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China's robot revolution
Factories in China are replacing humans with robots in a new automation-driven industrial revolution. How will this effect be felt around the globe?
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The Ying Ao sink foundry in southern China's Guangdong province does not look like a factory of the future. The sign over the entrance is faded; inside, the floor is greasy with patches of mud, and a thick metal dust — the by-product of the stainless-steel polishing process — clogs the air. As workers haul trolleys across the factory floor, the cavernous, shed-like building reverberates with a loud clanging.
Guangdong is the growth engine of China's manufacturing industry, generating $615bn in exports last year — more than a quarter of the country's total. In this part of the province, the standard wage for workers is about Rmb4,000 ($600) per month. Ying Ao, which manufactures sinks destined for the kitchens of Europe and the US, has to pay double that, according to deputy manager Chen Conghan, because conditions in the factory are so unpleasant. So, four years ago, the company started buying machines to replace the ever more costly humans.
Nine robots now do the job of 140 full-time workers. Robotic arms pick up sinks from a pile, buff them until they gleam and then deposit them on a self-driving trolley that takes them to a computer-linked camera for a final quality check.
The company, which exports 1,500 sinks a day, spent more than $3m on the robots. "These machines are cheaper, more precise and more reliable than people," says Chen. "I've never had a whole batch ruined by robots. I look forward to replacing more humans in future," he adds, with a wry smile.
Across the manufacturing belt that hugs China's southern coastline, thousands of factories like Chen's are turning to automation in a government-backed, robot-driven industrial revolution the likes of which the world has never seen. Since 2013, China has bought more industrial robots each year than any other country, including high-tech manufacturing giants such as Germany, Japan and South Korea. By the end of this year, China will overtake Japan to be the world's biggest operator of industrial robots, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), an industry lobby group. The pace of disruption in China is "unique in the history of robots," says Gudrun Litzenberger, general secretary of the IFR, which is based in Germany, home to some of the world's leading industrial-robot makers.
China's technological transformation still has far to go — the country has just 36 robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers, compared with 292 in Germany, 314 in Japan and 478 in South Korea. But it is already changing the face of the global manufacturing industry. In the process, it is raising broader questions: can emerging economies still hope to follow the traditional route to prosperity that the developed world has relied upon since Britain's industrial revolution in the 18th century? Or will robots assume many of the jobs that once pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty?
Chen Conghan, deputy manager at Ying Ao: 'These machines are cheaper, more precise and more reliable than people' © Zeng Han
China's spending splurge on industrial robots has its roots in a pressing economic problem. From the 1980s onwards, as Beijing's Communist rulers opened up to global trade, the country's huge, cheap workforce helped make it the world's biggest exporter of manufactured goods. Breakneck economic growth lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty and transformed swaths of the country, as workers migrated from the countryside to the city. But a growing middle class and an ageing population have led to rising wages, eroding China's competitive advantage. Partly because of the one-child policy, formally phased out in 2015, China's working-age population is expected to fall from one billion people last year to 960 million in 2030, and 800 million by 2050.
In recent years, China's central planners have been promoting automation as a way to fill the labour gap. They have promised generous subsidies — to be doled out by local governments — to smooth the way for Chinese companies both to use and build robots. In 2014, President Xi Jinping called for a "robot revolution" that would transform first China, and then the world. "Our country will be the biggest market for robots," he said in a speech to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, "but can our technology and manufacturing capacity cope with the competition? Not only do we need to upgrade our robots, we also need to capture markets in many places."
The march of the machines, not just in China but around the world, has been accelerated by sharp falls in the price of industrial robots and a steady increase in their capabilities. Boston Consulting Group, a management consultancy, predicts that the price of industrial robots and their enabling software will drop by 20 per cent over the next decade, while their performance will improve by 5 per cent each year.
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Liu Hui, an entrepreneur in his forties, is making the most of China's robot boom. In 2001, when he opened his first factory in Foshan, an industrial city of seven million people in Guangdong, he started out making knock-offs of electric fans. As his business grew, he moved to bona fide manufacturing, producing components for Chinese home appliance brands. Then, in 2012, spotting an opportunity in a growing market, he jumped into the emerging world of robotics. Liu now imports robotic arms from suppliers such as the Swedish-Swiss conglomerate ABB, and sells them on to Chinese manufacturers, helping them integrate the machines into their production lines. It is a highly specialised business. Most of his customers are component-makers who supply motors and other parts to large Chinese home-appliance brands such as Midea and Galanz, which produce air conditioners, refrigerators and more.
E-Deodar: Robot arms are programmed to complete repetitive tasks © Zeng Han
Business has expanded so quickly in the past year that Liu does not have enough space in his factory for all the machinery he is assembling. He has to store parts designed to support a $23,000 ABB robot under a makeshift lean-to outside. "Things are changing rapidly," he says. "The cost of labour is rising every year, and young people don't want to work on the production line like their parents did, so we need machines to replace them."
The stereotypical image of China's factories can still be found in many places: tens of thousands of people in long lines hunched over sewing machines or slotting components into a printed circuit board. But that mode of manufacturing is starting to be replaced by a more mixed picture: partially automated production lines, with human workers interspersed at a few key points.
Meanwhile, China is developing its own robot makers. In September last year, Ningbo Techmation, a Shanghai-listed producer of machinery for the plastics industry, launched a subsidiary, E-Deodar, making robots that are 20-30 per cent cheaper than those produced by international companies such as ABB, Germany's Kuka or Japan's Kawasaki. The E-Deodar factory in Foshan, with its café, chill-out zone and open-plan production line, looks more like the offices of a Silicon Valley tech start-up than a Chinese industrial workhorse. "Our global rivals are very good at making robots but their costs are higher and they are not so good at understanding the needs of local customers," says Zhang Honglei, the company's 35-year-old, spiky-haired technical director.
The cost of labour is rising and young people don't want to work on the production line like their parents did
Liu Hui, Chinese entrepreneur
This year, Zhang plans to produce 350 distinctively green-coloured robots, which are designed for use in plastic factories and sell for between $14,000 and $18,000 each; in three years' time he hopes to produce 3,000 a year. "We have to move fast because automation is a scale business," he says. "The bigger the better."
Chinese manufacturers, which bought 66,000 of the 240,000 industrial robots sold globally last year, still largely prefer to buy international brands, according to Litzenberger of the IFR. But she expects that to change, particularly in the wake of the Beijing government throwing its full support behind the domestic robot industry in recent years. "They are developing very fast," she says.
Zhang Peng, vice-director of the economy and technology bureau, Shunde, Foshan © Zeng Han
At an imposing, colonnade-fronted government building — known locally as the "White House" — in the Shunde district of Foshan, officials are trying to put President Xi's call for a robot revolution into practice. The province of Guangdong has vowed to invest $8bn between 2015 and 2017 on automation. Zhang Peng, vice-director of Shunde's economy and technology bureau, recently had his office in the building reduced in size, in line with the Communist party's call for bureaucratic austerity. But the budget for industrial automation was unaffected. Zhang says robots are vital to overcome labour shortages and help Chinese companies make better quality, more competitive products. Unusually straight-talking for a Chinese official, he warns: "If manufacturing companies don't improve, they won't be able to survive."
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Government support for the integration of ever cheaper and more efficient industrial robots is good news for factory owners in China, who are facing a weak global economy and a slowdown in domestic demand. But the benefits of the robot revolution will not be shared equally across the world. Developing countries from India to Indonesia and Egypt to Ethiopia have long hoped to follow the example of China, as well as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan before them: stimulating job creation and economic growth by moving agricultural workers into low-cost factories to make goods for export. Yet the rise of automation means that industrialisation is likely to generate significantly fewer jobs for the next generation of emerging economies. "Today's low-income countries will not have the same possibility of achieving rapid growth by shifting workers from farms to higher-paying factory jobs," researchers from the US investment bank Citi and the University of Oxford concluded in a recent report, The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, on the impact of technological change.
They argue that China's rising labour costs are a "silver lining" for the country because they are driving technological advancement, in much the same way that an increase in wages in 18th-century Britain provided impetus to the world's first industrial revolution. At the same time, according to Johanna Chua, an economist at Citi in Hong Kong, industrial laggards in parts of Asia and Africa face a "race against the machines" as they struggle to create sufficient manufacturing jobs before they are wiped out by the gathering robot army in China and beyond.
Tom Lembong, Indonesia's 45-year-old trade minister, and a leading voice for liberalisation and reform within the government of Southeast Asia's biggest economy, is aware of the risks. "Many people don't realise we're seeing a quantum leap in robotics," he says. "It's a huge concern and we need to acknowledge the looming threat of this new industrial revolution. But as a political and business elite, we're still stuck on debates about industrialisation that were settled in the 20th and even 19th centuries."
Countries such as Indonesia are already suffering from something that the Harvard economist Dani Rodrik has dubbed "premature de-industrialisation". This describes a trend where emerging economies see their manufacturing sector begin to shrink long before the countries have reached income levels comparable to the developed world. Despite rapid economic growth over the past 15 years, Indonesia saw its manufacturing industry's share of the economy peak in 2002. Analysts believe this is partly because of a failure to invest in infrastructure, and the country's uncompetitive trade and investment policy, and partly due to globalisation.
Rodrik believes the country will never be able to grow at the kind of rapid rate experienced by China or South Korea. "Traditionally, manufacturing required very few skills and employed a lot of people," he says. "Because of automation, the skills required have increased significantly and many fewer people are employed to run factories. What do you do with these extra workers? They won't turn into IT entrepreneurs or entertainers; and, if they become restaurant workers, they will be paid much less than in a factory."
Five factories a year have left the industrial park on the Indonesian island of Batam © Muhammad Fadli
The spread of robots makes it much harder for developing countries to get on the "escalator" of economic growth, he argues. That is bad news for the estimated two million young people who enter the workforce every year in Indonesia, a nation of 255 million, where 40 per cent live on $3 a day or less. Mahami Jaya Lumbanraja, a 22-year-old job-seeker on the Indonesian industrial island of Batam, is feeling the effects of the premature de-industrialisation phenomenon. For seven months he has been looking for a factory job in Batam, which sits just 20 miles from prosperous Singapore, but he has had no luck. Wearing faded jeans, a grey hoodie and an endearing smile, Lumbanraja says that although he has one year of experience working for Shimano, the Japanese manufacturer of bicycle gears and fishing tackle, he is not experienced enough to secure anything more than an entry-level position, and that there are many more job hunters than openings. "I can survive on the little money I get from busking and helping friends with construction work but I must get a proper factory job to save enough money so I can set up my own small shop later," he says. Wages in Batam — around $230 per month — are double what Lumbanraja could earn in his home city of Medan, on the island of Sumatra. So he feels he must stay until he finds work.
Lumbanraja is one of about 700 Indonesians in their late teens and early twenties who visit the community centre at the Batamindo industrial park every day looking for work. In February, 3,000 people applied in person for just 80 positions at a Japanese-owned wiring factory there, a gathering so large that executives initially feared it was a labour protest.
Mahami Jaya Lumbanraja is one of 700 Indonesians who visit Batamindo every day looking for work © Muhammad Fadli
Batamindo is a joint venture between Singaporean and Indonesian investors that was backed by Presidents Lee Kuan Yew and Suharto — the two nations' respective rulers — when it opened in 1990. Intended as the showpiece of Indonesia's industrialisation strategy, it has become a symbol of everything that is wrong with it. In recent times, an average of five factories a year have left the industrial park for other countries and the number of people employed there has dropped to just 46,000, from a peak of 80,000 in 2000. That is despite the fact that wages today are between one-third and one-half of the level paid in China's Guangdong province.
Lembong, a Harvard graduate who ran his own Singapore-based private equity firm before he was appointed trade minister in August, says the government is determined to tackle the twin problems at the heart of Indonesia's economic malaise: weak infrastructure and over-regulation.
But some argue that reform will come too late. During its period of rapid industrialisation, China invested in the modern highways, railways and ports necessary to support its manufacturing sector. In contrast, the physical infrastructure in Batam and much of Indonesia has "not changed much since the 1970s," says Mook Sooi Wah, general manager of Batamindo.
Indonesia actually had a slightly higher "robot density" than China when the latest figures were collated by the International Federation of Robotics in 2014, although the situation is likely to have changed dramatically since then given the pace of Beijing's automation push. This anomaly was largely the result of China's manufacturing workforce being so much bigger than that of Indonesia, which still has no government plan or backing for industrial automation.
Many people don't realise we're seeing a quantum leap in robotics
Tom Lembong, Indonesia's trade minister
Indonesia's regulatory process is as fusty as its infrastructure. Recently, legitimate shipments from a paper factory were held by customs at the Batam port because of a rule meant to stop the export of illegally sourced wood. These problems leave even Batam's boosters exasperated.
Stefan Roll, a German manufacturing veteran who worked in China during its industrial take-off in the 1990s, enjoys living and working in Indonesia. But he worries that the country is missing its "golden opportunity" to become efficient enough to compete on a global scale. "When you are dealing with multinationals, time is money," Roll says as he shows off his new factory in Batam, which assembles coffee machines for Nestlé. "But you can only do just-in-time manufacturing if you have good roads and infrastructure."
While few doubt the depth of the challenges facing developing countries, not everyone sees the dilemma in such bleak terms. With wages in countries such as Indonesia and India much lower than in China and their populations still relatively young, some analysts believe they can attract more labour-intensive industries, such as garment-making, where widespread automation is not yet suitable.
"As China moves up the industrial chain, it's actually freeing up a lot of opportunities for Southeast Asia and India," says Anderson Chow, a robotics industry analyst at the investment bank HSBC, in Hong Kong.
Hal Sirkin, an expert on manufacturing at Boston Consulting Group, says that from the perspective of an economy such as India's, it does not make sense to automate now because it would drive up the price of goods — "when they have one billion people who can make things cheaply". He is among the tech optimists who believe that, in the medium term, automation will also create new business niches for emerging economies, mitigating the damage from the jobs that will be eradicated.
"We think you're going to see more localisation rather than more scale," says Sirkin. "I can put up a plant, change the software and manufacture all sorts of things, not in the hundreds of millions but runs of five million or 10 million units."
But Carl Frey, an expert on employment and technology at the University of Oxford, warns that without better education and more skills, developing countries will struggle to take advantage of advancements in manufacturing.
"Technology is becoming increasingly skill-based," he says. "Many of these countries don't have a skilled workforce so they're not very good at adopting these technologies."
The Shangpin Home Collection factory where the use of robots to cut and drill wooden planks improved productivity by 40 per cent © Zeng Han
China itself is not immune from the negative consequences of automation. More than 40 per cent of its 1.4 billion population still live in the countryside, many in poverty, having benefited only marginally from the urban economic miracle.
But the government is betting that the benefits of promoting cutting-edge manufacturing will outweigh the damage from the potential jobs lost. The industrial strategy announced by Beijing last year — known as Made in China 2025 — is designed not only to improve the technological capability of its factories but also to support the development of Chinese brands internationally.
Chow, the HSBC analyst, says that as Chinese companies try to increase their exports to alleviate the impact of the domestic slowdown, they are likely to focus more on the quality of their products: "Quite often part of that development is a better production process, involving robotics."
Every year, the amount of time it takes for a company's investment in a robot to pay off — known as the "payback period" — is narrowing sharply, making it more attractive for small Chinese companies and workshops to invest in automation. The payback period for a welding robot in the Chinese automotive industry, for instance, dropped from 5.3 years to 1.7 years between 2010 and 2015, according to calculations by analysts at Citi. By 2017, the payback period is forecast to shrink to just 1.3 years.
Li Gan, general manager of Shangpin Home Collection, Foshan © Zeng Han
Automation is not just about putting cheaper and more efficient robot arms on the production line. Li Gan, the general manager of Shangpin Home Collection, which makes and sells customised home furniture, says the greater opportunity is to integrate robots on the factory floor with real-time data from customers and automated logistics systems.
Thanks to the use of robots, the factory that Shangpin opened in Foshan in 2014 was 40 per cent more productive than its previous plant, even though it employs 20 per cent fewer people. Later this year, it will start up the machines at its newest and biggest production base, where it hopes to improve productivity fourfold with just double the number of staff, by using more robots to move supplies around the factory floor and help pack outbound shipping containers.
Drilling wooden slats for the company's diverse range of beds, wardrobes and other bespoke furniture used to be a painstaking and sometimes dangerous process. Now a worker simply picks up each piece of wood, scans a barcode and puts the wood on a conveyor belt that takes it to the robot arm. The finished product returns on another belt. The process in between is strikingly complicated: Shangpin had to design a device to make sure that each slat would be aligned in the right way for it to be grasped by the robot arm, and the drilling specifications for the slats have to be pre-programmed and recorded in a barcode, because the robots do not yet have any artificial intelligence capability. Li Gan points out that human oversight and decision-making is still crucial. "Automation is just a technical process but what is more important is our thinking about how best to do this," he says. "Every time we change something, we ask: is it more effective to do this using humans or robots?"
Every time we change something, we ask: is it more effective to do this using humans or robots?
Li Gan, general manager of Shangpin Home Collection, Foshan
Boston Consulting Group forecasts that the percentage of tasks handled by advanced robots will rise from 8 per cent today to 26 per cent by the end of the decade, driven by China, Germany, Japan, South Korea and the US, which together will account for 80 per cent of robot purchases. Sirkin at BCG says that the rapid expansion of automation could be compared to the difference between the "human learning curve" and Moore's Law, which posited that computing power could double every 18 months to two years. "Even if you're very good, humans can only double their productivity at best every 10 years," he says. In contrast, researchers can push robots to double their productivity every four years, he estimates. "Compounded over time, that makes a big difference."
As China and other industrial leaders build more and better robots, the tasks they can take on will expand. Butchery, for example, was long considered the sort of skill that machines would struggle to develop, because of the need for careful hand-eye co-ordination and the manipulation of non-uniform slabs of meat. But Sirkin has watched robots cut the fat off meat much more efficiently than humans, thanks to the use of cheaper and more responsive sensors. "It's becoming economically feasible to use machines to do this because you save another 3 or 4 per cent of the meat — and that's worth a lot on a production line, where you can move quickly.
"There are things that humans can do better than robots," he adds. "But they are getting less and less."
Ben Bland is the FT's South China correspondent and a former Indonesia correspondent
Photographs by Zeng Han and Muhammad Fadli
A brief guide to industrial robots
What is an industrial robot?
Many automated tasks in factories are performed by robotic arms programmed to complete repetitive and sometimes dangerous tasks.
A growing number of factories are also buying self-driving freight carriers and autonomous forklift trucks to reduce manpower.
Most industrial robots operate at a distance from their co-workers, sometimes in cages for safety reasons, but a new generation of humanoid robots is being developed to work alongside humans.
The $25,000 Baxter robot, for instance, which is designed to perform simple tasks such as packing and loading, has a screen with an animated face that frowns when there is a problem.
What can they do well?
Three-quarters of all industrial robots operate in four sectors: computers and electronic goods; home appliances and components; transportation equipment; and machinery. That's partly because automation makes financial sense in these industries and partly because of the limited nature of the existing technology.
Industrial robots are usually fixed in a single location and are adept at performing uniform tasks with objects that are stationary or that move at a predictable speed.
Robots can work more quickly than humans, with a high degree of consistency and precision, and do not need breaks to sleep or eat, of course.
What can't they do well?
Other than a few cutting-edge "intelligent" robots, most of these machines have to be pre-programmed for each specific task on the production line.
Precision can be a challenge too. Robots have no problem placing electronic components on to a flat circuit board, for instance, but struggle to assemble a car battery, which has many small parts that must be installed at odd angles.
Very labour-intensive tasks such as sewing garments and shoemaking have seen minimal automation so far. But that is starting to change, with Adidas opening a robot-dominated shoe factory in Germany this year.
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I followed this tutorial
Process Stripe Payments with Firebase Cloud Functions - Part 2
YouTube · 14 000+ views · 2017/07/11 · by Fireship - AngularFirebase
When I run firebase deploy --only functions
This appears in the terminal
!  functions: failed to create function stripeCharge
HTTP Error: 400, The request has errors

Functions deploy had errors with the following functions:
        stripeCharge

To try redeploying those functions, run:
    firebase deploy --only functions:stripeCharge

To continue deploying other features (such as database), run:
    firebase deploy --except functions

Error: Functions did not deploy properly.

And I get this error in the Firebase log
Firebase Log error
Anybody have a clue with what could be wrong?

A: At least one of your problem is that you use the syntax of the Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions for version < 1.0.0 and your package.json shows that you use a  version that is >= 2.2.0.
You should use the new syntax:
exports.stripeCharge = functions.firestore
  .document("/payments/{userId}/{paymentId}")
  .onWrite((change, context) => {

    const payment = change.after.data();
    const userId = event.params.userId;
    const paymentId = event.params.paymentId;
    ...
});

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BALDWIN -- Another game, another lesson.
Aliquippa was ousted from the WPIAL Class AA playoffs after a 60-51 loss to Greensburg Central Catholic Wednesday night in Baldwin.
The young Quips � three sophomores, a junior and a senior � were up to the challenge against the higher-seeded Centurions, but in the end, Aliquippa�s lack of poise and experience proved to be the difference. Aliquippa jumped out to a 6-1 lead in the first quarter as the Quips held Greensburg Central Catholic to one point through five and a half minutes of play.
The second quarter featured three ties, but a few costly turnovers by the Quips allowed Greensburg Central Catholic to grab a lead and extend it to seven by the half.
Aliquippa responded in the third quarter, cutting an 11-point lead to one by the end of the period, but too many turnovers leading to easy lay ups proved to be enough for the Centurions to advance to the WPIAL Championship.
Aliquippa's Jassir Jordan led all scorers with 22 points, including four 3-pointers.
The Quips resorted to a lot of one-on-one play in the offensive end, and the Centurions were up to the task on defense.
�We lost our poise. We started forcing some things,� said Lackovich. �The games that we have lost, that�s the way it usually broke down. Whenever we did lose, that�s what happens. We just lose our poise.
The season isn�t over for the Quips. Their trip to the semifinals earned the team a berth in the PIAA tournament.
And if the game against Greensburg Central is an indication of things to come both in the short and long term, Lackovich is in.
�It would have been nice to win a WPIAL championship, but all it does is determine who you play next,� said Lackovich. �The medal you want is the one in Hershey (PIAA title). If that�s one of the best the West has to offer, I like our chances. We can play with anyone.


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Music Park: Outlaw Music Festival @ Hersheypark Stadium, — 9/8/18
Posted on 09/13/2018 by jesternate	in Live Review and tagged blues, country, Hersheypark Stadium, Lukas + The Promise of the Real, Lukas Nelson, Micha Nelson, music festival, Outlaw Music Festival, Sturgill Simpson, Tedeschi Trucks, Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Particle Kid, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson.
(Tedeschi Trucks Band performs at the Outlaw Music Festival on Sept. 8, 2018. Photos by Nathan Payne; Words by Jennifer Grant of Enlighten Life Now)
The 2018 Outlaw Music Festival Tour made a stop in the sweetest city on earth — Hershey, Pennsylvania — on Saturday, Sept. 8. The lineup included top names in music such as Willie Nelson, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Van Morrison, Sturgill Simpson, Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real, and The Particle Kid. Hersheypark Stadium hosted the star-studded music festival, a one-day event that creates a classic multi-day festival vibe by including several art and food vendors along with a full day of soulful and eclectic interpretations of blues and country music.
The Particle Kid AKA Micha Nelson, son of Willie Nelson, kicked off the festival, performing his original music that identifies its own new unique genre which he describes as "Folk-a-delic Forest-Funk Space-Punk Avant-Pop Psych-Rock Dope-Scapes." He concluded his set with his hit, "Everything Is Bullshit" featuring his brother, Lukas Nelson. This collaboration gave way to a flawless transition into the second set of the day featuring Lukas + The Promise of the Real. Lukas' songs included personal favorites, "Turn Off the News" and "Forget About Georgia," from their new EP, which was released on Sept. 7. Lukas is also part of the new movie, A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, set to be released in the USA on Oct. 5.
Next to take the stage was the famed musician Sturgill Simpson. The audience was filled with fans awaiting his performance as cheering erupted from all sides of the stadium. His performance featured several songs from his three-time Grammy Award Winning 2016 album, A Sailor's Guide to Earth, and 2014 album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Fan favorites such as "In Bloom," "Turtles All the Way Down," and "Call to Arms" left listeners mesmerized.
In addition to this already impressive line-up, 12-piece ensemble Tedeschi Trucks Band was next to perform. The stage was chock-full of guitars, keyboards, drums and percussion, bass guitar, flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and an array of vocalists. Besides playing some of their top songs like "Midnight in Harlem" and "Don't Know What It Means," Tedeschi Trucks Band also performed "Shame," which will appear on their upcoming album still in the works!
The final two acts, Van Morrison and Willie Nelson, have been topping the music charts for decades! Van played his classic hits "Days Like This," "Moondance," and "Brown-Eyed Girl."
The evening closed with a performance by country legend Willie. His two sons Lukas and Mika Nelson returned to the stage to accompany Willie for the songs of the festival. Fans sang along to all the favorites like "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die," and "On the Road Again" in addition to beloved covers like "Always on My Mind" and "Hey Good Looking." Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks joined Willie and the others closing the night with beloved gospel songs "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "I'll Fly Away."
This tour still has a few more stops this summer, stopping in Scranton, Pennsylvania; Camden, New Jersey; Holmdale, New Jersey; Mansfield, Massachusetts; Saratoga Springs, New York; and Los Angeles. Each location is set to feature artist that include Greensky Bluegrass, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Margo Price, and Phil Lesh & Friends. Check out the festival website for dates and tickets.
Here are some photos of the Outlaw Music Festival in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at Hersheypark Stadium on Sept. 8, 2018. All photos copyright and courtesy of Nathan Payne.
Particle Kid
Lukas Nelson & The Promise of The Real
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Live Review: Cage the Elephant @ The Anthem — 12/3/19
Live Review: Billy Bragg @ The Birchmere — 9/19/19
Live Review: The Hives and Refused @ Franklin Music Hall — 5/18/19
Live Review: The Dandy Warhols @ 9:30 Club — 5/6/19
Live Review: Spiritualized @ Lincoln Theater — 4/16/19
Live Review: Teenage Fanclub @ 9:30 Club — 3/16/19
Best of the Year: Top 10 Concerts of 2018 by Kyle
Live Review: Kurt Vile @ 9:30 Club — 11/30/18
Music Park: Gruff Rhys @ DC9 — 10/11/18
Snapshots: Lykke Li @ Lincoln Theater — 10/5/18
paivi
Live Review: Health @ 9:30 Club — 12/18/19
Live Review: Daughters @ 9:30 Club — 12/18/19
Snapshots: Kim Petras @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 11/20/19
Snapshots: Eric Church @ The Anthem — 11/15/19
Snapshots: Cigarettes After Sex @ 9:30 Club — 10/25/19
Snapshots: Sofi Tukker @ 9:30 Club — 10/23/19
Snapshots: Bishop Briggs @ 9:30 Club — 10/19/19
Snapshots: Yungblud @ 9:30 Club — 10/17/19
Snapshots: SHAED @ 9:30 Club — 10/10/19
Live Review: Aesthetic Perfection @ Pie Shop — 9/26/19
Don't Miss: FROTH (Opening for The Drums) @ DC9, 10/26/15
regardingtess
Music Park: Dingleberry Dynasty @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 3/30/18
Snapshots: Steel Panther @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 3/30/18
Music Park: Albert Hammond Jr. @ U Street Music Hall — 3/27/18
Interview: Chris Kamsch of Dingleberry Dynasty (@ The Fillmore Silver Spring, 3/30/18)
Music Park: Lucius @ Lincoln Theatre — 3/23/18
Music Park: Grace VanderWaal @ 9:30 Club — 2/7/18
Music Park: Broken Social Scene @ 9:30 Club — 9/19/17
Music Park: Prophets of Rage @ 9:30 Club — 9/14/17
Music Park: The Districts @ 9:30 Club — 8/18/17
Music Park: Little Dragon @ 9:30 Club — 8/9/17
Live Review: STOMP @ National Theatre — 4/23/19
Live Review: Anita Baker @ MGM National Harbor — 12/29/18
Music Park: Jill Scott @ MGM National Harbor — 7/14/18
Music Park: Melanie Fiona @ Howard Theatre — 2/13/18
Music Park: Eric Benét @ The Birchmere — 1/17/18
Music Park: Dru Hill @ Howard Theatre — 8/18/17
Music Park: Al B. Sure! @ Howard Theatre — 6/28/17
Music Park: Vanessa Williams @ Howard Theatre – 3/10/17
Music Park: Jazmine Sullivan @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 2/14/17
Music Park: Ginuwine @ Howard Theatre — 1/27/17
shedrickpelt
Live Review: Lupe Fiasco @ The Kennedy Center — 11/14/19
Live Review: Yelawolf @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 11/5/19
Live Review: Maxo Kream @ U Street Music Hall — 10/25/19
Live Review: Young Thug & Machine Gun Kelly @ The Anthem — 10/22/19
Live Review: Wale @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 10/9/19
Live Review: Talib Kweli, Styles P, and Dead Prez @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 10/4/19
Live Review: Meek Mill and Future @ Jiffy Lube Live — 9/17/19
Live Review: GothBoiClique @ MilkBoy ArtHouse — 8/31/19
Live Review: Griselda Records' The Almighty Tour @ Howard Theatre — 6/13/19
Live Review: DMX @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 4/7/19
theeternalname
Live Review: Spirit Adrift @ Songbyrd Music House — 6/13/19
Live Review: Sick Of It All @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 6/6/19
Live Review: HATE @ Baltimore Soundstage — 6/4/19
Matt Ruppert
Live Review: Hozier @ The Anthem — 11/18/19
Live Review: Angie McMahon @ The Anthem — 11/18/19
Live Review: The New Pornographers @ 9:30 Club — 11/5/19
Live Review: Built to Spill @ 9:30 Club — 10/4/19
Live Review: The Head and the Heart @ The Anthem — 10/3/19
Live Review: Shakey Graves @ The Anthem — 9/13/19
Live Review: The Wallflowers @ Rams Head Live — 8/23/19
Live Review: Deer Tick @ Wolf Trap — 6/20/19
Live Review: Courtney Barnett @ The Anthem — 6/19/19
Live Review: The National @ The Anthem — 6/19/19
Will Colbert
Best of the Year: Top 10 Moments of 2019 by Will
Live Review: Bad Bunny @ EagleBank Arena — 11/1/19
Live Review: Big Freedia w/ Low Cut Connie @ 9:30 Club — 10/29/19
Live Review: Buddy Guy @ State Theatre — 10/14/19
Live Review: Los Lonely Boys @ The Birchmere — 9/30/19
Live Review: Burna Boy @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 9/15/19
Live Review: Gary Clark Jr. @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 8/25/19
Live Review: Santana @ Jiffy Lube Live — 8/14/19
Live Review: Nas @ Wolf Trap — 7/14/19
Live Review: Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley @ The Anthem — 7/13/19
Andrew Goodwin
Live Review: The Bouncing Souls @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 12/18/19
Live Review: Twin Peaks @ Black Cat — 12/11/19
Live Review: Culture Abuse @ Black Cat — 12/4/19
Preview: Twin Peaks @ Black Cat, 12/11/19
Live Review: Plague Vendor w/ No Parents @ DC9 — 10/11/19
wefoughtthebigone
Interview: David Nicholas of Spectrums (@ We Fought the Big One — 11/3/17)
Don't Miss: Sansyou @ Black Cat, 10/06/16


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Dr. Leah McMillan
Founder/Owner
DPA, LMFT, CFRC, EMDR-T
Susan Bradshaw
LMFT, TF-CBT & EMDR-T, TBRI
Rachael Dudley
LCSW, CCATP, C-DBT
Dr. Martha Giddings
Ph.D., LCSW, EMDR-T
Allison Owen
LMFT, RPT, EMDR-T
Chelsea Nelms
LAMFT , Group Facilitator
John Klimko, Jr.
Destiny McMillan
Group Facilitator
Kaylee Groover & Carrington Hingson
Patient Specialists
Lauren Darby
LMSW
Mental Health Awareness 2022
Leah McMillan, DPA, LMFT, EMDR-T, CFRC
Leah McMillan, DPA, LMFT, EMDR Trained, CFRC has extensive clinical experience ranging from being a rape crisis advocate & domestic violence assessor, to a child/adolescent therapist, a clinical supervisor, and staff counselor/Assistant/Interim Director for VSU's Counseling Center. Dr. McMillan has been in private practice for over 6 years. In addition, she has been clinically licensed as a LMFT since 2006 (GA) and is an active member of AAMFT & GAMFT. Currently, Dr. McMillan serves as Chair of the South Georgia GAMFT Chapter. Recently, she obtained her certification as a Certified First Responder Counselor (the only CFRC in our area).
Her clinical path has allowed her to gain significant knowledge & experience in the field of mental health & counseling, specifically working with a diverse & unique population ranging from ages 5 and up and working with couples, individuals, families, & children/adolescents. Her areas of specialty focus & expertise are PTSD/trauma, intimate partner violence, sexual assault/rape, child abuse, bereavement/grief/loss, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, ADD/ADHD, infertility, couple/marital/pre-marital, divorce/co-parenting, and compassion fatigue/secondary traumatic stress with first responders. She specializes in an eclectic modality of therapy utilizing CBT, EMDR, mindfulness, person-centered, and solution-focused therapy.
She strives to provide an encouraging, safe, and holistic environment merging the psychological, physiological, and spiritual parts for complete wellness. Therapy is very personal and should be treated as so. She is here to ensure her patients feel comfortable and assist them in achieving greater joy, peace, and happiness in their lives.
Dissertation: McMillan, Leah. (2011). Assessment of Valdosta State University
Counseling Center Contributions to Retention, Valdosta, Georgia
Doctorate of Public Administration (DPA), Concentration Area: Higher
Education, Valdosta State University, Graduated with Honors (May 2011)
Master of Science, Marriage & Family Therapy, Valdosta State University (May 2004)
Bachelor of Arts, Georgia, Major: Criminal Justice, Valdosta State University, Graduated Cum Laude (July 2000)
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT, August 2006 to Present), Clinical Fellow, GA License No. MFT001032
Licensed Associate Marriage & Family Therapist (LAMFT, April 2005), GA Associate License No. AMFT000089
Certificate of Participation and Recognition from Leadership Lowndes (2012)
Certificate of Appreciation from the American Counseling Association (ACA) Virginia Tech Pro-Bono Counseling Initiative (2007)
Appreciation of the Contributions to the Greek Community Award, Valdosta State University (2006)
Service to the Division of Student Affairs Award, Valdosta State University (2005)
Rape Crisis Service Award, presented by The Haven Rape Crisis Advisory Board (2003)
Graduate Faculty & Part-time Instructor, Political Science Dept., Valdosta State University (2012-2021)
Teaching Assistant, Marriage & Family Therapy Dept., Valdosta State University (2005)
Adjunct Instructor, Business Dept., Valdosta Technical College (2003)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
Current Memberships: AAMFT (American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy), Clinical Member
GAMFT (Georgia Association for Marriage & Family Therapy)
Chair of the South Georgia GAMFT Chapter Lowndes County Sexual Assault Response Team (SART)
Alpha Gamma Delta Alumni
Past Memberships: ACCA (American College Counseling Association)
ACA (American Counseling Association)
NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education)
GNESA (Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault)
ATAP (Association of Threat Assessment Professionals)
Lowndes County Family Violence Task Force (LCFVTF)
Certified First Responder Counselor (only CFRC in our area)
Co-Parenting/Divorce
Training for Military & Family Life Counseling
CLINICAL TREATMENT AREAS & EXPERTISE
Trauma and Abuse (Children, Adolescents, & Adult populations)
Bereavement & Loss
Anxiety, Depression, & Mood disorders
Individual, Couple, & Family Counseling
First Responder Counseling
Susan Bradshaw, LMFT, TF-CBT &
EMDR-T, TBRI
Susan S. Bradshaw is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has been licensed in Georgia since 1998. She attended Valdosta State University and received a B.S. in Psychology (1992) and an M.S. in Sociology (1994 ) and a Post-Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy (1995).
She has worked as a therapist in Valdosta and surrounding counties for over 20 years and has worked in inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospitalization settings with children, teens, and adults with varied mental health and relationship issues. In the course of her experience, she has also worked with geriatric clients and clients with chronic mental illness. In addition, she has supervised and developed child and adolescent treatment programs at Greenleaf Center and Behavioral Health Services. For the last 10 years she was employed with the Children's Advocacy Center of Lowndes County providing counseling and forensic interview services for children, teens, and their families that have been affected by abuse or trauma. Susan has additional trainings in EMDR, TF-CBT, TBRI, attachment, and play therapy.
She strives to provide a safe, comfortable, and inviting environment to assist her clients in becoming the best versions of themselves.
Post-Masters, Major: Marriage and Family Therapy, Valdosta State University (1995)
Master of Science, Major: Sociology, Family Concentration, Valdosta State University (May 1994) Bachelor of Science, Major: Psychology, Valdosta State College, Graduated (March 1992)
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT, 1998), Clinical Member, GA License No. MFT000865
Current Memberships: Exchange Club of Valdosta, Ga.
Past Memberships: AAMFT GAMFT- South Georgia Board Chair Mental Health Association Alpha Kappa Delta Zeta of Georgia-honor society
Trauma Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Forensic Interviewing
Trust Based Relational Interventions (TBRI)
Rachael Dudley, LCSW, CCATP,
CDCS, C-DBT
Rachael Dudley is Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 21 years of experience in the field of mental health and has extensive clinical experience in working with children, teens, adults and families. Mrs. Dudley served as an active duty Clinical Social Worker in the United States Air Force for six years providing mental health counseling and family advocacy services to active duty members and family members with military specific issues such as pre deployment, deployment and reintegration counseling and combat related PTSD. Mrs. Dudley continues to support the military community as an on demand Military and Family Life Consultant.
Mrss Dudley specializes in depression and anxiety management, PTSD and trauma related disorders, premarital and marital counseling, grief counseling, anger management, stress management, eating disorders, parenting struggles, ADHD/ODD behavior management.
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice with a minor in Spanish, Valdosta State University (1999)
Master of Social Work, Valdosta State University (2002)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (CSW003632) in the state of Georgia 2006
Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) in the state of Georgia 2002
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)
Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Trained in EMDR
Martha Giddings, Ph.D., LCSW, EMDR-T
Dr. Marty Giddings has always had a deep interest in family relationships, and she has spent most of her career seeking ways of strengthening family bonds. A Cajun at heart, she came to Georgia after college and stayed here. She completed the Master of Social Work Degree at the University of Georgia (UGA) and then spent several years on the Child and Adolescent Unit of the Gainesville GA Community Mental Health Center. Returning to Athens and UGA, she enrolled in a doctoral program in Child & Family Development. While in Athens, she opened a private practice near campus in which she specialized in the treatment of children, teens, parents, and adults. She completed her doctoral degree in 1984 and accepted two post-doctoral fellowships at UGA. She had an opportunity to participate in a DSM-IV Field Trail which examined what has become known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The second fellowship involved research on the adjustment of adolescent military dependents living on Air Force bases across the world. Following her post-doctoral work, she accepted a faculty position at UGA and taught in the School of Social Work for several years. In 1995, she and her family moved to Valdosta where she had accepted a faculty position in Valdosta State University's (VSU) newly-created Division of Social Work.
Dr. Giddings retired as a Professor of Social Work on May 31, 2017, and the very next day, she began working at the Children's Advocacy Center of Lowndes County (CAC), where she began the Parent Support Program for non-offending caregivers of sexually abused children. Through the CAC position, she was able to learn about the impact of trauma on individuals and families and therapeutic ways to treat trauma. She still loves working with children and adults of all ages, families, older adults, and group work.
Marty likes to stay busy, and when she isn't doing therapy, she enjoys gardening, reading mysteries, drawing, going to the Red Owl, teaching Sunday School, and enjoying her own family and her dog, Lulu. She will always be a GA Bulldog, but she has grown to love VSU and Valdosta!
Ph.D. in Child and Family Development, College of Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Georgia, 1984 Master of Social Work, University of Georgia, 1974 BA in History, Louisiana State University, 1970
Licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in Georgia, February 17, 1987
Moving Beyond the Pain (Treatment of Chronic Pain), 2020, 8 CE hours
Transforming Shame, 2020, 3 hrs.
How Cognitive Biases Can Influence Ethical Decision Making, 2020, 5 hrs.
Internal Family Systems Therapy, Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds, 2020, 6.25 hr.
The Reluctant Client: Partnering with Resistance, 2020, 5 hrs.
EMDR Adult, Complex Trauma and Dissociation Specialist Intensive Program, July 2019, 46 hr.
EMDR Parent, Child & Attachment Specialist Intensive Program, Oct. 2019, 46 hours
Rape, Trauma and Counseling Interventions, 2019, 3 hr.
Allison Parris Owen, LMFT, RPT, EMDR-T
Allison Parris Owen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has been licensed in Georgia since 2008 and credentialed as a Registered Play Therapist (RPT) since 2013. She attended The University of Georgia, Athens and received a BSFCS degree in Child and Family Development (2003), and she earned her MS degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Valdosta State University (2005). She worked as a therapist and program administrator in the Macon area for 7 years before returning to the Valdosta area in 2012 to work as the Clinical Director of The Children's Advocacy Center of Lowndes County, Inc. where she provided trauma- focused mental health services and conducted forensic interviews from 2012- 2019.
Mrs. Owen has worked in various settings, including outpatient clinics and community-based settings, with children, teens, and adults with varied mental health and relationship issues. She has extensive training and experience in working with children ages 2-18 and their families, as well as treating trauma- related issues, including PTSD, attachment issues, and behavioral concerns. In addition to her extensive experience and training in Play Therapy, she also has over 120 hours of specialized training in using EMDR with children and their parents. She has additional training in TF- CBT, Narrative Therapy, and Solution- Focused Therapy.
Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Sciences (BSFCS), Major: Child and Family Development, UGA 2003
Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, VSU 2005
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 2008-present
Registered Play Therapist, 2013-present
Current -Member of the Association for Play Therapy
Past- Lowndes County Domestic Violence Task Force, Lowndes Interagency Coordinating Council, Lowndes County Prevent Child Abuse Clinical Director, Childrens Advocacy Center of Lowndes County, 2012-2019 Therapist, Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia, 2007-2008 & 2009-2012 Program Administrator/Therapist, Morning Star Child and Family Services, 2008- 2009 Master Assessment Clinician, GRN CSB, 2007 Therapist, Phoenix Center Behavioral Health Services 2005-2007
EMDR, TF-CBT, and various models of Play Therapy, including Theraplay, Sandtray, Expressive Arts, Child-Centered, and Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy
*trauma/abuse/PTSD (children, teens and adults)
*the parent-child relationship and attachment-focused therapy
*Mood disorders, including anxiety and depression
*grief/loss
*anger management
*relationship issues, including blended families, family conflicts, and marital/couples issues
*behavioral issues in children, including inappropriate, problematic sexual behaviors
*working with young children (ages 2 and up) and their caregivers/parents
Chelsea Nelms, LAMFT
Chelsea Nelms, is an associate licensed marriage and family therapist that has recently found her roots in Valdosta, GA. Chelsea Nelms, LAMFT graduated with her B.A. in psychology with a neuroscience minor from Franklin College in Franklin, IN (2018). Desiring warmer weather and a change of pace she moved down to Valdosta, GA where she received her accredited M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2020. Through the accredited program at VSU she gained a significant amount of knowledge in psychotherapy, crisis interventions, solution-focused therapy, and systemic theory.
Chelsea Nelms, LAMFT has clinical experience ranging from crisis intervention, suicide assessor, to a child/adolescent school-based therapist, a group facilitator, mental health advocate speaker and counselor for substance abuse treatment within the court system. Chelsea has been giving counseling services for 2 years. In addition, she has been an associate licensed marriage and family therapist (LAMFT) since 2021 (GA) and is an active mental health advocate.
Her clinical path has allowed her to gain significant knowledge & experience in the field of mental health and counseling, specifically working with a diverse and unique population ranging from ages 3 and up and working with couples, individuals, families, children/adolescents. Her areas of specialty focus and expertise are depression, anxiety, intimate partner violence, trauma, child abuse, bereavement/grief/loss, mood disorders, ADD/ADHD, cyberbullying, behavioral modification, and couple/marital/pre-marital. She specializes in an eclectic modality of therapy utilizing CBT, narrative therapy, mindfulness, person-centered, and solution-focused therapy.
Chelsea Nelms, LAMFT strives to provide a safe space for individuals to express their concerns, worries, experiences, and emotions to foster growth in their mental health journey. She practices from a collaborative approach and will work with her clients to ensure she is providing the latest evidence-based practices.
B.A. in psychology with a neuroscience minor, Franklin College 2018
M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy, VSU 2020
Associate Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LAMFT), 2021


Every day this week (Mon-Fri) I'm posting excerpts from Tullian Tchividjian's book, "Jesus + Nothing = Everything". Thanks to my friends at Crossway Books, at the bottom of each day's post there is an opportunity for subscribers to the blog to win a copy of the book as well.
Congratulations Ed, who was the winner for Day #2.
God created you for beauty—and redeemed you for beauty—so that you and your joy and peace and gratitude for what he's done for you in Christ would be put on display in a dark, watching world.
The world isn't captivated by people trying to give the impression they have it all together. That's not what draws them. What captures their attention is the sight of humble, desperate, dependent people who acknowledge their sin and who point to their Savior as the only one who can rescue us. The world, in other words, needs our confession, not our competence.
Tragically, moralism is what people most outside the church think we're talking about when we say gospel or Christianity. That's what enters their minds. Most people inside the church give most people outside the church the impression that Christianity is all about observing certain codes of behavior and abstaining from others. It's all about rules and standards and good behavior and cleaning up your act. We're really good at communicating that to the world.
The only way we'll be able to reach people for Christ is to differentiate legalism from the gospel. From a human standpoint, we have to help them understand that rules and regulations and standards and behavior modification are not the heart of Christianity. We have to show them that the gospel is radically different. We need to somehow make it clear that Jesus came first not to make bad people good, but to make dead people alive; that the primary goal of the gospel is to bring about mortal resurrection, not moral reformation. Christianity is not the move from vice to virtue, but rather the move from virtue to grace. We need to demonstrate and articulate this difference. We need to be able to distinguish between religion (all about my need to do) and the gospel (all about what Jesus has done).
Pascal expressed it well when he said that we should make people wish the gospel were true, then show them that it is. Is your life—is my life—causing the people around us to hope desperately that the gospel is true? Is there a gospel-soaked attractiveness to our lives? Does an aroma of grace spill out from us into selfless service of others?
Day #3's giveaway is now closed. Congratulations Jason Delgado!


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How Approvals Work in Microsoft Teams
Topics: Collaboration tools, Microsoft Teams, Flow
Written by Alex K Joseph
Getting approvals is an important process in all levels of businesses. Enterprises consider this very seriously as it requires quick processing of approvals to get things done quickly. Microsoft is one of the most promising productivity technology solutions globally and they are introducing yet another incredible feature of Microsoft Teams, Approvals. In this blog post, we will give you a comprehensive insight into what Approvals can do and how approvals work in Microsoft Teams.
The most important benefit you can achieve by reducing the time wasted by lengthy approval processes is timesaving. You shall use the saved time in implementing campaigns and innovating processes. Although there are some basic options like @mentions, channels, and other communication options to get approvals faster, Microsoft has decided to make the process smoother with the dedicated Approvals option.
What Are the Capabilities It Offers
The main purpose of Approvals in Microsoft Teams is to create, share, and manage approvals directly from the platform. You can get started with the creation of an approval flow from the approval app, from a channel conversation, or even from where you chat. While creating an approval flow you will be able to add/choose details like approval type, attach files, add required details, and choose the approvers of your choice.
How to View and Manage Approvals
Once you submit an approval flow after entering all the essential details, the approvers will be notified. They can instantly act on the request after reviewing the details. The approval app in Microsoft Teams shows you all your approvals in one place. You can view and manage all of them from here. Details such as the status of the request, source, approver, and requester will also be displayed to give a quick overview of the approvals in a glance. From here you can select individual approvals to get more details and track its progress.
Safety Features of Approvals
Security and safety of the data shared are always a concern for businesses. Microsoft has always provided the best security for its users and the data they are managing through its platforms. Approvals will also come with the same level of security and compliance standards Microsoft used to offer to its users. Furthermore, activities like creating a new approval request, approval of requests, and rejection of approvals will be marked, and they can be reviewed from the Microsoft Office 365 Compliance Center. To gain more control over how your organization is using the Approvals app, admins can define how users are using it by configuring the options in the Manage apps page in Microsoft Teams Admin Center.
Electronic Signature Capabilities
Electronic signatures are around for some time now and they are now a standard feature. Microsoft understands this new standard better than anyone and they are introducing the option to create an electronic signature approval. This is done with the help of Adobe Sign, DocuSign, or other third-party solutions natively. All you need is to choose the provider and enter the necessary details to get started. Signers will receive an email notification once an electronic signature approval is submitted, and they can review it instantly.
How to Set Up the Approval Flows
Built on Power Platform, you will be able to manage all approval flows in your organization in one place. Furthermore, the extensibility capabilities of Power Automate make you create the flows seamlessly. Here are the common steps that will be involved in setting up the form of approval in Microsoft Teams:
Just go to the Power Automate Design Studio and create a new flow.
Choose a trigger from over 350 connectors.
Make use of the Approvals block as action and add a workflow step to initiate and wait for the approval.
Enter and save approval details like approvers, attachments, and more.
You can even an additional condition at this stage to track the status of the approval to complete the process.
When Can You Expect This Feature to Rollout
As of now, there is no specific date announced by Microsoft regarding the rollout of Approvals feature in Microsoft Teams. It will be available soon and we shall update that information here as it is announced.
Hope this post helped you understand how Teams is going to make approvals in organizations easier in the future. Start planning for adapting to this new facility and make the most of it as soon as it is rolled out.
We have another blog that gives you a detailed overview of all updates rolled out to Microsoft Teams in the year 2020. Take a look to know what is new.
Alex Joseph is a Digital Marketing Strategist with explicit knowledge in Content Marketing and Microsoft Technologies. A writer by day, Alex is a night owl and a DIYer. Alex's theory is to make businesses achieve success with modern solutions and smart exploitation of resources.
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Lotoo PAW S1: The Swiss Army – A USB DAC/Amp Review
By Deezel on	 March 17, 2021 Amps, DACs & Cables, Reviews
DISCLAIMER: Lotoo provided me with the PAW S1 in return for my honest opinion. I am not personally affiliated with the company in any way, nor do I receive any monetary rewards for a positive evaluation. I'd like to thank Lotoo for their kindness and support. The review is as follows.
The past couple cycles have seen Lotoo go from strength from strength. The release of their PAW Gold Touch player saw them gain acclaim at the top flight. Then, the subsequent release of their more affordable PAW 6000 did the same in the mid-tier market. Much of that praise was attributed to their sleek, modernised aesthetic, impeccable build quality and all the proprietary software they packed in there too. Now, bringing all this and entry-level pricing into the mobile market is Lotoo's PAW S1 USB DAC/amp. A balanced output, OLED display and Lotoo OS in hand, the PAW S1 is the dongle to beat.
Lotoo PAW S1
DAC chip: AKM AK4377
Available inputs: USB Type-C, Lightning (sold separately)
Available outputs: 4.4mm balanced jack, 3.5mm single-ended jack
Sample rate support: Up to PCM 32-bit/384kHz, DSD64 and DSD128
Output power: 70mW/ch @ 32Ω (single-ended), 120mW/ch @ 32Ω (balanced)
Key feature(s) (if any): OLED display, EFX sound-shaping, MQA decoding, LTOS
Website: www.lotoo.cn
Packaging and Build
This PAW S1 comes in a clean, compact package, adorned all around with sleek, matte-finished artwork. Also, on the top-left corner is a sticker from Pentaconn, which indicates that the 4.4mm socket Lotoo have sourced for this DAC/amp is of utmost quality. Inside is the S1 itself sat within a foam cutout. And, underneath that is a quick-start guide and a warranty card, along with the S1's accessories also sat in foam. This consists of a short Type-C-to-Type-C cable to connect the S1 to Type-C devices. And, there's a USB 3.0 adapter for, say, laptops and desktops too; all in Lotoo's sleek, anodised aesthetic.
With this S1, Lotoo prove that – no matter the price tier – build quality is something they know how to deliver. Its chassis is excellently compact, yet impressive in robustness and heft. It's by no means as luxurious-feeling as their bigger, pricier DAPs. But, given the price and size of the S1, you'd be hard-pressed to find a dongle that looks and feels as premium. It's a near-unibody design with a screwed-on bottom panel. Despite how flush it sits against the rest of the chassis, I do wish Lotoo had put screws on all four corners, rather than just two. The end with screws feels solid and firm as I tap my finger on it, while the opposite feels ever-so-slightly loose. Again, it still sits flush against the rest of the device. But, it does take away a teeny bit from the S1's near-flawless feel. That aside, however, Lotoo have, again, finished their product superbly; dressed in an even and seamless coat of anodised-black, then capped with sharply-defined engravings above and below.
We then get to the one of this device's defining features: The 128×32 OLED display. The screen in its default state feature the current track's sample rate, the S1's gain mode (Low or High) and the current volume level on the upper third. Taking up the rest of this screen is the EFX profile you've selected, which essentially is Lotoo's DSP or sound-shaping. Personally, I like how the S1's UI looks. It's clean, it isn't too flashy and it tells you all you need to know. And, it's lit up sufficiently with zero traces of backlight bleed too. Lastly, as a finishing touch, Lotoo have also incorporated some sliding animations that appear when you cycle through EFX profiles and gain modes, which gives the UI some life and adds that last bit of polish.
Bookending the S1's body is the device's I/O, which have similarly been installed seamlessly. The USB-C jack sits perfectly against its opening with zero crookedness or gaps, and the same goes for both the 3.5mm and 4.4mm sockets. There's a touch more tightness to those audio outputs than ones I'd find on my laptop or DAP, but it shouldn't be much of a worry. Lastly, the S1's three buttons sit perfectly level and still, are engraved precisely and depress with a very firm, tactile click.
Ergonomics and Physical Controls
Clearly, given the S1's compact, lightweight design, it's an absolute breeze to carry around; whether in an in-ear pouch or your coat pocket, even. It isn't as thin as some of Cozoy's USB dongles, for example, but I reckon it'll still make an easy fit in whatever space you're carrying your other electronics in. That's further aided by its detachable cable system. Speaking of, Lotoo's included braided cables have good heft to them as well, so I won't have to worry about those wires potentially snapping off if I hang this S1 off a table edge, or bending and kinking if I stuff the dongle in a trouser pocket. Overall, this is a DAC that's as easy to carry as it is to keep, and built tough enough to withstand the hustle of daily, portable listening.
The PAW S1's physical controls consist of three buttons, whose base functions are Function, Volume Up and Volume Down. Pressing the first brings up the EFX selection screen, where you can use the Volume buttons to cycle through this device's 16 included EQ profiles. Pressing that Function button again will summon the gain selection screen, where you can either select High Gain or Low Gain. For example, for headphones and in-ears, respectively. Overall, it's an easy, intuitive system that's also quick, due to the dongle's responsiveness. If I could make one suggestion, Lotoo could add a way to revert the EFX profile back to Stock in a single action. Perhaps, by pressing both Volume buttons at once. But, that is my only qualm.
This PAW S1 is capable of outputting both 4.4mm balanced and 3.5mm single-ended audio, though, obviously, not at the same time. Still, this addition of a TRRRS socket does put it a step above most USB dongles available today; a Pentaconn-issued one, no less. Volume on both outputs have a range of 100 steps, which should be beyond sufficient fine-tuning for most users. Then, for the input, you have the S1's modular Type-C connector. By default, it connects to a Type-C-to-Type-C cable with, again, an optional USB 3.0 adapter. And, you could also purchase Lotoo's Lightning cable attachment to use the S1 with Apple's mobile devices. It features the same braiding and hardware as the default cable; a detail I love to see.
I've tested this PAW S1 with a couple other Type-C cables, and those results are a tad hit-or-miss. The ultra-long charging cable that I use with my MacBook does get this device to work, but it disconnects intermittently; presumably, because of a lack of power. The USB 3.0 to Type-C cable that comes with the PAW Gold Touch works perfectly fine. So, I'd personally recommend using the cables Lotoo provides for the best results. Though, in a pinch, most standard cables can work too.
Deezel
Church-boy by day and audio-obsessee by night, Daniel Lesmana's world revolves around the rhythms and melodies we lovingly call: Music. When he's not behind a console mixing live for a congregation of thousands, engineering records in a studio environment, or making noise behind a drum set, you'll find him on his laptop analysing audio gear with fervor and glee. Now a specialist in custom IEMs, cables and full-sized headphones, he's looking to bring his unique sensibilities - as both an enthusiast and a professional - into the reviewer's space; a place where no man has gone before.
Dr Aditya on September 12, 2021 7:53 am
Can the 4.4mm balance out on Lotoo Paw S1 be used as Line-out to connect external Amp ?
Deezel on September 17, 2021 1:58 am
You could, but there isn't a dedicated Line Out mode on the device. You'll have to turn up the volume yourself to get enough signal going into the amp.
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