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17 Jul 5 Out-of-the-Box Digital Marketing Examples from 2018
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We are barely halfway through 2018 and already there have been several digital marketing examples that have raised the bar high. By tapping into trends and sharing engaging stories through multiple platforms, these out-of-the-box marketing campaigns used a variety of themes and styles to help organizations generate a lot of buzz around their message, product, and brand.
With 61 percent of marketers citing their top inbound marketing priority is to improve SEO (search engine optimization) and grow their organic presence according to HubSpot's 2017 State of Inbound report, the digital marketing campaigns need to drive engagement by evoking emotions and capturing the imagination of the target audience. Why? Because impactful campaigns sway customers when they are making purchase decisions.
To help you out, here we have aligned five out-of-the-box digital marketing examples from 2018 (thus far), so you cans see what strategies they have used to influence the users.
1. ABTA Jumps on the '#footselfie' Bandwagon to Lure Holidaymakers
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Last year, ABTA, a renowned association of travel agents and tour operations in the United Kingdom, launched a campaign on Boxing Day to highlight why vacationers should book with an ABTA member throughout January.
The campaign was named 'Travel with Confidence'. The digital marketing agency handling the campaign tapped into the social media trend of taking 'footselfies' to show the wide array of destinations from ABTA brands. Besides this, they also promoted the hashtag #beABTAsmart and arranged a competition for social media users which gave them the opportunity to win several prizes.
2.Intuit Creates an Animated Movie to Get its Idea Across
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Intuit — that develops and sells tax preparation, accounting, and financial software to individuals and small businesses — launched a new brand campaign this year. The first part of the campaign comprises a short animated story of two business owners that was showcased at the 2018 Super Bowl.
The idea was to bring all of Intuit's brands together, including Quickbooks, Mint, and TurboTax. Since millions of people were using Intuit's products, but only four out of every thousand users were leveraging two or more of them. So the brand took the leap of faith and attempted to show the audience that its products are best when used together.
To represent the power of its products, the company's digital marketing agency created a character of a giant robot in the animated movie. The agency believed animation was the best way to get Intuit's idea across. The 15-second teaser was run during the Super Bowl LII, driving users back to the full film online.
In addition, the social media campaign of the brand featured a Snapchat filter showcasing the Intuit Giant. The robot was used as a symbol in the campaign showcasing how the brand's services harness technology to make financial processes easy-peasy for its users. The animated movie revolves around Pete, a flower shop owner, who fails to find time to enjoy his outside passions owing to his frantic schedule and Pari, an engineer and entrepreneur, who is keen to help him by creating the Intuit Giant.
Shedding light on the target audience for the marketing campaign, the chief marketing officer, Lucas Watson divulged there are 750 million people around the globe that work for themselves and manage their finances while chasing their passions. Unfortunately, the pressure of managing time and money sometimes makes them feel as if the odds are stacked against them.
The campaign has worked wonders for the brand so it will continue to use it throughout the year. In fact, Intuit will work on additional channels and executions to promote its cohort of services.
3. Dollar Shave Club Marks its Arrival in the UK with a Creative Campaign
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Founded in 2011, Dollar Shave Club was acquired by Unilever in 2016. Lately, the razor subscription brand decided to step into the UK market and to mark its arrival the company used a creative social and experiential campaign.
Not only the Dollar Shave Club launched a pop-up in Old Street station earlier in January to offer passers-by free shaves, live comedy, and foosball tournaments but also partnered with several social influencers to create hype and relevant content around the launch. This partnership worked for the firm as it made the heads turn.
Sure, we are yet to see if the Dollar Shave Club's products make a strong impact in the UK market. But, if you compare the hotly anticipated marketing campaign of the brand with the classic US version, you'll come to know that Dollar Shave Club is surely off to a good start.
4. ESSC Launches a Thought-Provoking Campaign to Encourage Social Change
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Easterseals Southern California (ESSC) is an organization that assists over 10,000 people with disabilities in different parts of California. The organization has recently launched a new thought-provoking ad campaign that stars its own program recipients. The title of the campaign was "Changing the Way to See Disability," and its aim was to encourage social change and create inclusion. And to make it work the marketers came up with a really catchy slogan: 'Celebrate. Don't Separate.'
Image Credit: #CelebrateDontSeparate
According to Mark Whitley, the President, and CEO of ESSC, when people unite as one, they can break down barriers and create social change. He said that each day people make sweeping statements about people with disabilities and a lot of them don't even realize what they are doing. So to aid people to look beyond what they see at first glance ESSC has launched this movement so we can have a more inclusive world.
The campaign was rolled out through many different channels, including internet, print, and outdoor ads along with "Make the Promise" social media campaign. The idea behind launching the social media campaign was to ask general people to promote the message of inclusion and use the hashtag #CelebrateDontSeparate.
To create a profound impact, six California residents were used in the first phase of the campaign along with two ESSC recipients who met through the program and are now engaged. The new campaign has greatly helped ESSC in bringing the social change.
5. LinkedIn Steps Up to Crush its 'White Collar' Typecast with New Campaign
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The popular business social network LinkedIn is looking to squash it's 'white collar' typecast and to realize its dream the brand has released a TV spot titled "In it Together" back in January during the 2018 Golden Globe Awards show.
This was something LinkedIn has never done in the past. However, it certainly makes sense since the brand is looking to disentangle itself from its current perception. The influential thing about the "In it Together" campaign was the diverse range of businesses and people that featured in it.
The new campaign was the first real integrated marketing effort by the social network. Apart from the TV spot, the marketing campaign also included a digital display, online video, search engine marketing, paid social media & outdoor ads, partnerships, podcasts, and radio spots. All in all, the campaign lasted for 12 weeks and it targeted four core markets: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Philadelphia.
The idea was to compare LinkedIn activity in these cities with other parts of the world that haven't been targeted to comprehend the results of the campaign. The black-and-white, documentary-style video showcased the success stories of LinkedIn users in their own unique environments.
While explaining the impact of the campaign Stacy Peralta, the campaign director, revealed in an email to Adweek that she knew from the beginning that this is one of those rare opportunities. Because LinkedIn wanted her to share real stories about real people and they wanted the candor, energy, and enthusiasm of the people involved.
So her team found and documented unique people who are using the platform. They filmed new musicians, real-life cowboys, chefs, MMA fighters, animators, and physics teachers. All of them were not only using LinkedIn but are keen to share its effect on their careers.
Of course, the tried-and-tested elements of advertising remain the same, but the unique thing about all the aforementioned marketing campaigns is the use of elements that produced emotions, encouraged empathy and most of all humanizes the brand. This tells digital marketing service providers to explore various avenues in order to find the best fit for their clients so they can achieve desired results.
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A security guard has been stabbed to death by a group men trying to get into a private party on London's Park Lane, police said today.
The victim, believed to be in his early 30s, has not yet been identified but is believed to have been working as a security guard at the venue.
Onlookers stood filming the attack on their mobile phones, police said, as the capital witnessed a wave of violence just hours in to 2019.
In Camberwell, south London, a woman in her early 30s was stabbed to death at about 4.20am on New Year's Day.
The deaths are the first fatal stabbings of 2019 in London and follows the capital recording 132 homicides in 2018 - the highest rate in nearly a decade.
Elsewhere, a woman was shot at a New Year's Eve event at a nightclub in Hackney, east London.
The victim, thought to be in her 20s, was shot in the leg at the 588 club. Her injury is not thought to be life-threatening.
Earlier this week, 39 people were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a "minor argument" in a shop Hammersmith, west London, ended in a man being chased down and stabbed.
Of the Park Lane incident, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Partridge said: "The incident took place outside a venue that was hosting a private party.
"I would like to hear from anyone who was present at that event and witnessed this incident.
"A number of witnesses have already been spoken to, but it is clear many others who were present are yet to be traced, some of whom may have captured the attack on their mobile phones.
"It appears the deceased and the two injured males were working as security staff for the party, they were attacked by a group of males who were outside trying to enter the venue.
"The female was also attacked as she assisted the security staff in closing the front door of the premises.


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Octan Ibiza to launch in July
Welcome to Octan Ibiza, a new club concept cutting a path through Ibiza's hectic club landscape. Octan Ibiza offers an alternative to the traditional Ibiza club experience, something more intimate and personal, more welcoming and inclusive. We aim to bring back a little culture to club culture by taking a more creative approach to both the club environment and our musical programming. Our diverse musical program will cater to a broad range of musical tastes. Our trusted resident DJs will set the tone each night, cultivating our musical identity and maintaining the consistency of quality and diversity of sound throughout the club. Octan Ibiza will cater to a niche and a need we see unfulfilled in Ibiza, by creating a comfortable and engaging environment, focussing on independent, upcoming and underground artists and putting our customers experience above all else.
Occupying the former Sankeys Ibiza venue, we have kept the essence of the buildings gritty warehouse aesthetic, stripping it back to the most essential club elements, dark rooms illuminated with subtle light schemes and resonating with finely tuned sound systems. The club itself is a warren of different environments, low ceiling basements, cavernous main rooms, starlit terraces, secret cinemas and pop-up sound systems. Different rooms, vibes and music culminating in an enthralling club experience.
Preparation on the venue has only just begun and phase one of Octan Ibiza will roll out midsummer. We are collaborating with street artists, light artists and av artists. The club itself will act as a blank canvas for these artists and will evolve organically through (in some cases, live and real-time) artworks within and around the venue. We are encouraging artists to get in contact with us to get involved in this project, please contact ryan@octan.es with ARTWORK as your email subject and send us your art, this can be light installations, graffiti or any kind of large format visual art.
Phase one will also see the launch of our first weekly residencies and specialist one-off events. We will be working on a more selective program in 2019, focussing our events on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, dedicating our energies to making those nights work by focussing on quality over quantity. Plans are already underway for bigger developments both to the venue itself and with our events, a larger scale refurb and the full program will be revealed in 2020.
The main event residencies and guests will be announced sequentially over the coming weeks. Ryan O Gorman will be Octan Ibiza's musical director and resident DJ, Stephan Ghenacia, Lindsey Matthews and Kellie Allen will be joining him as the first resident DJ's to be announced. Collaborations with visual artists such as Nicholas Dixon and Andreas Brooks have also been confirmed for phase one.
The club officially opens on Sunday, 7th of July with the return of Warriors. Steve Lawler heads an all-star lineup, bringing the venue's most loved party into the new era and the next phase. Fuse frontman Enzo Siragusa and co-resident Seb Zito also head the bill with Warriors resident and rising star Ben Sterling supporting. We will be announcing room two's lineups later this week. Follow us on social media for regular updates.
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/octanibiza/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/octanibiza/
Tickets for the opening party – https://octanibizatickets.eventgenius.co.uk/events/Viva-Warriors
Nicolas Dixon – https://www.instagram.com/nicolasdixon/
Andreas Brooks – https://www.instagram.com/brooksandreas/
June 04, 2019 By Contributing Writer

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The cartoon states that, annually, 118,481 babies out of 2 million will die before reaching their first birthday. Thus, the cartoon shows John E. Jones, a baby that may add to this statistic if not given proper healthcare. The cartoon proceeds to show most of John's life, including his school years, marriage, later life (as a father), and his golden years, providing other helpful health information along the way. Before the cartoon ends, however, it returns to John as a baby, reminding the audience that John needs proper healthcare to survive. The cartoon then states that if every American paid just three cents a week, sufficient healthcare could be provided for John and babies everywhere.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Toonami (a portmanteau of the words cartoon and tsunami suggesting a "tidal wave" of animated cartoons) is a registered trademark of Cartoon Network, used initially for action-oriented programming blocks on Cartoon Network television channels worldwide, mostly showing American cartoons and Japanese anime, originating in the United States on March 17, 1997 and ended on September 20, 2008. The Toonami brand name was subsequently used in the United Kingdom as the name of an action-oriented animation channel replacing a former Cartoon Network owned channel CNX, which had been a Toonami/live-action hybrid network. It has been hosted by two CGI hosts.
Anime Fan Communities
How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through mid-century children's cartoon fan clubs, to today's digitally-networked transcultural fan cultures.
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Updated version featuring all new material.If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacy.The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more-all explained in simple, clear, and yes, funny illustrations. Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!
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Natural Environment Recovery Programme Launch
My former colleagues Ruth Dyson and Mojo Mothers, Commissioners Rex Williams and Peter Skelton, Dame Margaret Bazley, Kelvin Coe Mayor of Selwyn, David Ayers Mayor of Waimakariri District and Roger Sutton CERA. My fellow Councillors Phil Clearwater, Paul Lonsdale, David East and Andrew Turner.
(Neill O'Reilly, principal of Windsor School and Te Marino Lenihan, Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, Aroha Reriti-Crofts Ngai Tuahuriri).
I feel a real sense of privilege in being invited to speak at this launch here at Travis Wetlands, where I am the Patron.
We have just celebrated the 21st Anniversary of the establishment of the Trust that turned the Travis Swamp as it was known into a potential natural anchor project for the generation of the east.
I mention the Trust because it was the work of volunteers from the community working with passionate people in the Council that made this place happen. These are not bureaucrats, they are enablers and bringing the children here speaks to the future and the need to engage them in environmental projects from the start. It is all about partnership.
The earthquakes have changes our landscape – tilting of the estuary up half a metre to the south and down .2 to .3 of a metre to the north near the mouth of the Avon. There is lateral and settling of land close to the rivers. Heave and elevation of river and stream beds and the narrowing of waterways – up to 6m on the Avon.
There are direct impacts in terms of surface flooding and challenges to stormwater and sewerage networks. Overflows have increased. We have an extensive programme of research into stormwater management to address flooding and improve the quality of discharges.
Large areas of the city have had far less attention to weeds and pests with impacts on our native plants and animal communities. We have lost spawning sites. Recreational opportunities have been restricted on the Port Hills due to heightened safety concerns and pollution is restricting access to our rivers. Demolitions continue to produce enormous quantities of solid waste.
The Natural Environment Recovery Programme focuses on restoring and enhancing the city's ecosystems. The main focus which is near and dear to my heart is on the waterways – the rivers, wetlands and estuary.
Although the government is deferring any decisions on what they have described as the residential red zone, everyone can see that there is an opportunity for environmental enhancement that is seldom if ever available to an established city.
People are already imagining what this could mean – public access, cycle routes and walkways from city to sea, community gardens, urban forests, Mahinga Kai projects, recreational opportunities.
I spoke a few weeks ago about what this could mean for the city.
Think about having the largest natural wetlands within a city boundary based on Travis and stretching through the red zones. Think of the eco-tourism potential that could provide, as well as the potential for learning experiences for children, with interpretation centres explaining the history of the wetlands, its native plants and the birdlife it already attracts.
Think about a lake that has the advantage of utilising our excess water from a river that would regularly flood our streets without the new stop-banks. Think about creating a place where various venues would flourish around such a lake and where residential properties would be sought after – as our wetlands' perimeter properties were before
the earthquake.
Surround the lake with a running and cycling track and think of the marathon opportunities.
All of these opportunities would not exist but for the disaster of the past three years.
The NERP gives us a considered and ordered pathway to an incredibly exciting future.


The boy thought this was a grand opportunity to play a trick on the old man. If the master answered "dead," it would be let loose into the air. If the master answered "alive," he would simply ring its neck.
~ H.H. the Dalia Lama | NOTE: This story was the quote for April 2, 2010 on a Dalai Lama daily quotes calendar. But I wonder what the original source o is? It appears on the Web in various guises, usually as a Zen tale.
From the old Hundred Mountain Web magazine.
capacity to arouse fearless energy.
in your ordinary state of mind?
How then will you persevere over other hardships?


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The power to adapt and thrive
Posted on Mar 24, 2022 by FEED Staff
Grass Valley is ensuring customers can respond quickly to the media industry's constantly changing needs
In media and entertainment technology circles, the ability to deliver versatile, cloud-based live production from a single platform has become something of a holy grail. With social media and OTT services as critical as linear TV, there is an onus on technology providers to accommodate complex playout and distribution requirements that are likely to change more regularly. The challenge this presents to the vendor is neatly summarised by Neil Maycock, chief marketing officer at Grass Valley.
"We have a strategy designed to help customers chart a course through digital disruption the industry is experiencing," he says. "The result is our media ecosystem, GV Media Universe (GVMU), bringing together technology, partnerships and business innovation." As underlined by its new corporate identity, with the tagline 'We Love Live,' Grass Valley has a strong focus on transforming the creation and delivery of premium live content. Its vision is encapsulated in GVMU, helping media companies address business problems arising from traditional operational models, including ever growing production and distribution complexity and rising costs. This is the end result of decades of creating broadcast hardware, then software, then being able to expertly combine hardware, software and services to create industry-best workflows.
LIVE AND KICKING Familiar production equipment linked to cloud services enables live production over any internet connection
The GVMU is a digital ecosystem that allows media companies to use on-premise and cloud technologies to build live production environments that suit their needs today, while adapting to future demands. The core of GVMU is GV Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP). Developed for the entire spectrum of live production, GV AMPP is a cloud native platform, taking full advantage of what the cloud offers, while being able to integrate any hardware solutions in the workflow. Its applications – encompassing the full supply chain, from capture and encoding to distribution – have been designed from the ground up, to run in a public cloud environment.
Consequently, says Maycock: "They allow for accessibility and scalability, meaning developers can continue to deliver new services more quickly and easily."
A strategy designed to help customers chart a course through digital disruption
Grass Valley is actively developing a surrounding ecosystem of qualified partners, focused on enabling media companies to leverage the cloud and on-premise technology. Dubbed the GV Media Universe Alliance, this group continues to welcome new members,with Net Insight and Flowics among the most recent additions.
Democratisation of video
Maycock is certain that it's already helping media businesses adapt to an industry that shifts rapidly – and on multiple fronts.
"There are so many different forces and influences on the content creation side. At one end of the field, you have the democratisation of video that includes content being pushed out to Instagram and YouTube. At the other, the OTT giants promoting high-end production values with
UHD, HDR and so on."
Increasingly, though, enterprises need to deliver content to traditional linear services, OTT and social media with equal facility. As Maycock remarks, "OTT is now part of almost every conversation we have with a customer. Organisations like the BBC, which has traditional channels as well as the iPlayer, or Discovery with its own channels and Discovery+, so there are many bases to be covered."
UNIVERSAL GVMU powers operations and business models with a unified ecosystem of services, technology and marketplaces
Maycock highlights some of the GV ecosystem's greatest strengths. These include GV AMPP's global low-latency streaming capabilities.
"Prior to our platform, not many people had solved the problem of doing live really well. There tended to be difficulties around latency, timing and other core aspects of broadcast. That's what Grass Valley has solved with GV AMPP; our uniqueness in this space allows us to bring live production and our brand identity to a whole new generation of software."
Moreover, with requirements evolving at an unprecedented rate – and sometimes in unforeseen ways – it's a software platform that will continue to develop.
"If you look at the history of Grass Valley, you can clearly see a golden thread through everything we've done – and that's around the whole area of live production. With AMPP, we've managed to take all the capabilities we have developed and move them into a pure software domain, giving customers enormous adaptability."
Seamless user experience
Inevitably, some benefits have been given a chance to shine during the pandemic. While Maycock stresses that
many trends were already underway before Covid-19, GV AMPP's ability to create the same interaction – whether
in the broadcast centre or working at home – has become essential.
"We are unique in being able to provide a seamless user experience, wherever people are located."
Moreover, GV AMPP is conducive to supporting other industry trends, including pop-up channels around major news or sports events:
"With a cloud-based platform like ours, you are afforded flexibility to scale something up or down much more easily."
OTT is now part of every conversation we have with a cusotmer
Maycock also anticipates fresh applications in gambling, where speed is everything when people are betting on live proceedings:
"That's possible because we've achieved incredible low-latency performance across the platform."
While accelerating change in media and entertainment heralds creative and monetisation opportunities, it also requires services to focus firmly on the bottom line. With GVMU and GV AMPP, Maycock is certain that businesses are being empowered to address challenges head-on.
"By leveraging cloud-based technologies, media companies are able to adapt to digital disruption – and change the economics of what they're doing. With GV AMPP, we are moving the dial on their costs once again, making it much easier for them to service all the new demands in a way that works both technologically and economically."
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Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that is emitted through various sources and it is a gas that contributes greatly on the global climate change. According to studies, if CO2 emissions are not brought under check, then it could result in the rise of global temperatures to as much as 10F this century.
If you are a person who cares about the environment and want to do something that makes the environment better then you should probably try to learn a bit more about greenhouses.
The trend of sustainable homes is increasing each passing day. Sustainable homes which are sometimes also referred to as environmentally friendly homes are basically low impact homes that are built and designed via utilizing technology and materials that have the ability to reduce the house's carbon footprint.


Mike's Vintage Payphone by Mike Davis This month's example is a Gray 34A-11. This is a beautiful telephone that I restored several years ago. It is another one of the full size paystations. The paystation has no internal ringer or talk circuit, it connected to a subset. This phone has an Automatic Electric 34 type spit cup handset. It was made for the Strowger System or Automatic Electric. It has a semi-post-pay coin relay that does not hold a coin in escrow. All coins dropped into the proper slots are directed into the vault. Coins would not be dropped in order to get a dial tone. As the instructions say, a coin is dropped once the called party answers. Until a coin is dropped the called party is unable to hear the caller. This model as well as some others I have, have a very thin coin return chute (see photo). The reason they could get away with the thin chute is that only a coin that was dropped into the wrong slot would be returned, that being the case only a single coin would be returned at a time. In pre-pay models many coins that were held in escrow. If the connection wasn't made all the deposited coins would be returned at once. That would clog this type of chute. These chutes were used on only a few models and then discontinued, I am sure even with one coin at a time traveling through they were troublesome. The body of the paystation is made of steel with a cast coin gauge, it is painted bronze in color. The AE dial is mounted within a cast metal shroud with a nice "daisy face" porcelain number ring. The wood strip mounted to the backboard is the central connection point for the different components of the paystation, the handset and wiring to the subset connect to it. This paystation is mounted to a 139a countertop mount. I have another Gray 34 A-11 in black which has the more standard large open coin return chute. You can view it on my web site mvtelonline.com.


Wisdom from the Kay Hagan Women's Summit – Let's Get Women Out To Vote!
So much depends on whether we can get women out to vote in high enough numbers to shift the balance in support of the issues we care about as women: education, jobs that pay a wage that enables us to support our families, access to affordable and high quality health care – including birth control and other reproductive health care -- in every community, a decent future for our kids and grandkids, with clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. Not much to ask for, really.
But right now the politicians in power at both the state level and in Congress just won't stand up for these issues. Instead, they are dismantling services. Defunding public education. Bankrupting public resources by cutting taxes for the rich and limiting how much cities and towns can collect. Limiting our right to vote. Making it harder for all of us to thrive in North Carolina. They just have the wrong priorities. And we have to change that.
That's what the Women's Summit that the Hagan Campaign held earlier this month in Greensboro was about: inspiring us to do everything we can to get out the women's vote for Kay so that we can keep the U.S. Senate Democratic (and she may very well be the 50th Senator we need), and along the way, sweep into office as many other women and strong Democratic candidates as we can.
State Auditor Beth Wood was our dynamic MC – keeping the program moving quickly and keeping us all focused on the stakes in this election. There were fabulous speeches, from Kay herself, from former Congresswoman Eva Clayton, from Mark Jewell, Vice President of the NC Association of Education, from current Wilmington State Representative Susi Hamilton, and from Janet Colm, President of Planned Parenthood.
While I expected inspiring campaign speeches, every speaker there made sure that they not only inspired us but they gave us the facts and figures we needed to make our case and get women out to vote.
Sadie Weiner, Kay's Communication Director, and Molly Murphy, from her polling team, double-teamed to give us the information we need to be persuasive with both Democratic and Independent women and help get them out to vote.
Did you know that 61% of women believe that income inequality undermines opportunity?
And 55% of women believe that North Carolina is going in the wrong direction. That the policies of this Governor and this General Assembly are making it harder to survive. Women want policies – including economic policies -- to be fairer for everyone.
66% believe that women still have a harder time making it in the workplace then men. And almost as many – 63% -- support a paycheck fairness act and would make it a strong factor in their vote.
And there is extraordinary unanimity on the need for more funding for public education. People know that public education for all is guaranteed in the North Carolina constitution. And 81% of women believe that North Carolina public schools need more money.
The much vaunted 7% raise for teachers actually takes away an already earned benefit -- longevity pay -- and redistributes it, so that our most committed teachers end up with less than a 1% pay raise.
The GA cut $76 million dollars from the school text book fund last year, $45 million from school supplies, $6 million from school transportation, and $3 million from ESL programs, and of course $10 million for the voucher program, still being contested.
And that's not even addressing the elimination of 6000 teachers and 3300 teacher assistants over the past year through budget cuts at a time when the number of students to be served is increasing!
Their idea is to transfer all education funding back to the counties, in the name of local control. But this just makes education more unequal, by putting all of the weight for funding on property taxes. Rich communities get better schools; poor communities, poorer schools.
We need to be sure to get the truth out.
These stark contrasts between what Kay Hagan stands for and what Tom Tillis stands for will resonate with women. They underline how important it is that women go to the polls and votes this year. So much of what we want for our families and our communities are at stake in this election.
So let's get the word out. Share these messages in your Power of the Pen letters. Use them when you go canvassing for Kay or Planned Parenthood, like I did last weekend. And when you talk to neighbors and colleagues and friends.
Let's do everything we can to get the vote out. And to get our friends and colleagues to work with us to get the vote out. The stakes are that high. We need to Turn NC Blue this year.
What is irreparable harm, in this case? I think it is pretty clear: depriving North Carolina citizens of our right to vote. If the provisions of the law make it difficult for any group of our citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote then it clearly, prima facie, causes irreparable harm.
Ruling that provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct can't be counted – when this is the primary purpose of provisional ballots.
Other states are currently expanding provisions like these – to make it easier for anyone to vote who can legally vote. But not states like North Carolina, where Republican legislators jumped at the opportunity provided by the end of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to pass what the New York Times calls the "most restrictive voting rights act in the country." Making it more difficult for people who have less control over their work hours to vote, or who have recently moved, or who haven't had a chance to get to the DMV or the BOE to register is a good thing for Republicans, since it is well documented that folks who are more likely to vote Democrat -- minorities, the young and the poor – depend on these efforts to expand access to the polls to be able to exercise their right to vote.
What can we do to minimize the irreparable harm permitted by Judge Schroeder?
We need to do everything we can to expand and educate the electorate between now and the start of early voting.
Register more new voters. Between now and October 10 when voter registration for this election ends we need to work with YouCanVote and other efforts to register as many voters as we can in Durham County – and make sure they know what the rules are about when and where to vote.
Educate new and infrequent voters about the law. When we write our Power of the Pen letters we need to make sure that our letters identify the precinct polling place where the individual needs to vote if they want to vote on election day. Make sure they know that their vote won't count on election day unless they vote at the right polling place. Encourage women you write to vote during early voting when they have flexibility about where they can vote.
We need to publicize the fact that the Durham County Board of Elections has moved and so Early Voting will once again be at a new site.
Those of us who enjoy the face-to-face of canvassing need to be out in the neighborhoods with Kay Hagan's team making sure people we don't reach with our letters know how important it is to vote.
We need to make sure everyone knows the importance of fair judges at every level of jurisprudence. Thomas Schroeder was appointed by President George W. Bush so we probably couldn't expect a "fair" verdict from him in this case. But there are judges who understand what "irreparable harm" is, like the Alabama judge who just found that a new state abortion law that would have closed 3 of 5 abortion clinics put an undue burden on a woman's ability to choose to have an abortion before the fetus was viable. As if that wasn't the point. But as the Alabama Judge pointed out, that's illegal. We have the opportunity this year to elect fair judges to the State Supreme Court: Robin Hudson and Sam Ervin and Cheri Beasley. And to the State Appeals Court: Mark Davis and Lucy Inman. We need to make sure that their names are as familiar to Democratic leaning voters as Kay Hagan's.
In short, we need to do everything we did in 2012 and more this year to undue the irreparable harm the state legislature, the Governor and the Judge have done by passing and supporting this mean-spirited, rights-abrogating law.
"We all believe in justice, fair play, treating people right and using political power to better society. These principles are rooted in our deepest moral virtues."
Let's do everything we can to make sure that voters who support these principles are in the majority on election day. If we do everything we can to Turn NC Blue, we can take the first steps back to a North Carolina that works in the best interests of all its families.
The following quote is from one of our most awesome Power of the Pen letter writers. Even before the lists of infrequent voters have been prepared, Cecile has been busy at work—prewriting! Before going out of town on vacation, she's already written 76 letters and plans on doing 76 more when she returns. Her friend Laura has also committed to do the same. They are simply leaving the names blank and will fill in the names and addresses they are given for mailing as soon as they receive their lists from POP. These are two fantastic letter writing Durham Democratic Women!
A handwritten letter on nice stationery is personal, individual, and valuable. In a mailbox it stands out tremendously from printed mass mailings, bills, and junk advertising. Through it you reach your reader, even if she misses a few words, because you have spent 20 to 25 minutes writing to her, imagining her, affirming her importance, reaching out, letting her know her vote will count because she is not alone and our connection is genuine. Recently I decided to buy very nice, cream-colored, business envelopes, as I already have enough cream-colored stationery. This is how much I support letter writing, which has a 74% success rate in getting out the vote.
There are more than enough people who feel as we do. The key is for them to get out and vote. Let's reach them, one at a time.
Have you done letter writing with us before? Tell others your thoughts and experiences about this valuable and personal resource to Get Out The Vote!
A call to action came in the form of an email from Adam Sotak of Democracy NC. The Durham Board of Elections was meeting this afternoon (June 13) to decide on the Early Voting Schedule for November.
Beth Silberman and I decided to go to the meeting. When we arrived at the BOE the meeting room was almost full (about 15). There were people from many groups--League of Women Voters, You Can Vote, Democracy NC, students from local colleges, others groups, now--Durham Democratic Women.
The original plan from the Director had four locations (BOE and 3 libraries--North, South, and East) with voting beginning on October 23, both Saturdays closing at 1 pm and only one Sunday on the schedule. After the Board's discussion seemed to be heading to accepting that plan, the audience started to speak up. They listened. We wanted sites at Duke and NCCU and an extended day on the first Saturday of Early Voting.
After lots of discussion (the Board was listening) they made adjustment. The plan still has four sites--BOE, North Library, South Library, and now, NCCU--and on Saturday, October 25, the sites will be open until 5 pm. We continued to try to add Duke as a site, but were not successful.
Quick mobilization worked! It was great to be there and know that our voices were made a difference.


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Awesome game last night with Cristiano Ronaldo 33 year old fabulous completing an incredible hat-trick. Ronaldo proved again that is the best player worldwide ever.
Portuguese leader continues to make history in terms of goal scoring. After the hat-trick against Spain last night, Ronaldo becomes the fourth player to score at four World Cups equalling Uwe Seeler, Pelé and Miroslav Klose.
World Cup Russia 2018 : GROUP B, 15 JUN 2018 – 21:00 Local time GMT+3Fisht Stadium, Sochi. Live Text at FootballBetExpert
Final Tournament begins on the 14th June 2018. Group B at the World Cup in Russia includes titans Portugal and Spain tied by Morocco and Iran.
A game not to be missed in this group is the clash of titans between Euro 2016 winners Portugal and 2010 World Cup Champions Spain that will take place in Sochi on 15 June at 9pm GMT+3.
Portugal is a stylish southern European country on the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain and has a population of 10 million people.
They are one of the favorites to qualify from Group B, however, they have not accomplished a lot of triumphs in the World Cup Tournaments.
Certainly this will be the last chance for the Portuguese super star Cristiano Ronaldo 33 year old, to participate and win the World Cup Tournament. Therefore, after succeeding at the Euro 2016 in France, Ronaldo & Portugal will do their best to win the country's first ever World Cup trophy.
Who is the key player of Portugal ? Come on, the whole world knows that It's the leader Cristiano Ronaldo. Currently Real Madrid striker and Champions league Top Scorer is in superb form: fast, magnificent with the ball at his feet, inventive inside the box and efficient in front of the gate.
European Champions holders dont rely only on Ronaldo but they have Goncalo Guedes 21 year old who's extremely fast and working alongside Ronaldo & Andre Silva in attack, they can create continuous danger for any team.
Further more Portugal also have the experienced and dedicated center back Pepe that can lead the Portuguese defense to perfection.
Fernando Santos the Portuguese coach is an expert to get the maximum from each player at final tournaments.
Kindly see here the full 23-man squad of Portugal.
New Bookie Betzest odds for Portugal (2,9) vs Spain (1,45) World Cup 2018 – Group B qualifier.
Spain team
This is a superb country on Europe's Iberian Peninsula and has a 47 million population. Spain won the World Cup in 2010, however, had a disappointing World Cup Tournament four years ago in Brazil as they were knocked out in the group stages.
There are not many players from 8 year ago when Spain won the World Cup in South Africa.
However, coach Julen Lopetegui hopes an injection of young players can take Spain to the final stage.
Leaded by steel defender Sergio Ramos 32 year old, Spain goes with a powerful team in Russia: David de Gea (Man United keeper) has incredible saves, and can save Spain on many occasions at World Cup.
With Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique central defenders, Spain will have strong triangle at the back that will make it very hard for any team to score.
Furthermore, the Spanish team is composed by world class midfielders such as David Silva (Man City), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea centre back defender) and Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid striker).
Ex Barcelona star Andres Iniesta, who scored the winner in the 2010 final against Netherlands, is also selected in the Spain squad.
Finally one of the key players to watch is Thiago, twisted into a star at Bayern Munich.
He's intelligent and quick on the ball, participates in attack, and clever enough to be endure and permit his colleagues to sweep the pitch and open up for Spain's quick-pass attack.
See here the full 23-man squad of Spain.
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Charges for 3 men accused of using, selling heroin, cocaine
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MONTICELLO – Three men have been indicted and arraigned on drug sale charges in unrelated cases, Sullivan County District Attorney Jim Farrell announced Friday.
Smitty Williams, 36, of Bloomingburg was indicted Wednesday on six counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, felonies. Officials say he sold heroin and cocaine on Nov. 6, heroin on Nov. 11 and heroin, cocaine and oxycodone on Nov. 20.
Andre Shackleford, 43, of Brooklyn was indicted Wednesday on four counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance as well as other drug counts. Officials say on Oct. 13, he had more than 1/8-ounce of cocaine on Pleasant Valley Road in Fallsburg, as well as having another 1/8-ounce of cocaine, half an ounce of heroin, packaging materials and more than $3,400 cash at an Edgewood Road apartment.
Matthew Pitz, 21, of Callicoon was indicted Feb. 18 on two counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance and a count of third-degree possession. Officials said Pitz had 20 packets of heroin he intended to sell on Jan. 15 at Terry Lane in Monticello, and that he sold heroin twice in December on Maple Avenue in the Town of Calllicoon.
All three men were arraigned in Sullivan County Court and sent to Sullivan County Jail in lieu of bail pending court dates. Bail was set at $250,000 for Williams, at $150,000 for Shackleford and at $10,000 for Pitz.


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MAYBE DON'T WATCH GLITCH
SINGLE SEX WRITERS' ROOMS & DIRECTORS
by Will | Jul 13, 2017 | REVIEWS
After a compelling start, the final few episodes of Glitch went downhill faster than a long-haired flaming galah in a Cheeto-flavored cheese wheel.
The closer Glitch got to its finalé, the less it makes sense it made as character's already unclear motivations vanished into the ozone layer. In episode five, as the last episodes should be cranking up towards a crescendo, bad-guy antagonist Terminator Vic falls badly and breaks his leg, rendering him a useless threat until he recieves a Near Dark-esque operation in a barn. Odd.
Twenty minutes before the end of episode six, the writers remember that this is the final episode and hurriedly try to recompense. After said operation, Vic's leg heals within an hour (okay, that 's thanks to Noregard's miracle drugs) and,in a one minute conversation, Vic convinces his biggest threat, John Doe to switch allegience and kill everyone. #sad
A SEASON OF TWO HALVES
The inciting incident, set-up and impact upon character's relaionships takes up the first three episodes but when it comes to conspiracies, a worthy antagonist and things actually… ya know; happening, the series falls flat.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that some of these problems arise because Glitch is written and made by an almost entirely female crew of writer/directors. That's not a diss – in an odd way it's a compliment – the show's emphasis is on emotional beats and feelings, not problem solving (as so much of the writers room is about.)
While Loiuse Fox and Emma Freeman et al forgot this was a paranormal series, a male crew would have made for a spookier show. That's not exactly a compliment becaus horror is just a series of well-defined tropes; the biggest exponent of style over substance – its tricks of the trade maketh the genre.
Perhaps an almost entirely female writers' room is why some of the characters chopped and changed their minds quite so much. James uneccesarily goes here, Kate uneccesarily goes there… always seeming to have "one more thing they must do" zigzagging from one location to another and back again as opposed to a straight A to B motivational throughline.
Just as importantly, none of the dramatic set-pieces work; blocking and fight choreography was amateur to the point of college student films. Yes, I'm saying I think men make better technicians.
What Glitch, and particularly its final episode "There must be rules" has reiterated (to me) is a rule of thumb that I already knew and was reminded again many times from recent experience working with my female writing assistant, Sawyer. Men's brains work in straight, masculine lines – we're problem solvers who find the quickest route from A to B. Women's work in empathasing, feminine curves. Men are the head, women are the heart.
If you need evidence of this, just look to any conversation you've had with your partner after a tough day at work. The man will try to fix problems by offering solutions, the woman feels better by talking it through, like this.
I'm not saying men are better than women or vice versa; each is better at different aspects of filmmaking. As single sex writers' room won't wash as Chris Carter will find out after he failed to hire a single female writer for The X-Files next season.
So, do I, Gillian. So do I. Some of my favorite TV directors are female – The Leftovers' Mimi Leder (read this) and Breaking Bad's Michelle McLaren, to name but two, are incredible talents. But if I get to hire a crew in the future, I'm gonna use a mixture; marry the two skillsets together, like how Icelandic law requires companies must now have a 60/40 split of male to female or female to male board members.
I'll use male writers for problem solving; moving characters around, events and gunfights and power-plays and conspiracies and female writers and directors for emotional depth and simpatico and ideas and memories and big questions and heartbreaking deaths. #TheFutureIsIcelandic. Fair?
For all this talk, Glitch's failings aren't solely down to a male/female thing, its actually more of an experience thing. Or an Australian filmmaking experience thing. Thanks to my recent work with my assistant, I've seen much evidence of this male/female head/heart trait recently and thought it was worth writing about. That is all.
While the Noregard Big Pharma storyline is one of the most badly-excuted conspiracies I've seen in a TV show, in Glitch's defence, there were two clever, final twists I really didn't see coming. Oh, and English born, New Zealand actress Emily Barclay (James' new wife, Sarah) is definitely one strong actress to keep an eye on.
I know I said to watch Glitch just two days ago, but hell – it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind!
Unfortunately, a second series of Glitch will air sometime in 2017.


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'Comedy Nights With Kapil': Sunil Grover Re-Shoots For Gutthi
Sunil Grover, who made a comeback on 'CNWK' as Kapil's father-in-law, will now be seen playing Gutthi.
By Prarthna Sarkar @PrarthnaS
July 31, 2014 17:15 IST
Hrithik Roshan with Palak and Gutthi on the sets of Comedy Nights With Kapil [Varinder Chawla]Varinder Chawla
Sunil Grover, who is of late been in the news for his comeback episode on "Comedy Nights With Kapil" as Manju's (Sumona Chakravarti) father, has re-shot for Gutthi.
"I recently shot for Gutthi and while I was standing on the stage (in the balcony from where Palak enters) thinking about how to make my entry, I heard people cheer as soon as my name was announced," The Times of India quoted Grover, "It was really heart-warming to see so much love and affection for Gutthi's comeback. When I saw all that I went numb and blank at that point and forgot what to say. I didn't know how to react, I was touched to so much love and affection."
Grover, as Kapil's cash-strapped whacko father-in-law, was convincing. With a lazy body language and dishevelled wig, the character managed to pull off a few laughs. But Gutthi was an exception. As the always-wanting-to-marry next-door neighbour, she had become a household name.
Read Here: 'Comedy Nights With Kapil': Sunil Grover Back as Gutthi
Gutthi's exit from the show was a big blow to the viewers. Apparently, the ouster was due to creative difference he had with the makers. Also, there were rumours that Kapil Sharma, the host of the show, had an ego clash with the actor. And in order to make a name in the world of comedy on his own merit, he left the show.
The comeback episode received an overwhelming response. While Sunil Grover posted a happy message on Twitter announcing his return, Kapil Sharma welcomed the ace comedian in style on the micro-blogging site.
"Comedy Nights With Kapil" has completed 100 episodes last weekend. Ali Asgar ( Dolly Dadi), Upasana Singh (Pinky Bua), Kiku Sharda (Palak, Pankhuri and Lachcha) and Chandan Prabhakar (Raju) are the rest of the cast.
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Over the past week I have discovered another beautiful woodlot to walk through, led initially down the trail by a friend. It's a larger woodlot, not far away, and very interesting to walk around. I've actually been there three times over the past week, on snowshoes each time of course.
It turned out to have a large patch of Hemlock-Beech forest, a forest type I don't see very often here in the valley. I can't think of another example as nice as this one.
Those tiny Hemlock needles are easy to identify once you learn them, at least on the shorter saplings where they're close to ground level.
There's also a lot of Yellow Birch, making this woodlot even more interesting. This is like an undisturbed old climax forest for southern Ontario. Can you recognize the large trunk to the right of centre with it's curlicues of paper hanging off the bark?
Surprisingly, there isn't much Sugar Maple, although this one is a great specimen - tall and straight. Sugar Maple is usually the most common tree in our deciduous woodlots.
Another big tree, a White Ash.
There were a lot of American Beech, but they're often not looking very healthy, attacked by the beech bark disease, a combination of an insect and fungus that usually kills off the large trees first. There seems to be little that can be done about it.
While the leaves are still hanging on on the smaller saplings, the unique long sharp buds are already there, waiting for spring.
There's a stream flowing through the woods, closer to the north side, with quite a steep embankment where you can look down on the stream from above. I think we need a bridge someplace!
If you get through to the back of the woodlot there's a large pond that's been created which looked very inviting. I expect it's a great place for wildlife in the spring.
The beech bark disease causes severe cankering and results in misshapen tree trunks. This one was a classic example! Can you see right through? Must be a big hollow in here. This is a woodlot I'll be back to regularly, and sharing more photos of sooner rather than later.
Wow! Looks like a great place for botanizing! Old trees and wetlands! Have fun!
After seeing this post I think I need a nice walk in the woods! What a lovely spot that is!
Just from viewing this sample, it;s pretty obvious that patch of forest is well worth exploring and a great place to spend some time.
What a magical and serene place.
The sugar maple and white ash photos are great!
I feel that I was on the walk with you ... and my Dad - who helped me learn how to identify trees. What a spectacular variety of specimens - I do have a soft spot in my heart for hemlocks and ash.
Yellow Birch, I could see an image of a bear, slightly to the right, and in your last photo, a twisted face. Great series of photos, with trees and a hidden stream, Some great times there when the snow melts.
It looks magnificent in the snow, as I'm sure it does at other times of year too. Pity about the tree disease, we have some species which are being affected by various pests here as well; there never seems to be anything that can be done except hope that there's a small population of trees somewhere that are naturally resistant.
Wonderful wal and photos, FG, though I got a little cold looking at it. Not heard the expression 'woodlot' before; I like it.
Our beech and ash trees are taking an awful beating here in E.Ontario. Nice versatile forest there!
That final pic looks like a face in agony. Seems fitting. Our state park is losing all its big beech and has begun planting resistant saplings. But it will take forever for them to reach maturity.
A beautiful area to explore in winter!
Hope you didn't bump you chin into that tree.
you really know how to photograph the snow, these are gorgeous. i have some hemlock shrubs along my back property line, i love them for the privacy they offer!! the last image looks like a face to me!!
and you are right about this part of new jersey, no more snow it has all melted!!
Lovely photos . I love trees and how gnarly and beautiful they are . I like all the textures with in the trees and different types of woods , hubs here is a wood worker so I can appreciate all that more to . Sun is shining and temps are rising here + 3 right now. Thanks for sharing have a good day !
Beautiful and great winter photos!
I am loving seeing some winter photos. We have not had much snow this year. In fact, we had our first real storm this past weekend. I never thought I would miss snow so much.


While the Earth was dominated by dinosaurs and conifers during the Cretaceous Period, early flowering plants and grasses were starting to evolve along with a number of small mammals. According to new research from Oregon State University, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and Germany, the extinct Palaeoclaviceps parasiticus fungus was common to a number of grassland areas inhabited by dinosaurs during this time. With the recent discovery of a fungi fossil captured in amber in Myanmar, scientists now have proof that dinosaurs, grasses, and hallucinogenic fungi co-existed for millions of years.
"It seems like ergot has been involved with animals and humans almost forever and now we know that this fungus literally dates back to the earliest evolution of grasses." said Oregon State University's College of Science faculty member George Poinar Jr, adding "This is an important discovery that helps us understand the timeline of grass development, which now forms the basis of the human food supply in such crops as corn, rice or wheat... But it also shows that this parasitic fungus may have been around almost as long as the grasses themselves, as both a toxin and natural hallucinogen."
While not exactly the same as modern ergot, the ancient fungi may have been used as a natural defence mechanism by grasses as a way to deter and repel herbivores. While its bitter taste has never been a preferred food for livestock or humans, according to Poinar Jr, it is highly unlikely that dinosaurs were not exposed to the fungus. "There's no doubt in my mind that it would have been eaten by sauropod dinosaurs, although we can't know what exact effect it had on them." said Poinar.
Known to cause delirium and irrational behaviour among humans, who knows how the dinosaurs would have reacted to the toxin. The ergot fungus has had an interesting role in human history, having killed thousands of people during the Middle Ages through the disease Paspalum staggers. Ergot has also been used as a medicine to induce abortion or speed labour in pregnant women, and has possible links to the infamous Salem witch trials. In modern times, more than 1000 compounds have been extracted directly from the ergot fungus, including the recreational psychedelic LSD.


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Q: Infinite-dimensional product space series and projections $\ell_2$ is an infinite-dimensional inner product space consisting of all infinite sequences of the form $(x_1,x_2,\ldots) $ satisfying that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty x_n^2 = x_1^2+x_2^2+\cdots$ converges. Given $x=(x_1,x_2,\ldots)$ and $y=(y_1,y_2,\ldots)$ in $\ell_2$, $\ell_2$ has the inner product: $\langle x,y \rangle = \sum_{n=1}^\infty x_ny_n = x_1y_1+x_2y_2+\cdots$ which is also an infinite series.
Given the two sequences in $\ell_2: x=(1,\frac23,\frac49,\frac8{27},\ldots) $ and $ y (1,\frac34,\frac49,\frac{27}{64},...)$

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*Find $\langle x,y \rangle$, $\|x\|$,$\|y\|$

*Let $S$ be the subspace of $\ell_2$ spanned by $x$. Find $\operatorname{proj}_s y$ and $\operatorname{proj}_{s^\perp}y$ (as in the projection of $y$ onto $S$ and the projection of $y$ onto $S^\perp$
Doing Part 1 is fairly easy, I got that $\langle x,y \rangle=\sum_{n=1}^\infty (\frac12)^{n-1}$ which is just 2, $\|x\|^2=\langle x,x\rangle=\frac95$,and $\|y\|^2=\langle y,y\rangle =\frac{16}7$, but I have no clue how to even start Part 2. Any help would be appreciated

A: As in finite dimension geometry you have:
$$\operatorname{proj}_S y = \langle y,x \rangle \frac{x}{\Vert x \Vert^2}$$
and:
$$\operatorname{proj}_{S^\perp} y = y-\operatorname{proj}_{S} y$$

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