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ICO marketing guide – updated
Posted on August 30, 2017 by Stuart G. Hall
The ICO is a fundraising mechanism, where future cryptocurrency, is sold for current, liquid cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Waves and Ethereum. You receive bitcoins or another currency in exchange for your token. The project economics and integration of the token into the product should be described in detail on the website and in WhitePaper in advance.
(Waves Platform: How to run an ICO)
I recently took part in the successful $14.2m cryptocurrency fundraising campaign for augmented reality device Lampix, better known as an ICO or Initial Crowd Offering. In case you hadn't noticed ICO's have recently overtaken IPOs as the new way for startups to raise funds, avoiding the regulatory obstacles of an IPO, and tapping into a new pool of investors.
"In Q2 [of 2017], ICO issuance was greater than venture capital, with $210m [invested in ICOs] vs $180m [invested into #startups by VCs]." pic.twitter.com/8ijKdT7Mmt
— Stuart G. Hall (@stuartgh) August 8, 2017
After the ten-day crowdsale had finished, and the dust has settled, I realised there's not a great deal of easily accessible guidance on how to run a marketing campaign for such a lucrative fundraising method. I'm not approaching this as an expert in ICO marketing, rather as a marketer with experience in the last year of supporting a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs for Welendus which raised £100K and marginally involved in the Crowdcube campaign for MBJ which raised over £700K.
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MBJ's advice, written directly after their campaign in preparing in advance for your crowdfunding, equally applies to an ICO 'crowdsale': "Think carefully about the amount of time that you will be able to dedicate to your campaign, whilst ensuring that your business continues to run smoothly. The last thing that you want is some bad press in the middle of a raise. "Whilst we only gave ourselves three weeks, depending on the number of resources you can dedicate, we suggest that you allow yourself at least one month (preferably two or three) to adequately prepare for a successful raise."
Raising £715K in a month! #MBJ talks about the very successful #crowdfunding campaign #crowdcube #WaaS #MBJLONDONhttps://t.co/Kip5RrIxo6
— MBJ LONDON (@MBJLondon) September 21, 2016
Deciding the length of your ICO campaign
Another time factor is the length of time for an ICO. For Lampix when this question came up in forums the answer from CEO George Popescu was simple as to why he'd chosen a campaign of ten days in length: "About why 10 days: because we believe that either people want to help this project or they do not. I don't think it will change anything if we make it 1 year long."
The only thing that matters in the typical ICO model is the first 24 hours and the final 24 hours. Because ICOs depend upon the 'FOMO' model to drive sales to crypto investors, it's worth considering that those two periods are the only two those markets pay attention to, because there is always another ICO to watch, or some news catching attention. In between it's worth reaching out to ppl who aren't already ICO investors but are interested in your product or service due to their industry or technology connection.
Post in the right forums
More specifically when it comes to ICO marketing, the advice from the Waves Platform is simply to get your ICO information in front of relevant niche communities, for example Bitcointalk (with reportedly more than 1m users) which suggests creation of a thread for your ICO on bitcointalk.org:
"It is impossible to establish a qualitative relationship with a key audience for the project, blockbuster enthusiasts, traders, investors, etc. without this activity.
"Administration of a thread on BitcoinTalk provides direct interaction with the target audience, enables to answer questions, dispel doubts, and introduce the audience to the developers.
"The announcement of the campaign on Bitcointalk is a must-have part of the program. You will receive many reviews — not all of them will be positive, but they will help you to improve your project."
Examples of popular and well-designed threads on Bitcointalk WAVES. Ultimate crypto-tokens blockchain platform ZrCoin Commodity-backed blockchain Starta – Cross-Coin Venture capital on the blockchain
This advice to use Bitcointalk makes a lot of sense. It was certainly used to good effect by Lampix to announce their PIX token crowdsale on 25 July, well before the start of the crowdsale on 9 August. Their Bitcontalk post included detail on the following: (a) Main communication channels from Slack to Reddit (b) An explainer video about Lampix (c) About Lampix (d) The benefits of contributing to the Lampix data ecosystem (e) The device's technical details (f) Members of the core team (g) The Lampix token, how it works (h) The token launch breakdown.
So now you have announced the intended ICO to early adopters via relevant forums, what about the wider world, from business journalists to investors in general? This list of ICO "marketing instruments" posted on Bitcointalk is a comprehensive starting point:
1. Classic PR – press releases, interviews, Q&A
2. Banner advertising – display ads for extensive reach
3. Influential marketing – connect with opinion leaders.
4. Social media – connect with audience & opinion leaders.
5. YouTube – statements from founders, project introduction.
6. Bounty campaigns – referrals 'showtime'.
7. Placements in blogs – native advertising.
8. Viral media – videos or pictures.
9. Community marketing – you know, Bitcointalk.
10. Events – meetups, conferences etc.
Classic PR
The challenge here is often that fundraisers want to have instant press coverage but it can be difficult if you don't have any relationship with journalists already in place. One way round this is to use a paid-for press release service such as Newswire, which Lampix used, which also has the benefit of showing you who picked up the release to read it. That said just remember with press releases you are trying to sell a story to a busy journalist, so it helps to create a compelling angle in the first paragraph. With the less important detail further down the release.
To underline those points CNBC's technology correspondent Arjun Karpul gave his advice at a Seedrs PR event on how to grab journalist's attention earlier this year (and yes, that's me tweeting away). In summary, Arjun said to keep it simple, tell the journalist why they should care about the story, and keep emails short (as they are time poor). But also to consider what it is that makes the founder's 'back story' stand out, so don't just focus on the power of the technology, think about the human story in attracting coverage!
Welendus founder Nadeem Siam – listening to Arjun's PR advice AT SEEDRS with me
Wave Platform's advice on timelines makes sense, that "the launch of the PR campaign should be scheduled at least 3 months before the launch of the ICO. In the context of tight deadlines for the ICO preparation (less than two months), it makes sense to cooperate with the mass media on commercial terms".
But the timing also depends on a lot of factors from your budget for paid-for coverage, your relationship with journalists and top influencers (such as Robert Scoble for AR and VR innovation; check out his own excellent set of Twitter lists).to how much previous experience you have in gaining coverage. Startup founders understandably passionately believe that their startup is super exciting but from a journalist's pov all they want a great story simply and clearly told, so try to give it to them 'on a plate'.
Influencer marketing and using social media
There is a ton of literature on the value of influencer marketing so I won't go into too much detail. Suffice to say it's worth mentioning that your best influencers are advisors to your ICO and their network of contacts. Any attempts to reach out to industry 'influencers' are likely to be more successful if there is an existing relationship. A great example from Lampix's ICO was the influencer video from Jeremy Epstein, who specialises in blockchain marketing:
Jeremy Epstein – @jer979 – who grew @Sprinklr $20m to $1.8bn valuation in 4 yrs, sees #BigData value of @lampix_co https://t.co/sU4LgR7RWz
— Stuart G. Hall (@stuartgh) August 11, 2017
In terms of using social media, it's worth spending time figuring out from your own network of advisors and supporters who has the most impact in terms of reach and engagement and making sure they, therefore, get the word out. Of course one avenue available to use is paid-for placement of adverts, whether it's expert-level sponsored content in LinkedIn targeted at high worth investors, or a mass market approach using Facebook for example. Both platforms allow you to A/B test your ads text and imagery too, so there are plenty of options to explore to maximise your ROI.
But a word to the wise, having myself set up Sony's first comprehensive social marketing dashboard for product marketing around movie blockbuster 'Skyfall', you need to decide how best to measure your social media campaigns in advance. For example, if you have a popup for investors to use to agree to your ICO terms, then ensure that is set up as an event in Google Analytics before the ICO starts. And set up goals in GA so you can compare the success of organic traffic from LinkedIn, Reddit, and blog articles to paid-for advertising on Facebook. That way as the ICO campaign progresses you can double-down on what works for maximum effect on investor take up.
As well as straightforward explainer videos which show off what your ICO product does it's worth making sure you consider the impact of video coverage. Just like articles in the likes of Forbes or NASDAQ carry greater authority than on your own blog, then videos created by third parties are valuable collateral. For example, there was a great video by Bloomberg's Augmented Reality (AR) Fellowship about the use of Lampix which nicely underlined its market potential. And also reach out to industry influencers and commentators who use YouTube, such as Blockchain Investors Community iTuber Lina K. Moon.
The Bounty campaign
'Bounty campaign' is an ICO term for activating your user base with incentives and driving referrals. As the advice from Wave says specifically for ICOs "this activity allows to motivate the users of your product for various promotional activities for your project in exchange for a reward in tokens". In simple terms the bounty can be rewards in tokens for adding a custom signature on Bitcointalk, to include "social bounty, bounty for email subscription, as well as bounty for blog posts and media".
In the case of Lampix this bounty took the form of a signature and avatar campaign, backed up by a set of rules to ensure the quality of the bounty campaign contributors made at least 25 posts per week, for posts to be constructive and on topic, and containing 75 characters minimum.
Viral media?
The idea your ICO campaign will automatically go viral isn't really the way to approach it. If you want to get a community of supporters to get excited and to share that you need to give them a reason to. In the case of Lampix they ran early on a competition on Facebook, which linked to a competition run on the Gleam growth platform to win a Lampix device. It gained over 10.5K entries, and did a great job to ignite interest in the ICO before the launch proper.
To run a follow-up post-ICO competition on Gleam for investors also has its merits especially in the period between purchase and distribution of tokens. The practical issue is identifying individual token purchases, however. For that reason, I particularly like the Civic ICO in which investors had to register using the Civic app. As Civic's CEO Vinny Lingham explains in his introduction to token sales, it's about "eating your own dogfood" thanks to the nature of the Civics app:
"The core of Civic's technology is the ability to create unique digital ID's using mobile devices. We employed this technology in our token sale and required every person in the crowdsale to download and register using the Civic app. This ensured that we did not have the same person making multiples purchases.
"This model worked for us and others, like ZRX and now Doc.ai will be using Civic to ensure broader distribution of tokens."
I know from my previous experience in online community consultancy including setting up a community from scratch for the international accountancy organisation the ICAEW, that the opportunity for community marketing depends on a few factors. One of the usual issues is whether your chosen community allows for commercial marketing. Contact the community manager to find that out before posting, otherwise you could find yourself banned! And it's possible, as I've found with owners of AR related LinkedIn Groups, that they also run Facebook pages and have access to email lists which they are willing to share with you in return for payment.
If it's relevant consider using the Product Hunt community as another neat channel to get the word out and connect with a community of influencers. Be careful again not to spam them with your posting though. For example, when I added Lampix to Product Hunt as a 'Hunter' Ben Tossell, the Community Lead for Product Hunt asked me in the comments section: "Not so sure why this is hosting an ICO? Why are tokens being sold for a product like this?"
Finally, for internal and investor communications Lampix used Slack to great effect. It's especially good where your advocates and evangelists can answer newbie questions about your ICO. But also plan on how you are going to cover activity outside of office hours as it will be active 24/7. And make sure wherever possible questions about the structure of the ICO, and the post-campaign distribution are consistently answered, updating your FAQ if required to aid clarification.
The success of ICO marketing isn't down to the campaign period, it's also related to the slow process of getting the word out about your blockchain related product or service in the months leading up to it. Events are obviously a great way to do this but like all marketing is a balance between cost and return. One way to balance out where there is not an obvious commercial return is taking part in competitions where you gain visibility and gain credibility. As a great example see this video for Lampix at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016.
Finally, for a list of ICO monitoring platforms plus other key resources (republished with permission below) take a look at William Mougayar's Ultimate List of ICO Resources.ordered alphabetically.
1. Ambisafe
With Ambisafe you can issue any type of asset on the blockchain in minutes, and add it to cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide.
2. Bitcoin Talk Forum
Alternate cryptocurrencies and altcoins forum discussion.
3. CoinFund Slack Channel
Diverse discussions about token sales.
4. Commodity.com
A concise guide to cryptocurrencies (2020)
5. CryptoCompare
CryptoCompare is an interactive platform where you can discuss the latest Crypto trends and monitor all markets streaming in real time
6. CryptoSmile
Blog that posts commentary on several new ICOs.
7. CyberFund
Listings of Crowdsales, Assets and Funds.
8. ICO Countdown
Gives spotlight to new crypto projects with a focus on crowdfunding methodology. Also conducts due diligence to ascertain viability of these projects.
9. ICO List
Lists a variety of token sales.
10. ICOO
Services for launching ICOs.
11. ICO Rating
ICOrating specializes in evaluating companies with a planned ICO. ICOrating's analysis is thorough and objective, reviewing companies as potential investment objects.
12. ICO Timeline
Partial list of ICO projects.
13. ICO Tracker
Lists ICOcrowdsales according to 5 factors: Whitepaper, Roadmap. Team, Escrow, ICO conditions.
14. Newbium
Cryptocurrency news and information.
15. PrivateMarket
PrivateMarket Technologies enable a new generation of wealth managers to access, analyse and seamlessly execute primary and secondary market transactions online.
16. TokenMarket
TokenMarket is a marketplace for tokens, digital assets and blockchain based investing. Research and invest in tokenized assets. Launch a crowdsale for your project and give backers a tradeable digital asset.
17. Reddit on ICO Crypto
Active & upcoming ICO/Crowdales. Building a due diligence community.
18. Smith + Crown
Maintains a curated list of ongoing and upcoming cryptocurrency ICOs (initial coin offerings), token sales, and crowdsales. Every project is evaluated for listing along multiple criteria, but in general, they list ICOs that should raise the equivalent of $30,000 or are unique in some way. Provides summaries and commentary for select ICOs. Listing or research is not considered an endorsement.
Additional resources include Token Investor, Github's Ultimate ICO Calendar, ICO Bazaar and Week in Ethereum. Have I missed others that should be included? Please add what you have in the comments, or suggest it in the Google Sheet.
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The most investable fintech sectors in 2017
Welendus's Founder and CEO Nadeem Siam with his fintech predictions for 2017, the leading cover story in the November edition of the Fintech Times:
Please find the fully referenced version of the article below:
Since Brexit fintech innovation in the UK has become even more high profile, with a new Government backed conference unveiled (1) to "cement our position as the global Fintech capital". But what then should global investors be on the lookout for, which are the most innovative sectors in the UK's fintech scene?
Certainly, the UK has a significant advantage over its nearest fintech global rivals, California and New York, in the form of a single regulator, the FCA with a focus on promoting innovation. The FCA sees lending, and P2P lending in particular as a key sector (2), driven by the current high margin, low interest rate landscape and tech developments like real time data sharing to the API Open Banking Standard. Nadeem Siam, founder of P2P short-term lender Welendus says innovation is vital to success:
"Fintech is a big thing here in the UK with innovation in different sectors from peer-to-peer lending to block chain and credit assessment. But this is not enough, we need more innovation to stay ahead of the game. At Welendus, we are building one of the most technologically sophisticated peer-to-peer lending platforms to bring short-term loans to the peer-to-peer lending market for the first time. I am personally looking forward to the UK banks opening up their APIs for businesses. This will further revolutionize the Fintech sector in the UK."
Alternative credit assessment is another exciting sector, where the UK is facing strong competition from the US. At the recent Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas, fintech startups heard about the opportunity presented by, "20% of the 63M ppl in the US w/ no credit score when checked w/ alternative methods turned out prime". (3) Helping people with a 'thin' credit history such as young adults, or the self-employed, is UK fintech startup Aire co-founded by Aneesh Varma. "Many of us will end up being mobile or self-employed which the current credit risk-scoring system will have to recognise. As things stand, genuine hard-working people are being penalised by the way credit scores are created, that's not good for growth, innovation or wellbeing."
Oliver Bussmann, the ex-CIO of UBS, who while at UBS highlighted to the potential for blockchain technology to disrupt the banking industry, believes the next big thing is artificial intelligence (AI) not blockchain: "It's all about processing big data so that you understand the investment signals." Banks are particularly interested in start-ups that can build artificial intelligence algorithms: "They're teaming up with start-ups and hiring engineers and scientists and building joint teams of business and IT people to work on this challenge." (4) For proof of the power of AI look no further than UK tech startup Comply Advantage, which uses AI to ensure compliance rules are followed by financial firms. It's just raised $8.2m (£6.7m) and opened an office in New York. (5) Certainly London, blessed with an abundance of fintech startups and academic excellence, looks to be pole position to advance the innovative use of AI in the fintech sector in the years to come. (6)
(1) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-conference-to-showcase-britains-world-leading-fintech-sector
(2) http://lending-times.com/2016/10/11/analysis-of-fca-speech-on-p2p-market-in-the-uk/
(3) https://twitter.com/DuenaBlomstrom/status/790301084262641664
(4) http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/263509/how-to-get-into-fintech
(5) http://www.cityam.com/251414/uk-startup-using-ai-compliance-just-raised- millions
(6) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/05/artificial-intelligence-brains-money-london
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Distraught owner Michelle Hunt said she was disgusted beyond words after her 13-year-old cat was targeted on Sunday night
Tilly the cat
A Lisburn woman has been left devastated after her pet cat died after being shot twice with a pellet gun.
Michelle Hunt, 38, thought her beloved cat Tilly had been in a fight with another animal when she returned to the family home covered in blood.
But after she took the 13-year-old pet to her vets, she was horrified to discover Tilly had been shot twice with a pellet gun.
Speaking to Belfast Live, Michelle said: "It happened on Sunday between 3pm and 4.30pm. I put her out and I was pottering about in the back bedroom and did not notice anything and left the house to go see my mum.
"At 4.30pm my fiance called and said I needed to come back because he thought Tilly had been in a fight.
"She's black and white and her whole chest was covered in blood, there was blood over her nose and mouth.
"My fiance tried to stop the bleeding and I noticed a wound in her neck but thought it was a vicious cat fight or a dog.
"I brought her down to the vet and they thought it was a fight too at first. They said they would clean her up and put her on a drip and call me in the morning."
Sadly, as staff at Lisburn Veterinary Clinic on Sloan Street worked to save Tilly, they discovered all was not what it seemed.
"I called at 9am and then at 11am the vet called to say they had put her on anesthetic and were sorry to say she had been shot," said Michelle, who lives in the Lady Wallace Brae area of Lisburn.
"They said they found a pellet, she had been shot in the neck and it had fallen out and also shot in the roof of her mouth. She had been shot twice.
"One of her teeth had smashed and they found the pellet there.
"They said I needed to contact the police and said she had been clearly targeted."
At this stage Tilly was still fighting for survival, but sadly at 3.50pm on Monday, the vet called to say Tilly had passed away.
"She has been a part of my family for 13 years, it is the cruelty of it that is making it worse," added Michelle, who works as a nail technician.
Michelle has since reported the incident to the police who she said were going to launch an appeal.
"I just have to hope someone somewhere has seen something," said Michelle.
"The public are outraged at it, my post on Facebook about it has been shared over 800 times.
"A lot of people in the area are sending me messages asking if they can do anything.
"Everyone is just appalled. It is nice people who live here are trying to help, everyone knows it was deliberate. She was like a member of my family.
"Those responsible do not realise the harm they do."
Police say they are investigating a report of an attack on a cat in the Pond Park area on Sunday, 3 January.
They have asked anyone who has information in relation to this incident to contact police in Lisburn on 101, quoting ref: 861 04/01/16.
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There's nothing quite like the convenience of having all of your favorite herbs right there when you need them, as fresh as they could possibly be! In this list of indoor herbs for your kitchen, we will run down the ten best herbs you can grow indoors right now.
This useful perennial herb can be grown indoors, it requires a fast draining soil and a good amount of light. It is very important not to over-water, as this can lead to root rot. Also, it best to by some pre-planted Lemon Balm as it is not likely to grow from lemon balm seed indoors. If you start with seed, grow lemon balm in your garden and then transplant to pots for you winter garden indoors.
Parsley does very well indoors, especially with a soilless potting mix. Use a quick draining pot and plant the seeds about 1.5 inches apart and a quarter inch deep.
Mint is best planted in the summer, or at least in a room where the temperature can be reliably set to sixty degrees fahrenheit or higher. You should keep mints plants watered and moist throughout the day as it tends to wilt quickly when dry.
Basil needs a nutrient rich soil, but preferably one that is not too dense. Make sure that you plant basil in a pot that can drain easily. It is recommended that you use a houseplant fertilizer at about half of the prescribed strength.
Cilantro grows well indoors with lots of light and a sparing diet of water. Use a light soil and pot that allows for a fair bit of air movement.
Growing lemongrass indoors requires a lot of light and a moderate water. For best results transfer lemongrass that has already been grown outside for a period in the summertime.
Thyme is a hearty plant, but does require regular watering and at least five hours of sunlight a day. Keep it on your window sill and water every time the soil becomes dry.
Sage is a herb that grows best in heavy sun with very little water. While sage plants are drought tolerant it succumbs to over-watering easily.
Unlike most of the herbs on this list oregano requires a very specific potting mixture for optimal growth: mix equal parts sand, potting soil, moss and perlite. Once you have prepared the potting mixture, plant the oregano so that the larger stems are free of the soil. Place the plant in direct sunlight and water regularly.
Rosemary should be planted in a quick draining pot with potting soil that is roughly the depth of the plant itself. Rosemary that is grown indoors requires five hours of direct sunlight and very little water.
Growing herbs in your kitchen can help ensure that you have the finest freshest herbs on hand for any recipe you are cooking. It is also a great way to dress up you kitchen with easy to manage plants. In this top ten indoor herbs for your kitchen we have seen just how easy it is to add some life to your window sill and save on necessary ingredients.


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Comment: The C wave of the second wave has now completed 1-2-3. We are in the 4th wave.


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Time Canada Prints Early Story Showing New G4 LCD iMac!
MWSF Shocker - Time Canada Prints Early Story Showing New G4 LCD iMac!
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, 5:00 AM EST, January 7th, 2002
The hype and excitement has been building all week as we got closer to the MACWORLD San Francisco keynote, which takes place this morning. Apple has been providing teasers and other hints on its home page, with a different message every day this past week. Shortly after midnight on Monday morning, Time.com added its January 14th issue to its Web site that brings most of the speculation to a close.
The article includes a picture and story of a brand new iMac, presumably the one that should have been kept under wraps until after the keynote itself. Adding fuel to that argument is the fact that the story was pulled after a few hours, and replaced with last week's cover story. Those who have already bought the newsstand version still have access to the spoilers, of course, with reports careening around the Internet that the East Coast has already seen the new issue on the streets as early as late Sunday evening.
The iMac, according to the article, "features a fast G4 chip, just like Apple's top-of-the-line machines", with a flat-panel monitor mounted atop a hemispherical base, and is to be priced from $1299-1800. The top-end $1800 model is also equipped with a combo DVD/CD-R optical drive. Along with this comes iPhoto, a product for downloading, storing and organizing digital camera photos. From the Time story:
There comes a time in every important Jobs project, usually when the thing appears to be finished, that he sends it back to the drawing board and asks that it be completely redone. Some people say this trait is pathological, a sign of his control-freak perfectionism or his inability to let go. "It's happened on every Pixar movie," Jobs confesses. It's also what he did when Ive presented him with a plastic model of what was to be the new iMac. It looked like the old iMac on a no-carb diet, a leaner iMac in the Zone. "There was nothing wrong with it," recalls Jobs. "It was fine. Really, it was fine." He hated it.
Rather than give his O.K., he went home from work early that day and summoned Ive, the amiable genius who also designed the original iMac, the other-worldly iPod music player, the lightweight but heavy-duty titanium PowerBook and the ice-cube-inspired Cube desktop, to name but a few of his greatest hits. As they walked through the 1,000-sq-m vegetable garden and apricot grove of Jobs' wife Laurene, Jobs sketched out the Platonic ideal for the new machine. "Each element has to be true to itself," Jobs told Ive. "Why have a flat display if you're going to glom all this stuff on its back? Why stand a computer on its side when it really wants to be horizontal and on the ground? Let each element be what it is, be true to itself." Instead of looking like the old iMac, the thing should look more like the flowers in the garden. Jobs said, "It should look like a sunflower."
A picture of Steve Jobs and the iMac appears on Time's cover with the caption "Flat-Out Cool!". The cover story is titled "Apple's New Core," and was available earlier this morning at the Time Canada site. Depending on when you are reading this, it may be available again. It may well also be published at Time's main Web site, and has been mirrored (currently) by forked.net.
Another snippet from the article:
Remember when computers used to be cool? Deep inside One Infinite Loop, the Silicon Valley address of Apple Computer's Industrial Design Lab, they still are. Never mind that the Valley is a grim place these days and that the gold rush has given way to the deep funk. Forget that the Internet bubble has burst, and that Ma and Pa investors are wearing a what-were-we-thinking? grimace of fiscal remorse. Right here, right now, sitting on a butcher-block table, bathed in the sunlight that pours in through spyproof frosted-glass windows, is-repeat after Steve Jobs now-the quintessence of computational coolness, the most fabulous desktop machine that you or anyone anywhere has ever seen.
ThinkSecret has posted screenshots from the article.
The Mac Observer will be providing our usual live coverage of the keynote, so stay tuned for more information as we get it.
The Mac Observer Spin:
Could this have been an awful mistake by Time Canada's web staff? Is this even the big news? Is Steve tearing his hair out right now? Some of TMO's staff on hand in San Francisco reported hearing a banshee howl echoing out across the hills of the city late Sunday night, but couldn't confirm whether or not it was Mr. Jobs.
That the story remained available for many hours suggested that perhaps this was approved of by Apple, perhaps as a new way to get attention by breaking their own rules. Once the story was pulled, that thought loses most of its credibility. These are the questions humming around the Mac community right now, and plenty of us would love to be a fly on the wall right now in Cupertino.
Despite the potential mess-up of the keynote, this is still a very sound machine. The design and construction is - as always - beautiful, and this completely redefines the iMac and the concept of PCs all over again. That said, is this really what Apple thinks is "Beyond the rumor sites. Way Beyond?" Will there be "one more thing?" Stay tuned today to find out.
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i need help please.. i haven't bought a p-key yet (no money yet. lolz! ), but a friend upgraded my jaf version to 1.97. naturally, my jaf doesn't run anymore, and i don't have my copy of my old installer anymore where my jaf runs without p-key.
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Rays Vs. Yankees Recap: CC Sabathia Shuts Down Tampa As New York Takes Series
By Brendan Porath May 10, 2012, 11:23pm EDT
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The New York Yankees rebounded from Wednesday night's ninth-inning collapse to take Game 3 against the Rays and clinch the series in the Bronx. New York ace CC Sabathia went eight strong innings, allowing no earned runs and giving way to Rafael Soriano in the ninth.
The Rays capitalized on two Yankee errors in the first two innings to take an early 2-0 lead. Carlos Pena singled home Sean Rodriguez in the top of the first after a throwing error by Eduardo Nunez kept the inning alive one batter prior. After another throwing error by Nunez in the second inning, Rodriguez brought home Elliot Johnson to make it 2-0 against Sabathia. But the big lefty was undeterred by his defense, cruising through the next six innings and finishing with ten strikeouts, including three by B.J. Upton.
Tampa starter David Price did not have his best stuff, allowing five earned runs and 11 hits over seven innings. He walked three and struck out four, but gave up too many big hits to the Yankees' lineup. After Tampa took an early 2-0 lead, Price gave it right back in the bottom of the second when Curtis Granderson homered and the bottom of the order put together a threat that ended with Chris Stewart singling home Nunez. New York would take the lead for good when Robinson Cano, who's had a subpar year, smashed a two-run homer to right to make it 4-2. That's all Sabathia and Soriano would need, before closing it out 5-3.
The Rays now travel down I-95 for a first-place showdown with the Baltimore Orioles. Game 1 of the weekend series will feature Jeremy Hellickson vs. Dana Eveland on Friday night.
As always, please head over to DRaysBay for more on this series and all things Tampa Bay Rays baseball. For some perspective from the other dugout, please head over to Pinstripe Alley, SB Nation's New York Yankees blog. And for more on this and every MLB series, please head over to the SB Nation Major League Baseball hub page.
Rays Vs. Yankees: CC Sabathia Shuts Down Tampa As New York Takes Series
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Porto-based architecture studio mero oficina has recently refurbished this 120 smq apartment within a 90's residential building in Vila do Conde, Portugal. The apartment is a result of the rampant construction that characterizes the neighborhood growing where it's located. Maybe for this reason, it was organized in a very uncommon way: the house's most intimate area was facing to the only public space that fronts the seaside landscape and the noise of the street; while the house's collective zone, the living room and the kitchen, enjoy the calm of the backyard.
Architects have turned the pre-existent infrastructural core relocating the bathrooms and the laundry, and turning the living and kitchen space towards the beach and the bedrooms to the block's quite garden.
By opening and closing the folding doors the inhabitants can redefine the apartment spaces, ensuring some flexibility on the occupation and the number of guests.
"As it is a holiday home, for summer and weekends, it was our intention to give an important role to the trivial domestic tasks, which in these periods acquire a different time on quotidian life," explain architects.
The blue tiles, which wrap the central core, helps to highlight the ludic and summer character that was intended to be given to the apartment, while the construction options for light materials, like the birch cupboards and the marble cement floor, make the house more illuminated.
Through this materiality and the new exposure, the architects tried to bring more light to the apartment and to link, on a very clear way, the interior space of the house with the beach.


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AIRSHOW NEWS: Biggin Hill to host major event to mark 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
Nov 28, 2019 | Airshow News, Biggin Hill
London Biggin Hill Airport is preparing a unique public event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and The Hardest Day, illustrating these extraordinary events in UK history, both in the air and on the ground.
2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain which was the first campaign to be fought entirely in the air. RAF Biggin Hill played a significant role in the battle, no more so than on the 18th August; the climax of the Battle that determined the course of WWII. This day became known as "The Hardest Day".
London Biggin Hill is today striving to become London's preeminent full-service business aviation airport and a leading centre for aviation technology and enterprise. 2020 will see the airport taking a significant step towards this goal with the development of a pioneering £12m Aerospace and Technology College on site, which is looking forward to opening its doors to the next generation of engineers. Also in 2020, the airport's own four star hotel will be under construction alongside additional aviation development works that will offer more career opportunities to the local community and future generations.
David Winstanley, CEO, London Biggin Hill Airport, says:
"These significant infrastructure projects that deliver the undertaking given to the local community in 2015, will have an impact on the airport's ability to stage the Festival of Flight in 2020. However, in its place we are well underway in our preparation for a spectacular public event along with other commemorative events which will honour those that served in The Battle of Britain during the 80th anniversary year, here at the most famous of all of the Royal Air Force fighter stations"
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Q: vcpkg cmake does not find botan I use vcpkg as my package manager, following the example it was quite easy to build the example with sqlite.
Afterwards I successfully installed botan and tried to find the library using
find_package(botan REQUIRED) as shown in the example here.
However unfortunately this does not work and the generation exits with the error
CMake Error at vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake:247 (_find_package):
  By not providing "Findbotan.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "botan", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "botan" with any of
  the following names:

    botanConfig.cmake
    botan-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "botan" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "botan_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "botan"
  provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
  installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:4 (find_package

The CMakeLists.txt looks like the following
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
project(botanTest)

find_package(botan REQUIRED)

add_executable(main main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(main botan)

Is there a way to build an application that depends on botan with cmake and vcpkg? If not for cmake, how to use botan as vcpkg package at all? Hardcoding the location is not a viable solution.
Thanks four your help.

A: vcpkg does not provide a Config file for a built and installed Botan.
You will either have to use find_path() and find_library() directly in your CMake project, or write a FindBotan.cmake file which would be found by a find_package() call. Inside this FindBotan.cmake you would still need to use find_path() and find_library() plus some other usual boilerplate that appears in Find modules.
If you search on the internet, you can already find some versions of FindBotan.cmake, but none of them are official.

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CBS4 Creative Services Director Drew Sidener, General Manager Walt DeHaven and News Director Tim Wieland congratulated the CBS4 team today for winning four major Emmys including the award for Overall Excellence.
Denver—July 25, 2018 – CBS4, KCNC-TV was honored with four major Emmys including the most prestigious award, Overall Excellence, at the recent NATAS Heartland Emmy Awards celebration in Denver.
The Emmy Award for Overall Excellence in the region is the highest honor at the Heartland Emmy Awards. This special honor recognizes the outstanding work of the entire television station including News, Sports, Promotion, Commercial Production, Community Affairs, Special Programming, and Engineering.
In addition to Overall Excellence, CBS4 was recognized for Breaking News (Eddie Castro, Jamie Leary, Tori Mason), Continuing Coverage (Mark Ackerman, Kevin Hartfield, Brian Maass) and Best Director (Collette Calvert).
"Last year CBS4 made a commitment to cover Colorado FIRST – with a focus on telling meaningful stories across the state, and launched Together 4 Colorado to share stories about how people in Colorado are working together to make this an even better place to live. These awards are emblematic of what we do best at CBS4. We cover the stories that matter to viewers every day," General Manager Walt DeHaven said.
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Gaudet Lodge is a two and one half storey house with Cottage and Queen Anne Revival style elements. It is located in the village of Tignish, PEI on a spacious treed lot. The registration includes the footprint of the building.
The building is significant because of its association with the famous Island architect, William Critchlow Harris (1854-1913). It is one of the few surviving residences designed by Harris. This house was built sometime after the 1896 Great Fire of Tignish for Senator and Dr. Patrick Charles Murphy. In 1927, it was the home of Joseph A. Bernard, the first Acadian Lt. Governor of PEI (1945-1950). By the late 1950s, it was owned by Camille Gaudet and became a rooming house and restaurant. Today, it remains remarkably intact except for the addition of an annex behind the house which was added in 1976-77.


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What Juventus lineup would you choose to save your life?
Some brain games to pass the time.
By Sam Lopresti@SamLCalcio Mar 24, 2020, 3:30pm CET
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I've been doing a lot of sitting on my couch since I was finally able to hunker down and wait out this period of social distancing to keep the spread of COVID-19 to a minimum. In trying to keep my mind from turning to mush with boredom, I've been turning to brain games and thought exercises, thinking out everything from alternate histories to fantasy worlds.
It was in the middle of these that I saw an interesting little thought exercise on The Good Phight, one of our sister blogs here at SB Nation dedicated to Philadelphia Phillies baseball. Inspired in turn by a tweet he had seen, writer Ethan Witte posed an interesting question: Compose the lineup you would turn to if you had to submit a team to play a game with your life on the line.
It struck me as a fun little brain teaser, and one that could be easily transposed to any team in any sport — so I've decided to bring it here to BWRAO.
Now, the rules of the original post were rather open. Every player on every team in the history of baseball was open to him. That was probably for the best, considering the unfortunate (from my point of view) fact that the Phillies haven't exactly been a legend factory throughout baseball history. In our version, however, I'm going to limit my available pool to just Juve players, although like the original post I'm making the entire history of the club eligible for selection. Any player selected would be inserted at the peak of their Juventus career.
So, who would I send out onto the field with my life on the line? Here's my XI, which for the record, will take a 4-3-1-2 formation.
GOALKEEPER: GIANLUIGI BUFFON
When I can pick the greatest goalkeeper of all time, why waste time? Buffon was one of the game's best even at the most advanced stages of his career before he first departed the club, and by the rules of this exercise I get him at his absolute peak circa 2006. This is the biggest of no-brainers.
RIGHT BACK: LILIAN THURAM
There haven't been a whole ton of all-world right backs in Juve's history, recent or otherwise. Stephan Lichtsteiner is a sentimental favorite of mine, but I'm going with head and not heart on this spot and going with Thuram. He gets the slight edge over the other main contender, Gianluca Zambrotta. The latter was a more dangerous attacking threat, but over my time here you probably all know my preference for fullbacks who defend first, and boy did Thuram defend. Dude was a rock, and while he wasn't as refined going forward as Zambrotta he could still pose a danger moving up the flank.
CENTER BACK: GAETANO SCIREA
The silky-smooth Scirea perfected the libero position in the 1970s and early 80s. He brought a lot of what we saw Leonardo Bonucci do at the height of his powers — he just did it first and better. His ability to read the game from the back line was unmatched, and his technical ability allowed him to cut off attacks before they began. Combined with his ability to distribute the ball from the back — and even break into the midfield to help orchestrate when he judged it prudent — he could do it all. His life was cut tragically short, but his status as one of the team's greatest players will never waiver.
CENTER BACK: CLAUDIO GENTILE
It's only right to pair Scirea with his regular partner in Juve's back line. A counterpoint to the highly technical Scirea, Gentile was a bone-cruncher. He was the guy you called in when you needed to kick the crap out the other team's star player. His performance against Diego Maradona in the 1982 World Cup is the stuff of legend, and he brought that brand of play to every game he ever played for Juventus. While he is often thought of first as a hard man, he was as skillful as he was tough, combining the two qualities to devastating effect for opponents. He was only ever sent off once in his career — and that was for a second bookable offense following a handball. He and Scirea made the perfect pair, and certainly made a defense that I'd trust with my life.
LEFT BACK: GIORGIO CHIELLINI
I'm taking a bit of a liberty here, but it does work.
It's easy to forget that Chiellini started his career at Fiorentina as a left back. At this point in his career there would be no way he could handle playing on the flank, but remember, I'm getting him in his prime, and he was playing on the outside for Italy as late as 2012. Chiellini is another wonderful blend of technique with the dark arts, and all those bombing runs he makes out of the middle will serve him well when he has to get forward. There are probably more efficient attackers who could go in this spot, but Chiellini's grinta is something I'd want on any team playing for me. He gets the go here.
MIDFIELDER: ARTURO VIDAL
If you read my blurb about him in our Team of the Decade post, you know how much I love Arturo Vidal. He was the engine that helped begin the Streak, and at his peak under Antonio Conte was undoubtedly the most complete midfielder on the planet. He was a tenacious defender, an excellent passer, and a high-level goalscorer all in one package. An absolute force that Juventus has yet to fully replace even four years later, I would pick peak Vidal as the centerpiece of any team.
MIDFIELDER: ANDREA PIRLO
Giuseppe Marotta pulled off one of the greatest transfer deals in the history of the sport when he signed a supposedly washed-up Andrea Pirlo on a free transfer. All he did was trigger a huge shift in the dynamics of Italian soccer.
Pirlo's abilities need no description here. He was the great orchestrator, a man who could see an attack out of thin air and then make it possible with his pinpoint passing. His set-piece ability was likewise unparalleled.
His career was revitalized in black and white. He was the best player on the incredible unbeaten team of 2011-12, and was just as good or better the next year as Juve consolidated their hold on calcio. By his final season his powers had finally begun to truly wane, and injuries hurt him as well, but getting the Pirlo of that first year goes a long way toward ensuring success for any team.
MIDFIELDER: ZINEDINE ZIDANE
Zidane was usually deployed in a more forward role. I have other designs on the attacking midfield spot, but I still want Zidane's incredible abilities in my team, so I'm dropping him back a bit.
Zidane was one of the greatest players of his generation, and for good reason. He was never a volume goalscorer, instead doing his job setting up the strikers with his incredible passing ability and dribbling skills. His presence in this spot would make it nearly impossible to defend the midfield. Who do you focus your attention on when two of the greatest playmakers in the history of the sport are on the field at the same time? With Vidal doing the dirty work, this midfield would cause headaches for anyone who played them.
TREQUARTISTA: PAVEL NEDVED
One of the few men in history who you bump Zidane out of the hole with and not be laughed out of the room, Nedved was a fantastic player who could play anywhere along the attacking front. Normally a winger, he had the vision and passing range to play as a trequartista, and was a constant threat to score on his own with his powerful left foot and driving runs into the box. He also brings the kind of intensity I like to see in any player in any position.
STRIKER: ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO
There isn't really much to say here. Arguably the greatest player in Juventus history gets an automatic spot on this list.
STRIKER: CRISTIANO RONALDO
It's not news to any regular readers of this site that I'm far from a Ronaldo stan. Frankly, I don't really like the guy. But when faced with the prospect of putting together a lineup with my life on the line, it would be stupid to exclude one of the greatest players in the history of the sport just because I don't like him. Ronaldo can conjure goals out of nowhere — and given the skill level of the rest of this lineup, it's likely he'll have plenty of service.
Dino Zoff (GK) — Buffon before Buffon.
Gianluca Zambrotta (D) — A high-level backup at either fullback spot.
Ciro Ferrara (D) — Another hard-nosed guy in defense to hold down the center of defense.
Marco Tardelli (M) — Someone to do some dirty work in midfield if Vidal gets frisky and picks up a booking.
Paul Pogba (M) — He was a phenomenon when he was more concerned with what he did on the field than off it, as he was from 2012-14.
Filippo Inzaghi (F) — Dude could make a goal out of a quarter-chance.
Mario Mandzukic (F) — A personal choice. He lived for goals in big games, and his work rate tracking back would be useful late on.


It was the full moon of the Wolf last night and fire ceremony was a massive let go with a lot going on.
A hand full of paper pieces with things I'm giving to the fire written on them.
Things to be let go.
Any attachment, resistance or other thing that's come up in the body recently.
The ceremony was focused on now, being an empty observer of what is in this moment. Gracefully opening into the vastness of now.
I sat down, smudged and created a medicine wheel; Calling in all directions and nations.
Honouring this moon and how it feels. How is Wolf is speaking?
Now I took some time to meditated, feel through the environment and this body.
What is the state of now!?
Adding to my pieces of paper as new tensions that relate to belief or attachment come up.
For my first time during fire ceremony, I heard the Re Man shabad…. hmmmmm….. 15 minutes of chanting this deeply presencing mantra.
I then honoured the fire and began to sit with the experience of each piece of paper. Feel the emotions and saying an open hearted thank you for ………Insert the thing to be LET GO here..…….
I'm ready to let go of this now!
After burning each piece of paper I feel the release and emptiness in the space where this thing used to live.
Closing out with a Lakota medicine song and then sitting in a deep, deep integrated silence.
There is no need to be anywhere but now and I'm eternally grateful to each instant that has delivered now as it is.
A Video of how I do this ceremony is on it's way.