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Phobia, which is a type of anxiety or fear, is a basic human emotion usually considered to be a response to objects or situations that threaten physical safety or emotional well-being. School phobia is a situational phobia found in early childhood whereby the child refuses to attend school due to a certain overwhelming fear. Many youngsters at some time in their school years might actually experience different forms of fears be it anxiety, phobia from games, answering a question in class, or even reading out loud in front of their peers. Furthermore, studies have shown that there are particular symptoms associated to school phobia that could vary from stomachaches, nausea, fatigue, shaking, racing heartbeats, to going on frequent trips to the toilet. Children who suffer from school phobia are exposed to panic attacks especially when the parent forces them to attend school without even realizing that there might actually be a critical problem which needs to be dealt with properly, increasing the youngster’s worries and the guardian’s frustrations even more.
Not only do children miss home while being away in the school setting, but they are also faced with a whole new world of brand new genuine experiences, challenges and pressures, be it social or academic; this sudden change will undoubtedly leave them feeling down, suffering from separation anxiety. Moreover, they are probably not so used to having so many rules set for them, that they will feel scared, exhausted or depressed.
School phobia, School Avoidance, and School Refusal are terms used to describe children who avoid attending school. Persistent nonattendance at school has been the subject of considerable concern among educationalists for well over a century. Fears of the dark, birds, etcaˆ¦ are socially and legally more acceptable than avoidance of school.
Certainly, school phobia generates massive anxiety in both parents and teachers. School refusal symptoms occur most often on school days, and are usually absent on weekends and during the summer holidays. On the other hand, the older children who are new attendees in a new school, the situation could leave them not to adapt to the new place and environment, since they may no longer feel comfortable due to the sudden change in their friendships, teachers, and classrooms.
School phobia is also due to the feelings of insecurity; a child who is used to being at home around his/her parents all day will feel threatened or torn away from his/her beloved ones. The youngster will feel so worried and panicky that he/she will even experience fear from school buses if they had to return home in one. School phobia must be treated directly, however, if the child is severely affected, then it is best to ask for professional help such as a referral to his/her doctor or head teacher. For these reasons it was important to study this problem and find ways to solve it in order to help phobic children.
1.2 Purpose of the Study:
This study talks about “Children’s Phobia in Preschools” because it will enlighten a positive issue and it will serve the society in a positive way, by helping parents as well as teachers solve a problem which has not been given enough importance in the past years.
In order to be able to deal with children and help them with their problems and overcoming them and to be capable of reaching high objectives, one certainly need to carry out serious research and learn professional methods for dealing with certain dilemmas. In this research the researcher will be able to identify school phobia, learn more about school phobia and its nature, recognize the causes of school phobia, recognize the warning signals of school phobia, recognize the typologies of school phobia, identify the way to deal with phobic children, and identify the treatment of school Phobia.
1.2 Research Questions
School phobia affects the child’s education as well as his/her future. The problem usually starts with the child complaining or finding the silliest excuses just to keep him/her away from school. Some questions need to be answered such as:
-What is a phobia?
-Who is the phobic child?
-How does the child develop phobia?
-What is the role of the teachers and parents in identifying school phobia?
-How can a phobic child be helped to overcome his phobia?
Chapter Two – Literature Review
2.1- Identifying School Phobia:
Early investigations of persistent nonattendance talked only in terms of truancy; however, this simple view failed to explain the condition. Early pioneer studies found evidence that clearly linked truancy with delinquency. They realized that poor parental control, mental dullness, temperamental instabilities and broken homes were cited as important factors contributing to truancy. However; the first man to describe a form of absence that was later most commonly referred to as school phobia or school refusal was Dr. Broadwin in 1932, p 5: “The child is absent from school for periods varying from several months to a year. The absence is consistent. At all times the parents know where the child is. He is near the mother or near the home. The reason for the truancy is incomprehensible to the parents and the school.”
This classical description has practically has practically become the very definition of school phobia. Other findings by Partridge (1939) noted a group of children he labeled as psychoneurotic. These children appear to differ from other truants in that they were obedient, reasonably well-adjusted and liked school. He regarded them as victims of an emotional bond between parent and child. In order words, these children suffer from s different type of school phobia, which is mainly derived from a poor or nil relationship of the parents with the child. It is basically then, an emotional problem that causes absences.
2.2- The Clinical Presentation of School Phobia:
The clinical representation of school phobia has been extremely well described by Hersov in 1977: “The problem often starts with vague complains of school or reluctance to attend progressing to total refusal to go to school or to remain in school in the face of persuasion, entreaty, recrimination and punishment by parents and pressures from teachers, family doctors and education welfare officers.
The following are the best ways to tell whether the child is or is not school phobic: Severe difficulties in attending school, often amounting to prolonged absence, severs emotional upset shown by such symptoms as excessive fearfulness, undo tempers, misery, etc. Staying home with the knowledge of the parents when should be at school at some stage of the course of the disorder. Absence of significant anti-social disorder such as stealing, living, and wandering. Children suffering from psychosis, gross physical illness, asthma, truancy and neurotic disorders other than school phobia are not considered suitable for investigation on the subject. All other factors need to be ruled out.
Peer difficulties, learning problems, depression, or parents who are overly anxious about these perceived physical ailments are common causes of school avoidance. Separation anxiety is another common diagnosis for school phobia but there can be other problems, too. School phobia is usually a symptom of other problems. If physical causes have been ruled out and the behavior is continuing, then parents might want to have an evaluation by a psychiatric specialist.
A school-phobic child is usually afraid of leaving home in general, rather than afraid of anything in particular at school. For example, he may experience homesickness when staying at a friend’s house. Often the first test of a child’s independence comes when he must attend school daily. Aside from poor attendance, these children usually are good students and well behaved at school. The parents are typically good parents who are conscientious and loving. Such parents are sometimes overly protective and close, and the child finds it difficult to separate from them (separation anxiety). He may lack the self-confidence that comes from handling life’s normal stresses without his parents’ help.
Sometimes a change of schools, strict teacher, hard tests, a learning problem, or a bully may appear to be causes of child’s fear of going to school. But such factors may be only part of the problem, and your child should still go to school while these problems are being resolved.
2.4- Symptoms of School nonattendance warning signals
Children who fear school send warning signals that are hard to ignore. Mysterious illnesses that surfaced as excuses to escape school in the lower grades resurface in middle school, resulting in tardiness, cut classes, and unfinished homework assignments. Often a child’s normal living patterns, including eating, sleeping, and school success, are disrupted.
2.5- Typologies of School Phobia
Many people have attempted to classify phobia; however, Coolidge, Hahn, and Peck (1975), in a study of 21 cases, presented evidence of two times of school phobia that they called “neurotic” and “characterological”. The neurotic group was mostly young girls. The primary conflict in this group seemed to be centered on the child’s “symbiotic tie” to the mother. The characterological group consisted mainly of older boys who were regarded as being generally more disturbed.
This comparison was developed by Kennedy. He included parental characteristics and communication patterns to differentiate between the two different types. Another very interesting finding was that of Yule, Hersov and Treseder in the 80’s; they found that there may be sub-types of school phobia and they outlined a crude classification based on likely treatment implications.
Separation anxiety at first school entry complicated by poor parental management. It is argued that in such cases some form of in vivo (carried out inside a living organism, like in a test or experiment) desensitization is the most appropriate first step. School phobia occurring in a vulnerable child following a major change in schooling: usually, the problem is sparked off or started by additional home-related anxieties. Systematic desensitization alongside attention to practical issues in the child’s “physical and social environment” is likely to be the most effective treatment option.
2.6 Theories of School phobia:
2.6.1 Psychoanalytic Theory
It was obviously advanced by Freud in the early 1900s and subsequently modified and interpreted by others such as Klein, Arieti, Sperling, and Renik. As we all know, Freud developed his theory of personality development by proposing three interacting structures; the id, ego, and super-ego. The id referred to impulsive, instinctual trends within the personality concerned with the satisfaction of the basic emotional needs, in other words it referred to the libido. Freud argued that phobias arose from conflict of psychic energy (libido). However, later psychoanalysts felt that aggression and dependence also played a role in phobias.
According to the psychoanalytic theory, this is how it develops: An early, poorly resolved dependency relationship between mother and child. Inadequate fulfillment of the mother’s emotional needs, usually because of a poor marriage. A temporary threat to the child’s security causing a transient increase in the child’s dependency needs. Exploitation of this situation by the mother. A similar relationship between the mother and her own mother. Expression of hostility to the child, not only making him more dependent, but also by direct inhibition of any opportunity for the child to express aggressive or hostile feelingsaˆ¦ and also seductive behavior towards the child. Moreover, Development of strong hostility toward the mother, largely unconscious, and express by exploitation of the mother’s guilt toward him and also by fears of the mother’s safety cause by unconscious destructive wishes, thus forcing him to be with her to assure himself of her safety (Chiland and Young, 1990).
The theory implied by this line of reasoning involves bringing the unconscious conflicts into open within the context of a therapeutic relationship. The conflicts are analyzed and a more mature way of satisfying dependency needs is sought. There has been great disagreement among psychotherapists, however, about whether the mother and child should be separated or treated together and how quickly a child should be made to confront reality and return to school.
2.6.2 Self Concept Theory:
Leventhal and Sills point out that many of the descriptive findings associated with school phobia do not seem to support an explanation based solely on separation anxiety. They emphasize that many of these children maintain normal lives outside school hours. They proposed that the main feature relevant to school phobia is the finding that:
“These children commonly over-value themselves and their achievements and then try to hold on to their unrealistic self-image. When this is threatened in the school situation, they suffer anxiety and retreat to another situation where they can maintain their narcissistic self-image. This retreat may very well be a running to a close contact with mother.”
So, in other words, what Leventhal and Sills thought is that children with a superiority complex, when put down in any way, would avoid going to school and would rather stay in a safe environment. The treatment emphasized by self concept theorists involves bringing the home and school environment into balance. The parents need to be more realistic and her teachers more accommodating and at the same time the child needs confronting with reality by returning him to school as soon as possible. The therapist deliberately precipitates a crisis by forcing the family to address the issue of immediately returning the child to school. The therapist uses this situation therapeutically by helping the parents to resist the child’s manipulative demands and win the power struggle. Anticipation and detailed planning is called for to ensure that the parents are successful.
2.6.3 Learning Theory:
The principles underlying behavioral treatment are derived from learning theory. Learning theory has evolved from experimental studies in the laboratory. There theories explaining how phobic behavior is learned to compete for attention: Respondent, Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, and the Two-Stage Theory of Fear and Avoidance.
Respondent Conditioning Theory: Phobic are regarded as conditioned fear and avoidance responses to specific stimuli. Repetition of the feared situation in association with the newly created phobic stimuli will strengthen the fear and avoidance responses to the stimuli.
Operant Conditioning Theory: its main principle is that behavior is influenced by its consequences. Behavior that is rewarded is likely to occur more often whereas behavior that is punished will decrease in frequency. On the basis of this theory, one can argue that phobias and associated behaviors like temper; tantrums are maintained through positive reinforcements in the child’s environment.
Two-Stage Theory of Fear and Avoidance: Suggested that fear could motivate behavior and was not merely a conditional reaction to stimuli associated with pain. He further argued that fear reduction became an operant reward for avoidance of the noxious stimulus.
A wide variety of behavioral techniques have been developed arising out of classical and operant paradigms as well as social learning theory, however, although behavioral approaches concern themselves with the immediate problem of returning the child to school, arguments surrounding the preparation for and the timing and pacing of the return parallel those in the psychodynamic camp. Increasingly therapists employ a mix of approaches tailored to take account of the unique range of child, family and school related issues that may be involved in any one case.
Nonattendance at school is not a distinct, but rather, it is comprised of multiple syndromes; prominent examples are truancy, childhood phobia, and separation anxiety disorder. An intriguing aspect of school nonattendance syndromes is that their form and features are modeled by the varying contributions of causative factors, including genetic endowment, brain dysfunction, family psychopathology, and individual symptoms. This makes school nonattendance an especially useful model for the study of the development of psychopathology in childhood (Martin and Greenwood, 1995). .
This suggests that the study of this group of disorders from socioeconomic and cultural viewpoints would provide a new understanding of the disorders and their causes, and how cultural influences on the development of the child are mediated. Children’s rejection of school will in turn bring society’s rejection of children. The society has a great role this whole issue, since children will not be able to overcome the phobia so easily if the society shows rejection and disapproval.
2.7- Psychodynamic Treatment of School Phobia
Early treatment of school phobia was largely psychoanalytically based. Two studies were mostly implemented, the traditional psychodynamic treatment and the family therapy.
Traditional Psychodynamic Studies, these studies are interpreted as those focusing treatment on the individual child or the mother-child relationship. The analytic treatment was focused entirely on the child, but they realized the importance of treating both the mother and child. Treatment with respect to the father was felt to be most efficiently handled by helping the mother clarify and restructure her feelings about her husband rather than dealing with the father direct. The dilemma in this study is whether the child should or shouldn’t return to school immediately. Studies showed a slight difference in percentages when it came to decide which method was more effective, hence it remains undecided (Blagg, 1987).
Family Therapy (By Skynner):
These approaches transcend the parent-child dyad in addressing the entire family system. School phobia is regarded as symptomatic and sometimes protective of faulty family functioning. Treatment approaches consistently emphasize the importance of early return to school although the manner by which this is achieved varies greatly from therapist to therapist.
Skinner refers to his approach as a conjoint family psychotherapy. The central problem within school phobia is seen as the “parents” failure to help their child relinquish omnipotent demands for exclusive possession of the mother. Skinner argues that school phobic children are protected from the challenges of reality by their mothers. Skynner claims that bonds within these families run vertically from parent to child with a consequent weak relationship between spouses.
The main elements are stressed in this treatment: The whole nuclear family is included in treatments as well as other family members where necessary. An emphasis is placed upon non-verbal communication and confrontation of the parents over the hidden rule system. Attention is directed to the “here and now” of family interactions although past events may be considered as and when they arise
There is a focus on an early return to school. An effort is made to weaken the mother-child bond and strengthen the marital bond. In the more straightforward cases, interpretation of the problem develops insight in parents enabling the family to marshal its own resources and solve the problem. Skynner advocates the use of medicine to help in the confrontation stage. In addition, excessively timid pupils are helped by attendance at psychotherapy groups. Only minimal attention is paid to school factors
Skynner feels that school phobia is best understood as a psychosocial problem rather than a purely medical intra-psychic or even intra-familial disorder. It is interesting to note that the early traditional study emphasize the importance of the conformation of the feared situations; however, the later studies favored immediate, even forced, return to school.
2.8 Behavioral Approaches and Treatment of School Phobia:
The behavioral approaches are divided into three: treatment based on classical conditioning, treatment based on operant conditioning paradigm and treatment based on social skills training.
Systematic Desensitization: This approach involves working the child through carefully graded fear hierarchy starting with the least feared situations, building up to most feared situations. At each stage the child is helped overcome any anxiety by concentrating on a behavior that is antagonistic to the anxiety.
Emotive Imagery: It is a technique that some behavior therapists have found to be very powerful. They use normal relaxation procedures in conjunction with systematic desensitization. In this approach the therapist develops imagined scenes that conjure up feelings of excitement, self-assertion and general “positive effect” as means of inhibiting anxiety.
Flooding or implosion: These procedures involve immediate confrontation of the maximally feared situation without any careful preparation via graded exposure to less threatening circumstances. The subject is maintained in the intense feared situation until the anxiety shows visible signs of waning on the classical extinction model. The assumption here is that the subject feels anxiety as a result of prior classical conditioning the vivid presentation of the condition stimuli and the absence of any primary unconditioned stimuli will eventually lead to the extinction of the anxiety response (Sharpe, 2000).
Operant-based treatment approaches are concerned with changing the reinforcement contingencies affecting an individual’s behavior. It involves maximizing the incentives for being in school by building into the school program extra positive reinforcement and minimizing incentives for remaining at home during the school day by removing positive reinforcement (like greater personal freedom, extra adult attention):
This treatment is based in reinforcement. Natural reinforcement is added in the individual’s life in preference to the introduction of more artificial reinforcement like sweets. Nevertheless, in certain cases, tangible reinforcements may be necessary in the early stages of the treatment program.
Many children who suffer from school phobia have major problems in relationships with bodes language and posture. It is true that many children may need sheltering from ridicule but others need help in improving their bodily skills. This treatment involves attention in many areas such as: Body posture especially the subjects stiffness and lack of mobility in the trunk and limbs. Nervous mannerisms such as giggling, facial grimacing, and tone of voice, eye contact


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Remember Samsung Infuse 4G? We were speculating that that phone would be the Korean company's follow up to the highly successful Galaxy S. Turns out Samsung will release another handset altogether to fill in that role.
Leaked photo of supposed Samsung Galaxy S2
According to a Korean website that first leaked the news, Samsung Galaxy S2 (the phone's working name) will feature a 4.3-inch SuperAMOLED Plus screen and an NFC chip, and will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a dual-core processor with currently unknown clock speed.
As yet, that's all we know about this handset -- and we're not even sure if the details are accurate. Nonetheless, it appears that Samsung is already poised to make an official announcement about the device on February 13 at MWC 2011;
We'll let you in on confirmed specifications and pricing details of Samsung Galaxy S2 by then.


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As a Staples High School junior, Dylan Mace went the extra mile. Or three.
Appalled that Westport’s VFW Post 399 lacked a handicap-accesssible bathroom, he singlehandedly raised almost $8,000. An architect, electrician, contractor and tile guy jumped in. Businesses offered discounts on supplies.
They were joined by Scott Rochlin, who set up a foundation to help veterans and their families after his son Charley — a decorated Marine — died in an automobile accident.
But Dylan wanted his project to be extra-special for veterans. He created special tiles, with the emblems of the 5 US military branches.
Dylan loved working — and hanging — with the VFW crew so much, that he vowed to do even more. The new bathroom looked great, he thought — so why not spruce up the rest of the building too?
He enlisted 12 fellow National Honor Society members to help paint. They other day they grabbed brushes and rollers, and got to work.
The Riverside Avenue building now looks great. Dylan wants to get the word out, to make sure everyone in Westport knows about it. You don’t have to be a veteran to go!
Community service is not all that Dylan does. He made 2nd team All-State and All-FCIAC for the Staples ice hockey team — and was the Wreckers’ MVP.
“06880” — and the VFW, and the rest of Westport — salute Dylan, and Staples’ National Honor Society.

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If the Sugar Bowl was Carl Lawson's last game in an Auburn uniform, the junior defensive end wasn't tipping his hand.
Following No. 14 Auburn's 35-19 loss to No. 7 Oklahoma on Monday night in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Lawson briefly addressed his future -- which remained ambiguous for the time being. Lawson is projected to be a first- or second-round pick if he decides to forgo his senior season at Auburn and declare early for April's NFL Draft.
"I got to go and talk to my family about it," Lawson said. "I'm still just thinking about this past game. I'm disappointed."
Lawson said he plans on taking a few days to decompress now that the season has ended and will talk to his family before announcing whether he will return next season or enter the Draft. When he does come to a decision one way or another, Lawson said he will likely take the same approach as last year, when he posted on his Twitter account his plans to return.
"Just going to talk to my family, and if I do anything I'll probably just post it on social media like I did last year," he said.
Lawson has until Jan. 16, the NFL's deadline for underclassmen to declare, to make his decision.
The 6-foot-2, 253-pound defensive end is considered one of the top edge rushers in the nation. Following a two-tackle performance in the Sugar Bowl, Lawson finished the season with 30 total tackles, including 12.5 for a loss and nine sacks.
It was his best season to date, and he earned first-team coaches' All-SEC honors along with second-team AP All-SEC recognition. He was also a FWAA first-team All-American and Auburn's defensive MVP.
If the Sugar Bowl was Lawson's final game in an Auburn uniform, however, he took solace in the effort he put forth for his team.
"The season's over; no need to be stressed anymore," Lawson said. "I mean, as long as you're -- for any player, win or lose, you can find comfort in knowing you left it all out there on the field."


Bachelorette Jillian Harris hit the first day of NYC's Fashion Week — without fiance Ed Swiderski.
She attended Thursday's Rosa Cha fashion show with Mike Steinberg, the New York-based baseball camp owner whom she eliminated in episode four of the ABC show.
"Ed was supposed to be here today, but then he couldn't book his flight," Harris, 29, told E! News. "Ed and he have been really good friends since the show. So Ed's like, 'You know what, why don't you have Steinberg sit in for me? That'll make some great news.'"
"We want to try to live a normal life and get to the point where we live together and start to come together and then start planning," she said.
As the new issue of Us Weekly reports, the Canada-born Harris is moving into Swiderski's Chicago apartment next week.
"We want everybody to know we are extremely happy and in love," Swiderski, 30, said on Thursday's Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Added Jillian, "This engagement is very different than a typical engagement. As my father said, 'Jill, you are not walking down the aisle.' We are living together, adopting a dog, working charities together and attending family functions. Now we are trying to work at [our relationship at a] more normal level."
Although Swiderski did not directly address Us Weekly's report that he had cheated on Harris with two women, he admitted that "in every sense of the word, I was a bachelor before I went on the show, but I am not perfect. I am a human being."
He also played coy when asked why exes Lindsey Johnson and Bethany Steffen would speak out about his behavior. (Just eight days after he proposed to Jillian, Johnson told Us Weekly she slept with Swiderski. A day later, he texted Steffen to "bring beer and condoms" to his place.)
"I don't know what motivates someone to do something like that," he said. "I did have dialogue with these women and I know them pretty well. I don't know what caused that."
Said Swiderski, "Jillian is one of the most intelligent women I know. I highly doubt that she would be with someone who is not a good person. We are very clear with each other. We know the truth of what happened."
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Jennifer Leedham has been named as the new head coach of GB Under-16s, while Kenrick Liburd and Len Busch will both continue for another summer.
Great Britain Under-18s finished 8th at the European Championship after defeats to France and Lithuania in Volos, over the weekend.
Great Britain Under-18s round out the Division A European Championships playing for 7th, as they take on Lithuania in Volos, Greece, on Sunday. Great Britain...
Great Britain Under-18s are now playing for as high as 5th place at the European Championships and face France in their penultimate game, in Volos,...
Great Britain Under-18s were beaten by Slovenia in their quarter-final at the European Championships, in Volos, on Thursday.
Check out Great Britain Under-18s in action as they face Slovenia in the quarter-finals of the European Championships in Volos, this evening.
Great Britain Under-18's produced an impressive display to beat Montenegro and advance to the quarter-finals at the European Championships in Volos, on Wednesday evening.
Great Britain Under-18s return to action at the European Championships with their Round of 16 clash with Montenegro in Volos.
Great Britain Under-18s fell to their second loss at the European Championships after going down 66-86 against Germany in Volos, Greece, on Monday.
Great Britain Under-18s complete their group phase at the European Championships in Volos, Greece when they take on Germany at lunchtime.


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Gartner’s 2017 Hype Cycle for Marketing and Advertising is out (subscription required) and, predictably, AI for Marketing has appeared as a new dot making a rapid ascent toward the Peak of Inflated Expectations. I say “rapid” but some may be surprised to see us projecting that it will take more than 10 years for AI in Marketing to reach the Plateau of Productivity. Indeed, the timeframe drew some skepticism and we deliberated on this extensively, as have many organizations and communities.
First, let’s be clear about one thing: a long journey to the plateau is not a recommendation to ignore a transformational technology. However, it does raise questions of just what to expect in the nearer term.
Skeptics of a longer timeframe rightly point out the velocity with which digital leaders from Google to Amazon to Baidu and Alibaba are embracing these technologies today, and the impact they’re likely to have on marketing and advertising once they’ve cracked the code on predicting buying behavior and customer satisfaction and acting accordingly.
There’s no point in debating the seriousness of the leading digital companies when it comes to AI. The impact that AI will have on marketing is perhaps more debatable – some breakthrough benefits are already being realized, but – to use some AI jargon here – many problems at the heart of marketing exhibit high enough dimensionality to suggest they’re AI-complete. In other words, human behavior is influenced by a large number of variables which makes it hard to predict unless you’re human. On the other hand, we’ve seen dramatic lifts in conversion rates from AI-enhanced campaigns and the global scale of markets means that even modest improvements in matching people with products could have major effects. Net-net, we do believe AI that will have a transformational on marketing and that some of these transformational effects will be felt in fewer than ten years – in fact, they’re being felt already.
Still, in the words of Paul Saffo, “Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” The magnitude of a technology’s impact is, if anything, a sign it will take longer than expected to reach some sort of equilibrium. Just look at the Internet. I still vividly recall the collective expectation that many of us held in 1999 that business productivity was just around the corner. The ensuing descent into the Trough of Disillusionment didn’t diminish the Internet’s ultimate impact – it just delayed it. But the delay was significant enough to give a few companies that kept the faith, like Google and Amazon, an insurmountable advantage when Internet at last plateaued, about 10 years later.
Proponents of faster impact point out that AI has already been through a Trough of Disillusionment maybe ten times as long as the Internet – the “AI Winter” that you can trace to the 1980s. By this reckoning, productivity is long overdue. This may be true for a number of domains – such as natural language processing and image recognition – but it’s hardly the case for the kinds of applications we’re considering in AI for Marketing. Before we could start on those we needed massive data collection on the input side, a cloud-based big data machine learning infrastructure, and real-time operations on the output side to accelerate the learning process to the point where we could start to frame the optimization problem in AI. Some of the algorithms may be quite old, but their real-time marketing context is certainly new.
More importantly, consider the implications of replacing the way marketing works today with true lights-out AI-driven operations. Even when machines do outperform human counterparts in making the kinds of judgments marketers pride themselves on, the organizational and cultural resistance they will face from the enterprise is profound….with important exceptions: disruptive start-ups and the digital giants who are developing these technologies and currently dominate digital media.
And enterprises aren’t the only source of resistance. The data being collected in what’s being billed as “people-based marketing” – the kind that AI will need to predict and influence behavior – is the subject of privacy concerns that stem from the “people’s” notable lack of an AI ally in the data collection business. See more comments here.
Then consider this: In 2016, P&G spent over $4B media. Despite their acknowledgment of the growing importance of the Internet to their marketing (20 years in), they still spend orders of magnitude more on TV (see Ad Age, ubscription required). As we know, Marc Pritchard, P&G’s global head of brands, doesn’t care much for the Internet’s way of doing business and has demanded fundamental changes in what he calls its “corrupt and non-transparent media supply chain.”
Well, if Marc and his colleagues don’t like the Internet’s media supply chain, wait until they get a load of the emerging AI marketing supply chain. Here’s a market where the same small group of gatekeepers own the technology, the data, the media, the infrastructure – even some key physical distribution channels – and their business models are generally based on extracting payment from suppliers, not consumers who enjoy their services for “free.” The business impulses of these companies are clear: just ask Alexa. What they haven’t perfected yet is that shopping concierge that gets you exactly what you want, but they’re working on it. If their AI can solve that, then two of P&G’s most valuable assets – its legacy media-based brand power and its retail distribution network – will be neutralized. Does this mean the end of consumer brands? Not necessarily, but our future AI proxies may help us cultivate different ideas about brand loyalty.
This brings us to the final argument against putting AI for Marketing too far out on the hype cycle: it will encourage complacency in companies that need to act. By the time established brands recognize what’s happened, it will be too late.
Business leaders have told me they use Gartner’s Hype Cycles in two ways. One is to help build urgency behind initiatives that are forecast to have a large, near-term impact, especially ones tarnished by disillusionment. The second is to subdue people who insist on drawing attention to seductive technologies on the distant horizon. Neither use is appropriate for AI for Marketing. In this case, the long horizon is neither a cause for contentment nor is a reason to go shopping.
First, brands need a plan. And the plan has to anticipate major disruptions, not just in marketing, but in the entire consumer-driven, AI-mediated supply chain in which brands – or their AI agents – will find themselves negotiating with a lot of very smart algorithms. I feel confident in predicting that this will take a long time. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to ignore AI. On the contrary, it’s time to put learning about and experiencing AI at the top of the strategic priority list, and to consider what role your organization will play when these technologies are woven into our markets and brand experiences.


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Kumasi, July 24, GNA - Mr David Adenze Kangah, Deputy Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC) in-charge of Operations, says the Commission is not a law enforcement agency to impose sanctions on people for electoral offences.
He said the best it could do was to receive reports and draw the attention of the relevant agency for investigation and prosecution of suspects.
Mr Kangah was speaking on: "The Code Of Conduct For Political Parties" at a two-day seminar on political reporting for some Journalists drawn from the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo Regions in Kumasi on Friday.
It was organised by the National Media Commission (NMC) in collaboration with the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) with sponsorship from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
Mr Kangah advised the leadership of political parties not to only study the code but also to encourage party members and activists to have an insight into the principles of the code.
He said for the code to make the needed impact the leadership and activists of political parties must adhere to it.
Mr Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, Editor of the Daily Graphic, who spoke on: "The Relevance Of Broadcasting Standards And Electioneering Reportage", noted that even though the Media was aware that it constituted an offence to advertise drugs on their networks without approval from the Food and Drugs Board (FDB), some of them persisted in doing so. He cautioned the Media against such acts and urged them to do the right thing and not to wait until they were dragged to court by the FDB. "It amounts to double standards when the Media educates people on the harmful effects of drug abuse and at the same time turn round to promote such drugs for public consumption through advertising".

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A live album dedicated to Randy Rhoads, Tribute is an excellent testament to the guitarist's prodigious talents, which ranged from stupefyingly fluid ribboning and mind-bending metal guitar antics to startling gentleness, evidenced by the acoustic instrumental "Dee," which he wrote for his mother. Thanks to enormous volumes, a perfectly recorded crunch and Rhoads' jaw-dropping performances, the versions here of "Crazy Train," "Flying High Again" and "Revelation (Mother Earth)" are damn near definitive. The version of "Suicide Solution" really is definitive.
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This list of 45 intriguing undercut hairstyles with hair tattoos for women with. and a grey canvas appearing on a youthful woman, this artistic hair tattoo design is .
The 30 Biggest Celebrity Haircuts. Lesson learned:. The 50 Best Hairstyles for Women Over 50. Beachy waves aren't just for people with super-long styles.
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Thursday, 3 December 2015
Despite the harmful legacy of the 2014 budget, the Turnbull government is still intent on hurting families by cutting the family tax benefit. Labor has managed to protect grandparent carers from the worst of the cuts, but the Turnbull agenda remains steeped in unfairness. Hardworking families will be hit hardest by these cruel and unfair cuts to the family tax benefits. In my electorate of Moreton, 8,884 families on family tax benefit A will lose $726 a year for every child. The 7,708 families in Moreton who are on family tax benefit B will also suffer a cut of $354 per family. I was raised by a single mum so I know that single parent families find it tough enough already to raise their children alone. They will face, sadly, a massive reduction in family tax benefit B when their youngest child turns 13. They will typically be facing a cut of $4,700 a year. A family with two parents and two children in school will typically be facing a cut of $2,600 a year.
Most families understand that every dollar is crucial when it comes to balancing the family budget. Children are expensive. My boys are six and 10 and I know that it does not get less expensive as they get older. In fact, 13-year-olds can be much more expensive than three-year-olds. I am really looking forward to that! For example, active children who are involved in sports cost their family a lot of money in sports clothing, equipment and club registration and insurance. A cut of $4,700 a year for single parent families, or $2,600 a year for two-parent families, might make participating in sporting activities out of reach for many children. This is at a time when childhood obesity is on the rise. As I saw at a diabetes conference recently, even diabetes is on the rise for young children.
It is not only unfair; we also want our next generation to be fit and healthy members of Australian society. We want them to have had the benefit of a childhood where their parents can afford to give them healthy food, to provide them with proper medical care and education and to encourage them to be active members of society. These cuts from the Turnbull government will make that impossible for many families so many children will suffer. These are cuts to families who cannot afford more cuts. More than 600,000 families receiving family tax benefit A earn less than $40,000 a year. Once again, the Turnbull government is attacking those who can least afford it.
On top of that we have had flagged a raising of the GST. If the government carries through this 50 per cent hike, taking it up to 15 per cent, households will be hit by up to $4,000 extra on top of those cuts to the family tax benefit that I have outlined. They will be paying more for healthy food for their children—for fruit and veggies—for medical expenses, for clothing, for education, for electricity, and even sporting club fees. Labor understands fairness and values families. We will always stand up for those.

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What happens when we get so carried away tidying up the messy fallen leaves, that we wipe out the forest?
Tidy is the perfect book to teach kids that trying too hard to improve upon nature can destroy our environment. Extreme cleanliness, even with the best intentions, can lead to unexpected outcomes. Nature doesn’t always need improvement—some things are better left undisturbed.
Book title: Tidy
Author: Emily Gravett
Illustrator: Emily Gravett
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Recommended ages: 4-8
Length: 40 pages
Unique features: Cut-outs on the cover and first pages provide a peek through the trees at Pete the badger, busily tidying up.
Story: Pete the badger likes to tidy everything. But it never seems to be enough, no matter how hard he tries. Finally, he finds a way to get rid of all the nuisances around him, once and for all. The result is not what he was expecting, but quite the opposite.
Illustrations: Fun and vivid illustrations capture the beauty of nature and highlight the absurdity of Pete’s compulsion to sanitize everything he sees.
Check out these children’s books that will captivate your little one’s heart:
- Good Night, Little Blue Truck—the perfect bedtime storybook that will bring many nights of joy to your little ones


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Don’t shop, adopt your next pet
Published 11:00 pm Saturday, November 28, 2009
Shelter, dog pound, rescue agency, and humane society are all terms that are incorrectly interchanged with each other.
There are many people who think they are all basically the same thing. This could not be further from the truth.
Some of these entities are government ran and some are privately ran. An example of a government ran agency would be a county dog pound. County dog pounds may also be called a “shelter.”
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Many of the government ran agencies are “kill” shelters. Because they are ran by tax dollars, they have limited funds and limited resources. They are usually run by a warden and they take in unwanted or problem dogs and sometimes cats.
These pound puppies are given a small amount of time to be reunited with their owners or to be adopted out. The amount of time varies from area to area.
Sometimes it is a week or two and sometimes, as it is locally, only a few days.
Most rescue agencies are privately ran and funded entirely by the generosity of animal lovers.
Most of these shelters are also called “no kill” shelters. No kill means that animals that are under their care will never be destroyed.
If they are not adopted, they will spend their life with the rescue agency.
Some agencies have facilities were they keep the pets and some have several foster homes that keep the dogs and prep them for adoption.
Both types of agencies have great pets looking for great homes. Even if you desire a purebred pooch, check with one of these agencies.
There is full stock dogs put down everyday in pounds across America. With so many pets needing a home, take a look at shelters before paying a big price.
Think carefully before adopting a shelter dog. Even if some of these pets are on borrowed time, they are still lifetime commitments.
A shelter dog comes with a past. There may be challenges to face such as, fear of humans, food aggressions, aggression towards other dogs or people.
Most of the challenges can be overcome, but will take patience and training. It is important that they do not end up back in the very shelter you rescued them from.
These pets are waiting for a second chance, they are waiting on you. So, the next time you feel like extending your family, check out your local shelter or dog pound.
If you are in the market for a cat, again, check these places out. There are many shelter cats also waiting for new homes.
The more adoption friendly agencies even offer free spays or neuter and sometimes a vet check-up.
This brings me to my last point. As Bob Barker or Drew Carey would say, “Help control the pet population, have your pet spayed or neutered.” If everyone would have this done or breed responsibly, there would not be so many homeless pets. Remember, every dog deserves to be treated like a show dog.
Kate Barker, The BARKer Shop

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Last night's American Idol results show was present in association with Warner Bros.' Clash of the Titans, and the intro featured -- I swear -- movie footage and text like "Heroes are not born, they are made," as if these kids aren't just trying to land a record contract but somehow save all existence from Liam Neeson. Idol reaches some pretty sickening levels of incestuous marketing and promotion, between stuff like this and the weekly in-episode Ford ads that the singers have to do. I'm pretty sure that contestants will eventually just wear logo-covered jumpsuits like NASCAR drivers.
Elimination episodes are always 90 percent filler, and that gets more noticeable as the number of contestants slowly dwindles. The episode kicked off with a performance from second-season winner Ruben Studdard, now a slimmed-down vegan but still working that neo-Vandross thing that won him the title. Also, apparently he and Clay Aiken are going on tour together this summer, and if that doesn't entertain you, then brother I don't know what to do. His appearance, though, wasn't just because of his past Idol win, but to trumpet said tour and the release of his new single. Idol feels like a Hollywood studio from the contract era, trotting out stars just because it can.
Also: Justin Bieber was in the audience. I was sad to see him because (a) it meant that I recognized Justin Bieber, and (b) I've gone this far without actually hearing him talk or sing, but I've now heard the little Donny Osmond knock-off discuss how he was shaped by Usher. There is no greater argument for the questionable tastes of pre-teens than the success of a boy who looks like a lesbian.
The other performance of the night wasn't Usher, though, who despite being this week's mentor was clearly in no mood to hang around for an extra night. The honor instead went to Diddy, introduced as Diddy-Dirty Money and performing an atrocious new single featuring the questionable guest talents of will.i.am. It took me halfway through the song to realize it was Diddy, what with the confusing name change because seriously, this joker needed one more thing for people to call him.
The actual eliminations proceeded as expected: Crystal and Big Mike were safe, of course, as was Siobhan, despite a weak performance the night before, and Casey, who hilariously came up with nothing when Ryan asked him how he intends to challenge himself as an artist. Watching Casey fumble for an answer was like watching a job interview go south, but with the added awkwardness of live TV.
The bottom three wound up being Didi, Tim, and Katie, though once again Katie was saved for next week. Even Tim, that goofy ignoramus, got a pass. The loser this week was Didi, though she wasn't given the same pre-song notice that Paige did that she wouldn't be able to earn the judges' save. So she sang "Rhiannon" one last time and was sent home, though not before she was forced to watch a montage of her past performances and moments of optimism. Staring up at herself, Didi watched with a pained smile, contorting her mouth into the forced gape you use to prevent tears. It only worked for a moment.
So we're down to nine. I really hope that Tim gets the boot soon, but knowing young girls' fondness for good looks and a lack of talent (cf. Mr. Bieber), I'm not holding my breath. There's also a storm on the horizon: Next week is Lennon-McCartney week, and God only knows what horrors the Idol contestants will wreak upon the works of the greatest band of the century. I might have to drink beforehand.
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Monroe man facing charges
A Monroe County man is facing a charge of scattering rubbish following an incident that was reported on Jan. 28.
State police at Fern Ridge said Mark Heller, of Stroudsburg, was charged for allegedly causing waste paper to be deposited along Running Valley Road, near Neola Road, in Jackson Township. The incident occurred between 7 a.m. and 2:53 p.m., troopers said.
Troopers said Heller is facing a fine up to $300 and/or 90 days in jail, if convicted.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra posted photos of their wedding celebration Saturday amid reports that the couple had wed after a four-month courtship.
While the couple didn't say they were officially married - Indian weddings are typically dayslong affairs - they both posted festive pictures of themselves on social media and talked about the work they had put into planning the wedding.
Representatives for the entertainers didn't immediately return emails seeking comment.
The couple announced their engagement in August. It is the first marriage for the 36-year-old Chopra and the 26-year-old Jonas.
The couple had been posting social-media photos of themselves among family and friends in India for more than a week.

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Maria Porter, whose portrait (above, age 26) was painted by Charles Loring Elliot, was born on January 30th, 1810. She would go on to marry George Geddes, an engineer and surveyor who was born in Fairmount, NY and attended Onondaga Academy. His father, James, was a chief engineer on the Erie Canal and, with his influence, the canal route ran through the salt works at Onondaga. Following in his father’s footsteps, George distinguished himself by consulting on the construction of the Syracuse and Oswego Railroad. Also like his father, George was a member of the New York State Senate from 1848 through 1851.
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Via the Everson Museum of Art: Charles Loring Elliott (1812-1868) was a prolific portrait painter from Central New York. Born in Scipio, NY, Elliott spent most of his childhood in Syracuse, where his father was an architect and building contractor. Elliott devoted his childhood leisure to sketching and experimenting with oil paint, while occasionally making architectural drawings for his father. Shortly after his high school graduation, Elliott traveled to New York to study painting with John Trumbull, popular painter and president of the New York Academy of Fine Arts. Elliott did not enjoy Trumbull’s teaching style, and so he sought out John Quidor, a figure painter residing in New York, who proceeded to give Elliott the only formal training of his career.
After less than two years in the city, Elliott returned home to Central New York in 1834. He spent the next decade working as an itinerant portrait painter, likely supplementing his income by also decorating coaches, sleighs, and tavern signs. In the 1840s, he began to gain recognition as a talented portraitist, with notable Syracuse, Rochester, and Auburn residents commissioning him to capture their likenesses. By 1845, Elliott returned to New York City and quickly established himself as one of the leading portrait painters in the country. His style depended on a meticulous observation of his models, which allowed him to capture their individual characteristics with constant accuracy and naturalism. The colorful freshness and pleasing clarity of his work surpassed any competitors of his time.
Elliott’s first major success was a portrait of fellow artist and friend Sanford Thayer, painted in 1845. His treatment of Thayer’s golden beard, which English critics wrote, “seemed to possess the splendor of the setting sun,” showed Elliott’s unrivaled ability as a painter. The portrait helped gain Elliott acceptance into the National Academy of Design, and led to a stream of other portrait commissions. Ultimately, Elliott produced over 700 portraits in his career. He painted countless members of the Hamilton College faculty, many prominent residents of Central New York, an innumerable amount of government officials and Washington businessmen, five New York State Governors, and numerous members of the Vanderbilt family. In the 1860s, Elliott received so many commissions from people living in Albany that he ultimately moved there for the remainder of his life. –
– Michael Brussel, Curatorial Intern and Steffi Chappell, Curatorial Assistant at the Everson Museum of Art | Syracuse, NY

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India might be one of the fewest countries in the world known for the concept of ‘arranged’ marriages, put together by the parents, extended families and even acquaintances of the couple. While the concept might be alien to the rest of the world, it has surely given us some heart-warming love stories to look up to!
Such is the story of Anusha and Dhrumil’s marriage. Although introduced by parents in a formal, arranged marriage setup, the couple, as destiny had planned, couldn’t help but eventually fall head over heels in love.
Their two day wedding celebration of absolute grandeur took place after a spell-binding sunrise proposal in Turkey, up in the air, amidst hot air balloons. The Muscat wedding hosted at Shangri-La's Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa was a spectacular event with the dazzling Arabian sea and mighty Oman mountains as its backdrops.
The celebrations consisted of a Mehndi, Sangeet, Wedding and Reception each having a mesmerising decor influenced by the architecture of the Middle East. The functions were resplendent with umpteen shades, reflecting gorgeously in this collection of pictures painted by the team of Stories by Joseph Radhik.


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That’s right, she’s back! Irish hip-hop artist YINYANG – aka Lauren Hannan – is back and more badass than ever. Her formidable new single Kill Jester is out now.
YINYANG once again bites back with cutting lyrics and fuzz-filled soundscapes in order to create a sound that is full of ferocity. Kill Jester is a tale of killing off the old versions of yourself that no longer serve you for growth, Lauren elaborates, “each verse represents a different character or side to me. It’s about leaving old parts of you behind. YINYANG is a character I play, she’s the baddie in me I don’t get to exercise in my normal life, and she’s ready to explode”. Combining hip-hop sensibilities with a punk-infused ethos, Kill Jester is delivered with an undeniable sense of self-assurance and sass throughout.


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We love this idea so much! Local singing sensation Sho Madjozi continues to cement herself as one of the biggest celebrities in Mzansi right now and as her public profile grows, the star understands that while most of her fans are adults, younger audiences do look up to her as well. Kids are copying her hairstyles and her dress sense and sing her music. So, she has decided to create an account where she can speak directly to her younger audiences.
The star announced the decision on her main Instagram page saying “I’ve created a page especially for my kid fans. Follow @shomadjozistars if you have a little one that loves Sho Madjozi. I’ll be creating special children’s content especially for them over there.”
The star has already started sharing content on the page which features her young fans. The singer is a firm believer that her public platform has the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of so many who look up to her and it’s great to see the singer find such an authentic and accessible way to tap into that.
Keep inspiring, Sho Madjozi!
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What Flooring Type is Best For Your Home Needs and Your Budget
The down-low on flooring options and the questions you need to answer before making a decision.
Ah, the million-dollar question --- “What IS the best flooring type for your home?”
If you are considering a renovation or a new build, a burning question at the top of your mind revolves around the flooring. Not only because flooring takes up such a large visual surface area, but it is also one of the hard finishes in our home that tends to take to the most beating.
Vinyl? Laminate? Hardwood? Engineered Hardwood?
The options are endless. But which flooring type is really the best option?
We explore the differences between these options, cleaning and maintenance directions, most trustworthy brands, and factors to consider when making a selection with the help of Okanagan Hardwood Flooring in Kelowna in a 45 mins live Q&A session.
You can watch the full video interview with Okanagan Hardwoods, to catch all the goodies:
Or skim through the Coles notes here:
Laminate vs. Vinyl
When it comes to laminate and vinyl, the differences are minimal.
Both products are synthetic products. Laminate has a composite center with a printed laminate surface whereas vinyl is a sandwich of rubber-style products like PVC. They both perform relatively the same and are graded for light commercial use.
They are both suitable for living areas, main areas of the house- kitchens, powder rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, stairs etc.
Laminate and vinyl are harder-wearing products and are great for active families with a lot going on in their household as they can withstand higher traffic wear and tear, kids with toys, animals, and sporting footwear.
There are three main differences between laminate and vinyl:
Laminate has a harder impact film for the surface layer whereas vinyl is a softer product and is more prone to surface-level impressions.
Laminate is not waterproof and is NOT suitable for areas that encounter puddles of water – full bathrooms, mudrooms, laundry rooms, and service rooms. Vinyl is waterproof and is suitable for all areas, including wet zones.
Laminate is only available in click-together products (tongue and groove), whereas vinyl is available in both click-together products and direct glue down options.
Click together products can go over any surface – plywood subfloor, concrete, or float over an acoustic underlay.
With vinyl products, it is important to consider the subfloor. As vinyl is a softer product the type and finish of the subfloor can start to wear through the vinyl from the underside over time.
With poorly finished concrete floors with pits and grooves or rough-textured plywood, these defects will press into the vinyl as the surface is walked over and create a relief or impression on the product.
Vinyl is not a catch-all solution, so if there is a poor subfloor, vinyl may not be the best option as the defects will eventually show through the product.
Great for homes with a more carefree lifestyle
The price point is less than hardwood- most of the time
Suitable for all main areas of your house – vinyl can go in wet zones
More colours and grain options as the digital nature of these products allow for a greater variety in manufacturing options
Plank size can be wider and longer than that available in hardwood products
More of an active/ family floor
Can throw more at it and not worry too much about the wear factor, and if properly maintained should look similar to the day installed.
Subfloor conditions play a large part to the type of product installed
If necessary, subfloor may need to be refinished or repaired for best results prior to installation
There is a large swing in product types offered which creates a large breadth in quality to price points
Both products will feel and sound noisier when walked on – there is a resonance from the impact that wood products do not carry
Vinyl is prone to surface level impressions
Hardwood vs. Engineered Hardwood
A common misconception about engineered hardwood is that it is a magical product that somehow performs differently than its hardwood counterpart. This is simply not true. At the end of the day, engineered hardwood is still a wood product, the main difference being its construction.
Hardwood floors are wood floors. They are available in the different types of wood species, with the type of wood species playing a large part in the relative hardness and softness of the characteristics of the floor and how it will perform.
The thickness of these products are typically ¾” and they are solid wood all the way through
Board length and width are dependent on the wood species
Because it is a solid piece of wood, hardwoods have a thicker wear layer (3/4” product) that can be sanded down and refinished numerous times to bring the floor new life.
Can only be installed on or above grade (main floor to 2nd level of the house) and should not be installed in basements due to moisture and dampness
Hardwoods are actually less expensive than engineered products as the engineered version has a larger manufacturing process and greater internal core components
Engineered hardwoods have all the same properties as hardwoods and also relate to the wood species of the product and the relative hardness and softness of that wood species affects how the floor will perform.
But, instead of being a solid piece of wood, an engineered hardwood is a composite core made up of timber and board mixed together to achieve the desired thickness with a 4mm top layer of the wood species applied to the core.
Overall, the product is the same thickness, but the top layer is much thinner than hardwoods.
Engineered hardwoods can go on any level of the house, including basements and concrete subfloors and can be applied as a floating floor over an underlay pad.
Can also be glued to plywood or concrete subfloors, or nailed into place on plywood subfloors.
Has a thinner wear layer on top which allows for greater versatility—can go wider and allows for longer board lengths.
The composite core allows for installation in a larger range of relative humidity and will still remain stable, unlike full wood products which are more susceptible to variances in moisture levels.
Top layer is typically only 4mm thick. And while marketed as being able to be refinished, once the refinishing process is complete, the wear layer has been mostly removed and the board is now unstable, so refinishing is not recommended.
Higher resale value on a home
The natural beauty of hardwood and the warmth factor
Countless options—wide planks, short planks
Is warm to touch when stepping on it
Prestige value to it
Hardwoods can be sanded and refinished, so can take a beating and brought back to life – can last for 70+ years
But may not be the best-suited option depending on your lifestyle of what that home will see as they do wear and will show scratches, dings, and marks
Wood is susceptible to moisture changes
Not suitable for wet zones
The type of wood species will play a large part in how the product performs -- ie. softer woods will wear more easily than harder woods
Limited in grain looks, and board lengths/ widths as wood is a natural product and the grain is determined by how the wood is cut
Colour options vary and can be adjusted with staining (hardwoods only) but colour options and grain choices are more limited than laminate or vinyl
Typically, more expensive than laminate or vinyl options
To ensure your floor, no matter which option you go with, continues to look the best be sure to follow these cleaning and maintenance directions:
always clean- sweep, vaccum, and mop your floors
when debris is left on the floors, small granular bodies scratch against the surface and can build up over time
mop your floors on a regular basis- the oils on our feet are left on the floors and can build up over time causing wear patches
warranties on all flooring products are void if the floor is not properly maintained
don't expect warranties to be a cover all solution if proper maintenance is not kept up
Bona products for hard surfaces are the best options as they do not leave a film, or streak, are pet and kid-friendly, and are soap-based products with no harsh chemicals.
They come in a variety of different types made specifically for the flooring type, so be sure to make the proper selection based on which type of floor you have.
Bona products can be purchased at your local Home Depot or hardware store locations.
Best Trustworthy Brands
Not all products are created equal, not just in how they are manufactured, but also in how and where they are sourced, to the manufacturing facilities.
These differences play a role in the large swing in product costs that are seen through visiting local hardware stores for product options vs. visiting a specialty flooring location.
The two main considerations should always be
quality within your budget parameters
Hardwood/ Engineered Hardwood:
Factors That Affect Your Decision
No one likes to be told to do homework, but when it comes to your floor, be sure to do your research and discover what type of product is going to perform the best based on your needs for your home.
Confused about where to start?
Consider these factors as your jumping-off point:
Find your fit for YOUR home. Question how you use your space, and your daily and common habits to uncover what makes the most sense for your home and space
Quality. When you buy quality it will last.
Qualify your space. Do you have kids or planning on having kids, do you have pets, are you on a lake, do you have a pool, or do you experience snowy conditions ---- these will narrow down your options for which product is best for your needs
If going with hardwood or engineered hardwood, consider the species of the wood because it will affect how the floor wears, suitability for location and how it performs
Your budget in consideration of quality. Don't expect to get the absolute best product for the lowest price. It is not possible. Instead, determine your budget and find the best product that hits that range.


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Babs Windsor today unveiled her list of ideal street party guests, past and present, with whom to celebrate the Jubilee.
She revealed her fab four to be late singer Amy Winehouse, Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth, wartime PM Sir Winston Churchill and athlete Jessica Ennis
The Shoreditch-born former Carry On star, 74, was chosen by mayor Boris Johnson to drum up interest in July 3rd's Big Jubilee Lunch.
She said she'd chosen Amy lead a sing-song, Sir Winston for his speeches, Jessica because she's an Olympic hopeful, while Colin was "a lovely bit of eye candy."
Award-winning musical A Chorus Line is to be revived in London's West End for the first time in almost three and a half decades.
Simon Cowell has revealed plans to honour Britain's Olympic and Paralympic heroes on the X Factor.
Hit stage show Shrek The Musical is to end its West End run early next year after nearly two years.


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Very nice and well maintained golf with wild animal walking around. The green are not easy to play as a bit trricky to maintain but good job done.
Mooie en goed onderhouden golfaan. De holes zijn niet erg spectaculair maar wel bijzonder ervaring is dat je tussen de zebra's, apen en impala's aan het golfen bent.
This weekend I stayed here for two nights. I found it amazing! The staff was helpful and very friendly. The pool is nice, fresh and the beds at the pool are comfortable. I also played 9 holes (of course) which was definitely the highlight of my stay. Because of the drought the golf course has quite some brown rough, but the tee boxes, fairways and greens are well mainta…
Since it opened in 2000, the Great Rift Valley Golf Course has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and breathtakingly beautiful of all Africa’s championship courses. Set on the slopes of a small dormant volcano with unspoilt scenery in all directions, most holes on this course enjoy stunning views of mountains, plains, lakes and both escarpments of the Rift Valley itself

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Good day, Mission Support,
Date: 11APR2016 at 7:15 PM
GreenHab Officer Name: Jonathan Beechner
This morning, in addition to turning on the light to the greenhab, I started up the heater in the downstairs area in an attempt to reach an internal temperature of 80 °F inside the greenhab. The temperature did in fact rise to 79 °F, but I am not yet sure if that was a direct cause of turning on the heater. I will continue this method the rest of the week in hopes that the temperature remains high.
There are sprouts today! I found two tomato sprouts, neither of them exceeding 2mm in length. This, of course means the tomato seeds we have been using are good. I hope to see significant growth in the next few days.
The radishes have not grown significantly, but they appear to be healthy. There are no signs of withering, and the soil is moist.
I cannot tell for sure if the onions have changed significantly since yesterday. They appear to have slightly withered in certain spots. I will photograph them tonight and compare the picture to their state tomorrow.

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All you'll need is a tube of cinnamon rolls with Icing and cooked bacon crumbles.
Remove cinnamon rolls from the packaging and unroll the dough. Sprinkle bacon crumbles on top and gently press into dough.
Roll dough back up. If any of the filling sticks to the counter, gently scrape it off the counter and press into the cinnamon roll.

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The flavors and flair of Greece come to Stamford
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Along with the octopus we order a handsome sampling of three dips: fiery feta cheese, tzatziki and roasted eggplant. Served with a basket of perfectly fresh and warm pita quarters, whole wheat and white, the dips (especially the blazing feta) are incontrovertible proof that the kitchen of Eos knows how to do things right. At tables all around us, blue flames leapt from plates. Waiters were setting matches to orders of saganaki, a slab of cheese that is seasoned and doused with brandy before going up in flames. Tableside pyrotechnics never fail to amuse, and Eos’s rendition of this classic hors d’oeuvre is perfect.
By its nature, Greek cuisine is very adaptable. You can come to Eos for nothing but appetizers, a soup and a salad, or you can have only an entrée, with maybe an appetizer as a side dish. It is all very modular; there is no right or wrong way to approach the menu. We adore the Gigantes — huge butter beans baked with fresh herbs and slathered with olive oil and tomato sauce — so meaty they almost could pass as an entreé. An Eos fan we know swears by the souvlaki sticks made of pork, lamb or beef. Most people get a stick or two as an appetizer, but who’s to say that this starter wouldn’t make a great main course if you ordered six of them? It is our belief that no cooks on earth make better roast chicken than Greeks, and while it is not a flamboyant dish, Eos’s chicken is indescribably satisfying. It is not half a bird, as is usual, but rather cutlets of breast meat char-grilled and seasoned with oregano and lemon. On the side come wedges of lemon potatoes, lusciously soft and tangy.


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