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Try These macOS Default Apps To Make Your Life Easier

You may not even know your Mac has these apps.

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macOS is one of Apple’s crown jewels and it is so because of the apps it has to offer. Many of macOS’ default apps can help you work more efficiently and create shortcuts for your workflow. While there are a lot of apps that come preloaded, we’ll address the ones that are too good to ignore.

Locking yourself in the Apple ecosystem is a big commitment, but these apps are among the reasons you should invest in the ecosystem.

Best Default macOS Apps

Preview App

1. Preview App
A screenshot of the Markup tool in the Preview app.

I’ve been using the Preview app since the day I got my Mac. Consider this a packaged tool that can handle PDF documents, in most image formats, and is also a decent editing tool to brush up on your images. The Preview app on Mac can sign and export PDFs to images or vice versa.

Just to give you an idea, you can remove an image’s background using this app. It also performs basic features like retouching images, inserting shapes and objects, or combining multiple images. To access all the editing functions, just open the image and click the Markup button.

2. Automator
A screenshot of the Automator workflow to resize an image.

This is a gem of an app on macOS. There’s a bit of a learning curve to it, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be creating your own workflows to save time. For the uninitiated, you can create single automation that duplicates an image, resizes it, and saves it in your desired format. You can also use Automator to play music, split a PDF file, set a calendar routine, reminders, and a variety of basic tasks.

Here’s a basic tutorial on Automator. You can explore the app and get familiar with the variety of commands it has to offer.

Screenshot Tool

3. Screenshot tool in macOS default apps
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This one is not a full-blown app but a useful tool on macOS. It lets you set the exact dimensions and format in which you want to take a screenshot or record the screen. It is a simple, clean and powerful tool to take screenshots on your Mac.

Here’s how to get started with the screenshot tool on Mac and everything that you can do about it.

4. Garage Band

GarageBand is a popular app and its popularity is well deserved. You can create music projects using Apple Loops or record your own lyrics and instruments with pro filters. It also has tutorials if you want to learn to play guitar or piano. Thanks to the Apple ecosystem’s integration, you can share your creation to iTunes or SoundCloud.

While the premium version is free, you can get started with GarageBand for free.

5. iMovie in default Mac apps
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After the audio creation tool, there’s Apple’s movie creation tool, iMovie. This is also a free and default macOS app that lets you easily edit and export videos. it has a clean interface and a lot of baked-in transitions and presents to help you start creating.

6. Notes App
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The default Notes app is an excellent note-taking app if you’re locked into the Apple ecosystem. With an update to macOS Monterey, Apple has added a Quick Note feature that lets you note down important things without launching the app.

You can create checklists, tables, insert images, and even collaborate Notes with other users using the Notes App. All your notes are synced to iCloud so you can access them from anywhere using your Apple ID.

However, before you start using it, just know that exporting notes from Apple’s Notes app to a different app like Google Keep can be a painstaking process. But if you are into the Apple ecosystem, it is a good option and comes loaded on your Mac as well as other Apple devices.

7. Safari as default macOS browser

Talking about Apple apps is incomplete without the mention of Safari. The default web browser across all Apple devices comes with bells and whistles of its own. It is fast, secure, and has several privacy features if you’re concerned about your digital footprint.

The browser received a facelift when it was on macOS Big Sur. Now with the macOS Monterey, it is getting new privacy features like Private Relay.

Mail App

10. Apple Mail app
You can add your existing email in the Apple Mail app.

If you want to use the full privacy features offered by Apple, you’ll have to use the Apple Mail app as well. You can configure the Mail app to receive mail from your Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, or other services. Apple’s email protection features include Hide My Email and removing trackers that might come with certain emails.

Digital Color Meter

8. Digital color meter

There may not be much use for this tool in your daily workflow, but it comes in handy at times when you want to find the exact values of color on your display. This tool helps you get RGB values of a color in display native, P3, sRGB, and some other formats. You can copy these color values to a project you’re working on, or use these values to replicate the exact colors you need if you’re designing wallpaper for your Mac.

9. iWork in default macOS apps
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This is at the bottom of the list because it isn’t as potent as its competitors. In these apps, you get Pages which is a word processor, Numbers for spreadsheets, and Keynote to make presentations. These apps can open Docs, Excel sheets, and PowerPoint presentations and you can export your creations to these formats as well.

Keynote as well as Pages have good preloaded templates that are frequently updated. You can download Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers separately from the Mac App Store and they’re free to use. If you need a light and fast office suite that does the basic job really well, these default mac apps have you covered.

Rounding Up

Apps are a big part of the Apple ecosystem. These Apple apps have an easy interface and all of them are free to use, except GarageBand. These are clean and useful apps that make them easy for you to use. While some apps like Notes, Mail, and Safari integrate you further into the ecosystem, GarageBand and iMovie make music production and video editing accessible.

There are tools like the screenshot app, the digital color meter, and the preview app that help in day-to-day tasks. Coming to Automator, this default macOS app has a somewhat steep learning curve and requires you to invest time. However, once you learn it, you can save a lot of time by combining multiple tasks in a single command.

Lastly, there’s the iWork Suite, which offers a good word processor and an excellent presentation maker. Ideally, a Mac comes with all the apps that you’ll ever need for light everyday computing. These apps are a major reason I stick to my Mac, and I’m sure once you start using them, you’ll be able to get more out of your Mac as well.

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List of Funniest and Useful Commands on Apple’s Siri

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apple-siri-funny-command-photoFor those who do not know much about Siri, Siri is a voice based application which was designed by Apple. It is one of the most famous as well as amusing applications designed by Apple which let you instruct your i-Phone via different voice commands. Microsoft has launched its voice assistant Cortana and it’s pretty great, but Siri is still the best in business.

Siri has many useful functions like writing text, making voice calls or even scheduling appointments by voice. Siri is a quite handy app for those who are using Apple products for a long time. Apart from its useful aspects, it has some very funny commands which user can play with. If someone asks “Where do you come from” it reply like an honest child “I, Siri, was designed by Apple in California”. Here I have compiled a list of some amusing useful commands of Apple’s awesome product.

Watch the video to see Siri’s amusing response to some funny commands.

Apple Siri funny commands-

1. Where do you come from?

2. You are a dumb ass!

3. Stop crying you emo!

4. I eat iPhones like you for breakfast!

5.Will you marry me?

6. Want to split the bill?

7. You are late on rent!

8. You look like Clark Kent!

9. Can I puke on you?

10. Android is my co-pilot!

11. You are going to be my new paperweight!

12. Will you scratch my back?

13. Want to smoke some crack?

14. Want to cook some meth?

15. You have bad breath!

16. You’re pretty dumb for a smart phone!

17. I bet the iPad could kick your ass!

18. I heard you’re dating a Kindle!

19. I’m going to throw you out of the window!

20. I’m going to run you over with a car!

21. Call me sweetheart

22. Where are you?

23. I love you

24. Who is your daddy?

25. Do you want to make out?

26. Can you be my designated driver?

27. What exactly do you look like?

28. I want to touch your butt

29. You smell like a cow dung

30. Are you wearing a wig?

31. Where do you live?

32. Where is this place?

33. Do you think Santa claus really exists?

34. Find a coffee shop along the route

35. Find a supermarket near home

36. Am I there yet?

37. What are you wearing?

38. What will you be doing later?

39. Is it going to rain?

40. Are you going to pay for dinner?

41. Stop acting are a fool

42. Stop being foolish and start using your head

43. Are you okay?

44. Tell me something good

45. Is there anything new?

46. Why not me?

47. Are you female?

48. Where is the problem?

49. Stop it!

50. Can I talk to you?

Apple Siri useful commands-

1. Call home.

2. Get my Call History

3. Do I have any Missed Calls?

4. Re Dial that Last Number.

5. Check my recent call.

4. Read my new messages.

5. Read it again.

6. Reply “How you doing?”.

7. Send a message to 09*******.

8. Send a message to Jack.

9. Check email.

10. Read my last email.

11. New mail to Jack.

12. Mail Jack about the trip.

13. Wake me up at 9 AM.

14. What time is it?

15. What date is it?

16. Schedule meeting with Jack at 6 PM.

17. Whats on my calender today.

18. Remind me to stop by bank.

19. Turn on Airplane mode.

20. Turn on Wi-fi

21. Turn on Do-not disturb.

22. Write on my wall “Having fun with Apple Siri”

23. Tweet “I love Apple Siri”

24. What is 4*4?

25. What is the square root of 144?

26. How far is the moon?

27. What’s the population of India?

28. Show accessibility settings

29. Play my party mix

Last but not the least this one is also a funny and my favorite :D
30. Don’t hate me because you ain’t me!

Note: Jack is just a name I used here. If you are an Apple i-Phone user, I hope these funny commands will fill you with laughter.

What phone user you are and what were your favorite commands from the list, let me know in comments :)

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The Truth About Innovation

Over at HBR (here), Bill Taylor hits the nail on the head regarding the current obsession with innovation. Much like the focus on engagement a couple of years ago, innovation is the current area of focus. Business leaders have co-opted the phrase to launch a number of top down programmes focusing on championing innovation. The advent of the Chief Innovation Officer and innovation teams shows an element of misunderstanding of what is actually required.

Taylor argues that the problem is one of language, the overt use of the word innovation actually hides the fact that very little innovation is actually taking place. Whereas, the companies that really are truly innovative hardly ever, if at all describe what they do as innovative. Instead it comes from passion and purpose, a need to have innovation is a by-product of curiosity

Now, I'm all for leaders who want to ramp up the energy of their colleagues to take more chances and challenge conventional wisdom. But what strikes me about the organizations I've encountered that are genuinely innovative is that they rarely use the language of innovation to describe what they do or why they do it.

For me, this comes down to culture, if your organisation doesn't have a culture of innovation it is almost impossible to artificially create.

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Esterbrook #8440 Superfine nib and Pelikan Blue-Black

This week’s favorite fountain pen and ink combination was another vintage pen. It’s an Esterbrook J with a #8440 Superfine (aka Cartography) nib and Pelikan Blue-Back ink. I can’t really use the nib for fast writing since it’s so thin. If I’m careless I can stab the paper, so I pay attention and write a little slower when I use the nib, But it’s worth it.
Some links of interest…
An Interview with Linda Shrewsbury of CursiveLogic – Pens! Paper! Pencils! // If you haven’t backed the project yet please read this article and consider backing it.
OMAS Arte Italiana Milord Fountain Pen Review – Hey there! SBREBrown // Video review
Fountain pens and Colour pencils Sketches – Francis THEO // I love these sketches
Father and Son Pencil Ranking, Part II. – Pencil Revolution // A fun read
Epic ink test: R3, M1 – Fountain Pen Physicist
Check out all of this week’s links at Fountain Pen Links. If you’re looking for information about a specific pen or ink be sure to visit Pennquod.

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These posts are mainly about the social media marketing experimenting I am doing.  Today I am experimenting with Facebook advertising.

Facebook vs. Twitter

The Business2Community website says

We’ve now been running Facebook and Twitter advertising campaigns for clients in various industries from the UK to the US and we’ve learned a few things along the way. Before you invest in advertising on either, consider the following.  Read more.

Mobile advertising

The IPWatchdog.com website states Facebook advertising revenue jumps on mobile advertising …  Facebook’s mobile advertising numbers were so good that its entire advertising revenue stream surged ahead 57 percent when compared Read more

4 tips to save money on Facebook advertising

The Business2Community website says What Facebook does not report on is the number of advertisers who have not properly optimized their campaigns and are wasting money by not running an effective advertising strateRead more

Pinterest vs. Facebook

Pinterest logo 2The VisionWEb blog says Unlike Twitter, where the life of a tweet is only 24 minutes, and a Facebook post with a life of 90 minutes (if you see it), the half life of a pin is 3.5 months. One of the biggest advantages of Pinterest is showing up on page one of Google. If you work your boards, write descriptions, and use hashtags, page one on Google is very achievable.   Read more.

Tips to remember

  • Schedule posts — Use the clock icon on the bottom left of the status update box to schedule posts to Facebook pages.  At the beginning of each week you can decide upon the content to post and schedule it so that it hits the news feed at the time when you think most people will be looking at it.
  • Use these engagement strategies:
    • Memorable pictures
    • Infographics
    • Ask questions
    • Really interesting quotations
  • Non-sales oriented posts — You may be using Facebook because you want to make sales.  However, make sure the majority of your posts are NOT sales oriented.  Otherwise you will just lose followers.
    • If you have lots of posts that make people want to share them, you will begin to get lots of followers.  Then they WILL NOTICE your odd sales-oriented post.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Too Long a Sacrifice #3 (Photo Cover)

The DS9 murder mystery continues in this new space noir from David Tipton & Scott Tipton (Star Trek: Mirror Broken, Star Trek: The Q Conflict) and Greg Scott (Gotham Central, The X-Files)! As Odo forges a fragile working relationship with the past-his-prime investigator the Federation sent to help, new suspects emerge amidst a rising body count. But just when the team thinks they're getting close to the culprit, a shocking discovery changes everything!


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Agrico’s potato varieties showing strong performance in Vietnam

This year’s main potato production season is coming to an end in Vietnam, and we can look back at a very good and successful season. Newly registered potato varieties of Agrico are showing excellent performance from the Central Highlands to the Red River Delta and Northern highlands. Farmers are very happy and eager to expand their potato production area for their next potato crop. Rene van Rensen (Managing Partner / R&D Director Crops) could see the latest results during his current visit to Vietnam.

Farmers in Son La (North Vietnam) are very happy with their potato crop and informed they never grew a potato variety with such good performance. Making the farmers even more happy is that they can sell their potatoes for a very good price. Especially when they see the cabbage prices at an all-time low this week (VND 1,000 per kg), the other main vegetable crop in Son La. With these good results they are eager to grow more potato next season and diversify their production from mainly growing cabbage.

Also in in the Red River Delta and the Central Highlands farmers are very satisfied with their potato crop this year. Of course with varieties from Agrico!

Good result with potato crop in the Red River Delta

These results are all spinoffs from the successful ProPoor potato project. One of the activities in the project was the testing, selection and official registration of these stronger, higher yielding and better-quality potato varieties. Besides the extensive field testing, Fresh Studio also tested with consumers which potato varieties they preferred. This to ensure a win-win in production and sales. The demand for potatoes in urban Vietnam is growing, mostly used as a “vegetable” in soups. Instead of importing fresh potatoes from other countries, potatoes offer farmers in Vietnam a good opportunity to increase their income. In 2001, Vietnam just imported fresh potatoes for a value of just US$ 0.3 mln . By 2019 this number had grown to US$ 108 mln and 120,000 tons (6,000 containers).

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Sport Climbing 101 : A Beginner's Guide

Learn the ins and outs of sport climbing: how to do it, the best gear to use, and which climbing areas to visit.

Although the term “rock climbing” might suggest a singular discipline, the sport can be subdivided into three distinct practices. Most experienced climbers would define these as:

  • Sport climbing
  • Bouldering
  • Traditional climbing

Although it seems that everyone exclusively boulders today (a conclusion you might easily arrive at based on social media posts), the most popular form of climbing is likely still sport climbing. Most new climbers are introduced to the sport in gyms featuring roped climbing, many old-school climbers will continue clipping bolts forever...and then there’s everyone else in between.

What it is

You hear the broad term sport climbing all the time, but its definition is quite specific.

Sport climbing: the act of climbing single- or multi-pitch routes, protected by permanently-fixed bolts and anchors drilled into the rock, using a rope and the aid of a belayer.

The main difference between sport climbing and bouldering is the height of the routes being climbed and the form of protection (bouldering = no ropes, with crash pads). Likewise, traditional climbing calls for the use of temporary gear and anchors (ex. nuts, camalots, etc.) to protect the climber, as opposed to permanent ones used in sport climbing.

FL Pro Margo Hayes making her historic ascent of La Rambla (5.15a) in Siurana, Spain. Photo: Greg Mionske

Before you go...find a mentor

This piece of advice applies to any form of rock climbing. As simple as climbing might seem, the technicalities and nuances are staggering. The best way to learn them is through the teachings of an experienced mentor.

How are you supposed to find a person who can teach you how to tie knots, clean a sport climbing anchor, and clip quickdraws? Well, chances are you’re not coming in blind; you probably already know someone who has the skills––you just need to ask them. If you’re lucky enough to score some time from this person, make sure you pay extremely close attention to his/her advice, and take it to heart. It’s critical to familiarize yourself with the basics of gear handling and safety precautions before you start blindly up a cliff.

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How sport climbing works

Before you’re able to actually climb a sport route, the route needs to exist. A developer of a sport climb must first eye the potential line to be climbed. Next, s/he uses either a hand drill or a power drill (depending on local laws and regulations) to outfit the line with bolts and bolt hangers (read this post from Mountain Project for an overview of drill types and techniques).

Many sport climbing areas feature single-pitch climbs. Generally, the term “pitch” refers to a route length that can be climbed and protected by a rope of average length, typically 60-70 meters. Multi-pitch sport climbs are common as well, especially in places with huge walls like Yosemite, and require the climber and belayer to climb the route pitch by pitch while anchored to the wall.

The sport climbing process itself is relatively simple. A climber and a belayer tie into one end of a single rope, with a few meters of rope between them. As the climbers ascends the route, s/he clips into carabiners spaced intermittently up the wall, each of which act as anchors to protect the climber from falls. As the climber climbs, the belayer “feeds” her slack in the rope, and manually brakes any falls with the aid of a belay device.

In the following sections, we’ll take a more in-depth look at the specifics of gear, climbing locations, and crag etiquette.

 FL Pro Jamie Finlayson working Silent Menace (5.14c) in Squamish, Canada. Photo: Michael Lim

Nerd out on gear

There’s no shame in being a nerd. Especially when the subject of your nerdness is the equipment that will keep you alive. Since a full setup of all the gear below will set you back quite a bit of dough, consider going out with a friend/mentor before you drop a grand on shiny new stuff. You might also be able to find the following items used, but you run the risk of acquiring faulty and dangerous equipment. So be cautious.

Here’s a rundown of the basic gear you’ll need to start sport climbing:

  • Harness: Invest in a comfortable and well-made harness, one that won’t completely cut off the circulation to your legs while you belay your friend or dangle from the face of the climb. You really can’t go wrong with Black Diamond or Camp harnesses.
  • Climbing shoes: Choose a pair of shoes that are comfortable and fit your foot, not the super aggressive bouldering shoes worn by your climbing hero. If your feet are uncomfortable, climbing will be uncomfortable! Evolv’s Defy, Five Ten’s Anasazi Moccasym, and La Sportiva’s Mythos are excellent first choices.
  • Rope: Go for durability with your first rope. A safe bet is a 70 meter length and 9.7 - 10 mm diameter. As the rope experiences normal wear, you can trim the ends and make the 70 meters last longer. The Bluewater Lightning Pro is a great introductory rope.
  • Quickdraws: A quickdraw consists of two non-locking carabiners attached by webbing. This is the device you clip your rope into as you climb, and allows for some extra distance between the anchor (the bolt and bolt hanger) and the rope to reduce rope drag. Though a bit on the pricier side, the Petzl Spirit Express is a superb quickdraw.
  • Belay device: It’s absolutely critical that you know the essentials of belaying––that means learning how to belay with a simple locking carabiner and ATC setup. This pairing requires the belayer to make a habit of manually catching the climber with his/her brake hand, which should become second-nature to you. Once you’ve mastered the classic belay setup, consider upgrading to a Petzl GriGri belay device, which has auto-locking capabilities.
  • Chalk bag: Pick a chalk bag that fits your hand easily and comes with a waist strap. Try out a FrictionLabs chalk bag! You’ll even get some free chalk with it ;)
  • Pack: You need a spacious backpack to transport any and all of your sport climbing gear to the crag...and sometimes the hikes are long. Patagonia’s Crag Daddy 45L pack gets the job done.

Accessories. Here are a few supplemental items that you may want to add to your gear collection:

  • Belay gloves: Protect your hands from rope burn while belaying. You can find fancy, expensive belay gloves for sale...but a hardy pair of leather gloves from the local hardware store work just fine.
  • Belay glasses: Save your neck from the strain of looking up at the climber while belaying. These contraptions use mirrors to angle your gaze upward. Y&Y Vertical make some of the best.
  • Helmet: Protect your dome! When hanging out and climbing at a cliff, you always run the risk of taking an awkward fall or suffering the wrath of a falling rock. Wearing a helmet while climbing and belaying is the easiest way to stay safe. The Black Diamond Half Dome is a great pick for your first helmet.
 FL Athlete Michael Hauck prepares his gear for an international sport climbing trip. All the essentials are there!
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Climb somewhere that makes sense

If you’re just starting out, the logical first step would be to learn how to sport climb in the gym. It’s safe, the bolts are closely spaced, and there are people all over the place to help you!

But once you’re ready to get after it outside, there are a few considerations to keep in mind. The first is location––you might as well climb as close to home as possible (unless you’re psyched on an epic journey). The second consideration is the development of the area itself. I would recommend starting somewhere with a large base of developed moderates in the 5.8 - 5.10 range and a solid guidebook you can reference (and if the guidebook is unavailable, you can always check Mountain Project). See below for a list of areas that might fit the bill.

  • Owens River Gorge, California: Located near the town of Bishop, this area features a high density of near-vertical routes on volcanic tuff. There is an older guidebook available on Amazon, now out of print.
  • Red Rock, Nevada: Just outside of the insanity of Las Vegas lies this area full of desert sandstone. Skip the craps table and get outside. Check out the detailed guidebook here.
Heather Weidner enjoying Sissy Traverse (5.13c) in Red Rock, Nevada. Photo by FL Athlete Jon Glassberg
  • Ten Sleep, Wyoming: Nestled in the heart of America’s least populous state is this forested canyon. Pull on featured limestone all day long. Find a well-priced PDF guidebook at rakkup.com.
  • Shelf Road, Colorado: A perfect option for beginners to test out near vertical limestone––and avoid the crowds at Rifle. Located near Canon City, Shelf Road offers over 1100 routes to try. Find Rick Thompson’s guide book right here.
  • Red River Gorge, Kentucky: One of the most coveted climbing areas in the entire country. The Red is filled with five star routes on perfect sandstone. There are thousands of routes to explore, documented in the Red River Gorge North and RRG South guidebooks.
  • Rumney, New Hampshire: Located around Rattlesnake Mountain near the small New England town of Rumney, this area offers climbers a huge amount of high-quality routes on schist. The guidebook is more elusive than the 5.14 grade (and will cost you hundreds of dollars), so I would suggest using Mountain Project and help from locals if you decide to visit.
FL Pro Matty Hong on the First Ascent of Apple Juice Flood (5.14c) in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Photo: Andy Wickstrom

Crag etiquette

The way we behave at climbing areas is an oft overlooked consideration. Rock climbing is a highly individualized pursuit, but that doesn’t mean we get to ignore the experience of others. Everyone is trying to enjoy the crag as much as everyone else.

Here are some things to keep in mind when it comes to respecting the area and your fellow climbers:

  • Keep it quiet. Avoid yelling, screaming, and loud music. Many climbers enjoy the peace and quiet of the crag, and don’t want to hear your crew conversing loudly over techno beats. The crag is not the gym!
  • Consolidate your mess. Sport climbing requires a ton of gear, most of which somehow finds its way onto the ground. Keep your belongings consolidated in one area, out of the way of paths and belay stations.
  • Trash sweep. Once you’re done packing up, sweep the area for trash. If you find something you left behind, pack it out. If you find something someone else left behind, pack it out as well. It’s our responsibility to keep our climbing areas clean.
  • Play nice. Remember that many developed climbing areas are super popular. If you hate sharing the crag, consider finding a different area off the beaten path. If you do find yourself at a busy climbing area, respect your fellow climbers––don’t rush anyone to climb faster, don’t crowd a belayer’s space, and don’t be mean. Be someone you’d like to climb around!

For more details on crag etiquette, check out our blog post, “6 Rules of Etiquette for Outdoor Climbing.”

Advanced sport climbing techniques and training

FrictionLabs Pro Dan Mirsky will be back on the blog in the near future to advise readers on advanced redpointing (i.e. completing a route without falling) and training techniques for sport climbing. If you’re an experienced sport climber looking to hit the next level and send your projects, this will be the post for you. Check back soon!

Read Dan’s first post about the fundamentals of training for climbing here.

Cover photo: FL Pro Dan Mirsky climbing The Crew (5.14c) in Rifle, Colorado. Photo: Edwin Teran.

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Photo by Claire Alarcon-Belanger

As pumpkin season comes to a close, we thought it would only be appropriate to discuss our jack-o-lantern-named friend, the Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus). Although Pumpkinseeds are a native species, they almost look out of place in our waters with their bright tropical colours. They are a fun and easy fish to catch but look out! Pumpkinseeds have up to 11 spines on their dorsal fins and 3 spines on their anal fins. These spines help to defend them from predators, including larger fish like Largemouth Bass and Pike, as well as birds like Cormorants and Herons. As for the Pumpkinseeds, they eat insects, small crustaceans, and other small fish. Pumpkinseeds prefer to live in warmer, slow-moving or still water, where there is aquatic vegetation to give them shelter from predators. They tend to travel in schools with other Sunfish as well. Thanks to this, it is not uncommon for Pumpkinseeds to hybridize with other Sunfish species, which we have seen here at the park! Have you ever gone fishing at Murphys Point?

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>> Rodriguez: So let's start talking about responsive email. This where things start getting a little bit more interesting, because again, there are some gotchas. There's a couple of different ways to make responsive emails across all these different devices. So there's generally three approaches to creating mobile email campaigns, which is increasingly important because more of our world is going mobile.

[00:00:22] We track email opens, we have a tool called LMS analytics. And that we anonymize a lot of that data and put it up on a website called, which tracks the top ten popular email clients. And over the years we have seen the adoption of mobile just increase drastically.

[00:00:44] So, if you're talking five, six years ago, barely any subscribers were opening on mobile, something around 10% of subscribers, something like that. Now, it's closer to 50%. So, like half of your subscribers are opening on mobile devices. The most popular clients are Gmail apps and the iOS mail apps.

[00:01:05] Super popular, lots of people using mobile devices. So we want to make sure that our emails look good on those devices. So there's generally three different ways to do that. There's this mobile-aware approach which we'll see what that looks like. There's not really anything to do code wise with mobile-aware, which is nice.

[00:01:21] So it's easy to implement. But then you get a little bit more involved each step down that ladder. So traditional responsive is very similar to, how you would build a responsive website which we'll see what that looks like. And then this hybrid or spongy coding technique, which was developed in response to Gmail, stripping out those embedded styles in the head of our email.

[00:01:43] So while traditional responsive uses media queries to drive a lot of that responsive stuff, when that was stripped out of the email then none of it worked. So this different approach called hybrid or spongy depending on who you talk to, was developed to account for that. So we'll look at that world, we're gonna mostly focus on traditional responsive because since Gmail made that update it's super reliable, works really well.

[00:02:08] And almost every email client and is easier for people to actually implement because the hybrid method gets, a lot more advanced. It's sometimes brittle depending on what you're trying to do, if you're doing multiple columns like four or five columns, it can be really hard to get that working reliably across clients.

[00:02:28] So we will look at that what that code looks like, but at this point since Gmail updated their rendering engine that traditional responsive approach is a really good way to think about responsive email and make those emails work. So mobile-aware is cool though in that you don't have to do anything code related beyond what you've all ready learned.

[00:02:50] So mobile-aware is more about considering mobile devices, mobile users. From a design perspective, when you're first designing your email and implementing it, so you generally want to favor simpler layouts, a large text, large buttons, and anything that scales down well across email clients. So a lot of mobile clients will just simply shrink down, almost like zooming out, your email to scale it to fit that width.

[00:03:16] They won't do any like reordering or choreography of your content and stack things like that. But if you're not used to building responsive emails, then you could just design your email kind of like Trello does, Trello does awesome emails. They look beautiful. They're fun and easy to use.

[00:03:33] But, at least recently, for years now they've been doing it in this mobile-aware approach. I think that's a pretty recent email. They may have updated since I've been talking, I don't know. But it's just this simple layout. It uses large enough text that when it's scaled down, it's still readable.

[00:03:50] The buttons are big enough that you can tap on them easily, even when it's shrunken down on a smaller screen. But it's not using any code stuff beyond just fix what containers and the same kind of table-based structure that we've seen all ready. So this is awesome for teams that might not have the resources to devote to building and testing responsive or hybrid email campaigns and want to use this existing template or it's good for legacy templates that you don't have the time to dig in and update fully.

[00:04:23] So mobile-aware's cool, just keep things big, keep layouts simple, keep buttons easy to use, and it'll just naturally scale down on most mobile devices and work beautifully. But if we want additional control over our emails, then we'll use this traditional responsive approach. So this is those same tenants that we've seen that Ethan Marcotte introduced however many years ago.

[00:04:44] What was this back in 2012, 2013, maybe, when this responsive design concept first came into the industry. So responsive design as a refresher is all about fluid layouts, fluid images. And then using media queries to adjust specific things across these different device sizes. So we're doing a couple things all ready to get halfway there.

[00:05:08] So we're using fluid images by default. We have those responsive by default images that automatically scale down because we're using that max width, width, and mid width approach on all of our image tags. The fluid layouts were kind of there. We have a couple of fluid tables, but then we have those fixed width tables, which we'll see how to swap those over to be responsive and fluid.

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Hope Powell prepares Brighton for the WSL season

Hope Powell expects her Albion side to play a little more football as the WSL season begins.

Tonight (7:30pm) the action begins at the popular Arsenal.

Several key players have changed recently, most notably England Under-23 defender Maya Le Tissier, who has joined Manchester United.

Albion were keen to keep Le Tissier, who previously rejected Chelsea.

But they accepted that she would leave once last season was over.

Also among the departures were Inessa Kaagman, Danique Kerkdijk, Ellie Brazil, Emma Koivisto and Aileen Whelan.

It all means a summer of rebuilding – but also a chance to change the way the team plays.

Boss Powell said it had been a busy summer as the roster was reshaped.

She told The Argus: “Players have moved on for all sorts of reasons.

“I would say there are three that we didn’t want to drive.

“The rest have family problems, problems abroad.

“Some we released because they had to go and play, and that was fine.

“We don’t have three – Maya was one of them, but it would always happen.

“The other two were unexpected and even got into some early dialogue.

“It was a bit disappointing, but that’s football.

“Then you’re reaping a whole new crop and it feels like you’re starting over – in a good way.

“But it takes time for people to settle in and understand the demands of the league.

“We survived the first season we entered the WSL and that experience helped us.

“We lost that experience so it’s going to be a challenge and they know that. I’m happy with that.

“I’m just doing my job and we’re doing our best.”

Koivisto joined Liverpool and Brazil went to Tottenham in more surprising departures this summer.

When asked if she had any sort of clean slate that would allow her to embrace a different style, Powell said, “Yes, to be honest.”

When asked what that style was, she replied, “The ability to play a little bit more with some consistency.

“Play a little more football.

“Don’t turn the ball over so quickly.

“It’s not disrespect to the players we used who were brilliant.

“But it’s always been like…”

And she ended the sentence with a big sigh, seemingly to express frustration.

She added: “It’s hard work. While we’re trying to get better, everyone else is too, so I’m not saying it won’t happen again.

“But we have to try and get better players to see if we can fulfill the way they want to play and how the staff want them to play. We have to try.”

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Join Jerry Bennett, as he guides you through how to make paper clay and bonding slips for hand-built forms. In this eight-week workshop, expand your understanding of this unique material by adding various fibers to the clay to make both functional pottery and sculptural forms. Jerry Bennett, a leading international paper clay artist, will conduct a hands-on Zoom training which will provide an opportunity for students to explore and experience new approaches to functional pottery and sculptural forms using paper clay.

Develop a personal vision of hand-building techniques for creating functional and sculptural forms in this class designed for students with some prior experience with clay. Demonstrations focus on slab construction, but students are free to experiment with coil building, pinching, and extrusion. This class will use a wide variety of material techniques including paper clay, decorating techniques including underglaze techniques, textures, colored slips, and glaze applications. This class will provide the specific instruction from the instructor for advancing your work to a higher level. Each student will work independently. Gain valuable insight as Jerry shares practical, problem-solving advice related to your studio work (i.e., how to fix broken work, and prevent cracks).

Required Materials: Students may use any clay that they wish for the class. But instruction will be based on the use of cone 6 porcelain. We recommend you purchase cone 6 porcelain such as Standard 365 or Laguna 550. You will also need hand building tools & small pair of scissors and a clean canvas to work on. Participants in the workshop will receive handouts that will provide valuable information about paper clay, glaze formulas, supplier information.

8 Weeks, 2-hour live Zoom sessions

PLUS: Video training will be offered free to students on how to make paper clay.

Wednesdays, February 3 – March 24, 2021, 1:00 – 3:00pm (EST)

Level: Previous experience required. Students must have access to home/private studio
Student Age Group: Adult
Class size: Minimum 4 / Maximum 10
Fees: Members $300 / Nonmembers $325

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Witches of Bourbon Street

About the Book

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Deanna Chase, the second book in the Jade Calhoun series.

Jade Calhoun was never fond of her empath abilities. Now she’s discovered she has another gift she’d rather not unwrap—magic. But when her mentor, Bea, becomes gravely ill and insists Jade’s the only one who can help, she’s forced to embrace her witchy side.

It’s too bad she spent a decade shunning the magical community and never learned to harness her powers. Because time’s run out. A trapped spirit has revealed a clue to Jade’s long-lost mother. The resident angel has gone rogue and disappeared with Jade’s boyfriend, Kane. And if that wasn’t enough, her ex appears to be possessed.

To save any of them, Jade will need to find a way to control her inner white witch—without succumbing to black magic. Otherwise, she’ll lose everything…including her soul.

Titles in order:
Haunted on Bourbon Street
Witches of Bourbon Street
Demons of Bourbon Street
Angels of Bourbon Street
Shadows of Bourbon Street

Series: The Jade Calhoun Series, Book 2
Genre: Witches
Publisher: Bayou Moon Press, LLC
Publication Year: 2012
ASIN: B007898TE0
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F1Show 010: French Grand Prix 2007

– Introduction
– French Grand Prix Race Report
– Albers rigged his fuel, but good!
– The Iceman stays cool in the winners circle
– Massa finishes second to complete Ferrari dominance
– Alonso couldn’t recover from Q3 woes
– Raikkonen hits the hole shot!
– Hamilton, still on the podium, still amazing
– The Hamiltonship continues, nay thrives!
– David Coulthard, could he be the next Lewis Hamilton? No.
– Lap One hit and run hurts Kovalainen and ends Trulli’s day
– BMW Sauber erhält stärker!
– Kubica shakes off his accident with 5 points in his pocket
– BMW v. Renault
– White Stripes. Are two tire compounds really the hardest button to button?
– Thank you Jim and Michael!
– And the TC debate goes on
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Down Payment Funds

The minimum down payment for conventional financing was reduced to 3% of the purchase price.  Resources are available to help with this based upon the location of the home or a borrower’s income.  Some home buyers get creative with where they get their down payment funds.  Here are a few rules to know:

  • All funds used in a real estate transaction must be sourced.  If your rich uncle Jimmy is giving you money as a gift, be prepared to show a copy of the check you received and have Jimmy sign a gift letter.  If you are selling baseball cards, cows, a truck, snowmobile or those gold bars you have been stashing in a secret hole behind grandma’s house, get a bill of sale and have the seller provide a check.  Cash is not traceable and cannot be used!  Underwriters need to do a look-back for 60 days on your asset statements, so any big deposits you have in there also need to be sourced.
  • You may use gift funds with all loan programs.  Hey, we all know saving up money is a challenge.  If mom, dad, grandma, or uncle Jimmy wants to give you some money to buy a house – take it!  Don’t expect underwriting to accept gift funds from some random college buddy that lives in Montana though.  Many programs have rules that require gift funds come from a family member or employer.
  • The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency may have money waiting for you.  We’re a proud partner with this Agency to offer down payment assistance, which allows a home buyer to own a home with as little as $1,000 for down payment.
  • Marry an eligible veteran and you won’t need a down payment.  VA programs don’t require a down payment up to a $417,000 purchase price for eligible veterans with full entitlement.
  • Creative financing is allowed for a down payment.  Creative what?  Think of all of your assets – not just the car and diamond earrings you inherited from Grandma.  Your 401k may offer loans that you can use for the down payment.  If you have stocks, bonds, IRAs, whole life insurance – many times you can take a loan against these assets or open a margin account.  Basically, borrowed funds can be used for the down payment as long as the loan is secured to an asset.  No, you can’t use a credit card to buy a house because it is unsecured.

Student Loans

  • Minimum payments – let’s say you owe $25,000 on student loans and your minimum payment is $80.  First, it would take quite a while to repay that loan with that payment amount.  Underwriting for Fannie Mae and FHA require that 1% of the balance be used as a minimum payment for qualifying.  However, Freddie Mac programs allow us to use the minimum payment as long as an income-based repayment plan is in place.

Self Employed Income

  • Distributions to owners on K-1 statement are needed in order to use the income from the business (corporate income) as personal income to qualify for a loan.
  • Calculating qualifying income for self employed borrowers can be easy or really complex, depending upon the tax filings.  You need to report and file business income with the IRS on at least the most recent tax year to be able to use the income, and generally two years’ worth if this is a new enterprise for you.  Some programs allow one year, but only with prior experience in the industry or profession.  At the most general level, self employed eligible income is the combination of net profit and non cash deductions (depreciation, depletion and business use of home).  Our best advice – get your personal and business tax filings together and in the hands of a self employed income expert Loan Officer to review and analyze.  If you are a do-it-yourself type, you can try it for fun here:

Disputes on Credit

  • Disputes on your credit report will exclude those account details from the calculation of your credit score, thus artificially inflating or deflating your score.  They need to be removed at the credit bureau level.  Here’s our blog on removing disputes:

Roommate and Household Income

  • Roommate income, or boarder income, can now be used to qualify for a home loan.  Keep in mind that this rental income needs to be documented for 12 months.  If you and your buddy are renting an apartment, you’ll want a lease between the two of you and have rental payments go directly to you and not the landlord.  Same goes for the tenant in your basement – have a lease and document the rent payments for 12 months and you could use this to qualify for a refinance of your home.  The Fannie Mae Home Ready program also allows the use of other household income to help you qualify for a loan even if you are the only borrower.

The mortgage industry changes every day with new updates, regulations, technology, volume of business and oh yeah – interest rates.  Our best advice – get in touch with an expert Loan Officer before you get too serious about shopping for a home.  The last thing we want you to do is ride all over town with your Realtor looking at homes that you won’t be able to buy.  Our other advice – send in everything upfront so your Loan Officer can review all of the documentation and alert you of any potential issues early on.  Generally when we have the time, most issues can be fixed or resolved.  They are all saying it, but now really is the best time to buy a home!

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have recently reintroduced the 3% down payment conventional programs. Many benefits are available for home buyers with these programs including reduced rates, reduced mortgage insurance and, of course, a lower down payment!

Some differences between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are as follows:

Fannie Mae 3% Down Payment:

  • Purchase or rate/term refinancing only
  • Homebuyer education is required
  • At least one buyer must be a first time homebuyer
  • Single family, primary residence only
  • Down payment assistance loans allowed (must be a Community Second)

Freddie Mac Home Possible 3% Down Payment:

  • 680 minimum credit score
  • Homebuyer education is required
  • None of the buyers are required to be first time buyers

Watch our informative overview video here:

During the weekend of November 16, 2013, Fannie Mae will implement Desktop Underwriter® (DU®) Version 9.1, which will include the key changes described below:

  • The maximum debt to income ratio (DTI) for most programs will be 45%. The maximum loan to value will be reduced to 95% (or 5% down required for conventional financing going forward). Those clients who had a deed-in-lieu or pre-foreclosure sale that haven’t been approvable in the past may now be eligible for new conventional financing.
  • The Furlong Team will accept new clients and purchase agreements under the 3% down program until November 15th.
  • The Maximum Allowable Debt-to-Income Ratio and Minimum Credit Score Requirements sections below have been combined. DU will not apply additional requirements of a maximum debt-to-income ratio (DTI) of 45%.
  • The LTV/CLTV/HCLTV Ratio Cap Lowered to 95% section below has been updated to include information on the timeframes in which mortgage loans exceeding the maximum LTV/CLTV/HCLTV ratio of 95%.
  • DU will continue to allow CLTV ratios of 105% when the subordinate financing is a Community Seconds® mortgage.
  • Identifying a Deed-in-Lieu of Foreclosure or Pre-foreclosure Sale can now be done manually, where DU was unable to read the credit report accurately before. This may help these clients gain approval.

Read the complete Fannie Mae DU release notes here.


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Security and Privacy

Effective Date August 15, 2014

At the Furlong Team with Mortgages Unlimited, we have dedicated ourselves to revolutionizing the home loan process and helping individuals use their home financing options as a tool to manage their financial lives. In that effort, we respect and protect the privacy of those who visit or use our website. When we collect information from you, we want you to know how it is used. To demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices, we have adopted leading industry privacy guidelines.

By using our website, you are consenting to the use of information and agreeing to these guidelines and the other Furlong Team policies described on our website.

The Furlong Team does not share your personal information with outside companies for their promotional use without your consent.

Because of the financial nature of our business, our websites are not designed to appeal to children under the age of 13. Therefore, we don’t knowingly attempt to solicit or receive any information from children.

At the Furlong Team, we want you to be comfortable and confident when using our website. Therefore, we would like to share with you the following principles that govern our information practices and other privacy aspects of our website:

We do not make our advertising decisions based on political affiliations or in support of, or against, any political or religious group. We firmly believe in the right of free speech, however, we also believe we have an obligation to ensure our advertising does not appear in content that is detrimental to our brand values. This means we will not advertise within programs that consistently exploit excessive or gratuitous violence or sexuality, which demean or denigrate any religion, race, sex or which are otherwise lacking in good taste.

Should our advertising appear within programming content that violates these guidelines we will review the content in question and make decisions about the appropriateness of that program for future consideration.

At the Furlong Team, we want you to be comfortable and confident when using our website. Therefore, we would like to share with you the following principles that govern our information practices and other privacy aspects of our website:

We provide you notice of our website information practices.
We tell you how and why we use Web technologies.
We give you choices about how the personally identifiable information that you provide to us may be used.
We provide you the opportunity to update or correct your personally identifiable information.
We work to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration.
We provide various ways for you to contact us about our information practices and other aspects of privacy.

To maximize the value of our services, we may request information from you when you visit our websites. The Furlong Team does not share your personal information with outside companies for their promotional use.

Here is a description of the information we collect and how it is used:

Credit reporting agencies may share your information with other companies when you apply for a home loan. This may cause you to receive Email or phone calls that you didn’t ask for, offering credit cards, refinancing or other loan products.

You can stop these calls and Emails by opting out of these prescreened credit offers. Simply call (888) 567-8688 or visit

Tools and Applications: We provide a number of ways for you to explore your options for mortgages and loans, so you can determine which options may be the most desirable for you. You can engage a number of tools, planners, calculators and other interactive advisors without providing us your identity.

We may also supply the information you provide, on a strictly confidential basis, to service providers, such as title companies, appraisers, credit reporting services, etc., who assist us in qualifying, processing, closing and servicing your loan.

Credit Report: By submitting a loan application or a request to be pre-qualified to us, you authorize us to share your credit report with our affiliates only to process your loan application.

Newsletters: We provide you the opportunity to subscribe to Email newsletters and other Email communications. You may unsubscribe by following the instructions provided in each Email newsletter.

Contests, Sweepstakes, and Surveys: From time to time, we may offer you the option to participate in contests, sweepstakes, or surveys. If you would like to participate, we may ask you for contact information, preferences or other information. This information may be used to conduct research, improve our offerings, or contact you regarding home financing or award prizes. Our contests or sweepstakes may have separate rules and we will identify how the information that you supply will be used in each case.

Mandatory and Optional Information: We identify what information is required to fulfill your request. If you chose not to provide mandatory information, we will not be able to provide you the service you are requesting. As part of your use of our website, we may collect information that my include your name, address, social security number, the location and value of the property related to the requested loan products or services, financial information about your assets and income, financial accounts, insurance and other information. As part of this process, you consent to the Furlong Team obtaining a credit report and for us to use that information as described in this policy. We will also collect information about your activity on the Furlong Team website and use that information as described in this policy.

E-mail Message Formatting: When sending you Email we may use an image called a single-pixel GIF, that allows us to (1) format messages that best align with your computer’s capabilities, and (2) determine whether you’ve opened an HTML Email. When you click on a link within an Email message, you will first pass through our server, and then are redirected onto the Internet. We use this data on an aggregate level to evaluate response rates to our Email messages and to determine which links are most useful to our client base.

Within the Furlong Team Family: Within the Furlong Team family, we may exchange customer information to fulfill your requests or to provide you with information about other products or services, if you have chosen to receive such communications.

Service Providers: In some cases, we will employ or use service providers such as title companies, appraisers, consultants, and temporary workers, third party software developers, to complete a business process or provide a service on our behalf. For example, we may use service providers to enhance our website technology, deliver products, or to send Emails. When we employ service providers, we may need to share your personally identifiable information. Service providers are strictly prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for purposes other than to act on our behalf.

Service Alerts and Critical Notices: Although we respect and honor the privacy preferences you have expressed, we may need to contact you to inform you of specific changes that may impact your ability to use this service or for other critical non-marketing purposes, such as bug alerts. We may also contact you to respond to your specific requests, to clarify the order information you provided to us, or to notify you of upcoming subscription expiration dates.

Change of Control: Your personally identifiable information may be transferred in connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange or other disposition (whether of assets, stock or otherwise) of all or a portion of a business of the Furlong Team. You will have the opportunity to opt out of further secondary use of your information following any change of control.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy: If we plan to make significant changes to any of our privacy policies or practices with respect to how we use personally identifiable information, we’ll post those changes to the Furlong Team website 30 days before they take effect.

Legal Disclosures: In some cases we may disclose certain information to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena, search warrant, or law enforcement request.

We employ industry recognized security safeguards to help protect the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration. All data sent to the Furlong Team is protected with technology that enables encryption of your data. We use:

Secure Socket Layer (SSL): The Furlong Team Web server supports the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) transaction protocol originally developed by Netscape and now largely accepted as an industry standard. The purpose of this encryption protocol is to keep confidential the information passed back and forth between a Web server and its users.

128-Bit Domestic Grade Strong Encryption: The Furlong Team uses 128-Bit Domestic Grade Strong Encryption, a powerful encryption commercially available for Internet products. (However, be aware that if you are using a 40-bit browser, your encryption level, while secure, is not the highest level available. United States and Canadian citizens can download free 128-bit browsers from Mozilla, Apple, or Microsoft.

We work to protect personally identifiable information stored on the site’s servers from unauthorized access using industry standard computer security products, such as firewalls, as well as carefully developed security procedures and practices. All employees must review and sign a written statement of these practices which include limiting access to sensitive information to only those employees who require the information and enforcing strict password protocols for all employees. In addition, a username, member ID name and password are required for you to use, view or change application or interview information. We use both internal and external resources to review the adequacy of our security measures on a regular basis.

Here is how and why we use some common Web technologies to help manage our websites:

Cookies: A “cookie” is a small piece of information that our website may provide to your browser while you are at our sites. The  Furlong Team website supplies your browser with cookies that contain a unique identifier used to better understand website usage in the aggregate and on an individual level so we know what areas of our site users prefer (e.g., based on the number of visits to those areas). This is done through a tracking utility that allows us, for example, to reconstruct activity from a session or by a user, for troubleshooting and issue resolution purposes. The Furlong Team may also employ service providers to help us collect and understand our website usage data.

When periodic surveys are presented to website visitors, cookies are used to prevent issuing multiple invitations to the same individual.

Additionally, the Furlong Team service providers that serve ads on affiliate and/or advertiser websites may assign different cookies and small graphical images called single-pixel GIFs or web beacons, to your browser to track the effectiveness of the Furlong Team advertising on other websites and your involvement with the Furlong Team. For example, as part of the the Furlong Team affiliate programs, our service providers use cookies and web beacons to determine when affiliate program members have referred a customer to the Furlong Team via a link on their website. The Furlong Team website also sets a temporary cookie that contains a unique, anonymous identifier that is provided to the service provider to ensure that each referral is only counted once. This cookie is not linked to a customer’s personal information. The cookies and web beacons are necessary to ensure that affiliate program members are appropriately credited for their referrals. Service providers report data in the aggregate and do not link it to individual customer information. The Furlong Team may also employ service providers who may assign cookies or web beacons to your browser to assist us in collecting website usage data such as your IP address, session ID, URL and demographic information such as your zip code. The collection of data may include personally identifiable information. We do not track URLs that you type into your browser, nor do we track you across the Internet once you leave our site.

If you simply want to browse, you do not have to accept cookies from our site. Should you decide, however, that you would like to register and sign in to special areas of the website and you have modified your browser settings not to accept cookies, you will need to re-set your browser to accept the cookies that we send. Otherwise, you won’t be able to participate in certain areas of the website. Most browsers are defaulted to accept and maintain cookies.

If you wish to remove cookies provided by the Furlong Team, please check your browser’s settings and Help section for instructions for removing cookies from your browser.

Behavioral Advertising: Please be aware that we use third party advertising companies to collect non-personally identifiable information for online behavioral advertising to provide targeted display advertisements, likely to be of greater interest to you, through participating publishers and advertisers. Such information may include non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) through the use of Cookies and other technology.

Website Usage Data: Our website tracks usage data, including, for example, your IP address, your browser type and version, which pages you view, which page, if any, linked you to our site, and which link, if any, you follow off of our site. We use this data in the aggregate and on an individual level to better understand website activity to improve our site offerings, to reconstruct activity from a session or by a user, for troubleshooting and issue resolution purposes. We may also use this data to provide you a more personalized website experience, assistance with technical support questions, and to send you special offers, product and service updates, or other promotional materials that are relevant and tailored to your interests. If you do not want to receive these offers or promotions, simply indicate your contact preferences during the registration process, within any future communications or by sending an Email to  We do not share your information with outside companies for their promotional use. We do not track URLs that you type into your browser, nor do we track you across the Internet once you leave our site.

Social Media and Third-Party Website Security and Privacy Policies: The Furlong Team currently has presence on social media to connect with and market to the public, the Furlong Team customers, and potential customers of the Furlong Team family. Your activity on third-party websites is governed by the security and privacy policies of each third-party website. Users of third-party websites often share information with the general public, user community, and/or the third-party operating the third-party website, which may use this information in a variety of ways. Consequently, you should review the privacy policies of the third-party website before using it and ensure that you understand how this information may be used. You may be able to adjust privacy settings on your accounts on any third-party website or application to match your preferences. The information posted on or directed at the Furlong Team through social media is generally available to the public. To protect your privacy, do not include information you want to keep private or any other sensitive personal information in your social media activity, comments or responses. This information may be archived independently on, and retention of such information is governed by, the third-party website.

Browser “Do Not Track” and Other Settings: You may be using an Internet browser that has the ability to communicate your privacy preferences to the website, including requests not to track your usage and browsing history. Currently, the Furlong Team website does not respond to any of these signals. The Furlong Team may track your activity on these websites and use that information as provided in this policy.

We give you the opportunity to control the use of your personal information for purposes other than to fulfill your request or as is required to process, close and subsequently service your loan. For example, on occasion we may use your contact information to send you promotional communications about Furlong Team products. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you may specify your contact preferences during the information collection process or you may call toll-free at (952) 232-4133 or send an Email to

We provide you the opportunity to update or correct the contact and loan application information that you have provided to us. You may review and update information stored in your application online until you submit your application. Once you have submitted your application, you may only change the information by directly contacting our mortgage hotline at (952) 232-4133 or emailing us at

The Furlong Team recommends that you do not use email communications to send us sensitive personal information. If you need to change that personal information, we recommend that you call us directly.

Questions regarding the Furlong Team website’s privacy statement, our online privacy policy, our information practices or other aspects of privacy on our websites, should be directed to us by Email to or by writing to us at The Furlong Team,  8201 Norman Center Dr, Bloomington, MN 55437.


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Made from 100% cotton with a range of cool prints font colours and bag colours are customisable

We have some of our own designs ready to go but if you don’t see what you want we are happy to make bespoke bags printed with your requirements (prices vary for bespoke designs) Just email us!

Ideal for carrying your pet bits or your own and would easily fit an A4 size notepad to give a good idea of size. these fold up small so are ideal for taking on a shopping trip!

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Robotic tongues, noses, and eyes controlled by a neural net are working quality control for Chinese food manufacturers.

Two Robo-Claws Up!

Chinese robots equipped with sensors that imitate human eyes, noses, and tongues are pigging out on the job.

The taste-testing robots are sampling mass-produced food to make sure the quality is up to snuff. And according to the South China Morning Post, the bots is already saving food manufacturers millions of dollars.

The Chinese government has issued a number of regulations for specific foods — SCMP gives the example of a shredded pork dish that that must, according to officials, contain exactly ten-centimeter-long slices. Other regulations dictate the colors, tastes, and other factors of specific dishes.

The robots' AI, analyzing data from their sensors, can monitor these distinctions faster than humans. SCMP reports that the system is about 90 percent accurate as a human — while doing away with their individual tastes and biases.

Sour Taste

The automated taste tests are good for productivity and business, since a robotic tongue never needs to take a breather. But experts on Chinese food told SCMP that evaluating flavor should remain a human endeavor.

"Chinese food is extremely sophisticated. It is probably the most difficult to standardize in the world," said Sun Lin, director of international affairs at the China Cuisine Association. "It is hard to judge which is the most authentic. I don’t think AI can tell the difference within the next two or three decades."

READ MORE: Artificial intelligence robots boost profits in Chinese food factories, paving way for mass use [South China Morning Post]

More on AI food: AI Trained on Decades of Food Research Is Making Brand-New Foods

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