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BYD Scrambles to Redesign Electric Car
By Norihiko Shirouzu
Updated Jan. 12, 2011 1:59 am ET
DETROIT—Chinese battery and automobile producer BYD Co. is scrambling to make a last-minute design change to its all-electric battery car and is now aiming to make the car available to private buyers in California and possibly a few other "key U.S. states" by 2012 after test marketing the car in Southern California during the second half of this year, said company Chairman and founder Wang Chuanfu in an interview.
The redesign of the car—called the e6—even before it is launched in the U.S. comes as a result of BYD's decision to improve the car's rear seating area and means the U.S. test marketing and launch of the electric car would be delayed, in the end, by about a year.


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TP Features: Interview with Chamber of Commerce chief
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That's why having a feature interview with the new president of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce was another in a continuously more consistent stream of serious, originally-reported material for Technically Philly.
Rob Wonderling is losing his office in the Harrisburg State Capitol complex.
On Aug. 1, the two-term Republican state senator from Delaware County will report to the Avenue of the Arts as the new president and CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, as the private, 5,000-member organization announced last month.
By taking the helm of the region's largest business advocacy organization, he says he's eager to rebolden the region's new business community.
"We've really lost the language of entrepreneurship [in the region]," Wonderling, 47, says. "Risk taking and capital and job creation are almost scurrilous terms in some political quarters. I feel very passionately that for a free democratic society, we need all of that." Read the rest here.
After the jump, see some quotations that didn't make it into the story, in addition to what helped me grab the interview.
I spent last summer serving an enlightening internship with the historical Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents Association. While there, I pitched and wrote a story for the Allentown Morning Call on legislators using the BlackBerry and other handheld smart phones as legislative tools.
When Wonderling won his state Senate seat in 2002, the same year the BlackBerry came out, he became Pennsylvania's first legislator to use the mobile device as a legislative tool. Yes, he was capitvated by technology, I learned during my interview with him then.
So when I heard he was named the GPCC CEO, I knew it was a good angle for TP. I called his office, dropped a name or three and scheduled the conference call a full month in advance. Then, TP had a strong, serious piece on a major player in the city's business community.
Some meaningful content that was dropped from my story and Q&A transcript:
"The life sciences in this region are, of course, vibrant. But we need to have even more of a startup economy. We want to work on that, to create a broad civic manner that supports and promotes entrepreneurship."
"If you look at the statistics, really, 50 percent of jobs in Pennsylvania will be created by one person with an idea. Increasingly in the future, the more likely that startup will be driven by technology. So, we need to be more vibrant. We'd be foolish to not provide services for technology to that startup."
"That's important for entrepreneurship.
He didn't pass up an opportunity to take a swing at Rendell. "That's why I'm opposed to Gov. Rendell's plan to increase the personal income tax. The PIT is the startup entrepreneur's business tax."
"I lose patience with people who tend to wallow in mediocrity.
"We're really just scratching the surface with using technology.
"We need to keep recruiting companies and growing what is unique to our region. It's not only our economic mix, but also our geogeraphic proximity in mid-Atlantic region. …I would also say we have one of the greatest qualities of life, really, this region is one of the best places to live in the world. That goes for business, too.
"We must have a vibrant technology business community to invest capital and create capital to grow the economy. Fortunately, the Greater Philadelphia region is blessed with a diverse economy. But we cannot spend time on our laurels.
Posted on July 17, 2009 February 7, 2016 Author Christopher WinkCategories My writingTags Clips, Features, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Harrisburg, My entrepreneurship, My Web sites, Rob Wonderling, Technically Philly
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Hawaii... what a nice place. They grow nuts, fruit, and coffee. The coffee is expensive. It is mild (sometimes too mild). It can be terrible and flat, or it can be wonderful! The best coffees cost a lot and the worst cost way too much. So the goal with Hawaiians is to quit thinking that all Hawaiian coffee is good, and to realize that only a handful of coffees deserve the high price in terms of cup quality (you can easily argue that all deserve a high price in terms of the care and labor expended in producing them). And frankly, you must pay quite a bit for the truly great small-farm Kona.
We had occasionally offered coffees from Maui, Molokai, and Kauai. But these are not usually grown like true small farm Estate grade coffees from the Big Island, nor do they taste like them. Kona isn't grown at impressive altitudes compared to other coffee origins, but on Maui and Kauai coffee is grown at exceptionally low elevations, sometimes near tide pool level! Also, much Kona is an older coffee variety, Typica, a traditional type that cannot be grown at the lowest elevations. Recently, we found out that Ka'u coffees have come a long way, and can be excellent. So Ka'u is a region with credible quality potential.
In a historical sense, coffees like Kona are the pinnacle of a particular definition of what "good coffee" is: clean, pleasant, mild, good aftertaste. This is a notion of "good coffee" handed down from a time when low-grade coffee was called Brazil Rio and it had a seriously foul, dirty taste (so distinctly awful it is still called Rioy in defective coffee terminology). The best coffees were considered the polar opposite; island coffees -- mild, delicate and clean.
Certain exotic coffee origins we appreciate as intense and unusual flavor profiles, such as Yemeni coffees, Ethiopian Harar, and wet-hulled Sumatras for example, would be considered defective in this definition. If you love those intense coffees, Kona may seem too timid, too simple, too mild. With scores in the mid-80s, they don't rate like the best Kenyas or Ethiopias, but the descriptors indicate balance and clean cup quality. Consider this when you taste good Hawaiian coffees.
The famously fragile ecology of Hawaii has been shattered; along with other invasive species and insects, the recent appearance of Broca, the Coffee Berry Borer insect, has had a huge negative effect on the farms of Hawaii. Coffee is being downgraded before export, and can't fetch the prices it used to as an Extra Fancy grade when it gets knocked down to Kona No. 1 Grade. The affected beans do affect cup quality, but can be sorted out. Yet this takes labor, and in an expensive market that is just not feasible. Still, we are landing some really nice small-farm coffees, and paying prices to offset the losses the farms are experiencing from this latest crisis.


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People for Bikes' released its annual list of Bike Friendly Cities last week, and no surprise: the City of Santa Monica was near the top of the list. Santa Monica ranked #7 nationwide, #1 for any city in California and #2, behind Wasau Wisconsin, for small cities.
Santa Monica's high ranking should come as no surprise. Santa Monica has made strides in being a bicycle friendly city boasting a functional bike share system, Bike Center, a network of bicycle lanes that provides a mostly functional network and even a bike campus for safety classes.
The ranking formula also assesses cycling levels by looking at how much people bike within concentric zones emanating from the city center. That helps to control for city size, meaning cities with a large geographic area like Austin won't be inherently disadvantaged versus cities with tighter boundaries.
However, People for Bikes doesn't pull punches when noting that few American cities seem to truly understand how to create a network and atmosphere that is truly bike friendly. No city received more than three stars out of a potential five-star rating when compared to the best cities across the world.
"As much as it might hurt not to have any superstars, that's honest," PeopleForBikes President Tim Blumenthal told Michael Anderson, their official blogger, in a story announcing the findings.


My mother handed me a needle and thread at the age of 3. I loved watching her sew on her old White tredle machine. I saved my school lunch money and cleaned my father's records to earn enough money for my first sewing machine, a Singer Spartan. My first sewing class was in seventh grade. We learned all about theparts of a sewing machine and how to use it. We also learned how to draw the pieces for a apron and then learned how to sew it step by step with the teacher, Mrs. Hass, approving each step. After that project, I made a blouse. The blouse had a pointed collar, a flat tie with buttons on it and short set in sleeves. I had a sewing class in high school. I made a suit. The jacket zipped up the front and the skirt was "A" line style. I also made a shirtwaist dress that had a collar, sleeves and a gathered skirt. After finishing my major in college, I took a few extra courses. One of them was a sewing class. In the middle of the semester, I got a job through one of my teachers. I tried to convince my teacher to let my then boyfriend, now husband of 40 years, model a shirt as a assignment since I was working, but she wouldn't let me do that. While still in her class I taught HER how to insert an invisible zipper because she didn't know how! She was fresh out of college. Many years later I took a couple of sewing classes at our local Jr. College when we lived in South Lake Tahoe, CA. That was all for fun. My granddaughter modeled what I made at the fashion show that the class put on for the Administrators and parents of the students.
After College I worked in my major, Advertising Art & Design, and at the same time started my home business, Shirley's Creative Designs. At first I did projects related to my major, but then after my children were born, I started a "branch" of Shirley's Creative Designs by making 31 of my "Jennifer the Musical Doll". The picture is of my daughter at age 2 1/2, now 28! Later on I added designing cloth dolls and doll clothes in quantity to my business and then stuffed toys & animals. Recently I have added designing faces for clients dolls and embroidering them on my embroidery machine. I have been in business for 26 years! I currently have 5 machines, a Singer straight stitch/zigzag Industrial machine, a Brother Industrial serger, a Kenmore serger, a Brother SE400 sewing/embroidery machine, and a Brother PE770 embroidery machine.
I'm located in Carson City, NV. Everything I sew or embroider is " MADE IN THE USA".
Formula that works sometimes 3 x the supplies purchased divided by # needed.
Depends on the project, what's needed or wanted, how many and availability of supplies.
Payment is always by PayPal. PayPal allows the customer to pay with their credit card or their PayPal account.
It's easy to set up a PayPal account and usually only takes a few days.
The customer pays me back after I get a receipt, scan it in and send it to them by email.
USPS Priority Mail with extra insurance depending on how much the project is worth to re-do if lost.
The customer sometimes has another preference for shipping. I'm OK with that idea.
Sometimes the customer has an account for their preferred shipping company and will allow me to send their project that way.
My policy is to have the customer not change their mind, add or subtract something from their project once sewing the project or in production of a quantity, for an individual project, or manufacturing has begun. By that time all changes should have been approved.
Once sewing or manufacturing has begun, the customer is not to give the project to anybody else or any other company anywhere in the world. The project belongs to Shirley's Creative Designs until the contracted amount is finished.


September is officially known as National Sewing Month and what better way to celebrate than to spend a day (or more!) sewing. Last year our Chefs whipped up a batch of Moda Bake Shop Basics – tutorials to help with some basic sewing and quilting techniques. Find links to some of the most popular ones below.
How are you celebrating National Sewing Month?
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M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering (MKCE) is located in Thalavapalayam on the way to Karur and Salem. The college was founded by M. Kumarasamy, the correspondent and also the management trustee of M. Kumarasamy Health & Education Trust in the year of 2001. The college is affiliated to the Anna University, Chennai and also approved by the All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi. Mr. Raja Subramanian is the college's general manager.

MKCE (autonomous) history

MKCE established in the year 2000 by the M. Kumarasamy Health and Educational Trust.
In November 2011 upgraded as Autonomous Institution and affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.
Accredited by NAAC.

Undergraduate courses

B.E-Computer Science And Engineering
B.E-Electronics And Communication Engineering
B.E-Electrical And Electronics Engineering
B.E-Electronics And Instrumentation Engineering
B.Tech-Information Technology
B.E-Mechanical Engineering
B.E-Civil Engineering
B.TECH-Artificial Intelligence And Datascience

Postgraduate courses

M.B.A
M.C.A-Computer Applications
ME CSE
ME VLSI
ME MFE
ME Power System
ME Communication System

Value added courses
Value added courses are designed and offered by each department. These courses are conducted after the regular college hours. In addition to the above other course offered are, BEC Course, C Language, Catia, Embedded Systems, Fundamentals of Computer Programming, Infosys Campus Connect Programme, Lab View, MAT Lab, Rational Suite (IBM), Solid Works, Spoken English, Tele – logic, TV Assembly & Servicing Courses, VLSI Design,

MKCE activities
Interacting with industrial establishments and identifying suitable areas for helping the students to undertake project work
Organizing career guidance programmes.
Involving student co-coordinators as placement canvassers by entrusting them with the duty of visiting employer industries.
Making outstation placement - finding trips by TPO to employer industries/firms/companies/organization to fix on-campus interview programmes.
Conducting regular aptitude tests for the pre-final and final year students to improve the students thinking power, alertness and analytical power.
Involving external trainers for soft skill development
Conducting specific pre-placement training programmes for participants of on and off campus interviews.
Maintaining a close contact with employer industries by furnishing them with latest profile of the college and the resume of students to enhance the scope of employability among students.
Maintaining relationship with renowned placement consultants and recruiting agencies to widen the job-net for the students.
Conducting periodical meeting with alumni.
Transmitting information on placement interviews to the alumni through group mail ids.

Placement cell
The department functions with a full-time placement officer and communication and training officers.

Activities
Interacting with industrial establishments and identifying suitable areas for helping the students to undertake project work.

Organizing career guidance programmes.

Involving student co-coordinators as placement canvassers by entrusting them with the duty of visiting employer industries.

Making outstation placement - finding trips by TPO to employer industries/firms/companies/organization to fix on-campus interview programmes.

Conducting regular aptitude tests for the pre-final and final year students to improve the students thinking power, alertness and analytical power.

Involving external trainers for soft skill development.

Conducting specific pre-placement training programmes for participants of on and off campus interviews.

Maintaining a close contact with employer industries by furnishing them with latest profile of the college and the resume of students to enhance the scope of employability among students.

Maintaining relationship with renowned placement consultants and recruiting agencies to widen the job-net for the students.

Conducting periodical meeting with alumni.

Transmitting information on placement interviews to the alumni through group mail ids.

College library
The Library started its service in 2000 as a part of MKCE. The fully computerized Library Information Systems helps the staff and students tremendously in day-to-day operations.

The Library uses LIPS-i-NET software system with barcode scanning facility. Every document in the Library bears a barcode tag that is used for its circulation.

Science and humanities

Maths
The Mathematics Department was established in the year 2000 with the destination of offering basic knowledge to the undergraduate students in Science and Technology. It fulfills the basic needs of undergraduate students and strengthens their knowledge in mathematics.

Physics
The physics department was established in the year 2000 with the destination of offering basic knowledge to the undergraduate students in Science and Technology. It fulfills the basic needs of undergraduate students and strengthens their knowledge in physics.

Facilities available (physics)
 Physics Laboratory as per the specification of Anna University, Coimbatore
 Laboratory to conduct physics practicals to I Year B.E / B.Tech.
 Faculty members

Chemistry
The Department of chemistry was established in the year 2000 with the destination of offering basic knowledge to the undergraduate students in Science and Technology. It fulfills the basic needs of undergraduate students and strengthens their knowledge in Chemistry.

English

Lab facilities (English)
 The Language Lab is equipped with 61 computer systems loaded with self-language learning software.
 In addition to that visual aids like Television, DVD player and LCD projector are used to hone the soft skills.

Examination cell
The examination cell operates under the guidance of the academic
coordinator, with the principal as the chief superintendent during university examinations.

 Providing information related to university examinations to students.
 Conducting university examinations in both theory and practical.
 Conducting model examinations in both theory and practical.
 Conducting class test and terminal test.
 Preparing schedules for both continuous assignments and class tests.
 Making all basic arrangements for conducting examinations and sending the scripts for central valuation.
 Informing the university about the internal marks and the attendance details of the students.
 Analyzing the semester results and preparing rank lists to pick the best students for awarding prizes.
 Keeping the parents informed about their wards' performance in the model and also university examinations and class and terminal tests.
 Calling the average and the below average students for counseling and guidance.
 Conducting re-test is the best way in this college.

Mkce library collections
 Total number of books :33,000
 Total number of titles :16,297
 Non-book materials :2750
 Total number of journals  :22

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Colleges affiliated to Anna University
Karur

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Don Draper (Jon Hamm) wouldn't have the first idea what to do with Google Adsense. AMC … Ezra Klein: Let me take your suggestion in another way, Todd, because we can make a time jump Mad Men can't. … But the big money isn't is direct advertising.


Nielsen Audio has just released its Fall 2018 population rankings, resulting in some minor tweaks around the country. Among the bigger moves seen in the new rankings is that of the Tampa-St. Petersburg radio market. It jumps to #18 from #19. Lakeland-Winter Haven, Fla., market up from #91 to #88.
In Michigan, markets unchanged include Detroit (#13), Grand Rapids (#68), Lansing-East Lansing (#128) and Kalamazoo (#185).
Michigan markets that have shifted ranks are Flint, which moves #138 to #139; Ann Arbor, moving #150 to #149, Saginaw-Bay City-Midland moving #149 to #150; Traverse City-Petoskey-Cadillac moving #159 to #158; Muskegon #232 to #230 and Battle Creek moves from #254 to #252.
A complete list of new Nielsen Audio market rankings is here.


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"Nicol floral designs has been such a great inspiration and asset to me and my interior design business, Bella Home Decor. She is extremely talented and very professional. I love working with Nicol and will continue both personally and professionally to collaborate with fresh floral ideas."
"I had the pleasure of working with Nicol Floral Design this year. Nicol is professional, pleasant and extremely talented. She took the time to see my home and tailor the floral arrangements to best enhance my home's décor. The arrangements that she created have transformed my entrance way and breakfast area. I continue to receive compliments from any guest that enters my home. I look forward to working with Nicol for future projects. I can't say enough about how happy we are with the new additions to our home."
"Nicol Segel is a creative genius! She transformed my foyer into a more elegant and lovely room with the addition of two outstanding European-style floral arrangements. Although floral arrangement is not a sufficient term - these amazing pieces are true works of art. They have become focal points and add charm and ambience to our home. And Nicol and her crew make it seem so effortless, it literally took just minutes in my home."
" Working with Nicol was an absolute pleasure! Her creativity, endless imagination, clear understanding of each project, entwined with elegance and impeccable taste, made my experience super easy and just all around wonderful! "
"It was a pleasure working with Nicol of Nicol Floral Design. Nicol is extremely talented-- she created gorgeous, elegant, and unique arrangements for a client of mine in Philadelphia. Having worked with florists in both New York City and Paris, Nicol exceeded all expectations, making perfect arrangements tailored to each specific location in the house. Further, her containers are just as beautiful and enhance every arrangement. I would work with Nicol again in a heartbeat!"
" Nicol is a talented and professional floral designer with exceptional taste and an acute sense of scale. With custom arrangements, her focus is to capture the mood and unique aesthetic of the spaces I create to design something extraordinary for my clients. Collaborating with her on projects is effortless and fun and her customer service is excellent".
"When planning a Valentine's Day Cocktail Party I reached out to Nicol to help me with my mantel décor. Nicol provided the most amazing service and the most exquisite arrangements for me! She designed the perfect mix of pink, red and white roses in a stunning glass cylinder. It was absolutely magnificent and was the perfect accent to my mantel. In addition to providingexceptional customer service, Nicol is talented and kind, an absolute pleasure to work with. I can't wait to host another party so I can work with Nicol!!!"
Nicol's great eye and excellent taste have enabled us to create a much warmer retail environment for our customers. I know that her designs have helped us differentiate our dealerships from other competitors in the luxury automotive segment. Enhancing our retail space by having new arrangements created by Nicol on a quarterly basis is something that our consumers recognize and appreciate. I have always believed that creating beautiful interior and exterior space is the single most important advertisement for your business. I believe that the small investment made in Nicol's designs will offer any business an excellent return.


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Gated Content Best Practices: Elements For An Efficient Paywall Model
Emilia Lugo July 3, 2018
Once upon a time, when journalism was stepping into the digital world, the main concern on everyone's mind was about revenue: would readers pay for online news? Was the classic advertising model enough? How would newspapers and magazines survive in this new scenario?
The paywall method entered the scene as a response to the decline in the advertising and has been around enough for us to get rid of some myths. The fear of implementing a barrier that could slow visitors down in their clicking journey is still present in some publishers' minds, but the context is not the same as when this concern was first raised.
Today, editorial brands have a more direct relationship with their reader, so the interest has swift into how to find a paywall strategy that works, rather than wondering if it should exist at all.
The perspective of a new generation
For premium news organizations, it's all about adapting. And gated content is under the magnifying glass— there is no place for loopholes or leaks.
While a first generation was focused on proving if consumers would pay for digital articles, today there is a second generation of publishers that optimize and build on that model. After experimenting for quite a while, they understand how the game is played on a deeper level; they have learned how loyalty works and how to create value for subscribers.
The following examples embrace that vision and can help us understand how some important players have designed their strategies. Let's take a close look at how they did it.
Source: Domenico Bettinelli
Implement, test, analyze, adjust and repeat. This is a formula that is not exclusive for publishers, but for any digital company that wants to stay relevant (and profitable!) in an always changing game board.
The Boston Globe has been polishing its gated strategy for years. At the end of April 2017, they cut back from five to two on the number of free articles available for visitors every 45 days.
Six years earlier, they had a hard paywall that targeted their most regular web readers and offered a subscription for their print edition some exclusive extras and kept the free, ad-supported Boston.com for a more casual audience.
However, just three years later they introduced a leakier metered model that allowed a determined amount of articles for free before asking for a membership, something that had been working for The New York Times.
Related: OneZero Debuts As Medium's New Tech And Science Publication
The Globe has monitored and improved their model constantly, opening and closing exceptions. A recent update was introduced when they stopped counting Google AMP links towards the meter.
Source: Mike Mozart
Gated content can fit into a wider strategy that includes other actions. For Wired, this meant a membership-oriented paid product with features like a more robust, curated commenting system that could help attract more subscribers.
Under their current paywall, visitors can read four articles a month, plus a snippet of a fifth one, before being asked to subscribe. But Wired thinks they can convince them that a subscription is worth paying for with additions like featuring essays from thought leaders in the technology world, like MIT Media Lab head Joi Ito and writer Virginia Heffernan.
The magazine plans to produce other formats of exclusive content, like guides with compilations of essays about specific topics such as security, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency— very relevant issues for their audience.
Source: Keith Allison
In an industry constantly evolving it is no wonder that an ineffective solution in the past gets different results under a new sun, with the help of some new ideas to provide value to readers.
Almost 10 years ago, The Atlantic had decided to discontinue its paywall to allow their digital audience to grow. However, last January the magazine from Boston launched a metered model, where readers can get access up to 10 articles for free in a given month.
This is part of a diversification strategy for their revenue, where subscribers can choose between three pricing tiers once the paywall kicks. The first one allows full access to the site and app; the second one offers full web access and a subscription to the print magazine and, finally, a third option gives readers both print and digital access, in addition to a Masthead membership, a group with a digital subscription to the Atlantic, a daily newsletter and special features like access to the magazine's journalists.
Source: Mike Lee
Different levels of access can also be tailored for specific user profiles, a plan used by the Wall Street Journal.
Under this segmentation, non-subscribed visitors get a score based on more than 60 signals, such as if it's their first there, what device they use, what links they click or their location. Then, a machine learning system takes that information and decides how many and what kind of stories they can read for free, and whether they will respond to hitting paywall by paying for access or by just leaving.
They use this score to classify non-subscribed users into hot, warm or cold, so that those with scores that indicate a high likelihood of subscribing will hit a hard paywall. This allows to personalize the experience for each segment, and let those with a lower score browse stories for free in one session, and then hit the paywall. They can even be offered guest passes to the site, in various time increments, if they register an email address when they have a score that tells they could subscribe if they engage with more content.
While the cost of a subscription doesn't vary based on a reader's score, the experience that they get is tailored for their specific profile.
Related: Handelsblatt Launches Paywall To Grow Digital Subscriptions
A gated content plan, while having a direct impact on revenue, can help with a deeper analysis of the audience, too.
The Telegraph was one of the first adopters of paywall among British general interest newspapers but decided to switch for a premium model and leave pieces like opinion columns and exclusive interviews behind a hard paywall.
The change started with roughly 15% gated content, based on information provided by analytics on what types of stories are more likely to encourage readers to subscribe. Their previous paying audience from the metered model was turned into premium subscribers.
The metered scheme didn't work for The Telegraph's goals since it did not differentiate between visitors who were reading a story as a subscriber and those who were reading it for free. Other technical issues influenced the decision, such as the failure to run on mobile web or through third-party platforms like social media.
A Gated Content Strategy Outline
The models from these publishers are interesting examples of the different approaches you can take. Let's summarize the lessons learned so that you can create a strategy that fits your own goals:
No place for rigid plans
Hard paywalls are in the past. The metered models most commonly used give the flexibility to experiment on the level of access and how often to reset the paywall. In addition, is it key to diversify revenue and think about what other features can join this solution.
Keep your decisions based on data
The level of flexibility will be determined after a deep analysis of user behavior. Technology allows publishers to rely on audience data and predictive analytics to identify when to raise or lower the paywall so that the strategy can be defined in ways that work for readers, publishers, and even advertisers.
As publishers get smarter about reader's behavior, their models become more efficient. Those who learn from user behavior, like cookie deletion to avoid paywalls, are able to choose the right scheme.
Focus on providing value
Data will show you that not all who land on your website will become frequent readers, but that doesn't mean that you can't establish a relationship with them. Think about how you can keep the conversation going with actions like an invitation to follow you on social media or a subscription to your newsletter.
Related: Medium Grows With New Publications And Content
This would not be possible with a hard paywall that dismisses users right away. The flexibility of a metered method will allow to personalize how to provide value for different types of readers and react to the different behaviors that they display, so that segmented groups get a satisfactory experience on your portal.
Think about a business plan
The answer is not on just putting up a paywall for specific editorial products, but about designing a strategy that suits a business model of a digital publisher.
Keeping this type of mindset will help you avoid staying in a rigid framework and stay on a successful subscription business that gives value to your readers. A mentality that allows experimenting with different approaches, bifurcate strategies and comes up with something that creates and promotes a market is a must.
Be part of a smarter generation of publishers
Those who go for valuable solutions based on relevant data are the ones with a strategy with fewer holes. The belief that millennials hate paying for things has been replaced with the understanding that users are willing to spend money on quality and a personalized experience. Publishers have learned that a successful model even allows them to get back to longer pieces that give value to their readers.
It's a good time to embrace the challenge and design a strategy that works for everyone: your business and your audience.
Thanks to Veronica Magan for her input and inspiration for this piece.
Handelsblatt Launches Paywall To Grow Digital Subscriptions
Miracle Oyedeji October 21, 2019
Latest Hub analysis reveals how audience impacts membership revenue
Shelley Seale July 3, 2019


Alfred's voice was hardly audible. I didn't know what to do next. You may extend your stay in Tokyo. At the square, a crowd surrounded and listened to the street singers. To live is to be a soldier. That's even better. Molly doesn't want to be my friend. She thinks that she's too cool for me. Plastic made me swear not to tell Dimitry. Even if lies and white lies are a spontaneous reaction of our brain, they will never be the truth, the reality of things, the life. Patrice didn't take a shower.
You're like him. Is he your friend? We all worked really hard. Isn't that theirs? Brender suddenly appeared. They went on arguing for hours. Oh, It's cheap! Which book would you like? Wendell married a woman from Boston. She talked about the people and things that interested her.
You'll become a father. I'd like to send a coded message to Johnnie. When was the last time you had a nightmare? There is an alternative. I like a lot the sound and rhythm of your translation. She was taken in by the salesman's smooth manner of talking. The group was made up of four young men. I'm worried about what'll happen if Randal comes. We like to chop wood. The enemy warships bombed our warehouses in the harbour.
Cleveland decided that high tariffs were wrong. Who do you talk to? Who doesn't like free stuff? I've done nothing exceptional. Jarvis liked teasing her brother. What is the average life span in Japan? He pretends not to care about money. Liza has excellent reflexes. How could Alf not have known that? The colors of the American flag are red, white and blue.
En garde! Let's go and find her. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. I've never stolen anything. It's not going to come to that. He has a butler and a cook. We woke up very early in order to see the sunrise. A molecule of water is made up of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. What got into you? I definitely told you that!
Who's the woman with the red hat? Hirotoshi watched the news every day last week. I need to choose a costume for Purim. I got my wallet stolen in the train yesterday. Hong Kong Chinese who know only English as a foreign language never learn the efficient use of the Roman alphabet. I think you should be in bed. Water is good. Are you two working together again? I'll never ever do that again! It's good that you're here.
"Did you work yesterday?" "I wish yesterday had been a holiday." We clean our classroom after the class is over. This is fine. He had handsome dark eyes with long lashes. Jeffery never listens to what the teacher says. He paid attention to my warning. The general cut a distinguished figure in his dress uniform. Leon has been refusing to take his medicine. Roll the video. The point is whether I accept or refuse.
The riot was soon put down by the police. I know you are struggling. I saw a boat upstream of the bridge. Panacea and Vivek were plotting to kill Suresh's father for the life insurance. I'm not going to see you again. Peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you. I am very glad to hear that you speak Scottish Gaelic. Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and an important figure in the initial development of the modern sciences. His discoveries contradicted the teachings of the Catholic Church, and Galileo was put on trial for heresy by the Inquisition. Sharada couldn't sleep well last night because it was noisy outside his room. You run into Japanese tourists everywhere.
There was nothing I could do to change it. It'll be tough. I'll do what the boss tells me. It looks as if autumn is really here. She hasn't paid Jonathan yet. Collin is a police officer. Hwa certainly didn't do as good a job as he usually does. According to legend, the French composer Alkan was killed by a collapsing bookcase when he tried to reach for the Talmud, a holy Jewish book, in the study in his house. If you need anything, just give me a holler. All of my brothers died in the war.
Nils and his brother play on the same team. Rudolph pulled a switchblade from his pocket and clicked it open. I was disappointed. Did you hear about the big earthquake in Japan? Bryce can't get enough of it. Shooting stars are meteorites. I have to leave. Merton hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on his wife and her lover. Get on a horse. Are you feeling better?


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Q: HttpClient.Timeout does not seem to be working The small test app tries to communicate with the server using HttpClient, with the Timeout specified.
But it looks like the timeout never aborts the client request:
#r "System.Core.dll"
#r "System.Net.dll"
#r "System.Net.Http.dll"
#r "System.Web.dll"
#r "System.Web.Http.dll"

open System
open System.Net
open System.Net.Http
open System.Threading
open System.Web
open System.Web.Http

let listener = new HttpListener()

// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4019466/httplistener-access-denied/4115328#4115328
// netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:7842/ user=COMPUTER\User
// netsh http show urlacl                   - make sure that it exists
// netsh http delete urlacl http://*:7842/ - delete it
listener.Prefixes.Add("http://*:7842/")
listener.Start()

let handler = async {
    while true do
        let context = listener.GetContext()
        Console.WriteLine("ok")
}

let requester = async {
    let client = new HttpClient()
    client.Timeout <- TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(float(1))
    client.BaseAddress <- Uri("http://127.0.0.1:7842/")
    try
        let! result = client.GetAsync("") |> Async.AwaitTask
        printf "result: %s" (string(result))
    with
    | _ -> printf "timeout?"
}

Async.Start(handler)
Thread.Sleep(750)
Async.Start(requester)

Thread.Sleep(100000)

The timeout never happen in this app which is very strange.
Update: It may be related to HttpClient.GetAsync(...) never returns when using await/async
Update2: It seems that this workaround is working but not sure if it correct:
try
    let requestTask = client.GetAsync("")
    let! success = Async.AwaitIAsyncResult(requestTask, 3000)
    let result = requestTask.Result

    printf "result: %s" (string(result))
with
| ex -> printf "timeout? %s\n" (ex.ToString())

Should the client be Disposed (probably not as it can be reused for another requests in other threads/tasks)?

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It's Not Just Karl Rove: Democrats Get Big Political Money, Too
July 31, 2011; Source: Wall Street Journal (Washington Wire) | The national press sometimes focuses so much on the Crossroads GPS organizational nest crafted by George W. Bush's Rasputin, Karl Rove, that it would seem as if only Republicans are benefiting from the secret money flows going into political nonprofits. Trust us, it's not just the elephants – it's the donkeys as well.
Doing battle with Rove's apparatus is the Priorities USA group created by former Obama aides Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney, and longtime Democratic political strategist Paul Begala. Like Rove-affiliated Crossroads GPS, Priorities USA is actually two groups: Priorities USA Action, which is a PAC that has to disclose its donors; and Priorities USA, a 501(c)(4) offering its donors secrecy.
The big recent score for Priorities USA Action is a cool $2 million from DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, $500,000 from a political arm of the Service Employees International Union, and $500,000 from Fred Eychaner, described by the Wall Street Journal as Chicago-based philanthropist and major Democratic donor. Katzenberg's individual donation was huge, but the Priorities USA Super PAC substantially lagged behind the Romney-friendly Restore Our Future Super PAC, which took in $12.2 million in the first six months of the year from the likes of beer producer August Busch III and members of the Marriott family.
But these aren't real numbers. The secret donations are going to "affiliated organizations," such as Priorities USA and other 501(c)(4)s. We won't find out how much those organizations have raised and spent for some time to come, and we might never learn exactly who made which contributions. In the case of elections involving tax-exempt instrumentalities, money talks and the rest of us walk to our polling booths.—Rick Cohen


An old photocopy with notes from last year.
It has become the diagram for my next chapter.
I like the way the very last part of the scan at the bottom, folded back from the photocopied page because it was not meant to be there, actually belongs very much to the whole project.
I'm interested in the shift from real to fiction and back from fiction to real that occurs every time I am confronted with a memory and the impulse to document it. In such context I am not prompted to classify, but to interpolate: in its Latin origin the verb 'to interpolate' does not only mean to insert in a text something of a different nature, but also to refurbish it, at times even forge it. Our memories are refurbished and forged too, when we write them: they can never coincide with their event, and words will never be time-capsules-on-demand. A text is not an untouchable document calling for classifications: it elicits what is not there, what can be perceived across its borders.
So I think of the borders of my experience, recorded and recalled. Where, and how do I articulate it, when I write? Rather than considering memory, I'd like to think of the history of a memory, as it moves from fixed document to yet another reinvention, slightly different every time I write, transformative and entangled. Language, when I write after my recollections, functions as a field of associations, a weaving of phrases echoing other phrases, so that I can begin to be infected with the sense of other meanings from the past, within those present. It is not about remembering an immutable past: it's about the possibility of a present, which at times can also be a sonorous nothing, a stuttering reverb, a resonating chamber for thoughts and clusters of words that were not created anew but cast from words that were before, recalled from archival layers. In proximity rather than in understanding I am cut through by voices I don't want to explain, but hand over to you before they expire.
As I write I recall some verses from a favourite song by Arthur Russell called Home Away From Home, they seem to prompt me further: The birth of the moment is never ending / The rest is in the centre. I think of writing as the never-ending birth of a moment against the rest in the centre, its cry outstretched beyond its edge. Where is the edge of the tapestry of my I, woven in writing and unwoven in listening, reading and recalling? In the 1950 foreword to his ethnographical and autobiographical and truly visionary journey L'Afrique Fantome, Michel Leiris writes: 'Truly a human measure, my horizon'. Sixteen years before, he'd closed the book saying: 'There's nothing left for me to do … but dream'. The time of each recorded memory is spanned by and spinned around the horizon of now and the edge of dream. In the thread of every memory I hear what wasn't there and I make what is gone, actual.
When I tried to make sense of – dare I say, theorise – the proceedings around this, I failed. It was always as if my attention dwelled in the peripheral – accidents of hearing, stories, personal trains of thoughts – rather than the assumed core, up until the time I realised the very core of my research and writing was in fact what was normally deemed peripheral. I have spent all these months working on my borders and on my silences. With time, writing has become more and more a way of reaching into what I cannot grasp or keep within the dimly lit borders of the self and of the memories that still prompt it: a way of adding on to experience, or to reshape it. As Lyn Hejinian stated in the title of her 1978 book, Writing is an Aid to Memory. Not the reverse. Never. Writing does not derive from memory: it makes memory. It is an act of fabulation, rather than a transposition of a lost, detached, original truth: its engaged and mutable polyphony adds to an evolving process. Michel Leiris writes extensively in his autobiography Scratches/Rules of the Game, of the making of memory, of the reverse effect of a memory appearing solid, like a strange object reflecting 'our real self' on to us who seem lost and unreal and transient. His words outline a self-challenging 'I', body and mind, showing at once vulnerability, process and presence: they're not concerned with making sense univocally, but with exploring possibilities for meaning.
As a reader, which is so strictly connected with being a writer, I participate in an act of discovery made accessible to me through other writers. I apprehend texts, even if I'm not acquainted with what they write about. I see their form that states itself and speaks to itself and to me and once more, I see in each of them the individuality of an I opening up to many you's. Writing appears in its singularity and in its histories of relations, it does not need explanations that cling to external references. It is an event, unique and historical that sets the conditions of its own functioning. Michel de Certeau showed in The Mystic Fable how the act of fabulation is triggered by the statement, 'I will'. I read this enunciation, all steeped towards the I and containing nothing unless I resounds once more in the double u of will. This means that I in its ambiguity, can be a source of misunderstanding on one side, but on the other, it emanates the thrill of making something happen. The creative imperative is a pull toward the unspeakable so strong, that you want to make it present. Where am I, when I write? I ask this question because language is also the matter in which I take distance. As Robert Duncan wrote in The H.D. Book: '…in writing, deriving as I do, I burn the nets of my origins'. So in my book En abîme. Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction I chose to make up and take distance from a number of scenarios. I did so to disrupt the mimetic function of the narrating I and any claims for an authentic origin, to play instead with layers of fabulation and focus on the actuality and impact of the text: I enacted my I, probing nudging teasing its doubles, turning into the double you's of why where what whom. At some point I realised it was necessary to dismantle any nostalgic visions related to memory and recollections, so I decided to write a section of my book as a palimpsest of poems and texts written by other writers about a specific site in Rome, trying to exaggerate the effect on the edge between hyper-reality and artifice. The poems and texts I chose were all written in struggle and bloody occurrences by writers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Antonio Gramsci, Herman Melville, in times of personal and political conflict. The effect of hyper-real trick was exaggerated by the fact that I actually never was in that place that I was writing about. Or was I? I think I was, I think somehow I was there because presence is in the words, or at least I think we should challenge the assumption that presence is only made by actuality. What is present, are the borders of the I that make the text, their elastic boundaries expanded and refusing to be one and carved in stone. When they ask me where my authentic I is, I reply it's in my words, not outside. Ultimately, to the readers, it doesn't really matter if I was ever there: what matters is the here of their readings.
Where does the arbitrariness halt, in such type of operations? It halts once more at the borders of I and its fluctuating archives, on each individual permeable body. As I stitch words together and let the resulting off-centred construction clash with any ideas of permanence, I realise that a distinctive pace holds my words, with recurring rhythms and turns of phrase. Harry Mathews called it the experience of discovery through syntax. Flannery O' Connor called it the mystery and manners of writing. At first I don't understand it, yet I am open to the shape my words take on with their own pace. It is the pace of my thinking-breathing, that inhabits me although I cannot tell how it functions; the space where my archive really comes back to life, where I stitch all those fragmented records and traces together, the references that have been layered in my understanding through the years, the singular experience in every edit, absorbed and shadowed by what happens around my words and in spite of them. Then, I am tempted even more to claim for the precariousness of any writing. Because if I believed that words could stand forever on their own, and keep any experiences still, safe and protected within, I would be beaten: they are eroded by what they do not say but prompt to say.
In recent months I have become more and more concerned with responding to sounds by working on pacing and form. I've been working recently on a series of texts that start with a seemingly rational proposition and then crumble down into interpretive delirium: for me it's a way to reclaim the enjoyment and complexity and incoherence in listening, and to work with the residual aspects of listening, all those thoughts and detours that are often dismissed as irrelevant and that seldom find a place in texts on sound. I'm interested in trying to state the inability of naming 'these sounds' and yet the possibility of writing them nonetheless.
In this context I always like to mention a passage from the book Sound and Sentiment by Steven Feld. At one point, he appears riddled while he's cataloguing and classifying birdsongs, and one of his Kaluli guides tells him, 'Listen – to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest'. I like to think of the references within a text as voices in the forest. They are not markers of something else, they make my words and prompt me to wander and get lost in them, not to classify them. Hopefully they also invite the readers to wander in their own forests too, and the entire process is like a passing on of prompts to pass around and through. My Pasolini and my Melville and many others are the voices in my forest, through which I have learned to understand and be accustomed to or curious toward the world. They don't denote the stillness of classification but the contingency of my history with them. And when I say that each text has a history, it's a history not with a capital H but a small h, and maybe we could talk about the aspiration in the h of history echoed in the h in ephemeral: a whispering, a transience. From the double you of where, to the h of history and how.
I told you of reference as material, now I'd like to switch from material to medium: a space to connect. My medium is listening onto writing and back, writing onto listening: there I connect. Medium is also illusion, and trick, and risk. Is it listening to, or listening through? Illusion, or understanding? I can never describe a sound, I can write sound: I can build a frail yet precise cobweb of words and cut-off blanks. It almost feels as if I was never quite entirely there. Not if I found the appropriate words, the correct way of speaking, the correct tone of voice. I write and each word is accompanied by another underwhispering, fragments rustling out toward me, kernels of another despatch, receiving and transmitting into this day and into the coming night and at once sending them inward, to the assumed crucial point of each memory. New memories mix with older, more traditional versions of my past and rewrite it, until sometime in the stiff dance of these alphabet letters I drift away absent-minded along broken lines and it's really no longer I writing, but they. I begin to wonder about this system of tricks and echoes and relays in writing/listening – like Dante in Inferno Canto 13, when he's lost in yet another forest, and hears disembodied voices as their souls are caught in trees, and there is one verse that goes 'I believed that he believed that I believed', I think of echoes and mishearings that write.
Discussing The Nature and Aim of Fiction Flannery O' Connor wrote: 'People have the habit of saying, "What is the theme of your story?" and they expect you to give them a statement [such as]: "The theme of my story is the economic pressure of the machine on the middle class" – or some such absurdity. And when they've got a statement like that, they go off happy and feel it is no longer necessary to read the story. … Some people have the notion that you read the story and then climb out of it into the meaning, but for the writer the whole text is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.' Experience writes. It is generated by the time spent looking, staring, listening, recalling … reading. It will never reveal layers of clarity: it's about deepening and articulating the sense of mystery and incoherence and complexity in life – what I can witness to, not what I can theorise about or clarify. That's why I aim for what has not yet been written or understood.
Never satisfy, always point away and aside: on those borders between the I and the double you's, and their doubles. I have been working these months to make my writing fleeting, to make it so that it's not possible to take notes out of it, to make it unquotable, no resolving sentences or all-encompassing conclusions. I have been drawn more and more to writing texts that have a tendency to disappear, and that will convey in you a feeling of 'having been there' although not quite sure where.
Welcome to En abime, part 2: Ephemeral.
I read some words by James Clifford: 'A disciplinary habitus has been established around the embodied activity of fieldwork,' he wrote sixteen years ago in his book Routes. Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century as he questioned 'the habitus of the neutral eye' in fieldwork and looked at the margins, at fringe activities such as the journals of travel writers, not constrained by diktats of ethnographical practice and free to explore instead more tormented questions that arise or are silenced when visiting a place. The habitus of the neutral ear often creeps into evaluations of recordings. Where do we stop treating a record as a document and begin considering it as an open field for entangled subjectivities?
Art versus Document. The dissident Surrealists were no strangers to the slippery edge between the two, their periodical Documents (1929-30) attested the imaginary and subversive potential in mutual crossing over between what is deemed objective (a 'document') and what is not. The unsettling impact of these documents is a function of the editing glance (in our case, ear) that deploys it. The notion that a recording/document is *only* an intact, unchangeable, objective source and 'not art', masks some practitioners' unwillingness to come to grips with aesthetic and conceptual considerations.
Documents are not intact, unchangeable; recordings, every time we play them, are escapes out of fixity. Not a still aural presence, but a mutable entity that allows the listeners to slide into the space of their own fictions, hesitations, questions, not the certainty of a pre-set agenda. I'm interested in the shift from real to fiction and the sliding back from fiction to real that occurs every time we are confronted with recorded sounds. They prompt rather than document, they prompt the listener not to classify, but to interpolate. No recording can coincide with the event of each experience of hearing, and a recording is not a time-capsule-on-demand (the madeleine was an accident, not an enforcement of memory deliberately picked from a tidily organised collection of keepsakes). Time cannot be kept, we live and listen with records and documents, not because of them.
Now I think of the field of my experience, not recorded, but recalled. Where, and how do I articulate it, when I recall in listening and reading and then I write? Rather than considering memory, I'd like to think of the history of a memory, as it moves from fixed document to yet another reinvention, slightly different every other time, transformative and entangled. I think of sounds for which there cannot be any trace, no record, and what I can make with them. Once more I think of fabulation. Fable in the Renaissance was artificium occultandi, artifice of concealment. Think of all the veils, the tricks and devices that I can deploy. Therefore I cannot believe in the existing rhetoric around heritage and collections as frozen and transparent sites of permanence. I think of my heritage consumed into the spaces of reinvention, yet another artificium occultandi. It is a sense of unknown or ungraspable drift, that recordings can trigger. Not as untouchable documents calling for classifications or taxonomies, but eliciting what is not there: a shift, or, as I read in Landings by Richard Skelton, an attraction toward 'the inert space that borders' each sound.
To listen away from a place always tips over to listening in another place.


Discussion in 'Sold/Expired' started by muskieman223, Jul 1, 2018.
Selling off two more of my hard earned collection for different toys.
Top is a Fox Savage Model B-SE Series H in 20ga...3" chamber...28" Mod and Full....Beautiful gun. Minor useage marks. Very clean.
Bottom is a Fox Savage Model B-SE Series H in 12ga...2-3/4" chamber....28" Mod and Full Great shape, Some handling and usage marks, but very clean. A shallow scratch down left barrel rear the receiver from a gun case zipper.
These guns are nearly identical, I have a set of three and am keeping the 16ga out of them...These two need to move on to better homes. I had these guns once before and regretted selling them, and I am sure I will regret this again.
Asking $675 shipped for the 20ga.


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Americas Favorite Round: the .30 Caliber
A merica got into the .30 caliber game in 1892, when the U.S. Army adopted the .30 U.S. Army, also known as the .30-40 Krag, to replace the old .45-70 black powder round.
The .30-40 ushered America and the U.S. military into the bolt-action/smokeless powder era. This was two years before the introduction of the Winchester Model 1894, and three years before the introduction of the .30 WCF, or .30-30.
The .30-40 was our Army cartridge for only nine years. In 1903 it was replaced by the 1903 Springfield and the .30-03 cartridge. This released a large number of military .30-40 Krags to the civilian market. For a number of years the .30-40 was a popular hunting cartridge; and the Krag rifle is one of the slickest operating bolt actions ever made.
The original load for the .30-40 was a 220-grain round-nosed bullet at 2,200 feet per second, much more powerful than the .30-30. This was perfectly capable of handling any game animal in North America if the range was kept short.
Other American .30 calibers of the early smokeless era were the .303 Savage and the .30 Remington. Both of these are practically clones of the .30-30. Since the .30-30 has been written about for well over a hundred years. There is nothing I can add to the issue, so let's just skip it and go on to the next .30 cal., the .300 Savage.
The .300 Savage came along in 1920. It was, basically, a .250 Savage necked up to .30 caliber and was chambered in the wonderful Savage Model 99.
Actually, it was originally intended to push a 150-grain bullet to the same velocity as the .30-06. Since the .30-06 of that day fired a 150-grain bullet at 2,700 fps, the .300 Savage came very close. Factory loads show a 150-grain bullet at about 2,650 fps and a 180 at 2,350. These velocities can be increased some by careful handloading for a strong, modern bolt-action.
With the 150-grain bullet, the .300 Savage makes a very good deer round. I have shot whitetails with the .300 Savage and find it perfectly capable at ranges up to about 250 yards.
The heaviest whitetail I have ever killed was taken with a .300 Savage. I have always wished I could have weighed that behemoth. I believe it would have come perilously close to 300 pounds live weight. I know it was considerably larger than another buck I shot that weighed 207 pounds.
Loaded with a 180-grain bullet,the .300 Savage is a capable moose round if the range is not more than about 150 yards. It is a very good round for the beginning deer hunter, with its mild recoil, .308 caliber bullet, and good energy. I once had a nice Remington Model 722 in .300 Savage and wish I still had it.
Next we step up to the .30-06. As mentioned above, the .30-06 was originally the .30-03. The 1903 version used a 220-grain round nosed bullet at 2,300 fps.
When the Germans found that a lighter weight spitzer (sharp pointed) bullet had much better ranging qualities, the U.S. made some slight changes to the .30-03 round. Loaded with a 150-grain spitzer at much higher velocity, the great .30-06 was born.
Since that day in 1906, the .30-06 has been one of the most popular hunting rounds in America, and possibly, the world. It has undoubtedly taken every species of game in North America, and again, possibly, the world.
It is still one of the best all-around calibers ever invented for non-dangerous game. Teddy Roosevelt used it in Africa with perfect satisfaction. With 220-grain solid bullets, Eleanor O'Connor killed her elephant with a .30-06. One famous hunter said that with 220-grain soft points it was superior to the .405 Winchester for charging lions. But, I believe, that is taking it far out of its proper place in the hunting world.
When the U.S. military changed from the M1 Garand to the M14, the .308, or 7.62 NATO, was born. It does almost anything the .30-06 will do, but with a shorter cartridge. However, the .30-06 still out-paces the .308 by 100 fps with any bullet weight, and more than that with bullets of 180 grains or more. One thing the .308 has going for it is that it appears to be more inherently accurate than the .30-06. This, however, is measured in fractions of an inch and is inconsequential to the hunter.
The .308 is a wonderful deer cartridge. With 150-grain bullets at 2,800 fps, or 165-grain bullets at 2,700, it has all the power and range needed for about 99 percent of all deer hunting.
With a 180-grain bullet, it is also an elk cartridge, if the range is kept to less than 200 yards. Another advantage it has over the .30-06 is that it can be built into a shorter, lighter rifle. This is a consideration if you are intending a long backpack hunt into one of the wilderness areas.
The .30 calibers are, except for a couple of Russian rounds, purebred Americans. In my newest reloading manual, I count 12 current beltless, non-magnum, American .30 calibers. In addition to the above. Among them are .30 Carbine, .30 T/C, .300 Whisper, .300 AAC Blackout, .307 Winchester, .30 Remington AR, and .308 Marlin Express. In Europe, the 6.5, 7, and 8mms are more popular, but in America, the .30 caliber is king, and I see nothing on the horizon that threatens its crown. Next month we will look at the .30 caliber magnums.
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Dictionaries define the internet as "a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols." However precise this definition is, one aspect of it is about to become questionable and open to modifications. This aspect is the internet's globality. The ubiquity of the internet is contentious not only because 4 billion people around the world still cannot access it. The internet is not global also because some countries either want their sovereign internet or already have it. Thus, Russia has recently surprised everyone by expressing a desire to unplug itself from the worldwide internet. Its plan is to isolate its internet infrastructure – RuNet – from the rest of the world in case of a cyber-attack. If anyone tries to damage Russia's online infrastructure, it will cut itself off from the global internet and will switch to its own local internet and online services.
Doing this is technically difficult, but the example of China shows that having its own internet, disconnected from the global network, is practically possible. For some years already, China has its own versions of all well-known websites, blocking the western ones so successfully that its young generation does not know anything about Twitter and Facebook and has no interest in using Google or Bloomberg. Expats living in China may well try to use a VPN for China to circumvent the country's censorship; but the majority of the locals would not even understand why they need to resort to this software: they feel perfectly in accord with the government's control of the internet.
Matters with the internet were not always so gloomy in China. The country did enjoy happier, more democratic times. In the 90s, access to western websites was free; the information posted on them was used by people to highlight their government's shortcomings. Indeed, as soon as the internet was welcomed in China, the citizens understood its political force. In 1998, a software engineer sent 30,000 Chinese email addresses to a pro-democracy magazine based in the US. The following year, the spiritual organization called Falun Gong organized a silent demonstration with the help of email and mobile phones to protest their inability to practice freely. Around 10,000 followers came to the Communist party's central compound to support the organization. The power of the internet was demonstrated at its finest.
And yet, the internet in China was not at the zenith of its influence for long. Trials ensued. The engineer and Falun Gong practitioners were imprisoned. China's leaders quickly defected to the draconian measures for which the country is known since its first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, whose censorship had long become proverbial. Fearful of dissenting opinions, the emperor ignominiously burned scholarly texts in 213 BCE and buried alive 460 Confucian scholars in 212 BCE, thereby causing not only the destruction of the imperial China's best minds but also the loss of the majority of philosophical treatises of the Hundred Schools of Thought. The Chinese government at the end of the twentieth century exhibited similar close-mindedness towards the internet and people who used it as a vehicle for gaining knowledge and criticizing their rulers. Like their notorious predecessor, the Chinese leaders blocked hundreds of western websites and incarcerated those people whose opinions threatened their security. As a sad corollary of these restrictions, the majority of the Chinese citizens remain now totally unaware of the websites and search engines that are indispensable in other countries.
A number of blocked western websites and media channels in China is truly staggering. There is no access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Snapchat, Picasa, WordPress.com, Blogspot, SoundCloud, Google+, and Hootsuite. People are also disallowed to use Whatsapp, Messenger, Viber, Telegram, Periscope, Line, and Discord. Nor do such search engines as Google, Ask.com, Yahoo!, and Duck Duck Go exist in the country. Video sharing through YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion, and Nico Video is forbidden, and so is watching movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, BBC iPlayer, and SoundCloud. The Chinese government has taken a step further and banned even media channels. Try as they might, people in China cannot read The New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Independent, LeMonde, L'Equipe, and Google News. Many pages of Wikipedia and Wikileaks are inaccessible, too. To make its citizens look for the information on the internet and communicate with each other, the Chinses government has compensated for the absence of the Western websites by creating local ones. A rich arsenal of Chinese websites – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent – has lately emerged to perform the same functions, though all of them came with heavy censorship.
The government has also developed new technology enabling it to control the internet tighter. To this end, the Great Firewall of China was designed allowing the rulers to block foreign websites and slow down cross-borders internet traffic. The Great Canon soon followed, which, unlike the Great Firewall, does not block traffic but adjusts and replaces content as it is being transmitted through the internet. The Great Canon helps overwhelm unwanted websites with the traffic redirected from Baidu, a local search engine, and, in so doing, makes their own content unavailable to users. The Chinese government also stifles any rumors travelling through the internet. People who spread rumors or lies in their posts face defamation charges and three years of imprisonment. The effect of these measures is sadly palpable. According to the latest polls, people's willingness to posts anything on the social media in China fell by 70 percent in comparison to the earlier years.
The stringent internet censorship practiced in China is bound to affect negatively its scientific and economic development. Yet the Chinese government seems ready to risk the country's blossoming, as long as its control of the internet guarantees the hegemony and security of the Communist party.