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How hurricanes are classified
Damage done to homes in Florida by Hurricane Michael. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Hurricanes are classified using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale — a 1 to 5 rating that's based on maximum sustained wind speed, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Background: The scale also assesses potential property damage from strong winds, with "Category 3" hurricanes and higher considered to be "major" hurricanes. The scale was created by Herbert Saffir and Robert Simpson in 1971 and introduced to the public in 1973. It was updated in 2010 to solely reflect wind speed and not storm surge or other factors.
Here's how the categories are broken down:
Winds: 74–95 mph
"Very dangerous winds will produce some damage."
Example: Hurricane Nate (October 2017), Hurricane Franklin (August 2017)
Winds: 96–110 mph
"Extremely dangerous winds will cause extensive damage."
Example: Hurricane Arthur (July 2014), Hurricane Ernesto (August 2012)
Category 3 (major)
Winds: 111–129 mph
Damage: "Devastating damage will occur"
Example: Hurricane Katrina (Augst 2005), Hurricane Karl (September 2010)
"Catastrophic damage will occur"
Example: Hurricane Harvey (August–September 2017), Hurricane Joaquin (September–October 2015)
Winds: 157 mph and higher
Example: Hurricane Michael (October 2018), Hurricane Andrew (August 1992)
Yes, but: A "hurricane" is the name given to systems that develop over the Atlantic or the eastern Pacific Ocean. Tropical storms that develop in other places can be called "typhoons" or "cyclones" — and the classification practices for those differ slightly.
Context: Even Category 1 hurricanes can kill dozens, given that the greatest threat is water, not wind. This comes both through a storm surge at the coast and heavy inland rains.
There is a growing movement within the meteorology community to rethink the Saffir-Simpson scale to take into account other storm characteristics, including size, surge potential and rainfall.
The Atlantic Basin's tropical storms and hurricanes in 2019
How hurricanes are named


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OWAA announces 2018 honorary award recipients
Posted by Jessica Pollett on June 20, 2018 in Press Releases · Continue Reading
The Outdoor Writers Association of America honored six members with its most distinguished awards June 4, at the annual conference in Fort Wayne.
J. Hammond Brown Memorial Award = Kevin Rhoades, of Missoula, Montana
Excellence in Craft Award = Ben Moyer, of Farmington, Pennsylvania
Jade of Chiefs Award = Holly Endersby, of Pollock, Idaho
Jackie Pfeiffer Memorial Award = Steve Griffin, of Midland, Michigan
Outstanding Board Member = Christine Peterson, of Newcastle, Wyoming
Committee Volunteer of the Year = Ann Simpson, of Stephens City, Virginia
J. Hammond Brown Memorial Award
OWAA's most prestigious recognition of a member for devoted past service to the organization over a period of continuous years.
Kevin Rhoades has served OWAA, not just as a member since 1999, but also an employee. He edited Outdoors Unlimited for several years before he became executive director in 2004. His six-year term encompassed a contentious and divisive time in the organization, but his steady and calming influence helped the organization recover, said Bill Powell, OWAA's legal counsel and a past Ham Brown recipient.
"He unselfishly and tirelessly used skills developed during his prior careers in finance and wrangling grizzlies to help OWAA survive those trying times in relatively good shape and begin its recovery," Powell said. "He used those same skills and others on many occasion to mediate pay and other disputes engaging OWAA members."
The endowment trust was created under his tenure, as was the creation of a gift acceptance policy. Rhoades remained active in OWAA after leaving the executive director position. He served on committees, sometimes as chair, and is one of OWAA's endowment trustees.
"The Ham Brown Award recognizes a member for 'devoted past service to the organization over a period of continuous years,'" Powell said. "This phrase precisely describes what Kevin has done for the past 19 years."
Excellence in Craft Award
For outstanding effort in upholding the OWAA creed and continued excellence in craft.
"Ben Moyer is a writer of excellence," said Glenn Sapir, a past recipient of the Excellence in Craft award. "His copy demonstrates a love and sensitivity for the outdoors, and any article he writes exemplifies the ethical high road a sportsman should follow. None of this is done pedantically; he simples creates narratives that paint these pictures and set examples."
Moyer is the outdoor columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a columnist for Pennsylvania Outdoor News and Pennsylvania Game News. He is also the former editor of Pennsylvania Sportsman Magazine, where he demonstrated outstanding editorial judgment and editing skills and developed a large stable of contributors, many of whom he mentored to become better writers, Sapir said.
Moyer is a frequent contributor to the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Game News Magazine and frequently writes the coveted closing essay. He published a collection of some of his best work in the book "Out Back: Reflections from the Appalachian Outdoors."
Moyer, an OWAA member since 1986, has taught writing classes and workshops and received numerous awards, including Audubon Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Wildlife Federation's Conservation Communicator of the Year.
Jade of Chiefs Award
Nominated, voted on and presented by past award winners known as the "Circle of Chiefs."
Holly Endersby's first loves have always been public lands and waters, Pat Wray and Rich Patterson, past Jade of Chiefs recipients, said. That passion fueled her work as a freelance outdoor writer and took her to then newly formed Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, where she became national conservation director, the organization's primary fundraiser and served as interim executive director.
Endersby received the Mike Beagle Chairman's Award from the organization in 2017 for "significant contribution to raising the visibility and growth of BHA."
She received the Weatherby Foundation International Writer Outreach Award for Journalist Excellence in the cause of conservation and hunting education in 2001. She's also won numerous Excellence in Craft awards.
Endersby, an OWAA member for 18 years, has also served on the Outdoor Writers Association of America's board, from 2004-2007.
She is a tireless advocate for conservation, Wray and Patterson said. She represented hunters and anglers for almost nine years on the Clearwater Basin Collaborative in north-central Idaho, protecting roadless areas, while working with timber companies, county commissioners and motorized interests. She is a life member of organizations including Trout Unlimited and The Nature Conservancy and served on the Idaho Nature Conservancy's board of directors.
Jackie Pfeiffer Memorial Award
Awarded for exemplifying warmth and radiance, goodwill, helpfulness, generosity and kindness to others. Members and their spouses are eligible for this award.
The Jackie Pfeiffer Memorial Award originally began as a way to acknowledge member spouses who assisted staff at conference. But as employees have taken over those tasks, spouses no longer are needed to fill that role, said Glenn Sapir, a past recipient of the award.
However, the award criteria "genuine warmth and radiance, goodwill, helpfulness, generosity and kindness to others," are still important and displayed in members like Steve Griffin, this year's recipient, Sapir said. A member since 1976, Griffin has attended numerous conferences. He takes care to welcome green ribbons — those attending conference for the first time — and always offers a smile.
"Simply put, he's a nice guy who is always ready to pitch in when a chore needs to be attended to at conference," Sapir said.
Outstanding Board Member Award
Voted on and presented by OWAA's board of directors.
OWAA's board of directors recognized Christine Peterson as Outstanding Board Member of the Year. Peterson joined OWAA in 2012 and was elected to the board in 2016."The board of directors had several strong contributors this year, but Christine was an absolute standout," said outgoing president Phil Bloom. "That fact obviously caught the attention of her board colleagues, who voted her this honor. She regularly contributed valuable insights that helped shape the conversation of board business while adding to her contributions to OWAA matters by chairing not one but two committees – Officer Nominating and National Affairs & Environment."
Committee Volunteer of the Year Award
Recognizes excellence, commitment and service and going beyond the call of duty while serving on an OWAA committee.
Ann Simpson is the second recipient of OWAA's newest award, which recognizes members who volunteer their time to the organization through committee work.
Simpson is recognized for her efforts on the education committee. Noticing a lack of clear judging guidelines for the Norm Strung Youth Writing Contest, she took it upon herself to develop a rubric that standardized how the education committee can objectively evaluate the entrants.
An OWAA member since 2012, Simpson is a biology professor at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, Virginia. She is also co-owner of Simpson's Nature Photographer with her husband Rob and a writer and photographer for outlets including Falcon Guides and Farcountry Press.
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Fintech Alliance aims to address the financial sector's biggest issues today during the INDX Summit 2.0
Fintech Alliance.PH, the country's leading and largest association of fintech and digital players, is hosting the second edition of Inclusion and Digital Transformation (INDX) Summit 2.0 on November 22-23, 2022 at the Enderun Tent, McKinley Hill, Taguig City. This high-level summit will focus on accelerating the new administration's massive digitalization thrust under its 8-point socioeconomic agenda and the country's first-ever Medium-Term Fiscal Framework.
The FinTech Alliance membership collectively generates over 90 percent of digital-initiated transactions volume in the Philippines today. It was established in November 2017 and was launched at the BSP with the late BSP Governor Nestor A. Espenilla, Jr., championing inclusive digital finance and financial education.
Following a successful event pre-pandemic in 2019, Fintech Alliance.PH will again bring together the economic policy-makers, industry leaders, practitioners, legislators, and government partners involved in digital finance, digital transformation, innovations, and strategy to build an in-depth discussion and actionable ideas through presentations, panels, insights, and collaborative learning opportunities that will evolve within the core pillars of transformation, people, technology, and process.
The Summit is being staged in collaboration with the Department of Finance, Department of Information and Communications Technology, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Department of Trade and Industry, Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Transportation, National Economic Development Authority, Insurance Commission, National Privacy Commission, Credit Information Corporation, Department of Health, Department of Agriculture, and other key government agencies.
Among its keynote speakers include Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno, BSP Governor Felipe Medalla, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Emil Aquino, Insurance Commissioner Dennis Funa, and other local and international shakers and movers in the fintech and digital space discussing national digital transformation focusing on inclusive finance, healthtech, agritech, eductech, quantum technology, metaverse, digitizing mSMEs, digital assets, decentralized finance, blockchain, and open banking, to name a few.
Given the exponential growth of these industries, INDX Summit 2.0 will empower key sectors to achieve their goals towards the digital future and support those who seek advancement in the fintech landscape—progressively closing a gap in terms of producing high-quality digital talents.
The two-day INDX Summit will be capped by an Ambassadors' Gala where key heads of missions and other international development agencies as well as partner regional and global partners will gather. One of the highlights of this event would be the inaugural launch of the Fintech and Regulatory Innovation (FTRI) Programme in the Philippines on November 23, 2022 at 6:00pm. This exciting new programme will be delivered by the Mapua University and the FinTech Alliance.ph, and powered by the Cambridge Centre of Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge Judge Business School. This initiative is the first off-campus Cambridge FinTech and Regulatory Innovation Programme by the CCAF, University of Cambridge Judge Business School in the ASEAN region.
"This FinTech Alliance INDX Summit 2.0 will be the biggest gathering of movers and shakers not only in the Philippines, but globally, with the common aim of accelerating inclusive and sustainable Philippine digital economy," said Lito Villanueva, founding chairman of FinTech Alliance.ph and executive vice president and chief innovation and inclusion officer of RCBC.
During the press conference, Mr. Villanueva was asked different questions on concerns about online lending, digital payments, and the web 3.0 space. He mentioned that all of these issues have a vital impact to the direction of the sector in the future and the INDX conference was rightfully established to create a stage where different stakeholders and decision makers can discuss and address these.
To register for the event, please visit: https://indx2022.enderunconferences.com/.
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Lloyd and Judith Barran seemed to have it all– a blossoming business, a great marriage, but one must simply know how they came to achieve all of this. There is one word for it: love.
A couple's shared love and passion
Before they married and had three wonderful children, Lloyd and Judith were in different worlds– almost literally. Lloyd was born in Guyana, South America while Judith first saw the light of the world in Davao, Philippines. Even as a young man, Lloyd did everything with passion and grit. He was a stellar student– up till he entered college at the University of Saskatchewan, he continued his love for science by taking up Pharmacy.
However, science took a break for a while when he went back to Guyana to become a corporate secretary to six companies in the Booker, McConnell Group of Companies. It was a great undertaking, but his love for science still prevailed as he went back to Canada, eventually opening up a retail pharmacy that lasted for 25 years. That was the time when Lloyd met Judith– an encounter like no other.
Judith and Lloyd Barran: The couple's love for aromatherapy and their strong bond has been crucial for the Essence of Cleopatra Aromatherapy, Presenting Cleopatra Luxury Skincare to rise to greater heights.
Judith was a Commerce graduate, but she was also keen on discovering and making new paths for herself. She studied interior decorating, and affluent people from Davao would acquire her to decorate their mansions. She followed her heart and married Lloyd in 1992, and moved to Canada a year later. In 2000, She attended Aromatherapy school, and Lloyd followed her the next year. Their love for each other and their interest in aromatherapy brought forth the existence of Essence of Cleopatra Aromatherapy, Presenting Cleopatra Luxury Skincare– a testament of dedication and passion to their craft.
Judith is currently focused on marketing its products in Western Canada, preparing for the launch of its product in the fall of 2022.
A product of their love and dedication
The Essence of Cleopatra Aromatherapy, Presenting Cleopatra Luxury Skincare features a wide range of products that seek to enlighten one's well-being and promote a healthy and invigorated lifestyle as well. Like the name Cleopatra, which originated from Ancient Egypt, they also want their customers to experience beauty in its most refreshing form. They have several products that seek to help people feel naturally better. They have several aromatherapy blends for Muscle & Joint Pain, Cold Sores, Headaches, and Cold & Flu, among others. All of their products are made from 100% essential oils and are used and recommended by doctors and dermatologists alike.
During the pandemic, they have also created their skincare line, Cleopatra Luxury Skincare. It features a variety of luxury serums–the Scar and Stretch Mark serum, the Youth Serum Elixir, and the Acne Blend. Customers from all over the world have been raving about it, as it enhances their youthful beauty and nourishes the skin!
On to greater heights
Despite all the odds, the couple's love for aromatherapy and their strong bond has been crucial for the Essence of Cleopatra Aromatherapy, Presenting Cleopatra Luxury Skincare to rise to greater heights. Their partnership, sense of duty, and love for each other have helped them grow together and as individuals. In turn, the Essence of Cleopatra Aromatherapy is now growing and thriving, never backing down.
Lloyd and Judith are now hand in hand in managing their business, which has also helped people from all around the world discover what it takes to take their health and beauty to a higher level. Judith is currently focused on marketing its products in Western Canada, preparing for the launch of its product in the fall of 2022. One thing is for sure– their love for aromatherapy and each other will never waver, much like the Essence of Cleopatra Aromatherapy's success.
For more information, visit www.essenceofcleopatra.com.
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The Philippines, with all its 7,107 islands, is a fusion of unique flavors, ingenuity, and creativity. As a hot pot of culture, it's not surprising that this is seen in the many products that Filipino entrepreneurs have to offer.
What started as a small hub against its neighboring Asian giants, the country has shifted into the "Franchise Hub of Asia," with external trade and export sales seeing positive growth. And championing these efforts to make Filipino brands and products known to the rest of the world is Market Reach International (MRI), the trusted distribution partner in the world of global FMCG logistics and supply.
"The Philippines is a net importer—a lot of our products are imported. And due to current external factors such as supply chain disruptions, us being an archipelago, and also currency which is now close to PHP 60, importing anything has become very expensive," says Jiten Lalwani, CEO of Market Reach International. With this challenge in sight, MRI has put the focus on boosting Filipino exports in the country and on the international stage. And this drive and excellence have earned the trust and business of some of the largest brands in the industry while bringing various local products to consumers in over 28 countries.
MRI Sales team with DTI EMB Director, from left to right: Nelby Oquendo, Jazzi Dayao, DTI EMB Director Chris Arnuco, and Gale Hapita.
Starting with the goal to make Filipino products accessible to OFWs, MRI is now enabling and carrying the dreams of local entrepreneurs by being the ship with which they are carried globally. "We've been in the industry for 15 years. This may be short compared to other giants in the industry, and yet we've quickly risen to one of the top consolidators in the country. That's because we're not here for the business; we're here because we're passionate about sharing Filipino brands with the rest of the world," also shares CEO Jiten Lalwani.
The Philippines is home to many innovative products and homegrown raw materials from big, small, and medium businesses. With that, Market Reach International sees this potential to grow the market and has been pivotal in this mission since 2008. The pioneer business exports the nation's best of the best products worldwide while supporting many local entrepreneurs in the process.
Their support for the locals goes from being engaged in causes to staying true to the products of these entrepreneurs. "What the suppliers deliver to us, we export. We just provide translations and comply with the municipality's regulations and conditions. And of course, we offer fair prices," says Jazzie Dayao, Sales Development Manager of Market Reach International.
CMO Nas Arcayan also adds, "We apply an extra layer of meticulousness when we export. We study each of the markets that we enter and ensure that we find the best brands and products that will fit it the best. It's a win-win-win situation: for us, our partner brands, and our partner buyers around the world."
Just recently, MRI was part of the International Food Exhibition (IFEX), a biennial global trade show and the premier international sourcing hub where local F&B companies can promote their products globally and establish and strengthen links with international buyers, importers, and retailers. Their booth featured a variety of Pinoy food favorites from beloved brands in the country in the hopes of making the local F&B industry known and sharing the unique flavors of Filipino cuisine.
IFEX Philippines September 2022
As Market Reach International continues to grow, so do the local brands, partners, and their communities—all this to show success is achieved across the board from all sides of the equation. From a simple goal to reach Filipinos abroad to now exporting to over 28 countries and counting, MRI is leading the charge in bringing the best of Filipino brands within arm's reach, anywhere in the world.
CEO Jiten Lalwani shares a hope to expand MRI's reach internationally. But his bigger goal is for the Philippines' export industry to flourish, the global market to diversify, and most importantly, for Filipino products to be recognized and distributed worldwide. "Filipinos have such unique flavors and products that are unlike any other in the world, and therefore, deserve to be enjoyed by as many people as possible."
#MarketReachInternational #rubyspreciousmoments #rubyasoyph
SeedIn Technology is a mobile app, a web-based investment platform that matches Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with potential investors from around the world. As the only SEC-licensed P2B SME Crowdlending platform in the country, this easy-to-use app has taken the finance world by storm, making financing and investment accessible for everybody. The model has been widely successful and SeedIn Technology is now one of the biggest P2B (person to business) crowdfunding platforms in the region, having put over US $200 million into SMEs across Southeast Asia in 4 countries (Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, and Cambodia).
SeedIn was brought to the Philippines by Edison Tsai, Anson Uy, and Dexter Tiu, successful entrepreneurs in the Information Technology, Finance, and Energy space. They were looking for the next big thing and saw the potential in SeedIn's financially inclusive model, along with the benefits it would give to both SMEs and investors in the country. They tirelessly worked to bring the brand into the country, eventually launching operations in 2017, and forged strategic partnerships with banks like Unionbank, fintech organizations such as FintechAlliance.ph and Fintech Philippines, and other government institutions and payment gateways in the country.
Planting the Seed for SMEs
SeedIn Technology has democratized the world of finance through crowdfunding and by tapping into SMEs—a sector that is often overlooked by banks due to their heavy risk portfolios or low credit scores. The company's crowdfunding model has found a decentralized solution to financing. While banks are financially centralized, SeedIn pulls together the resources of tens of thousands of investors who use their app. Tsai calls SeedIn "The People's Bank." As a result, many struggling businesses are now able to gain access to credit and continue to thrive and be part of the comeback economy.
SeedIn Technology Executive Director Edison Tsai.
The process of becoming a borrower on SeedIn's website is easy. SMEs simply need to register as Ïssuer" and make a "Loan Request" once their profile has been approved. SeedIn then contacts the Issuer and performs the necessary due diligence by analyzing the company's financials and business plans to come up with a Credit Score. Once the project is approved, it will go live and be displayed in the marketplace on the app, where it becomes available to SeedIn investors around the world. The investors then select the project and their desired investment amount. With SeedIn's platform, the possibilities for SMEs and investors are endless.
SeedIn makes financing more inclusive by allowing anybody to be an investor. With a minimum per investment amount of only Php 1,000 and an average of 10% per annum returns, investments now become accessible to anyone 18 and above with a Philippine bank account or e-wallet. The process is easy: download the app on Google or Apple store, upload your ID and fill up required fields, and complete the eKYC process within 10-15 minutes. Now the fun begins, and you are introduced to the fascinating and prosperous world of finance. SeedIn provides investors with the profile of the SMEs they are investing in and pertinent loan information such as interest rate, tenure, and repayment method. tenure, interest rate.
Tsai believes that what they are doing will have a positive social and economic impact on the country. "It is really about connecting people and allowing them to invest in an easy, convenient way," he says. "We are not lending [to the big conglomerates] because they do not need us. We are thinking about the other 99%. That is our mission—our social purpose." The company encourages "social lending" and "ïmpact investment" by ways of providing local businesses with accessible decentralized capital to help them grow and prosper.
Serve the Deserving
Having operated in the Philippines for five years, SeedIn Technology has continued to serve Filipino SMEs, and retail and institutional investors. Today they have served hundreds of businesses and over 80,000 investors across 80 countries around the world. As one of the largest P2B SME crowdfunding platforms in Asia, SeedIn plans to further educate SMEs and investors on alternative financing and investment by expanding to other regions in the near future.
For more information, please go to Seedin's social media or visit https://www.seedinph.tech
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Strong Support Ecosystem for MSMEs Online Business
As society becomes more digitalized, e-commerce plays a significant role in helping groom and grow entrepreneurs who can meet the needs of consumers. More people in the region are coming online, and this number is expected to reach around 380 million by 2026[1]. In order to help brands and MSMEs establish and strengthen their online presence, Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, focuses on developing a strong support ecosystem that makes it simple for them to launch and grow their online business.
This includes enhanced marketing tools, knowledge sharing, and upskilling, as well as sustained guidance from Shopee, to help business owners tap into various markets, increase their monthly average sales, and achieve notable e-commerce growth as a whole.
Shopee Seller Education
Shopee provides the necessary support and seminars to equip aspiring entrepreneurs with the e-commerce knowledge they need to succeed. Just this year, Shopee launched its first Shopee University Summit where industry leaders, successful online sellers, and top brands shared their expertise to help sellers understand the basics of e-commerce and how they can maximize the potential of e-commerce and succeed in growing their business online. The second summit also proved to be a success with 35,000 online viewers. During the summit, participants learned about developing the correct business branding, product photography skills, and leveraging Shopee tools and social media platforms to promote their businesses.
Shopee sellers can also access Shopee's Seller Education Hub (https://seller.shopee.ph/edu/home) where they can take helpful e-commerce courses, participate in informative webinars, and read articles about shop management, product listings, operation improvements, and other business matters.
All-Around Support from Relationship Managers
In addition to marketing tools readily available for use within the app, Shopee also provides MSMEs with constant guidance on how they can improve and grow their business through highly-trained relationship managers (RMs). To fully support a seller's growth, RMs push for excellent service and tend to the seller's inquiries, and sometimes going out of their way to cater to the seller's e-commerce needs.
Kriszel of M A R E Clothing said that their relationship manager helped them greatly, even encouraging them to join big campaigns to grow their business more. "Our relationship manager was very helpful all throughout our Shopee journey. During big campaigns, we were given ample exposure to in-app features like Shopee Feed. Last 10.10, we earned more than 2,000 followers thanks to Shopee's feature Feed Freebies. We are very grateful for the guidance we received and it is a big factor in our shop's success."
Campaigns that Meet Consumer Demand
In addition, Shopee also supports its sellers through big campaigns as local MSMEs stand to benefit from the increased traffic to supercharge their business growth and scale their online presence. Throughout the region, sellers who participated at the recent 9.9 Super Shopping Day recorded 8X more orders compared to an average day, and this coming 11.11 – 12.12 Big Christmas Sale, Shopee continues to provide sellers with marketing tools to further drive sales. The 11.11 – 12.12 Big Christmas Sale is happening until December 12, 2021, and serves as an opportunity for sellers to provide consumers with promos that include ₱1 deals, free shipping with no minimum spend, and 10% off daily vouchers.
Digital Payment Options with ShopeePay
As digital payments become more integrated into the daily lives of consumers, ShopeePay serves as a multi-functional tool for all their payment needs while providing rewards and safe transactions. Through Shopee's year-end campaigns like the 11.11-12.12 Big Christmas Sale, ShopeePay will continue to drive greater adoption of digital payments amongst shoppers and merchants, bringing ShopeePay users greater convenience and value while helping businesses access more opportunities in the digital economy.
Martin Yu, Director at Shopee Philippines, said, "To grow in e-commerce, brands and businesses need to be committed to their journey and here at Shopee, we ensure that we are here to guide and support them all throughout. This is why we designed our ecosystem to be end to end: onboarding, training, and scaling their business to meet the demands of their customers. The needs of our stakeholders are ever-changing, and this is why we need to keep evolving."
For more information about Shopee 11.11-12.12 Big Christmas Sale, visit https://shopee.ph/m/christmas-sale.
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Happy Life Rubbing Alcohol Reseller Program
It all started last March 15, 2020, when the country was put into lockdown. At that time nobody knew what to do. In the news, you would see people in long lines trying to get their share of protection by using rubbing alcohols if hand washing is not possible only to go home empty-handed.
During this time of crisis people all over the country are trying to help each other out, this was the case of Happy Life Organics (HLO). They (HLO) made sure that their rubbing alcohols are made with the strictest quality standards at a very affordable price to be accessible to every Filipino.
Quality is everything, this was assured by the organization having rubbing alcohol that can eliminate germs and viruses upon contact that can last up to three hours in protection, it also has aloe vera to moisturize the hands every time you use it and a very welcoming fresh scent while applying it.
As the COVID -19 continuously post a threat in our society, as a new variant emerge and an all-time high in the number of cases being recorded, now more than ever, we need to protect ourselves and our families by using a quality rubbing alcohol if hand washing is not possible together with social distancing, boosting our immunity, being vaccinated and by wearing a face mask.
Today, the most sought-after rubbing alcohol is now available in top restaurants, clinics, hospitals, and the whole country thanks to its reseller program system. As Winston Churchill quote, "Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste" perhaps what he means by that is always look at the silver lining in any crisis, in that you may still have or create a winning mindset with the right perspective, to seek opportunities where they might not have been before. This is the case of the Happy Life Rubbing Alcohol resellers around the country today, earning while securing their items of protection in using these rubbing alcohols. Being proud that they have established a new identity and a new business while keeping their families safe.
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You may now avail of the reseller package and be one of the few people that we're able to secure their territory and enjoy the benefits of peace of mind and having a sound business of your own. Contact us now and reserve a business exploration call at (0906) 2525475.
You may try and discover yourself why this alcohol is really different, get your own share of this alcohol by visiting their platforms below:
Website: happylifeph.com. Also available in Lazada, Shopee and Zalora just search for Happy Life Organics. You may also visit their FB and IG page: @happylifeorganicss
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Own an auto repair shop at 50% off the franchise fee
Sometimes, when it comes to business expansion, it doesn't necessarily mean always going bigger.
Value Plus Auto Service Express (VPX) – The Casa Alternative – now offers a more affordable franchising program for enterprising Filipinos with the "VPX Starter Package." Now, you can operate your auto repair shop with just a 200-sqm space, with lower startup capital and reduced franchising fee.
After launching several full-service auto repair shops, including one in Batangas City recently, VPX is changing gear and is ready to cater to the immediate needs of smaller communities.
"Our Starter Package offers a real benefit and solution for smaller, dynamic communities – like barangays, towns, and residential neighborhoods – by providing a smaller-scale auto shop that is equipped to handle essential car maintenance and repairs," explains Mark Saberola, the General Manager of ValuePlus Auto Services Philippines Inc.
He points to the great potential and needs for these types of auto shops as, due to the pandemic, many have resorted to using their own vehicles to avoid crowded public transport and reduce infection risk. Thus, preventive maintenance is prioritized to keep their vehicles running.
According to the GM, when it comes to preventive maintenance services, the average driver spends around P5,500 per visit for at least 2 visits per year. "And when you multiply this with the number of car owners who regularly drive to work, this spells great potential!" adds Saberola.
A VPX shop offers essential services such as preventive maintenance, lube services, suspension, and mechanical repairs, and even car detailing.
VPX Auto Shop, indeed, offers a unique solution, providing excellent customer service and experience that is at par with major dealerships.
Providing greater security and assurance to franchisees, the VPX Starter Package is founded on a sound business model that's been proven to be pandemic-proof.
For P4.5M-P7M startup capital, entrepreneurs can have their own auto shop up and running in three to four months. "The beauty of this program is that you can start with a smaller space, smaller capital, and just 50% the franchise fee," he adds. "Also, we help existing auto repair shop owners pivot their businesses and convert their shops into a VPX shop. So, they can benefit from a tried-and-tested system that accelerates their growth and professionalizes their operations."
Over the years, VPX has built a sterling reputation and has become the go-to, trusted auto shop for preventive maintenance (PMS), lube services, suspension, and mechanical repairs, for after-warranty vehicles.
The VPX Starter Package is ideal for start-up entrepreneurs as it requires a smaller initial investment and a smaller layout. Operators can immediately start the business, earn ROI in a shorter period of time, and have the flexibility to expand services and facilities as needed.
The start package is recommended for OFWs, returning expatriates, retirees, and multi-business owners who want to diversify their business portfolios. Even independent fuel players, in fact, have availed of the program to complement their stations.
When it comes to franchising, VPX assists owners every step of the way, from documentation to building and even training and management. "We provide you full confidence in the program as we have built the model to be truly successful. Start your entrepreneurial journey today and get in touch with our team."
For more information, email at mark@valueplusph.com or visit fb.com/solutionsvpx.
Featured photo: VPX starter package includes the construction or renovation of the shop, two lifters, 3-5 trained manpower, tools and equipment, and a cloud-based shop operating system among others.
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Huawei donates $200,000 for PLDT's CSR
Chinese tech giant Huawei has donated $200,000, or about P10.11 million, to PLDT Smart Foundation (PSF) to help fund the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs of PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications Inc.
The CSR initiatives for funding to be determined by both PSF and Huawei will include disaster response, rehabilitation and recovery, promotion and enhancement of education in the country, environmental conservation, and the use of technology in health services.
"I would like to thank Huawei for the $200,000 donation to PSF, which will go a long way in supporting our CSR programs like education, disaster relief, environment, telehealth, and many more," PSF chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said.
PLDT and Smart have been longtime partners with Huawei.
PSF and Huawei's partnership started years ago when Chinese tech giant donated disaster relief equipment, such as tents, rechargeable lights, and other tools, for PSF's disaster response program.
It has also contributed 13 sets of school-in-a-bag with Huawei laptops for Smart's education program, and the recent telehealth equipment for Makati Medical Center and Cardinal Santos hospitals.
Huawei vice president Daniel Guo said the company intends to contribute more to the country through its support of the programs and initiatives of PSF.
Huawei is a leading global provider of ICT infrastructure and smart devices.
It operates in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.
"The initiatives were chosen to align with the program sectors of PSF, as well as to highlight the technology solutions of Huawei. These programs are also aligned with Huawei's overall CSR strategy," PSF president Ma. Esther Santos said.
"Moving forward, PSF projects will try to inject technology solutions enabled by technology companies Huawei and PLDT-Smart. This is also aligned with PSF's vision-mission of a connected, empowered, progressive Philippines," she said.
PSF, which serves as the social outreach arm of PLDT and Smart, has created programs focused on education, livelihood and social enterprise, disaster response and recovery, youth, arts, and sports development.
Featured logos courtesy of Huawei and PSF FB pages
#Huawei #PLDTSmartFoundation #CSR #donation #partnership #rubyspreciousmoments #rubyasoyph
Unique hand-woven face masks help indigenous communities rise above the pandemic
Through unique face masks made from hand-woven fabric scraps, Abra Indigo Manila was able to provide new livelihood opportunities to indigenous communities in far-flung areas despite the pandemic.
Abra Indigo is a social enterprise founded by Ysabelle Sarayba to give consumers access to indigenous products by showcasing and connecting local communities, workers, and socially conscious consumers.
Although Abra Indigo experienced some setbacks at the height of the global health crisis, Ysabelle remained unfazed in her goal to assist other people, especially those who did not have any sources of income.
Abra Indigo Ysabelle Sarayba
Through the help of a pervasive telecommunications network like Globe's 4G LTE, Ysabelle was able to talk with the Itnegs of Abra and share ideas regularly during the lockdowns. Together, they came out with timely products attuned to the trying times.
The Itneg tribe is known for its beautiful hand-woven and embroidered fabrics. Since they use weaving to tell their stories, every pattern, design, and symbol has a story and history behind it.
Using indigenous fabric scraps, the Itnegs repurposed and refashioned them into face masks that have become a big hit with consumers. Each mask design is distinct, with various embroideries that reflect the rich culture of the Itnegs and comes with a pocket to insert an additional filter.
The high demand for face masks allowed Ysabelle to help even more people. Fabrics were sourced from another indigenous community in Ilocos and woven by seamstresses in Novaliches. Despite the challenges, Abra Indigo increased its production and gave economic opportunities to more people.
Ysabelle remains hopeful that Abra Indigo's "Kwento ng Tagumpay" will carry on for the sake of the communities that it is supporting. "Today, Abra Indigo is continuously growing, so that means more income sa mga indigenous communities, and then soon we hope na mas marami pa kaming indigenous communities na matulungan i-market yung mga products nila," she said.
Inspiration for Abra Indigo came when Ysabelle, then a graduating student at the University of the Philippines, joined a school bazaar where she met an Itneg couple. Ysabelle immediately fell in love with the couple's indigenous products and asked if she could partner with them.
"I didn't have any capital to buy their (Itneg) products, so I had to loan P20,000. It was a rough start since the products were costly at hindi ko sila tinawaran since I wanted to help. I really believed in the products, so I started by posting online and to my surprise, nabenta namin lahat," she recalled.
Ysabelle's tech and marketing savvy combined with unique apparel, accessories, and home essentials made from the Itneg woven fabric, saw the business growing rapidly in just a couple of months. Abra Indigo expanded from a one-woman operation to a six-person company.
For Globe, success stories such as Ysabelle's further fuel its passion to meet, even exceed, the growing demand for first-world connectivity and provide better customer experiences.
"We are ramping up our efforts to give stronger, reliable, and high-speed coverage to more provinces, even in far-flung areas of the Philippines. The 4G LTE migration and the upgrading of broadband subscribers to Globe fiber lines are crucial to our efforts to elevate our customers' satisfaction and mobile experience, given the increasing demand for data. This also lays the groundwork for 5G, a more advanced and faster technology," said Ernest L. Cu, Globe President, and CEO.
The company strongly supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly UN SDG No. 9 which highlights the roles of infrastructure and innovation as crucial drivers of economic growth and development. Globe is committed to upholding the 10 United Nations Global Compact principles.
To learn more, please visit https://www.globe.com.ph/.
Featured photo courtesy of Abra Indigo Manila
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Havas Veteran Vishnu Mohan sets up Avyan Holdings; Invests in the Philippines
Singapore – Havas Group veteran, former Chairman & CEO of the network, Vishnu Mohan has launched Avyan Holdings in Singapore with the ambition to build a regional footprint in Asia.
Avyan Holdings is designed to be a collective of companies working towards advancing human possibilities by integrating design, technology, and data to help brands and people thrive in a digital-first world.
As a first step in solidifying its vision, Avyan Holdings has acquired a key stake in The Philippines-based design and innovation agency – Castle By The River (CBR) – founded by digital maverick Ed Mapa Jr – also a former Havas executive.
Over the past two years, since its inception, CBR has earned the reputation to be an eclectic band of storytellers grounded in data and technology with a flair for performance-driven campaigns. It started its operations in Manila as an affiliate of Entropia Malaysia – which was recently acquired by Accenture Interactive and its current clients include Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), GMA 7, Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corporation (PMFTC), AIA/PhilamLife, and Mundipharma (Betadine).
"Avyan Holdings is defined by the passion for what the world can be, by elevating human experiences, blending the best of art and science – ideas and technology. CBR's purpose of romanticizing digital transformation through innovative storytelling aligns with our vision perfectly and it's a great start to our journey. CBR's use of design, technology, and anticipatory intelligence via a robust build of a data ecosystem is fascinating and I am confident in its potential to be an asset to Avyan Holdings," said Mohan in his capacity as Chairman of Avyan Holdings.
"Our investment in CBR Philippines sits perfectly well with our operating principle of global serviceability. We have seen very few regional hubs away from Singapore, and I believe that the skillsets and cost advantages make the Philippines a very fertile ground for investment. We aim to make the operation a hub for our near expansion plans in the rest of the region," added Mohan.
CBR's personalization-at-scale campaign for RCBC bagged Platinum for Creative Effectiveness and Gold for Digital Marketing in Marcom 2020 awards. The awards show is a global marketing and creative competition administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), arguably the most prestigious of its kind since 2004.
CBR's other key pieces of work include the launch of GoodDay cultured milk at the height of the pandemic in 2020 via Moot Up, an immersive meeting platform, or Zoom in VR. It was the first beverage brand in South East Asia to fully leverage the platform's virtual world capabilities.
"It's great to be working again with Vishnu. We've done innovative campaigns when we were at Havas. We at CBR are excited about Avyan Holdings' vision and commitment. There's a meeting of hearts and minds. A new story begins, " said Ed Mapa.
"Avyan Holdings is also a manifestation of my personal philosophy of empowering talent and giving back to the industry which has nurtured me over the course of my career. As we move forward, we will be adding more exciting products to our portfolio by talent-spotting and investing in the right kind of companies. I am looking forward to the new beginning," said Mohan.
Vishnu was the former top man of Havas in the region has over 30 years of advertising and marketing experience across various markets globally, to which 26 of them spent at Havas/Vivendi Group.
Credited for building the entire media network for the group in the Asia Pacific from India to New Zealand group, he was the first employee for Havas Media and successfully built the group's entire network in the region from scratch. Since 2017, he has been a leading figure for the group's presence in India and the Southeast Asia Region. As Chairman of the Vivendi Committee since 2018, he also oversaw the integration efforts across all Vivendi companies for the same region.
#AvyanHoldings #Vishnu Mohan #CBR #EdMapa #Havas #rubyspreciousmoments #rubyasoyph


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Generate Data-Based Web Sites With Blinq
Blinq 1.0 is Microsoft's prototype of an extension to LINQ to SQL (formerly DLinq) that auto-generates a complete data-entry and editing ASP.NET 2.0 Web site by executing a simple command-line statement.
The "Generate Data-Based Web Sites With Blinq" article from FTPOnline's ASPNET Channel and the .NETInsight newsletter describes how to obtain the necessary LINQ May 2006 CTP and Blinq 1.0 prerequisites and then autogenerate a 25-page site in less than a minute.
Blinq 1.0 is a much more sophisticated site-generation implementation than Ruby on Rails' scaffolding feature. For example, Blinq 1.0 uses ASP.NET 2.0's SiteMap and Menu server controls to provide single-click, site-wide navigation. Editing takes full advantage of DetailsView and paged GridView server controls. Blinq 1.0 also supports editing tables with composite primary keys, such as the Northwind database's Order Details table; Ruby on Rails scaffolding doesn't support composite keys.
The downloadable sample code requires the Northwind sample database running on SQL Server 2005 or SQL Express. The article also includes instructions for modifing the generated source code to repurpose the homepage and adjust the master page layout to reduce whitespace on all pages.
See the earlier "2006 Lang .NET Symposium to Expose Blinq for ASP.NET" OakLeaf post for more background on Microsoft's Blink 1.0 protoype Web-site generator. Click here for links to all FTPOnline channels.
Click here to read the June 27, 2006 issue of .NETInsight, which includes the final session lineup for VSLive! New York to be held September 10 to 13, 2006. Sessions feature data access from Microsoft's new "Data Dude" to LINQ to SQL. Other topics include ASP.NET data binding, C# methods, VB.NET, and testing. Technorati Tags: Blinq, LINQ, DLinq, LINQ to SQL, ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, Scaffolding, VB 9.0, Visual Basic 9, Orcas
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Microsoft Bites the Bullet: WinFS Bites the Dust
The demise of WinFS—recounted by Quentin Clark's "WinFS Update" and "Update to the Update" posts in the WinFS team's "What's in Store" blog—shouldn't have surprised anyone. WinFS is only the latest in a chain of Microsoft's abandoned enhancements to—or replacements for—the New Technology File System (NTFS) and aborted implementations of object-relational mapping (ORM) technologies. Microsoft's Paul Vick calls them "Black Hole Projects" and provides a detailed list of their typical characteristics. I've been following—and writing about—the primrose path to the Object File System (OFS) and its successors since 1993. In a Guest Opinion titled "Is Visual Basic Ready for Client/Server Prime Time?" for the October/November 1993 issue of Fawcette Technical Publications' Visual Basic Programmer's Journal (later to become Visual Studio Magazine), I wrote:
Creating VB database front-ends by pasting together objects stored in a repository database probably will have to wait for Chicago (Windows 4.0?) or Cairo (Windows NT 4.0?) and Microsoft's newly rumored object database for Windows NT, code-named Cumulus.
The choice of Cumulus as the codename for Windows NT's always-forthcoming OFS isn't surprising when you consider the Cirrus was the codename for Microsoft Access 1.0, which Microsoft released in November 1993 at Fall Comdex. As it turns out, Stratus probably would have been the better choice because OFS bought the farm after scud-running once too often.
OFS, RFS, Storage+ and Windows DNA
OFS morphed to the Relational File System (RFS, more commonly called Storage+) in 2000 when the successor to Windows Server 2003 was codenamed Blackcomb. Storage+, COM+, and Forms+ were to be the foundation of Windows DNA (Distributed Network/iNternet Architecture). Paul Thurott published a detailed history of OFS, RFS and Storage+, plus commentary on WinFS in his August 2005 "Windows Storage Foundation (WinFS) Preview" article. Paul's July 1999 "COM+, A Windows 2000 technology showcase" article (updated March 2000) describes Microsoft intentions for Storage+, COM+, and Forms+. Paul had this to say about Storage+:
Storage+ will do away with the NTFS file system and replace it with a new relational, object-oriented file system based on SQL Server 8.0. Expected to arrive with the next version of Business Windows (post-Windows 2000, think 2003 or 2004), Storage+ will turn the file system into a relational database, speeding searches and providing a higher level of granularity for those searches. It will also have the wonderful side-effect of finally ridding us of those limiting drive letters.
An SQL Server 2000 (8.0)-based Storage+ never appeared and there's no liklihood that future WinFS features will be derived from SQL Server 2005 (9.0). Ed Brill found SQL Server déjà vu in Bill Gates' September 2005 association of WinFS with "Katmai," the codename for SQL Server v.Next, and Steve Ballmer's December 2000 statements about WinFS and "Yukon," the code-name for the long-delayed SQL Server 2005.
One of the comments about Brill's post leads to an August 29, 2005 WinFS Team post by Peter Spiro, "the General Manager in SQL Server responsible for the WinFS team," that ends with:
A few years back Ray Ozzie came to Microsoft to speak at an internal workshop we have called WHiPS (Workshop on High Performance Systems). Ray talked about Groove. It was a pretty cool app trying to be a platform (tough to do for a small company). As we were talking after his presentation he described how he had to first build a platform on top of the operating system, which then enabled him to build the app that he had envisioned.
He said he needed storage beyond just a file system; he needed synchronization capabilities to share information between different machines/users, he needed advanced security mechanisms, he needed a way to model his particular schemas in the storage system, he needed to search on the information. So he built a richer storage system that incorporated these types of concepts and then he built the Groove app on top of his platform. His comment to me was that Microsoft should build such a platform and stop selling the same old operating system and storage capabilities that we as an industry have been polishing for 20-30 years. He felt this richer platform would create a new ecosystem that allowed a variety of new apps to be developed. He was right; and I told him we had already started on it, and that it was called WinFS.
As of June 15, 2006, Ray Ozzie became Bill Gates' replacement; and he's called Microsoft's Chief Architect.
Eight days later WinFS is dead.
Déjà vu all over again: Project Green, MBF and Object Spaces
Apropos Paul Thurott's mention of "Business Windows," how many members of the computer press and .NET-oriented book writers fell into the "Project Green" trap before Microsoft abandoned the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) in October, 2005? My initial table of contents for Expert One-on-One Visual Basic 2005 Database Programming included an entire section devoted to ObjectSpaces, the OPath query language, and MBF. Much to my surprise ObjectSpaces and all references to MBF disappeared in Whidbey Beta 2, as I reported in my September 14, 2005 "The Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Project" post:
[Luca Bolognese, a prime mover on the ObjectSpace team, announced at Tech•Ed 2004] that ObjectSpaces had acquired a dependency on WinFS and thus was postponed to the Longhorn/Orcas timeframe. (He appeared close to tears as he made the announcement.) The dependence of the long-delayed Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) API on ObjectSpaces as its object persistence platform probably was a contributing factor to the demise of ObjectSpaces [and MBF support] in VS 2005.
Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley quoted Satya Nadella, Microsoft Business Solutions corporate vice president, in her October 21, 2005 "Microsoft Scuttles Plans for Standalone Microsoft Business Framework" article:
[Nadella] said that Microsoft is planning to deliver all of the same MBF features and functionality it originally envisioned, but just in a different way.
"MBF won't ship as a separate entity. It has gotten factored into parts of our other deliverables," Nadella explained.
MBF technologies can be found in the Windows Workflow Foundation engine, the forthcoming Language Integrated Query (LINQ) project extensions to Visual Basic and C#; and the Common Data Platform (CDP) application programming interfaces; Visual Studio 2005; and "Orcas," the version of Visual Studio slated to follow Visual Studio 2005, Nadella said.
WinFS, Longhorn, and the Windows Data Platform Vision
Backing up to December 16, 2003, I wrote in my "Get a Grip on Longhorn" article for the February 2004 issue of Visual Studio Magazine:
The WinFS data model consists of Items, Relationships, and extensions. Items use an XML schema to define the metadata properties of everything that's stored in WinFS. The schema lets WinFS serialize Items as .NET objects, which you access with members of the System.Storage namespace. For example, System.Storage.Contact provides the context required to find, add, and delete Person objects, which have DisplayName, PersonalEmailAddresses, personalTelephoneNumbers, and several other predefined properties.
Relationships create joins between Item metadata values to return multiple Item types in query resultsets. For example, you can relate an Office document's Author property to a Contact Item's DisplayName property. A natural-language search returns links to matching document and contact Items. Extensions let you add new properties to an existing item's XML schema. Other WinFS features include Notifications, which let users subscribe to events raised by Item-related changes.
Synchronization between WinFS stores on multiple machines takes place through a "community folder" that's associated with groups of Items on local machines. Synchronization replicates Items between machines according to instructions contained in send-only, receive-only, or send-receive synchronization profiles. Information Agents automate actions for users based on WinFS data, rules, preferences, and contexts.
So 2-1/2 years later WinFS has gone the way of ObjectSpaces and MBF: Balkanized into Paul Flessner's Data Platform Vision, with some promised features to be integrated into SQL Server "Katmai", ADO.NET 3.0, and Visual Studio "Orcas."
Note: You can watch Jim Allchin—Microsoft's Group Vice President for Platforms—explain in an August 19, 2005 Channel9 video that "we now intend to deliver WinFS after the initial availability of Longhorn client. We continue to be committed to WinFS. It is expected to beta when Longhorn client is broadly available." Jim will have retired by the time Microsoft discovers the effect of the loss of WinFS on Vista sales.
DevX Executive Editor A. Russell Jones reported June 14, 2006 from Tech•Ed 2006:
WinFS Lives: WinFS, cut from the first version of Vista, isn't dead; it's still being improved. Shan Sinha, a Program Manager on the WinFS team, showed off the newest features, and promised a second beta later this year. WinFS wraps the tried and too-familiar NTFS file system in a relational database, providing new and revolutionary relational abilities to the Windows file system. Doing that has far-reaching implications, and presents huge technical hurdles. For example, a relational file system must manage its own indexes, backup, and recovery, and must do so both invisibly and with no human intervention (no database admin). Despite adding new and integrated file system capabilities, it must maintain file-level compatibility with earlier versions, so that existing programs don't break, and it must be able to maintain the new information and relationships across backups. From the demos though, it looks as if Microsoft has conquered the problems. In one demonstration, Shan destroyed the data on a disk sector, then walked the audience through the automatic recovery process. Very impressive. [Emphasis added.]
Peter Galli's June 27, 2006 eWeek interview with Corey Thomas, Microsoft group product manager for SQL Server, explains "Why Microsoft Pulled WinFS as a Stand-Alone Product" after three Tech•Ed 2006 presentations. Thomas adds a surfeit of spin but no mention whatsoever of Ray Ozzie.
Analysts and Bloggers Write WinFS's Obituary
Analyzing WinFS has consumed thousands of reporter-hours and untold barrels of electronic ink. Mary Jo Foley has been reporting the WinFS saga for Microsoft Watch since PDC 2003. Follow Mary Jo's WinFS breadcrumbs for the chronology of the "Rise and Fall of WinFS":
10/14/2003: "More WinFS Hints From Microsoft Tech Evangelist"
10/24/2003: "All PDC Roads Lead to WinFS"
10/25/2003: "Longhorn: Can Microsoft Deliver on Its Promises This Time?"
10/27/2003: "PDC: A Guide for the Perplexed"
10/28/2003: "WinFS Gets Its Day in the Sun"
04/09/2004: "More Twists and Turns on the Road to Longhorn"
04/15/2004: "Longhorn: The First Cut Is the Deepest?"
04/27/2004: "WinFS Axed From Longhorn Client and Server"
08/28/2004: "Allchin Defends Longhorn Decision to Microsoft Employees"
09/01/2004: "More Longhorn Fallout; More Technologies Delayed"
12/02/2004: "Microsoft Refreshes WinFS Beta 1
03/04/2005: "WinFS To Be Available on Windows XP"
03/09/2005: "Microsoft Wavering on WinFS on Windows XP?"
08/29/2005: "Microsoft Readying WinFS Beta Bits?"
08/29/2005: "Microsoft Makes WinFS Beta 1 Bits Available"
08/30/2005: "WinFS: More Handy Links"
12/27/2005: "The 10 Biggest Microsoft Surprises of 2005"
05/18/2006: "'Project Orange': The Killer App for WinFS?"
05/23/2006: "WinFS Beta 2: Think TechEd"
06/10/2006: "The Top Ten TechEd Hot Buttons"
06/12/2006: "Microsoft's New WinFS Challenge: Managing Live Services"
06/26/2006: "Microsoft Does a 180 on WinFS (Again)"
Note: You can watch Mario Juarez interview Mary Jo Foley at TechEd 2006.
Microsoft Monitor's Joe Wilcox's also has taken Microsoft to task for its WinFS peregrinations:
10/14/2003: "Teaching the Old File System New Tricks"
12/13/2004: "Yes, We're on the Road to Cairo"
12/13/2004: "The Road to Cairo is Built on Good Intentions"
06/26/2005: "Microsoft buries Cairo"
You also might want to check out Microsoft's Dare Obasanjo's reflections on WinFS and recent events:
10/31/2003: "On Jon Udell's Replace and Defend Theory"
11/09/2003: "Joe Gregorio on Longhorn vs. the Light of Day"
11/23/2003: "RSS, WinFS and Building a Universal Information Client"
11/24/2003: "Using the Right Tool for the Job vs. One Size Fits All"
02/17/2004: "WinFS as a Digital Media Store"
02/26/2004: "WinFS as a Unified Data Store"
06/08/2004: "Jon Udell and WinFS"
06/15/2004: "Objects vs. XML in WinFS Land"
06/26/2004: "WinFS and Metacrap"
09/25/2004: "Killing the "WinFS is About Making Search Better" Myth"
10/18/2004: "Apples and Oranges: WinFS and Google Desktop Search"
01/16/2005: "Desktop Search: Solving the Wrong Problem as Quickly as Possible"
06/24/2006: "Whither WinFS"
06/26/2006: "Some Thoughts on WinFS"
06/26/2006: "WinFS Update Post Clarified"
10/19/2006: "Top 5 Signs Your Project is Doomed"
Dare says in his last post cited above: "WinFS merging with Object Spaces is my canonical example of scope creep at Microsoft." The link is to Franz Brouma's May 22, 2004 post, which includes a comment from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Tim Brookins. Tim had posted "MBF Joins the Longhorn Wave" on May 10, 2004 to explain why MBF would not be included in the VS 2005 (Whidbey) beta, as reported in InformationWeek's "Microsoft's Business Framework Gets Pushed Back" story of May 5, 2004 and CRN's "Microsoft Business Framework To Wait For Longhorn, Orcas" same-date article by Barbara Darrow.
InfoWorld's "Strategic Developer" columnist and chief blogger Jon Udell emphasizes the lack of support for Internet-based social networking in Cairo and WinFS, but doesn't buy analysts "WinFS is dead" pronoucements:
10/31/2003: "Replace and Defend"
11/21/2003: "A Tale of Two Cairos"
06/02/2004: "Questions about Longhorn, part 1: WinFS"
06/07/2004: "Questions about Longhorn, part 2: WinFS and semantics"
07/05/2006: "Evolving WinFS still needs to embrace the Web"
InfoWorld's "Enterprise Windows" columnist Oliver Rist entered the fray on June 29, 2006 with his "Microsoft kills the WinFS dream" article that's subtitled "Server admins' hopes fade as better Windows file system management goes the way of the dodo."
The DaVinci Code Effect: WinFS as Empty Holy Grail
Finally, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop quotes Bill Gates at PDC 2003 in his "WinFS: Microsoft's 'Holy Grail' file system still elusive" article:
WinFS -- this is unified storage. Some of you here have heard me talk about unified storage for more than a decade. The idea of taking the XML flexibility, database technology, getting it into the file system: that's been a Holy Grail for me for quite some time. And here it is." -- Bill Gates, October 2003.
As Todd Bishop observes, "Well, not yet, at least as a part of Windows."
[Updated June 27, 28, and 29, 2006. Minor changes and links added on July 1, July 5, and October 20, 2006.]
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Program SQL Server 2005's Service Broker
SQL Server 2005's versatile Service Broker infrastructure enables asynchronous messaging between databases and server instances, handles database server event notifications, responds to database change notifications, and sends Database Mail. This article from Visual Studio Magazine's June 2006 issue and FTPOnline's .NETInsight Newsletter for June 20, 2006 shows you how to program Service Broker with T-SQL commands.
The article's sample code includes SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) projects that demonstrate simple and complex SSB applications, Query Notifications, Event Notifications, and Database Mail. You need SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, or higher, to run most sample projects because SQL Server Express (SSX) includes the SSB client components only. SSX also lacks support for Database Mail. The SSB client receives messages from or sends messages to or through higher-level SQL Server 2005 editions' SSB only. However, SSX does support Query Notifications.
Click here to read the article and here to read the June 20, 2006 issue of .NETInsight, which includes the final session lineup for VSLive! New York to be held September 10 to 13, 2006. Sessions feature data access from Microsoft's new "Data Dude" to DLinq. Other topics include ASP.NET data binding, C# methods, VB.NET, and testing.
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ADO.NET 3.0 Entity Framework Docs Redux
Subsequent to Tech•Ed 2006's DAT304, "Next Generation Data Access in .NET Applications with ADO.NET vNext," presentation by the ADO.NET team's Pablo Castro, these two documents about ADO.NET vNext and the Entity Framework reemerged on June 17, 2006 from 404 oblivion:
The ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview (June 2006)
Next-Generation Data Access: Making the Conceptual Level Real
Both had disappeared the day after their initial publication on May 10, 2006, as I noted in my "ADO.NET 3.0 Entity Framework Ephemera" post. Thanks to Erwyn Van Der Meer, Steve Eichert, and Fabrice Marguerie for reporting their reappearance. All three LINQ bloggers have posted comments about or analyses of these documents, which cover (per Fabrice):
The Entity Data Model
Entity SQL (eSQL)
LINQ to Entities
LINQ to DataSets
LINQ to SQL (previously DLinq)
According to Erwyn's recollection of the originals, which I didn't see, there was no mention of LINQ, DLinq, or XLinq. The reincarnated white papers now pay lip-service to LINQ. Here's Pablo Castro's description of his TechEd presentation:
ADO.NET 1.0 presented a break-through in data-access technologies with explicit support for disconnected scenarios and a lightweight, high-performance provider model. In ADO.NET 2.0, the API was extended to enable more scenarios, perform faster and scale better. In this session we discuss what comes next. The next version of ADO.NET has both evolutionary aspects and serious innovations in it; from language-integrated query (LINQ) to object services to mapping, ADO.NET will bring simplification and great expression power to the Microsoft data platform enabling construction of sophisticated business applications and tools with less effort and more functionality.
Kent Tegels' blog post about Dave Campbell's DAT101 presentation, "Microsoft's Data Platform Vision," indicate it was at least as vague as its description:
Are you trying to anticipate upcoming trends shaping the industry? What are the secrets to success for the next decade in data management? In this session, Dave Campbell details Microsoft's data platform vision, as well as provides a clear roadmap to help you meet the demands created by the next data explosion and the next generation of data-driven applications.
However, Pablo Castro did demonstrate DLinq.
Luca Bolognese, LINQ's lead program manager, delivered DEV215, "Visual Studio: The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework Overview" with this description:
Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities, and much of the complexity in today's applications is the result of these mismatches. The Orcas release of Visual Studio aims to unify the programming models through language integrated query (LINQ) capabilities in C# and Visual Basic, a strongly typed data access framework, and an innovative API for manipulating and querying XML.
It's encouraging to see the ASP.NET team adopting LINQ technology in their Blinq prototype for "scaffolding" complete Web sites from the metadata of an SQL Server [Express] database. Technorati Tags: ADO.NET 3.0, ADO.NET vNext, Entity Framework, LINQ, LINQ to Entities, LINQ to DataSets, LINQ to SQL, Entity SQL, eSQL, DLinq, XLinq, Blinq, C# 3.0, VB 9.0, Orcas
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2006 Lang .NET Symposium to Expose Blinq for ASP.NET
Blinq—the prototype of a new Microsoft LINQ-based tool for autogenerating data-intensive ASP.NET Websites—will be one of the topics covered at Microsoft's 2006 Lang .NET Programming Languages And Compilers Symposium to be held on the Redmond campus July 31 to August 2, 2006. According to Polita Paulus—the developer of ASP.NET 2.0's GridView, DetailsView and FormView controls who's presenting a paper on Blinq at Lang .NET:
Blinq is a tool for generating ASP.NET websites for displaying, creating, and manipulating data based on database schema. Just point Blinq at a SQL database and it will create a website with pages that display sorted and paged data, allow you to update or delete records, create new records, and follow relationships between tables in your database. You don't need to write SQL queries to use Blinq; LINQ will generate optimized queries for you that request just the data you want to show. Blinq uses the May LINQ Community Tech Preview to access data. The code Blinq creates is simple and easy to customize to fit your needs.
Polita announced the availability of the Blinq 1.0 code download, which "prototypes functionality we are building into our next version of ASP.NET," in a June 15, 2006 "Building a data website? Try Blinq!" post in the ASP.NET forum. You can get more details on Blinq at the ASP.NET site's Sandbox project's forum and download the code here. Polita also has started a new Blinq Preview Forum for support and feedback.
The following screen capture shows the default home page for a Blinq 1.0 Website autogenerated from the Northwind sample database with minor customizing edits applied to the DefaultStyles.css stylesheet (click the image to display the full-size version).
Each table generates TableName.aspx, TableNameDetails.aspx, and NewTableName.aspx files. The Menu control to the left has buttons that open a DetailsView to insert a new record in the table. The screen capture below shows NewCustomer.aspx with data for a new Customers record.
Clicking a menu button opens a GridView for the selected table. The Customers.aspx page below displays the added BOGUS customer record.
Stay tuned Click here for a link to a forthcoming new technical article about Blinq from FTPOnline's .NETInsight newsletter.
More About 2006 Lang .NET Microsoft's Thottam Sriram is the conference chair and Erik Meijer is the program chair for 2006 Lang .NET, which immediately follows OSCON (the O'Reilly Open Source Convention) that's scheduled for July 24 to 28 in Portland, OR. (Note that the tentative dates in my May 17 update to the "Erik Meijer Promotes LINQ at Expo-C 2006" post have changed from August 1 to 3 to Monday, July 31, to Wednesday, August 1, 2006.)
Thottam is the "new program manager who will be owning Reflection, Reflection Emit, CodeDom, etc." A list of OakLeaf blog posts about Erik Meijer, which include links to his other recent LINQ presentatrions, is here. Of course LINQ is one of the Symposium's "areas of interest."
Noted LINQ luminaries presenting .NET 3.0 and Orcas papers are Anders Hejlsberg, "Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and C# 3.0" and Paul Vick, "Visual Basic: Where are we going, where have we been?"
Other highlights are Mike Barnett's "Spec#: Why Every Language Should (Will) Have Contracts" presentation, Gary Flake's "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Imminent Internet Singularity", and John Gough from the Queensland University of Technology "Dealing with Ruby on the CLR."
Technorati Tags: Blinq, LINQ, DLinq, XLinq, C# 3.0, VB 9, Visual Basic 9, Orcas, Erik Meijer
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Tech•Ed 2006—FTPOnline Special Reports
Fawcette Technical Publications' .NETInsight newsletters for June 12 and 13, 2006 brought readers Tech•Ed 2006 Special Issues. Here are links to the newsletters together with their article titles: Day 1—June 12, 2006
New MS Forefront Tools to Improve Security by Peter Varhol
New VSTS Tool Makes Database Dev Easier by Jeff Levinson
Get Ready for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 by Roger Jennings
Architecture Takes Center Stage by Patrick Meader
Prepare for WPF Properly by Billy Hollis
Taking Stock of SQL Server by Roger Jennings
Delve Into LINQ and Visual Basic by Roger Jennings
Day 2—June 13, 2006
Realize New Functionality in .NET 3.0 by Rockford Lhotka
New Technology Offers UI Improvements by Billy Hollis
SQL Server Everywhere: A New Lightweight Database by Roger Jennings
New Features in SQL Server 2005 SP-1 by Roger Jennings
Latest Tools for Debugging, Refactoring by VSM editors
Validate Business Objects Declaratively by Steve Michelotti
The SQL Server Everywhere article's deck includes a link to download the just-released June 2006 Community Technical Preview (CTP) of SQL Server Everywhere. Technorati: Tech•Ed, Tech Ed, Tech•Ed 2006, Tech Ed 2006, Forefront, Microsoft Forefront, WSS 3.0, WSS, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint, .NET 3.0, Databases, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server, SQLServer, MSSQL, SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition, SQL Server Everywhere, SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, SQL Server Mobile, SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1, SQL Server 2005 SP1, SQL Server Express, SQL Express, SQL Server Express Service Pack 1, SQL Express Service Pack 1, SQL Server Express SP1, SQL Express SP1, LINQ, DLinq, MSSQL
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Get Ready for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007
Windows SharePoint Services version 3 (WSS v3) delivers new collaboration and workflow capabilities, while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) extends WSS v3 with enterprise portal and content management features. Read my "Get Ready for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007" article from Fawcette Technical Publications' .NETInsight Tech•Ed 2006 Special Report for June 12, 2006 (requires free registration). The article provides brief descriptions of the most important new features of WSS v3 and MOSS 2007, step by step instructions for exporting an Access 2007 table to a MOSS 2007 list, a VS 2003 project that displays and updates WSS v3 lists in a DataGrid (requires free registration), and 20+ links to resources for these new SharePoint technologies. Technorati Tags: SharePoint, WSS, Windows SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint Server, SPS, CAML, Access 12, Access 2007
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Jon Udell Interview with Anders Hejlsberg, Part II
This 50-minute screen cast is a continuation of the Anders Hejlsberg interview by InfoWorld's Jon Udell, which I described in my May 13, 2006 post, "Jon Udell Interviews Anders Hejlsberg about the LINQ May 2006 CTP." Jon's "The Screening Room #5: LINQ" post of May 31, 2006 describes the topics covered:
[N]ew join syntax, the DL[inq] visual mapper, adaptation of stored procedures and user-defined functions to LINQ, an experimental approach to transforming XML into modifiable .NET code, and dynamic construction of expression trees.
The Visual Basic team's Paul Vick joins Anders later in the segment. The screencast includes live demonstrations in Flash 8.0, Windows Media and QuickTime formats. Technorati Tags: LINQ, DLinq, XLinq, C# 3.0, VB 9, Visual Basic 9, Orcas, DataSets
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According to news reports Angastiyotis who prepared a documentary on Murataga, Atlilar, Sandallar Massacre couldn't get his work broadcast in the South as all the TV stations were refused to do so but BRT did so. Angastiyotis happened to be at this wife's village the day the work was due to be put on by BRT.
He said he asked his relatives to redirect the TV aerial to the North "Not on your life" war the reaction of the aunt! What should we watch the TV of those dogs?" According to Angastiyotis the very same aunt was in tears within the minutes of the start of the film, on seeing the boys killed.
Angastiyotis says there's a concerted pressure on him in the South, the media refusing the publication of his articles. "If the Administration goes on like this" he says "I'll go and settle in TRNC". "After all my family used to live in Magusa before 1974, I've had a lot of Turkish friends" adds Angastiyotis.
Angastiyotis is honest intellectual risking ostracism in his community. He has well aware of the fat that his people wouldn't approve the work he was going to do and that he might even be facing some dangers.
But, he carried on as an intellectual to defy the views of the majority and risk even the danger of ostracism by his people to complete his work. What about the other side of the coin? Did the Turkish intellectual do the same?
Let's think of a Turkish Cypriot doing what Angastiyotis has done?
What would happen? Nobody has ever tried, but supposing, he did. He shot a documentary showing massacres carried out by the Turks at Balikre and near the walls of Girne cemetery, what would happen?
Murataga, Atlilar and Sandallar massacre is not likely to be forgotten in Cyprus; neither the massacres of Ayvasil and Dohni. Pr their perpetrators ever pardoned.
There are a number of other massacres besides these that shouldn't be forgotten. If a trial is in question they should all be inquired into and subject to trial. The matter is like a knife with too sharp edges.
It's important to have an account of a massacre carried out by the Turks from Turkish point of view and the Greek ones from the Greek point of view. We have already a larger number of accounts from Turks detailing the Greek ones and Greek ones giving the Turkish ones.
After all blood is in the center of the official policies of both sides.
But, it's not possible to agree either with Angastiyotis who says, "I'd rather go and settle in TRNC" or the Turks shows readiness to "go live in the South", after such an experience.
Nobody would stop anymore from living either in the South or in the North provided they find it pleasant to do so. But they wouldn't find what they want if they simple base their choice on the freedom of speaking about the Greek massacres in the North and the Turkish massacres in the South. It's not heroic to speak about one after moving into another community.
What's courage is raising one's voice in one's community against the wrong of his won people.
Antonis Angastiyotis succeeded in doing just this; whereas, among the community he is inclined to live, North Cyprus, nobody has yet had the courage even to try it.
I put this article here to congratulate brave people like Angastiyotis. I'm also curious if there are forum members who still believe that there's such a great democracy in the south.
I'm also curious if there are forum members who still believe that there's such a great democracy in the south.
What democracy has to do with this?
If you owned a TC TV station and I created a propaganda documentary that presented TCs as barbarians and murderers would you show it to your TC viewers that would probably get pissed off and never watch your channel again?
The owners of the channels choose not to show such things for obvious reasons unrelated with democracy. Even if we assume that this documentary was objective (I highly doubt since this person calls the occupied areas as "trnc"), then the channel that would broadcast it would loose half of its viewers and go bankrupt. Apart from democracy we also have capitalism (if thats good or bad is another story) and the channels show what their viewers want to watch and not what will make their viewers furious.
So this is really not a matter of democracy.
Also I don't agree that such kind of propaganda that promotes hate is a good thing. Personally I never watched a program that presented TCs in a very bad way (Turkey yes, but not TCs). If we are going to create such programs then the same documentary should everything that happened in an objective way and things should presented in such a way that will not promote hate.
Aren't there any state run tv stations that aren't run for profit in the south?
Metecyp I ve read the atricle of Sener Levent today in Politis newspaper. Yet the message he tries to convey is not the same as yours. He conveys two messages.First that it is important that the GCs report theor oen crimes and the TCs theirs.
Second that in the free areas there is enough democracy to allow anyone do whatever he likes. In the occupied areas nobody could even think of doing the same. I can't comment further as it is already too late, and I am too busy lately.n Here is the essense of the article as I understood it.
Piratis wrote: What democracy has to do with this?
You have a very simplistic view of democracy. For you, democracy is one man one vote and that's it. But when you talk about a democratic society, it's much more than one man one vote. It's the mentality of the society that determines if a society is democratic or not. A democratic society is the one that is open to different views. Differences are celebrated in democracies rather than supressed. Democratic people defend some other person's right to say whatever he/she wants to say even if they don't agree with that person's view.
You talk about democracy, human rights etc. for a solution but these are nothing but empty words on paper (like 1960 agreements) if people are not democratic and they don't respect the human rights.
This is a clear example of the nondemocratic mentality of the society (and hence that society's government) in the south. It has everything to do with democracy. It shows what kind of a democracy is waiting for me if I agree to live like a minority in the GC majority.
Piratis wrote: If you owned a TC TV station and I created a propaganda documentary that presented TCs as barbarians and murderers would you show it to your TC viewers that would probably get pissed off and never watch your channel again?
You jump to conclusions again. How do you know that this is indeed a propaganda movie without even watching it? Massacres did happen in Aloa, Maratha, Sandallar. TCs did not kill themselves. Don't you want to know about these events? I don't know you but I would like to know everything Turks and TCs did to GCs. I want to know the whole truth so I can form my ideas accordingly.
Piratis wrote: Even if we assume that this documentary was objective (I highly doubt since this person calls the occupied areas as "trnc"), then the channel that would broadcast it would loose half of its viewers and go bankrupt.
Doesn't this say something important about the society? If something is not propaganda and if something is not offensive, then why would it be a problem to show it on TV if you live in an open democratic society?
Apart from democracy we also have capitalism (if thats good or bad is another story) and the channels show what their viewers want to watch and not what will make their viewers furious.
True but channels also have an obligation to tell the truth to people (at least in democratic countries). I'm really amazed by how you don't find this troubling while claiming that you're such a democratic person.
I recently read a TC interviewing a GC that survived the incidents in Ashia (Pasakoy) in 1974. I didn't know about this before but now I do, and I want every TC to know about it so that we all realize how much we all sufferred. Don't you want GCs to learn about what happenned to TCs?
Also I don't agree that such kind of propaganda that promotes hate is a good thing. Personally I never watched a program that presented TCs in a very bad way (Turkey yes, but not TCs).
First, you don't know if this is propaganda. Second, bad incidents happenned in Cyprus and it was committed by TCs and GCs. So when you talk about these incidents (which I think we should) no matter how hard you try, some people will be labelled as bad. The important point is to realize that the existance of "bad" GCs and "bad" TCs does not mean that all GCs or TCs are bad. So as a TC, it's important for me to know that GCs sufferred in Ashia in the light of Sandallar, Maratha, etc. massacres and I think it's equally important for you to know about TC sufferrings in light of your own sufferring.
If we are going to create such programs then the same documentary should everything that happened in an objective way and things should presented in such a way that will not promote hate.
Promoting hate is the last thing we want. A bicommunal documentary documenting the summer of 1974 would be a wonderful project. But I don't think that you can label every GC documentary talking about TC sufferrings as propaganda (and vice versa of course).
As a side note, I watched Attila74 last year. I knew it was going to be one-sided but I still watched it to see the story from other's perspective and even though it was indeed one-sided, I still gained some insight from it. It's important to be able to see the other side's perspective.
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MicAtCyp wrote: It's important to have an account of a massacre carried out by the Turks from Turkish point of view and the Greek ones from the Greek point of view. We have already a larger number of accounts from Turks detailing the Greek ones and Greek ones giving the Turkish ones.
Yes, that's what Sener Levent tried to say and I agree with him. But this doesn't rule out what I said earlier. Sener Levent is not trying to say that there's perfect democracy in the south and dictatorship in the north. He's saying that both communities (TCs and GCs alike) do not tolerate to hear what they haven't been told all these years (undemocratic) and this GC guy tried to change this in his community with his documentary. But he failed because no TV accepted to show his documentary in his community. Now, he's telling the GC guy that it's not heroic to speak about one after moving into another community. In other words, he should still try to do this in his community rather than moving to the north. And he also sends a message to TCs that Angastiyotis at least tried to change his community but nobody ever tried that in the TC community yet. He's in a sense comparing something bad (Angastiyotis' failure in the south) to something worse (not even an attempt in the north).
Besides, it doesn't matter too much what Sener Levent tried to say. What matters is that in a democratic society people express their opinions freely but this guy was not even given the chance to express his opinions and this is a problem in a society that claims to be democratic.
There is one TC reporter, her name is Sevkiul Ulantal (not sure if spelt right) who has written a number of informative articles on the atrocities committed by the nationalists of both communities.
One incident that stands out is the tragic story of Husein Akansoi from Maratha. His whole family was wiped out by the murdering fiends in July 1974. His mother, 5 brothers and sisters, his grandmother, both his unties, his unkle and 4 first cousins were slaughtered in cold blood.
What is really amazing is that Husein, who now lives in Kyrenia, has not become a nationalist animal. He has worked and is still actively working, with the progressive TC forces, for a solution to our problem.
Regarding Angastiniotis's documentary, I have heard that the state run CBC has asked to see a copy but has not promised to show it.
I believe this is a brave man and we should all take example and show the truth like he has, maybe this will help us all understand that we are all the same and should console each other rather than point fingers at each other.
I WOULD LIKE TO GET A COPY OF THIS PROGRAM HAS ANYONE GOT IT , IF SO PLEASE CONTACT ME.


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