December 11, 2008: Cheapflights.com is shedding light on what's in store for the traveler in 2009 with its latest Travelnomics report "Travelnomics – Year in Review, Travel Forecast." For this latest addition to the Travelnomics series, Cheapflights.com checked in with industry leaders and influencers, from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to Virgin America, to get the scoop on '08 happenings and what lies ahead in 2009.
The overall consensus: Not only will the cost of airfare drop significantly in 2009, but new routes, new runways, and new technologies will make travel easier and more reliable.
- Less Delays: The FAA is beginning to roll-out new satellite systems for all airlines and control towers in 2009. For consumers, this means less congestion at the airport, fewer weather delays, and less time in the air and on the ground. This initiative starts in '09 and is scheduled to be completed by 2013.
- Wi-Fi in the Sky: Virgin America just introduced its first Wi-Fi enabled plane; other carriers will soon follow suit. Travelers' prayers have been answered.
- Lower Fares: DOT is initiating an auction system at JFK that will allow low-cost carriers to bid for gate space. This system opens doors to existing airlines to expand operations and new airlines to enter; more carriers mean more competition and lower fares for consumers. When introduced at Philadelphia International Airport, fares dropped 21 percent.
- Loyalty Pays: Points.com, an online reward point management site, predicts travel companies will introduce more enticing promotions and opportunities in order to stimulate demand for travel, as well as non-travel products offered by key partners.
- Surcharges are Here to Stay: According to Seth Kaplan of Airline Weekly, a la carte and surcharge fees are here to stay, but with the drop in airfares, consumers can still travel for less.
"Travelnomics – Year in Review, Travel Forecast" also recaps the 2008 travel market and includes tips for finding the best travel deals and affordable airfare, additional 2009 predictions and further details supporting the above findings.


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Before pursuing the question of what it means to design contextually, we need to make sure we are on the same page about the term context. The dictionary shows it to mean "the circumstances, background or setting where a particular act or event occurs." As far as architecture is concerned, the context is usually thought of as the site or neighborhood and the particular event is the building itself. To really get the best sense of what this means, close your eyes and think of a particular place, say the neighborhood where you live. A film strip of images likely unfolds in your mind, detailing the sights, sounds and smells you associate with that place. By contrast, when describing a place as being without context, we mean that a particular site is lacking clearly visible and definable character. But is that all there is to context?
During the initial discovery phase of design for Schermerhorn Symphony Center, DMSAS Principals and key project stake holders traveled to some of Europe's most remarkable concert halls. While geographically disparate from Europe, Nashville's aspirations to be 'the Athens of the South' made these precedents contextually relevant studies.
Think again about your neighborhood and some other attributes likely enter into your film strip. Do you not also see memories, events (historical and otherwise) and even particular people? And, if you've lived in a place long enough, maybe you've taken this a step further in your mind by incorporating something aspirational, like an idea of what that place or context should or could be.
When seeking design inspiration, we often find ourselves facing this interesting conundrum: how can the design address the physical attributes of a context – the prevalent building types, commonly-found palates of materials and oft-occurring architectural styles – as well as the ephemeral attributes of context, history and lore of the city or region and the goals and aspirations of the particular community.
A small portion of context and iconography images gathered during early phases of design for the Fort Worth Arena, which will be primarily used to host the annual Stock Show & Rodeo.
We are often asked to strike a delicate balance in our designs to improve the site while doing so in a way that fits within the already established context. Understanding context means more than delving into architectural guidebooks or looking at surveys and photographs of a site. It means that we have to go beyond the immediate boundaries of a building plot and look at the larger influences of a neighborhood, a city or even the region in which a project is located. And when all of that study doesn't reveal a particular feel or vibe, it likely means we haven't dug deep enough. We need to look farther and wider to discover the context. This further study often requires talking to people in the community, looking into the history and tradition of the particular building type we find ourselves designing, studying users' behavior and asking users about their motivations, desires and expectations. Above all, determining context requires a level of deference and curiosity.
With no architectural style indigenous to Las Vegas, a city notorious for constant renovation and momentary-monuments, the firm drew inspiration for The Smith Center for the Performing Arts from the area's greatest enduring structural achievement, the Hoover Dam.
Why does any of this matter? It matters when a designer wants their work to be relevant to the owners, users and communities their buildings will serve. Context, in all the variants described here, has always been a major influence on our work. Our firm cut its teeth doing projects in Washington DC's many historic neighborhoods and, in so doing, we had to develop a deep understanding and appreciation for the physical contexts of these well-established places in order to be successful. [In the interest of full disclosure, the firm's early body of work was all completed before I came here, but it is nonetheless what drew me here in the first place.]
One of the firm's earliest projects, 1818 N Street demanded both contextual and historic sensitivity. Transitional stepped massing was used to preserve the feel and scale of the historic townhouses while appropriately blending them with the surrounding office buildings.
Fast-forward to today and a current project I do know quite a bit about: the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina. You might readily ask, what is it about the context of Charleston that could present a problem? It is, indeed, a perfectly lovely historic city, comprised of many elegant, older single-family, detached houses set amid gracious gardens and woven together by beautiful tree-lined streets. It is, seemingly, a well-defined context. The problem is that our project, technically a renovation and expansion of an existing 1960's-era municipal auditorium, is a huge building (over 260,000 SF) and larger than anything Charleston has seen constructed in some time.
The original Gaillard Center featured a monotonous facade lacking articulation and detailing.
The Gaillard, both in its original and expanded forms, is an enormous intrusion into the City fabric. The original structure was very much a product of its time – an act of urban renewal (several historic homes were torn down and parts of Charleston's quirky street grid were changed to accommodate it) expressed as a modernist edifice intended to look ahead rather than to the City's past. While the old Gaillard grew outdated, both aesthetically and functionally, the community's views of itself and goals for its future evolved; with the new Gaillard the community now chooses to celebrate its past, instead of ignore it.
Faced with expanding an already-too-large building, we found an opportunity to fashion the additions using discrete and articulate massing that breaks the bulk of the building down into pavilions, hyphens, towers and bays. The massing is then complemented with a layer of detail and ornament that is friendly, meaningful, scale-giving and inspired by the historic forms of Charleston's most beloved buildings. No, all of these things won't make the new Gaillard Center disappear, but they will help this new building to fit within the community and the context of the City of Charleston.
Water color rendering of The Gaillard Center as seen from Calhoun Street
What to do when that larger context either doesn't exist or isn't well-defined? Look harder. And, when you look harder and the aspirations and ephemeral context appear to be different from the physical context that is there, you may just have to build it yourself. Designing with this particular attitude towards context does not mean we will arrive at one universally perfect solution every time if we follow this formula. We will, however, most likely be assured of arriving at a building that will be relevant to, embraced and even loved by, the greatest number of people who will see it, visit it or touch it on any given day. This result, to me, is a major benchmark of success for our projects. Remaining relevant to the communities where I work is very important to me and what keeps me interested and engaged on any given day.
The preceding was authored by DMSAS Associate Steve Knight. Mr. Knight joined the firm in 1997 and has worked on many of the firm's performing arts venues, including the Gaillard Center, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts and The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
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The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) recently awarded a total of $5,000 to five teams of graduate and undergraduate students for placing in its 2019 Data Science Competition. See the competition announcement.
Students were asked analyze data taken from more than 600,000 bicycle commuter trips made in Los Angeles and develop business solutions for LA Bike Share, a for-profit company in Los Angeles. The company is interested in using the data to project demand for its bicycles and to identify potential locations for new stations.
Contestants had one month to complete their analysis and submit a written report. From 11 entries, 7 finalists were selected to present their analyses to judges at an April 17 event held in the auditorium of the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building on Texas A&M's main campus.
"I was impressed by the high quality of entries in this year's competition," TAMIDS Director Nick Duffield said. "The winning team was particularly commended by the judges for their ingenuity in finding and using subsidiary data from LA Bike Share to identify new bike rental locations."
Competition Judges and Sponsors
The competition was organized by Dr. Nick Duffield (TAMIDS Director and Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Dr. Edward Jones (Executive Professor in the Department of Statistics) and coordinated by Jennifer South (Senior Administrative Coordinator at TAMIDS). The competition judges were Dr. Duffield and Dr. Jones along with Dr. Dilma Da Silva (Department Head of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M), Dr. Venkatesh Shankar (Coleman Chair in Marketing, and Director of Research at the Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School, Texas A&M), Shawn Turner (Senior Research Engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute), and Dr. Charles Lindsey (Senior Statistician and Software Developer at StataCorp LLC).
The prizes for the event were sponsored by StataCorp LLC, TAMIDS, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University.
The Prize Winners
In the graduate student category, first place went to Team Superficial Intelligence, with graduate student Sheelabhadra Dey and seniors Chinmay Phulse and Josiah Coad, all from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering; and Brandon Walker, graduate student in both the Department of Statistics, College of Science and the Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts. The team received $1,500. A presentation on their submission can be found at http://tamids.josiahcoad.com/.
Team Superficial Intelligence- $1,500.00 (1st Place Graduate Team)
Left – Right: Josiah Coad, Chinmay Phulse, Sheelabhadra Dey, Brandon Walker, TAMIDS Director Nick Duffield and Executive Professor Ed Jones
In the undergraduate student category, first place with a prize of $1,500 went to Team Datarmination, College of Science senior Isaac Ke and sophomores Pranika Madhavan and Michael Lee, all in the Department of Statistics, and sophomore Stephanie Sims, Department of Mathematics.
Team Datarmination – $1,500.00 (1st Place Undergraduate Team)
Left – Right: Isaac Ke, Michael Lee, Stephanie Sims, Pranika Madhavan, Team Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Hart
Second place in the graduate with a prize of $1,000 went to Team Ensemble, composed of four graduate students from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering: Saksham Agrawal, Prakhar Bajpai, Gaurav Burman and Ayan Patel.
Team Ensemble – $1,000.00 (2nd Place Graduate Team)
Left – Right: Gaurav Burman; Prakhar Bajpai; Ayan Patel; Saksham Agrawal
Two teams tied for the third-place graduate prize of $500 each: Team Maverick, College of Engineering graduate students Divyank Garg, Shivam Raj Solanki, Shirish Pandagare, Drupad Kumar Khublani, Department of Industrial Engineering, and graduate student Sayeed Akhtar Alvi, Department of Engineering Systems Management, and Team Mean Squares, with graduate students Prabhneet Arora V, Department of Industrial Engineering, and Yogarshi Pradhan, Department of Petroleum Engineering, both in the College of Engineering; and graduate students Sarah Pettengill, Leanne Hinrichs and Veronique Marcotte, all in the Department of Statistics, College of Science.
Team Maverick – $500.00 (Tied for 3rd Graduate Team)
Left – Right: Drupad Khublani; Shirish Pandagare; Shivam Solanki; Sayeed Alvi; Divyank Garg
Team Mean Squares – $500.00 (Tied for 3rd Graduate Team)
Prabhneet Arora V; Veronique Marcotte; Sarah Pettengill; Leanne Hinrichs; Yogarshi Pradhan


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CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, CLEVELAND
Chicago's Jewish community expressed its concern with the plight of Soviet Jewry
in a symposium held at the Spertus Colleqe of Judaica. Rabbi Eric Frledland, vice-
chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the Jewish United Fund which sponsored
the symposium, called attention to the arrests in Moscow. He told the 175 persons
attending: "While the Chicago symposium was originally intended to educate people to
the discriminatory practices in the Soviet Union that threatened to obliterate Jewish
identity, It now becomes an Ironic testament to that discrimination." The symposium
featured prominent scholars from the Midwest, including Prof. Arcadlus Kahan and Prof.
Richard Hellie, both of the University of Chicago; Prof. Herbert Paper of the University of Michigan; and Rabbi Moses Mescheloff of Congregation K.I.N.S.
In Philadelphia, academicians held a seminar of Gratz College. The program was
chaired by Dr. Marvin Wachman, president of Temple University, and the participants
included the presidents and faculty members of major universities In the Greater
Philadelphia Area. Among them were Nora Levin, author of "The Holocaust," and a
faculty member at Gratz; Ronald Brauner, professor of rabbinlcs at the Reconstruction-
ist Rabbinical College; and Burton Caine, a member of the Soviet Jewry Council of the
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia.
In Los Angeles speakers Included Howard Fast, Jan Kadar, Steve Zlpperstein, Rachel
Ben-Shmuel and Professor Robert Gerstein.  The latter three are from the University
of California. The four hour program Included a resolution which condemned the Soviet
authorities harassment of Jewish activists, and denial of visas to American scholars,
"which has not only touched hundreds of Soviet Jews who seek to study Jewish culture,
but also discriminated against American Jews, and is an act of blatant and hostile
discrimination target against the Jewish people." Cleveland's parallel symposium Included academicians from Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College and
Case Western Reserve University.
A FULL REPORT ON THE MOSCOW SYMPOSIUM AND THE PARALLEL U.S. CONFERENCES IS AVAILABLE
FROM THE NCSJ.
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Transcript CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, CLEVELAND Chicago's Jewish community expressed its concern with the plight of Soviet Jewry in a symposium held at the Spertus Colleqe of Judaica. Rabbi Eric Frledland, vice- chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the Jewish United Fund which sponsored the symposium, called attention to the arrests in Moscow. He told the 175 persons attending: "While the Chicago symposium was originally intended to educate people to the discriminatory practices in the Soviet Union that threatened to obliterate Jewish identity, It now becomes an Ironic testament to that discrimination." The symposium featured prominent scholars from the Midwest, including Prof. Arcadlus Kahan and Prof. Richard Hellie, both of the University of Chicago; Prof. Herbert Paper of the University of Michigan; and Rabbi Moses Mescheloff of Congregation K.I.N.S. In Philadelphia, academicians held a seminar of Gratz College. The program was chaired by Dr. Marvin Wachman, president of Temple University, and the participants included the presidents and faculty members of major universities In the Greater Philadelphia Area. Among them were Nora Levin, author of "The Holocaust," and a faculty member at Gratz; Ronald Brauner, professor of rabbinlcs at the Reconstruction- ist Rabbinical College; and Burton Caine, a member of the Soviet Jewry Council of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia. In Los Angeles speakers Included Howard Fast, Jan Kadar, Steve Zlpperstein, Rachel Ben-Shmuel and Professor Robert Gerstein. The latter three are from the University of California. The four hour program Included a resolution which condemned the Soviet authorities harassment of Jewish activists, and denial of visas to American scholars, "which has not only touched hundreds of Soviet Jews who seek to study Jewish culture, but also discriminated against American Jews, and is an act of blatant and hostile discrimination target against the Jewish people." Cleveland's parallel symposium Included academicians from Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College and Case Western Reserve University. A FULL REPORT ON THE MOSCOW SYMPOSIUM AND THE PARALLEL U.S. CONFERENCES IS AVAILABLE FROM THE NCSJ.


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Q: How to query with get_posts() for posts with any tag I need to do a simple post query that will get any post that has at least one tag. This is my current code that gets the posts with tag ID 27 or 36, but I need to modify it to get all posts with at least one tag.
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A: You could try this.
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Chance The Rapper meets Nana Addo, hints at coming back to Ghana in July with a 'big group'
Jacqueline Johnson Quaye
Although Chance The Rapper has returned to the USA, he already has plans to return to Ghana soon.
Before the award-winning left Ghana, he and Vic Mensa paid a courtesy call on President Nana Addo at the Jubilee House.
The duo had been linking up with other Ghanaian acts whilst exploring life in Accra. In the latest update, sources from Jubilee House have confirmed that they have met with Ghana's President as well and had a meeting.
"@vicmensa and @chancetherapper along with @ivyprosper @beyondthereturn had a meeting with @nakufoaddo @diasporaaffairs.ghana earlier this week," a social media post by @beyondthereturn stated.
Detailing the purpose of the meeting, it continued that "the artists discussed a potential idea that would bridge the gap between artists in Ghana and the U.S. using their strong ties and relationships in the music industry to connect artists as well as amplify the talent in Ghana and the rest of Africa".
See photos from the meeting below.
Subsequently sharing a 2-minute documentary of his trip, Chance The Rapper announced his plan to return to Ghana in July 2022.
In an announcement posted on Twitter, he revealed that he hopes to make it back into the country soon but this time, with a large group of people.
Chance the Rapper promised that persons interested in coming along with him to Ghana would feel at home.
"Ghana will celebrate its 65th year since it FOUGHT and gained its independence. I wanna go back in a big group in July. I promise you'll feel at home," he wrote.
Ghana will celebrate it 65th year since it FOUGHT and gained its independence. I wanna go back in a big group in July. I promise you'll feel at home 🇬🇭 JLIG (2022) shot by me pic.twitter.com/3NMpniktOG
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) January 13, 2022
Connecting with his roots and stars, Chance The Rapper's fun Ghana trip
'I started cooking at the age of 10' – Food vlogger Sweet Adjeley shares her journey
Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson, has come to the defence of veteran actor, Psalm Ajetefio (TT), over his "plead for leftovers" scandal that has hit the country over the past couple of days. (more…)
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Home Entertainment Amazon Prime Video Vs Netflix: Learn about their mobile-only plans
Amazon India has introduced a mobile-only plan for its Prime video. It has been named Prime Video Mobile Edition. This plan will compete with Netflix's mobile-only plan in India.
But let us tell you that Prime Video Mobile Edition has been launched in partnership with Airtel. In such a situation, it is currently only for Airtel users. Let's know in detail about the mobile-only plans of Amazon Prime and Netflix.
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First of all, talk about Netflix's mobile-only plan, it is an independent monthly plan and comes at a price of Rs 199. Video quality is available in 480p resolution. This plan comes with single-user access. That is, this account cannot be shared with anyone else.
Since this is a mobile-only plan. In such a situation, it cannot be accessed on TV or computer other than mobile and tablet. Along with this, access to unlimited movies and TV shows is given.
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Prime Video Mobile Edition has been introduced by qualifying with Airtel prepaid plans. The starting price of these plans is 89 rupees. Amazon Prime Video Mobile Edition is a single-user mobile-only plan, just like Netflix. With this, users will be able to stream Amazon Prime videos in SD quality. On the occasion of the launch of Prime Video Mobile Edition, its 30-day free trial is also being given in all bundled prepaid plans of Airtel.
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Speaking of evening turndown, please don't leave the TV on and tuned to that hokey New Age nature loop. And if we've left the AC set on low, please keep it there—don't switch it to walk-in freezer. Last night we had to warm ourselves up with the hair dryer. Oh, and that thing where you neatly arrange our toiletries on starched-linen doilies—adorable! So why'd you leave the dirty socks on the floor? Lastly, that Evian bottle with a half-inch of water left? The one that's been on our nightstand since Tuesday? You can take that away now. The bruised banana in the fruit bowl, too.
P.S. Could you leave us a few more shampoos?


This week has been a very relational week, we intended the kids to study, and mostly that was interrupted or redirected! Last weekend we went out to a local waterhole and enjoyed God's creation with my mum and dad. We had another family pull in for a visit – they are living in their caravan though sharing with us during the day and especially the evening meal. We've had a few meals around the campfire, and last night we enjoyed pizza and a movie night. During the week Daniel worked with waterproofing and tiling the new bathroom, and whenever he was at home he spent most of his time writing a story and illustrating it. Naomi studied, helped pick up some of the overload that happens when there is a lot of coming and going, though I think the highlight for her was some serious painting time. Naomi and I spent a little time in review (mid-year review) and are looking at her long term goals, strengths and weaknesses and are working towards a tweak in her studies which will start in a month or so. I find it important to keep reviewing these highschool years as they are changing so much as a person, and their studies need to reflect those changes.
This week I highlighed a previous blog post Speaking words of Life You might like to catch up on that one too if you missed it a while back.
How is a family who likes order, who believes in obedience, who loves God and wants to follow God's ways for living going to achieve these things in their family? It is easy to make rules and create a structure to ensure that we have order, obedience, training etc in our home and it is easy when these things are there to think we are doing family life in a way that pleases God. The Pharisees made that mistake. The Pharisees were legalistic – they had a system of rules and regulations that they trusted in for salvation. Jesus came to change all that.
Legalism is where we emphasise the law instead of the life, where we focus on the letter of the law rather than the spirit, where we look at the externals not the heart.
I heard someone painting a picture by telling this story (and I can't remember who) that way back in Israel's history God's law was given to each family. This law was given by God and it had its purpose. Somewhere along the way there was a godly man who really wanted his family to follow God, so he created a practice that helped his family do the right thing. There was nothing wrong with this practice, it was helpful. Maybe it was reading the 'Scripture' at breakfast time. Over time, those kids grew up, and they did love God and obey his commandments, so they too followed their father's footsteps and had 'reading the Scriptures at breakfast' and then the next generation and the next all did the same. Before long it became something more than a tradition that their forefather instigated, it became a law. (Now this is only an example because I'm not particularly well studied in knowing which laws the Israelites created, except I know the Pharisees listed a lot!) The point of the story is to see that laws that we create can come from a good heart, and even a good practice, but it doesn't mean it reflects God's heart.
What are you putting your trust in for your children's hearts?
Do you trust family traditions and practices you have established as a part of your family culture?
Do you trust the friends that you have carefully selected for your kids?
Do you trust the books and movies you allow into your home?
Do you trust the structure of your day?
Do you trust the church that your family attends?
Sometimes when we say we 'trust God' it is a bit like a bandaid; a trivial or flippant or cop-out expression. But let's test it: what will happen in your family if you don't follow through on one of your family practices? Will that create a stress in your heart? Especially if a month goes by without getting time for that special activity? What about if your husband doesn't agree, or find time for it – do you start to unravel, thinking there is no hope for your family? What if you find out your kids have been reading inappropriate books, or seeing stuff online do you freak out and dish out the guilt and punishments or do you trust God to change the heart and renew the mind?
Trusting God isn't a passive thing where we just hang and wait for God to intervene. Trusting God is about our relationship with Him, interacting with him. We cannot trust a person whom we don't know, we can think that they are reliable, we may have confidence in their reputation but we will only trust a person we know. When Jesus tells us that love is more important than anything do we believe that enough to live it out? When God's word tells us that Jesus was grace and truth, and that we are to be like Jesus – do we seek to be grace and truth?
One of the tests that I put on myself is that when things go wrong what is my reaction? Do I tighten the rules, redefine the structure, increase the supervision? Or do I go to God and cry for help, do I go to God with my child, and together we pray and ask for God's wisdom. Having structure and family practices aren't a wrong thing – they are helpful. But if we place our trust in those things, we are just like the Pharisees – they didn't think they needed a saviour cause they were doing all the right things but they didn't have a relationship with Jesus.
Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God… I learnt a song with these words when I was a child. How often the song comes back to me – mostly just this line. It is taken from Psalm 20. I remember my dad explaining this one to me – horses are the creation and chariots are things that man made, but we are to trust in God alone. The horse and the chariot aren't bad things – we just aren't to put our trust in them.


"However after some time the magnetic drive started going faulty, I could boot up the computer fine, and it would work for about 1 hour, but then I was unable to access any files on the magnetic drive anymore."
"Some have given this drive a poor rating because if the SSD portion of the drive fails or you cannot boot windows successfully, you will not be able to copy the data off the 1TB platter drive due to not having the necessary drivers loaded."
"However, when I attempted to download the utilities I needed (as it pointed out in the instructions) I received and unusual error of boot log not found."
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"This was my first SSD, and I really like it, and was amazed with my 7 second boot, however once my drive started to fill up, my boot time went up to around double that (despite disabling startup things in task manager)."
"My computer was unresponsive after installation."
"(in my view cloning is easier than a clean install since that would save me days of installing software and updating Windows and possibly the hassle of forgetting something and not realize until I need it)."
"Never the less I dealed with a lot of bad problems during installation:The environment: ACER Aspire 5940G, Intel i7-720QM, 4 GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD4650 1GB RAM, Windows 7 Professional 32 bit SP1 and the WD Black2 Dual Drive 120 GB SSD plus 1 TB HDD."
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"Overall I had no problems installing it, but I noticed that the rotating portion of this drive stops and goes, stops and goes in some tome periods, like 12 seconds or so."
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"Simple to replace your old drive just make sure the OS is on a partition smaller than 128GB or it's presents challenges."
"The final solution was to install the MS Windows updates in logical packages less than 50 pieces and a further new fix Microsoft KB3024777.2) Now with the finally clean installed Windows 7 the downloaded WD program WDBlack2_5.1.532.1.exe should install the 1 TB HDD partition but it always failed with appcrash code C0000005 and wdpartition_tool."
"I needed to install numerous PS LR plugins and a part of my primary partition space conservation tactic was to install some of them on the 1T spinner partition (Data D:).So far the system is running great (and fast)."
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"I installed the WD Software on my original drive OS and with the WD Black2 connected with the provided USB cable interface, the software was able to show the magnetic portion as a second partition."
"Unfortunately, this is the price a paid for a poor product."
"The caveat to the low ($125) price is that the drive needs an immediate firmware update which requires a 1GB (or greater) USB drive, a basic understanding of Terminal shell command line, and a little patience."
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"If you have a desktop PC with space for multiple drives, you'll probably be better off with separate SSD and mechanical drives but for a laptop with room for only one drive this is a near perfect solution until SSD prices can compete with traditional mechanical hard drives."
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"Mind you for every day typical use this drive is fantastic, you get both the speed of the SSD and the storage you need, however I had to take it out of my new gaming laptop and put the old one back in because having two drives trying to read over one SATA port is pretty much crap for gaming... the result was large pauses and stutters in my games whenever windows needed to write to a log file of access another running program in the background."
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"This Dual Drive is limited to Windows operating systems only, unfortunately."
"None of them are too complicated, but in the interest of disclosure and all...Big Caveat: If you are putting this in a Macbook and you need to run Windows concurrently, I strongly recommend against using Bootcamp."
"Unless you've uninstalled the Black2 software they provide (it originally comes as a 120GB SSD and to access the other 1TB you need to install said software) Windows lumps it into a 1043GB drive, which can cause many problems."
"The only problem I had was my windows 8.1 would not allow the Acronis software to clone the drive after the restart until I made changes in the BIOS."
"Now, the manual clearly states that the drive do not support RAID, the solution is to enter the BIOS and change the SATA setting to AHCI, the problem is if I do this Windows will not start (Why I installed windows in RAID mode in the first place when I have only one drive in the system is beyond me), the good news is that this can be fixed with a little (and careful) registry tweaking (see http: en."
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"This drive is great for laptop users who want the best of both but only as long as you are running Windows."


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There's being alone and then there's being lonely.
I'd say I'm good at being alone. I seek out solitude, get uncomfortable and irritable in groups of people for long periods of time. I'm pretty well-suited to the isolated life of the self-employed.
You know how in detective shows the serial killer is always described by the neighbour as 'a bit of a loner', someone who 'kept himself to himself'? Well, that would definitely work as a description for me. How many serial killers are made so by failed attempts at entrepreneurship, I wonder?
I really hope I'm not a serial killer.
In my first year of university I remember being quietly baffled by my new contemporaries. Every day at 6pm they'd go corridor to corridor, knocking on doors, trying to establish a fighting force to tackle the approximately 10-metre walk across the road to the building with the halls canteen in it. Walking there alone and sitting down and eating alone was – apparently – inconceivable.
I always thought, sure, having company is nice, but should it really stand between you and a really nice beef stew?
Those days are a decade hence, but I still apply that same criteria to most decisions. Do I really want company more than I want to do The Thing? In the arm-wrestle between my selfish impatience to go, see, do right now and the allure of having somebody else to share the going, seeing, doing, it's the former that always wins.
Since I saw this on Instagram I haven't been able to get it out of my mind.
As the founder of a small company, I spend my days alone. My team are 100% remote, I meet some of them in person once a month. Others twice a year. One I have never met. Chatting round the water cooler I am not.
Most self-employed people will testify to the bleed between 'work' and 'life', the impossibility of truly dividing the two when you do both in the same room at randomly decided hours of the day.
I am single, so there's nobody coming home at 5pm with whom I'm spending the evening. To be honest, most days I tend to just walk across the room from my desk and flop down on the sofa when the day's work is done.
It sounds quite sad when you write it down, but I've always experienced it as an unfettered level of freedom.
My dream retirement, the vision I'm secretly doing all this for, is a chunk of land in the northern Spanish countryside with a house on it and not much else. I think, more than anything, I want to be left alone. For me, aloneness is both the symptom of entrepreneurship, and the eventual cure or end goal.
So being on my own isn't a problem, but how do you know if you're lonely? The great evil of mental illness is that it very often obscures our ability to self-diagnose. I've been depressed, not known, then realised 'oh shit yeah that's why I've been feeling like this way' and felt a palpable, near-instant clearing of the clouds. Perhaps loneliness is the same? You can't see it while you're in it.
Occasionally, I do get a pang. A real heart-hurting moment when I wonder, 'Could I be sharing this with someone? Would I get more out of doing this with other, real, physical people by my side?'
And then there's the constant nagging questions that go with being a sole founder, "Am I doing this right?" "Could I be making more money by doing something different?" "Am I going to go to prison because I lost that expense report from two years ago?"
I definitely feel like it'd be good to have someone to bounce these questions off. Or to at least share a cell with when it all goes tits up.
I'm not sure I've given you many answers and I'm certain I've provided no solutions, but maybe this could be the start of a discussion? This is a pub after all.
Do you get lonely? Does working with other people help? Do you work on your own and, like me, feel a disconcerting level of satisfaction with, what is on the face of it, your 'lonely' life? Do you think I'm going to turn into a serial killer?
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RCN is asked to put forward four second-year nominations for the Davis-Mahindra International Scholarship each year. This is, in essence, recognition of an outstanding contribution throughout the RCN programme and something for the CV as RCN receives an annual cheque for investment from the Davis Foundation.
We have again been invited to nominate four outstanding current second years.
As was the case last year, Advisors were invited by the university office to nominate students from their advisor groups they felt met the selection criteria. The Education Management Team and the University Office have read and discussed the advisor nominations, students' testimonials / transcripts and records of progress – and considered the criteria set. It has been a predictably difficult decision given the quality of our student body.
A team of five RCN students – Babba Laminou (Cameroon), Leon Müller (UK), Nikita Klimenko (Belarus), Meriem Fouad (Morocco) and Yash Ramchandani (UAE) – participated in the county final of the ENOVA competition. The competition, held annually, is for raising awareness about sustainable technologies and renewable energy use. Teams from local high schools compete to come up with an innovative and feasible solution for a certain task. The jury marks the teams on their knowledge in the topic, their level of innovation, their entrepreneurial approach and the quality of the presentation.
Our students came up with a solution for a sustainable neighbourhood and created this website as a presentation.
The RCN team became the second in the competition. Congratulations to the team for their amazing performance and for the wonderful solution for the task.
First year student Helen Pörtner writes about her recent trip to Alesund. To the Zonta Club. Here she writes about her experience.
The week before November Break I was given the opportunity to go to Ålesund to visit the local Zonta Club.
Zonta is an international organization with the goal of advocating for women's rights. It was founded almost 100 years ago out of the struggle for women's right to vote in the United States. Today there exist groups all over the world who run projects for women and girls on both a local and global scale.
Besides these projects, Zonta awards girls and young women with several prizes and scholarships every year. One of them is the "Young Women in Public Affairs Award", which is directed to girls between 16 and 19 years old who take initiatives and have been proven to demonstrate "superior leadership skills and a commitment to public service and civic causes".
The prize gets awarded on three levels: a local level, a national and an international. Just before coming to Norway and RCN, I learned that, to my surprise, I was awarded one of the 10 international prizes.
My local club from Germany decided to find me a contact in Norway (networking is also a big part of Zonta) to visit while staying at RCN. I got in touch with the ladies there and thus was given the opportunity to travel to beautiful Ålesund. I had an amazing stay with one of the Zonta-ladies; she showed me around Ålesund and on Tuesday night I went to their monthly meeting. After one club member had spoken about a project in Sri Lanka that she is involved in, I was given the opportunity to talk a bit about the award, about projects that I have done back home and also about UWC and especially RCN. The next day they were running a fundraiser-tombola for, among others, the project in Sri Lanka.
I was surprised to realize that none of the ladies knew about RCN and UWC in general, although it is quite a unique place in Norway and also not too far away from Ålesund. They are very much looking forward to visiting sometime!
I am very happy and thankful I was given the opportunity to go there and I really hope to be able to cooperate with them on a project!
We are happy to join in with the congratulations to the Rafto Foundation! For thirty years this Bergen based foundation has been relentlessly supporting champions of Human Rights, shedding light on the heroic resistance of individuals and organizations around the world. Thanks for allowing our students to take part in your inspiring work, for giving courage and support to everyone associated with this urgent cause. A large group of our students were present at the award ceremony for this year's laureate Yanar Mohammed at the weekend. Staff and management were present at celebrations to follow it, at Håkonshallen and Grieghallen. The grand finale at the end of the celebrations included breath taking performances with artists like Kygo, Morten Harket, Sondre Lerche and the multicultural Bergen group Fargespill. We echo their message that the voices of human rights are needed as ever before!


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World_news Boris Johnson is battling to reach a Brexit deal. But hardliners already fear betrayal – CNN
London (CNN) WhenBoris Johnsonfirst took over as British Prime Minister, many in his Conservative Party couldn't believe their luck. After years of watching Theresa May's government rub out red line after red line onBrexit, the man who led the triumphant march to freedom in 2016 was in charge.
Barely a year on, a decent chunk of that optimism has turned to frustration and agitation. Despite the fact Johnson has taken the UK out of the European Union and won a landslide election victory, there is fear the Prime Minister's desire to end the Brexit story on a personal note of triumph is clouding his thinking.
In recent weeks, talks between London and Brusselshave been uneasy. Both sides are indicating that negotiations are going nowhere and that the other is making unacceptable demands. Both have made clear that unless things change the time to walk away could come soon, meaning a no-deal crash out of the transition period on December 31.
In prepared remarks sent out prior to a speech Johnson is expected to give ahead of round 8 of EU negotiations which start on Tuesday, the Prime Minister called for an agreement with Europe by 15 October. "There is no sense in thinking about timelines that go beyond that point. If we can't agree by then, then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on," said Johnson.
However, some Euroskeptics are concerned that Johnson is laying the ground for concessions to get a last-minute deal that he can claim as a great victory, avoiding the economic fallout of a no-deal cliff edge. Others worry that recent ruptures are theater, designed to make any agreement appear such a feat of diplomacy it eclipses any concessions.
There is some basis for this fear. Johnson's previous deal with the EU came after months of declaring that he would either renegotiate May's deal or leave the EU without one. The clock ticked as no progress was made on the former; the latter seemed inevitable. Suddenly, a deal was reached in Brussels just 14 days before the no-deal deadline — a deal that looked an awful lot like the one struck by May that many Euroskeptics, including Johnson, hated and voted against.
Johnson's moveable position on Brexit mattered less at the time, as this deal only covered how the UK would leave the EU, not the more permanent future relationship. The fact Johnson held his nerve and stood up to Brussels was enough evidence for many Euroskeptics that he'd do the same later on.
But the world is different now. It's no Secret that Johnson's has had a difficult 2020 to date. His Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been criticized on numerous fronts. The UK is both the coronavirus capital of Europe and the country that's sufferedthe deepest Covid recession of any major economy. He's been forced to make a series ofembarrassing U-turnsin the face of pressure from politicians across the divide. A big victory for the government before the end of the year would doubtless be welcome.
People who have recently worked in government can see how this outcome might become reality. David Davis, a long-standing Brexiteer and the UK's former Brexit secretary, thinks there are "three options which are equally likely": no deal, lots of micro deals and a free trade agreement. "If we are to arrive at option three, then there will need to be lots more of these public demands and counter demands to smooth the path to compromise."
Tim Montgomerie, who previously worked as an adviser to Johnson, says "they like to be the people that pull a rabbit out of the hat at the last minute, which right now would suit them perfectly. They don't run marathons, they run sprints, so don't have much of a long-term strategy. This makes a last-minute compromise on Brexit that can be claimed as a victory an attractive prospect I think."
And as Anand Menon, Professor of international politics at King's College London says, "at the moment it really will look like a success if he gets any kind of deal, regardless of the content. It's absolutely the case that talking the likelihood of no deal because of EU intransigence will make it look like Johnson has achieved the impossible."
Members of Johnson's Conservative party see why this approach might appeal, even if it annoys Brexit hardliners in his party. "There would be a row with the Brexiteer purists, but he would carry with him the great majority of Leave-supporting Tory MPs if he declares it a triumph. Not to mention many of the former Labour voters in the north who voted for Johnson in 2019, who are less purist than Conservative leavers," said a recent Conservative cabinet minister.
This calculation that Johnson might see merit in a public Brexit triumph combined with minimal risk of backlash from his backbenchers is what sources say is spooking the Brexit hardliners who used to support him.
"Lots of MPs are expecting a huge concession in order to make a deal. They are reluctant to call out the government in public but are lobbying hard behind the scenes," says a senior Conservative figure whose work in the party would be compromised by speaking on the record. "I think the government is talking up no deal to reassure hardliners they are being firm with Brussels so that when they do make a concession they have the benefit of the doubt."
Unfortunately for the Government, the hardest Brexiteers have been here before. "These things aren't disguisable anymore. The government has set itself such a hardline on sovereignty, so I don't see how they could pull a rabbit out the hat and expect us to be happy. We've all become experts on this stuff," says another former cabinet minister who is currently lobbying the government on Brexit and didn't wish to be named.
A third former Conservative cabinet minister and prominent Brexiteer said: "Many are sitting on small majorities that could be blown away by a perceived betrayal, probably focused on an event like a concession that blows up."
Euroskeptics on edge
The word betrayal is important. Johnson has suffered waves of public criticism from Conservative MPs for economic decisions taken during the pandemic that on the surface don't look very conservative. The third former minister went on to explain that some MPs "are very worried at not knowing what's going on in the Prime Minister's head," and that many are "assuming he is going to try and spend his way out of trouble" in order to appeal to his new voters, rather than the traditional conservative base. They added that this perceived willingness to move from the base on economic matters was putting long-standing Euroskeptics on edge.
When CNN approached a long-standing Brexit campaigner to ask about any perceived betrayal, they exploded: "I don't care what other MPs are saying and I don't see why that has given you journalists reason to speculate. People voted leave in order to take back control and the Prime Minister has been clear that is what we will do. I have nothing more to say on the matter," before hanging up.
The senior conservative figure explained that such frustration with journalists asking questions of a perceived Brexit betrayal might be because this faction suspects if Johnson does make a concession and sell it as a triumph, there is little they can do about it. "If you're part of the hardcore, what do you do when it comes to parliament? You could vote against it, but then you risk having the whip removed and forced to sit on the outside post-Brexit. Ultimately, it's probably better to be part of the happy ending and say that you were on the right side of history rather than a 'Debbie downer,' no matter how much you hate the deal."
This might be wishful thinking. Johnson's former foe, Nigel Farage, wrote recently that any final deal will not be the "true freedom" that he'd dreamed of. And history tells us that Farage is very effective at mopping up angry voters, forming a powerful political movement and hurting the Conservatives badly.
There is still a long way to go before Brexit concludes. The EU thinks a deal needs to be agreed by mid-October in order for it to be ratified in time for December 31, which gives Johnson plenty of time to be convinced one way or the other.
It's worth noting that Downing Street dismisses these claims as speculation, despite difficulties with talks. A senior advisor to the Prime Minister said: "We are serious about leaving without a deal. We aren't bluffing. If the EU don't take a more realistic approach to the issues of state aid and fisheries then we will have to leave on Australia terms. They are insisting on us replicating current rules which are at odds with our status as an Independent nation."
And there are plenty of Conservative MPs who say that when it comes to Brexit, their leader will act in the best interest of the UK, whether he reaches a deal with Brussels or not.
However, as Johnson's inner circle becomes tighter and his strategy more Secret — as tends to happen when negotiations reach a crescendo — the coming weeks could be very uncomfortable for those former Johnson loyalists who've long dreamed of true independence.