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Stephanie Beatriz opens up to UW students with intimate discussion of intersectionality
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' star Stephanie Beatriz visits Shannon Hall to discuss acting career as bisexual Latina
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Even within the large expanse of Shannon Hall, Fox and NBC's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actress Stephanie Beatriz delivered an incredibly intimate interview regarding her experiences as a bisexual Latina woman in the entertainment industry.
Growing up, she described her affinity for theatrical roles. According to Beatriz, theater generally employed "colorblind" casting while movies she watched as a child rarely had non-white actresses.
Beatriz expresses her frustration at people's ignorance about this issue.
"Colorblindness [in film] isn't a thing," Beatriz said. "People who say that likely live in a system that allows them to say it."
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After living in New York for eight years, Beatriz described her disillusionment in terms of her life and profession.
"I had been hired at the Shakespeare Festival so many times in a row, I was losing a grip on New York and thought, 'Why don't I save some money and go down to L.A?'" Beatriz said.
Following her performance in a few plays in Los Angeles, she expressed her luck in acquiring an agency to help her land jobs on television. Beatriz discussed the difficulties of getting hired as a person of color, but she still had ambitions to be a part of an established TV show.
Beatriz laughed as she recounted speaking with the agency early on.
"I remember telling my agency I wanted to be in something like 'Parks and [Recreation],'" Beatriz said. "'Please get me something like 'Parks and [Recreation].""
Beatriz then went on to describe her early interactions with the writing staff and directors of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," an action-comedy TV series where she plays badass detective Rosa Diaz.
"I got an audition and the script had no title," Beatriz said. "It just said 'Untitled Pilot Project' by Mike Shur and Dan Goor. I was so excited."
She further explained her original interaction with the show.
"I originally auditioned for the role of Amy Santiago because it was delineated in the script that she was Latina," Beatriz said.
The casting director saw potential and made her read another role instead.
Beatriz said the original name for the role of Rosa Diaz was Meghan. The description of the character was "fiery and red-headed."
"I think they were initially trying to create an Irish cop character," Beatriz said.
The weeks following her initial audition, she got a callback for both Amy and Meghan. Beatriz stated she did a screen test, and was eventually cast in the role of Meghan, who eventually became Rosa Diaz.
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Beatriz gave insight into the ninety-ninth episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" where Rosa comes out as bisexual to Charles Boyle, another detective on the show, and a good friend of hers.
Beatriz talked about the process of creating Rosa as a bisexual character.
"I always played Rosa as queer," Beatriz said. "There were clues in the script, like early on she says Tonya Harding was hot. There was always a joyful sexual tension with Gina Linetti."
The character Gina Linetti, played by Chelsea Peretti, is an eccentric administrator on the show.
Beatriz described her own coming out story, where she came out as bisexual to some family and friends. She then shared how she accidentally came out publicly on Twitter. According to Beatriz, people's reaction to her coming out went back to her role as Rosa, where they began to question Rosa's sexuality on the show.
Beatriz recounted a conversation she had with the series creator Dan Goor.
"He called and asked me if I would be interested in exploring Rosa as queer, specifically as bisexual," Beatriz said.
She said with her experiences as a bisexual person, she thought it would be good to portray that for others watching the show.
She further described the intersectionality of her identities, both as a bisexual woman and a person of color.
"I was particularly interested in the specificness of what it means to be a Latinx and to be queer," Beatriz said.
This, Beatriz said, stemmed from her desire to represent a community that hasn't always been accepted before.
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She reflected on her current struggles as a bisexual woman beyond her professional life.
"Coming out to my parents wasn't even an option," Beatriz said. "I came out to my sister, and she said, 'don't tell mom and dad.' That's a crushing thing to hear — it essentially means to hide who you are."
Even now as an LGBTQ+ activist, Beatriz said she still doesn't talk about her sexuality with her parents.
Difficulties in her personal life prompted Beatriz to ask the screenwriters to make sure they explicitly stated Rosa's identity as bisexual and to ensure it was stated more than once. She wanted to see a depiction of her real-life struggles.
Beatriz also spoke about her main aims for the future.
"I'm excited to see the landscape of television continue to change so it can more honestly reflect what the American public really looks like," Beatriz said.
She concluded by expressing her hope to be a part of this change in the TV landscape with both "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and her upcoming musical drama "In the Heights."
This article was published Nov 12, 2019 at 10:39 am and last updated Nov 12, 2019 at 10:11 am
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Lin Tin Htay (, born 13 July 1985) is a Burmese politician who has been the MP of the Amyotha Hluttaw for Mon State No. 4 constituency. He is a member of the National League for Democracy.

Early life and education
Lin Tin Htay was born on 13 July 1985 in Chaungzon Township, Mon State, Myanmar. He is an ethnic Mon. He graduated with BSc (Maths) from Mawlamyaing University. He worked an officer at union election commection office. He had served as charge of township NLD youth and as member of the local villages.

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He is a member of the National League for Democracy. In the 2015 Myanmar general election, he was elected as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP from Mon State No. 4 parliamentary constituency, winning a majority of 21626 votes.

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Faulk well-rested heading into opener
R.B. FALLSTROM
ST. LOUIS - Heading into his 11th NFL season, Marshall Faulk is feeling frisky.
The St. Louis Rams' running back was coddled in the preseason with only 14 carries, plus first-round pick Steven Jackson is ready to share some of the load beginning with Sunday's opener against the Arizona Cardinals.
The seven-time Pro Bowl player, who has missed 11 games due to injuries the last two seasons, said he and coach Mike Martz have not talked about how the playing time will be alotted. So he'll just adjust on the fly.
"Even when I've been healthy my work load at times has been less than normal," Faulk said. "It goes by the game and how the game is being played out and how things are going with coach."
Faulk said the presence of Jackson, who led the NFL with 323 yards rushing in the preseason, will not affect his play. Jackson provides a more bruising alternative to the elusive Faulk.
"With Steven here, that's added (pressure)," Faulk said. "But I have a job to do. I've got to go out there and I've got to perform.
"When he's in there, I'll tell him to do the same. He has to be him."
Jackson goes into the opener without great expectations, figuring Faulk will turn it on. He's happy to be Faulk's backup.
"He's helped me a lot," Jackson said. "He's the reason I've progressed so fast in this offense and I owe a great deal to him."
Faulk had 818 yards rushing last year, his lowest total since 1996 and also his second straight year under 1,000 yards. He enters this season 11th in career rushing yards (11,213), sixth in total yards from scrimmage (17,487), tied for fourth in touchdowns (131) and ninth in all-purpose yards (17,523).
He doesn't feel any pressure to bounce back.
"I don't have to show I'm healthy or prove anything because I can not be healthy and go through the whole year and have a decent year, and everybody will think everything is fine," Faulk said. "The need I feel is to be here and to play every game to give my team the best opportunity to win."
Notes:@ The Rams have a four-game winning streak against the Cardinals. ... St. Louis has won 14 straight regular season games at home, although they lost in the second round of the playoffs in overtime to the Panthers last January. ... Coach Mike Martz minimizes the influence of defensive coordinator Larry Marmie, who coached in the same capacity for the Cardinals from 2000-2003, on Sunday's game because Arizona has made so many changes. "What they do defensively is removed from what Larry did last year," Martz said. "If it was the same team, obviously it would be a terrific advantage, but they're all different." ... Travis Fisher (forearm) is out for the opener, leaving the Rams with three healthy corners. WR Torry Holt (back) is listed as questionable but is expected to play. ... The Rams are 6-3 in opening games since moving to St. Louis in 1995. ... Marc Bulger has the best starting record among active QBs with a minimum of 10 starts, going 18-4. ... K Jeff Wilkins needs one point to break a tie with Mike Lansford for the Rams' career scoring record. He enters the season with 789 points. ... The Cardinals' Emmitt Smith has 76 career 100-yard rushing games, one shy of the NFL record held by Walter Payton.
Proving Ground: Faulk ready to show he can still excel
Friday, Aug. 27 2004
Only three players in NFL history have scored more touchdowns than Marshall
Faulk. Only five players have more yards from scrimmage. Just 13 have more
rushing yards. So there is no doubting Faulk's greatness, or his eventual spot
in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
But over the past two seasons, Faulk's rushing totals have decreased while his
number of knee surgeries mounted. From a career-high 1,382 rushing yards for
the Rams' 2001 Super Bowl team, Faulk dipped to 953 yards in '02. In 2003, a
season in which Faulk missed a career-high five games due to injury, the total
dropped to 818 yards.
But for those questioning Faulk's future in the game at age 31, Rams defensive
captain Tyoka Jackson has this message:
"Keep doing it," Jackson says. "Keep saying all that stuff. 'Marshall's old.
He's done.' Keep saying it. And just watch and see what happens."
Just don't say it to Faulk.
When an out-of-town reporter recently asked Faulk if he could get back to his
former level of play, Faulk shot back: "I never thought I left."
Faulk followed up by asking the reporter: "Hey, how long have you been doing
this? Does your finger hurt? Does your hand hurt from writing?"
Of course, taking notes doesn't normally involve gang-tackling, collisions or
pass- blocking, something Faulk has been a part of for 10 NFL seasons - going
on 11.
But Faulk is a fiercely proud man, and he has earned that right based on his
career accomplishments. Doubts?
"It's hard to doubt greatness," said running backs coach Wilbert Montgomery,
once an elite back himself. "Any time someone achieves what he has achieved,
it's hard to put a question mark on it, hard to say, 'Hey, I doubt that this
guy can do it.'
"Marshall is going to be the guy to tell us when he can't do it. I go in every
day, and every practice, every meeting, knowing that he's the guy. And that he
can do it."
And now, with the regular season quickly approaching, it's just about time to
do it again.
"I'm grinding away at it, getting back into the flow of things," Faulk said
after his preseason debut Monday in Kansas City. "There's a conditioning factor
that I'm working on. . . .You never know in this offense until your number's
called five, six, seven times in a row if you are in the condition you want to
be. But that's something that's going to come as I get my carries throughout
the preseason, and throughout the year."
The Rams have brought Faulk along carefully...
Rams' Faulk Knows Clock Ticking on Career
By R.B. FALLSTROM, AP Sports Writer
MACOMB, Ill. — Marshall Faulk has had his share of physical problems over the years>
He comes into the St. Louis Rams' camp healthy this year. Then again, it's early.
Entering his 12th NFL season, the 31-year-old running back doesn't know how long his body, and ultimately, his career will last.
"This is probably the first year I've thought about it like 'Man, if the body isn't acting right, what do I do? Do I fight through it or do I not play?" Faulk said Thursday. "That's something I'm going to have to evaluate after the season."
After two days of the Rams' workouts, Faulk said he's feeling fine and after watching himself on tape said he looked "pretty good to myself."
The Rams are taking steps to conserve Faulk, limiting his practice and shutting him down for the morning practice during two-a-day workouts. He likely won't play much in the preseason, either.
Last year, a bad knee and a broken hand kept Faulk out of five games and limited him to 818 yards rushing and 45 receptions for 290 yards. He had knee surgery in the off season.
"If he says his knee is a little bit sore and we need to take some time, then that's what we do," coach Mike Martz said. "He knows exactly what he needs to do to get ready."
Faulk was the NFL MVP in 2000 and from 1998-2001 became the first player in NFL history to gain 2,000 yards rushing and receiving for four consecutive seasons. His contract with the Rams is through 2008.
St. Louis also is preparing for the end of his prolific career, drafting Oregon State running back Steven Jackson in the first round. Jackson ran for 3,625 yards and 39 touchdowns in three seasons for the Beavers.
"Having guys behind me that are youthful and that I can pass some information along to and hopefully one day, whether it's here or on another team, they can step in and be the guy, they can look back on some of the things I told them about the game," Faulk said.
But Faulk said he doesn't plan to go willingly.
"I love football. It's in me. I was given a gift to play this game, not just the physical gift but a mental gift to understand it," he said. "It's not all that I have but it's something I have that I love doing and I have a passion for."
Faulk plays a realist in his new role
By Bill Coats
Saturday, Nov. 19 2005
Marshall Faulk broke into hearty laughter when told that in Joe Vitt's
estimation, he had the makings of a great coach.
"I don't know, man," Faulk said, shaking his head. "I don't rule anything out.
You never know when you're done what you're going to do to combat those
competitive juices."
The intensity of those feelings has gripped the New Orleans native for almost
three decades. "I've played football since I was 6," Faulk said Friday in a
rare one-on-one interview. "I've put a lot of hours in, a lot of hard work and
learned a lot of lessons playing this game."
Now, at age 32 and with 11 1/2 NFL seasons in his rear-view mirror, Faulk peers
down the road. He ruminates often over how much longer he'll play. "All the
time," he said. "All the time."
Faulk came to training camp in top shape mainly because of a surgery-free
offseason. "I wasn't rehabbing anything; I was just working out," said the
5-foot-10, 211-pound San Diego State product. "It allowed me to come back
fresher and feeling better than I've felt in maybe the previous three years."
He also arrived with a different assignment. Shortly after last season, Faulk
and coach Mike Martz agreed on a new approach: Let Steven Jackson, the team's
first-round draft pick in 2004, take over as the No. 1 running back. Faulk
would have a "significant supporting role" and perhaps extend his career, Martz
explained.
Faulk, who also took a significant pay cut to free up salary-cap space for the
team, was coming off his least productive season since 1996, his third year
with Indianapolis. He rushed 195 times for 774 yards and caught 50 passes for
310 yards in 2004. He scored four touchdowns.
"You understand the circumstances, and you understand what you can and can't
do. And that's the reality of it," Faulk said. "You have to come to grips with
that part of your life, not just in football but in life, and accept that."
A cathartic episode in 1998 helped cement Faulk's ardent team-first attitude.
He had piled up 267 yards for Baltimore, but the Colts lost 38-31 after Faulk
blew a route and Peyton Manning's last-minute pass was intercepted.
Coach Jim Mora lit into Faulk during the team's tape review the next day.
Afterward, Faulk slipped into an assistant coach's office and dissolved into
tears.
"I was crushed ... I mean, crushed," he told Sports Illustrated. "I knew ... I
had let my teammates down, and I knew I never...
Faulk Leads Young RBs
By Nick Wagoner
Marshall Faulk has never been a vocal guy. But, then, he has never had to be. One look at his numbers or any of his game film, and even the casual observer can see that everything he does on the field speaks for itself.
What do the numbers say? Well, aside from the staggering size of most of them, they don't simply speak, but scream one thing: Hall of Fame. It's not debatable whether Faulk is one of the game's all-time greats; he has racked up 11,213 rushing yards, 6,274 receiving yards and 131 total touchdowns.
With the shrill pitch those numbers express, it might be easy for Faulk to get complacent and continue the trend. Complacency, though, has never been in Faulk's dictionary and it isn't being added this season. The former league MVP and Pro Bowler has accomplished most everything a player can accomplish in the NFL.
The bad news for the rest of the league is that Faulk appears healthy for the first time in awhile. Coach Mike Martz said he sometimes has to hold back his enthusiasm about Faulk. "He looks like the Marshall of old out here," Martz said. "He feels so good and when he's like that we try not to put a damper on it, but we also just want him to be cautious."
A nagging knee injury and a hand injury have caused Faulk to miss time in recent years, but he continues to play, not because he wants to prove his doubters wrong, but solely because he loves the game.
Faulk has never asked himself what more he can accomplish, but he has a few ideas of what he wants to improve on. Faulk is one of the Rams' captains this season. Normally, Faulk leads by example and it isn't hard for him because of his success. Now, with three talented young backs angling to be his heir apparent, Faulk is attempting to take a more vocal role, something he has never done. "When you get in the heat of the battle, there are certain things that only another player can help you with," Faulk said. "If I do something that's kind of different, I want them to know what my thoughts were and what I was thinking and try to get them on the same page. "I'm just trying to find a way to become a better leader."
While Faulk has spent most of his training camp on the sidelines, ensuring his health for the regular season, he has also provided an ear for his younger counterparts to turn to for advice. Faulk's wisdom is readily available to Lamar Gordon, Arlen Harris and rookie Steven Jackson. With Faulk and running backs coach Wilbert Montgomery — a former Pro Bowl running back for the Philadelphia Eagles — providing the knowledge, the trio of backups has two accomplished runners leading the way.
Jackson could have easily come to training camp with ideas of displacing Faulk. After all, Jackson was the first running back taken in April's Draft and there was rampant speculation...
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Долинський Лука (бл. 1745, Біла Церква, тепер Київської обл. — 10 березня 1824, Львів) — український живописець, портретист, іконописець та монументаліст. Представник пізнього українського бароко, рококо та класицизму.

Біографія
Навчався в Києві в духовній академії. Талант молодого художника привернув увагу київського греко-католицького (унійного) митрополита Пилипа Володковича (1762–1778), з ним Лука Долинський прибув 1770 р. до Львова. У 1768–1771 р. був писарем собору Святого Юра у Львові. Одним із перших учителів Долинського був Юрій Радивилівський (Радиловський). Як стипендіат Львівського єпископа Лева Шептицького навчався у Віденській академії мистецтв, вивчаючи монументальне і станкове мистецтво. Навчання в Австрії тривало протягом 1775–1777 рр. Після повернення до Львова йому було доручено оздоблення собору Св. Юра, яке він завершив приблизно 1785 р. Через 2 роки виконане особисто оцінив син австрійської імперетриці Марії-Терезії імператор Йозеф ІІ (1765–1790) — подарував Луці Долинському перстень з власної руки.

Створив сотні робіт, багато з яких до нас не дійшли. Майстер працював переважно у Львові, роботи були у храмах с. Вороблевичі (Дрогобицький район), с. Мшана (Городоцький район), Жовкві, Підкамені (тепер Бродівський район).

Помер у Львові у власному будинку (на теперішній вул. Городецькій) у середу, 10 березня 1824 року у 80-тирічному віці. Похований на Городоцькому кладовищі (надгробок не зберігся).

Роботи Луки Долинського
 1770–1771 — портрет владики Пилипа Володковича
 1770–1771 — портрет князя Лева Даниловича у василіянській церкві Львова
 1779(?)–1785 — ансамбль ікон собору Святого Юра: іконостас (ікони «Христос», «Богородиця», «Святий Юрій», «Покрова Богородиці», 16 образів празників, овальні ікони пророків для собору Святого Юра), картини у пресвітерії, «Христос проганяє купців з храму»
 1784–1787 — іконостас семінарської церкви Зішестя Святого Духа у Львові (зберігся частково).
 Після 1786 — бічні вівтарі церкви Петра і Павла у Львові на Личакові (1 образ зберігся у парохіяльній канцелярії, решта втрачені), фрески Петра і Павла, образ «Христос передає ключі Св. Петрові» на фасаді цього храму (перемальовані)
 1780–1790 (інше датування 1784—1787)— комплекс іконостасу семінарської церкви Зішестя Святого Духа у Львові (зіпсований пізнішою реставрацією Яблонського)
 Кінець XVIII ст. — стації монастиря бернардинів у Львові (збережені шість)
 1780–1790 — розписи стін у церкві Св. Параскеви П'ятниці у Львові
 Кінець XVIII ст. — портрет крилошанина (каноніка) Михайла Гарасевича
 1807–1810 — цикл картин для Успенської церкви Почаївського монастиря: іконостас (замінений за вказівкою царя Олександра ІІ 1861 року), головний і бічні вівтарі, численні композиції на тему «Чудес Христа» на пілястрах, настінний живопис, пов'язаний з історією монастиря, монастирських легенд, портрет архимандрита Левинського.
 Після 1810 (1820–1821) — ансамбль іконостасу монастирської церкви Св. Онуфрія у Львові (втрачений)
 1815 — образ Св. Миколая з підписом.

Можливі недатовані роботи:
 Три архаїзовані портрети Корняктів в Успенській (Волоській) церкві Львова
 Картини у францисканському костелі (згоріли з храмом 1834 р.)

Окрім монументальних полотен, настінних розписів в храмах, створив галерею портретів, здебільшого церковних ієрархів — митрополитів Пилипа Володковича, Антона Ангеловича (1808–1814), єпископів Миколи Скородинського (1799—1805), Петра Білянського, ректора Львівської духовної семінарії отця Івана Лаврівського (1773–1846), віце-ректора Івана Гарасевича, крилошанин Михайла Гарасевича, Мартина Барвінського, Модеста Гриневецького, митрополита Михайла Левицького (1816–1858), священників Голдаєвича, Арсенія Радкевича, ігумена Онуфріївського монастиря у Львові Василя Галичкевича, касира Бітмана, почаївського архимандрита Левинського.

Деякі твори Луки Долинського зберігаються в Львівському Національному музеї.

Сім'я
Дружина: Катерина Савицька (пом. 1830), міщанка з Яворова. Подружжя мало восьмеро дітей: син Михайло був парохом в с. Знесіння під Львовом (помер у 1854), Іван — старшиною австрійського війська (помер у 1849), Лев — державним урядником (помер у 1857), Станислав — скарбовим урядником (народився у 1793 і ще жив у 1863). Три дочки видані заміж за священників Ганкевича, Шудлинського, Трембіцького. Дочка Олена померла дівчиною.

Вшанування пам'яті
У Білій Церкві існують вулиця та провулок Луки Долинського.

У Львові існує вулиця Луки Долинського.

Примітки

Джерела
 Голубець М. Лука Долинський // Діло. — 1924 — 21 серпня — № 184 (10277). — с. 2; 1924 — 22 серпня — № 185 (10278). — с. 2; 1924 — 23 серпня — № 186 (10279). — с. 2; 1924 — 24 серпня — № 187 (10280). — с. 2.
 Енциклопедія Львова. Т. 2. Під редакцією Андрія Козицького. — Львів : Літопис, 2008. — С. 117—118.
 Історія української культури / Ред. І. Крип'якевич. — К. : Либідь, 2002 (за виданням 1937). — 656 с.
 Крвавич Д. П., Овсійчук В. А., Черепанова С. О.  Українське мистецтво: Навч. посіб., у 3 т. — Львів : Світ, 2005. — Т. 3. — 286 с.
 Мельничук Б., Чернихівський Г. Долинський Лука //
 Овсійчук В. А.  Класицизм і романтизм в українському мистецтві. — К. : Дніпро, 2001.
 Rastawiecki E. Słownik malarzòw polskich tudzież obcych w Polsce osiadłych lub czasowo w niej przebywających. — Warszawa, 1850. — T. 1.

Посилання

 Володимир Мороз. Лука Долинський: начерки до портрету
 Віднайдений шедевр Луки Долинського
 Лука Долинський

Уродженці Білої Церкви
Українські художники
Українські іконописці
Почаївська лавра
Художники Львова
Персоналії:Почаїв
Випускники Віденської академії мистецтв
Померли у Львові
Поховані на Городецькому цвинтарі
Люди, на честь яких названі вулиці


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Hiriko Fold – elektryczny mikrosamochód wyprodukowany pod hiszpańską marką Hiriko w 2012 roku.

Historia i opis modelu

Projekt na kompaktowych rozmiarów mikrosamochód o zmiennych wymiarach nadwozia dzięki ruchomym, modułowo połączonym komponentom nadwozia rozpoczęto rozwijać w 2001 roku na amerykańskim uniwersytecie Massachusetts Institute of Technology, nadając mu kryptonim CityCar. Po śmierci koordynującego w 2010 roku, w dalszy rozwój zaangażowało się nowo powstałe hiszpańskie przedsiębiorstwo Hiriko Driving Mobility z Kraju Basków, które odtąd rozwijano we współpracy z Amerykanami.

W styczniu 2012 roku podczas specjalnego pokazu w Brukseli z udziałem ówczesnego szefa Komisji Europejskiej José Manuela Barroso oficjalnie przedstawino wynik prac w postaci elektrycznego mikrosamochodu Hiriko Fold docelowo mającego trafić do produkcji.

Charakterystyczną cechą pojazdu stała się zmienność jego postaci oraz związanych z tym wymiarów zewnętrznych. Składająca się z dwóch modułów konstrukcja mogła się rozsuwać w celu rozpoczęcia jazdy lub ponownie zsuwać na czas parkowania, maksymalizując przestrzeń wokół - na jednym miejscu parkingowym miały zmieścić się nawet 3 Hiriko Fold jedno za drugim. Zajmowanie miejsca w środku miało umożliwić umieszczenie drzwi wejściowych z przodu w postaci jednego odchylanego skrzydła na wzór BMW Isetta, z kolei manewrowanie podczas parkowania ułatwiały cztery skrętne koła.

Sprzedaż
Pierwotnie produkcja Hiriko Fold miała rozpocząć się w drugiej połowie 2013 roku, z dostawami samochodów wyznaczonymi na początek 2014 roku. Cena za elektryczny mikrosamochodu określona została na kwotę 12 5000 euro. W okresie, w którym miała rozpocząć się produkcja Hiriko, rozwijająca go firma z Kraju Basków popadła jednak w kłopoty finansowe, przez co z powodu braków znalezienia inwestorów zakończyła ona działalność bez dostarczenia gotowego produktu. Fakt ten wywołał kontrowersje w Hiszpanii, doprowadzając do wszczęcia śledztwa przez tamtejszą prokuraturę wokół możliwej defraudacji środków na projekt, które w 2010 roku zapewnił rząd hiszpański oraz baskijski.

Dane techniczne
Hiriko Fold był samochodem w pełni elektrycznym, który napędzany był przez cztery, umieszczone w kołach, silniki elektryczne rozwijające łączną moc maksymalną  wynoszącą 20 KM. Pozwalało to rozpędzić się do 50 km/h. Zestaw akumulatorów miał z kolei umożliwiać na przejechanie w warunkach miejskich maksymalnie 120 kilometrów.

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 City Transformer CT1

Przypisy

Fold
Niezrealizowane projekty samochodowe
Samochody elektryczne
Mikrosamochody
Hatchbacki
Samochody z lat 2010–2019


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"Social Media Trends:" David Walks Episode 7 with Paul Andre, SEO Director & Founder of Filthy Dripped
September 5, 2014 David Smooke	Leave a comment
David Smooke: All right, getting back in the game. I am walking down whatever street …
Paul Andre: Tehama
David Smooke: Tehama with my friend and colleague, Paul Andre.
Paul Andre: Hey, what's up, how's it going?
David Smooke: Today we're going to talk about social media trends.
Paul Andre: Yes we are.
David Smooke: We didn't prepare anything, did we?
Paul Andre: I know we didn't but one thing that just came up was the recent use of Google in the work place.
David Smooke: That's Google for Work.
Paul Andre: And that was what, a handle on Twitter?
David Smooke: That's their handle, their general entire marketing message that Google's going after the enterprise and they want to replace this whole suite of Microsoft PowerPoint and all the Microsoft Office suite and kind of say, hey, we'll organize your email and build all our apps off of it from there which we're already doing, which is …
Paul Andre: Yeah.
David Smooke: Kind of nice.
Paul Andre: So it's like a higher collaboration or working collaboration, it's more for the work place.
David Smooke: Yeah.
Paul Andre: When you first heard about it, did you see what other channels they're using to promote it? I mean you recently wrote something on, is Google entering the workplace, right? I mean with hiring and you said you just tagged them on what was it, Twitter, Google+, was it …
David Smooke: Yeah, so I tagged them with my old article, Is Google about to enter the job market? and clearly, they're in the workplace, and they're entering the workplace. Yeah, the lesson here is just kind of riding the wave as you see. I wrote it as a speculative piece but then as you see Google is actually starting to do it, it's like now you want to bring this article and show it to other people that are writing about it and talking about it and it kind of serves as validation, oh, you were saying this two months ago and now it's starting to happen and social media is nice because it does date everything.
David Smooke: Every tweet, every blog post. Well the blog post people can change dates but within Twitter, Linkedln it's like the comments, everything's dated and it is a historical record which is kind of nice of when you were thinking about it. How many times like ten years ago did people say like, oh, I had an idea for that site.
Paul Andre: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
David Smooke: They're over there like, oh yeah, that would have been mine, it's like, oh, I'm sure you came up with the Facebook idea. You know, I'm sure you came up with Twitter, like I'm sure came up with LinkedIn, it's like, not really but if you did describe it in great detail now you can put it on social media and put it on-line and people may be able to see it.
Paul Andre: Unless you had a website and put it on Archive.org and looked it up. I mean, you had it on line and it was picked up, hey, this is evidence right here.
David Smooke: It's funny though because once you put it on-line, it's like it's, it's anyone can take it.
David Smooke: It's also like you're giving away your idea and it's like, so what, you came up with it, I built it, like later guys. Thanks for the help, I'll re-tweet you.
Paul Andre: Yeah, I mean, I find that … I lost my train of thought, sorry.
David Smooke: No worries. I wanted to ask you about you've been doing search engine optimization for what, 18 years now? 15, 18 years? Really like since people were doing it almost.
Paul Andre: Yeah. My first website I was doing since high school which was like 97, 98.
David Smooke: So, I mean at a high level, how do you see like social media changing search engine optimization?
Paul Andre: I see it changing a lot. [Ireek 03:44] said even before companies, like enterprise companies now are putting it in to their tools and saying like social media, use it for Social Signals to get you more back links. Even right now, today, what was that, September 9th, Searchmetrics just put out ranking factors that's put Social Signals right up there. So I mean, this was something I was like reaching also years ago. Even before I started using a software like BrightEdge. I mean, I actually asked them if they're ever going to integrate with social media tools and it was in their road map. They saw it as a value and now it's there but one thing is, I only see people giving value to Facebook and Twitter. I see LinkedIn as being a big one. I mean, especially all the influencers on there, I think …
David Smooke: Especially in the B2B space.
Paul Andre: Yes.
David Smooke: It's like night and day because if you're going right to consumer, it's like LinkedIn's great for your colleagues and making like a business to business software or vendor or purchasing decision.
Paul Andre: But not necessarily just B2B, if you could see almost creates you as like an actual, an authority like almost like a thought leader. You're putting thought leaders out there where you're putting out stuff you write, put it out in your networks, so you can see friends, or maybe they're not, like maybe they're just like in retail or not necessarily in technology but they see what you're writing so they know that, hey, I have a buddy that knows all about that.
Paul Andre: You know it's like, let's see, huh. Any other things you picked up from the Google in the work space because I'm curious to see how if it's a new marketing campaign, I want to see what they find valuable in social media?
David Smooke: That's a good one. I haven't, I guess I have to take a closer look at it because you know I've read some of it and it's like to me like even though I know it was an announcement, to me it wasn't an announcement like I'm already using Google Drive for most of my operation. You know, multiple work emails on Gmail …
David Smooke: It just seems so like, I don't know, 3 years like I've already been doing this and the fact that they're packaging it and positioning it more for larger enterprises, there is a lot to learn from it but I just didn't get as sucked in because I really saw it more as repackaging than actually brand new like offerings.
Paul Andre: Yeah …
David Smooke: You know whenever Google+ came out, I was reading a ton of things and looking left and right and really trying to study it because it was actually something that was brand new, which interested me more. And the other thing about that search engine article you said today, it was very funny that even though Google+ is the lowest engagement, not surprisingly it's the most important for SEO …
David Smooke: Because it's what you're telling Google. It's almost like taking to the search engines.
Paul Andre: Yeah, exactly.
David Smooke: They're calling it so much more heavily than Facebook, you know a lot of it's blocked for them and Twitter you know, Twitter turned down an offer to become Google at one point and I'm sure that doesn't exactly make Google prioritize them.
Paul Andre: Yeah, and Twitter …
David Smooke: Multiple times they turned down purchase offers.
Paul Andre: They used to have tweets, used to be indexed, in Google.
David Smooke: I think they still are.
Paul Andre: Not as …
David Smooke: I just don't think they're prioritized.
Paul Andre: Yes, I'm just not strong …
David Smooke: I'll search for old articles and I'll find, …
Paul Andre: Threshold.
David Smooke: And you titled, exactly, yeah. Twitter will generally show up as like the 3rd or 4th link for articles that aren't republished elsewhere. They're republished elsewhere even on a shitty site or low traffic site. Google will put those low traffic sites ahead of Twitter.
Paul Andre: Yeah. Even with Goggle+ you can see it's definitely a retro-factor because almost everyone has a Gmail account, right, and if they're logged in and someone shares a certain link in their network, that site will give you their rank higher, when they're logged into Google. I mean it just will.
David Smooke: Yeah. That's funny.
Paul Andre: I mean, don't you see us catching ourselves, like hey, are you in porno mode, you know the privacy and you have to walk all that way …
David Smooke: I don't know if that's the correct term.
Paul Andre: No, that's what I've heard of, I hear all the time.
David Smooke: Incognito.
Paul Andre: Yeah, incognito.
Paul Andre: Also known as the pornography viewer. Because you're hiding all your links but it's just keeping things, if you're logged in, it's just a way for them to give you more relevant content which Google really wants to do it in all …
David Smooke: That's true.
Paul Andre: It the end.
David Smooke: Did you know the Miami Dolphins guy that got in trouble for bullying last year? He actually changed his last name to 'Incognito' legally. He was Richie something in college and then when he was approaching like pro status, sometime as USC, he legally changed his last name to Incognito to embody his persona and then he got kicked off the team for bullying.
Paul Andre: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
David Smooke: Just a little side note there on incognito. Do you think people should be worried about, in their emails, they should actually be worried like what anchor word text they link and if you send an email blast to 50,000 people you could actually impact search results or whatever anchor text you pick?
Paul Andre: Within the Google [inaudible 09:33] system? I don't see how that can, unless it's like a Gmail and people are linking things within Gmail and Google's just picking it up. They say their watching us, see all our emails, could be.
David Smooke: Yeah. Do you think we could reach the point where everything we say is indexed on the internet and how scary is that?
Paul Andre: Yeah, how about the Facebook image came up and they can turn on your camera? Is that…
David Smooke: Someone told me that on Facebook Messenger like your actual terms and conditions they can access essentially almost anything on the phone including turning on your camera, so use case on their end would probably be if you're phone gets jacked … you can see, all right, someone's hacked into my messenger, maybe it could actually take a picture of that person as they're typing and now Facebook has a picture of the person that's hacked into your account sending messages which I guess that moment you get hacked, maybe it's worth it to have them intervene but the fact that I could be on the shitter sending a message and Facebook …
David Smooke: Mark Zuckerberg would feel like, hey, what's up with Dave Smooke, let me take a look and there I am, like on the shitter. That's not exactly comforting in terms of privacy.
Paul Andre: Yeah, that's a lot of things when, that's one thing that scares me about even webcams on laptops. Sometimes you'll see, a lot of idea's happen when you're on the shitter.
Paul Andre: And you are typing or maybe you're, you just have to go when you're in a meeting and you got to go to a meeting and a camera shows up.
Paul Andre: Pretty embarrassing.
David Smooke: Yeah, I mean the more and it's like, turns people like, oh, you know, if you have transparency you have nothing to hide. It's not really like hiding, it's just like about appropriate, like what's a one to zero activity, what's a one to one activity and what's a one to public activity? One to zero is you working on something yourself, it doesn't mean you don't want to share it, it's just not appropriate to like take a picture of someone working on their own stuff and then this is private just for that person, and then this is for everybody and actually choosing those distinctions, it seems like we're losing more control over it as all of our activities are being pushed further and further to one to many. One to many is how everything we do will be perceived. Whoever's interested can find out.
I mean if you're doing good things it's pretty encouraging because you just feel like, oh, I'm starting this new non-profit business and in starting this new non-profit business I'm going to have to essentially take all these one to one meetings but if you don't need to take one to one meetings and you can broadcast your message and get a lot of views online, it's like, that part's very encouraging.
Paul Andre: On the topic of social media trends we see that social media started us off a website so it's Friendster, Myspace, these are all desktop firsts.
David Smooke: I do a really good Tom impersonation.
Paul Andre: I know. But if you check it out, there hasn't been another website like Facebook, or social media site. It's been mobile apps, it's almost been like social media has become very mobile and everybody's going mobile first.
Paul Andre: What do you think is the next big mobile first, social media platform? There's stuff on the rise right now, who's the one that couldn't get bought out, it was …
David Smooke: WhatsApp.
Paul Andre: WhatsApp, didn't want to sell out. SnapShot …
David Smooke: SnapChat.
Paul Andre: Sold, right?
David Smooke: Other way around. SnapChat turned down $3 billion from Facebook and then Facebook turned around and bought WhatsApp for $19 billion.
Paul Andre: Okay.
David Smooke: Both mobile first properties, and you can see it in how Facebook is dividing, forcing you to get messenger and taking you out of the Facebook app.
David Smooke: Like, 'Oh, you use the Facebook app for this whole massive address book and voyeurism and maybe occasionally post, now we want to take your time anytime you're texting, we want to take that time and drop you into a Facebook program. ' As opposed to texting on my phone charged by the text…
David Smooke: It's a really good, I understand why they're doing it, basically, the more existing activities on your phone that you can funnel into our software, it's really like they're trying to take over the phone app by app and realizing you have to log-in to one app, Facebook, to do all these different functionalities, you have to get across this whole barrier of essentially one place to do so many different things people end up choosing the specialized version.
Paul Andre: Yeah, of course.
David Smooke: Yep.
Paul Andre: It gives you a better experience.
David Smooke: Yeah, exactly. So I mean that's why …
Paul Andre: That's more productive.
David Smooke: Yeah, and I get what Facebook's doing buying, you know, all right, now we're going to buy the hottest photo sharing app. Now we're going to buy the best text communication app. You know, and they're expanding into the phone so I think they get it even though at the core of them they're trying to be one platform that does everything on the mobile phone they divide. And on this subject, who's grasping audio or where do you store your audio files? I've frankly had a pretty bad experience, I mean, I've been emailing SoundCloud for 2 days trying to get the embed button to work. I'm on a premium account and they're not helping, the embed button's a free feature and it's not even working so when I do the recording like this, I can't even immediately put it online. It's like I know that's what they're about and they're doing it and it's a lot of complications but …
Paul Andre: You know what I find very interesting is that okay, SoundCloud is a desktop first app, well, company was it, or am I wrong, can you say that …
David Smooke: I've been using it mostly on the desktop. They do have a mobile app…
David Smooke: I'm not sure how good it is, I've tried it a little bit, I don't want to say good or bad, I don't know yet.
Paul Andre: What I've notice is that, okay, there's all this equipment for all true musicians like DJ's and stuff like that so it even records their stuff and you can put it on SoundCloud which is then on the desktop. What if a DJ wanted to record his live DJ set and all he has is his phone?
Paul Andre: And how would he be able to get a good recording and just put it right away once the set is done. I mean it would have to be a Mobile First type of technology or something like even SoundCloud to venture off into.
David Smooke: The big thing with this Mobile First it's like content creation like the computer is the hassle. It works for the writer because the keyboard helps you actually do the job but if you're not writing like the computer is not essential in the way.
David Smooke: If you want to do audio or visual, taking the picture, the computer does not help you. It exists, maybe it helps you later if you want to edit the photo, I mean more and more tools are emerging for the phone but it's always still better to get the real Photoshop on the real computer with all the functionality …
Paul Andre: Yep.
David Smooke: And look how small the phone is. If your phone could do something …
Paul Andre: Yeah, you can capture moments when you wouldn't have the computer.
Paul Andre: And create content then.
David Smooke: Which way you want to go?
Paul Andre: Let's – you want to keep walking straight?
David Smooke: Yeah, we could loop around the Ferry building and head back into SOMA.
Paul Andre: Okay. So back to doing something social. Would you think, say something like SoundCloud is social?
David Smooke: Oh, yeah. They're showing you, they have the same icon as Twitter for retweeting a piece of music. They show your views, you make friends, you follow, you unfollow people. There is social media marketing for SoundCloud, I've seen various solutions offer it, most of them don't but some of them do. They're a pretty inspirational story. I remember I watched a video about them, this guy was basically like in Germany and had a problem, they just like, they were all huge fans of you know all this electronic music and they wanted access to it and they were musicians themselves and they came up with essentially this bare bones solution to solve their own problem and it turns out a lot of people were having issues getting their music heard as well as reliable storage and they just took off.
Paul Andre: It's very safe to say that the next social media trend or social media next big thing is based on innovation. Innovators, maybe solving a problem that no one has before. Obviously we keep referring SoundCloud but there are other websites, but we're first to SoundCloud. Maybe for us SoundCloud was the first to get to us.
Paul Andre: It's those first set of innovators just do it, do it all, and just …
David Smooke: It's almost like the best executor of the first set of innovators.
David Smooke: Because you know you have these waves in the beginning, the famous Friendster, Myspace's …
David Smooke: That like at the core of it their pages were very much the same as Facebook.
David Smooke: Here's a picture: it's your page online and that is the idea.
David Smooke: Everyone has a profile page and you can interact with each other in different ways. But, you know, their path to the market was so much better, it was, get every single .edu address in the country to use Facebook, get them early …
David Smooke: At 20, and now this is your page online for life and they did a level of exclusivity to it, only .edu addresses and I think that was brilliant, that was the crowd that wanted it. Tinder did a good job too using an oncologist to grow.
David Smooke: Tinder, they would send an advocate, one of their co-founders to all the sororities first and she would go sorority saying 'this is the best new way to look at guys and think about hooking up,' and once all the girls were on it, all the guys just followed like crazy.
Paul Andre: You know, even like Tinder's a very, very good case of someone going mobile first or going under the route of something that's already been out there. When I was doing my websites and back in 97, 98 …
David Smooke: All these old dating sites too …
Paul Andre: Yeah, like I had something that was as simple as [inaudible:20:39] which was Hot or Not …
Paul Andre: Basic thing, yes or no, hot or not. But, within there was, yes, put it out there to the colleges and stuff like that but they went mobile first with it. It was like, okay, we're in a whole new generation of people on mobile phones, they're many people that will not know what Hot or Not was, or is.
David Smooke: The wording, the verbiage itself, it's not Hot or Not anymore, it's swipe left or swipe right.
David Smooke: This is literally what you do on the phone, it was very smart. Like the function on the phone is different, you weren't swiping left or swiping right with a computer screen but your thumb, this is actually a very easy way to make a decision and how the functionality makes you make decisions which is the phone using your thumb, new verbiage submerged and now everyone's following them really.
Paul Andre: Yeah, and you're …
David Smooke: So many swipe left, swipe right people …
Paul Andre: And you're also taking advantage of the latest technology. Back then when Hot or Not was around there was no such thing as geo-location or people around you …
Paul Andre: Everyone now put up their picture and you could be at like in the Philippines or like Europe …
David Smooke: I mean, Zuckerberg solved the problem by hacking the Harvard network and just using students so he knew they were in the area by doing a different work around.
David Smooke: Like they all attend this university as opposed to just everyone working outwards in a circle from where you are, which is really a cool idea.
Paul Andre: Do you see social media as being, obviously we consume it, what are some social media tools or like famous websites that you'd say that probably would produce content? I mean, yeah, we're producing content but we're actually just sharing what we're doing. On Twitter I used to say, 'hey, I'm over here at Starbucks' or 'I'm passing the bridge,' I used to really, really get into it but now it's more I have a different take on how I use Twitter. I mean I first used Twitter, I heard about it at a conference …
Paul Andre: And it was for everyone, it was built very small specifically, I don't know if this was their main goal but I mean, it was a conference app where I would download the app and you could ask questions and it would show up on the board. Then, all of a sudden, I'd say maybe just, even just 2 years later I started seeing it in more mainstream, everyone started downloading it and then, now look at it. It's like it's part of our news.
Paul Andre: It's part of our lifestyle.
David Smooke: Yeah, the conferences, that was amazing for Twitter.
Paul Andre: See?
Paul Andre: I actually thought of Twitter as being more of a productivity tool. It was for us to solve the problem to like a bunch of conferences like a key note of a few hundred people, you know, there's going to be questions and not everyone can get all to them …
David Smooke: It's like passing notes in class.
David Smooke: It's so fun for that. You know everyone's immersed in the same piece of content or watching the same show which is how it's taken off so much on television but you get to without talking and disrupting and the actual watching of the keynote or whatever it is, …
David Smooke: You can participate and also discussion at the same time which is really powerful. You really had to wait until after before Twitter and talk to people about it after.
Paul Andre: Yeah, and there's so many things it solves, there's even at conferences I know everyone has a question, I would have a question, I would be just too shy to raise my hand but you know when I just saw this …
David Smooke: You'll probably get over that.
Paul Andre: Well no. That was before. I'm sure other people have dying questions that like they didn't want to raise their hand.
Paul Andre: But if all I had to do was just write it up …
David Smooke: Or you'll just forget the question by the time you have the opportunity to raise your hand, you forgot the idea. Twitter allows you to at least record it in some fashion in real time and you can go back to it later or other people can see it.
David Smooke: I mean, at the end of the day, I was also thinking about with all these free social networks the line is like, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product. It's like they win: whenever they turn these people into content producers.
David Smooke: If they're not content producers then it's just consumption, you're in a media site of some kind, aggregating content, but if people interact – it's almost like by definition to be a social network you have to turn a certain percentage of your readers and consumers into producers.
David Smooke: Then once this percentage is too high in favor of just consumers, you're no longer a social media site and you're now a new type of site. You're probably media.
Paul Andre: Yeah, that brings me to the point to where you said we had our users creating content, even in SEO, one good thing that was getting them ranked, even until today, was user generated content through communities. It was like all these bulletin boards, these forums …
Paul Andre: It's like, people are creating conversation within the board and of solving problems, whether they're solving problems like if I want to find a fix an error for my computer, I search, I'll get a community conversation you know and it's documented on the web. It's like solving problems through conversations, it's just …
David Smooke: It's empowering.
Paul Andre: Yeah. Who knows, someone might search social media trends and find this on your website, DavidWalks.
David Smooke: Yeah, and I don't know exactly what problem I'll solve for them. Hopefully they're just walking on their way to work and they're a social media professional or they just are curious about the subject before using it and maybe they run into us and they're like, 'huh,' you know that's one way to think about it but at the same time if they run into us and they're like, 'those guys are idiots, at least they were exposed.' We gave our ideas a shot at the market and that's fine by me – without a fair shot and a few relevant listeners and readers, you can't go anywhere.
David Smooke: So what's your one bold prediction of how social media will be very different say 7 years from now?
Paul Andre: Very different? It's already happening now. I think it's just we ride, I mean social media just tends to ride on the use of whatever technology comes out. Say, there might be some social network with everyone that has the Google Glass on, it's like, I think the trends are going to be on innovation, on actual technology and someone's going to find a way to unite that group of people or that market or that community.
Paul Andre: Whether, I mean, I don't have a hard core prediction but, what's yours?
David Smooke: I think any one's really cracked the nut on how to meet new people because there's so many different ways you can filter by, you know, there's 700,000 people in this city, then you start filtering by age, interest, location, location at that time, it's like there's so many different, you look around here on Market Street and you can see probably 250 people if you do a little birds eye circle and it's like there's probably at least 5 people I would enjoy a short conversation with.
Paul Andre: Right.
David Smooke: But how do I know who those 5 people are and how do I actually have that conversation?
David Smooke: I know I can actually approach people which is great but it would also be nice if my phone or an app would just tell me.
Paul Andre: Someone that's open to conversation.
David Smooke: Yeah, here's another person you should meet as opposed to me proactively reaching out, talking, messaging, it's just like bam, you know it's like the dating sites are trying it, the recruiting sites are trying it, there's just so much information available but no one's really nailed how to meet new people.
Paul Andre: Yeah, then again if you refer to dating, I'm sure there's a lot of other people out there are just willing to meet new people, learn about certain things, maybe just talk.
David Smooke: Oh yeah, mentorship, friendship, you know there's tons of reasons to meet people and I … Meetup is kind of cool, by choosing an event and a time you're self-selecting interests and availability and location.
David Smooke: That's cool but it's not… there's just a lot more there.
Paul Andre: So what do you consider a meet up, is that social networking?
David Smooke: The site itself?
Paul Andre: No, well Meetup and what they're providing for people.
David Smooke: At the core of it, it's event listings.
David Smooke: At the very core of it, that's what it is but they've made great steps in building communities around types of events - I think we can cross – so once you have a community around a type of event, now you have a group you can reengage with later and they made it pretty social. You can add pictures, you can add comments, you can connect to people and send them direct messages, but you know it's, yeah, social event listing site. I'd have to look at their identifier but that's what I would call it.
Paul Andre: Yeah, I mean, social media, was social media even around 10 years ago, I mean, that term?
David Smooke: No, I think, well 10 years, yeah, just about.
Paul Andre: Well, yeah.
David Smooke: I guess. Just about, yeah, 10 years.
Paul Andre: I'm losing how old I am but I mean …
David Smooke: No, that's real. If you said it in 2004, you probably wouldn't, or most people wouldn't, know that term.
David Smooke: Yeah. Imagine if you bought Socialmedia.com in 2004.
David Smooke: You could do nothing with it, it's just like that's the big, like when you can really predict a term that's going to emerge, you know what I mean?
Paul Andre: Oh, yeah.
David Smooke: That's kind of cool. Or really just jump on its early it's your like, wow, this terminology is just going to be heavily used.
Paul Andre: But maybe earlier than 2004 because as a domainer, I've bought domains since 97, 98 and I've been finding some terms I would never have thought people would have got for, I mean, it's just the way …
David Smooke: Maybe you're just not that good.
Paul Andre: No, I …
David Smooke: Maybe they just got there first.
Paul Andre: Yeah, but that's 97, 98. I'm going by the date you went out, 2004.
Paul Andre: So.
David Smooke: Yeah, people, I mean there's a lot of people thinking this way. It's almost like if a term has never been bought it's like, well, no validation at all, maybe I'm really coming out of left field here.
Paul Andre: Yep. As a domainer I'm actually one of those people that will buy cool domains or something that will you feel like, oh, shit that's pretty cool. It's actually one of first reactions I do, something cool comes up, check the dot com. It just is, and buy it.
Paul Andre: That's real estate right there. Online real estate, you've seen domains going for 100,000's of dollars.
David Smooke: Yeah, it's funny like the domain itself has value just like land but then it's also so much more flexible then land …
David Smooke: Of what you can create with it. Any site can be hosted on any domain. It's exciting you know …
Paul Andre: Yeah, that's …
David Smooke: You can't build a skyscraper on 5 acres but you can build a billion dollar site on a ridiculous domain name that no one …
David Smooke: Even considered purchasing.
David Smooke: It's property man.
David Smooke: It's flexible property …
Paul Andre: It's a domain, domain that's …
David Smooke: Like malleable assets.
Paul Andre: What's your domain? It's property there.
David Smooke: What's your spot, yeah. All right, well let's wrap things up, remind everyone to visit paulandre.com or misspell Wikipedia with 2 k's …
Paul Andre: [Apea 33:21].
David Smooke: In order to get redirected.
Paul Andre: That will work.
David Smooke: In order to get redirected to his LinkedIn and learn more. So, talk to you later.
Paul Andre: Talk to you later dude... There was a lot of sound, I'd like to compare it like, when you get the…
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In this report , we are bringing information on important buyers of denim fabrics from India . Bangladesh is a big market and most of the countries ship their fabrics to this country. Hence , it is always interesting to see what is happening here and how the sellers and buyers are interacting .
1. Table Showing the list of Top 10 Buyers of Fabrics from Bangladesh along with the Avg price for the period of Mar'17- May'17.
2. Graph Showing the list of Top 10 Buyers of Fabrics from Bangladesh for the period of Mar'17-May'17.
3. Graph Showing the Average price (USD/YARDS) OF Top 10 Fabrics Buyers for the period of Mar'17- May'17.
4. Pie chart Showing the % Share of Top 10 Buyers of Fabrics for the period of Mar'17- May'17.
5. 10 Table Showing the list of Suppliers of Fabrics along with Avg price to Top 10 Buyers of Bangladesh for Mar'17-May'17.
6. 10 Graph Showing the list of Suppliers to the Top 10 Buyers for the period of Mar'17-May'17.
7. 10 Graph Showing the Average price of Suppliers to the Top 10 Buyers for the period of Mar'17- May'17.
List of Top 10 Buyers of Fabrics from Bangladesh.


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Zinza (Dzinda)é uma língua Banta falada pelos [[Zinza]s da Tanzânia nas margens sul do lago Vitória.

Escrita
A língua Zinza usa o alfabeto latino numa forma sem as letras J, Q, V, W. Usam-se as formas Ch, Sh, Mb, Ny;

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"Chaandikilwe chíti, 'Omulamye Múungu Omukáma wáawe, na omukolele weényini weénka.'"

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"Está escrito, 'Você deve adorar o Senhor seu Deus e somente a ele servir.'"

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Ligações externas
Zinza em Omniglot.com
Zinza em em SIL
Zinza em Ethnologue
Zinza em The Task

Línguas da Tanzânia
Línguas atlântico-congolesas


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Archive -July 2018
Studying belief. . .
Studying beliefs scientifically
Science & Spirituality
While science and esoteric have always been at loggerheads, each claiming superiority over the other, Shri Madhu Pandit Dasa, president of ISKCON Bengaluru, makes a strong case for studying ancient beliefs scientifically in order to harness their power for scientific and spiritual advancement of man
We reproduce here, the text of his keynote address given at the conference on Beliefs and beyond in March 2018, in Bengaluru.
Is belief relevant in the modern scientific age? There is no better way to answer this question than by simply narrating the role played by intuition, belief, premonition, and mysticism behind two of the most important modern discoveries of 20th-century physics, which have changed the world in the last century. We are all aware of the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein and quantum mechanics by Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, and Werner Heisenberg, which were two incredible breakthroughs in scientific history. These two theories have changed science itself by shaking the deterministic mechanistic world-view of Newton, held to be true for centuries. It was overthrown to give way to a non-mechanistic, probabilistic world-view. Practically every technology we see today, from mobiles to information technology, is derived from these two discoveries of physics. You will be surprised that both these theories had their origins in a dream that the two scientists (Einstein and Bohr) had. In other words, what has changed the scientific world, had its origin in the dream of the scientist.
Einstein himself acknowledges that a dream he had as an adolescent was an inspiration for what was to become the theory of relativity. The dream in his own words: I was sledding with my friends at night. I started to slide down the hill but my sled started going faster and faster. I was going so fast that I realised I was approaching the speed of light. I looked up at that point and I saw stars. They were being refracted into colours I had never seen before. I was filled with a sense of awe. I understood in some way that I was looking at the most important meaning in my life.
Einstein admits that his entire scientific career was a meditation on this dream. Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, who won the Nobel prize in 1922, developed the model of the atom with electrons orbiting around the nucleus in quantised orbits. Bohr writes that he attempted to design various frameworks for the configuration of the atom, but none would fit.
One night, in his dream, he saw electrons spinning around the atom's nucleus, like planets revolving around the sun. Upon awakening, he felt the vision was accurate, and immediately went to his lab in search of scientific evidence to support his dream.
No doubt, scientific knowledge itself is built on the rigorous scientific methods adopted by the scientists. But as we have seen in the above two cases and many other cases, science does not advance from A to Z, just by research and cold rationality. The very minds of the scientists who built up this rigorous science, used inexplicable methods beyond scientific rationale to innovate and originate these world-changing theories. They did not limit themselves to only rational processes to come up with these ideas. Many of the incredible breakthroughs in scientific history are the result of dreams, intuition, or the mystical part of the brain.
Albert Einstein said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Science would not be where it is today if the power of belief was not employed by the intuition of the scientists in creating mind-boggling hypotheses which acted for them as interim beliefs to be proved through scientific methods. Henri Poincaré rightly said, "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition, we discover."
Science's connection with the Vedas
There is historical evidence of these scientific giants themselves admitting that they went beyond their rational processes to come up with the most powerful theories of our times. When a scientist creates a hopeful hypothesis, he does that as an interim belief that it is a highly probable explanation of experimental data in his opinion. It is that hope, that makes him device extraordinary experiments. Thus, belief too has been key in expanding the frontiers of science. However, only science has gone the extra mile to prove or disprove the hypothesis. Along with Niels Bohr, two other scientific giants who are also credited with quantum mechanics are Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg. History has recorded that all three were in touch with the Vedas and, particularly, the Upanishads.
Schrodinger wrote in his book My view of the world:
In all the world there is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction...the only solution to this conflict, in so far as any available to us at all, lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads (page 31). The unity and continuity of Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics. This is entirely consistent with the Vedantic concept of All in One. Most of my ideas and theories are heavily influenced by Vedanta.
Take the case of the mysticism that surrounds the great works of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who developed about 4000 theorems by the age of 32, with almost no formal training. Many of the formulas that he scribbled in a notebook, from his deathbed, were discovered only 50 years later, preserved by his wife. Armed with these mathematical tools, today, physicists are trying to understand objects like black holes and string theory which is supposed to be the ultimate stuff the universe is made up of. Ramanujan credits his works to Deity Goddess Namagiri of Namakkal who would visit him in dreams and present him with scrolls of complex mathematical formulas. He would then test and prove them after waking up. His works are a miracle in mathematics, as it is unlikely that one with no formal training could come up with such mind-boggling equations. Here is a case where equations were written first as applications of theorems and the best mathematical minds are even today working on these formulas to prove them. So far, they have not found even one of these theorems to be wrong.
A disciplined process on beliefs
Beliefs, customs and practices, and their effects on the human being are plenty all over the world. What is lacking is the disciplined process to work on evidence-based belief in order to prevent its abuse. It is an extremely useful human faculty that no one can do away with.
Apart from the correctness of the semantic content of the beliefs, belief by itself is a useful mental construct or shortcut to perceive and respond to reality. Beliefs are self-learnt along the journey of our life by the influence of people, places, events, and situations, based upon its positive and negative effects upon our deep, instinctual search for power, knowledge, happiness, and pleasure. Cultural beliefs have contributed tremendously to the welfare of humanity. No doubt, the misuse of belief is also rampant in society for the vested interests of the few. Dr Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of the Dharmasthala Temple, has coined an appropriate word called 'mis-belief' for beliefs that have destructive effects on human society as a whole.
The practice of beliefs has hitherto remained within the precincts of cultural and religious groups. Should not there be an attempt to put together what is evidence-based belief and share it amongst a larger audience for greater benefit, especially those beliefs that solve the problems of mankind? If the present tools are insufficient, should we not explore new methods for investigating beliefs that are useful to mankind?
Apply science to test beliefs
A typical case for potential research is the subject of reincarnation. There are so many reported medical cases of near-death experience all over the world. There are cases of children giving detailed descriptions of places from their past lives, which have been verified to be true. But unless we have authentic investigative procedures to record the evidence, we cannot separate the real from the fake and, thus, these beliefs never get conclusively proven either way. I keep wondering why MIT and Harvard are not setting up a chair to study reincarnation. Is it, again, prejudice of their current scientific belief that there is no life after death that is preventing them from setting up research to study reincarnation? Despite it being the belief of billions of people on this earth, there is not a single formal study in any university or research centres anywhere in the world to investigate this belief. Let the rigour of scientific research be applied, to unearth if there is truth in it.
A real intellectually progressive society should not hesitate to explore any domain of knowledge, even if the present-day thinking tools are not capable of dealing with these unknown domains of reality. We should attempt to find alternative tools to explore the secrets of nature. There are too many phenomena out there that stare at us and challenge our understanding, which cannot be explained by the known laws of present-day science. There are more things unexplained than explained.
Science can push the envelope
Science is not the only system of thought to command our attention, though we are living in a scientific age. Various cultural and religious thought systems and traditions, that have survived for centuries, cannot be ignored as useless to mankind. The claim of science was that it was dealing with the truth, until the beginning of the last century. But today, there is a deep division amongst the scientific community about whether science is about finding the truth out there or it is just modelling reality to study its effects.
Most of the modern understanding is based on theoretical mathematical models, and it has very little to do with descriptions of reality as it truly exists. Do atoms really exist? Do electrons exist? Science or the founders of these ideas, admittedly, can never answer these questions.
There is a deep paradigm shift in science, away from the mechanistic reductionism of Newton, to holism. When science, today, is largely about studying aggregates and complex systems and not really the truth out there, why can we not extend the rigorous scientific method to model traditional beliefs, study its effects, and develop theories as to how and why belief works if it works, or discard it if it does not work. In this way, we can extend science to studying traditional beliefs that have worked for generations. If the phenomena behind these beliefs are deciphered, it could help man enter the deeper secrets of nature.
Separate the good from the bad
Misuse of a thing does not make the thing useless. Just because the human faculty of belief has been misused for exploiting the ignorant, we cannot eliminate beliefs from human society, especially beliefs that have stood the test of time. Science is also no exception to abuse. Today, there are so many proven cases of unethical means of creating manipulated scientific data and statistics, where they have worked backwards to prove something for huge commercial gain, especially in social and medical sciences. It is well known that many pharmaceutical giants are no exception to exploiting science and scientific methods for commercial gains. It is a fact that much research is conducted today for reasons other than the pursuit of truth. Does it mean these sciences are to be abandoned? The answer is obviously a 'no'. On the same count, we should not throw out traditional beliefs within human society without a disciplined process of eliminating the fake ones and studying deeply the real ones through innovative, investigative rational methods.
Ethical scientific research has led humanity to big discoveries. And extending ethical investigation to these beliefs will open up mankind's search for knowledge to hitherto unexplored territories of nature. Life is not just matter. Quality of life depends on quality of spirit. Such an endeavour will eventually lead knowledge of matter to meet knowledge of spirit and integrate into a holistic knowledge of life itself.


Land Rover at 70: What's next for the marquee manufacturer?
It's 70 years almost to the day since Land Rover first drove into our motoring lives. In that time, the company has gone from a very utilitarian single model range to the diverse line-up of luxury SUVs we know today.
While so much of the company's image and appeal lies with the Defender, which is due to be resurrected in 2019, the reality is few owners now use even a modicum of their vehicle's ability. So why do we have such an affection for this company and its products, and where is it headed now it's old enough for a bus pass?
We'll leave the Defender to one side as we know it's due soon and will be offered in two different wheelbases. Instead, let's have a look at what else is on the horizon for the Green Oval.
For starters, the company is very likely to launch a new sub-brand next year called Road Rover. This name was mooted back in the dim and distant past as the name for what became the original Range Rover. With this new Road Rover, the emphasis is very much on luxury.
Hang on though, doesn't Range Rover already do the whole luxury SUV thing very well? Yes, which is why the Road Rover will be a much lower slung car than others from the same company. Just as everyone else is building upwards, Land Rover has found room for growth by going in the opposite direction.
It's a canny move as so many of its existing customers own several vehicles, so why not offer them an alternative to their Mercedes S-Class or Audi A7? This is the same sort of thinking that prompted so many premium manufacturers to get in on the luxury SUV market in the first place and it's perfectly fair game for Land Rover to riposte in kind.
It's also a good idea to put a little clean air between this less off-road oriented model by calling it something new. If it carried the Range Rover badge, it would also be carrying a burden of expectation when it comes to trotting up mountains and down dales.
Some might wonder what's the point of this car when Jaguar produces the XJ saloon. However, the Land Rover brand is flying high right now and there's clearly space for another high-end vehicle in that class as Audi, BMW and Mercedes have no problem finding customers for their offerings.
The same thinking is also likely to result in an even more upmarket and luxurious Range Rover to take on the Bentley Bentayga and Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Land Rover has already dipped a toe in this market with its most expensive Range Rover and the limited production SV Coupe two-door model that made its entrance at this year's Geneva motor show. Again, it's simply a matter of Land Rover finding niche areas where there are customers who don't yet know they want one of the company's cars.
At the other end of the scale, and again slated for what's looking like a very busy 2019 for Land Rover, is the second generation Evoque. This is a crucial car for the firm as it's been a runaway success since launch having never sold less than 100,000 units every year it's been on sale. It has also defined the segment it inhabits and was key in introducing a whole new design language to the brand. On top of that, it also drew in many new customers who have gone on to buy other Land Rover products.
Little is being said about the next Evoque specification, but we do know it will be based on a heavily revised version of the current model's platform. It's also thought the Evoque will jumpstart Land Rover's stated aim that all of its models will use electrification of some sort from 2020 onwards. For the Evoque, that's likely to be a 1.5-litre, three-cylinder petrol engine coupled to a mild hybrid set-up as seen in the Evoque E project from 2015.
Land Rover will be slightly later to market with these EV models than its sister company Jaguar, which has the I-Pace ready and waiting to hit the roads. Starting with the Evoque is a wise move as its younger customer demographic is reckoned to be more accepting of change and keen to be seen as early adopters of new tech.
This is not to say those choosing other models are fuddy-duddies too stuck in their ways to countenance something different. Far from it and if that were the case, all of Land Rover's customers would still be demanding a draughty old Defender rather than one of the distinctly opulent cars they currently have to pick from.
We can see that with the Range Rover and Sport P400e Land Rover has the confidence to offer new powertrains in these cornerstone models. Some of that is driven by necessity to offer cleaner, greener vehicles, but it's also a chance for the company to explore new directions.
This is an important consideration for Land Rover more than most car firms, as it cannot rely on the legacy of the 70-year old original to carry it forward. Some will continue to mourn the passing of the Defender and all that it embodied, but it's gone and best to move on to think about what the future holds. On this current evidence, it's going to be very exciting.


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Beirut Film Days Festival kicks off
A series of films from various Arab countries are shown at the Beirut Film Days Festival. The event returned to the crisis-stricken country after a three-year hiatus.
The 11th edition of the festival kicked off with the screening of the award-winning film "Joy" by Jordanian writer and director Dareen Salam. It is inspired by a true story about the story of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl during the 1948 war.
The festival also screens other films that deal with issues from all over the Middle East, including "Household Tales", a documentary film by Syrian director Nidal al-Debs that recounts his experience of exile and nostalgia.
Lebanese director Elie Dagher will conclude the festival with the movie "The Sea in Front Of You". The film reflects contemporary Lebanon through the lens of Jana, a young Lebanese woman who returns home and finds herself trying to re-adapt to the life she left behind long ago.
On its 17th anniversary… What happened to Mar Mikhael agreement?
Storms are only for the rich in Lebanon!
Economic crisis…Contradiction in class divide
Joseph Aoun… President of the Republic?


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Zealot R.I.P.
Self-titled EP
Buy Vinyl EU
Zealot R.I.P. started years ago when life-long friends, Jason Hamacher (Frodus, Battery, CombatWoundedVeteran) & Mike Schleibaum, decided to collaborate and write music that's fast and heavy. Between Schleibaum's relentless touring in Darkest Hour and Hamacher's extensive documentary work in Syria, it took a few years for them to settle into a sound that's somewhere between Entombed and Born Against. The band was recently solidified with the additions of Pig Destroyer's Blake Harrison and Fairweather's Peter Tsouras. This metal amalgam, upon forming, went immediately into the studio and recorded a handful of songs that are brutally unhinged.
The self-titled EP was recorded recorded/mixed by Mike Schleibaum at The Riff Dojo. It's available as an ultra limited edition 12" EP on vinyl through Three One G Records as well as digitally.
Self-titled EP:
Magnetic Field of Dreams
The Extinction of You
Worship the Serpent


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Q: How to declare build-time dependencies without breaking other packages? I ran into a problem when installing a package which depended on python-daemon.  I ultimately traced it to the latest version of the package python-daemon (2.0.3) released yesterday.  Testing in a virtual environment on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine and issuing the following commands:
(venv) $ pip list
argparse (1.2.1)
pip (1.5.6)
setuptools (3.6)
wsgiref (0.1.2)
(venv) $ pip install redis
 ... works fine ....
(venv) $ pip install python-daemon
 ...
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 ...
 File "/home/pwj/.virtualenvs/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2147, in load

['__name__'])

ImportError: No module named version

(venv)02:15 PM tmp$ pip list
argparse (1.2.1)
lockfile (0.10.2)
pip (1.5.6)
python-daemon (2.0.3)
setuptools (3.6)
wsgiref (0.1.2)

So the install of python-daemon seemed to work but something affected pip or setuptools because other packages (celery, flask), I try to install with pip after this gives me the same traceback:
 ...
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 File "/home/pwj/.virtualenvs/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2147, in load

['__name__'])

ImportError: No module named version

If I uninstall python-daemon with pip things again and packages that weren't installing now install fine.  Has anyone else come across this or something similar with a different project?  My solution was to pip install the previous version
(venv) $ pip install python-daemon==2.0.2
... works ...

but was wondering what might be causing such an error.

A: (This behaviour is corrected in python-daemon version 2.0.4 and later.)
There are two sides to this:

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*Setuptools assumes it is the centre of everything.

*Version 2.0.3 of python-daemon doesn't take that into account.

A more detailed explanation: There is some complex code using Docutils involved in the python-daemon build process, that isn't needed after install and isn't part of the library code.
It's too complex to leave in the un-importable (and therefore not-unit-testable) setup.py, so that build code is shunted to a separate testable module, version (in the file version.py), which itself uses Docutils.
But then the setup.py has a circular dependency: How to import version, when Docutils isn't yet installed? How to use Setuptools to ensure Docutils is installed, when running setup.py to completion will need version? All the feasible solutions are ugly and confusing.
The approach taken in 'python-daemon' 2.0.3 is to declare Docutils required for setup, and declare a Setuptools entry point for the work that needs version. That way setup.py gets to install Docutils before any of the entry points that will use version.
But now we come to the first point, that Setuptools arrogates itself as the centre of everything. By declaring an entry point, setup.py has modified every Setuptools action thereafter, and every package will fail if it can't find the entry points. And, since most of them don't have version or the specified functions in that module, they crash Setuptools.
What is essentially a bug to be fixed, reveals a poorly-understood corner case in Setuptools. So I'm voting your question up.
There doesn't seem to be a good solution to this: having modules available for setup.py but ensuring requirements are met first. Setuptools assumes it is the only build system needed to satisfy all dependencies for everything, and when that assumption fails it's very difficult to get around.
Thanks to the Python Packaging Authority folks, and the distutils-sig forum, for explaining this to me.