New to streaming and starting from scratch?
Do you have a Twitch page?
Do you have a JustGiving page?
Do you have OBS downloaded?
1. Downloading OBS (Open Broadcasting System) allows you to broadcast your stream. If you skipped to this part of our guide you can download it here.
2. Select your operating system and follow the steps to download and install.
3. You will then be asked to enter your 'stream key', you can find this by accessing your twitch account here and on the left hand side panel under 'settings' click 'channel'.
4. Click on 'Stream Key' and then copy the stream key link.
5. Paste this in the prompted box on your OBS server and continue to set up.
6. You will then be presented with your streaming screen template.
7. Next you want to link your 'Donation progress bar' and 'Donation prompt' so that your viewers and supporters can see how much you have raised and help you reach your target!
8. Click on the '+' button under the 'Scenes' tab to create a new scene.
9. Next to this panel you will see 'Sources'. Click the '+' button to add a source titled 'Browser source'.
Our Livestream Fundraising tool allows you to link you JustGiving page to your Twitch stream, meaning people can donate to you seamlessly while they watch!
10. The URL you will need to enter can be found here. Click 'Sign in with Twitch' to link your Twitch account following the sign in instructions.
12. Click on 'My Fundraising Page' to link your JustGiving account.
13. A box will then appear with your Fundraising Pages. Select the one you would like to link to your Twitch account. Click here to create a page if you have not already done this.
14. Next copy the link that is generated in your 'Fundraiser Progress Bar' and paste this back into the URL box in OBS.
15. You will then see the donation bar appear and be able to scale/move the object to suit your needs.
16. Repeat these exact steps again but this time add the donation alert link.
17. You can now change the size of each element to suit your streaming – this will be a direct reflection of what users see on Twitch.
18. Next you can also add a livestream video of yourself if you want to talk to your Twitch users by clicking on 'Sources' and then 'Video capture device' – this will stream content directly from your webcam.
19. If you want to really enhance your stream you can also add 'custom overlays' (a mixture of image and text that is a great way to have your brand static over the entire stream). The charity you are fundraising for may have templates for this so get in touch and ask if they have a 'Twitch overlay' they would like you to use.
20. To add a custom overlay your overlay must be saved as a '.png format'. Follow the same steps as adding the donation and progress bar by clicking on the '+' symbol under 'Sources' but this time select 'image'. Next select your saved file from your computer, click OK and drag into position.
21. Next you want to capture your gameplay. Make sure that your game is downloaded onto your PC and then launch the game. Then click on the '+' button under 'Sources' and select 'Game Capture'.
23. You are now ready to start your live stream! Select 'Start streaming' from the bottom right hand panel.
24. Click here to access your Twitch homepage and you will be live-streaming on your channel homepage. To stop or pause your livestream at any time just go back to OBS and click 'stop streaming'.
To make it as easy as possible for people to donate you can also add a donation button to the panel under your stream. Click on your channel homepage and click 'Edit panel'.
Add the panel title as 'Donation button' and then select the image you want to use. Don't have a default button? Click here to get your JustGiving Charity specific button! Once you have selected your image go here and copy your 'donation link'.
Paste this into the 'Image links to:' box on the twitch panel.
Your button will now take viewers directly to the donation flow of your JustGiving Fundraising Page!


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Posted 03/05/2019 by absolute
From the Little things
Absolute Media is proud to welcome our latest new client, Little Estate Lawyers.
Whilst not exactly a hot-off-the-press news scoop (we were originally approached late in 2018), they are yet another great example of a client who originally approached us for a specific solution, then realised the invaluable benefits our rounded marketing experience in helping to establish their new small business, and are now been able to rely on us for additional marketing services.
Headquartered in Brisbane, Little Estate Lawyers are specialist Wills and Estates Lawyers. They operate across Queensland and New South Wales, focusing on the provision of exceptional, straightforward legal advice and no hidden costs to clients in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney.
With a successful legal career which started in 1997, owner Danielle Little worked for almost a decade for a large multi-national firm in litigation and estate matters before specialising in the area of Succession Law. She recently decided to start her own business and during that time chose Absolute Media ahead of numerous other digital marketing agencies to develop her new website design.
New business start-ups are often cost-conscious exercises and this one was no different. Working to a tight budget and with the brief to extend Little Lawyer's new business brand into the digital world, both parties agreed that the new website design needed to make a strong impact, to become a point of difference from potential competing business websites.
Using a strong, classic black, white and gold colour scheme and some of the classic typographic qualities of ITC's Avant Garde Gothic font collection, we developed a strong, single page layout and user interface design with the plan to include subtle animation and movement to the live version.
Absolute also catered to the fact that the site would inevitably extend in scope and content as Little Lawyers growth began to develop.
Danielle's new logo design process with another agency hadn't gone quite as smoothly as expected, so additional consultation was requested from us on how to address various issues and to ensure that the Little Lawyers logo and brand was both consistently represented and positively extended, to enhance the existing materials and maximise first impressions.
Just six months in and with their second office already open, Absolute have recently been appointed to also handle their Search Engine Optimisation requirements in Queensland and New South Wales.
As the song goes, 'From the little things, big things grow'. Little Lawyer's ability to call upon Absolute Media's broad range of small business marketing services and experience as they develop a name for themselves is a great example of how important it is to partner with a company who take the time to understand your business, and can help you to take it to the next level at every stage.
Peak Performing Referrals
Since opening our doors to Brisbane in 2005 we have always had a healthy proportion of clients pointed in our direction.
And we are pleased to welcome two more. The new start-up 'A Happier Life' and the longstanding 'Moorooka Sports & Community Club' have recently joined Absolute Media's client roster. Both businesses were referred to us for our hugely competitive and very effective Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) capabilities.
A Happier Life is a hypnosis service owned and operated by former Australian test cricketer Gary Cosier. By utilising Psychotherapy and Hypnosis Brisbane clients can benefit from their range of traditional solutions to help them quit smoking and lose weight, through to more forward-thinking areas such as life coaching and peak sports performance.
Mookrooka Sports is a traditional bowling club that has undergone subtle modernisation in recent years. This has seen the extension of the club's facilities to include a new bistro, and to offer its facilities as venues for weddings, social functions and business. Additionally, to appeal to the very popular demand for barefoot bowls in Brisbane food trucks now regularly rock-up to serve hungry punters and craft beers have been introduced to the bar.
Absolute have been providing SEO services since 2011. The increasing level of competition to get companies listed on page one, and our approach of working smarter rather than harder in order to retain our competitive edge, means that we've seen a recent surge for this part of our business marketing offering. Many big SEO businesses seem to bombard their clients with the appliance of science and in-depth analyses of algorithm updates, but it's not as complicated as they make it out to be, and our results clearly demonstrate that fact.
If you're interested in getting your website to feature in the page one results for a specific, search term or keyphrase, call us on 07 3300 6308 to find out more.
Absolute spark life into new business growth
Absolute Media are chuffed to announce our latest new client - the McHardy Group - a team of electricians servicing the Brisbane western suburbs region.
With plenty of years of experience, owners Chris and Brett McHardy both previously worked for a large Brisbane electrical business, opting to go it alone when the parent business was carved-up and sold off.
Like many relatively new businesses they'd got the essentials in place – a logo and a basic website – and crossed their fingers that they'd achieve a high Google ranking for anyone searching with the keyphrase 'Electrician The Gap'.
Whilst turnover has been consistent and job opportunities have been coming in for residential, commercial and industrial electrical work, they've quickly realised that they'll need to get their small business marketing to be far more effective in order to grow and evolve their client base into the areas that they really want to focus on and develop into.
Following a competitive pitch against a large Melbourne-based digital agency, Absolute Media have been successfully chosen to provide the McHardy Group with marketing planning, create a new logo design and branding, and to overhaul their website design to be more effective - both as a site attracting demand from the western suburbs, and converting interest into enquiries – and to improve their search engine optimisation (SEO) activities.
It sounds like we nailed it with our straightforward, no BS pitch for their work because Chris went on to explain "We both agreed that your proposals, ideas, and suggested approach to our business were spot on, and wanted to tell you that you'd got the gig during the meeting!"
We are now well underway with the site redesign, which is going to now have a far stronger and clearer customer benefit focus, and therefore relish the opportunity to post future news about our work for them and – most importantly – about the results that we achieve.
The appointment follows a string of month on month wins for us, which includes also the likes of Xennox Diamonds, Forme Fitness, The Tender Lawyer, and photographer James P. O'Hare.
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Mipela GeoSolutions new website
Mipela GeoSolutions are a young systems and software design company. In just under ten years they have grown to become one of the premier Location Information Management and GIS companies in Australia.
With a suite of software products that are designed to help companies be more efficient and productive, they use their product suite to integrate existing business systems, creating workflow automation software solutions, enabling mobile data capture and collection, and introducing service management software solutions.
Predominantly they deal with the energy and infrastructure sectors to help enable large scale asset management solutions.
A very smart and IT savvy bunch, they had in recent years designed, produced and maintained their own perfectly coded website, but had concluded that their best use of resource was to focus their developers on customer specific solutions.
They had already asked Absolute Media to help out with some modifications and updates, but following a competitive pitch, we embarked upon the process of improving their bold online presence, and making it more straightforward for other members of the team to add to the website design by building it on the Wordpress Content Management System platform.
Our approach in redesigning their site was to create a more professional site whilst deploying their already strong brand which needed honing to promote their status as pioneer in their industry. Introducing a responsive design layout, and making the site much easier to navigate, particular emphasis went into the structure of their product pages and variable support content, with their being lots of media available for some X-Info products, and others having much less to communicate their benefits.
The book title says it all
Absolute recently attended the celebratory launch of the new edition of artist Jan Jorgensen's printed collection of works titled 'Changing Places, Brisbane'. Following on from the popular first edition published by Macmillan in 2002, the new edition is illustrated with 54 new images of original paintings by Jan Jorgensen, who also wrote the accompanying poems. The new edition was designed and produced by us at Absolute Media.
Jan's work has become increasingly important to both to art lovers and city historians alike. Her work captures the light, the everyday and the Brisbane that many do not see and this delightful book provides an interesting ramble through some of Brisbane's most historic streets and backyards. It records changes taking place in the city as the picturesque, old domestic architecture gives way to new developments and will doubtless be attractive to those interested in the changing faces of the city and in the familiar urban environment.
Copies are on sale at Mary Ryan's and other reputable bookstores. And anyone who spots Absolute's former Paddington studio on in one of the published artworks … is very observant!
Can you see the page for the pixels?
Centenary Natural Therapies Clinic (CNTC) is a longstanding provider of naturopathy, remedial massage and acupuncture services based in Brisbane's Western suburbs.
When looking for a business to handle their Search Engine Optimisation business they were referred to us by one of their clients … who is in-fact one of ours too.
When we started to analyse their website, visitor traffic and SERP's it became startlingly apparent that whilst they were achieving great visitor numbers, they in-fact had a massive bounce rate of over 80% (the bounce rate being those visitors who leave a website from the same page they entered, without exploring any further).
From CNTC's perspective, most of the visitors that their search results were attracting were being turned-off by the landing page content. A combination of factors - inappropriate colour use, misleading headlines, unsuitable visual tone, key word discrepancies and content placement - were clearly sounding alarm bells. Much of CNTC's content was actually suitable, but the compounding result of content misplacement, overly-strong sales messages in the wrong parts of the page layout and general 'addition attrition' meant that it was quite misleading and misinformative. Interestingly no one was really at fault for this problem scenario but, over the course of its lifetime, as greater reliance was being heaped on the website as a productive sales tool, the net result became conversely more detrimental to its purpose as more and more content was added. Our client was just so close to the problem that they couldn't see the page for the pixels!
So before channelling resource into their search engine rankings for keyphrases like 'remedial massage Brisbane' or 'acupuncture Brisbane', we were clear that this problem needed to be addressed first and recommended giving their website a makeover to make it more appealing to their respective target audiences.
As you'll see if you follow either of the above links, whilst still containing much of the original content the website design is now perfectly apt. Following some careful re-organising, toning down and repackaging of information, the site is also far more communicative, with a hierarchy of prioritised information and with clearly navigable paths to the most in demand information. Most importantly the website meets their client expectation of what a service provider of natural therapies should look like, so on finding the site visitors are now exploring an average of four pages per visit.
We are now focussed on CNTC's SEO keywords and with a number of them now listing on Google page one, we are very proud to report that in January this year, CNTC's bounce rate was less than 24% … which is a significant improvement.
Rebranding: an oldie but a goody
For anyone that is considering re-branding to improve their business efforts, but who doesn't want to blow the budget in one go … take note.
Some 18 months ago we embarked upon a process to overhaul the marketing materials for Brisbane homecare and aged care services provider, Jubilee Community Care (JCC). A Government funded organisation providing aged care services Brisbane based JCC assist elderly people who want to continue living at home, but who require assistance with day-to-day tasks that have become too difficult to do on their own, such as cooking, shopping or gardening.
With a target audience predominantly consisting of 50 somethings who are looking to third party help for their ageing relatives or friends, as an alternative to going into a care home, Jubilee's materials had been treated as something of an afterthought and were not communicating the organisation's experience and the benefits of their service. Instead of portraying the many positive aspects of the elderly people being able to stay at home, they had become a bit gloomy.
Following a strategic review and planning session, we started with the public front end of their business; their website design. We used this project to establish a refreshed design, palette and imagery with an approach focussed upon emphasising the many strong positives that the organisation has to offer, using imagery specifically showing their clients enjoying their diverse interactions with JCC's support care workers, in scenarios typical of the help often required.
Specifically we used the opportunity to engender some pride within the organisation as well as beyond it, with care workers and support staff also enjoying the fact that they were bringing comfort, support and strong companionship to clients.
With the benefit of seeing the benefits of the refreshed website, JCC has since tasked Absolute with the job of bringing its other core materials in line with the new branding which has seen us tackle print, digital and signage. Of course the net result is that they have steadily refreshed their branding and marketing communications materials without blowing the budget.
If you'd like to discuss your organisations branding, contact us for more details about how we can make it work in your favour.
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A well-presented 1st floor apartment in the popular complex of San Marino in Los Cristianos. The property comprises of 1 bedroom with fitted wardrobes and bathroom. There is a fully fitted and equipped American style kitchen and lounge/dining area with patio doors leading onto the terrace with views over Los Cristianos. The complex has a communal pool, pool bar, community parking and lifts. The property is only a short walk to the beach and promenade and bus stops on your door step and every other amenity you could need.


ALBANY, NY / ACCESSWIRE / March 14, 2019 / Glauconix Biosciences Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that uses its patented platform technology to develop human 3D ocular tissues that mimic the fluid dynamics in the eye to expedite and de-risk the R&D of ophthalmic treatments while reducing development costs, announced today that the data generated for Nemus Biosciences Inc. (OTCQB: NMUS) validates the mechanism of action of NB1111, Nemus' proprietary prodrug of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC-valine-hemisuccinate, or THCVHS), in lowering intraocular pressure (IOP), a defining symptom of hypertensive glaucoma. Glauconix is located at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Albany, New York, campus and is a partner in the institution's Center for Advanced Technology in Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics (CATN2).
Glauconix used its 3D human trabecular meshwork model (3D-HTM™) that consists of human donor cells containing the ocular tissue responsible for helping to regulate intraocular pressure, the trabecular meshwork. The studies included a comparison of the activity of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the biologically active part of NB1111, in facilitating fluid drainage resulting in lower IOP as well as lowering levels of biomarker molecules associated with inflammation and fibrosis, two processes associated with tissues that are damaged in a disease setting – including glaucoma and other ocular disorders.
Researchers have previously demonstrated that ocular tissues possess a large number of cannabinoid receptors, especially in areas that help regulate IOP. Given that THC binds both types of cannabinoid receptors, these data point to a unique mechanism of action whereby the ability of THC to bind to cannabinoid receptors results in a beneficial decline in IOP due to enhanced fluid drainage. When IOP is left unchecked, there is often damage to the optic nerve, leading to irreversible vision loss.
Additionally, biomarkers associated with inflammation and fibrosis in tissues affected by glaucoma were significantly decreased, pointing to anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic activities that are often associated with the cannabinoid class of molecules in other disease states.
"These studies were significant across a spectrum of findings and we plan on submitting the data to an upcoming major ophthalmology meeting. Micro-quantities of cannabinoid delivered directly into the eye could have the dual benefit of a therapeutic effect while mitigating risk of systemic adverse events through direct tissue targeting, an advantage associated with using bioengineered molecules," said Brian Murphy, MD, CEO and chief medical officer of Nemus.
Glauconix Biosciences is a leading developer of ophthalmic ex-vivo dynamic 3D human tissue models for accelerating therapeutic innovation and drug discovery. Their 3D tissue models can de-risk ophthalmic assets and expedite drug development. Glauconix adds value to their clients and partners by expediting early identification and validation of effective compounds or biologics in the preclinical phase and those entering clinical trials. To learn more about Glauconix Biosciences, visit www.glauconix-biosciences.com.
The Company is a biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Long Beach, California, focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of bioengineered cannabinoid-based therapeutics for significant unmet medical needs in global markets. With proprietary technology licensed from The University of Mississippi, Nemus is developing novel ways to deliver cannabinoid-based drugs for specific indications with the aim of optimizing the clinical effects of such drugs while limiting potential adverse events. Nemus' strategy is to explore the use of proprietary biosynthetic compounds, alone or in combination with corporate partners.
Nemus is part of the Emerald Health group, which comprises multiple companies focused on developing pharmaceutical, botanical and nutraceutical products providing wellness and medical benefits by interacting with the human body's endocannabinoid system.
SUNY Poly is New York's globally recognized, high-tech educational ecosystem. SUNY Poly offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the emerging disciplines of nanoscience and nanoengineering, as well as cutting-edge nanobioscience and nanoeconomics programs at its Albany campus, and undergraduate and graduate degrees in technology, including engineering, cybersecurity, computer science and the engineering technologies; professional studies, including business, communication and nursing; and arts and sciences, including natural sciences, mathematics, humanities and social sciences at its Utica/Rome campus; thriving athletic, recreational and cultural programs, events and activities complement the campus experience. As the world's most advanced, university-driven research enterprise, SUNY Poly boasts billions of dollars in high-tech investments and hundreds of corporate partners since its inception. For information, visit www.sunypoly.edu.
The mission of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials (CATN2) at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) and its College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) is to serve as a bridge between each phase in the research-to-development-to-deployment (RD&D) commercialization continuum. The Center's objective is to drive systematic progression in technology transitions, workforce skills attainment, market adoption and entrepreneurial growth by aligning and coordinating an array of capabilities that support applied research, technology development and operational deployment necessary for commercialization.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our product development, business strategy, product milestones, EHS commitment to purchase shares in the open market, timing of clinical trials and commercialization of cannabinoid-based therapeutics. Such statements and other statements in this press release that are not descriptions of historical facts are forward-looking statements that are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, our business, operating results, financial condition and stock price could be materially negatively affected. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology including "anticipated,""contemplates,""goal,""focus," "aims," "intends,""believes,""can,""could,""challenge,""predictable,""will,""would,""may" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. We operate in a rapidly changing environment and new risks emerge from time to time. As a result, it is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements that Nemus may make. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially include, among others, our capital resources, uncertainty regarding the results of future testing and development efforts and other risks that are described in the Risk Factors section of Nemus' most recent annual or quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as expressly required by law, Nemus disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities, nor shall there be any sales of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any securities that may be offered in the United States will be offered only to accredited investors pursuant to Regulation D of the Securities Act.


We report results of a magnetic ressonance imaging (MRI) study of 146 Brazilian children, whose intelligence quotient scored less than 70. 50% of MRI examinations did not exhibit any signal of structural lesion (N group), whereas a focal thinning at the junction of the body and splenium of the corpus callosum; ventricular asymmetry; periventricular leukomalacia; gliosis and arachnoid cysts were among the most frequent findings in the remaining of subjects (L group). Maternal stress and altered blood pressure were the most frequent findings in the pre-natal history of both N and L children. Familial antecedents of mental deficiency were reported in 30% of both groups, whereas familiar history of alcoholism was important in N group (60% in N versus 0% in L groups). Neuropsychomotor development was delayed in 80% of the children in both groups. Aggressiveness is the most frequent finding in the post-natal children history.


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Lifestyle: Black rats are quite common. They are excellent climbers, which is why they are often found quite high up in buildings. They feed themselves on many kinds of products, with a preference for grain, seed and fruits.
The development into adulthood happens quite quickly; the females are fertile after about 3 months and can produce up to 10 litters in 2 years, each litter containing 6 – 10 young. The average lifespan is about 2 years.
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Combating: After a thorough inspection in and around the object bait boxes are placed in strategically chosen locations. In these bait boxes or crates, often placed in a location far above the ground, a poisonous bait is set. The rodent pesticide used (rodenticides),approved by the CTB, are so called anticoagulants (anti blood clotting substances) . These toxic substances are available as a ready to use bait or as fluid concentrates. By using these liquid concentrates the pest control technicians from Van Eck Industrial Hygiene BV are able to provide the most attractive bait, suitable for specific conditions. These baits have to remain for a number of weeks to be able to ensure death. After 4 to 10 days of consummation, death occurs after 7 to 14 days.
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Diesel is dying, petrol-powered vehicle bans are looming in the distance, and sales at Jaguar Land Rover, the UK's largest automaker, are flagging. These three elements are all factors weighing on the minds of executives at the luxury brand, and so steps are being taken to address the challenges.
As usual, the fight for a brighter future starts with talk of investment. In this case, we're talking a whopping 13.5 billion pounds ($18 billion). That cache of cash is said to be split into equal parts of 4.5 billion pounds ($5.955 billion) over the next three years and put towards new products and technology advancement. After this period, the company will moderate its spend at about 13 percent of sales.
Though its current portfolio of electric vehicles is small, the battery-powered efforts at the Coventry-based company have a pretty high profile. Its first mass-produced electric vehicle, the I-Pace is set to begin deliveries after receiving high praise from reviewers — including from us and our sister site Motor1.com — and a stack of orders (20,000 vehicles for Waymo alone). Not only does it have a team in the premiere electric racing series, Formula E, it will have its own road-racing series packaged with that one, the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy. To top off all that, its E-Type Zero Classic, an electric conversion of perhaps its most famous model, just had a prominent place in the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
It stands to reason, then, that the automaker will continue in its electric efforts and use a chunk of this investment to do it. Although no new electric models have yet been announced, rumors are swirling that there will be an electric Land Rover based on the I-Pace, and there have been hints of an electric supercar coming.
With an entire gas-powered paradigm to upset and replace, the potential for future sales is huge. If Jaguar can have the sort of success it's seeing with the positive response to the I-Pace, there's little doubt things will be looking up for both the British company and its Indian parent Tata, to which it contributes a significant percentage of its profits.
14 Comments on "Jaguar To Invest $18 Billion Over Next 3 Years In EV – Anti-Diesel Push"
do or die. Big gas and diesel guzzler vehicles in their line-up. you imaging telling a rich person their car is not allowed in a section of town!
So it is really $6B over three years then 13% of sales.
New factories for battery cells or at least battery pack assembly?
Or are they simply going to sign contracts for battery cells/packs over X amount of years like VW?
Sounds like the final BEV capacity per year will be much less than $18B implies.
The way its worded in the article, it sounds like these are R&D spendings, i.e. pretty much orthogonal to production capacity?
I don't think so. I think even a sizable auto maker doesn't spend that much on R&D in a year, unless the "D" part of that includes tooling up costs for new models of PEVs (Plug-in EVs). As I understand it, even the largest auto makers typically develop only about 5 new models at the same time, and Jaguar isn't that big an auto maker.
With that level of investments, they're probably looking at building factories for battery cells or at least battery pack assembly, and converting one or more auto assembly plants to specialize in producing PEVs.
That depends on what you consider "a new model" Like GM with the Sierra/Silverado, which is more then a dozen specific models, and draws on the best and brightest GM has. Programs like this GM would have just a couple at a time, but something like the Bolt, which was a very small team, and a car destined for low/medium production GM could have many similar programs going through R & D at the same time.
Cant think of another core brand that is better suited to bev.
Only jag and volvo have announced a phase out of fossil r&d not just added electrification.
I guess you'll see Aston Martin with them soon. It cost a lof of money to develop new internal combustion engines. Small companies with low volume sales are probably better off going electric as soon as they need a new ICE generation.
Small companies have usually bought engines from the likes of BMW, Mercedes and so on, or continued with small improvements of an existing Rover / Land Rover Jaguar engine.
Yes, Aston announced some time ago that they're going electric. The Rapid-e is due soon, followed by at least one EV Lagonda. Not forgetting the Valkyrie project. Regular cars will develop PHEV's over time, then EV options. Expect them to keep their ICE options too though, they've not long collaborated with (and sold some shares to) Mercedes group, plus Aston appreciates that a car needs a soul and no EV will ever have the soul of a V8 or V12.
I hope Jaguar is serious; $18 billion in only 3 years is a very serious investment!
Jaguar has made a very impressive entry into the BEV market, with its I-Pace. Here's hoping they follow up on that with more well-built, compelling BEVs!
Its not JLR,its TATA who is doing the investment.
That's a bit like saying Porsche paid for the development of the latest VW Golf. They're all one and the same. JLR is part of TATA group and they do share technology.
Information of their plans has been out there for a while now, it just seems like nobody on here seems to actually pay any attention to the automotive industry other than Tesla, unless there's an opportunity to slate somebody else.
MLA platform means there's going to be an XJ BEV and a Road Rover, among other things. JLR is investing massively into EV's, as this article shows.
The investment in question is for all of Jaguar Landrover (a single company), not just the Jaguar brand, and I suggest you clarify the article title & elsewhere to reflect that. This is relevant, because the majority (IIRC >70%) of JLR vehicles are Land Rover SUVs, not Jags, and virtually all of them are Diesels.
The big problem company management has admitted to, and the reason for the accelerated investment, is that sales didn't go as high as they expected in 2017, and the reason for that is that 87% of their output is Diesels — an unpopular choice these days.


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Mr. Ferleger provides representation before the Supreme Court of the United States for those seeking or opposing Court review. He has extensive experience before the Supreme Court. (links provided for argued cases only)
Segways at Walt Disney World. Representing Disability Rights Advocates for Technology (DRAFT), which gifts Segways to American soldiers permanently disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan, and individuals with disabilities, Mr. Ferleger challenged a Walt Disney World policy against Segway use by people with mobility disabilities. The challenge was unsuccessful in court, but the United States Justice Department later issued new generous national standards on Segway use in any public accommodation. Jerry Miller v. Walt Disney World Co. (2013).
Access to Sidewalks and Government Services. Mr. Ferleger successfully defended a landmark ruling establishing access to sidewalks and government services for people with mobility challenges; the Supreme Court declined to hear a city's appeal. Mr. Ferleger then negotiated a first of its kind settlement providing a multi-year city construction effort, priorities for future construction, and a complaint resolution process. City of Arlington, Texas v. Richard Frame (2012).
Restaurants. Mr. Ferleger was retained as lead counsel in the Supreme Court and successfully defended a major decision guaranteeing all customers of Chipolte Mexican Grill non-discriminatory access to its food counter experience. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. v. Maurizio Antoninetti (2011)
Employment Discrimination. Mr. Ferleger was retained to challenge a court of appeals decision against a man with developmental disabilities who had been denied employment by Wal-Mart. The Supreme Court did not grant review. Charles Irvin Littleton v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2007).
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There are two people living in me. And I am not dealing well with this fact.
On the one hand, I am a good mama. I take care of my kids, and my home (okay, don't look around at the home right now…). I talk to my husband. I love my family so much. And that is the real me. The me I recognize.
Then there is this one me. An angry, angry me. She was escaping for a few days. Then the doctor upped my medication and she doesn't show anymore. He said it was mania or depression. The horrible words and screaming are not escaping. But the angry woman is still there.
She gets so angry. Her thoughts and words are vile. And I don't know what to do about it. I can't scream the words and get them out. No one would ever forgive me if I said those things to them.
So I read my Bible more. It says what is in the heart comes out the mouth. So I have to fix the heart, right?
The anger, judgement, and hatred are still there.
This isn't how I am supposed to feel, think or act. This isn't how I was raised.
I am a Christian woman. I spend time reading the Bible. I know an awful lot of what is in there. I have been studying it since I was 4. I am definitely not supposed to be thinking or feeling this way. I can't even bring myself to tell any of my friends from church. What would they think? The woman inside of me really is that bad.
Have you ever struggled with anger? What did you do about it?
I've been totally irritable the last few days. Not in a rage but really unreasonable. It makes me a bad mum and I'm ashamed of it.
By which I don't in any way imply that you're not a good mum, because I'm sure you are. I just don't manage my problem that well. I can't stand feeling this way.
I have a horrible feeling that I've put my foot right in it and offended you. If so I'm genuinely very sorry. I've just had a very bad day.
You have by no means offended me. Trust me I have those bad mom days.
I have had those days. I'm so sorry.
I quit eating most grains and all that anger went away.
I love you and pray for you daily. God knows your struggles and He is holding your hand and carrying you when needed. You are a wonderful mom, wife, and friend. We will keep praying for relief.
I've been thinking a lot, and here's what I believe. We are defined not by our feelings, abilities, diseases, or thoughts. We are defined by our choices. You are a good mom because you are fighting, you are a good wife because you are trying. You are a darn good human being because that's who you've chosen to be. The rest? Is what's happening to you. It isn't who you are.
I reflected on this a lot because your post really resonated with me. I struggled with anger and rage. I still lose my temper and yell at my girls. I looked at where my anger was coming from. Deep down, all that anger was based in anxiety and fear. Once I brought those feelings out into the light and journaled about them, I felt better able to take a step back from that anger. My temper was a like a hair trigger, liable to blow at any moment. When I feel that anger, rage and frustration building, I am aware of my physical cues. I will literally stomp and talk (sometimes very loudly) about my feelings. I have only done this at home. It seems to help everyone. That is how I dealt with it.
I agree with Story. You are not your feelings. We all have good and dark within us; it is the choices that we make that define us. No one is perfect. All mamas get upset at their kids and raise their voices. Hugs.


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Not to be a buzzkill– but what Rafah opening does and doesn't mean
Laila El-Haddad on May 31, 2011 8 Comments
The big story of the week has been the much-acclaimed re-opening of the torturous Rafah Crossing. It had been operating intermittently, if at all, and for limited categories of people for more than 4 years now. For what seemed like eternity, the Mubarak regime- الله لا يردهم -, colluding with the United States and Israel to keep Gaza closed, had "conditioned" the re-opening of the crossing on a Fateh-Hamas reconciliation agreement, the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and a return to the much-maligned US-brokered AMA (Agreement on Movement and Access), in which European monitors and live-video streams acted as proxies for Israel, who ultimately retained control over the crossing.
There were some dark, dark times over the course of those four miserable years, and beyond, during which I and tens of thousands of others were prevented from entering our own homes over and over again, during which we were beaten and detained, humiliated and abandoned, when I wondered how would it ever end? How on earth could we as Palestinians find a way out of even this smallest and seemingly inconsequential dimension of our struggle, Rafah, this sole gateway, this portal, in and out of tortured little Gaza? How could such a routine aspect of life, movement, have become so impossible, yet made to seem so threatening, its stifling designed to seem so ordinary and justified? And why could no understand we we were mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, lovers, students and teachers…and we were tired like ordinary human beings get tired, of this miserable, hell. How could the status quo finally change? I can honestly tell you the last thing I expected was for an epic overthrow of Mubarak.
But back to Rafah. Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but I think its time to break down the facts here. It's true that the crossing has been open on a more regular basis (6 days a week) and to a greater number of Gaza residents for visa-free travel (unless you happen to fall into the dreaded 18-40 "male security threat" age-range), and as anyone who has suffered long hours (or days or weeks or months) in the punishing heat or bone-numbing cold of this little corner of the world awaiting entry or exit can attest, this news should be celebrated.
But with access STILL limited to Palestinians in Israeli-controlled population registry, the so-called re-opening of Rafah Crossing is simply return to status quo of years past. Only Palestinians listed in the Israeli-controlled Palestinian population registry, carrying an Israeli-approved Gaza ID card, or hawia, can use Rafah Crossing. And those who do cross are still subject to arbitrary security screenings and possible denial of entry-or exit.
Translation: Palestinians from the West Bank or East Jerusalem-even those with hawiat, Palestinians in refugees camps outside the Occupied Palestinian territories, "Filisteeniyit il-dakhil" aka 1948 Palestinians, or Palestinians abroad, are all still not allowed passage to Gaza through Rafah. This includes Palestinian families where one spouse possesses an ID, but the other does not, such as my own family, OR internally displaced Palestinians who live in Gaza but whose IDs were never approved by Israeli authorities (who are not allowed to exit). They number in the tens of thousands.
Additionally, according to the NGO Gisha, the expansion does not appear to include passage of goods, which are restricted to the Israeli-controlled crossings and subject to prohibitions on construction materials and export.
It also warrants reminding that while one border has been open, Gaza remains under tight maritime and aerial siege, and continues to be closed off to the rest of the Occupied Palestinians territories in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian's cultural, economic, and academic capitals. Israel has a legal obligation to permit passage of people and goods between Gaza and the West Bank, recognized as a single territorial unit.
In addition, the deadly buffer zone along Gaza's coastal borders, which juts up to 2km inland, preventing farmer's from accessing their farm land, 1/3 of which exists in this zone, is still in place.
The collective result: development, prosperity, and possibility are stifled, as aid dependence rises. We should be under no illusions to the contrary. Gaza is still occupied, is still besieged.
Should be be thankful Rafah's closure has eased? Absolutely. Should we be complacent, or simply settle for what we have? Absolutely not.
For more, check out GISHA's "Gaza cheat sheet", which breaks down the facts and figures and helps you understand what's really behind the siege.
This is a crosspost from Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom site.
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require 'easy_type'
require 'utils/wls_access'
require 'utils/settings'
require 'utils/title_parser'
require 'facter'

module Puppet
  Type.newtype(:wls_singleton_service) do
    include EasyType
    include Utils::WlsAccess
    extend Utils::TitleParser

    desc 'This resource allows you to managed singleton services in a WebLogic domain.'

    ensurable

    set_command(:wlst)

    to_get_raw_resources do
      Puppet.info "index #{name}"
      environment = { 'action' => 'index', 'type' => 'wls_singleton_service' }
      wlst template('puppet:///modules/orawls/providers/wls_singleton_service/index.py.erb', binding), environment
    end

    on_create  do | command_builder |
      Puppet.info "create #{name} "
      template('puppet:///modules/orawls/providers/wls_singleton_service/create.py.erb', binding)
    end

    on_modify  do | command_builder |
      Puppet.info "modify #{name} "
      template('puppet:///modules/orawls/providers/wls_singleton_service/modify.py.erb', binding)
    end

    on_destroy  do | command_builder |
      Puppet.info "destroy #{name} "
      template('puppet:///modules/orawls/providers/wls_singleton_service/destroy.py.erb', binding)
    end

    parameter :domain
    parameter :name
    parameter :singleton_service_name
    property :cluster
    property :class_name
    property :additional_migration_attempts
    property :millis_to_sleep_between_attempts
    property :notes
    property :constrained_candidate_servers
    property :user_preferred_server

    add_title_attributes(:singleton_service_name) do
      /^((.*\/)?(.*))$/
    end
  end
end

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Text copyright © 2012 by Shirley Raye Redmond
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_Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_
Redmond, Shirley Raye.
Fairies! : a true story / by Shirley Raye Redmond ; illustrated by Red Hansen.
p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-375-86561-9 (trade pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-375-96568-5 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-307-97693-2 (ebk)

1. Fairies—Juvenile literature. I. Hansen, Red, ill. II. Title.
GR549.R43 2012
398.21—dc22
2010030850

Random House Children's Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read.

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_For Nancy and Michael Butner, with love —S.R.R._

_To Mom and Dad, thanks! —R.H._

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

First Page

Author's Note

Do you believe in fairies?

People around the world

have told stories about fairies

for a long time.

In some stories,

fairies come out to dance

when the moon is full.

Sometimes they steal babies

from their cradles.

They leave fairy children

in their place.

In Ireland,

fairies are called

the wee folk.

In parts of Africa,

there are kind fairies

called azizas (say ah-ZEE-zahz).

The brownies of England

and Scotland are helpful.

They run errands

and clean stables.

But not all fairies are friendly.

Britain's ugly spriggans

bring bad weather to ruin crops.

And the leshy,

or Slavic forest fairies,

beat people with sticks

and tree limbs.

Cautious travelers carried

dry bread in their pockets

to protect themselves

from fairy mischief.

More than two centuries ago,

brothers Jacob and

Wilhelm Grimm

spent many years

collecting German fairy tales.

Their book,

_Children's and Household Tales,_

was published in 1812.

It became popular

around the world.

But are fairies real?

Today, most people say no.

Some folklore researchers,

though, say maybe.

They say that

a long time ago

in Great Britain

there may have been

a group of small people.

They may have been conquered

by tall invaders.

To avoid capture,

these small people

hid in the forest.

They wore green clothes

so they would be hard to spot.

They came out only at night

to hunt and steal food.

Sometimes they even switched

their sick babies for healthy ones.

Over time,

these small people died off.

But their neighbors

still told tales about them.

There are others

who say fairies are real.

They insist they have seen them!

In 1842,

in Stowmarket, England,

a man saw a dozen fairies

dancing in the moonlight.

He ran home

and told his neighbors.

They rushed back

to the meadow.

But when they got there,

the fairies had disappeared.

William Blake was a famous

British poet.

He claimed to have seen

a fairy funeral.

He told his friends

the fairies were

as small as grasshoppers.

They carried a dead fairy

on a rose petal.

They sang a sad song

as they passed him

in the garden.

Did these men

really see fairies?

Maybe.

Maybe not.

People sometimes make up stories

to explain things

they don't understand.

Weather can play tricks

on our eyes.

Fairies dancing in a meadow

might be nothing more

than fireflies or snowflakes.

Some people who think

they have seen fairies

have been tricked.

The most famous fairy prank

took place

in Cottingley, England.

One afternoon in July 1917,

two cousins named Elsie Wright

and Frances Griffiths

drew some pretty fairy pictures.

They cut them out

like paper dolls.

Elsie took a photo of Frances

talking to the fairies.

Frances took a photo of fairies

dancing in Elsie's lap.

Elsie's father,

Mr. Wright,

developed the photos.

At first,

he was puzzled.

He thought the blurry images

were birds or empty bags.

Elsie told him

that she and Frances

had found fairies in the woods.

Three years later,

Elsie's mother met a man

named Edward Gardner.

He was a well-known teacher

of fairy folklore.

Mrs. Wright told him

that her daughter had

taken photos of fairies.

Mr. Gardner showed the photos

to men at the Kodak camera lab

in London.

One man said

the pictures were fake.

But another man noticed

a blur in a photo.

He said that meant

the fairy was moving.

He said the photos were real!

Mr. Gardner was delighted.

He told everyone he knew

that fairies lived

in Cottingley Woods.

He asked the girls

to take more fairy photos.

They agreed.

They sent three more photos

to Mr. Gardner.

Newspapers reported

the amazing news.

"Fairies in Yorkshire,"

the headlines declared.

"An Epic-Making Event."

Some people laughed.

Others believed

the fairies were real.

They went to Cottingley

to hunt for fairies.

They visited Elsie and Frances.

They asked the girls

to show them where

they had taken the photos.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

was a famous author.

He wrote

the Sherlock Holmes

mystery stories.

He believed

Elsie and Frances's

fairies were real.

In 1922,

Sir Arthur wrote

about Frances and Elsie

in a book called

_The Coming of the Fairies_.

All over England,

people read it.

More and more visitors

went to Cottingley.

The town became famous.

People called it Fairyland.

Many years went by.

In 1981,

when Elsie and Frances

were old women,

they admitted that the

fairy photos were a joke.

"It was just Elsie and I

having a bit of fun,"

Frances said.

"I can't understand to this day

why they were taken in."

Elsie said the fairies

were only paper cutouts

mounted on twigs

with long, sharp hat pins.

This fairy hoax

happened long ago.

But the photos

are still famous.

Recently,

they sold for almost $40,000!

People still go to Cottingley

to look for fairies in the woods.

They still read

the fairy tales written

by the Brothers Grimm.

There are poems and plays

about fairies, too.

Could some of

the old fairy stories be true?

Will a piece of dry bread

protect you

from fairy troublemakers?

What do _you_ think?

# Author's Note

This is Frances Griffiths

with the fairies drawn

by her cousin Elsie Wright.

The fairies were inspired

by illustrations in the

popular children's book

_Princess Mary's Gift Book_.

They were drawn on

discarded sandwich-wrap paper.

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rise (v.)
Middle English risen, from Old English risan "to rise from sleep, get out of bed; stand up, rise to one's feet; get up from table; rise together; be fit, be proper" (typically gerisan, arisan; a class I strong verb; past tense ras, past participle risen), from Proto-Germanic *us-rīsanan "to go up" (source also of Old Norse risa, Old Saxon risan, Old Frisian risa, "to rise; arise, happen," Gothic urreisan "to rise," Old High German risan "to rise, flow," German reisen "to travel," originally "to rise for a journey"). OED writes, "No related terms have been traced outside of Teutonic"; Boutkan suggests an origin in a lost European substrate language.
From late 12c. as "to rise from the dead," also "rebel, revolt, stand up in opposition." It is attested from c. 1200 in the senses of "move from a lower to a higher position, move upward; increase in number or amount; rise in fortune, prosper; become prominent;" also, of heavenly bodies, "appear above the horizon." To rise and shine "get up, get out of bed" is by 1916 (earlier it was a religious expression). Of seas, rivers, etc., "increase in height," c. 1300.
The meaning "come into existence, originate; result (from)" is by mid-13c. From early 14c. as "occur, happen, come to pass; take place." From 1540s of sound, "ascend in pitch." Also from 1540s of dough. It seems not to have been used of heat or temperature in Middle English; that sense may have developed from the use of the verb in reference to the behavior of fluid in a thermometer or barometer (1650s). Related to raise (v.). Related: Rose; risen.
rise (n.)
c. 1400, "a rebellion, a rising up in opposition;" mid-15c., "place elevated above the common level, piece of rising land;" from rise (v.). General sense of "upward movement" is by 1570s; more specific sense of "vertical height of an object or surface, elevation, degree of ascent" is from 1660s.
Of heavenly bodies, "appearance above the horizon," by 1590s. The meaning "spring, source, origin, beginning" is from 1620s. As "an advance in wages or salary" by 1836 (compare raise (n.)).
The phrase on the rise originally meant "becoming more valuable" (1808). The sense in give rise to "to occasion, cause, bring about" (1705) is the otherwise obsolete meaning "an occasion, a ground or basis" (1640s), which OED writes was "Common c 1650-90." The phrase get a rise out of(someone), by 1829, seems to be a metaphor from angling (1650s) in reference to the action of a fish in coming to the surface to take the bait.
up (n.)
"that which is up," 1530s, from up (adv.). Phrase on the up-(and-up) "honest, straightforward" first attested 1863, American English.
up (adv.)
Old English up, uppe, from Proto-Germanic *upp- "up" (source also of Old Frisian, Old Saxon up "up, upward," Old Norse upp; Danish, Dutch op; Old High German uf, German auf "up"; Gothic iup "up, upward," uf "on, upon, under;" Old High German oba, German ob "over, above, on, upon"), from PIE root *upo "under," also "up from under," hence also "over."
As a preposition, "to a higher place" from c. 1500; also "along, through" (1510s), "toward" (1590s). Often used elliptically for go up, come up, rise up, etc. Up the river "in jail" first recorded 1891, originally in reference to Sing Sing, which is up the Hudson from New York City. To drive someone up the wall (1951) is from the notion of the behavior of lunatics or caged animals. Insulting retort up yours (scil. ass) is attested by late 19c.
high-rise (adj.)
1952, of buildings, from high (adv.) + rise (v.). As a noun, "high-rise building," from 1962.
low-rise (adj.)
of buildings, 1957, in contrast to high-rise; see low (adv.) + rise (v.).
up (v.)
1550s, "to drive and catch (swans)," from up (adv.). Intransitive meaning "get up, rise to one's feet" (as in up and leave) is recorded from 1640s. Sense of "to move upward" is recorded from 1737. Meaning "increase" (as in up the price of oil) is attested from 1915. Compare Old English verb uppian "to rise up, swell." Related: Upped; upping. Upping block, used for mounting or dismounting horses, carriages, etc., is attested from 1796 (earlier was horsing-block, 1660s).
up (adj.)
c. 1300, "dwelling inland or upland," from up (adv.). Meaning "going up" is from 1784. From 1815 as "excited, exhilarated, happy," hence "enthusiastic, optimistic." Up-and-coming "promising" is from 1848. Musical up-tempo (adj.) is recorded from 1948.
cover-up (n.)
also coverup, "means or act of concealing" some event or activity, 1922, from the verbal phrase (1872), from cover (v.) + up (adv.).
pop-up (n.)
from 1906 as a type of baseball hit; from pop (v.) + up (adv.). As an adjective from 1934 (of a children's book, later toasters, etc.).


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Now, let's meet my co-judges:
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Greg Baker: Our impartial American voice of reason.
Today we'll be taking a closer look at The Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia and Ireland.
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Charley says SONG! Betty – Déjà Vu
AATW has just uploaded Inna's 'Déjà Vu' video to their YouTube channel. Now don't get me wrong, I love this little Eastern European popstar that could. She took Europe by surprise with 'Hot' and is one of the front runners in the current Romanian pop invasion. However, it does slightly annoy me to hear yet another song mispronouncing the word 'déjà vu'. Beyoncé, I'm looking at you as well.
Once and for all, people, 'déjà vu' DOESN'T rhyme with 'you'. 'Rendez-vous' does, 'déjà vu' doesn't. There.
One track that does get it right is the Betty song posted above. 'Déjà Vu' was the last track on the Flemish 'Big Brother' superstar's debut album. It sounds very different to the rest of 'Come To Me', which mainly consisted of your average 2001 pop.
Basically, 'Déjà Vu' couldn't be more of an 'Encore Une Fois' rip-off if it tried. It's all there: the French spoken word intro, the techno synths and the title shouted as a chorus. That doesn't stop it from being slightly brilliant though. Bonus points for the fake French accent on the English verses, Betty's infamous laugh at the end and, well, apparently being the only person in pop to know how to pronounce 'déjà vu'.
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Ever look at a friend's Instagram page and think "now how did she do that". In today's social media obsessed world, people are content to share their lives with virtual (pun intended) strangers but it seems it's no longer enough to simply click "share" now we have to make sure what we're sharing is artful and interesting to look at. Adding text, doodlers and borders to your Instagram pics is now so easy that everyone is doing it and we're going to tell you how and why you should do it.
Adding borders and font to your Instagram pictures is a great way of making your post's appear more professional and interesting.
It enables you to communicate better with your followers.
The Organised Housewife recommends using an app called "A beautiful Mess", its $0.99 to buy from the app store.
Then press share, you have the option to share via Instagram, facebook and more.


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Q: Opening a second window from an IBAction How do I use a second window I created, is there a way to open it when triggering an IBAction event, e.g., a "touch down" event?

A: Usually, you create the window in a separate XIB file, and create a subclass of NSWindowController, that you set as the file owner of the XIB file.
Then, you need to override the init method to load the XIB file:
- ( id )init
{
    if( ( self = [ super initWithWindowNibName: @"MySecondWindow" ] ) )
    {}

    return self;

}

Then, you just need to create a new instance of your second window controller, and show the window:
MyWindowController * wc = [ MyWindowController new ];
[ wc showWindow: nil ];

That can be done from your IBAction method.

A: Just to expand a tiny bit on what Macmade stated:
I prefer the formal allocating memory and initializing the object.
MyWindowController * wc = [[MyWindowController alloc] init];
[wc.window makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];

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The Robots are Revolting!
A 'topical' review of the novel 'Robopocalypse' by Daniel H. Wilson, just two years after it was originally released!
I don't usually write reviews on my blog, well not requested reviews anyway, and I don't intend to start – I'll leave that to bloggers with much more of an interest in that sort of thing than me - but I have to right a bit of a wrong, especially now that I'm a published author myself.
In 2012 I wrote an Amazon.co.uk review of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse, a book about a future robot uprising against humanity, led by a super villainous Artificial Intelligence called Archos, and how we, or rather a handful of mostly Americans, fought back to eventual victory.
Daniel obviously knows his stuff when it comes to robots. He has a PhD in Robotics, a Masters Degree in AI & Robotics, and a BSc Degree in Computer Science. He builds a plausible future populated by all manner of servant robots. I have previously read earlier works by Daniel and enjoyed them immensely. Hell, I've even bought another of his books while I wrote this. Remarkable, he even sold the movie rights to Steven Spielberg no less, before the book was even released!
So, I had high hopes for this book. Very high hopes, indeed. I'd just read the socio-political, but deeply emotional masterpiece that is World War Z by Max Brooks, and hoped that that this would be a ' bad robot' version of that book. Maybe my expectations were too high, or maybe I wanted an exact replica of WWZ, but I was ultimately bitterly disappointed and gave it a bit of a kicking in my original review. I think that I need to readdress the balance a little.
Warning, spoilers abound!
Firstly, what's good about the book:
The near future world he builds, populated by a multitude of servant robots is detailed, plausible and well-constructed. This is an area in which he excels.
The scene where the AI is activated in cautionary isolation, kills the human 'operator', then finds an ingenious way to connect to, then escape into the wider world is pure genius. It's really inventive and masterfully written. It also chillingly demonstrates the advantage that faster thoughts, actions and communication would give the AI over us. This could be a prophetic warning about our own future, although I believe that true AI will immerge from augmenting our minds, and we'll be the Skynet / Archos of the real future, and therefore not very likely to slaughter ourselves out of existence.
There's a great scene of puny humans versus metal and plastic serving robot engaged in hand to hand combat, in which the humans are mercilessly mangled by the robot. This shows just how painfully vulnerable we'd be.
The Terminator series could learn a lot from this book. Killing machines don't have to be elaborate and intelligent, or even vaguely humanoid. There are some gruesomely effective, but elegantly simple killing 'bots in here, like exploding devices that initially burrow into your body along your bloodstream. Beat that 'Terminator: Genesis'.
(Warning Super Spoilers) The AI 'installs' itself into a frozen, inhospitable, snowy wasteland, many miles from humanity, thereby providing a simple, but effective, organic protection and cooling system. To create this 'lair', the AI tricks humans into boring into a deadly radioactive nuclear test cavern, from which they die of radiation sickness, thus disposing of them and providing a defence against any future human attackers. The AI, and its legions of robot defenders, are utterly impervious to this radiation threat. This is well thought through, and exactly how an inhuman, super intellect might behave.
The book has received considerable criticism for a lack of jeopardy, due to a narrative which starts in a post war world, in which the victorious survivors recount the events of the AI's creation and subsequent conflict. I think this is unfair. Apocalypse stories are now old hat and ten a penny. This book avoids telling a story we all know and instead concentrates on personal stories and goals from the conflict, and attempts to mine them for the required jeopardy.
However, building a novel from a patchwork of personal accounts of the events is difficult. Having a character speak the story would be a resounding car crash and at some point you have to switch into an archetype present-tense narration of the action. In this respect I think that the book actually does quite a decent job, even if each flashback is preceded by a dreadfully clunky, contrived introduction, which is a terrible way to stitch the action together. The problems really only start with the unrealistic characters, poor dialogue and badly explained action within each flashback. The lack of jeopardy actually stems from characters we don't care about doing things we can't believe.
What's not so good:
The murderous, hyper intelligent AI that orchestrates the worldwide slaughter only exits in one location – it's not a distributed system and it doesn't even make a single copy / back up of itself. I can't believe that an intelligence thousands of times greater than our own doesn't practice even the simplest of disaster recovery precautions, and I really can't believe that the author didn't consider it either. I can only presume that logic was secondary to servicing the highly unlikely plot.
The characters and treatment of non-American, especially UK protagonists – see the original review below for more information.
None of the characters sound authentic. They all seem to speak with the same voice, even the non-American ones (unforgivable!) and they're basically the cast of the Village People with a few borderline racist stereotypes thrown in to delineate the world wide scale of the uprising.
The big bad AI is named after the rubbish French budget tablet I wasted my money on during the Christmas 2012 holidays. (Ok, this is a personal niggle.)
My greatest issue with Daniel's writing is that none of it feels organic. Implausible situations arise to service the plot, people are paper thin caricatures who behave without logic, and talk like supporting characters in a brain-dead Hollywood blockbuster. Worse, obstacles are overcome by the most contrived 'deus ex machinas' possible. Even, the AI's motivations for attacking us, and its love/hate relationship with us, is muddled, confusing and deeply unsatisfying.
Ultimately, this book disappoints in a way that is all too familiar in our lowest common denominator, anti-intellectual 21st century world. There are no great truths to be unearthed here. This is not a sophisticated analogy for any human trait or foible. It's all bang and bluster. It's ultimately about nothing but itself and seems to only exist on its own singular superficial level.
It is unfortunately exactly what it initially appears to be – a detailed outline for a particular low-brow, 'park your brain in neutral', noisy, summer blockbuster movie. Given the authors background, you would be entitled to expect something more intellectually stimulating, or at least something that has additional levels for those of us who enjoy unearthing hidden depths.
I'm not saying this to be elitist or demonstrate how clever I am. But a book like this getting so much attention (and sales!) is indicative of the world we now live in. Book sales are in free fall. Movies get dumber and shallower every year. Televisions is full of reality shows populated by celebrated morons. Our children have attention deficit syndrome. Our young adults, the so-called Generation Y, can't make decisions for themselves and ignorantly don't have the patience to learn lessons from history. For a story about the Rise of the Robots, it could unintentionally teach us more about the Rise of the Idiots.
If it is intentionally about anything, then it's a warning about not being lazy and in too much of a hurry to offload our drudgery onto robots, and to be mindful of the unintentional consequences. If we start to sub-contract manual labour, or even simple chores to automatons then putting our thinking out to tender may not be too far behind, and we really have to proceed very cautiously before we enter that territory.
Strangely, the book doesn't seem to give us technology for its own sake. It doesn't fetishize technology in any way, as you might expect given the author. The future tech on display appears only to serve the story. Unfortunately, this only makes it feel like a less than totally complete and convincing exercise in world building. Maybe I'm just nit-picking.
Judging the book with the greater perspective that the passage of time affords, I would now give it 3.5 out of 5 stars, instead of the original woeful 2 out of 5.
World War Z went on to be an appalling, soulless (boring!) bloodless, mess of a movie. What's the betting that in the hands of Spielberg, Robopocalypse will spawn a triumphant human story of personal adversity set against spectacular worldwide genocide, if and when it ever gets made. (It's currently on indefinite hold because Spielberg considers the current scripts too expensive to film.)
Anyway, here's the original 2012 review in full:
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Read World War Z instead, 19 Feb 2012
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This review is from: Robopocalypse (Paperback)
I so wanted to love this book. I thought that the writers background, Spielberg's buying of the movie rights from galleys, and all of the great reviews, would guarantee a technological & emotional roller coaster, a magnificent world striding tour de force - in short, a modern sci-fi classic. What we got instead was a small, largely badly written, jingoistic, borderline racist, "isn't America the greatest country on Earth" movie treatment; and not a very good one at that!
Admittedly, the robots are far more imaginative than anything the Terminator movies dreamt up, but it all feels very small and lacking in any real jeopardy. With the whole world to write about the entire story involves a small handful of people whose lives are intertwined in the most contrived ways possible - then written about in the most mundane way possible. The writing is so poor that at times you can't decipher what's being described.
Oh, and if you're British, prepare for a London where Trafalgar Square has FIRE HYDRANTS and hoodies say things like "see you in the funny pages". You can tell where all of the writer's research went!
The final straw for me was reading about how the Indian, Chinese, Russia & Eastern European armies failed in their attempt to destroy the AI because they didn't wait for a handful of American's (the world's saviours, yet again - YAWN!) to show them how to do it. Not that it's any old Americans - no, it's Indians being led by cowboys! (Note: America, your history may seem like a long time ago to you, but to us it's the blink of an eye and has been done to DEATH! Get over it. It's now very, very tired to the rest of us.)
If you want to read a book of true worldwide conflict, human suffering, adversity and courage, then do yourself a real favour and read World War Z instead.
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Great book, thanks for sharing.


Episode: 4094 GA What Will You Leave Your Heirs?
Money is funny. We earn it, find it, spend it, and sometimes save it. We also use it as a carrot or stick with family and friends. What will our legacy become? Why do some family members wig out over inheritance issues? Is it all about the money? Or is inheritance dealing with larger issues? In this episode, author and attorney Mark Accetura shares insights and ideas that rattle and unsettle our lives. Mark puts us in our place, wherever that place may be.


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Football Discussion
Football Banter
Capello Hails Humble Gerrard
Keano's fan
The Brilliant Gerrard
He's just brilliant. He can shoot. He can pass, he can tackle. He's an unbelievable player. He can do just about everything, a complete player if you will, except for one thing. Hold on to his position!
There has been alot of debate over the last number of years on where he lies on players ranking ladder. Is he one of the best midfielders in the world ? Is he the best midfielder in the word ? Some think so. I disagree. The one thing a brilliant central midfielder should have in his game is the ability to control games and dictates tempo. Gerrard falls short on that category.
World class central midfielders had always have that. The most recent ones being Scholes, Xavi and Ballack. Fabregas is developing very nicely into a world class central midfielder as well. They all boss games with their choice of passing and the accuracy and timing of it.
Now, I called Gerrard brilliant and yet I don't have him amongst the worlds leading central medfielders. I even rank Xabi Alonso ahead of him. Then where does he lie ? Well, you cant really call Ronaldo a world class winger when he never got three assists from the wing in one season. But he's still a world class ... player! Gerrard has everything that you want in a football player. He's not anywhere near the best central midfielders in the world, but he is a better footballer than most of them.
He's a top class football going through a great patch of form. I wouldn't call him a world class football, but he's not that far from that elite. To each his own definition of the term 'world class' though, and I'm not expecting everyone to agree with me. But I think everyone can agree that at times the man is just a joy to watch.
I think your being a bit premature. He has played crap for 2 years, and after one game he is brilliant?? Take a reality check.
He played well, yes, but come on, thats the first time in years!
First time for England in the past two years ? Probably. But he's played about 8 games for England during that time, and about 80 for Liverpool. So it was premature of your part to assume that Im basing that on tonights game. I've actually typed this up three weeks ago based on what he's done in his career so far and the past 14 months or so in praticular.
RichardsReds
Keano's fan said:
God go back to the liverpool forums mate
lol I hope youre not serious ? So if I called Gerrard a brilliant player and Torres the best striker in the world at the moment then I must be a liverpool fan ?
But a speach about how good he is... Well as a united fan i wouldn't be singing any liverpools praises like that. Saying they are world class is enough for me.
Did i say you said he was world class? I said that.
But I didnt even call him world class, that was the point from the thread.
Its general football banter, I can say whatever I want about anyone and you have every right to disagree with me on anything. Im not gonna keep quiet about him just cause he's a liverpool player, Im a football fan and I like to comment on football issue including those concerning our rivals.
thekeanefella
Keen on Fella's
. He can do just about everything, a complete player if you will,
The one thing a brilliant central midfielder should have in his game is the ability to control games and dictates tempo. Gerrard falls short on that category.
Now, I called Gerrard brilliant and yet I don't have him amongst the worlds leading central medfielders.
Gerrard has everything that you want in a football player. He's not anywhere near the best central midfielders in the world, but he is a better footballer than most of them.
your post is full of contradictions.
I think when you read the thing as a whole, it would make sense. Instead of net picking out lines and not even complete sentences.
I didnt say he can do everything, I say just about everything. He doesnt dictate the tempo in games, you dont get the sense that he runs the play. Thats one of the things he doesnt have. I call him brilliant and yet I dont think of him as one of the best central midfielders in the world. Just like I called Cantona and Zola before him brilliant and yet they werent at any time the best strikers in the world. And you can be a brilliant footballer without being a world class player at a certain position, and vice versa. Roy Keane, footballing wise, wasnt one of the best around but as a central midfielder he had the total package for the position and he was arguebly the best.
contradiction -He's not anywhere near the best central midfielders in the world, but he is a better footballer than most of them.
dlan4327
Haha I like Gerrard but I think you misjudged the nature of most of the people on this forum.
With the exception of myself & maybe a few other I can safely say that the vast majority of this forums members
wouldn't hesitate to set Gerrard's house on fire if they got the chance. Trust me there is a lot of bad blood there.
Thank you Sir Alex
@ Keano's fan
Well its obvious that most of us don't like Gerrard. Maybe thats coz he likes to say things like "i want Man Utd to die" and he is a hypocrite and worse of all, he plays for Liverpool.
But if you turn a blind eye over those sort of things, yeah...... he's good.
You said Gerrard isn't as good as Xavi or Xabi alonso or Fabregas. I think you're comparing him with the wrong sort of players. The players you've mentioned are all playmakers. They do not have good physical qualities. Instead they use their excellent technique, passing ability and vision to dictate the game.
I consider Gerrard to be more of a box to box midfielder. These players have excellent physical attributes. You can see them tacking and defending in their own box and then scoring a goal on the opposite side. They drive their team on with their unlimited supply of stamina and as you said can do almost everything ala Michael Essien.
So if you're considering box to box midfielders, he's the best. I would go as far as to say that a box to box goal scoring midfielder like him is the one critical component that our midfield has been missing for years.
scottsati
forgetting the guy's blind opinions on all things united the guy is a class act, but would say in terms of liverpool yes, in terms of england someone really needs to get the whole midfield and lampard/gerrard thing sorted once and for all, even having said that though for england the guys world class performances have been limited to a handful of games and the not playing him in the right position or with the right players doesn't wash with me.
pele said of the 1970 world cup team and teams after that that if a player is truly world class he will be able to play ANYWHERE and with ANYONE, something gerrard hasn't lived up to
thekeanefella said:
Gary Neville has been one of the best full backs around for the past ten years. He's not as talented as some of the full backs that are/were around but he made for it by hard training and prfectioning the role he's given in the team.
There are plenty of brazilians playing their trades in streets and beaches that are as good of footballers as Ronaldo is but they'd be clueless if they were used in a proper match situation. likewise, Gerrard has more talent and skill than most of the central midfielders around but he lacks a couple of aspects to a footballer games that are vital to his 'position' therefore he isnt one of the best central midfielders around even though he has more to his game than all but a few.
red devil jeff said:
I appreciate your input mate. I can see where youre coming from, but youre looking too much into it I feel. 'modern day' tactics, the 4-1-3-2's .. 4-2-3-1 .. and so on, created positions that IMO shouldnt exist. The holding midfielder, the playmaker .. these are things any central midfielder should have. In a classic 4-4-2, both central midfielders have huge responsibilities at both ends. Being 'box to box' is a necessity, not a bonus. Keane, Vieira .. going back to Robson .. those are world class midfielders that used to do it all. They were box to box, they'd boss any game and they'd pitch in with a few goals.
Thats why I mentioned that the subject really depends on a persons prespective about football in general. You believe there are types of central midfielders and going by your definition, I belive youre right. IMO he'd be second only to Essien who has the potential to be THE best midfielder around. But in my view they should be all compared on one position, central midfielder. I wouldnt go further and class them as holding midfielder, playmakers, box to box midfielders, etc.
Cheers for your view.
scottsati said:
You see, with Liverpool and for the past two to three years, he's been played in a free role. Whereas with England he's played in the centre and is expected to boss games. You see the difference between the two Gerrards ? One praised for being the best in the world with 20 goals and as many assists last season, and the other is criticised for being overrated and not showing up for England. Thats why I dont rate him amongst the best central midfielders in the world, but when given a free role to just do what he likes ala Ronaldo, he's just brilliant.
NoxiousD
There is no Noxiousd, only ZUUL
Far overrated, goes missing during games, which is a big NONO for centre mids
reddwarf
Smeghead Moderator
I think Gerrard is World class.
He's a box to box player who one moment can be making a goal saving tackle at one end and then bursting forward and unleashing a 30 yard screamer into the corner of the net at the other.
He is a quality tackler, passer and striker of the football. His energy levels are right up there and he leads by example on the pitch.
Apart from Torres, he's the only Liverpool player I would have in United's starting XI. As for England, I think he is one of only a handful of World class players we have - the others being Rio and Rooney.
It's just a shame he's a Scouser.
NoxiousD said:
And for a captain.
So if you're considering box to box midfielders, he's the best.
I have to extremely disagree. And I'm not being biased here.
The best midfielder in the Premier League, and in the top 3/5 in the World I honestly think, is Michael Essien. Hes an incredible player imo, and I regret quite a lot that we didn't make more of an effort to get him.
manutd004 said:
Gerrard is more of a goal threat but I agree that Essien is World class, which is why I am pleased he's out for most of the season. He's a big miss for Chelsea.
Red Warrior Oct 17, 2008
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