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The A90S is a Dual SIM mobile phone allowing you to use the facility of two networks. To insert SIM card(s): 1. Switch off the mobile phone and remove the rear cover and battery. 2. Insert the SIM card correctly in the card slot(s) (See figure below).
1. Power off the mobile phone, then remove the rear cover and battery. 2. Insert the memory card into the slot as shown.
3. Finally insert the battery and the rear cover of the mobile phone. Use only compatible memory cards approved by Micromax with this device. Incompatible memory cards may damage the device or corrupt the data stored in the card.
Tap Settings> Security> screen lock. 3. Choose the type of locking as desired. You can set your screen lock on the basis of pattern, PIN, Password or none.
You can dial a phone number or touch a number in your contacts. You can also place from the Call log or contacts.
2. Touch the keys to enter the phone number. To correct a wrong number, touch to erase the digits.
To dial an international number, touch and hold the 0 key to enter the Plus (+) symbol, and then enter the international country prefix, followed by the phone number. Touch the icon to dial the number.
When a call is in progress, you can put it on hold, initiate a phone conference, mute your microphone etc. Touch the Mute icon to mute your voice at the other end. Unmute the microphone by touching the Mute icon again. Touch the speaker icon to turn on/off the speaker. During a call, touch the icon to end the call.
Touch Add call to add another call to the current call.
If you accept or add a new call when you are already on a call, you can switch between the two callers or merge the two calls into a conference call. 1. Place a call to the first participant. 2. When you are connected, touch the Add call icon, the first participant is put on hold and you are prompted to dial the second contact. 3. Place the next call, using the phone tab, the Call log, or your contacts. 4. When you are connected, touch the icon to bring up the context menu. On the menu that displays, tap Merge calls. The participant is added to the conference call.
You can add as many callers as your carrier supports. Recommendation: Contact your service provider to know whether they support conference calls and how many participants you can include.
Some locations may require you to turn off your mobile, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth wireless connections. You can turn off all these connections at once by placing your phone in Airplane mode. Press and hold the Power button. Drag notification panel down then touch the Airplane mode.
screen to zoom. For example, double-tap a section of a webpage in Browser to zoom that section to fit the width of the screen. You can also double-tap to control the Camera zoom, In Maps, and in other applications. Pinch: In some applications (Such as Maps, Browser, and Gallery) you can zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen at once and pinching them together (to zoom out) or spreading them apart (to zoom in). Rotate the screen: On most screens, the orientation of the screen changes as you rotate it. You can turn this feature on and off.
The phones buttons and soft buttons offers a lot of functions and shortcuts. Button Press Home key: Opens the Home screen.
you were working on. Menu Key: open a menu with items that affect the current screen or application.
1. Press the icon to open recently used applications. to 2. Touch an icon to open its application. Or press return to the current application.
When you sign in, the home screen opens. The status bar shows the time, signal strength, battery status, and notification icons.
You can add applications, shortcuts, widgets, and other items to any part of the Home screen or change the wallpaper. 5.1.1 Add items to the Home screen to enter the main menu.
2. Press and hold an application icon to add it to the Home screen.
To change a wallpaper: 1. Touch at the home page, then touch Wallpaper A list of options appear.
Camera or downloaded to your device. Live Wallpapers. Choose from a scrolling list of animated wallpapers. Video Wallpaper: Choose from videos that you have taken with Camera or download to your device. Wallpapers. Choose from wallpapers gallery available.
To configure your Internet: 1. Go to Settings > More> Mobile networks> Access Point names 2. Select the access point name or change the access point name for your Internet connectivity as provided by the service provider of your SIM card. By default, your network provider sends the access point name settings via SMS, or it comes with your SIM card. You may also need to install these settings. After this, you can choose from the listed access point names. If the access point names are not listed by default, please contact your network provider for the same. 3. After you have selected or configured the access point name, go to Settings> Data usage and tap the desired data connection to enable Internet connection.
Wifi connection listed under Wifi networks.
Notification icons informs you of new messages and events, When you receive a notification, its icon appears in the status bar, along with a summary that appears only briefly.
and a list of your current notifications.
Open the notification panel and touch a notification to respond to it. What happens next depends on the notification. For example, for network disconnection notification, the list of configured network opens for you to reconnect.
Drag the tab at the bottom of the Notifications panel to the top of the screen. Or just press the back button.
You can use Messaging to exchange text messages and multimedia messages with your friends on their mobile phones.
A Message becomes an MMS if you send it to an email address, add a subject, or multimedia media file. 1. Touch to compose new message.
5. Send the multimedia message by the desired SIM.
Some applications display the keyboard by default. In others, you touch a text field where you want to enter text, to open the keyboard.
Press the symbols key to switch to the numbers and symbols keyboard. Touch and hold the text field to open a menu and to copy/cut texts.
Your A90S comes with an 8 MP camera which lets you capture beautiful moments as photos and videos. 1.1.1 Take a Picture or video Touch the Camera icon in the main menu. Adjust the exposure, and other settings as you wish. Frame your subject on screen. Touch the shutter icon on the screen. 1.1.2 Shoot Videos Drag the control to the video position Adjust the quality, effect, and other settings if you wish. Point the lens to the scene you want to capture Touch the start video icon. Touch the stop video icon to stop shooting.
1.1.3 Gallery You can use the Gallery to view pictures and play videos and share files. 1. Touch the Gallery icon in the main menu. 2. Touch an album to open and view its contents. 3. Touch a picture or a video in an album to view it. 1.1.4 Share an item 1. Open the main Gallery window. 2. Touch the icon.
3. Check or uncheck the item you want to share. 3. Touch at the top of the screen. In the menu that opens, touch the application to use to share the selected albums. You can share via email, Bluetooth, Gmail and messaging.
You can easily transfer your favorite music from your PC to the SD card and experience a whole world of interesting and melodious music.
Touch to open the current playlist Touch to shuffle the current playlist Touch to repeat the current playlist; touch again to repeat the current track. Drag the slider to go directly to a section of a track 1.1.5 Control Playback Volume Press the phones volume up/down keys on the left side of the mobile phone. A panel opens to show the current media volume; the indicator moves as you adjust the volume.
Touch to open the context menu to scan, record, choose settings and so on.
You can set up a corporate, Google account etc on your device. You can do this by tapping Settings> Accounts & sync> Add Account: You may also be able to add other kinds of accounts, depending on your application.
Your Google Account lets you take full advantage of Google applications and services that you may want to use, such as Gmail, Google Maps, Navigation, Android Market, YouTube, Messaging, and many more.
including Wi-Fi, GPRS, Bluetooth, devices, such as headsets. You can also transfer files to/from your PC through the data cable.
In case of Linux, Windows 7 and Vista OS, the drivers get automatically installed. However, in case of Windows XP, you need to manually install the drivers. You can download the driver from the Micromax website.
If your VPN or Wi-Fi Network rely on secure certificates, you must obtain the certificates and store them in your phones storage, before you can configure access to those VPN or Wi-Fi networks on your phone. You may need to download the certificates from a website. 1. Copy the certificate from your computer to the root of the SD card. 2. Touch > Settings> Security.
3. Touch Install from SD card under Credential Storage. 4. Touch the file name of the certificate to install. Only the names of certificates that you have not already installed on your phone are displayed. 5. If prompted, enter the certificates password and touch OK. 6. Enter a name for the certificate and touch OK.
The file manager allows you to manage your files in the phones storage or SD card.
Allows you to access various network services. This is a USSD based service and does not require Internet connectivity.
Your handset comes with a host of applications to make your life much more convenient and easier.
radio waves recommended by international guidelines. SAR (specific absorption rate) is the measurement of body-absorbed RF quantity when the phone is in use. SAR value is ascertained according to the highest RF level generated during laboratory tests. The true SAR level during phone usage will be far lower than this level. The SAR value of the phone may change depending on factors such as how close you are to a network base station, use of accessories and other enhancements. The highest SAR value of the device is 1.556 W/kg (head) and 0.923 W/kg (body) averaged over 1 gm of human tissue.
Organizations such as the World Health Organization and the US Food and Drug Administration have stated that if people are concerned and want to reduce their exposure they could use a hands-free device to keep the phone away from the head and body during phone calls, or reduce the amount of time spent on the phone. Please keep your calls short and use SMS whenever more convenient. This advice applies especially to children, adolescents and pregnant women. Prefer to use your cell phone when the signal quality is good. People having active medical implants should preferably keep the cell phone at least 15 cm away from the implant. Maintain a preferable distance of 15 mm from the device. Do not use the phone while driving. When you have to use the phone, please use the personal hands-free kit. Please do not put the phone onto any passenger seat or any place from which it may fall down in case of vehicular collision or emergency braking. Flight is influenced by interference caused by the phone. It is illegal to use a phone on the airplane. Please turn off your phone or switch to flight mode during a flight.
Your Phones radio waves may interfere with the functioning medical devices. Consult a physician or the manufacturer of the medical device to determine whether they are adequately shielded from external Radio Frequency. Switch off your device when regulations instruct you to do so. Do not carry the wireless device in the breast pocket. Turn off the phone if there is any reason to suspect that interference is taking place. Please turn off your phone when you are close to a gas station or in the vicinity of any place where fuel and chemical preparations, or any other dangerous goods are stored.
when using unapproved batteries or accessories. Recycle Your Handset The WEEE logo (shown at the left) appears on the product (battery, handset, and charger) to indicate that this product must not be disposed off or dumped with your other household wastes. You are liable to dispose of all your electronic or electrical waste equipment by relocating over to the specified collection point for recycling of such hazardous waste.
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Guignol's Band is a 1944 novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Set in the mid 1910s, the narrative revolves around Ferdinand, an invalided French World War I veteran who lives in exile in London, and follows his small businesses and interacting with prostitutes. It was followed by a sequel, London Bridge: Guignol's Band II, published posthumously in 1964.

Writing process
Louis-Ferdinand Céline spent a number of months in London after an injury in World War I, and the novel bears some autobiographical elements from that time. The French literature scholar Merlin Thomas wrote in his biography on Céline: "In the chronology of Céline's life as seen through the novels, Guignol's Band should be a massive insert in Voyage, coming immediately before the African section of that work."

Publication
The novel was first published by Éditions Denoël in April 1944 and received very little attention; Céline was highly unpopular at the time, due to his outspoken anti-Semitic stance in combination with the ongoing World War II. It was republished by Éditions Gallimard in 1952, and again did not receive much notice. In 1954 it was published in English.

See also
 1944 in literature
 20th-century French literature

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Bibliography

1944 French novels
Novels by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French autobiographical novels
French historical novels
Novels about British prostitution
Novels set in London
Novels set in the 1910s
Éditions Denoël books

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 Aggregaat (mineralogie), een samengesteld gesteente of mineraal;
 Aggregaat (cartografie), het samenvoegen van objecten tot één, bijvoorbeeld huizen met een losstaande schuur worden als één vlak getekend;
 Aggregaat (scheikunde), een samenhangen van deeltjes in een groter geheel;
 Aggregaat (plantkunde),  een groep van plantensoorten, die moeilijk van elkaar te onderscheiden zijn;
 Eiwitaggregatie, het proces waarin verkeerd gevouwen eiwitten aggregeren en een ziekte kunnen veroorzaken;
 Aggregaat (geneeskunde), weefselstructuur dat ontstaat door het samenklonteren van bijvoorbeeld witte bloedcellen;

Overig
 Aggregaat (document), een samengesteld document;
 Aggregaat (generator), een generator voor elektrische energie;

 Aggregaat (onderwijs), onderwijsbevoegdheid combineren met universitaire studie in Vlaanderen;
 Aggregaat (sociologie), een aantal mensen die zich toevallig op dezelfde plaats bevinden, maar die zichzelf niet als groep zien;

 Unified Modeling Language, een meer generieke vorm van object-compositie in object-georiënteerd programmeren;
 Aggregatie (informatietechnologie). Het begrip beschrijft dan het proces van verbetering van de kwaliteit van informatie. Informatie met data die in grote lijnen dezelfde gegevens bevatten wordt samengevat. Bijvoorbeeld in totalen, gemiddelden per groep. Deze gegevens worden in die geaggregeerde vorm gearchiveerd in een zogenaamde datawarehouse;


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BlackBerry had return with something even more stunning after their series of blackberry phones! This time, A torch!
I fell in love with this phone at first glance. When I go into the details about this phone, I went mad about it!
I always loved phones with touch panel (cool) but typing 500 SMS per day using this type of phone is almost impossible.
But with Blackberry torch, impossible were made possible with its ground breaking All-in-one design!
This particular BlackBerry also comes with the latest OS, "the BlackBerry® 6 OS".
It has an integrated Social Feed that not only enables you to see your friend's update in one spot, you can actually type only once but update to all your networks!
Tired of the "one page at a time" internet browsing experience? Celcom BlackBerry Torch can actually enables you to browse multiple web pages at once with its tabbed browsing feature.
Furthermore, with Celcom's famous "widest & fastest" coverage, internet browsing can never be this fun!
Other than that, Celcom BlackBerry Torch comes with their all new Universal Search function which you can use to find ANYTHING you need, ANYTIME you need!
To add icing on the cake, Celcom BlackBerry Torch has a build-in 5MP camera and you can expand the phone's memory up to 32GB with a microSD card!
How can you resist such a gorgeous phone from becoming part of your possession?
But wait up! A good phone without a good plan is like Michael Schumacher riding a tricycle!
Celcom BlackBerry Torch comes with the best plan in Malaysia, the Celcom Exec 50. You can stay connected from as low as RM50 a month!
Worried about the rates? Put aside all the worries as this plan let you to call with 15sen per min and 12sen per SMS to any network nationwide!
Still not feeling content? Be the 1st 100 "early bird" customers to pre-register & purchase the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 with the Celcom Exec Postpaid plan and you'll be bringing these home for FREE!
So stay tune to Celcom's website as they will launching their Blackberry Torch 9800 officially on the 29th of October. More surprises and freebies will be given away when you sign up with Celcom during the event!
For more information about the Celcom Postpaid Plans, head on to http://www.celcom.com.my/celcomexec/blackberry/bbtorch9800.php.
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Stephen Hawking is concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence.
Stephen Hawking is concerned about the growing role of intelligent software in society.
He suggests a form of world government might help regulate and control artificial intelligence's rapid expansion.
Experts gave mixed reactions to Hawking's suggestion.
Physicist Stephen Hawking may be a proponent of artificial intelligence, but he has also been outspoken about the potential challenges it creates.
In a recent interview, he sounded a similar tone, and offered a solution that conservatives may find hard to accept.
Speaking to The Times of London to commemorate being awarded the Honorary Freedom of the City of London, a title that was conferred on him on Monday, Professor Hawking expressed optimism for the future. He added, however, that he is concerned about artificial intelligence (AI), as well as other global threats.
His answer: international action, and possibly world government.
"We need to be quicker to identify such threats and act before they get out of control," Hawking said. "This might mean some form of world government."
He cautioned, however, that such an approach "might become a tyranny."
As the role of artificial intelligence in society grows, computer scientists and policymakers are moving from constructing these systems to harnessing their power for the good of society.
Though observers are divided on the nature and scope of AI-related challenges, there is widespread agreement that these impacts need to be addressed.
Might world government provide a solution?
"Yes, I think much improved global governance may be necessary to deal with not only advanced AI, but also some of the other big challenges that lie ahead for our species," writes Nick Bostrom, a professor at the University of Oxford who is the founding director of the university's Future of Humanity Institute, in an email to The Christian Science Monitor. "I'm not sure we can survive indefinitely as a world divided against itself, as we continue to develop ever more powerful instruments."
Today, AI is involved in seemingly everything.
It's behind the advances in autonomous vehicles, it powers Facebook's ad screening processes, and it interacts with people everywhere through virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. In New York City, it's predicting fires, and in Britain, machine learning is being deployed to get people to pay their debts. Ultimately, it could even eradicate persistent social challenges like disease and poverty, Hawking previously indicated.
But with these unique opportunities come unique problems, observers suggest. Part of the concern is about the economic transition to a world dominated by machines will look like.
"There are two main economic risks: first, that a mismatch may develop between the skills that workers have and the skills that the future workplace demands; and second, that AI may increase economic inequality by increasing the return to owners of capital and some higher-skill workers," Edward Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University who is the founding director of the university's Center for Information Technology Policy, tells the Monitor in an email.
Those issues, he suggests, could be addressed by adopting public policies that will distribute the benefits of increased productivity.
What Hawking was more likely alluding to in his comments, however, are the concerns that AI will become hyper-powerful and start behaving in ways that humans cannot control.
But not everyone is convinced that the overbearing machines of science fiction are a necessary eventuality: Professor Felten says he doesn't see "any sound basis in computer science for concluding that machine intelligence will suddenly accelerate at any point."
Amy Webb, founder and chief executive officer of the Future Today Institute, takes these threats more seriously.
One of the goals of AI, she explains to the Monitor, is to teach machines to connect the dots for themselves in "unsupervised learning" systems. That means placing a lot of trust in these AI systems' ability to make the right decisions.
"What happens if a student incorrectly learns that the answer to 1 + 1 is 3, and then teaches the next group of kids? That wrong answer propagates, and other decisions are based on that knowledge."
And the stakes are higher than in math class, she adds: "We will be asking them to make decisions about personal identification, security, weapon deployment, and more."
Professor Bostrom frames the problem facing AI today as one of "scaleable control: how to ensure that an arbitrarily intelligent AI remains aligned with the intentions of its programmers."
There is a small but growing field of research addressing these problems, these commentators explain - and world government or international harmonization of AI laws may be one approach.
Though Bostrom says he does not expect "any imminent transformation in global affairs," world government may be just the next phase of political aggregation.
"We've already come most of the way - from hunter-gatherer band, to chiefdom, to city-state, to nation-state, to the present mesh of states and international institutions," he writes. "One more hop and we are there."
Ms. Webb, though she agrees that international cooperation would be valuable, is skeptical it will happen soon enough to address immediate issues.
"It would be great for all countries around the world to agree on standards and uses for AI, but at the moment we can't even get unilateral agreement on issues like climate change," she points out. It will take time for international government cooperation to catch up with AI development, she says.
Government decisions may also be affected by unexpected changes in human behavior as AI becomes more ubiquitous, notes Scott Wallsten, president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, in an email.
"Will safer cars based on AI cause people to respond by acting more recklessly, like crossing against a light if they believe cars will automatically stop?" Dr. Wallsten asks.
With that in mind, he suggests, effective policy solutions at local, national, or international level should start with more research into the effects of AI.
"Any initiatives to address potential challenges need to be based on a solid understanding of what problems need to be solved and how to solve them in a way that makes sense," he concludes.


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Roland Gauvin et ses amis
Sunday 10 October 2021, 06:00pm -
Presented as part of the Rendez-vous d'automne at the Monument-Lefebvre! Roland Gauvin will offer us a brand new show to celebrate his 50-year career on the Acadian music scene!
Reserve your seats at NO COST.
Roland will be accompanied on stage by four seasoned musicians including Ronald Dupuis (1755, Glamor Puss) on drums, Steven Haché (El Fuego, Grand-Dérangement, la Virée) on bass, Jean-Luc Boudreau (Sweet Temptation, Méchants Maquereaux, 1755) on electric guitar and puddle Steele as well as Jean-Simon Decoste (Laurie and Hert LeBlanc, Suroît) on violin and guitar.
With songs drawn from his personal repertoire (1755, Roland et Johnny, Les Méchants Maquereaux) and some Acadian classics, Roland Gauvin and his friends offer you a show where the sounds of Acadie blend with those of Louisiana such as the spices in a good Gumbo.
To submit an activity: Pascale Dupuis - pascale@memramcook.com
Due to the Level 3 transition under the province's COVID-19 Winter Plan, the Municipal Council will hold its Regular and Special Meetings virtually until further notice. Those interested in joining the meeting via ZOOM are asked to communicate with Monique Bourque, Chief Administrative Officer/Clerk, before noon the day before the meeting at 758-4069 or monique@memramcook.com to receive instructions on how to access the meeting. As per usual, the meeting agendas will be posted the Friday before the meeting, before the end of day.
The Rendez-vous d'hiver are back and will take place throughout the month of February. Keep an eye out for more details.
The Municipal Council will hold its Regular and Special Meetings at the Municipal Building (540 Centrale Street) unless noticed otherwise. Wearing a mask and full vaccination are mandatory. Please bring your own mask and ensure you have proof of full vaccination along with a valid ID. The meeting agendas will be posted the Friday before the meeting, before the end of day.
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Who is the Retirement Security Initiative?
Posted by Tyler Bond
Since beginning his crusade against public pensions, John Arnold has been relentless in his attacks on retirement security for working families. Often, he pays others to do his dirty work for him. For example, he funds biased research from the Pew Research Center. He has also funded failed ballot measures to gut public pensions. Recently, Arnold has begun funding a group that is much more explicit in its mission to eliminate public pensions. Armed with a cunningly deceptive name, the so-called Retirement Security Initiative (RSI) has been one of the most active opponents of public pensions in recent years.
If you had any doubt about RSI's true intentions, their leader is none other than Chuck Reed, the former mayor of San Jose who led the attacks on pensions in that city. After leaving office and failing repeatedly to get a measure placed on the ballot to gut public pensions throughout California, Reed has set up shop at RSI where he now leads a nationwide crusade against public pensions.
To help them in their work, Arnold and Reed have assembled a rogue's gallery of anti-pension ideologues at RSI:
Dan Liljenquist: a former Utah state senator, he used his one term in office to cut pension benefits for police officers, firefighters, and other public employees, leading to challenges recruiting new public employees
Pete Constant: a former San Jose City Council member, Constant was also a fellow at the vehemently anti-pension Reason Foundation, another group funded by John Arnold
Lois Scott: a veteran of the Rod Blagojevich and Rahm Emanuel administrations, she helped craft Mayor Emanuel's budget which cut pensions for city employees in Chicago
Richard Ravitch: a former Lieutenant Governor of New York, he has long been a critic of public pensions
To expose the truth about the Retirement Security Initiative, we created the following video, revealing the failed politicians at the heart of this anti-pension campaign.
Chuck Reed and RSI are not stopping their attacks on pensions. Last year, Reed spoke at the ALEC convention as a representative of RSI. He has also testified about public pensions in Lincoln, NE, and continued to author anti-pension op-eds in California.
To help us fight back against RSI, please sign our petition urging the leaders of RSI to stop their attacks on public pensions. Together, we are more powerful than John Arnold's money.
Chuck Reed
Attacks on Pensions Are Still Happening Again and Again
Haunted House of Pension Horrors: 2018 Edition
Exposing John Arnold's Web of Connections


Newsletter readers: jump straight down to the list of tools. Prototypes as a design deliverable are on the rise, and for good reason. I am strong believer that prototyping helps us to design better experiences. We are working in a world of rich, dynamic interfaces, both on the web and on our devices.
The experiences we design are interactive, responsive, and have emotion. Prototypes allow us to articulate the feeling and function of a design in a way that a wireframe does not. But how do you select the best prototyping tool for the job?
In order to evaluate a prototyping tool or technique, we first need to define what makes an effective prototype. The best prototypes are ones that slipstream right into our design process. We want the ability to quickly take sketches from a whiteboard to something interactive.
Effective prototypes are fast. We want to use techniques that allow for rapid iteration. A prototype should not just be bolted onto the end of a design process. Incorporating the creation of a prototype into your daily design work allows new ideas to emerge and validates concepts quickly.
Effective prototypes are disposable. Just like with any design deliverable, we are creating an artifact intended to express an idea to someone else (stakeholder, developer, user, etc). Once that design idea has been communicated, the prototype deliverable can be discarded. We don�t have to feel the burden of creating a masterpiece that will live on, and we certainly don�t have to work in production-level code.
Effective prototypes are focused. We want to select the interactions of our design that really need to be prototyped. Look for the parts of your design that have of complexity. Look for interaction patterns repeated throughout the user�s experience. Look for the interactions that bring revenue to your product. A prototype that demonstrates these interactions will be the best use of your time and energy. At our upcoming workshop, Good Design Faster we are teaching techniques to evaluate sketched concepts for the inclusion in a digital prototype. Use the promo code NEWS for 10% off.
With the baseline set that a prototyping tool must enable us to create effective prototypes (above), we look at our particular organization to see what will fit.
First, let�s take a look at or team make up. Does someone on staff have the ability code? Is a Design Technologist a member of our UX group? Do we have a strong relationship with the engineering department that can help create prototypes? What about contract developers who can help out? Identifying our tech capabilities will point us towards coding a prototype by hand or using drawing-based prototyping software.
How large is our team? Are we a UX team of one, expected to research, sketch and prototype on our own? Are we members of a small, tight team that can nimbly iterate through a design prototype in less than one day? Are we part of a large organization that needs to navigate the murky waters of corporate politics and different perspectives with our prototype? Often, the larger the team, the more detail (read: spec) a prototype will require.
Where is the audience for our prototype located? Are they in the same office, glancing over our shoulders? Are they remote? Are they in a country who�s time zone is an entire day away? Answering this question will determine our ability to talk through a prototype versus having it be 100% self-explanatory.
Is our UX team in-house or are we members a consulting firm? If in-house, are we integrated deeply with the engineering team or are we a completely separate department? A UX group that�s �outside� often has to justify their design concepts a little more.
What is our budget for a prototyping tool? Like most software, the range of offerings covers the range from free to expensive. The best solutions tend to fall within the cheap to mid-priced range. The super-expensive solutions (both in time and money) are often just not worth it.
How flexible does our prototyping tool need to be? Are we targeting just one platform, such as the web? Are we designing for lots of platforms like mobile, kiosk, television, consumer electronics and the web? Many prototyping tools are created with a single output type (usually web) in mind, so we�ll either need to select one that we can tweak to our liking or opt for techniques of creating our own prototypes in code.
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The Social Network: Where Are They Now?
Posted by M. Bamieh on January 13, 2011
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The Social Network has been received extremely well by critics across the boar, earning a 97% from Rotten Tomato and being compared to classics such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'Rashomon' . The movie is superbly directed and the script is impeccably written, and hell, even Justin Timberlake gave a solid performance in his role of Napster creator, Sean Parker. However, after watching the movie – which you should if you haven't – you are left with two lingering questions: How true are the events depicted in the movie and what happened to all those people?
In our previous post, we went over some the factual errors that bend and distort the truths in the story of Facebook's inception. In this part, we will be going over where are the characters now.
Well, I think he dropped the "I'm CEO Bitch" from his business card but he definitely is the CEO of Facebook and still at the top of his game. While the movie paints Mark as the social awkward borderline asperger nerd, in reality he's much more normal than that, except for being one of the youngest billionaires on earth. You can see him below talking about the early days of Facebook in an interview with the Business Insider, and he seems perfectly normal – though he never blinks!
The sweet talking ball of energy social network guru was brilliantly embodied by Justin Timberlake, while he is no longer the president of Facebook due to a certain "coke story", he still maintains his shares in the company and moved on to establish Causes, the Facebook application and website dedicated to raising money and awareness about various humanitarian causes. Also, he is a managing partner at Founders Fund, a venture capital.
Eduardo Saverin
The Real Eduardo on the Left
He's doing well, nothing much. He's worth $1.3 billion based solely on his 5% share of Facebook earning him a place on the Forbes list. Besides consulting on the book 'the Accidental billionaire' which served as the inspiration for the movie, Saverin has been comfortably residing in Singapore where have been investing in Facebook gaming startups there.
Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss
If you are wondering if they are as ridiculous annoying in real life as they were in the movie, then all you have to do is watch the interview of them whining about Facebook embedded above. The twins did participate in the Olympics and placed sixth. Their essence was truly captured in the movie with Mark Calling them the "Winklevii". And they are still trying to sue Facebook.
Divya Narendra
The ConnectU co-founder seems to be the only one that moved on, and if anything can be drawn from the interview above is that he is as motivated and driven as his depiction. He went on to co-found SumZero and investment social media website that helps investors share information and investment ideas.
The Roommates: Chris Hughes & Dustin Moskovitz
Mark, Dustin and Chris
While they were not heavily featured in the movie, they are prominent figures nowadays. Chris Hughes left Facebook to help mount Obama's Social Media Campaign and went on afterward to Start Jumo. Dustin, on the other hand, stayed at Facebook and has his own startup called Asana which aims to help people work together more effectively.
Now whether the movie was true or not is mostly irrelevant at this point, what is relevant though is how it will shape people's opinion about Facebook and its privacy woes in the future now that the person behind Facebook has been humanized, and people have a idea -mostly made up- of who Mark is.
What do you think will be the effect of the movie on the Facebook, if any? Did you enjoy it? Share with us your thoughts in our comment section below.
P.S. As an extra nugget of information if you are curious about who is the Hollywood star that is referred to during one of the depositions it is no other than miss Natallie Portman who was consulted by Sorkin.
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4 responses to "The Social Network: Where Are They Now?"
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I loved the movie – it helped humanize Zuckerberg and actually feel for him!
If anything, the effect of this movie of Facebook should be positive since it tells a story, and people love stories! Also, it makes Facebook seem closer to us in a way that allows us to relate to its team and founders…
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I don't think it helped humanize him, actually it's like that lawyer at the end of movie said to Zuck "You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be.". It totally made him come off as an asshole and prick
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Chinese, Rwandan presidents exchange congratulations on 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties
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Chinese, Rwandan presidents exchange congratulations on 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties - Xinhua
Visitors watch a performance at the exhibition area of Rwanda during the Second China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Sept. 28, 2021.(Xinhua/Chen Sihan)
BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, on Friday exchanged congratulations on the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
In his congratulatory message, Xi pointed out that since the founding of their diplomatic ties half a century ago, China and Rwanda have witnessed sound and steady development of their relations, and their traditional friendship has grown even stronger as time goes by.
A staff member shows a product in "Let's go China" exhibition hall at Kigali City Tower, in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sept. 9, 2021. (Photo by Huang Wanqing/Xinhua)
In recent years, bilateral friendly cooperation has maintained a good momentum for development, and exchanges in various fields have been deepened, which has improved the well-being of the people of both countries, Xi said.
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China and Rwanda have helped each other and worked together to fight the virus, demonstrating the brotherhood of sharing weal and woe, said the Chinese president.
Staff members unload a batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government at Kigali International Airport in Kigali, Rwanda, Nov. 7, 2021.(Xinhua/Ji Li)
Stressing that he attaches great importance to the development of China-Rwanda relations, Xi said he is willing to work with Kagame to take the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties and the new session of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) as an opportunity to deepen political mutual trust, strengthen cooperation in Belt and Road construction and other fields, and push for continuous development of bilateral friendly cooperative relations, so as to create benefits for both countries and their people.
In his message, Kagame said that since the establishment of diplomatic ties, the friendship between the two sides has been continuously strengthened, and their friendly cooperative relations continuously deepened.
That, he added, is deeply rooted in the common principles upheld by both sides of mutual respect, solidarity and mutual help, as well as mutual benefit.
China has provided support to Rwanda through various platforms, including the FOCAC and the Belt and Road Initiative, and played an important and positive role in Rwanda's national transformation, Kagame said.
Rwanda will continue to firmly expand and strengthen bilateral friendly cooperation in various fields, he added.


In 2013, the luxury industry grew by 4% to cross the bar of $ 200 billion worldwide. At constant exchange rates, the growth would have been 6% (source: Bain company 2013 study). So the more the crisis strikes the world the more the luxury industry performs well. The emerging countries are wonderful machines to produce new millionnaires every year and these people have a high spend in terms of luxury purchase power.
According to a study done by Forbes magazine on their annual billoonnaires top list, there are hundreds of people in the world with a budget for luxury goods and services that goes from $12 to $24 million every year. It is a lot of money to spend. Most of this money is used for Real luxury estate, automobile, travels and luxury goods shopping. So luxury brands are facing today the consequences of globalization. They face new markets and new customers who need a new education in terms of luxury. The new generation under 25 years old is also craving for luxury brands yet they do not have the references from the past to help them choose.
In the 50's, when a luxury brand like Dior or Chanel would launch a new fragrance or a new fashion collection, they would have national mainstream media coverage. It would be a national event for the country! These brands seemed exceptional and some how representative of a culture from a sociological point of view. When Dior launched its "New Look", the French luxury house was categorizing the entire decade in France. The after-war period was looking for a fresh start and Dior offered it.
In the 80's everything seemed possible. There were no limits to imagination and Luxury brands were basically reflecting the extravagance of the "Golden boys" period. Fashion brands like Thierry Mugler would transform their fashion shows into international entertainment super-star show. And for that 1'000 seats concert halls would be the scenery of these catwalks.
The 90's and the years 2000 changed radically the way people would buy luxury goods. Concepts like success, being rich, achievement and even the entire definition of luxury changed. What is a successful life today? Or what proves that "you made it"? These are interesting ideas that place luxury brands at stake.
When Jacques Seguela, French publicist, said that "if you do not have a Rolex before the age of 50 you would have missed your life", this sentence reflected the state of mind of a lost world.
What is the typology of a luxury brand customer today? This question became an obsession at many luxury brands administration board meetings. In every communication agency briefing the luxury customer targeted is young (under 35), beautiful, urban, lives in a house that looks like wallpaper magazine and would spend $25'000 for a first class ticket for his or her dog. Well let's get more precise because we might be looking for an old fossil of an animal that does not exist anymore. At least in the sense we all dreamed.
There is a study done by Boston Consultant Group (BCG) in 6 different luxury markets: USA, Brazil, Japan, China, Russia and Western Europe. In this study, BCG spotted 5 types of luxury customers, all experienced crisis differently.
They earn around $85'000 annually in developed markets and $29'000 in emerging countries. They are not big spenders for the moment but together they represent 30% of all luxury goods purchases in volume and 20% in value. In the 6 markets studied they represented 115 households. They definitely do not have always the means of their ambition in terms of lifestyle but they are usually very savvy in terms of luxury and wishes to buy brands they love.
These kind of customers have an annual income of $170'000 in developed countries and $55'000 in emerging markets. They are actually far more affluents than the established middle class and counts for 25% of all luxury purchases. There are 25 million households in this category across the studied markets. They usually buy fragrances, cosmetics and leather goods.
This cluster groups households with an annual income of at least $1 million. There are 6 million households in this category. They spend in total $90 billion every year in traditional luxury like Real estate, watches, travels and automobile. They represent more than 30% of the total luxury market in those markets.
These households have inherit their money and only count for 7% of total luxury purchases. They represent around 1 million households in the studied markets.
This cluster represents around 500'000 households. Most of them got rich by being self-made. They have a certain despise of luxury brands as they are simply symbols of feeling part of a successful elite. They buy generally watches, Jewelry, expensive furniture and decorations. Cars also come just behind. They are what we call the "new rich" an evolution of the Bourgeoisie concept. They have a lot of money, aim to spend it but no education on luxury. They will never understand why it takes 9 month to get an Hermès Birkin bag or one year for a Ferrari. They got rich quick and they want to enjoy their money even faster.
When luxury brands are suffering because the new generation lost their track, we could naturally blame society, the internet, fate or a rude winter. But at the end of the day, brands are the main responsible. It is all about keeping the brand DNA intact and never compromise on the quality, originality and interest of the creation. In this field, many brands need to review their strategy.
When Business analysts started talking to luxury brands, what happened? Well, the value analysis took place and brands started cutting budgets on "little details" that at the end were crucial for the customer. This is when fragrances started being cheaper and cheaper, fashion became a "made in China" story and that jewelry would use cheaper stones. In terms of creativity, luxury brands lost their soul and every luxury brand ad either looks like a coffee advertising or it looks like the other hundred ads. Didi you try to cover the Brand logos and try go guess which brand is which? Very hard to figure it out. Mass-market brands also raised the level of communication and sometimes H&M share the same models, concepts and stories with luxury high-end brands like Dior, Burberry or Prada. How can we expect the new generations to make the difference? Hard.
Today it is time for true luxury houses to define themselves as they should be, the proud defenders of quality, know-how, respect of the suppliers, of the customers and of the product. There is a full communication to be done about this and also to renew the aim for the exceptional, the exclusive, the good taste. Enough of me-too products and products without a soul. More than never, luxury houses need to redefine the luxury codes. Only in building a common language with new customers will save the future of luxury. Choices should be made according to state of art rather than profit and sales figures. Companies like Chanel, Louis Vuitton, JM Weston, Cartier or Rolex never compromise on product creation. It is not the case of many others.
Info sourced in wikipedia, BCG, Forbes, Wall Street Journal. Featured image represents a Louis Vuitton window – june 2013. It is used for illustration purposes only. All content is copyrighted with no reproduction rights available.


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Bombing of Dresden in World War II - Wikipedia.
The bombing of Dresden was a British-American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the.
The bombing of Dresden is continued to be recognized and referenced as a multiple example of the agony and grieve of civilians due to the Ali of the British and American Air Force. It is still argued that Dresden was a city of poor, or rather no military averment. It lacked assertiveness, and that is why it was so easily damaged, and effected by its attackers, and their strategic bombing.
Firestorm of Dresden Introduction: Dresden The bombing of Dresden from February 13 to February 15, 1945 remains one of the most controversial bombings in World War II. Located in eastern Germany, Dresden was targeted by Allied bombers during the final months World War II in the European theatre. Rationales behind the bombing remains controversial due to conflicting Allied and German viewpoints.
The bombing of Dresden began February 13, 1945, and lasted through April 17 — a period of two months — yet even today, it remains one of the most controversial military decisions in modern warfare. Why this premier cultural city was devastated during World War II continues to be clouded in mystery. Two contradictory reasons for the bombing have emerged. First, with the Russian army.
Flowers in the colours of Dresden are lying on the Altmarkt at a memorial to the victims of the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War 75 years ago. On the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden in the Second World War, the city commemorates with numerous events. On 13 and 14 February 1945, Allied bombers reduced the centre of the Elbe city to rubble and ashes. Up to 25,000 people.
Dresden is regarded by the Allies as the centre of its rail network linking eastern and southern Germany with Berlin, Prague and Vienna. Last night, the RAF also hit oil plants at Nuremberg, Bonn and Dortmund. Fighter Command Spitfires also pinpointed V weapons sites in the Netherlands that have launched hundreds of flying bombs against England in the last year. E-mail this story to a friend.
A ceremony of commemoration has taken place in the German city of Dresden, 70 years after Allied bombing killed around 25,000 people and left much of the city in ruins.
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The bombing of Dresden was, within the best judgement of those in charge, the best option for proceeding with the war towards victory and therefore the deposition of the Nazi party and the prevention of further crimes against Jews, homosexuals, gypsies etc. - the Allied forces did not bomb Dresden for fun, nor for evil purposes, but to the end of winning one of the VERY few wars in history.
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In his book The Destruction of Dresden, Irving reviews the Allied bombing of the German city Dresden. Irving argues that the triple bombing of the city was not necessary by 1945, the last year of the war, and the British and American deliberately bombed civilians to bring down moral. When considering the aspects of total war, as World War Two was, and the innocent Jews that were dying in the.
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Ghanaian Presbyterian Minister is Among International Peacemakers Visiting this Fall
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Rev. Gladys Lariba Mahama of Ghana is one of the International Peacemakers scheduled to visit the United States this fall. (Photo courtesy of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program)
Rev. Gladys Lariba Mahama has a big job. She is a minister with the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, serving five congregations spread across the upper eastern region. She is also the women's coordinator for the Northern Presbytery and a social worker. Her work keeps her busy, but the impact is rewarding.
Mahama is one of nearly a dozen International Peacemakers who will be speaking across the United States this fall, giving Presbyterians and others an opportunity to learn about the church's work in a part of the world they may not be familiar with.
"As a social worker I have worked under the GO Home Project of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, which seeks to reintegrate women who have been identified as 'witches' that are eventually sent back to their communities," she said. "I have also been working on an association for widows. It is difficult to reach all of the people I need to see because of a lack of adequate transportation in the area."
Mahama says the illiteracy rate of these communities is high, making it difficult to communicate. She often needs someone to accompany her who can translate the English language. Because most of the people are small-scale farmers, she finds it hard to reach many of the people during rainy seasons.
Despite the hardships, Mahama says she finds the work rewarding.
"One thing I believe in the work of God is that the inheritance of heaven awaits me, and that is what gives me the passion to work," she said. "Due to the nature of this work, I believe I have gotten a lot of exposure because I meet different people day in and day out. I have learned so much from others."
Mahama and the other scheduled peacemakers will speak around the country from September 23 to October 17. The group gathers in Louisville before and after their visits for orientation and debriefing. Carl Horton, coordinator of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, says visits by each peacemaker usually last between three and five days. Not all visits must include a weekend. Midweek visits are recommended for colleges, universities or theological institutions.
Mahama is hopeful American congregations will be inspired by what she has to say, and she plans to spend a lot of time promoting peace.
"Peace is a key ingredient in a successful human life," she said. "I will therefore talk much about peace, good relationships, tolerance, hard work and the seriousness in working for God. People should be willing to come and listen. I will base my speech on participatory method; therefore, I will expect all of us to share ideas and learn from each other."
Mahama finds the work of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program very important in today's world.
"I work with all manner of people from different tribes, clans and even communities. It is incumbent on all to embrace peace in order to live in harmony so that we can grow as individuals and a nation as a whole," she said. "As a minister of God, I need peace to promote the word of God. Without peace, people will not be willing to listen."
The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program has invited leaders from partner denominations and organizations to visit the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for more than 30 years. As many as 57 countries have been represented by the speakers as they have traveled to churches, synods, presbyteries and educational institutions.
Other peacemakers will be coming from Colombia, Cuba, Hungary, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Kenya, Niger, South Sudan, Syria and Uruguay.
Rick Jones, Communications Strategist, Presbyterian Mission Agency
Today's Focus: Ghana
Let us join in prayer for:
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And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
John 14:16–17
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In its August 12 public hearing on zoning changes to permit a grocery and retail at Chappaqua Crossing totaling 120,000 square feet of new building space, Town Board members heard from several property owners in downtown Chappaqua including Bill Holmes, who urged Board members, as "caretakers of the town" to first develop a Master Plan. "Listen to everything," he said, "and have a moratorium if you have to." Supervisor Greenstein reiterated his commitment to revitalize the hamlets, "whatever happens at Chappaqua Crossing." Town Board members asked Summit Greenfield to supply "a sliding scale" of traffic figures associated with retail space of as much as 50% less than the 120,000 square feet studied in the environmental review.
"This is not NIMBY. This is not my neighborhood," said Lambert, who lives, she said, near Grafflin, "but I do think it's going to impact a whole big section of town if this amount of traffic were to be laid down on that side of town.
"There's going to be something there," said Greenstein, "—whether office or retail—no question that the property is underutilized now.
Later in the hearing, a resident approached Town Board members with his smart phone, suggesting that they visit the Whole Foods in White Plains on Google Earth and see that it is serviced by an eight-lane road, as compared to Route 117.
Bill Holmes, of the former Holmes & Kennedy and still a commercial property owner in town, was next to speak. Greenstein asked to make some remarks himself first.
"I think the most important thing is that you're here as caretakers of the town and the people of the town," said Holmes. "And I think the most important thing is to have a master plan and think things through thoroughly, without acting on the Digest. I know full well they want to develop it, whether it's residential, commercial. They're entitled to develop it. They bought the property. But we don't have to change the zoning to accomplish that.
"The first thing to do is to understand what we have. I was here for the Pace report, listening to it. It was very interesting. A survey is going to be done. The next thing the town needs to do is to develop a Master Plan. You need to decide what is best for the town—not what's best for the Digest, or even, for that matter, what's best for the downtown. But listen to everything and have a moratorium if you have to. Stop development. Carry through and get something that's going to be good for the next 50 years, because there are a lot of people who've invested a lot of money downtown Millwood and Chappaqua, counting on what the zoning was—that there wouldn't be another hamlet in town. [in New Castle].
"I called for a moratorium well over a year ago," responded Greenstein. "And that might have been a good time to do that, but for every action there's a reaction and there's legal consequences to making certain decisions. So while it might be nice to issue a moratorium and just say, 'SG, you've waited this long, you'll wait another two years' that would be nice if we thought we'd have a reasonably good chance of staying out of court by saying that. These are things that come into our decision making process.
Town Board member Lisa Katz told Bill Holmes that she had asked at the last public hearing that the Town Board consider a moratorium. She and Board members have discussed their options with legal counsel, she said, but had yet to discuss the moratorium option in public, and she intended to bring it up with Board members in the future.
Jeff Blockinger, the owner of a commercial building in Chappaqua, pointed out to Board members that he and other owners of downtown Chappaqua buildings were present—and concerned.
"These are not The Gap or Victoria's Secret," said Blockinger. "These are people who have committed substantial resources to this town who, I believe, have a right to continue to be heard as significant decisions that are being made that are going to impact the investments that we've made to improve this community.
"This town has two existing hamlets, each of which have substantial problems that have existed for years and years and years. Those problems have not been solved yet, and we are now going to open a third hamlet. We have all sorts of studies and statistics and efforts to determine what's going to happen in the future with that third hamlet. Regardless of what happens with that hamlet, it is without question: we have not solved the traffic and planning problems with the existing hamlets. The infrastructure is a disaster. Quite frankly, it's an embarrassment for the members of this community and it impacts the residential real estate value in this town as well as the commercial real estate value in this town—I have to echo Bill [Holmes]'s sentiment.
"You're doing a great job and you're working really hard, but you have an obligation to safe-keep this town for the residents and the future residents of this town. I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for Summit Greenfield. I don't know how they put up with this. I would be extremely frustrated if I were them, but I don't think that that is the point. I don't care about being sued. I don't think you should care about being sued. I think Bill's right [Holmes commented earlier that neighbors of Chappaqua Crossing would surely sue as well]: You are going to get sued no matter what you do. So I think it behooves you to just make the right decision. I think the right decision is to solve the existing hamlets' problems, then move on to the third hamlet or whatever's going to happen at Chappaqua Crossing.
"We pay a substantial amount of tax in this town. Many of us are both residents and commercial property owners—that's double-taxed. That's why I pointed out we're not The Gap. We're real members of this community. We've invested substantial sums in this community and all we're asking you to do is to be fully informed, thoughtful and careful when you're making extremely important decisions for the future of this town.
"I notice all kinds of statements about legalities," said Betty Weitz. "I can't help but feel you're playing three-card-Monte with the law. It's a matter of credibility." After Greenstein's talk of the Board's "hands being tied"—when she believed that they are not—the Board needed, Weitz said, to rebuild trust with the community.
"I'm a board member [with another organization]," said Lynne Lambert, "and we've been sued. It goes with the territory—but we have insurance." Doesn't the town have insurance, she asked.
"At the end of the day," said the Board's counsel, Nick Ward-Willis, "the Board will make a defensible decision based on the record." He declined to engage in any specific legal discussion.
Angela Carrozza, a partner in Donna's Hair Design on North Greeley, addressed Board members.
"It's just so hard being an owner and businessperson who's been here for so long," "Other towns aren't like ours," she said. "They have sidewalks you can walk on. Everything here is always patched. It's unbelievable and it's just not pretty. And as little as that sounds, this is a big new venture you're trying to put up there [at Chappaqua Crossing]. We have a beautiful new overpass [the bridge] with sidewalks, but you can't walk in town." She was grateful, she told Town Board members, for the new three-hour parking [changed over the summer from two-hour). But over the years, throughout many "regimes," nothing seems to get done, she said.
The public hearing will continue on Tuesday, September 23.
Town of New Castle Board Meeting 8/12/14 from New Castle Media Center on Vimeo.
New Castle Town Board Joint Work Session 8/12/14 from New Castle Media Center on Vimeo.
According to sources familiar with the situation Mr. Icahn has absolutely no interest in Whole Foods whatsoever. The troubles Whole Foods is having with low margin (as with any grocer) and increased competition in the organic space seem to be destined to continue with no caped financial superhero on the way to bail them out. Or at least not Mr. Icahn.
I wonder what this 6MM infrastructure project looks or will look like or how will it "shore" up, "shore" up, "shore" up, the hamlet?
Is it nicer or more store front's?
Is it going to fix a traffic problem?
Maybe the spending particulars are on the web site under "shore up" along with other examples of half baked plans energized by continuity of institutional inertia contributing to the dysfunctional decision making process.
Unfortunately we find ourselves trapped in a state of affairs with the record and all its conflicts and posturing full of decision makers defending their own decisions, how screwed up is that.
I sure hope the ongoing public participation effort supplies the planners authentic community needs and concerns, the most valuable elements for the decision makers to hear, listen to and include. And for the record Town Board, what's "defensible" is a community driven collaborative process creating choices made up of our needs and our interests not yours.
Not sure what this means but the Town has posted letter from State DOT on mynewcastle.org acknowledging a submission for the Roaring Brook - 117 Intersection.
I am sympathetic to the downtown landowners but I believe they have it all wrong. I do not frequent downtown very often not because of lack of parking and sidewalks. I don't shop downtown much because it offers me very little and what I do have a use for is too expensive. Even if parking were better what use do I have for 8 nail salons and day spas, RiteAide and WalGreen, Starbucks and Dunkin D's, 5 banks, 5 real estate brokers , and a few delis and pizza Parlors. Maybe if the commercial land owners lowered their rents retail would come in that could afford the rent and offer residents diversity and values.
I can't even watch when Lisa Katz speaks on moratoriums and anything that effects retail at CC. She is not open minded. She is totally dishonest when she says is going to make a decision based on what is best for our town. That is nonsense! She has said from day 1 she intends to block, stop, and obstruct retail at CC. That is her goal and everything she says and every question she asks is skewed and slanted to meet her objective.
Lisa Katz is never so animated and participatory as when retail at CC is discussed. She offers nothing else and on other topics. Once again she steers the discussion and concludes she is calling for a moratorium. She ignores a traffic study by a highly respected and reputable expert. She ignores the studies and surveys already done.
Even the Pace representative working on our Master Plan admitted that residents indicate that we view retail at CC as a compliment to downtown.
To Lisa Katz - would you please tell us what the town stands to lose if you get your way and we institute a moratorium? What taxes will we continue to lose at CC and how much in monetary damages do we stand to lose when Summit Greenfield sues us? You are playing with dynamite and you are jeopardizing all tax payers and all residents. It is totally irresponsible of you to call for a moratorium without first understanding and calculating the potential damage to all of us. You are a town board member - you are a lawyer. We expect you have done the math so please share. If you haven't done the math and you don't know the potential negative impact your action will cause then shame on you. I'm sure your nimby neighbors are cheering you on but will they pay the damages?
Has anyone calculated today's existing traffic pattern ( with a near empty Chapp Xing) to what the traffic pattern was when Readers Digest was in full bloom? I bet if we compared today's existing traffic at CC with Readers Digest traffic when they employed thousands that the same alarmists would be yelling and screaming about traffic.
They would say that existing traffic would spike much higher and they would object to Readers Digest.
The world doesn't work that way, Rayj. Business doesn't get better through landlords lowering rents. Retail rental space around here is already cheap, compared to healthier towns, which charge more rent than we do. Healthier = more foot traffic, therefore more business. Landlords and businesses don't have the foot traffic to be able to charge more. If they had the foot traffic, rents would be higher and businesses would be doing better. That's what our problem is downtown. We don't have enough businesses that draw enough people—and—we don't have enough people to draw interesting other-kinds of businesses.
That used to be OK, when we had no $$ worries and before we had a population of young families who expect their town (their downtown) to be a more interesting place, not a nothing-place. Somehow we need to manufacture more retail and more housing in the downtown. And that's what Greenstein means when he says we need "transit-oriented development." And that's what Napoli means when he says we need more retail and housing in the downtown. Greenstein's talking about the town hall land. Napoli's talking about the Bell field and another row of stores.
@ Retail rents are already cheap- maybe you have unlimited funds but many in town are not swimming in money. You say that it is because foot traffic downtown is poor that landlords and businesses are unable to charge more. Are you kidding? Have you seen the prices at Family Britches, Mikolay ? Have you compared prices at Susan Lawrence and Village Market to others? Squires charges top dollar , double sometimes compared to Kohls and other stores I shop for my kids. Have you tried the $6 brownie at Sherry B?
How much foot traffic do you expect from 8 nail salons five banks and a bunch of delis, pizza, and drug stores? What foot traffic do you expect when I park my car at Langes for a sandwich? You want me to walk down the hill with my dry cleaning?
Jacob Burn theater in Plaeasantville creates plenty of foot traffic yet merchants are struggling and turnover is high.
You have the demographics wrong. There are many young families as you say, but almost half our homeowners are empty nesters. Their kids are out of the house.
Interesting you mention Napoli twice. His plan is dead on arrival. He wants to build parking and bring traffic right next to a middle school and across from a full to capacity train station. He needs this extra parking because his plan calls for chain stores in downtown Chapp. Like I said - dead on arrival.
Less families desire or can afford to move to chappy these days.
Many "underwater" mortgages are causing those empty nesters to stay.
Empty retail space is prevalent throughout n.westchester county.
Time to re-think the insanity of adding more retail to the mix.
I'm not a NIMBY, I live plenty far from Chappaqua Crossing.
I'm a realist, I took off the rose colored glasses years ago.
Although this article does not mention it, much more of interest went on at the town board meeting than just the discussion of CC. It will behoove all citizens to watch the above embedded video of the town board meeting at the 12 minute mark to learn about the extensive savings made in the new garbage-pickup contract and at the 1 hour 23 minute mark to learn about the restitution that the former town administrator will have to pay the town.
It's very interesting to me that some if these downtown commercial property owners present themselves as victims. Mt Holmes had done extrodinarly well selling real estate in this town for decades. What has been given back to the community in the form of storefront improvements and rents that can attract and keep merchants. Struggling merchants site both foot traffic issues and high rents charged by landlords.
Jeez - TB member Brodsky owns ( his family and employer) downtown property that had stood empty for years. How had his empty property ( formally a restaraunt) contribute to downtown vitality?
The irresponsible comment by Mr Blockinger that we are going to get sued either way is abhorrent. It may be that the NIMBYs might sue but their lawsuit has almost no merit and would be liitle more than a nuisance law suit. NIMBYs rarely win in court. Compare their threat of a lawsuit with that of litigation by Summit Greenfield. The town stands to lose far more against SG than against a few folks that have protested and obstructed everything for nearly a decade.
Katz and Brodsky have clear conflicts of interest and whenever they speak I cringe.
I heard no one present themselves as a victim. It is obvious that you are not a lawyer.
The residents of this town are no different than most others. We shop and we dine where we think we get the best experience and best value. That should not surprise anyone. I do not understand the complaints and protestations coming from commercial landlords and property owners. The town governemt can assist in supplying and modernizing infrastructure but ultimately the success / failure of businesses is largely in the hands of the owners. That is integral in a democratic capitalistic society.
I am surprised by comments made by Bill Holmes. Bill has been a beneficiary of the growth and popularity of our town. As more and more people moved here as more and more residential houses and developments have been built over the past 30 years, Mr Holmes became a wealthy man as a real estate broker. In short, this town and our residents are responsible for his success. It offends me that the very town that created his wealth is now a target because he is looking to protect his downtown property.
He of all people understands how business ( retail and real estate ) has evolved and changed because of competition innovation and the internet. Blocking competition at CC is not the answer. He repeats the call to deny zoning change at CC but if he would be ok with a zoning change for his downtown property if it meant building bigger and making more money.
The only thing Millwood needs is sewers. Of course, as long as our friends in Yonkers view an extension of the sewer line as nothing but a pipeline for bringing Chappaqua's "affluent effluent" to their community, this will never get done. Almost of the residents of the West End will never see sewer connections even with an extension of the trunk line, but our business district is being held hostage nonetheless.
SAY NO TO TAXPAYER FUNDED CORPORATE WELFARE FOR DOWNTOWN LANDLORDS!
Chain stores mean more foot traffic. Who is going to walk around downtown chappaqua as it exists today? The kids from bell may hit marios, starbucks, dunkin or another deli/pizza spot, but that doesnt really do anything for the merchants or for the commercial tax dollars.
The rents are not "too high" in town—there just simply isnt anything residents from outside our town want, and nothing a resident here can't get for less elsewhere.
If the town opens itself up to development or 'bigger' box stores such as the gap brands, then perhaps a restaurant would follow suit downtown.
Chappaqua crossing could be the start. If you want town to remain as is, that is certainly respectable - many moved here for the country feel and charm. The real issue is that you cannot have your cake and eat it too.
There is a lot of empty retail- but the new grocery store in Armonk is jammed all the time. Not all retail is alike. If we had better retail in the Chappaqua hamlet- it would have customers too- some like susan lawrence is always busy- and the sidewalks and parking up there are just as bad or worse. If there is no there there- nobody goes there.
I do not think it unreasonable for the merchants and the residents of this town to want a cared for downtown. As it is now the downtown is a mess and that is the TB's responsibility. With the exception of that Hakim building on North Greeley which really is a blight on the town the other buildings are well kept. How do the Hakims as residents of this town get away with this insult ?
Create a BID as a joint venture between the town and the owners. The owners can get religion and pay for their own improvements and profitability.


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Renewable Consumption Policy: Battery Storage, Hydrogen and New Infrastructures to Benefit
Renewable: Wind, Solar, Storage: Battery & EV, Storage: Hydrogen / By Yuki / 17 June 2020 17 June 2020
China has unleashed a new set of policy measures to combat renewable waste or curtailment–a looming issue facing the clean power sectors following recent years of project construction dash.
The latest policy, from National Energy Administration, shows Beijing's a firmer grip on the issue and its determination in boosting renewable consumption.
However, the new measures may be not entirely good news to renewable investors and developers. And the near-term winner of China's "renewable consumption pressure" is more likely to be battery manufacturers, storage developers as well as the nascent hydrogen sector.
Renewable Consumption Policy in China: An Update
China's National Energy Administration (NEA) last month released a policy draft regarding the building of a long-term mechanism for clean energy consumption. The feedback inviting draft is yet to become an effective policy, but it has triggered industry's attention.
The policy outlines a new "game-plan," or a new structure, of China's renewable market.
In many ways, NEA's new policy can be seen as an update of the Clean Energy Consumption Action Plan announced by National Development and Reform Commissions (NDRC) in 2018. Both aims to solve the renewable waste issue. Both eye on similar dimensions for curtailment reduction, including improving system flexibility, adding local renewable consumption demand, utilizing power trading mechanisms, and expanding grid access.
However, several subtle different lied in the new policy hinted Beijing's new emphasis in the future "solutions." The below chart by Energy Iceberg research highlights the key differences between the two policies.
Shifting Focus
The most significant change is the answer to one critical question:
Who should take the burden/cost of improving system flexibility?
The answer used to be the coal-fired power plants and the grid operators. The former was required to improve technology and serve as peakers in NDRC's 2018 policy; the latter were asked to provide more transmission access and improve flexible transmission. But in the NEA policy draft, the responsibility is on renewable generators to build a "grid-friendly" renewable project.
Meanwhile, there are several other changes in the new policy draft.
The scope of "clean power": nuclear power (over) supply appears to be no longer a big concern. The industry is barely mentioned in the new draft, perhaps due to the limited nuclear new build units in the past and the coming years.
The market trading mechanism to apply: establishing auxiliary service mechanisms has been placed in a much higher position; Beijing also hints a stronger push for renewable to participate in spot trading.
The role of the grid: the grid operators held accountable to fulfil several responsibilities in grid investment and technology innovation in the 2018 policy; in the new policy, its accountability to invest appears to be much lighter. Instead, there is a heavier emphasis on its role in designing renewable development pace.
The renewable consumption measures: the new version of NEA details the exact methods to promote local renewable consumptions, with EVs, electrifying harbours, hydrogen production listed as crucial measures.
RE-electrification instead of heavy-industry-focused: there is no more emphasis on mining and metal industries as means to increase power consumption, indicating a "greener" preference on electrification (in heating, cooling, hydrogen, transportation sectors).
New Renewable Power Game Play? What Conclusion to Draw?
The policy draft of NEA paints a likely new landscape of China's renewable market, where the traditional renewable players (wind, solar, hydro, grid, and regional government) face new roles.
Moreover, the future market will see the participation of new players with increasingly substantial roles. Players like battery storage, hydrogen producers and EV charging providers could have a more massive influence on the market direction in the future.
The market is poised to be more "complex."
New-Infrastructure Energy Sectors Would Benefit
Notably, the industries to benefit from the new renewable consumption policy are those included in China's new infrastructure investment strategy.
Battery energy storage
2020 has redefined China's energy storage investment approach. The renewable generators are set to take up the responsibility to develop battery storage units, as current policies from the central government and regional regulators show.
While the battery sector saw the dramatic boom and burst of the grid's energy storage investments in 2019, it is facing new growth momentum provided by the new renewable consumption policy.
As of June 2020, there are at least 12 provinces in China that have laid down energy-storage requirements on renewable new-builds, asking developers to build up storage capacities accordingly.
Green Hydrogen Production and Transportation
The nascent hydrogen industry shall benefit from the policy.
China currently still has limited green hydrogen development, mostly due to the lacking price competitiveness of green hydrogen—compared to the grey hydrogen produced in China's massive coal and chemical industries. Meanwhile, the traditional players are in an early stage, exploring the economic potential of green hydrogen based on low-cost power supplies.
But the shifting policy direction will spur changes fast. Already regional governments and power utilities under the political pressure show growing interest and begun to invest in the field.
Grid Construction
Several new policies in 2020 have strengthened grid companies' power in the renewable sector. The development appears to be at odds with the reformative measures (against) grid's position in the previous years.
Renewable Investment Faces New Market Dynamics
A more vigorous policy to support renewable consumption sounds like a good plan for renewable developers, who suffered from severe curtailment issues in the past.
However, in the near term, several new policy measures may add insult to injure of renewable investment, which is undergoing a storm of subsidy sunset and supply chain cluster.
A vital issue for the renewable generator is the increased requirement of energy storage construction, which would drive up their cost.
As several estimation shows, internal investment return could quickly drop 0.3% for wind and solar projects for building the required 10-20% storage capacity construction. At the same time, the new policy did not fix the "marriage" between renewable and energy storage. More than a dozen local governments have introduced regional rules demanding such combination.
While the renewable industry may push back on such development, it is undeniable that the sector is up for a more complex market environment, as a wide range of new players from the demand side is poised to take part in the game.
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