funny. There were other really funny incidents to do with pain meds and where they had to be administered, but you'd have to know my sis to understand why it's all so funny.
And, now that I'm on my own again in the house, the cats roam free…but, I'm three mugs, and one glass down – victims of a stressful few weeks. I have to find replacements for the mugs sooner rather than later. I also need to restock my beer cider, vodka, whisky, wine, & soup supplies. They seemed to just evaporate during the last few weeks.
I guess time will tell, but I hope the signs are positive for everyone.
Well, the rollercoaster ride seems never-ending.
My gran is still in hospital, funding yet to be allocated. For gran, who doesn't understand the reasons she's in hospital, it's like a living hell, while she waits to move to her new home. Cruel to be kind…really…but so hard on gran and mum – in so many ways. Mum's like a tortured soul over the whole thing.
Sis and her BF are still with me. The NZ embassy have not yet called with news of his work permit – good or bad – there's no news. In the meantime, sis has been very ill. Three different visits to doctors, nurses, x-ray and hospital resulted in no diagnosis. It took her to be SERIOUSLY ill for anything to change. We spent the day in A & E – from early morning to early afternoon – where sis received a cocktail of pain killers to ease the most horrendous pain I've ever witnessed anyone suffer. Ibuprofen, Codeine, paracetamol, tramadol and finally, a little bit of pain free living with morphine. Yes, morphine. She was finally admitted to a ward in the late afternoon after being seen by no less than six doctor's, five of them surgeons and various nurses.
24-hrs later, mum had arrived (driven through the night to get here) and sis was on the operating table.
Thankfully, sis is making a great recovery, but as she's had surgery and needs a consult in two months, she won't be able to travel to NZ after all. What does that mean for her and her BF? Well, as there's no news from the embassy, they too are living in limbo.
So, the rollercoaster is getting faster, right?
I wrote recently about "the Glen" and how the family home was sold? Well, it's not. The buyers have pulled out. Or rather, not pulled out, they don't want to pay the fair market value for the house.
What can I do to help? Nothing, I'm as good as useless.
This situation…this rollercoaster just won't stop to let them get off. And, they need to get off. Soon.


Graduation Day Ceremony for class V was organized on 22nd March; 19 in the school premises. Respected principal ma'am, vice principal ma'am and primary Incharge graced the occasion. Parents were warmly welcomed by Mrs Kaur and few parents of outgoing students also appreciated the efforts put in by school in grooming their wards. In the end graduation certificates were handed over to the students.


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Gullikson oder Gulliksson ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Lars Gulliksson (* 1967), schwedischer Jazz-Tenorsaxophonist, Flötist, Klarinettist, Arrangeur und Komponist
 Tim Gullikson (1951–1996), US-amerikanischer Tennisspieler und -trainer
 Tom Gullikson (* 1951), US-amerikanischer Tennisspieler und -trainer

Siehe auch:
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The item "BGS 9.5 2012 Finest Pular Refractor Ref 10 AUTO/PATCH Russell Wilson RC #d 13/25" is in sale since Tuesday, December 11, 2018. This item is in the category "Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop\Sports Trading Cards\Football Cards". The seller is "leadingprospects1" and is located in Kent, Washington.


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Cypher Sessions
Where Music meets Film and Pop Culture
Creed II: A Cypher Flicks film review
By Daniel Paiz
"Ricky Conlan has won the fight, but Adonis Creed has won the night…" -Max Kellerman's voice echoes as Creed ends with Adonis and Rocky Balboa walking up the famous Philadelphia staircase.
Creed II is packed full of storylines
The first Creed is largely about figuring out who you are. In Creed II, it's a continuation of that, but it also shifts into what each character is fighting for.
There might only be a handful of actual fights in this highly anticipated sequel, but every major character is fighting a different opponent, and the storyline here is full of things to unpack.
Adonis Johnson/Creed (Michael B. Jordan) and Bianca (Tessa Thompson) must navigate their relationship while Adonis continues to pursue the title. Adonis must also figure out what he's fighting for in the first place (something he'll struggle with more than you'd expect).
Bianca has a lot to worry about in this film. Figuring out how to reach Adonis after one particular fight paints the picture of what toll these fights take on a fighter; the physical toll does not begin to match the mental one.
These two also have another surprise that will complicate things about a quarter of the way into the movie.
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) continues to struggle with past decisions inside and out of the ring. The interactions between Adonis and Rocky go up and down as Rocky worries about the fate of Adonis being the same one Apollo met.
Speaking of family issues, the Dragos are back to take their shot at redemption.
The beginning of the film nails just how difficult things have been for Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) and his son, Viktor (Florian Munteanu), who are living in the Ukraine in less than ideal conditions.
The loss to Balboa all those years ago has stoked Ivan into relentlessly training his son into becoming the most physically imposing heavyweight boxer in the world. This lust for revenge has fostered a hateful training regimen that shows no love between father and son.
So many callbacks…
If you recently watched the first Creed film prior to going to see the sequel (which I highly recommend), there are so many callbacks. Not just to the first film in this new series, but also to the Rocky series.
Because callbacks are fun to find on your own, no specific ones will be mentioned here.
A good number of them will simply be scenes from previous films put in a new light for the current storyline, but that's as far as the hints will go for this section.
The music!
Ludwig Göransson just can't be stopped when it comes to putting together music for movies. The Childish Gambino collaborator puts together another plethora of tracks that matches every mood the comes up in this film.
Add to that the impact that Mike Will Made It has by producing a number of songs for this film? It's arguably even better than the first Creed soundtrack.
The music chosen for the fighter walk-outs is still my favorite part of this film, as Jaden Smith's Icon perfectly encapsulates just how much Adonis is feeling himself in this part of the film.
The surprise track Adonis has is not what you'd expect for the last fight of the film, but it shows the growth and understanding he's gained throughout the film up until this point.
Biggest lesson Creed II delivers
It can't be overstated, but redemption is the name of the game for Creed II. Adonis, Rocky, Ivan Drago—all three of these characters have the most to learn throughout this film, and all three finally get what it is that they need to change.
There are moments when you want to shake Adonis by the shoulders to make him think about what he's doing, but he finally seems to get it.
Ivan Drago is a character you're supposed to root against, but Ivan and Viktor both learn the past doesn't need to repeat itself. It almost makes you want to see what happens to the Dragos? That's something I didn't see coming.
Lastly, Ryan Coogler doesn't direct this sequel (though he does get an Executive Producer credit).
Steven Caple Jr. takes over directing and while there is something missing without Coogler at the helm, Caple Jr. does a really good job of weaving all of these different storylines together in a very cohesive manner.
This sequel doesn't disappoint and absolutely lives up to the original.
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An exciting young team including three debutants will represent Scotland in the qualification stage of the European Mixed Team Championships next month.
Christopher Grimley, Matthew Grimley and Ciara Torrance will all make their senior squad debuts in Chisinau, Moldova from 7 to 9 December 2018, when Scotland face Russia, Ukraine and Moldova in Qualifying Group 2.
They will join established team members Kirsty Gilmour, Julie MacPherson and Eleanor O'Donnell as well as Alex Dunn and Adam Hall in an exciting young team that, with an average age of only 20, is likely to make up the backbone of the Scotland squad for years to come.
Gilmour is the most experienced member of the squad with 34 caps but all five of the established squad members represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games this year and will be able to provide valuable guidance to the newer players.
But although the debutants have not represented Scotland at senior level before, they have plenty of experience to draw from with all three having competed in international tournaments for a number of years.
They also have previous experience representing Scotland at junior level and indeed the Grimleys are currently in Canada at the World Junior Championships, preparing for their opening match against Slovakia which will be played at 17.00hrs today.
Commenting on the squad Keith Russell, Badminton Scotland's chief executive, said: "This is a fantastic opportunity for some of our younger players to start to make a name for themselves at senior level.
"The three players making their debuts have trained regularly as part of the senior national team for quite some time and the more experienced members of the squad such as Kirsty Gilmour and Adam Hall are ideal role models for them to look up to.
Scotland have been drawn in Group 2 for the qualification stage of the European Mixed Team Championships and will face Ukraine on 7 December, Moldova on 8 December and Russia on 9 December.
Scotland would have to finish top of the group in order to qualify for the finals of the European Mixed Team Championship to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 13-17 February 2019.


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Illinois Court Tosses Conviction Over Facebook Photo
Spencer D. Watkins was convicted of being a felon in possession of a gun in 2016 and given a nine-year prison term
An appellate court has tossed a central Illinois man's gun conviction, ruling a lower court shouldn't have allowed a Facebook photograph of him standing near guns to be entered as evidence.
Illinois' 3rd District Court of Appeals reversed the conviction of 29-year-old Spencer D. Watkins. The Peoria man was convicted of being a felon in possession of a gun in 2016 and given a nine-year prison term.
The court found the photo wasn't proof Watkins possessed a gun as he ran from a car after a traffic stop. An officer said he had one, but it was never recovered.
Prosecutors entered the photo to show it was likely he had a gun and disposed of it before his arrest. The defense says the officer mistook a cellphone for a gun.
No retrial date has been set.
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League of Legends World Championship 2017
I was in charge of the Sculpt!!
http://www.lolesports.com/…/ar…/what-2017-world-championship
http://watch.na.lolesports.com/en_US/worldchampionship/en
I have worked on the main visual art for "League of Legends World Championship 2017".
League of Legends is one of the most popular online games, and it has more than 100 million players worldwide. The popularity is so high; there are many pro players all around the world. Those chosen players gather to participate League of Legends World Championship that is held once every year. More than 40 million people either view the event at the venue or watch it live.
It is the first time for a Japanese artist to be involved in the Championship main artwork, and I have already received an overwhelming positive response.


The Basic Workflow is the same since LRT3. You can use it for simple sequences or sequences shot in JPG. A better choice would be converting JPG sequences to DNG with Lightroom and then using the Visual Workflow too on those DNG-sequences.
If you shoot in RAW, please always use the Visual Workflow instead.
Load your time lapse sequence by choosing a folder on the left. Wait until the sequence has been loaded.
Keyframes Wizard: drag the "Number of Keyframes"-Slider until you get the number of desired keyframes. Keyframes will mark the images, that you are going to edit manually – the develop-settings for all other images will be calculated automatically by LRTimelapse.
Save your sequence, then make sure Lightroom is open and the Library Module selected.
Bring your sequence to Lightroom and make sure the XMP-Metadata that LRTimeapse wrote, gets applied.
Drag the button named Drag to Lightroom into the Lightroom Library. This will invoke the Lightroom importer.
Detailed explanation: before dragging, make sure that Lightroom is opened and the folder you are working on has not been added to the Lightroom catalog before, and if, remove it from there. Make sure that Lightroom is in Library module.
Then go to LRTimelapse click and hold on the button "Drag to Lightroom", then drag your mouse while holding the button over the Lightroom icon in the dock or taskbar. Hover there for a moment until Lightroom comes up. Now go with the mouse over the Lightroom window and drop it there (release the mouse button). You'll see, it's very easy once you did it.
Make sure that Add is selected at the top (not copy!!) then import to add the images to the Library.
make sure the Filter is set to LRT5 Full Sequence.
select Metadata->Read Metadata from Files from the menu.
Select the right filter in Lightroom's filter chooser above the filmstrip. If you don't see the filter panel, just click on "Filter".
You can speed up this processing by setting the filter to "Speed up Lightroom!" while the metadata is being read.
Now your sequence is in Lightroom and you should see the keyframes that you created in LRTimelapse as ****-Ratings.
Select the filter "LRT5 Keyframes" to see only the keyframes.
The left keyframe is the "most selected" – you'll sync it's settings to the other keyframes with the "LRTimelapse Sync Keyframes"-script.
The current keyframe will then be "most selected", the others selected a bit darker. Now launch LRTimelapse Sync Keyframes from the Lightroom Scripts-menu – this will apply the settings from the first keyframe to all others.
Advanced tip: please do not use copy/paste or the native synchronize in Lightroom, instead please use the new script in general. Should you need to synchronize single tools only, like crop, you can use copy/paste or synchronize, but make sure to exclude the gradients then!
Switch to the next keyframe and make your changes in editing, if needed. You can change any tools you want (with few exceptions).
If you work with Gradients, please don't create new ones – always use the predefined gradients that LRTimelapse created. And please don't delete Gradients!
Lightroom 5 and older: If you edited the crop, you will notice that the Sync-Keyframes Script does not Sync the crop (due to Lightroom restrictions). In that case just synchronize only the crop to all keyframes with the Synchronize button in Lightroom.
Edit all keyframes like this. After each one, select the current one, then shift select the last one and launch the LRTimelapse Sync Keyframes script.
Now save the changes: make sure, that again (like always when working with metadata) you are in Grid View (G), all keyframes are selected (Ctrl-A) and then use Metadata->Save Metadata to Files from the menu or Ctrl-S.
Go Back to LRTimelapse and proceed with the second row of workflow buttons.
Auto-Transition will calculate the transitions for all images in between the keyframes. It will give you a short glimpse on all curves calculated in the preview, you might permanently turn on the display of all curves by clicking on "ALL" on the top right of the preview.
If you feel that your sequence has flicker you can now use the deflicker option.
The blue curve shows the luminance of the previews. The more spikes you have, the more changes in brightness. The yellow curve with the keyframes is always the curve showing the "Exposure" set in Lightroom.
The blue curve shows the luminance of the original files. In this case it's rather bumpy, this is a sign of flicker. You can play the sequence via the "Play-Button" below the preview to see, if flicker is visible as well. If so, click on the Deflicker button, if you have a rather smooth curve instead, don't use Deflicker.
Simple deflicker with Smoothing Slider. Only deflicker, if you really have flicker!
If your curve is not so smooth, scrub though the sequence and try to identify why you have those bumps in the curve. In the example above, it's clearly flicker – there is not much happening in that scene and the flicker is very regular and frequent. You might have frames in your sequence where people get in or other natural movements. Those might be darker then others, leading to a peak in the luminance curve. If so, and you can identify an area in the sequence, that would serve as a better reference for calculating the luminance curve, try selecting it by clicking and dragging in the preview. This will recalculate the luminance curve and not use the whole frame anymore but the area, that you've selected. The goal should be to find an area, where the flicker effect is isolated, and you don't have other short term changes in brightness. This is explained in depth in my EBook.
If you click on Deflicker, you'll get a Smoothing slider and a new, green curve. Drag the slider, until the green curve looks like you would like the blue curve to ideally be. Don't overdo it.
The green curve shows a smoothed version of the blue luminance curve and should look like you would like the blue curve to be.
Grid-View (G), Select all (Ctrl-A), Metadata/Read Metadata from files. You've got it.
Now all images in between the keyframes should get their edits. But you don't have to wait, until Lightroom finishes updating the previews, just proceed with exporting your sequence.
You'll find the explanation for exporting in the Export and Render instructions.


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Fréhel, ursprungligen Marguerite Boulc'h, född 14 juli 1891, död 3 februari 1951, var en fransk sångerska och skådespelare. Under mellankrigstiden var hon populär inom musikgenren chanson réaliste.

Filmografi i urval

Externa länkar

Franska sångare under 1900-talet
Franska skådespelare under 1900-talet
Födda 1891
Avlidna 1951
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Q: Weird Fish Prompt I am using fish as my primary shell; along with oh-my-fish
Now the first character on the fish prompt is really weird [I] as shown in the picture
Kindly help me get rid of the character.

A: This is the vi mode indicator. It shows that you are using vi key bindings, and are currently in insert mode.
If you don't want to use vi bindings, and instead use the default (emacs) style, you can run fish_default_key_bindings to switch back.
If you want vi key bindings, but want to hide the mode indicator, you can define the fish_mode_prompt function as empty, and then save it:
> function fish_mode_prompt ; end
> funcsave fish_mode_prompt

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Frank Darby's misfortune started the primary week of apply. Not in Tempe, however at Camp Tontozona among the many beautiful pines and cooler summer time temperatures.
The Arizona State soccer staff wasn't even purported to be there, really. Due to delays related to the set up of a synthetic turf area, the Solar Devils' annual weeklong preseason go to to Payson had been canceled, however first-year coach Herm Edwards didn't need to ditch it totally, so he scheduled a day journey in early August. At Camp T, the staff may bond, climb Mount Kush, calm down. It'd be nice.
And it was, for everybody besides Darby.
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Staffordshire Way
Tomb, St Peter's Alton
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Footbridge near Ross Bridge, Whiston
This wooden footbridge crosses the Churnet near Ross Bridge, Whiston.
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Cheddleton Station
Cheddleton Station is one of only three original Churnet Valley Stations to have survived demolition in the 1960s and 1970s (the other two being Rushton and Alton). Built in 1849, the station was reputedly designed by Pugin.
For more information on this popular destination please visit the entries for Churnet Valley Railway in our Attractions directory: http://churnet-valley.guide/attractions/churnet-valley-railway-cheddleton
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Consall Forge Kilns
Against the canalised River Churnet stands a bank of four large limekilns, dating from the early 19th Century. They were linked to a plateway built between 1815 and 1819 that ran from the Caldon Canal to north of Caverswall.
Coal was brought in on the plateway from a number of local collieries, whilst lime was carried to Weston Coyney and beyond. By 1840 the line was out of use, although it is unclear precisely when the kilns ceased operation.
Read more about Consall Forge Kilns
Hanley Water Column
Railway Water Columns were once an everyday sight on railway stations up and down the UK, offering a source of water for steam locomotives to ensure they never ran out.
The Churnet Valley Railway's charitable support body the "North Staffordshire Railway Company (1978) Ltd" (NSRC) was able to acquire one of the original North Staffs columns from Hanely Station in Stoke-on-Trent which was located on the former Potteries Loop Line. This was moved to the charity's Cheddleton base where it was placed into store until sufficient funding was gained to re-erect it.
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Changeover Bridge 52
The Caldon Canal opened in 1778 between Froghall and Etruria where it joined the Trent & Mersey Canal. Limestone, coal and materials from the Potteries were carried in narrow boats towed by horses.
When the railway was constructed in the 1840s, in order to provide space for the trackbed in the very narrow section of the valley, it was necessary to divert some sections of the canal between Froghall and Consall Forge. A new canal channel was dug closer to the steep-sided wooded valley and the towpath was also relocated to the side away from the railway.
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Saltersford Lane
The 'saltway' on the Staffordshire Way between Alton and Denstone, which forms part of the Staffordshire Way
The course of a trackway shown on Ordnance Survey mapping of 1838 and named as Saltersford Lane. The trackway is suggested to be a salt or packhorse way.
The 'saltways' were used to transport salt across the country and are believed to date back to pre-conquest times. Saltersford Lane was thought to have linked Cheadle with Nantwhich, Newcastle and Derby.
Read more about Saltersford Lane
Rock Well, Alton
We used this picture in our Facebook Friday photo challenge and as Richard Moss said, "Even though everyone now knows where it is. I bet they still can't find it !!! It's well hidden."
It is a listed early 19th century well. The shaft is now filled in.
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St John's Preparatory School, Alton
A listed mid 19th century house, formerly used as a preparatory school. The house was designed by AWN Pugin for the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury.
Read more about St John's Preparatory School, Alton
Wall, St John the Baptist Catholic Church
A listed mid 19th century wall and outbuilding which enclose the north and west sides of the Catholic Church of St John the Baptist.
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Correspondance IV. Paris: Léopold Cerf, Imprimeur-Éditeur (1901).
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Discours de La Méthode & Essais VI. Paris: Léopold Cerf, Imprimeur-Éditeur (1902).
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Part I.-Continued. Woks published, or designed for publication, as parts of the Instauratio Magna: Historia Ventorum; Historia Vitae et Mortis; Historia Densi et Rari; Inquisitio de Magnete; Topica Inquisitionis de Luce et Lumine; Sylva Sylvarum; Scala Intellectus sive Filum Labyrinthi; Prodromi sive Anticipationes Philosophiae Secundae.
Part II.- Works on subjects connected with the Instauratio, but not meant to be included in it: Preface to Part II; Cogitationes de Natura Rerum; Preface to De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris, by Robert Leslie Ellis; De Fluxu et Refluxu Maris; Preface to De Principiis atque Originibus Secundum Fabulas Cupidinis Et Cceli, by Robert Leslie Ellis; De Principiis atque Originibus, etc.; New Atlantis; Magnalia Naturae.
Parte III. Works Originally designed for parts of the Instautratio Magna, but superseded or abandoned: Preface to Part III; Cogitationes de Scientia Humana; Preface to Calerius Terminus, by Robert Leslie Ellis; Valerius Terminus; Adancement of Learning, Book I and Book II; Filum Labyrinnthi; De Interpretatione Naturae Proemium; Temporis Partus Masculus; Partis Instaurationies Secundae Demilineatio at Argumentum; Redargutio Philosophiarum; Cogitata et Visa De Interpretatione Naturae; Inquisitio. Legitima Motu; Calor et Frigus; Historia Soni et Auditus; Phaenomena Universi; Preface to Descriptio Globi Intellectualis, By Robert Leslie Ellis; Descriptio Globi Intellectualis; Thema Coeli; De Interpretatione Naturae Sententiae XII; Aphorismi et Consilia; Physiological and Medical Remains.
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Part I. Works published, or designed for publication, as parts of the Instauratio Magna: The Great Instauration; The New Organon; Preparative towards a Natural and Experimental History; of the Dignity and Advancement of Learning. Books II-VI.
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Part II. Works connected with the Instauratio Magna, but not meant to be included in it: Thoughts on the Nature of Things; On the Ebb and Flow of The Sea; On Principles and Origins, according to The Fables of Cupid and Coelum.
Part III. Works originally designed for parts of the Instauratio Magna, but superseded or abandoned: Description of the Intellectual Globe; Theory of The Heaven.
Works (6) (1858). Literary and professional works, vol. I.
Works (7) (1859). Literary and professional works, vol. II.
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Basreh (, also Romanized as Başreh) is a village in Bask-e Kuleseh Rural District, in the Central District of Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 230, in 40 families.

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This initiative is part of a Dutch/South African cultural exchange initiative fostered over a number of years by Dr Alexander Beets, representing Amersfoort Jazz Festival, Prof Karendra Devroop from the UNISA Music Foundation, Masindi Mantwa Chinoamadi from the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz and André Le Roux from SAMRO.
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Aircraft Vertical Takeoff & Landing
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In highly agricultural areas where fertilizers are commonly used to support growth of plants there is also a problem with the fact that not all the fertilizer could be absorbed by treated plants. Because of rain or other weather related effects fertilizer gets access to rivers. Then it starts to be very concentrated when a river flows into lakes. In result condensation of manure is so big. Because of that it allows to grow unwanted algae. The effect of growth of these plants is very harmful for ecosystems of lakes and it affects significantly the quality of water.
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An Internal Combustion Engine with a Rack Gear (Crémaillère) Instead of a Crankshaft. Every Stroke is Combustion
The engine consists of two blocks. Number of blocks may be from one to the reasonable quantities (like 3, 4, 5 etc.). In this case, submitted an engine which consists of two blocks. Every block consist of two pistons (the black one - main and the red one-additional), and two valves. The first valve provides the intake of the fresh air-gas mixture into the volume above the additional piston. The second one provides the transfer of the compressed fresh air-gas mixture from the volume above the additional piston into the volume above the main piston and separates volumes above main and additional pistons after the ignition of the fuel in the volume above the main piston. The suggested design, ...
Serguei Tikhonenkov
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This is a new design that takes advantage and merges two very well-known designs.
Airfoil wings make lift by changing the direction and pressure of the air that crashes into them as they move through the sky. The spinning cylinder wing design, using the magnus effect, has many advantages over traditional airfoils but also some disadvantages. This design is a type of merger of these two known technologies in such a way as to make use of the advantages of both while eliminating the disadvantages. Some of the advantages are: More wing lift and less drag!
Instead of the solid, rigid, stationary design of a traditional airfoil, the Magfoil has an outer skin that rotates. In other words, as ...
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Justia Dockets & Filings Second Circuit New York Eastern District Robinson v. Federal Bureau Of Prisons et al
Robinson v. Federal Bureau Of Prisons et al
Federal Bureau Of Prisons and United States Government
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Civil Rights: Other Office
Lois Bloom
Nicholas G. Garaufis
U.S. Government Defendant
42:1983 Civil Rights Act
March 28, 2012 Filing 133 MEMORANDUM & ORDER: The court ADOPTS the portion of the 132 Report and Recommendations addressing Jimenez's motion for summary judgment; accordingly, Jimenez's motion for summary judgment is GRANTED. Robinson's "Re-Submitted Revised Motion for Summary Judgment" is DENIED. Robinson's "Demand for Damages upon Finding for Summary Judgment against Defendants" is DENIED as moot. Ordered by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis on 3/26/2012. (c/m to pro se; fwd'd for jgm) (Lee, Tiffeny)
October 19, 2010 Filing 80 ORDER endorsed on doc.# 78 : As the Court has already granted the extension requested by defendants, plaintiff's opposition to the request is noted, but denied as moot. SO ORDERED. (Ordered by Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom, on 10/19/2010) C/mailed. (Latka-Mucha, Wieslawa)
August 17, 2010 Filing 75 ORDER: By letter dated 7/28/2010, plaintiff moves for an order to compel defendant to produce certain documents. By letter dated 7/29/2010, counsel for defendant states that the documents at issue were sent to plaintiff's current address. Accord ingly, the Court denies plaintiff's 71 motion to compel. If plaintiff did not receive this delivery, he should contact FedEx and/or defendant's counsel. No hearing is necessary at this time. Therefore, plaintiff's 73 request is denied. Plaintiff must first contact defendant's counsel, not the Court to resolve discovery disputes. SO ORDERED. (Ordered by Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom, on 8/17/2010) C/mailed. (Latka-Mucha, Wieslawa)
June 25, 2010 Filing 70 ORDER denying plaintiff's 68 motion to order "the government to depose all health care providers." Plaintiff should serve his request on defendant's counsel, not the Court. Defendant's 69 request for an extension to 7/18/10 to serve initial disclosures on plaintiff is granted. Ordered by Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom on 6/24/2010. C/M (Manuel, Germaine)
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Loss adjuster adjusts goal, but maintains target
by Maryvonne Gray 30 Nov 2015
Loss adjuster adjusts goal, but maintains target | Insurance Business New Zealand
Loss adjuster Greg Harris knew his plan to run five marathons in eight months was ambitious for a middle-aged man with only 3 previous marathons completed 30 years ago to his name.
However, since arriving in New Zealand in April the Cunningham Lindsey loss adjuster specialising in major and complex loss has ticked off the Christchurch marathon in May, the North Shore marathon in September, a gruelling run on a Jetts treadmill in October and most recently the Auckland marathon at the start of this month.
His dream for the Auckland marathon to be his fifth and final event were shattered when flight costs ruled out a trip to Invercargill to complete that event, and an attempt at the Karangahake forest trail run saw him wading through rivers and bogs for five hours – and still not reaching the half way mark.
"After so many up and down hills my body said 'stop'," said Harris, who then ran the Auckland marathon as his fourth event since starting in May (see pic).
"My knees and hips are certainly starting to feel the strain and having got to the top of the Auckland bridge with still a long way to go, I felt like I was not going to complete this one.
"I had originally hoped that completion times for the runs would improve but whilst my mind was willing and energy levels goods, my knees and other parts are starting to feel some of the stress from this my fourth marathon in 5 months. My time was a minute over 5 hours."
Harris is now setting his sights on the Three Bridges event in Wanganui on December 12 being his fifth and final event and hopes this final push will help him achieve his target of raising $5,000 for charity Ronald McDonald House.
"Fund raising has been fairly quiet and I am really hoping to make a final appeal once I have done my part of the bargain and completed marathon number five.
"To raise the $5,000 target would be awesome and a great present for the children in need especially just before Christmas. That for me would be a dream come true!"
He added: "To help the knees I am trying to shed another 5kgs of baggage. This [Wanganui] run I will have to do in better time otherwise the sole flight to Auckland at 1:30pm will be one loss adjuster light!!"
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The gaming regulator for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC), has questioned the viability of Saipan's Imperial Palace planned construction of 2,000 new hotel rooms.
Imperial Palace, operated by Imperial Pacific, is hoping to build the massive extension, however, regulators have indicated that Saipan would have to almost triple its number of tourists to be able to fill the rooms.
The regulator, therefore, see the construction as needless.
Executive Director of the Commonwealth Casino Commission, Edward Deleon Guerrero is urging the House Committee to re-assess the proposal. According to him, CNMI would need to attract about two million tourists annually to be able to fill all the 2000 rooms. However the number of tourists arriving in 2017 was 659,741.
"I don't think the CNMI could accommodate 2 million visitors a year. And I don't think we have the capability to construct 2,000 rooms," Guerrero said.
The CCC agreed to a request by Imperial Pacific to prolong its construction deadline until 2021 about two weeks ago. The current extension means the project has been delayed for about four years from its original deadline as it has been extended twice, first by a year and a half and now by a further two and a half years.
The new integrated resort will contain 329 luxury rooms designed for VIP guests, with the remaining rooms being part of wider development plans by Imperial Pacific.
However, Guerrero wants the company to concentrate on the VIP rooms and shun the idea of additional rooms.
"It appears that revenue-wise, the VIP room is the direction in which to go—we don't need the 2,000 rooms or 2 million visitors. We just need to focus on visitors and tourists of that type," he said.


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Reading Into Everything.
On Gnarly Floods and Mass Incarceration: Can We Reroute Our Future?
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Graywolf non-fiction prize winner explores her tumultuous childhood in rural Indiana
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Angela Palm's childhood home in the rural town of Hebron, Indiana was built on a rerouted riverbed, where the Kankakee once flowed. In the opening chapter of her Graywolf Non-Fiction Prize winning memoir, Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here, Palm recounts how her father paddled a rowboat from their doorstep to the school bus every morning during flood season. She relishes in the pride her father and neighbors took in recounting stories of the how they conquered past floods. She recalls her fondness for these rituals as well as her childlike knowledge of the danger the flood imposed upon the town. From her vantage point as an adult, Palm calls nature "violent" and "taunting." The fractured site of Palm's childhood represents both the human ability to engineer the land, and, by extension, destiny, as well as the fragility of human life in the face of an unyielding environment.
Like the landscape of Palm's youth, her belief system is subject to drastic change. She tests out various religions, from Methodist to Catholic, attending "a dozen different churches or more" by the age of thirteen. While Palm experiments with different modes of consciousness, she is also aware of how the futures of others are seemingly incapable of being rerouted. This concept is most pointedly illustrated by tragic story of Corey, Palm's childhood neighbor, crush, and ultimately lifelong friend, who was sentenced to life in prison for murder as a young man. Poverty, parental neglect, and drug use led Corey to spend four of his formative years in juvenile detention centers for "crimes that rich kids had been let off for." Palm speculates: If Corey had more support and guidance, "would it have gone this far?"
The message being, people who err are not inherently bad; more so, our society cruelly dictates the outcomes of our lives and this statement becomes a refrain, especially in relation to Corey's incarcerated status. "To me, inmates were regular people," Palm writes, "who had been caught doing something society deemed impermissible and who had likely had some misfortunes along the way." Palm emphasizes the corruption of the US prison system, specifically its catering to privatized companies and values profit over rehabilitation. Despite human attempts to redirect, socioeconomic status, like weather, is shattering.
When Palm volunteers for Habitat For Humanity, the presence of flood rears again in Palm's adult life, helping repair Hurricane Floyd's damage to North Carolina homes. While there, she witnesses first-hand the devastation of natural disaster, and the human inability to quell or control it. She enters a house destroyed and gutted by water damage, where the only undamaged object is a 2-Pac poster in the living room, hung high enough to have evaded the water. The presence of the poster in the house represents the intersection of environmental and social determinism: 2-Pac could not escape "the current" of crime and violence that ultimately claimed his life, just as homeowners were unable to ward off the flood.
Palm presents a drastically different outlook in the last section of her book, Mountains, which chronicles her experience at a writer's retreat at the Robert Frost estate. While her first two sections, Water and Fields, emphasize how tied we are to our physical environment and origin and feature clinical, analytical analysis, Mountains argues for our ultimate detachment and uses dreamier, more poetic language. Palm notes the significance of her location while acknowledging that the environment exists entirely separately from her entanglements and associations with it. "The trees are not poems, never have been, do not contain poems, never have contained them," Palm writes. Although this sentiment would seem discouraging and averse to the purpose of a writers retreat, Palm revels in the freedom of experiencing objects not through their associations, but as themselves in their raw and pure form.
Although Palm states that "we'll never really escape the landscapes we inhabited as our brains developed," she chooses to focus on the blunt indifference of the land in her last section. Mountains is focused on the immediacy of physical sensation as opposed to theory meant to explain environment in relation to humans. This intentionally lopsided structure leaves the reader with multiple layers of paradox and duality: the land is malleable yet confining. Environment is integral to development and fate, but it also exists separately from human classification. At the close of the book, Palm ultimately forces the reader to reconsider her own thesis. This technique harkens back to the rerouted river of Palm's childhood, upon which humans renegotiated the very foundation of their situation. Reader, like river, is forced to reroute.
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Here are the 2020 Dance/Electronic Grammys nominees: Skrillex, Flume, Tycho, RÜFÜS DU SOL, & more
It's that time of year when the temperatures begin their downward descent, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Recording Academy begins to recognize achievements in the music industry. This year's Grammy Awards finds the usual cohort of electronic dance music artists on the nominee shortlist, along with some dark horses.
Among the coveted Best Album award category, Sascha Ring, the Berlin artist known as Apparat, makes the cut with LP5. Not as surprising is Flume's name on the shortlist. What is surprising, however, is that his Hi This Is Flume mixtape isn't exactly an album, but a nominee is fitting for the Aussie experimentalist whose known for doing things differently. The Chemical Brothers have been nominated for their seventh studio album, No Geography, released back in April.
Ambient, organic, and chill seem to be well represented this year, with RÜFÜS DU SOL's Solace and Tycho's Weather nominated, proving there has definitely been a generic trend for that direction lately. Although RÜFÜS' album was released in 2018, making our Top Albums list for 2018, the album landed after last year's cut off.
The Chemical Brothers and RÜFÜS DU SOL doubled up on the nods for 2020, with singles from their respective LPs also making the cut for Best Dance Recording. Joining them is the esteemed Bonobo for his single "Linked," Meduza and Goodboys for "Piece of Your Heart," and, of course, Skrillex, Boys Noize, and Ty Dolla $ign for their genre-blending single, "Midnight Hour." The single has reached anthemic status as one of the year's most widely remixed songs.
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards will take place Jan. 26, 2020. The awards show will be broadcast on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Stay tuned for more information on how/where to live stream the ceremony.
Best Dance/Electronic Album
Apparat – LP5
The Chemical Brothers – No Geography
Flume – Hi This Is Flume
Rüfüs Du Sol – Solace
Tycho – Weather
Best Dance Recording
Bonobo – "Linked"
The Chemical Brothers – "Got to Keep On"
Meduza feat. Goodboys – "Piece of Your Heart"
Rüfüs Du Sol – "Underwater"
Skrillex & Boys Noize feat. Ty Dolla $ign – "Midnight Hour"
Tags: 2020 Grammys, Apparat, BONOBO, Flume, Goodboys, Grammys, Meduza, Rüfüs Du Sol, SKRILLEX, The Chemical Brothers, TYCHO


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Which Ads Won The Super Bowl?
The Super Bowl ads this year were up to par with the previous years. They were clever, real-time relevant, funny and featured a ton of our favorite celebrities.
But let's talk about what was new and different.
The spots that grabbed my eyes were the ones that spoke directly to the customer. And not figuratively as used in the common marketing saying, but they actually addressed the audience as viewers of an advertisement.
Advertising during the Super Bowl has come a long way over the years. What started as a break for the sponsors, has grown into a supporting act of the game itself — a highly anticipated component of the entertainment. In these hours, marketers are putting forth their very best content to appear in front of the largest audiences. But let's just say, by this point people are 100% aware of they are being marketed to, no matter how creative these ads have become.
The brands this year that decided to own up and acknowledge, "yes, we are marketing to you right now," were the ones that made me appreciate them and their transparency. It was nice to have a good laugh knowing that they understand, and give them a nod of approval. Here are some favorites:
Tide: Did a comical mash-up spoof of familiar Super Bowl commercials from other industries. Mimicking the vibe of each commercial, Tide would stop and reminded the customer that every ad with clean clothes is a Tide ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doP7xKdGOKs
Jeep: Decided to expose the marketer's thoughts behind the average car commercial. They stated that they don't need some "overarching human truth" to sell their vehicle, and they don't need a manifesto, all they need is for the customer to see what the Jeep itself can do.
Skittles: Decided to take an unconventional route and go live on Facebook during the Superbowl. The idea was to create a story leading up to Sunday explaining that Skittles would only be advertising to one single boy during the Superbowl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&v=Ir8f1DDAiIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=NEmFS50lsTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX72RPr9bzo
Michelob Ultra: In this hilarious spot, Chris Pratt gets the part to "star" in a Michelob Ultra commercial but later finds out what that really means in a second Michelob Ultra commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQOvMnRK7Z8&feature=youtu.be
Emily Mondloch
Market Research & Insights
Tags: Advertising, Television
The Big Game — Super Bowl LII Ads
AdWeek's Super Bowl Ad Tracker received a fresh round of updates this week giving the world an early glimpse of what will likely be some of the most talked about brands of the year.
Personally, I try not to do too much "teaser" viewing before the event because I still like to experience the ads in the traditional environment and evaluate the impact with other folks, who don't work in advertising.
It's fun to see which spots demand attention and what may get missed in real time.
Also, there's no way I won't see every spot by early next week so I try pretty hard not to get too far in front of game-time unveiling. However, the Avocados from Mexico spot got me curious. It's arguably the most relevant product for the experience. They've done some pretty absurd and inventive things in the past, so I just had to check it out.
The spot is pretty clever and goes a long way to make a really simple point. But what really got me was the peculiar Chris Elliott cameo. I'm a big fan (See Get a Life and Handsome Boy Modeling School). His absurd presence in the ad forced me to YouTube which paid off with another Chris Elliott spot that sets up the first one.
Bizarre, entertaining, and well received with this focus group of one. This foray into Super Bowl sneak peeks should whet the appetite and keep me satisfied enough to wait for the full course on Sunday.
Jeff Smack
Director of Interactive Media
Tags: Advertising, Relevance, Television
Is TV Viewing Going Over The Top?
Television viewership and viewing preferences have been making a shift due to the rise of over-the-top television (OTT).
An eMarketer interview titled, "Google Discusses the Rise of OTT TV, How Viewers Are Using the Services" with Rany Ng, Director of Product Management at Google, gives us Google's explanation of OTT, which helps to define it. "When we refer to OTT, we really refer to over-the-top services that allow users to watch TV content that's delivered over the internet instead of traditional TV infrastructure. Hulu, Netflix and CBS are examples of OTT services. And OTT services' content can be streaming, it can be on-demand, and it can be viewed on a number of different types of devices – from a desktop or laptop, to mobile, to something like Roku or a smart TV."
Ng also goes on to discuss why consumers are tuning into OTT and in what ways. "They can watch things on the go. It's on their own schedule, so it's very different from linear television where it is scheduled viewership." In this day and age where consumers expectations of personalized products and services are never-ending, we can understand why people have responded positively to OTT. A separate poll from eMarketer shows us that 48% of U.S. internet users strongly prefer to watch TV via OTT services.
But what does this mean from an advertising perspective?
Well, TV audiences have always been a primary consideration of media buying. And it is vital to be aware of the channels that win viewership and the characteristics of different audiences across channels. It's our job to keep up with changing trends while keeping a non-biased, full circle view of the landscape.
Advertisers will have to continue to strategically place different cross-channel media according to their own goals and audience composition. For instance, research from eMarketer shows that Millennials are responding a lot quicker to OTT than Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. It also shows that the trend hasn't necessarily been adopted strongly by other countries like Canada, Australia and the UK. Many other factors need to be weaved in and considered by advertisers before buying media.
Regardless, OTT adoption is an accelerating trend and data shows that it's a legitimate contender for media dollars.
But as it grows into its own, OTT is uncovering its own issues around increasing demand and the effect that has on inventory. Also, because these platforms allow companies to deliver their ads to a very specific target audience of their own design, users are sometimes left sitting through the same advertisements repeatedly throughout their episodes because they are the prime target of that ad. This frequency saturation can affect consumer attitudes and brand sentiment in less positive ways, actually driving consumers away.
Each medium has its own strengths and blind spots. Broadcast TV ads build the basis for a brand over time because of its ability to hit a wide range of people, while digital television is growing as a complementary method, contributing to a multichannel customer experience. OTT, Connected TV or streaming video reaches audiences that may not be watching as much scheduled programming. TV also generally shows the most significant ROI over time, with digital showing a strong ROI early on but usually dying out sooner.
As new trends and forms of media consumption arise, advertisers will continue to assess the best media channels to reach audiences, meet client needs and complete business goals. This can only be done by keeping up with current consumer channels and navigating the steady rate of change in the industry. We will never stop learning.
Tags: Audience, Awareness, Television
Brands Vying for Super Bowl Spotlight
It's Super Bowl time! The big game is synonymous with creative advertising but this year the creativity is just as much about inventive execution as clever concept. So, what's next?
Brands are not settling for a $5 million, 30-second tv spot. More than ever, they're striving to make an impact on viewers through relevant, timely, and yes, creative ideas. We have kept a close eye on Adweek's 2017 Super Bowl Ad Tracker and here are some of the freshest approaches to Super Bowl LI advertising:
Heinz will not run an ad during the game but is declaring Feb 6 (the Monday after) a national holiday called, "Smunday." All employees at Kraft Heinz offices in the United States will have that day off and a petition has been released in hopes to get 100,000 signatures. According to Adweek, Nicole Kulwicki (head of Heinz) says, "That's how many we think we need to get Congress to take us seriously," she says. "We're doing this in good fun, but with the intent that it will actually become a national holiday." Brilliant. If they can get traction for a national holiday – and let's be honest, that makes some very popular sense – the brand will forever benefit.
Snickers will have the first ever live ad during the Super Bowl. Adam Driver of HBO's Girls and character "Kylo Ren" in Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be starring in the commercial alongside of horses and cowboys. That is the only information we know as of now from the teasers. Going on right now is a live stream from the set of the commercial that started yesterday at noon and continuing until midnight tonight. Taking a live streaming content approach to television advertising is a pretty radical move. We'll see more of this.
Hyundai Motor America CMO Dean Evans says, "The Super Bowl is the biggest day in advertising, and following our incredibly successful 2016, we wanted to push the creativity and storytelling even further." This year Hyundai plans to air a 90-second ad right after the game is over and before the trophy ceremony. The catch is that the spot will be filmed during the actual game, documentary style. There is still little information on what to expect during the spot but condensing the concept and production to embrace real time probably requires it to be not only secret but unfinished. We'll see!
Intel took a risk by filming a 30-second ad starring Tom Brady before the Patriots had even made it to the Super Bowl. Their leap of faith will now pay off and the brand will gain more attention from Brady's fans during the spot. We love this example because it leverages the production of more traditional spots but the brand took a big gamble on embedding the event into the creative for some massively topical payoff.
Febreze will definitely attract eyes during their bold spot about the "halftime bathroom break" which is airing in the second quarter. The company has found a comical way to stay relevant during the game and give a friendly reminder that Febreze is there for you, as funny as it sounds. Even a more typically produced spot is working to speak directly to the home audience experience.
It's a fascinating time in media and advertising. Remember Oreo's epic tweet during the unexpected power outage of Super Bowl XLVII? That real time moment of cross channel brilliance caused Oreo to be the talk of the event that year. They kicked off this type of thinking by pushing the brand far outside the boundaries of the game screen and set the challenge to brands to make a memorable impact during the Super Bowl for years to come.
Market Research and Insights
Tags: Advertising, Disruption, Engagement, Relevance, Social, Television
Electing to Reset on Media Planning
The Election Year Media Landscape
The country has elected a new president, freeing up airwaves and the like for retailers and advertisers.
With the most recent political season put to rest, it's time to get back to normal and gear up for the holiday selling season, followed by a new year likely to strengthen our focus on digital media.
Perhaps the unexpected success of a candidate, now president-elect, who used more unorthodox tactics in reaching audiences with more effort in earned media, could prove to upend much of what we assume is most effective in media at large. At the very least, candidates in future elections will have to reevaluate game plans as they look to get their messages out.
During the election season, many retailers and advertisers went dark, particularly the months leading up to the presidential election to stay away from the fray. A reset is eminent, gearing up for a busy holiday season and refocusing strategies on the ever-changing and evolving digital media world.
The holiday months could see prices for traditional media hover around election levels because of this. Many retailers are likely to dump money in November and December for the shopping season before a quiet January as retailers prepare new media plans. There's also an overflow of retail TV spots that may have been kicked out over a political ad and will also need to run in these months. All those businesses and advertisers have saved money for after the election so cost can go up.
For consumers, many shoppers could hold onto money early in 2017 to save up after an expensive holiday season and see how the economy fares under a new president. In turn, advertising goes down as businesses have much of the same hangover.
When we look at media plans, each channel of the media gamut helps piece together the puzzle, which needs a healthy dose of mixed media working seamlessly in order to create the right picture.
Despite the ambiguous buzzword of "digital" sounding off every corner of the media world, more traditional media still has some teeth with the greatest percentage of users and most far-reaching audiences, but there is a point where return doesn't match dollars. So, it's important to design a well-rounded, multichannel media plan.
Connected TV has been ramping up, absorbing much of the overflow from the massive market where TV is prohibiting some retailers and advertisers with higher costs in major markets. This past election year, Connected TV proved to be a worthy component of TV mix, complementing cable and broadcast buying expectations. Hulu, being a major hub for content on Connected TV, sold out inventory for certain audiences through the end of the year in some cases, stretching it to an unprecedented capacity.
With costs increasing and more and more audience reach happening outside of TV and radio, rating companies, such as Nielsen/eXelate and comScore/Rentrak, are being pushed to find one good rating for shows and programming by combining all mediums being used by consumers. This would prove a helpful tool for determining media spend and getting clients the best return on investment, especially with digital continuing to offer more specific and detailed delivery reporting. This making a well-rounded media mix more important than ever.
Delivering Returns
As the media landscape diversifies, we have to adopt a "constant learning" approach and apply perpetual testing and measurement in order to launch and target our most effective messages. In order to draw the most meaningful conclusions on cause and effect, it's often good practice to not only test campaign-specific messaging but set up an "evergreen barometer" gauging interest level year-round. For example, a low level, but ongoing, search and display campaign can measure relative share of voice, upticks and downturns in demand or interest, and allow advertisers to keep a finger on the pulse of what people are responding to. For instance, we expect to see more search activity and interaction with display ads when TV and radio is running in different localities.
Evergreen campaigns like this can also be used to test responses to messaging and inform other media channels. It's much simpler to launch a display campaign with two different headlines or calls-to-action and allow real data to illustrate which is more engaging. Then that learning can inform message strategy for in-store POP or television and radio buys of larger scope.
Throughout the year when looking at seasonal goals or near-term priorities, you can ramp up and layer on campaigns around real business objectives. For instance, a video campaign can be layered in to improve consideration in advance of holiday shopping season. Or a segmented remarketing campaign can be added to stimulate online conversions in peak buying windows. Everything can layer and be tested looking at channels against channels or creative against creative, allowing the best performing combinations to run, pausing underperformers and replacing with new tests.
This coming year is likely to see a major focus on choosing the right mix and testing new opportunities in order to meet media goals and most importantly real world business objectives. Our job is to make what we buy deliver.
Colin Riddle
Research & Writing
Karen Ashworth, Jeff Smack & Linda Davis
Media Directors
Tags: Advertising, Clicks and Bricks, Holiday, Optimization, Retail, Shopping, Television, Thanksgiving
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