Fashion season is almost here. Introducing SmartWallet.
Compact: All of the hardware is built into the wallet's clip, giving SmartWallet a thin, trendy look.
Tap to Find SmartWallet: If you misplace your wallet you can quickly find it by distance and direction within a 50-150 foot radius.
StreetSmart SmartWallet app is powered by our good friends at Bringr.
Press to Find Phone: If you can't find your phone you can press both sides of the clip to make your phone ring, even if it's on silent or vibrate only.
GPS Location: Whenever your wallet gets out of range, your phone will automatically save the last GPS location so you know right where you left it.
Battery Backup: The SmartWallet has a built-in 1000 mAh battery so you can charge your phone up to 66% on the go.
Charging Cable: We have created a specially designed zipper compartment for the cables to hide them when not in use.
Get Alerted: In addition to saving the last seen location of SmartWallet, you will receive a notification on your phone when it goes out of range.
Each of our prototype wallets were carefully handcrafted in Massachusetts from the highest quality leather. We used surgical precision when cutting the leather and stitching seams to ensure elegance while maintaining the sleek design.
Only 99 of our Striped Moonstone edition wallets are going to be produced and will be available to early bird Kickstarter backers only. The back pattern is hand pressed, dyed, and polished to capture the dazzling brilliance of the gemstone the name is derived from.
We founded StreetSmart Brand to create high fashion clothing and accessories. Our inspiration to add the technology that prevents people from losing their wallet and going about their day with a dead smartphone was inspired by the Internet of Things boom and the emergence of wearable technology. It all started with two best friends and a lost wallet.
After a lot of hard work (and numerous prototypes) our final logo design was completed.
Our first pattern cut out for testing.
Making sure all the dimensions fit in our compact design required a keen eye for practical placement of the functional parts.
Our wallet has a unique design to be able to fit our technology inside.
Like finding a needle in a haystack, discovering the ideal leather brings out a smile from Co-Founder Stephen Lamarre.
Cutting our Kickstarter limited edition leather with surgical precision.
Leather all cut up and laid out, our vision was brought to life in our first leather mock ups.
Sand belting the edges, starting up we have to work with whatever resources we can get our hands on and this was how we slimmed the edges.
Co-Founder Samuel Pofcher laying the liner and folding the edges before sewing the wallets together.
Our liner perfectly compliments the high quality leather we used.
Finishing the leather straps for our wallet. Sliding in the BLE/battery encasing.
Handcrafted in our workshop with pride and love.
Our PCB and rechargeable battery are placed inside a polymer encasing which is designed to be a waterproof and slide into the leather strap surrounding the money clip. Our wallet has a multi-function button which is easily programmable using the app, and can be used to make simple actions take place, such as making your smartphone ring when lost.
Micro USB connector with the bare arrangement of the BLE wallet inner workings.
iPhone Lightning connector with the BLE inner arrangement.
Founders Samuel Pofcher and Stephen Lamarre are the heart body and soul behind StreetSmart Brand. Their constant innovation and strive for excellence is apparent through the amount of attention spent towards product design. Living in a world that seamlessly integrates highly fashionable wearable's with technology is our combined vision. Creating highly fashionable wearable technologies is only possible when the perfect balance of attention, engineering, and design are in place during the design phase. The combination of Stephen's levelheaded mentality and Samuel's forward thinking fuses together to form the High Fashion - High Tech Movement that is StreetSmart Brand.
Thank you for your support, Kickstarter!
We can't wait to see where this amazing journey takes us and finally be able to make our wallet a reality.
We have taken great care to make sure that once we are funded there will be as few obstacles as possible, but there are still a few potential things that could delay our project. The main snag we could run into would be transitioning our finalized schematics and PCB designs into manufacturing molds. We have accounted for these potential delays by allocating two months solely for this portion of our timeline.
Other hurdles we will have to conquer will be in obtaining the proper licensing prior to production and distribution. We will mainly need MFI certification from Apple (for the iPhone Lightning connector), CE, FCC, SIG (Bluetooth certification), and the necessary testing for. We have already accounted for these costs (out of pocket, not included in the KS funding breakdown) and will be working with our manufacturer (already fully certified) to quickly obtain everything.
The final risk associated with delivering on time is logistics, shipping, and collection of backer data at the end of the campaign. We are deciding between a few different turnkey fulfillment services that will be able to handle international shipping quickly and effectively (the idea behind this is to leverage their strengths and expertise so that international orders especially will be sent in the cheapest way possible, so we can reduce/cover import taxes and tariffs on our end).
THANKS FOREVER: Your help at any level brings the SmartWallet one step closer to becoming a reality. For all backers at ALL levels we will emboss your name on a large leather canvas that will be mounted in our office. We'll also keep you informed with all the latest StreetSmart Brand updates.


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Technical Development Plan: This deliverable provides the details of the technical development plan for all EMI services. It contains an initial status assessment, a list of known requirements and their prioritization and a plan with deliverables and milestones for each Product Team. The plan contains the details for the first year of development and longer-term high-level plans for the following years. It is revised periodically and at least every twelve months with increasing level of details. It is coordinated by the Technical Director, but requires input and active engagement from all WP leaders and Product Team leaders (M11).
This is the second, final update of Technical Development plan.
This is an update of DJRA1.4.2 (M12)
P1 external reviewers' report on D1.3.2 Technical Development Plan (M11)
This deliverable is an update of D1.3.1 and now includes a discussion about how customer requirements are tracked and managed during software development. Once again, the document is mainly forwardlooking but it does show how plans have changed during the first year and how some components have had their stack membership modified. This document shows how Cloud computing has already had an impact on the technical development planning. The consortium should justify how such decisions were made. The tables in this document are text and load much more quickly, making the document much easier to use.
16/04/12 Outcome of a two-month-long PTB process to define Y3 high level objectives was uploaded (Y3-objectives.xls)
16/04/12 v0.1 of DNA1.3.3 is available. This version is ready for TOC review.
3/05/12 v0.6 is a complete document ready for project review.
20/05/2012 v0.7 is delivered as a revision partially addressing the reviewer's comments
17/04/2012 ToC v0.1 received
20/04/2012 ToC v0.4 sent to Diana and PEB for review - deadline 25/04
03/05/2012 v0.6 sent to Diana, Andrea and PEB for review - deadline 09/05
15/05/2012 Reminder sent to reviewers
15/05/2012 Florida sent her review
16/05/2012 Andrea, Valerio and Diana sent their reviews
21/05/2012 Balazs: The reviewers have already received my mail with my review responses. This is just to summarize the status of the DNA1.3.3: With the latest version v0.7 i tried to address all review comments that was possible to be done during the limited time i had (i explained in my review response what was done and what was not possible to be done). I believe the latest version is good enough to be sent to Brussels (actually, i think it is better than the two previous versions DNA1.3.1 and DNA1.3.2). Please note that the coming days due to other more urgent and also extremely delayed duties of mine i will not be able to dedicate time to the deliverable. The maximum i could do is to make very small changes here and there but nothing more than one hour of work altogether. The first day when i could work a bit more on the deliverable would the the 28th May when i return from CHEP, New York but i guess that is already too late.
22/05/2012 Florida sent her comments on v0.7
22/05/2012 Valerio "There's not much to answer. Balazs agreed with most of what we pointed out, but it seems there's no time to integrate the changes in the document. We agree this puts us in a risky position for the review. Please Balazs do your best to at least address the major comments, like explaining what is the rationale behind the objectives prioritization."
22/05/2012 Diana "I have no further comments, except to share the general concerns and hope you can find some time for a few high level considerations, as outlined below by Florida. "
27/05/2012 Final pdf uploaded to CDS
28/05/2012 Oxana delivered a new version with many improvements along the requests of the reviewers.
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Youth as Untapped Capital
May 9, 2013 May 9, 2013 5 minute readby Kathy Huang
Youth, a vast global neighborhood replete with its own government, social networks, and modes of learning, was the subject of a panel at IDEAS CITY.
"'Youth,' according to Oscar Wilde, 'is wasted on the young.' While this old adage remains today, it is this panel's contention that, with proper nurture, youth has the potential to be a powerful force. Youth is, after all, a vast global neighborhood replete with its own government, social networks, and modes of learning. Youth's problems emerge from the unstoppable shadow of the world it enters. Youth as Untapped Capital is the subject of this panel, where mentors and innovators discuss the incredible capacity of today's youth as innovators for change." — from IDEAS CITY, a four day exploration of the future of cities, held in Lower Manhattan from May 1 – 4, 2013, organized by the New Museum.
CITY ATLAS was glad to participate in the IDEAS CITY StreetFest this year with our Share Your City tattoo project. We also took the opportunity to attend several of the conference panels held at Cooper Union's Great Hall, which we will cover in these pages, beginning today with the IDEAS CITY panel on youth at a time of rapid transformation.
Dennis Scholl of the Knight Foundation moderated the panel, which explored how organizations can access the energy and capabilities of young people in cities everywhere. Four panelists were invited to present their work: Naomi Hirabayashi of DoSomething.org, visual artist Barry McGee, visual artist Carlos Motta, and Ellin O'Leary of Youth Radio.
DoSomething.org is a platform that allows young people to participate in social activism without needing "money, a car, or an adult". There are pre-defined campaigns with action items that people can participate in, or people can create their own. Naomi talked about the great success of their programs in mobilizing youth to act on diverse issues, from homelessness to texting while driving. She showed how DoSomething.org taps into the unique and advantageous position young people have over an adult authority figure when educating other young people.
Barry McGee's interests are in "youthful activities and things that are slightly agitating", mainly in the form of street art. He sees graffiti as a venue for self-expression in public spaces, contrasting it with large print advertisements: "A tag isn't selling anything but yourself…[just] your beautiful name." He also talked about how kids in San Francisco are subverting authority by tagging using the free anti-graffiti paint intended for painting over graffiti. McGee showed us how youth are persistent in making their mark "in the landscape of things".
Carlos Motta's presentation focused on his documentation of queer youth activism, in particular, activism that lies outside of mainstream politics. The national focus on gay rights mainly involves the institutions of marriage, military, and the prison industrial complex. Motta is interested in radical activism that works outside of this space. In his research, Motta has interviewed Queerocracy, a group that has worked on AIDS funding and criminalization based on HIV status, and Felipe Baeza, an undocumented U.S. resident and queer activist, who focuses on the rights of undocumented residents, especially their right to an education.
Ellin O'Leary spoke about her organization, Youth Radio, which gives low-income youth the resources to produce radio shows, videos, music, and other forms of digital media. This allows young people to share their experiences with a wider audience, via a channel they have complete control over. She also talked about the integration of Youth Radio into the Oakland community. Young participants at the organization helped transform the exterior of the building into a memorial to Oscar Grant. They also helped start Art Murmur, a night street festival centered on the arts. Allowing the youth to start their own initiatives at the organization has helped the program to be accepted by the community.
Dennis Scholl started off the panel discussion by asking how we can get youth 'onto the board.' At this statement, a man jumped up from the audience and launched into a spoken word performance about the importance of education and the negative impact that will be caused by budget cuts for many school systems. He also remarked on the fact that many important life lessons are missing from the school curriculum; for example, money and physical appearance aren't everything. The panelists looked on, surprised and interested. At the conclusion of the performance, Dennis revealed that we had experienced a "Random Act of Culture number 1,245". The performer was Jamarr Hall, a member of the Philly Youth Poetry Movement, and Dennis had invited him to the panel.
During the subsequent Q&A, the speakers touched on the themes of empowering youth, self-organizing, and the digital revolution. Speakers commented on the importance of giving youth choices and options as a way to empower them. Carlos mentioned youth activists in South Korea, who were able to self-organize and find safe places to meet. The speakers also discussed the digital revolution and the benefits and challenges that come with any change. Social media and SMS gives youth a way to self-organize and communicate quickly but at the same time, there are some groups that are marginalized on these platforms.
The audience speaks back.
The first audience member that spoke gave a critique rather than a question. He challenged the entire premise of the panel, remarking that youth did not want to be on "the board" with the panelists, and they were more interested in making their own board. He told the panel that instead of trying to solve society's problems, "you need to focus on the obstacles you present…We're worried about you. We don't trust you." He also pointed out that there were very few young people at the panel.
The panelists did not reply.
More questions followed from the audience, from educators and adults who work with young, low-income people, about how to allow kids to be freer and unrestricted and how to get low-income students interested in participating in community service.
But none of the ensuing discussion was as interesting as the challenge from that first audience member. The interaction left me thinking, what was the purpose of a panel about youth put on by adults for adults? Are people co-opting the talents and enthusiasm of young people for their own purposes or empowering them? Teens today face a world undergoing rapid change, and young people's opinions on critical issues don't yet match up with the scale of the issues themselves. Every step that helps young people engage more fully cannot be valued highly enough, and maybe they should be making their own board.
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This note has four main objectives: (1) to evaluate the Court's reliance upon the structures and relationships established by the Constitution to support an implied limitation upon congressional power; (2) to consider whether the rationale behind intergovernmental tax immunities should be extended to commerce clause legislation; (3) to ascertain when a state sovereignty limitation is not appropriate; and (4) to identify some theoretical and practical implications National League may have for the future of the federal system. The primary conclusion reached is that the continued existence of the federal system requires the imposition of a state sovereignty limitation on all exercises of congressional power which unnecessarily interfere with the states' constitutionally guaranteed autonomy. It is further concluded, however, that in certain cases it is consistent with the structure of the federal system that the states' implied immunity from congressional control yield to the exigencies of the Union. When the national interest clearly compels state compliance with federal standards, and when the burden imposed is not excessive, then a state sovereignty limitation is not appropriate.
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Winners and losers in the early modern period? Grand narratives re-examined. In our meeting, we will re-examine several closely related traditional views on state-formation. Did the state emerge as a result of the victory of princes over unruly barons? Zmora presents an entirely different picture. And finally, did levels of cultural coherence and political unification in these domains fit together neatly? On the whole, this meeting offers a comparative early modern commentary on the notions of state and nation. Nationalism was a product of the French Revolution, at least according to the dominant modernist interpretation.
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Joanna Teplin From Get Organized with The Home Edit: Everything We Know
Of late, mental health experts have been stressing over the fact that to declutter one's life, a person must first organize his/her home. Netflix's 'Get Organized with The Home Edit' throws light on the same concept that a well-ordered house creates a positive home environment, reduces stress, and saves a lot of time. The show features organizational gurus who provide celebrities and regular clients with the tools and techniques to save their space, time, and energy by creating a tidy and sustainable environment at home. One-half of the expert home-organizing duo is Joanna Teplin. Let's find out more about her personal and professional life!
Joanna Teplin: Where is She From?
Joanna Teplin hails from the quaint town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The talented organizer was born on August 20, 1979, to Dr. Stuart Teplin, a pediatrician, and Sari Teplin, a consultant at a medical facility. As a kid, Teplin used to arrange her toys and penguin figurines systematically. While she was pursuing a degree in film and media studies at The University of California, Joanna's car and dorm room were packed with stacks of clothes but as she grew up, Joanna developed a passion for arts and crafts.
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After her graduation in 2001, Joanna shifted to San Francisco to polish her artistic skills. She then moved to Los Angeles, California, and after spending some time in the Golden State, Joanna moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband and kids. Her parents are still residents of Chapel Hill, also dubbed as the Southern Part of Heaven.
Joanna Teplin's Husband and Kids
Joanna Teplin is a private person when it comes to her personal life. However, we know for a fact that she is married to New Jersey native Jeremy Rubin for more than nine years now. He is a business administration graduate from the University of Florida. He served as a Promotion Manager at Columbia Records for over thirteen years.
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While living in San Francisco, the couple welcomed their first child Miles Reid in 2011. A few years later, Joanna gave birth to a daughter, Marlowe Aerin. In 2013, when Marlowe was still an infant, Rubin bagged the position of a Promotion Manager at Warner Bros. Records, owing to which the family moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Rubin is very supportive of his wife's endeavors and is also a doting father to their adorable kids. Here's a picture of the Joanna and her business partner Clea's family members!
HAPPY NEW YEAR from our annual family slumber party, crazy kids, and reluctant husbands 🥂🎉🍾 #thehomeedit #newyear #2019
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Joanna's love for all things stationery and craft got her a job at San Francisco's famous Union Street Papery. At just 22 years of age, Joanna founded a boutique greeting card line by the name He said. She said. In Los Angeles, Joanna developed Joanna Teplin Invitation Consulting, to manage and organize wedding planning in 2007. However, her entrepreneurial heart yearned for something more large scale and satisfying.
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A few years after her move to Nashville, the mother of two met Clea Shearer via a mutual friend in 2015. The two went for lunch and instantly clicked over their shared passion and similar background. Within twelve hours, Joanna and Clea came up with their business logo, name, and official Instagram page for their now-famous company – The Home Edit.
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Since 2015, the duo has changed many lives with their signature stylized aesthetic and ROYGBIV pattern of arrangement, including that of celebrities like Reese Witherspoon, Dan Levy, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kacey Musgraves, and two-fifth of the K-sisters – Khloe and Kim Kardashian.
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Their services range from $250 to $525. The duo published their first book titled 'The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals' in 2019. They also own a container line and have also appeared on 'Master the Mess,' a show on Reese Witherspoon's video-on-demand channel, Hello Sunshine.
When @instadanjlevy told us he was moving into his new house, we told him we were… immediately on our way to help 📦📦📦 #thehomeedit
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Among the two business partners, Joanna is the socially private one, but with over 1.7 million followers on their joint Instagram account, the dynamic duo shows no sign of stopping. The account is filled with organizing tips, milestone celebrations, or cute pictures featuring their respective children. When Joanna is not transforming people's homes, she loves to go to her nearest drive-thru Starbucks and get herself a dark chocolate drink. She gets anxious every time she has to catch a flight. If you want to be on good terms with her, avoid using words like "moist," her absolute pet peeve.
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By Lauren McKay, , Joshua Weinberger, Managing Editor, CRM magazine
Required Reading: Funneling the Future
Flip the Funnel may be the title of Joseph Jaffe's latest book, but he's been upending the status quo for years with past efforts such as Life After the 30-Second Spot and Join the Conversation. Managing Editor Joshua Weinberger and Associate Editor Lauren McKay spoke with Jaffe—the president and chief interrupter of Crayon, a strategic consultancy recently acquired by social media agency Powered—about the new rules of customer service and embracing a new approach to customer acquisition, retention, and loyalty.
CRM magazine: Is there a new mentality now among consumers?
Joseph Jaffe: There's no question there's a new consumerism—a new customer activism. Take Domino's, [where] one or two rogue employees can potentially bring down an entire company [with a viral video]. One or two frustrated customers can do the same. There's also this awakening [that] it's not just about endless ranting and raving and self-expression—there's a certain degree of savviness as well.
I'll give you a personal example: I recently created one of my Jaffe Juice TV videos [about] "AmEx Fail"—a little rant against American Express. I didn't think terribly hard about the words I used—they might have been "American Express Fail" or "Does American Express Care About Your Success? Hell, No." I could've used AmEx's coveted keywords, its brand name, its brand attributes—and used those against it. But, long story short: Three days after this video airs, if you type "AmEx fail" into Google, there are 26 million results and I'm second, third, fourth, seventh, and ninth—just three days afterward.
The thing is, as consumers become savvy in a technology with social networking, with word of mouth, with their own information, they're going to be a lot more premeditated—and sometimes malicious—in terms of what they do and when and how they do it.
CRM: Let's talk about the new customer service rules.
Jaffe: There are a bunch, one of which is customer service lives in the now, about real-time problem resolution. One of the greatest examples is Twitter. I'm quick to say that Twitter's not a panacea. But it's the finger to show where the future is pointing, and the future is pointing at real-time problem resolution. No more 24-hour autoresponders. No more "your call will be answered in the order in which it was received." No more FAQs.
It goes back to the love/hate relationship with technology—numerator vs. denominator. Look at Madison Avenue right now: Where's all the money going? Automation—it's all about saving costs, efficiency. It's all about the company being better off instead of the customer being better off. The other way we talk about customer service living in the now is the fact that the longer it takes to solve a problem, the more likely it is to be escalated, [and] the more likely it's going to escape from the private to the public domain. I do believe that customers will generally—because they're human beings and gentle souls—take the problem directly to the source. If they know who to contact. How many companies are easy to contact? How many companies make it really, really plain and clear and simple to get hold of somebody who can solve problems?
CRM: For a long time the Gethuman Web site was all the rage—the gateway to bypassing automated systems and reaching an actual operator.
Jaffe: I wrote about Gethuman in my earlier books. The guy who started it…is now running [online-travel search engine] Kayak. Every single member of the company has to spend 30 minutes a day on customer service. They have big screens in the company—if you don't spend your time, you get flagged and your name is put on the "offender" board. They've made it a religion.
I'm an acronym guy. For example, [one of the acronyms in the book is] SAFE: Satisfy curiosity, Address concerns, prevent Festering, and prevent Escalation. At the point of escalation, it's too little too late. It's "United Breaks Guitars." It's too late and it's too bad.
The paradox with customer service is that the lower you go on the totem pole the more vital the interactions are—the more frequent the interactions are—and yet they're happening with people who are disgruntled, badly paid, poorly trained, underutilized, and underappreciated. That's why you don't see the CEO of Target engaging. Sam Walton probably did once upon a time, walking up and down the aisles. [Instead you] see The Target Lady, as parodied on SNL, interacting and being the difference between a great experience and a poor experience.
Another new rule of customer service is all customers are equal, but some are more equal than others. I missed the period when I was dating—the Match.coms and the eHarmonies and the ability to Google a blind date. You know what? It's easy to Google our customers to be honest and it's easy to do our homework. Why are we not asking our customers what their Twitter IDs are and why are we not asking them if they have blogs? And why aren't we flagging the ones that are—and I say this with affection—loudmouths? Why are we not flagging them as being a little more vocal than others?
CRM: Identifying the influencers.
Jaffe: It's the small sliver. If we arm our customers with tools…if we encourage them, incentivize them, empower them to become influencers in a sense, we bring these two worlds together. In addition to that, there actually is the ability to move that one step further—to move the enthusiasts [toward being] ambassadors, to actually turn ambassadors into evangelists.
The question is, Who owns social [media] and who owns the customer? Someone must.
CRM: This month's issue is focused on the customer being the center of the relationship, deciding for herself what those relationships are like. That takes the control away from the company.
Jaffe: Going back to Doc Searls? Fascinating stuff. I loved The Cluetrain Manifesto. I've seen him present and I love the concept. I'm a big fan. [Editors' Note: See this month's features, beginning on page 17, for more on The Cluetrain Manifesto, its authors, and the "vendor relationship management" movement it helped foster.]
The customer obviously owns [her] relationship and owns [herself] and has the ability to jump around and the ability to form [her] own portfolio. But, from a corporate standpoint, whether you're a mom-and-pop store or a global chain, within that company someone has got to be smart enough to connect the dots. So when I say own, I'm not talking about "Bugger off and don't touch this, it's mine…." I'm talking about championing and celebrating and fighting for. I'm talking about breaking down borders and silos and walls. I'm talking about the fact—just an example—if you're Hilton or Marriott, you've got 20 brands beneath you. You need to make sure that when one of those customers jumps from lily pad to lily pad, you're connecting the dots.
CRM: Shouldn't it extend beyond the check in? The hotel could email to let you know your departing flight is delayed, and thereby extend the experience and the service it's providing to you.
Jaffe: Absolutely. As future-forward as I'm trying to be, you can tell that I'm also optimistic about where this can go. I'm less optimistic in companies' abilities to actually do this and implement this stuff. It's a bit of skepticism that's come from writing three books on this subject and realizing that companies are slower to move than any of us would like. Anything you're saying, trust me, I agree with. I don't agree this should be shoved in a corner. If anything, this needs to be elevated to become a seat—if not the seat—at the table.
I've got two examples, staying within hotel and leisure. Hilton has an iPhone app that allows you to check in from your iPhone. It also allows you to order room service. I love that idea. [At other hotels,] maybe you've been delayed, it's 9:20 at night, and you order and what do they tell you? "Forty-five minutes to an hour." Forty-five minutes! What the hell is going on in that kitchen? Do you really want to [wait that long] when you've been traveling all day and you're exhausted? So the ability to do it from a cab, knowing full well you'll be getting to your room in minutes and a hot meal will be waiting for you? I love it. That's customer service. That's customer experience.
I recently stayed at the Ritz in Paris. Went all out for one night. That's me—I can stay 10 nights at another hotel or one night at the Ritz. I'm glad I did—it was research. The service is exceptional there. Everything I said, they remembered. They remembered that I said I was vegetarian. They remembered that I said it was my anniversary. They didn't miss a beat. Why should it have to be that they're still the best? Why do we perceive that we have to spend more money to get better service?
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Beachwood Sparks – Through the trees
Archive Posted On November 1, 2001
Neal Casal is at the wheel of a fifteen-passenger government baby blue van. It is a late grey morning just before autumn's official reign begins. The dog days of summer appear to have fled early. Gear has just been loaded out of a motel room in Lebanon, Tennessee, and stowed into the attached trailer. The members of Los Angeles band Beachwood Sparks are crumped into the van, hurtling down the highway toward New York City. The following night, they will begin a three-show stand at the Beacon Theatre opening for the Black Crowes. They will contribute their take from the door and merchandise to the September 11 fund.
Exactly one week earlier, New York City and the rest of the world as we knew it changed forever. Here in Tennessee, by telephone, me in Nashville, the boys pulling out of neighboring Lebanon, we are to be speaking about Once We Were Trees, the band's second full-length album for Sub Pop. But as Dave Scher, who plays guitar and keyboards, somberly notes, "It [the terrorist attacks and their aftermath] dwarfs anything we'd normally be concerned with."
Beachwood Sparks — Scher, vocalist/guitarist Chris Gunst, bassist Brent Rademaker and drummer Aaron Sperske, plus multi-instrumental touring member Casal — have already been on the road for a couple weeks. Just before Casal takes the wheel, as the guys begin pouring into the van, Scher surveys the lay of the land and reports, "We're leaving a Comfort Inn right now. There are American flags planted into the grass around the area. There are a lot of food chains — Taco Bells and Ponderosa Steakhouses and Shoney's. Flags at half mast, you know. But there are a lot of pretty trees and such here, as is befitting the Tennessee landscape. It looks like a lot of places we've stopped so far. They all have this look to them. The hotel lifestyle."
The wash of sameness. This is indeed the America of the interstate traveler. In real time. Homogenized detail bleeds one into the other. This is the land of what Gram Parsons called cosmic American music, and the precursor for what this traveling band of players does with a freshness and dedication altogether surprising.
As it stands, Beachwood Sparks has made a cosmic cowboy fairytale of a love letter to their country. Once We Were Trees is full of beautiful, densely orchestrated psychedelic country songs; where their self-titled debut of last year was an admirably pleasant, if lightweight and derivative, open-sky elegy, Once We Were Trees is the very peculiar and beautiful music of a lush and deep forest. A map of the human heart. The songs themselves — gentle, ever hopeful, and space-cake far-out — are the breadcrumbs leading home.
From the rolling van on a cellular telephone, vocalist and guitarist Gunst takes a deep breath. He has just weeks ago relocated from his native Southern California to West Seattle's expanse of hilly homes near the ferry crossings off Alki Beach, to "practice what I preach," leaving behind sprawling city skyscape and smog for "more trees and cleaner air." Gunst exhales slowly. And in the same slightly squashed dulcet voice in which he sings, he says, "You know, maybe music can save us."
It is not an idle statement, nor a grandiose gesture to make light of the horror which we have witnessed, been impacted by, and continue to reel from. It is clearly a tender and humble offering, the intoned intention of which says: This is what we have. If our songs be balm, please take them; hold them close.
As each of the band members explains, Once We Were Trees was written and made during troubled or dark times for the individual players, for reasons that are as different as fingerprints, private as dreams. And too, for reasons as universal as the yearning for a love that's real, rooted in truth. Yet tempered and tendered by the hard-won wisdom of untold mistakes, and the infinite hope and faith in the possibility of transcendence, as is sung on "Close Your Eyes" in resplendently imperfect harmony: "Close your eyes to see/A better place for you and me/Imagination set us free/Where we could be/Better versions of our ourselves."
As Scher tells it, "Chris ends up coming up with so much of the music, and it end[s] up we look to him to write a lot of the words for the songs. But there are a couple other ways it happens. Brent also writes really well, and we all actually write together; we make a concerted effort, at least once. Like the song 'New County' on the first album. And 'The Hustler' on this album, you could see everyone pitching in. Yeah, that was a good one because everyone was going through some heavy experiences they were able to bring to it and work together to turn all that into some music that would have some heavy magic to it."
Formed in 1997, born of friendships centered around Los Angeles radio station KXLU-FM, Beachwood Sparks was simply an outlet to get together at Rademaker's house to play country music. The guys, moving away from indie and post-rock bands Further, led by Rademaker, and Strictly Ballroom, headed up by Gunst, became inspired by the music of Gene Clark, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and the Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead, leading them into territory they hadn't previously explored.
Exemplary of their punk ethic, Scher hopped up a lap steel before the first practice and made his initial run at it in the company of his friends. Likewise, he moved on to "an old battleship" pedal steel just prior to recording Once We Were Trees, and rolled right through the learning curve with natural musicianship and sheer enthusiasm.
In fits and starts, the band moved through a few members, and the heavy magic Scher mentioned began in earnest when the sextet dropped to a quartet. Drummer Aaron Sperske, who returned home to Los Angeles after a few years playing with the Lilys and the Pernice Brothers, rounded out the foursome of today. Not long after, Sub Pop signed the band for a one-off. They served as Kurt Heasley's backup band for the Lilys, and continue to do so for his West Coast dates. Rademaker, Gunst and Scher also play with the Tyde, Rademaker's brother's band, whose retro Brit-pop shimmery Once has received much praise.


Charming seaside resort on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, halfway between Casablanca and Essaouira, Oualidia represents an unique curiosity in Morocco. Its turquoise-blue circular lagoon and its sandy dunes are the setting of an ancient palace of Mohammed V (actual sovereign's grand-father) deserted since 40 years. Far from Moroccan medinas' tumults, time seems to be suspended here. It is an earthly paradise for travelers desirous to find themselves surrounded by nature and enjoy the fisher population's welcome. Because, if the tourist reputation of the city is firmly established, Oualidia's main resources remain fishing and oyster farming. Oysters, real treasure of this city, are well-known everywhere in Morocco. We find them in the best restaurants and we come a long way to savor them.


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First Impressions: For Free by David Crosby
Yesterday, after wrapping up the Jackson Browne piece, I clicked play on David Crosby's new For Free album – and then played it again when I ran out to pick up dinner. I'm on my fifth spin as I begin this review, early Sunday morn. As a whole, it's a solid set that works as an umlaut on his lengthy career, with several songs humming through the dawn like finely tuned dream machines. Produced by his son James Raymond, it includes contributions from Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen and Sarah Jarosz, though the real star is Crosby's voice, which has lost little of its luster despite his advancing years.
The album opens with "River Rise," which finds Crosby accompanied just by a piano at its start. "It's late in California," he sings. "The voices are speaking low/and the wheels line up/point the direction they wanna go…" A wind gusts through the song, in a sense, and brings with it a sonic shift some 30 seconds in, when Michael McDonald's backing vocals kick in much as they did for Steely Dan back in the day. The overall result is in sync with the sophisticated rock of Mssrs. Fagen and Becker and not the thoughtful folk-rock he cultivated with erstwhile partners Stephen Stills and Graham Nash – or what he and Nash achieved with the Mighty Jitters.
That's not a knock, per se, but for someone like me – who lost track of Crosby somewhere in the last decade and a half – it's a bit of a shock. Gone are the freeform Crosby songs of yore and in their stead numbers like "Rodriguez for a Night," which features lyrics by Donald Fagen and sounds like a long-lost Steely Dan track or – and I just thought of this – a jazz-inflected reboot of Crosby's "Cowboy Movie" from If I Could Only Remember My Name.
Perhaps that's why, to my ears, the best moments are the songs that conjure Crosby's long-ago works – "Secret Dancer," for instance, would have been at home on Wind on the Water, while "Ships in the Night" echoes CPR's studio debut, where melodies flowed and the notes were allowed to breathe. To my ears, however, the album's main highlight is the duet with Sarah Jarosz on Joni Mitchell's "For Free." The arrangement is supple, sparse and powerful – or, as Diane just commented, "This is beautiful! Their voices are great together."
The closing "I Won't Stay for Long," written by James Raymond, is near its equal, with lyrics that work as a benediction to Crosby's well-lived, oft-troubled life. Horns smolder in the background and a piano lingers nearby, all while Crosby's vocals fly close to the ground. Drums, guitar and bass eventually fade in, providing further support. It resonates in the soul in a way that, say, "Rodriguez for a Night" does not.
Anyway, I'll leave it with this thought: The polished, Steely Dan sheen that dominates the proceedings builds upon the sound Crosby first sculpted with CPR, but does so by adding more clutter. The best moments are those that strip away the veneer and allow the songs to breathe. Longtime fans should enjoy it between occasional grumbles, while most others will suffice by just downloading "For Free" and "I Won't Stay for Long."
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Q: Horizontal bar and line chart with multiple x-axes scales in bokeh I'm attempting to plot a horizontal histogram and a timeseries of the data underlying the histogram on one chart. Naturally, this requires a shared y axis and two x axes - one for the histogram frequencies and the other for the datetimes. However, I cannot seem to get the datetime axis to play nicely. It ends up incorporating the 0 values associated with the histogram, which then is converted to 1970-01-01 (not what I want).
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from bokeh.io import show
from bokeh.plotting import figure
from bokeh.models import LinearAxis, DatetimeTickFormatter, Range1d

testData = pd.Series(np.random.rand(10), index=pd.date_range('2016-01-01', periods=10)
counts, bins = np.histogram(testData, bins=5)

histAndLine = figure(x_axis_type='datetime')

f = ['%Y-%m-%d']
histAndLine.xaxis.formatter = DatetimeTickFormatter(years=f, months=f, days=f)
histAndLine.extra_x_ranges = {'Counts': Range1d(0, max(counts)+1)}
histAndLine.add_layout(LinearAxis(x_range_name='Counts'), 'above')

histAndLine.line(x=testData.index, y=testData)
histAndLine.circle(x=testData.index, y=testData)

histAndLine.hbar(y=bins[:-1], height=np.diff(bins), left=0, right=counts, x_range_name='Counts')

show(histAndLine)

This should yield a bar chart over a line, with the line and bar using much of the chart space, yet my line gets squished up to the right (because 2016 dates are much much much greater than 0 = 1970.
Am I missing something here?

A: The default DataRange1d that figures use automatically ranges over all available glyphs. If you want to exclude a subset of the glyphs, you can be explicit:
l = histAndLine.line(x=testData.index, y=testData)
c = histAndLine.circle(x=testData.index, y=testData)

# only auto-range over the line and circle, not the bar
histAndLine.x_range.renderers = [l,c]

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Anil K. Dilwali and his family came to see Amma during Amritvarsham50 with a very special gift—108 copies of Amma's life story in braille. Mr. Dilwali was kind enough to recount us the full story.
"Last April, a family moved into our neighborhood in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi. We met them one day—very recently—at the nearby bus stop, and after getting to know them and learning a bit about their moving story, we developed an immediate fondness and sympathy for them.
"The family—22-year-old Priyanka and her parents—had experienced a number of difficulties in their lives. After undergoing surgery for a brain tumor when she was four and a half, Priyanka sadly lost her vision. From that moment onward, the family has had to endure the obstacles and disadvantages that usually attend a life of blindness, such as medical expenses, educational limitations and a general lack of real opportunities. To add to this, Priyanka's parents have had trouble finding jobs, and, with the economic strain due to Priyanka's condition, have suffered financially. Fortunately, despite her limitations, Priyanka managed to take a course and secure a job in the travel-and-tourism industry, making her the sole source of income for the family. Such a triumph!
"We heard all of this and were deeply inspired. We became aware of just how challenging the lives of the blind are, and we wanted to do something to help. We wanted to offer some hope and encouragement to them and their families, and help make them more aware of the options available. The thought occurred to us that Amma would definitely touch this family. Naturally, being Amma devotees, this thought led to the idea of printing a book on Amma and Her message, experiences and activities in braille. We titled it: Amma: A Messiah of Love.
"The next step was finding a publisher. We turned to the All India Confederation of the Blind, as they are the leading braille press. We contacted J.L. Kaul, the secretary general of the AICB—himself visually challenged—who began the Confederation with just 300 rupees and a few fellow blind persons.
"Initially, he said he was currently too busy printing textbooks. Asking again, we even requested if it would be possible to have them printed within the week, by the 15th of September, so as to make sure they were ready for Amritavarsham50! At first, Mr. Kaul was a little annoyed at the request, especially after having already explained that he was too busy. But we began to talk about Amma and what we were trying to do, and he had a change of heart. He agreed to help us.
"We also wanted to have a braille 'drawing' of Amma's face on the cover. We asked if it would be possible to do, but Neetu, one of Mr. Kaul's young computer assistants, wasn't sure about it. However, my wife asked Neetu to try, and to pray to Amma for it to work. Neetu then remembered that the organisation had just received a new piece of equipment that could probably do it, and a few hours later, the cover was finished! She said that she did, in fact, pray to 'Mama,' as she very innocently referred to Amma, and somehow it all happened so quickly!
"As an auspicious gesture, it had been suggested to us to order 108 copies, but I ordered 110, just to have a couple extra copies. When they were ready, we went to pick them up at the press, and what did we find? They had wrapped each bundle with such care, and even with golden ribbons! They also asked us to please have Amma bless them and the organisation, so they could prosper and get even more equipment for their good work.
"We called Amritapuri, and a brahmachari there suggested we send one or two to the Ashram ahead of time, for Amma to see. We sent them, however they never seemed to reach the Ashram! This left us with the 108 copies to bring to Amritavarsham50, which did indeed seem auspicious.
"Arriving at the International Stadium in Kochi on 25 September—which also happens to be our son, Keshava's, birthday—we went for darshan. We told the brahmachari we spoke to on the phone that we had the books with us, and he told us to come show at least one to Amma. Ranjana, my wife, and Keshava and myself came closer and waited to be called by Amma. Finally, at 11:30, the exact birth time of Keshava, Amma called us. Another auspicious sign!
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The Clueless Marketer's Guide to Building a Landing Page from Scratch
Dan Shewan
Last Updated: November 12, 2022 | Landing Pages
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We talk about optimizing landing pages a lot here at WordStream, but how do you go about building a landing page in the first place? You need something to optimize before you can start optimizing! There are many ways to go about building a landing page, from rolling your sleeves up and diving into coding one with HTML, CSS and JavaScript to using web services that allow you to customize landing page templates.
In today's post, you'll learn how to build landing pages from the ground up and see which option is right for you. By the end of this post, you'll be ready to start building a landing page that will drive conversions. Unless it looks like the one above, in which case you'll probably want to rethink your life choices.
RELATED: 4 Tips for Creating Amazing Facebook Landing Pages
Why you need to build a landing page
Real quick—I want to address something that we see all too often here at WordStream. Because they're unaware of the importance of a specific, relevant landing page, many marketers and business owners will simply direct prospects from their Google and Facebook ads to their website homepages.
This is a mistake that's as understandable as it is costly. Look—we get it. When you look at your own website homepage, it seems like it's the most intuitive, navigable page on the internet. It's something you interact with on a daily basis, and without realizing it, you can mistake your own familiarity with the page for earth-shattering ease of use.
Although your homepage may, in fact, be incredibly well designed, it's still not a good candidate for your landing page. If you're advertising to a cold audience on Facebook, for example, the people you're directing to your website have never encountered your business before. Chances are they'll have no idea how to navigate from your homepage to whatever offer you served them in the Facebook ad.
And that's precisely why using your homepage as a landing page is a costly mistake. It confuses prospects, and confused prospects are not terribly likely to convert. In fact, confused prospects may not even know how to convert. That's, in a word, a disaster.
The good news is that it's a highly avoidable problem. By creating a landing page with the methods I'll lay out below, you set yourself up to drive way, way more conversions for your business. And because you'll be driving more conversions without even touching your ads, you'll do wonders for your return on ad spend (ROAS).
Alright, then. Let's get on with it.
Building a landing page the 'hard' way
Before we dive into the nitty gritty of building a landing page from scratch, let's get one thing out of the way – yes, HTML, CSS and other web technologies have a learning curve. However, learning how to code web pages isn't the same as programming an app, building a supercomputer or breathing (artificial) life into a murderous robot intent on world domination. It takes time and effort to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but it's not as difficult as you might think.
First, let's look at each of these web technologies and what they do.
Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML, is the "language" of the web. Note that HTML isn't a programming language, but a markup language (as its name implies) that is used to define the content and structure of web pages. Let's take a look.
Image credit: Mozilla Developer Network
See how the content and structure of the page are defined by the code?
The basics of HTML are beyond the scope of this post, but there are several excellent resources on the web that can help you learn. Some of the best are:
Codecademy (free interactive coding exercises on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more)
Treehouse (extensive video library, free trial, monthly subscription)
Mozilla Developer Network (free text-based tutorials on various web technologies, including HTML)
HTML Dog (more tutorials with plenty of code examples)
HTML defines the content and structure of web pages, while Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) define how web pages look. Style sheets are referred to as cascading because changes made to a top-level style sheet can "cascade" throughout the entirety of a site, allowing you to make wide-scale changes to the appearance of your site by adjusting the code of a single style sheet.
In the past, CSS code was inserted directly into HTML documents, but this isn't a best practice – sure, it'll work, but don't get into bad habits. Keep your CSS and HTML code separate.
Here's an example of what CSS code looks like:
Again, we're not going to get into properties, values, selectors and declarations here, but there are plenty of resources to help you get up to speed, including the sites listed in the HTML section above.
To get an idea of how powerful CSS can be, check out Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden. Although it might be hard to believe, each of the example styles you'll see there are applied to the exact same HTML code. Pretty cool, right? By making changes to your landing page's CSS, you can experiment with radically different designs without having to go back and manually adjust the HTML of every page.
So, you've created a functional (and achingly beautiful) landing page – now you need to add some interactivity. This is crucial for landing pages, as you want your prospective customers to actually do something, whether it's download a whitepaper or request a sales call. This is accomplished through calls to action powered by JavaScript.
JavaScript is a "real" programming language, but it's most commonly used as a client-side scripting language. Simply put, this means that JavaScript makes your browser do most of the work.
Here's a snippet of JavaScript:
JavaScript can be used to add functionality to a web page, such as:
Submit information to servers through web forms
Create pop-up windows
Authenticate user input such as login credentials
Animate navigational elements…
If you're serious about making your own landing page from scratch by hand, you'll need some technical skill, but the rewards can be great. For one, you'll have complete control over exactly how your page is structured, displayed and interacts with your servers. You also get major bragging rights for having designed and coded your page singlehandedly. Templates? We don't need no stinkin' templates!
Still, this approach is time-intensive for the coding newbie – not to mention a little intimidating. There has to be an easier way, right?
Building a landing page the easy way
So you need a landing page fast. What do you do? Use a template! Don't feel bad, though – in many cases, this is the best way make a landing page. (If using a template still has you drawing a blank, check out some landing page inspiration to get those creative juices flowing.)
There are plenty of sites where building a landing page is a breeze. We're going to look at two of them – Unbounce and Wix.
The landing page at the top of this post was built from an existing template using Unbounce, which bills itself as "the landing page builder for marketers."
One of the main benefits of using Unbounce is that it includes a range of functionality specifically aimed at people who are primary focused on conversions. Another advantage of using Unbounce is that you can A/B test two versions of a landing page to determine which is more effective at improving conversion rates – bonus!
Unbounce offers more than 80 templates for just about every type of landing page you could ever need, including product launches, email newsletter subscription pages, eBook downloads, online learning pages and more. I chose the "Click Through Minimalist Desktop Light" template for the example at the top of this post. You can also choose to start with a blank page and start with a clean slate if you're feeling ambitious.
Let's say you want to create a landing page for a lead-generation PPC campaign you're running. The "York" template is a great place to start for this type of page.
Unbounce allows you to adjust every single element of the template to suit your needs. You can change copy, use different fonts, switch out images and even move entire elements wherever you like. In just a few minutes, I was able to come up with this variation:
It's not terribly well-designed, but that's not the point – this quick and dirty redesign took less than 10 minutes to throw together and required zero coding. Imagine what you could do in a few hours!
Overall, Unbounce is an excellent platform for building a landing page. It's not free (pricing starts at $49 per month for entrepreneurs and new businesses), but you can sign up for a free trial to start getting your hands dirty.
Whereas Unbounce is aimed specifically at marketers hoping to drive conversions, Wix is a bit more general purpose.
Wix offers a range of templates to start from, categorized by type of business and industry. For this example, let's say you run an e-commerce site specializing in handmade arts and crafts.
Once you've selected your business type, you'll be presented with a range of templates designed with your type of business in mind. These are some of the templates for online craft and hobby stores.
Now it's time to start customizing your page. I chose the "Lil Pillow Shop" template because I'd secretly love a pillow with a video game console controller on it. Shame my cat would probably destroy it – this is why I can't have nice things.
Wix offers some customization options, though not nearly as many as Unbounce. Of course, if you don't need to tinker with every last page element, this may serve your needs just fine.
One of the biggest drawbacks to Wix is that many of the templates can't really be considered landing pages, as many of them lack calls to action, forms and other elements your landing pages really need to have.
Something else Wix lacks that many marketers and business owners will find frustrating is the inability to add custom forms and other elements to a page – if it's not there to begin with, you're out of luck. This could be particularly irritating if you find a template you really like but lacks the functionality you need.
Overall, Wix is a great service for small businesses that need a web presence quickly, but for building a landing page it leaves a lot to be desired.
Notable mentions
Of course, Unbounce and Wix are far from the only tools that can help you build a landing page. Other notable mentions include:
SquareSpace (strong analytics support, domain registration, hosting services)
Moonfruit (responsive designs built in HTML5, e-commerce-friendly)
Weebly (drag-and-drop UI, analytics support, low monthly pricing)
Bear in mind, though, that while each of these services makes building a landing page easy, they might not offer the functionality you need, especially if you're planning to create landing pages with highly specific calls to action that will compliment your PPC efforts.
Writing landing page copy
So—now you've got a few different methods for building a landing page. But, as I discussed earlier in this post, a landing page is only as good as the conversions it drives. And if you're not optimizing your landing page copy, you can't expect to see much of a return.
Here are some tips that you should take into consideration when writing landing page copy.
Inject some life into your CTA
Nothing kills a prospect's buzz like a cold, distant, boring CTA. Your landing page CTA is supposed to be the piece of the puzzle that inspires them to convert. It follows, then, that your CTA needs to be compelling.
"Submit," "Sign Up," and "Enter" are the opposite of inspiring. Those are guaranteed to lose potential conversions and send your CPA through the roof. Don't use them.
"Get My Free Report," "Send Me the Guide," and "Let's Get to Work," on the other hand, are energized and engaging—the kinds of CTAs that get people excited about converting. Injecting personality into your CTA is a surprisingly easy way to drive more conversions at no extra cost.
Keep your messaging consistent
A surefire way to lose a conversion is to jar your prospect with a landing page that sounds nothing like the ad that preceded it. If your Facebook ad copy emphasizes all the money people can save by using your product, but the landing page goes into the details of your product's features, you can't expect people to convert. It's the same issue you'll run into if you use your homepage as your landing page: you'll confuse prospects out of converting.
So, when you're writing your landing page copy, pull up the ad that will direct people to the landing page and make sure you're keeping things consistent. Tone, value prop, offer—all of it.
Never stop A/B testing
Conversion rate optimization is fickle business. Although it's not super likely, the smallest tweaks (e.g., changing "Get the Guide" to "Get My Guide") can sometimes make huge differences.
No matter how happy you are with your current conversion rate or CPA, you should never stop A/B testing your landing page copy. Sure—some tests will end up being duds. But every once in a while, you'll stumble upon a change in messaging that drives a substantial boost in your conversion rate. Plus, landing page trends change.
Don't be afraid to be bold, either. Changing the color of your CTA button is appealing because it's basically risk-free. But it's probably reward-free, too. As long as you're keeping close tabs on your conversion data, you can afford to run risky, out-of-the-box tests.
You never know. Your craziest idea could prove to be your most lucrative.
Originally from the U.K., Dan Shewan is a journalist and web content specialist who now lives and writes in New England. Dan's work has appeared in a wide range of publications in print and online, including The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Pacific Standard magazine, The Independent, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and many other outlets.
See other posts by Dan Shewan
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ALLIANCE ART GALLERY
July Spotlight: Brenda Benson
Featured member artist Brenda Benson takes us into a 3D color-rich Fabriana watercolor paper world. Intensely inspired by glass artist Chihuly, unsatisfied by her watercolor renditions of his work, she boldly did what no artist does: she chopped up her watercolor into geometric pieces, folded and glued them to a mat board, all in a passionate desire to carry the 3D feel of Chihuly's work into her watercolor world.
Today, having won the 2017 national Watercolor USA award, Benson continues to create vibrant works of art, perplexing the viewer as to how she does it. So here, briefly, is the "how." On graph paper, using pencil and color pencils, she creates the basic design/theme, and prepares a mat board with a grid—often 2" but Benson has used elongated rectangles, diagonals, and other grid-based options.
She then watercolors one side of her Fabriana paper, allows it to dry, flips it, and watercolors the second side in a contrast color or different value. She then cuts the painted sheet into rectangles, and using a scoring tool to fold both ends up, forms a square with overlapping edges. Now begins a second layer of creativity: she cuts designs and uses paper punches to enhance the underlying theme. Once glued to the mat board, she may add a third layer: scraps of paper, bits of jewelry, commercial stickers, bits of photographs—whatever the design seems to need. She'll even tweak it with additional painting. Altogether, It takes about fifteen to twenty minutes to create one two-inch square. Benson explains, "My goal is to make an overall design that speaks from a distance, but when viewed up close, it becomes a journey for the eyes—an experience of discovery." Visitors now can take that journey, perhaps seeing a touch of Chihuly in Benson's creations.
An opening reception will be held Saturday, July 13, from 5:00 until 8:00 pm. A piece of Brenda's work will be given away in a free drawing held at 6:00. This reception coincides with Hannibal's Second Saturday Gallery Night.
A new language: Meet guest artist Tim Laffey
June Spotlight: Member Artist Mary Beth St. Clair
Alliance Art Gallery, 112 N Main St, Hannibal, MO, 63401, United States(573) 221-2275allianceartgallery@gmail.com


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// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
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As the pharmaceutical industry continues to accelerate its focus on developing biological drugs derived using cell culture processes, the ability to accurately monitor osmolality throughout each phase of development, production, and finished product quality control (QC) becomes increasingly important. Osmolality is arguably one of the most important physical parameters to monitor in mammalian cell cultures because of its fundamental implications to the growth, viability, yield, and the close relationship between cells and media. Freezing point osmometers are considered the gold-standard method in the pharmaceutical industry because of their accuracy and broad applicability for almost any liquid sample type, including complex media mixtures.
The desirability of osmometer system features often can be remarkably different, depending on the research environment. Cell culture media optimization studies, for example, typically involve multiple experiments using smaller bioreactors. These studies generate higher volumes of samples from multiple reactors and multiple technicians when a small sample volume and quick result are required. Large-scale production bioreactor monitoring typically involves fewer samples, and sample volume and labor constraints are not an issue. Downstream applications for osmolality (including buffer preparation and QC for incoming raw-material inspection) add yet another layer of required features such as unique sample testing protocols and methodologies for a regulated environment. Common to all areas of biopharmaceutical manufacturing using osmometry is the need to improve automation and minimize labor requirements.
To achieve that goal, Advanced Instruments has developed a new multisample fully automated freezing point osmometer. The A2O Advanced Automated Osmometer has been developed to combine state-of-the art osmometry technology along with a new feature set designed to improve automation and minimize sample-processing steps. The A2O provides an automatic pipetting system with liquid-level detection capability. This allows operators to process multiple samples from the same sample tube without needing to manually pipette samples individually. Flexible sampling protocols and built-in QC parameters provide the ability to process up to 20 samples with unattended operation. In addition, the A2O provides a wide range of features that will provide immediate and far reaching efficiency and work-flow benefits to support all areas of biopharmaceutical research, development, and manufacturing.
Kelly Peterson is the pharmaceutical product marketing manager for Advanced Instruments Inc, Two Technology Way, Norwood, MA 02062; 1-781-471-2193; kellyp@aicompanies.com; www.aicompanies.com.


I like how you layered the paper plates! Cute.
They look so cool layered like that! It gives a nice 3-D effect.
What a FUN idea layering the paper plates! We just got some Christmas tree books at the library yesterday so I will have to try that idea. Love it!
We did the same song! Fun!
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En física, una seqüència de N nombres pot ser entesa per representar un lloc en un espai de N dimensions. Quan N = 5, hom pot parlar de la cinquena dimensió. Aquest ús pot ocórrer en discussions sobre la quarta dimensió. L'espai abstracte de cinc dimensions passa sovint en les matemàtiques, és perfectament construïble. Si l'univers real és o no de 5 dimensions, això pot ser explorat en moltes branques de la física com en l'astrofísica i física de partícules.

Cinquena dimensió en física
En física, la cinquena dimensió és una hipotètica dimensió extra, més enllà de les 3 dimensions espacials i una de temps. Alguns científics han especulat que el gravitó, una partícula que està associada a l'efecte de la força de gravetat, pot sortir a una cinquena o més dimensions i això explicaria per què la força de gravetat és significativament més feble que les altres forces fonamentals.

La teoria Kaluza-Klein fa servir la cinquena dimensió per a unificar la gravetat amb la força electromagnètica. La idea consisteix en el fet que una partícula en un camp electromagnètic i que, per tant, que aparentment no segueix la línia més recta possible vista des de les tres dimensions espacials, pot ser tractada matemàticament com una partícula seguint la línia més recta possible, línia anomenada geodèsica d'un espaitemps amb una dimensió extra. Com que l'espaitemps de la teoria de la relativitat és una varietat pseudoriemanniana  de dimensió 4, l'espaitemps ampliat de Kaluza-Klein seria una varietat de dimensió 5. La "invisibilitat" aparent de la nova dimensió s'explica en un dels models de Kaluza-Klein en què l'espaitemps ampliat té l'estructura topològica , i de fet cada punt de l'espaitemps convencional és un petit cercle de dimensions inferiors a les atòmiques. Aquesta teoria es considera modernament com una teoria d'unificació, amb grup unificador del cercle . La teoria-M amplia aquesta idea i suggereix que l'espaitemps té 11 dimensions, 7 dels quals estan sota el nivell subatòmic.

El 1993 el físic Gerardus 't Hooft va publicar el principi hologràfic, el qual explica que la informació d'una dimensió extra és visible com una curvatura de l'espaitemps amb una dimensió menys. Per exemple, els hologrames són imatges de 3 dimensions col·locades en una superfície de 2 dimensions, la qual cosa dona a la imatge una curvatura quan l'observador es mou. Similarment, en relativitat general, la quarta dimensió es manifesta en 3 dimensions observables com la curvatura d'un sender d'un moviment de partícula (criteri) infinitesimal. Hooft ha especulat que la cinquena dimensió és realment la fàbrica de l'espaitemps.

Cinquena dimensió en matemàtiques

Hiperpoliedres o politopos

En cinc o més dimensions, només hi ha tres hiperpoliedres o polítops regulars. Per a N dimensions, aquests són:
 El n+1-simplex, que té N+1 vèrtexs, tots en distàncies iguals l'un de l'altre i construït usant N+1 símplex de dimensió N-1. Per exemple, el símplex de 3 dimensions és el tetraedre i el símplex de cinc dimensions és l'hexatetràedre, que té 6 vèrtexs, 15 arestes, 20 cares (cadascuna un triangle), 15 cel·les (o sòlids, cadascun un tetraedre) i 6 hipercel·les (cadascuna un pentàcor).
 El polítop mesurat, o hipercub, té 2N vèrtexs, dels quals poden ser escrits (± 1, ± 1,..., ± 1) per a alguns ajustaments compatibles d'eixos. Consisteix en 2N polígons mesurats de la següent dimensioni menor. Les cinc dimensions mesures d'un polígon és decaure o pentaracto, té 32 vèrtexs, 80 arestes, 80 cares (cadascuna quadrat) 1 40 cel (com una galleda), i 10 hiperceldas (cadascuna teseracto)
 El politopo de creu, amb 2N vèrtexs, en parells en costats de N eixos coordinats, consisteix en 2N simples de N-1. El polígon de creu de cinc dimensions és un triacontakaiditeron o pentacruz, amb 10 vèrtexs, 40 arestes, 80 cares (cadascuna triangle), 80 cel (cadascuna Tetrahedron), i 32 hiperceldas (cadascuna pentacoron)
El polígon dual d'un simplex és un simplex. Un polígon mesurat i un polígon de creu de la mateixa dimensió és dual un a l'altre.
Aquestes són imatges projectades de les arestes d'un decateron regular o pentaracto.

Vegeu també
 Quarta dimensió
 Hiperespai

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October 27, 2017 Svalbard No comments
STILL MISSING: Helicopter that crashed near Barentsburg and eight occupants remain missing after overnight search
A helicopter that crashed into the sea a few kilometers from Barentsburg remains missing as of Friday morning, according to the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of Northern Norway. A remote controlled-submarine has been searching the possible crash site for several hours without success and worsening weather conditions are hampering the surface search.
"There is still no debris from the helicopter, but oil spills have been observed in the area near Kapp Heer," a statement issued from the rescue center at 8:40 a.m. notes.
The Governor of Svalbard's two rescue helicopters have been searching the area since shortly after the helicopter was reported missing at 3:45 p.m. Thursday. Several rescue and private ships are also searching the area under the guidance of the Norwegian Coast Guard's Barentshav.
The remote-controlled submarine, which officials said was necessary to search the seabed that is 200 to 250 meters deep, was transported to the governor's Polarsyssel vessel at about 4 a.m. and has been searching since.
Searches of the beaches and surface areas also continued overnight, but efforts were hampered by snow and darkness.
"The weather in the area has gotten worse with increased wind," the rescue center's statement notes.
Eight Russian nationals were aboard the helicopter while it was traveling from Pyramiden to Barentsburg. Observers saw the lights of the helicopter approaching Barentsburg just before it was reported missing, and an SAS flight approaching Longyearbyen reported seeing a glowing light from the crash area.
There was no distress signal sent from the helicopter before the crash.
"Most of these emergency signals are not automatically triggered, but they need to be turned on with a switch," Tore Hongset, the rescue center's leader, told Svalbardposten. "It has been shown in a number of accidents that they were not triggered, but broke apart."
A six-person team from the Accident Investigation Board Norway was sent to the crash scene Friday morning to investigate the cause of the accident, the newspaper reported. Among the inspectors is Tor Nørstegård, who led the investigation of a helicopter that crashed into a hanger building in Barentsburg while trying to land in 2008. That helicopter was fitted with a similar emergency transmitter.
The missing helicopter was not equipped with an emergency position-indicating radio beacon, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
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Q: Can Wicket handle two requests from the same page within the same session concurrently? When I click on link 1 and then, before the response was received, click on link 2 on the same page, I get a "Page Expired" error from Wicket. Is Wicket conceptional capable to do such a concurrent processing?
Any ideas why Wicket loses the session (it seems to reside on tomcat though)?

A: To answer the question myself: It seems like Wicket has no problem to process a second link click while the first is still beeing processed. I tried it with the following example.
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.WebPage;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.basic.Label;
import org.apache.wicket.markup.html.link.Link;
import org.apache.wicket.model.IModel;
import org.apache.wicket.model.Model;

public class ConcurrentClickPage extends WebPage {

    public ConcurrentClickPage() {
        final IModel<String> model = new Model<String>("initial");
        Label status = new Label("status", model);
        add(status);
        add(new Link("link1"){
            @Override
            public void onClick() {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(3000);
                } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                    Logger.getLogger(ConcurrentClickPage.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
                }
                model.setObject("link 1 clicked");
            }
        });
        add(new Link("link2"){
            @Override
            public void onClick() {
                model.setObject("link 2 clicked");
            }
        });
    }

}

And the corresponding html page:

      text

          Link 1 (deferred processing)

          Link 2

When I click on link 1 and click on link 2 while waiting on the response of link 1, everything is fine and I get no "page expired" error.


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Understanding the SEC's Proposed Cybersecurity Standards
By Ian Bowell, Head of Information Security – EMEA
Cybersecurity represents an ongoing challenge for alternative investment firms and the financial industry. And this challenge continues to grow in scope, complexity, and cost. According to IBM and the Ponemon Institute, the 2021 average cost of a data breach in the financial sector was $5.72 million.
In response, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently proposed new standards for cybersecurity management. According to the SEC's February 2022 press release, "the proposed rules and amendments are designed to enhance cybersecurity preparedness and could improve investor confidence in the resiliency of advisers and funds against cybersecurity threats and attacks."
While greeted favorably among cybersecurity professionals and the financial community, the news represents a significant course change for the SEC. To date, there have been no SEC rules or regulations that require financial firms to implement cybersecurity programs. However, the wide-ranging SEC proposal addresses advisor and fund cybersecurity risk, establishes new required elements of policies and procedures for advisors and funds (including disclosure of risks and reporting of cybersecurity incidents), and concludes with a detailed economic analysis.
Read more: How CXOs View Cybersecurity
Breaking Down the Proposed SEC Cybersecurity Compliance Requirements
The recommendations of the SEC compliance proposal can be divided into five areas:
User security and access
Incident response and recovery for cybersecurity
Risk assessment for cybersecurity
Here is a brief description of each area and how the prescribed changes could impact your organization:
User Security, Access & Information Protection. Pandemic-driven remote working and the resulting extended security perimeter have driven significant changes to security requirements, including an increase in multi-factor authentication use. The SEC's recommendations will require organizations to employ updated security technology and vulnerability management capabilities. These include additional controls for data loss prevention and known registered devices. Many financial organizations have already begun adopting these measures.
Incident Response & Recovery. The SEC's proposal will require the reporting of threats and other security events (like a vendor breach or a cyber incident). These are similar to GDPR privacy breach reporting requirements but go further. The SEC will also require an activity paper trail and detailed record-keeping around cybersecurity due diligence. If adopted, the SEC proposal will mandate advisors and fund owners to publicly disclose cybersecurity risks and incidents that have occurred in the last two fiscal years.
Vulnerability Management & Risk Assessment. According to the SEC, "Advisers and funds of every type and size rely on technology systems and networks and face increasing cybersecurity risks. The rules would therefore require all of these advisers and funds to consider and mitigate cybersecurity risk." The SEC's proposal mandates the categorization, documentation, and prioritization of cybersecurity risks based on a comprehensive information systems inventory.
Read more: Why CISSP Cybersecurity Certification Is Strategic
Effective and Flexible — Striking the Appropriate Balance
The proposed rules and amendments seek to deliver short-term effectiveness while acknowledging the need for flexibility as requirements and capabilities evolve. "The balance is achieved in recognition of the speed of technology change," explains Ian Bowell, Edge Technology Group's EMEA Information Security Manager. "Being too specific or restrictive and referring to a particular technology standard would be like requiring 4G, and not permitting 5G."
In short, the SEC is working hard to avoid getting tied up in regulations that could quickly become outdated. Changes in cyber threats and the discovery of new vulnerabilities must also be addressed promptly, and even for the most prepared organizations, continuous change will require ongoing improvements and adjustments.
As a leading Managed Service Provider for the alternative investment industry (including hedge funds, private equity, and family offices), Edge Technology Group is well-versed in the industry's demanding cybersecurity requirements. Edge's capabilities, existing framework, and certifications (like NIST and ISO 27001) will help simplify and expedite your firm's adoption and compliance with the new SEC standards.
Contact us to learn how Edge Technology Group can help you meet the SEC's proposed cybersecurity standards.
Is It Time to Take a Hard Look at Your Cybersecurity?
How CXOs View the Risks and Rewards of Cybersecurity


Coincidentally enough it's Friday, so let's make it F is for Friday Flights of Fancy.
Friday is like Spring for me – a gateway to a long weekend as I don't work on Monday. So, every Friday my mind takes flight and fancies all I can do with three glorious days ahead of me to fill as I will as the only taskmaster I'll have is me, myself and I.
But I am often a bit of a sluff. I'm more about pleasure than getting another query done, or finishing that e-book to submit to Booklocker, or getting my slides together for a photography showing.
And those are but a few of the projects that languish in varying stages of completion or incompletion depending on how you view the glass or donut. Half full or donut or the hole.
Since it's Easter weekend and the family is gathering as I type, I'll have the perfect excuse for all I don't get done.
Yes Scarlett, I too will think about it tomorrow, after all tomorrow is another day.
Amazing the excuses we can come up with for not doing what we really want to do. It's a matter of establishing more immediate gratfication – little rewards every step of the way.
I've missed alot of boats because of my lackadaisical ways. I'm getting better, but seeing all your activity makes me feel even more of a sluff. Thanks for the posts and encouragement.