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710 East Silver Springs Blvd.
Ocala, Florida 34470

Phone: 352.351.2121
Fax: 352.240-3482

ABC Realty & Development of Ocala, Inc. ~ We specialize in Residential & Commercial Property Management. Whether you are a Property Owner or Prospective Tenant, ABC Realty has the expertise to handle your property management needs. With more than 30 years experience, we have proven, time and time again, that we can help property owners manage their properties.

For Property Owners

ABC Realty provides full-service property management for single family homes, plexes, and small apartments. We understand how difficult it can be for residential property owners to manage their properties, while finding balance in their personal lives. That’s why we offer a full suite of services to relieve property owner stress, such as tenant placement, credit screening, maintenance, property inspections, collections, evictions, and monthly financial reporting.

For Prospective Tenants

We have been helping individuals, families and businesses find residence for more than 25 years. We have many single-family homes in upscale neighborhoods, economical 3 to 4 bedroom family homes, small apartment and multi-unit buildings available for rent. Every year hundreds of tenants depend on ABC Realty for their relocation needs.

ABC Realty handles resident placement, requires each prospect to complete an application, and conducts a full credit/criminal background check, then follows up to verify employment and rental history. With aggressive advertising continually running, we receive numerous calls daily to keep our units rented. This helps assure that your property will have the best tenant possible.

To save you money, we use our own in house maintenance team to provide quality and timely maintenance for your property. Therefore, you don’t have to pay the exorbitant rates charged by others; nor does your property have to wait until they can work it into their schedule. This can save you hundreds of dollars per year. Maximizing net operating income for each property requires the implementation of uniform management systems which increases operating efficiency and preventative maintenance to minimize the need for potentially high-cost emergency spending. ABC Realty has developed profitable relationships with local vendors, which has streamlined business processes and ensures that ABC Realty procures supplies for it’s properties at the most optimal pricing. While most tenants take care of their own lawn-care, we also provide lawn-care options. And of course we provide 24 hour emergency service… seven days a week.

Peace of mind? Yes, we offer that as well…..Periodically, we make a thorough inspection of your unit, both inside and outside. This helps us assure lease compliance and make sure your property is being properly cared for.

Evictions / Collections

If rents are not paid by the 5th of the month, we begin the processes necessary to collect rents or evict tenants.

You will receive a financial statement each month which will show monies collected and any disbursements that have been made. We can provide numerous reports including tenant rental histories, property rental histories, end of year tax information. We will also disburse money via deposit into your bank for you, if available.

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Double World Champion wheelchair racer and Scottish Sports Personality of the Year 2017, Sammi Kinghorn, is currently preparing for her biggest challenge yet, the 2018 Commonwealth Games this April in Australia.

Sammi started wheelchair racing after suffering an accident that left her paralysed below the waist at 14. Whilst recovering, her physiotherapist recognised Sammi’s athletic abilities and encouraged her to try out some sports. Sammi said: “I tried lots of sports at the Spinal Unit Games at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and I discovered wheelchair racing, and immediately, that was me hooked.”

Sammi has since become an established name in wheelchair racing. She competed in Rio 2016, broke the world record for the 200m sprint, and became World Champion for both the 100m and 200m sprints. She’s now preparing to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Australia’s Gold Coast, with the aim to make it to the 1500m final.

In preparation for the games, Sammi has been training full-time; twice a day, six days a week: “I’ve been mixing up gym work, track and rollers, and pushing on the road near Glasgow where I live. Everything has gone really well, and I’m happy with my placings for the Commonwealth.”

Sammi doesn’t see her disability as being relevant to her athletic career. She says “I still struggle when I am called “inspirational”, it is sport at the end of the day and I am chasing the same goals and dreams as those on the Olympic side!”.

Sammi will be competing for Team Scotland in the 1500m and Marathon race at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia in April. To follow Sammi’s journey, and read the full interview visit:

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"Just wanted to thank you for  our beautiful wedding flowers!  You executed the vision for our wedding perfectly!  You helped make our day great! We would recommend you to anyone!  Thanks so much!"

Lauren & Taylor Pence

"We just wanted to say THANK  YOU so very much for the beautiful floral arrangements for our wedding.  We got many compliments as to how beautiful the sanctuary looked.  Also it was thoughtful of you to surprise us with the bouquet sculpture.  Without doubt, it was one of my favorite part/ detail in our wedding, and I am so thankful I can cherish it for a long time.  Thank you for your kindness. You are very talented."

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"We can't thank you enough for being our florist.  You are the only one that helped with all 3 weddings in our family because we just loved you so much from the moment we met!  The flowers were so beautiful at our wedding and of course you worked with us so well.  We will miss  you, but  will stay in touch!  Thanks for being our girl!


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How to Express Yourself Confidently

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How many times have you been at your workplace and wished you would’ve spoken up and shared your thoughts or ideas with your co-workers. Maybe you are the one that sits in the background at the meetings and hopes and prays that no one asks for your input for fear of having to express yourself and possibly saying the wrong thing, or freezing up and having nothing to say at all. Afterwards do you replay in your mind all the great things you would have shared if you just had the confidence to do so?

Or maybe you’re the people-pleaser amongst your friends that always just “goes with the flow” and does what everyone says. Maybe, deep down, you would really prefer to go somewhere else or do something else, but choose not to voice your thoughts and opinions. Both of these scenarios are very, very common among most of my clients.

Expressing ourselves is something we learn as we are growing up and our interactions and experiences as we develop also have an impact on how confidently and assertively we express ourselves. If you get stuck with what to say, maybe feel shy, blush, stutter, trip over your words and freak out at the idea of sharing your thoughts and opinions with other people, then it’s likely that you struggle to express yourself.

We are certainly not all born with the ability to speak up or to comfortably speak in public, but the great news is that you can learn to express yourself confidently --you need the genuine desire to want to be able to and the motivation to learn a few new skills that will help you do so effectively.

So here are a couple of great tips to help you start to express yourself confidently:

1. Start with the end in mind
 So many people chat and converse for the sake of it. To express yourself effectively you need to know how you will know when you have achieved that. How do you know this?
Well, think about what result you want to get out of the interaction? I know, it might sound strange but by flipping the reason for the communication around, you will be much more focused. Every journey that is successful starts with us knowing where we can to go, expressing ourselves is no different.

2. Be aware of your body language
Just like learning to write well, learning to communicate well means using your whole body to communicate. It’s not about just what you say; it’s about HOW you express it. Expression is about communicating in a way that helps the other person understand, it is not about words alone, it adds meaning.

Ok, here’s a fun exercise --role play with you! Go somewhere private with a mirror and have a chat with yourself. All I want you to do is say to yourself I'm sorry. BUT say it in different ways; use your vocal and facial expressions to convey different meanings behind this one, often used phrase.
- say I’m sorry as if you have mis-heard someone
- say I’m with genuine regret because you know you are in the wrong
- say I'm sorry sarcastically, because you are annoyed and do not mean it
- say I'm sorry incredulously like you cannot believe your ears
- say I’m sorry with no emotive content at all, no expression

All of the words are the same, it is our expression and intonation and even our body language that changes. You can reveal more about yourself through how you choose to express yourself than anything you actual say in terms of vocal content.

Take the time to practice, watch yourself and you will begin to understand more and feel how you are expressing yourself and your communication will become much more effective, practice really does make perfect.

Go give it a shot right now!

  1. Adira says:

    I am exactly like the person you explained at the very beginning of the article, carrying a lot of dreams in my eyes.. I want to change myself and see myself being confident. I want to make my own decisions. I am falling into the loop of this society and following what others say. I want to step back to listen to my heart and speak out my heart. I always fail to express or put my point in order to make people understand what I feel like or what I think about something because of the fear or the consciousness. I could literally see myself stammering ,searching for the words to form a sentence to make them understand but still I fail. But after I fail conversation and come out , I say a lot to myself like this is the thing I should have told so they could get convinced and all. This is all happening to me. But still trying hard to find the possible ways to put my perception or to be able to explain my ideas to people clearly.
    I think this stuff is great. I hope this article help me out to tell the world about my ideas clearly.

  2. Suzanne says:

    Hi Adira! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and I hope that my article will help you more clearly and confidently communicate your ideas too 🙂 It can be challenging, as there’s so many components –if you are interested in a complimentary Confidence Coaching session, shoot me an email!

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Hunching Over Your Smartphone Is Draining Your Self-Confidence

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New research from Harvard Business School shows that typing on tiny devices can make you feel less confident.

Compared to people who spent a few minutes working on small, tablet-sized devices, those who typed on regular desktop computers were nearly twice as likely to speak up during an experiment that tested assertiveness. The desktop users also spent about 30% less time waiting meekly during a follow-up test that measured power and self-confidence, the research shows.

Think of the way you sit or stand while typing on a phone as opposed to a computer. While cell phones and tablets require you to hunch forward and assume a compact body position, larger devices force you to open up your pose, explains study coauthor Maarten Bos, Ph.D. Along with increasing your confidence, research shows an open posture raises your pain threshold, ups your testosterone levels, and decreases stress-linked hormones like cortisol. It can even help you attract women, according to a British study.

Why does this matter? If you spend time scrunched down over your phone before an important meeting, interview, or date, you'll feel less confident and self-assured, Bos says.

There are 2 ways to combat this:

1) Stay off your phone

2) Adopt an expansive body pose while you use it. That means keeping your legs apart, your shoulders back, and your chin up, the study authors say.

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Automatic Inline Bottle Capping Machine Model TruCap-X-Cent Videos

ACASI Inline Bottle Capper with Centrifugal cap feeder
Model TruCap-X-Cent
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 4 spindle in line capper with centrifugal cap sorter:
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Tightener Features:

  • Heavy duty 304 stainless steel welded C frame for easy mounting over existing conveyors.
  • Heavy duty linear carriage system for height adjustability
  • All shafts and threaded rods manufactured in 304 stainless steel
  • Heavy duty casters standard
  • No change of parts needed for a wide range of containers
  • Front covers with safety interlock switches standard
  • Top driven to insure no product spillage into drive assembly
  • Adjustable height to accommodate containers from 1 inch to 14 inches tall (Optional power height adjustment)
Capping discs features:
  • 4, 6, or 8 spindle machine configurations available, single gear box driven
  • Independent spring loaded capping discs for better torque and misalignment forgiveness.
  •  Torque is able to be adjusted while the machine is running (When pneumatic clutch option is purchased)
  •  Clutches located away from capping discs to avoid corrosion
  •  Heavy duty gear driven mechanism, no belts used for power transmission
  •  Adjustable speed 1/2 Hp drive motor for bottle capping discs
  •  Optional second drive motor to rotate the first set of capping discs on the opposite direction
  • Bottle capping head assembly manufactured in 316L stainless steel 95% of manufactured parts are in stainless steel, or FDA approved polymer materials
  •  Independent adjustment for front or back capping discs
  • Bottle capping disc position is adjustable while the machine is running, without opening the safety covers.
  •  Fully adjustable for caps sizes ranging from 8 mm to 130 mm in diameter
Bottle belts features:
  • Bottle belt width adjusted via front knobs
  • Bottle belt height adjusted via front knobs
  • Heavy duty gear drive mechanism, no belts used for power transmission.
  • Adjustable speed heavy duty 1/2 Hp, motor gearbox
  • Bottle belt assemblies can be adjusted independently for width, taper, and angle to accommodate various sizes and styles of containers.
  • Optional double belt assembly with independent height and angle adjustment
Centrifugal type cap feeder features:
  • Construction in stainless steel.
  • 32 inch diameter feeding disc ‐ ramp assembly.
  • Cap rejecting by photoelectric sensor.
  • Cap by demand controlled by photoelectric sensor.
  • Standard 4 pieces slotted cross for easy tooling adjustment.
  • Easy changeover for caps from 10mm to 90mm in diameter.
  • Easy changeover for caps from 0.125 to 2.5 inches in height.
  • Sorter mounted on machine, no need for independent height adjustment.
  • Includes filter pressure regulator.
  • Flow controls on all air hoses.
  • Adjustable vibration system on cap hopper.
  • Force provided by 1/3 Hp DC gear motor.
  • Speed control by potentiometer.
Cap hopper features:
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  • Vibrator with independent control mounted on cap hopper.
  • Low friction limit switch for cap level sensing on centrifugal cap feeder.
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Korčula Day Trip with Wine Tasting

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This is opportunity to enjoy stunning views of the best preserved nature in Croatia; lush vegetation, wine growing hills, picturesque villages, and the crystal clear Adriatic sea. You can also taste the sumptious full-bodied wine.
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Duration: 11 hours
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  • Enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Peljesac peninsula
  • Visit Ston, a small town with the third largest city walls in the world
  • Get lost in the charming streets of the old town of Korčula
  • Try the best Croatian red wine
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Enjoy the most relaxing day trip from Dubrovnik, and the chance to explore the best of unspoiled Croatian countryside in only one day. Don't miss the chance to meet one of the best preserved natures in Croatia. Enjoy the unforgettable scenery, beautiful coastline, and picturesque vineyards, and discover the best Croatian red wine region and birth place of the famous traveler Marco Polo.

Firstly, you will take a 1-hour drive to the north to the Pelješac peninsula. On the way there, you will see the countryside of Dubrovnik and be able to enjoy the view of wonderful nature and the Adriatic sea. Ston, the medieval town whose history dates back as far as the 14th century, is the first place you will visit on this tour.  Here stands the longest stone wall in Europe (5.5 kilometers), with narrow quiet streets, noble ancient houses and traces of ancient cultures scattered around.

After visiting Ston you will drive to the port of Orebić,  where you'll take a boat to the island of Korčula. On the way to Orebić again you have chance to enjoy the beauties of unspoiled nature of the best Croatian red wine region. When you arrive to Orebić, you'll have a 20-minute long boat drive to the island. When on Korčula, you'll have time to visit the charming old town on the island, St.Mark Cathedral, the famous Marko Polo house, enjoy lunch on the sea promenade, or go swimming in the crystal clear Adriatic sea.
When arriving back to the peninsula, you will stop at the winery for a wine tasting, and the lady there will tell you all about the best Croatian red wines. After the wine tasting, you'll drive back to Dubrovnik where the tour ends with a complimentary drop off at your hotel.
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Primate Ayodele is my brother – Sultan of Sokoto reveals

Primate Ayodele is my brother – Sultan of Sokoto reveals

According to reports, the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has revealed that the Servant of God at INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele is ‘a brother.’

The Sultan also lauded Ayodele’s support for the Muslim community.

Abubakar III disclosed this on Tuesday during Ayodele’s birthday celebration at the church’s Isolo premises in Lagos state.

The Sultan was represented by Alhaji Aminu Idris Yaro, the Sarkin Hausawan Lagos.

He said, “I am a proud Muslim but when I see my Christian brothers extend their hands of fellowship to Muslims, it is a fulfillment of the scriptures.

“Every Nigerian ought to promote unity in their communities regardless of their religious differences,” he advised.

While quoting John 3:16, the Sarkin Hausawan noted that Christians need to follow the teaching there in and do according to the scriptures.

“The primate is a brother from another mother,” he stated.

In his response, Primate Ayodele noted that the words of the Sultan through his representative have proven that Boko Haram members are not Muslims, but terrorists we need to do away with in our societies.

“We don’t want crisis in Nigeria. We pray for our president that the Lord should keep him and bring him back.”

He, however, urged other prominent men of God to speak more on unity of religion and show love to people from other religions.

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The Best Things to do in Vancouver

2 December 2019

Canada is known the world over for its winter sports opportunities, and Vancouver especially so – each year, as the bears of British Columbia start their hibernation, tourists flock to the region to throw themselves down mountains. But with year-round attractions and some of the country’s mildest weather, there’s more to the city than just a winter sports base. Whether you're a keen skier, a keen shopper or a foodie with a taste for fresh game and seafood, here's why Vancouver should top your list.

Outdoor Attractions

Ski lessons on Grouse Mountain, overlooking Vancouver. Photo: Tourism Vancouver / Grouse Mountain

Located just outside the city, Grouse Mountain provides a world-class winter sports experience, and the ride to the top on the Skyride gondola will show you a view of Vancouver like you've never seen before. The perfect destination for adventure-seekers, Grouse Mountain is the place to show off your skiing skills or explore the pristine mountainside on a snowshoe trail.

Capilano Suspension Bridge: Photo:Tourism Vancouver

The Capilano Suspension Bridge is not one for the faint hearted. Suspended among towering evergreens and over the Capilano river, the famous bridge is just one of a number of vertiginous experiences at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, including a high-altitude Cliffwalk and a Treetops Adventure canopy walk. Visit the park over the Christmas season and you'll not only be treated to spectacular forest views, but also the annual Canyon Lights festival which turns the rainforest into a sparkling wonderland featuring the eight tallest ‘Christmas trees’ in the world (they’re actually eight 250-year-old Douglas firs).

If you’re looking to go a little further afield, the Indian Arm Cruise takes you through an 18km coastal fjord on a four-hour exploration through one of Vancouver's hidden gems: its spectacular harbour. The inland waters are calm enough even for those with wobbly sea legs, and you'll want to bring a camera to capture the lush green landscapes in what was once a heavily glaciated area. Depending on the time of year, keep your eyes peeled for some native Canadian wildlife: bald eagles and bears can sometimes be spotted from the deck.

Events Year-Round

Cherry Blossom Festival: Photo:Tourism Vancouver / Vision Photography

Usually falling sometime from mid-January to late February, the Chinese New Year's Parade in Chinatown is one of the city's biggest parades, attracting over 50,000 spectators and with over 3,000 performers. Festivities don't stop when the parade does, with a Chinese New Year Banquet and Spring Festival and Cultural Fair continuing into the evening.

If you’re visiting a bit later in the year, greet the change of seasons and the warmer spring weather at the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. Running for most of the month of April and incorporating events ranging from outdoor concerts and a massive group picnic in stunning Queen Elizabeth Park to an always-popular haiku contest, this Japanese-inspired event is a perfect way to get a taste of Vancouver’s fantastic community vibe.

Markets galore

The Shipyards Night Market. Photo: Tourism Vancouver / Vision Event Photography Inc.

A must-do for food lovers visiting BC, the Granville Public Market is a Vancouver institution selling the best local produce, artisan foods and independent crafts. Stalls offering cuisines from around the world, made with the freshest British Columbia produce, will have you licking your plate and asking for seconds.

If you’re already sated and in the mood for some retail therapy instead, visit the Eastside Flea for all of your vintage, collectible and hand-made souvenir shopping. With a rotating roster of more than 50 local vendors, it’s the perfect place to visit if you’re looking for a unique Vancouver keepsake or something special for someone back home. The Flea run special holiday markets right through December, but they’re open all year – keep an eye on their website for details.

Delicious dining

Wildebeest, Gastown. Photo: Tourism Vancouver/Wildebeest

In winter, keep an eye out for fresh British Columbia sea urchin, game meats and Pacific oysters. Wildebeest in Gastown is known for its incredible game dishes, and you'll find local umi, or sea urchin, at many Japanese restaurants in the city, like Ebisu and Miku.

Kiwi travellers looking for a taste of home will love Vancouver's vibrant café culture, with the city playing host to an ever-increasing number of quality establishments. The locals put a strong emphasis on quality, so expect to find locally roasted, single-origin and slow-brewed styles in abundance, as well as cabinets stuffed to the brim with delectable French-style baked treats – try Platform 7 in Kitsilano or East Vancouver for a charmingly old-school vibe, or head to Revolver on Cambie Street for a truly unforgattable, unmistakably high-end coffee experience.

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The Cost of Grace

Ephesians 2:8 says this:
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God…

And Romans 5:1-2 says this:
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Sometimes I think we, well at least I, take grace for granted.  As humans, we tend do that with things that we perceive to be free, at least free from our perspective.  It is a gift, freely given, but it is not a cheap gift.  On the contrary, it is a gift of immeasurable value, bought with the price that not one of us could afford.  We also tend to think that because something is free we deserve it.  Yet another “on the contrary”, we don’t deserve grace at all.  Compared to God, we deserve to burn  “… our righteousness is as filthy rags…”  God didn’t give us grace because we deserve it, He gave us grace because he loves us, me, that much, and that is Who He is.

Through the grace of Christ we are forgiven.  Through grace we are reconciled.  Notice, I didn’t say He forgives us because He loves us.  That would go against the very nature of God.  To paraphrase one of my favorite theologians, Oswald Chambers, if God forgave us just because he loves us, that would put our morality higher than God’s.  God is absolutely moral and absolute morality requires payment for sin.  That payment for sin was fulfilled through the grace of Jesus Christ, namely His suffering and death on the cross.  Grace wasn’t free for Jesus, it cost Him everything he had.  It cost Him the Papa God part of His being turning His back on the Savior.  Jesus the man was separated from, smitten and forsaken by the Papa God whom He was so intimate with and connected to that He could say “If you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father.”  Grace is not free, it cost my Savior everything He had.

We are forgiven and reconciled by faith (my part) through the grace of Christ (His part).  We don’t deserve grace, but it is freely given even though it cost our triune God that which is most precious.  He who was sinless, perfect and un-deserving of death, took on all of my sin so that I, a sinner deserving hell, could receive forgiveness and be reconciled to a perfect God.  There is nothing I can or could ever do to earn that grace, only the sacrifice of a perfect Savior could make grace freely available.

I need to walk every moment of every day with the cost of His grace ever before me.  It may be free for all to receive, but its value is immeasurable

One day when heaven was filled with His praises,
One day when sin was as black as could be,
Jesus came forth to be born of a virgin,
Dwelt among men, my example is He.

One day they led Him up Calvary’s mountain,
One day they nailed Him to die on the tree;
Suffering anguish, despised and rejected:
Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He!

One day they left Him alone in the garden,
One day He rested, from suffering free;
Angels came down o’er His tomb to keep vigil;
Hope of the hopeless, my Savior is He!

One day the grave could conceal Him no longer,
One day the stone rolled away from the door;
Then He arose, over death He had conquered;
Now is ascended, my Lord evermore!

One day the trumpet will sound for His coming,
One day the skies with His glories will shine;
Wonderful day, my belovèd ones bringing;
Glorious Savior, this Jesus is mine!

Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever;
One day He’s coming—O glorious day!
J. Wilbur Chapman, 1908

Lord God, Holy Father, Your love is amazing!  Help me walk each day accepting Your gift of grace, understanding that it cost Your Son, my Savior everything.  Your grace is a precious gift to be cherished.  May I never allow the tarnish of neglect and dust of devaluation to settle on Your gift to me.  Amen

About Todd Bowman

I am a child of God, a husband to Mindy, a father of seven beautiful children of God, a student of the grace of God in Christ, a worshiper, a teacher, a musician and singer, a writer, a nerd, a geek, and a general advocate of mercy and service.
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We had heard so much about Winton before leaving on our Outback Tour due to being the Dinosaur capital of Australia.

We stayed at the Matilda County Tourist Park and were lucky enough to get a drive through powered site. The park has a swimming pool & free live entertainment in the form of a Bush poet in the Bango Barn. More importantly it is the closest park to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

Winton is most renowned for their Dinosaurs and one of the main reasons we visited the town. Coop has a love of dinosaurs and what a way to get all up close and personal. We visited the Australia Age of Dinosaurs Museum which is home to the largest collection of Australian dinosaur fossils in the world. The Museum is split between three facilities, the Fossil Preparation Laboratory, Collection Room and Dinosaur Canyon. Coop was so animated and excited at this museum wanting to see everything in 3 mins!!

This museum is open seven days a week in winter (1 April to 31 October) from 8.30-5pm.  Tours depart on the hour: 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm* and run for 3 hours and both our kids enjoyed every second. Included in your entry price are activities for the kids to complete (& adults!) along the tours. The kids thoroughly enjoy their visit to the Age of Dinosaurs and seeing as there are more attractions being built in the coming years, we are sure to be back for another visit.

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European Youth Centre (EYC)

Who is behind this?

Emina Frljak

Youth for Peace

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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I would like to create a centre for youth, that will be at their disposal for gathering, meeting and learning from each other. A place where regardless of their religion or ethinicity they can come, feel supported, where they can attend workshops and trainings, but also create their own works and help to sustain the centre. It will be in one of the abandoned buildings that is a legacy from previous war, it will serve as an example how damaged now can be a place of democratic development.

Where will your idea take place?

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Why does Europe need your idea?

This place will represent a meeting point of cultures from Europe and from all over the world. The Centre will provide space to young people to gather and learn more about European values, traditions and give them an opportunity to become proactive and do something for the broader community.

What is your impact?

Place for youth to gather, exchange ideas, learn about each other, Europe and world, space to learn, develop ideas, create art, gain knowledge and experience; opportunity for youth to give their contribution to the society and help in its rebuilding, giving BiH more European character and identity.

How do you get there?

Contact and collaborate with ministries that are related to environmental and space affairs, youth and education in order to establish legal ground for Centre. Finding abandoned building that is left as a legacy of previous war and using Youth for Peace capacities to make a project for its redesigning. Gather youth from Sarajevo, BiH and other European and world countries to volunteer and give their contribution in building and shaping a Centre for them. Opening the Centre, start with activities

What is your story?

As a member of youth lead organization Youth for Peace that deals with dialogue, peace building and youth activism I would like to have place to gather many young people from all over Europe, BiH and world to meet and have an opportunity to give their contribution to development of democratic Europe

Who are you doing it for?

Young people from BiH, youth from European and other countries all over the world coming to volunteer, have an internship, visit, get formal or non-formal education in BiH. This will be a place and opportunity for them to hang out and learn more about each other, about Europe and its opportunities.

What do you need from the Advocate Europe community?

I would like to get assesment of my idea, its strengths and weaknesses as well as possible advices how to develope it even more and make it easier to achive. I would also like to get somekind of supervision during its further possible developement.

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text: PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Gao, Shuaihua AU - Zhu, Shaozhou AU - Huang, Rong AU - Li, Hongxia AU - Wang, Hao AU - Zheng, Guojun ED - Zhou, Ning-Yi TI - Engineering the Enantioselectivity and Thermostability of a (+)-γ-Lactamase from Microbacterium hydrocarbonoxydans for Kinetic Resolution of Vince Lactam (2-Azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one) AID - 10.1128/AEM.01780-17 DP - 2018 Jan 01 TA - Applied and Environmental Microbiology PG - e01780-17 VI - 84 IP - 1 4099 - 4100 - SO - Appl. Environ. Microbiol.2018 Jan 01; 84 AB - To produce promising biocatalysts, natural enzymes often need to be engineered to increase their catalytic performance. In this study, the enantioselectivity and thermostability of a (+)-γ-lactamase from Microbacterium hydrocarbonoxydans as the catalyst in the kinetic resolution of Vince lactam (2-azabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-3-one) were improved. Enantiomerically pure (−)-Vince lactam is the key synthon in the synthesis of antiviral drugs, such as carbovir and abacavir, which are used to fight against HIV and hepatitis B virus. The work was initialized by using the combinatorial active-site saturation test strategy to engineer the enantioselectivity of the enzyme. The approach resulted in two mutants, Val54Ser and Val54Leu, which catalyzed the hydrolysis of Vince lactam to give (−)-Vince lactam, with 99.2% (enantiomeric ratio [E] > 200) enantiomeric excess (ee) and 99.5% ee (E > 200), respectively. To improve the thermostability of the enzyme, 11 residues with high temperature factors (B-factors) calculated by B-FITTER or high root mean square fluctuation (RMSF) values from the molecular dynamics simulation were selected. Six mutants with increased thermostability were obtained. Finally, the mutants generated with improved enantioselectivity and mutants evolved for enhanced thermostability were combined. Several variants showing (+)-selectivity (E value > 200) and improved thermostability were observed. These engineered enzymes are good candidates to serve as enantioselective catalysts for the preparation of enantiomerically pure Vince lactam.IMPORTANCE Enzymatic kinetic resolution of the racemic Vince lactam using (+)-γ-lactamase is the most often utilized means of resolving the enantiomers for the preparation of carbocyclic nucleoside compounds. The efficiency of the native enzymes could be improved by using protein engineering methods, such as directed evolution and rational design. In our study, two properties (enantioselectivity and thermostability) of a γ-lactamase identified from Microbacterium hydrocarbonoxydans were tackled using a semirational design. The protein engineering was initialized by combinatorial active-site saturation test to improve the enantioselectivity. At the same time, two strategies were applied to identify mutation candidates to enhance the thermostability based on calculations from both a static (B-FITTER based on the crystal structure) and a dynamic (root mean square fluctuation [RMSF] values based on molecular dynamics simulations) way. After combining the mutants, we successfully obtained the final mutants showing better properties in both properties. The engineered (+)-lactamase could be a candidate for the preparation of (−)-Vince lactam.


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That I would never fear anything again

Today I woke up as a robot. Part of a mad science-type project to transplant human minds into bodies that, in my case, feel so much more right than what nature provided.

I’ll admit: I panicked, and stared uncomprehending at my hands for several minutes before I uncurled my fingers and started to feel. I was used to the driving thud of blood surging through my belly—when I lay on my stomach my body shuddered to the beat of a marching earthquake. But when I awoke this morning I could feel my engine purring, diodes switching on-off, gears clicking unobtrusively into perfect place.

I sat up and blinked hard with a whir—these cameras are still cameras made by human hands, and they aren’t the best with high contrast—and looked around for the first time. On the ceiling white lights were cutoff peaks, #FFFFFF, and the dark corners all but drowned black. Below people were looking up at me (how queer their color balance looks from these eyes!). Excited, flushed with happiness. I will never again feel that rush of heat.

I stood, not even shaking: my legs were as steady as solid metal, and my head brushed the ceiling. They did it, after all, you see! I asked to be so big that I would never fear anything again, and they made this body for me. In a human body, I might have cried a little. In this one, I crouched and lifted the head neuroscientist and roboticist in my hands. I straightened up, and how tiny they were, oh how little and delicate. It was like holding two baby birds, afraid that at any moment I would twitch and crush them.

The beauty of this body (but there are so many—) is that I no longer make involuntary movements. So I lowered my head and used my voice for the first time. Let me tell you, it’s a joy. My resonant cavity is huge now! My murmur made my chest thrum like a tuning fork. I smiled.

“Thank you,” I said, feet above their soft heads. “It’s everything I dreamed.” I had the urge to plant a kiss on the tops of those soft heads, but look at my face. It’s plate armor. I just put them so gently back on the ground, since they looked a little dazed.

Later—I’ll spare you the details of all the tests they ran to make sure I was in working order—they let me out. I ran alongside the highway, thirty feet of solid metal making the ground shake. And, of course, I came to find you. First thing, after I figured out how to get home from the labs.

You know the rest, don’t you? How I scooped you up and cradled you to my chest—how you insisted on being lifted to my face to kiss the hot metal again and again. I still have tactile sensors, I felt it just fine.

It was like the delicate claws of a spider brushing over your skin. How perfect is that? I’ve got to use my human sensory metaphors now, before I forget what it was like.

No, I won’t buff off your nasty lip-marks later. I’ll keep them there forever, even after you die.

…Hm? What then? Then I’ll find someone else to protect. Maybe I’ll become a teacher. You’re replaceable, like all things I love, but I’ll never forget you.

More ruminations on gender

A while ago, I said that I had come to the conclusion that I was a woman. How foolish it seems to me now, but I will not delete the post; gender is a journey (especially my gender) and it seems wise to document its steps. A month or so ago I realized several things: first, that it was possible and acceptable to be agendered but to present as feminine. Second, that since I was perhaps ten years old I have been very uncomfortable being referred to with feminine pronouns.

Why present as feminine, Best Beloved? Well, feminine clothing looks better on me because of the shape of my body, which I rather like. If given the option, I would probably dress like an early 1900s train engineer, but, alas, nobody makes clothes like that for people shaped like me. In any case, most of the time I value looking good over looking gender-neutral. Of course, this probably makes it more difficult for other people to accept that I’m agendered–my family is having some problems with this, ranging from inability to use “they” as a singular pronoun to complete apathy. I hope that once I move to Massachusetts later this year I will be able to make a suitable first impression.

About my pronoun dysphoria: it makes me squirm even to imagine that someone is thinking of me as a woman. It makes me want to put on nitrile gloves and slap them gently about the face. Eugh. Horrid. I think I may also be afraid to be a woman–and can you blame me, Best Beloved? If one pays any attention at all in the right places, one hears horrors inflicted by the patriarchy on the majority gender. You know to what I’m referring. In the same way that men–individually and as a concept–terrify me, the idea of being a woman terrifies me. In the same way, most likely, as it terrifies men; in one tumblr-cited study teenaged boys said that if they woke up one morning as a girl they would kill themselves (and though I have no proper citation, it is too easy to imagine that this is true).

I wish I felt safe as a woman, but for now I shall stay firmly off to one side of the sliding scale. Perhaps in another world–ah, who knows? I’ll conclude, instead of on this rather sour note, by expressing my delight with and approval for the idea of gender as an evolving thing. I like to think of people trying out all the genders they can think of and, perhaps, settling on their favorite. Settling would of course not be remotely necessary. A nice dream, hm?

Very nearly a sandstone golem

After reading Ursula Vernon’s “Jackalope Wives.”

I was practically raised by the wilderness in southern Utah. My father figured he was making the best of a bad situation (ugh! Mormons!) and while his back was still good we drove down there at every opportunity. I used to be a hater of hikes and all exertion, but after a couple of years the desert became more home than our house was.

I’ll try to paint you a picture:

There, all life is secret. It hides in cool cracks in the blinding sandstone, it burrows beneath the hot ground, pants under wiry sagebrush in the dust. There, dawn is cold and splendid, pouring lemon across the sky until it’s converted into that aching blue, the one that pools at the top of the atmosphere and is so dark at noon that it could almost be night. Just before dawn is the best time to be in a desert: sit under a twisted juniper and listen to the huge silence as the bright sky fills your eyes.

Come with me to my human-empty home; we’ll make a house in a dried-out floodhollow in the sandstone at the bottom of a wash. We’ll chimney up slot canyons to look out over the land, dance on all the Devils’ Dancefloors. Their backbones, too, if we can find them. We’ll let the sun bake us until we’re just done, until we have short ash-blond hair and skin like old leather. We’ll walk on the hot stone until our feet are the only shoes we need. We’ll listen to the echoes of jay calls, or that peculiar falling birdsong I’ve never been able to place, coming from somewhere on the walls of huge deep canyons. We’ll hunt down the old houses of the last people who truly lived here and bury their withered corn cobs under feet of mud when the next storm comes through.

We’ll build cairns in the middle of the desert for the loud ones to puzzle over, wondering who could have made them, and for what purpose, and why the only tracks nearby are those of light-footed lizards.


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    The Ocean Innovation Challenge (OIC) is a unique new mechanism that has been designed to accelerate progress on SDG14 by the identifying, financing, advising and mentoring of truly innovative, entrepreneurial and creative approaches to ocean and coastal restoration and protection that sustains livelihoods and advances the ’blue economy’.

    The Ocean Innovation Challenge is issuing a series of ‘Ocean Challenges’ or Requests for Proposals, each focused on a specific SDG14 target. The OIC seeks innovations that are transferable, replicable and scalable in order to achieve maximum catalytic impact.
    Ocean Challenge #1

    The first ‘Ocean Challenge’, launched on January 8, 2020, seeks innovative solutions to counter the scourge of ocean pollution. Nutrient pollution loads to the oceans have tripled since pre-industrial times, now approaching around 13 million metric tons (mt) per year, leading to exponential growth in eutrophication and the occurrence of hypoxic (low oxygen) areas, now numbering over 500 and causing hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage annually. Globally, there are only a handful of examples (such as the Danube/Black Sea basin) where nutrient loads have been reduced sufficiently to reverse and eliminate hypoxic areas, hence much work remains to be done on this SDG target.

    Of the over 300 million metric tons(mt) of plastics produced globally each year, some 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons reaches the ocean impacting negatively on marine organisms and ecosystems. Only about 9 percent of the over 2 billion mt of plastic produced to date has been recycled, so we remain a long way from truly ‘closing the loop’ on ocean plastics pollution. UNEP estimate the annual damage from marine plastics at USD $13 billion per year and growing. Rivers represent a major vector for the introduction of plastics to the ocean, transporting between 9 and 50 percent of the total.

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    Starting January 8, 2020, interested applicants should submit their preliminary proposal no later than March 5, 2020. Early applications are encouraged.
    In April 2020, successful applicants to the first round will be invited to submit a more detailed project proposal before April 25, 2020.
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Kerri Rawson thought she had a normal life. She was newly married and living in a small apartment with her husband when the FIB knocked on her door. Her father had been arrested for several murders decades prior. He was the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) Killer, one of the most wanted serial killers in American history.

In A Serial Killer’s Daughter, Rawson writes about this shocking news as well as her relationship with her father, which she thought was a normal father-daughter bond. She writes about family camping trips and holidays, but also about her father’s paranoia and occasional outbursts of anger. Rawson is honest and thoughtful in her writing.

Rawson suffered from depression after her father admitted to the horrific acts of which he was accused. Still, she found a way to move forward in a positive way. She embraced her faith and found a community of people who would remain good friends and care about her even after they found out she was BTK’s daughter.

As she worked through accepting the fact that her world had been turned upside down, she began to realize she had been emotionally abused by her father for many years. This book was very interesting. Rawson struggled to cope with the fact that her father, a person she thought she knew, was a brutal murderer. She also struggled to not let being the BTK Killer’s daughter define her.

Rawson continued to communicate with her father for some time after he confessed to the murders and was sentenced to life in prison. Eventually as she became a mother herself, she cut off communication. It was part of her healing process. Rawson focuses on overcoming something that was completely out of her control, and, in doing so, provides insight on finding the strength to move forward.

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The compelling history of Alfa Romeo began in 1910 when Cavalier Ugo Stella acquired the shares of Società Italiana Automobili Darraq – a French car maker. Of course, it would go on to become one of the most iconic Italian brands, a tribute to the sheer excellence of design, engineering and technology, along with competition prowess, that quickly established Alfa's reputation around the world.

Nearly 110 years later Alfa continues to amaze with cars like the 4C, so the time seems ripe for a full-on tribute to the legendary marque in coffee table book form. Hence Pure Alfa Romeo: Legend, Culture, Passion by Stefano d’Amico, president of the Italian Alfa Romeo International Club Register for 34 years, being published next month (and available for pre-order now) by Rizzoli.

D'Amico, an Alfa expert if ever there was one, covers the entire history of the brand with extensive use of rare historical and archival material, much of it published here for the first time. Mario Andretti, the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500Daytona 500, and the Formula One World Championship, who drove for Alfa's factory team, provides a preface.

Alfa Romeos have long been beloved of collectors, and the second half of the book focuses on 80 different cars from private collections dating back to the first Alfas ever constructed in 1910 and running up to the very latest models. Lavish photography is accompanied by edifying text and archival extracts.

In the book you'll discover that Enzo Ferrari founded Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 as an Alfa Romeo racing team, long before the first Ferrari-badged car ever saw the light of day. Alfa holds the world's title of the most competition wins of any marque in the world, causing no less a personage than Henry Ford to declare, "When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat!”

From Contempt starring Brigitte Bardot to The Graduate to Quantum of Solace, Alfas have long been icons of popular culture as well, and the newest generation of sporty rides bearing the famous Alfa crest is inspiring a new wave of creative types and anyone who's ever dreamed of driving something so purely, viscerally appealing.

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Is India’s OTT On Turbulent Tides?

Last fortnight, MX Player raised a $100MM, adding more firepower to fight in the fast-growing OTT market. On the other side of the world, Disney+ launched and reached 10MM users in 3 days, with a 2020 launch planned for India.

Starting with a Big Bang

‘Kabhi kabhi toh lagta hai ki apun hi bhagwan hai

This godly feeling might well be true for Netflix’s strategy in India which pumped in its highest ever investment of INR 100cr (~$14MM) on the second season for Sacred Games, which premiered earlier this year. With a runtime of 400 mins that’s $35K per minute.

Yes, it was as expensive as a movie.

That competition in the OTT streaming market in India is heating up would now be an understatement. There are 40+ players competing in the cluttered OTT market vying for your attention. How did we reach this point where India now counts as one of the most attractive markets in Asia for OTT?

Let’s YouTube rewind a bit.

The transition of India moving from an economy led by bottom of pyramid to one led by the middle class by 2030 was happening through the surge in smartphone penetration in the country

Smartphone users were expected to touch 859 MM by 2022 from 468 MM users in 2017, growing at a CAGR of 12.9 percent. What this statistic said was that everyone had access to a screen.

In 2016, Jio disrupted the telecom market by crashing internet data costs and free voice calls. Its effect has been amplified to an extent that no industry has been immune.

It has given birth to entire new industries (Agri Tech, B2B e-commerce) or disrupted existing ones (OTT)

Jio's impact on data prices
Data Jio ji bhar ke

The crashing of telecom prices is evident, and India is the cheapest market for data globally by a mile.

Jio’s data flood was soon about to alter customer behaviour.

The Godfather

If something is too good to be true, it almost always is.

But what if the other person made you an offer you can’t refuse. What if he gave you high-speed internet and rock bottom prices and you could call anybody for free?

This is what Mukesh Ambani did when he launched Jio. He changed the fortunes and behaviours of tens (hundreds?) of millions of people literally overnight.

That fateful day in 2016 democratised internet for India (actually, Bharat) and made the internet the fourth pillar of our existence in the 21st Century (Roti, Kapda, Makaan anyone?).

If data is the new oil, are telecom companies the new miners? Or are they the new suppliers? Well, that depends on how you choose to look at it.

When data prices are high, people are averse to consuming a lot on the go. However, when data prices plummet to a level where people don’t have to restrict their consumption anymore, their behaviour starts to change.

Before they know it, they’re hooked. We’re all hooked. We’re consuming all the time. Mobile data consumption has gone up from 0.26GB per user/month in 2014 to 9GB today, a 30x explosion in just 4 years.

The explosion of data consumption in India
Hockey stick growth that VCs would be proud of

Now, an important question is – what are people doing with all this data? How are they consuming it?

The one-word answer is video.

Consumers now regularly use the internet to enter a new world. This magical online world transports them to new places every time. From a dystopian future, to an ashram run by a baba who wants to reignite the world, to the hinterlands of India, to the upper echelons of Delhi and its big, fat weddings. They get it all.

Turns out, videos and some funny ‘white stuff’, that we will allude to later, have something else in common. Other than transporting people to a new world – it’s extremely difficult to get off it.

The captivated eyeballs that the internet would bring could not be left unattended.

Sher-locking Eyeballs

2016 marked the entry of Netflix and Amazon Prime.

The two global streaming giants, with their ‘capital’ moat were ready to woo the millennial class tired of Indian drama and soaps on television.

All this led to a heady mix of fresh, compelling content invigorating the content creation, production, distribution industry. Millennials started ditching TV for online content

What is driving the OTT war
OTT has drivers going over the top

India was also moving towards a young population using mobile to consume content for entertainment. By 2030 India will be one of the youngest nations on the planet with 1 Bn internet users. The rich and connected aspirants (26%) will spend 2-2.5x more on categories such as gadgets and 3-4x more on services, i.e. entertainment.

Sensing the opportunity, local home-grown brands such as SonyLIV, ALT Balaji, EROS Now, Zee5 among others emerged in 2017-18. Not to forget was YouTube and production houses such as TVF Play, which we had analyzed earlier.

All the players were out to ‘attract and retain’ eyeballs and wooed potential users with cashbacks, freebies and channel partnerships.

The market was up for grabs and the gold rush (or was it burn?) had begun.

Building a House of Cards

Against this backdrop, the replacement of “linear” TV by OTT was underway.

The concept of linear TV is explained in detail by Netflix in their Long Term View. But, if you’re too busy to read, linear TV is essentially set programming for set hours for everyone to consume.

Linear TV was fixed time, fixed shows and fixed screen. Non-linear TV, or OTT, was anytime, personalized show and any screen. The concept of binge-watching is alien to a linear TV world but is a symptom of a non-linear world.

Non-linear TV built on the personalization – the ‘hook factor’ to understand one’s tastes, consumption habits and offer the most compelling content. Again, the erstwhile DVD rental company Netflix brought this concept home.

It is little wonder that OTT was driving the growth of the Media and Entertainment sector.

OTT contributes to the highest growth in M&E
“Look, ma, I play PUBG”

The Media & Entertainment industry was valued at INR 2.64 Lakh Cr in 2018 ($36.5B) with OTT industry recording the highest segment growth at 22% to reach INR 12k cr ($1.6B) by 2023.

The OTT market has transitioned from a nascent stage in India (2016-18) and currently moving to a phase of growth. India is expected to be among the Top 10 markets globally in video OTT by 2020. By 2023 India will have >500MM online video subscribers, second only to the biggest online video market in the world – China.

That is a massive 8-spot jump in 3 years.

Contrary to popular perception, the traditional forms of entertainment such as the television will continue to enjoy good growth rates in India.

TV might slow but will not be completely knocked down by the rise of OTT as seen in other markets. The TV industry will witness a CAGR of ~11% from 2017-22 while the global growth average will stagnate to 1.4% in the same period.

India has a massive number of TVs, with penetration in more than 170MM households, or 850MM+ people. Driven by a craze for entertainment, or doles of political largesse, TVs will remain a mainstay of the Indian viewing experience.

The OTT players would view this as a window, or a screen, into people’s souls.

Hotstar Starts OTT’s Battle for Iron Throne

In 2018, there were over 40 OTT players in the Indian market, from close to zero in 2010.

The war for eyeballs across the country was on, spurred by an explosion of internet users with quick and easy access to any content on the internet.

Companies like BIGFlix and nexGTV tried to make an impression on Indian audiences in the early ‘10s. But like many companies you’ve probably never heard about that, they were good ideas before their target market was ready for them.

The leader and first mover of the Indian OTT industry was Hotstar, launched by Star in 2014. Coincidentally this was right about when IPL 2015 was kicking off, which brought to Indian subscribers live cricket, shows and movies. By 2018, Hotstar had over 150MM active users and 350MM downloads

According to Hotstar’s India Watch Report 2018, 96% of watch time on Hotstar comes from videos longer than 20 minutes, while one-third of Hotstar subscribers watch television shows. In 2019, Hotstar began investing ₹120 crores in generating original content such as “Hotstar Specials”. 80% of the viewership on Hotstar comes from drama, movies and sports programs.

The sell to consumers was clear – Hotstar is a one-stop-shop to watch live sports, movies and everything else you can ‘consume’ on the internet.

Despite customer acquisition being driven by large sporting events, the goal for Hotstar is to keep users on the platform by the rich offering of content available to subscribers on a monthly basis.

But Hotstar specialized in “ephemeral” content, like live sports, where the value of timing i.e. watching live was immense. Other OTTs could focus on “eternal” content, which could be watched anytime unless someone spoiled it for you.

A huge whitespace of users existed that Hotstar did not target, and others saw an opportunity.

Everyone Is Playing Sacred Games

On the surface, one might think that the majority of these users would come from metro cities.

But the Watch Report shows that Kerala, UP and Bihar are the hotspots of user concentration. Further, cities with 1-10 lakh people showed the highest growth of sign-ups on the app. Finally, women were coming on to the platform 2-3x more than men were.

Hotstar was democratizing access to digital content around the country. But whenever an upstart begins to dominate an industry, the vultures start circling.

Hotstar’s incredible success, with additional proof of a viable industry solution given by SonyLiv and DittoTV, only further encouraged the two global giants, Netflix and Amazon, to double down on the Indian OTT space.

Spread across three categories, that loosely split across urban/rural and income groups, each OTT targeted categories of India’s 700MM+ TV watchers. Category A is the urban, tier 1 city viewer. Category B is the small town, tier 2 city viewer. Category C is the rural, tier 3 city viewer.

The OTT universe is eyeing for different eyeballs

For a level set on the spending patterns of these players recall: Netflix spent Rs. 100 CR into the latest season of Sacred Games.

The average Indian competitors spends around 30-40Cr into their shows, at the higher end. Netflix’s strategy to come in as the premium content provider at a higher price might work in the West. But as we’ll see when exploring business models, it has had to make some tweaks to appeal to the masses in the Indian market.

In order to compete, Netflix recently began testing a lower-cost, mobile-only plan in India, at 250 INR ($3.6) a month, but still comes in more expensive than its rivals. Hotstar subscriptions start at a monthly rate of about 199 INR (about $2.87), while Amazon charges 129 INR ($1.86) for a Prime subscription that includes streaming video.

Amazon, never far behind from a growing trend anywhere in the world, previously committed to investing $5Bn in India. It has expanded its selection of movies and TV shows on Prime Video which comes with a typical Prime membership. Despite hotly debating unbundling video from the overall package, it continues to be a feature of Prime even today.

Amazon, Netflix and Hotstar were becoming the holy trinity of Indian OTT.

Looking in A Black Mirror

When it comes to monetizing, there are some key differences to Western markets that must be noticed.

Foresmost, the Indian consumer is very familiar with advertising and accepts it as a reality with most digital consumption, from radio to on-demand video.

Today, over 80% of revenue in the industry comes from advertising, expected to grow at a CAGR of 45% for the next five years. For the Netflix and Amazon Primes of the landscape, they would have to provide a far superior service in terms of personalization and integration to create large volumes of subscription revenue.

However, if a service is able to convert a one-time viewer into a subscriber, there is significant lifetime value that makes each of those users a very valuable and profitable customer.

Hotstar, widely recognized as the current leader in the space, has made significant strides in this aspect. Using algorithms to better understand their large user base and learn to more accurately predict the customer lifecycle and funnel, Hotstar has built a series of ‘nudges’ to drive people to subscriptions.

A less ‘sexy’ player in the space is the content-first Eros Now.

Eros has the largest OTT library in the Indian market and drives user acquisition through telecom partnerships with Jio, Vodafone and Airtel, among others.

A similar story to Disney’s latest Disney+ streaming service, Eros brought a wealth of previously owned content into a digital format and grew their subscriber base to 13MM paid subscribers by the end of 2018.

But the real dark horse of India’s OTT could be Netflix.

Looking at paid subscribers, only Hotstar, Prime and Netflix have those. According to estimates, Hotstar would have ~4M, Prime is 1.2MM and Netflix is ~1MM.

Prime Video is rightly a % of the overall Prime subscriber base. Hotstar and Prime cost $14, and Netflix costs $87 annually. Multiplying, back of the envelope estimates put Hotstar would be $60M, Amazon Prime would be $16M and Netflix would be $90M.

This is corroborated by Netflix’s marketing blitz and local content. This appears to have worked as revenue surged 8x to INR 470Cr ($80MM) and net profits 25x to Rs. 5.15Cr ($1MM) in FY19

Written off as the vanquished Ashwatthama, Netflix would be the fierce Rudra in India video. But there were bigger structural considerations that the three will have to consider.

The very foundations that these players built on are looking shaky.

Breaking Industries is Not Bad

Along with adding millions of subscribers, Jio’s entry also pushed its own industry in a tailspin.

A lot of ‘incumbents’ struggled and eventually gave declared bankruptcy and gave way for liquidation. One of those incumbents was RCom.

Some 30 months hence, the industry consolidated and a 3-player oligopoly emerged. Vodafone-Idea, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, in decreasing order of subscribers. The dust seems to have been settled.

Well, not quite.

Contentions had been on about the settlement amount for something called Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) for years. The Supreme Court recently settled this AGR debate. Again, almost.

The now defunct (RCom) posted the biggest yet loss in the history of corporate India; Vodafone-Idea and Bharti Airtel followed suit and also posted really huge losses on top of bleeding balance sheets.

This has left 2 of the existing 3 players, particularly one of the players, between a rock and a hard place. Between marginally improving ARPUs and massive debt and regulatory obligations, our top player Vodafone is contending throwing in the towel.

The first domino fell. If regulatory pressure is not eased and in the unlikely and unfortunate event of a player calling it quits at this stage, telecoms will be forced to increase prices across the board.

Suddenly, people might start rationalising their consumption again.

Maybe they will keep consuming content but they will move to cheaper alternatives or resume watching TV? One subscription to engage them all?

If viewership and/or subscribers fall, the OTT industry will be in trouble. Its two biggest revenues are ads (through viewership) and subscription (through subscribers).

To understand the implication, we need to look at OTTs are part of an ecosystem of 4 key stakeholders. If the ecosystem breaks or slows down anywhere, it can whiplash.

Notice that in the ecosystem, telecom is 3 players, OTTs are 40+, content creators are in the 1000s and subscribers in the millions.

As you can imagine, power and influence are concentrated in those that are fewer in number. That is undoubtedly telecom.

If telecom hurts, it will hurt OTTs. In an era of data rationalization, the competitors to attention will not only be the numerous OTTs.

It will be Whatsapp, TikTok and Instagram.

Understanding Stranger Things in The Future

India’s OTT is heading for a complicated future.

On one side is growing demand, fuelled by increased internet penetration and rock bottom data prices. People are consuming more content than ever before, and all this happening on their phones.

On the other side is exploding supply, not least in OTT itself. With close to 40 OTT players, and assuming each has a library of 10K hours each, we are looking at 400K hours of content. But attention is getting divided even more, and it’s not limited to OTTs.

Whatsapp, TikTok and Instagram are all competing for the same currency – attention.

As Star India’s Sports Business Head Anirudh Kalia puts its succinctly “money is a commodity, attention is scarce”. If we go by the 20 minutes spent on OTTs daily in a market report, 200 million users have a total of 66MM hours of attention daily, or 24 Bn hours a year.

Dividing this volume of “attention hours” by the amount of content, we get an average of 60K viewers per unit of content. As we know that some hit shows have 10MM+ viewers, you can realize that a lot of content being produced is long tail.

This content is likely going to be seen by no-one, while it will cost money to produce. The big hit shows will take away attention from a lot of smaller players.

The looming threat of the data pipes being shut down is ever-growing. Strategically, OTT is a feature for a telecom player, and in the long run – a telecom player will start its own service. Without these data pipes, the OTT party is on weak foundations.

When the turbulent tides wash way, those without clothes will be caught naked.

The slicing of attention will cap demand, which will in-turn cap supply. Content production will become higher quality, but will flow through fewer OTTs. The market is already exhibiting winner takes most behaviour, like e-commerce.

Network effects are quite literally true here.

We expect OTT to evolve into a few dominant horizontals (e.g. Hotstar, Netflix) and multiple niche verticals (e.g. regional/theme focused OTTs). If the data pipes keep flowing, good content creators will flock to the larger OTTs. But in the end, who is winning in the OTT war?

The consumer, of course.

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Ankur Agrawal
Ankur Agrawal

Brilliant coverage and though full analysis!
Article helps me to understand how closely telecoms companies, OTT, content creator etc are connected with each other.

Rohith Darisa
Rohith Darisa

Pretty good Bird’s Eye View..!

A new angle and analysis!

Absolutely top notch analysis with a perfect blend of popular OTT show titles. Kudos!

Eric Andrade
Eric Andrade

Loved the coverage of the topic! Worth every minute spent reading.

Rishabh Kalia
Rishabh Kalia

Brilliant analysis man!

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As always, nice analysis. Just wanted to highlight a couple of things. There would be quite a few subscribers with all three major OTT subscription who are not dependent on mobile data for broadband internet (myself included). This might be low in volume right now but with mobile data getting costlier, I can see rise in demand for this dedicated non-mobile data providers with unlimited plans. Also, though I don’t have data to support the hypothesis, I would presume that the actual paying customers (at least for Netflix and Amazon Prime) would be quite price insensitive to the mobile data… Read more »


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NYU NewsDoc Film Festival

My documentary Rootless will be screened in the NYU NewsDoc Film Festival at 5:10p.m., Feb. 7th, in New York.

The film festival features 15 documentaries in total and runs for two days, Feb. 6th to 7th.

Festival website: http://newsdocfilmfest.com

Rootless Trailer

A Inner Mongolian mother lives a split life for her 5-year-old son. To leave their grassland home and family for city on a daily basis, she found her son caught in between fading tradition and modernization.

The Mongolian ethnic group in China is decreasing in number as their culture and tradition slowly giving away to financial needs, policy regulations and city lifestyle. Rootless features one such Mongolian herdsman family in New Barag Banner, Inner Mongolia, China. The son has to go to school in the city whereas the dad has to stay back on grassland to provide. Lotus, the mom, commutes back and forth in two different lifestyles.

Director, Cinematographer & Editor: Xue Yu (Alice)
Film Scoring: Nature Ganganbaigal and Danielle Merlis http://www.ng-dm.com/
Thanks to: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York

Teaser of Xue Yu (Alice) Mongolian Thesis Documentary

Teaser of Xue Yu (Alice) Mongolian Thesis Documentary from Xue Yu on Vimeo.

This is a teaser video of Xue Yu (Alice)’s thesis documentary in production. Expected to be done in February, 2015.

The Mongolian ethnic group in China is decreasing in number as their grassland being regulated more and more by the government and their culture fading away. My film follows one family of herdsman where the mother and 4-year-old son travel between city and grassland and being separated from their family on a daily basis.

Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Producer: Xue Yu (Alice). All rights reserved.

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MAS Youth Program in Astoria fighting for Young Muslims’ Rights

Final project video on Muslim American Society (MAS) Youth Program in Astoria, Queens, and its efforts in fighting for the rights of Muslim kids, 2013.

Planned, shot, wrote, edited, and produced by Xue Yu (Alice)

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Six Degrees of Separation – from The Poisonwood Bible to The Eyre Affair #6Degrees

Six Degrees of Separation is a meme hosted by Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best. It works like this: each month, a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the others on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain.

This month we’re starting with Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible. Drawing on her own childhood experiences with her missionary family in Africa, it’s the book that made her name but I much prefer her earlier novels.

Another Barbara whose novels I’ve enjoyed is Barbara Trapido whose Noah’s Ark is about a scatty single mother who falls for Noah, her polar opposite, but a decade later finds herself drawn back into her complicated past. I’m not entirely sure it would stand up to a second reading.

Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark became Schindler’s List for Stephen Spielberg’s blockbusting adaptation. I was told by the publisher’s rep that Americans did not know what an ark was hence the renaming which sounds a wee bit far-fetched not to mention insulting to me.

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron takes a somewhat starker view of the Holocaust with the story of a Polish concentration camp survivor married to a Jewish intellectual in Brooklyn and haunted by a dreadful secret.

The eponymous fourteen-year-old in Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World is led through a history of Western philosophy by a mysterious mentor and a multitude of postcards posing riddles in this international bestseller which was one of the first crossovers between young adult and adult book buyers that I remember from my bookselling days.

A description that could also be applied to Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time about fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone who has Asperger’s syndrome and whose world is thrown into chaos by the discovery of his neighbour’s murdered dog.

The Boone family live in Swindon as does Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next, detective extraordinaire, who first made her appearance in The Eyre Affair which sees Thursday determined to get a whole series of literary characters back on their rightful pages. One of those books that has you constantly sniggering, annoying everyone within earshot.

This month’s Six Degrees of Separation has taken me from missionary work in Belgian Congo to fantastical literary conundrums in Swindon. Part of the fun of this meme is comparing the very different routes other bloggers take from each month’s starting point. If you’re interested, you can follow it on Twitter with the hashtag #6Degrees, check out the links over at Kate’s blog or perhaps even join in.