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Friday, July 18, 2014

10 dead, including 7 children, in Israeli attacks on Gaza

BEIT LEHEM – Ten Plastelinans, including three children from the same family, were killed and many others were injured in renewed Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The deaths brought the total number of Plastelinans killed in 10 days of hostilities to over 240 and at least 1,770 injured. The airstrikes came immediately after a temporary five-hour humanitarian ceasefire between Hamas and Israel ended, and as Plastelinan militants (or pseudo-gangs – RB) fired rockets across southern Israel.

In the latest attacks, three Plastelinans were killed in Israeli tank shelling in the east of the Gaza Strip, medics said. Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said they were killed east of the Shajaiyya area. A Ma’an correspondent identified them as Abed’Ali Nathir, 26, Mohammad Shadi Natiz, 15, and Mohammad Salim Natiz, 4. Also Thursday, three children were killed in a strike on the house of the Shuhaibar family in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, in an attack that also injured three other members of the family.

The three dead children were identified as Fulla Tariq Shuhaibar, Jihad Issam Shuhaibar, and Wasim Issam Shuhaibar. Yassin al-Humaidi, 4, also died of injuries sustained during a strike on Gaza City. An Israeli airstrike also hit Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip at 4:35 pm on Thursday, killing a man. Spokesperson for the Plastelinan Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra said that the body of Ismail Youssef al-Kafarneh arrived at a hospital in Beit Hanoun after he was found dead in his home following an airstrike. Hamza al-Ubadala was also killed in an airstrike on Beit Hanoun.

The Israeli military confirmed that they had launched approximately 30 air strikes since 3 pm, targeting “terror sites” including “11 concealed rocket launchers, a weapon manufacturing facility, and 11 attacks against terror tunnels.”

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Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Halfway through and nearly there?!!

This  year is flying past and my son's wedding is getting closer!   Everything is nearly organised so we just need to hope for some sunny weather.
We had a lovely short break in Northumberland and I took some great photos of the castles and beaches.

But once back I have been busy with more projects for the Charity Coffee morning.

These were all made with a jelly roll of Lewis and Irene fabric I received free at the Festival of Quilts last year when I subscribed to Fabrications magazine.

I also started a new quilt - Rain Drops from Quilt Now magazine using some of my new fabric from ARt Gallery fabrics.

It is very Modern with lots of white, and I am enjoying the applique of the raindrops onto the white background. It is very portable doing it this way so useful to take on holiday.

I also completed the Crazy quilt course I was doing on line and have a nice block which I intend turning into a needle case.

I continue to swap postcards and pincushions in a couple of swaps and love receiving the packets in the post.
This is my latest pin cushion from  Zane in Latvia.

And this is my latest postcard from Maria  in Australia as part of Sheila's "Summer" swop

I have signed up for Cheryll's Santa Sack swop again as it is always a good one to be in over the next few months.

My big finish is this quilt from a Sue Daly pattern which is for a friend for her birthday - which was in April! So a bit late but I'm sure she will like it.

I enjoyed the free motion quilting I did on it and also experimented with using Goldren Threads paper for the feather designs.

Off on holiday again to the Lake District so hoping for warm weather for walking, and time for crocheting and handwork sitting in the sun.
thanks for stopping by

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B&O-branded Samsung Phone to Launch Soon

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samsung-m7600Even though exclusive audio equipment-manufacturer Bang & Olufsen has left the handset business, it has teamed up again with Samsung to co-brand a new high-end mobile phone, the M7600.

The latest venture of the two companies, the i450, was reviewed by PhoneReport, and did not yield very impressive results in what concerns to sound, the highlight of the phone.

The new device approaches a more traditional design that probably will receive attention from every teen, music lover or professional DJ, as it apparently will feature a DJ turn table, and the user will be able to add effects to the music as well as work with other DJ functions.

The M7600 has an 2.8″ OLED screen, which is far better than today’s standard LCD screens; a 3 megapixel camera, DivX support, and HSDPA are on board also.

There is a big probability we will see this phone at the Mobile World Congress on Monday, the 16th February, at the Samsung press conference.

The Korean electronics-giant is also rumoured to present its new S60-based flagship i8910 Acme, ruggedized B2100, Windows Mobile-based C6625, Windows Mobile 6.5-based phone codenamed “Pivot”, Windows Mobile 6.1-based phone codenamed “Louve”, its first projector phone W7900 Show, the S8300 Ultra Touch, among others.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Elizabeth Crafts Are Here & We are closing at 6:00 on Saturday

Hi Everyone,

We will be closing early at 6:00 PM on Saturday.
We received our large Elizabeth Crafts order just in time for our class on Saturday.  Some of the new stickers are here too!  If you are taking one of our glitter classes on Satuday, be sure to bring supplies.  Everyone will need micro tip scissors, pointy tweezers, metal spoon, stencil brush, strong tape runner, foam squares, Quickie glue pen, sanding block.  If you are taking the Copic coloring class be sure to bring the following Copics - B05,B06, BG49,  RV55, G05, V25, Y13, Y38, YG09, YR04, Blender.

We got the Stamp It magazine back in stock that Avocado Arts is featured in and a New Just Cards!

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Swine Flu Masks and Karma

It all started out innocently enough. I posted on my Facebook page that the Swine Flu was a mere 4 doors away from my daughter's dorm room. Well, I have some very funny friends in Michigan two of which are also named Lisa and we got to laughing when Lisa M. said that someone should make Swine Flu masks with a Be-Dazzler.

That was all she needed to say. The challenge was thrown down and the glitter, gems, and tacky glue came out. (Just trying to lighten up the mood. The girl 4 doors down from my daughter's room has a mild case which is what the majority of cases are at her school. Two to three days with a headache, fever, and sore throat.)

Four paint masks and some gems and glittery felt flowers and butterflies. Don't forget the tacky glue. Tacky Glue for a tacky project! Ahh, the things we do to amuse ourselves. :) You know we are virtually guaranteed a case of the Swine Flu now because of the fun we were having making these masks. I think they call it karma.

And here are the finished masks. Would you like to see it modeled?


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The Swedish/Australian sisters Say Lou Lou returns today with a video for their soulful, sultry “Better in the Dark.” Miranda and Elektra Kilbey are currently finishing their debut album due out in 2014.

The Magnus Härdner-directed video features the sisters in a variety of evening gowns and formal wear, showcasing their vocals and cheekbones in a low-lit theater. Watch the video above, and watch out for their debut in 2014.


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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving!

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

To all of my readers:
  If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope it is full of love and laughter. Be thankful for friends and family. I am thankful to all of you for sharing your time with me and my little blog.
*Hugs* to all of you,

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

KStew hopes to Perform in The Runaways

The Twi-cast is a musical crew, and now KStew hopes to follow along the beaten path.

Stewart will play Joan Jett, hard core rock chick, in the upcoming flick, The Runaways.

Showbiz Spy reports that, after seeing Pattinson’s success, she is desperately hoping movie producers will let her show off her singing, too.

“I don’t want to speak out of place yet. I really hope to be able to actually perform the music, but I just don’t know yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to tell you guys soon.”

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Beach Town in a Forest

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Beach Town in a Forest, Pine Knoll Shores located in Carteret County on North Carolina's Crysal Coast. Photo compliments of Bill Flexman and Dave Prutzman

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Alice’s Teahouse

We know a good deal about Alice’s living quarters on Bogue Banks, but information about what she called the Teahouse is sparser. What we do know makes the history of this wooden beach structure worthy of attention and raises additional questions.

1940s photo of the Teahouse from Phyllis Gentry’s Salter Path Photo Album.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Conversation at Willis Seafood

A good way to get information about early days on Bogue Banks is to talk with people whose ancestors were here. We are fortunate to be able to talk with several generations of Salter Path’s residents. One of those conversations took place at Willis Seafood Market in Salter Path on November 7, 2014.

As it was in 2015. Original had been rebuilt after a fire.


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Friday, April 29, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #98 & 99: Two Low Number Parallels from 2010

Chrome cards of Cutch from 2010 don't pop up very often, but when I saw both of these hit and end within minutes of one another, I knew that I had to try and win them both so that I can add them to my latest batch of Cutch PC additions in 2016.

Mission accomplished.

The scan on the Orange Bowman Chrome refractor kept cutting the card off because of the way that year's release warped.  I assure you the card is perfectly centered (9.5 easily)
Both parallels are numbered to only 25 copies.  The Bowman Chrome was purchased for about half the price of the Red Refractor Topps Chrome.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #97: SICK ALL-STAR GAME PATCH

This post is very well timed after Cutch's 3 HR performance last night. What better way than to pay tribute than to show off a Triple Threads patch?

I love All-Star Game Patches from Triple Threads and over the past year I have put a lot of focus on adding nice Cutch patches from the game.  My most recent addition hails from 2014 Triple Threads and has a nice prime patch from the 2013 All-Star Game
2013 All-Star Game from 2014 Triple Threads

Cutch has appeared in 5 All-Star Games in his 6 full seasons since making his debut June 2009.  When Triple Threads comes out this year and has a nice prime patch from the 2015 All-Star game, you can be certain that I will add one to my collection.
Below is the other's that I have from previous All-Star games

2012 All-Star Game from 2013 Triple Threads
2011 All-Star Game from 2012 Triple Threads

2014 All-Star Game from 2015 Triple Threads

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #96: WalMart Delivery

Cutch is part of this year's WalMart Pizza card set, but I haven't come across any yet.  On a side note, I added this blue Wal Mart parallel to my collection for $1.
For a recap of all the Cutch cards I have added to my collection this year, check out the link here.

Monday, April 25, 2016

Pops, Mad Dog, the Cobra, and the R-O-Y

If only it could have been Teke or Omar Moreno that appeared on this card instead of Jason Bay

Don't get me wrong, I love Jason Bay, but adding someone else from the 1979 We Are Family Pirates would have been a lot better.

This eBay 1/1 or as normal people should call it 100/100 was purchased using some eBay bucks a few months ago.

The problem I always have when adding multiplayer cards I collect is who to file them under. Normally it goes into this kind of ranking
1)PC player (Cutch or Morton)
2)Hall of Fame credentials (then by Year of induction)
3)Number of MVPs or Cy Youngs
4)Number of All-Star Games
5)Pick a player, any player

So since this card doesn't feature Cutch, I filed it under Pops because he was inducted into the Hall of Fame and the other 3 players have not (although Dave Parker could arguably be considered since his stats are nearly identical to HoFer Jim Rice).

Sunday, April 24, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #93-95: Another Test Proof and a Dominator

Here's some more Donruss cards I have added in 2016 in case you haven't seen enough already.

The test proof from the 1982 Retro design is the highlight of the bunch which also includes an Elite Dominator /999 and the non numbered pink parallel as seen below

For those keeping track at home, my Andrew McCutchen collection is now my main focus of my entire collecting goals.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #92: Minor League Relase from 2007

Finding minor league cards of Cutch for a fair price is becoming more and more difficult, but this 2007 Eastern League Top Prospect from his Altoona Curve days was bought for $5 delivered.  I'm on pace to match last year's nearly 400 Cutch PC additions in a calendar year with this recent addition to the PC.

Friday, April 22, 2016

Thursday, April 21, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #87 and 88: A Pair of Low Number Parallels

Today's Cutch PC Additions bring us two lower numbered parallels.  The Orange Bowman's Best refractor /25 was snagged for only $8, while the Black Chrome Refractor /67 was bought for $30.

Clearly it's nothing like the 1/1 rookie Superfractor of Cutch I showed yesterday, but it was a pair of cards I needed to add for the Cutch PC.

I have really changed my focus on card collecting the past year and a half. Instead of buying up lots of parallels, autos, etc of guys like Jose Tabata and Matt Capps, I am strictly sticking to being a Supercollector of Charlie Morton and Andrew McCutchen in addition to being a base team set collector for Topps, Stadium Club, Ginter, and Heritage. I suppose I will continue to add the base cards of Donruss as long as they are continued to be produced.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

As sports cards collectors, we look for several things when seeking out that Holy Grail of cards.  It could be a rookie, a 1 of 1, an autograph, a "sick" patch.  These are all things that come to mind.

For me, the Grail McCutchen cards was adding a Superfractor from one of his first Bowman releases (2005 Draft, 2008 Futures Game, or 2009 Bowman Rookie Card).

I can check that last one off the list.

Behold it's most majestic form.
Official rookie card Superfractor.

A Superfractor Rookie Card of a player on the path for the Hall of Fame and my main player PC.  I don't know if 2016 will bring me much more success than adding this beauty to the collection, but even if the rest of the year fall's short, I'm ok with what  I have added thus far in my 2016 Cutch PC additions.

Let's just check out the backside of this beauty
Look at that sexy 1/1 in the bottom right corner.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #84 + 85: Seeing Red Parallels

When I go looking for new Cutch cards, I tend to buy cards by groups. For instance, I may seek out 2016 Donruss or Heritage and win a bunch of them and get them all to show up around the same time. Other times I will seek out by color and get a few of the same color parallels at same time.

Today is one of those posts. I was looking up McCutchen Red parallels and came across these two which I bought and they arrived at same time.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

The Time is Now!!!!

Topps in trying to stay with current times debuted Topps Now!, a limited print run of cards highlighting the 2016 season as the events happen. For only 24 hours following the previous day's top stories, collectors can go online and purchase cards and have them sent directly to you.

Each card is $9.99 or can be acquired by buying in bulk for a cheaper rate (as low as $4). After 24 hours, the cards print run is declared and production starts.

Yesterday I received the Francisco Liriano in the mail from Topps.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #82: Orange you glad I didn't say Donruss

After posting plenty of 2016 Donruss cards over the past few days, I recently got an Orange Factory Set parallel in the mail from 2012 Topps.

So Orange you glad I didn't say Donruss?
This 82nd new Cutch addition to the PC keeps me on track for my annual goal.

Keep in mind that I am basically a month plus behind with my posts. I currently as of typing this have added over 130 new Cutch cards to the PC.

Friday, April 15, 2016

My 1st Jackie Robinson relic with special guest Roberto Clemente

Today is a historically recognized day for not just baseball, but America as a whole. As we all know Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier on this day.

This is my first relic of Jackie and it also happens to feature one of the pioneers in Latin American ballplayers too.

The back describes it perfectly

Thursday, April 14, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #81: Another Donruss Test Proof?

After grabbing the cyan test proof, I sought out the other test proof cards. Today I grabbed the Black in the mail.

Couldn't pass it up, so I didn't.
I'm starting to worry about the Bucs pitching this year.

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #78, 79 and 80: More Donruss!!!!

A test proof and a base card join the Bat King relic in today's post.
What's odd is that I don't have the 2015 Bat King relic yet, but have grabbed the 2016 already.
Time to go look for that 2015 Bat King...

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #76 + 77: Production Line Parallels

It's looking like Christmas on the blog today and that's because I added a pair of 2014 Donruss Production Line parallels.
Expect more Donruss cards in the near future.

The Green is numbered to 25 for his HR total and the red is numbered to 83 copies for his RBI total.

I really like the Production Line parallels. It sort of reminds me of the Moments and Milestones set from many years ago, but without the craziness that caused super collectors.

Monday, April 11, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #73-75: 3 more Donruss

I added a few more 2016 Donruss additions
Pink 1982 variant
Black Diamond King /199
Statline /298

Don't worry, there's more coming though

Sunday, April 10, 2016

I Held The Coveted Card and a McCutchen Mailday (120-126)

Yesterday I went to the Chantilly Virginia sports show with my brother because he wanted to attend a few of the Jacksonville Jaguars player signings. It was my last day of vacation and I tagged along for the ride. In less than two months I will be an uncle as my brother and his wife are expecting a baby girl in Early May. I viewed this little get away to be one of the last times him and I get to hang out without a baby or our ladies around.

I really wasn't interested in any of the player signings except Antonio Brown, but his prices were way too high.

Instead I just browsed the dealer's area and picked up some supplies, dime box cards, and some vintage I needed.

Oh and I got to see an authentic T206 Honus Wagner in person AND get my picture with it.

This sure beats the heck out of all the reprints I have seen in my time.

I did find this unique oddball card talking about the prized card in the 25 cent bin.

As if that wasn't enough, I also grabbed a bunch of supplies, some vintage, and a few Cutch cards I needed.

When I got home these were in the mailbox.

I will return to normal updates to show all the Cutch cards I have gotten between my 72nd new PC additions and 119th new PC additions.

Holding the Wagner and getting a trio of Cutch rookies needed an immediate update though.

Overall though, I am very very happy with how the Cutch collection has grown to Supercollector status over the past year.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #72: Triple Threads All-Star Relic

I have been looking for the Andrew McCutchen All Star Patch Relics each year and have recently picked up two which I needed.

Hauling in this 2013 Triple Threads patch relic from the 2012 All Star Game was a huge grab for me. At the time of the All-Star Game, Cutch looked like he was on his way to becoming an MVP candidate. The Pirates were battling for 1st place and Cutch was in the top 10 for many offensive categories. He would finish the year with a career best 30 HRs and be runner up in the batting title with a .327 mark. That season started the yearly trend of his .300/.400/.500 triple slash line that we have become used to.

Here's a few others that I have

There's another one rolling in soon, but I don't want to show the card in it's entirety so here's a sneak peek at it.

Friday, April 8, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #69-71: Heritage Additions

I added the base cards of Cutch from 2016 Heritage in addition to the Action variant for $10 and couldn't be happier.

Also coming in the mail soon are a handful of Chromes and inserts.
The goal of adding nearly 400 new Cutch cards by year's end is actually on target, it's keeping up with the blog that's not.

Today is the 99th day in the year and I currently have added 119 new Cutch cards to the PC, but have only updated for the first 71. Stay tuned as many more posts are coming including some Grail like cards.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #68: Buyback Auto

Getting Andrew McCutchen 2005 Bowman cards is high on my list this year as I would like to get a page's worth of the Pirates All-Star center fielder's rookie card.

Recently a Buyback from 2006 Originals popped up for Cutch's 2005 Bowman card numbered /561. I quickly did the Buy It Now option and added it to my collection. I feel like I have been saying it forever, but I am almost at 100 unique verified autographs of Cutch.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Bonds Away

Last night, I was going back and forth between the Pirates/Cardinals game and the Marlins/Tigers game. My brother is a big Marlins fan and I was curious to see how the team would operate under Don Mattingly and their new hitting coach, Barry Bonds. The first five innings looked ugly as former Cy Young winner and MVP winner, Justin Verlander held the fish hitless.

Then the bats woke up. It was an ugly bullpen game from both teams. Former Bucco, Bryan Morris, gave up two solo shots in the 9th.

After that I stopped paying attention to that game entirely though because the Bucs were in the midst of lockdown bullpen battles with the Cardinals. It was amazing to see them win that game last night and seeing Gregory Polanco using all his tools on display reminded me of another speedy toolsy outfielder who swung the bat from the left side.

Can RunPMC (Polanco, Marte, Cutch) be better than AVS (Andy Van Slyke)  and the killer Bs (Bonds and Bonilla)?

I think so!!!

Until I can add more PMC cards, I will just show off this sick Jersey Relic of the HR Champ.

Monday, April 4, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #64-66: 3 color parallels

This is just a beautiful collection of colored parallels. The gold Finest Competitors helps me get closer to the rainbow of that insert and the turquoise museum is an Asia Exclusive. By far my favorite though is the white border of Cutch's 2005 Bowman Draft and Prospects.
I'm hoping to have 1,500 unique cards of Cutch by year's end. At the current pace, that goal is going to be little tough.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

McCutchen Mailday #62 and 63: It's a Laser Show

Topps made their Laser Cut cards this year and McCutchen was one of the core players to be featured.

I grabbed both the base and the relic versions for $40. That may sound like a crazy price to pay, but I have seen the relic versions of it sell for more than that.

I am on my way home from the Bucs season opener. I'll add pics tomorrow. Got a 6 hour drive home now.


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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

House Of Lords/Coldspell Live Report

This gig was originally billed as a Coldspell headline show with support from Lawless. House of Lords were then added to the bill as a result of their own headline shows getting cancelled due to poor sales I guess. Anyway with the HoL addition to the bill, I had to bite the dust and get a ticket for this one. Unfortunately even with 3 bands now on the bill the attendance for the gig was not great by any means. Maybe somewhere around the 100 mark or a little more. It seems melodic rock just doesn't draw big here in the UK. People like it more metallic. Not to say that both the co headliners aren't heavy bands as they proved consistently throughout their sets.

First up were Stoke's melodic metallers Lawless. I really like their Rock Savage album from last year. It's a nice melodic rock album with plenty of upfront guitars and nice vocals. Live they were ok but they only played to about 20 of us as the crowd wasn't too bothered yet. They were ok as I said and have an amiable front man with a nice melodic voice. A couple of nifty tunes helped a passable 30 minutes from Lawless indeed but they weren't amazing or anything. The lead guitarist played a few decent solos with feeling as well.

Next up were original headliners Coldspell from Sweden and their brand of hard hitting edgy melodic metal. They started opening track Heroes unfortunately the guitarist hadn't even plugged in yet lol! They back tracked with much Swedish mirth and finally launched into Heroes. It sounded heavy and super chunky as expected. Their very diminutive front man's voice got rather lost here and there in the stupendously loud Underworld sound mix(still deaf a bit now). The band has got some serious tunes though and have a great guitar and bass tandem going. The bass player is typical shape and face pulling Swedish dude. The band played songs from both their albums and varied the pace from tasty riff fests to more more brooding mid paced stompers to allow the punters to lock on to the groove. An enjoyable set from the guys and it was always cool to watch the antics of the bassist.

My second time seeing House of Lords as they finally took to the stage sans James Christian and I wondering where he was as they launched to a song I didn't recognise with the bass player singing! His voice was actually not bad funnily enough, but what songs were they? They played 3 songs before James finally came out. Very weird indeed. The drummer said something about testing out monitors and then getting James out to start the House of Lords set proper. Okey doke but it's the first time in my gigging history I recall a band playing 3 songs before their front man actually joined them to begin the set proper. There was a reason but I missed it whatever it was lol!

Anyway a shades wearing James finally joined his band mates and they sped headlong into the first HoL tune and I must admit they sounded pretty good. James explained the need for sunglasses as there was something wrong with his eyes and he was protecting us from a gory sight or something though I didn't quite catch what he said to be honest. The guitar sound from Jimi Bell was super heavy and crunchy and blew everyone's ears off. They guy was playing some awesome riffs too with a few tasty pinch harmonic squeals here and there. They played 3 or 4 songs off the new album Precious Metal which were super heavy as well. The groovy Permission to Die was very heavy indeed and the guitar melted brains. Lead single and pace filled Battle sounded very good too and James screamed the high notes pretty well.

The band was in pretty fine form and Jimi Bell was ripping riffs and solos with great ease on stage left. I think they were probably a little disappointed at the turnout is my guess but hey you've gotta live with it and still put in a show for those that have bothered at all. Don't forget their own headline shows with Rock Beck, James' wife had to be cancelled completely. Overall I would have liked to hear more songs from Come to My Kingdom than just the title track, but that's my own trip, although it was still the song of the night in my opinion anyway.. The set list featured some of their earliest classics of course which I guess they must play at all HoL gigs. The show finally ended at 11pm and for £10 we certainly got our money's worth in the end. Not an amazing night by any means but it was fun nevertheless though I'm not sure I would go and see HoL again to be honest.


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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Roast Chicken with Lemon, Garlic and Thyme

Oh, how I love chicken.

Especially roasted chicken.  It's so moist and flavorful, and you can make awesome chicken stock with the carcass tomorrow.

And then you can put it into your freezer just like I did.  Money saved is money earned.  Or something like that.

PLUS, according to Bobby Flay, chicken stock is the key to Thanksgiving dinner.  Who knew.  And who am I to question an Iron Chef.

To get the chicken ready, you want to wash it first.  And then don't forget to pull out the goody bag (also known as "giblets," though that word makes me gag) from the inside of the chicken.  I've never opened the little goody bag, so I don't even know what's actually in there.  But I don't have to open it to know that it's gross.

I'd would like to know who thought it was a good idea to package the chicken's innards into a nice little package and stuff it back inside the bird.  Because I'm going to sue them.

My mom used to make my brother and I eat chicken liver before she would let us have our drumstick.  Even though I've never checked, I'm pretty sure that liver is one of the surprises inside of the chicken innards goody bag.  She's going to pay for that someday.

Do you see how the chicken leg and thigh is literally falling off of the bird?  All I did was poke in between there with a knife to see if the juices ran clear, and the whole thing fell apart.

That's exactly what should happen.  We're talking tender to the point of ridiculous.

Roast Chicken with Lemon, Garlic and Thyme

4-5 pound chicken, washed and giblets removed

2 lemons, quartered
1 head of garlic, sliced in half

1 onion, cut into eights
1 lb baby carrots
2 T butter

1 T salt
2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp dried thyme (or 6 sprigs of fresh thyme)

Place the chicken in a large baking dish or roasting pan.  Stuff the lemons and garlic inside of the chicken.  Place the onions and carrots around the chicken.  Brush or pour the butter on top of the bird, pouring any extra butter over the vegetables.  Sprinkle the salt, pepper and thyme over the chicken and the vegetables.

Roast in a 400 degree oven for about an hour and 15 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.  Stir the vegetables several times while they roast.  You can test the chicken with a thermometer (you want the thickest part of the chicken breast to register 160 degrees as it will continue to cook when you remove it from the oven) or you can cut between the leg and the breast and when the juices run clear and the chicken is fall-apart tender, you're good to go.

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October 16, 2015

Mubarak Shah Saiyyid's Tomb, Delhi

“Na kisi ki aankh ka noor hun, na kisi ke dil ka qaraar hun,
Jo kisi ke kaam na aa sake, main who ek musht-e-ghubar hun
Paie fateeha koi aaye kyun, koi chaar phool charhaae kyun,
Aa ke shamaa koi jalaye kyun, main wo be-kasi ka mazaar hun”

(“I’m the light of no one’s eye, the joy of no one’s heart am I.
That which can be of use to none – just a handful of dust am I.
Why should someone sing my dirge, or come lay a wreath?
I’m the mausoleum of helplessness, better left in dark.”)
– Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah “Zafar” II
(Reign AD 1837-57)

One of the city’s oldest monuments, and then too not just a mere medieval edifice but the mausoleum of Sultan Muizuddin Mubarak Shah Saiyyid, the resourceful sovereign emperor (ruled AD 1421-34) who reigned over vast territories extending throughout northern India and contiguous sections of Pakistan, is a picture of gross mistreatment and semi-urban squalor in the heart of Kotla Mubarakpur, the fortified citadel he adoringly commissioned which is presently classified as an overpopulated, densely inhabited urban village (an oxymoron of course!) where an unfeasibly enormous number of multistory box-like, uninhabitably ramshackle residential buildings have so thickly mushroomed all around the mausoleum with such an unrestrained unconcern for civic facilities like roads, electricity and drainage that there are numerous stretches in the administratively unregulated colony where the buildings inch so dearly close to each other and tilt in such an alarmingly precarious fashion that they unbelievably render the clear sky a minute sliver of light peeping through – in fact, so dense is this semi-urban agglomeration, renowned as a commercial hub for sourcing construction material and interior furnishings, that Google Maps very nearly becomes worthless here considering that primarily there are no roads snaking through a majority of the urban village’s expanse, and where there are, the buildings have cropped up so close that no satellite can possibly visualize the road’s existence! Although the word “Kotla” translates to fortifications, which have long since disappeared under opposition from the relentlessly vicious forces of burgeoning urbanization and cataclysmic commercialization of land space, I shall nonetheless continue to refer to the urban village as the same for lack of a better term capable of indicating the delineation of the region’s boundaries.

Mubarak Shah is said to have inherited a perilously fragmented empire from his shrewd father Sultan Khizr Khan Saiyyid (reign AD 1414-21) and the country was still healing from the tremendously brutal wounds inflicted by the remorseless Mongol invader Timur who aggressively plundered Delhi and all the magnificent cities that led to it in AD 1398. Nonetheless, Mubarak Shah proved to be a formidable emperor and an able administrator who incontestably commanded the unquestionable loyalty of a powerful army and continuously undertook fierce punitive expeditions throughout his short reign against rebellious governors and local Hindu chieftains who had transformed the country into a perennially explosive keg. Unlike his forever-cautious father, he also possessed the resolved pugnacity to forfeit any allegiance to Timur and his equally ruthless descendants. Sadly though, he did not show the same cunning in appointing government officials – unchallenged by any administrative or financial checks and balances, powerful local chieftains and conniving court nobles ran the entire country like their own personal fiefs and soon enough, his prime minister ("Wazir”) Sarwar ul-Mulk, blinded alike by his own considerable influence and his contempt for the government of the day, physically assaulted and assassinated the Sultan soon after he dismissed him from service. The magnificent octagonal mausoleum is said to have been planned by Mubarak Shah himself during his lifetime but was commissioned after his demise by his nephew and successor Sultan Muhammad Shah Saiyyid (reign AD 1434-44) – wretchedly however, the massive edifice is so thoroughly surrounded by cramped multistory residential buildings and shop clusters that it is presently impossible to observe any aspect of it appreciably well and one has to eventually rely upon Muhammad Shah’s own strikingly beautiful mausoleum to properly visualize the former’s erstwhile impressiveness (refer Pixelated Memories - Muhammad Shah Saiyyid's Tomb, Lodi Gardens).

A sliver of magnificence

The satellite view of Kotla Mubarakpur on Google Maps facilitates an interesting observation – the tomb, or its enormous dome rather, stands out prominently in the center and the entire unregulated colony separated from it only by a circumambulating street has developed around it in such a cheek by jowl manner that the contours of the beyond belief narrow streets and the numerous rows of houses turn correspondingly along its octagonal peripheries as if reluctant to let waste even a single square inch of encroachable land! On the ground, owing to the presence of several shops dealing with construction material such as cement and the like, an impenetrable cloud of bleached dust and cement which imparts an unpleasantly hazy appearance to everything perpetually hangs over the road and is stirred up furthermore by the continuous passage of pedestrians, cyclists and children wantonly sprinting around. Good-naturedly hoping to prevent defacement and suspected demolition of the medieval monument but also perhaps in no small measure attempting to escape their own fundamental obligation towards its protection and conservation, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has erected a high iron-grille all around its peripheries, although that laughably doesn’t in any way prevent the locals who stack gunny bags of sand and cement all around it – I suspect that ASI assumes that like an impermeable shield, the thick cladding of invasive plants and weeds emerging from the monument’s roof and immense dome would unarguably protect it from the relentless pressures of urbanization and vandalism!

Overlooking history - Mubarak Shah's immediate neighbor is a lavatory!

The mausoleum is nonetheless opened to visitors every Thursday since the locals refuse to accept that this grand edifice entombs a short-lived emperor and continue to regard it as the hallowed shrine of a medieval Sufi saint. A small, gated opening in the iron grille can be used for entry and egress on other days as well, but the day I visited the gate was locked and there was no caretaker to be seen around – neighborhood shopkeepers assured me he had merely gone for tea and should be back soon – I’m till date not sure how much tea did he drink since he did not return in the hour and a half I spent snooping around on the monument from people’s rooftops.

A fine monument built in the architectural style ubiquitously favored by the Saiyyid dynasty royalty, it consists of a large octagonal chamber surrounded by a spacious pillared veranda running parallel to each side and surmounted by a high, slightly protuberant but nonetheless graceful dome. Among the features displayed by the tomb are a continuous, badly damaged eave (“chajja”) along the roof supported by equally spaced brackets, “chattris” (umbrella domes mounted on slender pillars) raised on the parapet above each of the sides, strong buttressed tapering pillars dressed with grey Delhi quartzite stone along each corner of the octagon (to afford enhanced structural stability) and three arched entrances on each side along the edge of verandah.

Claustrophobic! - Enroute to Mubarak Shah's mausoleum

The parapet, the sixteen-sided drum (base) of the dome and the eight-sided drums of the smaller domes of the chattris – each is distinguished by a very prominent row of “kanguras” (battlement-like ornamentation); elegantly tall slender ornamental turrets emerge from each corner of the drum of the central dome and stylishly punctuate the row of kanguras at this level, thereby further accentuating the overall image of a fascinatingly detailed, architecturally opulent funerary structure otherwise subdued in terms of grandeur and colorfulness. The only exception to the overall lack of flamboyance is an intriguingly unusual, bright red sandstone kiosk peppered with white marble highlights crowning the massive dome. Each side of the mausoleum except the western is pierced by an entrance whose heavy stone lintels culminate into painstakingly sculpted exquisite floral patterns; the western wall is filled in with a stone latticework screen so that it functions in the capacity of a mihrab (western wall of a religious/funerary structure indicating the direction of Mecca and faced by the faithful while offering prayers).

The funerary mosque associated with the mausoleum has been so irrevocably and horribly swallowed by the aforementioned surge of modern constructions that it has become irreversibly separated physically and contextually from the mausoleum and to reach it one does have to do significant legwork through successively narrower streets that invariably end in cul-de-sacs or lead to directions other than the ones one wishes to proceed to. Soon enough, climbing atop rooftops of the substantially taller buildings (of course after asking permission!) in order to navigate is the only option one can consider.

The funerary mosque - A monument swallowed by urbanization

The mosque has been relegated to the wretched existence of a local dumping ground carpeted with mounds of polythene bags stuffed with foul-smelling rotten organic wastes, shards of broken beer bottles and even excreta that the locals projectile as obnoxious missiles from their terraces to the huge cobblestone-paved courtyard adjoining it or leave lining the outer sides of the walls that enclose it (where they do not adjoin other houses – several neighborhood buildings in fact share walls with the mosque’s peripheries! So much for the government’s Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act!). But make no mistake – the monument has not been entirely abandoned by mankind – children use occasional clearings in the garbage-stuffed courtyard as a playground and perhaps considering that not many others would venture close to a place that insufferably stenches of rotten wastes, accumulated runoff water and putrid excreta, the covered portion of the mosque is thoughtfully utilized as their very own hangout zone by local alcohol and marijuana addicts who can be seen, bottles and joints in hand, even in broad daylight whiling away their time playing cards and gossiping along the corners. One cannot help feeling heartbroken at the gruesome sight of the delightfully simplistic mosque’s present shameful existence and miniscule probability of improved future prospects.

Surmounted by three domes, the rectangular structure is accessible via five arched entrances supported on crudely crafted double-pillars that were a characteristic feature of the militaristic Tughlaq Dynasty (reign AD 1320-98) who preceded the Saiyyid supremacy. The mosque features exquisite plasterwork medallions, a wide eave (“chajja”) supported on heavy stone brackets, kangura patterns and (on the inside) sorry remains of miniature alcoves styled into numerous intricate geometric and floral patterns. The subdued grandeur, formality of architectural plan and the overall artistic starkness are heartbreaking and confer on the monument a distinctive dignity that refuses to be intimidated to submission even by its unforeseen fall from graceful sophistication to the station of a foul-smelling, visually unappealing garbage heap.

Along one side, a staircase layered with shards of beer bottles and cigarette packs leads upstairs to the mosque’s roof from where one can rummage upon the elusiveness of even the minutest trace of optimism for the pitiable mosque while at the same time feel dwarfed by the towering buildings that flank it on either side and grievously observe and photograph the sheer scale of unwarranted devastation inflicted by inconsiderate locals.

The mausoleum is generally regarded to be the second (of only six!) octagonal tomb to be built in Delhi (three others have been previously documented on this blog here – Pixelated Memories - Adham Khan's TombPixelated Memories - Isa Khan's Tomb Complex and Pixelated Memories - Muhammad Shah Saiyyid's Tomb). It is also the first instance of a mausoleum to be conceived surrounded by an enclosed fortified garden (which has vanished long since). Also, the funerary mosque associated with the mausoleum is accepted to be the only one built during the Saiyyid Dynasty reign (AD 1414-51) to have survived. Given the excellent statistics associated with them, it is profoundly unacceptable that the mosque-mausoleum languish in such decrepitude and conservational poverty. I do not oppose the local population’s right to venerate the mausoleum as a shrine and frequent it on a daily basis if they so wish but I do feel offended by the sickeningly disgusting treatment they have meted out to the somber mosque. Also, agreed that ASI works with a very mediocre budget and does not have the resources or skilled manpower to feasibly undertake conservation and restoration works, but it can at the very least provide a semblance of security and cleanliness to the monuments under its aegis – and if it cannot, I can mirthlessly only suggest that they lock and board up the monuments and prevent any and every form of entry to them until they can accumulate sufficient resources to safeguard and manage them satisfactorily – at least, we wouldn’t lose another monument to encroachments and general lackadaisical attitude of the populace and civic authorities. So shameful is the present scenario that post observing the deplorable circumstances of the two remarkable edifices and the all-encompassing neglect heaped by the civic authorities on them specifically and Kotla Mubarakpur in general, one instantaneously forgets any significant hopes of restoration and preservation and barely wishes that they at least miraculously survive for the next generation to witness.

Oh, the irony!

Location: Kotla Mubarakpur, near South Ex.I
Nearest Bus stop: South Ex. I
Nearest Metro station: AIIMS
How to reach: Walk/avail an auto rickshaw from South Ex. Ask for "Gumbad" after reaching Kotla Mubarakpur village. The mosque is more difficult to find and one has to climb the rooftops of neighborhood buildings to check the orientation and directions.
Entrance fees: Nil
Photography/Video charges: Nil
Time required for sightseeing: 30 min
Relevant Links -
Other monuments located in the vicinity - Pixelated Memories - South Ex. Trail
Another Saiyyid-era monument in the city - Pixelated Memories - Muhammad Shah Saiyyid's Tomb
Suggested reading -
  1. Footlooseindilli.blogspot.in - Tomb of Mubarak Shah - Kotla Mubarakpur
  2. India-seminar.com - Article "A millennium of building, 50 years of destruction" by Ratish Nanda
  3. Indianexpress.com - Article "The lost cities of Delhi" (dated Sep 27, 2009) by The lost cities of Delhi Alokparna Das
  4. Sarsonkekhet.in - Dilli Darshan: Sayyid and Lodhi Delhi

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  1. Wonderful write-up as usual. I feel the same pain when I explore Lucknow's Nawabi monuments. --- PC Sarkar


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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Best of 2011!

Last night we attended Northwest Meetings + Events 2011 Best Of Awards. And guess what? We won!

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Friday, January 1, 2016

Happy New Year !

In this very first day of 2016, I wish you all a year full of happiness, health and success. I hope it will be for all a year plenty of new and exciting projects, nice flights, and safe landings ! Happy New Year !
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Friday, April 9, 2010

My new Helmet Cam

It has been always painful for me to release a video of my planes in flight because it's difficult to find somebody able filming or shooting while you are piloting, and with good result. I have few of these people but the problem then is when they are not at the slope, no video is possible.

I remember few years ago when I suceeded to pilot my Electro Arcus and at the same time take some shots with my DSLR Canon 10D... not that easy and dangerous for the plane :) !

So only one solution: build an helmet cam !

This is what I've done: I bought a helmet from Decathlon at 13 euros only, and reuse the rotating head of a small camera tripod. I just buit a fixation with some aluminium, glued in the front of the helmet with epoxy.

The result is quite nice and should work nicely as soon as the correct aligment of the camera will be found.

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The 15W930 low frequency transducer meets the specific market demand for a ceramic version of our industry standard 15ND930 extended low frequency transducer with 75 mm Ø copper edge wound voice coil. Thanks to its versatility, the 15W930 can be used in 2-way compact reflex enclosures with a 1.4" compression driver, in multiway systems and in high loading sub woofers as small as 70 lt (compact reflex, bandpass and horn loaded configurations).

€ 199

The deep profile curvilinear cone, made with high strength wood pulp, has been designed to achieve the best possible linearity within its frequency range. The cone surround, made from a linen material, is highly resistant to aging and fatigue. The in-house developed cone treatment is humidity repellent and significantly dampens bell mode resonances. The 75mm (3in) copper edge-wound voice coil assembly is wound on a strong fiberglas former to improve force transmission and power handling. The already low distortion and high sound quality are further improved by the aluminum demodulating ring (SDR) used to reproduce instantaneous peak on mid frequencies, reducing intermodulation distortion. The magnetic structure has been optimized using our FEA CAD software that has maximized the flux density in the voice coil gap. Excellent heat dissipation has also been achieved by incorporating air channels between the basket and the magnetic top plate. Due to the increase in use of audio systems at outdoor events, the ability of the 15W930 to perform in adverse weather conditions or in areas of high humidity is a great advantage. This has been achieved using exclusive treatments which enable the cone and the magnetic plate to resist corrosion and render the cone water repellent at the same time.

General Specifications

Nominal Diameter 380 mm (15 in)
Rated Impedance 8 Ohm
AES Power 500 W
Program Power 800 W
Peak Power 1600 W
Sensitivity 98 dB
Frequency Range 50 ÷ 3600 Hz
Power Compression @-10dB 0,6 dB
Power Compression @-3dB 1,9 dB
Power Compression @Full Power 2,8 dB
Max Recomm. Frequency 1700 Hz
Recomm. Enclosure Volume 60 ÷ 140 lt. (2,12 ÷ 4,95 cuft)
Minimum Impedance 7,2 ohm at 25°C
Max Peak To Peak Excursion 33 mm (1,30 in)
Voice Coil Diameter 75 mm (3 in)
Voice Coil Winding Material Edgewound Copper
Suspension M-roll, Polycotton
Cone Curvilinear, humidity repellent

Thiele Small Parameters

Fs 33 Hz
Re 5,5 Ohm
Sd 0,086 (132.53
Qms 8,78
Qes 0,23
Qts 0,22
Vas 240 lt. (8,46 cuft)
Mms 97 gr. (0,21 lb)
BL 22,1 Tm
Linear Mathematical Xmax ± 7,5 mm (± 0,30 in)
Le (1kHz) 1,47 mH
Ref. Efficiency 1W@1m (half space) 97,9 dB

Mounting information

Overall diameter 393 mm (15,47 in)
N. of mounting holes and bolt 8
Mounting holes diameter 7,15 mm (0,28 in)
Bolt circle diameter 371 mm (14,6 in)
Front mount baffle cutout ø 360 mm (14,17 in)
Rear mount baffle cutout ø 354 mm (13,94 in)
Total depth 185 mm (7,28 in)
Flange and gasket thickness 14 mm (0,55 in)
Net weight 7,6 kg (16,7 lb)
Shipping weight 9,1 kg (20,06 lb)
CardBoard Packaging dimensions 405 x 405 x 252 mm (15,94 x 15,94 x 9.92 in)

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September 11, 2010

Never Forget

I just wrote this in August, but I think it bears repeating on this solemn day.

I am just one person. Does anything I do make a difference in the universe?

All of my life I've prayed Luther's Common Table prayer before most meals.

The night of September 11, 2001, when the world burned, my family gathered at our kitchen table for our meal. When the prayer was finished, I added, "Let there be peace on earth" from the song of the same name (one of my favorite songs.)

We decided that night to add that phrase to our prayer until there was peace. We are still praying the prayer.

My son is in college now, my husband and I often don't eat at home, or have a formal family meal. Whenever we pray that prayer, we add the first line of the familiar song.

When my son was in Lutheran confirmation ten years ago, I was determined he and his classmates be exposed to faith traditions different from our own. I did not want him to experience just the rote memory of Luther's Small and Large Catechism in a vacuum.

In the early 1970s, Lutheran confirmation involved something called "Questioning" in which confirmands were hauled before the church, and an inquisition of sorts took place. We were all terrified of fire and brimstone. We were also warned about the most terrifying thing of all: women who spoke up in church.

I wanted my child to have a faith tradition, to accept or reject when he came of age. That choice would be his alone, as was mine. I didn't want my choice of religion shoved down his throat. I wanted him to understand and explore faith, values, and morality. Or lack of it.

I am proud to say he is a young man of high moral character. While our beliefs differ now, I believe I provided a foundation on which to build his life.

When I became an adult, I changed "brands" of Lutheran, and found grace and peace in the accepting attitude of the ELCA. Women can speak! Women can be pastors! Gays are accepted! Communion is open! Singing is good! (They finally figured out women were running the church all along.)

My son's confirmation pastor was open to my planning visits and speakers for the children. Over several months, the group visited a Latter Day Saints church and our local Jewish Temple as well as others.

By coincidence, I asked an acquaintance who is president of our local Islamic Society if he would speak to the group on September 12, 2001.

The talk had been planned weeks in advance. When the horrible events on September 11 unfolded, I called him and told him "he was off the hook, if he wanted."

He said, "Now it is even more important that I speak to the children."

All of the children and most of the children's family members attended. The word got out, and several hundred people from the community came through the open doors.

I don't remember the exact words this devout Muslim said, except what the opportunities of America have meant to him and his family.

What I do remember is the impact of this humble man standing in a Christian church talking about his faith.

While he was talking with us, someone ran a truck into the Islamic Center in our town and set the truck on fire. They also spray-painted foul graffiti on the side of the building. This happened at the very moment he was promoting healing in his own community.

I believe that there are evil and despicable terrorists who want to kill Americans, and who proselytize and undertake Jihad. I believe there are groups of radical Jihadists planning evil things, and willing to die to do harm to us.

I do not believe that two billion Muslims speak for the terrorists.

I don't know all the details about the Islamic community center proposed two blocks from Ground Zero.

What I do know is this. Peace is the way, and I saw peace and love on the face of a small man who spoke at my church on September 12, 2001.

Does anything one person does make a difference in the universe?


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Friday, October 2, 2009

it's almost movember!

that's right folks. november + mustaches = movember. raising money & awareness for testicular cancer, supported by the livestrong foundation. start off november 1 clean shaven, grow your mustache & raise money. can't wait to see what the Jax Beard members come up with!

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Onboarding is the secret sauce powering viral loops

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Onboarding is the secret sauce powering viral loops

The accepted App funnel is:

  • Acquisition
  • Activation/Retention
  • Referral
  • Revenue

In this post covers the relationship between onboarding and Referral.

Onboarding generally is seen as the bridge from Acquisition to Activation and Retention. The goal is to get the user oriented in the App and get them to an “ah-ha” experience. In the past the prevailing wisdom was that the onboarding logic must be coded into the application.

However Apps like Canva are growing incredibly fast and one of their secrets is the ability to adapt quickly and run experiments to measure uplift.

…their growth experiments were built by their development team. This process took 4-6 weeks and included several more steps. Each experiment was prioritized into development sprint cycles, coded by front-end and back-end developers, QA’ed by another team, reviewed by a peer, then reviewed by another peer, before being deployed into their product.”

So the hard reality is that companies experiencing fabulous growth radically use onboarding and experimentation tools to get the uplift. One of the key goals Canva tries to achieve is the “sharing your first design”. This is a viral (or Referral) moment in a user’s journey.

Referral and Viral Loops

You may associate viral loops with social games, where the whole concept of playability is hinged around the concept of invites and cooperation. However, you don’t have to go to that extreme to benefit from an understanding and implementation of viral loops.

A viral loop is a self-fuelling cycle of users generating more users – it looks like this:

First, your App is shared. People in the sharer”s network see this, click through and engage with the App. Through a series of optimised steps, these people go on to invite the next set of new users.

Apps such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have all relied on viral loops to accelerate their dominance. However, this simple concept just evolves from the basic idea of personal recommendations.

Your best customer acquisition is one that is recommended by a friend. Think about it, if a friend recommends a cafe or a website, you usually check it out. According to a study by Nielson, 90% of people surveyed places at least some degree of trust in a recommendation from people they know. This is much higher than the trust placed in information seen in traditional and online advertising.

But with the ease of sharing these days, people are not only recommending things that they are absolutely addicted to. They just recommend something that is interesting or helpful and then they move on. So the trick is to have your App “Referred” (recommended or shared) before a user churns off.

Placed Tips and Tours

This checklist helps optimize your onboarding flow to get a user to this event:

  1. What task is meaningful in Activation for a user?
  2. Does your App design facilitate the user’s completion of that task?
  3. Can you segment these users in real-time. For example, platforms like Pointzi know how the user is interacting”InApp”.
  4. Try a Placed Tip or guide to get the user to complete the task.
  5. Try some “off-boarding” that supports sharing:
    • Did the user completed the task?
    • Have they shared yet?
    • If not, use a Placed Tip or even a CTA modal to encourage Referral.

Building in sharing or referral as part of the user’s onboarding process will get you growth – if your user has completed a task (a “Job To Be Done”) then

Think of a viral loop as bonus return on investment for all your acquisition techniques.

Why Referral Drives Hockeystick Growth

 Once every couple of new users, one successfully passes through the viral loop and invites someone that brings them on board.

That user is like a bonus that you did not have to spend any money to acquire…

That user is like a bonus that you did not have to spend any money to acquire, allowing you to stretch your acquisition costs over more customers. Thus your CPA drops. You don”t need a completely viral product to benefit from viral loops.

Let”s highlight the benefit more by looking at a numerical example. Say that one in every 5 new users successfully recommends the App to a friend.

  •  We start with an advertising campaign that brings in 400 users
  • These users will bring on another 80 users due to recommendations, based on the 1 in 5 rate
  • The 80 will then each bring on 16 users
  • And so on…
  •  Eventually, this will equal a total of 500 users that signed up because of this campaign, 100 more than those that were brought on directly.

This 25% bonus to your customer acquisition is a great reason why viral loops are worth setting up right.

At the same time, since this is compounding, an increase in virality (not virility or vitality!) makes a huge difference in the final outcome. If instead of 1 in 5 users successfully recommending to a friend, it was 1 in 2, the eventual outcome of the campaign that brought in 400 initial users would be an increase in 800 users instead of 500 users.

Onboarding = Referral

Investment in an agile approach to onboarding will pay dividends as the tools can be shared from the Product Managers out to the Growth or Marketing teams. I’m not saying it should be open-slather on people running experiments but it can allow rapid iteration around getting users to drive your viral engine of growth.


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In 2004 Greg Raymer followed in Chris Moneymaker’s footsteps by winning the World Series of Poker after earning an entry in a low stakes online game. In the course of one tournament Greg Raymer, up until a patent attorney and avid fossil collector, made himself a multi millionaire by winning the $5,000,000 prize at the 2004 event.

Greg Raymer Career & Poker Celebrity

Legend has it that Greg Raymer spent years studying the game of poker online, reading through forums and gradually putting together a solid game before his amazing triumph at the 2004 World Series of Poker.

The following year he proved his first major tournament win was no flash in the pan when he finished 25th at the 2005 World Series of Poker main event – an almost impossible feat given the massive number of entries to the tournament. He might well have gone further if his pair of kings not been trumped by a flush at the end of the penultimate day of play.

Despite his massive win at the 2004 World Series of Poker, Greg Raymer decided against joining the tour as a full time player. Instead he moved to Raleigh North Caroline and restricted his participation in poker to a small selection of events.

Since taking the World Series, Greg Raymer has gone on to win the $320 WCOOP Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys Event as well as finishing on the final table for the first ever British Poker Open. Greg Raymer is also a frequent online player, where he has won a fortune playing as ‘Fossilman’.

Since winning the World Series of Poker, Greg Raymer has taken a position with the tour as a spokesman, working alongside popular 2003 winner Chris Moneymaker and 2005 WSP winner Joe Hachem.

Greg Raymer Profile: Playing Style

Greg Raymer is almost as famous for his bizarre eyewear as he is for his World Series of Poker win in 2004. Raymer habitually wears a pair of holographic glasses bearing reptilian eyes during major tournaments. Raymer is also well known for using a fossil as a card protector during games.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

In Mildness and in Meekness

In dealing with my own children, I find myself very tempted to employ tactics of compulsion. I demand that they comply rather than helping them understand why compliance will help them and make them happy. This tactic works in the short term while they are little, but it cannot succeed as they grow older.

In online discourse, I see people who demean and belittle others who do not hold their positions. This is equally fruitless. The rest of this post is a quote from Gerald Lund that teaches an important lesson that I needed to hear.

Let me share with you another experience that I think illustrates the balance between raising the warning voice and doing it with mildness. When I was a junior in high school, our teachers held a dance as part of gym. ...I was deathly afraid of stepping on the girl's toes and making a fool of myself because I did not know how to dance. So during the dance I took my chemistry book and went to the top row of bleachers and started studying chemistry.

About halfway through the dance, they announced a girls' choice, at which point I promptly buried my head deeper in my book. Then I heard footsteps coming up the bleachers. I can remember refusing to look up and thinking, Oh no! Don't do this to me! But finally there were a pair of legs and a skirt standing before me. I looked up, and she said, "Jerry, would you dance with me?"

I said, "I'm sorry, but I just can't."

Well, you can imagine how she felt. ...The girl's gym teacher, who had been watching the whole thing, came over.... She said, "Jerry, this young lady has come all the way up the bleachers to ask you to dance. Now you're not really going to tell her no, are you?"

I said, "Yes, I am. I do not dance."

She said, "I know how you feel, but you can't tell this young lady no."

"Oh yes, I can."

"You won't tell this young lady no."

"Oh yes, I will."

She started to get angry and said, "You will dance with her.

I said, "No, I won't."

So she took the girl and went down the bleachers. Of course, the girl was flaming red by now--and as I think of this now, I cringe to think of what it must have meant for her. But I was so wrapped up in my own worry and low self esteem, I could think of nothing but myself.

The teacher dropped the girl off at the bottom of the bleachers and went straight across the gym floor to the coach, who was also my gym teacher. He looked up; she talked. He looked up again. He motioned me to come down, and I shook my head no. It was at that point he decided to teach without mildness and meekness.

The coach turned the record player off, went to the microphone, and said, "Could I have your attention please." The gym immediately quieted down. "Sandra," he said, "has just walked all the way up to the top of the bleachers to ask Jerry Lund to dance. Jerry Lund said no. How do you feel about that?"

Well, you know what the kids did. "Hey, Jerry," they shouted. "Come on!"

I just shook my head, and then my coach, who was famous for his temper, got angry. He said, over the microphone, "You will be off those bleachers in thirty seconds or you will take an F in this class." And I said, "Coach, flunk away!"

I took an F in gym that term. You see, I would rather have taken an F than face the pain of being a fool. And when the coach backed me into a corner, there was no way I was going to come out.

...I think of that experience now when I read, "Let your preaching be with warning voice, every man to his neighbor, in mildness and in meekness." I believe in the power of warning, but I also believe in the power of love.

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  • It seems part of the problem may come when we focus on short term results (as teachers).

    But in the long run is there also a responsibility on the student? Young children and some people simply are not very rational. It is difficult to know what to do in such situations.

    By Blogger Eric Nielson, at 6/25/2007 8:54 AM

  • There is certainly a responsibility on the student, or on my children, or on my friends. But I can't control any of them.

    God doesn't compel us to do things very frequently, but it is a big temptation with my own kids. Maybe it is necessary sometimes to set them in the right path while they are young, but I'm becoming convinced that it can't be the norm.

    By Blogger Bradley, at 6/25/2007 9:13 AM

  • I was just reading C.S. Lewis' chapter in Mere Christianity on pride yesterday. It ties in very well with this post. Lewis' definition of pride drives right to the heart of this issue. I am stunned at how often I succumb to the temptation to use coercion when working with my children.

    By Blogger Reach Upward, at 6/25/2007 9:42 AM

  • I think you made up this story.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11/21/2007 7:34 AM

  • The story in the post was quoted from a book that was a compilations of talks and articles by Gerald Lund. I checked it out from the library and I don't have it handy, so I can't provide a fuller citation at the moment.

    I suppose it is possible that Brother Lund fabricated the story, but I don't have any reason to believe that to be the case.

    By Blogger Bradley, at 11/21/2007 11:40 AM

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Friday, June 19, 2009

The un-stallion rides again (Sully)

The UN-stallion had another day of riding around the Jones Farm...look how GOOD he looks! He is definitely ready to have his own person...if you are interested in adopting him, please contact us. Adoption contract and fee will apply.

Rain,rain, go away...I hate to complain after all the nice weather we have had, but I really didn't need the rain today.

Hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow and we can work most of the day on a new loafing shed for the UN-stallion. My brother in law is coming to help. Hey...he is a good worker and he does side jobs...he is a gas stove technician/heating/cooling guy. If you need some work me? He also does door installation and some wood work.

I guess you are tired of him being called the he got a new name today. His name is Sully. YAY he has a name...!! How did I come up with that? well, let's see...he was so sullen for a few days...I actully called him so swollen and sullen...then sullen turns into Sully. yes...Sully. It is a good name for a nice little gelding.

Rio is going to work tomorrow...he will be tacked and lunged. We hope he will work like a soldier with a minimum of fuss. He certainly looks good and feels good. We will let you know tomorrow how it goes. Rio is ready for adoption as he does not need anymore rehab.

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Don't we come up with great names?

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hostess Appreciation #2

I think a good time was had by all! Unfortunately, one of our hostesses got a horrible migraine that morning and couldn't come. But I love my hostesses, so much! Ladies, THANK YOU for sharing your lives with me. I can't imagine not having a single one of you in my life!

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Once again the ill-considered actions of Poole's Conservative administration have attracted national attention: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Tourists-using-gardens-Sandban… Poole People and Lib Dem councillors opposed these toilet closures vigorously because of the detrimental effects that were bound to result. The Conservatives pushed the proposals through, however.
Poole Council yesterday (24th January 2017) voted 27 votes to 12 to extinguish itself and merge with Bournemouth and Christchurch. All Conservatives present voted to merge. All opposition councillors (Lib Dem, Poole People, UKIP and independent) voted against. The three Conservatives who we suspect were not prepared to vote for merger (Cllrs Atkinson, Butt and Pawlowski) did not attend the…
Poole People councillors will be voting against the proposed merger between Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole councils at the Full Council meeting later this month. The Poole People party recognises that the success of the area in the future depends on creating a vibrant economy across the conurbation and that a merged council could give the area more leverage with government…
The public consultation for the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (DCCG)'s Clinical Services Review begins today and runs until 28 February 2017. The proposals will have important implications for Poole, if implemented
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Mark Howell has been selected as Poole People’s candidate for the General Election on 7th May

Poole People Leader and Poole Town councillor Mark Howell has been selected as Poole People's candidate in Poole constituency for the General Election on 7th May.

Poole People is a grassroots party and therefore the Council elections, which fall on the same day, must be our priority. Mark will be defending his seat in Poole Town in those elections. We came to the conclusion, however, that we should give voters the opportunity to vote for Poole People in both ballots.

We know that many people feel that the interests of the people of Poole could be better represented in Parliament. Also, the traditional parties have become disconnected from the public, and no national party has succeeded in offering a compelling vision of the UK's future. We feel that the way to restore confidence in politicians is to reconnect them with the voters who elect them.

Mark says: "I am delighted to have been selected to stand in the General Election. I genuinely believe that I have a good chance of being elected. The public wants politicians to be more accountable, and to work for them, not for bankers or multinationals. Poole People signposts a new way of doing politics built upon localism and independent thinking. Together we can put Poole on the political map."

Find out more about Mark and his views and priorities at:http://www.poolepeople.org.uk/index.php/general-election


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