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"Зенова савест" (), познат и под преводом "Зенова  свест", роман је италијанског књижевника Итала Звева. Објављен је у Болоњи 1923. Сматра се класиком италијанске књижевности и једним од најважнијих остварења модернистичке литературе.

Роман је написан у виду психоаналитичких мемоара, које је  на наговор психијатра, написао главни јунак Зено Козини. Зено кроз интроспективно писање истражује своју савест и сагледава своју навику пушења цигарета, однос према оцу, супрузи, љубавници и другим областима свог живота. Језик и стил романа тесно су везани за карактер самог приповедача. Написан је мешавином тршћанског наречја и италијанског књижевног језика, са особеном синтаксичком структуром немачког језика, али и са примесама специфичних терминологија  попут, на пример, оне које се употребљава у банкарству и трговини. Концепција главног јунака је делимично заснована на животном искуству самог аутора.

Иако се данас сматра једним од важнијих дела двадестог века, књига у први мах није имала успеха. Више издавачких кућа је одбило да објави књигу, те је Звево сам финансирао штампање првог издања, али је ондашња италијанска читалачка публика и књижевна критика потпуно прећутала и игнорисала роман. Афирмацији књиге помогао је Џејмс Џојс, који је помогао да се она преведе на француски и објави у Паризу, где су ондашњи француски критичари даље афирмисали роман. Роман је са италијанског на српски језик превела Лела Матић.

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Романи 1923.
Италијански романи


Jake was on his way to school. It was a normal day; he was running late again. He had spent too long finding the screwed up scraps of his school uniform which were strewn across his room and now he had to cycle especially fast to get to school on time. If he was late again, his form tutor, Mr. Pliskin, would be furious and Jake's mum would receive another letter. That could not happen.
He didn't want to be late today. Today was Time Capsule Day. The whole school had been excited about this day for months, and it was finally here. Two students from every year group had been selected to place an item of their choice, which "represented their age group", into the Time Capsule, which was to be buried under a concrete slab in front of the school. Of course, Jake had been one of the two chosen from his age group, and he was now going to be late for the burial of the items.
Jake pushed harder on the pedals of his push-bike until the wheels began to churn into the mud that ran alongside the surging River Thames, sending a spray of brown muck up into the air behind him, with some settling gracefully on the back of his creased red school jumper. Jake was stood up on the pedals, pumping them with his wiry legs as though his life depended on it. He was breathless and beginning to sweat but he couldn't stop. He feathered the brakes as he reached a bend in the path and then swerved angrily passed a yapping dog-walker and their silent dog.
He deviated from the path and launched the bike into his usual shortcut, lifting the handlebars so the bike jumped nearly a foot off the ground. He was in the middle of a field which separated the river from a new housing estate. There was already a number of builders working on something and Jake spotted a couple of fire engines parked in the estate's car park. He dismounted his bike and walked it over toward a gathering of people. Why would there be fire engines here? Something is wrong, Jake thought as his curiosity forced him to move closer and try to find out what was happening.
He reached the group of fireman, builders and residents, all of whom were in deep discussion, and muscled his way through to the front. They were stood around a deep hole in the ground. It was about Jake's height across, and you couldn't see the an end to it; it looked as though it were bottomless. Jake peered over the edge and a firm hand grasped his shoulder. He turned to see an old man with thick grey eyebrows and a hunched back.
"Be careful there, little boy." The man said. "You don't want to go falling into that pit!" He showed Jake a friendly grin and mussed his hair.
"Okay. What is it?" Jake enquired.
"It's a sinkhole. The builders were working here and then the ground just fell away. They lost a cement mixer down the hole! It's a beautiful thing, isn't it?" The man laughed and Jake copied him.
"I better go to school. Good bye." Jake walked away from the group.
"Yes! School. Ride like the wind!" The man chuckled after him.
Jake was about to jump on his bike and cycle the rest of the journey to school at the fastest possible speed, when he spotted something in a pile of earth not far from the sinkhole and the gathered crowd. It was a thick, leather-bound book, jutting loosely from a mound of freshly dug earth. He went over and picked it out of the ground, glancing over his shoulder to ensure nobody was watching him. The crowd were distracted and the old man had vanished, but Jake thought nothing of it, shoved the book into his backpack and cycled off towards the river.
He found an alcove in some bushes and threw down his bike. He sat on the stump of a tree and tore the dusty book from his back. It was bigger and heavier than any book he had ever seen or felt before and he cradled it in his hands for a few moments. It was beautiful. The brown leather had been carved with an image of a vast tree, which was surrounded with odd symbols that meant nothing to Jake (nor would they to most human beings). He ran his finger over the front of the book, feeling the indents and markings and the perfect leather; coarse and smooth in equal measure. There was a small golden clasp which sealed the covers of the book closed. Jake had to work it from side to side before it gaped open with a soft click.
With trembling hands, he opened the book in his lap and it groaned happily, revealing yellowed, moth-bitten pages. It emitted a rich, powerful smell. He began to gently skim through the book. The pages were a thick paper and they were decorated with a wild and eccentric writing. Some pages were just words, with thick looping letters; other pages were decorated with pictures and a riot of colour. Jake satisfied himself with his glancing at the book's contents and then returned to the first page. In the top left-hand corner of the page, in looping, extravagant lettering was written: 'The Beginning'. Jake ran his index finger over the slightly embossed, dried ink of the title, and then began to read the text aloud (he never normally read out loud, but the book compelled him to).
In a vast empty sky.
Then came the first heart.
Jake finished reading a looked up, deep in thought. He was trying to unpick the words and capture the meaning of the poem. He had been taught in school that poetry always had a more important meaning than what it was actually saying, but he had struggled to ever see anything other than the arrangement of letters on the page. It took several seconds for Jake to realise that the world, in which he had started to read, had fallen away.
He was sat on top of a vast, rolling hill which sat in the middle of a rich landscape. There were few trees, and no buildings of any kind, as far as he could see in every direction. And he could see so far in every direction. It were as though his eyes had gaining miles and miles of sight. The shimmering morning air made the horizon swim in his vision. To his right, at the very edge of his visual reach, he could see mountains jutting out of the ground. To his left he just about make out blue rim of a sea. He stood slowly.
"Where am I?" He said. To nobody at all but himself. He was not scared. He was exhilarated. He just wanted to know everything at that moment. There was an intense desire for him to simply understand where he was and why he was there.
"Before." A voice came from behind him to snap him out of his reverie. Jake turned to see the old man who had spoken to him at the sink-hole. He was wearing an old, battered cloak, and leaning heavily on a twisted stick that looked more like a tree root than a branch. He smiled softly at Jake.
"You? Who are you? Where am I?" Jake's voice quivered as he tried to contain his feeling. Anxiety, confusion. Excitement.
"Me. I am not important. You are important. You are precisely where you were when you started to read that book. Just not when." He grinned and nodded behind Jake, gesturing him for him to turn around. Jake obliged. "It is time, Jake." The old man had gestured towards the mountains Jake had seen before, but now they looked different. They were moving.
Jake watched, open-mouthed as the mountains parted. As though they were a block of butter being cut into with a sharp knife, they split into two and spread apart at a slow, groaning pace. Through the middle ran a surge of thick, surging water. It was so blue it was almost black and it poured through and over the mountains like a swarm of starving insects. It bled into the plains in front which sat between Jake and the mountains, and then began spread out across the ground. It covered every inch and filled every crevice along the way, until everything was completely covered with water. The waves lazily lapped up to the edge of the hill on which Jake and the old man stood, creating an enormous, placid sea. It was close enough for Jake to touch.
Jake stepped forward and peered down from his enormous hill which had now become a small island, surrounded by ocean. The water he looked into went from shallow to deep, gradually, with the gradient of the land. Small, silver fish flicked their bodies against the dull lapping waves, their scales reflecting the sun easily. Jake stared at them in wonder.
The old man appeared beside him, he was smiling wildly. "It's a beautiful thing, isn't it?" He said through crooked, broken teeth. Jake just nodded in reply, his eyes wide in his head. "Just remember, Jake, this world was nothing once. And now it is everything." Jake continued to stare out over the glowing water with fascinated, consuming eyes. "You can go back to your book now" Jake turned to face the old man and he was gone. He returned his gaze to the water and the broken mountains in the distance. They glistened as the water which had consumed them began to evaporate in the sun.
Jake noticed then something in the sky, at the peak of his distant vision. It glowed and flickered as the sun caught its faces and its edges. It was spinning. And it was enormous. Slowly, it tore through the sky above the mountains, moving towards them with precision. There was a stillness in the air. The world held its breath for a long moment and the falling thing disappeared behind the mountains.
There was a blinding light that smothered the entire sky and caused Jake to cover his face with his hands. The ground beneath his feet started to vibrate, and then it started to rumble with a ferocious intensity. Jake lost his footing and began to fall. The ground had opened and he fell inside.
Jake opened his eyes and found himself sat on a broken stump of a tree, reading a thick, leather-bound book. A sigh of relief left his lips as he felt his face to ensure that he was real. He was.
What was that? He thought, filled with fear but also so much excitement. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever experienced. He was exhilarated.
"You can get back to your book now." The words fluttered in his head like the wings of a butterfly. Read, Jake. Jake turned the page and began to read on.
We forget days of yore.
Is the battle we face.
This time, Jake was waiting for it. He was ready. He looked up as he finished that last word in the poem and tried to see if the world would change and, if it did, catch it in the act of changing. But he was too late. He was already somewhere else. Like before, reading the book had transported him.
He was sat in a room, surrounded by men. There must have been over a hundred in the room with him and they were dressed in extravagant, bright and frilly clothing. They looked absurd and Jake had to suppress a laugh when he saw them. None of them seemed to notice him.
The men were having a heated argument. Debating a topic that drove many of them to stamp their feet and jeer nonsensically at seemingly random times. Jake tried to piece together what was being said, but it were as though they were speaking Jon a foreign language. I'm in the past, he thought, and his heart began to beat a little faster.
The plump man was seething and sweating. He glared up at the pointed chin of his counterpart and mopped his brow, laboriously as perspiration dripped from his bulbous nose. "Quite plainly, human and natural rights aren't something of which you have even the most rudimentary of knowledge. You must cease this tirade and this shortsighted foolery at once. People's lives are in the balance!" He tried prevent his voice from shaking with anger but it could still be felt simmering beneath the surface. Cries of "here, here" could be heard bouncing around his head.
"Here, here"? Jake thought, what is there, there? He looked to one of the men who'd shouted it but could see nothing worth shouting about.
The little man bristled and took an aggressive step forward. "Like you have already sacrifices your God-given, rational respect for your fellow human being? Or like you've sacrificed your masculinity?!" He spat the last words and the room fell silent. The taller man straighten his back and threw a look at him so severe and wrought with fury that Jake found himself letting out a soft, pathetic moan of fear.
This drew the attention of the taller man and he silenced the crowd with an upraised palm. Everyone turned to address the boy stood in the corner. The men all began to exchange glances and whispers. "What on earth is that?" Jake heard one say. "Is that a spy?" Another asked his neighbour.
"Boy. What are you doing here." The tall man enquired, his face betraying his confusion at Jake's presence. Jake felt himself shrinking into the wall behind him. He suddenly noticed how small the room was, and how unbearably toxic to breath the air was. "Do you have a tongue!?" Two of the men closest to Jake began to move slowly towards him. Jake had nowhere to go. "Cease him!" The men leapt forward on command and Jake cowered and covered his face with a yelp.
Nobody grabbed him, and Jake fell backwards off the tree-stump and into a puddle of mud.
Jake rose from the mud, giggling to himself. The way the men had behaved was hilarious and the fact he had managed to escape from them made him giddy. He brushed himself down as best he could (the back of his trousers was caked in a healthy layer of mud) and returned to his seat on the true-stump.
He pulled the book back onto his lap and was about to begin reading the next chapter when he remembered about his school day. He glanced at his watch to find it was 9.15. He would certainly be late now, but he had time to make the assembly for the time capsule presentation if he continued his journey soon.
Jake ran his fingers over the accompanying drawing of a swirling black vortex, punctuated only by a tiny silver spec drifting into into middle. The transition from image to reality was faultless. Transfixed, Jake barely noticed that the picture had vanished and that he was now seeing that picture vividly in front of him. He was now there.
Floating through a soft metallic blackness, Jake drifted toward the enormity of the disc before him. It span with a beautiful stillness. It's size was unfathomable. It was beyond anything he had ever seen. Jake was floating toward it gently. His breathing felt odd; strangely pleasant. It was as if he were breathing the purest form of air. He sucked it in greedily.
He turned his body away from the direction in which he was heading, and he viewed the punctured, perfect blackness of space with eyes as wide as the infinite around him. Fields and fields of stars decorated the edges of the all he could see in every direction.
Jake turned back toward the black hole and gasped at how close to it he now was. It was all he could see in that direction now; it seemed not to end at its top, bottom or sides. It was a wall of surging nothingness. He saw now, drifting some way ahead, the silver spec of an object floating deep into the core of the swirling mass. Jake was getting closer to it as he began to pick up speed.
The skin on Jake's cheeks was rippling as his speed became frantic. The pressure on his chest tightened as though he were being squashed. Seemingly endlessly he flew forward. He was gaining ground on the floating object and he angled his body toward it. As he drew closer, he could make out it was a large piece of rock, like a meteor, shaped like a disc. The perfect shape for skimming stones, Jake thought. The top of the disc was reasonably smooth but for a few rough outcrops of rock which jutted up around the edge. Jake headed towards them in an attempt to get hold of something solid.
He was now deep in the dark of the black hole, though there was a deep glow all around him which created dull a purple hue. As he reached the spinning disc of rock he grabbed hold of one of the, almost cylindrical, raised areas on the edge. He held on as tightly as he could as the disc burst through an apparent wall at the very centre of the hole.
Suddenly everything was very still and very bright. Jake opened his eyes, half expecting to be back on the tree stump where he had started. The sky was golden. Planets the size of the moon flew in magnificent arcs across the sky, apparently chasing one another; there were too many to count. He climbed to his feet and looked around him. This wasn't anything like the world he was used to.
There was a figure on the edge of the disc, which now seemed to be hovering, motionless in a purple void. The figure was vaguely human, although immensely tall. It also had an effervescent quality. The form hovered and quivered like as though it were smoke. But the outline of a human was there. The arms hung limp by the sides and two long, thin legs supported the flowing, translucent trunk of the torso.
The figure moved closer and Jake could now see that it was not just tall, it was vast. High above him it loomed, the shape of a head tilting down to face Jake, who stood open-mouthed and amazed. Jake could see through the being into the endless purple sky beyond. The flying planets appeared to fly through the being as they tore around the sky in the distance behind him.
The right arm of the being stretched out slowly, raising the palm of its right hand toward Jake. There was something in this hand, something bright and glowing. Jake stared stupidly at it, trying to fathom exactly what it was that was being given to him. Jake reached out and took the gift carefully.
It was light, but hard. Cold but warm. Bright but then immediately dull as it he cupped it in his small hands. It was a chunk of crystal. Jake held it up in front of the glowing sky (there was no discernible sun in the sky responsible for the brightness) and the light scattered madly from every angle as it hit the crystal.
Jake looked more closely and saw, deep in the heart of the glassy rock, a pulsating core of blue and green, sat in a black pool. It floated perfectly in the centre, regardless of how much he manipulated the crystal.
Jake looked up and the ethereal figure was drifting away towards the others of his kind in the distance beyond him.
"Thank you!" He yelled after it and his voice seemed to evaporate in the air as it left his mouth. He returned his gaze to the crystal and, being so lost in his wonder of it strangeness, didn't notice when the real world came crashing back into place.
The crystal glittered in his hand and the blue-green core shone softly as it placed it onto the open book in his lap. Slowly, he looked around himself, to make sure that he was indeed back to his reality. A bird called brightly somewhere in the tree above his head, to snap him out of his reverie. He rose to his feet, closing the book carefully and placing the crystal in his pocket.
The book slid into his school bag easily. He jumped onto his bike and began to cycle like a child-possessed towards school. I am going to be in so much trouble, he thought. But it didn't matter. Nothing mattered anywhere near as much as the morning he had experienced. Where he had been and what he had seen. But with every rotation of his bicycles pedals, the memories faded slightly. They slipped from view like ice melting and sliding down a window in the sun.
He tried to force them into view but it didn't take long for him to forget who he had spoken to, and what is was he had seen. He remembered an old man, but wasn't that at the sink hole? He remembered water, or was that the river he had sat beside to read his book. What book did he read? Did he pick up the rock that was jutting into his leg from his pocket? Why did he do that? It was all a blur and his temples began to throb with the effort of recalling his morning.
He tore into the school grounds and the playground was deserted. Oh great! Everyone is already inside, he thought. He dumped his bike in the bike shed and ran off without locking it.
He burst into the assembly hall out of breath. The hall fell silent. Every child's head turned to face him as they sat in regimented order across the floor. On the stage at the top of the room stood all of the teachers and a handful of students. Jake realised that these children were those selected to add items to the time capsule. He was supposed to be up there too.
"Sorry, sir." Jake mumbled. The sound of his voice disappeared into nothing in the vast hall.
"Up to the stage, Jake. I trust you have your time capsule object?" The headteacher continued to grin. He knew it was likely Jake had entirely forgotten about the time capsule and hoped that he could embarrass him. Jake began his slow walk around the edge of the hall to the stage at the front. As he reached the steps he placed his hands into his pocket and rummaged for the crystal he had been given.
"I h-h-have s-something." Jake managed to say as he took the crystal from his pocket. It glinted in the morning sunlight which poured in through the windows that ran the length of the hall. The entire assembly hall seemed to lean in closer for a better look at the object the latecomer had deemed good enough for the time capsule. The colours in the heart of the crystal had faded to a dull glow, as though they had lost some of their potency, their magic.
The headteacher snatched the object from Jake's fingers. "And what, exactly, is this?" He held it so close to his eye that Jake thought he might blind himself.
"It's a crystal." Jake hung his head shamefully in preparation for the judgement he expected was heading his way.
"Nice." The headteacher lowered the crystal and smiled a strange smile. It almost appeared sincere. "What does it symbolise?" Jake looked around at the other students who had lined up patiently across the stage. He eyed the objects they clutched pathetically to their chests; a bible, a CD, an MP3 player, a tin of soup. There was meaning in all of them in some degree. They represented modernity in a distinct way. What did the crystal represent? Jake thought. More importantly, where did the crystal come from?!
"It shows how fragile earth is. How precious the world we live in is." Jake spoke the words without hesitation, although he didn't fully understand them. They were like a memory, an echo of something he had once heard. He understood those words perfectly, but he had no idea he would say them.
"Good. Well done, Jake." The teacher smiled and nodded and placed the crystal gently into the time capsule. Jake moved to the back of the stage and watched as the other students each explained their own objects in turn, before handing them over to the headteacher for the time capsule. He felt a deep sense of pride for what he had done. Yet, deep down he was lost. He was confused at what had happened that morning and where the crystal had come from.
He folded the paper and smiled.
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Mr. Pogi German, denies the accusations from his 17-year-old victim: "I'm a mabait guy!"
January 10, 2023 by Rodrigo Extremadura
Content creator Marcel Messall also known as 'Mr. Pogi German' on social media denied the accusations against him by the 17-year-old victim named 'Abby' that he featured in his vlog.
It can be remembered that Messall's video uploaded on January 7 has gone viral on social media after he featured a story about a 'pick up girl' that he decided to hire as part of his prank.
At the start of the video, Messall can be seen asking Abby how much should he need to shell out to hire her.
In response, Abby told Messall that her price was P1,000 for three hours.
They went to a hotel and talked about Abby's life where the victim claimed that she was working for her child.
When they decided to go to bed, Messall then told Abby about the prank and decided to give her P10,000.
"You deserve the money. You are such a nice girl." Messall said.
However, after the video became viral, Abby told the authorities that Messall convinced her to appear in his video because she thought that she was participating in the '24 Hours Jowa Challenge'.
She had never been told that she would be introduced as a pick-up girl in Messall's vlog.
Abby also told the authorities that she was 17 years old and not 18.
However, Messall told the public that the accusations against him by Abby are not true.
"Doing something to an 18 years old is bawal. If I know that she was minor, I will never ever agree to her. Because I'm a mabait guy," Messall said.
The german national was expected to be deported as soon as possible after the government discovered that he was already overstaying in the country.
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Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon, wants Mr. Pogi German to be declared as 'persona non grata'
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Q: OnTriggerEnter2D getting called I'm trying to destroy the enemy if it's colliding with a bullet. But the OnTriggerEnter2D is not working. I've been trying to solve this and searching for answers for hours but I can't seem to find the problem.
Enemy Script
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private Transform target;
    [SerializeField]
    private float speed;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, target.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("Colliding with trigger");
        if (collision.CompareTag("bullet"))
        {
            Debug.Log("I got hit");
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
}

Bullet

Enemy

A: If it's an actual object that collides with another you want to use OnCollisionEnter2D instead. Triggers are for objects that can't be collided with and you just want to know if they're overlapping.

A: Try switch the isTrigger on the collider instead of the bullet.
Please refer also to this documentation on how to create 2d collider : how to destroy an item after collision

A: Hello this is my first help post and 2 and a half years late... but I had a similar issue and maybe could help someone else. If you have an "Enemy" script try this. I use the word smash to avoid built in words like destroy or break.
Use this to call: within the < > place the objects "Tag" between the < > to destroy the object. Enemy in this case
collision.GetComponent< Enemy >().Smash();

In the "Enemy" script use an IEnumerator "Coroutine"
IEnumerator SmashCo()
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(.3f);
    this.gameObject.SetActive(false);
}

Call this Coroutine within the "Enemy" script:
Note: animator is a reference to Unity's Animator
public void SmashEnemy()
{
    animator.SetBool("smash", true);    // Set the animator Bool for smash
    StartCoroutine(SmashCo());
}

Add a trigger called smash to your game object.
You should be able to destroy anything like this.

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*Taylor

Note: Used Stack Overflow in the shadows for a long time, this is my first post and I would like to be corrected if I am wrong about anything thank you. Just trying to help. *Thought this was a different approach to the current answers.

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CBGB Festival To Hold Free Times Square Concert PLUS Music Line-Up Now Announced
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 02 October 2013
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Times Square to hold a special free concert for this year's CBGB festival in addition to an already incredible line-up over the week.
The second CBGB Music & Film Festival is set to take over New York next week as hundreds of artists both old and new flood the streets in nearly 175 venues across the city.
The line-up has now been announced for year two of the CBGB Festival which will almost certainly exceed 2012's set-up. On October 8th - 13th, more than 700 artists will spread out in a celebration of some of the greatest music to have ever come out of New York - we are, of course, talking about the legendary 70s club of the same name that was founded by Hilly Kristal and saw the beginnings of icons such as Ramones, Misfits, the Patti Smith Group, Blondie, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Talking Heads.
Must-see artists this year include Kentucky rockers My Morning Jacket, Californian quartet The Wallflowers and New York's own Grizzly Bear. We will also get to see a special DJ set by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and all female tribute act Lez Zeppelin will be making an appearance, though with only three songs so make sure you don't miss it! It's not all about Americans either as CBGB happily opens its arms to the likes of Aussie trio Atlas Genius who released their debut album earlier this year and eclectic Irish band Bell X1 who also released an album which reached number one in the Irish charts.
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Bell X1, Bloodless Coup Album Review
By Andrew Lockwood in Music Reviews on 18 May 2011
Football and music share some common themes. They bring people together in an almost tribal fashion, they both stir emotions, they help to confirm or highlight many stereotypical traits and they bring a vast amount of pleasure to each of their fans. Where they differ enormously, certainly now-a-days, is how they get to be as big as they are. Although unlikely, it is now a possibility that one day Manchester City FC could be a bigger club, winning more trophies and topping more leagues than their fellow North-Western giants Manchester United FC. You'd probably still get good odds as the chances remain slim but it is nevertheless theoretically possible. Money can't buy you love, but a lot of it can buy you a football team, and even more of it may just bring you glory. If you were to compare this rather vulgar scenario with that of Bell X1 you still wouldn't place a bet, even if their record company were Universal/Sony/Syco or whatever. Bell X1 are Ireland's second biggest Rock band (The name of the other lot escapes me temporarily!) and alas, despite valiant efforts to alter that statistic that's all they will ever be. It's an unfortunate shame, but you can still celebrate coming second............"it's not the winning, it's the... " .Here's why.
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Bell X1, Blue Lights On The Runway Album Review
By Andy Peterson in Music Reviews on 05 March 2009
Review of Bell X1's album 'Blue Lights On The Runway'
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Regular readers of this blog are very familiar with the arguments that seemingly small costs can cause big damage to your portfolio over an investing lifetime. To make this more clear, I've proposed the MERQ (Management Expense Ratio per Quarter century) as a better measure than a single-year MER.
One thing I've discovered about the MERQ in casual discussions is that many people simply don't believe it. For example, the Investors Group Beutel Goodman Canadian Balanced Fund Series A has an MER of 2.89% (as of 2012 Feb. 9) which translates into an MERQ of 51.4%! This means that after 25 years, more than half of your portfolio would be consumed by fees.
In contrast, a balanced portfolio of index ETFs from iShares (XIU and XBB) has an MER of 0.235% for an MERQ of 5.7%. So, a portfolio that would have come in at a million dollars without fees would end up with $486,000 with the Investors Group fund and $943,000 with the iShares ETFs.
This difference is so large that people are skeptical that it is real. This makes me even more interested in popularizing MERQ. We need to be discussing real impacts on portfolios and not hiding them with seemingly tiny MER percentages like 1%, 2%, or 3%.
Well done Michael! One of your best ideas!
This is actually what first drove home the importance of low-cost investing for me several years ago. Someone presented a table of figures showing the effect of two percentage points of MER over a 30-year investment lifetime. As you point out, it's staggering.
Perhaps you should approach Investors Group about licensing the idea for their marketing material?
@Dan: Don't give away my secrets. I'm planning to sell the copyright on MERQ to Investors Group and sell an improved electric car design to Exxon.
I think you should present it on Dragon's Den.
You probably won't get a deal, but at least it will get some publicity.
@Anonymous: Thanks for the kind words.
@Mike: It would be fun to apply MERQ to some O'Leary funds while making a pitch on Dragon's Den.
I have had many "discussions on the phone with Great west life on how they should show what actual growth I have with the money I have invested with them, as well as the money THEY have made off the money I have invested with them.
There should be legislation forcing all fund companies to disclose that as running cumlative totals very clearly on the statements.
They certainly have a lot of reasons why they can't do it when you ask.
@Paul: You're on the right track talking about legislation because it won't happen voluntarily. I've made my pitch to replace MER with MERQ and I'll probably keep trying.
I think this is a great idea!! The costs over time are huge!
I've tried, in vain, to argue with friends as to how expensive their investments are. Is there a calculator somewhere which enables me to demonstrate to them the effect of a MER of x over y years?
This one seems easier to use than the others I looked at.
This has always been my favorite calculator to clearly show this to anyone who wants to see this..


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Today, the Earth has approximately 3 trillion trees left standing – about 422 per person – but we've already cut 46% of them.
Using a mixture of satellite imagery, forest inventories and supercomputer technologies, an international team led by Yale researchers conducted the biggest survey ever on trees, mapping them globally at a square kilometer level. The researchers also used projected maps of current and historic forest cover, which were provided by the United Nations Environment Programme to see how much tree loss has occurred over time. Their results showed that there are more trees on Earth than was previously estimated, but we've still destroyed a big chunk of total trees: almost half. That's already starting to take its toll.
"We have nearly halved the number of trees on the planet and we have seen the impacts on climate and human health as a result," said Thomas Crowther, post-doctoral fellow at Yale University's school of forestry and environmental studies (F&ES) and lead author of the study.
Indeed, we generally take trees as granted, and we often forget just how important their are for the planet – not just in terms of biodiversity, but in terms of climate, soil stability and many others. The environmental services that trees provide are inestimable.
"They store huge amounts of carbon, are essential for the cycling of nutrients, for water and air quality, and for countless human services. Yet you ask people to estimate, within an order of magnitude, how many trees there are and they don't know where to begin," he said, adding he was "certainly surprised" to find the estimate was in the trillions. Trees are among the most prominent and critical organisms on Earth yet we are only recently beginning to comprehend their global extent and distribution," Crowther added.
Tree populations have remained relatively stable and constant before the human effect started kicking in. We've been cutting trees at an enormous rate, especially in areas like the Amazon forests in South America, but many forests in Asia, Europe and North America have also been decimated.
To say that there are 422 trees per person on Earth is, while true, pretty misleading. The tree density varies greatly across continents and even countries, with the highest tree densities in the sub-arctic regions of Russia, Scandinavia and North America. In terms of total tree cover, South America still reigned supreme though, home to 43% of the world's trees. In the UK for example, researchers found more than three billion trees, or around 47 per person, while in Ireland there are some 709 million trees, or 154 per person. That means that the trees/person rate in the UK is 10 times lower than the global average, and similar figures are reported for most of the developed world.
"The diverse array of data available today allowed us to build predictive models to estimate the number of trees at each location around the globe," said postdoctoral student Henry Glick.
The census won't just help us understand how many trees there are in the world, but inform scientists about the structure of forest ecosystems in different regions and calculate the amount of damage we've already done – and what we should do if we want to repair it; essentially, we are now the main driver controlling tree spread and density.
The most worrying fact is that we've been stunting tree development especially in places where we'd expect them to thrive – in warm, moist regions. Farming and deforestation often go hand in hand, as do deforestation and ecosystem destruction. The effects of cutting down trees and forests are long reaching and difficult to grasp, but one thing's for sure: if we continue with the 'business as usual model', we're going to be doing irreparable damage, and everyone on this planet, including us, will have to pay.
Journal Reference: Crowther, T. W. et al. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14967 (2015).


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PYRRHO, pir'6, Greek philosopher: b. Elis, about 365 ex.; d. about 270 s.c. He was a pttpil of the Democritean philosopher Anaxar chus of Abdera, whom he accompanied to India in the train of Alexander the Great. During this journey he became acquainted with the doc trines of the Brahmans, Magi and other eastern philosophers. His doubts concerning positive knowledge were strengthened as he proceeded in his studies, until at length he came to hold all knowledge uncertain, and considered virtue alone as valuable. In all disputes his answer to his opponents was, ''What you say may, or may not, be true; I cannot decide? and he taught in his school that truth could not be attained, and that we must be content to suspend our judgment on all subjects. He spent much of his life in solitude, and by abstaining from all decided opinions concerning moral and physical phenom ena, endeavored to attain a state of tranquillity unaffected by fear, joy or sorrow. His country men, the Abderites, made him high-priest, and exempted all philosophers from the payment of taxes. The Athenians erected a statue in honor
of him, and his countrymen raised a monument to his memory. His skepticism is easily ac counted for. His master, Democritus, held that except the immediate elements of bodies (atoms) nothing was real, and that all perception was subjective. He was confirmed in these views by the doctrines of Socrates, to whom, in his character, he bore great resemblance, and his skepticism is allied to the irony of that philos opher. Led by his temperament and manner of life to esteem uninterrupted tranquillity the great object of all philosophy, believing that nothing tended so much to destroy this quiet as the interminable disputes of the schools of the dogmatists, and that uncertainty was increased by their contentions, he determined to seek in some other way the peace which he despaired of finding in dogmatical philosophy. A dispo sition to doubt is often called, from this philos opher, Pyrrhonism. Consult Uberweg-Prachter, der geschichte der Philosophe' (Berlin 1914).


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And so I launched a public relations campaign for the bathtub. I bought a Little Einsteins' Rocket that I made a tub-exclusive toy. For days, he would play with it from the side of the tub. I went back to our old colored water tricks: "Don't you want a blue Earth/Neptune bath? A red Mars bath? A green Uranus bath?" All to no avail.
Meanwhile, for two weeks running, the video 95 Worlds and Counting has been his obsession. He wants to watch "Holes" — the name he gave it because he loves the animation of the descent into the holes on Neptune's moon of Triton — as many times and as often as we will let him. "It would be very interesting to go down in the holes, if you dare," he says, in tandem with the scientist being interviewed. Then there's something or other about supersonic sounds and landing in a pool of liquid nitrogen.
So naturally, I recently decided that the bath water should become liquid nitrogen, which I make with blue bath tablets and bubbles. On Wednesday night, after the great recliner debacle, I pulled out virtually every toy that could be a bath toy. I drew volcanoes and a supermassive black hole (by request) on the wall with bath crayons. I yelled "let's be scientists!" and called everything from filling cups of water to watching washcloths submerge "experiments." I asked him if he dared to go down into the holes of Triton into the pool of liquid nitrogen. I managed to get his socks and overshirt off without any shrieks of horror. (We still must wear the rotating Nemo underneath at all times.) In all of my imaginings of motherhood, I definitely never could have pictured this.
"We are scientists dad!" Declan shouted. Then Dan was able to get him into the tub (under the condition that the diaper and Nemo shirt stayed on). Then there was the experiment where they filled the diaper with bath water and took it off so we could all marvel at its bizarre absorbency. And then Nemo came off – and we had our boy back in the bath.
Last night, Declan requested a bath again. A yellow-red-brown-green Io bath (he settled for yellow, then orange-red). I started the routine again, and Dan managed to get him in the water again.
Of course, the problem we now have is that once he's in, he doesn't want to get out.
Interesting way to get him into the tub! Whatever works….just do it! Sounds like he is enjoying his bath time experiments! Have fun!
Isn't it funny how parenthood forces you to push the limits of your own imagination for even the most mundane of tasks? Sure gives you a different perspective on life doesn't it?


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BF files are Game Files primarily associated with Brainf*ck Program. This game data archive format is used by games developed by Cryo Interactive Entertainment. BF files contain game data such as objects, maps, sounds, and music in a single archive. Several Micro•ds games also use the CryoBF format. BF files are referenced by the games above and are not meant to be opened manually. The contents of a BF file can be extracted using an unpacking program like Unpakke.


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In the Compact view, Task Manager doesn't display much detail—it doesn't even show you tile-based programs that are in use. But Task Manager is a very rich diagnostic tool.
Task Manager is Windows 8's premier diagnostic tool for examining the applications, processes, services, and performance characteristics of your system. A version of Task Manager has shipped with every version of Windows desktop and server since Windows 3.1.
Roles are a new way that Windows Server 2008 R2 groups similar functionality together for installation and configuration. A role is a specific set of functionality that the server needs for a particular set of uses. Roles can also have role services, which are subsets of the functionality in the role and can be installed only as part of the role.
The Windows Server 2008 R2 setup process automatically assigns a random and meaningless name to a new server. Although this name is certainly unique on the network, it's not a useful final name, so you'll want to change it.
If no DHCP server is available, the server will have a link-local address—an autoconfiguration IP address that is unique on the network but won't be forwarded by routers to another network.
Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 from standard distribution media onto a clean server with no operating system on it requires just seven screens at the very beginning, and the entire rest of the installation will complete without further interruption.
When a computer joins a domain, the computer account is added to the Computers container by default; however, you can change the default behavior with the redircmp command.
The comma separated value directory exchange (csvde) command works on comma-separated value files. Each element in the csv file is separated by a comma, and you can use the csvde command to import or export objects for AD.
The ldifde command works on line-delimited, or line-separated values within files. You can use it to import or export data into or out of Active Directory (AD). You execute these commands on a domain controller (while logged on with an account with administrative permissions).
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) use System Audit mode to bypass the Windows Welcome program and install additional programs and applications. Once the programs are installed, you run Sysprep again, selecting the OOBE choice.
You can create your own bootable WinPE disc. You can then use this disc to boot to WinPE on any system to capture or deploy an image using ImageX. The following section includes steps you can use to create a bootable USB drive or bootable CD. These steps assume you have installed the WAIK on your system.
You can use these tools to capture or deploy an image, and perform offline maintenance of images. Offline maintenance means that you aren't booted into the operating system; instead, you are modifying the contents of the WIM file.
Operating system images are also known as install images. They include a full operating system. A thin image (also called a basic image) is just the default operating system and nothing else. Thick images (also called custom images) include the operating system along with any customization and applications you may need.
A VHD image is simply a VHD file that includes a fully functioning operating system. This is the same VHD image type used by Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft's Hyper-V virtual program (which is available on Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2).
The current tasks configured on a system are accessible through the Task Scheduler node in Computer Management. Tasks are organized and grouped together using a familiar folder structure, where base folders are named according to the operating system features, tools, and configuration areas to which they relate.
Any particular computer can have dozens, and in some cases hundreds, of different components, services, and applications configured on it. Keeping all these components working properly is a big job.
Remote Assistance enables support personnel to view a user's desktop and take control temporarily to resolve problems or walk the user through the execution of complex tasks.
By default, Windows Update gets updates for drivers from the Windows Update website. You also can specify that you want Windows Update to search the Windows Server Update Services managed server for driver updates, or to first search the Windows Server Update Services managed server, but if no update is found there, then search Windows Update.
In Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows, you use the Add/Remove Windows Components option of the Add Or Remove Programs utility to add or remove operating system components.
File extensions and file associations also are important for determining how applications run. The types of files that Windows considers to be executables are determined by the file extensions for executables.
In Windows 8, you can view and work with a computer's currently running programs and processes by using Task Manager. You can open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete and then selecting Task Manager. Alternatively, tap or click the lower-left corner of the screen and then tap or click Task Manager on the shortcut menu.
If you want to install 16-bit or MS-DOS-based programs, you might need to make special considerations. Additionally, to get older programs to run, you might sometimes need to adjust compatibility options. Techniques for handling these situations are discussed in the following sections.
Occasionally, Windows might not be successful in detecting the required installation permissions. This can occur if the installation manifest for the program has an embedded RequestedExecutionLevel setting that has a value set as RequireAdministrator.
Besides the standard Control Panel, Computer Management, Administrative Tools and System Tools categories, there are several other important tools that you can use to manage and maintain Windows.
Some of the most frequently used tools to manage your system can be accessed from the System Tools folder in the Start menu. To open the System Tools folder, click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools.
The Administrative Tools icon in the Control Panel's Large Icons or Small Icons view is not a single program; rather, as the name implies, it provides a convenient way to access a variety of specialized tools you can use to manage more technical aspects of your Windows 7 system.
Another important change to Active Directory that can be enabled in a Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012 functional domain is the concept of auditing changes made to Active Directory objects.
Windows Server 2008 originally introduced new capabilities to start or stop directory services running on a DC without having to shut it down. This enables administrators to perform maintenance or recovery on the Active Directory database without having to reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode.
The AD Recycle Bin was supported in the Windows Server 2008 R2 version of AD DS, but was extremely complicated to implement, and the administrative tools provided were not easy to use.
For purposes of replication, AD DS logically organizes groups of servers into a concept known as sites. Generally speaking, a single site should be composed of servers that are connected to each other via high-speed connections.
The Administrative Templates node and subnodes in a GPO update the registry on the target computer, either under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER portion of the registry.
This node provides the ability to configure wireless networks for desktops running Windows XP or Windows Vista that are joined to the domain. The options for configuring the wireless network for Windows XP is somewhat limited compared to those for Windows Vista.
The updated firewall that comes with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 provides additional configurations that enable granular security control over inbound and outbound communications and connection-specific security. You can configure these policies through a set of wizards.
This setting allows you to centralize the group membership of both groups that reside in Active Directory and those that live locally in the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) on each computer, referred to as local groups.
This node and its subnodes contain some of the most important security settings for your Active Directory domain and for the computers that are joined to the domain. Within this node, you will find the three important security nodes that control user account passwords, lockout policy, and Kerberos policy settings.
The Software Settings node is where you can configure the deployment of software to both computer and user accounts. There are slight differences between deploying software to computers and users, but they are minimal.
By default, only applications running with a user's administrator access token run in elevated mode. Sometimes you'll want an application running with a user's standard access token to be in elevated mode.
The focus on standard user and administrator privileges also changes the general permissions required to install and run applications. In Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows, the Power Users group gave users specific administrator privileges to perform basic system tasks when installing and running applications.


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It might not come as a big surprise when I say that Henry David Thoreau is my favorite author. This winter I have been re-reading much of his work. I have discovered some new essays I didn't know about in a book titled Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems, edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell. One of these essays has been particularly fascinating to me, Thoreau's comments on a State-wide survey of the plants and animals of Massachusetts titled, Reports–on the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds: the Herbaceious Plants and Quadrupeds: the Insects Injurious to Vegetation and the Invertebrate Animals–of Massachusetts, published in 1842. Though he was only twenty-five years old in 1842, Thoreau was a respected naturalist of his time, and was asked to review this lengthy survey. In his report, Thoreau observes, "Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading….[we]owe an accession of health to these reminiscences of luxuriant nature." I have found this statement to be true.
Thoreau tells us that the survey finds 280 species of birds that reside permanently or part of the year in the State, "Those which spend the winter with us have obtained our warmest sympathy". Of these he particularly mentions the nuthatch, chickadee, blue jay, crow, partridge, and hawk in winter. In spring, the robin, phoebe, lark, snowbird [junco] and shrike, flocks of geese, song sparrow, blue bird, fish-hawk [osprey]. In summer he mentions flicker, veery, cowbird, and vireo and in autumn, plover, finches, bobolink, goldfinch, snipe and loon. Its very interesting to read the survey report itself, which one can do through the magic of the internet.
In reading the survey itself, its fascinating to see which plants and animals mentioned are still common in the State, which are now rare, which are not seen at all, and which are new to the State. In the section on birds, for instance, the partridge, veery, rusty blackbird, shrike, bobolink, meadowlark, Acadian flycatcher, and saw-whet owl, once common, are now rare. But some birds are much more common now than in 1842, the great-crested flycatcher, the peewee, cowbird, cooper's hawk, snowy owl, merlin, titmouse, Carolina wren and pileated woodpecker. Some birds we consider common are not mentioned at all in the survey: turkey vulture, kestrel, and barn owl. The red screech owl is mentioned, but it was seemingly not known that the screech owl can also be grey. Perhaps it was thought to be a different species. It was also not recognized that the red-tailed hawk can be very dark. In the survey the dark red-tail is called the Black Warrin, a different species. Immature, dark bald eagles were thought to be a different species called the Washington Eagle.
Many thanks to all flora and fauna reporters for the month of March. Please send reports by April 26 for inclusion in next month's column. You can write me at 7A Old Colony Drive, call me at 978-692-3907, or e-mail me at mariancharman@gmail.com.
Ginger Dries, Sherwood Drive. Four deer on our hill–first deer seen this winter. Also saw a rabbit once.
Rosemarie Koester, Providence Rd. February 28, saw another batch of red-winged blackbirds this morning, mostly young males.
Debbie Prato, Hayrick Lane. March 1, Canada geese at feeder. March 3, two friendly crows. March 15, five young deer in the morning. March 16, turkey vulture. March 17, chipmunk, song sparrow. March 20, lots of birds gathering nesting material and checking out birdhouses. March 22, mallards at feeders.
Marian/Bill Harman, Old Colony Drive. March 3, chickadees, titmice, cardinal, house finch and flicker all singing their spring songs. March 5, four juncos, three titmice, three chickadees, one blue jay, one white-breasted nuthatch, two downy woodpeckers, two goldfinches, one Carolina wren, three beautiful, shiny tom turkeys. March 12, a bear hit feeders across the road from us. March 14, first red-winged blackbird on suet. March 5, first grackle on suet. March 16, about twenty grackles vying for suet, many more in the trees around condo. Two flocks of turkeys came through four big males in the first flock, then, another flock of six young males. A walk on the swamp trail by the beaver dam: one hooded merganser, brown creeper singing in the woods, first phoebe heard, a few red-winged blackbirds on territory, red-tailed hawk overhead, titmice, chickadees, nuthatch, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, large and small deer tracks, opossum track. Cider Mill Pond. March 19, at Cider Mill Pond: pileated woodpecker heard clearly. March 22, at Mill Pond: nineteen goldeneyes. March 24, beautiful day, 48 degrees. A walk on the swamp trail: phoebe, song sparrow, and wood duck heard in the swamp. White-throated sparrow heard in the woods. March 25, a walk in the meadow: skunk cabbage blossoming in and around the swamp. Sphagnum moss there too.
Ginger Dries, Sherwood Drive. March 4, Carolina wren on feeder. March 10, snowing. It was funny to hear the cardinal singing as we were shoveling snow. March 17, bobcat came again, came right by deck, not interested in the bird feeder. It was beautiful. March 22, three wild turkeys showed up, first time seen since end of summer. Also blackbirds, all the woodpeckers and all the regulars.
Bob Price, Stratton Hill Road. March 13, two or three blackbirds at the feeder.
Tom Ennis, Almeria Drive. March 14, first sighting (or sounding) of a woodcock this year, just a tad later than usual.
Esther Donlon, Providence Rd. March 19, wildlife camera shows a coyote and perhaps a fox.


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```php
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder;
use Orchestra\Transporter\Blueprint;
use Orchestra\Transporter\Schema;

Schema::table('member', function (Blueprint $blueprint) {
    $blueprint->connection('legacy')
        ->key('member_id')
        ->filter(function (Builder $query) {
            $query->where('active', '=', 1);
        })->transport(function ($data) {
            return new User([
                'email' => $data->u_email,
                'password' => $data->u_password,
            ]);
        });
})->start();
```

* [Version Compatibility](#version-compatibility)
* [Installation](#installation)

## Version Compatibility

Laravel  | Transporter
:--------|:---------
 5.1.x   | 3.1.x
 5.2.x   | 3.2.x
 5.3.x   | 3.3.x@dev
 5.4.x   | 3.4.x@dev

## Installation

To install through composer, simply put the following in your `composer.json` file:

```json
{
    "require": {
        "orchestra/transporter": "~3.1"
    }
}
```

And then run `composer install` to fetch the package.

### Quick Installation

You could also simplify the above code by using the following command:

    composer require "orchestra/transporter=~3.1"

### Setup

For simplicity, Transporter Component doesn't include any service provider. You can simply run the migration via:

    php artisan migrate --path=vendor/orchestra/transporter/resources/database/migrations


Should You Use Facebook Ads For B2B?
"Everybody" is on Facebook and Facebook Ads are cheaper than Google Ads. It's a no brainer right? Well, not necessarily.
I've ran countless Facebook Ad Campaigns for multiple clients across multiple different B2B industries and while yes it's true Facebook Ads is cheaper per click usually, it's a lot more difficult to convert those clicks into actual sales. The truth is, Facebook Advertising brings in people that are higher up the marketing funnel, in the 'awareness' segment. They're not very motivated to buy what you have to offer right now, because they may or may not be experiencing the problem your product fixes.
Somebody who finds you on Google via Google Ads is further near the "action" part of the funnel because they're actively looking for a solution to a problem they're experiencing right now, this very second! This typically results in a higher sales conversion rate, which is what matters ultimately.
If you have a limited ad budget, try out Google Ads first. For bigger brands with a bigger marketing budget, it might make sense to use Facebook Ads to build up the 'awareness' part of the sales funnel, but for smaller fish who need to see a high ROI with their advertising budget, I'd say skip Facebook Ads. Oh yea, and never run a 'like' campaign unless you like flushing your money down the toilet.
Some will recommend running a Facebook Retargeting Ad Campaign. While it's true these type of ads can produce a high ROI, I'm not a fan of them personally.
I believe there's plenty of profit to be made respecting my website visitor's privacy and without ad trackers clogging up the internet making websites load slower. Not only that, but it would seem public perception of online privacy is changing. One could argue that respecting your website visitor's privacy by removing any ad trackers on your site will just be seen as best practice for businesses that don't want to experience any kind of public backlash against their brand.


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Asia's premier office development.
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The Urban Redevelopment Authority's vision of a 'Garden City by the Bay' has delivered a financial powerhouse connecting Singapore to Asia and the rest of the world.
At the heart of this business centre sits Marina One, Asia's premier office development.
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Approximately 1.88 million sq ft of premium Grade A office space.
An integrated development with approximately 140,000 sq ft of retail and 1,042 residential apartments.
Floorplates range from approximately 34,000 sq ft to 100,000 sq ft, the largest in Singapore's Central Business District.
3m clear floor-to-ceiling height (3.8m on high density floors).
Knock out panels for inter-floor connectivity.
Panoramic city skyline and sea views.
Over-300-person auditorium and two 122-person meeting rooms that could be joined to provide a 244-person room.
Signature restaurants, air-conditioned food court, supermarket, fitness club plus a wide range of F&B outlets and retail services within the retail podium to cater to occupiers' needs.
LEED Platinum Pre-Certified and BCA Green Mark Platinum Certified.
Only integrated development in the city with an approximately 65,000 sq ft bio-diversity garden as the central core on Level 1.
Flanked by two green parks in Marina Bay – Central Linear Park and Marina Station Square.
Sky Terrace Gardens on both office towers of approximately 30,000 sq ft with mist pool on Level 4.
Event spaces on levels 1 and 2, injecting life and buzz to the building.
Marina One - one intersection
Marina One offers excellent connectivity by public transport, car or foot. It sits within easy reach of four MRT lines which are accessible through an air-conditioned Underground Pedestrian Network (UPN) connecting to Raffles Place and Marina Bay Sands. Access by car is just as convenient with major expressways to all areas of Singapore.
LOCAL INTEREST:
1. The Westin Singapore
2. The Fullerton Bay Hotel
3. Customs House
4. Ascott Singapore Raffles Place
5. Lau Pa Sat
6. Hotel Sofitel So Singapore
7. Marina Bay Link Mall
8. The Promontory @ Marina Bay
9. Marina Bay Sands
10. Gardens by the Bay
Marina One - One Position
Marina One sits at the centre of Singapore's new financial district in Marina Bay and neighbours with the swankiest buildings in Singapore's new CBD. The place where information and ideas are exchanged and deals are done.
1. Raffles Place
2. Asia Square
3. City Hall
4. Marina Square
5. Suntec City
6. Marina Bay Financial Centre
7. Millenia Tower/Centennial Tower
8. ArtScience Museum
9. Singapore Flyer
10. Marina Bay Sands
Marina One - Office Test Fit Plans
Hi-Density Plate
Professional Firm
Insurance Firm
Baking Firm
Technology Firm
Singapore's Marina Bay is set to be the Financial Center of the whole Asia. Marina One is designed to be Asia's Best Business Address. Office towers at Marina One are designed to ensure Singapore's place as the financial capital of South-East Asia and a key hub in the world financial system. Marina One Office (Chinese: 滨海盛景商业大厦) will comprise of two 30-storey prime Grade A commercial towers, Marina One East Tower (Chinese: 滨海盛景东座) and Marina One West Tower (Chinese: 滨海盛景西座) - offering 1.88 million square feet of prime office space. Its crown jewels will be two 100,000 square feet office floor plates, one of the largest in Asia. Marina One is located at the heart of Singapore new Financial Business District. The state-of-the-art office space at Marina One consists of large column-free, symmetrical floorplates, designed specifically for financial services tenants with multiple levels of essential service and back-up systems. All offices are capable of accommodating trading offices and are equipped with a dual power supply from different substations and dual telecommunications cables routed through different telephone exchanges to ensure 24-hour business connectivity. Marina One is set to be a world-class place to do business. At Marina One, the environmentally-smart design features include energy-saving ventilation systems and lifts, extensive landscaping, sky terraces and gardens evenly distributed throughout the building to spread the cooling load. Planned as a 'City in a Garden', the office space at Marina One are complemented landscaped public and private gardens that provide open green spaces. The towers have been developed as a grouping of crystalline forms, sculpted and chamfered to reflect light and provide a sense of depth to the surfaces. The office and residential towers sculpt a dramatic skyline, marking it the dominant focal point along the Marina Bay waterfront.
Interested Unit Type(s)
By submitting this form, I agree to be contacted by Marina One Residences 's appointed sales team and its associates from marinaonesingapore.net


Winner of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, this classic text explains what feminist theology is and how we can rediscover the feminine God within the Christian tradition, offering a profound vision of Christian theology, women's experience, and emancipation. First published in 1992, it immediately caused a groundswell reaction for and against the concept of women's participation and role in the Christian church. It is both controversial and thought provoking. It served as the seminal text in the analysis of woman and Christianity. This 25th anniversary edition, with new content, will keep it in the forefront of the feminist theology conversation.


When the "biggest cheerleader" for maintaining the secretive FISA court knew just how abused the process really is, why would he and the rest of Congress want to keep it a secret from the citizens? And how much do they actually care about surveillance abuse of Americans?
Republicans who had seen the memo claimed that it was far worse than Watergate. They said that mass firings would begin immediately after it became public. They said that the criminality of U.S. government agencies exposed by the memo would shock Americans.
First, the memo demonstrates that there is a "deep state" that does not want things like elections to threaten its existence. Candidate Trump's repeated promises to get along with Russia and to re-assess NATO so many years after the end of the Cold War were threatening to a Washington that depends on creating enemies to sustain the fear needed to justify a trillion-dollar yearly military budget.
Imagine if candidate Trump had kept his campaign promises when he became president. Without the "Russia threat" and without the "China threat" and without the need to dump billions into NATO, we might actually have reaped a "peace dividend" more than a quarter-century after the end of the Cold War. That would have starved the war-promoting military-industrial complex and its network of pro-war "think tanks" that populate the Washington Beltway area.
Second, the memo shows us that neither Republicans nor Democrats really care that much about surveillance abuse when average Americans are the victims. It is clear that the FISA abuse detailed in the memo was well known to Republicans like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes before the memo was actually released. It was likely also well known by Democrats in the House. But both parties suppressed this evidence of FBI abuse of the FISA process until after the FISA Amendments Act could be re-authorized. They didn't want Americans to know how corrupt the surveillance system really is and how the U.S. has become far too much like East Germany. That might cause more Americans to call up their representatives and demand that the FISA mass surveillance amendment be allowed to sunset.
Finally, hawks on both sides of the aisle in Congress used "Russia-gate" as an excuse to build animosity toward Russia among average Americans. They knew from the classified information that there was no basis for their claims that the Trump Administration was put into office with Moscow's assistance, but they played along because it served their real goal of keeping the U.S. on war footing and keeping the gravy train rolling.