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Type Detection and its Configuration

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Structure of the configuration

As described previously, detecting types and finding filters in OpenOffice.org is carried out by the com.sun.star.document.TypeDetection service that uses configuration data as input. The configuration node that contains all this information is org.openoffice.TypeDetection. Here's the basic structure of it:

Structure of org.openoffice.Office.TypeDetection Configuration Branch

As shown on the left, the node consists of structures that in the terminology of the Configuration Manager are called sets. As opposed to configuration lists, sets are extendable configuration nodes and this allows the Configuration Manager to merge several files containing the same node together and presenting all set elements found in any of the merged files as part of a common set. This is different to lists: if the same list is found in several configuration files, one of them will overwrite the others. The ability to merge configuration nodes enables the deployment of filter configuration data (and so the deployment of filters) in extensions. Without it all filter configuration data had to be defined in the OpenOffice.org installation.

There are three lists: types, filters and frame loaders. A type describes a content, while filters or frame loaders describe objects that can be used to load such content into an OOo document. Arrows in the picture point to structures on the right side. They show the content (properties) of different list elements. Similar to 1:n relations in a database, every filter or frame loader is registered for one or multiple types.

Documentation caution.png If you want to add filters to the configuration, it is not a good idea to edit the installed configuration files of OpenOffice.org directly. It would be better to provide the data as an extension and install this extension for a single or all users.

Before the properties of types, filters and frame loaders will be desribed in close detail, let's have a look on how the Type Detecion uses them to detect types and filters. The com.sun.star.document.TypeDetection service can be used to just detect the type of a particular content. While a type is detected, it is possible that some information about a possible filter for that type already may have accrued. In case the TypeDetection is part of a loading process where not only a type but also a filter needs to be detected, this suggestion can be used to save an extra filter detection step. This detection otherwise had to be carried out by the generic frame loader by accessing the filter configuration data through the com.sun.star.documen.FilterFactory service.

When the TypeDetection receives a URL or a MediaDescriptor, it will first check some "external" attributes of the content specified this way. This could be a file extension, a URL pattern or other properties in the MediaDescriptor. If the MediaDescriptor does not already contain the name of the content type, the best match of the data in the "Types" part of the TypeDetection configuration to these attributes is sought. See the chapter about the type properties what kind of attributes are available and how they are used.

If a type has been detected based on these attributes, OpenOffice.org can verify this detection based on real code that checks the content, not only its external attributes. For this purpose each type may have an attribute "DetectService". It is an implementation or service name of an object that implements the abstract service com.sun.star.document.ExtendedTypeDetection. This object will examine the content. It will get a MediaDescriptor containing the name of the type to confirm and it will return this name in case it matches the content. It is allowed to return another type name if the DetectService knows that this type matches better even if the external attributes may not have selected it in the first place.

If the external attributes didn't help OpenOffice.org to find a type, it will instantiate all registered DetectServices and ask them to check the content until any of them returns a valid type name. The called DetectService can detect that it is called for "guessing", not for confirmation as in this case no type name is passed to it in the MediaDescriptor.

The next step is to check if a frame loader is registered for the detected type. If no frame loader is found, the generic frame loader implementation of OpenOffice.org is used. As mentioned above, this service will detect a filter in case the TypeDetection service not already has given this information. This detection is easily done by using a filter query at the com.sun.star.document.FilterFactory service. This query encapsulates the algorithm how OpenOffice.org assigns a filter to a type. The result of this query will be the internal filter name of the desired filter and the FilterFactory then can be asked to create the filter. Note: filter queries can return more than one filter name, depending on the input. If no preferences have been given, the first one in the returned sequence will win.

The most important external attribute of a content is a file extension and often just this one is used. As these extensions don't need to be unique, OpenOffice.org may find several possible types for an extension. While there is a preferred type (or at least there should be one), it is possible for API programmers to override this by a type preselection. It is also possible to use a filter preselection or a document type preselection. The latter can be seen as a suggestion to OpenOffice.org to load a content with a particular OpenOffice.org application. If this is possible, OpenOffice.org will do that, otherwise it will proceed as usual. One of the most common use cases is to load an html file by Calc from the command line. By using "soffice -Calc $FILENAME" instead of just "soffice $FILENAME" a document type preselection is triggered.

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Take time to find out what it is you truly want out of life, what you would love to be doing AND GO FOR IT!! Start planning it , focussing on it, visualizing every part of your dream. Allow the feelings of accomplishing the dream to flow through your every being; feel the excitement from accomplishing it, living it!!! Focus on the Positive and do not allow negative feelings to enter into the picture. Then take a small step, just one step, in the direction of creating your life!! Watch as it unfolds right before your very eyes.
I hope that each of you have a day filled with the possibilities of a lifetime and I pray your dreams will unfold in a magical way.
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In today’s world we all need an upgrade of some sort. Whatever you’re good at doesn’t seem to cut it anymore. Whether you are a great chef, good at gymnastics or a singer – performer, you MUST also be your own manager/producer/advisor/content-uploader/make-up artist/blogger and what not.

Why you might ask? I don’t really know the answer. All I can actually understand is that being good at one thing is just not good enough anymore. In a world of 6-7 billion people everyone is loading their own contents out there, and in this caos, seems like even the greatest are failing to outshine all those wannabes involved in the social media. Plain Janes and Joes just loading their sorry lives on the net: facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat; followers, likes, shares… you name it.

The real problem is that even if you hate it, you can’t ignore it…you simply can’t. It’s a constant battle of grabbing attention, getting people to talk about things, good or bad, seeking popularity for no reason, reaching for stardom on selfies, posts and retweets, making fools of ourselves. What have we come to?

Some may say this just boosts the creativity within us, that this is a greater challenge for all artists to put more of themselves out there. I can strongly argue that no good can come of this. Why are we burdening ourselves with other people’s jobs. I personally do need all the help I can get and I’m willing to pay a certain figure to produce a certain quality content of my choice. I don’t want to be my own editor/writer/producer/manager/entrepreneur, this is madness. These professions are slowly but surely disappearing cause we’ve started stealing their art with modern technologies. The worst part is we actually think we’re better at it.

I want to be a singer and as of today I guess I have to be my own sponsor/videographer/editor as well. The system’s got me, but the least I can say is that I’m not happy.

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Global Ethnic Conflict and Inequality

Early in human history, when nations began to form and humanity entered the age of exploration and colonization, religious wars were largely supplanted by ethnic conflict. Like the earlier post on global inequality, colonialism is a major player in contemporary ethnic conflict and inequality.   Img source: Ethnic Conflict Colonial rule cared little for differences or … Continue reading Global Ethnic Conflict and Inequality

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Global poverty and inequality has been a topic of debate for decades. Commentators note the devastating effects of extreme poverty on health, human development, life expectancy, and more. The United Nations set "eradicate extreme poverty and hunger" as a Millennium Development Goal with the intent to: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people … Continue reading Global Poverty and the Legacy of Colonialism

What are social problems?

Social problems are general conditions in society that are harmful to a significant number of people. Social practices facilitated by power structures create, perpetuate, reinforce, or resolve economic, social, cultural, or environmental harms. As social problems often are felt most keenly by disadvantaged groups, powerful groups may not even be aware that a problem exists. … Continue reading What are social problems?


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17 More Expensive Items That Are Totally Worth the Money

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Everyone likes to save a buck. But sometimes in life, being cheap will cost you.

Why put up with an inferior product when you could invest in something high quality that is much less likely to disappoint?

We culled the responses in a Reddit thread asking consumers to list pricey items that they never regret buying. Here are the best of the bunch.

1. A Tempurpedic mattress:

“My girlfriend at the time had chronic back pain. Spent $3,000 on a mattress. I can never go back.”

high heels2. Shoes: “Rule of thumb: don’t skimp on anything that separates you from the ground.”

3. High speed internet:

“Once you have it you can NEVER go back.”

4. Tools: “Bad craftsmen blame their tools. Good craftsmen buy good tools.”

5. Bread: “Can’t possibly buy a loaf of average white bread when it’s only $1 more for the WAY better stuff.”

6. Ballpoint pen:

“Spent $4 on a kickass ballpoint pen. Ridiculously smooth and comfortable. My handwriting speed and neatness improved dramatically. Never going back to the $2 for a pack of 10 again.”

Flickr via wilsonhui7. Cutlery: “Can’t beat a sharp knife when chopping up food.”

8. Bed sheets:

“I slept on 180 thread count for 23 years of my life. Then, a girl I was going out with had 1,000 thread count sheets on her bed. Holy crap. What a difference.”

9. Sushi: “Never, ever, ever, ever eat discount sushi. Ever.”

10. Bras: “After getting myself a properly-fitted $70 bra, I look 10 pounds slimmer, my back doesn’t hurt anymore, and my clothes fit better. There’s no going back from here.”

11. Farm fresh vegetables: “I have been getting most of my vegetables at the farmer’s market lately and I don’t think I can go back to my supermarket. I love to eat my tomatoes raw. They taste different. Sweet, almost spicy.”

Flickr via scottfeldstein12. Shaving cream: “I got one of the fancy kinds as a gift a few years ago, and I can never go back. It doesn’t even feel like I’m shaving. It’s more like being softly nuzzled by a friendly koala.”

13. Jeans: “I may buy the rest of my clothes at Target and Kohl’s, but I have never found a cheap pair of jeans that fit me just right.”

14. Tattoos: “You get exactly what you pay for.”

15. Headphones: “I don’t understand why anyone uses the stock phones that come with their phone, iPod, whatever.”

16. Whiskey/bourbon: “I always drank Maker’s Mark in the past. I recently got a bottle of 9-year Knob Creek. I’d be afraid that trying anything better would force me to spend another $10 a bottle going forward, but I also got a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue, which tastes like floor cleaner, so I should be safe.”

17. Backpack: “A good quality backpack, decently large size with comfortable straps, non-flimsy load distribution clasps, good number of pockets and utility pockets, and (most of all) high quality zippers is easily worth the money.”

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An Idea of Mine Copied Again!

“In 1985 I started a book, called THE RETURN TRIP. It was/is (I am currently doing a re-write of it) a story about an orbiting colony around Mars, manned initially by the married couple Sampson & Celeste McKinney.

“Now I never submitted it for publication because the CHALLENGER blew up while I was in the middle of the book in 1986.

“Today, I am editing and re-imagining the story, updating it from future 2008 to future 2030, and I see on the news that some billionaire wants to send a “married couple” to Mars as soon as he can.

“WHAT THE HELL????????  Below is the beginning of the book, because I want to be on record for owning that concept for the last 28 or so years!!!!”

Science Fiction from Gwendolyn Hoff

The Red Planet

The steadily enlarging sphere, which has been a fixture on their view screen for what seemed to be a fortnight, has silently made its presence known. The once reddish blur is now a well-defined reality that needs to be reckoned with. It is, after all, their destination.

From behind the backside of the fourth planet in the Earth’s solar system, an enormous man-made object adds itself to this pristine picture, giving them their first glimpse of Space Colony 1 in space; they had seen it last 38 months ago at the cooperative space dock, the last rivets being set in place. This grandest of all achievements of mankind has been towed by a drone-hauler to its present orbit around Mars.

For Sampson and Celeste McKinney, this is a proud moment, one that makes their 8 month year journey to this space-place worth every blasted boring minute. Here in the year 2030, a decade of secrecy is coming to an end.

“Would you look at those lights Celeste? This baby is the most impressive space station ever!” Sampson is beaming like a father bragging on his newborn son from outside the nursery window, amongst the other proud papas.

“It’s impressive alright. Too bad we are the people who can see this.”

“You and me AND 11 billion of our closest friends,” he shrugs off his wife’s oversight. After all, for these 255 days, it seemed that they are the only two people in the Universe. “It won’t be long and hundreds of people will be on their way to Space Colony 1; them and every alien species that happens by.”

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Jesse James c. 1882
Born Jesse Woodson James
September 5, 1847
Kearney, MissouriU.S.
Died April 3, 1882 (aged 34)
St. Joseph, MissouriU.S.
39.757813°N 94.844087°W
Nationality American
Occupation Criminal
Known for Robbery
Spouse(s) Zerelda Mimms
Children Jesse E. James, Mary James Barr

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Benjamin Franklin

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

―    Benjamin Franklin

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“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

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The International Eckart Witzigmann Award is one of the most prestigious honours recognising outstanding achievements in the art of cooking and fine dining. “Chef of the century” Eckart Witzigmann has awarded the Eckart for unique culinary achievements and special commitment under the broad spectrum of lifestyle since 2004. In partnership with the BMW Group, the Witzigmann Academy presents awards annually in three categories: “Art of Cookery”, “Innovation” and “Art of Living”. The Academy presented its first Eckart for “Creative Responsibility and Enjoyment” in 2013, with a cash award of 10,000 euros.

Heinz Reitbauer, winner of the Eckart 2014, will be named “Chef of the Decade” by Gault Millau on 6 September 2016. The award provides further recognition of Reitbauer’s culinary concept, responsible handling of food products and consistently high standards at the Stadtpark luxury restaurant in Vienna.

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Heinz Reitbauer and his father won the Eckart Witzigmann Award for the “Art of Cookery” in 2014. The Eckart is an international award presented in four categories, acknowledging achievements in the art of cooking and fine dining, as well as a responsible approach to nutrition.

Reitbauer’s “Steirereck” restaurant has earned four Gault Millau toques and two Michelin stars, and is the only restaurant in Austria featured on the list of the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants, at number nine. Heinz Reitbauer has been implementing his two-pronged regional-cuisine concept in the Austrian capital since 2005. On the ground floor, the “Meierei im Stadtpark” serves simple bistro cuisine made from high-quality ingredients, while the “Steirereck” on the first floor offers world-class gourmet cuisine. In both kitchens, the focus is on the best available seasonal and regional products prepared to the highest standards.

Massimo Bottura, winner of the Eckart 2015, also earned further recognition: His “Osteria La Francescana” in Modena was named best restaurant in the world and Europe in the “World´s 50 Best Restaurants” 2016.

Heinz Reitbauer and Massimo Bottura are distinguished by their outstanding culinary skills and responsible and visionary approach to nutrition. At this year’s Olympic Games in Rio, Bottura prepared around 5,000 meals for Brazilians in need from leftover food from the Olympic Village.

Previous Eckart winners include Daniel Boulud (New York City); HRH Charles, Prince of Wales (Highgrove); Elena Arzak (San Sebastian); Anne-Sophie Pic (Valence); Harald Wohlfahrt (Tonbach); Dieter Kosslick (Berlin); Ferran Adrià (Barcelona); Marc Haeberlin (Illhaeusern); Joël Robuchon (Paris); Alex Atala (Sao Paulo); Jon Rose (Los Angeles); Mick Hucknall (Manchester) and many more.

A symposium on a specific gastronomic topic is also held annually.

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How to create Personas

More than ever before, prospects are expecting to receive relevant, personalised information from your company. According to a report from Accenture, 73% of consumers said that they prefer to do business with companies that use their personal information to make their experience more relevant.

We’ve all heard the term “Content is King” and that’s true, it is very important to produce lots of high quality content, but even excellent content can look like spam when it’s served to the prospect at the wrong time. Consider this example: 3chillies have a great guide available for download on the topic of “Choosing the right Content Management System (CMS)”. For prospects looking to switch to a new CMS, an email containing information about where to download the document would be ideal. But what if that prospect has already recently upgraded their website and is more interested in support? Well, that email will look an awful lot like spam.

Inbound marketing should be a two-way conversation: the prospect tells you something about themselves implicitly (through the links that they click and the content they view) or explicitly (through form entries etc.), and your website responds by serving more relevant information on their preferred topic.

If your organisation have invested in a good marketing platform, content personalisation can be achieved both on the fly (whilst visitors browse your website) and in the emails that you send. As a Sitecore Gold Partner, the Sitecore Experience Platform is our weapon of choice.

We’ve previously written a 6-step guide on creating a marketing automation plan. In it, we identified that personalisation plays a huge part in making it a successful plan. To personalise our content effectively, we must first understand who each buyer is and what their objectives are.

In a perfect world, we’d write a personalised marketing automation plan for every single individual visitor, but realistically this would take far too much time. So instead, we’ll gather the prospects into target-groups called personas.

We’ve defined the word persona as “A composite picture of a target-group of people who buy, or might buy, products and services like the ones that you sell. Each persona type will share a set of metrics such as perceived success factors, perceived barriers, buyer journeys and buying triggers.”

Personas are a fundamental part of any good marketing automation plan. Not only do they allow you to personalise a buyer’s journey based on their position in the buying cycle, but you can personalise based on factors such as their requirements, goals and behaviours.

Let’s take a look at how to create a set of personas…

Before anything else, you’ll need to learn as much about your prospects as possible. As Socrates   once said, “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing", so don’t assume you already know what your prospects want – go ahead and ask them!

This post from Gartner provides a nice start helping you understand your prospects better. It outlines the important metrics we should consider when forming personas:

“Demographic — Defines the basic structure of a population based on geography, income, level of education, and other standard descriptive attributes.

Psychographic — Focuses on values, opinions, interests, aspirations, attitudes and lifestyles.

Ethnographic — Involves participatory observation where insights are gleaned by watching subjects in their daily routines and capturing what isn’t explicitly reported.

Transactional — Reveals insights through a historical customer relationship, including first- and third-party purchase histories and post-sale service records.

Behavioral — Captures data passively through engagement with websites, mobile devices and other media, content and channels that reveal how audiences engage over the course of a relationship.”

A mixture of data collection methods can be used to gather the information we need. Methods might include interviews, focus groups, user surveys and any other method where the research comes directly from the prospect. You might also choose to use analytical data from tools such as Google analytics or Sitecore analytics.

Using Gartner’s definitions above we can start to formulate a list of questions that we might ask in an interview with the prospects. You can start with generic questions like those that follow, but it’s recommended that you ask more questions that are specific to your business and the products that you sell:

Job Specific Questions:

What is your job role and job title?
How do you measure success at work?
What activities do you perform on a daily basis?
What activities are you fully responsible for?
Who do you report to for activities beyond your remit?
What are the biggest challenges you face?
How often do you communicate with customers?
How do you communicate with customers?

Person Specific questions:

What is your sex/age/ income/ educational background and address (city)?
What is your marital status
Do you have children

Questions specific to your company product / service (X)

How often do you shop for X
What digital tools do you use to find vendors for X
What would stop you from buying product X
What are your motivations for looking into X
The exact questions vary depending on the project in hand, but it’s important to form questions to ensure that you identify any obvious knowledge gaps before the interviews commence.

Work out who your most common prospects are and what their job role is. If you have more than one typical buyer, make sure you invite a good mixture of each, for example, if 3chillies were doing this exercise, we would invite a handful of CMOs, Digital Marketing Managers, CEOs and CTOs. There aren’t any firm guidelines on the number of prospects you should interview before stopping data collection for analysis; Just ensure that you interview enough people to recognise common patterns emerging. It’s usually possible to draw patterns from 5 participants for each job role.

During the interview try to ask as many open questions as possible. Ensure they’re leading questions, and ones that are worded in such a way that the answers help you better identify the prospects attitudes and behaviours.

If you aren’t able to interview your prospects, the next best thing is to interview the employees who interact most closely with your prospects. Although resorting to this tactic isn’t ideal, these employees will be able to give a relatively well informed view of each persona.

This stage is tricky because you’ll need to compare all of the data sets from the research stage in order to identify common behaviours and attitudes, and therefore personas.

A good way to start is through segmenting the participants by job role. It is possible that there are multiple personas per job role so we will need to define the main ones by going through each answer with a fine-tooth comb, noting down any common behaviours and attitudes for each job role.

There are many schools of thought for how best to analyse the answers to your interview questions. Some guides will tell you that an affinity mapping process is the best method to take, and that’s not a bad strategy. In fact, it’s a particularly useful method if you aren’t able to interview your prospects and have relied upon the knowledge of your employees instead.   One more effective way of recognising patterns and analysing your data would be through making a scale for each question, and positioning each interviewee somewhere along that scale based on the answers they provide to your questions. Then we can visualise whether or not conclusions can be drawn from the data. Let’s look at an example: The 3 questions below might be questions that 3chillies would use when interviewing their target prospects.  In the example, the initials of each CMO interviewee is labelled in blue and CTOs are labelled in red. I should add, this is just dummy data for illustrative purposes.

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There are a number of conclusions we can draw from the clusters that have formed in these visualisations:
  • There are two different types of CTO – those that never contact clients, and those who contact clients on a regular but infrequent basis.
  • CTOs tend to use a limited number of digital tools everyday
  • CTOs and don’t tend to post to their company website very often
  • CMOs communicate with clients very frequently.
  • CMOs use a large range of digital tools everyday
  • CMOs tend to post content on their website more frequently

This information is useful for creating personas because we can draw further conclusions such as:

  • CMOs are more likely to be interested in learning about the tools which make publishing website content more efficient
  • CMOs are more likely to want to know about ways to reduce the number of separate tools they use to speed up workflow.
  • CTOs aren’t interested in learning about a website’s publishing capabilities. Etc.

As mentioned earlier on, you might also wish to study your analytical data before forming personas. At a very minimum we recommend that you delve into google analytics (or Sitecore analytics if you have it) and grab data such as:

  • Which pages are being visited in which order
  • How long the visitors stays on each page
  • Which resources are downloaded in which order
  • Length between visits
  • Length of sales cycle

 All of this information is useful because it can help us form patterns like those circled in the image above, and we’ll use these patterns to form personas, so get to work circling the patterns and drawing-out conclusions.

It’s time to start creating your personas. The following images comes from and illustrate what a typical persona would look like for a first time car buyer. Try creating something similar for each of your personas.

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Persona Card 2Source: Best Practices for Developing Personas with the Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform

Grab a bunch of cue cards and a pen, and start by writing one card for each job role that you’ve interviewed. Next, begin bringing each persona to life by assigning each of them the following:

  • Name – something easy to remember
  •  Photo – a real human face (preferably someone you don’t know and have never seen before to save confusion)

Yes, that’s right, the personas that you’ll create should be assigned names and given a profile picture (a human face). This will help the marketing team familiarise themselves with the personas as if they were close friends, which means that they’ll be able to publish more targeted, personalised content for each persona. If you don’t humanise the personas it will only lead to confusion when you come to build your marketing automation plan.

Now we want to look over the pattern clusters from the previous exercise and start writing about those clusters as if they were one person. For example,

“John is a CTO. He never communicates with clients and only uses a small handful of digital tools to perform his daily activities.” This information will then be translated across to the card again.

Every time you come across two differing behavioural groups for that job role, create another persona card. For example, using the image below you’d create two different CTO personas based on the fact that some CTOs do communicate with client whilst others never communicate with clients.

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It’s important to split these behavioural groups into two different personas for when it comes to marketing automation. For example, some CTOs will be interested in receiving information on how to communicate better with clients, whilst others will consider that email to be irrelevant and “spammy”.

Complete the exercise by assigning each of the following elements to each persona:

  • A quote – a tag line that might be spoken by the persona to sum up their situation.
  • Personal information -  age, address, job title, marital status, property type
  • Profile – the backstory or personal bio
  • User Goals – what is the user trying to achieve on your site?
  • Business Objectives – what would we like the user to achieve on the company website?

Once you have defined your personas, you’re in a better position to start planning your marketing automation strategy. You can now move on to designing content that is personalised for the audience it appeals to, and use it in a marketing automation plan.

Personas shouldn’t just be forgotten once the website has been developed and the marketing automation strategies are in place. Your whole marketing strategy should revolve around your personas, after all, without them your organisation wouldn’t exist. The process of building personas can take a substantial amount of time and effort, and it may not be possible to formulate a marketing automation plan for each persona all in one session. Always cater for the most important persona first, rather than spreading your efforts across multiple personas. Personas are not made equal – some will spend a lot and ask very few questions, others will spend very little and be a lot of hard work, so concentrate on fulfilling the need of your best customers first. Over time, environmental changes are likely to have affected your prospects’ perceived success factors, perceived barriers, buyer journeys and buying triggers. So review and adapt personas over time, remove the personas that no longer exist, and create plans for new personas that emerge.

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Ford names Joel Piaskowski to lead design team in Europe

Article by Christian A., on May 30, 2014

Ford has appointed Joel Piaskowski to lead its design team in Europe, succeeding Martin Smith. Piaskowski boasts of having 24 years of international automotive experience and is currently chief of the carmaker’s strategic concepts group. He was in charge of the team that designed the new Ford Mustang and F-150 pickup.

In his new role, Piaskowski will be leading the design of all concept and production vehicles in Europe while supporting the carmaker global design initiatives. His work experience includes stint at Mercedes's advanced design center in California and at Hyundai in the US.

He also boasts of more than 12 years of exterior and interior design experience at General Motors. Moray Callum, Ford’s vice president of design, said in a statement that Piaskowski’s international experience and product versatility are particularly important as Ford continue to leverage its “design talent around the globe.”

Piaskowski will report to Callum and Ford of Europe product development boss Joe Bakaj. Carmakers are seeing their sales recover in Europe this year after six years of slump, with Ford chief Alan Mulally declaring that he is "very bullish" on the European car market.

Ford has forecasted a lower loss in Europe this year and a turnaround next year. Ford has managed to narrow its first-quarter pretax operating losses in Europe to $194 million from $425 million in 2013.

Smith is set to retire at yearend but will work closely with Callum on a global project over the future direction of Ford design. Smith headed the development of a new exterior design language for Ford of Europe -- the “kinetic design.”

Kinetic design can be seen in European models like the first-generation S-Max and Kuga, fourth-generation Mondeo and second-generation C-Max.

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News Room / Golden Share Reports 6.93 G/T Au and 46.07 G/T Ag over 7.50 M 1.5 Km South Of Vein N degrees 1 in Berens River Historical Drilling

Golden Share Reports 6.93 G/T Au and 46.07 G/T Ag over 7.50 M 1.5 Km South Of Vein N degrees 1 in Berens River Historical Drilling

Toronto, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 12 2014 / Golden Share Mining Corporation ("Golden Share" or the "Company" - TSXV:GSH) is pleased to provide an update on its Berens River project.

A property-wide compilation has been initiated following Golden Share's 2013 diamond drilling on Vein N?3 and highlights DDH NZ 88-19 with an intercept of 6.93 g/t Au and 46.07 g/t Ag over 7.50 m. This historical hole was drilled by Noramco in the late eighties to test an east-west striking shear coincident with a VLF anomaly. The gold-silver mineralization corresponds to the VLF anomaly and is hosted in mafic to ultramafic rocks. This diamond drill hole is very important for several reasons :

-It is located 1.5 km South of Vein N?1 and 1.9 km South of Vein N?3,

-It represents an additional, distinct, system from Veins N?1 and N?3,

-It is located on strike with a 700 m long east-west trending VLF anomaly,

-It is isolated and shows the mineralization to be open in all directions,

-This new area has seen virtually no previous drilling,

-While the bottom intercepts shows some very high grade individual intercepts up to 52.80 g/t Au and 476.26 g/t Ag over 0.50 m, gold and silver mineralization are fairly widespread throughout the entire drill hole.

For additional details see figures 1 and 2 below or visit : http://www.goldenshare.ca.

President and Chief Executive Officer Philippe Giaro commented:

"We are very pleased with these developments as they further confirm the potential of the Berens River property. These recent compilation results also validate our strategy to implement a property-wide exploration program as most of the historical work to date has centred on two main historical areas, Veins N?1 and N?3. We see the need to establish a refined geological model for the area and this recent compilation is a very good step in this direction. The collection of additional structural data and proper characterization of all known mineralized showings with a refined geological understanding will allow the development of systematic targets which can in time be supported by modern geophysical coverage of the property. I would like to thank all visitors to our booth during PDAC 2014. Berens River remains very much at the forefront of Golden Share's development strategy."

DDH NZ 88-19

The full results for DDH NZ 88-19 include, from top to bottom of the hole :

-0.64 g/t Au and 1.99 g/t Ag @ 2.00 m from 34.00 to 36.00 m

-2.47 g/t Au and 27.84 g/t Ag @ 0.50 m from 38.00 to 38.50 m

-0.93 g/t Au and 7.92 g/t Ag @ 6.90 m from 39.00 to 45.90 m including :

-1.27 g/t Au and 4.01 g/t Ag @ 1.00 m from 40.00 to 41.00 m

-2.09 g/t Au and 15.91 g/t Ag @ 0.54 m from 42.96 to 43.50 m

-1.75 g/t Au and 19.89 g/t Ag @ 0.60 m from 44.30 to 44.90 m

-1.33 g/t Au and 17.24 g/t Ag @ 1.50 m from 80.90 to 82.40 m

-0.78 g/t Au and 14.96 g/t Ag @ 2.10 m from 83.40 to 85.50 m

-1.59 g/t Au and 17.04 g/t Ag @ 3.50 m from 92.00 to 95.50 m

-2.74 g/t Au and 19.89 g/t Ag @ 0.50 m from 93.50 to 94.00 m

-2.71 g/t Au and 11.93 g/t Ag @ 0.50 m from 94.00 to 94.50 m

  • -6.93 g/t Au and 46.07 g/t Ag @ 7.50 m from 103.85 to 111.35 m including :

-52.80 g/t Au and 476.26 g/t Ag @ 0.50 m from 104.35 to 104.85 m

-20.16 g/t Au and 23.86 g/t Ag @ 0.50 m from 110.35 to 110.85 m

-14.57 g/t Au and 23.86 g/t Ag @ 0.50 m from 110.85 to 111.35 m

Compilation work

The current compilation work involves the building of a property-wide ArcGis data base comprising all available surface exploration data and diamond drilling information, specifically targeting the overall property, well beyond the existing compilation focussed only on Veins N?1 and N?3.

The following surface historical information has been digitized so far : 3,351 outcrops, 306 structural measurements, 469 surface grab samples, 222 soil and MMI geochemical samples, 40 trenches, 144 VLF anomalies, 30 ground magnetic anomalies, 21 ground EM anomalies, 78 conductors (EM aiborne). A total of 408 historical diamond drill holes have also been digitized so far along with 4,596 core samples for a total length of 3,335 m. This includes drill holes previously digitized by InnovExplo and previously reported.

This data base will now be constantly updated as new information becomes available and will serve as an essential tool for the upcoming 2014 summer surface program on Berens River.

About Golden Share

Golden Share Mining Corporation is a Canadian-based mining exploration company developing a promising and well-balanced property portfolio in the mineral belts of Eastern Canada, a politically stable environment with a history of rich mineral endowment.

On July 25, 2013 shareholders of the Company approved the merger with Silvore Fox Minerals Corp., a Canadian junior explorer listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (see press release dated July 25, 2013). Following this transaction Beijing Donia Resources Co. Ltd., a Chinese state-controlled company, has become Golden Share's largest shareholder with approximately 24.37% of its issued and outstanding shares. Sinotech Minerals Exploration Co. Ltd., a leading Chinese mineral exploration and development company, is a 50.03% shareholder of Beijing Donia Resources Co. Ltd (For further details please see the recent Sinotech corporate presentation on: http://www.goldenshare.ca).

This new Chinese partner recognizes the value of Golden Share's well balanced portfolio of properties and sees the merged entity as an ideal platform to further develop its activities in mining exploration and development in North America, and notably in Eastern Canada, a politically stable environment with a history of mineral endowment.

Golden Share's exploration programs are executed under the supervision of Mrs. Laurence Huss, M.Sc., P. Geo., a << Qualified Person >> as defined in National Instrument 43-101, and Vice-president Exploration of Golden Share. Philippe Giaro, P.Geo., President and CEO of Golden Share and Qualified Person for Golden Share, has reviewed and approved the content of this release.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONSULT: http://www.goldenshare.ca

Golden Share Mining Corporation

Philippe Giaro, President & CEO

Tel: 1-905-968-1153 or Tel: 32-473-52-30-29

E-mail: [email protected] or E-mail: [email protected]

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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Figure. 1 - Berens River surface geology and DDH NZ 88-19

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Figure. 2 - DDH NZ 88-19 drill section


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– ACL CEO Laurie Schultz

Everyone at ACL was very excited to hear that our 60-person Product Development Team won “Team of the Year” at the British Columbia Technology Industry Association’s (BCTIA) 2015 Technology Impact Awards on June 4! (See party pics on Facebook)

What did the team do over the past year to earn this title? Tasked with developing and delivering Data-Driven GRC while greatly enhancing the customer experience, the team outperformed its expectations by:

-Achieving analyst awards and recognitions, such as Gartner Audit Management and Gartner Compliance Market Guides
-Driving more than 28% growth in new subscription sales and greater than 100% revenue growth in strategic product lines
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As you know, after the award ceremony of SWERC it is customary to publish a complete scoreboard with detailed information on the submissions and verdicts received. However, due to the buggy contest management system, most of the relevant data are not being recorded today. Clearly such state of affairs fails to meet the high standards we are committed to, so the judges have resolved to make up the rest of the data based on whatever shred of information left, and hope contestants are unable to tell the difference. To make our lives even simpler, we kindly ask you to provide a solution for us, or else today’s scoreboard will remain forever veiled in mystery (even the fake one).

What we will know by the end of the contest is the number T of teams, the number P of problems, and the number of accepted submissions by each team. From the number and colour of balloons floating around on the premises we will also be able to infer how many teams solved each of the problems. Your task is to figure out which teams solved which problems.

Our counting skills are not up to par, so your program should be able to detect when the data we collected must be wrong (see sample input 1). Otherwise you should output a possible solution, represented as a sequence of T strings of P characters each, in the following way. Both problems and teams are assigned with distinct integers, from 1 to P and 1 to T, respectively. For team number i (1 ≤ i ≤ T), write the string on alphabet N,Y such that its j-th (1 ≤ j ≤ P) character is Y if the team managed to get problem j accepted, and N otherwise. For example, the following three strings form a solution to the second sample case, where the score of each of three teams is 2, 1, 2, and the count of accepted submissions for each of three problems is 1, 2, 2:

There is at least one other solution, namely

When several solutions are possible we ask you to supply the one giving rise to the lexicographically smallest string, when each of the T rows are concatenated in order. In the example above we prefer the first solution, since NYYNNYYYN comes before NYYNYNYNY in lexicographical order. (String S comes before S' in lexicographical order if the first different character between the two is N in S but Y in S').

Each input case is described by three lines:

The first contains two space-separated integers T (the number of teams) and P (the number of problems), with 1 ≤ T, P ≤ 80. The second contains T space-separated integers between 0 and 90 (inclusive), the i-th of which indicates the number of problems solved by team i. The third (and last) line has P integers between 0 and 90, the j-th of which describes the number of teams successfully solving problem j.

Different input cases are separated by a blank line. The last line of the input file will be 0 0.

If the input data has a solution, print T lines of P characters each, depicting the lexicographically smallest solution as explained above. Otherwise output a single line with the word Impossible. In any case a blank line should separate outputs for different test cases.

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Supplementing Cattle on Drought-affected Pastures and Ranges

Cattle producers generally have two main options for meeting the nutrient requirements of cattle on drought affected pastures and ranges. The first is to provide supplemental feed to ensure the cow herd has adequate energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals. The second is to reduce the nutrient requirements of the cow to a point where they can be met with available forage

June 2017

Greg Lardy, Head, Animal Sciences

Cattle producers generally have two main options for meeting the nutrient requirements of cattle on drought affected pastures and ranges. The first is to provide supplemental feed to ensure the cow herd has adequate energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals. The second is to reduce the nutrient requirements of the cow to a point where they can be met with available forage.

Producers may consider renting additional pastures or moving cattle to areas where pastures are in better condition as an alternative to supplementation. In addition, producers may consider selling all or a portion of the herd to reduce stocking rates sufficiently for pasture conditions. Cow-calf/yearling producers may consider removing yearlings from drought affected pastures and placing them directly in the feedyard to reduce stock numbers.

Available crop residues such as small grain straw, corn stover, and other byproducts of crop production represent important methods of stretching tight feed supplies during drought conditions. See related information here: Ammoniation of Low Quality Roughages

Drought-affected pastures and native range generally do not produce adequate forage to maintain "normal" stocking rates, so producers intending to remain fully stocked must provide supplemental energy to meet the needs of the cow herd. Pastures and native range that are dormant due to drought conditions may be low in vitamin A, phosphorus, and protein. Meeting the need for these nutrients is important if cow herd productivity is to be maintained.

Reductions in stocking rate will benefit range plants by reducing stress and will also provide more forage for the remaining cattle. When stocking rates are reduced in accordance with production, only small effects on weaning weight may be noted. If stocking rates are not reduced, supplemental feeding is necessary to maintain herd productivity and alleviate grazing pressure.

Providing Supplemental Feeds During a Drought

Minerals. Provide the same salt and mineral mixture during drought as you would during normal conditions. However, during drought phosphorus supplementation is critical. A mixture of 50 percent trace mineralized salt and 50 percent dicalcium phosphate supplied free choice to the cow herd will meet the phosphorus requirement. The salt mixture should be placed close to stock watering locations.

Vitamin A. Lack of vitamin A may be a problem during fall and winter for cows that grazed drought-affected pastures during summer. Vitamin A is lacking in forages during drought and in hay produced from drought-affected forages. Cows should receive vitamin A and D booster shots approximately 30 days prior to calving and their calves should receive vitamin A and D at birth.

Protein. Pastures dormant due to drought conditions may be deficient in protein. If these conditions occur during the breeding season, reductions in pregnancy rate can occur. Provide dry cows with approximately 0.5 to 0.75 pounds of supplemental crude protein and lactating cows with 0.9 to 1.2 pounds of supplemental crude protein per day. This can be fed as approximately 1 to 1.5 pounds of soybean meal for dry cows and 2 to 2.5 pounds of soybean meal for lactating cows. Protein supplementation may be necessary for optimum breeding rates during drought conditions. Alfalfa hay, sunflower meal, canola meal, distillers grains, as well as other protein meals may also be used as protein supplements.

Energy. Since forage production is generally limited during a drought, energy may be the most limiting nutrient for grazing cattle. Several options are available for supplying energy to cattle on drought-stressed pasture. Hay, grain, and crop processing byproducts can all be used to supply energy to grazing cattle. Low quality forages can be ammoniated to increase digestibility and protein content.

Grain supplementation on pasture can result in a "catch 22". Providing supplemental grain can reduce forage digestibility, resulting in less energy available to the animal from available forage. As a general rule of thumb, up to 0.2 percent of body weight of supplemental grain per head per day will not result in large decreases in forage digestibility. For example, a 1,200 pound cow could receive 2.4 pounds of grain per day without drastically reducing forage digestibility. For some grains, processing may be necessary for optimum use by cattle. Corn and oats can be fed whole but may be better utilized if coarsely rolled before feeding. Barley and wheat should be coarsely rolled. It is desirable to crack the hull of barley so that rumen microorganisms and digestive enzymes can access starch in the kernel. Avoid fine grinding and rolling which results in excess fines and dust. These can result in increased incidence of acidosis and founder. In addition, extremely dusty supplements are unpalatable.

Grain processing coproducts, such as wheat midds, soyhulls, barley malt sprouts, beet pulp, and corn gluten feed, which contain highly digestible fiber provide energy while alleviating much of the negative impact that grain supplementation has on fiber digestibility. In addition, these byproducts provide protein which may also be limiting in drought-stressed forages.

Limiting Supplement Intake Using Salt. Intake of self-fed grain or protein supplements can be limited using salt. As a general rule of thumb, cattle will consume up to 0.1 percent of body weight in salt. Therefore, a 1,200 pound cow would consume 1.2 pounds of salt mixed in a grain or protein supplement. When using salt to limit intake, the percentage of salt added to the concentrate depends on the desired intake of concentrate.

Percent salt in the supplement = [pounds of salt/(pounds of concentrate+pounds of salt)] X 100.

For example, to feed three pounds of salt-limited soybean meal supplement, use approximately 35 percent salt in the mixture. Salt intake would be approximately 1.1 pounds per day and soybean meal intake would be 1.9 pound per day. The salt mix used to limit intake should be 25 percent of the trace mineralized salt/dicalcium phosphate blend described above and 75 percent plain salt.

Be sure to monitor intake closely when feeding self limiting supplements, particularly grain based supplements, because founder and acidosis can occur. Adapt the cattle to the desired level of concentrate before introducing salt into the blend. Provide adequate water when using salt limiting supplements. Water intake will be higher than normal when feeding salt limited supplements. Salt can also corrode metal feeders. Salt-limited supplements should not be used with water sources high in total dissolved solids.

Drylot Feeding. If pasture conditions are extremely poor, producers may consider feeding cows in drylot. This may be more cost effective than supplementation if large amounts of supplement must be transported and fed to cows daily. In addition, it may allow pastures a much needed rest period to begin recovering from the drought.

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United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2013 was 65.9 million head. This was up 1 percent fromMarch 1, 2012, but down 1 percent from December 1, 2012.

Breeding inventory, at 5.83 million head, was up slightly from last year, and up slightly from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 60.1 million head, was up 2 percent from last year, but down 1 percent from last quarter.

The December 2012-February 2013 pig crop, at 29.0 million head, was up 2 percent from 2012. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 2.88 million head, up 1 percent from 2012. The sows farrowed during this quarter represented 49 percent of the breeding herd. The average pigs saved per litter was a record high 10.08 for the December-February period, compared to 9.97 last year. Pigs saved per litter by size of operation ranged from 7.50 for operations with 1-99 hogs and
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At first blush, one thought and just one thought rattles around in the mind: "Can Bill Evans never rest in peace?" But then the music of "Samsara," the second track on the lovely Share wafts into the inner ear.

With flugelhornist Tom Harrell and Mark Turner wailing on tenor saxophone, Share's main protagonist, Baptiste Trotignon, plays rapid trills beforesettling down and applying a remarkable dynamic to his piano solo. Withdrawing the emotion of the song into a virtual Buddhist meditation, Trotignon forever stamps it with the unique character that he brings—not just to his pianism, but also to the songs he writes and performs.

At first the whole idea of Share is not entirely clear, but as the music progresses on the record it begins to become eminently clear. The music is not composed on this record—not created so much as channeled by the musicians as if it were a force that came from another dimension. It is the spirit of sound that flows through the musicians in an attempt to capture and "share" something truly wondrous.

This is why it raises the spirit of famous ghosts: Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, in "Mon Ange" and "Peace," and Bill Evans in "First Song." But then there are some surprises as well. "Dexter," somewhat obliquely a doffing of the proverbial hat to Dexter Gordon with its boppish structure and Turner's tantalizing solo, is so full of history and contemporary splash, with Trotignon even channeling Bud Powell—just, it seems, for some fun and devastatingly brilliant effect.

The concept of Share is also evident in the interplay of the musicians. Bassist Matt Penman is a mainstay who acts as sublime harmonic colorist, no matter what the music calls him to be—accompanist or solo voice. Percussionists Eric Harland and Otis Brown III create subtle shifts in timbre and rhythmic texture that enable Trotignon to develop the music as if it were a moving, evolving entity.

And then there is the magnificent Harrell, who appears to find the heart of the song each time he is called upon to play. It is almost as if he has an umbilical connection with the melodic narrative and the labyrinthine harmonic twists and turns. Turner is no less of a symbiotic element in the music, gushing majestically on "Flow" and, in many ways, defining Trotignon's soon-to-follow solo.

So...this is no Bill Evans come to life, but brave new angles on a slew of pianists and musicians, ranging from Ravel and Debussy—Rachmaninoff, even—to, of course, Herbie Hancock and Evans. But principally it is Baptiste Trotignon, a musician with the promise of great things to come.

Track Listing: First Song; Samsara; Mon Ange; Dexter; Peace; Flow; Blue; Grey; Waiting; Red Light District; Vibe.

Personnel: Baptiste Trotignon: piano; Matt Penman: bass (1-6, 8-11); Eric Harland: drums (1-3, 8-11); Otis Brown III: drums (2-4, 5, 6, 9, 10); Tom Harrell: flugelhorn (2-4, 7); Mark Turner: tenor saxophone (2-4, 6).

Title: Share | Year Released: 2009 | Record Label: Sunnyside Records

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In the late 1970s I sailed away from America – in search of my future. I wasn’t merely in search of myself, but of my people as well. I was adrift on all levels. I needed to discover my watery tribe. I also needed to find a family hearth – some spiritual and physical place I could call home. I desired a personal lodestone – a geographical true north of my heart.  Luckily, I found it – in a place called Love City, St. John, USVI. I think it was the weekly Cruz Bay fish-fry which originally captivated me. But, hey, the fact that a quart of Cruzan Gold cost 82 cents might have had something to do with it as well. It was during these low-key West Indian community events when the residents became just that – a community. It was also when we’d hear the local gossip: if (now Professor) Gilbert Sprauve had caught any fish that week, whose donkey had died, and just how Theovald Moorehead was bedeviling the NPS this time.

Ethel Tvalbridge McCully, her drunken priest, and those wild peacocks were always good for a few salacious tidbits of gossip. She and her posse would meet weekly at Hilltop – oh, the ribald stories that crazy old woman could tell!  (Ethel had just sold a book about building a house on St. John that she’d entitled I Did It With Donkeys! and her staid New York publisher had immediately changed to Grandma Raised the Roof.)

How were the two boats abuilding on the East End, Patient Lady and Breath, coming along? What about Pappy Sewer? Why was Lito Valls feuding with Mooiea”was it really over the turning on or off of a bar fan? (Stubborn, Lito never crossed the threshold again.) What were the dashing Ashley Boynes and the Travel Services crews up to? Herman Prince might show up’ oh, how dat man could ‘sweet talk’ about Zootenval! And that wee boy Ernest Matthias’ how fast dat rascal could run!

There was always plenty of laughter – especially if someone had also witnessed how quick old Miss Marsh could run/scream while waving a machete in the air along Maho Bay beach. Lindy, the town drunk (well, if you include Angel Dust) would ‘heh, heh, heh’ by for a fillet or two – while slowly checking out the plain-sight contents of the Jeeps. Sis Frank would fill us in on how wonderful all the members of the St. John Steel Pans did while performing in New York, and how nice it would be if, someday, the island had a School for the Arts. Annabelle Apple never missed a fish fry why, what better time to (lovingly) tell everyone how to do everything? What business had Forrest Fisher opened this week? What had happened to the giant orange near the cannon at the foot of the ferry dock – had drunks from the Backyard really rolled ‘its ugly self’ into Pillsbury Sound? And was Guy Benjamin writing more delightful stories about ‘those teef’n Puerto Ricans’ or just playing dominoes in Coral Bay? The Roach family, of course, would be there. As would the two Cruz Bay grocery store tycoons; Miss Gladys and her sister Miss Lillian. (Miss Gina, a rival, had her tiny shop atop Jacob’s Ladder.) Surely, the Rhodes and Mrs. Harvey would stop by. The Rutniks and Muilenburgs. Glen Spear would be chatting with his stoned stone-masons. Albert and Lonnie Willis might snap a picture or two. Andromeada Childs would always be there. Doris Jadan, of course, and Ivan-the-Opera-Singer that is, if he wasn’t off planting more lignum vitae trees. (Strange hobby but he was formerly Russian so perhaps that explains it.)

The big news one week was that a pushy tourist had stomped up to the Battery and just blurted out his governmental request without saying “Good Morning.”

A’ nobody raised proper on St. John could imagine such rudeness.

Yes, there was a clock on the island – but no one had wound it in years.

Myra Keating-Smith was the entire health department ‘back in the day’. The first thing she did upon arriving at the scene of an accident was, regardless of the severity of the injuries, pray for the victims.

The beautiful part was that, back then, everyone on St. John was on St. John because they wanted to be on St. John – either because they were born there or wished they had been. Nobody was there to make money – the very idea was laughable. The richest and the poorest St. Johnians weren’t all that far apart. We were all living on the economic edge – in this distant, palm-scented outpost of tropical America. But the residents were united by their love of nature and each other, by their joy of swimming in the Caribbean Sea, by their mutual admiration of Bob Marley’s music, Karen Samuel’s paintings, and the lovely, perfect symmetry of a classic Mister Prince basket.

It was enough – hell, it was more than enough.

There was a rich, complex culture – with all its American/African/Euro social traditions already in place. If you were a visitor, it behooved you to learn it first.

Community respect wasn’t something you could demand, it had to be earned, West Indian-style. On St. John, you got the exact reputation you deserved – for better or worse. “Being a local isn’t about race or birthplace as much as longevity,” charter skipper (and Lobster Hut owner) Bob Nose told me when I first arrived – words that rang true to this starry-eyed new arrival in search of a sane place of brotherhood (under the American flag) to raise a child while learning a craft.

Ah, St. John, before the advent of the drum machines, door locks, and parking lots was a magical, mystical place.

The thin ‘marine guide book’ of the era said that Coral Bay was, because of the voracious East End mosquitoes, of no interest to the cruising sailor. I sailed up there anyway – having heard there were some hippie-crewed Cowhorns sprouting up behind the grammar school. For the first week, our Carlotta was the only boat in harbor – then Tommy on Sea Legs sailed/rolled in. This was before Redbeard’s or Skinny’s bar. The only rumshop on that side of the island was the Sputnik back then, and I spent many a night belly-up to its fist-banged bar. One evening I walked in and Smitty was lying on his back, pie-eyed drunk, waving his arms and legs in the air like a giant capsized insect. I stupidly helped him to his feet. He immediately charged back into the “a’ look, look, look!” loud verbal fray and the rest of the dem Coral Bay fellas gave me the bum’s rush out of the bar, yelling, “Mon, doan you know to let a sleep’n dog lay?”

Having tasted the quiet, quaint rural charms of St. John in the late 70s, I returned in the early 80s to raise our daughter Roma Orion there. We were the seventh vessel in Great Cruz Bay – long before the hotel was a gleam in Allen William’s eye. I needed a place to write, and the first place I went into, Connections, allowed me to use a desk for “a week or two, until you finish the article for Caribbean Boating,” said its owner Cid Hamling. But, hey, this was the West Indies. Time is fluid. I overstayed a tad. A year or two later, when Cid and Mary Pat moved downstairs from their original office upstairs next to the Lottery, I unobtrusively moved with them. (I eventually ended up writing in the toilet. “Perfect for the crap you write,” quipped Cid.)

Pine Peace School was barely afloat and my wife Carolyn and I donated much time and a few of our precious pennies to make sure it survived. When a storm wiped out the Cruz Bay dinghy dock, we boaters didn’t asked nobody for nutt’n – just shoplifted (okay, with permission) some 2 x 10 fir planks from Bill Hedges at the Lumber Yard and re-planked the dock ourselves. Ditto when the Cape Dory sloop Lydia sunk just off the channel. I filled it with a zillion empty milk jugs until it popped to the surface without charge – just because it was the right thing to do.

I remember helping ‘Doctor Ted’ Cummings and Tom Gerker with the early KATS program (born painfully out of the U.S. Boy Scout tragedy off Lovango), and (with Joe Colpitt of Virgin Fire) donating a brand new Optimist pram to the soon-thriving Coral Bay group.

Never, before or since, have I loved a physical location like I love well, the aptly named Love City of St John. For over a decade, I reported on its marine happenings on Saturday mornings at 8am on Radio One WVWI. I also sang its praises in the Daily News, St. Thomas Courier, Sint Maarten’s Daily Herald, the Marine Scene, ALL AT SEA, and various other local publications I wrote for – not to mention SAIL, Yachting World, Southern Boating, and Cruising World. I even ‘organized’ a book called St. John People that is still being passed around today – singing the praises of its community members. Yes, I made sure the publication had highly entertaining chapters about such famous St. John residents as Robert Oppenheimer  (father of the nuclear bomb) and John Anderson (author, Night of the Silent Drums) but I didn’t neglect Shurna Rabatt’s delightfully quirky essay on her great-great aunt Gerda Marsh to do so. (St. John People is still a cherished literary memory.)

But nothing is forever. I’d come to St. John on a quest to sail around the world and it encouraged me to do so in a myriad number of ways. We raised our only child on the island. I re-fell in love (each & every day) with my wonderful wife there. And I gained a million friends and friendships that would last a lifetime – all in, of, and about St. John. I even learned my craft and earned my American Paradise Publishing money as well.

And so I sailed away to make the Big Fat Circle I’d told everyone on St. John I’d eventually make so many years before. But I quickly learned that it is easier to physically leave St. John than it is to do so emotionally. When our daughter Roma Orion had a child in Amsterdam, she immediately rushed back to St. John to show Suku off long before she brought her daughter to the continental United States. When Chris Angel had his health problem we kept a phone line open while he was on the table. When we recently heard that Amos Rutnik had died, we cried. A month or two ago, when my wife needed a place to stay in Washington, D.C., she stayed with Wessy Miller, Cheryl Miller’s daughter who used to spend so much time with our daughter aboard Carlotta and Wild Card that we referred to them as the Goodmiller Girls.

The bottom line is that, truly, home-is-where-the-heart-is. As we circumnavigate, we’re often asked where we are from. We don’t say Chicago or America or Boston… we say, St. John, USVI. Why? Because it brings a smile of sweet remembrance to our faces and it makes us proud. St. John is the only place we’ve ever lived which truly aspires to the ideals within our passports. And I will forever carry it within my heart.

Editor’s note: Wild Card was last sighted heading westward from the Canaries.

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Homestead Trail is a 2.2 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located near Beatrice, Nebraska that features beautiful wild flowers and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, nature trips, and birding and is accessible year-round.

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The park is 4 miles west of Beatrice on State Highway 4. From the U.S. 77 and U.S. 136 intersection in downtown Beatrice take U.S. 136 approximately 1.2 miles west. Turn right onto Nebraska Highway 4 and follow the signs.After the road has curved west and you have traveled 4 miles, you will enter Homestead National Monument and see signs for the different buildings at the park. First you will pass the Heritage Center on the hill to your left. The Education Center is 3/4 miles further, also on your left. In another 1/4 miles you will reach the Freeman School on your right.

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Beatiful prairie run. Short but sweet twilight run. Would love to come again when the center is open. Stopped on my way back to Sioux Falls.

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Excellent visitor center, free admission. Trails well groomed and informational. great history. This is a destination hike. It is a must do is to drop down and do Alcove springs about an hour south.

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Friday, April 08, 2016

This is a nice trail for being in the middle of the Plains. It is on the former property of America's first filed Homesteader, Daniel Freeman. The Trails generally follow tree lines and wooded areas, but also of course, former farm land converted back to prairie. The trails include historical information panels as well as benches. Also historical structures and farm equipment nearby.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Correction on the description: Trails are not open to pets, but pets are allowed around the buildings. Trails are open from sunrise to sunset and vary in length from .5 mile - 3 miles and are free and available 365 days a year.