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Thirty percent of the S&P 500 will report third quarter earnings this week. Based on earnings already in and analyst expectations, earnings are expected to grow 32.7% compared to last year as corporations continue to bounce back from a COVID-led earnings decline.
Key Points for the Week
- Earnings season is off to a strong start, and 30% of companies in the S&P 500 report this week. Earnings are expected to grow 32.7% and will likely grow more as companies usually beat expectations.
- U.S. industrial production slid 1.3% last month as the shortage of semiconductors pushed auto production down 7.2%.
- Chinese GDP increased only 4.9%. Energy shortages in China forced production halts that limited economic growth.
The most significant challenge for markets and the economy remains the supply shortages that are pressuring prices higher. U.S. industrial production shrank 1.3%. As Figure 1 shows, the monthly decline was larger than any seen from 2017 to 2019. Auto manufacturing dropped 7.2% last month, largely due to a shortage of semiconductor chips and other supply difficulties.
Energy shortages in China have contributed to a slower global recovery. Limited blackouts have curtailed production. Chinese industrial production grew only 3.1% during the last 12 months, a 2.2% decline from last month’s report. China’s economy continues to grow rapidly compared to the U.S., but its growth trend hasn’t been as strong post-COVID.
On balance, investors decided the news was good enough for equity markets to rise sharply. The S&P 500 jumped 1.7% and reached a new all-time high. The global MSCI ACWI added 1.3%. The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index gave back 0.4% as concerns about increased inflation remain a risk for bond investors. The aforementioned third quarter earnings reports and third quarter U.S. gross domestic product headline economic data released this week.
Once again, earnings season is off to a hot start. More S&P 500 companies than normal are beating estimates, and by wide margins.
Overall, of the companies reporting, 84% have beaten estimates versus the long-term average of 76%, and the average earnings beat is 13.4% above estimates compared to an average of 8.4%. Earnings strength is broad-based across several sectors, led by information technology, health care, financials, and communication services.
We are still in the early stages of earnings season with only 23% of companies reporting so far, But this week should be interesting with another 164, or 30% of companies in the S&P 500, reporting.
The growth in earnings has helped push equity markets even higher, causing the S&P 500 index to surpass its previous record high. Market jumps without increased earnings can push valuations up. Valuations have moderated in recent quarters as earnings have risen faster than the market. Even with the earnings gains, valuations remain higher than normal. The forward 12-month price-to-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 is 21, which is higher than the five-year average of 18.3 and the 10-year average of 16.4.
Also interesting is comparing companies in the S&P 500 that generate most of their revenue overseas with those that generate the majority in the United States. Given the disparity in economic recoveries, one might think that companies with more revenue coming from the U.S. would be doing better, but that’s not the case. The third-quarter earnings growth rate is 44.3% for companies that generate more than 50% of their revenue outside the U.S. and 26.3% for domestic-focused companies.
We will be monitoring earnings releases over the next few weeks. Some of the largest tech companies will report next. While the information technology sector has performed well, there have been some notable misses in the sector. Future quarters will also begin to face tougher comparisons, and the outlook, as well as the numbers, are likely to make the next few weeks extra interesting.
This newsletter was written and produced by CWM, LLC. Content in this material is for general information only and not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual. All performance referenced is historical and is no guarantee of future results. All indices are unmanaged and may not be invested into directly. The views stated in this letter are not necessarily the opinion of any other named entity and should not be construed directly or indirectly as an offer to buy or sell any securities mentioned herein. Due to volatility within the markets mentioned, opinions are subject to change without notice. Information is based on sources believed to be reliable; however, their accuracy or completeness cannot be guaranteed. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
S&P 500 INDEX
The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries.
MSCI ACWI INDEX
The MSCI ACWI captures large- and mid-cap representation across 23 developed markets (DM) and 23 emerging markets (EM) countries*. With 2,480 constituents, the index covers approximately 85% of the global investable equity opportunity set.
Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index
The Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an index of the U.S. investment-grade fixed-rate bond market, including both government and corporate bonds.
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ATV32H075N4 - Speed Drive - TELEMECANIQUE
This reference variator ATV32H075N4 and brand SCHNEIDER / TELEMECANIQUE is a variable speed drive for asynchronous and synchronous motors.
Speed drive : 0,75kW, 3.6A, 380/500V, three-phase supply voltage with integrated EMC filter.
This ALTIVAR (Schneider Electric) is at your disposal to replace your defective equipment and has a guarantee adapted to your needs.
The Altivar 32 variable speed drive from Schneider Electric provides high performance and improved connectivity, while reducing panel space, improving uptime and maximizing machine through-put. Its extra-slim, book-style design allows side-by-side mounting, as well as the direct attachment of a self-protected disconnect. The Altivar 32 can be mounted in smaller spaces, minimizing wiring,
and reducing machine costs.
The Altivar 32 features embedded BluetoothTM technology, which enables monitoring, viewing and performing machine diagnostics, while keeping cabinet doors safely closed. It also has an onboard HMI and navigation wheel for easy adjustments, and includes an on-board RJ45 connector. This RJ45 port can be used for ModbusTM or CANopen networks, or to connect a remote LCD graphic display.
The Altivar 32 drive offers built-in functions that meet the demands of multiple applications:
b Integrated safety functions are certi ed to safety standards (SIL 2 according to standard IEC 61508) comparable with performance level “d” (PL d) according to ISO/EN 13849-1/-2.
b The Altivar Logic function offers simple control system functions (such as Boolean, arithmetical operations, comparators) that can reduce panel space and wiring costs by eliminating the need for external relays, timers and counters.
Optional communication cards allow the Altivar 32 drive to integrate seamlessly into main control system architectures.
The Altivar 32 drive includes various motor control pro les for three-phase asynchronous motors. It also features a control pro le for permanent magnet synchronous motors. Compact and highly energy ef cient, PM motors are particularly suitable for conveying applications and other equipment with gear boxes. Using a PM motor often eliminates the need for a gear box. This improves ef ciency, reduces space required and eliminates the maintenance associated with gear boxes.
The Altivar 32 drive simpli es setup and use with:
- Compatible HMI and con guration tools for Altivar 32 variable speed drives and - LexiumTM 32 servo drives (SoMoveTM PC setup software, SoMobileTM software for mobile phones, remote display terminals and the Simple Loader and Multi-Loader con guration tools)
- Built-in Bluetooth link
- Easy- t communication cards in cassette format
- Option for connection to the CANopen machine bus
- Side-by-side mounting with no derating. For mounting in shallow cabinets, the control module can be rotated 90 degrees.
- Quick connect for a TeSysTM GV2 self-protected disconnect
- Labeled terminals
- Synergy with Lexium 32 servo drives for controlling applications involving asynchronous and synchronous motors (common tools and options, same shape and dimensions)
The Altivar 32 drive is also compatible with SoMachine, the software solution for OEMs. This solution can be used to develop, con gure and setup an entire machine in a single software environment.
Since its creation, the Telemecanique brand has been pursuing an innovation policy, which has become one of the world’s first references in automatism management.
The story of Telemécanique is read through that of its inventions, initiated with the launch of the first contactor on bars. A patent filed the same year of its acquisition, in 1924! It will develop contactors D became world reference. The 1980s marked the acquisition of Telemechanics by Schneider Electric (1988).
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Debt Financing Advantages and Disadvantages That Business Owners Must Know
A debt is when a person borrows money from an outside source and makes a promise to return the principal amount plus the agreed percentage of interest. This term has been marked as negative action in our society. However, startup companies often find that they must be in debt to finance their operations.
Given that some companies are already big, their balance sheets can typically include some level of debt. Debt can sometimes be called a “leverage” in finance. The most popular source of debt financing is banks. But it can also be issued by a family member, friends, or a private company.
Maintain ownership: You will be obligated to make the agreed-upon payments on time, especially when you borrow money from a bank or another lender. However, that will be the end of your obligation. After, you will retain the right to run your business whichever way you want without outside interference.
Tax deductions: This is one of the reasons people are attracted to debt financing. In most of the cases, the interest and principal payments on business loans are noted as business expenses. Therefore, they can be deducted from the business income at tax time. One way to think about it is as if the government is your business partner. In this case, they have a 30 percent ownership stake or depending on what your agreed business tax rate is.
Lower interest rate: Examine the impact of the tax deduction on the interest rate of the bank. If the bank is charging you 10 percent for your loan and the government taxes you 30 percent, then it would be an advantage to take a loan that you can deduct.
Repayment: The sole obligation that you have to the lender is to make your payments. But you will still have to make those payments regardless if your business will fail. The lenders will have a claim of the repayment before any equity investors if ever you are forced into bankruptcy.
High rates: Even if you already have calculated the discounted interest rate from your tax deductions, you might still have to face a high-interest rate. This is because it depends on the variations of the macroeconomic conditions, your business credit rating, your personal credit history, and your history with the bank.
Impacts on your credit rating: You might get used to getting debt financing whenever your firm needs money, which is a practice known as “levering up,” but each loan that you make will be noted on your credit report and affect your credit rating. The more that you borrow, the higher the risk it will be for the lender. So, you will be paying a higher interest rate on each of the subsequent loans.
Cash and collateral: If you plan to use the loan to invest in an important asset, you will have to make sure that your business will have sufficient cash flow by the due date of your repayment. Most likely, you will be asked to put up collateral to protect the lender if ever you failed to make a payment.
Equity financing: This process involves selling the shares of your company to interested investors or putting up your own money into the company.
Mezzanine financing: This type of debt offers businesses an unsecured debt, in which there is no collateral required. But in return, they will give you a high-interest rate, usually around 20 to 30 percent range. Also, the lender has the right to convert the debt into equity in the company if the company fails to pay.
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Cloudpond Version 4.0 includes four S3 Salesforce panels to choose from! Just choose one for your Lightning Page Layout; your users will store their files and attachments inside AWS S3 from the Salesforce platform.
You can choose from the new Cloudpond File Migration Panel or the new Cloudpond Salesforce S3 Panel. In addition, the standard Cloudpond Panel is available or a special Read Only Panel,
Cloudpond S3 Connector for Salesforce is a great solution to store Salesforce files in S3 and it works great in Communities or on Salesforce Mobile. We offer a 30 day free trial as well. Cloudpond S3 Connector for Salesforce is only available in the Salesforce Appexchange. Be sure to try it out, Storing your Salesforce files in S3 has never been so easy!
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On Monday afternoon, Peter Ariz from CanesInSight.com reported that Miami Hurricanes LB Darrion Owens would likely transfer from the program.
Miami LB Darrion Owens will be transferring, sources say. He is eligible to play elsewhere immediately since he graduated in December. Houston is a possible landing spot.
— Peter Ariz (@PeterAriz) January 1, 2018
The University of Miami confirmed this report with a press release on Tuesday morning.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami announced Tuesday that linebacker Darrion Owens has decided to leave the football program.
“Darrion and I talked, and he informed me that he feels his best opportunity to get the most playing time would be at another school,” head coach Mark Richt said. “Darrion has been a great representative of our program. We appreciate all the hard work he has put in and we wish him all the best in his future plans.”
“I would like to thank Coach Richt, the coaching staff, my teammates and all of the Hurricane fans for their support,” Owens said. “I’m proud to have earned my degree from the University of Miami and I look forward to this next chapter in my football career.”
Owens, a redshirt junior from Orange Park, played in all 13 games for the Hurricanes this past season, recording 35 tackles, including 4.5 for loss.
A redshirt junior, Owens could graduate and be immediately eligible at his next school.
Formerly a 4-star recruit from Jacksonville (FL) Oakleaf HS, Owens had a decent, if unspectacular, career at Miami. He played in 32 games over 4 years, collecting 79 tackles, 7.5 TFL, 0.5 sacks, 4 PBU, and 1 forced fumble in that time.
Owens played in just 2 games during the 2015 season before tearing his ACL and missing the rest of the year. He took at medical redshirt due to that injury, which is how he played in parts of 4 seasons yet retains eligibility, for those wondering.
Owens had his best statistical season in 2017, finishing with 35 tackles and 4.0 TFL in 12 games. He was a good rotation player in the linebacking corps, and one could make the argument he was actually better this season than Zach McCloud at the SAM LB position.
Owens’ departure will hurt the depth at LB a bit, and force the younger players at the position to step up into game action next season.
We wish Darrion Owens the best in hie future endeavors.
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This Au Jus is made from the rich drippings of prime rib and is a luscious and savory sauce that elevates standing roast to a new level of deliciousness. This recipe showcases the secrets of creating the perfect textured gravy with the aromatic flavor of beef broth and a splash of red wine.
This post contains affiliate links. Please read my full disclosure here.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Flavorful: This sauce is rich in flavor, capturing the essence of the meat’s juices and any seasonings used during cooking.
- Aromatic: It’s infused with the aromas of the roast’s herbs and spices, adding depth to its taste.
- Moisture and Juiciness: Au jus helps enhance the meat’s moisture, making each bite of prime rib even more succulent.
- Enhances Your Dish: The sauce adds another layer of taste to the dish, complementing the meat’s natural flavors.
What is Au Jus?
It’s a flavorful and savory sauce that is traditionally served with prime rib or standing rib roast. The term “au jus” is a French culinary phrase that translates to “with juice” or “with its own juices.” It’s made from the natural juices that are released by the meat as it cooks, from there you can add additional seasoning, broth, and wine.
How to Thicken
Flour is the key to thickening the sauce. Typically au jus, is thinner than standard homemade gravy, but I still use flour to keep it from being runny.
What type of Broth to Use
Since we are pairing this with beef, beef broth works best and will also help give it the rich dark color we are going for. But any broth will work including chicken broth, vegetable broth, or even water.
Do You Have to Use Wine
Using wine in the sauce can enhance the flavor and complexity of the sauce, adding depth and richness that complements the natural juices of the meat. Red wine is a popular choice for rich and bold flavor. Varieties like cabernet sauvignon, merlot, or pinot noir can be used.
Choose a wine that you enjoy drinking since the flavor will be concentrated in the sauce. Avoid using wine that is overly sweet or too tannic, because these conflict with the flavor.
You do not have to use wine in the sauce. It can be a flavorful addition to au jus, but it is not a mandatory ingredient. The key components of the sauce are the meat drippings and a flavorful liquid, which can be achieved using broth or even water as an alternative to wine.
I don’t strain my sauce but a lot of people prefer to! I remove the cooked herbs (thyme and rosemary) and add the remaining drippings to the sauce. We love a nice thick sauce.
Straining will remove any solids or impurities, resulting in a smooth and velvety sauce. A lot of people strain to help skim off the fat as well. We like to keep the flavor from the fat in the sauce. You will need a mesh strainer or cheesecloth to do this.
How to Prevent Separation
Prime rib is loaded with fat (that’s why it tastes so good!) so separation is completely normal, especially if you refrigerate leftover sauce and reheat it later. I wouldn’t get too caught up in separation. If it bothers you, here are some tips to try to reduce the amount of separation.
- When deglazing the pan with the wine and broth, be sure to incorporate the liquid thoroughly into the drippings and browned bits on the bottom of the pan. This helps disperse the flavors and prevents them from separating during cooking.
- Stir and whisk the sauce really well while it’s cooking. This can help combine the fat and liquid, preventing them from separating as they cool.
- Simmer the au jus gently over medium-low heat, rather than boiling it vigorously. Gentle simmering allows the fat and liquid to combine more harmoniously.
- Serve the au jus shortly after making it. Avoid letting it sit for an extended period, as separation can occur as the sauce cools.
- You can also use a fat separator. Fat is the major cause of separation. A fat separator is a kitchen tool that helps separate fat from liquids, allowing you to pour off the sauce while leaving behind excess fat.
Can You Make it Without Drippings
Yes, you can make any gravy without drippings. My Yellow Gravy Without Drippings will show you how. From here you can also add wine or additional spices for flavor.
- Garlic Powder
- Onion Powder
- Smoked Paprika
- Cayenne Pepper
- Celery Seed
- Red Pepper Flakes
How to Store
It will last tightly covered and sealed in the fridge for 3-4 days.
How to Reheat
Reheat on the stove at low heat until warm.
You can also use the microwave and reheat in short intervals until warm.
The sauce will likely have thickened and in the fridge, it’s normal; gentle reheating will help recombine the components.
Portion the au jus into freezer-safe containers or resealable freezer bags. Leave some space at the top of the containers or bags to allow for expansion as the au jus freezes. You can freeze it for up to 3 months.
Defrost in the fridge overnight.
Pair With These Recipes
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Prime Rib Au Jus
- If you cooked your meat with fresh herbs, remove the cooked herbs and any large pieces of fat or other chunks of food from the drippings.
- Heat the drippings in a pan on the stove at medium heat. I use the same cast iron skillet I cooked the prime rib in.
- Add in the flour and stir. Continuously stir the mixture to avoid clumping until the flour is incorporated.
- Reduce the meat to medium-low. Pour in the broth and wine. Stir and continue to cook for several minutes until the sauce thickens. Strain the mixture using a mesh strainer or cheesecloth if desired.Taste repeatedly to ensure the sauce meets your taste. Add salt, pepper, or other spices as needed.
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This tea I bought today (but won’t count in the spending list, as it isn’t from my money); hoping it will be a kind of relaxing blend (I am running a bit short with my Relax from B&B).
It was a cheap buy, again. And again from Lidl store, so no big expectations.
It’s earthy. And quite hoppy, though nonewhere close to beer. Cardamom is quite present and it’s having sweet aftertaste due to licorice I guess. But that’s not bad, as it mellows the earthy notes. It’s somehow generically herbal as well, the mint and rooibos isn’t prominent at all in taste though. Maybe it’s a good thing.
If it relaxes me, it does a good job. For the price, it’s nice tisane for sure.
Flavors: Cardamom, Earth, Herbs, Hops
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Here’s Aunt Betty as a younger girl.
Here are the 15 Whitmore children and their parents. My grandmother, Helen, is third from the left.
(Update! According to my mother, this was a celebration for my grandmother’s 40th birthday. See her comment below.)
I love the fact that she still had her War Ration Book (I’ve never seen one before,) but I love even more that she was 4 feet 11 inches and 98 pounds. I looked up the house address too. It’s still there.
When you have 15 children, it’s not hard for gatherings to get this big. My copy is blurry, but I think that’s my grandfather George second from the right, standing next to my Great-Grandmother. My grandma is in the first standing row, six (!) from the left. She’s wearing a dark colored dress.
More of the 15. Not so well composed, as some of them are hidden.
This is a really fabulous photo of Aunt Betty.
As is this. That’s Aunt Joanne standing next to Aunt Betty.
(Update! The problem with having 14 great aunts and uncles is you might have trouble with their names. Mom says this is Aunt Margaret, not Aunt Joanne.)
This is a picture of my grandmother and grandfather I’ve never seen before. I particularly love my grandmother’s coat, which I’m willing to bet she made.
A Jantzen Swimsuit!
This is the shirt Aunt Betty is wearing in a really fun photo of (nearly) all the Whitmore girls. I’ve looked at that picture for years as it’s in my Aunt’s kitchen, so it was funny to see the shirt neatly folded among the memorabilia.
Then I hit gold! Aunt Betty’s autograph book. This is from a friend of Aunt Betty’s and I laughed at the saying.
From Uncle Harold.
My grandfather! I was surprised to see him in this book because it was from 1936 and I didn’t realize he was around then. My grandparents didn’t marry until 1941.
Aunt Mary. (Who is amusingly wicked in her entry)
Because Aunt Betty loved ice cream, there was an ice cream shop.
This is Uncle Jack, who was married to Aunt Lucretia (the one from the autograph book).
Aunt Virginia (married to Uncle Harold), Aunt Janet (who was stubbornly looking away from the camera) Aunt Joanne, Aunt Mary.
I waited around until Aunt Janet didn’t notice me taking the picture.
A nice poem about the Whitmore Family.
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Lizzie has 5 new stencil designs releasing today at stencilgirlproducts.com. There are 3 new "Mid-century Madness" designs and "Crazy Dazey", each in large 9x12 stencils, as well as one 6x6 design, "Orbitz".
This collection was inspired by her childhood in the 60’s & 70’s where she was surrounded by the combination of abstract and floral patterns.
This era saw patterns galore. "They were on the wallpapers that adorned the walls, the clothes that I wore, the furniture I sat on, to the plates I ate from. It was an assault of the senses with a mixture of colours, shapes and botanicals that encompasses the force of modernism. Crazy Dazey is a mélange of all of those childhood memories," says Lizzie.
Lizzie designed Orbitz to tribute some of her favorite space themed shows of that era.
In these 3 mid-century modern designs, Lizzie captures not only the patterns of her youth, but the interlocking shapes is representative of the close family bond encouraged by her parents and still felt among Lizzie and her siblings to this day.
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The Role of Trust Signals in Conversion Rate Optimization: A Comprehensive Guide
Trust signals play a crucial role in conversion rate optimization by helping to build trust with your audience and increase the chances of them taking the desired action. Trust is everything when it comes to online business. Customers need to trust a business before they can make a purchase or engage with the brand. In today's digital age, where customers have a plethora of options, building trust and credibility online is more important than ever.
Understanding trust signals is the first step towards leveraging them for conversion rate optimization. Trust signals are symbols, icons, messages, and design elements used on web pages to build trust, reduce perceived risk, and increase feelings of security for users interacting with an online business. Trust signals can be anything from security badges, customer reviews, social proof, to testimonials, and more. The key is to find the right trust signals that resonate with your audience and build credibility for your brand.
- Trust signals are crucial for building trust and credibility with your audience, which is essential for conversion rate optimization.
- Understanding trust signals and how they impact user experience is critical for leveraging them effectively.
- Leveraging social proof, reviews, and other trust signals can help optimize conversion rates and build credibility and trust online.
Understanding Trust Signals
The Psychology of Trust in Online Transactions
In the world of e-commerce, building trust with potential customers is crucial for success. Trust signals are elements on a website that help establish credibility and trust with visitors. These signals can take many forms, from customer reviews to security badges, and can significantly impact a customer's decision to make a purchase.
The psychology of trust in online transactions is complex and multifaceted. It involves a range of factors, including perceived credibility, perceived risk, and social proof. Customers are more likely to trust a website that appears credible, has positive reviews, and offers clear and transparent policies.
Types of Trust Signals
There are several types of trust signals that e-commerce businesses can use to establish trust with their customers.
Social proof is a powerful trust signal that can significantly impact a customer's decision to make a purchase. It involves using social cues to show that other people have made the same decision and are happy with the results. Social proof can take many forms, including customer reviews, ratings, and testimonials.
Credibility is another important trust signal that can influence a customer's decision to make a purchase. It involves demonstrating that a website is trustworthy and reliable. Credibility can be established through several means, including clear and transparent policies, professional design, and security badges.
Trust Badges and Trustmarks
Trust badges and trustmarks are symbols that are displayed on a website to indicate that it is trustworthy and secure. These symbols can take many forms, including security seals, SSL certificates, and payment logos. Trust badges and trustmarks can help establish credibility and reduce perceived risk, which can increase the likelihood of a customer making a purchase.
In summary, trust signals are essential for building trust and credibility with potential customers in the world of e-commerce. By using social proof, credibility, and trust badges, businesses can create a positive and trustworthy online experience that encourages customers to make a purchase.
Trust Signals and User Experience
Trust signals play a crucial role in optimizing the conversion rate of a website. They help to build trust with the audience and increase the chances of them taking the desired action. In addition to building trust, user experience is another critical factor that can impact the conversion rate. A website that provides a positive user experience can help to build trust and increase the chances of a user converting.
Website Design and Layout
Website design and layout are critical components of user experience. A well-designed website with an attractive layout can help to build trust and increase the chances of a user converting. A website that is cluttered, difficult to navigate, or unattractive can have the opposite effect. It can make users feel uneasy and lead to a higher bounce rate.
Navigation and User Journey
Navigation and user journey are other critical components of user experience. A website that is easy to navigate and provides a clear user journey can help to build trust and increase the chances of a user converting. A website that is difficult to navigate or does not provide a clear user journey can make users feel frustrated and lead to a higher bounce rate.
Content Quality and Transparency
Content quality and transparency are other critical components of user experience. A website that provides high-quality content that is relevant, informative, and engaging can help to build trust and increase the chances of a user converting. A website that provides low-quality content or is not transparent can have the opposite effect. It can make users feel uneasy and lead to a higher bounce rate.
In conclusion, user experience and trust signals are critical components of conversion rate optimization. A website that provides a positive user experience and builds trust with the audience can help to increase the chances of a user converting. By focusing on website design and layout, navigation and user journey, and content quality and transparency, website owners can optimize their conversion rates and achieve their business goals.
Leveraging Social Proof and Reviews
Social proof and reviews are powerful trust signals that can significantly impact a website's conversion rate. By leveraging social proof and reviews, businesses can improve their credibility and build trust with potential customers.
Customer Testimonials and Case Studies
Customer testimonials and case studies are effective social proof tools that can help businesses build trust with potential customers. According to a blog post by RevPartners, "authentic and detailed reviews from satisfied customers act as social proof and can significantly impact conversions."
When it comes to customer testimonials, it's important to feature them prominently on the website and ensure they are authentic and detailed. Case studies are also effective social proof tools that can showcase how a business has helped other customers achieve success. By highlighting success stories, businesses can demonstrate their expertise and build credibility with potential customers.
Ratings and Reviews Impact
Ratings and reviews are another important trust signal that can impact a website's conversion rate. According to a blog post by SiteTuners, "reviews and ratings are powerful forms of social proof, as they provide potential customers with an unbiased assessment of a product or service."
It's important to feature ratings and reviews prominently on the website and ensure they are authentic. Businesses should also respond to negative reviews in a professional and courteous manner, as this can demonstrate their commitment to customer satisfaction.
In conclusion, leveraging social proof and reviews can significantly impact a website's conversion rate. By featuring customer testimonials, case studies, and ratings and reviews prominently on the website, businesses can build trust with potential customers and improve their credibility.
Optimizing Conversion Rates with Trust Signals
Trust signals are an essential component of conversion rate optimization. By using trust signals effectively, companies can build a reputation for reliability and trustworthiness that will help to attract and retain customers for years to come. Here are two key strategies for optimizing conversion rates with trust signals.
Effective Placement of Trust Seals
Trust seals are one of the most common types of trust signals used by online businesses. They are third-party certifications that indicate that a website is secure, trustworthy, and reliable. Trust seals can be placed in various locations on a website, such as the homepage, checkout page, and product pages.
To optimize conversion rates with trust seals, it's essential to place them in a prominent location where visitors are most likely to see them. According to a study by Baymard Institute, the most effective location for trust seals is the checkout page. Placing trust seals in this location can increase conversion rates by up to 30%.
A/B Testing and Conversion Metrics
A/B testing is a powerful method for optimizing conversion rates with trust signals. It involves creating two versions of a webpage and testing them against each other to see which one performs better. A/B testing can be used to test different types of trust signals, such as trust seals, customer reviews, and security badges.
To conduct an effective A/B test, it's essential to track conversion metrics such as click-through rates, bounce rates, and conversion rates. These metrics can provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of different trust signals and help to identify areas for improvement.
In conclusion, optimizing conversion rates with trust signals requires careful planning and execution. By using effective placement strategies and conducting A/B testing, businesses can increase their conversion rates and build a reputation for reliability and trustworthiness.
Building Credibility and Trust Online
Building credibility and trust online is crucial for businesses to convert website visitors into customers. Trust signals are elements on a website that help build trust and credibility with the audience. In today's digital world, online businesses are constantly trying to find new and innovative ways to optimize their conversion rates and boost their bottom line. Here are some trust signals that can help build credibility and trust online.
Privacy Policies and Secure Payment Options
Secure payment options are another crucial trust signal. Customers want to know that their payment information is safe and secure. Offering secure payment options such as PayPal or credit card payments with SSL encryption can help build trust with customers. Displaying trust badges such as Norton Secured or McAfee Secure can also help assure customers that their payment information is secure.
Certifications and Endorsements
Certifications and endorsements are another way to build credibility and trust online. Certifications such as ISO 9001 or Better Business Bureau Accreditation can help demonstrate that a business is committed to providing quality products and services. Endorsements from reputable sources such as industry experts or well-known publications can also help build credibility and trust.
In conclusion, building credibility and trust online is essential for businesses to convert website visitors into customers. Trust signals such as privacy policies, secure payment options, certifications, and endorsements can help build credibility and trust with the audience. By implementing these trust signals, businesses can improve their conversion rates and boost their bottom line.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do trust signals impact customer decision-making in online transactions?
Trust signals are an essential part of building trust with customers in online transactions. They can influence customer decision-making by providing reassurance that the business is legitimate, reliable, and trustworthy. Trust signals such as security badges, SSL certificates, and customer reviews can help customers feel more confident in their decision to purchase from a particular website. This, in turn, can lead to higher conversion rates and more sales for the business.
Why are customer reviews and testimonials important for improving conversions?
Customer reviews and testimonials are one of the most powerful trust signals for improving conversions. They provide social proof that the business is legitimate and trustworthy, and they offer insights into the quality of the products or services being offered. Positive reviews can help build credibility and trust with potential customers, while negative reviews can provide valuable feedback for improving the business. By displaying customer reviews prominently on their website, businesses can increase the likelihood of conversions and build a loyal customer base.
What role does social proof play in enhancing the credibility of an online business?
Social proof is a psychological phenomenon where people rely on the actions and opinions of others to make decisions. In the context of online business, social proof can be used to enhance the credibility of a business and increase conversions. Social proof can take many forms, including customer reviews, testimonials, social media shares, and endorsements from influencers or industry experts. By leveraging social proof, businesses can build trust with potential customers and increase their credibility, which can lead to higher conversion rates and more sales.
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The Best of AC/DC play-along set includes a music book with the drum score to 13 of AC/DC's best hits and online audio access recordings which allow you to play along with full "soundalike" backing tracks. The book features authentic arrangements of songs such as "Back in Black" and "You Shook Me All Night Long" with lyrics and the melody line in standard notation. In addition to backing tracks to all the songs, the online files also feature full performance tracks so you can hear what it's supposed to sound like before you play it yourself.
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You see the glass half full, while your spouse sees it half empty. One of your friends recovers almost immediately after a setback, while another is depressed for weeks. One child intuitively understands other people, while another misses basic social signals. Why are people so very different?
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How’s it going Pandas! At time of writing, Singapore has just announced measures to return to lockdown-like conditions for another month.
Here at 88 Bamboo, we wish that you and your family remain in good health and good spirits wherever you are. Bars have been closed but that doesn’t mean we cannot virtually connect and continue sharing a dram together!
The Isle of Islay is famous for its rich, peat-spoke saturated, briny and iodine-y whiskies. But even amongst its eight nine working whisky distilleries, their single malts vary by distillery from robust and smoky expressions to gently smoky expressions on the other. This is because most Islay distilleries continue to use traditional malting methods that rely on peat, infusing a smoky character in their malt. They also source water that has run through peat moors that have a slightly vegetal peaty character.
That said, whiskies from the more northern parts of Islay (such as Bunnahabhain) tend to be lighter flavoured, party because the water they could find is less peaty and there are fewer peatlands available to harvest.
Today, I’d like to try a limited edition bottle from Bunnahabhain (with only 1,650 worldwide) that two of my friends have been giving me rave reviews about.
Distillery: Bunnahabhain | Brand: Bunnahabhain |
Region: Islay, Scotland | Status: Active |
Distributor: Original Bottling (OB) | Classification: Scotch Whisky |
Style: Single Malt | Cask: Ex-Whisky Hogsheads, Portuguese Port Pipe |
Age: 11 Years Old | Abv: 55.3% |
Behind the Label
Brief introduction to Bunnahabhain
Bunnahabhain (‘Boo-nah-ha-vin’) Distillery is the Northern-most distillery, and this should provide you a hint as to its flavour style.
The Margadale River is where Bunnahabhain sources its water from (Image Source: David Webb – Wikimedia Commons)
The name ‘Bunnahabhain’ is derived from the Gaelic phrase ‘mouth of the river’. The distillery was founded by William Robertson and two Greenless brothers in 1881 and is situated by- you might have guessed - the mouthof the Margadale River which empties itself into the Sound of Islay.
The distillery produces one of the most easy-to-drink Islay single malts with its sweet, very lightly-peated profile and smooth texture.
Each year, the distillery produces 2.5 million litres of newmake spirit. A portion of this would be stored in 21,000 casks for maturation in the distillery’s warehouse, and would become the classic Bunnahabhain single malt. The remainder would be used to create blended malt whiskies (alongside spirits from other distilleries).
Our favourite story amongst distilleries
Bunnahabhain Distillery isn’t a distillery that constantly waxes lyrical about its unique origin or ingredients. However, it has one of my favourite anecdotes amongst the Scottish distilleries I’ve surveyed, about how a certain old vintage bottle came to be.
As the story goes, in the cold winter of 2012, one Bunnahabhain worker who was tidying up the cellar was moving a dusty old batch of ledger books dating from the early 1960s. He decided to flip open to view the dated ledgers out of curiosity, but noticed an entry for an extra batch of whisky he did not account for.
Feeling slightly embarrassed, he referred to the stated storage location of that batch of whisky and began searching. His investigation took him to a faraway corner of the facility where he discovered a single forgotten cask of whisky that had been aged for over 40 years.
A single forgotten cask of 1972 whisky.
The happy discovery yielded 750 bottles of Bunnahabhain 40 Years Old, to the delight of fans all around the world.
The Bunnahabhain 40 was said to be a rare example of what an unpeated Islay whisky is truly capable of (Image Source: Master of Malt)
We are not reviewing the Bunnahabhain 40 today. One dram of this stuff probably costs as much as 2 bottles of very good 21 year old Scotch. I just thought this story was a great one to share.
Today we shall share a dram of Bunnahabhain Distillery’s first ever port wine-finished single malt!
This expression had been matured for 9 years in ex-whisky hogshead-casks, then finished for another 2 years in Portugese Port “Pipe” casks.
Let's dive into tasting it.
In the glass, this is very red, the colour of old lacquered oak or dark red pomegranate seeds.
On the nose, very expressive aromas of hot mulled wine. There is a component baked raspberry tart or strawberry jam notes, covered by another layer of mild cinnamon and star anise. Letting it sit for just about a minute was a terrific decision because there is more to it – it gets nuttier with sugar-dusted crushed almonds and lashings of milk chocolate.
The milk chocolate aroma is quite distinctive, reminding me of unwrapping a chocolate Neapolitan square – the type of chocolate that one mind find two pieces in a luxury hotel minibar. This isn’t quite dark chocolate but more similar to sweet melty creamy milk chocolate. (You should remember these addictive things. The sort of chocolate squares where their packaging may be personalised to promote businesses of all types, from restaurants, hotels, cruise ships to banks.)
As a child I have once polished off a dozen of these things while sitting at the lobby of the Hilton without any adult noticing. For trade mark reasons we shall not reproduce Hilton-branded Neapolitans (Image Source: Whitakers Chocolates)
On the palate, there are substantial dominant notes of the same milk chocolate Neapolitans. This is sweet, moderately rich, full-on milkiness coupled with slightly woody earthy notes of chocolates. There is a little caramel component. I do not get much fruit or juiciness- perhaps just some dried red raisins.
Although I am drinking this at 55.3% ABV, the heat from the alcohol is not very pronounced. This is quite unlike typical supermarket Scotches (such as a Johnnie Walker) where the alcohol burn is significantly more pronounced even though the ABV is lower. This is quite smooth with a manageable amount of heat.
I decided to add a teaspoon of water. This really tones done on the milk chocolate flavours. Now the chocolate turns into lightly caramel, butterscotch toffee flavours, with a slight coconut flavour. Sweetness is subdued. I mentioned almond earlier- some sugar-dusted almonds continue to make itself known, although it’s subdued now.
Adding water really increases the complexity of this, almost like fanning out a stack of cards to reveal each layer of flavour. There is a lot more going on. The milk chocolate Neapolitans take a backseat now.
The finish is long and smooth with the richness of the chocolate slowly fading. There is very subtle sooty peatiness – and I’m saying really subtle – one might argue it isn’t there or just slight medicinal notes.
I am glad I procured this bottle. This is quite unlike Bunnahabhain’s other releases that tend to be much lighter and fruitier. This one is actually richer, distinctively milk-chocolatey with darker flavours.
There is greater complexity when water is added. But I actually prefer drinking this one neat because I do somewhat miss the chocolatey flavours that take a backseat when water is added. This is also quite drinkable and so smooth despite the 55.3% ABV, and I would recommend trying this neat before anything else.
(Image Source: Ritter Sport USA)
Our Rating | 🍫🍇All that talk about chocolate really got me craving for some chocolate and raisins. It is imperative that you try this Port-matured expression together some Ritter Sport hazelnut raisin milk chocolate. You may or may not choose to pair this with some exercise, that’s completely optional. |
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The production of high-quality fixtures is vital to the success of most manufacturing operations worldwide. From assembling products to inspecting parts, fixtures wear a variety of hats in the larger production process. With this being said, there are a number of issues with traditional methods of producing and implementing fixtures, including:
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THE SOURCES FOR STRATEGYSTREET.COM: Do you face intense competition? For over 30 years we observed the evolution of more than 100 industries, many hostile. We put their facts into frameworks applicable to all industries and found patterns. Strategystreet.com proposes decision guidelines resulting from these thousands of observations and their patterns. This website supports leadership decisions on segments, products, prices and costs of companies facing very competitive marketplaces.
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Performance Friction 332 compound racing brake pads - ideal for sprints and medium distance racing (stock rear calipers)
PFC’s 332 compound has similar characteristics to the old 06 compound and its biggest attribute is the smooth torque and excellent release behavior. The 332 compound is ultra smooth and developed to reduce wheel locking at the end of a stop. Drivers who trail brake into corners will appreciate the smooth release of these pads. 332 is a sprint and medium distance friction compound.
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Description [onder voorbehoud]
In het eerste jaar van elk bachelorprogramma Geesteswetenschappen wordt 5 ects ingeruimd voor een facultair kerncurriculum. Een kerncurriculum biedt een introductie in een wetenschapsgebied dat centraal staat binnen de geesteswetenschappen. Voor studenten van opleidingen verbonden aan het Leiden Institute of Area Studies is het kerncurriculum Area Studies verplicht.
An Introduction to Area Studies
All scholarly work in the social sciences and humanities necessarily focuses on one or more socio-historic area, be that Europe, the USA, China, Iran or elsewhere. However, it is also important for scholars to be self-reflexive about the importance of their own situatedness in a particular place and tradition: no research is done in an ideal, value-free vacuum. Even the most conventional, mainstream disciplines are rooted in particular (often European) experiences.
Based around the question, ‘where is here?’, this course explores the various dynamics of interaction between the location of a scholar and the location of her subject matter. It seeks to encourage students to consider the status of knowledge produced in different fields and places, and to think creatively about how these might be related to one another in constructive ways. It draws particularly on the comparative and interdisciplinary nature of Area Studies to prepare students to develop their own intellectual and political strategies for dealing with identity and difference in their academic work, in whatever field that might be. The course draws on case studies from around the world and from different historical periods; it uses multiple media types (including film and literature); and it draws on a range of different multi-disciplinary themes (eg. empire, identity, migration etc.)
Concept day/time: Tuesday 15-17h
Mode of instruction
Students in the course are graded according to their performance in the following segments, in the following proportions:
Mid-term Exam (40% of the total grade for those who attend regularly; 44,44% for those who do not attend regularly)
Date: Thurs 28 October 9-11 Location: To be announced
Final Exam (50% of the total grade for those who attend regularly; 55,55% for those who do not attend regularly)
Date: Thurs 23 December 9-11 Location: Universitair SportCentrum
Attendance/Participation (10% of your total grade if you attend regularly)
In order to pass the course, the average of the score on the mid-term and final exams must be a passing grade.
Students whose average score on the two exams is less than a passing grade must pass the combined resit (hertentamen) in order to pass the course. The score on the combined resit replaces the previous score on the mid-term and final combined.
Lectures are held every week, with the exception of the midterm exam week. Weekly lectures will cover both issues discussed in the readings, and issues outside of the readings. Attendance at lectures is expected and will be checked. Please be sure to sign the weekly attendance form or you will be counted as absent!
Students who attend lectures regularly will be rewarded by having their attendance grade count as 10% of their overall mark.
The course site on Blackboard offers important course information as well as a place for discussion of course contents and practical issues. Please be sure to consult the blackboard site regularly.
All course readings and other learning materials can be found on the course Blackboard Site.
Please refer questions about course practicalities or contents to the teaching assistant, Marije Klein
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Matt and Amanda were married on Saturday!
These two love the north shore, the outdoors, and historic architecture. So naturally, they chose Duluth, Minnesota, for their destination wedding. Incidentally, they also chose it for their north shore engagement session. Amanda knows every corner of this neck of the woods, and picked all the locations for the wedding portraits. Perhaps it is this kinship that led this normally temperamental location to deliver gorgeous weather for the entire day, allowing the guests to dance the night away on the veranda…it was like Lake Superior wanted to show off her best qualities to the visitors.
The entire day took place at the gorgeous Kitchi Gammi Club, and Matt and Amanda did a fantastic job marrying modern simplicity and vintage details. From her knockout of a gown, to an invitation suite that featured handwriting you would see on blueprints, to dried violets on the cupcakes, every little detail had such thought behind it. My favorite, of course, was the signature drink called “Liquid Luck”. Any time I get to photograph a Harry Potter fan’s wedding, I’m a happy camper!
We shared the storytelling with videographer Nick, owner of Make Your Memory, so naturally we all had a blast driving around Duluth and shooting in all the corners of the mansion with this crazy fun group! Keep scrolling to see our favorites from the day!
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We wanted to focus on the infamous men's fanny pack, which is very much back in fashion, but most of the content is about women. Women wear them well, but I also see more and more men rock this hated and loved item every day. That's why we decided to create a small men's fanny pack guide so you can go shopping for one with confidence!
Fanny Packs for men: Everything You Should Know About
The death of the men's fanny pack was mainly due to the fact that it was cheap to make, and thus used as a marketing tool for many companies. But what made it completely die was when dad's started to wear it to the beach and other public places!
What type of fanny pack should I buy?
- Big fanny pack. The big men's fanny pack is more of a practical item for men than a fashion statement. Because it has a larger and thicker strap, it's very comfortable to wear, even when it's heavy. Its size makes it easy to put a lot of stuff in it, like sunscreen, an extra t-shirt, a vape, and a lot more.
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How can I wear a fanny pack?
In most street-style pictures of men wearing men's fanny packs, you'll see them wearing it tightly over the chest. Wearing it loose makes it a lot easier to sling around on the back, which we think looks sleek!
Lately, we've seen more and more men just wearing it around the waist, like it was designed. Less men wear it this way, and it'll make you stand out instead of looking like someone who just bought it because you've seen it worn on some celebrity.
What are the different types of fanny packs?
- Streetwear men's fanny pack. This type of men's fanny pack is most often characterized by bright colours, sometimes funky designs and big logos and brand names. We think this is the most popular of the three, but also the coolest! Wear this type of men's fanny pack with a hoodie or sweatshirt and try to match the colours of your outfit with your men's fanny pack.
- Urban men's fanny pack. This type of men's fanny pack is characterized by a more subtle and practical design. They usually are smaller brand names and have logos on them, sometimes more pockets than you can count, and they tend to feel more durable and firm. You can wear these men's fanny packs with your favourite street-wear as well as your urban workwear. It's quite a versatile accessory that we would recommend for first-timers who want their first men's fanny pack.
- Practical fanny pack. This type of men's fanny pack is usually made of leather, with no noticable logo and a minimal design with very few pockets. It's usually worn over more dressy, yet relaxed clothes, like a shirt and suit pants.
Men's fanny packs are now everywhere. We love to run errands or travel and have easy access to our phones and wallets. Styles have come a long way since the '80s, and there are many beautiful choices to choose from.
Portable, trendy, convenient. There's a reason why the men's fanny pack has so many fans. This timeless accessory is as practical as it's stylish. Whether it's a night out or a trek through the woods, a men's fanny pack can help keep the essentials of your life.
Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash
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Sometimes, it’s so hard to choose what to buy for a new year gift? Thinking of something that you don’t need to know what size they wear, what is their favorite color, or what they love to eat! If you don’t have any gift idea, fragrance will be your best choice. Whether you’re planning to let the notes lead the way or want to lean into more of a general vibe rather than a specific scent, we’ve got plenty of perfume gift options for you ahead. These are thoughtful and personal and will help them feel like their best self for years to come.
Gucci Bloom Eau De Parfum
For a white floral fragrance that feels modern, the Gucci Bloom Eau De Parfum is a no-fail option. It’s created to smell like a verdant garden in full bloom with notes of rangoon creeper, tuberose, and jasmine bud.
Narciso Rodriguez For Her Eau de Parfum
With notes of pink florals, orange blossom, amber, soft musk, and vanilla, the Narciso Rodriguez For Her Eau de Parfum is complex and intoxicating. It’s the ideal signature scent for someone who’s glamorous and elegant.
Jo Malone London™ Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne
Just like the name implies, one whiff of the Jo Malone London™ Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne will take you straight to a woody, seaside escape, with the smell of fresh, salty air intermingling with the woody earthiness of sage.
BYREDO Gypsy Water Eau de Parfum
For a light scent that isn’t floral-based, the BYREDO Gypsy Water Eau de Parfum is woody and smoky — and the ultimate luxe pick. Featuring key notes of bergamot, lemon, pepper, incense, and pine needles, it easily conjures up fresh soil, deep forests, and campfires. In other words, it’s a perfect match for someone who’s free-spirited or outdoorsy — but still enjoys the finer things in life.
Le Labo Santal 33 Eau de Parfum
For a true unisex fragrance that’s rich and bold, the Le Labo Santal 33 Eau de Parfum is smoky and spicy thanks to the notes of cardamom, leather, and sandalwood. It’s a fan favorite!
Chanel Chance Eau Tendre Eau de Toilette Fragrance
Part fruity, part floral, the Chanel Chance Eau Tendre Eau de Toilette Fragrance is a true classic. The notes of citron, jasmine, and teakwood combine to create a scent that’s bright, while still remaining soft and subtle.
The magic of smell will make the one you love who receive your gift will appreciate what they get. It’s something they’ll wear every day, and each whiff will bring back the memory of the time you presented it to them. Don’t waste your time, go grab and wrap it now!
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Development near airport leads IDA talk
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, November 12, 2003
A strategy for developing the area surrounding the Suffolk Executive Airport was the primary topic of discussion at Wednesday’s meeting of the Suffolk Industrial Development Authority.
Councilman Bobby Ralph told IDA members that council members had been &uot;getting pressure&uot; about the pace of development around the airport in the wake of infrastructure improvements that have been made.
&uot;The business community seems to feel we are dragging our feet out there,&uot; Ralph said.
Among the improvements that have been made to the area are the extension of a potable water main, the completion of the Southwest bypass and plans call for construction of a sewer pump station. The land has also been rezoned.
&uot;If the airport is there, let’s take full advantage of it,&uot; Ralph said.
Finance Director Christine Ledford noted that she and Public Works Director Eric Nielsen are members of an airport commission that will be addressing development issues. She suggested the IDA appoint representatives to the commission.
IDA members generally agreed that it’s a prime area for development.
&uot;We’ve got a great asset out there in the airport,&uot; IDA Chairman John Harrell said. &uot;I think the question is how we get some development.&uot;
City Manager Steve Herbert told IDA members that it makes a
lot of sense to begin now to put together a comprehensive look and suggested that city staff make a presentation at a future IDA meeting. IDA members Dwight Nixon, Vernon Williams and the Rev. Isaac Baker agreed to sit on the committee.
In other business:
nTom O’Grady, director of the department of Economic Development, reported that New Dominion Pictures had fulfilled all of its obligations under its Development Agreement with the IDA and recommended IDA members sign a deed of release with New Dominion. A motion was made and carried.
nAfter an executive session, Authority members voted to sell 1.19 acres of property it owns off Virginia Ham Drive to Tony Collins of Access Development. The property is adjacent to property Collins owns that he plans to develop into office and warehouse space and possible mini-storage.
nDowntown Development Director Elizabeth McCoury announced that renovation of the Professional Building is progressing on schedule and that the school board is expected to move in on Dec. 19.
nMcCoury also noted that representatives of the Virginia Preservation Alliance will be in Suffolk Sunday afternoon to take a walking tour of downtown.
The IDA’s next meeting will be on Dec. 10.
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- Designed for use in automation, such as vending machines, industrial equipment, etc.
CAD files are available on each product’s detail page. Click the “CAD/BIM Files” tab, located in the middle of the page to download the different formats. If CAD files are not available for a specific component, please contact our Support Team
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Little Star. One-Of-A-Kind doll from Soft Sculptures Gallery. Artist Tanya Abaimova
This doll is in a private collection. |
Little Star is a One-Of-A-Kind teddy bear. He is an artist-crafted collectible, not a toy suitable for children.
Little Star comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist. His face is fully sculpted from polymer clay, flocked and has hand-painted features. Little Star is 4" standing. Little Star has hand-painted Little Star glass eyes. He has movable head and limbs, fully cotter pin jointed. Little Star has been weighted for pleasant substantial feel. Little Star's coat is velvet. The paws are made of suede fabric. Little Star is firmly filled with a premium Polyfill. Little Star has been created and handled with love in a non-smoking environment. |
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We organize special trips to other spots for those who want to see and surf other places around West Crete during their vacations. During the summer season there are special conditions in West Crete which may interest you. If you are an expert and want to do wave riding in side-on shore to off-shore conditions, or push your level in freestyle to the next level, there will be days of special interest. If you are interested in traditional surfing we can also organize surf trips to several beaches in West Crete. We choose the right place with perfect waves, ideal to your level every time, to max out your fun in the water. Let our experience be your guide and you will have unforgettable moments in the water.
Some of the spots are :
Agia Marina (windsurf, surf)
Kissamos – Kasteli (windsurf, surf)
Paleochora (windsurf, surf)
Stay in contact with us to get informed of what can work during your vacations. Maybe the local weather has extra gifts for you.
Don’t be confused, our stations on Elafonisi and Falasarna work 100% in the summer season (May to October). The organized trips are our addition to your addiction! More fun in the menu!
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Sustonable Eco Stone Collection brings warmth and serenity to any project that aspires to have an eco-style. Its natural palette transports us to raw environments, soils, rocks, mountains, and skies. Still intact, far from any human footprint. Sustonable Eco Stone Collection is designed to tell the most beautiful story: the earth lives happily ever after.
Are you looking for beauty, simplicity, and sustainability? Keep reading to be delighted by The Eco Stone Collection from Sustonable.
Its earthy brownish colour has given the name to this design. Its natural forms provide light and serenity to any application: wall panels for creating a cozy corner in your living room; as a worktop to bold your kitchen concept, even as a part of an auxiliary table to have THE “call to attention” detail… Let Earthy Calacatta talk for you and spread eco-style around.
Its clean lines utter an artistic finish to this pattern. The grey colour offers a delicate image, composing an immediate relaxed environment. Clean Statuary is like connecting the dots for pure design.
Our first pattern, Sustainable Calacatta reminds us why we do what we do: sustainable decorative surfaces for those who want to change and leave a better world behind. Its bold veins show powerfully around the design. Why do you not use it as striking detail in a room or a piece of furniture?
This design brings a memory of the summer starry nights, the profound black base with the little lighter dots reminds the sky at night. Such an elegant pattern will certainly provide a high dose of sobriety to any atmosphere.
Subtle Marquina is a perfect and delicate solution for those who love dark stones. With a definite presence and smooth pattern, it won’t go unnoticed. Perfect for a smart bathroom or an opulent kitchen.
Cocoa Empire is one of the most captivating designs. It is a playful game of the traditional Brown Emperor Stone. Sustonable introduces a remake of this stone composed of off-white and grey veining while conserving the brown and grey background tones. It is a mesmerising design when it is applied to an entire room. The pattern captivates even the most lost in thought person.
Willing to see more designs? Keep following us to know about the Vogue Collection…
Interested? Drop us an email at [email protected]
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Sutherland Garage Repairs
Sutherland Garage Repairs have been providing garage door repairs, garage door openers and garage door service & maintenance to the Sutherland Shire for over 15 years.
We cater for both automatic and manually operated garage doors regardless of the material the door is made from, or the brand of door or opener you have previously purchased.
Our experienced technicians stock the most commonly used repair parts and openers to help reduce turn around time when you need it done fast!
Garage Door Repairs
Sutherland Garage Repairs provide garage door repair services for Garage Roller Doors, Tilting Garage Doors and Overhead Garage Doors.
Our service technicians carry the most commonly used repair parts to help ensure a quick turn around for your job.
With a fleet of mobile repair vans roaming the Shire we can get to you quickly.
Garage Door Openers
Sutherland Garage Repairs supply and install garage door openers to suit all garage door types and all types of garage door openers.
We carry a stock of commonly used openers at all times to minimise delays when ordering replacement openers and parts.
We support all major brands and models of garage door openers.
Garage Door Springs
Garage Door Springs are one of the most important and yet one of the most overlooked components of your automatic garage door.
Maintaining, tensioning and replacing the springs when needed is essential to having a reliable and smooth opening garage door.
Sutherland Garage Repairs supply and install garage door springs for all door types.
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At Sydney Rivers Canoe Hire, we’ve been committed to customer satisfaction since the start. Great service begins with great people. Our staff has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to connecting people. We’re a team of dedicated professionals with a genuine desire to ensure that your experience with us is easy, convenient, and satisfying.
We love the outdoors and are passionate about local history, culture and biodiversity.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the Cooks River and the lands around it, the Cadigal, Wangal and Gameygal peoples. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and future, for their resilience in the face of this ever changing landscape.
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OUCO Marine/Offshore Foldable and telescopic boom compound marine cranes would be the type of effortless cranes with foldable and telescopic booms compound, which make full use of the cranes' strengths and flexibility when loading and unloading goods. OUCO Marine group can design the foldable cranes based on API-2C regulations and rules.
In every type of environment, we bring together engineering, operational expertise and field-proven solutions with a foundation of safety and risk management that helps you control costs and achieve lasting success.
Our pedestal-mounted, slew-bearing crane with a cylinder-luffing knuckle boom was designed for offshore applications on all types of vessels where space is at a premium and load accuracy is significant.
The crane can perform external lifts over the side of the vessel or can be used for internal lifts on the deck. The low center of gravity ensures control and reliability, the box construction absorbs shocks caused by load impact, and the boom design minimizes pendulum action for stability during adverse weather conditions.
• Self-contained with integrated electro-hydraulic power pack
• Precise stepless speed control
• Easy maintenance
• 360 degree continuous slewing
• Emergency lowering Optional features:
• Star-delta starter for low starting currents
• Limit switches for slewing and hoisting
• External power pack
• Portable radio electric remote control unit
• Different pedestal heights
• SUS fitting
• Enclosed operator cabin
• Designed for extremely low temperatures (Arctic climate)
• Personnel handling
• Load monitoring system
• Other features available upon request
SWL | 2.5T22M&5T11M |
Max. Working Radius | 22 m |
Min. Working Radius | 3 m |
Hoisting Speed | 0-12 m/min |
Hoisting Height | 30 m |
Slewing Speed | ~1.0 r/min |
Slewing Angle | 360° |
Luffing Time | ~120s |
Power Resource | AC380V/50HZ |
Power | 45kw |
Protection Class | IP44 |
Packing & Shipping
Our company provides professional packaging and transportation for the products.
With years of experience, the OUCO Marine Group has its own designing team and manufacturing factory, excellent European management who has 47 years of experience on offshore business, which also provides after sales services overseas.
Our production line covers marine and offshore knuckle boom crane, telescopic crane, stiff boom crane, non-standard steel structure, more environmental-friendly operations and also truck crane with the range from 15t to 150t.Port industry which includes cranes, hoppers and grabs.
OUCO Machinery can build any type of handling equipment, according to our own design, but also according to provided designs.
We build products according to any certification requested by the client and are able to build them for working in, and under extreme heavy circumstances for working tempertures of - 40C accordingly.
Our company has modern production factory and experienced production workers.Modern operation technology and strict supervision system guarantee the quality of products.
Once Cooperation Be Friends Forever
Our company participates in various exhibitions every year and presents our products to partners and customers around the world.
We have our own factory and welcome friends from all over the world to visit us.Once Cooperation Be Friends Forever.
1. Q:Can this type work in hazardous environment?
A:Sure! We can customize for you, acid proof or explosion proof, no problem for that.
2. Q:Can you provide the serious lifting tools?
A:Sure, we can provide any lift tools such as lift sling belt, lift clamp, grab, magnet or other specials as your requirement!
3. Q:How can we install the crane?
A:Our senior engineer can be your side to do the installation guide service and training. Moreover, our best sales can visit your country.
4. Q:Safety device
A:Overload limiter, Limit Switch (lifting and traveling), Interlock protection device.
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June 26, 2018
Hello World, We Exist
Every time I arrive to Palestine, I think to myself “It’s nice to be in a place where they can pronounce my name.” You see, my parents were Palestinian refugees who were born in Palestine and ended up immigrating to Canada when I was 3 years old. I remember my very first day of school in London, Ontario, when the principal announced my name in front of everyone during the morning announcement. He said “Boys and girls, let’s welcome… Kh-Khaleeeeed Al Zimbabway?”
Yeah, it’s always great when they end your name with a question mark. Oh, I’ve been called Khalil, Kaylid? and… “Kalib?” – which just happens be the Arabic insult meaning dog. The only way I could get people to stop was to stand up and say “my name is pronounced KHA-LED – with no question mark at the end.
And if you’re still having trouble… it rhymes with “Salad”. It also rhymes with ‘Valid’ – as in ‘hello, I exist!’”
But hey, I’m Palestinian, and for over half a century Palestinians have been trying to say “Hello World, we exist”. And like most Palestinians, my family’s path forever changed in 1948 when the state of Israel was established and Palestine was de-established.
My father recalls the trauma quite vividly. Terrorized by the violence that was used to form Israel, his family fled their home town of Salama, where they owned 200 dunums (50 acres) of fertile land dotted with beautiful orange groves, and they sought temporary refuge in Gaza. A few years later, the new State of Israel invaded Gaza.
My father was a young boy when the soldiers came to his neighborhood and rounded up all the men and teenage boys into a local school. He was at home with my grandmother when the soldiers suddenly entered. One soldier raised his gun as the others ransacked the house, clearly in search of something.
After what felt like hours of searching, they found nothing… until the suspicious commander asked my grandmother to stand up off the sofa as he began to search under the cushion. His eyes widened when he found a large folded paper. As he read its contents, he turned to face my grandmother, stood tall and gave her a military salute. He found what he was looking for: the title deed to the 200 hundred dunums (50 acres) of my grandmother’s land.
You Know What Really Sucks with Israel’s Occupation of Palestine?
Like many Palestinians of my generation, I grew up on stories of tragic dispossession. Unfortunately, the tale of Palestinian tragedy continues. Today, Palestinians live in open-air prisons controlled by the Israeli government, while their unelected leaders fight for control of the prison yard. The people of Gaza live on the constant verge of catastrophe, while the West Bank is propped by unsustainable donor aid. On top of all this, the Palestinian people continue to witness the confiscation of their shrinking native land.
It’s hard not to feel helpless in the face of such overwhelming forces. But in times of collective helplessness, it is the actions of individuals that matter.
At least that’s what I believed when I arrived in Palestine roughly 10 years ago for the first time as an adult. I realized this would be an interesting journey when I handed my passport to an Israeli immigration official at the Tel Aviv Airport. He took a hard look at my name and said… “Kkkhhhaled?” “Not bad!” I replied, until he said “Khhhaled Al… Wasabi?” Seriously Wasabi?
“No, man,” I replied. “My family is not named after the Japanese sushi condiment. It’s Sabawi. And it’s Palestinian. Get it right.” And… then I was interrogated for 8 hours.
Whatever your views are about Israel and Palestine, I think we can universally agree that experiencing the high of someone almost pronouncing your name followed by the low of an 8-hour Israeli interrogation, really sucks. You know what else really sucks with Israel’s occupation of Palestine? Settlements.
Both the entire international community and I agree on that.
In fact, article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions clearly states: The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Yet to this day, settlements have swallowed 10% of the West Bank – over 125,000 acres – that were taken from Palestinians.
When my father and I looked into how this came about, we discovered a way that could actually help Palestinians protect their land.
70% of Land in The West Bank Remains Unregistered and is Without Title Deed
You see, between 1948 and 1967, the militias that formed Israel exploited the chaos of that period to steal land from Palestinians. Today, Israel is accepted by the international community and it has a relatively functional, albeit discriminatory, judiciary, so stealing title deeds from citizens simply doesn’t fly. This is why, shortly after occupying the West Bank in 1967, Israel surveyed the entire West Bank in order to identify the location of unregistered Palestinian lands. Why? So they could take advantage of an old Ottoman law which holds that if your land is unregistered and not in active use, the state can seize your land and declare it as “state land”. In spite of the fact that most Palestinian land is actively used for farming, Israel invokes this Ottoman law as a pretense to confiscate Palestinian land for settlement expansion.
We were shocked to discover that until today roughly 70% of land in the West Bank remains unregistered and is without title deed. It turns out the reason why is quite simple. During the Ottoman Empire, Palestinians didn’t register their lands because they couldn’t afford to pay taxes.
Our ‘Aha’ Moment and How My Father and I Took Matters into Our Own Hands
Right now, the only registered lands with title deeds exist in the main Palestinian cities, and due to their limited supply, their price has skyrocketed. In Ramallah, for example, a dunum of land – equivalent to 1,000 square meters or a quarter acre – sells for almost a million US dollars. Even on the edge of Ramallah, a dunum sells for a quarter of a million dollars. Lands with title deeds have become unaffordable.
On discovering this, my father and I took matters into our own hands. We thought, if Israel relied on local laws to confiscate unregistered Palestinian lands, why couldn’t we use local laws to register and therefore protect Palestinian lands?
What does the Palestinian Authority Do All Day?
When we asked about the land registration process, to no one’s surprise, not one single person in the Palestinian Authority knew the full process of registering land. But, to be fair, that’s only because they’re very busy.
So, I hired a team of lawyers and engineers and we created a flow chart that maps out the Ottoman registration process, which now falls under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Lands Authority. To print this puzzle of a process, you need 6 pieces of paper.
In an attempt to reduce this shockingly bureaucratic process, I visited a Palestinian Authority Minister to show him our flow chart. He looked at it for a grand total of 2 seconds before he took a looong drag on his cigarette and blessed me by blowing smoke right on my face… He then said “What on earth brought you to this place?”. “Good effing question” I replied, in my head of course because I was actually choking.
The First Ever Surveyed Master Plan in The History of This Ancient Palestinian Land
So, we mapped out the process and now it was time to start it. This is where things get complicated, because the first step is to purchase unregistered land that’s available for sale. But, how do you buy land that has no title deed, no proof of borders, and barely any paper work? You don’t – you run as fast as you can.
But if you’re kinda crazy like us, you search for the land’s actual owners. We quickly discovered that most unregistered land in Palestine has been inherited over generations. And to make things more challenging, we Palestinians tend to have babies like…. rabbits.
So, one piece of land today might be owned by, say… 50 cousins. Like most Palestinian families, there’s never any drama between them and they’re usually spread all over the globe in countries like Chile, Jordan and, as Palestinian villagers say “Huh, Ameircha ya zalama”!
Navigating A Never-Ending Bureaucracy
Once we’ve managed to get approval from all the owners to purchase the unregistered land, we then have to mark its official borders …for the very first time. Because if you ask the owner “where are the borders of your land?” he’ll respond “from this olive tree to that olive tree to…. see that donkey over there?” This means we have to walk every corner of the land with a land surveyor, a GPS machine, the Head of the Village Council, and every, single, neighbor. They all sign on the borders and we then create the first ever surveyed master plan in the history of this ancient land.
And… That’s just the beginning. Next, we have to navigate that web of bureaucracy which takes roughly two to three years. And then there’s the process of dividing up the land into parcels. And finally, the process of getting new infrastructure approved. In all, we have to get approval from a total of 9 different Palestinian Authority ministries and committees.
We’re just grateful we don’t have get approval from the Palestinian Ministry of… Falafel.
In 2011 TABO Was Born, A Project That Creates Title Deeds and Protects Palestinian Land
Finally, after years of hard work, and after going through this mind-bending process I joined my father, who 60 years ago witnessed the dispossession of his mother’s land, and in June 2011 we proudly launched “TABO”, Arabic for title-deed, a project dedicated to creating title deeds and protecting Palestinian land.
For the first time, a dunum of residential land with a paved road, electricity, and a title deed became available to the public at an affordable price.
And we’re proud to say that we did this without any donor aid, unlike other major real-estate projects in the West Bank.
To create TABO we required significant amounts of capital, which my father single-handedly raised from Palestinian and Arab investors and through an IPO on the Palestinian securities exchange. In case you’re wondering, yes, Palestinians don’t have a state, but they have a securities exchange and not one, but two governments.
The capital we raised was required to legally purchase land and make sure every inheritor received their share. The capital also allowed us to take on the risk of acquiring unregistered land and navigating the uncharted waters of the title deed registration process. And we couldn’t have done it without our awesome team of local Palestinians from Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
As a result of all this, for the first time, Palestinians were able to buy land in Palestine with monthly payments as low as $500 with ZERO interest, and they were able to use their land right away. We took care of all the paperwork and delivered title deeds in each new landowner’s name no matter where in the world they lived. We created an online platform and mobile app that gave Palestinians from all over the world the ability to choose their plot with the click of a button and virtually witness the breathtaking beauty of the rolling hills of the West Bank.
Building Homes and Local Palestinian Communities with Zero Profit Margin
Through TABO, Palestinians in the Diaspora, some of whom Israel doesn’t allow to enter Palestine, finally had access to affordable land in their ancestral homeland.
Now, we’re often asked if Palestinians without a local ID can buy land in Palestine. Yes, they can, and according to Palestinian law, they have to go through a Buyer’s Permit Application process– essentially a background check – which requires thorough vetting and approval by various Palestinian Authority institutions. We respect this process and think it’s very important, because we don’t want our land falling into the wrong hands.
So, check this: what used to be a bare hill in the West Bank, unregistered and vulnerable to confiscation, has now been turned into hundreds of parcels of land with individual title deeds owned by Palestinians. And to further solidify this new reality, we build homes for our Palestinians landowners with zero profit margin. Our aim is to build local communities on local land before foreign settlements can emerge on them.
A Feeling of Betrayal and Helplessness When My Father Was Illegally Detained
As TABO was taking off, my father and I were repeatedly interviewed in various news outlets and asked about our assessment of the situation in Palestine. As independent voices, we felt obliged to constructively criticize the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, and their Two State Illusion because it is detached from the difficult reality on the ground. For our outspokenness, however, we paid a price that I never imagined.
For criticizing their leadership, individuals within the Palestinian Authority abused their power and illegally suspended all of TABO’s title deed transactions. Think about this for a moment. To punish us for using our freedom of expression, powerful individuals within the Palestinian Authority went out of their way to suspend the registration of Palestinian land, thereby preventing the protection of Palestinian land from Israeli settlement expansion. When my father, who was 70 years old at the time and is one of the most prominent and respected businessmen in Palestine, called for Mahmoud Abbas’ resignation, he was illegally detained. I’ll never forget the feeling of betrayal and helplessness. To be clear, I’m not generalizing that everyone in the Palestinian Authority is bad or corrupt, but some powerful individuals are.
We Sued the Palestinian Authority in the High Court of Justice…and Won!
So what did we do? Well, after my father’s family was stripped of their land in 1948, my father was left helpless, poor and without a passport, yet he was determined to survive and provide for his family. He worked tirelessly to educate himself, obtaining a bachelor’s degree, a masters, and a PhD in risk management. He immigrated to Canada so his children could live a better life. He returned to Palestine and established the largest insurance company in the West Bank and Gaza. My father chose the path of education, of hard work, of ethical resilience. He chose the pen over the sword. He chose the harder path.
In the face of corruption and cronyism, we again decided to take the harder path and we sued the Palestinian Authority in the High Court of Justice. We waited years, until finally, in a landmark case, the Court ruled that the actions of the individuals in the Palestinian Authority constituted an abuse of power and were rendered illegal.
TABO Has Become the Most Popular Real-Estate Project in Palestine
We refused to capitulate. On the contrary, TABO went on to register and protect over 1 million square meters of Palestinian land, pave 8 thousand meters of roads and, more importantly, TABO allowed 400 families to own almost 600 parcels of land. TABO continues to grow and expand and has become the most popular real-estate project in Palestine.
Referring to TABO, Reuters said “Palestinians can make a political statement and a financial return by buying a piece of the West Bank.” NPR, the national radio station in the US, said we were “clearing the tangled path for ownership.” And Forbes, well they put this goofy guy on their cover….
Putting Native Lands into Native hands, One Dunum At A Time – Without Any Donor Aid
In spite of the challenges we faced in Palestine, we took matters into our hands to solve a problem that seemed insurmountable. We didn’t look to the international community and plead for donor aid. We used local private capital which has aligned interests with the success of its local economy, and created a sustainable way to tackle an economic, social, and political problem.
TABO is a for-profit project. This was intended from the beginning, because we believe in Palestinian self-reliance, and while Palestine is one of the most donor-dependent societies in the world, TABO is an example of an independent for-profit social enterprise that protects local land and employs hundreds of local people. When TABO profits, we purchase and register more lands and continue the much-needed service that puts native lands into native hands – one dunum at a time – without a drop of donor aid. This is the essence of sustainable economic development. This is social entrepreneurship.
This may not be a solution to the crisis in Gaza. Nor does it put an end to settlement expansion. It surely doesn’t end Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. But it does protect native Palestinian land. It does something within the impossible constraints we live under, and surely that is better than nothing.
Palestinians Will Never Give Up
What gives me hope today is when I think of my father’s story. As a child he witnessed how cruel the world can be, but then he dedicated his life working in the service of his family and his community.
In witnessing TABO’s example, my hope is that the Palestinian leadership will learn that when we take our fate in our own hands and we work together, there is nothing we can’t achieve. I also hope that the world learns that Palestinians, like my father, will never give up. They’re taking the harder path and at the end of the road they will surely win back their unalienable human rights.
If nothing else comes from this, at the very least, I hope someone out there will know how to pronounce my name.
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Do I get downhearted? Yes I do. You think it’s easy, living on the red pill?
It appears to be not the well-adjusted individual but the individual who experiences subjective distress who is more likely to process self-relevant information in a relatively unbiased and balanced fashion.
If it’s well-adjustedness you want for yourself, and a minimum of subjective distress, take the blue pill. We gloomsters are right about pretty much everything, but we”re not very happy.
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It’s the antisocial aspect that gets us red-pillers down. Try to imagine what it’s like. (I”m assuming, gentle reader, that like most of humanity, you are on the blue pill.) What’s it like, being on the red pill? Like strolling through a lunatic asylum with no locks on the doors.
Random example: The other day I got into a conversation with a liberal lady who was ranting about the evil of “white supremacy.” I pointed out that (a) it is rather easy to move domicile from one country to another”I have done it several times”and that (b) there are a hundred or more nations under black, brown, or yellow supremacy, so that (c) a person who complains about the evil of white supremacy while continuing to live under it and forcing his loved ones to do likewise is either (1) a lying poseur or (2) a moral criminal.
The lady called me a “fascist.”
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I spent some time 40 years ago writing early mainframe computer systems for banks. Now, sitting in my living room with a laptop, scrolling through my bank accounts, making payments and transfers, I know what magic it all is, and what prodigies of careful reasoning lie behind it. Not everything is lunacy.
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Name of Event | Gregorian Date | Solar Hijri Date |
Nowruz | March 21 | Farvardin 1 |
Sizdah-Bedar | April 2 | Farvardin 13 |
Yalda Night | December 22 | Azar 30 |
Chaharshanbe Suri | March 15 | Esfand 23 |
Tasua and Ashura | August 7 and 8 | Mordad 16 and 17 |
Ramadan | April 2 | Farvardin 14 |
Eid Al-Fitr | May 2 | Ordibehesht 13 |
Eid Al-Qadeer | July 18 | Tir 27 |
Christmas | December 25 | Dey 4 |
Valentine’s Day | February 14 | Bahman 25 |
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Iranian holidays are divided into four main categories: national holidays, Islamic holidays, Christmas holidays, and primary and distinctive Persian holidays. Events here refer to the well-known holidays listed in Iranian calendars. It is also crucial to note that although though these days are considered off in Iran, they are peak season, which means that all of the hotels and stores are open. We will now discuss these Persian holidays in more depth. These unique occasions are as follows:
Ancient Persian Events in Iran
Persian culture, which dates back thousands of years, is renowned for its rich diversity and many Persian holidays. These celebrations have their origins in Zoroastrianism, which dates back as far as the second millennium BC and maybe much earlier. All around the nation, traditional Persian festivities are being practiced in full vigor. Some of the most significant Persian holidays are listed below:
Nowruz (March 21st)
Today, Iranians and some of their neighbors in the region celebrate Nowruz, one of the oldest Persian holidays! Legendary accounts link the Nowruz holiday to Jamshid, the fourth ruler in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. This urban legend originated in the Indo-Iranian period! The ancient Iranian literature, Avesta, also refers to Jamshid as “Yima.” This narrative claims that Jam had a goddess who, on Ahura Mazda’s orders, launched a battle against the devil that resulted in hunger and drought. However, after the devil is destroyed, those people experience happiness and blessings once more, which keeps every tree green.
People commemorate this wonderful day by planting trees and refer to it as “No-Ruz,” which means “New Year” or “New Day.” Nowruz has five days of official Persian holidays, but for those who attend school (teachers and students), these vacation days extend to 13 to 17 days.
Sizdah-Bedar (April 2nd)
A joyful finish is required for Nowruz’s grand celebration to be complete. People thus venture outside on the final day of this holiday to honor the Sizdah Bedar custom and create the greatest Nowruz memories. A picnic in the great outdoors with friends is one of Sizdah Bedar‘s traditions, as is tying a knot with some grass to make wishes come true.
Families picnicking are a common sight, and this day is especially beloved in each community. You get the chance to spend beautiful moments with your loved ones from dawn to evening, ending the Nowruz celebrations.
The official calendar of Iran recognizes this Persian holiday as Nature Day and qualifies as one of the national holidays. To have fun together, people leave their houses.
The phrase “Sizdah Bedar,” which most people mistakenly think means “to eliminate the thirteenth’s omen,” really means “valley,” according to Persian dictionaries. So 13 Bedar means we visit the valley on the thirteenth!
Tying grass into a knot is among Sizdah Bedar’s most well-known customs. Iranians have a long-standing tradition of tying a certain vegetable after making a wish during this Persian holiday. People think that by figuring out the greens, they may fulfill their dreams and get rid of their issues.
One of the most significant subjects among the goals and aspirations is the riches of young girls and boys. The girls giggle, “Sizdah Bedar, another year, with a baby and a husband,” as they knit grass in the hopes of finding a good bride on this day.
Asar al-Baqie by Abureyhan Biruni, the Sunni Book of Moluk-el-Arz and Anbia by Hamzeh Esfahani, and the Avesta from the Zoroastrian Bible are all texts that originate from the Kiomars era (the first man on the earth from Persian mythological point of view).According to folklore, Mashie and Mashiane, a girl and a boy, were the bride and groom in the first union. They clasped hands and knotted a grass branch together as a symbol. Then, to alter the practice of marriage throughout history, the ancient Iranians did the same.
Yalda Night (December 20th)
Despite being frequently observed now, Yalda Night (Shabe Yalda)t was one of the most important nights in ancient Iran. The importance of Yalda Night and the day on which it appeared in the official Persian calendar would require a lengthy explanation if we were to share it with you.
The first Dariush on the recognized Persian calendar appears to be when this old festival initially began, though. It is a long-standing practice in Iran to celebrate holidays and engage in nightlife during this particular night. They still have a significant role in Iranian young people’s lifestyles today despite time passing; they have not lost any of their significance.
Shabe Chelle is a different term for Yalda, which implies birth. When the last day of fall, December 20, comes to an end and the first day of winter, December 21, dawns, it is referred to as Yalda. Iranian households typically prepare substantial banquets on Yalda Night.
Additionally, a variety of fruits are served, the most popular of which is big watermelon. Other prevalent customs of this old Persian holiday include eating food, sharing stories from the elders with the younger generation and other family members, and praising the Hafez Divan.
Experience the richness of Iranian culture through its fall festivities and traditions. If you’d like to know more about it, go to this page and read about it.
Chaharshanbe Suri (March)
On the final Wednesday night of the year, one of the customary Iranian rites known as Chaharshanbe Suri is performed. On the final Wednesday of the year, Iranians kindle a fire and leap over it to greet spring. The exact date of this Persian holiday is unknown. The past year’s pus and filth should not be transferred to Nowruz, according to ancient Iranians. The New Year ought to begin fresh. To eliminate these toxins from their daily lives, there were not even enough water supplies available. They, therefore, utilized the element of fire. They burnt firewood to get rid of unnecessary items and clean their homes since they believed that the light was a representation of cleanliness.
Because the event was held on the final Wednesday of the year, the tragic Wednesday that followed was significant for ancient Iranians. This ceremony persisted with the introduction of Islam. Because setting anything on fire in Islam is necessary to totally eradicate impurities and because fire is a part of Islam’s concept of cleanliness. The Arabs, on the other hand, thought Wednesday was an absurd day and burned it to the ground to rid it of its unpleasantness.
We are well aware that lighting a fire and spending the night by it is the Charshanbe Suri people’s most significant ritual. The ritual is typically carried out by family members, who then gather to have fun. In the past, a large fire was started in one of the city’s neighborhoods. Until dawn, the fire was still burning. Jumping over the fire while chanting “My yellow is yours; your red is mine” is one of the fundamental Charshanbe Suri rites. In actuality, it is a type of prayer in which the light is asked to provide happiness and warmth to individuals rather than to remove their illnesses, problems, and sufferings.
Islamic Events and Festivals
As a Shiite Muslim nation, Iran holds religious festivals with distinctive traditions in several regions of the country. Events related to Islam play a big part in this. According to the Arabic lunar calendar, these religious events are observed. These are some of the instances:
Tasua and Ashura
Muharram is the name of the first day of the Islamic calendar’s twelfth month (Hijri Qamari). The biggest tragedy and repression involving the Prophet’s family ever recorded in the history of the Islamic world occurred during one of the months that Muslims are barred from celebrating. In the past, Ashura has been one of the occasions that have garnered the most interest.
In addition to playing a significant role and having a significant social and historical influence, Ashura has evolved into a distinct culture. The Ashura incidents in 61 Hijri Qamari are what gave this day its notoriety among Shi’as. The important events of Karbala occurred on the ninth and tenth days of Muharram al-Haram. It has increased the prominence of these two days.
After this period, Imam Hussein, the third Shia Imam, and 72 of his companions were killed in Karbala during a battle with the Yazidi army while suffering from thirst. This sorrow is not only a regular grieving; it is also the most significant grief that occurs this month. In every region of the world, millions of people grieve his passing with diverse races. To perpetuate the remembrance of this terrible event, all ethnic groups in Iran, representing various traditions, edify Tasua and Ashura sorrow in their own unique ways without compromising particular rites.
On the official Iranian calendar, Tasua and Ashura by Hosseini are wrong by two days. Wearing black mourning attire and decorating mosques and other spaces with black flags are the first steps in this public grieving. Grief rituals are performed on various dates after Ashura and even to the conclusion of the Safar month. A few of the customs include candle-lit supper service to strangers in Mashhad, chaining, mournful song singing, and mass grieving. Each of these is lovely and unique in its own way. The cultural setting and social traditions influence how the services are delivered in different ways.
In the ninth month of Hijri Qamari, there is a religious celebration called Ramadan. Muslims all across the globe think the Holy Book (Qur’an) visited the Prophet during Ramadan. Muslims have a clear mandate to fast this month from the Quran. The Arabic term for Ramadan literally means “heat”. The greatest and most auspicious month in Islam is generally thought of as Ramadan. As well as being called God’s Party Month, this period. The night of Ghadr is one of Ramadan, which Muslims see as the most significant night of the year, hence it is worth mentioning(Ramedan In Iran).
Eid al-Fitr, one of the two most significant Islamic holidays, is mentioned in several hadiths and traditions. After the first day of Ramadan, the Muslims who observed a fast during which they forbade themselves from eating, drinking, and engaging in a variety of other activities, seek their recompense from God.
Due to the removal of fasting, eating, and drinking on this day, the first Shawwal lunar day is known as Eid al-Fitr. Fitr, which is Arabic for “eating and drinking,” is the last day of Ramadan when those who had been fasting begin to eat again after sunset.
One of the biggest and most important Muslim holidays is Eid al-Qadeer. Along with Eid al-Qorban, this grand Eid is very significant to several groups in Iranian culture.
On the day of Eid al-Qadeer, people from various cities observe distinct traditions, which may include paying respects to Sadaat (the family members of the Prophet of Islam) and their ancestors. Families from the Sadaat community also get ready for the day in their houses. They offer their visitors presents on the day of Eid al-Qadeer that are regarded as blessings and that individuals keep to themselves.
Christian Events and Festivals
Iran has practiced Christianity since the early days of the faith before Islam ever emerged. Under Iran’s prior state religions, originally Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia, Sunni Islam in the Middle Ages following the Arab invasion, and Shia Islam since the Safavid conversion in the 15th century, the Christian faith has always made up a minority in that country. The following are two instances of Gregorian-based holidays observed in Iran:
Christmas in Iran
Christian celebrations of Christmas have been in Iran for a very long time before the advent of Islam. Christmas Eve is now merrier than ever among Iranian Armenians and Assyrians. Around 350000 descendants of Armenians and Assyrians made up a sizeable portion of the Christian population in this primarily Islamic nation, and they lived in quiet, modest neighborhoods in places like Tehran and Isfahan. Iran has long been considered the safest country in the Middle East because there, people respect Christians and their religion and join them in celebrating their joyous occasions.
Iranian Christians are either Assyrians who adhere to the Assyrian Church of East or Armenians who follows the Armenian Orthodox Church. While most Christians commemorate the Nativity on December 35, Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6 together with Epiphany. The warmth and joy of this joyous occasion, however, pierce the winter’s chill in the last month of the year and suffuses practically everyone(Christmas in Iran).
Much earlier before the actual holiday, anticipation for Valentine’s Day builds. Young Iranian couples like picking out the nicest present for their sweetheart. Consequently, several firms attempt to maximize this occasion. For typical Valentine’s Day presents like chocolate, flowers, or even jewelry, many of them have large deals.
However, every young couple that celebrates Valentine’s Day gives presents to each other. Iran offers a wide range of Valentine’s Day presents, from inexpensive items like jewelry and luxury automobiles to more expensive items like flowers and chocolate. But many also like giving Teddy Bears as gifts. It may be a tiny stuffed animal or an enormous toy.
The young people of contemporary Iran like being current on world affairs. Most of them participate in western holidays like Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Maybe this event seems extravagant and out of the ordinary to some people, including Iranian parents. However, it does not prohibit the young Iranian generation not to be delighted about this day.
Some have attempted to replace Valentine’s Day in recent years with an old celebration called Sepandar Mazgan due to the present Iranian generation’s interest in that holiday. They declared it to be “Iranian Love Day.” Many people welcomed this change, but it was also a reason for some others to extend the day of love celebrations.
National Holidays in Iran
The Iranian revolution gave rise to several Persian holidays:
Anniversary of Islamic Revolution Victory of Iran (February 11th)
On Bahman 22, 1357, the Islamic Movement of the Iranian people under Imam Khomeini came to a decisive point. On this day, the Islamic Republic was created, ending the 2500-year reign of oppression over the 50-year Pahlavi dictatorship in Iran and putting an end to the sufferings of the Muslim people.
Imam Khomeini and the top clerics launched a ferocious uprising in 1341, which marked the beginning of the Iranian Islamic Movement. They rebelled against the statute establishing state and provincial organizations as well as the “White Revolution of the Shah and the Nation,” as Mohammad Reza Shah dubbed it. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who in a momentous referendum approved them, offered six measures. Imam Khomeini and the authorities in Qom decreed public mourning during Nowruz in 1342.
Participating in the 22nd Bahman triumph procession often signifies reaffirming one’s commitment to Imam Khomeini and the revolution’s goals.
Oil Nationalization Day (March 20th)
The oil sector celebrated its nationalization day on November 29 as a result of Dr. Mossadegh’s efforts. This Persian event marks a turning moment in the struggle of the Iranian people to protect their national assets along this border from foreign invaders on the political, economic, and historical fronts.
The first oil well in Iran was found more than a century ago by an English business near the Soleiman Mosque in the province of Khuzestan. At the time, the Iranian government was unaware of this significant development. However, these travelers were fully aware of the riches they had found in Iran. By entering into brutal contracts for the extraction, production, and sale of Iranian crude oil, they laid the groundwork for their colonial foundations in Iran. For years, foreign corporations pillaged the riches of the Iranian people, while the Iranian government at the time did nothing to protect the people’s rights.
Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, who was Iran’s prime minister at the time and a champion of the road to nationalize Iranian oil, started a key movement that served as the foundation of the “oil-free” economy in the nation. He was re-elected to parliament in the 14th legislative elections in Shahrivar 1320 and the end of Reza Khan’s reign. Iranians must manage and use their nation’s oil resources, Mossadegh has emphasized repeatedly in his drive for the nationalization of the oil sector.
An article on the nationalization of the oil industry was finally proposed in the National Assembly on the 24th of Esfand 1329 and accepted on the 29th of Esfand, the same year, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Mossadegh and his associates.
What Are the Famous Festivals in Iran?
The yearly festivities that take place in Iran include Jashan e Sadeh, the Zoroastrian Midwinter Festival in January, Chahar Shanbeh Suri in March, and Nowruz, the Zoroastrian New Year in the months of March and April(Persian culture).
Can You Name Some Festivals Which are Celebrated in Iran?
The most significant ancient Persian holidays in Iran are Yalda, Nowruz, and Sadeh, among a wide variety of other festivals and festivities. Iran’s equivalent of Festival is Jashn. Every Jashn is fundamentally a sacred event.
How Many Holidays are there in Iran?
There are 26 public holidays registered in Iran.
What 2 Calendars are used in Iran?
Their own solar calendar displays the Persian New Year. The most accurate calendar in the world is used for this Persian holiday, which is based on the spinning of the globe. Arabs created the lunar calendar used by Iranians. They should adhere to it during their religious occasions, such as Ramadan and the martyrdom of their religious leaders and prophets, as they are Muslims.
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Our New Office in NORWAY
August 13, 2021
New beginnings! We're beyond excited to announce that we have opened a new office in Bergen, Norway to accommodate our growth in the Nordics, especially Norway.
Rumi Kislu has been onboarded as a Vice President at Tarento and he will be heading Tarento in Norway! With close to 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Rumi has played the roles of an enterprise architect, CTO and a business owner in his career so far. We are glad and super excited that Rumi chose to be a part of Tarento and in our journey towards a better tomorrow.
We have been having a constant flow of work from Norway for years and with Rumi Kislu’s joining as Vice President - Tarento Norway, we look to consolidate and grow in a more organized manner. This is in line with our commitment to expand our presence across the world to contribute towards a better world and a better tomorrow.
Our new office is located at Marineholmen in Bergen.
Come say hi to us at our new office and join us for a cup of coffee!
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ONLINE REPORTING IN REAL-TIME.
A CRM platform developed in-house and taylor-made based on different customer needs. It offers significant benefits to customers, who can securely access and download data from desktop and mobile devices to analyse ongoing business performance.
The collected data becomes valuable and understandable information. Our CSMs provide customised Weekly & Monthly Reports with detailed analysis of business, highlights & lowlights, competition, price control, display trends, the share of shelf, and KPIs.
REAL TIME REPORTING
Our CRM platform is the right tool for executing and measuring marketing campaigns. In addition, it allows you to analyse all your entered information and share it with your internal organisation in real-time.
Our platform provides real-time access to collected data and measures the progress of activities, thanks to a 24-hour Web Dashboard system. This allows immediate performance optimisation, enabling corrective action where necessary.
THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN YOU THINK
Interactive and customised dashboards are created, allowing easy reading and immediate availability of information for sharing within the client company.
The reporting system provides for sharing with the customer via dedicated and customized web platforms.
Sharing strategies with the customer to direct business choices and increase efficiency and productivity.
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XDR technology is the natural evolution of antivirus solutions to be able to detect and respond to threats where an antivirus is not sufficient. Currently, antiviruses are limited to their knowledge bases to detect malware. Further, they cannot detect if a virus that has not been catalogued by the antivirus solution infects your environment or if the threat extends beyond malware (e.g. insiders, cybercriminals or other malicious actors), where it isn’t necessary to analyse a binary but rather a complete behaviour.
XDR technology is installed on endpoints (and other sources of network activity, like firewalls) to collect all logs and send it to a centralised platform, where it is converted into telemetry, which is analysed by the XDR to identify whether it corresponds to a threat or not.
It should be noted that XDR is the direct extension of EDR technology. The difference between the two is that the capabilities of an XDR extend beyond endpoints to further enrich both the telemetry it collects and the threat response capabilities.
In the context of managed security services, third-party management of XDR solutions is referred to as MDR (Managed Detection and Response). An MDR service may include proactive searching for security incidents, a process known as Threat Hunting.
Cybersecurity services related to XDR
Threat Hunting: A managed service that concentrates on containing threats and detecting suspicious activity on the network before they can cause damage. This service utilizes telemetry data from EDR and XDR technologies and adheres to the methodology outlined in the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- More information: Threat Hunting
Incident response: It is a reactive managed incident response service. This service is activated when there is a security incident and aims to identify and contain a malicious actor and recover activity.
- More information: Incident response
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Lee PrecisionSix Pack Pro Kit 38 Special Steel Works With Most Handgun Cases Works With 357 Mag
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- Reload multiple calibers: This Lee Precision Six Pack Pro Kit is versatile and allows you to reload both .38 Special and .357 Magnum cartridges. No need for separate kits for different calibers.
- Easy and efficient: With its six stations and automatic indexing, this progressive press makes the reloading process simple and hassle-free. It has just one moving part and never requires adjustment, saving you time and effort.
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The Lee Precision Six Pack Pro Kit 38 Special Steel - the ultimate companion for all your reloading needs! This exceptional kit is designed to work seamlessly with most handgun cases and even the mighty 357 Magnum. Get ready to experience the convenience and efficiency of this progressive press kit that will revolutionize your reloading game.
With the Lee Precision Six Pack Pro Kit, you'll have everything you need right at your fingertips. This comprehensive kit includes a six-pack progressive press, auto drum powder measure, shell plate, universal case feed magazine, and Lee Breech Lock Dies. The carbide full-length sizing die, powder-through expanding die, and bullet seating die ensure precise and consistent reloading every time.
What sets this kit apart is its innovative design. The simple and reliable automatic indexing system features just one moving part, making it incredibly easy to replace and requiring no tools. You'll never have to worry about constant adjustments or complicated setups. The massive 28.4mm ram, supported by 82mm of solid steel, provides unmatched strength and stability, even for the largest magnum rifle cases.
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Crafted with durability in mind, this pro kit features a sturdy steel construction and utilizes the same all-steel linkage found on the classic cast 50 BMG press. The included combination tool rack and bin bracket keep your workspace organized and efficient. And with the free ammo bin, you'll have a dedicated spot to store your completed rounds.
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The Importance of Clearing Blocks to Treatment in Cancer Survivors
What you will learn
- Describe AE (Aggressive Energy) Drains and Seven Dragons blocks to treatment and their indications
- Identify their presence in a patient’s presentation
- Apply the treatment protocols in clinical practice.
Five Elements blocks to treatment are amongst the most fascinating interventions I have observed in 25 years of acupuncture research. Associated with blockages in the patient’s Qi, they can have profound negative effects on a patient’s physical and psychological health. These phenomena may be a common presentation amongst cancer survivors; clearing blocks has the potential to facilitate profound change in a cancer survivor’s wellbeing.
Useful treatment options, they can be considered by any acupuncturist, whether they are working within a Five Element or other theoretical framework.
This course was originally presented as a lecture during our annual International Oncology Acupuncture Symposium in 2023 with the theme Supporting Cancer Survivors. You can also access it as part of the complete recording package for the symposium. Click here to explore this valuable collection and enhance your learning experience.
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Loose Leaf Tea | GreenGrassy Japanese Sencha green tea lightly infused with sweet candied cherry.
Aroma Mildly grassy & cherry
Palate Supple, well-balanced
Purpose Savor fleeting moments
Estate grade hand-picked green tea, natural cherry flavor, and blossoms
BLEND NO. 7417
Our loose leaf is packed in tins that are recyclable and can be disposed of in your blue bin. Our tins are also food-safe and can be repurposed for many things including spices and other dried ingredients. Learn More about sustainability at TEALEAVES.
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Fluffy puffs of pink petals draw dreamy eyes skyward. Soft sweetness pervades the air while earthly cares drift way on clouds of delicate delight.
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Danilo Herrera, MD, is a board-certified physician of obstetrics and gynecology who brings more than 30 years of experience to his practice at Bay Area Physicians for Women in Mobile, Alabama.
A native of Costa Rica native, Dr. Herrera was inspired to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an OB/GYN.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Saint Francis College in San Jose, Costa Rica. After adding his master’s degree at the University of Costa Rica School of Medicine in San Jose, then moved to Miami, Florida, to complete his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Herrera is proud to provide comprehensive care to women through each stage of their lives. He prioritizes building strong doctor-patient relationships to empower women to take charge of their own health and well-being.
Dr. Herrera is a fellow with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Costa Rica, and several other professional organizations.
When he’s not in the office, Dr. Herrera enjoys cycling, tennis, and chess.
Dr. Danilo Herrera, MD
3715 Dauphin Street Suite 3B
Mobile, AL 36608
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TikTok Could Soon Introduce An-Free Subscription Plan
Updated: Dec 18, 2023
TikTok is exploring new ways to earn revenue beyond ads, commissions and in-app purchases.
The short-form video giant is reportedly testing a new subscription plan that lets you pay a monthly fee to have an ad-free viewing experience.
The subscription option was first uncovered by Android Authority in the code of the latest version of the app. Test users would be asked to choose from two plans upon launching the app: Standard and Ad-Free.
Standard is essentially the free TikTok experience that you're enjoying today, which shows you personalised ads based on your activity on the app. Ad-Free, meanwhile, is the new option that removes all ads from the app for US$4.99 per month.
TikTok later confirmed to TechCrunch that it is indeed testing the new ad-free subscription option in a limited capacity. The test is said to be currently limited to a single English-speaking market outside the U.S. The ByteDance-owned social media service, however, noted that the tests aren't indicative of a full launch in the future. That means, as of writing, it's yet uncertain whether TikTok could eventually have an ad-free option.
Similar to content-driven services like YouTube, TikTok largely relies on ads for revenue. It has a number of revenue-sharing mechanisms for creators and provides brands the option to promote products or services on the app. These brands can, for example, use TikTok For Business to run different types of ads, ranging from in-feed videos, brand takeovers, hashtag challenges and custom stickers, among so many others.
If TikTok does eventually launch an ad-free subscription, it would join the likes of YouTube and X, which was formerly Twitter, in providing you with such an option. YouTube Premium is a subscription option that provides you ad-free access and uninterrupted viewing to content across YouTube. X Premium similarly lets you enjoy an ad-free experience on X, while giving you access to tools that let you monetise your content.
TikTok is reportedly testing a new subscription plan that lets you pay a monthly fee to have an ad-free viewing experience.
The short-form video giant said the option is being tested in a limited capacity in a single English-speaking market outside the U.S.
The tests, however, aren't indicative of a full launch of the option in the future.
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I enjoy a good keynote, especially if it “delivers”. To my mind, a keynote should be informative, inspirational and entertaining. All too often, however, keynotes by so-called “visionary” speakers leave me feeling both uninspired and uninformed. I am left with having been entertained, which is all very well, but unless it’s an after-dinner speech I’m also left feeling cheated. So these days, where there is a choice between attending a celebrity speaker’s talk or that of an “ordinary” teacher who is doing great stuff in his or her classroom, I will almost always choose the latter. In fact, I have developed a kind of rubric that I follow when deciding whether or not to attend a celebrity presentation. It consists of a number of questions, which I’ve written up below. Feel free to use them if you think they are useful. Some of these questions cannot be answered until you have attended a talk given by the person in question. But you will know for next time.
A spot-on summary of most celebrity speakers' ideas, in my experience! Photo by Joe Hall https://www.flickr.com/photos/joebeone/
Do they have anything substantive to say? I’ve attended too many talks where a summary of the lecture would accurately be given as:
“There’s a problem in education and somebody needs to do something about it.”
What I’d like to know is: what is the problem, and what do you think ought to be done about it? After all, you’re being paid to talk to us as the expert.
cross-posted at www.ictineducation.org
Terry Freedman is an independent educational ICT consultant with over 35 years of experience in education. He publishes the ICT in Education website and the newsletter “Digital Education."
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No pictures adorn Christopher Ahlberg’s office. The Swedish-born computer scientist and amateur kickboxer says simplicity encourages people to do what’s needed and move on.This philosophy pervades his company,Spotfire.Its DecisionSite software allows computer users to go into multiple databases regardless of their format,easily import,export and manipulate very large data sets,and visualize the results in dynamic graphs,charts and plots.In other words:get the information they need and get out.More than 400 biotech,pharmaceutical,oil and gas,chemical,and auto companies—from Merck to Saab—now use DecisionSite to help them render verdicts on everything from scientific experiments to manufacturing lines. Founded in 1996 by three people,the privately held company now employs 175 in Somerville, MA,and Go¨teborg,Sweden.Ahlberg has grander designs for DecisionSite,too.Chief among them:becoming the one application companies use to interrogate databases around the world over the Internet,as simply as they navigate text documents on the Web.
For years, researchers have dreamed of improving air traffic safety and efficiency by giving pilots a real-time 3-D display that shows how to navigate terrain, even in bad weather. But merging Global Positioning System data with graphical displays of the earth’s surface proved dauntingly expensive. As a PhD candidate in aeronautical engineering at Stanford University, Andrew Barrows delivered the first practical, inexpensive “highway in the sky. ”He did it by writing software that merges GPS location information with images from terrain databases and shows the pilot a series of rectangles. The pilot need only keep the plane flying through these targets. “Fifteen years from now, every airplane will have a sophisticated version of this, ”says John Hansman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics. While the Federal Aviation Administration works on certifying this type of system, Barrows has left academe to become president of Nav3D in Palo Alto, CA.One big client, Boeing, is adapting his technology for military use.Nav3D is also exploring displays that would help construction crews “see” underground gas lines or guide firefighters through smoky buildings.
Elisabeth M. Belding-Royer
Today’s mobile data networks are spotty. If you’re not within range of a transmitter or are cut off by large obstacles like skyscrapers, you’re out of luck. The solution could be networks that form only when needed, and Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer may deliver them. As a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Belding-Royer worked with Nokia research fellow Charles Perkins to develop the necessary network protocols—the operational instructions. If your handheld device finds itself with a nonexistent or failing signal, it can use Belding-Royer’s protocols to find and connect with nearby wireless devices. These neighbors then find a path through still other wireless devices to create an ad hoc but solid connection. Designing the protocols helped Belding-Royer land a professorship at UC Santa Barbara, and the Internet Engineering Task Force is now considering turning them into standards. Applied,the protocols could eliminate “dead zones” that wireless transmitters don’t reach and make it cheaper and easier to set up networks everywhere—from the Sahara to downtown Los Angeles.
Vincent Berger has two jobs, two labs, even twin babies. As a researcher at Paris-based aerospace giant Thales, he developed the technology behind a new short-wavelength night-vision camera for military surveillance. But he’s best known for his theoretical contributions in optical semiconductors, quickly becoming a linchpin of telecommunications. At 29,Berger was the first to describe ways to integrate photonic crystals with bulky optical devices such as routers. Many think this work will lead to wafer-thin chips that can manipulate photons the way semiconductors control electrons. He was also first to demonstrate that light waves could change color in gallium arsenide, the superfast material of choice for the ubiquitous semiconductor laser. While others convert Berger’s theories into technologies such as miniature cryptography devices, telecom traffic busters and air pollution detectors, he is busy balancing his position at Thales with his new role as university professor. He looks forward to forging industry-university partnerships—not often found in France—to boost the commercialization of photonics research.
When most people speak of advanced materials, they mean semiconductors or biopolymers. But Daniel Branagan means steel. The materials scientist is transforming metals industries with his new “superhard steel.” His novel process rapidly cools molten steel into a glasslike solid, then heats the solid to form a unique nano structure. The result is a coating that outperforms the hardest metal coatings, even tungsten carbide, at one-third the price. Superhard steel is cheap and easy enough to manufacture that applications could range from rock crushers to kitchen knives. More than 500 companies have expressed interest in using Branagan’s material to make tougher, lighter, longer-lasting products. Branagan may license the patent from the U.S. Department of Energy—which oversees his lab—to create a spinoff company. The Michigan native launched his career 12 years ago by developing tougher rare-earth magnets for computer hard drives. But while other metallurgists tout Branagan’s innovations as feats of nanoscale engineering, to this ranch owner outdoorsman they’re “just fancy steels.”
Lasers are found in everyday products, from compact-disc players to bar code readers. But in a laser beam strong and focused enough to shoot down an enemy aircraft or chisel pin-sized mechanical parts out of metal blocks, the hyperexcited photons have to be controlled so they don’t scatter. Improvements on solid- state lasers have been stymied by the tendency of a beam to distort as the crystal at the heart of a laser heats up. Arnaud Brignon, who was born eight years after the laser was invented in 1960,has solved this problem by developing a self-correcting mirror made from nonlinear crystals that cancels the distortions. His division of multinational aerospace giant Thales, in Orsay, France, is identifying markets for commercial versions of the laser, which Brignon says could be ready in three years. While working on a next-generation laser, Brignon finds time to hunt for dinosaur remains in the fields of France. He recently discovered a tooth from a 100-million-year-old armored ankylosaur that was previously undocumented in his country.
Hydrogen fuel cells promise to break the world’s fossil fuel habit without a puff of carbon dioxide, and Joseph Cargnelli is helping them deliver. In 1995,from a small room above his family’s machine shop in Toronto, Ontario, the mechanical engineer and two associates launched Hydrogenics. The company made its mark producing test stations Cargnelli designed and assembled to put fuel cells through their paces. The test units accelerated the work of fuel cell developers and secured Hydrogenics’$84 million initial public offering in 2000.Today Cargnelli, vice president, is worth millions. But the roar of equipment still fills his shop floor office at a complex on Toronto’s west side, where Hydrogenics is developing its own fuel cell engines. Last year,in a six-month span, Cargnelli’s team prototyped a fuel cell generator and transformed it into a backup power supply to keep cell tower antennas and their networks alive during blackouts. This work clinched a partnership with General Motors. To Cargnelli, success just means one more step toward the hydrogen economy.
Howie Choset built himself a “snakebot” named Schmoopie, but that’s not what sets him apart from colleagues. The mechanical engineer and roboticist has developed motion-planning algorithms that ensure his autonomous, multi-jointed snakes not only sense and respond to objects in their path but explore every nook and cranny as they traverse a terrain. Other path-planning algorithms leave room for ambiguity, but Choset’s provides for complete coverage. As a result, the U.S. Office of Naval Research is funding Choset to build robots that search for buried mines. Choset has equipped his bots with mine detectors; when they sense a mine, they map its location, then maneuver around it. Choset is also working with Ford Motor to develop robotic car-painting techniques that will save production time. During it all, he has developed the robotics minor at Carnegie Mellon University and says, “I would like to see this work get to the high-school and junior-high level and have students build robots to learn basic math and physics.” Choset also hopes his algorithms and theories will one day be used in non- robotic applications, such as predicting crime patterns.
So much data, so little bandwidth. That’s the mounting problem Caltech professor of electrical engineering Michelle Effros has wrestled with for 10 years. Her innovations in data compression over networks are so original that Stanford University electrical engineering vice chair Robert Gray calls them “profound.” Her heady work has almost single-handedly created research interest in algorithms to optimize transmission of data over busy,noisy networks like the Internet and various wireless infrastructures. At first “it was hard even to get peer reviews of research,” she recalls. But Effros persisted. “I like working further out. Entrepreneurism is not what excites me—research into new areas does.” Today, however, her algorithms set the standard for academic- and commercial-network compression techniques. And the recreational mountain hiker says with a smile that her once neglected field now teems with breakthroughs. “We are really starting to crack the data compression problem,” Effros says. “Progress is coming much faster now.”
Train buff Alexander Fay jumped at his PhD advisor’s suggestion to design knowledge-based software to help human railway-traffic controllers in their struggle to keep trains running on time. When train breakdowns occur, some controllers tinker with track signals to reroute trains; others call for backup trains. Their decisions ripple through the rail system. Studies estimate $200 in lost economic opportunities for each minute a passenger train is late. Given Europe’s congested rail networks, the potential savings from better management is huge. After interviewing dozens of controllers, Fay used fuzzy-logic principles to integrate 150 when-this-occurs-do-that rules into his software. German Railways is now implementing his computer program, which standardizes the most efficient responses to service disruptions, in one of its regional control centers. Fay’s methods also apply to other systems. At Zürich, Switzerland, construction giant Asea Brown Boveri, he is developing software that captures the know-how of process and control engineers to reduce problems in designing and running pharmaceutical, chemical and energy plants.
Beam mid-infrared light waves across a power plant’s smokestack and you can measure the flow of gaseous pollutants. Feed that data back to the plant and you can trim pollution and fuel consumption. It’s just one opportunity created by the quantum cascade laser. The laser, invented at Bell Labs in 1994, had promise as the heart of a smaller, less expensive, more efficient apparatus for monitoring smokestack emissions. But when Austrian physicist Claire Gmachl arrived at Bell Labs in 1996,the laser still had one fatal flaw: a messy, broad-spectrum beam. Within a year, Gmachl had the problem licked. She amplified one portion of the beam by sculpting the laser crystal into an echo chamber for photons. It was a major leap, and colleagues say the intense Gmachl has since delivered an average of two advances of similar importance each year. She’s also been experimenting with lasers tuned to identify telltale gases found in our breath that may indicate everything from asthma to heart disease. Now Gmachl is focused on carrying data in fiber optics, where rapid-pulse lasers could help sate our hunger for bandwidth.
As a child,Michael Hansen hung out at Radio Shack and wrote such good programs on the store’s computers that the salespeople ran them as demos. Software mastered, he learned hardware, earning a graduate degree in electrical engineering. In 1993 he joined Princeton, NJ-based Sarnoff to tackle visual processing— “the hardest darn problem I’d ever seen.” Before he knew it, Hansen, who also found time to become a private pilot, was leading a $5 million-a-year group. In 2000 his team developed a chip that lets inexpensive portable devices process visual data collected by surveillance cameras. The chip provides hundreds of times more visual processing than a general-purpose Pentium microprocessor at one-tenth the cost, says Peter Burt, director of the vision technologies lab at Sarnoff. The for-profit R&D company believes networks of such simple devices will have great commercial value in military surveillance, law enforcement and auto safety. In order to, as he puts it, “shorten the path from technology development to new products,” Hansen is now working on his MBA.
Tom Hyongsok Soh
When Tom Soh was a Stanford University graduate student, his focus was scholarly: to push the envelope in nanotechnology research. Things have changed since he arrived at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs. Soh heads optical microelectromechanical development at Lucent spinoff Agere Systems, in Allentown, PA.His task is to make optical communications systems more efficient and intelligent. His group’s first success was a microelectromechanical switching device that routes fiber-optic signals without converting them to electronic form and then back to optical. Those conversions cause the biggest bottlenecks in today’s telecom systems, and Soh’s optical switch offers huge gains in speed and capacity. Agere began large-scale production in March 2002,after it received significant orders from top customers. Soh has since led development of another product, the optical add/drop multiplexer, which allows light-wave transmissions to be added or dropped at critical nodes without electronic conversion. Currently overseeing 12 engineers, Soh believes great things can be achieved with team chemistry.
Matt Keyser revels in pedaling his bike amidst a pack of racers pounding down a precipitous mountain road. During sane moments, Keyser designs transportation technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. He’s received two patents since 1992,with three more in the works. In 2001,Keyser and coworkers significantly extended the life span of lead-acid batteries in cars. Batteries provide a power surge to a vehicle’s starter, then recharge. Normally, the process encourages sulfuric acid to oxidize, which ruins the negative battery plate. But Keyser changed how the battery charges, reducing chemical reactions and extending battery life up to 400 percent. “That means fewer batteries in the landfill,” he says. Ford Motor is testing the battery in a prototype electric vehicle. In 1997,Keyser wrapped a standard catalytic converter with a vacuum insulator to keep it hot for hours. The retrofit eliminated 80 percent of the tailpipe emissions that a car produces while warming up. The unit is being commercially developed by auto parts supplier Benteler. Keyser particularly likes its adaptability: “You can put it on a new car, or a ’78 Pontiac.”
In Kara Kockelman’s transportation models, there is no place to hide. The civil engineering professor crunches data on where people shop, work and go to school, what kinds of vehicles they buy, real-estate development trends and demographics to help devise optimal transportation policies. Her results are sometimes provocative: for example, from traffic data, she calculated that a large SUV slows traffic by spending as much time lumbering through an intersection as 1.41 passenger cars. Kockelman says, “We can’t build our way out of congestion,” and argues that road users should therefore shoulder the costs they impose on others. Her studies support, for example, the selective enactment of something called “credit-based congestion pricing”: drivers would be allotted a certain number of commuting trips, which they could use or trade, the way power plants trade emissions credits. Such ideas are not particularly popular, but, Kockelman maintains, “I divorce myself from the emotions of the issue and allow the data to tell me what’s happening.” And Kockelman practices what her studies preach: she takes the bus to work.
When he left the University of Michigan, Paul Krajewski was an expert in “creep” behavior related to all things aluminum. In the jargon of metallurgy, creep is heat- and stress-related deformation, and it’s part of the reason aluminum is tricky to use for making cars. Aluminum is about 67 percent lighter than steel, but it is far more susceptible to cracking when deformed. Today Krajewski is a leading materials scientist at General Motors, devising ways to engineer aluminum so it can be used in mass production of lighter and more fuel-efficient family sedans and SUVs instead of just pricey handmade exotic cars. Krajewski invented a flash-heating technique that allows aluminum to bend on the assembly line without cracking. To ease one manufacturing process, he even developed a lubricant using milk of magnesia. Krajewski has won seven patents related to his techniques, which will help General Motors build cars with “creases and curves, anything that would excite the eyes of the customer,” he says. And those lightweight parts should also excite customers when they get to the gas pump.
Christina Lampe-Onnerud’s energy is boundless. She’s a cellist, a master of jazz dance and has directed award-winning choruses. Boundless energy is also her technological goal. During doctoral work in inorganic chemistry in her native Sweden, Lampe-Onnerud patented a new cathode material that increased the power of lithium batteries. After leading research devising high-energy materials at two startups, she joined New Jersey-based Bell Communications Research in 1995.There she helped develop prototypes of the first lithium batteries made from thin-film polymers and the first practical process for manufacturing them. The batteries were smaller, more powerful and safer than conventional lithium batteries. Today the technology is licensed by many major battery makers. With seven more patents filed, Lampe-Onnerud now oversees 10 labs that investigate new battery materials for Tiax, which bought them from Cambridge, MA-based consulting firm Arthur D. Little. As a consultant, Lampe-Onnerud has led research teams at numerous companies. Her goal: “to cram as much power as possible into a battery without it blowing up.”
Singapore leads the world in fighting traffic with technology. Vehicle sensors are ubiquitous, and so are message signs warning drivers of upcoming jams. Drivers are even charged higher tolls during rush hour. But when the island government seeks to boost the IQ of these “intelligent highways,” it turns to Der-Horng Lee, a civil engineer at the National University of Singapore. He is in demand among transportation engineers and companies worldwide, helping them write better software that models traffic and controls road signals and signs in real time—for example, changing urban stoplight sequences on the fly as drivers flee rush-hour highways. Lee says traffic prediction is like weather prediction, only tougher. Predictions must be done quickly and account for the fact drivers might change plans after hearing them. The key is having the right algorithm, based on the right traffic simulation model. Most models assume group behavior, but Lee’s “microscopic” models acknowledge that some traffic-bound drivers will sit in the mess while others will cut through city streets or choose a longer highway route.
Most matter isn’t very smart. But some exotic materials have memory: you can bend them, but when heated they return to their original shape. Engineers have tinkered with these materials for robotic and automotive applications, but polymer chemist Andreas Lendlein envisions their use in implantable therapeutic devices. In 1997, while working at MIT, Lendlein became the first to develop a biodegradable shape-memory polymer that responds to body temperature. A surgeon could insert a compressed polymer through a tiny incision; once inside the body it would expand. The payoff could be improved coronary stents to prop open blocked arteries, or scaffolds for growing new organs. A polymer with cells attached could be inserted to replace lost cartilage; triggered by the body’s warmth, the polymer would expand into the shape of the missing cartilage, then degrade as new tissue grew. Lendlein returned to his native Germany and cofounded mnemoScience, in Aachen, to commercialize his technology. MnemoScience’s researchers have successfully tested Lendlein’s materials in animals, and they hope to release their first medical product in a few years.
Ihor Lys wants to color your world with light that morphs, fades and blends in computerized patterns, thanks tomultihued arrays of lightemitting diodes (LEDs). Lys came to lighting after 11 years at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied electrical engineering and robotics. While working on an LED-based display for a robot, he realized that by combining bright blue LEDs—just then being reported in labs—with existing red and green ones, he could create new possibilities for digitally controlled illumination. But it took circuit design virtuosity to produce lush visual environments using these simple indicator lights. In 1997 he teamed up with engineer George Mueller and launched Boston-based Color Kinetics, which reported revenues of $17 million in 2001.Colors from its LED fixtures fill corporate lobbies, swimming pools, spas—and even emanate from the cables of Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Bridge. Lys “keeps pulling off miracles,” says the MIT Media Lab’s Michael Hawley, a Color Kinetics board member. But Lys views his mission in simple terms: “I see things that are expensive and difficult, and I want to make them cheap and easy.”
Few people consider the internal- combustion engine environmentally friendly. Larry Mianzo could help change that. Mianzo is a key player in the auto industry’s efforts to build cleaner, more efficient engines. His innovations could usher in something called “electromagnetic variable valve timing.” In an automobile engine, valves are opened and closed in a fixed pattern by rotating camshafts. Eliminating the cams and moving each valve with an electromagnetic actuator allows optimal control of valve timing, ending power losses and providing a more tightly controlled combustion temperature. The result: a 15 to 25 percent boost in fuel economy and dramatically lower emissions. Mianzo has been working on automobile controls for the past eight years—first for Ford Motor, now for its spinoff Visteon, in Dearborn, MI. He has 12 patents issued or pending, including one on a novel road simulation strategy for testing new vehicles that has helped save Ford Motor $1 million a year. Mianzo has accomplished all this while earning a PhD and hasn’t missed a day of work since 1992.
Chahab Nastar has always had a passion for patterns, whether he was tracking the popularity of his rock band Busy Being Born or designing software to distinguish unhealthy heart motions, which he did as a researcher at the University of Paris. Now he’s pouring that passion into helping computers understand everyday objects and scenes—a challenge that’s still “extremely difficult, if not impossible, for machines,” he says. Show a picture of your beach vacation to today’s average image-recognition program, and it can find similar beach scenes. But it can’t tell which beach is pictured or who is sunbathing. To move to that level, Nastar’s Paris-based startup, LookThatUp—now LTU Technologies—has enhanced image-recognition techniques with artificial-intelligence- based learning algorithms. Now, the more images of, say, cars and animals LTU’s system memorizes, the more quickly it can classify a Volkswagen or zebra. The system’s industry-leading recognition speed, a mere 200 milliseconds per image, has helped LTU sell software licenses to a dozen U.S. and European companies.
Bill Nguyen is a serial entrepreneur. He led business or technical development in four startups before founding Onebox.com, a company that was among the first to provide e-mail, voice mail and fax access in a single mailbox over a conventional phone. Nguyen sold Onebox for $850 million in 2000,but not before hearing from wireless subscribers that they lacked similar data retrieval services. His solution? Seven Networks. Software from the Redwood City, CA, company lets customers of a wireless carrier access e-mail, voice mail and other Internet services simply by calling the carrier. Unlike subscribers to other wireless services, Seven customers don’t have to install extra hardware or software. So far, Cingular, Sprint PCS and Britain’s mmO2 have implemented Seven’s innovation, and Nguyen has secured $64 million in venture funding. His company has also partnered with Microsoft to create software that allows a company’s employees to wirelessly tap into its intranet. How does Nguyen do it all? For one thing, he is notorious for sleeping only three hours a day.
In Bangalore, India,six years ago, programmers working for overseas firms were commonplace. Innovative startups were not. That changed after Rajesh Reddy, trained at the Bangalore Institute of Technology, founded Gray Cell Technologies in 1996.Reddy ambushed a Motorola vice president on business in Bangalore and showed him that Gray Cell’s desktop- to-wireless network was more advanced than similar Motorola technology. Motorola soon licensed Gray Cell’s application for sending e-mail via cell phones and pagers and became Reddy’s first corporate customer. More U.S. investment in Indian information technology companies followed. By 1999 Reddy had renamed his company Unimobile and moved it to Silicon Valley, where it operated a wireless network connecting 370 carriers in 130 countries. The dot-com bust crippled the company, though. By summer 2001 Reddy was back in Bangalore launching July Systems, to create software that integrates wireless networks and devices into a global superstructure. With the backing of investor Ashok Narasimhan, and with business lessons learned, Reddy is confident July Systems will become a significant player this summer.
Rules “get in the way most of the time,” says cryptographer Vincent Rijmen. Last year the U.S.government chose the Belgian citizen’s encryption algorithm, Rijndael (pronounced rain-doll),as its new Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijndael replaced the aging, no longer unbreakable Data Encryption Standard, used since 1977 by U.S. government agencies and companies to safeguard everything from e-mail to phone calls. It beat submissions from many large competitors, including IBM, and will be widely used. Rijmen created Rijndael with Joan Daemen,36,a fellow postdoc at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. The duo pulled off the upset in part by throwing away what Rijmen calls a cryptography “rule”: to be secure, an encryption algorithm has to be exceedingly complex. Advanced computers would need trillions of years to decrypt information encrypted using Rijndael—yet the algorithm can run on devices like smart cards. Already, manufacturers plan to include Rijndael in cell phones, credit cards and Web browsers. “People will be using it without ever knowing,” says Rijmen, who recently became chief cryptographer at Cryptomathic, an Aarhus, Denmark, security firm.
Thanks to Jonathan Rosenberg, the Internet could usurp the role of the old-fashioned phone network. The key is a set of computer instructions that make it practical for the Internet to carry not just data but two-way telephone calls, teleconferences and pages. This “session initiation protocol” also supports new-fangled connections like instant messaging and “presence,” which tracks who is available online at any given moment. Rosenberg produced the protocol with Columbia University telecom expert Henning Schulzrinne while working toward his doctorate at Columbia and overseeing video compression research at Bell Labs. The telecom industry heralded the protocol, and the Third-Generation Partnership Project, a high-profile colloquium for setting wireless standards, adopted it in 2000.As chief scientist at East Hanover, NJ, startup dynamicsoft, Rosenberg has since been cooking up a suite of related software that would enable wireless phones to download voice, text and video and would let company Web sites provide voice links to live customer service representatives.
Inside an airliner, vibration frays a tiny piece of insulation, exposing an electrical wire; an arc of electricity ignites vaporized fuel—and a disaster. That’s what investigators suspect caused the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800. Electrical engineer Steven Shaw wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again. While pursuing his PhD, Shaw wrote algorithms that allow sensors to interpret minute fluctuations along every electrical line in an aircraft or building. This information can help building managers find faulty equipment or wiring and help airplane inspectors pinpoint electrical malfunctions—before problems turn deadly. Now a professor at Montana State University, Shaw is equally adept at theorizing, coding and working in the machine shop. The California Energy Commission is testing Shaw’s advanced load-monitoring systems on several state buildings. Better information about electrical flow can help building managers decide when to fire up backup batteries, fuel cells or expensive gas turbines.
“The most interesting thing in the world,” says University of Michigan professor and dirt biker Anna Stefanopoulou, “is balancing trade-offs to control complex systems.” Stefanopoulou works on electronic valves that could boost the fuel economy of conventional car engines by an estimated 10 percent and make practical exotic designs that are 30 percent more fuel efficient and free of nitrogen oxide emissions. A conventional engine regulates power with a throttle that controls airflow into cylinders; the timing of valves stays mechanically fixed. But the timing of electronic valves can vary infinitely, allowing the engine to “gain torque so fast it can break the crankshaft,” Stefanopoulou says. The native of Greece is developing such controls using sophisticated mathematical modeling, while high-end car companies “rely more on intuition,” says her Michigan colleague Jessy Grizzle. Stefanopoulou is also devising automated gears that would use engine compression to brake vehicles. She was already modeling the control of cars powered by fuel cells when the Bush administration dismantled an initiative to develop hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles–in favor of fuel cell power.
People often ask Lisa Su why she works for IBM—after all, aren’t startups where the glamour is? Su’s response: “I can run a group that’s like a startup, yet I have the resources available at IBM.” Her Emerging Products group focuses on low-power and broadband semiconductors as well as biochips. Its first product is a microprocessor that improves battery life in handheld assistants and cell phones. Su hired the group’s 10 employees and says their role is to develop broadband products that will “give my mom instant, unlimited access to information, anytime, anywhere, in any form.” After joining IBM in 1995,Su, who has a PhD in electrical engineering, played a critical role in integrating copper connections into semiconductor chips, solving the problem of preventing copper impurities from contaminating the devices during production. The technology, unveiled in 1998,led to chips that were 10 to 20 percent faster than those with conventional aluminum connections. Su showed she had management acumen and was allowed to start Emerging Products. “Lisa became an IBM executive in five years,” says colleague Scottie Ginn, “quicker than anyone I’ve ever seen.”
Iran native Vahid Tarokh works so quickly that by the time people apply his advances, he is often on to something else. Such is the case with his breakthrough codes to improve the speed, capacity and clarity of wireless voice and data communications. He developed the codes in 1996 at AT&T Labs, yet U.S. and international telecom standards bodies didn’t adopt them until 1999.Tarokh’s codes solved the problem of how best to get a signal from a base station to a cellular phone without fading. Solutions proposed by others, such as adding an extra antenna to the phone or sending the same signal on different frequencies, weren’t practical, so he created algorithms whereby multiple antennas at the base station could send the same signal simultaneously on the same frequency. For two months Tarokh worked day and night handcrafting his solution on huge sheets of paper. He moved to MIT in 2000 to work on “orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,” an advanced scheme for wide- band wireless communications. This summer Tarokh joins Harvard University as an electrical engineering professor.
In 1995,Steve Tuecke’s boss, Ian Foster, offered the organizers of a supercomputing convention a demonstration of “grid computing”— linking supercomputers at university and government labs into a single shared resource. The problem: the labs’ computers had incompatible hardware, security arrangements and queuing procedures, and nobody had written a program to resolve them. “My first thought was ‘Oh,jeez,’” says Tuecke, a software designer in Foster’s Distributed Systems Lab in Argonne, IL. But within weeks, Tuecke had created the code. The demo was the talk of the convention. Tuecke’s software grew into the Globus Toolkit—the “middleware” now used by hundreds of scientists worldwide to share high-end computers, databases and instruments remotely. Using Globus, a European Space Agency researcher could log into his desktop and run a climate simulation on a NASA supercomputer in California.Companies like Compaq, Fujitsu, IBM and Microsoft are eyeing Globus as a foundation for business- to-business Web services. “What the Web did for document sharing, the grid is doing for more general resource sharing,” notes Tuecke, who recently became the lab’s new software architect.
Media artist Camille Utterback’s award-winning video tracking exhibits create spaces where computers follow and interact with a person’s entire body. InText Rain, ademonstration based on patent-pending software created by Utterback and artist Romy Achituv, participants see themselves projected in real time on a wall while letters from the lines of a poem rain on their bodies. As the people move, the letters adjust accordingly. In Crossing, what appears to be an abstract painting on the wall is really a projection that ripples in response to a viewer’s movements. Utterback’s goal, both as an artist and an assistant professor at New York University and the Parsons School of Design, is to “help people realize that when technology systems are designed well, they are really fun.” Utterback, who in November 2000 started her own company, Creative Nerve, is a rare example of a computer programmer trained in the fine arts. Carl Goodman, curator of digital media at the American Museum of the Moving Image, says Utterback excels at following her curiosity and that her work “will stand up to scrutiny in the future, when the technology she’s using will no longer be novel.”
Les Welch has been fixing equipment ever since his bike broke in sixth grade. At aerospace giant Lockheed Martin he fixes manufacturing. Welch is applying lean-production techniques pioneered for auto assembly to the manufacture of F-22 fighter planes, bucking the defense industry’s history of inefficient production. Traditionally, aircraft have been built in one spot, with assembly workers walking many kilometers (this has been measured) to fetch thousands of tools and parts. In Welch’s approach, a nascent air- craft will move from one work center to another, each designed to minimize worker movement and maximize assembly convenience. Inventory is also reduced. Eric Ouellette at Lockheed Martin says the changes will cut manufacturing time up to 40 percent. Ouellette, formerly Welch’s senior manager, says Welch is “passionate about eliminating waste.” Before earning his industrial engineering degree, Welch ran manufacturing for a large family business that made aluminum toolboxes for pickup trucks. As for his personal tinkering, it’s now directed at his 1986 Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
Sean Willems’s quest for simplicity dates back to childhood; he recalls being “stressed that ‘Kansas’ and ‘Arkansas’ weren’t pronounced the same way.” Now the cofounder and chief scientist of Boston-based Optiant cuts through complexity as an industrial pioneer. Willems, who is also an assistant professor at Boston University, creates software that streamlines the flow of parts and materials to manufacturers. While a PhD candidate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, he wrote an algorithm that optimizes such supply chain flows so manufacturers can cut costs by paring inventory. Previous algorithms solved only pieces of the problem; Willems addressed the task in its entirety. Willems tested his theories with leaders like Hewlett-Packard and Nortel Networks. When he applied them in a division of Eastman Kodak, the company cut inventory levels by 40 percent and saved $10 million over two years. The “cool thing about the life I lead,” he says, “is that I get to develop the theory at Boston University and apply it at Optiant.
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India is planning to launch the 5G in country with the help of network giants like Reliance, Vodafone, Ariel and BSNL. But reports say that China has already planned the foundation for 6G in its country and take a step forward on the way to launch this before any country think about 6G to launch. The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology has initiated the project preparation and development in future for 6G.
The expert says that the speed of 6G will be 1 TB (terabyte)/ second!! Considering the 5G network’s speed will be 1 GB/seconds, it means 6G speed will be 8000 time faster than 5G in terms of Gigabits, 1 GByte = 1000 GBits.
The 5G Network still being come in existence in the world’s most of the countries and there few countries who is still using 4G or even 3G network, and it will be a bit early if the 6G be launch in any country. But the tendency to go forward in science and technology pushes us to go for 6G as soon as possible.
Report says that China has set up the working sections into two parts to conduct the research about 6G. Both the groups will perform their responsibility in different sectors of technology and management related works in different companies and research units.
5G’s bandwidth capacity lies in high radio frequencies. The higher radio spectrum carries more data; this approach is basically working behind the 6G. Spectrum will reach very high frequency level of GHZ or even THZ. How for 6G will be faster than 5G is not yet assumed, but we can guess that it will use ultra-frequencies of radio spectrum.
In terms of frequent use, for example: Live streaming in the highest definition requires 56 gigabits of data per hour. Through the network you will be able to download over 142 hours of high-quality content in each second.
The Network of 5G is still in its way to grow in some countries and in some countries like China the plan has started for 6G, and the expert says it will take 10 years to spread the network in new era and implementation will be completed in 2030.
But we should not be so excited because the researchers still working on it to remove significant Hindrances to achieve 6G. The speeds would need sustainable development in science and technology, computer science, chip design and use of energy. We have to think about regular ways to fulfill all these devices without the risk of burning the environment.
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Charting a crisis: Bolstering business continuity with organisational change management
How to adjust business continuity plans during the COVID-19 crisis .
October 20, 2020 | By: Paul Burton and Kelly O’Neill
Navigating the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. Our first and foremost priorities are ensuring we’re supporting our people, technical consultants, contractors and clients across the globe. As a full-stack technology and talent partner, we want to share our experience and offer support in how to alleviate the uncertainty around workplace services support as many businesses shift to a primarily remote workforce for an indefinite period of time.
The global COVID-19 pandemic has challenged companies to manage their enterprises in newfound ways. In the short term, they’re facing enormous scope changes to their business plans; in the long term, they must adapt and continue to make progress on their original goals.
Expected change can be hard enough in ordinary circumstances. Leading forced change management for an organisation, all while being virtual, can be even harder. Depending on the magnitude of your working environments, you may feel that you’re not equipped to manage this dynamic, uncertain change—but you’re further along than you think.
While many companies have an organisational change management (OCM) programme around technical aspects, focusing and evolving your contingency plans and business continuity best practices around your people will help you navigate this new working culture—and keep productivity up and running.
Build a framework for communication and business continuity
Most organisations will be expected to perform as they were prior to the pandemic but will have to do it differently through virtual and remote management. If you had a business continuity plan in place, you’ll need to make sure it covers all the needs of the business. This includes understanding how to make decisions with uncertainty—what is the best approach to maintain focus on execution, collaborate and communicate remotely and keep the business going?
To do this, organisations need to ensure their business strategy incorporates crisis management, disaster recovery and risk management in order to adapt and get back on track to true business efforts. And fueling that productivity may look differently than before—such as building new progress dashboards or utilising new collaboration tools. Keep in mind that change initiatives aren’t all the same, so the approach should be flexible and scalable to match the needs of the business. This means making sure you’re implementing OCM activities that provide the most value and desired outcomes. Using structured change management approaches will help build change awareness as your people become more comfortable with new ways of working, such as:
- Serving as extensions of, and connections between, project teams and impacted team members
- Implementing feedback channels to gauge communications effectiveness, adoption, areas of resistance and areas of acceptance
- Enabling and increasing the use of virtual/remote demonstrations, training, coaching and continuous improvement with the use of collaborative tools Providing sustained support at the peer level
Creating a structured communications approach for remote work that supports people will help them remain efficient in their roles without distractions. This includes best practice methods to ensure people and customers are aware of the current situation, how it impacts them, and the new processes and procedures required to do their jobs. Fear of the unknown and uncertainty is a big aspect of people unable to remain productive, and any ad hoc approaches to manage people that aren’t engaged or prepared won’t be effective. Organisations that can clearly and consistently communicate will be able to help calm fears and ultimately sustain business continuity.
Understand how your people will be impacted
Many project plans are often centered around technology—not people or process. Historically, crisis concerns have primarily revolved around protecting telecommunications, broadband networks, servers and data for companies to continue to operate securely. Now, there’s a need for organisations to focus on connecting their people to each other and leveraging facilitation skills to foster communications.
In an OCM framework, best practice methods and procedures are used to determine the impact change has on stakeholders, and how to manage that impact to ensure effectiveness. What’s sometimes missing is the ability to tap into how stakeholders ‘experience’ the change. For example, OCM helps manage people challenges and new methods to enable them to stay productive on the job. Targeted communications can help address challenges with social distancing, working in a remote environment or managing virtual meetings and conference calls. Therefore, it’s important to execute a communication strategy that quickly shifts people into a remote model that they’re previously not accustomed to, in a way that still supports them.
It’s also critical to increase ways for people to provide feedback and escalate issues or concerns in a virtual or remote environment. Not having a feedback loop can slow change adoption immensely, or even cause it to fail. Targeted training can be provided to ensure people are aware of the tools and techniques available to provide feedback in a remote environment and stay connected with team members and managers. In addition, prioritising communication lines will provide you a more holistic view across teams, as well as help to lift productivity dips that inevitably occur during transition states.
Setting guidelines and expectations for virtual work will help keep people focused and productive during times of uncertainty. Many people have never had to host or participate in virtual meetings before—they may not be sure how to act or may not be confident in using virtual technology or collaboration tools right away. Providing empowering training and development to your company, such as virtual team management coaching and collaboration management, can help people pivot, adopt new ways of working and operate productively.
Paul Burton serves as a practice architect for TEKsystems Global Services. He has more than 25 years of experience in organizational change and project management, focusing on end-user adoption to ensure users understand new solutions that can positively impact their jobs.
Kelly O’Neill is an enterprise services practice architect for TEKsystems Global Services. With over 20 years of experience, she is an expert in business transformation, architecture and solution services, and strategy and engagement management.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel on Friday that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas.
In a blunt call for Israel to pause military operations in the territory to allow for the immediate and increased delivery of assistance, Blinken said the current situation would drive Palestinians toward further radicalism and effectively end prospects for any eventual resumption of peace talks to end the conflict.
“There will be no partners for peace if they're consumed by humanitarian catastrophe and alienated by any perceived indifference to their plight," Blinken said, even as the call for a temporary pause without the release by Hamas of Israeli hostages was swiftly rejected by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Israel would be “going with full steam ahead."
The comments to reporters in Tel Aviv, following meetings with Netanyahu and other senior officials, amounted to some of the Biden administration's strongest warnings to Israel since the brutal Oct 7 rampage by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 civilians and soldiers.
But the remarks were also tempered by Blinken's continued support for Israel's “right and obligation to defend itself, defend its people and take the steps necessary to try to ensure that this never happens again.”
He described being moved by additional video he'd been shown in Israel by the Hamas militants who carried out the attacks, including a father killed in front of his young children.
“It is striking, and in some ways shocking, that the brutality of the slaughter has receded so quickly in the memories of so many, but not in Israel and not in America,” he said.
At the same time, he said he was also shaken by images of dead and wounded Palestinian children in Gaza.
“When I see that, I see my own children. How can we not?” he said, adding “Hamas doesn't care one second or iota for the welfare and well-being of the Palestinian people.”
Blinken and other US officials have echoed Biden's call Wednesday for a “pause” in the fighting to allow for the release of hostages, underscoring the increasingly divergent views between the allies.
A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter, said Friday that the US believes that a “fairly significant pause" will need to be put in place to allow for the release of the more than 200 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Israel has insisted that the hostage release must precede any pause.
Blinken's Middle East trip came as US concerns escalated that the conflict in Gaza could spiral throughout the region. The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group stoked fears that the war could widen by promising more attacks along the Lebanon border.
Blinken also said it was imperative for Israel, regional countries, the US and others to begin considering what the future of Gaza will look like if and when Hamas is destroyed. “There cannot and must not be a return to the pre-October 7 status quo,” he said.
In his first public speech since the war began, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his group had “entered the battle” with the past weeks' unprecedented cross-border fighting. “We will not be limited to this,” he said, suggesting escalation was possible. Still, Nasrallah stopped short of announcing that Hezbollah is fully engaging in the war.
He said the idea of Hamas remaining responsible for the governance Gaza, thereby posing a continued threat to Israel, was “unacceptable." But he also said that Israel could not re-occupy Gaza.
“Within those parameters we will continue to have discussions in the region and our partners about what should follow once Hamas is defeated," Blinken said.
But the complexity of the situation — and of Blinken's push for Israel to consider a pause — was laid bare on Friday when Netanyahu, after leaving the meeting with the American official, ruled out the possibility of a cease-fire “that doesn't include a return of our hostages,” referring to some 240 people Hamas abducted during its attack.
To assist Israel in locating those hostages, the US is flying MQ-9 drones over Gaza to gather intelligence and help locate where those people are being held, a US official said on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing operations.
Since the attacks, families of the hostages have increased pressure on the Israeli and US governments to find them and bring them home before Israel carries through with any large-scale ground operations. The drone use was first reported by Reuters.
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Hailing the Supreme Court's verdict upholding the government's decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution as "historic", Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Monday that it is not just a legal judgment, but a "beacon of hope" and a testament to the collective resolve to build a stronger and more united India.
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the government's decision to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed a special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and said steps should be taken to conduct the election to the Union Territory's Assembly by September 30 next year.
The apex court also directed that statehood to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir be restored at the earliest.
In a post on X, Modi said the Supreme Court verdict on the abrogation of Article 370 is "historic" and constitutionally upholds the decision taken by Parliament on August 5, 2019.
"It is a resounding declaration of hope, progress and unity for our sisters and brothers in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. The court, in its profound wisdom, has fortified the very essence of unity that we, as Indians, hold dear and cherish above all else," he said.
"I want to assure the resilient people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh that our commitment to fulfilling your dreams remains unwavering," the prime minister added.
"We are determined to ensure that the fruits of progress not only reach you but also extend their benefits to the most vulnerable and marginalised sections of our society who suffered due to Article 370," he asserted.
The verdict is not just a legal judgment, it is a beacon of hope, a promise for a brighter future and a testament to the collective resolve to build a stronger, more united India, the prime minister said on the microblogging platform, using the hashtag "NayaJammuKashmir".
Writing the judgment for himself and Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud said Article 370 was a temporary provision in the Constitution and the president had the power to revoke it.
The court also upheld the validity of the decision to carve out the Union Territory of Ladakh from Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019. On that day, the government abrogated the provisions of Article 370 and bifurcated the state into the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The erstwhile state does not have internal sovereignty different from the other states, the CJI said.
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A lot has happened in TV4's schedule lately. Last spring, Kulturnyheterna reported that the hit show "Best in Test" will be transferred to its competitor TV4, and since then the company has continued to rearrange.
"Let's dance" and "Talang", which usually provide weekend entertainment, are paused. The same applies to "Wild kids", and the long-running "Biggest loser" as well as the garden program "Karl Fredrik på Österlen".
In Ystads Allehanda, Karl Fredrik Gustafsson clarifies that it is precisely a break that is at stake. According to the profile, the idea is to take new steps and resume filming next year.
KulturNyheter is looking for TV4.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine claim that the commander leading the Black Sea Fleet died in the attack on the command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the southern Crimea, which Russia unilaterally annexed. However, there is a view that the Black Sea Fleet will maintain its offensive capabilities, and there are concerns about retaliation against the Ukrainian side.
Ukrainian forces claim on the 25th that 22 cadres, including the commander leading the Black Sea Fleet, were killed in the 34nd attack on the command of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet in the southern Crimean military port city of Sevastopol.
There has been no official reaction from the Russian side to this, but the Russian media has negatively reported that it is "false information" according to an official from the Ministry of Defense.
The American think tank "War Research Institute" said on the 25th that there is no confirmation of the death of the commander, but pointed out that "if the death is reported, it will cause major confusion in the command and control of the Russian Black Sea Fleet."
On the other hand, the British Ministry of Defense said on the 26th that the attacks on the Russian Black Sea Fleet are intensifying, and pointed out that "the physical damage caused by the attack on the command center is large but local, and the Black Sea Fleet maintains its core mission capability such as cruise missile attacks and surveillance and surveillance."
On top of that, he said, "The attack of the Ukrainian army is likely to force Russia to take a reactionary stance," and expressed the view that there are concerns about retaliation by Russia in response to the series of attacks.
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Jo joined Skills Active as the education evaluator and researcher in 2022. Her background is in adult education and her interest in evaluation began because she wanted to learn more about how effectively learning solutions were meeting objectives. Whilst working as a senior advisor for New Zealand Defence College, Jo studied part time for a post-graduate diploma in Social Sector Research and Evaluation. She has also worked as a performance auditor and principal advisor, Research within a government organisation.
Jo has lived in Aotearoa for 17 years after emigrating from the UK in 2005 and now calls Pinehaven home. Outside of work, Jo enjoys travelling, playing acoustic music with a few local musicians, the arts generally, and walking a very energetic young border collie.
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Amazon Dreaming: Journey out of mind was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005. It is based on an initiation ceremony in the Amazon with 'ayahuasqueros', the jungle shamans, who use a sacred plant, 'ayahuasca' or 'the vine of the dead' to facilitate an encounter with the experience of personal death.
The archetypal encounter with death is a thread running through most rituals of initiation. As a visionary experience it involves a shift in consciousness which may be induced - as in the Amazon - by psychotropic plants, or by facing extreme danger, or simply by an unwavering awareness of the dreamtime. 'Amazon dreaming' uses this unwavering awareness to evoke a group dreamfield in which the vision of the self before birth and after death can be glimpsed by the everyday personality. The performance presents this mythic encounter as poetic meditation.
The journey is often experienced as a literal separation from the physical body and entry into a totally different realm of being. The shaman energetically guides the process, using healing rituals and songs or 'icaros' inspired by the plant spirits and invites guidance also from the invisible world.
'Amazon dreaming' is a contemporary interpretation of the ayahuasquero's art, part ritual part theatre, and in part the spontaneous unfolding of sacred space itself. The art of the shaman/actor/magician is to surf the unseen energy, carrying the audience out of the labyrinth of everyday mind, beyond the invisible walls of time, to glimpse another reality. Ultimately for both actor and audience this is an exploration of the limitations and the vast potential of the human mind.
The show interweaves original recordings of shamans in the amazon singing songs of plant magic with the hypnotic night sounds of the forest itself, to carry the mind effortlessly into another world. A cathedral of space grows out of an endless note: the lowest string of a Stradivarius cello, rich with centuries of playing, is stretched through time, activating with its endless spectrum of harmonics the vibrations of the human energy field.
All healing happens in infinity. The shaman addresses himself to levels of reality unperceived by the ordinary mind to realign energy patterns in the global matrix. Everyone else is waiting for eternity, and the shamans are saying, 'How about tonight? Tonight is a good night to step outside of time.' -Alberto Villoldo: 'Shaman, Healer, Sage'
Special thanks to Francesco Sammartini for his recordings of 'Icaros',
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Tennessee Performing Arts Center | Nashville, Tennessee
We love a good pop concert, more so when we see that Ben Folds will be back on tour for fall, 2023! Can you picture that crowd? Singing, dancing on a Wednesday evening to those memorable songs this September? It's going to be unforgettable! Ben Folds are everywhere right now! We know you're on the edge of your seat now! For your chance to witness Ben Folds for yourself along at the premier arena Tennessee, Bristol has to offer……the stunning Paramount Center For The Performing Arts on Wednesday 13th September 2023, then book your tickets today! Via the 'get tickets' button after scrolling upwards!
Are you ready for the hottest night of musical thrills to come to Bristol, Tennessee this 2023? Then if you haven’t already gotten your tickets to see Ben Folds at the world famous Paramount Center For The Performing Arts, you can’t afford to wait. This concert brings one of the hottest artists of the year to the stage for a performance that you won’t want to miss. If you’re a fan of the genre, or are just looking to watch a new type of music, then this is the show that should not be missed! Tickets are already flying off the shelves but you still have an opportunity to get your tickets for the show. All you have to do is click the Buy Tickets button below and order your tickets today while supplies last! But don’t delay, because these tickets are selling out at record speed.
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City staff have yet to come up with an alternative for where to put an overnight tent city, where homeless people could sleep outdoors, since council rejected staff’s first idea in August of using the front lawn of city hall. There is now what the city is calling a “temporary encampment” at the former Co-op lot on Greig Ave.
Because indoor shelter spaces in Terrace don’t meet demand, the city isn’t allowed to prevent outdoor camping in specific public spaces, like parks and residential areas, without a designated overnight place for people to go. That means homeless people in Terrace can now decide where to go for themselves and if they stay in one place for long enough, case law suggests the city won’t be able to move them, as shown by the City of Prince George’s failed attempts at removing the so-called Moccasin Flats encampments there.
Pointing to a lack of public support for the city hall idea, council asked for another proposal by end of 2022, and for staff to ensure a plan for overnight camping before spring 2023 in case of an increase in homelessness.
In September, the city elected to continue the “status quo” suggesting the problem would die down over the winter as staff sought a more palatable solution. People living outside are otherwise dealt with on a “case by case” basis and moved around by bylaw officers when complaints arise.
At a council meeting on Monday Dec. 12, Linda Stevens, the social program development coordinator for the city, said there have been delays in consultation to do with where to put the tent city, adding that the number of people camping outside hasn’t gone down as much as expected this winter.
That, combined with growing homelessness observed in Terrace over the spring and summer, means bylaw enforcement capacity needs to be evaluated.
When asked by newly-minted Terrace Mayor Sean Bujtas whether an overnight-only spot where people are expected to pack up and leave in the morning is still the plan, Stevens suggested that might not be doable.
“In other communities, even with that in place, they’re still having some challenges with encampments setting up and not moving on… In northern communities where we have the cold weather it seems that case law in particular is starting to put real pressure on what can and can’t happen around encampments.”
While an overnight-only spot would work in the summertime, Bujtas said that changes when temperatures drop, adding that it’s never been the plan to set up a space for people to camp permanently “up until this point.”
“To ask somebody to pack up and move their tent in the middle of the winter seems quite inhumane to me.”
When Coun. Chris Apps asked where they’re at in coming up with solutions Stevens said they need to ‘back it up a bit’ and reevaluate because things have changed since August.
“The ground has shifted so now we’re trying to come up with a plan on shifting ground.”
Stevens added they need a clear answer from BC Housing about whether the province would cover costs of outdoor sheltering, like sanitation and supplies that has “so far not been forthcoming”.
Warning of a “slippery slope” as time goes on, Apps again asked for a timeline.
Stevens didn’t commit to a date but hinted at “more clarity” by the springtime, with one factor being the Ksan Society moving its shelter from downtown to the old Elks Hall site on Tetrault on the southside.
“The expectation is that there will be increased capacity. What that looks like is still not completely clear.”
The shelter move was planned for December but has been delayed until at least January, having secured money from the province for needed renovations, according to the Ksan Society.
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With interest rates so low on CD’s, I am considering a rollover of an existing IRA from a maturing CD to a church. This is a new situation for the church. What is needed to authorize a church to become a custodian of individual IRA’s?
SAVAGE SAYS:? WHOA!!!? And I put that in bold and caps because there is no such thing as a church becoming a custodian for an IRA. This sounds like a true rip-off!? Leave your money in the low interest rate CD, which is FDIC-insured, at your bank. Then if you don’t use all your money before you die, and you don’t have anyone else to leave your money to, you can write a will leaving the balance to the church. DO NOT MOVE YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE BANK!!
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My 90 year old mother gave us $50K a short while ago to both my kids for paying for their college educations in which I told her I feel better if we pay her back over the course of the next 4 years because she may need it for her assisted living facility. Where would you put the money? I am currently automatically putting $750 monthly into etrade and right now, the money is just accumulating there not knowing whether I should do bonds or stocks or a combination of both and specifically in what you’d advise. I would like to automatically do this and thereby not having to go it and do it myself each month.
SAVAGE SAYS: That was a VERY generous gift from your mother, and it is lovely that you feel obligated to repay her. I don’t know how much she has in the way of assets, and hope that it will be enough to carry her through life even if she lives a long time. You are better putting that money aside, and not repaying her, and waiting to see what happens. If she runs out of assets, she might qualify for Medicaid — and still be able to life in that nice facility. If, instead, they insist that after her money runs out she must move to a state Medicaid-funded nursing home, you can pay for the current place using the money you saved to repay her. (After her death there is a 5 year look-back period at any “gifts” she gave away, if she uses Medicaid to pay for her care.)
In the meantime, this is officially “chicken” money — not to be risked. So leave it in teh money market account at eTrade, or in a bank MM deposit account. You don’t want to risk losing any of it. If it remains yours after her death, then you can? consider risker investments like stocks.
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$25.00 Additional Puppy Viewing Request
$25.00 For Each Additional Puppy You Want To View During Visit
- 15 min15 minutes
- 25 US dollars$25
- Texas Teacups
You must indicate in the notes which puppy numbers you want to see. We can show you puppies by breed, size, sex or price limit if you have one. Let us know what is important to you because we do not want to bring a breed that you are not interested in or tiny expensive puppies if you wanted a larger lower priced puppy. IMPORTANT! Internet Discounted Price is only available to customers that submitted an application for a specific discounted puppy before coming. Sorry, no exceptions will be made. If you did NOT submit an application on a specific puppy number. The only price you will be quoted and allowed to pay is the starting price. Yes, you need to submit an application for each puppy you would like to purchase if you would like to purchase it at the internet discounted price. If you are more than 15 minutes late, we will need to reschedule you for another day or time if we have another appointment immediately after yours. A confirmation text will be sent to the cell phone number you listed the morning of your appointment to confirm. You MUST respond to the message to confirm your appointment. You can do so as early as 5:00 am and no later than 9:00 am or we will not bring the puppy you requested. Please send a text to confirm you are coming with your first & last name and puppy number to 972-989-5266 or 972-203-0000 https://www.texasteacups.com/how-to-purchase-or-adopt-a-puppy ^ Click Open & Read Before Coming ^
Cancellations must be made at least 2 hours in advance. However, if you have paid for a private viewing fee or express fee for a same day appointment, this fee will not be refunded. No Show Appointments will be limited to 1 puppy on next appointment. Please be kind enough to cancel in advance if you cannot keep your appointment.
Teacup and Toy Pets Boutique Puppies & Designer Pet Supplies - Payment Plans Available, Stonewall Road, Wylie, TX, USA
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The sheriff of the state’s largest county is peeved with the Texas Department of State Health Services, the agency that runs the state’s mental health hospitals.
The agency is not offering the care that it is required to provide, the Harris County sheriff, Adrian Garcia, said. Given proper treatment, the sheriff argues, some patients would not be committing the crimes of which they are accused. Instead, they end up in Harris County’s jails, where they are a health care and financial burden to the county.
Sheriff Garcia has allies, and might even get some help. The state agency is being reviewed by the Legislature’s Sunset Advisory Commission, which will hold hearings later this month on a report from its staff that calls the system a mess. “Resolving the current crisis in the state mental health hospital system requires action, starting now,” the first recommendation states.
The report is remarkably clear, as these things go, detailing changes in organization and programs that would reboot the agency. It has floundered since undergoing a reorganization ordered by lawmakers who were trying to create “a truly integrated health services organization” in 2003.
“The state mental health hospital system is dealing with enormous pressure from increased commitments from the courts, and the review found that a lack of communication and collaboration between DSHS and the judiciary only exacerbates the problem,” the staff analysts wrote. They added that out-of-date facilities, “critical shortages” of clinical staff and the agency’s struggles with organization and new legislative initiatives have added to the troubles. The agency did not offer much resistance in its formal response, saying the report “captures the challenges we face” and that agency officials “understand and support the intent and direction of the recommendations.”
In other words, the system is not working. The recommendations include increasing staff for the hospitals and expanding capacity by contracting with local providers whenever possible.
That is not revolutionary thinking. “Several of the recommendations in this report simply reflect a need for the agency to simply do its job better,” the analysts wrote.
Harris County has a list of about 900 people — frequent fliers, they call them — who were in and out of jail at least five times in 2011 and 2012. Some had 30 or more visits, the sheriff said.
From that list, 538 had been diagnosed with mental health issues that required treatment, according to the sheriff. He points out a couple of issues.
First, they are more expensive to jail. He contends that they get the care they need while locked up that is as good as or better than what they receive in state programs that are supposed to care for them. But it is expensive. The average jail inmate costs taxpayers less than $70 a day, Garcia said. The average inmate in need of mental health treatment costs $300 per day.
Second, the jails are not the best place for this care. It is less costly to treat these patients — those who commit crimes and those who do not — in the state mental hospitals that, unlike jails, were built for the job.
On any given day, Harris County has 9,000 people in its custody, Garcia said. “A third of them are receiving some degree of psychotropic medication,” he said. “Imagine the care they could be otherwise getting outside the jail. If they got that treatment, if they had access to that treatment, they would in all likelihood not come to me to begin with.”
Last year, lawmakers approved a pilot program — proposed in legislation from state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, and a former state district judge — intended to get treatment for inmates as they check out of Harris County’s detention centers. The hope is that the treatment will effectively turn unintentional criminals — people whose crimes are tied to their mental illnesses — into non-criminals.
“I firmly believe that the majority of people who are in my custody who are in this mental illness category are coming here largely because of their illness and not necessarily because of their actions,” Garcia said.
“Here is an agency that has the money and can’t do it,” he added. “I cannot explain why, with all those calls for action, why they are unable to get it right.”
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In its ruling dated 17 October 2023, the Conseil d’État dismissed the appeal lodged by Ryanair and Airport Marketing Services (the “Appellants”) against the decision of the Bordeaux Administrative Court of Appeal of 29 March 20221. The Appellants were seeking the annulment of the Poitiers Administrative Court’s ruling of 15 December 2020, which had rejected their application for the recognition and enforcement of arbitration awards rendered in 2011 and 2012 by the LCIA in their dispute against the Syndicat mixte des aéroports de Charente (“SMAC”).
The Conseil d’État confirmed the previous courts’ position that the forced enforcement of an arbitration award involving a French public legal entity and a foreign legal entity cannot be authorised if it is contrary to public policy. It recalled that legal entities governed by public law in France may not derogate from the rules governing the jurisdiction of national courts by resorting to arbitration, unless otherwise provided by national legislation or an international agreement.
The Conseil d’État also examined the provisions of the 1958 New York Convention and the 1961 European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration, and concluded that the dispute was not arbitrable. It rejected the Appellants’ argument that the contract that French public entity would have entered into for international purposes justified derogating from the principle that public entities are prohibited from resorting to arbitration.
Finally, the Conseil d’État ruled that the arbitration agreement concluded between SMAC and the Appellants did not fall within the scope of the European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration, since the Appellants had their registered offices in Ireland, which is not a party to that convention.
As a result, the Conseil d’État dismissed the appeal lodged by the Appellants and ordered each of them to pay the SMAC the sum of 1,500 euros under article L. 761-1 of the Code of Administrative Justice.
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VISION OF A SHOWER GOLD COINS
I was meditating about a year ago. I wont do it again. Ive always practiced relaxation and any vision I did see ive dismissed it as imagination. This time was different. I was really meditating for about 20 minutes. I saw eyes looking at me, and the next thing I knew, as plain as day Jesus walked through a door opening towards me.He was holding his right hand up and crossing his fingers. I immediately felt terrible shame and he instantly covered his face with a cloud , and I felt better. to his left was an old man all dressed in white like a pope. He was smiling at me and showing me at least 2 gold leaves or spades pinned to his chest. I was about 8 feet away. no one spoke a word the whole time. I wanted to come closer to determine the gold pins and in an instant I was standing upon who I thought was Jesus . I was looking down and could actually see the quality of this robe with extreme clarity. He then raised his right forearm to show me a row of 10 or 12 gold buttons on it. I saw them, then immediately I was completely just showered with all these golden coins!! although the feeling of it was just so awesome. I actually tried to will them back for fear I was being tempted by something else. Lastly there was this golden rod or tube like object about 10 inches in length. ,and 2 inches in diameter spinning about chest and head level about an arms length away. Spinning way to fast to touch it.After that I felt like I was being led out of that area by someone on my left. I stopped to look back and I saw a hallway with a couple old fashioned church like windows.The whole thing was just unbelievable and I cant stop thinking about it.
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Corner my Triking three-wheeler hard and if the tyres were gripping, you judged cornering limits on the inside front wheel; any more than six inches off the ground and things might not end well. Tony Divey, Triking designer (and also Colin Chapman’s chief draftsman) once told me: ‘all three-wheelers are unstable. It’s how you use that instability that’s the important thing’.
Joe Whaler, design and engineering lead on suspension and steering on the forthcoming Morgan Super 3 doesn’t quite concur, although it has to be said that I was driving my Triking in competition not on the road.
‘I’m not sure I agree that they’re all ultimately unstable,’ he says. ‘You only need three things on the ground to stop it falling over and create a stable body, though having [just] three points of contact does decrease your roll-over stability.’
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It’s Sunday, 05 November 2017.
Nobody applauds when the announcer declares the 2017 International Quilt Festival over.
Queen Becky gives us a lesson in how to fold the quilts,
how to roll and twist the tissue paper,
and where to place it to prevent creases when the quilts are folded.
She is an excellent teacher from whom I learn an awful lot.
The quilts and all who had a hand in creating them are treated with respect.
A clean sheet is placed between the quilts and the floor,
and everyone who touches the quilts wears clean, white gloves.
Sean and David Rusidill (Caroline’s amazingly polite and fun to be with sons), Judy Jochen,
and Shannon Timberlake join in the take down and store effort.
The Engineer (Andy) takes quilts off the walls, and
Linda Moore and Peggy Thomas (sisters) fold and box quilts as they come down.
Caroline Rudisill checks quilts off the inventory list
as they go into the boxes.
It would not have happened with out Peggy Thomas
and Tari Vickery,
both seen here in The 70273 Project Interactive Booth
where people took home 1000 block kits,
left financial donations, and made Friendship Blocks.
Peggy Thomas and Tari Vickery (The 70273 Project Ambassadors)
– what would I . . . what would The 70273 Project . . . do without them?
Mary Green, Ambassador for The 70273 Project
(seen here in front of her beautiful Middling made with beads)
worked in the Interactive Booth, as did . . .
Cindy Cavallo, Ambassador
Caroline Rudisill, Ambassador
Frances Alford, Ambassador
and folks whose photos must be on somebody else’s phone:
Elaine Smith, Ambassador
Linda Moore, Ambassador
Judy Jochen, Ambassador,
Thank you all for making the effort not just to get to the Festival,
but to share your time with The 70273 Project. I am grateful beyond description.
Thank you to Queen Becky, who hung The 70273 Project quilts
in the Special Exhibit, making us look so good . . .
to Rose (she teaches special education) who helped hang quilts in the Interactive Booth . . .
to Becky who, because of health issues, wasn’t able to be at the Festival,
but for months and months before the Festival, donned her best patience and wit
to guide me through the process,
even taking the time to call me on the phone
with the good news that The 70273 Project had been selected
as a Special Exhibit when she could’ve just sent an email.
to Deann who was on-site, always calm and patient and thorough in her answers and instructions,
to Terri, whose laugh never faded throughout the entire five days
to the people back home who assembled The Go Block Bags
(all 1000 bags were taken!) . . .
to all y’all who weren’t there in person,
but were most definitely there in spirit – sharing posts,
telling others, sending encouraging, appreciative message, emails, and comments –
and to The Engineer . . . Andy
the man who has unwaveringly honored
our vision and vow of togetherness
for 44 years now . . .
It definitely takes a village, and we have a village made of the kindest,
most compassionate, smiling, big-hearted people I ever dreamed existed.
All good things must come to an end, and the International Quilt Festival is no exception.
Looking at the photos of empty walls now, I see visual foreshadowing . . .
We get home and take our elder Corgi Phoebe up the mountain on Wednesday,
cooking all her favorite foods and putting them in front of her,
sitting on the floor with her, petting her, talking to her, loving her.
She wants to go outside every 2 minutes or so as though she can’t make up her mind.
She stands over her water bowl as though it’s familiar,
but she’s forgotten what she’s supposed to do with it.
A business trip on Thursday, and on Friday, it’s time to make The Hard Decision.
As we wait on Jeff (our vet, friend, and well, extended family member),
a man comes in and walks right over to Phoebe who would ordinarily
be glad to see him because she has always known that everybody wants to pet her.
This man does want to pet her,
but today Phoebe doesn’t even raise her head
or look up at him.
We are ushered not into the usual exam room,
but into a more spacious room with colorful padded chairs.
There’s even a doggie bed . . . pink.
I know why we are here
– shoot, I’m the one who called Jeff and told him why we wanted to come –
and yet I am unable to let go of the hope,
that Jeff will enter to announce that an IV of fluids
and maybe 2 weeks of antibiotics and our Phoebe will be good as new.
That’s not what happens.
I sit on the floor with Phoebe.
She stands near the door,
and I ask her to move
for fear someone will smack her hard
when they don’t see her standing there.
She makes laps around the room,
walking in circles that take her
in front of the examining table,
in front of Andy,
in front of me,
then back by the examining table.
Around and around and around she goes.
Jeff takes her out to put the catheter in,
and when he brings her back,
she’s content to lay on the bed she’s been avoiding.
We all sit on the floor now.
As Jeff administers the sedative/anti-anxiety drug,
I tell stories that start with “Remember when . . . “.
As Jeff administers the narcotic,
we each lay a hand on Phoebe
and send steady streams of love to her
through our touch.
The precious four-legged soul called Phoebe
who gifted us with her presence
breathes her last breath
to the sound of laughter and love.
From the high of the Special Exhibit at IQF
to the lows of witnessing the life of a member of our family come to a close,
life is a roller coaster, and we have been in the front seat.
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2022 Comic of the Year: ADAM GRABOWSKI Stand Up Comedian from Scottsdale, AZ
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It helps to think of the English language as a horse. Even with all the tools we have to harness and tame it—usage dictionaries, manuals of style, thesauruses—it often manages to buck us off and run wild. You’d think it would be easier. Words fill up the space around you, they cover surfaces and fill pages, they infiltrate your life. But it never seems as though we have full control over their eccentricities.
For many, the National Spelling Bee is the ultimate field of battle, upon which man (well, children no more advanced than eighth grade) is pitted against the language-monster it has created. Those of us who are enthusiasts of spelling bees relish the tenuous nature of it all. Every spring at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C., spellers take turns standing in front of a microphone, trying to pluck a spoken word out of the air and make it tangible by selecting from the twenty-six letters in our language and arranging them in a precise order. Watching the bee on television, you can see kids essentially become possessed by a word; they say it, they rinse it around their mouth, they try to draw it in the air with their finger. It is all to conquer the word, to unlock its secret and step grandly upon its slain form in victory. People have fainted in the attempt.
If you were to picture the person who pronounces those words, Jacques Bailly might well be the man your mind comes up with. When I met him in his gabled office in the classics department building at the University of Vermont, he was wearing glasses and a Merriam-Webster baseball cap. Every surface was covered in papers or books—we moved a pile from a chair so I could sit down and shifted other items around so we could squeeze my travel Scrabble game onto a flat plane. We played as we talked. Dr. Bailly was mild-mannered, like a superhero, and gave the impression of a child prodigy all grown up.
I. “THE POOR KID FROM ILLINOIS WHO’S NEVER SEEN NOR HEARD OF A MUUMUU HAS NO CHANCE.”
[We draw tiles from the bag to see who goes first; it’s me.]
THE BELIEVER: So how does one become the official pronouncer for the National Spelling Bee?
JACQUES BAILLY: You just have to be lucky. I became the pronouncer by being the associate pronouncer for ten or eleven years, and I became associate pronouncer by writing to them and saying,“I won the bee in 1980.You may not remember me, but since then, I’ve learned Latin and Greek and a lot more French and German and a little bit of Arabic, and you might want someone on your staff who has that knowledge. If you do, I’m here and I’m interested.” [I open the Scrabble game with “winged,” which earns me twelve points.]
BLVR: Do you find the level of competition has changed since you competed?
JB: That’s kind of hard to say. I think it’s a problem with the accuracy of my perceptions. Teaching, I hear a lot of things like, “Kids can’t spell anymore” or “In my time, we knew the difference between ‘there,’ ‘their,’ and ‘they’re,’ and ‘to’ and ‘too,’ and now kids don’t, even when they get to college.” But in the end, it’s like one of those Escher paintings where it looks like the staircase is always going down but it never really can go down. It’s got to be something like that, because I don’t feel like we’re in a period of massive national decline. I think that the spelling bee itself is probably more competitive, although the word lists aren’t any harder. They did get much harder. By about ’90–’91, they were impossibly difficult.
BLVR: In terms of the lengths of the words or the obscure origin?
JB: Well, length isn’t really a factor in spelling a word. You throw me a thirty-letter word and I can spell it with just about as much ease as a ten-letter word or a five-letter word. The real problem in spelling bees is making them gradually more difficult. Here, let me give you a little spelling test. Spell the word “geeldikkop.” It’s from Afrikaans. It’s a South African sheep disease. You want to take a stab?
BLVR: Say it again?
BLVR: It sounds like a woman’s name. G-a-l-e-d-i-tk-o-p?
JB: No, it’s g-e-e-l-d-i-k-k-o-p. Did you have any clue beforehand?
JB: You can’t have any clue, you’ve never heard of the word, nobody’s ever heard of the word. Nobody ever uses the word. That was a word in the bee. As far as I’m concerned, there are two types of words in spelling bees. There’s the kind of word that you know if you’ve seen it because it’s weird—you know the word ‘muumuu’?
BLVR: Sure. M-u-u-m-u-u.
JB: Yeah. Do you think you could spell that if you had never seen it?
BLVR: Probably not.
JB: If you knew something about Hawaiian words, you’d probably have a good chance. A really good spelling champion will look at all the Hawaiian words together and will figure out that there’s only a certain number of sounds, there’s only a certain way to spell each sound, and that it’s really not that hard. But isolated Hawaiian words in the language are very hard for the ordinary person. The poor kid from Illinois who’s in the eighth grade who’s never seen nor heard of a muumuu has no chance. If I give that same kid a word like, I don’t know, “noosphere,” that kid has an excellent chance, because they can ask a few questions, they can root around and figure out that it’s n-o-o-s-p-h-er-e because the ‘n-o’ is like in ‘noetic,’ which maybe they know from some spelling list. And ‘sphere’—you can figure that out.They’re both from the Greek, there’s gonna be an ‘o’ in the middle. It’s a system. You can learn that system, you can manipulate it, you can understand it.
[Dr. Bailly plays “aired,” running vertical to meet the end of my word. He calls it “not a very good one.”]
BLVR: Do you have a favorite word?
JB: A favorite word. Ever since I’ve been a child, this question—what’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite… whatever? Sometimes I do have an answer. I don’t know. Favorite word.There’s a favorite kind of word. I like words, for spelling bees, that a kid’ll hear and say, “Okay, that’s kinda like this word and kinda like that word.” I like words that are not technical, one-off words that they’ll probably never run into in their life. I mean, how many times have you ever seen a ronquil?
BLVR: Only two or three times.
JB: Really? I mean, ronquil. It’s a kind of fish. Who doesn’t know “ronquil”? Well, I could care less about ronquils. There are lots of bullfighting terms in the spelling bee. Now, I personally think that bullfighting words are among the most useless words in the English language. And heraldic words are equally useless. I love heraldry; I think heraldry’s great fun. Bullfighting I could care less about. The point is, my favorite words are the words you’re liable to see again. Gullible. Loquacious. Logorrhea.
JB: Oleaginous. My favorite words tend to be the Greek and Latin ones because I think that the kids who learn those learn a lot more than just that one word.
II. “I HAVE WON THE SPELLING BEE, SO HOWEVER I SPELL A WORD NOW IS CORRECT.
[Dr. Bailly strategically places three letters on the board, conveniently located on a triple word score, which earns him thirty-two points.]
BLVR:There are musicians who, after they learn theory, can’t listen to music for pleasure. Has being immersed in this spelling culture changed the way you see language at all?
JB: Oh yeah, I don’t care about spelling as much anymore. I really don’t. I always tell this story about a good friend of mine in college. We both took this art history class, and he just loved art. We would talk about art all the time, and he was an artist—he painted and knew a lot about art. And I didn’t know anything about it. I’d been to museums, but my idea of a museum when I was little was, “Let’s go count how many clocks there are ’cause this is so damn boring.” I really felt like he taught me about art in that class. When it came down to looking at our grades, I had an A and he had a B minus. I’d read his papers and I thought that they were very good. But he couldn’t spell at all. So I think that what happened was, when the T.A. or professor read his paper, they kept seeing these misspelled words and thinking, “This kid’s stupid! This kid can’t spell! Stupid!” He wasn’t in control of that perception of himself.
BLVR: So the communication of his ideas was bogged down by his inability to spell?
JB: I think that was the root of it, because he knew a lot more about art than I ever did. In some sense, I find it less important, but I’m also realistic about its importance. It’s just like dialect—you don’t want to let people form their own mistaken opinions about you if you can help it. Spelling correctly is one way to help it. You don’t want to give away that you use “ain’t” and “like” and “gonna” all the time if you’re going on a job interview. You want to control that. When you get the job, you might just go back to your normal persona and say “ain’t,” “gonna,” and “like,” but you want to control how other people perceive you. I think spelling really helps that, because your written language is how you come through. Anyone can use spell check and look up words and get them all right, theoretically. But if you have to think about that too much, you don’t think about the other things that are a lot more important, like the content.
BLVR: So it’s more that a weakness in spelling masks what someone is trying to say, rather than misspelling actually being a sign of failure?
JB: There’s an intelligence to creative spelling. If I weren’t the official pronouncer at the National Spelling Bee, I might join that Simplified Spelling Society that’s trying to reform English spelling. Just for a lark, because I think they have a point. I’m not gonna join it because it’s a hopeless point; they’re never gonna get through. But it really would be nice if the technology of our language were simpler to use, if spelling accurately reflected pronunciation. It would be more user-friendly, and I think we’d be a better society for it. I’m learning Chinese now, and I don’t understand why they haven’t just tossed their characters and tossed Pinyin and figured out a really coherent, consistent, accurate way to represent their language. I know the answer: it’s because of tradition. It’s because they like those characters. I love the characters; they’re so much fun. They’re damnably hard. It would just make a lot of sense to simplify it. After I won the spelling bee, I started saying, “I have spelling license.” Any time I misspelled a word, I said I had spelling license.“I have won the spelling bee, so however I spell a word now is correct.” It was a joke at the time and I don’t mean it seriously, but I do think that it’s given me a perspective that spelling has a real importance. It’s not just a stupid human trick.
BLVR: Do you see correct spelling as a measure of intelligence at all, or is it just a measure of being able to perform this specific skill?
JB:That’s kind of a difficult one. I think that it is a particular type of intelligence, but I don’t think of intelligence as one coherent thing that is always together and always the same. It’s pretty clear to me that there is such a thing as areas of intelligence, and those are parts of what comes together as the things you can do with your mind, which, taken in aggregate, give you something you can measure. I do believe that SATs and all those intelligence tests are measuring something. I just don’t think that it’s a something that is crisply defined. I haven’t seen somebody—any of these kids—who I don’t think is intelligent. But if you look at their records, it’s not as though winning the spelling bee tells you that they’re going to go to Caltech, Harvard, MIT, or what have you. They’ll probably go to a good college—they’re likely to.
BLVR: It could also say something about their drive to—
JB: Yeah, there’s a lot of that, too. I had a cousin who got all A’s in school, but it wasn’t just because she was intelligent. It’s because she wanted to. I know people who get all A’s in school and they don’t even try. Intelligence is a slippery thing. It’s not like winning the spelling bee means that you are going to go far in math, or you are going to be excellent at learning a foreign language or some skill that could really get you far in life. Knowing how to spell will get you a very good secretarial position. The president doesn’t need to know how to spell. As Dan Quayle showed, you can have a very high office and not know how to spell. Spelling is a weird skill.
[Dr. Bailly puts a ‘ch’ in front of ‘aired,’ which earns him twenty-six points because of a double word score.]
III. “THE SPELLING BEE IS LIKE CARROT CAKE.”
BLVR: What effect do you think the ESPN broadcast has had on the bee?
JB: It adds to the tension, but the kids love it.They are counting the seconds ’til they know they’ll be on the broadcast. They know exactly when that broadcast starts and they know whether they have a chance of getting on it and they love that. I don’t know of any kid who’s said,“Oh my god, I just can’t stand the pressure of being on TV.” It is a very funny combo. I always tell my students,“Hey, I’m on ESPN this weekend.”
BLVR: I noticed they allowed the home-schooled kids to name their “schools” on the ESPN broadcast.
BLVR:Yeah, the boy who finished third last year apparently attended “The Pure Brains Academy.”
JB: [Laughs] Well, you know, the spelling bee is just tailor-made for home schoolers.You’re sitting at home trying to figure out a way to get your kid to learn all this language—the spelling bee is like a carrot. It’s like a carrot cake.You know,“Hey, at the end of the year, we get to go to this contest with all these other kids.”There’s studying material on the web that they can use. I’m really surprised they don’t do better than they do.
[Dr. Bailly is pondering his next move, muttering the curse of every Scrabble player:“I have great letters, but nowhere to put them.”]
BLVR: Has the documentary Spellbound hindered or helped the bee’s image?
JB: Oh, Spellbound has been great. It’s a better movie than we could ever possibly produce for ourselves. It presents, I think, lots of truths about the bee. One big thing is just how incredibly diverse the bee is, and it might be because you have 250 newspapers who have 250 different publics and you tend to get a little bit of this, a little bit of that. But you go to that bee and there in those photos, you see every different stripe and spot and hairstyle and what-have-you. It’s really kind of inspiring.
BLVR: I think my favorite fact from Spellbound is that Neil’s grandfather in India would have fed, like, five thousand people if Neil had won the bee.
JB: Oh, he would have! I had a friend and her father— I think he was a doctor or something—once a year, they went out and fed the whole village. And it’s literally, you know, a thousand people. I believe he would have done that. The sub-continental Indian community in the U.S. is very active in spelling bees. They have their own spelling bee, just for that community.
BLVR: Really? In English?
JB: Yeah. They’re disproportionately represented. I haven’t really checked it and nobody keeps those figures, but we see a lot of the really, really good spellers from India.
BLVR: Do you think a lot of people see the spelling bee as some fulfillment of the American Dream?
JB: I think they do, they start to. I mean, it’s pretty clear that a degree from Yale is a little bit more of a fulfillment of that. Or, you know, a job. But by eighth grade, that’s what their kids can do. And it’s on a national scale in their new country. You see an awful lot of kids whose parents are immigrants and I think it gives them an edge because they still have that contact with another language, and I think that really helps, because it’s all about language and all about broadening your view of language. That’s how you win the spelling bee, unless you have a photographic memory, and then you just have to picture it.We had one kid who did that. He got a word and then he missed it, and he insisted it wasn’t in the dictionary. Paige took him and showed him that it was in the addenda, and he said,“Oh. There’s an addenda?” And he had memorized the whole dictionary—he quoted back to us passages from the dictionary. He had it all memorized.
BLVR: Wow. I can’t even fathom being able to do that.
JB: Yeah. Being able to look it up, in your head? And in theory, we all could do that, because—don’t you ever have these flashes of memory, where you remember something you didn’t think you remembered? It’s all in your head somewhere. How do you get to it?
[At this point, Dr. Bailly notices that I’ve played ‘revile,’ though I hadn’t written down the score. It is thirteen points.]
IV. “‘FAHRVERGNUGEN’ IS NOT A HARD WORD TO SPELL.”
BLVR: The thing that I identify the spelling bee with most closely in my mind is Miss America.There’s something about both of them that seems unique to this country. Do you see that at all?
JB: I do see it in the sense that deciding who the most beautiful person is, or the most accomplished, is really kind of an artificial, strange enterprise that you can’t do. But it’s interesting. Spelling bees are strange, because if we really wanted to find the best speller, we’d sit them all down and give them a hundred-word written test, and the kid who missed the least words would be the champion. It’d be very simple and very easy. But we don’t want necessarily the best speller.They want a kid who can stand up there in front of everybody, keep their cool, and spell it right.We want there to be luck in it, we want there to be drama, and it’s just a lot more fun to have it as a spelling bee.
BLVR:Are there spelling bees in other countries?
JB: No. Not even in Britain.Although the BBC is running a spelling bee and I think they’re gonna send someone to Washington this year.The British have kept up a tradition of aristocratic spelling, which holds that there are certain accepted ways to spell a word instead of just one.There are certain accepted ways that betray education.And there are ways that betray lack of education. Noah Webster wasn’t the one who codified a standard way of spelling, but he did a lot for that in the U.S. Before that—there were dictionaries, and there was a big effort at standardizing spelling. I think the U.S. really glommed onto this notion of standardized spelling because it’s terribly democratic. There’s only one way to spell a word and everybody spells it the same way.
[I put down “jaunt.” Fourteen points.]
JB: Jaunt. Nice word.“Jaunty” is a word, isn’t it?
[He uses it to attach to another word he’s spelled ending in ‘y’, gaining him twenty-four points. I counter meekly with a seven-pointer.]
JB: And also, the word “bee” was first used in that sense in 1876. Before that, there had been quilting and sewing and other sorts of bees that were community efforts to do something. No other language that I know of has a spelling bee per se. England could. Spanish speaking nations could not. France could not. Germany could not. Because you just don’t misspell words in German. They are very easy to spell. If you know German, you hear a word and you know how to spell it. “Fahrvergnugen” is not a hard word to spell in German. It’s only hard because we don’t speak enough German to recognize that system. In France, you couldn’t have a spelling bee because it’s obvious how to spell a word. It’s not obvious how to end the word in French. So you have a big national dictée and people who get only ten errors are just wonderful. Do you know about this?
JB: They dictate a paragraph or a page of prose and you write it down. It’s just, you know, you write that down word-for-word and the declension and conjugation of the words is quite difficult, whether there’s apostrophes or silent letters and such. It sounds like spelling, but it’s not because it changes in form. Spelling bees don’t really get into that much; every once in a while, we’ll have a word like “agenda,” which is technically a plural, but in English, it’s used as a singular. So you just couldn’t have a spelling bee in another language.
[Dr. Bailly easily bested me in Scrabble, by the way, 313–258. His victory was not in spelling difficult, obscure words; rather, he merely took advantage of the double and triple word scores I left open to him.]
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Slotegrator, a leading software and business solution provider, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hmayak Manukyan as Head of Sales.
“I’m very excited to join the Slotegrator team at this stage in the company’s business development. This year promises to be challenging, as the company will be targeting new regions such as Africa, Latin America, and Asia, but I’m looking forward to the rewards those challenges will bring. One of my goals as Head of Sales is to grow our sales team, and we’re planning to add more than 15 sales managers to the team by the end of the year,” says Hmayak about his plans at Slotegrator.
Manukyan has extensive experience in the fields of sales and project management in the gambling industry. With a proven track record of overseeing the entire sales cycle from attracting and managing leads to arranging meetings, presenting company capabilities, developing proposals, and negotiating and closing deals, Manukyan is a welcome addition to the Slotegrator team.
Yuriy Filipchenko, managing director, commented on the appointment:
“We are delighted to welcome Hmayak to the Slotegrator team. Currently, the company is going through an interesting period – in 2022, we are aimed at strong growth. Hmayak, with his extensive experience in reputable iGaming companies, is the perfect fit to strengthen our team. His appointment will contribute to the expansion of our products’ presence in the global market.
Since 2012, Slotegrator has been one of the iGaming industry’s leading software and business solution providers for online casino and sportsbook operators.
The company’s main focus is a software development and support for online casino platforms, as well as the integration of game content and payment systems. Slotegrator also provides a complete turnkey platform solution.
The company works with licensed game developers and offers a vast portfolio of casino content: slots, live casino games, poker, virtual sports, table games, lotteries, casual games, and data feeds for betting.
Slotegrator also provides consulting services in gambling license acquisition and business incorporation.
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Sam Acho signed a multiyear deal with ESPN last month but is delivering the takes of a savvy 10-year pundit who knows how to get a reaction. This morning on Get Up he apparently advocated for Andy Dalton to be the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears this year. Which may happen based on Matt Nagy's very public commitment not to rush the generational talent of Justin Fields. It's not what I've said but not entirely crazy.
What is nuts, though, is pretending that an Dalton-led Bears team could sniff the Lombardi Trophy. Footage of Acho saying that the Midway Monsters are "ready to win a Super Bowl" has yet to find its way onto the internet — and for good reason because some stuff is simply too shocking and irresponsible for consumption — but the show's account helpfully posted Jeff Saturday's reaction to such silliness.
Saturday helpfully ticked through several of the countless reasons Fields gives the Bears more hope to shock the world and win the franchise's first Super Bowl since that 1985 team you never hear about locally. Simply put, Fields is incredibly gifted physically and has proven time and time again to be tough as nails mentally.
On the other hand, Acho points out that Peyton Manning wasn't very good as a rookie. And that Patrick Mahomes didn't play his first year out of Texas Tech. And that Dalton has a higher completion percentage than Alex Smith in his career.
The cumulative effect of this back and forth was the full-on breaking of Jeff Darlington's brain. He endeavored to sit there and not get involved but simply couldn't take it anymore. A very human reaction to the general silliness going on at ESPN's Seaport studios.
It's saying a lot but this is one of those clips that genuinely cause me to wonder what we're all doing in this rat race of sports content. How did we get here? How long is this model sustainable? And what is the point of Andy Dalton and Super Bowl confidence being joined together in the same sentence?
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How A Roth IRA Works: A Simple Guide For Retirement Savings
Many people believe they don’t have enough money to save for retirement, but a Roth IRA is specifically designed so that you can contribute whatever you can afford, even if it’s only $50 per month. The Best roth ira investments offers many advantages, such as tax-free growth and withdrawal of contributions (not investment gains), and is an important part of a retirement plan.
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A Roth IRA is a special type of individual retirement account, or IRA. There are several types of IRAs, including the traditional IRA and the SEP-IRA.
A Roth IRA also has several important features:
Contributions to a Roth IRA may be made on an after-tax basis, meaning that you contribute with money that you have already paid taxes on. This distinguishes the Roth from other types of IRAs, which allow tax-deductible contributions; with those accounts, you contribute with money for which no taxes have been paid. Your investments grow tax-free and can be withdrawn tax-free, assuming certain conditions are met.
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Any U.S. citizen or resident with earned income can contribute to a Roth IRA, subject to income limits. You can generally make contributions up to the due date of your tax return, including any extension; this is a major advantage of the Roth compared with other types of IRAs, which have set annual contribution limits or require that you make contributions during the calendar year in which you turn 70½. When you open an account at a bank, brokerage firm or mutual fund company, they’ll provide step-by-step instructions for how to contribute. Most companies that offer IRAs also offer Roth IRAs. Contributions to a Roth IRA must be made in cash.
The money you contribute to your Roth IRA is invested in the manner of your choosing, and all investments (including mutual funds, stocks, bonds and CDs) are eligible for Roth IRAs. Withdrawals of contributions can be taken at any time for any reason without penalty or tax. However, if you take a withdrawal that isn’t a return of contributions (such as investment earnings or withdrawals before age 59½), the withdrawal amount will be taxed as income and may also be subject to a 10% penalty.
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…and the government is panicking.
The Irish government has voiced fear that the upcoming referendum on the position of women and the family in the Irish constitution may be hijacked by the so-called “far-right.” Elements of the referendum will have implications for immigration, and this will prove pivotal.
The two referenda are scheduled to take place on March 8th 2024, International Women’s Day. It will alter article 41 of the Irish constitution to widen the legal definition of the family unit, and to replace article 41.2 which recognises the role of women in the home, to a generalised, and gender neutral, alternative.
The government’s concern that the far-right may “threaten the outcome” of this referendum indicates a not-so-democratic presumption on their part; that they are implementing the referendum based on presumption they will win, not because they want to poll the Irish people.
On the face of it, this referendum appears to be no less than legislative virtue signalling. So why is it that the Irish government is concerned about the meddlesome intervention of dissenting voices?
Immigration has, within the span of the last year, become the most prominent issue in Irish politics, a fact the government is all-too-vexed to acknowledge. With 74% of Irish people believing that the country has taken in too many immigrants, the coalition government is both fearful and agitated that the political consequences of their policy mismanagement will come back to bite them.
Fine Gael TD, Neale Richmond, has admitted that the upcoming referendum is, in part, designed to facilitate a larger eligibility scope for immigration applications. On the topic of the referendum, Richmond commented: “This has serious consequences, particularly when we think of immigration law and proving that someone is a family member…or family reunification. This will allow that to be accommodated as well.”
As such, by the government’s own design, and not those of far-right boogeymen, has the upcoming referendum been painted as one in which the issue of immigration may come to the forefront of the Irish electorate.
The government has time and time again condemned the introduction of culture wars type political rhetoric into the Irish setting, but are wont to neglect that they themselves are responsible for their own political nightmares. This referendum is, by nature, one in which the progressive feminist supporters of mass-migration sitting in Leinster House are embattling themselves against those whose convictions and beliefs they consider anathema to very principles of utopian civil society.
The government is fearful that political dissidents may get a leg-up on them in this upcoming referendum given their history of political failures to amend the Irish constitution. 54% of Irish people voted no to the first Nice referendum, furthermore 53% voted no to the first Lisbon referendum. In both cases, the Irish government used the excuse of low voter turnout to conduct a successful second referendum. Furthermore, Ireland voted against immigration in the 2004 citizenship referendum, which sought to prevent immigrants from obtaining Irish citizenship through anchor babies and the exploitation of legislative loop-holes.
In an RTÉ interview, Simon Harris stated that the referendum was necessary to modernise the Irish constitution and to remove gendered, sexist language, stating in no uncertain terms that “this is not a referendum for which the outcome, in any way shape or form can be taken for granted.” Furthermore, Harris requested the support of all parties in Dáil Éireann to pull together and provide a united front in favour of the referendum.
Minister Simon Harris has called on all parties to "pull together" ahead of next years referendum on women's duties in the home, while Labour's Aodhán Ó Ríordáin warns of a potential lack of energy due to wording | Listen to RTÉ's Your Politics Podcast: https://t.co/wZcAKEp2Bs pic.twitter.com/qXjL4rhcKj
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 28, 2023
Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, in the same interview, warned that the referendum may, given the lack of political energy in civil society groups or NGOs at the current time, become a referendum on a different topic altogether.
In fact, so concerned is the Irish government with facing the political consequences of their failures, that on the same referendum ballot was originally planned a referendum to allow Irish citizens overseas to vote in Presidential elections. Following Conor McGregor’s outspoken criticisms of the government, and proposition to run for office, however, the government have canned the ballot as the idea no longer benefits their political interests.
At a time when a government Minister refers to a lax border policy which, in effect facilitates mass-migration, as “the new normal”, there can be no doubt that the upcoming referendum is fundamentally about immigration.
If the function of referenda in a democratic society is to have the public engage, and decide on a specific policy which will have far-reaching implications on their society, then the Irish government’s conduct by its very nature undermines the democratic principles which they use to virtue-shield themselves from political criticism.
Government campaigning in favour of the referendum, and the brazen comments made by Roderic O’Gorman and Simon Harris about ensuring its passage into law indicate a not-so democratic presumption on their part that either a) they will win implicitly, or b) they will use all the political tools available to them, ranging from civil society groups to NGOs, to ensure that the referendum is passed. In such a scenario, the government’s admission is clear – Irish democracy is a farce.
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The couple shared a touching moment during their royal wedding that hinted at the future family plans they had.
With Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s first child due to arrive next month, lets see how this started and how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex might have hinted at a family from the very beginning.
During the ceremony on their big wedding day, when the Dean of Windsor spoke of marriage, he said it is the “foundation of family life in which children are born and nurtured”, at which moment Prince Harry looked lovingly at his bride and smiled.
At that point we might have figured out what kind of plans the royal couple would have when it came to children.
In past interviews Meghan has said that motherhood has always been on her “bucket list”, while Harry has always talked about how he would love to have children. So it came as no surprise that only a few months after the royal wedding Kensington Palace made an announcement that the Duchess was expecting.
The topic has also been discussed by the couple during their engagement interview. “You know, I think one step at a time, and hopefully we’ll start a family in the near future,” Harry said.
During the preparations for the royal wedding, Meghan also hinted at beginning her own family. Two months before the big day, Meghan was on a trip to Belfast, where she was shown an innovative range for newborns: “I’m sure at some point we’ll need the whole (lot).”
It was in an interview in 2016, that she said becoming a mother was on her “bucket list”.
“I can’t wait to start a family, but in due time,” she said then.
Before he even met Meghan, in 2015 Prince Harry talked about how seeing his brother’s family grow had made him broody.
“Of course I would love to have kids right now but there’s a process that one has to go through…” he said at the time.
“Hopefully I’m doing all right by myself. It would be great to have someone else next to me to share the pressure, but you know, time will come and whatever happens, happens.”
It will be great for Harry to finally have his own children, as he has been surrounded by them in the past.
He is already godfather to five or six of his friends’ children, and also more recently to Zara and Mike Tindall’s youngest daughter Lena.
“I think the key to that is to be able to grow up, but also be able to stay in touch with your childhood side,” Harry added of being good at the role.
The Duke has is known to be able to handle children, being the cool Uncle they look up to. Meghan is also pretty great with kids, regularly impressing onlookers with her affectionate nature when meeting children on royal engagements.
During a walkabout in New Zealand, a two-year-old Catalina Rivera crept through the railings and ran to Harry and Meghan in Rotorua, New Zealand, and in turn she was rewarded with a hug from the duchess.
The former actress, who shot to fame playing paralegal Rachel Zane in the US drama Suits, already has two “fairy god-daughters”.
In an Instagram post, the pre-duchess Meghan described the children of her close friend Benita Litt as such in a 2016 post on her since deleted, and the girls – Remi and Rylan – were among her bridesmaids at her wedding.
During a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace the-then US president had a chance to hang out with Prince George and his uncle.
Mrs Obama said about Harry: “I have to say the most precious thing if you haven’t already fallen in love with him, is to see him with his nephew.”
Meghan has given Harry the best endorsement, telling a well-wisher during a royal visit to Merseyside in January he will make “a fantastic father”.
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Will Prostitution Be Legalised in India?
Legalising the oldest profession i is a complex matter
Is India on the way to legalise prostitution?
A recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India has sparked off debates on this old issue where views are sharply divided.
The directions read out by the Apex Court Bench comprising Justice L Nageswara Rao, BR Gavai and AS Bopanna were in response to a panel for sex workers set up by the Court in 2011 to basically deal with the issues of: Prevention of Trafficking; rehabilitation of sex workers who wish to leave sex work; and conditions conducive for sex workers who wish to live in dignity in accordance with the provisions of Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
The panel had submitted a comprehensive report in response to which the Union Government informed the court in 2016 that it would come with legislation. The latest directions of the Supreme Court were issued because of the inordinate delay in providing that legislation, and will hold good till the legislation comes out.
Highlights of the latest SC order are:
Any sex worker who is victim of sexual assault should be provided will all facilities available to a survivor of sexual assault
A survey of all ITPA Protective Homes be conducted to ensure that cases of adult women, who are detained against their will can be reviewed and processed in a time-bound manner
Police should treat all sex workers with dignity, and should not abuse or subject them to violence or coerce them into any sexual activity
The Press Council of India should be urged to issue appropriate guidelines for the media not to reveal the identities of sex workers during arrests, raid and rescue operations
No child of sex worker should be separated from the mother merely on the ground that she is in the sex trade, tests can be conducted to find out if they were their own children or trafficked for sex trade
Many organisations in India have been demanding that India should legalise prostitution since it is called the oldest profession in the world. The staid argument, repeated in literature and films ad nauseam is that if sex workers were not there, crime in the county would go up multiple times, specially domestic violence.
The popular response to the recent film Gangubai Kathiyavadi gave rise to apprehensions that the government is on way to give recognition to sex trade as legal legal.
Dr.Kiran Aggarwal, a paediatrician and social activist who has worked with sex workers for several years said, "I am all for giving the sex workers human rights and protecting them from the police brutalities, but legalising them will have unexpected repercussions, and every politician would start running brothels."
She argued that it is well-known that in India most girls enter the profession as minors and under adverse circumstances. They cannot be classified as having given their consent as adults as defined by the Supreme Court.
However, the Covid pandemic changed the scenario completely and she knew of many girls who joined the profession willingly. She revealed that many young women "were used for surrogacy" and the late Sushma Swaraj during her tenure as foreign minister had brought about many changes in the Law, making the resultant illegal adoptions difficult.
As for removing children from the brothels, Dr.Kiran Aggarwal argued that she knew that the sex workers' children were forced to watch porn films when they were under the bed, while their mothers attended to the customers.
Shashank Shekhar, a Supreme Court advocate, activist and former member of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said he found nothing new in the latest SC judgement.
They have only strengthened certain rights of sex workers but this does not look like a step towards recognising prostitution in India. As for the order on not taking away the children from sex workers he said, "I don't find this makes much sense. Don't we send our children away for studies or jobs? The basic criteria should be the 'best interest of the child' as defined under the Juvenile Justice Act."
Questioning this logic of the Supreme Court, Amod Kanth, founder general secretary of Prayas JAC said India will see a new era with the Supreme Court recognising sex work as a 'profession'.
As for the children with whom Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre (JAC) has been working with for 34 years, he recalled his experience of raiding the red light area as DCP Crime when they had rescued 111 children (79 girls and 33 boys) of which 90 per cent were found kidnapped or trafficked who had no parents there. Kanth asserted that the SC's new order will impede even the basic procedure of investigation as laid down under Cr.PC; and under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000/2015 to safeguard the children found in brothels.
Savitha, vice president of Society for Participatory Integrated Develooment (SPID), who has been working with sex workers in Delhi for over 34 years, and runs a day care-and-residential centre to support their children says that there is no indication in the SC order that commercial sexwork will be legalised in India. If it was so they would not have been strengthening the provisions of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act. "The new order only stresses the already existing provisions that an 18-year-old adult can indulge in sexwork but cannot own a brothel. It tells the police to take action when complaints are lodged by sex workers. The judgement is being twisted to take on a meaning that it does not have," she said.
After working with the Devdasis community in Karnataka Savitha came to Delhi in 1989 and started working for the welfare of sex workers at GB Road in Delhi. "With my experience of 30 years I can tell you that no girl comes to this profession by choice. Hence all the talk of legalising it in India is not fair to women. You know once a girl leaves her home in this country, she is not welcome back much less if she has been taken to a 'kotha' (brothel). It is very difficult for her to start a new life even after she is rescued".
Cover Photograph: GB Road in Delhi - Danish Pandit
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Most of the statues in Riz’s Museum were everyday folk. Artwork unknown to the world, with titles substituted for numbers on the description plaques, but I knew them all, and so did my father.
Ruth the Beggar on her knees looking up with imploring eyes. The emaciated children in tattered vestments. Marcus the Musician who plays on street corners with an open violin case full of passersby’s pennies. All of them homeless sojourners we took in. All with stories that must not be forgotten.
But they are not always in this timeless stance. They are just as animated as you and I, but only at night, after all the visitors are gone, after they have given all that they can.
All elements, statues, sculptures, and paintings function as one system, one forest interconnected by the roots.
The museum sustains. Fulfills souls with spiritual oxygen. So in exchange for participating in gifting life, life is given.
Transformed to stone through cloudy mist by morning light and back to flesh in a billow of fire by night.
My father, the caretaker, brought them here. To this magical place. In exchange for home. It’s much easier to paint a picture of a house than to construct one…
At twilight, the sunset’s flames illuminate through stained glass and set aglow the fire of life in the midst of darkness’s onslaught. Doors open. Paintings become transparent. A world awaits within the walls, beyond the frames. True home, only once accessible through imagination, becomes manifest.
Basically, we ran a mystical form of Habitat for Humanity. I was given the task of painting some of the houses. Not because I’m the best artist, but because I wanted to help. I wanted these people to have exactly what they wanted after a life of hardship. This was my service work.
I was tasked with creating Ruth’s house. She was the newest addition to our collection, our family. I was nearly done with all the rooms, but the garden was taking some time. She requested a swing and an array of flowers, some of which I had never heard of before. It still astounded me that blotches of blue I called primroses and dabs of pink that would be dahlias would soon be someone’s reality.
My brother was working on a playground for the children, but this one had slides made of rainbows and clouds instead of sandboxes.
Everything was well, until one day it was not. A new group came in with my father. He always saw the potential, saw the goodness in people, but something felt off to me. A gaggle of guys from the city sauntered around as he explained the magic of this mountain museum. They paid him no attention, and never met his gaze.
“Troublemakers,” I thought, but my conscience instantly rebuked me. Of course, it’s not wise to judge a book by its cover.
Yet the following evenings, my initial instincts proved right. Fight after fight with the other inhabitants. Disturbance after disturbance. Disruption of our peaceful haven.
A bug in the system, toxin in the roots, a poison in the museum. The museum’s pure balance did not react well with incendiary hearts.
As the orange flames streamed in through the stained glass, they missed the marks, everywhere catching fire.
Hearts ablaze with fright, the protocol seared into our minds…one minute before all oxygen is cut off…
Breathless, we scramble to the closest exit and watch our precious mountain museum alight with unwanted luminescence. Then, the light dies and the silent night overtakes us. A death and sudden revival. All will be preserved and intact.
Ruth and the children shake, and the band of villains disappear into the mountain mist. The museum would spit them out again if they dared to come back, unless they had a change of heart, of course.
Tonight, we decide to sleep beneath the caress of starlight, on our Hushabye Mountain as our haven restores itself. The ballad resonates in the whispers of the trees, “the winds of night so softly are sighing, soon they will fly your troubles to sea.”
We slept with hope in our hearts.
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These three Mississippi huntsmen discovered something very odd with the enormous gator they had killed. In the gator’s tail was lodged small pellets.
When they investigated further these metal pellets looked to actually be musket balls. They had been lodged deep under scar tissue, near the animal’s tail. Curious to what they really were, they sent off the objects to researchers who tested the metal. Indeed, they were musket balls. But even more shocking, they must have been fired over 150 years ago! They did a number of matallurgical tests to verify that the ammo was the real deal. It was most likely shot by an Enfield pattern 1853 rifle-musket. And it was likely fired by Confederate troops near the start of the American Civil War!
So how old does this make the gator? Scientists figure it to be around 185-years-old! Totally unprecedented as most American alligators live about 80 years. Other reptiles indeed have lived past 150, but it’s totally rare to come across this old of a gator, especially one that also happened to be one of the biggest gators ever as it clocked in at a whopping 910 pounds! Crazy!
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Charcoal Ceramic Grate Plate Grater
Preserve your fingertips and knuckles from the realities of micro-planing and rasp injuries of metal graters, with this ceramic Grate Plate. Ideal for grating garlic, raw ginger, pepper, nutmeg, hard cheeses and more.
With a grating surface much softer on your hands than other options The Grate Plate is not only easy to use, it’s also easy to gather what you’ve grated, with the included brush, so nothing is wasted. Notice your garlic and ginger grates down to a fine puree, providing the utmost flavor!
The graters are handmade with stoneware ceramic using food safe clay and glazes. Stoneware is extremely durable, easy to clean.
- 4.5 inch diameter
- Includes silicone garlic peeler & brush
- 14 color options
- Made in the USA
- Dishwasher safe
- 1-2 days
Check out other work by The Grate Plate.
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They say that Christmas comes earlier each year. Well, Hallmark (America) seem to be determined to move it to as early as April, because they just announced their upcoming 2023 Keepsake tree ornaments range today, and... what’s that?! A Dreamcast ornament?!
Previously, Hallmark have released high-quality ornaments of the Sega Genesis (model 1) and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, both with cool sound functions that play the theme songs of Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario World respectively. You can see the Genesis one demonstrated by our pal Derek Pascarella below:
— Derek Pascarella (ateam) (@DerekPascarella) October 14, 2022
We never thought we’d see it, but the next Sega console to receive the Hallmark treatment is the Dreamcast! I guess they believe the nostalgia market is there for Sega's ill-fated swan song. I can't help but notice that they skipped right past the Saturn, though, but maybe we’ll get one next year. Your day will come, comrades.
Keeping in with the same high-level of quality Hallmark demonstrated with their previous game console ornaments, this Dreamcast version is looking fantastic. Measuring 4.71" in height, it certainly looks the part. Pressing the power button not only lights up the power light, but the VMU screen too, revealing a sprite of Sonic previously seen in the VMU game Chao Adventure. The music that plays is none other than the theme from Sonic Adventure's iconic Emerald Coast level. You can see this demonstrated in the video below.
— The Dreamcast Junkyard (@TheDCJunkyard) April 15, 2023
There's one problem, though, and perhaps we should have sensed it the moment we saw that orange swirl. Hallmark America doesn't ship outside of the States, and this ornament isn't available to purchase from Hallmark's UK equivalent store. So non-American folk may have a considerable amount of trouble getting hold of one outside of the UK... I guess we'll have to see when October 14th rolls around and the ornament finally goes on sale. User perkin_warbeck in our Discord community did point out that the Sega Genesis ornament was previously sold on Amazon US, who allow overseas shipping, so we’ll have to see if the Dreamcast ornament gets sold on there too. In the meantime, you can go to its store page on Hallmark's website and stare at it longingly.
Would you hang this ornament on your Christmas tree? Maybe hang it up in your game room somewhere? Are you going to try and get hold of one? Let us know in the comments below, or on one of our many social media channels!
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The United Kingdom’s widely successful Red Nose Day charity campaign will come to the United States for the first time on Thursday, May 21 at 8 p.m. EST. Airing on NBC, the three-hour event will feature some of today’s biggest celebrities wearing a red nose (in reference to clowns) to get a laugh and raise funds for organizations, such as The Global Fund and the National Urban League, in the United States and abroad.
The Scene participated in a conference call with actor and comedian Jack Black, who recently made a trip to Uganda to visit a project Red Nose Day organization to discuss the event. Richard Curtis, the movie director and creator of Red Nose Day, also answered questions on the call.
On what drives Richard Curtis to work in fundraising
Richard Curtis: “I think that there are two things. I've never lost the belief because of things that I've seen, like Jack has seen in Uganda, that tiny bits of money can make a huge amount of difference. So it's massively tempting when you think, ‘Well if I can do this, I'll raise $1000,’ you think, ‘Well it’s $1000; that's 250 malaria nets.’ I can never get that out of my mind, that it's an unbelievable reward for quite a simple action. And then the length of it really is because it was surprisingly successful. It was like having a child, and then you have to manage it. We made $15 million, I think, on the first one, and then $27 million on the second one, and I didn't know how to walk away. So I'm just trying to be a responsible adult. But I do hugely believe in the effect that just the generosity of one human to another can— the difference that can make.”
On how the kids in Uganda responded to wearing the red nose
Jack Black: “We had some fun with the red nose. Everyone wanted a chance to try it on. There was a flurry of red nose activity. You know it's as old as comedy, that red nose, and yet it still has some magic in it, unlike the pie to the face, which really seems to have faded over the decades. The red nose still somehow has survived the years of ridicule.”
On the thought process behind bringing Red Nose Day to the U.S.
RC: “Well, as you know it's an obvious thing to me because there is—this is such a country of great comedy. I mean, just at the moment there's just so much extraordinary . . . comedy coming . . . out of the country, so many great films. And it's an amazingly generous country. I did this first Idol Gives Back, and I think we raised $50 million or something from the public in a couple of hours. So it always seemed like a very natural thing to do. It's just taken me this long to get around to it. And in a way, you know, just the particular people at NBC at the moment I mentioned it to them were really, really keen. So it all came out perfectly. But it doesn't seem to me there's any reason, in terms of compassion and humor, that America shouldn't be exactly the same as the U.K.
On the part of the trip that most affected Jack Black
JB: “You know, it was spending time with these kids and these parents and just seeing how amazing they were as people that really moved me the most. If I had gone over there and just seen a bunch of victims that didn't have any hope, it wouldn't have been as powerful to me as seeing these kids that were so funny and talented and brilliant. And I just was most blown away by the tragedy of the potential, you know, and these amazing people that I could see growing up and having amazing contributions to the world.”
On how kids and teenagers can get involved with Red Nose Day
RC: “We've got, you know, a huge number of movie stars from Anna Kendrick to Chris Pine involved. We've got Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins from “Pitch Perfect.” We've got Michelle Rodriguez from “Fast and Furious.” We've got a lovely sketch with the Voice and with Will Ferrell. So I think that, you know, it would be an odd child who wouldn't love something during the course for the night.”
On how jokes and films motivate people to give to charity
RC: “It's the little appeal films which are full of sort of grace in humor in their own way, that make the money, and I think the comedy that makes people stay watching. That'd be my sentiment.”
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China has drafted a plan to reduce methane emissions and the United States has pledged to help, but climate campaigners say the country’s biggest methane culprits—coal mines and livestock—have yet to be addressed.
“China is a major emitter of methane, and its plan is seen as significant progress toward keeping global warming within the 2015 Paris Agreement goal,” reports Bloomberg.
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“It comes a year after the nation agreed in a joint declaration with the U.S. to outline its strategy for cutting methane releases, which are heavily tied to coal mining operations and agricultural activities in the country.”
But the plan—unexpectedly announced by China’s climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua during a Global Methane Pledge meeting at Egypt’s COP 27—will focus on cutting methane emissions along the oil and gas supply chain and those generated by agriculture and urban waste, reports Voice of America (VOA). Xie said his country would also work to improve its methane monitoring systems, but he made no mention of coal.
Analysis shows 38% of China’s methane emissions come from coal mining, while 24% come from livestock, 16% from rice paddies, 7% from landfills, 5% from wastewater management, 2% from oil and gas systems, and 8% from “other sources.”
China’s methane draft—currently awaiting legislative approval—is the outcome of a “flurry of diplomacy” with the U.S. last year, which led the two countries to promise joint action on methane reductions, grid decarbonization, illegal deforestation, circular economy measures, and “enhanced climate actions,” during the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Xie cited the several months spent in dialogue with his American counterpart, John Kerry, as he announced the draft, describing the U.S. climate envoy as his “very good friend” who had encouraged him to “come out and share with you our thoughts on methane reduction.”
Kerry, for his part, praised China for “engaging on this really critical topic.” He also confirmed America’s willingness to help China through the technical challenges of reining in its methane emissions, reports Bloomberg.
One of those challenges is monitoring emissions. The technology for monitoring from space “is still being improved upon and developed upon,” Scot Miller, assistant professor of environmental health and engineering at Johns Hopkins University, told VOA.
“One real area for collaboration is to put scientific expertise together to figure out how we can make the most of these satellite observations and how we can continue to help advance this technology by leaps and bounds.”
He added that China’s abandoned coal mines are an urgent matter, with recent studies showing they leak more methane than active mines.
“Currently, the most effective way to seal coal mines and prevent methane from leaking is to slowly flood them, but local media report that China does not have a mechanism or policies for handling abandoned mines,” VOA writes.
So far, China has declined to commit to the Global Methane Pledge, launched last year at COP 26, or the Joint Declaration from Energy Importers and Exporters on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fossil Fuels, launched in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, during COP 27. The Methane Pledge commits signatories to collectively reduce global methane emissions 30% below 2020 levels by 2030, but it has been criticized as being insufficient without a concomitant and rapid phaseout of coal. The latest Joint Declaration is seen as a “paper tiger” that adds nothing new to methane reduction efforts, according to Climate Action Network-Europe and Environmental Action Germany.
But a China that gets serious about tackling livestock emissions would be something significant, said Ben Lilliston, director of rural and climate strategies for the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy Institute. As the world’s biggest meat producer and consumer, the country has “a critically important role” to play.
“It will be very difficult to reach the 30% by 2030 goal outlined in the Global Methane Pledge, without China’s active participation,” Lilliston said.
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British Columbia’s Ministry of Health elaborated on the latest social gathering restrictions announced on Nov. 7, saying that people can only interact with their household members and a maximum of six others.
The “six-person” limitation applies to people of all ages and to all indoor and outdoor gatherings.
Some questions were raised over the definition of “immediate household,” and the Ministry later gave more details on the website, stating that a household refers to a “group of people who live in the same dwelling.” People living in an apartment or a house are considered members of the same household, while a rental suite built in a home is seen as a separate household.
Several provinces, however, are taking steps to ease the restrictions.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney also refused to go into lockdown, instead urging the need to strike a balance.
“A lockdown would be devastating. It would inflict untold damage on the economic, social, and mental health of millions of Albertans. Our objective is not to bring COVID cases down to zero—it’s to manage the spread carefully so that we can protect both peoples’ lives AND livelihoods,” Kenney wrote in the post.
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UGG Kids Fluff Yeah Marble Slide - Pink Rose / Seashell Pink
UGGs favorite style of the season, the Fluff Yeah is as good as it sounds, combining a slipper and sandal into one adorable statement shoe. Soft sheepskin wraps a the plush band, while a lightweight sole makes it easy to run and play. Pair with leggings or dresses, and create some mini-me photo ops with our matching Women's slide.
From grade-A sheepskins to rich leathers and suedes, UGG celebrates the unique and natural beauty of our materials, embracing creases as well as variance in color and depth from treatment with premium dyes. As with any richly-dyed material, some dye may transfer onto other surfaces.
- Pink Rose / Seashell Pink
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- Elastic heel strap with UGG® logo
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- This product contains real fur from sheep or lamb. Fur may be sourced from Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, or the United States. It has been artificially dyed and treated.
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In an odd back-and-forth on her attendance, Kamala Harris said Saturday she would, in fact, go to a criminal justice forum in South Carolina, despite very publicly announcing she would boycott the event due to a sponsoring group’s decision to give an award to President Trump, Fox News reported.
On Friday, the Democratic candidate announced that she would “skip” the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina after the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center awarded President Donald Trump for his efforts to pass sweeping criminal justice reform legislation.
President Trump responded to the California Senator on Twitter Saturday and called Harris a “badly failing presidential candidate.”
“Badly failing presidential candidate @KamalaHarris will not go to a very wonderful largely African American event today because yesterday I recieved (sic) a major award, at the same event, for being able to produce & sign into law major Criminal Justice Reform legislation, which will greatly help the African American community (and all other communities), and which was unable to get done in past administrations despite a tremendous desire for it,” the President wrote.
“This and best unemployment numbers EVER is more than Kamala will EVER be able to do for African Americans!” he proclaimed.
But by midday, Harris had come around, with a campaign announcement that she would, in fact, be attending the forum, with her campaign claiming that she successfully pressured the group that awarded the president to be dropped as a sponsor, as per Fox News. (Continued Below)
“After Senator Kamala Harris stood up and objected to their group awarding Trump and excluding HBCU students from participating, the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center was removed as a sponsor for the criminal justice forum at Benedict College,” the Harris campaign said in a statement Saturday. “After their removal, Harris announced she will join students, Mayor Steve Benjamin and the broader Columbia community on campus at Benedict to discuss critical issues for the country’s justice system.”
Harris, at the event, put her irritation with President Trump on display and vented, “I just couldn’t believe that Donald Trump would be given an award as it relates to criminal justice reform.”
While reading off of her notes, she added, “I mean let’s be clear. This is someone who has disrespected the voices, who have been present for decades, about the need for reform of this system.” (Video Below)
The organization on Friday awarded the president for his administration’s work to pass the First Step Act, which grants early release to thousands of nonviolent offenders who are currently serving time in federal prisons, Fox News reported.
Kamala Harris’ official remarks:
Let’s face it, nobody is falling for Democrats’ worn out “race card” anymore.
— Lindsey Michelle🇺🇸 Ⓜ️🅰️G🅰️ (@PoliticalLinz) October 26, 2019
President Trump’s official tweets:
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The U.S. Navy’s new hypersonic rocket is moving closer to flight testing as the service works to speed up its deployment. Last week, in collaboration with the U.S. Army, the navy conducted a static fire test of the first stage of its newly developed 34.5” common hypersonic missile, which will be fielded by both services.
The live fire test follows previous trials of the rocket’s first and second stages in May and August. The static fire test marked the first time that the first stage rocket included a thrust vector control system, used for maneuvering in flight.
“We are on schedule for the upcoming flight test of the full common hypersonic missile. Our partners across government, industry, and academia are continuing the excellent work that is essential to providing a hypersonic capability to our warfighters as quickly as possible,” said Vice Adm. Johnny R. Wolfe Jr, Director, Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs, the lead designer for the program.
Hypersonic weapons are capable of flying at speeds greater than five times the speed of sound, are highly maneuverable and operate at varying altitudes. This makes them far more difficult to intercept with a missile defense system.
Russia and China are rapidly weaponizing and fielding hypersonic capabilities, giving them an advantage “that must be addressed,” the Navy said in a statement. Russia put a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide body into service on an ICBM in 2019, and the People’s Liberation Army deployed both a hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile and a hypersonic glide body in 2019. China has begun testing a hypersonic glide body designed for “fractional orbital bombardment,” a trajectory that orbits the Earth the long way around in order to reach the target from an unexpected direction.
The service’s tests are part of its efforts to develop a Navy-designed common hypersonic missile that both the Navy and Army will field. The missile consists of the first stage rocket (part of a new submarine-compatible missile booster) combined with the Common Hypersonic Glide Body (CHGB), a maneuverable reentry vehicle that can travel long horizontal distances at extreme speed.
“This test continues to build momentum to deliver hypersonics capability for our warfighters in support of the National Defense Strategy,” said LTG L. Neil Thurgood, Director of Hypersonics, Directed Energy, Space and Rapid Acquisition. “Fielding hypersonic weapons is one of the highest priority modernization areas the Department of Defense is pursuing to ensure our continued battlefield dominance, and the joint team did a tremendous job executing this test and keeping us on schedule.”
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Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist, author, and media personality. He was known for his sharp wit and satirical style, as well as his profound conversion to Christianity later in life. Muggeridge worked as a spy during World War II, and later became a prominent figure in British media, hosting television programs and writing for various publications. He authored several books, including his autobiography 'Chronicles of Wasted Time', and was a critic of the liberal establishment and the sexual revolution. His Christian writings and his role in popularizing Mother Teresa of Calcutta are among his most enduring legacies.
This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.
"Chronicles of Wasted Time" is an autobiography that explores the life and thoughts of a British journalist and satirist during the 20th century. The book provides a critical perspective on the political and social changes of the time, including the author's experiences in India, Russia, and during World War II. The author also delves into his personal journey from agnosticism to Christianity, offering a profound reflection on faith and spirituality.
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David has opted for a long and messy design for his healthy blond locks with this great style. His hair has been left at shoulder length and angled layers have been cut through the top to add more shape to the design. This look will work well on fine to medium hair types.
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Comb your hair into place and allow your hair to dry naturally before applying the smoothing shine.
straightening, smoothing shine
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Squeeze a small amount of straightening balm into your palms and then rub your hands together before smoothing the product evenly through damp hair.
Using the corner of your comb and standing in front of a mirror find the middle of your nose and then drag the comb straight up slowly until you reach your hairline and then continue back in a straight manner to achieve an even middle part. A middle part is a great way to make small, round face shapes appear longer and thinner.
Comb your hair into the desired direction that you require for styling.
Apply a very small amount of smoothing shine to the palms of your hands and then run it through the mid-lengths and ends of your hair. Be careful not to add any to the roots or a large amount to any section of the hair as smoothing shine can be very heavy on the hair, weighing it down and making it appear oily.
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“ When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.”
– Brene Brown
Boundaries are tools that we all need to work on. Even with decades of therapy and personal development, I still found myself wavering over a recent boundary violation.
When I begin working with a new client I always ask them their goals for therapy, and nine out of ten say they want to learn to say no without feeling guilty or to learn to set boundaries.
Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules, or limits that you create to identify reasonable, safe, and permissible ways for other people to behave towards you and how you will respond when someone passes those limits.
Your boundaries also tell other people how they can treat you, what’s acceptable and what isn’t. Without boundaries, people may treat you contrary to how you expect to be treated because you haven’t set limits about it.
It's important to remember that boundaries are not universal. Everyone's limit will be different. What is a boundary violation for one person may be completely acceptable to another.
I always share this one example in my Boundary Boot Camp online workshop.
I gave my friend a spare key to my new apartment. My intention was that she holds onto the key in case I locked myself out. I did not give her permission to use the key to enter my home. Whenever she came over to my place, this is what she did. She used the key to let herself into my home without knocking on the door or signifying in any way that she had arrived.
I knew this was a boundary violation because my body would heat up every time it happened. My breathing would also change and I would go into fight/flight mode.
At the time I didn't have the skill to set a healthy boundary by calling out her behaviour. Again her behaviour may not trigger anyone else, but it disturbed me and as she was coming into my home, I had the right to ask for my needs of respect and privacy to be upheld.
Most of us are afraid of setting boundaries because we prefer to avoid conflict. I was afraid that if I spoke up to my friend, it would spark an argument that would end our friendship. The deep fear of conflict and the possible ensuing rejection is deeply wired into our nervous system. In primitive times, being rejected from our community could literally mean death, and this fear is still hardwired into our psyche.
Many of us also do not want to rock the boat and so avoid calling out behaviours that are boundary violations.
1. Name your limits. You can't set good boundaries if you're unsure of where you stand
2. Tune into your feelings
3. Be direct, don’t make excuses, explain or qualify your actions or decision
4. Give yourself permission. Don’t harbour feelings of guilt for your action
5. Practice self-awareness. Feel into what’s going on for you
6. Consider your past and present. When has this happened in the past and what happened when you didn’t set a boundary?
7. Make self-care a priority. Allowing people to take advantage of you is not self-care.
8. Seek support. Speak to a therapist/friend
9. Book-end boundary-setting - call a trusted person before and after setting boundaries
As I stated at the beginning, there are always opportunities to refine our mastery of boundary setting.
On a recent phone call with an organisation I contract for, I was asked to do something that I do not have the capacity to take on. Even though I explained that I could not physically take on the extra clients, the person proceeded to ask me three more times. I could feel myself wavering as she told me about the chronic needs of the family. However, I held firm and clearly repeated that I could not help them on this occasion. I felt compassion for the family in need but I also felt proud of myself for prioritising my self-care. Taking on the extra work would have been detrimental to my well-being and to my ability to serve my existing clients.
I will be offering my Boundary Bootcamp online workshop on Sunday 24th April. Find out more below.
Alternatively, if you prefer to do this process at your own pace and time, my self-paced version will be available later this month.
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to any organisation that processes personal data about citizens in the EU. The GDPR is intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the EU. The Holiday Tracker is committed to GDPR compliance and this document details the steps we have taken to ensure we meet the standards set out by the GDPR.
Our policies and processes have been reviewed and updated where necessary to ensure we are fully GDPR complaint.
The data we store is encrypted, access is protected by strong passwords and the data is regularly backed up.
All of the personal data we store is available to administrators through the Reports page of The Holiday Tracker, so any “right of access” requests can be fulfilled without any required intervention from The Holiday Tracker employees. Employees can also be deleted from within The Holiday Tracker therefor enabling the customer to implement any "right to erasure” requests from their employees.
We make use of a limited number of trusted third parties and will communicate to our customers if the third parties we use change at any point.
A full list of the personal data that may be stored about an employee can be found in the following Excel document:
The GDPR applies if the data controller (an organisation that collects data from EU residents), processor (an organisation that processes data on behalf of data controller) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU. In this context, you (our customer) are the data controller, and we (The Holiday Tracker) are the processor, and your employees are the data subjects.
As a data processor, we’ve taken the time to understand the requirements of the GDPR and made changes to our policies and procedures to ensure our compliance. Due to our already stringent approach to the security and privacy of your data, few changes have been required to our policies and procedures, however this document will help highlight the aspects that correlate with the GDPR requirements.
Our Terms and Conditions, which you (our customer), will need to accept when registering to use The Holiday Tracker, contain the mandatory data controller to data processor provisions under Article 28 of the GDPR.
By updating our systems, policies and procedures to meet the requirements of the GDPR, we provide a foundation for our customers to become GDPR compliant, but we do not guarantee the GDPR compliance of our customers.
Data protection by Design and by Default (Article 25) requires that data protection is designed into the development of business processes for products and services.
Guided by a regularly updated internal information security policy, we ensure that all of our employees are fully versed on what is expected of them when handling any data. We refresh our employees’ training every six months to ensure they comply with our strict requirements around handling data and information.
In addition to refresher training, we continuously review and improve our security policy and our internal processes. This ensures that as our business evolves, our attitude to the security of your data evolves with it.
Our employees are vetted and trained in the confidentiality of customer data and are required to sign a confidentiality agreement. As with our security training, this is refreshed every six months.
We also regularly review and update our internal security risk assessment and business continuity plans.
The security of The Holiday Tracker and the data within it is a key metric we measure as we design, develop and test new features. We use the latest framework releases and follow industry recommended development practices. Advanced automated test suites, combined with rigorous manual testing ensures all new features are robust before any updated code goes live.
We regularly subject our production code to a range of automated penetration tests to identify and fix any exploits that intruders could use to gain access to the system.
We use industry standard SSL encryption to encrypt all data transferred between you and our servers – look for the padlock in your browser. We also employ encryption-at-rest on the data stored on the servers.
The GDPR also states that records of processing activities must be maintained. Every action taken in The Holiday Tracker, by any user (including our own employees) is recorded in the Audit Log against each employee. The Audit Log can be viewed and filtered by admin users.
In the case of a personal data breach (such as an accidental or unlawful loss, or disclosure of personal data), the data controller must notify the relevant supervisory authority of such breach no later than within 72 hours of becoming aware of it, unless such breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals. We will notify all customers as is practicably possible after the discovery of such an event.
According to the GDPR "personal data is any information relating to an identifiable individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer’s IP address."
The Right of Access
Your employees have a right to get access to all personal data and information stored about them and to information on how this data is being processed. As a data controller, you have to provide, upon request, among other things, an overview of the categories of data that are being processed as well as a copy of the actual data. The following reports enable you to export all of the data stored on your employees:
Finally, any documents that have been uploaded against an employee’s profile are downloadable from the Related Documents page of an employee’s profile.
The Right to Erasure
Under certain circumstances, the data subject can request that the data controller erases their personal data. Personal data should also only be stored for as long as is needed for the purpose it was collected, unless you have other grounds for retaining it. As the data controller, we leave the decision on how long to retain the data for in your hands, but provide you with the tools required to delete the data when you see fit.
We have developed a new feature within The Holiday Tracker which allows you to delete an employee and ALL data stored against them. This is in addition to the already existing feature of making an employee “inactive” and retaining their data.
Backups of our data are taken every 10 minutes and are retained for two weeks. So after deleting an employee, all trace of their data will be gone from our servers within two weeks of the deletion date.
The Holiday Tracker make use of a limited number of third party services to provide you with the service we make available. Any changes to the third parties we use will be communicated to all customers in advance of the change.
Our email is hosted by Google’s G-Suite, so any emails you exchange with our employees, or with our [email protected] email address is stored and processed on Google’s servers.
The Holiday Tracker makes use of Google Analytics to better understand how our customers and their employees use our product. Google Analytics collects anonymised statistical data about the use of our website and The Holiday Tracker application.
We use Google Analytics to help us identify how users make use of our website and The Holiday Tracker itself. No personal data is passed to Google Analytics and it is impossible to correlate a particular user’s browsing behaviour with any data stored within Google Analytics. Google Analytics simply allows us to view anonymised statistical data about how our users make use of The Holiday Tracker.
The Holiday Tracker application and all data is hosted by Microsoft in it’s UK data centres. We chose Microsoft as their experience and reputation inspire confidence in their ability to keep your data safe and secure. By using their Azure platform, we’re guaranteed that our servers and firewalls are always up to date. Security patches are applied automatically without the need to shutdown or restart the servers hosting The Holiday Tracker
You can read more about their specific standards and procedures, and their approach to GDPR compliance at the links below.
Any automated emails sent by The Holiday Tracker, such as holiday request notifications, are sent via our email partner SendGrid, who are based in the US. To ensure the adequate protection of personal data, they have certified to the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework. More details on this can be found at the links below.
Credit and debit card payments are handled by our partner Stripe Payments Europe Limited. As with all third parties, we provide them with the minimum amount of data required for them to provide the required service. In Stripe’s case, this is limited to the card payment details you provide on the billing page. In addition, we don’t store your card details ourselves at all, other than the last four digits of your card and the expiry date.
Stripe’s parent company are based in the US and in order to process payments, Stripe Payments Europe transfers personal data to Stripe, Inc. in the US. To ensure the adequate protection of personal data, they have certified to the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework. More details on this can be found at the link below.
If you decide to terminate your use of The Holiday Tracker, then at the end of the contract we will hold the personal data of your employees for three months, and then delete ALL such data from our database. Backups of our data are taken every 10 minutes and are retained for two weeks. So after deleting your data, all trace of the data will be gone from our servers within two weeks of the deletion date.
The Nature and the Purpose of the Processing
The Holiday Tracker enables its customers to record, monitor and analyse employee holiday and absence data. In addition to absence data, customers can record HR-related data against each employee and upload documents to be attached to an employee’s profile.
The Types of Data to Be Processed
An Excel document containing the exact fields of data that can be stored against an employee can be downloaded from here. Below is a summary of the types of data.
If you have any questions about any of this document, please contact Anthony Burns on 0191 241 3754 or [email protected]
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The company is tapping into new areas of business through software, services, and licenses.“We are systematically digitalizing our core business to increase the benefits for our customers. Going forward, we aim to turn the sale of every digital product into services-based revenue as well,” says Tanja Rückert, the Bosch Group’s chief digital officer, at CES in Las Vegas. To achieve this goal, Bosch is focusing on the connection of IoT with AI – in other words, it is linking the internet of things (IoT) with artificial intelligence (AI).
“We are systematically digitalizing our core business to increase the benefits for our customers. Going forward, we aim to turn the sale of every digital product into services-based revenue as well” (Tanja Rückert, the Bosch Group’s chief digital officer)
This creates a virtuous circle in which connected products deliver information that, in turn, is processed by means of AI and incorporated into software updates for these products. At the core of this approach is the benefit for customers, since it allows users to be an integral part of the development process and enables solutions to be tailored precisely to their needs. Furthermore, neither development nor value creation ends with the sale of the products.
“We see the combination of AI and IoT as holding the key to leveraging the most user benefit from both of these technologies,” Rückert says. “Besides enabling us to develop new business models, this approach helps us offer better products and solutions that deliver real added value for individuals and society as a whole.”
Bosch technology for a better future
Bosch laid the foundation for this long ago. As of the new year, all electronics product classes will be connectable. Sales of connected power tools, household appliances, and heating systems alone have grown by 50 percent within one year – from four million units in 2020 to more than six million in 2021. With the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), the company has established a strong unit in the field of AI that has already contributed some 300 million euros to result.
In addition, the company invests a total of more than four billion euros every year in its software expertise, around three billion of which goes to the mobility business. To shape the software-defined future of mobility, Bosch will also be pooling development activities for application-independent software in one unit as of mid-2022. In the future, under the umbrella of its subsidiary ETAS GmbH, the company will develop and sell:
- Basic vehicle software
- Cloud services
- Development tools for universal application.
Bosch is also rapidly advancing connected and automated driving. Over the past five years, Bosch has generated some nine billion euros in sales just with driver assistance systems and the associated sensors.
Bosch Tech Compass: a survey conducted in five countries around the world
The Bosch Tech Compass – a representative survey conducted in five countries and presented for the first time at CES – shows what people across the globe expect from new technologies. According to the survey, the majority of respondents (72 percent) are convinced that technological progress is making the world a better place, for instance as a key to fighting climate change (76 percent). At the same time, four out of five people think technology should be more focused on tackling the great challenges of our time rather than serving individual needs. “We at Bosch also believe that technology offers a broad range of benefits,” Rückert says. “When we talk about high-tech, we’re not talking only about pushing the envelope on what’s possible. We use technology as a means to improve people’s lives wherever they are.”
From pediatric medicine to saving forests: the Bosch SoundSee sensor system
One example of the benefit of AI and connectivity is the SoundSee sensor system. Since late 2019, it has been traveling through space to identify unusual sounds on the ISS, using AI algorithms to analyze and indicate when maintenance is required. Now, in collaboration with the non-profit healthcare company Highmark in Pittsburgh (USA), Bosch is pursuing a completely down-to-earth application of this technology: investigating how audio AI can be used as a diagnostic tool in pediatric medicine. Specifically, Bosch and Highmark are working to adapt the sensors in a way that will enable them to detect pulmonary conditions such as asthma at an early stage just by listening to children’s breathing patterns. “Using innovative technology to improve children’s health – that’s exactly what we mean with high tech,” says Mike Mansuetti, president of Bosch in North America. SoundSee’s use in medicine also illustrates Bosch’s understanding of its “Invented for life” strategic imperative.
Bosch’s new gas sensor – the first on the market to contain AI – serves to protect both humans and nature. Part of Dryad’s Silvanet Wildfire Sensor, it is essentially a digital nose that helps detect forest fires early on. Dryad’s sensors are attached to trees, where they continuously monitor the local microclimate to detect incipient fires – and to wirelessly notify the local authorities, long before camera- or satellite-based systems can. Not only can this protect against devastation by fire, it can also reduce global carbon emissions from forest fires. “These sensors are going to help save lives, homes, and tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere – all thanks to AI and connectivity,” Mansuetti says.
Bosch new campaign for smart solutions in everyday people life
A new, lighthearted Bosch campaign shows the solutions the company has developed to improve the little things in people’s everyday lives. Called “High tech #LikeABosch – with many connected, intelligent, and sustainable solutions,” its protagonist takes viewers on a tour through her daily routine and uses several Bosch solutions, from smart glasses to a connected e-bike to a digital access pass for work. This makes her teenage son, who at the start of the clip said his mom was “old school,” look pretty out of touch.
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Re-entering the workforce can be challenging; you feel out of touch, lack confidence and wonder what has changed. The Inspired Hive recently worked on an incredible program with Myrtleford Neighbourhood Centre and local industry to provide a program to bridge that gap.
The Jobs and Training Needs Report, shows administration, retail and hospitality were amongst the most advertised jobs within Hume. This regional Victorian area needed a skilled workforce.
Myrtleford Neighbourhood Centre (MNC) deliver a Customer Service course to meet the demands of the industry. The catch was, employers were now looking for people with extra skills, including social media and digital marketing!
That's where MNC needed to offer a course to provide additional skills for those entering employment or upskilling existing staff. With two distinct types of learners, the time and location of the course needed to be accessible for both. They knew the answer was offering an online course, but how would they create this while staying within the parameters of a tight budget?
Over a few months, Laura, the Lead Trainer and Mentor at The Inspired Hive was mentoring their leadership team to market their organisation effectively. They started talking to Laura about their course conundrum, and she come up with this solution!
From managing pre-accredited and accredited training in large adult community education organisations, the solution was to develop an online Digital Marketing Course for Beginners.
Her knowledge and experience of working within the sector and designing courses to meet specific cohort learner needs were ready to be put into action.
Over a few months, Laura planned instructional lessons with activities and exercises, consolidating their student's new skills and knowledge.
Laura has always loved technology. Ten years ago, she graduated from the ACPET (now ITECA Independent Tertiary Education Council of Australia) E-mentoring program. As a result, she was able to combine her training and marketing expertise to help learners.
After writing, recording and creating a range of resources, they were ready to be moderated. A fellow trainer tested the materials and gave feedback.
The five topics were ready to be uploaded into the learning management system, and MNC had their first student enrol.
It was exciting times!
Students completed the topics and had a resource book, ready to show to employers. This resource provided working examples of their knowledge and understanding of digital marketing.
These graduates now had a leading edge over fellow candidates to gain that job or promotion. One part-time employee gained additional hour's of employment to do their social media.
Two months post completion, graduates are now working across Hume and continuing to hone their skills. What an incredible opportunity to be part of the solution to overcome the obstacles of returning to the workforce! For information about how Laura and the team can support your goals, please reach out.
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Twiddle is returning to their home state of Vermont July 28 & 29, 2018, for the third annual Tumble Down music festival hosted at the Waterfront Park in Burlington, Vermont. Twiddle is giving us four amazing sets along with a fantastic lineup including Matisyahu, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Ripe, Billy Strings, Broccoli Samurai, Ripe, GEM featuring Mihali Savoulidis, Grahame Lesh, Elliott Peck, Brandon “Taz” Niederauer, Pappy and Frends, West End Blend, Eggy, Brickdrop, Doctor Rick, 2%, Adventure Dog, Everyone Orchestra, Kitchen Dwellers, Hayley Jane and the Primates, and Formula 5. While you may be familiar with some of the headlining bands, there is also plenty of new music to catch from some up-and-coming acts. Below we’ve got some information to help you discover some of the lesser-known bands attending the festival.
Adventure Dog is a very new band playing for only a little over a year. They consider their genre a mix of funk, soul, and rock n roll. Adventure Dog has just released an EP called The Dog House which you can find on Spotify, Apple Music, bandcamp, etc.They also put a lot of effort into ensuring their live shows are always new and exciting! They’re big fans of 70’s rock and funk. Their biggest overall influence is definitely Steely Dan. They also really like Billy Joel and Stevie wonder.
This funky crunchadelic band is made up of the four groovy members Michael Goodman (bass/vocals), Jake Brownstein (guitar/vocals), Dani Battat (keys/vocals) and Alex Bailey (drums/vocals). These musicians blend together a vast variety of styles inspired by their musical heroes. They are the perfect group to start you morning musical meal.
Formula 5 consists of Joe Davis, Greg Marek, James Woods and Matt Richards. They are from the Capital Region of New York. They are influenced by jam bands, jazz legends and classic rock. They have played alongside Twiddle, Tauk, Dopapod, and more. Formulas 5 is sure to pull you in with their amazing instrumentation and spectacular improvisational skills.
Brickdrop is a Vermont-based jazz fusion group comprised of Ben Bivins (guitar), Billy Comstock (bass), Rob DeBruyn (tenor sax), Matt “Dolly” Dolliver (alto/bari sax), Cotter Ellis (drums), and Nate Reit (trombone). These jazz cats mix the classic jazz and funk styles with a more contemporary feel as well. Playing alongside artists like Big Mean Sound Machine, Nth Power, Soul Monde, and more these soulful players are sure to take you away.
Waterfront Park is located west of downtown along the Lake Champlain Shoreline. They have hosted many music and food festivals such as the Grand Point North Festival and the Lake Champlain Maritime Festival. The Burlington Bike Path runs alongside the eastern border. While listening to music you can explore the area and visit the community boathouse, the echo museum, and the Lake Champlain Sailing Center. There will be daily activities as well such as Yoga, Charity Disc Golf, and Phanart. For more information click here.
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On this episode of the Game of [...]
Diane Maiese discusses how she went [...]
In this episode, Julie shares a leadership communication tip from college football. After watching the Georgia Bulldogs beat TCU a few weeks ago in the national championship, Julie reflected on the winning head coach’s message before the game. It was a one-word mission – and they delivered. It was a masterclass in leadership communication, and Julie breaks that down in this episode.
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This Complete Kitchen and Door Package includes 1 x 715H x 597W + 1 x 1245H x 597W + 1 x 175 x 597W Doors . These door are suitable for 70/30 integrated Fridge Freezer.
A 2150 High x 600Wide Tall Kitchen Unit, hand built in 18mm MFC complete with Adjustable Legs, Shelves, unit to wall fixings, Screw Cover Caps, and standard 110 Degree hinges included.
170 Degree Hinges and Soft Close Hinges are not appropriate for this Appliance Housing.
This Unit is suitable for a 70/30 Fridge Freezer.
This Appliance Housing does not have a back to allow for ventilation.
Your integrated appliance will include the fixings to attach your doors to the appliance.
From the Kitchen Stori range, the Winslow is an Inframe Effect, routered shaker style mdf door with a smooth matte painted finish
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So many of us have taken the opportunity to review our priorities and lifestyle as a result of recent global health challenges and simply because the pace of life is so hectic these days.
If you are thinking about starting a new chapter in your life and moving to a different part of the world you will no doubt be interested in hearing about the advantages of moving to Spain.
There is a convincing argument in favour of moving to Barcelona, for example, which is widely considered to be one of the best places to live in Spain
Here are some of the main advantages that all point to why living in Spain could have a transformational and positive impact on your lifestyle and outlook.
The ability to enjoy a regular dose of sunshine is always going to be a big selling point for any location and Spain offers a tempting climate profile to consider.
This Mediterranean destination delivers what you could almost describe as the perfect living conditions. It has mild winters and lots of lovely sunshine to enjoy in the summer months.
Another fundamental reason why you might want to consider living in Spain is the fact that you can embrace a lifestyle that is envied by many.
Spain offers a different way of life to the one you might currently have. The day tends to start early in this country and is often a very relaxed vibe where you get plenty of opportunities to enjoy some great walks or rest up on the beach for a while soaking up some sunshine.
Even if you are working while living in Spain, the lifestyle offers you a great work-life balance.
Great food options
The gastronomic benefits of living in Spain are there for all to see. The Mediterranean diet is renowned as being one of the healthiest in the world.
That means you will be able to enjoy excellent al fresco dining that not only tastes good but offers a healthy diet that is packed full of vitamins and nutrients.
Cost of living benefits
The cost of living always needs to be considered when you are thinking about where to live. Spain compares well when it comes to how much it costs to live in this country compared to other destinations.
The average cost of living in Spain is around $900 per month. Compare that to how high your monthly bills are and you might decide that you can justify the decision to move on cost benefits alone, let alone all of the other compelling reasons to live in Spain.
Last but not least, the Spanish have earned a deserved reputation as being amongst the friendliest and good-humoured people you can find.
You will be made to feel welcome in this country. That is yet another compelling reason why the attraction of living in Spain might prove too hard to resist.
When you look at all of the advantages attached to the idea of moving to Spain isn’t it time that you gave the idea some serious consideration?
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Check out this awesome news clip from 1979 about the state of the record business. Pretty crazy that record sales generated more money back then than the movie and professional sports industry. Oh, how times have changed.
The manager from Tower Records looks suspiciously like the guy stuffing record in his back pack in Record City. I wonder if it’s the same dude?
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IT’S graduation day, with two happy sets of families around a table in Birmingham.
And everyone’s smart devices are being used in a variety of all-too-human ways. There is a 14-year-old girl whose sputtering, shattered phone is vital to her very being. She is awkwardly tethered to my barely-long-enough power cable, which is stuck into a dusty socket behind the booth. She taps and stabs away impassively.
But there has also been much joyous image-taking by all the generations. Some are editing the burst-mode shot of a mortar board thrown up into the air. Others are enjoying a live video clip of The Boy Himself receiving his hard-won degree, huge pride all round.
Spontaneously, and because one of the party is a cineaste, we burst into a listicle game of “Top Ten Movies You Would Watch Again And Again”. Most of us get to five or six on memory alone but we take to our search engines to remind us of more. And someone else duly taps into their Notes app what everyone’s lists were.
I’ll treasure these lists. They will be simple, lovely commemorations of what should be celebrated when someone gets a humanities degree — everyone’s love of culture, and everyone’s right to express that.
Of course we did laughter, tears, daft celebration cards, hugs, reminiscences, testimonials — indeed, it’s mostly all that touchy-feely stuff. Let me slightly bracket out our beloved teenage diva and her moment of identity-formation (which could as easily be effected by being nose-deep in a Lemony Snicket or Darren Shan novel).
Allow me that, then it becomes really hard to frame all the networked devices around this table as anything other than “tools for conviviality”, as the old 1960s radical Ivan Illich put it.
We 21st-century people have a universe of information and content, either to receive or make, running just underneath our fingertips. “What will we do with it?” is the question, as much as “what will it do with us?”.
So in the aftermath of our glowing, gentle day, I am not well-disposed to reading another jeremiad about the various mental illnesses that our uses of social and digital media might generate. The storm cloud ahead of us comes from Robert Lustig’s The Hacking of the American Mind, out in September but already being breathlessly trailed in the UK media.
Lustig is a paediatric endocrinologist with a background in neuroscience. He’s made his name with books that indict states and corporations for their conscious use of sugars as addictive substances and now claims the alarming rises in the number of people suffering from depression are correlated to, if not caused by, our explosive use of the internet, and the way it can be designed to exploit our biology.
Let’s run with it for a bit. From pre-publicity, the argument seems to have good neurological roots. Dopamine is what’s known as a “reward” chemical (or neurotransmitter) in the brain, telling us we want more. And serotonin is our “contentment” chemical, telling us we don’t need any more. The core problem, as Lustig puts it, is that: “Dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin, because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated. The result is that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction.”
If “constant desire” is our psychological downfall, there would already be a lot of blame to slap on advertiser-driven consumer capitalism over the last half-century. (Buddhists might also raise a quiet hand about the perennial challenges of human desire). But for Lustig, our digital usage is the most oppressive system of all. Its incessant calls to update and respond are designed, consciously, to trigger spikes of pleasure (dopamine), not the glow of happiness (serotonin). And, as with sugar, drugs or porn, the more you spike, the less satisfying each subsequent spike becomes, requiring yet more spikes … depression is an easily imaginable outcome. And, of course, it’s real. The FT cited some rough stats around depression this week. A record number of antidepressants were given out in England last year. Globally, the World Health Organization says 322 million people suffered depression during 2015 — 4.4 per cent of the planet’s population. Rates have risen18.4 per cent in the last decade, affecting north and south.
Again, before we jump to correlation, let alone causation, a wee “haud on”. One might more readily blame austerity on these islands and this continent, or the shock impact of neoliberalism on other parts of the world, for the general rise in depression rates.
In these accounts of cyber-exploitation, what I often push back on is that they downgrade our basic human capability. We always seem to be tremulous victims of our own ingenuity. The power and pull of our long evolutionary history is often cited: we are poor wee stranded hunter-gatherers, baffled by mind-ensnaring new technology (that we have somehow, mysteriously, also invented).
What my advocacy and reading around play has taught me over the last 20 years is that there are alternative sources of mind-science to draw on — ones which emphasise creativity and imagination much more than vulnerability and incapacity (but positive stories don’t make for crisis-laden pop-science bestsellers). The wee vignette at the beginning of this piece is an attempt to show other ways we can relate to our fabulous devices, driven by affection, enthusiasm, interest and exploration. Yet the setting is all important. Here, we were joyful and relaxed: we had all determinedly carved out a day from our work schedules to celebrate the achievement of a loved one. So the same technology that is configured to keep us click-click-clicking on a stressful commute, also served this rich human moment.
Could the argument be that we need more and more of these rich human moments in our lives, rather than less and less of the tools that might as easily enhance them?
And, of course, it should go without saying that social media is political. That is, it can help us convince others that we should shift some structures in the direction of enabling said human richness. Are we coming to some realisations about how to use it well and appropriately?
The rules of netiquette are developing. Try to imagine your interlocutor physically in front of you when you respond to them online, their embodied reactions to what you’d say. Would you really write that? If you’re aware you’re in a “bubble” of media tailored only to your values and assumptions, then consciously join or curate other “bubbles”. (The social media platforms, post-Trump and Brexit, are now aware they have to cultivate this activity).
When I think of the amazing range of peers, experts and voices I have gathered over the last few years on social media, I find it very hard to characterise their “feeds” as generating addiction or depression on my part. Frustration, even infuriation sometimes, sure.
But much more often, they equip me to begin to map and understand the maelstrom of modern life, in Scotland and elsewhere.
We could say that what we are really struggling with are the right political, social and economic arrangements to make the best of this communication power.
The net becomes a tool, and not a drug, when we have more time and support to be citizens, carers, makers and aesthetes. We’ll then reach for it when it can serve this life we’ve made worth living.
The graduation day speaker at Birmingham University, the great TV producer and writer Tony Garnett, urged the departing students to “creatively disrupt” the world they’re moving into. Garnett implied that there was a “destructive disruption” they should avoid.
But what it deeply assumed — and doubtless the reason why the media veteran laid it on the kids in front of him — was that all humans have enough imaginative power to rearrange and start again. Our “minds” aren’t there to be “hacked”, but to do the hacking — and our digital tools are ready and waiting for us. But we all need to graduate to new levels of development here. A challenging endnote to our sunny, optimistic day.
Robert Lustig’s The Hacking of the American Mind is out in September in the UK
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NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NICOSIA – Invest Cyprus has been singled out for praise in a global competition to find and award the international best practices of investment promotion agencies for its reforms to improve the investment ecosystem on the island for tech investors.
Cyprus received a prestigious Honorable Mention in the WAIPA – World Bank Group 2021 Strengthening IPA Advocacy Services awards, which were announced October 21 during the 2021 World Investment Conference. Over 40 advocacy reform submissions were received for this year’s competition.
The award, hosted by the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) and the World Bank Group, recognized Invest Cyprus’ efforts to identify regulatory bottlenecks and gaps in the tech ecosystem in Cyprus through in-depth analysis and its work with the Government and other stakeholders to drive a package of reforms.
As a direct result of Invest Cyprus’s advocacy efforts, Cyprus has introduced a new Immigration Framework that allows ICT companies to employ specialized non-EU personnel into Cyprus, and offers tax incentives for individuals relocating to Cyprus. Tech companies can also take advantage of a new Fast Track Business Activation Mechanism, which means they can complete all necessary procedures for the registration and incorporation of a company in Cyprus within seven working days.
George Campanellas, Chief Executive of Invest Cyprus, said: “We are delighted by this award, which reflects the important role that investment agencies can have to influence needed reforms. While not a regulator, Invest Cyprus has day-to-day contact with foreign investors and is well placed to help deliver a rapid response to challenges through advocating and catalyzing reforms to improve the business environment.”
Speaking about the project carried out early last year by Invest Cyprus, Campanellas added: “The need to diversify the economy of Cyprus has long been recognized, and our research showed there was significant potential to build our ICT and fintech sector.
“Getting public and private buy-in for our proposed reform package we developed was crucial, and our advocacy efforts were aimed at ensuring key decision makers and the private sector were on board with our recommendations and we could be satisfied that the policies would be embraced and promoted.”
The award comes in the same week that Invest Cyprus was awarded the new Regional Directorship of Eastern Europe and elected to the WAIPA Steering Committee. Invest Cyprus will represent the voice of member investment promotion agencies until 2023.
Hosted by FDI Dubai, the 2021 World Investment Conference was attended by nearly 130 global investment agencies. The Strengthening IPA Advocacy Services competition, hosted by WBG and WAIPA, aims to emphasize the key benefits of IPAs’ advocacy services by collecting and disseminating IPA advocacy success stories.
Campanellas, Chief Executive of Invest Cyprus, expressed his gratitude to fellow WAIPA members for recognizing Invest Cyprus’ positive contribution over the years and voting him to this important position: “Cyprus has been a member of this high esteemed International Organization since 2008 and I am very excited to have been elected onto the Steering Committee. What national investment agencies have proved during the pandemic is that we can be resilient and transform quickly. We must now be ready to seize new opportunities, as well as tackle the challenges presented by the pandemic, and I believe that strengthening our ties through WAIPA is essential to make this happen.”
During the conference, Invest India was elected as the new President, taking over from FDI Dubai, and Egypt’s IPA re-elected to the Vice-Presidency position. Other new members of the Steering Committee include the IPAs of Kuwait, Finland, Costa Rica, Korea and Azerbaijan.
More information is available online: https://www.investcyprus.org.cy/.
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Many turn to those who have served family members as a default resource for financial advice without knowing there are better options. The New Wealth Project is an approach tailor made for modern professionals, modern families, and modern leaders.
Technology has made financial markets better, but pitfalls remain for those who go it alone. The New Wealth Project uses modern financial planning tools combined with the human touch of a professional advisor to avoid big mistakes.
There are thousands of product salespeople masquerading as financial advisors who are more motivated by sales quotas than client outcomes. As a fee-only fiduciary, The New Wealth Project has a legal obligation to put our client’s interests first.
The New Wealth Project guides smart and motivated people to move confidently down the road to financial independence through a framework of critical decision making and a system of continual upgrade and growth.
By connecting strategy with purpose, and by offering both financial and life planning, The New Wealth Project impacts our client’s lives today and creates a ripple effect for years to come.
Today’s marketplace lacks high quality comprehensive financial advice for the emerging wealthy. The New Wealth Project sets out to change that.
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Scientists are searching for answers to a new space mystery after a telescope in Utah detected the most powerful cosmic rays seen in more than three decades. New research Published Thursday in the journal Science.
An enigmatic, extremely rare, ultra-high-energy particle is believed to have traveled to Earth from beyond the Milky Way galaxy, although the exact origin of this turbocharged particle from space remains a mystery. Some experts have suggested that the cosmic ray, known as the Amaterasu particle after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, may have been created by unknown physics.
A step Article published in Nature, a British science journal, said the “amazing” discovery “has surprised some scientists that it could produce so much energy,” said astronomer Clancy James of Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Cosmic rays are invisible, charged particles — often a proton — that travel through space at close to the speed of light from other galaxies and extragalactic sources.
Cosmic rays with energies greater than 100 exa-electron volts (EeV) are rarely detected. According to NASACosmic rays continue to penetrate Earth’s atmosphere and “provide one of our few direct samples. matter From outside the solar system.”
Cosmic ray discovered decades ago ‘more energetic than theoretically possible’
The most powerful cosmic ray, named the Oh-My-God particle, was discovered 30 years ago and measured about 320 exa-electron volts (EeV) when it was discovered. According to Nature, an EeV is about a million times larger than that achieved by the most powerful particle accelerators ever created by man.
“Nothing in our galaxy has the energy to produce it, and the particle has more energy than is theoretically possible for cosmic rays traveling to Earth from other galaxies.” According to a report from the University of Utah. “Simply put, the (oh-my-god) particle should not exist.”
The most recently discovered cosmic ray — which was first detected on May 27, 2021 at a telescope array in Millard County, Utah — is estimated at 240 EeV. Astronomer Toshihiro Fujii of Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan spotted the “surprising” signals while conducting a routine data check on the telescope.
Initially skeptical, Fujii wondered if there had been a bug in the software, or if some of the facility’s detectors had been super-powered. Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays typically have a smooth path through space (meaning they are unaffected by galactic and extra-stellar magnetic fields), making it easy for scientists to detect a galactic explosion, black hole, or galaxy. Spike came from.
Where do high energy cosmic rays originate?
The exact origin of these high-energy particles remains unclear even after years of research. When scientists tried to find the Oh-My-God particle and this new particle, the path to its source didn’t have enough energy to produce it, said John Matthews, a co-spokesman for the telescope array. University of Utah and co-author of the study.
“That’s the mystery of it – what’s going on?” Mathews said.
According to John BellsProfessor in University of Utah And the study’s co-author said, “These events seem to come from completely different places in the sky.” The largest ever discovered seem to originate from voids, or empty space.
“It’s not like there’s a mysterious source.” bells said. “It could be flaws in the fabric of spacetime, colliding cosmic strings. I mean, I spit out the crazy ideas people come up with because there’s no conventional explanation.
Fujii and his team are working on upgrading the telescope array to be four times more sensitive than before, which will allow researchers to capture these rare ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and pinpoint their origin more precisely.
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Foxconn, a key supplier for Apple, is set to significantly boost its investment in Karnataka, India. Recently approved by the State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC), Foxconn’s proposal to invest an additional Rs.13,911 crore ($1.67 billion) has been greenlit, augmenting its existing approved investment of Rs.8,000 crore in the region.
This substantial injection of funds by Foxconn is part of a larger approval of 14 projects totaling Rs.34,115 crore sanctioned by the state government. These projects hold the promise of generating 13,308 job opportunities across Karnataka. Among these projects, 10 are brand-new ventures amounting to Rs.19,452.40 crore, while the remaining four represent supplementary investments worth Rs.14,662.59 crore.
The revelation of Foxconn’s increased investment came from MB Patil, the Minister for Large and Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development, following the conclusion of the 62nd SHLCC meeting at the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi.
Foxconn, headquartered in Taiwan, serves as the principal assembler of approximately 70% of iPhones worldwide and stands as the largest contract manufacturer globally. Driven by disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and escalating geopolitical tensions, the company has actively diversified its production bases away from China.
In the last year, Foxconn has significantly increased its investments in India, especially in the southern part, showing the company’s focused efforts to expand strategically. Foxconn aims to commence the manufacturing of iPhones within the state by April 2024. The big project is expected to create around 50,000 jobs, making a major impact on the local job scene.
Foxconn is stepping up its investment in Karnataka, showing a strong dedication to making more stuff in India. This matches what lots of big companies are doing—spreading out where they make things to be stronger against tough global problems. By putting more money into Karnataka, Foxconn wants to use the state’s good business setup and infrastructure to make way more things. This not only helps Karnataka become a better place to invest in but also helps grow India’s electronics making scene.
Foxconn’s plans to set up iPhone manufacturing in India represent a major milestone for the company’s journey in the country. It’s not just about finances; it’s about driving technological progress, fostering new skills, and creating job opportunities that will benefit the state’s growth.
Foxconn’s reinforced investment commitment in Karnataka signals a promising trajectory for both the company and the region, poised to catalyze industrial growth, technological innovation, and employment generation in the years to come.
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Does Lowering Barriers to Goodness Promote Pathological Altruism?
In The Freeman today, Fred Foldvary asks “Do Markets Promote Immoral Behavior?”
After distinguishing markets (buying and selling operating within an ethical and legal framework) from bazaars (spaces characterized merely by buying and selling) and exploring the universal ethic operational within markets, (in Foldvary’s definition ethical action hinges upon voluntary actions and transactions that generate beneficial consequences), Foldvary goes on to discuss the ways in which markets not only inhibit immoral behavior but also promote good. He writes:
By deterring coercive acts, rehabilitating criminals, and providing restitution for victims, the free society steers human action toward those acts that are good or neutral. Adam Smith, who popularized the concept of the invisible hand of the market, also wrote in his book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that people have a natural fellow-feeling or sympathy for others. Social entrepreneurs can promote sympathy for communities and benevolent causes, which promotes morally good behavior.
Relative to today’s interventionist economies, the free market promotes good behavior by avoiding the imposition of costs and restrictions. In today’s world, even when good acts are not prohibited, they are impeded with costs such as taxes, licenses, and permit requirements. Even when an organization is tax exempt, it must today fill out forms and report on its activities. The free market promotes good behavior more than today’s interventionist economy by avoiding barriers that make goodness more costly.
It’s an intriguing thought that market systems can actually lower the barriers to entry for beneficent actions. But, as we are reminded by the recent publication of a new collection edited by Barbara Oakley, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
Oakley has dared to delve into sticky terrain that challenges us to consider the limits of altruism and to become cognizant of when our help simply becomes unhelpful. The collection promises to be an intriguing conversation starter that may not only offer a corrective to our current philanthropic fetishes of altruism and donor intent, but also to challenge our understanding of the interplay between sociobiology and the epigenetic forces of culture and belief. How, we might ask, has nature wired us to be cooperative (altruistic) but also allowed us to develop patterns of doing good that not only cost us dearly in indulging our moral greed but can actually diminish the personal development of those we aim to help?
Under current cultural conditions, lowering the barriers to doing good may exacerbate a frightening and expansive tendency of meddlers, busy-bodies, do-gooders, and social engineers to muck about in the lives of others, nudging us here and there with “knowledge” that soon imperializes into policy mandates. This new puritanism is really for our own good, right?
Judging by the company Foldvary keeps, I believe he has a different idea in mind, one of a Tocquevillean world in which “good” is done in the context of voluntary association rather than through the institutions of the welfare state. If so, lowering barriers to doing good means lowering barriers to interpersonal association, intersubjective knowledge, and the possibility of covenantal relationships of care… all the while preserving rights of exit.
But language is a slippery slope, and it is desirable that even those of us who advocate philanthropic freedom recognize that such freedom is not good ex ante, but that philanthropy too is a realm of responsibility, consequences, and potentially coercive acts, especially when do-gooders turn to the use of welfare state powers to do good unto others. In the latter cases, we should be very wary of the operation of pathological forms of altruism, among which may be using the pretense of doing good to mask pathological self-interest.
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Today, the trend of using smart devices is rising exponentially, all thanks to the internet and wireless connectivity. Among such smart devices, the Amazon Echo has become quite popular due to its ease of use and numerous features like music playback, podcast streaming, real-time weather and traffic information, etc.
The smart device comes with Alexa, which is an AI-powered personal assistant that allows users to operate Echo Devices using voice interaction. Additionally, Amazon Echo can also control several other smart home devices while acting as an automation hub.
If you are planning or already bought Amazon Echo, then you should know about these easy steps for setting up the device and start exploring its features:
1. Download the Alexa App on Your Smartphone/Tablet
The first and foremost step for setting up Amazon Echo is to download the Alexa app on your Smartphone or desktop. The app is available on all the major platforms including Android, iOS, Fire OS.
If you are wondering how to download Alexa echo app, it’s quite simple. You only need to open the app store on your Smartphone or tablet, search for Amazon Alexa app, and then download the app.
2. Power-up the Amazon Echo
For powering the Echo, you need to plug-in its adapter to the power socket. One thing you need to know that the Echo doesn’t come with in-built battery and you need to plug in the device for powering it up.
After plugging the Echo, the light ring on its top will turn blue, which indicates that the device is powered up and ready to function. But you don’t have to do anything yet. You need to wait till the light ring turns its color to orange indicating the device is ready to connect with a Wi-Fi network. Also, you will hear Alexa’s voice greeting you and telling that the device is ready to set up.
3. Connect the Echo with Wi-Fi using the Alexa App
For connecting your Echo app with the Wi-Fi, you need to open the Alexa app on your Smartphone/tablet. After the app opens, you need to tap on the menu bar and then click on the add device option where you will see the Amazon Echo under ‘All Devices’.
Afterward, you need to select the Echo Device and the app will guide you to connect the device with the Wi-Fi network. You can save the Wi-Fi password to make it easy for connecting a new Alexa device to the same network in the future.
4. Start Interacting With Alexa
Finally, your Echo device is ready to use and Alexa will respond to your voice commands. You can start interacting with Alexa by using the default voice command ‘Wake’ for waking the device.
You can also change the wake command either by telling Alexa or manually through the app. FYI, you only need to say “Alexa change the wake word” and tell Alexa the new word for waking the device. Now, your device is completely set up and ready for use.
Setting up the Amazon Echo device is a simple task, especially if you follow the aforementioned steps. One important thing that you need to keep in mind is to know how to download Alexa Echo app. So, set up your Echo device and start exploring its smart features.
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