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News in Brief – March 15
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ICO issues guidelines for EU data protection reforms
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has urged organisations to start preparing for the implementation of EU data protection reforms over the next few years, with a new guide designed to avoid possible penalties of up to €20m (£15.6m) for data breaches.
Information commissioner Christopher Graham said that with an initial agreement being reached on the new EU-wide regulations last December, sign-off was now expected in the summer leading to a two year transition period before passing into law.
This law will replace the EU directive that the 1998 UK Data Protection Act is based on.
In order to better prepare for the potential implications of the reforms, the ICO has published a 12-step guide highlighting the importance of documenting personal data held by organisations and ensuring an understanding how it is shared through an information audit process.
Other recommendations in the guide include ensuring the right procedures are in place to detect and investigate a personal data breach, as well as determining the correct supervisory authority in cases of transferring information internationally.
"The EU data protection reforms promise to be the biggest shake up for consumers' data protection rights for three decades," Graham said during the ICO's annual Data Protection Practitioners' Conference on March 14.
"Organisations simply cannot afford to fall behind. We know data protection officers understand this, and we know they sometimes find their views ignored in the boardroom. The new law gives directors 20 million reasons to start listening."
Graham is expected set to step down this summer.
Land Registry launches Application Enquiry online portal
The Land Registry has this week launched a new free to use online portal allowing customers and professional organisations real time access to progress on their service applications.
The Application Enquiry service has been devised as a free to use replacement for its Day List Enquiry that includes the ability to also save details in PDF format and provide a user friendly means of performing status checks.
Chief land registrar Graham Farrant said that based on the organisation's experience of launching the department's MapSearch service, customer research had been conducted as part of the new portal's design.
"Initial feedback from those who tested the service gives us confidence that Application Enquiry will make it much easier and quicker for customers to know what is happening with their application at anytime they like," he said.
"The new service was developed after customer research revealed that only 18% of customers were using the Day List Enquiry and although many rated it highly, a small sampling exercise revealed that most went on to call Land Registry for more information about their application. The most popular reason was because clients or lenders wanted an update on progress or to find out whether one application may be holding up any subsequent applications."
Aside from the portal's launch, a five year agreement between the Land Registry and Xerox is set to come into effect from May 31 as part of plans to digitise the organisation's processes.
Under the terms of the £10.4m agreement, the company hopes to realise savings of £500,000 in the first year of the contract by interfacing with back-end systems and scanning some 6000 postal items a day.
Xerox said that it also hopes during the lifespan of the agreement to make use of machine-learning technologies to further automate processes like scanning and categorising land records. However, it is too early to set out a timeline for this process, according to the company.
NHS England sets out £55m electronic referral award fund
NHS England has set out £55m in funding to "reward" GP practices and hospitals that switch to providing digital referrals by 2018.
The health body has said that an estimated 50% of patients are electronically referred to hospital with the figure aimed to be increased to 60% by September this year.
As part of attempts to have fully switched to electronic referrals by 2018, consultations are also planned to ensure providers will not be paid for paper notifications by this date.
NHS England digital technology director Beverley Bryant said that the measures were part of wider work to step up efficiency in UK healthcare.
"For a long time our first class healthcare system has been let down by outmoded systems, where patients are referred to hospital by second class post," she said.
"We have a duty of care that extends beyond providing effective treatments. We must also provide an effective patient experience that ensures patients feel reassured at a time when they are most vulnerable."
A new national NHS e-Referral Service (ERS) was launched last year by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) to replace the previous Choose and Book system.
However, the system experienced a number of disruptions following its launch. Maintenance work has been ongoing since to address potential issues and implement updates to the system.


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Why pessemism can be good for you
September 17, 2014 / Klint Finley
The Atlantic interviews Julie Norem, a psychology professor at Wellesley College and author of The Positive Power Of Negative Thinking:
Olga Khazan: What is defensive pessimism?
Julie Norem: It's a strategy for dealing with anxiety and helping to manage anxiety so that it doesn't negatively influence performance. If you feel anxious in a situation, it doesn't really matter if it's realistic or not, you feel how you feel. It's hard not to feel that particular way. If you feel anxious, you need to do something about it. Usually people try to run away from whatever situation makes you anxious. But there are other ways of dealing with it. Defensive pessimism is one way.
When people are being defensively pessimistic, they set low expectations, but then they take the next step which is to think through in concrete and vivid ways what exactly might go wrong. What we've seen in the research is if they do this in a specific, vivid way, it helps them plan to avoid the disaster. They end up performing better than if they didn't use the strategy. It helps them direct their anxiety toward productive activity.
Full Story: The Atlantic: The Upside of Pessimism
(via NextDraft)
See also: The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking
On telling your dreams to go fuck themselves
And on the subject of not not doing what we (think) we love, here's Dan Hon on Hank Green's talk from XOXO festival last weekend:
Hank's thing was treading the well-worn path of telling you to fuck your dreams because, hey, your dreams are unrealistic. Well, they're not unrealistic. But they're just suggestions. And that you don't owe any obligation to your former self: they literally don't exist anymore. But this is the hard part: if you're trying to work out what it is that you *want* to do, then you kind of have to try a whole bunch of things out. Our education system and culture and economy isn't set up to do that. We aren't set up to let people a/b test a whole bunch of vocations or careers. We haven't built up a society that enables and empowers people to work out what's best, because hey, we've got bills to pay all the time. And if you haven't noticed, all of this technology that empowers people and enables new forms of success *costs money*.
Full Story: Things That Have Caught My Interest: The Difficult Third Album
Why "Do What You Love" Is Terrible Advice for Creative People
Food for thought going into the weekend, from Alex Soojung-Kim Pang:
The problem with the "do what you love" mantra is in how we follow it, which is with a single-mindedness that carries unnecessary risk. We interpret "do what you love" to mean "Do only what you love and nothing else," and the implication of that is that if you don't practice this kind of creative monogamy, you're being untrue to yourself. A corollary encourages, "Don't worry about the details and practicalities." The universe will reward your passion and belief in yourself. It also means assuming all the financial risk of a risky career move. The reality is that creative work is terribly funded, and the odds of making a steady living from it are very very small. Being fully exposed to that kind of instability can make you less creative, not more so.
Full Story: Medium: Are you creative? Then "Do What You Love" is terrible advice
See also: Quit Your Passion and Take a Boring Job
And: Our interview with Pang on Mindful Cyborgs part 1 and part 2.
Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties
February 22, 2014 / Klint Finley
Quartz reports on a recent study on scientific breakthroughs:
James Murphy, the former frontman of the band LCD Soundsystem, made what he called the biggest mistake of his life at 21, when he turned down a writing job on a sitcom that was about to launch.
The sitcom's name was Seinfeld.
Instead, he lurched around, working as a bouncer and later a DJ before finally releasing the first LCD Soundsystem album at the not-so-tender age of 35.
Murphy might have been older than some of his dance-rock peers, but his experience is fairly common among people who experience major creative breakthroughs, according to a new paper from NBER.
The authors examined the high points of the careers of both great inventors and Nobel-Prize winning scientists, and they found that the late 30s were the sweet spot for strokes of genius.
Full Story: Quartz: Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties
Being Weird is Great
April 25, 2012 / Klint Finley
In case there are any younger readers out there, this is right on:
With as serious a tone as I could muster, I said "Listen to me, okay? What I'm about to say is something I want you take in and think about and really hold on to."
He nodded. "Okay, he said."
"This isn't just conversation, this is important," I said. "You listening?"
He nodded again. "I'm listening," he replied with a look that convinced me that he was.
I took a deep breath. "Right now, you're in high school in a small suburban town," I started.
"Everyone you know looks the same and acts the same," I explained. "They may dress differently from each other or belong to different crowds, but they're all the same. Hipsters, brainiacs, jocks, so-called 'geeks' — they're all so caught up with not being left out that they're changing who they are to fit in with whoever it is that will accept them.
"When you show up and you're not like that, it scares them," I continued. "They don't know what to do with you, because they have no idea what it's like to think for themselves. So they try to make YOU feel like the loser, because there's more of them doing what they're doing than there are of you. In such a small group of small minds, the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
"To them, you are weird," I said. "But weird is good. No, screw that — weird is great! Being weird to someone just proves that you are being you, which is the most important thing you can ever be. There's nothing wrong with you. There's something wrong with them. They can't understand what it's like to be themselves, much less what it's like to be you."
He smiled a little. "You really think that?" he asked.
I laughed. "Dude, look at me!" I said. "I'm 300 pounds of ex-football player covered in cartoon and comic book tattoos, who builds websites and tours the world talking to people about his anime cel collection. Trust me, I know all about being weird."
Joe Peacock: "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."
This is all true. In fact, as you get older you'll meet more people like you – maybe not exactly like you, depending on where you live and where you work, but similar people. In fact, as you get older it will start to become more difficult to keep yourself from living a bubble of people who think and act like you do.
I think Bruce Sterling's 1991 talk at the Computer Game Developers Conference is also relevant to mutants of all ages:
Alienated punks, picking up computers, menacing society…. That's the cliched press story, but they miss the best half. Punk into cyber is interesting, but cyber into punk is way dread. I'm into technical people who attack pop culture. I'm into techies gone dingo, techies gone rogue — not street punks picking up any glittery junk that happens to be within their reach — but disciplined people, intelligent people, people with some technical skills and some rational thought, who can break out of the arid prison that this society sets for its engineers. People who are, and I quote, "dismayed by nearly every aspect of the world situation and aware on some nightmare level that the solutions to our problems will not come from the breed of dimwitted ad-men that we know as politicians." Thanks, Brenda!
That still smells like hope to me….
You don't get there by acculturating. Don't become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish. If you want to woo the muse of the odd, don't read Shakespeare. Read Webster's revenge plays. Don't read Homer and Aristotle. Read Herodotus where he's off talking about Egyptian women having public sex with goats. If you want to read about myth don't read Joseph Campbell, read about convulsive religion, read about voodoo and the Millerites and the Munster Anabaptists. There are hundreds of years of extremities, there are vast legacies of mutants. There have always been geeks. There will always be geeks. Become the apotheosis of geek. Learn who your spiritual ancestors were. You didn't come here from nowhere. There are reasons why you're here. Learn those reasons. Learn about the stuff that was buried because it was too experimental or embarrassing or inexplicable or uncomfortable or dangerous.
Is Getting Paid to Do What You Love All It's Cracked Up to Be?
December 27, 2011 / Klint Finley
David McRaney writes:
The Misconception: There is nothing better in the world than getting paid to do what you love.
The Truth: Getting paid for doing what you already enjoy will sometimes cause your love for the task to wane because you attribute your motivation as coming from the reward, not your internal feelings.
If you pay people to complete puzzles instead of paying them for being smart, they lose interest in the game. If you pay children to draw, fun becomes work. Payment on top of compliments and other praise and feeling good about personal achievement are powerful motivators, but only if they are unexpected. Only then can you continue to tell the story that keeps you going; only then can you still explain your motivation as coming from within.
Consider the story you tell yourself about why you do what you do for a living. How vulnerable is that tale to these effects?
You Are Not So Smart: The Overjustification Effect
Interesting stuff. I wonder if this is part of why self-employed people are happier even though self-employment is far more stressful than working for hire?
(Photo by Bo Nielsen)
5 Reasons Why Having a High IQ Ain't All It's Cracked-Up to Be
June 10, 2011 / Klint Finley
Yes, it's from Cracked, but it's interesting:
#5.You're Probably a Night Owl — And That's a Bad Thing
#4.You're Less Likely to Pass On Your Genes
#3. You're More Likely to Lie
#2. You're More Likely to Believe Bullshit
#1. You're More Likely to Be Self-Destructive
Cracked: 5 Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence
Why Smart People Do More Drugs
Smart kids more likely to be heavy drinkers
(via Dr. Benway)
Commuting is Making Us Fat and Miserable
June 7, 2011 / Klint Finley
People who commute more than 45 minutes a day are more likely to get divorced, according to a Swedish study. And that's just one of many studies indicating that commuting ruins lives that Slate's Annie Lowrey shares in a recent story on the subject. "The joy of living in a big, exurban house, or that extra income leftover from your cheap rent? It is almost certainly not worth it," she writes.
Long commutes are associated with neck and back pain, high levels of stress, obesity and a high level of dissatisfaction with one's life and work.
Despite everything, commuting time has only increased over the past 50 years. The number of "extreme commuters," who commute 90 minutes each way, has doubled since 1990 to 3.5 million. Why? The number one reason seems to be housing costs. People tend to want to buy larger houses, even if that adds significant time to their commute. According to Lowrey, economists have been warning us since at least the 60s that we tend not to take the value of our time into account when we buy houses far from work.
It's not always that easy, though. I don't own a home, so I have more flexibility in where I live. But back when I was doing IT contracting I would work in one place for a couple-few months, then move on to the next gig. I worked in one northwestern suburb of Portland (Hillsboro) for six months, then in a southwestern suburb for 3 or 4 months (Tualitin) and then in a northeastern suburb (Gresham) for a month or so. Eventually I found a full-time job in the city. I could have tried moving closer to that workplace, but my wife worked on the other side of town. And really, I could have been laid off at any time and had to start commuting to another corner of the metro area. Living centrally (close-in southeast) helped – my commute was never more than about 45 minutes (by car) each way. But not everyone can live in the middle of a city.
Slate: Your Commute Is Killing You.
(photo by epSos.de)
Top 5 Most Common Regrets of the Dying
Bonnie Ware spent many years working in palliative care, nursing patients in the final weeks of their lives. She shares what she says were the five most common regrets of the dying.
2. I wish I didn't work so hard. ("This came from every male patient that I nursed," Ware wrote).
Bonnie Ware: Regrets of the Dying
Mac Tonnies and Other Digital Ghosts in The New York Times
January 18, 2011 / Klint Finley
Rob Walker wrote a long piece on "digital ghosts" – the online remnants of people who have died. He talks quite a bit about Mac Tonnies:
I spoke to a half dozen people Mac Tonnies met online and in some cases never encountered in the physical world. Each expressed a genuine sense of loss; a few sounded grief-stricken even more than a year later. Mark Plattner, who lives in St. Louis and met Tonnies a dozen years ago through the comments section of another blog, decided that Posthuman Blues needed to survive. He used software called Sitesucker to put a backup of the entire thing — pictures, videos, links included — on a hard drive. In all, Plattner has about 10 gigabytes of material, offering a sense of Tonnies's "personality and who he was," Plattner says. "That's what we want to remember." He intends to store this material through his own hosting account, just as soon as he finds time to organize it all.
Plattner was one of several online friends who got involved in memorializing Tonnies and his work. Dia Sobin, an artist who lives in Connecticut, met Tonnies online around 2006; they communicated often by e-mail and phone, but never met in person. She created art for Tonnies's site and for the cover of what turned out to be his final book. Less than two weeks after he died, she started a blog called Post-Mac Blues. For more than a year, she filled it with posts highlighting passages of his writing, reminiscences, links to interviews he gave to podcasters and bloggers, even his Blip.fm profile (which dutifully records that he listened to a song from "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today," by David Byrne and Brian Eno, at 4:16 p.m. on the last day he lived). Her site is "a map to Mac Tonnies," Sobin says. "And a memorial."
"I only ever knew him over Twitter," Sarah Cashmore , a graduate student in Toronto, told me. She shared his enthusiasm for design and technology and learned of his death from Twitter contacts. "I was actually devastated," she says. A few months later, she teamed up with several other members of Tonnies's Twitter circle to start a second Tonnies-focused blog, Mac-Bots.
This outpouring of digital grief, memorial-making, documentation and self-expression is unusual, maybe unique, for now, because of the kind of person Tonnies was and the kinds of friends he made online. But maybe, his friend Rita King suggests, his story is also a kind of early signal of one way that digital afterlives might play out. And she doesn't just mean this in an abstract, scholarly way. "I find solace," she told me, "in going to Mac's Twitter feed."
New York Times: Cyberspace When You're Dead
(Thanks Chris Arkenberg)
Walker also covers various services for dealing with one's digital life posthumously and transhumanist notions of immortality.
See also: Technoccult interview with Sarah and Mark on MacBots.
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Choice to announce second quarter earnings on Aug. 6
The call should illuminate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic during the first half of the year
Patrick Pacious, Choice Hotels International president and CEO, and Dominic Dragisich, CFO, will discuss the company's second quarter earnings during a teleconference and webcast on Aug.6 at 11:30 a.m. ET.
CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL will announce its second quarter earnings on Aug. 6. That quarter saw the COVID-19 pandemic hit full swing and Choice has seen mixed results during that crisis.
The second quarter results will be released prior to the market opening Thursday. A conference call with Patrick Pacious, president and CEO, and Dominic Dragisich, CFO will be held at 11:30 a.m. ET. There also will be a live webcast on the company's investor relations website and a recording of the earnings call will be available by 3 p.m. ET the day of the call.
Earlier in July, Choice announced that, because of reduced consumer demand during the pandemic it would lay off U.S. corporate employees who had previously been furloughed. The number of employees was not made clear by the company, but it has reduced its global workforce by more than 20 percent through a combination of layoffs and furloughs since the beginning of the first quarter, including the most recent layoffs.
A hiring freeze remains in place for all non-critical positions globally, one of several steps the company took in early April to compensate for losses stemming from the COVID-19 downturn. Other steps included wage reductions for executive staff and cuts in discretionary capital expenditures.
"Given the broad-based uncertainty of the current environment, we have taken decisive actions over the past several weeks to position the company for changing market dynamics and enhanced our financial flexibility to sustain the long-term health of the business," Pacious said at the time.
The second quarter has not been all bad news for the company. In June it reported that its extended-stay brands, WoodSpring Suites and Suburban Extended Stay in the economy segment, MainStay Suites and Everhome Suites in midscale, were seeing higher occupancy than the rest of the industry during the pandemic.
Also in the second quarter, a group of at least 60 Choice franchisees filed a lawsuit leveling serious accusations against the company. They include an allegation that the company exercises racial bias against Indian American owners.
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The 10 best summer cocktails you've never heard of
Julie Schwietert
Photo: rageforst
It's summer, and no matter where you are, there's no better time to explore and enjoy the spirits of the world.
You already know the Capirinha, the mojito, and the pisco sour… it's time to challenge the bartender with one of these exotic cocktails!
In our guide to the world's best cocktails, we take you from the Americas to Africa in search of lesser known libations.
10. Michelada:
Legend has it that the Michelada, a Mexican cocktail that boasts beer as its unlikely main ingredient, evolved in the 1950s, when the Mexican beer company Tecate introduced beer in cans.
The marketing innovation, which allowed bars to advertise cerveza bien helada (or "real cold beer"), eventually took on the name the "chelada," with "mi" ("my") eventually tacked onto the front.
The practice of squeezing a lime wedge and adding salt to beer is modified in this cocktail, as a tall frosty beer glass is rimmed with lime and salt and then dipped in a chile seasoning.
Add beer to a mix concocted with a dash of Tabasco or other hot sauce and a dash of Worcestershire sauce. Sprinkle a bit more of the chile on top for a fiery finish.
Ask for one at Pachamama's in Lower Baja California.
9. Violette Royale:
This simple cocktail is a blend of 4 ounces of champagne and a half ounce of Crème de Violette (violet liqueur), which was not available in the U.S. until recently.
Crème de Violette, which is imported from France and Austria, is made of macerated violets from the Alps and has a deep purple color that makes an impressive cocktail with a distinct taste.
Find it on the menu at Hotel Costes Bar in Paris, which has an outdoor courtyard.
8. Elderflower-Pear Martini:
The best cocktails have a back story—preferably one about how difficult the ingredients are to source—and like the Violette Royale, the Elderflower-Pear Martini is made with a liqueur made in limited quantities and which was only recently made available in the States.
St. Germain, the elderflower liqueur, is made of elderflowers that are collected for just a few days each spring. The liqueur is perfect for a summer drink; mix 1.5 ounces of St. Germain with 1.5 ounces of pear vodka and top with champagne.
Serve in a martini glass garnished with a pear slice. Ask for it at Deep Blue Bistro (which doubles as an art gallery on the waterfront) in Sydney, Australia.
Photo by ilmungo
7. Peppermint Somras:
Mint is a classic ingredient in many summer drinks around the world—from the Cuban mojito to the Southern U.S. favorite, the mint julep—but it's also an ingredient in peppermint somras, an Indian cocktail.
Blend 1.5 ounces of white rum, 1.5 ounces of simple syrup, 2 ounces of cocktail sour mix, and 2 ounces of orange juice. Macerate 6 peppermint leaves and garnish.
Ask for it at the Vie Lounge in Mumbai, which offers outdoor drinking on the deck with impressive ocean views.
6. Nectar of the Gods:
Lithuania isn't famous for its cocktails, but maybe it should be. In addition to offering a variety of local beers, Lithuania also makes its own liqueurs, including the honey based blend known as Krupnikas and the fruity Palanga and Dainava.
Krupnikas can be mixed with champagne, vodka, or gin in a dizzying number of combinations to produce cocktails that are simultaneously complex and light. Ask for Nectar of the Gods at the Sky Bar in Vilnius, which offers views of the city skyline from the 22nd floor.
5. African Obsession:
More local liqueurs can be found in South Africa, center of production for Amarula, a crème liqueur made of a fruit, marula.
To make it at home, mix 1.5 ounces of Amarula with 1.5 ounces of Crème de Cacao, 1.5 ounces of Amaretto, and 1.5 ounces of milk or heavy cream. Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass.
Belly up to the Oceanside bar at Baraza in Cape Town if you want to experience the African Obsession in the place where it was invented.
4. Cransoma:
Terrible name, to be sure, but a delicious and refreshing cocktail. Celebrate the Beijing Olympics with a nod to the key ingredient in this cocktail, lychee liqueur.
Mix 2/3 ounces of strawberry liqueur with 1/3 ounces of cranberry vodka, 1/3 ounces of lychee liqueur, 1 and 1/3 ounces of apple juice, and 12 ounces of tonic water. Shake and serve in a hurricane glass with a peeled lychee.
Going to China? Ask for the cransoma at Beijing's Emergency Room Bar.
3. Portuguese Daisy:
Portugal, of course, is famous for its port, so it's no surprise that porto has found its way into the country's signature cocktails.
The Portuguese Daisy is made with 2 ounces of port, 1 ounce of brandy, 1 ounce of lemon juice, ½ teaspoon of superfine sugar, and ½ teaspoon of Grenadine, shaken with ice and strained into a lowball glass.
Try it out at Resto in Lisbon, which provides sweeping views of the city and outdoor drinking in the courtyard.
2. Tel Aviv Summer:
The name says it all. Vodka, tequila, cachaca, lemon juice, red grapefruit juice, and a hint of lemongrass are mixed together in this refreshing drink.
Ask for it at the unfortunately named Betty Ford Bar in Tel Aviv.
1. Jus de Bissap:
You probably don't want to make this one at home, as the complexity level is high and the variety of ingredients makes the work involved intense, so swing by the Awale Bar in Cote d' Ivoire's capital, Abidjan, to enjoy this light, summery cocktail made of hibiscus flowers, ginger, vanilla, mint, orange flower water, lemon juice, and pineapple juice.
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Wagenborg nearly quadrupled its profit in 2019
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Royal Wagenborg significantly improved its profit last year. The company's operating result more than doubled from 27 to 71 million euros, while the net profit jumped from 13 to 44 million euros. This year the results will be negatively impacted by Covid-19, but CEO Egbert Vuursteen expects a recovery in 2021.
Wagenborg reports an income of 545 million euros, which is 21 million euros less than the year before. However, the company's operating profit (ebitda) increased by roughly 33% to 127 million euros.
Although the dry bulk market was volatile in 2019, the Baltic Dry Index strongly improved in the second half of the year. The increased demand for freight transport was accompanied by an expected decline capacity as a result of IMO 2020 and new ballast water regulation, which positively influenced freight rates and demand for longer-term contracts during the year, the shipping company states in its annual report.
The company's shipping division, which comprises of some 180 vessels ranging from 2,000 to 23,000 tonnes in deadweight, was able to increase its number of longer-term customer contracts. In 2020, Wagenborg aims to even further increase the revenue share from contracts as compared to spot trades.
Wagenborg announced this week that it will be expanding the activities of its geared fleet to Africa. In addition to the North-Atlantic and Europe, the company's geared vessels of 8,00 tonnes and more will also operate in the area between Senegal and Cameroon. Nigeria is excluded from the sailing area for safety reasons.
Wagenborg calls the addition of Africa a logical step due to the "significant synergies" between its fleet, the existing key industries and the opportunities in the region.
"Main ports of this extended region will be Dakar, Abidjan, Tema and Takoradi. Since port facilities often lack sufficient crane capacity, Wagenborg's geared fleet will be an added value in this region", the shipping company says.
Towage and Offshore
Wagenborg Towage faced challenging circumstances during the year. The demand for Wagenborg's fleet of sea-going barges declined on the back of a sluggish offshore market, resulting in relatively low utilisation rates and lower turn-over from so-called "open sea" projects. Results from in-port towage remain suppressed but Wagenborg says that it nonetheless remains committed to providing towage services in the port of Delfzijl and Eemshaven in the north of the Netherlands.
In the Offshore division, Wagenborg sold a number of vessels including the 1998-built Antarcticaborg and living quarter barge Bellini, that had been laid up in Greece. The company's walk-to-work vessels Kroonborg and Kasteelborg, as well as the Statiaborg, continued their contracts with major oil and gas companies. Compared to 2018, the Offshore division performed well in 2019.
The warehouses of Wagenborg Stevedoring in Delfzijl and Eemshaven were fully utilized during almost the entire year. "We prolonged our market position as a service provider to the offshore wind industry while we expanded our position in the handling of various (biological) agriculture products", the company states.
Wagenborg Nedlift
For Wagenborg's crane division Nedlift, the start of 2019 was rather slow due to an absence of larger projects in the oil and gas, chemical and infrastructure projects. The business unit used this period to relocate cranes and close down the business unit West to focus on the better performing units North, East and South of the Netherlands.
Demand increased from the end of the second quarter, resulting in a recovery of both revenue and results. The year ended with a substantial improvement in profits compared to 2018.
Most of Wagenborg's divisions were able to improve their underlying results compared to 2018. The lower turnover from Towage, Shipping and Stevedoring activities were compensated by higher turnover from other activities. Additionally, net interest expenses further declined in line with further net debt reductions during the year, contributing to a significantly improved net profit.
This year, Wagenborg expects its results to be adversely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The coronavirus has not only affected demand but will also make it more difficult to divest non-core vessels.
"Management expects an adverse impact on revenue and operational performance in 2020 with a subsequent recovery in 2021", the board of directors states. "We continuously monitor and assess the possible impact of Covid-19 on the financial and operational situation and act accordingly."
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The target audience for this project is primarily the students and families at the middle school level within the Cedar Grove School District Our secondary targets are students and families already at the high school level that have struggled to keep music in their class schedules.
The activities and events did not have a cost associated with them. The opportunities created within the district for the younger grades held no additional cost and the additional materials distributed were completed by parents and students at no cost. There were many ways to convey the positive aspects of the music program by enhancing communication between the schools and allowing students to advocate for themselves and for other students.
The challenges with this initiative were making sure to get the right information in front of the right individuals. We are lucky to have a supportive booster club and students with a passion for music who were willing to take the time to talk to younger students and families at these events. We are also fortunate to have music directors with open communication with the school administration. The challenges are on-going due to our small district size, but communication has been the key to a good working relationship between the music program and the school administration.
The effectiveness of this project is difficult to quantify. Due to our school size, scheduling difficulties have become a challenge. Students want and need music in their schedules, but they are also focused on getting Honors and AP classes that they've earned the right to take, as well. What has been most successful has been the increase in dialogue between the music department and the administration. Because the students continue to advocate for themselves, their concerns are truly heard by staff and families alike. Students themselves are very relatable to other students, especially those in 8th grade in the process of building their high school schedules and are very excited to be part of a highly successful music program, despite the challenges faced due to small school size. About 10 choir, band, and orchestra students were unable to fit music into their schedules last year. This year, there are less than 5. Although the numbers are small, so is our high school enrollment. We consider this a huge success and attribute a great deal of the improvement to the enhanced communication with guidance as they are establishing their scheduling process. The students were heard, and the school responded. Parents and prospective students received more information at school events informing them on the many opportunities in the music program at the high school. We are so excited for them!
Keep the students involved. They are the best advocates for music and what is important to them. The boosters can help provide them with materials, but it speaks volumes when information, opportunities, and a passion for music comes directly from them.


Plan ahead by setting out the entries and stops of all your intended legs in advance so that you can gauge your risk and decide exactly how aggressive or conservative you want to be. Even if you adjust your subsequent entry points or stops as the trade progresses, setting approximate entries and stop prices at the beginning of the trade for future legs, will help you stay within your risk parameters.
Choose the exact number of legs you wish to be displayed on the Setup tab – your display is customized to match your own preferences.
If you set the Recovery Plan to "Stop and Reverse", and set the direction of your first trade (Leg One), then all the other legs are automatically set for you (Buy > Sell > Buy > Sell, etc.). If you set the Recovery Plan to "Cost Average", and set the direction of your first trade, then all the other legs are automatically set to be the same direction (Buy > Buy > Buy, etc.). If you set the Recovery Plan to "Combo", you can manually set the direction of each leg. Simply switch to Combo if you started doing a stop-and-reverse, then at some point found that a cost-average trade would be more appropriate as the next leg.
Use the drop-down Effective Pip Goal menu to quickly see where your break even is. Your break even price is always displayed, as well as the number of pips you need to reach it.
Easy to see yellow, orange and red flag warnings appear for any leg that might place you near or over the drawdown warning level you set on the SetUp tab.
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Future: 'I'm Bigger Than Jay-Z' (VIDEO)
The Atlanta rapper made the declaration after his Rolling Loud set.
Future is a big deal, but the biggest?
That's what the Atlanta rapper says he believes. Days after Kanye West made a surprise appearance at his Rolling Loud California set, he compared himself to Jay-Z.
"In the streets, I'm bigger than Jigga. Ima run me a B up easy," Future tweeted on Friday (December 17).
The tweet was among a series of statements Future Hendrix made, which began with him bragging about Ye's appearance at Rolling Loud.
"I'm the only one who can get YE to pull up whenever wherever..tuh."
"Everything I do legendary or it want to get done. Tuh," Future wrote in another tweet.
During his Rolling Loud set on December 13, Future had Yeezy on stage to perform a few classic songs, including "Hurricane," "Can't Tell Me Nothing," and "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1." He also freestyles over Future's 2015 hit "F**k Up Some Commas."
Watch Future's Rolling Loud performance below.
ATLANTA, GA – OCTOBER 11: Rapper Future attends MIATL Weekend Celebration at Compound on October 11, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.(Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)


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Self: Poems for Teens
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Executive Search Firm Appoints Ken Rowe as Senior Associate
PHILADELPHIA, November 4, 2019 N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, announced today the appointment of Ken Rowe as a senior associate specializing in Board and C-Level search assignments. Mr. Rowe will report directly to Tony Morales, Managing Director of executive search at…
Executive Search Firm Appoints Leslie Goldhill as Principal & Senior Advisor
PHILADELPHIA, November 1, 2019 - N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, announced today the appointment of Leslie Goldhill as a principal and senior advisor specializing in Board and C-Level search assignments. Ms. Goldhill will report directly to Tim Dunn, Chief Commercial Officer…
N2Growth Hosts all-African Employee Engagement Awards in Johannesburg, South Africa
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, announced today that it's hosting the annual all-African Employee Engagement awards in Johannesburg, South Africa this week. Sandra Burmeister, N2Growth's Regional President in Africa, and Jim Hotaling, N2Growth's…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Appoints Brian Kibby as Senior Partner and CEO of N2Ventures
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, announced today the appointment of Brian Kibby as Senior Partner focusing on the firm's global education, technology, and media practices. Mr. Kibby will also serve as CEO of N2Ventures, the firm's unit for serving…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Appoints Romasha Nath as Principal and Senior Advisor
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, announced today the appointment of Romasha Nath as Principal and Senior Advisor specializing in Board and C-Level search assignments. Nath will report directly to Tim Dunn, Chief Commercial Officer at N2Growth. Mike…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Appoints Former McKinsey Consultant, Tom Dunn, as Senior Associate
PHILADELPHIA, August 1, 2019 - N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, announced today the appointment of Tom Dunn as a senior associate. Mr. Dunn will focus on Board and C-level executive search assignments and report directly to Tony Morales, Managing Director of executive search at…
N2Growth Places Mark Iwanowski as CEO of Venture-Backed Formulus Black
PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 2019 -- N2Growth Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, recently placed Mark Iwanowski as CEO of Formulus Black. The search was led by Blake Lindgren, senior director at N2Growth. Mike Myatt, Chairman of N2Growth said, "Our private equity and venture capital practice has…
N2Growth Announces Appointment of Jim Hotaling as Global Head of Leadership Development Practice
PHILADELPHIA, July 8, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, announced the appointment of Jim Hotaling as Global Head of Leadership Development. The new responsibility comes in addition to Mr. Hotaling's current role as President of N2Growth. Mike Myatt, Chairman of N2Growth, said, "Everyone here is…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Appoints George Parvanov as Regional Managing Partner in Bulgaria
PHILADELPHIA, July 5, 2019 - N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and a top executive search firm, announced the appointment of George Parvanov as a Regional Managing Partner in its EMEAA Executive Search Practice focusing on Board and C-level search assignments. Mr. Parvanov will be working out of the N2Growth…
N2Growth Makes Strategic Bet on Growing Its Outplacement Services
PHILADELPHIA, July 3, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance and top executive search firm, announced it is making big investments into its executive transitions practice, but not for the reasons that other firms are. "Most firms have historically used outplacement services as a hedge for revenue protection…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Places Hillary Mickell as Dean and Regional CEO at Northeastern University
PHILADELPHIA, June 24, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, recently placed Hillary Mickell as Dean and Regional CEO at Northeastern University. The search was led by Dan Myatt, Senior Director at N2Growth. Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university with a distinctive,…
N2Growth Appoints Daniel Bentle as a Director in Its Executive Search Practice
PHILADELPHIA, June 24, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, announced the appointment of Dan Bentle as a Director in the Executive Search Practice focusing on Board and C-level search assignments. Mr. Bentle will be working out of the St. Louis and Anchorage offices. "Dan is a remarkably talented…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Places Gary Gamble as COO of Luma Pictures
PHILADELPHIA, June 23, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, recently placed Gary Gamble as the Chief Operating Officer at Luma Pictures. The search was completed in only 56 days and was led by Dan Myatt, Senior Director at N2Growth. Los Angeles and Melbourne based Luma Pictures is an Academy…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Appoints Blake Lindgren as Senior Director
PHILADELPHIA, June 23, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, announced the appointment of Blake Lindgren as a Senior Director in the Executive Search Practice focusing on Board and C-level search assignments. Mr. Lindgren will be working out of the Phoenix Arizona office. "Blake is an exceptional…
N2Growth, a Top Executive Search Firm, Appoints Dan Evans as Chief Marketing Officer
PHILADELPHIA, June 22, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, announced the appointment of Dan Evans as Chief Marketing Officer. A respected media and marketing professional, Dan has more than a decade of experience in helping strong brands create outstanding user experience. "Dan is an incredible…
N2Growth Hosts Invitation-Only Event for Board Directors in the Netherlands
PHILADELPHIA, June 20, 2019 -- N2Growth, Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, recently held an invitation-only event for 30 Supervisory Board Members at Castle Kerckebosch in The Netherlands. The event was hosted by Jaco Erasmus, N2Growth's EMEAA CEO. "Directors are under pressure to add value and contribution to the…
N2Growth Ranked as Top Executive Search Firm
PHILADELPHIA, June 20, 2019 -- N2Growth Inc., a global leader in organizational and human performance, announced that for the fourth consecutive year it has been ranked by Forbes as one of America's Top Executive Search Firms again ranking in the Top 10 of the top 250 executive search firms. Forbes, in partnership with analytics firm Statista—…
N2Growth Survey Shows Succession Planning in Need of Overhaul
PHILADELPHIA, June 20, 2019 -- N2Growth Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, recently conducted a survey of Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) which concluded that succession planning is largely broken at many of the world's leading companies. The survey showed that more than 85 percent of CHROs believe they are not…
N2Growth Announces New Digital Clarity Assessment
PHILADELPHIA, June 20, 2019 — N2Growth Inc., a global leader in human and organizational performance, announced the release of its Digital Clarity assessment tool, which can assess an organization, business unit, team or individual contributor with respect to their digital capabilities. Mike Kerouac, CEO of N2Growth, said, "The DNA of what it…
N2Growth Survey of CDOs Shows Companies Have a Digital Talent Gap
PHILADELPHIA, N2Growth, Inc. a global leader in human and organizational performance, recently conducted a survey of Chief Digital Officers (CDOs), which concluded that emerging technology is not the central issue as companies continue to struggle with digital transformation. The survey showed that more than 70% of CDOs believe that not having the…
N2Growth Acquires Interest in South African-based Executive Search Firm, Landelahni Group
Philadelphia, PA., March 1, 2018 — N2Growth, a global leadership and talent advisory firm focusing on human and organizational performance, is pleased to announce the acquisition of an interest in the Landelahni Group, an executive search and leadership development firm, based in South Africa, with additional offices in Kenya and Nigeria. Founded…
N2Growth Leadership Academy Recognized by Sioux Falls
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N2Growth Expands Executive Team by Appointing Mike Kerouac as CEO and Barry Katz as Chief Growth Officer
Philadelphia, PA. January 2, 2018— N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm, announced today that it appointed Mike Kerouac as CEO and Barry Katz as Chief Growth Officer. We are pleased to announce that Mike Kerouac has accepted the role of CEO at N2Growth. "As many of you know, I have known Mike for nearly a decade where we…
Elizabeth Pieters accepted into Forbes Human Resources Council
Liz Pieters, Chief People Officer at N2Growth Inc., has been accepted into the Forbes Human Resources Council, an invitation-only community for HR executives across all industries. Liz joins other Forbes Human Resources Council members, who are hand-selected, to become part of a curated network of successful peers and get access to a variety of…
N2Growth Was Recognized as a 2017 Top 20 Leadership Development Firm
Philadelphia, PA. February 21, 2017— N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm, announced today it was recognized for the second time as top 20 leadership development firm by TrainingIndustry.com. According to TrainingIndustry.com, N2Growth was selected to the 2017 List based on the following criteria: New and Innovative Service…
N2Growth Ranked #2 on List of Top Executive Search Firms
N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm announced today that it was named to the 2014 and 2015 list of Top Executive Search Firms, moving up one place over the prior year to #2. "Our executive search practice is a disruptive force in the executive recruiting segment, and it's nice to see we are being consistently recognized as…
N2Growth Chairman, Mike Myatt Recognized By Thinkers50 as Top Leadership Thinker
September 5, 2013 - N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm, announced today its CEO, Mike Myatt was shortlisted in the leadership category for the 2013 Thinkers50 awards. Thinkers50 is the premier ranking of global business thinkers. Myatt was one of only ten leadership thinkers recognized globally for their contributions to the…
N2Growth Announces New Practice Chairs
August 1, 2013 - N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm, announced today it named new practice area chairs for its leadership development, and organizational development practices. The following individuals were named practice chairs: Brian Layer, Brigadier General, United States Army (Retired) now serves as chair of N2Growth's…
N2Growth Was Recognized As A Top 20 Leadership Development Firm
February 21, 2013 N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm, announced today it was recognized as a 2013 top 20 leadership development firm by TrainingIndustry.com. According to TrainingIndustry.com, selection to the 2013 List was based on the following criteria: New and Innovative Service Offerings Unique approach to Leadership…
December. 20, 2012 - N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm, announced today it's executive search practice was ranked #5 on the list of the world's top executive search firms published by topexecutivesearchfirms.com. "We were honored to be the only boutique search firm ranked in the Top 10" said, Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy…
N2Growth's Executive Search Practice Sees Record Growth
N2Growth, a top learning and leadership development firm announced today that its executive search practice has grown more than 100% when compared to same period over the prior year. "Because our clientele is comprised of large employers (generally Fortune 1000 companies), it really isn't much of a shock that our executive search practice is…
N2Growth Blog Ranked #1 in Consulting & #12 in Leadership by PostRank's listing of Top Blogs
N2Growth, a top leadership development and advisory firm announced today that the N2Growth Blog was named the #1 Consulting Blog of 2009 as measured by engagement and influence. The N2Growth blog is authored and moderated by Mike Myatt, Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer at N2Growth. "What's humbling to me is that the rankings are based…
N2Growth's Social Media Practice Sees Record Growth
N2Growth a leadership development and advisory firm announced today that its social media practice has grown more than 200% when compared to same period over the prior year. "Because our clientele is comprised largely of C-level executives it shouldn't come as any surprise that our social media practice is growing as rapidly as it is," said Mike…
N2Growth's Mike Myatt Authors New Book Entitled "Leadership Matters"
N2Growth announced today that Mike Myatt, its Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer has authored a new book entitled "Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual" which is due to be released in time for Christmas Sales. The book is written for both aspiring CEOs and those that already hold the title of Chief Executive Officer. Authored by…


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Since the introduction of iOS and Android in 2008, mobile apps have grown to become the primary interface to computing resources. In 2016 more people accessed the internet via mobile than desktop.
This has led to explosive growth in the development of mobile apps, with more than 5.2 million iOS and Android apps available at present to download.
Unfortunately for most developers, this makes it extremely challenging to get their apps noticed, with typically only as few as 5% of their target audience actually using their app.
Compounding this is the development costs involved - on average around $250k per enterprise app, often exceeding AUD $600,000.
There are common factors that lead to apps not being successful, ranging from poor user experience, to technical issues and security concerns.
Fortunately there are several basic strategies that can make an app useful, engaging, and more likely to be adopted and retained.
Well designed enterprise apps can interface with systems of record to improve internal business processes, increase productivity, improve customer service, and help to cut costs.
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Psaki Says She'll Bring Her Hammer & Sickle Hat to WH
Video of Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling journalists that she would be taking her Hammer & Sickle adorned ushanka-hat to the White House during a US State Department Press Conference on March 25th, 2015. (Background: On Jan 13th, 2014, Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov gave Jen Psaki a pink ushanka-hat. Jen Psaki was Spokesman for the US Dept. of State at the time. John Kerry, who was US Secretary of State, had just finished negotiations with Lavrov for Bashir al-Assad to voluntarily give up chemical weapons munitions in Syria. Psaki posed for multiple pictures with Kerry and Lavrov, in which she is wearing the hat. It is adorned with a Soviet Red Star/Commie Hammer & Sickle emblem.) Note: this video excerpt was first posted by a group "Merica1st", whose views are not necessarily endorsed by TCW. -ED


The new social networking website Pinterest is well recognized for accumulating new guidelines as well as home beautifying ideas. At the same time, it can also help you get a new job. It is one of the most recent social networking website. A lot of businesses and products are using the new social networking website Pinterest to get in touch with their viewers. The visual appeal of the images which are presented on the boards of pinterest is what makes the people flock to the new social networking website.
People who are in artistic professions can gain the most from pinterest. But for this, they need to build a strong portfolio on pinterest and attract the probable employers to enable them to hire you. A few such professions are paintings, film making, website designers, catering experts, engineers and graphic designers. On the other hand there is no end to be artistic.
For people who have obtained grades through various online programs, pinterest may come in truly useful as a tool for searching a suitable job. This is so, when you are unable to get the chance for appointments through the career centers of college. A few candidates are making use of pinterest to their benefit once they finish their graduation with a grade in any stream of arts.
As a portfolio, build a board on your account in pinterest. To display your skills and capture the visitors' attention to your benefit, the visual character of the pinterest website is extremely useful. For more information that a visitor may require, you can link to your blog or website or post a photograph straight to pinterest. In case you do not have a picture of your career, you can always search online for a free image to make use of.
You can also incorporate your hobbies and the awards you received, special classes attented, previous jobs done, degrees obtained and previous work experience as necessary. The initiative that is required here is to be imaginative. Never look forward to visitors visiting pinterest to read pages and pages of content. On the pinterest board, you can also add a video of your choice. Always use unusual pins to give the visitors an idea about your work. Purchasing a good digital camera would help you enormously.
For people who are looking for a contract job and are working from home, pinterest can be of great help. One of my friends who have joined pinterest very recently, have already set up his boards on pinterest with the photos of lots of artistic lanterns he has made over the last couple of months. He made certain that he included his portfolio board that sends visitors to his website so that they can easily get in touch with him for the lanterns they may like to purchase.
With lots and lots of people already on pinterest and more joining by the day, anyone can easily visualize that their business will only flourish with this new social media website. If you are interested in using pinterest in a professional way then just remember to keep all of your boards and pins also professional so that in case any potential employer happens to look at your profile, you will be benefitted.
A lot of business houses make use of pinterest to advertise their products as well as their services. You should always visit the boards of companies to know what the company people display on their company boards before you decide to submit your application for a job opportunity. Once you are on the boards of the companies, you have to carefully read the descriptions and remarks so as to get a little idea with reference to the demands of that company.
From the descriptions and remarks made on those company boards on pinterest, you have to think over as to whether they are easy or strict in nature and the things said in their pins regarding the background and the concerns of the company. You have to remember these aspects in mind while making your application and resume. If you do like this, you can easily understand the company's background in a better way before you proceed further to apply for that company.
Continuously search for resources for your career and follow experts in the field. Experts regularly give advice from various resumes to the job interview so as to help people with their career search in a proper way. These experts in career can also suggest the much required enthusiasm during your search for a job. However, for all kinds of career options, pinterest may not be the apparent choice as a social networking website.
Even so it has the great possibility in your search for a job. Before applying for a job, make use of it to find out about a particular company. You can just remain yourself inspired or get helpful advice from career experts or colleges. There are many graduates who have successfully made use of pinterest in their search for a job and helped themselves get the innovative career they wished.
When you are searching for a job, social networking can be easily used in a lot of different ways to get the word out to the people at large. Pintrest is such an innovative way to use. At the same time, it does not mean that you can forget twitter and facebook. Simply mention your status as you just filled out a job application online. Or say that you are looking for good companies that may want whatever you do.
You may be stunned at the quantum of people who offer a fine suggestion. Alternatively, you may feel that you could be a better fit at their company. Everything said it is definitely true that you cannot depend just on pinterest alone as the social media platform for your search of a job. There are indeed other social media platforms which are very much hunted by all recruiters as well as companies. However, pinterest has ceratinly presented a new innovative channel for those people who are in artistic fields.
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Improved sentiment helped our biotech holdings YTD, and our higher-than–the-S&P-500 exposure made a meaningful difference in our performance. We have a long-term view on the sector, and remain optimistic about its prospects, especially for selected holdings with the most attractive positioning.
Some of our technology holdings benefited from an upbeat earnings season (Mobileye), and M&A activity (Ultratech).
On the other hand, we saw weakness in our energy sector, where we have higher-than-the-S&P 500 exposure. We feel comfortable with our picks in the sector, and look forward to their satisfactory performance in the long run.
After experiencing an especially nervous market not long ago, when stocks would quickly sell off on any bit of negative news, we are now witnessing what some call the "Teflon market." Despite all the noise coming from Washington investors remain very optimistic, pouring money into the market and counting on economic growth. Both the Dow Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are up 5-6% YTD (2/23/2017), and recently hit all-time highs. UK, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil are climbing to new highs as well.
With almost all earnings reports for the 4th quarter behind us, we can tell that this will be the first time in 2 years that we have seen two consecutive quarters of earnings growth for the S&P 500. Estimated 12-month forward earnings per share for the index have reached a new high ($133.50 Source: Factset), but the 12-month forward P/E also reached a peak level that we haven't seen since 2004 (17.6x).
Two thirds of companies beat earnings expectations – with technology and health care leading the pack — while telecom services and utilities had the most disappointing results. Eight sectors reported y/y EPS growth including utilities, real estate and financials, while 3 sectors reported y/y declines with telecom services being the weakest.
In February, the Federal Reserve kept the rates unchanged. Remember that in December, we saw a 25-basis point hike, which was only the second increase in more than 10 years. It sets a new trend that shouldn't be a surprise, but many may have long forgotten the world of normal rates, so it may prove to be a rude awakening for some.
We welcome further rate increases, and the end of easy money policies. We trust it will lead to a long-awaited reset in asset prices, return expectations, and debt levels across consumers, businesses, and governments.
We also believe rates increases may be a bigger determinant of the markets' direction than new tax and trade policies, or a wave of deregulation. Any further rate increase from such low levels implies a very high percent increase in the cost of debt for all participants. It's hard to imagine it won't affect their behavior, and prompt an adjustment in levels of borrowing and spending.
We like to call out, now and then, an intriguing new market dynamic that deserves more attention. Quartz recently published an interesting article on auto loans – "American car buyers are borrowing like never before—and missing plenty of payments, too" (February 21, 2017). Here are some highlights.
Last year, Americans bought more new cars than ever before. Is that meaningful? Car sales represent a fifth of all retail spending. US outstanding auto loan debt reached a new high, $1.2 trillion, 9% up y/y, and 13% higher than the last peak in 2005 (inflation-adjusted). Wages haven't gone up much since the Great Recession. Lending has been the main growth driver. Interestingly enough, nearly a quarter of auto loans are subprime loans which carry an average 10% annual interest rate. This may look compelling to investors seeking yield, but around half of auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) feature subprime collateral. Auto loans are a tiny phenomenon versus mortgages. In 2007, Americans had $10 trillion in mortgages with $7 trillion securitized, compared to $1.2 trillion in auto loans, with under $100 billion securitized.
With rates heading up, and other metrics at peak level (total loans outstanding, percentage of cars bought with financing, average loan amount, average selling price) it's not hard to envision a turn in that trend.
Will it be contained to only one sector, will it spill over, is it a good indicator of the overstretched consumer? The jury is still out on the subject, but we have an inkling that we might know the answer. Surprisingly enough, the biggest US car maker is trading at a multi-year high.
It's hard to escape the daily deluge of political headlines. In earlier letters, we listed some of the potential policies that may affect the consumer, the labor market, and businesses. We don't share the market's enthusiasm. We are patiently waiting for specifics, and we remain cautious in terms of our expectations. We believe that if some of the earlier-hinted measures do materialize, the beneficial impact, if any, will take time to become more visible.
Lastly, with the US stock market up over 10%% (on top of previous highs) since the presidential election, a lot of that theoretical future growth in profits appears to be more than priced in.
During periods of new market highs, we may not be big buyers of new positions, and we may not be adding aggressively to existing holdings. We spend this peculiar time reviewing our investments, while carefully and deliberately examining potential future acquisitions.
The process remains especially difficult given that we don't know where the potential market weakness will come from, or where it will hit the hardest,– thus creating the best buying opportunities. Holding higher-than-usual cash levels keeps us to some extent immune to a market sell-off, and better positioned to act when the prices of securities become more compelling.
We have been generously compensated by the market for our patience before, and we believe this time will be no different.


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Engineered to be robust and durable, the device is an outcome of multiple manufacturing processes and materials used. The front body is manufactured through double shot injection molding which allows for multiple finishes and materials in a single piece. The touch screen is fitted with Corning's Gorilla Glass to ensure a flawless user experience and damage prevention. The fingerprint sensor cavity was created from scratch in order to achieve a comfortable tactile experience and high quality image processing. Its back is made of die cast aluminum while the mounting assembly is made of stainless steel.
With industry leading features and design that makes a difference, IXM Touch is by far the most advanced fingerprint product built with an eye for detail.


Each part of our physical selves is vitally important, and each has its own unique and critical role to play. At times, when we are truly present, we may feel gratitude and wonder that the extraordinary complexity of our bodies works with such harmony, grace and generosity. But it is, perhaps, when a part of the physical self is injured that we see most clearly how important every part really is.
Sometimes, the gift of healing comes by itself…with time, with rest, with moderation. But at other times, even with the best self-care, healing may not progress as we would hope. At these times we may need the help of experienced hands guided by an informed, experienced and knowledgeable mind.
I have devoted myself, for over 30 years, to studying the injuries of the muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints and have developed many powerful techniques for bringing recovery, whether injuries have just appeared or have been present, chronically, for years. Injuries that may seem frustrating and confusing to you can often be understood and remedied in a clear and straightforward way by someone who sees them and treats them on a daily basis.
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What do millennial employees, high-utility technology, and a shifting business productivity landscape have in common? For many organizations, these three factors have turned early 2017 into the "Year of Collaboration." From policy to practice to the technology driving it, organizations across the board are clearly bullish on the young workforce's collective desire to better work together.
Business productivity tools can foster collaboration among colleagues.
No, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is nothing new on its face. Organizations have grown more and more friendly toward personal devices as of late, and the call only gets easier to make as technology improves and penetration rates skyrocket. Instead, according to MeriTalk, the story is just how important these devices are to a millennial workforce. In an era where your tech choices serve as an extension and reflection of yourself, the ability to integrate your work habits with the hardware platforms of your choice is considered more of a right than a privilege.
Thus, the collaboration-minded company doesn't just approve of BYOD — it capitalizes on it. Integrated mobility tools allow employees to connect with co-workers, engage with clients, and project the organization's presence for their personal hardware. For instance, an employee could use the same phone- or laptop-based business app to check a co-worker's availability, leave revisions on a shared document, and send a business text with some final thoughts. He or she could then use the same device and app to place a call to a valued client, complete with the company's name and phone number showing up on caller ID.
And those are just two examples. Ultimately, there are countless ways BYOD can help businesses and their employees stay productive and collaborative. It's worth giving the practice its due space in your business productivity plans, because it's not going away anytime soon.
Of course, hardware and associated operating systems are just one side of the "BYO" coin. Employees can also have personal — and sometimes deeply personal — preferences when it comes to the software they use, a trait companies can leverage to effect collaboration among their workers.
The increased availability and functionality of cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) suites is one helpful advancement for companies looking to accommodate personal workflows. Instead of buying individual full licenses, the company can purchase affordable subscriptions for precisely the number of people wanting to use this tool or that service. This means your office's diehard Dropbox™ fan can easily link her personal cloud storage account to a business-run one, with administrative oversight tools allowing a measure of privacy and policy adherence. Compared to the employee going "shadow IT" — that is to say, carting private work files around in his personal account without permission — this represents an inexpensive way to stay compliant and bolster productivity and collaboration.
Better, storage is far from the only tool to receive a SaaS makeover. Tools running the gamut of business needs — word processing, project management, graphic design, video editing, and more — can be purchased on a monthly, a-la-carte basis, making BYOS a viable policy in all sorts of workplaces. Throw in a focus on interoperability between many competing products, and voila — business collaboration, productivity, and personal choice no longer need to be mutually exclusive goals.
When you hear about the Internet of Things (IoT) in your industry, there's a good chance the chatter comes with a customer-focused spin. This makes sense, at least to a point. It's how the discussion is framed in the larger tech media, and many consumer-focused IoT tools are downright nifty, too.
However, customer-facing tools are just one facet of the IoT's era. Great things are being done on the business collaboration front today. According to The Next Web, organizations can boost productivity and collaboration with internet-connected location- and status-reporting tools, unified communication-enabled desk phones, "print anywhere" printers, and metric-reporting sensors. For example, the last item on that list can provide valuable performance insights to HR and management teams.
And that's just the beginning of the IoT's value in the collaborative workspace. In fields as far ranging as manufacturing and marketing, logistics, and legal, the connect-everything mantra will increasingly drive business productivity, process, and collaboration throughout the year and beyond. In other words, the IoT's combination of low cost and high utility will become too much to pass up.
Like the companies that foster it, collaboration takes a lot of shapes. For some organizations, making a more collaboration-friendly space is as simple as buying or subscribing to cloud-backed communication or productivity tools. For others, a collaborative office means a connected office, with cutting-edge tools reporting metrics, providing statuses, and simplifying work processes.
The true constant is that people want to work together, and they want tools that best allow them to do that. Considering all the business productivity benefits a little teamwork can bring, this makes an endless list of reasons to make your office more collaboration-friendly — and very few reasons not to. What better time than now to make it happen with a VoIP business phone system?
To learn more about collaboration tools, contact a Vonage Business consultant.


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Sivas é uma província () do centro da Turquia, situada na região (bölge) da Anatólia Central (İç Anadolu Bölgesi) com  de superfície e  habitantes (2009).

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If you think your high school boyfriend, college girlfriend and that creepy cousin you met at the last family reunion are the only people snooping around your social media accounts, we've got a secret for you. Chances are good your future hospitality employer is as well. In fact, according to a recent survey by one career-development website, 52 percent regularly scope out applicants' Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social media profiles at some point during the hiring process.
They aren't always looking for negatives—60 percent merely want to find details that confirm a candidate has the qualifications necessary for the job. Still, if they stumble across one of these giant mistakes, it could hurt you.
It's a given that your LinkedIn profile should include a professional photo taken in a suitable location and in which you're wearing appropriate attire. But what about your Facebook page or your Instagram profile? Do you need to nix the pics of that giant margarita you had on the beach or your less than politically correct Halloween costume? If you're job searching, the answer is yes.
You may swear like a sailor on your days off—that's your business. But keep the curse words off your social media profiles if you want any employer to believe you can maintain the courteous, professional behavior hospitality jobs require. The same goes for strong political views and controversial topics. You don't want to alienate or offend hotel or restaurant hiring managers with differing opinions.
Ranting on Facebook or another social media network about how you didn't get a raise last year, your boss blamed you for something that wasn't your fault, your coworker drives you crazy, or you just had to deal with the worst customer in the world isn't going to win you points with hospitality hiring managers. In fact, any indication that you're willing to bad-mouth past or current employers will be taken as a sign that you'll do so again in the future—and no hotel or restaurant wants that.
Relegate the text speak to your cell phone, if you must use it. Any post you make on your social media networks—whether about the awesome burger place you just discovered or your ongoing job search—should be clearly worded and grammatically correct. Keep the emoji to a minimum and proofread before sharing.
What constitutes poor character for one person may not do so for another. However, you can bet any hospitality employer is going to take posts about how you called in sick so you could go skiing or behaved passive-aggressively to punish your boss as a definite strike against you.
You can set your Facebook privacy settings to "Friends" and change your Instagram account to "Private" with the touch of a button. But this will only protect you so far as you are careful about accepting new connections. In the survey mentioned earlier, 35 percent of employers have requested to "be a friend" or to "follow" candidates who have private accounts. Only 20 percent report being denied those permissions. This means there are a lot of job seekers out there indiscriminately accepting new connections and—potentially—putting their chances of employment at risk.


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package com.whenling.plugin.oauth.model;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

import com.alibaba.fastjson.JSON;
import com.alibaba.fastjson.JSONObject;
import com.whenling.centralize.MainSetting;
import com.whenling.plugin.oauth.service.OauthUserService;

/**
 * http://wiki.connect.qq.com/oauth2-0%e7%ae%80%e4%bb%8b
 *
 * @author ken
 *
 */
@Component("qqOauthPlugin")
public class QQOauthPlugin extends OauthPlugin {

	@Autowired
	private OauthUserService oauthUserService;

	@Override
	public String getAuthorizationUrl() {
		return "https://graph.qq.com/oauth2.0/authorize";
	}

	@Override
	public Map<String, Object> getAuthorizationParameterMap() {
		Map<String, Object> parameters = new HashMap<>();
		parameters.put("response_type", "code");
		parameters.put("client_id", getClientId());
		parameters.put("redirect_uri", getRedirectUri());
		parameters.put("state", "test");
		return parameters;
	}

	@Override
	public String getAccessToken(String code) {
		Assert.hasText(code);
		Map<String, Object> parameterMap = new HashMap<>();
		parameterMap.put("grant_type", "authorization_code");
		parameterMap.put("client_id", getClientId());
		parameterMap.put("client_secret", getClientSecret());
		parameterMap.put("code", code);
		parameterMap.put("redirect_uri", getRedirectUri());
		String responseString = get("https://graph.qq.com/oauth2.0/token", parameterMap);

		List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = URLEncodedUtils.parse(responseString, Charset.forName("utf-8"));
		Map<String, Object> result = new HashMap<>();
		for (NameValuePair nameValuePair : nameValuePairs) {
			result.put(nameValuePair.getName(), nameValuePair.getValue());
		}

		return getParameter(nameValuePairs, "access_token");
	}

	@Override
	public OauthUser getOauthUser(String accessToken) {
		Assert.hasText(accessToken);
		Map<String, Object> parameterMap = new HashMap<>();
		parameterMap.put("access_token", accessToken);
		String responseString = get("https://graph.qq.com/oauth2.0/me", parameterMap);
		responseString = StringUtils.trim(responseString);
		responseString = StringUtils.removeStartIgnoreCase(responseString, "callback(");
		responseString = StringUtils.removeEndIgnoreCase(responseString, ");");
		JSONObject jsonObject = JSON.parseObject(responseString);

		String openid = jsonObject.getString("openid");
		OauthUser oauthUser = oauthUserService.findByOauthPluginIdAndUserId(getId(), openid);
		if (oauthUser == null) {
			Map<String, Object> apiMap = new HashMap<>();
			apiMap.put("access_token", accessToken);
			apiMap.put("oauth_consumer_key", jsonObject.getString("client_id"));
			apiMap.put("openid", openid);
			String apiString = get("https://graph.qq.com/user/get_user_info", apiMap);
			JSONObject userObject = JSON.parseObject(apiString);

			oauthUser = oauthUserService.newEntity();
			oauthUser.setOauthPluginId(getId());
			oauthUser.setUserId(openid);
			oauthUser.setUsername(openid);
			oauthUser.setName(userObject.getString("nickname"));
			oauthUser.setAvatarUrl(userObject.getString("figureurl_qq_2"));
		}

		return oauthUser;
	}

	@Override
	public String getName() {
		return "QQ";
	}

	@Override
	public String getVersion() {
		return "1";
	}

	@Override
	public String getAuthor() {
		return "ken";
	}

	@Override
	public String getSettingView() {
		return "app.view.plugin.QQOauthForm";
	}

	@Override
	public String getSiteUrl() {
		return MainSetting.get().getSiteUrl();
	}

	@Override
	public String getInstallUrl() {
		return "/admin/oauth/qq/install";
	}

	@Override
	public String getUninstallUrl() {
		return "/admin/oauth/qq/uninstall";
	}

	@Override
	public String getSettingUrl() {
		return "/admin/oauth/qq/setting";
	}

}

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Q: How to handle video orientation from mobile devices I have a server component that processes video uploads for a web/iOS/Android application.
However I am running into a problem handling the video orientation. Is there a good way to solve this? I have a tool MediaInfo that rips the meta data out of the device but this is what i am encountering
iOS

*

*the portrait is correct 90 or 270

*the landscape is crazy. if you hold the device with the button to the left, it reports 0 for the front camera and 180 for the back

Android

*

*here the situation is reversed the landscape is correct both front and back camera

*the portrait is 90 or 270 depending on if you are using the front or back camera

*furthermore some devices like Motorola Droids and Evo4G dont record the meta data at all

has anyone seen a clean solution for this?

A: There is no clean solution for android devices that do not report the orientation.
For all the other orientations, I had overly complicated it in my mind.  The flip between front and back means the angles are correct if rotated clockwise

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Agile developers recognize that it is unrealistic to assemble a complete set of requirements at the start of a project.
Requirements changes during development are a normal part of the process. Agile development accepts changes as a standard part of the iteration (mini-project) process. Ubiquitous use of automated test suites dramatically lowers the risk in making changes. Lower risk allows the impact of any change can be easily contained. Automated tests give developers rapid feedback if changes break any other part of the application.
The customer asks for a change during development because the customer sees business benefit in it. Customers do not ask for changes just to annoy the developers, although non agile developers frequently act as if that were the sole motivation.
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You must identify your users before tracking. Use the identify(uid, properties) method to attach a unique ID (we highly recommend using e-mails to get the most out of AppConnect), as well as other visitor properties.
Your custom visitor data will not be pushed until you send your first custom event. In order to push your identify without sending a custom event, use the push method.
TypeScript definitions have been included in this library for convenience. Woopra has not fully tested the functionality of the defined types, so use with a little caution, and submit an issue or better, a pull request if you notice any issues at all.
Sets some client configuration values. These values are similar to custom visitor properties, but handled by Woopra in a different way.
cookie string Session ID of the visitor. Generally this is a cookie value from the browser, but it can be any ID you use to identify the visitor throughout a series of requests. This should ONLY be used to identify anonymous users, otherwise use identify().
Sets visitor properties for the current visitor. Does not send the properties unless track or push is called. Returns an instance of the tracker so that you can chain methods.
properties - key/value object for any custom visitor properties you want to associate with the visitor.
Sends a request to Woopra that only includes any client and visitor data. This can be used to identify a visitor without generating a tracking event.
Sends a ping request to Woopra to refresh the visitor timeout counter. This is used if it's important to keep a visitor status 'online' when she's inactive for a long time (for cases such as watching a long video).
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The callback will be called once the tracking servers have processed and responded to your track request. It will be passed an error, if it exists, and the http response object.
#Changes After version 0.3.0, the callbacks passed to track() and push() will be called with the entire http.IncomingMessage response object, rather than just the status code.