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The "S" Word
Thought I'd stay in the personal post mode for a wee bit and continue to share this strange [frightening] journey.
I've learned dementia comes in waves but, oddly, with my mother, it seems to have mushroomed in the last week. Or maybe I'd turned a deaf ear to it, "convincing" myself it's just short-term memory loss (a phrase which I feel safer, more comfortable with). But, definitely, her grasp of time and events is declining.
The word for today is . . .
s-u-p-p-o-r-t
I've put it out there, my concern, anxiety and anguish . . . my tears . . . my heart and soul. Starting this week, we will have someone come twice a week for one hour. As my mother refuses to allow anyone but yours truly to do anything, the hour will likely consist of my mother chatting with said someone. It's a start. It will accustom my mother to different people; she'll learn [hopefully] to accept help from others.
We've got her with a home doctor now, too, as the one she had was way to far away. Another step. Medications will be reviewed. Maybe new ones administered. There's a physiotherapist to help with exercises once a week. If you looked in the dictionary for couch potato, my mother would be there. I say this with a smile and a wink; she's never been one for exercise. There'll be an occupational therapist at some point, as my mother's taken to falling during the night.
For all the years we toil and struggle, the families we rear, the relationships we maintain, the undertakings we, well, undertake, we should be able to grow old with dignity. It seems so terribly tragic, and heart-rending, that life in those "golden years" is more like tarnish. It's said that life isn't fair, but that sounds so despondent, and yet, appears to be true; often, it simply isn't.
But I refuse to be discouraged, or pessimistic. I have to [continue to] keep that faith, no matter how many challenges are thrown my way. It's not easy. And, yes, there are days when I want to give up, crawl under the covers and never come out again.
It's human to become dismayed and disappointed . . . but it's also human to become encouraged and inspired. This comes through . . . you got it . . . support.
If you need it, seek it. If you have it to give, offer it.
Believe in miracles. They do come true, you know. When least expected.
Author tylerusPosted on January 30, 2021 January 28, 2021 Categories Diary of a Blogger's Blog (Mine)Tags dementia, supportLeave a comment on The "S" Word
The "D" Word
As a writer/editor/blogger, words mean everything to yours truly. Sometimes I can spend a short lifetime finding just the right one to represent just the right mood, emotion, sentiment trait, characteristic, and/or detail.
This post revolves around one word—no more need be provided. It's the "d" word, which I will get to shortly.
Every now and again I like to get "personal" . . . share a little about my life as opposed to focusing on the world of writing/editing and blogging . . . to be transparent.
As you know, my writing/editing/blogging is rather limited due to two full-time jobs: the 9-5 work world (which is more like 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. nowadays) and mom-care. Both can prove challenging, but the latter has become increasingly more demanding.
Folks keep saying, take each day as it comes, don't think of the future, or you'll burn out. News flash: this caregiver is burned out. Majorly. With no support in place, I'm on overload 24/7. Now, it's not just administering many meds, making meals, helping with chronic pains and aches, tucking Mom in at night, and seeing all is good/comfortable . . . it's dealing with that frightful, fearsome "d" word . . .
d-e-m-e-n-t-i-a
My mother has officially embraced it. And I'm more sad/depressed/weary than ever. She has had short-term memory issues for some time but, other than having to repeat things 3-5 times (which can be annoying but is certainly manageable), the confusion factor has entered the equation. Big time. In the span of a blink.
Dementia has always terrified me. Maybe it's an irrational fear, but it's also a very real one. In terms of my mom, long-term care is the eventual option . . . eventual because the virus has made it impossible for LTC establishments to take in any new residents. Given what is transpiring with the vaccine, it may be some time before they open their doors again and, when they do, it will be to those many people already on the long, long lists.
I've done all I can . . . given 15+ years of my own life to support a woman who has pretty much always been centered on herself. But that's okay; she is who she is, as I am who I am. And it doesn't change what is transpiring . . . and what must, in due course, come about.
There's something cathartic about sharing this openly, to purge; unlike complaining, it's constructive. For those of you in similar situations, hang in. Find organizations that can assist or provide guidance. Locate support groups. Vent to a friend, in the mirror, in a notebook or on the laptop when it's proving too much. Release the anguish, resentment, woe. For the interim, yes, it may seem [very] overwhelming, but things do—in time—change. And for the better. Keep the faith, always.
There'll always be another challenge, another test. Believe in yourself and know that you are capable of enduring anything and everything that comes your way. Share (unburden) when you feel the need, and [always] stand tall.
The last two paragraphs were for you as much as me . . . I was reminding myself, and advising you, of "to-dos" and "remembers".
So here's one more "d" word . . . d-r-e-a-m.
Dream of all the good things that are to come. They're there, in the distance, bright as the light at the end of that proverbial tunnel.
Take care, stay well, and God bless.
Author tylerusPosted on January 28, 2021 January 27, 2021 Categories Diary of a Blogger's Blog (Mine)2 Comments on The "D" Word
A Film is a Petrified Fountain of Thought
So is a book, I believe (thank you to Jean Cocteau for that quote). Post #5, the last in the "series" of favorite books/authors who have influenced me in one form or another, goes to Russian-American author, Ayn Rand. I've enjoyed all her books, but I think The Fountainhead takes the number one spot (I still see Roark's architectural creativity in certain dwellings).
A quick what's what: this 1943 novel revolves around Howard Roark, a young architect with an innovative flair. A designer of modernist buildings, he won't part from his concepts to act on other's wishes; it's his way, or no way. He symbolizes what Rand viewed as the "ideal man".
A fairly intense read set in the 20s, Roark is ousted from Stanton because he won't stick to historical architectural convention. He heads to New York and lands a job with a once celebrated architect, Henry Cameron, who has lost favor and only receives the odd contract. They create some notable work, but don't do well financially.
Roark's destined to be crushed by self-centered individuals. Ellsworth Toohey, a malevolent soul, is a collectivist critic of architecture who wants to ruin Roark's career. A man who embraced wealth after being born into poverty, publisher Gail Wynand pursues power over others; he proves disloyal to our young architect when he can no longer contain popular opinion. And let's not forget the intriguing heroine, Dominique Francon, a columnist for The New York Banner. She fluctuates between aiding and undercutting Roark (a love-hate relationship if ever there was one).
In some ways, it has the elements of a well-crafted soap opera, with characters possessing envy, greed, and pride, among other things, and how those feelings influence, alter, or destroy relationships/marriages. We also have good versus evil, which makes for solid tension and friction.
Rand received several rejections for The Fountainhead. Fortunately, she had an agent, who diligently submitted the manuscript to various publishers. Knopf contracted the book in 1938, but when she was only half done come late 1940, the contract was annulled. More rejections ensured. Finally, Rand began submitting herself . . . with success.
I always liked the concept of individualism, which Rand is known for, and is the primary theme of The Fountainhead—"not in politics but within a man's soul". And that soul belongs to Roark, a resilient, independent man who won't give up principles and vision for money or fame. Nor will he befriend someone to move up the corporate ladder. Strong and resolute, he's true to himself. Roark embodies the traits/qualities I always wished I possessed. (No wonder I particularly enjoyed that book so much.)
And, yes, there was a movie . . . a petrified fountain of thought . . .
Author tylerusPosted on January 23, 2021 January 22, 2021 Categories Diary of a Blogger's Blog (Mine)Tags Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead2 Comments on A Film is a Petrified Fountain of Thought
Nothing Will Come of Nothing
One of many notable Shakespearean quotes (King Lear). I like to take it further than King Lear telling Cordelia, his daughter, that she won't get anything from him if she doesn't praise him—if you don't make an effort, ain't nothing going to happen. Period.
Post # 4 re writers/books that have influenced/impressed me over the years is dedicated to The Bard, who I never tire of. I love The Sonnets in particular but could read Hamlet or Macbeth for the umpteenth time. True escapism. Traveling to another time and place. Yes, a definite favorite.
This great English playwright, dramatist, poet and actor prompted me to immerse myself in English history. A fascinating period, yet I can't say I'd like to have lived in those turbulent times with gruesome sports—bear baiting to this animal lover goes beyond despicable. I do, however, rather enjoy the "romanticism" that bleeds from the pages of certain plays, the immorality that trickles from many, and the cleverness that courses from others.
I think one of my favorites is Sonnet 43—there are 150 as an FYI—When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes See Best.
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form from happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
This sonnet, it's said, comes after three that are known as the "betrayal sonnets". It's believed that betrayal is staining the emotions the narrator is expressing. In the first lines, the speaker refers to the differences between his days and nights. At night, he can see because the youth illuminates his dreams; during the day, however, things are darker. I'm fine without clarification or elucidation; I simply enjoy reading Shakespeare for the sheer beauty of the lilting communication, and the vivid imagery he inspires.
It seems appropriate to end with this quote (from Hamlet):
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
As a writer, I'm always searching for just the right word—he smiled disarmingly, the gut-churning smell of rotting debris, the soothing scent of plumeria. The Bard always presents the perfect ones for the given episodes.
Author tylerusPosted on January 20, 2021 January 20, 2021 Categories Diary of a Blogger's Blog (Mine)Tags Shakespeare, The Bard, The SonnetsLeave a comment on Nothing Will Come of Nothing
Something Chillingly Entertaining this Way Comes
And that would be Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes . . . another terrific book that I've read a few times . . . simply because it's that good. I'm not a fan of the sci-fi, horror or fantasy genres per se (I prefer the "reality" of fiction, he-he), but Bradbury's my exception. Never got into King but did read some Koontz back when. A gal-pal was a horror fan and suggested—badgered—I read a few of her favorites (hers, I emphasize, far from mine).
Bradbury was on my junior high school English-class reading list—The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, and Dandelion Wine specifically. I so enjoyed those, I went out and bought The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked this Way Comes.
Something Wicked was written in the early 60s and is described as "dark fantasy". It revolves around two teenaged best friends, Jim Nightshade (great name) and Will Halloway, who are about to turn fourteen. The story opens with a lightning-rod salesman, Tom Fury (love it) telling them a storm is headed their way. Fury, by the by, isn't necessarily what he seems, but you'll have to read the book to learn more. That night Will and Jim meet up with townspeople who sense something [ominous?] in the air. Oooh, what could that be (in addition to foreshadowing)?
Boys being boys, the two head out at three in the morning to watch the arrival of a traveling carnival . . . one that turns out to be pretty freaky and creepy. Even more eerie? The carnival is overseen by—got to love this name too—the mega-tattooed Mr. Dark.
Dark has magical powers of the, pardon the pun, dark side; he can make wishes come alive. He's also pretty good at sucking the life out of folks. Fear is a predominant theme in the book—like that which Will's father harbors of growing old. Jim, on the other hand, can't wait to grow up. Age/aging is also a theme. Perhaps that's why I could relate to this book so much; when I was younger I had an obsession with growing old (I absolutely feared it).
Like a carnival merry-go-round, Something Wicked spins a fascinating if not frightening tale of the proverbial good versus bad—or the upright versus the wicked. And something I hadn't known (or perhaps it had been forgotten over the years), the title is based on a line from the weird witches in Macbeth: "by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes". Ni-ice.
Yes, there was a movie of the same name, and the 1983 flick was a decent adaptation of the book (saw it three times). It featured Jason Robards as the unhappy father, Jonathan Pryce as the devious Mr. Dark, Vidal Peterson as Will (and Arthur Hill as the adult Will narrating), and Shawn Carson as Jim.
An America screenwriter as well as an author, it's said Bradbury started writing during the Great Depression at the age of eleven. Impressive indeed. A fascinating man, he received countless awards, was a strong supporter of public library systems, and served as consultant for the Los Angeles Student Film Institute, among many other things; I won't reiterate/list what you could easily Google if you're interested. But this talented man certainly entertained—and prompted a few frissons—over the years.
Hmmmmm . . . think I'll head down to the storage room and pull out a Bradbury book or two.
Author tylerusPosted on January 16, 2021 January 15, 2021 Categories Diary of a Blogger's Blog (Mine)Tags Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes2 Comments on Something Chillingly Entertaining this Way Comes
Unraveling the Memory Web
Welcome to Post #2 re books that have influenced or affected yours truly. This time, I'm going to go way, way back . . . to a lovely children's book, one of the best-selling of all time, by E.B. White . . . Charlotte's Web.
Written in 1952, the story revolves around a lovable little pig, the runt of the litter, named Wilbur and his companionship with an amicable barn spider called Charlotte. It's a bittersweet tale, one that had me sobbing—hysterically—into towels in the bathroom (in my parents' house, showing emotion was taboo). I can't say that any other book has affected me the same and I've never forgotten that tale over the decades (yes, it's been that long).
There's a kid named Fern Arable who pleads for Wilbur's life. Naturally, her father, being the kind caring soul daddies can be, gives him to her. Initially, he's a pet but when he begins to grow, he's sold to Uncle Homer. Exit Fern, who kind of blends into the background.
In Homer's barnyard, the other animals ignore our sweet swine. That's so sad (especially to someone who had difficulty making friends as a child). Craving friendship, Wilbur is befriended by Charlotte. When it's learned the little porker is on the chopping block, it is sweet Charlotte (no pun intended) who comes to his rescue. She thwarts his demise by weaving praising words into her webs. People notice and believe this is nothing short of a miracle and, lo and behold, the farm becomes a tourist attraction.
Our four-legged friend is entered in the county fair and, while he doesn't win the coveted blue ribbon, he does receive a special prize. Having been accompanied there by Charlotte and Templeton, a barn rat, Wilbur returns home with Templeton. Charlotte <sniffle> is dying of natural causes and decides to remain on the fair grounds; she does, however, allow Wilbur to take her egg sac home, where her children will one day hatch.
They do, but <snuffle, snuffle> most leave. Only three remain and take up residence in Charlotte's old doorway. Happy to have new friends, Wilbur names one of them Nellie. The other two name themselves: Joy and Aranea.
I never saw the movie (don't think I could sit through it without a three-tissue-box cry, but I'll include the trailer below), but the book is a truly a bittersweet tale with a beautiful ending . . . one that would appeal to big kids, too. You can take it as a simple children's story or go up and beyond, and read dissertations on the repeated death theme, story pattern or language style (it's a little more complex than a ten-year-old might imagine).
American author E.B. White wrote several children's book in addition to Charlotte's Web, including Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan. He was also a writer and contributing editor to The New Yorker magazine, among other things. A gifted man, to say the least.
More memory unraveling to come . . . .
Author tylerusPosted on January 13, 2021 January 12, 2021 Categories Diary of a Blogger's Blog (Mine)Tags Charlotte's Web, E.B. White2 Comments on Unraveling the Memory Web
Flying over Memory Lane
I've always been loath to state my age, or even hint at it. Vanity? Maybe. But you'll have an idea, anyway, when I post this review . . . a flight down memory lane. <LOL> So be it.
The aim of this post, and a few to come, is to review books that I enjoyed over the years, that may have influenced me (this is how to write) or stayed with me (lesson learned).
In this one-off case, it's actually the movie (later the book) that captured this kid's interest—and awe. Her parents, on a rare outing, took her to a mammoth cinema with draping curtains, plush seats, and fancy chandeliers (at least, that's how this wide-eyed kid remembers it).
As soon as the lavish curtains lifted and the lights dimmed, excitement coursed through me (and it wasn't courtesy of the sugar surge from a mega-sized chocolate bar). Then, the music started. Intense, feverish, hypnotic. On the colossal screen: a raging blizzard, hurtling snowplows, active airport. I was riveted!
American composer, arranger and conductor of film music, Alfred Newman created the fantastic music to Airport. It still brings on chills of excitement every time I watch it—which is often. That it dates back to 1970 is irrelevant. It's still entertaining and exciting, the "comfort food" of films.
Quick background: based on Arthur Hailey's bestselling novel of the same name, it was written and directed by George Seaton, screenwriter/playwright/producer, and starred Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. Other central characters were tragedy-to-come Jean Seberg, destined-star Jacqueline Bisset, and ever-lovely Helen Hayes.
Years later, I picked up the book and enjoyed all 440 pages immensely. The intertwining lives of the various characters makes for a first-rate soap opera. (The next time I watched the movie, I understood the underlying relationships and reactions. Not that you need to read Airport to watch it, but it's a nice little bonus.)
The storyline? Well, the film—the first of the 70s disaster flicks—takes place in a Chicago airport during a blizzard. One plane has managed to bury itself in the deep snow, blocking a vital, much-used runway. The King of Cool (Dean Martin for those not familiar with the nickname) is the pilot of a Rome-bound flight, one that needs urgently to turn around from its intended destination and land on that blocked runway. The reason? Ooooh, that would give away the plot. Can't do that. But, I promise, it's gripping.
A simple summary, but a fun watch. And an enjoyable read.
Arthur Hailey, by the by, is a British-Canadian author who also penned Hotel (on which the TV series was based), The Moneychangers (which became a mini-series), and The Evening News, among others. Interestingly enough, some critics found him a "plodding writer" while others believed he was a talented storyteller. I strongly agree with the latter.
I fly down memory lane (also known as Airport Lane) a lot film-wise. But I've decided I'd like to re-visit the book. I'm looking forward to a[nother] most pleasant flight.
Author tylerusPosted on January 9, 2021 January 7, 2021 Categories Diary of a Blogger's Blog (Mine)Tags Airport, Arthur Hailey, George Seaton2 Comments on Flying over Memory Lane
Review: THE BLACK FLEET – The Crimson Deathbringer Book Three (Sean Robins)
The third book in the series, The Black Fleet, continues to satisfy. It's not quite as complex perhaps as the previous two (The Crimson Deathbringer and The Golden Viper), but it still delivers—with brisk action, campy humor, and the crazy cast we've grown so fond of. They abound with zealousness (or is that insanity?). The threat this time deals with the fate of the future. Scary!
There's protagonist Major Jim Harrison—with new wife, Ella, a career military woman—and his nemesis/alter-ego, Venom. Jim's still an ace fighter pilot but is also the author of well-selling autobiographies; not only have they granted him a certain level of fame but have bolstered an ego that was rather big to begin with. Comrade Kurt returns, as does prankster Tarq, but the "insect" seems a little less dynamic than previously. General Maada takes a pivotal role and gives Jim a run for his money, er, space fighter, er . . . .
Sean's characters are well crafted and alternative planets and lifeforms—like the Akakies, Volts, and Talgonians—are thoroughly detailed. It's easy to visualize the action in all its explosive fervor. Energy and danger overflow as heroes/heroines and enemies engage in thrilling skirmishes.
I looked at Earth, visible from the front window, and admired its magnificent beauty for the thousandth time. No matter how often I saw Earth from orbit, this view always made my breath catch and my spirit lift. My planet, where all my loved ones lived, including my unborn child. In this wide universe, this was the only place I called home, which incidentally I'd helped save a couple of times, along with the rest of the galaxy.
If pride really were a deadly sin, then I was going straight to hell.
And now new baddies were coming for her. Well, guess who was standing in their way. But first, there was a minor issue I had to deal with.
"You know what, Tarq?" I said conversationally. "It's just occurred to me you never answered for the seven hundred million humans you got killed."
Another thrilling ride to be sure, one that leaves you longing for another. Lucky us—there's a fourth one to come.
A definite 4 out of 5!
What about Sean Robins? As may be evident from the Crimson Deathbringer books, he's a huge fan of Marvel, Game of Thrones, Star Wars and Star Trek. He's a university/college-level English teacher and has lived and worked in six different countries, including Canada. Sean has met people from all around the world, which is "probably why my characters look like the bridge crew from Star Trek".
His favorite author is Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files), which is why he ended up writing in first-person POV with the same light-hearted, funny tone. The fact that his MC's name is Jim is purely coincidental, and has nothing to do with Captain James Kirk either.
Please check Sean out on Amazon, Goodreads, Twitter (@seanrobins300) and/or Facebook (facebook.com/seanrobins300).
Author tylerusPosted on January 6, 2021 January 4, 2021 Categories Fellow Writers & Bloggers, Reviews (Others)Tags Sean Robins, The Black Fleet, The Crimson Deathbringer, The Golden ViperLeave a comment on Review: THE BLACK FLEET – The Crimson Deathbringer Book Three (Sean Robins)
2 for 2021
The last 2 weeks of 2020 were nightmarish, for reasons best not shared. But here's to dropping negativity and aiming for—and embracing—positivity.
Day 2 of 2021, a brand spanking new year, has started calmly . . . with resolutions made . . . and now to be kept.
The private eyes at the Triple Threat Investigation Agency shared theirs not long ago, as have I. We'll endeavor to see they don't fall to the wayside.
And while we're on the topic of a new year, here's to:
♥ blogging and writing regularly ♥ meeting fellow bloggers and writers and making new friends ♥ augmenting our crafts ♥ keeping promises ♥ moving onwards and upwards ♥ helping / teaching others, and ♥ believing anything is possible.
Life sends many challenges our way (and some seem beyond taxing) but, ultimately, we do overcome them. Know that any trials and tests you encounter can be surmounted, no matter how overwhelming they may seem at the time. You can and will conquer them; they will not conquer you!
Let's keep the faith. Always.
Author tylerusPosted on January 2, 2021 January 1, 2021 Categories UncategorizedTags keeping the faithLeave a comment on 2 for 2021
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Republic of Korea won the 18th Asian Games women's handball tournament yesterday, defeating China 29:23 (12:9) in the final last night.
The tournament saw 10 teams - Republic of Korea (KOR), Kazakhstan (KAZ), China (CHN), India (IND), Democratic People's Republic of Korea (PRK), Indonesia (INA), Japan (JPN), Hong Kong (HKG), Thailand (THA) and Malaysia (MAS) - competing in a preliminary round of two groups, before moving on to the placement and knockout rounds.
Korea coach Keychung Lee, in his first tournament as national team coach, saw his side lead in the final by three at the break (12:9), Korea showed their strength in the second half to double their winning advantage thanks to eight goals from Yura Jung, although Xiamei Liu did her best to keep China in touch, scoring 10 in total, but Korea goalkeeper Saeyoung Park did her very best too, ending with a 46% save rate after stopping 12 Chinese attempts.
Korea had got to the final by winning all their preliminary group games (vs PRK 39:22, IND 45:18, CHN 33:24 and KAZ 34:22) and semi-final, against Thailand 40:13.
To get to the final, China, led by new coach – the experienced German Jörn-Uwe Lommel – won their last preliminary match against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 34:31 to set up a semi-final against Japan which they edged 32:31 thanks a strike from Lan Xiaoling with just over 90 seconds remaining.
The 2018 result means that Korea defend their 2014 title won at home in Korea and makes it seven gold medals out of eight since the women's competition started at the Asian Games, after China won the 2010 edition.


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Now for each 100 visitors who visit your sales funnel, you will offer 10 products, a trio of extra items, and a single yearly plan. This results in an earnings of $600, which translates to a whopping 1,200% increase in earnings.
Now the increased earnings margins will enable you the necessary leverage to outspend your business rivals in important areas such as ads that will further increase the number of possible customers who will walk right into my sales funnel.
With so numerous various types of sales funnels available, it is necessary to come up with one that has been tailor-made for you business model. While that used to be difficult and difficult, it is much easier to carry out with Clickfunnels.
Obviously, let's begin with the most important thing– ClickFunnels simply works, and it does what it says it is going to do. It constructs total sales funnels for users, allowing them to drive both leads and purchasers alike to these sales funnels after they have been established.
In addition, it permits users to process payments, uses a versatile page contractor to create personalized construct pages, permits for downsells and upsells, features an autoresponder and affiliate management tool, therefore much more.
In addition, ClickFunnels enables you to establish your funnel pages really quickly and easily. In addition, Clickfunnels likewise has the choice for an integrated email marketing software. This allows you to flawlessly synchronise your sales pages with your e-mail follow up and get rid of e-mail software like aWeber and Mailchimp. With automation like this, you can also maximize more of your time to focus on more vital things … Like growing your service!
ClickFunnels enables you to do A/B screening for each of your pages within your funnel. In addition, you can create subscription websites utilizing ClickFunnels. After your leads have actually registered, they will have the ability to get to use exclusive subscription parts of the service that you have actually produced and preserve.
Not just that, but ClickFunnels likewise features combinations with PayPal and Stripe. With this, you are able to accept payment for the services, subscription sites, or items that you supply to your customers and clients.
You can develop an entire business on Clickfunnels! You don't need to have a separate site and pay for hosting– because that is all consisted of in Clickfunnels.
You can likewise delight in features that allow you to handle, recruit, and pay your affiliates. And, obviously, you will have access to all the analytics and metrics required to evaluate your funnel performance, campaigns, sales, and conversions, in addition to A/B screening outcomes.
The primary objective of Clickfunnels is leveraging the software to maximize the spending of each client who takes part in your service or product and changing them into possible big spenders.
Clickfunnels comes stock with a comprehensive database of beautifully premade design templates. They are simple to utilize and take just minutes to establish.
Clickfunnels also has a market where you can buy and sell complimentary or paid design templates. However do not fret since buying templates isn't required for the majority of people, there is a big range of templates that come developed in for free.
Anybody who has actually utilized landing page software application in the past will really appreciate Clickfunnels easy drag and drop editor. Gone are the days of making minor tweaks and continuously relaunching the sales page to make certain the changes look the method you desire them to look.
This is another effective function that puts Clickfunnels in a classification on its own since it comes stock with many effective widgets that other landing page soft currently does not.
Things such as SMS Sign up, Surveys, Pricing Tables, Progress Bars, Facebook Comments, FAQ Blocks and Countdown Timers, and Custom HTML can actually assist with conversions, and eventually mean more cash in your pocket.
I love spreading out fortunately with other people, and I best regards believe that this is how we were built. ClickFunnels allows me to share all of my funnels with both good friends and customers, and is a cool way to make some money on the side, too. How do I do that?
Initially, within the Settings tab of any of my funnels, I can easily pick the Share Funnel URL. This indicates each time a visitor shows up at that specific URL, they will have the ability to include this particular funnel straight into their respective account, just if they happen to be an existing member of ClickFunnels.
If they are on the wrong side of generating income, this is where the upsell bit begins: they will be offered a chance to try ClickFunnels for free for 14 days in order to obtain my funnel.
Apart from that, Share Funnel URL doubles up as my affiliate link. To put it simply, I will be able to earn passive earnings through a repeating commission presuming the new user remains. Why not find out how to leverage this function by being a ClickFunnels expert?
From there, I understood that it will need creating niche particular sales funnels in order to offer that to small-sized organisations. Apart from that, I could also offer the extremely exact same funnels in the ClickFunnels marketplace, where various ClickFunnels users can acquire them.
Sales funnels have this natural capability to be an excellent lead magnet or bonus offer throughout numerous niches, and is a wonderful approach to absorb visitors into my own funnel through an offer that offers something that they will discover beneficial.
ClickFunnels has actually made it very easy to get going with its innovating onboarding 7-day challenge. It quite much strolls you through how to use the software by making it fun, so if you stick through it to the last day you will understand all the ins and outs of Clickfunnels.
Selecting a funnel type and template and adding it to your account can use up to 10 seconds whenever you do so. I understand, not a huge deal but it can be an inconvenience.
The ClickFunnels base strategy has a limitation of 20 funnels, 100 pages, and 20,000 visitors monthly. This type of draws when you first look at it.
But when you really think about it, if you are getting 20,000 visitors a month you can quickly afford to go for the upgraded endless plan.
While ClickFunnels takes pride in a rather large range of features and functions, it can be a little intimidating to new users. While the overall interface in ClickFunnels is terrific, it may take a couple of trials in building numerous funnels before getting the hang of things.
Clickfunnels Pricing For 2018 [Upgraded] The most budget friendly ClickFunnels plan will cost $97 each month. For somewhat less than a Benjamin, you have the ability to access the totality of funnel creation tools, although the limits that I discussed earlier (development of 20 funnels, 100 pages, and 20,000 visitors) will be in location.
If you were to choose both features, then you would have to hand over $297 every month for the Etison Suite plan. This is the strategy that provides all of the bells and whistles, and most significantly, unlimited funnels, pages, and visitors.
It does not appear as though there are any ClickFunnels discount coupon codes readily available out there to take a smaller hit to your wallet, but choosing an annual payment will get you a 16% ClickFunnels discount rate. Whipping out my calculator, I realized it totaled up to spending for simply 10 months, while the staying 2 months are free.
Clickfunnels can be tried threat totally free when you sign-up for a complimentary trial. I just discovered a deal that will enable you to check out Clickfunnels for a 30 day free trial – so if you want to check out Clickfunnels – this would be the ideal time because it is a minimal time offer.
LeadPages happens to be a market leader when it pertains to building landing pages, and has acquired a level of extraordinary popularity. It does, however, have a rather minimal scope compared to ClickFunnels.
While you can wind up with a snazzy landing page rapidly to help me collect leads, it will not be able to do much for me in terms of offering a product or service. Remember, LeadPages' strength lies in lead generation (as its name suggests), but leave the sales to funnel bit to ClickFunnel.
Therein lies the distinction: SamCart is indicated to be easily established and sell right now, using assistance for both Stripe and Paypal while including 17 different kinds of personalized checkout page design templates. Nevertheless, it lacks the degree of versatility that ClickFunnel's drag and drop editor supplies. In other words, ClickFunnels has the ability to develop essentially any type of checkout page that I desire.
I would not like to be restricted by Samcart's standard modifications and pre-made templates. Apart from that, you may discover that Samcart is not up to the task of recording leads and developing total sales funnels.
While LeadPages and SamCart are certainly useful tools that have their own strengths, we have found that ClickFunnels is the finest comprehensive tool for organisations.
We hope our ClickFunnel evaluation has actually been helpful in determining the best service to you! Whichever service you end up picking, see how rapidly your sales– and earnings– are able to increase!
However other landing page home builders have likewise come out recently and have really given Clickfunnels a run for it's money.
ClickFunnels is a service that was developed over four years earlier by Russel Brunson and the team he works with. It was one of the first landing page builders to come out with easy drag and drop functions that made it basic for individuals to make sales funnels rapidly.
ClickFunnels also integrates with Paypal, Stripe, and numerous other kinds of payment processors. This has made it a go-to service for online marketers since it is simple to accept payments online.
Once they have done that, they are given the option to purchase your course or get a totally free e-book. If they purchase the course they are then provided an extra page to get one on one coaching from you. All of this can be done straight on right on Clickfunnels without having a site or paying for any additional software.
Clickfunnels also allows comes with it's own analytics software where you can see how effective your sales page is. It likewise enables you to A/B test your sales pages very easily so you can optimize your pages for the most sales or leads.
Prior to really beginning to enter this evaluation, it is very important to comprehend the importance of sales funnels and its function in producing maximum earnings.
But much like getting a ladies number does not indicate you will seal the deal, getting someone's e-mail doesn't mean you will make a sale– but it does increase your chances!
Like an excellent movie or book, you desire to develop an emotional connection with your audience and construct it as much as a crescendo that is type in producing the gold standard of business currency: trust. When you have gained the visitor's trust, it is far simpler for them to purchase choice.
From there, the sales funnel technique would need you to send out the consumer to a sales page. The sales page must be a standout page, one that has been specially designed and formatted in such a way so that individuals just can not wait to part with their money for a purchase.
The majority of the time, an excellent sales page will consist of a catchy heading, accompanied by appropriate videos or images, as well as bullet points that supply a fast yet informative reference on how the purchase would benefit one's life. All of these will work in tandem to keep your visitor excited, and hopefully, make a purchase.
When your customer has entered their charge card and made the purchase, this is the finest time to continue the journey of this good, warm fuzzy sensation that they have, and provide them a special single or additional One Time Offers (OTOs), and other kinds of upsells and downsells.
Lets say your business is seeing a conversion rate of 10% for each individual that visits your sales funnel. Now lets state that item deserves $10 a pop, netting you a net revenue of $5. So for each 100 visitors, you will average 10 sales, and get $50 earnings.
However what would take place if you were able to upsell 30% of your customers, as they choose to splurge on a $10 for an additional product, while another 10% of will register for an annual bundle of $500?
Now for each 100 visitors who visit your sales funnel, you will offer 10 products, a trio of additional items, and a single yearly package. This results in a profit of $600, which equates to a tremendous 1,200% increase in revenue.
Now the increased revenue margins will permit you the essential utilize to outspend your organisation rivals in crucial locations such as advertisements that will even more increase the variety of potential consumers who will walk right into my sales funnel.
With so many different kinds of sales funnels available, it is important to come up with one that has been custom-made for you company model. While that utilized to be difficult and tough, it is a lot easier to carry out with Clickfunnels.
Naturally, let's start with the most important thing– ClickFunnels just works, and it does what it says it is going to do. It builds complete sales funnels for users, allowing them to drive both leads and purchasers alike to these sales funnels after they have been established.
In addition, it allows users to process payments, uses a flexible page home builder to create personalized build pages, permits downsells and upsells, features an autoresponder and affiliate management tool, therefore much more.
In addition, ClickFunnels enables you to establish your funnel pages very rapidly and quickly. In addition, Clickfunnels also has the option for a built-in e-mail marketing software. This allows you to effortlessly synchronise your sales pages with your e-mail follow up and eliminate e-mail software application like aWeber and Mailchimp. With automation like this, you can likewise release up more of your time to focus on more vital things … Like growing your company!
ClickFunnels enables you to do A/B screening for each of your pages within your funnel. In addition, you can produce subscription sites using ClickFunnels. After your leads have actually signed up, they will have the ability to gain access to use unique membership portions of the service that you have developed and maintain.
Not just that, but ClickFunnels also features integrations with PayPal and Stripe. With this, you are able to accept payment for the services, membership websites, or products that you offer to your customers and clients.
You can construct a whole company on Clickfunnels! You do not require to have a separate website and spend for hosting– because that is all consisted of in Clickfunnels.
You can also enjoy functions that permit you to manage, recruit, and pay your affiliates. And, of course, you will have access to all the analytics and metrics required to examine your funnel efficiency, projects, sales, and conversions, in addition to A/B screening outcomes.
The primary objective of Clickfunnels is leveraging the software to optimize the spending of each customer who participates in your services or product and transforming them into possible huge spenders.
Clickfunnels likewise has a market where you can purchase and offer complimentary or paid templates. But do not fret due to the fact that purchasing templates isn't essential for most individuals, there is a substantial range of templates that come developed in for free.
Anyone who has actually utilized landing page software before will truly appreciate Clickfunnels simple drag and drop editor. Gone are the days of making minor tweaks and continuously relaunching the sales page to make sure the changes look the way you want them to look.
I love spreading out fortunately with other people, and I best regards believe that this is how we were constructed. ClickFunnels allows me to share all of my funnels with both good friends and clients, and is a cool way to make some cash on the side, too. How do I do that?
First, within the Settings tab of any of my funnels, I can easily select the Share Funnel URL. This indicates each time a visitor gets here at that particular URL, they will be able to include this specific funnel straight into their respective account, only if they occur to be a present member of ClickFunnels.
If they are on the incorrect side of earning money, this is where the upsell bit kicks in: they will be offered a possibility to experiment with ClickFunnels totally free for 14 days in order to get my funnel.
Apart from that, Share Funnel URL doubles up as my affiliate link. Simply put, I will be able to earn passive earnings through a repeating commission assuming the new user remains. Why not discover how to take advantage of this function by being a ClickFunnels expert?
From there, I understood that it will require coming up with niche specific sales funnels in order to offer that to small-sized organisations. Apart from that, I might likewise sell the very exact same funnels in the ClickFunnels market, where various ClickFunnels users can buy them.
Sales funnels have this inherent ability to be a terrific lead magnet or perk throughout various specific niches, and is a great technique to absorb visitors into my own funnel through an offer that offers something that they will discover beneficial.
ClickFunnels has made it extremely easy to get started with its innovating onboarding 7-day difficulty. It basically strolls you through how to utilize the software by making it enjoyable, so if you stick through it to the last day you will know all the ins and outs of Clickfunnels.
Picking a funnel type and design template and including it to your account can use up to 10 seconds whenever you do so. I understand, not a huge deal but it can be an annoyance.
However when you actually think of it, if you are getting 20,000 visitors a month you can quickly manage to go for the upgraded unlimited plan.
While ClickFunnels takes pride in a rather broad variety of features and functions, it can be a little daunting to new users. While the total interface in ClickFunnels is fantastic, it might take a couple of trials in developing numerous funnels prior to getting the hang of things.
Clickfunnels Pricing For 2018 [Updated] The most budget-friendly ClickFunnels strategy will cost $97 every month. For slightly less than a Benjamin, you are able to access the totality of funnel development tools, although the limitations that I talked about earlier (production of 20 funnels, 100 pages, and 20,000 visitors) will remain in location.
If you were to pick both features, then you would need to hand over $297 each month for the Etison Suite strategy. This is the plan that provides all of the bells and whistles, and most importantly, limitless funnels, pages, and visitors.
It does not seem as though there are any ClickFunnels coupon codes offered out there to take a smaller hit to your wallet, however going with an annual payment will get you a 16% ClickFunnels discount. Whipping out my calculator, I understood it totaled up to paying for just 10 months, while the remaining 2 months are free.
Clickfunnels can be checked out threat totally free when you sign-up for a free trial. I simply found a deal that will permit you to experiment with Clickfunnels for a 30 day free trial – so if you desire to experiment with Clickfunnels – this would be the best time because it is a restricted time offer.
LeadPages happens to be a market leader when it concerns developing landing pages, and has actually gained a level of extraordinary appeal. It does, nevertheless, have a rather minimal scope compared to ClickFunnels.
While you can wind up with a trendy landing page rapidly to help me gather leads, it will not have the ability to do much for me in regards to selling a service or product. Keep in mind, LeadPages' strength depends on list building (as its name suggests), however leave the sales to funnel bit to ClickFunnel.
Where SamCart is concerned, this particular item enables me to conjure a few of the better-looking checkout pages that also have a high conversion rate. So, how is it any various from ClickFunnels?
Therein lies the distinction: SamCart is suggested to be quickly established and sell right now, using assistance for both Stripe and Paypal while featuring 17 different type of personalized checkout page design templates. Nevertheless, it lacks the degree of versatility that ClickFunnel's drag and drop editor provides. In other words, ClickFunnels is able to design virtually any type of checkout page that I desire.
I would not like to be restricted by Samcart's fundamental customizations and pre-made design templates. Apart from that, you may discover that Samcart is not up to the job of catching leads and producing complete sales funnels.
While LeadPages and SamCart are certainly useful tools that have their own strengths, we have discovered that ClickFunnels is the finest all-inclusive tool for organisations.
We hope our ClickFunnel review has actually been helpful in figuring out the ideal service to you! Whichever service you wind up choosing, see how rapidly your sales– and earnings– are able to increase!


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Can the Billion Oyster Project make New York City the oyster capital of the world once again?
A tenth of the way to a billion oysters
May 20, 2022 Mary Frost, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Helene Hetrick, director of communications for the Billion Oyster Project, next to one of several mounds (called "middens") of oyster shells that are curing on Governors Island. The shells were collected from New York City restaurants. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle
New York Harbor was once filled with billions of oysters, providing a feast for the native Lenape people — and then the Dutch, the English and New Yorkers of all stripes. Some biologists estimate that the harbor once contained half of the world's oysters, according to New York Public Library.
Writers from colonial times routinely describe oysters "the size of dinner plates" in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. The delicious bivalves were sold from street stands, taverns and restaurants. An oyster-fry cook at Downtown Brooklyn's Gage & Tollner restaurant, which opened in 1879, was said to have shucked sixty-six million oysters in his forty-nine-year career, according to the New Yorker.
It all came crashing down around 1900, due to overfishing, dredging and pollution from the raw, untreated sewage the city dumped into the harbor. One by one, the New York City Health Department closed the remaining oyster beds, and the city's time as the oyster capital of the world was over.
Helene Hetrick, director of communications for the Billion Oyster Project,
Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle
Bringing them back
On Governors Island, a short ferry ride from Brooklyn's Pier 6, mountains of oyster shells rise into the air. These shells are curing in preparation for their role as the new homes for millions of baby oysters.
"It took less than 100 years to wipe out the oysters in New York Harbor. So the Billion Oyster Project is an effort to revive what used to be here," Helene Hetrick, director of communications at the organization, told the Brooklyn Eagle.
The nonprofit is getting ready to introduce their 100 millionth oyster to the harbor this year. It's taken six years to get to this point. "It's a tenth of the way to our goal of a billion oysters," Hetrick said. "We are hoping to get to the point where we are restoring 100 million oysters per year."
Calcium-rich oyster shells collected from New York City restaurants attract baby oysters and other life forms.
Oysters, like other bivalves including clams and mussels, bring enormous benefits to the water, Hetrick said. "When oysters eat they are bringing water into their body and are dispelling waste. So they are clearing the water of excess nitrogen — which causes algae blooms — and other pollutants that we know are harmful." An adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day, she said.
Oysters also have the ability to create reef habitat, she said. "We often see crabs, fish, eels and different seahorses in the harbor, and all of them are attracted to the clean water and the structure of oyster reefs."
As an added benefit, "The hope is that over time and as sea levels rise, those reef structures will actually be able to protect us from storm surge from the stronger storms that are happening here and elsewhere," Hetrick said.
This scallop shell was mixed in with the oyster shells curing on Governors Island as part of the Billion Oyster Project.
Restaurants donate shells to the organization
Thousands of pounds of oyster shells have been donated to the Billion Oyster Project by more than 50 restaurant partners in New York City, Hetrick said. The Lobster Place, which is a seafood distributor, collects those shells three times a week. Talisker Whiskey funds the collection program.
The oysters that people eat at local restaurants do not come from the harbor, Hetrick said. "If somebody eats at one of the restaurants, they can feel good about eating those oysters because they're helping to rejuvenate the oysters in New York Harbor.
"The reason we are collecting shells is that oysters need a hard surface to land on in order to grow their own shell and become adult oysters," Hetrick said. The shells sit outside for about a year to cure, "which means they're cleared of any pathogens or bacteria that we don't want to reintroduce to the waterways. Then we clean those shells, we put them into an enclosed structure, and put that structure into harbor water inside tanks. From there, we add oyster larvae — these are little oysters that are free swimming at that point in their lives, and they settle on to the shell, and that's where they will live out their lives."
In nature, oyster larvae settle onto empty shells or onto living oysters, which is how they build reefs, she said. "Then the little ones build their own shells."
Oyster shells collected from more than 50 New York City restaurants will eventually become home to baby oysters.
Education is key
The Billion Oyster Project works with more than 100 city schools, but their relationship with Urban Assembly New York Harbor School is fundamental. The Harbor School is a public high school which moved to Governors Island in 2010 from Bushwick. The Billion Oyster Project was founded by Murray Fisher, who was the founder of the Harbor School, and Pete Malinowski, former Harbor School aquaculture instructor.
Harbor School has a maritime focus, and the Billion Oyster Project supplies the school's Career and Technical Education programs. These include aquaculture, marine biology, professional scuba diving, vessel operations, ocean engineering and other areas.
Jaylen and Anna, juniors at the Harbor School, showed Eagle reporters a large aquarium filled with marine life. "This tank is called a recirculating aquaculture system," Jaylen said. "We take care of the organisms, make sure the tank is functioning well, things like that." Anna said their tank contained a variety of fish, along with starfish, snails, shrimp and oyster spat, which is what baby oysters are called after they attach to a surface.
From left: Jaylen and Anna, juniors at the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, supervise a large tank, called a recirculating aquaculture system, filled with marine life.
Jaylen and Anna participate in the New York Harbor SEALs (Sea, Air, and Land) afterschool program. Mauricio González, founder of the SEALs, is the founder and director of the Marine Biology Research Program at the Harbor School.
"I wanted to be a marine biologist and SEALs, as an extension of that, was really helpful because we learned a lot of things science-related," Jaylen said. "I've been looking at different marine biology programs that different colleges offer." He added that a graduate of the Harbor School "could choose to go straight into the field if you wanted."
SEALs have been cleaning and analyzing the marine debris from the rip rap (piles of stones) surrounding Governors Island. "We go out collecting and [sorting] what we find, and then we take it back into the lab, count all that and analyze what washes up," Anna said.
Mauricio González, founder of the New York Harbor SEALs, supervises students as they dig out debris from the rip rap surrounding Governors Island.
Field work out on the rip rap
On Wednesday, under the eye of González, the SEALs donned safety equipment donated by Con Edison before climbing over a fence onto the rocks. There they used long tools to gather what had washed up, prying out items that had wedged into the rip rap's deep crevices.
"We sort and classify all the debris and we turn it into data," said student Arlo. "It all goes into our data sheets."
A lot of weird things have washed up into the rocks, Arlo said. "We found a spice jar full of sage and it had a note written in Arabic inside of it … We think it was an obituary notice."
The work done by the students will go a long way towards making the harbor cleaner in the future, Hetrick said. "All the work that we are doing as a small organization would only be temporary if we don't educate the next generation to help us continue the work," she said.
Learn more about the Billion Oyster Project at billionoysterproject.org
A SEALs member prepares to climb out onto the rip rap surrounding Governors Island.
SEALs members buckle on their safety equipment before climbing out onto the rip rap.
Mauricio González, founder of the New York Harbor SEALs, supervises students as they climb over the fence and onto the rip rap to collect debris.
Members of the New York Harbor SEALs collect debris on the rip rap surrounding Governors Island.
SEALs members sort and track the debris their fellow students have collected from the rip rap surrounding Governors Island.
These oysters have been sorted into males and females at the Billion Oyster Project's hatchery.
Oysters eat different types of algae at different stages in their lives, as seen in these flasks at the Billion Oyster Project's hatchery.
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Porn site user data leaked via vBulletin vulnerability
800,000 members of Brazzers site were revealed following data breach
The detail of more than 800,000 members of porn site Brazzers have been released into the wild following a data breach using a vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software used by the website.
Brazzers said it had "taken measures" to stop people being able to use the information stolen to re-login to the forum.
The details of the breach were sent to news site Motherboard, which said it was sent the data by breach monitoring site Vigilante.pw "for verification purposes". In total, it includes the email addresses of 790,724 unique email addresses, although the dump contains 928,072 entries, many of which are duplicates.
Security researcher Troy Hunt spoke to Motherboard about the breach, after he was asked to help ascertain whether the entries were genuine users. He confirmed some of the members of his site, Have I been pwned said that their correct details were listed on the database.
"Problem with a hack like that is it's a forum," he said. "Worse than just adult website creds, this is what people were talking and fantasising about."
Some of Brazzers' users however, said they had used a spare email address to safeguard themselves should a breach happen.
"I used throwaway login/pass for this very reason," said one user, while another commented: ""It's unfortunate that my information was included in the breach, but that's the risk you run making an account anywhere on the web."
Brazzers' forums are a place where users can discuss their favourite scenes and actors in the porn industry, but it's not clear whether the criminals were able to access the conversations or just the login details.
Users are being urged to change their usernames and passwords for both the forum and other sites they use the same information for.
Brazzers commented: "This matches an incident which occurred in 2012 with our 'Brazzersforum,' which was managed by a third party. The incident occurred because of a vulnerability in the said third party software, the 'vBulletin' software, and not Brazzers itself.
"That being said, users' accounts were shared between Brazzers and the 'Brazzersforum' which was created for user convenience. That resulted in a small portion of our user accounts being exposed and we took corrective measures in the days following this incident to protect our users."
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Check out this tutorial to see how easy it is to set up hardware flows with Node-RED's drag-and-drop interface.
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Die Strassenbahn Aigle CFF–Aigle Grand Hôtel, auch Tram Aigle genannt, bis 1902 Strassenbahn Aigle JS–Aigle Grand Hôtel, war eine Strassenbahnstrecke in Aigle im Chablais im Kanton Waadt, die im Besitz der Aigle-Leysin-Bahn (AL) war und von ihr zwischen 1900 und 1932 betrieben wurde. Danach wurde die Zufahrtsstrecke zum Hotel eingestellt und nur noch die Strecke bis zum Depot mit Strassenbahnwagen befahren, welche die Zahnradbahnzüge zwischen dem Bahnhof Aigle CFF und dem Beginn der Zahnradbahnstrecke beförderten. Seit 1946 verkehren die Züge nach Leysin ab dem Bahnhof Aigle CFF mit Fahrzeugen für gemischten Adhäsions- und Zahnradbetrieb, sodass die Strassenbahnwagen nicht mehr benötigt wurden.

Geschichte
Die Strassenbahn wurde als Zubringer zum Grand Hôtel Aigle des Bains gebaut. Der Besitzer des 1872 eröffneten Hotels suchte nach einer Möglichkeit, seine Gäste vom Bahnhof zum Hotel zu transportieren. Ursprünglich sollte die Aigle-Sépey-Diablerets-Bahn eine Haltestelle beim Hotel erhalten, der Bahnbau verzögerte sich aber bis 1913. Das Hotel wurde deshalb mit einer Strassenbahn an den Bahnhof der Jura-Simplon-Bahn angebunden, die gleichzeitig auch die Verbindung zur Talstation der Zahnradbahn nach Leysin herstellte, die sich beim Depot der Zahnradbahn befand. Die Strassenbahn nahm am 5. Mai 1900 den Betrieb auf. Ab August beförderte sie auch die Wagen der Zahnradbahn auf dem Abschnitt Bahnhof–Depot, da diese über keinen eigenen Antrieb für das Befahren der Adhäsionsstrecke verfügten.

Wegen der Weltwirtschaftskrise blieben die Gäste des Hotels aus, sodass der Strassenbahnbetrieb zum Hotel im August 1932 eingestellt wurde, die Strecke von Aigle CFF nach Leysin stand weiterhin in Betrieb. Das Hotel schloss seine Pforten 1934. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges diente das Hotel als Flüchtlings- und Truppenunterkunft, bevor es 1947 abgebrochen wurde. Die Strassenbahnstrecke von Pont de la Grande-Eau wurde bereits zwei Jahre zuvor zurückgebaut.

Betrieb

Die Strassenbahn wurde mit drei zweiachsigen Motorwagen betrieben. Hersteller war die Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG) aus Neuhausen am Rheinfall, wobei die elektrische Ausrüstung von der Compagnie de l'industrie électrique (CIE) aus Genf stammte. Damit die Wagen sicher auf der Steilstrecke zum Hotel halten konnten, waren sie mit Klauenbremse ausgerüstet. Bei diesem System griffen mit Krallen versehene Bremsschuhe in Eichenbalken, die entlang des Gleises in die Strasse eingelassen waren.

Die Strassenbahnwagen hatten nicht nur die Aufgabe, die Strecke zwischen dem Bahnhof und dem Grand-Hôtel zu bedienen, sondern beförderten auch die Wagen der Zahnradbahn zwischen dem Bahnhof und dem Depot. Diese Aufgabe erfüllten sie auch noch, als der Strassenbahnbetrieb zum Hotel eingestellt worden war.  Die Triebwagen wurden erst mit der Umstellung der Strecke Aigle–Leysin auf 1500 V und der Einführung von Fahrzeugen für gemischten Adhäsions- und Zahnradbetrieb überflüssig und wurden 1946 abgebrochen.

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A view of Lake Oroville on Jan. 20, 2016.
California's second-largest reservoir water level dropped to 649 feet on Dec. 9. With recent storms, its filling back up and is now at 694 feet.
El Niño is officially here, and the recent soakings walloping Northern California are recharging California's drought-ravaged reservoirs with water.
Folsom Lake east of Sacramento rose 44 feet in the last month, and even more impressive, the elevation at Lake Oroville shot up a dramatic 20 feet in only six days.
"This isn't entirely unusual, but it doesn't happen every day," said Kevin Wright, the California Department of Water Resources Oroville Field Division's water services supervisor. "We haven't seen the water level rise like this since we've had the drought over the past approximately four years."
Lake Oroville, the second-largest manmade reservoir in California after Shasta, registered its lowest elevation ever at 645 feet above sea level on Sept. 7, 1977. Last year, on Dec. 9, the lake came close to this record, dipping down to 649 feet. But the recent storms are replenishing the lake, and the elevation on Jan. 19 was 694 feet.
"We had over three inches of rain locally in Oroville over a two day period," Wright said. "The ground was already wet on the surface from the past storms so that allowed for this heavy rain to provide more runoff."
He added: "We're getting some snow melt runoff. It may be some rain falling at lower elevations and melting some snow below 5,000 or 6,000 feet. We'll know better after we do our surveys of the snow pack."
Is this all a result of El Niño? Wright says he can't confirm this, but many meteorologists are saying the weather pattern known for bringing warmer temperatures and heavy rain is here in full force.
Lake Oroville, lying in the foothills on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, is a key gauge of the state's water health. Storing winter and spring runoff that's released into the Feather River to meet State Water Project needs, Oroville is important for flood control, water use and recreation. The lake reaches full capacity at an elevation of 900 feet above sea level, which means another 206 feet are needed.
Wright said that at this point there's not a crystal ball to tell us what will happen by winter's end.
"There's a lot of winter left," Wright said. "Most of us in the business would never predict that this early in the season when we start out so low. We're hopeful that if we continue with storms that are like those coming in right now that we could come close but there aren't any guarantees."
He added: "We're not out of the woods. We're still in a drought and it's unwise to think that you can use a lot of water right now. Please conserve—everyone."


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Top10: Most Famous Photographers of All time
Posted on August 05, 2013 - By Editor
Who are the most famous photographers of all time? Hard to say but here is a top 10 with a list of incredible masters of photography. Even if you don't know a lot about photography you have certainly heard of them. The choice we made was not based on the beauty of the work but on the popularity of the photographers and their images.
1 - Ansel Adams (American 1902-1984)
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images. Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston. Adams's photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely distributed.
2 - Robert Capa (American 1913-1954)
On 3 December 1938 Picture Post introduced 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa' with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War. But the 'greatest war photographer' hated war. Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913, he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin. Driven out of the country by the threat of a Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933. He was represented by Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro. Together, they invented the 'famous' American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell his prints under that name. He met Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, and formed friendships with fellow photographers David 'Chim' Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson. From 1936 onwards, Capa's coverage of the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly. His picture of a Loyalist soldier who had just been fatally wounded earned him his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war. After his companion, Gerda Taro, was killed in Spain, Capa travelled to China in 1938 and emigrated to New York a year later. As a correspondent in Europe, he photographed the Second World War, covering the landing of American troops on Omaha beach on D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge. In 1947 Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. On 25 May 1954 he was photographing for Life in Thai-Binh, Indochina, when he stepped on a landmine and was killed. The French army awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm post-humously. The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955 to reward exceptional professional merit.
3 - Henri Cartier Bresson (French 1908-2004)
Born in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne, Henri Cartier-Bresson developed a strong fascination with painting early on, and particularly with Surrealism. In 1932, after spending a year in the Ivory Coast, he discovered the Leica - his camera of choice thereafter - and began a life-long passion for photography. In 1933 he had his first exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. He later made films with Jean Renoir. Taken prisoner of war in 1940, he escaped on his third attempt in 1943 and subsequently joined an underground organization to assist prisoners and escapees. In 1945 he photographed the liberation of Paris with a group of professional journalists and then filmed the documentary Le Retour (The Return). In 1947, with Robert Capa, George Rodger, David 'Chim' Seymour and William Vandivert, he founded Magnum Photos. After three years spent travelling in the East, in 1952 he returned to Europe, where he published his first book, Images à la Sauvette (published in English as The Decisive Moment). He explained his approach to photography in these terms, '"For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression." From 1968 he began to curtail his photographic activities, preferring to concentrate on drawing and painting. In 2003, with his wife and daughter, he created the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris for the preservation of his work. Cartier-Bresson received an extraordinary number of prizes, awards and honorary doctorates. He died at his home in Provence on 3 August 2004, a few weeks short of his 96th birthday.
4 - Man Ray (American 1890-1976)
Born in Philadelphia, Emmanuel Radnitsky grew up in New Jersey and became a commercial artist in New York in the 1910s. He began to sign his name Man Ray in 1912, although his family did not change its surname to Ray until the 1920s. He initially taught himself photography in order to reproduce his own works of art, which included paintings and mixed media. In 1921 he moved to Paris and set up a photography studio to support himself. There he began to make photograms, which he called "Rayographs." In the 1920s, he also began making moving pictures. Man Ray's four completed films--Return to Reason, Emak Bakia, Starfish, and Mystery of the Chateau--were all highly creative, non-narrative explorations of the possibilities of the medium. Shortly before World War II, Man Ray returned to the United States and settled in Los Angeles from 1940 until 1951. He was disappointed that he was recognized only for his photography in America and not for the filmmaking, painting, sculpture, and other media in which he worked. In 1951 Man Ray returned to Paris. He concentrated primarily on painting until his death in 1976.
5 - Robert Frank (American 1924)
Robert Frank is one of the most acclaimed photographers of the 20th century. His seminal book, The Americans, is arguably the most influential publication of photography among artists that followed. In 2009, a major substantial touring monographic exhibition and scholarly catalogue organized by Sarah Greenough made stops at the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans coincides with the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Americans, first released in 1958 by Parisian publisher Robert Delpire, and in 1959 by Grove Press, which made the book available to a wider audience.
6 - Walker Evans (American 1903-1975)
Walker Evans is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. His elegant, crystal-clear photographs and articulate publications have inspired several generations of artists, from Helen Levitt and Robert Frank to Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. The progenitor of the documentary tradition in American photography, Evans had the extraordinary ability to see the present as if it were already the past, and to translate that knowledge and historically inflected vision into an enduring art. His principal subject was the vernacular-the indigenous expressions of a people found in roadside stands, cheap cafés (1971.646.35), advertisements (1987.1100.59), simple bedrooms, and small-town main streets. For fifty years, from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, Evans recorded the American scene with the nuance of a poet and the precision of a surgeon, creating an encyclopedic visual catalogue of modern America in the making.
7 - Edward Henry Weston (American 1886-1958)
Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography."Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography"because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years. Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images. In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.
Edward Henry Weston
8 - Jacques Henri Lartigue (French 1894-1986)
Jacques Henri Lartigue is 69 years old in 1963 when he first presents a selection of his many photographs taken throughout his life in New York's MoMa. That same year there is a photo spread of his work in the famous Life Magazine issue which commemorates the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and which is publicized worldwide. To his great surprise, Lartigue becomes, overnight, one of the renowned photographers of the twentieth century. Jacques learns about photography from his father as early as the year 1900. Henri Lartigue rewards Jacques's enthusiasm by buying him his first camera when he is 8 years old. Thus begins the endless coverage of his childhood, including automobile outings, family holidays and especially his older brother Maurice's (nicknamed Zissou) inventions. Both brothers are fascinated by cars, aviation, and all sports with increasing popularity at the time. Jacques's camera freezes each moment. As an adult he continues to attend sporting events and to take part in elite sports such as skiing, skating, tennis and golf. However, ever mindful of the passage of time, photography is not quite enough to capture his childhood memories. A snapshot cannot encompass all there is to say and to remember. He thus begins keeping a journal and will continue to do so his whole life. Furthermore, as if to engage in a more renowned activity, he takes up drawing and painting. In 1915 he briefly attends the Julian Academy and thus painting becomes and remains his main professional activity. From 1922 on he exhibits his work in shows in Paris and in the south of France. In the meantime, in 1919, Jacques marries Madeleine Messager, the daughter of the composer André Messager, and their son Dani is born in 1921. Jacques and Madeleine get a divorce in 1931. He revels in high society and luxury until the beginning of the 1930's until the decline of the Lartigue fortune forces him to search for other sources of income. He refuses however to take on a steady job and thus lose his freedom, and so he scarcely gets by with his painting during the 30's and 40's. In the beginning of the 1950's and not in accordance with the legend in which he is a complete unknown, his work as a photographer is noticed. He nevertheless continues to paint. He embarks on a cargo ship to Los Angeles in 1962 with his third wife Florette. In a roundabout way, they stop on the East Coast and meet Charles Rado of the Rapho Agency who in turn contacts John Szwarkoski, MoMa's photography department young curator. There is all-around enthusiasm. The first retrospective of his work is held in Paris' "Musée des Arts Décoratifs" in 1975. One year earlier, Lartigue was commissioned by the President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to shoot an official portrait photograph. In 1979 the Donation Agreement is signed and Lartigue becomes the first living French photographer to donate his work to the nation. He authorizes the Association des Amis de Jacques Henri Lartigue to preserve and promote the fund. In 1980, his dream of having his own museum comes true with the Grand Palais' exhibit "Bonjour Monsieur Lartigue". He continued his work as a photographer, painter and writer until his death in Nice on September 12th 1986. He was 92 years old. He left us with more than 100 000 snapshots, 7 000 pages of diary, 1 500 paintings.
9 - Robert Doisneau (French 1912-1994)
During his long career, photographer Robert Doisneau documented the French people. His camera sought the surreal in everyday life; the amusing juxtaposition, the faibles of human nature, all captured by an artist who was charmed by his subjects. Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) was born in Gentilly, France. He studied lithography, but soon turned to photography. He worked for Renault as an industrial and advertising photographer until 1939. During the war he worked for the resistance forging documents. In 1948, he began work for French Vogue, but his heart was in photojournalism, and the streets of Paris, to which he returned in 1951. Doisneau has been the subject of major retrospectives at the bibliotheque National in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. His photographs have become widely recognized and beloved in the history of photography.
10 - Dorothea Lange (American 1895-1965)
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer, who studied photography at Columbia University and worked as an assistant to Arnold Genthe before beginning a photographic trip around the world in 1918. When she ran out of funds in San Francisco, she remained, opened a photographic studio, and during the early 1930s began photographing homeless rural people flooding into the city from the Dust Bowl exodus. Her photographs brought her to the attention of Paul Taylor, an economist at California University, who hired her to create a documentary record to accompany his report on agricultural conditions for the California State Relief Administration, and subsequently married her. When Roy Stryker saw these images, he hired her as a staff photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), for which she worked sporadically as Stryker's budget allowed 1935-9. During this period, she made many of her best-known photographs, including the image known as Migrant Mother (1936). She later also photographed for the San Francisco branch of the Office of War Information, 1943-5, recording the internment of Japanese-Americans and the founding of the United Nations. In 1954-5 she was a photographer for Life magazine, afterwards travelling extensively and producing photographic essays on Ireland, Egypt, and Asia.