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Frankfurt Audio Readies Its Debut, Centered Around a Busy Stage
In Feature Articles by Porter Anderson October 9, 2019
With lectures, panel discussions, and commercial presentations in both German and English, the new Frankfurt Audio Stage in Hall 3.1 will be busy through much of the Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Frankfurt Audio, a dedicated area for exhibitors and programming, makes its debut at the 2019 Frankfurter Buchmesse. Image: FBM
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
As Many as 35 Events on the Audio Stage
Feeding on the energy of the international book publishing industry's interest in audiobooks—and their place in many markets as a rare growing format in sales—the Frankfurter Buchmesse's new focus on audio is ready not only with its own conference, the Audio Summit, but with some 35 events on the specialized area's stage.
Set in Hall 3.1, images created to promote the new focus area are alluring for their evocations of calm, quiet listening sessions in headphones, but such glimpses of relaxation mask the almost knee-jerk interest sparked for many when audio is mentioned.
In fact, London's FutureBook conference, set for November 25, has announced a separate stream of programming for the event, with new research data from Harris Interactive on the UK market's audio scene and sessions on audiobook recording, commissioning, new technology, retailing, and podcasting.
There's reason for such interest, of course, in such tantalizing announcements as the September report that in the UK, ownership of smart speakers by children has increased by 138 percent since January 2018. That, according to a report at The Bookseller's Children's Conference, with The Insight People's CEO Jonathan Watson saying that girls aged 7 to 12 were most likely to listen to audiobooks in the children's camp, while overall, 34 percent of children were found to be listening to audiobooks for an average 15 minutes per week.
London programming on the sector was first put into place in the 2016 FutureBook schedule, and the effort at Frankfurt next week is a dynamic follow-on to that kind of focus.
Matthäus Cygan
In a prepared statement about the new Frankfurt Audio development, Matthäus Cygan, Frankfurt's director business development for international trade, is quoted, saying, "The Frankfurt Audio area, which extends over more than 600 square meters in Hall 3.1, will host German-language audiobook publishers alongside international streaming platforms.
"For professionals from the publishing and audio sectors we offer a first-class program with our Frankfurt Audio Summit, featuring talks on stage from experts in the field.
"Events featuring authors and podcasters, especially at the weekend, are highlights for the fair's public visitors."
The Frankfurt Summit on Thursday (October 17), from 2 to 5 p.m., is separately ticketed, and features, among others:
Michael Krause, managing director for Central Europe at Spotify
Stacy Creamer, vice-president of content acquisitions and development at Audible (USA)
Ama Dadson, CEO of Akoo Books (Ghana)
Helena Gustafsson, head of global publishing at Storytel (Sweden)
Valérie Lévy-Soussan, founder and CEO of Audiolib (France)
Declan Moore, head of International at Wondery (USA)
Kurt Thielen, managing director and co-owner of Zebralution (Germany)
But the area's stage itself, at Hall 3.1, L59, will be busy with programming all week, and taken as a whole approaches the audio component of publishing's output and business models from myriad angles.
We'll quickly hit some highlights for you.
And we recommend that you check the Buchmesse 2019 app for Android and iOS users, in that the most recent information on speaker is found most easily there. Go to the list of event stages at Frankfurt, select the Frankfurt Audio Stage tab, and you'll be able to click on the events for full details.
Frankfurt Audio Stage Highlights
"Audiobook Production: Keeping Up With Demand and Creating Listening Experiences" features, appropriately, Michele Cobb, the executive director of the Audio Publishers Association who has led the effort to quantify and illuminate the burgeoning audiobook scene in the States. Cobb in this first session on the stage at 10 a.m. on Frankfurt Wednesday (October 16) is joined by Martin Johs. Møller of Swann Studio; Amanda D'Aceirno, who leads Penguin Random House's audio publishing group; and Colleen Prendergast, manager of global content partnerships with Findaway.
"Hast du Töne"–Do You Have Tone? at 12:30 p.m. on the 16th features a look at audio solutions from PocketBook and Marschpat, with Enrico Müller from the former and Carina Eigner from Marschpat GmbH.
What you're seeing then, in just these two events on the stage, is the pattern of the Audio Stage's programming, a mix of informational sessions and sponsored events in which practitioners in the field will be getting to know each other's offerings and network with companies and colleagues they need to know. Some sessions are in English, others in German.
"How To Reach a Global Audience and Accelerate Your Audiobook Business" on Frankfurt Thursday (October 17) at 11:30 a.m. features Bookwire's Eric Bartoletti and Videl Barf-Kar, another sponsored program, this time from Frankfurt-based digital distributor Bookwire.
And on Friday (October 18), "Riding the Wave of Smart Speakers and Voice Assistants–What Publishers Need to Know" features Axel Reichmann of Google Assistant, John Ruhrmann. another member of the Bookwire team, and Franziska Luh of X-O Projects, with Score Publishing's Bradley Metrock moderating.
Podcasting and Weekend Events
Weekend crowds at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2018. Image: FBM, Marc Jacquemin
The Frankfurt Audio area also includes a podcast studio installed by sponsoring partner Audio Alliance. Under the motto "create your own podcast," book fair visitors will stand behind the microphone and create a short podcast episode, themselves, something not unlike the "reading pavilions" of China in which citizens read their favorite literature snippets into mics and then send their recordings to friends as audio gifts.
In a contest, an improvised podcast at Frankfurt will be selected and the winner will be rewarded by Audio Alliance with his or her own original season. An editor and a producer will be at the studio on=site to help and answer questions.
And as the public visitors arrive on Saturday and Sunday at Messe Frankfurt, "We are starting out with numerous German-language events," Cygan says, "including speakers from the areas of literature, podcasting, music and journalism".
"Among them will be authors Melanie Raabe and Rafik Schami, Giuseppe di Grazia and Julian Reichelt from two of Germany's most successful magazines, Bild and stern, the lead singer of the Berlin-based electro-pop band MIA and former techno DJ Talla2xlc. Next year, we'll expand the events to include a larger collection of international voices—podcasters, authors and narrators—as Frankfurt Audio evolves."
Premium partners of Frankfurt Audio are Zebralution and Audible Deutschland. Storytel, Bookwire, Audio Alliance and Bitkom are partners of Frankfurt Audio, while Hessischer Rundfunk is its media partner.
More information is available online and on the fair's app.
More from Publishing Perspectives on Frankfurter Buchmesse is here, and more from us on audiobooks is here.
Porter Anderson
Porter Anderson is a non-resident fellow of Trends Research & Advisory, and he has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair's International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. Anderson was for more than a decade a senior producer and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA. As an arts critic (National Critics Institute), he was with The Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Tampa Tribune, now the Tampa Bay Times. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman.
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Knicks Fire Coach Mike Woodson After Lost Season
Mike Woodson
BY BRIAN MAHONEY, AP BASKETBALL WRITER
NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Woodson was fired as coach the New York Knicks on Monday after his team fell from division champions to out of the playoffs in one season.
Phil Jackson, in his first big move since becoming team president in March, said in a statement "the time has come for change throughout the franchise."
The dismissal comes shortly after the Knicks completed a 37-45 season that began with their belief they were a serious contender.
Instead, they started poorly, making Woodson's job security practically a season-long distraction. A late surge wasn't good enough for a postseason spot or another year for Woodson.
Jackson has won an NBA-record 11 championships as a coach. He has repeatedly said he's not interested in returning to the bench, so he will have to hire someone before he turns his attention to the roster. The team said the coaching search begins immediately.
Jackson said he has a "tremendous amount of respect" for Woodson and his staff, which was also fired. Jackson called this an "extremely difficult" season and said "blame should not be put on one individual."
"But the time has come for change throughout the franchise as we start the journey to assess and build this team for next season and beyond," he added.
Jackson has said he won't insist the Knicks run the triangle, the offensive system he used in Chicago and with the Lakers, but has made clear his belief in it. TNT analyst Steve Kerr, who played for Jackson with the Bulls but has never been a coach, has repeatedly been mentioned as a top candidate.
Woodson, a former Knicks first-round draft pick, was hired as an assistant coach before the 2011-12 season, then engineered an 18-6 finish after replacing Mike D'Antoni on an interim basis the following March to capture a playoff spot. Given a multiyear deal two months later, he then led them to a 54-28 record last season and the Knicks' first Atlantic Division championship since 1994.
New York then beat Boston in the playoffs, its first series victory since 2000, and general manager Steve Mills picked up next season's option year on Woodson's contract before this season began.
But the Knicks were saddled with some early injuries, including center Tyson Chandler's broken leg, and Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan was already considering replacing Woodson by December, when he met with Jackson at a holiday party and talked to him about coaching the team.
Carmelo Anthony praised his coach Thursday and even offered to back him publicly if necessary. But it was probably a clear sign Woodson wouldn't be back a few minutes later when Amare Stoudemire said the coach hadn't taken part in the exit meetings with players that Jackson and Mills held.
Woodson previously coached six seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, leading them to the playoffs in his final three seasons. He has a career record of 315-365.
Woodson went 109-79 with the Knicks, who hadn't even made the playoffs since 2004 before he led them there in 2012. But he lost one of his biggest supporters within the organization when general manager Glen Grunwald, Woodson's college teammate at Indiana, was surprisingly fired last September.
Players and fans sometimes grumbled during the season about Woodson's strategies as the defense regressed and the offense was inconsistent beyond Anthony, who plans to become a free agent in July. Chandler said there probably was some "disconnect" and "misunderstanding" at times.
"Coach Woodson put together a game plan for us on the basketball court and there were times we didn't totally buy into it," Stoudemire said last week.
Still, the Knicks nearly rallied to make the playoffs by winning 16 of their final 21 games. But Woodson, who said he and Jackson had only brief chats in Jackson's first month in charge, said before the season finale he knew the coach often takes the blame.
"Everyone in this franchise owes a great deal of gratitude to what Mike and his staff have done," Jackson said. "We wish him the best."
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I remember growing up with a childhood friend who I used to look at as the perfect story teller. I always enjoyed having him around, because I loved stories; I still do. But as I grew older, and advanced in my studies, I had to join a different school and so did he, but the strong yearning still burned within me for him to return, or hopefully for me to find another story teller.
Unexpectedly, when I was on a Safari and Tour to Lake Mburo National Park in South Western Uganda, I was opportune to reach this place called Igongo Cultural Center. Can you imagine having so many proficient storytellers in one place? Well that's what Igongo Cultural Center was and still is. I will share with you a few details about Igongo, my secret place.
Igongo is just 12km from Mbarara town as you drive towards Kampala, and an estimated 45km from Lake Mburo, which is the closest National Park to Kampala the Capital City of Uganda. Your Uganda Safari and tour to Igongo will offer you an opportunity to stand on royal ground because the palace of the Ankole king was set on this exact land area.
Adding to the newly operating Igongo Country Hotel, the cultural center has four major sections; the "Eitaramiiro" cultural village, "Kaahwa Kanuzire" restaurant, Nkwanzi bookshop, and at its heart is the Informative Museum called "Eriijukiro". It's just incredible how well the museum explains the lives of the people of southwestern Uganda in just 40 minutes; talking about their past, present livelihoods and future aspirations using tangible objects to make the story more real.
The restaurant offers the opportunity to taste the authenticity of the local meals of southwestern Uganda including the widely craved Akaro (millet), Amatte (smoked Ankole milk), ghee and obushera (millet drink). Have you ever eaten something so slowly; piece by piece, in a manner not to quickly finish it because of its deliciousness? Well that's what Kaahwa Kanuzire means. This restaurant will delight all your digestive enzymes. Continental cuisine is also served in the restaurant, so you should not be bashful while on your Uganda Cultural Safari in Igongo, but eat-up, because "chance knocks once".
The Eitaramiiro cultural village is a series of bandas which exhibit the traditional Ankole architectural designs together with the different basic elements that are found in the Ankole household.
The Nkwanzi bookshop and crafts shop is the perfect place to get your souvenir. You will take home with you that souvenir after your Safaris and Tours in Uganda, and it will forever remind you of a place your heart fell in love with.
On your way in, you will be welcomed by the gorgeous Mburo Gardens which have so many monuments and sculptures; each with a unique story behind it. Also on your way out, the captivating Mburo gardens will remind you of a return trip that you will have to make. Stories are best told by authentic storytellers. I got the opportunity to meet very many of these in one place, I am sure you will also learn a lot, but even more, you will have a great time at Igongo Cultural Center.


The Hermitage of Braid is a wildlife haven tucked between Morningside and Liberton, immediately north of the Braid Hills. It was designated a Local Nature Reserve in 1993 in recognition of its importance to both wildlife and people. It offers an escape from urban life with a wide range of walks from a leisurely stroll along the Braid Burn to a steep climb on the slopes of Blackford Hill.


Yep. People really are fatter. A recent analysis of obesity data from 1988 to 2004 shows waist circumference has been on a continual rise for the last 15 years.
In a fascinating compilation of obesity data from 1988 to 1994, The Center For Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion out of Atlanta has uncovered what may be the most significant predictor of our collective health in the years to come.
The study examines data from the National Health and Nutrition Exam Survey from 1988 to 1994, and 1999 to 2000, 2001 to 2003 and 2003 to 2004.
In the wake of a spat of recent studies that show abdominal circumference may be the best predictor for obesity related disease risks such as type 2 diabetes, this study is the weight loss equivalent of a global warming alarm.
Between 1988 and 2004, the average waist circumference among men increased from 96 cm to 100.4 cm. Among women during the same period, average waist circumference went from 89 to 94cm.
To put this in perspective, the average women's waist size today is almost equal to what the average man's was 15 years ago.


For decades people have been complaining that there is no peace in the middle east, but it's been like talking about the weather, everyone complains but no one does anything about it. But now we will finally accomplish it.
There hasn't been peace in the middle east for a simple reason, the Islamic world has declared war on western civilization, and even specifically the United States. This declaration of war happened a long time ago, but we didn't pay it much attention because the threat was almost comical at first, and insignificant later. We kept regarding the turmoil in the middle east as an Israeli vs. the Arabs instead of Islam vs. the freedom of western civilization. The melting of our skyscrapers finally corrected our dismissal of this issue.
Some say that this war in Iraq will destabilize the middle east. I should certainly hope so. The oppressive theocratic states there will not be destroyed and reformed otherwise. Our strategy seems clear. We control Afghanistan. We're about to control Iraq. This puts us on both sides of Iran, and we will soon be controlling them as well. Syria will succumb to the Israelis. Jordan will either join us or also succumb. The Saud family will be deposed in Arabia. Soon, the muslim world will be completely transformed. The people there will be free to practice whatever ridiculous religion they wish.
This is the most important point. Islam has spread almost exclusively via military conquest. They retain power only through oppression and coerced observance of their religion. The western world has shown quite dramatically that once people are free to worship as they choose two things happen: First, religion thrives. Second, individual religions wane in political power. The people of the middle east are no different than the rest of the world. They enjoy freedom as much as we do and deserve the right to choose their own religion.
The Islamic world is having convulsions right now over the United States' invasion of Iraq, not because they seriously think that we are unjustified in removing Hussein, but because they know that it signals the end of their bloody grip on their own populations.
In waging this war, we must remember a very important point -- There is no substitute for victory. All the hand wringing about civilian casualties will be forgotten once we have won. All the mindless Iraqis shouting about fighting for their country are not only irrelevent now, they will disappear once their regime is gone.
Well, they won't disappear completely. In the War Between the States, the southern states had their own underground militia that practiced terrorism at the end of hostilities, the Ku Klux Klan. It will take a few generations to completely eradicate any Islamic terrorists and like in the case of the KKK they will become reviled by their own people, but freedom will eventually supplant terror.


Portrait session with Carl Severson, Holmdel, New Jersey. October, 2016. – Joel Dowling Photography.
I have known Carl Severson for approximately one million years – his band, Nora, toured extensively and played Syracuse relatively often. I photographed Carl's band a number of times and have the album liner credits to prove it, regardless of how small those photographs may be. 🙂 I have also photographed a handful of bands for Carl, though that seems like a lifetime ago. Cough, cough, hint, hint.
Carl suggested collaborating with me and I immediately started working out lighting and set ideas, though I thought that a strong and (seemingly) straightforward portrait would work best. I have immense respect for Carl and love many of the albums that his labels (Carl also owned and ran Ferret Music) have released over the years – bands like Madball, Terror, Trapped Under Ice, Martyr AD, Disembodied, Killswitch Engage (who deserve a handful of posts on this website – more to come on that later), A Life Once Lost (whom I toured with extensively), Every Time I Die (whom Carl tried to force into taking me on tour back in 2003, though the attempt died on the vine), The Bronx, Burnt By The Sun…etc., etc. – and I hoped to show appreciation for his hard work with the sitting. Carl has helped shape not only my musical taste but that of an entire subculture and I enthusiastically approached the portrait sitting- I didn't mind building the set throughout the night for an early session the following morning and may have been listening to one of my favorite releases from his older label to get pumped up for the following morning. I think that the results speak for themselves and look forward to collaborating with Carl again in the future.
I appreciate Carl trusting me with his portrait and appreciate his time. Thank you, buddy!
Portrait session with Jo and Ava, Alexandria, Virginia. October, 2016.


Farmers have welcomed an animal welfare group's decision to pull shopping bags from its campaign against factory farming out of Coles stores.
Animals Australia on Wednesday said it had decided to withdraw the 'Make it Possible' campaign bags from the supermarket chain to bring to an end to a "vicious" campaign by the National Farmers Federation against Coles and its parent company Wesfarmers.
"It is a dark day for animal welfare in this country when a retailer's support for an animal welfare initiative is vehemently opposed by the farming lobby," Animals Australia campaign director Lyn White said.
Ms White – a former police officer who exposed abuse of Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs in 2011, prompting a temporary suspension of the live export trade – said the group could not stand by and watch an act of generosity by Coles be turned against it.
But the Farmers Federation of Western Australia labelled the group extremists who did not promote "mainstream" animal welfare objectives.
President Dale Park said the group's tie-up with Coles had been a concern to the farming community.
"I understand Coles is committed to supporting improved animal welfare outcomes. However, partnering with such an extremist animal activist group would do little to achieve the desired industry outcomes," Mr Park said.
Wesfarmers was being sought for comment.
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Green Pioneer Annie Young Passes
It is with a heavy heart that we have learned of the passing of former Green Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner Annie Young.
Annie had always been a pioneering and visionary activist in all the fields she endeavored to enter. Politics was certainly no exception. Annie was one of the very first Green Party elected officials in the state of Minnesota. She had recently retired as one of the longest-serving Green Party elected officials in the entire country.
"Annie was a consistent and dedicated public servant and community advocate who pushed her world and the City of Minneapolis to be a better, healthier and more just place. She was a pioneer in sustainability, a seasoned community activist and one of Minneapolis' most successful elected official. She was a mentor and teacher for me and many of us along the road to building the Green Party in Minnesota. I am deeply grateful for her leadership, her friendship and her commitment to making this a better world," said Minneapolis Councilmember Cam Gordon.
Consistently re-elected by wide margins, Annie showed not only that Greens can win at the local level, but that they can thrive. Her dedication to the people of Minneapolis, and her ability to work with colleagues regardless of political party affiliation, served her and the Green Party well.
In addition to serving as an elected official, Annie served the Green Party in countless other ways over the years. A self-professed "political junkie," she advised and mentored candidates for office at all levels, and even run for statewide office herself, helping Greens maintain party status in 2010.
Often times Annie was the lone Green voice in the room. Her patience and dedication, however, paid off.
"I will remember Annie forever. She was irascible, in the best of ways. She not only believed in the key values of the Green Party, but did her part to make them a reality, fighting and pushing and advocating for environmental sustainability, social and economic justice, grassroots democracy and peace," said Minneapolis Council Aide Robin Garwood.
Annie will be greatly missed and we will continue to do everything we can to honor her legacy and commitment to the citizens of Minnesota and our core Green values. Rest in power Annie Young.
-Green Party of Minnesota Coordinating Committee


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Q: Zend Framework 2 - Building a simple form with Validators I'm trying to build a VERY simple form and want to add the validation in the form itself. No need for million lines of code when adding it in the form just is about 3 lines.
Here are two of my fields:
$this->add(array(
        'name' => 'username',
        'attributes' => array(
            'type'  => 'text',
        ),
        'options' => array(
            'label' => 'Name*',
            'required' => true,
        ),
        'filters' => array(
            array('StringTrim')
        ),
    ));
$this->add(array(
        'name' => 'email',
        'attributes' => array(
            'type'  => 'text',
        ),
        'options' => array(
            'label' => 'E-Mail*',
            'required' => true,
        ),
        'validators' => array(
            array('regex', true, array(
                'pattern'   => '/[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}/i',
                'messages'  =>  'Bitte eine gültige E-Mailadresse angeben'))
        ),
        'filters' => array(
            array('StringTrim')
        ),
    ));

The $form->isValid() ALWAYS returns true. Even if the field is empty. I have another field with a regex-validator, same thing... WTF, Zend?
My controller looks like this:
$form = new UserForm();
    $form->setHydrator(new DoctrineEntity($entityManager));

    $request = $this->getRequest();
    if ($request->isPost()) {
        $backenduser = new User();
        $form->bind($user);
        $form->setData($request->getPost());

        if ($form->isValid()) {
             ....
        }

Any ideas?

A: Validation- and Filtering-Definitions aren't part of the Form itself. See http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/user-guide/forms-and-actions.html

A: Try this, pass $_POST data.
 if($form->isValid($_POST)) {
     // success!
  } else {
     // failure!
  }

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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the commissioned mural, Euphonia, at the University of Houston's Moores Opera House and the 50th anniversary of Public Art of the UH System, artist Frank Stella will return to Houston to join Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Don Bacigalupi Ph.D., Founding President of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (and director/chief curator of the UH Blaffer Museum at the time of the Stella project); and Rick Lowe, University of Houston faculty member and founder of Project Row Houses.
The event will take place next week, Friday, February 9 at 7pm at the Moores Opera House. Wander the lobby to see a reunion of Stella's artists, educators and tour guides, and other folks who worked on the Euphonia project.
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Learn all the basics of fishing including how to rig a pole, bait the hook, cast and handle fish. Parents must remain with kids. Bring folding chairs and camera. Registration required. April 30; May 21; June 25.


Image caption The rectennas use smartphone radio waves to communicate.
Researchers in Korea have devised a cheap way of transmitting data from objects to mobile phones when swiped.
They have printed small "rectennas", a cross between an antenna and an AC/DC current converter, onto plastic foils using electronic inks.
The rectenna uses radio waves emitted from a smartphone to transmit data to it from a tiny chip.
The printed rectennas cost less than one penny per unit to produce and could be used as an alternative to QR codes.
The technology behind them, Near Field Communication (NFC), is already used in devices that enable shoppers to make card payments by touch.
They make their debut in the journal Nanotechnology, published by the Institute of Physics (IoP) this month.
Image caption The rectenna is printed using five different electronic inks.
Researchers from Sunchon National University and the Paru Printed Electronics Research Institute spent four years developing the printed rectenna.
"What is great about this technique is that we can also print the digital information onto the rectenna, meaning that everything you need for wireless communication is in one place," co-author of the study Gyoujin Cho told the IoP.
Augmented reality platforms are also providing alternatives to QR codes, although management consultancy firm Greenwich Consulting says that in America QR code usage has increased by 40% year on year.
Marketing company Adido says it is now using Aurasma, an augmented reality application based on visual recognition, rather than QR codes in its campaigns.
"There are quite a lot of limitations as to what a QR code can do - you can only make it do one thing at a time, it can only contain so much data," said Andrew Moore, business development co-ordinator.
He admitted that when presented with an augmented reality logo, people did not necessarily know what to do with it.
"With QR codes this has also been an issue but now there is a much more clear course of action. As the AR industry ages that call to action will also appear."
"What I've found is that people who do download the Augmented Reality app are proactively active in finding content that is AR-able," he said.
Fred Huet from Greenwich Consulting UK also believes that QR codes may have a shelf life.
"The QR scanning process is inherently inconvenient for the user, compared to other technologies such as Near Field Communication (NFCs)," he said. "There is a risk of being replaced in the future by more accessible alternatives."


Under the new leadership of Hellmoth, members of the Cryptid Supremacist gang doggedly seek to uncover the identity of the one who turned state's evidence, while the Creature from Devil's Creek comes to understand how hollow the warden's promise of witness protection really was. The compromised prison physician Dr. Zhang has finally escaped all suspicion for sneaking in contraband uranium, and life for her and her inmate paramour Zonn has gotten much calmer... perhaps too calm. Also: Ethical quandaries! Classic evil spirit banishment! An ill-considered attack! And... "You and me, let's take a walk."
Stanford and his team are the only ones standing between the Sharg and Earth!
The damn dirty crossover event you demanded! Following the events of the first Planet of the Apes film (1968), Dr. Zaius and General Ursus lead a small group of soldiers to the Forbidden Zone to destroy any remaining evidence of Taylor's time among them. To their surprise, they discover...A KONG! Now they must venture to Skull Island with Cornelius and Zira to discover the truth, but they may not survive the deadliest journey of their lives! BOOM! Studios' Kong comics are based on Joe DeVito's Skull Island and Merian C. Cooper's King Kong.


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Q: Libgdx: The import org.json cannot be resolved The following error occurs when I try to compile my project to Html with gradlew html:superDev command. In Android and Desktop is Ok.
[ERROR] Line 14: The import org.json cannot be resolved
  [ERROR] Line 51: JSONObject cannot be resolved to a type

A: You need sources for every library you use for GWT to compile it to JS.
As a general advice, if you use features libGDX provides itself, you should not use third libs to avoid such problems. Use the built-in json parser.


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Normally, when blogging, you should have only one message to share. However, in this post I will share some different experiences with the IFG and SAP PI development. I hope that you can bear with me.
I'm just on my way home from the International Focus Group for Integration. Previously, the name was IFG for PI, but SAP integration is much broader than PI/PO. Gateway and HANA Cloud Integration and likely other integration products are available from SAP.
We had our annual meeting in Paris, so it was a great time to get to take some pictures with the Eiffel Tower in the background and walk around in the great evening weather.
IFG is a collective of members from all the different user groups on integration topics in the world. It is the different user groups /Special Interest groups (SIG) around the world that nominate members to join the IFG. If you wish to join, talk with your local user group.
We discussed SAP product management with Udo and Sindhu Gangadharan present at the meeting. They were sharing the roadmap session on what was delivered and what will be their future deliveries on the PI/PO/HCI. I will not be posting it here, but the roadmap will be shared during the upcoming TechEd/d-code. A lot of new features and enhancements have been added. These will be interesting to use in the customer landscape, since they solve a lot of problems for the customers. I did like what I saw, but there is always room for improvement and I'd like to see some more features and smaller changes. We may never be able to satisfy everybody with the changes, therefore this is a good common ground.
The interesting thing about many of the delivered innovations was something that was coming from the surveys and requirements sessions that the IFG has performed over the last few years. It will be interesting if the current survey, which has been recently performed, will lead to some new features in the upcoming releases of SAP PI/PO.
IFG for Integration has performed a survey during the past 6 years, to figure out what SAP customers think of about the SAP product offerings. This year we did perform the survey, with great results.
I'll be sharing the information during the SAP TechEd Las Vegas Expert Networking session. Networking sessions are normally very interesting discussions that involve a lot of dialogue. I hope that you will join us at the survey discussion.


By Brian D. Fitch, Ph.D.
Human beings process information with amazing efficiency and, in many cases, perform better than sophisticated machines on a variety of tasks, including problem solving and critical thinking.1 However, in spite of these extraordinary abilities, the human mind is plagued by a number of shortcomings. The natural tendencies of people to forget appointments, overlook important details, and distort the past demonstrate the inherent limitations of the human mind. Nevertheless, the human abilities to notice, remember, and recall play such pervasive roles that people often take them for granted until something goes awry.
A clear understanding of memory—how the brain processes, stores, and retrieves information—is vital to an investigator's ability to separate fact from fiction. It is common to refer to memory as a filing cabinet full of individual folders, with each folder storing all the facts and details associated with a particular occurrence. As an event unfolds, a person's senses record all facets of the incident, which then is stored in the brain for later retrieval. It is believed that this process works much like storing a photograph or a tape-recorded conversation in a sealed envelope. Regardless of when the envelope is reopened and the contents are removed, nothing will have changed. The images will be older, but no different, with the description of the event appearing precisely as it did when it first was deposited. The information stored in memory represents nothing less than an unvarnished account of the original event.
Subjects often lie to conceal their guilt; however, there are other instances when an inaccurate account results from systematic, well-documented memory biases or errors. The better an investigator understands the strengths and limitations of memory, the greater the chances of obtaining ground truth.
Dr. Fitch, a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, holds faculty positions with California State University in Long Beach and the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles.
Sensory memory refers to the initial perceptual processing of incoming kinesthetic stimuli. These memories contain lingering impressions of information from the five senses. Research indicates that information in sensory memory is held only long enough for perceptual analysis to occur. Once completed, most of the information is discarded or quickly forgotten, much like the flash of a camera. During the brief time that information remains, the brain only pays attention to the most salient aspects. That information is matched to recognizable patterns and assigned meaning.4 Only the most significant features are transferred to the next stage for further processing.
One way to prevent short-term memory loss is to repeat information to keep it active, thereby preventing it from being displaced by new material. However, before the brain can retain material, it must transfer it to the final stage—long-term memory. Similar to the first stage of transfer—sensory memory to short-term memory—information that relates easily to existing memories has a better chance of being retained than novel data.
Long-term memory is the storage of information for extended periods. Unlike the limited capacity of short-term memory, the amount of information stored in long-term memory is unlimited. Typically, when people talk about memory, they are referring to the material held in long-term storage.
declarative.6 Procedural memory represents knowing how to perform certain activities, such as driving a car, using a computer, or throwing a baseball. Declarative memory refers to facts and knowledge (e.g., the capital of California, the location where a birthday was celebrated, or what a robbery suspect was wearing) that are consciously recalled. These are examples of explicit memory because the information is explicitly stored and retrieved.
The three-stage model of memory provides a better understanding of why victims, witnesses, and suspects often are unable to recall important information. A subject's failure to notice, encode, or remember information can occur during any one of the three stages and for any reason. These shortcomings are exacerbated by the fact that a person's memory is influenced heavily by attention, emotion, experience, and depth of processing.
To understand how memory works, it is important to explore the four fundamental principles of cognition: 1) the limitations of attention, 2) the roles of explicit and implicit processing, 3) the constructive nature of memory, and 4) the depth with which information is processed. Several interrelated factors, rather than any one isolated factor, influence how people process, remember, and recall events.
Attention—the mechanism we use to concentrate our effort on a stimulus or mental event—is similar to other cognitive processes in that it is limited. Because the brain continuously is bombarded with sensory stimuli, it must select what information it pays attention to and what it ignores. Whenever the brain chooses to attend to a particular stimulus, either consciously or unconsciously, it must ignore information from other sources.7 This is complicated further by the fact that individuals vary in the types of stimuli they find interesting or relevant and, therefore, worthy of attention and further processing. Thus, it is common for people experiencing the same event to perceive and remember it in different ways. It is nearly impossible for witnesses or victims to process simultaneously all the details of a crime—the perpetrator's description, weapon used, what someone said, or other people who were present—without missing or misinterpreting important facts.
Some of the mental systems used to process, store, and recall information require conscious and deliberate effort; others operate automatically and involuntarily.8 Explicit processing—for instance, committing a list of words to memory, studying for an examination, memorizing a license plate number or a suspect's clothing—involves conscious thought and awareness that a task is being performed. It is deliberate and willful—people intentionally choose what to pay attention to and what to ignore—and requires attention, focus, and extensive cognitive resources. A person's ability to process information explicitly is limited.
In contrast, implicit processing occurs outside conscious awareness and typically requires little, if any, effort or willful attention—signing one's name or recognizing a close friend. While implicit processing requires few cognitive resources, a person relying on it can miss important details that otherwise might have been observed and retained using explicit processing.
Memory involves more than just the transfer of sensory information into long-term storage. Unlike information recorded and placed in a file cabinet, the encoding of information and experiences is a constructive process where knowledge is created and re-created based on prior learning and new information. Previous learning and the context within which it occurred influence the way the brain makes sense of material. Facts and beliefs act as filters that help the brain attend to stimuli that has meaning while it disregards material that does not.
Existing knowledge directly affects the way people perceive information, recognize patterns, and assign meaning.9 Rather than remembering what actually occurred, the brain remembers what it was doing at the time the information was encoded. Memories also are re-created based on new knowledge, with recent information often displacing older memories. This can be problematic for investigators, especially when people are unable to recall the source or reality of the new information.
A person's ability to recall information depends on how well the individual originally learned the material. Most stimuli receive only incidental attention and are processed to a shallow level of memory; however, other stimuli are given deliberate attention and elaboration, thus enhancing their transfer to long-term memory.10 Elaboration occurs when the brain draws relationships between data already stored in memory and the items being contemplated. The depth-of-processing framework suggests that deeper refining leads to better memory. Accordingly, information that is processed deliberately and consciously has a better chance of being encoded and remembered than data that is produced superficially.
A psychologist and memory researcher demonstrated how these shortcomings affect the recall of victims, witnesses, and suspects. As part of this study, participants watched a series of slides about a burglary. A key element in the crime was a screwdriver used by the suspect. The subjects read a written account of the same crime that differed slightly from the original version. It referred to a hammer instead of a screwdriver being used to commit the burglary. On a subsequent test of memory, 60 percent of the participants referred to a hammer, rather than a screwdriver, as being used in the crime.11 The subjects' poor recall was exaggerated by the fact that they demonstrated as much confidence in their fabricated accounts of the crime as they did in their more accurate memories of the original event.
In an ideal world, victims and witnesses would evaluate, process, and remember events in objective, impartial, and error-free ways. The human mind possesses astonishing capabilities; however, it is also subject to systematic biases and errors. These include biases of confirmation, attention, confidence, order, and emotion.
Individuals can selectively gather information in ways that confirm and reinforce their existing beliefs, while ignoring data that contradicts or challenges those ideas. In one experiment, subjects were asked to rate the guilt or innocence of interviewees based on their responses to guilt-presumptive questions or to neutral questions. The researchers found that the mock answers provided confirmation for the interviewers' initial expectations—whether they believed the interviewees were guilty or innocent.12 Those who were asked guilt-presumptive questions—even if they were innocent—were rated as more nervous and defensive and less believable than those who were asked neutral questions. This suggests that guilt-presumptive questions cause suspects to act deceptively—particularly if they are innocent—confirming the interrogator's existing beliefs.
In a well-known experiment, students were asked to count the number of times a basketball was passed between players wearing white uniforms while ignoring players wearing black uniforms.13 Halfway through the one-minute video, a female student wearing a gorilla suit walked into the scene, spent about nine seconds thumping her chest, then exited. When questioned about what they saw, half the students failed to notice the gorilla.
This study has been repeated numerous times, under different conditions, with diverse audiences, in multiple countries, always with the same results. Researchers refer to this phenomenon of missing a highly salient object precisely where one is looking as the illusion of attention—a form of overconfidence that causes people to miss more of the world around them.
Victims and witnesses often report high levels of confidence in their memories despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. One area where people report particularly high levels of confidence is termed "flashbulb" memories. Most people can produce vivid recollections of emotional events in their lives; however, studies have found no relationship between a person's level of confidence and the accuracy of their memories. In one study 44 students were surveyed the day after the space shuttle Challenger disaster and again 3 years later to test the accuracy of these flashbulb memories.14 Less than 7 percent of second reports matched all the details of the original report. Fifty percent of second reports were incorrect in two-thirds of assertions, while 25 percent were wrong in every major detail.
A number of factors—type, vividness, saliency, and utility—affect how people remember and recall information. One aspect that influences the type of information individuals remember is the order of the material itself. The brain's ability to process and interpret information is limited, so the order of events affects what people remember.15 All things being equal, individuals seem to pay closer attention to their first and last encounters with people, places, and things. Simply put, the laws of primacy and recency mean that people tend to remember their first (law of primacy) and their last (law of recency) impressions because information gathered at the start of an event influences cognitive set, while data obtained at the end of an encounter is the most fresh in the observer's memory.
The brain evolved with the primary function of keeping its host alive. As a result, data with the potential to influence a person's well-being or survival are provided primacy over other types of input. The autonomic nervous system constantly is on alert for anything that might impact safety. At the first sign of danger, the limbic system can inhibit the functioning of the prefrontal cortex—the area of the brain associated with reasoning, planning, and decision making.16 Strong emotions can amplify the ability to remember the affective aspects of an event. They also can shut down the conscious processing of information and make it more difficult to remember nonemotional details of an incident.
The malleability of memory and the importance of properly worded, open-ended questions are illustrated in the changing account of President Kennedy's assassination provided by the "Lady in Red" (Jean Hill), who was standing next to the president's motorcade when he was shot. Less than an hour after the incident, when first questioned by a TV reporter who asked Ms. Hill if she saw the person who fired the fatal shot, she replied, "No…I didn't see any person fire the weapon." Ninety minutes later during a second interview, Hill told reporters that although she did not see anyone shooting, she heard "four to six shots." Later that same day, while being questioned along with other eyewitnesses at the Dallas County Sheriff's Office, Jean Hill told investigators that she noticed rifles being drawn and possibly fired by "men in plain clothes." She also described a man running toward "the monument." She said that she followed him for a short distance before returning to the scene of the shooting.
In March 1964, approximately four months after the shooting, FBI agents interviewed Hill, and she changed her story again. This time she said that she heard four to six shots that she believed came from just west of the Texas School Book Depository. She also described a man sporting a raincoat, wearing a hat, running toward the railroad tracks. She said she followed him, adding that a motorcyclist nearly hit her in the process. Finally, the following day when the Warren Commission debriefed Ms. Hill, she said that she was "…too stunned to move, so I didn't get down. I just stood there and gawked around." This contradicted her earlier statements and two photographs of her sitting down just after the shooting. Toward the end of the Warren Commission inquiry, Ms. Hill admitted that her memories of the event may have beenb"…colored by what I heard."20 The Hill case illustrates the constructive and reconstructive nature of memory and the importance of how interviewers ask their questions.
Interviewers should avoid leading or suggestive questions whenever possible. They should use open-ended questions that require detailed responses and that do not offer built-in "default" answers. Closed-ended questions restrict the amount of information provided, whereas open-ended questions offer no assumptions and place no restrictions on answers. Investigators may use follow-up and closed-ended questions after an interviewee has provided as many details as possible through open-ended questioning.
Investigators must remind themselves of the pervasive effects of cognitive biases and memory errors. The brain's limited attention and processing capacities, the strong influence of emotions, and the order of events affect what people notice, interpret, and remember. This is exacerbated by the illusion of attention, confirmation bias, and overconfidence. By better understanding these shortcomings and remaining vigilant, investigators can improve the likelihood of obtaining ground truth.
For additional information, Dr. Fitch can be reached at bdfitch@lasd.org.
1 Deanna Kuhn, "A Developmental Model of Critical Thinking," Educational Researcher 28, no. 2 (March 1999): 16-25.
2 Daniel L. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
3 Richard C. Atkinson and Richard M. Shiffrin, "Human Memory: A Proposed System and its Control Processes," in The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, vol. 2, ed. K.W. Spence and J.T. Spence (New York, NY: Academic Press, 1968), 89-195.
4 Roger H. Bruning, Gregory J. Schraw, Monica M. Norby, and Royce R. Ronning, Cognitive Psychology and Instruction, 4th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003).
5 Richard M. Shiffrin and Richard C. Atkinson, "Storage and Retrieval Processes in Long-Term Memory," Psychological Review 76, no. 2 (March 1969): 179-193.
6 David G. Myers, Psychology, 9th ed. (New York, NY: Worth, 2009).
7 Mark H. Ashcraft, Cognition, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001).
8 Kevin B. MacDonald, "Effortful Control, Explicit Processing, and the Regulation of Human Evolved Predispositions," Psychological Review 115, no. 4 (2008): 1012-1031.
9 Bruning, Schraw, Norby, and Ronning, Cognitive Psychology and Instruction, 6.
10 Fergus I. M. Craik and Robert S. Lockhart, "Levels of Processing: A Framework for Memory Research," Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 11 (1972): 671-684.
11 Elizabeth F. Loftus and Hunter G. Hoffman, "Misinformation and Memory: The Creation of New Memories," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 118, no. 1 (March 1989): 100-104.
12 Carole Hill, Amina Memon, and Peter McGeorge, "The Role of Confirmation Bias in Suspect Interviews: A Systematic Evaluation," Legal and Criminological Psychology 13, no. 2 (September 2008): 357-371.
13 Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us (New York, NY: Random House, 2009).
14 Ulric Neisser and Nicole Harsch, "Phantom Flashbulbs: False Recollections of Hearing the News About Challenger," in Affect and Accuracy in Recall: Studies of "Flashbulb" Memories, ed. Eugene Winograd and Ulric Neisser (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 9-31.
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16 Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (New York, NY: Random House, 1995).
17 Steve McGonigle and Jennifer Emily, "18 Dallas County Cases Overturned by DNA Relied on Heavily Eyewitness Testimony," Dallas Morning News, October 12, 2008, http://truthinjustice.org/dallas-eyewitness.htm (accessed December 1, 2014).
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Liverpool have reportedly launched a £40m bid for Bruno Fernandes
The Portugal international is at the centre of a transfer tug of war this summer with Jurgen Klopp and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wanting his service next season.
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Fernandes scored 31 times in 50 games for Sporting last season and was part of the Portugal team that won the UEFA Nations League weeks ago.
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L'edizione 1990-1991 della B' Katīgoria vide la vittoria finale dell'Evagoras Paphos.

Formula
Le 14 squadre partecipanti si incontravano in gare di andata e ritorno per un totale di 26 incontri per squadra.

Erano assegnati due punti in caso di vittoria, uno per il pareggio e zero per la sconfitta.

Le prime due classificate venivano promosse in massima serie, la terza disputava il play-off / play-out con la terzultima della massima serie.

Analogamente le ultime due classificate venivano retrocesse in terza serie, mentre la terzultima disputava il play-off / play-out con la terza della terza serie.

Squadre partecipanti

Classifica finale

Verdetti
 Evagoras Paphos e Omonia Aradippou promosse in Divisione A.
 Ethnikos Achnas ai play-off promozione contro la terza di A' Katīgoria 1990-1991 (poi persi)
Ermis Aradippou ai play-out contro la terza della Terza Divisione (poi vinti)
Ethnikos Defteras ed Elpida Xylofagou retrocesse in Terza Divisione.

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DUAL 701 TurnTables
Direct drive turntable
[Nov 27, 2016]
Just bought a Dual 701 5 mos. ago and already it is malfunctioning the motor will not move the platter, but I see the light so I know it is on. The arm will not move more than an inch from its holder. Beware of old full automatic TTs. Anyone has an idea of what the problem is just let me know.
dualref
After first becoming involved with Dual turntables in 1976 I really like the way they play records. I started with a 1245 in 1976, then moved to a 1229Q, and then a CS741Q. But I always wanted a 701.
One day I heard from my friend Bill Neuman of Fix My Dual and he said he had a 701 in stock that he overhauled and was ready to go, complete with a solid walnut base and Shure V-15 III cartridge. So I bit and he promptly shipped it to me in 2009. I have been using it ever since. It's just as good as I always imagined.
The 701 is a nice piece of equipment to look at. The solid wood base looks just like the original except that it is solid, and I do mean solid. It dampens resonance even more than the standard base.
The downsides: The original turntable bases were veneered particle board and over the years moisture has attacked them and unfortunately a lot of them are falling apart. United Audio should have been ashamed of themselves sending out these units in these bases. Another downfall of Dual's is the fact that Dual used very cheap audio output cables. Those cheap 99 cent cables you find in most dollar stores would be an improvement over what Dual supplied them with. Fortunately these are easy to replace and the solid walnut bases are easy to find too. I had mine replaced before it was shipped to me,
But how does it sound?
I didn't like the supplied Shure V-15 Type III on this turntable. To me the music sounded flat, without dimension.
I then replaced it with an old Pickering XSV/3000 cartridge. The difference is between day and night. The XSV/3000 cartridge really brought the 701 to life. The music now has dimension and fullness that the Shure cartridge never had. It is all so smooth. So I highly recommend this upgrade to the 701. As far as the Pickering cartridge goes, LP Gear still carries replacement styli for them.
The speed on the 701 is always rock solid. Once you set it, it stays put. And I like the torquiness of the direct drive system. Everything about this turntable is quiet. No mechanism noise during operation, when the stylus hits the record it's already at speed, no waviness while the stylus engages the record. The cue control is nice and soft as well. This is one quiet turntable.
The Controls:
The control system on the 701 is easy to use. You have a start/stop lever. Just move it towards start and the turntable will start and set the tonearm down on the record. Move the lever towards stop and the tonearm will return to home base and the turntable will turn itself off. You can also start the turntable simply by moving the tonearm towards the record for full manual mode.
The speed control is a lever that selects 33 or 45. What's nice about this is that the pitch control adjustment knobs are on top of these levers. The pitch control knob for 33 is on top of the speed selector switch, and the pitch control for 45 is on top of the start/stop switch. Everything you need to operate this turntable is right in the same area on top of the turntable. The controls are heavy duty. There is no flimsiness to anything on this turntable.
The Tonearm
The tonearm Dual used on the 701 is a low mass tonearm. It doesn't have enough mass to run any MC cartridge. But that's the selling point of Dual turntables, low mass = low record wear according to Dual's philosophy. Proper set up of the 701 tonearm for the cartridge you are using is essential. The users manual gives complete details about how to do this. It takes 5 minutes or so, and then you are set.
In closing the 701 is a rock solid turntable that will still give you years of excellent performance and trouble free service. And should you ever need service parts are still generally available for it through Dual parts dealers.
Janvd
I obtained my 701 to complete a lineup with a 1219 and a 601, three top Duals from the early seventies, with the three different driving mechanisms (Idler, belt and DD).
I had to come to terms with the 701. From the start it sounded too 'harsh', too unsophisticated, and not nearly as threedimensional as the other two. Could this be the legend everybody was writing about??
I found out the 701 is very susceptable to tweaks (much more so than the other ones), it really has to be set up properly.
Now it has been rehoused from the dreadful plastic 'box' into an old but nice and heavy wooden plinth (made by Grundig for my second 1219), with a layer of foam placed inside it (did some experimenting with different materials). I played around with several carts, and ended up with an Ortofon Nr.2. An Mc-cart, but within the range of the tonearms' capabilities. It playes out the TT's major strengths, to my experience at least. I also use the Mitchell record clamp on top, to significant effect. And I also experimented with the suspension underneath the TT. All his brought its sound into the same leage as the other ones. But each one with its own character, and its own musical preferences.
The 601 (even in its plastic plinth) is the most relaxed sounding of my Duals. It 's also very colourful.
The 701 has that magical 'drive' one expects from a DD. The above mentioned harshness has gone, it 's been tweaked into a very desireable 'attack' of the notes, with lots of detail. The plinth/suspension provided the 701 with a much more threedimensional soundstage (though not as much as the 1219). It also relaxed the sound a bit (but not to such an extend that it could be confused with the 601). It is a TT thats creates excitement, more than relaxation.
The 1219 sits in between, combining much of the other tt's virtues, and adding extra soundstage-qualities of its own. It's a real allrounder, and by far the least cumbersome to set up. It's only drawback is it's inability to accept the record clamp, due to its removable spindeltop (being a recordchanger) and I don't want to use a weight. And stop about Idler driven TT's creating lots of rumble! It's very quiet, although not as much as the 701, which is indeed dead-silent!
The 701 draws me towards modern music, much more so than the other ones, and there it can exhibit its strenghts to great effect. This basic character is unchanged by swapping carts, e.g. with a Shure M-95.
The tonearm is fine, but I still have a preference for the one on the 1219, even if the 701's arm is more elaborate.
The obvious thing to do now, is upgrading the wires, because this majestic TT deserves much better than the standard ones. The 701 certainly infected me with the tweaking bug I'd long forgotten!
DSJR
Long lived and reliable.
Good direct drive motor lacks problems in others of the time, despite this one not being quartz locked.
Better sound than you'd ever imagine with the right cartridge, due to unique counterweight system.
Very gentle auto system.
Lacks cachet of other vintage decks.
Some people feel the world begins and ends with Moving Coil cartridges so would pass this deck by.
Spares not available, although cartridge carriers can still be sourced on the web.
I've known this model since it came out in 1976 or thereabouts and used a 1229 idler drive model for some years before succumbing to the Linn Sondek LP12 along with so many others. I remember the 701 being the only turntable to really make a Shure V15 III sound sweet and jumped at the chance of buying a good used one in 1990 for not much money £50 approx).
When my huge Notts Analogue Mentor turntable became too much I resurrected the 701 and have used it ever since. The arm is too light for many moving coil types, but it copes superbly with my V15VMR, vintage Sonus Blue and a motley collection of much loved ADC's and it sounds great to me. The only mods I've done is to free the suspension off a little, stretch an over compressed spring and to replace the original audio lead out wires to the amp with one from a Linn ittok arm. Oh yes, I use a Notts Analogue Spacemat on top of the stuck on Dual one, despite the arm now playing slightly low at the back...
You don't get the expansive scale of a modern top end turntable, but it's better than a Rega Planar 2 or 3 even, retaining all the musical information, but presenting it in a smaller, less expansive form. I love the auto function, which has no effect on the arm friction or overall handling at all. The auto mech: is very quiet in operation too and the muting circuit, once adjusted, cuts in and out smoothly.
Now the deck is getting on a bit (over thirty years old), the platter sometimes starts off and accelerates to high rpm. A quick knuckle rap to the clear motor control board cover always cures it for a year or two.
I look forward to many more years with this old friend. I love it!
None in the UK now for a deck this age, sadly.
Dual 1229, plus I sold many other Duals. Thorens, Rega, Linn, Notts Analogue, Pro-ject etc...
mrrick
Very Quite simple operation , it's automatic, Direct Drive
I purchased my DUAL 701 from a little old lady who runs the local thrift shop, for the price of $20.00. I took it in for servicing to a Dual tech, who charged me $100.00 for a complete service check up. Don't we all go to the Dr. once in awhile? I was told that this turntable was manufactured between 1973/76 and sold then for $400.00.It was considered the flagship . This was the first DIRECT DRIVE turntable from Dual. Well one year later and lots of hours spent RE-listening to my records all over again. I can tell you this IS one turntable you've got to get your hands on. The measured performance of the Dual 701 speaks for itself, it's silence during operation is as impressive as its performance. Can't imagine spending thousands of dollars on a turntable, you don't have to....
Excellent lots of parts available
Rogier Bekkers
Silence, arm, stability, in fact everything that is necessary for real hifi.
Still not found. Attention: the first serie has a cover that is made too heavy: the springs of the hinge in the chassis can't keep the cover opened and often plastics are broken. Very soon after Dual has used a less heavy cover.
Just bought my second Dual 701for only € 40 !!!!! The needle of the cartridge costs already more.....The first 701 (by that time expensive: 1100 guilders, about €500) I have since 1976, without any problem, so now a second one for my studyroom. The best you gan get, total balance in quality (arm, turntable, Shure V15III). People just don't know the ever resting value of this model. Fits excellent with my other classics: Nakamichi OMS 4 E cd-player, Quad 34 and 606, Elipson 1303 loudspeakers. Get one, I see often good 701's on Ebay Germany.
Elipson 1303, Quad 34 and 606, Nakamichi OMS 4 E
Grauy
Very solid. Very quite in operation. Easy to maintain. Excellent direct drive.
Mechanical system often needs cleaning and oiling after 30 years.
Still one of the best turntables for the money. Top of the line tonearm. Better than most Linn, Micro Seiki or Technics... Best used with original Shure V15 Type 3 and DUAL CV 240 quadrophonic amplifier or the very good 70´s DUAL CV 1600 stereo amp. For spare parts try this German former Dual Hifi shop, they still have some spare parts and they also can copy a repair manual for you. Its a real tricky guy, he can repair any old DUAL machine. He especially loves the 701. Mr. Otmar Langer, DUAL Service Hifi Shop Neanderstrasse 5 40699 Erkrath Germany Phone 0049 -2 11- 24 41 Fax 0049 211- 24 28 34 For buying a 701 try Ebay here in Germany (www.ebay.de) the 701 still sells for under 100 Dollars, because people here just do not know the quality of this fantastic machine. Dual just has no reputation here.
Lenco highend beltdrive.
very smooth and noise free sound
heavy unit and the price is only going to go up
The best turntable for the money! smooth action and noise fre no wow and flutter here! Dual is great and get it while you can.
Hitachi, technics etc
Gill Severino
Electronically-regulated Direct Drive Motor with Exclusive Overlapping Coil System, 9.7 lbs. Platter (plus rotor) dynamically balanced to provide optimum flywheel effect, Resonance-cancelling filters integral with counterbalance.
For the ultimate transcription turntable, look no more than having a Dual 701. This is the standard reference unit by which the audiophile connosseuir goes by up to this day. The measured performance of the Dual 701 speaks for itself. It would indeed be difficult to improve on this unit, most of whose technical performance characteristics surpass to a greater or lesser degree, those of any other integrated record player. Its operation is as simple and foolproof as could be desired, and its silence during operation is as impressive as its performance specifications. There's never a sound of a spurious click, buzz, whir, or hum, either mechanically from the record player or electrically from the speakers during play. Obviously, the price of the Dual 701 removes it from consideration as "Every man's record player," but for those who appreciates a superior product and are willing to pay for it, this unit merits the most serious consideration.
Dual CS-5000
I have listened to this turntable for over 25 years. It still is the best in my mind. It's built like a tank and
runs like a smooth Mercedes(thats German engineering for ya)


An algebra student gets stuck when exhausting all factoring steps, can't find the answer, but forgets to consider a prime polynomial. These polynomials, like prime numbers, are in lowest common terms and you cannot factor them further. Here is how you recognize such an equation.
Go through all the usual steps for factoring. First check for common monomial factors.
Try the special formulas for factoring perfect squares, and then use the first formula for factoring a second-degree polynomial, x^2 + Bx + C, and see if it works.
Apply the other special formula for factoring a second-degree polynomial of the form: Ax^2 + Bx + C.
Exhaust all normal steps of factoring before deciding that you have a prime polynomial on your hands.
Look for two numbers whose product is 8 and sum is 2. Check for the 2 and 4 when both are either plus or both are minus, for 8. Try 1 and 8 with both plus or minus for the positive 8. None of these four sets of numbers equal 2.
Declare the polynomial equation prime. You have looked at every possible way to factor the equation. It does not factor by a Greatest Common Factor or by special formulas. You have a prime polynomial on your hands.
Contributor. "How to Identify Prime Polynomials in Algebra." Sciencing, https://sciencing.com/identify-prime-polynomials-algebra-2265204.html. 24 April 2017.


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Nonstop flight route between Scribner, Nebraska, United States and Beatrice, Nebraska, United States:
Departure Airport:
Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield (SCB)
(41°36'37"N by 96°37'47"W)
Arrival Airport:
Beatrice Municipal Airport (BIE)
(40°18'3"N by 96°45'14"W)
Distance from SCB to BIE:
90.69 miles (145.94 km)
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SCB Airport Information
BIE Airport Information
Facts about SCB
Facts about BIE
Map of Nearest Airports to SCB
List of Nearest Airports to SCB
Map of Furthest Airports from SCB
List of Furthest Airports from SCB
Map of Nearest Airports to BIE
List of Nearest Airports to BIE
Map of Furthest Airports from BIE
List of Furthest Airports from BIE
About this route:
A direct, nonstop flight between Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield (SCB), Scribner, Nebraska, United States and Beatrice Municipal Airport (BIE), Beatrice, Nebraska, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 91 miles (or 146 kilometers).
A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the relatively short distance between Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield and Beatrice Municipal Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.
Departure Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: SCB / KSCB
Airport Name: Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield
Location: Scribner, Nebraska, United States
GPS Coordinates: 41°36'37"N by 96°37'47"W
Area Served: Scribner, Nebraska
Operator/Owner: Nebraska Dept of Aeronautics
Airport Type: Public
Elevation: 1325 feet (404 meters)
View all routes: Routes from SCB
More Information: SCB Maps & Info
Arrival Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: BIE / KBIE
Airport Name: Beatrice Municipal Airport
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska, United States
GPS Coordinates: 40°18'3"N by 96°45'14"W
Area Served: Beatrice, Nebraska
Operator/Owner: Beatrice Airport Authority
View all routes: Routes from BIE
More Information: BIE Maps & Info
Facts about Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield (SCB):
Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield (SCB) has 2 runways.
The USAAF training airfield closed on 31 December 1945 and the State of Nebraska acquired the Airfield property from the U.S.
The field's primary mission was to provide aircrew training for B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bomber air crews.
The closest airport to Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield (SCB) is Fremont Municipal Airport (FET), which is located only 12 miles (20 kilometers) SSE of SCB.
The furthest airport from Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield (SCB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 10,636 miles (17,117 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
Facts about Beatrice Municipal Airport (BIE):
The furthest airport from Beatrice Municipal Airport (BIE) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 10,638 miles (17,120 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
Beatrice Municipal Airport (BIE) has 2 runways.
The closest airport to Beatrice Municipal Airport (BIE) is Lincoln Airport (LNK), which is located 38 miles (61 kilometers) N of BIE.
Map of Nearest Airports to Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield:
List of Nearest Airports to Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield:
1 12.49 miles (20.11 km) SSE Fremont Municipal Airport (FET) Fremont, Nebraska, United States
2 38.53 miles (62.01 km) WSW Columbus Municipal Airport (OLU) Columbus, Nebraska, United States
3 39.23 miles (63.13 km) SE Millard Airport (MIQ) Omaha, Nebraska, United States
4 43.62 miles (70.21 km) ESE Eppley Airfield (OMA) Omaha, Nebraska, United States
5 48.90 miles (78.70 km) WNW Norfolk Regional Airport (OFK) Norfolk, Nebraska, United States
6 50.49 miles (81.26 km) SE Offutt Air Force Base (OFF) Omaha, Nebraska, United States
7 51.22 miles (82.42 km) ESE Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (CBF) Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
8 52.88 miles (85.10 km) S Lincoln Airport (LNK) Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
9 56.17 miles (90.40 km) NNE Sioux Gateway Airport (SUX) Sioux City, Iowa, United States
10 69.41 miles (111.71 km) ENE Denison Municipal Airport (DNS) Denison, Iowa, United States
11 83.10 miles (133.74 km) E Atlantic Municipal Airport (AIO) Atlantic, Iowa, United States
12 83.72 miles (134.73 km) NNE Le Mars Municipal Airport (LRJ) Le Mars, Iowa, United States
13 90.69 miles (145.94 km) S Beatrice Municipal Airport (BIE) Beatrice, Nebraska, United States
14 97.86 miles (157.49 km) WSW Central Nebraska Regional Airport (GRI) Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
15 98.19 miles (158.02 km) NNW Chan Gurney Municipal Airport (YKN) Yankton, South Dakota, United States
Map of Furthest Airports from Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield:
List of Furthest Airports from Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield:
1 10,635.98 miles (17,116.91 km) W Margaret River Airport (MGV) Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia
2 10,613.04 miles (17,079.99 km) W Busselton Regional Airport (BQB) Busselton, Western Australia, Australia
3 10,592.72 miles (17,047.29 km) W Manjimup Airport (MJP) Manjimup, Western Australia, Australia
4 10,589.12 miles (17,041.50 km) W Bunbury Airport (BUY) Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
5 10,550.81 miles (16,979.84 km) W Rottnest Airport (RTS) Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Australia
6 10,536.54 miles (16,956.87 km) W Jandakot Airport (JAD) Jandakot, Western Australia, Australia
7 10,526.79 miles (16,941.19 km) W Perth Airport (PER) Perth, Western Australia, Australia
8 10,526.52 miles (16,940.75 km) W Albany Airport (ALH) Albany, Western Australia, Australia
9 10,525.26 miles (16,938.72 km) SE Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG) Rodrigues Island, Mauritius
10 10,514.26 miles (16,921.02 km) WSW Jurien Bay Airport (JUR) Jurien Bay, Western Australia, Australia
11 10,497.59 miles (16,894.19 km) W Katanning Airport (KNI) Katanning, Western Australia, Australia
12 10,473.40 miles (16,855.25 km) WSW Geraldton Airport (GET) Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
13 10,450.40 miles (16,818.25 km) WSW Kalbarri Airport (KAX) Kalbarri, Western Australia, Australia
14 10,423.93 miles (16,775.65 km) WSW Morawa Airport (MWB) Morawa, Western Australia, Australia
15 10,420.42 miles (16,770.00 km) WSW Mullewa Airport (MXU) Mullewa, Western Australia, Australia
Map of Nearest Airports to Beatrice Municipal Airport:
List of Nearest Airports to Beatrice Municipal Airport:
1 38.00 miles (61.16 km) N Lincoln Airport (LNK) Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
2 70.37 miles (113.25 km) NNE Millard Airport (MIQ) Omaha, Nebraska, United States
3 70.46 miles (113.40 km) SW Blosser Municipal Airport (CNK) Concordia, Kansas, United States
4 71.81 miles (115.57 km) NE Offutt Air Force Base (OFF) Omaha, Nebraska, United States
5 80.26 miles (129.16 km) N Fremont Municipal Airport (FET) Fremont, Nebraska, United States
6 80.27 miles (129.18 km) S Manhattan Regional Airport (MHK) Manhattan, Kansas, United States
7 82.41 miles (132.62 km) NNE Eppley Airfield (OMA) Omaha, Nebraska, United States
8 84.27 miles (135.61 km) NE Council Bluffs Municipal Airport (CBF) Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
9 85.01 miles (136.81 km) NNW Columbus Municipal Airport (OLU) Columbus, Nebraska, United States
10 86.27 miles (138.84 km) S Marshall Army AirfieldMarshall Air Force Base (FRI) Junction City, Kansas, United States
11 90.48 miles (145.61 km) WNW Hastings Municipal Airport (HSI) Hastings, Nebraska, United States
12 90.69 miles (145.94 km) N Scribner State AirportScribner Army Airfield (SCB) Scribner, Nebraska, United States
13 93.67 miles (150.75 km) WNW Central Nebraska Regional Airport (GRI) Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
14 104.18 miles (167.66 km) ESE Rosecrans Memorial Airport (STJ) St. Joseph, Missouri, United States
15 104.26 miles (167.79 km) SE Philip Billard Municipal Airport (TOP) Topeka, Kansas, United States
Map of Furthest Airports from Beatrice Municipal Airport:
List of Furthest Airports from Beatrice Municipal Airport:
9 10,527.42 miles (16,942.20 km) W Jurien Bay Airport (JUR) Jurien Bay, Western Australia, Australia
10 10,522.06 miles (16,933.56 km) W Albany Airport (ALH) Albany, Western Australia, Australia


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Dipak and Jayshree Shah have found their newsagents niche
Store Management, Store Profile
Dipak and Jayshree Shah swapped international property investment for independent retailing and found their niche in a newsagents in the cricket-loving town of Camberley. Toby Hill reports
Published: 14th August 2018
H & R News
H & R News, 35A High Street, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3RB
700sq ft
Dipak and Jayshree Shah swapped international property investment for independent retailing and
found their niche ina newsagents in the cricket-loving town of Camberley. Toby Hill reports
When Dipak and Jayshree Shah took over H & R News in August 2017, it marked a big change from their former life. They had previously worked in property, managing investments as far away as Dubai and Mumbai. It was a fast-paced, jet-setting lifestyle – but after decades in the game, they were ready for a change.
As luck would have it, as they were considering their next career move, the newsagents they now own in Camberley came on the market.
"It's a very good business, in a great location, which guarantees a steady income whatever the weather," Dipak says.
It was the first time they had worked in retail. And while the location was indeed excellent – on a busy high street, with plenty of passing footfall – they quickly found there was a lot of competition for customers.
"There are two independent stores on the high street, and three kiosks within the nearby shopping centre, as well as supermarkets," he says.
But Dipak and Jayshree brought their old business acumen to their new enterprise, quickly getting to know the local area and finding small ways to set themselves apart from the competition.
"There are a lot of different people passing by," Jayshree says. "So, on some smaller items we began cutting down the number of facings of the best-selling lines and putting in more variety. Now we have a very wide range of products such as drinks and chocolate. People like it. They tell us, 'We can't find this flavour anywhere but your shop.'"
To extend their drinks range, they removed an old freezer and installed two branded fridges: one for Red Bull, and one for Wall's ice cream. The change was a huge success. By widening their range, their Red Bull sales multiplied five times.
"It takes careful stock management, and my wife and I are constantly filling up to make sure we don't run out of anything," Dipak says. "We fill up the night before, and again in the quiet period after lunch, so the drinks are always cold. We get comments on the coldness of our drinks all the time."
Another key part of the store is their HND service. Dipak estimates they have one of the largest in Surrey, delivering 400 papers daily to 350 customers. And, counter to conventional wisdom, they find their newspaper business is going from strength to strength.
"I was worried about the future, but the opposite has happened: every week we have an increase in newspaper sales," he says, adding their overall sales total around 3,500 copies each week.
We have a very wide range of products, such as drinks and chocolate. People like it. They tell us, 'We can't find this flavour anywhere but your shop'
They have achieved this by taking a proactive attitude to selling newspapers. They approach local businesses – such as nearby retirement homes – and offer deals of three or six months without delivery charges.
"We also make sure the service is excellent: any problems, like a wrong delivery, and we'll get it sorted in minutes."
On top of these central CTN roles, the couple began layering additional services. Their store offers dry-cleaning, PayPoint and UPS parcel collection, each of which get people coming back again and again.
After a while in the town, they began noticing what people were passionate about. There were several events – classic car and arts and crafts festivals, a carnival. Similarly – being in Surrey – there was a cricket team, the Camberley Cricket Club, viewed with affection by their customers.
"We realised it would be a good idea to take part in these things, so we began sponsoring them," Dipak says. "We give a little money to the festivals and some crates of beer to the cricket club for their evening get-togethers. Then they'll put up a board with H & R News on it. People get to know the name, it makes us stand out in the area."
After a lifetime of jetting between continents, they have found their own little corner of the world. And it's a cricket-loving town in Surrey.


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Giants Thoughts
After Jets Trade Up, Giants Pick at No. 2 Gets More Valuable
The New York Jets made a blockbuster trade Saturday morning to move up three spots to the No. 3 pick in next month's NFL Draft.
That really shouldn't impact things if the New York Giants stay put one pick earlier. But what it does is increase the chances that another team will overpay should the Giants want to move back in the draft.
It is a situation in flux right now, one that the Giants might be able to take advantage of by adding multiple impact players to their own roster. Not just one star but several players who can step in immediately to help a 3-13 team.
Trading back from their current No. 2 pick might be the best move for the Giants, especially if they're not in love with a quarterback at that spot and are committed to starter Eli Manning for a couple more seasons. And while Saquon Barkley is a franchise running back, the asking price for a team wanting to move up and grab a Josh Allen, Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen or Baker Mayfield might be too great for the Giants to look past.
[Dyer: Is Barkley The Best Option For Giants At No. 2?]
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 03: USC quarterback Sam Darnold (right) and Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen look on during the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on March 3, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
And the Buffalo Bills, the team that had been talking with the Indianapolis Colts about moving up in the draft by trading for the third pick, might now be desperate.
The Bills hold picks No. 12 and No. 22 in the first round of the draft as well as two picks in the second round and another two picks in the third round. This might just be enticing for a team in rebuild mode. That is a lot of young talent to infuse on this team. Young talent that can balance the roster and, for a team with a tight salary cap issue, would help accelerate a rebuild in a hurry.
If the Giants decide to sit on the second pick, then nothing the Jets are doing behind them should affect things. They sit there and take the player they want the most. If that is Barkley to balance the offense or Quenton Nelson to complete the revamp of the offensive line or a quarterback for the future, they should simply to do it.
Nothing the Jets did on Saturday should dissuade them. The Giants at No. 2 can simply sit there and stick with their draft board.
[Rank 'em: 2018 Draft Prospects]
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 02: Notre Dame offensive lineman Quenton Nelson in action during the 2018 NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on March 2, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
But if the Giants can take advantage of a team that craves a quarterback and in the confusion caused by the Jets trade piece together their own blockbuster deal, then by all means that is the way to go.
Being able to obtain five or maybe six picks from the Bills is huge and perhaps worth it in the long run. While a franchise quarterback would be nice to have on the roster and to develop, it might not be the most pressing need. This team still needs help at running back, along with the offensive and defensive lines, and depth at linebacker, cornerback and wide receiver. With their original picks on Day 2 and Day 3, plus a haul of picks from the Bills in a potential trade, the Giants could still get younger and deeper in a hurry.
[Dyer: In Nate Solder, Giants Get Player They Need]
Giants fans want a game-changer at No. 2, something that every fanbase wants and craves. But this trade adds everything the Giants really need which is balance and depth.
If last year proved anything, it is that this team was (and is) lacking depth. Injuries decimated the Giants and their ability to field a competitive team. One pick, even second overall, isn't going to address the biggest issues on this team. But a trade might just do that.
A trade, though not as exciting, will likely make the Giants better in the long run.
2018 NFL Draft, Giants Thoughts, Kristian Dyer, New York Giants